The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-05 00:00:00

TIIE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 8, MO

THE EDINBURGH REVIEW,
No. CLXXXIV.,
Pal be published on TIICitsDAY next, the 11th inst.
CONTENTS:-
1. National Observatories—Greenwich.
2. Sydney Smith's Sketches of Moral Philosophy.
3. Supply of Water to the Metropolis.
4. Landar's Poetry.
5. The Polynesians—New Zealand.
G. British and Continental Taxation.
7. The Village Notary—Memoirs of a Hungarian Lady.
8. Lewis ou the influence of Authority in Matters of Opinion.
9. -Agricultural Complaints.
10. Germany aril Erfurth.
London : Longman and Co. Edinburgh : A. and C. Black.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
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THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, APRIL 5.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 42; Highest, 56; Noon, 53.
BAROMETER, 29'82.—The mercury has risen 74 points

since yesterday.
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more judicious system, might become the creators of
national wealth, are permitted to remain burdens on
the resources of their country unprofitable con-
sumers, in place of skilful producers. The sterling
ore is there, but the mint stamp is wanting that
would render it available. It possesses real capital
in abundance, but the measure and representative of
value is wanting—a currency adequate to the wants
and exigencies of the country, which would supply
the very life-blood of industry.
Irish landlords have been considered, and in some
degree justly considered, responsible for this untoward
state of affairs. But many, very many, who possess
the inclination want the power to carry their wishes
into practical execution. Some are embarrassed by
the enormous weight of encumbrances handed down
as heir-looms through successive generations; others
are entitled to but limited estates in their lands : all
are injured by the want of facilities for obtaining the
necessary advances for the permanent and lasting
improve:nent of their properties, either by way of
loans, or even by the disposal of a portion of their
hereditary domains for the amelioration of the residue.
Even the unembarrassed owner of an entailed estate—
and how few are so favourably circumstanced ?—could
not procure money for its improvement except on
the most exorbitant terms, by way of annuity, with
an insurance on his life, &c., &c. And even if
possessed of other resources, he could not apply them
with justice to the junior members of his family.
The law which gave all to the eldest son, to the ex-
clusion of his less favoured brothers and sisters, made
no allowance to the representatives of the tenant for
life, for the money expended and the improvements
effected on the estate ; and the father would naturally
husband his resources in order to increase the scanty
portions of his younger children, and to enable them
to retain their position in society, 'and to enjoy some
of the comforts to which they were accustomed in
their earlier days, rather than to enhance the already
large fortune of the heir by judicious ameliorations.
The law itself, therefore, was more in fault than the
much vituperated landlords of Ireland for the
neglected condition of the soil, and the want of re-
munerative and reproductive employment for the
labouring population.
If this law at all times, and even before the mys-
terious visitation by which the food of the great ma-
jority of the people was blighted and converted into
a mass of rottenness and corruption, required altera-
tion, it became then at least an imperative necessity.
A statute was enacted by which the poverty of the
country became for the first time a charge upon its
property. Several millions of human beings were
reduced to a state of the most heartrending distress
and destitution, and new liabilities of im-
mense magnitude devolved upon the owners of
.land throughout the , entire country. But
no adequate measures were passed fur their
relief. Some grants were made and limns
granted, but these were rather for the purpose of
saving the starving labourers from actual death by
doling out a scanty supply barely sufficient to keep
life and soul together, rather than for enabling the
embarrassed proprietors to improve their lands and
to sustain the new and onerous burdens imposed on i
them. It was obvious that the only way that the
exigency could be provided for was by enabling the
landowners to afford reproductive employment to the
able-bodied labourers, whom they would otherwise
support in idleness. But this imperative duty
could not, in the great majority of in-
stances, be adequately discharged unless fur-
ther facilities were granted to enable them to
obtain the necessary funds, on the only security which
they had to offer—viz., on the land, itself, on the
improvement of which the money was to be expended.
This is now about to be confined to a certain extent
by the Solicitor-General's Bill; but, unfortunately,
the much required boon is not to be conceded to those
who have encountered the brunt of the storm, who
have withstood the enormous pressure to which they
were exposed. On the contrary, they will be further
injured by the additional assistance about to be
bestowed on new men, who may come forward to
purchase properties at greatly reduced prices, to seize
the spoil of the shipwreck.
On this part of the case we would invite the
attention of our readers to a letter which appears
in another part of this day's impression from
an Irish gentleman of great intelligence and high re-
spectability. It is due to Mr. BOWEN to state that his
communication was written before he could by a possi-
bility have seen the article on the subject which ap-
peared in The Sun of the 28th ultimo. His letter
was posted in Dublin on that day, so that any simi-
larity that may appear between his views and our own
must be ascribed to a coincidence of opinions on this
important subject, and to no other cause.
,Mr. BOWEN
so closely shows, that the "attempt to raise the
value of encumbered estates by means which must
have the effect of depreciating those which are unencum-
bered, and of reducing the value of their security below
its natural level as to place the injustice and impolicy
of the Bill in its present restricted form in the
strongest light. It is, in fact, the granting of " a
bounty," and thateof no inconsiderable character, to
the purchasers of lands under the Commission. They
alone will be enabled to obtain loans on reasonable
terms, and there is even reason to fear that mortgagees
of other estates will call in their charges for the pur-
pose of re-investment on the security of lands having
a Parliamentary title, debentures on which may be
granted for convenient amounts, that will circulate in
the money market as readily as exchequer-bills, or
even Bunk of Ireland notes, bearing a higher rate of
interest than the former, and fructifying and increase
ing while locked up in the strong-box, or deposited at
the bankers, in place of being wholly unproductive
like the latter. _ _

Mr. Bow EN some time since, in 1848, published a
letter* addressed to the First Lord of her MAOESTI'A
Treasury, which contained some admirable sugges-
tions. In it he suggested an inquiry into the system
of Mortgage Banks" established in Prussia, by
which " land and interests in land" might be ren•
dered a portion of the currency and available as a
part of the capital of this great country ! We regret
that our space this day will not permit a lengthened
consideration of Mr. BOWEN'S judicious propositions;
we, however, commend his brief but able brochure to
public attention. It will well repay the calm perusal
to which it is eminently entitled.
* " Mortage Banks considered as the Means of Pro-
viding Employment in Ireland." A Letter to Lord John
Russell from C. 11. Bowen, Esq. Dublin, 1848, J.
11.•Glashin. Pp. 16.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The impolitic interference with the freedom of
election in the army, in which the Minister at War,
goaded thereto by the reactionary clique, has thought
it proper to indulge, has produced the effect which
every sane person must have expected it would pro-
duce—it has produced a revolt in the army. It will
be recollected that all those soldiers who are suspected
of having, on the 10th March, voted for Democratic
candidates, have been, by order of the Minister of
War, drafted off to Algiers. This has
naturally irritated their comrades, and at
Caen and elsewhere they have given loud expressions
to their sentiments, and yesterday one of the regi-
ments in garrison in Paris revolted againstits officers.
It appears that the colonel having two days ago inti-
mated his intention to punish an adjutant who voted
for the Democratic candidates at the late election, the
greatest agitation manifested itself in the regi-
ment. The soldiers refused to obey their officers,
and set their authority at defiance. They left the
barracks in baudg, and since Wednesday have been
wandering in the suburbs and indulging themselves
i❑ orgies of no very creditable description. All
attempts to bring them back have hitherto failed.
Should this feeling of insubordination extend, what
will become of the boasted power of General
CHANGARNIER ?

The Constitutionnel, the Ministerial orgar, is com-
pelled to admit that both the PRESIDENT and General
CHANGARNIEIt were greeted with cries of " Vive la
Republique, democratique et sociale !" on their road
to Vincennes during Monday, and that of those who
raised the cry several were soldiers.
M. DUPIN was yesterday re-elected President of
the Assembly for the next three months.
The Illoniteur du Soir says :--
" The creation of a special Ministry of Police appears
to be decided on. The chief of this department will, it is
said,be M. de Persigny, who will arrive from Berlin in
order to direct the organizAtion of the Lew administaa-
tion which is destined for him "

The Bourse was dull at the commencement of busi-
ness; prices, however, rallied towards the close, and
the Five per Cents., which opened at 89f. 10c., rose to
891. 70c., at which price they closed. The Three
per Cents. closed at 55f. 65c.; Orleans Railroad
Shares, 717 f. 50c. ex dividend ; Rouen, 513 f. 75c. ;
Great Northern, 4231. 75c ; Avignon, 1851.; Vier-
zon, 81.51.; Bordeaux, 3951.; Paris and Strasburg,
332 f. 50c.; Tours and Nantes, 2351. The New
Roman Loan, 78.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, APRIL 4.
Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 121/2—Luxem-
bourg, I%—Sambre and Meuse, 2%.

had an opportunity of examining the hold. The only per-
t ots of the cargo he has hitherto recovered is about 180
sheets of copper. The bodi •sof a man and a woman were
hooked up out of the forehold yesterday, and brought on
shore for burial. The crews of the luggers from the Essex
coast report having passed several bodies lashed with cork
life-preservers in the Black Deeps. The larboard forequarter
of the vessel, which was imbedded in the Red Sand-bank,
has been towed into Whitstable Bay. Mr. Frewin says the
remainder of her larboard quarters will soon be either washed
away, or will settle down in the sand, and that the heavy
gale will cause a great alteration in the wreck. The follow-
ing return of the names of the crew of the Royal Adelaide
was received yesterday by the secretary of the company from
Liverpool, to which port it appears nearly the whole of them
belonged :—William Gowler, chief mate ; George. North, se-
cond mate; William Scott, third mate; William Reilly, chief
engineer; William Crook, second engineer; Charles Cock-
land, fireman; John Delany fireman; Thomas Williams,
fireman ; John Doyle, fireman ' • William Bellis, fireman ;
James Moore, fireman ; Patrick Carey, coal-trimmer; Mi-
chael Wolfe, coal-trimmer; William Seagar, sailor; James
Neice, Sailor; John Stamper, sailor; Robert Tosser, sailor;
Joseph Morgan, sailor; Ambrose Turner, carpenter; Tho-
mas Butler, boy; Henry Hillier, steward; and Sarah Garetty,
stewardess.

MANCHESTER TRADE. REPORT.—APRIL 4.—The
improved feeling manifested on Tuesday still continues, and
in cases where last week's prices have been taken a consider-
able amount of business has been done. Manufacturers and
spinners, however, agree in demanding higher prices, and
this has checked business to a considerable extent. Light
goods for the East India market are in good demand, and
prices are a shade higher. 46-inch shirtings maintained
their rates.

FOREIGN FOTATOES.—The importations of pota-
toes from the continental states of Europe, particularly from
France and Belgium. have for some time past been of a very
extensive character, as may be judged from the mention of
the number of the arrivals of the kind which have just taken
place in one day. They comprised 22 vessels entirely laden
with potatoes, and having on board collectively 1,626 tons
weight in bulk of the vegetable. The next day 14 vessels
arrived similarly laden, bringing 1,037 tons weight, and a
quantity in sacks and bags, the whole the produce of France,
Belgium, and Holland.

PROGRESS OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH IN Aus-
TAIA.—In the year 1847 this invention was first introduced
into Austria, and at the close of the year 1849 it was ex-
tended from Vienna to the following places:--To Prague,
by Olmutz, a distance of 2794 miles; to Prague, by Brun,
249 miles; to Presburg. 40% miles; to Oderberg, 1734
miles; to Trieste, 3351/2 miles. The line from Vienna to
Munich has been in activity since the 10th of January, and
the Gazette d'Augsbourg is enabled to publish the course of
exchange in that city twenty minutes after it has been de-
clared in Vienna. The line from Vienna to Salzbourg,
via Linz, it is expected, will be finished in a few weeks,
and that from Prague to the frontiers of Saxony, in the
course of the summer. The lines run partly on the rail-
roads and the common highways. The posts on which the
wires are placed are generally about fifty French metres
apart. The cost of laying down the telegraph, the German
mile, has been calculated at 581 florins 14 kreutzers, equal
to about 60/. sterling. The whole of the administrative
superintendence is under the control of the Minister of
Public Works, the telegraph being the property of the Go-
vernment.

THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION.—THE APPROACHING
MELTING IN EDINBURGIL—A large and influential meeting
of the representatives of the various public and scientific
bodies in Edinburgh was held on Thursday. in the Council
Chambers, for the purpose of making the necessary arrange-
ments for the suitable reception of the British Association
in Edinburgh in August next. The Lord Provost occupied
the chair, and the meeting was addressed by Lord Murray,
Professor Bennett, Dr. Maclagan, Mr. Robert Chambers,
publisher, Rev. Dr. Grant, Right Rev. Bishop Terrot, and
others, who moved and seconded a series of resolutions, to
the effect that the inhabitants of Edinburgh are highly gra-
tified by the announcement that the British Association has
fixed on this city as the place of meeting this year, and that
they feel called upon to make special exertions to secure
that the reception of so distinguished a body shall be worthy
of a city which has so long been celebrated as a seat of
science. A general aggregate committee was appointed from
the representatives of all the public bodies, and it is in-
tended that three sub-committees shall afterwards be chosen
from the aggregate body to manage the details. Subscrip-
tions to the amount of one hundred and fifty pounds from
twenty persons, including fifty pounds from the Royal So-
ciety, were announced at the clvse of the meeting.
EXTENSIVE EMBEZZLEMENT..—Yesterday informa-
tion was received at the Head Police-office, Scotland yard,
that the chief clerk in the Suffolk Improved Building and
Investment Society had absconded from Ipswich, taking with
him 1,8001. in cash, the property of the shareholders.
The malle•poete between Perigueux and Riberac
caught fire last week from the ashes of a traveller's cigar,
and burnt with such rapidity that there was only time to
get out the mail. bags and unharness the horses. The whole
of the body was destroyed.—French Paper.
DEAL.—On Friday last the body of a man was
found floating in the Downs, and was brought ashore by the
boatmen. It had been a long time in the water, and was on
Saturday decently interred in the Strangers' Burial-ground.
On !iis person were found a watch and two sovereigns, which
were taken possession of by the police, in the hope that the
future identification may afford a clue to the deceased.—
Kentish Observer.

About noon on Monday, the forest near the
Chateau of Meudon was discovered to be on fire. Prompt
measures were taken and the fire was extinguished; but
towards the evening another part of the forest was discovered
to be on fire, and it was found a more difficult matter to get
the flames under, which, however, was at length effected.
Two men have been arrested on suspicion of having wilfally
caused these fires.—Paris Paper.
LONDONDERRY AND ENNISKILLEN RAILWAY:—SO
rapid has been the progress of the works on the extension of
this line from the Gallow's-strand to the new terminus atthe
Bridge, that on Tuesday, we understand, one of the locomo-
tives approached within 200 yards of the latter place; and it
is expected.thst, in the course of a month or so, the entire lino
to the Eridge will be complete. The spirited contractor de-
serves a high degree of praise for the expedition with which
this portion of the work has been executed.—Londonderry
Journal.

Ties ORPaAN WORKING SCIIOOI:.—The Queen
has been pleased to present to the above institution, as norni •
nee in right of her Majesty's munificent donation of 2.-)0
guineas, Joseph Parrett, one of the seven children of the Rev.
C. E. Parrett, Independent minister of Mevagissey, Corn-
wall. His wife died of cholera last year, and his income
arising from all sources is under 701. a year.
How entrancing that first beam of intelligence be.
tween one's self and the being we adore! There is in the
first hours of love some indefinite and mysterious charm,
more fleeting, bat more heavenly, than even happiness itself.
Eliza Cook's Journal.

SUDDEN DEATH OF THE REV. J. R. BERKLEY, OF
COMIERIDGE.-It is our melancholy duty this week to re-
cord the death of this gentleman, which took place suddenly
about twelve on Sunday night last. The deceased, who was
rector of Cotheridge, and much beloved by his parishioners,
was taken ill only about an hour previous to his death,
when he was seized with vomiting while sitting in his par-
lour. There was no medical gentleman in attendance at the
time of his death, Mr. Davis, of this city, who had been
sent for, not arriving till about half an hour after the vital
spark had fled. Deceased was a bachelor, and lived alone,
with the exception of his servants. We understand that an
inquest will be dispensed with, Mr. Davis having made a
certificate that the rev. gentleman died from apoplexy.—
Worcester Journal.

VERY SINGULAR.—Some forty years since the
family of Dr. Denorrnandie, formerly of Attleberough, Bucks
clilieky peonsylvania, received a paper written in a language
understand. It was thought nothing of, sxcept
as a matter of curiosity, and remained among the family
papers until lately, when it happened to be seen by some
person who translated it, and, behold, it proved to be a will
leaving to the family an immense estate. Dr. Eenormandie
left three sons, and perhaps other children. Two of his
ntdYi'd not
sons went to Kentucky about 1818, where one of them died;
the other two, it is believed, are still living. They were
worthy men, and many friends will rejoice to learn that
the long neglected bequest may yet be realised.—Philadd-
phia Sun.

A RAGOUT.—FRENCII COOKERY.--A few evenings
ago some soldiers of the 3d Cuirassiers, stationed at Chartres,
seised the tom cat of the barracks, and after the regiment
had retired to rest dressed it up as a ragout, and made a
sumptuous feast of it in one of the upper rooms. Having a
plentiful supply of wine they indulged freely, and at length
began to roar different drinking songs. The noise attracted
the attention of the adjutant, and he hastened to the spot.
The soldiers took to flight, and one leaped from the window
and broke his jaw in the fall. One, named Molenart, was
however seized by the officer, but he resisted. For this
offence the soldier was, on Saturday, condemned by court-
martial to one year's imprisonment.

EXTRAORDINARY BIRTH.—On Saturday, the 23d
ultimo, a blackfaced ewe, three years old, belonging to Mr.
Mlarov. of Lude, dropped four lambs at a birth, being her
first. This is, perhaps, an unprecedented circumstance in
the case of the Highland breed of sheep, with which even a
triplet is rare. The lambs are, with the mother, all doing
well, but two of them are rearing on cow's milk. They are
a cross with a Leicester. We hope these first fruits may be
the presage of a good lambing season in the Highlands.
Perth Courier.

The largest subscription to the fund for the con-
struction of a church in California was given by a gambling
house, viz. :-5,000 dolls.—Roston Transa ipt.

MA.NSLAUGHTER.—Yesterday an inquest was held
at the London Hospital on the body of William Kirtland,
aged 40, master butcher. of 153, High-street, Shadwell,
whose death was occasioned by a cat across the right arm
with a chopper, inflicted by his wife, Jane Kirtland, who is
in custody. The evidence was a repetition of that already
given before the magistrate, and published in this journal
on Tuesday last. Th jury, after a short consultation, re-
turned a verdict of " Manslaughter " against Jane Kirtland.

ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY or LONDON.—At the monthly
general meeting, held yesterday at the society's house in
Hanover square, Mr. P.. Sclater and Mr. Thomas Dry were
elected Fellows of the Society, and Mr. Samuel Gurney, jun.,
and Mr. John J. Traves were proposed as candidates for the
Fellowship. The report of the Council stated that her Ma-
jesty had honoured the society by the gift of a lioness, a
magnificent leopard, a pair of ostriches, and a pair of gazelles,
recently received from Morocco. The hippopotamus pre-
sented by the -Viceroy of Egypt was reported to be in vigor-
ous health at the date of the lion. C. A. Murray's last letter
(March 18), and it is expected that the animal will arrive in
this country, with several other valuable accessions to the
menagerie, about the end of next month. Communications
have also been received from Mr. A. N. Shaw, Bombay, and
Lieutenant Tyler, R.E., Santa Lucia, announcing the ship-
ment of some interesting quadrupeds and reptiles. The
visitors to the gardens on Easter Monday and Tuesday
amounted to 5,940.

ROYAL SURREY Z IOTMGtCAL GARDENS.—MUNI-
FICENT Gwr. Iler Majesty has most graciously presented a
b3antiful lione%s, two splendid male ostriches, and a gazelle,
to this establishment, being a portion of the presents recently
received from the Emperor of Morocco.
EMBARKATION OF TROOPS AT WATERLOO. BRIDGE.
—Between eleven and twelve o'clock this morning the
approaches to Waterloo-bridge from the Strand presented a
very animated appearance, occasio‘d by the arrival of the
entire body of men, between 700 and SOO in number, forming
the 12th Regiment of the Line, which arrived at the Enston-
square station at an early hour from Weedon, under the
command of Colonel Percival, accompanied by the entire
staff and bind of the reghncat, en reqte for Chatham. They
were embarked on board the Satellite, belonging to the Star
Graveserd Steam-boat Company, and their appearance on
deck, the sun shining in full splendour, presented a very
pleasing effect. A great number of persons were present to
witness their departure. Precisely at twelve o'clock the
boat slipped her moorings, the band striking up a lively air.
They will proceed to Gravesend and then by rail to Chatham.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER 70 TIII?EE.
The sales cf Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
maeed at 7,000 bales, of which 1,500 American were
taken for export, and 1,000 on speculation The market
closed steadily.e-.Railway Shares continued to decline.
The produce markets this week have been quiet, ex-
cept for one or two articles. It was thought that coffee
would become in active request, and an advance to some
extent occurred, but this expectation is for the present
disappointed. There are great complaints still of the
adulteration of this article by means of chicory, In
sugar the transactions have been more numerous.
There has been nothing doing in Tallow during the
pant month at all worthy of record. The price has not
fluctuated more than 10s. per ton, and the prospect of
the next month or two is much of the same character.
The large stack on hand has been held with much firm-
ness, as there is nothing on the way to London that will
much increase it. and it is probable that it will be re-
duced by the Ist June to a level with the stock on the lel
June, 1849. New Y.C. remains very steady at 38s. 6d.
and 38s. 3d., with very little disposition to enter on large
transactions. By letters received from St. Petersburgh
we find the price there was 110 to 111 ro., with 10 r.
down, and 107 re. with a moderate demand, which at the
present exchange of 3SA- will cost 395. to 39. i. 6d. laid
down Isere.
The Cotton speculation at Liverpool seems to be re•
viving a little, and the letters from the other side are
strongly advocating a rise. One party writes:—
" We are now approaching the period of the season
when the deficiency of the yield from the present crop
becomes a tangible reality. The receipts are fulling off
as rapidly as the most sanguine believer in a 2,000,000
bale crop couli desire. And as wide as the present dif-
ference is by the last mail dates from the various south-
ern ports, recent telegraphic accounts show a more rapid
proportional diminution. When we get alongside of the
second week in April last year, say from the 4th to the
11th, the discrepancy will be startling, as within those
dates 96.800 bales were delivered, against which I esti-
mate 35,000 this season. The south-western section is
now so well drained, that a reliable correspondent in
Marengo Co., Albahamas states there are not fifty
bales in that country. While presenting these views,
I desire it should be understood that my mark for
the crop remains at 2,100,000 bales although I cannot as-
certain where so large a yield is to come from."
There are later accounts (to March 1) from Bahia.
They advise a dull state cf trade both in imports and
exports, owing to the prevalence of yellow fever. The
exchange on London was 29d.
The letters by the West India mail are not yet de-
livered. The amount of bullion is over a m 11:on of
dollars, partly gold. The outline of the commercial
news seems favourable.
The English Stock Market has been quiet, but de-
cidedly more buoyant, owing to the semi-official state-
ment concerning the revenue, and which is well calcu-
lated to afford satisfaction. The French express, just
in, notices the rather starmy proceedings in the Cham-
bers, but brings a higher quotation for the Rentes.
Consols have been 96k to 1 for Money, and 961 to for
Account. Exchequer-bills have again advanced Ir.,
having touched 664. and 695. India Bonds are 925.
premium, a rise of 2s.
In the Foreign Market there has been rather less ac-
tivity. Mexican Bonds have been 281 to -.3., being an
improvement. Peruvian Active Stock, ex dividend, is
67i- to 68, and the Deferred 27. Equalor Bonds have
been quoted 3i, and Buenos Ayres 54. Chilian Stock is
at 97k. Russian Bonds are firm at 107, and the scrip is
at 11 premium. Danish scrip is 2i premium. Shares
have been looking up a little.
ONE
PRIQES OF BRITISH FUNDS O'CLOCK.
3 per Cent. Ginsols 96!4 Ai
Long Anna. to expire Jan.lB6o
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860.
India Bonds, 1,0004
Ditto under 1.000/... 92 p
Consols for Account 96,4%14
exchequer Bills. t'%d. & 2d
1,000!. June ..... 66 69 p
5001. June
Small. June 66 69 p

CLOSING
PRICES.

96'/4
7 13-1
8%

92 p
96

69 p

69
69 p
CLOSING
PRICES.
54%
96%

ONE
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 54
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent
Danish Bonds, 1825,3 per Cent.
Ditto 5 per Cent. ...
Ditto, Scrip
Equador Bonds
Maxwan, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons—
Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons ...
Ditto. Account
Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent
Ditto, Account
Ditto Deferred
ftussian Bonds ... 107 107
Ditto Scrip l% p 1% p
Span!sh 5 per Cent. 1844./ —
Ditto, Account
Ditto, Passive —
Ditto. 3 per Cent
Ditto, Account . —
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French Rentes, 5 per Cent —90 f.
Exchange
Beligan, 4% per Cent. ...... .
Dutch. 2% per Cent., 12 Guild. ..
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates — 85% a d
PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE cLo:•IN i
Sill`
RAILWAY S RES. PAID.
AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES
Aperdeen
Do. Preference . 81
Amber. Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 7'4......
Ayrshire and Galloway.. 71,it —
Belfast & County Down 30
Berks & Hants Extens.
(Gt. West. Per. 5 per ct.) 6 -
Birmingham and Ox-
f,rd Junct. calls duly
Paid, or withl a guaran. 20
Do, withoutguarantee 20
Bi-ining, Wolverh'ton,
and rui!ey, calls duly
pd, or wan guarantee 15
Do. without guarantee 15
Bic& ng.,Wolverh'pton,
and Stour Valley 131. 14s ... .. • —
__

-
28%

1'714
3%

37%

Birkenhead, Lancashire, :
and Cheshire June__ 23 ...... ........«.....
Brastol and Exeter 100 ......
Ditto, Thirds .... :;3i
Suckinghatr s'aire ...... 17%
Caledonian
Ditto, New let). Pref... 10
Ditto,Clydesdale June 50
C_.( :ter and Holyhead... 50
Ditto, Preference
Direct London & Port:.
month
Dablin and Bel fast June. 40 ......
D Andalk & Enniskillen 30
••••• ...... •••
East Anglian. 251., L. &
E. and L. and D..... 25 —
Do. 181., E. & 11.... 18 ......
Do., 3/. 108., Pref... 31,fi
Ditto, 71. 175., 7 per
Cent., Preference—. 2
„-astern Counties........ 20 ...... 714
Do, New Preference,
6 per Cent..... ...... 10 ...... ........ ......
Ditto,Extension, 5 per
Cent., No.l 6/.138.4d.... p
Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13s. 4d... p
Do. North. & Eastern,
6 per Cent. ........ 50
Ditto. 5 per Cent-- 50 —
Do. New - ... ..
Eastern Union, Class A
(late E. U. Shares) 25
Ditto, Class A, ditto... 6 ,.,
Do., Class B & C 25 —

-p
..- p

Do. Scrip (6 per cent.) 20 17 ...
East Lancashire ...... 25
Ditto, New Quarters 6% ..

17
71,4

. _
Do., 6 per Cent. Pre-
ference Quarters ... 6;4...... ...
East Lincolnshire, gui.r.
6 per Cent.
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Ditto. Half Shares ... 25
Edin., Perth, & Dundee 25
Ditto, Newport l5 .. ...
Exeter.Yeovit, & Dorch. 29,a — ... —
Exeter and Exmouth... 21e.
Glasgow, Dumfries, and
Carlisle - ... ..-
tilasgow,liihnar., & Ayr 50 ......
Do.Prefererce Consol.
Gloucester & Dear Forest 19.6 — .. -..
•threat Not•hern
Do., !sa A Deferred ... 124...... .
Do., %B 6 per Cent... 9%
Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. 12%...... 10%3/4 lO%
treat south. and West.
(Ireland) ....... 5O ...... 07 26% 26 2O
Ditto, Eighths 114:
Grdat North of England.loo 223 217 218 2lB
Ditto, New, 401 4O
Ditto, ditto 35
Ditto, New, 30/
Ditto. New ,15/
Groat Western 100 ...... 52% 52 53...... 5314
Ditto, % Shares 5O ...... —.......- ••
Ditto, M Shares

. _
Ditto, Fifths ...... ...... 20
Ditto, Now 174. .... 15 ...
Hull and Selby
Ditto, Half Shares -
Do. Quarter Shares... 12% — •• ••
Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 ...... 52 51% . ..... 51%
Ditto, Thirds
Lancashire& Yorkshire 100
Do. Quarters ... ..... 23% — ........ ...... ....
Do. Fifths... - dia.
Do. Thirds ...... ....... 18
Do. New, Gua.6 per ct. 10 ...... 113/4 %... ll%
Ditto (Huddersfield
and Shed.) 5O
Do. (W. Riding Union) 11 tA 2% ....... : ...... .
Leeds and Bradford SO
Leeds and Think
Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3% — ....... ........ dig.
nu.. do. No. 2 10
Do., do. ...... No. 3 5 ~ — ... ........ .
De., Pret. Quar., 1818 9
...•
—• •••
Liverpool, Crosby and •
Southport
London & Black wa"...11/. 6e. 3d... .. ....
London, Brighton, and
South C0ad....... 100
Do., New, guaranteed
6 ”er Cent .. ...... ..100
1)0.i..-darant. 5 per et.. 9 ...... •••
••• • --
Dv. Prefer. 5 per cent. 50 — . •••••. .
Ditto ditto..... 1812 50 ... —.- —
I,or don and Greenwich 12/15s 4d... --
Ditto, Preference...... 20
L.,necn and N Wertern 100 1033/4 101 a•..... 10414
Ditto, New Quarters 12 ll .0% 11 ll
Di fto,Fiah . l2 .. .. 111/2 ... 11,4
Do. 40/.Sho.res( L. U.) 40
Do. 10!. (M. St 13.) C. 1 ...... 1 % ... .. ..... •• • 1
~.
London &S.Westnn ..100 ...... 61%... 6l
Do, New JO/. . ..... . 42 %...... — ,
tit,. Naw 40/. .. 34
Do.. N, - Prefe ence. 5 ...... -

2%
9)

ew Prefe
Lon o rid erry &Cu eraitc e 25 ........
Do. 14 Shares ....... ~ 5 ........

Londonderry and Emus-
ki.l.-n...... ..... ...... - 25 -
Do. t.;Shares -
Lowestof'. guar. 4 per et 20 ...... -
Ditto (6 par et.) -
lianchester,Buxton,and
Matlock 5
A••.••• ........
Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire...loo -
Do. Quarters (No. 1) 25 ... .. - -
Do. New 101. Pref..... 10 ...... -
Do., Manchester and
Lincoln Uni0n......4/. 2s - di5...... ...... - is/Midland ........ ...... ...it 0
Do. Consolidated Pref.loo -
Do., 11
50/. Shares ..... 30
~..
D.).•Birm., and Derby 110 - -
Do. Consolid. Bristo' &
Birming., 6 per ct.... 100
Ditto,Brist. & Glocstr. 42 ...... - ....... .... -
Ditto ditto ......... _ 22,. 75...... - ...... ..... -
Do.,EretTashVal..Pref. 50 - -
Ditto, Leieest.& Swan-
.. --
nington, 8 par ct.guar.loo -
Midland Great Western
Irish - ................. •-•
Middlesbro' and Redcar,
6 per cent. guar.: 5O - -
Newcastle and Carlisle.loo ....... - -
Do. Quartars - .. --
NI4 wmark e t ...... ...... . 23 .....
Do. Extension -
Newport, Abergavenny,
nd Hereford 6 ....•• - -
Newry and Enniskillen 7 - - ......
Newry, Warrenpomt,
and Rostrevor 2O - Oa ........ cr••
Nortelk ........... ..... ....100
Do. New 20/. .. l5 -
Dv. Extension ... -
Do. Guaranteed s%pc. 5 - -
Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 ...... -
-
N orthern Counties Union 4 ...... -
North British •.. ..... ... 25 •••• • - x.d .. 8% x.
Ditto Preference . 5 - x.d ... -X. d
North Staffordshire ... 17% 6%.....
North-Western . 13%...... - ...... •-.•••••••
oxford, Worcester, and .-
Wolverhampton ...... 60 -
Preston & Wyre 25 ... .. 401,,f ' • 401,,E
Do. % Shares (A) lO ...... - • -
Oading. Guildford, and
Reigate
Royston and Hitchiu ... 414.. ... - -
Do. Shepreth Exten . % - •
--
Se 'Wan Ccutral
25 ....•• - • ......... ...••• --
Scottish Midland - - ............. ..-
Ditto, New - .. .. .....
Shrt,wshu../ Ina Birm 134 - di5........... - dig
Ditto ditto. Class B. 9
- ..• ••• •• ..... -
Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 - .. ....... .. .. •-•
Shrewsbury and llerefd. 5 .......•, --
Shrewsbury & Chester
(Nor. W. Min.) - ••• -
Ditto Helves -.
Ditto Oswestry - -
Ditto Now -
Do. 8 per Cent. Pref lO - ......... ..... -- ,
Shropshire limey
S ,ath Devon
Do. Preference
South Statfordshire B% - ...... ..• •... --- ,
south Eastern
Do., No. Y. - - -,
..
Do., No. 3 . .... ...... 30 .... 13'% it 13
Do., Registered No. 4 10
South :I• ate
,auto Yorkshire, Don-
caster, and Goole ...... 13 - --
St; ellield, Rotherham, &
Goole (N. Div.) Gua-
ranteed 5 per cent. ... 18% -
Do. do (Sou. Div.) ... 5 ....... .-• -
Swans. & Loughor & Ca-
meron's Stnn. C0a1.... 8 -
Taw Vale Extension ... 8
Tkames Haven Dock

-
26%

and Railway -..-.. 17%...... - -
Vale of Neath ... .. lO --
Waterlbrd and Kilkenny 20 -
Waterford and Ltruenck 47% -
Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicktw
and Dublin - -.
Wear Valley L per Cent.
Guaranteed .. .. 5O -
Do. do. dc. ... 25 - -
Do. do. do. ... 15... - .....
West Cornwall ..... ... 71, ..
... .. .....
N hitehaven & Furness 18 -
Windsor, Staines, and
South Western ..... ... 14 ...... - ...- -.
Wilts,Somerset,& Wey-
mouth ' ....
• •• --
I or&. Newcas le, and
Berwick. ..... ........ -25 ...... 12%14% .... 124
Do. Newcastle Eaten. 20
1/ . G.N.E.Preteraice 8 ..... A % 4
Do. Hartlepool Dock
and Railway .. 100 ...... - .... ......... -
York and North Midland 50 ......15%7
Ditto Preference ...... 10
FOREIGN RAIL WAYo.
Ang a Italian (late Ita- .
Sian and Austrian).... 5% -
Boulogne and Amiens... 20 - 614 Ci
Central of France (Or-
leans and Vierzoa)... 20
Demerara ...... 171/9...... -
Dutch Rhenish ......,.. 8 ..... -
East Indian .... 5%
Ditto 2O - -
Great Indian Peninsular 6 - --
Do. Do. ... ....... 1 -
Louvain I. la t ainbre ... 7% -
Luxembourg
Ditto lO -
....
Madrid and Valeutia... 2 .......-
Namur and Liei,e ...... 20 ... .. - ...... ~, ,
Northern of France l6 -
Orleans and Bordeaux.. 7 - ..... .•......
Paris and Orleans . 2O - .... ...... .. ---
Paris and Rouen 2O ...... ••• •• ........ "....
Paris and Strasbourg - . ...... -......
Rouen and Havre ...... 20
Samt,re and Bleu: e ...... 20 ..... - ... -.a. --
Strasbourg and Basle ... 14 -
Tours and Nantes .. 13 -
Tournay, Jurbise, Lau-
den' and Hasselt ...... 20 -
West Flanders 83(.....

12141

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia
British North American 50 ...... —•-••
Colonial 25 ......
Commercial of London 20 ......
London Joint Stock lO .....• 17
London & Westminster. 20 .......
at ional P:ov. England. 35
Ditto New.. ..... ...... 10 - ••
National of Ireland 221.••••• ....
Provincial of Ireland
Ditto, New ..... ..... 10 -
Union of Australia
Ditto, New ........... 21/9...... .
Union of L0nd0n......... 10 ...... 12 ... ........
Union of Madrid 40

423 i

MINES.
Anglo-Mexican lOO ••••••
Asturian ..... ...... 15
Australian 4 ...... —....— ...... ... .--•
Bassora ',tango ...
Blaenarvon Iron & Coal 50
Bolonos Scrip ...... .... ..... --
British Iron .. .
Brazilian Imperial
BrazilianCotaes&Cuittha 30
Do. St. John Del Rey 15 ...... ............... --
Cobra Copper
General 2O -

Real Del Monte, Unreg.
Do. Black Debentures

Do. Red Ditto - ••••• - 000000000 "MO .."'
b Santiar,o de Cuba /0
United Mexican -

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY•)
LONDON, APRIL s.—Wind at noon W.. fresh gsl.
and cloudy.

YoaTsmotra, APRIL 4.—lt blew a bard gale all laot
night and to-day from S. to S.W., and there is era/
appearance of a dirty night.
PLYMOUTH, APRIL 4.—The Venus parted and wen'
on shore in Deadman's Bay this morning.
FALMOUTH, APRIL 4.—The Isabella, Odessa to 001
port, went on shore yesterday near the Lizard Light'
house; six of crew saved, and remainder expected to bo
saved.

SUNDERLAND, APRIL 4.—The following vessels hap
received more or less damage:—The Superior, the Shaer
rock, the Thompson, Vesta, and Air, of Westport;
Victoria, of Maldon; John, of ditto; Francis, of Yet;
moubh; Hero, of ditto; Sarah Ellen, of Newcastle; sari
Woodpark, of ditto; upply, of Blyth; Harriet, of Ner
haven; Hero, of Montrose; and Two Brothers,-of Goole.
SHIELDS, APRIL 3.—The Alexander, of Whitby
Middlesborough to London, was in contact 39th ult. ofg
Cromer, with the Eleanor, of Dover, froai Whitstable;
two of the crew of the former got on board the latter,
which hoisted a light, which was unanswered.
BRIGHTON, APRIL 3.—A scroll-board, marked " SO:
rah" in gold letters on a blue ground, edged with a gold
cord in a tassel, has washed on shore.
AnEaDEEn, APRIL 3.—The Finish of and.for thil
port, in making fur Banff harbour during the gale of the
29th ult., struck on the Collie Rock, when the crew were
taken out.; she came off, and brought to anchor in the
bay, but is supposed to have sunk during the night. The
Nelson, of Rochester, Sunderland to this port, was abaci"
doned off Banff 31st ult.; crew saved, bat a passenger
died from exhaustion previous to the boat being 4110
in with.
SHIELDS, APRIL 4.—The James Trail, of Thurso, go/
on the Herd Sand, but came off the following tide after
throwing overboard great part of the cargo, and Ng re'
turned to the harbour.
WEXFORD, APRIL 3.—The Eliza Taylor, of Cork
from Liverpool, got on the rocks in South Bay during
the night of the Ist inst., and fell over into deep water;
crew saved. The whole of the cargo of the Otto, o 0
shore in Ballyhent Bay, has been saved; the J. $
Skiddy has lauded her passengers, but remains full 0;
water. Part of cargo expected to be saved.
HAnwicu, APRIL 4.—A poor man, supposed to be
One of the passengers of the Royal Adelaide, has Well
brought in here by the Jare, of Arbroath.