The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-08 00:00:00

the country on the principle of maintaining all
the existing monopolies.
Yesterday the Times inserted the Earl of R.A D-
NOR'S letter, to show that agriculture does not
need protection. It continues to harp on the
popularity of the proposed measures. It in a
manner admits, therefore, the necessity of them.
The Times, at least, whatever Sir R. PEEL may
propose, is evidently preparing to throw the
landlords overboard, in order to obtain for the
Tories the credit of supplying the wants of the
State, while they reduce the burdens of the
people.

The Tories have raised a cry against the Mi-
nisters in order to turn them out, and the in-
stant they are in power they will and must adopt
measures like those they object to. They force
on a dissolution—they disturb and convulse the
country—they avow an intention to .coerce the
QUEEN in the names of Monopoly and Conser-
vatism, and they are preparing, even before they
are in office, to adopt something like the Whig
measures. They are resolved to reap the harvest
which other men have sowed, and they bring
down a large force, raised under false pretences,
to chase the honest husbandman from the field.
This proceeding, if carried out, will be a sort of
political piracy. It can only succeed in the long
run if the people be as corrupt as the Tory poli_
ticians. • We give them credit for much more
honesty.; and whenever the Tories begin to act
on their piratical intentions, they will chase
them from office with the ignominy they deserve.

The doctrines of free trade are making pro-
gress amongst the agriculturists. We have evi-
dence ofthis now lying before us in an "Address to
the Landowners and Farmers of East Cumber-
land, by a Landowner and Farmer,"published. at
Carlisle, and in two speeches delivered at Rye, in
Sussex, on this day week. The address to the
landowners and farmers is an able as well as ex-
tensive production, and it goes at length into the
subjects of Corn-laws, and sugar and timber du-
ties. Our readers will see much good sense in the
following passages:—
It appears to me, therefore, that the whole derange-
ment or contraction of our currency, and consequent ef-
fect upon our commerce, are traceable to our Corn-law§
and other restrictions upon the absolute necessaries of
life, the depression in trade and want of employment
keeping pace with our restricted currency from the
causes before stated; because had a regular importation
of grain been allowed at a moderate fixed duty, markets
would have been open for our manufactures which would
have been bartered for the grain imported, instead of pay-
ing for it in gold, and the exchanges or trade would then
have been properly balanced—the restrictions in the cur-
rency avoided, and consequently the want of labour and
fearful depression in the trade and commerce of the coun-
try, which is paralysing every joint and sinew of its indus-
try. And what is likely to be the consequence of our pre-
sent unwise and partial legislation for the benefit or
supposed benefit of a portion of the community ? It is
ruin to the manufactures and commerce of this great
country, and is likely to drive our merchants and manu-
facturers with their capital to other countries, where
more profitable employment can be found : and what
then will become of our landed proprietors ? They must
sink to their former level by their own wrong-headed-
ness, because it is 'utterly impossible that they can con-
tinue in prosperity when the other great interest is de-
clining. If they think otherwise, they must be the most
besotted of all men : one can hardly for a moment sup-
pose it, yet they must have 'credit for sincerity, but that
only at the expense of their judgment, and that is in
believing the landed proprietors are honestly of opinion
the prosperity of the country depends upon agriculture
alone, and that they can swim whilst the other great
interest is sinking ; such belief, however, can only arise
from ignorance of the subject which it ought to be the
endeavour of every parson to remove, and there are no
means so effectual as discussion in showing them their
true interests, and that by permitting the regular im-
portation of grain, sugar, and timber, at moderate fixed
duties, and encouraging our own manufactures by thus
obtaining .markets for them, we are avoiding our own
ruin, and preventing the destruction of our country.
I won't argue the point as to the question being a
landlord's •or tenant's, for the latter now see, if it be a
question to either, that their interest would scarcely be
affected, and I wish the landowner was equally en-
lightened. The tenants do not despair in being able to
cope with the foreigner with the fixed duty proposed,
and they feel also that they would be benefited in the
general welfare of the country, and that the operatives
(for they, the farmers, are the operatives on the lands)
must sink or swim together. Then, the last question is
over-production by our manufacturers, but that is a
question of degree depending upon the markets open to
them, and certainly if they be shut out as they unques-
tionably are, by our corn, sugar, and timber duties, from
the markets of the world, then over-production is easy
and may be admitted ; but open such markets by an in-
terchange of products and it would be difficult indeed to
cause over-production by the labour of our country, for
we should have a steady and regular demand for our
goods, by which the supply would be regulated almost
to a certainty ; but, under the present system of fraudu-
lent averages and protection, there is nothing but un-
certainty to the agriculturist as well as manufacturer,
and starvation to the labouring class. Indeed a sliding
scale regulated by averages can never be free from the
frauds complained of.
Such sentiments do honour to the East Cum-
berland Landowner; they seem indigenous to the
country, for Sir JAMES GRAHAM was renowned
for the extremes to which he carried his Liberal
opinions, before he was perverted by bad com-
pany, and became a renegade from truth and
honour. Let us now turn, however, from the
north to the extreme south of England. The
Brighton Guardian, published yesterday, con-
tains the speech of the Mayor of Rye, JEREMIAH
SMITH, Esq., whom it describes as an eminent
agriculturist, from which we make the following
extract, recommending it to the perusal of the
farmers all over the kingdom, and to the peru-
sal of landlords who suppose they can for ever
•dupe the farmers:—

The Mayor observed that he felt himself repaid by
tLeir kind approval of his conduct. Their honoured
,Representative had touched upon the Corn-laws.—
( Hear.) As a farmer, he (the Mayor) would give his
opinion as being interested to a slight extent in the cultiva-
tion of land. He had well considered the subject, and was
m nv ready to embark his lot in the fate of the change.
(C heers.) He was well aware that it must soon come—
(llk tar, hear)—and therefore he said, now was the time
to make a good and just bargain. If they as farmers did
not in eet it, the opportunity would be lost.—(Hear.) It
was ;asked what should they do if they did not
grow corn ? He replied, they should grow some-
thing else. He treated it as a question of two farms.—
(Hear..) If this would not grow corn at a profit, it
g could row beef and mutton. In France, meat was now
as mucl t a question with the 'Legislature as corn was
here. :In that country meat was 10d. and ls. a pound.
France was a corn country, England was a grazing coun-
try ; and while they could grow corn, we could find
meat, hops, and other articles.—(Cheers.) We could
not sttind still, we must go on or fall, and therefore we
must show that we can meet all nations.—(Hear, hear.)
He knew they could grow corn cheaper than we could ;
but th en we can grow plenty of things better and cheaper
than they can, and if we could trade, and get a profit,
we shouAd not be sufferers. New, marnets would daily
open to lus which we cculd supply ; but, if we restricted
others fr, mm coming here, how could they meet us in re-
turn ?—( Cheers.)

At the same dinner Mr. Sm.:vas was present,
who ;s one of the 'best known farmers of Surrey.
He some slime ago contended for a wager that
he would produce a hundred head of finer cattle
of his own breeding than Earl SPENCER. The
Earl won the wager; but that Mr. SELMES could
contend with him is a proof that he is no mean
agriculturist. He is, in fact, an authority on
that subject, and his words, therofdre, are worthy
the attention of his brother farmers :
Mr. Seli nes said, with respect to the Corn-laws, his
opinions ware well known. When the present Corn Bill
was passed in 1828, he was one of a Committee sitting
in London to watch the progress of it ; and could
assure them that up to the night of being brought
before the House, it was. a question with the
Ministry if it should be a fixed duty or a sliding scale.
The prey-ant scale was adopted, and he considered it was
was for the be st, because the farmers then as a fixed
duty expected at least twenty shillings a quarter.—(Hear.)
Experience had, however, convinced him that both were
wrong, the farmers in wishing for so great a protection
which could never have been maintained, and the Go-
vernment in adopting the sliding scale.—(Hear, hear.)
He was satisfied a fixed duty was the best for all parties.
In 1829 they had corn at 365. per quarter ; in 1840 they
had wheat at 78s. per quarwr. In what way, he would
ask, did thz, present laws accomplish the end intended
by them of replating the price of wheat so as to give a
steady protection to the farmer:?—(Hear, hear.) Or
did they make it benefieial to the country at large ? In a
few years no less than seven millions of gold had been sent
out of the country for corn. That could not be for the
benefit of the country.—(Hear.) He certainly consi-
dered, -now that the . Poor-laws were altered, the farmers
were not entLled to the same kind of protection they
were entitled to some years ago.—(Applause.) He was
not A commere;al man, but he could not understand on
what .gropqcls
,a merchant could send out goods to take
corn in return with a duty of 245. against him. There
was not now a trade in corn ; but when we were
pin hell. for 'it, and must have it, we were obliged to '
sen far it. If the duty were fixed, all persons
could trade. He firmly believed that if a duty of from
ten to eight shillings a quarter were fixed, prices would
be witch -rtes .dier, and general trade more flourishing.
—(Cheers.) Seasons, they knew, must affect them to
some extent ; but so it would all other countries at
times. He could not think the present law had done
anything to. regulate their prices, and no man
could enter a farm with safety, nor could the 1

tradesman make a contract without risk, on account
of the great fluct:iation in corn.—(Hear, hear, and.
Applause.) He had always treated it as a dangerous
question, and that if they went wrong they could not,
speedily set themselves right again • but .they had now
experience before them. He considered they had now
a reasonable chance of fixing a duty which might be,
maintained. He had for some time looked upon it that
it must come, and this was the time to make the best
bargain ; but if the Tories obtained the Government,
circumstances would be different, /Ind the bargain would
be a worse one for the farmers.—(Hear, hear.) Since
1829 there had been eleven millions of quarters of corn
imported at the average duty of ss. 9d., and only a year
ago the ports were open at a shilling a quarter for two
months, and therefore he could not understand where
the danger was of imuidating this country with corn ;
it was not done at a shilling a quarter, and he could not
understand how it could by possibility occur with a duty
of Bs.—(Applause.)

When we can add such practical men as Mr.
SELMES and Mr. SMrrJi, to Earl FITZWILLIAM and
the Earl of RADNOR, as opponents of the present
system, we think it is impossible to have higher
practical and theoretical authority connected
with the Lind, to prove that no injury would be
done to the farmer by the proposed Ministerial

change.

The remarks of Mr. SELMES, relative to the
Poor-laws, are particularly deserving of the atten-
tion of Sir ROBERT PEEL, and that squad of
politicians who tax the people's bread, because,
as they say, they have unjustly taxed the land-
owners' rent. As these gentlemen are very
anxious nicely to adjust, as they say, the
burdens of the different classes, and as
they assign that as the pretext for the
Corn-laws, why should they not proportion the
bread-tax to the burdens on different land ?

The poor-tax has been diminished in England
—did they then have any thought of diminishing
the bread-tax ? No. In Ireland, however, there
was no poor-rate till very lately ; but the land-
lords of Ireland had an equal protection to the
unjustly taxed, as is said, landlords of England.
If the former received only justice then, they
ought, now that a poor-rate is levied in Ireland,
to have a higher tax laid on foreign corn, or in-
justice will now be done them.

Again, in Scotland the poor-rates are little or
nothing ; and why should Scotch grown corn be
equally protected with corn grown in Sussex?
Of course, the same principle applies to the
different counties, and even to different pa-
rishes; and if the burdens of taxation be
a valid reason of, taxing bread, that ought
to vary with every parish, probably, but
certainly with every county, and with the
three parts of the kingdom. There is, however,
no possibility of giving protection to agriculture
in proportion to its burdens in different parts of
the kingdom, nor has the Legislature ever
dreamed of such a thing. All the arguments,
therefore, about the burdens of agriculture are
mere after-discoveries or inventions, paltry
pretexts to excuse a wrong, and gloze over an
indefensible fraud. If the people's bread be
taxed as a balance to the peculiar taxation' thrown
on the land, we call on those who assign that as
a reason for the tax to adjust it accordinc, to the
different burdens laid on the land in England,
Scotland, and Ireland.

We have received several communications from British
merchants engaged in trading with mercantile houses in
Alexandria, complaining that MEHEMET ALI utterly
disregards that condition of the hatti scheriff which fixes
the rate of export duty upon all merchandise throughout
the Turkish empire, and we regret to have to add on the
authority of letters direct from Alexandria, that these
complaints are well-founded. A Correspondent at Malta,
usually well informed upon all matters connected with
:he East, assures us that Commodore Sir CHARLES NA-
PIER addressed a letter to the Pacha in May last, re-
presenting to his Highness in very energetic terms,
that he had not redeemed the pledges made
to the Gallant Commodore to restore the Syrian
prisoners to their freedom, and to remove all, obstacles
to that freedom of trade which the SULTAN had granted
to all his subjects. The answer of his Highness the
VICEROY was satisfactory. He assured the Commo-
dore that whatever remained to be done was owing to
the unsettled state of affairs, but that having accepted
and promulgated this firman, the time was arrived to
carry it faithfully into effect. With regard to the
monopoly,our Correspondent says that the Pacha's letter
stated that it would be abolished in a " manner agree-
able to the interests of the country,"—a phrase which
he appears to think has a very suspicious sound in the
mouth of such a master of the chicanery of diplomacy
as MEHEMET ALL. However, it is gratifying to know
that something has been done in the way of reminding
MEHEMET ALI that the British Government is not likely to
submit to the deprivation of any boon which thoSuuram
has conferred upon British subjects trading with any part
of the Turkish empire. The VICEROY, moreover, will
soon discover that it is not his interest to fall to logger-
' heads with a Government whose influence can be second
to none in securing to him and his family the Pachalic
of Egypt, and if need be, of obtaining for him from the
Porte the remittance of a considerable amount of the im-
posed tribute.
Letters just received from Vienna state that the Porte,
alarmed at the progress of the insurrections in its Eu-
ropean provinces has consented to establish a Chris-
tian Government at Jerusalem. We trust this news
is well founded. Before Commodore Sir CHARLES NA-
PIER left the Coast of Syria, he perceived the necessity
of uniting the towns of Beyrout, Saida, and Tripbli, as
far as the plains of Bekar, under the jurisdiction of the
EMIR BESCHIR, Prince of LEBANON, whom he deemed
it advisable that the Porte should invest with the rank
of Pacha. As Prince of the Mountains the Kum
might dispense with the title, but to maintain uniformity
in the administration of the Turkish rule, we approve of
the Commodore's suggestion that the territory in ques-
tion should form a Pachalic. As to the EMIR himself,
and the mountain tribes who acknowledge his authority,
no arrangement could be more popular. It
would in fact., be restoring to the Emin
territory of which former Governors had de-
prived him for imputed acts of treason ; it would.
give the Prince and his family unbounded confidence in
the good faith of the Porte ; and it would raise up in
Syria a power capable of protecting the Porte from any
machinations of MEHEMET ALI in that quarter. We
believe the EMIR himself is most anxious to receive some
especial mark of Imperial approbation, and that he rests
his hopes of success upon the influence of Great Britain
at
,Constantinople. Shoald the news from Vienna re-
late to his advancement to.the Government of Jerusalem,
we shall hope soon to hear of an improved state of
affairs in Syria.

The Madrid papers of the 28th supply us with no
news worth relating. It was rumoured that the capital-
ists of the bank of St. Ferdinand had submitted a series
of propositions concerning the loan to the Minister of
Finance, but their nature had not transpired. The Go-
vernment have published the price of coupons, which
have fallen to 21. Fives for Account (60 days) were at
261. to 27.

The Paris news of Monday is not of much interest,
the intervention of Sunday affording in general a cessa-
tion of political business, even in the anti-Sabbatical
metropolis of the gay nation.' Our correspondence of
that date brings us few facts of importance, the principal
one being that the KING and Royal Family had returned
rather unexpectedly to Neuilly from their excursion in
Normandy. It was generally expected that they would
have gone on to their chateau at Bu ; but this project
has been suddenly counter-Ordered, and they have come
back. It is supposed that LOUIS PHILIPPE, aware of
the communication from the British Government urging
France to accede to the last protocol of the Conference
of London, has been anxious to direct this matter him-
self, more especially since Marshal SOULT is in the coun-
try, and the KING iS not fond of leaving too much in M.
Guizoes power. It had surprised many people that the
KING should have left the neighbourhood of the capital
with all the Royal Family. The Dukes of ORLEANS
and NEMOURS accompanied him, and in case of an enteute
having taken place, there was not a single member of the
Royal Family capable of acting remaining on the spot.
Some sudden reminiscence of this kind may have dis-
turbed the rural meditations of the KING, and have re-
minded him that, like an Italian Podesta of the middle
ages, he holds a wolf by the ears, and must not let go
on pain of being devoured himself.

It is said that the house, or rather houses of ROTHS-
crimp are ready to issue the new Russian loans, and that
in a few days an emission of this paper may be expected
in Paris.

A rumour had reached Paris from the Levant that
the Ambassadors of the Four Powers at Constantinople
had given the Porte to understand that their sovereigns
would not be displeased at seeing Syria formed into an
independent State, and Candia placed under the protec-
tion of Russia. This combination is said to have origi-
nated with Prince METTERNIcit, but the report does not
bear such evident marks of probability as to entitle it to
immediate credit.

The riots in England caused by the elections, and es-
pecially those at Liverpool, have caused a painful feeling
among the more reflecting portion of the French public.
The papers point exultingly to what they call the barba-
rism of the British nation, and mans• reflecting men dis-
pute our claim to that high degree of civilization which
we undoubted possess. The wholesale bribery and cor-
ruption, too, by which so many seats have boen carried,
have opened a door for the animadversion of our Parisian
Contemporaries, of which they have not been slow to avail
themselves.

The.son of the Duke DECAZES was sent some time
since to St. Petersburgh, and it is now said that his mist
sion was to obtain the consent of the CZAR to the mar-
riage of the Prince de JOINVILLE with the Princess
SoPHIA of Orange. He is a rather young diplomatist to
be entrusted with an affair of so delicate a nature, and he
is not very likely to succeed in it.
Le Gall9is, publisher of the Abby Constant's Bible de la

Liberte , has been taken into custody in execution of the judg-
ment of the Cottrt, of Assizes in May last, which condemned
him to three months' imprisonmeht, 300 f. fine, and the costs
of the prosecution, for publishing this work.
The Court of Cassation, on Saturday, annulled a sentence
of death, passed by a Council of War, at Bona, on the It9th
February, upon four natives accused of robbing and attempt-
ing 4o murder some carriers on the road from Bona to Con-
Eaan tizta. The decision of the Supreme Tribunal is founded
on the fact that the accused, not being military men, were not
l p
liable to military law. Fortunately the sentence has not bee
carried into execution, as was the ease with Taleb-el-Chour ,
who was executed without waiting for the result of his appea ,
the merits of which are to be decided upon in a few days. The
Procureur- General has expressed himself strongly before the
Court in favour of this appeal.
A Nantes paper mentions that as the Cure of Brelonx was
crossing an open plain, some dabs ago, during a thunder storm,
with an umbrella expanded over his head, it was struck by
lightning, but not burnt, while the electric fluid fell to the
ground in a multitude of little sparks at his feet, and he re-
ceived no further injury than the pain arisit g from a smart
electric shock.

The temale boa-constrictor at the Garden of Plants recently
hatched three eggs, and the three young serpents that have
issued from them are of the greatest beauty.,
On Saturday, between nine and ten in the morning, as a
respectably-dressed female, about thirty years of age, was
walking on the Boulevard St. Martin, nt ar the theatre of the
Ambigu Comique, she was observed suddenly to fold her arms
over her bosom, and fall to the ground. A bystander imme-
diately picked her up, and saw to his horror, when he had
forced open her arms, that she had plunged a knife into her
bosom, and was bleeding profusely. Surgical aid was called
in, and her wound was pronounced to be of a very dangerous
nature. Neither the name of this female nar the motive for
her act are known.

A lady residing at Buc, between Meudon and Versailles, for
her health, occasionally amused herself with firing at small birds
in the garden of the house where she lodged. One (lay last
week, while thus employed, she let fall a number of percussion-
caps, and a little girl who was with her stooped to pick them
up. In risingagain she accidentally caught the trigger of the
gun with her frock, and, the muzzle being turned towards her,
discharged the contents into her own body, instantly killing
her. The lady was so much affected by this lamentable acci-
dent that she became delirious, and fears are entertained that
she will never be restored to her reason. Buc was nearly on
the same day the scene of another deplorable catastrophe. A
boy, only ten years old, of ungovernable temper, having been
corrected by his mother for a fault, carried into execution a
threat he had often made, and hung himself in a stable. A few
few yews ago another boy of about the same age committed
suicide in the same village, because he was corrected for play-
ing truant.

bn Saturday evening the weather, which had been rather
cool for some weeks past, became suddenly much warmer, and
at midnight the thermometer stood at 18 degrees above zero of
the Centigrade scale, or 64i of Fahrenheit. At 7 o'clock yes-
terday morning it had risen to 21 C., or 70 F. ; at noon to 27
2.10 C., or 81 F. ; and at 2 o'clock to 28 2.10 C., or 821 F.
During the morning, however, and while the sky was perfectly
cloudless, the barometer fell considerably, and and about 5 in
the afternoon clouds gathering thickly in the west portended a
storm. The wind rose, and drove before it with much violence
a tremendous cloud of dust, which between 6 and 7 extended
all over the metropolis. The wind then shifted to the N. W.,
and a thunder-storm ensued, attended with heavy rain, which
lasted till nearly nine o'clock. The thermometer still remained
at a high point.
We quote the following from the Caen Journal In 1450
was fought the battle of Formigny, in Normandy, which was
,followed by the expulsion of the English, who for thirty-three
'years had kept that country under subjection. In 1486, the
hero of that battle, John de Bourbon, in performance of the
vow he made on gaining the victory, erected a chapel on the
field, dedicated it to Saint Louis, and founded a perpetual mass,
to be said daily by two priests for the repose of the souls of
those who fell. In 1672 it was raised to the rank of a chapel
royal by the great Conde. Although during the first revolu-
tion this chapel was converted into a granary, it was so far
respected as a monument of glory that the building suffered no
mutilation; and King Louis Philippe having determined on
restoring it, has given orders for the commencement of the
works."

The cup or vase which the Duke of Orleans determined to
send to be run for at the next Goodwood Races, in return for
that won by his horse last year, is finished, and will be sent off
to England this day. It was exhibited for two days at the
Jockey Club, and may be thus described :—lt weighs 43 mares,
or 344 ounces, and measures in height 21-1 inches, and in width
131 inches. Its form is of the age of Francis 1., with two
ansers composed of figures of Victory with displayed wings,
supporting a wreath of the acanthus, gracefully wrought round
the neck of the cup. The lower parts of the ansers divide the
surface of the cup into two compartments, one of which con-
tains a representation in relief of a tournament of the 15th cen-
tury; and the other, the carousal given by Louis XIV. in
1668, in front of the Tuileries. The costumes of the knights
are copied from plates and drawings made at the time, and
preserved in the Royal Library. On four medallions are, an
English race-horse mounted by his jockey—a Limousin horse
ridden in the French style—a German horse and an Arabian,
each mounted by riders of their respective countries. At the
oot is an escutcheon with the cypher of the Prince Royal, sup-
ported by two armed men, and spaces for the insertion of the
names of the winning horse and his owner, the date of the race,
&c. The cup was executed by M. Klagmann, who made the
rich sculptured ornaments of the sword presented by the city to
the Count de Paris, and was finished by M. Durand, the gold-
smith, who gained the first medal at the exhibition of the useful
arts in 1839. It is valued at 500 guineas.
CURIOUS INSTANCE OF AVARICE.—An elderly woman at
Beaune, in the Cote-d'Or, although possessing property known
to produce her an income of 40,000 f., lived in a wretched
garret, lying on a flock bed, with no other covering even in
the coldest nights than an old worn blanket. As there was a
large chest in her room, it was generally believed that she
kept a considerable sum of money amassed in it. This ru-
mour tempted some robbers, who resolved to explore its
contents. Having got into the room during the absence of
its wretched tenant, they soon broke open the supposed
treasury, but instead of heaps of gold and silver, they first
saw roll out of the receptacle a human skull, followed by other
dry bones. This unexpected display of the remains of mor-
tality struck the rogues with terror, and they instantly fled
without making any further search. The explanation of this
extraordinary result exposes an instance of avarice perhaps un-
equalled. To the Magistrates, who were called in on the dis-
covery of the attempt, the old lady confessed that she formerly
had a daughter whet died at Paris, and was buried in ground
taken only for a limited term of years. When this period was
elapsed she determined, rather than pay the price to secure the
remains of her daughter a perpetual resting place where they
were, and which would here cost but a trifling sum, to have
them put into a crest, and brought to her own miserable dwel-
ling, where they had been for many years in quiet, until dis-
turbed by the cupidity of the thieves who had broken the
sanctuary. The rogues, it appears, have not been discovered,
and, for the sake of decency, the Magistrates have compelled
the penurious woman to put herself to the expense of having
the bones of her child re-interred in consecrated ground.
BOURSE—PARIS, MONDAY, JULY 5.

first Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price.. Price
French 5 ocr Cents ll5 ... 115 ... 1 4 51 ... 114 tO
4% per Cents .....
4 per Cents 99 '25 ... 99 2 i ... 99 23 .., 99 23
' 3 per Cents. ex. div 76 50 76 60 ... 76 36 ... 76 30
Oink of France
Lallitte Hank I.ooof. SI ares 10. 0 ...10:,0 ...1650 ...1050
5,000 f. Stares 5150 ...5150 ...5151 ...5150
Belgian 5 per Cents.
3 per Cents 69 tO ... 69 50 ... 69 50 ... 69 5J
New Loan lOl% ... 11% ... 1011 ... 101%
ipanish Active 22% ... f',2% ... ...2% ... 12%
Passive 5 ... 5 ... 5 ... 5
RAILWAY SHARES.
R. Germain
Versailles. L. 8...........
LB 322 50 ... 322 50 ... 317 50 ... 317 50
Orleans . ....... .. ••••••••••••••• 482 50 ... 482 50 ••• 4EO ... 480
Strasbuie to 8a1;"...... 233 75 ... 225 ... 2133 75 ... 235

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING.

The accounts from the West India islands
present no feature of novelty, having been
partly anticipated by the advices via the United
States.

According to a return -made up to the Ist
instant, it appears that the stock of Tea in
London is 27,047,661 lbs. against 37,322,250 lbs.
at the corresponding date of last year. The
consumption of the article has been increasing
considerably this year.
The Stock Market was flat again to-day, being
affected by the continued failures in the City. Con-
sols for immediate transfer were s per cent. lower,
being at 894 to 4, and for Account they were
marked 891 to 4, both without the dividend. Ex-
chequer Bills receded to 163. and 13s. premium,
and India Bonds were ss. premium. Bank Stock
was worth 169 to 170, the New Three-and-a-Half
per Cents. realised 984 to 1, and the Three per
Cent. Reduced Annuities 891 to 4 ex.-dividend.
The bargains in the Foreign Market were ex-
tremely limited. Spanish Active Bonds were
21 to 4 ; Portuguese New, 301 to 31, being each
lower; Chilian 60; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents. 51 to I.
All the Railway shares gave way slightly to-
day. Great Western were done at 24 to 25 ; the
New, at 11; the Fifths, at 64 to ; the Birming-
ham and London Thirds, 214 ; the New, 23 to
224 ; the York and North Midland, 24 ; and the
South Western, 161 premium. Brighton, 54 to
64 ; Midland Counties, 12 ; and North Midland,
314 discount.

(From The Snn of Last Night.)
Her Majesty's packet Seagull has arrived with the West
India mail, having sailed from Barbadoes on the 17th May,
St. Lucia 18th Nay, Martinique and Dominica 19th, Guada-
loupe 20th, Antigua 22d, Nevis and St. Kitt's 24th May, St.
Thomas 26th, Jamaica June 2. She brings a freight of
80,000 dollars. Money is represented as being extremely
scarce in the colony, and commercial distress prevailing to an
alarming degree, owing to the unsettled state of Columbian
affairs, as no remittances had been for some time received from
that quarter. Numerons failures had taken place, and trade
was almost stagnant.
The Great Liverpool steamer has arrived from Alexandria,
with the remainder of the letters which were left behind by the
overland mail from India.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JULY 6.—We have had
rather a quieter market to-day, being Manchester market-day,
causing a smaller number of bargains. The sales are 3,000
bales, at steady prices.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JULY 6.—A moderate busi-
ness has been done in the Share Market to-day. Edinburgh
and Glasgow, 38k; Great Western Half Shares, 62; Liver-
pool and Manchester Quarter Shares, 40.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 6.—The Market
is rather heavy, caused perhaps by the announcement of some
small failures here, and two at Liverpool.—Manchester and
Leeds, 511 to 52/ • Edinburgh and Glasgow, 371 381 ; Li-
verpool and Manchester, 199 200; Eastern Counties, 8 si ;
Manchester and Stafford Banks, 91.

We regret to learn from the Demerara papers of the Ist of
June, that an accident happened to the Venezuela steamer,
provisioned and victualled, and ready for the voyage to Rio
Janeiro, which prevented her from proceeding on the voyage.
STATE OF BUSINESS IN JAMAlCA.—Attachments are the
order of th day. The example set by the Colonial Bank
is at present generally followed by the mercantile community,
and we much fear that the result will be the ruin of hundreds
of persons—the total destruction of the hopes and prospects
of many who have hitherto been valuable members
of the several communities in which they resided‘ previously to
the establishment of the Banks. It must be admitted that
failures were not so numerous then as they are now ; things
have sadly altered for the' worse; the over liberal encourage..
ment held out by the Colonial and other Banks, and the facility
with which parties procured cash on notes of hand drawn and
endorsed by good, bad, and indifferent ; but so foolish specu-
lations have led to the commercial distresses which now pre-
vail, and which, alarming as it is, has not reached its height;
from this period we may date the death-blow which has been