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-UNDON. WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1847.

Since the rejection by the provisional Junta of
Oporto of the terms of pacification agreed to by
Queen MARIA DA GLORIA of Portugal in conse-
quence of the English intervention, tranquillity has
continued th-roughout the kingdom. That tranquil-
lity, however, is an ominous tranquillity ; it is but
the breathless lull of the conflicting elements before
the renewal of a more terrible and devastating tem-
pest. As we have already explained, no other answer
than the one returned to our plenipotentiary, Colonel
WyLDE, could have been expected from the Junta,
presuming that that popular Parliament is composed
of men not entirely divested of common sense and ordi-
nary prudence. To say that the disturbances which have
so long desolated Portugal have originated in a merely
idle insurrection would be a foolish distortion of facts
and a perverse selection of epithets. Those disturb-
ances have resulted from a spontaneous anxiety
on the part of an entire people to vindicate
their national rights and to maintain the. integrity
of their constitutional privileges. The outburst is
not local, it is essentially comprehensive and national.
It is not the consequence of a reckless insubordination
aroused by the lawless vociferations of a demagogue.
If has sprung from the very fervour of the loyalty
with which the Portuguese regard their Government,
from their antipathy to unconstitutional innovations,
and their simultaneous resolution to preserve the su-
preme authority from being transferred from their
SOVEREIGN and their Cortes to any foreign favourite
or unpatriotic statesman. Hence, therefore, the co-
pulation is desirous to obtain a solid and permanent
pacification on some such terms as those proposed by
Lord PALMERaTON ; and for the purpose of ensuring
that solidity and permanence of reconciliation
they
require a guarantee for the integrity of her MA-
JESTY'S intentions. Indeed, the Junta have defini-
tively expressed their willingness to accept the pre-
scribed conditions, provided only they have some
security that those conditions will be honestly ful-
filled. What right, forsooth ! has any external Go-
vernment to interfere further than we have done for
the tranquillization of a people who have heretofore
done us no injury whatever, who evince no hostility
whatever towards us, who are fighting for the dearest
preroga?ive of humanity—freedom, and who abstain
from signing a most moderate treaty, because they
demand some proof of the sincerity of a hitherto per-
fidious and time-serving woman ?

If any military demonstration is entitled in an
especial manner to our sympathy and neutrality, it
is surely such a demonstration as the one which has
transferred the popular power to the Junta of Oporto,
and confi led the direction of the popular forces to a
Commander-in-Chief like the Count Das ANTAS.
Des ANTAS is to the Portuguese the Gonfalonniere
of their liberties ; and it is because his lieutenants
have hitherto acted with that combined bravery and
moderation which are most consonant with the spirit
of patriotism that the country has come so com-
pletely into their possession, and their characters re-
main untarnished by the commission of a single crime.
SALDAWBA, on the contrary, has been merely the in;
competent champion of an unsound cause, and he has
increased the contempt excited by his inefficiency by
the odium elicited by his cruelty and ruthlessness-
The contrasted reputations of these two chieftains are
fittingly symbolical, o. the credit due to the opposite
principles they ,s2e• endeavouring,-to reads; ;trium-
phant.
- -
Instead of evincing a somewhat dastardly- reliance
upon the assistance of foreign bayonets—such a
reliance, for example, as is actually evinced by 'the
adherents of MARIA DA GLORIA—the Junta and their
captains are preparing themselves for a renewal of
the struggle. With this intention Des ANTAS held
a conference with POVOAS on the 18th instant at
Regoa, when they are presumed to have arranged a
combined movement for the dislodgement of CABAL
from Lamego. Upon rumours prevalent in the ca-
pital respecting the probable submission of Si DA
, BANDEISA to the royal authority we are disposed to
place as little- reliance as upon similar reports which
I were some time since circulated about the probable ter-
giversation of the President and Commander-in-Chief
of Mexico. Should the former soldier, however,
prove himself a renegade, he must inevitably meet
with the opprobrium such an execrable crime deserves.
The mysterious individual who has been watched
with so much suspicion, from the circumstance of his
being regarded as no other than Dorn MIGUEL, ap-
pears to have landed on the shingles at Villa do
Conde, and to have shortly afterwards returned to
the yacht of Captain BENNET without any ecazircisse-
ment whatever. The incident seems to have been
conducted throughout in the most melodramatic
manner, and may after all prove nothing better than
a practical joke in the shape of an aquatic macquera e.
Notwithstanding certain insinuations to the contrary,
we are not disposed to anticipate any armed inter-
ference on the part of Great Britain.

We are rejoiced to find that the Alleged Lunatics'
Friend Society have presented to the House of Com-
mons a pAition, drawing the attention of that Hun.
House to the state of the law of lunacy, as laid down
by Lord DENMAN, in the case of Mrs SHUTTLE-
WORTH, and praying for its revision. The law, as
laid down by Lord DENMAN in that case, authorises
the seizure and confinement of persons alleged to be
of unsound mind, at the instigation of a perfect
stranger, by the servants of private individuals, upon
the mere certificate of two medical men. And, not-
withstanding the Act of 8 and 9 Victoria. cap. 100,
enacts that the certificate of every medical
man, declaring that any person is of unsound
mind, and a proper person to be confined,
should also set forth the fact or facts, hear-
say or otherwise, upon which such medical
men may have formed an opinion, Lord DENMAN,
out of his abundant respect for the opinion of " skil-
ful persons," has thoueht proper to decree that such
clause is only declaratory, and has authorised the
continued incarceration of an alleged lunatic upon a
certificate in which none of these particulars are set
forth. The interpretation thus put upon the statute
by Lord DENMAN proves bow more than ever neces-
sary it is that a public inquiry into the state of mind
of an alleged lunatic should precede incarceration.
Once confined in an asylum all hope of liberation
by due course of law is hopeless. It is vain
to point out that the requisites of the
statute, as regards certificates, have not been
complied with. Terrified by the cry of " mad-
man," as old women in the street are terrified by
the cry of "mad dog," and assuming that every
detenu in an asylum must be insane, the Judges de-
clare that the whole of the law of lunacy is anoma-
lous—that the directions of the statute are not com-
pulsory, and that it Is their duty for the benefit of
society to remit back the unfortunate prisoner to his
former custody. The case of Mrs. CUMMING proves
the utter inefficiencT of the present law to demon-
stration, and we prefer taking the case of Mrs.
causedll amiiG as our illustration, because those who
her
andin havecarceratgen proof of theirconsentedioivnhayesincebelief
in her
to her
liberation,
sanity by accepting from her a disposition of her
property in their favour. We take it for granted,
therefore, that no question can arise as to the state of
mind of this lady.
Shewas incarcerated in a lunatic
asylum in the month of m
friend had applied for a writ of habeas,
been brought up before Lord May, 1846
N
might have been something irregular
N; a
i:b
certifi-
catestthere
anid s.he had
the
upon which she was detained—yet Lord DEN-
MAN would, in accordance with the interpretation he
put upon the law in the case of Mrs. SHUTTLEWORTU,
r hack to her former custody,iwhere
have remitted he
she might have remained until this hour.
Foc, be it remembered, that although the

Commissioners; of Lunacy are ordered to make •
inquiries into the grounds of the confinement of eily
alleged lunatic, yet such inquiry cannot be other than
a mere mockery, inasmuch as the alleged lunatic is
not permitted to cross-examine any of the witnesses,
to rebut any false charges, or to correct any mis-
apprehensions or misrepresentations. What chance
would Mrs. Custunsev have had of obtaining her
release from an inquiry so oonducted? Clearly
none. In fact she was seen by the Commissioners,
and her incarceration was continued. Fortunately
she had property, and to get possession of this pro-
perty a public inquiry was necessary. She wat..,
produced before a jury, and the public inquiry whs
commenced. Mrs. CUMMING having no legal friend
to advise her, a solicitor, who was acci-
dentally present, proffered her his services—they ware
joyfully accepted, and when it was discovered that
there was to be a defence and a bona fide public in-
quiry, in the course of which witnesses would be
cross-examined and charges rebutted, a compromise
was proposed and accepted, and Mrs. CUMMING was
set at liberty. To what is she indebted for her
freedom ? Clearly to the fact that a public inquiry
before a jury was about to be instituted into her case.
To that inquiry she became entitled because she was
possessed of property, and such an inquiry we claim for
every unfortunate person accused of lunacy, whether
possessed of property or not. A public inquiry is the
only possible method of eliciting the truth, and if an
inquiry is to be instituted most assuredly it should
precede rather than follow incarceration.

It is of great importance to induce habits of clean-
liness among the working classes. Every voluntary
exertion that is made for granting facilities to the
humbler orders of society tor keeping themselves
clean in their persons should be warmly encouraged.
On the other hand, when the public are enjoying
certain advantages conducive to their health, conse-
quent upon the opportunities benevolently afforded to
them by the contributions of the affluent, any mis-
representation that is made in public, and which, if
not shown to be such, would be calculated seriously
to affect, if not altogether to deprive, the labouring
poor of au important sanatory privilege, should he
visited with marked reprehension. A week since Sir
PETER LAURIE made a speech in which he declared,
that public plunging-baths led to gross immorality,
and stated that on paying a visit to the baths and
washhouses for the working classes in St. Pancras,
he had seen fourteen or fifteen great fel lo ws stark-naked
indulging in disgusting gambols. Had Sir P. LAURIE
been at all borne out in his allegation people would
have felt thankful for the information. Not that Sir
PETER'S assertion, if supported, would have been con-
clusive ag&nst the use of public plunging baths; but
it would, no doubt, have had the effect of compelling
the committee of management of the above and
similar institutions to adopt such stringent regula-
tions, that public decency should he properly ob-
served. It appears, however, that Sir PETER was in
error in every tittle of his statement. A deputation
connected with the baths and wa,hhouses of St.
Pancras waited upon a very numerous meeting of the
St. Marylebone Vestry, on Saturday last, for the pur-
pose of contradicting the statement advanced by the
Alderman. The Secretary, Mr. SMITH, informed the
Vestry that their baths were conducted by a com-
mittee of gentlemen, most of whom were clergymen
of St. Pancras ; that round the plunging baths boxes
were erected, with doors four feet high, for bathers to
dress and undress in ; that no person was permitted
to bathe without a vestment; that he had himself
accompanied Sir PETER LAURIE over the establish-
ment when there was but one person in the large
bath, and three or four lads in the smaller ones
that upwards of 70,000 had bathed in their
establishment since August last—that he had never
heard a single complaint of immorality or disgusting
gambols amongst the working classes whom they
chiefly benefited, and whom he, therefore, considered
had been grossly libelled. The Vestry considered the
above to constitute a complete refutation of the charge
preferred. Some attempt was made to establish the
immoral tendency of the plunging bath by alluding
to the fact that the committee employed a man to
look. after the bathers ; but the secretary replied that
the.eureeilteece-.a,-an.oftluer was required, not from
any doubt of the moral conduct of the labouring
poor,: but solely in case of sudden illness, or of and
accident to persons unable to swim. We rejoice to
learn that those institutions are so admirably ma-
naged. The plunging bath excepted, all the other
arrangements of the committee met with the entire
approval of the fastidious Alderman. The officers of
her Majesty's ships are constantly in the habit of
consulting the health of the crews, by allowing
them, in warm climates, wholly to divest them-
selves of their clothing and jump off the ships'
sides to bathe in the sea. An officer is ap-
pointed at the time to watch that the men do
not swim too far, and to afford protection in case of
any misadventure. The military are likewise in-
dulged in a similar recreation. We have, however,
as yet never heard of any objection being started
against this healthful recreation. But if Sir PETER
be right in his excessive notions of refinement in re-
gard to the public plunging bath, they could clearly
be as reasonably urged to prevent our sailors and
soldiers from bathing in the sea or in rivers, as they
have been permitted to do from time out of mind.
Extremes meet, and over-refinement is as dangerous
to morality as over-coarseness. Bet this, we take it,
is a truth too subtle for the limited comprehension of
Sir PETER LAURIE.

Madrid papers of the 18th have arrived.
The differences between the QUEEN and her Con-
sort have risen to such a height, that the propriety
of adopting immediate measures to secure a divorce
has, it is said, been discussed in the Cabinet.
All the Ministers have returned to Madrid, leaving
the QUEEN alone at Aranjuez, to which place Senor
OLOZAGA. had gone at the command of her
MAJESTY, it was said to 'advise on the• state
of affairs between ISABELLL and her husband.

It was rumoured in Madrid that a new Ministry
was about to be formed, comprising GOneral SER-
RANO and Senors MENDIZABAL and OLOZAGA, and
that ESPARTERO would be created a Senator, and no-
minated Ambassador to London.
MADRID BOLSA, MAY 18.—Threes, 304 ; Fives, 19.
Exchange on London, 49 35.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.
They confirm the truth of the report of the death of
Mr. O'CoN NELL. That illustrious man died at Genoa
on the. 15th of May. The following letter troia th
Rev. Dr. MILKY, his chaplain, addressed to the editor
of the Univers, and publihed in that journal, leaves
us no longer any roum to hope or doubt :

" Genoa. May 17.
" Alas, my dear friend, O'Contn 11 is dead! ru
completely overwhelmed with the blow that Ise ~oct
incapable of writing. His death was serene a ppy,
fur it was sanctioned by the sacraments, and-....rated
by the consolations which our divine religion lavishes
with so much mercy on its children. He replied at first
in wceds. and afterwards with look and gesture, to the
exhortations which I addressed to him up to the last mo-
ment. He rendered up the last sigh, with the calm of
an infant that falls off to sleep, on Saturday, at twenty
five minutes to ten at night. He requested his heart—
that heart which always beat for the cause of religion
and liberty—to be taken to Rome. We have had that
noble heart embalmed, and have enclosed it in a ailve•r
urn. The body, which has also been embalmed, will re-
main here in a chapel until our return from our pilgrim.
age to Rome with his heart; and then he will be trans
ported to his native mountains, to remain there to the
day of resurrection. The heart of O'Connell at Rome,
his body in Ireland, and his soul in heaven—is nut that
what the justice of man and the mercy of Gud demand?
Adieu."

A letter published in the Journal des Dthats gives
the following account of his last moments :
" Genoa. May 16.
" He (Mr. O'Connell) only spoke a very few words
to his physician ; and these were to make an earnest
request that the coffin should not be closed too soon over
his remains, because he was sure (he said) that he would
have the appearance of being deref before yielding up
his last sigh His most ardent wish was to reach Rome,
and to receive the benediction of Pius IX., and in the
course of his journey he expressed a wish that, if he
should die on the way, his heart would at least be sent
to the capital of the Catholic world. This idea is said
to have been sui!gested to him by the recollection of
Robert Bruce, who, befell) dying. requested that his
heart might be deposited in the 11,,1y S .pulchre. The
wish of O'Conni 11 will be fulfilled, and, in conformity
alse with his last wishes, his body will be carried to
,t
Ireland."
M. GUIZOT on Saturday presented a Bill to the
Chamber of Deputies for the hett' r ;iilminivration of
justice
etnbi..ra of the Cour Royale of each colony,
who are in the French grants
to six nlo torte the Lelia
court, the right It ran
dictiou criminal
of jurits
s-
ut all cases where a free
per has a ooni-

plaint against a slave, or a slave against a free person.
It takes away the jurisdiction of the assize court:, in
such cases, but leaves to them the jurisdiction in
cases where justice is demanded between slaves
and slaves, or between freemen and freemen. The
Bill will be discussed in a few days. During
the course of the debate some horrible details were
given of the cruelties practised on the slaves in the
French colonies under the present system. A Bill
has been introduced, allowing an advance of
13,600,000 f., in nearly equal portions, to the Paris
and Lisle, the Marseilles and Avignon, and the Or-
leans and Vierzon Railways.
A project of law was presented to the bureaux to
restore the right guaranteed by the charter, of having
all case s of libel tried before a jury, the law courts bay-
ing recently ruled that libels upon public functionaries
might be tt ied by the j udges alone, without the interven-
tion of a jury. The Beaurocracy of the Chambers,
however, have refused even to discuss the project for
restoring to the press the rights guaranteed by the
charter. This reminds us of the worst days of the
ifinisttre deplorable. The proposal for excluding rail-
way shareholders from the Chambers was rejected
almost unanimously.

The accounts of the state of the manufacturing
population is gloothy in the extreme. Before the
end of the month 50,000 inen will be out of employ at
Rouen. 1,600 men have been discharged from the
calico print-works in the neighbourhood of Paris, and
the directors of the Lyons RailwAy have declared
that unless they receive assistance from the Govern-
ment, they must discharge 30,000 of their workmen
The Gazette dos Tribunal= states, that on Satur-
day last, at twelve o'clock, the Committee appointed
by the Court of Peers to investigate the charge
against General CUBIERES received the deposition of
M. DELPHIN LENOIR, one ot the shareholders in the
mines of Gouhenans, and of M. THIRRIA, secretary
to the Mining Company. General Cunizals under-
went a further examination, which lasted until half-

past five o'clock. M. PA RAI HISITI ER, having published

and distributed to the members of the two Chambers
a pamphlet entitled " Short Observations," General
CUBIERES has addressed a complaint to the Attorney
against M. PARMEIVTIER on the subject of it.

Very little business was done in the Funds in
Paris on Sunday, the beauty of the weather having
attracted nearly all the world to the country. The
Three per Cents. were, however, still more firm than
on Saturday, the price being 78f. se. (buyers). Our
letters contain the following provincial and German
stock lists :
MARSEILLE4, MAY B.—Marseilles and Avignon, 717 f.
50c.; Northern, 598 t. 75(.; Pans said Lyons, 432 F. 50e.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAI- 22.

Luxembourg. IN3 —Namur and Liege, Oa—Northern a
France, 1 lA—Paris and Lyons, 51%.

IRELAND.
THE GE \ ERAL ELECTION.

DUBLIN, MAY 23.—1 t. anticipation of a dissolution of
Pa►hament during the summer, there' is much specula-
tion afloat as to probable changes in the representation
of Ireland, and some resignations are actually deter-
mined up,in. Owing to the terrible state of distress
which affeets the higher as w.•Il as the lower classes, and
he state of collapse into which all political parties in this
country seem to nave sunk there will be less of interest
or excit.m• nt about the next elecii• ns than usually
occurs in Ireland. We notice a lew of tie places where
changes are either certain or very probahle:—
QU!•;EN'S COUNTY —The Hon. Thomas Vesci, it is
statett, ret.res on account of the state of health of his
father, Lord de Vesci; and the resignation of the other
Member, Sir Charles Coote, is also spol.en of. Mr.
Fitzpatrick, who has inherited a large portion of tie
o,sory roperty, and was formerly Member for the
county, is to start on tie Liberal inter, st. It is pro-
bable that Mr. Firzpatrick and a Conservative will be
returned without a contest.

KING'S COUNTY.—If the present Members come for-
ward, it is quite likely they would be roturited ; but
should either Sir Andrew Armstrong or Colonel Wes-
tenra retire, Mr. Cassidy, ktf ilionastereven, and other
candidates, on .he Liberal interest, would be in the field.
The Conservatives, too, might try their chance.
WESTMEATIL-Mr. Tui•es' re•ignatinu has been de-
termined upon. The other member. Mr. Chapman wilt
again be a candidate. Mr. John Ennis is spoken of
amongst the new candidates. A contest here is likely,
but it is only by divisions amongst the Liberals that the
Conservatives have a chance.

WiciLLow.—Lord Milton cornea. forward for„ this
county in place of Colonel Auton, the retiring Conserva-.
Live candolate, and that Noble Lord will .be returned
with one of to•e present members,`Sir. Baiph Howard.
Mr. Stanley Munch, nephew and heir of Lord Ratite!own,
is to be started by a section of the Conservatives ; but
he has no chance. The return of Lord Milton and Sir
Ralph Howard will be supported by the great prpponde
rating interests in the county—namely, those of Lord,
Fi z*llliam, Wicklow,
Meath, Carylifort, and the La-
touches.

KILDARE.—There will tut a change in the representa
tion of this county. The Marquis of Kildare, son of the
Duke of Leinster, conies fin ward, and his return may be
considered quite certain. Mr. Moore O'Ferrall is can
vossing, and if he should be supported by the Leinster
into rest, his return might also be caleulated upon, even
though he should be opposed by the Repealttrs. It is
rumoured that Mr. Archbold intends to retire fawn Par-
liamentary life.
MEATH.—A change in this county is also probable.
Mr. Ford, town-clerk of Dublin, has been ca.led upon by
the Repeaters, but has not )et decided. It is stated that
Mr. S. Winter, of 'fulls. hard, will be called upon to
stand on the Whig interest. It is likely that either 01
the present Members will be under the necessity of re•
tiring. Mr. Corbally has the better chance of the two
but Mr. Henry Graitan's prospects are very gletitny.
The Conservatives talk of starting one candidate, proba-
bly Mr. Limb.,rt.
WEXFORD.—In this county Mr. Grogan Morgan, on
the Conservative interest, will seek to wrest one of the
seats from the Lib..rals.

CITY OF LINIERICH.—It is announced that Mr. Kelly
is to retire, because, us the Limerick Examiner says, he
conceives it to be useless, in the pi esellt position of the
Ropetd movement, to go the British Parliament, to take
any part in the legislation of that assembly. The Irish
Aletnbi rs (that journal adds) meet nothing at every turn
in the senate but contumely, sneer, insult, ignorance,
and derision.

LIMERICK, MAY 22.—DEATH of JAMES WATSON,
ESQ —This gerel, man. after sutfei iig some day s from
the wounds inflicted by his assassins, died last evening
;it seven o'clock. surrounded on his dying bed by a most
afflicted wilow and her little orphans. The magistrates
of the barony aro summoned to meet at KiUaloe, on
Wednesday next, to consider what means it is fit to adet.t
in consequence of the murder of Mr. Watson, and the
.iiangerous state of the country. Her Majesty's Govern-
:meat -has off,-red a reward of 1001. for the apprehension
sad conviction of the guilty parties.
• . Michael Lacy, from the neighbourhood of Glenomera,
against
police,innstrwhomprivateasone of the
i nt o rm t io n
menwh
was
o attacked received by
the
t
Watson, was arrested on Thursday, on board the Co-
quimbo, passenger vessel, in the Pool, and taken before
the magistrates, who did not conceive the grounds of
suspicion strong enough to warrant the detention of the
prisoner, who was discharged.
Four men were arrested in Liallingarry yesterday, on
suspicion of being of the party engagcd in the tecent
conflict with the police at Liskennett.
The seed corn of Government brought to Kilrush and
Tarbert last month, for the immediate use of farmers
only, and supp,sed to be in the ground tnis month, is
now tiudiog its way gradually into the Limerick market,
having been, we apprehend, bought up by jobbers.
contrary to the express inttnti‘m of Government.—
Limerick Chronicle.
THE MODEL KITCHEN.—SOUTH DUBLIN RELIEF
DIS rater —A most :suitable foe dity ha, been fix:ed upon
for the more permanent erect-on .of M. Stye: 'R
model
kitchen for the p eparation of food under the stirrer-
intendence of the South Dublin Union Relief Com
tuittee. The place is in Cork-sweet, and the
supply of water is from the river Tonge, which
is one of the principal sources for the south city
basin, and is the purest water supplied to the
city of Dublin. It forms one of the boundaries of
the concerns. There are ample stores and out build-
ings for every purpose of cookery anti baking. It
is intended tie rect a steam engine for the mixing of
the dough and making stirabeut, which manual labour
could not possible accomplish in time to meet the demand,
having due regard to economy, as well as to supply the
150,0004%.
kitchen with steam. A bakehouse on a new principle, in-
vented. by M. Sober, will form one of the most important
features of the establishment, and in it bread will be sup-
plied at an ext.ense of one penny and two fifths per lb.;
the quantity to be bsked will amount to at least
in the
rated at 41 tons of rice, and 41 tons of Indian meal per
last, whichß' week,that the amount will be trebled
and it is expected
in a short time.
Per week. The consumption at present is
FATAL ACCIDENT. —Mr. William Irwin, late surgeon
proved fatal. Mr. Irwin was obliged to keep a
gun constantly loaded in the house, for some time back, in
ral Navy, met with an accident on Monday
consequence of having been attacked by robbers some
months ago. The deceased, rho was an invalid for a num-
ber of years went. as usual, to sit at the kitchen fire
after breakfast. The loaded gun was resting against the
wall behind him, and the servant boy, while in the
act of pulling down his coat, which was hanging up
over the gun, threw it down, and, falling sud-
denly, the result.
of the chair, and an explosion
rinesday afternoon, in
The entire contents, after passing through the bottom of
leendlYie.aclinic.,kmisutapnpeeermwoasst,prslupckyivagainst the lower rail
ttohesc4hyaimr,rl.odlrgwedin iii the
ptihreedloossn'er part of deceased's body.
procured, but we regret
the 5311 year of his age.—Enniskiike Chronicle.

the sysg.,3 of
We are gratified to learn, that in several instances
portion to the increaat.d prices of bread and potatoes.
We have heard of an instance in the neigtibonrhood of
the !anourers have been increased in pro.
Sandwich where2os. per week is given ; and another in
the same district 18s. ;
and also nPar St. Stephen's, Can-
terbury. This is very commends,ble.—Kent

MONEY and COMMERCIAL. NEWS.
(F. um The }tier Last Night.)
The Cottem Market at Liverpool yt sterday was fire
again. Sales 6,000 bales, of which 1,200 were
American for export, end 500 on :peculation. Of the
total quantity sold 4,000 bales were American, at 6d. to
74d. per lb. The market closed firmly.—ln Railway
Shares there was more businoss doing theai for some
time past, and better prices were obtained.
The sa'e of Railway Shares today, by Messrs. La.
mood and Co., was rather firmer; and the prices reedisee
show an improvement upon those of lest sate. The
"ollowit g are a few of the principal sab-s:—
East Indian ....... ............ £o 2 6
Manchester and Southamptor 0 10 0
Anihergate, Nottingham, and Boston 1 6 6
Great Northern .... . „.. 2 2 0
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate
Newmarket and Chesterford, Extension... 2 1 0
North Statfordshire, New Scrip
Windsor, Staines, and South-Western 2 14 0
South Wales
Eastern Counties. York Extension ......
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole 1 7 6
East Lancashire (Scrip)
Louvain ala Sambre 0 18 •
Eastern Counties ..... ........ ........
We have no ship arrivals to-day from any quarter;
but the accounts from the Continent in respect to the
weather and the supplies of grain are as favourable
as those noticed yesterday under this head, and
if the fall in grain can but be established
on two or thrt e succet-sive market days we shall have a
prtssure of supplies little expected some weeks ago. Ii
such be not the case, we will then partly side with those
who stoutly maintain that there is but little grain in the•
country, though we know by experience what the money
power of many large holders will enable them to do.
Upon the whole the aspect of affairs has most decidedly
Unproved ; confidence has been increased, and very
general and sanguine hopes are expressed that the
state of the Money Market must mend. The
directors of the Bank of England have not
had an easy task to perform ; and no doubt
the desire to assist the Government has served
to check their free action. At present the
course is clearer, and we trust the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer a ill find the new bills generally taken up at the
increased interest of 3d. percent= per tiiem. Certainly, if
the bankers and capitalists have much cash at their
disposal, a rate exceeding 44 per cent. upon a
security held for Itterely temporary purposes, and
always sate and convenient, is not to be pronounced in-
adequate, especially if there can be any dependence
plated upon the Batik of England, and the continuance
of loans upon long dated paper, as low as 51
to 5 per cent. per annum. The effect of a
funding of bills would be injurious in mon
respects than one, although the country would save
tor the time being the difference between 44 and 3 per
cent. paid upon its floating and fixed obligations respec-

Lively.
Perhaps there is at the present moment no place abroad
to which parties here look with wore anxious expectation
tor an improvement in the Mte•ey Market than P ris.
The embarrassed position of the railway companies, the
reiterated statements of a probable new loan, and the
tendency of French speculators generally, to " lose
heart the moment a cloud hovers over the
financial horiz,n, these combined are circumstance,
that constantly keep in cheek here the more buoy ant
feeling which ever and anon displays itself.
The Funds have been very well supported, but there
has been again a dogged r:•loetauce to deal, because
neither Bulls nor Rears will exhibit any symptoms of
being the weaker party. To morrow the " options" will
show, to use a common, but expressive saying
" which way the cat jumps." Consols have been
87} for transfer, some indication that stock
is in request, but only 874 s for account.
Exchequer bills have been quoted par to 2s.
premium. The New Three-and•a-Quarter per Cents.
have been 87:,,A to 88. Bank Stock has been steady at 189.
In the Foreign Market there is as little as ever passing.
Portuguese Four per Cents. have been 331 j to 34. Dutch
Four per Cents. are 884. Danish Bonds have been
at 84.
Business in the Share Market is still very dull, but
ho:ders do not press sales and obtain fuller prices. It
appears to us that this caution on all hands is satisfac-
tory, and is the best possible preparative fora steady
improvement.
ottlioni FUNDA

ONE
O'CLOCK.
Sauk stock .. • • 190
:Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities 863p4
liree per Cent. Console Annuities 87)i, 4 14
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anus. 88 87%
Long Annuities, Expire .lan. 8, 1)+60 .. 87i 9
Ditto. 30 years. Oct. 10, 1859 .. 8- 13-16 %
Ditto. 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 9N,34
tadia,,Ronds. 1.0001.
Ditto. under 1.0001. .. • • .. par.

Consols for May 27 • a7%M,
1, ,xchequer
par 2 p
6001. 4 I p
Ditto. Small •• •• 6 3 p
4/I,IE
OTA.OOK.

CLOSIN
PR 'ES.

86%
87%
87%
9
834
9%

par
87 IA

CLOSIIN

FOUL:I(4N FUNDS.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent ..
Danish, 3 per Cent • .
Viey.ican Bonds. 1846. A per Cent ..
Peruvian Bonds. 6 per Cent. ..
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent ..
• Ditto, 3 per Cent .. .. • • • •
Ditto. 4 per Cent .. • • .. •• 34 33% 342
Russian Bonds .• .. .. •• 110 110
Sdantsll Bonds. 5 per Cent ..

Ditto. tor the Account .. ..
Venezuela bonds, '2 per Cent ..

Dividend.; on the above payable in London.

Dutch Two-and-a-flair per Cent
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates

5814
88% 88%
PRICES OF BUSINESS CLOSING
DONE AT
RAILWAY SHARES. PAID. PRICES
ONE O'CLOCK.
Amber., Nutting., Reston, and
Eastern Jwiction 2% .... 114 .......... I
Eastern Counties . .20 .... 18% 19 19
Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1. 6/ 13s. 4d. ..........
Ditto, ditto.. .. No. 2. 61. I:3s. 4d. • par
Ditto, York Extension .. 7%.... 5% 6.. • . 6
East Lancashire .. .• .. 17 •• • • .. •••• • • • •

Ditto New .. 714 ... 55/. • ..... • •
Ditto, ditto New Scrip • • .. 14. • • . ,4 1........
East Lincolnshire .. .. 6% •• • • 714 3G •••• • • • •

Great Northam .. .. ..

_3i

Y~.

,heat Western .. 85 —lO9lOB 10934
I)itto. Halt :Shares .. 50 .... 63 .. ••• • .
Ditto, Quarter Shares 1234 .... 1634
Ditto, Aew 4%.... 7(%••
Leeds and ltradford • • .. 40 .... 8434
Leeds and Thirsk • • .. 26 .. •• • •
London, Brighton, & south Coast 50 •• • • 51%
i.ondoo au North-Western .. tOO ....171
Ditto, Quarters L. and B. 7 .... 2134 •
I) tto ditto, New Shares • • .. 2 .... 11%
Ditto. 401. Shares M. &B. .. 40 ~. 65 ....
Lotaion and South-Western 411. Gs. 1()d... 62 ...• .. •• • •
Ditto, New .. .. 27 .... 27 • .. ••••
Ditto, Tenths (Consolidated) 50 •• .. 5131 •• .• • • 51(4
Ditto, Tenths (ditto) .. 40 .. •. • ... ••• • • • 404
Lynn and Dereham .. •• 20 •• • • 20% •
danetiester glut •. .. •• 82 • 82 •• • • 98
Ditto, Fifths .. 8%
Ditto, Thirds (iteg.).. ..71.45..... % al. •••• • • • • 16 d
is
Manchester, Buxton, St Matlock 428. .... >4t dis. ....... % dis
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 • • • ...... 14
_lOO ....113 11.5.. •• 1158
Ditto, New 36 • • 36%54 ••• • • - 3
•• 14
Ditto, New .. 6.• 754% •••
Newcastle and Berwick • . .. 20 .• •• ...... •• • • 25%
Ditto, New .. 5 634 %••. •• • •
North British 25 .... 30 ..... 31)%
Ditto. Thirds • • 1 ..• •• •••• •• ••
2%
North Staffordshire 734.. • • 914,% •.••• •• .•
Preston and Wyre.. .. 25 ...• .. 35
Ditto, Half Shares (A) .. 12
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 3% ..... -
Ditto, Class B .. • • .. .. 3 •••• 2
South Eastern and Dovor • 333 .... 35N . .....
Ditto. New du- at 321.) No. 1. 20 .• 19.4% •
Waterford and Kilkenny 13% .... 6 r,3 ... •
West Riding Union ..41. 'L8..... diS• • ......
York and Newcastle .. .. 25 .... 35 34N
Ditto, Preference .. 4 .... 6%34, %
Vora /tad North Midland .. .. 50 82 ._

109aa
642
14;4
7%
8452

.. 2.5 .... 40 3954
FOREIGN RALLWAYS.
N.:,rtbern of France .• .. • • 8 .... I l % ........
Paris ant Lyons .. 8 .... 5 ..........
Paris and Orleans .. .. 20 .... ..........
Paris and Rouen ..
Paris and Strasbourg ..

Ditto, Extension
Ditto, Preference

.. .. 5 .... 1..........

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
British North American .. 50 .... •••••• ••
London and Westminster .. .. 20 .... •• ...• ••
MINES.

51%
171
214.
11%
65

Real del Monte. LjnreitOttered 3i••

353,4
19;i
51,
% (Us
34
6%
82

11%
46%

SUICIDE FROM LOSSES ON THE DERBY --Monday
morning the domestic peace of a respectable family was
disturbed by a painful event arising out of the late
Epsom races. Mr. Frederick Cruso, landlord of the
Crown and Sceptre, Great,Titchfield•street, Marylebone,
poisoned himself with prussic acid. He had latterly
attended much more to sporting matters, races in par-
ticular. than to his business, and from his irregularity of
living it was suspected that his mind was d sordered.
Not long ago. atter some heavy hisses on the turf, he
t'. and his affairs in an embarrassed condition, and, in a
manner that indicated he had a wish to die, desired his
wife to get some charcoal, that they might, children anti
all, ma 'cute themselves. He was a loser to a consider-
able amount on the last Derby, and was to have settled
his bets on 'fuesday evening, but it is supposed he was
unable to meet them. Monday morning he left home
in a cheerful state, and returning at eleven o'clock, went
to his bedroom. Not long afterwards his wi'e entered
the room and found him lying on the floor insensible.
Mr. Webb, a surgeon, was called in immediately, and
tnund that he had taken a large quantity of prussic acid.
The unfortunate man died in ten minutes. After his
death a razor was found in his pocket.
MADAME CELES ra's BEN LTIT. —The talented
dirt-ctress of the admirably-tnanag,-)d Adelphi Theatre
takes her benefit this evenini=, when the beautiful
new drama of the Flowers ofthe Forest will beperforwed,
in which Madame Celeste will sustain her original
character of Cynthia, a character which she has herself
created, and in which the enthusiasm which she excites is
beyond description. The drama will be followed by a
new comedy, in which, in addition to the strength of the
Adelphi company, Mr. Webster will appear ; and the
comedy will be followed by other entertainments. We
expect that the house will be crammed to overflowing
within a few minutes after the doors are opened, and
that those who do not secure places beforehand will
find some difficulty in getting them.
FooD.—on this subject a correspondent says
" Bread might be economised greatly in families by the
use of rich, plain boiled, at dinner, a pound of which, at
threepence, would be enough for nine persons. It is
not in much eqiination, because it is generally not well
prepared, but nothing is more simple, viz.:—Have a
gallon of water boiling—throw in one pound,'of whole
rice, one ounce of salt ; let it boil twenty minutes, turn
it into a sieve, let it drain for a few minutes, take a
couple of forks and toss it up to make it light."