The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-20 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1847.

At a moment when the subject of national educa-
tion is occupying so large a space in the public mind,
it is reasonable that we should revert not merely to
the general neglect of which we have been guilty
towards the nation at large in regard to its intellec-
tual Culture, hut likewise to every act of positive
injustice that can be laid to our charge in
isrelation to
this important topic. And, h, , there no point
upon which the British Le 7 I r could now-a-
days be more prominently and atireo. assailed,
for not having acted up to the successfullyrequirements of an
enlightened age, than that presented by
seventeen
it
has continuously given during the last
te
years to sanction the admission a Dissenterseivnetooteuhnr
Universities. That the Parliament, previous
to n
Relief Bill of 1829, should have maintained the pro-
hibition, as enforced by the Universities, against the
:Roman Catholics and Dissenters, is not so much a
matter of astonishment ; but its perseverance in the
same course, after the Roman Catholics had been
admitted to a participation in the highest civil privi-
leges in the State, and after the passing of the
Reforni Bill, which caused its spirit of improve-
ment to light upon all the corporate bodes
of the empire, the Universities excepted, redounds
neither to its honour, wisdom, justice, nor
liberality: Owing to the right which was claimed
4012 . Wulf t'ofi the State to impose civil disabilities
vpen subjecii\whose religious tenets differed, in par-
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abandon this right would weaken, if not subvert, the
religion of the State, the Relief Bill was kept in
agitation for half a century before it became the law
of the land; but, although opposed to the opinion of the
Legislature, public opinion continued steadily to
rise, till at length its full tide set in, and forcibly
swept away the main barriers of religious persecu-
tion. Without troubling themselves to deny it in the
abstract, the people at large justly conceived that
the right, which had been put forward as being in-
herent is the State, had, in the nineteenth century,
and in respect to the Roman Catholics, practically
resolved itself into an impolitic and unjust exercise of
power, and they generously-repudiated the notion that,
by opening the portals of the Constitution to millions
of their fellow-countrymen, against whom they had
so long been closed, the religious welfare of the com-
munity would be in any wise affected. And
thus was a great advance made in the cause
of religious liberty. The idle fear which
was suffered to infect the mind of the Legisla-
ture, that the people could not he intrusted
with a large increase of political power, without en-
dangering the balance of the Constitution, unjustly
deprived the middle classes for half a century of
those rights and privileges which, it may almost be
said, were wrested from the aristocracy to be finally
embodied in the Reform Bill. Our modern Magna
Charta and the Relief Bill owe their success entirely
to the " pressure from without." As Lord MEL-
BOURNE said, in 1837, " every institution is unwilling
to reform itself;" and this remark is peculiarly ap-
plicable to the Universities. Nevertheless we are
persuaded that the same external influence which
secured the two great measures to which we have
adverted will, whether the Legislature shall choose to
act promptly and judiciously or not, suffice before
long to induce Parliament to take into its own hands
the reformation and improvement which is so much
needed in the leading Universities of the empire.
The House of Commons will this week have an
opportunity of reconsidering the whole question, and
of determining whether it is right to permit the system
to continue of excluding Dissenters from the honours
and privileges which Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin
are empowered to confer. On Thursday next Mr.
CHRISTIE will re-open the discussion. We heartily
wish him success. He ought, and, no doubt, will
feel emboldened in persevering with an object which,
for its benevolence and enlightenment, entitles him to
a large share of public gratitude, when he remembers
that the present Prime Minister and other
eminent statesmen have seconded his past exertions
for rendering our ancient and influential seats of
learning really worthy of the British nation. Cer-
tainly, at no time so much as the present, could the
undoubted grievances of the Dissenters, so far as
sound policy is concerned, be more opportunely re-
eioved. Rightly, or wrongly, the Dissenters are just
now strongly excepting to the Government plan of
education, and mainly on the ground that the
patronage to be created by it will not be inconsider

able, and that the Church-will come in for the lion's
share. Whether, under all the circumstances by
which the vexata guava() of national education is

environed, the objections to Lord LANSDOWNE'S

scheme be well or ill-founded, yet, seeing how un-
ustly the Dissenters have been treated by the Univer-

ities, whose authority is wielded almost entirely by
clerical members of the Established Church, and

seeing also how much the Dissenters have done for

The Carlist Generals ELI° and ZAVALA have
entered Navarre and joined General ALZAA. The
Carlist insurrection, however, is, it is said, rapidly
dying away.

1 ing blessings among the poverty-stricken of Glasgow
and Dundee, in the shape of those Industrial Schools
where the outcast children receive bodily as well as
mental nourishment. These advantages have been
and are still being effected by private and
unassisted enterprise; they are springing spon-
taneously from the charity of the popular
heart. Beautiful as the endeavours are therefore,
they are necessarily weak and, to a very considerable
extent, ineffective. It requires the potent and con-
centrated impulse of Government to give efficacy to
these struggles against ignorance. There is a ne-
cessity for the stretching forth of the arm of the
Executive to the help of whatever ragged schools, and
reformatory schools, and industrial schools, have
yet dared to raise their redeeming heads, and to show
forth their plenary benevolence. England presents
a gigantic field for those Governmental labours—
Ireland, a profound abyss. We want the diminu-
tion of the sources:of our physical contamination, and
GOD knows we are sadly in need of a diminution of
the sources of ow moral and social corruption !

The Prussian Diet held a short sitting on the
12th, at which it resolved that an address should be
sent in answer to the KING'S speech, and it appointed
a committee to draw it up.
The members of the Prussian Diet were presented
by their marshals to the KING on the 12th, and after-
wards had the honour of dining at the palace with his
MAJESTY and the Princes of the Royal Family. The
Ministers were also present. During the dinner the
KING proposed a toast to the country and the United
Diet, and expressed a hope that the labour of the
assembly would be useful to the nation. The toast
was received with enthusiastic acclamations.
The Post-Ampt Gazette of Frankfort publishes a
letter from Berlin, stating that the effect produced
there by the speech of the King of PRUSSIA, on open-
ing the Diet, was so favourable, that the funds rose
nearly one per cent.

We find in the Augsburgh Gazette a letter dated
the 10th instant, which states that the five great
Powers had instructed their ambassadors in Vienna
to adjust the difference which has arisen between the
Porte and the Greek Government.

Letters from Rome of the Bth instant announce
that Cardinal Gizzi, the Secretary of State, had ten-
dered his resignation on the 6th, but the POPE had
refused to accept it.

Madrid journals of the 11th have arrived.

The Government, it was said, had received positive
assurances that it was not the intention of Queen
CHRISTINA to return to Spain, but that when she
quitted Paris she intended proceeding to Marseilles,
to embark from thence for Naples.
General SERRANO left Madrid on the 11th. Pre-
viously to his departure he was visited by Senor
Ras DE OLANO and by Senor DE LA VEGA, the
private secretary to the QUEEN.

education, despite of the frowns of power and
the existence of miserable and narrow-minded

Senor OLOZAG♦ was expected in-Madrid on the 11th.
He will be speedily followed by General °sonic), the
friend of ESPARTERO. OSORIO has received a full
pardon, and is reinstated in all his honours.

The Madrid mail of the 12th had not arrived in
Paris when the post left on Saturday.

We have received the Paris papers of Friday and
Saturday.
The Journal des Debats announces, in what may
be considered an official form, the appointment of the
Duc DE BROGLIE as Ambassador to the Court of
London.
The Bill authorising the Bank of France to issue
notes of the value of 200 f. has passed the Chamber
of Deputies by a large majority, the amendment of
M. LEON FaucitEß (proposing to authorise the issue
of notes of 100 f.) having been previously rejected.
The announcement which appeared in the Patric
of Wednesday, of the execution of the three persons
convicted of rioting at Buzancais, was, it appears, pre-
mature. The execution was to be delayed until
Friday, according to the National. The Saele ex-
presses a hope that this delay may be favourable to
the convicts. It says--
" The evening journals of Wednesday announced posi-
tively. and one of them, the Patrie, with the most eh-
curnstantial details, tne execution of 1.1:10 tnree unfortunate
persons condemned to death for the affair at Buzancais.
This news has been repeated as certain by most of the
morning journals. The Debuts itself, which ought to
have been better informed, reported that the execution
took place on the 12th, in the public market-place at
Buzancais, amidst a prodigious concourse of people from
the environs, adding that there was a great display of
military force from Bourge, Nevers, and Chateauroux.
Notwithstanding all this, the magistrates, who have seats
in the Chamber, and who, by reason of their special posi-
tion, have been called upon to follow all the phases of
this deplorable affair, declared yesterday that the sen-
tence upon the condemned men at Buzangais had not
been executed. We hope that this happy delay, which
has allowed the Government time to appreciate the
unanimous feelings of the public, will save these un-
fortunate men, who certainly were very guilty, and who
Would have no claim to pity, if their crime had not, in a
degree, sprung from the popular agitation excited by the
apprehension of famine. Our intention, as we trust our
readers, will conceive, is not to extenuate the crime of
murder, which has been committed. We have respected,
even in all its rigour, the decree of justice. But can the
shedding of blood on the scaffold expiate the blood of the
victim ?"
The Moniteur publishes a royal ordonnance ap-
pointing in the department of Public Works a
general committee on railways. This committee is
divided into four sections : first, that of lines of di-
rection ; secondly, the working in a scientific point
of view; thirdly, the working in a commercial point
of view ; and, fourthly, the regulations. Each sec-
tion is to be consulted, according to the nature of its
attributions, on such questions as belong to it.
The Speech of the King of PRUSSIA on the opening
of the States-General is the subject of comment in
almost all the Paris papers of Saturday. The Con-
stitutionnel draws the following curious parallel be-
tween the opening of the States-General of France
in 1789, and those of Prussia in 1847:
" Prussia gives at this moment a curious and solemn
spectacle to the rest of Europe. The States-General
have just been opened at Berlin, as the States-General
of France were opened in 1789. There, too, is a King
beloved by the nation, who, influenced by the liberal
movement of his century, takes the initiative of this con-
vocation. The Assembly is also divided, in nobles, who
for the most part believe in equality, and in citizens, who
have the sentiment of their rights. The first questions
proposed by the royal power are questions of finance ;
but the Assembly seems pre-occupied above all by the
desire to assure and develop the liberties of which it. takes
possession. Around the States a nation of writers, of
controversialists, of thinkers, discuss natural and histo-
rical rights, the origin of the powers, and the best con-
stitution. These similarities, although they are more
apparent than real, and although there are very profound
differences between the two nations, the two periods,
and the two sovereigns, do not the less appear to have
caused a very profound impression on the mind of
the King of Prussia. The speech which he delivered
on the opening of the States seems altogether inspired
by aversion for liberal French principles, by the ter-
rible remembrance of the Constituents and Louis X.VI.
The King declares twenty times in his speech, and
with the greatest energy of language, ' that no power
on earth will be strong enough to induce him ever to
change the natural relation between the Sovereign and
his people, into a conventional constitutional one, gua-
ranteed by charters, and sealed by oaths.' Never will
he permit ' that a written sheet shall place itself forcibly
tetween God and Prussia to govern that country with its
paragraphs.' The natural relations between the King and
the people are founded on the ' royal omnipotence;' and
the people owe obedience, not servile, but dictated by God
and the conscience. The States are instituted in virtue
of the ' historical German law;' the Deputies represent
neither the people nor ' opinions;' they exercise their
proper rights, those which they enjoy in virtue of an-
cient laws, and those which the Crown has ' recognised;'
the Crown must ' reign according to the laws of God
and the land, and to its own five will, and not according
to the will of majorities, if Prussia is not soon to be an
empty sound in Europe.' The King expects sad expe-
riences; he complains bitterly of part of the press, and
of Prussian Liberals; he counts on his people, who will
not see the ' absolute power' of their kings broken,
and who will second him in his struggle against
democratic efforts, and the ' Kicked desires' of the cen-
tury. Our readers will understand that we shall not
here discuss these theories, which are so much in con-
tradiction with our ideas in matters of natural right, of
political right, arid of liberty. The King of Prussia,
with great warmth, praises the English nation, whose
constitution, he says, is the work of centuries, and of
incomparable hereditary wisdom. It would be easy to
us to show that the English nation, since it founded and
developed its liberty, has never considered royal omni-
potence the basis of constitutional right, that the writ-
oaths.hto applaud writ-
ten text of the law reigns supreme over the people and
the Kings of England, that the political institutions of
Great Britain are guaranteed by charters and sealed by
governs
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prefer to follow the King of Prussia and the nation which
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prejudices, it assuredly is not unnatural, to say the
least, that they should look with no favourable eye
upon any plan of education of which they conceive
the tendency would be to impart additional strength
to an institution that has hitherto proved itself so
inimical to the progression and development of their
civil and religious liberties. Neither is it to be ex-
pected that this feeling of hostility will abate till full

ustice shall have been meted out to the influentia

religious communities that exist in this country with-
out the pale of the Church. Our Universities should
be forwith re-organised, and have their laws re-
modelled in accordance with the rights of con-
science and principles of religious freedom.

Talk as we may about the advisability of pre-
venting the corruption of our populous cities by the
poisonous systems of intermural interment, of ne-
glected drainage, and of forgotten ventilation, there
are other causes of corruption—of social and moral
corruption—which call yet more loudly for a legisla-
tive interference. Sanatory measures, however com-
prehensive, cannot affect these causes. National
education, however liberal in its distribution of
knowledge, cannot sufficiently counteract their bane-
ful influences. Poor-laws, however generously de-
vised, cannot tend to their eradication or even their
abatement. We mean, of course, the brood from
which come juvenile offenders—those swarms of
young creatures which infest the rookeries of
this vast metropolis—children in years, but aged
in wretchedness, and poverty, and ignorance,
and vice, and degradation. You may see them
whenever you so list, " on a summer day, when in the
blessed sunshine and warm air, misery itself will
sing, dashing in and out of these closes, careering
over the open ground, engaged in their rude games,
arrayed in flying drapery, here a leg out and there
an arm." " Their thin faces," continues the same
writer—one who has watched the brood with a
heart melting in his bosom with compassion, " their
thin faces," he says, " tell how ill they are fed ; their
fearful oaths tell how ill they are reared; and yet
the merry laugh, and hearty shout, and scream of
delight, as some unfortunate urchin, at leap-frog,
measures his length upon the ground, also tell that
GOD made childhood to be happy, and that in the
buoyancy of youth even misery will forget itself."
The name of this deplorable class is Legion. Visit
the poorest districts of any large tovrn, but especially
of the capital, and you will see this crowd of chil-
dren—the spawn of poverty and vice—sprawling in the
gutters, crouched on the doorsteps, clusteredin the car-
riage road, and scattered over the pavement. They are
bloated with unwholesome living ; they are emaci-
ated with want ; they are ugly, sallow, dirty, ragged,
wretched, sickly, despicable. Here is one of them,
taken at random, and sketched with the truthful
pencil of the benevolent writer Nye have already
quoted:—" Poor fellow ! it is a bitter day; he has
neither shoes nor stockings ; his naked feet are red,
swollen, cracked, ulcerated with the cold; a thin
thread-worn jacket, with its gaping :rents, is all that
protects his breast ; beneath his shaggy bush of hair
he shows a face sharp with want, yet sharp also with
intelligence beyond his years." That is no in-
dividual portrait, it is the portrait of an
entire species—it is a faithful delineation of
those deplorable atoms of humanity that are
warmed into life in the foulest corners of
our larger municipalities. They are as plants that
sprout up into noxious and poisonous brambles if
neglected--but which, if transplanted and tended,
would flourish, would bloom, would give a whole
some and abundant fruitage.

What we have here remarked is applicable
to England, to Wales, to Soatland. How
immeasurably more applicable, thetrefore, must
it be to the famishing and miser able millions
of Ireland. When it is proved 'by statistical
evidence that such is the multipticßy of those
abandoned children, can we be amazed at the fre-

quency of crime, at the crowded state of our penal
settlements, at the thriving trade in jtxs tice carried on
in our criminal courts, at the busy occupation of
our turnkeys, and the practised skill of our hang-

men ? With such plentiful supplies of seed strewn
so lavishly over such a congenial soil, can we be in
any manner surprised at the extent an n 1 frequency of
the harvests ? Alas ! it is the parable of the tares
and the thistles again—neglected in the spring-time,
and torn
up only when they have effectually choked
For the diminution
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gentle and intrepid women, honour, c.nour to those
the stench,
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com-
mon humanity brave all the filth, all
all
the noise, all the suffocating and sickseneinch' i
fluences of those wretched dens where the forlorn and
callow young are gathered under The wings of a
benignant knowledge! Reformatory estAiblishmentsare i
rising into life simultaneously, and sf ill wiser and still I
better establishments (if that be possi. W) are distribut-

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORN 6-, APRIL 20, 1847

science in religious matters, and the civil character of
marriage—when, in short, he seems to regret that the
laws of the Germanic Confederation do not permit him
to concede the liberty of the press, what matters it
that he has discovered all that in the German historical
law, or that he has involuntarily received the inspiration
of the great principles which the French revolution
promulgated in the world? There is there a movement
towards liberty, and we pardon King Frederick William
for being in his speeches less just towards France than
he appears to desire to be in several of his acts towards
his O,VFI country. One thing, however, strikes us in
this speech—the declaration of a sort of renewal of the
Holy Alliance. Atter having spoken in general terms
of the friendly relations which exist between Prussia
and her neighbours, the King adds, ' and with our allies,
whom we formerly aided in making Germany free, and
upon whose blessed concord with us depends the main-
tenance of the peace which has now reigned for thirty-
two years, our relations are firmer and closer than ever.'
In these words are grave symptoms of the disposition
of Europe towards us, especially during the last few
months."
The Journal des _Mats gives the following account
of the effect produced by the Royal speech on the
auditory :
" The strange impression which the Royal speech
produced on the auditory was depicted on the counte-
nances of all. The assembly was thrown into great
agitation. A considerable number of Deputies bad de-
termined on immediately quitting Berlin and returning
home, but the counsels of prudence and moderation
prevailed, and the excitement by degrees subsided. The
correspondent of the Cologne Gazelle properly observes
that the King's speech had placed from the onset the
deliberations of the Diet on a ground widely different
from that which the Members, in their preparatory
meetings, intended to assume."
The Union Monarehique thus sums up the objects
of FREDERICK WILLIAM in assembling the States,
and the means he has adopted to obtain those objects :
" This Prince, whom some have called philosophe, but
whom we shall call wise, has comprehended all the
dangers of rendering the royal authority too feeble. He
does not think that it ought to be infringed by too hasty
concessions; he wishes to make use of his own words,
that his crown which he has received without a blemish
shall pass untouched to his legitimate successors. There
is one point, in fine, upon which the speech of Frederick
William leaves no doubt or equivocation. He has an
antipathy to written charters; he rejects them with
energy, we may even say in rather a military style. On
the whole this speech clearly analyses, and without any
mental reservatiox, the real object of the Monarch—to
reconcile by a judicious measure the representative with
the monarchical principle, favouring the first without
taking anything from the integrity of the second; con-
secrating their growing alliance by pacific means, with-
out any violent efforts likely to produce a shock. This
is a grand spectacle, exhibited to revolutionary schools,
which have hitherto refused to admit of such a union.
It is a great problem to be solved, and we hope that it
will be solved without collision, without any abrupt
shocks, without any rebellion. If this great undertaking
be brought to a good end it will be a most forcible demon-
stration of the truth of the dictum, that enlightened
liberty is the holy daughter of monarchy."
The Bill establishing a line of steam-packets
between Havre and New York has passed the Cham
ber of Peers.

The Prince BE JOINVILLE, having under his corn-
mand the line-of-battle ships Souverain, Jena, and
Jupiter, sailed on the 1 1 th, from Toulon, for the
islands of Hyeres.
The health of Lord COWLEY has considerably
improved.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The sales of Cotton in the Liverpool market on Satur-
day were about 4,000 bales, the market being quieter.
A larger quantity was on offer, and prices were more in
favour of buyers. Surat, 300 bales, sold at 4d to sd;
50 bales Egyptian realised 7id. to 8d; and the rest was
American, at 60. to 7d. per lb. Railway Shares were
dull, and generally drooping.
A most important feature has prevailed in the Corn-
market this morning. The purchases on French and
Belgian account have been immensely large. Nearly
all the stands were, in fact, cleared off. The price of
Wheat was fully 6s. per quarter in advance of
the rates of last Monday ; Oats are Is. to 2s. per
quarter ; and Barley, 2s. per quarter dearer. There
was in truth a positive rush to purchase from the mo-
ment the market opened until all was cleared off. Such
an active and brisk demand, while it lasted, has not been
seen for very many years past. For a season at least
this extraordinary advance must have an influence on the
operations of the Court of Directors of the Bank of Eng-
land.

The steamer which leaves Liverpool to-morrow for the
United States takes out some amount of specie again,
but there is reason to believe that as Messrs. Rothschild
and one or two other firms have received a large amount
in bullion from the continent, within the last few day's
there has been application made to them by exporters of
coin, rather than to the Bank of England. The latter,
it is stated, has declined to buy the specie imported
by the firms alluded to at a higher price than
usual, and this may induce them to ship it to
America and foreign parts on their own account.
Under any circumstances the receipt of this money must
afford present relief, and it would be scarcely of any
use fur the Bank to be a buyer at a premium, when the
whole might soon again be withdrawn at par by the
holders of its notes. The wisest plan SOURS to be to let
the bullion operators make their own arrangements.
The Funds have been higher this morning, and there
has been rather an increased demand for Stock. Consols
for transfer to-morrow have realised 86} to 87, and for
May 86k to 87g. The Reduced Three per Cant. An-
nuities have been 851 to 86i, and the New Three-and-a-
Quarter per Cents. 87i to 874. The value of Exchquer-
bills has been Is. premium to 2s. discount. East India
Stock is at 245.
The Foreign Investments have varied but little.
Portuguese Bonds are dull at 341. Spanish Five per
Cents. have been quoted 254 ; and the Three per
Cents., 364 Brazilian Stock has been marked 821,
and Mexican, 201- to 20i. Austrian Bonds have realised
1091, and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 58i.
Railway Shares have been steady, although they
were flat at Liverpool on Saturday. Great Western
New are quoted 74; North-Western, 172 to 173; South-
Western, 64 ; South-Eastern, 361 to 37 ; Brighton, 52
to ; Midland, 1141 to 115 ; Eastern Counties, 18i to
19 ; Aberdeen, 27 ; York and North-Midland, 82
Scottish Central, 244 ; Northern of France, 124
I )emerara, 3;1 ; Paris and Strasburg, 2 to 21- ; and Eas
Indian, I-.
BRITISH FUNDS.

ONE

CLOSING

Letters from Lyons, dated the 15th, announce that
Mr. O'CONNELL had recovered from the fatigue of
his journey, and was considerably better.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse, on
Saturday, at 77f. 80c. ; the Five per Cents., 1151. 45c. ;
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,221 f. 25c. ; Rouen, 8971. 50c. ;
Havre, 6721. 50c. ; Great Northern, 6211. 25c. ; Avignon,
7671. 50c. ; Vierzon, 562 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 5081. 75c. ;
Troyes and Montereau, 297 f. 50c. ; Basle, 190 E ; Dieppe,
325 f.; Paris and Strasburg, 4281. 75c. ; Tours and Nantes,
421 E 25c. ; Paris and Lyons, 426 f. 25c. ; Lyons and Avignon,
4501.; Cette, 443 f. 75c.; Belgian Two-and-a-Half per Cents.,
531/2.
MARSEILLES, APRIL 13.-Marseilles and Avignon, 772 f.
50c. ; Northern, 622 f. 50c.
LYONS, APRIL 15.-Paris and Rouen, 8761. 25c. ; Avig-
non and Marseilles, 771 f. 2'oc. ; Northern, 621 f. 25c. ; Paris
and Lyons, 430 f. ; Orleans, 1,222 f. 50c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TILE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 17.
Boulogne and Amiens, 168-Bordeaux, Toulouse, and
Cette (Constituted), 114-Demerera, 31/.-Dutch Rhenish, 4
-East Indian, 1,-Louvain a la Sambre, 1 IA -Namur and
Liege, 4%-Northern of France, 13-Paris and Lyons,
5,1 Paris and Rouen, 35.

O'CLOCK. -PRICES.
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. .. 85% % 86% 86!(,3
i liree per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .. 86% Y 6 87 87
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anna. 87% sN V, 87%
long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 9 8 15-W 8 15.16
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. .. 9 3-IG
India Stock .. .. . •• •• .. .. 245 245
I ndla Bonds, 1,000/. .. •• •• ~, „
par
South Sea Stock .. ..
Ditto, New Annuities .. .. .. 86tg 86
Consols for May 27 .. .. •• •• .. 86% % 87% 86Ti 8714
P.xchequer Bills. I%d. 2d.
1,0001... .. .... I die Ip 2 die 1 p
500/. ~ .. .... 1 p I p
Ditto, Small .... 1 .ii,

ONE

O'CLOCK.
• . 109%
82%

CLOSING.
PRICES.
10934
12

FoxEmN FUNDS.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Small • •
Chilian Bonds, G per Cent ..
Ditto, 3 per Cent .. .. • • • • 53
Mexican Bonds, 18^.6, b per Cent .. 20%
Ditto, for the Account .. .• 20%1%
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent ..
Portuguese Four per Cent ..
Ditto, for the Account .. 34%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 2514
Ditto, for the Account .. 25%14
I;itto, Three per Cent .. 3614
Ditto, for the Account .. 3614%
Dividends on tho above payable in London,
French Rentes, 5 per Cent .. • • —f. —c.
Exchange .. . .. • • • • • • —f. —c.
Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent ..
Dutch Two-and-a-Halt per Cent .. 58%
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certideates .. 89% 90
BUSINESS
PAID. DONE AT CLOSING
ONE O'CLOCK, PRICES.
Aberdeen.. .• .. 30 .... 27 ...... •• • • 27
Amber., Notting., Boston, and
Eastern Junction .. • . .......... 17i;
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 10 .... ........ 18%
Birming., Wolver., and Dudley.. 4 .... 1014 • ... .... •.. 10,4
Caledonian .. 30 —
Ditto, Half Shares .. . • ......
Cheltenham and Oxford .. .. 2 .... 1U •• ..
Dublin and Belfast Junction .. 15 .... • • .... 5
Eastern Counties .. 20 .... 19 18% 19%.. 19
Ditto, York Extension .. 54 ... 4X, • . 4ty
Ditto New .. ...• 8 7%.• . .....
Ditto, ditto New Scrip 1 • 134
East Lincolnshire .. . • • • 4 .... 614 6
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. 50 .........
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. 12%..., 17% •• . ...... 17.'4
Edinburgh and Perth .. .. • • 2
.... .......... 27,
Ely and Huntingdon •.. 15 .... 15% 15%
Great Northern .. 3% .. •. 3%14 3.. 3
1)0., London & York Extension .... 2 ........ • • 2
Great North of England . .. 100 ....231 •.. 231
Ditto, New .. . 25 .. 61% 62% 621 i
Great Western .. 65 .....
Ditto, New •. .. 4% ...•
Hull and Selby .. .. •. 50 .•,.1031% 103. .. 103
Ipswich fold Bury StEdmunds .. 14 .... .......
Ditto ditto, and Norwich .. 8%.... 4}
Leeds and Thirsk 22% ..........
Ditto, Preference 6 per Cent. • • 3%
..... 41}
Liverp., Manch., & Newc. Junct. 2%.. 1 1
London and Blackwell .. 161. 13s. 4d. 7% .•••• . • • • 7N
Ditto, New, No. 1 .• • • ........
London, Brighton, and S Coast.. 50 .... 52;4 52% 53
Ditto, Consul. Eighths .. .. 10 .. • • 11},, • . 113(
London and Greenwich .. 121. 158. 4d. 9 .......... 9
London an . North-Western ..100 •• • • 172% 173 172.. 172
Ditto, Quarters • L. and B. 7 ....
Ditto ditto, New Shares .. 2 .... • 12
Ditto, 491. Shares 31. ..
•& B. .. 40 .... ...• •• .• •
London and South-Western •• 411. Gs. 10d..• 64 64
Lynn and Ely ..
.. 20 .... 21%••• 211,
Manchester and Leeds .. .. • • 82 •
Ditto, Thirds (Reg.) ••71.45..... p l%
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. •••• par % p %
Manchester and Southampton 2 .... 1%
Midland .. ..100 —.114% 115 115%
Ditto, New 36 .... 39% 4
Ditto, New 2..••4%• • • • • • • • 4%
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby • 100 .... 91%
Se wvcastle and Berwick .. •• 20 .. 2G25%% 26
Ditto, New .. • • •• • • 5••••7%%• • • • • • • • 7%
Norfolk •• .. 100 .... -
Ditto, Extension .. • • .. 6 .... 6%
Northern Counties Union .. .. 4 .... 1%
North Staffordshire......s ••••74%• • • • • • • • 7%
Oxford,Worcest.,& Wolverhmptn. 22% .... 1414 ...... 14%
Preston and Wyre .. • . •• 25 .... 34% 35
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 5 •• • • 4% 4%
Scottish Central .. . 17% .... 24% .
G 4 a
Shropshire Union .. 425..... 1% dis ...• • • 1% dis
South Staffordshire • . • • . 21. 123... % dis • • % dis
South Eastern and Dovor .. • • 33%.. • . 36% 37 • • 37
Do., New (do. 301.) .. No. 3. 15 .... 15% .......• 15%
Hew (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 5 .... 5%
South Wales .. • • .. .. 10 .... 714 . ..... 7}4
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and
Vale cf Neath .. 4 .... ..........
West Biding Union .. •. 25....• P•• • •
York and Newcastle .. 25 .... 337 34 .....•
Ditto, Preference .. 4 .... 74 %•• • • ....
York and North Midland .. 50 82 ...•
Diu". Extension .. .. 25 .... 40 • • • .
Ditto. Preference .. .2 .... 11 10% ......
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Dutchera
DEseint tirlialaetni 1 s h".• • •
572: 43
•••
Madrid and Valentia .. 2 .. • 34 •• . ...
Northern of France • • .. • • 8 .... 12% %%
Paris and Lyons • . 8
Paris and Strasbourg . • .. 5 .... 2%
Sambre and Meuse .. .. 12 ....
West Flanders . 8 4% . .......
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
London and Westminster .. 20 .... 2634 ...
MINES.
heal del Monte, Unregistered

115 f. —c.
25f. 67 c.
96%
58%

PRICES OF
RAILWAY SHARES.

P

THE JUDGES AND CORPORATION AT ST. PAUL'i.—
; Yesterday being the first Sunday in term, the judges and
civic corporation went in state to St. Paul's Cathedral.
where they attended Divine service. There were present
Lord Denman, Sir Thomas Wilde, Lord Chief Justice of the
Court of Common Pleas ; Mr. Baron Parke, Mr. Baron Al-
derson, Mr. Justice Patteson, Mr. Baron Rolfe, Mr. Justice
Cresswell, Mr. Justice Vaughan Williams, Mr. Sergeant
Wilkins, Mr. Sergeant Chadwick Jones, Mr. Sergean Man-
ning, the Lord Mayor (with his chaplain, the Rev. H. E. C.
Cobden, M.A.), Alderman Farebrother, Alderman Sir Chap-
man Marshall, Alderman Kelly, Alderman Hughes Hughes,
Alderman Farncombe, Alderman and Sheriff' Challis, Mr.'
Sheriff Kennard, the Recorder, Mr. Commissioner Bullock,
and a large number of members of the Common Council ; the
Lord Bishop of London, the Lord Bishop of Llandaff (Dean
of St. Paul's), the Lord Bishop of Oxford, the Venerable
William Hale Hale, M.A., Archdeacon of London ; the
Venerable Archdeacon R. Wilberforce, the Honourable and
Rev. H. Montague Villiers, M.A., Rector of St. George's,
Bloomsbury, and Canon Residentiary of St. Paul's; the Rev.
James Endell Tyler, 8.D., Rector of St. Giles's and Canon
Residentiary of St. Paul's; the Rev. T. Boyle Murray; the
Rev. 11. Browne ; the Rev. W. J. Hall, and several other
clergymen in their robes. Full choral service was per-
formed, and a sermon preached by the Lord Bishop of Lon-
don, who selected for his text the tenth verse of the second
kchapterepe t
h theof the
whole generalla‘v,
on the nature
guilty of all." The Right Rev. Prelate dwelt
the Roman Catholic
of sin, exposed the destination drawn byand
Church between moral
At the close of the
forth the efficacy of true repentance.
order in
left the cathedral in the
eapnidstlyeetbyoffSeit-idejtahm iens—"eWpobionetveisr
impressively set
which it had entered,
FATAL ACCIDENT.--On
sermen the procession and
venial
sins,
Milbank, and a young
rotlwienew(Lay
woman named Anne Jervis, residing
Sunday evening
mall
eems
that all the party were unskilled in the management of a
wherry, containing six persons, was upset in the Thames off
ap-
proaching steamer the brother of the young woman who was
boat,
42,
and a I -erxo Nevr,t lo.nasmt bo egt
t,
ou wast
ofd
in their
drowned dropped his scull in the water, and in reaching after
it fell overboard. The whole of them rose with alarm, and
andupset
theytl e
wereboat.
save The
with accidentthe ewxaesepntbisoennorefdth7eofmenitahlee,
whoseshore,
body has lint been recovered of an ss

CHILD DROPPING.—On Saturday information was
circulated that on Thursday evening a fine female infant,
apparently about a month old, was picked up near the cellar
door of No. 6, Raymond's-buildings, Gray's Inn. There
had, however, evidently been no intention to destroy it, for
it was well wrapped up in a calico gown, folded in several
shawls, flannel, &c., and there was some sugar in its mouth.
It had on a nightcap marked " H." The poor little thing
has been ever since in the care of the gardener's wife, and the
authorities of Gray's Inn have offered 5/, reward for the dis
(ovary of the persons who deposited it where it was found.