The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-27 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

. BROBL TUB MORNING PAPERS OF-TRIS DAY.
CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.
TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 14 per mille,
which, at the English Mint price of 3/ 17s. 100. per ounce
for-standard gold, gives.sn exchange of 25 50k; and the
exchange at Paris on London at short being 25 67k, it follows
that gold is 0.68 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.
By advices from Hamburgh, the price of gold is 4351 per
mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 101 d. per
ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 10-1 ; and
the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13 113,
it follows that gold is 0.40 per cent. dearer in London than in
Hamburgh.
The course of exchange-tte-New• York on London is 104
per cent.; and the par of exchange between England and
America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the ex-
change is 1.08 per cent. against England; but the quoted ex-
change at New York being for bills at sixty days' sight, the
interest must be deducted from the aboVe differenCe.
SUN.—The Funds have been firtn this afternoon, but
thei.e has not bea quite so high a *aide realised for Con-
sols, which closed at 981 984.. Exchequer Bills were with-,
out alteration. • ,
The Foreign Funds were rather animated. .Spanish
Five per Cents. touched 25k to 4 for Money, and 251
'to 1 for Account. The Three per Cents. were 36* to 4;
and the 1843 Coupons, to be Capitalised, 301 to I.
Mexican Bonds were worth 36 to I; and Colombian,
141. MexiCaniDeferred Stock rose to 16* I.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have
been these:—Birmingham . and Derby were 40 to 38i;
Brighton, si; ' Mdland. Counties,. 10 to 91; North Mid-
land, 81; South Eastein, 134-; and Great North of Eng-
land, 4 discount. Eastern ounties ,New, 5; Ditto Ex-
tension, 1; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 14 to 14; Great
t
Western Fifths, 7; Lancaster and Carlisle, 2 ; Man-
chester and Leeds, 44i ; Norwich and Bran on, 41 ;
Sputh-Eastern Scrip, 12; and ,York and North Midland,
Scarborough Branch, 18 . premitim. Colonial Bank
Shares were 10*
,to 10 :discount. London and West -
Minster, 41 to 5;
,and Union 'of Australia, / to 1 prem.
The folloWing are the official returns of the exports
of bulliOn for the week ending Thursday kit:—
Silver bars to Hamburgh ' • 46,800 oz.
Rotterdam.... 13,500 „
,j coin to Ditto
„ „
.- Belgium
~ ~ - New 'York
I Gold „ Ditto
Port Philip 4901
The exchange on Hamburgh and Trieste did not look
quite so good. On Paris and .Antwerp it was steady.
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YESTERDAY.)
AmSterdam ...... CF.
1212
6*i LeghornGibral tar .
Ditto, at sight3o 65
Rotterdam ...... 2U. 12 7 Genoa 26
Antwerp 26 0. Milan
Hamburgh M.B. 14 0 Venice 47
Altona . 14 0 Naples 39
Paris, 3 days' sight... 25.70 Palermo,. per oz ll7
Ditto, 3 months 25 95, ,Lisbon 53
Marseilles 26 0 • Oporto ' 53 ' • .
Bourdeaux 25 0 Rio Janeiro 23.
Frankfort on Maine.. 1224 Bahia 23.
'Petersburgh,. 3 Us... 3.61 . Buenos Ayres
Berlin . - 7 NewYork,2ldys sight
Vienna, effec. 13 M. .9 58 Philadelphia —
Trieste, ditto
Madrid .- , . 364 Foreign Gold,bars..S.3 17 , 9
Cadiz _ - 36-i- Portugal Gold Coin 317 5
Bilbao l ... . ....... .4 - 0 0 -.0.
Barcelona .... .. ^.....-
Seville ............. . .... Silver in Bars 04 n;

FANCY FAIR UNDER THE THAMES.—This fair
was continued with great spirit throughout the whole of yes
terday, The decorations of the interior of the Tunnel, and
,the general arrangement of the stalls, are excellent. Yester-
day and the day before the number of visitors which the fair
attracted was almost beyond credit. In addition to the fair
in the Tunnel, there is Somethhig very like one outside, at
the Rotherhithe entrance, consisting of ginger-bread-nut
stalls, exhibitions of tumblers and mountebanks, and a dis-
play of the illegitimate drama, in the shape of "Brewer's
Favilion Theatre," which was well patronised by the visitors
"to the Tunnel. The extraordinary fineness of the day yes-
terday caused quite as great an influx of visiters as on the
day previous. The fair will finally close to-night, at eleven
o'clock.

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IgE§S IN PARLI
MENT-
-.....*Aryport and Carlisle Railway Bill,—Read a wend time,
and committed, and referred to the Committee of Selection.
Colchester and iraTirefi Itailway (No. 2) Bill,—Read a
second time, and committed, and referred to the Committee
of Selection.
Manchester and Birmingham Railway (Macclesfield and
Poynton Branches) (No. 2) Bill,—Reported; Report to he
on the table, and to be printed.
Norwich and Brandon Railway Bill,—Report considered ;
amendments agreed to ; Bill to be ingrossed.
. York and Scarborough Railway Bill,-TReport considered;
amendments agreed to ; Bill to be ingrossed.
Midland Railways Consolidation- Bill,—Reported ; Report
to lie on the table, and to be printed. _

AY B

Furness Railway Bill,--Reported; Report to lie on the
table, and to be prmted.
Guildford Junction Railway Bill,—Report considered;
amendments agreed to ; Bill to be ingrossed.
Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway Bill,—Read a
second time, and committed, and referred to the Committee
of Selection.
London-and South Western Railway (No. 1) Bill,—Read
a second time, and committed, and referred to the Committee
of Selection.

THE AMENDED POOR-LAW BILL.

DEPUTATION TO SIR JAMES GRAHAM.

Yesterday, a meeting of delegates from the following me-
tropolitan parishes, viz., St. Marylebone, St. Georges, Han-
over-square, St. James's, Westminster, St. Pancras, St. Mar •
garet and St. John, Westminster, St. Mary, Islington, St.
Leonard, Shoreditch, and St. Luke, Old-street, took place in
the Court-house, Marvlebone, for the purpose of proceeding
as a deputation to the 'Home-office, to urge upon Sir James
Graham their objections to the provisions of the Amended
Poor-law 13i11, and to solicit him to exempt all parishes
under local Acts from the operations of its provisions.
The deputation, which was very numerously attended,
proceeded in carriages to the Home-office, where they were
joined bythe following Members of Parliament :—G. Brig,
Esq., and COlonel T. Wood, the county members ; Sir L.
Napier, T. Wakley, Esq., and T. S. Duncembe, Esq.,'Sir B.
Hall being absent, owing to the illness of his son.
The Right Hon. Mr. Frankland Lewis, one of the Poor-
lawCommissioners, was present with Sir James Graham.
Sir C. NAPIER introduced the object the deputation had in
view to Sir James Graham, and said, that the parishes re-
presented by the delegates present, considered that the
Amended Poor-law Bill would seriously interfere with their
local interests upon several points; viz., in the mode of
appointing auditors, and in the creation of asylums and dis-
trict schools.

Sir J. GRAHAM said be thought that he had better state the
alterations which he was willing. to make in the amended
Bill. In doing so he was of opinion that it would reduce the
matter in dispute to a very small compass. With regard to
the 17th clause, in reference to the division of parishes into
wards for the election of guardians, and which was worded
in such a manner as to be considered ambiguous, as to whe-
ther it applied to parishes having local Acts or not, he
would remove that ambiguity by stating that that mode of.
election would be confined to parishes under the Poor-law
Act, and not to extend to those having local ones. The 56th
clause which bears more with parishes having local Acts, the
proviso to which is a restraint on the existing law and not
an extension ofthe law, he thought there could be no objection
to. To the earlier part of the clause an objection had
been stated by the Hon. Gentleman (Sir C. Napier). very
correctly of what he (Sir J. Graham) had said on a
former occasion as to its object, which was to ensure at-
tendance of guardians under local Acts at least once a fort-
night, as under the Poor-law Act. Indeed, they meet less
frequently than once a fortnight under some local Acts,
and in some cases only the Chairman had been found in at-
tendance. With respect to those two clauses all difficulty
would be removed, and then the only question remaining
would be those of the auditors, the asylums and the district
schools.
Sir C. NAPIER said that the parishioners of St. Marylebone
felt that the interference of the Poor-law Commissioners was
not required with reference to the proposed asylums, as their
workhouse was open day and night for the reception of the
destitute poor. He (Sir C. Napier) had gone through the
workhouse, and as well as he was able to judge, it was well
conducted, so far as health and cleanliness, together with the
education of the children, were concerned
Mr. G. DANIELL, of Marylebon e, stated the different grounds
of apprehension entertained by the deputation that the Bill
would affect parishes having local Acts.
Sir J. GRAHAM said he had endeavoured to remove every
difficulty, except as to the district schools, the audit, and the
asylums, and he was disposed to take the opinion of the
House on the extension, so limited, as to parishes under local
Acts. He was there to receive the observations they might
make. Why (as to that limited extent), parishes having
local Acts should not be brought under the same general foot-
ing as other parishes.
Mr. DANIELL said, if the 28th clause, which appointed audi-
tors under the control of the Poor-law Commissioners, passed
in its present shape, in connection with the latter part of the
56th clause, the entire independence of boards of guardians
would be annihilated, and the wholesome control of parishes
under local Acts over their own expenditure be entirely abo-
lished. With respect to the proposed district schools, they
considered that not only a vast and unnecessary increase of
expense would be incurred, but that the removal of children
fifteen or twenty miles from their own parish, would rather
increase than diminish the evils of pauperism ; and as re-
garded the proposed establishment of district asylums for
the destitute, they objected to such a principle, on the ground
that they would tend to increase pauperism and incur expense.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE. M.P., said the real fact was, that the
metropolitan parishes were perfectly satisfied with the pre-
sent state of things, and desired that the Poor-law Commis-
sioners should not have the power to interfere with them in
any way. They felt that they were quite competent to ma-
nage their own affairs, and that if the amended Bill were car-
ried in its present shape, the effect would be to place them at
the feet of the Poor-law Commissioners.

Sir J. GRAHAM said his principal 'object in the proviso of
the 56th clause was merely to compel boards of guardians in
parishes having local Acts, to meet as often as parishes under
the New Poor-law—at least once a fortnight.

Mr. DITSCOMBE could not see the nece's'sity of such a pro-
viso, for the guardians of the metropolitan parishes under
local Acts met oftener than under the Poor-law—always once
and sometimes twice a week. It was absurd, therefore, to
give the Poor-law Commissioners power to issue regulatians
compelling them to do so..
Sir J. GRAHAM—There were some parishes under local
Acts, in which boards of guardians did not meet oftener than
once in six weeks, and a uniformity in such cases both for
the benefit of the ratepayers and the poor was necessary.
Members of the deputation from other parishes having
urged upon Sir J. Graham various grounds of objection,
Mr. T. DINCOMBE asked, would Sir J. Graham undertake
to pledge himself to insert a general clause exempting all
parishes having local Acts from the operations of the Bill ?
Sir J. GRAHAM said he was not prepared at once that day
to give such a pledge. He should, however, certainly deli-
berate upon the representations made by so numerous and
respectable a deputation, and he should feel it his duty to
represent to the Government the arguments which had been
adduced by the delegates from the metropolitan parishes.
Mr, DUNCOMBE said, under such circumstances he would
suggest to the deputation that they should leave the matter
for the present entirely in the hands of Sir J. Graham.
Sir J. GRAHAM said that the deputation might depend
upon it that their representation should receive his best at-
tention.
The delegates then withdrew, and adjourned again to the
MaryleboneCourt-house, where a general meeting of a larger
number of deputies from the various metropolitan parishes
had, pursuant to notice, assembled to receive their report.
Mr. DANIELL having been re-appointed to the chair, a
statement was made as to what had transpired at the Home-
office ; and, after a long discussion, it was agreed to appoint
a joint committee of all the parishes to watch the Bill, and
to ascertain from Sir J. Graham his final decision on the point
submitted to him.
A Vote of thanks having been given to the Chairman and
the' deputation, the meeting separated.

THE LATE MR. WARRING, BIRMINGHAM.--7-AII
inquest was held on Monday evening, at the house of Mr.
Joshua Stinton, Grand Turk;Landgate-hill, Birmingham, on
the body of the late Mr. George Wareing, whose death oc-
curred in the Catholic Cathedral of that town. The, first
witness called was Mr. George Payne, who deposed that he
was an assistant to deceased, and had been in the habit of
'seeing him daily. He seemed in pretty good health gene-
rally, and was a man of very active and temperate habits.
He saw him about eight o'clock on Sunday morning in his
own Yard, and afterwards in the cathedral. Witness went
into the church first, and deceased came in at about twenty
minutes to eleven o'clock. Deceased went to the upper end
of the pew (or seat) and knelt down beside. witness 'on his
left hand. Deceased joined in the service the sameas others.
and read from his book, and he (witness) perceived nothing
the matter with him until a few minutes before twelve o'clock
he saw deceased kneel down with others, and put his hand to
his face, and presently he fell back and then on his side on to
the.ground. Deceased put his hands to, his face suddenly, as
if frem pain, and then fell back. There, was a rush oisper-
sons to assist him, and his body was &ken to the Palace, and
attended by Mr. Benleow, surgeon, who bled deceased at the
back, but he expired. Mr. James Wareing, son of deceased,
stated that he complained of being a little deaf during the
previous fortnight, and sometimes of a tightness over his
nose. The jury immediately returned a verdict of "Died by
the visitation of God by apoplexy.
. MERCHANT SEAMENS SOClETY.—Yesterday, a
meeting of the Governors of this Charity, which is estab-
lished . for the relief and support of sick, maimed, and dis-
abled seamen, their widows and orphans, was held at the
Society's rooms, Birchin-lane. From the report read by. Mr.
'Watson, it appeared that the receipts amounted to 21,731/.
3s. 9d. ; and the disbursements, including 17,6381. paid to
pensioners, figured 20,330/. 178. 2d. The following are the
pensioners on the Society's funds, viz., 1,646 men, 2,519
women, and 2,785 children.
AN EARLY BROOD.—The following fact god to
show the extreme mildness of the past winter :—For several
months past a Mr. Curtis has been confined by illness, at the
Albion, in Horsemonger-lane, and occupies an upper room
with a southern aspect. During the winter he was visited
by a brace of sparrows, who perched on the sill of the window
near his bed, and in the severe weather they were supplied
With food. About the middle of February they began to
build their nest on a ledge under the chamber window, and
such has been their industry and care that they have four
young ones, able to leave their nest and nearly fledged ; and
as the parent birds are well supplied with food, their chirping
offspring thrive fast. The circumstance is remarkable, as this
domestic bird seldom prepares for the work of incubation till
the end of March. These appear to have forstalled St. Va•
lentine's day.
METROPOLITAN DRAPERS' ASSOCIATION. —A.
meeting of the Islington District Branch of the above Asso-
ciation was held at the Parochial School-room, the Rev. D.
Wilson, Vicar, in the chair. The meeting was addressed by
the Rev. Mr. Auriol, Rev. Mr. Hughes, and the Rev. Mr.
Venn, Messrs. Owen, Foskey, and other gentlemen, and, re-
solutions were unanimously agreed to condemnatory of the
present late-hour system, and calling on the public to assist
in removing the evil by abstaining from making purchases at
late hours of an evening. The several speakers pointed out
in forcible terms the evils arising from the present system,
and gave a very satisfactory.account of the progress of the
Association. Thariks were given to the Chairman, and the
meeting dispersed soon after ten o'clock.
ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE BY A YOUNG FEMALE.—
This morning, between twelve and one o'clock, a fashion-
ably-dressed young woman, between 18 and 19 years of pge,
whose name it appears is Mary Hodson, residing at 23, Fitz-
roy-row, Fitzroy-square, was brought into University Col-
legeilospital, Upper Gower-street, Bedford-square, suffering
from the effects of having, with the intention of committing
suicide, swallowed' poison, viz., a quantity of sugar of lead.
The usual remedies were applid, and by the aid of the tto-
mach-pump a considerable portion of the poison was ex-
tracted, but from the length of time she had taken it, the,
extensive injury to the coats of the stomach it had effected;
renders her recovery doubtful. It appears she formerly held
a respectable situation in a tradesman's establishment in'the
Ineighbourhood, but having been lately seduced and aban-
doned by her betrayer, she was induced to adopt a vicious
and profligate life. Last night she returned home in an ex-
cited state from liquor, and having quarrelled with her land-
lord respecting same rent she was in arrear, she went out in
' a passion‘and procured the poison in question.

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