The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-22 00:00:00

THE SUN LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 22, 1847.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, Jurm 22.
THERBIOXETER, Lowest, 53; Highest. 67 ; Noon, 66.

BAROMETER, 29.77.—W1ND W.S.W.; fine.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
M,rning .. 20 minutes after S. f Evening .. 53 minutes after 8.

care that the proceedings are conducted in an efficient
and proper manner.
From the answer given last night 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 he 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
everything 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
e. nalLl 61.1 c ir5Llll,; ana 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
is subjected before trial to an imprisonment, which
would be a more than sufficient expiation for the im-
puted crime, were it even established against him.
Here, although the liberty of the subject is spoken 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 them 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 Fortanga.

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
NARTAEZ 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 15 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 CuzienEs, 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 organization 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-owners, so that they may he in a
position to administer impartial justice in cases in
which slaves are concerned either as accusers or ac•
cused. The Journal des Daats says that the Bill,
which seems well calculated to effect the object, will
be voted by the Chamber on ~onday.
The Count and Countess DE ST. AULAIEE left Paris
on Saturday for London.
The Three per Cents. were done in the Passage de I'Opera,
Paris, on Sunday, at 77f. 70c.
MARSEILLES, JUNE 16.—Marseilles and Avignon, 738 f.
75e.; Northern, 597 f. 50c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 21.
Ceylon, %—ltalian and Austrian, 2—Northern of France,
111,4—Rouen and Havre, 2534—Sambre and Meuse, 7%.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—The steam-ship Pekin,
rived at the Cape on the 6th of April, and left for :be
Mauritius and India on the 9th of April. The scam.
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 Tabu. Bay on
the 13th of April for Algoa Bay, taking Sir Hen l;
F. Young to that place to assume the duties of hi Vie-
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.
David Leahy, Esq., one of the New Court judges,
died yesterday morning at half-past ten o'clock. Ho was
judge for Lambeth, Greenwich, &c.

ALARMING SINKING OF THE VIADUCT OVER THE
RIVER AVON.—SALISBURY, JUNE 20.—This morning,
by four o'clock, a great number of labourers were set to
take down the stone coping and brickwork of the viaduct
over the river Avon, about half a mile from Salisbury,
it having been discovered that the stupendous walls were
giving way. Fortunately it was timely discovered, or
something awful and disastrous might have been the
consequence. A number of carpenters were also busily
engaged putting four large pieces of timber, one under
each, to support the four linos of rails at the top. It is
therefore hoped that the rebuilding of the arches may
be carried on without obstructing the general traffic
over the same, or any serious accident happening. Many
complaints are made against the works on this branch
line of the South-Western from Bishopstoke to Salis-
bury, twenty-two miles. At the present time the large
building intended for the reception of goods in this city,
240 feet long, 40 feet wide, with a further span of 10
feet each way, covered with at least 60 tons of slate, has
been carried up in so shameful a manner as, even before
its being finished, to require at least 50 pieces of timber
to prevent this ponderous mass from falling. A few
days since this ill-built place was examined by Mr.
Locke, the company's engineer, and other gentlemen
connected with the company, when the works were con-
demned, and all the men ordered off, Mr. Fisher, the
respectable builder of Salisbury, having been appointed
to either rebuild or so far to strengthen the works as to
make them safe. Many are of opinion that all must
come down.—Post.

DEATH OF MR. 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 Demarara. His
remains were interred at Barbadoes.—Jamaica paper.
ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—The in-
defatigable Jullien brought out last evening 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 wero crowded, and
the representation of the Siege of Gibraltar seemed as
attractive as ever.

HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF
THE 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 200/. from the late Miss
Churchill, and 1001. from the late William Praed, 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 ground at present
occupied by the hospital.
Tim LATE. TWEED.—The Nassau Observer says
that two Harbour Island vessels arrived at that place
with between two and three hundred jugs of quicksilver,
saved from the wreck of the British steamer Tweed.
They would have saved much more had they not been
driven off by Spanish men-of-war, after having worked
lAA c day,

PORTUGAL.

The Madrid Gazette publishes, from the Diario do
Governo of Lisbon, the following proclamation, addressed
by her Majesty to the Portuguese people:—
" Portuguese,—Our country has presented to Europe
the deplorable spectacle of the effusion of Portuguese
blood, the destruction of property, the dissolution of
social ties, and all the evils caused by civil war. Love
of country and of liberty could not triumph over those
fatal illusions which have been inspired in the design of
leading Portuguese to arm themselves against my royal
authority and against the constitution of the state. In
order to obtain the submission which is due to me, and
to re-establish public order, I have resolved to adopt
every measure dictated by humanity and the public
safety, such as according a very extensive amnesty, and
the restitution of all employments and of all honours.
I have also resolved to convoke the Cortes, and to
proceed to the elections, after submission shall have
been duly made, and public order restored in
every point of the kingdom, in maintaining in
all its plenitude the liberty of elections, the free
exercise of all rights, and the scrupulous and im-
partial execution of the constitutional charter, in
all its provision 3. The Governments of Spain, France
and Great Britain, decided on the adoption of efficacious
means to assist me in putting an end to calamities so dis-
astrous, and which sot such a dangerous example, not
only gave notice of those measures to the chiefs who pro-
voked and directed the resistance, but secured their ex-
ecution by demanding the immediate submission of those
chiefs to my royal authority. The chiefs refused to
submit, feigned to dcubt the stability of the guarantee
offered by the allied powers, and preferred combatting
against the laws of their country to relying on my
royal word, as well as on the faith and power of my
august allies.
" The true motive of illusion has now ceased, and the
impossibility of prolonging the civil war is evident, after
the services which the foreign powers have commenced
to render me. My tentiments of generosity, however,
remain unchanged,
. tnd I have resolved to grant to all
persons implicated the fatal dissensions, without any
nefie tsthe same extensive amnesty
up publication of this royal decree
exception,to the
periodth samewh when teth
begins to produce its legal effects, assuring equally the
execution of all our Loyal decisions for the observance
of the constitutional charter of the monarchy. Portu-
guese, it is impossib e that you can misconceive the
kindly sentiment which dictates these measures, and the
necessity of a prompt re-establishment of peace, concord,
and obedience to the laws. Whatever may be the
difference in political opinions, the first duty, the first
want, is the due observance of the constitution.
" My most sincere desire is, that all my subjects
should profit by my kind intentions ; but when they
safety of the state, demand that those who should refuse
to submit, and should attempt to prolong the evils now
agitating the country, shall be subjected to the action of
the laws."

This proclamation is followed by a decree, proclaiming
a general and complete amnesty for all political crimes
and offences committed since October 6 ; the whole to be
buried in oblivion, and stating that all persons deprived
of their honours and distinctions shall have the same re-
stored to them.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
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
Surat on speculation. There was an animated market,
and prices of American under 7d. were id. per lb. better.
Surat and Macao was /d. per lb. dearer, and all other
sorts were id. per lb. higher than last Friday. The
sales included 6,000 bales American at 6/d. to 7id., 100
Bahia at 71d., and 3,000 Surat at 4d. to 5/cl. per lb.
There was a firm market for Railway Shares, with a
tendency to improvement, but the buying orders appeared
to be but few.
We stated a day -nr 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 halt
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 vive 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 and are now 85i 4 for Account. The New
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have realised 90h to ?,;
and the Three per Cents. 881 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

BItITISII FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities • • 88%3l
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 90% %lA%
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 • • 9%
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 .. 8%
India Bonds, 1,000/. ..
Ditto, under 1,000/.
Consols for Opening, July 16 .• • • 88%%%
Exchequer Bills, I%d. 2d.
1,0001. .. • • 710 p
500/. •• • • 14 9p
Ditto, Small .. • • 19 13 p
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'C LOCK.
Portuguese Bends, 5 per Cent.
Ditto, Four per Cent • • .. _.Ditto, for the Account •. • • 324
Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 110%
Dividends on the above payable In London.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 58%
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Bristol and Exeter .. .. • • .. 75 •••• to
Ditto, New .. .. • • • • .. 15 • • 14 to
Eastern Counties • . .. • • • • • 20 .. • • 20% to
Do., Perpetual,s per Ct. No. 1,6/. 133.46
Ditto, ditto .. .. N 0.2, 6/. 13s. 46. • p. •to
Ditto, York Extension .. .. • • 7% 6%.... to
East Lincolnshire .. .. • • • • 6% • • 7%.... to
Great Northern .. .•• • .. ..
Great North of England .. • • • • 100 .. • • 234.. ••to
Ditto, New.. • • • • • • .. • • 5 •• . . 60 .... to
Great Western .. .. • • • • .. 85 .... to
Ditto. Half Shares .• .. • • • • 50 .. • • 70% •. • . to
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. • • • . 12%
Ditto. New .. • • • • .. 4% • • 8% •• .. to
London arid Blackwall • • 161. 13s. 4d. .. • • 7%• to
Ditto, New, No. 1 • • • . 5 ...• 5% .. • • to
Ditto, New, No. 2 .. 2/. I3s. 4d. . yQ p.. to --
London, Brighton, and South Coast • • 50 .• •• 55 54% to 55
Ditto, Guaranteed Five per Cent... 9 .• • 9%„ ••to
London and North-Western.. .. ..100 .• 180%.... to
Ditto, Quarters .. • • L. and B. 7 .. • • 94 ..•• to 23%
Ditto ditto New .. .. • 2
Ditto, Fifths .. • • • • . • 2 •• 17 .... to
London and South-Western 411. 6s. 106.
Ditto, New Consolidated Eighths .. 40
Ditto, New .• .. • • • .• • • 30% to 3114
Manchester and Leeds •. • .• 82 lO3 to
Ditto, Half Shares .. .• . • .• 38 •• • • 45%.. • • to
Ditto, Thirds (Reg.) • • • . • .7/. 4s par .... to
Midland
Ditto, New .. .. • • .• • . 36 41% .... to
Ditto, Consol. Bristol & Birmingh.
6 per cent. .. • • • . ..100 .. 127% .... to
Newcastle and Berwick .. .. •• 20
Ditto, New . .. • • • • .. 5 •• • • 7%% .• to
North British .. • • .. • • 25 •• .. to
Ditto, Extension .. • • • % to
Ditto, Thirds .. .• .. • • 1
North Western .. .. • • -. .. 4 .. • • 2% .... to
Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton 22% 13%...• to
Preston and Wyre • • •-• • • 25
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A) •• 3% • • 3% .... to
iouth Eastern and Dover .. • • • .331.25. 4d. •• • • to
Ditto, New (iss. at 321.) No. 1 •20 . 20% ••to
West Riding Union .. .. • • • • 4/. 25....• par.• .5 to
Windsor, Staines, and South-Western 425. .. • • 2% p.. to 2 p
York and Newcastle .. •• •• 25 •• • • 37% 38 to 37%
Ditto, New • • .. • • • • •• 10 .. ••15%•• • • to
Ditto, Preference .. .. • • .• 8 .. • • 11% .... to
York and North Midland •• .. 50
Ditto, Preference .. • . • • • • 6 .. •
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Louvain ala Sambre .. .. 6
Luxembourg .. •• .• 6 .. • • 1%% • • to
Namur and Liege .. .• 10 .. •• 3% .... to
Northern of France .. • • 8 .. • • 1114 .. • • to
Sambre and Meuse •• • • •• 14 • • 71% .. ••to
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Commercial of London • • • • •. 20
MINES
Real del Monte, Unregistered •• 3y .. ••to
Erratum in Yesterday's List—Read Ceylon blank, instead of 1,4 %.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JuNE.22.—Wind S.W., light breeze, and fine.
DEAL, JUNE 21.—Wind S.W., moderate ; p.lll. S.W.,
fresh and squally.—Arrd. Nile, M'Farlane Calcutta; Gil-
bert, Munro, Madras; Catherine Greene, Holmes, St. Mitt's;
Constance, Foster, Norfolk, Virginia; Augusta, New York,
and sailed for Antwerp ; Great Britain, Hume, St. John's,
.New Brunswick. Arrd. from the river, Aurora, Calcutta;
Clio, Demerara; Tropic, Barbadoes ; Codrington, Antigua;
Waterlily, Jamaica. Arrd. Cato, Scott, St. Vincent's.
PLYMOUTH, JUNE 21.—Wind W.—Arrd. Minstrel, Simp-
son, Monte Video. Off port, Neptune, Stuart, Sydney, New
South Wales ; Bull, New York, for Gothenbur.
FALMOUTH, JUNE 21.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Narcissus,
Bally, Rio Grande; Rainbow, Scott, Pernambuco.
MUMBLES ROADS, JUNE 21.—Arrd. Circassian, Cuba.
CORK, JUNE 19.—Wind N. W.—Arrd. Dryope, Moffat,
Belize; Mecca, Hall, Trinidad • Mysore, Blyth, Matanzas;
Salisbury, Smart, Baltimore; Lithe, Richards, Baltimore;
Swanson, Wood, New York; Mary, Thomas, St. John's.
Sld. Guiseppe, Baltimore ; Riga, Quebec.
MARGATE, JUNE 21.—The Diligence, Llanelly to London,
grounded on Margate Sand to-day, but got off; and will
proceed. _ _ .

LIVERPOOL, JUNE 21.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Peru, Smith,
Demerara; Maria Eulalia, Gortz, Havannah ; Laura, Snow,
New Orleans; Importer, iNPLaren, Mobile; Diadem, Frost,
New York ; Ceres, Mortimer, Prince Edward's Island ; Co-
lumbia, Bridge, New Orleans; Samuel, Mobile; Gennessee,
Watts, Baltimore. Std. Princess Helene, Ceylon and Ma.
Bras; Jane, Monte Video; Joseph Meigs, New York; Chal-
lenge, Halifax. Off port, Mischief, Ellen, Kitty, Rich-
mond packet, British Monarch, Mathilda, Chieftain, and
Gleaner.

FALmourtt, JUNE 20.—A vessel, of about 60 or 80 tons,
was seen bottom up, lat. 48, long. 12, by the Edmund, arrived
here.
SurroN WASH, WISBEACII, JUNE 19.—The Ida, Wheat-
hill, Commerce, and Emblem, all ran foul of the bridge this
morning, and each received considerable damage.

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