The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-25 00:00:00

WOOLLEN GOODS.

Cloths, casimeres, ladies' cloths, drapery, ratteens, &c.,
of black, blue-black, dark green, white, light blue,
&c., per lb
Table covers, quilts, &c., per lb 3 50
Carpets, great and small, of woollen fabric, or mixed
with linen thread, hemp, cotton, withringes
or fringes
_ _

sewed, per lb. 1 0
Cloths and woollen sacks used in pressing out oil, per lb. 0 20
[OnsEavATioN.—Every description of printed woollen
or half-woollen goods, with the exception of those
specifically mentioned, remain prohibited.l
Wax tapers, and all articles of white and coloured wax,
per lb
Wadding-cotton, per lb
Wadding-silk, per lb 2 0
Wafers in boxes, per lb 4 0
The following. articles are freed from the additional Custom-
house duty of 12A- per cent., imposed in conformity with the
Ukase of the 11th of November, 1831 :
Cinnamon and cinnamon flowers ; cocoa in beans ; coffee ;
caraway seeds; cloves ; cubebs, roots of; ginger; galanga,
roots of; lace, blonds, tulles, &c. ; metals, viz., lead, tin, and
quicksilver ; mace ; nutmegs ; pepper of every description,
whole or ground; tea ( Kirpitschnii, Lougan, and every sort
of tea of inferior quality) ; vanilla.
Besides the above, the seeds of turnips, rape, as well as of
various oleaginous grains, which are not specifically mentioned
in the tariff, and which arc known only by their local names,
such as sourcpa, rigey, &c., will be freed from all Custom-
house dues on exportation for a period of six years, commenc-
ing from. the Ist of January, 1837.
On the original is written by his Majesty's own hand—
" Thus let it Lc."
St. Petersburgh, December 6, 1836.

GENERAL RULES.
1. The provisions of this tariff will begin to be put in force
from the Ist of January, 1837, and in the more remote Cus-
tom-houses to which they cannot be communicated by that pe-
riod they shall come into operasion from the day on which they
shall have been received.
2. All imported goods that are specified in this tariff that
may remain bonded at the custom-houses, and upon which the
duty shall not have been paid up to the aforesaid Ist January,
1837, or to the day upon which this tariff shall have been
received at those custom-houses at which it may arrive
later than that day, shall enjoy half the reduction of duty
herein specified. In the same manner there shall be col-
lected only one-half the additional duty of 124 per cent.
upon those species of merchandize from which it has
been by a previous• provision of this tariff altogether re-
moved. With respect to these species of goods, limited in
their number, of which the importation was already permitted,
.and of which, from peculiar considerations, the duty was either
altogether removed or recently modified, such of. them as are
allowed to remain bmided to the Ist of January next, shall
pay duty under the old tariff. On the other hand, such of
these species of goods as may b 3 imported after the Ist of Ja-
nuary, shall be subject to the regulations of this tariff. In
the meantime, however, a discretion is vested in the Minister
of Finance to admit even this latter species of goods under the
former regulations, when it shall be proved that their shipment
took place previously to the Ist of January, or in ignorance of
the change in the tariff.
3. The abolition of the additional duty pf 124 per cent.
upon particular species of tea, Congou, for instance, and other
inferior qualities, will commence from the sales which will
take place in the Winter of 1837-33, comprising both the
teas recently imported, as well as what remain over since the

last sales.
4. The additional duty of 12} per cent., from which the
above-mentioned articles have been freed, will not be levied
upon merchandises of the same description hereafter admitted
to importations in a raw state. On the contrary, until a new
disposition shall be made, it will be collected upon all the other
merchandises comprised in the present tariff, with the excep-
tion, however, of those custom-houses in which the collection
of this duty has not taken place at all.
5. Merchandises, the importation of which is permitted by
the present tariff, shall be admitted upon the payment of the
duty at those custom-hduses at which articles of the same kind
have hitherto paid duty. Merchandise hereafter admitted
may be imported through all the custom-houses of the first
class.
6. The operation of this tariff is oonfined to those merchan-
dises of which the duty is levied under the European Tariff,
and amongst the objects of the Asiatic Tariff only to tea of a
particular description, Congou and others of inferior quality.
7. Merchandises, the importation of which is permitted to
the Trans-Caucassian Provinces by the Black Sea at a lower
duty than that imposed by the present tariff, shall pay in the
said provinces the same duty as before.
8. In the Trans-Caucassian Provinces every species of cot-
ton manufacture, non-transparent and half-transparent, shall
remain subject to the same duty as heretofore.
9. The fifth of the customs' duty levied at Odessa, for the
benefit of that town, will be collected conformably to former
regulations. But the duty of all merchandises passing into
the interior of the empire through the customhouses about
Odessa, shall be paid under the provisions of the present tariff,
beginning from the Ist of January, 1837.
10. With respect to merchandises, the importation of which,
hitherto prohibited, is henceforth permitted, and which shall
be seized as contraband after the publication of the present
tariff, they shall be dealt with as goods permitted, but fraudu-
lently imported.
11. It is left to the Minister of Finance to give instruction,
such as may be deemed proper, to the custom. houses respect-
ing the deduction from the duty on account of tare.
12. Any question that may arise upon the construction of
this tariff shall be referred for decision to the Minister of

Finance. -
The original is signed by the President of the Council o'
the Empire. • . Count NOVOSSILTZOFF.

SPORTING..S.,INTELLIGENCE.
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EPSO' -MEETIN.
For the Cup and Goblet.
Mr. Elmore's Beau beat Mr. Bothwell's Wasp.
Mr. Charrington's Tinker beat Mr. Ilenessy's Catalina.
Mr. Bland's Blue Bess beat Mr. Trevyllyan's Cosey.
Mr. Thompson's Cyprian beat Mr. Shepherd's Fly.
Mr. Spooner's Smart beat Mr. Garner's Bess. •
Mr. Wood's Gander beat Mr. Rice's •Whynot.
Mr. Clarke's Centipede beat Mr. Hodson's Hodge.
Mr. Walker's Boy Blue beat Mr. Shepherd's Linda.
First Ties.—Tinker beat Beau (lame), Cyprian lra.t Blue Bess;
Smart beat, Gander Centipede beat Boy Blue.
Second Ties.,-Tinker beat Cyprian, Centipede beat Smart.
Deciding Course.—Mr. Clarke's Centipede beat-Mr. Charring-
ton's Tinker and won the-Cup, and Tinker the Goblet.

A few dbys.ago-the estafette from Paris to Brussels
again broke down on the road, 'and the bags were
brought by another carriage. Scarcely a week passes
without the 'repetition of • these accidents. We do not
know whether the fault lies in the want of solidity in
the -carriage's, or some defect in their construction, or the
roughness of the paved roads ; at all events, it is but too
true that these accidents become more numerous, and that
the advantage which should result from the introduction of
the estafette is reduced to little or nothing.—Brussels Paper.
The Earl of Atran, who was in his 76th year, died
on Friday at his seat, Arran Lodge, near Bognor. His
Lordship was not a Peer of Parliament, his titles being
Irish only. He married, in 1817, Mary, eldest.daughter
and co-heir of Sir John Tyrrel, Bart., by whom he has left
no issue. He is, however, succeeded in his title and estates
by his next brother, the Hon. Cul. William John Gore, who
was horn in 1767, and -married in 1798,.Caroline, daughter
of Sir Thomas Pvin Hales, Bart., by whom he has several
children—the eldest, now Viscount Sudley, was born in
180-.

Great numbcrs.of persona are suffering very severely
in this town from the-effects of the Influenza. We have
heard of instances where whole families, together with the
servants, are laid up by it, and recourse has been obliged to
be had to -parties out of the house to attend to the invalids
and do the domestic work.—hull Advertiser.
Notwithstanding the tidal ourableness of the weather
and the preN:alence of influenza, upwards of 250 persons were
present at the Master of the CereMonies' ball at Southamp-
ton, last week.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

We are enabled to present our ceMmereial readers
With the new Russian Tariff which has been so
anxiously expected. They will stein this important do-
cument an adtltional proof of the perseverance and as-
siduity with which their interests are prosecuted by
the distinguished Nobleman who now represents this
country at the Court of St. Petersburg. It exempts
no fewer than 98 articles from the absolute prohibition
Which before existed with regard to them. British
cloths, plated goods, paper, &c., are now admitted ; and
they who ought to be the best judges in such matters—
the English merchants in Russia—anticipate a reads-
sale under the new duty. • The advantage of low wages.
and cheap food are more than counterbalanced by the
skill and the improved machinery of the British manu-
facture., But admitting even that the protecting duty
may be much higher than the English merchant wishes
it to be, still the substitution of a duty, however high,
for absolute -prohibition is a great point gained. It is,
in fact, the commencement of a new commercial
era. The duty on Scotch and English herrings
has been also reduced one-half through the agency of
Lord Durham. No man can be more sensible than
his Lordship that there is still a great deal too much
protection in Russia ; but if the obstinacy of English
squires•and the mistaken fears of English manufac-
turers, opposed to Mr. Huskisson, and the more liberal
and enlightened Members of both branches of the
Legislature, a dogged resistance for years to all at-
tempts to substitute a protecting duty for one of .abso-
lute prohibition in many important branches of in-
dustry, we are not to be surptised if Russian mer-
chants and manufacturers should not be altogether
under the dominion of absolute wisdom. The Russians
have their " grandmothers" to enlighten them as well
as the English, and if the idea of departing from abso-
lute prohibition were till now scouted, as preg-
nant with ruin to the Russian empire, it is a most
important point gained to have been able to in-
duce the Russians to move even a single step in
advance. The result will no doubt convince them
that the change advocated by Lord Durham has
been productive of benefit to both countries. In ef-
fecting these alterations in the Russian Tariff, for the
benefit of English commerce, Lord Durham needed no
other stimulus than the approbation of his own con,
science. But it must be so far gratifying to him
to find that his services in the character of his
country's representative are duly appreciated by those
who are chiefly affected by them. Whenever his
Lordship shall withdraw from the present scene of
his labours, he will carry with him the grateful acknow-
ledgments of the English merchants in the Russian
ports of the Baltic; who know that both their interests
and their consideration in society have • been greatly
advanced by the present Ambassador. That his
Lordship. has detractors is.- no doubt true ; but we
would fain believe they arc neither
.Englishmen by
birth nor by feelings. In the 37th number of the
Portfolio we find, for instance, the- following passage:
" To manifest to all the world the union of the com-
mercial no less than of -the political interests of. the two
countries, the Emperor invited his Majesty's Ambassador
to intimate his high approbation to the British merchants
at St. Petersburg Qf their conduct an all occasions, and in
all circumstances. You may easily imagine,' said the
British Representative to the British Consul, that this
notion of my countrymen is as gratifying to me as it is ho-
nourable to them.
" We believe it to be an unusual proceeding on the part
of a Sovereign to convey to a body of foreign merchants,
residing in his capital, such a singular mark of his favour ;
but on . the eve of effecting new injuries on our commercial
rights, the Emperor probably wished to•banish from the
minds of the mercantile classes in England the remembrance
of their passive submission to the establishment of the Rus-
sian tariff against the productions of our own industry—to
the collusion of Count Nesselrode with Prussia, in exclu-
ding us from the markets.of twenty-five millions of German
customers—to the destruction of the commercial interests
of England in Poland, previously guaranteed by three
British Plenipotentiaries at Vienna—to the extension of the
Russian tariff to Bessarabia, the Caucasus, and Greece=
and to the extinction of our transit trade through Georgia.
" The correspondence between Lbrd Durham and the
British Consul at St. Petersburgh was the most valuable
support that Count Nesselrode could possibly have received:
The 'dangerous effect it produced in misleading the public
mind was not -confined to England. Interpreted by the
Russian Cabinet in a manner to suit its ambitious ends, the
innumerable emissaries of the Emperor explained it to
Sovereigns and their subjects as a renewed evidence- that
England could not, would not, dared not assist them ; that,
indissolubly bound by the fascinations of Russian amity, no
Administration in England could escape froth its entangle-
ments. Count Novosiltzoff was, at the same time, appointed
on a mission to England; to examine the statesof our ma-
chinery and manufactures, and the indecorous manner in
which-he abused the hospitality he received in this country,
by obtrusively forcing his way into several of the manufac-
tories during his excursion in the north, will long be* re-
membered with astonishment and disgust at Manchester and
elsewhere. • Count Novosiltzoff has a great cloth manufac-
tory in Lithuania. In order to find a debit for his cloths,
when he was curator of the University of Wilna, he gave
orders that all the uniformi of the students should be made.
of his own manufacture. - Amongst the different Courts of
Europe there is none in which the proceedings of foreign
Representatives are so minutely canvassed .as at St: Peters-
burgh. ' From the top of the Imperial staircase to the
bottem there is but one step,' has been from time immemo-
rial a proverb at the Russian capital. But the step of Lord
Durham has distanced the most practised courtier even at
St. Peteraburgh.”
There are, unfortunately, in all great capitals too
many literary Swiss indifferent to the cause they advo-
cate, and ready to prostitute the talent of turning sen-
tences to the first employer. To some such Swiss is
his Lordship indebted for the trash to which we have
invited the attention of our readers. It was observed
by a distinguished writer, that the great fault of modern
legislators was that they conceived they knew better
how every meohanic should exercise his trade than the
mechanic himself. On the same principle the political
charlatan will not give the Manchester manufacturer
nor the St. Petersburg merchant credit for knowing
how to conduct as they ought their own affairs. At
this array of sounding names the English merchant
will smile. Any merchant in the city will tell the
writer that the Prussian Tariff excludes no goods from
the German market but such as from their nature are,
excluded—that is, coarse goods that cannot support the
charges of transit—and that the trade with Germany
is at this•moment more extensive than ever it was.
The Manchester manufacturers are jealous of no
Count Novosiltzoffs, nor any other masters of slaves.
English machinery has long been introduced into all
the countries of the Continent ; but English spirit
and English enterprise cannot be imported along with
the machinery. Every man who has paid any atten-
tion to manufactures, knows the extreme difficulty
with which a manufacture is removed from its old
seat. If Dundee is to be reduced to its village di-
mensions of forty or fifty years ago, the writer in the
Portfolio may rest assured that it will not, like another
Loretto, take arms for Lithuania. _We may also rest
assured that the Leeds and Manchester manufacturers
will not leave Lancashire and Yorkshire for Russia
or Prussia. - It is much easier to turn a sentence,
than to turn the course of trade and manufactures.
We are far from justifying the policy of Russia, or
wishing that the English Government should view with
indifference her aggressions on Turkey. If tile conduct
of Russia should he such as to justify British interfe,.
rence, that interference will not assuredly be withheld.
But, after all, perhaps the best security for the con-
duct of Governments is the multiplication of the
points of contact between their respective subjects.
An extensive commerce between Russia • and Britain
cannot be long carried on, without producing in
both countries the feeling that they arc necessary tr.,
each other, and consequently creating a cheek oe, the
caprice of their respective GOvernments. Los-d Dur-
ham has felt that while he is the political representa-
tive of his Government, the interests of his commer-
cial countrymen are equally committed to his care.
Silistria has been evacuated through his intercession.
But the toll on the Danube has also been disclaimed,
and the Complaints of the English merchants in that
quarter redressed, as well as at Cronstadt and Arch-
a'ngel. The Baltic fleet, such a bugbear to many,
had been summoned out for an ostentatious'cruise in
the Baltic, but it was laid up after a private inspection'
within twenty miles of Cronstadt. Redress has been
afforded to individuals through the effectualinterces-
sisn of Lord Durham to an extent before unheard of.
Mr. Grant,. an English merchant, received 330,009
roubles, after a decree had been had against his. claim
in the Council of State 3 and signed by the EmFror.

The Scottish Missionary Society have had through
the same means their indemnity raised from 1,500
to 7,000 roubles. These are but a few of many in-
stances of grace and concession on the port of the Go-
vernment, marking, at all events, both- his Lordship's
activity and their good-will. If Lord Durham enjoys
the confidence or rather friendship of the Emperor,
and is on good terms with the Government, he is noc
on that account held in less yegard•by lii countrymen
settled .in Russia. His Lordship did not • leave this
country for Russia with a character to establish.
From the consideration in which he was held at home,
he could afford to be kind abroad, without fear for his
diaonity. In fact he lives with the English merchants
on terms of the most cordial intimacy. They; their'
wives, and their daughters, form his society as
much, and even. more, than the Russian nobility.
This is no trifle in a Country in-which .trade is
not honoured, as in England. Iu .this country
the noble becomes trader • and the trader becomes
noble e but in Russia the trader, if not a slave, is
directly sprung from slaves. It was the . object
of Lord Durham to show the proudest -Prince in
Russia that an English merchant is his equal in every
respect, and not merely to he publicly protected, but
privately cherished as a friend. and companion. Our
'readers may easily conceive that the general character
of that body has been raised, and usefully raised; and
leave Russia when he may, his Lordship will carry
with him the pleasing satisfaction of having been the
first representative of his country who did not disdain
to show that the English merchant was his equal.
We should have'left Lord Durham's actions to speak
for him, aware that not a syllable from any mercantile
house in Russia, not flattering to his Lordship, will
ever reach this country ; but the occasion of our re-
ceiving this fresh proof of his exertions, tie new tariff,
for which. he was calumniated by anticipation, seemed
to us to demand that we should be more than passive.
We cannot expect that public men will have the cou-
rage to fight the political and commercial battles of
their country abroad, if they are to be abandoned with-
out vindication to the shafts of calumny at home.—
Morning Chronicle.
The Gazelle of last night contains two Orders of
his Majesty in Council, ratifying two more of the
schemes (the fifth and sixth) prepared by the Eccle-
siastical Commissioners for England. The main ob-
jects of the first Order are, to charge the see of Dur-
ham with its proposed contribution towards the smaller
bishoprics, and to endow the newly-constituted
Bishoprid of Ripon. The contribution from Dur-
ham is to Be made partly by a transfer of estates •be.;-
longing to the see but situate in Yorkshire, and partly
by afixed money payment to an account opened by
the Commissioners at the Bank of England. • The an-
nual sum thus charged upon the revenues of the see
of Durham, so as to leave to the Bishop the annual
average income of 8,0001. allotted by the Act, after •
allowing for the value of the abstracted estates, is
11,2001. By this arrangement the Order earries out
the evident intention, of the Church Commissioners in
their original propositions, to retain to the contribut-
ing. Bishops the independent management of the re-
mainiing property of the respective sees. A similar
plan, e converso; has been adopted in endowing the
Bishopric of Ripon. The estates abstracted from
Durham are transferred to the new see, with some
other property, from the see of York ; and a fixed an-
nual sum of 2,200/. is to be paid to the Bishop by
the Commissioners, which, together with the estimated
value of the transferred estates, is to provide him with
the allotted average income of 4,5001. . The- effect of
this form of endowment is to place the Bishop of the
new see as nearly as possible upon the same indepen-
dent footing as the other Bishops of England and
Wales. The estates conferred upon the Bishop of
Ripon from the see of York arc situate within the
limits of the new diocese, and part of them appear,
from their description in the order, to be conveniently
situate for an episcopal residence. The order recites
the consent of the Archbishop of York to this volun-
tary and immediate surrender of property, the transfer
of which,' however eligible, could not, without this con-
sent, have taken place until the. see became vacant.
The. patronage of five livings is also assigned to
the • Bishop of Ripon. Four of these are trans-
ferred from Durham, and the other, situate within
the • limits of Ripon, is also voluntarily sur-
rendered by. the Archbishop of York. There are
some minor provisions, the general effect of which
is to make the episcopal jurisdiction co-exten-
sive with the diocesan boundaries. The second Order
in Council carries •into area the greater part of the
territorial changes proposed by the Commissioners re-•
lating to the dioceses of Lichfield and Coventry and
Worcester. The. whole of the archdeaconry of Coven-
try is transferted to Worcester, and the name of the
former bishopric is consequently changed to that or
Lichfield. Attending upon this arrangement is the
transfer to the Bishop of Worcester of two livings in
Birmingham. It may be well here to point out the
distinction, apparently not fully understood, between
the Commission issued by his Majesty for considering
the state of the Established Church, which has still
under consideration the measures affecting cathedrals
and the parochial clergy, and the " Ecclesiastical
Commissioners for England," appointed by the Act
of last Session, for carrying into effect, within pre--
scribed limits, such recommendations made under the
former Commission as relate to the bishoprics. Al-
though the two bodies consist of the same individuals,
their duties and the powers under which they act are
entirely distinct.—Times.

The Tory journals are already letting 'loose the'
sluices of their wrath at the gentlemen who spoke at.
the Reform dinner of Monday. This can excite no*
sirprise. It was precisely what was to be expecte/
om the way in which the dinner went off.
natj dinner was a most important one in many rep.,
sects.
None can be more. aware of this than the C
nserva-
tives. It must* sufficiently galling to tr.
iem to find
that notwithstanding the vast number • ,
opinion on minor
of persons pre-
sent, embracing, too, every variety of
the proceed-
matters, the strictest order charae•,,,rised
ingS from their commencement to their close. There
were those present who paid t4-leir guinea with no other
vieW than that of creating a, 'row, and we witnessed
one
or two indications of such . a disposition on the part of
Tory-Radicals we coulti dame—hut they saw the over-
whelming majority of the meeting so harmonious in their;
,opinions as to the line of conduct which all honest Re,-
formers ought to pursue at this moniep.tous juncture,
that they were forced to bottle up the -:itupecation '...hey
were about to pour out on the meetin We olAervedg. -
-persons—we forbear to name t:r,etn—who were
•mani-
festly burning with -anxieq do mischief, by an at-
. tempt to divide the 13:dormers ; .but they saw, from the
marked feeling oc., the meeting, that " discretion was
the better part of valour ;" and for once in their lives

they quitted a public meeting, not got up by them-.
selves, without creating a disturbance. What of a,ll
other things must prove gall and wormwood to f,tte
Tories, is the way in which the toast of his Maje;ty's
-Ministers was . received. Had the meeting cont,ented
itself with the mere assertion of abqract pr,nciples
of Reform, then the faction couta have ',ionic it.
The Liberal party, they would.- gave told gas, as they
have a thousand times told us bef'jre, can all
arse in calling then:,selves by the comprehensive
iiapulle es of;
bu
tthe Reformers.
and in assenting to general prin-
cr
moment a certain_ set of men is
singled persons with whose political views those
of the
e'aiV a''
iing,. ought to be in unison, that moment the!
ge.:Uns of discord is introduced, and confusion reigns.
Supreme. This convenient assumption will no longer
avail the mortified and degraded. faction. The pro-
ceedings of Monday evening have put p. complete ex-
tinguisher; on it. The approbation, of a partic-nlat
class of principles, as embodied in the views and
measures of a particular set of inen, was expressed
in the most decided, -possibh: manner. The health
of his Majesty's M'inisters was proposed and received.
with shouts of P:pplause, the most cordial and general
.with which any toast was ever greeted at a public
meeting. What then, comes of the disunion among Re-
formers, \xi-licit the Conservative journals have been.
proclaieJing so long ?—what of the alleged uarmpu-
larity of MiniFters ?—wliat of the impending dissf )lutiore
of Lord iyielbourne's Administration, so la ag, and
so confidently predicted by the Tory organs of chi,
press ?, .Again and again have we said, that iii
each and all of these cases the wish wa father
to the thought—that no disuniou, existed ty nong the

Reformers—that Ministers were not unpopular—that
Lord Melbourne's Administration was not on the
eve or dissolution. Who is now right—the Tories or
the Morning Advertiser? Let the way in which the
announcement of the toast of " his Majesty's Minis-
ters" was received answer the question. Answered it
already has been. The thunders of applause with which
that toast Yves- received were an answer which, for
some time at least, will silence the Tories. They con-
fidently expected—those of them, we mean, who were
present—that the annunciation of such a toast would
prove the signal for uproar and confusion. How dis-
agreeably disappointed they must have been ! How
the loud and universal plaudits with which the toast
was greeted must have grated on the ears of the poor
wights I What would they not have given to have been
anywhere but in Drury-lane Theatre at that moment !
What makes the reception which the toast of his
Majesty's Ministers met with more important, as in-
iiicative of the state of public opinion respecting the
elaims which that Ministry have on the confidence of
the country, is the fact, that this was no meeting got
up by the partisans of Ministers. Had it been so,
the reception of the toast in question could not have
bean regarded as a true index of public opinion
respecting their principles and conduct. But the
meeting was got up by the really independent Re-
formers—men having no interest, apart from the inte-
rests of the country, in the continuance of Ministers in
office. Every speech delivered on the occasion proved
the thorough independence of the gentlemen by whom
the dinner was got up. Though all most heartily ap-
proving of the couduct of the present Government,
they boldly and honestly declared their determination
to withdraw their support from that Government the
moment it should forfeit its claims to public confidence.
These are the men whose friendship is worth having.
Lord Melbourne may well be proud of the proceedings
of Monday evening.—Morning Advertiser.
France, whose history, for the last halt century, has
been a series of revolutions, interspersed with inter-
vals of democratic reigns of terror, imperial despotism,
and regal tyranny, is now placed in a frightful strug-
gle between defined law and arbitrary prerogative—
between the principles of justice, according to which
the law should reign, and the power which would make
courts of judicature the mere registration offices for
ministerial edicts and royal decrees. England was in
much the same situation in the reign of Charles 11.,
a monarch as profligate in political conduct as he was
licentious in his private life. The grand rebellion—
the overthrow of the established religion—the aboli-
tion Of the Peerage—the murder of the King—the
democracy of the long Parliament—the military usur-
pation of Cromwell, had preceded the restoration of
the Stuarts ; as the Jacobin revolution—the democra-
tic tyranny of the National Convention—the abolition
of Christianity—the destruction of all privileged orders
—the murder of the King—the oligarchy of the
" Five Hundred"—the imperial despotism of Napo-
leon, precede the restoration of the Bourbons. The
private character of Louis Philippe, unlike that.
of our second Charles, is not blemished with the
vices of licentiousness. An ungraceful penury of
disposition gives ais air of meanness to his habits, but
lie has as little of the personal profligacy of the Stuart
as of his courtly wit, or his strange mixture of Romish
piety and atheistical profaneness. Louis Philippe is
not only an observer of the decencies of life, but an
exemplary hoe:timid and father—one who cultivates the
qualities which attach the affections and constitute the
;happiness of the domestic circle. Would that we
could speak of him in the same terms as
the elected ruler of a great nation ; but to
eulogise him in the latter character would be flat-
tery, as to wi'hhold praise from him in the former
would he detraction. We have said that in regard to
that most important part of Government, the adminis-
" at:on of justice, France is now in a similar condition
to what England was in the reign of the second
Charles ; there is a striking resemblance also in the
colasant succession of plots or mock plots, and the
conspiracies, real or pretended, to take away the
life of the King. The obvious and clumsy
interference of the Executive power with the
.ope-
rations of Courts of Justice ; the attempts to inti-
midate Juries and to render them the mere ma-
chinery of Court persecution; the encouragement given
to spies and informers—the worthy successors of the
delatores of the degenerate Roman State, the wretches
who concoct the crime, entrap the victim, and provide
the evidence;e the giving to the most improbable fic-
tions, from the most polluted sources, the credit which
should only belong to statements probable in them-
selves, and resting upon unimpeachable testimony ;
all these things, and others which we might mention,
forcibly bring to mind the state of England in the
reign to which we have -alluded, and which was a pe-
riod of transition between the wild democracy of a for-
mer era, and the constitutional freedom of a later one.
As to the reign of James 11., we say nothing of that ;
it only carried to an extravagant pitch the vicious doc-
trines: and corrupt proceedings of the former reign.
James was by no means a more tyrannical character
than Charles ; his sullen bigotry was less favourable
to the successful assumption of power above the law
than the polished profligacy of his brother. Charles
also !Knew how to bend occasionally to circumstances,
when he found that he could not direct the storm
which be provoked. James never relaxed his tyrannical
pretensions till his ruin was confirmed ; he strained
the bow of arbitrary power until it snapped asun-
der. We hope this will not be the case in France ;
but when we hear each succeeding Ministry of Louis
Philippe threatening new infractions of the Charter,
new penal statutes and exceptional laws, whenever
the -verdict of a Jury disappoints the vindictive
eagerness of the Executive Government for a convic-
tion, we confess a fear of some eventual convulsion in
France that will shake the peace of Europe, rather
breaks in upon our hope of the stability of the exist-
ing order of things. Those who encourage Louis
Philippe in the course of arbitrary encroachment upon
the Charter which he has been for some time pursu-
ing ; those who abet him in such extravagant proceed-
ings as the procss rnoustre and Fieschi laws, are- not
the rmli friends of his dynasty. In the case of the
Strasburg plot the King set himself above the law,
and the Jury, by their verdict, have set the law
above the King. What is the consequence ? The
Prime Minister immediately threatens new lowa_ to
coerce Juries into the wished-for subserviency with the
dictates of the Court. Thus Governments and Courts
of Justice are placed in a dangerous and most un-
seemly struggle, the one for ascendancy, the other
for independence—a struggle which, end as it may,
connot make the Government more strong, than a
deference for the principles of justice would make it
without any struggle whatever. By what right did
the King remove Louis, Napoleon from the reach of
justice, and put the subordinate conspirators on their
trial ? Either all should be tried, or none ; at least
if any were snatched from justice it should not be any
of those who played a principal part. But we hold
that the " Constitutional Sovereign of the French," as
,Louis Philippe has been called, had no right to super-
sede the law by his own arbitrary decree. Supposing
the plot at Strasburg a real one, and not one of those
forecd, conspiracies for which a " preventive police"
are so celebrated in France; and supposing Louis Na-
poleon and his accomplices fairly tried and convicted,
we should have admired and praised his magnanimity
in extending the Royal clemency to the prisoners.
There he would have exercised an undoubted prero-
bative—a prerogative as legal as any law of the realm ;
ut when, like the arbitrary Stuarts, he assumes a
dispensing power over penal statutes, according to his
Milli will and pleasure—nay, even removes one person
from the reach of justice, as it were, with his own hand,
and causes another in pari delicto, or perhaps a subor-
dinate criminal, to be tried for his life, we say he ex-
ercises a most unconstitutional authority—a power
beyond the law, which is declared to be no respecter
of,persons. We say he oversteps his executive office,
and usurps the functions of the legislative body, which
can only suspend, alter, or repeal established laws. To
be checked by the honesty of a jury in this dangerous
career may be an act of mercy. It certainly will have
that effect if there be any remaining wisdom at the
scat of Government ; but if the Court and the Ministry
tatee counsel of their own intemperate passions, who
can foresee the consequences to France and to Europe?
Tien'. the accomplices of Louis Napoleon have been
reseiped from the impending guillotine, under all the
circto nstances, is an event of which we are glad. Too

many of those political sacrifices of human life have
been witnessed in France since the accession of the
Orleans dynasty, without rendering the country more
tranquil or the throne more secure. But there hangs a
mystery over the Strasburg affair which the trial has
not cleared up— nor has that mystery been dissipated
by the result of the interrogatories put to the Ministers
since the trial in the Chamber of Deputies. Enough
transpired, however, to show that Government knew
what was going on at Strasburg long before the plot
exploded ; and when we recollect what a disgraceful
responsibility the French Government has incurred by
the affair of the spy Conseil, we cannot help thinking
that there are grounds for the suspicion popularly enter-
tained in France, as well as by many intelligent Members
of the Chamber of Deputies, that the prisoners lately
tried were not the originators of the plot for which their
lives were placed in hazard. If the Government were
imposed upon by their own spies and police emissaries,
it furnishes another instance of the danger and dis-
grace which result from employing such base tools as
part of the machinery of a " Constitutional Govern-
ment." Even the English public may derive an in-
structive lesson from those events in France. At the
very moment when our own Government has intimated
an intention of covering this country with a cen-
tralised stem of gensdarmerie, plausibly but very un-
truly called a " preventive police," the daily expe-
rience of France proves how impotent such a system is
to prevent crime—it proves more, it proves how pro-
lific it is in creating it. Where has the virtue of a
" preventive police" shown itself in discovering the
successive plots against the life of the King before
their actual explosion? If it has discovered them,
why was not the actual explosion prevented? We
trust a general system of Bourbon-police may never be
allowed in this country to supersede the safeguards
of society provided by the British Constitution.—
Morning Herald.

A correspondent at Manchester has furnished us
with all the particulars he could collect of the pro-
ceedings at a meeting held in that town on Monday
last of the shareholders or proprietors of the Northern
and Central Bank. It is to be regretted that the pub-
lic, and especially the press, were not admitted to a
meeting at which disclosures were to be made and ex-
planations given in which the public at large must
feel, and have a right to feel, considerable interest ;
and it is extremely difficult to imagine any good reason
for this exclusion. We publish, however, the report
supplied to us by our correspondent, imperfect as it
must necessarily be in such circumstances, with the
less scruple that it has evidently been collected from
persons who are disposed to view the present position
of the Northern and Central Bank, and the past con-
duct of its managers, in the most favourable light. " It
will be seen that in the proceedings of this ;meeting,
.so far as they have been permitted to transpire,
there is nothing which in the slightest degree con-
tradicts or impugns any part of the very full and
circumstantial statement published by us exclusively of
the negociation which terminated in the undertaking of
the Bank of England to assist effectually the Northern
and Central Bank.in meeting its then existing engage-
ments ; while some of the most important particulars
of our statement are confirmed, or, we might, perhaps,
more properly say anticipated, totideni verbis, in the
agreement between the Governor and Directors of the
Bank of England and the Northern and Central Bank
as laid before the meeting, and the copy of which, sent
by our correspondent, bears intrinsic evidence of au-
thenticity. Our _ statement appeared on the 21th
of Dece:nber ; the agreement which attests time accu-
racy of that statement is dated on the 22d. A hitch
had occurred in the interval, but, as no reference was
made to this circumstance at the meeting, it is not
necessary at the present moment particularly to ad-
vert to it. The astounding part of our statement
of the 24th of December, and which we imagine the
commercial world will not very easily forget was, that
the persons who had been deputed to act on behalf of
the Northern and Central Bank had misrepresented
the state of its affairs to the Directors of the Bank of
England at the time when the first advance by the
latter of five hundred thousand pounds was agreed to ;
and that this misrepresentation has been to such an
extent that, instead of five hundred thousand pounds
being sufficient, as was expected, to liquidate the liabi-
lities of the Northern and Central Bank, it had been
discovered that a second advance of five hundred thou-
sand pounds was required for that purpose. This
was our statement of the 24th of December, by
which, we have some reason to believe, the Gen-
tlemnen who represented the Northern and Central
Bank, upon this important occasion, fancy, or affect
to fancy, themselves aggrieved. And what is time
language of the agreement, drawn up two days pre-
viously, and to which these gentlemen were parties ?
It would be identical with ours, but that it goes a
little farther :—" The Governor and Directors have
consented to an advance not exceeding 500,0001., on
the representation made to them by Mr. Braidley and
Mr. Evans, that the liabilities of the Northern and
Central Bank exceeded the amount previously stated
by the sum of six hundred thousand pounds." The
public will not, we suspect, sympathise very deeply
with the complaints of men who have placed them-
selves in the situation of managers of a great
joint-stock bank, and have shown themselves incapa-
ble of computing the extent of its liabilities within
600,0001. As our report of the proceedings at the
meeting at Manchester is confessedly incomplete,
it would be unfair to make it the foundation of any
remarks, of a hostile nature, upon the general conduct
of the Directors of the Northern and Central Bank.
It will, naturally, however, excite some surprise that
in the present position of that institution its Directors
should have thought it advisable to postpone, until the
last Thursday in February next, the presentation to
their constituents of any detailed account, in figures,
of the state of its affairs. Nor will the statement fail
to attract attention which is contained in the report of
the inspectors, to the effect that the Directors of the
bank, on their own private and several accounts, are
among its most considerable debtors.—Morning Post.
We are approaching the commencement• of a new
session of Parliamenta session which, if we may
judge from the announcements of public men by let-
ters and speeches, at clubs and associations, in taverns
and town-halls, teems with more important, conse-
quences to England than any which yet her annals re-
cord. The sentiments of the Administration have
been explained in such places and phrases as it seemed
least perilous to select ; we have heard Mr. Spring,
Rice, and Mr. Charles Wood, and Sir John Camp-
bell, and Sir Henry Parnell, learning less indeed from
the little they have said than from the much they left
in discreet silence. The sentiments of the Opposition
have been frankly and fearlessly avowed throughout
the country by its zealous and able orators ;
and have finally been submitted to the enlight-
ened opinion of the people in the elaborate
and masterly exposition of their illustrious leader.
Of the Ultra-Radicals there is seurcely one who
has not informed the world what he desires and
what he intends. We know all that can be known
from the palsied.petulance of Mr. Roebuck, the malig-
nant self-conceit of Sir William Molesworth, the labo-
rious facetiousness of Mr. Charles Buller, and the
drowsy pedantry of Mr. Grote. Intending to take a
rapid survey of the present position, resources, and
designs of the contending parties, we have waited until
the " magnificent meeting" in Drury-lane Theatre
should enable us to form a more full and fair judgment
of the men of the Movement, than we could rest upon
the twaddle of Totnes or the bluster of Bath. Now, hav-
ing listened to all that Radicalism can say, we may ven-
ture to express a pretty decided conviction as to all that
Radicalism can do. But let us deal with all in their
order. The Government—the Opposition—the Move-
ment : by those three parties is political power con-
tested. No other names represent to our minds the
actual composition of Parliamentary forces. There is
a party held together by adherence to Lord Melbourne
and his colleagues, upon the principles which have in
past times cemented like associations—the abnegation
and abandonment of all minor differences in considera-
tion of great and leading points of agreement. There
is a party similarly united by confidence in Sir Robert
Peel and his eminent fellow labourers, ready to aid in
the furtherance of the mighty interests of which they
are the Champions, by the resignation of particular
theories, and individual speculations. There is a
third party—which can not be said to owe, or
to profess, allegiance to either Chief. It prefers

Lord Melbourne to Sir Robert Peel—but, upon
every great Constitutional question, on which its
forces are likely to be called into action,:it rhas Lord
Melbourne for its enemy as decidedly as Sir Robert
Peel ; it professes to be friendly to the Government
to which the Opposition is hostile, yet in nine divi-
sions out of ten its votes will be counted against the
Government, which the Opposition will be invoked
to support. The system which is to keep the Move-
ment together is precisely opposite to that by which
Parliamentary alliances have hitherto existed. There
is to be no cession by the one to the many, no. post-
ponement of the less for the greater. " Self-reliance"
is to set every man talking, moving, acting, for him-
self. The Movement is to have disunion for its
coherence, and insubordination for its discipline. To
these three parties two great questions will be
propounded for immediate decision ; the first, " is
our present Ecclesiastical Establishment to be over-
thrown ?" The second; "is our present civil Con-
stitution to be subveited ?" In many forms and fa-
shions will these questions be presented ; but they
must be answered now, once for all. Our present
ecclesiastical Establishment insists on payments to the
national Church by those who do not in their own
persons attend its ministry. Such payments are con-
demned as alike impolitic and unholy by Mr. Wilks
and the Dissenters, whose more advanced and ex-
tended plans go far beyond the mere withholding and
denouncing of church rates ; by IVIr. O'Connell and
the Papists, whose recent resolutions for the extinction
of Protestantism in Ireland make it no longer decent
to discuss gravely the far-off appropriation of a few
thousands of pounds. Our present Civil Constitu-
tion assembles to aid his Majesty in the govern-
ment of the country a House of Commons chosen in
pursuance of a recent statute, a House of Lords sit-
ting by hereditary privilege. In the myriad schemes
by which we are inundated, for triennial Parliaments,
for ballot, for household suffrage, for life Peerages, for
elective Peerages, for the suspensive veto, there is
evident the same determination to rescind the recent
Statute by which the House of Commons is chosen,
and to abolish the hereditary privilege by which the
House of Peers sits. Setting aside, therefore, not as
unimportant, but as comparatively unimportant, many
topics which in less stormy periods might have been
enough in themselves to interest and agitate the nation,
we repeat, deliberately, that whatever may be the
number of Mr. Grote's Bills, or Sir W. IVlolesworth's
motions, there are but two great themes to be discussed
in the ensuing session by the two Houses of Parlia-
ment : the substitution of the volutary principle for our
ecclesiastical Establishment, and the substitution of a
democratic republic for our civil Constitution.—Mon.
ing Post.

MR. AGLIONBY.-011 Thursday last the Hon.
Member for Cockermouth met his Constituents for the
purpose of rendering to them an account of his political
stewardship, as one of the representatives of the borough
during the last session.
EXCHANGE READING ROOMS, INVERNESS.—
The want of a central rallying point for the transaction of
business generally in Inverness, has long been a matter of
regret. In all large towns we find a 'Change, or a spacious
Reading Room, with newspapers, prices current, &c., and
adjoining apartments for business. Established custom has
confirmed general hours of business, and men of business
are always sure of being found on 'Change on market
(Lys, during what are called 'Change hours. It is now
proposed to establish similar accommodations in Inver-
ness, on a scale suitable to the capital of the Highlands
and the surrounding districts. The premises under the
Town-hall are at present to be let, and would form a most
desirable situation for this purpose. To insure success,
such an establishment would require the concurrence and
support of all classes of respectable persons in the town
and neighbourhood, and it is confidently expected that a
subscription of a guinea annually for three years will be
sufficient to fit up the premises, and covet all other ex-
penses. As soon as a hundred subscribers are obtained,
it is proposed to call a general meeting, to develop more
fully the plan, and appoint a committee to carry it into
effect. Though only begun yesterday, above a hundred
names arc already enrolled, and we have no doubt of the
success of the scheme. Its utility and comfort are so
manifest, that need not dilate on the subject. It is
intended, we believe, that gentlemen residing at some dis-
tance from town, and who have no fixed place of busi-
ness within it, shall he admitted members on lower terms—
an advantage which we hope the gentlemen of the country
will not fail to avail themselves of.--Inverness Courier.

The Prefect of the Cotes du Nord has communi-
cated to the Peuille de St. Brieue an account of the ship-
wreck of the English vessel 'the Matilda, from which we
extract the following passages :—" In the night of the 25th
to the 26th of December last, the English vessel the Ma-
tilda, from Aberdeen, was shipwrecked outside the Seven
Islands. Obliged to abandon the vessel, as it foundered,
the crew, consisting of eight, together with a Guernsey
pilot, embarked in the boat, which was driven by the
tempest on the coasts of Tregastel ; but, as they were go-
ing to land, the boat upset, and out of the eight men who
were there, seven perished. The eighth, named Jack,
twenty-five years old, a native of Syndhorn, was lucky
enough to catch hold of a buoy, on which he kept him-
self above water ; but this weak hope of safety was soon
taken away from him by the force of the waves. Three
times be was thrown on a rock, three times thrown into
the abyss, and at length he was able to catch hold of the
point of the island of Heres. H 4 passed eight hours in
this island nearly naked, lying on the snow, dying of inn-
tion, and making signals of distress. His cries were heard
by Mr. John Salion, mayor of Tregastel, who was on the
beach to leeward, at a quarter of a league distance. Sepa-
rated from the port of Ploumanach by an arm of the sea,
it was with infinite pains that Mr. Salion made himself
heard by a few fishermen. At his pressing invitation se-
veral arrived with a fishing boat, in which all embarked,
and rowed through the middle of the rocks, towards the
place where the cries of the poor boy had been heard.
They found him near death, brought him to Mr. Salion's,
and he was saved. Five other bodies were flung ashore."

LEANNESS.—A remarkable case of leanness is
mentioned by Lorry, in a priest, who became so thin and
dry in all his articulations, that at last he was unable to
go through the celebration of mass, as his joints and spine
would crack in so loud and strange a manner at every ge-
nuflexion, that the faithful were terrified and the faithless
laughed. One of these miserable laths once undertook a
long journey to consult a learned physician on his sad con-
dition ; and having begged to know, in a roost piteous tone,
the cause of his desiccation, was favoured with the following
luiinous answer :—" Sir, there is a predisposition in your
constitution to make you lean, and a disposition in your
constitution to keep you so." Another meagre patient,
being told that the celebrated Hunter fattened a dog by
removing his spleen, exclaimed with a deep sigh, " 0, Sir,
I wish Mr. Hunter had miner—Dr. Millengen's Curiosi-
ties of illedical Experience.

An inquest was held at the Dolphin Inn, Chiches-
ter, on Wednesday morning last, pn the body of Mr. Wil-
liam Harward, traveller to the house of Messrs. Shaw and
Pearce, silk-mercers, St. Paul's Church-yard, London. It
appeared from the evidence that the unfortunate gentleman
arrived on Tuesday evening at the above inn, and retired to
his room shortly after six o'clock. Not making his appear-
ance the next morning, the police were summoned, and the
door broken open, when the unhappy man was found
lying on his back. on the floor, his coat, waistcoat, and
neckcloth off, and his throat cut in a most determined man-
ner. A verdict of" Insanity" was returned.

A very extraordinary case has occurred in Lincoln
of a young man, an assistant to a grocer and tea-dealer, who
having been in the habit of taking a few leaves of tea in
his mouth when weighing that article, imperceptibly intro-
duced so much into his stomach that it became an accumu-
lation in the smaller intestines. He was for a long period
under medical care, but his ailment could not be discovered.
On leaving for the sake of his health, he was better, but,
on returning to his employment, he became again indisposed,
and suffered great pain, until inflammation produced death.
On a post mortenz inspection the cause of death was disco-
vered, to the astonishment of his medical attendants ; and
it is hoped it will be a warning to others not to fall into such
a careless habit, which in this case has carried off in the
bloom of his days a remarkably stout and healthy young man.
—Stan ford Mercury of Friday. .

On Saturday an inquest was held at the Charing-
cross Hospital, on the body of Mrs. Ann Veale, aged 77.
The deceased carried on business in Buckingham-street,
Strand, and on Thursday she was discovered lying on her
bed in great agony, having sustained a frighful burn on her
left arm, which, she said, she had received by falling in a fit
against the bars of the grate. On coming to herself she
was unable to call for assistance ; and, having crawled to
her bed, remained there, in dreadful torture, for about nine
hours, when some one entered her room. She was con-
veyed to the hospital, and expired on the following day.
Verdict —" Accidental Death.

A young female, a servant to Mr- Watkis, of Ab-
bey Foregate, Shrewsbury, was accidentally shot by the
footman on Thursday, and died the following day. The
footman was examining a fowling-piece without knowing it
was loaded, which he held in the direction of the deceased,
when by some accident it went off, lodging the contents in
the poor girl's abdomen.—Solopian Journal.

PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS,

ASSURANCE COMPANIES, &c.&c. &c.

LONDON, TUESDAY, JAN. ,27.
Number Dividend Price
of per CANALS. per
Shares. Annum. Pahl. Share.
1,760 8 pei cent. Ashton and Oldham....Average 971. 18s. sh. 142
1,482 41. Ashby.de-le-Zotich Average 113/. sh. 65
1,260 Basingstoke lOOl. sh. 51.
1,005 51. Brecknock and Abergavenny 150/. sh. 100
8,000 1-16th. 91.9 e. Birmingham, 1.16 th share ... . ... . 811. & 711. 217
4,000 Ditto and Liverpool Junct...l2s/. sh. 100 pd 321
600 Bridgewater and Taunton ....100/. sh. all pd 64
400 4/. Chelmer and Blackwater 1001. sh. 102
500 481. Coventry 1001. sh. 725
4,545 Croydon Averages 31/. 22.10 d. sh. 3
2,0601 41. 04. Dudley
600 71. Derby 100/. sh. 120
20,000
3,575; Si. Ellesmere and Chester Average 133/. sh. 80
1 - 401. Eyewash 1001. sh. 500
1,297 281. Forth and Clyde . Average 4001.165. sh. 600
11,500 121. Grand Junction 100!. sh. 214
2,6494 1/. Grand Union 100/. sh. 21
1,500 Grand Surrey
120,000/. 41. per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan 100/. 70
3,096 Grand Western
600 13/.125. Bd. Glamorganshire, Average cost 1721. 13s. 4d. 230
749 10s. Grantham 1501. sh. 202
6,233 1/. 151. Huddersfield Average 57/. 6s. 6d. sh. 344
100 Kensingf In 100 eh. all pd. 10
25,328 11. 2s. Kennet aid Avon, Average 39/. IBs. 10d. sh. 22
2,8071 20/. Leeds and Liverpool 100/. sh. 530
5454 12/. Leicester l4Ol. sh. 190
1,897 4/. 10s. Leicester and Northampton... Aver 531.105. 77
2,400 101. Monmouthshire 100/.sh. 200
50 16/. Melton Mowbray 1001. sh. 200
500 251. Mersey and Irwell 1001. sh. 530
3,000 H. 10s. Macclesfield 100/. sh. all pd. 54
247 17/. Neath 100/. sh. 325
1,786 301. Oxford 100/. sh. 58U
2,400 5/. Peak Forest Average about 78/. sh. 104
21,419 12e. Regent's (or London) Aver. 33/. lf,s. Bd. sh. :6
5,609 fil. per cent. Rochdale Average SU. sh. 121
500 8/. Shropshire I'/5/. sh. 140
800 9/. 10s. Somerset Coal 150/. sh. 153
3,600!. 41 per cent. Ditto Lock Fund Stock l2/. 10s. sh. 114
700 401. Stafford and Worcester l4O/. sh. 730
500 91. Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 243
300 81. Stourbridge
3,647 21. 6s. Stratford-on. Avon ...Average 791. 9s. 90. sh. 50
533 12/. Swansea IOU!. sh. 220
3,762 1/. 4s. Severn and Wye and Railway ...Av. 35/. sh. 194
2,600455. 321. 10s. Trent and Mersey, 4 share 14)01. sh. 555
8,149
1,0003 h./ ~,i
1,00045 h. j - Warwick a. 14.1 Birmingham 100/. sh 260
9AO 19. i. Warwick and Sapton lOOl. sh. 1334
6,000 41.05. Worcester and Birmingham...Av.7B/. Bs. sh. 82
5,000 225. Wilts an..s Berks .. Average 671. 10s. Bd. sh. 21
800 3/, Wyrley and Essington 125/. sh 75
126 Wisbeach •..105/. sh. 45
905 U. Wey and Arun llOl. sh. 224
DOcKS.

2,6001' 13so c. Commercial ,.1001. sh. 56
1,06515 h. .
433,6671/. 6 per ct. East India Stock 116
3,239,31011. 50s. p.ct. London Stock 54
Ditto Bonds
1,390,000/. V. per et. West India
2,SOJ 21. 19s. Bristol
6'3,324/. 51. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts ll5
1,352,752 4 per cent. St. K athat ilia Stock 89
500,000 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds
200,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds tor 10 years lOO
Shoreham Hai Lour
2.500 ........ Deptford Pier .01. sh. 3/. pd
BRIDGES.

1,600 IN. Hammersin IF 5O/. sh. 20
7,231 Southwark, Old Av. 031. 9s. Sd. sh. 2
1;700 1/. 15... Ditto, New, oil; per cent. 5O/. sh. 14
5,000
5,000 Ws. Bd. Ditto, Old Annuities of Si. 6Ol. pd 18
5,000 19s. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 401. pd 15
60,000/. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds llB
6,000 17s Vauxhall Av nage 701. 10s. M. sh. 161
ASSURANCI, COMPANIES.
2,000 3110 s Albion 5001. sh. 501 pd 79
50,000 [SI)Z ciesn.ti Alliance, British & Foreign 1001. sh. 1031. pd 121
50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 101/. sh. 5/. pd 51
24,000 1.1 per sh. Atlas 501. sh. 51,.p0 131
1,200 Ish. 5/. Birmingham 1 ire 5O/. sh. 55/. pd 105
20,000 41 percent. British Fire 2501. sh. 501. pd 40
12,000 61. percent. British Commercial 501. 6b. 51. pd 61
5,000 51. per cent. Clerical, 51ed i al,&c. Life, 1601. sh. 12/10s pd 31
4,000 21 10s County 100/. sh. 10/. pd 42
20,000 ss. Eagle
200 f 5 Per cent./ Economic Lilt lOOOl. sh. 2501. pd 375
Land 301 bs.
2,271 22e. percent. European Li, • °0!. sh. all pd 22
50,000 Qs. Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. '2l. pd 2
1,000,000/. 7/. per ct. Globe Stock 155
20,000 51. Guardian lOOl. sh. 271/ pd 33
4,0,000 6e. 60. Hope 50/ sli. 51. pd 5;
2,400 5/. 73. 6d. Imperial lire 500/ sh. 50/. pd 125
7,500 9s. Imperial Life 1001. sh. 10/. lid 9;
13,459 12s. per sh. Indemnity &Emilie 11 01. sh. 91. pd 16;
2,020 31 106 Keat Fire 501. sh. all pd 92
31. Ditto Life 79
10,000 16S. Law Life 100/. sh. 10/. pd 28
5.000 10s. London, Fir! 25/ sh. 121. 10s, lid 15;
3,900 Iw. London, Ship 25/. sh. La. 10s. pd 15;
30,010 5/. per cent. Palladium I.lt. 5Ol. sh. '2l. pd 2183 0.1
5(1,001) l'rotet•tor Fire 2Ol. sh. 2/. pd 18. Ed
2,500 1/. Provident Liie lOO/. sh. 101. pd 2 i
100,000 5/. per cent. Rock Life .0/. sh. 24 pd 6
659,.2201 51. percept. Royal Excli.dige Stock... 220
6,000 5 per cent. University Lite lOO/. sh. 5/. pd 51
50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 2/. pd
JOINT STOCK BANKS

25,000 Agric. and Comm. of Ireland 25/. sh. 10/. pd 14
5,05.00 Australasia 4O/. sh. 40/. pd 58
10,000 10 per cent. Bank of Bit mingham s'l. sh. 10/. pd 13
10,15/0 10 per cent. Bit mingham Bank . 5O/. sh. 51. pd 14
341,000 4 per cent. London and Westminster...loo/ sh. 201. pd 201
3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster..... lOO/. sh. 20/. pd 30
25,004) Liverpool 1001 sh. 10/. pd 22
50,000 6 per cent. Manchester and Liverpool} 100/.Bh. 151 pd 2-2
Discount
20,000 71 percent. Manchester 100/. sh. 251 pd
20,000 ... ...... Provincial Bank of Ireland 100/. sh. 25/. pd 42
20,, CO National Bank of Ireland 5Ol. sh 121!. pd ' 13
10,000 3 per cent. National Provincial Eng. lOOl. eh. 25/. pa 231
19,000 Gloucestershire 5Ol. sh. 101. pd 20
6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire . 50/. sh. 5/. pd 9
GAS LIGHT ANL) COKE COMPANIES.
2,500 11 58 6d Bath 2O/. sh. I!!. pd 21
5,000 British 404 sh. 16/. pd 21
5,000 rsi.percentl . Ditto Provincial 20/. sh. 19 pd 23
/and 138. ss.
922 5110 s Birmingham 5O/. sh. 105
4,250 21 Is Bristol 2O . sh. 40
1,500 8/ 10s Brighton 2O/. sh. 13
750 31 Ifs Ditto, New 90/. sh 18/. pd 12
2,471 5 per cent. Brighton General 90/. sh. all pd 19
4,000 41. Continental t'ansolidated lOOl. 621/. pd 95
1,000 101. City of London lOOl. oh. all pd 189
1,600 6/. Ditto, New
4,000 4/.loe. Equitable
10,000 21 per cent. Imperi•4l 5Ol. sh. 421
800 W. per cent. Isle nf Tha4iet 25/. sh. 20/. pd 20
2,350 61. per cent. I ndependent 9O/. sh. all pd 50
9,001 N. per cent. Phcenix .. 5Ol. sh. 39/. pd 21
1,000 4/. per cent. Ratcliff
4,000 South Metropolitan 547. sh. 19/. pd 19
8,200 5/. per cent. United General 5O/. sh. 461. pd 311
240 51. per cent. Warwick 501. sit. 50
400 81. per cent Wakefield 251. sh. 221
12,000 3/. Westminster Chartered
6,000 -12 s. Ditto New . 5) 1. sh. 101. pd 10
861 Yarmouth 20/. sh. 18/. pd 9
WATER WORKS.

4,900 ' Bs. Birmingham 25/. sh. 25/. pd 241
4,443 6/. East London lOO/. sh. 134
5,500 21 lOs Grand Junction ....Average 41% 13s. 4d. sh. 51i
2,000 2/. Kent lOOl. sh. 45
272 101. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. 305
1,500 21100 New rtlver London Bridge Water Annuities 58
6,486 11 15s Manchester and Salford lOO/. sh. 53
300 4 per cent. South Lon:lon lOO/. sh. 81
6,204 3!. West Middlesex ....Average 63!. 12s. 9d. sh. ' 79.1
1.360 11 14s York Building Co. Lessee Prop 1001. sh. 35
IRON RAILWAYS.

2,500 Aylesbury 2O/. sh. 1/. pd. 11
Birmingham and Derby
9,500 Birmingham and Gloucester 101 pd 9
7,500 Birmingham, Bristol, and Thames Junction 01
15,000 Bristol and Exeter IOU sh. 5 pd 3
660 Calcutta and Saugur 501. sh. 2/. pd
7,500 Cheltenham and G. Western...lool. sh. 71/. 5
3,000 Clarence lOO/. sh. 1001. pd 50
12,000
8,001 Dublin and Kilkenny 1001. sh. 21 pd 3
60,000 .... ..... Eastern Counties 25/ sh. Cl. LA 1
Grand Junction 1001. sh. 50/. pd 107
Great North of England . 2/. pd 0
25,040 ...... ... Great Western lOO/. sh. 30/.;pd 43
2,000 Hartlepool 100/. sh. 1001. pi 100
8,000 Hull and Selby 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 4
10,000 Leeds and Manchester 1001. sh. 51. pd 14
7,100 Leeds and Selby 100 sh. 41
1,500 Leicester and Swannington ....501. sh. all pd 483
s,lOO 10 per cent. Liverpool and Manchester...lo(l. sh. 1001. pd 2851
Ditto Quarter Shares 251. pd 61'
10,000 London and Brighton
45,000 Ditto ditto (Gibbs') ...20/. sh. IL pd 0,
16,000 Ditto ditto (Rennie)...sol. sh. 21. pd I!
8,04 ... ...... Ditto ditto (Cundy)...loo/. pd I t
12,000 London and Blackwall 5Ol. sh. 3/ pd lz
20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich . .... . 201. sit. 204 pd 20
25,000
201 00
7,800
12,000 London Grand Junction... .5. 1. sh. 21. pd 01
10,000
North Midland 1001. sh. 10/. pd 151
Northern and Eastern lOOl. sh. 3/. pd 54
2,600 Preston and Wyre. 50/, ah. 9/. pd
28,000 South Eastern end Dover 71 pd 61
1,000 6/. per cent. Stockton and Darlington lOO/-sh 240
9,000 ... ...... Thames Haven 501. sh. 21. 10,. pd 01
6,000 York and North Midland 50 . sh. 3/. pd 21

MINES.
S,OOI Albion Copper
- • 5/. sh. 3/. pd OT,
-,h. 12/. 10s pd 137

4,000 ..... .... Alten - - 15/. of
10,000 ........ Anglo Mexican, iss. 5/. pm 100/. sh. all pd if-
Ditto Subscription 05/. pd 4
2,000 Bolanos 150/. sh all pd 125
10,000 11. 10a Brazilian Imp. iss. 5/. pm .35/. sh. 'lO/. pd 221
6,01,0 ......... Macanbas & Cocaes United 251. sh. 23-1/. pd 61
11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey 20/. sh. NI. pd 31
10,000 ... ...... Bolivar Copper Company, 201. sh. 20/. pd tli
10,000 Ditto Scrip 10/. sh. W. pd 9
20,000 British Iron 501. oh. 50/ pd 41
6,000 British Copper 5/. sh. 41. pd 1
Cata Branca.— 6-1/. pd 71
If

e •
Candonga 7.1 psi 7;
•
10,000 1/. Copiapo 2Ol. sh 121/ pd 17;
8,500
2,850 31. English' 121 Ks. pd 22
20,000 ..... .... General Mining Association...2ol. sh. 15/. pd 9
6,155 ...... ... Mexican Company 1001. sh 541/. pd 11
3,000 Polberou Consols 10/. sh. 84. pd 4
11,500 ...„„.. Real del Monte, Unregistered l7
Ditto Loan Notes l5O/. pd 150
80,000 United Mexican, iss. 2pm ....401. sh. all pd 2
Dittt, Scrip 3l
Ditto New Scrip 5/ pd 2;
- West Cork 501. sh. 50/. pd 98
LITERARY INSTITUTIONS.
1,000
1,500
700
King' College 1001. pd 32
MISCELLANEOUS.
10,08• 15s. Australian Agricultural.. .100/. sh. 2CII. pd 36
6000Wper cent. British American Land eompany .. . IS/. pd 11
10,000 61. per cent. Canada Company 100/. sh. 24!. pd 37
200,000 51, per cent. Upper Canad Loan 95
City Bonds, 4 par
cent lOl
15,000 11/. General Steam Navigation ...151. sh. 13!. pd 26
101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock

2,000 _ 11. London Com., Sale Rooms Av. 75/. sh. 19
8,000 Caoutehouc Company .' .. ...... 25/ sh. 21/. pd , 3
New Brunswick Land Company 251 pd 251
2,754 51. per cent. Reversionary Interest 50c...-1001. sh. 1001. pd 130
2,633 51. per cent. Ditto New 100/ sh. 451. pd 801
4,000
10,000

LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES,

JAN. 4, 1437.
BANKS.

1,500,00'1/. 61. p. ct. Bank ot Scotland 931.6 s Pd. A. all pd 168/.
2,000,0Xl• 51 p. ct. Royal of Scotland 100/. sh. all pd 1651.
500.0)0. Bp. ct. British Linen Company 100/. sh. :.11 pd 2401.
3,000,0081. 6/. p. ct. Commercial .5001. sh. 1001. pd 1741.
5,000,900/. 5 p. et. National lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 16!,
2,000,0001. 51 p. ct. Glasgow Union 250/. sh. 50/. pd 691.
4,000,001. 4p. ct. Western of Scotland 2OOl. sh 30/. pd 361/.
INSURANCE COMPANIES.
25C,0(x)sh. 61 p. ct. Scott;sh Union 20/. sh. 1/. pd 255.
-,500 sp. ot. Hercules 100/. sh. 10/. pd I'l 15s.
in ,000 ..5 p. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland .-.10/. sh. all pd 741.
50,000 6p. et. North British 2001. sh. 10/. pd 151.
1,000 sp. ct. Caledonian Fire 1001. sh. 10/. pd 16/ Oi
5,000 fp. et. Edinburgh Life 100!. sh. 10/. pd 1415 s
100,000 • West ot Scotland lOl. pd 9/ 15s
MISCELLANEOUS_
4,310 Edin. and Was. Un. Cana1...50/. sh. all pd 221.
Ditto Allocated 96/. sh. all pd 65!.
5,400 5 per cent. Edinb.:Joint Stock Water 251. sh. all pd 401.
Carron Iron Company 250/. sh, all pd 461.
2,0005 h 15 per, cent. Shotts Iron Foundery..- 5O/. sh. 3t4. pd 471
10,1100 3 per cent. F.dinburgh & l,eith Glass 2O/. sh. 161: pc! 111.
4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 251. sh. allfpd 5911.
4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas 25/. sh. all N 611.
750 '74 per cent. Leith Coal Gas 20/. sh. all gd 45/.
1,206 Edinburgh and Dalkelth Railway-50/.3h. 55/.
3.000 5 per cod. Equ:table Loan Company 251. sh. 91 pd 104

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

WHITEHALL, JAN. 21, 1837.

The King has been pleased to direct letters patent to he passed
under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of an Earl of the United
Kingdom of-Great Britain and Ireland unto the Right Honourable
Kenneth Alexander Baron Howard, of Effingham, in the county of
Surrey, G. C. 8., and General in the Army, and the heirs male of
his body lawfully begotten, by the name, stile, and title of Earl of
Effingham.
The King has also been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignities of a Baron and
Earl of the said United Kingdom unto the Right Honourable
Thomas Baron Ducie, and the heirs male of his body lawfully be-
gotten, by the names, styles, and titles of Baron Moreton, of Tot-
worth, in the county of Gloucester, and Earl of Ducie.
The King has also been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignities of a Baron and
Earl of the said United Kingdom unto Charles Baron Yarborough,
and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, 14 the names,
stiles, and titles of Baron Worsley, of Apuldurcombe, in the Isle of
Wight, and Earl of Yarborough.
The King has also been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Baron of the
said United Kingdom unto the following Gentlemen, and the respec-
tive heirs male of their bodies lawfully begotten, viz.:—
Edward Berkeley Portman, Esq., by the name, stile, and title
o f Baron Portman, of Orchard Portman, in the county of Somerset.
Thomas Alexander Fraser, of Lovat, in the county of Inverness,
Esq., by the name, stile, and title of Baron Lovat, of Lovat, in the
said county of Inverness.
William Banbury, of Kelmarsh, in the county of Northampton,
and of Shobdon, in the county of Hereford, Esq., by the name,
stile, and title of Baron Bateman, of Shobdon, in the said county
of Hereford.

WHITEHALL, JAN. 23.

The King has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon. George
Baron Abercromby to be Lieutenant and Sheriff-Principal of the
shire of Stirling, in the room of James Duke of Montrose, deceased.

WAR-OFFICE, .TAN. 24.

The names of the under-mentioned Officers were omitted in the
list of those promoted by Brevet, in the " Gazette" of Jan. 10,
instant, viz.

BREVET.
To be MAJOR-GENERALS in the Army.
Col. H. Shadforth, half-pay 10th Foot.
Col. P. J. Parry, half-pay 6th Garrison Battalion.
Col. J. K. Money, half-pay Armstrong's Corps.
To be COLONELS in the Arm.
Lieut.-Col. Sir T. H. Browne, half-pay 23d toot.
Lieut.-Col. T. W. Forster, half-pay 24th Foot.
Lieut.-Col. A. Maclachlan, half-pay 69th Foot.
Lieut.-Col. P. Burke, half-pay 96th Foot.
Lieut.-Col. J. Whetham, half-pay Ist Garrison Battalion..
Lieut.-Col. T. Wildman, half-pay 9th Light Dragoons.
Lieut.-Col. H. Standish, half-pay 39th Foot.
Lieut.-Col. J. W. Aldred, half-pay 60th Foot.
TO BE LIEUTENANT-COLONEL IN THE ARMY.
Major G. Quill, half-pay Unattached, January 10.