The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-13 00:00:00

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.

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X 3. d.
494 8 10
445 0 0
395 11 1

346 2 3
296 13 4
247 4 5

Under the patronage of her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, the Queen Dowager, &c.
WILL OPEN ON MONDAY, May 17,
And every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

The Proprietor begs to announce that he has, at a considerable
expense, erected a new Entrance, and a magnificent Walk, with
sower borders, statues, and a Central Fountain, in front of the
grand Pictorial Representation of
THE TOWN AND BAY OF GIBRALTAR.

The Menagerie contains many specimens, including the Giraffe,
Gazelles, &c. The Promenade Concerts, conducted by Godfrey. A
represemtation of the Porcelain Tower of Nankin. The Gothic Bridge
of Stat: les. The grand Pyrotechnic I ;isplay, representing the

SIEGE OF OTB it-A. I :TAR-.
Showing the commencement of the Bombardment, partial destruc-
tion of the Town, and Blowing up of the Battering Ships.
During the season, M. JULLIEN will give a series of Concerts;
the Band will consist of one h• ndreel Performers.
Ad,oission, 01,e Shilling
The Royal South London Floricultural Society will hold their
41rand Spring Flower Show, on Wednesday, May 26.

WEATHER.—SIIN OFFICE, MAY 13.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 48 ; Highest, 64 ; Noon, 63.

3AROMETER, 29 9.—WIND S.; fine.

h WATER AT 1.0r41)0.,-1110 riot, THI6 DAY.
3Uirning' .. 20 minutes after 12 Evening .. 44 minutes .f.f • 12.

SECOND EDITION.

improvement of their estates to certain landlords, who
might elect to take advantage of its provisions. The
subject is of tiffi-.ient irnport2nr.. to ‘,arrnit the in-
trc,lLtct::n of (-1 t
iNothing can be more objectionable than the practice
of including in a single Bill different subjects which
have no immediate connexion with each other. Many
persons might strongly advocate one of the principles
and be as strongly opposed to another. It also leads
to the greatest confusion when matters legislated
on are not even alluded to in the preamble of the
Act. However just or proper the limitation of the
hours of labour in factories in itself might be,
it could scarcely have been introduced as part of a
measure for a repeal of the duty on raw cotton, or for
an advance to certain manufacturers. The principle
should stand or fall on its own intrinsic merits, and
not receive any adventitious aid from another with
which it had been coupled. The Ministry have
therefore acted discreetly in limiting the operation of
the clause to the measure then in question, and to
that extent it has been most properly sanctioned. It
is not for the benefit of the Irish landlords only that
the sum of 1,500,0001. is about to be advanced from
the national Exchequer. It is to enable them to pro-
vide that employment which, from their own limited
resources, they could not hays afforded. It is to
enable them to direct the vast quantity of labour now
remaining useless and unproductive into the most
beneficial channels. It is particularly important that
the whole of the money granted by the Legislature
should be appropriated to the purpose for which it was
intended, and that no portion should be applied by the
borrower to his own use, unless some such safeguard
was introduced. This could easily have been effected.
The landowner, who is empowered to select for him-
self the men to whom he will give employment,
might not have taken any who would not consent to
take a portion of land from him at an exorbitant
price, and to devote the greater part of their wages
to the satisfaction of the rent. This evasion will be
rendered impossible by the additional clause, which
provides "that the payment for labour under the Act
shall only be made in the current coin of the realm,''
and the interests of the labourer will be protected in
the most efficient manner.

stacle of the laws prohibiting the importation
of corn had been removed, and the erroneous sup-
p ,sition foll,wed thereupon that the path of govern-
m-nt w:ls thw-eby sinTd.frly smo,thed •AA -sidened
U"oovAuLediy tue Government wus relieved from a
tremendous incubus by the repeal of those enact-
ments, but there remained. many another incubus
besides. There was the incubus of national ignorance,
there was the incubus of an erroneous criminal code,
there was the incubus of a demoralizing and dege-
nerating social condition, and a long vista of similar
woes and curses. All these had to be removed before
the country could hope to arise in its full strength,
to put forth its full powers, to vindicate its true
character. Knowledge had to be rendered accessible
to those whose poverty debarred them from the
blessings of instruction. Sanatory regulations had
to be compiled for the preservation of public life,
of public health, and ofpublic morality. Criminals had
to be regarded rather as reclamable to the paths of
virtue than as obdurately bound to the perpetration
of iniquity. The whole foundations of the social
system had to be removed, to be deepened, to be
strengthened, and, if possible, rendered sufficiently
wide and absolutely immutable. Those were among
the gigantic labours which the newly inaugurated
Government were expected to accomplish, and the ex-

pectations of the community were confirmed by the
solemn assurances and voluntary engagements of the
Cabinet.

The miseries which have descended upon Ireland
and upon a considerable portion of Scotland have
hitherto, however, retarded or interrupted the mea-
sures of reform promised by Lord JoaN RUSSELL
and his colleagues. Intermittently, it is true, the
educational and sanatory schemes of the Administra-

tion have been introduced to the notice of the repre,

sentative and hereditary Houses of Legislation Cbut
the main energies of the Ministry, the main re-
sources of the Treasury, the chief amount of
the industry, and eloquence, and sagacity,
and forethought of the Government, have
been devoted to the alleviation of the distresses' and
the amelioration of the condition of the suffering

millions of our fellow-countrymen. Can any one,
therefore, conceive for a single instant that the nation is
in any manner aggrieved by the postponement of the
peculiar benefits anticipated from the present Cabinet
on its first formation ? Not, most assuredly, when
ali the labours and anxieties of the Government in
connexion with Ireland are taken into consideration.
had her MAJESTY'S advisers done nothing more
during the course of this onerous and eventful
session than they have actually accomplished for the
population of the sister island, they would have
entitled themselves to the lasting gratitude and re-
membrance of the people. Nor has the assiduity of
the Administration, in striving to diminish the
dreadful effects of the late dispensations of DIVINE
PROVIDENCE, been without its beneficial consequences
in the way of example and incitement. The
benevolence of the Cabinet has influenced the
benevolence of private individuals and public asso-

ciations, it has even operated in eliciting the cordial
assistance of our brethren on the banks of the Ganges,
and of our brethren also by blood on the northern
continent of America. Upon these exhibitions of a
true cosmopolitan charity the Prime Minister of
England very beautifully observed in the banquet-
cLamber of the Mansion House, " I rejoice in this
manifestation of sympathy and liberality; it shows
that no remoteness of distance—that no diversity of
institutions—that no records of separation, even
though written in bloody characters—have obliterated
that sympathy which springs from the same origin.

Remembering that they speak the same language as
ourselves—that they read the same authors—
that they have the same precepts of divine truth
by the banks of the Hudson and the Mississippi that

we read from the same sacred volume on the banks

of the Thames and the Shannon—l rejoice that they
h2ve shown the same enlarged spirit of charity and
literality ; and I am sure, whatever may be the mis-
fortune of the present time, there is this consoling
circumstance—a circumstance tending to unite the
two nations in the bonds of brotherhood, kindness,
and affection." Actuated by these high and enno-
bling principles, the Ministers cannot fail to ensure

to themselves, not merely the sympathies of the po-
pulation of these realms, but of the most distant ter-
ri,ories. Lord JOHN RUSSELL can afford to con-

temp the opprobrious epithets by which he himself
and his Ministerial associates are mentioned by Dr.
M'cIALE and other malcontents. The Government

has acquired for itself the confidence of the empire
by its determined, temperate, and generous policy.

The present session of Parliament had scarcely
opened before Lord BROUGHAM, multa revolvens,
pointedly recommended that the heads of families
throughout the Empire should rigidly enforce the
utmost providence in their domestic establishments
with regard to the consumption of bread. The ad-
vice was given upon the sound policy of taking time
by the forelock. It was at once. judicious and bene-
volent. The idea was not an original one ; but the
circumstances under which his Lordship revived it,
and the value which he properly imparted to it, by a
reference to the humane resolutions adopted, within
his Lordship's memory, by a large number of Peers,
when the country was threatened with an alarming
scarcity of food, entitled the recommendation to a
cordial approval. Mankind at large are averse to
test by due reflection the prevoyance of the monitor,
where acquiescence in his views is likely to entail
upon them the prudent necessity of undergoing
any temporary privations. They like to put
off the evil day, and are willing to believe
upon the slenderest data, however specious, that
results will falsify the gloomiest prognostications.
This temperament is peculiar to Jourt BULL. He is
always grumbling, but at bottom he is ever sanguine.
He retains his confidence to the last, but it is his
humour to conceal the existence of this feeling from
everybody else. The consequence is, that it is fre-
quently impossible to kindle his energies till he finds
himself menaced by some prominent crisis. The
moment, however, that affairs, individual or collec-
tive, have attained to a critical height, JOHN BULL
rushes in medias res, with a remarkable zest. Ile
relies upon his indomitable spirit for success, and
enjoys his triumphs all the more if he should, in the
first instance, have complicated matters by a perti-
nacious adherence to his otiose propensities. It
troubled him little, at the beginning of the session, to
warn him that extraordinary supplies of foreign corn
must be imported to meet the demand at home,
occasioned by the extensive failure in the potato crop,
arid the wants of a population increasing at the rate
of 1,000 a day ; that a vast amount of bullion would
leave our coffers to pay the foreign producers—that
the restrictive conditions of the Bank of England
Charter would consequently impose a serious check
upon credit—that our manufacturing interests would
feel its effect; and that the demand for labour would
diminish, which, combined with the probable dear-
ness of provisions of all descriptions, would inevitably
lead to great national privation and distress. All this
might be very true, but until he actually felt it, he
would not compromise his accustomed tranquillity.
The prophecy is now, in a great measure, fulfilled;
and accordingly communities of all sorts have sent
up their representatives to Downing-street to detail
their pressing grievances. Much more, however, de-
pends upon individuals themselves than upon the Go-
vernment. Practical conduct is just now the one thing
needful. Economy should be universally sanctioned.
Prudence demands thus much, though we are far
from sharing in the apprehensions entertained by
many that the present crisis will be of some dura-
tion. Example is better than precept. Her MAJESTY
has taken the lead : an order was yesterday issued
by the Lord Steward, commanding that for the pre-
sent no description of flour, except seconds, shall
be
used for any purpose in her MAJESTY'S household,
and that no person in the Palace shall have more than
a Found of bread each day. We hope this patriotic
example will be speedily imitated throughout the
land. The poor will feel thankful, and the country
will be largely benefited.

Generally speaking, any interference between the
labourers and those by whom they are employed is
objectionable ; but when the nation has been called
upon to advance large sums of money for the support
of the starving people, and thus to take upon itself a
duty which should have been performed by the owners
and occupiers of land in Ireland, it becomes necessary to
take steps that may prevent the recurrence of a si-
milar necessity. One of the chief causes that have
led to such an unhappy result, undoubtedly, has been
that the peasantry of the country have been taught
to place their whole dependence on a precarious
crop. In place of obtaining a pecuniary remunera-
tion for their labour, as in this country, and then
purchasing therewith the necessary supplies of food
for their families, they got a slip of land for which
they mortgaged their labour. If it turned out un-
productive, their only resource was in casting them-
selves upon the charity of the public. This cause has
led to periodical famines, and so long as it is suffered
to continue, the like erects will be produced. The
sooner, therefore, that some general measure can be
introduced to do away with the grievance the better
for the country, and we know of none more calcu-
lated to attain that object than a provision making
void any agreement for the payment cf rent by the
labour of the party taking land, and enabling him to
recover the wages of his labour in money, notwith-
standing any such agreement.

The Frankfort Gazette, of the 9th instant, states,
that disturbances connected with the high price of
provisions occurred at Leutmeritz, in Bohemia, on the
Ist instant. The people cut off the ears of a speculator
in corn. The Hanover Gazette, of the 6th instant,
states, that since the 17th ultimo, horse flesh has been
introduced as an article of food amongst the popula-
tion with the best effect; 5,000 lbs. has been already
sold for consumption in the different towns of the
kingdom.

The smack Speedy arrived on Wednesday, at Fal-
mouth, from Lisbon in six days. The mission of
Colonel WYLDE had, it was hoped, proved effective ;
and at the time the Speedy sailed negotiations were
going on between the Junta and the Government.

The Levant mail brings intelligence from Constan-
tinople to the 26th, and from Athens to the 30th ult.
The French fleet, under the command of the Prince
DE JOINVILLE, has arrived in the Archipelago, as has
an Egyptian fleet, MEHEMET ALI having tendered
the services of his fleet to the Porte against Greece.
The Russian Ambassador at Athens has received
orders to support the demand for satisfaction made
by the Porte. COLETTI is tottering to his fall ; his
majority in the Chamber of Deputies having dwindled
down to one vote, and that one vote his own, he has
had recourse to the desperate step of a dissolution.
The illoniteur Grec of the 26th publishes a decree
dissolving the Chamber, and convoking a new one
on the 26th of July.
Madrid papers of the 6th have arrived.

The QUEEN, accompanied by her uncle and her
sister-in-law, left Madrid on the sth for Aranjuez.
The KING did not accompany her MAJESTY. The
financial plan of Senor SALAMANCA will, it is said,
be carried into effect by a series of royal decrees.
The funeral of CASTRO Y Oaozco, took place on
the 6th, and was attended by the Members of both
Chambers. There were 180 carriages in the pro-
cession.

MADRID BOLSA, MAY 6.—The Three per Cents. were
done at 31% for cash ; the Five per Cents. at 19i ; the Debt
without Interest at 5% ; and the Coupons at 16.

We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday.
The severance between the Guizot Conservatives
and the Progressive Conservatives is now complete.
The Debats thus commences its reply to the attack
made by the Presse of the preceding day on the
Ministerial party :
" We will not enter into a long discussion with the chief
and organ of the defunct party of Progressist Conservative•.
There are no longer any Progressist Conservatives; the mask
is thrown off. They have taken a defined position, and they
declare to the majority that its policy conducts to a terrible
revolution I That is frank and honest opposition."

The Debais then proceeds to attack, with great

severity and sarcasm, the conduct and projects of the
Progressist Conservatives, and concludes as follows:

I"A great and very dangerous misunderstanding is for the
future cleared up. It is now notorious that a cunning oppo.
sition wriggled itself into our ranks, and laboured by sap and
mine to ruin the Conservative party. We had some idea
that this was the case when we saw the chief of these pre-
tended Conservatives blame, under pretext of independence,
sometimes the foreign, sometimes the domestic policy, of the
G>vernment and the Chambers. Whoever has followed the
history of the last Legislature, is not ignorant that all the em-
barrassments of the Ministry, all the crises of the majority
were caused by these double-faced and double-voting
Conservatives. They were preparing to play the same part
in the present Legislature; but we congratulate ourselves on
having unmasked them. Their intrigue, caught in the fact,
no longer frightens us. We know what they are, and what
they desire; and that is important. The Opposition opens
its arms to them. As for ourselves we will no longer consi-
der as Conservatives the men who believe they characterise
the policy followed during seventeen years by these three
words—' Nothing! nothing ! nothing l' But there will still
remain two very precious things to the new Progressist party
and its chief—the esteem of the National and the praises of
the Augsburg Gazette—praises which everybody can com-
mand who will." ..
The recent changes in the Ministry are commented
on in all these papers. The Constitutionnel says—

" It will be seen by the royal ordonnances that the retire-
ment of M. Lacave Laplange was not a voluntary one. He
persisted to the last, with a pride which does him honour,
in refusing to give in his resignation. He would not meekly
submit to the insulting want of good faith of his colleagues,
and has openly protested against the odious and pitiable cal-
culation of men. who think to expiate the common fault by
the sacrifice of the person amongst them who was the least
culpable. In compelling the other Ministers to dismiss him,
M. Lacave Laplange has deprived them of the entire benefit
which they hoped to derive from his removal. He has
denounced them aloud as the first authors of the disorders,
the deficit, and the gaspillage he has cast upon them the
responsibility which they had imagined they could throw
upon him."

The Constitutionnel then remarks on the men who
have been chosen to fill up the gaps in the Adminis-

tration, after, as it asserts, all others who were ap-
plied to had refused to join the Cabinet :

" We will say nothing of General Trezel; an ultra-Con-
servative from conviction, but personally so respectable that
he disarms criticism. All the rest of the combination still
further weakens instead of strengthening the Ministry. M.
Dumon did will show more character in the Finances than
he did in the department of Public Works. He is capable
of learning what M. Lacave Laplagne already knew; but
for some time to come he will be much less conversant with
such matters than his predecessor was. M. Jayr was a
pretty good Prefect, but he is otherwise of inferior mind.
He had accomplished his political career when he reached
the Prefecture of Lyons, and had even exceeded the point to
whichio his ambition could justly soar. The choice of M. de
at the head n4V.
the navy, but he ought
"Ivenctaenbecilo as Minister of Marine is supremely rickulo-as.
eTnd that an effort should be made to place
this department a man who does not belong to
to be at least a skilful ado:urns-

The Governmenthave ad o
op
INGT
by the Duke of WELL Nted the suggeston offered
whilethe Landed Pro-
perty (Ireland) Bill was in Committee,
payment of the labourers under that Bil; sofar as the
concerned.
It would scarcely have been proper, however eyer
mis-
chievous the practice complained of had beento
in-
troduce a clause interfering materially with the em-
ployment of labour throughout the country in a Bill
which was only intended to afford facilities for the

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 13, 1847.

trator. Theperson chosen is an Ambassador who has ac-
quired some dplomatic experience in little courts, but who
has not been in administrator in any way. It is the history
• f •!le. n7,7:-rr,nf Timis tht t-fr,tl
n, ;.. 3iiiiisLLrial
members of tle majority, who, however, are discontented
and sad."

All the Opposition journals are equally severe on
the new appointments. The Presse declares that " the
three vacant portfolios were offered from door to door,
but none woulc accept them, not even the most de-
voted friends, such as M. VITET, which proves that
no great confidence is entertained in the stability of
the Cabinet. It is, in fact, a Cabinet worn out. In
this respect neither M. GUIZOT nor M. DUCILATEL
entertained any illusions ! They admit that they
have only wished to gain a little time, in hopes that
some favourable circumstances may permit them to
withdraw with dignity, as they might have done
when they experienced the first check."
The Courrier Francais states that the Ministers
have refused to give Admiral MACKAU the command
,f the squadron in the South Seas, for which he had
applied.

WORSHIP-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
James Stiilfox 16 years of age, and formerly in the em-
ploympnt of Mr. ro”.-7,,,,nt. N. 5, Cr,Nwn-strpof,

arged

,
ntr. oeliningS stated that the prisoner, who had formerly
been in his employment, left it, on the 20th of MKrch last.
Two days afterwards, however, witness discovered that he
was still acting the calling as usual upon his customers, de-
manding the papers, receiving the moneysond appropriating
the proceeds to his own use.

The prisoner, who said nothing in his defence, was
ordered to be again brought up previous to his committal for

HONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was, dull. Sales
4,000 bales, at previous rates—Railway Shares were a shade
better, but there was still a good deal of heavy stock pressing
for sale.

Accounts have been received from the Cape of Good Hope
dated the 9th of March. Sir Henry Pottinger had held a
levee, and received the inhabitants with great kindliness
and sincerity, assuring them of his determination to use vi-
gorously, and yet prudently, the great power entrusted to
him, and at the same time to endeavour to settle the affairs
of the frontier on a permanent basis. According to the
official returns made up fur the year to January 5, the
exports of wool, beef, butter, and various other valuable
productions, bad fallen off considerably compared with 1846,
owing to the abandonment of farms and loss of sheep and
cattle during the war.
Under the assumed name of " Tristram Trye," a party has
appeared in the currency field, as an advocate of 14 notes, or
at least of a measure compelling the Bank at all times to keep
a much larger reserve of specie, so as to enable it to continue
its usual accommodation to the public after the export of five
or six millions. The writer's views appear to have attracted
much attention at Liverpool, and are entitled, in many
points, to general consieieration. Ile remarks :
"The Bank of England holds, we suppose, ten millions of
specie for twenty millions of notes out; she exchanges five
millions of bullion for five millions of notes; she has now,
instead of the proportion of ten millions to twenty, only five
of bullion to fifteen of notes. To adiust this variation in
proportions of the basis, comes in the enforcing
the true principles of currency' of Mr. S. J. Loyd,
namely, to contract the total circulation of paper, until
the proportions of the original basis are restored. Now it
will be evident that, to render this theory consistent, even
with itself, one thing is required, namely, that a return be
made of the total amount of coin in circulation. You must
know this first—you must know it exactly: and yet the
theorists act without such knowledge, and such fundamental
knowledge appears never by them to have been sought for as
a part of the true principle of currency.' If the total circu-
lation of notes were 40, and of specie 20, and 5 of the latter
be exported, it is evident that if the relative value of the paper
to the specie can be sustained only by taking more than five
from the forty, you must take ten. You will then have the
proportion of fifteen of specie to thirty of notes, which is
the same as twenty to forty. This is all plain enough. Let
us try a converse application to the rule. Let us have a
total circulation of eighty in specie to forty in notes
Let five of the specie be exported, reducing the former
to seventy-five against thirty five in notes. You can
now only restore the original relative value of the paper
circulation, by making the Bank of England re-issue two and
a half of paper! You will then have seventy-five of specie
to thirty-seven and a half of paper—the original proportion.
But to keep the currencies of the same relative value, they
must 'be kept at all times of the same amount.' Now, ac-
cording to the most authentic estimate (for this is all you can
obtain, and therefore the theorists never can see the
barometer to use it as they pretend), there is in circula-
tion of go;d alone sixty to seventy millions. There must
be also twenty to twenty-five millions of silver money. It
is perfectly safe, however, to estimate the two at an average
of eighty millions; and the paper being forty, what is the
consequence in connexion with the rule before us ? That
you can only equalise the specie and paper circulation con-
formably with the rule, after losing five from the former, by
augmenting the paper from forty to seventy-five millions !
We appeal to the senior Wrangler whether this is not sound
logic? Is it not, at least, as reasonable that the Bank cir-
culation should confirm to the bullion standard of the coun-
try, as that the circulation of the latter should conform to the
bullion of the Bank ?"
The English Funds have improved this morning, in con-
sequence partly of the Bank of England having made ar-
rangement for accommodating parties with money at a rea-
sonable rate, upon the deposit of stock. This, while it gives
ease, may prevent sales of Consols. We believe the opera-
tion is connected with the loan of stock made to various par-
ties by the Bank some time since. Consols have been
871/8 %, but are now 87 to 1/, for transfer, and
for time they have varied from 87% to 871/x.
Exchequer-bills have been 4s. premium to par. Bank
Stock is worth 189% to 191. East India Stock is at 240.
The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have realised
87% 3/4.
The Foreign Bonds have been very dull. Nothing has
been done in Portuguese, although the accounts received
this morning state that negotiations were in progress between
the Junta and the Government. Spanish Three per Cents.
are 3P.4 ; Mexican, 20; and Brazilian 82 to %.
The market for Shares is still languid.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)

In the Chamber of Deputies, on Tuesday, M. ODILON
BARROT asked for explanations respecting the recent
Ministerial changes, and M. GUIZOT named Friday as
the day on which he should be at the service of the
Chamber, to answer any questions that might be
proposed to him on the subject. A Bill was brought
in by the Minister of Commerce on Monday extend-
ing the time for the free importation of corn into
France to the 31st of October.

In the sitting of Monday M. CREMIEUX, in moving
his resolution to prevent Deputies from taking part
in public companies, made some slight allusion to the
recent Ministerial changes, but such was the length
and discursiveness of the speaker, that M. DUMoN,
the new Finance Minister. :was enabled to give them
the go-bye. M. GP-LeD"( 41en attempted .1;‘,4
some o.piamitioni from 4a Ministers, but their
friends, to prevent the questions being heard, set up
a loud shouting, and a scene of disgraceful uproar
and confusion ensued, and which was characterised
by the President as most unwarranted and most in-
decent. The Chamber decided to take the proposi-
tion of M. CREMIEUX into consideration.

The Moititeur announces that the importation of
grain and flour into France during the second fort-
night of Apx il amounted to 790,445 hectolitres, or
59,280 tons.

The quantities imported from the first of July,
1846, to the Ist of May, 1847, amounted to 6,695,431
hectolitres.

The Semaphore de Marseilles of the Bth instant
announces the receipt of private letters from Malaga,
brought on the 7th inst. by the Sphynx steamer,
mentioning that the Consul of France in that city
had been informed by the Spanish Governor of
Melilla that ABD-EL-KADEB had forwarded to him a
second letter for the French Government, offering to
submit.

The Paris Bourse on Tuesday displayed symptoms
of recovery, although to only an unimportant extent.
The Three per Cents. dosed on the Paris Bourse on
that day at 78f. ; the Five per Cents., 115 f. 90c. ;
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,2330 75c. ; Rouen, 936 f. 25c. ;
Havre, 655 f. 50c.; Great Northern, 606 f. 25c. • Avignon,
;
761 f. 25c. ; Vierzon, 590 f. Bordeaux, 511 f. 25c. ; Bou-
logne, 405 f. ; Basle, 188 f. 75c.; Paris and Strasburg, 420 f. ;
Tours and Nantes, 407 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 435 f. •
Lyons and Avignon, 432 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 441 t:
25c. ; Belgian Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 531 h.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 12.
Boulogne and Amiens, 15% —Dutch Rhenish, 31/—Lyons
and Avignon (Constituted), 21A—Namur and Liege, 4
Northern of France, 11%—Paris and Lyons, 44—Paris
and Rouen, 3614.

NEW ZEALAND.
A dispatch, of which the following is a copy. was
received yesterday by Colonel Wakefield, the principal
agent of the New Zealand Company. It will relieve
many long-existing anxieties :

" Wellington, New Zealand, Dec. 21, 1846.
" Sir,—The detention of the Ralph Bernal allows me the
satisfaction of briefly acquainting 3 ou, for the information of
the Court of Directors, that the suspense in which the
company's claims to land have remained during the whole of
the year now drawing to a close, has been terminated by the
arrival here of Governor Grey on a visit, the object of which
is the assumption by his Excellency of measures for bringing
the adjustment of the question to a conclusion. The dis-
turbed state of the native triLes at the Bay of Islands and
in this neighbourhood has, throughout the above period,
prevented the Governor from himself personally directing
the steps necessary to the attainment of this desirable end.
" For the purpose, also, of obviating the inconvenience and
difficulties presented, by the great distance between the seat
of Government and the company's establishments, to the
satisfactory framing and settlement of the Crown grants to
the company, the Attorney-General has been directed to
meet his Excellency' here ; and he may be expected to ar-
rivein a few days. _

"The Govermir, with a view to the complete subjection
of Rangiaiata and the disaffected natives under his orders
who are posted on the coast near Manawatu, and of the re-
fractory chiefs at Wanganui, who occasionally disturb the
peace of the settlement there, brought with him in the Driver
steam-ship a reinforcement of troops. Her Majesty's ship
Racehorse was to leave Auckland with an additional force a
few days ago, and the frigate Castor is to return to this port
from Hobart Town next month.
" A detachment of 150 men of the 58th Regiment, accom-
panied by a small force of artillerymen, with two guns, has
been conveyed to Wanganui in her Majesty's ship Calliope,
and there posted, with orders to take up a commanding posi-
tion, and to build a fort on an eminence commanding and
protecting the town of Petre.
" These preliminary steps, under the circumstances of the
detention of Rauparaha and the two other chiefs, appre-
hended at Porerua, and of the failure of Rangiaiata to collect
a force sufficient to enable him to renew his hostile proceed-
ings, will now become only precautions against further out-
break, and, in the opinion of all, facilitate the peaceable ac-
quisition of the districts immediately required.
" I have received since his Excellency's arrival an assur-
ance from him that he has sanguine hopes of settling, with-
out delay, the claims of the company, by the measures he
proposes to adopt during his present stay in the south.—l
have the honour to be, Sir, &c.

" W. WAKEFIELD, Principal Agent.
" To the Secretary of the New Zealand
Company, &c."

PALACE COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

(Before Mr. BRENT.)
This morning Mr. Best was sworn in as one of the four
counsel of the Palace Court, hi the room of Mr. Beaden,
who has been appointed a magistrate at the Hammersmith
Police• court.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.
(Before Baron ALDERSON.)
PRACTISING AS AN APOTHECARY WITHOUT A LICENSE.—
Michael Sweetnarn was placed at the bar, charged with
having practised the business of an apothecary, at No. 50,
John-street, Clerkenwell, without being duly licensed.
The prisoner pleaded guilty.
Mr. BALLANTvga, who appeared for the prisoner, stated
that the present proceedings were instituted against the pri-
soner by the Apothecaries' Company, who had, no doubt, a
right to adopt that course, but there was no imputation on
the prisoner of having practised his business immorally.
Baron Amneitsox—And I hope not unskilfully. imputation
of BALLANTTNE—There is not the slightest
of that kind.

Bank Stock • • • • .. 1893 191
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities . • 864 %86
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. • • 87% 14% 87
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anne. 873/ % %
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 8 15-16 9
India Stock •• •• •• 240
Consols for May 27 .. • • • . • • 671%3414
Exchequer Bills. I%cl. 2d.
1,0001. .. • 4 p par
500/. •• •• • • 1 p
Ditto. Small .. ... • 84 p
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent • . • • 8234 82
Ditto, Small • • • • • • • • 8234 83
Equador Bonds . • • • • 3
Mexican, 1846, 5 per Cent .. • • 20
Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent • . 109 108% 1093
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. • . • • 22%
Ditto, Deferred .. .. • • • • 16
Ditto, Three per Cent .. • • 33%
Dividends on the -above payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 5734
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 87% 88
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Amber., Notting., Boston, & Eastrn Jn. 2% 1% .. • • to
Birmingham, Wolver., and Dudley .. 5 .. •• 9%.... to
Buckinghamshire • • .. . • .. 61. 45...1 %3C 34 die, to
Caledonian .• • • • • .. 30 .... 23%..,. to
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. • • • • 23% • 1% ...• to
Eastern Counties • • • • • • • 20 •• • • 18% 19% to 18%
Do.,Terpetual,s per Ct. No. 1, Cl. I 3s. 4d..... .... to
Ditto, ditto .. .. N 0.2, 61. 13s. 40..... par .... to
Ditto, York Extension • • • • 634 .. .• 414 . • to
East Lancashire .. .. • • .. .. 17 .. • • 153434 to
Ditto, New .. .. • • • . 7%.... 6 .• • • to
Great Northern .. • • • .. 334 .. • • 2%34 .. to
Ditto, London and Ycrk Extension.. 2% .... 1% .. • • to
Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 30 .... 24 .... to
Great „North of England .. • • 100 ....231 .. ••to
Great Western .• .. • • • . .. 85 .... 111 .... to
Ditto. Half Shares .• .. 50 .... 65 .... to
Ditto, Fifths .. 20 .... 25 .. .. to
Ditto. New .. to
Leeds and Thirsk 22% •• • • to
Do.. do.. Preference, 6 per Cent -. 33% .... 3,4 .... to
London and Blackwall 161. 13s. 4d. .... 7% .... to
Ditto, New, No. 1 • • • • - • • • 5• 5% to
London, Brighton, and South Coast • • 50 513... • to
Ditto, Consolidated Eighths •• . • 10 .... 11 •• • • to
Ditto. Fifteenths .. .. 2 .... 24, •• to
London and North-Western • • .. 100 .. . 1723 .. to
Ditto, Quarters .. L. and B. 7 .... 21% ...• to
Ditto ditto New .. • . . 2 .... 11 34.... to
Ditto, Fifths • • .. 2 .... 15%.... to

Ditto, 101. Shares .. M. and B. (A) 5 .... 10 .... to
London and South-Western 411. 6... 10d. .... 6114 • . • • to
Ditto, New Consolidated Eighths .. 40 .... 45% •• • • to
Ditto, New .. .• .. •• •• 271/4 .... 27 •• •. to
Ditto, Tenths (Consolidated) •• • • 50 •... 5134 .... to
Ditto, Scrip .. .. • . • • • • 5 ...• 4% ••.• to
Manchester and Leeds . • • •. 82 .... ..•• tO
Ditto, Fifths .. .. • • •• .. 5 .... 9 .... to
Blanchester, Buxton, and Matlock - • 425..••• 1/4 dis... to
Midland
to
Ditto, New .. .. •• •• •• 36 .... 38% 39 to 38%
Ditto, New • • .. .. •• .• .• 6 .. • • 71/4 .. • • to
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby • •100 .. •• 90 .... to 891/4
Ditto, Consol. Bristol & Birmingh.
6 per cent. .. .. • • • • ..100 ... .1231/4 ——to .
Newcastle and Berwick .. .. .• 20 .... 25 .. —to
Ditto, New . • • .• .. .. 5 .. • • 6% h•• to
Northern Counties Union .. .. .. 4 ..• h..• • to North British .. .. •• •• 25 .. • • 301/4% .. to
13
Ditto, Half Shares •• .. • . 121/4 .... %..• . to Ditto, Extension •••• • • • , 5/8 •• • • %..•• tO
North Staffordshire .. • • •• 71/4 ...• 9!is4• • to
North Western .• .. .• -. .. 4 ...• 2%.. ••to
Preston and Wyre .. .. .• •• •. 25 .... 35 .... to
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate • • 5 .. •. 4%% .. to
Royston and Hitchin .. .• .• 1% •• •• 1%.. •• to
icottia Central .. •• .• •• •. 171/4 ..•. 23% •• • • to
Scottish Midland • • •• .• •• .. 171/4 .... • •• to
Ditto, New .. .. .. •• •• •• 5 •• • • 6 •• - • to
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A) .. 3% •• •• 34 •• •• to
Shropsniro Union • •• •• •• .• 4 •• • • 2 •• •• to
South Eastern and Dover • •• .331.28.4 d. 355 i .... to 363%,
South Wales .. .. .. ... •....10 .. • • 71A .... to —"
West Riding Union .. .. .. .. 4/. 25... —l4
111 P• • to
Windsor, Staines, and South-Western 428..... 3/4 P • • to
York and Newcastle .. •• .. •• 25 .. •• 341/4 li .. to _
Ditto, New • • .. • • •• •• 10 •... 14 —•• to
Ditto, Preference •• • • •• •• 4 .. • • 6% .... to _
York and North Midland .. •• •• 50 .... 81 .• •• to
Ditto, Preference •• .. •• •• 2 .. •• 101/4 —— to 9%
Ditto East and West IthlingExtension 10 ..•• 201/4 ..•. to
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Orleans and Bordeaux .. .. .. 6 6
....
to
.....
Paris and Lyons
to
Paris and Rouen .. •• -. •• 20 .. 35% ..•• to
Rouen and Havre .. • .. 20 .... 24% .... to
MINES
Real del Monte. Unregistered .. .... 3U.. to

Mr. CLARKSON, who attended for the Apothecaries' Com-
pany, stated that the present was the first prosecution in-
stituted by the company,who felt bound to protect themselves.
Mr. BALLANTYME stated that his client had gone through
the routine of qualification to practise as an apothecary,
and would have obtained his license but for pecuniary diffi-
culties in which he was involved, but that he would now
do so.

The prisoner was bound in security of 200/. himself, and
ovo securities of 501. each, to appear and receive judgment,
should it be the intention of the Apothecaries' Company to
persevere in a course, which it was understood they would
not adopt if the prisoner took out his license, or discontinued
practising, if he did not obtain such qualification.
Nicholas Kerp, Alfred Wilbream, and Joseph Alexander,
who were severally convicted yesterday, the two former of
forgery, and the latter of larceny, arising out of the same
transaction, were brought up yesterday for judgment.
Baron ALDERSON—I have ordered you all to be brought
up together, because I am perfectly satisfied that you were
all engaged in the same occurrence. You, Kerp, and you%
Wilbream, were found guilty of committing forgery, but at
the same time I believe you are only instruments of more
artful persons than yourselves, a band who are too success-
fully pillaging London. My practice since the abolition of
the capital punishment for your offence has been to inflict
the severest punishment that the law allows, to protect the
public. The sentence of the Court is that each of you be sen-
tenced to fifteen years' transportation. You, Alexander,
have been convicted of larceny only; your sentence cannot
exceed, but must extend to, transportation. You are sen-
tenced to seven years' transportation.
MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.)
Caroline Jones, a young woman of questionable character,
was placed before Mr. Hardwick, charged with stealing two
sovereigns and a half, the :moneys of Robert Penny, cabinet
maker, 39, Windmill-street, Haymarket.
It appeared that on the previous night the prosecutor was
walking along Charles-street, when the prisoner accosted
him with a request that he would stand a drop of something
to drink. The request was made in such a winning manner
that the prosecutor at once consented, and adjourned to the
nearest public-house, where they partook of several glasses
of Pie. After leaving the house the prosecutor was induced
to accompany the prisoner to her residence. where he passed
the night; but previous to his going to bed he took the pre-
caution to hide his money in one o: his boots, which he
placed underneath the bed. This morning he was awoke by
hearing the prisoner moving stealthily about the room, and
attempting to unlock the door. He immediately jumped out
of bed, and on feeling in his boot missed the two Lovereigns
and a half. He taxed the prisoner with robbing him, which
she stoutly denied. The prosecutor then sent for a constable
and gave her in charge. On the prisoner's arrival at the
station she was searched by the female searcher, who found
the money in one of her hands.
The prisoner, in defence, said the prosecutor gave her the
money for favours conferred. She positively denied the
charge of stealing it, and had not the least doubt but what
he had forgot making
very drunk at the time.
her a present of the money, as he was
The prisoner was fully committed to take her trial at the
Middlesex Sessions.

POTATOES
potatoes were sold
NEW AND CEEAv.--Last week new
pound. in Lancaster market at threepence per

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LoanoN, MAY 13.—Wind S. W. by S., light breeze, and
cloudy.
DEAL, MAY 12.—Wind S.S.W. to S.W.—Arrd. Prins
Oscar, Canton for Hamburg; Raben Hanpt, Ryndert, Batavia
for Rotterdam; Emilie, Boster, Rio Janeiro for Altona. Sid.
Raja, Adelaide ; Catherine, Halifax; Thomas Rowell, Quebec;
Regina, Batavia; Eclip,,e, Mauritius; Thomas Blyth, ditto.
Arrd. from the River, Courier, New York; Electra, Grenada.
PLYMOUTH, MAY 12.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Lotus, Iquique.
FALMOUTH, MAY 12.—Wind S., strong breezes.—Arrd.
N. S. del Pillar, Sarrinaga, Matanzas. Off port, Royal Victoria,
New Orleans, for Hull.
DARTMOUTH, MAY 11.—Wind S.W.—Off port, Gloriana,
Domett, Calcutta.
BRISTOL, MAY 12.\--vini‘nvd.,Sm.Sod.NeNr'.a—teS.—ldA. Jne.csis.
Hum., MAY ll. 3.1.3eNb ee,vGisr.o a t e,
Greenland--6,CC9 seals, and 60 tons of oil.
LivEupooL, MAY 12.—Wind S., light.—Arrd. Mary Hart-
ley, Barker, Bombay; Firefly, Glyed, Rio Grande; Irt,
Young. Pernambuco; Favourite, Rezey, Barbadoes; Stead-
fast, Merrell, Barbadoes; George Dean, Spanny, Havannah ;
Jane, Honduras; Flint, Robert, New Orleans; Scotia, Kelly,
Baltimore; Columbiana, Mallet, Baltimore; Niagara, Rus•
sell, New York. Sld. Polaris, Surinam; Elizabeth, Rad•
cliffs, Lima; Castries, St. Luca; Worthington, St. Thomas;
Sophie, Honduras; Monongahela, Philadelphia; Swan, New
York; Abbot, Lord, Boston; Richmond, Boston; Terry,
Newfoundland. The Charles barque, a derelect, was passed
15th ult., let. 25, long. 43, by the Irt, arrived here. The
schooner Antelope, of Halifax, dismasted and abandoned, was
passed 22d ult,, lat. 40, long. 57, by the Niagara, arrived

here. The Lernan, hence to Baltimore, rather leaky, and
captain sick, but not in want of assistance, was passed 20th
' I:1r.. lat. 43. Ion;. '. 31, by the ertrlns, hero. Off Tort,

,

Y, ay, 1 rinidan ; Leon, IbL.erarar, liavannah. George,
Ili° Janeiro; Clarendon, Honduras; Perthshire, and Fanny,
New York.

DUBLIN, MAY 9.—Wind S. and S.W.—Arrd. Union,
Roach, Trinidad; Hindley, Shaw, Mauritius 11. Sid.
Victor, New York.
&LIS°, MAY 10.—Arrd. Governor Troop, New York.
LONDONDERRY, MAY 3.—Arrd. Volante, Murchy, New
York; 4th, Unicorn, Boyd, Philadelphia ;Barbara, Press,
New Orleans ; SeboatsAhompson, Baltimore ; sth, Flora,
Ilurd, Philadelphia •, Forester, Andrews, Norfolk, N.S. ;
Gth, Sarah Warner, Curtis, New York. 7th, Jane Stanley.
Young, Baltimore. Std. the 3d, R. H. Douglas, Baltimore ;
Ann, Philadelphia ; 4th, E. Grimmer, St. Andrew's, New
Brunswick ; Montpelier, Philadelphia; Bth, Churcheil,
Cuba; 6:h, Ranger and Blumat, Philadelphia.
KINGSTOWN—SId. Georgiana, Quebec.
BELFAST, MAY I.—Wind S.E.—Sea, Godfrey, Balti-
more. Sid. 10th, Thetis, New York; Nelson, Village, Que-
bec; Olive, New York.
OFF THE WIGHT.—Java's Welvaaren, Gollanas ; Sama-
rang, from the Texel.
PORTSMOITH, MAY 12.—Wind S.—Arrd. Thomas and
Mary, Allen, Charleston. Sld. her Majesty's ship Apollo,
lialitax and Quebec ; Wellington, New Yo'k.
CowEs, MAY I2.—Wind S. to S.W.—Arrd. Superior, So
dennan, Bahia; Dart, Newton, Madeira.
MAR

KET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

MEAT MARKETS.
SOUTHALL, MAT 12.—The supply of fat stock being on
the decrease, and the attendance of buyers large, the general
demand was brisk, and prices had an upward tendency.
Beef. from 3s 4d to 4s 8d ; Mutton, 5s to 6s ; Lamb, 5s (id
to Gs 4d; Veal, 4s 4d to ss; and Pork, 4s to 4s 10d per
81bs, to sink the offal.
RomFoitb, MAY 12.—Beasts and Lambs sold briskly, at
higher prices; and the value of all other kinds of stock
was firmly supported. Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 6d; Mutton,
4s 10d to Gs ; Lamb, 55 6d to 6s 2d ; Veal, 4s 4d to 5s ;
and Pork, 4s 4d to 4s 10d per Slbs. Suckling Calves,
18s to 30s; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 19s; and Milch
Cows, with their small Calf, 161 lOs to 19/ each.
HAIL-SHAM, MAY 12.—Higher prices were obtained here
to-day, with a brisk demand. Beef, from 3s 6d to
4s 10d ; Mutton, 55 to 6s •, Lamb, 5s 4d to 6s; Veal, 4s to
5s 4d ; and Pork, 4s to 4s 8d per Blbs.
ARUNDEL, MAY 11.—Beef, from 3s 8d to 4g 10ii ; Mutton
48 iuct to as lUd ; Lamb, 5s 4d to 6s; Veal, 4s 4d to ss;
and Pork, 4s to 4s 8d per 81bs. Supply short, and trade
firm.
CIIICIIESTER, MAY 12.—We had a very firm trade this
morning as follows : Beef, from 3s 8d to 4s 10d ;
Mutton, 5s to 6s ; Lamb, 5s 4d to 6s; Veal, 4s to 4s
10d; and Pork, 4s to 4s 8d per Blbs. Suckling Calves, 18s to
295, Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 19s; and hlileh Cows,
with their small Calf, 16/ to 191 each.
NZIVGATE AND LEAnEriazAza..
There was a full average supply of Meat on offer, yet the
trade was firm, at very full prices. Beef, from 3s to 45;
Mutton, 4s to 5s ; Lamb, 5s 4d to 6s 4d ; Veal, 4s 4d to 5s 2d;
and Pork, 4s to 5s 2d per Blbs, by the carcase.

HAY IVILLUHE TS
SMITHFIELD.— Meadow Hay, 2115 s to 3/ 17s ; Clover ditto.
31 Iss to 4/ 18s ; and Straw, 11 lOs to 1/ 14s per load. Trade
dull, at the above quotations.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 18s to 4/ ; Clover
ditto, 31 lOs to 4/ 15s; and Straw, 1/ 10s to 11 15s per load.
A full average supply, and a sluggish demand.
‘V/lITECKAPEL.—IIIeadow Hay, 21 12s to 3/ 17s; Clover
ditto, 31 12s to 51; and Straw, 1/. lOs to 1/ 14s per loaf.
Supply good, and trade dull.

CORN AVERAGES.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN
For the Week ended May 13, 1847, made up from the Returns of the
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales
per Imperial Quarter.
WHEAT. BARLEY.' OATS. I RYE. 1 BEANS. I PEAS.
PRICE .. Sls 10d 51s Od 31s Gd 58s 4€1,1 53s Od 54s 1I d
The Duties on Foreign Grain are now suspended.

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