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London, England, 1850-06-26 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 26, 1860.

levelled against the Cabinet in regard to the proceed-
ings of Lord PALMERSTON might'be olstained-from the
very speech in which that great diplomatist has ad-
ventured upon his ministerial vindication. One by
one the incidents of bis career as an Administrator
are there plainly and severally specified ; one by one
his achievements as a statesman are there recounted,
together with their respective justifications ; one
by one the charges hurled against him
with such virulent and dastardly vituperation,, or,
still worse, with so many detestable and mendacious
inuendoes, are there exposed in all their insincerity,
baseness, and atrocity. It was with a haughty cod
withering scorn that the noble orator, at the very
outset of his remarks, deprecated the indecent mirth
with which matters of such enormous gravity had
been brought under discussion by the Protectionists.
The flippant absurdities in which those per-
sons have not been ashamed to indulge, in
allusion to questions involving the vital and
fundamental principles of international jurispru-
dence, be declared to have been of a character unbe-
coming alike the individuals by whom, of whom,
and before whom those questions were brought under
examination. As if to enforce this consideration yet
more emphatically by means of that remarkable con-
trast, the Noble Viscount reminded these political
triflers of another truth of commensurate importance,
the truth " that men who aspire to govern mankind
ought to bring to that task generous sentiments,
compassionate sympathies, and noble and elevated
views." Than that no language could have been
employed more bitterly sarcastic towards men whose
views, sympathies, and sentiments have shown them-
selves throughout the whole question notoriously
devoid of magnanimity. After such premonitory
observations, the Foreign Secretary entered upon the
successive refutation of all the assertions made anta-
gonistic to the policy of his administration. He
divulged with scrupulous and punctilious
particularity every iota of the Greek negotia-
tions. He disclosed the justice and moderation
of our demands upon the Greek Government, and
the cordiality and truthfulness with which his diplo-
matic agents hs.d responded to the offer of French
mediation. Alluding to the assertion that our
maritime strength was ungenerously employed
against a state so weak and diminutive,
Lord PALMERSTON indignantly demanded if the
magnitude of its ill acts are diminished by the
smallness of a country? He enlarged, moreover,
on the fact that France had required, on
the 17th of May, 1848, from Naples, the
reparation, within two hours, of injuries
similar to those prior to, the .compensation of
which Greece obtained from our leniency a
lull of some fourteen years' duration. In ad-
dition to all which the Noble Lord observed,
that not only had the French Plenipotentiary
twice written to the English Ambassador saying, "I
have withdrawn from the negotiation," but that. Sir
WILLIAM PARKER, although thereby empowered to
recommence hostilities, had delayed from the
22d to the 24th, and from the 24th to the
25th before resuming any coercive measures. All
these particulars, however, had already been divulged
through the medium of the Parliamentary documents,
and it only remained for the distinguished statesman
whose genius and integrity were therein implicated
to'recapitulate truths previously revealed, in a manner
the simplicity and explicitness of which would remain
'for ever afterwards unanswerable. Besides ac-
complishing thus much by his masterly ora-
tion of last evening, Lord PALMERSTON explained
•with justifiable self-gratulation the patriotism, ,the
'manlinegs, and the'consistency of his policy towards
the rest of the nations of Christendom. He reverted
with proud, satisfaction to the manner in which,
,under hia au-spices, Belgium had acquired
her .independence:;. Portugal had, escaped - from the
yoke of Dom MIGUEL, the Absolutist ; Spain had ac-
quired, instead of the despotic rule of DON Caaeos,
the liberal constitution of ISABELLA ; Switzerland
had expelled the Jesuits and disbanded the Sonderbund
showing, moreover, how his policy had secured the
recognition of the French Republic, the assuagement
of Italian calamities, and the' preservatiOn of the
unfortunate and expatriated Hungarians. Ad-
mirably and felicitously were these magnani-
mous achievements of Lord PALMERSTON mentioned
as the criminal features of his policy by the witty and
brilliant representative of Middlesex, one of the most
humorous 'and effective orators, as he is most certainly
one of the most liberal and independent Members, in
the House of Commons. It was after the careful
enumeration of these his great deeds as a patriotic
statesman that Viscount PALMERSTON last night
closed his oration by boldly challenging the favour-
able verdict of Parliament. That favourable verdict
is already secured to him as the crowning victory of
his political life—the reward of a policy more national,
a character more elevated, a genius more masculine, a
courage more impressive, and a career more illus-
trious, than have ever before distinguished a Foreign
Secretary in the annals of British statesmanship.

Lord ASHLEY and his squad should be denominated
patrons of the desecration of the Sabbath. In order to
save a couple of clerks in each large town a few hours'
labour, and a single post-master a few minutes'labour
in the morning of Sunday, they have compelled the
employment of hundreds of persons during the course
of last Sunday, for the whole day long. The subject
was again brought under the notice of the House of
Lords last night, by Lord Bsouonam, and the
following narrative, which we give in the words
of the Noble and Learned Lord, exemplifies
what must henceforward be the state of affairs if the
Sabbatarians are to be indulged in their fanatical
extravagances ; Lord BROUGHAM, in the course of
his speech, read a letter from a manufacturer in
Castleton, " whose waggoner had been killed on the
road last Saturday, to show the inconvenience which
had been sustained in consequence of the inability of
that manufacturer to forward his letters immediately
to inquire into the circumstances under which his
waggoner had been killed, and to ascertain whether
the gcods which he had expected to receive from
various parts of the kingdom had or had not
been stolen from his waggon after his wag-
goner had ;been killed. Under the old system,
he might have received information on all these
points by the Monday morning ; but under the
system enforced for the first time on Saturday and
Sunday last, his correspondents could not even re-
ceive his letters, asking for information, until Wed-
nesday morning. His correspondent had been com-
pelled to send men on the Sunday to the different
places where his correspondents lived, to procure i❑
person the information which he required. It was
quite clear that those persons could not go to church that
day, and were therefore damnified, so far as regarded
the due observance of the Sabbath." " Let their
Lordships consider for a moment," continued
Lord BROUGHAM, " what would be the case when
similar accidents in every part of the kingdom
should simultaneously lead to a similar compulsory
violation of the Sabbath. Hundreds of clerks would
be flying about the country on Sunday in order that
three or four Post-office officials might enjoy a
holiday for which they individually were not
anxious. He argued that for such an object it was
not expedient that our great merchants at
Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, and
other large towns, should be compelled to risk their
credit, and to run the danger of having their bills•
protested, from their inability to give means and in-
formation on Sunday to their agents to provide for
them. Such danger would be incurred all over
Great Britain ; and, as it must be prevented in one
way or another, it would lead to the employment of
hundreds of clerks on the Sunday, and would thus,
instead of improving the observance of the Sabbath,
lead to its increased desecration, to the benefit of a
few employes in the Post-office, and to the injury of
thousands of other persons."
We trust that all persons who have been compelled
by Lord ASHLEY to desecrate the Sabbath, like this
uefortunate manufacturer at Castleton, will, like him,
make their respective cans known, in order to show
as speedily as possible the absurdity, the iniquity,
and the impractibility of carrying out the ASHLEY
scheme.

The legal part of the question was brought under
the consideration of the House of Commons by
Mr. HUMS, who asked whether there was any ac-
curacy in the statement made elsewhere, that her
MAJESTY had no power by order in Council to
do away with the Post-office regulations which
were established by Act of Parliament ?
Whereupon the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER,

with more than his usual pomposity, declared that
" the Hon. Gentleman appeared to assume that the de-
livery on Sundays Wil3 imperative, but that was not
the case; he (the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER),
therefore, apprehended that the GoVernment had the
power to make the alteration referred to."

If this is the apprehension cf the Bight. Hon. Gen-
tleman, it is a mis-apprehension, and his law is as
bad as his finance. Indeed, from what followed, it
would appear that Sir Oracle, after hearing the ques-
tion of Mr. HILDYARD, began to have a faint glim-
mering of an idea that he had committed himself to
an absurdity, and that the less be said about the mat-
ter the better. We perceive that meetings are being
held all over the country on the subject, and we ad-
vise all who are aggrieved to lose no time in peti-
tioning Parliament.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS,

CITY, TRIO O'CLOCK.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was
steady, with a fair portion of business for export and
speculation. The sales were estimated at 6,000 bales.—
Railway Shares were quiet at previous quotations.
In the Colonial produce markets there are fair sales
making.

The steamer Atlantic, from New York, brings ac-
counts a day or two later in date. The Exchange on
London was firm at 110 to 1, with a good inquiry for
bills. Breadatuffs were quiet, and Cotton was brisk.
Freights without alteration: Business generally was
rather inactive. The letters are not yet delivered.
Accounts from Brussels state that the Prussian Go-
vernment had endeavoured, in the course of its negotia-
tions with the Belgian envoy, to impose such hard
terms for the renewal of the treaty of 1844 with the
Zollverein, that it was doubtful whether Leopold's Go-
vernment could acquiesce, and in such case notice would
have to be given of the termination of the treaty on the
Alit January next.
In the Amsterdam Stock Market, on the 24th inst.,
the Dutch Funds, after rising, closed much the same,
the Two-and-a-Half per Cents. being 57 7-16. Spanish
Three per Cents. were particularly in request.
The meeting of Mexican bondholders yesterday was
of protracted duration, but came to the best issue under
the circumstances. The conduct of Mr. W. P. Robert-
son in accepting a commission for the sale of the cotton
licences, as well as the mode in which those licences
were disposed of, was deprecated, and it was resolved
that Mr. Robertson's claim for services, &c., shall not be
entertained until he withdraws the lien upon the
50,000 or 60,000 dollars standing in his name, but
belonging to the bondholders at the Bank of England.
It was further agreed that a dividend df 285. per bond
shall be paid, but that 3s. shall be returned to meet
the expense of Mr. Fsloonnet's mission to Mexico,
where he may have to reside one or two years. The
difficulties, it is acknowledged on all hands, will be
great, and it will be an especial object to secure some of
the indemnity money.
The Funds are very quiet this morning, as there ap-
pears to be still sorae doubt about the majority, which
all are most anxious should be large. Consols have
been 9511- to 96 all the morning. Lord Palmerston's
masterly speech engrosses all attention. The New
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 971 to 98,
and the. Three per Cents. 964 Exchequer-bills have
been 695. premium.
In the Foreign Market the transactions have been
small. Mexican have realised 30i- 4, Portuguese Four
per Cents. have been 34-i. Russian bcrip is 4i premium.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half pct. Cants. have been 581
Railway Shares have been generally at about previous
rates, and there have been fair tram actions.
QUARTER TO THREE.

Consols ...
Ditto Account

... 95i 96

ONE
O'CLOCK.

PRICES OF BRITISII FUNDS

CLOSINP
PRICES.
209

•e• t;klLt. Reduced Anne, ....„ 96%% 96
New per Cent. .. 97% 98 973/4 , 97%
Lung Anne. to expire Ja4.1860 ..... . 814 • 8 3-16 64
k.:onsuis for Account. 96 95% 96

.xeltequer 13i118. _ 2d
i.,000/.. June 69 p
5001. June ............ 69.66 p
Small. June 69 p

63 p
66 p
69 p

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.PRICES
CLOSING.
Ausxicani 5 per Cott:lB46, with Coupons
--
Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons ..... ; 30%
Ditto, Account'4-.
Peruvian Bonds; 4 per Cent....'..
Ditto; Account ....
Ditto, Deferred"
"Portuguese h pi3r Cents. '
- Ditto,:4 per Cent.
Ditto, Small
Russian Bonds ... ........
Ditto, 414 per Cent
Ditto Scrip p p
Spanish 5 per Cont. 1840 17%
Ditto. 3 per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in London.

' 301/9
, , 30 43
78

• !78%
34,4

34%
35

.
Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild. .. 58% 58%
Ditto. 4 Der Cent. Certitiaates... 88% 88%
PRICES or PAID:BUSINESS' DONE CLOSIN.,
RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES
Caledonian .50 - ...... 8
Dublin and Belfast June. 424 — ... 94
t astern Counties........ 20
Do., New Preference,
6 per Cent. .... -.... 10
.
11%
Ditto. Extension, n per
Cent, No.l 61.1.38.4 d... p
Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13a. 4xl.- % p
Eastern Onion Class A
(late E. 1.1. Shares) 25
East Lancashire
Great Northern
Do., % A Deferred
Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. 12% 10%34 lO4
Great Western 100
Lancaster and Carlis1e... 50
Lancashire& Yorkshire 100 ...... 38 87% 38 86%
-
Do. Thirds ....-.. .18 ......
Leeds and Bradford
Leeds ane Think ...... 60 -
London &Blackwall...ll/. 6a 3d... 4 t 4
London, Brighton, and ^
South Coast... .....100
London and N. Western 100 ..... .109%14 109 % 109%
Ditto, New Queen's 12
Ditto,Fifth. ' 12 ..... 12%
London &S.Western -100 ..... 5934 60
Midland lOO . 36% 361,4
Do., 501. Shares
North British ... .... ... 25 ..... 7 6% 7 7
North Staffordshire ... 17% 63/4 6%
Royston and Hitchin ... 4 %..... 51,4
Shrewsbury and Birm... 1314...,.,9 1/4 dis.. 9l/4 dis
Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 ...... g 34 ... 9%
Shropshire Union
South Eastern
York, Newcastle, and
Barwick..... -- ....... 25
Do. Newcastle Exten. 20 ...... 934... 93%
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Luxembourg
Ditto

Rouen and Havre 20

MINES.
Brazilian Imperial ...... 24%
Do. St. John Del Rey 15
••••—•
United Mexican -2816

P
Ufa P

IN

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JUNE 26.—Wind at noon E., light breeze
and fine.
NEWPORT, JUNE 24.—Sla. Cumberland Lass, Quebec.
SWANSEA, JUNE 25.—Wind E.N.E.— Sid. 24th, Al-
derman Thompson, Cuba.
CLYDE, JUNE 24.—S1d. British Princess, Lima; Three
Bells, Montreal; Helen, Newfoundland.
QUEENSTOWN, JUNE 24.—Wind Southerly.—Arrd.
Sarah Botsford, Cameron, Matanzas; Hebe, Savannah.
BELFAST, JUNE 24.—Wind N.—Arrd. James Hunt,
Liegate, Antigua. Sld. Emulous, Barbadoes.
SHIELDS, JUNE 25.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Nicolai Jean,
New York.
BIDEFORD, JUNE 25.—Five casks of brandy, supposed
to have been part of the cargo of a vessel laden with
brandy, sunk near Lundy, have been picked up in the
bay, and placed in the Queen's warehouse, marked
" W. P.—O. D., 56 galls., Renault and Co.; Outard,
D. Y. and Co."
DEAL, JUNE 25.—Arrived from the river and sailed,
Zenobia, Cape of Good Hope.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 25.—Wind N.-24th, Arrd. Adrian a,
Rio Bento; Albert Gallatin, Delano, New York; New
York, Marshall, ditto; Richard Alsop, Smith, ditto.
25th, Colonist, Sinnott, St. Andrew's, New Brunswick.
Ski., 24th, Nautilus, Lima; Eliza Keith, ditto; Rava,
Rio Janeiro; David, Curacao; Eudocia, New York.
25th, Medium, Lima; Lord Elgin, Valparaiso; Light-
ning, Hayti; Samoset, Charleston; Anna Rich, Bald-
more; Avon, St. John's, New Brunswick; Francis and
Anne, Gaspe; Faith, Newfoundland. Off pert, Cronk-
bane. The Colonist, Sinnott, arrived here from St. An-
drew's, N. 8., was in contact during a thick fog on the
19th of Jane, in lat. 45, 10ng.44, with a barque, supposed
to be the Mary and Lydia, of Thomas Town. 26th,
5 A.H.—Arrd. Atlantic steamer, New York.
HARTLEPOOL, JUNE 23.—S1d. Lesmona, St. Thomas;
Helen, Lindsay, Adair.
ARDROSSAN.—SId. Velocity, Boston, U.S.
COWES, JUNE 25.—Wind W.—Arrd. Hopewell, New-
ton, Bahia; Helen Francis; Davis, Havannab.
SALCO3IBE, JUNE 25.—Wind E.—Arrd. 24th, New
Margaret, China.
FALMOUTH, JUNE 25.—Wind.E.—S1d. Cattarina, New
York.
CARDIFF, JUNE 24.—Sld. Odin, Achapulco.

DEATH OF VISCOUNT CANTALUPI3.—We regret
to announce the demise, after a very short and painful illness,
of Viscount Cantalupe, eldest son ( f the Earl and Countess
Delawarr, who expired at his father's residence in Upper
Grosvenor-street yesterday afternoon shortly before one
o'clock. The deceased Viscount was formerly in the Gre-
nadier Guards, but retired from that corps about ten years
back. He was born 25th April, 1814.

THE WEATHER.—At the Royal Observatory,
Greenwich, the mean daily reading of the barometer was
above 30 in. on the last five days of the week; the mean of
the week was 30.052 in. The mean temperature, which was
.53 deg. on Sunday, rose gradually to 68 deg. on Saturday,
on which day the highest in the sun was 98 deg. The mean
temp-rature of the week was 60 dee. 1 sec. On Sunday and
Monday the mean was 8 deg. and 5 deg. lower than the
average of the same days in seven years; it then rose
higher than the average, and on Friday and Saturday was
about 8 deg. above it.
WESTMINSTER TEMPORARY BRIDGE..—The Com-
mittee of the House of Commons hare decided that the
standing orders may be dispensed with in favour of this
measure, which is to enable the Commissioners of West-
minster-bridge to build a temporary structure from Bridge-
street to the opposite shore, to maintain it during the repairs
of Westminster-bridge, and to authorise the Commissioners
to mortgage the bridge estates.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAY.
The few samples of English Wheat on utFer in our
market today were disposed of at prices fully equal to
those obtained on Monday. The attendance of both
town and country buyers was limited, end the accomas
from the country respecting the nppearai,co of the
growing crops were very favourable. From a'.imArl
8,340 quarters of Wheat have come to hand this wcelr.
Selected parcels were held at very full .prices. In the
middling and inferior kinds next to nothing was doing.
Barley, the supply of which was moderate, moved of
slowly at late rates. We had a slow inquiry for Malt,
at last week's quotations. Very few Oats were brought
forward, and really good qualities produced 61 per
quarti-r more money. Beans, Peas, and Indian Coin
are without alteration.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Oats. Malt. I Flour.
Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Sacks
English 570 40 420 1,830 1,250
Scotch ..... • ..
Irish .......
Foreign •• •• ••1 8,340

690 3,
1760-