The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-18 00:00:00

Granada ; and General FERNANDO CoroNER, Captain-
General of Burgos.
The Tiempo announces, that on the evening of the 9th
some alarm was created in Madrid by the explosion
of two petards at the Puerta del Sol. The KING has
refused to join the QUEEN at Aranjuez, and has gone
for some days to the Prado.

It is said thht P-ACHT CHO is opposed to the promul-
gation of a royal decree giving force to the financial
projects of Senor SALAMANCA. Food riots of a serious
nature have taken place in the provinces of Seville
and Grenada.

MADRID BOLSA, MAY o.—The Three per Cents. were
done at 311% for paper ; the Five per Cents. at 1914 ; the
Debt without interest at 5% ; and the Coupons, at 16 for
cash.

We have received the Paris papers of Friday and
Saturday.

The interpellation of M. GUIZOT by M. ODILON
BARBOT, tieiSnbject of the recent change in the
Ministry, 'OA place on Friday in the-Chirnber of
Deputies. The scene is thus described by the
National:—
" M. Odilon Barrot questioned M. Guizot as to the motive
for the dismissal of the three Ministers. M. Guizot replied
that it was done because such was the pleasure of the Crown.
M. Lacave Laplagne said it was not his fault, and M. de
Girardin replied, after which the Chamber broke up. All
this did not occupy an hour. About 2,000 persons went to
the Chamber; about 1,200 of them for the sake of amuse-
ment, and amused they must have been, for it was very
droll."
On this subject the Presse says—

" Testerday was an evil day for the Ministry. It is left
in an abased situation, from which it will be difficult for it
to extricate itself. An inexorable severity towards its as.
sociates must, in turn, recoil upon its own head. It must be
extremely confident in its own strength not to show greater
indulgence, or rather it must feel itself extremely weak :not
to be more generous. If the Ministry had bees strong, if it
had not felt that its existence was at stake, it would have
undoubtedly postponed all modification of the Cabinet until
after the session."
The Siecle has the following ferocious attack upon
M. GIIIZOT
There are men whose political conduct is nothing more
than a series of opportune defections. Always in the secrets
of fate, they can foresee events, prognosticate misfortune,
change their stations in good time, bend and accommo-
date themselves with wonderful suppleness and prompti-
tude to the rapid revolutions of Fortune's wheel. Like the
Roman Emperor who admitted into his pantheon the gods
of every mythology, so they have their altar for every wor-
ship, but reserve their,devotions for the Divinity of the day.
These men were found at Ghent in 1815, intriguing among
the enemies' bivouacs, while France succumbed at Water-
loo. Brought back to Paris in an English or Prussian
baggage waggon, they have made use of the Restoration
while pretending to serve it, and exercised their pens in the
bureau de l'espri public, or in the conciliabules of royalist
reaction. Under this flag advancement was too tardy,
and their impatient ambition turned in another direction
with its arms. Their wounded but prescient pride sought
applauses on another stage. They became doughty cham-
pions of the Societe Aide-toi, le Ciel t'aidera. The Revo-
lution of 1830 raised them on its bucklers. On the day after
this popular triumph they induced the new dynasty to deny
its origin, and urged it on to the perilous path in which. its
predecessors bad lost themselves. A competition of servility
soon brought into action those subaltern pretensions which
dispute for the first place in the vestibule of Government.
The dismissed servant revolts. He resolves to renew the
assault in the adjoining ante-chamber. There may be seen
the excess of zeal with which he demands credit for his
tardy devotion to the national and constitutional policy.
This holy cause ennobles, in his eyes, every part he may
play. Ile accepts that of recruiting-sergeant of the coali-
tion, and collects a small platoon of Doctrinaires under the
standardC of the great Parliamentary army. We find this
man of agility at London in 1839 and 1840, conspiring
against the system which he had sworn to make prevail,
and against the Ministry whose policy he was bound to re-
present. England rendered him justice. He spoke, but
she did not believe him. It is he himself who has told us
so. After he had thus expiated his faults, his repentance
received its reward. „He enters into the Ministry, and, to
complete his abjuration, denies all the principles which he
had maintained in 1838 and 1839. He it was who under.
took to purify the temple which had for a moment been
profaned, and to replace on the altar the idol of royalty
which reigns and governs. We now find him, in 184 ,
faithful to the practice of his whole life, abandoning the
vanquished, giving the finishing stroke to the wounded, be-
traying those whom fortune had deserted, and sacrificing his
accomplices to escape the chastisement due to his own faults."

The Chancellor and Committee charged to make
the preliminary investigations in the case of General
DESPANS CUBIERES, on Friday examined M. LE•
GRAND, Under Secretary of State to the Department
of Public Works, and M. PELLAPRAL, a very old
gentleman, who was formerly a receiver-general.
The di-stress conti,nues to increase in all parts of
France. .In Paris alone one-fourteenth part of the
population is absolutely pauper, and two-fifths of
the inhabitants have availed themselves of the advances
made by the authorities to ensure to all who claimed it
bread at not more then 16 sous the loaf. In the
provinces, where the Government has not made any
similar advances in aid of the starving population, the
most serious riots have taken place. At Cambrai on
Wednesday. a black flag was' paraded through the
streets, the multitude vociferating "Bread at 20 sous,
or death." Every quarter of the town was disturbed.
It was attempted to disperse the crowd by a display
of infantry and cavalry, but the military failed in
their efforts. At six o'clock in the evening a detach •
ment of .30 National Guards established a post in the
hall of the Consistory, and the firemen, having taking
arms, contributed to restore order.
At Lille, on the 13th, the bakers' shops were plun-
dered by a mob, and seditious cries were uttered,
among others, Vice La Republique! Vive Henri V.—
Vive notre Roi qui est en Angleterre (LOUIS NA-
POLEON)! There were also serious food riots at
Tourney on Wednesday. These riots were renewed
at Tourney and at Lille on Thursday, but tranquillity
was restored on Friday.
The Panama steamer has been ordered to proceed
to Marseilles and placed at the disposal of Queen
CHRISTINA. CHRISTINA goes to Naples, where she
will remain ten days. It is intended that she shall
on her voyage back to France remain a few days at
Leghorn with her sister, the Grand Duchess of
Tuscany.
Algiers papers of the 10th have been received. On
the 7th Marshal BUGEAUD left Algiers to take the
command of the expidition against Kabylia.

Mr. O'CONNELL arrived at Genoa on the 6th.

The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse
on that day at 77f. 90c. ; the Five per Cents., 115 f.
65c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,2251.; Rouen,
928 f. 75c.; Havre, 6451.; Great Northern, 6031.
75e. ; Avignon, 7211. 25c. ; Vierzon, 580 f. ; Bor-
deaux, 507 f. 50c. ; Boulogne, 407 f. 50c. ; Basle, 1881.
75c. ; Dieppe, 320 f. ; Pa: is and Strasburg, 421 f. 25e. :
Tours and Santes, 4101.; Paris and Lyons, 431 f,
25c. ; Cette, 442 f. 50e. ; Belgian Two-and-a-Half
per Cents., 531.

MARSEILLES, MAY H.—Marseilles and Avignon, 758 f.
75c. ; Great Northern, 603 f. 75c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 15. _ .

The only transaction in Foreign Railways was—Ceylon, 14

THE LORD-LIEUTENANT OF
IRELAND.
DUBLIN, MAY 15.—We regret to state that the Lord-
Lieutenant has been rapidly sinking since yesterday.
This morning•thOMfing bulletins were issued:—
" The LordtQeutenant's '•strength is much reduced since
yesterday." - - " Two o'clock.
The illustrious patient does not feel restored from the
prostration of strength under which he suffered during the
night." " Four o'clock.
' His Excellency is not worse than he was this morning."

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
In the Cotton Market at Liverpool on Saturday the sales
were 4,000 bales, of which the greater part was American.
The market was steady, with less of the staple offering.
There were 3,500 bales American sold at 6d. to 7id., and 200
bales Surat at 33/4d. to 4id. per pound. Railway shares were
in an unsatisfactory position, and prices were generally
lower.

Letters and papers to the 4th February have been brought
by the ship Hamlet from Sydney. The weather was very
favourable in the colony, and the stock was reported to be
in excellent condition. There is expected to be a good deal
of boiling down in the pastoral settlements, owing to the
great increase in the flocks.
A paragraph in the Sydney papers states that Sir Eardley
Wilmot was exceedingly ill, partly arising, it was believed,
from anxiety of mind.
Accounts from Birmingham state—" The call on North
Staffordshire Railway Shares, due on the 10th inst., is said
to have been very promptly responded to by the shareholders.
This has been particularly the case in the district which the
line is more especially designed to serve, and the payments
exceed the most sanguine expectations, considering the
pressure for money which now so seriously affects the Pot-
teries, in common with the manufacturing districts generally.
The marketable value of,the shareat-has slightly improved
with the callra circumstance that.evinces the confidence of
capitalists in the undertaking. There'are now 71, 10s. per
share paid up; and as the company have power to borrow
money when 101. shall have been subscribed, it is not thought
likely that the resources of the shareholders will be much
further tried." _ _

The grain market ia up, compared with Monday last,
about 5.5. per quarter for wheat, although without alteration
for other corn. _ _

Notwithstanding the very heavy calls paid up on railroad
shares, we understand, upon high authority, that the private
deposits in the Scotch banks are greater at the present mo-
ment than they were twelve months ago.
to-day, mainly owing to this
eve been a few sales
pressed.Te
enhancementFunc dosn
Consols
flhe aoatrytnee,rr
realisedd
ne
tahBe
ethere
for transfer to-mor-
row, and 86% % for Account. The continuation" to July
h
is about % per cent. Exchequer-bills have again been
forced upon the market, being 2s. discount to ls. premium.
There have been no bargains in Bank or East India Stock.
The New Three-and- a-Quarter per Cents. have realised 86%
to 871/x, and the Three per Cents. 85% to 14.
The Foreign Investments have been rather heavy, in unison
with the English funds. Spanish Consols have been quoted
22% ; and the Three per Cents., 33% to 34; Portuguese
Four per Cents. have been 34%; Mexican Bonds have been
quoted at 20, and Grenada 19%; Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents. have been 57%.
The Share Market is depressed. The value of Aberdeen
shares has been 23% •, Caledonian, 23,6 3/4 ' • astern Coun-
ties, 18% 3/4 • ' Great Western 110 to 107; Blackwell, 7%;
Brighton, 50% 511,4 ; North-Western, 169 to 170; South-
Western, 61 to 61%; Midland, 112% to 114; Newcastle and
Berwick, 24%; North British, 30%; North Stafford, 9 to
9 ; Scottish Central, 22% to 23%; South-Eastern, 351/, to
36; York and Newcastle, 34%; and Northern of France,
11% 1/S•
BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSING

O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities 853 14 854
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities 86%N 14 8630
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 87 86% $7% 874
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 8 15-15
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. • • 9 3-16 9 3-16
India Bonds. 1,0001.
Ditto, under 1,0001.
Consols for May 27
Exchequer Bills.
1,0001...
5001... ••
Ditto, Small

•• •• %
154 d. 2d86%.
1p 2 dis 2 dis
1 p 2 dis 2 p
•—• .... 3p 4 ldis 1 p
ONE CLOSING
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Grenada, 1 per Cent ..•
. 19% 19%
Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent .. 20 20 4
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto, Four per Cent 3431 34%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 22% 22%
Ditto, Passive Bonds .. .. 44i 5
Ditto, Three per Cent .. • • • • 33% 33%
Ditto, for the Account •• 33% 34 34
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-Halt per Cent .. 5734 57%
BUSINESS
CLOSING
PAID. DONE AT
PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.
Aberdeen..• .. 30 .... 23% ....... •.. 2334
Amber., Notting., Boston, and
Eastern Junction . 2%.... 11;4
itirmingharn and Oxford Junction 10 .... .... • 16%
Buckinghamshire .. 61. 45.... .. 134 dis.
C4lcdonian _ 30 .... 23% % • 23%
Chester and Holyhead . • .. 2734 •• • • 19:6 • • ...... • • 19:4
Eastern Counties 20 •• • 18%14
Do. l'erpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61. 13s. 4d. 4 p•• p
Ditto, ditto.. .. No. 2. 61. 13s. 4d. par ...... .• • par
Ditto, York Extension .. • • 63b •• • • 4% •• • • •• • 4sq
East Lancashire •• 17 •• • • 15% •• •••• • • • • 15%
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. • • 50 •• • • •• • •
••• • •
Ditto, Half Shares
.. 15 .. • • 21%% •• •
Great Northern _ 3% .... 2
Do., London & York Extension 2% .... I% . • ......•
Great Western „ „ „ 85 ....110 107 •• •• •
Ditto, Half Shares _ 50 .... 6331 63 .....
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 1234 .... 16 .. •
Ditto, Fifths „ „ „ 20 2534 24%
Ditto, New „ „ 4% ...• 7 • • ...... ••
Ipswich mad Bury St.Edmunds 14 •••• • • • • •
Ditto ditto, and Norwich . • •• • • 4 •• • •
Leeds and Bradford .. 40 .. • • 83% ••••• • • • • •
Leeds and Thirsk _ 26 .• • • 19%14 •••• • • • •
London and Blackwall .. 161. 13s. 4d. 754
London, Brighton, and S Coast • . 50 •• .. 50% 514
London an North-Western ..100 ....169 170 16931
Ditto, 401. Shares M. &B. .. 40 •••• 65:6 ••••• • • • • •
Ditto, 101. Shares M. &H. (B) 5 • 9% ••••• • • • • •
London and South• Western 411 6s. 10d... 6131 61 .. • •
Ditto, Tenths (Consolidated) •. 50 .... 52 .... •• • •
Lynn and Dereham .. 20 .... ••••• • .. • •
Manchester said Leeds .. 82 • .. • •
Ditto, Fifths .. 5 ....
Ditto, Thirds (Reg.) .. ..71. 45..... p• • .. •• • • • •
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 ....
Midland .. ..100 ....114 11231
Ditto, New .. .. 36 .... 3831 38 .....•
Ditto, New .. . 673134% •• • •
Ditto. Birmingham and Derby 100 .... 89
Do., Consol. Bristol and Birm.
51x pei Cent. . ..100 ....123 122........ 123%
Newcastle and Berwick • . .. 20 .... 24%.. .... 25
Ditto, New .. • . . •
Norfolk .. •• .. 100 • • —12454 123% 123%

PRICES OF
RAILWAY SHARES.

Ditto, Extension .. 10 .... 9%
North British .. 25 ..., 30%...•.•
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 12% •• .. 14
Ditto, Quarter Shares • • • • VA •• • • 43 X
Ditto, Extension • • • • • 0%. •• • ••• • •
Ditto, Thirds .. • • 1 •• • . 2%,,....
North Stafibrdshire .. • • • • 7% •••• 9% 9U ..
Oxford, Wor'ster, & Wolverhamp. 22% ........
Preston and Wyre.. .. • • 25 .... 343,4 4
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 5 ....
Scottish Central .. . • • 17% .... 23% 22%
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 3% 3
Ditto, Class R .. • • •• • • 3 .... ..........
Shropshire Union .. • • • • • - 4 •• • 1% 2..
South Eastern and Dovor .. • • 33% 36 36
Ditto, New (iss. at 321.) No. 1. 20 .... 20 19%
Do., New (do. 101.) .. No. 4. 5 •••
South Wales .. • • .• .. 10
West Riding Union • • • • • • 4/. 25... • '
York and Newcastle .. .. 25 3434 •.*. • •
Ditto, Preference .. • • .. 4 ..... •••
York arid North Midland .. .. 50 83
.......•.
Ditto, Extension • • .. 25 .„
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Luxembourg
Namur and Liege .. • • • • • • 10 •.•
N orthern of France • • • • • • 8 •• • • 11%%..,.•.,,
MIRES.

Real del Monte, Unrezietered •• • 3M .

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
SIR CHARLES WOOD, BART, M.P.
Sir,—l delayed addressing you upon the subject of the
statement you made respecting the difficulty of framing a
Bill for the reclamation of waste lands in Ireland, in the hope
that the discussion on Mr. Scrope's motion, on Tuesday last,
would have elicited that explanation which certainly appears
necessary, for, although report assigns to you a hostile feel-
ing to the measure, yet no person would fancy that you
could in the face of Parliament state difficulties that you did
not believe to exist.
Your statement was, "That after attempting to put the
Bill into a practical shape, and after consulting with several
lawyers and other Members of experience, &c., &c.,1 I do
think it would have been impossible to pass a Bill which
could have been brought into operation this year." Now, I
believe I shall make it appear as clear as the sun at noon
day, that your lawyer of experience must have misled you,
and that it would -be difficult to find a lawyer who would
not prepare a Bill which should come into operation, not
only this year, bat the week after it had received the Royal
Astieat.
Your Bill when put into a practical shape must have been
based on one of the three following principles :-
Ist. Government taking the power of purchasing the unre-
claimed lands of every proprietor, although he was himself
willing to employ the people in reclaiming the land.
2d. Government taking the power of purchasing the unre-
claimed land of any proprietor who will not employ the people
in reclaiming it.
3d. Government taking the power of purchasing the unre-
claimed land of any proprietor who was desirous of selling.
The first may be termed Mr. Scrope's plan, the second that
which I had the honour to propose, and the third as one
which could not possibly have done any injury to any indi-
vidual, and which might be productive of essential benefit.
I have always considered, and reflection confirms the
opinion, that the plan proposed by Mr. Scrope would be a
measure of great injustice, and still greater impolicy; as it
has been abandoned, it is useless to adduce reasons in support
of this opinion.
I cannot conceive that the principle of the second plan
contains anything approaching to injustice. it is too late
now to question the soundness of the prineipl• that" property
has its duties as well as its rights," and the present Govern-
ment have worked out that principle by declaring that the
first duty of property and the first burthen upon it, is to sup-
port the people. That is the principle of your Irish Poor-law
Bill, but society has a right to expect that such principle
shall be carried out with the least possible injury either to
the giver or the receiver. There is only one possible mode
of effecting this object—employment.
If this be correct, then comes the question—Has any pro-
prietor a right to say I bold 10,000 acres of unreclaimed land,
which I choose to keep in its present state for my amuse-
ment, and althitugh its reclamation would give employment
to all the industrious in the' district, it "shall not be touched,
and I prefer feeding them in a state of idleness rather than
part with my land. Has any individual a right to hold this
language. Does that property perform its duty to society?
And if all right-minded persons would immediately answer
such questions in the negative, is it unjust to compel such a
proprietor to sell his land at a just price, that the people may
be employed and fed?
The third principle is one which could not possibly injure
any individual, and to judge of its beneficial importance,
suppose the Government had possessed such a power during
the last winter, would not the reclamation of waste lands
have been a better return for the millions which have been
expended than the roads which have been made?
However good the harvest may be, the Government will
again have to feed a portion of the Irish people. Of this
there exists no reasonable doubt, and you should be prepared
with every measure which may enable you to give that food
for wages fairly earned. There would not be the slightest
objection in the present Parliament to vest discretionary
powers in the Government, and you ought to apply for them
unless you are prepared to be accountable for another year of
that profligate waste of public money, which, under the pre-
tence of feeding the destitute, has been freely given to parties
possessed of ample means.—l have the honour to remain
your most obedient servant, RIGBY WASON.

- -
Tun COURT.--tier Majesty will give a grand vocal
and instrumental concert at Buckingham Palace, on the 28th
inst., at which Mademoiselle Jenn Lind and the
y
prin-
cipal artistes of both Italian Operas will assist. The invi-
tations were issued from the Lord Chamberlain's office on
Saturday last.
WINDSOR, SUNDAY EVENING.—It is stated that her
Majesty will arrive at the Castle, for the Ascot Races, two or
*free days earlier than had originally been contemplated—
the Monday, the 31st inst., having been the day
Court to leave town for Windsor. It is now expected
that her Majesty and the Prince Consort, accompanied by
the Royal Family, will arrive at the Castle on the 28th inst.,
the day following the Drawing-room to be held at St. James's
fixed upon for
Palace. The Court will Rot remain at Windsor, it is stated,
beyond a week or ten days.