The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-29 00:00:00

that such a request can be rejected by a body of un
prejudiced and honourable gentlemen.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC,

Elsewhere in our impression of this evening will
he found printed the sixty-six clausPs constituting the
Metropolitan Bill for Extramural Interment, recently
irtroduced into the Legislature by the Government.
To the pernicious principles lurking in this pro-
posed enactment we would most earnestly beseech the
attention of the community—satisfied, as we are, that
unless the Bill undergo a radical alteration in Com-
mittee, its effects must prove most prejudicial to the
interests of the population. Several times already
we have expatiated upon the evil consequences certain
to result from an enactment' so erroneously contrived ;
yet it is impossible for us to abstain from all allusion
to its baneful characteristics upon the occasion of our
submitting to the notice of the readers of The Sun
the whole framework and substance of this Ministerial
measure. Hence, we find ourselves compelled to
revert again to the matter previously discussed in these
columns, even at the risk of an apparently superfluous
repetition.

We have received the Paris journals of Saturday
and of yesterday.
The ballot for the election of a representative for
Pari4 commenced yesterday at nine o'clock. It is
said that the Government has thrown every possible
obstacle in the way of the voters d.sirous of procuring
the various voting tickets at the mairies, the avowed
object being to procure per fas aut nefas the return
of the reactionary candidate.
The reactionary journals, while indignantly de-
nouncing as false the statement which appeared in
the National on the subject of the votes of
the soldiers in garrison at Orleans, are now
compelled to admit that those statements are true, and
that the majority of the soldiers did vote for EUGENE
SUE. The Nationulof Saturday, publishes other returns
from the army, from which it appears that 61 have
voted for EUGENE SUE and 22 for LECLERC. The
candidature of M. LECLERC is accounted for by the
fact that his chief clerk is the nephew of M. CARLIER.
Ile is therefore put forward as the representative of
that most immoral of all systems, the system of the
French police. M. LECLERC is, in fact, the cat's-paw
of the ape of FOUCLIE.
M. CARLIER has now proscribed all the Republican
journals. The National, Voix du Peuple, and other
democratic journals contain the following curious
circular :

Once more, therefore, we must be permitted to
particularize the various clauses of the Bill in regard
to which we have previously specified our objections.
Briefly then, those clauses are numbered-4, 6,7, 8,
9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22,
25, 39, 46, 48, and 49 in all twenty-two
clauses collectively. For individual comments
upon those clauses, the curious are referred to the
leading columns of this journal, dated Saturday, the
20th, and Monday, the 22d instants. Therefrom it will
be perceived that the Cabinet are disgracefully endea-
vouring to propitiate the favour of the clerical party
in behalf of their projected innovation by subordi-
nating the interests of the people to those of the
ecclesiastical establishment. Than this we are per-
suaded from experience that nothing can, by any pos-
sibility, be more detrimental to the cause of hu-
manity, of morality, of justice, or of true religion.
For the direct consequence of such a pro-
ceeding must naturally be to compensate the
clergy for depriAg them of a loathsome system
which has hitherto proved most profitable to them-
selves, while generating disease amongst the multitude,
fearfully increasing the extent of the annual morta-
lity, and dissipating many of the nobler instincts of
our nature—those instincts which invest death with
sentiments of a peculiar sanctity. We appeal to
Reason, and we ask if such a mode of truckling to ec-
clesiastical authority is calculated to elevate the
opinions of the masses in regard to the Church Estab-
lishment ? We appeal to that sense which is upper-
most in society—the sense of the common decencies
of existence, and we ask if such a method
of purchasing the right of seemly sepulture is likely
to enhance the amount of the popular veneration for
our ecclesiastical functionaries ? So far from the
Bill in question being of this tendency, it must be
apparent that the disclosure and recognition of the
intentions of the Government will militate inevitably
against the interests of the clergy, by rendering their
wealth and their power yet greater objects of unpo-
pularity.
No doubt of it, the mere circumstance of her MA-
JESTY'S Ministers bringing in a Bill for the organiza-
tion of a system of extramural interment, is one,
considered irrespectively of its precise details,
in which the people of England may find profound
cause for exultation. Let the ostensible boon, how-
ever, be scrutinized, and the rejoicings of the multi-
tude will very speedily become hushed. The popular
intelligence will recognize, on glancing through the
proposed enactment, that the apparent benefit is of a
nature calculated to prove a source of serious incon-
venience and: disadvantage immediately it is ate
tempted to be carried into operation. Simply,
then, it should be recollected that the present
scheme has been forced upon the reluctant acceptance
of the Government by the force of a great movement
from without, a movement commenced by an ener-
getic citizen of the metropolis no less than twelve or
thirteen years ago, and subsequently taken up by the
medical profession, and pushed forward by the co-
operation of a numerous and miscellaneous body of
sanitary reformers. At length, we say, the force of
this generous agitation has compelled the Ministry
to acquiesce in the necessity for improve-
ment—the present Government measure has been in-
troduced into the Lower House of Parliament—and
parties begin forthwith to congratulate themselves
upon the prospect thereby presented to them of the
immediate realisation of all their hopes regarding a
rational system of extramural interment. A momen-
tary examination of the Bill suffices to scatter all these
brilliant illusions of the fancy into nothingness,
leaving in their stead a fear for the serious
and evil consequences of the innovation. For

" The news-venders have just received notice that the
sale of democratic journals, both within and without
doors, is absolutely interdicted. All the efforts of M.
earlier to prevent the sale of democratic journals will
only serve to increase the number of their readers.
Henceforward every workshop, every wine-shop, every
restaurant, every lodging-house, every place, in fact, in
which the working population assembles, must be pro-
vided, at least, with one democratic journal. We are
ready on our side to make all necessary sacrifices, and
we reckon on the support of our countrymen. We will
open a subscription list for the sake of defraying the
gratuitous circulation of democratic journals in Paris
and in the departments."
The consequence of this attempt of the Prefect of
Police of the Republic to give a monopoly to the
Monarchical journals will be to greatly increase the
number of regular subscribers to the denounced
journals, and to cause their gratuitous circulation
throughout France.

The Army budget came on for discussion in the
Chamber on Saturday, and the Legitimatist General
GRAMMONT declared that it might be necessary to
remove the seat of the Legislature from Paris
to some city, inhabited by etres Bien pensans.
This was hailed by the Left with cries of " The
mask is thrown off;" which brought up General
D'HAUTPOOL, who hastened to repair the damage
done by the blundering candour of his brother
Legitimatist, by declaring that the Government
never would countenance such an idea. The
declaration will, however, produce its effect at the
Paris election, and will induce many a bon Bourgeois
to pause before he supports the pet of the enemies of
the trading interests of Paris

very naturally, we become dismayed on perceiving
that the whole of the administrative power of the in-
tended cemeteries must ultimately pass into the
grasp of the ecclesiastical authorities, in consequence
of the miserable contrivance of the whole measure.

By such a mistaken and most pernicious arrangement
the Bill in its operation would be rendered
altogether nugatory--conferring power upon those
very individuals 'who should be especially
restricted from interference in a matter of emolu•
ment. According to certain clauses, already parti-
cularised by ourselves, it should be remembered also

that rates are to be levied by the governing board,
and that governing board ecclesiastical in its ulterior
character! What do the ratepayers of the metro •
politan districts think of such a prospect as that ?
We doubt not they will find it anything but
agreeable,

Nay ! we are ♦ery far, indeed, from having speci-
fied the whole of the many serious objections
capable of being brought forward against the
projected scheme of the Government. In its very
title the Bill is most exceptionable, the words of that
title indicating clearly enough the intention of the

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Cabinet and their clerical allies—shall we say indi-
cating the project of Sir QEORGE GREY and the Lord

Bishop of LONDON—.namely, that of reserving the

power of opening or closing any graveyards (no

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matter even if full to repletion) IN or near London;
Now, such a reservation as this, it must be quite ob-

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vious, is entirely incompatible with the notion o:

any really good and effectual reform in the way of

organizing a system of extramural interments. All
intramural burial-grounds, without distinction, should

be peremptorily closed by the enactment, saving and

excepting, of course, the vaults of such great nations

edifices for the entombment of the illustrious, as West-
minster Abbey and St. Paul's Cathedral. Otherwise

:he improvement will only be specious and apperen

Another change required in the Ministerial scheme,
to render it beneficial to the entire community,

is, of course, the extension of the desired benefits

from the metropolis to the rest of the populous towns
and cities throughout England. As it is, however,
we leave the Bill in its present state for the con-

sideration of the multitude, satisfied that its ev

character will be at once recognised, and sanguine
that the pernicious clauses enumerated in the

columns of The Sun may undergo a wholesome
revision in Committee.

AFTERNOON EXPRESS MAIL TO IRELAND.---POST-
OFFICE NOTICE.—On and after Wednesday, the Ist of
May, newspapers, as well as letters, will be forwarded
in the bag for Ireland which is dispatched by the
Express train leaving the Euston-square station at
5 r.m. (Sundays excepted). Letters and newspapers
for this dispatch must be posted at the receiving-offices
in London before 2 P.M.,-at the Branch-offices in Lom-
bard-street, Borough, Charing-cross, and Old Caven-
dish-street, before 3 P.M.,— and at the General Post-office.
St. Martin's-le-Grand, before 3 30 P.m., and they will arrive
in Dublin early the following morning.
LTIIINGTON, SUNDAY NIGHT.—The nomination
for the election of a candidate to represent] this borough in
Parliament, in the room of the Hon. Captain Keppel, is to
take place on Monday, and should a poll be demanded, the
election is fixed for Tuesday. Mr. Hutchins, who was re-
jected at Southampton in 1841, was early in the field on the
Liberal interest. He is fiercely opposed by Mr. Andrew
Stuart, a Protectionest, but up to the present moment the
success of the latter is considved doubtful. A very close
contest is anticipated.

We believe‘we are in a position to affirm that the
negotiations between the Courts of London. and Madrid, re.
lative to the renewal of diplomatic re:damns, are now virtu.
ally and satisfactorly(?) concluded.... Post.

- -
DEATH or MRS.„ EDMUNDS (MISS M. CAWSE)..--.
We have to announce the death of Mrs. Edmunds, better
known under her maiden name of Miss Mary Cawse. She
died on the 14th instant, after but a short illness, of bron-
chitis, leaving a family of six children to lament her loss—
the profession, too, has lost a bright and amiable ornament.
Miss Cawse received her musical education under Sir G.
smart, and rapidly gave promise of those abilities which at
an early age placed her in the foremost rank of our English
singers. For several years no concert was complete without
the aid of Miss Cawse and her sister.

TEING, READING, AND BASINGSTOKE RAILWAY.
—The dividend of 10s. per share from the assets accruing
under the winding-up of this company, is now in course of
payment on between 5,000 and 6,000 Aimee.

MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, 1850.

PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS

Ditto 5 per Cent. -

tierdecr,

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUAIITER A 0 7'IIIiEE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool on Seturday e ere
estimated at 8.000 bake, of which 1,000 American were
taken fir export, and 500 American, 6!)0 Egyp ian,
and 1,000 Surat on speculation. The market dined
firmly.—ln Iteilvray Shares ;here was little er no aliere-
tioa to notice; the business was limit, if, aed prices were
still tending downwards.
Wheat is higher in Mark-7ane to-day, although there
are fair arrivals of foreign reported.
The extraordinary and continued abasement of railway
property is naturally bringing forward numerous parties
with suggestions for remedies, and in most of the
latter there may be something tangible discovered,
though differences of opinion will arise us to their un-
reserved application. In a communication by Messrs.
Railton and Sons, of Manchester, addressed to their
clients, they urge that the dire.cterr, who should be few
in number, and paid an adequate salary, should not be
allowed to hold any of the capital stock of the company,
but be regarded as servants of the cempaue, having to
attend to their unbiassed duties, and they then preeeed
to remark that " One established form, and an effective
andia thereof by independent auditors, must be rigidly
adopted; and all further dreaming of rotary board-
making contrivance to teach new men their business
must be abolished, to make way for experienced paid
directors, to be always at their duty—with one geeerel
manager, supported by their authority, to ke
watchful eye over the heads of every working depart-
ment—and each department reporting to the general
manager daily how mat ers move ;ruder his care, which
mutt be strictly observed; and the general manager
should report accordingly ti the board—which may be
few in number—say one to aid the general nisnager by
his advice in the coaching departap lit, another in the
gouda department, and a third as general referee, to be
at the place where the board is established, and where
they should all assemble some part cf every day—both
directors and general manager—the better to under-
stand each other's views on bueiners affsirs; rL fourth
director may be added if absolutely required. Fur every
department the best talent may always be secured at its
experienced worth."
The power of voting at meetings, it is contended,
should be restricted to persons holding not less than
3001. or more of stock, and registered for three months
previously, though all shareholders might he allowed to
be present, and a board of appal composed of three or
four shareholders might be formed to assist the directors
when called upon. Proxy voting must be better regu-
lated, and it is observed in conclusion that "No trouble
should be spared, or perseveratice be relsreeel in, till
placed on a well-sustained principle, to vie in the et-
! traction of surplus money for trading or investment pur-
poses, comparatively with any other, be the nature what
it may; and the more such surplus capital can be made
to support productive public works fixed at home, the
better will it be for our native industry and capital, when
thus bound together under the direction of honourable
and skilful care.
" When new projects are embarked upon, the sub-
scribers should be forced to keep the deposit-receipt till
an Act of Parliament is got, or rejected. If got, a
registered certificate will be issued, with which the pro-
prietor may trade as he pleases with safety to the None
and himself ; but, if rejected, the account should imme-
diately be settled to avoid all further trouble or'obliga-
tion, and the full deposit paid back, leaving the unfortu-
nate, crafty projectors—to say the least of them—te
sustain every liability they have incurred, by attempting
to lead the public deceitfully astray for their own advan-
tage. This rule established would be a tolerably sure
protection to these the most needing it at all times."
Aris's Birminyhatn Gazette of to-day states—
" 'rne little that has been done in the iron trade
during the past fortnight has been of an unusually life-
less character. Prices remain much the same as at
quarter-day, and the orders which were supposed to be
withheld on that occasion, with a view to turn the scale
in favour of lower rates, are still not ortheoming, so
that either that object is not yet considered imprac-
ticable, or these ai;sunted requirements are not
of a very urgent description, if indeed they existed
at all in any other shape than the fanciful figments of
philosophising speculators. We are also sorry to learn
that the local consumption of the district, which up to
the present time has escaped the general depression, is
now considerably shortening, in consequence of a relax,
ation in the demand for moot of our principal articles
of manufacture. In the wrought nail trade around Dud-
ley this falling-off is reported to have been so extensive
that it has been considered necessary to issue notices for a
further abatement of the miserable wages hitherto given,
and the operatives are refusing to work at the reduction.
In other branches the same steps are being resorted to;
while the railroad interest, another great source of home
consumption, has met with a further depreciation, and is
still more unfavourably looked upon by capitalists. The
exports that during the last two months seemed to have
revived a little from the gradual decline of the previous
quarter, though not to the extent of the transactions in
September, are now stated in the last accounts from
the shipping ports, both here and in Wales, to be falling
off aeain."

Accounts of the 23d inst. from the Leipzic fair state
that the sale of manufactures had not been active, and
there was a limited attendance of German buyers as
usual at this season, the Russian, Polish, and Greek
dealers being those who usually purchase, although th'y
did less than usual in consequence of the weather being
protractedly wintry in its charawer. A fair number of
transactions had been entered into in furs, and the
sale of Russian products, which was to counnenc© in a
few days, was likewise expect -d to be lively.
It is stated from Trieste that great facilities are to
be ufforded for the transmission of letters and telegra-
phic communications received from India, so as to es-
tablish, if possible, a superiority over the Marsilles
route.

At Hamburgh, last Friday, the rare of exchange on
London waA 13 9, and the price of gold 435 i. The
inndi were firm. Business in the Colonial markets was
not brisk.

There, are arrivals from South Australia, Port Philip,
and the Cape of Good Hope, the Biwa', &0., but gene-
rally with the same dates as those recently to hand.
The letters per Europa stwAmer from North America are
not yet delivered.

Ti. English Funds have been extremely tranquil, but
there seems to be au expectation that we shall have
greater activity, and probably more buoyancy, when the
election at Paris is decided.

The value of Consols has been 95j to 96. The New
Three and a-Quarter per Cents. Imve teen 97* to 1;
and the Three per Cents. 94i to 95. Bank Beck has
been quotei 206} to 207. Exchequer-bills have
realised 68s. to 705., and India Bonus 9-4 s. t,) 954. prem.
In the Foreign Stock market the tone is much the
same as that of the English Funds. Mexican are
rather flatter, being 284 to 29, but simply upon the set-
tlement which takes place to-morrow. Peruvian have
been 701 to 71. Equadur Stock has been marked
Danish Scrip is quoted 5 and 5* premium, the
highest value which it has yet attained. Spanish Three
per Cents have been 36i, and the Five per Cents 164.
Russian Four and-a-Half per Cents are 951.
Shares are heavy again, and rather lower for some of
the lines dealt in.

ONE
O'CLOCK.

207 2061,

o. i (;:ii. Reduced Anus „.... 9171; 95
3 per Cent. Consols Ann ui tio6 -... 9:5744 96
'....yr 3% per Cent. Anus...—. ...... .. 97%1/8
~.,:',ng Anns. to expire J an. 1860 -16 812
India Stock
Iniiß Bonds, 1,090/ .... . ... 92 94 p
Ditto under 1,000/... .......... -.... 95 p
~!onsols for Account 96 9:5%
Exchequer Bills. J 1,40,,,,,. 2d
I,ot KU. June 6B 70 p
5001. June
Sthall. June 63 70 p

CT,OSTNG
PRICES.

ONE CLOiqNG
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Danish Bonds, 1825,3 per Cent.

Ditto, Scrip •• 5 51
_%B 5N
..p

. . .
Equador Bonds
-,8
51ex ican, 5 per Cont. 1846, with Coupons— .....
Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons .......- 28% 2834
Ditto, Account 29 283/4 28N
Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent
Ditto Deferred
T:ussian Bonds

!YU°, 414 per Cent
Ditto Scrip 2% p 2L4 p
.:'.'panish 5 i.-. Cent. 1840
Ditto, Account ....-... .....
Ditto. 3 per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in Lorriou.

~-'RICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE -JLOsING
RAI,,WAY SHARES. AT ON) O'CLOcK PRICES

Do. Preference 8
Caledonian
Ditto, New 1C I. Pref... 10
Chester and Holyhead... 50
aetern Couatier... ..... 20
i'dinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 2134
Great Northern
Do., .1,2 A Deferred ... 12%...... 2
Do., %B 6 per Cent... 9% 4 .. 4
Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. 12%. lO x.i.
seat South. and W est.
(Ireland)
'net North of England 100 ......216 ...
Great Western 100 ...... 5114 50% 52 ..

Ditto, New 171.- ..... 15 ..- . 64....,... _6ll,
Lancashire& Yorkshire 100
.. ............ 33%
Leeds and Bradtord
Lonrim and N Wa,tern 100 1001,42 101 100% 101:q
Ditto, New Quarters 12
Ditto, Fiftf.a - .. 11% . lll
London &S.Wo-itern leo ... ,58
Do., New Preference. 5 , 6%1,8 . 6%
it sficht;star.Buxton,and
* atlock 5
Midi And ~ ...+.' 0 ... -311 A,
••
Liu.. 50/. Shares
po. Consolid. Bristo :45,c
Birmng., 6 per et. „ 1; ;9
Norfolk . ... lOO ...... --
I fo. Extension ... 2O
North Briti=h .... „.- „, V. ..,. - ...
Ditto Preference . 5
N )rth Staffordshire ... 171,1....., 7%1/4 .:.
S)uth Devon
!oath Ervit-r-, -
.Do„ Registered No. 4 10
Wilts, Sonierset,& Wev-

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