The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-15 00:00:00

Mirafiltg *UM

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1844.

In the House of Lords, the Marquis of CLAN-
RICARDE gave notice of a motion for Friday, on the
present state of the poor-law in Ireland.
The Marquis of NORMANBT moved for certain
papers relative to the Irish constabulary force. His
object was to expose that revolting and odious system
:Nommonly called the spy system, and which, he
fea,-ed, existed now to a greater extent in Ireland
than had done for many years. The Noble Mar-
quis ada'nced numerous instances in which the police
lad acted the part of spies. •He then entered at
some length foto the.case of Mr. GREY, who held a
a situation in the police, and who had been dismissed,
shortly after the Accession of the present Govern-
ment, for no reason, that he could see, but for fol-
lowing the advice of ti.e ATTORNEY•GENERAL and
Mr. BREWSTER.

Lord WHAUNCLITTE defended the officiarauthori-
ties in Ireland, and said, if the .Noble Marquis per-
severed in his motion, the papers would be produced.
After some remarks from the Marquis of CLAN-
EICARDE, the Earl of W
icitiow, and the Earl of
wnscniLsEA, the motion was agreed to.
The Earl of MINTO moved for a return of the
service i of her MAJESTY'S ship Queen, built on a
new principle, and lately sent out to Malta,
_Which
he contended ,had not had a fair trial.
The Earl of RADDINGTON opposed. the •
motion, on
the ground that the object of the Noble Earl was, to
throw blame on the Admiralty, without adducing
sufficient reasons.
After some routine business, the House adjourned
till Friday ; Wednesday being a dieB non in the
Loa-as, and the following day the Ascension.
In 'the Commons, a new writ was moved for the
Liman-lock district of burghs, in room of Mr. Joni's-
STONE, diveased.
Mr. CIIRIS.:IE postponed for a fortnight his motion
relative to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
In answer to a .uestion from an Hon. 'Member,. Sir
It. PEEL said it was not likely that the Irish Regis-
tration Bill would come on before the Whitsuntide
holidays. •
Mr. S. CRAWTORD moved for leave to bring in a
1411 to "tend- the Parliamentary suffrage, and to se-
cure the free representation of the people.
Dr. BOWRINQ secasded the motion, and, on a diVi-
sion, it was rejected by a majority of 66.
Mr. i‘ 7.sTsort moved for a Select Committee to
inquire int ‘.4) the orders for compe • nsation made by the
LORD CHAR 'COLLOR to the persons filling the offices of

clerks of enrolments, riding clerks, six clerks, and many
other clerks in Chancery, under an Act passed last
session. lie pointed out the large sums received by
these parties for doing nothing, amounting, annually,
to 78,0001., and mostly paid by the unfortunate
suitors in Chancery. lie contended that fees of this
kind should be paid by the public at large, and not
by the suitors.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL admitted that many of
the statements made by Mr. WATSON were correct,
and would not uphold the system as perfect ; but still
the LORD CHANCELLOR was not to blame. If any
party were to blame, it was the Legislature who had
passed the Bill; but he was not aware that any party
was to blame-.---The: Bill had not passed through

Parliament, sub silentio ; it had been discussed by
Mr. WARD, Mr. C. BULLER, and also by Mr. HUME,
who stated that it was correct in its principles and
details. He could not see any benefit to be derived
by the appointment of a Select Committee, and he
must, therefore, oppose the motion.
After some discussion, in which Sir J. GRAHAM
took part, the House divided, when the motion was
rejected by a majority of 16.
Sir D. NORREYS moved the appointment of a
Select Committee on the Poor Relief (Ireland) Acts,
on which Sir J. GRAHAM moved that the order be
discharged, which was agreed to by a majority of 32.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed
of, and the House adjourned at One o'clock.

However violent and unconstitutional the proceed-
ings of the COSTA CABRAL Ministry in Portugal have
lately become, we cannot refrain from expressing our
gratification at the evidences which we perceive of an
ameliorated tone and feeling in the mass of the Por-
tuguese population. The domiciliary visits, the vexa-
tious arrests, the seizures of private papers, the vio-
lation of letters by the authorised but most abject
agents of a most contemptible Government,
the suppression of all liberty of the press,
the arbitrary confiscations of property, the
treacherous kidnapping of individuals obnoxious to the
miserable faction in power, and especially of the pro-
prietors and editors of journals that have signalised
their opposition to the tyrannical follies of the Court ;
these are, undoubtedly, deplorable excesses. They
bespeak the establishment in the capital of the Por-
tuguese Monarchy of a system of terror and brute
force that must presently bring on a reaction terrible
to the very institutions for the security of which
these excesses have been, professedly, resorted to.
The stability of the throne which they have been
perpetrated in order to strengthen, will be shaken by
that reaction, to its very foundations. The attachment of
the Portuguese people to that Sovereign in whose behalf
they have been invoked and vindicated, will be weakened
and even annihilated by them. Yet all these viola-
tions of the Constitutional Charter of the kingdom,
these outrages on public opinion, these insults and
njuries upon a devoted and sensitive people, have
been resented hitherto with varying success, but with
a sparing of human blood most honourable to the na•
tion at large. This abstinence bespeaks a great ad-
vance in social and civil virtue in a people who have
been too lightly ranked among the most vindictive
of Europe. They had innumerable wrongs to com-
plain of at the hands of those in authority over. them,
from the Regency of Dom MTGUEL, in 1828, his
speedy violation of the Charter of Dom PEDRO (of
1826), and his subsequent acts of political treachery
and personal baseness, to the abortive attempts
of the Duke of TERCEIRA and the Marshal SALDAMSA
to restore the Charter in 1837, and all the more recent
troubles which have agitated the kingdom down to
this period. To pass over all the exciting events of
the " War of Liberation," from the sailing of Dorn
PEDRO'S squadron from Belleisle in February, 1832,
and the taking of Oporto, its triumphant defence
against MIGUEL, and the capture of the Miguelite
fleet by our gallant NAPIER, to the death of Dom
PEDRO ; we perceive in the history of these convul-
sions an honourable contrast of Portuguese abstinence
and forbearance, even in the season of success and vic-
tory, to the unbridled abandonment of Spain, within
the same interval of time, to the brutal intoxication of
that remorseless vengeance and insatiable appetite of
blood which have so disgraced her national annals at
all times, but never more so than within the last
twenty years.

If we recur to the history of that interval
countries, how immeasurably greater do we
the political, moral, and social guilt of Spain
been than the delinquencies of Portugal.
latter, the suppression of the Constitution by

Joao VI., in 1828, was followed by sanguim

turbances, no doubt; and the insurrection of t]

quis of CHAVES at Lisbon in 1826 ; and all the di

and violence of the Miguelite faction, which, hot:

and after the arrival of the British troops at Lisbol
General CLINTON, in 1826-27, convulsed the.
kingdom with factions and cabals, were not ,

ductive of sanguinary feuds. But the insurre
favour of Donna MARIA, of August, 1831, ii
300 lives were sacrificed, and the tumults of L
1834, in which, perhaps, as many more were ma:

in both
discern

are the only salient examples of popular mo
determining in wholesale slaughter, which
recal to mind, independent of the more fright
extensive, but "legitimate" (if we must so fa
promise the rights of humanity to convc

to have
In the
the late
lry dis-
ie Mar-
iplicity
before
3 under
whole
unpro-
lion in
which
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sacred,
-ernent

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ul and
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ntional

opinion) casualties of the civil war that ravag
tugal from the departure of the British tr
1828, to the expatriation of Dom 11.1papar., by leis em-
barkation at Evora for Genoa, in 1834. Bu let us
turn to Spain, and we must be horror-struck at the long
catalogue of crime and revolt, blood and treasoni which
dates from the dissolution of the Cortes under the
faithless and execrable FERDINAND VII. irj 1823.
Then, the scaffolds began to reek with the hlood of
patriotic and devoted Spaniards, worthy of as nobler
fate. Then perished RIEGO ; and then comMenced
that struggle for the succession of CARLOS, and the
disinheritance and dispossession of the QUEEN!, which
resulted in one of the most bloody and perfidious
struggles recorded in history ; a struggleE which
leagued father against son, brother against brother—
which violated the ties of kindred, the sacredness Of
hospitality, the sanctuaries of religion, the obligations
of oaths, the pledges of private --honour. That civil
war was a calamity which Portugal had equally to
encounter with Spain ; but in Portugal it was never
disgraced by that studied and demonlike aggtavation
of its horrors which rendered Spain and Spaniards
the reproach of civilisation and the disgrace of Chris-
tendom. On either side were ranged master fiends
who offered up, on every possible occasion,. whole
hecatombs of human victims in cold-blooded, wanton
sacrifice.' Their's were the laurels, plucked like fire-
brands, from burning villages, and desecrated churches.
Prisoners led out to be murdered by sections, or set
apart and maintained for awhile, in revelry and en-
jpyinent, only to be murdered afterwards, with more
impressive effect (like the Mexican victims of
- the old Aztec sacrificial priests), amused
the moody ferocity of Zirtam.AcaßßEGuE. The
yet more infamous and, atrocious MINA, having
information that a whole detachment of Carlists, who
had escaped from the field wherein he had defeated
their comrades, had taken refuge in a particular quar-
ter of a town to which he had pursued them, de-
manded of their relatives that .they should surrender
to him these unhappy refugees within a given time.
This infamy being declined, he actually set fire to the
-quarter,-and the poor fellows were consumed in those
lofty and ancient houses, in the highest chambers of
:which, wounded and famishing as they were, they
had vainly barricaded themselves. Their fate of
-being burned .to death they had not antici-
`pated. The • cowardly butcheries of kleaoro,
the bloody retaliations of CABRERA, have within
these Cew montb3, aye weeks, been rivalled,
by' CONCHA, NARVAEZ, RODIL, and Abat contemp-
tible ruffitu? DE MERE, wbo " managed" the last
:butchery eciciseci.pn'the prisonerstaken at Gerona.'
poureds hed i n
otuhte,
icnourarw
In, short/ in. Madrid ,alone, more bloc 4 has been
h'oofleotnceatnepina jeanute,;inthrianortuhgaasl. been
In
the latter countEY, cOatending Parties, after the ter-
mination
good-will,inatnoftheirretcurinicgts
inhtoa irtehesaratndkOswanndinixepeupacae.
tions of private life, or abandOning with; `NI what grace
,they. might, the honours and imoluments of public
service, of Which the successful side has deprived
them. In Spain, the sale alternative in the most sacred
or the most sordid struggle—under circumstances
of the greatest or the least justification of the cause
embarked in—appears to be, complete success orim-.
molation ;-=on the one hand a savage and sanguinary
triumph ; on the other, ignominious death• Contrast,
i
in short, the infamous avowal comprised n the re-
port of DE Malta to the Spanish Minister at War,

Por-
►ps in

announcing the execution of the Gerona prisoners
of war, with the conduct of the Portuguese authori-
ties in allowing the insurgent officers and garrison of
Almeida to retire into Spain (the one appears in The
Sun of the 4th, the other in The Sun of the Bth
instant); and the more manly and civilised bearing of
the Portuguese, as comparel with that of the Spa-
niards, must be at once admitted, to the great honour
of the former.

Though in common, no doubt, with the majority of
our readers, we anticipated a majority against Lord
ASHLEY'S clause in the Factories Bill, yet we could
have had no idea that that majority would have been
so great as the result of Monday's division proves it
to have been. How many Tories, like Mr. G,;uAa-
KNIGHT, must have apostatised from the faith which
they maintained—in direct opposition to Ministers—
but three short weeks since ! How many must have
abandoned their own solemn and deliberate convic-
tions, and unhesitatingly given up their conscience
into the keeping of Government, ere such an untoward
triumph could have been achieved! The tergiversation
has not been a retail, but a wholesale one. It has not
been exhibited in a reluctant, shrinking spirit, but with
the most intrepid effrontery it is possible to conceive.
Scarcely a single Tory apostate seems to have thought
it worth his while even to apologise for his apostacy.
What a humiliating notion does this give us of the
honesty and morality of the House of Commons !
Who henceforth will place faith in its consistency ?
Who henceforth will deem it capable of being influenced
by any other motives than those of truckling expedi-
ency? We look on the result of last night's division as
furnishing a stronger argument in favour of Chartism
than any that has taken place since the Reform
Bill. The Premier has evidently inoculated
the House with his own convenient and accom-
modating views of legislation. He has brought the
doctrine of expediency into fashion among Hon.
Members, and lofty, unbending, comprehensive prin-
ciple must no more be looked for among the majority
of the British Senate. The House, in fact, has
ceased to be the House of the People. It has be-
come the great manufacturing firm of PxEr. and Co.
It professes to have no interests incompatible with
his—to hazard no experiments but such as he ap-
proves—to entertain no opinions but such as are part
and parcel of his own idiosyncrasy. He—and lie only
—is its " Sir Oracle"—its golden Calf—before whom
it bows down in abject idolatry. Does any man
doubt this ? Let him read Sir R. PEEL'S speech last
night, more especially the bullying threat with which
it concluded ; let him mark, too, the direct, the im-
mediate influence which this threat produced on the
votes, and he will at once see how complete is the
vassalage in which the Tamworth Doctor holds the
British Commons. One of the strongest points—or
rather that which ho intended to be the strongest—in
the Premier's speech, was that where he essayed to
prove the impolicy and hazard of interfering be-
tween the manufacturers and their workpeople. The
point was adroitly put, and produced an evident im-
pression on the House ; but as a strong, valid argu-
; ment it is worth just nothing at all. Indeed, we re-
gard the whole doctrine of non-interference with
such momentous public questions as the Factory Bill,
as being neither more nor less than a piece of con-
temptible cant, without a leg to stand on, inasmuch as
Parliament has never hesitated to interfere with the
best interests of the people, whenever it suited
its own purposes to do so. What was the
corn law, but a direct, arbitrary interference
with the price of the poor man's loaf? What is the
Rural Police, but a direct interference—we might
almost say—with his ordinary liberty of action—a
system of petty espionnage originating in distrust of
his principles and his nature ? What are the In-
closure Acts, but another direct interference with one
of the few remaining privileges that the law has left
in his possession ? Parliament never hesitates an instant
to interfere against the poor man's interests; but when it
is proposed to interfere in his behalf, then a howl is got
up that the principle is a dangerous one, and must be
discountenanced at all risks ! We have no patience
with this mean—partial—one-sided system of policy
—this craven doctrine of non-interference, which
owns no nobler inspiration than that dry saw-dust
which does duty for brains in the skull of a Political
Economist ! Possibly before the session closes, some
Tory Member, who voted against Lord ASHLEY,
may deem it his duty to direct the attention of the
House to the necessity of educating the poor, benighted
factory children, and take credit to himself for the
humanity of his motion. The question has been
mooted more than once already, and we scarcely think
it will be allowed to drop. But mark the absurdity—
not to say the insulting irony—of such a proposition !
How are the young operatives to be educated, when they
are engaged the whole live-long day in the fac-
tory ? Where is the time to be found for their
instruction ? Who is to furnish them with the brisk,
unjaded faculties the fresh, vigorous stilte of
body, so necessary to their intellectual improvement?
The proposition, regarded even in the most favourable
light, is a mere wanton, heartless hypocrisy ; ;and, if
brought forward, as we strongly suspect it will be,
will meet with its fittest treatment in the laughter
and contempt of every right-minded and consistent
Member.

Madrid papers of the 6th have been receiVed, but
they contain no news.
The Spanish Funds still continued low, lvithout
any appearance of improvement. On the 6th the
Three per Cents, closed at 29 for cash, and 29;i at 60
days; and the Five per Cents.. at 21 for cash, and
21i at 60 days.

The discussion in the French Chamber of Deputies •
was continued on Saturday, when an amendment to
the Ministerial plan was moved, to the effect that the
cellular system, meaning solitary confinement, should
not be extended at present to the central and pro-
vincial prisons. This was opposed by the Minister of
the Interior, and on a division rejected, so that all
persons condemned to hard labour (travaux forces)
for any term exceeding one year, shall be shut up
night and day in separate cells. The horrible cruelty
of such a law, we trust, will awaken the attention of
the. French public to the subject. On Saturday M
VEUILLOT, the editor of the Univers, and M. Bialtiza,
the responsible agent for that paper, were indicted
for publishing the pamphlet of the Abbe CRAMBALOT,
entitled the " Liberty of Education," and a verdict of
guilty was returned. The Court sentenced them to
be imprisoned for one month and pay a fine
of 3,000 f. each. The following reports from
Italy appear in the Courrier Francais i•—" Se-
veral vessels, it is said, have sailed from
Corfu, without their destination being known. ,It is,
feared that these vessels have been freighted by some
political refugees, with the view of effecting a landing
in Italy. What in some degree corroborates this opinion
is, that in a printing-office at Malta, the police has
seized a large number of proclamations, which were,
to have been disseminated in Sicily and on the Italian
continent, and in which the people Were exhorted to.
rise and recover their independence and liberty.
Almost all the refugees have left Malta, where the
English police moleSted them, and exercised over
them a troublesome surveillance. On the application
of Prince DE METTBRXICII, the Austrian subjects of
the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom, who had retired to
the lonian Islands, have been expelled from thence."
At TORTONI'S, on Sunday, the Three per Cents.
were quoted. at 84f. 40c.

It is rumoured that the vacancy at the Board of
Admiralty, occasioned by the appointment of Rear-
Admiral Sir George Seymour to the naval command
in the Pacific, will be filled by Rear-Admiral Bowles,
now commanding on the coast of Ireland. It is also
rumoured that the Rear-Admiral will be a candidate
for the borough of Launceston, in the room of Sir
Henry Hardinge, the new Governor-General of India.

In reply to an application from Mr. Bright, M.P.,
in behalf of Mary Furley, Mr. Phillips, the Under-Se-
cretary for the Home Department, informs that gentle-
man that Sir James Graham, " under all the circum-
stances of the case, has felt warranted in advising her
Majesty to commute the prisoner's sentence to seven
years' transportation."
NOVEL FEAT OF PEDESTRIANISM.--011 Monday a
large number of persons assembled at the Princess Royal
public-house, Westbourn-green, Bayswater, to witness the
performance of a match, made by Molloy, the pedestrian, for
his son, a boy of 14 years, to pick up with his mouth; and
without the use of his hands, 100 eggs, placed on the ground
at a yard apart from each other, and to deposit them in a
basket placed at one end. At five o'clock he commenced his
task, by going down upon his knees, picking up the egg with
his mouth, and bringing it away and dropping it in the
hoef
tachecofeamptl he ishhodadinto
go basket placed at the end. He continued at his Herculean
undertaking until he had cleared the whole number of eggs,
and which
Mtyovmerinsutmesil.es,Dsufurrinfongthse
performance ,
and 200 yards of ground. He appeared much exhausted to-
wards the conclusion, but the ambition of winning soon re-
stored him.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.
The Consol Market closes firmly, in the absence of
much disposition to deal. The latest bargains were at
99i to 99,1. The unfunded debt remained flat, and there
was no alteration in the other securities.

Mexican Bonds were 35i Spanish Five per Cents.
continued at 24i 4, and the Three per Cents. at 354 to
35 ; Chilian Deferred were at 55, and Brazilian New
at 77. Portuguese Converted advanced to 454 and 474.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have
been these :—Eastern Counties Perpetual were 1 ;
Great Western Fifths, 91 ; Birmingham, 128 ; South-
Western Eighths, 44 ; Croydon, 44; South-Eastern,
54 to 54 ; and Rouen and Havre, 94 premium. Green-
wich Preference were 14 discount. Commercial Bank
of London Shares were 25; National Provincial of Eng-
land, 4 ; and National of Ireland, 31 discount. • London
Joint Stock were 44, and London and Westminster,
64 premium.
The exchange on Hamburgh was rather better, and
also that on Trieste, but on the other leading cities of
the Continent the rates were much the same.

The following is the official return of the exports of
bullion from the port of London fur the week ending
Thursday last :
Silver Coin to China 5,000 oz. - -
Bars to Hamburgh 6,000 "
Gold Coin to New York 59 "
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The Cotton Market at Liverpool, yesterday was dull and
heavy. Sales 3,400 bags, all to the trade, at id. per lb. decline,
owing to the accounts from the United States, advising large
receipts at the principal ports ; 100 bales were Pernambuco,
at 54d to 64d ; 200 Bahia, at 54d to 6d ; 100 Egyptian
at 7d to Bid ; 300 Surat at 34-d to 44d, and the rest
American.—Shares continued firm for French, and most
other stocks were rather better. Birmingham and Glouces-
ter, 904 ; Eastern Counties, 12i ' • Great Western Half, 76 ;
Midland Counties, 90i ; North Midland Half, 45} ; Paris
and Lyons, Si. ls. 6d. ; Pas and Orleans, 38i ; Paris and
Rouen, 37a ; South-Easterk 38 ; ditto Scrip,
As we anticipated yesterday the general body of the Court
of Proprietors of Bank Stock accepted the terms of the Pre-
mier for the renewal of the Charter of the Corporation. The
opposition offered by only three parties out of so large a Pro-
prietary as those who hold Bank Stock • can scarcely
be considered as having any weight at all, and
indeed, if the Governor had early in the day ex-
pressed his strong opinion upon the impossibility of
having better terms, it is probable that even Mr. Cook and
Mr. Blackburn would not have offered the slightest objec-
tion to the motion for accepting the terms of Government.
As it is the proprietary, and indeed the public at large, may
congratulate themselves upon the first step being taken for
placing the currency of the country upon what may be con-
sidered a sound foundation.

The West India body are again in the field, as strongly as
heretofore, in favour of protection to their monopoly. They
are about to petition the Legislature against any alteration
in the duties on sugar, coffee, and cocoa, unless the present rate
of import is diminished pro rata with that of foreign growth. To
the general body of consumers of those articles, it matters not
how low the duty is, but after having received twenty mil-
lions sterling, it is rather too bad that the planters and mer-
chants interested in the British West India Colonies should in
the present day boldly come forward to ask further conces-
eions in their favour.

We have advices from Buenos Ayres to-day, to the 18th
February. The petty warfare that has so long disorganised
this part of the New World continued; and, of course, the
operations in the commercial and mercantile world were all
but entirely suspended.
The value of Consols has remained very steady to-
day, at 99/3, both for Money and Account. The
premium upon Exchequer Bills is on the decline.
The variations to-day have been from 745. to 695.
premium. Bank Stock has been heavy at 193. At the same
time it ought to be remarked that there is a very general
approval of the course adopted by the Court of Pro-
prietors, in accepting the' terms proposed by Govern-
ment for the renewal of the charter. The Commissioners
bought 30,0001. Reduced Three per Cents. at 99.
In the Foreign Market the transactions have beon few.
Spanish Three per Cents. have fluctuated from 35a to 36.
The Active Bonds have been very steady at 241. Mexi-
cans have been at 35i I, Belgian at 103, and Dutch Five
per Cents. at 1001 *.
There is a good demand for Railway Shares to-day ;
London and Birmingham, Birmingham and Gloucester, and
other leading lines, have found a ready sale. Union Bank of
Australia Shares are at 4 premium.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAT 13.—Business to-
day has been limited, but prices generally are firmer.—Preston
and Wyre, 20i 21 ; Blackburn and Preston 5i ; Paris and
Strasburgh,
CLOSING PRICES.

FUNDS.
Indian Stock pm .
(Ditto
Bonds
IDitto Old Annuities
!Ditto New Annuities 98%
r
Ex. Bills, 1,0001. 1 iid 7l put.
1 Ditto 5001
m
thln)kittsotoScmkaflo Acct 193l 7l p
Consols for Acct 99%
;India Stock for Acct —
_ i FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per Cent —. Portuguese, 5 per Cent —
Belgian, 5 per Cent lO3 ;Ditto, New Ditto —
Brazilian Bands
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent — Russian, 5 per Cent.... ...... ..
Chllian, 6 per Cent — ;Ditto, Metallic ...... —..........—
Colombian, 6 per Cent
Ditto, 1824 ,Ditto, 3 per Cent 35%
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent Ditto, Deferred —
Danish, 3 per Cent ...... ...... IFrench, 5 per Cent...—. —I —c
Greek, 18,5, 5 per Cent ..— ,Exchange .... . .... . . —..... —f. —c.
Mexican, 5 per Cent
Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837 — ,Dutch, 23.6 per Cent...... 615(
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent — ' Ditto, 5 per Cent .........100%
SHARES.
Eastern Counties (RI paid) .. ....... ...... ........ ...... 13%
Ditto Registered (816 s Bd paid)
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent., 13s. 4d. paid
Great Western (75 paid)
Ditto Half Shares (50 paid)
Ditto Fifths, 12 paid 2l'i
London and Birmingham (Stock)
London and Greenwich (Lit. 15s. 4d. paid) 6
Ditto, Preference or Privilege, .£lB 17s 2d paid 17
Londe" and South Western (411. 6s. 10d. paid)
Ditto Eighths (15s. paid)
London and Croydon (Trunk) ... es • -
Ditto Scrip (10 paid) lB%
South Eastern and Dover (3312 s 4d paid)
Ditto ',Jew Shares ( 4 paid)
Paris and Rouen, 20 paid
Rouen and Havre, 8 paid
r 17%
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YESTERDAY.)
Gibraltar
Ditto, CF. 12 6
at 5ight......... 12 4 Leghorn
Rotterdam 2U. 12 61 Genoa 25 90
Antwerp
Hamburgh ?A.B. 13 14f, Venice 47
Altoua l3 15 Naples 39
Paris, 3 days' sight—. 25 65 Palermo, per oz ll7
Ditto, 3 months...... 25 85 Lisbon 534
Marseilles
Boardeaux ............ 25 90 Rio Janeiro 23
23
7 NewYork,2l dys sight
Vienna, effee. ii. 3 n 954 Philadelphia
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Bank Stock
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Jan. 1860 ll 7-15
Oct. 1859
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SHIPPING.
N
LONDO. , ALEALT43D
14.—LightYS northerly airs, and fine.
OFF DOVER, MAY 13.—Johann Christoph, Rio for Altona.
OFF HASTINGS, MAY 13.—Nepaul, Madras ; Princess,
M'Culland, Rio Grande ; Elard of Bremen, Providence ;
Johann George, Gerlun, New York for Bremen.
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 13.—Wind, S.S.E.-L-Off, Nunez, Flight'
Africa.
COWES, MAY Ellerslie, Pugin, Batavia ; Tedde,
Cephalonia for Stettin, with damage, having been in contact
with an English brig.
OFF SALCOMBE, MAY 11..—Cybele, Griffiths, Beibice ;
Isabella, Grale, Demerara; Runnymede, Lorentzen, St. Jago
de Cuba; Charles Kerr, Arnold, Madras.
FALMOUTH, MAY 13.—Wind variable.—Arrd. Princess
Victoria, Thompson, Sierra Leone. Off, Selina, New York,
for Amsterdam.
BELFAST, MAY 9.—Sld. Emulous, Barbadoes ; Cairicks and
E. Randall, Quebec.
OFF DUDDLFISTONE HEAD, MAY 11.—Sylph, Treedwell,
Barbadoes.
OFF FALMOUTH, MAY 11.—Eliza Gillies, Maracaibo.
DEAL, MAY N.E. to E. ; light and very thick
Weather. Arid. Nelsou, Sydney; Bolitte, Briggard, Rio, for
Copenhagen.
OFF PENZANCE, MAT 12.—Madras, Bithing, Princess
Adelaide.
BRISTOL, MAY 13.--Aid. Dochfour, Wakeham, St. John's,
New Brunswick. .

IN THE CHANNEL.—Oriental, Rio for Hamburgh.
lIVERPOOL, MAY 13.—Wind, N.N.W. to N.N.E., light.—
Arrd. John o'Gaunt, Robertson, China, sailed Jan. 19, St.
Helena March 25 ; Good Hope, Mainland, Bombay ; Wilsons,
Campbell, Demerara; Cantab, Ferguson, La Guars; Alex-
ander Turner, New Orleans. Off, Rossendale, Bahia; Catha-
rine, supposed from Bombay; Columbia, supposed from
Ichoboe ; Priscilla and William Russell, supposed from Per-
nambuco ; Cigar, Ceark • Barlow, Africa ; Constitution,
CharleSton. Ski. Woodstock, Calcutta ; Athens, Hobart
Town ; Carmencita and Triumphant, Havannah ; Newport,
Montreal.
DovEn, MAY 13.—The Orion from London to Africa,
grounded off Cape Point, Folkestone, but was got off and
proceeded. ' ' '

CHANGE. IN THE MAIL Tainis.—The Earl of
Lonsdale; the Postmaster-General, has given notice, that on
and from to-day, the 15th' inst., several changes will take
place in the departure of the morning mail trains by the
Great Western Railway.' The most Important one is that to
and from Exeter, the line now being finished, the up-day
mail-train, from Devonport to Bristol, is to leave Exeter at
46 minutes past 12, instead of 30 minutes past eleven, as at
present, Which will require the London train from Bristol (at
30 minutes, past two) to be one hour and ten minutes later,
leaving at 40 minutes after' three, and arriving at the ter-
minus at Paddington at 15 minutes past eight; instead of
minutes past seven. The night mail up will leave Exeter at
35 minutes inlet. nine' and arrive at Paddington at 45 minutes
past four, instead of 20 minutes past five. Several changes
are also to be made in the Folkestone and Dover Railway,
the French mail having been received onMonday Morning for
the first time by that, route, instead of by coach through
Canterbury. On the Eastern. Counties arrangements are
going on for expediting the morning mails, which will be a
great convenience to the public in the transmission of letters
and newspapers to places at present having only one delivery
daily.
THE LATE CHILD MURDER AND MUTILATION IT
HAMPTON ConaT.--Monday, Mr. F. J. Manning, the Co-
roner of the Queen's household, held an inquest at the 'Can-
teen, in the fore-court of Hampton-Court Palace, on the
mutilated remains of a male infant, the principal portions of
which have been recently found in a sewer belonging to the
palace, and upon which Mr. T. Walley held an inquest at
the Mitre-inn, on Tuesday last, the 7th instant. The un-
usual circumstance of two inquests being held on the same
remains, and the dispute between the county and Crown
Coroners as to their relative jurisdictions, has greatly in-
creased the interest excited throughout the neighbourhood,
lanVeddtnheesdinagyuelasstt-,roth inp inquest-room,
was
sicry was adjourned until Monday,rowded by respectable persons. It
will be recollected, that at the first meeting of the jury on
in consequence of Mr. Wakley, at the conclusion of his in-
quest, having, sealed up the jar in which the portions of the
body were contained, which seal the police refused to allow
to be broken. On Monday', on Mr. Manning taking his seat,
he handed to Inspector Dowsett, V division, his warrant for
delivering up the jar, which was thereupon brought into the
Court, and afterwards opened. A good deal of evidence, but
none throwing any light upon the subject, was brought forward.
The jury returned a verdict 'of " Wilful Murder against some
person or persons unknown." The Coroner then ordered the
remains to be replaced in the jar, and having resealed it, gave
it into the hands of the police. The inquiry occupied four
hours