The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-15 00:00:00

HOLLAND.

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Tun HAGUE, MAY IL—The Handelsbad says:—
" We learn from an authentic source that the Go-
vernment does not intend to dissolve the Second
Chamber after the adoption of the electoral and other
organic laws which now occupy the States-General.
It is rather intended that there shall be a short session
in the middle of September. 'Eha First Chamber, on
the other hand, will be dissolved in order to its re-
election by the provincial states.—Jcurnal du Corn
merce, May 13.

TURKEY.
Accounts from Constantinople of the 27th ult.
state that the insurrection in the Island of Samos
had again broken out. Disturbances have also oc-
curred at Bagdad and in the Syrian cities.

THE lONIAN ISLANDS.
The Gazetta di Corfu of the 27th ult. publishes a
Parliamentary resolution, confirmed by the Lord
High Commissioner, by which all goods transported
by the Austrian Lloyd steamer from Corfu, Cepha-
lonia, and Zante are exempted from the Customs duty
of five per cent. formerly imposed.

MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT, MAY 14.—The
intelligence by the Atlantic has had a very depressing effect
on to-day's market. It has sent up the price of yarns 1,01.
to iya d., and in some instances even more, over the rate of
this day week. The consequence has been an almost total
stagnation in the yarn market. Except for the East India
market (numbers ranging from 50's up to 90's and 100's,
upon which of course the advance in the price of cotton is
not so much felt) few purchases have been made. In lower
numbers, unless it may be for the completion of pressing
orders, under contract, little or nothing has been done. The
goods market has experienced little alteration in prices. The
demand for shirtings is tolerably good, 36 and 40-inch T
cloths are dull of sale, and decidedly unremunerative.
TREASURE TROVE.—Exactly twelve months since
we announced the fact of a large amount of treasure being
found in an old clipper, bought by two watermen after being
engaged in the coal trade, but which craft had been captured
several years previously when engaged in that abomicable
traffic the slave trade. It gives us great pleasure in an-
nouncing that the same good luck has fallen to the share of
her Majesty's steam-sloop Cormorant, Commander H.
Schomberg, one of whose prizes, an empty slave barque of
382 tons, arrived at St. Helena on the 6th March last, in
charge of Mr. G. C. Smith, master's assistant of the above
steam-sloop. The barque had had a tedious passage of
forty-eight days from the Brazils, but the voyage was
somewhat enlivened by the discovery of between five and
six thousand dollars headed up in a farinha cask. She was
the third prize made since the Cormorant arrived on the
station, but the first sent to the prize court at St. Helena for
condemnation, the others being burnt, unseaworthy.—Nau-
tieal Standard.
POST-OFFICE NOTICE.—The following notice has
been sent to the deputy-postmasters, by command of the
Postmaster-General:—General Post-office, May 12, 1850.
It is found that many postmasters still forward, on the
Saturday night, in their "London through" bundles, letters
and newspapers which ought to be kept over for the dispatchto London of the following day, viz., letters for London and
the London district; letters for foreign parts; inland letters,
prepaid by money; unpaid letters; letters for Guernsey and
Jersey; and newspapers. Particular attention must be paid
to the previous instructions, which direct that the " London
through" bundles are to contain none but stamped forward
letters, and the State's or Government letters. No registered
letters, unpaid letters, or letters pre-paid by money, or news-
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of certain facts brought to light a few days back by a brick-
layer and his labourers in their repairs of a house. It ap..
pears that whilst these men were at work a young woman
opened a window, and communicated to them that she had
been imprisoned in a room at the top of a house for several
years and treated as a lunatic by her relations, and that her
incarceration was in consequence of certain claims to pro-
perty under her father's will. The report made by the
bricklayer and his men caused considerable sensation in
the town, and in consequence of what transpired the business
was brought before the magistrates, who, after an investiga-
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Senior class—Gold medal—George Edmund Smale, Ply-
mouth. Honorary certificate—William Thomas Bell, Great
Grimsby. Junior class—Silver medal—Robert Brudenell
Carter. Anatomy and Physiology—Senior class—Gold
medal—Alonzo Henry Stocker, Chelsea; George Edmund
Smale, Plymouth. Chemistry—First silver medal—William
Horder Sheppard, Shaftesbury. Second silver medal—Tho-
mas Busby Jeffs, Finsbury. Forensic Medicine—Silvei
medal—Alonzo Henry Stocker. Honorary certificate—
Bernard Charles Beale, Bow. Botany—Silver medal—
Alonzo Henry Stocker. Honorary certificate—William
Henry Harris, Barnstaple; Owen Jeffries Llewellyn, Pad-
dington, Devon.
PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.—A meeting of' the
Bethnal-green Reform Society was held on Monday evening,
at the Norfolk Arms, William-street, Bethnal-green, which
was numerously attended; Mr. Joseph Dean in the chair.
Mr. Hackman, one of the delegates to the National Reform
Conference, made his report, which was approved and
adopted. The meeting then proceeded to take into consi-
deration the principal objects of the society, which were to
obtain the elective franchise for all persons living in houses
for which the landlord pays the rates and taxes, without the
necessity of claiming to be rated to every rate made during
the four quarters of the year. The chairman stated that a
Bill had been prepared by Sir William Clay to remedy the
evil, who was now in communication with the Government
and the law officers of the Crown on the subject Mr. Wick-
ham urged upon the meeting the importance of watching
most closely the progress of this Bill, which there was too
much reason to fear would be rendered nugatory by the Go-
vernment officials. The meeting resolved to act upon Mr.
Wickhanes suggestion.
SIR R. PEEL AND MR. KEARSEY. Mr. Kear
say having written to Sir Robert Peel that be had been
seventeen years a farmer, and yet never earned so much dur-
ing that time as in the seventeen last months since he be-
oame a trader, Sir R. Peel has caused the following reply to
be sent :—" John Kearsey, Esq., Warnford, Bishop's Wal-
tham, Hants.—Sir,—l am directed by Sir Robert Peel to
acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 30th March,
and to thank you for its communication. You observe that
you gained more money in seventeen months' trading than
you had gained in seventeen years' farming of a good es'ate
in Barks, of 5,0001. stocking, and that farming has long been
an unprofitable trade. During the seventeen years of farm-
ing to which you refer, or a very considerable portion of the
time, there were high duties on the import of foreign agri-
cultural produce, and yet they did not avail to secure you
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Drayton Manor, April 8."
INSPECTION OF THE HOUSESIOLD TROOPS.—(THIS
DAY.)—The fineness of the weather this morning attracted a
vast crowd of spectators to witness the inspection of the
Household
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the Duke of Cambridge, Colonel of the Coldstream Guards,
and a brilliant staff of officers. The troops looked extremely
clean and healthy, and went through their evolutions with
marked precision and nicety.
PETTY SESSIONS CLERKS (IRELAND).—PrOIn a
return ordered by the House of Commons it appears that the
number of petty sessions in Ireland is 595, which furnish
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for the liquidation THE RUINOUS BILL SYsTism.--Lieutenant Arthur
William Twiss, of the Royal Artillery, was yesterday dis-
charged by the Insolvent Court, on condition that he should
appropriate a certain sum from his pay
his debts. The cause of his insolrviseonnc.y iTvahsethjeewaccbeipllt-adnics-e
onfanvtaßriouusrchaermwmhoodaistioanlsobililas forp a brother officer, Lieute-
nant
obtained, by this abominable system, from these
young men bills and securities to the amount of 775/, the
money advanced for which amounted to only 801. The trans-
actions only extended over the space of a year.
At the Lambeth Police-court yesterday the corps
dramatique of a penny theatre, recently opened in Lock's.
fields, were sentenced to 20s. fine, or fourteen days'
ment each, for performing without a licence.
Sidney Robert Sparkes and Charles Stanley,
alias Nixon, charged with having in various instances ob-
tained money under the false pretence of providing persons
with situations—with being, in short, keepers of a sham
agency office—were yesterday remanded from Bow-street.
Mr. Jardine refused to admit them to bail.
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THE WEATHER.—The mean daily reading of the
barometer in the past week at the Royal Observatory,
Greenwich, was 29'577. The mean temperature was 46'7
deg., and was less by 5.4 deg. than the average of the same
week in seven years. On every day it was less than the
average, but especially on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
and Thursday, when the decrease was from seven to nine
degrees. The wind was generally in the north-east and
south-west.

The body of a Custom-house officer, named Sta-
pleford, whose disappearance from the Dutch brig Pallas, at
Portsmouth, about two months since, caused considerable
excitement was picked up floating near the shore off Hayling
Island, on Sunday last.
In the Bankruptcy Court yesterday Mr. Commis-
sioner Fonblanque adjourned the examination of Henry Rose
sine dic, and refused him protection for a single hour. The
bankrupt had carried cm business in Manche§ter ad a breNTIN

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Co, ton it Liverp rol yesterday were esti-
mated .at 6,000 bales, of which 1,000 American were
taken for export, and 3,000 on speculation. The market
closed firmly with American nearly id. per lb. higher.—
The market for Railway Shares opened firmly at termer
rates, but closed rather heavily.
In the Corn Market t e-day prices are firm.
A larger demand has arisen for Saga-, and the quota-
tions are better supported.
The public sales a Indigo, comprising 12,214 chests,
began last evoning, and are proceeding rather quietly.
The qualities of the Bengal, as we are Advised by Messrs.
Wilkinson and Jewesbury, well-known brokers in the
trade, are about three, fourths middling and ordinary,
and one-fourth good and fine; the Madras ow-third
ordinary, and two-thirds good and fine; the ICurpab,
two-thirds middling ordinary, and one-third good and
fine; the Java very fine; the;Manilla ordinary, with one
or two chests good; the Bombay very ordinary. The
room presented rather a thin attendance both of
foreign and home buyers. The sales opened
with a parcel of fine Bengal, consisting of 306
ohests of the mark I. and R. W., and was about
half sold at .3d. per lb. above January rates; prices were
from 3s. 9d. to ss. 4d. per lb.' but without competition;
there was only one chest at the former price, the chief
proportion ranging above 4s. 9d. per lb. The advance
upon Kurpah and Madras has been full 3:!. to 4d. per lb.,
and these rates ruled throughout yesterday. 1,187 chests
Passed yesterday, of which 217 were withdrawn, 210
bought in, and 760 sold.

IC is understood that the Canada Reciprocity Bill,
which was some time since re-eommitt94l to the Com-
mittee on Commerce, in the United States Legislature,
will be again reported to the House, together with a
correspondence between the Committee on Commerce
and the Secretary of State, and between the Secretary
of State and the British Minister, in which the British
Minister communicates to the American Government
his power to pledge the British Government to open the
river St. Lawrence and the adjacent canals, to Ameri-
can citizens and to American shipping. This cor
respondence was instituted by the Committee on Com-
merce, to avoid the necessity of introducing into the
Reciprocity Bill any feature which could make this Bill
in itself a measure of reciprocity with the Imperial
Government, and thus open the same privileges
to other nations with which the United Sates have
commercial treaties containing the clause commonly
called " the most favoured nation clause," that is, the
clause which promises to put the nation with which the
treaty is concluded on the terms of the most favoured
nation. The pledge of the British Minister is considered
full and satisfactory, and the whole region of the north-
west is deeply interested in this privilege.
The unfair and shuffling conduct ofcertain of the direc-
tcri of the Madrid and Valencia Railway excites the
highest degree of indignation in the City, but does not
discourage the shareholders in their belief of ultimate
and entire satisfaction fur past disappointments. A
party interested writes as follows:

"Sir,—As you have in your valuable paper ex-
posed the proceedings of the Madrid and Valencia
Railway Company, I expected before now you would
have stated what steps have been taken against the di-
rectors, individually and collectively, to secure the
110,0001. they have to account for, according to a stat -
ment published by a Mr. E. H. Lindo, the only item in
which it appears to me they can object to is the 9,000/.
for interest on the 75,0001., for if they have been using
the money for their own purpose, they may not like to
pay interest for it. All that has yet been shown against
it is, the secretary swears that about 3,000 shares have
been bought in with the company's money, at about 11.
per share. Mr. Waley committed a gross error in do.
Glaring that part of the 3,700/. received from the
hank was taken to pay the six millions Spanish
stock, the cost of which is charee3 in the
account rendered to the 31st of December, 1846.
Nor can it 1 e supposed the Spanish Government
would give up one security before it had another. The
secretary declares Mr. Chadwick received the interest
on that stock, which is about 1,9001. per annum. Care
should be taken to prevent any of the directors getting
out of the jurisdiction of the court. Let them prove
their set-off to the account. As to Mr. Rose's claim, it
is all fudge; when his account is examined it will b.
found Mr. ~ his kind Lather-in-law, has overpaid him,
for the company cannot have to pay for Paulson, Wells,
Neale, and others; he must look to his clients. As to
the books, they are of minor consideration after Mr. L.'s
plain account; probably they may only be duplicates of
the North Wales Company's. It is therefore to be
hoped that the official manager and his solicitor will
lose no time in securing the large amount proved to be
due by all the directors.
" May 15, 1850.

" A SHARER LDER."

We adverted a few days since to the imperative ne•
cessity of a generous line of policy being adopted to-
wards the railway companies, which are nearly crushed
by improvident engagements formerly contracted, and it
is highly pleasing to see that the holders of Caledonian
preference retook have come f rrward to set an excellent ex-
ample by a voluntary sacrifice of part of their indisput-
ableclaims. The difference to them may notprove serious,
but to the company it will be moat valuable, and we
trust the other guaranteed creditors will act in a like
spirit.

The Funds are very steady, and the signal defeat of
the Protectionists counteracts the still unsettled cha-
racter of the French news. Consols are 96* to 4 for
Transfer, and 961 for Account. Exchequer-bills are
68s. to 71s. premium. atnk Stock is firm at 206 f.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Five per Cents. are
17i and the Three per Cents. 37*. Another good
remittance, about 70,000 dollars, is advised as being on
board the " Medway" steamer, for the dividends on
Mexican Bonds, which are now quoted 29* Peru-
vian Active have touched 74i and 75+.
Railway Shares are not fully supported, but look well
generally.

QUARTER TO THREE.
Consols 96i
Ditto, Account, June 12 ... 96;
BRITISH FINDS THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock 206%
S per Cent. Reduced Annuities
11 per Cont. Console Anna
Now 31,,( per Cent. Anus.
Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 3 -16 84
India Stock
Do. Bonds, 10001 Bll 90 p
Ditto under 1.0001
South Sea Stock 1063
Consols for Account
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A.xchsquer

2d.
June.
68 71p
68 71

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