The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 8, 1850.

on Tuesday. Against the culpable negligence
with which this mere party Bill is being
hurried into a law by the Legislature we
cannot protest too emphatically. Appreciating as we
do the extreme disadvantages which must result to the
community if the plan as at present arranged be car-
ried into actual operation, we are induced yet again
and again to insist upon the necessity of a wholesome
pause in these lamentable and extraordinary proceed-
ings. Our objections to the measure have not been
either vague or inferential. We have time after
time specified the precise clauses which we regard
as being calculated to prove dangerous to the popular
interests, and detrimental to the progress of
sanitary reform. We indicated, moreover, the exact
origin of these dangers and the manner in which
they must, to our thinking, be manifested. Our op-
position hag not been of a petulant or perverse charac-
ter ; but throughout we have endeavoured to point
out, with all dispassionate earnestness, the reason of
our solicitude, and have essayed, in like manner, those
suggestions of emendation in Committee which seemed
to us desirable and, what is yet more, practic-
I able. Hitherto our efforts have been altogether
ineffectual in eliciting anything like vigilant
scrutiny from the apparently apathetic indifference
of the Parliament. Since the first exposure of the
precise nature of the Metropolitan Interments Bill in
our columns; since we first attempted to reveal to the
apprehension of the multitude the servile manner in
which the Cabinet was therein truckling to the clergy
of the Establishment ; since we first demonstrated
the pernicious tendency of an enactment which
virtually ignored the existence of all civic preroga-
tives, and of all personal authority in the great body
of the Dissenters—we have observed with extreme
gratification that the argument was gradually
echoed. by a very large number of our metropolitan
and provincial contemporaries. Every one who con-
sented to examine into the precise nature of the pro-
jected innovation was compelled to acquiesce in the
opinion that if allowed to pass into a veritable enactment
the Bill would entail a multiplicity of calamitous
consequences upon the population. While, however,
this coincidence of opinion has been readily mani-

felted without the walls of the Imperial Parliament,
but few have betrayed their recognition of the evils
likely to accrue to the people from a scheme so ex-
clusively favourable to the ecclesiastical authorities.
Insomuch has this been the case in the House of
Commons, that after one gallant adventure in the
way of opposition, all thoughts of attempting
any systematic amendment in Committee were aban-
doned. Even Mr. DUNCOMBE, the energetic advo-
cate of popular rights, was forced to yield to the pre-
dominant spirit of indifference, perceiving, as he did
at once, that the further prosecution of his intended an •
tagonism to the Administration would only tend to the
useless squandering of public time—without pro-
ducing one beneficial change in the scheme of
organization. Hence it has come to pass
that the 'most earnest supporters of the
genuine cause of sanitary amelioration have
since then contented themselves almost exclusively
with repeated protests against the Bill now under
examination in Committee ; clause after clause having

been agreed to with the most slovenly celerity. A
reference to the progress of the measure last evening
in the House of Commons will be sufficient to illus-
trate the hopelessness of all judicious emendation
from the Lower House of the Legislature. The
majority of that House betrays, indeed, such a lament-
able subserviency to the wishes of the Government,
in regard to this particular undertaking, that the
clerical party may well congratulate themselves upon
the speedy realisation of all their dreams of compen-
sation. One thing, and one thing alone, can now re-
tard the progress of this baneful enactment, and that
one thing is—agitation. Let the various con-
stituencies throughout the country agitate at
once a stern and resolute opposition to the
Bill in question. Let them petition, petition,
petition ! Let them communicate, moreover, to their
respective representatives the fervour of their wishes
for a delay in the plans of the Government. It
would be worse than ridiculous for the provincial
possessors of the franchise to argue that they have no
interest in the measure, seeing that it applies
exclusively to the system of interment regard-
ing the metropolis. That system they must
see, as the saying is, " with half an eye,'
however it may be sketched out by the

Cabinet and accepted by the Legislature, will form

the model system for the United Kingdom. What-
ever course shall be adopted with reference to the
capital will be ultimately carried out in the provinces•
It is consequently with sufficient reason that we de-
clare the matter to be of equal interest to the one as
to the other—to the inhabitants of York and Birming-
ham as to the citizens of London and Westminster
Again we say to them, therefore, bestir yourselves
betimes ; agitate the question at issue from parish to
parish ; transmit your resolutions severally to your
respective representatives ; and, above all—Petition !
Petition ! Petition !

At length we may look forward confidently to the
speedy attainment of a measure of Chancery reform
adequate.to the wants and wishes of the country. We
gladly accord to the Noble Lord at the head of the
Government and his colleagues in the Cabinet the
praise to which they are justly entitled, for the
straightforward and honourable course they have pur-
sued with respect to one of the most important ques-
tions connected with the administration of justice in
this country. Lord COTTENHAM, full of years and
.full of honour, has retired to the otium cum dignitate
which he has so fairly earned, and which we trust
he may long live to enjoy, with health and strength
completely restored by the cessation of the labours
which he has sustained for so many years. He
carries with him to his retirement a high
mark of the approbation of his SOVEREIGN, who
has been graciously pleased to confer upon him and
the heirs male of his body the rank and dignity of a
Viscount and Earl of the United Kingdom ; and he
has also gained the thanks and gratitude of the com-
munity for the able and efficient discharge of arduous
and important duties, so far as it was within human
power to do so. We have, however, already pointed
out that no single individual could perform all the
multifarious avocations attached to the office. Ar-
rears would necessarily accumulate, much-required
ameliorations be slurred over and neglected ; but
these were the faults of the system, not of the man,
and the only wonder was that he should have been
enabled to accomplish so much, not that something
should have remained undone.

It has long been obvious to legal reformers that
no great improvement in Chancery procedure
could be hoped for until the very head
of the Court itself was placed on a better
foundation, until the chief judge in equity was en-
abled to devote his entire time to his judicial duties
and the practical details of the court over which he
was appointed to preside. The Master's offices could
not be thoroughly purified, the expenses therein
diminished, and the progress of business accelerated
until the Lord Chancellor could apply his mind
calmly and dispassionately to the consideration of the
existing evils, and the nature of the remedies by
which they could be fully provided for, without en-
countering even more formidable dangers. Care
must be taken lest in " shunning Scylla we may fall
into Charybdis;' To do so safely and effectually we
must have an officer who will superintend the neces-
sary alterations, and who may be considered in some
degree responsible for the defects of the new regula-
tions which may be introduced with his sanction and
approbation, and this cannot reasonably be
we have a total separation
ofex Ptehcetepd tioliticuanlaind judicial functions of the Lord
High Chancellor of England. That is the first step
to be accomplished, and that may now be anticipated
even within the present session.

--
From what fell from the First Lord of the
Treasury last night, in answer to the Honourable
Gentleman the Member for Newark, it:
appears that
it is the intention of her MAJESTY to put the Great
Seal into commission until Ministers have fully decided
upon the course to be pursued " with respect to the
future duties of the Court of Chancery, the appellate
jurisdiction of the House of Lords, and the adminis-
tration of the functions which appertain to the Lord
Chancellor as a member of the Government;" and
Monday, the 24th June, has been fixed on as the day
when the result of the Ministerial deliberations are to
be announced to the House of Commons In declining
to fill up the office on any understanding, or pledge,
however stringent, the Noble Lord has given the best
proof of his own dame determination tv carry out '

the object, which last week he described as being one
" very desirable to obtain." The marked manner in
which he alluded to the three distinct departments of
the office—" the duties of the Court of Chancery,"
"the appellate jurisdiction of the House of Lords," and
" the administration of the functions which appertain
to the Lord Chancellor as a member of the Govern-
ment"—sufficiently indicates that the desire of the
Cabinet is to divide the duties between three persons)
and (as we ourselves suggested in The Sint; of the
27th ultimo) "to assimilate the office of Lord Chan-
cellor, so far as the judicial duties are concerned, to
the Mastership of the Rolls, the Tice Chancellorships,
and other judgeships, and that the occupant should
be irremovable, and hold his situation dum se bene
gesserit;" that there should also be " a permanent
President of the appellate tribunal of the House of
Lords, who might also act as Speaker of the House
of Lords ;" and,: finally, that there should be " a
Minister of Justice with a seat in the Cabinet, who
would discharge all the political duties which now
devolve on the Lord Chancellor."

The advantages of such a division of labour
are so obvious, that there can be but little
doubt that it will be adopted, particularly
after the pointed allusion made by Lord Jour; Rus-
SELL to the three branches of the office. The chief
difficulty will be the fixing the emoluments of the
different offices and the judicious allocation of the
enormous patronage, ecclesiastical as well as legal,
now vested in the Lord Chancellor for the time being.
The salaries may easily be decided. The sala-
ries of the Chief Justices of the common law
courts will point out what should be given to the
Chief Judge in equity. The judicial salary of the
Lord Chancellor was the same as that of the Lord
Chief Justice before the recent Bill. As 7,0001. per
annum has been considered sufficient for the latter, it
may be so for the equity judge when his labours
will be so materially lessened. The 4,0001. a year
paid to the Speaker of the House of Lords may be
continued to the new Speaker and Chairman of Ap-
peals, and the Minister of Justice may receive the
same as the Premier or a Secretary of State.
If these suggestions were carried into execution,
the business would be efficiently performed, and the
additional expense would be but 2,0001. per annum,
which sum, insignificant as it may be considered, in
comparison to the vast benefits that would accrue
from the change, might be saved by joining the almost
sinecure duties of Lord Privy Seal to the Minister of
Justice, or Speaker of the House of Peers.

Idle would it be, at this day, to attempt to demon-
strate the obvious advantages of life assurance. Con-
stantly are they brought before the eyes of every
reflecting man in the ordinary and common dispensa-
tions of life, where, on the one hand, surviving
families are spared the evils of penury, so often inci-
dent to bereavement ; and, on the other, where the
grief with which we bewail the dead is aggravated
by the adversity that accompanies the loss. The
vicissitudes and reverses of fortune, the proverbial
uncertainty of human life, and the miseries of poverty
and indigence, long ago suggested to the thoughtful
mind of man expedients by which he might mitigate
and soften, though it was beyond his power to avert,
the terrible evils and misfortunes with which an in-
scrutable PROVIDENCE hedges round his existence in
this mortal life. In the principle of life assurance,
accordingly, is one of those expedients found ; and we
can trace its beneficial operation running through the
complicated net-work of civilized society. But un-
fortunately its advantages, though perceptible to the
commonest mind, have never yet been generally em-
braced ; and, strange to say, it is almost exclusively
confined to this country. It is only sagacious, pru-
dent, and self-denying men who, with a fore-
cast far beyond their fellows, have availed
themselves of its benefits. Numerous as are the
institutions which have sprung up in this me-
tropolis to carry this principle into effect, there is
room and verge enough for them all ; and to-day
our columns indicate the progress of an aspirant
for public favour. The TIMES LIFE ASSURANCE
AND GUARANTEE COMPANY was set on foot, some
eighteen months ago, under the most favourable
auspices, as it respects a judicious and influential
directory, and already, as will be seen from the
report in another part of our journal, its success has
been remarkable, whilst its operations have been un-
attended with a single loss, notwithstanding the
terrible epidemic, so disastrous to institutions of this
kind, which afflicted this country for a period of three
months. The objects which this company have in
view are twofold : first, life-assurance, annuities,
and family endowments of all descriptions, adapted
to meet the views and means of the provident of every
class ; second, the providing guarantees for fidelity
of trust, so connected with the foregoing objects as
mainly to ensure all the advantages of a mutual sys-
tem, the payers of the guarantee premium partici-
pating in the profits of the guarantee fund. The
society does not confine its operations to this country,
but is occupied also in bringing its advantages before
the public in some parts of the continent, where life
assurance is but little known or appreciated. We
give this promising society a welcome, and cordially
recommend the report of its first annual meeting to
the perusal of our readers.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Bill renewing for another year the law against
clubs was passed in the Assembly on Thursday by a
majority of 278, the numbers being 469 to 191. In
the course of the discussion M. Esguntos, the newly-
elected representative of the Soane et Loire, made a
most eloquent speech against the law.
The Committee of the Initiative have determined
to take into consideration the proposition of General
GRAMMONT, for moving the seat of Government from
Paris to Versailles by a majority of one; the numbers
were 12 to 11.

The proposition to increase the salary of the
PRESIDENT has excited the most profound sensation,
and notwithstanding the appeal ad misericordiam of
M. ACHILLE FOULD, many of the Legitimatists have,
it is said, determined to join the Republicans in their op-
position to the proposal. The Burgraves having wrung
from the PRESIDENT a reluctant consent to the Elec-
toral Bill, do not deem it advisable to keep up even
the semblance of friendship for him. They support
the proposition, but after such a fashion that their sup-
port is more damaging than even their opposition
could have been. As a sample of Burgrave tactics,
we cite the following mot of M. DUPIN You
complain that we have suppressed 3,000,000 01
Gallic electors, and we propose to substitute for
them 3,000,000 Francs, and you cry out—Really you
are most unreasonable."

The usual levee was not held on Thursday, at the
Elysee, and it is said, that unless the sum demanded
by the PRESIDENT is voted by the Assembly, the levees
will be discontinued, as he cannot support the expense
of holding them. He has, it is said, been running in
debt at the rate of 1,000/. a month ever since his
election to the Presidency. He is now, it is ru-
moured, about to retire to St. Cloud, to retrench.
The Libert4 says—
"lt has been remarked that of all the Ministers who
in general hold their levees on Tuesday evening, M. de
Lahitte was the only one whose salons were closed on
that evening, and who had gone into the country. This
fact, and the reports in circulation, lead us to fear that
that honourable warrior has arrived at the termination
of his Ministerial career."

The Courrier Francais pretends that the concen-
tration of maritime forces in the Mediterranean is
for the protection of Naples against British claims,
adding that Russia is determined to support the KING.
The proofs of the subservience of the reactionary
party in France to Russian designs is becoming every
day more manifest. Couriers are constantly travel-
ling between Paris and Warsaw; and the Emperor
of Russie, who approves highly of the recent altera-
tion in the electoral law, has, it is said,
issued his orders to the Gallo-Cossack chiefs
to at once introduce and carry a measure dissolving
the National Guards throughout the dominions of
the Republic, as it is considered that they would be
inclined to oppose the ulterior designs of the Russian
Alliance upon France. It is said that in considera-
tion of the armed assistance to be afforded by the
Monarchs of the Russian alliance to the French
Royalists for the restoration of HENRI V., the
Royalists engage, in the event of success, to cede
Alsace and Lorraine to the Alliance, to be disposed
of as to them shall seem fit. The French correspondence
of the Gazette des Pastes at Frankfort develops the
whole plot.
The Prefect of the Haute Vienna has published
a decree prohibiting the reading aloud of newspapers
in manufactories throughout the whole department.
Some arrests for political causes have ',been made at
Lyons. 150 workmen joined in a strike at Beauvais.
The ringleaders were arrested, and tranquillity re-
stored.
The. Assembly was yesterday engaged in discussing
the motion for the third reading of the Transporta-
tion Bill, which had not concluded when the post left.
Prays DOvaes, JIIN4 7.—Cloying Price. ,—Fire
Te

per Cents., 94f. ; Three per Cents., 56f. 50c.; Bank
of Action, 2,265 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, JI,NX 7.
Boulogne and Amiens, 61A—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 13—Northern of France, 13 j4—Orleans
and Bordeaux, 2%—Paris and Strasbourg, oh—Rouen and
Havre, B%—Sambre and Meuse, 21,i.

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 2d inst. have arrived.

The Gazelle publishes two royal decrees—one re-
gulating the ceremonies in the event of the happy ac-
couchement of the QUEEN, according to the forms ob-
served by her ancestors; the other ordering that the
accouchement shall be made known to the public by
the firing of cannon.
The Bolsa was closed.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were es-
timated at from 1,000 to 6,000 bales. The market was
tame and more sellers than buyers at previous rates.—
Railway Shares slightly declined, but a fair amount of
business was done.

The weekly statement of the Bank of England is to
the Ist instant ; and varies from the previous return in
so far as that it shows an increase of circulation. The
amount of the precious metals was again larger. The
Public Deposits were further increased, and will
pursue the ascensional movement until the close of the
financial quarter, and the private balances it ere slightly
trenched upon, possibly for employment in trade or in-
vestment in securities, or for remittance abroad on
account of the Russian loan. The advances upon other
securities do not rise much, but it is something gained,
perhaps, with such a plethora of money, if they do not
recede. Compared with the previous return, the results
are as follows:—
Notes issued ...
Increase . .
Rest ... ... ...

... 30,003,335
... 76,095
... 3,053,585
13,686
... 7,577,660
... 290,597
• 9,2 I 5 738
... 392.698
1,198,788
... 41,913
... no alteration
.. 9,760,04$
... E 2 972
... 10,788 260
... 96,415
• 16,737,613
... 35,,664
... 19,215 075
... 172,510

Decrease ...
Public Deposits ... ...
Increase ... ...
Other Deposits ~. ...
Decrease ... •••
Seven Day and other Bills
Increase ... ...
Government Securities ...
Other Securities ... ...
Increase ...
Notes ... • •• ...
Decrease ... ...
Bullion ... ... ...
Increase ... ...
Active Circulation ...
Increase ... ...

In the negotiation yesterday of bills of exchange upon
the principal Continental cities, it appeared that the
rates were slightly lower for 90 days paper on Italy
and Frankfort, but firm on Paris, Ilamburgh, Holland,
and Belgium.
The adulteration of coffee is carried now to such an
extent, and the consumption, as shown by the official
returns, has so materially fallen off, that it is important
to place facts before consumers for their guidance. Mr.
P. L. Simmonds, who has had practical experience
in Jamaica, writes of " Coffee as it is, and as it
ought to be," and enters into the whole question
of adulteration, chemical tests for detecting the same,
production and consumption, and many of the facts are
extremely useful. The detection of chicory mixture,
for example, is much more simple than might be sup-
posed. A small quantity of the coffee has simply to be
put on the top of a glass full of cold water, and shaken
up. If pure, the coffee will swim and give little or no
colour to the liquid, but if chicory be present it sinks to
the bottom and communicates a pretty deep red tinge to
the water. Mr. Simmonds then goes on to say: "It is
quite essential that buyers should be intimately ac-
quainted with the appearance of the various berries,
because, although a grocer cannot adulterate the article
in its new state, he can deceive and pass off upon his
uninitiated customers the worst for the most approved
kinds; and this I know to be the case in many instances. -
They who have once seen the two berries or beans,
Mocha and Plantation, can be never again deceived.
As I cannot show I will describe them. I speak of coffee
in the raw state, for on every account I would
strenuously advise that my readers should purchase it
unroasted. Mocha (or, as it is often called, Turkey)
is the smallest of all the usual sorts, it is round,
plump, rough, equal-sized, the colour inclining to
buff, with a tinge of pale brown, or of
a light olive hue; the Jamaica, Plantation, Bet.-
bice (for they much resemble one another)
are fine, large, flat, handsome-looking berries,
with a hue of grey-green, very different from those of
Mocha or even Ceylon, which last, from similarity of
colour, might deceive those who are not aware of this
distinctive difference, namely, that the Ceylon berries
are of irregular sizes, ill-shaped, and of a spotted dirty
cream colour. The grey-green shade of the western
Coffees is entirely deficient in those of Asia. In its raw
state, this article of consumption, unlike other grains,
such as rice, wheat, &c., appears to be entirely exempt
from the destructive ravages of insects; it will keep good
nay, perhaps, improve, for an indefinite length of time;
and may, consequently, be purchased at any period and
in any quantity, when an opportunity offers for obtaining
it at wholesale price. R9asted Coffee, on the contrary,
deteriorates rapidly, and if exposed, as we see it in
shops, it should be kept closely stopped in canisters, or
wide-mouthed glass bottles. The sooner Coffee is used
after it is roasted, the finer will be the flavour; hence I
prefer to roast only the quantity intended for the con-
sumption of one week."
The letters by the steamer Pacific from the United
States were delivered this morning, and the following are
one or two extracts:—

" There has been a fair demand for sterling bills, for
remittance by the American mail steam-ship Pacific, and
rates ha•e been well maintained. The supply of second
and third-rate bills is not so large as usual, and the
sales are, therefore, confined more to the best drawers
We hare no changes to report in domestic exchanges,
quotations for specie, or for uncurrent money. The
amount of uncurrent money offering for redemption is
limited for the season, and there is the same scarcity of
State money that we have noticed for some time past."
Extraordinary efforts continue to be made in support
of the cotton market, and the following is from Mr. I'. J.
Stewart, of New York:—

" Yesterday (Friday) the market opened stiff, and
3,500 bales were taken at the full quotations annexed.
This is in the face of an advance in freights, which are now
held stiff at 3-16 d., although most of the late sales were
negotiated for at slightly easier rates. This sudden de-
sire to secure the staple at the present rates for shippers
is mainly owing to the growing conviction that there
will be a pinching time for it, long before any small aid
can be derived from a crop, which is only just planted, as
a whole, and which ie the must unpromising we have
ever had; and when its true position is placed before
the spinners in a way they cannot get away from it, we
anticipate here to learn of an excitement at Liverpool
such as has not been witnessed for many years.
" In my circular per Niagara, under dote of April 2d,
I called your attention to the fact that I thought it pro-
bable that the mild winter we had enjoyed would have
the tendency to hasten the melting of the snows on the
Upper Mississippi and Missouri, and that the rise which
usually comes out of these rivers in the latter part of
May, would be down earlier, and before the usual
freshets from the lower tributaries of the ` father of
waters,' such as the Ohio, Red River, Arkansas, Ten-
nessee, &c., could pass off into the Gulf. This has
happened. I attach great importance to it, from the
experience of former seasons evidencing the fact that a
large crop is impossible, where the March planting is
impaired. The only section in which the seed planted
during that month appeared to vegetate was in the
Groat South-Western Valley; elsewhere, they have re-
planted very generally at the close of April, and even
in May. The following extract shows the position of
things in that quarter:—
I " ' Reports from the Missouri, state that the whole of
that river is up as far as Independence Landing. Op-
posite Helena, Arkansas, the water has completely co-
vered the prairies. The Arkansas is falling, but we un-
derstand that Red River is rising fast, and that it bad
already submerged many of the plantations near the
mouth. At Lake Providence, the river was one inch
higher than ever known. At Memphis, the water was
even with the highest flood mark. From Natchez to
Miliken's Bend, it is estimated that at least 150,000
acres of land, which had been planted in cotton, are now
under water, and hundreds of the finest plantations en-
tirely ruined. The river now extends from Natchez to
the hills of Ouachita, a distance of over forty miles, and
we learn from an eye-witness, that everything has been
swept away. Every knoll and hill top is filled with
cattle, horses, and other domestic animals, and even
bears, panthers, and deers, are herding with them, for-
getting, in the presence of a common danger, their na-
tural ferocity or timidity. At Vicksburg, the river is 60
miles broad."'
The accounts from Lancashire and Yorkshire report
a steady but not very extensive business doing in textile
goods.
The exports of bullion from London during the week,
to last Thursday, were 1,074 ounces in gold to France,
and 832,700 ounces in silver, all of which except 20,000
ounces, went to St. Petersburgh.
The English Funds have been firmer to-day at fuller
1 rates, but there is an exceedingly limited business doing. i
Consols have been done at 96; for the first Tratisfer-day
next week, and about 97 to 97 for next Account. Ex-
chequer-bills realise 6Es. to 71s. premium. East India
Stock has been marked 87 premium.
In the Foreign Market there have been increased
transactions in Peruvian Bonds, which have touched
77; for the Active, and 344 for the Deferred. Mexican
Stock has been at 311 to i. Grenada have realised 184.
Spanish Three per Cents. are marked 371 i, and Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 57k.
Railway Shares are quieter, and rather in favour of
buyers.

QUARTER TO THREE.
Consols ... ... .. ... 96 I
'Ditto Account ... ... ... 961.
BRITISH FENDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
S per Cent. Consols Anna WA%
New 314 per Cont. Aims. 97%34
Long Annuities. Exp. Jan. sth, 1360 8 8-16
India Stock —
Do. Bonds, 10001 B7 p
Consols for Account ...... 963,4%
Exchequer Bills. M
1%1
June2C
arch. .
1,0601.
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Cuba, 6 per Cent ......................99
Equador Bonds . ................. ... 334
Grenada 1% per Cent.
Mexican 80n'e15,1846,5 per Cont., Coupons
Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons
Ditto for the Account .• ••• 31%
Peruvian Bonds, 41, per Ceni .. •
Ditto for tho Account .......... ;
Ditto Deferred
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent -
Ditto 4% per Cent. 96 96%--7--
Ditto Scrip SI4 3 p
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto Account
.. AA
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent,l,77' '" "I'4'
Dividends en the above payabi': in London.
Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild ... 67%
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ON: OCLOCK
RAILWAYS. PAW,
I.berdeen
Buckinghamshire
aledonian ' IN
r 17,6 ..... to
Eastern Counties .....
...... --
Do. New Pref., 6 per,Cent.. 128 ...
1.1 7%
t°to
East Lincolnshire, guar. 6 per
Cent. ., 28%...... to ...
... 25
.• 1

Great Northern .
Do. 16 A Deferred ..... ... 191,4 6
_Jo., 5 per Cent. Pref.
Great Western lOO —.3171/2 ex n. .0 58
..,ancashire and Yorkshire lOO ..... 40
Ditte.Thirds ...... ...... ..... lit . ..... 7V/4 to
Do., New Guar. 6 per cont. 10
Lond., Bright., & South Coastloo
London &North Western.....loo lO7l/I.— '0
Midland.-...,... .... ........ —.IOO
Ditto, 501. Shares ..... ...... 30
Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton
Preston and Wyre ... 25 ...... 40 ...... to
South Eastern
Wear Valley, 6 per Cent.
Guaranteed .— ...... 50 ...... ...... to
Do. do. do.
Do. do. do. -
York, Newcastle, and Berwick 25 ...... 1414 %% to
Do. and Newcastle Exten. 20
Do. G. N. E. Par. or Pref.. $
York and North Midland ... 50
Ditto, Preference
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
knglo Italian (late Italian
and Austrian) ...... 5% — is
Datch Rhenish 8
Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 7 ... .. 2%
Pans and Orleans....
Rouen and Havre
JOINT STOCK ISANKS.
Australasia
London and Westminster.

COIJRSE OF
Amsteniam 12 2M
Ditto, three months.. 12 3.4,
Rotterdam 12 334
kntwerp •• . ..... 25 77X,
Brussels •• • • ...• ..... 25 77%
Eia.mburgh 13 13
&ltona
Paris, 3 days'sight .. • . 25 57%
Ditto, 3 months .... 25 77
homilies • • •••• .. • • 25 80
Bourdeaux• •••• • • • • • --
Frankfort on Maine....
!I•erliii • • .. • • ...... • • • •
Vienna, effec. 110 •• .• • • 12 1$
Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 12 20
Petersburgh, Sil. Rble.. 371 i
Madrid • • ........ 4954
Cadiz •• •• •• •• •• •• •..• 491
Barcelona • • •• • • • • • • • •
Seville" •• • ••••• •• •• •. •—•

EXCHANGE.

Gibraltar • • • • • • • • • • •
Leghorn ........ ••.. • • 30 $0
Genoa .. •• 26 20
Venice.. • • •.••• • • • • •
Naples .... • • 40%
Palermo, per0z........ 121
Messina •••.••• • • • • • • • 122%
Lisbon.... • • .......... 53%
Oporto .......... 53%
Rio Janeiro .......... 27
Buenos Ayres ..
New York, 60 days'sight
Philadelphia .... • • ....

pawns or BULLION, ?ES on.
Foreign Geld in bars.. Xit 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin • . 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
New Dollars ••.. • • 0 4 10%
Silver in bars • • 0 4 11%

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JUNE B.—Wind this day at noon W., fresh
breeze and showery.
DEAL, JUNE 7.—Wind A Dt. W.S.W. to W., strong;
P.M. ditto, moderate.—Arrd. Henrick, Sorenson, Porto
Rico for Copenhagen; Tasman, Blackburn, Port Philip;
Colonist, Healey, Hobart Town; Emma, Knight, Ma-
dras; Elizabeth, Hill, Porto Rico; Midas, Leslie, Tri-
nidad ; Helena, Young, Manz anilla ; Perseverance,
Thomson, St. Kitt's; Calypso, Eltringham, Jamaica;
Anna Maria, Vallet, and William Gladstone, Smith,
Havannah for Antwerp; Majestic, Cuthbertson, Hon-
duras. Sid. Dart, Madeira.
QUEENSTOWN, JUNE 6.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Samuel,
Spyvell, Laguna.
GRIMSBY, JUNE 7.—The Douro, of Carnarvon, from
Goole, and the Lovely Nancy, of Harwich, have put in
here, having been in contact; the former has bows
stove, stanchions, &c., gone; and the latter is leaky, and
has lost bowsprit, &c.
SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 7.—Sid. Madrid steamer, Lis-
bon &c.
JUNE 7.—Wind W.S.W. to N.W,—
Arrd. Lady Maria, Saldanha Bay; Waterwitch, Smith,
and Alfred, Menius, Buenos Ayres; Ceres, Culverwell,
Barbadoes; Honor, Tannahill, St. Domingo; Jane An-
derson, Tofin, Cienfuegos; Ann Dingwell, Laguna; Ex-
press, Zapote; Philadelphia, New York; Flint, Wright,
Paraiba; John Ritson and Maria, Barbadoes; Wan-
derer, St. Domingo; Melton, Little, Matanzas; Chantal,
and Salopian, Rio de la Hache; Caroline, Nesmith,
Apalachicola; Sceptre, M'Queen, Virginia. Sld. John
Wesley, Nassau. Off port, Ranger, Maceio; Phcenix,
Antigua and Peru.—The William Peile, hence to
Buenos Ayres, which ran aground on the English Bank,
River Plate, 1 P.N., March 29, was assisted off by her
Majesty's ship Harpy, without damage to cargo, and
not leaking.
RAMSGATE, JUNE 7.—The Sir R. Barclay, from
Shields to Gibraltar, sprung a leak and sunk this morn-
ing between the Tongue and Margate Sands ; crew
saved.
SHOREHAM, JUNE 7.—The Jane, of Rochester, oyster
dredger, was run down yesterday morning about 23
miles off Fecamp by a French gun brig, who had been
chasing her the previous day; crew saved.
DOTER, JUNE 7.—Off port, Westphalia, New York
for Bremen.
PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 7.—Off port, Pruis Carl, St. Croix.
COWES, JUNE 7.—Wind S. W.—Arrd. Antonio, Val-
paraiso, and proceeded for Hamburgh; Baring Brothers,
and Columbus, Matanzas; Lady Knight, Choate, Havan-
sah ; Saone, Sargent, Boston.
PORTLAND, JUNE 6.—Off port, Russian, Matanzas
for St. Petersburgh; Kossuth, Matanzas for Hamburgh.
FALMOUTH, JUNE 7.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Ann,
Cradbrook, (late Bradford), Sierra Leone; Adelaide,
Thurston, Havannah. A quantity of plank and bundles
of shingles was passed 20Lti March off Cape Horn by the
Marie and Louise, arrived here. The Governor Har-
court, for Jamaica, which put in here, is discharging.
QUEENSTMWN, JUNE 6.—Off port, Eliza Bell, Hewett,
Barbadoes.
The Gratitude which was aground outside Spike
, Point, floated with the tide and proceeded for the Clyde.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)
COVENT-GILE.DEPi.

Our market to-day was well supplied with vegetables,
in which a large business was transacted. Fruit was in
good request.
English Fruits—Strawberries, 5s to Ss; Pine Apples,
8s to 10s; Hot-house Grapes, 6s to 8s per lb; Eating Ap-
ples, 5s to 6s per half-sieve; cooking ditto, 4s to 6s per
bushel ; Peaches, 25s to 30s; Nectarines, 35s to 425;
Apricots, 9d to ls; Figs, 6s to 9s per dozen; Melons, 8s
to 12s each; Cherries, 12s to 18s per Ib; Gooseberries,
2s to 2s 6d per half•sieve; Currants, 6d to 9d per pottle.
Foreign Fruit—Cherries, 9d to is per lb; Lemons, 5s
to I Is; Oranges, 6s to 15s per 100; Almonds, 5s to Gs
per peck; Spanish Nuts, 4s to ss; Spanish Chesnuts,
3s to 6s; Brazil ditto, 3s to 4s ; Barcelona ditto, 5s to
6s per peck.
English Vegetables—Cucumbers, is to Is 6d per brace;
Cauliflowers, 6s to 9s per dozen; White Brocoli, 9s to
18s per dozen bundles; Old Onions, 5s to 5s 6d per
bushel; Horse•radish, 2s to ss; and Celery, Is to is 6d
per bundle; Leeks; is 6d to 2s; Parsley, 4d to 6d per
dozen bunches; early York Cabbages, 3d to 8d; Beet
2s to 3s 6d per dozen; Mushrooms, 4d to 9d per pottle;
Spinach, 4d to 6d per punnet; Jerusalem Artichokes,
sd to 9d per half-sieve ; Small Salad, is 6d to 2s per
dozen punnets; Sage, is 6d to 2s per dozen bunches;
Corn Salad, 9d to Is per hall-sieve; Shallots, 3d to 4d
per lb; Asparagus, 2s to 5s per 100; Rhubarb,
Is Od to 4s per doz. bundles ; Cornwall White
Brocoli, 2s to 2s 6d per dozen heads; French Beans,
Is 6d to 2s per 100; Cabbage Lettuces, 3d to 4d
per score; White Cos Lettuces, 8d to is per ditto; Mint,
2a to 3s per dozen bunches; Peas, 15s per bushel;
ditto shelled, 6s per quart; Young Turnips, 8d to 9d;
Young Carrots, 6d to 8d per bunch; Radishes, 3d to
4d per dozen bands; Turnip ditto, 3d to 4d per dozen
bunches; early framed Potatoes, 9d to is 3d per lb;
Cornwall New Potatoes, 3s to 5s per dozen lbs; Old
Potatoes, 120 s to 180 s per ton.
Foreign Vegetables—French Carrots, 6d per bunch;
French Beans, 6d to 9d per 100; French Peas, .*";tii
2s 6d per half sieve; Cucumbers, Dutch, 3d to 4d each;
Asparagus, 9d to is per 100; Dutch Melons, 2s 6d to
5s each.