The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-07 00:00:00

ONE CLOSI.N
O'CL.OOS. PRICES,

FOREIGN FUNDS
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Deferred ..
Ditto. Three per Cent _
Ditto, for the Account 33%
DividendA or. the above payable in London
Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent ..

?RILES OF
RAILWAY SHARES.

BUSINESS
PAID. DONE AT CLOSING
ONE O'CLOCK. "IC k'' •

Aberdeen.. 30 • _
Bristol and Exeter .. .. 75 .... 71 ........ 71
Buckinghamshire 61. 45.... 144 di5..... • 6 dis,
Eastern Counties .. 20 . 1914 94 ...... • . 19%
Ditto, York Extension 734 .... 6%... 6U.
East Lancashire .. .. • • • . 17 •• • • •• -
Ditto New .. 714 -
East Lincolnshire 64 ...•
I,..dinburgh ..nd Glasgow 59 .
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 1234.... 17 .......
Ely and Huntingdon .. 15 ..
Great Northern .. 3%
Great North of England . —lOO ....
,treat Western .. 85 -
Ditto, ,ew 444...•
llud.lersfleld and Manchester .. lb .... 19 .......
Leeds and Bradford .40 86
Leeds, Dewsbury. & Manchester 3234 .
Leeds and Thirek .. 26 .... .........
Ditto, Preference 6 per Cent... 334....
..........
London. Brighton, & ,out:. Coast 50 •• 5334 34
/-01111011 North-Western . • 00 .• • • 176 177
Ditto, QviarteriF
D tto ditto, New Shares • • .. 2 .... .....
Ditto. 101 shares M. & it. (C) 1 „.„
LoLdon and South. Western 411. Os. 10d... ..........
Ditto. New 2734.... 29 ,
Ditto, Tenths (Consolidated) •• 50 • • • • ... . 5
Ditto. .. .. 5
Lynn and Ely .. 25 .... 264 • • 26
Lynn and Dereham .. 20 .... 204 .....
:'lanchester 111,1 Leeds .. • • s 2 . _
Ditto, Thirds (Keg.).. .. —7l. 4a... ••••• • • • •• 14 dis,
Manchester and Southampton .. 2
A.diand
..100
Ditto, New • .. .. 36
Ditto, New .. 6 .... 83444 ........
Do., Cousol. Bristol and Birin.
Six per Cent. .. • • —lOO .. • • 127 128........ 128
Newcastle and Berwick .. 20 •. • —•••-• • • .. •4634
1 'its°, New .. .. • . 5 714 6%
Norfolk .. . ..100 •• .. 1284 .... • • 128
North British ~ •• 25 32 •• • • 3174
Ditto, Half Shares .. • • • • 124 ..........
1), Li°, t.xtensiun .. .. ..........
Ditto, Thirds ..
North Staffordshire 7%.... 94 %..
Oxford, Wor'ster. & Wolverhamp. 224.... 13%4 ...•
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 5 .. • • 534 ..........
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 334 ........
Ditto. Class B .. • • .. .. 3 ....
South Staffordshire • . • . .. 21. 125...
south Wale, .. • • •• •• •• 10 •• .•
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and
Goole .. 2 .... 1 • ........
West Riding Union • . • • .. 4/.25....
Windsor, Staines, &S. Western,. 425.
Wilts. Somerset, and Weymouth 20 .... ..........
York and Newcastle .. .. 25 .... 3734 34
Ditto, New.. .. .. 10 15 ..........
Ditto, Preference 4 ....
York and North Midland .. .. 50 ....
Ditto. Preference • . 6 -

qi...... ....

232 .....

.......
_llB 119......

177

1:9-
40%
8%

2%
134
by.

.. .. 2%
•• •• •• • .• % dis,

% dis
P
1114
379 i
15
7

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Namur and Liege .. • .. 10 .... •.•• •• •
Nortn,rn or France .. .. • • 8 .... 12% •••• • . • •
Paris and Rouen .. .. • • .. 20 .... 37 ;(, ....
Paris and Strasbourg .. .... 4 . .....
Rouen and Havre . .. 20 ....
Sambre and Meuse .. 14 ....

MINES.

Real del Monte, Unrezistered -TT: •. • • 3U •• • • ••• • .

PROTEST AGAINST THE THIRD
READING OF THE FACTORY BILL.
1. B,cause any legislative restraints imposed on the
freedom of adult labour is inconsistent with all sound
principle, and with the successful development and ade-
quate mward of industry.
2. Because a limitation by law of the hours of labour
must diminish the profits of capital or the wages of the
workmen ; or may probably lead to both these results:
in one case discouraging the application of capital to the
production of wealth, in another pressing severely on the
comforts of the labouring classes ; and in both cases
tending to check the progress of important national in-
terests.

3. Because, so far as such interference with industry
raises prices. it must Lecessarily abridge the command
which the consumer possesses over the comforts and ❑e-
ce.,saries of life, whilst at, the same time wages ,utfer
depression, thus subjecting the working classes► to the
doutile evil of lesstaied receipt and of increased expen-
diture.

T 4. Because
this Bill is no less opposed to all sound
pr.neiple than to all experience ; the periods during
which fluctuations of trade compel manufacturers to
work short time being invariably periods of depression
and privation to the working classes, and there appear-
ing no prat- . ical difference between a legislative 'educ-
tion of the hours of labour and that which results from a
reduc-ion of demand, excepting that the one ppweeils
from causes which cannot be con:toiled, whilst the other
is the grstuitoes act o' the supreme 1(4,44 of the State.
5. BeeilUS, at a time when so vast a pinion of British
industry is dependent on foreign trade, to impose .41 our
home producers artificial restraint, from which their
rival. abroad are exempt, is to create an overwhriminv
ano fatsi competition against ourselves, placing at risk
our greatest interests. finrncial as well as commercial
6. Because if the productiveness of capAal invested in
domestic manufae:ures is lessene by unwise laws, this
change cannot fail to operate as a bounty upon the
transfer of capital-to foreign countries—a trans'er injii
rious to the British producer and consumer, to tie Bri-
tish labourer and to the employer of labour.
7. Because at all times when di ficient harvests or
other causes render an increase d supply of fowl requisite
from abroad, an enhancement of the cost of our manu-
factures must likewise enhance our difficulty in paling
for an imposed too 5, tending to tore an export of but
lion, deranging our currency, and endangering public
and private credit.
8. Because us the restraints of this Bill apply f-xelu-
sively to labour in factories, whilst labour infinitely
more severe and injurious to health is left without allele-
vim restriction, the consequence must not be not to
improve, but to deteriorate the physical condition of th,‘
working classes.
9. B-cause the enactments of this Bill are founded on
the fallacy that it lies within the competency of Parlia
ment to give a better protection to workmen in their in-
dustry than is derived from their own reason and intel-
ligence, and must also encourage the dangerous delusion
that the interests of the employers and the employed are
necessarily opposed and conflicting ; requiring the pro-
tection of the law for the regulation of hours of work,
the amount, profits, and the rate of wages—matters de-
pending upon principles which no direct legislation can
reach, and with which no Legislature can intermeddle,
consistently either with sound policy or with justice.
10. Because the enactment of the Bill, while appa-
rently limited to the labour of children and young per-
sons, practically restrains the profitable employment of
adult labour.

MONTE A GLE of Brandon,
ASH BU RTON,
RADNOR, •
FOL EY,
WROTTE SLEY.

WEATHER AND CROPS.--A most favourable seed
season was followed, in the early part of May, by un-
seasonable cold weather, by which the bloom of garden
and field was thrown at least a fortnight behind. Within
the last ten days, however, the sun has shone out with a
tropical lustre • the winds have been warm, and the
evenings of a delicious softness, particularly favourable
to vegetation. The crops are everywhere described as
most promising. Wheat and oats were at one time be-
hind, but the extraoidinary warmth has now brought
them well up. In gardens the crops nf vegetables are
abundant and early ; and the earlier kinds are in con-
stant use at the table. So far a,: we can ascertain, no
Symptom of di, ease has a t bet n observed in the potato
crops, which, in the gv,rdens, present a rigorous appear-
auce.—Zaverness Courier.

THE CROPS.
TO THE EMTOR OF THE SUN.
Strt,—l think it is the duty of the press. after what
the people have suffered, to seize every oppo)tunity of
laying beti,re the public a correct statement of our
prospects with reference. to the crops. I believe there
are parties mean enough to gve a false appearance in
order to get up prices. Having recently travelled a
considerable breadth of country, I am hound to say,
never, perhaps, were we blest with such a rich pro-
mise of a h,:untiful harvest. And as to the potato
disease of which v‘e hear so much, I believe it exists
more in the imagination than in fart.

Let us thank God, and take courage. A better
day is coming.—Yours,

A CONSTANT READER.
Rochdale, June 4, 1847.

TO THE EDIrOR 0F THE SUN.

SIR —The dawning of elective commotion again
begins to arrive—music mid the r.,bhle parading the
streets, flags displaying, the " minions of corrup-
tion," at work in alinoar every street ; and in the
pot houses and way-side innumerable instances of
intoxication and debauchery—these are the elements
which already present themselves in this borough
anticipating the approach of a disso.lution of the
Commons. The price, likewise, passed as current
as at. a shamble, at 201 to 2.5/. Itt-all2, ! the cont.-m-
-plation of such Acene4, as the sources of our Legis-
lation is enough to disgust any reasonable mind in
the ninereenth century. Our inference presents
its, If strongly to notice, in respect of the deport.
'tient of ca.iiiiidates for sears ; viz. that those who buy
must sell, and that Halls of Westminster vie with
the Exchange. Be as it may, such a state of things
is too bad, as rfgards the public credit, their morals,
and their welfare, in this enlightened age.
I merely pass these hints, trusting the press may
give it notice, if possible check the spreading evil,
and most urgently the question, whether a better
state of things cannot be obtained.
The basis of qualification is unquestionably both
• unjust and false. The press has its duties; and
begging your attention to it,
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
Penrvn awl Falmouth, W.
June 2, 1847.

TO Tllk EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—Thft Governmtnt introducrd a Railway Bill in
the bi ginning of tne session of such a nature, that the
railway dire ctors who could be assembled in town imme-
diately met, and had various intervieas with Lord John
Russell, the Chanceller of the Exchequer, and the Com-
missioners of Railways. That Bill was withdrawn; but
another has been introduced, which stands for second
reading on Monday, the 7th inst., and which is not less
objectionable in priociple and in detail than the first.
In connexion with a large body of railway directors
aid proprietors, we have well con,idered the provisions
of this second Bill. In our view they tend so seriously
to endanger the security and to depreciate the value of
railway property, whine at the same time they so lime-
1, re with that freedom of action, which is indispenstible
to the efficient management of railways, that we feel it
to be our duty to invite 3ou to aseist us in opposing it
etf-ctually, and to urge your representativ, s in the
House of G.mmons to at,end there on Monday ni-xt,
and to protect the great interests at stake in that Bill.
We are, Sir, your very obedient servants,
G 14:0 It GEHUDSON,

Chairman of MidNA, ut Eastern Counties, &c.,
wa) Companies.
GEORGE CARR GLYN,
Chairman (.f Lono,_:n and North-Western Railway
Company.
CII A IILES RUS‘•ELL,
Chaim an of ,re>tt Wes -rn RAdway Company.
EDMUND DENIt,ON,
C.:airman of Grp-.it Noohern Railway Company.
J. J. HOPE JOHNS TONE,
Chzt: man cf ralthdon 311 Rotw.:y omoany.
JA ‘tEti MACG EG
('hArtnan itt E.ht..r, Rattvi-0,) ( (.mp,tny.
HENRY IiOUI.DsWORTiI,
Chuirloan of Man-t..,,r.p. A/Hi Leed, Railway CompaNy.
W. J. CHAP!.IN,
hiorman of Loodoil and South-Western Ri.tilway
Compkwy.
25, P.A.lniwent.:tre-t. Westtnin,er,

4th Ju.. 1847

THE POTATO CtiOPS.
T— AD11•401? t!F I lib, SV.N.
Sin,-1 int, nth try of la) Jog bt ture you a rcw
f.et, repr,,ing tne polatt, crops in this part of ti.e
cowirr

This morning a oraefical f.thnirr in the upper knds of
Ilfr-W,hire, who Not sevt rely Iron) the tututo
tiisrns:- or last se-,son. t.:ld tut- that to pla,,ted this
sea,tm ten kiere a,ti a hale, t:tid in s I his t xperienee ns s
;lirmer he had n, v r se, n do. p tat.. I, nk so well, so
Leah hy,nd su v,go,,us tis it does this SPLLS:,(I.

veral l'arm,rs to this ne,ehhourhood all concur if,
that •heir prospects neve were mote cheerm,4,
and toe he4uti:ul w2atoer that has now st't in gives their
fi.ltis a healthy and fiesh appearance that hate was ex
;;enter: three w.. k, ago.
I mas also state that the gadens are Ltoking remark-
Mal% well; a v. ry large crop of apples, pear., and
berries are ci,lculated upon, as well as ail kinds of
Bard. n produce.

I have no int, rest vv htitcwr in giving you a good or :}
la,,d Import rugarding the rtato, olds in tit) tar as I have
suffer, din my business fr,n2 the failure in the crops, and
it is pleaiinz indeed to have to stay, that in lit•nfrew
slim., up to this date, lot the slightest a) tnptnm of tiq-
potat,, dist:use 114 s made its kppeuralice, so far as I have
heard.—l remain, it•ir, your ob. dicta servant.

- A CONSTANT READER.
P.S.—lt was in Renfrewshire last par where the
potato rot first made its appearance, and a shrewd ma:;
in the grain trade instantly set off for Ireland, bought
up gra;u largely at a kw figure, and realised a large
fortune; his brother, iu the same trade, is building a
coach house, and in a few weeks his wife and family will
roll in their carriage. Shame for Paisley! the grain
trade has enriched a Paisley body.
Paisley, 2d June, 1847.