The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,

London as the streets of Peterwaradin are removed
from the familiar haunts of the Esquimaux. Hence, it
was al ways with a kind of apathy that the public
perused the narrative of those researches on the con-
fines of SiLeria which were principally interesting to
the assayer, to the geologist, and to the lapidary.
It is exactly the reverse with the republican colony
of the United States. There the apdles of the New
Hesperides are not guarded by the Dragons of ty-
ranny. They can be plucked without molestation.
They are ripening, not in the gardens of Absolutism,
but in those of Democracy. Whoever can pay or
work his passage over to San Francisco, can take his
mattock and his basket and pick up the treasures
lying about the ground for the possession of the first
corner. Those treasures are said to exist in some
places in the form of minute flakes of the precious
metal, and in others in lumps of gold as large as pig-
nuts and as solid as pebbles. They belong, moreover,
not, like the waifs and strays of England, to a
Sovereign or a Lord of the Manor, but to
whomsoever might be fortunate enough to rake
them out of the sand, or to sift them from the sediment
of a running stream, or to extract them from the fissures'
of the rocks. They are the wages paid by the boun-
teous hand of Nature herself to those who will toil at
the agreeable task of their collection.
Those who are discouraged by the reflection that
the speculators from the United States can reach
California much more rapidly that the speculators
from England, should re assure themselves by a few
very simple considerations. From New York the
journey to San Francisco cannot be accomplished,
by way of Terra del Fuego, under a period
of six months, by Chagres and Panama under
two months, and, across country, by way of Santa F 6,
under very nearly the same time as the one last-
mentioned. From England the gold region can be
reached in less than fifty-four days—starting from
Liverpool to Cbagres, thence across the isthmus to
Panama, and onwards between the coast of Guada-
laxara and the Revillagigedo Islands to the Sierra de
Nevada. It is idle consequently to maintain that the
population of the United States have in this particular
an advantage over the inhabitants of the United
Kingdom.

outrage on all justice." The supporters of that
monster grievance will undoubtedly render their
unflinching support to his Conservative opponent.
He speaks in equally decided language against the
enormous abuses i❑ the administration of the law,
that render the obtaining of justice a matter of mere
chance. He says—" I repeat that the law in its present
state is, from the systematic advantage it gives to
chicane over substantial right, a disgrace to a civilized
country. That the French, Belgian, and generally
speaking the German systems, are free from thr
dreadful evils so obstinately defended in our own;
and that recent alterations have inflamed and aggra-
vated these evils, which it was intended by the Legis-
lature to suppress."
He also speaks clearly and unequivocally on the
subject of free trade. "I will add," he says,
" that I am an uncompromising advocate of Free
Trade, for I am convinced that by giving every
country a direct and visible interest in the pros
perity of every other, by teaching nations to rejoice
in each other's prosperity, and to regret each other's
misfortune, it knits manhood together in links of bro
therhood, which tyranny, corruption, and caprice will
soon find it impossible to destroy."
There is nothing equivocal in these declarations—
there is no loophole out of which it may be possible
to escape should it appear expedient to advocate other
views. Mr. PIIILLIMORE is manifestly sincere and
earnest in his convictions. He discovers abuses.
and forthwith they are exposed in all their naked
enormity, and denounced with vigour and determina
tion. He sees what is not merely a matter of policy,
but of equity, that monopolies of every description arr
but legalized methods of plundering the people—that
every principle of justice and expediency declares that
trade and commerce should be perfectly free and un-
restricted, and he forthwith proclaims himself an
ardent, enthusiastic, and uncompromising free-trader.

It is not for the first time that he has come forward
as a legal reformer. In 1846 he published a
pamphlet in which he ably exposed the evils of the
present system of special pleading in civil cases, c f
special pleading in criminal cases, of judicial legisla-
tion, of the game-laws, and of the courts of quarter
sessions as they are now constituted. Many glaring
examples were then cited of substantial justice
being defeated through legal technicalities, and of
the untoward consequences resulting from the mis-
chievous skill of those who were taught "to make
the worse appear the better reason." These are points
in which he will be sustained by the
great majority of the people, who are
heartily sick of legal quibbles, and desire that
every cause should be decided on its real merits,
that the result should not in a great degree depend
on the subtlety and acumen of the respective
pleaders, thus rendering Justice blind indeed, and the
decisions of the Courts matters of chance in place of
being perfect certainties. _ _

Of all the consequences of the gold discovery in
California, however, the most remarkable will inevit-
ably be the extension of the settlements on the
eastern shores of the Pacific Ocean. Before half a
century has elapsed, the result of the movement of
the Anglo-Saxon race to the extreme confines of the
Western hemisphere, to those confines which imme-
diately confront the opulent Spice Islands of the
Indian seas, will be perceptible in the predominance
of their sway over the archipelago of those oriental
climates. The effect will ultimately be to enable the
wealth of the Asiatic races to flow eastwards as well
as westwards—the nutmegs and pimento of Japan,
the precious stones of Golconda, the indigo and crape
of the Chinese, the muslins of Bengal, the scymetars
of Oude, and the variegated raiments of Cashmere,
AV bile new markets will be thus opened for
the luxuries of the East, a double source of
civilization will act upon the opposite flanks
of the oriental races. The liberal institutions
of Europe, and the beneficent influences of Chris-
tianity, will act together upon the effete but ductile
intellect of Asia. And by this twofold impetus bar-
barism and despotism may be alike exercised, and the
worshippers of BUDDA and the disciples of Islamism
may both be admitted into the family of Christendom
Nevertheless, it is not alone in these more exalted
anticipations that we can recognise the benign influ-
ence which will inevitably flow from the establish-
ment of great settlements in the regions of California.
Emigration to that country will tend of course to re-
lieve ourselves from a large portion of our redundant
population. It will besides lead as a matter of neces-
sity to an increased demand for our manufactures.
Even supposing that the descriptions of the mineral
wealth of the gold regions should prove to have been
grievously exaggerated—which is by no means im-
probable—the natural fertility of the soil, the ex-
quisite geniality of the climate, and the healthful
incitement to exertion on the part of the colonists,
cannot fail to render their position anything
but irksome. The individuals who have already
migrated to the precincts of the river Sacramento
will inevitably—even, as we have just hinted, in the
',vent of the gold mania turning out to be a bubble—
prove the germ of one of those mighty settlements
which have from time to time changed the relative
capacity of different empires, and accelerated the
progress of the human race in the paths of civilize-
: ion. It is principally, if not entirely, from these
considerations that we are disposed to regard, with a
certain complacency, the rage for removal to Cali-
fornia which is now agitating the masses both in
Eng'and and the United States. In many instances,
doubtless, the passion of cupidity will lead the more
blindly avaricious to ruin, but in the majority
of cases the effect of the excitement must prove
beneficial. A lottery to some individuals, Cali-
fornia 'sill prove to others a secure and remunerative
investment.

We have thus detailed Mr. PHILLMORE'S claims.
We do not, however, desire to depreciate his adver-
sary. We cannot forget that Mr. PEEL is the son of
the Minister who deliberately sacrificed place, power,
and party, to what he believed to be the national advan-
tage, who manfully acknowledged his former errors,
abolished the mischievous monopolies under which thu
nation had so I,,ng groaned, and removed the taxes
on food. Should Mr. PEEL be elected, we trust that
he will perceive the necessity of following out the
doctrines of free trade, and carrying them to the fullest
extent, until, eventually, the entire system of taxa-
tion be revised, and indirect imposts abolished, where-
ever practicable; that he will perceive the errors of
the monetary code, and induce his father to join in
giving to the country a currency adequate to its
wants and exigencies. He may be enabled
to achieve great things, if he look rather to ame-
liorate mankind than to further the interests of a
party. We shall now dismiss the case, leaving to
the Leominster constituency the task of deciding
between the conflicting claims of the rival candidates.
We only trust that their decision may be correct,
and that (in the language of the ring), " the best
man may win."

It is with feelings of gratification that we perceive
the public attention is at length directed to the
question of a reform in the manner of assessing and
levying, and expending the local taxation of the
country; and, as in the case of the free-trade agitation
the commercial reformers directed their attacks
against the corn-law, as the giant monopoly, the de-
struction of which would entail, as a natural conse-
quence, the fall of every other minor monopoly, so,
we are rejoiced to find, have the reformers of our
local taxation fixed upon the county-rate as the
monster injustice to be remedied, the reform of which
will include a reform in all other branches of local
taxation. In this instance also, as in the instance of
free trade, it is to the exertions of Mr. HUME that
we are primarily indebted for an accurate knowledge
of the extent of the evil and of the nature of the re-
medy. The labours of Mr. Huste's Committee on the
import duties rendered the advocates of commercial
reform invincible, by affording to them an'unansw er-
able authority to which they could appeal whenever
their adversaries dared to dispute their facts, and Mr.
HUME'S Committee appointed to consider the report
upon the manner of collecting and expending the
county-rate, has rendered the advocates of a reform
in our local taxation equally invincible. The manner
in which the county-rate is assessed is in direct con-
travention of the great constitutional maxim which
declares that "taxation 'without representation is
tyranny." It is assessed upon the inhabitants of each
county by the magistrates sitting in quarter sessions,
such magistrates being appointed by the Crown, irre-
moveable save by the Crown, and irresponsible to, and
unconnected with, the rate-payers of the county.
These irresponsible magistrates not only assess
the rate, but they have the exclusive control over
the expenditure of the rate when it is collected.
They have the sole appointment of the officers, who
are paid out of the county-rate, the sole power to fix
the duties and the emoluments of those officers, and
also the most dangerous power of increasing the
number of those officers, and consequently of in
creasing the county expenditure to any extent they
choose. The Committee of 1836 justly observe, " the
administration of this fund is the exercise of an irre-
sponsible power entrusted to a fluctuating body," and
Mr. Hume, in his evidence before that Committee,
after stating that he has devoted his attention for
twenty five years to the investigation and consider-
ation cf the county-rate system generally, solemnly
declares—" I consider the principle so vicious that no
efficient reform can be effected without a radical
change in the principle and the system."
It would appear, at first sight, extraordinary that
a system so denounced in 1836 should be existing in
full vigour in 1849, but a little consideration will
easily account for` the apparent anomaly. The
Members of both Houses of Parliament are almost
without exception, we believe we may venture to say
absolutely without exception, magistrates of
quarter sessions, and bow desirous soever, there-
fore, any individual Member may feel of seeing
this tyrannical method of taxation abolished,
and this temptation to jobbing removed, it is too
much to expect of him that he should voluntarily
come forward to denounce a system of which he him-
self is part and parcel, and to offend the self-love of
colleagues with whom he is every day in the habit of
acting. Under the peculiar circumstances of the
case, it is to the pressure from without alone that
we can look for the remedy of this evil ; and public
attention was too much engrossed by the free-trade
agitation, during the ten years immediately succeed-
ing the presentation of the report of the Committee
of 1836, to be able to attend to the reform of local
taxation. As has been shrewdly remarked by Mr.
Connell, " we are men of business, and we like to do
one thing at at a time," and this is the secret of the
success of all agitations. Had the county magistrates
been content to go on as usual, the question would,
probably, have still continued to slumber ; but, fortu-
nately for the cause of local responsible government,
they have not been content to do so in many coun-
ties. In Lancashire, for example, the county-rate
has in many districts been raised, during the
course of the last ten years, from 114/.
to 4001., and the costs of prosecutions
have increased from 15,000/. to 18,0001., while the
number of prosecutions has diminished. Jobbing to an
ing been paid an income of
ap
tlaaybruipzne
mwohsitcehr
oenormous r eoxft ewnotr
1,7 pheaavr s also to have taken place ;
a7molo. unateydeoanr only
yfotro
4stalir.v6eys.inegd,„the
whileo u
was retained at an annual salary of 101. to suporin- ,

Sir EDWARD BULWER LITTON has formally with-
drawn from the contest for Leominster. He is no
longer a Candidate for the honour of representing a
constituency so dubious and irresolute. So many of
the electors were unable to decide upon the conflict.
ing cla;ms of the candidates—to determine whether
they should array themselves under the banners of
PEEL or LlTTON—that the latter gentleman lost all
patience, and, in pursuance of a previous inti
illation, cut the Gordian knot, and afforded a very
summary solution to the existing perplexities
by altogether withdrawing his pretensions. The
contest, at one time so exciting, might thus
have been brought to a very tame and commonplace
conclusion, but that another candidate has already
entered the field, and for the second time solicited the
" most sweet voices " of the electors of Leominster.
Mr. PRILLIMORE had offered himself as a candidate
for the representation of the borough as soon as the
acceptance of the Governorship of British Guiana by
the late Member, Mr. BARRLY, was publicly an-
nounced. He was undoubtedly the first in the field,
and the views and opinions which he put forward on
that occasion were such as should have
commanded the suffrages of the Liberal electors. He
claimed their votes as a thorough and unflinching
Reformer, determined to attack the existing abuses
with the most determined energy. He declared him-
self a Church Reformer; and a legal Reformer, in the
most extensive signification of the phrases. Although
the ground was thus pre-occupied. Sir EDWARD
BULWER LITTON subsequently came forward on the
Liberal interest, while Mr. PEEL, son of the Right
lion. Baronet the Member for Tamworth, an-
nounced himself as a candidate on the free-
trade Conservative principles. Mr. PRILLIIIORE
immediately perceived that any division in the
Liberal camp must have insured the triumph of the
Conservative; he accordingly waived his unques-
tionable priority, and with the most praiseworthy
disinterestedness—a total absence of personal feeling
—r
interestetiredfrom might
ig the contest, in
diovirdddeer. Sir E.
" that the Li-
beral B.
LITTON having, howevsr, recently resigned, and
the cause that had induced Mr. l'imaassoas to
withdraw his claims being no longer in existence,
that gentleman has again come forward, and pub
-
fished a manly and straightforward address to the
electors, a copy of which will be found in another
part of this day's impression.
Mr. PHILLIMORH refers to his former address
for the expression of his feelings and principles. Ho
es nsocturmriellaonustoabruetsrea,ctand
spiteful depreciation, or
qualify them; that they are principles which have
ennobled the most illustrious names in modern story,
in 3
and that by them he is content to stand or fall." He
also states his opinions that "the large revenues of
the Church of England are not distributed in the
manner most calculated to promote the spiritual wel-
fare of the inhabitants of this country." We believe
that there are few of the overworked and underpaid
curates of the Establishment—men who labour zea-
lously, and indefatigably for a pittance insufficient to
maintain their families in the situations to which they
have been accustomed, who will dissent from that
opinion. It is those who receive their thousands per
annum for doing nothing, the drones in the
spiritual hive, that will view the declara-
tion of Mr. VHILLIMORB with alarm, and oppose
with all their energies a man so hostile to their
craft. The Church in Ireland also falls under his lash.
He terms it (how justly we leave it to the electors of
Leominster to decide) "A mockery of All religion, an

FRIDAY EVENING-, .J ANUARY 26, 1849

tend an outlay of 63. 671. We arc not surprised at
these things, and we are almost inclined to giv, crelt
r.o the Lancashire magistrates, for not having been
more prodigal with the money of the rate-payers,
seeing that they had the irresponsible power of being
io; but we are surprised that the subject has not long
since attracted the attention of the contributors to the
county-rate, and that it should be left to the rate-payers
of 1849 to commence an agitation on the subject of a
reform in our system of local taxation. That agita-
tion has, however, been begun, and well begun too,
seeing that the men who have put themselves forward
as leaders of the movement are the energetic, the un-
tiring, the unconquered men of Lancashire.
A meeting of delegates from nearly all the boards of
.pardians of Lancashire was held a few days since
at Newton-le-Willows to discuss the question of
county-rate expenditure, and the best means of
effecting a more economical administration thereof;
tnd the remedy proposed by the delegates was that
b` the constitution of county, financial, and adminis-
trative boards be composed of magistrates and elected
members from each board of guardians." Sin-
cerely do we hope that the example set by Lan-
' ashire will be followed by other counties, and that
,:
file agitation thus commenced may never cease until
she rate-payers shall have procured complete and
efficient control over the assessment and expenditure
if the rates, and over the nomination of all those em-
ployed in the county administration, until, in short,
this unconstitutional system of " taxation without re-
presentation " shall be utterly destroyed and anni-
hilated.

d'stricts : (ale under Lieutenant Field-Marshal
KEme!,:q, whose head-quarters are in Pre-burg; the
sec:,nd, under General WRI3NA (pronouriePd Wurni),
with his heal-quarters at' Buda ; the third, under
illajot•- General VON BURICS, with his head-quarters
in Ocdenburg
Lieutenant Field-Marshal commisioned,
witu eight battalions, six squadrons of cavalry, and
thirty six fielibpieces, to pursue the flying column of
the rebel chief GORGEY, in the direction of Ipolysagh,
over Lev 3, and to push on for Schemnitz, came up
with them on the 15th, while Major-General GOT 2 s
column was advancing towards Neusohl and Krem-
nitz.

The insurgent leader AlEszAnos holds out in the
neighbourhood of Erlau.

Major-General OTTINGER'S brigade drove the
enemy back to Szolnok on the 13th, took possession
of the town, and a magazine containing 98,000 bushels
of corn.

The inhabitants of the adjacent district, and those
of Ketskemet, are well disposed, and received the
Imperial tnani&stoes, so long kept from them, with
loud acclamations. From all arts of the country
already in the hands of the Imperial troops, depu
tations and loyal addresses are constantly being
sent to the EMPEROR at 011tnutz. Colonel iIoR-
VARTII'S column garrisons Vesphrim and Stutilweis-
senburg. On the 15th, at two o'clock, that under
Count LTII ANN SUrpriled a rebeldivision of 300 men,
under liik:oNlANskr and VIHAR-ANDER, who have
taken to the Ilial-ony Forest. Ten men were killtd,
several others made prisoners, and instantly shot.
An officer and a private of the army were wounded.
Honourable mention is made of Captain RoxmTz,
who led the attack on this occasion ; u!so of Lieut.-
Colonel ALTHANN, for the abilities and courage he
displayed in this engagement, and throughout the
campaign.
SZELA, who was employed by the Austrian Go-
vernment to organize the massacres in 'Gallic:la two
years since, has been employed to act against General
.1:1Em and the Hungdrians.
The Augsburg Gazette of the 20th states that the
peasants had liken in insurrection against the Aus-
trians at Csorna and Kapuyar, and were marching on
Raab.

A deputation from Presburgh has waited on the
EMPEROR, and has been favourably received.
'1 he following is the first paragraph of the Consti-
tution, as ultimately carried in the Kremsier Diet :
" All (stiatsbiirgor) citizens are equal in the eye of
the law. The Constitution and the law decide en what
conditions Austrian citizenship is obtained. exer-
cised, and lost. The collective body of citizens
i'ortris the people. All privileges of rank are abo-
li-hed. Titles of nobility, o; wha.iever kind, will
neither be granted nor acknowledged by the
State. All public nffices and State service are alike
eligible to every citizen duly qualified. Foreigners
are excluded from civil service, ar.d likewise from taking
arras in the nation's defence, subject to exceptions, which
specific laws shall determine. Personal merit alone au-
thorises public marks of distinctio❑ or rewards; no
mark of disimetion is hereditar3. Official titles are not
to be granted as mere honorary titles."
The Diet have called upon the Ministers to declare
explicitly whether or not it is their intention to ob..
serve the freedom of the press unimpaired, as guaran-
teed by the Emperor FERDINAND in March last.

i4l ONE Y

and COM

ERCIAL NEVt

CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotto❑ and Share Mat kets at Liverpool yester-
day were very buoyant.
The must interesting arrival to-day is from the West
Indies and South America. We have gone carefully
through the various files of Colonial papers, besides ob-
taining from private sources all the information in our
power, but we find the usual difficulty in determining
whether the good or bad predominates. That we should
receive from the West Leila colonies an account of pros-
perity, no one in these times could possibly expect, nor
do we find that there is anything worse than what we have
been accustomed to. Trade is depressed, as a matter
of course, and money is scarce, but there are seine of
our possessions in which greater commercial activity
was apparent, and Barbadoes was an example. The
shipping in port was more numerous, and the businss
done was larger. The weather had bean most auspi-
cious, and the excellent growth of the canes is woadg
sptlen f, though m one or two districts there might
have been rather too much moisture. The temper-
ature, previously dry, had undergone a most delightful
change.
The Honduras papers are to December 9, They add
very little to our previous accounts via New Yolk. The
differences between the British authorities and the Go-
verrimf•nt of Nicaragua bad not been adjusted, aid it is
doubtful whether our naval force on the Station will nut
proceed to extretni,ies. The navigation of the river ban
Juan is the point in dispute, as the Eng:ish autho-
rities are resolved to support the rights of the
Kiitg of Musquito. We claim also with some
urgency, the payment of a portion of the debt due
from Nicaragua to British subjects, and as the 1111:1011111. is
not large, no doubt the claim can be met, provided the
will exists.

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Cape of Good Hope accounts, of a week later date,
afford no news of interest from the frontier.

The produce markets have been very firm this week,
and a good business has beeen transacted. Holders
have withdrawn their goods where they found an indis-
position to give the prices asked.
The Stock Market has been 'remarkably buoyant.
The rise slice yesterday morning is about lk per cent.
At the close yesterday afternoon, Consols were 918, and
to day they are 914 The business doing is not very
extensive, but stuck is scarce, and bu)ers therefore
must pay higher rates. Exchequer-bills. June, have
been 495. premium, and India Bonds 475. to 50s. pre-
mium. Bank Stock has touched 195. The New Three-
and-a. Quarter per Cents. have been 92 to 4.
In the Foreign Market Mexican Bonds are not so
good, the dividend remittance being only 25,000 dollars.
The prices have been 264 to 4. Spanish Three per
(Yews. are 288 to 29, and Vortuguese Four Cents. 27k
to 4. Brazil :tuck is werth 79 to k. Dutch Two-and-
a-Half per Cents. are 49} to 4.
Railway Shares continue to advance. Almost every
line is higher, and notably North- Western, Midland,
North•Briti,h, South-Eastern, Brighton, Great• Western
(done at pat). unit the York lines. The French Shares
are rather better also.

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Reigate ........ ... ..... 12!/::1 l3l/8 13 ex. int.
Royston and Hitehin ... 2 - .. .- .
`Scottish Central .... 25 ...... 26% ...... ....-...
Scottish Mid1and........ 25
Ditto, New - •• ••••... .....
Sheffield, Rotherham, St
Goole (Nor. Div.) -
Do. do (Sou. Div.) ... 5 ......
Shrewsbury anal-Arm- 9
Ditto ditto. Chris B. 5 1.,.., ex.int .....
Ditto, New Guaranteed 8
Stirew>naty anti ',rod. 2 ........ -
-..-.hrewsbury & Chester
(Nor. W.:din.) - •••
L)itto Halves ... ditto 9 ...... -
Ditto Osweetry ...... 18 is -
Ditto New
Do. 8 per Cent. Pref l. O....., - ....
.• hropshire Union .2
~uth Devon to ..
.!(). Preferenceeference
"outh ::taliOrdslaire -1' i AI 4yB qi. ..... .
Soutk litistun .. ...... .. '.',3% 26 i,,1
0.,..0. i lB -
Do., No. 2. - ..„.
Lio., No. ... - , ... 30 ...... 22% ex.int 2214 x.i
Do. Registered No. 4 10 ~ .., -
Do., Scrip Nu 4 •
Suuth o ilit'S
~uti. Yorkshire., Don-
cal,ter, and Goole 6 - •••• ..... -
`;',wsits. & Loutthor E...i,.%-
nierett's Sint. (`;rat.... 6 ....... - ~.. -
aw Fate Ext,-..nsion ... 8 - .•• •. ...... •••
1 Innes LI ;Wen Dock
and Rr..i!wtty ..,. ....... 171,i -
••• ,
6 -
...,.,.o..ilkettLy 1714..... -
,:tertoiti ,-..110 I.,inA,rielt 47% -
Waerfil,lixfrd,Vl,' ieklw,
and Du elm
ear Valley 6 per Cent.
t=',:i A arant...ed ... .. CO .•..•• -
LO. do. do.
1., . do. do. ... 10 ..... ..... ..
1 Cernw all - ...
\ est London . ... 20 ...... - ...... .....
110. Do. Ist Claes ... 20 - ......... ...........
1)0. Do. 2d Class ~... 20 - ...
hitehaven 8.: Furness 14 -
inthior, Staines, and
:t.,outii Western ..... ... 12 ...... -
.t i i Le, Soinersct,& 'A ey-
mouth
Vail', Ncw cae. le, and
Berwick. .... ..
Lo. Onginal New and
ikrwiek .- ..... ...
, . 6xictiAjok No. 1 :•0 ...... 211434- ... .....
Do. do. .N o. 2.....
G.N.E.Preterenco 8
-,;( ,:t i'lthu,nd So ...... 57 • •
10

ONE ,a,.,;,NG
,' • •,- ~ .4' FuTirin FUMY,. O'CLOCK. S,'IiICES.
flank Stock 195 196
s ,er Cent. Reduced Anti 5....... 91X% 91%
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9l 1 ,4•14% 9 ; ,ii
Sew 3LA per Cent. Anti 5....... 92 92% 92'41
'...ong Antis. to expire J an. 1860
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 8 9-16 % 8%
India Stack — 240
-toile Bondi., 1,0004
Ditto under 1,000/. .. ...... .- 49 47 50 p 50 p
South Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuities
Ditto New Annuities ... 89% 893/4
Consols for Account .. 9IMA% 91A
Exchequer Bills. 21/2d.,& 2d.
1,000/. March
1,0001. June 49 46
500/. March..,
p 500/. June
Small, March
.. 45 43 46 p 46 p
Small. June
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS carE CLOSING
O'CLICit. PRICES.
Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres .Bonds, 6 Der Cent. ' 26
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent —
Ditto '3 per Cent — 52
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 26 X 26%
Ditto, Account ..
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents — 4 i
Ditto, 3 per Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent. 271/2 27%
Ditto, Account 27% 27%
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account l6 155/ % 151,E
Ditto, Passive
Ditto, 3 per Cent ...... 281/2 28%
Ditto, Account . 28;5 29 29
Dividends on the above payable in London,
Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild.... 49 lA% 4914
Ditto, s per Cent. Certificates 78%1r4 78,4
Ditto, Account ...... ... ..-.. 78% 7$
PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
.-AILWAY SHARES. PAID.AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
A berdeen.. ...
Amber. Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 41,4..„..
Nyrshire and Galloway.. 7% --
Belfast & County Down 20I,x
Berks & Hants Extens.
(GLlVest. Per. 5 pot ct.) 5

to

13 x.i
26%

3% x.i
lye x.i

2% x.i

Vale otzd

•
Immingham and Ox-
ford Junct., calls duly
paid. or with .guaran. 9(1
Do, withoutguara, tee 20
:3i:n:ung, Wolverh'ton,
and Dudley, calls duly
pd, or with guarantee 10 .....
Do. withoutguarantee 10
. 'irming.,Wolverh'pton,
and Stour Valley 131. 145...
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire June.— 10

Boston, Stamfd & Birm. 5 ...... 41. E 4%
Bristol and Exeter 9O ... .. 70
Ditto, Thirds
Ouckinghamshire... 161. 4s.
Caledonian
Ditto, Quarter Shares 1114..... .
Do. New 10/. Pref..... 7%..... 9 834 sli
Ditto,ClydesdaleJunc 50
~.bester and liolyhead... 50 ...... 231,4 22
Ditto,;Preierencs
, larence
Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10
Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10
Do. Government Loan,
4 per Cent.
Direct London & Ports-
mouth
_. _.

Lublin and Belfast June. 35 ..... 55,83/4 ...
Dundalk & Enniskillen 22% ...... ~
' ast Anglia, 251., L. &
E. and L. and D...... 25 ...... 4% .
Do., 181., E. & H.... 18 .....
Do., 31. 103.
Eastern Counties........ 20 ...... 111 A % ll3/4
Do. New Guaranteed
6 per Cent. . ... ..... 10 ...... 11%58 ll%
Ditto. Extension, 5 per
Cent., No. 1 6/. 13s. 4d....
14 p xd
Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13s. 4d... .
Do. North. & Eastern 50
Do., 5 per cent.
Do. Quarters
Do. New ... ... 43
Eastern Union, Class A
(late E. U. Shares) 25
Ditto, CI ass A, ditto... 3%
Ditto, Class B (L &
and B.) 22% 8%
Ditto, Class C, ditto '2o . ....
Do. Scrip (6 percent.) 20 ...... ........
Ditto (C. & E.) guar.
5 per cent.-- ...... 21,!
East Lancashire
Ditto, New
Ditto, New Quarters 614.
Do., 6 per Cent. Pre-
ference Quarters ... 61„1
East Lincolnshire ...... 25
t,dinburgh and Glasgow 50 ..„ — ..... .........
Ditto, Half Shares ... 20 ..
Edin burgh and Northern 25
Ditto. Newport —
" xeter,Yeovil. & Dorch 25,8 • -
Exeter and Exmouth... 21s.
Glasgow. Dumfries, and
Carlisle

aten'utd

t)

..... 25 ... 28
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Anglo Itdian (late Ita-
hull and Austrian).... 5
Boulogne and A mew—. 20 81/1% ex. exch. 814'5 .x.e
tent.ral of k ranee (Or-
leans and Vierzon) ... 17
Ceylon

3 •••• • '".

43/4
26 %

-
29%

Glaspw,Kilmar.,& Ayr 50 ......

D&Preterence Cons"Ol. - - •• ..• -
qtreat Northern
Do., -1/2 A Deferred ... 121/2...... 51/2 5 x.i. 5 x.i.
Do., % B 6 per Cent.
guaranteed ... ..... 61/2.-- 4% 4%
Do. Extension 2l/2 ...... - -
,reat South. and West.
(Ireland) ...... 45 ..... 31 x.i. - 31x. i.
6 reat North of England.loo ...... -
Ditto, New, 40/ 4O - ••• •• -
Ditto, ditto 25 - ••• -
Ditto, New, 301 3O - -
Ditto. N ew, 151_, l4 .. .. -....-... ...... -
Great Western 100
Ditto, I,e Shares 5O ...... 50 ...... 50
Ditto, 14 Shares
Ditto, Fifths ... 20 - -
Ditto, New 171... .. .. 15 ... .. 141/214 14
Huddersfield and Manch. 30 - ...... -
Ditto, Thirds - - -
Hull and Selby .. ...... 50 ...... -
Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 ...... -
Ditto, 14 Shares - ... - •,....., ..... -
Lancaster and Carlisle- 5O 551/4 . ...„
Ditto, Thirds
Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 - .......... . .... --
' Ditto, ditto
Ditto, 1/2 Shares
Do. Quarter Shares l7l/2 ...... 13 ... l3
Do. Fifths-
Do. Sixteenths 614
-
Do. Thirds (Reg.)..... 13 ..... - .. ... 61/4
Lo. New,Gua. 6 nerct. 71/2 - ... ...... 91/2 x,i.
Do. Liverp. and Bury 43 - -
Ditto 1/2 (late Hud-
dersfield and Shetf.) 43
Do.(Waketield,Ponte-
tract, and Goole) .. 50 - -
Do.( W. Riding Union) 7 ..... 234 3 3
Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25 - .. . -
Do. 1/2. Shares (A)... 91/2 - -
Leeds and Bradford 50 10044 100........ 10')1/2
heeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 50 . - -
Do., Half Shares --
Do., (blue) Scrip...- 2l/2...... - -
Leeds and Think
Ditto, Now ...... ....... 40 - •• ••. -
Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 31/2 ..
Liverpool, Crosby end
Southport . 3l„a — -- --
I. iverp., Id an chste,r, and
Newcastle JULIC6OII... 2ki....... -- -
London & Blackwall...l3l. 6s. 8d.... - ... .
Do. Extension ..... ... 221.... -
London, Brighton, and
South 1,-;ci )fot ..... .... 50 ..... 36 36%X,
Do.Guarant.s per et-. 9 ...... -- -
Do. Pref. Con. 5 per et. 50 .. ... 49% x.d. .. ..... 49; x.d.
Ditto. ditto.— 1852 50 - .............. - '
Ditto, New 5/., guar.
6 per cent.
Londag and (reenwich 1211564 d... - ... ...... ..., , -

29,‘
2L'Si
2W/4
57
111

~: X! Eiil

Denwrara
Dendre Valley—,
1 firect Bombay and

Mad ras
Dutch Rlikuish ......... 714...
List Indian ..,.... 314..,
Gleat Indian Peninsular 14......
Louvain ais Satubr., ... 71:2 —
Luxembourg 7l/4 —
Ditto
Madrid and Valentia..„ 2 ......
Namur and I iege
Northern of France
Orleans and Bordeau.x... 7
Paris and Lyons
..
Do. Do. .
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen ...
Paris and Strasbourg
..... •••.. ....
Rouen and Havrc ...... 20
Sambre and Meuse ...... 20 —.. 3%..
MINES.
Anglo-Mexican lOO
Asturian Mining Com 14
Australian..

—•.. 28 ex.cliv:

-
2IA

28 x.d

• 6414 .

10
314

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LLOYD'S SHIPPIiv 6.—Cf HIS DAY.)
LONDON, JAN. 26.—Wind this day at noon W.S.W.,
light bre, ze, and lice clear weather.
GLOUCESTER. JAN 25.—Arrd. Albion. St. Andrew's.
SWANSEA, JAN. 25.—Arrd. Jent.y Jones, Valparaiso;
Harriet, Cuba.

WATERFORD. JAN. 23.—Wind S.W. to W.—Sld.
Margaret, Tribidad.

AZERDEEN, JAN. 24.—The Dizs.beth, M'Kenzie, of
and trout this port to Leith, end the Dahlia, of New-
castle, which were stranded on• the beach, the former
on the 1041, and the latter the 11th inst., hare beets got
oft; and assisted into the hat boor.

ST. MONANCE, JAN. 24.—The Nancy, Davidson,
bound to Lath, was wrecked on the island of May 21st
inst., one man drowned; little is expected to be saved of
vessel or cargo.

PORT LOGIN, JAN. 22.—A water cask painted yellow,
a dog-bowie, h ad colour, and a binnacle painted green,
two handspike s, besides several pieces of bulwarks,
painted gr, n inside and black outside, were washed
ashore to ti.ty in the bay.
MAR/PORT, JAN. 23.—A schooner went on shore this
morning on Beck.oot about nine miles north-east of thiS
port, supposed to be the Warrior, of Yarmouth, from,
Pentewan to Liverpool, and lies in a very dangerous
position.

_ .
MARGATE, JAN. 25.—The John Cobbold, Handley,
from' Mauritius to London, has been supplied with so
anchor and thirty fathoms of chain from this placer
having lost them off the Tongue Light.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 25. Wind W.S.W.—Arril 24
Agnes, Crelly, Nassau, New Providence; Sophia, SOW',
Puovash. 25. Niih, Tinley, Madras ; Countess of
Sefton, Callao; Fedciatia, Francisco, Macoa; Andover,
Hayton, Ceara ; Ada, Mary, Laguna ; Julius Caesar*
Fleming, New Orleans; Herbett, Hallett, New Orleans;
Corsair, Halifax ; Luise, Naples. Sid. Sarah Sand,*
(S.S ), New York. Put back, 25. William Carey, for
Calcutta; Gold( n Fleece, for Pc-rrianibuco; Elizabeth'
for New Orleans.

FALMOUTH, JAN. 25 —Wind W., squally. Arrd•
24. henry Isina), late Park, Rio Grande, and sld. 25t
for Lond,,n.

PLYMOUTH, JAN. 25. Wind W.S.W. Arrd. 25.:
Her Alaj,,,t)'s stip Espiegle, East Indies, and Id. (°`
Pot tstnonth.

LBAY, JAN. M.—Wind W.N.W.—Put back, -24'
Edmund, .112k:ord, for Slum Leone, with loss or 01°
ehor and cli

SOUTRAMPTuN, JAN. 25.—Arrd. 25, Teviot, steamer'
West Int'ies.

DEAL, JAN. 25.—Wind W. strong.—Arrd. 25.
titude, Popham, Mauritius ; 'Ada, Amy, Mauritius ;
Sayers, lietatrara. Arrd. from the River2s. N.le. 111iikr, aretneo. &e. back,
Emma &lg., 11:1, Syducy. Now south
CAIIIRCIVEEN, J AN. 23.—The Alexander, fr,n3OP"rtdc.
to Cork with
, w of on shore at Beguis
Valentia Harbour, 22d inst., during a gale, snd is iifehie
t:) b,-vorne, a w7.lek—erow seared,
kql ; a great portion
cargo save,i in a dato,kfe,i t,t.d.t,.. A large 'Maine
„g
such off vlos.•-re:fed topsails, ruu"l,-„e
E.N. E.. 21,t, t., •of raw have cv-0
tutu V tt;o to) ; it is In'tt,n fea7.ed thv
h to touLdtred near the eo“st, and that rum .formed FP'
of her cargo,