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LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 6, 1851.

conceive how any persons who have read those con-
vincing articles should hesitate as to the necessity of
some immedilte steps being taken to abate
the nuisance. Our sagacious Minister of
Finance has, however, a peculiar obliquity
of vision in such matters; be has taken the frau-
dulent dealers under his especial protection, and will
not suffer any interference with their innocent
pursuits. In bis view, the public should submit
to be shorn without complaint. Accordingly, he
resisted to the uttermost the motion of the Hon.
Gentleman the Member for Huntingdon for the re-
consideration of the Treasury minute of August,
1840, and, we regret to say, succeeded by a majority
of five in his opposition thereto. The community
in general and the fair traders must, therefore, submit
to the grievance until next session, but there
can be but little doubt that the voice of public opinion
will be heard in the interim, and that the CHAN-
CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER for 1551 (whoever he
may be) must make up his mind to yield to the pres-
sure from without, and to restrain those who claim
the liberty of defrauding their neighbours and cus-
tomers by the sale of deleterious and inferior articles.

Apparently the slender majority of sixteen by
which the Metropolitan Water Supply Bill was en-
abled to pass a second reading yesterday, is a
matter for very general satisfaction. In reality, how-
ever, we regret to find reasons for designating this
seeming advantage a circumstance more strictly pro-
vocative of regrets than of gratulatiOns. A refer-
ence to the arguments employed last evening by
almost every Member who took part in. the discus-
sion will afford some notion of the considerations
which have reluctantly brought us, in common
with so many other observers, to this most
unsatisfactory conclusion. Like the Hon. Gentleman
the Representative of Penryn, we felt predisposed to
accord in the first instance every encouragement to
a measure of this character, introduced to the notice
of the Legislature under the auspices of her Me.
JESTY'S Government. A cursory inquiry, neverthe.
less, into the precise tendency of the scheme brought
forward by the Administration was more than suffi-
cient to dissipate our enthusiasm, transforming it in-
deed into a very earnest anxiety to witness its rejec-
tion. Unfortunately our wishes in this respect
have not as yet been realized. . Two stages
have been passed through, certainly , with some
little difficulty, but still they have been
passed through in spite of every opposition. Very
shortly, therefore, the Commons will have to scruti-
nize the measure more closely, clause by clause, in
Committee. Then, at any rate, we are sanguine that
the evil of the proposed alteration will be so pecu-
liarly perceptible to the majority, that the commu-
nity may be in no fear of being afflicted by its ac-
ceptance. As the Honourable Member for Lambeth
facetiously, and, at the same time, correctly remarked,
the .measure, instead of being called, as it is, " A Bill
for the better Supplying of Water to the Metropolis,"
should with more justice have been designated " A
Bill for the purpose of establishing a huge job, to
perpetuate a deficient supply of impure water to the
metropolis, under the patronage of her MAJESTY'S
Government." Literally, to all intents and pur-
poses, that is the actual meaning of the project un-
dertaken by the Ministry, with a view to compact
into one gigantic monopoly the various companies
now existing, to the end that we may have what
may be termed the same faulty system as
ever of metropolitan irrigation. Hitherto, even
with the benefits of a certain degree of competition,
the public generally speaking in London and West-
minster have had to slake their thirst at streams ren-
dered loathsome, if not absolutely poisonous, by every
imaginable pollution. And yet this very insufficient
protection of competition the Cabinet would now de-
liberately deprive us of, under the pretext of furnish-
ing the capital with larger quantities of water, more
pure and salubrious, than have hitherto been con-
veyed to the dwellings of the mass of the
population. Against these specious pretences
almost every Member who has yet spoken upon the
subject in the House of Commons bas most strongly
and energetically protested. Yesterday, especially,
the Government scheme may be said to have found a
supporter only in the Honourable Baronet the Mem•
ber for the Tower Hamlets. Even his approbation
however, of the measure, is inadequate as an assur-
ance of its innocuous, not to say its beneficial character.
It would be erroneous to imagine for an instant
that by rejecting the Bill now alluded to, the Com-
mons would in any way be procrastinating the
reform so long and earnestly demanded. On the
contrary, we are satisfied that by at once throwing
out the measure the metropolitan representatives
would be in the most effectual and satisfactory man-
ner promoting the interest of the inhabitants of the
capital, and forwarding their hopes to a realization.
Let the proposals suggested by the Administration be
carried into effect, and this section of the already
complicated question of sanitary reform will be sur-
rounded more than ever by difficulties, many of which
would prove for a considerable period insurmountable.
It is, therefore, with no ordinary emphasis that we call
upon the mass of the metropolitan representatives to
strain their energies to the very uttermost in endea-
vouring to throw out the Bill in Committee. Unless
they effect this betimes, they will find labours of a
yet more arduous kind devolving upon them later
on, labours forced upon them yet more strongly by an
accumulation of responsibilities. Hence, we repeat,
it behoves them to strive forthwith to reject at this
early period what they must by necessity reject fur-
ther on, or, after a lamentable evidence of its injurious
character, have rather ignominiously to recall as an
act of ill-timed and ill-considered legislation.

Lord EIRINGTON himself acknowledged last even-
ing that it would have been better for the interests of
the metropolis if the Government had made more
sedulous inquiries into the evils complained of before
adventuring upon their treatment. Lord EDRINGTON,
be it remembered, was the one to make this
avowal, and Lord EDRINGTON is qualified surely to
pronounce an opinion upon the subject by his long
continuance at the head of the Sanitary Commission.
Curiously enough all parties seem to coincide in op-
posing the water supply project, as it has been laid
before Parliament by her MARBSTY'S Government.
The companies are dissatisfied with it, the public
generally are dissatisfied with it, the Sanitary
Commissioners are dissatisfied with it, every-
where the measure meets with a stern
and uncompromising opposition. Nevertheless,
it has hitherto progressed in defiance of all this, having
passed, not without difficulty, through the two first
readings. We anticipate, however, with some soli-
citude, and not altogether without confidence, its
tardy but still decided rejection when it comes be-
fore the Commons in Committee.

SUSSEX COUNTY HOSPITAL,
BRIGRTON.
On Wednesday a Special General Court of Governors of the
Sussex County Hospital was held in the Board-room of the
Institution, for the purpose of taking into consideration a
report from a Committee of Governors appointed to consider
what alterations and additions to the present Hospital would
be requisite to meet the increased, and still increasing, de-
mands upon the charity, and to obtain the consent of the
court, for making such alterations and additions as were de.
scribed in plans produced. The Rev. S. R. Drummond was
in the chair.

The minutes of previous meetings of the Governors,
authorising the above desirable step, having been read,
The eXAIRMAN read a description of the proposed new
building, drawn up by Mr. Herbert Williams, of Great
Ormond-street, London, the architect, from which it appeared
that it is proposed to remove the present fever wards, and to
clear away so much of the embankment at the back of the
ground as will admit of a considerable free space round the
new building on a level with the basement or kitchen floor
of the main buildings. The character of the building, both
externally and internally, will correspond with the old build-
ing. The report then goes on to describe the approaches,
and the appropriation of the several stories, and various
other minor matters in detail. The plan was spoken of in
high terms of commendation by the Governors, and resolu-
tions to carry the same into effect were unanimously passed.

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RETURN OF THR COURT TO TOWN FROM WIND-
Boa CASTLE.—(THIS DAT.) - Her Majesty and Prince Al-
bert, with their seven illustrious children, and accompanied
by their Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg
and Duke Ernest of Wurtemberg, and attended by the
Countess of Charlemont, Lord Dufferin, the Hon. Misses
Paget and Seymour, Lady Caroline Barrington, General,
Wemyss, Colonel Bouverie, the Hon. Colonel Charles Grey,
and the Rev. H. Birch (tutor to the Prince of Wales), left
Windsor Castle this afternoon, after luncheon, and proceeded
to the Windsor terminus of the Great Western Railway,
where a special train was in readiness to convey the august
party to town. Her Majesty was escorted to Buckingham
Palace by an officer's party of the 16th Lancers, and was re-.
ceived on alighting by the great officers of state. The
Queen's illustrious visitors are expected to remain until after
her Majesty's grand bal costume on the 13th inst.
LONDON AND DURHAM UNIVERSITIES. The
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THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We hnve received the P:ris journals of yesterday.
The gauntlet thrown down by the PRESIDENT to
the Assembly has been taken up by General CHAN-
GARNIER. In the course of the discussion on Tues-
day, on the Ilepublican Guard, CUANGARNIER made
the following pointed allusions to recent events.
He said—
" According to the assertions of certain persons, the
army is ready in its enthusiasm to act against the laws
of the country and to change the form of government.
In the first place, and to show that such cannot be the
case, it is sufficient for me to ask where is there any mo-
tive for such enthusiasm?—(Laughter on the Left.) I
may add that the army, profoundly penetrated with the
sentiment of its duty, with the feeling of what is due to
its own dignity, desires no more than you to inflict on
France the wretchedness and shame of the government
of the Caesars, when emperors were successively raised
to power or hurled to the earth by drunken Praetorian
Guards.—(Great agitation.) Discipline is deeply rooted
in the French army. The soldiers will always hear the
voice of their chiefs; but no one will ever induce the
soldiers to march against the Right—against the As-
sembly; not a single battalion could be induced to follow
for such a purpose, whoever might be the officers whom
they are accustomed to obey. Consequently, represen-
tatives of France, deliberate in peace!—(Agitation.)"
The members of the different Bourbonists factions
are loud in their-praises of this outbreak of CHAN-
GARNIER. M. LEON FAUCHER has, however, com-
pletely lost their confidence, because be did not re
sign immediately after the PRESIDENT'S speech at
Dijon.

; On Wednesday the Assembly commenced its sit
ting by proceeding to ballot for the election of
Questors. The following was the result :
Number of voters •••
611
Absolute majority
•.• ••• 306
M. BJ,Ze
General LeflO 348366
M. de Panat
.•• ... 299
M. Charras
••• ... 174
General Lebreton
... 146
M. Monet
••• . . 134
M. de Chadenet... ••• 117
In consequence, M. BAze and General LEFLO,
having obtained the required majority, were declared
to be duly elected.
Both M. BAzE and General LEFLo are distin-
guished for their bitter hostility to the Elysee. On
a second ballot Al. DE PANAT was re-elected third
Questor.
" Two days ego," says the Droit, " the com-
mander of the fort of Vincennes received by post a
letter from the Intendant of the First Military Di-
vision, ordering him to send fifty thousand ball car-
tridges to the Palace of the Elysee. This order
greatly surprised the commander, as he could not
understand what could require it; and he was more
surprised that it should have been sent by post, in-
stead of by an orderly. But after closely examining
the signature and the seal, he could not doubt that
it was really sent from the bureau of the Intend-
ance. Before executing it, however, he went to
the Intendant, and showed him it. That func•
tionary also recognised the signature and seal as
his ; but he declared that he had not given the
order, and that it must have been obtained by,
fraud. An investigation into the affair has been com-
menced."

M. LAIIABIT on Wednesday presented the fol-
lowing proposition to the National Assembly :
" Ist. That the Assembly shill express a wish for the
revision of Article 45 of the Constitution as far as re-
gards the re-eligibility of the President of the Republic.
2. That such revision shall not be deferred to a now
Constituent Assembly, but be referred to the sovereignty
of the French people, called to freely vote at the election
of the President of the Republic. 3. That to this effect
a proclamation of the Assembly shall inform the French
people that to it alone in virtue of its sovereignty be-
longs the right of declaring by its vote whether it will
or will not re• elect the same President of the Republic."
The Algiers journals of the 29th ult. contain ac-
counts of some new affairs between the French army
of expedition in Lesser Kabylia and the Kabyles,
but they are of very small importance as compared
with those up to the 21st ult., and of which full
details have been published. In the last affairs,
which were perfectly successful against the enemy,
the French had only one killed and fourteen
wounded.

The Museum of the Louvre, which had been for
some time closed in order to afford an opportunity
for the execution of some necessary repairs, was yes-
terday opened with great ceremony by the PRESIDENT
of the Republic.

About 12 o'clock on Tuesday last a dreadful hur-
ricane fell in the department of the Cote d'Or, be-
tween Dijon and Chagny. The whole of that highly,
cultivated district was covered with hail in the twink-
ling of an eye. Torrents of rain fell towards S
o'clock, and caused such floods that a portion of the
Paris and Lyons Railroad was damaged to the extent
of some leagues. The gravel was carried off the
road, the sleepers were laid bare, and two trains, one
from Paris and the other from Chalons, experienced
a serious delay.
There was very little business transacted at the
Bourse yesterday. The Five per Cents. opened at
91f. 10e., and closed at 91f.; the Three per Cents.
closed at 561. 303.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 8251.;
Rouen, 6201.; Havre, 242 f. 50e.; Great Northern, 4751.;
Avignon, 2211. 250.; Basle, 145 f.; Bordeaux, 400 E;
Paris and Strasburg, 363 f. 75e.; Tours and Nantes,
2711. 253.
BUSIINESS.DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Jules 5.
Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 1714—Lux-
einbouriz, 23A—Namur and Liege, 6T.i —Northern of France,
14%—Orleans and Bordeaux, 34',—Paris and Strasbourg,
101A1—Sambre and Meuse, 344—Tours and Nantes, 6.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
ciTY, 7'll'o O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
- mated at 7,000 bales, of which 800 American were taken
done for export aed 1,000 on speculation. The sales corn-
,3's prised 5,500 American, 300 Peru= and Maranham at
62d. to 7fd., 100 B:shia at qd. to eZel,, 200 E,•yieiali at
6fd. to 7fd., and 1,000 Surat at 31d. to per lb. The
market wus at previous rates.—ltail way Shares were firm
and steady at improved prices.
For most articles of consumption the demand this
week has been moderate, and the supply being large,
prices have ruleu in favour of buyers. It may be
affirmed, indeed, that for the last three weeks, dulness
has been the characteristic, owing to importers having
supplied the markets freely. Business, however, must
be considered to be in a lisalshy state, dull as is specu-
lation, and stocks are kept down to a low point among
the dealers. The value of dyes and dyeing materials
has, of late, been depressed.
Respecting the Tallow trade, Messrs. Gull and Wilson
report, that seldom has a season dawned with more im-
portant interests at stake, and more open contracts to be
settled. Both in this market and in St. Petersburgh
there have already been sold (oversold) more than the
3; whole supply of New Y.C. that the St. Petersburgh
market can send us this season. The arrangement of
these contracts is. therefore, an object of much interest
to the trade in general. The prospective supply of Tal-
low for the year is much short of the supply of many
past years; and although the stock in London is larger
by 10,718 casks than the stock of 1850, yet the actual
stock of foreign in the United Kingdom is much less
than at this date last year. Our supplies for the past
twelve months have much increased from Australia; and
it is important to observe, that by the accounts recently
received there is reason to believe that the supplies from
thence will, for the next six or eight months, fall con-
s siderably short of last year. Another important item is
the difference in the supply, stock, and price of Lard, as
compared with this time last year. The chief item in
this calculation is the make of Home Tallow. This, it
55 4 must be admitted, is large—quite equal to, if not ex-
[se seeding, the supply of last year; but there is an impor-
tant difference in the stock, which last year was large,
and many hundred tons were bought and held by the
buyers until the autumn.
Great complaints are made of the adulteration of
Cochineal, and one is at a loss to knew where a genuine
article of any kind can be purchased. There are, un-
doubtedly, numbers of honest dealers, but the imperfect
administration of the law affords the dishonest great fa-
cilities to rob the public, and injuriously compete with
the fair trader. An analytical chemist having been em-
ployed to compare two genuine and two adulterated spe-
cimens of cochineal, the ingredients were at once disco-
vered, and we are told that, " from this examination, it
is evident that samples No. 2 and No. 4 are adulterated
to the extent of between 9 and 10 per cent., with silica
(earth of flints), alutnin (earth of clay), which, although
ei not injurious to the colouring matter of the cochineal, yet
53 in a given quantity reduces its value to that extent. It
has already destroyed the Levant trade, which is sup-
plied entirely by middlemen and manufacturers, the
merchant exporting the genuine article being quite un-
able to compete with persons who can sell silica and
alimain at the same rate as cochineal, with the addi-
tional advantage that damaged and inferior (genuine
cochineal being adulterated) has a better appearance
than the genuine article of a superior quality. The evil
consequences of these dishonest practices cannot be
better exemplified than in the fact that Bordeaux,
which was once tee great decbt, for this article of com-
merce, has entirely lost the trade, and entirely owing
to the loss of character by extensive adulteration. As
regards the home consumer, be cm effectually guard
against this species of knavery by having his cochineal
direct from the docks • but even this is a grievance, as
few consumers can take off a sufficient quantity to be
du, enabled to buy through the brokers. He must necessa-
ries, rily buy from the dealer, who can adulterate or not, us
his conscience and character allow him."
The English Stock Market has been very quiet again,
but firm. Tho adviees from France are satisfactory.
Consols have been 97i to 98 for Transfer, and the same
for Account. The New Three-and-a Quarter per Cents.
have been quoted 98k to f. Bank Stuck has advanced
to 211 i and 212}. Exchequer-bills have been quoted
435. to 465. premium, being an advance of Is. India
Bonds have been at 525.
The market for Foreign Securities has been very
dull. Mexican Bonds have been 34i to Peruvian
Deferred Stock has been at 411. Brazilian Old Bonds
have realised 89. Portugusse Four per Cents. have
been at 33. Dutch Four per Cents, have been quoted
90} to Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents, are
at 102.
Railway Shares have been flat, and from paucity o'
business the quotations are generally heavy.
QUARTER TO THREE.
„, 97i- 98
„.. 97i 98

Console
Ditto Account, June 10 ...

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISU FUNDS O'CLOCK. PRICES.
B ink stock
51i li 3 cer Cent. Reduced Anne.
3 per Cent. Consols Annuitiee...
few :PA per Cent. Anne......... 9814'4 9414
f..'ing Anns. to expire J an. 1860 7 5-16 7% 7%
ladia Bond', 1,0001 52 p 52 p
Ditto under 1,0001. .... 56 p 53 p
_ South Sea Stock
Ditto New Annuities ...... ........ 971,4
Consols for Account 97% 98
Kzchequer Bills. 15 d.
1,0001.
5001.
Smell. . ..

ONE
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
.razilian Bonds B9
Pdsxican, 5 per Cent.lB46, with Coupons—
Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons
Ditto, Account
Peruvian Bonds, 5 per Cent...
Ditto, Account .
_ Ditto Deferred .

97%
97%

46 p

41%

Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Ditto, 4 per Cent.
Ditto, Account
Russian Bonds
: Ditto, 4% per Cent
Spanish 5 per Ccnt. 1840 —
Ditto. 3 per Cent —
Dutch 2% per Cent. 12 Guild —
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificate, 9OVA

46 i)

46 p
CLOs[Nu
FIXES.
89

34%

87
41%

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JUNE 6.—Wind at noon S.W., fresh bree,e
and cloudy. It has blown very strong this morning, ac-
companied with squalls at times.
DEAL, JUNE s.—Wind S.W. to W.S.W.—Arrd. Re-
form, Baupert, New York, for Hamburgh; Agincourt,
Hyne, and Allred, Hemming, Calcutta; Lotus, Polluck,
Havanna!). Arrd. from the River and sld., Earl Grey,
Sydney, New South Wales; Melbourne, Port Philip.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE s.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Flower
of Yarrow, Newfoundland; l3irman, Guthrie, Singapore;
Ellen, Phillips, New Orleans. Sld. Witch, Africa and
Moulmein; St. Lawrence, Africa; Leda, Buenos Ayres;
Kate Howe, New Orleans; Living Age, Baltimore; E.
Bulkley, St. George, and laneuil Hall, New York;
Clara Wheeler, Boston; Harriot, St. John's, New
Brunswick; Clara Symes, Quebec. Off port, James
Ray, Constantine, Gannet steamer, Volant, Maria, Al-
baman, Parga. Put back, Her Majesty, Havannah.
FALMOUTH, JUNE s.—Wind W.S. W., fresh.—Arrd.
Marianne, Saeger, Buenos Ayres. Off port, Potentate,
Phillips, Launceston; Hermann Daniel, Haesloop, Rio
Janeiro, and sld. for Bremen; Vittoria, Sierra Leone.
REDCAR, JUNE s.—The Emans sloop, of Sunderland,
was driven on shore on Coatham Sands, near the river
Tt es, during a strong gale from the north, on the night
of 3d June; she is much damaged, but is expected to be
got off. Wind S.S.W., strong.
CowEs,3 JUNE s.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Akbar,
Worth, Batavia; Patriot, Kuhl, Porto Rico; Young-
husband, Santa Martha.
PLYMOUTH, JUNE s.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Elspeth,
Penn, Trinidad.
SCILLY, JUNE 2.—Wind N.E.; 8, W.—Off port, Cuba,
Havannah.
WATERFORD, JUNE 4.—Wind W.S.W. to W.N.W.—
Sld. British Empire, Monte Video.
QUEENSTOWN, JUNE 4.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Andre
et Celeste, Le Maitre, Porto Rico; Thetis, Patten,
Matanzas; Baron Lukensky, Nicolich and Ferdinando;
Suttora, Alexandria; Ythan, Jackson, Kalimati; Bur-
germeister Rengart, Hoff, Salonica.
ELSINORE, JUNE I.—The steam ship Hertha brought
over this evening a portion of the passengers, and
some goods, mostly indigo, from the steam-ship Neptune,
on shore on the Swineboden; only a small portion of the
cargo has been saved, more or less wet.
The Teaser, of Wells, coal laden, was in contact with
a barque off this place to-day, and had larboard bow
stove, but proceeded to the southward with assistance.

THE NEPTUNE STEAMER.
Extract from a letter from an ogent of the underwri-
ters, dated Elsinore, June 1.
" The steamer Neptune, bound to St. Petersburg, during
a gale of wind last night, got on shore on the Swine-
bottoms, a dangerous reef about nine English miles
north of this place. The passengers have been saved,
and some of them aro now here and some in Sweden.
Some indigo and other goods have also been saved and
brought here by the seamen sent to assist the Neptune,
and it is expected that the cargo will b© saved, but not
the steamer, as she is full of water. Sho got on shore
about eleven o'clock last night. Captain Smith accounts
fur it by his compasses being out of order."