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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 127, 1850

cal character. Added to which the insolent personali-
ties showered upon that illustrious diplomatist and
statesman would of themselves be sufficient to
extort from the multitude a strong and ener-
getic counter-manifestation. Hence it is far
from being any matter of surprise to us that
upon the eve of the division about to take place upon
the motion of the Honourable and Learned Gentle-
man the representative of Sheffield, the public should
betray an anxiety to demonstrate the fulness of their
admiration for the patriotic Minister at the head of
the Foreign Department of the Government.
Everything throughout the recent debates, in the
Peers upon Lord STANLEY'S motion, and in the
Commons upon Mr. ROEBUCK'S—everything through-
out these discussions relating to the attacks
upon the Foreign Secretary has tended to
evidence the pitiful spite and rancour of the as-
sailants of the Noble Viscount, and to corroborate
the assertion of Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE, that a dis-
graceful conspiracy has been formed to oust her Ala-
JESTY'S Government. Several considerations combine
to impress this fact indelibly upon the general con-
viction. The mere circumstance of an alliance
suddenly being effected between parties in
the Legislature who cordially hate each other,
divulges an arriere Dens& of a dark and
sinister description. Then, again, the fligraet
falsehoods advanced in the way of argument against
the policy of Lord PALMERSTON afford full evidence
of the unprincipled nature of the antagonism to his
administration. The inconsistency, moreover, of
men such as the Right Honourable Baronet the
Member for Ripon, who four years ago spoke
favourably of the very question which now becomes
the object of their vituperation=, has about it a sig-
nificance such as requires no exposition whatever.
The truth is, we repeat, that an intrigue, the
like of which for baseness and turpitude has
never been surpassed, has been set on foot, to employ
the language of the Hon. and Gallant Gentleman
,the Representative of the county of Middlesex, by
Ministers of State in office and out of office, by
Kings with crowns and without crown 4, and he
would add, too, without character. Aided by politi-.
cal adventurers, struggling by every ignoble method
to secure their own selfish aggrandiz enent, even at
the expense of all national interests and of the commonest
decencies of society, these 'conspirators are plotting
to accomplish the expulsion from the Cabinet of a
ststesman in whose regard the feelings of the people
of England are cordial and enthusiattie. Blinded
by their own detestable ambition, these men appear to
forget thtt the great Minister of the Crown, whose
ruin they are striving to accomplish, was already fa-
mous throughout Europe, when many of them were
mere boys, and when the rest of them were crawling up
the lowest and dirtiest rounds of the social ladder. They
seem to Icse a le collection of the circumstance that
the popularity of Lord PALMERSTON is not a mere
ephemeral ebullition of civic caprice, that it has not
suddenly sprouted into existence out of simply eva-
nescent interest, but that it dates back its vitality
during the larger portion of half a century, that it
has grown to its present fullness and maturity from
the earliest days of the present generation of
statesmen, that, above all aed beyond all,
it has developed in strength and in perma-
nence by reason of a long series of glorious
and historical achievements. if for no other reason,
the foreign policy of Lord PALMERSTON would com-
mand the admiration of contemporaries and the
panegyzic of posterity, seeing that to its sageciry
alone, under GOD, is attributable the preservation of
peace throughout the world during two most terrible
and perilous periods of revolution. Immediately after,
the occasion of the great political explosion of the
thiee deys of July, 1830, and subsequently
immediately upon the occasion of the 'yet
greater political explosion of the three dat s
of February, 1848—it was the good fortune
of England to be represented among foreign
nations by the policy of Viscount PALMERt-
TON. That policy secured international peace to
Christendom when the whole surface of the European
continent 'was heaving with what Mr. AtasoN hes
powerfully designated the "mind-quakes" of revolu-
then. But for that conciliatory. policy Great
Britain must inevitably have become embroiled with
one or other of the great peoples then in a state
of bellicose exciteme n• E tpecielly during
the momentous epoch which followed the
grand democratic detonation of February, during
those months of alternate panic and enthusiasm, when
the princes of the earth were fugitives, when palaces
were pillaged, and thrones broken in the market-
place, and " the official holy of holies (to we the
expression of Mr. CARLYLE) was laid bare to dogs
and the profane"—then, more peculiarly than at any
other period, the wisdom of Lord PALMERSTON'S
foreign policy became apparent to the judgment of
the population. Imagine the consequences that
must have be fellen this country and the rest of the
nations of Chrhtendorn, supposing my Lord ABER-
DEEN had hell the seals of the ForeigWeffice during
the days immediately after the revolution of July
and the days immediately after the revolution of Fe-.
bruary ! Good GOD ! the mere conjecture is fraught
with the most frightful visions of calamity. How
the dupe of Louis Puuners, and the catspaw of
GUIZOT, and the obsequious accomplice of METTER-
NICH, could have escaped from being himself involved
in the troubles which overwhelmed those, his patrons,
masters, and panegyrists, it is somewhat difficult to
imagine. And the entanglement of ABERDEEN
would have been the entanglement of England, bad
the former at that period been unhappily at the bead
of the foreign department of the Government.
Hence it is, we repeat, that the people of England
are enabled to recognize the value of that system
of 'conducting our diplomatic relations which
empowered the illustrious statesman, her AI ,1-
..rssxe's present Foreign Secretary, to maintain
peace between Great Britain and the revolutionized
countries of Christendom, and to maintain that peace,
moreover, not only without any derogation of our
national dignity, but in a manner such as tended to
preserve, and enhance, and elevate the national inte-
rests and the national character. Never before, we
maintain, has England ridden so tranquilly through
such political tempests of revolution, and never before
have the name, and the fame, and the strength,
and the glory of England, been so conspicuous
over the whole globe as during these times of the
foreign administration of Viscount PALMERSTON.
Well, therefore, may that noble statesman challenge
the favourable verdict of the House of Commons, and
demand the reward due to his patriotic labours—the
formal approtial of the Legislature.

From every part of the country—north, south,
east, and west—from England, from Ireland, from
Scotland, from Wales, from the Land's End to Johnny
Groat's house, from the Giant's Causeway to
Cape Clear, from the shores of Galway to the
Humber—complaints, both loud and deep, are
occa-
sioned
fanatical, b y
absurd, the
pouring in of the -intolerable inconvenience, and of
the immense amount of Sabbath desecration, mea-
u culpableanaasyielding
webelieve, eolfi
etvhee,illegal
Ministry
demand
to th e
of the ASHLEY Sabbattarian.
squad for the abolition
of the Post-offi
ce delivery on Sunday. We yester-
day gave, on the
a •
utoority of Lord BROUGHAM, the
narrative of a caze in which
Sunday labour, and that
a labour of necessity, had b •
een fearfully increased in
consequence of the closing of the
Pest-office of Castle-
tan on Sunday last. We quote from ' tie columns of
a contemporary the following statement, addressed
him by one of his correspondents
" I b‘ve been in business for ma?), }ears. The shop
which I now conduct has been carried on by m:, self and
my father for above thirty ysars. In conjunction with
a respectable bJokselling and printing business we have
carried on an extensive newspaper agency, but during
the whole of that Limo WO have .never sold a newspaper
cr as much as a sheet of post on a Sunday. As in the
Case of other respectable country HeWsirneD, our Sunday
papers were addressed by a London agent direct to
the subscribns, and we visited them quarterly
for the. cash. Now, I must surrenaer this
branch of my business, which I cannot afford,
or commence Sunday trader; and I hale been obliged,
from the competition of ethers, to engage to-day
three messengers to deliver on A Sunday morning the
London papers to my subscribers. The other newspaper
agents are doing the same thing; so we shall have now
on a Sunday morning ten or twelve newsman at the least
running about the town delivering and hawking papers,
while Jour letter carriers have hitherto deove, ed ail the
lettqrs and newspapers for, the whole town, in much less
time. • •

" Another matter to be borne in mind is, that a new
branch of active Sunday traffic i.i opened, as our walla
ate placarded wits the addresses
,o competing agents,
-announcing the delivery.of_paperson a Sunday morning;
and there is scarcely au inn or beer-howem in tie town

but has been canvassed to take a Sunday paper under
this new paritsnical regime."
Thus we find that Sunday labour will be greatly
increased by the abolition of the Sunday Post-office
delivery, as it would be by the abolition of Sunday
baking. The Sunday baker cooks the dinners of
perhaps fifty poor families, and enables them to go to
church, when but for him they would have been
forced to stay at home to attend to the cooking of
their respective dinners; and the' employment of four
postmen in delivering letters on a Sunday morning
(and be it remembered this work is done by ten
o'clock, an hour before the commencement of Divine
service), sets twelve men at liberty who would other-
wise be employed the whole of the day. The measure
of Lard AsuLEY is not only absurd, not only fanatical,
but it is suicidal. We are rejoiced to find that the
proprietors •of the London weekly news-
papers, whose property will be confiscated
by the operation of this measure, are
bestirring themselves to procure the recall of the
obnoxious order : a meeting of the proprietors of
newspapers was held yesterday, at which petitions to '
both Houses of Parliament, praying for the restora-
tion of the Post-office Sunday delivery were agreed
to (the petition itself will be found in extenso in an-
other column), and we recommend that public
meetings should be held in all parts of the country to
protest against the order, and to petition for its repeal ;
but we fear that there is not time to hold these meet-
inga, so as to have the petitions emanating from them
presented to Parliament during the present session;
and unless some measure be • adopted before the
close of the present session to obviate the
evils arising from the stoppage of the Sunday
delivery, those evils will become intolerable be-
fore any remedy can be applied to them.
The comenon•sense portion of the nation look, there-
f.)re, in this their extremity to the Legislature to re-
pair the evil More it be too late ; and more
especially do they look to Lord BROUGHAM, who
has, to his honour be it spoken,' opposed
from the commencement, with the arms of elo-
quence, of sarcasm, and of reason, the insane
proceedings of the Sabbatarians, and the culpable
weakness of the Ministry in giving way to
the ratings c.f those madmen They trust, and
they be.s,,ech that his Lordship mill move an ad-
dress in the House of Lord., praying her MA-
JESTY to rtscind the or der prohibiting the
Sunday delivery of letters. The Ministers
in accordarce with an address "snapped"
From the House of Commons at the dinner hour, per-
petrated vs hat they themsAvEs cdinit to be an act of
illegal and criminal, because mischievou., absurdity ;
they cannot surely refuse to return to the ways of
common sense and of legality, is accordance with an
address from the House of Lords.

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THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
. The organs of the Elyses are any thing but well
pleased with the narrowness of the majority by which
tte dotatiou of the PRESIDENT W:IS carried; instead of
tending to reconcile the differences already existing
between the Bonapartist, Legitimatist, and Orleanist
fractions of the majority, the result has only tended
to embitter them. The Puuvoir, the acknowledged
organ of the Pausmesv, thus speaks of the result cf
the division :
When in order to put.an end to the orgies of the
Proeisioeal Government, France confided her fate to the
elect of the 10th December, she had naturally to 'com-
plete her idea by sending to the Lsgislutive Assembly
reprezentatires who would loyally and energetically
support the Preside at of the Repuotie. It is necessary
that the country should know that her hopes have beau
deceived. There is in the Assembly a flait ant and per-
manent idea of hostility against Prince Louis Napoleon
Bonaparte. France chose him to save her; the Assem-
bly only accepted him to nullify him until it could rid
itself of him. Such, in two words, is the slate of
etleirs in all its desperate reality. arid without
any manoeuvre being able to mask it from the eyes of
sincere men. The patriotism and loyalty of General
Changersier alone prevented that, deplorable hostility
from breaking out on Monday. Real political men,
those who know the value of public peace, confidence,
and general security ; these who would be the natural
:mitts of the Assembly, if passion, egotism, fanaticism,
and blindness would admit chiefs weighing with all their
reason and all their good sense on the Assembly, the
event everyday proves that they are powerless to master
and to lead it. Thus, while the country seeks fur re-
pose, for labour, and for order, some senseless men in-
cessantly strive to keep up a„,,ritatiori,• and to impel
rraace to fresh cummetion2. it is necessary that the
country should be made fully awcsre.ot this truth. It
would be in error if it thought that it had nothing to
fear but Socialism; it has still more to dread feons the
ine‘ssant labour of some men, whose ambitions and whose
raneours prevent the Government from consolidating
itself. This is not what they gave out to be pre-
sumed and to be feared at the period of the general elec-
tion!. They then proclaimed themse!vt's the support of
the elect of the 10th December, because that recommsn-
detion had a magical effect: then terror was general, and
every ono rallied to the work of safety. Now that
seeu-
rity is somewhat returned, these ungrateful men make
we of it against him who gave it to them. They act like
sailors who during a storm make a vow to the Madonna,
and who laugh at her when the danger is over. We do
not think that France will sutfr such conduct to be pur-
sued in her name, and it is for that reason we think it
necessary to point it out to her."
Although the Ponvoir speaks of the patriotism and
loyalty of General CHANGARNIER, the PRESIDENT and
hi friends are by no Loewe; pleased at the patronizing
tone which he assumed on the occasion, nor at the
haughty airs which he has since given himself. It
was only by a judicious admixture of threats, promises,
and coaxing that he was induced rat the last moment
to declare in favour of the Ministerial project. The
National says
"Several representatives of the majority who voted
yesterday against the dotation'ot the President, remark
in animated language that M. Changarmer, who yester-
day broke through his habitual silecce to urge the adop-
tion of the project of the Ely e had not ceased for a
week previously to advise the rejection of that same
project. M. Megnan has therefore, by his a! rival in
Paris, perfarmed a doubla miracle; he has loosed the
tongue of M. Cbangarnier, and operated a conversion.
The image of the Virgin which restored to Francine
Petitot the use of her legs is surpassed."
This shows the threats. Now for the coaxing and
the conditions. The correspondent of a reactionary
journal thus speaks of the, vote :
" Tee vote on the amendment Durn was car-.
ried by a charge of General Cliangarnier. The man-
ner in which this charge was executed is about to re-
ceive its reward by the removal from office of General
D'Hau.poul. It is also said that the Ely:é:is but mode-
rately satitied with the numerical amount of the
majority." •
It is considered as extremely probable that an ex-
tensive change will take place in the Ministry ; an
announcement in the Pouvoir that M. DE PERSIGNY,
who is at present in Paris, will not return to Berlin,
seems to confirm this rumour.
The Akbar of Algiers states that upwarsis of E 0
persons have been arrested at Oran, charged with
being implicated in a Socialist conspiracy.
The directors of the Bank of France have declared
a dividend of 50f. on their shares of I,oooi. for the
half-year ending the Ist of July next.
It is a curious fact that the PRESIDENT has been
enabled to obtain that which was always steadily re-
fused to Louis PHILIPPE, notwithstanding his intri-
gues and his corruptions—the KING asked for a do-
tation of 400,000 francs for the Duke DE NEMOURS,
and was refused.
At the sitting of the Assembly yesterday, several of
the Members complained that they had been repree
rented by the division lists, published in the Moniteur,
as having voted for the dotation, or as having
been absent when they had bean present, and
had voted against it. Among the complainants
was General LAMORICIERE, who remarked with great
emphasis that it was not the first time that such mis-
takes had been committed by the officers acting under
the superintendetice of M. Done; while M. Le-
Guar= observed that such mistakes had also been
invariably made in favour of the Minister. In the
lobby General LAMORICIERTI was even more severe
in his language than he had been in the tribune ; for,
pointing to the division lists in the Moniteur, he called
those around him to witness that he bad been falsely
set down among the lackeys of the Elyti.
PARIS BOURSE, JUNE 26.—Latest Prices.—Five
per Cents , 94f. 30c. ; Three per Cents., 561. 50c. ;
Bank of France, 2,175 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE. JUNE 26.
Luxembourg, 1--Ditto, 2%,—Rouen and Haver, 874.

Thus the Doke of MorivrF.Disten, whose only fault is
his being a foreigner, was three time insulted. The
royal party, visibly affected, quitted their box after
the death of the third
MADRID BOMA, JUNE 21.—Three per Cents.,
33i; Five per Cents., 12i. Exchange on London,
5030.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

The Cotton market at Liverpool, yesterday, was-very
animated, and with a good demand for export and specu-
lative business. The sales were estimated at 12,000
bales, of vihich one-half were Uteri for export and on
speculation. Brazil advanced id., and ord. and mid.
American were i. to id. per lb. higher, at which the
market c!osel firmly.—llailway Shares were flit, with
very little business doing.
The six weeks' average price of wheat is 40s. per
quarter, the highest point fur some time past.
It will obviously not be for want of industry if the
Cotton Market be not buoyed up to the highest possible
mark by the parties interested on the other side of the
Atlantic, and it is curious to watch their progress. A
leading broker at New York writes by the Atlantic
steatner:—

" My last report of this market was under date of the
4th inst., per Europa. The business transacted since has
indicated daily that confidence in the stability of present
prices is wide spreading, and the class of buyers operat-
ing now are those who have all the season stood clear
of the article, believiug at first in the existence of a
crop three hundred thousand bales more than cat be
realised by draining the interior towns; and
when that obstacle was removed: they telt
it was unsafe, because bills bad been made early against
an.unesual propel t'on of the receipts, and in the ability
of European spinners to abate the manufacture, or, as
they term it, the consumption of the article, they kad no
question, and predicted we should certainly feel the pres-
sure as soon as they had definitely assured themselves that
the crops was determined, and in the ports, as without the
aid of the foreign market our commission houses would
not dare to try the experiment of holding supplies until the
people called fJr goods so ravenously as to force dealers
to purchase small quantities of first hands, on what,
was to be, a falling market. From all that we can
learn on this side, spinners are more astounded at the
continued extent of the demand fur their goods from all
quarters of the globe, than they are at the actual short-
ness of the present crop, as it
.evidences that the real
consumption of cotton fabrics has overtaken
the production. They do not allow enough
for the vat yearly improvements in ma-
chinery, the great amount of the circulating medium,
and for the proportion that are gained by the low rate
of agricultural productions. Dealers are believed to
hold light stocks abroad, us for six months past they
were told weekly, by the highest authorities at Man-
che,ter, that cotton prices were unsafe, and must soon
fall on their own merits. Ia this country lam assured
that stocks in the hands of those who supply
the people are also light, as the impression here
was that it was a cotton fight, and, as usual,
the superior, capital of our trans-Atlantic brethren
would carry the day, and, consequently, the same stroke
f policy was acted on—purchase lightly. Now, the
people call for goods, and the cotton fight being at an
cad, the old-stagera appear at our cotton-offices, end'
confess their errors. believing that cotton has not yet
commenced to rise. Toe sales up to Tuesday, 11th inst.,
average-1 2,560 bales daily.
"In regard to the pro:..p.et of the next crop, I have
nothing to add to my respects of that date. 1 reiterate
these retnesks, and solicit you to note them particularly.
I could cite a volume cf reasons fur my conviction of
their accuracy. But as my deductions have always been
well within the subsequent Lets, I consider it unneces.
miry."

Ae.zotints from Antwerp state that some disorder had
occurred there upon a shiptnent of potatoes by an Eirv-
lish dealer, who has done a large business in the article,
a- d that part of the cargo was stopped on the quay, so
not to be in time for the Hull boat. The growers
thereupon sold the potatoes at two frs. per quarter hec-
tolitre, for which toe English shipper hau agreed to
give four frs.
The first arrival of herrings in Holland took place on
tle 23d intl., and as ti,ual a certain portion was home-
.lintAy sent to the King and the Alinisters. Dutch
Stock was rathf r flitter at Amsterdam on the 25th inst.,
the Two and-a-Hill per Cents. being 571.
The last wok's railway receipts, ascertained up to
this day, are in round figures as under:-
1850. 1849.
Great Western £l9 005 £19,171

N,,rth Western

44,262

South Western...

Brig%ton
Midland 22,647 22.456
South Eastern

CWedmian

6,071

5,76

The English Funds have been very dull, and there
is as little iluctua.ion as yestesday, although the feeling
is somewhat better as to the probtOle majority for
Ministers. Consols have been 95i to 96, and New
Thres.and-a- Qusr;er per Cents. 974 to 971,-. Exchequer-
bills are 693. prenniuna.
In the Foreign Market there is no activity. Spanish
Three per Cents. have been 38L and Portuguese Four
per Cents. about 35. Mexican Bonds are 30, and
Peruvian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. have been 78.
Dutch Two-and-d Half per Cente. are 58i.
Shares are steady.
QU.4RTER TO THREE.

Consols ... .. ...
Ditto Account ... ...

... 95i 96

ONE CLOSING
rnicEs OF BRITISH FUNDS O'CLOCK. PRICES.
03 t nut. It...duvet% Anus ... 96V/2 9614
2,1*.;:v; 314 pnemt. Amis.- ........... 97 3i, % 97 %
...ong Allll6. t.o expirnJan.lB6o 8 3-16 814 6L/4
ntlia Bonds, 1,000[.... . 90 p
...... 90 p

Coaaols for Account 95% 96
• •

'cell equer Bills. i 1,? I. de 2d
1,0001. June 69 p
5001. June -
Sm3ll. June —

69 p
67 p
70 p
CLNING
PRICES.
90
18j

ONE
O'CLOCK.

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.
razinan tionfis ...•
Grenada Batzds, 14 per Cent lBl4
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons—
Ditto, Es Jan. Coupons ....
Ditto. Account
Peruvian Bonds, 41/2 per Cent— 7B 77%
Ditto, Account . — 78i$
Ditto, Deferred
Russian Bonds ....,
Ditto, 414 pr Cent
Ditto Scrip —4% p
Spanish 5 per Cant. 1840 — 17%
Ditto, Account
Ditto. 3 per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in London.
.. .

Dutch iikper Cent.. IF2AlGDui.ld:B.u.sra::::
DONE CLOtSkINB%
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certineatee... 83% 88;$
PRICES OF
NAIF.WAY SHARES AT ONE. O'CLOCK. PRICE.;
A..)lrdeen
Caledonian ....
Do. New 101. Pref..— 10
Che ,ter and Holyhead... 50
Oub tin and Belfast June. 42 Vs
E'astarn Coup.ties... ..... 2u
Do., New Prtf.rerce,
6 ter Cent.....".... 10
Do. North. & Eastern,
6 per Cent.
Eastern Union, Class A
(late E.l. Shares) 25
_

Dc;. Scrip (6 per cent.) 20
East Lancashire
Eels Lincolnshire, guar.
6 per Cent.
i real. Northern
reat South. and West-
( (Ireland) ....
Ditto, Eighths ......
;mat Western 100
Ditto. New 171........ 15 ...
Hull an!, Selby .. ...... 50 ..... ....
t-sn can hire& Yorkshire 100 ...... 31 .. ...,„
Do. Fifths— ....... —.. 11% 1%%.. ......... 1%
Do. New, Gua. 6 per ct. 10
00. (W. Riding Union) 11% 2%. 2%
Leeds 4nd Bradford
London, Brighton, and
South C0a5t—......109

163/4

F3!A

D ii,_,
o.Guarant. pert.. 9 .....•
Landon and .1.7. Wovtern 100 1091434.141,4 lO9 LA
Ditto. Nr.w quarters 12 ...... 1274 13
Ditto. Fifths ..... . ..... 12 . .. 13 12%
Do. 101. (M. & B.) 0. 1 .... ...... .....
London &S.Welitnn ..1C0..... 594 59 59% 53% 59%
Midland
00., 501. Sharon ..... 30 ...... 33i..... ...... ... 3%

Do. Consolid. Bristol &
Birming., 6 per ct.... 100
!North British ... .... ... 25
North Staffordshire ... 171
tceading, Guildford, and
Reigate
Royston and Hitchin ... 4 %..... 51/a %... 5,4
Shrewsbury and &rill—. 1314...... dis. — dis
Ditto ditto. Class B. 9 ...... 634 dis. ..
Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 ...... 91/2 ... .. 9%
Shropshire Union
South Devon
South Erist,r, ..„„ 33l,{s —
Do., Registered No. 4 10
York, Newcasa, and
Berwick. .... ..—..—..... 25
Do. Newcastle Eaten. 20
Do. G.N.E.Prefertuce 8 ... —2%
York and North Midland 50
lia.V9 P. eFerenee ...... 10
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens... 20
Rouen and Havre ...... 20 ...... 834
Sambre and Meuse 2O .« .. 2%........

1514
9%
274
16%

6%
814

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, JUNE 27.—Wind at noon N.E., moderate
bran., and cloudy.
DEAL, JUNE 26.—Wind N.B. Arrd. Elizabeth
Jones. Callao; Highbury, Walker, Jamaica. Arrd. from
the River, Wellington, Hobart Town. Arrd. from
the ,River and aid. Bucephalus,, Madras; Maria Burns,
Maaritius.

DoVEE ROADS, JUNE 26.—Arrd. Calcutta, Callao.
PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 26.—Wind E.N.E. to S.S.E.—
Arrd. Bromleys, Ward, Sierra Leone, for London;
Southampton, Morgan, New York, and sld. for London.
COWES, JUNE 26.—Wind S.E.—Sld. Nell, Livesay,
Hobart Town.

PLYMOUTH, JUNE 26.—Wind variable.--Sld. Loyalist,
S. John's, No% fuuodland.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 26.—Wind N.—Arrd. Pobland,
Reminteria, Porto Rico. Sld. Berhampore, Calcutta;
John Bull, Bombay; Brandon, Fernando Po; Dabnada,
Callao; Lucy Sharp, Rio Janeiro; Ringdove, Jamaica;
Orbit, Quebec. Off por, Ivanhoe.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Notice of two buoys moored on the English Bank to
t')e E. of the Bar of Pernambuco._

The following has been received at Lloyd's from
Whitehall, by command of the Lords of the Committee
of Privy Council for Trade:—
" There are now moored to the East of the Light-
house of the Bar ..f Pernambuco, two buoys, one black
end one red, which show the p.,sitiozi of the English
s has a bell to warn incaution 11,:Ltik. Each of these buoy
ti,tv47,lt,,r* of its proximity; but in conrequp„cce of the
direction of the wind and the roaring of the waves, it
0311110; sopAetimes be heard except at a short distance.

The red buoy marks the Southern end of the utid Bank,
and the black one the Northern extremity thereof.
"To the East of the said buoys you can always safely
steer; but only at high water in middle tides can vessels
drawing ten feet water pass between thorn.
" To the South of the red buoy the navigation is always
fete and open to any vessel; but to the North. of the
black buoy there is barely a cbannfl by which vessels
can pass, having Bar pilots on board, as clasp to are
the Olinda Ileef,, or Banks.

''Post-CaptainCy, Pernambuce, April 9, 1850."

MARKET NE WS.-( THIS DAY.)

NZWG!TPt AND Iaita.IAZTEELALL. -
These markets were very inactive to-day, yet prices,
owing to the small supplies offering, were generally
supported. Beer, from 2s 01 to 3s 03; Mutton,
23 43 to 3s 63; Lamb, 3s 103 to_ss 03; Veal, 2, 63 to
3s 43; and Pork, 3s 03 to 4s Od per Blbs, by the carcase.
31.8:r VE.II-kit3l:loTsi!.
SHITHFIELD.—Meadow flay, 21 8s to 3/ 10s; Clover
ditto, 31 Os to 4/ 8s ; and Straw, 11 24 to 11 103 per
load. Supply but moderate, and trade dull.
CUMBERLAND.—AIeadow Hay, 2110., to 31123 Clover
ditto, 31 Os to 41 4s; sad Straw, 11 3s to ti 10 per
load. A full average supply, and a sluggish dimmed.
ViraingcHAPEL. -- Meadow Lay. 2/ Ss to 31 10s ;
Clover ditto, 3l Os to 4/103; and Straw, 112 s to 11 lOs per
load. Trade steady, at our quotations.
XISTr.ZAT IlLaatnr.
SOUTH4LL, JUNE 26.—Our market: was heavy to- lay
for each kind of stock, and prices had a downward ten-
dency.—Beef from 2s 103 to 3s 6d; Mutton, 3s to 3s 10d;
Lamb, 4s to 5s Od; Yea!, 2s 84 to 3s 4d; and Pork,
3s to 3s 61 per Sibs, to sink the OA
ROMFORD, JUNE 26.—The general demand was in a
very inactive state, and the quotations were not sup-
ported.—Beef, from 3s :to 3s 8d ; Mutton. 3s to 3s 10,1;
Lamb, 4s to 5s ; Veal, 2s 10d to 3s 43; and Pork,
3s to 3s 6.1 per 81bs. Suckling Calves, 18s to 22s ;
Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 20s; and Milch Cows,
with their small Calf, 161 to 181 each.
LEWES, JUNE 25.—Prime Beasts sold at full prices;
otherwise the demand rued heavy. Beet from 3s to 3s
103; Mutton, 3s to 4s; Lamb, 4s 43 to ss; Veal, 3s to
3s 4d per bibs.

•
CORN AVERAGES.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN'
For the Week ended June 20. ISSO. made up from the Kilt:lms of the
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales
per Imperial Quarter.
WUCAT. IBARLET.I OATS. RTE. REANq. I PEAS.
PRICE .. 140 s 5d 22% 8d 16. i 10.1 22s 6d I 2Gs 12G, 9d

DUTIES ON FOREIGNOOSZN.
wnEAT. I BARLEY. I OATS. SYR. I BEANS. 1 PEAS.
Is Od 13 Oct Is Od Is Oct Is Oct Is 0.1

PIUVY COUNCIL-(THIS DAY.)

The Jtaieial Committee of the Privy Council sat
again to-day for the purpose of hearing appeals and
.motions. Their Lordships s►at in the Council Chamber,
Whitehall, and the Lords present were Mr. Baron
Parke, the Judge of the Admit:ll:y Court, the Chanetl-
lor of the Duchy of Comma, sand Sir Edward Ryan.
Their Lordships, having disposed of the motions on
their paper, proceed( d to hear the further arguments in
the part-heard case of

DOOLUBDASS PETTAMBERDASS AND OTHERS V. RAMLOL
TUACKOORSEIDASS AND OTHERS.

This was tee appeal from the supreme Court of Judi-
cature at Bombuy, in an action to recover the awouet
of several wagers, f aay•six in number, which were
made between the appellants and respondents, who were
merchants and bankers rely extensively engaged in
trade at Calcutta, un the average price of Patna opium
ar the then ensuing putlic Government sale at Calcutta.
The appellants pleaded non aasumisit ; that they
were induced to enter into contracts through
the fraud and covia of the; remondents; and that the
average price per chest of the Patna opium sold at the
said public Government sale was an average price en-
hanced by and through the fraud, covin, and collusion of
the respondents. The respondents replied de injuria.
It appeared that prior to the year 1847 it hid been cus-
tomary to hold five Government sales of opium in each
year; the number of sales were, however, in that season
increased to nine, and the quantity of opium offered at
each 'sale was thus proportionably reduced. The first
Government sale of the season` was made on the 30th of
November, and upon that occasion the whole quantity of
Patna opium for sale was 1,690 chests. Ot this quan-
tity, however, the French Government had, by con ven-
den with the Government ef ludas the right to claim
300 chests to be withdrawn from the nalc, and to be
taken by the French Government at the average price
fetched by the rest. Previously to the sale it up.
peered that the respondents had made a large number
of time bargains at Bombay and Calcutta, and in
these bargains the average named ranged from
1,300 to 1,400 rupees per chest, up to nearly
1,800. In the contracts declared upon in the action,
the lowest average named was 1,387 rupees, and the
highest 1,775 rupees. In the great majority of instances
the respondents were buyers, or in other words, specu-
lated on the rise in the price. It was proved, however,
that in some instances the respondents were sellers, and
speculated upon the fell. The sale, as before stated, was
advertised to take place upon the 30th -of November, and
the representatives of several firms attended the sale to
bid on behalf of the appellants. On that day, however,
no sale of opium took place, owing to some parties
keeping up the bid iings for the first lot throughout the
whole of the day, and running it up to a preposterously
extravagant price; and the Government agent, finding
that those parties were determined to keep up the bid-
dings until night, was obliged to abandon the design of
Pelting at all upon that day. Immediately after the
failure of the intended sale the respondents, through their
representatives who had attended the sale, wrote to the
secretary of the Board of Opium. and offered 1,800 ru-
pees per chest for the opium. The sale was, however,
again advertised to take place upon the 7th of December,
with several new c•lnditions introduced, chiefly with
the view of preventing a recurrence of the interrup-
tion which had taken place upon the previous occasion.
Before the sale the agent of the French Government
claimed 300 chests. On the 7th Gf December the sate
took place; and it appeared from a list furnished by the
Government agent that, with the exception of seventy-
five chests purchased by a Mr. Pereira at the rate of
1,750 rupees per chest, the whole of aie:Patna opium was
purchased by the respondents at sums which made the
average price amount to rather more than 1,793 rupees
per chest. The average price at the sale was greatly
enhanced by the efforts of the respondents' agents. Mr.
Pereira, it appeared, had received orders from China to
buy, and was not limited as to price; he considered it to
be his duty to buy at any price, and stated tbar. for those
seventy-five chests he would have gong to 2,000 rupees a
chest, though he considered the price very high at
which he purchased. It appeared that the re-
pondents' representatives paid the Government for
the whole of the opium, excepting that pur-
chased by Pereira, and it must have required an
immense command of capital to.have enabled the respon-
dents to operate as they did upon the market, for the
sum paid by them to the Government exceeded 24 lakhs
of rupees; and soon after the sale, this very opium, or
at least a portion of it, was sold by them at 1,200 and
1,300 rupees per chest, so that to gain by such a transac-
tion, the number and extent of their wager contracts
must have been immense. Chief Justice Perry held in
the court below " that the respondents were not bound
by any rule of law, nor by the rules of morality received
amongst mankind at large, to disclose to the appellants
that they intended to make larger purchases now than
upon former occasions, and it was the appellants' own
l auk for not perceiving that circumstances in the present
case enabled the respondents to do so with effect. The
respondents must, therefore, have judgment for the
difference on the several contracts in the declaration."
It was from this judgment that the present appeal was
made.

The further arguments occupied their Lord hips the
whole morning.

ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
His Lordship the &leiter of the Mils sat in his
court, in the Rolls-yard, Chancery-lane, to-day, and
heard motions, none of which possessed any point of the
least interest except to the patties concerned.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.)
His Honour, after dispobing of the case of Bird v.
Luckie, heard motions and mimes, but no case calling
fur a special report came before the court during the day.