The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-14 00:00:00

E SUN, LONDON. FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1811.

Mr. A. CHAPMAN believed the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER'S measure would destroy ships, colonies,
and commerce--the cuckoo cry that has accompanied
every proposition for taking off a tax.
Sir E. L. BULWER made a short hustings speech, vot-
ing for Ministers, but objecting to so low a duty as Bs.
on wheat.

IVlr. HUME made a long speech, full, as usual, of statk-
deal facts. The Hon. Member demonstrated that the
present discriminating duties on sugar took 3d. from the
consumer on every pound of sugar, to put it into the
planter's pocket. He showed that the consumption of
sugar, in relation to the number of people, had
materially fallen of; and whereas it had been 281bs. a head,
it was last year only 141bs. He demonstrated therefrom
that the revenue, with the proposed reduction of duty,
would gain more than the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
CHEQUER had calculated, and that had the measure been
adopted some years ago, the increased consumption of
sugar would have supplied more than all the defi-
ciency of the revenue. The Hon. Member spoke out
boldly. He denounced the Corn-laws as a curse, and
he laid to their door the poverty, misery, and starva-
tion of the people. He boldly accused the Parliament
and the landlords of causing these great and
immeasurable evils, and when he was interrupted by
something like yells and groans, he boldly told
the interrupters that their consciences smote
them, and testified to the truth of his accusation.
He stigmatized the Sugar-tax and the Corn-tax as
plunder, and plunder more enormous than was ever
before rapaciously Teized. A great good has been
obtained by such words having been spoken in
Parliament, and in the face of the oppres-
sors. Sir R. PEEL'S sophistry will not be able
to apply any balm to the wounds which Mr. HumE's
words, echoing the public voice, inflicted on the bread
taxers. The barb of truth has entered their souls, and
it is now the duty of the people to drive it home, and fix
it there, till they give up their prey. We never have
despaired of the cause of truth, of justice ; we despair of
it now less than ever ; and if the people be only true to
themselves, they will again make England the abode of
free, contented, happy, and prosperous millions. Through
deep national distress and rankling discontent, through a
failing revenue, and the loss of their authority—for who
honours the decisions of the selfish monopolists—through •
a great multitude of facts, the voice of GOD is now
speaking to these men, and commanding them to be just.
With such help, success is neither uncertain not distant.
Mr. HUME concluded the debate for the evening, which
was again adjourned to this day.

The Second Annual report of the National Loan
Fund Life Assurance Society will be found in
another part of The Sun. Having supported the
National Loan Fund Society from the date of
its projection—from a conviction that it was cal-
culated to be of immense benefit to persons of
provident habits and limited income—it is with
no ordinary degree of pleasure that we record a
statement of facts which places it among the most
thriving, as it was the most promising, of such in-
stitutions. Much of its success is most deservedly
due to the zeal and energy of Mr. LAMIE Mun-
RAY, its originator, and to the praiseworthy ex-
ertions of the Secretary, Mr. CAMROUX, and the
Board of Directors. That numerous other Life
Assurance Societies unworthy of support, sprung
up since the establishment of this Institution is to
be lamented ; although the mere fact, regarded
abstractedly, only shows the soundness and the
popularity of the principles upon which the Na-
tional Loan Fund Society is founded. It is now
on as permanent a basis as any provident tuts
commercial establishment can be, in a great corn-
inercial country like England.

One of the stock phrases of the Chartists and
the Tories, and of all the antagonists of Corn-
law abolition, is, that the advocates of the aboli-
tion wish to break down the condition of the
English labourer to that of the Continental la-
bourer; that they want to introduce the produce
cheap labour from abroad, in order to beat
down wages here to the Continental 1..ve1. That
is a standing argument, continually repeated
in the Tory Journals, urged in letters signed
" Working Men," and strenuously dwelt on at
public meetings. We have before stated in The
Sun, that wages on the Continent, generally, are
not lower, and the condition of the labourer not
worse, than in England, but just now it seems
advisable to repeat and enforce the statment.
The working classes of England have long been
gulled, by fine names, to bear in patience perhaps
unexampled misery, if not unexampled oppres-
sion. They have been continually told of our
glorious Constitution, but they have been ex-
cluded from all its advantages. They have been
called free, and no people in Europe are worse
enslaved. They have been sent on crusades
against oppression abroad, that they might be
more effectually tyrannised over at home. A
maudlin sympathy has been expressed for the
blacks by men who impressed their white bre-
thren without remorse or compunction. The

horrors of the middle passage were fully equalled
• by the horrors of the press tender; but the men
who overflowed with compassion for foreigners
encouraged the Government to steal our seamen.
They raised a great outcry about wild Africans
being forced into a civilized country, and they
• tore the sailors of Newcastle, Shields, and Yar-
mouth from their wives and their homes, and
sent them to perish amid pestilence and battle.
While allthis was done and doing, the English
were flattered by being told that they were the
freest people on the globe, and they considered
it the height of human grandeur to be flayed
alive in the army and navy, provided the flayed
man did not eat frogs and wear wooden shoes.
We might go through an immense catalogue
of grievous oppressions, such as an unpaid and
irresponsible magistracy administering the laws
in cases in which they were personally, or, from
class feelings, always parties; such as the Game-
laws, by which those magistrates can imprison a
man in a loathsome dungeon for months or
~,ears, for knocking a wild bird on the head;
.such as the limitations laid by the gentry on
the amusement and enjoyment of the poor, so
that their six days' continual slavery in the week
was unrelieved by one day's freedom and ease ;
such as the dominion claimed over their hearts,
minds, and feelings, by an arrogant, ambitious
)riesthood; such as a complete monopoly of le-
4islation by one narrow class of men, who have
continually prostituted the grave name of law to
he vilest purposes, and passed enactments only
to fill their own pockets. We might go on through
an immense catalogue of great grievances h&j
on our people, who have all the ti cted
been cheated
nue- d assurances of the
into submission by the coe.t;
priesthood and the at
Teat a mornCstocracy, that they were a
°
said e- .., and a free people; but we have
..ougn to remind our readers of the manner
in which they have been, by their pretended be-
,iefactors and friends, continually deluded and
iietrayed. Such having been the general nature
pf the conduct of the ruling classes towards the
working classes, they will probably begin to
suspect that the notion which has been so
Tories of
sedu-
lously inculcated by the late, that the
condition of the working classes in England is
superior to that of all other European nations, and
that those who demand the repeal of the Corn-
laws want to degrade the English labourers, is
only one of those tricks by which they have
heretofore been beguiled out of their liberties,
and flattered into misery and patient submission
to slavery.
Is it a fact that the condition of labour-
ers on the Continent is much worse than
he condition of labourers here? . Do they
work harder and fare worse than the Err,7-
liA.? We have lived some time on the Continen
- we have traversed a large portion of it on foot—
and our impression is, that the bulk of
the French
working classes, out of Paris, are surpassingly
ignorant and skilless; they labour
much leithan
our people, and do not live worse ; that the bulk
of the Germans, amongst whom, common day la-
bourers (Tagelohner) are comparatively few, are
a great deal better off for food, and clothing, and
warmth than our people ; that even the serfs of
Hungary are more plentifully fcd than our It-
bourers ; that in Holland the people are altoge-
ther in a superior condition ; and that nowhere I
in Europ,., except --in the States •
of the
Church, or in Some of the Italian States;
are the bulk of the people so- desti-
tute as the agricultural labourers of Kent and
Wiltshire, tl.lld the manufacturing labourers of

Manchester, Bolton, and Carlisle. 'We say no-
thing of the Irish, who have the advantage of
Corn-laws—who will be ruined, say the Orange
journals, if the Corn-laws be repealed, and who
are undoubtedly the worst fed and worst lodged
people of civilized Europe. The assertion that
the labourers of England are comparatively well
off, is a Tory assertion, made for the purpose of
deluding the labourers into hearing with patience
the heavy burdens laid on them by the landlords.

England is overrun with labourers from
Ireland, because the condition of the la-
bourers here, bad as it is, is superior to
that of the Irish labourers. But no la-
bourers from any part of the Continent flock
over to England in the same way. The only im-
portations of that kind we have, are a few broom-
girls from the Upper Rhine, a few organ-boys
from Savoy, and a few sugar-bakers and tailors
from various parts of Germany.
At the same time clerks, merchants, and manu-
facturers come here in great numbers from France
and Germany. The condition of our trading
capitalists is superior to that of the Germans,
and consequently many middle class Germans
come hither. The labouring classes do not come.
On the contrary, our labouring classes go abroad.
There is a continull exportation of workmen and
artizans from England to various parts of the
Continent.

Why do they go? Because they are better
paid abroad than at home. If they are better
paid abroad, how can any person say that wages
abroad are worse than at home? But we have
some facts on this subject, to which we beg the
attention of the working classes, who still believe
that we, who demand the abolition of the Corn_
laws, wish to degrade the condition of our la•
bourers.

First, as to the number of artizans who go
abroad, not to the United' States or to America,
but to Belgium and France: Mr. WITHERS, who
was examined by the Committee on Machinery,
and resides at Liege, in Belgium, said :
" I have had as many as 300 English families from dif-
ferent parts of this country in Belgium.—Are there many
English artizans in France ? A great many in different
parts.—Are they going still from this country ? They
keep going every day.—You say the best workmen are
going out of the country—have you any facts to illus-
trate that point ? Yes ; I stated them yesterday. I
have fetched out of England some hundreds myself. It
has been invariably my practice."
Now, what tempts these men to leave Eng-
land who are amongst the best paid of our work-
men ? Higher wages abroad than at home, is the
answer. Living is not cheaper. Mr. WITHERS
said that all the English families told him they
could live cheaper in England than in Belgium.
Let us quote some proofs as to wages : Mr.
M'GREGOR declared in his examination before.
the Import Duties Committee that—

" The real wages of labour in this country are much
less than in Saxony." •

Before the same Committee Mr. HENRY HU.
TON stated that—

" I think we pay as low wages for plain cloth in Man-
chester as they do in France."

The evidence given before the Machinery Com-
ihittee now sitting, is to the following effect :
" I gave," says Mr. 'Withers, " to Englishmen 12 francs
50 cents., for doing that which the Belgians did for
8. francs and 7 francs, and the 12 francs 50 cents. man was
the cheaper. He produced more work and a better
quality.'

"A great deal has been said about hand-labour, but, as
I said yesterday, we must not calculate because the
Frenchman receives three francs for a day's labour, and we
pay in England four shillings that the French labour is
cheaper than ours. I think on the contrary, that an Eng-
lishman does a great deal more in proportion for 4s. than
a Frenchman for three francs, I have known Englishmen,
week after week, and month after month, to get 31., 4/.,
and 5/. per week, working at the same prices as French-
men, who did not get more than 18 or 20 francs, that is to
say the Frenchman got 20 francs a week, working on the
same material, and at the same prices as the Englishman
who got 3/. and 41. per week.
" I got more by the man to whom I paid 5/, a
week, than to the man to whom I paid only eighteen or
twenty francs."

A Mr. MARSDEN who was examined before
the same Committee said,—
" If I were to take an English and a French work-
man, and pay them at the same rate, the English work-
man Nould earn double the wages which the Frenchman
did. I gave the English workmen I took over with me
425. a week, to induce them to go. I could have
got French mechanics for about 20fr. a week, but I
prefer the English workman at 425. a week to the
French mechanic at 20s.—Are their wages greater
than they get in England? Yes, what I gave 425. for
in France I should have given 28s. or 30s. for in Man-
chester. The temptation for English workmen to go
is great, to live cheaper, and get more wages."
N ow these quotatious prove distinctly that the
rate of wages is higher both in France and Bel-
gium than in England; that the English are
much more skilful and better workmen than the
others, and more industrious; by which means
their labour, even were it paid at a higher
rate than that of the others, is really cheaper to
their employers ; that the foreigners idle more
and play more than our people, and hence,
though the rate of their wages is higher, they do
not earn so much. Now, when the harder work
of the Englishman is considered, his steadier
habits, and his greater skill, together with the
rate of wages, it is obvious that he is not so well
paid as the foreigner, and that his condition
would be improved, not deteriorated, by being
made like that of the foreigner. This is true of
the skilled and best-paid artizans of the empire;
and it is ten-fold true of the wretched lumper-
fed Irish. The stock assertion, therefore, of the
Tories and the Chartist antagonists of the aboli-
tion of the Corn-laws, is a false assertion. It is
contrary to the fact, and is a mere invention
to cheat the public.

At the same time, those who advocate the
repeal of the Corn-laws, seek to procure for
the English labourer the advantages of the
Continental labourer, and preserve his own. We,
at least, desire that more food and more wages
shall., be given as the price of his work. We
know ourselves to be perfectly disinterested in
this matter; we flatter no prejudice, we aim at
no leadership, we solicit no subscriptions. We
only ask the labourers, whether Chartists or
not, to examine the matter for themselves, and
we believe they will conclude that, if they had
a Parliament of their own to-morrow it could
not by any possibility, by any one act, confer a
greater benefit on them than to abolish the
Breadslax. Our artizans are the hardest worked,
W. paid, worst treated, and at the same time
some of the most 'intelligent and patient men (4
the world. Let them know themselves, and act
up to their true worth. They have now an
opportunity of obtaining redress, and one
long and strong pull altogether will abolish the
Corn-laws, demonstrate their superiority to the
Parliament, and prepare the way for many
other legislative improvements. Hurrah then,
one and all, for the abolition!

Accounts pour in from all quarters of the as-
tonishment expressed by the members of the
Auxiliary Anti-Slavery Societies throughout the
country, at the arrogance of the London Com-
mittee, and their wickedness also, in allying
themselves with the monopolists of every de-
scription, who deny all relief to our half-starved
and hard-working population. The resolutions
adopted at Bridgewater, and the letter from a
place near Bristol, inserted in another part of the
Paper, give a fair eqimate
of public opinion
re meeting the meeting to be held to-morrow
at Exeter -MIL We • trust the Auxiliary
<_r ieties will iirad some honest
,and eio7
quent representative on the occasion—one
who- will call upon the abolitionists to adhere
faithfully to the party that have proved them.
selves Cle only , real frionds of the oppressed
n-Itt• who put an end to the British
,ilve trade, wh,) ei4a,acipitted every negro
throughout her
nAJEsTv's dominions, and who
are now making Continued exertions to induce
foreign Governments to imitate
their glorious
example.

u
The Madrid Paper received are of the 4th
Kist. Some
distttrbances bad taken place at
`Lanvora,
on aecouut of the- imposition of some
toll-d es. General ZURBANO
had marched
_at
tile. Ilea] orsoine troops from Valladoliti to re-
store order. - • ' • •

The debate on the Regenqy QIIPS•ti(In ,was
mowing to a close. The election viaa expected

to take place on the Bth. No other news from

Spain.
On the Madrid Eachlnge, on the 4th, bar.:aing to the
amount of 14,600,00 reals were done at 27k for cash, 27 11-16
for sixty days.

We have received, by extraordinary express
from Paris, the Moniteur of yesterday, with the
important, but not unexpected, news of the elec-
tion of ESPARTERO by the Cortes to the sole
Regency of Spain. The following is the official
account :

TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCH.
" BAYONNE, MAY I 1.....MADR1N, MAY 8.
"The Chambers voted this day the question of the Re-
gency. By 154 to 136 votes they decided on a single Regent.
" By the second vote the numbers were declared, for E.spar-
two 179, Arguelles 103. Espartern was, •therefore, elected
sole Regent.

Queen CHRISTINA arrived in Paris on Tuesday
evening, and proceeded to the Elysee Bourbon,
which has been assigned as her residence. Her
MAJESTY has been forbidden by the French Go-
vernment to take part in any political intrigue
during her stay, or in any way whatever to give
umbrage to the Spanish Government. While
stopping at Macon, some days ago, Queen
CHRISTINA narrowly escaped being burnt to
death. The curtains of her bed took fire, and
she was only saved by the promptitude of her
domestics.

The insurgents of Bulgaria have been defeated
by the Pacha of Nissia, at the head of 1,200
Albanians. By this victory the road between
Belgrade and Constantinople is opened. We
'expect soon to hear of frightful atrocities com-
mitted hpon the unfortunate families and friends
of the vanquished. It was the atrocious cruelties
of the Turks and Albanians that drove the Bul-
garians into revolt.
It was reported in Paris, that the eldest (laughter of the In-
fant Don Francisco de Paula eloped on Tuesday morning with
a Polish nobleman, Orders were immediately forwarded by
the telegraph to stop the fugitives, who were believed to have
proceeded in the direction of Brussels.
The Toulonnais of the 7th inst., states !hat a naval division,
composed of the Inflexible and Saiiti Petri, ships-of-the-line,
and the frigates Didon, Minerve, and Medee, would shortly
sail for the Levant. " Englar,d," add the Toulon journal, "not
wishing us to have three-deckers in the East, Rear-Admiral
Laisuse, who is appointed to the command of that division, will
remove his flag from the Montebello to the Inflexible 90-gun
ship."
A letter from Algirs' states, that, on the Ist, the Arabs
showed themselves in the Sahel, near Algit.rs, and that about
50 horsemen having approached one of the outposts at Deli,
Captain Muller, and AO men sallied after them. The Arabs
retired, and were pursued ; but on a sudden, from 500 to 600
Arab horsemen, placed in ambush, rushed out and cut the
whole detachment off, with the exception of fire men. The
Arabs had shown themselves in force near the :liaison Carree,
and, it was believed, at Col, all also. A cannonade had been
heard in that direction, Pod also at the fords of the Arach.
At a time when the Chamber is going to discuss the Budget
of Algeria, it may not be amiss to make our readers acquainted
with the ideas vihinh are excited in our African lossessions by
the men who are sent hither.

°gars. Ar au 15.—1 t appears unfortuna'ely be end a doubt,
that with the exception of the African General Officers, who
could not be decently got rid of, all the men by whom the new
Government is surrounded, express antipathy for the preserva-
tion of Algeira, and do not let slip any occasion to express it.
General Garraube, who may he said to have scarcely landed,
matofe,ted his ill humour in the presence of a great number of
officers, and exclaimed, " This, then, is Africa ; I am very glad
to see it. Ten years ago," he is said to have added, " 1 de-
clared for giving it up, and my opinion is only
strengthened." 1 need not say that these word.,
spoken by an Lit:mate friend of General Bugeaud, produced a
very bad elect. Hence a report has risen that the only object
of the expedition which is going to be undertaken, is to spend
enormous sun s. After ail this, how can anybody have the
least confidence in the future prosperdy of the colony.
Letters from St. Thomas, of the tith of April, announce
that the little town of St. John (Anti.gua) has been destroyed
by fire. The conflagration was so violent, that it destroyed
three hundred being almost the whole of the town.
'I he damage is estimated at several ru 1. ons.
1J'OCI:b1.;--Pattis, TUESDAY, MAY 11.

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Exchange on London (short)
DUTCH Eli NOs.—.AMKTRCOAM, MAY 12
Mont• • . i-.i .8.
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Loan 1t4:37, 5 i•er cont. 9i% 974
Exchange on London, One month i% i's

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Dutch Papers, May 12.
A.i.;3 ICKIAN FUN i/S.—VlanNA, MAY 3
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Fmss rer Cents.
Time p~r ( ent,
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PRUSSIAN kOF DS.—Baseux, MAY 10
Bills Money,
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Prussian English Loan, Ig.lo, 4 per cent, 1.2 101 S
Nxetiange on London, three months 0 19%
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Se:les 97
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Dutch ..ctual Debt, %;,, pe Cent :IN 51
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New I teket
Anglo.' :atilsh Loan, 3 pet Cent 75 :743i
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CORN-LAWS AND IRELAND.—The Orange papers o;
Ireland are all extreme]) violent in their opposition to
the Ministerial measure for modifying the Corn-laws.
They declare that it will be the ruin of Ireland. How
the lumper-fed Irish can be more ruined than they are,
not to be wholly annihilated, surpasses our imagination
to conceive. We wonder only that they are not anni-
hilated, ruined, root and branch, by the present
law, Lord Stanley demonstrated on Wednesday
evening, on the authority of a commercial letter, that
the proposed tax of the Ministers of eight shillings
per quarter on foreign wheat' would be no protec-
tion whatever to the Irish agriculturists, because their
wheat is so very inferior to foreign wheat. " It would
be," said the Noble Lord, " so far as Ireland is concerned,
completely a free trade." Very curious this, that our
scale of duties must rise in proportion to the badness o'
the produce. Very curious is it, too, that this circum-
stance is only now found out. For if it holds good
against the Ministerial plan it must hold equall:-
rood against the present scale, and the Irish must
entitled to a protecting duty at least Bs. highs:
per quarter than the English agriculturist. They are
very badly treated, are the Irish landlords, by not having
such an additional protection allowed them. They are
clearly as well entitled to, a duty of 305., as the Eng-
lish landlords are to a duty of 225., and they ought to
demand justice for Ireland, or else they ought to with-
hold the supplies. Lord Stanley has long been a great
friend of Ireland, and he showed his regard for it ()I;
Wednesday by demonstrating that justice will not be
done to it unless the protecting duty be raised at letvz
Bs. higher for Ireland than England.
FREE-LABOUR AND SLAVE-LABOUR.—The Tories in
the House of Commons, particularly Mr. Gladstone ant
Lord Stanley, have taken great , pains to show that the
production of sugar is exclusively adapted to slave-
labour, while the production of coffee and cotton is pro-
per for free men. Women and children can be em-
ployed, said Mr. Gladstone, in the latter ; and, while the
cultivation of sugar had been given up by the Haytians
since they had gained their liberty, they had exteadcd
the cultivation of cotton and coffee. How extremely
nenevolent and kind, then, it is in these gentlemen to
,simulate the cultivation of sugar, which is ,o vrtri-
sively fitted for slaves in our West India islands by the
large bounty they insist on giving on that troduction, in
the shape of a discriminating duty ! Plain common,
sense, of which the Tories almost claim a mono,
wily, would at once conclude that the best wa v
to encourage slavery, was to g: e a large bounty
on that production which is pi culiar to slavery,
and that no greater injury can be clone the population
of our con ones than thus to make pn Itauce
is the. proper produce only of slaves. The human-
Tories, in the name of humanity, insist on giving a
bounty on slave-labour, and the Anti-Slavery Society
join with the Tories. Our high sugar duties stimulate
slave-labour and stienulite Vie slave trade. They raise
price of sugar in t he market. by the whole amount
the discrirainn,.:l.• tax, „
which is stronger. than the navy of Great Britain. The
'furies actually t•,.x tit • st: people of .Logiand in tile
natne of humanity keep up shivery and the slave trad, .
They are throrghout consistent humbugs.
FLUCT. Atl OtS IN THE OF SUGAR rival
those in tilt. price of corn, and arise from the same cause,
the litnitatio, of the field of supply. 11 e ere confined te
the empire for corn, and the consequence is that withit
three yeitrs the price has risen from 365. to 88s. pet
quarter. Who can regulate his business successfully, when
he L: a t buy and sell by varying measures, which is it;
fart what the Corn-laws actually cause ? We are con.
nel to our own colonies for our supply of sugar, and:
tne:tiuctuations in.the prke of if are Le.taly as gnat as
in the price of orn. In January, 1§.4.0, the prce was
Ms. ; in Septeualwr of the same year it was SS., a
rise ex 1,437 vet.: cent. nhmthi ; at present it has
to As., a'; pf ably
o t'iC:lA 1,• crop,
c'4.-V% to bud, if they answer expectations, and the au-

dition of the people continue. to be as depressed, as at t
present, to 28s. The fact is at present that the price of
this almost necessary of life has varied nearly 70 per
cent. in another eight months. Grocers and dealers of
all kinds, as well as consumers, must suffer much by
these continual and great fluctuations. The only remedy
for which is 'to admit foreign sugars at. a low duty, and
to allow the price to settle down to the cost of produc-
tion. The Tories refuse to assent to so ratioaal a Iro-
position.
CORN -LAWS, &c.--Meetings took place on Wed-
nesday, in furtherance of the repeal of the Corn-
laws, at the Westminster Reform Society, and
St. Saviour's, Southwark ; and within the last
week they have taken place generally throughout
the country. At Kendal, Bolton, Bury, Leices-
ter, and Norwich, the feeling in favour of the
Corn-law and commercial reforms projected by
Ministers was most enthusiastic. We regret that
we have not space to give the speeches made on
these occasions. The meeting at Kendal, however,
ought not to be passed over without noticing the
glorious, though we regret to say rare, example
of a clergyman of the Established Church, the
Rev. Gilbert Elliott, coming forward to advocate
the repeal of the Corn-laws. Two other clergy-
men supported hi►n on the occasion. This is the
true position for the ChUrch, and were the clergy
to look to the interests of their flocks as much as
to their own, we should have less of the want of
godliness among the poor. We will endeavour
to find room for the report to-morrow.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, THURSDAY EVENING.
The Funds closed with rather a heavy appearance, but
there was no actual decline in prices. Cmt:sols for imme-
diate transfer brought 89i to 89, and for the 25th instant,
891 to 891. At the close of the day the quotations had a down-
ward tendency. The unfunded debt went lower again, viz., to
3 and 5 prem., and East India Bonds droi.ped to I and 2 dis.
Bank Stock barely supported its value, being at 168 to 167,
but India Stock remain: dat 2516 The New Three-and.a-
Half per Cents. were worth 904 to 98k, and the Three per
Cent. Reduced 884 to 881.
The Spanish Bonds were not much influenced by the election
of Espartero, upon which the speculators have confidently cal-
culated for some time past. The Active Stock was qu.ned to-
day 24 to 24*, being* per cent. above the highest price of
yesterday. The Deft rred Bonds were at 111. Portuguese
New Five per Ct n's. improved to 34* and 34ii for the next
Account ; and the Thi ee per Cents. were at 206. Mexican
Bonds were at 286 to /, and Colombian 226, being the previous
rates ; but Brazilian rec.-ded to 676, and Buenos Ayres rose to
23. The Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were at 526.
The Share Market is in rather a feeble condition, and the
orerations have been very lirrntect. Great Western Railway
Share-, were 271 to 28, the New at 14*, the Fitths at and
the York and North Midland at 73 pi entium ex. new. North
Midland Shares were 244, the New 31, Brighton 34 to 2%,
Biackwall 7, and Manchester and Leeds 14 discount. London
Joint-stock Bank "hag es were 24 premium, and National Pro-
vincial Bank of England 6 premium.

(From The Sun of Last Night.)
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MAY 12.—For all de-
scriptions of Cotton the demand to-day has been limited—the
trade being the only purchasers at previous rates. American
kind range from 4111. to 7d. ; Surats, Maranhams, and Egyp-
tian as before ; '2.000 bales are reported.
LIVERPOOL SHA ltE MARKET, MAY 12.—The market
continues slack, but prices are quoted at previous rates. Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, 37 ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock,
29* ; Chester and Crewe, 50 ; Great Western calf Shares 64 ;
ditto, Fifth Shares, 11*; Midland Counties, Quarter Shares,
211; North Union, 81%.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 12.—The Share
Market, generally, remains without improvement.—Manchester
and Leeds, 55 to 57; Manchilter and Birmingham, 25 ; Lon-
don and Brighton, 47 to 47k; Manchester and Sheffield, 6i ;
London and South Western, 57 to 58 ; Manchester and Sal-
ford Banks, 10a ; Union Bank, 71.

A Mexican mail has arrived, brought by the Peterel, s,iled
from Vera Cruz, March 28, Tampico, April 3, Havannah,
April i 5. The news will he found in another part o! the Paper.
We h;rve received thi. Dutch mail of the 12th May. with
papers of the same date, bringing the Am-terdam prices of the
11th inst., Two-and-a-Half per Gmrs., 51/ to 15-16; Five
per Cents., 99i ; Ardoins, 22 9.16 to
BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, MAY 10.—The National fends
are calm, without any var ation, the Billets of Chance, and the
actions of tne Society of Commerce are more offered ; Aruoins
Spani,h, is weak.
Almost all he fields from Courtrac to Ghent are inundated,
owing to the overflow of the Seheldt.
It is stated that Espartero. who has been appointed
Regent, will en:ru,t thu formation of his Ministry to M.
Gonzales, for the purpose' of carrying into effect the treaty of
commerce vr.y h EnglAnd. This measure is looked to with con-
sidet able interest by commercial men.

Consols opened this morning at the leaving off prices of
yesterday, at 891 for the Account, since which they have
become rather flat, and may be Tinted at present 891 for the
Account; ;honey 89/1 Exchequer tfilis 4 6 premium;
Bank stock, 167 169; India Stock, 250 252; 11,dian Bonds,
1 dis. 1 prem.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active has improved in
consequence of Eseartero being eppointed sole Regent, left off
at 234 24, at present 24t, a ; Defe.re,f, Ili 12 ; Pass've,
6 ; Portuguese same at they left off, 331 344 ; 1 hree per
Cents., 20IA ; Braz.lian, 6869 ; Colombian, 224 23 ; Mexican,
284 29 ; 60 62 ; Dutch Twu- and.a-tialf per Cents.,
524 a ; Five per Cents 994 100.
SHARES.-Great Western, 274 284 prem. ; New, 134 144
prem. ; Londod and 11, ighton 34 34 dis. ; Blackwall 76%
ds. ; Birmingham 68 70 prem. ; :,outhampron 57 58 per
share ; Croydon 1:4 144 per share ; Grecriv.leb 54 per share ;
Manchester and Ilirmingham 154 1-11!5 dis.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. P,id. Per Share.
Great Western
Ditto New
London and tilackwall

North Midland

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
London Joint Stock ........ 10

PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MAY 11.
3 per Cent. Commis -ti Bank Stock. ..... ...... 168
Three and Half Stock 97 Grand Canal Stock
Ditto Reduced ...... Ditto Debs. to per cent... 86
Ditto New, 1830 97 Ditto 4 per cent
36 per Cent. Debs. 9O Royal Canal Stock

The inactive state of the British Funds still continues, and
there s not a feature in the Market worth attention to the pre-
sent hour, this siate of things. in all probability, will contin,:e
on till the debates on the sugar question, timber, and Corn-laws
have torminated, which will cause a continual agitation in our
commercial affairs, as well as damp the spirit for speculating,
causing money also to become scarce. The grand question at
present is, will Ministers resign.
Consols may be quoted as io the early part of the morning
8.97 for the Account ; Exchequer Bills 4 6 prem. ; Bank
Stock 168 167 ; India Bonds, 2 prem. 2 discouut; India
Stock, 2b1%.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active is the only feature,
which may be quoted 24i 1; Deferred, 111; Passive, 51 ;
Mexican, 26}; Portuguese, 34i; Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents., nothing done ; Five per Cents., 91 1.
is settling day in the Share Market, consequently very
little doing except .ng squaring the accounts. Gr. at Western
New, 64} • Fifths. I l %; London and Black wall, 18 ;
North Miuland 76*.
Consols, Account, 89i 90; Mexican, 281 ; Portuguese,
34i ; Spanish, '24i 1.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS

Bank Stock ... 167 India Stock 2sli
3 per Cent Red
3 per Cent Cons B9 Ditto Old Annuities ...
3)j per Cent Red 97a, Ditto New Annuities...
New 3i per Cent 9Ba Ex. Bills, I',ooo/....2id spm
New 5 per cent — 1 Ditto 5001 3pm
Long Annuities to expire I Ditto Small 6pm
Jan. 1860 l2a Bank Stock for Acct...
Oct 1859 l2fr India Stock for 0pg....
Jan. 1860.
FOtEIGN FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, h per cent Ditto, New Ditto 344
Brazilian Bonds..
Buenos Ayres. 6 per cent 23 Russian, 5 per cent —
Chilian, b per cent...... Ditto, % tetallie.. ...
Colombian, b per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 244
Ditto, 1624 ... ..... 224 Ditto, Deferred .. lI i
Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
Greek, 18.45, 5 per cent — Exchange
Mexican, 5 per cent.... 284 French, 3 per cent —f. —c.
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 24 per cent. ... 524
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. 104 I 'at°, 5 per cent 99d
SHARES.
Great Western Pailway (65 paid) 93
Ditto New Shares (50 paid 64i
_._ . .. ... - -

Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid) 47a
London and Blackwall Railway (:25 paid)... 18
North Midland Hallway ( 100 paid)
Ditto N ew shares ( 40 paid).
Yol k and North Al idland Raitway (50 pd) 73

THE WEATHER.—NOON, MAY 13.
ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, A DELA 11E-STREET.
Biiromet er
Thermometer... 61 Highest 65 Lowest ...... 44
Wind N. V. by N.—Freezing Point 32 Deg.

Madame Elizabeth Filipowtcz, wife of a Polish
refugee, and a distinguished violinist, died on the 4tl:
inst., at her residence, No. 27, Great Clarendon-street,
Somers-town, after a long illness of two years and on,.
tionth, which was caused by an apoplectic attack ant
the accumulation of blood on the brain, accout
oanied by palsy. Madame Filipowicz was a pupil w
the celebrated violinist Spohr, whose delightful melod:.
he was so well able to understand. She was well known
to the musical world by the clever and charming methoC
if her execution on the violin ; whilst her amiable qua-
lities caused her to be cherished by all the artists whose
,incere friendship she possessed. She was sought for
!,upils, in consequence of the easy method of her instruc-
ion, and her admirable patience. Beloved by her family,
a good wife and mother, and highly esteemed by her
t;ountrymen, her death has caused sincere regret to all
;hose who had known her. In informing the public 0;
he deceas-3 of that talented lady, we are requested by her
rolatives to express, in her name, thanks to all those per-
sons who had been kind enough to assist and console her
in 11;:r painful trial ; and particularly to Dr. A. Billing
ild Dr. Berrier-Fontaine, who, by their generous and
-kilfol assistance, alleviated her sufferings. Her funeral
took glace on Sunday, 9th inst., in All Souls' Cemetery,
Kensal-green. The body was accompanied to its resting
place by a great number of Polish refugees and friends
of the deceased

INEwsPAPERS IN SPAIN.—The Madrid Ga-
zette has published a table of the journals whit': are circu-
-1 Aed in St ain. The periodical journals published in the pro-
vinces amount to 32, and tho.e at. Madrid to 18, which arc
Co,reo Nacional, L'E!o dr] Comercio, El Correspo:,sal,
La Constitucio, El Castellano, El Huraca,n, La From, El
atolico, El Fray Grrundi.), La Gazetta dd 104 Tribuna!ee,
El Diario de Arms. El Jemanario de Medici-e, El Pano-
ama. F.l Etecante, El Boletin de Medicine, El Seminario,
and El Entreacto.
THE HAGUE, MAY, 10.—His Majesty has
been pleased to grant the request of his Excels, ncy fl,ton de
Kos k to be allowed to resign his post of Minister of the Into
r or on the lit of June next.
RAPID PASSAGE.—The schooner' Lady or the
Tabs, of 13HstOl, Captain William Walters. arriv( d at
this port from Lisbon 'cm th,:f sth initalit." titer an 166.
414015 wage of 41 to 5 days,-=#ristoi Jcuntal.