The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-25 00:00:00

AT

)f Railways. co=
Paid. Nominal Prices.
tl dPnausint:::y.
Berks and Hants
Ex. 5 per Cent. Gt, Western 6 )4 —1 p.
Bir. and Oxford
Junc.,callsduiy
paid, or with a
guarantee .. Do .. •• all 283{ 29%
Do., without a
guarantee .. Do .. • • all 27 -- 28
Mirm., WoL, &
Dud.,calls duly
paid, or with a
guarantee •• Do .• 18 8 9 p
- Do., without a
guarantee •• Do • • • • 15 7 •-• $ p
Buckinghamsh. Lon. &N. W. all 1754 —lB
Clydesdale June Caledoalan all 41 -- 43
) E. Lin., Guar. 6
per Cent. G. Northern all 32% —33%
Gloucester and
Dean Forest Gt. Western 20 1 p
Hull and Selby Yk. &N. M. all 102 103
Do. 34 Shares Do .. • • all 81 —52
Do. 34 Shares Do • • • • all 23 —24
Loeds and Brad. Midland • • all 101 102
Lon. and Green. S. Eastern .r all I 134 —ll
1)0., Pref. .. Do .. • • all 2334 2433 343(
Lowestoft, Gd. 4
per Cent. • • Norfolk .. all 1434 11134
Do., 6 per cent Do • • ill —••
Mlddlesbro' and
Redcar, Gp. ct Stockt.is Dar all • •
N. & East, 5
per Cent. •• E. Counties . all 84 —3B 64%
Do. New .. Do • • • • 43 4 -, 6 p 4113 f
Preston and L. it N. W.}
all 42 —44 49%
Wyro •• •• S &La.& r•
Do. 34 SharesA Do .. • • 1034 $ 9 p.
Read., Guild.,
and Reigate .. S. Eastern .• all 2138 21%
Roy. & Ilitchin G. Northern 63( a
834
o. Shep. Ex.. Do .. •• 4 134 150.
Shef., Roth. and
Goole, 5 per ct. Lanc. & York 18 11 6 .. •-•
South Stafford,. Mr. M'Clean 934 •
dim.
Wear Vol. 6 per
Cent. gua. • • Stock.& Dar. all 24 24%
Do. do. •• Do .. • . all ..
Do. do. •• Do •• • • all ••
Wilts, Som.. &
Weymouth .. Gt. Western all 4534 —46

SHARES.

tow demo

Asturian .... • • • • • • • • • •
Australian .....• ••• • ..
Barossa Rang. .....
Blaenarvon Iron and Coal
Bolanos Scrip ........
British 1r0n......
Brazilian Imp. (is. 51. p.)
Do. Cocaes and Calaba

15
4
1 13 0

13 5
245

Do. St. dokn del Rey..
Cobre Copper ......
Copiapo ............ ••
General.. ......
Mexican& S. American
Real Del Monte, Unreg.
Do. Black Debentures.
Do. Red Debentures
Santiago de Cuba ...• • •

Tin Croft .... • ..
.
Vnited Mexican. ......

28 2 8%
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Australasia
British North America.
Colonial
Commercial of London..
London Joint Stock ....
London and Westminster
National Provincial Eng.
Do. New . .......
National of Ireland
Provincial of Ireland....
Union of Australia
Do. New .....
Union of London ......
Union of Madrid

Canada ... . •...
Gen. Steam Navigation .
Penin. & Oriental Steam.
Ditto ditto
Royal Mall Steam ......
INVe cannot be answer
will not be influenced by

1% -2%
3% -8%

32% 32 '
IN IN id
at% 41
6% —7%
1s —l4
% —%

7% -6%
-7%
314 -2%
:X BANXS.
33 -344
45% - 46 46
10% - 12
25 - 25%
18% - 17%
27% - 284
•• ••

18N - 20%
42 -44
15% - 15
35 - 33%
3 - 3yi
12% - IN
- - -

SCELLANEOUS
32% 44% 46%
14 26% 28
all 69% —7l ad
GO 75 —7B scl
able for the errors of the Official Lists, and
interested correspondents.]

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, WO 'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterdO
ay were esti-
mated at 5,000 bales, of which 300 American and 400
Surat wsre taken for export, and 300 American on spe-
culation. The sales comprised 4,000 American; 100
Pernam and Maranham, at 6cl. to ;id., and 850 Surat,
at 3d. to 4fd.'per lb. The market was well supplied and
closed heavily, with prices of American id. per lb. lower.
—Railway Shares were steady.
The Colonial Markets have boon very steady for
Sugar, and Coffee has been firmer. Rice is held for full
prices, but with less inclination to buy.
The following is an extract from " Instructions to
Shipping Masters," issued by the Lords of the Commit-
tee of Privy Council for Trade, dated March 8, 1851:
" Reduction of fees on short voyages—For the pur-
pose of reducing the fees payable by masters and owners
of ships which make short and frequent voyages, and
the deductions to be made from the wages of crews on
account of such voyages, the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade have been pleased to direct
that the fees payable upon the engagement and dis-
charge of crews, under Schedule B of the Mercantile
Marine Act, shall not be paid more than twice in one
year, in respect of the same ship ; so that, after
making the ordinary payments on two voyages,
any further engagement or discharge of the
crew may be effected without further payment. The
year for the above purpose is to be taken as com-
mencing on the Ist January, and ending on the 31st
December. The above arrangement will of course have
the effect of preventing any deduction being made from
the wages of crews, either for entries or discharges, on
more than two voyages in the same ship in one year.
"Regulation as to fines—ln places in which Forms
U and R are not totally suspended, the shipping master
should not in future issue those forms unless they are
asked for; and in every case in which they are asked
, for should make both master and crew understand that
they are entirely optional, and that either some, or all, or
none of the regulations need be adopted, as the
case may require; and a copy of A or B, as the case may
require, should in all cases be offered to the master, to
be made accessible to the crew, instead of Form U; and,
unless that form be preferred, should be furnished instead
of that form. In the home trade especially, care should
be taken to explain that these regulations need not be
adopted, and that such only (if any) should be taken as
may be suited to the particular case."
The accounts from the Amsterdam Bourse quote a
firm market for Public Securities. Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents. were 38 3-16.
A alight improvement occurred in the foreign ex-
changes as regards the rates for bills upon Hamburgh,
&c. The quotations, at 90 days, were )3 74 to Am-
sterdam, was steady at 11 17k to Antwerp advanced
to 25 20 and 25 25. Paris was firm at 25 17f to 25 22f.
Frankfort was a shade lower, being 1181 to 119. Trieste
also was rather worse, vis , 12 36 to 38.
Insurances upon half a million sterling in specie to
arrive from the United States have been effected by
Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co.
The English stock Market has undergone no varia-
tion. Consols have been 96i for the opening. Ex-
chequer-bills are 435. to 465. premium. India Bonds are
538. to 565. premium. Bank Stock is worth 2124 to 213.
The accounts from Paris are favourable, but this seems
to have no effect on the English Funds.
The Foreign Market has been in a very passive condi-
tion. Spanish Three per Cents. are 40,i. Mexican
Bonds have bean marked 34i, and Peruvian Five per
Cents. 871, being each flat. Brazilian New Bonds have
been at 87} to 88. Belgian Four per Cents. are at 91i.
Shares are exceedingly bad again, especially Midland,
South-Eastern, Great Western, and North-Western.
French Shares are firm, owing to the advance at Paris,
but with very little doing.

Consols

Ditto Account.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
(THIS DAY.)
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair a few minutes after
Tweive o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Lords' amendments to the Dundee and Arbroath
Railway Bill were considered and agreed to.
The St. Andrew's and Quebec Railway 13111 was read
a second time, and ordered to be committed.
On the motion of Mr. WILSON PATTEN, it was
agreed that the Committee on the Water Supply of
the metropolis, should have power to send for persons,
papers, and records.

PETITIONS.
Mr. LAW presented a petition against the Public-
houses (Scotland) Bill.
11Ir. WA WN presented a petition from South
Shields, complaining of the repeal of the ravigation-
laws.

Mr. DUNDAS presented a petition from a place
in Scotland against the Public-houses Bill.
Lord MELGUND presented a petition to the same
effect.

Mr. W. PATTEN presented a petition from the
turnpike trustees of Lancaster, praying for an altera-
tion in turnpike trusts.
Mr. SPOONER presented a petition against the New
Forest Bill.
Lord NAAS presented a
petition from a place in
Fifeshire in favour of homemade spirits in bond.
Banff Mr. FORBES presented a petition from the Presby-
terians of Ban against the admission of Jews into
Parliament.
THE IRISH STATE PRISONERS.
Mr. ANSTEY put a question to the Under Secretary
of State for the Colonies, whether the State prisoner
Mr. MacManus was not discharged from the custody of
Sir William Denison's commandant at Port Arthur by
a solemn order of the Supreme Court of Van Diemen 's
Land declaring such custody to be illegal; whether the
said State prisoner, after having, in consequence of such
order,with the connivance of Government, quitted Hobar-
ton, and returned to his own house at Launceston, has not
been again arrested by Sir William Denison upon the
same charge on which his Excellency had caused him
to be placed in such custody ; whether it is true that
be was, upon such his second arrest, brought all the way
back from Launceston to Hobarton, a distance of 120
miles, on foot ; and whether he was not, at the date of
the last advices, suffering from a fever occasioned by
such treatment?
Mr. HAWES said that it was quite true that Mr.
Mac Menus having applied to the Supreme Court for a
writ of habeas corpus, and the return to that court being
deemed insufficient, he was discharged from custody.
To the rest of the question of the Hon. and Learned
Gentleman he could give no answer,
not having yet re-
ceived sufficient information.
The Chief Justices' Salaries Bill was introduced and
read a first time.
UNIVERSITIES (SCOTLAND) BILL.
_ Sir G. CLERK presented a petition from the General
Assembly of the Church of Scotland strongly objecting
to the provisions of this Bill.
Mr. E. ELLICE, jun., presented a petition from the
Provost and Corporation of St. Andrews in favour of the
Bill.

The Hon. Gentleman commenced by describing the
Mr. COWAN moved the second reading of the
difference between the English and Scotch university
f
system. The universities in Scotland were far from
assuming the ecclesiastical character which they
sessed in England; they were not so dependent on. the
national Church, for all the chairs of professors might
be held by laymen except the chair of divinity. The tests
which bad formerly been created had been for the phrP°sl
of keeping out of the professors' chairs Prelatists and
Papists, who were hostile to the Hanoverian succession:
In the present day these tests were but of little use, and
it was well known that several of the professors' chairs
were occupied by Episcopalians,
with great credit to
themselves he would allow. The simple object of the
Bill was to throw open these chairs de jure as well se
de facto to all classes of Dissenters. From the best in-
formation he had been able to (Amin, no test whatever
had been required for the last twenty years in the Uni-
versity of Scotland, and this he thought was a very
strong argument for the repeal of the tests. Ho con-
cluded by moving the second reading of the Bill.
Mr. LOCKHART considered that the measure was
calculated to destroy the religious and Protestant cha-
racter of the Scotch Universities. There had been no
public demonstration in the country to justify the House
in taking so important a step as the
abolition of university
tests, which had already worked so well. All the univer-
sities in Scotland bore a high character, and religious
dissension had never entered within their walls. The
Bill was, in fact, in direct opposition to the oath taken
by her Majesty, that she would maintain the established
Church in Scotland with all its rights and privileges for
all time to come. He moved that the Bill be read *
second time this day six months.
Mr. EWART said it was quite competent for the
House to pass a measure to amend or alter the Act of
Union. The Hon. Member had said that the Bill would
violate the principles of Protestantism; he (Mr'
Ewart), however, thought that religious freedom
was the best promoter of the Protestant faith.
The Bill was quite in accordance with the religious feel-
ing of the country, and congenial with the enlightened
views of the people, and he had therefore great pleasure
in supporting the second reading.
Sir GEORGE GREY said the opinions which he
entertained in regard to the principle of the
Bill remained unaltered, and if the Honourable
Member went to a division he should feel
bound to give it his support. His Right Hon. Friend
the Secretary at War had stated in the House that it
was the intention of the Government to introduce a Bill
of the same kind, but that he did not think it expedient
to do so this session. He (Sir George Grey) very much
doubted the policy of the Hon. Member pressing the
House to a division on the present occasion.
There was no probability of success, and looking
at the appearance of the House, it did not seem that the
question had excited much interest among the Scotch
Members. Ho was, however, of opinion that however ne-
cessary these tests might have been, the occasion for their
institution had long since passed away, and it was not con-
ducive to the advantage or interest of the universities that
they should be maintained. If enforced, the effect would
be to exclude from the chairs of universities many emi-
nent men. The universities themselves had the good
sense to avoid such a result by practically putting these
tests into abeyance. As there was, however,
little pro-
spect of the Bill passing this session, he trusted that the
lion. Member would withdraw his motion.
After a few words from Mr. E. ELLics, jun., and Ur.
A. Haan;
The House then divided, when there appeared—
For the second reading ... •• 65
Against it ... 66
Majority against —1
The announcement of the numbers was received with
loud laughter.

(LEFT SITTING.)