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bATURDAY MORNING, JUNE il, 1842.

CHINA. NEWS.

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The Oriental arrived at Falmouth on Wednesday,
bringing a number of passen&ers and despatches from
India, which miscarried by the Overland Mail. Among
them are some items of highly important news from
China, though not of a later date than those. already
received, being from Macao to the 6th of March. The
Chinese were assembling an immense army for the pur-
pose. of driving the " English barbarians" from Ningpo.
The following extract .from a !otter from that place, of
the 6th of February, shows the kind of reception it was
likely to meet with from our gallant countrymen :
“.con the 3d instant the Jupiter transport arrived,
with 560 men, a most necessary accession to out force.
Vre ana l julb now on the qui vine, es reports hare
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been brought in that the Chinese .have been ,afsemh4ng
forces from all quarters of the empire,. that they have I
80,000 men, and are advancing to make a last grand
attempt to crush us. They are said to be
within thirty miles, and advancing in several di-
visions, so as to attack Ningpo and Chinhae at one
time. If even half the number of Chinese troops
mentioned is true, the odds are certainly not in our
favour, as we cannot assemble more than 2,000 men
at Ningpo ; but the Chinese have never felt our grape
and canister yet, and we are all in capital spirits. The
General would like nothing better. Yesterday a white
buttoned Mandarin arrived at Ningpo, and intimated to
the General that some man of high rank wcs coming to
negotiate with us ; but that is out of the question, except
as concerns our not attacking llong-Chow-Foo, andit is
very possible that it is only to throw dust in our eyes as
to their real intentions."

From a Bombay letter of the 2d of May, we learn that
the Chinese Mandarins had assembled a very large mili-
tary force at Yu-Yao.
The brava General Sir HUGH Govon, to whom the
drubbing of the Chinese is as much a pastime as was the
chasing of Egyptians in Syria to gallant old Commodore
NAPIER, was preparing to disperse them. Nothing,
therefore, could be more welcome or better timed than
the arrival of the reinforcements by the Jupiter. The Ge-
neral had intended, on the arrival of that force, to make a
movement on Hong. Chow-Foo, but learning that there
was sport for him at Yu-Yao, he resolved to disperse the
force assembled there first. Plenipotentiary Sir H.
POTTINGER, on proceeding to Hong Kong had very pro-
perly given power to the Admiral Sir W. PARKER,
and the Commander-in-Chief, Sir H. GOUGH,
to act according to their own discretion. Im-
perial proclamations against the "fighting foreign
devils" were extensively circulated, but they appeared to
have little influence over the public mind. The excellent
discipline of our troops, and the care taken to respect
the sacredness of private property, by the Commander-
in-Chief, seemed to convince the peaceable Chinese that
they had nothing in reality to fear from us, notwithstand-
ing the declarations to the contrary in the Pekin Gazette.
The Chinese were fortifying the Canton river, but it was
Understood that the Plenipotentiary would not attack
them unless they attempted to raise works below the
usual anchorage. Then, indeed, they were to catch
it in style. It was generally believed that several
Russian officers had arrived in China for the purpose
of instructing the Chinese in the art of European war-
fare. Should these iellows succeed in making the
Chinese familiar with the science of gunnery, there
is little doubt but they will give us very
serious trouble. The regular trade was exceedingly
dull, but smuggling continued to be carried on
rather extensively. The next mail from India will be
likely to bring us the news of a regular battle between
the " red-bristled barbarian fighting devils," and some
forty or fifty thousand of the world-conquering inha-
bitants of the Central Flowery Land.

Lord ASHLEY'S well-meant efforts to lessen slavery
in mines, have obtained the cordial approbation of the
bulk of the community. It is
,gratifying to find the
Members of Parliament, driven by the loathsome con-
sequences of their own acts to try and remove them. It
is doubly gratifying to find the Tories, who have la-
boured assiduously to degrade the people, who have de-
nied, and still deny, their political rights, and who have
treated them as inferior beings, now astonished at the
natural effects of that degradation, and obliged by their
own feelings to remove them.
The colliers, though some of the first to arrest their
attention, will not, we will venture to predict, be the
last. Crippled bodies, stunted growth, weak limbs, de-
fective forms, will be found almost in every class of our
overwrought labourers, and compassion or philanthropy
will carry them that relief which has been denied to
justice. We will not exclude from the description agri-
cultural labourers, who, notwithstanding their advan-
tages of working in a healthy atmosphere, are very ge-
nerally broken down by excessive toil, by cold and ex-
posure to the weather, and by insufficient nourishment
by the time they have reached 50, and pass a long win-
ter of decripitude, a prey to many chronic diseases. We
look, therefore, for great benefit to all the labouring►
classes, from the forcible manner in which some of the
most intense hardships of their condition are now command-
ing the attention of even their political opponents. At
the same time the honour of our country, the honour of
human nature, and what is due to truth, to justice, and
to the colliers themselves, require that their condition
and character be not worse represented than the facts
warrant. To some extent this has been done; exaggera-
tion is perceptible in the Report of the Commissioners
on Mines ; in bringing the subject before the public,
nearly all the circumstances which could give relief to
the dark picture have been studiously kept out of view.
We must state that in South Staffordshire, North
Staffordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Leizestershire ,
in the Ashby-de-la-'Duch district, in Derbyshire, in
Oldham, in Cumberland (except in one mine belonging to
the Earl of LorsDALE,) in the vast coat fields of Durham
and Northumberland, in the west of Scotland, in North
Wales, in the Forest of Dean, in South Gloucestershire,
in North Somersetshire, and in Ireland, no females, no
female child, and no young or adult woman works in
any of the collieries under ground. Now, that statement
at once relieves an immense part of our coal districts
from the horrors which have been painfully and elabo-
rately set forth as indiscriminately common to them all.
One fact is recorded of the Oldham people which we
must quote, because it proves that much more may be
left to the good feelings of the colliers themselves than
Lord ASHLEY seems to suppose; if they be only placed
in a condition to make less toil necessary.
" No females, (says the Report, p. 36,) of any age, are em-
ployed
in underground labour. The men unite in a dislike
to their being brought into circumstances so disgusting,
although their employment is common within a few miles
of Manchester on the other side; and the only man who
coming from that side has been known to take his wife into
the pit was compelled to leave the district ; the men said they
would leave the work if he continued. All classes of wit-
nesses are uniform and decided in making this statement."
There is some other evidence to the same effect :
George Carr, collier, Tankersley, said—" I make no more
money than the colliers at •ilkstone, nor so much; but I would
be hard put to it before I would bring a lass of mine into the
pit,—no not if I were ever so ill put to it. It is a shameful
practice."—P. 32.
In many of the cases where women have gone into
the mines to work, it has been the result of urgent ne-
cessity. That, or starvation, has been the alternative•
Es-. gratia :
Margaret Boxer, 50 rears old, coal heaver—" I bew the coal ;
have done so since my husband faired of his breath ; he has
been off work twelve years. I have a son, a daughter, and
niece working with me below, and we have sore work to get
maintenance. I go down early to hew coals for my girls to
draw. The work is not fit for women, and men could prevent
it were they to labour more regularly ; indeed, men about the
place don't wish wives to work in mines, but the masters seem
to encourage it."—Page 30.
What a noble example of an honest woman submitting
to such drudgery to get a maintenance ! MARGARET
BOXER may put to shame scores of the pauper and
pensioned hereditary law-makers, who, with health and
strength, age and property, are not ashamed to quarter
their sisters and brothers on the public purse, which is
filled by extorting a great deal from such persons as
MARGARET BOXER.

Ann Eggley, at page 75, says—" Father said, last night,
it was both a shame and a disgrace for girls to work as we do,
but there was nought else for us to do. I bare tried to get
winding to do, but could not." The father says—" I cannot
do without sending my girls to the pit. I don't like their
coming down, but I have one at home, and I cannot get any
work for her to do. I have tried it."

Margaret Gourley says—" I had rather set cards than go
into the pit ;" but she could not help herself. Jane Sym—
" I work day and night, week about. I don't like working in
the night shift, but I must keep my turn, or elm
(go without food)." So " Janet Cumming has no
h king for the work ; father makes- me like -it."
Asabella Read, 12 years old—" I do not like the work,
nor do the lasses; they are made to like it." " Agnes 1110ffat,
began working at 10 years of age; father took sister and I down;
he gets our wages.' Margaret Jacques, 17 years of age—" I
have been seven years at coal bearing ; it is horrible work ; it
was not my Choice, but we do our parents' will." Alargaret
Drysdale, 15 years old, coal-putter—. I don't like the work, but
mother is dead, and father brought me down. I had no choice."
Ann Harris, 15 years old, putter—" Heartily bates it; could get
no other work, or would not go down."
These quotations show that young women do not de-
scend into the pit from wantonness, or a love of ease ;
they go from a sense of duty ; they do the will of their
parents, and from the mere necessities of their condition.
Sad it is that they should go to such. work at all, but
when they are tempted by a "high rate of wages,'
and when "legal restrictions," we quote the language of
the Report at page 24, prevent mothers " from sending
their children to the neighbouring factories, in which
they would be exposed to far less hardship and hazard,',
they consign them to the terrific labour of the mines—
the most dreaded punishment in barbarous countries for
the worst crimes, in order that they may not " elern" or
starve. Mr. Sub-Commissioner FLETenEn's opinion,
that latterly children are sent into the mines at an earlier'
age than formerly, is of great importance. The le-
gislation, already adopted by Lord ASHLEY and his
friends, has had the disastrous effect of depriving chil-
dren of the light labour of "winding and setting cards,"
and such employments, and banishing young females from
the factories, to work under ground. Lord ASHLEY and
his friends, too, are, in a groat measure, the authors of
this hard necessity. If they were not to debar the
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on the surface of the earth ; but hc and they have made it
necessary fur women and children to gather their bread,
and sore work it is, in the bowels of the earth.

Another exception to the general picture of wretched-
ness generally drawn of the collieries, relates to the

Anode of working the mines. The dirty, wet mines
the narrow 'seams, the children and women dragg;: g
carts by chains, have all been emphatically dwelt on ;
but the public have not been at the same time informed
that there arc many collieries, clean and well ventilated,
in which the temperature is delightful, in which it is
impossible to employ either young children or females,
and in which the drudgery is done by horses, ponies, or
asses. Possibly dogs might be trained to the work,
where the ways are very low; but the humanity of those
who make laws which chain the people, would revolt at
so employing the canine species. 'We quote some pas-
sages from the Report :
Coalpits are almost always comfortably warm, and, in general,
the deeper they are the warmer. SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE—
In the field the principal seam of coal is 10 yards thick, the
roads which are cut out of the coal are seven or eight feet wide,
and about nine feet high. In this district the coals are
brought direct from the workings to the foot of the shafts in
cars drawn by eight horses. A railway is laid along the middle of
the road to make the work easier for the horses. Each horse
is conducted by a boy, usually from thirteen to fourteen 3 ears
of age. In situations where horses cannot be employed, the cars
are drawn up hill to the foot of the shafts by a jig-chain, and
are worked by the steam-engine. In the coal mines of this
district the state of the places of work, to persons accustomed
to it, is very comfortable. The coal-beds are sufficiently
high to allow abundance of room. The mines are
warm and dry. There is a supply of fresh air from
ventilation, though less than there easily might be. In con-
versation with snipers, in the whole course of inquiry as to the
state of the mines, I never heard a single complaint. The pits
are usually of the temperature of a fine summer's day, or, as
one of the witnesses expressed it, 'it is warm, beautifully
warm.' Horses thrive well in the pits. Large, convenient, and
comfortable stables, are dug out of the coal for them ; they
grow fat, and their skins are remarkably smooth and glossy.
The miners in the pit are not exposed to close, over-heated air,
as in some manufactories ; and in winter escape the miseries of
cold rain, snow, and frost. However unpleasant the coal-pits
may be to persons who for the first time go down to see them,
to those who are used to them, they are exceedingly agreeable."
—Dr. Mitchell's Report.
" In the Pottery district, the seams are of sufficient thickness
to permit the employment of horses and ponies to draw coal
along the main ways to the foot of the shaft, and no young chil-
dren are employed under ground."
A similar description applies to the coal-mines in
Warwickshire, about Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Derbyshire,
&c. ; and the public will learn with satisfaction, we
think, that the whole of the collieries are not such miser-
able abodes of cruelty and slavery- as it has probably
been led to infer from the somewhat partial representa-
tions of some interested persons. We are of opinion
that the morality of the colliers has not received fair
play from either the Commissioners or Lord ASHLEY,
but we cannot now advert to that part of the subject.

The friends of Mr. EMERSON TENNENT contrived that
there should be no House on Thursday night. They
were cordially supported by the Members of the Ca-
binet, not out of any personal regard for the
Secretary of the Board of Control, but to avoid
an exposure which might throw a taint upon the
Ministry. The Tories don't like handing over
Belfast to Mr. RoEstrcx's Committee, and they
are apprehensive that any attempt to sift the unfortunate
CROPPER'S petition would lead to that result. We
trust, however, the motion for bringing the subject of
that petition before the House will be renewed for an
early day.

The Committee on the Railway Bill, which stood
for last night, was postponed till this day week, when
the House will meet at twelve o'clock to discuss it. Mr.
HtmlE will then move the insertion of the following very
important clause, which we trust will be adopted with-
out opposition :

That, whereas the public service requires that her Majesty's
Postmaster-General should at all times be able to command the
use of railways for the conveyance of the mails at the lowest
rate of charge consistent with the actual cost of carrying the
same ;--Be it enacted, that in all cases in which the Post-
master-General shall, under the powers of the said Act, re-
quire that the mails or post letter bags shall be conveyed and
forwarded by any railway company on their railway, such com-
pany shall convey and forward the same on every day of the
week on which the conveyance of such mails and post letter
bags shall be required by the Postmaster-General, without
making any difference on any such days either in the rate of
speed, or in the cost and charge of conveying the said mails or
post letter bags along their railway : and that, in the event of
the Postmaster-General having on any day of the week occa-
sion to require from any such company the use of any special
train or trains on their railway for the conveyance
of the mails, the cost of carrying the mails by any
such special train shall in no case be enhanced or
increased on the ground or pretence of the same being
a special train, employed to pass along the railway without pas•
stingers, but the same shall in all respects be considered as a
train for the conveyance of passengers, and be furnished with
the customary carriages and accommodation for passengers,
should any such offer to accompany the same."
Mr. O'BRIEN is to have a clause prohibiting the lock-
ing in of passengers in railway trains. As the Rill is
before the House, it is as well to make it as perfect as
possible, and it cannot be perfect so long as the confine-
ment of passengers is left to the discretion of the Di-
rectors. The public have a right not to be left at their
mercy.

There is no political news of the slightest interest in
the Paris Journals. The French can think of nothing
now but the approaching elections.
The Journal du Havre of yesterday says :—" We have just
heard from Southampton that two English war steamers, the
names of which are at present unknown, are going to be fitted
up. The war establishments in that port are loaded with a con-
siderable quantity of artillery and ammunition for the account
of the Mexican Government. These vessels, which will also
take a number of seamen, are intended, it is said, to take an
active part in the war against Texas. This news coincides
with that of the grant of a loan of sixty-five millions of ft ancs
by England to Mexico."
• A journal says :—" Lord Cowley, the English Ambassador,
is making preparations to go to Baden or Spa. This would be
a kind of Mezzotomcine adopted by the Cabinet of London, for
at the first the recal of this Ambassador was contemplated."
It seems, too, that M. de Saint Aulaire is going to return to
France in a fortnight.
The Phare des Pyrenees of the sth says :—" A report was
spread at Barcelona that Zurtano would shortly arrive there
with a great force, and it seems even went so far as to say that
there were letters at the Post-office directed to him. This re-
port is without foundation. We know that Zurhano was still
at Bilbao on the 30th of May. However, this may be all co:n-
mercial business is suspended at Barcelona, nobody ventures on
speculations, so long as the question respecting cotton is un-
decided."— Commerce.
BO U IibE—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8.

•
tlrst Highest Lowest Last
Prier Price. Priv. Prier.
!Tenth S per Cent. ll9 70 ... .20 ... 119 70 ... 119 95
4 per Cents. ...... 10! 75 ... 101 75 ... 101 75 ... 101 75
3 per Cents.... BO 80 15 ... 80 ... 80 10
Lafflttc ra ik I.ooot. Si.aret 1055 ...1065 .1055 ...less
5,0001 Mlares 5070 .. 51.70 • 5070 ...5070
Belgian Bank
1841
Belgian 5 per Cents. *DJ II 33.4 ... HBl% H 3%
eer Cent., 1840 KS% ... 105% ... 10'
Dutch 2% per Cents.
t.a.str,r 4% ... 4% ... 4% 4
Portuguese 5 per Cents. 3130 3I 31541
,eapoittal 1(3% 1 3% 103% ... (O%
finnan
RAILWAY SHARES

yersailles,R. r.
L. 8.... ll2 50 .. 111 bil 110 111 25
Rouon 530, ... 53, ... 5:8 75 ... 530
Orleans
3:ialburg to Bale 2lO 911 25 ... 21u ... 211 25
(4ELGIAN UNDS—BaumieLs, Juss 8.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. lO3
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 9l
-- 3 per Cent.
724 i
(1840) 10414
Loan of City, 1232,4 per Cent. 343
Socletyet Conimvree,4;iperCent 66
Bank of Belgium, 5 per ...... 7oX
National Society
Exchange on Londeo (short)
—Brussels Papers, June 8.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Viarlua, Max 31
,r Coots. Metalliques
0!4
lank Shares
HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, JUNE' 7.
Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Sank Shares.

Thirty.seven,

five per
Fotar per Cents.
Three per Cents
B, S)

Anglo-Russian Loan llO 10;;N
Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certifipato., lo3i 1t3%
Inscription, Ist series .
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 9th •
Series 98%
Ditto in Certificates 9B 9+ ii,
New 4 per Cent. (1840)
Dutch Actual Debt, *4 per Cent. .........
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Polish Bonds
New Tickets . 170
Anglo-Danish Loin, 3 per Cent. MN '78%
Spanish, New h per Cents.
EXCHANOES ON LONDON.
__ _

HAMIBUROH, Juss 7.-13 t",, Two months 1, 64.
CUR WTI AMA, MAY 20.—Threc months, 458
STOCKHOLM, MAY 31. Seventy-five days, 12 7.
Basun. Jetta 4. Three months, 6.21 .

STEAMERS ON TILE RlVER.—Great complaints are
made against the overloading of these useful vessels on
Sundays and holidays, and if the proprietors or civic
authorities do not adopt precautions so as to abate the
nuisance, some dreadful calamity may justly be appre-
hended. It not unfrequently happens that one.third
more passengers than the boat can conveniently carry
are allowed to embark, and the consequence is, when
there is a move to one side—a very common circumstance
—that the water is almost on a level with the deck, and
is often as high as the cabin windows. Were
a fatal accident, the loss of fifty lives, perhaps, to be the
result of such wanton avarice, a Coroner's Jury would,
to a certainty, assess a heavy deodand ; or were actions
brought by individuals who had suffered injury, the
damages might fur exceed the profits. It is for the in-
terest, therefore, of the owners, as well as the public,
that regulations should be adopted allowing only a
certain number of passengers to a certain amount
of tonnage. Independent, too, of damages, can-
not the owners see that any serious loss of
life would raise a greatj 'prejudice against that
mode of conveyance, consequently injure their pro-
perty, and in the end lead to severe -enactments,
like those found necessary to protect passengers by stage-
coaches ? We regret to see, from a letter in a Contem-
porary, that one of the CityAlderrnaii took such a bigoted
view of a question of this importance. On being applied
to for redress, this Sabbatarian said, "If people will go
on the water on Sundays, they must put up with these
things." Alderman Kelly, we have heard, travels in
his own carriage on Sunday as well as other days, and
will i:ot allow the poorer classes the same privilege,
without exposing them to all the risks of a dangerous
practice, which as a Magistrate he is bound to put
down. Aldermen should remember that they are not
perfect, and that some of them commit faults even
greater than a Sunday trip in a steam-boat.
Pos-r-OpEicE.—According to a return laid before
Parliament, the payments by the Post-office for the
conveyance of the mails by railway,' in Great Britain,
during ,the last four, years, were as, follows :--1838,
and 1841,.
./3,3801. ; 1839, 52,230/. ; 1640, 51,301/. ;

94,818/ The money-orders issued, and paid in Eng-
land and Wales, have increased within the same period
to an enormous extent. For instance, for the quarter,
ending the sth of January, 1839, the total amount was
92,734/, while for the quarter ending the sth of Jan.
1842, it was not less than 1,629,2761., or more than six
millions and a half sterling for the year. The cost of
management in 1839 was 686,768/, and in 1842,
938,168/, while the net revenue in the former year was
1,614,353/, and in the latter, 444,1151.
METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.—A deputation on
this very important subject, consisting of Mr. Ormsby
Gore, M.P., Mr. Gaily Knight, M.P., the Earl of Love-
lace, Mr. John Martin, Mr. Hickson, Mr. J. Ivatt Briscoe.
Colonel Sykes, Mr. George Godwin, Mr. J. Hume, M.P.,
Mr. T. L. Donaldson, the Honourable H. Fitzroy, 1)r.
S. Smith, Mr. Fowler, Mr. Elphinstone, M.P., and some
other gentlemen interested in the matter, attended by
appointment on Sir Robert Peel, at Downing-street,
yesterday morning. A Cabinet Council being unexpectedly
summoned, the conference was postponed until next
week.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS•
CITY, FItInAY EvEnrna.
The English Market has been exceedingly firm during
the day, end prices, towards the latter part, finther im-
proved ' • Consols leaving off at 91% for the opening ex-aivi-
dend ; Reduced, 913.92 ; Bank Stock, 167 168 ; Exchequer
Bills, 48 50 prem.
The prices for Foreign Securies were—Belgian, 102 le3 ;
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 521 53 ; the Five per
Cents., 101 101%; Danish, 80% 81%; Brazilian, 66% 67%.
Mexican was quoted at 36% 36%.
In the Share Market, London and Birmingham were 177
179; liirmingham and Gloucester, 50 52; Great Western,
88% 69%, the Half Shares, 62 62% ; South Western, 62% 63 ;
North Midland, 65 67, the new Shares, 32 33 ; South Eastern
and Dover, 26 26%, the Scrip, 6% 6%; Northern and Eastern,
41% 42%; Bl•sekwall, 1014 11 ; Eastern Counties, 9 91/2; and
Brighton, 35% 35i.
The Foreign Exchanges were generally higher—Amsterdam,
12.5 12.514 ; Rotterdam, 12.5%; Antwerp, 12.4% 12.5 ;
Hamburgh, 13.11% 13.12%; Frankfort, 151% 1513 ; Paris,
25f. 75c. 25f. 80c. ; Vienna, 9.531/4 9.5414 ; Trieste, 9.55
9.56 • Madrid, 36% 363 ; Cadiz, 36% 361; Lisbon, 53.
The quotations of the Bonds were, Colombian, 26 26%;
Peruvian, 18% 19%; Portuguese Five per Cents, 37% 38; the
Three per Cents., 22 22%; Spanish Five per Cents, 22% 22k;
and the Three per Cents., 231/2 23%.
Money has continued plentiful, and has been worth 3%
per cent. _ _

Accounts from Hamburgh, mention the failure of a large
house there. This circumstance, the more unfortunate as oc-
curring immediately after the late fire, is simply owing to the
late stoppage at Leipzie.

(From The Sun of Last Night.)
A further rise has taken place to-day in the prices of the
English Fundt, although but little business has been done.
Tke Market bears a very firm appearance. Consols, 914 9
for the opening ex-dividend ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 914
92; Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Reduced, 1001 100,E ; Bank
stock, 168; t! xchequer Bills, 48 50 premium.
Not anything has been transacted in Foreign Securities be-
yond a few bargains in Dutch at 524 for the Two and a Half,
and 1011 for the Five per Cents. Prices of the others remain
nominally as yestei day.
The quotation for Mexican is 36i 37.
The Susie Market is firm, but with sales only in Great
Western at 69; Brighton 35k; and Greenwich at 6.
The Bonds also are quite neglected :—Portuguese Five per
Cents., 37i 374 ; and :vanish, the Five per Cents., 22i 24 ;
and Three per Cents., 23i 23g. The holders of these
last - named. documents are now beginning to express
some uneasiness lest the dividend may not be forth-
coming. Even the most sanguine are apparently inclined to
believe that the 30th inst. will pass over without the promised
payment, and it is painful to state, that their fears are, it may
be expected, well grounded.
The notice given by the Bank of England, that they will
take light gold at 3/. 17s. 100. per oz., has to a
small extent relieved the holders of iio/. and upwards. But to
the usual current for mercantile transactions the system just
adopted still offers the same impediments. Each payment is
strictly examined, and at the Custom-house and other public
offices, as well as to private bankers, the hindrance to business
is very great,

A tile—of Canton papers, to the Ist of March, have been re-
ceived, but contain no commercial jute ligenge. This is to be
accounted for by the fact of Hong Rung being now the seat of
trade, and it was supposed that such merchants as remained at
Macao or Canton would remove their establishments to the
first-named island as soon as possible. Some exceedingly
heavy and continued rains had caused much d►stress among the
inhabitants of the provinces south of the lakes, and many of
them had found their way to Macao, and were begging for
food. The Emperor had ordered the natives to retire inland,
that the British might advance, this policy had been before pur-
sued, but without attaining the desired end.
Papers from Rio Janeiro to the 9th of April have also come
to hand, and are without information.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JUNE 9.—There is no
change to notice in the state of the market to day. Specula-
tors and exporters purchased a small quantity, and the sales
amounted to 4,000 bales.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JUNE 9.—The market had
a much firmer tone to-day, )et the transactions were by no
means extensive, and were confined to Eastern Counties New,
61. 14s. 2d ; Edinburgh and Gla,gow, soft ; New, 41. Is. 3d.;
Grand Junction, 184 ; Brighton New, 7 ; and South Eastern
New, 6i.
MANCHESTER STOCK. EXCHANGE, JUNE 9.—With the
exception of South Eastern New Shares, which are rather in
request, at higher rates, Railway Stock generally is dull of sale.
North Midland, Half Shaies, 321; south Eastern, Scrip, 16i;
Manchester and Birmingham, 26 26i ; Manchester and Leens,
82 d 3 ; Ditto, Quarters, bis.

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITIsh FUNDS.

Bank Stock 167 India Stock —pm
3 per Cent. Red. .. 92 Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent. Cons ..... .Ditto Old Annuities ...
ail per Cent. Red loci Ditto New Annuities...
New 3i per Cent... —l Ex. Bills, 1,0001....2d. 48 pm
New 5 per Cent . 1 Ditto 500/..... .50 pm
Long Annuities to expire I Ditto Small ...... 48 pm
Jan. 1860 ... l2g !Bank Stock for Acct....
Oct. 1859
Jan. 18L,0 — Consols for Opg.
FOREIGN FUNDS.
. .

Austrian, 5 per cent. Portuguese, 5 per cent. 611
Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto
Brazi;ian Bonds.. -
Buenos Ayres6 per cent — Russian, 5 per cent. 1131
Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Aletallic..
Colombian, 6 per cent — Spanish, per cent. .... 22/
Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, Deferred.— . 10A
Danish, 3 per cent ;French, 5 per cent. —f.—c.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange —f —c,
Mexican, 5 per cent 36,- French, 3 percent. —f. —c.
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 2/ per cent......,
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent. loii
SHARES.
Cheltenham and Creat Western (80 paid)... 28
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) ..... 9
Ditto New Shama ( paid)
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...... 51
Great Western Railway (65 paid)
Ditto New Shares (50 paid) 62/
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid)
London and Birmingham (90) ...... ..., ,
Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid)
London and Greenwich Railway (12/ 15s 44 I'd) 6 t
London and South Western (431 15s odpd) 62/
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk)
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid)
Ditto Scrip. ( 5 paid)

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY.i
Amsterdam CF. 12 8 Gibraltar . . .
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 8% Genoa
Antwerp
Hamburgh M.B. 13 15 Venice
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 65 Palermo, per oz l2O
Ditto, 3 months 25 90 Lisbon
Alarseilles ...... ..... . 25 90 Oporto 514
Bourdeaua 25 90 ;Rio Janeiro 26%
Frankfort on Maine... 152% Bahia
Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37 ;Buenos Ayres
Berlin-- ... .. .......... 7 New York, 21 days sight 46%

Vienna, effee. fl. 3M. 957 Philadelphia 46
Trieste, ditto 9 58 PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ
Madrid
Cadiz
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oul

Bilbao
Barcelona
Seville

PROMISSORY NOTES.
(From last night's Gazette.)
An account of the average aggregate amount. of promissory
notes payable to bearer on demand, which hay, been in circula-
tion in the United Kingdom, .distinguishing those circulated by
the Bank of England, by Private Banks, and by Joint Stock
Banks, in England and Wales, by the Banks in Scotland, by
the Bank of Ireland, and by a'l other Banks in Ireland, and of
the Average Amount of Bullion in the Bulk of Englai.d, during
the four weeks ending the 2Sth day of May, 1542, pursuant to
the Act of 4th and sth Victoria, cap. 50 :
ENGLAND.

Bank of England £17,891,000
Private Banks 5,365,364
Joint Stock Banks
SCOTLAND.

Chartered and Private Joint Stock Banks 2,951,383

I RSLA N D..,

Bank of Ireland
3,093,000
Private and Joint Stock Banks 1,963,152

Total £34,366,629
Bullion in the Bank of England £7,383,000
HENRY L. WICKHAM.
Stamps and Taxes, June 10, 1842.

M. Pinson, the 'master of a restaurant, in the Rue
de la Vieille- Comedie, having at various times lost plate to a
considerable amount, became vigilant in the hope of at last de-
tecting the thief. +n the day before yesterday, a well-dressed
young man took a seat at one of. the tables, and was served
with what he ordered on a silver dish. When the contents
were eaten, the dish was first put aside, then covered with a
porcelain plate, over which the guest held a newspaper on
which he appeared to be deeply intent. At length he contrived
to slip the silver plate down into his lap on which he had spread
a silk handkerchief, and, wrapping the one into the other, con-
veyed both into his pocket, and, having paid his bill, was walk-
ing off. M. Pinson, having observed all his manteuvres,
stopped him, and, calling in a police officer, the di:h was re-
covered, and the thief was immediately taken before a commis-
sary of police, who committed him to the Prefecture.

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THE CIVIC ROOKERY.—Every person passing along
Cheatside, during the last month or two, must have found
the thoroughfare impeded by crowds of gazers on a tree in the
Church-yard at the corner of Wood-street, wherein three pair
of rooks have been building their nests, and rearing their sable
progeny. A few days ago one of the young birds, attempting
its first flight across the street, dropped upon the roof of a Pad-
dington omnibus (number 466), and suffered himself to be
taken by the driver, without the slightest resistance. The
singularity of the circumstance made such an impression on
one of the outside passengers, that he immediately bargained
for the bird, and confining him in a new wicker cage, provided
with luxuries adapted to his carnivorous taste, the enjoyment
of the ravenous animal could be compared only to that of an
alderman at a turtle fea at.
HEALTH OF THE METROPOLIS.---It is an acknow-
ledged fact that the health of large towns is much affected by
the state of the drains through which the filth is, or should be,
carried off. The recent instance of mortality in one family at
Hampstead was traced to the effluvia from the meeting of the
drains in a reservoir, and the present condition of the ditches,
or drains, in the low grounds of Wa!worth and Camberwell
lsocoenzatergeiraneenlcyesoffoefnsmivaelaarsiato, giro reason to
namely, rnalig.
aarpeprienhseonmed thPeiauresuga
naut fever. Too much care cannot be taken to cleanse these
I amps of, refuse of all kinds in this season of the year.

MARY OF NE W
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pubitt eptitton.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

The consumption of meat in Paris during the last month was
6,332 oxen, 1,408 cows, 6,823 calves, and 37,739 sheep, being
an increase of 583 oxen, 1,459 calves, and 4,919 sheep, and a
decrease of 123 cows upon the number consumed in May, 1841.
The French funds recovered on Wednesday; but little busi-
ness was transacted. One of the stockbrokers having been
sentenced by the Court of Correctional Police to 5,0001. fine,
and the party for whom he bad acted to one of 500 f., the mar-
ket was thereby affected, and speculation checked
The King of the French held a Cabinet Council at the
Tuileries on Tuesday after a fortnight'i absence. After giving
several audiences his Majesty returned to Neuilly_ at half-pw t
fire o'clock. A private letter states that the King's general
health is good, but that he cannot stand long nr ride on horse-
back, suffering from a swelling of the veins of the legs. From
the regularity of the King's system of living his medical ad-
visers entertained no uneasiness at the symptoms.
M. Odillon Barrot, chairman of the Constitutional Oppo-
sition Committee, has addressed a circular to the electors
throughout France. M. Barrot finds all the vehemence of
exaggera•ion in hallooing the ignorant passions of his coon.
trytnen against England, while he has nothing but the rotun-
dity of an empty phrase at his disposal when he has constitu-
tional liberty at home to lament or def nd.
The Le;psze Gazette of the 4th of June states, from West
Prussia (Dantzic, May 30)—" A report has been for some
days in circulation in our neighbourhood of the discovery and
suppression of a plot against the Empt ror of Russia. The
Senate of St. Peterasurgh is said to have conspi, ed against the
Emperor in consequecce of the publication of the recent law
for regulating the relations of the peasants to their lords, and
fearful measures are said to have been attempted. Details
are related with great precision and free from contradictions,
but it is certain that a nucleus of truth lies in the horror-thrill-
ing talc that has spread to us—of what weight must speedily
be dtvulgt d."
The ancient order of Constantine, says the Diario di Roma,
is about to be restored by the Pope to all its former glory. It
was founded by Pope Silvester, as a reward for merit in the
sciences and literature. M. Raoul Rochette, Secretary of the
Academie des Inscriptions at Paris, is among the newly-
created knights.

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