The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-08 00:00:00

BOURSE-PARIS, MONDAY, JUNE 6.

First Highest Lowest Last
i• Price Price. Prici. Pricy.
e'rench 5 ver Cents ll9 83 ... 1117185 ... 119 65 ... 119 65
4 per Cents. ... 101 FO ... 101 80 ... 101 65 ... 101 75
8 per Cent•.,.
',mitt, ea ,k s,ount. smares 5070 ...5670 . 5070 ...5079
Belgian 5 per Cents.
5 per Cent/.. 1840 1054 ... 1054 ... 10 ... 10534
sp.nish Active
Passive 4% —4% ... 44 ... 4%
vespotitsii
It .u.an ..
.....
... 1e434
.......19434 ...104% ...104%

_
HAILWAI74HARE
St. Germain
........... 818 75 ... 822 50 ... 8 8 75 ... 822 50
.....
L.B ll2 50 ... 115 ... ill 25 ... 112 50
roncnns .. 530 ... 531 530 ... 530
ti crlea....
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PUBLIC PETlTloNB.—Theetmilic:nport. of the Select Com-
mittee
includess on Petitions, which
mittee of the House of
has just been published
presented
of Parliament to the
1.,.)111 the first day of the meeting those
',7th dav 4,1 May. The followin ' areo
with
inure remark-
able'all Ireland, 137
signatures' '
for Universal Surf-
:—For the Repeal of the enio,n
petitions, with 215 086 signatures •
•
with
rage, 24 petitions, with 3,424,824
Better Observance of the Lord's Day, 67 petitions, ftir the
6,034 signatures, which are far surtphaessneutamehlye-r-otnhse, peti-
tioners against Alaynooth College,
bigots being not less than 20,348. The
of these
number
ofPetitoners against the Income-tax was only 9,218 ;
while those against the Corn-and Provision-s
were
1,598,413. Only five petitions were presented in favour
of Church Extension; and we, therefore, conclude that Sir
Robert Inglis and Dr. Chalmers begin to admit that itlll
would be the height of cruelty to take more money from
our over-taxed popalation to put into the coffers of a
Church that
-has an income of at least 9,000,0001. sterling a
year. The number of petitions against Church Patronage-
in Scotland were 11, with 1,345 signatures.

We are enabled, on the most undoubted authority, to
contradict the rumours recently circulated relative to
the alleged existence of a misunderstanding between this

country and France. No unfriendly or unpleasant official
intercourse or correspondence has taken place between I
the Cabinets of the two countries.—Morning Herald.
CONTESTED ELECTIONS.—Mr. IL S. Smith, of Leeds,
has published a second edition. of " The Register of
Parliamentary contested Elections," containing also the
uncontested elections since 1830. This return of elec-
tions extends as far back as 1700. In a great portion of
the numerous contests he has distinguished the split
votes from the plumpers, given the colours of the diffe-
rent parties, and the number of registered voters at
each election since the Reform Bill came into opera-
tion. Some of the returns under the old borough-
mongering. system have a singular appearance. The
number of electors for the city of Edinburgh for instance,
containing a population of 160,000, was in 1820 only 28,
for the county 128 ; and after the franchise was ex-
I tended, they numbered respectively 6,048 and 1,249.
Mr. Pitt stood -for Cambridge University first in 1780,
when he was defeated, being at the bottom of the poll,
but in 1784 he was returned at the head, having re-
ceived 351 votes, and represented the University till his
death. The plan altogether is excellent, and the work
forms the most complete record of Parliamentary elec•
tions we have seen.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

The Bank Broker has again been buying Reduced, which
has given a firmness to the market. Consols are 914 I for
the opening ex-dividend ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 914 ;
Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 1004 h ; Bank Stock,
1674 1684 ' • India Bones, 23 25 ; Exchequer Bills, 46 49 prem.
Foreign Securities are rather better. Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents., 521 524 ; the Five per Cents., 1014 1014 ;
Belgian, 102 103 ; Danish, 804 814 ; Brazilian, 67 68.
The quotation for Mexican is 364.: Shares are in improved
demand, al•hongh but little has been done. Business has been
confined to Great Western, 87 88; th e Half Shares, 61 614;
South Western, 63; Manchester and Birmingham, 264 ;
Blackwall, 1
The quotations for the Bonds are rather higher; Colombian,
264; Peruvian; 194 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 374 ; the
Three per Cents., 22.4 ; Spanish Five per Cents., 21X, ; the
Three per Cents., 224. Money is easy at four per cent.
The confusion and annoyance occasioned by the proclamation
regarding light sovereigns has materially increased. Private
bankers now weigh each piece of coin separately, and not
en masse as was formerly. the case, and the collecting clerks
are furnished with a pair of scales, in order that no money
below the specified weight may be taken. Thus far it is
merely an hindrance to business, but several instances have oc-
curs ed of serious loss ; one party, upon exam ing his banker's book
discovered that nearly 30s. had been deducted for deficiency in
the weight of between two and three hundred sovereigns, which
had been paid in the day previously, and many others have oc-
curred in which a large portion of those tendered had been re-
turned. It is urged that the Government should adopt some
method by which these inconveniences may be removed, since,
although they now chiefly fall on the merchant and banker,
in a short time they will reach the small tradesmen, who are
little able to afford the loss of time or money which must be
sustained.
There are no ship letters to-day.
JOINT STOCK BANNS.
London Joint Stock... lO ...... 121 to
Union of Australia . 2b 304 ...... to
Union of London lO -
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JUNE 7.—Was very firm
without the least alteration in prices, and about 4,000 bales
were sold, of which 600 were on speculation and 400 fur
shipping.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JUNE 7.—Was again very
dull, and business was entirely employed in sales of a few Edin •
burgh and Glasgow New, 'l/. 2e. 6d. ; Grand Junction, 184 ;
and South Eastern New 5%.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 7.—We have no
material alteration in our market to-day. Our quotations are :
—South Western, 62; Manchester and Leeds, Half Shares,
364 Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quarters, 21. 3s. ; New
South Easterns, 54 ; and Bank of Manchester, 41. 3s. 9d.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock l6B India Stock —pm
3 per Cent. Red. ...... 914 Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent. C0n5..... 92h Ditto Old Annuities
34 per Cent. Red......... 1001 Ditto New Annuities —
New 34 per Cent... ......1004 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d 49 pm
New 5 per Cent — Ditto 5001...... 49 pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ...... pm
Jan. 1860 ... 124 Bank Stock for Acct....
Oct. 1859
Jan. 1800 Consols for Opg. 914
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent — ,Ditto, New Ditto
Brazilian Bonds... — Prussian, 5 per cent.
Buenos Ayres6 per cent. Russian, 5 per cent. ...,•
Chilian, 6 per cent — !Ditto, Metallic ...... .
Colombian, 6 per cent — Spanish, 5 per cent. 214
Ditto, 1824 264 Ditto, Deferred.... .
Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. 119 f. 50. t.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — I Exchange —f —c
Mexican, 5 per cent 364 'French, 3 per cent. —f.
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 24 per cent. s2h
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent. ... 1014
SHARES.
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p)
Ditto New Shares (174 paid)..
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid).........
Ditto New Shares ( 3 paid...
Great Western Railway (65 paid)
Ditto New Shares (50 paid) 614
London and Brighton (50 paid)
Ditto Loan Notes (74 paid)
London and Blackwall ( paid)......------ 104
London and Birmingham (90) ...... ...
Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid) ... 364
London and South Western (431 155 odpd) 624
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ... ..
Ditto Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) 5l
Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) ... 264
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid)

Ditto Scrip. ( 5 paid)

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JUNE 8. —Wind this day at noon, E. to N. E.
OFF RAMSGATE, JUNE 3.-o,prey, Holdt, for Valparaiso.
DEAL, JUNE 7.—Wind E.N.E., moderate.—Arrd. from
the River and sailed, Kunear, Hobart Town; Susan Crisp,
Cape ; Grecian Queen, Valparaiso ; Cessar, Demerara ;
Charles Brooke, St. Vincent; Nautilus, St. Lucia.
OFF DOVER, JfiNE 6.—Julius, Koln, Hansburgb for Val-
paraiso.
HULL, JUNK 7. —Wind, E.S.E., light—Sid. Regent and
George, Quebec.
OFF HASTINGS.—Reserve, Courant, Jamaica.
PORTSMOUTH, JUNE E.S.E.—Arrd. Rubicon,
Anderson, Newfoundland.
COWES, JUNE 7.—Arrd. Elva, Talbot, Matanzas; Galileo,
Lombard, Havannah.
Ors. SALCOMBE, JUNE 6.—Louis XIV., New Orleans.
FALMOUTH, JUNK 6.—Wind E.S.E. to E.N.E.,
Arrd. Naples packet, Richards, Barletta, short of provisions.
Sailed, Lady Mary Wood (steamer), Gibraltar. Arrd. off,
Jordesen, Odessa, and sailed for London.
SHIELDS, 7UNE s.—Sid. Eclair, Rio; Elizabeth Jane, Cal-
cutta.
KlNosTows, JUE 6.—Arrd. Maranham, Grundee, St.
John's, New Brunswick.
Coax, JUNE 4.—Arrd. off, Susannah Collings, White
Mauritius, which passed her Majesty's ship Isis off Ascension.
LIVERVO:,L, JUNE 7.—Wind southerly and light.—Arrd.
Alexander, Johnson, Jamaica; Elizabeth, Ackerland, Fin-
land ; Palmyra, Simpson, New Orleans. Sld. Wilsons, De-
merara ; Salem, Mobile ; Chaos, New Orleans ; Jafferson,
Virginia; Sherbrook, Quebec. The Goliah was passed on the
27th April, by the Palmyra, Simpson, arrived here, ashore on
the S.W. bar of New Orleans.
CLYDE, JUNE 7.—Arrd. Union, Greenlaw, Palermo.

MA.ItKETS.-(1111S DAY.)
CORN EXCHANGE:
The supplies of Grain since Monday have been small ; very
little business was doing, but every article was held firmly at
Monday's prices. The sale of Flour continues indifferent.
COLONIAL MARKET.
Prices have become steady, but the markets are still quiet.
The imports were small.
TEA MARKET.
The market was quiet, but holders were firm, and prices
have been sustained for all l inds. Company's Congou Is.. 13d.
cash.

TALLOW MARKET.
There are few orders for Russian Tallow, but prices have
been sustained. P. Y. Candle 48s. 6d. on the spot, and 495.
for delivery in last three months of the year.
HOP MARKET.
High yrices were asked for Hops, but with few buyers ; the
market scantily supplied, and the accounts unfavourable from
the plantations.

EAST INDIA HOUSE-(THISDA Y.)
The ballot for a Director to this Company in the room of
Lieutenant-Col. Patrick Vans Agnew, deceased, commenced
this morning at nine o'clock. The candidates are three in
number, viz., Major James Oliphant, Elliot Macnaghten, Esq.,
and J. Clarmont Whiteman, Esq. The glasses will close at
six o'clock, and the result will be made known between eight
and nine this evening.

DUTY ON PAPER.
An Account of the Quantity of Payer ehargeel with Duty in
the United Kingdom in each of the Three Years preceding
the last Reduction and Equalization of Duty, and of the Net
Produce of such Duty; with a similar Account for the sub-
sequent Years.

Quantity of Net Produce
Paper of

charged. Duty.
Pounds. £. s. d.
1833 England
Scotland
Ireland 2,457,707 26,677 19 10

73,645,605 748,478 12 5
1834 England
Scotland
1re1and......

76,138,945 771,162 12 7
1835 England
Scotland
Ireland 2,702,352 30,427 1 3

79,617,312 796,30416 3
1537 England
Scot land
Ireland... 3,248,182 19,112 17 5

88,9:50,845 508,582:19 10
1828 England
Scot land
Ireland 3,554,879 22,037 17 0

93,466,286 554,548 7 3
1839 England
Scotland . ........... ..
..
7167:919867;13769 410501;619539
1137
25
Ireland.

97,646,544 573,232 15 5
1840 England ..... 76,780,041 457,281 10 1
Scotland
Ireland ... .... 3,591,293 22,901 18 8

97,237,358 581,428 15 10
1841 England
Scotland
Ireland 3,991,472 26,053 1 2

97,105,550 , 587,379 15 1
The Penny Postage came into operation on Jan. 10, 1840.

The mortal remains of the late Lord Manners, ex-
Lord Chancellor of Ireland, were removed yesterday from Up-
per Brook-street, for interment in the family mausoleum at.:
Kelharn, near Newark.

SUM ',ARY OF fiEt4/31

AND

pubitc Cnuton.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

The session of the French Chamber of Deputies is now vir-
tually at an end, and it is expected that the labours of the
Chamber of Peers will terminate in the course of a few days.
Several of the journals state that the Chambers will be for-
mally closed on the 13th, that the ordonnance of dissolution
will be published on the 14th, and the general election take
place on the 9th of July. By Art. 42 of the Charter, the
new Chambers must meet within three months of the date of
the ordonnance of dissolution.

Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Orleans and Nemours
arrived at Brussels on Saturday afternoon. A grand dilater
was given in honour of their visit. • The Franc Parleur of
Verdun says:--" The Dukes of Orleans and Nemours are ex-
pected to be at Luxembourg on the Bth or 9th inst. They
will return direct by Longuy and Verdun, without visiting
Metz. They are expected at Verdun on the 15th or 16th.
Their review of the troops will be very short, as they do ri,,t
come as Inspecting Generals, but as Princes of the Blood Royal."
A letter from Philippeville, May '24, in the Semaphore of
Marseilles, states that the column under the orders of Comman-
dant Montauban, consisting of 500 infantry and 114 cavalry,
defeated, on the 21st, a body of 4,000 Bedouins, who had
attacked the camp of El-Elarouche on the road to Constant ina.
300 of the Arabs were ki led, but the French had only an officer
and sergeant slightly wounded.
A letter from Algiers, in the Toulonnais, states that the
83 prisoners of Abd-el-Kader are indebted for their liberation to
a Corsican, who hus been a spy of all parties, and who used his
influence with Abd-el-Kader on this occasion, in the hope of
re-entering the good graces of the French Government, with
the understanding, however, that he was to be 1..a:.d 100,000 f.
for his exertions.

The Madrid Gazette of the 30th ult. publishes the Royal
Ordonnance, promulgating the law authorising the emission of
160 millions of reals, Treasury Bills. This decree was coun-
tersigned by the New illinister of Finance, Senor Don Antonio
Maria del Valle. A second decree appoints the Commission
charged to examine the propositions of capitalists respecting the
payment of the interest of the Three per Cent. debt.
The Swabian Mercury states that the King of Prussia,
after the military parades and manoeuvres of the autumn, will
set out for Russia, accompanied by the Prince Royal. The
King's second son:Prince Charles, will be charged with the
Government during hisabsenca, which willlast only three weeks.
A Smyrna letter of the 19th ult. says :—" The Archipelago
is swarming with pirates. Not long ago an Austrian sloop
captured a large three-mast Greek vessel engaged in maraud-
ing, and a few days since a French brig of war on this station
went out on a cruise, in consequence of intelligence that a
merchantman bound for Marseilles with a cargo of oil, and
200,000 piastres, had been stopped by pirates."
PAWL, TAM kail" TARY.

In the House of Lords Lord K.nnaird inquired of the Duke
of Wellington to whom was to be entrusted the funds collected
under the Queen's Letter ? The Duke, after making an apo-
logy for not being aware of the fact the day before, replied, the
,‘ Manufacturing Distress Relief Committee," which has been
in existence since 1825.

The Earl of Radnor alluded to the statement that public
money had on several occasions been advanced to relieve
public distress, and moved for a return of all such gifts, and on
what places they had been bestowed.
The Lords did nothing further except routine business, and
at an early hour adjourned till Thursday.
In the Commons Mr. M. Gibson presented a petition
from liishmen in Manchester, who complained that when they
applied for relief they were passed on to Dublin, and from Dublin
they were passed back to Manchester, so that they had been
sent backwards and forwards six times.

Sir R. Inglis read a letter he had received from Sir William
Gossett, the Sergeant-at-Arms, whose conduct had been com-
plained of the night before by Mr. Mackenzie. The Hon.
Member for Peebleshire said the Sergeant shut him out of the
House when he was in time for the division, and treated him
rudely. 'f he Sergeant in the letter defended himself. Mr. M.
Attwood justified the Sergeant's conduct, and proved that. Mr.
Mackenzie had behaved improperly. For one part of his con-
duct, refusing to go out of the lobby, the Hon. Member apolo-
gised. but insisted that the Sergeant had treated him rudely.
Sir J. Graham spoke a few words in faveur of the Sergeant,
who had difficult and delicate duties to perform, and so the
Hon. Member was obliged to putup with what he thought rude
treatment. _

Lord Ashley obtained leave to bring in a Bill to regulate
labour in mines, and was warmly and cordially supported by all
sides of the House.

The tariff occupied the remainder of the evening. The duty
proposed by the Ministers on boots and shoes, 12s. per dozen
pairs, was objected to by Mr. G. Palmer, who wished to sub-
stitute for it a duty of 205., but ca a division, the Ministerial
proposition was carried by 148 to 36.
'I he Committee got as far with the tariff as the duty on In.
dian muslins, when Mr. Ferrand effectually 'put a stop to fur-
ther progress, by bringing a charge against Dr. Bowring,
which gave rise to a very personal discuss►on that occupied the
House till Half-past One o'Cloelr.
PUIILXC XVIPROVIIINIENTS.

It is proposed, that as her Majesty has granted a tract of
ground tui orm a park in the east of London, it would add to
the further enjoyment and comfort of the inhabitants if public
baths were attached to it; the Regent's and Sir George
Duckett's Canals afford every facility for an abundant supply
of water.
ECCVSSIASTICAL

The Oxford Convocation, consisting of the Hampden and
Puscyite
.parties, assemblei yesterday, for the decision of the
question in agitation. The numbers were for the repeal of the
statute of 1836, 219; against it, 334—majority for non repeal
of the statute, 115.