The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25, 1849,

the duty on fire and marine assurances, and on car-
riages, and equalising and reducing the remainder by
one-half. From these various sources of revenue he
estimates that 24,700,0001,, or 3,450,000/. more than
would be required to provide for the:national expendi-
ture, if:the national debt were out of the question.
Mr. WASON then puts forward three propositions,
each of which he supports by sound reasoning and
argument. These propositions are—
" lst. That it is discreditably dishonest not to pay
off the national debt.

"2d. That it would be very easy to pay it off.
" 33. That it would be profitable to pay it off."
In sustaining the first proposition, Mr. WASON
enters into a consideration of the purposes for which
the debt was incurred ! The answer thereto,
taking it from the lips of those who applied to
Parliament for powers to contract that debt on behalf
of the nation, was " that the money was borrowed to
carry on a war with the Continent, which was the
means of preventing the invasion of this country.'
That was the only justifiable ground that could have
been assigned. It was not for the sake of territorial
aggrandisement, or to control the liberties of a
neighbouring nation. It was to protect the British soil
from foreign invasion, and the property of the nation
from passing into the hands of foreigners. The end
was attained, there was no such desecration of our
native land, and every Englishman retained posses-
sion of the property to which he was justly entitled.
Who, then, enjoyed the advantages of these extra-
ordinary exertions ?—who was benefited by the crea-
tion of the debt ? Clearly and palpably, the owners of
property. They might have lost their possessions—been
subjected to forced contributions, rapine, and confisca-
tion, and they should pay for that protection out
of the property which remained in their own nands
and which would pass to their children. The po-
sition of the industrious: classes—of the artizans,
the operatives, and the labourers—would not
have differed materially from what it is at
present, whatever might have been the result. They
would, as now, have been compelled to labour hard
and severely, to be up early and down late, to be
contented with a scanty supply of coarse and humble
fare, to be badly housed and badly clothed. If England
were at this moment a Gallic dependency, could the
condition of the multitude be greatly deteriorated ?
We fear that it would be impossible. Who then
should satisfy the debt ? Clearly the owners of
property—exclusively. In fact, every man's property
is practically encumbered with its proportion of the
National Debt, and it is little better than a national
robbery to call upon the people who have derived no
benefit from our expensive contests, who have no
property, to contribute a portion of their scanty earn-
ing towards its liquidation.
In his second proposition, it would seem as if Mr•
Wasori, in the hurry of calculation, had fallen into an
error. He justly assumes the value of the realised
property of the country to be 4,400,000,0001.,
and he says that 5 per cent. on this
capital sum would produce more than sufficient to
pay off the National Debt. Now, the National Debt,
in round terms, amounts to 800,000,0001., whereas 5
per cent. on 4,400,000,0001. would amount to but
220,000,000/. only. It v. ould therefore take about 18
per cent. to obtain the required amount. The error
in the calculation does not, however, in any degree
affect the principle ; and Mr. WesoN has shown how
the great desideratum may be attained and the nation
freed from an enormous debt, which it is positively
disgraceful and dishonest to make no efforts to liqui-
date, when the country is in a state of profound peace
and tranquillity.

After the verdict pronounced upon the master of
the Tooting establishment, we may, without any
infringement of the laws of delicacy, be permitted to
comment in some measure on the treatment of the
pauper children by that functionary. Mr. BAETHO.•
LOMEW DEW:JET, it is true, will shortly have to ap-
pear in the Court of Queen's Bench to stand his trial
on a charge of manslaughter. Nevertheless, while
we should, under ordinary circumstances, feel our-
selves impelled to preserve silence until the definitive
acquittal or conviction of the accused, we conceive
that we are justified on the present occasion in pro-
nouncing an opinion upon the inquiry without waiting
for the result of the trial in Banco. Nor can it be ob-
jected that in so acting we are guilty of any dereliction
of the ordinary duties of a journalist. We speak out
because the facts :of the case have already become so
notorious; and, in so doing, we speak simultaneously
with many of our cont emporaries. Even the counsel
who appeared for Mr. DROUET during the proceed-
ings of the coroner's inquest acknowledged in so
many words that that person's conduct "had certainly
been most improper." Mr. WARLEY himself, while
exonerating from all legal responsibility such indi-
viduals as the guardians of the Holborn Union, as
the Poor-law Commissioners, as the Poor-law In-
spector (Mr. HALL), and as the surgeon to the
Tooting establishment (Mr. KITE), decided that
the only party who could be considered
as culpable was the master of the pauper institution.
In accordance with the view thus taken by the Co-
roner for Middlesex, the jury impanelled at the
Globe Tavern, Gray's Inn-road, unanimously agreed
to the verdict " That BARTHOLOMEW PETER
DROUET is guilty of manslaughter." Subsequently,
on an application being made for a certiorari to re-
move the depositions into the Court of Queen's
Bench, the demand was granted, making the writ
returnable at chambers on Saturday.
There is this melancholy satisfaction on all similar
occasions, that although the unfortunate victims of the
evil system cannot be restored to existence and com-
pensated for the misery and sufferings they have
undergone, the very circumstance of the
exposure of their miseries and sufferings
inevitably tends to prevent the too frequent recur-
rence of the same catastrophes. In the end such
inquiries must, indeed, effect a salutary improvement
in a system rotten to its very heart's core. Painful,
therefore, as the details unquestionably are, it is well
that they should be recorded with scrupulous exacti-
tude and perused with punctilious attention. But
for the sudden outbreak of the disease, which is
declared by some medical authorities to have been a
malignant seizure of Asiatic Cholera, the public would
have remained in ignorance of the tortures to which
upwards of a thousand poor children were daily sub-
jected in a single building on the outskirts of the
metropolis. Even at the present moment these un-
fortunate little creatures would have been shivering
with cold, from an insufficiency of clothing ; they
would have been turning over the potato-peelings
and offal in the hog- troughs to satisfy the cravings
of their hunger; they would have remained crippled
with chilblains, and tormented with a variety of cuta-

neous or scrofulous affections. As it is, some scores
of them (about 150 in all) have been abruptly cut off
from their lives of wretchedness, and the inquest
held over their dead bodies have revealed
the cruelties of their condition, and in so doing have
prevented the repetition of those cruelties towards

the survivors. So far consequently, we repeat, there
is a certain consolation in the midst of the anguish
caused by these inquiries.

Henceforth it will be difficult for boards of guar-
dian 3 to shelter themselves behind the excuse that
they have duly performed their part of such contracts
by paying up with regularity the sum agreed upon
for the farming out of the pauper children under
their jurisdiction. Now that the Tooting cala-
mity has disclosed the parsimony of these
" Farming Institutions, " the authorities of unions
will not be regarded as exonerated from blame
simply because they pay up (as in the present
instance) the stipulated 4s. Gd. per week for each
juvenile pauper. They will be considered as respon-
sible for any misery that may in future be expe-
rienced by these poor children, if they do not by
Personal inspection find out whether those poor
children are properly cared for. They will hence-
forth be expected to satisfy themselves by periodical
visits, properly conducted, that the inmates of these
establishments have sufficiency of room, sufficiency
of clothing, sufficiency of beds, water, venti-
lation, and provisions. Nothing can be more
melancholy than the depositions of the diffe-
rent surgeons who were required to give in their
evidence before the Coroner for Middlesex. Their
description of the victims of the late malady, with
their laxity of muscles, their emaciated extremities,
their swollen glands, and their tumid abdomens, was
enough of itself to testify that the mortality, if not
caused by the cruelty practised towards the deceased,
was grievously accelerated by the impoverishment of
their systems by poor living. Compared with the ,

state of the poor little creatures who were famished,
and kicked, and generally maltreated at Tooting, 1
the sufferings of OLIVER TWIST at the work-
house, and of SMIKE at the Yorkshire school,
were lenient and enviable. We shall now, how-
ever, witness the destruction of a system productive
of agonies derogatory alike to our humanity and our
intelligence as a civilized portion of Christendom.
Yet this cannot be accomplished by the punishment
of a single individual ; it must be the result of a
comprehensive reorganization. And for these reasons
we would net desire the pronunciation of any severe
sentence upon Mr. DROUET : we would rather call
for the disruption of a structure of which he is very
far from being the corner-stone. Until this shall
have been done the streets of the capital and of
the provincial cities will continue to be in-
fected by those lazy vagabonds who shrink
alike from honest labour and from legal relief, and
who lead a merry life in their rags and artificial
sores, debauching and revelling in their low haunts
upon the loose halfpence flung to them by the cha-
ritable. For the prevention of so much systematic
wretchedness, therefore, we do not look so much to
the Court of Queen's Bench as we do to the deli-
berations of the House of Commons. Before the ses-
sion has far advanced the matter must be brought
under the consideration of Parliament.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
As the French Republic took the initiative in abo-
lishing the punishment of death for political offences,
so, to its honour be it spoken, it has taken the initiative
in reducing its naval and military establishments, thus
depriving the opponents of economy in other countries of
their stereotyped excuse for extravagance, " France
does not reduce her establishments." The Journal
des Debats of yesterday publishes the details of the
budget which has been presented to the National
Assembly, from which it appears that the army is
to be reduced by 121,372 men and 8,022 horses, and
the fleet to 10 ships of the line, 8 frigates, 18 cor-
vettes, 24 brigs, 12 transports, and 24 cutters, to be
manned by 20,000 men. This budget, it should be
remembered, was prepared by the late Ministers.
The Constitutionnel, the organ of M. TIIIERS and
the reactionary party, is opposed to any reduction in
either the army or the navy, or to any diminution in
the budget of expenditure ; it is not the Republican,
therefore, but the reactionary,party, that party which
is supported by and in league with the English aris-
tocracy, that is opposed to disarmament, and anxious
for war. It is to be hoped that this fact will be
borne in mind when the question of the reduction of
our establishments shall come on for discussion in the
British House of Commons.

The National Assembly during the sitting of Tues-
day determined by a majority of 52 that it would take
into consideration the proposition signed by 80 Mem-
bers for the appointment of a special Committee to
examine the budget of receipts and expenditure for
1849. The numbers were—for the proposition, 374;
against it, 322. It was also determined that the
proposition of M. BILLAULT, which is of a some-
what similar character should be considered at the
same time. When this decision became known it
at once occasioned a fall in the funds of 45 centimes ;
for should the motion for the appointment of the
Committee be carried it would be tantamount to a
vote of want of confidence in the Ministry, which
will probably go out, as the PRESIDENT of the Re-
public does not, it is said, any longer place confidence
in them. The remainder of the sitting was occupied
by the discussion on the organic law regulating the
Council of State.

There was a disturbance at the College of France
on Tuesday, at the lecture of M. LHERILINIER on
Comparative Legislation. Some of the doctrines of
the Professor were unpalatable to many of the
audience, who forthwith began hissing, whistling,
and interrupting, and the lecturer was at length com-
pelled to withdraw. The Government have adopted
precautionary measures to prevent the occurrence of
such scenes for the future.

The Committee of Finance has determined, on the
report of M. ACHILE FOULD, that it would not be
expedient that the Assembly should take into its con-
sideration the proposition for the return of the sums
received in payment of the tax of 45 centimes.
On Tuesday the following proposition of M.
P&ADIE was distributed in the National Assembly
" The National Assembly, justly occupied with its
situation relative to the country, declares that, in its
opinion, the period of the next Assembly cannot be
' distant, and that in consequence it will hasten to give
back its mandate to the country when a suitable moment
arrives, without examining whether it has completed the
series of labours which it imposed on itself by its Bill of
December 11. But it sets aside the various propositions
submitted to it as contrary to its own consideration, and
to the moral force which it has need of to surmount the
grave difficulties which it may have to go through. The
Assembly invites its bureau to hasten the labours of the
committees, and_to submit without delay to its delibera-
tions the budget, and the various bills which relate to
our financial situation."

By a decree of the PRESIDENT of the Republic the
number of Members composing the Central Commis-
sion on Railroads has been increased from 15 to 24.
The following are to be the new Members :—MM.
Dufaure, N. Daru, Gustave de Beaumont, Lanjuinais,
Victor Lefranc, S. Davillier, Greterin, and Jahan.:
The Moniteur publishes a decree of the PRESIDENT
of the Republic, ordering that the exhibition of the
products of national industry in the Champs-Elysies
shall open on the Ist of June next, and close OD the
31st of July.
The Moniteur publishes a report from the Minister
of War to the PRESIDENT of the Republic, commu-
nicating the result of the investigation which was
ordered some time ago as to complaints made against
the administration of the Hotel des Invalides. The
Minister states that nothing has transpired to impeach
the honour of the administration, but at the same
time he recommends a new mode of organization of
the officers of this national institution, as being bet-
ter calculated to promote its good government and
welfare. In consequence of this report, the PRESI-
DENT of the Republic has issued a decree in which,
after stating that in future the dignity of Governor of
the Invalides may be conferred either on a Marshal of
France or a General of Division, he orders a new
classification of officers, and declares that the estab-
lishment is to be annually subject to inspection.
The seven magistrates selected from the Court of
Cassation to form the High Court of Justice for the
trial of BARI:IES and his accomplices, are Messsrs.
I3ERENGER, HARDOIN, ROCRER, HELLO, and BOISSEU,
as titular judges, and Messrs. PATAILLR and DELA-
PALME as supplementary judges. The five titular
judges assembled on Saturday, and chose M. BEREN •
GER, lately named President of the Court of Cassa-
tion to be President of the High Court.
IIUBER, the man who pronounced the dissolution
of the National Assembly, during the invasion on
the lith of May, addresses, through the Reforme,
a letter to the Procureur, General of the Republic, in
which he protests against the decision by which nine-
teen persons are accused of a fact of which he states that
he accepts all the responsibility. He says, that forced
by the necessity of circumstances, he declared the
dissolution of the Assembly unknown to his fellow
accused. He adds, that he did not constitute himself
a prisoner, because he expected a different decision,
and that he will not give himself up in order not to
cause an adjournment of the trial, and thereby pro-
long the imprisonment of soma of the accused.; but,
on the day of trial, he promises to present himself,
not to defend himself, but to tell the truth, which has
been so hypocritically falsified by the reactionary
and Royalist spirit.
The Minister of the Interior is preparing a Bill for
the suppression or restriction of the clubs, and expects
to be able to present it to the Assembly in the course
of a few days.
The Abeille of Chartres says—

" The seditious language attributed to the insur-
gents who have been pardoned has been denied. We
can guarantee the truth of the following words, pro-
nounced by insurgents coming from Brest, and pass-
ing through this town. We have them from an ear-
witness:--' If things do not go on as we like we
shall soon knock down this Louis Napoleon.
If we had held on two hours longer Paris would have
been in flames. Besides, we are quite ready to begin
again. It appears that at Chartres the people are not
Republican, so we were told, gare a vous burgesses of
Chartres ! if we were only fifty, the cathedral, the
bishop's palace, and the prefecture would soon be blown
up.' Wherever these wretches pass they hold the same
language. How could the Government think of re-
storing them to liberty ? It is adding to the dangers of
the capital."
. _

The Constitutionnel publishes the following letter
from one of the dupes of M. CABET, who was so
:D—ec. 15, 1848.
stupid as,,tNoeewmoigrrlaetaenst,oilTnei xteadn
sltcaatreisa,
" Dear Brothers,—When I left you, on the 29th of
October, I was far from foreseeing all the misfortunes
which were so soon to visit us. As for the voyage, it
was a prosperous one, for we arrived in 35 days ; but it
was very different as regarded our expedition. All that
you told me on the subject of Cabet, and the men who
set out with us, was only the bare truth. We suffered
much at sea from their brutality. When all our bag-
gage was embarked, our passports vises, and it was im-
possible to go back, Cabet and his acolytes made us
give up all the money and valuables we had about
us; they stripped the women of their watches, their
chains, their earrings, their wedding.rings, their pencil-
cases, and silver snuff-boxes—l was going to say of their
clothes 1 No article of any value escaped the hawk's
eyes of these hungry harpies. I alone resisted their ra-
pacity, and insisted on retaining possession of my pro-
perty, but my obstinacy nearly cost me my life, and that
of my beloved partner, We had scarcely gained the

open sea when they refused us all the necessaries of life, ,
my Wile an e,yeelt a ere, Lo our fiLd eick.
ness, and unable to rise; no one gave us anything to eat I
or drink—food and physic were equally unattainehle,
and we were reduced to extremities. Our friend, Bur-
nous, could not procure us any relief. In his despair he
addressed himself to some of the passengers, who con-
sented to sell him a small supply of provisions, and at
the end of five days we were both out of danger.
When we were able to emerge from our cabin, some
monks who were lodged in the forecastle so!d us nearly
all the articles that we required, but our health, not-
withstanding, was much shattered. Tho Cabetians
threatened to cast us into the sea, but Bernous and my-
self, armed to the teeth, succeeded in preventing them
from perpetrating the atrocious deed. On our arrival at
New Orleans we found the remains of our first detach-
went; all those who have escaped death are, more or
less, suffering from illness; many are in the hospital.
You should have seen the despair depicted on the coun
tenances of the men, and the tears ,which suffused the
faces of the women ; some had lost a husband, others
a brother, others a son. You hear nothing but com-
plaints and cries of distress. In short, I cannot better
describe our misery than by comparing it to that of the
French army in Russia in 1812; I think it still worse
in fact, for in Russia the sufferers were exclusively
men, whereas here we have half women and one-
third children. Several of the women are enceinte, the
others suckle their children; it is enough to rend one's
heart-strings to see them. There are 200 or 300 fami-
lies utterly and irretrievably ruined. As soon as we
landed my wife ran to the French Consul and obtained
an order for the repayment of some hundred francs, with
which we hope to return to France as soon as our health
will permit, for we are all ill. We have provisionally
hired a small room, 12 feet square, at the rate of 52f.
50c. per month. Provisions are very dear—the town is
badly built, very filthy, and very unhealthy; meat sells
for the same price as in Paris, but everything else is at
least double. We are in a miserable position, but we
soon hope to take to the sea again, and to have the plea-
sure of beholding you all once more, and of living long
enough to prove to your satisfaction that I am quite
cured of Communism."

The Univers, which is an authority on all matters
connected personally with the POPE, has the following
in the article on Italian affairs, which appeared in the
National of Monday :
" The article of the National is partly true and partly
false. It is true that the Turin Cabinet, directed by the
Gioberti, has protested against the intervention of
Spain; but it is false that Pius IX. has claimed the inter-
vention of Austria. As regards the Sardinian Envoy at
Gaeta, ho had no occasion to remonstrate, seeing that
up to the present moment the Sovereign Pontiff has riot
thought proper to receive him in his quality of Envoy."
It was reported in Paris yesterday that the Austrian
Envoy had given notice to the Minister for Foreign
Affairs of the Republic, that it was the intention of
Austria to take immediate steps for the reinstatement
of the Pore as a temporal SOVEREIGN.
Some disturbance took place, on the 18th instant,
at Hermanville, near Caen, in consequence of a body
of about 400 persons assembling and raising cries
against the Cure, who was thought to be hostile to
the republican government. A Brigadier of Gen-
darmerie and six men came forward to disperse them,
but not finding the Mayor forthcoming, they were
obliged to remain merely in observation, the crowd
being too numerous to be coerced. About three in
the evening the Mayor appeared with assistance, and
the crowd then dispersed. The Brigadier lodged
informations against eleven of the most tumultuous
of the assemblage.
The Union Francomtoise announces that Count
MAURICE ESTERHAZY, the Austrian Minister at the
Court of the Netherlands, passed through Besancon
on the 18th inst., on his way to the South. It was
believed that Gaeta was his destination. The Count
travels incognito, and without any attendants.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Tuesday at 45f. 65c ; the Five per Cents. at 75f. 55c.; the
New Loan at 75f. 20c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 705 f.
Rouen, 440 f.; Great Northern, 390 f.; Avignon, 187 f.
50e.; Vierzon, 2501.; Basle, 83'. 75e.; Bordeaux, 377 r.
50c.; Paris and Strasburg, 332 f. 50c.; Tours and
Nantes, 318 E 75e.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, JAN. 24.
Northern of France, 734 ex div.— Orleans and Bordeaux,
214—Paris and Strasbourg, 2A,—Rouen and Havre, 10—
Sambre and Meuse, 3%.

It is sail that Außtria i 5 l.sirous cif marehing an
allay i10a4,11 teihoury tta:2. r,,sev.ttion OS
the POPE to his temporal sovereignty, but that she
will not do £0 without the consent of Prance and
England.

Iie7NTAAY 1.:1, 0 TV,r‘ TFRCTAT,
r

The Cotton Market at tiverpool, yesterday, was hi4her
fur American sorts. Sales 10,000 bales.—Railway
Shares were buoyant and a good business was done.
The accounts received from France have
given much satisraction. The prospect of an
extensive reduction in the military force
of that kingdom is hailed as encouraging
to our financial reformers, and the example will not he
lost, it is hoped, upon other countries groaning, like
ourstive,, bencm'i th. weighL ,Jf taxation. The ein,s.4
sustained by the French Ministry seem,:, to be scanely
thought of.
The following is the position of the dried fruit trade,
as regards the article of currants, according to the re-
port of Messrs.Witherby and Hanson, London brokers:--
" The arrivals here from the date of our last report to
the 22d instant inclusive, have consisted of eleven car-
goes, making the total quantity imported since the com-
mencement of the season, by fifty. nine ships, 7,532
butts, 7,004 carroteels, 9,032 barrels, and about 500
cases, or 9,100 tons, against 5,928 butts, 5,175 car-
roteels, and 9,382 barrels, or 7,400 tons, to 20th
January, 1848, and 7,300 to the like period of
1847. We shall require at this port 3,000 tons
more to make our importation equal to that
of the whole of last season. From the 31st January to
10th of September of 1848 and 1847, were received
here from 4,800 to 5,000 tons. At Liverpool 300 tons
more have been received than to this period of
1848, but 300 tons less than in 1847. The clear-
ances for home consumption at this port from
the 19th ult. to the 18th instant, have been 564
tons against 550 tons during the like period of 1848, and
230 tons and 290 tons in 1847 and 1846. A great in-
crease in the consumption is evidently going on in the
manufacturing districts in the north, the clearances at
Liverpool during the five weeks ending 17th instant
having reached 635 tons against 515 tons in 1848, and
280 tons and 265 tons in the two preceding years."
There are numerous ship arrivals from different parts
of the world, but the letters and papers which they bring
have for the most part been anticipated by previous
arrivals.

The mail steamer from the West Indies has been tele-
graphed as having arrived at Southampton, but we have
no details yet of the news she brings.
The Bank of England, notwithstanding the rumours
of its intentions, has made no alteration to-day in its
terms of discount.

The duty on Foreign Wheat is still 10s. per quarter,.
The Funds have been in a most buoyant state this
morning, and there is an active business doing for both
money and account. Consols have realised 902 L The New
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 918 t. How cor-
rect were our remarks in respect to the general tone of
feeling not having in the least altered, as some might
have concluded because of the temporary flatness, two
days since, this morning's report will sufficiently prove.
Bank Stock has touched 192 and 193. India Stock is
at 243. Exchequer-bills have realised 435. to 465. prem.
In the Foreign Market the transactions have been
more extensive. Spanish Five per Cents. are 154 to
and the Three per Cents. 284. Portuguese Four per
Cents. are at 27. Mexican Stock is worth 261 to 4.
Grenada is 154 to 16. Dutch Four per Cents. are 784,
Railway Shares have taken a further start, especially
for the old lines.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock 193 192
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities.— 904%
`i per Cent. Console Anne 9o'/.2341/2
New 3,4 per Cent. Anne 91%% %
Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 B% 13-16
Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10,1859 8 9-16
India Stock 243

India Bonds under 1,0001.. ..... ....... 4B 45 p
South Sea Stock
Ditto New Annuities
Consols for Account
N;xchequer Bills. 2%d. "2(1.
March. June.
1,0001.
A)0/ 43 46 p 45 p
Small 46 43 p 45 48 p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOthi.
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent... 261 i 25
Equador Bonds 3%
Grenada, 1 per Cent. . .... ......
Mexican BonAs, 1846, 5 per Cent 261/2%
Ditto for the Account .... .. 2634 %34
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent 73 72
Ditto 4 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,lB4o
Ditto for the Account... 15% % IA %
Ditto Passive Bonds 3%
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent. ..
Ditto for the Account 2814
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian 21/2 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account .......
Ditto 4 ner Cent. Certificates
3ITSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK
RAILWAYS. PAID. Pax Snakaz.
Aberdeen
kaiber., Notting., Boston, &c 414 — to
Ayrshire and Galloway
Belfast and County Down .. 20% .. ..
Berks and Hants Extension
(Gt. West. Perpet.s per ct.) 5
Birmingham & OxfordJunet.,
. .

calls duly pd, or with guar. 20
Do., without a guarantee... 20 ... 25% x.i to 25 x. i.
Birmingham,Wol., & Dudley,
calls duly pd, or with guar. 10 ..... 153 A to
Do., without a guarantee... 10
Birming., `V01.,& Stour Val. 134145....
._.

13irkenfiead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction.~
Boston, Stamf., & Birming... 5
Bristol and Exeter
Do., Thirds • 27% ...... to
Buckinghamshire..- l6/. 4s — to
Caledonian

Ditto, Quarter Shares 111,x.....
Ditto, New 101. Preference 74
Ditto. Clydesdale Junction 50
Ohester and Holyhead 5O ..... 221,6 to 22
Ditto, Preference
Clarence.
Do., ht Class, 6 per Cent... 10
Do., 2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10
Do., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10
Direct London & Portsmouth 5% — to
Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 35
Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 22%......
East Anglia, 25/. L. & E.,
awl L. & D ... 25
Ditto, 18/., E. & 11

, .
Ditto, 31. 10s., E. & H... 3% 2%%... to
Eastern Counties ....
Do. New Guarant. 6 per Ct. 10
Do. Perpet., 6 per et. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d...
Do., do N 0.2,6/. 13s. 4d...
Do., Northern & Eastern... 50
Do., 6 per cont.
Do., Quarter .... . ...... . ..... 121/2 ..
Do., New
Eastern Union, Class A (late
E. U. Shares) ...... ... .. 25
Ditto, ditto, Class A, ditto 34 . to
Ditto, do, Class B (I. & B) 22% — to
Ditto, do, Class C, ditto... 20
Ditto Scrip (gua. 6 per ct.) 20. . — .. to

, ... _
Ditto (C. & E.), 5 per ct. 2% — to
East Lancashire
Ditto, New . 21
Do., New Quarters

Do.; 6 per Cent. Preference
Quarter Shares VA ......
East Lincolnshire
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Ditto, Half Shares
Edinburgh and Northern ... 25
Ditto, New port l5
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% —. to
Exeter and Exmouth 2ls. -
lilasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle-81. 6s.Bd — ..... to
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50
Do. Preference Consolidated .....
Great Northern.... .......... ... 19
Do. % A Deferred ....• ... 12% 436 to 5 x
Do. 1/2 B 6 per Cent. Guar. 6% 4%%... to
Do. Extension
Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 45
...... to
Great North of England 100 —
Ditto, New 40/.
Ditto, ditto

Ditto, New 301. 3O ... .. -----
to
Ditto, New 151...... ... l4 ...... . ... to
Great Western 100
Ditto, Half Shares SO
Ditto, Quarter Shares
Ditto, Fifths
Do. New 171
Uuddersfield and Manchester 30 .. ...

Ditto, Thirds lO
Hull and Selby 5O ......103 ...... to
Ditto Half Shares ..

Ditto, Quarter Shares l2l/ ...
...... to
Lancaster and Car1i51e........ 50
Do., Thircls
Lancashire and Yorkshire ... 93 ..... to
Ditto, ditto
Ditto Half Shares .... 43 ...... ...... to
Ditto Quarters
Ditto Fifths
Ditto Sixteenths ........... 6,A — .... to
Ditto Thirds (Reg.)

Do., New Guar. 6per cent. 71/i Es% x.i. to
Do. Liverpool and Bury... 43
Do. (Rudders. and Sheff.) 43
Do., Wakefield, Pontefract,
and Goole
Do., West Riding Union... 7 .... . _
Do., Preston and Wyre ... 25
Do., do., Half Shares (A) 91,4 — to
Leeds and Bradford 5O - —lOOl/2.- - to 100
Leeds, Dewsbury, & Manches SO
Do., Half Shares
Ditto, Blue (scrip) ..... .... 21,4 —
Leeds and Thirsk ..... 50 -
Ditto, New
Do. , do., Prefer., 6 per Cent. 31,x..... -- ...... to ....
Liverpool, Crosby, and Sout h-

port - 3% - .. .. to
Li verpool, Manchester, and
N ewcastle Junction 2% — .... to
London Pa Blackwall ......131. Gs. 8d 5 ...... to
Do. Extension
Lond., Bright., & South Coast 50
Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 9' lii fi x.d. to
Do. Pref. Cony. 5 per Cent. 50
Ditto, ditto 1852 50 .. ...

Do., New, guar. 6 per cent. 5 ......
Vondon and Greenwich... 121.155. 4d... ...
Ditto Preference
London & North Western.....loo 135 %...... to 135
Do. Quarters (L. and B.) 22
.. __

_
- D). .New
Do. Fifths
Do. 40i. Shares...,.L. & M 25 — to
Do. 10/.... M. and B. (A.) 10 .... . —...- to
Do. 101. .. M. and B. (B.) 10
Do. 101.... M. and B. (C.) 1
London and S. Western...—. 50 ..
Ditto, New 50/........ .. ..... 42%...,.. 314 x
Ditto, New 404 ..... .. -. 34
Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 50 ...... 391,
Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 40
Ditte.Thirds l5 ... .. 111 A% .. to
Do., New Scrip, 1848, Pref.
7 per Ct. on Deposit and
5 per Ct. 912 Cane .. 5 . ... —.. to