The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-18 00:00:00

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the hatred entertained by the Portuguese for any undue
exhibition or profl gate employment of power, as in-
stanced in the CABRAL Ministry, was uttered with an
explicitness which could not be misunderstood. Since
those occurrences the minions of the unconstitutional
leaders have been striving to destroy the late popular
and liberal Administration. Aid was sought by them in
a quarter most destructive, or, at the least, most dan-
gerous to the preservation of their common nation-
ality. The assistance of the Cabinet of the Tuile-
ries was lavished upon the expatriated and
unpatriotic statesmen " the gathered storm
was ripe " the Ministry approved by the
voice of the community was crushed by a military
interference, and the instruments of Gallic ambition
endowed with the prerogatives and immunities of
office. We cannot but acknowledge that this ven-
ture was remarkable for its consummate boldness.
It has, however, failed. Indignant at so prodigious
an outrage upon their freedom as citizens of
an enlightened constitution, and their rights
as a portion of a civilised generation, the
Portuguese people have risen against their
intended oppressors with an unanimity and an
enthusiasm which involuntarily command our ad-
miration. Unlike their brethren the Spaniards, who
are contented to behold their princesses kidnapped with
an apathetic grumble, the Portuguese are roused to
action from one extremity of the kingdom to the
other. Their love for fatherland is exhibited, not in
hisses at a pageant or a bull-fight, not in the mobbing
of a deplorable tailor, not in the casting of brickbats
at an ill-starred postillion, but in the hurried assem-
blage of civilians, in sounding the tocsin, in un-
rolling the gonfalon of an outraged country.
Matters are apparently approaching their consum-
mation in Portugal as rapidly as they are doing in
Mexico. The dispersion and discomfiture of the in-
surgent guerillas, at Cintra, is the Monterey of the
Peninsula. Less calamitous, in point of the numbers
killed and wounded. than in a,e
recent encounter promises to be equally the forerunner
of some decisive conflict. SALDANUA had bivouacked
at Torres Vedras on the Bth, and was advancing but
slowly from the capital, his intention being similar to
that by which General TAYLOR is actuated in the
Rio Grande, namely, to allow his coadjutors, SCHWAL-
RACK and CASAL, to combine their forces with those
under his own immediate command. According to
the latest intelligence SALDANIIA had reached
Sobral at the very moment that his great
antagonist, DAS ANTAS, was situated at Cadaval,
namely, at a distance of merely fourteen miles.

ing the starvation of the poor. The Earl of BES-
BOROUGH'S "vigour beyond the law" is objected to on
account of his requiring " undertakings from each
and all the several landowners," wherever public
money is demanded for works of a reproductive cha-
racter. Itlis. urged that the above requirement is
proved to be prejudicial by the fact that there are at
present only 7,000 persons employed on drainage,
whilst there are 103,000, in round numbers, engaged
on public works. Mr. POULETT SCROPE'S remedy
is, that the Government should "at once empower
the Board of Works to commence the drainage of
extensive districts where required, by assuming a
right of entry for the purpose on the lands (f any
proprietor, subject to future assessment of the balance
of damage or profit by such tribunal and upon such
terms as the Legislature may next session prescribe."
This would be a tremendous responsibility to as-
sume. If the step were really necessary to be re-
sorted to, no less authority than that of Parliament
itself should take the initiative. But we do not
see the necessity at present for so large a measure of
" state:interference." Voluntary relief has not, in-
deed, been so widely patronised, nor with such
promptitude, as we could have wished ; still, every
day's intelligence cheers us with the knowledge that
the principle is actively progressing, and that land-
lords are zealously knitting themselves together to
prove that they are sensible that property has its
duties as well as its rights. It must be borne in
mind, too, that the vast arrangements required cannot
be instantaneously effected. The Board of Works
itself, with all its powerful appliances and un-
wearied zeal, has only just got into active play;
so that, due allowance being made for the
disadvantages under which private enterprise la-
bours compared with public enterprise, there is not,
to our view, that censurable disproportion between
the two ameliorative forces which Mr. POULETT
SCROPE would infer. Again, had Parliament been
taeolleu borne time
back, the springs of private benevolence would have
been altogether dried up, as the influential resident
proprietors of Ireland would have been thereby
summoned away from those localities where their
present co-operation is productive of so much advan-
tage upon their destitute tenantry. That some have
been swept off by famine is matter of sore lament;
yet the number, when contrasted with the magnitude
of the national affliction, is exceedingly limited.
There is plenty of food in Ireland'; but it is
quite impossible for the Government to prevent a
great portion of it being exported, by becoming
its purchasers, as suggested by Mr. POULETT SCROPE.
It is nevertheless satisfactory that the prices of grain
are generally declining, and that large supplies from
the Mediterranean, America, and elsewhere, are
rapidly diminishing the chances of famine, and en-
livening us with the hope that Ireland will soon be
happily extricated from her perilous condition.

Whether this rumour be veracious or not, it is un-
questionable that the leader of the QUEEN'S troops and
the leader of the insurgent populace were gradually
coming into a somewhat perilous proximity.
A conclusive battle is . inevitable, unless 1
DAS ANTIS forthwith retreats either to Co-
imbra, or Santarem, or even Oporto, by which
movement that sagacious General would enveigle
his opponent into difficulties, from which his extrica-
tion would be almost impossible. SALDANIIA would
thereby discover himself in a district most favourable
to the popular cause, and most inimical to that of the.
Court party.
Neither SA DA BANDEIRA nor DAs ANTAS have,
according to present intelligence, declared them-
selves favourable to the establishment of a Regency.
Their anathemas are hurled scarcely so much against
Queen MARIA as against that unconstitutional in-
fluence which has latterly usurped the Government.
Their abhorrence is essentially directed against an
Administration which has been forced upon the nation
by an intolerable coup d'etat, and their disgust is
peculiarly excited against that Administration
from their regarding it as identical in prin-
ciple with the obnoxious CABRALS• From, these
circumstances it would consequently appear

that an opening still remains out of these
gigantic difficulties, namely, by the dismissal of a
hateful Cabinet, and the guarantee of the mainte-
nance of the liberal principles of the Constitution.
Divers obstacles, however, loom in the future, and
;hreaten to retard, if they do not actually prevent
'his most desirable compromise. On the frontiers of
Portugal a Spanish army is assembled, prepared ap-
,arently to invade the insurgent provinces upon the
first emergency. And, as an additional indication of
he disposition or a., T .01SlatOre of Madrid, we ob
:>rve that COSTA Cana vr. has been formally an-
rortuguese envoy in that metropolis, a
,roceeding which is singularly significant when it
remembered how execrable the name of COSTA
.I,ABRAL is in the hearing of his insurgent country-
Everything indicates the imminence of the
,resent juncture of affairs in Portugal. Everything,
'rom the simultaneous assemblage of Juntas in the
Efferent towns to the revolt of the inhabitants of
:acilhas and Almada, testifies the earnestness with
vhich the population have adventured upon this im-
,ortant movement. The community can scarcely
•merge from the struggle scatheless, but it is to be
loped that their political institutions will be de-
weloped and advanced by this extraordinary revolu-
tion.

nen.

On the Bth of November the PorE went through
the ceremony of taking possession of the Lateran.
The following account of the ceremony, and of the
important decrees by which its celebration was ac-
companied, appears in the Journal des Debals:—
" A letter from Rome, dated the Bth instant, contains
some account of the ceremony of the possesso, which was
celebrated on that day. That ceremony, the origin of
which ascends to the early time of the sovereignty of
the Popes over the city of Rome, and reminds the
Romans of their former municipal franchises, is more
political than religious. For that reason was the Holy
Father anxious to justify the hopes his elevation to the
throne created throughout Italy. The Diario di Roma
published on that day the nomination of three committees,
composed of prelates and laymen. The first, including the
most distinguished magistrates and lawyers in the coun-
try, is charged with the reform of the code of criminal
and civil jurisprudence. The two others, composed of
Roman princes and men possessing great influence by
their fortune and talent, are to devise a plan of amelio •
rating the municipal system and repressing vagrancy,
one of th 9 greatest curses of Italy. In the morning,
moreover, an edict was published relative to railroads.
All those measures were received with unanimous satis-
faction by the population, which congregated in multi-
tudes at the foot of the capital, under the triumphal arch
of the forum, along the ruins of the Coliseum, and in
all the streets and squares through which the cortege
of the Sovereign Pontiff was to pass. The Pope
was everywhere cheered with the loudest acclamations.
Oa reaching the gate of St. John of Lateran, the
oldest church in Rome, the Pepe was presented
by the Senator with the keys of the city, the sym-
bol of taking possession of the sovereignty. He then
entered the lodge of at. 5 t ra Lateran and bestowed
his benediction on the people, who received it with the
Pi,,Ly and =nthusincm r —.Awe to aescribe.
carious reports circulated in the city, which added
greatly to the universal joy. It was said that the Sove-
reign Pontiff had just granted to the inhabitants of
Bologna the authorisation to organise a civic guard for
the repression of highway robberies. That authorisa-
tion was long claimed by the citizens of Bologna. It
was also added that M. Marini, the Civil Governor of
R.me, had been severely reprimanded for having suffered
domiciliary visits to be made without any well-grounded
cause."

The apprehension with respect to the alimentary
'ondition of Ireland, both as regards its present and
future prospects, continues to engross the minds of
!ifferent men of all classes in every part of the united
empire. All sorts of embryo schemes are hourly
started ; every possible panacea is put forward with
an earnestness of 1 urpose, which demonstrates, in a
remarkable degree, the excessive complacency with
which the several propounders regard their own in-
dividual schemes, as the most simple and 'self-evident
solution of one of the most difficult questions that
can engage the stateman's attention. No sooner has
one suggestion been disposed of, and abandoned as
altogether illusory, than another political chapman
starts up, and arrogantly offers a choice specimen of
his small wares as the very article which can alone
help the Government over its difficulties. It is
nothing, in his view, that he is without suitable in-
formation, proper statistics, and other elements of
knowledge, essential to his arriving at a sound judg-
ment. lle happens to have a few leisure hours at his
command ; he has accidentally heard that a most per-
plexing subject is under the consideration of the
Executive ; his patriotic feelings are aroused ;
he forthwith sets to work, and, after ran-
sacking the pigeon-holes of his ready-fur-
nished intellect, flatters himself he has disco-
vered what all Downing-street would never have
hit upon without him. Accordingly, he flings the
prodigy at the Minister's feet, exclaiming " There is
what you want, take it, you are welcome to it." It
must be an agreeable relief to the responsible authori-
ties when they can draw out from amidst the heap of
coxcombical charlatanry, under which their tables
are constantly groaning, any production from a
quarter entitled by position and acquirements to
heir respectful attention and serious reflection. His
habits of business, Parliamentary standing, assiduous
iischarge of public duties, and the study which he
has long devoted to different branches of political eco-
nomy, necessarily impart considerable weight to any
opinions that Mr. G. POULETT SCROPE may favour
for meeting the existing difficulties of Ireland. This
gentleman, after a considerable interval, addressed, a
few days back, a second letter to Lord J. RUSSELL
upon the embarrassed social condition of the sister
isle. He expatiates upon the pressing ills of Ireland
with ability, but, at the same time, in a manner that
exhibits a fear for the future (founded upon
his belief that the present alleviating policy
of the Government is net sufficiently enlarged),
to an extent in which we confess we do not partici-
pate. Mr. POULETT SCROPE advises the Premier
f what he considers best to be done. The counsel
herein submitted is undoubtedly bold enough. To
,ither its soundness or expediency we decidedly
demur. There is a vast difference between a respon-
sible and an irresponsible adviser of the Crown. In
the latter capacity propositions are frequently che-
rished, which in the former would never be enter-
tained. Yet, when we find men like Mr. POULEET
SCROPE favouring a course which, we think
no prudent Administration would dream of adopt-
ing without the express sanction of the Legislature,
it goes far to convince us of the forbearing spirit with
which the acts of the Ministers should be viewed, full
regard being had to the novel and unanticipated dis-
tress in Which, by a dispensation of PROVIDENCE,
masses of Ihunaim beings have become involved.
The gilt of the Hon. Member's letter consists in
finding fahlt with Lord Jouri for placing, as he con-
ceives, too much reliance on the voluntary efforts of
the wealtMer classes to apply the means for prevent-

The new Russian Minister, Count Buiporr, pre-
sented Isis letters of credence to his Holiness on the
ld of November. 'We find in the Univers the fol
lowing on the subject of Count BLUDOIT'S mission :
" Count Bludoff presented his letters of credence to
the Pope three days since. This diplomatic personage
is accredited to the Holy See to treat on religious
.affairs. We have only to wait with respect for the
result of this negotiation. If we may credit a
r-port in circulation, Cardinal Lambruschini has
been charged by the Pope to treat in this affair
with thA Russian Plenipotentiary. It is said that M.
le B nitenieff does not look favourably on the collat.°.
rateur sent bins by the Cabinet of Saint Petersburgh,
and I have reason to believe tbat the scntiments attri-
buted to M. de Boutenieff are really those entertained
by him. In the afternoon of yesterday the Abbess of
Minsk returned the visit which the Pope had paid her a
few days before ; the audience was strictly private. All
that I can tell you of the affair is, that when the Abbess
left the apartment of his Holiness with her interpreter,
the Pope waved his hand to her in the Italian manner,
saying, in a tone full of kindness and interest, ddio,
Madre Ma Arina, addio.' "

The Peninsular steam-packet, which arrived last
evening at Southampton, brings intelligence from
Lisbon of the 11th, two days later than that pub-
lished in our paper of yesterday.
The affair at Cintra does not appear to have been
so decidedly in favour of the QUEEN'S troops as had
being at first represented. The peasantry fought
desperately, retreating inch by inch to their moun-
tains, which they succeeded in reaching without
leaving any prisoners in the hands of the QUEEN'S
troops. The peasantry only ceased firing because
their ammunition was exhausted. IGNACIO DE
BARROS, their chief, had effected his escape,
and was on board the Hibernia. ScuWAL-•
BACK was bombarding Evora, which was stoutly
defended by BomrtN, who was hourly expect-
ing relief. It was reported that SA DA BAN-
DEIRA had made a sally from Oporto, and
defeated Baron CAZAL. Si DA BANDEIRA, it
was added, had been wounded in the action. SAL-.
DANHA'S army, after three days' march, had only
advanced twenty miles from Lisbon. Colonel
WYLDE had proceeded to SALDANAA'S camp, and it
was expected he would go from thence to the camp
of DAs ANTAS, and from thence to Oporto. The
loss sustained by the QUEEN'S troops was greater than
was at first stated. Thirty-six of the wounded have
already been brought into Lisbon.
The people of Cacilhas and Almada, on the south
bank of the Tagus and right opposite Lisbon, from
which they are not two miles distant, are in open re-
volt against the QUEEN'S Government- They have
destroyed the telegraph at Almada. The Government
has it hands so full of work in putting down insur-
rection on every side, that it cannot spare troops to
send over. The insurgents there are said not to fall
short of 500 armed men. _ .

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1846,

It would be impossible to view the present crisis of
political affairs in Portugal with indifference. To every
one living under a liberal Government, and blessed
with an enlightened constitution, the recent and pend-
ing disturbances in the western portion of the
Peninsula will afford a spectacle singularly calculated
to enlist their sympathies. The Portuguese are
struggling to assert their independence as a nation,
and to spurn a most audacious attempt at foreign
domination with the utmost contumely. It must be
already sufficiently manifest to King Louis Pim.-
LIPPE that his European policy is liable
to many decisive and formidable obstructions.
and that while his influence may be insinuated
upon the Spaniards by an adroit alliance, hF
cannot with a mere coup cr eta force upon
their neighbours an administration that is
universally held in execration. Successful
for a while in the lirger division of the
Iberian Peninsula, the diplomacy of France has been
signally worsted in the smaller. The effusion. of
penning
of the endangerment of public peace, the
of property, and all the other odious consequences of
civil war,, are of course to be deplored when they are
inevitable, and to be shunned when they can be
avoided without the voluntary relinquishment of the
popular liberties. On the breaking out of any revo-
lution the remote observer is naturally in-
cited to the settlement in his own mind of
this political problem :—Are the people justified in
rising in armed masses to expel those who are ob-
noxious, to punish those who have encroached upon
their authority, to maintain the integrity of their con-
stitution, to defend their individual and aggregate in-
dependence ? Until the mysteries of the palace and
the secrets of the Ministerial portfolios are revealed,
as well as the general disposition of the populace, it
is hopeless to attempt any solution of a qus-
tion so peculiarly intricate. Regarding all those
circumstances, however, hich must be o
thereo Portugal,
ma-
nifest to the most superficial
of recent occurrences in the metro spectator,
latterlyh
it is ostensible that the populationphass
Quern
tuthe
received many extraordinary incitements to what
sticklers for the irresponsible domination
MARIA DA GLORIA would designate rebellion. The
national will was significantly expressed in the re.
xnarkable proceedings of last May; the anxiety pre-
valent amongst the million for the maintenance of
the enlightened spirit of modern times in the admi-
vistration of the laws was then emphatically avouched;

- - _
An infectious— influenza had broken out in the
English fleet. _ .

COSTA CABRAL has been appointed Ambassador to
the Court of Madrid.

A junction between the Bank and Confianca Com-
pany will shortly take place ; no particulars can be
given for the present.

Exchanges, 53f coin ; 461 notes. Discount on
notes, 700 rs. No alteration in the Funds.

Madrid papers of the 10th inst. have been received.
The courts of law in Spain have, on more than
one cccasion of late, exhibited a spirit of indepen-
dence which does them the highest honour. In the
recent affair of the complaint of Count BRESSON
against the editor of the Tiempo, the French Viceroy
thanks to the honesty of the Spanish judges, has been
defeated in his attempt at insulting the Spanish
nation by wantonly violating the laws of the king-
dom. The obsequious Afrancesado Cabinet of course
obeyed the orders of their ruler in every par-
ticular; and within twenty-four hours of BRESSON'S
complaint the Fiscal of Madrid commenced the
,prosecuti9a-
The court, however, ' in which the

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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY tORNING, NOVEMBER le, 1846

cause was to have been triedeclared that it was
not competent to the Fiscal to iitute such a prose-
cution, and refused to permit t case to proceed to
trial. The Count and his Miniks intend, it is said,
to appeal against this decision. Ve have no doubt
they will appeal, and we shouNot be surprised to
hear that they have dismissed A judges who have
thus honourably performed theirlty.lt will be by no
means the first time that the Aincesado faction has
tampered with the administratio4' justice.
MADRID BOLSA, Nov.lo.—Thehree per Cents. were
done on the Madrid Bourse at 33in. cash. The prices
of the other stocks continued the sie.

We have received the Paris pers of Sunday. I
The French Government fe, it would appear
some alarm at the statements nle by the National,
in an article which we quoted our impression of
yesterday, as to the manner in hich the coffers of
the Bank of France were beir drained of specie.
The Presse puts forward the allowing evidently
official explanation of the state ents made by the
National:—

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The Cotton Market at Liverpool, yesterday, was
steady, and prices were without alteration. A fair busi-
ness was done, 7,000 bales having changed hands, of
which 3,000 were American on speculation. The Share
Market was not active.
The sale of railway shares, yesterday, at Messrs.
Lamond and Co.'s, went off with spirit, and previous
rates were fully realised. A large business was done.
The following are a few of the principal sales :
Great North of India £0 4 0
Manchester and Southampton, 1847
0 16 0
Leicester and Bedford
Paris and Lyons
Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorset
Shropshire Union and Canal
Cornwall and Devon Central
East Indian
Namur and Leige 3 8 0
Shrewsbury and Birmingham ..
Calcutta and St. George's Point 0 6
Louvain ala Sambre
Direct Northern (scrip) 1 19 0
Yorkshire and Glasgow Union 0 12 6
Grand Union 0 14 0
South Wales
24 0 0
Caledonian
South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4
Taw Vale Extension and Dock b 19 0
Churnet and Blythe
Oxford, W itney, and Cheltenham 0 10 0
There has not been any arrivals, of late dates, an
flounced here from the colonies this morning.
The following are some of the duties on Canada pro-
duce and manufacture imposed by the United States
Tariff, passed the 29th of Jul, 1846:
" Spirits, 100 per cent ; fuyrniture, meats, preserves,
ale, 40 per cent., according to valuation. Apparel,
bonnets, straw, Ecc., cabinet work, fur caps, clocks,
clothing, fur of any description, household furniture,
iron, leather manufactured, linen, mineral waters,
paper, plums, potatoes, soap, sugar of all kinds,
feathers, vegetables prepared, wearing apparel, wood
manufactured, fire-wood, wool, raw or manufactured, 30
per cent., according to the value. Barley, beef, boards,
candles, caps, fish, tour of wheat, fruit, furs in skins or
dressed, hats, leather, linens, metals, oatmeal and oat.,
oils, paving-stones and bricks, pork, potash, rye, or in
flour, skins of all kinds, slates, tallow, timber, vegetables,
wheat, 20 per cent , according to the value.
Pamphlets, periodicals, soap, grease, tallow, building-
and rags, TiieFEen sllver, And
copper, free."
The Canada tariff, including the Imperial differential
duties, compared to the foregoing, is a mere trifle,
including the whole inland frontier, it probably
does little more than pay the expense of col-
lection, which certainly is a poor compensation
for the loss of time, expenses, and vexation,
which it occasions. It will be seen from the foregoing
remarks that the Government of the Republic of the
United States is rather loath to yield concessions to the
British colonies. There are, however, a few signs of a
more tolerent policy, and those interested must " bide
their time."
The following is a comparative statement of arrivals
and tonnage at Quebec:—
26th October, 1845. Vessels. Tonnage.
1,460
1846

"We can re .assure the Nations which speaks of an
idea entertained by the Bank of Fence to restrain the
amount of commercial bills discountd, and to limit the
facilities usually afforded to ,ur merchants. It
is not to be contested that such a measure,
adopted at such a moment, weld produce serious
inconvenience, because, in order to prevent an evil
no doubt possible, but still unce:,ain, it would imme-
diately create a real evil. It is nt at a period of the
year when accounts are being sttled, and when the
want of money is most sensibly lit, that it would be
prudent to limit the assistance Which commercial men
have a right to expect from a great establishment
founded on credit. Neither is tht position of the Bank
so alarming as some persons too ready to feel terrified
have believed. The Bank will stil possess, after all the
corn imported shall have been pail for, nearly one mil-
lion in cash. Appearances annoince that the causes
which have induced the large callsfor cash are about to
cease, and a current in a contrarT sense cannot fail to
set in. Under such circumstance, the directors could
not participate in the exaggerated fears of some of its
s"i4ic~`iliat if' such` a''
Ai as that mentioned by
the National has been made. it has been rejected by a
majority."
M. GUIZOT submitted the draft of his reply to
Lord PALMERSTON'S lat note to a Cabinet Council,
held on Friday last. This note, which is couched in
very courteous terms, positively refuses to permit the
Duke and Duchess of MONTPENSIER to make the re-
nunciations required of them.

There was a grand reception at the Marquis of
NORMANDY'S on Friday. According to the Presse
no one was admitted except on letters of invitation,
and it was remarked that neither the Spanish
Ambassador nor any of his secretaries or attaches

were present.
The railway between Orleans and Tours, which
had suffered from the inundations, was re- opened on
Friday for an experimental trip. A merchandise
train of 28 waggons passed over the whole line in
safety. It was to be opened to the public on Sunday.
The KING and the Royal Family arrived on Sa-
turday at St. Cloud from Compeigne.
The price of bread has been raised in Paris. For
the last fortnight of the present month the price is
fixed at 46c. the kilogramme (21bs. English) for the
first quality, and at 38c. the kilogramme for the
second quality.
The Three per Cents. were done at the Passage de l'Opera,
on Sunday, at 82f. 70c.
MAnsittm.Es, Nov. 11.—Marseilles and Avignon, 858 E
75c.; Northern, 645 t

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, NovinintrAt 16.
Boulogne and Amiens, 144—Dutch Rhenish, 514—East
Indian, %—Louvain I la Sambre, 1%—Luxembourg, 34
Namur and Liege, 31—Northern of France Constituted,
101/o—Paris and Lyons Constituted, 4%—Sambre and Meuse,
4%—Tours and Nantes Constituted, 44.

ALLEGED LUNATICS' FRIEND
SOCIETY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
" am desire d by the committee of the alleged
dLunatics' Friend Society" to convey to you their cor-
ial and sincere thanks for your admirable article on the
aws respecting lunatics and alleged lunatics, contained
in The Sun newspaper of the 12th instant. The com-
mittee feel the more gratified by your remarks, as they
so powerfully advocate the causes for which this society
was instituted—" The protection of the British subject
from unjust confinement on the grounds of mental de-
rangement, and for the redress of persons so confined.
Also to endeavour to procure a reform in the laws
and treatment affecting the arrest, detention, and release
of persons treated as of unsound mind."—l have the
honour to be, Sir, your faithful, and obeiient servant,
G. BOLDEN, Secretary.

At a meeting of the committee of the " Alleged Lu-
natics' Friend Society," held on Saturday, the 14th Nov.,
1846, it was moved by Mr. Bailey, and seconded by Mr.
Selby—
" That the thanks of this Society be presented to the
proprietors and editors of The Sun newspaper for their
article on lunatics or alleged lunatics, on the 12th inst.,
and that copies of the paper of that dal be procured for
the members of the society ; and that the prospectus of
the society he inserted in the newspaper."
Carried unanimously. By order,
G. BOLDEN, Secretary.

Less this year 36 more 12,606
The only price of Consols for the Account this morn-
ing has been 94i, and for Money 94-i a. The demand
for money has rather increased, and Exchequer-bills
have been soli again at 9s. premium. The price of
India Stock is 257, of Bank Stock 2051, and of the
Three and-a-Quarter per Cents. 151
The settlement in the Foreign Stock Market was
completed late yesterday afternoon, but still satisfac-
torily. To-day there is a lull as to the amount of busi-
ness transacted. Mexican Bonds have been sold for the
Account at 22 ; Portuguese Four per Cents. at 361 to
37i; the Russian Metalliques at 112 to 1 1 1; the Spanish
Three per Cents. at 37* ; the Dutch Two-and-a-llalf
per Cents. at 59* ; and the Four per Cents. at 91i 8.
In the Railway Share Market there has been a good
amount of business done to-day,and prices are pretty firm.

BUILDING SOCIETIES.—On Monday night the first
meeting to enrol members in a new building society, called
the Kingsland, Masten, and De Beauvior Town Improved
Building Investment Society was held in the Downhatn-
in consequence of the meeting having
road, Kingslatl. The chair was taken at 8 o'clock, by
B. B ngley, but,
been convened before the directors had got their rules
ready fir delivery, much time, was occupied by the
ch Airman and directors in endeavouring to answer
questions respecting the contemplated workings of the
society's funds; and, from the circumstance, we think, of
the meeting having been convened before the chairman
and directors were sufficiently acquainted with the
working of such a society, two hours were occupied
without any business having been got through, and the
meeting threatened to terminate in a joke; but, fortu-
nately, a Mr. Bowman, with the following initials to his
name, M.D., M.R.C.S.E., came to the rescue of the
directors, and moved the first resolution, stifling all other
questions being asked, and saving the chairman a great
deal of trouble. But few shares were applied for, many
gentlemen having left before the business had concluded.
—From a Correspondent.
THE GREAT BRITAIN.-111% James Bremner, civil
engineer, who has been appointed to take off the Great
Britain, has been a shipbuilder in Wick for nearly forty
years; he has taken off the strand, and some from
great depths, upwards of two hunered sail of merchant-
men. He has been a harbour builder on a large scale,
and he is now the patentee of a plan for building liar-
boursanodf raising Lords
vessels,of
which has gained the appro-
bation the Admiralty, and will be
brought into play on the first fit occasion. His plan
for building a harbour at Macduff has been adopted by
the trustees in preference to that of Cubitt's, and will
soon be carried on under Mr. Bremner's inspection, at an
expense of 50,0001.—Scotsman.
SINGULAR CASE OF FRAUD.-0n Monday, at the
Uxbridge Petty Sessions, Daniel Bright, a young man,
20 years of age, footman in the service of Mr. Hemmings,
of Hillingdon, near Uxbridge, was brought up before the
bench of magistrates for final examination on a charge
of having obtained at the shop of Mr. George Messen-
ger, linendraper, High-street, Uxbridge, one dozen of
stockings, by falsely representing that they were for
Lady Sophia Tower ; also with having obtained at the
shop of Messrs. Love and Bastard, drapers, of Uxbridge,
half a dozen stockings, by falsely representing that
they were for the lady's maid of C. Mills, Esq., of Hil-
lingdon. It appeared from the evidence that the pri-
soner had previously borne a most unexceptionable
character, and that he was going to leave Mr. Hemmings'
service in a few days, having got a more lucrative and
responsible situation. Neither the prisoner nor his
friends could assign any motive for the fraud he had
committed. He was committed to Newgate for trial.
THE CONCERT HALL, LIVERPOOL.--A correspon-
dent has called our attention to the encouragement given
to music and song in Liverpool—the concert-room, ori-
ginally built by the Socialists, being crowded every
Saturday evening
by an audience of about 2,0G0. It is
in connexion with the Northern Mechanics' Institution,
and on Sundays is used as a church, being licensed by
the Bishop during the rebuilding of St. Simon's. During
the week-days, too, it is often rendered serviceable as a
sort of Liverpool Exeter-hall. Among the singers engaged
for the Saturday evening concerts are Miss Hawes, the
Misses Smith, Miss
Romer, Miss S. Venables and her
father; Mr. Braham and his sons; Mr. John Parry, Mr.
Wilson, Mr. Henry Russell, Mr. Edney, &c. tee- MissVenables is described as a vocalist of very great promise.
—Douglas Jerrold's Weekly Newspaper.
The Earl of Auckland received the Marquis of
Lansdowne, the Right Honourable Charles and Lady
Mary Wood, Viscount Morpeth, Lord John Russell.
Lord De Mauley, the Hon. William Cowper, Mr. Ward,
and a select party to dinner on Monday Evening,
Noble Earl's; official residence at the Admiralty. A small
circle assembled after dinner, when among the visitors
were his Excellency the American Minister and Mrs.
Bancroft, the Countess Grey, Sir George and Lady
1 and Misses
Grey, Viscountess Palmerston, Lady Seaton
Parke, Sir
Hardy, Baron and Lady Parke and Miss
FArEliot,
at the
Richard and Lady B. Phillips, Hon. Mr. and Mrs.
Captain
Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Eden and Miss Eden,
Moore, Sir Edward Ryan, Captain Eden,
West,
Dundas, Lord Dudley Stuart, Colonel Upton
..r.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Montgomery, Sir Charles Adam, ea
Adams, Mr. Grenfell, &c.
u•The premises
FIRE IN HIGII•STREET,
.No. 113,
of Messrs. Harrington and Lucas, tea dealers,
Reareeredni iral
High-street, Borough, had a narrow
ears that
on Monday morning, destroyed by fire. 1 PP
ra two of the
()wine to a defect in the kitchen flue, opaecok
part of the
heavy girders and the flooring at tend the the flames were
ceiling of the shop became tired, and
the discovery was
rapidly extending themselves when eectape of being,
cutting away the
with the aid of buckets of water, and by
made. The engines quickly attended, and
woodwork, succeeded in extinguishing the ilx
.the firemen,

0 I'M
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Anns 931414,
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 94% :14 %
New 314 per Cent. Annuities 9514%
Long Annuities to expire Jan.lB6o 97/4 15-16
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1859
India Stock 257
Consols for Account 94%
Exchequer Bills, 10001. 1',4d.... 9 p
Ditto, 500/
Ditto, Small
ONE
O'CLOCK

CLOSING
PRICES.
2051/2
93%
94%
9514
9 15-16
257
94%
11 p
12 p
12 p
CLOSING
PRICES
85%
21%
36%
37%

RICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.
Brazilian Bonds
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 22
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent .. 361/2
Ditto, Account 37%
Russian Bonds ll2 111
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto. Account ... ...........
Ditto. 3 per Cent 37VA
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch, 2% per Cent .
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 911 x

PRICES OF PAID BUSINESS DONE
.
RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Aberdeen
and Eastern Junction 2%...... 2% 3 23/4 ,
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush l% —
Belfast & County Down 43/4
Birmingham and Dudley 435. ...
Birmin. and Gleucester..loo 128%
Ditto New 17% 3l .... ... .....
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire June.... 23/4 . — ...
Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 225. —
Bristol and Exeter 75
Ditto, New . 5 •
Bristol and Gloucester... 30 - .......
Bristol and Liver. June.. 21/2.--
Buckinghamshire
. aiedonian
Ditto Halt Shares-- 2% 2ll/
Cam bran & Grand Attic 42s
Chi,ster and Holyhead—. 27%
Cittrnet and Blythe 2
Chester and Manchester 425.
Chelte..aham and Oxford 2 —
Clydesdale Junction..... 20
Cork, Blackrock, and
Passages
Cork and Killarney ... 21h
Cork and Waterford ... 114 —
Cornwall
Ditto, Half Shares ... 2%......
Cornwall & Cent'l Devon 2%
Direct Lincoln, East Ret-
ford, and Sheffd. Jane. 2% —
Direct Northern
DirectNonvich
Dublin and Belfast Junc. 1214 5
Dublin, Belfast, and
Colert: in A
Dublin an 1 Galway..... 4
Dundalk & Enniskillen 10
Eastern Counties 141. 16s. 23%1/ 23 ...
Ditto New l2l. 16s '74% p
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1....... 61.135. 4d...
Ditto ditto, No. 2... 61. 13s. 4d...
.. ..
Do., York Extension.. 2 ...... 33/4 7/8
EastDerch'm andNor'ch 1
Eastern Union 33 .. ... — ,
Ditto, Quarter Shares 874

Do. Exten.(Harwich) 1 7/8 —
Do., Camb. and Ely.. 21j2......
East Lancashire
Ditto, New
Do., do. (late Preston
and Ormskirk)...
East Lincolnshire
East & West of England 1%...... - ............
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 • .......... •
Ditto Half Shares
Ditto, Quarter Shares 121/4 ••• ..... •••
Edinburgh & Northern l2l/2 ......
Edinburgh and Perth... 3 •••••• ...... ***•'
Ely and Huntingdon ... 121
Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2%...•••
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorset 5 ......
Glasgow, Kilmar.,& Ayr 50 ..... •
Ditto, New ........... 15 .....-

Do., IA Shares (5 per
cent. guar.)
Glouc.,Aberystwith,and
Central of Wales l% ...... ...........
Goole, Doncaster, &c 425.
Grand Union (Notting-
and Lynn
Great Eastern &Western 2 1/2...... •••
GreatGrimsby and Shef-
-10 ...... •••• . •••••
field
Great South. and West
(Ireland)
....
Great Munster 2% ...... .
Great North of Scotland 21/2..-.. ..... ,
Great Northof England-100 —
Ditto New 5 - ••• ..... .• I
Ditto, New .
Ditto, New
Great lestern 85
Ditto 1/2 Shares SO
Ditto 4 Shares
Ditto Fifths 2O
Ditto, New -
Huddersfield & Manches. 13
Ditto, Extension
Hull and Selby 5O
Ditto 14 Shares
Do. Half Shares 25
Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 111/2._
Do., do., and Norwich 2%......
L•measter and Carlisle... 50
Do. New
Leeds and Bradford
Leeds and Carlisle
Leicester & Birmingham 225.
Leicester and Bedford... 225. —
Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 22% 381A..
Do., Branch (Blue) ... 214 ll ........
Do. Extension( Green) 2 1/** '** 4 33/a2
Leeds and Thirsk 17%

Ditto, New 5 —
Lpool., Alnchstr &New-
castle Junction
Liverpool and Bury ... 14 ..
L_ ndon and Blackwell. 161. 13s. 4d.
Do New
Ditto Extension 71A
London, Brighton, and
South Coast
Ditto, Fifths
London and Croydon
Guaan. 5 per cent
London and Greenwich 12115 s 4d —
Do. Preference ...18/17s 2d —
London, Hounslow, and
Western
London and N. Westernloo 1961/ 196
Do. Quarters

37%
5914
91%

CLOSING
PRICES.
. 18%

6!% P
128

1 r,,

Do., do., NOW Shareo„ 2

23
7% p

20%

12%

X P

~ 136
.. 78172
.. 194

183,4
51/4

.....
2%

754

. 88%
• 11
▪ 3%

Ski

r•

591,4
~ 48

1 0 0.0.0

. -
. /5%

Ditto Fifths ..... .... 2 ......
Ditto, Eighths (G. J.) 12.1 A — ,
Do., New 1A Shares
( G. J.)
Do 40/. Shares(L. M.) 8
Leta & S.Western 411 6s 10d• 66 651/2 ...... ..
Do. New Consol. Bths 40
Do. New
Do. New
..ondon ar.d York 214. 2l/04— •••• ••••

6514

-
VA

Do. 1/2 Shares
Lcndon and Windsor . 14‘,... .--
London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil
Londonderry &Coleraine 15 ...... 9 ... ............
Lon,londerry and Ennis-
killen l5
Lynn end Ely -
Lynn and Dereham :5
Manchester and Leeds .. 82
Ditto 1/2 Shares
Do. Quarters
Do. Fifths 5 .. .. 10%
Do. Sixteenths ... 61/1 —
Do. Extension 42s. l% 1 p
Manchester and Birmin. 40
Do. Quarters (A)...... 5
Do. Quarters (B) ... 5
Do. Quarters (C) 1
Manchester,Buxton,and
Matlock ...
Manchester Birm., and
Mould Junction ..... •• ..
Manchest. & Southaropt. 2 ...... 13/4%
Midland ...... 100 .....
Do. Fifths 2 .....
Do. New
Ditto, New
Do. Birm., and Derbyloo lO3 x n... ... 103xa
Midlnd& East. Counties 2%
Midland Great Western
Irish
Newcastle and Berwick 20
Do. North Shields ... 25
Newcastle andCarlisle...loo 112
New mrk et &Chesterfrd 5
Newport & Abergavenny 2%......
Newry and Enniskillen 7
Newark, Sheffield, and
Boston .., ..
Norfolk lOO
Do. Half Shares
Do. Extension
. 39
North British ...........25 .....
Do. Half Shams ll ...... 17 x int ......... 17 xint
Do. Fifths
i:4 AI, 14
Do. Extension

16th
1534

101

1p

VA p

126xs.

a 3%

Northern and Eastern... 50' -
Do. Scrip (issd. 5 dis.) 45
Do. Quarter Shares... 12%
Do. New
North Staffordshire 42s. ...... 31/%1/s p 3% P
North Wales
Northern and Southern
Connecting
_., 2%

Northampton, Banbury,
and Cheltenham 2
Oxford, W,4rcester, and
Wolverhampton
Oxford, Witney, and
Cheltenham....
Portsmouth Direct 3:i.i 4% 4%
Preston and Wyre
Do. % Shares
Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate 3/. 12s.
Richmond
Royston and Hitchen ... 1% — :lf* —
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland 12% — ....... l3
Sheffield, Buxton, Leek
Potteries, andCrewe... 1%
Sheffield & Manchester 100 -
Do. Quarter Shares... 8
Do. Lincolnshire June. 11/1
Do. & Great Grimsby. 10
Do. do. Extension 425. .... .........„ ••••
Shrewsbury and Birm... 3 .... . 51/ 4%....
Shropshire Union
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
&S. Staffordsh. mune. 2% 2% .. 2%
Sligo and Shannon l% - -
South Devon... —
South & Midlands June. 428. .. •••
South StatfordshireJunc. 2%
south Eastern & Dover. 33% 37
Do., No. I 2O
Do., No. 2.
Do., No. 3
Do.. No. 4
St.Alban's, Hatfield,and .
Ilertford Junction ... 425. - ******** •••••
Staines and Richmond... 1
Staffordsh. & Shropshire 2% •
South Wales
Swans. & Loughor & Ca-
meron's Stm. Coal. ... 2 - ••• • —
Taw Vale Extension ... 2
Tring„ Reading, and
Basingstoke
Vale of Neath ... .. ...... 2
Wakefield, Pontefract. &
Goole 22% ... ......... ..

Warwickshire & London 425: — ...... •..
Warwick and Worcester 425. , —
Waterford and Kilkenny 11 . ...
Waterford and Limerick 221/
Waterfd,Wxfrd,W'icklw,
and Dublin
W aterford, Wexford, and
V alentia -
Waveney Valley ..... „.. 2
Welsh Midland
West Riding Union 428 - ...
West Cornwall
WestLondon,Old Shares 20
Wexford and uarlow ... vii
W ilts, Somerset,Si Wey-
mouth
Worcester, Warwick, and
Rugby
York and Carlisle 21,,i •••••• • • • .....
York and Newcastle 25 ... . 391/2 39x n ,
Ditto New
Do. Preference
York and North Midland 50 92xn
Ditto % Shares
Do. Scarboro' Branch. 25
Do. Selby
Do. Extension
Ditto, Preference
Do. East and West Rid-
big Extension
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.

Anglo-Belgian
Barbadoes 1 ....
Belgian Eastern Junctn ....
Boutogne and Amiens l6 —..
Bordeaux & Mediterran 2 ....
Bordeaux, Toulouse, and
Cet te (Mackenzie's) 2 .
Do. (Espelete's)
Calais, Dunkrk, and West

..
~. 133/Ax.d

183.4xn

Flanders
Calcutta and Diamond
Harbour .
Callao, Lima, and Pacific
Coast 1
Central of Spain ...
Ceylon
Demerara 2i4 ....
Den dre Valley
Direct Bombay and
Madras
Dutch Rhenish
East Indian ss.
Fampoux & Hazebrouk 4 ....
Great Indian Peninsular ss• ••••
Great Western Bengal... ss•
Great Western Canada... 3
Italian and Austrian. 4 ...
Jam aica S.Mid. J unction 1 ....
Jersey
Louvain la Sambre ... 4 6 ...
Luxembourg.
Lyons and Avignon...... 2 ....
1 ...,

1/4

1%%53/ .....

%3/4

gadras
Madras, Nellore, and
Arcot
Madrid and Valentin 2 ...
Mauritius ..
Namur and Liege
Nn of France Constituted 5 ...,
North Jamaica 1 ...
Orleans and Vierzon
Orleans and Bordeaux 6 ...
Over Yssel 4135 4d
Paris &Lyons Constituted 5
Paris and Orleans
Parrs and Rouen
Paris and Strasbourg
Constituted
Rouen and Havre
Sambre and Meuse lO ...,
Strasbourg and Bale 14
St. Laurence & Atlantic
Tours and Nantes Con-
stituted
Tournay, Jurbise, Lan-
den, and Hasselt 8
Trinidad
West Flanders ...... 6

;.. 314

~. 75,E ...,

_ 4%

Real del Monte Unregd

~ 13%xd

ES.

334
gGE.-(YESTERDAY.)
Gibraltar.
Leghorn
Genoa ............ •• •• 26 10
Milan ..... ...• •• ••

Venice.. .. .. • • • • • • • • • •
Naples
........ „. 40
Palermo, per ox .. • • • • • • 119314
Lisbon. ....... •••• • • • • 52%
Oporto ........ i 2
Rio Janeiro •• .• •• • • 231 i
Bahia .. •••••• • • • • • •

Buenos Ayres •••• • • • •
New York, 21 days' sight

- _
Philadelphia • • • • • • .. --
MGM DULLION, PEA Of'.
Foreign Gold in bars.. X 3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin • • 0 0 0
Now Dollars •• • ..• 0 4 10%
Spanish Doubloons • . 0 0 0
Silver in bars ........0 5 0%