The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-08 00:00:00

TH E SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 8, 1850.

tered into," and that other points beside the amount
realised by the Exchequer, are worthy of being taken
into consideration, that some respect must be shown
for the loud and unequivocal expression of public
opinion, and that a C abinet Minister, whatever may
be his private feelings on the subject, should at least
exhibit some regard for equity and justice in his obser-
vations. There is, therefore, at least some chance of their
escaping from the evil consequences of a de feat, more
especially since they have abandoned the good old
rule by which Ministers resigned, as a matter of
course, if left in a minority on a fiscal or financial
question—a change that was indeed essential to the
safety and permanence of any Cabinet in which the
Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Halifax occu-
pied the important and arduous position of Chancellor
of the Exchequer.
But the results will be very different when the
views of Sir CHARLES WOOD are sustained by a mejo-
rity of the chosen representatives of the people. He
will then, most probably, be permitted to stumble on
in his stolid and unmeaning course, setting the wishes
of the people at defiance, and regulating the national
finances as if there had been no such thing as Parlia-
mentary reform, and our Legislators, in place of
being the representatives of free and independent
constituencies, were still the nominees of borough-
mongers, who would sell their votes to the highest
bidder. Such a state of affairs may be
not only dangerous to the existence or the
Ministry, but fatal to the best interests
of the country, rendering probable some sudden and
violent change, and endangering the recognized rights
of property. The people may not always be con-
tented to endure their grievances patiently and sub-
missively. A spirit of resistance may be engendered
that may not easily be got rid of, and Lord J. Russnix
may perhaps exclaim with PYREHUS—"Another such
victory, and am ruined! On Saturday we stated
that " Sir CHARLES WOOD was the evil genius, of the
Government, who will eventually bring about
its overthrow," and the proceedings in the
House of Commons last night, on Mr. EwART's mo-
tion for " leave to bring in a Bill to repeal the duty
on advertisements," more strongly confirm us in that
opinion.

Never was a stronger case made out against any
impost than that which the Hon. Member for Dundee
so clearly and distinctly established against, this, the
most objectionable of the various taxes on,,know-
ledge. It is, as the Honourable Gentleman justly
remarked, " a tax on the vehicles of informa-
tion and commerce—it taxed knowledge, it taxed
agriculture, it taxed literature, it taxed the wants
of the community." It is " amongst the heaviest
burdens that impede the production of literary works."
There is no more formidable obstacle to success in
" the struggles of a book against taxation." But,
objectionable as it may be in these respects, there is
another point of view in which it may be regarded,
in which the grievance will be exhibited in even a
stronger light. It is a tax on the industrious
poor, which practically prohibits them from seek-
ing for employment, which prevents them from
gaining their daily bread by their own exertions. The
half-starved sempstress is prevented from making
known her wants, and stating the low rate at which
she is willing to engage herself. It places an insu-
perable obstacle between the employers and the em-
ployed—between the supply of, and the demand for,
labour. The servant-maid, who desires to obtain a
new place in order to preserve her from adopting the
last dreadful resource to which so many of her class
have been driven, is unable to state her
qualifications and testimonials, or, if she
can obtain sufficient to pay for the ad-
vertisement by means frightful to contemplate,
endangering her present and future happiness, and
degrading her for ever from a state of innocence, she
must contribute as largely to the national revenue as
the lordly aristocrat, who announces for sale or ex-
change an estate worth many thousands per annum•
It is the same on a single line as on a notice occu-
pying half-a-dozen columns ; in fact, its impolicy is
only surpassed by its inequality and injustice. To it
we are indebted for those clumsy vans that block up our
streets and impede our progress through the crowded
-thoroughfares. To its operation may be ascribed the
ridiculous spectacles of those unfortunate specimens
of humanity who wander about encased in boxes
covered with notices, exciting at the same time our
tears and our risibility—our tears that men made
in " the image of their CREATOR," with feelings similar
to our own, should be so deeply degraded by the
painful necessities of their conditions—our laughter
at the absurd appearance which they present.
But these arguments, powerful as they must,
be considered by every unprejudiced and
well-constituted mind, wrought no effect on
our excellent Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The old stereotyped answer was returned which has
been repeated usque ad museum on every similar
question. He could not defend the obnoxious impost ;
he could not say a single word in its justification, but
contented himself with the vague and general assur-
ance that "he would certainly be very glad to remit
this and every other tax, if he had the means
of carrying on the public service and pay-
ing the interest of the Debt without them.
The repeal of the taxes upon air and light, upon
knowledge, and upon many articles of con-
sumption, had been demanded, but as he could not
carry on the public service without them, he hoped
the House would concur with him in resisting the
motion." Such 'were the arguments by which the
propriety of these infamous imposts was sustained,
and which induced the House to reject the proposi-
tion. Well might the Swedish Chancellor have ex-
claimed, " My son, behold with how little wisdom the
world is governed!" and the receiver of stolen goods
have chaunted—

" The statesman because he's so great
Thinks his trade is as honest as mine."

A tremendous hubbub still con tinues to be kicke
up by those unfortunate gentlemen the Protectionists.
Yesterday their orators were more than usually
energetic. One, a parlous fellow from Glamorgan•
shire, came down right wittily on the doomed Sir
ROBERT, touching his auditors so sensitively and sen-
tentiously on the quick, that he had them first howling
sympathetically at his vituperations, and next cheering
most lustily at his grandiose threats and braggado-
cios. Then another sagacious wight from 'Wiltshire
warmed into a sort of dunderheaded inspiration,
bellowing out to his hearers, most appo-
sitely, the words which MILTON placed in
the mouth of SATAN when addressing the legions of
the damned in Pandemonium. Never was there
such sublime blundering, such rapturous stupidity.
Poor Professor:Arrome himself seemed to have be-
come infected for once by the surrounding atmos-
phere of absurdity and ignorance. His whole
thoughts appeared, as the phrase runs, to have gone
off " wool-gathering." Instead of uttering any-
thing 'whatever pertinent to the occasion, he must
needs cram down the throats of his listeners a
miserable, lukewarm rechaufee of tidbit already
dished up again and again by our periodical writers
and pamphleteers.
Thus i.t
cwAalaßrsthaetewhshiidreleetelling
us how " certain M
the
growing of potatoes on a ") r
panacea for all the evils whichwhile informing us that " Mr. eat mmo
as f
fs a
ct to
thebe theeou
hg
trrayn,
ECIIT, whose razors
are of undeniable excellence, is
moreover, observing that " the evilcse,"
and while,
now
attempting to
show the farmers how to shave
e s
flown into
spirit of free
a
trade, finding no other place of refu
e feel with a
the herd of Lir. HurrAnnz's swineLw
horrible sense of nausea that he is making us chew
the cud of Blackwood's Magazine. Our most
excel-
lent instructor the Professor should have borne in
recollection that we have heard all these things
over and over again in "most damnable iteration",
until men have grown sick with very wearisomeness
at the perpetual changes rung on the peat moss of
Mr. CAIRD, on the close shaving of Mr. MEcur, and
on the stye-drawn ammonia of Mr. HUXTABLE. We
want sober argument, and not merely sarcastic petu-
lance—and yet Professor ATTOUN comes up in all
hot haste from Edinburgh to retail jokes that
.Maga
has long since rendered threadbare. hamlet—" Mark
Lord, my Lord, the
me, he will tell us the players are come." Enter
Polonius. Poloniu?
players are come. Why,
711 "a", ey t— " Buz, buz."
had he nu better news to tell us, Professor AYTOUN
had as well remained north of the Tweed, instead of
journeying all the way up to the metropolis. Then
again as to his poetical twaddle about—
" Wasted fields and crowded cities,
Swarming streets and desert downs;

-All-the light of life concenter'd 1
In the focus of the towns;"
he must, froth his known scholarship, have been per-
fectly
familiar with the fact that, swarming as our
streets do with wayfarers, and crowded as our towns
are with inhabitants, not a city in the United King-
dom—not, even the mighty Babylon of London itself—
can be regarded as in the smallest degree comparable in
density of population to the cities of a remote and
flourishing antiquity. According to some antiquarians,
the number of the Roman citizens alone—at a time,
too, when Rome was in its greatest state of opulence,
absorbing into itself not only the riches but the popu-
lations of the west and of the east, of Asia and of
Africa as well as of Europe, of Britain and of Gaul
as well as of Italy—almost exceeds the limits of
credibility, and renders insignificant, by comparison,
" the light of life concenter'd in the focus" either of
the Chinese capital or of the British metropolis. Yet
Professor AYTOUN whines over the increasing
growth of our towns and cities as though
that were a portent of national dissolution. At
any rate, if the declamation of the " learned
pundit" was altogether ineffectual in securing our ac-
quiescence, it was eminently successful in demons-
trating that there is no necessary affinity between
rhyme and reason.
But the prominent feature of the whole demonstra-
tion made yesterday at the Crown and Anchor
Tavern, Strand, by the ultra-Protectionists, was the
rancorous hostility evinced towards Mr. COBDEN
personally. It would have done Mr. OASTLER'S
heart good to listen to. It would have been
"nuts " to Mr. FERRAND. There were groans,
and plenty of them, and fierce ones tco
for Sir ROBERT PEEL —. be sure of that I
But, Mr. COBDEN I We warrant him, it would
scarcely have been safe for him to have show* his
nose within sight of the platform. Why, the whole
1 meeting was rabid against him, and rabid with the
rabidness of the true Fernand-phobia. There was
1 Mr. BALL, of Cambridgeshire, rose quite into the
heroics in his denunciations of COBDEN and his de-
fiance of him, and his declaration that the agricultu-
rists had nothing whatever to fear from " the
threats of demagogues I" Then there was the
learned declaimer already mentioned, Profes-
sor ATTOUN, of Edinburgh, waxed simultaneously
wroth and poetical, asserting—" When the red
cross of St. George and the white cross
lof St. Andrew are blended indissolubly to-
gether, I fear not COBDEN, I fear no traitors l''
One Mr. HIGGINS, of Herefordshire, grew won-
derfully funny in his indignation. He said " The
willing bee had been sacrificed for the drones ; but he
told the Government that the bee would not stand it
mush longer." Fancy a bee "not standing it much
longer ! ' But a little further on, Mr. Hracisis be-
' comes rather indecent in his disloyalty. Hearken
to the man's words : "They had heard of a
lion queen, who ruled her subjects in safety so long
as she ruled with impartiality ; but when she
whipped the one and caressed the other, the beasts
turned upon her and tore her to pieces : he hoped the
Government would take warning and not loosen the
attachment of the farmers to the British Queen." As
DOGBERRY saith in play—" Why this is clear bur-
glary, thou naughty varlet !" HIGGINS we con-
jecture must be descended from a branch
of the house of that immortal HIGGINBOTTOM
mentioned in the Rejected Addresses, for the
gist of his allusions to the Free-traders amounted
to nothing more than a plain, plump, burly "Od rot
'em 1" So much for the common sense, the loyalty,
and the rhetoric of the indefatigable gang of the Pro-
tectionists.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The courage of the reactionaries fails them just as i
the time for action arrives, and it is announced that
already, even before it is presented to the Assembly,
the Electoral Bill has undergone several important
modifications. As was well observed by one of the
Democratic papers,when the subject was first mooted,
this new proposal must be either a niaiserie or a'
violation of the constitution, and, after having drawn
it up as the latter, the committee, taking counsel of
discretion, leave diluted it down into the former, not-
withstanding the fanfarronade of the Duke of MON-
TEBELLO (who was M. Guizor's Minister of
Marine) that he would not have the slightest
hesitatation in violating the constitution if it
should become necessary. M. LEO DE LABORDE, M.
DE LA ROCUEJACQUELIN, and the more exalted mem.
bers of the Legitimatist party, are opposed to any in-
' terference with universal suffrage. Generals CAVAIG.
NAC aid LAMORICIERB and M. DITFAURE will not
consent to any violation of the constitution, neither
will MAL ODILON BARROT, DE TOCQUEVILLE, and the
party with wbich they act ; the chances, therefore, of
the passing of any measure calculated to essentially
modify universal suffrage are very small, and to the
committee will be left the odium and ridicule of hay-
ing exhibited a desire to violate the constitution, and
at the same time of having lacked the courage or the
ingenuity to devise a measure capable of effecting
their object. The PRESIDENT of the Republic exhibited
his usual prudence when he consented to the exclusion
of every one of his personal friends and partisans from
the committee ; the ridicule and the odium will now
fall exclusively upon the " Burgraves " of Orleanism
and Legitimacy, who have suffered themselves to be
completely out-manoeuvred.
The Censtitutionnel openly advocates the prolonga-
tion
of the, power of the PRESIDENT for ten years, a
~proposition which will be vehemently opposed by the
Legitimatists, as they consider it an Orleanist trap
to gain time for the coming of age of the Comte DB
PARIS, whose chances of success, however, do not ap-
pear to be very promising. The great majority of
Frenchmen feel towards him as does M. DE LAMAR..
TIER, who, in his recently published castigation of
CRoKER, the English Quarterly Reviewer, says—
" I owe no dynasty to any one. I will say more—l,
who had never disavowed my respectful reminiscences
for the child proscribed in 1830, if a dynasty bad been
in my gift. it is not to the illegitimate branch that 1
would have restored the vacant property of a throne."
The Electoral Bill will be presented to the Assem-
bly on the 7th or Bth.
The state of Paris is most satisfactory, notwith-
' standing the attempts of the reactionaries to get up a
panic. Strangers continue flocking into the city, gay
parties are given, the shopkeepers are doing well,
bread is cheap, employment is plenty, and wages are
good, and yet M. EINENE Sun is Member for Paris ;
trhsoßel
fleet,
haveoitthatrfnaßett
shNhi
BOURSE,
:aeadtepnll
return
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vohoe
receivedof the
the fact is, the reactionaries have so often raised the
appearancesFe
ship-of--the-line
French lenoecoftu hft
le.wsthe
MAY 7.—Latest Prices—Five per
nhthtthere;
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dtee
fleet
Toulonua attends
ttod. tof them.
rom
Cents., 88f. ; Three per Cents., 454 f. 70e.; Bank of
France, 2,070 f.
We read in the Journal des Debats :—" Our letters
from California announce a painful event. In a
country in which legality is scarcely yet established,
and in which all the nations of the earth have numer-
ous representatives, each man has felt the necessity
of joining himself to his fellows, to those who speak
the same language, and have the same interests. The
e
French, who are from 8,000 to 10,000 in number,
France.thie he
e Vwa was ne Yo
have assembled ou the banks of the San Joachim and
the Stanislas, places which are eminently favoured,
and in which they have discovered very considerable
deposits of gold. This circumstance caused the
jealousy of the Americans, who, pretending to be the
absolute masters of the soil and of all it contains, at-
tempted to drive them away. A combat, a veritable
battle in fact ensued. and a great number of persons
lost their lives on both sides. The victory, however,
was with our countrymen."
At !the sitting of the Assembly yesterday, M.
DELEEUW! brought up the report of the committee
on the Paris election. and M. EUGENE Sun was for-
maIIyIISINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXC HANGE, MAY 7.
proclaimed representative of the people.
and Amiens, 6—East Indian, VA—Nortliern of
Frßanocuel,ogln2.

withdraw from the Zollverein in 18.53, when the pre-
sent treaty expire. The manufacturing industry of
Bavaria has not kept pace with the northern states of
the Zollverein, and is more in harmony with that of
her southern neighbour, Austria. The alterations
proposed to be made in the Zollverein tariff will, it is
said, facilitate the entrance of Holstein and the Manse
Towns. Propositions have also been made by Han-
over and Oldenburg, with the conditions on which
they will be willing to enter the Zollverein. On these
conditions the approaching Zoll congress at Cassell
will have to decide. Of the 32 elections which have
already take place, 14 of the deputies to the congress
are deeided freetraders.

The Wiener Zeitung- of the 2d publishes the official
announcement of the retirement of Count STURMER
from the post of Austrian Internuncio at the Porte.
The announcement being unaccompanied by any of
the usual expressions of satisfaction, such as advance-
ment in rank or appointment to an order of knight-
hood, is considered as tantamount to an expression of
displeasure; and the public may gather from the
manner in , which the announcement is made, that
Count STURMER has resigned to prevent his being
recalled.

RUSSIA.
The , Allgemeine Zeitung has letters from the
frontiers of Poland of the 30th ult., in which some
details of the military movements in the kingdom of
Poland are given. The divisions and brigades,
which were hitherto dispersed about the country,
are concentrating. The kingdom of Poland is now
garrisoned by the whole of the army which
lately fought in Hungary, excepting always the
cavalry corps of General SASS, which is expected
to come up, and the corps of Generri LUDERS, which
is now in Wallachia. There are altogether four corps
of 40,000 men each in the kingdom of Poland. The
Ist and 4th corps are in a camp at Lenozyc, while
the 2d and 3d corps are at Suwalki. This assertion
explains the falling
back of the Russian regiments
from the Prussian frontier.

TURKEY.
The Wanderer of Vienna says that the Porte has
communicated to the Austrian Internuncio, that it
has definitively fixed the term for the " internment"
of the Hungarian exiles at nine months from the Ist
January last, and that at the expiration of that pe-
riod they will be M full liberty to go wherever they
may choose.

HUNGARY.
The
large possessions of General ERNEST Kiss,
judiciallyhave been conferred by the usurping Austrian on
murdered at Arad on the 6th of October,
JELLACHICII, and to HAYNAU have been given the
estates of the murdered Count Louis BATIITANT.
Ahab-like HATNAU, bath not only slain but taken
possession.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS,

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were es-
timated at from 4,500 to 5,000 bales, of which 1,500
American were taken on speculation. The market
closed very firm at full prices. The transactions com-
prised about 3,500 American, 200 Femur% and Maran-
ham, at 641 to 71d. ; 100 Bahia, at 7d. ; 600 Egyptian,
at 7d. to 84d. ; 300 Surat. at 44d. to 5-Id. ; and 50 Sea
Islands, at Is. Oid. to Is. 4d. per lb.—ln Railway Shares
a fair business %as done at rather higher prices.
The arrival of the Herman steamer furnishes accounts
of rather later date from America. At New York the
rate of exchange on London was 1091. Cotton was firm,
and corn advancing. The commercial advices offer
nothing of particular interest, the following being rather
curious than important :
"Few people have any idea of the immensity of the
oyster business done in the United States. The Chesa-
peake and Delaware Bay oysters go all over the world,
and we learn from a number of the Baltimore Sun that
one establishment in that city, during the oyster season,
keeps twenty -five men constantly opening the shells, and
they sometimes open five hundred gallons a day, which
are all designed for exportation. The oysters are put
up in cans, in their own liquor, which are made air-
tight and hermetically sealed ; they are warranted to
keep fresh in any climate. Five men are constantly em-
ploy ed in making the cans. The oysters are sent prin-
cipally to the Western States, but considerable quanti-
ties are sent to the West Indies, South America, and
some have been sent to China. Oh the first day of the
last oyster-taking season, in Fairhaven River, six or seven
hundred boats were ready for operation with the sun-
rise. The striking of the bell in the brick church was
the signal to begin, and soon all was stir and commotion
amongst men and shell fish. During the day between
thirty and forty thousand bushels of oysters were taken,
which from the fact of their having been undisturbed for
two years were unusually large and very fine. Some boats
took from seventy-five to one hundred bushels each, and
some few went much above this quantity. Transient
oystermen sold their products at the bank of the river
for twenty and twenty-five cents per bushel, while those
who made "oystering" a regular business, preferred to
hold on for a speculation."
Accounts from Brussels furnish the heads of the
treaty of commerce between Russia and Belgium.
We learn from Amsterdam that there have been some
large failures there in the coffee trade, and that good or-
dinary Java had been forced upon the marked at about
41s. per cwt. The Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
on the 6th instant were 55i to 7.16, closing scarcely so
firmly as they opened. Spanish Bonds were supported.
At Frankfort on the 4th instant Austrian Metallics
were 77g.
The Protectionist meeting held yesterday, and the
prospect of increased activity on the part of the agricul-
turists, excites a good deal of attention, though it is felt
that the result will be to lead to counter agitation.
The fact of a purchase of 200,000/. Consols for June
having been made yesterday afternoon, before the mar-
ket closed, gave more firmness to the prices of English
Stocks, but this has not been quite maintained owing to
the Bull account. Consols have been 951 i for transfer,
and 954 for account, a convincing proof of the goodness
of the money market, and of the confidence felt by the
public. The New Three-and-a-Qurter per Cents. base
realised 964 to j-, and the Three per Cents. 941 to
Bank Stock is worth 206 to Exchequer-bills are 675.
to 705., and India Bonds 90s. to 925. premium.
In Foreign Stocks very little is doing. Mexican are
284. Spanish Three per Cents. 37k. Dutch Two and-
a-Half per Cents. 554. Equador, 3i to 4. The rest
nominal.

Shares are rather firm, though quiet.
The Caledonian Railway Company, like some others,
we fear, has no hope of paying a dividend on its original
capital unless the guaranteed shareholders exhibit in-
dulgence and generosity by accepting an interest lower
than that secured to them. At a meeting held yester•
day a deputation of the board attended to explain the
necessity for a general reduction of preferential claims,
and recommended the election of three delegate 4
to represent the 101. preferential shareholders, with
power to confer with the directors and conclude an ar-
rangement for the above purpose of reduction. After
some discussion a committee of five shareholders was
agreed to, whose report should be made to another
meeting.

QUARTER TO THREE.
Consols ... 95i buy ere.

Ditto, Account ... ...

... 951 buyers.

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS O'CLOCK. PRICES.
tiank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Anne
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities........ 95% % 95%
New 314 per Cent. Anna... 963/4% 97
Lmg Anne. to expire Jaa.1860
arils Bonds, 1,0001. 92 90 p 90 p
South Sea Stock
Ditto New Annuities ..
Consols for Account 95% 9534
:xcliequer Bills. 154 d. & 2d
1,0001. June 67 70 p

70 p

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Equador Bonds 4 3% 3%
Greek Bonds —
Ditto ex Over-due Coupons
al ezican, :1 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons—
Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons ...
Ditto, Account
Russian Bonds '
Ditto, 414 per Cent
Ditto, Small
Ditto Scrip
Spanish 5 per Con. 1840
Ditto. 3 per Cent
Ditto, Account
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Beligan, 44 per Cent.
outcn 2% per Cent., 12 Guild. .. 55%
Ditto, 4 Der Cent. Certificates —

-
25%

3714
37
34

87ex d
5514
85%
VRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLO:,IN
RAI,,WAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICE'
Lerdcen .. 50

Caledonian
Ditto, New IC?. Pref... 10
Eastern Coniaties... ..... 20 ...... 7% 7 7
Do., New Prtf.renee,
6 per Cent ..... ..... 10
Ea•t Lincolnshire, guar.
6 per Cent.
F.diuburgh and Glasgow 50 ..-.. 26%
treat Northern

Do., 1-,v A Deferred ... 12%...... 2
- rut North of England.loo ......
Ditto, New, 301 3O —
• reat Western 100 ... 53LA 53 534 5234 5.234
Ditto, New 171 15 ... . 6% 6%4
Hull and Selby .. ...... 50 ...... 94
Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 ......
Do. Quarter Shares... 12% 20% ...... ......... 201/2
Lancashire & Yorkshire 100
Do. Fifths.... ........ ... 10
Leeds and Bradford
L mdon, Brighton, and _

Smith (;0ut....... .100
Louden and N Western 100 1004% IOII,E
oitto,Fift-tv
London & S.WPstarn lOO ... 68% %............ 59
Do, New 501 42% 2IA. .... 204
Uo. , New Preference. b
11.uichester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire...100
Do. New 101. Pref..... 10 ...... 7
Midland .. ...110 ...... 32%............. 32%
00., 50/. Shares
NThrth B •-• 1 _ /9

British ........ 25 ..... 7id ' - 7'A
Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton
I 7.2 7%
Preston & Wyre 25 ... .. 4034 403/4
Shrewsbury and Birm... 131 . ..... dis... .....
Shropshire Union . . .... 6% ...... ...... ... 2%
,onttl Ku tern
Do., No. 3 ....... ...... 30 ...... 131 A ...
York. Newcastle, and
Berwick. .... ..... ...... 25 ...... 1214 %......
Do. Newcastle Exten. 20
York and North Midland 50
FOREIGN RAIL WA Yb.
Boulogne and Amiens... 20 ...... 6 N... 6,/8
Central of France (Or-
leans and Vierzon)... 20 ...... --
East Indian .... ...... ..... 6
Orleans and Bordeaux.. 7 ...... 214 1........ 2t
Paris and Rouen 2O ...... 19% ... .. ........ ln
Paris and Strasbourg
•.. 5

MINES.
Cobre Copper
Santiago de Cuba
United Mexican 281,6 —
JOINT STOCK 13ANlib..
Australasia

Cbtrb Wtittion

CHESTERT RACES.

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LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MAY B.—Wind N.W., moderate breeze,
and dull, hazy weather.
STARIGo, MAY 6.—The Margaret and Ann, New-
castle to Quebec, has put into Stromness leaky.
SWANSEA, MAY 6.—The William, of Dartmouth, is
on shore on Peveril Ledge in a dangerous situation.
There is every appearance of a dirty night.
HARWICH, MAY 6.—The Union, of and for Goole,
lying at anchor, lost anchor and received other damage,
and has put in here to repair, from the Cadet, of South
Shields, running athwart hawse of her in coming to an-
chor in Ilorssly Bay.
DEAL, MAY 8, 11 A.m.—The William and Henry,
Riches, from Hull, is supposed to have been totally lust
on the Goodwin Sand.
HULL, MAY 7.—The Cecilia Catharine. bound to
Rostock, was brought in here yesterday by the Toward
Castle steamer, having been in contact with another
vessel.
JERSEY, MAT s.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Centurion, San
Francisco; Pust Boy, Gaspe.
PILL, MAY 6.--Wind E., fresh.—S4/. Eliza, Barba-
does.

PETERHEAD, MAY 6.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Emma
Eugfroa transport, for the Arctic Regions, in tow of
her Msje,ty's steamer Lightning.
RAMSGATE, MAY 7.—The Teniers, of and from Ant-
werp for Rio Janeiro, was totally wrecked this morn-
ing on the Goodwin Sand; mate drowned. The master
reports the loss of an English and a French schooner at
the same time ; crews supposed to be drowned.

LOWESTOFT, MAY 7.—Th9 whole of last night and
to-day it has blown a violent gale from E.N.E.—The
Bare parted and struck scver:Al times upon the Gorton
Sand, but was assitted oil' clear, and into this port with
loss of both anchors a.id chans. Several vessels have
partcd.

SUNDERLAND, MAY 7.—The Mary and Harry of Col-
chebter lost bowsprit, from contact with the George the
Fourth, from Newcastle.

ILFRACOMBE, MAY 7.—lt blew a gale all la,t night,
and continues to blow very strong from E. to E.N.E.
TALBOT, MAY 6.—lt blew a gale last night from S.E.,
with heavy squalls, and continues.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAY

Our market to-day was very scantily supplied with all
kinds of English Wheat, the total arrivals since Satur-
day having been confined to 660 quarters. Although
the attendance of buyers was limited the factors were
firm, and in some instances is per quarter more money
was obtained for the finest Essex White. The value of
all other kinds was steadily supported. The imports of
foreign Wheat have not exceeded 1,230 quarters. Most
kinds, especially fine Polish Odessa, sold readily, at the
extreme rates of Monday, and at which large parcels
changed hands. An unusually small supply of Barley
was offering, while the demand for that grain ruled ac-
tive, at very full prices. There was more business doing
in Malt, the value of which bad an upward tendency. Oats
were in good rk quest, and the turn in favour of the sellers.
Beans, Peas, Indian Corn, and Flour were quite as dear
as last week.

130140UG/1 BOP M.alitiCET.
Our market continues very inactive, but we have no
change to notice in prices. The supply offering is small.

I'ATBITECHELPiii..

Bc•F moved off steadily at an advance in the quota-
tion of 2d per Ms. In other kinds of meat very little
doing. Beef from 2a to 3s 2d; Mutton, 2s 6d to 3s 6d;
Lamb, 4s 4d to 5s 4d; Veal, 3s to 3s 4d; Pork, 3s to
45 per 81ba, by the carcase.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before the Lord Chief Justice CAMPBELL, and Justices
PATTESON, WIGHTMAN, and ERLE.)
DOE ON THE DEMISE OF BENNET V. HAILES.

This case arose out of an action tried at the assizes
before one of the judges of the superior courts. It ap-
peared that the defendant had given Mr. Ness ton, the
barrister, a brief without the intervention of an attorney,
and in the course of the trial the judge asked Mr. New-
ton whether he had been regularly instructed by an
attorney, and on informing him that he had not, and
that the brief had been handed to him by the de-
fendant personally, the Learned Judge refused
to hear him, and the onus of conducting the case was
thrown on the defendant, who, being an ignorant man,
was unable to examine the witnesses effectively or to ad-
dress the jury; and the consequence was that a verdict
was found for the plaintiff.
Mr. NEWTON moved during the present term for a
new trial, to raise the question as to his right to receive
a brief under those circumstances. In the course of his
arguments he referred to a case in which the present
Attorney-General had taken a brief from a party in a
suite against the Treasury without the intervention of an
attorney. He also referred to the case of the King v.
Burdett, and to another case, in which the late Lord
Abinger and Lord Brougham, and Mr. Humfrey, Q,C.,
took briefs from the party himself, and contended ou
those authorities that he was entitled to a rule.

Lord CANPUELL now delivered the judgment of the
Court. He said in this case they were called upon to
consider whether in any of the superior courts there was
a rule of law which prevented the defendant iu a civil
suit, who appeared in person, from having, in
the stages of a suit in which counsel was not regularly
instructed by attorney, the assistance of a counsel in-
structed by himself without the intervention of an at-
torney. There certainly had been an understanding
that a barrister ought not to accept a brief in a civil
suit except from an attorney, and he believed it was for
th benefit of suitors and the satisfactory administration
of justice that that understanding should be generally
acted upon; but the Court were of opinion that there
was no rule of law by which it could be enforced.
The only statutable provision on the subject was the
recent County Courts Act, the 91st section of which
enacted that a barrister should not be entitled to appear
in any county court unless instructed by an attorney.
The statute of Westminster the First, allowing the ap-
pearance of an attorney; the statute of William 111.,
c. 3, allowing in cases of treason a full defence by coun-
sel; and the statute of 6 and 7 William IV., c. 114,
allowing a full defence by counsel in all cases of felony;
decidedly mention cases in which counsel were to be in-
structed. This, however, being a matter of procedure,
the judges might, on their own authority, and
according to their view of what was right,
have laid down a general rule to determine
under what conditions and • restrictions barristers
should be permitted to plead, and have pre-audience,
but no such rule was fuuud. The alleged restriction,
therefore, must depend on usage, from which it might be
inferred that such rule had been promulgated, though
not now extant in writing. In Crown courts it was con-
sidered that the practise of a barrister not pleading un-
less instructed by an attorney did not prevail, and they
all knew that in certain instances a barrister was allowed
by the judge to defend a prisoner, without the
intervention of an attorney. There would be a
great difficulty in drawing a distinction for the purpose
in question between civil and criminal proceedings, and
a man might, ralione commune, be tried on an inuictment
or be charged with an offence in the shape of an action to
recover a penalty. On the circuit they talked fami-
liarly of the Crown and the civil side, but questions re-
specting insolvent debtors used to he determined in a
Crown court and at nisi prius by means
of a quo warrauto or a mandamus ; but a
criminal information, or even an indictment for the
crime of murder might be removed to this court by cer-
tiorari, and tried at nisi prius. In civil suits the usage
Lad not been invariably uniform, as they must presume
it t') have been, if it had been regulated by law; and
which as propounded admitted of no exception. In-
stances had been mentioned in which counsel of pelt
eminence and high honour had thought they were, under
peculiar circumstances, justified in holding a brief from
a parry with or without fee, without any attorney
being employed. There was, however, no de-
the question was not whether a barrister could receive a
(Aden case Which could assist the Court, for in those of
the King v. Sir Francis Burdett, and Mocatto v. Lawson,
brief without the intervention of au attorney, but
whether a party who conducted his own case might have
the assistance of counsel to argue questions of law, and
to examine witnesses. If immemorial usage was to be
relied upon, they must remember that sergeants-at-law
xisted in England lung before the time of Edward the
First, and it seemed there was every reason to believe
that they communicated directly with the par-
ties. Chaucer spoke of " sergeants-at-law who
were wary and wise," and it appeared that at St. Paul's.
change, where men of all ranks used to assemble, each
sergeant had a pillar assigned to him, where he stood
and communicated with his clients who came to consult
with him. The Court believed, however, that the inter-
vention of an attorney between counsel and the party
greatly contributed, not only to the dignity of the
bar, but to the improvement of English jurispru-
dence. He adverted to the practice of former ages,
not for the purpose of showing that the onus
lay in this instance on the defendant, to make out by
Aets of Parliament or the rules of court, a position in
support of the privilege which he claimed. TOO Court
were by no means insensible to the inconvenience which
might arise from this privilege being judicially recog-
nised; but they earnestly trusted that the almost uniform
usage which had prevailed on the subject for more than
a century would continue to be followed, and that no
abuse of the privilege would take place. They hoped that
what was called the etiquette of the bar would still be
adhered to, and that that very useful and highly honour-
able branch of the profession—the attorneys—would
remain unimpaired. At any rate, it was the duty of
the Court to look to the present state of the law, and
they would leave any inconvenience which might be
produced by their decision to be remedied by the Judges
or the Legislature. They, therefore, were of opinion
that the rule for a new trial ought to be made absolute.
Rule accordingly made absolute.

EXCHEQUER .-(THIS DAY.)
(Before the Lord CHIEF BARON, and BUXOM PARRE,
ROLFE, and PLATT.)
WHATELEY V. lIEWITT.

In this case, which was brought to recover damages
for injuries sustained by the plaintiff in consequence of
the defendant's omnibus coming in contact with one in
which he was riding, and thereby throwing him violently
on the ground, and in which a verdict was found for the
plaintiff for 501. at the last Liverpool assizee,
The CuURT refused to grant a rule for a new trial,
being of opinion that the direction of Mr. Baron
Rolle, who tried the case, was perfectly correct,