The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-24 00:00:00

As the hour of final decision draws nigh, the event

can our higher and middle classes afford to throw
away countless thousands in patronising singers,
opera dancers and such "small deer"—in giving
splendid bal:s, and routes, and dinner parties to
masses of people who care nothing for them, and for
whom they, in return, care nothing—arid yet
openly profess their reluctance or their inability to
contribute such a paltry sum as ten or twelve thousand
pounds in honour of a man who rescued them from the
domination of the great conqueror of Europe, and gave
to his countrymen, as his dying bequest, the undis-
puted empire of the seas ? Where would have been our
aristocracy—where would have been their sycophantic
imitators, our opulent, thriving, "respectable" middle
classes, had NELSON not crushed the maritime power
of France at Cape Trafalgar ? With the abundant
resources, both naval and military, that NAPOLEON
then possessed; with the prestige attached to his
name, and the terror which it everywhere inspired,
England would most probably have been subjected to
all the horrors of an invasion, the entire aristocratic
fabric would have been shattered to atoms, the country
would have been revolutionised after the most approved
French fashion, and the middle classes, who have
so much to lose, would have lost everything! From
these calamities they were notoriously preserved by
the intelligence, the heroism, the lofty, self-denying
patriotic spirit of one man ; and yet to this one man
they are either unable or unwilling to rase such a
triumphal monument as may be worthy of their grati-
tude, and his imperishable renown! Repeated appli-
cations have been made to them by the NELSON
Committee, but they are, it seems, too poor to
answer the demand; and now all idea of get-
ting any more subscriptions from them is aban-
doned in despair ; and the words " erected
by public contributions," must in consequence be
effaced from the pillar, which, if completed at all,
must be completed at the expense of Government!
Such is the public spirit—such the gratitude evinced
by the upper and middle classes of Englishmen in
the year 1844 ! They can afford to lavish thousands
on the patronage of an Italian Opera; but they can-
not afford to subscri:x a comparative trifle in honour
of the memory of a man who, more than any hero of his
day, assisted to rescue them from the worst horrors
of spoliation, anarchy, and revolution I

of' the election for South Lancashire becomes more I
interesting, and at the same time its influences, direct
and contingent, are more justly appreciated. It seems
to be taken for granted on all hands, that the great
proprietors of agricultural lands in that district will
be found opposed to the free trade candidate, and that
such proprietors as Lord FRANCIS EGERTON and Sir
JOHN GERRARD will show themselves hostile to the
manufacturing interest, as to one that threatens their
order with rivalry in political power. Such conduct
on their parts will only be by a slight shade less sui-
cidal than that of the few manufacturers whom the
blind prejudices of party will lead to vote against
their order and their property. The agricultural
prosperity of South Lancashire is the direct result of
its manufactures; spindles have ploughed their lands,
and shuttles fertilized their fields. Could farmers
alone support the Bridgewater Canal, consume the
produce of Lord EGERTON'S mines, and bring into
cultivation those lands which, within the memory of
man, were but moors and marshes ? Can the farmers
of South Lancashire be ignorant of the markets where
their produce is sold, and who are the consumers of
their milk, their cheese, and their butter? Were
they unscathed during the late season of agricultural
distress ? They have had bitter experience to prove
that when the spinner is unemployed the toil of
the dairy farmer is without remuneration, and when
the loom stands still the plough cannot be profit-
ably set to work. The landowner and the farmer
in South Lancashire have just as much to gain by
the extension and expansion of trade—or, what is
the same thing, by free trade, as the cotton-spinner
or the calico-printer. The value of Lord STAM
FORD'S property, in the vicinity of Ashton and
Duckinfield, has increased fivefold within the memory
of the existing generation. Ile has had no toil to
earn this influx of wealth, no care to exercise fur
this acquisition of fortune. The power-loom, driven
from its original seat by the short-sighted prejudices
of some, and the deliberate malice of others, found
shelter in a nook, where there was neither magistrate
nor parson, neither church nor prison, neither bar-
rack nor workhouse ; and in this deserted spot ma-
chinery created for itself all the elements of order
and civilisation, and, what was more to his Lord-
ship's purpose, the elements of profit for his mines,
and of rent for his acres. The land which would
scarcely grow rushes offers now to view that most
lucrative of crops—houses ; and the mineral treasures,
which, under former circumstances, would not have
paid the expense of sending them to market, find now
a market at the mouth of the pits. The dairy-
farming of South Lancashire is the principal source
of the prosperity which its farmers enjoy; but it has
no natural advantages for dairies over the other
counties of England, in fact, it is inferior to most of
them. Its dairies flourish, because manufactures
have supplied a convenient market for their produce :
the greater proportion of the wages of the Lancashire
operative finds its way into the pockets of the Lan-
cashire farmer.

We quite concur with our correspondent, who ad-
dresses us from Paris, under the signature of " A Cap-
tain in the Navy," that the Admiralty here " would
do wisely to listen, without delay, to the gallant NA-
PIER," and "allow the old officers of our navy to re-
tire," in one of the several modes proposed by the
renowned Hero of Acre, on Thursday the 16th inst.
It will be remembered that, on that occasion, Sir
Cit ARLES stated he had studied this subject for many
years. He was convinced that, in the event of a war
breaking out, it would be impossible for us to enter into
it, or carry it on with any degree of vigour adequate
to the exigencies of such an emergency, owing to the
advanced ages of the superior officers of this service.
He complained that, whether Whigs or Tories were
in power, the Treasury behch appeared to be, at all
times, inattentive to this matter ; and he adverted at
some length to what had passed in the House of
Commons, in 1842 and 1843, in reference to proposi-
tions that he had brought forward for the opening of
a retirement list, upon which aged and infirm officers
of superior rank might be allowed, as in the army, to
sell out and retire. Since that debate the bellicose
pamphlet of the Prince DE JOIN VILLE has appeared,
and is now the chief pabulum on which the Anglo-
phobia cravings of his party, in Paris, are subsisted ;
where the subject has sufficient strength of digestion
to take down aliment that is combined with materials
so nauseating and offensive to the egoisme and self-
glorification of Frenchmen, as this royal dose is. But
while we may be amused with the sensation which
this hair-brained young gentlemen is managing to get
up in the salons and cafés of Paris, we are not dis-
posed to disregard the significancy of such a sign of
the times. It should set our Government upon think-
ing how paramount a duty remains yet to be discharged
by them, in giving instant and absolute efficiency to
that staff out of which must be found the command-
ing officers who, in the deplorable event of hostile
misunderstandings with France, or any other maritime
Power, will direct the energies of that mighty navy,
and especially that most formidable arm of it, its
steamers of war, on the sustained prowess and success
of which will depend the ultimate destinies of human
freedom and civilisation.

We speak as we think, with utter scorn of the
manufacturers who are traitors to their own cause,
false to their own order, and suicides of their own
prosperity; but there is little need of our pronouncing
the sentence of their degradation when we know that
they are contemned and despised by the very party
to win whose hollow smiles they have sacrificed all
respect for their own honour, all regard for their real
interest, all possibility of an approving conscience for
their own selves. For such prodigies of political pro-
fligacy, for such unexampled courtiers of degradation,
for such slaves of soul-inviting chains, and soliciting
fetters, there is as little use in remonstrance as there
is little hope of conversion. They have set the seal
to their own sentence of condemnation, and become
attesting witnesses that all the calumnies which the
party to which they have given their adhesion has
vented against the manufacturing classes are true, so
rar as they are personally concerned. Such men
leave it a perplexing question to determine whether
we have to deal with wickedness or with weakness,
with iniquity or with insanity, with confessed knavery
or unacknowledged stupidity. Into such a discussion
we should never wish to enter, for, in the one case, we
should have to deal with men above the reach of con.
viction ; and, in the other, with men below the reach

The argument of Sir CHARLES NAPIER addressed
itself principally to the necessity of securing for these
high and responsible duties, not merely the usual
qualities of intrepid courage and loyal devotion to the
service, but the physical requisites of vigour yet un- i
impaired by age, and activity not paralysed by long
previous abeyance on half-pay. With all the candour
and simplicity so well befitting so distinguished a
sailor, the Gallant Commodore avowed it to be his
opinion that after sixty, a naval officer in a command
was not qualified to bear the fatigues incident to the
duties of his station—that in action, even if he
achieved a victory, it might be anticipated that he
would not retain his bodily powers and general facul-
ties in sufficient perfection to improve that victory to
the full extent which its consequences ought to be
pursued to. It is not necessary for us to recur to the
cases by which he proposed to affirm this proposition.
Yet we may notice, by the way, the pithy rejoinder
he gave to Sir GEORGE COCKBURN'S remark that in
our last war with America, the officers under his (Sir
GEORGE'S) command were fully competent. We
may be forgiven for reminding Sir GEORGE that the
management of that war by the civil or Admiralty
part of the service was anything but honourable to
this country; though we are far from imputing its
disastrous casualties at sea, occasioned by the inferior
size and metal of our ships, their injudicious com-
missioning and defective equipments, as compared
with those of the enemy, upon the gallant officers
who fought the actions in which our flag was sub-
jected to the unwonted humiliation, even against such
odds, of defeat. Sir CHARLES NAPIER recalled to
Sir GEORGE'S recollection the fact that the latter had
no line-of-battle ships with him, but only frigates
and smaller vessels of war; and these, too, were com-
manded by young captains. "Will that Gallant Ad-
miral," said the Commodore, with a characteristic
mixture of good feeling and unflinching truth—" will
he tell me that he is as fit, at his age, for work, as he
was in the Chesapeake, when he was forty, and we
were boys ?" And then he read from official docu-
ments abundant data to establish his complaint, that
promotion was so slow under the present rules of the
service that, without revising that system, or remov-
ing, as he proposed to do by retirement and permission
to them to sell their commissions, the superior officers
above a certain age, and on the list of admirals, rear
and vice-admirals, and post captains, it would be im-
possible to bring in the young officers whom it was
so essential to have in active service or in immediate
readiness to enter upon it. He contended that all our
present admirals who, in virtue of seniority in rank,
would have to command our fleets, now, must be
about 75 years old at least ; two were 69 each. Of
our vice-admirals he showed that only ten are under
70, all the rest above that age ; that of our rear-ad-
mirals twenty-five only are under 65, and that the
last promoted and youngest of them, Sir THOMAS
TROUBRIDGE, is 54; other fourteen rear-admirals
being under 60. Of these thirty-seven superior offi-
cers, again, twelve had not been at sea for about thirty
years past. So, again, of the first two hundred post cap-
tains on the list; thirty are now between 70 and 75
years ; forty-eight are between 65 and 70 years; sixty-
one are between 60 and 65: and sixty-one are
under 60 ; indeed, but with very few exceptions, bor-
dering
on that age. Of these two hundred captains,
no less than one hundred and fourteen have not been
employed at sea during the last thirty years and
more ; and many have never, since attaining their
present rank, been professionally employed at all.
In all these details, Sir CHARLES NAPIER certainly
made out a powerful case to demonstrate how little
qualified these veteran superior officers must be,
from age and its infirmities, to endure the severe pri-
vations and duty of maintaining a strict blockade, for
example. And what did he ask for these noble de-
fenders of their country's flag, on its true field of
battle and of triumph on the sea ? That the old
admirals, &c., should be allowed to sell their commis-
sions, and enter into an honourable retire-
ment ; or that the first one hundred captains
• on these lists should be at libetry to retire
upon full half-pay with the Greenwich Hos-
pital out-pension, which should be 100/.
year each. This valuable relief could thus be
ef-
fected at an expense of only 10,0001. a year. But if
it were not adopted quickly, it would be useless ; for

of argument.
We address ourselves then solely to the landowners
and farmers ; we tell them what their own experience
amply confirms, that every extension of trade has
raised the rent of ground and enhanced the value of
agricultural produce—the manufacturer is to them
the goose laying golden eggs; they have to decide
in the present contest whether the value of land in
South Lancashire shall increase or diminish ; whether
dairy farms shall continue, and extend or relapse to
their original condition of moss and moor; whether
the farmers of Lancashire shall hold their present ad-
vantages with a prospect of increase, or be reduced to
a more miserable condition than any farmers in Eng-
land. The agricultural, not less than the manufac-
turing, prosperity of South Lancashire is identified
with power and free trade ; the equal ruin of both is
similarly identified with ENTWISLE and Monopoly.

At a meeting of the Committee of the NELSON
Pillar Memorial, which took place yesterday, it was
stated that the sum of twenty thousand pounds
which had been raised by public subscription had
already been expended, and that a further sum of
between ten and twelve thousand was wanted, for the
purpose of making lions, bas-relievos, and steps ;
in fact, for completing the design in a worthy spirit.
The Report proceeded to remark that, after numerous
experiments upon the liberality of the public, the
Committee were obliged to express a decided
opinion, that if Government did not come for-
ward and supply the money for finishing the
monument, it must remain in its present con-
dition, and be viewed rather as a reproach
upon the metropolis than a credit to its gratitude
and liberal spirit. The Report concluded with the
statement that, "The committee considered that an
application to Government for the funds, which had
been in vain sought from the public, to complete a tes-
timonial raised by the consent of that Government,
would be attended to at the present moment ; and they
agreed on the propriety of waiting on Sir ROBERT
PEEL to represent the exact state of the case, and to
request his aid in accomplishing that which could not
be effected by subscription, the design of inscribing on
the pillar the words ' erected by pub-
lic contributions' having been frustrated." When
we bear in mind who NELsox was what
were the services he conferred on his country,
and in what a magnanimous and disinterested spirit
he conferred these services, sacrificing peace, health,
and repose of mind and body on the altar of the pub..
lie weal, we can scarcely credit the fact that the
richest metropolis in the world, which can raise its
thousands upon thousands for charitable purposes,
and lavish annually such sums upon dinners and festi-
vities as would make the fortunes of a hundred pri-
vate individuals ;—we can scarcely believe it possible,
we say, that a metropolis which has so much wealth
at its command, can grudge the small pittance of
twelve thousand pounds to complete a monu-
ment in honour of the greatest naval hero
England ever produced —the greatest hero of
ancient and modern times, who by his decisive victory
at Trafalgar annihilated at one blow the naval power
of NAPOLEON, and whose last famous signal will
serve for ages to embolden the nature a.id kindle the
m enthusias of every generous-minded Briton ! What,

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENIN'G, MAY 24, 1844.-

the object was to bring forward young officers of
these ranks, or that they might be already in com-
mission when any emergency called for their active
service. If this course were not taken forthwith, ani.l
without delay, the old officers, in such an emergency,
it was clear, would int be equal to the duties devolv-
ing*on them; and we should be compelled to take
young officers without recent experience. Such an
event, as it was necessary for the argument of the
Gallant Commodore to contemplate, would call for
the instant service of fifty or sixty admirals. Where,
he asked, were those to come from, if they had not
cleared in the meantime the list of those aged officers
to whom he had referred, by a means so just and rea-
sonable to them, so essential to the welfare' of the
nation, so indispensable to the character and efficiency
of the navy itself? Sir ROBERT PEEL endea-
voured to persuade the House, that if such
arrangements were made by Government,
the almost certain result would be, that the
oldest captains being nearest the list of rear-admirals
above them, would naturally stay to realise their
chances of promotion. The youngest captains would
as naturally retire, on the terms suggested, because
their chances of realising promotion were so much
inferior, from their lower position on the list. But to
this specious objection Sir C. NAPIER replied con-
clusively in three words ; he limited this privilege of
retirement, &c., to one hundred captains of the age of
60 or upwards. Did the Right Hon, Baronet, at the
head of the Government, mean then to call men at
60 young ? The motion with which he had con-
cluded, that previous to the preparation of the next
navy estimates a plan of retirement should be deiised
with the view of rendering the naval service more
efficient, and of rewarding old and meritorious
officers, " was, for the present, lost." But we cannot
believe that the session will be allowed to run out
without, at least, another vigorous effort being made
by Parliament to force on the conviction of Govern-
ment the necessity for adopting some plan for
guaranteeing the increased efficiency .of the superior
ranks of our naval service, which may be conform-
able to the sensible, the fair, and manly views which
were thus expounded by one of the most distin-
guished, undaunted, and fortunate commanders who
have ever adorned it, in this or in any former age.

THIS DAY'S NEWS.

CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY).
The LORD CHANCELLOR sat in his Court at Westmin3tcr
to-day, and took cause and lunatic petitions, none of which
possessed the slightest public interest.
IN ItE BARIATINSKL

Sir C. WETHERELL opened this case. It was a question
respecting the appointment of committees to the person of
the Princess Banatinski. The Princess was the niece of
Lord Sherbome, arid the persons who were proposed as com-
mittees by those for whom he appeared, were Lord and Lady
Sherbome, and his sister, the Hon. Margaret Dalton, the
natural relations of the lunatic. On the other side two per-
sons were proposed not inferiOr in station or credit. The
lunatic had been under the care of a Miss Chalmers, for the
last five years, and the question was, whether this lady,
who had been appointed to her office by Lord Sherbome and
Miss Dalton, had treated her kindly during that period. It
was alleged by the half-brother of the Princess, who resided
in Russia, that she had not been treated kindly. That mas
the issue to be tried before his Lordship. The Learned
Counsel then referred to the affidavits bearing on this point,
in which it was stated that the house where the lunatic was
confined was not suitable, and that there had been a general
want of care and attention.
Mr. WALPOLE followed on the same side.
(The case was proceeding when we went to press.)

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
Vice-Chancellors Sir J. K. L. Bruce and Sir James Wigram
did not sit to-day, in consequence, as it was understood, of
the Westminster sessions-house, which they have occupied
from the commencement of the term, being engaged for the
regular business of the Court.
The Vice-Chancellor of England was occupied the whole
morning with hearing short causes, the circumstances of
which were only interesting to the parties concerned.

The Madrid papers of the 16th contain various ra
mours as to the object of the QUEEN'S journey to Ca-
talonia. Some state that an interview is premeditated
by the Queen Mother between her daughter and the
son of Don CARLOS, at the baths of Caldas, and give
the public to understand that the QUEEN will return
married to that Prince. Another report is, that the
main object of the journey is to modify the constitu-
tion by a decree, and to revive the Estatute real. The
Tiempo contradicts all these reports, and declares that
the said journey has no other object whatever than the
very plausible one of enabling Queen ISABELLA. to
take the waters, which her ordinary physicians pro-
nounced necssary to her precious health. The same
journal contains an article on the state of the Spanish
finances, and denounces a number of contracts signed
by the late Minister of Finance. The sums raised, it
says, ammounted to 280,000,000 reals, and the condi-
tions on which they were obtained were so onerous
for the State, that the contractors, by paying one half
in specie and the other in coupons, realised a profit of
70 per cent.
The Bourse remained closed on account of the
Feast of the Ascension.

COMMON PLEAS-(THIS DAY.)

(Sittings in Banco.)
The Court were engaged this day in hearing an argument
against a rule for a new trial, obtained by Mr. Sergeant
Ryles, in the case of Burgess v. Boetefeur. There was not
the slightest interest in the case.

EXCHEQUER COURT-THIS DAY
(Sittings in Banco.) •

LEES V. THE PROPRIETORS OF THE CALDER AND lIEBBLE

NAVIGATION.

In this case a rule nisi had .been obtained by Mr. Martin,
to set aside the verdict had for the plaintiff, and enter the
same for the defendant, or to have a new trial.
Mr. Knowles (with whom were Mr. Crompton and Mr.
Addison) now appeared to show cause against the rule. The
case had been tried at the York assizes before Mr. Justice
Coltman, and the question at issue was whether the con-
veyance by the plaintiffs of a certain piece of land to the defen-
dants, through which there was a watercourse, bad destroyed
the plaintiff's right to the benefit of that watercourse. The jury
had been of opinion the plaintiff had not by the conveyance
deed parted with his right. to the watercourse, and had given
a verdict accordingly for the plaintiff, and this verdict it was
which the conditional rule sought to set aside. •
Mr. Watson and Mr. Cowley were with Mr. Martin, in
support of the rule.
The arguments engaged the Court the greater portion of
the day, and were not concluded at the time of our going
to press.

The discussion, in the French Chamber of Peers,
on the Education Bill, was enlivened, on Tuesday,
by a vigorous speech of M. GuizoT against the High
Church party. It was in reply to some remarks of
th Count DE MONTALEMBERT, who represents that
faction, and who told the Minister the Bill was "one
of exclusion, and of a thousand vexations, in place of
one of liberty." This roused M. GUIZOT. " You
are," said the Minister, addressing the Noble Peer,
" the representative of a spirit of intellectual and
moral anarchy.—(M. DE MONTALEMBERT cried out
here in denial, but was met with a cry from the
Chamber of Yes, yes,' `lt is true.') Yes, you and
some of your Honourable Friends, are deplorable
examples of an anarchy which glides into men's
hearts, though, in general, they are repulsed. What !

in the bosom of the Catholic functions, even amongst
the priesthood, the spirit of anarchy can have pene-
trated so far as that the guarantees which please other
men revolt you, and appear tyrannical and unjust !
it is not a spirit of liberty that animates you, but a
spirit contrary to all liberty, as well as to all legal and
constitutional authority."
The Government journals have at last broken
silence on the pamphlet of the Prince DE JOIN VILLE,
and if we are to believe the Journal des Debuts,
M. THIERS was the cause of all the excitement which
this singular publication has caused throughout
France. " The Prince DE JoiNvIDLE," says that
journal, " was President of a Commission formed by the
Minister of the Marine to investigate certain special
questions. Ile wished to give to his work a precise
form, and put down the result of his observations in a
note which he, no doubt, intended for the perusal of
his chiefs alone. He afterwards communicated his
views on the subject to some political friends, perhaps
ex-Ministers. But, we have too high an opinion of
the young Prince not to be convinced that he was an
entire stranger to the singular mode of publicity that
has been given to his note. We are sure that he
must have been more surprised than any one
at seeing it divulged; first, by small portions, and
afterwards circulated in its full extent by journals
and other periodicals under the influence of a former
President of the Council, who regrets the past. We
do not think we are too presumptuous in taking upon
ourselves to affirm that the surprise of the young
Prince was equally felt in a higher quarter. We,
with the same respect, believe that he, when finding
himself thus engaged without his knowledge, and
against his wishes, no doubt, yielded to an impulse,
generous in principle, which leads young men into
actions ; and that flatteries, the interested object of
which his own heart and conscientious loyalty would
not allow him to suspect, gave him a taste for that
hollow popularity, the true value of which he has
now already been taught."
The Nouvelliste Vaudois, a Swiss journal, pub-

lishes a long account of the disturbances at Sion,
in which it states that the forces of the Upper Valais
have arrived at Sion, and have taken possession of it
without meeting with any resistance. They are from
1,000 to 1,500 in number. They are followed by
some thousands of other troops, all armed and reso-
lute. Each column has a priest at its head. It is
presumed that they intend to march on to the Lower
Valais. On the other hand, M. MAURICEI BARMAN,
who arrived near Sion between three and four o'clock,
on learning that the town was in the hands of the
forces of the Upper Valais, has retrograded upon
Ardon, where he will wait for reinforcements. He
•ts ill be joined by the columns commanded by Messrs.
Jones and DUFEY. All the Liberals of the Lower
Valais capable of marching are under arms, and pro-
ceeding to meet the of her party. It was generally
believed, however, that, through the interference of
the Austrian and French authorities, the differences
between the parties would be arranged without an
appeal to arms.
On Wednesday, the Feench :Government received
the following telegraphic dispatch :
TANGIERS, MAY 12.
"Ts.ngiers is perfectly tranquil. Measures have
been taken to drive back the tribes of the interior."
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HER MAJESTY'S BIRTH-DAY.This being the
anniversary of the Queen's natal day, the joyful event
will be celebrated by the royal circle at Claremont,
where a select party will assemble this afternoon.
LYCEUM TIIRATRE.—The Duchess of Cambridge
and party honoured this theatre last evening with her presence.

MONE VAND COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
At Liverpool yesterday the sales of Cotton were 3,500 bags
at previous rates, and, to the trade ; 500 Surat realized 24d.
to 34d., 500 Pernambuco 6d, and the rest American ; 4d. to
65d. for Orleans.—Shares displayed rather more activity.
Caledonian, 4 ; Eastern Counties, 114 ; Edinburgh and
Glasgow, 66 ; Birmingham, 223 ; Do. Thirds, 375 ; Brighton,
464 ; South-Western, 884 ; Manchester and Birmingham,
545 ; Do. and Leeds, 105 ; Paris and Lyons, 34 ; Do. and
Orleans, 395 ; Do. and Rouen, 384 ; South-Eastern, 37 ; Do.
New, 114 ; Trent Valley, 75.
There have been no arrivals announced from the British
Colonies of later dates than those previously received.
In the Colonial and the Foreign Produce Markets the
attendance has been rather thin to-day, but still a fair
amount of business is doing. Anything like activity is not,
however, expected, until the Customs Bills have been de-
finitively settled by the House of Commons. Ministers
ought to be fully aware of the importance of an early adjust-
ment of all measures tending to influence or check commercial
enterprise. As respects the Canada trade, it is fully calcu-
lated that an excellent business will be carried on in the
present year. The stocks of lumber to be brought forward
are very large, the farmers and labourers in the colony are,
generally. speaking, doing well, and the emigrants going out
are principally parties of moderate means, so that the labour-
ing population of Canada are likely to be well employed this
year.
There were not any purchases by the Commissioners to-
day. Consols for Money have reached within per
cent. of par, but for Account they have not been
sold so high. The current value for both is now
994. The Three. and-a-Half per Cents. well support
their value. The premium upon Exchequer Bills has fallen
rather. Bank Stock is up to 197, and India Stock to 286. India
Bonds under 1,0001. command a premium of 925.
A shade of improvement may be noticed in the Spanish
Stocks, the Three's having touched 354 for the Account, and
the Consols 245 4. Portuguese are 5 per cent. higher, reach-
ing 47. In the Dutch, the Belgian, and other Foreign Bonds,
scarcely any variation has taken place since yesterday.:
In the Railway Share Market, the principal alterations
have been a rice in London and Birmingham to 125 premium,
and in the New, to 35 premium. Moat of the other Shares
were fiat. Bolanos Scrip has been sold at 6I; and the Union
of London Bank Shares, at 24 prem. per Share.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
•
Bank Stock 'pa% 191'
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ....... 98,4%
3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities .....« 9934%%
*4 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
New 354 per Cent. Annuities 1.2%%%
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. MC....
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1880.
India Stock
India Bonds,l,ooo ..... ••••• .............
Ditto under 1,000 92
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills, I%d. 134 d
1,0004 ..».«.».«.».«..... 92 pm.
5001.. . ..... . 72 pm.
Ditto .....
Ditto Advertised. ....
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent 103%
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Columbian Bonds. l4
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. .... ........ 35%
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. • •••
Ditto Converted 47

Spanish Bonds. Five per Cent 1840 24%
Ditto for the Account
Ditto Three per Cent. . ........ ....... ............
Ditto for the Account 35%%
Dutch 2% per Cents 614 61
Dutch 5 per Cents. 10034%34
New Loan 1837. 5 per Cents. 99%%
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Bristol and Exeter 7O 80% ...... to 79%
Chester and Holyhead ........ ....... 5
Dublin and Cashel ... 2% 6 to 5%
Eastern Counties
Ditto Perpetual 5 per sent l.3s. 4d.... 1
Great North of England IOO
Great Western ... ............... ...... 75 117%
Ditto i Shares 5O 75%
Ditto Fifths
London and Birmingham. IOO ..
Ditto New Thirds 2 .... ..... 37
London and Brighton 5O 464%4 to
Ditto Loan Notes
London and Greenwich
London and South Western ...... 41%
Ditto Eighths
London and Croydon
to
Manchester and Birmingham ... 40
Midland Counties 100
Dit o Shares
Ditto Fifths.
gm th Midland
Norwich and Brandon
South Eastern and Dover ..... .... 32% 36% ...... to 37%
Ditto New
York and North,Midland
Ditto Scarboro' Branch
Paris and Orlsans ..........." ..... .•• SO ••.....•• 31034 ••• to
Paris and Rouen 2O 39A
Rouen and Havre
14
Strasburg and Basle •...... W to -...
JOINT STOCK WANKS.
Union of London
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 23.—There has
been a slight improvement in our market to-day, and more
business has been done. Trent Valleys are in good request.
—Bolton and Preston, 29*; Eastern Counties, Perpetual,
No. 2, Ils. 6d. premium; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 66*;
Manchester and Birmingham, 54 ; Ditto, Quarter, 44 ;
Preston and Pyre, 19 ; Trent Valley, 6* i ; Manchester,
Birmingham, and Rosseudale, 6.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(TIIIS DAY).
LONDON, MAY 24.—Moderate northerly breeze, and fine.
DEAL, MAY 23.—Wind N.N.E—Arrd. Miner, Cape of
Good Hope ; Rosebud, Africa ; Europa, Havannah. Sld.
Columbine, Ichoboe ; Surrey, Newport and Grenada. The
Rapide, from Marseilles to Falmouth, ran on the Goodwin
Sands last night, lost masts, sails, rudder, anchor, &c , but
has been asssisted off and towed to Ramsgate by a steamer.
DOVER, MAY 23.—Sid. Buchanan, Quebec. It came on to
blow last night before tide time from N.E., and the Princess,
M'Chilland, beat heavily, but has been assisted off and into
the harbour.
OFF BEACHY HEAD, MAY 21.—Christian, Hansen, Bahia,
for Altona.
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 23.—Wind E. to S.E.—Arrd. her Ma-
jesty's ship Malabar, Cork.
PLYMOUTH, MAY 23.—Sid. Mary Ann, Ichoboe.
FALMOUTH, MAY 23.—Wind E.S.E., moderate.—Sld.
Syrian, Llanelly and Cape de Verds. Off, New York, Stoning-
ton, for Bremen.
BRISTOL, MAY 22.—Sld. Feliza, Trinidad ; Dochfour,
Quebec.
l'EszAsce, MAY 22.—The wind having shifted to E.S.E.
and S.E., the whole of the wind-bound vessels, exceeding
300 sail, have got under weigh.
GALWAY, MAY 22.—The Integrity, of Blyth, bound to
London, got on the bank after leaving the dock, and is dis-
c ch%rging her cargo. Sld. Leila, St. John's, N.B.
GRIMSBY, MAY 20.—Arrd. Neptune, Murray, Ichoboe.
OFF DUNANET POINT, DUNDALK, MAY 15.—Anne, of Aber-
deen, Africa, for Moray Frith.
OFF CAPE CLEAR, MIY 15.—Acadian, Savannah, for Li-
verpool ; Lord Lambton, Maranham, for ditto.
OFF CORK, MAY 20.—Hibbert, Bruce, Buenos Ayres.
CLYDE.—Arrd. Helen, Patter, Ichoboe.
MAY SWANSEA, 2o.—Sld. Sarepta, Cuba.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 23.—Wind E.N.E., moderate.—Arrd.
Hope, Maca o ; Lady Comberrnere, Africa ; Celia Large,
Richardson, Jamaica ; Countess Arran, Charleston. Sld.
George Canning, Rio; Elizabeth, Jamaica; Maranham, St.
John's, New Brunswick.
SHIELDS, MAY 22.—Sld. Richard, Ichoboe.

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.—This morning, about ten
o'clock, a young girl, named Elizabeth Masters, 12 years of
age, daughter of the housekeeper of Mr. Alexander, archi-
tect and surveyor, No. 9, John-street, Adelphi, whilst swing-
ing upon the stair bannisters upon the third flooring, over-
balanced herself, and fell head-foremost through the well of
the staircase to the stone flooring below—a depth of nearly
forty feet. When raised up, blood was profusely flowing from
her mouth, nose, and ears. A medical gentleman was
promptly called in, who, however, advised her immediate
removal to Charing-cross Hospital, where, on examination
by Mr. Hancock, the house surgeon, it was discovered that
she had sustained a violent concussion of the brain, a frac-
ture of the collar-bone, and other severe injuries.
DREADFUL MURDER.—When upon the point of
going to press we ascertain that the police have discovered
the bodies of a woman and three children, in a plantation,
near Coiwick, with their throats cut. They are identified as
the wife and children of a William Saville, of this town, who
was seen taking a walk with them in that direction, on Tues-
day morning last. The man is apprehended.—Nottingham
Review of this day.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges
the receipt of 10/. sent to him by some person unknown
for conscience-sake, which money has been placed in her
Majesty's Exchequer.