The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-28 00:00:00

quisite.

A private letter of the date of the 14th May, which
has been received from Lisbon, says that the accounts
from the provinces are not of so favourable a nature as
the official journals of the 13th would fain induce the
public to believe, and that such is the excitement exist-
ing in Coimbra, that the Government, as a measure of
precaution, has closed the University.

The Augsburg Gazette publishes a letter from Berlin,
which states that the protocol of August 15th, agreed on
between the commissioners of the conference of the three
protecting powers relative to the measures to be taken
concerning Cracow, had received the sanction of the
King of PRUSSIA on the 16th. The exchange of ratifica-
tions was to take place shortly.
According to the Vienna correspondence of the Uni-
versal German Gazette of the 23d, a conspiracy had just
been discovered at Rzezow, and several persons arrested.
It is said that the conspirators had plotted the murder of
all the officers of the garrison.
From the Post Ampt Gazette of Frankfort we learn that
Russia has again applied to the Porte to prevent Turkish
subjects from assisting the Circassians.

Madrid papers of the 20th have been received.

M. blow was sufficiently recovered to resume the ac-
tive discharge of his duties. Public works, the esti-
mated expense of which will be 84,791,370 reels, are to
be immediately undertaken. They relate principally to
the formation and improvement of high roads. The
Minister of the Interior has sent to the Director-
General of the Public Works a list of the works to be un-
dertaken.

The Tiernpo publishes a letter from Orense on the sub-
ject of the murder of Don Runtx DE CELTS' at Oporto.
That unfortunate officer was not assassinated by the
companions of his flight from Galicia, but by two Por-
tuguese, who had been hired to commit the act by persons
of high station who would have been compromised by the
disclosures which Don RUBIN had threatened to make.
These persons, it is said, had urged Don RurnN to cont-
inence an insut rectionary movement, and had then aban-
doned him.

The Heraldo states that General Purc SANPER has
been ordered to Corunna, to be tried for breach of
duty in not being sufficiently active in putting
down the late insurrection in Galicia. The same jour-
ual complains of the great extent of the contraband
trade carried on with Gibraltar, and calls the attention
of the Government to the subject. We fear the worthy
writer in the Herald() has yet to learn his first lesson in
political economy, or he would know that the
only way to put a stop to smuggling is
so to reduce the import duties on the articles
smuggled as to enable the fair trader to compete in the
market with the contrabandist. The heavy import du-
ties of Spain are as great a protection to the en-
couragement of the smuggling interests of the
country as - the heavy import duties on corn
(now happily about to cease for ever) in England, have
been a protection of, though not an encouragement to,
the landed interest in England.
There is no quotation of the prices of Spanish Funds
in these journals.

We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday.
The meeting of the Court of Peers to receive the re•
port of M. FRANK CARRE, in the case of LECOMTE,
which was to have taken place on that day, was post-
i,oned to the day following.
The Chamber of Deputies was occupied on Monday
with the discussion of the Budget of Expenses of the
Minister for Foreign Affairs. Various questions were
put by different Members of the Opposition on the sub-
ject of the foreign relations of France. With re-
gard to French settlements on the Gambia
M. GUIZOT said, that the only point at issue
between the English and French Governments was
:o regulate the right of France to pass the waters of the
Gambia to get at, her possessions. He thought a spe-
ial convention would be the most advisable method of
regulating this matter ; the same opinion prevailed in
London, and the subject was under the consideration of
:he two Governments. The Chamber voted the Budget
without a division.

"There is some idea," says the Piesse, "of the speedy
nomination of General Tiburce Sebastiani to the command of
the National Guard of Paris, in place of General JaNue-
niinot, who, it is said, has asked leave to retire, on account
of his health. It is also said that General Baron de Lascours,
'low in command of the Lyons division, is to be appointed
to the command of the first military division, is place of
General Sebastiani."

The population of Arriege is in a state of the greatest
misery in consequence of the failure of the potato and
maize crops.

Algiers journals of the 20th hare been received in
Paris. The following appears in the Moniteur Alyerien
of that date :

" The Governor-General, on hie arrival in the Ouarensenis,
immediately proceeded against the hostile populations as-
,embled in the ravines surrounding the principal mountain.
It may be remembered that it was in these retreats that they
had collected cn the occasion of our first invasion towards
the end of 1842. The march of Colonel St. Arnaud on the
Oued-el-Ardlem had been ordered with a view to cut off
their passage when the Marshal's troops shall have driven
them from their positions. General Yusuf, after his affair of
El-Gharaa, found himself obliged to desist from his pursuit
Abd-el-Kader, to obtain provisions. On the 7th inst., hav
ing joined the Duke d'Aumale at the camp of El-Brida, he
again left his Royal Highness to enter the Djebel-Amour,
where his adversary had taken refuge; but, understanding
that the Emir had retreated much farther west near Stit-
ten, he determined to stop short in the Djebel-Amour, and
there strengthen our authority. The chief of these moun-
tains, Djelloul, whose conduct has been exceedingly suspi-
cious, did not come to the
.French camp, pretending that he
was ill ; but all the populations have placed themselves in
our power. They have been
.subjected to a fine of 28,000 f.
and 3,000 oxen, which was paid at once. These cattle are
intended to furnish provisions for the province of Algiers,
where much want has been felt for some time past. General
Yusuf intends profiting by the complete prostration into
which all the southern tribes have fallen to go and collect
from the Ouled-Nayls the large fines which they deserve to
have imposed on them. Letters which arrived last evening
from the Marshal's column, announce that his operations are
proceeding most successfully. Neither Hadj-Seghrir nor
Bou-Maza have been able to Organise any serious resistance,
and the tribes were submitting without striking a blow.
There is, therefore, reason to hope that this expedition will
be completely terminated, and the Marshal back at Algiers
oy the beginning of June."
PARIS Bounsz, MAY 26.-The Bottrse has been completely inac-
tive to-day, so much so that the closing prices, which are about the
same as yesterday, may be regarded as merely nominal; 'Threes,
54f. 10c. ; and Fives, 119 f. 90c. The market closed as fol:ows :-
Three per Cents., for cash, 84f. 20c. ; for account, 841. 10c. ; Five
per Cents., for cash, 119 f. 80c. ; for account, 119 f. 90c.: Bank of
France Shares, 3,450 f.; Neapolitan 102 f. ; Spanish Three per Cents.,
as% ; Ditto, Fives, 32N ; New Loan not quoted.
to tion has been in
-day
-whie'hree Ss
ahlaerseh3alvaerkbeetenhmasabdeee,nthveergyuonteaarly a dead letter
tavour of the buyer. For cash-Paris and Orleans left off at 1,240 f ;
Paris and Rouen, 1,020 f.; Rouen and Havre, 751 f. 25c.; Stras-
burg and Bale, 216 f. 25c. ; Boulogne and Amiens, 495 f.; Northern,
750 f. , Bordeaux, 615 f. ; Montereau, 380 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 541 f.
25c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 505 f. ; Nantes, 522 f. 50c. ;
50e. ; Avignon, Vierzon, and Fampoux not quoted. Dieppe, 417 L
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCIIANGE, MAT 27.
Boulogne and Amiens, 11%-Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette
(Mackenzie), 1 %-Central of Spain, 1%-Dutch Rhenish, 8-Great
Western Canada, 3-Madrid and Valentia, 1 id-Namur and Liege,
4 -Northern of France Constituted, 14%-Orleans and Bordeaux,
102-Paris and Lyons Constituted, 6%-West Flanders, 2.

THE ACCOUCHEMEINT OF HER

MAJESTY.

The following bulletin of the Queen's health was iasued
his morning:—

"Buckingham Palace, May 28, 1846,
"Nine o'clock A.M.
The Queen has passed another good night.
Her Majesty and the infant Princess continue well.
(Signed) "JAMES CLARK, M.D.
"CHARLES LOCOCK, M.D.
"ROBERT FERGUSON, M.D."

ROBBERIES OF PLATE.—lnformation of the following
robberies of plate were yesterday received by the pollee :—From
No. 3, Cavendish-square, the property of the Hon. Mrs. Dawson
Darner, four silver candlesticks— they are of massive make ; also,
from a cart, last week, between Reigate and East Grinstead, a box,
the property of the Rev. S. M. Neatc,
of Sackville Cottage, East
Grinstead, containing four silver table-spoons, four tea and four
dessert ditto, and a butter-knife, each marked " W," a wine strainer,
marked " 'I. A. W live . M." six table-spoons, dessert, two tea, one
gravy, and two salt ditto, marked, twenty-four forks, six old-
fashioned Mlagree tea-spoons, marked "T. 31. N." a dadete, and
moist sugar-basin, marked "A. N." an inkstand, and a variety of
other articles of silver plate.
WOOLWICH, MAY 27.—The Black Eagle steam-
vessel, Master-Commander S. B. Cook, has been fitted with new
boilers, and will be ready for sea by the Gth of June. The Torch
s`foam-vessel left Woolwich yesterday for Greenhithe and the Clyd.',
t protect the fisheries on that part of the coast of Scotland. The
Polyphemus steam-vessel, Commander 31`Cleverty, left yesterday for
Gr eenhithe and the coast of Ireland. The Ardent steam-vessel,
Previous to leaving Woolwich, will have some additional cabins
e tted, as she is to be employed as a packet on the Mediterranean
utations 1 sergeant, 1 corporal, and 10 privates of the Royal Sappers
and Miners were medically inspected yesterday at the Ordnance
Hospital, Woolwich, having been ',laced under orders to proceed with
the detachment of Royal Artillery on special service to the Hudson
Bay Company's territory.
SUPPOSED INCENDIARY FIRE IN WORCESTERSHIRE.
—About midnight on Friday last, a destructive fire broke out in a
barn on the farm of Mr. J. Edwards, and belonging to B. Dent, Esq.,
at Charlton, near Cropthorne, about ten miles from Worcester. The
barn with its contents, consisting of several waggons, carts, and a
gig, together with some poultry, was completely demolished. The
origin of the fire is enveloped in mystery, and it is very strongly sus-
pected that it was the work of an incendiary.
DEATH OF VISCOUNT DOWNE.— We hare to announce
the demise of the above Noble and Rev. Viscount, who died at his
seat, Beningborough Hall, Yorkshire, on Sunday last, in his 74th
Year. The deceased Peer was William Henry Dawnay, Viscount
Downe, of the peerage of Ireland ; born August 20, 1772.; succeeded
to the family honours February 18, 1832 ; married Junc 6, 1811,
Lydia, only daughter of John Ileathcote,Esq., of Connington Castle,
Itutlandshire, b: whom he has left 'sue, the Host. William Henry
Dawnay, M.P. for Rutlandahire (who married, July 25, 1843, Isabel,
opened an
fourth daughter of the Hon. and Right Rev. the Bishop of Bnth
county,
and Wells), and the Hon. Miss Lydia Catherine Dawnay.
Y sterday afternoon Mr. Neve, one of the deputy-coroners for the
village about three miles from the
dcorn station, touching the
the Ilea
death of Samuel Hill, an engine who lost his life by the re-
driver,
cent accident to an an
train on the South-Eastern
"That
.ifter a lengthened Ir d as their verdict,
,_„, Y, the jury returned
the deceased was awed by the accidental falling of a locomotive
engine." inquiry at White Horse Inn, Smarden, a

•• • •• •. .. 9714 97
INd. Itid.
20 15 pm.
20 15 pm.
16 12 17 pm.
ONE
O'CLOCK.

FOREIGN FUNDS.
Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent . ..
Ditto, Deferred, 3 per Cent .. 50
..
!„‘
Equador Bonds . • 3%
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto, beferred .. • . 17N%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. • •
Ditto, Three per Cent ..
..
Ditto, for the Account .. . • .. 37%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 60%
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates

CLOSING
PRICES.
205 IA
_ _ .

96g
97%
266

CLOSING
PRICES.

50U
3%
31%
17%
37%
37%

PRICES OF
RAILIVAY SHARES.

BUSINESS
CLOSING
PAID. DONE AT
PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.
Aberdeen .. .. 10 .... 41,4 •• • ..
Birmingham and Gloucester.. .. 100 .. .. 125 . .
Buckinghamshire 425. .• • • 1/4 •••• • • • • 34 p
Caledonian .. .. 10 .. 11% 121,4 11 X II %
Cambridge and Oxford.. .. • 1% .... a .....
Derby and Crewe .. .. • . 2% .... 6% ....
Direct Manchester (Remington's) 2% .... ..........
Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) .. 554 .... 1.% •
Dublin and Galway .. .. 4 .... 2% 32% ....
Eastern Counties .. .. 141. 165..... 23% .. • ... 23%
Ditto New .. .. 8/. 165... .. 7% % p...... 734 p
Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1. 6/. 13s. 4d. ....
Ditto, ditto, .. .. No. 2. 61. 13s. 4d. %34 p........
Ditto, York Extension .. 101. 15 .........•
Edinburgh and Glasgow•.. 50 .... ........ ..
Ditto 54 Shares .. .. • . .. 10 .... 17 ••• • • •
Goole, Doncast., and Sheffield, &c. 425. % dis. ..... •
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 20 .... ..........
Great Western .. 85 •
•• .. 148 .....
Ditto, Quarter Shares: 6 .... 16% ..........
Ditto, Fifths .. 20 .... 33% •
Guildford, Fareham, &Portsmoth 5 .... ..........
Ipswich, Norwich, and Yarmouth 2 • %•• • .
Leicester and Birmingham .. 225. .... % di5.......
Leicester and Bedford 225..... % p......
Leicester, Tamworth, &c. 425. % dis
London an I Birmingham . • •iOO ....227 22654 228..
Ditto. Thirds .. 24 .... 62%..........
Ditto Quarters .• .. 2 .... 28%
Ditto Fifths 2 .... 24%
London and Brighton .. .. 50 .. . 65% .....
Ditto ditto Fifths • • • • .. 30 40% ........
London and Croydon • • -131. 155.9 d... 22%
Lof.don and South• Western .. 411. 6s. 10d...
I!Ditto, New .. . • • • • • 1754 .... 29 . .........
London and York .. .. • • • 254 2%1%
London, Salisbury, and Yeovil .. 254 • • 1% • ........
Lynn and Ely .. .. • • .. 15 .... 13%
Manchester and Leeds .. .. • • 82 •• .. 127% 127.•
Ditto Extension .. 425. .. • • 2% p
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. .. • • 1%
slidland .. • • .. ..100 .... ...
Ditto, New ~ .. • . 18 .. • • 3154 2.......
Newcastle and Darlington Junet. 25
.. ..... .
Newcastle and Berwick .. •• 15 .. • • 25%
Newark, Sheffield, and Boston • • 1% ...• % a •
Norfolk .. .. • . .. 20 .... .. —
Ditto, Extension . • • • • 2.. • • 114 1%
North British .. •.• 221% .. 30 ...... •• .. 30
Ditto, Half Shares .. ••• . 8% I 114 x
Ditto, Carlisle Extension
.. 114.... • . 254
North Kent and Direct Dover .. 254 .... 1% ••••. . • • . • 1%
North Staffordshire .. • • • • 425. .. •.4 14 4 p.. .. 4 p
Portsmouth Direct • • • • ••3% • • 354 ••••• • • • • 314
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 2% .... 2% ..... .••
••
2%
S.mth Midland . • • . •425. .... 1% % % dis
S )uth Eastern and Dovor 33 %.. • . 3954 .• .. 3954
S,uth Wales •••• • • 5 .... ........ 1%
Welsh Midland .. .. • • 2 ........
West Riding Union •• • • .. 425. •• • . • • 2% p
Worccstr., Herefd., Ross, & Glou. 425..... 11% d. 5....... 1% dis York and Lancaster .. . • .. 2% ....
14
York arid North Midls.nd, .. 50 .... -
Ditto, Half Shares .. . • .. 25 .. • • 47 .....
Ditto, Selby .. .. • • .. 30 .... -
Ditto, Extension .. • • l5 .... 34 33%
Do. E. and W. Riding Exten... 1 •• • 111 A

• -
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens .. .. 12 .. 11% %
Bord., Tout., & Cette (Mackenzie) 2
Ditto, ditto (Espelete) .. 2 ....
Central of Spain .. .. • • .. 2 .... 1%
East In Han . ss. .... ........
Luxembourg
Namur and Liege .. .. 6 .... 3.
Orleans and Vierzen .. 10 .... 15
Paris and Lyons Constituted .. 5 .... 6%%
Rouen and Havre . .. 20 .... 28N
Sombre and Meuse 8
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
MINES.
Galvanism! Iron .. .. 10 .... 9xd .
Real del Monte, Unregistered .. ••• • • • ...
Santiago de Cuba .. .. 10 ....

Union of Australia

P
1%

)4 Ws.

N dis
P
Y. dl,
228
62%
2814
24%
65%
40%
223 i

3
15
6%
28%
514

9 xd

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DA Y.)
LONDON, MAT 28.—Wind at noon N.E., light breeze, and flue
clear weather.

DEAL, MAY 27.—Wind N.W. to N.N.W.—Arrd. Crusader, Naugh-
ton, Batavia, and sailed for Rotterdam ; Martin Luther, Demerara
and Barbadoes ; Lady Hilda, Rounce, Barbadocs : Ruby, May, St.
Kitt's ; Conder, Weyderman, Trinidad ; Gratitude, Smart, Laguna ;
British King, Charleston; Belvidera, Homan, New York. Arrd.
from the River, 27th, Dispatch, Elsden, and sailed for Cape of Good
Hope and Swan River. Arrd. from the River and sailed, City of
London, Ford, Newport and Madras; Isabella Blyth, Paddle,
Mauritius ; Jun!ta, Blanchard, Canary Islands.

COWES, MAY 27.--Wind Florentia, Webster, Quebec.
Poarssiouru, MAY 27.—Wind S.W. to S.—Acrd. Patriot Minin,
Lideman, Havannali.

LIVERPOOL, MAY 27.—The St. Andrew, from the Clyde to Quebec,
was on shore on Red Island, about the 2d instant ; passengers ar-
rived at Quebec. The Rambler steamer, from Sligo, which was on
shore near the Rock, was got off last night, and into dock. The
Canada, arrived at Montreal, from the Clyde, experienced severe
snow storms off Cape Chat, by which the master and several of the
crew became frost-bitten.
LOWESTOFFE. MAY 26.—The Autumn, Suggitt, from London, for
the north, whilst riding off the Shear Light, was run athawt hawse
by a light brig of about 250 tons, all black, with a ilgure-head, and a
letter B painted on her fore toprail, and carried away her bobstay,
spritsail yard, and did other damage.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

1X21.11r 211.allit8MTB.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 31 to 41; Clover ditto, 41 5s to
5/ 15s ; Oat Straw, 1112 s to 11 14s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 14s to 11 16s per
load. Supply tolerably good, and trade very dull.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 31 33 to 4/ 4s; Clover ditto, 4/ 5s
to 51 14s ; Oat Straw, I/ 12s to 11 14s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 15s to 11 17s
per load. A fair average supply, and a sluggish demand.
_ _

•
WIIITECIIAPEL.—Metidow flay, 31 to 41; Clover di-tto., 4/ 5s to 51
17s ; Oat Straw, ll 12s to 1/ 14s ; Wheat Straw, 11 14s to 11166
per load. Trade dull, at the above quotations.

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.
We had only a moderate suppl:. of Meat here, > et the general demand
was heavy, at barely stationary prices. Beef from 2s 6d to 3s 6d ;
Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 4d ; Lamb, 5s to 5s 10d ; Veal, 4s to 4s 10d ;
and Pork, 3s 4d to 4s 8d per 811ss by the carcase.
MEAT MA/OLETI3.
HAILMIAM, MAY 27.—Prime Mutton sold steadily, at full prices ;
otherwise the demand was in a sluggish state. Beef, from 2s 10d to
4s 2d; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 6d; Lamb, 5s to 5s 10d; Veal, 4s to
4s dd ; and Pork, 4s to 4s 6d per 81bs.
ARUNDEL, MAY 26.—Beef, from 3s to 4s 2d ; Mutton, 3s 6d to
4s 6d ; Lamb, 5s to 6s ; Veal, 4s to 45 8d per dlbs. A. moderate sup-
ply, and a sluggish demand.

CORN AVERAGES.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN
For the Week ended May 23, 1846, made up from the Returns of the
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales
per Imperial Quarter.

WHEAT. I BARLEY.' OATS. i RTE. I BEANS. I PEAS.
PRICE .. 553 5d 281 10d 23s 8d 345 6d 36s Od 34s 6d
DUTY... 161 Od 9s Od 51 Od 91 6d 71 6d 8e 6d

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CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
IN RE WHITING.—JUDGMENT.
The Master of the Rolls sat with the Lord Chancellor to-
day, for the purpose of giving judgment in this case, which
our readers will recollect was argued some time since before
their Lordships upon the petition of several of the solicitors
of the Court, complaining of the course adopted in the office
of Master Lynch, of allowing the second clerk of that office
to perform the duties of first clerk. The Master of the Rolls
went at considerable length into the case, and concluded by
stating his decided opinion to be, that the course pursued
was highly irregular, and ought no longer to be continued.
The LORD CHANCELLOR was of the same opinion, and after
passing a high eulogium on the ability and assiduity of Mas-
ter Lynch, stated it to be the intention of their Lordships not
to make any order upon the petition, feeling convinced that
the intimation of their opinion to Master Lynch would be
quite sufficient to induce that valuable officer of the Court at
once to put a stop to the course of proceeding that had
hitherto prevailed in his office.
IN THE MATTER OF THE RECTOR OF LAMBETH.
The LORD CHANCELLOR declined making any order on
this petition, thinking that the subject of it was one that
ought to be referred to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.

GRAY V. THE LIVERPOOL AND BURY RAILWAY COMPANY.
In this case his Lordship directed an action to be brought.
In the other Equity Courts no case of any public interest
occurred. The House of Lords will not sit again upon ap-
peals till after the Whitsuntide recess.

COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)
WILSON AND ANOTHER V. EVANS.
This was an action brought by the plaintiffs, who were the
owners of a vessel, against the defendant, also a shipowner,
for damage sustained by the plaintiffs' vessel by a collision.
The cause was tried in last Hilary term, and a verdict given
for the plaintiffs. Since that period the master had been
called on to tax costs, and an order was made by Mr. Justice
Cresswell, at chambers, for the defendant to pay 2,5361.1r55.,
fo
as debt and costs. Mr. Sergeant Byles now applied a
rule to review the taxation of costs.
Amongst the witnesses called for the plaintiff was Mr.
Jones (master of the barque General Wilshire), and the
expenses charged for his attendance were 1501. 4s. 2d , and
the Master, on taxation, allowed 971. 14s. 2d., being 78. per
day for attendance from the sth of May, 1845 to the 21st of
March, 1846. The first
intimation which the defendant had
had of Captain Jones being detained in England for so long a
period, was on the total bill of costs for witnesses being sent
to him. The application was also to stay execution during
tho reviewal of the costs.
Mr. Justice COLTMAN—Oa your application for costs,or
thedid
you state in your summonses your intention to apply f
execution to be stayed?
. Mr. Sergeant BYLES—Yes, my Lord.
Mr. Justice CRESSWELL said that he WAS not aware that
he had made any order in the can,

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was steady.
Sales, 5,000 bales, all to the trade. Shares were better, all
good scrip and stock being on the advance.
It is not an uninteresting circumstance to those who watch
carefully the progress of commerce, that the arrivals of pro-
duce have been recently very large from all parts of the
world, and that, although under ordinary circum-
stances they ought to come to a very good
market, and the demand for actual consump-
tion, were it in plenire vigner, would probably be
sufficiently large to absorb the whole, yet, from a combina-
tion of adverse causes, our merchants and importers have
long had just reason to complain of the inadequate return
upon their trading capital, and the slack business even at the
prices current. That the passing of the Corn Bill may alter
this we have fervently to hope; for matters, otherwise, from
bad will be very likely to get to worse.
The English Stock Market has been very firm to-day,
though not active, because of the attention necessarily be-
stowed upon the settlement of the Account. The continua-
tion to July has been 1/1. to % per cent., Consols being:96% %.8.
for present transfer, and 97 to 9714 for Account. '1 he pre-
mium on Exchequer-bills has been 20s. to 155., being an im-
provement upon the previous values. The New Three and-a-
Quarter per Cents. have realised 97% %, and the Three per
Cents. 951/, %. Bank Stock is worth 2061/, being very firm.
East India Bonds under 1,000/. are 225. premium.
The bargains in the Foreign Market have been more
limited even than yesterday. Spanish Three per Cents, have
realised 37% ; Mexican Deferred are 17% 34 ; Equador, 3V, ;
and Chilian Deferred, 5014 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents. have been 6014.
For Railway Shares there is rather a firm market, the ac
counts from Liverpool_ being more satisfactory, but the bus
ness done is still comparatively circumscribed.
BRITISH FUNDS. ONE
Bank Stock .. .• .. .• • • O'CLOCK.
.. .. 3i
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. .. 2951 A%
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .. 96% %
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Aims. 57", i, 34 N,
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 8, 1860 .. 10%
India Stock .. .. . ..
India Bonds, 1,000/.
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills.
1,0001... ..
Ditto. Small
Ditto, Advertised

- •
Mr. Sergeant BYLES trusted that their Lordships would
grant both applications, for notice had been given to the
plaintiff that they were to be made.
The Loan CHIEF JUSTICE—You can take a rule, but in
case it should be discharged, you will be in a worse condition
than before.

After some further discussion, the rule was extended to
stay execution.

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)
No case of sufficient importance to require a report occur.
red in this Court to-day.

SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BURCHELL.)
HUMPHREY V. CLIFFORD.
There were twenty-four causes set down for hearing this
morning, but the above was the only one tried during the
morning. _ _ _

The Plaintiff in this action is a wine merchant, in Park-
street, Grosvenor-square, and the defendant is a licensed
victualler, in Great Marylebone-street. The claim was for
191. for ten dozen of port, alleged to be sold by the plaintiff to
the defendant. The delivery of the wine was proved, and
also that the defendant had tasted it and approved of it at
the price, 365. per dozen.
For the defence a host of witnesses were called to prove
that the defendant had made the bargain with a person
named Jackson, to whom alone he was indebted. Jackson
was called, and swore that he got the wine on his own ac-
count, and that the plaintiff owed him money; and it was
further shown that the plaintiff had said that Jackson had
got the wine, and he (plaintiff) expected Jackson would do
him, so be would try to get it from defendant.
The I.lsDan-SHEniFF said the question for the jury was,
whether defendant at the time considered he was dealing
with Jackson as an agent or principle.
The jury almost immediately gave a verdict for the de-
fendant.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
GROUP X.

The Committee of this group met to-day at twelve o'clock, in
Room No. 1 (House of Commons); present, Mr. Deedes (Chair-
man), Mr. Arkwrklit, Mr. Stanley, Mr. Farnham, and Mr. Vivian.
They proceeded to take the clauses of the

GLASGOW, AIRDRIE, AND MONICLAND
JUNCTION,
the preamble of which was, on Tuesday, declared to have been
proved.

Mr. CRAWFURD, who appeared for the Messrs. Baird. petitioners
against the Bill, objected to the 38th clause, which provides for ena-
bling the Company to amalgamate with certain of the neighbouring
and connected lines. The Learned Gentleman rested ou Mr. Wilson
Patten's resolution and order of the House of the 28th of April, re-
specting amalgamating lines. The Learned Gentleman was inter-
rupted by

The CHAIRMAN, who said that, as their was a Bill before Parlia-
ment to regulate the conditions of amalgamation in the case of the
lines referred to by the Learned Gentleman, this Committee would
not go into that question, or the question of tolls in the event of an
amalgamation. They would specially report upon the fact that
there is a clause to authorise amalgamation ; and they would there
leave the matter in the hands of the Committee upon that subject.
Mr. CRAWFURD submitted, that if this Committee did not go into
the question of tolls, and the Bill for amalgamation should be lost,
the proposed charges in the present Bill would be left untouched at
the exorbitant rates claimed by the promoters.
The CHAIRMAN said that it was not so. The Committee would go
into an examination of the rates proposed to be taken on this line, as
it stands by itself, without reference to what might be done in the
event of an amalgamation.

Mr. CaAwFuttn- then addressed himself to the detail of the rates,
arguing upon what he considered the exorbitance of the charges which
the promoters expected to enforce.

:11r. ANDREWS said the charges were on the same rates as those of
the existing lines of the district, but as there were some peculiar cir-
cumstances which induced him to think with the Hon. Chairman,
that some concessions would be made, it was the wish of the pro-
moters to meet the objections of the other side in a reasonable
manner.

Scrotal items were discussed with great earnestness, but eventu.
ally the parties agreed, and the rate clahns as amended, by such con•
sent, were agreed to.

The other claims were gone through, and the Bill was passed.

GROUP XVII.

MANCHESTER AND SOUTHAMPTON--
ROMSEY AND REDBRIDGE AS RANCH
(SOUTH—WESTERN).
The Committee met this morning at the usual hour; the lion. Mr.
E. Yorke in the chair.

Mr. RAWLINSON applied to the Committee to give their decision on
the merits, if merits it had, of the Roinsey and Redbridge Branch, in
order that he and those for whom he applied might be liberated from
any fur, her attendance on the Committee. They would recollect
that he submitted in his address on Tuesday that the line was not
required by the wants of the locality, inasmuch as it would be ac-
commodated by the Manchester and Southampton Railway-, which
not only ran along its route, but to the north, intersecting important
districts and running through large manufacturing towns.
Mr. HATUERTON opposed the application, on the ground that the
Committee were not in a condition to do so, as Mr. Saunders in his
address on Tuesday charged the line wills abuses, which he stated
he should support by evidence. He should carry out his promise, in
order thht the Committee might have evidence to confirm his state-
ments, or be disabused of them if they were untrue.
Mr. SAUNDERS said it was not his intention to produce evidence,
as he considered that the Acts of Parliament which he quoted
showed clearly enough the injury which the line would do to the
town and port of Southampton.
After a short discussion,
The CHAIRMAN reiterated the decision to which the Committee
arrived on t uesday u to the course which they should pursue with
respect to the two lines. They had not altered their opinion, that
they should hear the cases for and against both lines before they came
to a decision on either. They should then decide them on their "pub-
lic advantages."

Mr. Davis then proceeded to address the Committee againSt the
Romscy and Redbridge branch, on behalf of the Town Council of
Southampton. lle commenced by saying that he was a member of
the corporation of Southampton, and that he had been deputed by
that body to oppose this project, as the Manchester and
Southampton would supersede it, and open up, in ad-
dition, a direct communication with the north of England.
The Corporation of the town were not wanting in respect to the
Committee in deputing him to appear on their behalf instead of
counsel, who might have discharged the task mere ably, but cer-
tainly not more honestly or conscientiously. The explanation of this
was to be found in the fact that five of the Corporation were directors
of the Sclith Western, and counsel could only be employed when the
Corporation was unanimous in Incurring such an expense. Of course,
they would not consent to employ counsel to oppose a project ema-
nating from a body of which they were members ; in fact, they stated
if the other members of the Corporation did employ counsel, that it was
not unlikely that a bill inChancery might be filed against them. Ile was
prepared to show, that irrespectively of the Manchester and South-
ampton, or any other line, this branch was not required for any
purposes of general utility, and that, even supposing some partial
advantages might be derived by the public from it, it was not expe-
dient that its construction should be entrusted to the promoters of
the Bill. But the Manchester and Southampton was a great mili-
tary as well as a great commercial line, would supersede the branch,
open up direct communication w Ith the north, and was approved of
by the town and corporation of Southampton. A great deal had
been said about the importance of Redbridge and Eling as ports,
but during the prevalence of the ordinary tides the water there at
high water was only from two to six feet, and during spring tides
from eleven to twelve feet—at Redbridge from six to eight and from
eleven to twelve feet.