The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-12 00:00:00

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Railways. Paid. Nominal Priem. 131151/1•38 dOlB6
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Aberdeen ••• • • • all 1 —34 dis CU& Caledonian 101. .. • • 10 6% —6%
Chester and Holyhead .. all 15% _-16
M. Dund. Per. & Aber. June, all % % dia.
the East Anglian (31. 108.)
1 h G per cent. .. .. • • all 2% —2%
PEastern Counties Eaten.,
in- 5 per cent. No. 1• • all —% p Put out Do. No. 2—• • • • all % dls —% p
;,„ Do. New 6p. coat. Stock 10 10% 10% x.d 10%
•u; Eastern Union, Scrip
tftl guaran. 6 percent. .. all 133 r —l6 lb%
,he Do. 101. Deben. Shares. all .. ,
sts East Lancashire, 6 per
, cent. quarter shares .. all •• ..
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'lll E. &W. York. June. sths all
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let Edln. Per. &Dun. 51 p.ct. all %as. par
Glasgow & S.-W. Consol. 100 • • • ..
Gt. Northern, 5 per cent. all 1336 13% 13%
Great South. & Western
n- (Ireland) eighths .. .• 234 %—yi p. 3%
)n Lancashire and York-
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shire, F. 201. .. .. • • 6 • • —•• Ws.
Do. 6 per ct. Stock .. 100
5- Leeds and Thirsk, 6 per ..
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dicent., No. 1.. .. .. •• 11 —.. p
• Do. quarters, 1848 .. 11 .• •-• .. p
" London, Brighton, and
L° South Coast guar. 5 per
)f et., late Croydon thirds 100 .. •-• ••
n De. pref., 5 p ct. Stock,
1851, from 501. share. E 100
.. .•
0 Do. new guar., 6 per ct. 100 136 --135
c London &S.-W., new .. 5 2% ..- 2% p-
d Londonderry and Ennis-
killen, half shares .. 10 ... ..
Manch., Sheffield, and .•
Line., guar. shrs., No. 1 all 11% 12%
Do. new, 101. .. •• all 11% .... 12% 11%
Do., 6/. ••—.• • • 3 % %
, Midland Con. 6p, c. stock 100 1)
.. —. ~
Do. Consel. Bristol &
Biasing., 6 per cent... 100 132% 133%
' Do. Bristol & Glouces. 48
) Norfolk Extension • • all 16 —l7
po. guar. 5% per cent, all 4% "• 4% i
Do. Waveney Valley .. 2
North British .. „. A 4% 635 4%
Oaf. Wor. &IN 01. 151.6 p.c 4 I% —134 p I
i Shrewsbury and Bina.
New Guaranteed .. all i
10% 11 11% % :
1 Shrews. and Ches. (Nor.
W. Min.) 8 per cent. all 14% 15%
12 —l4 I
South Devon ..
South-Eastern, 434 p. ct. 10 Waterford &Kilkenny, 5L 1 •..
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Do. 2d Class de. (par) all
York, Newc., and Berw,, ..
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D 0... all 16 1635 a
York and North Midland 4 435 h
U. and S. Purch. .. 10 1% 1 41/8.
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Boulogne and Amiens .. ail 9 9% 9% h
Central of France (Or-
leans and Vicrzon) .. all 18 184 18!5 % g
Demerara . .. •.. all • • —• • tf
Dutch Rhenish .. .. 8 5% 5 dis. 2%
East Indian .. .. • • 16 2% 234 P. of
Do. do. do. 20
Great Indian Peninsnla • . all 44 —% P• B
Ditto ditto .. 2% %—% 14
Louvain ala Sambre . 735 N •
Luxembourg .... ••. a •ii —1 LI
Ditto .. .. •• 10 2% —2% 23%
Madrid and Valentia . 11.
Maria Antonia .. 171 6
Ditto, New .. ..
Namur and Liege .. • • all 6% —6% 6% % EL
Northern of France • •16 14% —l5 CO
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Orleans and Bordeaux .. 8 4i4 4 dia. 3Nt
Paris and Orleans •• • • all 33 —85 all 24% 2614 25 Ne
Paris and Rouen • • • •
16 54 —6% dis : •
Paris and Strasbourg • •
all 94 —9% '
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Rouen and Havre .. ••
all 3% •••• 3%
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Sambre and Meuse • •
16 9 .... 8% dh. Tours and Nantes •• • •
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MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
8 D
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
[s4g The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
-49G 55
mated at 8,000 bales, of which 1,000 American and 500
Surat, were taken for export, and 500 American on
speculation. The sales comprised 6,500 American, 100
Pernam and Maranham, at 61d. to 74d.; 100 Bahia, at
61d. to 6id ; 150 Egyptian, at 6k 1. to 7}d.; 1,000 Surat,
at 20. to 4id.; and 20 Sea Island, at 11d. to ls. per lb.
The market closed firmly with American nearly id.
[123% per lb. higher.—Railway Shares were firm at slightly
14 24 advanced rates.
The six weeks' average price of Wheat is 38s. 10d. per
(83 quarter, and the sales have been 88,203 quarters.
,2j 84 Much has been said and written about Customs' abuses
and frauds, and there can be no doubt that good cause
for vigilance exists, and that the revenue has suffered
greatly, not alone by the smuggling of the dishonest
trader, but likewise by the connivance of the officers ap•
pointed to protect it. What is now being brought under
Espii the notice of Parliament and of the public is, however,
Is 52 of a totally different character, being neither more nor
less than allegations of utter disregard to principles of
justice and habits of business on the part of the adminis-
trative body of the Customs—the Commissioners. One
might also say, from the powers with which the Board
is invested, that it is both legislative and executive
in its functions, and a more arbitrary or
carless exercise of gigantic powers it is
scarcely possible to conceive. The fault is inherent
in the system of appointing these responsible parties,
and one is at a loss to conceive how business can have
so long been conducted under such arrangements with-
out exciting the irresistible feeling that has lately arisen
among the mercantile body, who will, we feel persuaded,
never rest satisfied until there is a thorough reform.
The prosecution of the Dock Companies has brought
the matter to a crisis when it might have smouldered for
a long time to come; and the committee of merchants
formed to accelerate a re-modelling of our Customs' ad-
df,dig: ministration is working with that zeal and energy so
peculiar to Englishmen when once aroused, though so
difficult in the first instance to excite. The time of our
commercial men is too valuable not to prove always a
preventive of frivolous complaints. The committee
have published a further series of cases as follows:
" 1. Instances in which, through mistake or igno-
rance of the merchant, higher than the legal duties have
been exacted, and all redress or restitution withheld.
" 2. The deliberate defiance of their own laws by the
% Board and the Treasury; and their encouragement of
mere speculative seizures for ad valorem duties by the
officers to promote the profit of Custom-house sales, to
the sacrifice of the business of the merchant.
" 3. Most oppressive and vindictive accumulations
of prosecutions against meritorious public officers, upon
whom ruinous expenses are heaped for indictments
which are proved to be unfounded by their failure; while
no redress is given for the wrong.
" 4. Seizures of wholesale imports of goods liable to
ad valorem duties, on the speculation of realising a profit,
by converting the Custom-house into a huckster's shop
for selling at retail prices,
" 5. Seizure of British goods as of foreign manu-
facture, and combinations of the officers to intimidate
st 20 the merchant into abandonment of his lawful property,
virtually abetted by the refusal of all redress by the
Treasury.
" 6. Finical officiousness, and overlaying the intel-
ligent discharge of reasonable duty with martinet strin-
gency.
" 7. Wresting the powers of the law to the oppression
of the labouring poor.
'• "8. The punishment of mere ignorance with the
penalties of fraud; churlish official bearing, especially
towards foreigners; and unnecessary delays, expensive
to the public."
This little recapitulation of instances will serve to
illustrate what upon a future occasion it may be neces-
sary to refer to more in detail.
The English Stock Market has been very firm again,
and the advance which occurred yesterday afternoon has
been supported, although the amount of business done has
not been large. Consols have realized 98 to al for Transfer
and 98k to f for Account. The New Three-and-a-
Quarter per Cents. have been 982- i. The Transfer
Books for Consols close this afternoon, Bank Stock has
been at 2114 to 212 i. Exchequer-bills have been 435.
to 465., and India Bonds 525, to 535. premium.
In the Foreign Market tho settlement of the half-
monthly account is in progress. Mexican Bonds have
been at 3.1,1 to and Peruvian Five per Cents, at 87i- to
88, being steady. Spanish Five per Cents, have realized
20k and the Three per Cents. 40} to Portuguese
Four per Cents. have been at 34 Venezuela Stock has
realized 32k. Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents, are
914 to 92, and Russian 104 There is, as yet, no
speculation for the New Account.
The last week's Railway Receipt!, ascertained up to
this day, aro in round figures as under:-
1851. 1850.
Great Western... £25,183 ... £17,291
North-Western 58,455 ~, 48,277
South-Western ~,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,• 15,419 ... 11,068
Brighten
Midland
4
2148
South-Eastern
North Stafford.
,322
Caledonian
The above excellent traffic returns have imparted no
stimulus to speculative dealings in railway shares, and
the quotations have not been buoyant. The business
doing is very limited.

Consols ...
..
Ditto Account, July 17

QUARTER TO THREE.
... 98
PRICES OF BRITISONE CLOSING
II FUNDS O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock ............................ 2121, 2112113/4 3 per Cent. Reduced Anne.
3 per Cont. Consols Annuities...
New 84 per Cent. Anns-........
Long Anna. to expire Jan. i 8601 7 5-16 7 5-16 Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 7 9-16 7 9-16
India Bonds, 1,0004__,,..,.,, 53 52 p 52 p
0 ) neols for Acc0unt................. "' 98%Ni 98 1/2
Exchequer Bills.
I%d.
I,OOOL .................... . ........ 46 43 p
500/. ................
Small. .. ......... ....
... ....... .. .............. 43 47 p

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PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'cLN owt.
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839
Equador Bonds
Mexican, 5 per Cent.lB46, with Coupons—,
Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons ......, F,4%
Ditto, Account .....
Peruvian Bonds, 5 per Cent... 87% 68
Ditto, Deferred
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Ditto, 4 per Cent.
Russian Bonds
Ditto, 4% per Cent
Spanish 5 per Cont. 1840 20%
Ditto Account
Ditto, Passive
Ditto. 3 per Cent
Venesuela Bonds, 214 per Cent 321/2
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian, 5 per Cent.
Belgian, 4% per Cent.
Dutch 2% per Cent. 12 Guild —

42 p

43 p
42 p
CLOSING
PRICES.

87!i,
31

34%
3474
8734
42

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DA Y.)
LONDON, JUNE 12.—Wind at noon W., fresh galo and
cloudy, with rain at times.
17.—The Jasich Austrian barque
PENANG, APRIL
has just arrived frromthethe west coast of Sumatra, bring.
murder of the master and two
ing intelligenc° •E). barque Clementine, by the natives,
mates of the Sicilian
who made off with 20,000 dollars. We hear also that
recaptured by two American vessels,
who made
herhow
overas
to two French ships, and Was afterwards sent
on to Bourbon.
ELSINORE,the JUNE
wino he Neptune steamer, which was
afternoon, and will Probablye towed up to Copen-
b
ha en in the course of the night.
LLANELLY, JUNE I I.—The Sea Adventure b
Shoreham, bound to Londonnarque, d
bankof
,
hold.
and has come into harbour with four feet water in her
FAIIO, JuNii 3.---The Swallow, Cadiz to Sydney, C. 8.,
got on shore on the sands here ','Oth May; got off after
throwing part of cargo overboard, and making 40 inches
of water per hour; has been surveyed, and will discharge.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE ,11.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Eliza
Bell, Mauritius; Columbus, New Orleans; William
Nelson, ditto; Rosetta, St. Stephen's, New Brunswick;
Lochinvar, St. John's, New Brunswick. Off port, Con-
fucius, China; Dickey Sam, Callao; Albert Gallaton;
William, Alexandria. Sld. Johannes, Rio Janeiro;
Eunornia, Bolivar; Catharine, Staten Island; Puea,
Cunso; Rossevean, ditto; Rhondda, Buenos Ayres;
Nuovo Pluto, Rio Janeiro; Eliza, ditto; Arctic steamer,
New York; President, Boston; Legusta, ditto.
DEAL, JENA 11.—Wind N. W. to S.—Acrd.
Callao;
Gustave,
New York; Chantley Castle, Colombo; Juno,
Rico.no, C
Cleopatra, Barbadoss; Andre et Celeste, Porto
Arrd. from the River, Phosnecian, Sydney, New South
Wales; Statesman, Port Philip. Arrd. from the River
r
and old. eptuaigdore, Clyde and Yozi rboip ae. Ae

_AIL COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco before Mr. Justice Wlctil'MA-i')
,/
CRIMINAL INFORMATION AGAINST " PUNCH."'"4I"-
BRADBURY AND ANOTHER.
Mr. BADDELEY applied to the Court for a rule calla, „air
upon Messrs. Bradbury and Evans, the printers and 510.
fishers of Punch, to show cause why a criminal in
tion should not issue against them for a libel contain tbs
in their newspaper of the 19th of April last tiPloy,
Rev. Mr. Peter Daly, Roman Catholic priest of G 6 tics.
in Ireland, on whose behalf he made the apPlic,ilgoid,
Mr. Daly was a gentleman, the Learned Counsel iota
of the highest character and respectability, who bad 0 a
a resident in Gala ay for upwards of 30 years. lie wows
priest of the Roman Catholic Church, and was 8180101,0
as the vicar of the diocese of :Galway, to
irl
office he was elected by the Roman Catholic la
ce
of that diocese upwards of twenty years ago, stand
which he had had under his spiritual care,
superintendence a population of upwards of ten tilf6
sand souls. He had also the honour of filling sec' rof
offices in Galway, he being ono of the commissioners
the town appointed under the local Act of Perin's:lls
for the regulation of the town, en office to which be ',Ts
elected about three years ago by the other commissioner
under the Act. He also held the situation of bat's,.
commissioner of the town under the provisions Gl,O
other local Act of Parliament, to which he was elect
by the other commissioners, and he was lastly a diresiet
of the Galway Gas-light and Coke Company. In„,ocle
the situation which he held in society was such a' 7; Of
it important, not only for himself but for the betic"' be
those under his care, that his character should noto
or
o
wantonly assailed, or if it was assailed, that be ids° ~
adopt the earliest and most effectual measure
oigi
vindicating his reputation. It appeared soy
the affidavits which had been filed in "
port of this motion that his attention was called te
about the end of April, some ten days after the bb:iha
question had been published; he procured a copy al
paper and found to his dismay that it contained Pa' graph reflecting seriously and wantonly on his character'
the writer taking advantage of the attacleto assail throng,
him the sacred nature of the religion of which the lebe
Gentleman was a professor. The libel professed to
a commentary upon the report of a speech sq;
posed to have been delivered by Mr. PB„ir
a;
at a public dinner held in Galway. M,
fessed to set out part of that speech in which '"
Daly was supposed to have stated that he had prop tat
on come former occasion to urge upon the country ti'd.
a certain number of persons should be sent to Englall
namely, 40 to Liverpool, 30 to Bristol, and 30 to Port'
mouth for the purpose of setting fire to the ships 'r
i
those harbours, and thereby, if possible, destroying
„be
Majesty's Government. The
paper assumed that tilt'
Daly had made this speech, and then it proceeded
to comment upon not only Mr. Da] 's character:
but upon the religion of which he was a priest
and professor. Now the affidavits would show the
Court that Mr. Daly never directly or indirectly made
any such speech, or made any such recommendation,
but he held all such proceedings in the utmost abhor'
rence and indignation. The libel was set out in the
affidavits and the paragraph in question, which occurred
in page 156 of the paper published on the 19th of April
last, which was as follows
:
"A CHRISTIAN HERO.—HIS CROSS AND LLTIFER.BOX.
" The world knows nothing of its greatest man, 00
Poet Taylor; Poet Wordsworth—see Excursion—having
said the same thing before him. Here is the Rev. Peter
Daly, Catholic priest of the town of Galway, burning
like a lamp in a sepulchre, when h© ought to shine like
a star in the firmament. Daly made a truly heroic
speech—a real potecn oration—last week at a dinner in Galway; in which speech ho crumbled Lord John Ens;
sell to dust, crumbled him as a giant's fingers weak'
crumble pound-cake. And then Daly said that in '43
he had given advice that would have
overturned EW land—

" proposed that there should be taken a hundred
picked men—each man lihe himself: I—and that forty of
these should be sent to Liverpool, thirty to Bristol, and
thirty to Portsmouth, and on a certain day and hour to
set fire
blow to and burn down the English fleet! and at one
destroy the Government.'
" The proposal was heroic; but where get a hundred
men of such sublime, ennobling powers as priest Daly W whether even Ireland—prolific mother of
Christian heroes—could supply them. Nevertheless, ill'
meiennd. is uplifted and enlarged by a contemplation of the
picture painted in flames by the hero that might have
b Beautiful, too, to imagine the advent of Daly to
our shores; to see him—the teacher of peace and good-
will to all men—with his cross and his lucifer-box, land
on the quay of all.unconscious Liverpool; to watch him
with his midnight, panther tread, stealing down to the
docks, and then—and then to see the heavens red With
eonflagration !
" Ought we not to love Ireland, that gives us such
priestly goodness—ought we not to hug to our bosoms a
faith of which such men are the depositaries, and ought
we not as Englishmen to be especially proud of the con-
tempt—the offspring of our strength—that takes DO
more heed of the gabble of such wretches than the lion
heeds the vermin that shelter in his mane?"
Now, of course (the Learned Counsel continued), it
could not be necessary for him to comment upon that
passage in the paper as being a most gross attack upon
Mr. Daly, while there could be no doubt at all that
Mr. Daly was the person pointed at, because the pa'
ragraph distinctly called him the Rev. Mr. Daly, of
Galway. The affidavit stated that there was no other
person of that name residing in Galway, nor was there
any other Roman Catholic praa,t, named Daly,
living within the county of 64iwa.,,
and there
could, therefore, be no doubt that Mr. Daly
was the person intended. There could be no
doubt, also, of the libel being calculated not unly seriously
to affect his character, but to destroy his means of use-
fulness, and, if possible, to rain him altogether. Indeed,
several malicious parties had cut out slips from the
paragraph, and sent them anony-
paper containing this
en(Atsly to various persons of rank and station in
Galway, thinking, no doubt, to expose the reverend
gentleman to obloquy and scandal. Nothing could be
more complete than the way in which the reverend
gentleman denied ever having uttered such a sentiment,
or ever having in the remotest degree entertained
it for a single moment; and, therefore, it was
perfectly clear that the paragraph was a most atrocious
and wanton attack upon his character. It was also
without the slightest foundation, because the affidavits
would show his Lordship that a little while before the
libel was published a public dinner was given at GaFway,
at Wiii9l3 Gcrs4ll4 6PM140.9 Were Made which Wen GU re'