The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 19, 1845.

LONDON and SOUTH and EAST ESSEX
RAILWAY.

Registered provlslonally,yursuant to 7 and B.. Vic., cap. 110.

The object of this undertaking is to provide direst railway corn-
manication with the metropolis and Kent for the p i ulous and rieh
tract of country lying along the north bank of tle Thames, and
extending along the south and east coast of Essex to the port of
Harwich.

It is proposed to effect this object by—
Ist. A line of railway in continuation of the Blackwell Railway
along the Marshes, by Barking, Dagenham, Gulph, Rainham, to Til-
bury, and crossing the Thames by means of a Steam Floating-bridge,
similar to those so successfully introduced by Mr. Rendell, at Devon-
pert, Southampton, and elsewhere.
2d. A. lino branching from Dagenham or Rainham to Rayleigh and
Southend. . „

3d. A line bearing north-east from Tilbury, intersecting No. 2 at
some convenient point, and passing through the level country at the
foot of the Essex hills through Maldon to Harwich.
The country throughout presents unusual facilities for the formation
of a good and level line at a comparatively trifling cost.
The traffic has been ascertained to bet large, and to afford a good
prospect of profitable investment, and the co-operation of the princi-
pal landowners along the line, from the progress already made, will
be speedily secured.
In a military point of view, for the rapid transit of troops from
London and Chatham, along the north bank of the Thames and the
Essex coasts, this railway will prove of the greatest importance, es-
pecially in time of war, and cannot, therefore, fail to receive the
favourable consideration of her Majesty's Government.
In a commercial point of view, this railway offers great advantages
to the local agricultural and shipping interests, as well as to the
metropolis, in the rapid and cheap conveyance of commodities of all
kinds, as vegetables, corn, cattle, sheep, fish, now brought in enor-
mous quantities to the London markets, to which may be added the
carriage of coals, lime, naval and military stores, parcels, &c.
As a passenger line the cheap and rapid communication thus
opened between the Metropolis and Gravesend and the sea coast,
cannot fail to prove attractive to the thousands who daily seek
health and amusement along the banks of the river and coast, while
the frequent, regular, and safe passage of the river, afforded by the
establishment of the steam floating bridge, will operate by bringing
the populations of Kent and Essex into more favourable communi-
cation.
A more detailed prospectus, with the names of the Provisional
Committee, will shortly be issued. In the meantime, applications
for shares to be made to Mr. Geerge Smith, solicitor, 24, Golden-
square.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
'Morning .. 51 minutes after 11 I Evening • • 0 =buttes after 0.

Admiralty adopt a false principle of economy as to ex-
pense, and a destructive principle as to efficiency.
In expressing the surprise with which he had listened
to Sir GEORGE COCABURN'S declaration of a former
evening, " that he could at present man the navy well
with good seamen," the Gallant Officer referred to the
proof of his cwn consistency in deprecating the system
he was now denouncing by refusing to act with his col-
leagues at the Admiralty under the last Whig Govern-
ment, because they would persist in the vicious
practice which he found the present Board
adopting after practically repudiating it. This
practice was, the sending out men-of-war in time of
peace with what was called a " peace complement."
Than this absurdity of two complements for a man-of-
war, nothing could be more absurd. " A war comple-
ment" should be superseded by the phrase " a proper
complement." But it is the more surprising (as the
Member fur Gloucester argued), that this plan of capri
ciously nndermanning ships of the line should have been
recurred to by the present Admiralty Beard, when, on
a reference made by the Whig Board, of which he had
been a member, to the ablest and most distinguished
officers in the service, their concurrent opinion had bees
reported against such a scheme; and it was by these
officers declared that the true basis of any scheme for
manning ships of war should be this:—" That the
numerical amount and capacity of the crew should be in
proportion to the number of guns and the weight of
metal." The reasonableness of this principle is so ap
parent that it is difficult to imagine how any Admiralty
Board could ever have departed from it. But it is ab-
solutely astonishing—and even deplorable—to note with
what sort of arguments Sir GEORGE COCKBURN at-
tempted to justify the cases in which there has recently
been admitted departures from it, whilst ho acknow-
ledged its truth, soundness, and necessity. Now it
is a principle which the welfare of this coun-
try is more deeply interested in vigilantly
maintaining than may to a casual observer be apparent,
on its mere enunciation. The infraction of this prin-
ciple has a direct and positive tendency to disgust the
service ; and we are, therefore, sorry that Capt. BERKE-
LEY did not call upon the House of Commons, by an
affirmative resolution, to pledge itself to its practical ob-
servance. We cannot sufficiently condemn their appeals
to the excitement of popular feeling in Ireland, which
endeavours to enforce her claims to more extensive mea-
sures of remedial and equalising legislation, by me-
nacing suggestions of the amount of defection which
would b 9 witnessed in the ranks of our army, and from
the strength of our ships' crews, in the event of a war
breaking out before those measures shall have been
granted. We have ever advocated, in the most exten-
sive sense of the phrase, "justice to Ireland" through
the extension to her of all the full rights of an integral
member of the Union. But we as little believe that the

denial of " repeal" will exercise any such disorganising
influence on the Irish ccntingents of our army and navy
as that it will withdraw one Irish workman from the
yards of our builders, masons, and bricklayers, or any
other of the numerous crafts and laborious avocations
in which their spirited industry has always prompted
them to earn a hard, but honest, subsistence, rather than
abandon themselves to squalid indolence and destitution
at home.
We know enough, however, of the sentiments of the
British seaman, English, Dutch, or Irish, to feel the
most serious apprehensions as to what the inevitable
tendencies must be if such inexcusable disregard for
his comforts, his feelings, his just demands, as that
which were: incidentally established against the Admi-
ralty in several very significant cases mentioned by
Captain BERKELEY and Sir CHARLES NAPIER. It pro-
ceedings of this nature should be any longer persevered
in, the utter disgust they will occasion to the service
will be evidenced in its utter loss of all attachment and
loyalty to the cause it has hitherto carried to triumph
and to victory over every sea. Let us advert to a few
of these facts.

When the Albion (90) was last fitted out under
Captain LOCRYER, for the experimental squadron in the
Channel, she carried a crew of from 800 to 830 men;
but she was dispatched to Lisbon with a complement
100 short of that number. Now, though Lisbon could
scarcely be considered a foreign station, Captain
LOCKYER had to " look at" the French squadron off the
coast of Africa. Had an actual collision unhappily
taken place, what plea of justification could have availed
those who would have placed Captain LOCEYER in such
a position, with a crew at least 100 men short of its com-
plement ?
But when these experimental squadrons are fitted ou
how happens it that it is so exceedingly difficult to find
able seamen for them ? Because—and the fact was-
broadly admitted by Sir GEORGE COCKBURN—there
b. ing no provision adopted for securing the services of
able seamen at the time of their being paid off for an,
future emergency, it is found a labour of the most
difficult and protracted character to get together again
any number of them. They have entered the merchant
service to escape from utter destitution ; or, for want of
employment and patronage at home, have taken service
at higher wages with foreign Powers. The few able
seamen that are entered on board an experimental ship
know beforehand that all the hard work will fall upon
them,— excessive duty in proportion to their superior
capacity to discharge it ; but all this increased liability
and labour are unaccompanied with any increase of pay
or emolument ? Are these conditions likely to operate
in Iny other way with able seamen but to deter them
from engaging ? In further illustration of this crying
evil—the deficiency of able seamen—we may mention
what happened to Capt. BERKELEY himself. In 1836 he
was appointed to the command of the Hercules. The Asia,
and other ships, were being equipped at the same time,
and the utmost difficulty was experienced in obtaining
men. At length the captains of ships in course of man-
ning were directed to receive men from the Coast Guard.
Capt. BERKELEY remonstrated against this order, re-
marking " that those men were not worthy of their
rating." When the Hercules left Sheerness, although
she had ostensibly her full complement of men, there
were not more than twelve among them who could
steer the ship, nor above seven who could bo trusted to
take soundings ! Is this a condition for the men of- war
of Great Britain to be sailed under ? The vast extent
for which the modern application of steam and machinery
to navigation both supersede d the practical seamanship
and experience of all weathers which the navy used to
meet with in its ready draughts from the Scotch smacks,
the Irish " wherries," the passenger-coasting vessels of
our own shores, and the body of the Thames' watermen,
is so obvious and so efficient a cause of this diminution
of the supply of able seamen, accustomed to work ship-
ping in all weathers, under every disadvantage of bad
seasons, and dangerous coasts, and therefore in a school
certain to form them to habits of smart and ready sea-
manship, that the evil complained of ought long ago to
have caused provision to be made for its own remedy.
Inducements in the shape of premiums ought
to have been already established to keep
our able seamen within available reach when
required. So lately as 1840, when Sir CHARLES
NAPIER commanded a squadron, and Captain BERKELEY
sailed under his orders, they were warned that they
might have a collision with the French fleet, and yet
sailed with " peace complements," as they were called!
Captain BERKELEY closed his exposition of the defects
most prominent in the Admiralty management by ad-
verting to one cause of the deficiency of seamen, of
which the Admiralty were, he considered, rather as the
unwilling ministerial agents, than the voluntary pro-
moters. It seems that when a ship is paid off the captain
is desired to recommend, out of his men, those of the
best character for the Coast Guard. Once entered into
that they are for ever lost to the navy ; for not only do
they remain on shore, and after the usual time become
entitled to pensions, but they lose all that they could ever
boast of able seamanship. We go all the lengths with
Captain BERKELEY in holding that this branch of ser-
vice, though appropriated to purposes of revenue pro-
tection, should be under the control of the Admiralty ;
but, in supporting his further opinion, that these Coast
Guard men ought to be available for general service
whenever called upon, we are inclined to go some-
what beyond his proposition, that on quitting the
general service again they should have the option
of re-entering the Coast Guard. But the view we have
to submit on this and other points in connexion with
the remedies applicable to the very serious evils brought
under the notice of the Legislature on Friday evening
last, we shall postpone till to-morrew, when we shall
take occasion to advert to the defence of the Admiralty
set up by Sir G. COCKBURN, and the very just remarks
—and what is more, the very feasible propositions, as
we think them—briefly opened by Sir C. NAPIER, for
obviating the "short supply " of able seamen in future,
and ensuring at all times a ready levy of them. It does
not strike us that topics of more vital importance to the
character and welfare of our navy, and therefore to the
safety and grandeur of this country, have been more
satisfactorily discussed for many sessions. We see in
the temperate and earnest tone of all parties a consoling
augury of intended and immediate improvement in the
administration of the interests confided to the Board of
Admiralty—at all times vast—now every day becoming
of paramount magnitude and influence.

Accounts from Constantinople of the 30th April an-
nounce that official intelligence had been received that a
body of Greek soldiers, headed by an officer of the name
of PLATONIHI, had made an irruption into Thessaly. It
appears that the Turkish Government had anticipated
such an act of aggression, and had placed an officer with

a:division of troops in a defile, to watch his movements.
A collision took place, and after an obstinate combat the
Greeks were driven back. Sixteen men were killed,
and a number wounded on both sides. The Porte, in
consequence, had addressed a strong note to the
Greek Government on this wanton aggression,
for the affair took place on the Turkish ter-
ritory ; and unless ample reparation is made,
it will be followed by a declaration of war. It
is generally admitted that the Greek Government is
greatly to blame for sending troops to the frontier at all,
but especially under a reckless officer who would not
scruple to disturb the peace between the two countries.
Col.Ern, who now has the entire management of
affairs, is conducting himself in the same unjustifiable
manner in the home department, and by a wanton in-
terference with a religious procession, had nearly pro-
duced a civil commotion in .the capital. The following
account of this affair is furnished by a correspondent :

" According to custom, the Greek Church celebrated on
the night of their Good Friday, the 25th instant, a religious
ceremony in honour of the Holy Sepulchre. It was arranged
by the Archbishop that the procession should take place
exactly as in former years, and pass through the same
streets, but M. Coletti ordered the Governor to notify to the
Archbishop that the route of the procession must be so far
altered as to pass before the new royal palace. The prelate
declined to accede to this, but M. Colletti, nothing daunted,
at the moment the procession emerged from the church,
assisted by Generals Tzavellas and Grivas and Calli-
phronas, Vice-President ofthe Chamber of Deputies, forcibly
possessed themselves of the four corners of the representa-
tion of the Holy Sepulchre, hoping that the clergy would be
obliged to follow. The prelate hesitated. The commissary
of police endeavoured to force him to do so, upon which he
decided on retiring into the sanctuary, but ordered the
clergy to follow, without, however, going to the palace.
The whole procession proceeded for a short distance,
until the four bearers of the holy sepulchre took
the turning which led to the palace, while the clergy
and the rest of the procession followed the one they
had been directed to adhere to, and finding that they were
thus abandoned, returned to the church. This scandalous
scene caused a tumult among the spectators, and a voice
cried out, ' The King of kings is not to be carried to the fest
of a mortal king.' M. Colletti perceived his error, and al-
though the King and Queen were waiting, gave up the idea
of proceeding to the palace, persuaded the clergy to return,
and then the whole procession adhered to the route which the
Archbishop had ordered. The next evening M. Coletti still
further committed himself, as after the ceremony at the
church, at which their Majesties were present, and had been
kept standing upwards of two hours, M. Coletti and General
Grivas suddenly decided on receiving the sacrament, which
is quite contrary to custom, and was highly displeasing to
the clergy, to say nothing of its being a breach of Court eti-
quette, as it considerably prolonged the ceremony."

We have received Madrid journals of the 10th and
11th inst. The Cortes, which was still engaged in dis-
cussing the budget, had nearly finished the business of
the session, and was to be prorogued about the 20th.
The QUEEN will leave for Oatalonia a few days after-
wards, accompanied by NARVAEZ and MARTINEZ DE LA
Ross. It would appear from the following statement in
the Espectador that the relations between the Court of
Madrid and the POPE have not yet been established. His
Holiness requires much more than the Ministers con-
sider it prudent to concede :

" We are assured that the concordat has arrived, and that
it is on the following bases :-1. All the emigrant bishops
are to return to Spain without being required to take the oath
to the Constitution. 2. In each provincial capital there shall
be two convents in which the monks shall reside without
distinction of order. 3. The Government shall provide the
buildings fur this purpose. 4. The support of the monks
shall be provided for by a canonical tax of 15 per cent., to
which the purchasers of Church property shall be subjected,
and it is only on this condition that they shall be relieved
from the excommunication that now hangs over them. 5.
The vacant dioceses shall be administered by ecclesiastical
governors, to be named, not by the chapters, but the bishops
of the nearest diocese-I. We do not guarantee the news, but
it is communicated to us as verypositive. It is said that the
Government is doing all in its power to prevent these condi-
tions from transpiring, but it is so embarrassed at this unex-
pected news that it is probable the occult power will influence
it and induce it to submit to the demands of the PoPe."
The Three per Cents. closed at 34i for cash, and 35
at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 25 at 60 days ; and
the Debt without Interest, at 81 at 60 days.

The intelligence in the Paris papers is not important.
The Deputies did not meet on Saturday, as there were
not a sufficient number of Members present to constitute
the Chamber. On the previous day the Great Northern
line occupied their attention, but little progress was
made. The Committee had proposed that the line be-
tween St. Quentin and Noyou should pass by the for-
tress of Ham. To this the Government objected, and
required time to consider what course would be pre-
ferable. To this the Chamber assented. It was under-
stood, however, that the Government was to make its
choice before the adjudication of the line, and it was re-
solved that the Company should be bound to for-
ward all merchandise within twenty-four hours
after its delivery, unless there was a special
agreement to the contrary. The Opposition,
according to the Revue de Paris, intend to show fight
again before the close of the session about the old worn-
out questions relating to Morocco and Otaheite, and
"is is probable," adds that journal, " that the Ministry
will be asked what course they mean to adopt in pre-
sence of the difficulties which may arise in the New
World between Great Britain and the United States.
Besides those questions, which are entirely political, the
special budget of the Ministry of Marine will be the
theme of numerous and severe reclamations addressed to
Admiral blacissti, respecting the absence of order and
foresight manifest in most of the branches of his (the
navy) administration."
A report prevailed that the negotiations carried on in
London relative to the suppression of the slave trade
w. re in a fair train ; that the right of search was to be
abolished, and that French and English fleets were to
cruise on the African coast, to prevent the trade, as
had been agreed to with the Government of the United
S;ates.

The following appears in the Seniaphore de Marseilles
of the 14th :

The steam-packet Charlemagne, which left 'Algiers on
the 10th, came safe into port last evening, notwithstanding
the stormy state of the weather. She brings very satisfac-
tory accounts from the column under the direction of Mar-
shal Bugeaud. The insurrection of the Dahara is completely
extinguished, and most of the Kabyle tribes hare made
their submission ; but the Governor-General has imposed
upon them very rigid conditions. The Marabout, who killed
one of our civil agents in the market place at Alilianah, has
been decapitated by order of the chief of the tribe, and the
head of the fanatic was laid at the feet of the Marshal.
There has been a new visitation of locusts, and fears are
entertained that some epidemic disease may arise from the
quantity of bodies of these insects with which the ground is
covered."
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Satur-
day at 86f. 23c ; the New Loan, at 861. 55c. ; the Five per
Cents., at 1211. 50c. ; Orleans Railroad shares, 1,233 f. 75c.;
Rouen, I,loof. ; Havre, 8921. 50c. ; Avignon, 1,0621. 50c. ;
Basle, 273 f. 75c. ; Spanish Tithe per Cents., 42 ; Pas-
sives, 8.
The following :re the quotations for the new lines of
railway :-
Orleans and Bordeaux, 2301. premium; Boulogne, 1401.
to 165 f. ditto ; Troyes and Montereau, 75f. ; Paris and Lyons
(Laffitte), 22f. 50c. ; ditto (Calon), 2f. 50c. ; ditto (Ganneron ),
10f. ; Northern line (Laffitte), 35f. • ditto (Rosamel), 14f.
50c. •, Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie),l2f. 50c. ; ditto ( Drouil-
lard ), lf. 50c ; ditto (O'Neill), 15f. ; Lyons and Avignon
(Lecointe), 25f. ; ditto (Talabot), 35f. ; ditto (Compa,nie
Meridionale), 121. 50c. Bourdeaux and Toulouse (Mac-
kenzie)' 121. 50c. ; ditto and Cette (Espeleta), 171. 50c. ;
Cita and St. Quentin (Kysaens), 11. LOc. ; ditto (Carrette),
sf. ; Paris and Strasburg (Ganneron), 15f.
LYONS, MAY 14.-Avignon and Marseilles, 1,030 E, cash ;
Paris and Orleans, 1,217 f. for the 15th inst. ; Paris and Rouen,
1,095 f. ; ditto Orleans and Vierzon, 810 f., cash; Orleans and
Bordeaux, 700 f., end of May ; Montereau, 563 f.

HIGHLAND SOCIETY OF LONDON
On Saturday the members of this national and patriotic
Society held their fourth and last meeting for the season at
the Freemasons' Tavern. The Society was established so
long age as the year 1778, and incorporated by Act of Parlia-
ment in 1815, for the purpose of preserving the martial spirit,
dress, music, and language—the remains of Celtic literature
and the antiquities of the ancient Caledonians—fur encou-
raging a kindly feeling between Highlanders in all parts of
the world, and in other respects promoting the general wel-
fare of the northern parts of the kingdom. The principal
general Court of the Society is always held on the 21st
of March, to celebrate the anniversary of the battle
of Alexandria, where the heroism of the High-
land troop was so conspicuously and memorably dis-
played. On the present occasion about forty gentlemen,
several of whom were in military and Highland costume,
sat down to a very excellent dinner, provided by Mr. Ba-
con. The chair was filled by Lieutenant-General Sir
Lewis Grant, and supported by The Chisholm, Sir
James R. Grant, Sir William C. Ross, Captain Charles
Annandale,
Calaep,ta3siinr.Lja.mcuonreß.N.l ; Mr. J. J. Glennie, Mr. Tul-
loch, Mr. A. M'Donald, Mr. Sutherland. Mr. Gillespie, Mr,
Mr. M. Boyd, Mr. J. Davidson
Mr. D. Davidson, Mr. A. Johnston, Captain Green, Mr.
Bain, &c. &c.
After dinner the usual loyal and patriotic toasts were drank,
several of which were with Highland honours. Her I‘4,lesty's
piper, Angus Mackay ; the Society's piper, Donald
Mackay ; and John Mackenzie, piper to the Marquis of
Breadalbane, played several of their best martial and High-
land airs. Some excellent songs were sung, and
a few reels in true Highland spirit, were danced during the
evening, and about the last hour of night the company sepa-
rated, after a friendly bumper, to the old toast of "Happy to
meet, sorry to part, and happy to meet

A
MUTH OF ?lie. STRICKLAND, TUB .H.CTOR.—We
regret to state that this excellent performer died last even-
ing, about eleven o'clock, after an illness of about a week. He
has left a widow, but no children. Thus has been cut off in
the prime of life (his age was only 48) one of the few re-
maining ornaments of the British stae. Strickland was the
legitimate successor of Dowton and k awcett, and his loss at
the present moment will be felt moat severely. There is no
actor on the boards who can at all supply his place. It is now
about ten years since Strickland first came to town. He
made his first appearance before a London audience at the
Strand Theatre during the management of Hammond. He
was soon afterwards engaged by Braham for the St. James's,
and when that theatre closed his services were secured by
Mr. Webster for the Haymarket, where he has remained ever
since, and where we had hoped for years to come to have en-
joyed the delight which we always derived from witnessing
his artistical efforts. But " Alas, poor Yorick." An attack
of inflammation of the lungs, which defied the utmost efforts
of medical skill, has, in one short week, removed him from
the stage of life, and his friends are left to regret his loss,
which they feel tip' be irrepotble.

THIS DAY'S NEWS.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool on Saturday was steady.
Sales 4,500 bales, including 500 Surat at 23/ d. to 3d.,
nearly all the rest being American. There was no
change in prices. The shares of established lines
of railway were good, but Scrips were heavy.
Barnsley Junction, Half Shares, 40s. 418. ; Birkenhead,
Manchester, and Cheshire, 104 ; Belfast and Ballymena, 8% ;
Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 12% ; Caledonian, 111%
; Cambridge and Lincoln, 7% 1/2 ; Chester and Birken-
head, 55 ; Ditto, New Shares, 48%; Ditto, Half Shares, 27%
; Chester and Holyhead, 16 ; Churnet Valley, 6 1/8 ;
Clitheroe Junction, 2% ; Cork and Waterford, 2%
Coventry and Nuneaton, 3 ; Dublin and Galway, 44 ;
Grand Junction, Half Shares, 115% ; Ditto, Eighth Shares,
20% ; Great Southern and Western, 23% ; Huddersfield
Canal and Railway, 74 %; Liverpool and Manchester, New
Snares, 38% ; Liverpool, Ornaskirk, and Preston, 445. 2% ;
London and Windsor, 4 ; Londonderry and Enniskillen, 44 ;
London and York, 4:% % ; Direct Northern, 3% 645. ; Leeds
and Dewsbury, 10 % ; Leeds and Thirsk, 71 ; Leeds and
West Riding Junction, 10 ; Manchester and Birmingham,
58 ; Ditto, New Shares, 7%
; Manchester and Leeds, 154 ;
Ditto, Half Shares, 69%; Midland Railway, 162% 3; Ditto,
401. Shares, 20 193/4 ; -Ditto Consolidated Birmingham and
Derby, 125 % ; Newcastle and Berwick, 15% ; Newcastle
and Darlington, 49 ; Ditto, New Shares, 29% ; North
Western, 86s. 3d. 4 ; Oxford and Birmingham Junction,
33/4 ; Shrewsbury and Hereford, ; Shrewsbury, Wolver-
hampton, and Birmingham, ; Shrewsbury and Grand
Junction, 6% ; South-Eastern and Dover, New Shares, No. 1,
15 14% ; Ditto, No. 3, 61% ; Trent Valley, 18% ; Ditto
Continuation, 18s. 6d. ; Welsh Midland, 2/. 38s. ; West
Yorkshire, 24 435. ; Wexford and Carlow, 41/2 ; Worcester
and Tring, ; York and Carlisle, 214 ; Ditto, New Half
Shares, 18 ; Bordeaux and Toulouse, 2%; Lyons and Avig-
non (English), 58s. 6d. ; Namur and Liege, 6% ; Northern
of France (Laffitte), 53/4 ; Ditto (French), 5% ; Ditto
(Rosamel's), 465. 495. ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux (Eng-
lish), 11% ; Paris and Lyons, Laffitte's (English), 3 ;
Paris and Lyons (Gannerenfa), 565. ; Paris and St.
Quentin, 38s. ; Sambre and Meuse, 10% ; Verona and
Ancona, 425.
There are very late accounts received from Rio Janeiro
to-day, and we are sorry to find by the contents of the com-
mercial letters that the difficulties in the way of the con-
struction of a treaty with this country upon a more liberal
basis than heretofore desired, are as great as ever. At the
same time, it is mentioned in some of our accounts
that at heart the Brazilian merchants were not
at all pleased by being compelled to throw themselves into
the arms of the Germanic Confederation, as they have, from
the first, been customers of ours, and found us, as they say,
honest and liberal. It is in vain to expect any alteration in
the tariff now for some time to come—at least this is the im-
pression in mercantile circles in the City, and much indeed
is it regretted by all parties having intercourse with the
Brazils.
By the present arrival from Rio Janeiro we do not find
that much specie or a very valuable cargo has come to
consignees, one of the early indications of an interference
with the extension of intercourse, the result of the unwise
policy that has been pursued by our present Ministry in
keeping up all but prohibitory imposts upon the staple of the
Brazils—Sugar. The state of trade at Rio was not of a
very satisfactory nature. Exchange 24%.
The markets for the Public Securities have been rather
tranquil to-day, and not a large amount of business has been
in progress. In the Railway Share Market, however, a great
deal of business has been transacted. An improvement in
Consols for the Account to 99% has taken place, and to
99% for transfer to-morrow. The New Three-and-a -Quarter
per Cents. have risen to 1014 1/2; Exchequer-bills to 575.
premium ; and Bank Stock to 211.
Spanish Three per Cents. have only been quoted at 42%
this morning, with a trifling amount of business in progress.
The Passive Bonds were fiat at 8%. Belgian Four-and-a-
Half per Cents. have been sold at 994 ; the Dutch Two-
and-a-Half per Cents., at 63%; the Four per Cents., at 98 ;
Mexican Five per Cents. at 36% and %; and Portuguese
Converted at 67%.
The principal variations in the Railway Share market have
been in favour of an improvement in values. The French lines
are becoming more in request.

ONE
PRICES OF BRITISII FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock

CLOSINI
PRICES,
211

3 per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consols
New 334 per Cents. 101 ..A % WA 101%
Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 1114 11 IA
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860
South Sea Stock —

Ditto Old Annuities
Consols for Account..
India Stock for Acc0unt........... 279
Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., 1114 d.... 54 57 pm. 56
Ditto 5001. .
Ditto Small

971%
99 A
279

ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.

861/2

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839. 86%
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent.... • ......
Ditto. Deferred
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 36%%
Ditto Account
Ditto, Deferred 17%
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Converted. 6734 671,4
Ditto, Account 673/4 67%
Russian Bonds . 118/4 118 118
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840
Ditto. Account ••. •

361 A
36%
171/2

Ditto, Passive
v

29%
843
41%
4l %g

Ditto 3 per Cent.
Ditto, Account
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent —
Ditto, Deferred l3l, 131,42
Belgian 4% per Cent.
Dutch, 21,4 par Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 9B 9814
PRICES OF PAID. A ONE O'CLOCK. CLOSING
ll lILWAY SHARES PRICES.

Aberdeen
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush l% 2%
Birming. and Gloucesterloo
Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ......
Caledonian
Ditto Extension ...... 21 ...... 3%
Cambridge and Lincoln 1% ...... 7%.•
Chester and Holyhead... 5
Chichester and Brighton 10
Churnet Valley
Cork and Waterford ... 1% 2%3A%
Direct Northern
Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine
Dublin and Galway..... 21/ 44
Dublin and Mullingar... 2% 4%
Eastern Counties 25 ... . 18%4
_ _

137
59
10%
7172
16 •.-4
1214
21,
3%
2%
4
4
18,8

Eastern Union
15 .. ..
-
Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Ely and Bedford
Great South. and West.
(Ireland)
Ditto Extension
Great Munster 2% ......
Great North of England..loo 207 205
Ditto New
Ditto New
Great Western -..

Ditto % Shares 5O 105% 105%
Guildford, Fare'm, Ports. 2%.....
Hull and Selby 5O lO6l/2 107% lO7l/2
Do. Half Shares
London and Birminghm (5t0ck)...236 236
Do. New Thirds
London and Blackwall. 161. 13s. 4d. 9 aii
London and Brighton... 50
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d lB AvA... ......
Do. New l3s 4d % 1
London and S. Western 41/ 6s 10d 791/2
Do. Consolidated Bths 12
Do. New
London and York 214. 4l/2%
Londonderry and Ennis-

235
451 A
9%
6414
1814
1
80

13%
4%

54
61/,
155

killen
Lynn and Ely
Manchester and Leeds... 73 155
Do. % Shares
Do. Quarters
Do. Sixteenths . 214 8
Midland 100
Do. New
Midland, Birm., Derby...loo 126 127 1251... 126
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction ... 25 ...... 48
Do. New Brandling... 10
Newcastle and Berwick 114 14% 15
Newry and Enniskillen. 2% 5
Newark and SLeffield .. 1% 4I,E ......... ......
North British ..... -.... 10
Do. New
Northern and Eastern... 45
North Kent
North Wales
Perth and Inverness ... 2%
Richmond and West End
Junction
Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland l% .. 3% '
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
Dudley, and Birm 21,6..... 5 4%3/4
South Eastern & Dover 3312 s 4d... 41 403/4 4114
Do., No. 1 8
Do., No. 2.
Do., No. 3
South Wales 2% 5% 6
Waterford and Kilkenny 1
West Cornwall PA.-
York and North Midland 50 10414 105
Ditto % 5hare5........ 25
Do. Selby
Do. Extension

814.
18%
2

374
3:1/4
106
523/4
68%
1814

FRENCH RAILWAYS. -
Boulogne and Amiens... 4
Bordeaux, Toulouse, and
Cat te
Dijon and Mulhouse
Great Nerth. of. France.. 4
Do. do. (Rosamel's) 2
Jamaica Junction l% 3
Louvain and Jemeppe... 2 ... .
Namur and Liege
Orleans and Vierzon ... 2
Orleans and Bordeaux... 2
Over 17ssel 4/ 3s 4d i%
Paris & Lyons, Laflitte's 2
Paris and Lyons, Gan-
neron's,
Paris and Strasbourg ... 2
Paris and St. Quentin ... 2
Rouen and Havre
Royal North of Spain ... 2
Sambre and Meuse ~... 4
Tears and Nantes, Mac-
kenzie's
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
National of Ireland 17% 21%
Provincial of Ireland ... 25

57
141/2
11
li4
3%

2185

21
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LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MAY 19.—Wind northerly, moderate breeze, and
cloudy.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 16. - Sld. Trent steamer, West
Indies ; Pacha steamer, Gibraltar.
DEAL, MAY 17.—The Queen Victoria, from Newcastle to
Hastings, arrived in the Downs, has on board the crew of a
vessel which foundered in the N-rth Sea.
PORTSMOUTH' MAY 18.—W ind W.N.W.—Arrd. her Ma-
jesty's ship Kingfisher, Milford.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 17.—S1d. Empress, Quebeg.
Oar DAIONOVIV, MAT 15.--Acrd. Rapid, WO; Fit lam-

burgh (out 42 days); Jean Van Eyck, Rio for Antwerp;
Toronto, Tucker, New York.
LivEr.rooL, MAY 18.—Wind N.W., fresh.—Arrd. Ronal
Saxon, Crawford, Bombay Malcolm, Macao ;
Brown, Maranham •' Elizabeth Grinmer, Honduras; Eng-
land, Mobile; Lord Canterbury, Savannah ; Portland,
Charleston. 16. Sid. Lady Sale, Halifax. 17. Great Western
steamer, New York. 18. Laidmane, Calcutta ; Velocity,
Columi)ia River; Shannon, Valparaiso; Hebe, Pucta Arenas ;
Pomona, Rio Grande; Cora, Africa; Lucretia, Barbadoes ;
Diadem, Hayti; Europe, Samuel Hicks, and Adirondack,
New York; Asia, Boston; Belmont, St. ohn's, New Bruns-
wick ; Minerva, Halifax ; Lady Falkland, Lord Ashburton,
and Malabar, Quebec.
MONTROSE, MAY 14.—Arrd. Lord Palmerston, Ichaboe.
• SUNDERLAND, MAY 17.—S1d. Mary Buttner and Ethel-
' bert, Quebec.
SHIELDS, MAY 17.—Sld. Naden, Rio Janeiro.
Wrtrrur, MAY 17.—Arrd. Pickering, London, with da-
mage, having been in contact with one of her Majesty's
steamers, off Lowestoff Light, on the 10th inst.
SHIELDS, MAY 15.—The Norwegian vessel Hoide, is
en shore at the lower part of this harbour, but is expected off.
PLYMOUTH, MAY 18.—Sld. her Majesty's ship Melampus,
South America; Blomidon, Africa.
FALMOUTH, MAY 18—Wind N.N.E. Eo N., fresh breezes.
—Arrd. Penguin packet, Rio, sailed 2d ult. ; on freight
30,0001. in gold, diamonds, &c.
CLYDE, MAY 17.—S1d. Wilhelmina, Valparaiso; Lalla
Rookh, Demerara ; Lavinia, Berbice ; Janet Boyd, St. Vin-
cent; British American, St. John's, New Brunswick; Mary,
Montreal ; Priner Gaditana steamer, Cadiz.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 18.—Several icebergs were seen, 2d and
3d inst., lat 44,10 n. 33, by the Carrol of Carrolton, arrived here.
GREE'NLAND FISHERY.

PETERHEAD, MAY 16.—The Enterprise, from Davis's
Straits, arrd. here, has 11,300 seals, and reports the Resolu-
tion with 6,000 ; Commerce, 6,500; Eclipse, 3,000 ; Union,
5,000; Gleaner, 6.000; Superior, 4,300; Jean, 1,600; and
Hannibal, 7,000. The Mary left Davis' Straits, 26th ult., full.

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