The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-03 00:00:00

The House adjourned at Half-past Eight o'Clock.

In the House of Commons, after a variety of pro-
ceedings which cannot be abridged more than they
are in the Parliamentary report, Mr. WYSE asked
Sir R. PEEL whether there would be any objection to
lay on the table the opinions of Counsel delivered to
the Treasury relative to Arts-Union ?
Sir R. PBEL answered in the negative, and added
that the Government had no intention of proceeding
against those societies. The matter rested with com-
mon informers.

In answer to questions from Mr. GISBORNE and
Lord SANDON, Mr. GLADSTONE said that in the course
of three weeks at the utmost, the resolutions proposed
by the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER for the re-
duction of duties on certain articles would probably
be adopted by the Legislature.
In answer to a question from a Member relative
to the communication with Ireland, Sir R. PEEL
said the great object of the Government was to have
a speedy communication, and, taking into account
the reports of professional men, he preferred the line
by Holyhead.
Leave was given to bring in Bills for the reduction
of duties on glass, vinegar, and marine insurances.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER obtained
leave to bring in a Bill to amend the laws relating to
savings' banks, the principal provisions of which are
to reduce the rate of interest from 21d. to 2d. per
day, to reduce the amount which any person could
invest in one year from 301. to 201., and that, when-
ever the capital and interest should amount to 1501.,
the interest should cease.

The House adjourned at a Quarter-past Six.

The debate in the House of Commons, on Wednesday
night, on the motion for going into Committee on the
" Masters and Servants Bill," terminated in another
defeat of Sir R. PEEL'S very " powerful" Govern-
ment. By the rejection of this motion, the Bill it-
self was lost. A majority of 43, in a House of 151
Members (exclusive of the tellers), concurred in
kicking out a measure which, in the "altered shape"
or " form," as Sir JAMES GRAHAM modestly desig-
nates the reconstructive process through which it had
passed under Government manipulation, certainly
embodied the most stringent and outrageous penal
legislation which in our time it has been ever pro-
posed to visit upon the heads of our industrial com-
munity. We conscientiously believe that there is no
member of the Administration, except Sir JAMES
GRAHAM, who would have volunteered the quasi fra-
ternity of so odious an experiment on the rights and
the feelings of labourers and servants. But in the
face of all the storm of indignation which Mr.
Thomas DUNCOMBE'S powerful exposition of its
enactments conjured up from all sides of the House
at so unconstitutional and ill-omened a piece of work.
Sir JAMES persevered in pressing the House for
judgment, with that graceful pertinacity which is
sure to provide some disgrace or disaster for
his party once, at least, in a month. He was; as
usual, didactic and sarcastic ; rebuked opposition.
Members in a tone half forbearing, half patronising;
and invoked the support of the friends of Govern-
inent with a haughty confidence that, in spite of the
invincible affectation of his manner, was sufficiently
transparent to indicate his own assurance of success.
Truly the ship, of which Sir ROBERT PEEL is helms.
man, has got, in Sir JAMES, as unlucky a JONAH as
ever was thrown overboard by those who had had
enough of his company. In her next venture amidst
breakers we may anticipate for her, one of these days,
that destiny to which the Lord of Netherby has so
marvellous a genius for conducting his friends. He is
like Captain MARYATT'S Peter Schrifter—he never
sails but a storm overtakes him, and never takes up
his berth in a craft which does not founder with all
who have been silly enough to embark with him.

making such a distinction between wool and
other agricultural produce. He says that " wool
is the raw material of an important branch of the
national manufactures;" no free trader could assign a
better reason for the removal of monopolist restric-
tions and discriminating duties; but can any man tell
why the application of this principle should be con-
fined to the sheep-walk and not extended to the corn-
field ? Wheat is one of the most important of raw
materials in every branch of manufactures ; the
weaver must have food as well as yarn ere he can
use his loom ; the smith must have bread as well as
iron ere he can exercise his hammer. We say no-
thing of the many manufactures in which flour is used
in various shapes ; this though not unimportant
kcarcely strengthens a case, in which every possible
form of industry has a direct and obvious claim.
Unless men eat they cannot work, and unless they
work they can produce no manufactures. Wool and
corn stand precisely in the same position, and Mr.
GOULBURN'S principle (would, that we could add
his practice), are just as applicable to the one as to
the other.

The whole affair of Wednesday was an instructive
commentary on the Right Hon. Secretary of State's
mode of " doing" business. Mr. TilomAs DUN-
COMBE, in a speech meritorious alike for its clever-
ness and its temperate expression, followed up the
presentation of more than 150 petitions against the
Bill, from various parts of the country and many dis•
tricts of the metropolis, by stating the objections he
had to urge on behalf of the 2,000,000 of petitioners
whom he represented. He said that those petitioners
had truly designated the Bill as " one of the most
monstrous, oppressive, arbitrary, iniquitous, and
tyrannical attempts to oppress the working classes
that had ever been made." 'What is remarkable—
and very characteristic, looking to the subsequent in-
terposition of Sir JAMES—Mr. DUNCOMBE said that
in its original shape the Bill was a very good one ;
that is, as Mr. MILES had brought it in, " its object
was humane and proper. If it somewhat in-
creased the power of the justices, it did so for the
purpose of facilitating the recovery, by workmen, of
their wages. The House had therefore passed the
Bill through its first stages ; but it had been imposed
on by false colours and pretences." When Mr.
HAwEs, in a later stage of the session, had asked the
Right Hon. Secretary for some explanation as to the
alterations introduced, that functionary had replied
that Mr. MILEs was responsible for them. Mr.
MILES stated that the Bill had been drawn up by de-
sire of the Government. But on 'Wednesday night Mr.
MILES went so far as to say that his Bill had been so
changed by Government that he himself did not know
his own bantling ! This is more intelligible and pre-
cise than Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S confession to its pa-
ternity as to "form" only. Now, what were the
grounds on which Mr. DUNCOMBE induced the House
to discard this ill-conditioned illegitimate, whom one
putative father could not recognize and the other
shrank from ?

Mr. DUNCOMBE gave an excellent summary of
former enactments on the points at issue, to be found
in the sth Elizabeth, c. 4; 20th Geo. 11., c. 19; 22d
Geo. IL, c. 22 ; 6th Geo. 111. ; 4th Geo. IV., c. 34 ;
.sth Geo.IV., c. 18; and sth Geo. IV., c. 96:

" The only legislation hitherto had been in respect to
persons hired for a certain term as to whom magistrates
were empowered to tine or imprison persons who did not
fulfil their contract, and there had certainly been instances
of persons who had been imprisoned under these circum-
stances. But there was no instance of power having been
given to the magistrates to send persons to the House of
Correction for neglect or d.reliction of duty in job or piece
work. Now, under the present Bill, whether the contract be
in writing or not, when a man engaged to make a hat or a
pair of shoes, and did not fulfil his work in the time agreed
upon, he might be taken before a magistrate and sent to the
House of Correction for two months upon the single oath of
the employer. The Hon. Gentleman intended that the Bill
should only affect labourers employed in husbandry. But as
it stood now it would affect those employed in factories.
They might be imprisoned for two months upon the oath of
the foreman or overseer, if they were only five minutes too
late."

Mr. HOME forcibly remarked that " this Bill was
altogether a new Bill from that which was originally
introduced by the Hon. Member for Somersetshire.
Several clauses in the original print of this Bill,
which would have given relief to the working classes,
were now omitted from it."
Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S defence of the Bill amounted
simply to this :
"The present law appeared to him to operate against the
workmen, and unduly and unfairly in favour of the masters.
By the law now in force any employer might complain
against a servant or labourer for alleged misdemeanour, mis-
carriage, ill-behaviour, or misconduct before one justice, who
might forthwith issue, not a summons, but a warrant, to ap-
prehend the person of the labourer, and might imprison him
with hard labour for three months. But if, on the other
hand, a servant or labourer complained against his master,
he had no warrant to apprehend the master, but a summons
only issued against the master.
This certainly was an oppressive state of the law.
But, as Mr. Humn had shown, Mr. MlLEs's Bill, in
its original shape, had rectified it. What answer
does all this special pleading of Sir JAMES GRAHAM
furnish to the grave offence of patronising such in-
tolerable enactments as Mr. T. DUNCOMBE, in the
passages we have given above, so forcibly denounced?
None! Thus thought the House, and the Bill was
summarily extinguished!

The sapient Duke of RICHMOND, who has been
placed at the head of the land-monopolists vice
BUCKINGHAM superseded or sequestrated, has taken
alarm at the Chancellor's new profession of faith in
free trade, and has given notice of a motion which
will afford him an opportunity of reading a homily
to his creatures, the Ministers, on these symptoms of
rejecting the infallible decrees of the snuggery at
Goodwood. The bleatings of the sheep on the downs
of Sussex will not be more pathetic or more pastoral
than his promised oration. 'We seem already to hear
his Pandean pipes attuned to notes of woe, and his
title established to the name of " Gentle Shepherd,"
which has remained unappropriated since the days of
CHATHAM. We can fancy his melodious sorrowings
over deserted sheep-walks, exiled shepherds, absent
shoulders of mutton, unattainable trotters, and lamb
disappearing to the manifest danger of the mint.

"How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue,
How sweet the periods neither said nor sung."

But his Grace's sympathetic bleatings will be of no
avail. The West Riding of Yorkshire has triumphed
over Sussex ; wool has won a victory over mutton ;
and henceforth the total and immediate repeal of
the agricultural protection is an established precedent
and recognised principle in legislation.

Mr. GOULBURN advocated the repeal of the wool
duties on account of the stimulus that will thus be
given to manufactures. Thus early has the senseless
fallacy of over-production been abandoned by those
who took it up for a party purpose. Instead of pre-
tending to fear any surplus of production, the Minis-
ters plainly declare that it is the duty of statesmen to
stimulate production, and to remove the restrictions
by which it is fettered. It is to be regretted that
those converts to the true faith are not yet so tho-
roughly fixed in their new creed as to be perfectly
consistent. The protection accorded to corn is a
greater blight on industry than that which was
granted to wool, and we hope that the defiance given
to the monopolists in one item will inspire courage to
attack their citadel.

We quote the following passage from an interesting
document which has been issued from the Metropoli-
tan Police-office in Whitehall, and which contains n
account of the number of persons taken into custody
by the police authorities, and the results, in the' year
1843 :—" Respecting the degree of instruction of the
persons taken into custody, it appears that out of
62,447 individuals taken up, 11,336 males and 5,682
females—in all 16,918—could neither read nor write;
that 25,897 males and 13,170 females—in all 39,067
—could read only, or read and write but imperfectly ;
that 4,918 males and 905 females—in all 5,823—
could read and write well, and that 654 males and
15 females were of superior instruction. Of the
number summarily convicted or bailed, 7,053 per-
sons could neither read nor write ; 15,924 but
imperfectly ; 2,874 well ; and 320 had had
superior instruction. Of those tried and convicted,
1,214 could neither read nor write ; 2,088 but im-
perfectly ; 172 well ; and 31 had received a good
education." These criminal statistics are exceed-
ingly curious and important, and show—what we
have often taken occasion to remark—how closely,
we might almost add, how inseparably, connected
with each other are crime and ignorance. We here
find that by far the greater majority of persons taken
into custody by the metropolitan police consists of
those who can neither read nor write, and that the
numbers are few, comparatively speaking, of those
who have received the benefits of education. Surely
facts like these—facts given on unimpeachable evi
dence—should speak trumpet-tongued in favour of
a system of general instruction for the lower classes!
Of what use is it to build new churches in the metro-
polis, when there are so many thousand people resi-
dent in London and its suburbs, who are unable to
avail themselves of such a spiritual advantage, by
reason of their utter inability to read the word of
GOD? To our thinking, the Bishop of LONDON, hold-
ing the high—the solemn—the responsible office that
he does, would be far more serviceably employed in
endeavouring to provide the means of education for
the neglected poor of his vast diocese, than in building
new religious structures, from which those only can
expect to derive spiritual benefit, who have received
some sort of instruction. It is idle to hope to
engraft a sound religious feeling on the minds of the
utterly ignorant. The soil must first be cultivated
so as to fit it to receive the wholesome seed, otherwise
it will never bring forth fruit in due season. Religion
should not precede, but follow in the train of educa
tion. Churchmen, however, can never be brought to
see this, even though the proofs of the dreadful immo-
rality and impiety that are the almost invariable con
comitants of ignorance, are constantly before their
eyes. Really our men in authority, whether lay or
clerical, have much to answer for, in not at once
straining every nerve in order to supply the benighted
lower classes of their fellow-countrymen with the
blessings of a sound, homely, practical education.
The evil is one that ought to be immediately grappled
with, for it yearly assumes a more dangerous charac-
ter, such as cannot fail to excite a feeling of deep
anxiety in the minds of all thinking people. Pro
vide the ignorant poor with competent instructors ;
elevate their nature by providing them with at least
the rudiments of knowledge, and you will hear no
more of servile insurrections, of the excesses of
Swing, or the mad, mischievous pranks of Rebecca
and her accomplished daughters; but leave the lower
classes in their present state of crass—to use Lord
BROUGHAM'S favourite expression—ignorance, and in
periods of difficulty arid effervescence, you will not be
able to guarantee the tranquillity of the country from
one week's end to another.

Madrid journals of the 25th have been received,
but they are barren of intelligence. Very little busi-
ness was done on the Bourse on that day, and the
Funds remained nearly stationary. The quotations
were—Three per Cents. 36i cash, 37* at 60 days;
and Fives 22i at 60 days.

The Paris papers bring no intelligence of im-
portance. Wednesday was observed as a strict
holiday at the Bourse, and the Post-office closed at
one o'clock, so that the accounts of the receptions at
the „Tuileries are very meagre. Indeed, the only
notice of the ceremonies is id the Univers, which
states that the Archbishop of PARIS presented himself
on 'Wednesday, to congratulate the KING on the occa-
sion of his fete. "We have been assured," adds that
journal, that the reply of the chief of the State to
the good wishes of the venerable Archbishop did not
breathe the benevolence usual on such occasions. It
appears that the word liberty' had been introduced
by the Archbishop /into the harangue, and that his
MAJESTY did not relish the expression."

Total and immediate repeal of one branch of agri-
cultural protection forms sv‘a.litemh.in the Chancellor's
as the Magna Charta and wool,
oficich
Budget; the duties wereßights
oi. described
British
farmers, are wholly abOlished
heard of sheep disappearing maonouurr
backse ds, and shep-
wfielhave not yet
from
but are to be
shep-
herds sinking in desperation.
dependent on foreigners for clothing
Church
wool
!nay ourfo stomachs.
are still to be restricted to British fo'od •
,nay come in freely without danger 'to
State, but foreign mutton is still held to be slily or
•ive of the altar and the throne. The skin of the
sheep is the frontier between safety on one side and
danger on the other ; all that grows upon it is safe
and innocent, but the perils centred in the flesh within
can only be warded off by discriminating duties.
Assuredly the brains of our rulers have gone wool-
gathering with a vengeance! Two exquisite rea-
sons have been assigned by Mr. GOULBURN for

The general debate on the Education Bill in the
Chamber of Peers was brought to a conclusion on
Tuesday, when the Bill went into Committee.
The Deputies were still engaged in discussing the
Bill for the improvement of prison discipline. Thi
following are the average prices of wheat in the
different markets of France for the month of April.
The price at Toulouse, Lyons, and Marseilles was
23f. 32c. the hectolitre (equal to two bushels three
quarters Imperial measure); at Marans and Bordeaux,
at 21f. 84c.; at St. Laurent and Le Grand Lemps,
at 21f. 59c. ; at Bergues, Arras, Roye, Soissons,
Paris, and Rouen, at 19f. 34c. ; at Saumur and Nantes,
at 20f. 18c. ; and at Met; Verdun, and Charleville,
at 16f. 79c.

At TORTONfS, on Wednesday, the Three per Cents.
were quoted at 84f.

IMPORTANT INTELLIGENCE.—MT. Henn concluded
his speech on Tuesday. Mr. Fitzgibbon, who had

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 3, 1844.

received a hurt on his foot from the fall of his horse,
while he was taking a little fresh air in the outskirts
of Dublin, was to have followed Mr. Henn on Wed-
nesday, but unfortunately he could neither stand nor
speak. He rose on one leg, and intimated to the
Court that as his observations would not be very
brief, and as he could not stand very comfortably for
any length of time, he hoped they would not call
upon him to speak that day. Their Lordships, ever
ready to comply with such suggestions, most gra-
ciously adjourned the Court till Thursday. Mr.
Fitzgibbon will, it is said, speak all Thursday, Fri-
day, and a part of Saturday. Mr. M'Donogh will
finally close the week ; and on Monday next the
Attorney-General will reply, and when he will close
no one can tell. The monster trial acquires fresh
strength every day—vires acquirit eundo.
THE QUEEN DOWAGER.-Sir David Davies and
Mr. Ideate, her Majesty's medical attendants, were in
waiting at an early hour, at Marlborough House,
this morning. The following bulletin was afterwards
issued :—" The Queen Dowager still suffers pain in
the hand and arm, but her Majesty is altogether
going on very favourably."
_ "

ROYAL ACADEMY.—Her Majesty and Prince Al-
bert, attended by the Royal Suite, visited the exhibi-
tion of the Royal Academy, in Trafalgar-square, this
morning. 'The august party spent upwards of an
hour in inspecting the numerous and interesting works
of art, and then returned to Buckingham Palace.

THIS DAY'S NEWS.

OVERLAND MAIL

We have received by Extraordinary Express the
following Telegraphic Dispatch :

MALTA, APRIL 28.
MARSEILLES, MAY 1.

The Great Liverpool has arrived, bringing dates
from Bombay to the Ist of April, and China to the
27th of February.
Perfect tranquillityprevails in both these countries,
and the Mail does not bring a single article of news
worth mentioning.—Herald

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.)
The House sat this day to hear writs of error. The Peers
present were Lord Cottenham, Lord Brougham, and Lord
Campbell.

Paris and Orleans 2O -
37V4 ... to
Parisand Rouen 2O 37Mi ... to
Rouen and Havre.

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
London Joint Stock
London and Westminster

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN-EXCHANGE.-FRIDAY.

Second qualityiltto...

bay ; Ann Dingwall, St. Thomas's ; Helen Munro, Hayti ;
Victoria, Texas ; Catherine Fraser, Boston ; Sherbroke,
Quebec ; Nestor, Montreal.
CORK, APRIL 30.—Arrd. William Woolley, Maughan,
Ceylon, left Dec. 16, Mauritius, Jan. 27, Cape Feb. 19, As-
cension, March 10.
WATERFORD, APRIL 30.—Ski. Mary, Newfoundland.

ATONE AND CO AilVi ERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
A good business was done in Cotton at Liverpool yesterday,
the sales amounting to 6,000 bales, of which 800 were on spe-
culation, and 400 for export. Prices were steady—sales, 200
Pernam at 6d. to 7d., 250 Maranham at sd. to sid., 400
Surat at 30. to 4d., and the rest American at 4-id. to 54d.
per lb.—A moderate business was done in Shares generally,
but there were large tranfers irt Dovers at 374 for the Old,
and ll for the New. Chester and Holyhead, 7 ; Dublin
and Cashel, 4i ; Eastern Counties, 13i ; Paris and Lyons,
3h ; Do. and Orleans, 38.
There are no arrivals in the City to-day, except the usual
continental mails. _ _ _

From Leipsic we learn that at the fair there had been a
very extensive business done in cloth fabrics, especially
Prussian and Saxon.
The further portion of the Canada loan is taken to-day,
but the arrangements being conducted at the Treasury, the
result will not reach the City in time to be noticed under this
heal in the early edition of The Sun.
The Funds have rall.ed a little this morning, and there are
fewer sales passing on the market. Consols have realised
994 a for Money, and 994 4 for Time, although they opened
rather lower, Exchequer Bills have been 745. to 7 65., and
India Bonds 945. premium. Bank Stock has been rather
flat at 196 to 4, and India Stock has further declined to 281
and 284. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. have been
1021 to A ; the Reduced 1014 to 4, and the Three per Cents.
94 to 4.
In the Foreign Market there has been comparatively little
doing. Spanish Actives have been firmer, viz., 244; but the
Three per Cents. have not improved, being 354 a. Mexican
Bonds are 354 to 4 ; Portuguese Converted have been 454.
Belgian Bonds are quoted 1024 without the dividend. Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are 614 to 4.
In Railway Shares we have had less business doing : the
quotations are very fully supported. Great Western, 41 to
414 ; Ditto Half, 25 ; Birmingham. 131 to 132 ; and South-
Western, 436 premium. Brighton are 54 to 53, and Eastern
Counties 94 discount.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock 1963 196
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 4so's
3% per Cent. Reduced Annuities
New 334 per Cent. Annuities '0233%
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan 1860 l2 7-16%
Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. Ib6o.
India Stock
India Bonds,l,ooo 99
Bank Stock for Account
Consols for Account
1 v.911M %36
Exchequer Bills, I%d.
1,0001.
5081 ............ 74 pm.
Ditto Small ....... 74 pm.
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent 10234
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent
Ditto for the Account
Ditto Deferred Stock 1534%
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents. 2934
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto Converted

Ditto for the Account 45%
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840 24%
Ditto for the Account
Ditto Deferred 14%
Ditto Three per Cent.
Ditto for the Account
Dutch 21/4 per Cents 8 I IA
Dutch ,5 per Cents. 11% 100
Dii to for the Account lOO,
New Loan 1837. 5 per Cents. 99%
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT GNE.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Bristol and Exeter 7O
Bristol and Gloucester 3O
Chester and Holyhead 5 714% ... to
Dublin and Cashel ... 23¢
Eastern Counties
Ditto New Registered Si. tis. Rd.
Ditto Perpetual 5 per eent las. 4d.... 134
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O 66% to
Great Western
Ditto ;4 Shares
Ditto Fifths l2 20% to
London and Birmingham. lOO ....
Ditto New Th rds
London and Blackwell
London and Brighton 5O 44%% ... to
London and South Western ...... 41%
London and Croydon (Trunk)... 13%
Manchester and Birmingham ... 40
Northern and Eastern 45 57% ..... to
South Eastern and Dover 321/4 371/4 %% to
Ditto New
Yarmouth and Norwich
York and North*Midland
Ditto Scarboro' Branch 234 2Ol/4

Since Monday only a moderate arrival of English Wheat
has taken place for our market, and the stands were by no
means heavily supplied. In most descriptions of the article
a fair retail business was transacted, at full prices. Free
foreign Wheat was in better demand, at rates quite equal to
those quoted in our last report. In bonded Grain no transac-
tions were noticed. Nearly 20,000 quarters of foreign Barley
have arrived this week; yet, the greater portion having gone
direct to the distillers, the quantity on offer this morning was
by no means large, and prices were supported. In Malt but
little was doing. Owing to the prevailing dry weather,
holders of Oats, Beans, and Peas, were firm for high figures.
ARRIVALS.

Wheat.
English 4,340 qrs. 610 qrs. 1,060 qrs. 3,560 sacks
Irish.. I-- 60 I 6,940 --
Foreign 4,470 19,770 460 -
alt, 5,570 qrs.
SMITHE•XiiLD. .
-- -

A very limited supply of beasts was on offer, owing to
which the Beef trade was somewhat active, at an advance on
Monday's prices of 2d per Blbs. From Scotland only 90
scots came fresh to hand. The numbers of Sheep were but
moderate, while the inquiry for them was, on the whole,
stead), at full currencies. Lambs, which were tolerably nu-
merous, met a sluggish trade, at previous figures. The de-
mand for Veal was rather active, and the rates had, in some
instances, an upward tendency. Pigs sold steadily at ful
quotations. Milch cows were held at from 161 to 1915 s each.
Per 81ns. to sink the offal.
s. d. to s. d.
Inferior Beasts 2 4 2 I

s. 4. to s. 4.
2le 3 2
32 3 4
36 3 •

iicon7lqQlity ditto 210 3 2 Coarse.Woolled dittos.
Prime large Oxen 3 4 3 t, Southdown Wethers
Prime Scots, &c.
1 arse coarse Calves 3 4 4 2 Large Hogs 3 4 6_lo
Prime small ditto
Suckling Calves, each 18 0 2S +. Quarter old Pigs,eachl6 0 21 0
Inferior Sheep
SUPPLY AT MARKET.
Beasts. I She
22ep0 . I C:2
33 lves. I Pigs.
560 9, 360
zit rural:ll.TE AND LEAD =CHILL L.
- --

We had a fair demand for each kind of meat, on the follow-
ing terms :

8. 4. to s. d.
2 4 110
30 3 2
34 3 6
20 2 8
3 8 4 2

At per stone, by the Carcase
s. d. to s d.
-reef, inferior 2 2 2 4 Mutton, inferior
- middling ..... 2 6 2$ - middling
prime largr 210 3 0 prime
prime small 3 2 3 4 Pork, large
Vaal ..«.......«.«....«.. 3 4 4 6 1--small
Lamb. 4s 10d to 5s 10d
BOILAUGH HOP PilitiiLKET.
The accounts which have come to hand this week from the
hop districts are not very flattering, yet they have had little
or no effect upon our market. The finest parcels of Hops are
selling steadily ; other kinds slowly.
COLcAVIrs.I..
SUGAR.—The supply of British Plantation continues
limited, and there is a fair demand at full prices. The sales,
not including to-day, are about 1,000 hhds. Refined Standard
Lumps are in request at ills to 81s 6d per cwt.
MAURITIUS AND BENGAL.-11,376 bags 105 casks of the
former sold at full rates to a slight advance; good to fine
yellow 64s to Os, low 60s 6d to 61s, and mid and good brown
58s to 59s 6d. 6,844 bags and 161 chests of the latter went
off well also at 63s to 69s for low to fine white, at 59s to 65s
for yellow, and 65s to 71s for Dobah kind.
FOREIGN.—There has been a better demand privately for
these descriptions, and at rather improved rates for Java.
MOLASSES.-100 puns Antigua sold by auction at 275, and
26 puns Grenada at 235.
COFFEE.—British Plantation has been steady privately,
but at public sale 161 casks 96 barrels• Jamaica were mostly
taken in at 42s to 94s for ord to mid. Foreign sorts have
been brisk ; 176 barrels Rio partly found buyers, low mid
at 70s to 745, and fine fine ord as high as 90s 6d per cwt ; 91
bags Havannah were taken in at 52s for good ord ; and 194
bags Costa Rica sold at 55s 6d to 57s per cwt. Mocha has
been sold to some extent privately, and at a rise of 6s to 8s
Per cwt. At public sale 364 bales 72 bags realised fer mid
yellowish clean garbled 81s, but most of the rest was taken
in at 65s to 80s. In East India 126 bags Singapore Java
partly sold at 29s to 38s, and higher prices have been paid
than before the budget was announced.
COCOA.—There has not been much demand ; 108 bags
British Plantation sold at 44s to 46s for Grenada, and 46s 6d
to 508 for Trinidad.

RUM.—There has been a steady but dull market.
CorroN.—The market has been dull.
SALTPETRE.—The demand has been limited, and the par-
cels offered were mostly taken in.

Rim—This article has been dull; mid to good white at
lOs 3d to II s per cwt.
SPICES.-600 chests Cassia Lignea sold rather lower.
Pimento and Pepper have been in fair demand privately.
DRY SALTERY.—Indigo has been in good request for ex-
portation at fully previous rates. There has been a good
business in Lac Dye, which is held for higher prices as rt--
gards ord. Cochineal meets a steady sale at fair prices.
Brimstone is without alteration; and Logwood and rustic
have sold well.

TOBACCO.—During the past three or four weeks a good
business has been transacted, au 2,000 hhds of all descrip-
tions have found buyers. The chief business has been in
Kentucky; strips 4id to 51d, and leaf 2iel to 4-id per lb.
TEA.—The public sales have comprised 36,800 packages,
only 700 having found buyer?, and prices ranging a shade
lower. Congou is id. for ord to good, and Is Id to is 2d for
but mid ; Twankay Is lid to 1 3d, for good ord to but mid.
The stock is 27,600,0001b5, in the port of London, or much
the same as last year.
TALLow.—P.Y.C. is quoted 40s 6d to 41s per cwt, being
steady.

ACCIDENT TO TEE EARL OF BANDON.—Yester-
day afternoon, about half-past three .o'clock, an accident
occurred to the Earl of Bandon. The Noble Lord, attended
by his groom, was riding up Bond-street, in the direction of
Oxford-street, when, on arriving at the corner of Union -
street, his horse stumbled, and threw him over its head with
great violence. His Lordship's forehead coming in contact
with the ground, he was rendered insensible. He was in-
stantly assisted by the bystanders into the shop of Mr.
Fisher, surgeon, of 76, New Bond-street, where, on examina-
tion, it was discovered that he had sustained but slight in-
jury. A bruise on his forehead having been dressed, he was
enabled to remount his home, and proceed to his residence in
Connaught-terrace.
The anniversary of the birthday of the Duke of
Wellington was celebrated by his Grace's tradesmen on
Wednesday, the Ist of May, by dining together at the
Albion, Afdersgate-street. The toasts to the Queen and the
Royal Family were drunk with the greatest demonstrations
of respect and loyalty ; but the toast of the evening, " Eng-
land's hero and pride, the Duke of Wellington, and lorg may
he live," was carried with enthusiastic applause. The plea-
sure o: the evening was increased by some excellent singing
from Mr. Hudson and other professional gentlemen. The
entertainment was in every respect worthy of the reputa-
tion of Messrs. Staples, the proprietors of the establishment,
and also of the occasion which it was intended to comme-
morate.
There is a rumour in the more select political
circles that Lord Wharncliffe will probably be appointed
Governor- General of India in the room of Lord Ellenborough.
—Post,
The Lord Mayor had an interview with Sir Robert
Peel yesterday.