The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-18 00:00:00

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LONDON. MONDAY, MAY 18, 1846.

At four o'clock on the morning of May the sixteenth,
eighteen hundred and forty-six, a British House of Com-
mons sanctioned the principles of Free Trade as incorporated
in the great measure of Sir ROBERT PEEL, by a majority of
Ninety-eight. Until the Constitutions of England are ex-
tinct, that day and that hour will be memorable. Posterity
will revert to that division as the commencement of the
most salutary system ever adopted by a Legislature. It

will contemn the factious, scorn the obsolete, and forget the
invidious among the Opposition ; but its most grateful
recollections will be concentrated upon the noble act with
which this discussion has terminated. In the achieve-
ment, however, the achievers will not be alto-
gether overlooked ; they will have their memo-
ries embalmed by the gratitude of after generations.
Often as we have already particularised those illustrious
statesmen whose patriotism Lae formed the weapon through
the instrumentality of which the people have thus accom-
plished the destruction of monopoly, this momentous occa-
sion will, we are assured, more than palliate the repetition of
our acknowledgments in their regard. The victory achieved
on Saturday morning—this bloodless and sinless victory, the
deed of reason and the triumph of justice—will embellish the
reign of our most gracious SOVEREIGN more than a thousand
Agmcourts. The age of VICTORIA will be the more espe-
cially cherished and revered because it will be associated with
those evidences of a QUEEN consulting in every instance the
happiness, the welfare, and the interests of her people. Nor
can our more prominent and distinguished legislators escape the
most enviable fame which can be acquired by public servants,
by public benefactors. Sir ROBERT PEEL, as having pos-
sessed the moral heroism to sacrifice personal ties, party
power, and the most fostered policy of a career, because he
recognised the benefits which would thereby result to the
nation; Lord JOHN RUSSELL, as having, irrespective of all
other considerations,first shown that opinions might be changed
with consistency; Mr. COBDEY and his Siamese colleague, as
the most untiring and earnest orators for the dissemination
of free-trade principles without the House, and Mr. VILLIEns
as the most persevering and undaunted supporter of
those principles within the House—have individually
and collectively obtained a most enviable renown.
In anticipation of what has so recently transpired,
the readers of The Sun may remember that, on Mon-
day se'nnight, we ventured upon a prognostication that
this third and final division in the Lower House of Par-
liament would be remarkable for an overwhelm-
ing majority. That prognostication has been ful-
filled. In relation to itself, but especially in re-
lation to the antecedent majorities, the present is parti-
cularly remarkable for its magnitude. Firstly, it is a majo-
rity, short only by two of a hundred! Secondly, it exceeds
by one the majority upon the first division ! Those who
would willingly deteriorate this estimate of the division list
will possibly feel inclined, at the first blush of this announce-
ment, to ridicule that single vote as an extravagant and dis-
proportioned cause of satisfaction. On a second considera-
tion, they would, however, speedily perceive their ridicule to
be excessively ill-timed and unfortunate ; for, on investi-
gation, the excess of the third majority over the first
proves to be veto, considerably more than that of a solitary
unit. " But," these malcontents will persist, " the first
division, in February, brought a majority of ninety-seven,
while the third division, in May, brought merely an addi-
tional vote, ninety-eight!" Granted; the apparent increase
is trivial enough. But the proportions show it to
be at once important and satisfactory : the ma-
jority of 97 was in a House of 581 Members,
while the majority of 93 was in a House of merely
560 Members. The arithmetical and logical inferences are
ostensible : the majority is in all essential particulars over-
whelming. Thus far, therefore, these wonderful measures—
germinated in the popular will, advocated by the Member for
Stockport, and advanced by thePreculer—have received the
most emphatic approval of one of the three great divisions
of the Constitution. The SOVEREIGN has already evinced
her gracious acquiescence in those measures which the
greatest statesmen of the age have pronounced as absolutely
necessary for the welfare of all classes in the United King-
doms. It, therefore, rests only with the august assembly of
Peers to testify their accordance to the Bill : that their own
interests are peculiarly involved in its acceptation we shall
take an early opportunity of showing. And in celebration
of the recent sanction given to the principles incorporated in
that Bill, we may virtually date, from the present day, the
proclamation of free Trade.

It is a curious and instructive fact in the history of com-
mercial nations, that England, after an experience of three
hundred years, -after restrictions upon trade and commerce
without number, whether by heavy imposts or absolute pro-
hibition, or navigation laws, is, in the middle of the nine-
teenth cGntury, rapidly adopting the political as well as fiscal
principles which rendered the small republic of Holland the
most flourishing, industrious, wealthy, and most powerful
state in modern times. That little community, which after-
wards became so illustrious, commenced its very existence
with the free-trade system, it encouraged the importation of
corn and wine, and iron and wood, in short, of every neces-
sary of life, and every material for manufactures; during its
prosperity too, and when some neighbouring nations were
gaining ground upon the industrious Dutch, still they ad-
hered to their principles under every temptation and pro-
vocation which might excuse a departure from the sys-
tem, and finally triumphed over all their opponents
History, " the mistress of wisdom," teaches us these facts,
and it teaches also that the greatness of the republic first
began to decline, and trade to recede from its shores, when
the ambition of Stadtholders, and the expenses of foreign wars,
and the folly of the people, imposed heavy import duties. Die
WITT, who saw the evil day coming, prophetically said, " If
these augmented custom-duties be long maintained, let us not
imagine that our people, thus burdened, will be able to com-
pete with foreigners." Sir noIIEET PEEL, to his honour, has
profited by such lessons, and has resolved, as far as a compli-
cated state :of society will admit, to remove every possible
obstacle to the full development of what the Protectionists,
using the phrase in a different sense, call "native industry."
Free trade, in fact, is the only source of real industry, whe-
ther applied to cotton, or corn, or wool, or silk ; and on this
great principle, which is fully admitted by all the leading
statesmen of this country, the Minister has founded a
commercial system remarkable alike for its daring and its
certain results. Experience, which shows what it has done,
points out with a precision approaching to reality what it
can do ; and it is singular that the question had only to be
fairly opened for consideration to ensure complete success.
Never on any measure did such unanimity prevail among
men whose opinions are of value, as on this corn-law ques-
tion : statesmen, political economists, practical manufac-
turers, the great body of the representatives of the people,
and
speeches t people
have themselves, s eml vaease, are
almostall
withouto on e side, and
hthou.gh
the certain ruin which will follow this greatui numberinnovation, s
theing
deliberation,
majority in its favour, after some thrc
has rather increased than diminished. O'ritl'th'
division which took place for going into Committee, on grand
last day of February, the majority was 97, and on theZtthiet
VIM 98, in a House with twenty-one Members less. The fate
of the new system of policy is thus sealed. The prospects
which it opens up are almost too vast for human conception ;
for it creates a commercial revolution not in the United
Kingdom only, but throughout the world. Want of space
prevents us from adverting further to the subject.

We on Saturday drew the attention of our readers to,E the
result of the debate on Thursday night on Mr. Spoo
motion. The subject is too important to be allowed thus to
s
pass over. It assumes many phases. We then touched
only on that witch concerns SEMICH-WARRANTB themselves,
and to this we shall again recur. But, another point of little,
if any less constitutional importance, was strongly put by
Mr. Warzpix, namely, this—ls the system to be permitted
under which now, systematically, any petitioner to the
House of Commons is liable to slander and abuse, in order to
screen the Government ? Here is a strong case. Such
monies testi were borne in the Hou=e to the cha-
racter of Mr. TOTLMIN SMITH, that no honest man
can suspect the motives of any part of his proceed-
ings, but, be it observed, the Attorney-General thinks
fit, in his place in Parliament, to charge a member
of his own profession with conduct unworthy of his profes-
sion—that he had first tried to get money, and when that
attempt failed had professed a public object. Now what
were the facts of the case which, with all the mystifi-
cation and suppression attempted, came out ? They
were these among others :—That there are now
in the hands of Government documents placed
there by Mr. T. SMITH himself, which not only show every
insinuation against him to be wholly unfounded, but to be,
in every respect, the direct reverse of the facts. This has
been alleged in a published document by Mr. T. SMITH,
as re-alleged by Mr. SPOONER in the House, and a letter
from Sir J. GRaHAM read to prove it, and it was uncontra-
~~ Wiviotivied, though GBASEiii WU inthe

House. Yet the Attorney-General professed to oppose a
Committee, because all the facts were before the House.
Why, here; are these very documents, not one of which was
before the House ? In a Committee Mr. T. SMITH
would have proved their contents; therefore, in reality,
was a Committee opposed. Again, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer says, "We only judge Mr. TOULMIN Smrrir
from his own letters." But he knew this was not so. Those
letters were read only with a colouring given to them on in-
formation derived from a man whom Sir THOMAS WILDE de-
clared guilty of perjury. It was this colouring that gave
effect to the letters. Everybody knows that a letter can
only be understood by knowing the circumstances under
which it was written. Again, the Attorney •General as-
serted that Mr. TOULMIN SMITH tried to entrap the officer.
To every plain understanding we think it must be perfectly
clear that the attempt at entrapping was the other way. The
following facts came out :—That it was not Mr. SMITH who
went to the officer, but the officer who went to Mr. SMITH.
This alone is suspicious, and clearly shows no wish of Mr.
SMITH to entrap. One naturally asks—who sent the
officer to Mr. SMITH, and why did he go? But it was ac-
tually further declared—inconsistenly enough with the
charge of Mr. Smarr trying to get money and not being
able to succeed—that 251. was tendered to Mr. SMITH, and
he refused to accept it. This is stranger still. But the
mystery gets still deeper when we learn from Mr. Smorexa's
reply that, notwithstanding all the tattle about actions by
all the three speakers on the Government side, no action
had ever been commenced, and the time within which it
could be brought had long elapsed.
Now, we can, of course, know nothing of the contents of
documents unproduced. But this is clear, that all the• facts
are not before the public ; but on the face of the facts which
came out in the course of the debate, put together, more
than enough appears to show that the insinuations made by
the Attorney-General are wholly destitute of foundation.
Again we say, then, shall a private man, bringing forward a
case of public importance, be suffered to have his reputation
blasted, and his professional prospects necessarily in-
jured by such language on the part of the Attorney-
General ? We do not enter into the inquiry whe-
ther there was any private motive on the part of the Attorney-
General. We say that every man who looke to Parliament
as the grand inquest of the nation, before which public ques-
tions should be brought, is interested in the protection of
petitioners to that House. Ministers have here refused in-
quiry, apparently from fear of what certain suppressed do -
cument..! would disclose, and have endeavoured to damage,
by all possible means, the person of the petitioner, by a
mystification and misrepresentation of facts which of them-
selves in reality throw only more suspicion on the conduct
of the Board of Excise, or its emissaries.

r Letters from Posen, of the 4th, state that several arrests,
chiefly among the noble proprietors of land, have been re-
cently made in that province, in consequence of new traces
of a conspiracy having been discovered.
lea
Madrid papers of the Bth have arrived.

The province of Malaga was declared to be in a state of
seige in consequence of the recent attempt to assassinate the
Political Chief. The Herald() tells a long story about this
attempt having been the result of a political conspiracy
having ramifications in Granada and Vimeira and
concocted at Gibraltar by General NOGUERA.S. It
however, adduces no proof of the existence
of any such conspiracy, and the story altogether has the air of
a clumsy fabrication. So completely is tranquillity restored
in Galicia, that the province has been relieved from martial
law. The Galician insurgents, who had taken refuge in Por-
tugal, have been sent to Perriche.
MADRID BOLSA, MAY B.—The Three per Cents. were done
at 32;74 for cash ; the shares of the Bank of San Fernando)
at 3:10 ; and those of Isabel, at 188.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.

In the Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday, in the debate
on the extraordinary and supplementary credits, a credit
was demanded fur the mission of M. DEFFAUDIS to La
Plata. M. THIE/LS took this occasion to attack the Go-
vernment for not having sent out a sufficient military force
to La Plata. M. GuizoT replied, and a personal and some-
what bitter altercation ensued between them. M
concluded by moving, as an amendment (solely
with a view, as it would appear, of testing the strength
of parties), that the credit should be augmented by 1,000
francs. This amendment was rejected by a majority of 80,
there being 183 in favour of the Ministry, and 103 only voting
with M. THIERS. The discussion was resumed on Thursday,
and the Minister of Marine stated, in the course of the
debate, that the Government was satisfied that the fire which
had destroyed the dock-yard of Mourillon, at Toulon, was the
result of accident.
The Three per Cents. closed at 83f. 85c. ; the Flys per Cents., '
119 f. 90c.; the Orleans Railroad shares, 1,240 f.; Rouen, 1,0271'.
50c.; Havre, 755 f. ; Great Northern, 758 f. 75c. ; Avignon, 907 f. ;
Vierzon, 660 f. ; Bordeaux, 617 f. 15c. ; Boulogne, 502 f. 50c. ; Troyes
aid Montereau, 400 f.; Basle, 216 f. 25c. ; Dieppe, 435 f. ; Paris and
Strasburg, 507 f. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes, 520 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 535 f.
The following are the quotations in the new lines :

Lyons and Avignon, Defuntives, 515 f.; Bordeaux and Cette,
Deflnitives, 503 f.
LYONS, MAT 12.—Marseilles and Avignon, 920 f. ; Paris and
Orleans, 1,245 f. ; Vicrzon, 671 f. 25c. ; Northern, 763 f. 75c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 15.
_ _

Boulogne and Amiens, 1214 —Dutch Rhenish, 8 4 —East Indian,
X—Luxembourg, 1%. —Namur and Liege, 41,',—Orleans and Bor-
deaux, 11— Paris and Lyons Constituted, 7—Paris and Strasbourg
Constituted, s—Sambre and Meuse, s%—Tours and Nantes Con-
stituted, 5h —West Flanders, 214.

WizErmLn Cnnv ARKET . MAY 15.—The supplies
or ail grain are tolerably good. There was a very thin attendance
of buyers this morning, and an extremely limited business was trans-
acted in all descriptions of wheat, at a decline of fully 3s. to Is. per
qr. Barley, of fresh malting qUality, in fair request, at Is. per qr.
less money. Beams dull, and rather cheaper. Oats 34c1. per stone,
and Shelling Is. per load lower. Malt as before.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM.—
About eleven o'clock on Friday forenoon a fatal accident occurred at
the British Museum to a poor man named Collins, who was carrying
a bucket of water up the ladders to the stonecutters engaged in facing
the left wing, when on reaching a height of fifty or sixty feet, he tell
backwards, and was precipitated to the basement. On being picked
up he presented a piteous spectacle—his bones, dislocated and broken,
were protruding through the skin. The unfortunate creature, who
was nearly sixty, was conveyed to the University College Hospital,
where he expired in less than two hours.
LORD'S DAY SOCIETY.—The fifteenth anniversary
meeting of this Society was held on Friday, in Exeter-hall, the
Bishop of Calcutta in the chair, supported by the Rev. Messrs.
Harding and Hoare, Mr. Plumptre, M.P., Mr. J. Wilson, &c. The
Secretary read the report, which deplored the continued desecration
of the Sabbath, especially on railways, and also by the immense
number of pleasure-vans and steam-boats which, crammed with
passengers, plied on Sundays. It then congratulated the meeting
upon the success with which the Society's efforts to enforce the due
observance of the Lord's day were, in many instances, crowned, and
stated that Windsor Castle was closed on that day. The receipts
amounted to 7601., and the expenditure to 6001. The report was
adopted, and the meeting separated.
IRON, HARDWARE, AND METAL TRADES' PENSION
SOCIETY.—On Friday, the annual general meeting of the supporters
of this society, for granting pensions to members of the above trades,
and their widoWs, was held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-
street. The chair was taken by T. B. Simpson, Esq., the treasurer.
The report was read by the secretary, arid congratulated the meeting
upon the progress the society had made since its formation three
years ago. The receipts, which last year amounted to 1,3651., were
now above 1,7041., this increase arising from the contributions of the
original members, and not, the committee regretted to say, from any
great number of new subscribers. From the state of the funds there
was, however, every reason to hope that the object tor which the
society was established would Ise carried into effect in September
next, when two distressed members of the trade would be provided
with pensions.

TOWN MISSIONARY AND SCRIPTURE READERS' SO-
CIETY.—On Friday the ninth annual meeting of the above Society
was held in the large hall, Freemasons' Tavern. The chair was taken
by John Dean Paul, Esq, The report stated that, through the
limited means of the society at present, they have not been able to
extend their mission further than to a few of the principal towns.
Resolutions to carry out the objects of the society were adopted.!
FEMALE SERVANTS' kioME SOCIETY.—On Friday
the tenth anniversary meeting of the rsembersof this society--was held
at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street ; John Laboachere,
Esq., in the chair. The Chairman said, that since July, 1844, up-
wards of 2,200 female servants out of place had been received into
the houses in Knutsford-place and Ilattoa-garden, and discharged
as soon as they had obtained situations, according to the rules of the
society; while more than 5,000 had placed their names on the re-
gistry. The committee had not as yet been able to open more than
two "houses." If they had means they would open twenty, for
that number would not be more than sufficient. When it was
considered that there were always upwards of 12,000 servants In the
metropolis out of place, it would be seen how great was the
necessity for such an institution. The report, on the motion of the
Rev. Mr. Hutchings, was unanimously adopted, and the meeting
broke up.
WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—On Friday the
annual public breakfast, in aid of the City of London Branch Mission
to Feejee, in New Zealand, took place at the London Tavern, Bishops-
gate-street, and was numerously attended. Thomas Farmer,
Esq , presided. After the breakfast the meeting was addressed by
the Rev. Dr. Legge, ftom China, the Rev. Dr. Archer, the Rev. Dr.
Morison, the Hon. and Rev. Baptist W. Noel, Mr. Mortimer. Dr.
Bennett, and Mr. Hindley, M.P. A report was read, from which it
appeared that this mission had been established about seven years,
and that of the inhabitants of Feejec, about 2,000 had renounced
cannibalism and idolatry, and 1,000 had become communicants of the
Christian Church. There were at present missionaries employed
in the Feejec Islands. The meeting was extremely well attended,
and about 2001. was collected in aid of the mission, when the meet-
ing separated.
LoVE AND ATTEMPTED SIIICIDE.—On Friday, shortly
after twelve o'clock, a most determined attempt at suicide was made
by a young female, near Clarke's timber-yard, at the end of the
Waterloo-road. The young girl, whose name is Wemborn, and who
resides with her parents at Kennington, is much attached to a young
man who is paying his addresses to a female residing at the West-
hsiedzeltwif:reonrmahl7imil,'aa:
mtnater-roaa. On Saturday she followed him about, and while he
weary of me.
Tzspassing Clarke's yard she ran np to him, with a sharp table-
arms, and wre•ted the
The young man seized her arm, but she disengaged
removedd
s
knife
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andhe r' si ]comeut.hi in
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of
motahetde
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her
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hands.o u lwould
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wmresa herself,pe
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tradesman named Humphries ran up and seized her
Norfolke
had a dinner
party on Friday night, at Norfolk Howie.
The Right lion. Sir Robert and Lady Peel gave a
grand entertainment to a distinguished circle on Saturday evening
at the Eight Hon. Baronet's residence in Whitehall-gardens.
It is stated that a robin is not permitted to live longer
than four years. At that age he is attacked by the younger birds
and killed. Though at other times the most pugnacious of birds, he
dies unresistingly.
DES ritUcTI,)N OF VERMIN.—On Saturday last up-
wards of two hundred and fifty rats, and upwards of one hundred and
sixty
nty mice, were killed on the farm premises of Colonel Whetham, at
Kir during the getting in of a wheat stack.—Yollingiusin
Journal.

rPforriehgri:,..,is had disapP
of the most extensive'
purchases to the so
extent
os 801. On examining the
justshe had only 50/., and suggested contents
of
her
shopping
few days ago a lady visited on
into the carriage
pping establishments in Glasgow, and madee
Instead, 'hilt th
sficpleunlre:sp.tee:mbp:asaynhynses.Eisoehitfiolioiu,tull'lniadudtEdhgweeromrstaheiiipssion. 10. that one of the
. The lady had
ng with her, and re-
ceivehowever,cmcioalfsaerfriaviiiiugnattuae
committal.
Francis, Mr. (ledges
asylum seized him and held him fast,'
--()II Saturday Mr. Beckwith
he could
specially prepared a warranstu
procure liberation the fair one and
not since been heard of.—Glasgow
POOR REMOVAL BILL. eat ‘I, and have
(Governor), Mr. Johnson, Mr.
and Mr. E. C. Bailey, of the corporation
' wick ; Mr. Gourlay ( Chairman), Mr. lt af guardians, Not*:
Young, of the Yarmouth Board of ouaarr"nd' and
Mr'
Weston (Vice Chairman), Mr. Blandford. anidansAl and mr.
of the Southampton Board, had an interview with the Boswell,
H. 11Ianners Sutton, Ender Secretary.. of State, at tllehenol%•
office, to submit certain objections. to the Bth clause theofna--
Poor Removal Bill, now before Parliament, which, they
re-
presented, would have the effect of adding more tban-one
third to the number of persons entitled to claim relief in the
above places, and to urge the institution of an inquiry intc,its
!--s_'.e.te;_reor cours,
general operation. The Honourable Secretary paid great
attention to the statements of the deputations ; he admitted
the subject was one of very great importance, and promised
it tL9114 receiye the beet cfegilderAlon of the (toTerwatuat.

MONEY and CONIMERCIAL NEWS
(From The Sun of Saturday Evening.)
In the Liverpool market yesterday the sales of Cotton were
8,000 to 10,000 bales, 3,000 of which were on speculation.
Prices were very firm. Shares continued dull.
The sale of Railway Shares by Messrs. Lamond and Co. was flatter'
it being account day, and prices were rather lower. We have marked
a few sales. Cork, Mallow, and Killarney, 68.—Warwick and Wor-
cester, 10s. 6d.— Grand Trunk, 18s. 6d.—South Midland, 31. 13s.
—Ceylon, Os.—Manchester and Southampton, 21.—Essex and Suffolk,
135.—Northampton, Bedford, and Cambridge, ii. 30. Gd. —Direct
Northern, 11. 17s.
The result of the division in the House of Commons this
morning upon the Corn Bill has afforded very general satisfac-
tion in the City to-day. Hopes are now sanguinely entertained,
after so strong a demonstration on the part of the Lower House
of Parliament, that the Lords will not waste much time in
carrying into effect the determined intentions of her Majesty's
Government. At the present moment such is the intensity
of feeling in commercial circles for a final settlement of the
corn question, that operations in the foreign and colonial
trade have been very much cramped; hut with a majority of
98, as voted this morning, business transactions have already
increased, under the full expectation that, within a month at
least, the corn question will be finally disposed of. It is not
considered an uninteresting fact that the French Ministry stand
as strong as that of Sir R. Peel's, as this day's news from Paris
show that Ministers there, upon a grand point, had a full ma-
jority of 85, and this too against the aid of N. Thiers, in con-
nexion with the La Plata question.
The features in the Bank of England monetary movement
during the week, to Saturday last, were these :
Notes issued £27,244,995
Increase
Rest Increase
Public deposits, increase
Other deposits
Decrease 523,854
Seven day and other bills, increase 15,687
Other securities, decrease 167,123
Bullion
Increase
The public deposits, therefore, are now taking a turn
again, the other securities are being lessened, and the notes
increased.
The Stock Market has not been influenced by the third
reading of the Corn Bill, as it was pretty well " discounted,"
or reckoned upon, beforehand. Consols have been 961/2
for next week, and 96% :34 for time. Exchequer-bills have
been heavy, at 235. to 20s. premium. Bank Stock has
realised 2041,4 to 2051,4. The New Three and-a-Quarter
per Cents. have been 971% to A.
Mexican Bonds have receded from 33 to 321%, but there
have only been about one or two bargains. Brazil Stock is
worth 84 to 831. Portuguese Four per Cents. have been
quoted at 581/..
There is not much doing in Shares, but the few bargains
entered into have been at previous rates generally, except
for the French scrips, which are heavy.
BRITISH. FUNDS. ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock .. .. • • 20434 205% 205%
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities 95%34 95%
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. 963,4 % 96%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Arms. 97% % 9798
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1560 .. 10 3-16 10 3-16
India Stock .. . 2G4 264
Consols for Account .. .• 96.7 i 96%
Exchequer Bills. d. I%d.
1,0001... .... 23 20 pm. 20
5001. •. 24 21 20 pm. 20
ONE CLOSING
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent 84 83% 8334
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent ..
DiAci, :or the Account 41
Equador Bonds •• . •• ••
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 pev Cent
Ditto, for the Account
Portuguese Four per Cent
Ditto,
Three
rtehee percccoeunni
Account
15184.!
Russian Bonds
Ditto, for the Account ..
Dividends on the above payable in Lendon.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates

.. -
- .. .. 33 32!4

.. -
.. 92

says
110%

BUSINESS CLOSING
PAID. DONE AT PRICES.
ONE O'ILOCK.

PRICES OF
RAILWAY SHARES.
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2
Bristol and Exeter .. .. 75
linekinghainshire 425.
Calrcionian 10
Ditto, Extension ..
Cambridge and Oxford.. .. • • INi• • • • '••• • • • •
Derby and Crewe 254.. • 6-%•••• • • • • • •
Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) 5 •• • • • • ***** •• •
Direct Northern .. ...• ••• • .•
Eastern Counties .. 141. 165..... 24 2376 • •
Ditto New ........5i. 165..... •• • •
Ditto, York Extension 10s ***** 1•7. i .. ••.. • •
East Lincolnshire .. • • • • 114 ••• • ••••• • ' • • •
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 .. -
Ditto % Shares .. .. 10 .... -- •• • ..... it
Goole, Doncast.. and Sheffield, &c. 425. ••• • • ••• •• • 1 p
Great North of England . ..100 ....217 ..
Ditto, New . .. 10 .... 28%
Great Western .. 85 •• .. 131 • •
Ditto Half shares .. 50 .... 89 ..
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 5 ••• • •••• • • • • lf
Hull and Selby .. .. 50 .• .•
Ditto. Half .•hares .. • • • • 7 •• • • ••••• • • • • •
Leeds and Carlisle .. . • • • 2% •• • • ••••• • • • • •
Leicester and Bedford .... 225. .... dis

... 38... ...
• MA p.. ...

85%
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Leicester, Tamworth, &c. 425. •• • • •••• • • • • % di-
Liverp., Manch., & Novo. Junct. ••• • • •
London an Birmingham ..100 .. • • 228% .• •.•• • • • • 228%
Ditto Fifths 2 .... 23 .• . •
London and Blackwell ~ 161. 135. 4d. • •
London and Brighton 50 •• • • 66 •• • '''''' • 65%
Ditto ditto Fifths .. 30 .... •• ..
London and South-Western.. 411. 6s. 1od.
Ditto, New . 17% •• • • ••••• • • • • • 30%
London and York .. .. 2% • • • • ..... . 234
Manchester and Leeds .. 82 ...• • • ....
Ditto, Fifths
Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 .- —..........—
Ditto, Quarter Shares (A) • . 4 13 . l3
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. .... 1%% p .. 134 p
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... 2 17i
Midla-id ..100 ....154 ..
Ditto, New ~ IS .. • • 33% .• .• 3312
Newcastle and Darlington Juuet. 25 .... 441,E 45 ...... 45
Ditto, New . 1 .... :.9% ... 10
Ditto, New, Brandling 25 .... ....... . 44%
Newcastle and. Berwick .. 15 .• .. 26 ........ • • 26
Nol th British .. 22% . . ..
Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 1 - % ........ 225
North Kent and Direct Dover .. 294.... .......... 1%
North Statlordshire .. • • 425. •• • • 4%% la ••• • • • 4% p
Oxfd.,Worcester, & Wolverhmptu. 1214.... 9 8%•..... • •
Scottish Central .. . .. 10
Scottish Midland .. .. 10 .... 8 8
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. ... • 34 %•••• • • • • 3%
Shropshire Union 425..... % dis.. •• .• dis.
South Midland .. .. • • .. 425..... 1 p•• • • 1% p
South Eastern and Dover • • • • 33% 40% 40 • 40%
Ditto. New (iss. 32/.) No. 1. 1G ,„20% ••• • • • 20%
Do., New (do. 331. 65.8 d.) No. 2. 10 .. 14 •
be., New (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 212 315 3
Welsh Midland .. • • • • • • 2% ..........
124
West Biding Union • • • • • • 425. .. • • 31% P• ••• • • 35/ 1.
York and Carlisle .. • • • • • • 234 .... 1 . .
York and North Midland • •. 50 .....
Do. E. add W. Biding Exten... 1.. • • 12 111 i
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Barbadoes .. • • • • • • • • 1
Boulogne and Amiens .. • • • • 12
Central of Spain .. . • • • • . 2 „
Namur and Lie,Te • • • • .. 6
Paris and Lyons Constituted 5 Gys 7
Tours and Nantes Constituted 5
Trinidad • • • • •

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MINES.
Real del Monte, Unregistered

COURSE OF EXCE
Amsterdam .. ....C.F. 12 10%
Ditto, a. sight
Cotterdant .. 2 U l2 11
Antwerp 26 20
Mamburgh 13 15%
Parts, 3 days' sight .. • • 25 85
Ditto, 3 months...—. 26 10
Marseilles • 26 15
Bourdeaux 26 15
Frankfort on Maine 123

l'etersburgh, 3
Berlin .
Vienna, elec. flo.. • • .. 10 11
Trieste, ditto • • .... 10 12
Madrid .............. 36
Cadiz .. • .. ; ........ 8G 14
Bilbao.. . • ..
BarcelooA • • ..

'ANGE.-(FRIDAY.)
Leghorn
26 15

Venice.. —
--
Naples .. . • .... • • 39%
Palermo, per oz.. , . 119
Lisbon .. .............. 52%
Oporto 5214
Rio Janeiro
Buenos Ayre5........—
New York, 21 days' sight
Philadelphia • • • • • •
_—

PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold in bars.. £3 17 9
l'ortklgal Gold Coin •• 3 16 5
New Doubloons ...... 0 0 0
New Dollars •• • • 0 4 9%
Silver in bars ...... •• 0 4 11

STATE OF TRADE.

ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, MAY 15.—The
demand for combing wool is steady, but not brisk, and is
limited to the supply of the current requirements of the
manufacturers. Prices are stationary. Clothing wools
of middle and low qualities are scarce, and go off readily
at last week's prices.
FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, MAY 15.—Only a
limited business has been done in foreign wools this
week, many buyers having left for the London wool
sales, and others are waiting to learn the range of prices
there, before making further purchases.
LEEDS.—There was a little more business done at the
Cloth Halls on Saturday and Tuesday in fine and middle
qualities of cloths, but in low goods there were less sold
than for several weeks past. Prices continue about the
same, and the stocks in the Cloth Halls are lower than
usual. There have not been many wholesale buyers in
the town this week, but there have been numerous
drapers from the country. On the whole, a pretty fair
amount of business has been done in the warehouses, on
comparison with the recent state of business.
BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY. There is less
doing in the wool market than last week. The staplers
stocks are very low and prices firm. The yarn trade is
steady. The spinners try hard for better prices, but
are not able to obtain them. We can see no alteration
in the piece market. A large number of sales were
effected at former prices. The manufacturers are mostly
working to order.
MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—We have had
less doing in cloth this week than for the last three or
four previous ones. The market on Tuesday was evi-
dently affected by the very heavy failure in London—.an
East India firm—and which stands largely indebted to
many houses in Manchester. To-day an attempt was
made by manufacturers to rally prices, but to no effect,
and the market closes very heavily. The silk trade
continues to improve a little, but is still very depressed.
Neither the dyers nor printers get any busier. Yarns
meet ready sale. without change in value.
LEICESTER.—The firmness in our market, as last re-
ported, still continues; and manufacturers are looking
forward to a
on the whole, has been good, and though no large
good autumn trade. Business in London,
purchases are made by toe retailer, useful goods sell
readily, and no heavy
stocks are in hand. Yarns and
wools are in good request.--Leicester Journal.

The venerable Earl of Harrowby, although still
Somewhat infirm from his advanced age, is in improved health, and
intends to pass the season in town.
THE LATE FIRE IN NEW-STREET, FETTER-LANE.—
On Friday Mr. W. Payne held an inquiry at the Falcon, Pemberton-
row, Gough-square. into the origin of the late fire at No. 5, Great
New-stn_et, Fetter-lane. On the moniing of the Bth instant the fire
broke out, and destro ed the stock in trade, fixtures, and other
effects, belonging to Sirs. Brown, the occupier. At the time of the
disaster there were Mrs. Brown and her female servant sleeping on
the premises. Both parties having made their escape, they were
taken to the Red Lion Tavern, where they were provided with a
bed. On the morning of last Saturday, on the servant awaking,
she was astonished at finding her mistress hanging by the neck
to the bedstead. It was afterwards asserted that the deceased
had wilfully set the premises on tire, with intent to defraud
the Insurance office. A communication having been made to the
City Coroner, that gentleman at once ordered a jury to be
summoned. Amongst numerous witnesses, Mrs. Elizabeth Shear-
down, of No. 2, Pemberton-row, said that she had known the de-
ceased during the time she resided on the premises. The day after
the fire she told her (the witness) that it was herself who had caused
the tire. Deceased told her that she had thrown the snuff of a
lighted candle Into three casks of waste paper. Previous to the fire
she said,that a party site knew was nothing before he had a fire, and
she then asked her, if she had 2001., if she thought that that party
mistr'essen she
had
"01'
wouldmake her an offer in marriage. The party alluded to said de-
ceasedoffere,h,adifno ground for supposing that he should make her an
went to bed at half- t ten the Thursday night, and
pas on
Vere awoke by tn. noise i
0." PAt :it Ina acctivilt caea
-
The servant girl said that- she and her
n the street. The jW7 returned a verdict,