The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-27 00:00:00

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LONDON, 11ON')AY, APRIL 27, 1846•

Lord CAMPBELL, who has already distinguished him-
self so highly by the judicious legal reforms he has in-
troduced, on Friday added to his well-merited reputation
by moving,the second rearing of two Bills, viz., the
" Deodands Abolition Bill'' and the " Death by Acci-
dent Compensation Bill."

It is difficult to conceive why the law relating to
deodands has been permitted to remain so long in its
present state ; it is one of the relics of the darker
ages. The principle on which it was originally
founded was, that anything by which human life was
destroyed, or its loss was caused, should be forfeited, and
its very name."-deodandP -or lic gift to GoD, izopliesAts

original object, viz., that its value should be applied in
pious uses, for the repose of the soul of the deceased
person. When the State no longer recognised such an
object the Crown retained the forfeiture for its own use,
and in every coroner's inquest a part of the duty of the
jury was to find what was the thing by which the death
was caused, and what was its value. For many years
it was usual for the jury to assess a nominal sum
as the value of the deodand, but when numerous
deaths ensued from railway accidents—many of them
resulting from negligence on the part of the servants or
officials of the company—the almost obsolete law was
revived, for the purpose of inflicting a punishment
where no adequate one was in existence, and large sums
were assessed as the value of the engine or carriages
causing the accident. The magnitude of the
fines inflicted induced the parties interested
to remove the proceedings into the Court of
Queen's Bench, in which they were almost invariably
quashed. Mr. Waienny, who has applied his ea
ex-
perience to a subject so peculiarly within his province as
one of the coroners for the county of Middlesex, has
stated that no benefit whatsoever arose in any instance
from deodatels under the presentlaw. This being the case
it is surely high time that so useless a law should be
abrogated. And we are happy to find that
by the second Bill, which is intimately con-
nected with the former, an efficient and
valuabl., enactment will be substituted in its place.
Hitherfo, by a strange anomaly in the law, although
a person could recover pecuniary damages as compen-
sation for any minor injury he might sustain, caused by
the default or neglect of another, yet, it' the greatest
injury of all was sustained—if death ensued—there was
no remedy for his bereaved family, who might in a
moment be reduced from comfort and affluence to
misery and destitution, without being enabled to obtain
any redress from the person by whom so heavy a loss
was occasioned. A better state of law exists in Scotland
and in all the continental states on this subject. We
have lately seen a sum of two thousand pounds awarded
to the relatives of a person 'who met his death by an
accident on one of the Scotch railways; and in France,
a sum of twenty thousand francs against Monsieur BEAU-
VALLON, as a compensation for the death of the gentle-
man who unfortunately fell by his hand in a duel,
although he was acquitted of the capital charge ; and
we have no hesitation in saying that such decisions
were received with approbation by the public. The
present state of the law forms an exception to the
general rule—that wherever there was a wrung inflicted,
the law should give a compensation. The Noble Mover
seemed to fear that in the Commons difficulties would
be thrown in the way of the Bill passing into a law,
1 from the strength of the railway interest in that House.
We cannot think so badly of our Legislators as to sup-
pose it possible that private interests should be suffered
to impede the progress of a measure so just and equitable
in itself; and one in favour of which there is so strong a I
feeling on the part of the public.

On the 16th Don FRANCISCO DE PAULA held a grand re-
ception in honour of the birthday of his son, Don ENRIQUE.
These journals contain no further intelligence on the sub-
ject of the Ministerial crisis.
MADRID BOLSA, Aran, 17.—Three per Cents., 31% for
Cash; Five per Cents., 204 for Cash; Exchange on Lon-
don, 37%.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.
LaCOMWE was transferred to the Luxembourg prison at
nine o'clock on Wednesday. He states that he fired at the
KING became his MAJESTY in reply to his petition, on the
subject of his pension, had referred him to Count MONSIA•
IIVET, which he considered as tantamount to a refusal.
The Journal des Debats publishes a note which has just
been presented by M. DE BOUTENIEFF to the Court of
Rome, on the subject of the alleged persecutions of the Ba-
silian nuns in Minsk. The Russian Government declares that
it has caused the most searching inquiry to be made as to
the truth of the facts alleged, and it gives the most solemn,
formal, and explicit contradiction to all the statements of the
person calling herself the Basilian Abbess--statements which
are pure fabrications, forming part and parcel of the con-
spiracy for getting up the insurrection which has recently
broken out in the provinces of ancient Poland. This is the
note :
"Additional information to complete the preceding note
on the soi-disant Abbess de Mieczislawska.
"Addition the first.—On her arrival in Paris, the woman
Mieezislawska began by calling herself abbess of the convent
of Kowno, and the Univers observed on this occasion that
the Basilian nuns have been established from time imme-
morial near the village of Kowno. Subsequently the in-
ventors of this fable must have learned that there exists no
convent of Bazilian nuns either in the town of Kowno or the
province bearing that name. It was then that they made
Mieczislawska assume the title of abbess of the convent of
Minsk, which has just as little existence. In more precision
we will remark that up to the year 1834 there was a con-
vent of Bazilian nuns at Minsk, but in that year the convent
was transformed into an hospital. In exchange, the former
convent of the Carmelites at Madgioly, a small town in the
same government, district of Villeika was placed at the dis-
posal of the Basilian nuns, and they were transferred to
Madgioly, with an increase of revenues and other advan-
tages, amongst which was an annual contribution of 1,500
silver roubles, which the abbess of this convent, Lewchetzka,
enjoys to this day. All this passed five years before the
union of the United Greeks with the Church of the State.

Addition 2.—lt has been proved that the Bazilian nuns
who had expressed a desire to live with their relations of the
Roman Catholic faith continue to be with them, and that not
one of them has disappeared.
" Addition 3.—The following is an account of the nine
convents of Basilian nuns, with the names of their supe.
riors at the time of the union :-2. At Wilna, the Abbess
NVichinska ; 2. Grodno, Bolkoona ; 3. `Vitebsk, Kasimirska ;
4. Polosk, Koulechauka ; 5. Pinsk, Korewianks ; 6. Mad-
gioly, Lewchetska (this is the person who was abbess of
Minsk when the convent of that place was transferred
to Madgioly in 1834); 7. Orka, Schthepanowska ; 8.
Polounce, Tchernikowska ; 9. Woliany, Pecbkowska.
Of these nine Basilian convents one only has been
suppresed since the union namely, that of Wilna,
where there were only four nuns, two of whom entered
the convent of Woliany, and two that of Polounce. The
internal direction of the convents has been preserved by
the same superiors and maintained precisely on the same
footing as before the union. No change whatever has taken
place in the former mode of administration. In the apocry-
phal interrogatory published by the Univers and the Journal
des Dibats, the woman Mieczislawska mentions the co-ope-
ration of the civil governor of Minsk, Usrakoff, in the mea-
sures of violence of which the Basilian nuns are said to have
been the victims. There is no governor at Minsk of the
name of Usrakoff. He has been confounded with the Coun-
sellor Souchkoff, who has been governor of Minsk since the
year 1838, at which time these pretended persecutions are
said to have commenced. Now. M. Souchkoff declares in
the most positive manner, that during the whole of his go=
vernment no incident has come to his knowledge of a nature
calculated in any way to explain the source of the odious
narrative of the woman Mieczislawska; no com-
plaint or remonstrance on the part of the Basilian nuns
has ever been addressed to him ; he has never heard of
any complaints of the nature in question; never, in his fre-
quent communications with the clergy of the two religions,
or in his tours of inspection, which have more than once led
him to the convents, has he received the slightest indication
which could induce him to suppose the existence of abuses.
In the same interrogatory, the woman Mieczislawska termi-
❑ates her recital, with an eulogium on the Mother-General of
the order of Basilian nuns, the Princess Euphrosina Giedy-
descendant of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania, aged
more than 80. She says—' When the persecution began to
rage; she sustained and encouragod the sisters by her example.
Being sent into Siberia, she died during the way,' &c. In the
first-place, we will observe that Basilian nuns have never had
a Mother-General of their order in Russia. In the second
place, it is positive that the Princess Euphrosina Giedymin,
who is brought to life in 1838, died in Rome on the 12th of
November, 1239, more than six hundred years ago. We
have consulted her genealogy, as also the authors who speak
of her. Renowned for her piety, her memory is principally,
kept up attiong the Basilian sisters. This single fact, it
appears to us, ought to suffice to show the measure of veracity
of all the other assertions of the woman Mieczislawska. St.
Petersburgb, March, 1846."

At the commencement of the present month we
gladly seized an opportunity which enabled us to give a
voice to that general sentiment of loathing in the public
mind towards the hideous scenes enacted in too many
l/f our London churchyards, and which sentiment,
though shrouded by something very like apathy in the
parties towards whom we are entitled to look for repa-
ration, is, we might undertake to avouch, more
prevalent and more earnest than possibly any
other excited by a social grievance. The op-
portunity to which we refer was the introduction
of a Bill, by Mr. MACKINNON, for the removal of burial
from towns, the prosecution of which laudable project
has, however, been prevented by the extraordinary pro-
longation of other discussions in the Lower House.
Nothing further has transpired in Parliament
is reference to this very important matter, by which
additional comments have been either alto-
gether precluded, or rendered to a considerable extent
useless. In this manner an affair involving not only the
cleanliness, but the decency ; not only the decency, but
the health ; not only the health, but the morals of the
populace, has been left in abeyance. The evil is still
ri9e in some of the most dense and populous quarters of
this great city, and no effort has been made to alleviate,
much less to eradicate, the nuisance. Clear passages are
carved through the heart of St. Giles's ; the few
tenements still remaining are by that means exposed to
a salubrious ventilation ; and by a recent parochial re-
solution, we observe that it is proposed to root out some
of the most infamous dens in the vicinity of West-
minster A bhey, and transform the neighbourhood into re-
spectability both in its appearance and in the character
of its inhabitants. Those, undoubtedly, are admirable
movements in a right direction, they deserve all
approval as far as they go—but they are insufficient.
The sanatory position of the people is regarded in one
essential particular, but in another it is forgotten or
contemned—the homes of the living are cared for, the
homes of the dead are treated as though of no moment
whatever. Now, if we considered these facts simply in
their political influence, they would fully arouse our in-
terest, seeing that all philosophic legislators, whether in
times of the remotest antiquity, or in lands of the most
excessive barbarism, have incorporated with their
systems a reverence for the relics of humanity. They
knew that any decay of feeling in this regard would
tend inevitably to subvert some of the most humanising
principles of our common nature. As an evidence of
this esteem even for the perishable remains of their
fellow-men, we may incidentally mention the costly
sarcophagi and perfumed mummies of the Egyptians,
the mausoleums which flanked the principal roads of
entrance to the Eternal City, the solemn funeral cere-
monies even of savages, but especially the impressive
and beautiful rites of death peculiar to Christianity.
Everything conspires to prove that some respect either of
heart or of formality is requisite to maintain the com-
monest sentiments of decency and humanity among
the people. Experience shows this, so also does reason.
But there are. other and no less important lights in
which the matter can he regarded. Due attention to in-
terment is necessary for the preservation of bodily
health, as well as for the cleanliness and adornment of
our towns. These things are so manifest in them-
selves, we have already so fully exposed their
sufficiency in The Sun, and circumstances of a
most harrowing nature have so adequately demonstrated
the truth of such conclusions, even within the bounda-
ries of the metropolis, that any amplification of the like
arguments would now be superfluous. A pamphlet, very
recently published, with the quaint heading of " Burial-
ground Incendiarism," written by Mr. G. WALKER, an
untiring advocate for the suppression of interment
within cities, will afford any one unacquainted with the
details of our London churchyards a frightful bird's-eye
view of the occurrences enacted in those pernicious nests
of decomposition. He who is a stranger to the facts
will shudder over their dismal record ; he will hear of
eeffins and human bones piled up into bonfires, and
Burnt to make room for a fresh supply of the
dead ; he will be Vlld of gravediggers driviag

The Journal des _Mats states that the Minister of Ma-
rine has given orders that at each of the French dockyards
a ship-of-the-line should be built without delay. This mea-
sure, says the Debuts is equivalent to keeping five new
ships-of-the-line afloat, because it is an easy matter to keep
on the slips ships ready for launching.

The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Thursday,
at 83f. 65c. ; the Five per Cents, 120 f. 10c. ; the Orleans Railroad
Shares, 1,237 f. 55c. ; Rouen. 1,040 f. ; Havre, 755 f. ; Great Northern,
768 f. 75c.; Avignon, 925 f. ; Vierzon, 6571. 75c.; Bordeaux, 627 f.
50e. ; Troyes and Montereau, 410 f. ; Basle, 230 f.; Fampoux, 450 f. ;
Dieppe, 457 f. 50c.; Paris and Strasburg, 520 f.; Tours and Nantes,
545 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 575 f. ; Belgian Two-and-a-Half per Cents.,
75f; Spanish Actives, 32N.

The following are the quotations in the new lines :
Lyons a:.cl Avignon Railroad (Talabot). 512 f. ; ditto (Le-
cointe), 506 f. ; ditto Bordeaux and Cette (Macknzle), 501 f. 50c. ;
ditto (Espeleta), 507 f. 50c. ; Charleroi, 495 f.
LYONS, APRIL 21.—Marseilles and Avignon, 895 f.; Paris and
Orleans, 1,202 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 1,028 f. ; Lyons, 565 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Aram 24.
Boulogne and Amiens, 11% —Dutch Rhenish, 64—East In-
dian, 3i—Great Northern of France Constituted, 1534—Namur and
Liege, 14—Orleans and Bordeaux, 11—Paris and Strasbourg Con-
stituted, 5% —Rouen and Havre, 30% —Sambre and Meuse, 5
Tours and Nantes Constituted, 6%.

LOSS of the BRITISH SCHOONER

injunctions to dig through whatever may intercept their
-eir spades into the ground hap-hazard (with
pr.,..ress), and casting up shovels full of flesh, and hair,
ar,d shrouds ; he will even hear of one
REUBEN ROOM,
who asserted upon oath that he had at times stood up to
Ili, knees in human flesh, stamping with his feat to com-
press it into a narrow compass; he will read these things
and possibly throw the pamphlet aside as an
xaggeration—as a fiction. But those disclosures are
all true—and more! It is from the hideous character
of the facts, and from the terrible consequences which
result from those facts, that we derive so much satisfac-
tion on finding a movement just now reviving for the cor-
rection of similar abuses in Spafields Burial-ground--a
spot notorious for their recurrence. The heart has a
spontaneous impulse of joy at intelligence so much in
accordance with its better feelings, with its reverence
for the dead, and with its affection for the living. Hence
do we look forward to the continuation of Mr. MAC-
KINNON'S efforts in a cause so politic and so venerable,
while we are fain to anticipate that ecclesiastical inter-
ference in its behalf, of which Sir JAMES GRAHAM has
spoken with so much confidence.

Madrid papers and letters of the 17th have been received.
The Gazette contains a circular, issued by M. PIDAL, the
Minister of the Interior, authorising all the political chiefs of
Spain, in consequence of the " military rebellion in Galicia,
adopt all the extraordinary measures, such as the procla-
mation of martial law, that the maintenance of order may
require." From the dispatches published in the same Ga-
zette, it would appear that the QUEEN'S troops had entered
the suburbs of Lugo, but that the town itself was still in
possession of the insurgents.
11 Iferaltlo says that Cosora has taken General larARTE
prisoner. The rumour, however, wants confirmation. There
were likewise rumours of pronunciamicntos having taken
Place at Cadiz, Saragossa, and Valencia. They could not,
however, be traced to any authentic source.

A deputation from the authorities and inhabitants of Val•
ladolid had arrived in Madrid, to beseech her MAJESTY to
show mercy to the prisoners taken by General CONCHA.
in the affair of Astorga. The British Minister, Mr.BiLwEit,
had also interceded for the prisoners, and it was rumoured
that the Council had determined in consequence to spare the
privates, but to try the officers and sergeants by court-
martial.

Several fresh arrests have taken place in Madrid, and the
Reo del Commercio has again been seized.
tain'
General RONCALI has, it is said, withdrawn his acceptance
of the
Governorship of Havannab, and will probably be ap-
pointed Cap -General of Grenada, in the room of General
San.

BALMS.
14
Foreign-office, Ail , 1846.
Sir—l am directed by the Earl of Aberdeen to transmit.to
you, for the information of the Chairman and Committee at
Lloyd's, a copy of a dispatch from her Majesty's Consul at
St. Michael's, reporting the wreck of the British schooner
Balius, at Fayal. I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
(Signed) (Name illegible.)
William Dobson Esq., &c., Lloyds.
British COnsulate, St. Michael's, March 23, 1846.
My Lord—l have the honour to acquaint your Lordship
that Mr. Minchen, the British Vice-Consul at Fayal, has re-
ported to me that the schooner Balius, of Liverpool, bound
homeward from Jamaica, with a cargo of rice, spices, and
logwoed, was totally wrecked at that island on the 28th ult.,
and that Samuel Scott, a seaman, and Esther Hasleden, a
native of Liverpool, a passenger, were unfortunately drowned.
The remains of these two persons were recovered and in-
terred, under Mr. Minchen's direction, in the English burial-
ground. I have, &c.,
(Signed) THOMAS C. HUNT.
The Earl of Aberdeen, K.T., &c.

TB. SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 27, 1846.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Saturday Evening.)
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday, were about
6,000 bales, the market closing steadily at a slight decline
from Friday last. In Railway Shares there was an improve-
ment, and more business doing than for some time past.
At the public sale of Railway Shares yesterday afternoon,
by Messrs. Lamond and Co., there was a good demand, and
very fair prices were obtained. The following were the
rates for some of the lots :—Rugby and Huntingdon, 11. 35.
London and Manchester, Remington's, 19s.—North Stafford-
shire, Churnet, and Potteries, 4/. ss.—Worcestez, Hereford,
Ross, and Gloucester,l9s.—Bandon and Bantry, sB.—lpswich,
Norwich, and Yarmouth, 11.5x.—Great Eastern and Western,
11. ls. 6d. —Cornwall and Central Devon, 11. 9s. 6d.—South
and Midland, 1/. ls.--Warwick and Worcester, 12s. 6d.—
Direct Birmingham and Leicester, 1/.—East Indian, 108.—
Louvain a la Sambre, 1/. ss.—Bridgewater and Minehead,
18s.—Waveney Valley, 155.
There have not been any arrivals announced from the
Colonies to-day.
The Bank returns made public last evening show the fol-
lowing results upon a comparison with its predecessor :
An increase in the notes in circulation of but 1,255/., or to
27,031,510/.
An increase in the Rest of 6,6932., or to 3,359,084/.
A decrease in the Public Deposits of 1,013,947/., or to
3,197,0292.
A decrease in the other Deposits of 359,006/, or to
17,710,987/. . _

A decrease to 18,736,602/. in the General Securities, but
there is a slight increase in the amount of Seven•day's Bills
in band.

The bullion in store last time was 13,572,027/. Now it is
stated at 13,627,170/. Increase, 55,143/.
Altogther it seems that the position of the Bank of
England is gradually becoming more and more favourable.
Bank Stock remains at very firm prices.
A very firm market has prevailed to-day for the British
Securities. Consols for Money have been quoted at 9536
to 96%, and for the Account from 96% to I,i. Reduced
Annuities ar,s, however, rather heavy at 95. The New
Three-and. a. Quarter per Ceutss are at 971 x. Exchequer-
bills are rather lower, viz., at 245. premium.
Not much business has been done in the Foreign Funds
to-day. Brazilian Five per Cents, opened at 82, but are now
at 81. Mexican, for Account, are at 111%; Portuguese at
581/t ; the Spanish Passives at 5%; and the Dutch Twe-
and-a-Half per Cents. at 59141,4,
The Railway Share Market is buoyant to-day. The value
of most of the old Shares are looking up. The latest accu
rate prices are annexed
BRITISH FUNDS.

CLOSING
PRICES.
Bank Stock . • • • • • .. 205
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities 95% 95 95
Three per Cent. Console Annuities 96 957 96 NI 96%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anus. 97%
97%

ONE
O'CLOCK.

Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5,1660
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 19, 184 Y _ _ _ _
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 ..
India Stock .. • • •
India Bonds, LOCill.
Ditto, under 1,0001.
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills.
1,0001...
5001. -. .
Ditto. Small

DRESDEN, APRIL 11.—Yesterday afternoon, by a rescript
of the City Council and of the elders of le Protestnfit
Church, the consent of the Ministry for Eccle-
siastical Affairs was notified to the elders of the
German Catholic congregation that they should have
the use of a church. Accordingly the church of the Orphan
Asylum has been granted to them, with the condition
that the Protestestant service shall not be affected by it,
and that neither the pulpit nor the altar shall be used
by the temporal elders to address the assembly.
BRUSSELS, Aram 21.—The average price of wheat in the
week ending on Saturday, the 18th of April, was 23f. 39c.,
and that of rye 17f. 11c.
In the sitting of the Chamber of Representatives to-day,
discussion was continued on the explanations relative to the
formation of the Ministry of the 31st of March.
The Brussels Herald, in its last number, proposes to the
English inhabiting Belgium to hold a meeting, for the pur-
pose of sending a deputation to Paris, to present a respectful
address to the King of the French, manifesting their joy at
the escape of that august Sovereign, from the dreadful attack
of which he was so near becoming a victim. The King of
the French, on former occasions, previously received a similar
address from the English residents at Paris. The bonds
of affinity which unite him to the King and Queen
of the Belgians, the sincere friendship which subsisted be-
tween King Louis Philippe and Queen Victoria, and the
peaceful relation between the two great nations over the
destinies of which they preside, should induce the English
inhabitants of Belgium publicly to manifest the sentiments
of respect and esteem which they entertain for the enlight-
ened Sovereign who governs France.
HAMBUROII BORSENHALLE, Arm 18.
Bills. Money.
kustrian 5 per Cents •••••• • • • • • • 113
Bank Shares
Anglo-Russian Loan .. ... •••• • • • 107% 106%
Russian 5 per Cent., !lamb. Certificate. 101% 101
Ditto Ist series 1n5cripti0n............ 102%
Ditto, Flops and Co., 3d and 4th series.. 96
Ditto, in Certificate... •• • ..... •••• • • • 96
New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. ••• • .. 89
Ditto Stieglitz • ....... .•••. • . • • 8'
Spanish New 5 per Cent • • • • • • • • • . • . • .
Ditto 3 per Cent •• • • • • • • • • • • • •
Anglo-Portugu...se Loan, 2% per Cent..
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ..... 59
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844.... 81
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent •••• • • 87 66%
National Bank Shares ................
BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bausms, APRIL 21.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent........
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent. •• •
Ditto Three per Cent.
-- Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto
Ditto, ditto, 1840 ...... •• • 101
Ditto, ditto, 1,442 . •••••• • . . • • . 102%
Ditto, 1844............... ••••• • •• • 99%
Ditto, 1838 ..
Ditto of the City, 1832 ..... 10034
Ditto, 1843
Bank of Belgium ..... • • • • 890
—Brussels Papers. April 21.
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, APRIL 21.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent....
Iyiito, 3 per Cent •••• • • .•
Ditto. 4 per Cent.
Amort Syndic, 414 per Cent....
Ditto, 3% per Cent.........• •• •• • • 89% 89%
Commercial Company, 4% per Cent .. 167% 168%
East India Loan, 4 per Cent...... •• • • 93% 94
Exchange on London, at sight • • • • 12 32
Two months...... •. •• •• 12 25
On Hamburgh, at sight .• • • 35 75
T0m.0nth5............... 35 75
—Hatch Papers. April 22.
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PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, APRIL 18.
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld Sch., 3% per Cent •••• • • • 97 96%
Pruss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent ••• • • •
Foreign Exchanges. •
Exchange on London, £1 Sterling, 3 Months. 6 25% 6 25%
Hamburgh, 300 Marks, 2 Months. 149%
Paris, 300 fr., 2 Months .• . 80 1-12
On Paris ....
Two months.

10
..

10%
260

• •• 96%4 9614
13(d. I%d.
27 24 pm. 24
24 27 pst. 27
.... 24 27 pm. 27
ONE CLOSING
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 82 81 81
Mexican Bonds, 18w, S per Cent
Ditto, for the Account .. .• • • 31% 31%
Portuguese Three per Cents .• • • 581,4 584
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. ..
Ditto, Passive Bonds .. . • • • 5% 5%
Dividends on the above payable in Landon.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent • • 5914% 59%
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 924 924
PRICES OF BUSINESSCLOSING
DONE AT
RAILWAY SHARES. PAID. PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.
Birmingham and Gloucester ..100 125 124% .. • • 124%
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 .. • • PA 1,4 • ..... • • 1
Caledonian .. _lO 6 .. •••• . • • -6%
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 2 % • • 114
Chester and Holyhead .. 22% .... 21 ..... • • 21
Cornwall and Central Devon _ 2% .. •• • .
Direct Manchester (Remington's) 234 .... 1 .. •• • •
Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) .. 514 ••••3%••• • • • • • • • 33t4
Direct Northern .. •• • ,%•••• • • • • • • 1
Dublin and Galway .... 2 4
1,4
Eastern Counties .. 141. 163..... 23% .... • •
Ditto New .. 81. 163..... 7%34P•• • 7% 13
Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1. 61. 13s. 4d. % p
Ditto, ditto, .. • • No. 2. 6/. 13s. 4d. 1,4 p.... •• • • 14 P
Ditto, York Extension 103. .... 1%%..•• • • .• 1%
Edinburgh and Glasgow _ 50 •• • • —
Ditto•
j 6 Shares .. 10 16% • ........ • 16%
Ditto New 1
,4 Shares.. _ !O .... 14% 1434
Ely and Huntingdon ..
•7% •• • • 31% ••••• • • • • • 3114
Glouc., Aberyst., &Cent. of Wales 18 •• • • • ••• • "
Goole, Doncast., and :phefiteld, &c. 425. .• • • 14 Eli, ••• • • • 34dis.
Great Southern & West. (Ireland.). 20 • • 23% ... '..•• • • • 23%
Great Western .. ....148
Hull and Selby 5O ••• • •••• • • • • •.• 101
Ipswich, Norwich, and Yarmorth 2 •• • • 1% • .... •• • 1%
Lancaster and Carlisle .. 40 •• • • '55% • • •••• • • • 551,4
Leicester, Tamworth, &c. 425. •• . • •••• .. • •
Liverp., Stanch., & Newc.' Junct. 2% •• • • ..... •• • 1%
London an t Birmingham. . —lOO .• •• ••• • •
Ditto Thirds .. ••_ 24 •• ••••• • • • • • 61%
Ditto Quarters .. 2 .• 28% fi .•. • • •
Ditto Fifths 2 24% .. • • • •
London and Blackwall 161. 13s. 4d. 8% 8
London and Brighton _5O ••.. 64 % 114 •••• • .• 64%
Ditto ditto Fifths _ 20 .. .... 29%
London and Croydon .. .. 13/. 15e. 9d. 22% 22% .. • • 22%
London and South-Western.. 411. 6s. 10d. 78 77% 781%
Ditto, New . 12% .. • • 22% 85414.. • • 22%
Ditto, New _lO .. .• 18 ••••• • • • • • 18 _
London and York .. 2% •• • • 1%% •••• • • • • I'7U
Ditto, Half Shares • . . 1% ...... •
Lynn and Ely .. •10 ..6% 7 7
_ _

. 281 i

Manchester and Leeds 82 • •
Ditto, llalf Shares .. 88 .... 55 ••
Ditto, Quarters .. .. 2 ....
Ditto Extension .. 425..... I

... ..... .. 9
.74 p...... Ili I)

—Universal Prussian Gazette. April 19.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, APRIL 15.
5 per Cent. Metalliques.. • • .• • • • • • .
4 per Cent. ditto. • 100 U
3 per Cent. ditto • . . . 75
Loan, 1834 • • •
Ditto, 1839 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 122
Bank Shares
Estorhazy's Loan ... • • • • • - • • • • • • • • • • • • 57%
RAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand • • • • • • • • • • • • 169 4
Gloggnitz ..... ......... .
Vienna—Milan • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 117%
Pesth . ..... . • • • • • • • • • • • • • 103
Sienna • • . . 92%
Grosetto • • . • • • • • • • • • . • • . 93%
Oldenburg .• • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Apenninen ......... ............. • . 96%

Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 . ••••• • • • •
Ditto, Quarter Shares (B) .. 4 .... 12%
Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) . • I •• • • B% ••••• • • • • •
11lidla•td •. „.100 .. • .146
Ditto, New 18 .. • • 31% 3014
Newcastle and Darlington Janet. 25 .... 45%
Ditto, New .. 1 .... 9 83i
Ditto, New, Brandling .. .. 25 .• .. 45
Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 10 .... 191,4 .
North British . , . 20 26 254 • • •• • •
Ditto, Half Khares . 6 .... .....
Ditto, Carlisja Extension .. 114 - 31 ••••• • • • • •
Northern and Eastern

Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% ...... 18%
North Staffordshire .. • • • • 425. .... 2 p•• .. • • 2% p
North Wales .. .• • • • • 3% .......... 1
Norwich and Brandon .. • • .. 18 .......... 25%
Oxfd.,Worcester,& Wolverhmptu. 12% 8 %...... 8%
Portsmouth Direct . • • • .. 2%
Reading, Guildford, & Reigate • • 425..... .......... 1 dis
Scottish Central .. .• • •• 10 ..•.. 13%
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 2
.......• ..
South Devon .. • • • • ..• •3 5 . • . 31% - 31%

South Midland .• ••• • • • 425.. dis. pare dis dis.
South Eastern and Doror .• • • 3334.... 38 3730 37%
Do.. New (d 0.33/. 65.8 d.) No. 2. 10
•12 11
1)0., New (do. 301.) .. No. 3. 15 15% 1514
South Wales . • • • ••"••5 • • • • 2 134 • • 134
Yale of Neath • • • • • • • • 2 dis dis
Waterfd., Wexfd., Wick., & Dub.
1%
Welsh Midland • • • - • • • • 23i • %
1
West Riding Union • • • • • • 42i. • • 134 p. l% p
York and North Midland • • .. 50
.• • • Ditto. Scarborough Branch .• 25 .. 97%
Ditto. Extension .. •,• •• 15 • 4834
• 33 33
Do. E. and W. Riding Exten.• • 1 9%
..... 9%
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Dutch Rhenish .. • • •• • • 5 ...• 6
East Indian . . • • • • • • 54. % ..........
tart. North. of °France Constituted 5 15 .....
Louvain and Jemeppe • • • • 4
........
Madrid and Valentia .. • • • • 2 I'l
Namur and Liege .• • • •• 4 114
..........
Paris and Orleans .. .. • • • • 20 •• • • 48%
Rouen and Havre • • • • • 20 .. • . 30 34 %34 30 ..
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
British North American • • 50 _

15%
1
48%

- - .
MIXES.
Real del Monte, Unregistered ..

FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL.
THE HAGUE, APRIL 21. In the sitting of the Second
Chamber of the States-General to-day, the project of law for
of 26 to 25. In the second
granting an indemnity on account of the military inunda-
elclttedstti
sitting, the tasheaCgreenetdratloS, ebcytiaonrabarionrigtYht up the general report on
the project of law for augmenting tho import and export
duties, and on the projects of law amending the first book of
the penal code.
3,3;1 v, e
the h
audiencent hg e a pleasurerttoi
vtehdey eme oti flei
tt
daa
er
military
evening,noAuclSiTnEgißDny eoltdeerrAd aPro-,
and civil authorities, and public bodies, of which notice had
been given. The attendance was extremely numerous this
morning. His Majesty will return to the Hague this evening,
but we are happy to learn that he intends to return on Mon-
day next with her Majesty the Queen, and their Royal
Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Orange, and Princes
Alexander and Henry, and to remain here for a week.
BRUSSELS APRIL 20.—The Chamber of
Representatives
resumed its labours to-day. The galleries were crowded at
an early hour, and the Chamber was nearly complete, very
few members being absent. After the reading of the process
verbal of the last sitting, M. de Theux, Minister of the
Interior, rose to speak, and amidst the most prof, amd silence
read the programme of the new Cabinet, from which we ex-
tract the following on the subject of Edueation Law, which
broke up the late Cabinet :
" The Government likewise expresses a wish that the law
respecting a public education may he voted during the
present session. For this purpose it desires that the Central
Section, appointed to examine the projects presented in 1844,
shall be completed, and present its report. The Cabinet
will make every effort that this project may be decided in a
spirit of patriotic conciliation."
The reading of this programme having beein listened to
with profound attention, the President asked
do so, tfhealYnsildrseTt desired to speak, and 110 one desiring
declared that the Chambers would proceed to the order of
the day.
The Minister of Finance then rose, and presented severe
budgets for the next year, ai.d a project of law allowing a
vote of credit of five millions for the war department.
M. Doles, without stopping for the present to appreciate
the new Cabinet, required that explanations should be given
by those members of the Chamber who took part in the
projects for reconstructing, the Cabinet. MM. Rogier, de
Theux, d ff."
•-midt, and Melon were induced to speak in
consequence of these observations.
BERLIN, AlltlL 17.--It is stated on good authority that
the Synod of the kingdom, in which laymen will also be ad
miffed as members, will meet on the Ist of May. As far as
eyet know the whole number of members will be seventy or
gh het
and will consist of the chief President, the President
pof the Consistorils, the General Superintendents, the
shops of the Evangelical Church, the four royal Chap
iains at Berlin, a number of the faculties of divinity,
and law, and of some laymen, to be chosen by the Provincial
Synods, the Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs to be the Pre-
sident; but the choice theVice-President of is to be left to
the Assembly itself.
POSEN APRIL 15.
° The accounts which we receive
neighbouring kidom of Poland are not
n„„,,, of tho
very agreeable nature, though persons sus-
``` °f political offences are proceeded against
with inflexible ig • our. Thus it is confirmed from
all quarters that
the beautiful Madame Von K., who is said
to have been the channel of correspondence with the Paris
Propaganda, has receivedgreat number of lashes with the
knout. It is likewise Pseudo Roman Jesuit,
the said that the
monk Grugzynski, who was arrested by the pea-
sants'
on the frontiers of Prussia and Poland, and
delivered to the Polish authorities, has been punished
with the knout. In consequence of the investi-
gations that have been made many persons have been an.
restcd, and all strangers and travellers are most strictly
watched, and if guiltthe slightest imprudence exposed to
y of
ill-treatment.
Casts, APRIL 14.—Nearly 150 Polish insurgents were sent
to-day from this place to Cracow.
ILusovEit, APRIL M.—The public journals have related
what has been done with respect to the German Roman Ca-
tholics in this kingdom—namely, y that the congregation of
German Roman Cath—amolincsaeCHildesheim, the only one
at present in the kingdom, is permitted to have divine service
in private; but, in the public notice of this court, which is
highlY important to the persons interested, nothing is said
of the condition on which thecontinuance of this permission
is made to depend. The the
German
Catholics have given up
the Confession of the Council Leipzic, and have adopted
that of Schmeidernih o • was laid down by the
This condition
I
Government, and accepted by this 01341'regati°11°