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London, England, 1850-06-07 00:00:00

SUN,

LONDON,

of an intended revolt, also diverted the
public attention from the landlord and
tenant question, which remained uncared for
and unheeded, while the representatives of the people
were occupied on topics of inferior interest.
The atrocious murder of the late Mr. MAULEVERBR

—a murder directly springing from agrarian causes—
and which has been perpetrated partly in conse-
quence of the race between the different landlords to
secure their own portions of the rent, and partly on
account of the numerous ejectments that had
been served after the death of the "mid-
dleman"—however, proves that the time has
at length arrived when some decisive step must
be taken if we desire to prevent the total demoraliza-
tion of the Irish people. There is now, happily,
every prospect of an abundant harvest that will afford
some degree of compensation for the sufferings and
disasters of the last five years. Lana is again be-
coming valuable, its possession will be eagerly de-
sired, and the " uncertainty of tenure" will again be
referred to as a pressing grievance that paralyses
every exertion on the part of the tenantry, and places
an insurmountable obstacle in the way of improvement.
The landlords, too, will have immense power in con-
sequence of the large arrears that have accumulated
in almost every part of the country during the late
famine. There is, therefore, but too much reason to
fear that the "clearance system," which has led to
such fatal results whenever it has been attempted,
may be resorted to, and that bloodshed and mur-
ders will be rife throughout the length and breadth of
the land.

!ti
LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1850.

An intimation of a rather extraordinary character,
respecting the projected erection of a new bridge
across the Thames at Westminster, has recently made
its appearance. Viewing the entire scheme as one of
a very suspicious description, and seeing that it is
calculated to squander most unnecessarily a large
amount of the public moneys, without tending to remove
the present liability of such a structure to fall into a
state of dilapidation, we feel ourselves, even at this
early period, compelled to enter our most earnest
objections to the undertaking, and to proffer those sug-
gestions which seem to us calculated to clear up
many existing difficulties, or apparently insurmount-
able obstacles.

It was under such circumstances that the Ho-
nourable Gentleman the Member for East
Sussex brought forward his Bill, not for
the purpose of appeasing the mutual distrust which
unfortunately separate the classes of landlord and
tenant, but for facilitating the process of ejectment
and evictions in Ireland! Undeterred by the melan-
choly event to which we have alluded, Mr. FEBWEN
desired to give a summary jurisdiction to magis-
trates at petty sessions, by which the delays
and expenses now necessary before the wretched
peasant can be driven from house and home,
and the process which has been but too
correctly described as one of "extermination," can be
indulged in. The general feeling of the House was,
however, so strongly exhibited that the Hon. Gentle-
man consented to the rejection of the Bill without
a division. This is as it should be, but the matter
should not be suffered to rest there. There is yet
time to pass a large and comprehensive measure, even
within the present session, and we can scarcely
suppose that the Government are not prepared
with a Bill which, if not as complete as could
be desired, would still effect a considerable improve-
ment on the existing system. We have heard from
Lord DEVON, that " if a tenant is removed from land
he has occupied he is looked on as an injured man,
and the decree too often goes out for vengeance on
landlord or agent, and on the man who succeeds to
the farm." That " at times a large numerical pro-
portion of the neighbourhood look with indiffer-
ence on the most atrocious acts of violence,
and by screening the criminal abet and
encourage the crime." That "murders are per-
petrated at noonday, on a public highwaj, and
whilst Vie assassin coolly retiree the people look on
and evince no horror at the bloody deed." The cir-
cumstances connected with the "Crossmaglen assassi-
nation" show how fearfully accurate was this descrip-
tion published in February, 1845. The causes still
are suffered to continue, and the results are the same.
Mr. POULETT SCROPE, whose sympathy for the
suffering peasantry and unremitting exertions
for the amelioration of their wretched condition
are beyond all praise, thus describes the
state of affairs in the Kilrush Union, where
within the last three years 20,000 human beiegs out
of a population, which in 1841 amounted to but 82,000
individuals, have been turned from their homes

It is proposed, for example, in the plan against
which we would now direct our arguments, that a
temporary wooden bridge shall be erected in a conve-
nient position, whilethe old stone bridge at Westmins-
ter is being pulled down and a new one built upon
almost the same identical site—a site which we have
discovered to our cost to afford but rotten ground for
the foundations, and to place in perpetual
jeopardy the security and symmetry of the
entire superstructure. This temporary bridge will
be erected, say the promoters, for the purpose of pre-
venting any injurious interruption of the immense
traffic flowing continually to and fro between Lambeth
and Westminster. It will require an outlay of
100,0001. !-100,0001. lavished upon a building des-
tined only to an evanescent existence I-100,0001.
more dropped prodigally down the river, adding ano-
ther costly offering to the wealth already, according
to the gorgeous imagination of SHAILSPERE, accumu-
lated in

" —the oose and bottom of the deep,
With sunken wreck and gumless treasury!"
For virtually the money dedicated to the fabrication
of a merely temporary bridge is so much specie
thrown away. Now whence arises the necessity for
any such perishable edifice? Simply from the se-
lection of the locality now occupied by the old
bridge as the site for the erection of a more
commodious and ornamental line of communica-
tion between Lambeth and Westminster. Than
this same very simple selection nothing
could be more absurdly injudicious. As if we have
not had sufficient testimony already afforded us of
the unsuitableness of that particular part of the
Thames for the building up of any such costly struc•
ture ! Besides which it has long been obvious to all
parties at all qualified to pronounce an opinion upon
the subject, that the present bridge at Westminster is
altogether in too close proximity with the new
Houses of Parliament. Removed somewhat lower down
the river, a much finer view might be commanded of
that superb palace of the Legislature ; while, more-
over, it is equally certain that such a removal would
interfere in no way injuriously with the trade of
either Lambeth or Westminster. Upon this im-
portant feature of the question we are fully decided,
having considered it neither lightly nor super-
ficially. A few very indifferent and decaying
houses on the Middlesex side of the Thames
houses -which must inevitably be swept
away in a few more years in consequence
of the progress of metropolitan improvement, and the
trade value of which is already rapidly diminishing—
alone plead for the continuance of the permanent
_ _

and their houses for the most part levelled :

" Wherever I went—said the Honourable Gientle-
man—and I drove in many directions over the union,'
I passed continually the traces of the 'levellers.'
Sometimes eight or ten broken gables of stone
built houses were seen to rear their
blackened and skeleton frames against the
sky, betokening what had once been a
comfortable hamlet, now a pile of ruins.
Sometimes a few mere heaps of dirt, almost choked
by the weeds which grew around, announced the
wreck of a mud hovel. Some were single, some in
twos or threes ; at times a whole street in a village
had been destroyed. I seesnecl to be tracking the
course of an invading army." Yet this is the system
which it has been attempted not merely to perpetuate,
but even to extend. Surely we cannot be considered
as unduly urgent in calling upon her MAJESTY'S
Ministers to lose no further time before introducing a
measure that will be adequate to the emergency, and
that will effectually prevent occurrences such as
should never have been witnessed in a Christian land.

bridge in its present situation. Against the petty

consideration of a few individuals, easily com-
pensated, supposing compensation were deemed
at all requisite, we would here advance all the
manifold benefits awl advantages certain to accrue
from the selection of another locality for the new
bridge to be erected at Westminster. bay that
the spot chosen were the one which we would here
ourselves suggest as altogether about the most suit-
able and convenient stretching from somewhere
about Derby-street on this side of the Thames to
the opposite bank in Surrey. Derby-street running
down to the river from Parliament-street, hard by
the end of Cannon-row, and in the immediate vicinage
of Richmond-terrace to the north, and of the
Board of Control to the south, appears
to our thinking to present all the advan.
tages that could possibly be derived under the
circumstances. With roadways bending off from
either extremity of the new bridge, like the upper
branches of the letter Y—extending in Surrey, north-
wards by the York-road towards Waterloo-bridge,
and southwards across Lambeth-road towards New-
ington ; leading also on the other hand, in Middle-
sex, northwards along Whitehall, and southwards by
the projected street to be named after her M.a-
ansxr, through the very heart of Westminster—
the existing line of traffic would be
preserved almost uninterruptedly, and new ones
opened calculated to prove peculiarly beneficial. By
this arrangement trade could receive, instead of in-
jury or detriment, a new and estimable impetus,
while the sum estimated as necessary for the pro-
jected
structure, namely, 350,0001., would prove
adequate, without requiring the extravagant expendi.l
ture of another 100,000/. upon a wooden bridge of
merely temporary utility. The site of the Houses of
Parliament would likewise be materially improved,
and the chances of the renewed sinking of the
foundations of Westminster- bridge become in the
most effectual manner obviated.

In another portion of our impression of this day
will be found intelligence of the landing, in Cuba, of
the piratical expedition, under Loma. The Ame-
rican fleet either could not or would not overtake
him, and he has landed, at the head of five hundred
men, at Cardenas, and taken that town, the garrison
of which, consisting of sixty men, surrendered to him,
after having lost three out of their number. The
authorities at the Havannah had proclaimed the
whole island under martial law s the militia was
called out, and foreigners were called upon
to enrol themselves for the defence of the island
against the marauders. Serious remonstrances have
no doubt been presented to the Government of the
United States by the Spanish Minister at Washing-
ton, remonstrances in which we cannot for a moment
doubt but that our Ambassador, as the representative
of those who have a mortgage on the island for
6,000,0001., and who therefore are interested in its
continuing part of the Spanish dominions, has ener-
getically joined. The Government of the United States
is bound by treaty to send troops and ships to Cuba to
expel LOPEZ from the island should he succeed in ob-
taining possession of it, as the united States has, on
condition that Spain should bind herself never to
dispose of Cuba to any foreign Government, solemnly
guaranteed the possession of Cuba to Spain. That
the Government of the United States will, if it be not
too weak to have a will, perform this guarantee
we have no doubt. That the Anti-Slavery
party in the northern states will aid the
Government in its endeavours to enforce
the honest observance of the treaty with Spain we
have as little doubt; but we much doubt whether the
Government and the Anti-Slavery party united have
the power to enforce the observance of this treaty
against the wishes of the slave-holding states, who
would certainly rather break up the union with the
northern states than forego the immense accession
of power which the possession of Cuba must
of necessity give to them. It is fortunate
that we have such a man as Sir HENRY MULVEY to
r negotiations
represent us at Washington; he, above all men, unites
have needthesuavit 0 11. '7l
both er mods
in on
do to
ethedfuorettiniter in e' and he wi
g the
which must necessarily arise out of this Cuban affair,
a matter which we fear it will be impossible for him
to settle so speedily or so satisfactorily as he did the
affair of Nicaragua.

Gladly shall we witness the acceptance of some
such scheme as this by her MAJESTY'S Government ;
and eagerly do we look forward to the time when net
only this shall be accomplished, but when another
new bridge shall IN thrown over the river near the
palace of the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, and a third
yet higher up the Thames leading to that long-
talked-of park at Battersea, which, like so many other
brilliant projects, still remains in nithibtm among the
plans of metropolitan improvement.

More than five years have elapsed since the publi-
cation of the report of the "Devon Commission."
The
vast importance of the subject so accurately in-
vestigated by the Noble Lord and his efficient co •
adjutors, and the beneficial and practical character of
the recommendations contained in that valuable docu-
ment, were admitted b
! grades in society, and theyrepwerasaoansg
general
r aalll classex p e
netsa
tai
nn
nd
that some decisive measures would be speedily enacted
for the solution of the principal Irish difficulties, 1
' the settlement on a
i properfoundation of the relation-
rsehasiponbaebtwleeeenxpaleaentdltord ea
has, h
and tenant in Ireland. That
None
ofthe
suggestions
been signally
disappointed.
been carried into execution. Various
have as yet
from time to time brought forward,ubsunieasures were
t
e
unfortunate jealousy of the Irish, and' h owingt to the
apathy of
the English representatives, nething,
literally
nothing, has been done, and the entire
matter
s,
ap-
pears to have been quietly shelved until such time e
the pressure from without shall again force it or,
the attention of the Legislature.
The lamentable condition of the country during the
interval, the failure of the potato crop, the wide-
spread and general distress, and the large expenditure
of public money that followed may in some degree
account for this untoward result. Thousands and
tens of thousands were surrendering their holdings,
and flying from the doomed and famine-stricken
island to seek on other shores the support
and prosperity they could no longer hope
for in their native land. An extended poor-law was
relief,
security against any human being perishing of
also Passed, which gave the really destitute a right to
and—in theory at least—afforded some degree
of s
ation in a Christian land. The abortive insur-
rectionstarve
at Ballingarryl and the comparative tran-
quillity that invariably follow- a the suppression

The French reactionaries have succeeded in car-
ryingth their Electoralepropesalof thislawLaw, b
is
a distinct
beyond the
tinctovertaetfaoc
ntthatthe
part of the Obscurantist, Absolutist, and Clerical
party against the principle of universal suffrage, and
is therefore to be noted as evidence which may at
some future time be brought forward against them,
we do not attach that importance to the carrying of
this law which some of our contemporaries, more es-
pecially those on the other side of the Channel, seem
disposed to attach to it, and we see no reason to mo-
dify the opinion which we gave when the law was
first proposed, that it would not and could not affect
seriously the result of the town elections. We believe
that if an election were to come on for Paris to-morrow
the result under the new franchise would be precisely
the same that it was under universal suffrage,and in every
large town the same result will occur. The parties
who will really suffer by the action of the
Electoral Bill will be, not the Republicans, but
the Legitimatists and the Parti-pretre, and M.
BE LAROCLIEIACQUELIN proved himself mere far-
seeing than his compeers when he pathetically
asked what was to become of his bold peasants,
They are disfranchised by the act of your friends,
M. pz LARocuzacqvuo, disfranchised to a wan

and if you now work for the restoration of Monarchy, !
it will be for an Orleanist, not a Legitimatist Mo-
narchy. The result of the Electoral Bill will be to
disfranchise many Socialists, but more Legitimatists,
and by these disfranchisements to increase the rela-
tive voting force of the Orleanists as compared with
that of the Socialists or the Legitimatists, but to
diminish their voting force as compared with that of
the Moderate Republicans. The bourgeoisie of the
towns will not again submit to the tyranny of the
nobles, which they shook off in 1830, neither will
they again suffer themselves to be fleeced by the pecu-
lating Ministers of the Citizen King, or their fami-
lies to be corrupted by the examples of the Dujarriers,
the De Beauvallons, the Graniers de Cassagnacs, the
Testes, the Cubieres, or the De Praslins—they are
almost to a man Cavaignacists, and into their hands
' has the voting power been thrown by the new Bill.
The working of it will soon be tested in the depart-
ment of the Cher, but we feel convinced that, let a
general election come when it may, if it takes place
under the new law it will give not only a working
but a commanding majority to that party which
acknowledges as its leaders Generals CAVAIGNAC and
LAMORICIERE, and M. Dursuan, the party par ex- '
cellence of the Republic.

THE UNITED STATES.
THE CUBAN EXPEDITION.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY MORNING.
The new steamship Pacific, Captain Nye, has
1 with one day's later intel•
d States than that received by
ji
ju gs
et
n arrived ifvreo d m in
the ouru rniivteer,
way of Halifax, per the Niagara.
The Pacific, which is one of the Collins' line of
steam-ships, left Ncw York on the 25th ult.
Although her news is not of much extent, it is of
more than usual importance.
The steamer Ohio had arrived at New York from
Havannah on the 24th of May, having left that port
on the 20th.

General Lopez had landed at Cardenas with 500
men, and took that town. The garrison of sixty
soldiers, after some resistance and three men being
killed, surrendered to the Americans. One thousand
more of Lopez's forces were expected to land.
The greatest panic prevailed at Havannah. The
city was under martial law ; militia being enrolled
in every direction. The resident foreigners were
also called upon to enrol themselves.
The Captain-General had issued a ploclamation,
declaring Cuba in a state of siege and blockade, and
announcing that all prisoners taken from the invaders
will be shot. All persons who aided the Americans
with money, food, or provisions, were ordered to be
shot.

Two thousand troops have been sent against
Lopez. At the time of the steamer leaving Havannah,
it was reported that Lopes's force had increased to
2,000 men.

This is the only item of political interest in the
advices.

The commercial news represents business as being
in a comparatively fair state throughout the Union.
The quotations of stocks were unchanged. The ac-
counts from Cuba had only reached on the night pre-
vious to the Pacific's sailing. Their operation on the
markets could not be foretold.
Cotton was dull, at steady prices; New Orleans
and Mobile mid. fair to fair, 11 13k; Uplands and
Florida, 121 131. The accounts of the crop are still
unfavourable.
Exchange on London, 110 to 1101.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at from 5,000 to 6,000 bales, all to the trade. The
market closed heavily for American, owing to the large
quantity offered. Surats were *d. lb. dearer, but Ame-
rican and all other kinds at about previous rates.—Tbe
Market for Railway Shares opened heavily, but closed at
rather higher quotations.
The Colonial Markets have been steady this week,
and at fuller prices. A larger business bas been done.
The following is from Messrs. Schroeder and Mullins,
of New Orleans:—

Ditto, New IC/. Pref... 10
Midland
Do., 501. Shares ..... 30
DBirm.,:and Derby 100 .. ~. 1534
North BritiNh ... ~.. ... 25 , 73/41/2 7%
Ditto Preference
North Staffordshire ... 17% 7% 14 •• 7%
Rlading, Guildford, and
Reigate
Royston and Hitchin ... 04.. ... 514 ..
Shrewsbury and Birm... 131% .... 9% dis... ...... ,l/8 dig
Ditto ditto. Clan B. 9
Shropshire Union
•;,,rith R.-1,-,t,r
Wear Valley 6 per Cent.
Guaranteed ... ..... 50
Do. do. do. ... 25
vork Newcastle. and
Berwick..... ....—.... 2c
;). Newcastle Extcn. 20 ... . 91/4 ......
De. G.N.E.Preferi,nce '' ... 11'4 • •
York and North k!Hland 50
I),tt ~ Preforenc' ...... 10 ...- 79,, ii.i. IA
FORFIGrN RAll,w AY.
Boulogne and Amiens... 20
Central of France (Or-
leans and Vierzon)... 20
Northern of France .. hi
Orleans and Bordeaux.. 7
Paris and Strasbourg ... 13
Rouen and Havre ...... 20 ......
Sambre and Meuse 2O ... .. 2 1,4 .

" Cotton—The period elapsed since the date of our
last Circular of the 19th ult. has witnessed a gradually
upward tending market, the same being under the in-
fluence of favourable accounts from abroad, the certainty
of the last crop being a short one, and the very unsatis-
factory advises from the interior respecting the growing
crop, which, besides being retarded in hs progress by
an unpropitious spring, is now being damaged in many
sections by extensive overflows. All accounts from
above concur in reporting that large tracts of country
in some of the best cotton regions of Mississippi and
Louisiana are under water, and that planters will
be obliged to replant. Under these circumstances,
holders offer their stock sparingly, and manifest
great indifference about selling, even at our present
advanced rates. They find another support for main-
taining' their position in the extraordinary advantage
which the staple has in the present state of freights and
exchanges, the latter being unusually high for the
period of the season, and the former depressed beyond
precedent. The demand for Cotton has been fair, with.
out being animated, the reduced stock offering, and the
high pretensions of holders holding buyers in check.
Our receipts from Louisiana and Mississippi show a
deficiency of 223,440 bales, compared with last year,
whilst those from Tennessee, Alabama, and Arkansas,
overrun the arrivals of last season by 32,464 bales.
Our stock of Cotton in presses and on ship board is this
day 146,168 bales, against ls 4 843 bales last season.
Cape of Good Hope advices of April 10 furnish no
news of particular interest.
In the Continental markets Public Securities have
again risen.
The English Funds are rather lower again, and the
realisation of profits on the late advance is still in
in progress. Consols bring 96i t for Money, and 96i
for Account. Bank Stock is 203 to 209. Exchequer-
bills are 695. to 715. premium.

13
..

141/4
9,4
14
174
71/2

1314
13:1i
2%
6%
834
2%

MINES.
Santiago de Cuba IC
JOINT STOCK BANKS
British North American 50 42 ..... ......... 41

The Foreign Securities are dull. Mexican 31k, and
Spanish Three per Cents, are down to 37! f, owing to
the Cuba news. Dutch Two-and-a-half per Cents.
are 561.
Shares are drooping,
The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to
yesterday, are in round figures as under•—

London Joint Stock...—. 10 ...... 1714
Union of Australia,
Ditto, New ..... 21/g...... 3 ....
Union of London ..... 10 ...... 1254

174

123/4

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JUNE 7.—wind: at noon W..SW., fresh
breeze and cloudy.

ST. HELENA, APRIL 20.—The Countess of Zetland,
Penang to London, with loss of bowsprit, foremast, &c.,
and quarter- hoe ts, in a severe hurricance, March 6, in
latitude 22 S., longitude 71 E.; was spoken, March 17, in
latitude 25 S., longitude 67 E.
YARMOUTH, JUNE 6.—The Windrush, Newcastle to
Falmouth, has put in with loss of bowsprit, &c., and
making water, having been in contact, off Mundaley,
with the Alacrity of Blyth.

1850. 1849.
Great Western
North-Western ..................... 46,841 45,228
South-Western ................ : ....... 11,637 12,381
Brighton .............................. 15,101 10,213
Midland ................................. 20,893 23,810
South-Eastern ........................ 11,335 10,829
Caledonian 6,338 5,489
QUARTER TO THREE.
... 96i
... 96}
ONE
PRICES OF BRITISH. FUNDS O'CLOCK.
Bunt 6tocz
per Cont. Reduced Arnis ........
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 96 3/41,4
yew 314 perCent.Anns........ ....
..onc: Anna. to expire Jan.lB6o Bq
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859
nclih bond,, LOON ............... .
'outh Sea Stock . .
Ditto Old Annuities]
Ditto New Annuities ......
Bank Stock for Account, ......... ..
onsols for Account... ........ . .....
Exchequer Bills. phd..fic 2d
1,000/. June 69 71 P

Consols ... ...
Ditto Account ...

-CLOSING
PRICES.
209
95%
96%
97%

OFF PENZANCE.— Windermere, Ross, Hobart Town.

LIVERPOOL, JUNE 6.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Othello,
Smith, Buenos Ayres; Isabella, Herbert, ditto; Grecian,
Thompson, Porto Rico; Commerce, Henry, Virginia;
Elpbinstone, Sierra Leone; Sea, Lawson, Callao; Mary
Huntley, Donavon, ditto; Sir Robert Peel, M.Ewing,
ditto; Templeman, Ellis, ditto; Express, Anderson,
Savannah; Richard Cobden, Eldon, Wilmington; Sa-
muels, St. John's. New Brunswick. Sld. Texian, Gua-
temala; Guisachan, Calcutta; Cockburn, Cape of Good
Hope; John Robinson. Buenos Ayre.; Swordfish, Per-
nambuco; Frances Yates. Jamaica; Marmion, New
York; John Panton, Harbour Grace; Nuevo Rosario,
Santa Cruz. Off port, Ceres, Barbadoes; Ann Ding-
wall, Laguna; Lady Mona, Maria, Requiter, Alfred,
Milton, Ratcliff. _ _ _

BRIDLINGTON, JUNE 6.—The Betsey, Hartlepool to
Ipswich, sprung a leak and sunk off Flamborough Head
yesterday; crew laved.
PORTSMOUTH; JUNE 6.—Arrd. Prince of Wales,
Hopkins, Calcutta, and sailed for London; her Majesty's
steamers Termagant and Stromboli, on a cruize. Sld.
Nile, Madras and Calcutta. Off port, Trafalgar, Ro-
bertson, Calcutta. Her Majesty's steamer Geyser,
Simon's Bay to Buffalo River, when 40 miles off the latter
place her boilers broke down, and was compelled to put
back.

QUEENSTOWN, JUNE s.—The Gratitude, Mauritius
to the Clyde, is on the mud outside Spike Point. Arrd.
liebe, Allen, Port-au- Prince.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

8
8 1-16
87 p

CORN EXCHANGE-FRIDAY.

A very moderate supply of Engliih Wheat has come
to hand for this market, since Monday, coastwise or by
land carriage. To day the attendance of both town
and country millers was small; yet the few parcels of
home• grown Wheat on offer were disposed of at Mon-
day's prices. Upwards of 10,000 quarters of foreign
Wheat have arrived this week. The show of samples
of both red and white was by no means large. Selected
qualities were held firmly, at full rates of currency;
but the middling and inferior kinds were neglected.
Barley—the supply of which was very moderate—
moved off slowly, at barely late rates. Very little Malt
was brought forward, yet the supply was quite equal to
the wants of the buyers. Selected parcels of Oats were
steady, at late rates. Damp qualities met a very in-
active demand. Beans, Peas, Indian Corn and Meal
were almost nominal. No change took place in the
value of the best Town-made Flour. Foreign qualities
were dull.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.

Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Malt. Flour.
,----- ------ -- --
Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Sacks
2,310 170 590 2,35 G 2.270

English ......
5c0tch........
Foreign ......

10,760 1 4,770 I 14,-510

9514
96%
308

963/4

71 p
CLOSING
PRICES.
53

ONE
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 Der Cent
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent .... •
Do., 3 per cent
Equador Bonds
Cdexicar. 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons--
Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons
Ditto. Account
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Ditto, Small
Ditto, 4 per Cent.
Russian Bonds
96
Ditto, 4114 per Cent
1 Spanish 5 per Cont. 1840 1
17 Ditto, Account
Ditto, Passive
Ditto. 3 per Cen

Ditto. Account .............. 37341/4
Venezuela Bonds, 21ArPer Cent
Dividends on the above payable in London,London,
Beligan,4l/2 per Cent. ...... ...... 88% 87tAt
Ahltal 2% per Cent., 12 Guild. 5678
Ditto. 4 Der Cent. Certificates...
86

‘9%
3:j4

37%
82%
8714
56 74
86

PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES. '
9% 50 ...... 9 VA'
Chestercappl°oo..:i aN,Ni ande'ei:iwr
el:llf;so,orliecynPfhrereea df .. . 5010
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- :14
113/4 z.d
7)(3
Eastern Counties... ....• 20 ......• 7%
6 per Cent........... 10 ••••••
Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13s. 4d... 7s P. ......•••••
East(elrnateUEni.oun:
CiShasarsesA) 25 ...... --16,4 . ... .. 16
Do. Scrip (f; per cent.) '2O . .....
Great Northern
0% •• • 10%
Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. 1234 ••• - 1 8 571 x.n 57 r
Great W estern ... ...... ...100 ......57 5 /2 , XI.
IA x.n • • d % xn.
Lapncitast%rNaenwd Cl7alrlisie:: 5015 ...
- 7 .• SA,
401/2
Lance! hire& Yorkshire 100
lirDo. Fifths.- ......... 10 ...... lie
1214
Do. : 'Stew, Gua.B per et. 10 ...... 1214
3
3
Do. ( W. Riding Union) 11% .....
Lon tot ~ Brighton, and
Sorith Coast... ...: 100 ...... -
Do., l'ew, guaranteed
6 per Cent . ...... -109 ...... -
Lcndon and N Western 100
Ditto, 'New Quarters 12 . 11071%1/2•%•• ••• •.•••...
12%
Ditto. Fifths l2 •-• ..
Do. um. kM. & B.) C 1 •••'•• 1 I/2 ......
.....
...
London 6 13,N.atorn ll.lO ...... 63
7 •• •
Uo.. ow Preference. 5 ......
blana.estcr,Bnaton,and
Matlock ix...... •••-•
ganchesti a', Sheffield,
alld ii4i4COlTahiro..:loo • . -ill ...
D icttetztni.o.n.
5.n.661381.134...d A......T.
4:91;p44E5..x1c.'211...C.K.... PRICES,

- P
% P

SIVEXICHWEEX.D.

127
107
115/8
12%
I',Q
62
6%

-
1,260

The supply of YeZi;;;i;T:l7-Ciay being small, and
the attendance of buyers numerous, the Beef trade ruled
somewhat active at an advance in the prices of Mon-
day last of quite 2d per 81bs, and a good clearance was
effected. Although the numbers of Sheep were season-
ably extensive, the demand for that description of stock
was firm, and, in some instances, the quotations had an
upward tendency. There was a slight improvement in
the sale for Lambs, at full rates of currency. From the
Isle of Wight, 300 head reached us in very middling
condition. Calves were in great supply, and heavy de-
mand, at barely the late decline. In Pigs, next to
nothing doing. Mulch Cows were selling at from 141 to
181 each, including their small Calf.

FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 7, 1850.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the chair shortly after Twelve
o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Carlizle Railway Bill
was read a third time and passa.
The following Bills, as amended, were considered and
agreed to :
__

Bradford Improvement, Police, and Purchase and Clos-
ing of Bradford Canal.
Cromford and Newhaven Turnpike Road.
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Nl:,riners' Benevolent
Society.
The Cautley's Divorce Bill was read a second time and
ordered to be committ. d.

The Earl of MARCH presented petitions from Sus-
sex against the Highway Bill, praying for the repeal ti
the Malt-tax, and complaining of the mode of taking corn
averages.

Mr. ELLIOT presented a petition from a place in
Roxburghshire against Suoday labour in the Post-office.
Mr. H. DRUMMOND presented a petition to the same
i fleet.

Mr. RUFFORD presented a petition from a place in
Worcester,hire complatoing of agricultural distress, and
praying for redress.

Icir.IIOBIIOUSE presented two petitions fr, m the
Metropolis in favour of the enfranenisement of copy.
holds.

COPYIIOLDS.
Mr. F. MACKENZIE said, as the llon. Member for
Cockermouth had, without notice, postponed lest night
the order of the day with respect to the Bill for the
Enfranchisement of Copyholds until Thursday next,
he shoultl make a motion on the subject on Monday.
DRAINAGE AND IMPROVEMENT OF LAND
ADVANCES BILL.

On the motion for going into Committee on this Bill,
Mr. TRELAWNY opposed the Bill. They could
not afford to impose an additional tax on the people for
the purpose ot carrying the object of the Bill into
effect, and he thought it bad taste that so
many landlords should be in attendance to
give their support to it when they were so ready to
vote against all other proposals to increase taxation.
He consider. d that the money required by this Bill
c(,uld be applied to purposes much more for the benefit
and advantage ot the country. The Hon. Member con-
cluded by proposing that they should go into Committee
on the Bill that day six months.

Col. THOMPSON seconded the amendment.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER hoped,
as the Bill had alte.tcly been sanctioned by the House,
that the Honourable Merabar would not persevere in his
am►ndment.

Mr. SLANEY also hoped the Hon. Gentleman would
not go to a division on his amendment. lie could bear
testimony to the utility and advantage which resulted
from parties being enabled to obtain advances to set
persons at work in their particular districts in drainage
operations, and as that was the object of the present
measure, it had his hearty support. There was one
suggestion, however, which he wished to throw out to
the Government. It happened that parties were
earnestly desirous to borrow money for the sake of per-
manent improvements, and that other parties in the
same neighbourhood were anxious to advance that
money, and he thought the Government might, under
such circumstances, enable the one party to borrow and
the other to lend, by means of similar machinery to
that contained in this Bill. At present great trouble
and expense was occastoned by the investigation which
had to be made into the title of the borrowing party.
He called upon the House to relieve the borrower from
the useless perplexity of the law. There were innume-
rable parties ready to advance money, but the man who
wanted it for the improvement of his estate, and the em-
ployment of his labourers, was precluded from borrowing
by the absurd intricacies of the law, and he, therefore,
called upon Government to take the matter up.
Sir J. TROLLOPE said it might be inferred from the
remarks of the Hon. Member fur Tavistock that the
landed interest were petitioning Government for loans,
but 60 far from that being the case, the vast majority of
the landowners of England were opposed to the Bill.
After a few words from Mr. F. MACKENZIE, who
supported the Bill,
Mr. HUME said he was opposed to all Bills of
this nature, believing, as he did, that all land-
owners who bad good eiteurity to offer would
find no difficulty in obtaining money, but he
had been told that in many parts of the United Kingdom
difficulties of that nature did exist, and be therefore
could not object to the measure now. Besides, the
House had already adopted the principle, and be did
nut think any Hon. Member after that approval could
resist the motion for going into Committee. Still,
though he did not now feel himself called upon to op-
pose the principle, he was bound to state that there
were details in the measure which he never could agree
to. For instance, it would appear that some of this
money might be expended on farm buildings, or provi-
sions, which he thought ought not to be agreed to, and
therefore, when the House got into Committee, be should
endeavour to get it expunged from the Bill.--(Hear.)
Mr. TRELAWNY wished to reply, but
The SPEAKER told him that as the mover of the
amendment he was not allowed the privilege.
The House then divided, when there appeared—
For the amendment
Against it ...
Majority ...
The House thi n went into Committee.
Mr.„MACKENZIE hoped that the Chancellor of the
Exchequer would re-consider that part of the grant
which was to be appropriated to England.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was
quite willing to grant to Scotland all that justice re-
quired. But he must remind the Honourable Gentle-
man that Scotland had already had advances to the
amount of 1,600,0001. in the same time that England
had only received 373.0001., half of which had been
given to the five northern counties. The grants had
been apportioned according to priority of application,
and he must say that great credit was due to
Scotland for its promptitude and sharpness in apply-
ing for these grants. What he proposed, however,
was to require all applications to be sent in by a certain
day; and would apportion out a certain sum among
the counties and make the grants according to the ap-
plication, having a certain regard to priority of
application; and that those sums which were not
claimed would fall into a general fund, applicable to
similar circumstances.

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••• -69

Mr. H. DRUMMOND said there was no doubt that
Scotland required more drainage than England. He
could not get the farmers in his part of the country to
drain, because, in fact, they had no faith in any as-
sistance which the House of Commons might pro-
mise, because they had so often broken faith with
them. Unless some facilities or assistance were given
to small proprietors of land, they must give up their
holdings.
Lord HARRY VANE quite agreed with the Hon.
Member for Surrey, in so far as his last observation
was concerned, for no one could deny that great distress
prevailed amongst small holders, which could only be
removed by giving them facilities for raising money
on easy terms. The small owner had no prospect
but ruin before him if he could not obtain money
to improve his land. Vast improvements
,had been
made in many parts of the country by private en-
terprise, but that resource was rapidly becoming ex-
hausted, and it was therefore highly -desirable that a
Bill of this nature should be passed as speedily as
possible.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER ob-
served that they had met for the purpose of dispatching
business, and he hoped Hon. Members would not waste
time in useless discussions of this nature.

Mr. K. SEYMER approved of the Bill.
Mr. J. ELLIS said, though he was a Free-trader he
admitted the importance of advancing money to improve
the land of the country. Nothing could be done with-
out it ; and he, for one, would much rather see
2,000,000/. of the public exchequer lent to the landholder
than sunk in supporting some Californian mining
scheme.—(A laugh )
Sir H. W. BARRON was a supporter of the Bill,
but still he was bound to tell the House that
although he had borrowed money under the Irish
Act, which he had expended in improvements on his
farms, the farms themselves had been thrown upon his
own hands. The former holders, who had rented them
at moderate rat's, would not pay the increased rent
which the drainage had rendered necessary, and the
consequence was the land had been unoccupied for
the last nine months. The fact was farming
bad becona unprofitable, and unless something
were immediately done to arrest the progress
of destruction that was now going on, b•
could not answer for the consequences in Ireland.
Never had so much distress been felt amongst the agri-
cultural labourers of that country—it was impossible for
awn to find work anywhere, and however useful Bills
of this nature might be in a limited sphere, it was hope-
less to expect general prosperity or c.ntentment amongst
the agricultural interest of the United Kingdom till some
extensive measure were passed for their especial relic&
Without some measure of relief the landlords in Ireland
were in such a condition as not to tie able to give em-
ployment to the mass of poor people in that country.
He would support the clauses
After a few words from Mr. TRELAWNY the clause
was agreed to.
Clause 2 was then agresed to.

On clause 3 being ;imposed,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said as
this clause was one on which some discussion might
arise, he would take the liberty of making a few obser-
vations. All they had to lock to, in making advances,
was that they should have adequate security given to
them, either in the shape of improvements or adjacent
lauds ; but they had to look to the interest of the
party who came after the person who borrowed the
money. He, therefore, proposed that no advance should
be made, unless he had a certificate that the improve-
menta on the land would produce a return of 6i per cent.
It was his opinion that the best mode of cariying out
the clause would be to provide for the consolidation of
farms, but many Honourable Members differed
with him in that respect. Bat the main question
for them to consider was how to carry out the
clause so far as it related to farm buildings.
No landed proprietor would submit to the interference
of a Government inspector, and yet without the assist-
ance of such an officer money might be advanced and
expended on useless works, while, after the buildings
were erected, the difficulty would arise as to how their
insurance or repair could be effectually secured.
Those were the principal difficulties which suggested
themselves to his mind in the way of applying the
provisions of the Bill, and having suggested them he
sbeuld now leave the matter in the hands of the Com-
mittee, with the simple declaration that he should feel
himself bound by its decision.—(Haar, hear.)
Sir J. TROLLO24 ws quite pure the clam sa