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confidential commission is

now sitting on the suhject of the officering and administra-
tion of the Poet-office. The commission paid a visit to the
authorities in St. Martin's-le-Grand last week; and will, it
is understood, pursue their investigation with Blond doors
at the Treasury.
PANAMA RAILWAY.—A large camel full of la-
bourers for the works on the Panama Railway has just
left Cork for the Whams. The applications from the Cork
"navigators," it appears, were too numerous to be accom-
modated by the captain.
LORD BROUGHAM.—Doctor Seve, of Cannes, has
addressed the following letter to the Vision du Var :—" In
a former number of you estimable journal it is stated that
' Lord Brougham appears to have retired from public life,
and to have fixed his residence at Cannes, in order to de-
vote himself to the care of his broken constitution.' It is
my duty, as the physician of the Brougham family at
Cannes, to correct an error calculated to Millet the numerous
friends of the noble lord and the entire scientific world.
Never did Lord Brougham enjoy more perfect health
during the twenty years which he has visited our country."
THE MARCH 01, MATRIMONT.—TCII young couples
are on the books of the Gateshead Union for marriage. their
respective ages being 22 and 20, 20 and 22, 20 and 18, 25
and 27, 30 and M, 30 and 21, 21 and 19, 22 and 20,20 and
19, and 24 and 25. So great, indeed, is the remand in
Gateshead for wives, that a young widow, who lost her
husband by the epidemic in September, was nominated
on Sunday in our parochi sl church, as the bride elect of a
young biehelor ! There is a line in "Hamlet" which will
rise to the reader's eye; but before he quotes it, let him
listen to the recital of another domestic romance, the re-
membrance of which has been revived by the occurrence of
Sunday. There was once a coal-mine explosion on the
Tyne, and many lines were sacrificed. The bodies of the
dead could not be recovered until some weeks had passed
away; and the corpse of one married man, when it was
carried home, found the widow lying by the side of another
husband! She had wedded her new spouse before bury-
ing his predecessor. Shakspere " exhausted worlds, and
then imagined new ;" but be never dreamt of " the mar-
riage baked meats egldly furnishing forth the funeral tic•
hies !"—Galmhead Obserrer.

have read with much interest the observations in
your City article (which by-the-bye seems always to eon.
rain more news than those of other journal.) upon the
effect likely to be produced on the Luxembourg Railway
by a junction with the Paris and Strasburg, but as my in-
terest lies in the Canal shares, to which you have made no
allusion, I venture to point out in your columns to those
who like myself have parted with their railway shares that
the advantage will be at least as great to our property. The
canal runs down front Liege to a point on the railway,
nearly midway between Namur and Arlon. It is the only
means of communication for this important district, and
knowing that at one end, via., at Durbuy, the company
possesses a large field of iron ore, which must go all down
the canal to supply the furnaces at Liege, whilst from Liege
coal will come as back carriage to supply the interior of
the country, and having also seen on each side of the canal
the immense quarries which are ready to send down stone
to Holland, I elected to keep my canal shares, es possessing
a monopoly of traffic of a certain and constant character.
Bat if it is really true that my companions in the railway
are to shake hands with the Paris and Strasburg, I find
that the canal attached to the railway becomes at once the
direct communication between Liege and Strasburg, cut-
ting off the long elbow of 50 miles between Liege and
Namur.
I da not know what arrangement is to be made with our
shares, but inasmuch as they now represent all this pro-
perty after 200,0001. of the original purchase money had
been written off, and as they are exempt from further calls
until the canal is opened throughout, receiving interest in
the meantime halfyearly at the rate of 5 per cent., I hope
my fellow-proprietors will join with me in resisting any
compromise which shall not give us at least the par value of
our shares.
A HOLEIR OP LUXEMBOURG CANAL SHARE..
Australian Land shares were sensibly better to-
day. Australian Aericultural were in request, at •
further rise of 11. Peel River rose 7s. Bd.; South
Australian Land, IL ; and Van Diemen's Land, 10s.,
per share. Australian Bank shares also showed as
upward tendency, especially those of the Bank et
Australasia. The British American Land Compare
shares were also firmer. Crystal Palace shares ex-
perienced a material advance, closing 11 to 2 prem.,
and the new issue 11 to 11. preen. London Dock
stock has been dealt in at 111; Australian Royal
Mail Steam (81. paid), 31; Magdalena Steam Navi-
gation (61. paid), 3, 21; Peninsular and Oriental
Steam, 73 to 74; ditto (251. paid), 40; Royal Mail
Steam, 63; and Submarine Te'egraph, at par.
Annexed are the latebt reports from continental
bourses, as received by Mr. Reuter's express :
Amsterdam, Saturday, closing prices:—Dutch Four
per Cents., 921; ditto Two-and-a-Half Tar Cents.,
61. Spanish Deferred Three per Cents., 211; the
Coupons, 3.: ; the Old Three per Cents., foreign, 441.
Austrian Five per Cent.Metallies, 75 13-16. Peruvian
New, U')'. Portuguese New, 36'4. Mexican New,
' 221 ex div. Granada Active, 18 13-16. This bourse
shows an improving tendency. Paris, closing prices
of this day, for money :—Three per Cent. iterates,
74.20 ; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 99.75;
Bank Shares, 2,890. Compared with the final rates

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