The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-05 00:00:00

THE SUN,

agreed to a Bill which no one who supported the
second reading agreed would afford a well-digested or
perfect system of education to Scotland.
Mr SCOTT said this was the first time of a Bill

being introduced, not only for separating religious and
secular instruction in Scotland, but for talicinff away all
the ties of the Government and the enurgover the
instructors. He should vote against the measure.
Lord MELGUND having replied,
The House divided, when there eppeared--
For the second reading ... 124
Against it ... ... 137
Majority against the Bill ...-13
The Bill was consequently lost
C9UNTY COURTS FURTHER EXTENSION

BILL.
Tnis Bill pissed through Committee pro forma.
CFIARI TABLE PURCHASE DEEDS BILL.
This Bill was resd a second time.
METROPOLITAN WATER SUPPLY BILL.
Sir GEORGE GREY raid the House would sit at
twelve, to-morrow, hut that he would not bring forward
the Metropolitan Water Supply Bill until the afternoon
sitting.

The other orders of the day Y:avinz Eeau disposed of,
,he House adjourned un•il t->--narrow (this thy) at 12,

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian.)
ATANCHF.STER, TUESDAY.—iIy the Europa of the
21,t eta we learn that the advices vthich the Cambria
took out from Liverpoel on the 31 ult. had occasi coned a
further giving way of ie. to 4 p r ib. in the price of
cotton at New York, but that a recovery of ic. f I;ovsed
the arrival of the Franklin, three days afterwards. In
the sou7hern markets, also, there continued
to be a decline. We have, however, seen
a letter from Mr. William Mure, which
states that "it was announced by telegraph from
New Orleans that the receiots were rapidly decreasing;
the sales of he week were 28,000 bales, and the market
firmer, with middlings at 9:. to 94c" The ele!ess in the
receipts at the ports is stated to be 263,000 ogles; but it
is adeged that later telegraphic advicos from New Or-
leans announce that the excess in the Atlantic ports
was then 280,000 bales. Ai the small deficiency at
Savannah is tally made up by an excess at Charles-
ton, this would represent a total excess of 250,000
bales, and consequently continued large receipts
during the last week, a tact which does not agree
very well with Mr. Mute's statement. At any rate,
the receipts in the last week, of which we have full
particulars, namely, that ending 21st of May, were
larger than those of any former year, at the same date;
and they appear very decidedly to point to a crop
or not less than 2,000,000 bales. Seeing in these re-
ceipts a reason for expecting some further fall in
prices, to which the advises from Liverpool cannot
but contrihute, the buyers in this market have shown
less disposition for business than they did last week;
and we have to report, therefore, a quiet day in yarns
and goods at large. The accounts from the East have
also helped to weaken the somewhat more active tendon
cies observable last week. At Bombay, the transactions
in goads and yarns had indeed been considerable during
the fortnight, yet lower prices had been accepted—
partly under the pressure of heavy arrivals, but partly
also from the inducement of a more favourable rate of
exchange, in which however there had been fluctuations.
At Calcutta the prices of many articles—though not all
—had somewhat receded, and the exchange had also
slightly yielded. With such intelligence, the India mer-
chants have been little inclined to give orders for shirt-
ings, or indeed for yarns, which are not so unfavourably
reported of; atilt, there have been inquiries for some de-
scriptions of the latter. The continental houses have
operated very cautiously; yet some of the yarns they
take, particularly 30's water, are fully as firm as they
were last week. The home consumers do not find warps
and weft lower than at the date of our last report—
except slightly, perhaps, in some kinds which form ex,
ceptions to the general rule. On the whole, the marks

is steady; and all parties appear to feel that, free as pro.
ducers are from stock, they will now be able—with less
and less reference to cotton—to take a firmer stand on
more profitable prices than those which prevailed before
the fall of the raw material. Already, the spinners and
manufacturers find themselves not only in a safer but in
a more beneficial position, and in one requiring far less
capital for the working of their establishments.
ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—The flannel market continues
flat, with very little doing. English wool is firm, with a

limited amount of busine-ss; and colonial wool may be
obtained at rather easier prices.
MACCLESFIELD, TUESDAY.—Our manufactured goods
trade remains in the same unsatisfactory condition as
quoted in our last. Notwithstanding the near approach
to the close of the spring season' we remain still with-
out alteration fir the better. This dull state of busi-
ness is unfortunately evidenced by a large number of
our operatives remaining without employment. Tnrown
Siik—The demand for this article is characterised
by. if anything, increased flatness, and it is generally
acknowledged, that so great a deprsssion has not existed
in this dlcartment for a caries of years. Prices, although
extrem-ly low, are nominal. Raw Silk—Rather more
business has been doing, which has had a tendency, in
some instances, to give increased firmness in price, which
/darn() had been wavering.
HALIFAX. SATURDAY.—There have ben rather more
persons in our piece hall to-day, and a little more busi-
ness has been done, especially in fancy goods. Both in
yarn and wool the demand continues alike dull, without
any noticeable change in the quatations.
LEEDS, TUESDAY.—We have little or nothing to notice
in the woolien trade since our last report. There has
been a good a; tendeince of buyers at the market to-dsy,
but not many goods have changed hands. There is a fair
business doing in the warehouses, and prices are without
change.

GRE A BRITAIN

AND ATLANTIC.
We are glad to observe that the Great Britain is
main to launch her huge form upon the bosom of the
waters. Being purchased by Messrs. Gibbs, Bright,
and Co., she has been placed in the Sandon
Graving Dock, where she is receiving a thorough
" overhauling," and undergoing such repairs and
improvements as will be considered necessary. The
execution of these repairs, as far as the ironwork is
concerned, has been intrusted to Messrs. Vernon and
Son, and about 150 workmen have been employed at the
vessel during the last fortnight removing the injured
andworil:roken parts and preparing the moulds for the new
of 500-horse p-
The engines being condemned, they have been
removed, and those by which they are to be replaced are
beinß built by Messrs. Penn, of London. They will be
operationa corn
ewer. The preparations of machinery fur
facilitating the repairs have just been completed, and
ushered on Saturday. A small engine of
Sandon-dock for the
5-horse power been placed in a shed near to the
g press, of driving the drilling ma-
chines, punchin
o,n grinding
~,o stone, &e. The other
portionwork
of the
commenced this week underd the Great Britain will be
Messrs. Mackay and Miller, is_ . the superintendence of
bulwarks insteal of the present iron
She is to have
bul-
warks to be four feet six inches inh• railings; the
eight. Another im-
provement of a more extensiv _ e character which is to be
made on board this leviathan steamer, and which will
afford considerably increased aceomnaodation to the
great numbers of passengers which she is capable of
anew saloon, which will
receiving, is a n . reach the whole
the deck and be Suakientl large
to of f two hundred Y
to dine upwards o passengers, be-
ace for the apartments of the officers
sides affording space
for icehcuses, pantry, and other offieek
of the ship, and
The Great Britain, from her gigantic dimensions, and
in some me sure from her Dundrum adventure, has
gained a wide-spread celebrity,and, consequently, she
has recently had many
curious visitors, amongst the
most distinguished of whom may be mentioned his
Royal Highness Prince Henry of the Netherlands, who
visited our docks on Monday last, in company with the
May or and some other gentlemen. This Royal per-
sonage also visited the Atlantic, which is now being
repaired in the Huskisson Dock. The Great Britain,
we beli«ve is intend, d to run between Liverpool and
N 9,V York, and will be ready for sea in Septemeer
next. We understand that Captain Mathews, late com-
mander of the Great Western and City of Glasgow, is
appointed commander. The steamer Atlantic, too, as
we have already intimated, is in course of being re-
paired and retitled. She has got on deck a new and
very large dining-saloon, in which 9(io pessons (...in
be come niently seated at dinner, Toero aro also
new side houses, and several other apartments are

they means of education were required in Scotland;
indeed it had been stated that upwards of 349 localities
were without any school at all; and that fact being con-
ceded, he should have thought the House would not ob-
ject to enter upon a consideration as to how that
want should be supplied. Well, then, the want
being universally acknowledged, why should they
mix up the religious controversies that now agi-
tated Scotland with this Bill, the immediate object
of which was to fill up the vacuum that prevailed
in the existing system as it was now ad,Dinistered.
None of the religious sects were opposed to
the extension of the parochial system, and
he, for one, could certainly see no reason why the House
should reject this Bill. The principle was unquestion•
ably good, though some of its details might be detective,
but pass the second reading, and it would be open to
th''m to refer it to a Select Committee to settle its ma-
chinery.—(Hear, hear.)
Sir GEORGE CLERK had waited anxiously to
hear upon what ground Government could support this
Bill, and now it seemed they had formed an erroneous
impression of its scope. The Noble Lord, for • -
I stance, who had just sat down, told them that
the Bill would not separate the religious from
the secular education
that
beforeof the
tpheeoyp
allowede;but et
the
et hße bt
oe
quite satisfied of
pass, because if ho were not mistaken the Hon. Member
for Montrose etated that he supported it under the im-
pression that it would separate these two principle's.
If the people of Scotland were not sufficiently educated
it was not for the want of a sufficient number of local
and district schools. He believed that if free schools
were established, at which education would be given
gratuitously, they would not be generally used, for the
labouring population, actuated by that spirit of indepen-
dence which had always characterised them, would rather
send their children to a school at which they had to
pay for instruction. His countrymen were impressed
with the idea that what was got for nothing
was of little value. The great advantage of
the present parochial schools was, their close
tbhl iesrhee dwas C
ah u rdcehfi. e e
nHeye
connexionwasready
withto admthite thEatsta
of education in those large towns which had grown up
within the last 50 years, but that deficiency had been
greatly overrated. There might be classes who would
not avail themselves of parochial schools, but he saw
no objection to the extension of educational grants
to them under the direction of the Committee
of the Privy Council. Those grants were, in his opinion,
peculiarly well adapted for Scotland. He considered
that the House would take a most dangerous step

0A1"7.11.7.8.
Names of II
r... Dividend) Names of
a, ,ID....,ivindunisad.
Companies. A per Price. Cenapanies. 41 A ,Per Price.
in Annum.
.-..- — —-
X X
Ashtn& Oldh 97 71, 113 Macelesteld . 100, 21. 10s. 50
Barnsley.• • • 1160 121. 180 Neatk ••• • • • 1001 181. --
Brknk&Abrg 'l3O 51. 35 Oxford...—. 100 f 201. 140
Birmingham 40 41. 93 Peak Forest. 731 31. 18s. 70
Coventry.. •• i 100; 231. 200 Regent's •• .• 331 11. 3s. 19%
Derby ••• •• 1100 61. ag Rochdale..• • 13 ri 41. 42
Ellsmre&Chs. 133 355. 26% Somrset Coal 120 ' 71.105.
Grancl,lwaetn 100 41. pr. et. 84% De.LkFd St 12 61. p. e.
Do., 6 pr. Ct., 111 II Stffrd &Wore 1401 281. 406
Grand Sarreylloo 2!. Os. says Shrewsbnry.. 125
tirand Uaioniloo 11. 10s. 24 Stoarbrldge.. 1402001,. 2:40
Kennt& Avii 139 48. Od. 3% Sevens sad"? 1
Lancaster • I 100 41. Wye Rail. ( 26 21
1 • •
Leeds& Livrp,loo 241. 400 Warwlek&
Leicester .. • •1100 bI. 66 Firming. 3 100 41. 46
Leicstr&Nthi 83 4!. 44% Warwick&
142 701. 510 Napton..l
Loazhboreghl 100 31. 38
Nfonmouthshlloo 81. Worcstr &/
Nlntg.rarysh 100 Birming. j7B 31. 403
sfeltn2fwbry, 100 Wilts lk Brks 1 ls. 614

l- 1:28.5-LXGET AND COXE COMPANIES,
4' Dividend Amount
11 Name of Company. per of Paid. Price,
d Annum. Share.
----- -- -----
Y L. s. d. A. a. 4.
ri British -••••.. • • • • .. 11. 43 0 0 18 0 0 ja
11 Ditto Provincial.... 11. Bs. 20 0 0 20 0 0 164
0 Brilhton •..... •..... 51. 20 0 0 - -
of London .. •• .. 61. 0 0 15 0 0 120
a
CortinentalConsolidat. 925. 11
76 0 0 310 5 0 -
I Equitable......., .... 50s. 50 0 0 50 0 0 27
Imperial ............ 3/. 50 0 0 60 0 0 70
a Independent ....... - 61. 40 0 0 40 0 • I 46
- 50 0 0 50 0 0 ! •-.•
- 50 0 0 50 0 0 1 -
61. 25 0 0 7ls 0
1 Do., nut Preference
1 Phoenix . •........... 41. 50 0 0 49 0 0 2f4
Ratcliff .. •. . ....., .. 51. 100 0 0 90 0 0
United General ...... 11. 60 0 0 50 0 0 154
' Westminster Chartered 31. 50 9 0 - 1 464
1 Ditto, New ......., 12s. 50 0 0 10 00 1
9%
• 1f413'.17 OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES
; Dividend Amount
Name of Company, per of Paid, , Price.
Annum. Share.
-- -.- 77.. ....-_,s "
Bank of Scotland
British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 100 0 0 1994
Caledonian Bank
City of Glasgow Bank Si. per cent. 10 0 10 0 0 11%
Clydesdale Bank -••• • 64 per cent. 20 0 10 0 0 13%
Commercial Bank -• • 71. per oent. 600 0 100 0 0 174
Eastern Bank - ••• ••• 61. per cent. 25 0 10 0 91. as.
Edinb.SoGlasgew Bank 61. per cent. 5 0 50 0 4%
Exchangeßnk of Scot.. 4/. per sent. 100 0 50 0 0 114
National Bank 64 per cent. 60 0 10 0 0 154
Northof Scotlandßank 51.peroent. 20 0 210 0 1.15 a,
Royalßank ofFicetland 5/. per cent. 100 0 100 0 0 134
Union Bank of Boetland 81. per cent. 100 0 50 0 0 gi
Western Bank-- -• • 71. per cent. 50 11 50 0 1 73
Alliance Fire and Life • 41. pr cent. 10 0 Is 0 0 214
British Guarantee
Caledonian Fire Insnr l01• per cent. 100 0 10 0 0 224
City of Glasgow Life 6l. per cent. 25 0 2 0 0 1. lls
Colonial Life - 50 0 1 0 0 L Os.
E n Edinburghg.
5,15 0 0 I 21%
per cent. 100 0
9 17 6 3
1 0 0 3/. Os
Canadal
cij.DPO DittoP.zrse Call; r 10 0 245. Od
L NationalifeAs sSocro.i trol:efilaeanw n
ScotlandLllculitfrs 6565:11....
perpP ee ; ace
see
nun
ttt
..• 511000
000
20 0 0 27
North British Incur Si. per cent. 200 0
Scottish Union Dumas 4 ql. pr cent. 20 0 1 0 0 ,248.64
Standard Lift ...... . 51. per cent. 50 0 4 5 0 I 12
United Dep.Assnrance 31. par cont. 10 0 1 0 0 17s Od
I
MISCELLANEOUS. ]
Dividend I Amount 1
Name of Company. per of Paid. Prise. 3
/
Annum. Share.
...m... ......11,
........... .......
L. s. d. .6. 5. 4. /
Assam Tea -•.- • • - - 20 0 0 20 0 0 9
kuotien Mart •••• • • • • 21. Si. 50 0 0 - 264 8
kastralian A.crioniturl u. 100 0 0 te 5 0 IS 3
Australian Trust •• .. 01. per cent. - 26 0 0 90 5
knglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 10e. 10 0 0 10 0 0 25 .
Ditto, Half Shares.. - - 210 0 - I`
British Imerisan Land - - 33 15 0 14% P
...,:nnw.ra.dc;:it
ra..Bg..
poo.
an: i
idd.
y.sB :IL per cent.
. ...
"94 T
- 105
City Navigation Bonds 31 perr.sementt. _.-- - 96 B
Gen. Revers. to Invest. 5 p.c.& bs, 2/ 100 0 0 100 0 0 92 1
Equitable Reversienry 5 p.o.fc 1)&5/ 100 0 o'loo 0 0 109% '
50 0 0 2 10 0 -
Gen.SteamNa.vi. gs..t.lon 10 p. et-.Bcbs. 16 0 0 14 0 0 241 F]
Rudson's Ray..
Bungerford . .•
.•
- Stock. - 205
2/. 51. - 100 0 0 47 ar
London Instlin-tion.7
• - 71 15 0 7
Ditto, New .. .. - 25 0 0 24 0 0 -
Russell Institut:lo; ...... - 26 0 0 12 10 0 -
-
Peninslrit Orient.Stm.
Reversionary Int. See . 41. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 en
-
Royal Mail Steam- - 1444 ve
li. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 100
South Australian_ _ li' P. chary 100 0 0 60 0 0 - ric
Vail Dieman's Land. 'per snare. 25 0025 0 0 24% ha
- 100 0 0 29 0 0 1 G 4
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! THE FLAX CROP.__We are glad to be able to re-
avinhwichho lives at Roughan left
fiprol reta
everywhere presents a
pfapveaoruately. of
Athigsencrt;iepm,
a specimen at our office on Thursday, which mea4ures nearly
three feet in length, and being taken from a field ecinall
forward, he calculates on having an early and remanerative
crop,—Armagh Guardian.

added. The old dining saloon is converted into a fore-
cabin, by melns of which 80 additional passengers can
now be accommodated. Th.- present saloon is handsome
and well fitted up, and communicates directly with the
pantry; the latter, also, is connected with the kitchen
and its offices, and affords every facility for culinary
operatims. On the after part of the saloon are the
wheel-room, smoking-room, and apartments for cap-
tain and officers. The windows of th• saloon
are of beautifully stained glass, outside of which
there are " glass lights," to be drawn over them as oc-
sion may require, and also " dead lights," to be used
in heavy weather. That part of the refittings to which
we have referred has been superintended by Messrs.
Mackay and Miller, and they have executed their task
with much credit. By the new arrangement not
only can more passengers be accommodated, but
there can be taken on board 200 tons more cargo
than before. That portion of the machinery which it
has been fuund necessary to renew is supplied from the
Soho Works, Birmingham. New entablatures were re-
quired, and the wheels also needed repairing. One of the
entablatures, weighing 17i tons, is already in its place.
and the repair of the starboard wheel is being proceeded
with. This splendid vessel is intended to be ready for
sea in the early part of July next.—Liverpool Albion.