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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a New Opera, entitled THE CRUSADERS. The principal characters will he sustained by Messrs. W. Ilar• rison, Eorrani, Horncastle, S. Jones, Weiss, Etretton, D. W. King, Miss Romer, and Miss Raiuforth. After which, a new Fairy Ballet, called THE ISLAND NYMPH, In which Mons. Desplaces, Males. Neodot, Louise, Adele, Mdme, Olubilel, &c., will appear. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Tragedy of ROMEO AND JULIET. Romeo, Miss Cushman, Mercutio, Mr. Ho 11; Peter, Mr. Buckstone ; Juliet, Miss S. Cushman ; Nurse, Mrs. Glover. The Band will perform the Overture, " La Gaza Ladra," and the Waltz, "Love's Serenade." After which, the Comedy of THE OLD SCHOOL. Principal characters by Messrs. Farren, Holl, Brindal, Mrs. Clifford, and Mrs. - Yarnold. To conclude with a New Farce, called LEND ME FIVE SHIL LINGS. Principal characters by Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Tilbury, Mr. Brindal, and Miss P. llorton. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. THIS EVENING Will be performed LUCK'S ALL. Principal characters by Messrs. Diddear, F. 'Vining, Meadows, Kinloch, Turner, and Keeley ; Miss llicks, Mrs. A. Wigan, &c. After which, NEXT DOOR. Characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Turner, Bellingham ; Misses Arde t, Villars, and Howard. To conclude with the New Grand Romantic Extravaganza, en titled TIIE ENCHANTED HORSE; or, Prince Firma Schah of Persia and the Princess of Bengal. Principal Characters by Messrs. Keeley, Wigan, F. Matthews, Collier, Turner, Kinloch, &c.; .111t.s dashes Keeley, Villars, Hodson, Dawson, Howard, Arden, &c. Stalls, 55.; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 6cf THEAT.!t.F. ROYAL, ADELPHI. TIIIS EVENING Will be 'performed the Drama of LEOLINE : or, Life's Trials Principal characters by Messrs. 0. Smith and Wright, Mrs. Yates, and Miss Woolgar. To he followed by TAMING A TARTAR ; or, Magic ant Ma zourkaphobia. In which Messrs. Paul Bedford and Wright, Miss Woolgar, Madame Celeste, &c. will perform. To conclude with a New Farce, entitled THE PHANTOM BREAKFAST. Supported by Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Wright, Miss Woolgar, &c. I'RINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. THIS EVENING, Will be performed Shakspeare's Tragedy of KING LEAR. King Lear, Mr. Macready; Earl of Kent, Mr. Cooper; Edgar, Mr. ti allack ; Regan, Mrs. Ternan ; Cor4elia, Mrs. Stirling. To be followed by a DIVERTISSEMENT, In which Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Marshall, M. Adrien, Miss Bailin, Miss Marshall, and Mdlle. Duval will appear. After which, a New Farce, called TOO MANY COOKS SPOIL THE BROTH. Gregory Granite, Mr. Compton ; George, Mr. ()Kberry ; Fanny, Miss E. Stanley. NEW STRAND THEATRE. M. PHILLIPPE'S SOIREES and MAI INEES MYSTERIE.U.S . ES. Two Morning Performances during the Week At the urgent and reiterated solicitations of many distinguished faradic*, and in order to accommodate the crowds who do zlc to attend his Morning Performances, M. PIIILLIPPE will give his .1-rand Juvenile Entertainment every Wednesday and Saturday 3lornng, It Two o'cloct.. Phillippe's most Popular Deceptions and Peculiar Est eriments will be repeated every Evening, varied by the Amusin Per fornfances of the Chiarini Family, and the astounding Feat of the Amrxican Brothers.—Doors open at a quarter past Seseu to com mence at a quarter before Eight. Stalls, 3s. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, Ge 11. is., acid 11. I Is. (id ; Pr•vate BoxeE, \STLEY'S ROYAL AMPIIITA:':ATIM()FALTS Ghriong career of the New Oriental Spectacle. I . lle most sac• cessful piece ever produced. Nightly overflows of rank and fashior to witness she race performances of the Colossal Elephants, trait of Camels, &c. THIS EVENING Will he performed a New Drama, entitled TUE RAJAH OF NAGPONE ; or, the Sacred Elephants of the Pagoda. In which the whole of the extensive resources of the Establishment will be brsught into requisition. :New Scenes of the Circle, combining the unequalled Feats of the it'r tisk and Foreign Company. 'Me whole to con,lude with tha favourite Afterpiece of LOVE AND WAIL. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THE,:kTRE The greatest hit ever known. The Oue Hand; .c 1 Female Warriors' wonderful performance, and the magnificence and effect of the New Historical Spectacle, have produced an immense sensation. Nightly crowded to the ceiling. First appearance of Mr. R. Pelham (from America), the Nigger Dancer and Singer. TILLS EVENINC; Will be performed TILE S:•:A KING'S VOW; or, a Struggle for Liberty. Supported by Messrs. Hughes, Rogers, Cowell, May nard, Jolmson, Lewis, Hcalop, Monson ; Mcsdms. Vining, Daly, Martin, Miss Glover, and one hundred Female Warriors. After which, a new Farce, entitled, TILE MASQUERADE BALL. Saints-Hit-'em-Hard, Mr. It. Pelham. To conclude with THE MENDICANT SON ; or, The Jew of Siuthwark. Supported ,y 3lessr. Hughes, Johnson, Rogers, Cowell, Maynard, Lewis, lleslop ; Mertlaxies 11. Vining, Martin, and Daly. I:OYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Surpasting hit Ollrie s." Triumphant reception of The Scamps of Loudon." THIS EVENING Will he performed JESSIE ' HOIMI - :S7 or, The Wild Horde of the Wolf's Lair. Styported by Mr. Dale, Mr. Fredericks. Mr. E. F. Saville, Mr. Herbert, Mr. Iliggic, Miss Vincent, 3liss Terry, &c. After - which, HERCULES, KING OF CLUBS. Hercules, Mr. Herbert. To con4udo with TIIF., SCAMPS OF LONDON. Supported by the entire istrenvth of the eovipany. THE WEATHER.—Sus OFFICE, FEB. 26. TITERMOMETER, Lowest, 45; Highest, 58; Noon, 56. BAROMETER, 29.92.—W1ND S , fine sunshiny weather. :HUN WAfEi Ai LONDON-I;RP ;GB Tlliti DAY. M'rnl .. 12 rninutei arer 1.1 Evening 37 raintita after 1 P' 4;) 2-01,Z1 ''' • •)1 1 A, 'll - 11L LONBON, THURSDAY, FE (WARY 26, 1846. 'he Lords did not sit yesterday. The Commons met at Twelve o'clock. heard the whole of Mr. FERRAND'S oration (we wish him joy of his friend), and was for some time in earnest conversa tion with Mr. MILES and Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN. We suppose Mr. O'BRIEN's manifesto about the Irish Church was the fruit of this deliberation with his chief. The pro tectionists are determined to show them that their faculties can embrace all the great questions of state—church as well as corn. We still think that a Protectionist Government will be a fuses rei publicee. We return to the case of BRIAN SEERY to observe that Sir JAMES GRAHAM signally failed in his attempt to find precedents for his execution, after conviction by a second jury impannelled at the same assizes, the first having been discharged because they could not agree. In the first case which he mentioned—the trial before Mr. Justice LAWRENCE, in 1794—the first jury was discharged, not from being unable to agree as to the verdict, but owing to the illness of one of the jurors, before the judge had summed up, and before, therefore, the jury had begun to consider their verdict. In this case, then, the trial had to begin de novo, before it had gone so far as to raise any presumption in favour of the prisoner from a difference of opinion among the jury, or to render it possible that the administration of justice shouldincur a suspicion of harshness by the impanelling of the second jury. In the second case mentioned by Sir J. GRAHAM, the second trial, as Mr. O'Commu, pointed out, was not at the same, but at the next assizes, which makes a very important difference ; and there is a further important difference, that the second jury acquitted the prisoner, so that the question of the propriety of execution, after one jury bad been dis charged because unable to agree, did not and could not arise. Sir JAMES GRAHAM said that the difference of result did not affect the principle involved in the case, and that the prin ciple consisted in the second trial. But here we take leave to differ from him. The question which Mr. O'CoNNELL asked was (and he had given soma days' notice of the question) " Whether there be any instance in England for the last century of any person being tried for any capital felony, by a second jury, after the first jury was discharged by the Court, at the some session or assizes, and convicted and executed." It is the carrying into effect the extreme sentence of the law, after the discharge of one jury, that is the gravamen of BIZIANEny's case. Let alone the extraordinary circum stance of the second trial taking place at the same assizes, the mode in which the first trial terminated should have procured a commutation of the capital punishment. We are glad to observe that Mr. O'CoxNELL has given notice of a "Bill to amend the criminal law in Ireland, by enacting that in future no person shall be tried on any indictment for felony a second time at the same session or assizes, after having been tried by a former jury at the same session or assizes, and that jury having been discharged by the judge." responsibility of most extraordinary importance—the re sponsibility of so far expediting the present discussion as to afford speedy assistance to four millions of supplicants, as welleas to incorporate a just and enlightened commercial policy for ever and for ever with the con stitution of Great Britain. As one of the most intolerable I amongst a vast number of intolerable impediments to the accomplishment of this great measure, the harangue of the Member for Knaresborow,h was a grievous nuisance to the question under debate, to the House of Com mons, to the Speaker individually, and to the country at large. And it was thus intolerable because of its being nothing whatever to the purpose, because of its uncon scionable duration, because of its unhealthy venom, and par ticularly because (as already stated) of its numerous and utterly irrelevant personalities. It was in fact built up almost entirely of personalities, and occasionally of personalities of the very meanest description, namely, during the absence of the parties vilified. In this respect we may mention his allusions to the Hon. Member for Durham. What ren ders each of these singular malignities as delivered by Mr. FERRAND doubly impertinent and doubly contemptible is the very baldness of his assertions. He gives utterance to a series of the most prodigious and incredible statements—statements so completely out of the range of credence, so imprebable, so impossible in themselves, as to have prevented any one else from whispering them in the walls of Parliament. And, notwithstanding their very desperate character, he vouches for their truth by—what ? Why by his personal authority ; or, to employ his own favourite expression, he is always "prepared to prove them." There is invariably some fictitious evidence—(never divulged !)—in the background. Thus Mr. FERRAND was "prepared to prove" that all the signatures affixed to free-trade petitions by workmen were written on compulsion—but he didn't ! Thus Mr. FERRAND was "prepared to prove" that in the petition pre sented by Lord MORPETII from his constituents in the West Riding of Yorkshire one man had actually penned no less than fourteen thousand autographs—but he didn't ! Thus Mr. FERRAWD was "prepared to prove" that the hosiers of this country, though protected by a duty of 20 percent., could not successfully compete with the Saxony manufacturers—but, again, he didn't ! Such ;incessant and extensive draughts upon our credulity are surely sufficient to exhaust all our re sources of belief; and in the end render our faith bankrupt. As for refinement of style also, the Member for Knares borough is quite an oratorical CHESTERFIELD ; his epi thets are so daintily selected, his language is so choice and delicate. He talks of " humbugging," and " thimble-rigging," and " gammoning," and "putting farmers on their backs," and " sticking to agriculture," with as much fluency as that with which EDMUND BURKE de livered his impassioned and superb perorations. But in Mr. BUSFEILD FERRAND we detect something of the Alderman CUTE school : the anxiety to appear familiarised with the habits and condition of the people by employing innumerable cant phrases. But the Hon. Gentleman's self sufficiency is not retarded by any consideration as to the very false and questionable position in which he stands before the assembly of Commons. Hence, in one portion of his address he actually has the coolness—the consummate coolness—to speak as follows :—" It would suffice for him to pledge his word to the House that ever since machinery had been introduced into this country, for the purpose of manufacturing goods, the wages of the working people . had been gradually falling." " It would suffice for him to pledge his word to the House !! ' What a very miserable estimate the Member for Knaresberough must have of the discrimination and memory of the representatives. ADDISON tells us of his friend, Sir ROGER DE COVERLET, inflicting a severe punishment upon a certain BULLY Daw sox. Would that we could resuscitate the shade of Sir ROGER, and introduce him to the Parliament House. Forcibly as the Government officials have spoken upon the amentable dearth in food of every description with which the inhabitants of Ireland are afflicted, their disclosures fall infinitely short of the reality. Their attention has, for very natural and ostensible reasons, been directed mainly to an investigation of the aggregate calamity : in the outset of their labours an eye was judiciously kept upon the gross defi ciency. For all practical purposes, this was undoubtedly the most laudable course to pursue ; it was indeed the most rational course to pursue : for, by plunging at once into the detailed destitution of each individual district, much time would have been swallowed up in calculations of superfluous minuteness. An immediate knowledge of the general wants which had to be supplied would be delayed by such over scrutiny—relief would have been hampered by this elaboration of fact—woes would have accumulated while the very preliminary measures were being arranged by which that accumulation should have been averted. What, however, the Government agents were prevented from accomplishing by the actual responsibility of their office, namely, disclosures of the separate privations undergone in the hamlets of each parish, in the streets of each hamlet, and in the cottages of each street, are now being given by parties most competent to affordus a just insight into the veritable condition of the Irish peasantry. The parties of whom we thus make mention are the respectable residents in the different rural districts of our sister island. From the reports which these gentlemen are severally forwarding to the Executive authorities, the awful and growing destitu tion of those unhappy people are becoming each day more and more recognisable, more and more appreciable, more and more fearful in every possible respect. The accounts given in those documents are, indeed, heartrending to the very last degree. We have, in the abstract, a most rooted antipathy to anything like a panic to serve party purposes —such a panic, for example, as the protectionists have raised of late respecting the " destruction of British agriculture :" we regard any faction which would resort to instruments so pernicious as that of raising false alarms for the purpose of insuring their own advancement, as in finitely culpable, and infinitely worthy of reprobation. Any man, however, who would stigmatise the pre sent cry about starvation in Ireland as one of this party character, or as false and erroneous to the extent Of one single tittle, must either be entirely devoid of common sense or cruelly callous to the suffering of his fellow- crea tures. Whatever statements have already been made re specting the lack of common nourishment among four millions of the Irish populace are only glimpses, are only fragments, are only scanty indications of the dark and agonising substratum of evil. Far from -any exaggeration having been resorted to with he intention of exciting an undue amount of sympathy, each packet, as it traverses St. George's Channel, is the bearer of some new and still more harrowing description than the one conveyed by its predecessor. Is there any misrepresentation in our previous accounts of this national famine ? Let the " figures" given in the Cork Examiner c f the 23d instant be the rebuttal of such an insinuation. From those figures it appears that potatoes—(the staple commodity of the peasantry be it ever remembered)—that potatoes in the Cork market are now of nearly double the price, and little better than half the quantity of the corresponding season twelve months back. In other words, that in February 1845, there were 424 weights (each of 201b5.), the highest price of which was five pence-halfpenny ; while, in February, 1846, there are merely 230 weights, selling absolutely at ten pence. That brief cal culation is a corroboration more forcible and more indubitable than the most impassioned language could ever be. As a corroboration of this corroboration, however, let us for a moment turn to the report recently forwarded to the Commissioners of Public Works by the Com mittee of Relief " deputed to investigate the condition of the people in Kilkee, County Clare." As some guarantee as to the authenticity of this report, and as an evidence that im plicit reliance may be placed upon its declarations, we may mention that the individuals who joined in this charitable labour of investigation were the Rev. James MARTIN, rector, and the Rev. MICHAEL. COMYS, parish priest. From that most temperate and plain-spoken document, it appears that "one hundred and sixty householders (in Kilkee), with their families, amounting to nine hundred and seventy-two indi viduals are in a state of abject poverty and nearly deprived of all earthy means of subsistence—the present supply of potatoes available not amounting to more than live hundred and sixty stone or six barrels !" And afterwards that it is the most "solemn conviction" of those two re verend gentlemen that " even that residue of the potatoes was scarcely fit for human 'use, and, from its limited supply, totally inadequate to satisfy the cravings of hunger." Besides this, we are informed by an eye-`t itness—one who has himself visited that region of miserable desti tution, that the people in their their wan and hag gard looks give indications of the famine which is thus divulged ; that they are living testimonies of those six barrels of potatoes for the sustenance of nine hundred and seventy-taco human beings ; that the stench of those very vegetables is insupportable beyond description from their diseased condition ; that the cheeks, the lips, the eyes, the stark hands themselves of those unfortunate crea tures are alone vouchers for the truth of the two clergymen ; that the livers of the fowls that have been nourished on that dreadful fare have been found after death quite rotten ; and that in the hovels, in the features, in the silent despair and quiet desolation of Kilkee, may be perceived the progress already made by dearth of wholesome food. If such be the condition of the Clare peasantry in February, what will it be one month, two months, or three months hence, if no measures are adopted to make up the deficiency : to afford labour and in recom pense of labour sustenance, and that sustenance moreover cheap? That there is an absolute necessity for some ame liorative effort being made in behalf of Ireland ie alie:L ted by all reasonable persons without distinctice -e of political or religious creed. Hence it we :, that his Grace the Duke of RICHMOND " _ ' ..pressed his readiness to for ward by h is ",.cquiescence any proposition for the employmn't of the Irish population. Hence also arLes our principal anxiety to witness the immediate close of the present discussion; as until then no arrangements adequate to the emergency can be made by Parliament to stay the rapid and sullen advances of famine the most dire, and disease the most contagious. With this doom threaten ing so many thousands of our fellow-countrymen, Govern_ temporary went will not assuredly be tardy in propounding some panaceaanacea for the grea t soc i a l malady. Let the Ministry and their supporters strive to meet the exigencies of the ocea sloe, and the pora happinessmisery o f o t f he Ireland British w l i e b s e . come in the end the permanent We regret to find (and our regret will be shared by every free-trader throughout the country), that the Duke of NEW CASTLE'S unconstitutional influence has prevailed in South Nottinghamshire, and that his son, Lord LINCOLN, has been defeated in the well-fought contest by a majority of about 690. The total number polled was 2,780, the consti taency, according to the last returns being 3,614; so that a fair proportion of voters had recorded their sentiments, or more properly speaking, as regards the majority, the sentiments of the Noble Duke. Sir R. PEEL has thus been deprived of the services of another official assistant in the House of Commons, and the defeats of Lord LINCOLN and Captain Rous, though proceed ing from different causes, produce nearly the same effect. They weaken the power of the Minister and encourage the protectionists to continue their opposition by foul means as well as fair, and obstruct the accomplishment of measures of the very first importance to all classes. Unfortunately the landlords, and some of their retainers, cannot yet discover this, but they will in time. Sir ROBERT PEEL'S plans are too well laid and too sound to be defeated by a faction in opposition to all the rest of the community, and in a very few years after the new tariff has come into full operation we reckon to a certainty that the farmers will be the loudest in its praise. Madrid journals of the 18th have been received. The Ministry appear to be acquiring more strength in public estimation from openly avowing the constitutional principles on which they propose to act, and from a determination to continue the financial policy of Senor Mox, which has done much to improve public credit. "We learn," says the Castel. lano, " that the new Minister of Finance will adopt a sys tem of publicity in all his operations. The receipts and expenses of last 3 ear are about to be published, and they will henceforth be published every month, so that the Cortes and the country will be acquainted with the real situation of the Treasury. M. PExA v AGUAYO will omit nothing to establish a balance between the Active and Pas sive of the Treasury." Accounts from Corunna state that Don HENRY had re signed the command of the corvette Villa de Bilboa ; and one of the Opposition papers adds, that the persecuted INFANTE had arrived at Santiago in the public diligence on the 12th, amidst the cheers of the inhabitants. The Three per Cents. closed at 32 3 4 for cash and at 60 days, and the Five per Cents. at 23 1 / s at 60 days. A brief, but important discussion took place in the French Chamber of Deputies, on a motion relative to the octroi duties on cattle, and this led to remarks on the impolicy of imposing heavy import duties on the necessaries of life. The movement in England has manifestly extended to France, and we despair not of seeing Sir ROBERT PEEL'S commercial policy adopted in a few years by that country. The Minister of Commerce, in adverting to the high price of butchers' meat, said, every proposition tending to diminish the duties and lower its price ought to be received with favour. M. DE LAMARTINE considered that the food of the people ought not to be left at the mercy of self-named protectors ; and, ad verting to a remark of M. BERRTER, who belongs to that expiring class, the protectionists, he added, "M. BERRYER'S was the opinion, not of the poorer agricultural population, but of the rich proprietors, whose first object was to secure a high price for their produce, without any attention being paid to the difficulties and straits of the working classes. Notwithstanding the efforts made by the protectionist party, it would be found necessary sooner or later to satisfy the legitimate demands of the people, and take off those burdens which now bore so heavily on them, for the advantage of the rich." He then referred to the declaration of Sir ROBERT PEEL, in the House of Commons, that in France the popula tion had increased in a far greater proportion than the cattle of the country, and that, consequently, she required a cer tain quantity to be imported each year, which caused the present dearness of meat. The Hon. Deputy, after dwelling on the necessity of removing as much, and as soon as possible, all protecting duties, concluded by declaring that the whole discussion might be summed up by these words : —" Let us vote cheap food for the people." These noble sentiments appeared to produce much sensation, and were loudly cheered by a considerable poi tion of the Chamber. A protectionist Member of the name of Tx" said the Hon. De puty, seemed to allow that the proposition chiefly was good, inasmuch as it prepared the way for other reductions, so as to eventually suppress all prohibitive duties on foreign cattle. M. DT LADIARITNE replied, "he was far from de manding the immediate abolition of the prohibition alluded to ; he knew that in such matters it was necessary to -• ceed by gradations; but the general tenct,..!ey oug h t to be to establish an equilibrium between tl , -• tries, and to break down the -e products of all coun tion's profiting h" '• uarriers which opposed one na , • Lne advantages which the soil conferred onan° . 1. ..er." The Journal des De . bats contains the following very striking statistical detals respecting the Wing off in the consumption of butchers' meat in Prance:— Several railway Bills were read a second time. 'the second reading of the Roman Catholic Relief Bill was postponed after a short conversation in reference to Lord LINcoLN's recent declaraticens on the subject of the Irish policy, in which Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN, Sir JAMES RAHAM, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, Mr. O'CONNELL, and M. P. HOWAR D took part. Sir JAMES GRAHAM then alluded to the ease of SEERY, and said that he had received a communication from the Lord Lieutenant, stating that a deputation, which had called upon him to represent the lawless state of the county of Roscommon, had certainly stated incidentally that any lenity shown to SEEAY would tend to keep alive a spirit of insubordination, but that he had not been influenced in his determination by their represen tations. " There is one fad which rules over the debate opened yesterday on the entrance ditties to be paid upon cattle brought into cities and towns—the consumption of meat in France has been diminishing for more than 50 years. The following are the incredible results of a re port published by the Minister of Commerce in 1842:—1n 1830, the people of France consumed 394,000,000 kilogrammes of meat, or, upon the average, 12 1-3 d kilos for each individual. In 1840 the consumption fell to 370,000,000 kilos., which, taking into account the difference of the amount of population, gave 11 kilos a head. Thus, in the short space of ten years, the annual consumption of meat in France was reduced by 83,000,000 kilos., and that per head by eleven per cent. It it true that the correctness of this official publication has been diSputed : but what cannot be reasonably questioned is the perfect accuracy of the accounts of the entrance duties of Paris. These are very ancient. The walls Of Paris were raised prier to the revolution, and the vigilance observed at the gates is well known. It results from these accounts that the quantity of butcher's meat consumed in Paris in 1789, when the po pulation was 600,000, amounted to 52,000,000 kilos. ; and that in 1839, when the population was increased to 900,000, the consumption was only 59,000,000 kilos. If the calculation per head be made upon this, it will be found that in 1789 a citizen of Paris ate, upon the average, 74 kilos. of meat, and that in 1839 this consumption fell to 48 kilos. per head. What does this tell ? Before the ReVolution did the people live in abundance?—did they gorge themselves with the necessaries of life ?—did they enjoy an excess of the good things of this world? Alas I Retire the Revolution the people did net And themselves in this happy condition, It has been singularly ame liorated since this great and memorable reformation—this is a truth of which we have ample evidence. One thing is certain, that in one essential article of food—that of meat—it is less fortunate, and has a much more scanty supply than before the r e ti Revolution. It is sad to say—but it is not the less true— the people of Fra nce h ave no t mea t enoug h t o ea t to supply their wants. Thi s f ac t a l one deserves all the serious consideration and and more un ve il e d, w h en all the consequences it brings with it aree man: r ious solicitude of ou r st a t esmen. It s d ep l ora bl e gravity becomes ected upon. A want ofsubstantlal nourishment engenders a race of puny degenerat bei m n a gs, and thus nations have become impoverished sure the productyivaexcaampypalb in d.sidTehoef price e m of beef of Capabilities of t menf al falling too the deeply quantity int into error,f meat m t heeay and degraded. es of 3s e s : .4c ß or y ce a.e Justness o comes f this another, estimate w h t h r a h v have 3 beenits consume. Man c. or was, twenty quality, such as Is re servedrare, its price has sen sibly less than thes t e he demi-kilo., and this day it is n y e EL e h l r i ri h a as d . 50c. or 55c., corollary. As the meat has become me for the labouring classes, will be found to be very nearlye. pries and that ofsuperior quality has risen in the same e sh be o s p t in the market. Consequently one of 55c. or 60c. to 70c. or 75c. and upwards. This increase o f t ti t ir from samemeat me p proportion a p o t the o n b u u t p c o h n e r t ' h s the most urgent necessities of the country is for it to be supplied as quiekly as possible with meat in greater abundance, and at a lower price." The Canstitutionnel says :—" M. Guizot formally declared on Mon day that the Government had abandoned all idea of the expedition against Madagascar. The garrison of Bourbon and Mayotte 17111 PRICES OF RAILWAY SHARES. Aberdeen .. .. .. .. Amber., Notting., Boston and Mr. O'CoNNELL gave notice of a motio n fo r m I re land the two additional me m bers of „ ; ,_:vin to "udb g ury had been deprived. The Friendly Societies' Bill was, after a short di s _ cussiou, read a second time, and the House adjourned. We suspect that Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN has got hold of a mare's nest, in Mr. EVELYN DENISON'S account of Lord LINCOLN'S views on Irish Church and State affairs. First of all, Mr. DENISON'S account is singularly v a g ue and indistinct; and secondly, Mr. DENISON has always been looked upon as A VOW timid Irish Church reformer among his own party. Mr. EVELYN DENISON is brother of the Bishop of SALISBURY. When Lord STANLEY and Sir JAMES GRAHAM left the Whig Government in 1834, on the appropria tion clause, and Sir ROBERT PEEL got possession of office for a few months in 1834-5, Mr. EVELYN IsissoN followed Lord STAWLEY and Sir J. GRAHAM. Therefore Lord LINCOLN may have satisfied Mr. E. Durcrsos by his views on the Irish Church, without its being a sequitur that he is prepared fo destroy it. But these protec tionists know not what they would be at. What makes them most sore is the universal assent to what has so often been asserted lately—the ludicrousness of the protectionists attempting to form a Government. This it is which has made them keep up a three weeks' debate, in which every middle-aged squire is bidding against the others for the post of leader of the Commons under the RICNMOND Government, and every beardless scion of a ctical house establishing his claim to some of the loaves and fishes which the Duke of RicirmoND expects to distribute. On Tuesday night the Duke of RICIIMONb was in the Peers' seats in the House of Commons for a csesiderable time; he w rv e at fe i r ouT re : • by A m fe r w . F m E o nß re AN ob n se , ectuag the speech delivered unfortunately . obliged to make; but these observations have exclusive iiiteclizve reference to the As s t to addressing other representatives in the Lower a single word of deprecation or remonstrance t t h rs e u lbliember for Knaresborough himself—we would as selves to reason a current of brawling ditch-water into o i t u n h t r o s . quietude. Our remarks are alone directed Honourable Gentlemen who were on Tuesday evening pelted with his unwholesome and unblushing personalities. We would express a hope that no feeling of very natural irritability at the indignities of language, the scurrilous inuendos, the unconstrained imputations, and in solent attacks with which their nEunes were severally accom panied, will induce them to condescend a reply even to the length of one syllable. They may remain perfectly assured (as no doubt their sober senses will show them) that such manifest bitterness of heart agd such bilious impertinence of tongue, are utterly unworthy of a rebuttal. On a subject of such singular insignificance, and of such painful abandonment of propriety, we can scarcely do more than endeavour to enforce the necessity of its being utterly disregarded (as we are fain to suppose it must be) by those legislators whose time is forestAlled by a THE SUN, LONDON, TRURSDAT EVENING, PEDRVAII,I _26 1816. merely be reinforced. The Minister of Foreign Affairs added, that the English would not act any more than ourselves against the Novas." The Committee of the Extreme Gauche of the Chamber of Depu- ' ties has lust sent a circular to all its agents in the departments, ap prising them of the probability of a general election at an early period, and urging them to exertion. The Marseilles journals announce the arrival there of a vessel from Algiers, with accounts of the 18th, but the information that they communicate is without importance. Nothing new of a positive na ture was known as to the movements of Abd-el-Kader. The Three per Cents. closed at 84f. 83c. ; the New Loan, at 84f. 50c. ; the Five per Cents., 123 f. 45e. ; the Orleans Railroad shares, 1,330 f.; Rosen, 1,057 f. 5c.; Havre, 750 f. ; Great Northern, 778 f. 75c. ; Avignon, 1,020 f. ; Vierzon, 735 f. ; Bordeaux, 655 f. ; Basle, 252 f. 50e. ; Fampoux, 480 f. ; Dieppe, 480 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 556 f. 50c. ' • Tours and Nantes, 591 f. 25 c. ; Par is and Lyons, 630 f. ; Spa nish Three per Cents., 38% ; Ditto , Dome stic Debt, 32% ; Spanish Passives, 6%. The following are the quotations for other lines Lyons and Avignon (Talabot), 110 f. 50c. ; ditto (Lecointe) 505 f. 50c.; ditto (Compagnie Aleridionale), 502 f. ; ditto (Definitives), 572 f. 50e.; Bordeaux and Cette (Mackenzie), 804 f. ; ditto (Espeleta), 510 f. 50c.; Ckarleroi, 500 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEL 25. Boulogne and Amiens, 11 3 4—Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette (Es pelota), 2 1 ,4 —Dendre Valley, % —Dutch Rhenish, 6•X—East Indian, I—Great Northern of France Constituted, 11%—Great Indian Peninsular, —ltalian and Austrian, 1% —Lyons and Avignon, 2 —Luxembourg, 2% —Madrid and Valentia, I—Namur and Liege, 3—Orleans and Vierzon, 18 —Orleans and Bordeaux, 11%—Paris and Orleans, 51—Paris and Rouen, 40N. Lord Ingestre, in his speech on Tuesday night in opposition to the Government measures, stated that "he was sprung from an ancient root ;" this is a polite way of calling his father "an old turnip." Now, although Lord Ingestre and his father, Earl Talbot, hold opposite opinions on this question, he might have treated his parent with a little more respect. During the whole of the contest in South Nottinghamshire no such disrespectful allusion to the Duke of Newcastle was made by the Earl of Lincoln. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO TNREE. The sales of Cotton ativerpool yesterday were 6,000 bales, in cluding 500 on speculation, and 500 for export. The market was rather flat. American sold at 3%d. to sd; Egyptian at 5%d. to B%d. ; Surat at 2%c1. to 31%d. ; and Pernamat 5%d. Shares were dull. Messrs. Lamond's sale of Railway Shares was well attended, but prices ruled very low, and exhibited no improvem en t, although more purchases were made. Irish. North Midland, 145.-Churnet and Blythe, 11. lls. 6d.-Great Grimsby, Louth and Horncastle, 11.75. 6d. -Leeds and Carlisle, 11. 175. 6d. - Peterborough and Nottingham, 9s. 6d.-Ipswich, Norwich, and Yarmouth, I/. 6s. 6d.-Wexford, Waterford, and Valencia, 1/. 4s. 6d.-Rugby and Huntingdon, 11. ss. -Louvain and Jemappe, 21.-Leeds and Carlisle, I/. 165.-Jamaica Junction, 31.-Jamaica South Midland, 3L-Triag, Reading, and Basingtoke, 21. Bs.-Buckinghamshire, 21. 4a. 6d.-Paris and Orleans, 501.-North Staffordshire, Churnet and Potteries, 51. 175.-Real del Monte Mining (Unregistered), 3/. 102.-South Midland, 41. bs. Irish Great Western (Dublin to Galway), V.-Direct Northern, 21. 13s. A most anxious desire is expressed in the City for the termination of the debate upon the cern-laws-commercial operations will con tinue at a stand still until the whole matter is settled. In the various docks on each side of the river Thames, an immensity of all sorts of produce awaits but the fiat of Parliament, to be taken immediately the tariff is settled, for home consumption. Accounts, of Dec. 27, from the Cape of Good Hope, state that the Natal district was still being thinned by emigration, but that the new Lieutenant-Governor was expected to take measures that would satisfy all parties, and protect the farmers who remained behind. A considerable amount of business has been transacted in the Public Securities this morning. This is the settling day in Consols, and a vast amount of business has been transacted. Consols for Money have advanced from 95% % to 9614, and for the next Account from 96 to 96%. The continuation therefore shows that an opinion is entertained that prices will further advance. For temporary pur poses cash has been in demand, and sales of Exchequer-bills, early in the morning, reduced the premium to 358., but since a rise has taken place to 38s. India Stock has advanced to 261, and Bank Stock to 209%. The Government brokers have bought largely to-day. In the Foreign Stocks the business done has been very trifling.. Colombian ex Venezuelian have Improved to 52 ; Grenada to 23. Mexican are worth 31% ; Peruvian, 38 ; Portuguese Four per Cents., 58% ; Spanish Five per Cents., 27% ; land the Dutch Four per Cents., 95 5 / 8 , The Birmingham and Gloucester Shares have been in request at 25 premium ; the Edinburgh and Glasgow at 22 premium ; the Great Western have improved to 67 premium, and most of the other Shares have a firm aspect. BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock .. 209% 208% 209% 209% Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 96 1 4 96% Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .. 96 95% 96% 96 96% New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anne. 98% 98 98% IA 98% Long Annuities, Expire .Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10 9-16 11-16 10 1146 Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1849 .. 10 7-16 10 7-16 Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. • • - 10% India Stock .. .- India Bonds, 1,0001. .. Ditto, under 1,0001. .. . South Sea Stock .. .. .. .. 259 261 Ditto, New Annuities .. .. • • 95U Consols for Account, April 26 .. .. .. 96%% Exchequer Bills. llid. I%cl ' 1,0001. .. .. 5001. .. .. Ditto, Small Ditto, Advertised 35 38 - -- pm. 35 38 - - pm. 35 38 - - pm. 37 33 - - pm. ONE O'CLOCK. .. 51% 52 23 FOREIGN FUNDS. Columbian Bonds .. Grenada, 1 per Cent .. .. Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent .. 31 Ditto, for the Account .. 31% Ditto, Deferred .. 16% Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent. .. 38 Portuguese Four per Cents .. 58 3 4 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 27 IA Ditto, for the Account .. Ditto, Passive Bonds • • . • • • Ditto, Deferred • • • • Ditto, Three per Cent .. .. Dividends on the above payable in Landon. Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent .. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 59%% 59% .. 95%% 95% BUSINESS CLOSING PAID. DONE AT PRICES. ONE O'CLOCK. Eastern Junction 2%.... 2% . ..... • Birmingh am and Gloucester.. .. 100 .. 125 . ..... Bridgewater and Minehead .. 425. .... . • • Bristol and Exeter .. .. 'lO 85 ........ Buckinghamshire 425. .... par .... •• .. Caledonian , 10 .... 13% %.. • Ditto, Extension 2% 3% Chester and Holyhead .. .. •• 20 .... 21 •••.. •• 21 Direct Northern • • • 2% .... 2%% .• 2 1 4 Dublin and Galway • • • • • • 4 • • 43% 3% Eastern Counties .. 141. 16s. .... 21% Ditto New .. • • • • Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61 13s. 4d. Ditto, ditto, .. .. No. 2. 61. 13s. 4d. % p Eastern Union . • • • • • •• 25 ••.. Do. Extension to Norwich .. 2% Edinburgh and Glasgow • • • • 50 .... 70 72 Edinburgh and Perth • • Exeter , , Yeovil, lorneoevasilt,., and h and Dorchester ter &c .. Go . Grand Union (Nottingh. & Lynn) 1% 114 Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 15 .. • . 20% Dilto, Extension • • • • •• 15 •• • • 19% Great North of England . —lOO •••••••••• Ditto, New .. . • • • • • • 1 % •• •• 14%14 Great Western • • • • • • •• 85 •• • .152 Ditto, Half Shares .. .. • . 50 .t . • 8434 83 Ditto, Quarter Shares • • • . 5 17 Ditto, Fifths . .. 20 .... 34 Hull and Selby • • • • • • •• 50 • • —lO6 Ditto, Half ,hares • h North ••••• 7 • • • . 26 Ipswich,ris l‘ Norwich, t ; d Leicester and Birmingham 225. % dis . dis L e e c c e e s s t t e e r r and Bedford ord i . 2 4 2 2 5 5 .. % " dis il s L Llyerp., Manch., & Newc. Junct. 2% 3% 3 London an Birmingham •• • • .100 Ditto Quarters • • • • • • • • 2 •• .. 27 27 Ditto Fifths • • • • • • • • 2 •• 2434 ...... 2 ; London and Brighton .• • • • • 50 •• • • 65% % 6 Ditto, Consol. Eighths • • .• 40 Ditto ditto Fifths • • • • • • London and Croydon • • • • 13/. 15s. 9d. 22 London and South-Western• • 41/. Gs. 10d. 7834 Ditto, New . 1214.... 23% ... London and York .• • • • • • • 2 % •• .• 3% V •• • • Lynn and Ely .. • • • • ' • ....... Manchester and Leeds .. • • • • Ditto, Half Shares . • • • •• 3 8 ••• . 60 ...... .. Ditto, Quarters . • • • 2 •• • . 14 . Ditto Extension .. • . 425. • ' Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 . 77 76 Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) .. 1 1° •• • M a nchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. • • •• ' Midland .. .. • • • • .6 • • I ° o •• • • 146% , , 60 ▪ 1464 ▪ 32 116 Ditto, New .. 18 .... 31% 32% Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 100 .. • .116 „ Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 25 •„ 4 4 ..... Ditto, New .. • • • • • • I •• • • IOU • Ditto, New, Brandling • • .. 2 0 , •.38 3.7 ii Newcastle and Berwick • • •• 10 .. • • 214 U •• • • Newark, Sheffield, and Boston .. ....... North British .. .• •• 20 Ditto, Half Sham ......6 944 Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 1/4 „ North Staffordshire .. • • • • 4 28. •• . p Oxfd.,Worcester, & Wolv'erhilriptn.,l24 144 13 4 i Scottish Midland • • • a • • • • 5 •• • • .• . .. ; Shrewebitty and Bcrmlngham • . SbrOpiihito Union .. • • '• • • • 4214 .. •• • % ciii ••. %die. South Devon .. . a: a• 35 .... 36% 36 37 2 n 37 South Midland a:, :a • • • • 425..... 24% p • South Eastern and lolovor . • • • 33% • • TYG,,IC'elt (do. 151.) .. NQ, 4, sis 34 Staines and Richmond .• ) •. • • :• • gif • South Wales .. • • 5 5 :t• 704 . . ‘ .•;•••• Trent Valley , •• , • •• g , 26 Vale of Neath • 4 • 2 .• .. 2% 2% Wext'Ord, Waiefrord, Valextia 1%.... 1 .. • • • 1 York mid North Midland .. 50 $ ••. • • • Jg Ditto, Scarborough Branch a: .... Ditto, Sell* •• .. .... 74 . . ... • • 74 Ditto. EilVttfon 15 .... 32( 32 .... • • 32 D. E. and W. Riding Eaten... 1 10 !i ••• • • 10% FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Barbs,does _ 1 .... 0% . 3101,11c;±“1 n d Amiens .. .. 10 .... 11% _ Calcutta and Diamond Harbour.. 75. •• • • ••••• • • • • • Central of Spain .. _ 2 .• • • ••• • • East Indian .. . ss. •• • • 1 % ••••• • • .. • Grt. North. of Francs Constituted 5 •• • • 15 5 34 • • Great Western Bengal .. ss• •• • • 'A ••• • • • Namur and Liege 4 •• • • 3% ••••• • • . • • Orleans and Bordeaux 6 •• • • Paris and Rouen ....20 •• • • 40 N • • • Rouen and Havre . 20 •• • • 2 9 •••• • • • . Sambre and Meuse .. 6 . • • 5 % •••• • • • • MINES. Real del Monte, Unregistered .. •• • • - Bolanos Scrip .. .. .. .. •• • • For thGeEWNeEekßiLendedFeb.Fe AVERAGE2I, madeup from the Returns of the CORN AVERAGES. lnspectors in the different Cities and Tow ns in England an 4 Wales per Imperial Quarter, 3 P 4 11 6, 1CES OF BRITISI CORN WHEAT. I BAILET.I 011 V. i ITN. I BEANS. I PE AS . PRICE .. 117 i Od 295 lid 215 6d 325 10d 343 9d 345 3d DUTY... Od 75 Od 65 Od es Gd 75 6d 63 Gd MARKET NEWS.--(THIS DAY) SAY MASSIMO. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 81 5s to 415 s ; Clover ditto, 4/ 5s to Si 12s 6d; Oat Straw, 11 10s to 11 18s; Wheat Straw, 1/ 13s to 11 15s per lead. Trade dull, at the above quotations. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 3/ 85 to 41 8s ; Clover ditto, 4/ 4s to I/ 105 ; Oat Straw, 1/ 125 to 11 14s; Wheat Straw, 1114 s to 1116 s per load. A moderate supply, and a WHr sluggish demand, rEcuArxr...—Meadow Hay, Sits to 4158 ' • ( I ,lznr ditto, ;4/Bsto 51 15s Oat straw, :l/ 11s to 1/ 13s ; Wheat Straw, 11 13s to 11 15s per load. Supply good, and trade dull. =MAT IVIEILANZITS . SournALL, FEt. 25.—The supply of fat stock here to-day was by no means extensive, yet the general demand ruled heavy at barely last week's quotations. Beef, from 2s 6d to 4a 2d; Mutton, 3s 6d to 5s 4d ; Veal, 4s to 4s 8d; and Pork, 3s 8d to 4s 10d per 81bs. R031F01:1), FEB. 25. Prime Sheep sold steadily at full prices, otherwise the trade ruled dull. Beef, from 2s ad to 4s 2d; Mutton, 3s 4d to 5s 4d; Veal, 4 s to 4 s 8 d; and Pork, 4s to 43 8d per Sibs. Suckling Calves, 18s to 308; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 20s; and Milch Cows, with their small calf, 161 to 1815 s each. LEWES, FEB. 24.—Beef, from 2s 8d to 4s 4d ; Mutton, m s : p w lies o o tT is t a 3s 10d to 5s 6d; Veal, 4s to 4s 8d; and Pork, 4s to 4e 8d per 8 1 bs. A moderate supply, and a steady demand. The jklg t on n er aD e were N nt tia to X :a . y large, yet the trade was in a depressed state, at barely stationary prices :—Beef, from 2s ad to as 6d ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 43 6d ; Veal, 43 to ss; and Pork, 3s 8d to 58 2d per 81bs. by came. RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) Sub-Committee No. 4. The Committee met at the usual hour. Present—Sir N. Heathcote (Chairman), Mr. J. O'Connell, Mr. Shirley, Mr. Evans, Mr. Hope Johnstone, and Mr. Acland. WERZIORD, CARLOW, AND DUIBLIN JUNCTION. The Committee proceeded with the petitions against this Bill. The petition of Thomas Greenham, Thomas Brennan, and others, alleged that one of the petitioners, Mr. Brennan, hay-• ing propert y on the line, had received no notice except on the 28th of December, being Sunday. Mr. Brennan was called to prove that he received a notice on the Sunday after Christmas-day, but could not say that it was not left at his house on a previous day. The petitioner's servant was called to prove that she re ceived the paper on that day, and said that she received some paper then, but could not identify it. Mr. Curtis, a clerk to the solicitors for the Bill, was then called, and said that on Christmas-eve he met Mr. Brennan on the quay at Wexford, and served him with the notice. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) The following Petitions for Railways ►ere reported, and the Bills ordered to be brought in lay the undernamed lion. Members: — WEDNESDAY, FEB. 25. Scottish Grand Junction—Lord Advocate, Lord J. Stuart, and Mr. F. 3laule. Airdrie and Bathgate Junction—Mr. Baillie and Mr. Baird. Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway, and Port, &c., of Goole— Mr. Lascelles and Mr. Milnes. Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Direct—Viscoun Morpeth and Mr. Stansfield. Leicester and Swannington Junction—Mr. Villiers and Capt. Carnegie. London and Oxford—Mr. Du Pre and Mr. FitZlriallriC6. SECOND READINGS OF RAILWAY BILLS. MONDAY, 3IATLCII 2. Newmarket and Chesterford. TUESDAY, MARCH 3. Enfield and Edmonton WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4. Midland and Eastern Counties (Cambridge to Weedon). RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. MANCHESTER, FEB. 25. STOCK Exemoron.-The sales are -Boston, Newark, and Shef field, % dis.-Caledonian, 3 p.-Clydesdale Junction, 9 1 % e p.- Derby and Crewe, 3 p.-Direct Northern, 1-16 p.-Glasgow and Dumfries, 7-16 dis.-Grand Union, par-Lancashire and North Yorkshire, IA dis. -Liverpool, Onnskirk, and Preston, 3 p.-London and York, 1% p. c.-Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 1% p.-Manchester and Birmingham, 79-Ditto, Quarters (C), 6 38 p.-Manchester and Southampton, Bs. p.-North Staffordshire, 3% p.-Sheffield and Manchester, Quarters, No. 3, 3 p -Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, 1 4 dis.-Trent Valley, 21% p.-West Lancashire Coast, % dis. -West Riding Union, 2 p. LEEDS, FEB. 25. STOCK ExcriArrok.-The sales are-Newcastle and Darlington Junction, 44-York and North Midland, East and West Riding, 9 p.- Leeds and Bradford, 51% -Leeds and Thirsk, 10 cash-Sheffield and Lincoln, 3%-Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 175.6d.di5.--Direct Northern, 2/. 95.-Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 5% -West Riding Union, 3% -Buckinghamshire (late Rugby), ss. p.-Grand Union, Is. p.-Lancashire and North Yorkshire, ss. dis.-Lanca shire, Yorkshire, and North Eastern, 17s. 6d. dis.-Leicester and Bedford, 3s. 6d. dis.-North Western, 2%. HULL, FEE. 25. STOCK EXCAAIME.-The sales are-Blackburn, DariVCE, and Bol ton, New, 3s. p.-Derby and Gainsborough, 175.-Grand Union, 28s. -London and York, TX -South Midland, 4/. ss. 6d..-Shrewsbury and Birmingham,- 3-West Riding Union, 3%. SHEFFIELD, FEB. 25. Stock ExcuANoL-The sales are-Leeds and Bradford, 52% - Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 3-West Riding Union, 3%. HUDDERSFIELD, FEB. 55. STOCK EICHANGE.-The sales are-Hull and Selby, Quarter Shares, 9 p.-Midland, New, 14% p.-Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 5% p.-Leeds and Bradford, 5134 -Manchester and Huddersfield Extension, 2s. 6d. p.-Huddersfield, Halifax, and Brad ford Union, 334 -Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby, 12s. 6d. dis--Wexford, Waterford, and Valeutia, 11. 6s. 6d.-Liver pool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 5 3 / 4 -West Riding Union, 31. 195. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, Ems. 25. STOCK ExcHANGE.-The sales are-Direct Northern, par-Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, Quarter Shares, % p.-Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 21s. p.-Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 365. p.-North British, 7 p.-Ditto, Halves (Carlisle), 1% 9.-York and Carlisle, 14s. dis. YORK, FEB. 25. STOCK ExcnmidE.-The sales are-Direct Northern, 21. 1 In.- Grand Union, 1% -Ipswich and Bury Extension (Norwich), 2% - London and York, 3/. 13s. 9d.-]Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 31. 175.-Newcastle and Berwick, 21-Newcastle and Dar lington Extensions, 103(-North British, Carlisle Extension, 21. 175. -West Riding Union, 3%-York and North Midland Extension, 32 -Ditto, New) East and West Riding), 10 1 A. EDINBURGH, FEB. 23. STOCK ExcnANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 10/. 10s.---Aberdeen Banff, and Elgin, 1/. 16s. W.-Airdrie and Bathgate, 21. 48. 6d. -Arbroath and Forfar, 281.-Ditto, Half Shares, 161.-Ayr and Dumfries, 21.-Ayr and Galloway,l/. 188.-Bariffshire, 1/. 10s.- British and Irish Union, 2/. 155.-Caledonian, 141. 55.-Caledo nian Extension, 21. 10s.-Caledonian and Dumbarton, 21.75.--Clydes dale Junction, 191.-Direct Northern, 2/. 155. 6d.-Dundee and Ar broath, 391.-Ditto, New, 221.-Dundee and Perth, 14/. 155.-East of Fife, 21. 2s.- East Lothian Central, 11. 19s.- Edinburgh and Bath gate, Si. 10s.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, 79/. 10s.-Ditto, Half Shares, 161.- Ditto, Quarters, 19/. 155.-Ditto, ditto, New, 161. 10s.-Edin burgh Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 16s. 6d. -Edinburgh and Leith Atmospheric, 11. ft.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 191. 10s.- Ditto, Preference, 20/. 10s.-Edinburgh and Northern, Si. ]2s. 6d.- Ditto, Newport, 1/. 35.-Ditto, Lochgelly, 1/. Bs. 6d.-Edinburgh and Peebles, 1/. 195.-Edinburgh and Perth, 31. 10, 65.-Forth and Clyde Junction, 11. 195.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 761.-Ditto, New Stock, 281. 105.-Ditto, Quarter Shares, 191.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 21. 95.-Glasgow and Dundee Junction, 21.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 421. 10s.-Glasgow and Greenock, 191. 10s.-Ditto, New Stock, 101.-Ditto, Preference, 1/. 155.-Great North of Scot land, 3/. 4s. 65.-Granton Junction, 11. 188.-Inverness and Elgin, 1/. Bs.-London and York, 41.-North British, 281.-Ditto, Halves, 101.-Perth and Inverness, 1/. 145.-Scottish Central, 161. 55.- Scottish Midland, 61.-Stirling and Dunfermline, Si. 7s. GLASGOW, FEB. 24. STOCK Excnanon.-The sales are - Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin, 375.-Airdrie and Bathgate, 425. 6d.-Ayr and Dumfries Junction, 465. 6d.-Ayr and Galloway, 388.-- British and Irish Union, 545. 6d. -Caledonian, New 725.-Ditto, Extension, 475.-Direct Northern, 545. 6d.-East Indian Railway, 225. 6d.-Edinburgh and Perth, 708. -Glasgow General Terminus, 11-Glasgow and Belfast Union, 425.- Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 75% -Glasgow, Dumfries, and Car lisle, 455.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 175.-Glasgow and Dundee Junction, 38s. 6d.-Lanark and Lothians, 475.-Larne, Bel fast, and Ballymena, 315.-Lesmahagow, 51s. 6d.-Scottish Central, 15%-Ditto, New, 9-Scottish Southern, 375. 6d.-South Midland, 835.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 455. CLOSING PRICES. CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) The Lord Chancellor sat in the Old Hall, Lincoln's Inn, to-day, and heard motions. The Court was occupied the whole morning with the case of Parker v. Constable. His Lordship rose at an early hour to attend her Majesty's Draw ing Room. The Vice-Chancellor of England did not sit today. SECONDARIES.-(THIS DAY) (Before Mr. Secondary POTTER.) FULLAGER V. SPIELER. This case was specially appointed for this morning. The plaintiff claimed as administratix of her husband, who had been a builder. The defendant is the landlord of the White Lion, Thames-street. The action was brought to recover the sum of 161.55. 11d. for work done. On the case being called on, a gentleman said that unfor tunately the defendant's attorney was too unwell to attend, but he (the applicant) begged to be heard. The SECONDARY aid that he could only hear an attorney, his authorised clerk, or counsel, unless the defendant chose to appear. The facts of the case were simple ; the work was proved to have been done. The defendant called a witness, who stated that he considered 10/. a fair price for the work ; his measurement and estimate, however, were amongst other papers in the hands of the attorney. The_SEcoNDARY said the jury must take the case as it stood, however incomplete. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff. BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner SHEPHERD.) IN RE PALMER. This bankrupt came to pass his last examination, which had been adjourned in consequence of his not having kept books of account. The bankrupt had carried on business as a chemist, &c., in the country. The assignees were satisfied with the ex planations given, but nevertheless considred that the bank rupt's conduct was reprehensible in not keeping books of account. Mr. Lucas, counsel for the bankrupt, urged, that in this case the non-keeping of books of account ought not to be visited with punishment. Up to a certain date, he was un questionably solvent, and his affairs had been easily wound up. It would be a bad principle in law to punish a man for not keeping books where not absolutely required. The bank rupt was not shown to have acted dishonestly or to have spent his creditors' money. The COMMISSIONER concurred, and allowed the bankrupt to pass his examination. CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Baron PARKE and Mr. Justice WILLIAMS.) Mr. BALLANITNE made an application this morning to have the trial of John Feacy, for the wilful murder of Thomas Martin, postponed till next session. He made this applica tion because there had been no time to instruct counsel in the case. Mr. Baron PARKE suggested that it be left over t Saturday. Mr. BALLANTINE said that he would enquire whether this time would be sufficient, and mention it again to-morrow. John Stone, sen., John Stone, jun., and Ann Hyde, were charged with having feloniously set fire to a certain dwell ing -house, No. 3, Bridge-road, the property of George Leo nard, with intent to defraud the Union Insurance Company. Mr. Doane was for the prosecution. The prisoners were undefended. George Leonard had let the house in question to Juhn Stone, sen., at 161. quarterly rent. The female came first, and the male prisoners followed some time after. In the month of November last Stone the elder 'came into his shop, and asked if he (Mr. Leonard) were insured, - and where ; he was told at Mr. Austen's, the agent for " the Union." He said that he would go over and see about it, and he then left. Ok„Sunday, the Bth of February, he ob served a strong smell of fire, and on examining the premises occupied by, the prisoners he discovered that a bed and a bag of shavings were on fire. The shavings were not used as a bed. He pulled the bag of shavings into the road, and again ran up stairs. The partition was then in a flame, but after some difficulty it was got out. He observed a box from which smoke was issuing. There were, however, no signs of fire outside. On opening the box he ound a lot of cooper's chips, and a piece of coke as large as his fist inside it. There was a very strong smell of turpentine. The furniture was of the most wretched description, there being only one chair, a clothes-horse, a tub, and a lantern. He observed a slight through the chinks of the partition into the next room, and having first drawn down a portion of it, he managed to get water at it. The fire appeared to come from below the flooring, and on exa mination it was found that the floor had been raised and a lot of broken up baskets placed there, which were on fire. There was another bed there, and a second bag filled with shavings, also on fire. There were some drawers in a chest in that room, and the bottom one was .on fire while those above were filled with cooper's chips. In different parts of the room were other bags of shavings not on fire. Lees corroborated the testimony of the former witness. Elizabeth Dowse said she was related to the female pri soner, at whose house she went to reside about Christmas. The prisoner slept in the same house. The witness had a bed upstairsiwhere there were four chairs, a chest of drawers, and a mirror. She lay on a feather bed. In the next room John Stone, j un., slept. Witness stayed at the house three weeks, and was away one week before the fire broke out. John Stone, sen., said it would not be convenient for her to remain at his house longer; on that account she made up her mind to go to Wiltshire, but at the request of Stone the younger and her aunt (the female prisoner), she took a house in Trafalgar street, Stone the younger offering to pay the rent. After she had gone there, one Beck, who keeps a beer-shop, brought a bed and bedstead, two boxes, and a set of fire-irons, sent, he said, by the prisoners. Beck after that returned, and said the bedstead must be put up on the ground floor, it was not worth while lugging it up stairs, as she might not be long there. On the Sunday her aunt and young Stone called on her, and the former slipped something under the bed from below her cloak. She was called to the door by her aunt, who told her Stone had been very cross and contrary. He was on the drinking order. He had been grumbling that he was so dirty. She had brought down his dirty clothes, intending to be down to wash them next day. Witness asked where her aunt was going, when she said she was going to meet Stone at Turnham green. This was about 7 o'clock in the evening. Witness and the two persons went out together to a beer-shop at Turnham green, where young Stone called for a pot of beer. Her aunt appeared very low, and on being asked what the matter was, merely shook her head. Witness and her son left the two prisoners in the beer-shop, and met Stone the elder at the door as they left, but refused to go in. Almost an hour after she7got home to Trafalgar-street the witness Newell cane to the door and said Stone's house was on fire. Wit ness found the bundle and the band-box brought by her aunt to contain dirty clothes. Her aunt came about twelve o'clock that evening, and appeared in great trouble. Richard Beck said his father kept a beershop in Queen street, Hammersmith. He removed a bed and boxes on the Saturday to Trafalgar-street, which Mrs. Dowse gave him out of his father's stable, and some other articles from Stone's house. Charles Beck, father of the last witness, said he knew that an old bedstead belonging to Stone was in his stable for some weeks before the fire. Daniel Merriff, builder, the landlord of the house in Tra falgar-street, said the female prisoner and Mrs. Dowse came to engage the house. William Newell, said he went on the Bth of January to 7, Bridge-road, at about 9 o'clock, and saw Mrs. Dowse there but not the prisoners. lie Went to Phillips's workshop and found the female prisoners drinking, and called out the elder Stone, and told him his house was on fire. Stone replied "Oh, is it;" and toiitintied to smoke his pipe, and then asked whether witness would go in and have some ale. When they went in the female prisoner asked what the matter WAS, and the elder Stone told them the house was on fire, when the female prisoner began to cry. As they were all going home witness skid he told thetn they had broken open the drawers and found some papers on fire. The elder Stone said he was done for. , Henry Mount, toestatle, said he hail brbitexi open the doers. (He here produced two drawers, olie of them; the ' lower, contained fire on the day in question, the other shavings and chips, the bottom of which had been burnt.) When he took the elder Stone int? custody he told him what for; and the prisoner said lie had been at Bridport; but Whether he was the het in the, house or no he was not 'Sure) ibr he had been asleep iti the chair: The con: stable said he would discover the person who hed been last in the house by the key of the door being discovered in his pas , session: Sulisequently, as they proceeded to the station hot's% he heard soillething Peale over the wall. The con stable asked the prisoner what it was, but he made no reply. Next morning, he found it was, a key eihith answered the door of he 'vim. An inventory of fufnitfire tree , taken off the prisoners person, which he atteitipted to dd. stroy. Another inventory was read in Court, which had been iblancl in one of the boxes at Mrs. Dowse's. The policy of insurance effected by Stone with the Union Insurance Com pally in August last, to the afriount of 1001., was produced and read: The lonstable made an inventory of the furni ture he found in the house, amounting In value to 121. 15s. 7d. The constable found some of the articles saturated with tur pentine, and a broken bottle lying by the side of the bed, which had contained turpentine. The policy of insurance, with aproposal for life assurance, was discovered in the drawer with the chips. John Catchpole, a cooper, said he had sold the elder Stone 6d. worth of chips, about a month before the fire happened. Solomon Buster, agent, at Hammersmith, for the Union Insurance-office, proved having given a policy of insurance to the elder Stone. Stone's liabilities would be covered from the 19th August to Michaelmas next. The evidence having been closed, Mr. Baron PARKE directed the jury to find the younger Stone Not Guilty, as no charge had been proved against him. This verdict was returned, and the prisoner was discharged accordingly. Mr. Baron PARK went through the evidence at great length, remarking, as to the female prisoner, that the jury must find her not only privy to the intention, but assisting or present when the fire was kindled. The jury, after deliberating a short time, returned a verdict of Guilty against John Stone, sen. The female prisoner was aquitted. Mr. Baron PARK, in giving judgment, said the prisoner had been found guilty, on the clearest evidence, of a crime which but a few years before was visited with capital punishment. The danger to human life from his act was imminent. He doubted whether he ought not to sentence him to transpor tation for life. The prisoner was sentenced to be transported beyond the seas for 20 years. 954 96% 2 125 1 dis. % P 14 1 ,E 149 83 18 34 106 26 29u 22 23% 3 p 3%p 13N 0% 11% ',4n 08 1534 3g 11% 40% 29;4 5% IVEW COURT. (Before the RECORDER and Alderman CHALLIS. ) Benjamin Pavyer was indicted for receiving four type moulds, value 101., the property of Vincent Figgins, well knowing them to have been stolen. Mr. Prendergast and Mr. Doane conducted the prosecu tion, and the prisoner was defended by Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Ballantine. The facts of the case were briefly these :—A man named Simms, in the employ of the prisoner, who is the well known type-founder of Bartholomew-close, was present when he bought the four moulds for 9s. 6d. of a lad, who stated he bought them in Edinburgh. Simms, having been in iL.t.g employ of Mr. Figgins, knew them to belong to him. Upon he communicated with them, and the assistance of the police beingobtained, they searched the prisoner's premises, and found the goods named in the indictment, which it turned out had been stoic by an apprentice, who is now under charge for the felony. The witness Simms underwent a searching cross-exami nation, which went to show him to.bela drunken profligate character. Several witnesses gave the prisoner an excellent character. The REcoapEa having summed up, the jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. In answer to the Recorder, the jury said they did not be lieve either of the witnesses. On the application of Mr. Clarkson, the prisoner was dis charged, and left the Court with his friends. SIGNOR TABIBURINI.--Brery admirer of this great singer will be delighted to learn that, after he has completed his en gagement at St. Petersburgb, he will pass this season in London. We have great pleasure in making this agreeable announcement to oar nauglical rwlern. 11111iT10 194 NI " 17t4319. ~0 A PROPHECY from the POTATO We remember a nursery fragment—as, doubtless, does the reader—running thus : . " The butcher, the baker, The candlestick maker, All jumped out of a rotten potato !" We know not whether the good Father Mathew had this doggrel in his thoughts, but he has hopefully suggested that future plenty may be made to germinate from the present potato blight. The noble meek-hearted man has written a letter to the Cork Examiner, in which he dilates on the use and importance of Indian corn as an article of food. He says, " I hope for many ulterior advantages from what at present is a calamity; our people will be deterred from de pending solely on potatoes for food ;" and he concludes as follows : " With the gratifying prospects now before us of suSicient remune rative labour for the whole unemployed population of, Ireland, I in dulge in the expectation of soon seeing the potato reduced to its pro per position of a vegetable to be used with flesh meat, &c., as an ac companiment, and no longer to be esteemed as an exclusive article of food, except for hogs." We fervently hope so too. And when Paddy shall enjoy his own pork, with a bit of Sunday mutton or beef; shall break his daily bread of good wholesome corn ; when he shall be enabled to secure to his family these small comforts, ori ginating in the present dire distress—made ultimately at tainable by him in consequence of the attention of the Le gislature to his present misery—then let the little children of Ireland be taught the above-named doggrel as a house hold song of comfort and thanksgiving, and let them (gene rously assuming the advent of the maker of candlesticks) pipe from contented, full bellies, the realised prophecy : " The butcher, the baker, The candlestick maker, Did jump out of a rotten potato." We think that Victoria herself would hear as sweet music in this as ever she listened to in "God say's the Queen."— Punch. Died, Deceinber 22,. 1845, struck by a cannon-shot, while gloriously stoiminft tfie seilth batteries in front of Ferozepore, Lieutenant George Alfred Croly, 26th Light Infantry, eldest son of the Rev. Dr. Croly, Rector of St. Sttplien's, Walbrook, London A CHESHIRE HERO. Sir John Littler, who was engaged in the fete battle of Moodkee, in India, is the eldest son of Thomas Littler, Esq:, t'y Diana his wife, daughter of John Hunter, Esq.; a Director of the East India Company, and represents a family of ccucifierable antiquity in Cheshire, where, in the Vale Royal, his ancestors were settled in the time of Edward L Sir John Littler was born Jan. 6th, 1782; end marrieds Jane 25th, 1527, Helen Olympia, only daughter of Captain hemp Stovtatty son of John Stewart, Esq., claimant of the earldom of Orkner.-67tesfer Courant. DtAirli or Mits. BUssE. We regret to announce the death of this amiable and talented lady, who expired at her honk On Friday last. Her loss will be severely felt in the musical profession, of which site was deservedly an ornament. Mrs. Bushe (better known in the musical world at Miss Noel) was the original Agnes in Der Frieschutz, 'a hen it was prodaced in Edinburgh, and in which she made a great impression ; and feW will forget the exquisite taste and feeling she imparted to all our Scotch banads, in Which she excelled. In private life Mrs. Bushe was universally rc spected, and we need scarcely say that her death will be regretted by a large circle of friends and admirers.—Ediaburgh Advertiser. GENERAL THEATRICAL FUND.—The annual meeting of the members was held Oil Wednesday, at the saloon of the English Opera House ; Mr. Buckstone, the treasurer, in the chair. From the report of the committee, read by Mr. Ctillentord, the secretary, it appeared that the object of this institution was the granting of permanent pensions to actors, actresses, chorus sidgets, dancers, pantomimists, and prompters. The necessity of such a land had long been felt by the members of the profession, from the exclusiveness of the Covent-garden and Drury-lane funds. These patent theatres only assisted the decayed members of their respective companies (pantomimists excepted), while the General Theairical Fund was open to all persons connected with the stage, with the exception of those engaged in the musical and scenic departments. Drury-lane im posed a servitude of three successive seasons, and Covent-garden two successive seasons, to entitle a member of such company to the advan tages of either funds, consequently the majority of actors and actresses were excluded from the benefits of these rich and prosperous in stitutions. A very clever letter, expressive of these sentiments, from the pen of Mr. H. Hughes, of the Surrey Theatre, was laid before the meeting. The financial statement of the directors was subsequently read. The receipts during the past year had been 3,0961. 15s. 5d., while the expenditure was only 451. 19s. 7d. The amount of annuity proposed to be granted during the ensuing year was 251. There were four claimants. The report of the committee having been con firmed, it was determined that the first public dinner in aid of the fund should take place early in April, at the London Tavern, at which Mr. Charles Dickens had kindly consented to preside. Among the donors to the institution appear the names of the Duke of North umberland, 50/. ; Mr. C. Kean, 501. ; Mr. Macready, 30/. ; Mr. B. Webster, 201. ; the late Mr. Davidge, 20/. • Miss Helen Faucit, 51. (annual) ; and Mr. W. Farren, 51. (annual). The customary votes of thanks having been given to the officers of the fund, the meeting separated. MORNING TRAINS TO LONDON.—We understand that It is the intention of the directors of the Grand Junction Railway to comply with the request of the merchants of Liverpool, recently con veyed to them in the form of a memorial, praying that they would establish a morning as well as an evening express train between London and Liverpool. It is generally understood that the morning train will start at 6 A.M., and reach London about 12 ; and we be lieve that it is the intention of the directors to delay the starting of the down-train to Liverpool until 5 o'clock in the afternoon, in order that persons desirous of performing the journey to and from London In a single day may have more time to get through their business. It will thus be possible for merchants, brokers, and others, who may be desirous to attend sales of sugar, wool, indigo, and other articles — or professional men having business to perform which requires their actual presence on the spot—to pass the previous night at home, to spend four or five hours in London, and again to reach home the same evening. The distance travelled will not be less than 420 miles ; and yet, such is the ease as well as the swiftness of this mode of tra velling, that it will be performed with much greater ease, and in pretty much the same time, as the journey was formerly performed from Liverpool to Manchester, and back again, in the same day. Twenty years ago this was considered something of a feat, although the distance travelled over was only 72 miles. — L iver p ool '‘:.QUEEN ANNE'S BOUNTfe—On Wednesday the annual =milt of all moneys received aml. disbursed by t o Go p ve e rn ce o ria rs be o r f Queen Anne'S Bounty dtifilig the ye were printed. Thebzr ending the 31s t of 1i44, which have been presented to isoiiament, The yearly tenths in arrear were 901. 2s. el. e n s , i t t e o r n Guardian says, It Is now confidently stated that M r . TtilbOt d ilustOn, M.l'., the receipts were 181,8911. 12s. 5d., and th e (..,,s ) b a rsements 178,7561. 9s. Pd. SIR. PEEL'S MEASURE. — The I T lf t d a h n f Talbot says, it is now confidently st ated thatT3lllre. neutralising the vote of his c 1 has comesgivbeen-I Member for North Lancashire, votleaguee,wilthr. thweiplsreoetecrtieotnteisht.s, The neutralising Birmingham n e pir i h o n e x g a/efstatres GethayterLordenWt measure, ur of e, D w u h d e le h y it yha H i o mn us fjeaovouo: Jou r nal Lords. WAGIIORN.-- The Court of Directors of the East I n dia Company have pres ented Mr. Waghorn with the sum of 3001. i n co nsideration of his us eful and zealous services, and of the ex penses which he has incurred in the establishment and during the progress of steam communication between Great Britain and India. --aftb4 Infrtia A DESULTORY CONVERSATION ON THE RAILROAD DEPOSITS. A. It appears very singular to me, that in the Bank of England weekly returns, which show an immense in crease in the private deposit account, there does_ not appear to be any material decrease in the amount of Bank-notes in circulation, or increase in the amount of bullion—can you tell me how this can happen? B. It is impossible for me to give you any particulars as to the private operation of the Bank of England, but I can clearly explain to you how it is possible for s banker to show an immense increase in the deposit sc: count without one single penny of cash being paid---so a single bank note nor a single sovereign ! A. Please to show the fact as it is possible in respect to the railway deposits. B. I dare say you have read .in the newspapers that the Accountant-General has accepted the cheques drawn by the directors of the railroad companies on their London bankers. A. I have. B. Well, then, we will suppose that a London bankier has taken securities to the Bank of England, and WO arrangements for opening a " cash credit" account, stl e for 1,000,0001., being the amount he expected to drawn upon for. A. I understand. The London banker in such, cas e would be entitled to draw on the Bank of England for 1,000,000/. B. The directors of the railroad company paY tboir cheque for 1,000,0001. on their London banker into 01. hands of the Accountant General. The Accountant General pays this cheque into the Bank of Eng Wit t. whose clerk takes it to the London banker for parne—i The London banker having opened a cash credit aeon?. with the Bank of England for 1,000,0001., does not cash for it, but draws a cheque on the Bank of Eugi )- 8 , 1 , for 1,000,0001., which he hands over in exchange for n cheque drawn upon him by the directors of the ra company, A. I see. Then I suppose the Bank of Engl'a balances the London banker's "cash credit" account,ll:o4 gives credit for 1,000,00 01 . to the Accountant-Gen! retaining the banker's securities for 1,000,000/. as ‘' advanced. of B. Precisely so. Thus you perceive that th e wbolo i bo at standing the railroad deposits may be satisfied to a nsw standing orders of the Houses of Parliament witicir one single penny of money being paid • so theis culation of bank-notes will not be decreased, nor al o f sovereign extra get into the coffers of the 1 3 Eng land. A. The operation appears to be very simple wileP explained. B. Observe, I do not say things have been managed ° trali r this way. I merely wish to show you how Mall to actions of this kind may be arranged. In order fu rther la satisfy you that the payments may have been matt e d this manner, I would call your attention to th e ``of side of the weekly published returns of the Ball a England, where you will find that the securities ht",..111 the Bank of England have increased in amount woo, equal to the increase of the " private deposit" A. I see you are correctmay not the raw Ac. k of England have invested the money received by th e , g ot countant-General in securities, and in this way b e rid of their bank-notes paid in? B. I should think not ; you will observe in the wee returns that there are two sorts of securities 1100 " Government securities," and securities " other _Tog Government. You will observe, also, if you Ono' several weekly returns with each other, that the' t bsr vernment securities have rather decreased than O. wise, and that only the securities " other" t han G o sto meat are so greatly increased in amount. Such belief° case, I do not think the Bank of England would,looo of themselves such deposits in private securities, I''Dtiot they would not hesitate to open a " cash cre dit' on the deposit of private securities. A. I think your conclusion reasonable. B. It is possible that many of these securities eileoft as " other' than Government securities may, to r be Government securities. A. Tbis appears to be a paradox. Be kind eaou explain bow this can be ? B. Suppose the Bank of England enters un d t er hold head " Government securities " only the anien n ne of I positively in their own name, and their own Pr°rt-saor r and that any amount of Government secutities,,, Pe ferred to them as collateral securities, t o s ecure t" sav meat of bankers' promissory notes, are not by ' t; 11 1,10 of England deemed " Government securitie s, thus carried to the account " Securities other th vernment." weld A. Would not this mode of making up t il : • a returns be an evasion of the Act of Parliament e,,,ode m " B. I think not ;in fact, if they do adopt To making up the weekly returns, I consider the)" IV 0 fulfilling the spirit of the Act. ma 0 0 0 A. If the Bank of England has adopted this - rendering assistance to the London bankers, blioe7 be said that there are so many millions of nioa e J ? up in the Bank of England in the railway depositsio B. Of course the money cannot be locked "P ha 0; intere!„ t er Bank of England, but remains in the hands of t" - t don bankers ; they can use it, and what can make by the use of it over and above theill;, tb e they will have to pay the Bank of England, v iim. London bankers' profit. of A. Pay the Bank of England interest 2 l', ° "1 0 V. 2 I thought you explained just now that the Wil ° r e' o r might be done without the use of any bank note 13 2 B. Not pay interest? Credit is money—th e .,2 England gives the banker credit for 1,000, ( 70 OA credits the Accountant- General with 1,000,000_,',4y paid into his account; therefore interest is f e ' j. joe r honestly due to the Bank of England for th e go o modation. A. I should think the " rest" will show pill ar round sum by the time the next dividend aba ' ^ Glared. B. I should think so too. 9 , 0 A. What is the meaning of the word "rest? .1 ; 0 . B. It is only the French word reste, w ithou t "" e; signifying the remainder, or the balance -the *, 4 , of th account, as generally written by m erell t he voi A. Retournons a notre propos. Well, then, i i " 0 1 0 , 40 don bankers have all the cash of the railway "'aro their hands, the country bankers must b e P r- 000 4 drained. B. The London bankers may not have all el e f,e4 in their hands, for it is very probable that o h7.,jo o : de d bankers have accommodated the country boll° ofo the same way that the Bank of England Wi g io t them accommodation, and, likely enough9_ t i t of,„ c et, part of the securities handed over to the 13'"',„ r etw 4 ; land have been forwarded to London from the, r e i c eil ; i , A. If all this has happened, and no cash %.`",°, 0 ' what can make money or discounts so " tig ht ' r eit termed ? of i"0 1°) B. just suppose that the whole amoun t -- ioletae, way deposits had formerly formed part of i, t eti, number of accounts in all the bankers in Ens, ti' d ti; land, and Ireland, gentlemen's, merchafl`lotve bankers' accounts ; it follows that those ae °° 0.0 11 0 ;04 be decreased in the ratio of the railway in pi the money transferred to a few, the banker 1 0 ,11 f et7 what time he may be called upon by the ra ds fot j pr pany, will only lend the money in his hi° to lea f ed short periods. He will perhaps net o bject /a be 0 seven, fourteen, or twenty-one days; be, w °l '„ n tiag e rir, careful how he employs the money in diae ° ,lll l /0 0 as formerly at two months' date. This na' - o jea , plea trade and commerce, which are chieflf e tt it idr o l; means of bills of no less dates ; and, besidetioso.o, rally suspected that many parties have 0 11 ; 0 0 1 50 0 .1 . become shareholders in railroads-I say 0 .. 0 0405 because they have been obliged to take „ sn '' s its, h i: their business affairs to pay their railway ti„ e rwlii i c ooti" has crippled their resources; and their bil ls ' ' , ' reaijily to be taken in the discount market , o fits 'f e tes upon." Perhaps, as the London bankers' P, 0 10 01 4 A reduced by having to pay the Bank of Eng oti ett e e" they require an extra per tentage for di',.. ° t le w _,Ait- 4 may be that this increased rate of interv' evil rather any l w e • s a ln n w t als o B f 9ls m 6, o isni n ,_N e r,e y ar it ( se vi l ; f 3 . ;3‘ doci • ti f t t o b i jaio e cl io e c e r ii:; o ll ! ci A. There cannot be any want of raonei c i t here to fo e ; remain in the hands of the bankers, a ° o ao 0 ,0 be any difficulty in the bankers finding F / ci e , io is ~ ploying it, or they would rather have p ai r ed e ff 0 8 1 itself into with h th a e ve Bank of oß o y f aend E k t n h g ae l o a dc n a d spha t hysatiat I b og l i rree flet:rlo void ot; could securiti n e o s t interest. the pa" B. This you may rest assured of, that th e accept the accommodation offered bl,, es , get° 'is England, if it did not answer their perr - os its t° il'' A. Well. Now, how are all their deP e again? 04 al % e B. By an operation just as simple ‘ l5 O -Gef e o ff li P o i The railway directors go to the Account san''',,, o alie get his cheque, say for 1,000,0004, on "." the ir A .,1 % - i $ o r land. This cheque the directors pay " L l s aker rijo4 of their London banker's. The London ~ ~t t he do lt., cheque into his "cash credit account! _ o ' o t he ' . - , c eitr ; England ; he then draws a cheque agalit . for it,f; Opp: ' aid gash A the ar England, and instead of being P and paiereeti back the securities he had deposited, a,__ eo i l / 4 . O P of England the rate of interest that bad P' „hell for the accommodation. t lif A. It appears all very Plai i ri n f o n rin d " 5 0 t u io r t e sg " Ito e j plained. I thank you for your B. Do not let me mislead you, bY ) (aw ed 6 1 ,0, 0 1 operations positively have t -of-the - • „J r , stated. You know laminan ou . „ .rioati ou por .00 been Per i oty p have no direct means of getting ta_ w _ ib ility 0 1 ;t hotO have wished to explain to you thefo!. , er eigo..,,n 0 ° ow ° sliv r coov a itunotenrevteanrytiotnraonfse,acstiinogniseobf:ohke.okind, or tha A n . k l yo h u av k e in b d e l e y n for interestedyou r inform Ilfracombe, 01 ) 0: 00. 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