The Sun. — London, England, 1837-04-27 00:00:00

PRICES OF STOCKS THIS pAy AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Steck 3 Per Cent. Red 40 3S pm. p 89%.;.T Ditto Bon:Is per Cent. Cons .. ••• -90% As % Y t , s% . South Sea Stock - 3 1 / 4 , per Cent.. 99 !Old Annuities Ditto Red ... " ." . .. .. ••• •• 97%% I New Ditto New 3 % Pe' Cent . ... ...983, 9I 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 .- new 5 per Cent.. . Exch. Bills, .£ 1 ;xi° .....41 43 40 pm. Bank Lon gAnnuitiestoexpire Ditto 500 41 43 40 pm. Jan. 5, 1810 Oct lu, 1R59 J an. 5, 850 I Ditto Advertise el — pm J an. 5, .88 , 'Bank Stock for Acc0unt......... Apr il 5, 1880 . — !India Stock for Account Jan. 5, 1870... — , Consols for Acconnt 0 — .% Omnium Pm. FLICES OF k °REIGN FUNDS Austria Bonds Belgian Bonds Ditto ...... 84 - ; B razilian Bond s Di tto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account ..... Chillian Bonds Ditto Account Columbian Bonds Ditto Account . ...... Columbian Bonds, 1824 ..... Ditto Account . —l Danish B on d s Di tto Account 7 21 Greek Bonds ............ D itto Bonds. 1825 _Ditto Account . Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent Ditto Account Ditto. 6 per cent. .. Ditto Neapolit A an ccount... ..... I 'FtDS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK, Peruvian Bonds Ditto Account Portuguese Bonds Ditto Account .... . Ditto New Bonds ..... ....... A 6% % Ditto Account 47 _ Ditto, 3 per cent. 3O 29 7.i Prussian Bonds Russian Bonds, 1822.... 107 y 8 7% Ditto Account — Ditto Metallic — Spanish Bonds — Ditto Account — Ditto Bonds.lB3l 21% 2 1%% Ditto Account 22 ITeN% French, 5 per cent.......... —L. . —4 per cent........... —l. per cent. _r r Exchange —f. —c. Dutch, 1 . !.i per cent. DittO ACCount 5.1!,,f, Ditto, 5 per cent.......... 100 q, 100 Ditto Account PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE Co.. O'CLO:I{.. Paid. e,. Share nola nOs Mining Comp... B eal del Monte Mining, Co.. Regtstered 6:1/. W 90 s. G. , Ditt o Unregistered — 14 0% Irr ninitham and Gloucester Railway Company I -Brighton (Rennie's) undo and Birmingham Railway Company B5 100 undo,_ and Greenwich ilailway Company 2O 19 12 13)4 `' ° ncinn and Southampton Railway Company _Manchester and Leeds Railway Company 14 tiritish American Land Company - .43 4.0......1d011 and Westminster Bank 2O 19 r r P RICES OF HUSH STOCKS, DUBLIN, APRIL 2i. . err vent. Consols - i Grand Canal Deb. 6 per cent. SS B,Pittn Reduced - l Ditto, 4 per cent - re per Cent. Stock 96% , Hibernian Bank - „ O lto New, 1830 97% City of Dublin Steam Co. e ‘ Cee t s r Cent. Debentures SA National Insurance Co ~ • tock n'"9_.Yal Cana - I StOck - . City Debentures, 4 per cent... 78 .................._____"nd Canal Stock - Ballast Otrice Debentures, 4 27% Der cent. - :.Arrives MAILS. Due. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due 0 America.. 0 1 France .l I Lisbon 0 0 0 B razil ...... ............. 0 1 (Nem &Jersey 0 0 Malta Buenos Ayres.. 0 0 Hainburr. ..... ... 0 0 Mexico I ? e arthagena .(I 0 Holland H , üblin.. ..... 0 0 Jamaica 0 0 Sweden .. 0 .............___l Flanders' ...... ... 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 I Waterford .. 0 Bu_t.ilfili WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. ____nne........14 minutes alter 8 I Evening......so minutes after 8. NEW WORK EDITED BY THE AUTHOR OF " ROOK WOOD." Just ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo., NICK OF THE WOODS. Edited by W. HARRISON AINSWORTII, Esq., Author of " Rookwood," " Crichton," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington -street. publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 27, 1837. In the House of Lords yesterday the proceedings pos se3sed no peculiar or interesting feature. 14 the House of Commons the earlier part of the sitting Was occupied with Railway Bills. A discussion arose on the merit s of the Municipal Corporations (Scotland) Bill kocl the Burghs Barony Bill, which were severally read a second time. • The second reading of the Freemen's Admission Bill was carried by a majority of 54 ; there being 75 for the 11. and 21 against it. The Sheriffs Court Bill went into Committee. The first clause was carried by a majority of 43 ; the remaining t hree were struck out. The Theatres Regulation Bill was read a second time. Mr. R. STEu Aar obtained leave to bring in a Bill for the registration of births, deaths, and marriages in Scotland ; and also a Bill to alter and amend the laws relating to clan destine marriages in Scotland, and to provide for the better r egistration of marriages in that country. The Bills were subsequently brought in, read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Wednesday, 17th May. The House of Lords having thrown down the gauntlet of defiance, we trust that Ireland will not be slow to take it up. Every thing now depends on the • attitude which that country may think fit to assume. The Lords, it is clear, will yield nothing to reason— nothing to justice ; they are accessible only through their apprehensions. They must, therefore, be made to feel that they can no longer insult seven millions of s E ritish subjects with impunity. We take for granted, that When the news of Tuesday night's discussion shall reac h Dublin, the rational Association will meet W ithout a moment's delay, and adopt resolutions worthy 0 f the emergency. The crisis is a momentous one, inv elving a question of life or death to the welfare of t he sister country, and must be met with eor re s Poudina vigour. The House of Commons will (1° 48 duty ; b so also will Ministers, and the Reformers ! elle rally throughout England ; but it is Ireland that 1 : 48 t make the great demonstration, for it is her inte iesP that are most immediately' affected—as ours are zi ti n mitee tlY---bv the unjust verdict about to be pro lh tin ced by the House of Lords against her. Let her wh en ' We rep eat , b est i r h erse lf prompt l y an d effectually, _ le t us make common cause with her. What is her L ate to-day, may b e ours to - morrow. L et t h e T or i es hu e succe e d in crawling back into . Downing -street, P I X Irel an d will not be the only country on 08e mouth t he y w ill str i ve t o c l a p a muzz l e . Re f r isely as they treat her demand for Corporate rot, will they treat our demand for measures equall y equ i ta b le character. We can expect no g ' r th eaa t n er justi ce at t h e i r h an d s than I re l an d ; t h e cause Eaereft3re of the two countries being the same, the s' e s hould be th e strugg l e , f or t h ere can b e no goo d Frei 'Led for the s i s t er - country, t h at d oes not h o ld out a r P e et of equal goo d f or us . W e can f urt h er assure li i tli atid th at every thing depends on the promptitude she now sets about the task of Constitu .ork.l a .111111 ; ation. Energy is good, b ut rea di ness , pe a existing c i rcumstances , is better. Th ere is— 'Th ' lO not speak fi gura ti ve ly, b u t literally--not a . h ir ne tn. to be lost.' Th e T or i es are i n a d esperate he uati on. They are lost, if they do not act at once ; ite c i e they, are mustering all thei r en e rg i es ; com bini ng , c) . ‘ _ t neir fo rces ; are at work, at this present moment of writing, in a thousand different channels ;• ear gging the Court ; inflaming and misleading the , lext !s , getting u p W estm i nster meet i ngs , an d ' ve ry erous e party p amp hl ets ; —i n f act, f ratern i z i ng t w h ov re for th e atta i nment of one common object — Milne ti erthrow o f t h e present Administration. It is t hen for all good men and true, to rally round k* over nment 4•e nce , and convince the Tories that the abhor.. for them in Ireland, is not confined to that empireie alone, but pervades every other part of the l on the many publi cat i ons to w hi c h t h e agita i°° of th' Church- rate quest i on has given rise, the gust m Pamphlet of M. J. C. SioNs, 8.A., Bill PPeared, under the title of " The Church-rate , which has author (heated," claim s a conspicuous place. tramsl bestowed much care on the collection ailidhearrai.ige lilt of his materials, and, in his elucidation of various P;ta either slightly touched upon or altogether ,- ° N , lait i'ed. by others, has we think done considerable ser vise to the cause of truth and justice. aulthor commences with a brief sketch of the n 4 te of the' Church-rate question at the time the Cabi took it u p, Mist ers p, show s very convincingly that Ali were w ere imuerati;',.ly bound b y t h e i r duty to the ers, p l e , whether consisting of Chur c h men or Dissent to sys tern , ‘ake some step to put an end to the presepresent.which is anowed o n a ll h an d s to productive the' e . a „ t evil. The pri nc i p l e o f the Church- r ot Bill is S ; Co r • • taro n ooration to endowed by the Legislature wit . h. • fr ee (I:,.(ts for the maintenance of the highways of a district, tom ,1.411 further cost to the community. Alter a while Plaint is made tot he Government, that not only Is a toll levied on the said road for the repair of certain bye ; ways, which the original covenant expressly included in the charges on the land of the Corporation, but it is fur . thermore shown that this toll is levied on many who never use either the highways or bye-ways of the Corporation ! This causes great disturbance among the people, and brings the Coporation into disrepute, who begins to find it very difficult to raise the toll at all. The Government, on enquiring into the matter, find that the fiscal necessity for this impost is entirely occasioned by the gross mismanagement of a portion of the lands ; and that by a new system of farming them, an increase of income may be easily attained, which will not only supply the whole amount raised by the toll, but give a very considera ble surplus to the Corporation into the bargain. The Go vernment being, of course, in duty bound to protect the public interest, proceeds to enforce this improved manage ment, and to put a stop to the toll. Whereupon the Cor poration denounces the plan of increasing their revenues as one of rank robbery and plunder ; insists on its right im memorial to mismanage its estates ; and, above all, to compel the people to pay the toll, more especially that part of them who never use the highways ; an impost which they do not hesitate to declare vital to their existence as a Corporation ! This conclusion it is difficult to reconcile to any other conceivable notion on the part of these worthy objectors, than a belief that the moment they cease to be obnoxious they cease to be safe ; that the security of their property depends entirely on their privilege of making ene mies ; and that the only means of protecting themselves from violence; is to perpetuate hostility." Mr. SYMONS then proceeds to consider the practica bility of the plan, and to examine its bearings on dif ferent interests. The mode in which the Bishops manage Church property, and the happy results of that management, are thus stated :-- " We have already shown that the State is the guar dian of the people's interest in the property of the Church, and we imagine that there can be no question of the con sequent duty incumbent on the Government to restore to the revenues of that Church one million per annum now diverted from its income. The deficit has arisen from the fact, that the personal interests have been antagonist to the corporate interests of the Church ; and, as a matter of course, the latter have suffered. When a life or a lease falls, the dignitary naturally makes the best bargain for himself, which generally happens to be the worst for the Church. The dignitaries (especially the Bishops) have been, for the most part, either old men, or young men ex pecting promotion, and in both cases divested of any per nzanent interest in their sees or stalls. The result has na turally been, under such circumstances, that when a life or lease dropped, it has been more to their interest to close at once with an inadequate fine for renewal, than, by hold ing out for a larger, to run the risk of its ultimately fall ing to their successor. Thus numberless are the instances of a fine, not above one-third the real value, 1;in; grasped at by the lessor for his own sake, whereby the permanent interest of the Church has, of course, pro portionally suffered. It is no forced deduction from these facts to assert, that the loss occasioned by this system has fallen exclusively on the poorest, and certainly not the least deserving of the working clergy. The very lowest calcu lation of the amount of loss is above a pillion per annum. Now, at the late arrangement of the Bishops' incomes, it was found that there was no more than enough property to provide the evangelical salaries of 5, 10, and 15,000/. per annum, with the new palaces. As it is generally be lieved that since the Bishops settled their incomes them selves, they are content therewith, it is evident that any surplus above what they have been pleased to help them selves to, would have gone to the fund for the relief of the starving clergy on the .50/ livings. Now it appears that ner less than a million surplus is annually withheld from that very revenue, the redundancy of which was promised to the poor clergy." The claims of the Lessees, those much-injured persons, for whom, now for the first time, there has been perceived any yearning in Episcopal bowels, are very soon and satisfactorily disposed of by the Author : " The hardship effected on this class is precisely that which every ordinary tenant experiences when his land lord refuses to renew an expired lease at a rental proved to be inadequate. That the tenants of Church lands had the smallest right to reckon on the permanence of their tenure, is palpably disproved by the ascertained fact, that these lands have materially suffered for the want of those permanent improvements which the absence of a stable interest in the property has alone produced. The tenant well knows, that although he may have a moral understanding of continued tenure under the existing diocesan landlord, th a t any h our may remove him from his see, and introduce a successor who has the perfect option of running the lives out, and reclaiming the property. How then can the tenant pretend, with any show of consistency, that he has anything approaching to a property in his occupation of lands, on which he dare not cut a tree down without leave and license from his landlord ? A property, moreover, from which he is re movable, like any other tenant, at the expiration of his lease, at the will of a landlord, of whose 'very name he is ignorant. " All that the lay lessees can claim is, that their existing interests be inviolably preserved. This the Bill provides for. " The fact is, that quoad the remaining term of their in terests, the Lessees are offered advantages not calcu lated in the estimate ; for at present they are subject to all the contingencies of bad debts, insolvent sub-te nants, and to all the hazardous liabilities of agriculture. " Since these lay Lessees are the only persons who suffer at all by the measure, and are certainly not chargeable with the evils their interests are effected to redress, they are decidedly the fittest objects of pity ; although they must have been blind indeed not to have foreseen the almost inevitable termination of a system so iniquitously injurious to the interests of the Church. As to moral injustice being done them, the mere idea is fu tile ; the very extent of their grievance being that they are bound by the terms of their own compact." After noticing the captious objection respecting pew-rents, which are left, by the proposed measure, entirely at the discretion of the Diocesan and Arch deacon, with whom, therefore—that is, with . the par ties objecting—must rest all the evil (if any) which arises from this source ; and making some just observa tions on the uncharitable spirit with which the Dis senters have been assailed by Churchmen for stirring this question, the Author thus remarks, on the pitiful at tempts made by the leaders of the Tory party to con vict Lord JOHN RUSSELL of inconsistency on this question : " The Government has been assiduously and recklessly vituperated. Even the veracity of Lord John Russell has been most unfairly called into question, and a mean attempt has been made by the organs of the Church-rate party, to prove the advocacy of the present measure to be irrecon cileable with the assertion made by his Lordship in June last, to the effect that it was not his intention to charge the repairs of Churches on the revenue of the Church, be cause (as he at the time stated) those revenues were, in his opinion, not sufficient for the purpose. At that period his Lordship was not aware of the available addition to these revenues which has since been brought to light. " His objection was contingent on the absence of a surplus income ; the surplus provided, the objection necessarily falls to the ground. Where then is the breach of faith'—where the gross inconsistency,' and the whole tissue of f a l se charges which have been hence fulminated at each clerical meeting, and re echoed by the mimic thunder of the bigot press ! The whole charge moreover rests, if it can be said to rest anywhere, on a misapprehension of the distinction be tween revenue and property. They who do not wilfully cast this slander on the veracity of the Home Secretary, will do well to make themselve s acquainted with the meaning of the word " revenue," which Johnson will in form them to be "annuul profits received from lands or other estates." These are precisely what Lord John Russell formerly said were not adequate to the charge, but which he now purposes to make so ; the practicability of doing which has been fully proved. That the grope, ty of the Church should not be charged with the repairs of its fabrics, his Lordship neither meant, said, nor implied." We tonne next to the absurd objection which the clergy have in a moment of mental absence brought forward against that part of the measure which ren ders them '' annuitants and stipendiaries on the State ! ! " This the Gospel, which says that " the labourer is worthy of his hire," evidently deems no stigma. Perhaps, however, it is hardly fair to expect people, who are engaged in supporting 'a compulsory tax in maintenance of religion, to be consi s t en t w i t h t h e G ospe l : th oug h th e y might at any rate, we presume, without unreasonableness, be ex pected to be consistent with themselves. This horror of the degradation of making the Clergy annuitants will ap pear not a little amusing, when it is recollected that by its new arrangement of e pi scopa l i ncomes , t h e Ch urc h Commission itself has j us t ren d ered no less than th i rteen Bishops annuitants for ever on the fund in its control.* * The Church Commission (in which Prelates predominate) have arranged that all surplus derived from the curtailment cf the largest episcopal incomes shall bo paid into a general fund, in the management of the Commissio n ; and thence doled oot Th us no less than t hi t tt•en Bishops will Le annuitants" P to each set, of which the revenue is defici ent , i n proportion to its poverty. the Commission Fund ; whil st the sees of wholly " st i pen di ary. " It is precisely siirtjl. l' P4se could b e d ev i sed P i ß m i p p o o s n si a b n le d t M ha a t ne a h n ef o t r e e r to that which, when proposed by a Reform flovernmor,t, calls f o rth the reproimtioP of the High Church partisans. With what faith persons like these can profess a veneration for religion, whose living spirit is unswerving truth, as the real motive of their opposition to the new measure, we may leave it to the candour of every Christian to decide. Again, is it not evident that the very receipt of Church rates by the Church, of which these consistent persons are the advocates, does in itself render the Church sti pendiary to the State ?" The next objection to which Mr. SYMONS alludes is that of robbery, or as some pious souls view it— sacrilege—the sacrilege of increasing the revenue of the Church, and devoting every particle of that revenue to ecclesiastical purposes ! The consideration of this part of the subject naturally leads the author into an investigation of the original application of Church property, in which he shows very considerable research, and no small power of turning it to account in the ar gument. We are sorry that want of room prevents us at present from following him in this not the least interesting portion of his spirited and highly merito rious work. The Preston Chronicle of Saturday last contains an interesting report of the proceedings which took place at a Church-rate Abolition Meeting held in that town on the preceding Tuesday. The meeting was called by the Mayor in consequence of a requisi tion numerously signed, and long before the appointed hour the Town-hall was crowded. The Mayor, who presided, and who is a staunch Churchman, opened the proceedings with a powerful speech, in which he urged the necessity of putting an end to the Church-rate war, if the Church was to be preserved at all, and the duty of all the real friends of the Estab lishment to embrace without delay the highly favour able measure proposed by 11:s MAJESTY'S Ministers, against which no valid objection could be brought. The Mayor was. followed by several other gentle men, who recommended, i❑ eloquent speeches, the adoption of the Ministerial plan—the only plan by which they conceived it possible that the Church-rate question could be satisfactorily or effectually settled. Petitions to both Houses of Parliament, in favour of the abolition, were almost unanimously voted. The Paris Journals of Tuesday have all been re ceived. In the Chamber of Deputies on Monday, a desultory, but by no means insignificant, conversation followed the announcement of a determination on the part of Ministers to introduce a Bill demanding a million of francs to pay the dowry of the Queen of the BELGIANS. M. ()DILLON BARROT rose and said, that it was illegal and unjust on the part of the Government to demand dotations for members of the Royal Family, except in the case of a deficiency in the Civil List. He would therefore oppose any such de mand unless a Report of the expenditure of the Civil List, so as to prove the necessity for such a grant, was laid before the Chamber. M. LACAVE LAPLANGE, the Minister of Finance, declared that it was prepos terous on the part of any Honourable Deputy to ask the KING to submit his accounts to the inspection of the Chamber ; that the Civil List was insufficient was, he contended, proved sufficiently by the fact, that Ministers wanted more money. M. ODILLON BAR ROT, in a few words, exposed the shallow sophistry of the pert and flippant financier. The law of the Civil List was no better than a farce if it could be thus set aside by an act of mere volition on the part of a Minister for the Crown. Those Members who voted with him would act as generously as the most thorough-paced supporters of the Cabinet in whatever concerned themselves, but they were bound in duty to resist any attempt to make unconstitutionally free with the pockets of their constituents. M. MONTALIVET, Minister of the Interior, here interposed, and observed that the arguments for and against the Bill, would be better kept back till Ministers had submitted it in form to the judgment of the Chamber. After several other Members had expressed themselves unfavour able to the grant of a flotation without a previous examination of the expenditure of the Civil List, the debate on the supplementary credits was resumed. This discussion must open the eyes of Ministers to the fact, that the Deputies make a wide distinction between allowances for the maintenance of the heir apparent to the Throne, and the other members of the Royal family. The Court of Peers had not on Tuesday pronounced sentence on MEuNIER and his accomplices. Respect ing the political bias ,which guided the conducting of the trial the Gazette de France has the following re markable paragraph : It has been remarked by those who attended at the sit tings of the Court of Peers upon the trial of Meunier and his supposed accomplices, that the President, Baron Pas quier, conducted the proceedings, and particularly the inter rogatories, in such a manner that the answers of the pri soners and of the witnesses might point out the necessity for adopting the non-revelation law proposed by the late Ministry, and which the present Cabinet, according to the intimation of M. Montalivet, appeared inclined to support. It would seem from the above circumstance that a project of law which the former Ministry hesitated to bring forward is still in favour in a high quarter. It is thus the KING drags through the mire of poli tical infamy every public man of any reputation in France. The policy of such a course is as socially in jurious as it is morally detestable. There is little else worth notice in the Paris Journals of Tuesday except what will be found in the annexed extracts : The steam-boat which arrived at Barcelona on the 17th has brought news from Alicant to the 12th, and from Va lencia to the 15th, of this month. With respect to Ali cant there is nothing worthy of remark, except an address to the Queen, signed by the chief officers of the National Militia, and of the corps of the Brigade of operations, in which they ask that General Lorenzo be appointed Cap tain-General .of that province. "We have lately seen," say they, "how much a man is worth. His name, with the remembrance of his exploits, and his spontaneously going out as a private soldier against th e C ar li sts w h en the inhai• nimous wish asked him for Chief, have .sufficed to- induce about 8,000 National Guards and 230 cavalry to join hint in less than fifteen hours. The measures which he advised gave to the Brigade so comManding an attitude ; that 'the faction fled precipitately, and retreated 13 or 14 leagues from the province.—Journal du Commerce. A letter from Bona of the 13th 'April says, the move ments of troops are already considerable ; almost all the forces are assembling at the camps of Drean and Gllelma ; the garri son of the latter camp is very large ; accordingly, it makes oxcursians from time to time towards Constantina, in order to reconnoitre the country. Hitherto th! troops have scarcely met with a few stragglers ; it cannot therefore be doubted that Achmet Bey has collected his partisans at Constantina, where the natives say everything is preparing for a vigorous resistance ; but with the means which the Government has granted for the intended expedition, the resistance of Aclnnet will be in vain. General. Tuzel_ commander-in-chief in the province, has been to visit the camp at Ghelrna ; it is affirmed that as soon as 4,000 men can be collected at that point, the Ge neral will put himself at the head of that little division, and push,a strong reconnaissance to within a short distance of Constantina.—Constituttonnel, April 25. FRENCH FUNDS.—Paats, APRIL 25. Five per Cents., !Odf. 85e. Fsc. 70c. 75c. 8. c. Four and a Half nor Cents. 1.00 f: 85c. Four per Cents., 99f.:30c. Three per Cents. 78f. 95c. 90c. Kr. Bank Actions, 2,405 f. Rente tie Naples, 98t. 90c. 85c. SOc. Roman Five per Cents. 102. Spanish Actives, 24 23% N 24 Spanish Diffbres, 9. Spanish Passives, SX, Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 10034. Brussels Society, !,530f. Portuguese Three per Cents. 30 297,,. excnaNuc IN LUNHON. • One mmth, paper, 25f. 42 ; money. 25 f. " It) ! : * Three months, paper, 25f. ; money, 2.11. —Cours Authentraue. LAST PRICES. Five per Cents., I.lBf. 90c. Three per Cents. 79f. Bank Actions, 2,41 , 5 f. I:ente de Naples ' 9A .Roman Roman Five per Cents., 102!4. Belgian Loan, Brussels Bank, 1,3.10 e Portuguese Three per Cent , ., Spanish Actives, 24%. Spanish Passives 5 DifFeres, New Differes, P. Belgian Society, I,l'l The Irat rs from Baionne of thr 21st, a►►iJ frOm S Sebastian of the 20th, received this morning, speak confidently of the return of the British . Legion, alter the expiration of the torn► of its service in June next. We shall offer no comment upon a statement, which the next arrivals from San Sebastian may pro nounce unfounded. Rumours are also in circulation, to the effect that Don CAR-LOS is preparing an expe dition to dispute his claim to the Crown on the other silk of the Ebro. The inactivity of the QUEEN'S Generals—the irresolution of the Government--and the culpable indifference of the Cortes to the only sub ject which ought to occupy that A ssembly,the progress of the civil war in the Basques--may well stimulate the Pretender to hazard such an experiment. There will be time enough to prepare a Constitution for Spain after Spain is prepared to receive it. This era cannot commence while a civil war is raging in that country. Brussels and German papers have been received this morning, the former to the 26th, the latter to the 21st instant. The infernal machine seized at Antwerp some weeks since by the Police has turned out to be a very innocent and useful ma chine for filtering water. Nevertheless, the inge nious artisan by whom it was invented has received orders to quit Belgium. This severity towards an innocent person is disgraceful to King LEOPOLD. " What can better expose the debasing tendency of a kingly Government," will the republicans triumphantly exclaim, " than the fears of KINGs that every improve ment and discovery in science threatens their destruc tion, and is therefore to be crushed by the pro..;crip tion of the inventors." The Chamber of Representatives is still busy with the Customs' Tariff Bill. The old monopoly system has its staunch advocates in Belgium as well as in France and England. The blindness of these poli tical moles is incurable. On the 19th inst. the Grand Duke MICHAEL of Russia arrived in Munich from Italy. The German Jour nals tell us that his Imperial Highness preserves his Incognito-Anglice, that his Imperial Highness is addressed by an agnomen or nickname, and is known by everybody. The Archduke PALATINE of Hungary is slowly recovering. His final restoration to health is no longer despaired of. The Emperor evinces the greatest anxiety on the subject of the dangerous ill ness of one of the most distinguished of his Coun cillors. BELGIAN I. UNDS—BRUSSRLS, APRIL 26 Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. ... Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. lOO% Loan of Thirty Millions... 91% Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent 994 Society of Commerce, 4 ...,', per Cent l3O Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent l3l —Brussels Paprs, April 26. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, APRIL 17. Five per Cents. Metalliques MN Four per Cents. Threb per Cents. Bank Shares 1166% —Allgemeine Zeitung, April 22. DUTCH FUNDS—Amsrenosn, APRIL 25. Actual Debt, 2% per Money. Bills. Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. A niort Sendic, 4% per cent..... ............ Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent. 75 76 Commercial Company, 4 1 .3 per cent NOV, 181 Ditto (IM2 and 1533) 5 per cent. Exchange on London, One month l2 02% Two months HAMBURG BORSEN IIALLE, APRIL 112. nis. Money. Austrian Metal'iques, 5 per cent. Ditto sotto 4 per cent. — pit! _ ditto 3 per cent. 1,100 Bank Shares I`l3B 1236 Anglo-Russian Loan 105)4 105 Paper Inscription, 6 per cent — Russian 5 per cents. Metal. Russian Inscription, H•pe and C , 0., 3d and 4th Series Ditto, Certificates rortuguese Regency Bends, 5 per cent 46 / Ditto, 3 per cent. 29% Dutch 2% per Cents. 52 51% Ditto 5 per Cents — Polish Bonds, 3 per cents. New Tickets 154% 1514 ~. Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cents 7 Ili 71% Norwegian Loan of 1334, 4 per cento. Spanish, in piastres, 3 per Cents — Cortes Lean n 5 per Cent 2o;i 20 *reek 4 per cents. 1833, guaranteed by France DO 92)4 —Hamburg Papers, April 22. v. ,0 4 7 - 44 . tJak 4,011,143,44, rf l i 1/4Li,")).0 THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 837 THE FUNDS.-(THIS DATA.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK'. • Our arrivals this morning are the French and Ostend mails, and ship-letters from Demerara, Tobago, and Val paraiso ; Bombay of the 24th and 31st of Dec, and Cape of Good Hope of the 15th of Fbe. The Cape of Good Hope papers are not of so late a date as received yesterday, but they contain the following : " MONEY.—There is a great deficiency either in the cir culating medium or in that which causes the medium to circulate, in the colony at present ; the best bills on Eng land, at thirty days' sight, arc at a discount of 3 per cent. The Commissary finds it next to impossible to raise the ne cessary funds for the service. There is now a golden op portunity for establishing a commercial bank." By the express from Paris this morning, we are informed that in the corner of the Bourse at Paris, generally fre quented by the Royalists and Carlists in that capital, it was stated that Don Sebastian had passed the Ebro with 22 battalions-3,000 cavalry, and 27 pieces of cannon—pro ceeding towards Arragon, there to unite with the various dispersed detachments, and afterwards to march on Madrid. This account caused some sensation on the Bourse at Paris, and a fall took place in the Spanish Active Debt of per cent. It was also stated that some insubordination had taken place in the Spanish regiments ; but to the pre sent time the only thing certain is the fall in the Spanish Funds. The following is the substance of advices from Man chester, dated the 26th inst. : " It is a long time since we have heard such general and gratifying admissions of an improvement in the state of trade as we met with yesterday. The greater firmness in the Cotton Market experienced at Liverpool, with the tranquillizing nature of the accounts from America, pro duced their full effects here ; nor did the improvement ap pear to be confined to one department—it was equally ma nifest in yarns, in the enquiry for grey cloths, and for printed goods. Country and London buyers of the latter in considerable numbers were in the market, and there was a full conviction that prices would not go lower. 'We are also glad to hear that the silk trade, which has been more depressed than the cotton manufacture, fully participates in the improvement." FUNDS. We may state with some confidence that commercial affairs, within these few days, have taken a favourable turn, both in respect to trade and money transactions. Our ma nufacturing districts are again in activity, with a renewed demand for British manufactures. This happy event, no doubt, must be attributed to the energetic measures adopted by the United States Banks, in affording relief to their merchants, which will enable the British merchants and manufacturers to place in them . their former confidence. There is thus every hope that the usual traffic between this country and America will continue with the same vi gour as heretofore. We hear that a good deal of specie is expected from America, and it is stated that every packet now coming over will bring some to England. Consols closed yesterday at 904 for the Account— opened Money, 904 ; same for Account ; scarcely any business doing. Exchequer Bills, 41 to 43 prem. ; India Bonds, 39 to 41 prem. ; ,Bank Stock, 201 to 205 ; India Stock, 258 259. The Foreign Market is also in a stagnant state. Spanish Active, 221 ; Passive, 5 ; Deferred, tll ; Portuguese, 461 47 ; Three per Cents., 29,i- 30 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 53i. We have a current report that the King of France has again been shot at. This account comes from Dover early this morning. We should have imagined, had this been true, various expresses from France would ere this have reached London with the information ; w' therefore do not place much.confidence in this rumour. HALF _PAST ONE. We have received the Journal du Commerce of Antwerp of 'yesterday's date, in which it is stated that the Belgian Government have again become alarmed, fearing an attack from the Dutch, in consequence of which the Belgians are repairing all the fortifications and redoubts which the Revolu tionists had constructed to defend the town of Ghent; and on the side of Flanders Zealand, they are continually working at the fortifications. Various are the opinions of the Belgians respecting these operations on the part of their Government. The Antwerp Steam Navigation Company's ship, Princess T r ietoria, Captain John Britton, arrived this morning at half past eight o'clock from Antwerp, after a passage of 20 hours and a half. Letters from Genoa of a recent date are filled with details re specting the secret agents of Don Carlos, who have been more active within a short period, owing to the Pretender placing full reliance on his military operations in the ensuing spring. These letters state that Charles Albert is about sending, by commercial vessels considerable convoys of stores and am munition during- the spring to Don Caries. The Dutch mail of the 26th of April has just arrived. It brings the prices from Amsterdam —Two-and-a,Half pLr Cents 52 1-16 ; Five per Cents., 99 7-16. Very little activity has been displayed during the morning either in the British or Foreign Markets. Consols arc steady at 904 3 ,- for Money and Account. Excl., quer Bills lower, 41 43 40 prem. ; India Bonds lower, 40 :1!; prem. ; Bank Stock, 204,. • Owiug to the uncertainty still prevail, respectin4 the payment of the dividend ou Spanish Coupon , on tile I,t of May, Spanish Active rem o Iu at 21 ; Deferr..,l 6.; Portuguese -161 ; •Three per Cents. 29 4 L ; Dutch Two..anil a Half per Cents. New American Paper—Bank 94 ; Canal 98 : 1. THREE O'CLOCK. Cowo4 for the Account, 90 LONGFORD COUNTY ELECTION COMMITTEE.-(THIS DAY.) The Committee assembled ,to-day at eleven o'clock, and proceeded with the scr u ti n y. Of five votes objected to on the part of the petitioners, three were retained, and two struck off. CARLOW ELECTION COMMITTEE (THIS DAY. The Committee met to-day at eleven o'clock. Mr. MESSMER stated the case for the petitioners, who al leged that the return of the sitting Member was obtained by bribery and corruption, by gross and unconstitutional intimida tion on the part of the Catholic priesthood, by misconduct on the part of the High Sheriff and his assessors, and by the undue admission of persons on the Registry by the Registering Barristers. The Booths, said the Learned Counsel, were be sieged by the priests, who, not satisfied with-using their tem poral power, denounced ail persons who voted against Mr. Vigors with the penalties of eternal damnation. These de nunciators influenced even the tenants of Mr. Bunbury, to vote against him, although it was almost universally admitted that a better man in every relation of life did not exist in the County of Carlow. He would prove b•r evidence the allega tions which he had just glanced at, and when he had done so, he had no doubt but that the Committee would honourably and impartially discharge their important duties. The Learned Counsel then called Mr. J. Humphrey, the Clerk of the Peace for the County of Carlow, who produced the poll books of the last election, and after a - short examino.- tion they were received as evidence. Mr. THESSIGER then proposed striking off the votes of all persons whose right to vete was rejected by the Committee which sat on the last petition against the return of Mr. Vigors. Mr. NlAtma objected to the opening the registry, and went through the various 'sections of the Irish Reform Act, with a view to show that the registration of the Barrister in Ireland was conclusive, and that it was beyond the jurisdiction of the Committee to open it. KING'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) PICKARD V. SEARES. The COURT gave judgment in this case, which was an action in trover, for the recovery of the value of some ma chinery and other articles, against the purchaser from tlie Sheriff, making the rule for a new trial absolute. IN RE GOMPERTZ This was a rule calling upon the Marshal of the Court of King's Bench to show cause why Henry Gompertz should not be deprived of the benefit of the rules, of the King's Bench Prison, in which he was a prisoner, and confined within the walls thereof. The case had been partly heard yesterday, when Mr. Pou.ocx showed cause against the rule. Mr. KNOWLES followed on the same side this morn .... in.., and ' Mr. WATSON and Mr. ANDERTON were heard in sup port of the rule. It was alleged that the prisoner was liv ing in a very extravagant style, and going to Ascot Heath races, and dining about town, and that the liberty thus allowed was an abuse of the privileges, and was illegal, inasmuch as Mr. Gompertz was a prisoner for contempt, and, therefore, not entitled to the benefit of the rules. On behalf of Mr. Gompertz, it was urged that he had merely driven through the town for the purpose of conferring with his solicitor relative to the debts for which he was confined ; that security had been lodged with the Marshal to the amount of twenty thousand pounds ; that the prisoner was in a very delicate state of health, and that close confinement would be fatal to him.. After .a lengthened argument, The COURT said that it appeared to them that a party confined for contempt was not entitled to the benefit of the rules of the prison. If there bad been any ground for granting an indulgence on the score of ill health, there should have been an application to that Court, as bad been done in several cases. On these grounds, the rule for con fining the prisoner within the walls of the prison must be made absolute. Mr. PLATT subsequently applied for and obtained a rule to show cause why Mr. Gompertz should not be entitled to the benefit of the rules, on the ground of ill health. COMMON PLEA .S.--(T HIS DAY.) RUSSELL V. YORKE. Mr. Serjeant ADAMS applied to the Court to have the rule made absolute. ,Mr. Sergeant WILDE, who appeared against the rule said this was a rule which calledmpon the defendant to show cause why an attachment should not issue against him for disobe dience of a rule of Court. The parties were respectable gen. tlemen, residing convenient to each other in the county of. Northampton, where an open way had to bz. stopped up, and the question was whether it had been stopped up contrary to the provisions of the Enclosure Act. An action was brought for trespass against the defendant, and was tried before Mr. Justice Vaughan, when a verdict was had for the plaintiff. A rule had been granted for a new trial, which was about to be heard before Mr. Baron Parke, when it was ordered that a juror should be withdrawn, on the understanding that the de fendant should undertake that neither he nor any of his ser vants, with his knowledge or consent, should use the road in question, but should use one convenient; outside a hedge. The affidavits upon which the motion was made were those of a gamekeeper and his servant, which stated that a female servant belonging to the defendant was seen passing over the close, and subsequently other persons in his employment, and that they believed that the trespass had been committed by the con sent of the defendant. In his affidavit. the defendant denied that he authorized any person in his. service to use the path since he entered into the agreement. He (Mr. Sergeant Wilde) could only account for the present application in con sequence. of the defendant being now on the Continent, and he apprehended that it had not been sufficiently established that he had been guilty of a contempt of Court. Mr. WORRINGTON followed on the same side. • Mr. Sergeant ADAMS contended that the rule ought to be at once put an end to, and let the case come fairly before a jury. The road was not a public one, and had been legally stopped up, and it seemed that the defendant sought to escape himself by having proceedings instituted against his servants. The COURT thought that the rule should be discharged, as it was evident the defendant had kept good filth, and could have no cantroul over his servants. Mr. Sergeant WILDS said he would not ask for costs, as it was all along the intention of the defendant to keep faith. BLATCHFORD V. THE MAYOR OF PLYMOUTH. Mr. Sergeant WILDE on a former day obtained a rule to show cause why the verdict should not be entered for the plaintiff in this case. It was In action for an alleged breach of covenant for quiet enjoyment, and a verdict was had for the defendant. The ground of action was that the Corporation of Plymouth, who bad supplied the victualling-office daily with 400 tons of water for the use of his Majesty's navy, had drawn away from the stream which supplied the plaintiff's mill, a certain quantity of water which had been demised to him, together with the demise of the mill. Mr. CROWDER now appeared to show cause against the rule, and was proceeding with his arguments when our reporter left. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, APRIL 26.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Charles, Dallin, from Tobago ; Maraster, from Odessa. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 26.—Arrived off port, the Lady Favers ham, from Bombay ; Maria, Johnson, from Terceira. FALMOUTH, APRIL 25.—Wind S.W., fresh breezes.—Ar rived the Belhaven, Crauford, from the Mauritius. OFF MARGATE, the Campbell, James, froni Tobago. JERSEY, APRIL 24.—Arrived the Charles. Le Fevre, Cadiz. LIVERPOOL, Aran. 25.—Wind W. S. W.—Arrived the Montpelier, Neighs, from Natchez ; Levant, Bartlett ; Scot. land, Merrinas ; Vespasian, Winsor ; Columbus, Coffin, and Roger, —, all from New Orleans ; Francis, Jones, from St. Joseph's; Mount Zion, Bachelor, and Pactolus, Norris, from Mobile ; Rosebank, Montgomery, and Mary, Owens, from Charleston ; Panther, Barker, from New York Miax, Farren, from St. Michael's ; Joseph, Novello, from Genoa. CLYDE, Anna. 25.—Arrived the Louisa, Patten, from Mo bile ; Belmont, —, from Sierra Leone. LEITH, APRIL 25.—Arrived the Gotz Haab, Prest, from Copenhagen. WATERFORD, APRIL 24. —Arrived Ellen, Murphy, Trinidad. HULL, APRIL 25.—Arrived the Carl, Craft, from Memel. DITIMIN. —The James Holmes, from hence to Demerara, was laying badly on her broadside, off Arklow Bank. The Commerce, steamer, was at anchor near her. PORT ELIZA.P.F.TII, ALGOA BAY, FEB. 16. Underneath we give an extract from the Maria's log, as we consider the circumstance requires to be represented at home, that some cognizance may be taken of it. The Galatea and Eliza were alarmed in a similar way about the same time by a similar craft : " FRIDAY, DEC. 9, 1836, P.M., 30.—The Stranger, on our lee bow, hauled her wind, and tacked at one, passed to lee ward of us, .and stood on into our wake, when she tacked again, and stood after us. Stranger,' a suspicious-looking vessel, brig-rig forward, schooner-rig aft, sharp, painted black, broad beam, female bust figure head ; 1. 30, hoisted our colours; Stranger showed a dirty Spanish ensign; set our fore topmast studding sail, and fore royal, increasing breeze. Stranger set her foretop steering sail, overhauling us fast, and showing Brazilian colours. At 2 she fired a gun, loaded with shot, from her larboard gun; loaded small arms, and gave her a gun not spotted, and shortened sail, Stranger nearing fast, when she again fired grape, whirl, passed over the ship ; hauled the colours up ; Stranger conning fast upon our wea ther quarter, her decks crowded with men, when she gave us another gun, with grape, which passed through the maintop sail ; mustered all bands aft for defence of the ship, when Stranger, seeing us prepared, hove about and stood to north ward ; made all sail, Stranger still standing northern." VESSELS SPOKEN WMI.— from the Clyde' to Barbadoes, on the 17th ult., lat. 19, log. 35; Regent, from London to the Cape of Good Elope, on the sth ult., lat. 18, lon. 29; 'and Lloyds, from Liverpool to Quebec, on the ltith inst., lat. 47, lon. 29, by the Mary and Ann. arrived at Liverpool. The front Liverpool to Charleston on the 15th inst. , 40, lon. 2.1; and Glasgow, front Loudon to Quebec, on the 14th inst., lat. 45, lon. 27, by the Alexan der. arrived at Liverpool. The Ettly, Ash, was wrecked at Tristan da Cunha, Jan. 23. Countess Pozzo di Borgu wig have a comyrsazione next week at Ashburnham House. The Russian A,Lbassador will also shortly ecnvnenec: his dinntr parties. wit• 7 SAVINGS BAN , taTO THE EDITOR OF TTlE l c iss t p, S—The following statement of the number of depostre in SAVINGS BANKS, and amount of investments on 20th No vember last, extracted from the latest official documents, n-ay not be uninteresting.—l am, Sir, yours faithfully, JOHN TIDD PRATT, The Barrister appointed to certify the Rules of Savings Banks, Sre. Temple April 26. Depositors Amount of Itivestments. Not exceeding £2O each 309,217 .. £2,155,769 50 100 ...... 69,958 4,785,619 150 200 Exceeding 200 3,068 .. 762,482 Dep;sitor% Charitable In3titutions ... 5,077 - 32.9,849 Friendly Societies 5,394 726,142 Account Statement of the Securities or Stock in which such Deposits w re invested on 20th November, 1836. Three per Cent. Stock... £5,094,527 17 1 Three and a Half per Cent. Stock 12,454,710 1 5 Exchequer Bills 1,362,800 0 0 Uninvested balances in the Banks of England and Ireland Balances in the hands of the Treasurers of Savings Banks ..... 28,234 6 3 176,155 11- MONEY MARKET. WEDNESDAY EVENING.—The now American Securi ties are gradually taking root in the Stock Exchange, and to all appearance are likely to :produce important effects, though the operation may be a slow one, upon our whole monetary system. If they obtain full credit here, they will disturb not only the floating debt, Mr. Spring Rice's circu lation of Exchequer Bills, but the funded debt itself, by the superior interest they will yield. We have not seen in this market for years past a security bearing interest of six or seven per cent., the capital of which was secured repay ment at a fixed and not very distant period. The leading bankers are already beginning to tura their attention to this, for if once a good and regular market is established for them on the Stock Exchange, there is no reason why they may not be held in temporary depo sit in the same manner as Exchequer Bills, in which case there will not be much hesitation about giving the preference to them, from the superior re turn which they give. This, however, is not all. The important feature of the transaction is the power which it must give to the makers of American public securities of all kinds over the money-market of this coun try. Let them once establish credit, for the disposition of the monied interest in this respect is well known, and there •is absolutely no limit to the circulation they may obtain here. They will not be at all fastidious about the terms upon .which they are to raise money in this country ; for such is the tendency of the United States, through the great enterprise of the people, to a high rate of interest, that it will for ages to come - probably be above the rate paid in this country. It will he worth their while always to give us an abundant and a constant supply, and, what ever vicissitudes may occur in commerce, they will be furnished always with the means of keeping their gold circulation. Though there may be inconvenience occa sionally in shipping goods upon failing marketc_. there can be none in supplying paper of this kind to settle the trade between the two countries ; and should they think it worth while to lay siege to the stock of gold in the Bank of England itself, through this medium, it is difficult to say in what manner it is to be prevented. Most reflecting men are struck with the tjuiet deep policy of the present scheme, and from the decided success, as indicated by to•day's trans actions, which is likely to attend it. The common run of American securities, owing to the inconvenient form of them, had become absolutely unmarketable at the date when these made their appearance, but by merely adopting this new shape, under which the capital is abso!utely se cured and made payable in London, they instantly aeTtire a firm footing, which every day will improve. 'Henceforth the money-markets of the two countries will be closely blended together in their operations, and we should not ho at all surprised within a very short time to see a branch of the Bank of the United States established in this city,— . Titres. PHILADELPHIA, APRIL I.—Honour to Nicholas asldle, President of the United States Bank ! No sooner did he learn the extent of the commercial embarrassments of the merchants of New York, than he repaired to that city for the purpose of concerting plans for their relief, in ‘Yllielt patriotic and noble project he was supported by all the di rectors of the great establishment. The full particulars of the correspondence between Mr. Biddle and a meeting of merchants you will find in -- all the New Yolk papers. It will, therefore, be unnecessary for me to go over tha around. I confine myself to results, which are—that th Bank of the United States will issue their bonds, payable at twelve months in London, for one million of pound,, sterling. Also, that two million of dollars in specie should be shipped to I, 7 ,ngland, one mil Eon by the United States Bank, and. the other million by the city banks. Thus a credit for seven million has been created; and the - merchants of New York, who are respectable and responsible, saved from great inconvenience, and perhaps immense loss ; This is not all—the Bank of the United States also undertakes to issue post ❑otes in exchange for southern drafts, ' which would be otherwise non-negotiable. This conduct is nol)le and generous on the part of an insti tution which has been reviled by the application of every epithet that political rancour, bigotry, and party spirit could apply. Mr. Biddle never inquired whether the applicants for relief were pro or anti hankmen ; whether they were Whigs or Van Burenites ; but he threw the doors open to the relief of all, and that, too, in sr rival city and state to those in which the bank is - located. His sole motive seemed to be the laudable one of serv ing his country ; and I can only add that, in such a crisis as the present, no thanks can be too warm for so patriotic an act. Mr. Biddle may be truly termed the master-spirit of American finance ; and in that character he stepped forward in an hour of peril to the commerce of the republic, stood between the living and the dead, and ef fectually stayed the progress of the commercial plague. The moral effect of this conduct has been, not only to remove present difficulties, but to restore confidence. The other banks have recovered front their fears, and in the most spi rited manner endeavoured to emulate the example of their great leader. As a body they have held a meeting, and agreed to extend their discounts beyond the usual amount by 1,500,000 dollars. The Manhattan Bank will issue bonds 'payable in London for 1,000,000 dollars. The Girard Bank (Philadelphia) will do the same for one hun dred thousand pounds. The Bank of America will also draw on London for 1,000,000 (after date), bearing six per cent. interest. The same bank intends drawing on Roths child's in Paris. Since my last there have been a few more failures in New York, but none in Philadelphia. The Money Market, from the causes I have stated, is easier, con fidence is restored, and the storm has completely passed over. The Committee appointed by the Legislature of Pennsylvania to investigate the charter of the United States Bank by the State Government have confirmed that charter i❑ the most honourable way. The consequence of this measure is, that Bank Stock is rapidly rising.- 21forning chronicle. THE FUNDS.-CLOSING PRICES. Bninsli FUNDS. Itenk Stock .. ............. ..........201.% Otriniatn 3 ~ ser Cent. Red. 8l) India Stock 3 per Cent. Cone 9O-4 .Ditto U0nda...... lc I,:n 3;,, 1)(4 . Cent. .9 South Sea Stock: — 3i' Cent. Red. --. 9'7 1 /, Ditto Old Annuiti, ,iki i:ei Gent. New 34 I:er Cent 9S3i, Ditto New Ammitic- — 1 I=cr Colt. Aasentcd Dissented .... Ditto SOO' :18 pm. Lon Annuities to expire Ditto 5001 40 pin. Jaz n'oo 14!4 Bank Stock for Opg. — ac: 111.50 Jan, li-60 FOREIGN FUNDS. Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent. Ditto, New Ditto ... 47' Prussian. 5 per cent. Russian - 8Qn.1.,, 5 per cesa. ...BIN Ditto, Metallic Spanish, 5 per cent — Ditto. Consolidated. 2i N, French, 5 pet cen: _ Extd:m4.7., i'rench, d per ceir ...-f ....,, Dutch, :4 per cent _ I Uitto, 5 per cent ... . th,.„, SH A tES Birmingham and Derby Railway... 1 y . , London and Birmingham Railway London and Southampton Railway.... 134 London and Croydon Railway Loudon and Brighton Railray (Stevenson's) No other variations in the Prices fit Shares since our One n'eksrk List. Austrian, 5 per cent i.Seli;iiai, 5 per cep Br,zilian Bonds .. 84% Utienos Ayres, 6 per cent. — Chilian, 6 per cent 3S Columbian, 6 per cent. — Ditto, V;34 Danish, 3 per cent 72 Gteek Boas, 'tan, 5 per cant — Nlexican, 5 per cent. Ditto, 6 per cent., 189.5 Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent The Countess of Bridgewater returned from Ash bridge Castle last week to Grosvenor,.square, and 'was since resumed her splendid banquets. The first was to the DuchesF- Countess of Sutherland, the Earl and Countess of Surrey, the EA.! and Countess of Clarendon, Vi count, Clive and Air. Henry Clivf, I.kly Emily Cust, the lion. Thomas Grenville, Mr. and Lady Sophia Towers, Lord Alford, and Sir Abraham Hume, Bart. The next dinner will be given om Saturday next. and the third on the 9th of May. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon Will entertain a disti❑guished party this evening at their magnificent man sion in North Audley-Aceet. l'he Countess Dowager of .Buckingimmshire has contributed greatly to the relief of the Spitalfields weavers by giving an order for silk curtains, through her upholsterers, 11essrs..:11iles and Edward:, The Dowager Lady KinlOch entertained at dinner -011 Tuesday the Marquis of Tweedale, the Earl and Cctnte , , of Plymouth, the Earl and Countess of Bradford. the lit n. Mr. intl Mrs. Bootle Wilraham, Sir It obert and La ly Fit z- Wygram, Lord CranAmm, &c. The Toty papers have been stating that at the Westminster Conservative dinner, between WO and 600 per- E...;ns attended : the truth is, not quite 400 sf:t down, and a large proportion, like the Marquis of Douro, not voters fur Westminster. - , r ~. -• `. E