The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-16 00:00:00

THE WEATHER.-Strx OFFICE, MAY 15.

THERMOMETER, Lowest, 43 ; Highest, 60; Noon, 58.
BAROMETER, 30.35.—W1ND, N.
NOTE.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and
" Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the
Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All
the other observations ard made at noon.

a criminal jurisdiction, and the unbiassel opinions of
a jury of twelve true men, you really do fair and
equal justice. The offence is equal, let the
remedy, or the chance of remedy be equal.
The offenders are alike peccant, let their
punishment, or their chance of punishment,
be similar. Take away a jurisdiction that is
presented with two alternatives, one of which can
never be equally applied to the cases of two offenders
not in equal circumstances. Remit, on proof ten-
dered to the satisfaction of the committing magistrate,
both cases to another tribunal, which has one defined
jurisdiction, and is liable to no such fluctuations between
two alternatives— and whose decision must be beyond
the imputation that cannot but apply to those of the
magistrate, who may either summarily fine, or im-
prison, or refer the case before him for trial at a
criminal assizes.

We have received Madrid journals of the 7th inst.
On that day the Chamber of Deputies resumed the dis-
cussion on the budget of receipts for 1845, which was
fixed at 1,226,000,000 reals (12,260,0001.) One of the
articles in the estimates of revenue imposes a tax of
300,000,000 reals (3,000,0001.) on landed property,
which Senor BRAVO MURILLO proposed to reduce to
200,000,000 reals, but the amendment was rejected by a
majority of 60 to 46. A division of the Royal Guard
was to leave Madrid on the 13th for Barcelona, and the
QUEEN, it was understood, would proceed to the same
place about the 25th of this month.
On the 7th the Bourse opened with a considerable ad-
vance, but heavy sales afterwards caused some depression.
The Three per Cents. closed at 341 for cash, and 35i at
60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 251 at 60 days ; the
Provisional Debt at 8i at 60 days; and the Debt without
Interest at 81 at 60 days.

The French Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday com-
menced the discussion on the Northern Railroad Bill
with branches to Calais and Dunkirk, and a line from
St. Quentin to Creil. This Bill was opposed by M. DE
RUMILLY, who contended that the execution of such
works ought not to be entrusted to companies, but be
conducted by the State and afterwards leased out. M.
GARNIER PAGES took the same view of the Bill, and
thought the State should have all the lines under their
control, merely letting them to companies on certain
conditions. The general discussion closed with these
two speakers, and the discussion on the first clause was
going on at the hour of post. Most of the Paris
journals have articles on the Maynooth question.
The National praises the liberal policy pursued
by Sir ROBERT PEEL. The Journal des Debats also
commends the new To-ry policy. "The measures," it
says, " which are proposed by the English Government
are based upon the principle which has long dominated
in France—viz., the neutrality of the State in religious
matters. They are based on the principles of philosophy
of the eighteenth century, which were consecrated by
the Revolution of 1789, and which are even the founda-
tion of the constitution of our country. On these
grounds, therefore, we can only express our entire ap-
probation; but we claim the liberty of saying as a hii-
torical fact, which cannot be contested, that these mea-
sures are a perfect revolution in the spirit of English le-
gislation, and that these principles are completely op-
posed to those on which the constitution of Great Britain
has hitherto rested. Vie must not forget that the revo-
lutions of England were religious revolutions, whilst
those of France were philosophic revolutions ; that, on
the one side, it was the principle of Protestant supre-
macy that triumphed ; and, on the other, that of the
equality of all religions in the eye of the law. This is
the position that English Protestantism now abandons.
The State which, since the time of the Reformation, had
become Protestant, is now become laic, and the French
principle, or rather the social principle of the separation
of temporal and spiritual power, is now admitted into
British legislation."
The following are miscellaneous extracts from the
papers:—

We read in the Constitutionnel:—" The Ministeral jour-
nals have made a great noise about the treaty of peace with
Morocco; but the following fact will show how much im-
portance ought to be attached to this treaty, and warrants
our representing it as a mere lure to obtain a favourable opi-
nion from the public. We have noticed the journey of M.
Horace Vernet, who was sent by order of the Government to
paint a picture of the battle of Isly ; but he has met with an
obstacle he very little expected. On arriving at Ouchda, the
caid nearest the frontier informed him that he must return,
as he, the caid, had received an express order from his Go-
vernment not to suffer any European to enter the territories
of Morocco. M. Horace Vernet offered him a bribe of
12,000 f. to allow him to pass, but this was refused. Conse-
quently the artist was obliged to return as he went."
The Moniteur Algirien of the sth has an account of a
splendid ball at Algiers on the 30th ult., given by the Gover-
nor-General and his lady. The ball was opened by his Royal
Highness the Duke de Montpensier and the daughter of
Marshal Bugeaud, and the dancing continued till daylight
with no other interruption than the supper, which consisted
of all the luxuries and delicacies that Europe and Africa
could supply.
The France, in allusion to the rumour that the Queens
of England and Spain, the King and Queen of Naples, and
the King of Holland, are about to visit Paris, takes upon itself
to assert, as far as their Neapolitan Majesties are concerned,
there is not the slightest truth in the rumour.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Tues-
day, at 86f. 25c. ; the New Loan, at 86f. 65c. ; the Five per
Cents., at 121 f. 15c. ; Orleans Railroad shares, 1,223 f. 75c. ;
Rouen, 1,087 f. 50c. ; Havre, 876 f. 25c. ; Avignon, 1,045 f. ;
Basle, 270 f.; Spanish Passives, 81/2.
The subjoined are the prices of shares in the new
lines:—

Orleans and Bordeaux, 227 f 50c. prem. ; Boulogne, 165 f. ;
ditto, Troyes, and Montereau, 771. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons
(Lafitte), 18f. 50c. ; ditto (Calon), lf. 50c. ; ditto (Ganneron),
15f. ; Northern Line (Lafitte), 31f. 25c. ; ditto (Rosamel),
101. ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 121. 50e. • ditto
(Drouillard), par; ditto (O'Neill), 12f. 50c.; ditto (Jacques
Lefevre), par; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 27f. ; ditto
(Talabot),32f. 50c. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 121. 50c. ;
Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie), 51.; ditto and Cette
(Espeleta), 15f. ; Creile and St. Quentin, lf. 25c. ; Paris
and Strasburg (Ganneron), 121. 50c. ; Dijon and Mul-
hausen, sf.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—The number of
deaths during the week ending May 10, we are glad to state,
is the smallest that has appeared for many months, being
only 829, showing a decrease of 54 as compared with the pre-
vious, and 134 less than the average of five years. Under all
the heads, with two or three trifling exceptions, there is a
decrease. Bronchitis is still high, 30 deaths having occurred
from that disease, while the average is only 15. The violent
deaths are 31, of which 4 were caused by burns and scalds,
and seven suicides. The deaths from small-pox (19) oc-
curred at the following ages :—four under 1 year ; six 1-3 ;
three 3-5 ; four 5-10 ; one 18 ; and one 31 years.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The accounts received at Liverpool from the American
shipping ports state that the receipts of Cotton up to the
latest date, were 64,000 bales more than up to the corre-
sponding period of the " great crop year," and 391,000 more
than to this time last year. Holders evinced a disposition to
sell, and 4,000 bags changed hands ; 200 bales Egyp-
tian realised 614 d. ; 300 bales Surat, 25Aid. to 3%d. ;
300 Sea Island, 101/2d. to is. Id. ; and the rest
American, at 3%d. to 43/4d., all to the trade.—
Barnsley Junction, 4% ; Ditto, Half Shares, 23/4 ; Birkenhead,
Manchester, and Cheshire, 10% 11 ; Blackburn, Darwen,
and Bolton, 51s. 51s. ; Belfast and Ballymena, 8%; Belfast
and Coleraine, 3%; Belfast and County Down, 1 ; Bolton,
Wigan, and Liverpool, 111/2 s 1 ; Caledonian, 10% 11 ; Ditto
Extension, 314 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 711 ; Chester and
Birkenhead, 521/2 ; Ditto, half Shares, 26 1/2; Chester
and Holyhead, 16% ; Churnet Valley, 6% ; Clitheroe
Junction, 2% 58s. 6d. ; Cork and Bandon, 81/ Bs. 9d. ; Cork
and Waterford, 2% ; Dublin and Galway, 4 ; Dundee and
Perth, 3%; Dublin, Mullingar, and Athlone, 42; Eastern
Counties, New Shares, 41/; Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton,
143/4 ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 114 • Grand Junction, 228 ;
' Ditto Eighth Shares, 201% ; dreat North of Scotland,
2%; Great Southern and Western Extension,l3 ; Goole and
Doncaster, 1 ; Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 6% ;
Jamaica Junction, 41/s ; Liverpool and Manchester, 203 ;
Ditto, Half Shares, 106 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 501,4 62 ;
Ditto, New Shares, 36% 37 ;; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and
Preston, 435. 6d. 214 ; London and Windsor, 11s. ; London-
derry and Coleraine, 3% ; London and York, 41/2 91s. 6d. ;
Leeds and Thirsk, 7%; Leeds and West Riding Junction,
10 IBs. 9d ; Lynn and Dereham, i6s. ; Manchester and Bux-
ton, 5% %; Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction, 6 ;
Manchester and Leeds, Half Shares, 69% ; Midland Rail-
way, 1591% 160%; Ditto, 40/. Shares, 191/ %; Midland Con-
' solidated Birmingham and Derby, 122 ; Newcastle and Ber-
wick, 13%; Newry and Enniskillen, 5%; North British,
Half Shares, 4% ; North Western, 4% • Oxford and Birm-
ingham Junction, 3% ; Preston and Nirivre, 29%; Sheffield
and Manchester, Quarter Shares, 151 12 ; Shrewsbury and
Grand Junction, 51 ; South-Eastern and Dover, 40 41 ;
Ditto, New Shares, No. 1, 14% ; Ditto, No. 2, 13%; Ditto,
No. 3,6% ; Trent Valley Continuation, 'A ; Welsh Mid-
land, 395. 21. ; West Yorkshire, 2% 6s. 6d. ; Worcester and
Tring, 4%; York and Carlisle, 214 % ; Louvain and Je-
meppe, 4% ; Namur and Liege, 6% ; orthern of France,
(Laffitte's) 5% 1/2 ; Ditto (Rosamel's), 214 435. 9d. ; Paris
and Lyons, English (Laffitte's, ; Verona and Ancona,4ls.
Under this head, on Monday last, we referred to the im-
portant communication that had taken place between mer-
chants connected with the trade of India and the Court of
Directors of the East India Company, apon the subject of the
construction of railways in India. Since the correspondence
was made public, and the announcement that the Court is
about to send over practical men to survey the country, and
to report thereon to the authorities here, the subject has been
dwelt upon with a great deal of earnestness, strongly
indicative of a desire to forward by all means possible so great
an object. We naturally expected that many days would
not elapse before plans would be announced for executing
works of this kind, should the report of the sur-
veyors ultimately prove favourable. And such we
find to be the fact, as a preliminary prospectus has been
issued already for the formation of railways in India,
wider the title of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway. The
capital is fixed at no less than six millions sterling, and the
intention is to form a connexion between the several Indian
Presidencies and with the nearest point of intercourse with
Europe. It must be admitted that the scheme is of a bold
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South Sea Stock

ANTI-CORN-LAW BAZAAR.

THE SIIN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 16, 1845.

spring, which were so apparent last month,' have diminished.
Notwithstanding the thaws in the months of February and
March there is still a great quantity of snow on the ground
between Montreal and Quebec. Spots of bare ground are
only visible on banks exposed to the sun. The main channel of
the St. Lawrence is free from ice from opposite Montreal to the
foot of the current at St. Sulpice, and from Pointe du Lac to
some distance below Three Rivers. It is again open at the
Grondines to opposite the point of Deschambault, and from
the basin of Portnenf to Quebec. Carriages were crossing
on Lake St. Peter and different parts of the St. Lawrence on
the ice on the Ist April. The channel north of the Island of
Orleans is still also crossed on the ice. The depth of snow in
the fields is nearly the same in the vicinity of Montreal and
Quebec. Pointe-aux-Trembles, about twenty miles wet of
Quebec, is the only place where a large extent of ploughed
land appears."
There has not been much fluctuation in the quotations of
the Funds this morning. Consols for Account opened at
99% and are now a shade lower. For Money the price is
heavy at 99. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents.
have been largely dealt in at from 100% to 101. In the quo-
tations of the other British Securities the changes have
been from %to VI per cent. Exchequer -bills are heavy at
548. premium.
The dealings in the Foreign Bonds have been very trifling
to-day. Spanish are at 30% for the Five per Cents. The
French Scrip is at 11,E premium; the Portuguese Converted
about 67% 1/2 ; the Dutch Four per Cents. at a fall to 07% ;
and Mexican at 363/4.
The Railway Share Market has been good to-day, and
bandfide transactions are on the increase.
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consols
New 31/ per Cents 101% 10074 101% 101 101
Long Annuities to expire J an. 1860 11% 5-16 11 5-16
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5,1860 ... 11 9-16 11 9-16
India Stock 279 2771/ 277%

Ditto Old Annuities
Ditto New Annuities
Bank Stock for Account.
Consols for Account. .
Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., 114 d.... 54 56 54 pm. 54
Ditto 5001. .
Ditto Small .. 54 56 pm. 57

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 ...... 36% 36%
Ditto. Deferred
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Converted 67 M % 67?
Ditto Account
Portuguese 4 per Cent.
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
_ .
4

Ditto, Passive
Ditto 3 per Cent. • •
French, 5 per Cent
Exchange
Dutch, 214 per Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 98% 97% 97%
PRICES OF CLOSING
PAID. A ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAY SHARES PRICES.
Aberdeen
Birming. and Gloucesterloo 136
Birmingham and 02.-
ford Junction
Bri'ton, Lewes, & Hut. 10
Bristol and Exeter 7O
Caledonian

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.._ . _
Ditto Extension ...... 2% —
Cambridge and Lincoln 1% ...... 73/41h 3/4 7.1/4
Chester and Holyhead... 5
Churnet Valley
Cork and Waterford ... 114 2N34 %
...... . . . 2 A
Coventry and Leicester 11% —
Cornwall
Direct Northern
78
212 3%4,, 3%
Dublin and Belfast June 2A lOlO4 10%
Dublin and Galway..... 2% 4%% 4%
Dublin and Mullingar... 21i —
Eastern Counties 25 ...... 19704 20% ... 20A
Ditto Peetual, 5 per
rp
Cent, No. 1—.51. 13s. 4d l%l/1 ll/4
Eastern Union l5 .. ... 20% 20%
Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 —
Ely and Bedford
Great South. and West.

( Ireland)
Ditto Extension
Great North of England.. 100
Ditto New
Ditto New
Great North of Scotland 21/2 —
Great Western BO .....185/. 185 lB5
Ditto % Shares 5O lO4l/2 105 lO5
7. Ditto Fifths
Guildford, Fare'm, Ports. 2 % ..., „ 43/4 4%
Harwich
91/s

/4
London and Blackwall. 161. 13s. 4d. 9 9 9l/6
London and Brighton... 50
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 184
Do. New l3s 4d :3l/4

Do. Guaranteed 5 per
Cent.
London and Greenwich 12/ 15s 4d...
Do. Preference ...18/ 17s 2d —
London and S. Western 41/ 6s 10d 78% 781/
Do. New
London and York 2l/ 4%1/2 4%
London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil
Londonderry &Coleraine 214 — ... 3%
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen 2% 4
Lynn and Ely
Manchester and Leeds... 73
Do. Quarters
—Do. Sixteenths ..... ... 214 —
Manchester and Birmm. 40
Midland 100
Do. New
Midland,Birm.,Derby 100 122
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction ... 25 ...... 49%
Do. New Brandling... 10
Newcastle and Berwick 114 -14 13%
Newry and Enniskillen. 2% 4% 4%
Newark and SLeffield .. 11/2 ...... .
.
North British
Northern and Eastern... 45

Do. Quarter Shares... 121,E —
18%
North Kent
North Wales
Norwich and Brandon... 10
Do. New
Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1
44
Scottish Central
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
Dudley, and Birm 2%. .... 43/4 5,.;_.
South Eastern & Dover 33/ 2s 4d... 40A11,4 4O
Do., No. 1 8
South Wales 2% 5%% ............ 5
Trent Valley 2 ...... 18% ............ .. 18%
Trent Valley and Holy-
head Junction
Waterford and Kilkenny 1.. 314 ............... 31/4
Wilts, Somerset, & Wey-
mouth
Yarmouth and Norwich. 20
York and North Midland 50

Ditto % Shares 25
. ........ .. 52
4
FRENCH RAILWA
Do. Extension ......... 1
Y:5 43/4 .
......... .. 173/4
Boulogne and A miens... 4
Bordeaux and Toulouse 2
Bordeaux, Toulouse, and
Cette
Dijon and Mulhouse
Great North. of France.. 4 ...............

Do. do. (Rosamel's) 2
Louvain and Jemeppe... 2 ... • 414% ... .....
Namur and Liege ...... 2!2 6 ............... 5%
:
Orleans and Bordeaux... 2
.......
........
...... 2
. 10
Over Yssel 41 38 4d ........ .. .....
Paris & Lyons, Latlltte's 2
Paris and Lyons, Gala-
neron's, ... .. 2
10 9% ........... 934
Sambre and Meuse ~... 4
Tours and Nantes, Mac-
kenzie's
2% 2%
NY

JOINT STOCK BANKS
London and Westminster 20 274 263%
Union of Australia

We rejoice in the prosperity of this truly British under-
taking. In no other land, that we are aware of, would the
three motives which led to it have operated in the same way.
To raise money is of course its serious and commercial pur
pose, to afford amusement, at the same time, in such a man-
ner that the very partaker of it should express sympathy,
and, lastly, the great political cause for which the efforts are
made, are blended in the Anti-Corn-law Bazaar, as no other
people would be able to combine them. Such a mani-
festation indeed would probably be prohibited in every
other country. There is one effect which we should be de-
lighted to see this attempt produce besides the immediate
one to which it is devoted. The assemblage of objects is ad-
mitted, on all hands, to be interesting in the highest degree—
a trophy of our industrial skill as well as of our patriotic ap-
plication of the means itaffords. For many years the French,
infinitely inferior as they are to us in all the most important
branches of manufacture, have done their utmost to stimulate
competition by a Government exhibition, in which the pro-
gress of improvement can yearly speak for itself, and at which
prizes are awarded for marked progress or skilful invention.
This may look somewhat like the nursing of skill in its infancy;
but the Anti-Corn-law Bazaar proves to us that for more ma-
tured powers the constant comparison would be highly
beneficial. We venture to say that many a process and
many a fabric will be introduced for the first time to the
notice of many on this occasion. What then might not be
expected from organised competition, when mere private, un-
concerted contribution has produced so interesting a develop-
ment ? Many intelligent people look with mere wonder on
specimens submitted to them, and machines, which they be-
hold for the first time, quite unconscious of the purposes to
which hey are applicable. Indeed, it is not unamusing
to watch the visitors to this part of the exhibition ;
and as all is most characteristically explained by
the parties selling •r showing the articles, it is
pleasant to witness the satisfaction of their auditory. The
only objection to such an endeavour would be the immense
bulk of the objects. Covent-garden Theatre, large as it is,
with all its accessory departments, can barely suffice to give
an idea of the Bazaar stock, and many who have gone once
round the promenade, find a second turn still more agreeable
from the great variety of curiosities they have been obliged
to pass unnoticed on the first. Crowded as the hall has been,
all parties have been so completely imbued with the spirit of
the cause, that it has rather appeared like a friendly assem-
blage at the house of some common acquaintance
than a public exhibition, and the civility and atten-
tion of the stewards deserve the most grateful notice.
Under such circumstances many persons appear to make of
their visit a long and pleasant lounge, relieving their fatigue
with a view from the upper boxes, and preventing the calls
of luncheon-time by a visit to the splendid refreshment-room.
We can have no doubt that the undertaking will be more
successful than its best friends had hoped, and that the
friends of the League will be recruited for a fresh campaign
by this scene of diversion. Notwithstanding the increased
charge for admission, the bazaar this day was crowded, but
not inconveniently, and the visitors seemed highly delighted
with the beautiful scene.

ROBBERY AT THE FREE-TRADE BAZAAR.—Wed -
nesday information was received at the different police
stations that a red silk purse, containing
5/. los. in gold,
and three shillings in silver, was stolen from the person of
Mrs. Lund, of 51, Newgate-street, while paying a visit to
the Anti-Corn-law League Bazaar.
We understand that a Company is now forming,
prospectuses of which will be issued in a few days, for a rail-
way from the Ileighbridge Station, on the Bristol and Exeter
Railway, through Glastonbury and Wells to Bruton, all in
the County of Somerset, to be called the Somersetshire Mid-
land Railway.