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

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, 1850.

11ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
GRAND EXTRA NIGHT.
The Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public are respect fully informed
that a Grand Extra Night will take place
On THURSDAY, May 2,
When will be presented (for the first time this season) Belilni's cele-
brated Opera

LA SONNAMBITLA.
Imini, 3faclame Sontag; Lisa, Mdlle. Malporate ;
_Count Ito-
dolpho, Signor Belletti ; Elvino, Signor Baucarde.
Director of the Music and Conductdr, Mr. Palle.
In the course of the evening will be presented (for the first time)
a new and original Grand Pas de Trois (composed by M. Paul
Taglionl, the Music by Signor Pugni), entitled
LES GRACES,
By Mdlle. Carlotta Grist, Mdlle. Marie Taglionl, and Mdlle. Amalla

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.

Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
Triumphant success of the new grand Easter Spectacle of Enchant-
ment.—Reappearance of that extraordinary and talented Artiste,
Madlle. Gardonl, on the Tight Rope. _ ,

THE WEATHER.-t.ux OFFICE, Arztrr, 28.

THERMOMETER.
51—highest since noon yesterday.
33—lowest this morning and during the night.
49—this day, at noon.

BAROMETER, 3015.
WIND N.E.—very cold stiff breeze and fine weather.

MONDAY, APRIL 29.
THERMOMETER.
50—highest since noon yesterday.
32—lowest this morning and during the night.
49 this day, at noon.

BAROMETER, 30 38.
WIND Easterly, with cloudy weather.

ties of the community would be seriously endan-
gered. But so long as the dictates of honour and
integrity are respected in the Legislature—so long as
everything in any degree savouring of tyranny and
oppression be sternly and firmly repressed—so long
will the chosen representatives of the people be
rewarded by the respect and admiration of their
respective constituencies—so long will they maintain
the high position they have attained, as the first
deliberative assembly in the civilized world.
The parties now claiming justice at their hands,
now appealing from the partial and prejudiced de-
cisions of the Board of Directors, are, however, no
mean or helpless body, whose entreaties could be
despised or rejected with impunity. They are the so-
vereign chiefs and princes of India, wielding de-
spotic authority within their own dominions—power-
ful for good or evil, and capable of being useful allies
or formidable enemies. Individually they would ba in-
capable of resisting the British force, and separated and
divided by mutual suspicions would fall easy victims ;
but if once their fears are excited for their common
safety, if once united by a sense of general danger
from the unjustifiable aggressions and grasping policy
of the Anglo-Indian Government, a combined and
determined opposition may be organized that would
imperil the very existence of our Oriental dominions,
and which, under the most favourable circumstances,
must occasion sanguinary and expensive wars, more
injurious to British interests than any territorial ag-
grandizement or increased revenue could possibly
compensate.
This appeal to the ultimate tribunal has not been
made until every other resource had been exhausted.
Repeated remonstrances have already been addressed
to the Court of Directors and to the Proprietors of
East India Stock by some who have rendered the
most important services to the Company, and who
have acquired large fortunes and great experience
during prolonged residences in Hindostan. For
the last few years, since the erroneous and
mistaken line of policy now complained of was first
entered upon, Mr. R. SULLIVAN and many efficient
and distinguished coadjutors have let slip no oppor-
tunity of exposing the " career of harshness, selfish-
ness, and injustice which has shaken the confidence
of every principality throughout India in British
probity and honour," and of endeavouring "to ar-
rest the progress of encroachment upon the hereditary
and indefeasible rights of the tributary and dependent
states, with which we have formed alliances ;" but
in vain. The magnates of Leadenhall-street have
opposed a stubborn and pertinacious resistance to
every attempt to awaken them to a sense of equity.
They have endeavoured to meet the powerful cases
to which their attention was directed with sneers and
ridicule, and have passed by, as utterly unworthy of
notice, arguments which they were incapable of an-
swering or rebutting. In this most injudicious
course they have, we regret to say, been sanctioned
and supported by a majority of the proprietors, who
flippantly decided, on questions of the nature and
merits whereof they were wholly ignorant. In this
manner were the claims of the cruelly-persecuted and
deeply-injured PE&TAUB SHEAR, and of his youthful
heir and successor, the de jure Raja of SATTARA,
slighted and set at nought, and the usurpation of
his dominions by his affectionate friends and
faithful allies, the Honourable Company, sanctioned
and confirmed. In this manner have resolutions
been passed by which the Company " virtually as-
serted its right to confiscate for its own benefit the
territories of any native prince of India whom it
should have pronounced to have died without heirs."
They have thus directly invaded one of the most
sacred customs and highly cherished privileges of
the Hindoo law. They have refused to recognise the
"right of adoption," which was never controverted
until within the last few years, and to claim the old
feudal rights of lords paramount over independent so-
vereigns, with whom they have entered into solemn
treaties to succeed to the sovereign inheritance on
the failure of direct heirs of the blood. The treaties
are thus openly violated and set at nought, or, what is
almost tantamount thereto, the more powerful party
claim to interpret the, disputed clauses, and to take
part as prosecutors and judges in their own cases.
It is, as we have said, but recently that this mon-
strous doctrine has been promulgated. The entire
tide of precedents had formerly flowed the other way.
But in 1848 the subject was again brought under the
notice of the supreme Government at Bombay, who
dealt with the matter as if' it were entirely new,
overlooking all former decisions on similar points.
This extraordinary judgment was approved by the
directors, and subsequently confirmed by the Court
of Proprietors, specially convened for the purpose. It
has naturally excited the deepest and most painful
sensations in the minds of tte native powers,
who are equally astounded and enraged at the
audacity and injustice of these iniquitous pretensions.
They had previously se-en similar questions mooted,
but in fifteen out of ',sixteen cases that had occurred
between the years 1826 and 1846, the decision had
been in accordance with equity, and diametrically
opposed to th.e.more recent assumption, which, indeed,
was never put forward until the accession of the Earl
of ELLF.NBoaouati to the Governor-Generalship of
India. Many statesmen had previously used the
clee.rest and most intelligible language in speaking
of the rights of the native chiefs and princes. In-
deed the doctrine was so fully recognized
that even where the party had been guilty
of grave offences, the innocent heirs were not
punished, or held in any degree responsible for the
criminal acts of their " adoptive fathers." None bad
spoken more distinctly and more unequivocally upon
this topic than the late lamented Earl of AUCKLAND.
That distinguished nobleman had used these remark-
able words respecting the case of the itaja of
OORCRA, in which the broad principles on which the
British Government in India should ever act were
fairly and lucidly explained :

" I cannot (said the Governor-General), I cannot for
a moment admit the doctrine that, because the view of
policy upon which we may have formed engagements
with native princes, may have been by circumstances
materially altered, we are not to act scrupulously up to
the terms and spirit of those engagements."

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And again :
"I have referred to our treaty with the Raja of Oor-
cha, and I find that its preamble commences in these
words:—' The Raja of Oorcha is one of the chiefs of
the Bundelkund, by whom, and his ancestors, his present
possessions have been held in successive generations
during a long course of years without paying tribute or
acknowledging vassalage to any other power.' And the
treaty formed with the Raja is designated as one of
' friendship and alliance,' the territory, which from
ancient times had descended to the Raja by
inheritance, and is now in his possession,
being guaranteed to the said Raja, his heirs
and successors. Upon words so distinct and
positive as these I hold it to be impossible to raise a question,
and I am of opinion, therefore, that the Raja of Oorcha
must be regarded as one of those sovereign rulers who,
according to the very proper rule laid down in the letter
of Sir Charles Metcalfe, of 28th October, 1837,
is
the Britis entitledh
to Inake on adoption in his own discretion which
Government is bound to acknowledge, provided
that such adoption be regular and not in violation of libi-
do° law I" $
. * 4
Admittin g the right of the Raja for the
reasons which I have stated to adopt an heir, I am not
disposed, after much reflection on the whole subject, to
mix up our recognition of that right with the sapient
cor,sideration of the punishment that may be due to
13:,m for unwarranted opposition to the British power."
These were the views of an able and honest states-
man, of one who occupied, at various periods, no in-
considerable positions in the national councils, and
one who enjoyed the respect and confidence of his
colleagues in the Ministry at the period of his lamented
death. But these just principles are now wholly dis-
aanlly.th e
regTaordtehdoasendpis
wdehsodeedsirbey tfhuellEiansftorlmndaitaioCnomonp
cases we would commend the admirable speech of
Mr. SULLIVAN to the proprietors of East India
Stock, on the 17th April, which was fully reported in
The Sun of the 19th instant. That talented gentle-
man indeed brought forward an immense mass of
information on the occasion, and the clearest and most
I unanswerable arguments in favour of the conclusions at
which he had arrived. Nothing was omitted that could
be desired ; but, as we have already stated, the pro-
prietors supported the directors in the unjust and in-
judicious line of policy which they had determined
on following. Nothing, therefore, remains but an
appeal to the honour and integrity of the Imperial
Parliament, and that aprieal will be made to-morrow
evening. No itranediate decision will be asked for.
It is not desired that Members should pronounce
final judg went upon a question respecting which
many mus t be in comparative ignorance;
but in-
quiry—fuld and ample inquiry—is demanded, with
a view to f4tur9 legislation ; and we cannot sllppose .

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

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

Once more, therefore, we must be permitted to
particularize the various clauses of the Bill in regard
to which we have previously specified our objections.
Briefly then, those clauses are numbered-4, 6,7, 8,
9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22,
25, 39, 46, 48, and 49 in all twenty-two
clauses collectively. For individual comments
upon those clauses, the curious are referred to the
leading columns of this journal, dated Saturday, the
20th, and Monday, the 22d instants. Therefrom it will
be perceived that the Cabinet are disgracefully endea-
vouring to propitiate the favour of the clerical party
in behalf of their projected innovation by subordi-
nating the interests of the people to those of the
ecclesiastical establishment. Than this we are per-
suaded from experience that nothing can, by any pos-
sibility, be• more detrimental to the cause of hu-
manity, obnorality, of justice, or of true religion.
For the direct consequence of such a pro.-
ceeding must naturally be to compensate the
clergy for depriving them of a loathsome system
which has hitherto proved most profitable to them-
e while generating disease amongst the multitude,
fearfullyslvesincreasing the extent of the annual morta-
lity, and dissipating many of the nobler instincts of
our nature—those instincts which invest death with
sentiments of a peculiar sanctity. We appeal to
Reason, and we ask if such a mode of truckling to ec-
clesiastical authority is calculated to elevate the
opinions of the masses in regard to the Church Estab-
lishment ? We appeal to that sense which is upper-
most in society—the sense of the common decencies
of existence, and we ask if such a method
of purchasing the right of seemly sepulture is likely
to enhance the amount of the popular veneration for
our ecclesiastical functionaries ? So far from the
Bill in question being of this tendency, it must be
apparent that the disclosure and recognition of the
intentions of the Government will militate inevitably
against the interests of the clergy, by rendering their
wealth and their power yet greater objects of unpo-
pularity.
No doubt of it, the mere circumstance of her MA-
JESTY'S Ministers bringing in a Bill fur the organiza-
tion of a system of extramural interment, is one,
considered irrespectively of its precise details,
in which the people of England may find profound
cause for exultation. Let the ostensible boon, how-
ever, be-scrutinized, and the rejoicings of the multi-
tude will very speedily become hushed. The popular
intelligence will recognize, on glancing through the
proposed, enactment, that the apparent benefit is of a
nature calculated to prove a source of serious incon-
venience and, disadvantage immediately it is at-
tempted to be carried into operation. Simply,
then, it should be recollected that the present
scheme has been forced upon the reluctant acceptance
of the Government by the force of a great movement
from without, a movement commenced by an ener-
getic citizen of the metropolis no less than twelve or
thirteen years ago, and subsequently taken up by the
medical profession, and pushed forward by the co-
operation of a numerous and miscellaneous body of
sanitary reformers. At length, we say, the force of
this generous agitation has compelled the Ministry
to acquiesce in the necessity for improve-
ment---the present Government measure has been in-
troduced into the Lower House of Parliament—and
parties begin forthwith to congratulate themselves
upon the prospect thereby presented to them of the
immediate realisation of all their hopes regarding a
rational system of extramural interment. A momen-
tary examination of the Bill suffices to scatter all these
brilliant illusions of the fancy into nothingness,
leaving in their stead a fear for the serious
and evil consequences of the innovation. For,
very naturally, we become dismayed on perceiving
that the whole of the administrative power of the in-
tended cemeteries must ultimately pass into the
grasp of the ecclesiastical authorities, in consequence
of the miserable contrivance of the whole measure.
By such a mistaken and most pernicious arrangement
the Bill in its operation would be rendered
altogether nugatory—conferring power upon those
very 'individuals who should be especially
restricted from interference in a matter of emolu.
ment. According to certain clauses, already parti-
cularised by ourselves, it should be remembered also
that rates are to be levied by the governing board,
and that governing board ecclesiastical in its ulterior
character ! What do the ratepayers of the metro
polite!). districts think of such a prospect as that
We doubt not they will find it anything bu
agreeable.

Nay ! we are very far, indeed, from having speci-
fied the whole of the many serious objections
capable of being brought forward against the
projected scheme of the Government. In its very
title the Bill is most exceptionable, the words of that
title indicating clearly enough the intention of the
Cabinet and their clerical allies—shall we say indi-
cating the project of Sir GEORGE GREY and the Lord

Bishop of LoNpoN--namely, that of reserving the
power of opening or closing any graveyards (no
matter even if full to repletion) IN or near London!
Now, such a reservation as this, it must be quite ob-
vious, is entirely incompatible with the notion of

any really good and effectual reform in the way o

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

be peremptorily closed by the enactment, saving and

excepting, of course, the vaults of such great nations

edifices for the entombment of the illustrious, as West:
minster Abbey and St. Paul's Cathedral. Otherwise
the improvement will only be specious and apparent.

Another change required in the Ministerial scheme,
to render it beneficial to the entire community,
is, of course, the extension of the desired benefits

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

sideration of the multitude, satisfied that its evil

may undergo a wholesome
character will be at once recognised, and sanguine
ethoalutmtnhse
ofperTnhiceiosuusn clauses enumerated in the

revision in Committee.

AFTERNOON EXPRESS MAIL TO IRELAND.--POST-
OFFICE NOTICE. —On and after Wednesday, the Ist of
May, newspapers, as well as letters, wilt be forwarded
in the bag for Ireland which is dispatched by the
Express train leaving the Eustun-square station at
5 F.M. (Sundays excepted). Letters and newspapers
for this dispatch must be posted at the receiving.effices
in London before 2 P.M.,-at tne Branch-offices in Lom-
bard-street, Borough, Charing-cross, and Old Caven-
dish•street, before 3 P.M., —and at the General Post-office.
St. Martin's-le-Grand, before 3 30 F.x., and they will arrive
in Dublin early the following morning.

LYMINGTON, SUNDAY NIGHT.—The nomination
for the election of a candidate to represent' this borough in
Parliament, in the room of the Hon.. Captain Keppel, is to
take place on Monday, and should a poll be demanded, the
election is fixed for Tuesday. Mr. Hutchins, who was re-
jected at Southampton in 1841, was early in the field on the
Liberal interest. He is fiercely opposed by Mr. Andrew
Stuart, a Protectionest, but up to the present moment the
success of the latter is considered doubtful. A very close
contest is anticipated.
We believe we are in a position to affirm that the
negotiations between the Courts of London and Madrid, re.
lative to the renewal of diplomatic re!ations, are now virtu-
ally and satisfactorly(?) concluded.—Post.
DEATH OP MRS. EDMUNDS (MISS M. CAWSE).
We have to announce the death of Mrs. Edmunds, better
known under her maiden name of Miss Mary Cawse. She
died on the 14th instant, after but a short illness, of bron-
chitis, leaving a family of six children to lament her loss—
the profession, too, has lost a bright and amiable ornament.
Miss Cawse received her musical education under Sir G.
Smart, and rapidly gave promise of those abilities which at
an early age placed her in the foremost rank of our English
singers. For several years no concert was complete without
the aid of Miss Cawse and her sister.

TRING, READING, AND BASINGSTOKE RAILWAY.
—The dividend of 10s. per share from the assets accruing
under the winding-up of this company, is now in course of
payment on between 6,000 and 6,800 shares.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

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

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

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

MONE IT and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CII'Y, QUA?? l'E'R 0
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were
estimated at 8,000 bake, of which 1,000 American were
taken for export, and 500 American, 600 Egyptian,
and 1,000 Surat on speculation. The market closed
firmly.—In Railway Shares there was little or no alters-
tion to notice • the business was limited, and prices were
still tending downwards.
Wheat is higher in Mark-lane to-day, although there
are fair arrivals of foreign reported.
The extraordinary and continued abasement of railway
property is naturally bringing forward numerous parties
with suggestions for remedies, and in most of the
latter there may be something tangible discovered,
though differences of opinion will arise as to their un-
reserved application. In a communication by Messrs.
Renton and Sons, of Manchester, addressed to -their
clients, they urge that the directors, who should be few
in number, and paid an adequate salary, should not be
allowed to hold any of the capital stock of the company,
but be regarded as servants of the company, having to
attend to their unbiassed duties, and they then proce 'd
to remark that " One established form, and an effective
audit; thereof by independent auditor:, must be rigidly
adopted; and all further dreaming of rotary board-
making contrivance to teach new men their business
must be abolished, to make way fur experienced paid
directors, to be always at their duty—with one general
manager, supported by their authority, to kesp a
watchful eye over the heads of every working depart-
ment—and each department reporting to the general
manager daily how maters move uuder his care, which
must be strictly observed; and the general manager
should report accordingly to the board—which may be
few in number—say one to aid the general manager by
his advice in the coaching department, another in the
goods department, and a third as general referee, to be
at the place where the board is established, and where
they should all assemble some part of every day—both
directors and general manager—the better to under-
stand each other's views on business affairs; a fourth
director may be added if absolutely-required. For every
department the best talent may always be secured at its
experienced worth."
The power of voting at meetings, it is contended,
should be restricted to persons holding not less than
3001. or more of stock, and registered for three months
previously, though all shareholders might lee allowed to
be present, and a board of appeal composed of three or
four shareholders might be formed to assist the directors
when called upon. Proxy voting must be better regu-
lated, and it is observed in conclusion that "No trouble
should be spared, or perseverance be relaxed in, till
placed on a well-sustained principle, to vie in the at-
traction of surplus money for trading or investment pur-
poses, comparatively with any other, be the nature what
it may; and the more such surplus capital can be made
to support productive public works fixed at home, the
better will it be for our native industry and capital, wben
thus bound together under the direction of honourable
'and skilful care.
" When new projects are embarked upon, the sub-
scribers should be forced to keep the deposit-receipt till
an Act of Parliament is got, or rejected. If got, a
registered certificate will be issued, with which the pro-
prietor may trade as he pleases with safety to the piratic
and himself ; but, if rejected, the account should imme-
diately be settled to avoid all further trouble or obliga-
tion, and the full deposit paid back, leaving the unfortu-
nate, crafty projectors—to say the least of them—t)
sustain every liability they have incurred, by attempting
to lead the public deceitfully astray for their own advan-
tage. This rule established would be a tolerably sure
protection to those the most needing it at all times. "
Aria's Birmingham Gazette of to-day states—
" Tne little that has been done in the iron trade
during the past fortnight has been of an unusually life-
less character. Prices remain much the same as at
quartetelay, and the orders which were supposed to be
withheld on that occasion, with a view to turn the scale
in favour of lower rates, are still not iorthcoming, so
that either that object is not yet considered imprac-
ticable, or these assumed requirements are not
of a very urgent description, if indeed they existed
at all in any other shape than the fanciful figments of
philosophising specula'ors. We are also sorry to learn
that the local consumption of the district, which up to
the present time has escaped the general depression, is
now considerably shortening, in consequence of a relax-
ation in the demand for most of our principal articles
of manufacture. In the wrought nail trade around Dud-
ley this falling-off is reported to have been so extensive
that it has been considered necessary to issue notices for a
further abatement of the miserable wages hitherto given,
and the operatives are refusing to work at the reduction.
In other branches the same steps are being resorted to;
while the railroad interest, another great source of home
consumption, has met with a further deprecia-ion, atm is
still more unfavourably looked upon by capitalists. The
exports that during the last two months seemed to have
revived a little from the gradual decline of the previous
quarter, though not to the extent of the transactions in
September, are now stated in the last accounts from
the shipping ports, both here and in Wales, to be falling
c ff again."

Accounts of the 231 inst. from the Leipzic fair sta

that the sale of manufactures had not been active, and
there was a limited attendance of German buyers as
usual at this season, the Russian, Polish, and Greek
dealers being those who usually purchase, although they
did less than usual in consequence of the weather being
protractedly wintry in its character. A fair number ~f
transactions had been entered into in furs, and the'
sale of Russian products;•. which was to commence in a
few days, was likewise expect ,d to be lively:
It is stated from Trieste that great facilities are to
be afforded for the transmissio❑ of letters and telegra-
phic communications received from India, so as to eb-
tablish, if possible, a superiority over the Mars,illes
route.

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

Tir,Te are arrival 4 from South Auitralia, Port Philip,
and the Cape of Good Hope, the Btazik &c., but g
rally with the same dates as thoso recently to hand.
The letters per Europa steamer from North America are
not yet delivered.

The English Funds have been extremely tranquil, but
there seems to be an expect ttion that we shall have
greater activity, and probably more buoyancy, when the
election at Paris is decide&

The value of Consols ha; been 95i to 96. The New
Three,and-a-Quarter per Cents. have Len 97 to i;
and the Three per Cents. 9-17-7, to 95. Bank Stock has
been quoted 206 to 2u7. Exchequer-bills have
nalised 68s. to 705., and India Bonds 925. ti 952. prem.
In the Foreign Stock market the tone is much the
same as that of the English Funds. Mexican are
rather flatter. being 28.1 to 29, but simply upon the set-
tlement which takes place t.,i-morrow.
.Peruvian have
been 701- to 71. EquPidor Stock has been marked
311. Danish Scrip is quoted 5 and 5-4- premium., the
highest value which it bus yet attained. Spanish Three
per Cents have been 36k, and the Five per Cents 164.
Russian Four and-a-Half per Cents are 954.
Shares are heavy again, and rather lower for some of
the lines dealt in.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From tho Official List.)
Bank Stock 207 2061 A,
per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Anne
New 314 per Cant. Anns. 971 41
Long Annuities. Exp. Jan. sth, 1160 8 3-16 8%
India Stock
Do. Bonds, 1000/ ... ... 92 94 p
Ditto under 1.0001
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. Ilhd. 2d.
March. June.
1,060/.
5001. ... .... ......... 68 70p
Small — 68 70 p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Danish Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent—.
Ditto, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Scrip •••
Equador Bonds 3
Vexican Bonds, 1846,5 per Cent., GJupons
Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons
Ditto for the Account
Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent 7O .5/51/2 71
Ditto Deferred
Russian Bonds. 1822, 5 per Cent — ..
Ditto 44, per Cents 954
Ditto scrip 2,4 p
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. ......
Ditto Account
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent,l840
Dividends on the above payable in London.

RUMNESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
'kDerdeen
Ditto, Preference
I,aledonian
Ditto, New 101. Preference 10 .... 514 to
:hester and Holyhead
Eastern Counties
",,:rlinburgh and Glasgow
Great Northern
Do. % A Deferred ......•• 121,E 2 ...... to
Do. 14 B 6 per Cent.
Do., 5 per Cent. Pref.... ... 121/2 ..... 10 x. i.... to
4t. South. & West. (Ireland) 50
=rest North of England 100 216 ...... to
Great. Western ......... ........100 5114 50% to 52
Do. New 171
nncashire and Yorkshire ...100 ..... 33i to
Leeds and Bradford 5O ..... 88 ... .. to 871
London & North Western 100 ......100% 101 to 100%
Do. New Quarters.
Do. Fifths l2 .... 111/8. to
Lo .don 'And S. W.etern 100 ..... 56 -
Do., New Preference
4anch Buxton, & Matlock 5
Midland . ... .0.. ........ —.IOO
Ditto, 501. ;hares ..... ...... 30
fdidland, Consol. Bristol suet
Birmingham, 6 per cent.... 100 119% to 11914
Norfolk
Ditto Extension ....
North British
Ditto. Preference
North Staffordshire—. .. ...... 171,1
South Devon .. ... ... 50
Ditto, Preference ...... .. ... 25
South EAstern
Ditto, Registered No. 4.... 10
x/ilts, Somerriet,& Weymouth 50 ..... 391/2.-- to
nrk, Newcastle, and Berwick 25
Do.,and Newcastle Exten. 20
Do. G. N. E. Pur. or Pref. 8
l'ork and North Midland .. 60
Ditto, Preference
' FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
East Indian ... 5
Paris & Strasboure: . ~. ...... 13
cournay, 1 urbise, Landen,
and.Hassell , ...... ...... .. 20 -

West Flanders
JOINT STOCK VANES.

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