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

Ports.

Aberystwith .....
Beaumaris
Chichester
Padstow
Scilly
Borrowstoness
Campbeltown...
Lerwick
Stornoway
Stranraer
Wigtown...

Salarie.l, &c.

£ a. d.

626 3 9
1,080 19 9
417 2 6
744 16 0
767 11 7
• 590 11 3
941 8 7
560 10 0
457 7 0
494 4 7
537 2 6
712 0 8

And yet, while no complaint is made of the heavy
expenditure in those unproductive districts, in none
of which the gross revenue amounts to more than a
mere fraction of that obtained at Manchester, we
have bitter complaints on the part of the narrow-
minded financier who, unfortunately for the
Whig Government, presides over the Exchequer,
of the sum of 2,503/. 63. 2d. being required to give
the vast advantages of the bonding system to the ma-
nufacturing metropolis. With the "penny-wise-and-
pound- foolish policy," for which be has ever,been dis-
tinguished, be speaks of depriving Manchester of the
boon conceded in ] 844,unless the to wn council continue
permanently to defray the expenses which they un-
dertook during the pendency of the experiment, and
which they are unwilling to continue, now that the
experiment has been attended with such unqualified
success, a success beyond the most sanguine anticipa-
tions of its warmest advocates.

Manchester is now the sixth bonding place in Eng-
land as to the amount of revenue, and in no single place
is it collected at less than double the expense per cent.
charged at Manchester, and if the revenue should con-
tinue to increase in a similar ratio to that of
the last few years it will speedily go beyond
Hull and Newcastle, which it already closely ap-
proaches. Sir CHARLES WOOD, however, speaks of
taking away its privilege, while there are no less than
31 places in which the revenue collected is less than
5,0001., and 12 more where it exceeds 5,0001.,
but is less than 10,0001. And yet these
places are not to be interfered with, while
Manchester, which returns more than the
whole 43 taken together, is to be deprived of its staff,
and its merchants and traders sent to other districts
to select the duty-paying articles for the consump-
tion of the myriads of industrious persons by which
it is surrounded. If that unwise, that insane course
were pursued, or if as Sir CHARLES WOOD suggested,
the corporation imposed higher rates, the consump-
tion would be materially diminished through the
higher prices, and the revenue itself would suffer to
many times the amount of the paltry sum in dis-
pute. Sir CHARLES WOOD is, however, will-
ing to run any risk, to incur any degree
of odium and unpopularity, rather than make any
concession. On his head and on those of his col-
leagues be the result. The Manchester men, how-
ever, need not despair ; their cause is based on
equity and justice, and must eventually prove suc-
cessful. Magna est veritas et prevalebit.

Absolutely nothing whatever has yet been accom-
plished by our sanitary reformers in the way of sub-
stituting extramural for intramural interment.
Loudly as they have vaunted the importance of this
question, long as they have agitated, in the hope of
bringing about the solution of this difficulty, they
have hitherto failed altogether in dissipating one par-
ticle of the evil complained of by themselves, and
recognised by the vast majority of the community.
Burials are still taking place perpetually in the midst
of our most crowded thoroughfares, in the
verb heart of the most densely populated
localities. This, moreover, in the heat
of the summer quarter, and when the metropolis has
had the number of its inhabitants increased by so
many thousands, in consequence of an influx of
foreign and provincial visitors to the Exhibition !
Considering the extraordinary magnitude of the
danger referred to, remembering also the reality
of the perils encountered by the continuance of this
detestable system of interments, seeing that the city
graveyards are notoriously known to be the menu-
factories of disease, and the inevitable means
of multiplying the amount of the general mor-
tality, it is absolutely inexOcable to witness
the apathy displayed upon the matter, not only
by the pretended advocates of sanitary improvement,
but, practically speaking, likewise, by both Houses of
the Imperial Legislature. Until the dead are entombed
after a mariner very different, indeed, in its character,
it will be frivolous to dream of effecting any material
changes for the better in the social condition of the
living. Gwydyr House and its Commissioners must
perforce remain wholly useless as an administrative
institution until such time as the deemed portion of
the multitude are conveyed to their last rest-
ing place in some conveniently situated
cemeteries beyond the suburbs of London and
of Westminster. Better ventilation in the arrange-
silents of our domestic architecture, purer water in the
management of metropolitan irrigation, more copious
and efficient drainage in the subterranean works of
the capital of England,—all will be idle and preposte-
rous, as a means of improving the condition of the
masses, if the decaying bodies of the departed are
still allowed to remain in the midst of the crowded
quarters of this great city, contaminating the atmos-
phere by their exhalations, and disseminating the
seeds of the most fatal and destructive maladies. From
the indifference hitherto displayed by the nation upon
this matter, it would almost appear as if the generality
were unacquainted with the simplest facts connected
with their corporeal organization ; such, for example,
as the necessity of a pure air fa the oxygination of
the blood, and this not only for the support of vitality
through the lungs, but through the whole pores of the
skin in like manner. Without this purity of the
atmosphere it will be preposterous to expect that
human beings can support life merely by the
aid of the nutrition derived from provision, more
especially if water—one of the first necessaries
of existence—is as villanously polluted even as
the atmosphere. Aware, as the majority of the
population must necessarily be of these particulars,
they would nevertheless appear to neglect the truths
forced upon them by their recognition, preferring
the continuance of a vicious and execrable system
rather than the trouble
of another, preferable in its tendency and its substitution
requisite for the
general
character.
Something
must be adventuredlby
rdupon the sincere
well wirs
the
community
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doawnyco
teuh,laena and without
relievewn threatens
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bhueet
any further procrastination,
metropolis of an evil which every
more and wore lamentably pernicious. The measure
sbe of
e
passed last session through
fthe House of Commons
haR
b y
and it is
ibist
i m eweighed in the ba-
lance,
almostbe s uc pa er luul ol Yu s to add that it has
been long since found wanting. Apparently, that is
to say to a superficial observer, it was unquestionably

nOrCOUGH HOP DIALRILET.
A good business WttS doing in Hops to-day, at a fur-
ther advance in prices of 2s per owt. The show of Sam-
plea was small.

WHITECHAPEL.
Prime Beef and Mutton solo steadily, at full prices.
In other kinds of meat very little was doing. Beef,
from 2s 2d to 3:4d; Mutton, 2s 4d to 31 8d; Lamb,
3s 101 to 4s 8,1; Veal, 3s to 3s 8d; Pork, 2a 4d to
3a 81 per Eilbs by the carcase.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittinp at Niel Priui at Wesiminister, bt-fore the LORD
CHIEF 'JUSTICE ,ind a Common Jury.)
JOHNSTON v. CLARK.

This was an actioa, W recover the bum of 193/. due on
two Vllli of exchange.
_ _

Mr. Noggins, Q C., and Mr. Willes appeared for the
plumta, and Mr. Watson, Q.C., and Mr. J ()yea conducted
the defence.

It appeared that the plaintiff, Mr. Johnston, was the
bolder of two overdue bills of exchange, one for 871. 103.,
accepted by the defendant Clark, and endorsed by him to
:he plaintiff, and the other fur 70L, drawn by the de-
fendant on a gentleman named eeullivan, and endorsed
by the defendant to the plaintiff. He brought an action
to recover the amount of these bills ageinat the defen-
dant, who pleaded a variety of pleas. Issue was
joined, the record was made up, and the trial
fixed for the 19th day of June, 1848 ; but
shortly before the trial the parties entered into an agree-
ment for the settlement of the action. The defendant
w,ts the holder of a bill of a person named Claneey, an
effieer in the Huseatee fur 3001., which fell due on the
30th of August, 1848, and at the suggestion of the de-
fendant, the plaintiff agreed to take this bill, and out
of the proceeds to pay himself for the amount of the
two bills, together with interest and costs, and to return
the balance to the defendant. In the event of the bill
not being paid by November, the defendant undertook
to settle the debt with costs. These terms were con-
sidered !satisfactory by the plaintiff, and the record was
accordingly withdrawn. The bill was dishonoured on
being presented to Clansey, and the defendant
neglected to fulfil his promise. An appli-
cation was subsequently made to a judge at
chambers to enter up judgment against the defendant,
but his Lordship refused to do so, on the ground that
in the agreement the parties consented to a final settle-
ment of the action. The consequence was that the
plaintiff had to pay all the costs which had been incurred,
in addition to the delay, expense, and risk of bringidg a
fresh action.

The defence was that Clansey was absent in India
with his regiment at the time the bill became due, and
would have honoured it had it been presented to him in
the prop,:r way.
The Learned JUDGE having summed up,
The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for the full
amount claimed.

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.
_ _ _ (THIS DAY.) _ _

At eleven o'clock 19,608 persona had passed through
the doors of the Cr) Atli, Palace, and at that hour an im-
mense stream was continually pouring in from all quar-
ters. Most of the visitors to-day were country people,
and, as if to-day were a special holiday, we noticed a
greater number of soldiers, sailors, and policemen among
the visitors than on any previous occasion.

THE ROYAL CHILDREN TO BE TAUGHT GAELIC.—
The InverneFs Courier says that a correspondent who dates
from the Temple, states that her Majesty and Prince Albert
have commissioned a gentleman from the north to engage
the services of a Gaelic teacher for the Royal Family. "There
is every chance," he says, "of an intimate friend of mine
getting the appointment." This is certainly a compliment
to the ancient knguage of the Gael.

AN ORNITHOLOGICAL MARRIAGE.—T(I Efiiriburgh
the following ornithological marriage took place which set
the whole neighbourhood in a flutter Hen-rietta
Peacock was espousal to Mr. liobbin Sparrow, by the
Rev. Mr. Dow, the liridcsmi..n being Mr. Philip Hawk, and
the bridesmaid Miss Lark-ins.

L9tters from RDuen state that there was greater
activity in the market for manufactures, and that in some
cases higher prices had been obtained.

Railways. Paid. Nominal Prices. Business don
to-day.
Aberdeen • • • • • • all 1 —34 dis dls.
Caledonian 101. .. • • 10 63( —s34 634 6
Chester and Holyhead .. all 15% 15%
Dund. Per. & Aber. June, all % dig.
East Anglian (31. 108.)
6 per cent. .. • • all 2 234
Eastern Counties Eaten.,
per cent. No. 1 .• all
Do. No. 2 .. •• all die —% p
Do . New 6p. cent. Stock 10 10% 1034
Eastern Union, Scrip
guaran. 6 per cent. all 1434 16
Do. 101. Deben. Shares . all
East Lancashire, 6 per
cent. quarter shares .. all ••
E. & W. York. Jima. b all
Edln. Per. & Dun. 51 p et. all %dis. par
Glasgow & S.-W. Consul 100 ..
Gt Northern, 5 per coat. all 1334 13% 1336 %
Great South. & Western
(Iceland) eighths .. 234 134 p. 334
Lancashire and York-
shire, F. 201... • • • • 6 .. —..
Do. 6 per ct. Stock .. 100 133 131%
Leeds and Thirsk, 6 par
coat., No. 1.. • • .. 11 p
Do. quarters, 1848 .. 9 .. p
London, Brighton, and
South Coast guar. 5 per
et., late Crayd. n thirds 100 ..
Do. pref., 5 p et. Stock,
1851, from 501. shars. E 100 •• —• •
Do. new guar., 6 per ct. 100 137 143
London &S.-W. new •• 5 —2% p.
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen, half shares 10
Blanch., Sheffield, and
Line., guar. shrs., No. 1 all 10% 1134
Do. new, 10/. .. • • all 11% 1174 11% %
Do., 61. • • • • .. 3 % % P
Midland Con. Gp. o. stock 100 ..
Do. Consal. Bristol &
Birming., 6 per cent.• • 100 13234 13334
Do. Bristol & Glouces. 48
Norfolk Extension .• all 15 —l6
guar. 534 per cent, all 4% —4%
Do. Waveney Valley .. 2 .• •
North British .. 5 4% 5 4%
Oxf.Wor. &W 01. 15/.6 p.c 4 1 —14 p
Shrewsbury and Birm.
Now Guaranteed .. all 103( 10% 1034
Shrews. and Ches. (Nor.
W. Min.) 8 per cent. all 15 154 14% 15
South Devon .. •• all 1234 1334
South-Eastern, 434 p. et. 10
Waterford & Kilkenny, 51. 1 .. • •
West London,lst Cl. (10/.) all
Do. 2d Class do. (par) all
York, Newc., and Berw.,
Gt. N.of E. Pur. all 16 1634
• 434
York and North Midland
11. and S. Parch. .. 10 X dis•
FOREIGN.
Boulogne and Amiens .. all 9 —94 9%
Central of France (Or-
leans and Vierzon) •• all 1834 —lB %
Demerara .. all • • —• •
g_al*
Dutch Rhenish • • .. 54
East Indian 16 231 234 P.
Do. do. do. • • 20
Great Indian Peninsula all % 374
Ditto ditto • • .. 3.4 —34 P'
Louvain a lit Samara .• 7% •
Luxembourg • • •• •• 10 11!.‘
Ditto • • • • • • • •
Madrid and V alentia • •
i* gd 9 -- 11
Maria Antonia onia • • .. „ 3
Ditto, New • • • • all 6% —6%
Namur and Liege .. •• 16 15 15% 15 14
Northern of Franco • • 8 43( 4 die.
Orleans nod Bordeaux • • all 2
33 —35
Paris and Orleans • • •• l 54 25%
Paris and Rouen •• • • 16 by die, 10%
Paris and Stra3bourg ••au 934 9%
Rouen and Havre .. 4.4
3Z
%
Sambre and Meuse ••
„ 16 9% 9 fig, ad 6%
3 )4
Tours and Nantes • • •
Tournay, Jurbise, Lan-
den, and Hasselt ••
wettlrliodecc 8% ,
2% 2% xi