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LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1846.

FREE TRADE T RIUMPHANT•

The Corn-law Repeal Bill and its pendant," the
Customs' Duties Bill, were each read a third time
last night in the Lords without a division. Sir
ROBERT PEEL may, with truth exclaim—

"Exegi monumentum ere perennitic"
Free trade is now a great fact, acknowledged
even by those who have been hitherto its most
strenuous opponents, and who, having fought the
battle of protection, manfully and fairly, as long as
there was any chance of success, finding that the
ground they sought to maintain was no longer
tenable, have, instead of uselessly continuing the
contest and opposing the wishes of the people by
irritating delays, gracefully yielded to the clearly
expressed opinion of the country, and suffered the
Bills to be read a third time without a division.
Never has the admirable adaptability to circum-
stances of our glorious constitution been more clearly
exemplified than in the present instance. Seven
years ago there were seven corn-law repealers
in England. They intrigued not with po-
liticians, they appealed not to popular prejudices,
they meddled not with parties—they appealed to the
reason of the reasonable—and in seven years, without
popular commotion, without official influence—by the
mere force of argument—those seven men had
brought over to their opinions seven millions—had
so formed, and guided, and directed popular opinion,
as to become irresistible, and to make it necessary
for the Minister, whoever he might be, to carry out
their principles ; and, ere the words which we ars
now writing shall be read in the extreme provinces
of the United Kingdom, the principles of free trade

will be written in indelible characters on our statute-

book ; the resolutions of those seven men of Man-
chester,
who met seven years ago (with the hearty
concurrence of our gracious QUEEN) will have be-
come the law of the whole British empire. Honour
to the SOVEREIGN who thus studies and ministers to
the permanent advantage of the great body of her sub-
jects. All honour to the Minister who has nobly dared
to confess that he was formerly wrong, and, having
discovered his error, has coute qui coute renounced
it; and, by carrying out the gracious intentions of
his SOVEREIGN, earned for himself the eter
nal gratitude of the suffering masses of his
fellow-countrymen ; but, above all, honour to
the glorious League, which has peacefully, constitu-
tionally, and legally begun, continued and completed,
this great, this philanthropic work.

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people and Minister of thecountry—with
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and
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open
past protestations full in
and violent hostility of friends and foes before him—
dared to confute the one and to confront the other,
and, boldly speaking of the people's wants, boldly
propose the measures they required. That
speech was received with heartfelt joy by
the many, with bitter and acrimonious indig-
nation by the few. It was stamped by the fiat
of popular approval, and history transmits it to the
applause of posterity. On Thursday, the 25th of
June, after a five months' unequal and ineffectual
opposition, those glorious measures received the last ,
award of the Legislature—they are now the law of
the land ! The "Je le veux" of the SOVEREIGN has
ratified the will of the people—monopoly is no
more ; and the spirit of faction weeps over
the dearest of her children. Faction weeps,
while free trade triumphs—while the mighty
multitude hail the mighty measure; and
they hail it not alone for itself, but for the great
things which shall follow in its train. The corn-
laws are abolished—and something more than the
corn-laws ; free trade is triumphant, and something
more than free trade. We have now seen the down-
fal of class-legislation, of party prejudice and fac-
tious despotism ; a nobler, a higher system
of legislation is at hand—and the people know this,
and shall they not triumph ? The mind of the mul-
titude is in this unanimous, and while they rejoice,
and while they feel that to themselves is the glorious
achievement virtually due, yet they forget not those
through whose immediate agency their long struggles
and enduring hopes have been crowned with the ulti-
matum of success. Theythank the SOVEREIGN, who from
the throne spoke of their long-desired measures; they
thank the Parliament, by whom their interests have
been truly represented ; they thank the Peers
for their cordial concurrence with their de-
sires ; but, above all, as was declared last
night by their chief spokesman, they thank the
Premier for his patriotism, his perseverance, his
self-sacrifice. And sincerely as Mr. COBDEN,
sincerely as any, do we also tender our earnest thanks
and congratulations to Sir ROBERT PEEL. We
thank him for the benefit he has conferred upon the
country, we congratulate him on the glory he has
acquired for himself. He has triumphed even though
he has fallen. Though now compelled to relin-
quish his position, it has not been held in
vain. For five months he has held office
as a free-trade and as a popular Minister, and that
brief and eventful period has set the seal to his title-
deeds to fame. Whether he again resume his official
post, or whether he remains only a representative of
the people, time only can declare ; but no
time can rob him of the popularity he
has acquired as the Minister who dared
to sacrifice all things—position, place, and
party—for the interests of his country. The
vindictive and acrimonious attacks with which he has
recently been assailed are tacit confessions of the
efficacy of his reforms, by proving their hostility to
the egotist spirit of faction. As the head of the
strong Conservative party, Sir ROBERT once
held an apparently high position : by oppos-
ing its prejudices, undermining its iniquitous
strongholds, dividing its elements, and finally
by bringing against it the power of the people,
that party he has destroyed ! Without supporters
and without adherents, the once great chief is almost
alone—he is in a minority, but is he less truly
great ? Can any of his real friends regret his recent
conduct, his recent sacrifice ?—will they not rather j
join with the people in proclaiming—

" His greatest glory was that hour
Of self-upheld, abandoned power ?"

The majority of Seventy-three against the Minis-
terial measure, called the Coercion Bill, has consum-
mated the destiny of the present Government. Me-
morable henceforth in our Parliamentory history will
be the 26th of June, 1846, memorable, as immediately
antecedent to the dawning of that day on which the
prophecy of Sir RORER, PEEL was fulfilled to the very
letter—the day on which his great political difficulty
was proved in literal veracity to be Ireland. A strenuous
effort to meet the exigencies of that problematic island
constituted the last act of his Administration. It
would be infinitely ridiculous to impute to the Prime
Minister any but the most disinterested motives in
propounding a policy so generally obnoxious through-
out the sister country ; it would be ridiculous,
because by so doing no additional emolu-
ment and no superfluent celebrity could in
any manner accrue to himself; because such
a proceeding would, moreover, only facilitate the
pettish recrimination of his personal adversaries,
while it afforded them a sort of neutral leverage for
the subversion of his Cabinet ; because, in fine, so
many more agreeable questions might have been
selected as the cause for his retirement, had a seces-
sion from office been the coveted acquisition.
Nevertheless, while we accord to the Ministry the
credit of disinterestedness, we must acknowledge
ourselves incapable of discovering the particular
exigency which in the present month should demand
an interference so authoritative with the social go-
vernment of Ireland as the Coercion Bill. When
this measure was originally introduced to the notice
of Parliament—namely, some eighteen or twenty
weeks ago—when the highways and homesteads of
five Irish counties were sodden with the blood of
homicide ; when devilish assassinations were inces-
santly perpetrated—sometimes under the shadow of
twilight, sometimes in the flagrant eye of noon,
sometimes within the august gloom of midnight;
when murder, and arson, and agrarian tumults ran
riot in those afflicted provinces—it did seem
to us not only advisable, but absolutely
necessary, so to nerve the arm of Irish
administration as to arrest the progress of insubor-
dination, to chastise the miscreants who were thus
placing the lives of the community in jeopardy, and
g:tf
incapable
to assure the safety and the tranquillity of the inno-
eteir:tsmasses. A monster evil desolated certain por-
altolreland—the ordinary powers of law proved
of eradicating
extraordinary accession of
endue the law with
times this salutary principle
subjection for the purposeof
darn merged itself into that evil—some
guff
mcipower was requisite to
dent vigour. In ancient
of resorting to
ensurinz
the office of 6: present
ulterior free-
tetatorship. A
statutory dictatorship was at that period necessary
then maintained •
to Ireland : we the existence
of that necessity ourselves—so also
did the
Noble Lord the Member for the city of London, and
a number
of other representatives who have subse-
quently recorded their votes in opposition to the
Coercion Bill. We conceive, indeed, that what was im-
peratively demanded at the commencement of this
•
session is not called for at the present moment , and
this because the virus of Irish criminality has ex-
hausted itself during the protracted and pernicious
wrangling of the Protectionist orators. Had the
Coercion Bill been carried into operation immediately
after the assembling of Parliament, we are satisfied
that the lives of many unfortunate victims to agrarian
outrages would have been preserved, and that a consi-
derable moral benefit would have been con-
ferred upon the Irish multitude generally. It
would have awed the rioters into instant sub-
mission—it would have warned them by
an awful retribution from any future revival of their
villanies, and it would likewise have impressed the
more harmless inhabitants with the conviction, that
if the Government was ready to wreak its vengeance
upon those citizens who were not amenable to the
Constitution, it was ready also to protect the help-
less and to foster the loyal. Now, however any such
interference with the domestic habits of the people

appears to us wholly in the light of an irksome super-
fluity of justice ; it is the old story, " shutting the
stable-door when the steed is stolen !" Still the Mi-
nistry have thought otherwise, and we believe them
honest in so thinking, cordially we believe
so. A mighty responsibility hangs over them
individually and collectively ; the lives of mil-
lions are entrusted to their protection ; many of
those lives have been taken through the inadequacy of
the ordinary law to chastise the aggressors. Can we
then entertain feelings of astonishment if a sense of
that responsibility seems to preponderate over all
other considerations ? It is from the anta-
gonism of such views that the downfal of
the Premier has originated. Ireland was his
great difficulty at the very outset, it has continued to
be his great difficulty at the termination. Impeding
the velocity of the ascent, it has tended to expedite
the catastrophe ; but that catastrophe, if such indeed
it can be designated, is one effulgent with an enduring
glory. Hardly has the discomfiture of the anti-Minis-
terial majority arrived when the Ministerial victory is
announced. The Coercion Bill is lost, but free trade
is achieved ! And the statesman who has been
chiefly instrumental in the advancement of both is
subdued only in the very moment when he has com-
pleted his conquest. Monopoly is vanquished if
PEEL has yielded to circumstances ; and in the
exultation of this unparalleled achievement, public
gratitude will not forget the great statesman to
whom its acquisition is principally owing. Posterity
will often recur to this epoch ; it will cherish the
memory of the SOVEREIGN under whose auspices the
peaceful victory has been obtained ; it will honour
that Great Army:of Intellect, the League, with its
unarmed Cromwell, COBDEN ; and its full and en-
during gratitude will be lavished upon that illustrious
man, who, amidst the revilings of spleen and the taunts
of revenge, has for ever associated his genius with
one of the noblest boons ever accorded to the British
nation. It will be remembered in future times, that
while Sir WALTER RALEIGH, as early as the six-
teenth century, advocated the free importation of pro-
visions, it was not until the advent of Sir ROBERT
PEEL that the creations of OMNIPOTENCE were
laid open to appease the wants of the hungry,
and the productions of man to clothe the
naked, untaxed, untramelled, unrestricted—as was
originally intended by the designs of GOD and the
dictates of reason. Let U 3 then, men of England !
repeat the earnest language uttered last night by
COBDEN let us tender to Sir ROBERT
PEEL " our heartfelt thanks for the un-
wearied perseverance, the unswerving firmness, and
the great ability with which he has, during the last
six months, conducted one of the most magnificent
reforms ever carried in any country through this
House of Commons !" Those are cheering and
glorious words they tell us that what the
people of England have been struggling for so long,
and through such a variety of tribulations and
disappointments, is at length obtained. It tells us that
that eloquent champion of patriotism, RICHARD
COBDEN, has spoken his last free-trade speech ; it re-
minds us that Sir ROBERT PEEL has lapsed from the
vigour of administration ; but it reminds us also that
his conduct, his zeal, his forbearance, his assiduity, and
his daring since November last, have entitled him to
the popularity and the grateful affection of his coun-
trymen, while they have imprinted his name in the
Whahalla of the World as one of the noblest bene-
factors Great Britain ever possessed.

We cannot resist calling the attention of our
readers to Lthe following sentence, uttered many
years ago by Dr. CHALMERS. It is at once indica-
tive of the hopelessness of ever achieving what has
been this day achieved, while it is a sketch of the
consequences which were deemed by that eminent
thinker as most certain to result from such a measure.
The disappointed minority of would-be monopolists
insist that free trade in grain will ensure a national
bankruptcy to the agriculturists. Thus, on the other
hand, speaks an astute and philosophical reasoner :
" For the sake of its moral benefit we know of no
achievement more urgently desirable than that of a
free corn trade. There is not a more fertile topic of
clamour and burning discontent all over the land ;
and were it but effectually set at rest, we are aware
of nothing which might serve more to sweeten the
breath of British society."

Accounts from Rome of the 17th have been received.
On that day all the grand dignitaries, the diplomatic
agents of all the powers, and the persons desirous of re-
ceiving the benediction of the new POPE, presented them-
selves at the doors of the apartment in which he was to
give his first audience. As soon as the doors were
opened the most eager rushed to the feet of the POPE to
receive his blessing, but his Holiness stopped them with
a motion of the hand, and asked for the Ambassador of
France. It was only after M. DE Rossi had been re-
ceived by the POPE, that other persons were permitted
to approach him.
The fact is that Cardinal MASSAI FERRETI, now Pius
IX., was the favourite candidate of France, and Count
Rossi, the French Ambassador (one of the most astute
diplomatists of the day), was all-powerful in the elec-
tion. He thus addressed several of the most influential
Cardinals previous to the meeting of the Conclave :
" France is too powerful to have need to exercise her
veto, and therefore she renounces it. She charges me
to request you to take into consideration that a choice
that shall not respond to the wants of the country would
produce a dangerous internal agitation, and bring the
Austrians to the north and the French to the south."

It is reported that the new POPE has appointed
Cardinal Gizi Under-Secretary of State. This Cardinal
is a firm supporter of the French interest, which may
now be considered as all-powerful in the Pontifical
Court. That the choice of the Conclave meets with the
approval of the French Government may be gathered
from the following article, which appeared in the Journal
des Debats.

"Pius IX. is of a mild and conciliating, though firm cha •
racter. He is said to be determined to occupy his mind im-
mediately with those ameliorations in the Government of
his states which were so earnestly demanded of his prede-
cessor. It is beyond all doubt that the agitation which was
beginning to be manifested in the Roman States, and the
condition of the Church in Spain and Portugal, have had
great influence on the prompt election made by the cardinals,
and the spirit of wisdom and concord with which they have
been inspired on this solemn occasion cannot be too highly
estimated."

It is said that one of the first acts of Pius IX. will be
to proclaim a general amnesty—a wise and merciful act,
which foretels a happy, peaceful, and enlightened reign.

Madrid papers of the 19th June of have arrived. They
contain intelligence from Lisbon to the 16th. The
greater number of the provincial juntas had been dis-
solved, but there had been some attempts at rioting in
Lisbon, attended, however, by no more serious catas-
trophes than the breaking of the windows of certain
Conservatives. The people demanded the dismissal
of the QUEEN'S Secretary and of certain Generals.
commanding in the provinces. The PALMELLA Ministry
was becoming every day stronger, and the work of
pacification was proceeding. The Duke of PAL3IELLA.
had applied to the Bank and to the principal capitalists
for advances on account of the Government.

MADRID BOLSA, JUNE 19.—Three per Cents., cash,
33, and for paper, 33i ; Five per Cents, 20k paper.
Ditto without Interest, cash, 6i.

We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday.

According to the Consfitutionnel there is to be a
batch of seventeen Peers created on the Gth of July.
The following are mentioned as the new Members of the
Chamber of the Luxembourg .—MIL BARBET, Boissr
VANGLAS, CADEAU D'ACY, CORNUDET, DOZON, JAC-
gUEMINOT, JAMIN, LAFON, LAS-CAZES, J. LEFEBVRE,
"An ex-Prefect, M. LuAßNEolitojtEsß-
voLrLdice
a;u
xa, nadn
dtwo
Mayors, M. Durou
A. PERIER, REYNAILD, ,SPEY, and VIGIER. Deputies
tt-D
BIGo, of Lisle.

The increarseedersgroannTt
ufoersdathye navy was voted in the
Chamber
amat3ority of 122 to
course of the discussion, by
the
de Minister of
..,n t h
e o f
1
Marine stated, that henceforth, on
in commission, it was the intention of the Government
to
eunit ,hreceived
to appoint one midshipman for every ten men.
The Courrier du Ilavre says—
" Accounts from Newfoundland to the
at Dieppe, announce that a great number of Frenc.
were collected on the bank. Some merchants ofSt. vessels
Pierre
had sent two small vessels to the English coast to
herrings at a fixed rate of duty. The vessels were purchase
suhtraide
by a sloop of war employed in. watching the coast
exportation of herrings is permitted only to English'vessel e.
This fact was brought to the knowledge of the Chamber ofs
Commerce of Dieppe, which will call the attention of the
Minister of Foreign Affairs to this act of rigour on the part of
the English cruiser."
Accounts from Martinique, of the 17th of May, repre-
sent the Colonial Council of the island as being in a
most agitated and disturbed state, in consequence of the
law of July 1845, for ameliorating the condi-
tion of the unfortunate slave population of the
island. The Council vehemently protest againt the law, ,

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 26, IM6

which they denounce as being neither more nor less than
disguised emancipation.
The Duke and Duchess DE NEMOURS, with their
children, passed through Angouleme on Saturday. They
slept on Friday night at Ruffec, where they were com-
pelled to stop on account of an accident to one of the
wheels of their carriage.

PARIS Bocnas.—Eive per Cents., cash, 120 f. 50c.,
for account, 120 f. 40c. ; Three per Cents., cash, 82f. 90e.
Railway shares improved:—For cash, Orleans, 1,242 f.
50c.; Rouen, 1,006 E; Havre, 725 f.; Northern, 723 f. 50c.;
Bordeaux, 595 t

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 25.
Ceylon, 4—Demerara, 21A —Dendre Valley, —Dutch Rhenish,
7 —Louvain and Jemappe, },; —Luxembourg, 1% —Madrid and Va-
lentin, I%—Namur and Liege, 3—Northern of France Constituted,
13%—Paris and Lyons Constituted, s%—Paris and Rouen, 33%
Paris and Strasbourg Constituted, 44 —Rouen and Harre, 2S%—
West Flanders, 34.

We have seen a manifesto published by Don Antonio
de Haro y Tamariz, Minister of Finance to the Presi-
dent Santa Anna, who at present is residing in this me-
tropolis. In this he attacks with much violence the
project of establishing a monarchy in Mexico. The
reasons which he adduces are of sufficient weight to
neutralise those which have been offered in favour of
the scheme, through the medium of various continental
journals. Don Haro has treated the question in such a
lucid manner as to leave no doubt that the project is
completely visionary, and that, even in the event of its
being realised, it would be without permanent duration.
He shows that at whatever time the plan of monarchy
might be brought forward, it would cause much blood-
shed, but that it would at no time be so impolitic as at
present, when the United States would take the advan-
tage of the political divisions caused by the movement
to pursue their scheme of usurpation. The style of the
manifesto is forcible, and full of that fire which distin-
guishes an uncompromising Republican, and although
it seems to have been published chiefly for the purpose
of explaining the conduct of its author during the
progress of recent events, he has availed himself of the
opportunity to attack triumphantly all those Europeans
who have tried to revive the treaty of Ygualo, which, as
is well known, fell still-born. Don Haro, who belongs
to the first noble families in Mexico, and who has
consistently adhered to his republican sentiments, being
unwilling to join in the plan for establishinga monarchy,
is now a voluntary exile from his country. Some of his
friends have accompanied him to Europe, and if any
opinion may be formed on the matter, we may presume
that Don Haro being such a thorough republican,
would not be so intimate with Santa Anna, did not the
ex-president, and some of the other Mexican nobles
now in Europe, entertain similar sentiments. If Don
Haro does not gain his object by the publication of his
manifesto, he will at least enjoy the satisfaction of
having attacked his political adversaries, and of having
shown that his conduct has been regulated by a sincere
love for his country, inasmuch as he has preferred a pri-
vate loss to the ruin of Mexico.

KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL.—This excellent institu-
tion has in the last six years afforded relief to the sick poor
inhabiting the densely-populated neighbourhoods of Lincoln's
Inn•fields and Clare-market. The number of beds in the
present building, which was not designed for a hospital,
is only 120, so that the in-patients must be limited
to that number. The number of out-patients has
increased from 4,056, the number relieved in 1840, the
year in which the hospital was opened, to 15,935, the num-
ber relieved in 1845; and there is every reason to believe
that a similar increase would have taken place in the number
of in-patients but for the inadequate accommodation
provided. An attempt will be made to-morrow
to increase the efficiency of this excellent institution
by enabling it to afford to the poor more ample means of
medical and surgical relief. A meeting is to be held, at three
o'clock, in the new hall of King's College, in aid of a fund
for enlarging King's College Hospital, so as to extend
its usefulness. Over this meeting the Archbishop
of Canterbury has consented to preside. The Duke of Cam-
bridge will, it is understood, be present, and the meet-
ing will be addressed by the Bishops of London
and Oxford, the Lord Ashley, the Vice-Chancellor
of England, the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce, Arch-
deacon Manning, and other distinguished persons.
With such advocacy there can be no doubt but that the good
work will prosper.

QUEEN'S BENCH -(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Prius.)
GURNEY THE ELDER v. GURNEY AND ANOTHER.

This was an action brought by Mr. Gurney, a gentleman
who formerly held an office in this Court, to recover 9001.
on a bill of exchange from the firm of Gurney and Chapman,
late of the Union Brewery, Lambeth. The circumstances
which led to the action are shortly these : One
of the defendants is the son of the plaintiff,
and the latter, it would appear, gave his son a
sum of 8,0001., to- purchase a share of Mr. Chapman,
the other defenant, in the Union Brewery. A partnership
was in consequence formed, during the existence of which
the younger Gurney gave several bills of exchange and pro-
missory notes, in the name of " Gurney and C 0.," to his
father and other members of the family. In course of time
the affairs of the brewery became embarrassed, and Mr.
Chapman caused an inquiry to be instituted, which led to a
dissolution of the partnership. The younger Gurney. in con-
sequence of the proceedings in which he had been engaged,
became bankrupt, and the affairs of Mr. Chapman were
also placed in a state of serious embarrasment. The elder
Gurney sued his son in legal form on the bill of exchange,
and the latter allowed judgment to go by default. That
circumstance induced the plaintiff to bring this further
action, to decide whether the giving of the bill of exchange
was an act of partnership, or whether it was only a private
transaction of the younger Gurney. In fact the material
point at issue was the responsibility of Mr. Chapman, as
being the partner of the younger Mr. Gurney.
A special jury was impannelled to try the case.
The Attorney-General and Mr. Montague Chambers ap-
peared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Watson and Mr. Humphries
for the defendants. _

The examination of witnesses on the point we have stated
was then proceeded with.
The case was not expected to close before the rising of the
Court.

PORTUGAL.

Our Lisbon intelligence up to the 20th inst. gives a very
unfavourable view of the state of things in Portugal. It
would appear that the Palmella Ministry was tottering—the
Cabralist party in complete possession of the Court—and the
King's German Councillor standing between the nation and
the fulfilment of the royal peon:dug lately held out to the
people. It is difficult, howrilir, to conceive why the Go-
vernment in the critical circumstances in which it was placed,
between two anarchies, a military and a popular state of
turbulence and exasperation, should not have showed more
energy, and by its boldness, as well as discretion, have saved
the Court from its own folly and fatuity.
The Prince who bears the title of King should have been
reminded by the Ministers of the Sovereign that any inter-
ference of his in the affairs of government and still more on
the part of any foreign servant of his in Portugal, was not
only indecorous, but prejudicial to the Queen's interests.
The people--exasperated by the apparently protected con-
spiracies of the dismissed Cabralist officers and civil servants
of the same party still retained in all the influential places
under Government, and by the conduct of the persons im-
mediately about the King, by continual military emeutes in
favour of the ex-Ministers, and attempts at counter-revolu-
tion in the provinces on the part of the military—were again,
it was feared, on the eve of another and more formidable out-
break than the former.
The Financial Committee had not terminated its labours,
but the principal objects said to have been had in view by
by it were reductions to the extent of upwards of 2,000
contos in the public expenditure, reduction in the interest of
the debt, foreign and domestic, either to the extent of a
third of the interest or of making the Five per Cents. Four
and the Four per Cents. Three. One member only was said
to be opposed to this reduction in toto. Reductions were also
talked of in the war expenditure and the courts civil.
The Bank had a meeting of its shareholders. The pros-
pects of public credit were not encouraging.
Senor Gonzales Bravo had been setting diplomatists an ex-
ample in the way of bringing editors of papers hostile to
them to their bearings, by calling on them to retract, or tight
by proxy.—Chronicle.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO TPIREE.
There are accounts a few days later from South Australia
and Port Philip, viz., to February 11th and 26th respectively,
but they communicate nothing of interest.
The majority against the second reading of the Irish
Coercion Bill has been the general theme of conversation to-
day, and Sir Robert Peel's resignation is looked upon as a
fait aewmpli.
The following is an interesting statement relative to the
trade of Brazil, brought to hand by the Crane packet :
Monthly return of Exports and Imports, Custom-house
Revenue, &c., at Rio de Janeiro, for April last, compared
with that of the corresponding month last year.
Exports in 1846. 1845.
Coffee, bags 72,022 88,584
Sugar, chests
Hides
Custom-house receipts : Milreis.
From, imports 643,365 667,737
From exports .....

Total
The trifling falling off is accounted for by the supply o:
coffee having been rather short, and not equal to the de-
mand, consequently prices have ruled high, and as the duty
is payable ad valorem on a tariff, ascertained weekly, the
revenue has not suffered proportionably. At the latter end
of the month the arrivals of coffee from the interior
were more considerable. The Exchange continued steady at
26%, and the Six per Cent. Funds at 761/2.
The imports had been very considerable, without a corre-
sponding demand for consumption. Sales were, therefore,
difficult to effect. There are no returns published of the
value of the articles imported, but some correct idea may be
formed thereof by the following statement, viz.:—
Ships arrived in April, 1844 and 1845.
Number of vessels 9B ... 57
Ditto of tons
Of the above 75 were with cargoes to be delivered at Rio,
viz :
From England
~ Gibraltar 1 27
„ France
„ Spain
„ Portugal
„ Anseatic Towns
„ Belgium
„ Sweden
„ Denmark
„ Cape de Verd
„ United States
„ Austria
„ Buenos Ayres
„ Chili
~ China
Articles exported to March 31 :-
1846.
Coffee, bags
Sugar, chests
Hides 147,564
Sailed in April :
Vessels
Tonnage
The Funds have been heavy again this morning,
Consols having been done at 943/4, ',though a purchase or
two just made has rallied them to 95. The New Three-and-
a-Quarter per Cents. have been 961, 3%. Bank Stock is
steadier at 205%. Exchequer-bills have been supported at
9s. to 13s. premium.
The Foreign market has been very inanimate again. Por-
tuguese Four per Cents. have realised 471/2 to 48. Nothing
has been done in Spanish bonds. Mexican Five per Cents.
are 27, and the Deferred, 16 to LA ; Columbian are 15k.
Shares are fiat.
BRITISH FUNDS.

1845.
387,828
2,828
88,255

ONE
O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock .. 2053
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 94% 95 94%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 96%34 %
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10% 3-16
Consols for Opening .. • . 94% 95 94%
Exchequer Bills. I%d. I%d.
1,0001... .... 13 9 13 pm. 13
5001. .... 13 9 13 pm. 13
Ditto, Small •• •• pm. 13
ONE CLOSING
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 8434 843{
Columbian Bonds .. 153 15%
Grenada, 1 per Cent .. ..
Ditto, Deferred .. ..
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent .. 27
Ditto, Deferred .. 16% 16
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent .. ..
Ditto, for the Account ..
Portuguese Three per Cent
Ditto, for the Account ..
Portuguese Four per Cent
Ditto, for the Account ..
Russian Bonds ..
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, for the Account • • ..
Ditto, Three per Cent .. ..
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 60%
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 923
BUSINESS
CLOSING
PAID. DONE AT PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.

CLOSING
PRICES.
205%
94%

PRICES OF
RAILWAY SHARES.

. asq
471/2
. 47 48

THE LATE AFFAIR IN NEW ZEALAND.—Dispatches
were received yesterday by Government from Captain Graham, of the
Castor, 39, at New Zealand, confirming the accounts of the late
action with the hostile natives, in which seven of our seamen and
marines were killed and eighteen wounded, among the latter, Mr.
Murray, of the North Star, 24, severely. The affair is spoken of
as one of great gallantry and perseverance. Three hundred seamen
and marines co-operated with the force of infantry, and under al-
mast insurmountable difficulties of locality dragged the guns four-
teen miles from the ships into position. Commander Hay, of the
Racehorse, 18, dashingly led the storming party. In all probability
the particulars of the action will appear in the Gasette this evening.
A FIELD ON FIRE.—A circumstance which rarely
happens in this country, although of frequent occurrence in the
prairies of America, took place in the neighbourhood of Chesterfield,
on Wednesday last. A field of wheat, near the Needle Works,
Brampton Moor, belonging to Mr. Evinson, Angel Inn, Chesterfield,
was discovered to be on fire. How the fire originated cannot be
known, although It is probable that the excessive heat of the sun
ignited the soli which borders the wheat field. On turning up the
soil with a spade, jets of flame burst from the ground to the height
of five feet. A supply of water was obtained, and, after much
difficulty, the fire was extinguished, without much damage being
sustained.—Derby Mercury.
SKYE.—PRESENTATION.—Captain Macdonald, late of
the 42d Royal Highlanders, has been for many years back tar ksman
of Ostaig, in the parish of Sleat, Isle of Skye, where he has been de-
servedly beloved and esteemed, not only by the parishioners of Sleat,;
but by a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. He has been!
lately appointed Barrackmaster of Paisley and Dumbarton, and no-
thing could exceed the heartfelt sorrow of the Sleat people for being
deprived of a gentleman characterised by every principle which
tended to endear him to the natives of the place. The blank caused
in Sleat by the departure of this worthy gentleman, and his very
amiable and interesting lady, will be sorely felt while the present ge-
neration exists. Not to speak of their genuine Highland hos-
pitality, nor of their friendly reception to all who came
their way, their united efforts to attend to the interests of the
poor, and to afford comfort and relief to the distressed around
them, will be gratefully remembered in Sleat for ages to come. No-
thing could more clearly illustrate the high estimation in which they
were held than the extreme prices obtained for their stock at the
late public sale at Ostaig, where all the gentlemen of Skye, and
many from the adjacent isles, were present. The people of Sleat,
with a view to give a tangible shape to their feelings of gratitude,
presented Captain Macdonald with a very valuable and massive
silver jug, bearing a suitable inscription. On the day of this inte-
resting family's departure, they were escorted to the shore by a vast.
concourse of the parishioners. They went on board the Toward.
Castle steamer off Armadale, while the sorrowful crowd stood on the
beach. With tears in their eyes, they cast a wistful look at the re-
ceding vessel, and no doubt breathed a fervent prayer for the wel-
fare and happiness of that family, so long distinguished in Sleat for
their pure philanthropy and unostentatious benevolenee.—lnverness
Carrier.
ROBBERY OF 1601. BY A SHOPMAN.—lnformation has
been forwarded to the Metropolitan and City Police, that a man in
the employment of Messrs. Addes and Gay, Great Queen-street,
Westminster, had absconded, stealing and taking with him the sum
of 1601., the moneys of his employers, and other articles.
SUGAR.—By a return yesterday printed, it appears
that the quantity of sugar imported in the year ending the sth of
April last was 6,025,771 cwt., of which 5,052,506 was entered for
home consumption, and the net receipt of duty on sugar unrefined in
the year was 3,480,1581. The duty on sugar unrefined of British
possessions, &c., at 14s. the cwt., yielded 3,460,6071., within the
limits of the East India Company's Charter, into which the importa-
tion of foreign sugar is prohibited. The difference in the amount of
duty is made up of the rates chargeable on sugar of British posses-
sions into which the importation of foreign sugar is not prohibited,
and of duty on foreign sugar, some of which was at the rate tilt
31. 3s. The lowest duty in the return is 145., and the highest 31. 35 .
IMPORTATION OF LESIONS.—It is noticed that among
the numerous articles of food and general/ merchandise brought to
this country from`Belgium, considerable quantities of lemons have
been introduced from that part of the Continent, and that their supply
is not entirely confined to the south of Europe. The steam-ship
Triton, from Ostend, has brought, in addition to 32 packages of
poultry, numerous packages of butter, eggs, .auci other uncles, 125
boxes of this esteemed deseriptiou of fruit.

96:%;
10 3-16

109%

60%
92%

Aberdeen .. .. .. .. .. .. 10 .... 3% ••••• • • • • • 3%
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 .... ..
Buckinghamshire .. .. .. .. 425. .... %% dis •• • . % die.
Caledonian .. .. .. .. .. 10 .... 9% 10. • ...... 10

Ditto, Half Shares .. .... ..... 1
Chester and Holyhead .. 22% .... 19% .......... 191,E
Derby and Crewe .. 2%.... 6%
Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) .. 5% .. •• •.
Direct Northern .. 2% .... % •• .. 114
Dublin and Galway .. .. 4 .... •• • • ... I %
Eastern Counties .. 141. 165... 23% •
Ditto New .. .. 10/. 165..... 7% p• •
Ditto, York Extension .. 105..... .. • •
East Lincolnshire .. .. • • 1 •• • • %••••• • • • • •
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. 50 .... .. •
Ditto 34 Shares .. 10 .... 16% .. •• . •
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 20 .... .. • •
Great Western 85 .• .. 143 141... •
Ditto, Half Shares .. 50 .... 80% 80%
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 5 .... 15 15%
Guildford, Fareham, & Portamoth 5 .... 4114%.,
.4%
Hull and Selby .. .. 50 .... ...... 103%
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 15 .... 36%
Lancaster and Carlisle .. .. 40 .... 55 ....
Leicester and Bedford .. 225. ..... ..• % die.
Leicester, Taniworth, &c. 425• % di5....... % dls.
London ant Birmingham . .•100 225% 224...... 224
London and Blackwell .. 161. 13s. 4d, ..........

Ditto, New .. 234 .....
London and Brighton .. 50 .. . 641/ 65 .. •• ..
Ditto ditto Fifths .. .. 30 .•• 401 A
London and Croydon •. .. 13/. 15s 9d... 22 ........ • .
London and South-Western • .41/. 6s. 10d...
Ditto, New .. 171% .... 28
London and York .. .... 1%
Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 .. 82 811% 83.. • .
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. •• .• %3z p.... • •
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... 11,‘ ..........
..100 ....149 .. • • ......
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 100 ....121 ..........
Newcastle and Darlington Junet. 25 .. • • ••••• • • • • •
Ditto, New . 1 .... 914
Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 15 .... 24
Norfolk .. .. 20 .... 25%
North British .. 22%....

P
I%
149
121

Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 1h• • • • 1% ••••• • • • . • 1% p
Northern and Eastern .. .. 50 .... ..........
Ditto, New .. 1 .... 20 ..........
North Kent and Direct Dover 2% .... 1% ........
North Staffordshire .. 425. • • • 3 4p••• • • •
Oxfd.,Worcester, & Wolverhmptn. 12% .... 7% % ........
Portsmouth Direct • . 33A • .
Richmond .. .. 10 .... .. • .
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 2% .... 214 •• • • • •
South Midland 426..... die........
South Eastern and Dovor .. • • 33% .. • • ••.. • • .• •
Ditto, New (isa. at 321.) No. 1. 16 ... .... ••• • • •
Do., New (do. 33/. 65.8 d.) No. 2. 10 13% ...... • •
• . . 13%
Do., New (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 2% 2% •••• • • • • 2%
West Riding Union .. 425. .. 1% P
York aad North Midland .. 50 .... .. • • ••• • •
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 25 .... 43 ...... •• • •
Ditto. Extension . .. 15 .... 33.4 ••• • • •
Do. E. and W. Riding Exten... 1 ...- 11% .. • • —
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens:.. .. 14 .... 124 .. ••..• • . •
Bord., Tout., & Cette (Mackenzie) 2 .... IIA
Central of Spain .. .. 2 .... • • ........
Luxembourg
Lyons and Avignon .. 2 .... ..........
Northern of France Constituted.. 5 •• .. 131/1 .. •• • •
Orleans and Bordeaux .. 6 .... ••• • • • ....
Paris and Lyons Constituted I .. 5 .... .. • • •• • •
Paris and Strasbourg Constituted 5 ..........
West Flanders . 6 .... •-- ••• • • .....
MINES.

• 2
dls

Real del Monte, Unregistered —3% •• • • •• •• •
United Mexican .. 281.25. 8 sltd.. 3% .... • .....

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE-FRIDAY.

The present week's arrivals of English Wheat having been on a
very moderate scale, the stands here were scantily filled with sam-
ples. Still, however, as it is expected the new duties on foreign
Corn will be receivable at the Custom-house to-morrow, the dealers
were very cautious in their operations, Indeed the trade was in a
most uncertain state, yet we can notice no alteration in the quota-
tions. The imports of foreign Wheat have been good, and the article,
free of duty, commanded very little attention at late rates. The late
fine showers having produced a very beneficial effect upon all spring
Corn, the sales progressed heavily, and in some instances the quota-
tions had a downward tendency. Superfine Malt being scarce com-
manded full prices, but all other kinds were neglected.

Wheat.
3,700 qrs.

ARRIVALS.
Barley.
1,740 qrs.

English • • • • • •
Irish •••• • • • •
Foreign .. • • • •

Oats I Flour.
3,160 qrs. 1,850 sks,

560
10,790

10,320

Malt, 4,060 gro:
SMITHFIELD.

Our market was on the whole tolerably well, but not to say heavily,
supplied with Beasts, the general quality of which was by no means
first rate. The attendance of buyers being more numerous than for
some time past, the Beef trade ruled firm, at fully Monday's quota-
tions. We had on offer 60 Oxen an Cows, together with 350 Sheep,
from Holland ;' 12 Oxen, from Prussia ; and 40 Scots from Scotland.
Sheep, the supply of which was seasonably extensive, "loved off'
steadily, at late rates. The number of Lambs being large, the de-
mand for that description of stock was somewhat inactive, and prices
were with difficulty supported. Calves and Pigs ruled very dull,
and the currencies had a downward tendency. Mulch Cows were
selling at from 161 to 181 18s each ; Suckling Calves, 18s to 28s ; and
quarter old Store Figs, 16s to 19s each. Beasts, 647; Cows, 139 ;
Sheep and Lambs, 13,070 ; Calves, 597 ; Pigs, 290.

NEWGATE AND I.3SIADENIZALL.
We had a very inactive demand.
BOROUGH HOP MATUCET.
_.

The late fine showers having greatly benefited the growing bine
in nearly all parts of Kent and Sussex, the demand here has become
very heavy, and prices are with difficulty supported. The duty is
backed at 130,000/. New Kent Pockets, 6/ to 818 s; Ditto Sussex
Pockets, 5/ 15s to 71.