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LONDON, FRIDAY. MAY 3, 1850.

Having been so decisively defeated on the second
reading of the County Courts Extension Bill, the
Government have acted judiciously in relinquishing
any further direct opposition to the principle of that
most salutary measure. We fear, however, that
there is still a strong inclination to neutralize the
advantages to be derived therefrom, and to prevent
the attainment of cheap and expeditious justice. If
some of the suggestions that were offered should
be; adopted, the new law, in place of being regarded
as a boon to the community, would speedily be looked
upon in a very different light, and be considered as
a curse rather than a blessing by the great body of
the
people,

Ono of the most valuable provisions of the Act for
the more easy recovery of small debts and demands
was that which empowered the judge to make orders
for the payment of the debt at any future time or by
instalments. He was enabled to inquire into tne . .
cumstances of the defendant, to ascertain whether be
required, and was deserving of, any indulgence; and,
in cases where, after a strict and searching investiga-
tion into his resources, and the mode in which tha debt
if he thought proper, extend
wascontracted, he might,
a certain degree of protection to the honest butunfor-
tunate debtor, and prevent an exasperated creditor
from gratifying his malicious and vindictive feelings,
to his own serious injury, and the absolute ruin cf
his victim. One of the greatest objections to the
principle of " arrest for debt," in cases whore it now
exists, is, that it makes the creditor judge in his
own case. No opportunity is permitted of dis-
covering whether the defendant is really deserving
of punishment, or whether his default arose through
unavoidable misfortunes, from CAMS/ wholly beyond

his own control, Many important changes have
recently been brought into operation, but the great
principle has never yet been sanctioned, that no man
should be deprived of his natural liberty, and
prevented from earning his daily bread, and
also of obtaining means for the gradual liqui-
dation of his liabilities by his own honest
industry, except upon a full hearing of
the case by a competent tribunal, and a
well-considered sentence of incarceration. Facilities
are undoubtedly afforded for his getting out of cus-
tody after he has been arrested, and in certain cases
obtaining protection against an anticipated arrest.
But the mischief is invariably incurred, in the first
instance, before assistance can be rendered, a de-
fective state of the law that should he forthwith
amended, if there be any truth in the old adage that
" prevention is better than cure."
It has now, however, been proposed that the exer-
cise of this most beneficial discretion should be ma-
terially restricted ; that it should not be permitted
in cases where the defendant, or any one of the de-
fendants, was a trader within the meaning of the
bankrupt laws, and also in cases where the claim
arose upon foot of a bill of exchange or promissory
note. The Hon. Gentleman who had charge of the
Bill being taken by surprise, the usual notice not
having been given, declined to pronounce any opinion
on these questions, which it was understood
would be considered on another occasion. We
trust, however, that Mr. FITZROY will resist these
mischievous and impolitic suggestions with all his
strength. If unfortunately they should receive the
legislative sanction, the Act will become an instru-
ment of the greatest oppression to the small traders
and shopkeepers, who will be placed completely in the
power of the wholesale dealers by such a provision.
Judgment can then be more easily obtained than at
present; the costs will be comparatively,; trifling ;
and in case of any differences as to the quality
or value of the goods supplied, the cre-
ditor will freely resort to litigation, more
especially if the judge should not have it
in his power to prevent the issuing of immediate
execution. The only effect of the provision with re-
spect to bills and promissory notes would be, that all
creditors would, as is the case in Franee and other
parts of the continent, compel their debtors to give
notes of band, and thus the most useful portion of the
law would be completely evaded. So firmly are we
convinced of the great and incalculable evils which
would follow, that we should rather see the Bill itself
rejected than the amendment carried.
Another point in which the measure is seriously
imperilled is the attempt made to give a concurrent
jurisdiction to the superior Courts in certain cases.
Wherever the option is allowed to the plaintiff, or
practically, to the plaintiff's attorney, the more ex-
pensive tribunal will be resorted to. Day after day
we hear loud complaints of the necessity of going
before the local court, and thus diminishing the
remuneration of the professional gentlemen
on either side. And wherever any privilege,
or fancied privilege, enables the party to
sue in the Courts at Westminster, it is invariably
taken advantage of. It was but yesterday that a case
was heard before Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS, in
which the original debt was 2/. 135., and the costs no
less than 111.135., the creditor, who was an attorney,
having claimed the right of bringing his action in
the Court of Common Pleas. Is it not, then,
palpable what would be the inevitable result of giving
the concurrent jurisdiction demanded by some Ho-
nourable and Learned Gentlemen, or restricting the
operation in certain cases, as desired by the
principal Law Officer of the Crown and the Hon. and
Learned Member for Pontefract ? There is indeed,
we fear, a determination on the part of legal practi-
tioners of both branches of the profession, as well
within as without the walls of Parliament, to resist
the progress of the measure in every possible way.
There are, it is true, some honourable exceptions.
The Hon. Members for Sheffield and Southampton
are deserving of the highest approbation fur
their disinterested and patriotic conduct on
the occasion. The former Learned Gen-
tleman graphically described the improper
influence resorted to, and the pressing solicitations to
which he was subjected, even on his way to the
House, and administered the castigation which he is
so capable of inflicting on those who had the inde-
cency to assail an independent Member of Parliament
in so improper and unjustifiable a manner.
The further consideration of the measure has
been postponed until the 16th instant. There is also
a Bill to be introduced for Ireland—a matter elicited
by the Hon. Member for Athlone, who has also taken
a broad and patriotic view of the subject, regarding
rather the interests of all classes of his countrymen
than of the profession of which he is a distinguished
and eminent member. We trust that the propositions
will receive the full and attentive consideration which
their vast importance so imperatively demands, and
that the reasonable expectations of the people may be
satisfied by the establishment of an improved system,
by which cheap and expeditious justice may be placed
within reach of even the humblest members of the
community.

Baffled in their attempt to subvert the present
commercial policy of the Government through the
medium of Parliament, the Protectionists have lat-
terly been dedicating their energies to the develop-
ment of a general agitation among the agricultural
districts ; and yesterday, conceiving, possibly, that
their political pear bad sufficiently ripened, they pre-
sented themselves before the Home Secretary in the
guise of a most formidable deputation. Among them
w ere all sorts of energetic monopoly- men, in Parlia-
ment and out of Parliament, peers and commoners,
orators and pamphleteers, marshalled by That redoubt-
able friend of the farmers, his Grace the Duke of
RICHMOND. What they desired to attain was, of
course, a mere trifle in its way—their aspirations
being as moderate as their opinions are decidedly
rational. They wanted the dissolution of Parliament
—nothing more—and to this end came armed with a
whale shoal of addresses, loyal to be sure, but im-

pertinently energetic into the bargain, beseeching
her Most Gracious MAJESTY to grant this boon, as
an act rather of regal justice than of royal benefi-
cence. We scarcely know which most to admire,
the cool and almost sublime impertinence of the re-
quest, or the unconscionable stupidity of the
whole proceeding. Mr. Daiwa.' would have

nothing to do with it : no, his sagacity spared

him any participation in a movement so intolerably
absurd and preposterous. Neither would Lord Srix•
Liz lend to it the lustre of his high name and bril-

liant reputation. The two great leaders of Protection
shrank from any association whatever with this
wretched little awkward squad of the monopolists.
They were shy of the whole scheme ; and, wise in
their generation, allowed the noble band of adven-
turers
of the togo
blundering on among
the official resi-
dences Administration. _ .

If anything bad been required to show that it is
all up with the cause of Protection, the fact would
have been verified by the wonderful fully of yester-
day's deputation to the
of Home Secretary. It was the
last miserable failure a fantastic agitation—a
baulk on the brink of the
Curtian abyss of mono-
poly—the spiking of the laic
pop-gun of the agricul-
turists. What ! a demand
seriously made to the
S az for n of the existing Parlia-
ment,ve IG
at period when the country is betraying the
o: the dissolutio e
portents—and not only the portents,
but the actual
sperity ? Why,
gl
existence—of an unusual degreeroenptre, o
the veriest blockhead in all un
hand is aware
that such extraordinary measures u
solution of Parliament are only warratnete dsudden dis-
solution
and perilous extremit by a very
Y. aye we the indi-
cations deny such extremity •
Just now ? On the con-
trary, do we not recognise the tokens of an improve-
ment
nut alone restricted to the
manufacturing loca-
lities, but visible, more or less, throughout the whole
of the agricultural districts ? According to the
statement of that official whose sensitive and prac-
tised hand is ever on the national pulse, and
whose intellect is ever estimating the number,
the velocity, and the firmness of its triple
throbs—births, marriages, deaths—according to
the statement of the Registrar-General, the country
evinces in the diminution of the annual mortality,
and it. the increase of domestic alliances, a very large
and very perceptible improvement. Yet it is at this
pArticular period of returning, and, to a certain ex-
t t , of positively returned prosperity, that the awk-
wardD4o e n
squad
• ...Taoia,
MAJESTY, through her Secretary
for the goals Department, to piano the whole

country into a state of doubt, confusion, and anxiety,
by a sudden and peremptory dissolution of the
Imperial Parliament !
Apart from the considerations arising from the very
conclusive statistics of the Registrar-General, there
are others, equally demonstrative of the folly of these
agricultural malcontents, derivable from the humane
and beneficient enterprise recently set on foot by
the illustrious PRLNCE CONSORT : considerations
which should, if only from feelings of
common decency and ordinary gratitude, have
retarded the onward movement of yesterday's depu •
tation. It should have been borne in mind by these
Protectionist grumblers, that at the very time they
betrayed such solicitude to embarrass the Royal
Councils by requiring a dissolution of Parliament,
and a consequent ousting of the Administration, the
august husband of our QUEEN is striving, with no
small toil, zed with no trifling assiduity, to ensure a
yet larger amount of national improvement, by co-
operating in the effort he has himself had the glory
of commencing, that of a grand cosmopolitan exposi-
tion of the, industrial products of civilization ! Only
yesterday, precisely at the time when the deputation
of cantankerous monopolists waited upon Sir GEORGE
GRaT to demand the dissolution of Parliament, an
important meeting was holden in the borough of
Marylebone for the purpose of promoting the objects
now being carried into effect by the Royal Commis-
sioners. And it was there observed by the Hon.
Gentleman the representative of the West Riding of
Yorkshire, " I would not wish to flatter any one ;
but I do not hesitate to say that his Royal Highness
has done three times as much as any other man in the
promotion of these objects, whilst from this time
until next year he will have more mental anxiety,
daily labour, and perplexing toil than any working
man in the United Kingdom." Hence it was that
Mr. CONDIN exclaimed in conclusion, " I would
rather be Prince ALBERT, associated with this exhi-
bition, than the Prince EUGENN, OT MARLBOROUGH 01
history, associated with the battle- fields of victory."
Another and a venerable orator has already
remarked upon the same occasion—" It was the
glory of PearcLas that he restored the Parthenon
and patronised PLUDIAS, but his glory was darkened
by his private vices and public ambition. AUGUSTUS
boasted that he had found Rome brick and left her
marble, but the blaze of that glory was merely to
blind the people to the murder of the Triumvir and
the death of the greatest of Roman orators. Loaesizo
embellished Florence and cultivated literature, but
he never gave to Florence the liberty he had despoiled.
What PERICLES did from pride, AUGUSTUS from
policy, and LORENZO from craft, our own Prince has
undertaken to benefit those whose welfare he has ever
had at heart." Yet it is at this identical period, when
the illustrious consort of the SoviallaN is endeavouring
to increase the already advancing prosperity of Great
Britain, that the Protectionists are striving to involve 1,
the Councils of the Queers in difficulties by demand-
ing from her Most Gracious Ma.rarrr the immediate
dissolution of Parliament. The proceeding says
as little for their good taste as it does for their
judgment.

HER MAJESTY'S HEALTH.
The following bulletin of the Queen's health was
issued this morning :
" BUCKINGHAM PALACE, MAT 3, 1850, 9 A.m.
" The Queen has slept well.
"Her Majesty and the infant Prince are going on
quite favourably.

"JAMES CLARK, M.D.
"CHARLES LOCOCK, M.D.
"ROBERT FERGUSON, M.D.

Tllll NAME OP nig YOUNG PNINCE.—The Court
Circular of yesterday announced that his Royal Highness
Prince Albert honoured the Duke of Wellington with a
visit at Apsloy House on Wednesday. It is now understood
that his Royal Highness did so at the express desire of her
Majesty, in order to convey to the Noble Duke the intima-
tion that it was her Majesty's gracious intention to have the
newly born Prince baptised by the name of " Arthur," as
a testimonial of her high personal regard for his Grace, and
in commemoration of the great and important services he
had rendered to his country. It will be remembered that
the day in question was also the natal day of the Noble
Duke, which gives a farther interest to this determination on
the part of the Queen.
Metiaiox-iirouso.—Last evening the Lord Mayor
and Lady Mayoress entertained a portion of the civic corpo-
ration, viz., the Common Councilmen of the following wards
and their ladies :—Aldersgate, Aldgate, Bassishaw,
Bishopegate, Bread-street, Bridge, Broad-street, Can-
dlewick, Castle Baynard, Cheap, Coleman-street, and
Cordweiner. Nearly all the inhabitants of his Lordship's
ward (Bassishaw) were invited, including the inquest, Lady
Bacon's Trustees, Bassishaw Club, and Bassishaw Friends
Club. Covers were laid for 300. The vocal department was
under the direction of Mr. Hobbs, assisted by the Misses
Messent and Bamford, the Messrs. Bodda, Young, Land,
Machin, and Genge, who during the evening enlivened the
company with various songs, glees, &c. The party broke up
at a late hour.

He that neglects the culture of ground naturally
fertile is more shamefully culpable than he whose field would
scarcely recompense his husbandry.—Eliza Cook's Journal.
DISASTROUS OCCURRENCE ON THE RIVER.—Loss
OF Two L/VE3.—On Wednesday evening, between five and
six o'clock, a pilot-boat was run down on the river Thames,
opposite the entrance of the Surrey Canal, by the Nymph,
Woolwich steam-boat, on her passage up the river, and two
watermsn, named James Allen and John Polker, belonging
to Rotherhithe, lost their lives.

LONDON CITY IMPIOVEMENTS.—Yesterday this
measure, promoted on petition by the Corporation of London,
was opened in Committee. The metropolitan improvement
proposed to be effected is that of making a new street to
commence on the west side of Queen-street, crossing Bow-
lane, Bread-street, Friday-street, Distaff-lane, and Old
'Change, and terminating on the south side of St. Paul's-
churchyard ; also to improve the west end of Gresham-
street west, and to widen and improve Threadneedle-street.
The money for these purposes (200,0000 is proposed to be
raised on bonds at interest on the credit of the city revenues
and estates.

FRIENDLY Socurxes.—These societies, those un.
enrolled, are pressing upon the banks for savings for with-
drawal of their deposits. Since the National Debt Commis-
sioners have ordered that they shall either be certified by the
appointed barristers or withdraw their deposits, they enter-
tain the idea (wild as it is) that if they get certified, the
Government will only pay the interest and keep the prin-
cipal ! So that, from this and other impressions created by
the National Debt Conemissionere' order, a pretty strong
" run" upon savings' banks will be the result.
VAUXHALL BRIDGE COMPANY.—Tile half-yearly
meeting of this company was held yesterday, at the George
and Vulture Tavern, Lombard-street; Mr. Hugh Parnell,
in the chair. Mr. Jeffrey, the secretary, read the report.
It stated that there had been an increase in the tolls above
the corresponding period of the last year of 1301. 7s. 3d.,
the gross taken for toll being 3,567!. lb& 9d.; pier dues
during the same period, 1731.35. sd. It had been proposed
that the rent received for the gas company should form a
reserve fund. The amount remaining at present to the
credit of the company was 2,9561. 3s. 4d. • and it was the
intention of the committee to declare a dividend of 10s. per
share. Three of the members of the committee, Messrs,
W. Barrow, J. Humphrey, and C. Quead, retired by rota.
tion, but, being eligible, diked themselves for re-election.
On the conclusion of the report, the chairman stated that, all
circumstances considered, the company might think them-
selves fortunate in obtaining such a dividend, as the removal
of the station of the South-Western Railway had had a great
influence on their receipts. Mr. Porter made a long speech
on the obligations of the Sabbath, and proposed that the toll-
keepers should be released from their posts on that day, and
the bridge gratuitously opened to the public. The gentle-
man indulged in a tedious discourse on the different obser-
vances of Christian and Jewish law, but was at last obliged
by the general dissatisfaction of thei meeting to desist from
pressing his motion. The three retiring directors were then
re-elected. A vote of thanks having been given to the chair-
man, the meeting separated.
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OP LONDON.— At the
monthly general meeting held yesterday at the Society's
House, No. 11, Hanover-square; Sir George Clerk, Bart., in
the chair, Messrs. Samuel Gurney, jun., and John Ingram
Travers were elected as fellows, and Messrs. W. 11. Twenty.
mar, and W. Lomax, and Dr. George Fripp, were proposed
as candidates for the fellowship. The report of the council
stated that the number of visitors to the gardens in April
was 11,314, and that the receipts at the gate had only once
been exceeded in the same month during the last fifteen
years, Among the additions to the menagerie are two
specimens of Phl
now be exhibited acoc hmr Africanus,uesibited tfor
thethegreat t t i Africane haw a
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THE NEW ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIMATE OP IRE-
have caused Mr. Hayter,
sury .
proper authorities of the revenue that
Most Rev. Archbishop Cullen,
the newly-appointed
the Mos
Ireland, being shortly expected
LAND.—The Lords Commissioners
Catholic Primate of
one
Roman
charge f his
• in this country from Rome to take
to arrive
Lordships' desire that every facility
to acquaint the
arch-diocese, it is their Lords
that the vestments,
effects on arrival, and .
baggage and elle,
therein, which are books, and other articles included
n of his office, may be
may be afforded in the examination and delivering of his
neces-
sary in the exercise of the fined° s
freely delivered to him
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to take care that their fLorortdhsahti
duly obeyed.

SOUTH-EASTAIN RAILWAT.—The Lord Chancellor
has discharged the injunction granted by the Master of the
against4to
f thism a
rceriyany's paying the dividend declared
on Rollstl
the

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY $ 1850.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, QUARTER "10 THREE.
The sales of Co t,er at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 12,000 bales, of which 1,000 American were
tak n for export, and 1,000 Surat, 1,000 American, and
500 Egyptian on speculation. The market cloz.ed firmly.
The transactions comprised 6,000 American, 2,000 Pte.:-
um and Maranham at 62d. to 7 rl., 500 Bahia at 74-d.,
1,000 Deyotian at 7d. to 70., 2,000 Surat at 41-d. to
sid , and 200 Sea Island at is. to ls. 2id. per
way Shares continued very dull, and at lower prices.
The mercantile markets have been quiet this week,
and the following statement is by Messrs. Wilkinson and
Jewesbury:—
" The arrivals of foreign and colonial produce during
the past month have been extensive, and the stocks gene-
rally are larger than at the corresponding period of last
year; it is, however, satisfactory to notice that the deli-
veries for all purp )ses are now increasing; dealers
have purchased more freely at the moderate
rates now, ruling, prices for most of the leading
articles having now nearly fallen to the posi-
tion they occupied before the rise took place. The
quantity of produce offered has been very large, and us
importers have met the views of the buyers, the greater
portion has been sold. The accounts from the conti-
nent are still of an unfavourable character, so that there
is little or no alteration to notice in business transactions
for export.
" For dyes and dying materials the demand has been
moderate, but previous rates are maintained, except fur
cochineal, which is cheaper; iLdigo, in censi qaence of
its position and prospects, continues to command atten-
tion, and higher rates may be looked for."
The foreign advises to-day, as regards the continent,
are rather more trar.quillising, but we have intelligence
from the lonian Islands of rather an uneasy feeling
again.
The Overland Mail from India advises more trouble
among the hill tribes, but nothing which the energy of
the Government cannot repress. The commercial ac-
counts are of a mixed character. At Bombay business
in imports was dull, but at Calcutta there was an active
trade. The China reports are very unsatisfactory, a de-
cided panic having arisen among the native dealers, owing
to large arrivals.
The West India steamer is just announced as having
arrived at Southampton.
The English Funds are rather better. There is a
large arrival of specie by the West India mail. Con-
sols have been 952 to 96, and New Three-and-a-
Quarter per Cents. 968 to 97ir ; Reduced Three per
Cents. 942 to 95. Rink Stock is 206 to 207; Exchequer-
bills are 69e. t.) 675. premium.
Spanish Active Bonds have been 17k, the Three per
Cents. 364 to 378; Portuguese Four per Cents. are
nominally 33 to 34, and Mexican 281 to 282. 1. hiller]
Bonds are 99, and Danish Scrip 58 premium. Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are 55k to 558.
Shares are rather firm.

CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS O'CLOONCE K. PRICES.
3a0.11 btoct.
3 ; er Cent. Reduced Anne 9434 95 95
3 oer Cent. Consols Annilitie.4 95%34 96 9534 9.',34
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726 943 941 A
vow 3',..i per Cent. Ann5... ...
Long Anna. to expire Jan.1860
India Stock
India Bonds, 1,0004 92 p 92 p
Ditto under 1,0001... ......
South Sea Stock
Ditto New Annuities ......
Console for Account
Ilachequer Bills.
LOON. June :
691954%1,66i !a;6
290534 9534
Small. June ......

70 p
CLOSING
PRICES.

ONE
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
iiriszniau 'Jonas
Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent .... 99
Danish 80nd5,1825, 3 per Cent.
Ditto 5 Der Cent.
Ditto, Scrip • ....... 51 p 5'4 p
Grenada Bonds, 114 per Cent — 16,
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons—
Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons .... —
Ditto, Account
Peruvian Bonds, 4 par Cent
Ditto, Account
Ditto Deterred
Portuguese b per Cents.
Ditto, 4 per Cent.
ituman Bonds ... •.• ^
Ditto, 41, par Cent .---

• -,
Spanish 5 p A erP Cent. 1840 —
Ditto, Account
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent
Ditto Deferred
Dividends on the above payable in London,
Beligan, 41,4 per Cent... _ .._.

uutcn lit,t.por Cent.. 12 Guild. .. 551452
Ditto. 4 Der Cent. Certificates... 85 85

vRICES OF PAID. RUSINES3 DONE CLOSIN
RAILWAY SILARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICE.
,t)erdeen
Do. Preference
tinckinghainshire ...... 17',4
Caledonian
Ditto, New IC/. Pref... 10
~astern Counties... ..... 20 •••». 71/s .......
Ditto,Extension, 5 per
Cent. No.l 61.135. 4d.... -- p
Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13s. 4d... M p
Do. North. & Eastern,
6 per Cent. ...
Ditto. 5 per Cent.... 50
Do. New
East Lancashire
Ditto, New Quarters 614 lk..
East Lincolnshire, guar.
6 per Cent.
Great Northern
Do.. %B 6 per Cent... 9% 4% 4l,i
-Inuit North of England.loo ......216 ... 216
Great Western 100 .• ... 5114 % 5l
Lancashire & Yorkshire 100 ......
Leeds and Bradford a
Landon, Brighton, and
South Coa4t... ..... 100 ...... 7”4
Do., New, guaranteed
6 per Cent . ...100
L,n don and Greenwich 1211554 d... . ... ......
L radon and N Western 1(X1,.,... 101% 101—, lOl
London ..1 z. 4. W einem ._ 100 ... 58.4 1A,......
Midland .. ...ii 0 ... .. 32
Do., 501. Shares ..... 30 ~... 2 1 kii, izi
Do.Birm.. and Derby ICO
Do. Consolid. Bristol &
Birming., 6 per ct.... 100 ..... 119 119
North Staffordshire ... 17% ...... 7% 7!,i
Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton .50
Scottish Central
ShDreitwtsoburdiytatdcßlairsisni3 1.14..
...
..
..
.. d.i5......:
..
..
......
:: _
2die
Shrewsbury & Cheater
(Nor, W. Min.)
DD00..,8 . •••
per Cent. Prof. 10 ...... _
gtil'ertnered No. 4 31301..:::: _13111::: . i 9%..... 13
. .
c inter, and Goole ...... 14 ..... 13%1,4 . , B3/4
SouthSuta REYaseorkshire, Don-
York, .Newcastle, and
DB
oe Berwick....
Newcastle-Exten 2O . ..... 64% ... ...... ... 634
Dc. G.N.E. Preference 8 ... _ 1
...
FOREIGN . 0%
York and North Midland 50 ...... _
WOO
• ..... •••
Oat,. Preference
Boulogne and Amiens 2O ...... 61A, 64,
East Indian ......
Luxembourg
Ditto
Namur and Liege ....... 20 ... .. ....„. .. ,
Northern of France...... 16
... 1214
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Aust r al asi a , 4O ...... 25
British North American 50 ...... 4114 ......
Provincial of Ireland ... 25 ..... 41%
MINES.
Santiago de Cuba— ...... 10 ...... 14 ........ ..
United alexican 281,4- ..... 6% 6'...........
.......................y-;...
..... 1 1
7i,

64
12%

2S
41t4
4134

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MAT 3.—Wind at noon W. to W.N.W.,
light breeze and fine.—There was a sharp frost during
the night, with the thermometer at freezing' point. NEWPORT, MIT 2. •
Wind N E —Sid. Fanny, Liver-
pool; Edward, Norfolk lalai.d.
MILFORD, APRIL 30.—Wind •
N.E.—Sid. Maria,
Quebec.
BEA.IIIIARIS.—SId. Nimrod, Philadelphia.
071 CAPE CLRAR.—Catherine, Laverty, New York,
for Liverpool; St. Lawrence, Bombay.
LIVERPOOL, MAT 2.
Wind N.N.E.--Arrd. Ilanni-
bal, Creighton, Bombay. Sld. Zuleike, Hong-Kong;
Highlander, Calcutta; Robert Bradford, ditto; Syrn
motry, Acapulco; John Scott, Barbadoes; Mary Pl. a-
saws, Philadelphia; De Witt, Clinton, New York; ViiLl•
gaard, ditto; Yorkshire, ditto; Flets, liali!ax; Napa-
rima, Dalhousie, Off Port Elissbeth, Mobile; Swith-
arale.Y ship, ditto. A deeply' laden barque was seen 29th
April to run on there, and remain on the Kish Bank.

stAionary prices; from 61
fresh to hand. In Calves
somewhat lower terms. T:
Lea Cows were selling at ft
ing their Slll,lll

Per 81b3. to s:
S. d. to s. d,
Inferior Bes!;ts 2 2 2 4
Second quality •• • 2 6 2 8
Prime large Oxen 210 8 0
Prime Scots
large coarLe Calvet, 210 3 2
Prime small ditto
Suckling Calves lB 0 24 0
Lambs •• •• •• •• •• 4 8 5 8
TOTAL SUPPLY
Sheep.
I 5,000
FOREIGN
I Sheep.
210
SCOT(
Sheep.
64

Bea.lts.
86U

Beasts.
182

Beasts.
200

e Isle of Wigh- 420 ef me
next to nothing duihg, on
"tie Po k tlale wus heavy.
'rom 141. to 181. each, icelud-

Counsel on both side. 4. the result of which was that the
jury were allowed to remain in the box,
Mr Baron ALDERSON said—l dirt c+. up +n the evidence
on my notes that a verdict should ne found fir thc
defendants. The jury have a perfect right to find a
verdict against my direction, but the end will be that
the Court above will set it aside, and thus, perhaps,
entail an end!eas expense on the partie.2.
The Foreman—Then under your Lordship's direction
we find a verdict for the defendants.—Verdict entered
for the defendants accordingly.
Mr. COCKBURN tendered a bill of exceptions to the
direction of the learned Judge, to the effect that there
was ►ufHcient evidence on his notes to go to the jury.

Beautifully, too, did he rend,. r the "Tutto e sciolt°'
the Ala! eeret.e " the conclusion of which he ,
again called on, aed the rop, tition of which was Cs;
for, hut nor c enplit-,1 with. In the duets with Afsdaith
Sontag, hie fine mellow voice harmonizing beautifully""ate
her exquisi'e flute-like tones, rendered those doei
very perfection of vocalisation, The Amine of 143 lect
Sontag is acknowledged on all hands to be the most per
on the stage, and she last night acted and sung eveti
better than last season. Her opening aria was bellies
fully given. The somnambulist scene in the Csunnd
chamber was rendered with exquiaite propriPth„%
the veiled tones of the voice were beautiful
ingly. In the closing part of this scene, where bile is ch-ei,
off by Elvino, she exhibited an energy and a lid/ in
pli
acting which told most effectively. The greAt Oita e
of the evening, however, was the finale "Ah! eon
which has never before been executed so brillisnll9 el%
by Sontag herself. A repetition was called f"r, ind;°tit
giving it a second time she showered her finriture 00
such lavish abundance that the audience would fa'n
called for its repetition, but contented themselves wio
her appearance three times before the curtain, and wthe
showering bouquets upon her. After the oPerlithird
National Anthem was sung, the first and 'boss
verses being given by Madame Sontag an" ad
Catherine Hayes, and the second by she ten s
basses of the company, led by Lab'ache. After Of'
de Trois there were selections from Rossini's
Tell (the overture to which was encored), vilineicie
in,s
Baucarde, Lablache, and Coletti appeared, and We he
fortnance concluded with Les Plaisirs d'Hiver' pf
house was crowded in every part, and the appearance ea
the boxes, when the National Anthem was pedal°
was brilliant in the extreme.

BAIL COURT.—(III- IS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.)
NEWTON V. NANNELLoW.
In this case a rule nisi had been obtained, calling upon
the judge of a Cornwall county court to show cause
why a writ of prohibition to restrain him to proceed fur-
ther in the cause should not issue, on the ground that
the defendant was a working turner, and ought to have
been sued in the Stannery Court of Cornwall.
The rule was argued in the Lull Court, and
Mr. Justice CoLErtindE now delivered the judgment
of the Court. Ttie question involved in the case turned
upon the construction ( f two clauses in the County
Courts Act, tamely, the 67th and the 141st. The 67th
clause enacted that, except in the case or attorneys, no
parties should be privileged from being sued in the
county court, while the 14Ist clause declared
that nothing in the Act contained should be
considered as abolishing the Stannery Court, but
still it distinctly provided that a county court might
be established within the jurisdiction of that coati.
The Court therefore thought it was quite clear that the
intention of the Legislature was that the Stannery Court
and the county court should exist together. In point of
fact, the two courts had a concurrent jurisdiction, jest in
the same way that a superior court could take cogni-
zance of any action that might be brought in a
county court, with this difference, that a party
seeking to recover a debt under 2U/. in a
bup, nor court, was liable to have a suggestion
entered on the roll to deprive him, with costs,
while in the case of the Stannery Court no such con-
tingency was applicable. The opinion of the Court was,
then, that a party sued either in the Stannery or the
county court, had no right to plead privilege on ac-
count of jurisdiction, and the rule which had been
granted in this case must be discharged. —Rule dis-
charged.
WATERFORD, WEXFORD, 'WICKLOW, AND DUBLIN

ROYAL ITALIAN opERA•
ott'
Yesterday evening Meyerheer's Les Huguenntols,•
iOO
sew time seated at this theatre, for the first me during a
bm
present season. The great popularity which ibis op ts
has maintained among us must cause its revival
rgirded us a politic step on the part of the 03111.1ro•
ment, and ot,e for which they are deserving of c9lOl cis
able eulogy. The rich, learned, and in many inttsdnode
quaint, harmonies with which the composition au°b-1
ss
eser delight the ear, while the perfect and Inattnueur
manner in which the work is presented at this "vast
invest it with additional interest and effect. to
of last night was for the most part skull; iopt
that of former representations, the excPr ste
being in the soles of Marcel and Urbano, wirickfro,
respectively filled by Herr Formes and Madlle. 1118;pt
The young, gallant, but ill-fated Raoul di Nangii, -„a
rendered by Mario with his usual exquisite tastesstl
polished manner ; he was in magnificent voice, °,,f
sang the music of the character with that mist Pd
sweetness, pow.r, and breadth which have gair r
lfenp
him the highest vocal honours. Grisi was the 4";ri,
tins, singing, acting, and looking
tooamirably. of
tic se her vocalialtion would but be exhaust tertosio
praise which, as applied to her, are but the rePettful
of an oft-told tale. Madame Castellan was a boa due,
Maguerite. Her singing was also charming. „'''"l,,ool
de Meric, in the somewhat magnificent part of ur":,ir
created considerable effect—the music, with all P'n-f
liarities, was rendered with the grace and fisish "oitl
perfect artiste.
,Formes, as the rough, sturdh
iag
Huguenot soldier, loving his master and cordially "'Bo
his foes, was characteristic in the extreme—it Was! ja
dramatic performance, full of vivacity and MO' foil
the most minute detail he was the soldier. Til,th it
rich tones of his manly organ towered forth in a
strength in many of the concerted pieces, giving t7illf
finish indescribably beautiful. The celebrated the
puff" was given in a manner which evinced thalso
singer was able to cope with its difficult passages, es.
was aware of his power. It was most unanimousl9,o%
cored. The other parts were well sustained, ou'isy
the opera a whole. The leading morceaux were in ire"instances encored. The chorus and orchestra were :jot],
section, exhibiting unity, care, and tasteful exectiio
At the conclusion of the opera the National An'
ill
was very spiritedly given. The house was bail°
attended.

FINE ARTS.

PORTRAIT OF MAJOR EDWARD-EAsd.c.
Having already noticed this very excellent polio
lion of artistic genius at considerable length whet° the
original painting was on view at the house mie),
Messrs. Squire and Co. (late Colnaghi and PIO' gO
23, Cockspur-street, we have now only occasif'°o6
remark upon the circumstance of its appearance InThe
form. of a very beautiful and accurate lithograph. ns,
felicitous manner in which the lithographer has "%it
ferred to stone, and from stone to paper, the pertrilig
taken by the gifted brush of Mr. Moseley, ritie,
have afforded the highest satisfaction to that genii' go
man, tending, as the publication of the print ultisto,
cessarily do, very materially to enhance his rePb ••
lion. The impression before us is accompanied biho
0
lithographic note from Lord Gough, alluding
,110,
picture as a most " excellent likeness," as we, ja
another from Major Herbert Edwardes hinl96l'.ol
which he says—" You have, indeed, succeeded wilbt,
the lithograph of Moseley's portrait. It ief ;01
best by far which I have yet seen; and lied,
sure all my friends will tell you so. lII,' J.
I must decline to suggest any alteration• be
portrait so accurate and authentic must inevitably
welcomed with eager satisfaction by the many tld.
sands to whom the very name of Major Herbert ro
wardes is dear, as that of one of thy most illusto°-
of the living soldiers of England.

PORTRAIT OF MRS. CHARLES KERN'
A splendid lith. graphic likeness of this dibt?;
guished lady, pencilled by the inimitable Baugillj
has just been published by Messrs. Hering 0,,,
°;
Remington. It represents at full length the &Our0
and the figure of our eminent actress in the be
witching character of Beatrice—the Beatrice
Shakspere. As a work honourable alike to the Plot
torial art, to the histrionic art, and to the great...
genius of dramatic literature, this portrait of 14;
Charles Kean will be scanned with peculiar inC,
rest, and will be received with delight by her i 011"„
merable admirers.

EDWIN LANDSEER'S " DJllrß. zg
Yesterday we bad the gratification: of obtalc'„;
a private view of this celebrated production, nce,,t,
the establishment of Mr. McLean, 26, Hayintir:a-r,
and immediately, at the direction of its 00" -to
H.R.H. Prince Albert, to be transferred thence .0
the Royal Collection. Every one acquainted 1r i
the original painting, one of the happiest productiPed
of the genius of Landseer, will be delighted to 6°
it published in the form of an exquisite engraving'

NEWMARKET RACES•

(THIS DAY.)

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1
PURIFICATION OF DWELLINGS. --Last October of
addressed a letter to the Board of Health—when the Oslo
house visitation was in full operation—with a suggestion
a cesspool visitation might be attended with much gene'„.
The connexion between the cholera and the accumulationo"
those impurities which daily ought to be removed has be
so amply demonstrated, that we need bring forward ne /the
tional proof thereof. I beg, then, to recommend to 'OlO
public that during the approaching summer and alit,tese
particular attention be paid to the daily cleansing et rtec•
most attractive sources of the cholera poison. The disio'
tion of these places all throughout the densely inhabited 0.10-1,
tropolis can be efficiently secured by the weekly aPPlicatihe
of the chloride of lime and whitewashing. This no)* is
accomplished at a very trifling expense indeed, and 110/1:0•
the time to put in active execution all the subordinate ete..„'ic
we have at command to mitigate the severities of ends of
disease. The intrinsic nature of cuolera it would be 'A ith
place to inquire into here, but its immediate relationship Woe,
all organic decomposing impurities is contested by flood
That the principle should be successful, it should be cant ieo-
on throughout every street, close lane, and alley s'll3o.
taneously ; and as it is .ikely it will be some time ere An e.bis
cient system of sewerage can be put in active practice,
ad,
temporary expedient cannot, I think, with safety be neglected
—Correspondent of the Builder.
el
A DuEL.—'rhe keepers of the wood of VincetTor
were on Saturday morning alarmed by the double reperk;;o
tire-arms, when, on hastening to the spot whence the It 0.0(
find proceeded, they found a young man, about 25 yeers„st,
age, lying dead, a ball having passed through his 01%01
It was at first supposed, from his holding a discharged Pio.
in his hand, that he had committed suicide ; but some Per%be
who were passing near the spot declared that soon after ink;
reports of the shots they had seen some young men runtl_d
from the spot, who jumped into a four. wheeled cabriolet, ,Tn
another small veLicte, which drove off, one in the dire r
of St. Maur, and the other in that of Charenton. Psi'
to indicate his identity being found on him, the WV vi
taken to the Morgue.

MTH&
OP • SON.
On the 30th ult., at Denmark-hill, the wife of Edir-
Lloyd, Esq., of Leghorn. sr.
On the .oth ult., at Brixton-hill, Brixton, the wife °' -
Barnard.
On the '.oth ult. at Grosvenor-place, Camberwell-1361r-
road, the wife of H. B. Wilkinson, Esq.
OF A DAUGHTER. 'Ref.
On the 30th ult., in Ebury-street, the wife of the •--
Brytner Belcher.
On the 29th ult., at Mansfield-street, the wife of vma"rl e
Manners Lushington, Esq.

3141441111). : stet
On the 80th ult., at Knighton Church, near Leicester,
Colin Campbell Macaulay, Esq., of Leicester, to Mary Ply
dall, eldest daughter of Richard W. Wood, Esq./ of Stuzje
gate, in the parish of Knighton.

DIED. le Of
On the 29th ult., at L&e, Kent, Eliza Lydia, the wl aq.
Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. William H. Gardner, aged .-e,
On the 29th ult , in Upper Fitzroy-street, Fitzroy-eqw"
Samuel M‘Morris, Esq , aged 814.
allee.
On the 8 th ult., Mr. Jonathan Mackenzie, of the - C
w ay-fann Hartley-row, Hants, aged 59. the
At Culeshillstreet, Eaton-square, Frances, widow ef
late Captain James Ferrier.
enult
On the 30th ult., at Kensington, the Rev. Henry
p
M.A., aged 71.
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MN el
London: Printed and Published by kiIIRDO ( (/'
No 112, btrand Printer, at 'J'he &s* Office, Tjo
ty of
titrand,- in the Precinct el the Savoy, An the coo,'
biLicUteeen Friday, May 8, 1860.