The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-07 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1846.

Strikes of journeymen carpenters, masons, and other arti-
ficers engaged in the construction of buildings, have pre-
vailed for some time in the most industrious parts of the
country, and the disposition on the part of other kinds of
workmen and labourers to follow the example is manifesting
itself in some new shape almost every day. Such a combi-
nation, or unanimity of feeling, or by whatever other name it
may be called, is universally regretted. The labourers re-
sort to it as the last necessity ; they have tried, they say,
other means, and can find no other by which they can
obtain a fair increase of wages. There is a great demand
for labour ; the contractors are making fortunes by
their undertakings, while the hands on whom they entirely
depend are half starved on 255. a week. We will admit all
these facts—we will admit that in many contracts the mas-
ters could pay better wages, and that in such instances they
act an unworthy and ungrateful part towards the hard-
working and skilful labourer; but the great question for the
unkrtunate journeymen is, " will the strike be effectual ?"
We are compelled to answer in the negative. Times are not
now as they were forty years ago, when high bounties were
given for militiamen, when such masses of young
men were wanted for the army and navy, and
countless other departments, here as well as in
the colonies—then a strike was effectual, because the supply
did not exceed the demand. The masters had no remedy—
they had no reserve to fall back upon, and if the demand
was not speedily complied with, there was no alternative
but to stop the works ; and that was of little avail, because
such was the scarcity of labourers, that if any lengthened de-
lay took place, one-half of the men had found employment
elsewhere ; and to obtain a supply, the masters were
obliged to give higher wages than even those which they
had at first refused. What is the state of the
country now ? Notwithstanding the vast works in railways
carried on, and the rage for speculation, some time ago,
evinced by so many companies, notwithstanding the increase
f wealth and the consequent employment of capital furnish-
ing labour, the supply still far exceeds the demand. How
can it be otherwise ? Even independent of the drain for the
army and navy and colonies forty years ago, there are at
least 100 workmen now for 50 in 1800. Since that period
the population of Great Britain has nearly doubled. In
1801 the total population of England, Wales, and Scotland
Was 10,942,646,whi1e at the last census, in 1841, it had reached
18,844,434 and now it, is fully 20,000,000. Cannot the jour:
neymen see the great disproportion between the two periods,
and how injuriously it must tell against them if they perse-
vere long in the strike? There are ten times the number of,,
men now fit to supply the deficiency that there was when
strikes were successful, and besides they ought to learn from
experience. In later times the attempt to dictate to the
masters has, we believe, in every instance failed. Several Of
the trades tried it on a grand scale, among others the journey-
men tailors, some ten or twelve years since; so did the jour-
neymen masons, and other workmen, at the new Houses of
Parliament, but both attempts fell to the ground. The con-
tractors in a few weeks found masons and carpenters in other
parts of the country ready to submit both to the pay
and to the foreman put over them, and the unfortunate
strikers," after exhausting the greater part of their reserved
fund and starving their families, were forced to find employ-
ment elsewhere. The tailors were defeated by the women,
for greater numbers of the weaker sex were taken into em-
ployment, and performed all the light work formerly done by
the men; and from the very nature of things and the work-
ing of circumstances no other result could have been antici-
pated. If workmen can be had, a strike never can be effec-
tual. The masters are generally men of capital or great
credit ; they can kfford to wait events—the journeymen
have not the means. If we except the combination funds,
they can rarely obtain a livelihood for a month—very few of
them have saved a quarter's wages, most of them have
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to d. epend upon but the wages they receive every
Saturday ea- The wants of their families alone must soon
class except
make a class of this kind yield; and besides,r. every
their own class is against them_
odds against a party in a contest. Th:verevsenruchraent fearful
against them, so are legislators, contractors, the
masters of all trades and crafts, all established
authorities ; and even private individuals, take part
in the dispute, and generally against the journeymen. We
remember the present Viscount HARDINGE, when speaking
in the House of, Commons on the tailors' strike, stated that
he would walk through the streets, wearing a coat with a
hole at each elbow, for any period, rather than encourage
such combination. He was cheered by the whole House.
We have mentioned these facts for the good of the workmen
and their families, with the fullest conviction that they can
only injure themselves by their perseverance, and that
ca in any one instance have they the slightest grounds
for
ranticipating any other result.

Among the various benevolent institutions which have
been at different periods called into existence, we remember
none more thoroughly entitled to public sympathy and
public patronage than those undertaken for the reformation
of juvenile offenders. Recently we have often endeavoured
to impress this most important consideration upon the minds
of the reading and thinking people; we have gladly availed
ourselves of the very smallest opportunity for developing
the true philanthropy involved in the maintenance of these
establishments, conscious that what cannot be realised by a
coup de plume may be accomplished through the instru-
mentality of perseverance and repetition. In this manner
we have not continued indolent or indifferent spectators of
the struggles made of late by many excellent persons for the
propagation of these charitable ideas. On the contrary, we
have yielded the accordance of our commendation to the
praiseworthy exertion of such men as the Recorder of Bir-
min&ham and the Solicitor to the City of London ; rejoiced,
as we were, to perceive such a laudable anxiety for the sup-
pression of vice in its most incipient and consequently
in its most dangerous state, coupled with such facilities for
the development and dissemination of the wishes entertained
by two influential public officers. Other persons we gladly
recognised, though, for comprehensible reasons, their names
not aathiced, aiding manfully with their voices, their
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oratorical eloquence were alike striving to foster these pecu-
liarly humanising doctrines, and without the introduction
of sectarian differences (too often the bane of similar
intentions) emulated each other in their self-imposed exer-
tions. Seeing these noble efforts for the reclamation of BO
many thousands of our contemned fellow-creatures, we were
filled with sentiments of the most sanguine satisfaction; and
animated with the prospect of some ulterior realisation of
these dreams, we snatched at the most meagre coincidence
that transpired, in relation to the subject, for the purpose of
keeping attention alive to the disease and to its remedy—to
the poison and to its antidote. Upon these hopeful princi-
ples we have now proceeded for a considerable time, ever
looking for a traceable increase of interest in behalf of such
establishments as might be commenced upon the reformatory
system, ever looking for a material multiplication of their
funds, for an equally material addition to the number of chil-
dren received into such institutions, and an extension of
similar branch institutions in different quarters of the pro-
vinces. Our anticipations in this regard have, however,
up to the present moment continued most miserably delu-
sive ; and, instead of an improvement upon what had been
already accomplished, there has been a most unanticipated
deficiency where deficiency was hitherto unknown. We
are reduced to an acknowledgment of these unfortunate
facts from circumstances which have just transpired
in relation to an establishment of the character in question,
viz., the Philanthropic Society, St. George's-fields-
This Society, formed for the especial purpose of the recep.
tion of such juvenile offenders as have been themselves com-
mitted for crimes, proceeds upon the following system :
" The uniting the religious and general education of the

child with his practical instruction in some useful branch of
industry that should enable him to maintain himself in after
life by his own honest exertions." Nothing could be more
definitely expressed, nothing could present more satisfactory
views of the benefit derivable from the existence
of such a society to the community at large. Nor does
it bear about it the impress of benevolence only; it
has the characteristic also of promoting social economy, as
well as of promoting social happiness. Those are the pre-
acknowledged facts of this Association; now, what has been
the nature of its reception ? What has been its prosperity ?
What treatment has it received at the hands of that society

it was established to benefit? We take shami to ourselves
in undergoing the humiliation of such an announcement
of the public behaviour towards this admirable institution ;
we do so, because we grieve for the inconceivable lethargy
of the people, when they should have been up and stirring.
Yesterday an annual dinner of the Philanthropic Society
gave occasion to the announcement of these unsatisfactory
particulars, in regard to which our remarks have reference;
and it is over the admissions there made of its want of pros-
perity that our lamentations are uttered. The particulars
are these. The accommodations at an 3 time available for
inmates in the Philanthropic Society are small enough, GOD
knows ! They are horribly disproportioned to the multi-
plicity of children implicated in criminal acts; these accom-
modations amounting in the aggregate to not more than
one hundred. One hundred children for the thousands of
such children running loose about the streets and bye-ways
of the metropolis! Well, small as this number appears,
infinitely paltry as it is in itself, we observe that " the
pressure on the Society's finances compels them at present
to limit that number to fifty!" and those fifty of only a
single sex—females. Thus no assistance whatever
can be tendered by the Philanthropic Society to
the vast number of abandoned boys destitute
in mind and body—who infest the capital of our rich and
civilised England—in themselves swarms, as it were, of
embryo crimes! May we not literally regard these facts
respecting the Philanthropic Society as an exemplar of the
veritable condition of philanthropy in society ? May we not
receive them as an evidence that benevolence with the public
is very bountiful in tongue, but very stinting in donations—
that the public is a millionaire in professions of commissera-
tion, but actually a bankrupt in charity ? We fear an
answer to these interrogations, unless some active movement
be made for their reversal.

The proceedings which took place last night at the London
Tavern, on behalf of the Provident Clerks' Association, and
which are fully recorded in another part of our paper, may
be looked upon in a national point of view. To see the Pre-
sident of the Board of Trade patronising such an excellent
institution, which so much contributes to the moral and so-
cial welfare of the executive body which carry out all our
great commercial transactions, viz., the clerks, is at once an
evidence of his Lordship's nobleness of heart, and of the im-
portance which he attaches to means so legitimate as are
carried out by this Society. But to hear from the lips of
one of her MAJxsry 's Ministers, and that one the President
of the Board of Trade, that the sentiments he uttered in
recommending clerks to assure, were not merely " vox et
pneterea nihil," but that what he recommended he personally
practised, and had himself assured his own life, is proof po-
sitive that his Lordship not only approves of the general
principles of societies, such as the Provident Clerks'
Association, but that he is entirely satisfied with
the manner in which those principles are practically
worked out. The Earl of DALHousia, by taking the
chair at the anniversary dinner of the Provident Clerks'
Association has borne most important testimony in favour
of the general utility of that admirable institution—an in-
stitution which, to use the words of the Noble Earl, " has
this recommendation, that there are none whose means are
so small but may obtain advantage from it—no man is so
poor, no clerk so humble, but may join in order to provide
for the wants of the future by contributing towards its funds,
which will be fostered and cherished and paid to the utter-
most farthing." It is net surprising that an association of such
great value, and so ably conducted should increase in" pros-
perity with every passing year in great and rapid proportion."
It has gone on nearly doubling itself every year since its first
formation. The year 1845 is stated to have been the most
prosperous since the first formation of the Society, and the
three first 'months of 1846 have keen not only equally pros-
perous, but doubly so. The Society has increased, is in-
creasing, and will continue to increase. The infant of some
five years since is the giant of to-day, and the Provident
Clerks' Association now ranks among the first, if not the first
in this commercial kingdom. ,

A letter from Copenhagen of the 26th ult. says :
" The Prince Royal of Denmark has just made an appli-
tion to be divorced from his wife, the Princess Caroline of
Mecklenburg-Strelitz, whom he married in July, 1841 (his
second wife), and who in 1844, after a discussion with her
husband, withdrew to Neustrelitz to her family, where she
has since remained. The suit will be tried in our capital by
a commission composed of ecclesiastics and laics, partly
chosen by the King of Denmark, and partly by the Grand
Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. The application for dissolv-
ing the marriage is founded on the grounds of insurmount-
able aversion (odium invincible), which, according to the
Lutheran religion, to which both parties belong, is sufficient
to warrant the annulation of the marriage. The Prince
Royal of Denmark had been first married to his cousin, the
Princess Guillemine-Marie, daughter of the late Frederic
VI. of Denmark, from whom he is also divorced. The Danish
iournals announce that as soon as the divorce between the
Prince Royal and the Princess Caroline shall have been pro-
nounced the King will grant him a dispensation of the delay
of three years, before the expiration of which time, according
to our laws, persons divorced cannot again contract marriage.
The Prinde, it is said, will marry during the present year his
cousin, the Princess Augusta, daughter of the Landgrave,
William of Hesse-Cassel, and of the Princess Louise-Char-
lotte, sister of King Christian VIII. of Denmark."

Madrid papers of the 29th have arrived. As the towns of
Lugo, Pontevedra, and Vigo, have surrendered to the
QUEEN'S troops, the Spanish Ministry consider the insur-
rection in Galicia at an end. RUBIN DE Sous and the
insurgent junta escaped from Vigo on board the ship of war
El Nervion, which, with a guards coasta, had joined the in-
surgents. They had sailed either for the coast of Portugal
or for Gibraltar. Of the prisoners taken the Government
had directed that all officers holding the rank of captain, or
any superior rank, should be shot, and that all other pri-
soners should be sent to the colonies. The Grand Duke
CONSTANTINE of Russia was expected to arrive at Cadiz
shortly.

MADRID, BOLSA, APRIL 29.—Three per Cents. 31% for
cash ; Exchange on London, 37%.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 7,000
bales, including about 1,500 for export and on speculation.
Prices were pretty well maintained.—There was not so good
a market for Shares, and prices receded.
There are some accounts from Port Melbourne at the
Jerusalem Coffee-house this morning, but they are singularly
barren of intelligence of importance. The colony, on the
whole, seems to be rather in an improved state. It is a fact
that the potato orop has shown symptoms of disease in the
colony as well as here and elsewhere. Some Van Diemen's
Land papers have also come to hand, but there is no recent
intelligence in them.
The West India papers and letters were delivered this
morning, but their contents have been entirely anticipated,
so far as news of a commercial character is concerned.
It is understood in mercantile circles that the correspond-
ence to be forwarded by the India mail (tbe letter bags for
which will be made up this evening) will be upon a most ex-
tensive scale. The latest advices from the Presidencies of
the East Indies, as well as from China, notice a better
demand for assorted manufactures, and the consequence is,
that many preparations are making to supply the markets in
the directions referred to just now.
Accounts have been received from Valparaiso to-day, rather
later in point of date than those before obtained. The
contents of the letters are of interest only to those
to whom they are addressed, one point excepted that
confidence had much increased in trading pursuits.
The Consol Market has been scarcely so firm to-day as
yesterday. A great deal of business has however been
however transacted for Money—little for the Account. The
Exchequer-bill market is firm at 245. to 275. premium, a
sure indication that money is not in any considerable request.
The current price of Consols for the Account'has been 96%3/4,
for Money 96% % ; for the New Three-and-a-Quarter
per Cents. 9714 ys; and for Bank Stock 2051,1 and 2043/4.
The market is rather heavy just now. India Stock is at 264,
or 1 per cent. higher than yesterday.
The Foreign Stock Market is rather flat. Mexican Bolds
have receded to 313/4 for the Account. The Peruvian Stock
has advanced from 373/ to 39%. Spanish Three per Cents.
command 37 ; Brazilian of 1839, 82 ; and the Dutch Four
per Cents. 913/4 to 9214.
In the Railway Share Market there is a good business
doing. Prices are pretty firm.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)

Bank Stock .. • • _
••- 205% 20434
Three per Cent. Reduced Aii;uities 95% %
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities • • • • 9634%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 97% M
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10 3-16
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 .. .10 1-16 10
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 10 7-16
India Stock • • • • .. .• .. 264
India Bonds, 1,0001. .. „.
Ditto, under I,oooj. 33
South Sea Stock .. ..
Ditto, New Annuities • • • • .. 95
Consols for Account .. • • • • 96% %
Exchequer Bills. I%d. I%d.
1,000/. .. •• .. • • 24 27 pm.
5001. .. .• • • 24 27 pm.
Ditto, Small .. .. • • 24 27 pm.
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent • •
Ditto, New Bonds, 1829 and 1839 82
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent 313,E
Ditto, for the Account .. .. 32M 31%
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent .. 38N 39%
Ditto, for the Account • • .. 37% 39%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent.....—
Ditto, Three per Cent .. • • ••
Ditto, for the Account .. • • 37
Dividends on the above payable in London:
Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent. 96%
Ditto, Two-and-a-Half per Cent. 56
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 59%
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 91%:92M
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARD.
Aberdeen . .. 10 ••. • • • 5 .. • • to
Birmingham and Oxford Junction • • 2 •• • • 2%.... to
Bristol and Exeter .. .. 75 .• • • 8434 ••to
Ditto, New .. . 5 .... 103 •. • • to
Buckinghamshire .. . 425. .... 3 p ••'.. to par
Caledonian .. . 10 .... 7% %..to
Ditto Extension .. .• . 2% •• • • 1% •••• to
Derby and Crewe . •- • • 6%% • . to
Direct Manchester (Remington's) • • 2% •• • • % .... to
Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) .. • • 534 •• • • 3% •• • • to
Direct Northern .. .. • 2% •- • • 236 M..to
Dublin and Belfast Junction .. •• 10 •• .. .... to
Dublin and Galway • • - 4 •• • • 2M to
Eastern Counties . 14/. 16s. 0d..... 233 %% to
Do., Ferpetual,s per Ct. No. 1, 61 13s. 4d. •• .. p.. to
noka Extension
....
215°5 • • 2
Ditto, ditto .. .. N 0.2, 61. 13s. 4d..... % p.. to
Ditto,
Ditto, Extension to Norwich • • • • 2% •• • • 1% •• • • to
• • • • . tt
oo
Eastern
Ditto, Cambridge and Ely • • 2% •• • • 13¢ •••• to
East Lincolnshire • . .. • • • • 1M •• • • %• • to
Ely and Huntingdon • • • • • • • 7% 5 .. ••to
Goole, Doncaster, and Sheffield, &c.- 425. .. • • M p.. to par
Great Western 85 •. •• 155 •• • • to
Ditto Half Shares • • • • • 50 • • 88 • . to
Ditto, Quarter Shares • • • • • • 5 .... 18 ••.. to
Ditto, Fifths .. .. 20 •• • • 35')% 2
• to
hlwl and Selby • • • • to
.
Guildford,
Fareham, and Portsmouth 5 . .. 4,
50..1206 to
4 to
Ditto, Half Shares •• - • • • 7 '• . .
Lancaster and Carlisle • .. .. 40 •• • • ••to

Ditto .. 5 .. • • 10% •• • • to
Leicester and Bedford 225. .... dis. to
Liverpool, Manch and Newc. Junct. 2% •• • . 2% to
London and Birmingham ..100 •• • • 228% •• .. to
Ditto, Quarter Shares . • • 2 .... 29 •••• to
Ditto. Fifths ..
.. 2 •• • • 25 •• • • to
London and Blackwell .. 161. 13s. 4d. •• • • 81A •• .. to
Loudon and Brighton .. .. 50 •• • •:65% •• • . to 66
Ditto ditto Fifths .. 20 •• • • 31% •• • • to 32
London and Croydon • . .. 13/. 15s. 9d. •• •. 22%% • • to
London, Hounslow, and Western .. 2 .... 1% .... to 1
London and South-Western.. 411. 63. 10d. •• .. 79% •• .. to 78
Ditto, New • • • . .. 12% 23% •• .. to
London and York .. . 2% 2% • ... to
London, Salisbury, and Yeovil • • .. 2% .... to
Londonderry and Coleraine • • • . 10 .. • • 7 •• .. to •
Lynn and Dareham .. • • • • • • 10 •• • • 6% •••• to
Manchester and Leeds • • • • .. 82 .• • - .. • • to --
Ditto, Fifths • • .. • • • . 3 .... 13 .... to 12%
Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 .... • ... to
. _

Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) .. 1 .• • • 9 ...• to
Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock .. 425. • 1% % p to
Manchester and Southampton .. • • 2 .. • . 2U,.. • • to 2
Midland •• •• .• •• •. ..100 ••..154 .... to
Ditto, New • • • • • • • • 13 33 32% to 331,0
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby ..100 —.124 .. ••to
Newcastle and Darlington Junction .. 25 45 .... to
Ditto, New • . .. • . 1 .... 10 to
Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 10 .... 20% 3% ..to
North British .. 22% .....30 ... • to
_

Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 1 .• , • 2% . - to
North Kent and Direct Dover .. .. 2% .... 134 %. . to
North Staffordshire • • • • 425. .. 41,4 pto
Norwich and Brandon • • • • .. .. 20 .... 27 .... to
Northampton, Banbury, & Cheltriam. 2 .• • 1 •••• to
Oxford, Gosport, Portsmth , & Sthmpt. 425. • • • • dis • • to
Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton 12% 9 % .... to
Perth and Inverness • • • • • • • • 2% .• . • 1% •••• to
Portsmouth Direct • • • • • • • • 3% • • 3Si •••• to
Rugby and Huntingdon • • • • • • 2 .. • • 1 .• ••to
Scottish Central .• • • • • • • • • 10 .. • • 15%%.. to
Shrewsbury and Birmingham •• • • 2% .... to 3
Shropshire Union • • • • - • • • • 425... • • h % dis. to
So,uth Midland • • • • • • • • • 425. .... 2 p... ,to 1% p
Solu)tihttoE,asNteewm, aNnod. Di ov.e.r • • •• ••
16 33% .... 40% to
20
Ditto, New, No. 4 • • • • • • •• 2% •• . • 2X 3.. to 2%
Staines and Richmond • • • • • • • • 1 ...• u%.. to
South Wales . - • • • • ' • " • • 5 •• • • 2% .. :to
Warwickshire and London • • • • • • 425. % die.. to
West Riding Union • • • • • • • • 425... .. 3 p.... to 2%
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth 5 to
York and North Midland • • • • •• 50 .... I: •• .. to
Ditto, Extension • • • • • • • • 15 .. • 35 • • • to
Ditto East and West Riding Extension 1 .... 11% •• •• to

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens • • • • .. 12 .. • . 12%" .. to

Central of Spain .. •• •• •• • • 2 .. ••-I% • • • • to
Dutch Rhenish •• • • •• •• •• 5 •• .• 76%• • to 7
Orleans and Bordeaux •• •• .. 6 .. •• 11% .. •• to
Paris and Lyons Constituted •. .. 5 .. • • 8 .. •• to 7h
Paris and Strasbourg Constituted .. 5 .... 51434.. to
MINES

Real del Monte, lJnregistered .. „• •• 3% .... to

LLOYD'S SHIPPING--(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MAY 7.—Wind N.N.E. at noon, light breeze and cloudy.
Rocuasrza, MAY 4.—Arrd. Queen Victoria, Stockton, with loss of
jib•boom and other damage, having been in contact with a schooner
in Haisborough Gulf.
OFF DOVER, MAY 6.—Arab, Port Philip.
OFF FOLKESTONE.—Arrd. George, Sydney, New South Wales.
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 6.—Wind S.W. to W.—Arrd. sth, Sir Robert
Sale, Loader, China;. 6th, Matilda, Nielsen, Bahia; Christina,
Wendia, ditto. Sid. 6th, Seringapatam, Furnell, Madras and Calcutta.
Cowzs, MAY 6.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Alwina, Rowells, Val-
paraiso, for Hamburgh ; Ondemeeming, Loeff, Rio Janeiro ; Mathilde,
Nelson, Bahia ; Seth, Morbery, Bahia.
BRIDPORT, MAY 6.—Wind W.—Sld. Fox, Foall, St. John's, New-
foundland.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 6.—Sid. Mary Jane, Mason, St. John's, N.B. ;
Coverdale, Benson, Montreal.
DUBLIN, MAY s.—Wind S.—Arrd. Simeon Hardy, Cook, Barbadoes.
CORK, MAY 4.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd Agile, Smith, Mauritius; Rosa,
Le Patourel, Rio de la Hache.
OFF CORK.—Penelope, of Jersey, Cape Coast Castle.
DROGHEDA, MAY I.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Cynthia, Banal, St.
John's, N.B.
LivaarooL, MAY 6.—The Sarah, of London, put back to Valpa-
raiso, previous to 2d Feb., leaky, and would probably be condemned.
LYNN, MAY s.—The Circe, Fish, of and for this port, from Hartle.
pool, got ashore on the Tory Sand, in Lynn Well, yesterday, and
sunk ; crew saved.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)
ZILY MAZZETS.
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SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 31 ssto 418e1Clover ditto, 415 s to
5/ 16s; Oat Straw, 11 12s to 1/ 14s; Wheat Straw, 1/ 14s to 1/ 16s per
load. Supply moderate and trade dull.
CIIMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 31 6*o 4110 s ; Clover ditto, 4/ 5s
to 51 15s ; Oat Straw, 11 14s to 11 16 ; Wheat Straw, 11 16s to 11 18s
per load. Trade tolerably steady at the above quotations.
WAITECIIAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 31 3s to 4/ 8s ; Clover ditto, 418 s
to 6l; Oat Straw, 11 128 to 1/ 14s ; Wheat Straw, 1114 a to 1116 s
per load. A full average supply, and a dull trade.
MEET DC.A.N3LEIVEL__

We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday, the contents
of which are of very little interest.
The Western Railway Bill passed the Chamber of Deputies
on that day.

SOuTIIILL, MAT 6.—Notwithstanding the supplies of each kind.of
fat stock on sale to day were but moderate, the time of year consi-
dered, the general demand was in a sluggish state, and last wsek's
quotations were not supported. Beef from 2s 6d to 4s ; Mutton, os
2d to 4s 10d ; Lamb, 5s 4d to 6s 4d; Veal, 43 to 5s ; and Pork, 33
8d to 4s 8d per Sibs, to sink the offal'.
RomFoaD, MAT 6.—We bad a very dull trade this morning, on
the following terms :—Beef, from 2s 6d to 4s; Mutton, 3s 4d to 5s ;
Lamb, 5s Gd to 6s 4d ; Veal, 4s to 5s ; and Pork, 3s 8d to 4s 8d per
Sibs. Suckling Calves, 18s to 298 ; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to
19s ; and Milch Cows, with their small Calf, 161 to 191 each.
Lawas, MAT s.—Beef, from 2s 8d to 4s 2d; Mutton, 33 6d to Ss;
Lamb, 53 4d to 6s 2d ; Veal, 4s 4d to 4e 10d ; and Pork, 4s to 4s
8d per Bibs. A moderato supply and a heavy demand.
NEIXTGATE AND ZEADENZUL3636.
We had a very dull inquiry here to-day for all kinds of Meat, and
in
o4some instances lower rates were again submitted to. Beef from
2s
d to 33 6d ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 43 4d ; Lamb, 53 4d to 68 4d ;
Veal, 4s 2d to 53 2d and Pork, 38 4d to 5s per 81las by the carcase.

terminated, and it is probable that his trial, before the
Chamber of Peers, will commence about the 20th of May.
The preliminary examinations of lacoNtra have nearly
Addresses of congratulation to the KING on his escape,
continue to pour in from all parts of France.
The addresaof the Archbishop of PARIS to the KING on his
jour de fete, has not been published in the itioniteur. On this
subject, the Journal de .Rouen says :
" The King had received, the evening before his fete, the Arch-
bishop of Paris, who came to pay him the custemary compliments.
The Archbishop's address was little enough in conformity with the
necessities of the moment—with the turn of men's minds—with the
ideas of the Court—and even so unsuitable in form, as to astonish all
who heard it. The King was much offended ; and during the even-
ing, in the midst of his family and household, he several times mani-
fested his displeasure and his emotion."
PARIS BouasE, MAY s.—The Stock Market has been again firmer
to-day, and both Threes and Fives may be quoted higher, the former
having been last called at 84f. 25c., and the latter at 120 f. 45c. for the
end of the month. The market closed as follows :—Three per Cents.,
for cash, 84f. ; for account, 84f. 25c. • Five per Cents., fir cash,
120 f. 10c. ; for account, 120 f. 45c. ; Bank of France Shares, 3,460 f. ;
Neapolitan, 101 f. 50c. ' • Spanish and New Loan not quoted.
RAILWAYS,—The Share-market has been very heavy throughout
;offßoauit
olgii3se2fa.
and' 930 f.
the day, and at the close the prices of most of the lines remained
mPiaerinss,ansldsßf.o;u,en,l,O.42f. 5707c0.;
,Rpoauriens
930 f. ; Vierzon 685 f ; Strasburg rg and
within a shade of those of yesterday. For cash—Paris and
and Havre, 760 f. ; Avignon,
B Orleansa
Bale,
e 225 f left.
and Lyons, 575 f.; Nantes, 542 f. 50c. ; Bordea Northern,
ux, 632 f. 50c.; Dieppe,
435 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 518 f. 75c. .
; -. ampoux not quoted.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK
EXCHANGE, MAY 6.
Boulogne and Amiens, 12 —Bordeaux Toulouse, and Cetto
(Mackenzie), 21A—Central of Spain, % —Ceylon, T%
-D
Rhenish,
7—East Indian, Fi —Great Northern of France Constituted, 15%
t Indian Peninsular, %--Great Western Bengal, %—jarnale,
Great
h midland Junction, 2%—Luxembourg 2%—Namur and Liege
South
n land Rouen,eans and ordeaux, 11—Paris and Lyons Constituted, 81‘
4 4.---aris r
, ai
6 n—West Flanders, 3.
—PB4o%—Sambre and Meuse
......--_____

CORN AVERAGES.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN
For the Week ended May 2, 1846, made up from the Returns of the
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales
Per Imperial Quarter.

I WHEAT. 'BARE' OATS. I RTE. 1 BEANS. I PEAS.
PRICE .. 563 5d 29sL
BdY. 233 7d 32s 5d 348 10d 33s 10d
DUTY... I7s Od is Od 6s Od 9s 6d do 6d b6d

CHARGE OF HORSEWHIPPING A REPORTER.—Mr-
Riches, reporter to the Norfolk News, preferred a charge of assault
against Mr. George Thurtell, of Norwich, for horsewhipping him
in the market-place of that city, in the early part of April. Mr.
Thurtell admitted the assault, and urged in mitigation of fine that
he did so because the complainant had sent the death of his
father to the Daily News, couched in disgraceful terms. Mr. Thurtell
then read the paragraph of which he complained, and which
appeared in the Daily
•News of April 3. It was as follows,
under the head of deaths :—" On the last day of the month,
Thomas Thertell, Esq , of Harford Hill Cottage, in his 88th
year. Mr. Thurtell was. an Alderman under the old Corporation,
and father to the unfortunate and notorious John Thurtell, who mur-
dered Mr. Ware 26 years ago." At the time this appeared Mn/
Thurtell,
same time they had fully
sen., was alive ; but the principal reason for the assault was
to be found in the remarks which were appended to the death. Mr.
Riches said he did not write this identical paragraph ; with the death
he sent a brief memoir of the deceased, from whiclithe above was
extracted. The Magistrates Sitid they were bound to show Mr.
Thurtell that he must not take the law into his own hands ; at the
They had determined to tine the defendant one shilling and coats.—
Yarmouth Chronicle.
considered the provocation he had received.
REPRESENTATION OF MONMOUTHSHIRE.--The ele-
ments of election strife have been roused in this county, as well as in
9thers adjacent. An attempt is to be made to eject Lord Granville
Somerset from the repreaentati of this county at the first opportu-
nity, the Pt oteetionist party beingli now busily occupied in searching
for a substitute who will engage to support their views. They will,
however, find themselves egregiously disappointed in their endea-
vours,of their proceedings, as will be found when the matter 13 put to
the teat.
The advocates of free trade in the county are not ignorant

lower
SINKING OF A STEAMER.—On Tuesday afternoon
Flora, an old steamer belonging to the Woolwich Company,— the
going down the river with passengers, and on leaving e
Temple Bar pier, struck upon the edge of the Temple Causeway, and
the stumps of the piles were forced through the bottom of the vessel,
which immediately began to /111, to the no small consternation of the
passengers. The vessel grounded, but there was not water sufficient
near the spot to cover the decks. The passengers were detained
until another vessel, the Syren, came up and took them out. The
Flora was subsequently floated into a safe berth near the Temple
Stairs. The holes were stopped up, And yesterday morning she was
taken to Woolwich for repairs.

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDA-Y ErENING, MAY 7, 1846:

RAILWAY COMMITTEES

(THIS DAY.)

GROUP VI.

SCOTTISH CENTRAL (PERTH TERMINI
AND BRANCHES).

The Committee to which this group is referred met to-day at 12
o'clock at noon, in Room 29. Present, Sir J. C. Hobhou.se (chairman),
Mr. Alderman Humphery, Mr. Dickonson, Mr. Mundy, and Mr.
Neeld.

The proceedings commenced by the Men:there going through the
clauses of this Bill, which, without any exception, were agreed to.

DUNDEE AND PERTN.

This was the next Bill for tke consideration of the Committee, and
on its being called on,
Mr. Sergeant Muarar proposed for insertion a clause to the effect
that the promoters of this railway should be prevented from entering
upon the South Inch ender any powers contained in their Bill of the
preceding year.

The room- was cleared, and on our re-admission
The CHAIRMAN said—l beg to say that the Committee have
come to the determination of inserting the clause, if it shall
be found that it is not contrary to the standing orders of
the House of Lords. The Secretary has been dispatched to
consult with the secretary of Lord Shaftesbury's Committee upon
the point, and lie will very soon let us know the result of his com-
munication. I think at the same time that it is right to let you
know that it is the unanimous feeling of the Committee, that you,
the representatives of the town council, should give every assistance
in your power to this company to establish a station upon the
Waterhouse. I should like to know whether that is your intention ?