The Sun.
London, England, 1834-05-21 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The Packet ship Caledonia, from New York, has
arrived off Liverpool; she was to sail on the Ist instant,
being seven days later than our previous accounts. The
despatches by her could not be landed, in time for the
mail, but are expected at the North and South American
Coffee House this afternoon.

THE FUNDS.
Consols, which closed yesterday at 92%, opened this
morning at the same price, with scarcely a bargain doing
in them, or any of the other English securities.
In the foreign market there is very little variation from
the prices of yesterday, and little doing. Portuguese
opened at 7914 %. Spanish rather lower, being 3534 36.
Mexican have advanced to 44%, being half per cent.
better than the closing price of yesterday.
The only arrival this morning is a French mail, the
contents of which are uninteresting. The five per cents.
opened at 106 f., and closed at 106 f. 10c. Three per cents.
opened at 79f. 80c. ; closed at the same. Cortes Bonds, 29.
HALF-PAST ONE.
_ . _

Since the opening of the market several bargains have
been done in Consols, and the price has declined to
92 %; and for July they are quoted at 92% 93.
the Foreign Market there has been a good deal of
animation. Spanish has improved one per cent, being
now 36% 37; Mexican, 441,1 45; Portuguese, 791,4
No reports or arrivals from Lisbon up to the present time.
THREE 0' CL 0 CK.
- -

Consols, 92% 93.
CLOSING PRICES.—FOUR O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red 9ll Ditto Bonds 3O pM
3 pei Cent. Cons 9-1 South Sea Stock lO5l
31 per Cent. 09 Ditto Old And S9I
'34 per C, nt. Red 9Si Ditto New Ann. 9Ol
.gew 31 per Cent lOOl Ex. Bills, 10.0/ 5l pm
1 per Cc nt HA Ditto 5,01 5l pm
Long. Ann. to expire Ditto Small 5l pm
Jan IBM l7l Bank S. for Aec. 216
Oct. 1E159 l7 Consols for Opg u.)#
Jan. 1860 l7l India Sr. for Opg 2691

FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 perecnt.
Belgian, 5 per cent 9B Ditto, Reg. Bonds
Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent. 31 I Russian Bonds, 5 per cent lnsi
Chilian. 6 per cent. 2B Ditto, Metallic lO6
Columbian, 6 per cent 23 Spanish, 5 per cent.......... 3611
Ditto, 1824 26} Ditto, 1323 33
Danish 741 French 5 per Cent.... 1061. —c.
Greek, 5 per cent Uti Exchange 2sf 40c.
Mexican 5 per Cents 1825 33i French 3 per Cent —f. —c.
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1825 45 Dutch, 2i per cent. 521
Peruvian 6 pee Cent. 221 Ditto, 5 per cent ...... ....... looi

IMPERIAL PARLIAIVIENT,
THIS DAY, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the chair at a quarter-past twelve.
There was a very thin attendance of members.
The report of the committee upon the Gloucester and
Berkeley Canal Bill was brought up by Mr. Phillpotts ;
on the Selkirk Road Bill, by Mr. Pringle ; on the Perth
Harbour Navigation Bill, by Mr. Oliphant ; on the Kirby
Lonsdale Tithe Bill, by Mr. Barron ; and on the
Knightsbridge and Dartmouth Road Bill, by Colonel
Seale.

On the motion of Mr. VIVIAN, the Aberavon ( Gla-
morganshire) Harbour Bill was read a third time and
passed.
Mr. TANCRED presented a petition from the justices
of the peace of Middlesex against the Great Western
Railway Bill.
Mr. EWART moved the second reading of the Lords'
amendments to the Grand Junction Railway Bill.
Mr. BLACKBURNE presented a petition from the
overseers and churchwardens of the township of Aldman-
bury, Yorkshire, against certain clauses in the Poor Laws'
Amendment Bill.

After a few words from Mr. G. STRICKLAND, Mr. p.
HOWARD, and Mr. HARDY, the petition was laid upon
he table. _

Captain BOSS presented a petition from Northallerton
praying for some measure to put an end to the crime of
drunkenness.

Sir 0. MOSLEY presented a petition from Weston-
under-Litton (county of Stafford) against the bill for the
admission of Dissenters to the Universities ; also a petition
from Stonehouse (Devon), for the better observance of
the Lord's Day. The hon. member read an extract from
the petition against the admission of dissenters to the
universities, and contended that such a measure would be
injurious to the interests of the established religion.

Mr. BAINES said the Protestant dissenters were en-
titled to admission to all the privileges of the uni-
versities, except a share in the ecclesiastical bene-
fices, which they did not seek for. With respect to a
severance of the church from the state, it was not the in-
tention of the dissenters to press that upon the consideration
ofparliament at present. ( Hear, hear.) But he (Mr. B. )
would observe that any attempt to deprive them of their
right to an admission to the universities would not retard,
but, on the contrary, would facilitate and forward, the
progress of that question. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. HARDY did not exactly understand what was
meant by a separation between church and state. He begged
thehon. member for Leeds to favour them with a definition,
as he understood its meaning to be, that the church pro-
perty should be taken into the hands of the Government,
and conVerted to civil purposes.
Mr. BAINES thought it a little hard that the hon.
member should call upon him for a definition as he was not
one of the persons who were pressing that question upon
the attention of parliament. He supposed that the union
of church and state consisted in one religious sectreceiving
certain emoluments from the public property, which other
religious sects did not receive, and exacting imposts from
others for.the support of their worship. Another charac-
teristic of the union between church and state was, that
the clergy of one sect had seats in the legislature, while others
had not. Now the severance of church and state in his (Mr.
Baines's) opinion involved these two points, first, it
implied that no one sect of religion should obtain grants
of public property in preference to another ;
and secondly, that the ministers of one religion should
not enjoy the right of sitting in the legislature, while the
ministers of other religions were deprived of that privilege.
(Hear.) As he had before observed, he did not appre-
hend that there was any disposition on the part of the
protestant dissenters to press the separation of church and
state upon the consideration of Parliament at present, and he
spoke advisedly when he said at present, because it was well
known that among the dissenters a strong feeling existed
that the union of church and state was an injury to them,
and deprived them of those equal rights which, as British
subjects, they should enjoy.
Mr. PHILLPOTTS presented a petition from the go-
vernors and guardians of the poor of the city of Gloucester
respecting the Poor Laws' Amendment Bill, expressing
their approbation of the simplification of the law of settle-
ment, but objecting to the board of commissioners, and
playing that the bill might not pass without alteration.
The hon. member gave notice of a motion respecting the
simplifying the process of effecting insurance upon pro-
perty by deed.
Mr. HARCOURT presented a petition from the select
vestry of Henley-upon-Thames, expressing their objection
to the control given by the Poor Laws' Amendment Bid to
the central board over vestries, and expressing their fears
that it would be difficult to find proper persons to fill the
office of vestrymen under such control.
Mr. LYALL presented a petition from certain members
of the established church of Hendon, in Surrey, praying

that the bill for the admission of dissenters to the universi:
ties might not pass into a law, as neither the universi-
ties nor the established church had done anything to for-
feit the protection of the Legislature.
Mr. SHAW presented a petition from the fishermen of
the island of Valencia, complaining of the withdrawal of
the bounties. He said that though he objected to the
principle of bounties, yet there were cases where general
principles would not apply, and this he thought was one of
them. The hon. and learned member presented a petition
from Clonmel, in Tipperary, for the better obser-
vance of the Sabbath, and petitions from the counties of
Tyrone and Antrim, praying for an inquiry into the in-
crease of drunkenness ; and a petition from a parish in
Dublin, against the Turnpike Road Act.
Mr. BAINES presented a petition from the church-
wardens and overseers of the poor of Horsforth, in York-
shire, expressing their doubts as to whether it would be
politic to give such extensive power to the commissioners
to be appointed under the Poor Laws' Amendment Bill,
and praying that if the bill passed into a law, such altera-
tions should be made as would prevent the evils which they
apprehended might arise from it. The hon. member pre-
sented a petition from Cross Hills, in the county of York,
praying for the appointment of a committee to inquire into
the causes of the increase of drunkenness, and to suggest
a remedy.
Mr. FITZ SIMON presented a petition from the united
parishes of Tullamore and Kilbride, signed by 5,000 per-
sons, praying for the extinction of tithes, and petitions
from two parishes in the King's County, praying for the
repeal of the Union and the extinction of tithes.
Mr. RUTHVEN supported the prayer of the petitions,
which were then ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. TANCRED presented a petition from the dissen-
ters of Banbury, praying for relief, and expressing their
disappointment at the measure respecting church rates.
Mr. CHAYTER presented a petition from Sunderland
and Bishop Wearmouth against intemperance.
Mr. GISBORNE presented a petition from Ashover,
Derby, in support of the church ; one from the operatives
of Chesterfield for the remission of the punishment of the
Dorchester convicts, and one from an individual relative to
beer shops.
Mr. GULLY presented a petition from Ackworthp
Yorkshire, against intemperance.
Mr. VIVIAN, presented a petition from the medical
men of Swansea and Leith, praying for a revision of the
laws affecting them.
Colonel EDWARDS presented some petitions against

intemperance.
Captain WEMYSS presented a petition from Cupar
(Fife), for the abolition of English church-rates ; one
from the same county for the repeal of the law of church
patronage.
Mr. HOWARD presented a petition from Carlisle,
praying for a committee to inquire into the causes of
drunkenness.

Sir C. BURRELL presented a petition from the parish
of Ashdon, Surrey, in favour of the Labour-rate Act.
Mr. HOPE JOHNSON presented a petition from the
schoolmasters of the presbytery of Loch, praying for an
increase of salary, and one from Dumfries, for tile abolition
of English church rates ; also a petition from James Con-
nell, formerly of Madras, praying for compensation in
consequence of the seizure of his property.
Colonel L. HAY presented a petition from Banff, pray-
ing for the regulation of the charges of Leith Harbour ;
one from Peterhead against drunkenness, and two from
Banff and Whitehall on the same subject.

Mr. WEYLAND presented a petition from a parish in
Oxford against dissenters, and one from Chipping-Norton
against intemperance.
Mr. RYLE presented a petition from Macclesfield
against the Poor Laws' Amendment Bill.
Mr. CARTWRIGHT presented several petitions from
Northampton, complaining of agricultural distress ; also
petitions from twenty-nine parishes in the same county
against dissenters.
On the motion of Mr. DIVETT, the West of England
Assurance Company's Bill was read a first, and ordered to
be read a second time.
Lord NORREYS presented petitions from Bloxam and
Banbury, complaining of agricultural distress, and praying
for relief.
Lord VILLIERS presented a petition from Honiton
against the admission of dissenters to the universities.
Admiral ADAMS presented a petition from Alloa, pray-
ing for an inquiry into the causes of drunkenness.
Mr. EWART presented a similar petition from Liver-
! pool ; also a petition from the same place praying an in-
quiry into the constitution of the Trinity House.
Mr. F. LEWIS presented a petition from Radnor for
the better observance of the Sabbath. one
The morning business in theaper having bee's
through, and there being no other petitions to present,
EirEAKBR left the Chair at half-past one o'clock.

LITERATURE.

HALL'S LIFE OF SALT. 2 Vols.

London, 1834.
Mr. Salt, our . late consul-general in Egypt,
was in his day a -traveller of considerable cele-
brity, and, if we mistake not, holds a prom'
nent place in that odd, amusing production--'
" Lord Valentia's Travels." Later discoveries,
however, made by more enterprising and sto'i
cessful travellers, have in some degree dinnlied
the brilliancy •of Salt's reputation ; he '9
now known chiefly by his tact and
as
was a consul-general,
asbulle-dg e n et
or a l , spirit
to his countrymen,- for his influence °yet
the Pacha remained unimpaired to the lasi
render many
moment. Mr. Halls who, it seems, was °ne ,
the oldest and most valued of Salt's friends, Bas
1 here given us a very complete biographical aer',
count of him, a little too much tinctured, Peiii
haps, with the partiality of friendship, but st
candid in the main, and full of agreeable ert3
citement. Mr. Salt seems to have been °C
very loveable nature, frank, cordial, and en'
thusiastic, with a fund of sound coulin°'ci
sense, that carried him triumphantly thr°44
difficulties from which men of less shrewclue:,-
and enterprize would have shrunk aghast. Th".
a traveller, he has no extraordinary elaiins 11,
public attention, and when compared with such
men as Laing, Belzoni, Clapperton, or handers,
dwindles almost into insignificance.
N\e
but think that. one volume would have Siswer.e
all the purposes of an efficient meipoii• of 10:
There are many pages, and chapters, tcw!
in the present work, that might have bee !1
advantageously dispensed with—such as Sal! 5
early letters to his biographer, which, as
dices of characters, are sadly deficient, atia
.-
equally so as regards public interest. SurSurelyit was scarcely worth while to present 118 ,
with a letter of two pages, with a long explana-
tory note affixed, for the mere purpose of letting
us into the fact that Mr. Salt, when a young
man, " had a trick of placing a shilling on his
nose when sitting in a perfectly erect posture,
without its falling off !" The most interesting'
portions of the work are those which relatel°, #0
Mr. Salt's researches in Abyssinia.