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London, England, 1851-04-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL B. 1851.

Now ready at all the "Abrades, in 2 volS., post Sven
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A NOVEL. D.
" The author, we are convinced. is young, otherwise we could
hardly see displayed such fresh and enthusiastic sympathy in be-
half of his heroes and heroines. He is a w riter of genius, inspired
Cry a high standard of morality and religion, and by a laudable love
of the purest sort of fame. We gather this from the glowing lan-
guage in which he expresses his feelings, sentiments, and opinions
on the subjects just mentioned. There are several chapters, la
which links of the story are dropped, containing most eloquent essays
on matters that are the prima mobile of the actions which cha-
racterise nature's nobility. The writer evidently belongs, though he
has marked per se peculiarities, to the school of the Disraelis, Man-
nerses, and Smythes.”—Observer.
Silwood' is no ordinary work ; it contains passages of exceed-
ing beauty, and is written in pure and forcible language, with great
good taste and power. It is one o: the most interesting and en
gaging novels which the present season has produced. Of the cha-
racter of Amelia Ross we have already spoken, and the extract we
have given above is the surest voucher of the truth of what we have
said. The other ladies who play conspicuous parts in the tale are
Florence Howard, an intellectual beauty; Jessie Gordon, a wild and
/Impulsive genius, passionately fon 1 of music and poetry
and Julia
Maitland, the noblest and best of them all."—Morning Post.
Richard Bentley, Iraw Burlington-street.

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out exception, of property as well as of income. We
cannot, however, suppose that as ho has been so deci-
sively defeated on thatpoint, he will not ne prepared to
vote on future occasions in favour of its modification.
His own wor3s will remain on record against him.
He declared that " if Sir ROBERT PEEL had any idea
that the impost would have been made per-
manent, no doubt ho would have felt it his
duty first to have it entirely remodelled and recast."
This vindication of the departed and lamented states-
man, bs► his former colleague, from one of the few
blots remaining on his memory, must be regarded as
higbly satisfactory—first, as showing that if the
Minister who introduced the tax were now living, he
would, under the altered circumstances of the case,
be one of the first to insist upon a revision of the
assessment—and, secondly, that the support of the
great financier of the Protectionists may be looked
for when the question is fairly raised, as it must be
some time before the measure has passed through all
its stages in the House. Sir CHARLES WOOD may be
disposed to look upon the division of last night as
conclusive, but he will find that many such divisions
must take place before the country is again subject
to the incubus from which it has just escaped, al-
though that escape may be but for a brief period.

As to Sir CHARLES WOOD himself, all we
can say for him is, that he still blindly and
obstinately adheres to the " conclusion" he had for-
merly arrived at. We confess that we had not much
expectation of any improvement so far as he was
personally concerned, but we did hope that the good
sense of his colleagues would have induced them to
interfere so as to remove the chief cause of the loss of
popularity by the Government during the present
session. He would blunder on recklessly ; but some
of those who had the misfortune to be associated
with him might have interfered to arrest
his progress on " the road to ruin." They have not
done so, however, and on their own heads the conse-
quences must fall. Of him we may adopt the lan-
guage of Blackwood, who in the :lumber for the
present month truly remarks—
" This inveterate Budget-bungler has more than once
ere this led the Whigs to the very verge of destruction.
We might apply to him with strict propriety the lines
which Dryden has placed in the mouth of the Prince of
Dulness—

'Shad well alone my perftct image bears,
Mature in dulness tram his tender 3 ears;
Shadwell alone of all my Eons is he
Who stands confirmed in full stupidity.
The rest to some faint meaning make pretence,
But Shadwell never deviates into sense.
Some beams of wit on (miler souls may fall,
Strike through, and make a lucid interval;
But Shadwell's genuine night admits no ray,
His riling fogs prevail upon the day.' "
Yes, the ' genuine night" of the Ministerial SHAD-
WELL " admits no ray," but we might have looked
for some dispersal of the fogs from his coadjutors, who
" To some faint meaning make pretence."

They have, however, disappointed the reasonable ex •
pectation, and we must therefore prepare ourselves
for the contest that is thus forced upon us—and the
once Liberal Ministry can only blame themselves for
the result, whatever it may be.
The Hon. Gentleman the Member for Leominster
was the only person who placed the subject in the
true point of view. His was unquestionably the
speech of the evening, and he enunciated the soundest
principles put forward during the debate. He
clearly pointed out the objections to the amend-
ment and to the resolution, showing that he
was obliged to dissent from the former,
and that he could not approve of the
latter. He declared himself favourable "to
the principle of an income-tax, because it combined
that system of direct and indirect taxation, which
was the means of making the wealthier classes con-
tribute in a manner proportioned to their means to the
revenue required for defraying the public expenditure
of the country," but he showed a just appreciation of
the evils of the present system, and put forward the
strongest argument for considerable alterations
in Schedules D and E. " Many a man," said the
Hon. Gentleman, " might have a nominal amount
of income, the whole amount of which he was not
able to dispose of; and no one would venture to deny
that there was a difference between a life income and
a permanent income, between an income which a
man enjoyed as long as he lived, and after his
death left to. his descendants that came after him,
and an income which he held on a tenure so frail and
fleeting as his own life. And if there was a distinc-
tion between a life income and a permanent income,
there was a still broader distinction between
either of those incomes and incomes which were
held on contingencies more precarious than life itself,
such contingencies as fortune, health, reputation,
and employment. A man in that position was
bound by every consideration of duty, by every
dictate of prudence and foresight, not
merely to lay by a portion of that income for the pur-
pose of assisting those who came after him to make a
start in life, but for the support of his own declin•.
ing years or decaying health." These are
opinions to which we have often given expres-
sion, and which must be responded to by the
people, which must find an echo in every unpreju-
diced mind—an echo which must disturb the " con-
clusion" at which Sir CHARLES WOOD has arrived
with so much self-satisfaction--considering that "as
the tax was so unjust to all, it might happen not to be
se very unjust to any one."

A satisfactory settlement of the Ministerial diffi-
culties appears to be altogether impracticable until
after a dissolution. With the House of Commons as
at present constituted, there really cannot by possi-
bility be any stable adjustment of an Administration.
To adventure upon any such extraordinary step to-
wards the elucidation of the problem would, however,
be just now, to say the very least of it, in the highest
degree inconvenient. Therefore it is that the matter
is for the time being procrastinated. Therefore it
is that the Legislature is disposed to accept the
return of the present Administrators to office in
preference to what would be yet more un-
satisfactory—namely, a reference of the ques-
tion at this particular moment to the opinion
of the electors throughout the United Kiegdorn.
Rather than jeopardise the whole of the gigantic
scheme of the Industrial Exposition, the people
themselves are prepared to submit to the perpetuation
in power of a Cabinet so effete as that presided over
by Lord JOHN RUS3ELL. Until the autumn, conse-
quently, it is anticipated that the affairs of the nation
will be allowed to remain in their present lamentable
state of confusion— when, the impediment pres iously
standing in the way of an appeal to the
country being removed, the constituencies will again
have the privilege of selecting the most
eligible of their respective candidates. For a while,
therefore, many of the most cherished plans of im-
provement must remain in abeyance, the multitude
exercising that:patience which is alone left to them as
a duty, coupled with the consolation of an implicit
confidence in the character of the next Parliament.
Under existing circumstances, of course, it can-
not be matter of surprise to find the various
parties and sections of parties among poli-
ticians flattering themselves with the anticipation
of an overwhelming triumph over their antagonists.
The paeans chanted, already in expectation of those
hypothetical victories are only the rational result
of the illusions indulged in for so long a period by
the majority. Demonstrations have been made so
noisily by the Protectionists throughout the United
Kingdom, that it is but natural to find the organs of
the agriculturists already exulting in the looked-for
acquisition of the reins of government. The Free-
traders, on the contrary, satisfied with the complete
success of their agitation, have for a considerable
period indulged in what to their leaders must have
appeared a delicious as well as an unwonted
tranquillity. Having witnessed the re-organi-
zation of the mercantile system of the empire
upon the basis of their principles, they
shrunk back severally into the quietude
which proved to them doubly delightful after the ar-
duous struggle with the advocates of monopoly.
The Anti Corn-law Rhymer played no more on that
oaten pipe whose breathings had thrilled to the hearts
of even the most ignorant and the most prejudiced.
The Catechist of Protection put forth no longer those
posers of inquiries which helped as much as anything
to lay bare the peradoxes and the sophisms of the
sticklers for imposts on the national provisions. The
orators of the League, the eloquent Member for the
Tower Hamlets, the irnpessionec3 representative of
Oldham, and, conspicuous among all, the plain-spoken
genius of COBDEN and of his principal colleague in

the enterprise adventured upon against the most law-
less of all systems of taxation—the taxation imposed
upon the food of the bard- working masses of the com-
munity—lapsed into silence, and for a while le ft the
ear of the country to the dolorous complaints of the
vanquished.

It has thus come to pass that an extraordinary
confidence has grown up in the hearts of the Protec-
tionists—a confidence that, before long, the old laws
imposing duties upon provisions must be revived,
for the gratification of the agriculturists. They
have construed the silence of their victors into an as-
surance that no obstruction will be thrown in the way
of their return to the obsolete code of monopoly.
Dreamers that they are, they have flattered them-
selves into a belief that no insurmountable difficulties
will impede their progress in their return to their
ancient predominance. Hence they have derived
rather encouragement to their hopes than the contrary
from the non-success of Lord STANLEY in his recent
attempt to cook up an Administration. They behold
in the weakness of the existing Cabinet an incontro-
vertible assurance of their own competence to follow
its Members as the Administrators of the affairs
of the British Government. For the purpose
of sustaining themselves in this very gratifying be-
lief they put the most preposterous construction upon
all the revelations of their latest experience. Where
every one else sees prosperity, they behold only the
calamitous destitution consequent upon a Free-trade
innovation. They perceive discontent where all
others see satisfaction, and behold on all sides the
auguries of their speedy return to power, and with
that the speedy revival of Protectionist principles.
As if the multitude having once tasted the sweets of
cheap bread and of cheap provisions of all kinds would
be disposed to forego that privilege, at the behest of a
statesman hungering himself for the loaves and fishes
of the Government !

But it is maintained by the prophetic advocates of
the agricultural interest, that the next election must
inevitably send to the House of Commons an over-
whelming majority of Protectionists, and that by
necessity therefore the new Cabinet must return to
the bygone policy of the monopolists. All that can be
responded to such a marvellously self-sufficient and
short-sighted Ye ticination is that no more
terrible calamity than this could fall to the
lot of the expected Prime Minister. To
furnish him with such a Protectionist majority
would be to force him to adopt the most perilous
policy a Minister was ever compelled to accept as the
outline of his scheme of government. It would be
driving him reluctantly, if he were wise, and wilfully
if he were foolish, into a course of proceedings the
most admirably calculated to provoke all the turbu-
lent passions conducting a nation to a state ripe for
revolution. Against any such supreme danger it
behoves all his real well .wishers to pray that Lord
STANLEY may be defended—conscious as they all
must be that the diffusion of liberty and the develop-
ment of civilization depend, in a very great measure
upon the maintenanc:of order in the United Kingdom.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.

V:srious attempts at forming a permanent- Ministry
were made during the course of Saturday, Sunday,
nd yesterday, but they have all failed, in conse-
quence, it is said, of the intrigues of M. THIERS.
The Democratic Republicans have returned their
candidates in several of the communes in the South
of France.

The Assembly was yesterday engaged in discussing
the laws regulating the administration of hospitals.
Government Stuck declined at the close of the Bourse.
Railroad Shares were more firm. The Five per Cents.
opened at 93f., rose to 93f. 200., but fdl subsequently to
92f. 95c., at which price they closed. The three per
Cents. closed at 57t. 30c.; Orleans Railroad Shares,
840 f.; Rjuen, 6401.; Havre, 270 f.; Great Northern,
477 f. 50c ; Avignon, 2101; Viers in, 445 E.; Basle, 146 f.
25c.; Bo:deaux, 401 t. 25c; Paris and Strasburg, 373 f.
75c.; Tours and Nantes, 280 f. Exchange on London,
short, 24f. 95c.
BUSINESS uoNE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TUE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 7.
Boulogne and Amiens, 934 Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 18—East Indian, 15%—Luxembourg, 314—
Namur and Liege, 814—Northern of France, 15 Orleans
and Bordeaux, 4 —Paris and Strasbourg, 10:rs Rouen and
Havre, 10%—Sambre and Meuse, 4—Tours and Nantes,64.

THE SHARE MARKETS.

BRITISH RAILWAYS.

RailwayL

Aberdeen.. .. • • • •
Ambergate, Nottingham,
Boston, & E. Juncion
Belfast and County Down
Birmitig., Wolverhamp.,
and Stour Valley ..
Birkenh., Lan.. & Chesh
June., late 331.65. aA ..
Do. Chest. & L'irkenhd.,
501. & 251. Consolidated
Do., do., 201.
Bristol and Exeter.. •
Caledonian • • • • •• I
Cheater and Holyhead ..
Direct Lond. and Port sm.
Dublin and Belfast Junct.l
Dublin and Kingstown..
Dundalk and Enniskillem
East Anglian (251. L.
E. and L. & D.) ..
Do. (181. E. & H.) ••i
Eastern Counties ..
t.astern Union, class A,
late E. U. shares ..
Do. do. do. ..

Pald.

Nominal Prices.

14% to 15%

334 - 3 U, dis.

13 14 0

10% - WA

17%
100

81 - 83
131 i - 14%

22.- -- 23

5%
45
100

•• ••
20 —lB dis.

4% —b%
3 —3%
7% —7%

6% -6%

Do. do., B & C shares.
East Lancashire
Do. New quarters ..
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Edin., Perth, and Dundee
Do. Newport ..
Exeter and Exmouth
Glasgow and South- West,
1)e. do. G. D. & C. stock
Great Northern • • • •
Do.halves,

4% 4%
16% - 17
-
34 - 36
-

34 - 34

17% - 17%
5% - 6
-..

Do. halves, B, 6 por et.
Great Southern and
Western, Ireland ..
Great Western .. • •
Do. Now, 171.
Lancaster and Carlisle ..
Do. thirds ..
Lancaster and Preston ..
Lancashire and Yorkshire
Do. quarter shares ..
Do. fifths .. .

- I 2

42 - 43

b 63 —B7
2 dis.
78 —B2

S —lO p.
29 —3l p
58% 59%
11DA-9 d.
7 —6% dis.
—SU, d.
17

Do. West Riding Union
Leeds and Thirsk
Liverpool, Crosby, and

••
Southport.
London and Blackwall
Do., Tilbury Ext. Scrip
London, Brighton, and

11 6 3
11i

7% -8%
--)4P

South Coast
London and N.-Western
Do do new quarters .

94% 95%
127 —l2B
4 5 p.
4% 5%p.
211 3 p.
86% —87%
7% —63 dig.
6 4 dlll.

Do. fifths
Do. 101. sh. M. &B (c)
London and Western .
Do. new 501.
Do. new 401.
Londonderry & Coleraine
Do. halt shares
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen. .. • . • •
Manchester, Buxton, and
Matlock • • ..
Manchester, Sheffield, k

Lincolnshire
Do. Manchester and
Lincoln Union • •
Midland • • • • • • • •
Do. consolidated pref.
Do. 501. shares • • • .

Do. Birming & Derby
Midland Gt. West. (Ire.)
Newcastle and Carlisle..

Do. quarter shares ..
Newmarket • . .. ..
Newport, Abergavenny,

and Hereford
Newry and Enniskillen • •
Newry, arrenpoint, &
Rostrevor
Norfolk • • • • .. • •
Do. New 201. shares..
Northern Counties Union
North British..
North Staffordshire ..
North-Western
North & Sth.-West. June.
Oxford, Worcester and
Wolverhampton
Scottish Central ..
Scottish 2141=4
Do. new ..
Shrewsbury & Binning.
Clas 3 A ..
Do. Class 8..
-hrevrs. & Hereford., Old
Do., do., New ..
Shrewsbury and Chester
(Nor. W. Min.) ..
Do. Hal., es . • ..
Do. Osweatry • • ..
Do. New.. ..
Shropshire Union .. • .
Do., A, B, C, & D, fully
paid up at per cent • •
South Devon ..

100
4)i

• • ••• ..

334 —3% d.

South- Eastern ..
South Wales.. ..
youth Yorksh. and River{

She., Roth., and Geole,
South Divisioa .

Stockton and Hartlepool
zswansea & Loughor, &c.
Yaw Vale Extension
Thames Haven Deck anti'
Railway .. ..
Vale or Neath .
Waterford and Kilkennyl
Waterford and Limerick,,
Waterford, Weft., Wick.
and Dublin
West Cornwall .•
West Loudon .
Whitenaven and Furness
York, Newcastle, & Ber-,
wick .. •• .• • •
Ditto and Newcastle'
Extension ..

4 9 0
100
100

34 -36

Ditto G.N.E. purchase
or preference
York and Nerth Midland

3 —2% dia.
60% —6l

14% —l4 dis.
35 —37

100
47%
100

X9%-•9%

4% 4 dis.
8 4 Ws.

27 -28

13 12
2% 2 dia.
10 10%
GS 6%115.
11 —lO dig.
1 p

17% —l9l
16% 17%
10%
16 —l5 dim.

13 5 3
9 12 3

paid up
paid up

4,4 3y. die.
3% ay (Its
—1%

18 —2O
9 10
13 —l5
% %die
3% 2%d. ad

18 - 20

26 - 26%

I% % dis.

Businese d one
to-day.

VA %

35 343 35%

87 86%

3% - 434
9% - 10

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59 59%

127144 127 %

60%

134 234
4 5 d.
5% 5
17 —lB

••••.
• ..
8 - 734

IN %

21i -21%

10% %

4 334 dis.

26% %

lig —134 dis.
26% 26%

26% %

FIXED ZZ:

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated
at 5,000 hales. The market was heavy, at previous rates,
except inferior qualities. which were r ther lower. The
sales comprised 3,500 American, 200 B.hia, at 7%d. to
Bd. ; 30 Egyptian, at 7%d. to 84d. ; 1,000 Surat, at 4d.
to 54d.; and s 0 Sea Isla d, at Is. 2d. to Is. 9d. per lb.-,
In Railway Shares a fair business was done at higher prices.
The st ete of the Metal Market is described by Messrs.
W. Sbort and Co. in the terms subjoined :-
In Iron, with the exception of a fair dema-'d for rails of the
America, flange pattern, we have scarce anything to note;
for these 51. ss.(and it is said Si. is 6d.) pe ton have been
paid. Bars are in very moderate demand, and good marks
are obtainable at 41. 15s. in Wales. Scotch pigs have
been greatly neglected, and the price has declined about Is.
per ton. Of mixed numbers ordinary blends, there are
sellers ut 41s payment against bills of lad ng, and 41s. 6d.
against storekeepeas' tree on board warrants. Ot Swedish
there is a limited quantity in stock, and good assortments
are not to be had under 14/. per ton.
" Swedish Steel is firmly held for the price quoted. Copper
is firm in price, and in lair demand. Tin-English wa-' on
Ist instant reduced 41. per ton. In Foreign we have had a
limited business, and we quote the price about 21. per ton
lower; the last sales of Banat in Holland were made at a
price equivalent to 83s. per ton, shipped free in bond there.
Tin Plates continue in very fair demand. Lead is without
alteration. Spelter has declined to about 1: a 10s. per ton on
the spot, and for delivery during the suranier a considerable
quantity has been sold at 151. 55."
Some days ago we gave an abstract of the contents of
Mr. Locke's proposed Railway Audit Bill, and we have now
before us the plan of Messrs. Stanford arid Mullings, which
has likewise been brought into Parliament. Upon the whole
we incline to think that the first-named will have the pre-
ference, the latter being too ins olvcd, and containing too
many wheels within wheels. The preparers of the Bill de-
sire that a board of railway auditors shall be established, to
consist of five persons, neither directors nor shareholders, nor
otherwise interested. A special meeting of proprietors and
holders of debentures, &c., is to be held within four calendar
months from the passing of this Act, and at this elec.
tors will be chosen in the proportion of one for every
500,000/. of capital of the railway; or if the total capital be
less than that amount, still one elector may be appointed,
and the parties voting for him must have held their stock
not less than six calendar months, and to the amount at
least of 100/. ; neither can the directors or other officers
vote. The number to constitute a meeting must hold at
least one-fifth of the capital, and proxies must be sent
three clear days before to the secretary. Every 1001.
capital stock will give the right to one vote, and one more
vote for every five shares beyond the first ten with limitations
upwards. When the electors are chosen, the Board of Trade
will advertise their names, and convene them to take into
consideration the claims of the different candidates for the
office of auditors, who will be ballotted for, one auditor only
being chos-n at each meeting. A party from the Board of
Trade will officiate as secretary at these meetings of electors.
The auditors will be appointed for life, but subject to re-
moval for gross negligence or misconduct. The general
duties of the auditors will be to inspect the accounts kept by
all railway companies, to call for vouchers, distinguish
capital from revenue, inquire into all pecuniary obligations,
including cases, guarrantees, and if expedient to examine the
directors, clerks, and other officers of the company. Non-
compliance will subject the offending parties to a fine of 201.
per diem. The auditors, as far as practicable, will keep up a
"continuous" audit, and print and circulate half-yearly a clear
statement made out upon one uniform plan, showing the real
financial condition of the company, thefprofit and loss, the
amount available for dividend, but without the power to fix
such dividend, and may append any observe ions they
think fi'. These will have to be, read out at the
meetings of shareholders, and sold at a low charge to
the public generally, the same as Parliamentary
reports are. The auditors may appoint a secretary and clerks,
the secretary not to have more than 600/., nor any other
officer more than 400/. per annum. The five auditors are
to have 1,201.1. per annum each. The railway companies
will have to defray the expense of convening meetings to
choose electors, but no elector will be paid more than
The Commissioners of the Railway Department of the
Board of Tra le will defray their own expenses out of the
fuads voted by Parliament, but the entire cost of the audi-
tors and thei officers will be liquidated by a general " audit
rate," levied upon the " net" profits of the companies,
which will pay the said rate half-yearly into the Bank of
England. These comprise the objects of the proposed Act.
The followi g particulars of the state of the Cotton Market
is from the Circular of Messrs. Schroeder and Mummy, of 15th
ult . published by Bar. Jame% Irvine, of Liverpool :-
" NEW ORLEANS. MARCH 15. -COTTON.-0 r last review
was dated let inst , and lett our market in a depressed state,
with fair sales, however. The arrival of the 15th February
steamer, subsequently to the above gate, bringing news of a
further decline in the Liverpool market, and a limited busi-
ness at Manchester, had the effect again of unsettling this
n- arket, and the sales during the first week of this month
amounted to 2/,500 bales, at very irregular prices, ranging
from 94 to 10%c. fo middling. according to the nature of
orders for even running' or mixed average' parcels of
this grade-the termer being very.scarce, in consequence of
the large quantities of deciriedly low and i ferior qualities,
coming to market from all points, aed indicating clearly that
they are the complement of crops In this state of things,
the accounts from Liverpool of the 22d were looked for, and
no one doubted that that market would have given way fur-
ther; the steamer arrived, however, reporting no change in
prices. but a firmer market. Factors were thereby induced
to demand improved rates, and not being met by buyers
whose letters have not yet come to hand, the business tran-
sacted this week has amounted to 21,700 bales, at more regu-
lar and somewhat more improved prices, say 93/4 to 1014
for middling, as in qua ity, while the higher grades, from
the scarcity, maintain a a alue relatively much higher, good
middling being held firmly at 11 to 111 Ac. As to the ex-
tent of our present crop, we see no good reason to change our
views lately expressed. The continued large receipts have
been by some construed into an evidence of a great product
this season, but had we not reliable infoimation from the
shipping points of the interior, the experience of past short
crop years, showing invariably the heaviest per centage of
receipts, we should still be unshaken in our opinion. Pains
have been taken to ascertain the most reliable accounts, and
from the best source, within a few days; the result shows
that the average of receipts for this port is barely 880 m Wei
against 830 m in 1849-50. We have accounts from Red
River, according to which a vast extent of Cotton lands are
three ened with inundation; the stock of cattle are being re-
moved, and planting of the crop to come is postponed inde-
finitely. We define the present position of the market by
the following quotations, :-Ordinary, 8 to 84c. ; good
ordinary, 9 to 9 'fie.; middling, 10 to 1014 c. ' • good middling,
11 to 11:1Asc.•, middling fair, 114 to 113/4c.; fair, 12 to
124 c. Sales during the last fortnight, 44,200 bales; receipts
at this port since Ist Sept., 744,809 bales, against 651,239
bales last year ; increase of receipts at all the ports up to
latest dates, 143,134 bales."
The Trust and Loan Company of Upper Canada has bad
all the required capital paid up, and a reference to its im-
portant objects may be made hereafter under this head.
The Amsterdam Market was rather animated for Spanish
Bonds on Sunday, but dull for other stocks.
The English Funds continue very firm. Consols are
963jb % for Transfer, and 96% to 97 for May. Exchequer-
bills have been very firm at 555. to 58s. premium. The
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have realized 97% ;/.4,
and the Three per Cents 96 to %.
In Foreign Securities scarcely any business is doing.
Mexican are heavy at 33% to 4, and Spanish Five per
Cents. at 20% to 21. Peruvian Deferred have been at 39.
In Shares there has been very little doing, and prices are
flatter generally.
QUARTER TO THREE
Consols ... 961
Ditto Account ••• •• • •• • 96.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
:From the Official List.)
8 per Cest.Reducsd Annuities 96 96%
s per Cent. Consols Anne
New 314 per Cent. Anus. 97%34
Laing Annuities. Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 7 e -16 7,i
India Bonds under 1,000/........ ....... 65 p
Cassels for Account 983/4,6
E seheoner Bills 14d. 2d.
March. June.
1,0001. •• •• •04 ................ •• 55 :58 p
1410. 55 5S p

Small — 55 58 p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
,a ican Bon4s, 1846,5 per Cent., Coupone
Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons
Ditto for the Account
Peruvian Bonds, 41A, per Cent
Do. Deferred
Russian Bonds. 1822, 6 per Cent lll
Ditto 4% per Cent. 933i
Spanieh Bonds, 5 per Cent Cent
Ditto for the Account
Dividends on the above payelile in London.

LLOYD'S SHIP VIN ti.-4 THIS DAY.)

LONDON, APRIL B.—Wind at noon N., gloomy.
PARIS, APRIL 6.—A French steamer was seen on the 21st
Feb., on shore on the rocks near Cape-A.Teen, Port-au-
Prince, by the Aglara, arrived at Havre. 7th, The Ras-
theden, of Fre, erickstadt, with loss of t owsprit, apparently
by being in contact, was seen on the 3d April, to the west-
ward of the Goodwin Sands. She was standing to S.W.,
and supposed to have an English pilot on board.
LOWESTOFT, APRIL s.—The Teazer, Atkins, of Wells,
riding in South Roads, was run foul of by the schooner
Sarah, Hatchcomb, of London. The former had quarter-
board and rail carried away, and received other damage; the
latter carried away jib-boom, and proceeded for Newcastle.
UFF ST. MAIVES, APRIL 3.—Arrd. Faquet de Buenos
Ayres, Lagune for Bremen, with loss of bulwarks.
DEAL, APRIL 7. —Wind k. to E.N.E., fresh.—Arrd.
Hermann de Ruyter, Flint, Dordt, Batavia; Warder, East-
ward, for the Westward. Ski. Africanus, Gambia; Dorus,
Antigua.
LIVERPOOL, APRIL 7.—Wind S.— Arrd. Icarus, Demerara;
Cynthia, Dean, Cirenfuegos ; Glencoe, Bower, Rio Grande;
Plata, Para; Bers Grant, M'Cartnev, Honduras; Loodisnah,
Pullimore, New Orleans; Robert Watt, Burton, Apalachi-
cola. Off port, Britannia, Prince Arthur, rialitax ;
Resolution, Smyrna; Eleanor, Constantinople; Thomas, Va-
lencia; Crown, Calcutta; Gem, Monte Video; Ackeron and
Helena, New Orleans; Try and Yorkshire, New York; Lady
of the Lake, Boston ; Grace, Eastport; Cambrian, Newfound-
land; Queen of the West, Beyrout ; Stamboull, Zante.
WEYMOUTH, APRIL 7. Sid. George Wilkinson, Quebec.
PLYMOUTH, APRIL 7.—Wind E.—Sid. Cheshire Witch,
Natal; Boston Castle, Quebec.
JERSEY, APRIL 6.—Wind E.—Sld. Intended, Arichat
Johnny, Labrador.
QUEENSTOWN, APRIL 6 —wind S.S.E. to S.—Arrd.
Paragon, Short, Galatz ; Favourite (to embark emigrants).
Sld. Susan, St. John's, ew Brunswick.
DOVER, APRIL 7.—Wind E., fresh.—Arrd. Eliza and
Emma, Rio Janeiro, for Christiana. Off port, Batavier,
Nib, and Jacoba, Rotterdam, for Batavia.
PORTSMOUTH, Aran, 7.—Wind E.—Arrd. Charles Carter,
Hocking. London, for Cape of Good Hope; Southampton,
Tinker, Lender, and bid. for New York.
STOCKTON, APRIL s.—Arici. Sophia, Milderstein, Neu-
stadt. Std. Perseverance, Quebec.
SHEERNESS, APRIL 7.—A foreign barque, deal-laden, is
on shore on the Knock Land, Essex Coast. A barque is
alongside to lighten her.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)
HAY IVEAREETS.
Smrrnm.r.D.—Meadow. Hay, 3/ 3s to 4/ 8s Od; Clover
ditto, 3/ 5s to 4l 88; all 6 Straw, 1/ is to 1/ 8s per load.
A full average supply, and a slow trade.
CumnErtrAblit.— ilieadow Hay, 3/ 5s to 4/ 8s; Clover
ditto, 31 5s to 418 s; and Straw, 1/ ~s to 1/ 10a per load.
Supply tolerably good, and trade rather dull.
WHITECHAPEL.-51eadoW nay, 31 ~_;8 to 4l 6s; Clover
ditto, 3/ Os to 4/ 8s; and Straw, 11 2s to 1/ Ss per load.
Trade dull, at our quotations. __ _

WCZ0n77.1.2.Z.
Sucart.—The market for British Plantation is heavy, and
prices are generally 6d io Is lower since this day week
About have been 5,011. and
8,300 b.gs Manias were only about nail rea!ised at prices
establishing the above decline. The quantity of British
Plantation landed last week at the East and West India

Docks was 764 bogsbead;_t 48 tierces 190 barrels. There
were taken for home consumption 822 hhds 39 tierces 33,
,
barrels. '1 he stock in the same places is 3,262 hhds 53'
tierces 634 barrels.
COFFEE. —Only a limited busin ass has occurred privateli
in Native Ceylon, at 42s for comme.l quality.
Rum —The market is extremely 'Wavy, and there are to
buyers at previous rates. The quantity landed last week it
the East and West India Docks was f 2.47 puns 287 Wet
there were taken for home consumption k,1‘.0 puns 3 bhdt
and exported 205 puns 313 hhds. The stock in the JO'
places is 1 1,401 puns 1,471 hhds.
TALLOW.— P.Y.C. is 4,'s per cwt. on the spot, And TOO
41e 6d.
TEA.—The market steady.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAB'•)

OLD COURT

(Before the RECORDER.)
George Frederick Hopping, 38, ironmonger, and Jo°
Brown, 50, agent, were indicted for misdemeanour.
Mr. Parry prosecuted, and Mr. Robinson defended the Pri.
Bones.
It appeared that the prisoner, Hopping, had obtained, with
the assistance of the other prisoner, a certain quantity of Iroll,,
goods from Messrs. Daniel and Co., by means of a forge'
order, which they represented as coming from Mr. Bachelor'
the prosecutor, from whose employ Hopping had only a fee
days previously been dismissed. Hopping had access to the
order book, and it was found atter he left, that several peg
with blank forms had been torn out.
Both the prisoners were found Guilty, and sentence vole
deferred.

NEW COURT.
(Before the COMMON-SERGEANT.)
MINT PROSECUTIONS.—Mary Ann Buckley, 17, sp!nster'
Catherine O'Brien, 18, spinster, Harriet Downes,lB, spinsA
Samuel Jones, 64, clothworker, and James Fox, 24, labourer'
all pleaded guilty of uttering counterfeit coin, and were sent
tented to imprisonment for six calendar months.
The Common-Sergeant was occupied during the morning
in trying prisoners for similar offences, but the cases preseflw.
no feature of interest.

BO W-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
This morning Charles Gill, the working jeweller, of Nevici
ington, who was cummitted from this court, for the want
bail, some weeks since on the charge of having sent a tbrear,
ening letter to Lord John Russell, at his official residence
Downing. street, was brought from the House of Detenti°
for the purpose of being liberated upon bail.
It will be remembered that Gill was ordered by Mr. Sep
to enter into his own recognizances in the sum of 1001., and
to procure two substantial bail, to keep the peace and be
good behaviour towards the Premier for the next tWolf
months. He was sent to prison in defsult of finding
,tu,
_m,
required bail; and about a fortnight afterwards two tram°
men offered to be his bail. Ou Field, the detective officer,
making the necessary inquiries, he found that one bail
substantial, but the other was not, and the bail was eonar
quently refused.
Since that time Gill's friends have endeavoured to obtnill
another substantial tradesman to become bail, but with°ll„s
success. A petition had recently been sent to her Majesty'
through the Secretary of State, imploring for a mitigiol
of the bail, and that one tradesman who had been approd ld
of should be accepted instead of two. Her Majesty 7.-
graciously pleased to grant the petition.
This morning Mr. Samuel Howgood, of Surrey-glad;
Newington, pawnbroker, who had previously offered to bed
come °De of the securities, said he was willing to be boon
in the sum of 501. for the good behaviour of Gill.

Mr. HENRY—WeII, am willing to accept) jur bail.
Mr. Howgood and Gill then entered the clerk's office, eti,
their names and addresses having been taken, the magistre".
ordered Gill to be discharged.
Gill, who looked fresh and well, then 'left the court With
his wife and friends.
It was stated that Gill had quite recovered from the delar
sion under which he laboured, and has expressed his regre
at what had occurred.

IVIARLBRO'-STREr—(THIS DAY')
ci
Aim Dowling was placed before Mr. Bingham, charge
with obtaining a situation in the service of Keith Barne,
Esq , 28, Upper Portland-place, by means of a fore
character. - -

Mr. Barnes stated that on the 7th of January last t,13„8„
prisoner applied for the situation of cook in his feu%
and produced to him several written recommendations; tilee
among others, one purporting to be written by a Mrs. deer
whom she (prisoner) stated she had lived last in,
n(
vice, and had lett in March, 1850, with the intention
going into some small way of business. She also stated th";
when she lived with Mrs. R4O that lady resides I:,
Worcester-p rk, Great Malvern, and that she was then I:te
siding at 47, Preston. street, Brighton, where he could Wild
to her. A letter was accordingly written to Mrs. Rath! ti
the letter produced was received in answer. On the faits'
the excellent character contained in that letter, she was eO,
gaged, and entered his house. On the 24th of Marcia last y 2
found the prisoner in a state of intoxication, and de 31*
she would leave his service the next morning. She
that night, and on the Tuesday week follow' 10
he received from a person, who said she came 11
the prisoner, the letter produced, purporting to be Writ to
4,
by the prisoner, wherein she demanded the wages due to ',be
and her clothes to be given to the bearer. On looking et
writing and the crest (a stag) on the envelope, he fot
that the handwriting and crest was precisely 4
miler to that whic a purported to have come fit
Mrs. Rae, and from subsequent inquiries 1, hich he mad.'
was induced to put the matter into the hands of the poli''',e.t
airs. Rae's sister proved that the letter produced was P,,,c
in the handwriting of Mrs. Rae, and to -the best cf
.„'"0
knowledge Dirs. Rae never resided in Brighton. Mrs.
was now in the Isle of Wight.
The prisoner, in defence, persisted that the letter Will itt
the handwriting of Mrs. Rae, and begged for a remand,
order that Mrs. Rae might be communicated with. .
Mr. BINGHAM was of opinion that the letters produPsileo
afforded sufficient proof of the prisoner's guilt; but es
wished it, he would remand her for a week.

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NEWMARKET RACE,!;'

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPIIO)
Match, 100, h ft. A.F.
Beebee Bunnoo beat Joc o' Sot.
Sweepstakes of 10 sons. cach ; winner to be g -
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for 80L, &c. 1