The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORN LNG, JUNE 23,
_1847

of Christendom, it is that the guilty proceedings of
the Court of Lisbon have goaded the population of
Portugal to a manifestation of their august wrath, it
is that the people of that land have been justified in
taking arms against the Supreme Government, it is
that the royal authority and the constitution of the
State have been leagued one against the other in con-
sequence of the policy adopted by the ruler of Por-
tugal. This has been proclaimed in Parliament ; it
has been acknowledged by that very Adminis-
tration through whose generous interference Queen
MARIA has been alone preserved from the possibility
of a speedy dethronement, and an ignominious expa-
triation. Mr. MACAULAY has proclaimed the late
revolution in Portugal to have been most justifiable
on the part of the insurgents, and most reprehensible
on the part of the Cabinet. And yet MARIA DA
Gusias speaks thus contumeliously of the Junta,
as having assailed at once her Royal au-
thority and the constitution of the State !
Neither against the authority of their Sovereign nor
against the articles of their common constitution were
the soldiers of the Oporto Junta arrayed. The Por-
tuguese had armed themselves especially for the pro-
tection and vindication of the constitution, and for the
restriction of the royal authority within reasonable
and legal limits. Heartily do we confess that we
have not the inclination to analyse either the language
or the sentiments of this odious manifesto. After
the. oriental fashion, the QUEEN has thrown a peace-
offering to her people, but the peace-offering is
nothing better than a poisoned cake. The gorge Of
the nation will rise at this ungracious recompense of
a loyalty which has survived all the throes of civil
contention, and all the incitements of popular success.
The peace-offering of MARIA DA GLORIA will be
spat forth derisively as it deserves, and a significant
assurance will thereby be conveyed to her councils
that the scorn of a virago is not compatible with the
di nity of a Princess, and that the diction of a des.-
p o
1
is
ever
rway h suitedere
w atso thea
m amouthnifest of
necessity
f constitutionaler
the
S ereign.
reformation of a Cabinet that necessity is at
th moment conspicuous on the banks of
thc Tagus. Let her Portuguese MAJESTY
take warning by the insane measures adopted in
1814 by the obese reviver of the ancienregime—let her
bear in recollection the consequences of the abor-
tile projects born in the effete imagination of King
Louis XVlll—let her remember the calamitous
effects of the Ministerial treason and the legislative
crimes of King CHARLES X.—let her draw the
obvious analogies which are discernible in the revela-
tions of history, and trace out her course in ac-
cordance with the deductions derived therefrom.
Her destinies are now at her own disposal as
far as human destiny can he controlled by
human judgment. Whether her reign is to
be branded as infamous among the records
of the land she governs, whether her name is to be
handed down to the execration of posterity, or
whether, in obedience to the dictates of a purer pur-
pose, the assertor of the national liberties and the
object of national gratitude, is a consummation still
hidden in the womb of futurity. As yet not even
the glimmer of a hope has gilded the gloom of her
sovereignty. Still there is no reason to despair for
Portugal.

According to the practice that has heretofore pre-
vailed in the administration of public business, it is
in vain to hope for any improvement, however glaring
or obvious the defects of the system may be, until
actual inconvenience has been sustained by persons of
sufficient influence to give weight to their remon-
strances, and to enforce a patient consideration of
the grievances. The principle adopted with respect
to the prosecution of offenders has long given occasion
for many well-grounded complaints, has frequently
led to a failure of justice, to the escape of criminals,
and to a vast additional incorr, enience and expense to
those who, having already been sufferers by the acts
complained of, are further obliged, either to advance
the costs of the prosecution—an expense which they
can ill afford—or to abandon the duty they owe to the
public, and suffer the accused party to escape,
and to persevere in his vicious courses, until he
shall have injured some person of greater
wealth or energy. Private prosecutions are in
every respect objectionable. They appear to be
founded on feelings of individual resentment in place
of being carried on for the vindication of the ma-
jesty of the law. They induce parties to suppose
that they can escape by means of a private arrange•
went with the person who is prominently put for.
ward as the claimant for redress, and too frequently
inquiries are smothered, the aggrieved party accept-
ing compensation for the injuries sustained, and an
indemnity against any loss that may possibly be oc-
casioned by the forfeiture of his recognizances :
while in others they enable parties to gratify mali-
cious and vindictive feelings, and to persecute and op-
press others under the cloak of law. A private per-
son has a right to institute proceedings to obtain re-
dress for any injuries that may be inflicted on him;
but the moment they assume a criminal character,
the private injury is merged in the public wrong.
Public justice has been outraged, and the State which
takes upon itself to afford protection to the person
and property of its citizens becomes the aggrieved
party, and should immediately interpose, and take
care that the proceedings are conducted in an efficient
and proper manner.
_____
From the answer given on Monday by the Secretary
of State for the Home Department to the question of
Mr. STUART WORTLEY, we are led to hope that a
great improvement in this respect will speedily take
place. He stated " that an arrangement was in pro-
gress which he hoped would obviate the inconve-
nience." He, however, added, " that be could not
say that fees would be given in every case, as the
expense now fell wholly upon the public." Now,
with all possible respect for the Right Hon Baronet,
we must ask on whom should that expense fall?
And how will it increase it, if it is in the first instance
defrayed by the State, or by a private individual who
is afterwards reimbursed out of the public purse ?
By the one mode of proceeding there is a security that
leverything will be conducted in an efficient and
proper manner, worthy of this great country, and the
magnitude of the interests involved. In the other
there is no such security. The party selected
for the duty may be wholly incompetent to the task ;
or, under the most favourable circumstances, sup-
posing him to be of tried ability, he will necessarily
be influenced by a feeling of partisanship, an anxiety
to succeed for his client, and cannot possess that im-
partiality which should distinguish the public prose-
cutor, whose sole object should be to elicit truth, and
not to gain a favourable verdict from the jury.
In Scotland things are much better managed
in this respect than in this country. Attached
to the Supreme Court and in every district
throughout the kingdom there is a public pro-
secutor, at whose instance all crimes are pro-
secuted at the public expense, before the Court in
which he officiates. To those functionaries is left the
whole responsibility of determining whether any par.
ticular criminal charge shall be prosecuted or not.
The strictest investigation takes place, in the first in-
stance, and unless there is a fair prospect of conviction,
no party is subjected to the disgrace, the inconvenience,
and expense of a public trial succeeding to a pro-
tracted imprisonment. If the case is so strong as to
afford a fair presumption of his guilt, founded on
legal evidence, he is committed for trial, but in every
case (not capital) he is entitled by the statute law to
his liberation on giving good and sufficient security
to come forward and abide the result; and let us here
say that there is scarcely ever an abuse of this pri-
vilege, or an instance where a criminal escapes
from justice by reason of the indulgence
so afforded. He has every opportunity of preparing
for his defence. If guilty, he meets with deserved
punishment ; but it Is seldom that an innocent man
Here,
crime,
although
subjected before trial to an imprisonment, which
ngh w e
three libertyi
would be a more than sufficient expiation for the im-
putedeventof
e stthaeblsiust
subject
t against him.
spokes
of
ore rotundo, how often do we see it unnecessarily
taken away in practice ? How often do we find
judges directing the ' •
juries to acquit prisoners
on the ground that there was •
no evidence against
them ? Within the past week we have seen cases of
parties detained on coroners' inquisitions, although
the magistrates refused to send thorn to trial.
Surely there is no subject of greater importance
to the people in general, or more urgently demand-
ing a revisal and alteration of the system.

The Journal of St. Petersburgh publishes a letter
from the Caucasus, dated Bth May, which states that
on the sth of May Colonel STEPSTOFF defeated
SCHAMYL on the banks of the river Assa, and forced
him to retreat to }'ortanga.

Madrid papers of the 15th inst. have arrived. A
letter from Zamora announces that a division of the
army of General CONCHA took possession of Bra-
ganza on the 11th inst.

It was rumoured in Madrid that a change in the
Ministry was about to take place, and that General
NARVAEZ would be the new President of the Council.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Madrid Bourse
on the 15th inst. at 304 for cash; the Five per Cents.
at 18; Passives, 54; and Coupons at 1.5 for cash.

We have received the Paris Papers of Sunday.

Both the Constitutionnel and the National, confirm
the rumour to which we alluded yesterday, that the
Committee of the Chamber of Peers, have recom-
mended that M. DE PALEPRAT, M. PARMENTIER,
General CUEIERES, who was a member of the Cabi-
net of M. TRIERS, and M. TESTE, the late Minister
of Public Works in the Cabinet of M. GUIZOT,
should be impeached for swindling, bribery and cor-
ruption.

The Chamber of Deputies was occupied on Satur-
day, in discussing a Bill introduced by the Govern-
ment for the better organisation of the Courts of
Justice in the Colonies. The object of the Bill is to
render the judges in the French Colonies, indepen-
dent of the slave-owner 3, so that they may be in a
position to administer impartial justice in cases in
which slaves are concerned either as accusers or ac-
cused. The Journal des Dgbats says that the Bill,
which seems well calculated to effect the object, will
be voted by the Chamber on Monday.

The Count and Countess DE ST. AULAIRE left Paris
on Saturday for London.
The Three per Cents. were done in the Passage de I'Operae
Paris, on Sunday, at 77f. 70c.
MARSEILLES, JUNE 16.—Marseilles and Avignon, 738 f.
75c.; Northern, 597 f. 50c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNK 21.
_ _ _ .

Ceylon %—ltalian and Austrian, 2—Northern of France,
1114—Rc;uen and Havre, 2534—Sambre and Meuse, 7%.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—The steam-ship Pekin, ur.
rived at the Cape on the 6th of April, and left for the
Mauritius and India on the 9th of April. The steam-
ship Pottinger arrived at the Cape on the 9th of April,
and sailed for the Mauritius and India on the .Bth of
April. Her Majesty's ship Nimrod left Table Bay on
the 13th of April for Algoa Bay, taking Sir Henry F.
F. Young to that place to assume the duties of hh Go-
vernment. Her Majesty's ship Rosamond arrived at the
Cape on the 12th of April; her Majesty's ship Helena
arrived on the 17th of April; and her Majesty's ship
Media arrived on the 18th of April.

thought, long remain there. The English vessels, the
Vanguard and the Albion, would soon return to Malta.
The Rodney was to remain at the Piraeus. The Egyptian
Government steamer, the Nile, touched at Malta on her
way to Tripoli, with 800 soldiers."

INJURY TO THE APPLE CROP.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,--it must be of the highest importance at the
present time for the people to be accurately informed of
the state of the plague of aphides which has fallen
upon us, that we may be prepared beforehand for any
failure which is likely to occur.
During the last few days it has become manifest that
the aphides infesting the apple-tree have committed
most serious damage. In some instances they have en-
tirely killed the leaves and young shoots, the fruit being
dried op or fallen off. Many apple trees are so much in-
jured that they are not expected to bear fruit for two or
three years, and one market gardener at Enfield assured
me that upon the most moderate computation two-thirds
of his crop was destroyed.
With respect to the potato plant, the disease in the
underground stem, from the mischief inflicted last year,
and the general appearance
r, however, is increasing all
is has
good. le s s e n eTdh round
aphisund London,vasa t 0
over the kingdom, and if, nothing occurs to destroy ir,
the insect may be expected to evince its injuries next
month.—l remain, Sir, your obedient servant,

ALFRED SMEE.
P.S.—Communications upon the potato plant, and the
ravages of aphides are solicited.
7, Finsbury-circus, June 21, 1847.

NE W ZEALAND.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Six,—ln The Sun of Monday I noticed an account of
the " extraordinary " produce of some New Zealand
seed wheat. I beg to inform you that such production
in the colony is not by any means considered extra-
ordinary. Not long since I saw on the farm of Mr.
--, on the banks of the Hutt River, near
Wellington, such a crop of wheat, then being reaped,
that would do an English farmer's eyesight good. A
neighbour of his offered me heavy odds that it would
average 55 to 60 bushels per acre, and 631bs. weight
per bushel. In England 40 bushels are considered good
average quantity, and 60 lbs. per bushel good weight.
Potatoes are taken from the ground far use nine
months out of the twelve. When I left the natives were
bringing in large quanties in " kits " (baskets made of
the flax leaf ), from 40 to 60 lbs. weight, which they
sold at 6d. per kit. Ido think it would not be a bad
speculation to import a quantity of seed of a new stock
from Van Diemen's Land or New Zealand. From both
places excellent " stocks " can be had. To cultivate
from tubers is artificial and unnatural. It we breed
"in-and-in " the breed (or stock) must deteriorate, and
will eventually be destroyed.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
N. Z.
London, June 22, 1847.

FOREIGN CORN and the HARVEST.

DANZIC, JUNE 11.—Freights seem to have at-
tained their highest standard. There is at this mo-
ment no demand for ships for corn. A few days ago
265. was paid for London, to-day 255., and future
bargains have concluded at 245. per load.
GOTENBURG, JUNE 12.—There is a great want of
ships for freightage here, and consequently our ship-
►nents were very inconsiderable last week.
ODESSA, JUNE 4.—ln consequence of the fall of
grain in the corn markets of Western Europe the de-
mand of ships for England and the harbours between
Hamburg and the Havre have visibly decreased, al-
though only very few vessels have come in. Three
Russian ships, which are now going from here to
England, were freighted for return and reloading.
Our imports of corn from the interior are very nume-
rous, but as the number of ships for transporting
them is insufficient, it is said that in our corn and
grain store there is an accumulation of 500,000 chet-
werts.

BRESLAW, JUNE 12.—1 t is very evident that the
further rise in the prices of corn can be checked
only by the extraordinary influx of corn from the
interior, and this is the more confidently to be ex-
pected from the circumstance that at the reduced
price there was profit. Much anxiety has been ex-
pressed with respect to the seed, but even if the
present cool weather keep back the vegetation of the
late rye, yet the copious fall of rain has been very
beneficial to the summer seeds. We learn from
foreign markets that the rise of prices in England
has again given impulse both to wheat and rye, while
in France, Belgium, and Russia, there was a decline.
Our market was very active.
HAMBURGH CORN MARKET, JUNE 18.—We are
not doing much business, there was a slight rise in
the prices of wheat since Friday, but favourable
accounts from England again occasioned a fall. For
rye, too, there has been a fall, but there are
not many buyers, as a still further reduc-
tion is still confidently expected. Peas and
vetches have likewise fallen ; linseed cakes rather
higher. Wheat flour maintains its price, but every-
thing seems to indicate an approaching fall. There
is an ample supply of fresh Russian wheat, which
has evidently declined within the last eight days.
WESEL, JUNE W.—The very favourable change in
the weather, and the cheering prospects of the ap-
proaching plentiful harvest, have produced an aston-
ishing effect here, so that poverty is gradually dis-
appearing. This is evident from the fact that, within
the last week the public authorities which furnish the
poor with soup and provisions have had three hundred
less applications than hitherto. The soup society will
remain in operation so long as the wants of the
poorer classes call for it.
ST. PETERSBURG, JUNE 3.—Bread has bean rising
here for the last fortnight. The general Government
has therefore resolved to let the flour dealers and
bakers have flour from the store-magazines of the
city at a reduction of six silver rubles on condition
that the bread shall be sold according to the tax. In
consequence of the above-named rise his Majesty
issued a command that there should be a conference
of the corn-dealers, which in fact took place a few
days ago. In this conference the Minister of
Finance communicated the desire of his Majesty that
the corn-dealers should keep back a tenth part of the
quantity intended for present exportation, in order
that the poor may have bread at as low
a rate as possible. All the corn-merchants
who were present instantly declared, without
discussion, not only in their own name, but in that of
the corn-dealers, who were absent, that they would
gladly respond to the noble design of the Emperor, to
the full extent of their power. They accordingly
placed in the hands of the Minister two Acts, signed
with their signatures, by one of which they pledged
themselves faithfully to adhere to the wishes of the
Emperor; and by the other, bound themselves to de-
liver.the tenth part kept back in reserve,- to the inha-
bitants of St. Petersburgh, at very moderate prices.
Immediately on receiving these important documents
from the Minister of Finance, the Emperor wrote
with his own hand the following words :—" Assure
the merchants of my sincere thanks, and tell my noble
brethren I expected no other line of conduct from
them, for I know their sentiments, and I am proud of
them."

FR ANK.FORT•ON. THE-MAINE, JUNE 14.—The con-
siderable rise in the price of corn which has taken
place in Munich, Augsburg, Erding, &c., is by no
means general, indeed, it is an exception to the rule.
In Wierzburg, Stutzgardt, Stettin, Rostock, Baden,
Cologne, &c., there is a continued and very perceptible
fall, which promises to be prominent and general
from the magnificent prospects of the approaching
harvest and vintages.—Hamburg paper, June 19.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
NEWCASTLE RACES.
NEWCASTLE, MONDAY NIGHT.
The following horses have arrived since our last:—
Eryx, Van Tromp, De Witt, Plaudit, Sheraton, Tim
Whiffler, Prince, Alderman's Daughter, Luminous,
Daring, Bellenden, The Spaniard, Barnton, Meux, La
Comte, Vermicelli, Maid of Motherwell, The Pilgrim.
Nine more from Dawson's stable expected.
LATEST BETTING ON THE PLATE.
5 to 1 agst Conjuror (t) 15 to 1 agst Milden
6to 1 agst Conspiracy (t) 16 to 1 agst Eryx (t)
6to 1 agst Blackbird (t) 20 to 1 agst Tom Tough (t)
7to 1 agst Griniston (t) 20 to 1 agst Geo. Hudson
10 to 1 agst Executor (t) 20 to 1 agst Red Robin
15 to 1 agst Morpeth (t) 100 to 7 agst Inheritress
Nothing done on the Cup.

ERRATUM.—In the concluding paragraph of Mr.
Samuel Browning's letter on the Navigation Laws, pub-
lishedin our impression of yesterday, for " minor ad-
vantage" read " minor disadvantage."
DEATH OF Ma. EMERY.—Mr. John Emery for-
merly proprietor and editor of the Guiana Times, and
latterly of the journal bearing his name, published in
George Town, British Guiana, and well known as a
powerful political writer, died on board the steamer
Trent, on his passage from England to Demerara. His
remains were interred at Barbadoes.—Jamaicu paper.
ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—The in-
defatigable Jullien brought out on Monday at these
gardens a new waltz, which he has named the "Swedish
Nightingale," being composed on airs sung by Jenny
Lind. It is, we should say, a decided hit, and likely to
become very popular. The gardens were crowded, and
the representation of the Siege of Gibraltar seemed as
attractive as ever.

HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF
TIIE CHEST.—From the occasional record just published,
it appears that the legacy from the late Rev. Henry
Campbell has been invested in Government securities, to
which sum a legacy of 2001. from the late Miss
Churchill, and 100/. from the late William I'raed, Esq„
and a further sum of 2001. from Miss Catherine Lee,:of
Knightsbridge, will, when received, be applied to the
funds devoted to the purchase of the gruund at present
occupied by the hospital.
THE CONSTABULARY FORCE OF IRELAND—The
effective strength of this force in the counties, cities, and
towns of Ireland on the Ist of January last, was 10,639
(general force, and 372 reserved force). The expendi-
ture upon the said force for the whole of Ireland in the
year 1846 amounted to the sum of 483,640. The total
amount of the force employed on the Ist of January,
1847, was 11,404, and its total expense 492,8811., of
which 340,8331. is the proportion borne by the Consoli-
dated Fund, and 152,047/, the amount borne by coun-
ties, cities, and towns.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was
animated. Sales 10,000 bales, including 1,200 American
and 800 Surat for export, and 500 American and 1,000
Sara:. on speculation. There was an animated market,
and prices of American under 7d. were id. per lb. better.
Surat and M,:cao was 4d. per lb. dearer, ard all other
sorts were Id. per lb. higher than last Friday. 'l'l;e
sales included 6,000 bales American at 61d. to 71d., 100
Bahia at 71d., and 3,000 Surat at 4d. to 51d. per lb.
There was a firm market for Railway Shares, with a
tendency to improvement, but the buying orders appeared
to be but few.
At the sale of Railway Shares to-day, by Messrs. La-
mond anti Co., prices were steady, in the absence of any very
active demand. The following are a few of the principal
sales :
Leicester & Bedford, Exchange Certificate £0 12 0
Louvain ala Sambre •• 1 1 0
Manchester and Southampton 0 9 0
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate
Vale of Neath 1 17 6
London and South-Western (scrip)
Great Northern
Great Luxembourg
Ceylon ...
Shropshire Union and Canal 2 4 0
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole 1 3 .0
Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston., 1 7 0
Newport and Abergavenny . 1 1 0
East Lincolnshire
North Staffordshire
We stated a day or two since our belief that there
would be further unpleasant occurrences in mercantile
circles connected with corn and other speculation, and
the fall at Marseilles of the great house of Forbin,
Janson, and Co., for an amount estimated at about half
a million sterling, but little of which, however, will be
due to English merchants, serves to strengthen our
statement. As regards the house in question its chief
connexion was with the sugar trade.
The auspicious weather, and the prospects of progres-
sive advancement in the growing crops increases the
disposition to do business, but as yet we cannot report
that activity either in the produce or manufacturing
markets which appears to be desirable. Symptoms of
confidence and augmented consumption have indeed
manifested themselves at Liverpool and other places,
and all that seems requisite is that this should " ripen,"
as it were, until the fruit is perfect, or in other words,
until buyers operate liberally upon their conviction.
The only ship arrival from abroad with late intelli-
gence of interest is from Monte Video. The inhabi-
tants were all on the qui vice respecting the mission of
the English envoy, which it was hoped would prove
successful.
The English Funds opened rather firmer this morning,
but have receded a trifle since. Consols have been
881 1, and are now 881 I fur Account. The New
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have realised 90A to I;
and the Three per Cents. 881 1. Exchequer-bills have
been again quoted 7s. to 10s. premium.
There is not the least animation in the Foreign mar-
ket. Portuguese Four per Cents. are quiet at 32 to 321.
In Spanish no dealings are reported. Dutch Two- and-
a-Half per Cents. have been 581.
Railway Shares are looking firm again, but with a
paucity of transactions.
BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities 88%34 88%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anus. 904 %lA% 901,4
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 9%
Ditto. 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 .. B%s
India Bonds, 1,0001. .. 4
Ditto, under 1,000/. .. .. 4 4
Consols for Opening, July 16 88%%34 883
Exchequer Bills. I%d. 2d.
1,0001... .... 7 10 p 10 p
5001.-. .... 149 p 9p
Ditto. Small .... 19 13 p 13 p
ONE CLOSIN,
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent .. . —923 Q
Grenada, 1 per Cent .. . 19%
Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto, for the Account .. 203
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto, 4 tier Cent
Ditto, for the Account .. 3214 3214
Russian Bonds .. 110% 110%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto, Three per Cent .. 35
DlvidendA on the above payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-Halt per Cent .. 58% 58%
B USINESS
PRICES OF CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES. P,LID. DONE AT PRICES
ONE O'CLOCK.

Bristol and Exeter .. .. 75 .... •
Ditto, New .. .. 15 .... 14 .. •• • • .... 14
Buckinghamshire .. 6/. 45.... .......... % dis.
Dublin and Belfast Junction: 15 2
Eastern Counties .. .. 20 20% 20%
Do. I'erpet., 5 per Ceut. No. 1. 6/. I 3s. 4d. . • .... •• ..
Ditto, ditto.. .. No. 2. 6/. 13s. 4d. p.... .• • M P
Ditto, York Extension 7% .... 67 .. • • .... • • 6%s
East Lincolnshire .. 6% .... 7%! ..... •• .. 7%

Great Northern .. 34i.... 22% .„ 2g
Great North of England . ..100 ....234 .......... 234
Ditto, New .. .. 5 .... 60 60
Great Western .. 85
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 50 .... 70%
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 12%.... 17%
Ditto, New .. .... 8%
Leeds and Thirsk .. 26 ....

Ditto, Preference 6 per Cent. • • 3% • ...... •
London and Mackwad .. 161. 13s. 4d. 7%.... 7%
Ditto. New, No. 1 .
.5% • .....

Ditto, New, No. 2 .. 21. 13s. 4d. % p.. ....• • • % p
London, Brighton, & south Coast 50 .... 55 54% 55 55
Ditto. Consol. Eighths .. 10 .... 1434
Ditto, Guarant. Five per Cent. 9 ....
London an . North-Western ..100 ....180% lBO%
Ditto, Quarters .. L. and B. 7 .... 24 23% 23%
Ditto ditto, New Shares • . .. 2 .... 12% 13 l3
Ditto, Fifths .. 2 .... 17 • • 17
Ditto, 401. Shares 31. &B. .. 40 .... 70 . 70
Ditto, 101. Shares 31. &B. (A) 5 .... lll%
Ditto, 10/. Shares M. & ii, (B) 5 .... lll4
Ditto, 101. Shares M. &B. (C) 1 .••.. • • • • 7.A
London and South-Western 411. 6s. 10d... 66 6.5% ..
Ditto, New Consol. Eighths .. 40 .... 49 49
Ditto, New .. 271% .... 30% 3114
Ditto, Scrip.. .. • • .. .. 5 „ „
Manchester and Leeds .. .. • • 82 103 ....
Ditto, half Shares .. .. 38 .... 4514,-
Ditto, Thirds (Reg.).. 45... par „„ „ 14dis
31anch., Shelf., and Lincolnsh ..100
Ditto, 1A Shares (No. 1) .. • . 8 .... 11
Midland .. •• ..100 ....125 1241,E
Ditto, New 36 41%
Ditto, New 6
Do., Consol. Bristol and Birm.

Mx per Cent. .. ..100 —127% ....... 127%
Newcastle and Berwick • • .. 20 .• .. 28 % .......... 28%
Ditto, New .. .. • • 5 •• .. %.... 7%
Norfolk .. ..100 .... . . l2B
North British .. 25 ..........
Ditto, Half Shares .. .• • . 12% .. •• • • .... 15%
Ditto, Extension .. • • • • %•• • • %•••• • • • • • 'Fs
Ditto, Thirds .. .. 1 .. • . ..
North Western .• .. 4 .... 2 %
Oxford, Wor'ster, & Wolverhamp. 22% .... 13% ..... 13%
Preston and Wyre.. .. 25 •• .. 37%.. •• ...... 37%
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 3%.... 314 ••••• • .• • • 34
South Eastern and Dovor .. • • 33% •• • • ••••• • • • • •
Ditto. New (iss. at 321.) No. 1. 20 •• .. 20% ...... 20%
Suth Wales .. .. 10 .... •• • • 7
West Riding Union .. • . 4/.25... par .. • . par
Windsor. Staines, &S. Western.. 425..... 2% 2 p...... 2 p
York and Newcastle .. .. 25 .... 37% 38 37%.. 37%
Ditto, New.. .. 10 .... 15% .......... 15%
Ditto, Preference .. .. 8 .... 11% ........ • • 11%
York aitd North Midland .. 50 .... 85% .......• .. 86%
Ditto. Preference .. 6 .... 15% ........ 1544
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.

Ceylon .. ss. % ..........
Louvain ala Sambre .. • • .. 6 .. • • 1 ..........
Luxembourg
Namur and Liege .. .. 10 3%..........
Northern of France 8 .... 11►4 .• • • .....
Sumbre and Meuse .. 14 .. . . 7 ►,(• •.... . . • •

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

Commercial of London

20 .... 22 ..........

MINES.
Real del Monte. Unregistered 314 • . • • -
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.-(YESTERDAY.)
Amsterdam .... —C.F 12 5% Gibra1tar..............—
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam 2 U l2 6 Genoa
Antwerp-• ............ 25 95 Milan ................
flamburgh .... • • M.B. 13 12% Venice
• • .... Naples ...... • • .... • • 40%

Paris, 3 days' sight .. •• 25 65 Palermo, per oa 12036 ,o
Ditto, ...... 25 95 Lisbon.. 59
Marseilles • • • •
Bourdeaux
Frankfort on Mains—
Petersburgh, 3 U 5.... • • Buenos Ayres ........
Berlin ....
Vienna, effec.flo.. .• .. 10 6 Philadelphia •
Trieste, ditto • • .... 10 6 PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Madrid .... .... 4732 Foreign Gold in liars ...£3 17 9

._ .... . ..
Cadiz .. ... : ........ 46 U New Dollars • • .... 0 4 931
~
8i1ba0........ • ....... Portugal Gold Coin •• 0 0 0
Barcelona ............ Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
eville.. —....—•• • • .. Silver in bars ...... •• 0 4 11%

REDUCTION OF SHIPPING RATES IN LIVERPOOL.-
A special meeting of the Liverpool town council was
held at the Town-hall on Monday, for the purpose of
taking into consideration certain reductions on cotton,
iron, coal, and shipping, recommended by the dock com-
mittee. The mayor presided. The sub-committee re-
commended reductions as follow, namely:—On goods,
24,5801. ; tonnage, 14,136/. ; total, 38,7161 A schedule
of the proposed reduction was produced and approved
of, as also a reduction of tonnage duties charged for
certain classes of voyages.

CALLS TO THE BAR.—INNER TEMPLE, JUNE 11.----
The following gentlemen were this day called to the bar
by the lion. Society of the Inner Temple, viz., William
henry Leathley, Esq., of Trinity College, Cambridge,
8.A.; Charles Frith, Esq., of Park-village west, lie-
gent's-park; Samuel Stephen Bateson, Esq., Trinity
College, Cambridge; the llon. William Frederick Ca-
d ,gan, of Oriel College, Oxford; Springhall Thompson,
Esq., of St. John's College, Cambridge, 8.A.; Elliott
Grassett, Esq., of Emanuel College, Cambridge; and
Edward Hoare Sirr, of Trinity College, Dublin. B.A.
SulcinE uNDEn. SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCES.—A
man of the name of Stevenson, who resided at Cross
Stabbs, near Barrhead, committed suicide on Thursday
morning under the following singularly painful circum-
stances :—" The person in question, about twenty years
ago, was following some business at Leith, and was at
that time sentenced for a certain crime to be executed,
but through the sympathy and pleadings of a number of
individuals on his behalf, the sentence was commuted
to that of transportation. By some means or other,
however, he managed to escape after a period
of about two years. At this time he resolved, that
whenever in depressed circumstances, or otherwise unfit
to maintain himself, he would carry the sentence of the
judge into effect, which lie did on Thursday last, while
under the effects of strong drink, by hanging himself on
a tree, with his own cravat, by the side of Thornly dam,
a few hundred yards from Glenfield. The wretched in-
dividual tied himself so low, that, when discovered, his
knees nearly touched the ground, which showed how
determined he must have been in the perpetration of his
wicked aet.—Renfrewshire Advertiser.
THE LATE FIRE AT MAUDSLAY AND FIELD'S.—
A large and influential meeting was held in the Vestry
Hall, Church-street, Lambeth, on Monday, at which
donations and subscriptions amounting in all to near
2001. were contributed for the purposo of replacing the
valuable tools lost by the workmen In the above destruc-
tive conflagration.

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, and
the Princess Royal, atterC,ed by the Lady in Waiting,
took an airing yest.rcky, in an open carriage and four.
The Equerry in Waiting, Lord Alfred Paget, attended
on horseback.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Mr.
G. E. Anon, ,iunt, yesterday morning, to the office of
the Duchy of_Clornw,ll, in Somerset House.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yesterday
afternoon at a Committee meeting for Promoting and
Encouraging the Fine Arts, and the Re-building the
Palace of Westminster. His Royal Highness arrived at
the new Palace at a quarter to three o'clock, attended
by Colonel Bouverie. The Commissioners present were
the Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Mahon, Viscount
Morpeth, Lord John Russell, and Mr. Vyse. The
Secretary, Mr. Eastlake, was in attendance.
The Queen and Prince Albert honoured the perform-
ance at her Majesty's Theatre with their presence yes.
terday evening. The royal suite consisted of the
Nlarchioness of Douro, Lady Caroline Cocks, Hon. Miss
Paget, Lord Byron, Lord Alfred Paget, and Colonel
Bouveiria.

tier ALjesty the Queqn Dowager took an airing yes-
terday. coinpanied by her Royal Highness the Here•
ditary Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimar, in an open car-
riage• and-four.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Gloucester
and the Duchess of Cambridge visited her Majesty the
Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge and Prince George, attended by Mr. Edmond
M. Mildmuy. honoured the performance at the Royal
Italian Opera House with their presence last evening.
A depu►ation consis►ing of Messrs. Lace, Land, Rigge,
and Clay, from the Birkenhead Dock Company; Mr.
Bicknell for Mr. Vyner; Mr. Davis for Mr. Mainwaring;
and Mr. Potts for Mr. Price, had a meeting with the
Commissioners of her Majesty s Woods and Forests,
yesterday, at their office in Whitehall-place.
Governor Mathew accompanied by Mr. Monckton
Milnes, M.P., had an interview with Earl Grey, yester-
day, at the Colonial-office.

Le Comte de Lalaing had an interview with the Earl
of Clarendon yesterday.
Lord Robert Grosvenor and Mr. Spooner attended
yesterday at the Home Office, with Sir George Grey,
to present a memorial to the Queen from the Women of
England, signed by 100,000, praying that the Bill for
preventing trading in seduction may pass into a law.
The following is a copy of the petition :
"To the Queen's most Excellent Majesty,
" We, the undersigned, women of Great Britain and
Ireland, plated by Divine Providence under the sway of
the British sceptre, which God has committed to your
Majesty's hands, most humbly beg leave to make known
to our beloved Sovereign the heavy and cruel grievance
that oppresses a large portion of the female population of
the realm.

" A system exists by which, not only are undue faci-
lities and temptations held out to the immoral, the giddy,
and the poor, to enter upon a life of infamy, degradation
and ruin, but unwary young females acd mere children
are frequently entrapped, and sold into the hands of
profligate libertines.
" Agents are sent into the towns and villages of the
United Kingdom, whose ostensible object is to engage
young girls for domestic service or other female employ-
ments, but whose real design is to degrade and ruin
them.

" Female agents are also employed in London and
many of our large towns to watch the public convey-
ances, and decoy the simple and inexperienced into
houses of moral pollution and crime, by offers of advice,
or temporary protection.
" By such and other means, the entrapping of inno-
cent young women is reduced to a regular trade, the
existence of which is, in the highest degree, discreditable
to the nation.

" Despite the efforts of right-minded men and of
benevolent institutions, to suppress, by means of the
existing laws, this vile trade of female innocence, thou-
sands of the most helpless of your Majesty's subjects are
annually destroyed both in body and soul.
" We, therefore, appeal to your Majesty, beseeching
you to extend the shield of your Royal influence and
protection around the daughters of the poor, by pro-
moting such vigorous laws as the wisdom of your Ma-
jesty's Consellors may see good to devise, and thereby
deliver your Majesty's fair realm from a system of pro-
fligacy so offensive to Almighty God, so injurious to our
national virtue, and so fatal to the personal, social,
temporal, and spiritual well-being of the women of Eng-
-I:md.

" And we, your Majesty's loyal subjects, will ever
gratefully remember and appreciate the deliverance
wrought out for our country-women, through the in-
strumentality of our beloved Queen."

A deputation relative to the Clerkenwell improve-
nients, consisting of Messrs. Galloway, Walker, Lamp-
lough, Anderton, and Wallat, had an interview with
Viscount Morpeth on Saturday at the office of the Woosis
and Forests.