The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-09 00:00:00

THE SUN LONDON', THrRSDAY-. MORNING. MAY 9, 1844.

helpless poverty. That the rights of property should Chalons-sur-Saone, and by choosing afcerwards a
be capable of prompt and easy vindication is one of direction which cannot fulfil all the conditions of a
the first conditions, as well as most intelligible signs, line crossing the kingdom from north to. south. In
of that high civilization to which the community must 'I compensation, he gives us the roads bettyeen Orleans
have attained where the processes for their vindication and Vierzon, and between Tours and Bordeaux.
are to be with so muchfacilityinvoked- It is lamentable This certainly is not what the country expected
to think that the results of their exercise are perhaps this arrangement will satisfy but very few localities.
a daily source of incalculable misery to some of the The Chambers, we say it with regret, do not show
most forlorn and desolate of our fellow-creatures, more ardour in coming to a resolntion than the
struggling against the temptations to crime and dis- Cabinet itself. Two months have elapsed since the
honesty and violence, through the most bitter physical Bill for the North railroad was presented, and not a
escaed. If the same drawling system goes on, we
guish. Surely such a case as that to which we are privations, and under the keenest sense of mental an-. glimpse of a report upon a matter so urgent has
shall come to the end of the session without any
-
referring imperatively calls upon the Legislature to de other means of action than the deplorable law
vise—if not some landlords' guarantee of less stringency
of 1842."
and peremptoriness, yet, at the least, some tenants'
protection against its tyrannous abuse of its terrible On Monday the Three per Cents. closed at 84f. 60c.,
and the Fives at 122 f. 15c.
powers. It is instructive to observe, in the case of
the poor victim of such an abuse in this case, ELLEN THE BOURSE—MoNDAT, MAY 6.
First Highest Lowest Last
MYERS, how a failure of punctuality, which it is Price. Price. Price. Price.
scarcely within the pale of human possibility to avoid French Five per Cents ..
Four per Cents. ••.•• 106 90 .. 106 90 .. 106 90 .. 106 91
at all times in the transaction of human business—a
::531167
...53116000 •..•53116005
Three per Cents••• •• 84 55 .• 84 60 .• 84 55 .• 84 50
ank
ig
05
delay of three minutes (! ) in the payment of a week's 13Lantueofej:afiaku:ie,000f. Sharcss3lloo
rent, may involve the hopeless and irretrievable ruin Belgian 8ank..1.8.4.1.... •
1619120 50 7.161912 50 .. 692 50 .. 692 50
::111010 ..1110
3i
of a poor, industrious, unprotected woman ; and how it Belgian Fives,
1188101
•••• 100631
100831 .. 106 .. 106
f
may give to some unfeeling ruffian, clothed with a
Spanish Active •• •• •• 321 321 .. 321 .. 321
1642 •••• •• 108 i .. 104 j 1081
"little brief authority," an all but safe impunity in
Threes •• •• •• •• 35 3530 34}
enforcing, with savage pertinacity, against such a suf- Passive. • 6 •• 6 .• 6 .. 6
102 05 10451485
46
ferer, the inconceivably oppressive enactments of a I:Toer:ptrteasne Five per Cents • •
10451185
scandalous and atrocious law : for, taking the facts Roman, expiv•• •• •-•.. • • 104 104 .. 104 .. 104
RAILWAY SHARE&
as they appear in the report, we fearlessly apply Versailles L, . B ••• •• •• •• •• •• 255 .. 253 78 251 25 .. 252 50
these epithets to a law which, it seems, from the
Rouen nn o. .• : : •
•: 36311 50
•• 976377 50 .. 965 .. 965
LORD MAYOR'S admission, may subject the pauper Orleans .... ........ •••• 975 975 80 ;TX; 50 703775 50
debtor of four shillings, in three minutes after the SAtvirgibiouurgtotomtralse
eilles•• •• •• 770 ~
276 25 .. 276 25 .. 273 75 .. 275
770 770 770
period has lapsed within which she might have re- RAILWAY SIIARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT.
ceived a quittance upon that payment, to five shillings Ver-aMes, •• • .
•• •• • • • 375 .. 375 375
Land sixpence (nearly a hundred and fifty per cent Rouen .• • • ••• 972 50 .... 295752 50 ..
2427 5500 ...
295627 5500
additional) expenses ! The most capricious savagery 01 trulu:n to 'lmre
na . 737977 5050 .. 7409
50 .. 737 50 .. 737 50
of mob law, or revolutionary tribunals, never dictated Strasburg to Bele' .. .. 275 :.• 2787 927755 ... 927755
Avignon to 31arseilles.• •• .• 772 50 • 772 50 .. 770 .. 770
any principle of payment more despotically unreason-
able.
ELLEN MYERS is a shoe-binder, lodging in some
one of the miserable tenements which swarm in the
vicinity of I3ishopsgate, and had contracted a debt of
4s. to her landlord. One of those people who earn a
hard-hearted livelihood by "collecting rents" and
distraining on the goods and chattels of needy tenants,
a species of legal scavengers who perform that work
which other men shrink from, under warrant of the
law, by wringing from the wretched the last rags and
shreds which have clung to them in the last stages of
their destitution—a broker, was sent by the landlord
of MYERS to distrain upon her goods. This man's
man—for the law will have deputies for its officers
down to the last and most binding of them all (who
compels payment of the last debt of our common
nature)—calls on the young woman, and tells her
that if she can contrive to pay the amount, 45., in
twenty minutes, no expenses will attach to the war-
rant. She runs off to some neighbours, and returns,
as she assures the LORD MAYOR, within the time
specified ; but then a demand of ss. 6d. additional is
made, and BROWN threatens to sell off all her goods if
she refuses to pay the whole sum of 9s. 6d. With
the utmost difficulty she raises the amount, and pays
it to BROWN, who refuses to deduct a farthing
from his demand. Under these circumstances she
appeals to the LORD MAYOR for redress. On inves-
tigating the case, the broker, one BROWN, impudently
pleads that as the young woman had returned too late
by nearly five minutes, it was proper to demand the
expenses. The wretched complainant solemnly af-
firms that far from being over, it was within the time
allowed to her by CAPEL, BaowN 's man, that she
brought the rent ; and she states that a little while
since BROWN " had threatened to be even with her,
and do for her; and she was afraid he would be."
CAPEL, examined by the LORD MAYOR, admitted
that the young woman was only three minutes over
the time; and then BROWN, with the cowardly
instinct which always prompts such bullying and
cruel natures against those whom they have already
wronged, interposed that "the landlord wanted to get
rid of MYERS, for she was a bad 'un." The unhappy
girl, on this fresh outrage, referred the LORD MAYOR
for her character and good conduct to the respectable
employers whom she had served for four years ; adding
" that she had paid her landlady four shillings only
the night before, and had never experienced such
cruel treatment." We hope not. Such cases are
a disgrace to a Christian country—infamous to
those who countenance or direct such iniqui-
tous oppressions. After all, the LORD MAYOR
expressed his regret that he could not punish
the fellow BROWN, for his charge, but held
him to bail for twelve months for threatening the
poor complainant; and he then gave her the amount
of the extra costs. Is such a landlord and tenant
law as this to be upheld in times like these of indus-
trial distress and penury ? And are such creatures
of an abominable law as BaowN and his man to bt
permitted, on the wonderful security of their oaths.
forsooth (we presume that he is a " sworn broker
to be permitted any longer to administer it ?

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—During the
week ending Saturday, 4th May, the number of
deaths was 877, the average being 883. In a num-
ber of cases there has been a decrease; and the in-
crease has occurred chiefly in deaths caused by small-
pox, croup, and consumption. The number of deaths
from small-pox was 31, and of these 20 had not been
vaccinated,. average 12 ; from croup 13, average 8 ;
consumption 168, average 155. The number of vio.
lent deaths was 17, of which 1 was from murder,
2 from suicide, 3 from burns and scalds, and 2
from falls caused by intoxication. The thermometer
was highest on Thursday, the 2d of May, 67.3 deg. ;
and lowest on Monday, April 29, 35.9 deg. The tall
of rain for the week is marked 0.02 of an inch, which
nearly approaches to nil.

VIONE Y AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
A further improvement, making per cent. altoge-
ther to-day, occurred this afternoon in Consols, which
left off at 99! to 99i. The heavy Stocks also rose a
little, the New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. being 1021
and the Reduced, 1014 to j.
The Foreign Investments had rather a flat appear-
ince. Spanish Three per Cents. left off at 341 to a ;
the Five per Cents., however, remaining the same as in
the morning. Mexican Bonds were also a shade lower,
viz., 35* f. French Five per Cents., were done at
121 f. 5Qc. ; and Cuba at 92.
The additional transactions in the Railway Shares
have been these:—Bristol and Exeter were 7 to 7i;
Eastern Counties, New, 61; Great Western, Half, 244;
Hull and Selby, 10; Birmingham, 133; South Western,
13-11 ; Manchester and Leeds, 41 ; Ditto and Birming-
ham, 18 to ; Yarmouth and Norwich, 7 to 6i ; and
Rouen and Havre, 9 to -1 premium. Black% all have
been 9i to 9, and Midland Counties 9} discount.
_ .

(From The Sun of Last Night.)
There was rather a large business done in Cotton at Liver-
pool yesterday, 10,000 bales changing hands. Prices were
Ad. to id. higher than on Friday, and the market was ex-
tremely firm. The sales included 700 Maranham, at 53d. to
63d. '•• 30 Egyptian, at 73d. ; 200 Bahia, at 51d. ;
200 Surat, at 33d. to 4d. ; and the rest . American, at
43d. to 63d. per pound.— Shares generally were very
good, and a considerable business was done. Chester and
Holyhead were 73 ; Eastern Counties. 121 • Dublin and
Cashel, 41; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 161 ; Great Western,
Half, 753 ; Birmingham Quarter, 271 ; Croydon, 193 ' • South
Western, 841; North British, 3 ; North Midland, 913; Paris
and Lyons, 33 ; Do. and Orleans, 373 ; South-Eastern, 381.
The steamer Tweed, from the West Indies, bringing alSo
the 31exican mail, furnishes the following dates :—Jamaica
and Barbadoes, April 8 ; Demerara, April 6 ; Tri-
nidad, April 4 ; Vera Cruz, April 2. The accounts
read better in respect to the weather, though in
Jamaica there was no chance of the injury occasioned
by the long and severe drought being to any extent re-
paired. The peasants were quiet, but the more recently ar-
rived Africans seemed the least inclined to work, and
prowl about, it is stated, content with an • occa-
sional job from the more industriaus labourers, longer
resident in the colony. The evil appears also to rest
partly with the Legislature, which had made no provision
For educating or improving the moral habits of the new

populat ion.
The Trinidad papers have some very strong remarks upon
the subject of the condition to which the Africans liberated
at St. Helena have been reduced, before arriving at their des
tination, owing to the imperfect regulations for their con-
veyance in our cruisers. At Barbadoes the mills were in full
work, and there had been seasonable rains.
The Tweed brings a smaller remittance from Mexico
(55,000 dollars) than many had expected ; but it seems
there is every probability of further amounts coming steadily
to hand, so that we presume about half a dividend may be
most safely counted on.
The Consul Market has been firm, and there is an improve
ment upon yesterday's closing rates of A per cent., viz. t
993/4 4 for Money, and 994 4 for Account. Exchequer Bills
have been steady at 755. to 775. premium. The New Three-
and-a- Half per Cent. have realised 1023/4 to 4; the Reduced
1014 Three to ; ; and the per Cents 984 to 99. Bank Stock
has been marked 195 to 196, which is not quite so good.
Nothing particular has occurred in the Foreign Mar-
ket, but Spanish Bonds are rather firmer, being 234 ; for Five -
per
Cents., and 344 to 4 for the Three per Cents. The Portu-
guese Converted Stock is at 45 to 46. MexiCan have been
much the same, but certainly not higher. The Actives have
realised 353/4 to and the Three per Cents. 154. Danish bonds
are firm at 88. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 614 to
and Belgian at 1023/4.
The Railway Shares are firm, with a fair business doing.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock
.................. 196 Indian Stock Pm.
per Cent. Red. ............ 1;9 Ditto Bonds
1 per Cent. Cons. .........
_59% Ditto 01.1 Annuities
46 per Cent. Re t ......... 101 Ditto New Annuities —
New 34 per Cent.......... 11/2-% Ex. Bills, 1,0001. 114 d 75 pm.
New 5 per Cent. ........ Ditto 5001
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 77 pm.
Jan. 1860............ 1 ' 7-16 Bank Stock for Acct 1944
Oct. 1859............ 12q Consols for Acct 991
Jan. 1860............ 12% India Stock for Acct —
FOREIGN FUNDS.

Madrid journals of the 30th ult. have been received.
One of them, the Corresponsal, publishes the condi-
tions of an offer made by five Spanish capitalists, to
raise a loan of a thousand millions of reals (about 250
million francs) for the Government. The chief con-
ditions are that the Government shall give 100 reals
stock for 40 in money, and that the payment of the
interest shall be secured on the tobacco monopoly.
In one of the articles the Government engages not
to contract any new loan until the above be paid off
and shall engage to fulfil all the above conditions.
The Funds had recovered alittle from the depression
caused by late events. Three per Cents. were done
31 for cash, and 301, at 60 days .; the Four per
Cents. at 20i at 59 days; and the Five per Cents..
at 211.

Austrian. 5 per Cent ... ...... Portuguese, 5 per Cent —
Belgian, 5 per Cent 132% Ditto, New Ditto —
Brazilian Bonds
•Itienos Ayres, 6 per Ce:.t... Russian, 5 per Ccnt —
hllian, 6 per Cent — Ditto, Metallic ......... ...... ...
';olombian' 6 per Cent
)itto, 18'24. ......... ..... ......... Ditto, 3 per Cent 34
14
tuba Bonds, 6 per Cent 92 Ditto, Deferre.• —
Danish, 3 per Cent ... ...... ... French, 5 per Cent :till. 50c.
Greek, 1M 5, 5 per Cent — Exchange —f. —c.
Mexican, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Si per Cent., 1S37.•••••• Dutch, 12!4 per Cent...— 6114
Peruvian, 125, 6 per Cent... 29)4 Ditto, S per Cent lOO%
SHARES.
Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) 7l
Eastern Counties (2-3 paid)
Ditto Registered (816 s 8d paid)
°reit Western (75 paid)
- - -- '•• " - - A

The Paris papers of Monday published a telegra-
phic dispatch, dated Bayonne, May 4, announcing
the capitulation of Almeida on the 29th ult., from
which we learn that Count Bomrim and a number of
officers, who raised the standard of rebellion, had
made their escape into Spain. The intelligence in
tfiese papers possesses little interest. The Duchess
of KENT was much occupied in visiting all the public•
places of note in Paris and the neighbourhood. On Sun-
day she went to Trianon, with the QUEEN and several
members of the Royal Family, and after the conclu-
sion of the water-works returned to the Tuileries
with the Royal party. The KING did not accompany
her Royal Highness, having to preside at a Cabinet
Council. On Tuesday there will be a Pe at Fon-
tainbleau, at which the KING and Royal Fa-
mily, with the Duchess of KENT, will be pre-
sent. Her Royal Highness will remain at
Fontainbleau until Thursday, when she will leave
for Switzerland. The Constitutionnel has an ar-
ticle on railroads, attacking with much severity
the backwardness of the Government and the
Chambers in adopting any plan for carrying out

-- ,
Ditto Half Shares (50 paid)
London and Birmingham (Stock)
London ace! Blackwall (10/.136. 4d,) 7%
paid)
London and Greenwich (I t. I. s. 4d , i;t
Londese and South Western (411. Os. 10d. paid) 8 i
Manchester and Leeds (70 pad
Manchester :ind Birmingham
- Midland Counties (100 paid) 9 N
South Eastein and Dover (3312 s 4d paid)
Ditto VCW Shares ( 4 paid)
Yarmouth and Norwich (15 paid)
Paris and Orleans (IX) paid)
MANCHESTER STOCK. EXCHANGE, MALY 7.—The Market
continues very firm, with a fair demand and a good business
doing :—Bristol and Exeter, 75; Eastern Counties, 133/4 ;
Ditto, Registered, 15; Grand Junction Quarter Shares, 43:3/4;.
Midland Counties, 91; North Union, 110}; Sheffield and
Manchester, £oi ; South Eastern, 38 ; Ditto, New, 11i ;
l'reston and Wyre, 19} ; Blackburn and Preston, 5/ ; Man-
chester, Birmingham, and Rossendale, 6 5 15-16th.s; Union
Bank of Manchester, 9.

the proposed new lines. " The railroads," it states,
" were expected to be the great business of the ses-
sion. However, the Chambers have been sitting for
four months, and not a single report on all the diffe-
rent Bills presented by the Minister of Public Workg
has been made. M. TzszE was accused of incapacity
and supineness, and it was hoped that his successor,
Duluox, would find means for getting out of the
dilemma in which the law of 1842 had involved the
railroad question. This was a misconception ; for
M. DUMON still drags on in the ruts and sloughs of
incertitude and sluggishness. He takes up every
system, but holds to no one. The new Minister of
Public Works, since he decided upon amending the
law of 1842, ought to have emancipated himself from
Parliamentary influence and the exigencies of local
interests ; but he has wanted the courage. He
has neglected the main lines, to favour those of a
minor order. Has not the law of 1842 classed the
lines from Paris to Strasburg, and from Paris to the
Mediterranean ? Do not these two lines predominate
by their importance and utility over all others ?
Are they not equally connected with our internal
prosperity and our foreign commerce ? These ques-
tions have long ago bean answered by all men who
regard with judgment the general interest. Could
any doubts on this subject remain, it will suffice to
refer to the report of the Ministry as to its grounds
for presenting the law of 1842, in which a decided
priority is given to these two lines, and also to the

DUTCH PAPERS.
THE ITAGUE, MAY 4.—The Minister of Finance has
published the result of the inscriptions made on the Ist
;end 2(.1 of May for the loan of thirty-four -millions of
florins, at four per cent., on account of our transmarine
possessions. The inscriptions were—
Inmoney 5,620.000
Lorrenter charged in the colonies

Total ........................ 22,155,000
The Minister declares that, in consequence, all the in-
scriptions are excepted. It appears by the preceding
notice that the maximum of thirty-five millions has not
been obtained. However, there is reason to be satisfied
with the result of this first trial. We know, besides,
that offers of conversion for considerable sums wer.e.—
re
ceived after the moment fixed for the closing of the loan,
and which, consequently, could not be accepted.
AMSTERDAM, MAY 4.—We learn from the Hague that
the project of law relative to the tariff of import, export,
and transit duties, is under consideration in the Council
of State.

THE NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA.—Sir
Henry Hardinge, it is stated, has determined upon pro-
ceeding to his government by the Overland route. His
Excellency will be conveyed by one of her Majesty's
steamers to Alexandria, and from Suez to Calcutta, by
the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com-
pany's steamer Hindostan, which is to be detained at
•Suez until the Ist of July.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN SHOE-LAXl.—Yesterday
morning, at half-past three, a dreadful fire broke out in
the lower part of the house of Mr. L
ositeescombe, a glass manu
iona-
facturer, Shoe-lane, nearly. opp the London l
Schools. The police ran instantly to Farringdon-street,
where they procured fire-ladders and hastened onward to
rescue the inmates ; and in three or four minutes the engines
were on the spot, followed by the West of England ; but
the firemen, although well supplied with water, could save
but a small portion of the stock. The premises of Messrs.
Pontifex and Co., as well as several small houses at the back,
were alone saved through the instrumentality of the assist-
ance rendered by the neighbours. The family all escaped,
but saved not a particle of clothing. The fire was not ex-
tinguished till half-past four, when several of the engines
left for another fire in Pall-mall.

report of the Committee to which the Bill was re-
ferred. All the other roads form but the small veins
to these two great arteries. Well ! what is M.
Dumori doing? lie seems to have completely aban-
doned the PAris and Strasburg line, and cuts short
the communication between Paris and Lyons, by
proposing at first to -arry the work ng further than