The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-05 00:00:00

PRICI'M OF BULLION.

IMPORTS FROM EUROPE.
British Cotton Piete Goods—We have scarcely any alteration to
notice under this head since our last issue of the 7th Inst. Not
the slightest symptom of an improving demand has been manifested;
transactions have been unimportant, and prices barely main-
tained ; while, to add to this unpromising rate of things, we
find the Government proposing to raise the rate of duty from 31
to 5 per cent.; this, however, cannot take effect for three months,
even if passed when brought before the Council. In shirtings, but
little has been done, and prices remain as before. Jacconets, both
grey and white, must be quoted rather lower. Books and malls
have been in moderate inquiry at about former rates.
Coloured and Printed Goods—We are not aware of any further
reduction having been submitted to, but transactions in both prints
and red cloths continue limited.
Woollens—Without the slightest improvement either in demand
or price. By the proposed regulation we find these goods will be
more affected than any others, the rate of duty being increased from
2 to 5 per cent.
White Mule Twist—Sales have not been very extensive, but
there has nevertheless been more inquiry of late, and we may quote
a slight advance in almost all counts. This article is the only
ly
one of importance not included in the late notificationma (prin evious
131
referred to), the rate of duty being allowed to re at
per cent.
f 17 bales of
Coloured Yarn—There has been but little doing under this
head since our last, the only sales reported being
o
Turkey red (British) at from 1 7 4 to 1 8 0; and 3of German
dye at 112 3. The last sale of orange was effected at 12 Anna
per lb.
C opp er--
We are still unable to notice any
at holders have sub-
improvement in the
demand for this metal, notwithstanding th
milted to a further decline; and from the very limited nature of
the transactions which have been effected
sheati our qng at theuotations are a
figurelmost
nominal. We have heard of r sale of low
of 33 5.
Iron—We noticed In our last rather a better
appearsdemandfo to be a
rcom-
mon bar, which has continued up to the present time, and al-
though operations have not been extensive, there
feeling that prices have seen their lowest, caused probably by the
accounts from England. In other descriptions a moderate business
has been done, at about former rates.
Speller—At the date of our last t.iis metal was not saleable
to any extent even at the low figure of Co 's cc. 10 4, anal h
continued till very lately, when holders showed more firmness,tis
and we believe a sale has been made at 10 6. The proposed
if carried out, will bear heavily on this metal.
Lead and
alteration in lit,its "riiirsi,ates--
In lead there has not been much doing,
but pig had sold at former tales, vis
~ Sicca
cceaaret 13not a i its 4.
a saleßeer—We
f_p at•-vavtairdeaolsfo'
salt,
v cc.
pet 5'4.
"ti"
sales since our last, and our
quotations are therefore nominal.

Sovereigns, each ... 11 rupees.
Bank of England notes, per X.
Spanish dollars, per 100... IOW to %IV rupees.
German crowns, per 100
Sycee Silver, per 100 tolas
Gold leaf, per tola
GUN ERNMENT SECURITIES.
_ _ _

Transfer Ivan
Five per Cer.t. Loan, 1825-26 ..
Four per Cent. Loan, 1832.33 lO5 to 106 rupees.
Four per Cent. Loan, 1835.36
Five per Cent. Loan, 1841.42
Four per Cent. Loan, 1842-43
.....

BANK SHATIL6.

Premium per share.
Bombay Bank
Bank of Western India
Agra Bank
Bank of Madras
BANK OF BOMBAY.
DIKOUNT.
On Government Bills above 30 days 4 per cent.
On ditto within 30 days
On Private Bills, at or within three months

INTEREST.
On Loans and Cash Credit Accounts on deposit 1 6 per cent.
of Government Notes . $
Ditto on deposit of Bullion
Ditto on deposit of Metals and other goods
Bank Shares, 51 re. to 52re. per cent. premium.—Last dividend,
7 per cent. Payments, January and July.

GRANT to MAYNOOTH COLLEGE
PROM THE MORNING PAPER/3 OF YESTERDAY.
TlMES.—There is something quite ludicrous in the State con.
centrating all its sympathies and all its expenditure on the college
instead of the parish, in making priests instead of maintaining
them. Paying clergy when we find them, that is, because there
they are, and the people will have them, seems a far less departure
from principle than actually producing them, and sending them
into the country. Maynooth is, in fact, a missionary college. Sir
Robert Peel is a second St. Patrick, sending fresh and more accom-
plished emissaries to fight their own way in a barbarous country.
We feed the Protestant clergy, but teach and train the Catholic
student ; and then send the latter to usurp the former's
nominal kingdom. Of course the grant is fated. Even
if It had been contingent on the result of a debate, there
was nothing last night to damage its prospects. The
two University Members, Sir Robert Inglis and Mr.
Law, resisted it cx ti,fficio, and the former con assure, but with ar-
guments which have ceased to persuade the British Legislature.
Messrs. Gregory and Plumptre also protested in the name of their
several parties, the latter without any compromise of tone; and,
strange to say, Mr. T. Duncombe took the same line. Lord
Sandon, however, not having the fear of M'Neill before hit eyes,
gave in his adhesion to the measure. Lord John Russell supplied
to Sir Robert that cordiality which he so painfully is in, want of
from his own benches, and Mr. Ward and Mr. Sheil also brought
their quota of support. The Member for Sheffield goes farther than
the present Government measure, and also feels an objection, in
which we beg to express our entire sympathy, against giving good
English money to this doubtful purpose. Ireland ought at least to
maintain its own schools and clergy.
HERALD.—Our readers have now before them the provisions
of the Bill for the increase of the Maynooth fund. We can hardly
expect any who object to the measure upon principle will be recon-
ciled to it by a consideration of its details , but we arc of opinion
that few reasonable men will dispute the justice of Sir Robert
Peel's description of the three-fold alternative presented to the
country and to the Legis'ature, viz.—First, to break off all Con-
nexion with the Maynooth establishment, and, after providing for
existing interests, discontinue the annual grant. Or, secondly, to
go on as we have been going on for fifty years. Or, thirdly, to
adopt the measure now proposed. Sir Robert Peel described,
without exaggeration, the penury and sordidness of the establish.
ment in which the religious teachers and political leaders of the
Irish Roman Catholics are prepared. Coming from such a place
could they be different from what they are ? This is the
question to be answered by the opponents of the Minis-
terial Bill. But though such penury and sordidness of education
may, and perhaps do, justify rudeness and disaffection in the indi.
viduals who have suffered by them, they are no justification of
those who ought to have obviated them—the preceding race of Ro.
man Catholic clergymen and the Romanist agitators. They have
drawn (priests and agitators between them) from two millions and
a half to three millions annually from the people for many succes-
sive years; they have built gorgeous cathedrals, and given every
other proof of great wealth ; but to the college in which their
clergy arc educated they have not contributed a single penny,
though a small per centage on their receipts would endow a college
as rich as all the colleges in either Oxford or Cambridge taken
together—far richer than the Irish University. They give to
Mr. O'Connell fifty-six thousand pounds a-year! and they leave
their first theological professor to subsist upon the public grant of
1201. per annum ! Such an anomaly, so long continued, :cannot
be accidental. It is part of the system by which ROManiSna and
democracy—democracy of the lowest, rudest, and most violent
character—have been long allied in Ireland, to combat the religion
of England and the British connexion. To force a good education
upon the Irish priesthood, to let the intelligent Roman Catholic
laity see that we wish their clergy well educated, and that we are
ready to furnish the means, is to cut at the root of this alliance ;
and such is the necessary tendency of the Ministerial Bill, the
third and only safe branch of the alternative at our command.
ADVERTISER.—Great as is the eeil of endowing Catholicism
in Ireland, the circumstance is accompanied with no inconsiderable
good. It has opened the eyes of thousands of English Episcopalians
and Scottish Presbyterians to the evils of religious establishments,
sad consequently made them converts to the views we have always
advocated. The former friends of establishments are compelled to
relinquish the ground which they have hitherto taken. They find
they can no longer, with any consistency or justice, plead for the
State endowment of one religion, and object to the some favour
being conferred on another. Either, as just remarked, all religions
ought to be endowed, or there ought to be no State religions at all.
To the latter conclusion they are at last driven. Within the last few
weeks a greater number of proselytes have been made to the
anti-State-Church principle, than were made for as many years
before. If it shall turn out, as we hope It will, that the
effect of the endowment of Catholicism in Ireland, will be to
create so powerful and universal a feeling against religious esta-
blishments, as shall lead to their abolition altogether, the event
which we now so deeply deplore, will prove to have been one of
the happiest that could have occurred. Things cannot remain as
they will be after the passing of this Bill. It is not to be expected
that the Roman Catholics of Ireland will be content with the pit-
tance, inadequate to their rights, if the principle of endowment be
once admitted—given to them like a bone to a discontented dog.
No, they must have more or nothing; they will not be content
with less, without becoming parties to their own degradation.
Here, we mean in Ireland, we have a population of 500,000 Pro-
testants, with a Church endowed to the extent of one million and a
half sterling, while the great mass of the population—the Roman
Catholics of Ireland—consisting of upwards of seven millions of
people, are expected to be satisfied with a grant of some 26,0001.—
the crumbs from their masters' table. The insult to them of such
an expectation would be unpardonable, did not the conduct of
ileir own leaders and their own press justify it.

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NAVY (TRIAL CRUISES).—Copies moved for by
Capt. Pechell, "of the several reports from Rear-Admiral Bowles,
C. 8., Commodore Corry, and Captain Thompson, R.N., of the
sailing and other qualities as exhibited during the late trial cruises
of her Majesty's ships Sheen, Caledonia, St. Vincent, Camper-
down, Albion, Espiegle, Daring, Flying Fish, Mutine. Waters
witch, Panta'oon, Osprey, and Cruiser ; with the names of the
several constructors of the same." Also " returns of the number
of the established complement of the crew, with the amount of
tonnage by adrneasurement and displacement, of each vessel."
Likewise " of the quantity of water, in tens, and the number of
days' proTisien which each vessel is stated to he able to catty
tinder hatches, without interference with the stowage of the ships
Rotes; distinguishing, the quantity of water and of provisions
which each ,essel had on board, on the day of quitting port for the
trial services"—were ordered.
SUPTOSED INFANTICIDE AT LAXIBETTI.—OII Thurs•
day morning, between five and six o'clock, a police-constable of the
L division, whilst going his rounds in Guildford.street, York-road,
Lambeth, discovered, near Messrs. Grissell and Peto's factory, d
, the
body of a newly. born male child, quite warm, but dead, wrappe
in a black silk apron, and part of a white petticoat. lie imme-
diately took the child to Mr. Wagstafft, the divisional surgeon of
pollee, who, upon examinisg the same, found the nose compressed.
apparently caused by being pressed down. The face was covered
With blood. Not the least doubt is entertained that the Child WO
t