The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-15 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY EVENING,

in petty trade shall be conducted exclusively on the
numerary system whenever it does not exceed the
sum of 10 florins. The commission therefore pro-
poses that small copper coins of the value of
kreutzer, I ditto, 1 kreutzer, and 2 ditto, shall be
issued ; silver coins of the value of 5, 10, and
20 kreutzers, and of 1 and 2 florins ; said
gold coin of 5, 10, and 20 florins. The com-
mission also unanimously recommends that only one
species of paper money shall be put in circulation for
facilitating large negotiations, and that there shall be
a guarantee that these notes can be at any time
changed by the holder, at the national and branch
banks, for the coin of the realm ; that the only paper
money in circulation shall consist of that issued by
the National Bank, and that these notes shall not be
issued at a lower rate than ten florins.

HOLLAND.
THS HAGUE, MAT 11.—The Handelabad says :
" We learn from an authentic source that the Go-
vernment does not intend to dissolve the Second
Chamber after the adoption of the electoral and other
organic lawa which now occupy the States-General.
It is rather intended that there shall be a short session
in the middle of September. The First Chamber, on
the other hand, will be dissolved in order to its re-
election by the provincial states.—Journal du Com-
merce, May 13.

TURKEY.
Accounts from Constantinople of the 27th ult.
state that the insurrection in the Island of Samos
had again broken out. Disturbances have also oc-
curred at Bagdad and in the Syrian cities.

THE lONIAN ISLANDS.
The Gazetta di Corfu of the 27th ult. publishes a
Parliamentary resolution, confirmed by the Lord
High Commissioner, by which all goods transported
by the Austrian Lloyd steamer from Corfu, Cepha-
lonia, and &rite are exempted from the Customs duty
of fire per cent. formerly imposed.

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ars market. It has sent up the price of -yarns lAd.
to V.—) and in some instances even more, over the rate of
this day week. The consequence has been an almost total
stagnation in the yarn market. Except for the East India
market (numbers ranging from 50's up to 90's and 100's,
upon which of course the advance in the price of cotton is
not so couch felt) few purchases have been made. In lower
numbers, unless it may be for the completion of pressing
orders, under contract, little or nothing has been done. The
goods market has experienced little alteration in prices. The
demand for shirtings is tolerably good, 36 and 40-inch T
cloths are dull of sale, and decidedly unremunerative.
Taßisuss Timm—Exactly twelve months since
we announced the fact of a large amount of treasure being
found in an old clipper, bought by two watermenafter being
engaged in the coal trade, but which craft had been captured
several years previously when engaged in that abominable
traffic the slave trade. It gives ns great pleasure in an-
nouncing that the same good luck has fallen to the share of
her Majesty's steam-sloop Cormorant, Commander H.
Schomberg, one of whose prizes, an empty slave barque of.
382 tout arrived at St. Helena on the 6th Mitch last, in
charge of Mr. G. C. Smith, master's assistant of the above
steam-sloop. The barque had had a tedious passage of
forty-eight-days from the Brazils, but the voyage was
somewhat enlivened by the discovery of between five and
six thousand dollars headed up in a farinha cask: She was
the third prise made since the Cormorant arrived on the
station, but the first sent to the prize court at St. Helena for
condemnation, the others being burnt, unseaworthy.—Nau-
heal Standard.
Posr-orricE NOTICE.—The following notice has
been sent to the deputy-postmasters, by command of the
Postmaster-General :—General Post-office, May, 12, 1850.--
It is found that many postmasters still forward, on the
Saturday night, in their "London through" bundles, letters
and newspapers which ought to be kept over for the dispatch
to London of the following day, via., letters for London and
the London district; letters for foreign parts; inland letters,
prepaid by money; unpaid letters; letters for Guernsey and
Jersey; and newspapers. Particular attention must be paid
to the previous instructions, which direct that the " London
through" bundles are to contain none but stamped forward
letters, and the State's or Government letters. INF° registered
letters, unpaid letters, or letters pre-paid by money, or news.
papers, are to be sent, nor any letters addressed to London
or the London district, except the Government letters.
Postmasters at the outports must, however, forward to Lan-
don, as usual, all foreign, colonial, and ship letters landed at
those ports.

ILL-TREATMENT OF A LUNATIC.—Kingston-upon-
Thames has been in a state of excitement in consequence
of certain facts brought to light a few days back by a brick.
layer and his labourers in their repairs of a house. It ap-
pears that whilst these men were at work a young woman
opened a window, and communicated to them that she had
been imprisoned in a room at the top of a house for several
years and treated as a lunatic by her relations, and that her
incarceration was in consequence of certain claims to pro-
perty under her father's will. The report made by the
bricklayer and his men caused considerable sensation in
the town, and in consequence of what transpired the business
was brought before the magistrates, who, after an investiga-
tion, instructed their clerk (Mr. Jemmett) to see that the
young woman was forthwith removed to a more comfortable
and healthy apartment, that she had not only medical but
other attendance, that her diet should be such as was proper
and nutritious, and that she should have out-door exercise
when necessary, and these regulations they insisted on ; and
they did not separate without expressing their acknowledg-
ment of the services rendered by the parochial authorities
and police.
LONDON HOSPITAL MEDICAL ScitooL.—The me•
dais and honorary certificates awarded for the past winter
session were publicly distributed on Tuesday, May 14, in the
library of the hospital, Mr. C. B. Stutfield, chairman of the
house committee, presiding. Hospital gold medali, presented
by the governors of the hospital for zeal and humanity in
attendance on the patients:—Medical—Henry Hanks, Bath.
Surgical—George Cochrane Millar, Finsbury. Medicine—
Senior class—Gold medal - Robert Brudenell Carter, Tiver-
ton. Honorary certificate—Thomas Peete, Margate. Junior
class—Silver medal—Alfred Adams Mantel', Bilton. Hono-
rary certificate—Ridley Porter, Bishopsgate. Surgery—
Senior class—Gold medal—George Edmund Smale, Ply-
mouth. Honorary certificate—William Thomas Bell, Great
Grimsby. Junior class.=Silver medal—Robert Brudenell
Carter. Anatomy and Physiology—Senior class--Gold
medal—Alonzo Henry Stocker, Chelsea; George Edmund
Smale, Plymouth. Chemistry—First silver medal—William
Horder Sheppard. Shaftesbury. Second silver medal—Tho-
mas Busby Jeffs, Finsbury. Forensic Medicine—Silver
medal—Alonzo Henry Stocker. Honorary certificate—
Bernard Charles Beale, Bow. Botany—Silver medal—
Alonzo Henry Stocker. Honorary certificate—William
Henry Harris, Barnstaple; Owen Jeffries Llewellyn, Fuel-
dington, Devon.
PARLIAMEE TART Rzroum.—A meeting of the
Bethnal-green Reform Society was held on Monday evening,
at the Norfolk Arms, William-street, Bethnal-green, which
was numerously attended; Mr. Joseph Dean in fhe chair.
Mr. Hackman, one of the delegates to the National Reform
Conference, made his report, which was approved and
adopted. The meeting then proceeded to take into consi-
deration the principal objects of the society, which were to
obtain the elective franchise for all persons living in houses
for which the landlord pays the rates and taxes, without the
necessity of claiming to be rated to every rate made during
the four quarters of the year. The chairman stated that a
Bill had been prepared by Sir William Clay to remedy the
evil, who was now in communication with the Government
and the law officers of the Crown on the subject. Mr. Wick-
ham urged upon the meeting the importance of watching
most closely the progress of this Bill, which there was too
much reason to fear would be rendered nugatory by the Go-
vernment officials. The naeeting resolved to act upon Mr.
Wlckhain's suggestion.
SIR R. PEEL AND MR. ICHARSEY. Mr. Kear
sey having written to Sir Robert Peel that he had been
seventeen years a farmer, and yet never earned so mach dur-
ing that time as in the seventeen last months since he be-
came a trader, Sir R. Peel has caused the following reply to
be sent :—" John Kearsey, Esq., Warnford, Bishop's Wal-
tham, Hants.—Sir,—l.am directed by Sir Robert Peel to
acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 30th March,
and to thank you., for its communication. You observe that
you gained more money in seventeen months' trading than
you had gained in seventeen years' farming of a good estate
in Barks, of 5,0001. stocking, and that farming has long been
an unprofitable trade. During the seventeen years of farm-
ing to which you refer, or a very considerable portion of the
time, there were high duties on, the import of foreign agri-
cultural produce, and yet they did not avail to secure you
a profitable return on your capital and skill applied to farm.
ing ; he concludes, therefore, that you would not look to the
restoration of such duties as a remedy for agricultural dis-
tress.— I ant, sir, your most obedient servant, A. W. PEEL....
Drayton Manor, April 1."
INSPECTION OF TED HOUSEEOLD Tnoors.--(Tuze
DAY.) —The fineness of the weather this morning attracted A
vast crowd of spectators to witness the inspection of the
Household Troops, which took place in the presence of his
Grace the Commander-in-Chief, his Royal Highness Prince
'tAhlebeak CeborfatiCearmdblrilid.egeF,4CsiloleoenreGl oufartdhe his Royal Highness
Coldstream Guards,
and a brilliant staff of officers. The troops looked extremely
clean and healthy, and went through their evolutions with
marked precision and nicety.
PETTY SESSIONS CLERKS (IRELAND).—From a
return ordered by the House of Commons it appears 'that the
number of petty sessions in Ireland is 595, which furnish
employment to 555 clerks, 47 of whom hold two, and 7 three
petty sessions. The amount of fees paid to clerks was,
1849, 16,2011.155. 10d.
THE RinNons BILL SYSTEM.—Lieutenant Arthur
Royal
Artillery,lroncondition
that he should
was yesterday dis-
chargedappropriate a certain sum from his pay for the liquidation of
Wiiliam
by the I ofn sotlhveenEt
his debts. The cause of his insolvency was the acceptance
of various accommodation bills for a brother officer, Lieute-
nant Burchell, who is alse in prison. The Jew bill-dis•
coonters obtained, by this abominable system, from these
young men bills sad securities to the amount of 775/, the
money advanced for which amounted to only 80!. The tuna-
actions only extended over the space of a year.
At the Lambeth Police-court yesterday the corp.
dramatiqus of a penny theatre, recently opened UI Lock's-
fields, were sentenced to 20s. fine, or fourteen days' imprison-
ment each, for performing without a licence.
Sidney Robert Sparked and Charles Stanley,
alias Nixon, charged with having in various instances ob-
tained money under the false pretence of providing persons
with situations—with being, in short, keepers of a sham
agency office—were yesterday remanded from Bow-street.
Mr. Jardine refused to admit them to bail.

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Greenwich, was 29'577. The mean temperature was 46'7
deg., and was less by 54 deg. than the average of the same
week in seven years. On every day it was less than the
average, but especially on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
and Thursday, when the decrease was from seven to nine
degrees. The wind was generally in the north-cast and
south-west.

The body of a Custom-house officer, named Sta.
pleford, whose disappearance from the Dutch brig Pallas, at
Portsmouth, about two months since, caused considerable
excitement was picked up floating near the shore off Hayling
Island, on Sunday last.
In the -Bankruptcy Court yesterday Mr. Commis-
sioner Fonblangne adjourned the examination of Henry Rose
sine die, and refused him protection fur a single hour. The
bankrupt had carried on busnets in Mancheater Asa brewer.

MAY

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TW 0 O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 6,000 bales, of which 1,000 American were
taken for export, and 3,000 on speculation. The market
closed firmly with American nearly id. per lb. higher.—
The market for Railway Shares opened firmly at former
rates, but closed rather heavily.
In the Corn Market to-day prices are firm.
A larger demand has arisen for Sugar, and the quota-
tions are better supported.
The public sales of Indigo, comprising 12,214 chests,
began last evening, and are proceeding rather quietly.
The qualities of the Bengal, as we are advised by Messrs.
Wilkinson and Jewesbury, well-known brokers in the
trade, are about three fourths middling and ordinary,
and one-fourth good and fine; the Madras one-ihird
ordinary, and two-thirds good and fine; the Kurpah,
two-thirds middling ordinary, and one-third good and
fine; the Java very fine; tha;Manilla oldinury, with one
or two chests good; the Bombay very ordinary. The
room presented rather a thin attendance both of
foreign and home buyers. The sales opened
with a parcel of fine Bengal, consisting of 306
sheds of the mark I. and R. W., and was about
half sold at 3d. per lb. above January rates; prices were
from 3s. 9d. to ss. 4d. per lb., but without competition;
there was only one cheat at the former price, the chief
proportion ranging above 4s. 9d. per lb. The advance
upon Kurpah and Madras has l:ren full 31 to 4d. per lb.,
and these rates ruled throughout yesterday. 1,187 chests
passed yesterday, of which 217 were withdrawn, 210
bought in, and 760 sold.

It is understood that the Canada Reciprocity Bill,
which was some time since re-committed to the Com-
mittee on Commerce, in the United States Legislature,
will be again reported to the House, together with a
correspondence between the Committee on Commerce
and the Secretary of State, and between the Secretary
of State and the British Minister, in which the British
Minister communicates to the American Government
his power to pledge they British Government to open the
river St. Lawrence and the adjacent canals, to Ameri-
can citizens and to American shipping. This cor-
respondence was instituted by the Committee on Com-
merce, to avoid the necessity of introducing into the
Reciprocity Bill any feature which could make this Bill
in itself a measure of reciprocity with the Imperial
Government, and thus open the same privileges
to other nations with:,whicti the Unitod States have
commercial treaties containing the clause commonly
called " the most favoured nation clause," that is, the
clause which promises to put the nation with which the
treaty is concluded on the terms of the most favoured
nation. The pledge of the British Minister is considered
full and satisfactory, and the whole region of the north-
west is deeply interested in this privilege.
The unfair and shuffling conduct of certain of the direc-
tors of the Madrid and Valencia Railway excites the
highest degree of indignation in .the City, , but does not
discourage the shareholders in their belief of ultimate
and entire satisfaction for past disappointments. A
party interested writes as follows:

"Sir,—As you have in your valuable paper ex-
posed the proceedings of the Madrid end Valencia
Railway Company, I expected before now you would
have stated what steps have been taken against the di-
rectors, individually and collectively, to secure the
110,0001. they have to account for, according to a stet, -
went published by a Mr. E H. Linda, the only item in
which it appears to me they can object to is the 9,0001.
for interest on the 75,0004 for if they have been wing
' the money tor 'their own purpose, they may not like to
pay interest for it. All that has yet beers shown against
it is, the secretary swears that about 3.000 shares have
been bought in with the company's money, at about 11.
per share. Mr. Waley committed a gross error in de-
claring that part of the 3,7001. received from the
bank was taken i) pay the six millions Spanish
stock, the cost of which is oharesi in the
account rendered to the 31st of December, 1846.
Nor can it be supposed the Spanish Government
would give up one security before it had another. The
secretary declares Mr. Chadwick received the interest
on.tbat stock, which is about 1.900/. per annum. Care
should be taken to prevent any of the directors getting
out of the jurisdiction of the court. Let them prove
, their set-off to the account. As to Mr. Rose's claim, it
is all fudge; when his account is examined it will be
found Mr. C., his kind father-in-law, has overpaid him,
for the company cannot have to pay fur Pattison, Wells,
Neale, and others; he must look to his clients. As to
the books, they are of minor consideration after Mr. L.'s
plain account; probably they may only be duplicates of
the. North Wales Company's. It is therefore to be
hoped that the official manager and his solicitor will
lose no time in securing the large amount proved to be
due by all the directors.
" May 15, 1850. " A SHAREHOLDER."
We adverted a few days since to the imperative ne•
cessity of a generous line of policy being adopted to-
wards the railway companies, which are nearly crushed
by improvident engagements formerly contracted, and it
is highly pleasing to see that the holders of Caledonian
preference stock have come forward to set an excellent ex-
ample by a voluntary sacrifice of part of their indisput-
ableclaims. The difference to them may notprove serious,
but to the company it will be most valuable, and we
trust the other guaranteed creditors will act in a like

The Funds are very steady. and the signal defeat of
the Protectionists counteracts the still unsettled cha-
racter of the French news. Consols are 96* to for
Transfer, and 96i j for Account. Exchequer-bills are
68s. to 71s. premium. Bank Stock is firm at 206 f.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Five per Cents. are
17j -a, and the Three per Cents. 37k. Another good
remittance, about 70,000 dollars, is advised as being on
board the Medway" steamer, for the dividends on
Mexican Bonds, which are now quoted 29e Peru-
vian Active have touched 74} and 75i.
Railway Shares are not fully supported, but look well
generally.

15, 1850.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, MAY 15.—Wil:d at (10011' N.N.W.. freF
breeze and fine, but cloudy ar tames. Bacon] 30 (Fair
PARIS, MAY 15.—The Suns Souci, sld from Pond.
cherry on the 10th of October last, bound to Reunion,
and had not reached her destination on the 22d cf
February. The Viadiiner left Rd.whelle on the 27th of
January, bound to New York, and had not reached
that port on the 20th of April.
BANGOR, MAY 14.—A large piece of a vessel's stern,
with " Waterwitch " in gilt letters on it, was picked up a
few days since in Redwharf Bay.
LIMERICK, MAY 13. Wind N.W. Sld. Mercers,
New York ; Lively, Boston ; Victoria, Quebec; Tom
Bowline, Quebec.
LONDONDERRY.—SId.Leander, New York.

SHIELDS, MAY 14.—Wind N.E.—SId. Aphrodite,
Ce% ton; Sea Nymoh. Boston.
DEAL. MAY 14.—Wind N.W. to W. and W.S.W.—
Arrd. tlurchaie, St. Kitt's. Arra. from the River,
Eleanor. Barbadoes; Caroline_, Jamaica.
PORTSMOUTH. MAY 14.—Wind W. to N.W.—Sld.
Plenty, Mtramicbi.
LIVERPOOL. IlAy 14.—Wind W.N.W. to N.N.W.—
Sld. Avoca, Panama; St. Helier, Rio Grande. Off
port, Martha, Sh&tllcross, Buenos Ayres.
PLYMOUTU, MAY 14.—Wind N.—Sld. Emily, Ade-
laide and Port Philip.
FALMOUTH, MAY 14.—Wind N.—Arrd. Somerset-
shire, Symons, Sierra Leone.

NEWPORT, MAY 13.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Mary Melia,
Boston, United States.

WHITSTABLE, MAY I4.—Three sails, marked " Guil-
ford, sailmaker, N. Shields" have been seizA, supposed
to have been taken from a vessel lost on the Whittaker
Sand. A wood stocked anchor, marked " Esttr, Lon-
don," and 30fms. chain, have been landed; also, an iron-
stocked anchor of 7 cwt., and 45 fors of chain, taken
up half-a-mile E. of Shivering Sand.