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CHURCH LANDS EXCHANGE BILL.

When strangers were re-admitted,
Mr. GREENE was addressing the Horse on the bringing up of
the Report of the Church Lands Exchange Bill, and moving an
amendment, which would go totinnul the limit of 40 acres created
by the Bill respecting exchanges effected by certain classes of pro-
prietors. Trustees of charities, he said, were not limited in the
exchanges which they might make, and he thought it most unwise
to restrain Deans and Chapters.
Lora .PALM E RSTON opposed the amendment, and
Mr. LOCKHART supported it,
After a few words from Mr. MONCK,
Mr. C. WILSON made some observations in support of the
amendment, as did Mr. JOHN BENETT (Wilts), when the
House divided,
Against the amendment 33 For it 13 j Majority 26.
SPRING GUNS.

After the division,
Mr. TENNYSON was found addressing the House on the se-
cond reading of the Spring Ouns Bill. lie spoke in terms of
strong censure of the practice of seating spring guns in plantation,.
He pressed upon the attention of the House, that it was only in
cases of the last extremity that homicide was justifiable—in cases
of rape, burglary, or in such eases as the party attacked had no
other chance of escape. He objected to life being taken away, or !
even risked, for the purpose of avenging a civil injury, and one, too,
for which the law provided a remedy of a different nature. He read
several letter and other documents, detailing instances of injuries
inflicted by those destructive engines, and enumerated some judi-
cial opinions on the subject ; amongst others, the judgments of
Lord Chic f Justice Abbott, the present Chief Justice of the Com-
mon Pleas (then a Putisne Judge in the Court of King's
Beath) as well as that of Mr. Justice lloiroyd. It only re-
mained for him to state to the House what were the provisions of
the Bill. The Bill eaaeted that where any person should be in.
jawed by the going off of any of the:" spring guns, but not mortally,
that then the person on whose premises those guns were set, should
be adjudged guilty of a misdeme►nour ; and if any person should
die within a year and a day after being shot by any spring gun front
the effect!' of those murderous engines, the Bill then made the per-
son on whose premises the gun was set, guilty of manslaughter.
These homicides oecitaioned by spring guns could not be considered
juatitiable ; in his opinion they were nothing less than murders, but
it was not considered proper to enact that they should be so con-
sidered as the thing haul been sanctioned by the practice of the
country' for so many year*. The Bill admitted of no exceptions in
favour of nurseries and gardens ; at the same time he thought the
present state of the law as it regarded those two specie% of property,
was very defective ; and, perhaps, that was the reason why garden-

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Is Ihni adopted the system efeettintspring gone. With these oh-
' sereolsonhe viessisa to leave the Bill with the House, trusting
thesis tt isM eppreve of its provisions, and suffer it to be read with-
met ttpipeigigoirsecond time.
Wst TLEY felt himself adled hpon to oppose the
-send reeding of this Bill. It was not just to say that the setting
of spring. guns was calculated to introduce a war between
she rich and the poor ; as if none but persons of rank and
etches used that.). The fact was well known, that Individuals
of small property were as much in the habit of using these
guns on their premises as those of extensive estates. life begged
the House to consider first of all the grouuds upon which thin Bills
was now attempted to be sustained. The Hon. Gentleman who had
just addressed the House could not show to him that the practice
was contrary to the law; on the contrary, he would say, that ac-
cording to the law of the land every person had a tight to set
spring guns on his premises. If it were unlawful to do so,
then he did not know what was lawful; for it had been decided
over and over again, by every Judge of the King's Bench,
that as to the setting of spring guns there was no illega-
lity. Upon that ground, therefore, he should vote against this
Bill ; because it proceeded upon what was entirely a mistaken
view of the law. The Bill itself was altogether unintelligible. Its
preamble and its chums were inconsistent, and, considering the
manner in which Bill which were sent up by the House of Com.
mons to the other House were spoken of, he certainly could not
refrain remarking upon the mode in which this Bill. the produc-
tion of that other House, was framed ; and he thought it was eery
necessary, after this specimen, to consider how the Bills which
came from that !louse were shaped. The accidents which had been
stated, and all the mischiefs that he had heard of as arising from
these spring guns, had always happened in the day-time: the extent,
therefore, to altich he would concede to his Hon. Ffiend (Mr. Tenn-
is mi) was this, that persons should be prevented from setting them du-
ring the day; but by their being set at night, he considered that so far
from their producing evil in any degree equivalent to the good which
they produced hq the protection of property, and the prevention of
those despeeate fights that occurred between the gamekeepers and
the poachers, who, knowing there were no spring guns to be appre-
hended, wett,sfearleas as to the conflicts with the keepers. His
Honourable Friend had, indeed, recommended a greater number of
gamekeepers being employed; but the consequence of that was,
that it produced constant fights, where blood was spilt and lives not
unfrequently lost, Ile could state several instances where pennes
being unwilling to make use of towing guns, employed keepers in-
stead; the consequence of which was, that every evening the lives of
those men were put in jeopardy by the conflicts that ensued between
them and poachers ; but the moment spring-guns were set, these
nightly affrays ceased. In one case a number of poacher proposed
going to get some game ; and the first question was, where should
they go ? It was then proposed to go on the lands of a gentleman
whunt he perfectly well knew; but the majority said " No; we
must not go there, for there are spring-guns set on the premises."
It was then agreed that they should go to the lands of a near'
neighbour of that gentleman, where no guns were set. The conse-
quence was, an affray took place with the keepers, in which one
of the game-keepers was wounded; one of the poachers was
also wounded, and another was taken, and had been since trans-
ported. He would repeat, therefore, that be 51)0111,1, for these
reasons, oppose the present Bill : at the same time he was willing
to make it illegal to set these guns during the day-time.
Sir F. BURDETT considered that the attempt to protect pro-
petty by means of spring-guns was altogether ineffectual, and that
it would be difficult to point out a case where this system had had
the effect which was aimed at upon those persons against whom it
was directed: it was well known that they .ere generally innocent
persons who suffered by it. (Hear, hear.) He begged leave to
remark, that previous to the case which had been recently de-
termined in the King's Bench, there were not only great doubts as
to the legality of the practice of setting spring-guns; but the Court
of Common Pleas had actually divided upon the question. There.
fore, for the Honourable Gentleman who last spoke to say there was
no doubt upon the subject as to its legality, wax saying too much.
And, if the Honourable Gentleman would reed attentively
the report of the case to which he had referred, he would
perceive that although the Learned Judges came to that con-
clu ace). they came to it very reluctantly ; and if the Honour-
able Member would look to the arguments used by them, he
would find a great difficulty in agreeing with the conclusion which
those learned Judges had drawn from them. In the judgment ex-
pressed by Mr. Justice Bailey, it was quite obvious that he enter-
tained doubts as to the legality of the practice, and that he con-
sidered the practice very inhuman. If, too, the principle of law
which was quoted by Mr. Justice Best be trite, namely, " that no
man can do that indirectly which he cannot do directly, he (Sir F.
Burdett) thought the judgment did not make it appear that that
principle did not apply to the question before the !louse ; for most
undoubtedly the act of settings spring gun, by which the lite of an
innocent person might be taken awly. was doing that indirectly
which could not be done ditectly. The law of England was so
tender of men's lives, that it would not let any one risk them if they
could preserve their own rights without it. Was it then consistent
with such a principle, that persons might thus blindly and indiscri-
minately set engines about their premises, by which any one who
happened, on whatever occasion it might he, to pass that way, should
be shot and deprived of life ? It seemed to him to be a thing perfectly
untenable. It did not appear to him that any person could have a right
to do that in the dark and covertly which he could not do openly. ale.
Justice Best, in his judgment, laid it down that humanity required
in these cams that the greatest possible notice should be given of
the fact that spring guns were set, and that the law was consistent
with humanity. But this very admission proved the conclusion to
which that Learned Judge arrived to be erroneous; for here not
only were persons to whom the fact might have been made known
liable to the danger, but persons who were strangers to the neigh.
bourhood, and who had no means ofacquiring a knowledge that guns
were set ; children who might be gathering flowers, or old women
picking up sticks, neither of whom might be able to read—were all
by the present system liable to instant death, without any possibi-
lity of receiving any warning of their daoger. If, then, no notice
could be given, the right of setting guns could not exist. The pre-
mises not being true, the conclusion drawn from them must fall to
the ground. For the Learned Judges said that a notice was neces-
, eery, and yet they could not show that this notice was given;
and, therefore, the judgment must be erroneous, as this was
a postulate in the argument that could not be admit-
ted in point of fair reamniug and sound logic. Chid
Justice Abbott seemed to feel the inhumanity of the practice, but
said he was not called upon to give an opinion upon that point. It
appeared, however, to him (Sir F. Burdett), that this was the only
argument for the consideration of the Court; for if humanity
would not admit of such a practice, and if the law would not sane-
, tion inhumanity, it was obvious that the question which the
Learned Judges had to decide resolved itself entirely into a matter
of feeling. But it did not front that judgment appear that
. the setting of spring -tguns was legal for the protection of
game; that was an argument which aid not seem to have been
adverted to by any of the Learned Judges, who applied themselves
only to the question of right to set guns to prevent trespasses on
the land, which was a propriety recognised by law, and not for the
protection of game, which, according to the common law of Eng-
land was not property. This was the great evil, and it became the
House to see whether a better system could not be devised than that
which was but little else than the cause of a constant civil war
being kept up between the rich and poor classes in the country.
If, indeed, it could be shown that the intention of these spring
guns were answered, and that the mischiefs arising from the Game
Laws were wholly suppressed by them, the . question would then
be whether it would not be better to have spring guns than all. the
results which flowed from dime I ws ? But when it wax seen that-
notwithstanding-them spring guns, all the evils of the (lame Laws
still existed, the proof of which was obvious enough in the fact
that there lacked no supply of game in the market, it was clear that
the art= did not have the effect it was said to promote, and that
therefore, as it operated very injuriously to the interests and even
lives of the people, he considered that such a pernicious system
ought immediately to be Nuomemed.
Mr. W. R- N. COLBORNE opposed the Bill. Whatever
might be the fate of this Bill, he was not prepared to admire the
humanity of shone who supported it, because it canoed the destruc-
tion of human life, and yet at the sante boasted that they had
always a good organised force ready to turn out against those who
should trespass upon their property, although such a meeting was
well known to be at the peril of their hires. If the blood which was
spilt in these nightly contests could possibly be compared with what
1 was spilt by means of spring guns (and no one lamented such a fact
more smiously than he did,) his conviction was, that the tide of
public opinion would not run so much against the system of pro-
tection by the means of guns as it possibly did at present. (Hear.)
Mr. If. GURNEY !supported the Bill. It was impossible that
the common law of this country could be brought to prove the le-
gality of setting such murderous engines as these. He could not
refrain from expressing his great obligation to the Noble Lord who
originated this measure. That Noble Lord enjoyed an fine a pre.
serve as any gentleman in the country without using a single spring
gun ; this 'hewed that game might be enjoyed without these deadly
engines.
Lord BINNING approved of the principle of the Bill, which
went to prevent spring guns being set to preserve game, but it also
embraced other principles, and WAS drawn up in so strange a manner,
that it ought to be objected to. The Bill went to prevent spring
guns being set in nursery gardens and walled gardens; these were
a very different species of property from that of game, and he
thought the public opinion was not so decided against the setting
of guns for the preservation of property which was essential to life,
although they might be opposed to the Game Laws. The Bill
was, in fact, drawn in so strange a manner, that he did not know
whether it could be altered in a Committee. If the man who
should be iejored by a spring-gun should die within a year and a
day, it was manslaughter; but if he hliottld not die, then it was
only a misdemeanor; but then came a clause which enacted that
all actions were to be begun within six months. He moat say he
thought this was a specimen of very blundering le;islation, and he
Was certainly sttrprtsed at it coming as it did from that House,
where they were so very much disposed to criticise whatever came
up to the ii from this Howse. Public opinion was very much alive
' titan: this subject, and he thought the House ought to pay attention
to the opinion ; but sure he was that the people would not be
satisfied with the arguments that had been used to-night against
the principle of the Bill.
Mr. SCAR LETT made some observations in explanation, •
we understood, of the clause% relating to the time for bringing the
action ; but his words were inaudible in the gallery. He confined
it monied to him very extraordinary that the law should permit
that to be clone involuntarily which could not he done voluntarily.
The law of England did not recognise game as being a property ;
and it seemed to him that the use of such violent means to preserve
that which was not property by the common law, was a great Feeley-
once. On the whole, he could not consider that, for the purpose of
preventing poaching, it was either propet,just,neceroary, or humane,
to erdanger the lives of innocent person% by setting spring guns for
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to endanger the lives of themselves.
TENNYSON replied.
The House then divided, when there appeared
For the second reading, 39 I Against it . n
majority in favour of the second reading, IL
GARDENS PROTECTION BILL
The Gardens Protection Bill was read a second time, and ordered
to be committed to-morrow.
ASSESSORS AT ELECTIONS BILL.
Mr. H. TWISS moved that the House do resolve itself into a
Committee of the whole House on the Assessors at Elections Bill.
On the question that the Speaker do leave the chair,
Mr. HOBHOUSE said thus Bill had been before the House re.
peatedly during the last Session and that before; in fact, it had
been almost coeval with his recollection, and the existence of the
present Parliament. He could not concur in the propriety of going
into a question of such importance as it regarded the election law.,
at the present late period of the Session. There was no want of
lawyer% at elections; their interference was already too extensive on
those occasions. and he was sure they had enough to do with law-
yers after elections; at least that was frequently the ease, and had
occurred to many other Hon. Members, if not to himself. (A
laugh.) Ile would merely ask the Hon. and Learned Gentleman
(Mr. Twig%) why he had deferred the Bill till the present late pe.
riod of the Session, if it were nut through a consciousness of its un-
palatable and unwelcome nature?
Mr. H. TWISS said he had brought the Bill forward at an early
period of the Session, in March last, and he had been then
appealed to by Gentlemen at the side of the House to which the
Hon. 31embee(Mr. Hubhouse) was such an ornament, for farther
I delay, in order that the subject might be farther considered, Ikr.d
receive the benefit of the elucidation of other lion. Members at the
Flute side of the House, whose opinions were always so valuable.
Ile had consented, and the House had since been so occupied with
importeut measures, that it was impossible to bring the subject
before it at an earlier period. Ile could not consent to withdraw
the Bill without saying that it had failed not through any fault of
his; and also that the opinion of the House had never been et.
pressed upon it fairly. The measure was intredisred four Sessions
ago, which proved he had not attempted to take the House by our.
prise, and that delays were not always centered and peculiar to the
Court of Chancery.
The Bill was then withdrawn.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the
House adjourned at eleven o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONN THIS DAY.
NOTICE OF MOTION.
Mr. Brougham—To refer to a telect Commiuee that petition of
Bishop Barnett. complaining of lite conduct of tits Governor of the
Cape of Good Hope.
ORDERS OF TIIE DAY.
East India Judges Bill—Third rending.
Customs laws Repeal reading.
Registry of Ships Bill—Third reading.
Navigation Laws Bill—Third reading.
Customs Regulation Bill—Third reading.

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DRURY-I,ANE THEATRE.
Thus Evening, WEDNESDAY, June 214 will be perfueraele
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S:r Giles Overreach, Mr. Kean: Wellborn, Mr. Archer; Marren, Mr.
Tarry Juet!e• Greedy, Mr. Gateje. Lady Allworth, yrs. Knight:
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To eOneltkda with HENRI QUATRE.
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Frienda, and the Public In general, that her BENEFIT will take place
Tomorrow keening, THL RSD Y, June 23, when will be performe.l
THE DEVIL AND DR. F kusTus.
The Prinelpal Characters by Mevers.Wallack,Terry, Harley, Browne.
Archer, Bedford. FitawilUam, and Penley; Mesdames Gladden I.
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Between the Play and Farce &VOCAL CONCERT. In which Meow,
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variety of Serious and Comic Songs. Duets, tee.
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Mr. Blanchard; Stephano. Mr. W. Farren ; Caliban, Mr. Rayner.
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After Which, •
TE D OF MANOR.
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ROYAL GARDENS•
UNDER THP. ESPECIAL. PATRONAGE OF MS MAJESTY.
REPETITION OF THE GRAND WATERLOO FETE
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night, to celebration of Lord Wellington's splendid Victory at
atcrloo, will be repeated for the last time THIS EVENING, In
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The BftITISII Pates commenced ptino.fting Yesterday imeing
at half-past five o'clock.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, Jcrxr 92, 1896.

In the Paris Papers that arrived last night, we have the
confirmation of the news of Of. ANETA'S submission. An
armistice was signed at La Paz on the 14th of January.
by the Spanish and Colombian Commissioners. This
Royalist General has fallen without a struggle, alter all his
vain and insolent swaggering. The Viceroy LASERNA,
whom he reproached with treachery, fought in support of
the royal authority ; but OLANtT A, it seams, agreed at
once to a suspension of hostilities, as soon as the Coloir-
bian army approached him. Mr. LAND, the British 311-
ouster, bad arrived at Madrid.
The Etoile, dated Monday, contains only some intc',•
ligence of a very old date, from the Greek islands, to the
ilst of April.
By the arrivals from Paris yesterday we have the fol-
lowing quotations of the French Funds at the close of the
Stock Exchange on Saturday per Cents., 109 f— 3°f•;
3 per Cents. 7.5 f. 40c.; Guebliard's Loan, .513 38 ; Sign's"
Bonds, 183.
[From the Matitenr of Sunday, June 19.1
The official put contains only a notice that General biltrows the
Prussian Envoy Extraordinary, and Sir George NArler, claret
King at Arms, have taken leave of the King in privair authencra
(Non-official part.)
AIRDRID. Jr 8s 6.
[PRIVATE CORR ESPONDT.NCE 1
31. Lamb, the British Minister Plenipotentiary. hisl,ll


in this city. It is pretended that the Cabinet of St. Jamea'altas
complained toour Government that the 'elm bad intermeddled
in the alfaira of the Catholics of Ireland,- relatively to their Eman-
cipation.
If the troops employed to pnrsue the hands of malefactors always
act with so much seal and courage, they will soon have entirely
.cleared our country of them : not a week passes but some of these
wretches are brought to our prisons, and those who have resisted
the irony' with arms in their hands are immmedtately tried by the
Al thus, Commission, nod punished according to the laws t eight
ildividuale, lately taken under such circumstances, will be executed
in three or four days.
Persons who went to Aranjuez on the day of his Majesty's fete
(Saint's day), observed an extraordinary bustle, which indicated
the adoption of some great measurer'. Then add, that several per.
moos, under the appearance of going to the ?slate to pay their re-
spects to his Majesty, were sent for to be consulted.
We have received the Car r:o Aferreetil of Cadiz of Jose I.
We find in it the articles of the armistice. concluded on the 12th 4'
January, between Olaneta anti Sucre, and signed at La Pea*
the CoMmissioners, Mendizabal and and the treaty d
commerce between the United Provinces of Buenos Ayres Mad
lireat Britain.
AIALAOA, Maw 24. •
We have received the news of the capture by the Columbiana.
the Jonto brig, of a chebeck laden with cocoa and wheat, add
another vessel coming from Vigo.
They have also taken the Filanca schooner, bound to Vigo, Ili
have carried it into G tbraPar.
The Commander-in-Chief on the Ilavannah station has sent
!wren' reports to his Majesty's Government they are very favour.
able, anti give an account of several important prints taken from
the insurgents of South America.
The coasts of Cuba have been cleared of the numerons pirates
that have so long infested them : the trade of our vessels, and that
of foreigners, will not be troubled for some time at least by these
pirates. The naval commanders at Puerto Principe have alm caused
the pirates to be pursued who had long molested the coasting trade;
several small vessels belonging to the brigands have been taken by
the Royal forces. The Commander-in-Chief recommends to lib
,Majesty's favour :he brave seamen who on this occasion have re*.
ilcred such an important service to commerce and to the State;
measures have been taken by the two Commanders entirely to clear
thou seas of the numerous pirates who rendered it impossible to
navigate them, and put an entire stop to commevee.
The question of the New Spanish Loan must now be
very soon placed beyond all doubt, by the Contractors
themselves. Their Agent, Mr. GREGORY, and the Spanish
Commissioner, M. Ar.seacao, have at last arrived in Eng-
land ; and we suppose, that many hours before the publipi
cation of this Paper, they will have reached the metropolis.
They landed at Dover yesterday morning, at six o'clock,
few Boulogne. Their detention at Paris was occasioned,
wannderstand, principally by the difficulties to which we
on Saturd iv, as to his passports. We may be ex-
.
• aslidwe think, if we refer with some feeling of warrant-
able satisfaction, to the information we have from time to
-time, daring the last three months, communicated to our
• seaters on this subject. If we hail been silent, the whole
wiasaction would have been completely unknown to the
public. Our statements have been roundly contradicted ;
-but the day has come, that justifies us, and covers our ad-
versaries with confusion. We shall probably have some
further particulars to give to-morrow.
The Annual Report of the Select Committee on time
Poor Rate Returns will be found in another part of
day's paper. It appears that the sum levied on account al
Poor Rates for the year ending on the 25th of Ilsteb.l
1824, was 64,5231. less than the previous year, and
2,486,8101. less titan the year 1817-18, when the rams
were at their b'ghest amcunt. This decrease has takes 1
place too, it should be observed, while the price of food
has been advancing. The average price of wheat in
1822-S was 41s. ILL s quarter: in 1823-4 it was .565. Bd.
The diminution of the pr tssure is therefore greater than it
appears ; and it holds forth a consolatory prospect, that the
evil is in a gradual course of abatement. In some agricul-
tural counties, however, the rates have considerably in-
creased. These are the districts in which the abuses of the
Poor Rates are carried to the greatest extent. In the ma-
nufacturing counties the decrease is general, and even in
some of the others it has begun to take place. In Sussex,
where the charge is heaviest, it being Ws. a head, there
was during the last year a diminution of two per cent.
The three aunties next in point of expenditure to Sussex,
in reference to the;r population, ere Suffolk, Essex, and
Kent, in which the rents are IS, 17, and 16 shillings
a-head, while in Lancashire they are only four shillings
a-head. The decrease that has been effected in some of
the counties warrants us in expressing our opinion, that
by judicious refortna in the system of relief, aided by the
improved circumstances of the country, the burden of
Poor Rates may be progressively reduced to the lowest
possible degree within which we can reasonably hope to
confine it. The attention of the public, as well as of Par-
liament, is now directed to the subject, and the general
spread of information on topics of this nature will teed
greatly to facilitate the desirable object of raising the lap
bouring classes above the degradation of depending es,
the Poor Rates as part of their ordinary means of subsist.l
once. The mischief has not long been thoroughly undee4
stood, and the proper remedies have been but recently,
suggested. They are now in a course of application; and
considering the favourable opportunity that presents itself
for that purpose, we have DO hesitation in looking for-
ward to results touch more satisfactory next year.

Car, TVISDAT EVENTICO.

There was very consilcrable business done this morning in the
British Funds, at an advance on yesterday's quotations. At one
time there were even buyers of Consols fur the opering at 911.
There were afterwards sellers at and the market closed at 01.
The Reduced Annuities, in which some heavy purchases were
made, also proportionably advanced, and were held with great
tinnriess.

There was not a great deal of business doing in the Foreign
Market, butstill the great proportion of the Securities ;nit have risen.
(;reek Scrip, in which there now appears to be a complete reaction,
was done at 9i 9 discount ; indeed, the remarks that we hare re-
peatedly felt it our duty to make on this Stork, and on the affairs
of flreece generally, have always tended to show how absurd and
groundless was the panic that seized holders of it, who chose to at-
tend to the loose talk at individuals, whose Interest it was to decry
it; and every day's experier.ce now shows that we were tight in
our warnings. he Bonds were at 49 SO. Spanish Bonds were
much the same as yesterday at the close of the market ; the Old at
'2.4i 3, and the New at 194. South American Securities were held
rery lightly. Colombian Bonds were at 1373 I. runt 'Mexican Scrip
I discount. Brazilian Scrip was 3 discount, and Danish 3i

In the Share Market there was • degree of depression to-day.
Anttlo-31exican Shares fluctuated between 82 and 871. and the
Cohed Mexican Shares were at 24 8. Pasco Peruvian shares were
14 12, those of the New Potosi Sham 7, and the General Mining
it'onpany's Shares 121.
There was no particular feature in the Colonial Market to-day
beyond great steadiness of prices in Coffee and Sugar. Tilt in.
%pines for Rum were limited.

A private letter froni- l'aris stateic that Ferdinand has
concluded a contract for some mines in Spain, which are
supposed to he very valuable. •
Letters from Madrid state, that the order for raising
eight thousand men for the Havannsh, and six thousand
gcns (Fames, to act against the Constitutionalists, remains
almost a dead letter, as there is no money in the treasury
t) pay the recruits, and the treasury orders are not mar-
ketable.

Letters from Malaga of the Ist state, that every day
brings intelligt•nce of some new capture by the Colombian
corsairs, one of the most formidable of which is called " the
General Santander." Accounts from Barcelona, up to the
mention the recent capture of six or seven merchant
ve.sels.

The Jorerard de Gend states, in its correspondence from
Madrid, that the Clergy have again offered to raise an artny
for King Ferdinand, on condition of his agreeing to allow
them the nomination of the Officers, and to insist upon the
evacuation of the fortified places by the French troops.
The frost in Spain has been so injnrions to the corn that
the price of bread has risen considerably.
Letters from Port-au-Prince (Hayti) of the 4th of May,
state that a decree had been passed by the HaytianGovern-
tnent, increasing the import duty on English manufactured
goods from 7 to 12 per cent. thus depriving the English
nwrchants of that preference which had previously been
erytted to them over all other nations. The motive 13-
$ igl«1 for this decree is the indignation of Boyer, the Pre-
sidect, at the non-recognition of the independence of Hayti,
at the time when the recognition of the New American
!z!ttes took place.

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