The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-27 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 27, 18,50.

greatest number?" The Machiavellian rule, divide
et impera, has long been acted on by every Govern-
ment, and the people but too willingly ran
into the snares that were spread for them.
While such was the case, while party could
be set against party, and class arrayed against class,
the people were ignorant of their real strength and
power. They neutralised the exertions of one ano-
ther, and prevented the attainment of objects desired
by all by their mutual jealousies. That this will
no longer be the case, that there will henceforward be
a judicious and well•devised organization and co-
operation of "the many," the proceedings of the Con-
ference afford the strongest promise.
Such assemblages are at all times eminently useful.
They awaken the masses to a sense of the wrongs
under which they are suffering, and the nature of the
remedies that must be applied. Each delegate re-
turns to his own locality animated with a double
portion of zeal and anxiety to promote the good cause ;
he becomes a missionary, whose chief object is to
instil a knowledge of sound principles into the inha-
bitants of his own district. On his return he will
have much to tell to his associates that must excite
the deepest interest. He will speak of the veteran
JOSEPH HumE,who for thirty-two years has laboured
earnestly and efficiently—aho commenced his politi •
cal career when it was unfashionable to be a Rs-
former, and when any effort to ameliorate
the condition of the many was locked upon as a most
Utopian and Quixotic attempt, that might safely be
treated with contempt and ridicule. He will tell of,
the gradual change that took place when rotten
boroughs were disfranchised, and the first instalment
of Parliamentary reform was conceded, until at
length the Hon. Gentleman has attained a position
and influence not exceeded by any Member on either
side of the House. The application may easily be
deduced. There is no question based on equity and jus-
tice that will not ultimately triumph. However dark
and gloomy may be its: present prospects, however
apathetic and indifferent the poeple, truth will even-
tually prevail. He will also speak cf the leaders of
the " League," of those who first met in a' small
back room in Manchester, and who, undeterred by
the paucity of their numbers, or by other circum-
stances that might well have discouraged men of an
ordinary stamp, entered upon a crusade against the
iniquitous bread-tax, and ultimately prevailed against
the united forces of the advocates of monopoly and
protection—c f those who style themselves the
't territorial aristocracy of the United Kingdom."
He will state how he mingled with Cobden,
Bright, and Crawford, with Hume and Fox and
Walmsley, with Heyworth, the two Thompsons, and
Kershaw, and with Lord Dudley Stuart, who,
although by birth one of the ancient aristocracy, has
ever arrayed himself on the popular side, who has
been the able aslvocate of civil and religious liberty,
the tried friend of suffering humanity in every part of
the world, and whose efforts on behalf of wronged and
dismembered Poland, and liberal and disinterested
assistance to the exiled patriots of that unhappy land,
have given him an European reputation.
All these things will be narrated by the returned
delegates, and the one meeting to which we are now
alluding will give rise to hundreds throughout the
country. To hundreds did we say ? Aye to thou-
sands ; for not only will each man have to detail the
entire proceedings to the association by which he was
selected, but he will be followed for weeks after his
return by hundreds of his associates, and each
day will he hate to narrate his adventures
to new atnlitories. The urgent necessity of
combined exertion will be thus forcibly impressed
on the minds of all, and they will learn the discipline
and tactics without which it is vain to hope for suc-
cess. These unquestionable advantages will be
achieved by the judicious course adopted by the
Council of the National Parliamentary and Finan-
cial Reform Association in calling together the con-
fsrence, and inviting the attendance of representatives
from every association to devise the best means of
giving a proper impulse to the public mind, and to
mature a system through which the wishes of the
people might be best forced upon the attention of the
Legislature.

In Monday evening's impression of our journal we
shall publish in extenso the whole of the Government
Metropolitan Bill for the enactment of regulations
regarding extramural interments. The readers of The
Sun will thereby be enabled to examine the sixty-six
clauses of the measure fir themselves, and to recog•
nice the justice with which we have inveighed
against the principles incorporated in the scheme pro-
jected by the Administration.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have rec€ ived the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Court of Cassation has given a judgment
which virtually re-establishes the Censorship of the
Press, or, more properly spesking, which gives to the
Prefect of Police the power of suppressing every
evening journal : it has decided that the sale of
journals is illegal not only outside a shop or in the
streets, but even inside a shop, without an express
authorization of the Prefect of Police. Thus M.
CARLIER has the power of prohibiting the sale of
every newspaper except to subscribers ; and he has
prohibited the sale in shops of the Evenenzent and the
Estafette, neither of which journals have been either
convicted, or even prosecuted. This great defender of pro-
party is therefore endeavouring to confiscate tbe property
of the proprietors of these journals. This conduct is
pursued by M. CARLIER for the purpose, it is said,
of endeavouring to provoke a premature explosion ;
but the people have learned wisdom by experience,
they keep within the bounds of legality, and render
their enemies powerless by obeying the law. In the
meantime MM. BARocHE and CARLIER should con-
sider whether it is altogether wise to continue this
system of confiscating journals, aft ing that it is possible
that they may be succeeded in power by those
who may be inclined to "profit by the lesson they
have tatight them," and with whom "it will go hard
but they will better the example."
The division between the Orlianists and Legiti•
matists is so wide that there is every chance that
AL EUGENE SUE will be elected, as it is not impro-
bable that, even at the eleventh hour, M. FEE AND
For may go to the poll. His resignation in favour of
.
LECLERC was forced upon him ; and, not
content with forcing him to resige, the Le-
gitimatist journals have published a paragraph
stating expressly that M. FERNAND For had ex-
pressly engaged his friends to vote for M. LECLERC.
To this statement M. For has published a direct con-
tradiction, and thus the division has become evident to
all the world.

Considerable sensation has been produced in the
diplomatic circles by the receipt of a note from Prus-
sia on the affairs of Rome, by which Prussia has sig-
nified that she does not mean to allow a question of
such immense general importance to be settled with-
out her concurrence. The Prussian note is de-
scribed to be one of great fairness and power.
It is complained that hitherto no official
intimations have been made of the proceedings of
other powers, while it is contended that, although
Prussia be what is called a Protestant power, yet that
her Rhenish and other Roman Catholic subjects
oblige her to look narrowly to the dealings of the
great powers with the Court of Rome. In fact,
Prussia contends that she has as good a right as
England to take part in this question. England, it
is said, sustains the claims of Prussia, so that neither
Austria on the one band, or France on the other, or
what is more to the purpose, both by collusion, will
be able to make cheap merchandise of the ioman
people.
The Moniteur publishes a decree of the PRESIDENT
division, commanded
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mand
is the head. quarters, and
Besancon, in place of General GEME
command the sth division, with headA-uquarters
eraatl
GENESVILLER, commanding the Ist division of the
expeditionary corps in Italy, is named to the com-
mand of the sth military division, in place of General
HATE; who is called to other functions. The
appointment of General D'ARBOEYILLB to the com-
mand of the 4th military dii ision is cancelled. He
is named to the 12th military division, with head..
quarters at Bordeaux, in place of General CASTEL-
LANE. He v. ill, moreover, assume the command of
the 11th and 14th military divisions, of which the
head-quarters are at Bayonne and Nantes. The
15th military division, which was placed under the
command of General CASTELLANE, will remain
under the direction of the General who now com-
mands it.

The following are the chief items of the Bank ac-
count for the week :—.

Franc=.
Specio ... 340,003,838
Ditto in the departments ... 130,336,436
Bills in portfolio ... 41,396,551

Bills in branches ... 64,710,864
Bills lying unpaid ... ... 1.125,285
Ditto in branches ... 1,445.072
Bank notes in circulation ... 414,896,500
Ditto in branches 69,307,800
Credit to Treasury ... ... 39,746,933
Private credits ... ... 94.609,183
Ditto in branches .. 23,986.966
Gold has increased 2i- millions. The credit tc
Treasury is 3 millions more than last week, and
private credits 2 millions more in Paris, and as much
in the branches. There is little difference in the
other items.

The ship of the line Volney has been ordered to
join the Mediterranean fleet.
PARIS BOURSE, FRIDAY, APRIL 26.

The market has hem, if possible, more inanimate than
yesterday; literally nothing doing. Threes fir account
stood at the close at 551. 50c., and Fives at 89!:. 25c.
The market closed as follows:—ThreeP, for cash, 551.
50c., fir account, 55f. 50c.; Fives, for cash, 89t. 25c.,
for account, 89f. 25c.; Bank of France Share;, 2,105?.;
Neapolitan, 95f. 25c.; Spanish Threes, 37t. 50c.
RAlLways,—Scarcely a transaction has taken place,
and prises as yesterday. Orleans closed at 7181. 75c.;
Rouen, 5051. ; Havre, 210 f.; Avignon, 17 5f.; Bak,
105 f.; Bordeaux, 390 f.; Northern, 4161. 25c.; Paris and
Strasburg, 325 f.; Nantes, 222'7'. 50c.; Moutereau, 100 F,
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
• LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, APRIL 26.

Boulogne and Araiens, 618 —East Indian, '22l,fi—Namur
and Liege, WA..

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the 21st have arrived.
Tncir contents are without interest. The Bolst%
was closed.

PORT U GAL.

Advicei have been received from Lishon of the 21st

The Ministry has sustained a severe check in the
Chamber of Deputies, the Committee to whose
consideration the estimates of the war department
had been referred having declared, that se they con-
siderably exceeded the amount voted for that branch
of the public service, the Government ought, before •
submitting them to discussion, to provide itself with
a bill ut indemnity. The Count DB THoaIAR, who
seemed startled at this report, moved that it should
be printed and discussed immediately, which was
agreed to.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY; QUARTER 10 THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated ,J 10,000 bales, of which 4,000 were Surat, and
one-third of the gross amount were taken on speculation.
—Raq,ray Shares were dull.
The ret'.ra of the Bank of Englund &e.,
for the week to the 20th inst., gives us the rernaant of the
char4ges produced by the quartetly payments, and tin.se
were not of particular tuag&tude. The active circu-
lation and bullion were further drawn upon, the public
deposits were slightly reduced, and the advances upon
securities were larger. The following is a comparison
of the several items with those of the previous week:—
Notes issued 29,873,000
Decrease . . 171,650
Rest 3,080 246
Increase ... 2 862
Public Deposits ... ... 4 627,318
Decretve 287,070
Other I)upesits 10,946,342

Decrease . . 23,047
Seven Day and other Bills ... 1,158,635
Increase 6,672
Government Securities ... 14,292,170
Increase „.. 82,208
Other Securities 9,797,210
Increase 34 508
Notes ..„ ... 9,537,560
Decrease ... 459.515
Bullion ... 16 629,601
Decrea5e.........129 434
Active Circulation 20 305,440
Increase 287,865
The transacoione in tells of exchange were at firm
rates on Paris, viz., at 23 721 to 771, at 121 en
Fraekfert, and 12 4t09 on Trieste. Amsterdam was a
shade lower, 12 3 to 1, and Ilamburgh receded to
13 12;1 to 13.
We have reeeived from the committee of Spanish
'American bondholders the following summary of their
recent advices from Venezuela:—
" The Government will appoint a commission in Lon-
don fo-: re-...dying the remittances and paying the divi-
dends, to be composed of the Venezuelan Comm), and
two otter gentlemen to be named by the committee.
"The fourth part of tie customs' duties appropriated
towards the domestic, and foreign debt is to be distri-
buted as follows:-22* per cent. to the domestic, and
7714 to the foreign debt.
" The Executive have recommended to the Congress a
plan for liquidating the arrears.
The Government declines acceding to the committee's
euggeslon for appointing agents in -Venezuela (similar
to what takes place in Mexico), for receiving the funds
from the custom-houses, and remitting thorn to Eing•
lane+, but undertake s to make the remittances itself.
"The committee have nominated the following g, ntle-
men on its part to act with the Vent zuelan Consul al
the commission of agency in London, viz.: —Baron de
Geldsmid, the chairman, and J. D. Powles, Esq., deputy -
chairman of the committee."
The amount of the precious metals exported from
London this ae_ lc, to Thursday lest, was 30,511 ounces
in silver bars to Rio Janeiro, and 328/, ie silver coin to
Guernsey and Jersey. Of gold coin 600 ounces were
shipped.
From the mann'acturing districts we learn this morn-
ing that business is not very active.
The Funds base been dull this morning, in the absence
of any foreign news of interest, it we except the infor-
mation concerning the probable settlement cf the
Greek question, and the increased chances in favour
ef .:sl. Leclerc as one of the representatives of Paris. A
loan 0f450,000/. for the government of Canada has been
effected in London at par, bearing 6 per cent. interest,
arid redeemable in 25 yeare. Cons is have ranged from
954 to 96 for Transfer, and the same for Time. Excle.-
quer-leFs have been 655. to 70s. Bank Steck is 206
to 207,
In the Foreign Market Spanish Five per Cents. have
been done at 16H, the Three per Cents. at 36k,
Peruvian Deferred a; 293:, nod Venezuela Deferred at
12. Russian Four-end-a- Half per Cents. have been 951.
Mexican are rominally 284 to 29.
Railway Share; are heavy generally, and there is
scarcely anything doing.
United Mexican Mine Shares have been done at 51
and 5, but have since'rallied, we tve told, to 6 and 6i, as
the tales for au executorship account are said to nave
been corcluded.

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS O'CLOCK. PRICES.
:Kano. bLcps•ii. 20ti% 207 906 206
_ _

3 :•er Cent. Reduced Ar;ns
3 per Cent. Consc.le Armines.... -... 95-41 96 9rij4 951 A
:.'4,_+w 31,4: per Cent. AIIDA.*•-.• 97', 97
r.. :.ng A r.r3. to expirt Jan.lb6o -16 8 3-16
lndir'l Stock

!n 80nd6,. 1,0001
Ditto under 1.0001.. 9 c p
:.;ons,;is for Account 00000 ••• 95/g

92 p
92 p
96

xener:tr‘s 1 kr, 0.:15E 2d
150001. Juno
ONE CLOING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
;suenos .Ayres Bonds. 6 per Cent ... 52 ex d

Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent ...... — :.,8
Danish Bonds, 1625,3 per Cent. —
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto, Scrip. 4% p
Ferux.tvn Bonds, 4 per Cent ...
Ditto Deferred
ftußAian Bonds .....
Ditto, 414 plr Cent
Ditto Scrip 2l,i p
fpro.:mii 5 per Cent. 0.4.5
Ditto. 3 per Cent
Venezuela Bonds, 212 i per Cent
Ditto Deferred

3ividend3 on the above pt.yable in London,
!'catch 214 par Cent., 12 Guild.

53

PRICES OF BilID. BUSINESS DONE CLOtIN,:i
IZAII,WA.Y SHARES. AT uNI,; o'CLO..Ii. PhiLE6
Aborden
-', licking h =shire
Czledonian
Ditto, New ICI. Pref... 10
,:rstern Cme..ties... ..... 20 ...... 7 ...... ......... 7
Vo. North. & Eastern,
6 per Cent. ...,...... 50 ......
Ditto. 5 per Cent.— 50
Eastern Union, Class A
(late E. U. Shares) 25 - •••••
Do., Class B & C
East Lincolnshire, guar.
6 per Cent.
Edinburgh end Glasgow 50 ......
Great Northern
Do., !,,,2 A Deferred ... 1214 l% l%
Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. 12%...... x.i 10% x.i.
Treat South. and West.

(Ireland) ...... 23
Great Western 100
i.o.ds and Brxdford
London Szßladiwsll...ll /. 68. 3d...
Len .on, Brighton, ard
South Cow t... .... 100 ......
Do., New, guaranteed
6 per Cent ..........103
L-,n don and Greenwich 11a15s 4d... .. ... ......
Loath.r. and N W^itern 100
Ditto, New Quarters 12
Ditto. Fifth. —..., . ..... 12 ... .. 11 1.. 7,4
r 101.( M. & B.) 0. 1 ...
London'..`. S.V.' itorn ..1(0 ... ...... ... 58
D.', New 501. . .... 42;4 —
21%

Blidlarp.'t ....
00., 50!. :73h area .....
~1,3.50_, ~........
12.123%:.......................
11512:
Yfytlt 13rith,li ........ _., 25
...., 7,/,8
.e..ii
Readine, Guildford, and
Reigate .
Roy-sten and Elitehin ... 41..... _
Seot,tith Central
Shrewehury and Birna l3q ..... 9% di5........ 9% dis
Ditto, New Guaranteed 8
74,-,tith .I'. V3t0.1-i.
So-Ith Waia3
Wilts,Somerset,&, Wey
mouth
York, Newcastle, and

_ .
Berwick• •••• ••••••...0111 2.5
1.1.0. Newcastle Exten. 20
York and Nortli Midland .5) ....... 141,Fti ... ....•. ... 1131
Di tte;., Prefer9nvi....... 10 6..'14 GIA
MINES.
Santiago de Cuba le
United ;:deitican

JOINT ii4l:O(3K
London Joint Stock lO ... . 17

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, APRIL 27.—Wind at noon, E.N.E., fresh
gale, and fine clear weather.
FALMOUTH, APRIL 26.—Wind E., fresh gale.—Arrd.
Queen, Squarry, Pernambuco; Nora, Cloid, Rio Grande,
std. 4th March; Amphitrite, Gram, Havannah, for
Antwerp. Off port, Graf von Arnim, Krueise, Buenos
Ayres, for Altona. The Charles Buchan, of Kincardine,
from Liverpool, sunk on Rio Grande Bar 10th February,
and became a total wreck; crew and part of cargo saved.
The Dirlflower, Havannah to Antwerp, put in here to-
day, with part of cargo thrown overboard, front poop
stove, bulwarks carried away, isc., by a heavy sea 2d
inst., lat. 38, lon. 51 W.

JERSEY, APRIL 25.—Wind S.W.—Canopus, Labrador.
PILL, APRIL 26.—Wind E., fresh.—Sld. Levant,
Monte Video ; Jane, May, Alexandria, United States ;
Samuel, Africa.
HARWICH, APRIL 25.—The Charles Dean, of and
for London, from hence, has sunk on the Naze fiats.
DEAL, APRIL 25.—Wind N.E., strong.---Arrd. Katah-
din, Morse, New Orleans. Arrd. from the river and
aid. Independence, New York • Dowthorp, Quebec ;
Ros E-shire, St. John's, Newfoundland. The Active, of
Stockton, was bezched yesterday, and in heaving off
yesterday parted her bower cable, and will become a
wreck ; crew saved.
LIVERPOOL, APRIL 26.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrd. Patriot
Corning, St. Domingo ; Marion, do. ; Farrouse, Rio de
la Hache; Esquimaux, Porto Rico; Boadicea, Jamaica;
Carlotte, Matanzas ; Pelle, Laguna ; Infant, Purdy,
Mobile; Ottawa, Thrift, Savannah; Columbus M'Cor-
ran, New York. sld. April 25; Emma Williams, Per-
nambuco, aid. March 27; Douglas Herbert, Charles-
ton. Ski. Premule, Realigo, Hannah, and Fanny, St.
Thomas ; Naomi, New York ; Alice Jane, Jamaica ;
Mary Caroline4St. John's, N.. ; Washington, Quebec;
Nameless, Labrador; Aurora, Newfoundland. Off port,
Scotland, Charleston ; Charlotte Harrison, do. ; Esther
Ann, Courier, Speed Grampian, Freeman, and British
American.
WAINFLFET, APRIL 25.—The Lily, Seville to Hull or
Grimsby, was driven on shore this morning; crew:Eaved.
SWANSEA, APRIL 26.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrd. Sir Isaac
Lionel Goldsmid, Potts, Cuba.
MILFORD, APRIL 25.--Arrd. Beckford,S:elTa Leone,
epsake, Quebec.
LIMERICK, Aran 25.—Wind N.W.—Sld. Polynesia,
New York.
PETERHEAD, APRIL 25.—Wind N.—Skl. Reliance,
Davis's Straits.
SHIELDS, APRIL 26.—Wind E.N.E.—Sid. Pomana,
Ogle Breton.
HULL, APRIL 26.—Arrd. Margaritta, New Orb. atP.
HARTLEPOOL, APRIL 26.—Wind
Valparaiso.
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 26.—Wind N.E., fresh—Arrd.
Faion, Jamaica, from Londov, with loss of

bulwarks, stanchions, and sails. Sid. Cardiff ard
Panama. •

COWES, APRIL 26.—Wind N.E.. strong.—Arrd.
Anne cad Eau,he, Nivnaber, Port-:,u-Prinee, from Ant-
werp.

PLYMOUTH, APRIL 26.—Wind E. to N.—Acrd.
loyfield, Douglas, Sierra Leone. Sid. Bengal, Adelaide,
South Australfa ; Sephig, South Australia; Minerva.
Port Natal ; her Majesty's ship Sharpshooter, Rio
Janeiro.