The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-12 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1847.

Hope is beaming upon Mexico. There is a renewal
of brilliant anticipations to that unfortunate land, for
ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA has been summoned
by acclamation to the Presidency. The lovers of
valour and disinterestedness cannot possibly have for-
gotten that several months back this patriotic man
11113 proffered supreme authority over his country,
and they cannot have forgotten how that temporary
dictatorship was refused by SANTA ANNA, how he
Sransferred the wand of office to GONIEZ FARIAS, and
hurried forward, sword in hand, to the invaded fron-
tiers to keep the unprincipled Americans at bay, and,
If possible, drive them ignominiously into their own
territories. Extraordinary changes have occurred
hs the 4 interval. Several engagements have taken

place with variable success. Sometimes the Yankees
have been victorious, sometimes their antagonists
have gained the mastery ; but everywhere it
has been acknowledged that the Mexicans have
in a great measure redeemed their character
from the charge of pusillanimity, and fre-
quently covered their assailants with shame. Even
in the recent capitulation of Vera Crus it is noto-
rious that the garrison was outnumbered very
nearly four times by those who were bombarding the
castle, and that the latter, being wholly without any
conception as to what valour and heroism really are,
resorted to the dastardly contrivance of compelling
the defenders to capitulate by throwing shells and
rockets into the town from a considerable distance,
and thereby carrying havoc and carnage among the
unarmed and terrified citizens. It is against these
unmanly invaders that the inhabitants of Mexico are
being summoned to fight; it is against their rapacity,
against their inhumanity, against their vain-glorious
insolence, that the'population of the Aztec empire
are rising from the sloth and effeminacy of centuries.
It is impossible but that with unanimity the

people of Mexico must, in the end, prove victorious,
under a leader who has heretofore acted and spoken
like President SANTA ANNA. The proclamations of
that valiant commander are lit up with the glory of
patriotism. And the Mexicans are at length be-
coming conscious that with such a captain they may
set the forces even of the United States at defiance ;
for, as he himself observes, " How shall eight or ten
thousand Americans prevail against the decision of
eight millions of Mexicans ?" Yes, that is unques-
tionably the palladium under which Mexico can alone
be sheltered—the decision and the unanimity of eight
millions of her children. And these children, as we
have just remarked, are awakening to a knowledge of
the medium through which they can alone hope for
the salvation of their nationality. They have wel-
comed SANTA ANNA with enthusiasm through-
out his march upon the capital, where a re-
volution had filled the streets with tumult and
thrown the detested Government of GOMEZ
FARIAS into confusion. One of the American cor-
respondents has in a sarcastic vein literally depicted
the rejoicings which upon authentic information
actually accompanied the Commander-in-Chief during
his progress towards the city of Mexico, when he
says, " No Knight on his return from the Holy Land,
scarred with sacred wounds, and bearing the crescent
banner of the defeated infidel, ever received more
homage from the people of the middle ages than did
the Mexican hero." And the consequence of this
exultation has been the formal installation of SANTA
ANNA in the chair of Presidency.
President SANTA ANNA has nobly inaugurated his
new Government by publishing proclamation such
as is best calculated to rouse the hearts, the valour,
and the affections of the most effeminate community.
" Mexicans !" he cries aloud, " Mexicans! have you
a religion ? Protect it. Have you honour ? De-
liver it from infamy. Do you love your wives and
your children ? Rescue them from American bru-
tality." That is the exordium of his bold and stir-
ring appeal. He tells his countrymen that they are
the arbiters of the fate of Mexico ; "if it is to be
defended," he continues, "you will be those who will
have to stay the triumphant march of the enemy that
occupies Vera Cruz : let him advance one step
further, and the national independence will be hurled
into the abyss of the past !" Having thus warned
them of the perilous position in which the
nation is placed, he confesses that his duty
is to offer himself as a sacrifice, and assures
them that he will evince his readiness to fulfil that
duty. SANTA ANNA then closes his proclamation
with these imFassioned words of adjuration—words
that should make the heart's blood of every true Mexi-
can leap with a respondent enthusiasm through his
veins—" I speak to you," he exclaims, " for the last
time; for GOD'S sake believe me. You must not hesi-
tate between death and slavery ; and if the enemy
shall vanquish you, at least let your resistance be re-
spected. It is now time that there should be no
thought but for the common defence. The hour of
sacrifices has struck. Awaken I the tomb opens
at your feet. Win a laurel that it may be
reared over it. But the nation will not perish ; I,
I will answer for the triumph of Mexico, nay, will
swear for the result, if a unanimous and sincere co-
operation shall only second my desires. Vera Cruz
cries for vengeance; hasten to wipe out the stain of
her dishonour." Every one with a generous sense
of thedignity of patriotism and the love of nationality
will sympathise with the noble and valorous lan-
guage in which this Mexican chieftain conjures his
fellow-citizens to rally round his banner.
As yet, ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA, Com-
mander-in-Chief of the Mexican army, and President
of the Mexican Republic, has fully equalled our most
sanguine anticipations. May he bring them to a
happy and glorious consummation.

Whilst the present exorbitant rates of purchase
continue to prevail throughout the entire provision
market of the United Empire, we may expect that,
so long as Parliament shall continue its vocations,
there will be almost nightly, in one House or the
other, questions put by different Members, and state-
ments made to them in reply by the Government,
with respect to the present and future prospects of
food for the people. Mr. BAILLIE did not renew his
question last evening to the Premier for eliciting
whether the Ministry intend to recommend a prohi-
bition against the use of grain in the distilleries. But
Mr. HUME inquired of Lord Joint whether, consider-
ing the high prices of articles of general consumption,
a repeal of the duties on butter, bacon, and cheese
would occupy the attention of Ministers ; the
Hon. Member did not press for an imme-
diate answer, yet there is little doubt but that,
on Friday next, if not sooner, the head
of the Government will announce his views
as to the best course to be adopted for
insuring an adequate supply to the country
of the necessaries of life between this

and the gathering in of the coming harvest. As we
observed yesterday, the great point is to guard our-
selves to the utmost against any serious deficiency in
corn, inasmuch as its price regulates that of all other
edible commodities. In the House of Lords the Earl
of HARDWICKE last evening questioned the Marquis
of LANsDOWNE as to his knowledge of the quantity
of wheat in the country, and also as to his expecta-
tion of the quantity likely to be imported. The
President of the Council, in answer to the first ques-

tion, reminded the Noble Querist that the Govern-
ment had no organized means of obtaining more
accurate information than any other individual, and
that, therefore, he was not called upon to hazard an
opinion upon " a most perilous subject ;" but, from
the fact, that the quantity of corn brought into our
markets had not exceeded the amount offered for sale
during the corresponding period of the former year,
the Marquis inferred that, unless the harvest of
1846 was seriously defective, compared with the
preceding one, there must be a large stock in hand.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE then adverted to the
enormous amount of foreign corn imported since
January last, exceeding three millions of quar-
ters. lie said that in April alone Nse had
received 1,043,000 quarters that from the
United States we had obtained already 1,670,000
quarters and that, contrary to the opinions
of the Earl of HARDWICKE and Lurd ASHBURTON,
but conformably with "the opinion of those most con-
versant with the subject," there would be no
diminution in any future supply from America,
should we require it. This is very cheer-
ing intelligence, and completely squares with
the views which we yesterday submitted to
our readers. We repeat there is no real
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form the duties incidental to their properties for a
limited period only—whether the great experiment
is to be tried under every possible disadvantage, with
a legislative confession of a want of confidence in its
success, an expectation that it will prove a failure—
whether a direct encouragement is to be afforded to
its opponents to make the working of the law as mis-
chievous as possible, to aggravate its defects, and to
impair the effect of its more beneficial clauses in
order to strengthen the arguments against its re-
newal—whether the landlords are to be enabled to
take advantage of those portions which prevent relief
from being extended to occupiers of more than a
quarter of an acre of land, to compel the wretched
cottiers to give up their holdings in order to obtain
food for their families, and then,. after a brief period,
to withdraw the right in exchange for which those
holdings were surrendered, not only to leave
them as destitute as before, but also deprived of the
little means they had previously possessed. Surely
nu body of English gentlemen, possessed of the com-
mon feelings of humanity, and of a due sense ofl
what they owe to their own countrymen, can hesitate
as to their decision. The time of limitation still ap-
pears to be unsettled:; the amendment which was car-
ried limited the duration of certain parts of the Bill to
the Ist of August, 1848, and to the end of the then
next session of Parliament, while the subsequent
clause, which the confusion occasioned by the success
of that amendment rendered necessary, fixed the Ist
of September, 1850, as the day for their cessation.
Whatever may he the period on which the leaders of
the party (united only in their hostility to the Bill
and their desire to impair its efficiency) may finally
agree, it is impossible to suppose that when the prin-
ciple of out-door relief bas once been recognised and
sanctioned, in cases of extreme emergency, that the
system can ever be put an end to, even if they should
be reckless enough to make the attempt.
The House will also have to consider the important
question as to the area of taxation—whether the land-
lords are to be encouraged to clear their estates,
and to drive the paupers into the neighbouring towns.
and thus to impose on others the burdens for which
in justice and equity they should be themselves
responsible. The I 1 th clause, which was omitted
from the Bill on the motion of Lord STANLEY,
provided that " all expenses beyond a sum of fifteen
pence in the pound should be charged to the union
at large." This was the medium course adopted by
the Ministry between the conflicting claims of the
inhabitants of the towns and the rural districts. It
would have acted as a check against the land-
lords abusing the great powers conferred on them
and have taken away the inducement to banish the
poorer classes from their respective districts.
Probably the most important of the questions re-
served for consideration, however, is the quarter of an
acre clause ; by that clause, as it now stands, it is
enacted—

"That no person who shall be in the occupation of any
land of greater extent than the quarter of a statute acre shall
be deemed and taken to be a destitute poor person under the
provisions of the first recited Act, or of the Acts amending
the same, or of this Act; and if any person so occupying
more than the quarter of a statute acre shall apply for relief,
or if any person ( n his behalf shall apply for relief, it shall
not be lawful for any board of guardians to grant such relief
within or out of the workhouse, unless such applicant for
relief shall bring satisfactory proof that he has (at least ten
days previous to such application) surrendered to his reputed
immediate landlord, which surrender such landlord shall be
bound to accept, whatsoever right or title he may have had
to the occupation of any such land over and above the ex-
tent of one quarter of a statute acre."

Here we find a direct inducement held out, and
a means furnished to the landlords, by which they
will be enabled to crush their poorer tenants. This
is a cheap and easy substitute for the proceeding by
ejectment. If they desire to clear their estates,
it will no longer be necessary to put
the sheriff in requisition, to call in the aid of the
military to drive their tenants forth to perish on the
highways. No longer will the open act be neces-
sary, which generally provoked the public indigna-
tion and subjected the heartless and unfeeling land-
lord to well-merited odium and disgrace. He may
now proceed in a more effective manner. His mode
of action, though more secret, will not be less sure. He
need only withhold employment from the person he
desires to get rid of, and induce the neighbouring
squires to do likewise; he may distrain the goods, so
as to deprive the poor man of all his present re-
sources ; he may prevent him from obtaining work,
by which he could procure the means of livelihood.
He may cast him into prison under a civil bill decree,
so as to take from his helpless wife and children their
only supporter, and by these simple means compel
the surrender of his holding—nay, more, when the
torture has bad its effect, when the starving victim
has been forced to yield, when he has been driven
from the hut in which he was born, and which was
dear to him in all his sorrow, he is not even then
eligible: for relief. No matter how great may be his
exigencies, how pressing his necessities, although he
may be perishing at the very threshold of the work-
house, " it shall not be lawful to afford him relief
either in or out of the house unless he shall bring
satisfactory proof (query, what will be considered
satisfactory ?) that he has at least ten days
previous to such application surrendered
to his reputed immediate landlord whatsoever right
or title he may have had to the occupation of any
such land above the extent of a quarter of an acre."
He may starve in the midst of his family, but no dis-
cretion is permitted to the guardians. The deep
crime of having, within ten days, held more than a
quarter of an acre of land must close against him and
his all feelings of compassion. Most sincerely do
we hope that this monstrous provision may be ex-
punged. It formed no part of the original Bill, but
was introduced avowedly as a " landlords' clause," and
assented to by the Ministry, in the vain hope of the
landlords being thereby propitiated. Such a power
should not be entrusted to any body of men, and our
experience of Irish landlords does not enable us to
consider them as peculiarly trustworthy in such a
case. It is right that the full effects of the clause
and its probable results should be thoroughly under-
stood before it is finally assented to, and made part
and parcel of the law of the land.

The Suabian Mercury contains the following from
Stutgard of May 6 :—" Yesterday and last night
passed over tranquilly. On the night before and yes-
terday morning eighty persons were arrested, and
yesterday afternoon some others, who were uttering
seditious language. They who were arrested during
the riot are for the most part workmen, not belonging
to the town ; however, there also appear amongst
them some respectable inhabitants. It is probable
that amongst those arrested are many who were
attracted by curiosity to the spot where the riot took
place."

We learn from the Grand Duchy of Brunswick
that the disturbances in that country have ceased ;
but the buildings of the royal domain of Walkenreid
have been destroyed by fire, with large stores of
corn and potatoes. This is supposed to have been
done by incendiaries.

The Second Chamber of Darmstadt has decided
that children under nine years of age shall not be
allowed to work in the manufactories ; children of
from nine to twelve may be authorised by the police
to work for a period not exceeding eight hours each
day, and those between twelve and sixteen may work
ten hours. In the course of the debate on the mea-
sure it was stated that there are more than 10,000
children employed in the manufactories in the Grand
Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt.

Madrid journals of the sth instant have arrived.

Senor SALAMANCA read to the Chamber of Depu-
ties on the 4th his statement relative to the finances.
In the Budget presented by the Minister the receipts
of the last six months of 1847 are put down at
630,820,808 reals, and the expenses at 629,610,557
reals, 23,750,000 reals of which are put down under
the head royal household. The receipts of 1848 are
calculated at 1,257,780,466 reals ; the expenses at

. .
1,057,578,020, among which the royal household
figures for 47,500,000. The Bill relative to the
Sinking Fund Bank provides for the establishment of
a special department for the administration of the
state debt. On the same day the Chamber decided that
funeral honours should be paid to its deceased President
Senor C►STRO Y OROZCO. On the sth a royal de-
cree Was promulgated proroguing the Cortes. They
will not be again called together, it is said, until the
month of October. At a Cabinet Council held on
the 4th, the Ministers determined to advise her MA-
JESTY to consent to the marriage of Don ENRIQUE
with the daughter of the Marquis DE CASTELLAR,
but to refuse her consent to the marriage of one of

The public attention will be anxiously directed to
the proceedings of the House of Lords on Friday
next. On that day the report on the Irish Poor-law
Bill is to be considered. On that day it will be de-
cided whether the landowners of Ireland are to per-

THE SUN, LONDON, ViIEDNESDAr EVENING, MAY 12, 1847.

the sisters of Don ENRIQUE, who was about to be
united to an American gentleman.
On the evening of the 4th the QUEEN visited the
theatre, accompanied as usual by her uncle and cousin
—not by the KING. On her return some alarm was
created by a belief that two pistols had been fired
as her carriage was passing. It appears that loud
reports, as of firearms, were really heard close to the
carriage ; but the Heraldo says they were caused
by some heavy substance having passed over two
petards thrown by boys in the streets. On the sth
her MAJESTY left for Aranjuez, and was expected to
remain there for some time, going afterwards to La
Granja or the Escurial. The KING has determined
on remaining in Madrid during the whole of her
MAJESTY'S absence.

General BUTRON has been appointed Governor of
Madrid.

MADRID BOLSA, MAY s.—The Three per Cents. were
done at 31i for cash ; the Five per Cents, at 19i ; the Debt
without Interest at 5% ; and the Coupons at 16.

We have received the Paris papers of Monday.
The Moniteur publishes five royal ordinances,
countersigned by Marshal SOULT, containing the no•
minations of the new Ministers, which we published
yesterday. The journals remark that the ordinance
relative to the replacing M. LACAVE LAPLAGNE does
not contain the words, " whose resignation is ac-
cepted," which are applied to Admiral MecxAu and
General MOLINE DE SAINT Yox. The Dibats says
that M. JAYE and M. TREZEL have notified by tele-
graph their acceptance of the offices to which they
hare been appointed.

The Freeze continues its attacks on the Ministry,
between whom and the young Conservative party it
would appear that war is declared a routrance.
The following on the subject of the Cubieres affair
appears in the National:—
"It is probable that the prosecution of General Cubieres
will finish by an ordinance of non-lieu. Ilir letters are
merely an imprudent trifle; nothing was demanded, no-
thing promised, nothing given ; no corruption was prac-
tised, nor any attempt at corruption made. General Cubieres
never entertained so black a thought; when he wrote The
Government is in grasping and corrupt hands,' he only uttered
a foolish joke. The detailed account of this bargain is a
fantastic invention ; it was M. Parmentier that asked General
Cubieres to write him these fantasies to amuse his leisure
and his shareholders, and M. Cubieres, Lieut.-General, ex-
Minister of War, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, Se-
cretary of the Chamber of Peers, director of several in-
surance and railway companies, and member of several
learned societies, was weak enough to consent to spare time,
from his leisure moments, to scribble out this novel in letters.
A simple clause will cast blame on the imprudence of such
a proceeding, but it will be declared that there is not the
slightest trace of criminality. We are however warned
that if the National should be so unfortunate as to indulge
in reflections a little severe on the justice of the present
day, the Court of Peers thinks of condemning it to three
years' imprisonment and 10,000 f. fine at least! We are
thankful for the warning."
Intelligence has been received from Algiers up to
the sth instant. The utmost tranquillity exists in
the colony, and the spring tribute was being paid
with great regularity.
The frigate La Charte sailed from Toulon on the
6th for La Plata, where it will receive Admiral LE
PREDOUE, Commandant of the French station. The
Admiral, who wished to arrive quickly at his desti-
nation, took his departure some time ago in the
steam-frigate the Cassini. The greater part of the
passengers conveyed by La Charte are diplomatic
persons. The steam-corvette Gassendi, which formed
part of the station at La Plata, has received
orders to go to Otaheite. The corvette the Oise,
which lately sailed from Toulon for Bourbon, took out
a detachment of fifty gendarmes. The Prince DE
JOINvILLE remains at the Hyeres, with four vessels,
forming the first division of the squadron of evolu-
tion ; and Rear-Admiral DE TREHOUART, Command-
ant of the second division, whose flag is carried by
the Friedland, is with two frigates and several
steamers forming part of the division still in the road-
sted of Toulon. Queen CURISTINA was expected at
Toulon, and apartments had been prepared for her at
the Maritime Prefecture. A Government steam-
vessel will convey her Majesty to Naples.
It was stated in the Chamber of Peers on Monday,
by the Minister of Commerce and Agriculture, that
the prospects of the next harvest were extremely
promising. Notwithstanding this prospect, however,
the- markets continue to rise in various parts of
France.

The Mforme states that the price of wheat has
risen from SOc. to 2f. in all the markets in the neigh-
bourhood of Paris ; and at Bray-sur-Seine, lf. 66c.;
Vic-sur-Seine, 75c.; St. Quentin, lf.; Ligny, 2f.;
Rouen, If.; Versailles, lf. 33c. ; Orleans, lf. 50c.;
Meaux, 66c.; Provins, lf. 30c.; Chartres, lf.; Pont
St. Maxence, If. 33c.; Dourdan, lf. 50c.; Clermont;
If. ; Vernon, lf. 50c. ; Etampes, If.

General CUBIERES has resigned the Presidency o
the Council of Administration of the Paris and Stras•
burgh Railroad.

ills railroad from Orleans to Bourges is to be
opened early in July.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Monday at 77f. 95c. ; the Five per Cents., 115 f. 90c. ;
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,2360 25c. ; Rouen, 936 f. 25c.;
Avignon, 760 f. ;
Boulogne, 405 f. ;
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Basle, 1921. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 4201. ; Tours and
Nantes, 40.51. ; Paris and Lyons, 431 f. 25c. ; Lyons and
Avignon, 4451. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 440 f. ; Spanish Three
per Cents., 333 g.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Mar 11.
Boulogne and Amiens, 16 —Dutch Rhenish, 3%—Louvain
a la Sambre, V.—Luxembourg, I%—Lyons and Avignon
(Constituted), 2%—Namur and Liege, 3%—Northern of
France, 1134—Paris and Lyons, 4 Vs—Paris and Strasbourg,
1 4—Tours and Nantes, 1.

WHITIIIINTIDE HOLIDAYS.—Lord John Russell gave
notice last evening that on Friday, May 21, he should
move the adjournment of the House till Friday, the
28th instant.

ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO ASSAS

SINATE QUEEN ISABELLA.

Our advices from Madrid, which extend to the sth
instant, are of some interest. On the evening before, as
the Queen, with the Infante Don Francisco de Paula
and the Infanta Donna Josefa, was returning from the
Prado in her carriage, and, passing the Custom-house,
two detonations took place. Various conjectures were
formed on the subject. According to many persons, in-
cluding our correspondent, two pistols, or a double-
barrelled one, were fired at her Majesty ; but those con-
nected with the Court and Government professed to
believe that it was nothing but the explosion of a couple
of crackers fired by two boys. The Queen is represented
by the Tiempo to have been so little alarmed that she
would not suffer her carriage to be stopped ; but, on
reaching the palace, she summoned the Ministers to her
presence, and ordered an immediate inquiry into the
occurrence, the result of which was the cracker version.

" Yet," adds the Tiempo, "her Majesty ought always
to hare an escort when she drives out, in order that she
may not be exposed to such annoyances."—Post.

THE LORD-LIEUTENANT OF
IRELAND.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

In the Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday the sales
were 3,000 bales, including 2,500 bales American, at 6d. to
71/2d. The market was flat, and %d. per lb. lower than on
Monday, for American.
Railway Shares drooped again, and were only saleable at
lower rates generally.
The few letters received from the United States by way of
Havre, notice a further rise in the rate of exchange. ou
London to 106% and 107. The probable conclusion of peace
was expected to make the Money Market easier.
The Indigo sales have been going off flatly, at lower prices
than in February, and colonial Wools are also cheaper, but
in Sugar, &c., there has been more doing, partly for distil-
lation, as regards the article named.
The English Securities have risen again to-day, but there
is still very little doing either for Money or next Account,
the " continuation" to which is about % per cent.
Consols have realised 86% % for present trans-
fer, and 8634 to 87 for the 27th instant. Exchequer-
bills have been rather lower, viz., 2s. to ss. premium.
If trade becomes rather brisker, these are the securities which
it will probably be most advantageous to sell, now Stocks are
so depressed to what they were when a large number of the
present holders took them. The New Three-and-a-Quarter
per Cente. have realised 87 to 87%. Bank Stock has been
quoted 189 to 190, and India Stock 242.
The Foreign Investments have been dull again. Portu-
guese Four per Cents. 341/2, and Spanish Five per Cents. 22.
Belgian Two-and-a-Halt per Cents have realised 53, and
Datch Four per Cents 88.
In Railway Shares there has been only a limited business
doing.
tiIIITISII FUNDS.

ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock .. •• •• 189 190 190
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities 85%T. 85
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. 86% ji 87
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 87% 87 87,A 874
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860
.. 9 9
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. 9 94
India Stock .. .. • •• .. 242 242
India Bonds, 1,0001.
Ditto, mider 1,000/. ..
South Sea Stock ..
Consols for May 27
Exchequer Bills.
1,0001...
5001.
Ditto, Small

5p
961
•• ••
1•d. ••
2886%% 87 87%
- .... 352 5 p 1 p
.... 62p 1p
- •• .• 85 p 5p
ONE CLOSINi.
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Danish, 3 per Cent -. .• • • •• 81% 82% 82%
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 83 83
Ditto, Four per Cent .• • • .. 3434 34
Spanish Bonds. 5 per Cent .. 22 22
Ditto, for the Account .. .. 2254
Ditto, Passive Bonds .. 4%
Ditto, Three per Cent 331%
Ditto, for the Account .. 3334
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent .. 91 91
Ditto, Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 53 53
Dutch Two-and-a-Halt per Cent .. 57% 34 5734
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 88 854
BUSINESS
CLOSING
PAID. DONE AT
PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.
Aberdeen.. .. .. 30 .... 23 24 24
Amber., Notting., Boston, and
Eastern Junction .. • • 2% .... 114 134
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 10 .... 1614 % ...... 16%
Boston, Stamford, & Birmingham 5 .... • • 5 4
Buckinghamshire .. 61. 4s .... It 4 di5..... dis.
Caledonian .. .. • • •• .... 2334% 231
Chester and llolyhead 2734 .... 20 4.. • • 204
Eastern Counties .. .. • • •• 20 • • 18%3A % 14%
Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61. 13s. 4d. p
Ditto, ditto.. .. .. No. 2. 6/. 13s. 4d. 334 p., 34 p
Ditto, York Extension .. .. 6 4 ....
East Lancashire .. .. • • .. 17 .... .......
Ditto New 734 .. • 6 ........ •• 5%
East Lincolnshire .. 634...• 7% .. •• •
Ely and Huntingdon .. 15 .... 14% •. • 14%
Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester .. 294 .. 14 114
Great Northern .. • . . • 31 •. •• •• 234
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 30 .... 2434 ••2434
Great North of England ...100
Ditto, New .. .. • • • • 5 .... 583{ . 5B
Ditto, New .. .. • • . 25 613'4 6134
Great Western 85 ....110 11 1 . 111
Ditto, Half Shares .. • . .. 50 .... 65 ...... •• . 65
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 1234 .... 1534 1534
Ditto, 'Fifths 20 .... 25% 25
Ditto, New .. 434 ... • 734
Hull and Selby .. .. •• 50 . . .
Ditto, Half Shares .. 25 .... 5034
Leeds snot Bradtbrd • . • • .. 40 .... ...... •• •
Leeds and Thirsk 26 .... 1934 20 . . 2O
IDitto, New .. •• .. 10 .... 534
London and Blackwell .. 16/. 13s. 4d. 7%34
London, Brighton, and S Coast.. 50 .... 51 50% 5134 51 4
London and North-Western ..100 .• • .17134 172 l7l
Ditto, Quarters .. L. and B. 7 ....
Ditto ditto, New Shares .. .. 2 .... 1134
Ditto, Fifths .. 2 .... 1534 1534
Ditto, 10/. Shares M. &B. (C) 1
London and South• Western 411. 6s. 10d... 6034 6134...... 6134
Ditto, New Consol. Eighths .. 40 .... 44% 45
Ditto, Tenths (Consolidated) • • 50 .... 52 • 51%
Ditto, Scrip.. .. • • .. 5 .. 4% 44
Manchester and Leeds .. • • 82 .• 100 y,
Ditto, Thirds (Keg.).. 45..... par •• • • par
Oildland ..100 ....11434 ...... •. • • 114%
Ditto, New .. 36 38 4% ... 3834
Ditto, New .. .. • • 6 .. ••..• . • .
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 100 89 ...... • •
Newcastle and Berwick .. 20 .. • • 21% 25 .. 25
Ditto, New .. .. • • • • .5 •• . •• . 6%
Norfolk .. • • .. • • • • ..100 • • ..123 12114 123 123
North British .. .. • • •. 25 .... 304 30 .-
Ditto, Quarter Shares •.• • 34 ...• ••• • .• 3%
Ditto, Extension • • • • .. 0% .....
Ditto, Thirds .. • . 1 .. • . 2% % ..
North Staffordshire .. 734 .... 9% 9 • . 9
Ditto Scrip (late Churnet and
Blythe) • . 2 .... 234 % ........ 2%
Preston and Wyre.. .. 25 .... 3434 % ........ 34%
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 5 .... 4%
Shrews bury and Birmingham .. 334 34•••• • • • • • • 3 A
Ditto, Class B •• • • 3 •• • • I ••••• • • • • • 2
Shropshire Union 425. .......... 2 dis
South Devon .. .. 40 .... 2834 29 ...... 29
South Staffordshire 2L 125... 114 dis.. .... 1 dis.
South Eastern and Dover 3334 .... 3534 36
bo., New (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 4%
West Riding Union • • • • .. 41.25..... par.. .. .. par
Windsor. Staines. &S. Western.. 425..... 1 p
York and Newcastle 25 ........ 345{
Ditto. New.. .. .. 10 .... 14 ..........
Ditto, Preference .. .. 4 .... 634 % ........
York and North Midland .. 50 .... ..........
Ditto, Preference .. .. 2 .... 9;4 ..........
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens .. .. 20 .... ........
Dutch Rhenish .. 7 .... 334
Lyons and Avignon (Constituted) 5 .... 2 434
Namur and Liege .. 10 .... 4
Northern of France .. • • 8 .... 11% .
Paris and Lyons .. 8 ....
Paris and Rouen ..

DUBLIN, MAY 10.—The following bulletin was issued this
morning, nor has any more favourable reply being given to
inquiries at the Castle all day :

_
" Monday, May 10.
" his Excellency had a disturbed night, and is not so well
this morning."

"PHILIP CRAMPTON.
WM. STOKES.
J. F. PURCELL."

MARICET.—The premium on gold at Paris
is 16 per mille, which, at the English Mint price of 34 17s.
1014 d, per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of
25.55; and the exchange at Paris on London at short being
25.90, it follows that gold is 1.35 per cent. dearer in London
than in Paris. By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold
iA 4:351] per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s.
101/2d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of
13.10 ; and the exchange at Hamburgh OR London at short
being 13.11, it follows that gold is 0.34 per cent. dearer in
London than in Hamburgh. The course of exchange at New
York on London is about 105 k per cent., and the par of ex-
change between England and America being 109 23-40 per
cent., it follows that the exchange is 4.08 per cent. against
England. But the quoted exchange at New York being for
bills at 60 days' sight, the interest must be deducted from
the above difference. And from the present high rate of dis-
cdunt here, and the increased charges for insurance, the above
apparent profit on exporting gold would be absorbed by the
costs.

PRICES OF
RAILWAY SHARES.

3Gh

A MAD SIIBBP.—About two months ago a little
terrier dog, at Cluny Castle, having been discovered to be in
a rabid state, it was found necessary to kill him; but this
was not effected before: he had done considerable damage,
though, we are glad to learn, to none of the human species.
It appears he had gone into a
Nvethers were being park in which about forty
fed upon turnips, killed ons, and bit
other sir, live of w Lich:were so severely injured, that they
were immediately destroyed. As the sixth had only re-
ceived a slight scratch on one of the hinder legs, it was
allowed to take its chance. In a very short time the wound
was completely
animal was none the worse for it. A few days ago, how-
healed up, and, to all appearance, the
ever, the shepherd, on going into the park with some hay
for his flock, was surprised to observe the wether referred
to chasing the others most furiously, leaping on such as
he s
he could overtake, and exhibiting all the symptoms
rabidness. In the words of our informant, "he acted the
dog as well as could possibly be done by any other animalo
not of the canine race." This the poor animal continued to
do for about two hours after it was first observed, and at last
lay down from sheer exhaustion, an
foaming at the mouth,
even imitating the barking of a dog. It was then destroyed.
Dundee Advertiser.

matter, as he considered there was not a sufficient
amount of food for the population of this country till the
coming harvest. He wished to know if the Noble Lord
opposite (the Marquis of Lansdowne) whether he was of
the same opinion, and whether he expected there would
be a sufficient supply from foreign countries. As far as
he (Lord Hardwicke) could collect information on this
head, on the continent of Europe there was little to be
hid. Poland, and the countries on the banks of the
Danube, had but very limited stocks; the same was the
case in the countries on the Mediterranean and Black
Sea; their only hope Witk: America, and there the proba-
bility of a supply was very small. If this were so, the
prospect was very dismal for this country, and he hoped
the greatest economy and care would be practised by all
classes, in order that the country might be carried
through this trying period. It behoved all classes to cut
down every useless and superfluous luxury—that the
wheat would be ground up as a whole—and that ne
starch would be used. He trusted, also, that the landed
gentry, would use their influence in their respective
counties, so that measures might be taken to keep the
corn from leaving the country.
Lord CAMPBLL said the consequence of the course
taken by the Noble Earl would be to excite what were
called meal mobs in Scotland.
The Earl HARDWICKE meant to do no such thing,
but he thought it his duty to bring the matter promi-
nently before the notice of their Lordship:. The Noble
Earl sat down by asking the queation whether the Noble
Marquis could state the supply of food in the country,
and also what was the quantity that might be expected
from foreign countries ?
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said, in answer to the
Noble Earl, who had no doubt felt it his duty to bring
this subject before their Lordships, that Noble Earl
would admit that he (the Marquis of Lansdowne) would
exercise a sound discretion if he abstained, both on the
part of himself and her Majesty's Governmen
trona asserting anything like an opinion
which would have the effect of misleading the
people or the trader. The Noble Earl had said truly
that the Government had no organised machinery by
which they could become acquainted with the amount of
corn in the country. Every individual has the same
means of collecting information as he himself had or as
her Majesty's Government possessed on this matter, and
perhaps no one was a more likely authority on such a
subject for extensive and accurate information than the
individual to whom the Noble Earl had alluded. He did
not feel it proper to give any opinion on the sufficiency
of the amount of corn at present. But thus . much he
might say in answer to the Noble Earl, that since the
end of harvest last year there had not been brought
into this country very much more corn than was im•
ported during the corresponding period last year ; so
that unless last harvest was short there must be a
considerable quantity of the corn of last harvest
still in the country. Yet, for the satisfaction
of the Noble Earl, he could state to him the enor-
mous amount—the increasing amount up to to this mo-
ment of importation of corn into this country. Up to
this present moment the importation of corn was, for
January 661,000 qrs.
February
March
April
thereby indicating that in proportion to the increased
amount of demand, and the press of that deficiency of
which at the early part of this year the people of this
country had but little warning, there had been a cor-
responding amount of importation to meet that defi-
ciency. The same average amount of importation con-
tinued throughout the year would make an annual
importation of 9,000,000 of quarters. There was ano-
ther source of satisfaction to the Noble Earl, showing
the complete command of the market of the world which
this country had enjoyed ever since men understood
that no interference would take place with the course of
trade. Since that an increasing and unceasing action
had been kept up, and since that, it had been well
known that other countries had laboured under the
same evil—that in these large countries there had been
an increasing demand, so that the exports from the
United States to the whole of the world was 2,170.000
quarters. and of that amount no more than 500,000
quarters found their way into the rest of the world,
leaving to this country more than four times the
amount which had been sent to the rest of the nations.
—(Hear, hear.) And, whilst he made this statement,
he might add that he had no reason to apprehend that
that supply from America was likely to diminish ; but,
on the contrary, it was the opinion of those most likely
to be well-informed, that not only should we ensure the
receipt of all the corn in America which had been des-
tined for this country, but we might also ensure a
portion of the corn which had originally been intended
for other countries. These were the only points on
which he thought it his duty to make any communication
to their Lordships, and he would only add that the state
of the markets and the state of this country were such
as to render it imperative on all persons, so far as their
influence, power, and authority extended, to inculcate as
a matter of feeling, as well as a matter of policy,
principles of the strictest economy with regard to the
consumption of food.—(Cheers.)
Lord ASHBURTON said the question was of the
greatest importance in every point of view, but the reply
of the Noble Marquis appeared to be less satisfactory to
him than it did to the Noble Earl ; for the additional
supply of food to which he had referred had had little
or no effect upon consumption, upon demand, or upon
prices. The Indian corn crop was gathered late, and
therefore there might be some quantity yet to come
here, but he feared that the same observation would not
apply to the wheat crops of America ; and the northern
countries of Europe were in a little better condition than
this country both with regard to the potatoes and green
crops.—(Hear.) He called there Lordships' attention
to these things in order that they might see the exact
nature of the state of the country, and in order that
they might know the exact nature of the calamity with
which they had to deal. Evidence of the high price
and scarcity of food was to be found in the fact that
wheat was quoted at 120 s. a quarter. At the same time,
however, that he feared there was a great deficiency in
the country, he was by no means of opinion that the
Government should impose restrictions upon the export
of grain.. 7( I lear).
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. ,
Lord BROUGHAM said that nothing could be more
ungenerous than attempts to conceal the fact of any scar-
city of food existing in the country. Had timely notice
been given, it might have prevented a dearth from be-
2oming a famine, by putting all classes of the commu-
nity upon their guard. Much credit was due to the
Noble Earl for having drawn attention to the subject.
Hs agreed it would be extremely undesirable to inter-
fere with the export trade, by attempting which he
thought they would under present pressure defeat the
very object they had in view.
SOUP KITCHENS (IRELAND.)
Earl FITZ WILLIAM wished to know if the Govern-
ment were in possession of information of how far the
Act, known in Ireland as the Soup Kitchen Act, had
been put in operation ?
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, who was nearly in-
audible in the gallery, was understood to say that the
Government were Aot in posession of that positive infor-
mation which would justify them in laying it before the
House.
Earl FITZ WILLIAM said that the object of his re-
turn was to ascertain the number of male and female
paupers who had been relieved, what had been the ex-
pense within certain periods, and what districts of the
poor-law the rates had been levied for the purpose. He
should move for those returns on Friday next.
The Earl of CLANCARTY hoped that the Noble
Earl would include in those returns one also of the
voluntary contributions which had been made for the
same purpose.
THREATENING LETTERS.

On the motion of Lord DENMAN the House went
into Committee on the Threatening Letters Bill. It
passed through Committee, and the report WAS ordered
to be brought up on Friday.
B ELG AVE CHAPEL.

Lord MONTEAGLE, in rising to present a petition
rom the Rev. Dr. ThDrpe on the appointment of a
chaplain to this chapel, regretted that it had not fallen
into the hands of some person more competent to do it
justice, and discarded every supposition that, in the
remarks which he might make upon the Right Rev.
Prelate, whose conduct was brought in question, he had
not the slightest personal feeling. Had the question
touched upon, by this petition, been of a spiritual
nature, he should not have felt it to be his duty to bring
it before their Lordships; but the question waspurelyof
a secular character; and, therefore, it was perfectly: in
the province of a lay Lord to introduce it to the
House. The petition he had to present was
signed by a highly-respectable reverend gentleman
whom he did not know personally, but who,
it was represented to him was a gentleman or undoubted
respectability. Now this gentleman, on applying to a
Right Reverend Prelate for an appointment which was
at the time vacant in the church was told by that Right
Reverend Prelate that he was not eligible to the appoint-
ment, because he was an Irish clergyman. He should
not have made objection to the refusal had it been
founded upon spiritual defects in the applicant.
The
Church of Ireland contained the names of some of the
most illustrious men to be found in connexio►with
the churches of' both c 0 1e
hear.) n
It was
too much to say that an Irishman could not
hold a curacy in London at the very time
when the Bishop placed nearly at the head of the
church of Ireland was an Englishman, who had seen
little or nothing of Ireland—(Hear, hear)—and many
Englishmen held high offices in the Irish church: it wits-
not unlike what the late Sir Roach Boyle had said,
namely—that all the mutuality was on one side.—
(Laughter.) When Lord Plunkett was elevated to the
bench a cabal was formed ag,tainst him much similar to
the one which he was now discussing; but he overcame
it, and at the time the bar of England refused to consent
to the elevation of Lord Plunkett to the judgeship of the
Rolls Court, Sir Anthony Hart was sent over t
over one of the highest Equity Courts in Ireland.--
(Hear, preside
(Hear, hear.) There was no safety for
Ireland,
for one hour if the Protestant Episcopal Church of Ire-
land, as specified in the Act of Union, was to be consi-
dered a separate instead of a similar and sister esta•
blishment with the Protestant Church of England. Why
the Act of Union expressly
stated that the Protestant
Church of both countries should be asssinailated, and
that they should be called the United Protestant
Churches of England and Ireland. But of all times this
was the most inexpedient to endeavour to draw invidious
distinctions between the two Churches. And then no
Church had so much imp roved as the Irish Church dur-
ing the last five and twenty
when the
Still further, was this
inexpedient at a timeand the Catholic priest had Protestant clergyman
associated
together for the
purpose of assuaging theto the
sufferings of the Irish people.
—(licar). An objection tliff'e
of Dublin
between the
course of instruction in the Colleges Dublin and of
Oxford and Cambridge, though at first one might think
of some importance, could nottatvaic
avail, as the ]tight Rev.
Prelate had himself admitted that
study in the Protestant College oft Ireland course °freligious
as superior
to that pursued in the English Universities. lie trusted
that nothing ho had said might be construed into offence