The Sun. — London, England, 1834-02-05 00:00:00

SECON E 01TION, SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. IMPERIALPARLIAM EN'l THIS EVENING. MUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the chair at 5 o'clock, and informed the House that he had received from the Lord Chancellor a copy of the new rules and regulations of the courts of law in confor mity with an Act entitled " An Act for the Amendment and the better Administration of Law in Courts of Justice and Equity." He had the honour of laying the same before the House. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL expressed his firm convic tion that these regulations would receive the cordial support of the House, and was confident that they would have the effect of making the law much more reasonable, cheaper, and acces sible. , Mr. O'CONNELL was glad to find the law was to be made more reasonable ; it had been unreasonable long enough. Mr. LEFEVRE brought up the report on the address. Mr. COBBETT rose immediately, and said he should feel it his duty to make a distinct motion upon the report. The report was then read. Mr. COBBETT said the first thing that he objected to was to that part of the address which stated that the agricultural interest was in a distressed state, although it seemed to say that tranquillity prevailedgenerally throughout the country. Coupling those two assertions together, he was afraid they would convey to the country the impression that there was an improper feeling in the House towards agriculture. That part of the address stated that the House lamented the continuance of distress amongst the owners and occupiers of land, although, in all other respects, the state of the country, as it regarded its internal tranquillity, its commerce and manufacture, was perfectly satisfactory. He ventured to assert that there was no gentleman in the House, who came from the country, but knew that the contrary was the fact.—(Cries of " No, no.") He knew that there was :any thing but tranquillity.—(No, no.) He knew that fear and avrehension prevailed everywhere. The fact was well known, to be from statements published daily in the newspapers, that for three months past there had been an average of four fires per week in the county of Norfolk alone. He asked therefore, aas it right that the House should tell his Majesty that tranquillity prevailed in the agricultural part of the kingdom ; when it was manifest that it did not ? It was not, however, volely with regard to that he found fault with the address. It should have offered or held out some remedy for that distress, And have spoken some comfort to the farmers and occupiers of land, as well as to the labourers. He intended to move the follow ing amendment:—" We have, in common with your Majesty, to lament the continuance of distress among theproprietors and occupiers of land, and we beg to assure your Majesty that the nature, extent, causes, and lamentable effects of that distress shall be objects of our own immediate and anxious considera tion." He thought the House was bound so to do, and that if they did not, they would not do their duty to his Majesty, or to the country.— (Hear, hear, hear.) He begged to refer to the report of the Committee of last session which, however, said but little—shame it was that thirty-seven English gentlemen, proprietors of land in the country, should ay so little, but the meaning of what they did say was, that the 1 _lB the House meddled with agriculture the better. He, however, firmly believed that there were a few Members in the House who might contrive some means of mitigating the distress.—(Hear, hear.) A proposition had been made by the Hon. Mover of the address, that the extinction of tithes would be one remedy for the distress of the agricultu rists. He (Mr. Cobbett) begged to ask what had the extinc tion of tithes to do with agricultural distress ? Oh, it opera ted as a check to improvement, and prevented the more ex tensive cultivation of the land. Tithes had existed for a thou sand years, and it was left to the present moment to show that they operated as a check on agriculture. The evidence given before the Committee was that the land was not so well cultivated as it used to be, and that the crops were now smaller. It showed that at the same time there were too many hand., and yet that the land for want of hands was not so well culti. vated. The cause of all this ought to be sought after, and the House ought to tell his Majtssty that they would endeavour to provide a remedy for it. The Hon ourable Member for Hampshire, in his opinion, had fallen into a great error in stating that tithes were a great grievance— (Hear)—and hinderance to improvement; the Hon. Member had forgotten, if that was the case, that the nextlhinderance to improvement would be rent. He defied any man on earth to chew that tithes were any more abundance to improvement than rent was.—(Hear, hear, hear.) It might very easily be conceived that speaking individually of a man paid 401. or 501. for tithes, and they were removed that he would with great alacrity consent to it, but he took upon himself to deny that it would be productive of general good to make any change in the tithe system. That such a change would add to the quantity of employment he considered as a fiction and de lusion, and if his Majesty's Governrneut acted upon the opinion that an abolition or a reduction in the tithe would be of advantage to the agricultural interests, unless they meant also to abolish the rent, he would take upon himself to say that they were dealing in delusion as absurd as any that had been practised by the most deliberate quacks in the world, With respect to the statement of the Hon. Member for Hants, as to manufactures, he believed the evidence that had been given before the Committee, to which he had adverted, would prove soy thing but the correctness of the statements of the Hon. Member. But supposing that he was to agree to the state ment of the Hon. Member, that manufactures were prosperous, was it not a most curious fact, that every thing should be prosperous, with the exception of agriculture? What, he would ask, was the commercial interest compared with the agricultural Why if the whole country was divided, 16-20ths of the people would be engaged in agriculture.—(Cries of " Oh.") Ile spoke within compass when lie made that statement. Why was the land to be eaten up, or why was the land-owner to be ejected for the purpose of aggrandising money.mongers ? On the present morning a petition had been presented by an Hon. Mem ber,lasking the dissenters might be relieved from church rates. On the presentation of that petition he asked whether they did not also wish to be relieved from tithes. In his opinion justice must be done to all parties, or no satisfaction would be pro produced. in his opinion, the words of the address, as they now stood, were certainly equivocal. When it stated that the country was tranquilt he was sure that his Majesty must be perfectly convinced that such was not the case. No man could say that tranquillity could exist, for in the newspapers of the present day no less than four fires had been recorded and many other different acts of incendiarism.—(Hear, hear.; — Out of every forty fires there was but one conviction ; so great was the difficulty of detecting the indendiary, that farmers came to a resolution of lowering the wages one shilling per week, till the perpetrators were discovered. It would be the duty of the House to announce to his Majesty their intention of finding a sufficient remedy for all this, and tell his Majesty that we would do it.—(Hear, hear.) A serse of duty enjoined him (Mr. Cobbett) to make these observa tions; he had no desire about putting his motion to a division, but if such a notion was en tertained of the state of the country surely no probable remedy was meditated for it; indeed, as the Hon. Member for Middlesex said, such an amendment looked like a desire and a pretext for not repealing the Corn Laws.—(Hear.) Such an announcement was no tranquilliser. He (Mr. Cobbett) would not delay the House five minutes longer.—(Cries of (" Oh, oh !") He had said at the beginning, that he would not press for a division. If he could only draw from his Majesty's Ministers an avowal of their intention to give the c ountry a hope of investigating such a state of things as now existed, and of finding a remedy for them, he would then be satisfied. He was at a loss to discover what motive there could be in disguising those facts, as appeared by the report laid before the House last session, and he would call on all men in and out of the House to join instituting an inquiry into those matters. If not, the country will go into despair, and the address will pro no effect but mischief. It was disgraceful not to make that inquiry. And he (Mr, Cobbett) would not have done his duty if he had allowed the present occasion to pass without his pro test against such an address. orgegra:Aitleapit,,,,, The amendment was then seconded by Mr. FINN. !Rafter a few words from Lord Althop and Mr. Finn, Mr. LITTLETON would best consult the wishes of the House by not occupying time. As far as his own feeling wi-s concerned, he was decidedly of opinion that the political agita_. tion which had prevailed i is Ireland, had tended very much to he encouragement of disobeying the laws. With respect to the Coercion Bill, he would read a statement which would prove the happy results of passing that Bill. He would take the periods of seven months before, and seven months after its (Left speaking.) SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Parliament may be said to have opened under happy auspices. Our anticipation of the various points in the speech from the throne will be found to have been essentially correct. We were somewhat astonished to find the Duke of Wellington An admirer of the Presidential messages of the United States. It was said by a distinguished Minister, now no more, that a King's speech was most perfect when it was most vague, when no definite meaning could be attached to any part of it. We are not aware that the King's speeches, during the Ministry of the Noble Duke, fell materially short of this standard of per fection. Last night, however, he seemed to have obtained a new light. " Certainly (he said) the speech appeared to him to contain as little as any speech from the throne that he had The address in the Lords was agreed to unanimously. The part of the speech most objected to in the Commons, was that , ahich indicated, in a manner not to be mistaken, the determi a4tion of the Government to put down the repeal agitation in trelamL Mr. Morrison, who seconded the address, and who kas lately travelled through Ireland, dwelt on the rapid strides of industry in the north, and the absence of industry in the south, notwithstanding its natural advantages, and he attributes the non-prosperity of the south to the continual agitation. *! Manufactories," he said, "could not be esta. blished nor flourish in a country, or in any part of it, where outrage was encouraged and where it prevailed.—(Hear.)" He admitted that evils calling loudly for redress existed in Ire. land ; but an English Parliament could yield the necessary redress, and apply more effectually the remedies called for than an Irish Parliament. It is, a.s Mr. Morrison observed quite superfluous to argue this question in England, for men's minds are made up on the subject; and every sensible Irishman must see the folly of persisting in an agitation which can have roother result than that of disturbing the peace of the country. They who are charged with the Government have a heavy re. sponsibility on them, and it behhvea then% to distinguish between the representations cf citizens conceiving themselves aggrieved under bad or partial laws, and a system of agitation having for "eb,lect a disorganization which could only be effectedby civil strife and bloodshed. It is not enough that the superior power of the one island could always, if matters were pushed to extremities, insure the submission of the other. How much calamity would the first shock of arms inflict on both countries ! The repeal agitation is either a mask, or it means bloodshed. We are, therefore, by no means disposed to look with favour on the con tinuance of the agitation; and the Government can hardly be blamed for endeavouring to see whether it can be put an end to. If Ministers fairly grapple with Ireland, and endeavour to apply not palliatives but effectual remedies to the diseases of Ireland, they will be supported by the well-intentioned of the people of both islands in the measures they may deem necessary for pre serving the tranquillity of Ireland. To a number of the Irish Members the part of the speech relating to Ireland was anything but acceptable. Two divisions took place on amendments moved by Mr. H. Grattan and Mr. O'Connell.—Morning Chronicle. Though the constitution of Parliament has suffered some alteration, the composition of a King's speech has not yet un dergone any reform. It is still the same vague, unsatisfactory, and mystified sort of production that it has been ever since we can remember—an exemplification of the art of saying nothing under the ostentatious pretence of making important disclosures. We must, however, make one exception—there is a part of every King's speech which is so clearly and explicitly worded, that it can admit of no mistake. We mean the part which relates to the supplies. There is no fiction or obscurity in this matter;—what is more, every promise to make fresh demands upon the purse of the nation is religiously kept, what. ever may be the degree of ingenuity exercised in slurring over the burdens of the people, or in evading pledges given for their removal. In the present speech no promise is made to remove any of the burdens under which the people of England at this moment labour; so none can be broken. Not a word, for instance, is said of the assessed taxes. We are now in the nineteenth year of peace, and those taxes, which were laid on expressly as war taxes, still continue their galling pressure upon the public industry. The pledge given by Government at the time of their imposition was that they should be taken off within two years after the commence ment of a general peace. Their existence at the present day, and with the increased pressure of grievous surcharges by which the Whig Administration has been particularly distin. guished, proves with what good faith that promise has been kept. Though the present Chancellor of the Exchequer voted against the house and window taxes when a simple Member of Opposition, solicitous of popularity, yet now that he is in office, he would rather feed with the money of the public the splendid pauperism of the pension list than relieve the oppressed indus try of the people. The speech travels into Spain for matter to interest the people of this country ; but what can interest them so much as the alleviation of their own fiscal burdens, of which not a word is said ? Of what moment to the British public is the succession to the Spanish throne, compared with the reform of the system of taxation at home ?—a system under which agriculture, commerce, and manufactures groan, and which, as long as it lasts, makes the theories of free trade an insulting mockery to a nation whose industry and energies are effectually tied up from all free competition with other communities, by the gyves and shackles of enormous taxation. To know that this system is to be ameliorated would be far more important to the people of England than to learn what results Lord Palmerston's protocols had produced on the destinies of ill-fated Belgium, or to be apprised, through the medium of a Royal Speech, that the civil war in Portugal still continues. As to the proposed measures connected with the Municipal, Ecclesiastical, and Poor Law Commissions, we shall wait un•il they are fairly propounded. If good, they shall have our support—if not, our opposition, regardless of what merits or demerits they may have in the eyes of those who only look at public questions through the spectacles of party. We confess that what has been already published under the authority of Government with regard to the poor laws makes us very suspicious of the nature of any measure founded upon such a support. If an attempt be made to carry Malthusian theories into practice, and if starvation is to be the substitute for a just economy, we shall not fail to defend the rights, and call public attention to the wrongs of that class of British subjects who have no representatives in Parliament. We are glad to find that the manner in which the Bill for abolishing negro slavery has been received throughout the British colonies, and the progress already made in carrying it into execution by the Legislature of Jamaica, aflbrds just grounds for anticipating the happiest results. Accounts to the same effbct we had previously published. That measure ought to be a good one which has cost the British public twenty mil lions sterling. It might have been better if the lash was not still allowed to tear the flesh of slaves, both male and female. It might have been worse if we had not been instrumental in raising the public feeling against the twelve years of servitude originally proposed, and thereby caused five of those years to be struck off. We could wish Government did not limit its humane sympathies to black slaves alone. We could wish they would listen to the voice of civil ization and humanity in reforming the discipline of the army and navy, and removing the degrading and brutal torture of the lash from the backs of the brave defenders of their country. The distress among the proprietors and occupiers of land is ad. mitted. Commerce is stated, indeed, to be improving, but nothing is said of the lamentably depressed condition of the shipping interests. Rash experiments, which broke down the legislative protection of the shipowners, without removing their legislative burdens, produced that state of things which has brought them to the verge of ruin. Will Government, in the face of such a warning, proceed to improve the condition of the agriculturists by breaking down their legislative protection too, which at present is scarcely sufficient to preserve them from destruction ? If they take steps to cause agricultural prices to fall lower than they are already, without extinguishing one half of the national debt, and a proportionate share of tax. ation, they will never be able to retrieve the calamitous consequences. That part of the speech which speaks of supporting on its ancient foundations, and in the just dis tribution of its powers, the ancient constitution of the State, is rather Conservative in its tone, and we are disposed to believe was intended to convey to the public an :intimation that Ministers will not be a party to the meditated warfare of some classes of Dissenters against the Established Church. We should like to see the palpable, or proved abuses of the Church reformed, and all fair allegations of grievance on the part of the Dissenters taken into consideration; but the Established Church, as the mother of all the sects of reformed religion in this country, and of the liberty of conscience which they enjoy, is too Christian and tolerant in its doctrines, too useful as a guardian and dispenser of Christian knowledge and instruction,to be destroyed without causing incalculable mischief to the in terests of religion, and even injuring the objects which honest and sincere Dissenters have in view, by giving infidelity a triumph in the demolition of that fortress, whence the ablest and most learned champions of Divine truth have issued, to maintain the cause of Christianity, and to chain the pride of human reason to the triumphal chariot of our faith. Ireland, as usual, forms a prominent object in the speech from the throne. The repealers are denounced, and measures of amelioration are held in prospect. But we believe there are almost as few who will be deluded by the one, as there are who will be terrified by the other. The truth is that, Session after Session, Ministers have been holding forth hopes that better things are in store for the people of Ireland, and their pro fessions have been, unhappily, followed by neglect and bitter disappointment. They have either overlooked the real evils of the country, or they have had recourse to those quack reme dies which only aggravate disease. Instead of compelling the turbulent to be tranquil, their measures have almost had the effect of converting the peacable and loyal into disaffected. It cannot be denied that the great mass of the people are in a state of want and misery, arising from the absence of employ ment itself, in a great measure the consequence of absenteeism, which renders them the ready instruments of the agrarian ter rorist and the political agitator. The Protestants of Ireland are the only tranquil part of the population at present ; but they are not treated well. If Government does not act with more honesty, wisdom, and moral courage, it must prepare to see the cry for the repeal of the Union spread through the country; and what was some time ago the visionary anticipa tion of a desperate few—a separation between the two coun tries—actually realised.—Morning Herald. The attention of the country will probably for some days be exclusively occupied with the opening of Parliament—the second session of the reformed Parliament—with the speech delivered from the throne upon this occasion, and the observa tions it elicited from Members of both branches of the Legisla ture. We feel bound to express the unfeigned satisfaction which several parts of his Majesty's speech, and of the expla natory remarks of his Ministers, have afforded us. The passages to which we allude are not perhaps expressed with the dignified moderation and reserve which befitted the occasion or the station and character of the speakers ; but this defect we can the more easily forgive, that, wherever we find an approach to unseemly vehemence, it is ♦ehemence in the support of principles of which we have been the steady and consistent, although the feeble and incompetent, advocates. The triumph of Conservative principles was yesterday proclaimed from the Throne of England, and loudly re-echoed by the Ministers of the Crown—a proclamation to which we attach the greater value, that we believe it to have been dictated by the unequivo cal sense of the community, and the clear perception of the Ministers of the Crown, that in order to remain Ministers, they must of necessity become Conservatives. If there was unbe coming violence in the expression ofsentiments so new, and if it combines with other circumstances to beget a suspicion that the change which has been produced in the temper and lan guage of the Administration is less the result of conviction than of necessity, this is but an additional subject of con gratulation, since it at once attests the force of public opinion, and the cheering fact, that the current of pub lic opinion has at length taken a just and a beneficial direction. It is right and just the Agitator of Ireland should be reproved by those who have contributed so much to give importance to his character and efficacy to his exertions, although our taste be a little offended when we hear language approaching to that of vituperation addressed directly to an in dividual from the British Throne. It is unquestionably right and just that the first Minister of the British Crown should de clare himself one of the most zealous supporters of the Esta blished Church, although it may excite regret that this Minister did not discover what has long been known to all the rest of mankind, that " some of the Dissenters," to quote his own words, " entertain schemes of the most wild, ex travagant, and hazardous character," before he contrived to throw into their hands much more than their fair and equal share of the national representation ! and although it is certainly unfortunate that a similar declaration of attachment to the rights and privileges of" the order to which he belongs" was once made by the same Minister, and has not been uniformly !Wier"d by corresponding conduct. We rewire LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 5, 1834• The King's Speech, on the whole, and in relation to the usual ambiguous and cautious character o f the State document in this country, is liberal in its spirit, and indi cative of the general good intentions of the Ministry. Ics defects are not those of commission, but of omission. A liberal design in Foreign Policy is sufficiently exhibited io the palpable " goad understanding" assumed with France, and in the evident ministerial interest in the struggles for civil freedom pending in Belgium, Portugal, and Spain. A significant hint is given to the Holy Alli ance, and especially to the Autocrat of Russia, that th e independence of Turkey shall be secured, and, if ne. cessary, protAted, by Great Britain. The important question of Corporation Reform is a prominent topic of the Speech ; and although the termination of Church Abuses, and the reformation of the Hierarchy, are ten derly touched, the meaning of the passages in the Speech, referring to those popular subjects, cannot be misunder stood. Some allowance must be made for the position of Ministers in the question of Church Reform, and it m;ght be prudent not to give the Conservatives a band's, by any more spacing rafargoca to their intentions on this subject. The Government will doubtless a t a fitting time introduce their measures of Church reform into the House of Commons, when the Legisla ture will, in the Lower House, apply an unsparing cor.. rective to the manifold defects of the Church Establish ment. The Dissenters may have expected some reference to their public claims for redress of grievances—for relief from Church Rates, a Civil Registration, and admission to the English Universities—but we do not doubt that they will be fully satisfied on these points early in the session. Ireland, alas ! as usual, occupies too prominent a position in the Royal Message. The per!iey of the Irish passages of the speech, which denounce the re peal question and its systematic agitation, has been ques tioned by the independent Members of the House of Commons; though it seems to have afforded peculiar satisfaction to the Orange spirit of Sir Robert Peel. We admit that some doubt may exist on the wisdom of thi s portion of the speech; but the Ministry were obliged to notice specially the agitation of repeal, connected as it re cently has been with the excitement of feelings of social discord between the people of the different portions of the kingdom. We may not approve the extreme terms of denunciation used in the speech, but a decided con demnation of the agitation was essential, and is a just support of the Irish Government and the influential classes opposed to the legislative dismemberment of the kingdom. The omissions cannot be justified. Economy and retrenchment—the pledges of Lord Gary —might have been more specifically and advisedly promised. It xi as expected that the all-important subjt ct of national education would have occupied its jus t position in the programme of pending Ministerial mea sures, and we fear that Ministers are not fully prepared to extinguish the abominable system of tithes. But we shall judge the Administration and the reformed House of Commons by their acts, not by their sayings ; and if the political dose is prepared sufficiently strong, the Lords must swallow it. lf, on the contrary, the proposed mea sures are paltering and insufficient, the Tories will reject them, and Ministers will be deposed from the high throne of public opinion. In the House of Lords last night, Earl GREY replied to the side-wind attacks of the Duke of WELLINGTON on certain portions of the King's Speech, in a very satisfac tory manner. On the subject of Turkey, and the unfor tunate treaty of Adrianople, entered into with Russia, when his Grace was Prime Minister, the Noble Earl was remarkab'y happy. In the House of Commons, Messrs. HOME and O'CONNELL moved several amendments, all of which met with the same fate of rejection. Lord AL THORP's reply to Mr. IlumE, wherein he observed that be should be enabled in the present session to reduce taxa tion, and that he should bring in a Bill not only for the commtration, hut for the redemption, of tithe, seemed to afford the House general satisfaction. The heavy press of Pariiamentary matter 'prevents us entering further into de: ails. The French Papers of Monday are still occupied with the late disastrous duel, which appears to have created a most extraordinary sensation throughout Paris. 'I he funeral;however, of M.Du Lotto passed tff quitely. It was rep• r ed, but not generally believed, that General Ru MIGNY had been sent from Paris by order of the KING, in order to prevent his having a hostile meeting with the Editor of Le National. FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, FEB. 3 Jive per Cents., 105 f. 60c. 45c. Three per Cents., 75f. 40c. 25c. Bank Actions, 1,720 f Rente de Naples, 001. 90c. Roman Five per Cents., 91%. Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 22N. Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 37X. Royal Spanish Loan, 71%. Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 59. Belgian Loan, 1831, Five per Cent., 97%. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 25c. ; money, 25f. 23c. Th c r ou ee r n , i d r uh t t ti e s ;, ? a a ll r, —f. —c.; money, 25f. 10c. German Papers have been received, but their content s are of no moment. VIENNA, JAN. 26.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 951 ; Four per Cent., 85 3-32 ; Bank Shares, 1218 1-s.—Allgemeine Zeitung, Jan. 30. It will be seen by the subjoined document, dated Al►drid, Jan. 18, 1834, that a Commission has been appointed to inquire into and report upon the amount of debt, foreign and domestic, and extent of resources of Spain : " Madrid, Jan. 18, 1834. " To the Directors. General of the Revenue. " With the view of establishing the public credit of Spain on a footing calculated to afford the creditors of the State every security for the fulfilment of the engagements entered into with them ; and it being necessary, for the accomplishment of this object, to ascertain precisely the origin, cause, amount, and ac tual state of the debts contracted with Foreign Powers since the year 1823, as also the nature and stipulations of the loans negotiated since that period, and the amount of the internal or national debt, her Majesty the Queen Regent has been pleased to appoint a Committee for the investigation of these matters, with directions for their furnishing, as soon as may be, a com plete statement in relation to this subject ; and said Committee is to be composed of Don B. M. Montaos, Don J. M. Ferrer, and Don R. Carrasco, to whom the several departments of State, and the other public offices, will furnish all the docu ments and papers that may be required. " To the Directors-General of the Revenue." THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Accounts from Bayonne, by the French Mail of this morning, state, that the insurgents were concentrating their forces in the Valley of Bastan. General Valdez had arrived in Pampeluna, but left that town to attack them. It is now known as positive, that a second English merchant ship has landed a quantity of muskets for the insurgents, near Fontarabie. I AI F MA L PARLIAMENT THIS DAY, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 6. HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lordships met to-day at half-past one o'clock, fot the purpose of carrying up the address, that had been agreed to last night, to his Majesty, in answer to his most gracious speech de livered yesterday. The Peers present, all of whom appeared in their full Court dresses, were the mover and seconder (the Duke of Sutherland and Lord Howard of Effingham), the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, the Dukes of Richmond, Argyle, and Norfolk; Lords Shaftesbury, Auck land and King; and the Bishops of Chichester and Hereford. The Duke of ARGYLE, as Lord Steward of the Household, informed their Lordships that his Majesty would receive the address at two o'clock this day. Shortly before that hour their Lordships adjourned to half past three o'clock to-morrow, and immediately proceeded in state to present the address to his Majesty at St. James's Palace. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair this morning at 12 o'clock. Some private petitions having been presented, Mr. EWART presented one most numerously signed from Liverpool, praying for a repeal of the present system of poor laws. He was much disappointed that no mention was made of the subject in his Majesty's Speech, for it proved that there was no intention to arrange the matter during the present session entertained by the Ministry. The House, how ever, was bound to legislate not for one part of the community only, but for the general good, and he hoped that something would yet be done in it. Mr. COBBETT said that as that was the first petition on the subject for the present session, he would take the opjx)r tunity of saying that upon no other subject that was thought of, did the people entertain more monstrously erroneous opi nions than on that, and he trusted the House would never give way to the clamour that prevailed upon it. If they once took away the protection of those laws, without, at the same time, also completely overturning the whole of the present system of the country, the farmers would be ruined. When the question came before the House, he did not fear that he should easily be able to show the fallacy of the opinion expressed in the petition. Mr. FINN begged to call the attention of the House to the language of the petition ; it demanded the abolition of the monopoly. No such language had ever been used by his unfor tunate countrymen, yet their conduct was viewed with just in dignation. That was the way in which Ireland was always served, and it never would obtain more justice till they had a national legislature. Mr. EWART then presented a petition from the ship_ bui ders of Liverpool, praying for an equalization of the duties which affected their trade, as respected the Isle of Man and their port. The petitions were ordered to lie on the table. Mr. R. WALLACE presented a petition from Greenock, praying for the abolition of church patronage in Scotland. He said it was signed by 3,565 persons of the greatest respectability, and it would show the House how strong the feeling upon the subject was in Scotland, when he told them that the meeting at which the petition was adopted, was presided over by the Chief Magistrate of the town, which was the largest seaport in the country, and that it was signed by every one of the other magistrates, as well as the Town Council. The Ministry in structed his Majesty most graciously to forget Scotland in his speech, and to refuse to take any notice of the desires of almost the whole population of the country. It was the snore to be lamented, after the manner in which the representatives of that country had been treated upon that subject during the last session. After notice of a motion upon the subject had been given, they were told by the Lord Advocate that Ministers in tended to bring forward the question, but they were put off from time to time, yet the session passed over without the promise being fulfilled, and then the opportunity for bringing on the subject was lost to his Hon. Friend the Member for Caithness. He had then made charges of bribery in the disposal of the Crown patronage. His statement was then denied; but on inquiry since, he found that he had stated little but the truth. Now lie had another case, where a minister of a parish in Stirlingshire having died, another was put in, without one single parishioner having been consulted. The living was given away upon the old principle of governing Scotland by patronage, and he be. lieved if it was inquired into, it would be found that the soli citors for the living were those whose names were oftenest seen in the Treasury. Surely the system did not now require to be inquired . into. It was the inhabitants of the parish who sat under the minister to hear the word of God, and not the patron; but how could they have any affection or confidence in their pastor, when he was a man whom they had never seen before ? Let the baneful influence of patronage be once abo lished, and then the establishment would once more become what it ought to be, a great machine of usefulness and happi. ness to the people. Hon. G. ELLIOTT said that he thought the Hon. Member who had presented the petition had entered into details which were rather premature. He felt, however, convinced that the motion which it was the intention of the Hon. Mem. ber to move in the present session, and which would probably be supported by the House—(Hear, hear)—wo.,ld be produc. tive of the most beneficial results. Under these circumstances he would refrain from giving his opinion at present, further _than to say that notwithstanding the outcry that had been raised against the Ecclesiastical Institutions of Scotland, he was convinced that the duties of the establishment were fairly and honestly executed.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. SINCLAIR said that there was no subject with respect to which there existed so lively an interest in Scotland, as that of Church Reform. He could only say that, for his own part, he was actuated by a sincere desire to uphold that establish. ment ; but it was only by correcting the evils that had crept into it, that it could for any time be upheld.—(Hear, hear.) When he brought forward a motion upon this subject last session, he was told by the Lord Advocate that it was the in tention of the Government to bring forward some specific plan of their own. That intention was afterwards laid aside, but he trusted that when lie brought forward the motion of which he had given notice, it would be fairly discussed, and would receive the support of his Majesty's Ministers. There were many Presbyterians who were at present separated from the Church Establishment, but who, nevertheless, were sincerely attached to it; and one great object of his motion would be to enable those dissenters, who were unconnected with the church, to return to it.—(Hear, hear, hear.) It was to be lamented that every individual, who complained of the grievances of the Church Establishment, was branded as an enemy, but he who opposed all remedy, and withstood every attempt to reform the Church, was canonized as a champion of the establishment.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. D. W. HARVEY said, that if the Hon. Member's ob servations had been postponed to a later period of the sittings, he (Mr. Harvey) was afraid that the Hon. Member would scarcely have the courage, or the House the good sense, to listen to his remarks.—(Laughter.) They had been told that all they had to do was to present their petitions, but they were not to tell from whence they came, the subject of them, or by whom they were signed, their sole duty being to see that the petitions were decently interred in the bag of the House.—(Laughter.) It was only on occasions like this that the sentiments of the people conld be at all fairly conveyed, and he thought that Hon. Members would but ill discharge their duty if, on present ing petitions so numerously and respectably signed, they were to allow them to be disposed of in the manner which the Hon. Member advised. He understood last session that this was to be a convenient morning sitting, for the purpose of presenting petitions, that they were in fact to become a deliberative as sembly, and that one or more of his Majesty's responsi able advisers would be always present to hear the representa tions and to learn the waists of the people.—(Hear, hear.) The Ministers were directly charged by this petition with per. verting the sacred offices of the church to the basest of pur poses, and yet there was not one of them present to meet the accusation. It was most important that such petitions as the present should be fully stated to the House, and dealt with by themselves, as it was clear that the Government did not mean to do anything in the way of reform in respect to the Church Esta blishment.—(Hear, hear.) They were told last session to have patience, in order that during the summer recess the Ministers should have time to attend to the reform of the Established Church, both of this country and of Ireland and Scotland. But what was the result of their long and profound considera tions ? Why, that the Dissenters were to be allowed to cele brate marriages amongst t hemselves.— (A laugh.) This was to be the whole extent of the reform of the Church. The Hon. Member had said that the Whigs were pursuing the same plan as the Tories had done, but this plan was part of the system of Tory Government ; it was the manner in which it was kept together. The Whigs disclaimed all patronage, they :denied that they had any other object in the possession of power, which, indeed, was both a detriment and discredit to themselves, but the in terests of the people. He trusted that on all future occasions they would be honoured by the presence of one of his Majesty's responsible advisers.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. RUTHVEN supported the petition, Mr. WILKS presented a petition from the members of the committee of the institution for the protection of religious liberty, praying for a full participation in the advantages of education, the removal of such laws as affected marriages, births, &c.—Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. O'CONNELL rose to present a petition from the parish of Kilrane, in the county of Wexford, praying for a repeal of the Union. A question (continued the Hon. Gentleman) which cannot be stifled by any insolent denunciation, or denied the advantage of argument by the interference of authority in put ting it down. Such a mode of preventing its discussion would surely tend to impart disgust, and create dis affection in a country where none at present exists. It was in the power of the people of Ireland to discuss that question, and that in spite of the derision that is attempted to be thrown on it ; and never were the Government or people of England more mistaken than in supposing that such a ques. tion could be put down, even though backed by the majority of that House. The mistake would be soon found, for the question cannot, nor will not be stifled--(Some cries of " Hear, hear.")—The petition was then ordered to be laid on the table. Mr. O'CONNELL next presented a petition, from the same parish, praying for the total abolition of tithes. Some plan was about to be produced, he had understood, which was to lead to what was called a final adjust ment of that question. If the Hon. Secretary for Ireland had condescended to attend the House on the present occasion, he might have informed them what that plan was. But he (Mr. O'C.) supposed that doing so would be considered undignified. Yet he might have sent some deputy, eithe r under tor over him—CA laugb)—who could have developed this miraculous would indeed be a miracle, if it performed what it I for it was to relieve the present burdens, and still to the present incumbents in their incomes. Indeed, sot was required to do this ; to mitigate the sufferings of tht and to secure the sinecures of the Church. He wish , some one had been here to disclose this plan—this fair: Ireland's legislation.—(Hear, hear.) Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. O'CONNELL next presented two petitions ft city of Dublin and its vicinity; one from the city of ell other from the parish of St. Michon's, in that object of those was speedy relief from local taxes. Mr. O'Connell should express his conviction, that it possible to do justice to his constituents, in the absent responsible member of the Irish Government. —Orden on the table. Mr. HARDY begged to remark, that if notice • u _. given by the Hon. Gentleman of his intention top resent sw: petitions, doubtless there would have been some one in att e nd 3 ance to answer him any thing he may feel disposed t ~ It would be a waste of time for his Majesty's Ministers to et tend, when perhaps nothing was to be done. Gentle' Mr. FINN reprehended the observat ion of the Hon.th tr 0 ,_ man, It was a culious expression to m ake use of, that . of his Majesty's Ministers was wasted in Beetling to the c 13, plaints of the people. oftime for such members of his Majesty's Government to aint when they might not beable to afford information en the p a o t. 7 Mr. HARDY explained. He knew that it would be a t ` aS ti i ! required ; whereas, if a specific notice was given of the n en . r .. , of the petitions to be presented, such members might att hear.)t ''' were conversant with the matter introduced. — ( Hear, h Mr. O'CONNELL rose to present the petition of a man w ho, had been very hardly treated; and treated in perhaps a mann r. He Hutted such as • no man in England or Scotland had been. ..e 3 _ „._.,. to O'Leary, who had been transported from the county of t- , ..u . .. It was the petition of eight children of a man named Jof; Leary, late a farmer in Doneraile, in Ireland, but now lir . sentence of transportation in New South 'Wales, and it _ e "'_ planted of his unjust treatment. The Hon. and Learned M.lo', ber said from what he knew of the case the sentence againiste that man was a most iniquitous one. The offence of whic . h _) was convicted was a most atrocious one, and one which, if he . wereguilty, would deserve more if possible than the punishineeT. , of death. He was tried for conspiring with three others to tted , 1 feet the murder of two magistrates, amid a lady was we nt ' I in a carriage - supposed to belong to one of those magistrates, a.n , • Pa ling if he were guilty the Government was most culpable in s , hi s life. The whole of the four accused were tried at ditref een en ~, periods, but in consequence of the evident discrepancy betty;.,, the evidence of the principal witness and his depositions the before the magistrates, three of them were acquitted-Ai!: (, c. 0 fourth, John Leary, however, was convicted, although the same contradictory evidence was given on his trial. The ler. f diet, therefore, against Leary, stood falsified by three otr , i , solemn verdicts. He (Mr. O'Connell) asked, if under o tta n i!: , !: circumstances a Scotsman had been banished from his co T e , , what would be the feelings of the members for Scotland? _ t 7 e., - knew and admired the great affection which the Scotch g e h " esr , transported for an offence of which he Was men possessed towards their own countrymen-'( H ear, o od I from the Irish Members)—and he put it to them, wh at vi . E-70 i' be their feelings on seeing a respectable farmer at thee g e : - I Leary were guilty, the Government were bound to puni s __,, , only tran..... to the full extent of the law, but it seemed he Was ported. He had again to regret the absence of Ministers t .. some his one connected with the Government ought to be 1 0° 7. - place when such subjects were brought forwa r ' ,: all and with regard to giving notice to the head of 1 department, if it we re now 8 1 % e notice necessary he would , ..,,s • notice that not a • single day during the session s hould r - .. , , , without his brin • ging down a sufficient number of important j r - , titions with applications prpripropriety of behalf gra n o ti f ng Le a ar p y ar h d a respect to Irish matters. He meant to foun . 7 motion on this case, with a view of bringing the cln es th ° drau,nu butpa documentnoredress directly before the House, and then it would be seen Wh ew ; b er the unfortunate man was to have that justice that would ne',„, e , denied to a native of either Scotland or England. SucCe ss Deneraile hadbeen made to the Du ke Wellington's Government, d to to the Marquis of An lesea, a n- ,s i •• . the Wellesley,Marquiscould be obtained,a ~ed Mr. Baron Penn f e ather, who tried the man, stronglc.n7o( ',' pardon, , and the , i n ll ,n l a °c g I . str t ahr-lh' limit e2(14 the was his intention on a future day he to move for the pr foot - of copies of ....se the records and depositions relating to the trials, in ,order that the House might decide whether the ..•- i / did not call for its interposition. Mr. FINN supported the petition. ...,,, Mr. SINCLAIR said, the Hon. and Learned Gentilo opposite had only done the Scotch justice in'saYing theY W u n i t i d • ' never rest satisfied when they found a native of their cro hll°' unjustly treated, until they had obtained redress f d 'ei At the same time, he was confident that every ie iv _ ~, from the other side of the Tweed would be equally anx ious r obtain redress for any oppressed native of Ireland. W ith o rr i spect to the repeal of the Union, the success a which was ao , . very probable, he would just like the Hon. and Lea rned ., hi tleman to bring forward a statement of all the meta" 0 , thought likely to be brought forward on College-green, an"Pa, in favour of gthe rolan.tlWilt :: bably he would find some of those measures likely to meet S r teas here. ent# Mr. HARDY said it appeared [to him, from the stateln be. , that which had been made, the individual in question had go convicted of a conspiracy with certain others; the others %is• acquitted; therefore the indictment must have fallen t° i i ground as regarded the one, and he knew not on what gro und t` ''• could have been Government could have r efused tO Leary's 1 beration. * . , Dir . O'CONNELL said he had been indicted for a c 0 ° racy with persons unknown ; but, besides that, he was cba rggi ' ' with other counts, equally capital, of Whiteboyism. Sergeant Mr. MO; SPANKIE could not but admit that th e end Learned Gentleman had stated a case well meriting i n ' ligation, e the relation of which could not fail to surpris e on acquainted with the administration justice in '—' ion of to ; land—(Hear, hear,) The inference to be drawn fro ' re 1 facts • would lead to a conclusion of blame in quarters wbe * it would have to be regretted, to find blame attributable. wed the facts were revie W ere . as stated, the case ought to have been long ago. He had never heard of mercy being r efused., v He at, ( mercy had been recommended by a Learned h aveJudg e * - ' • • I hear.) It was surprising, also, that this person shouid e been tried on an indictment containing various counts , be eeu :i s a Judge in England would have sent the Prosecutor mho election, and not have embarrassed a criminal bY trY inf Luat I on many counts. He hoped the law in Ireland was not s . e u.; the to the administration ofjustice; it would soon be so. W h .. na e. subject was brought forward it should have his best assi sl '7,att Mr. O'CONNELL assured the House that the cO7-ct,i practice in Ireland was not only to multiply coun ts in in a ad merits, but to multiply indictments against a prisone r, h r send them to the same jury. He knew himse lf that , 0 Baron Pennefather had twice recommended this ind ividual mercy. ..„01 1 $ Mr. FITZSIMON presented a petition from Clare, l'''" d ,' : for the introduction of Poor Laws into Ireland.—Adjo urn - 1 SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DO) FROM LLOYD'S. 13a P, DEAL, FEB. 4.—Wind S.S. W.— Arrived the Caroliner, es„ nard, from St. Michael's; and Jane, from London fo York, remains with several others. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 4.—Wind S.S.E. to S.W. • ed t" PLYMOUTH, FEB. 3.—Wind S. by E., fresh.—Ar nV frotli Speculator, Jack son, from Memel; Brilliant, Parlret:. Nantes; and Ceylon, Batty, from London for the Maurit s FALMOUTH, FEB. a—Wind S.S. W. to S., s trong gales $Ol squally.—Arrived the Ariel, Mann, from Pernambuco; tannia, Wade, from Liverpool, with six feet water in the 11 . cv, bound to New Orleans; Falcon, Burrell, from London foroi;v: Helena; Olive Branch, Skirling, for the Cape of Good and Charles Eyton, Moore, for Sydney, New South Wale' . L I VERPOOL, FEB. 3. — Arrived the Saratoga, Marshall; `;e, Queen Adelaide, Buland, from New Orleans ; and Medora, die, from Charlestown. Offport the Glaret, Thomas, from Ca St. George, Thompson, from Glasgow; and Pacific, Johtlw — ,..' from New York. The Elizabeth, Ann Jeffreys, hence to pies, is on shore in Anglo Bay, Milford. The Fair Heft, Wickman, from hence to Bahia, on shore in the Dei c e Luce, went to pieces on the 31st ult. ; cargo discharged, e% the coals. MARGATE, FEB. 4.—Arrived of port the Symmetry, 1 " . from Bordeaux. FOWEY, FEB, 3.—Arrived the Britannia, Franklin, fr the Baltic. GENOA, JAN. 27.—The Adelaide, Cheipella, sailed Yt from Smyrna, for Liverpool. The Board of Health h 5 off three days' quarantine on arrivals from London, th", lizing the quarantine to seven d ays f rom Liverpool a . "" British ports. The Arco Co cac i h as been assisted in t° dismasted. h' The Alliance, of Wisbeach, and the Heckington, of was wrecked near Whinfleet on the 29th ult.--crew saved' THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. t kindo ds This morning there is a good exhibition of mo s- Grain, and a small attendance of buyers. The Wheat tr: mains dull at Monday's terms. Barley is very difficult .., except at lower prices. In Beans, Pease, and Oats , nova s N The Flour trade this week is dull at former prices. Er°,l-.0 passed in Parliament yesterday, no alteration is expecte. Corn Laws this Session. Wheat. English 5,950 qrs. Irish 460 Foreign ARRIVALS. flolb Barley. Oats. 7,830 qrs. 4,670 qm 5,510 n . --1 '2,150 ...0° MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREET' (From the London Gazette.) TO-MORROW, l'Ex. 6. DIV IDEN I)S. W. Wright, grocer, New Windsor, Berkshire ............... G. Macfarren, bookseller, London-street, St. Pancras .•••• . W. Bowditch, grocer, Exeter ........................................... Hemings, bacon-drier, Great George-street, Berrnnutt'-", 1. Lucas, timber-merchant, City-road ............................. J. Davis, music-seller, Bristol ........................................... J. Mannerings, builder, Chatham ................... ......" G. Moore, coffee-house -keeper, Carey-street, Lincoln's 10 J. H.lton, grocer, Cumberland-place, New-road ............... E. Ashton, cheesemonger, High-street, Whitechapel .......... PRINTED AND PUBLIFHED BY M U RDO YOUNG , - er 1- 0 .?In. Orrin, 112, Itrii&rnk, plan. h Puri f er p me m e B o iern 1 e shed th ry land iA from the s )f Dubll ity. • I!tcewogi s tfa lin n red o li h a d been in, i` — re3teraof us ol tly r urd otbce i n to b et V. ll°l' vett . kind s `; C . trad e jil, to '.. - 0 1; va riat l o t ronl i" t f 1004,1 ~510 " I I ........ 13 ....... I ...... fldtiel it ........ I'l ...... .. . _ 0 with the highest satisfaction the statement which his Majesty I makes of his disposition with respect to the condition and pros. pests of the Ottoman Empire : " It will be my object to prevent any change in the relations of that empire with other Powers, which might affect its future stability and independence." We have italicized the little pronoun to mark our sense of the meaning of this passage. We know from it the King's object. We cannot guess from it the object of the King's Ministers. Why not ? Because Lord Holland continues a Member of the Cabinet : the Lord Hol land who, in his place in Parliament on the 16th of July, IS2S, trusted in God " that he never should see—for the proposition would be scouted from one end of England to the other—any preparation, or any proposition, or any attempt to defend Turkey from the attacks of her enemies :" the Lord Holland, who in the same place, and on the same night, " hoped that England would not save the wasteful and disgust ing empire of the Turks from dismemberment and destruction." Remembering these remarkable expressions, of which at the period of their utterance we do not find that any disapprobation was expressed by Lord Grey, by Lord Lansdowne, by Lord Goderich, we are constrained to believe that to some Members at least of the Cabinet the maintenance of Turkey as an inde pendent Power does not seem an object worth the study of an English Statesman. We rejoice that his 3lajesty adopts the sounder judgment given on the same evening by Lord Aberdeen, who declared "that the existence of Turkey as an inde pendent Power, as a Power of weight and of considerable influence in the affairs of Europe, was essential to the pre servation of that balance which it had always been the policy of this country to preserve." There are other portions of the language or conduct of the Administration on the opening of the Parliamentary Session upon which we cannot express un qualified approbation, and some, indeed, which seem to us to deserve the severest censure. We cannot but rejoice that his Majesty's Ministers have no change to propose in the law for the protection of the agriculture of the kingdom ; but we feel that less than justice has been rendered to that important interest when the Ministerial Leader in the House of Commons, by the employment of doubtful and ambiguous phrases, left it a matter of conjecture whether the Admi nistration as a body will resist such change if preferred by others. We can scarcely conceive any thing more per , nicious to the owners and cultivators of the soil than a Mini. sterial declaration which may be taken to imply that the question of the corn laws is to be an open question. What ever may be the talent or importance of Mr. Poulett Thomson, we cannot but think that both are vastly overrated when a deep injury is inflicted upon the landed interest, for no ap parent purpose but that of enabling him to remain in office, and at the same time preserve his personal consistency. It is unusual for the King of England to utter such expressions of confidence and sympathy in reference to one of his allies as cannot but be considered in the light of an invidious disparagement by every other. The special mention of any single ally In the Speech from the Throne would have been a censurable indecorum had it not been chargeable in the present instance with the still greater fault of prefers ing the least sincere and the least reputable of all the alliances of which the British Government can boast. The regret expressed by his Majesty at the present condition of the Netherlands, of Portu gal, and of Spain, is just and natural, and would have been a suitable subject of congratulation had it indicated, any purpose of renouncing the crooked and dishonourable policy which has con tributed so much to the present condition of Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands. The allusion in the King's speech to the Commissions for investigating the state of Corporations, the action of the Poor Laws, and therevenues and patronage of the Church, is merely insignificant, since it is accompanied by no indication of the course which Ministers mean to pursue upon any one of these important subjects. There never, in deed, was a King's speech, as the Duke of Wellington in one House, and Sir Robert Peel in the other, forcibly re marked, which snore entirely abstained from the an nunciation of any definite purpose. It was a mere series of regrets, congratulations, and negations ; and it may be truly said that at its conclusion no man was in possession of a particle of information upon any subject which he did not equally pos sess before. The debate was nearly as uninteresting as the speech. Mr. O'Connell proclaimed war against the British Gavernment, and professed the warmest friendship towards the Secretary for Ireland—a pretty distinct intimation either that Mr. O'Connell is bought off, and means to come round by de. grecs, or that, in his judgment, the Secretary for Ireland is a very insincere, or a very imbecile adversary. Mr. Hume proclaimed a less ambiguous hostility to the Administration, aspiring evidently to be considered as the leader of that revolu tionary faction whose favour his Majesty's Ministers once cul tivated with great assiduity and success, but have been unable to retain. This gentleman moved several amendments to the address, all of which were rejected by large majorities.—Morn ing Post. r tiCKS Of. STOCKS TILS .IVO A , (.; N , o'cl.n.:k• Rank Str ea 3, ,rC nt. liee. 894 Li India Stock 3 'er Cen I,Con , BBi N I Ditto Bonds 27 29 pm. 3 , per Ceat — South ''ea Stock ... D.tto 8e:!.97 1 4 !OM Annuities— — ,ew 3% per Lent. 9 6 ,A% New Ditto — s ver Cent. Ann. 1720 .... —'3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 1 per Cent 1826 Rank Long Anr toexinre !Ditto ..... -....500 46 47 pm an. 5, 1860 17 2-16 li 3-16 , Ditto Small Uct. 10, 1859 , Ditto Commercial — pm. Jan. t, 18;i0 ...... ...164 13-16 Ditto Advertised ..... - —pm. Jan. 5. 1880 — Bank for Account — April 5, les() ........ ....... India for Account lan. 5, 1570..„.„.„..... Cons. for Account ... B.4N X PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCK. Austrian Bonds 934 !Peruvian Bonds B Ician Bonds 96 3 4 , Ditto Account 2O Ditto Account q 6% , Portuguese Bonds Brazilian Bonds 7O Ditto Account 61 1 4 Ditto Account 7O ritto New Bonds . .. 69 , %% Buenos Ayres Bonds 2l Ditto Acc0nnt...60 3 ,4%14% % llitto Account Prussian Bonds lO2 CI ili Ai Bonds 26 5% Ditto Bonds, lti: - .2 ...... 1013 i _ DA! o Account Russian Bonds, 1822 INN ....... Columbian Bonds 23.1i Ditto Account lOl. 3 ' , IR° Account ' Ditto 111 MO, Ditto Bonds, 1824 24% 'Spanish Bonds, 182 i 254% —. Ditto Ace , iiiiit 24 1 ,4 I Ditto Acc. ...... ...254!%% Danish Bon 3 744 i Ditto Bonds, 16:,3 'I % % Ditto Accrunt 74 : Ditto Account 23'4 Greek Bonds. — French Rentes, sp. c. —f. —c. Ditto Ponds, 1525 Ditto Account — ' ---5 per cent. —l —c Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent 29;4 --j Exchange —f —c. Ditto Account Dutch, 21 p. c. 49% mo, 6 per cent. 43 Ditto Account 493,14 Ditto Account 4O 1 % I Ditto, 5 p c 95% Neapolitan B9 Ditto Account 95% PRICES OF SHA r.FS THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCY . Paid. Per 'share Alten Mining Company £7 9" l Allglo Alex. Min. C.O. tins. at 51. pm ).£lOO 5 1 ,6 B9lanos Mining Company Brazilian Mining Company £s 15 Brazilian Imp. Mm. Co. (iss. at 51. pin.) £2O Ditto National 2234 Ditto St. John Del Rey Cata Branca Mining Company :3 British Iron Minim , Company £so Columbiz.n Minim Co. 'iss at 5/. pm.) 5154 Eliglish Mining Company , Jeneral Mining Association l2 Hibernian Mining Co Mexican Mining Co. Real del Monte Mining C 0.... (unreg.) i nited Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 2/. pin.) 40 Ditto New Sci ip 5 .A.lllance Fire Insurance Comp lO Protector Insurance Comp. Australian Co. Canada Company ic-rieral Steam Navigation Co. National Provincial Bank of England 5 :IA Rio Dace Provincial Bank of Ireland 25 23t4 32N 825 51 11 13% 1134 .E 1 6 0 COURSE OF EXCHA Amsterdam C.r" 12 - 4 Ditto, at sight ""." 2 Rotterdam 2 U 12 4i Antweip 12 5,1 Hamburg M.B. 13 11 Altona 11 11 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 90 Ditto 2 U. 2.5 70 Bordeaux 25 75 Berlin 7 NGE YESTERDAY. Leghorn 4 8 14 Genoa .5 65 Milan 3l Venice 47 Naples . 4ON Palermo per oz. 1226 Lisbon Oporto 53 Rio Janeiro 37 Bahia 3l Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight 1 Cork 1 Sre BULLION, PER OZ. Z. s. d. Portugal Gold, coin... 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons ...... ... 0 0 9 New Dollars Silverbars, standard 0 4 11 Frank fort on Maine, Ex. M. 151 Petersburgb, ruble, 3 Us. 10 0 Vienna, effective El. 2M. 956 Trieste do 9 58 Madrid 36 i ,, Cadiz 97 1 4 Bilboa 36% Barcelona 36 Seville '36 Gibraltar 47 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MOAKOW• Morning ...21 minutes after 1.1 Evening... 46 minutes after 1. rb r • A. *10.14 " 4 - s o , * ' THE FUNDS. Our City politicians and Stock Exchange speculators, are occupied in reading and expounding the King's Speech. It certainly had an unfavourable effect yesterday on the minds of the public, who expected some kind of a hint would have been given respecting the reduction of the assessed taxes, but this morning the statement of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer has relieved the anxiety which prevailed on that im portant point. The funds continue steady this morning at the leaving off prices of yesterday. Consols opened at Seii, for the Account, and at present they arc 88%, alternately buyers and sellers, with little doing. In the Foreign market Spanish, 2.5 1 ,E %. In the other secu rities little doing. No arrivals from Portugal. HALF-PAST OIVE. The Funds continue in a state of inactivity, and Cowls may be quoted at present 88 14 I' s for the Account, with little doing ; for money, 88 %N. _ _ . In the Foreign market Spanish Stock, which had receded in the early part of the morning, has improved to 2.514 3,4, Dutch 49 , Portuguese 60%, Brazil 69 70, Mexican 40 to 14. We have just heard a report of some disturbances at Madrid, which has caused Spanish Stock to recede t o 14 %. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for Account 88 % %. CLOSING PRICES.—FOUR O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 2141 1 India Stock 246 3 per Cent. Red. ..... .... 891 I Ditto Bonds. 2O m 3 pet Cent. Cons BBl I South Sea Stock lOl 31 per Cent. 971 f Ditto Old Ann B7l 31 per Cent. Red......... 971 I Ditto New Ann. New 3per Cent. thq , Ex. Bills, 1 00 e/ 47 pm. 4 per Cent len ' Ditto 500/ 47 pm. Long. Ann. to expire Ditto Small 47 pm. Jan. 1860 l7 3-16 Bank S. for Acc. 215 Oct. 1859.. l7 1-16 Consols for Opg 88; Jae. 1860 l6 13-16 India St. for Opg. FOREIGN FUNDS, Austrian, 5 per cent 99 Portuguese, 5 per cent.... 62 Belgian, 5 per cent 961 Ditto, Iteg. Bonds Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent 21 Russian Bonds, 5 per cent 104; Chilian. 6 per cent. ...... ... 251 Ditto, Metallic lOOl Columbian, 6 per cent—. 21} Spanish, 5 per cent.... Ditto, 1824 24i Ditto, 1823 231 Danish 74-1 French 5 per Cent.... —f. —c. Greek, 5 per cent 23/ Exchange f. —c. Mexican 5 per Cents, 1825 31 French :i per Cent —t. —c Ditto 6 per Cent., 1825...... 4N Dutch, 21 per cent. 491 Peruvian 6 per Cent. 2O Ditto, 5 per cent 951 QUARTER PAST FOUR. It is just reported that an express has arrived in town from Lisbon, bringing accounts of the taking of Coimbra. Portuguese Stock has risen to 61 % %, and much business done in it. The spice washed on shore for about thirty miles along the Sussex coast, during the last ten days, is supposed to have formed part of the cargo of the George and William, of Newcastle, from Jamaica, which was wrecked near Guernsey about the 12th inst., and the crew and passengers, consisting of fourteen persons, all drowned, except the mate and one seaman.—Brighton Herold.