The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-12 00:00:00

mount to the extinction of transportation. Indeed, most onerous and intolerable character, there is a
the statement is manifestly untrue, for the chic f I perpetual meddling with the manufacturer and trader.
feature of Sir G. Gaey's plan is, after they shall His premises are subjected to domiciliary visits at
have gone through a probationary trial in this coun- any hour of the day or night. No greater founda-
try, to send convicts more or less reformed to the tion is necessary than an anonymous accusation—the
colonies, where able-bodied labourers are much in de- whispered insinuation of some malignant coward,
mand, and always valuable. Whenever, in the in order to justify the intrusion. By reason of this
opinion of the authorities, the reformation iniquitous and
,atrocious code, and the abuses that
of the criminal shall be considered to be corn- have sprung up in its administration, the liberties of
plete by virtue of the prison ordeal he must first the people are infringed upon in a manner that could
pass through at home, he will not be deported, scarcely be credited, if the full enormities and abomi-
and policy and humanity seem to combine in favour nations of the system were revealed and exposed to
of such an arrangement. With respect to the point the public view. The Englishman's house is no
which is so keenly litigated in both Houses of Par- longer his castle ; it may with impunity be violated,
liament, viz., whether the mode in which it is pro- and all redress refused to the deeply injured and in-
posed substantially to vary and modify the sentences suited citizen, who, when complaining of the un-
passed by the judges should not have been submitted, warranted aggression, will be treated with contempt,
in the shape of a distinct Bill, for the approval of the and merely told it was all according to the rules and
Legislature, we are certainly of opinion that such a practice of the office, and that many better men had
course would have been the most constitutional and been detected in offending against the law. Our
desirable. At the same time the objection comes readers will not forget the manner in which Mr.
with no weight from the members of the late Mi- SMITH, a highly respectable legal practitioner,
nistry, seeing that Sir J. GRAHAM himself sanctioned was treated during the past year, or the
a suspension for two years of the transmission of neglect with which his able and indignant remon-
convicts to the colonies. strances were met, and all reparation for the insult

Foremost among the important reforms of the age
still remaining to be accomplished is, without one
moment's question, the establishment of an efficient
and practicable sanatory system. We are justified
even in giving it the priority to the legislative ar-
rangement anticipated in reference to the scheme of
National Education. Before the development of the
popular mind and the improvement of the general
morality can by possibility be effected, the physical
condition of the multitude must undergo a thorough
and comprehensive purification. Reason proves this
to be necessary. Common sense assures us that
persons habituated to filth are naturally familiarised
with moral and mental degradation. The sustaining,
and inciting, and purifying influences of life—the
myterious life breathed into the nostrils of man by
the ONINIFOTENT, and encompassed by the sublime
and elevating adjuncts of animate and inanimate
nature—are entirely lost and obliterated by the de-
generating accumulation of vicious practices and
general uncleanliness. According to the lyric
aphorism of the Roman poet, there can be no mens
sana excepting in the corpore sano. The health of the
body is an essential preliminary to the health of the
intellect, viewing the matter comprehensively. For,
although such individuals as ALEXANDER POPE have
proved the abstract rule by:,the exception, by pre-
serving an exquisite and imaginative intelligence in
the most fragile and debilitated frame, it is indis-
putable that disease obstructs the advancement of
knowledge, the more especially when it is accom-
panied and produced by domestic impurities. Every-
thing testifies to the necessity of a sanatory reform
as a preparative to an educational reform. Past expe-
rience and present experience alike demonstrate that
the way of the schoolmasters must he trodden out by
the preceeding footsteps of the sanatory commis-
sioners; that the bodily health of society must be
cared for before any effective movement can
be made for the mental elevation of the populace;
that cleanliness is the channel, as it were, along
which the fructifying waters of instruction should
flow; that the weeds, and the drought, and the
poisonous and aggregated foulness must be removed,
as it were, from the soil, before the seeds of know-
ledge and virtue can be sown with any reasonable
hope of a fruitful harvest.
Another great demonstration has just been made in
the metropolis for the purpose of egging the Govern-
ment on in that pathway of social improvement
which its members are evidently so well disposed to
traverse, but from entering which they have
hitherto been prevented by a variety of im-
minent and complicated difficulties. The de-
monstration to which we are alluding was a
numerous meeting convened on Thursday evening
in the apartments of the Statistical Society, St.
James's-square. As might be anticipated from any
similar assembly presided over by the Alarquis of
NoRMANBY, the convocation originated with the in-
defatigable Committee of the Health of Towns' Asso-
ciation. It is a gratifying circumstance to the many
millions of those who sympathise in the object of this
agitation that the original President of the society
should still maintain that must honourable position,
notwithstanding his extraordinary duties in Paris, as
Ambassador from the Court of VICTORIA. Lord
NORMANBY has nobly earned for himself the moral
dignity of the Presidentship of the Health of Towns'
Association, by his being himself the first se-
nator who undertook in the Upper House of
Parliament the advocacy of sanatory legislation.
Since the introduction of his memorable Bill the
Noble Marquis has persevered with the most assi-
duous enthusiasm in the promotion of the generous
cause of a general improvement in our more popu-
lous towns and citiea. SN'e are rejoiced, therefore,
that he found an opportunity for participating in the
meeting in St. James's-square during the interval of
his temporary sojourn in London, and that he in par-
ticular was elected chairman upon an occasion of
such paramount importance.

One consolatory fact is visible throughout the
whole of the agitation upon sanatory reform—from the
evidence adduced nine years ago before Mr. SLAINET'S
Committee, down to the last argument uttered by Dr.
SOUTHWOOD SMlTH—namely, that there is more una-
nimity evinced among our statesmen upon the merits
of this remarkable question than was evinced
until the eleventh hour upon any former questions of
reform—upon Parliamentary Reform, upon Catholic
Emancipation, upon the abrogation of the corn
enactments, or upon the Ten Hours' Factory Bill.
With a little patience we might readily enumerate
a couple of columns of the distinguished names of
those who are known to be most favourably disposed
towards the interference of the Legislature in the
condition of our most densely populated localities.
Nor is this surprising when it is remembered
how forcible and numerous are the argu-
ments in favour of an immediate effort of
amelioration on the part of the Government; when
such deplorable facts, moreover, can be enumerated
as that mentioned last night by the Noble President
of the Health of Towns' Association, namely, that
"during the last three months three times as many
fever patients had been admitted into the metro-
politan hospitals as during the previous three
months," or as the appalling array of figures con -
tained in an admirably argued and carefully com-
piled pamphlet, by Mr. JOHN MARSHALL, upon
" Vaccination considered in Regard to Public
Health," in which the ravages of that pesti-
lential disease among the unvaccinated denizens
of the rookeries are recounted in the form
of a letter to the Noble Viscount the First
Commissioner of her MAJESTY'S Woods and Forests.
Every new investigation into the effects of the system
of non-interference on the part of Government tends
to demonstrate more conclusively the necessity of
some movement before the dissolution of the present
Parliament. If not for the purpose of removing
from ourselves the odium of being the sluggish in-
habitants of a country where, according to the em-
phatic sarcasm of Mr. EWART, " people are allowed
to accumulate the causes of disease and death," we
are assuredly impelled to labour onwards to the
acquisition of some great measure of sanatory re-
form out of a mingled sentiment of charity and
patriotism.

On Tuesday we pointed out the gross injustice of
the present mode of taxation, and on Wednesday we
proved that the national burdens were increased by
no less than fifteen millions sterling cn the items of
Excise and Customs alone, that sum being extracted
from the pockets of the consumers over and above the
amount that was applicable to State purposes; and the
great mass of those consumers, be it remembered,
consistz of the hard-working and over- toiled arti-
as,whose comforts are diminished until there
scarcely remains a bare sufficiency of the necessaries
of life, in ordearnatoWs.alt.islfy the debts created by the
cestors, and to exonerate
improvidence
handed down to its
tractors of that debt, from
should be fairly subjected. But vast
thus wasted, in proportionextravagance of their an-
present
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tbe country,eon
resources
tor which it
the amount
es of the
country, it is not the whole, or even theworst part of
the grievance. In the Excise, for instance, it is
not the mere duty, large and oppressive as it un,
doubtedly is, that is most to he complained of.
There are Excise regulations and restrictions of the

contumeliously refused. Many cases of equal, if not
greater, hardship are of daily occurrence, although
the victims have not the same amount of talent and
energy which Mr. Ssarrit exhibited to vindicate
themselves from outrage, and to hold up the perpe-
trators to public odium. Will Englishmen calmly
submit to a continuance of a system under which
such conduct is not merely possible, but is of frequent
occurrence ?
It also imposes a severe restraint on our industry
and our productive powers. The inevitable result of
the removal of heavy charges upon, and the consequent
diminution of price of an article, is found to be a
vastly increased demand therefor, and a great in-
crease in the quantity brought into use. There
would, therefore, be a much greater demand for labour,
and its value would be considerably enhanced. Were
it not for the artificial restraints imposed on the in-
dustry of the people there would be an ample
field for the employment of all in useful and
productive works. We should no longer be called
upon to drive our brethren from their native land, we
should no longer see able bodied men anxious to ob-
tain their own livelihood by the sweat of their
brows, to labour to the utmost of their strength and
ability, obliged to seek relief from the poor-rates,
and to claim from others that support which, by their
unwearied exertions, they are unable to obtain for
themselves and families. A direct incentive to crime
and immorality would also be removed, which has
demoralised thousands, by the temptations it holds out
to a breach of the laws, and which has plunged many
once happy families into the abyss of misery and
destitution, by consigning their natural protectors to
all the contamination and disgrace of an association
with the most depraved and abandoned characters in
the gaols and prisons of the country.
All prospect of improvement in the process of
manufacture is also prevented. No experi
tnents can be made by which ameliorations
may be effected. Science cannot be applied
to trade ; and why ? The Excise regulations,
forsooth, forbid it. They do not know what frauds
on the revenue may thereby be occasioned ; and
therefore they must be prevented. It is praetiully
proclaiming that in these branches of trade chiefly
affected we have reached the acme of perfection, a
ne plus ultra beyond which we must not progress.
Other countries that had formerly lagged behind may
overtake and pass us in the race. They may drive
us from the different markets which it would other-
wise be our business to supply, and all that we can
console ourselves with is, that our Excise laws,
the necessity of raising large sums to defray
claims which should never have fallen upon us,
demands the sacrifice. Cases of hardship
are met in the Legislature with assurances
that they cannot be remedied, because the Excise
authorities say the rules cannot he dispensed with.
How long will Englishmen be satisfied with such
flimsy pretexts, how long will they be satisfied to
surrender their national liberties, to give up the na-
tional prosperity that would await a sounder and
better system for such a cause ? The entire taxation
of the country must speedily be revised. The repre-
Sentstiveg of the people must consider the question
in the very beginning of the next session. And it
will be the imperative duty of every elector to under-
stand the views of the claimants for his suffrage on
this most important question before he decides on
the manner in which he will exercise his greatest
privilege—the franchise.

'We learn from Geneva that the new Council of
State of that canton has chosen M. FAIT for its Presi-
dent, and M. MOULINIE as Vice-President. M. FAZY,
it will he remembered, was the chief author of the late
revolution, and President of the Provisional Govern-
ment, but he is said, by the moderation of his conduct
in office, to have given great satisfaction to some of
the leaders of the Conservative party.

The Madrid Gazette, the only paper published in
that city on the 4th (the festival of Corpus Christi)
has arrived. Its contents are unimportant. The
KING and all his officers had attended the procession
of Corpus Christi at the Prado.

We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday.
The intervention in Portugal, and the threatened
intervention in Spain, are subjects of comment in
almost all of them. On the subject of Portugal the
National says—
" England and France, abjuring in the face of the world
their tralitions and their principles, have united to consum-
mate this unpardonable attentut. Let the English call their
Ministers to account for it ; as for us, we have only one word
to say. Either our Cabinet has committed the most unjus-
tifiable and disgraceful act, or, consistent to the end, the
Government created by the Revolution of July has only to
sign its abdication. The cause of right has just fallen; but
it carries with it in its ruins all the facts which triumphed in
London, in Paris, and in Madrid, in virtue of the principle
disregarded and betrayed at Oporto. There is no longer a
reason for the existence of governments founded on insurrec-
tion. The intervention in Portugal is their suicide."
The Constitutiunnel has the following on the sub-
ject of the Swiss correspondence :

" The attitude assumed by ➢i. de Bois-le-Comte toward-,
the President of the Directory is almost hostile. Without
speaking of the impropriety of bringing forward again, with
a tone of menace unprovoked by any particular act, the
question of the Free Corps, a question which is in a measure
personal as it regards M. Ochsenbein, it is seen that ➢l. de
Bois-le Comte, through the whole course of his note, evinces

an unwarranted and offensive disdain of the independence of

Switzerland. There is much to be said on the extent of the
right which the people possess to do th, mselves justice. But
whatever sympathy the Ministry may have with absolutism
and legitimacy in general, it forgets too much both in Swit-
zerland and Portugal that there is danger in being of the
same opinion with Austria on such a sutject. As to the
question of cantonal sovereignty entered upon by M. de
Bois-le-Comte, giving to his advice the complexion of me-
nace, it is easy to see that the reserve made by the French
Ambassador of an ulterior examination is a mere formality.
It is a question already decided. M. Guizot, eager to gratify
absolute Governments, says clearly by his agent that he will
adopt the sentiments of Austria. He contends in Switzer-
land against the liberal principle out of which the dynasty
of July arose; he wishes to impose upon Switzerland the
Jesuits driven out of France; he will oppose with all his
strength, in the interest of Austria, the exercise by the
Helvetic Government of any energetic measures in any
part of the Republic ; he would keep up that division
between the Cantons which would open, in case of need, a
free passage into the country of the enemies of France.
The answer of M. Ochsenhein is firm and dignified. The
President makes a distinction between acts which are
personal
to himself and those for which he has to be
responsible as one of the principal chiefs of the State. He
thus gives a lesson of propriety ro our Ambassador. The re-
solution with which he announces his determination to de-
fend the independence of his country is the only answer he
could consistently give to the offensive language of a Govem-
ment as violent towards the weak, as it is humble towards
the strong."

The Presse states that the health of M. DUCLIATEL,
the M inister of the Interior, is much improved, and
that he is expected to return to Paris on Monday cr
Tuesday next.

An address of the "Central Committee of the Con-
stitutional Opposition " to its correspondents, signed
by Messrs. ODILON BIRROT, DUVERGIER DE HAU-
RANNE, GUST.A.VE DE BEAUMONT, LEON DE MALE-
VILLE, and CISAMBERON, has just been published. It
commences by stating, that in the month of August
last the Government obtained—by means known to
all—and by promises since violated, a considerable
majority from the electoral body, which for the first
time since 1834 appeared to prove that the Opposition
was considered in the wrong ; but that instead of im-
mortalising the Conservative policy by making use of
that majority to secure to the country all the progress
and all the good that it needs, the Ministry arid the
Chamber have from the first appeared stricken with im-
puissance, and have not brought forward during the
session any useful, fruitful, really national, or liberal,
me.tsur6e, hut have opposed an obstinate and systema-
tic resistance to all political, financial, and adminis-
trative reforms ; have passively abandoned the in-

finance of France, even where, by a family alliance,
they had pretended to make it solid and durable ;
caused ever increasing disorder in the finances, and a
deficiency of 500,000,0001., respecting the supply of
which they do not occupy themselves, and allowed
the most deplorable neglect and the most shameful
peculation in all the administrations; and, finally,
public scandals have come one on the other to cause
sadness and alarm in the minds of all honest people.
The Committee says that it believes that nothing of
the kind has been seen since representative govern-
ment has existed, and that never did any Chamber
separate as the present one is about to do, without giving
the slightest satisfaction to any opinion or interest.
All this, continues the Committee, has led to dis-
cussions and dissatisfaction, even in the midst of the
majority, and has caused a Ministerial crisis, which,
in truth, still continues. The Opposition, on its part,
has, adds the Committee, not been discouraged, and
has not failed in any of its duties. It has signalised
the faults and vices of the present policy both at home
and abroad; it has brought forward a proposition of
electoral reform as a completion of that on Parlia-
mentary reform ; it has endeavoured to re-establish
impartiality in the composition of the lists of the
jury, and to restore to it the attributions of which it
is unjustly deprived; and it has proposed economical
and financial reforms calculated to render taxation
more equal and more just. The Committee then
saws, that it is happy to announce that it is the
intention of the Opposition to persevere in the
same spirit. But, as the Ministerial party recruits
itself in the dark by the daily distribution of places,
dignities, subventions, patronage and favours of all
i
kinds, the Opposition requires to be firmly and in-
oFprance, where thenion, in order to
ceelives,angtrloyw,supapnodrtterdiubmyphp. lublico
customs of a free country are not yet firmly planted,
many persons, it says, believe that the citizens have
nothing else to do between one election and another
than to act as spectators of the debates in Parliament
and of the events that occur. But that is a false
idea, dan4erous to representative institutions. Con-
stant communication should be kept up between
the deputy and the electors, the latter should form
and express their opinion on every measure, and a
lively sentiment of great national interests should
always be maintained. The Committee says that it
does not pretend to point out the way in which this
should be accomplished, as it depends on local and
personal circumstances ; but it strongly recommends
that a committee shall be formed in every arrondisse
went to watch over the electoral lists, and to cause
to be inserted names unjustly omitted, and to strike
out those wrongfully inserted. The necessary in-
formation should bs immediately collected, so as to
be brought to bear on the next lists, especially as
from the state of the Chamber, the Ministry, and the
country, it is not improbable that new elections may
take place at the beginning of next year. The Com-
mittee concludes by an earnest exhortation to the
Opposition to be united, zealous, and enterprising, to
have its eye constantly fixed on the example of 1827,
and, in case it does so, it says that it will not fail to
be eventually successful.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

(From The Sun of Last Night.)
There was an increased business done yesterday in the
Cotton market at Liverpool, the sales being 8,000 to 9,000
bales. A moderate business was done in Railway Shares at
slightly advanced rates.

The Share Market has been decidedly firmer, and the
quotations at the sale of Railway Shares to-day, by Messrs.
.L.antond and Co., have in some ca-es improved. The fol-
lowing are a few of the principal sales :
Northern and Southern Connecting £o 8 0
Ceylon ......
Leicester & Bedford, Exchange Certificate 0 8 6
Manchester and Southampton 0 10 0
Windsor, Staines, and South-Western 2 15 0
Dublin and Belfast Junction
West Riding Union
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate ...... 51 0
Oxford, %V orcester, and Wolverhampton l3 10 0
North Staffordshire
Great Northern
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham . 5 6 0
Shropshire Union and Canal 2 4 0
Newcastle and Berwick, New 6 17 0
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A) 3 11 0
The letters from the West Indies, delivered yesterday af-
ternoon, are of a favourable complexion generally, and there
was every reason to anticipate the realisation of the hopes
entertained with respect to the yield of the crops. The
various improvements in agriculture, and the introduction of
central factories, also afford brighter prospects for the future.
There appears to be no particular movement in Mark-
lane to-day. The contradictory statements respecting the
potato crops serve to make the holders firmer than they
might otherwise be.
From St. Petersburgh the accounts to the end of May fur-
nish many interesting particulars relative to the corn trade.
The navigation had been open rather over a fortnight, and
there were 556 vessels in Cronstadt harbour, exhibiting,
as is stated, " quite a forest of masts." The number of ves-
sels front abroad was expected to be larger than for thirty
years. Upon the tecomine.ndation of Government, measures
had been taken to supply the poorer classes with corn at a
reduced rate, comparei with the prices which foreign com-
petition would establish; but there would be every facility
afforded fur exportation. 'The arrivals of all kinds of
bread stuffs, including meal, were 6,000,000 tschetwerts, of
which 2,300.000 were sold for export to England, France,
Holland, Belgium, Hamburph, Stettin, and Holstein. The
largest purchases for delivery are said to have been on ac-
count of Stettin ; and rye and rye-flour had been taken to the
extent of 30,000 ships' lasts. This caused a rise from 18 to
28 rix dollars per 16 tschetwerts in the charge for freight, and
this was agreed upon for repeated journies.
At Riga and St. Petersburgh, the purchases for
England and Prussia had been rather less than they
would have been, but for the expectation that
the quantity obtainable from America will prove very con-
siderable, and parties writing from St. Petersburgh express a
doubt whether we may not have reason to regret our tardi-
ness. Be this as it may, the letters state that further orders
from German and English houses received just before the date
of these advices for purchases of grain to be delivered
in June could not be executed from first hands, and that. in
consequence, many houses were making a profit by reselling.
According to one estimate before us, the Russian supplies
would afford a surplus equal to nearly one month', consump-
tion of the countries believed to be most in need thereof,
a quantity which, even allowing for a later harvest by two
or three weeks, would probably be adequate, now economy
in the use of brea6stuffs is the " order of the day."
The accounts received from Portugal have excited again a
very lively interest, and whatever may be the result, few
seem to relish the somewhat " tricky" manner in which Das
Antes and his force was captured.
The Funds have improved to-day, and have still rather an
upward tendency. Consols have been marked 83 to 8344 for
transfer, and 88% % for July. Bank Stock is firm at 196.
The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have touched
88%, ar.d the Three per Cents. 871/4. Exchequer-bills have
been marked 3s. to 6s. premium.
The Foreign Securities have been very dull again. Not a
transaction is officially noted in Portuguese Four per Cents.,
but the old Bonds have been quoted 8012. Spanish Five per
Cents. are 22, and the Three per Cents. 34, being steady.
Russian Bonds have been 1091,4 to 110. Dutch Two-and-
a-Half per Cents. brought 58% 14.
Railway Shares have been higher, with a moderate busi-
ness doing. The French lines are not so buoyant as our own.
isltiTiSit FEND:, ONE CLOSI.NG
O'CLOCK. PRI. ES.
Bank Stock .. •• •• 196 196
!tree per Cent. Reduced Annuities 87 is 87 8714 87 ti
Chree per Cent. Consols Annuities .. 88% 8814
New Three-and.a-quarter per Cent. Anus. 88%% 88%
New Five per Cent. Annuities .. 115 115
I.ung Antwitirs, Expire tan. 5, 1860 .. 9 9
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 .. 13.16 8 13-16
Ditto, 30 years, .lan. 5, 1860 .. .. 9 5-16 9%
Consols fur Opening, July 16 .. 88% %% 88%
Exchequer Bills. lid. 24.
1,0001... .... 3 G p 6 p
Ditto. Small .... 12 p 9 p
ONE cLO.:IN: •
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CL.OOK. PEUCE-,
Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 80!,4 sots
Ditto, 4 per Cent
Ditto, for the Account 314
Russian Bonds • • .. .. 110 109 N 10.0,4
Spanish Bonds. 5 per Cent .. 22 22
Ditto, Passive Bonds .. 4%
f>itto. Three per Cent .. .. 34 31414
Venezuela lionds, 2 per Cent .. 33 357
Dividend. ell the above payable in LAndon.
Dutch Two-and-a-Halt per Cent .. 5814 14
Ditto. t per Cent. Certificates .. 90 89%
BUSINE'SS
CLOSING
PRICES OF
PAID. EATON
PRICE!,.
RAILWAY SHARES.
ONE O'CLOCK.
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 10 .... 17,4,
Wolver., and Dudley • • 10 . ........ 14i
CAledunian

The Committee of the Chamber of Deputies
charged to examine the Bill which authorises the
city of Paris to raise a loan of 25,000,000 E, have
declared in favour of the project by a majority of one
vote. M. ARAGo, the reporter, will present his re-
port in the course of a few days.
The Toulonnais says that orders have been sent to
his Royal Highness the Prince de JOIN VILLE to send
one or two vessels of his squadron to Portugal.
The Moniteur, as we stated yesterday, publishes a
telegraphic dispatch, announcing the capture of Count
DAS ANT AS, and the Junta of Oporto.
The Courrier Francais says—

" We are assured that the council has decided on the re-
placing of Rear-Admiral Montagnes de Laroque, Commander-
in-Chief of the squadron on the western coast of Africa; and
already the choice of his successor is under consideration.
Several superior officers have been ordered to attend at the
Ministry of Marine with respect to this subject. It appears
that the Government is desirous of profiting by this circum-
stance, and by the documents which have reached it from all
quarters, to modify the plan on which the cruising station
was established, as well as the instructions given to the cora -
tnandatit of the naval division."

The Three per Cents. closed at 77f. 50c. ; the Fire per
Cents., at 117 f. 40c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,2651. ;
Rouen, 972 f. 50c. ; Havre, 655 f. ; Great Northern, 597 f. 50c. ;
Avignon, 741 E 25c. ; Visrzon, 600 f. ; Boulogne, 410 E ; Troyes
and Montereau, 285 f. ; Basle, 190 f. ; Dieppe, 320 E ; Paris and
Strasburg, 430 f. ; Tours and Nantes, 412 f. 50c. ; Paris and
Lyons, 4421 50e. ; Lyons and Avignon, 450 f.; Cette, 450 f.;
Spanish Three per Cents., 34f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 10.
Demerara, 21/2—East Indian, lie—Northern of France,
11%—Orleans and Bordeaux, 6 —Paris and Lyons, 514—
Paris and Strasbourg, 4:h.—Sambre and Meuse, 7.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From last night's Gazette.)
in Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, for
the Week ending on Saturday, the sth day of June, 1847.
ISSUE DLPARTMENT.
X.
Notes issued .. • . 23,434,30

23,134,3G5
3f. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
Dated the 10th day of June, 1347.
BANKING DEPARTMENT.

X.
Government debt .. 11,015,100
Other securities .... 4,981.00'
Gold coin lind bullion 7,9,5,355
Silver bulliou •• • • • 1,449,000

.£23,434,3G5

Proprietors' capital . • 11,553,000
Rest
••
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Conunissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ings-banks, and Di-
vidend accounts) • • 7,772,708
)ther deposits ••• • • • 8,150,646
Seven day and other
bills• • • • .• • • • • 785,918

£ 34.689,535

Dated the 10th day ofJune, Itl4'

Government securi-
ties (including Dead
Weight Annuity). • 11,713,101
Other securities .. • • 17,085,495
Notes • 5,068,705
Gold and silver coin.. 802,234

£31,09,535
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

- - -
Roberto it Di avolo, the opera selected for the first appear-
ance of Jenny Lind in this country, in which she at once
achieved the greatest triumph of her art, and placed herself
upon an eminence that has seldom, if ever beat attained, was
on Thur,day repeated to a crowded house; indeed, admis-
sion had necessarily been refused to many hundreds anxious
to hear the Swedish nightingale. The enthusiasm was,
if possible, greater than on former occasions. The same
perfection of musi?, and acting, that combination of attrac-
tions so rarely to be met with in any individual,
elicited, as usual, the most rapturous applause; many went
with their expectations raised to the highest pitch, and not
one came away in any the slightest degree disappointed ;
indeed, it is hardly possible to form a conception that will
not be more than realised by the performance of this ac-
complished and highly gifted artiste. It is hard to select
any part for particular notice where all was brilliant and
effective. The "Va dit elle " the " Quando lasciai," and
the magnificient trio, were all given in the most exquisite
and impressive manner, and cannot speedily pass from the
memory of any one that was fortunate enough to hear her.
She was called for twice at the end of the first act, and
again three times at the close of the opera.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA,
COVENT GARDEN.

II Barbiere di Siviglia was on Thursday produced at this
theatre, for the benefit of Madame Dumilatre, on the termi-
nation of her engagement, being the last appearance for the
season of that talented danseuse. Madame Persiani was to
have been the Ro,ina, but a severe attack of indisposition
prevented her appearance. The necessity of a change in the
opera was, however, obviated by the kindness of Mdlle.
Alboni, who, on a brief notice, undertook the part, in which
she achieved the most brilliant success, and exhibited
the strongest proof of the versatility of her genius,
of the universality of her talent. Her acting displayed
great comic humour; whilst in the "Una Voce" and in the
lesson scene her brilliant fioriture showed her extraordinary
power of vocalisation—a power to which full scope has not
been given in any of her former parts. She was, along with
the other chief performers, recalled after each act, to re-
ceive the well-merited plaudits of the delighted w
audience.
Previous to the ballet the last act of Lucreraz Borgia as
given, in
which Grisi Alboni, and Mario appeared, and
elicited the most enthusiastic and rapturous applause. The
,
" Gitana,' by Fanny Ellaler and Mdlle. Dumilatre, was also
loudly applauded. La Reine des Fees, in which the fair bga-
ficiaire exhibited her usual grace and agility, concluded the
performances. The mouse was brilliant and overflowing in
every part.

Ditto, Half Shares .. 2% ...: 2 ::
Eastern Counties . .• •. 20 . 19% 7/ %
Ditto, York Extension 7% .... i 4 ... . .
East Lincolnshire .. 6% .... 71A 7 7% •• ..
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 . ........

a de,nutation
GREECE.—ExTRAORDINART SCENE.--The Augs-
i""Vh Gazette, of the sth inst., mentions an extraordinary
altercation said to have taken place between King Otho and
lair play slmuld be secured at the elections. It would seem
that th ethat waited on his Majesty with a petition that
Ring's answer not being satisfactory, Ruphos, the
head of the oeputation ventured to say that if the freedom
of electliii should be interfered with the people would have
recourse to arms in defence of their liberties, when the King
immediately retorted—"lf the people take arms, I will order
the troops to call them to their senses." We cannot trust
ourselves to comment upon such language in the mouth of a
King. Let us hope that it has not been correctly reported.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT HATTL—By the arrival
of the sloop John Bull, Patten, in four days from Port-au-
Prince, we learn (says the journal) that the Hayti barque
LTresident was blown up at twenty minutes to twelve
o'clock, on the 23d ult., whilst she was engaged in firing
minute guns in celebrating mass for the repose of the soul of
President Guirriere, who died two years ago. At the time
she was blown up there were eighty convicts in chains ca
board in the bold, who all perished. The captain, in going
on shore, left the first lieutenant in charge, who followed
afterwards, leaving the boatswain in charge, who, at the time
the accident happened, was engaged with others on board
smoking, drinking,
and playing cards. The accident oc-
curred from a spark alighting on the powder, which was
placed on the deck to be dried.—Jamaica Times, May 5.
A late Kentucky paper contains an advertisement,
offering a reward of 400 dollars for the recovery of " a
negro inan named Richlrd' " wilo is forty years old,
reads arid write., very well, is a preacher, and has a
license to exhort, endorsed P-..y the elder of Stone River
Circuit or Murfreesborough Station. The advertise-
Mein states that he preaches and sings well, and it Is
supposed he Will try to make his living in that vray.—.

Ditto, Quarter Shares 16%....
Edinburgh and Northern .. 17K, .... 16
Ely and lltuitingdon IS 12M,
Great Northern • • •• •• ...• 2
Do., London & York Extension 2 .........
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 30 24
Great Western ..
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Hull and Selby .. •• -
Ditto,Quarter Shares 12;4 .23
Lancaster and Carlisle .. .. 50

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8:)%

16%
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Ditto New ..
Leeds an 4 Bradford .. • • .. 40 .... 854 ...... • B5 .4
Leeds and Thirsk .• 26 ...... •
Ditto, Preference 6 per Cent. • • 3% .... 3N% 319
Liverp., 111anch., & Newc. Junct. 2 .... 1 1
L melon and Blackwell .. 1131. 13s. 4d. 7%
Ditto. New, No. 1 .... ...... 5%
London. Brighton, & 7'zotith Coast 50 .• • • 53!.,.,.... •
Ditto, Guarant. Five per Cent. 9 .... 9 ........ •• 914
Do. Pref. Convert. 5 per cent. 50 .... 53 53
London an North-Western • • iOO ....177 178.• .. •• •• 177
Ditto, Quarters L. and B. 7 .... 233 23
Ditto ditto, New Shares .. .. 2 .... 1214
Ditto, nails . .. 2 .... .... ••.. • • 16
Ditto, 401. Shares M. &B. • . 40 ... 69 ..
London and South• Western 411. 6s. 10d... 65% 65%
Ditto, New .. 27% .. •• •• 29%
Ditto, Tenths (Consolidated) .. 50 .... 55 .... •• •• .• 55
Ditto, Scrip• • .. • . 5 .

Ditto, ditto •• .. • • 4 ....
Maneln-ster and Leeds .. .. • • 82

3%

Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 12 .... 14% 14%
Ditto, Thirds (Iteg.).. .. —7l. 45..... dig
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. •• • • 34 dis. • •
Midland .. ..100 ....121 120.... .. • • 120
Ditto, New .. 36 •• .. 403{ % ...... • • 4014
Ditto, New .. .. 6 .... 9 • • 894
Do., Consol. Bristol and Birm.
Mx per Cent. .. • • ..100 .. • .127 .. 127
Newcastle and Berwick • • .. 20 • • 26% 27 •• • •
Ditto, New .. • • .. • • 5 76% f
North British • • .. • • 25 32% ...•
Ditto, Half Shares .. • • • . 123{ 15
Ditto, Extension .. % 94
Ditto, Thirds .. 1
North Staffordshire 734 .. • • 9% 10
Oxford, Wor'ster, & Wolverhamp. 22% .... 13%4
Preston and Wyre.. .. 25 .• .. 36%
Ditto, Half Shares (A) 8% .. • • 12%
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 5 •• • • 536 5..
Scottish Midland .. . .. • • 1714 •.. • .
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 3%.... 3 ...• • •
Ditto, Class B .. • • • • • • 3 •• • • 2% ••••• • • • • • 2 ;41
South Staffordshire • • • • .. 21. 125... 34 dis.... •
South Eastern alid Dover .. • • 33% .. • . ••..• • .•
Ditto. New (isa. at 321.) No. 1. 20 .• •• • .. •• • •
Do.. New (do. 101.) .. No. 4. 5 .... 4% •••••• • • • •
South Wales .. 10 .... ••••• • • • • •
Windsor. Staines, &S. Western.. 42e..... ,fi% p.... • • • •
York and Newcastle .. 25 .... ••
Ditto, New.. .. .. 10 ... 15
Ditto, Preference .. 4 .... 6% 76%.. • •
York and North Midland 50 .. .•
Ditto, Extension • • .. .. 25 .... 42 .• •••• .. • .
Ditto, Preference .. .. 6 .... 15
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Demerara .. . 214
Nortl,ern of France • • .. • • 8 .... ..........
Paris and Rouen .. .. • • .. 20 .... 3f4 .......
Paris and Strasbourg .. 8 .... 4%
Rouen and Havre .. 20 .... 25 ..........
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
London and Westminster .. 20 .... .. •••• • • • • 261,
Provincial of Ireland • • 25 • • ........ 4534
MINES.
Real del Monte, Unregistered 3M ..........
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.
Amsterdam ......C.F. 12 6 Gthra1tar..............
Ditto, at sight ...... 12 3 Leghorn ..
Rotterdam ...... 2U. 12 634 Genoa ..... ........... 26
Antwerp 26 Milan .. • .............
Hamburgh ......M.B. 13 13 Venice.... .... •. • ....•
Shona • • Naples • • 403(
Paris, 3 days' sight .. • . 25 65 Palermo, per 0z.... . 120
Ditto, ....... ..... 25 95 Lisbon.... 52%
Marseilles •• • ..... 26 0p0rt 0..,.
.. 26 Rio Janeiro • • ...... • • 26
Frankfort on Maine.... 122% Bahia —
Petersburgh, 3 Us—. • • Buenos Ayres .. • .....
Berlin .... • • ...... •• • • New York, 21 days'sight
Vienna, effec.flo.• •• • • 10 8 Philadelphia ......
Trieste, ditto....
Madrid ••.. • •

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25

NeW Dollars ••0 4 9%
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0

Spanieh Doubloons .. 0 0 0

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Silver in bars .... •• • • 0 4 11%

TAB FORGERY BY A GERMAN.--MANCHESTEB,
Jura 10.—This morning Adolphus Schultz, the young Ger-
man who was yesterday charged with forgery, and remanded
for a week, was again brought up before Mr. Maude, Mr.
Beswick, having obtained further evidence. It appeared
from the evidence, and also from the confession of the pri-
soner, that he had forged the two letters of credit, one of
which bad been paid in London, and the other in Manches-
ter, and that the third. or original one, had been cashed on
the continent. Mr. George Besta, from the firm of Messrs.
Suse Sibeth, of London, deposed to the handwriting of the
house, in Vienna, from which it appeared that the letters
produced in Manchester and London were both forgeries.
fhe prisoner was fully committed to take his trial at the next
Liverpool assizes.

THE LATE DR. RAMSBOTHAM.—This eminent physi-
cian, John Ramsbotham, M.D., has bequeathed the receipts
which may arise from the sale of his medical publications to
his wife during her life, and has directed that an annuity of
150/. shall be purchased for her, and that she receive the in-
terest of the residue of his property. And at her decease he
leaves to his son Francis Henry Ramabotham. M.D., who is
the acting executor of his will, the copyright of all his me-
dical works and all other medical hooks, and his manuscript
cases; and then, after making one or two bequests, he divides
between his sons Francis and Charles the ultimate residue of
his property. He had attained the age of eighty, and bad
purchased only a year before his death an annuity of 1801.
for his lite ; which was insured in the Equitable and London
Life Assurance Offices.
DUTCH CHERRIES.-.- As has been the case during
the past two or three seasons, the importations of fruit have
taken place from Holland before any other of the continental
states of Europe. Some cherries have arrived from Holland
before any supplies of the kind have taken place from France.
or there are any in the markets of home growth other than
those reared in an artificial manner. The Ocean steam-ship.
arrived from Rotterdam, has brought, among a variety o.
other Dutch productions, 38 baskets, and the Attwood steam-
ship, from the same port, 49 baskets of cherries, in a ripe i
Mete, the produce of Holland.