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

THE SUN, LONDON, TIITTRSDAV EVENING, JANUARY 25, !MO.

the duty on fire and marine assurances, and on car-
riage=, and equalising and reducing the remainder by
one-half. From theF.e various sources of revenue he
estimates that 24,700,0001., or 3,450,0001. more than

state of the poor little creatures who were famished,
and kicked, and general:y maltreated at, Tooting,
the sufferings of OLIVER TWIST at the work-
house, and of ~`',MIRE at the Yoikshire 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 not desire the pronunciation of any severe
sentence upon Mr. DROVED: we would rather call
for the disruption of a structure of which he is very
fur 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 llouse of Commons. Before the ses-
sion has far advanced the matter must be brought
under the consideration of Parliament.

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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—
" Ist. That it is discreditably dishonest nat to pay
off the national debt.

"2d. That it would be very easy to pay it off.
" 81 That it would be profitable to pay it off."
In sustaining the first proposition, Mr. WAsoet
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
aggrardisement, or to ccn'rol 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 ea
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 p operty v‘hich remained in their ov n nands
and which would pass to their children. The po•
sition of the industrious: classes—of the artizans
the operatives, and the labourers—would no'
have differed materially from what it is a
present, whatever might have been the result. They
would, as now, have been compelled to labour hard
and severely, t:) 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, co.eld 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 upcn the people who have derived no
benefit from cur expensive contests, who have no
property, to contribute a por►ion of their scanty earn-
ing towards its liquidation.
In his second proposition, it would seem as ii' Mr.
WASON, in the hurry of calculation, had fallen into an
error. Ike 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
220,000,0001. only. It would therefore take about 18
per cent. to ob'ain the required amount. The error
in the calculation does riot, however, in any degree
affect the principle ; and Mr. W'Asox has shown how
the great desideratum may be attained and the nation
freed from an enormous debt, which it is positively
disgraceful and di-honest to make no efforts to liqui-
date, when the country is in a state of profound peace
and tranquillity.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

After the verdict pronounced upon the master of
the Tooting establishment, e 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. BARTH°.
LOMEM DROUET, 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 contemporaries. 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. WAICLET himself, while
exonerating from all legal responsibility such indi-
, viduals as the guardians of the Holborn Union, as

the Poor-levy 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
oecasicns, that althomsh the unfortunate victims of the
evil system cannot be restored to existence and coin-
pensatsd 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 thowand 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 oft'
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-
dians to shelter themselves behind the excuse that
they have duly performed their part of such contracts I
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 off
unthieenses
" Farming Institutions, " the
will not be regarded as exonerated from blame
simply because they pay up (as in the present
each
juvenile instancy)uvenile p a theupe r s. t i pu
Theylate d
will 4 beGd.considered
per
week
sible for any misery that may in future be
as
forre
spee_
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 reqaired 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,
and their tumid abdomens, was
their swollen glands,
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

open sea when they refused us all the necessaries ef life,
my wife and myself were confined to our bed by sick-
ness, end unable to rise; no one gave us anything to eat
or drink—food and physic were equally unattahiable,
and we were reduced to extremities. Our friend, Ber-
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 sod us nsarly
all the articles that we required, bat our health, not-
withstanding, was much shattered. The Cabetians
threatened to cast us into the sea, but Berneus and my-
self, armed to the teeth, succeeded in preventirg than
from perpetrating the atrocious deed. On cur arrival at
New Orleans we found the remains of our first detach-
ment; all those who hale eseeped death are, more or
less, suffering from illness; many are in the hospital.
You should have seen the despair depicted on the win •
tenances of the men, and the tears
,which suffused the
faces of the women ; some hal 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 suffirers 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. Thero 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 521.
50e. per month. Provisions are very dear—the town is
badly built, very filthy, and very unhealthy; meat sells
:or 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
Abl 6 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, he had no occasion to remonstrate, seeing that
up to the present moment the Sovereign Pontiff has sot
thought proper to receive him in his quality of Envoy."
It was reported in Paris yesterday that the Austrian
Envoy had givefi 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 Porz as a temporal SOVEREIGN.
Some disturbance took place, on the 18th instant,
at llermanville, near Caen, in cons( quence 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 nut finding the Me or 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 FranCOMEO:Se announces that Count
MAUIIICS ESTERHAZY, the Austrian _Minister at the
Court of the Netherlands, passed through _Besancon
on the 18th init., 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 751. 20c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 7051.
Rouen, 4401.; Great Northern, 390 f.; Avignon, 1871.
50e.; Vierzon, 2101.; Basle, 83'. 75e.; Bordeaux, 3771.
50e ; Paris and Strasburg, 3321. 50a.; Tours and
Nantes, 3131. 75c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWATS AT TEE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANG, JAN. 24.
Northern of France, 7% ex div.- Orleans and Bordeaux,
214—Paris and Strasbourg, 2%—Rouen and Havre, 10--
Sambre and Meuse, 3A.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
As the French Republic took the initiative in abc,
lishing the punishment of death for political offences,
so, to its honour be it spoken, it has taken the initiative
in reducing its naval end 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, end 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. THIERS 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 end in leegue with the English a: is..
tccracy, that is opposed to disarmament, end anxious,
for war. It is to be hoped that this fact will be
borne in mind when the question of the reclue;ion of
our establishments shall come on for discussion in the
British Honse of Commons.
The National Aesembly 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 appointmens of a speciel Ccenmittee to
examine the budget of receipts and expenditure for
1849. Tee num'sers 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 he tantamount to a
vote of want of confidence in the Ministry, which
will probably go out, as the PRESIDENT of the Re-
-1 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. LuEBMINIER 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. ACIIILE 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.
PRADIE 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.l
The Meniteur publishes a decree of the PRESIDENT
of the Republic, ordering that the exhibition of the
products of national industry in the Champs-Elysées
shall open on the Ist of June next, and close on the
31st of July.
The Munikur publishes a report from the Minister
of War to the PRESIDENT of the Republic, commu-
nicating the result of the investigation which wits
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 tkis 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
Cessation to form the High Court of Justice for the
trial of BARDFS and his accomplices, are Messsrs.
BERENGER, lIARDOIN,ROCIIER, lIELLO, and BOISSEU,
as titular judges, and Messrs. PATAILLII and DELA-
PALM!' as supplementary judges. The five titular
judges assembled on Saturday, and chose M. BEREN•
GER, lately named President of the Court of Cessa-
tion, to be President of the High Court.
Rename, the man who pronounced the dissolution
of the National Assembly, during the invasion on
the 15th 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 some 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:-4 If things do not go on as we like we
shall soon knock down this Louis Napoleon.
If we bad 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, gape a vous burgesses of
Chartres I 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 Onstitutionnel publishes the following letter
from one of the dupes of M. CARET, who was' so
stupid as to emigrate to Texan Icaria:—
" New Orleans, United States, Dec. 15, 1848.
"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 voyege, it
was a prosperous one, for we errieed in 35 days ; but it
was very difli rent as regarded our expedition. Al that
s' t out with us, was only the bare truth. We suffered you told me on the subject of Cabet, end the men who
much at sea from their brutality. When aldl our bag.
gage was embarked, our passports vises, and was the-
poesible to go hack, Cabet and hisecel
of their wetches, their
of their
hawk's
gusi;etiumpy their pencil-
satlrlippthede mthoenewymialennd valuables
.. , iv e 17 made
aboutus
chains, their earrings, their wedding rinhtf,
ccaloseths,esantd sNilov erarstuicuifor- boxesy—Tloritiaes
egsocianrgetao say
the
eyes of these hungry harpies. I alone resisted their ra-
pacity, and insiste on retaining possession of my pro-
perty, but my obstinacy nearly cost me my life, and that
of ray beloved partner, We bad scarcely gained the

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the 18th have been received.
The Chamber of Deputies had on the preceding
afternoon adjourned sine die.
General PRIM, late Captain-General of Porto Rico,
has arrived in Madrid.
General CONCHA arrived at Vich on the 1 lth ; be
hal been detained at Genoa five days, in consequence
of the heavy rains.
The Carlists had, it was rumoured, blockaded Ma-
mesa.
MADRID BOLSA, J.N. 18.—Three per Cents., 191
buyers, sellers ; Five per Cents., 9i to 10; Passive
Debt, 3i to 4; Bank Shares, 54 buyers, 56 sellers.
Exchange on London, 49 10.

It i 3 said that Austria is desirous of marching an
army into the Roman territory for the restoration of
the Port; to his temp,.)rH. sover,ignty, but that she
vv not do so -without the content of France and
England.

ONE. CLOSING
ice. .t, nu' sli.ll:l3ri FUNDS. O'CLOCK. FRIG LS.
ank. Stock
, ..er Cent. Reduced Anna 90%3/4 903
3 1",•3r Cent. Consols Annuities 9O kii% th.‘ 903 k
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726 . — 8874
N,w SIA per Cent. Anu5......
lion g Anns. to expirn Jan.lß6o
Ditto, Oct. ' 10. 1859 ..... -16 8 9-16
India Stock for Account... ..... 243 243
1,615. Bonds, 1,000/.
Ditto under LOOM .. ...... 48 45 p
South Sea Stock
• Ditto New Annuities ... 871,4
Consols for Account 90V141458
Exchequer Bills. 2V2d. & 2d.
1,0001. March ... 43 p
1,0001. June
43 46 p
5001. Match..
500/. June
Small, March .. 46 43 p
Small. Jun©
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS
LO °NE
O'CCK.

45p

90 7.8

46 p
48 p
46 p
45 p
43 p
48 p

CLOSING
?RI(! Es.
79%
25

Austrian, 5 per Cent ..... ...
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent. 26th 25
Ditto, Account
Erinador Bonds
Grenada londs, 1 per Cent.
iii.oxican, 5 per Cent. 1846 2614%
Ditto, Account 6%5,814
Portuguese 5 per Cents. 73 72
Ditto,4 per Cent —
Ditto, Account 27
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1640. -—
Ditto, Account 15%1/04% 151/2
Ditto, Passive

Ditto, 3 per Cent
Ditto, Account . 2814
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian 4% per Cent
Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild —
Ditto, Account 4914 5/8
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 7814
Ditto, Account

t) • r- _
Ditto, Class A, ditto... 3LA

31In•ec••• a+•.+•

Neweast It J tine

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31/4
15:14
26%

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79%
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78%

LondonB6Blackwall...l3/.6i.8d.... 5
Do. 22%•.•-n

L't ION E Y told COMMERCIAL NEWS. London, Brighton, and
Coat 5O ..... 351 e %, 35;1,1
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. South Co
Do. Guarant. 5 per et, 9
The Cotton Market atLiverpool, yesterday, was higher Do. Pref. Con.s per ct. 50 .. ... 50 sad 5O x.d.
for American sorts. Sales 10,000 bales.— Railway Ditto, ditt0...... 1852 50
Shares were buoyant and a good business was dune. Ditto, New 5/., guar.
The accounts received from France have 6 per cent. .. 5
given much satisfaction. The prospect of an London and Greenwich 12/15s 4d — •••••• .......
extensive reduction in the military force Ditto, Preference .. .`A
of that kingdom is hailed as encouraging London and N. Western 100 135% 135 131%.
to our financial reformers, and the example will not be e.:!) Que!ters (L. 6.13.) 1
Ditto, l'stv
lost, it is hoped, upon other countries groaning, like
let te i, e she ..... .. .. 2 ....... 8%
ourselves, beneath the weight of taxation. The check Do ii.,1.8,
1,„(14.,,,L
) tee
sustained by the French Ministry seems to be scarcely
thought or. Do. 101. (M. s'e. B.) A. 10
Do. 101.(.11. & B.) B. 10
• The following is the position of the dried fruit trade, Do. WI. la & B.) C. I ••• •• 41/•••
as regards the article of currants, aecerding to the re- Lee eee se Western ...... s')
port of Messrs. Witherhy and Henson, London brokers :-- lee Nees 501. •
... ..... 42%..
" The arrivals here from the date of our last report to Do. New 40/.......... .. al
the 22d instant inclusive, have consiAcd of eleven car- Do. Tenths (Cancel.) 50 •••••• 3)%•• •••• --
goes, making the total quantity imported since the corn- Ditto ditto ..... 4O
mencement of the season, by fitly. nine ships, 7,532 Ditto. Thirds.. •••••••!. 15
butts, 7,004 carroteels, 9,032 barrels, and about 500 Do.. New Scrip, 184 e,
Pref. 7 per Cent. on
cases, or 9,100 tons, against 5,928 'butts, 5,175 cer- Deposit, and 5 per
rottels, and 9,382 barrels, or 7,400 tons, to 20th Cent. on Calls ...... 5 -
January, 1848, and 7,300 to the like period of London,Saliebury, aid
1847. We shall require at this port 3,000 tons Yeovil ..... ~... ."
ne. 1;‘••••••
more to make our importation equal to that Londorelerry&Celersline 30 ...... ....,......-
of the whole of last season, From the 31st January to eondonderry and Eruus-
10th of September of 1848 and 1847, were received kei e ...... ...
here from 4,800 to 5,000 tons. At Liverpool 300 tons Manehester,Busetotnand
more have been received than to this period of al atick
1848, but 300 tons less than in 1847. The clear- Mancheste
Lincolnshirheffield,
andloo
ances for home consumption at this port from Do. Quarters (No. 1) 18 . — .• -_the 19th ult. to the 18th instant, have been 564 Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 2e- . — -
tons against 550 tons during the like period of 1848, and Ditto ditto (No. 3) ... 1114 ..... . ......•. ~ ...
230 tons mei 290 tons in 1847 and 1846. A great in- Ditto, New 10/. Pref... 10 ...... 11:1.t
creaso in the consumption is evidently going on in the Ditto, Gt.Grimsby ... 40
manufacturing districts in the north, the clearances at Ditto ditto . ...see. 13
Liverpool during the five weeps ending 17th instant Ditto ditto 8% ,..... 409.1 ••
having reached 635 tons against 515 tons in 1848, and Ditto Sheffield and
260 tons and 265 ions in the two preceding years." Lincolnshire l 5
.
There are numerous ship arrivals from different parts Do., Grimsby Dock... 20
of the world, but the letters and papers which they bring D 0.,. Manches.ter and4_
2s
Lincoln Union. .... /.,
have for the most part been anticipated by previous •
Midland .... ..... ........1a) •• ••• 95 ....... .....,..
arrivals. Do. Consolidated Pref.loo
The mail steamer from the West Indies has been tele- Do., do., 504 Sheeeba. 25 ..... :10% 20
graphed as having arrived at Southampton, but we have Do. Birm., and Derbyioo
no details yet of the news she brings. DteConsol.Bristol and
The Bank of England, notwithstanding the rumours Birming.,6 per ct.... 100 ......
of its intentions, has made nu alteration to-day in its Ditt,o,l3rta. SuGlocar. 40- - ..... ......• ...
terms of discount. Ditto, Leieesas Swan-
The duty on Foreign Wheat is still 10s. per quarter. nington, 8 per ct. guar.loo . —
The Funds have been in a most buoyant state this Michaud Gaeat A stern
Irish
morning, and there is an active business dt.ing for both
111iddlesbro' and Itedca,-,
money and account. Consols hate realised 90:11. The New 6 pe,. cent. guar....... 50
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 91? i -i. How cor- Newcastle and Carlisle.loo -•-• e-•• •••
reef our remarks were in respect to the general tone of Do. Questers 25
as some might Nswmareet - • .... . -••••
ftelieg not having in the least altered. .20
have concluded because of the temporary flatness, two Do. Extennion .........21. 125.... —........ ~...
days since, this morning's report will sufficiently prove. Newport, Abergavenny,
Bank Stock has touched 192 and 193. India Stock is and Hereford
...swey and_ Enniskillen 7 ......
at 243. Excht quer-bills have realised 435. to 465. prem.
.. eviry,. vv arrenpomt, • -..•
In the Foreign Market the transactions have been
sna tteetrevor .. 23
more extensive. Spanish Five per Cents. are 151 to ft, Nei-folk . ,
and the Three per Cents. 281. Portuguese Four per Do. New 201. .. l5
Cents. era at 27. Mexican Stock is worth 202- to 1. tat. Guaranteed 5 pct. 20
Grenada is 15,i to 16. Dutch Four per Cents. are 78.1, Do. Guaranteed seepc. 5
Railway Shares have taken a further start, especielly Do.Lowestort(4leerct) 20
a. the old lines. Ditto (6 per ct.) - ..... ''"
•'
Dee do. Waveney Val. 2 ......
N rthern Counties Union 4
North British ........ ... 25
Ditto, Halves .. . 1214 — ...
Ditto, Quarters
Ditto, Extension O% — •........• ...
Ditto, Thirds .... .... 8174 ..
North &' South-Western 2 —
North Staffordshire.-- 15 ...... ...
North Wales . ••• 3%••
eorth-Western ....

11%
S'ii

4
42

311 A

391 A

-
1154

15

94%

co.
.2...
MINI

16%
lye

4 L~
i

25

oxierd, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton ... .
,I 0
Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate ... ..... 12%..... 13 12Ys ex. int. 123 x.i.
Royston and Hitchin ... 2
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland 25 - -
Ditto, New - .. ... . .......
Sheffield, Rotherham, &
Goole (Nor. Div.)

91,E

PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen 5O - ... ...
Amber. Nott., Bosten,
and Eastern Junction 4A......
Ayrshire and Galloway.. 7%
Pelfast & County Down 20%...... •
Berks & llants Extens.
(Gt. West. Per.s per ct.) 5
Birmingham and Ox-
ford
Junct., calls duly
paid, or with a guaran. 20 ...... ........
Do, without guarantee 20 ,‘ ... 25M 25 x. i.... 25 x. 1,
Birming, Wolverlfton,
and Dudley, calls duly
pd, or with guarantee 10 ..... 153
Do. without guarantee 10
Birming.,Wolverh'pton,
and Stour Valley 13/. 145...
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire June.... 10
Boston, Stamfd & Birm. 5 ... .. -
Bristol and Exeter 9O -
.. ..
69
Ditto, Thirds ......... 27% ....
iluckinOanizhire... 16/. 4s.
Caledonian
Ditto, Quarter Shares llg —
Do. New 10/. Pref..... 7%... , B54i3A .. ..
Ditto,Clydesdale June 50
Chester and Holyhead... 50
Ditto,:Preference l5 ..
Clarence
Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10
Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10
Do. Government Loan,
4 per Cent.
Direct London & Ports-
mouth -
Dublin and Belfast June. 35 ...... 5,! j ..
Dundalk & Enniskillen 22% — -
East Anglia, 251., L. &
E. and L. and D...... 25 ....• • --
Do., 18/., E. & 11.... 18
Do., 3/.105. - 2%1,4 2l
Eastern Couldies... ..... 20 ...... 11%.. ~ 11.),
Do. New Guaranteed
6 per Cent. . ...
Ditto, Extension, 5 per
Cent., No. 1 6/.135. 4d....
Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13s. 4d...
Do. North. & Eastern 50
Do., 5 per cent.
Do. Quarters
Do. Nev ... 43 -
Eastern Union, Class A
"late E. U. Shares) 25.. —

153/4

-
81i

23
10/8

lA P

.......", ad ....,- _
Ditto, Class B (L &
and B.) 2214
Ditto, Class C, ditto... 20 . —
Do. Scrip (6 percent.) 20
Ditto (C. & E.) guar.
5 per cent,— ...... 2%,.,
East Lancashire
Ditto, New
Ditto, New Quarters 614 ...... -
Do., 6 per Cent- Pre-
ference Quarters ... 614 ...... ... ..
East Lincolnshire ...... 25
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 421/2 43
Ditto, Half Shares ... 20 .. ..
Edinburgh and Northern 25
Ditto, Newport l5 .. ..•
Exeter,Yeovil, fs Dorch 2% -
Exeter and Exmouth... 21s.
Illa,%gow, Dumfries, and
Carlisle
;lasgow,Kiimar., & Ayr 50 —

18%

26%

d___Jgolri,- .
Do. Preference Consol. -- . .. , ...
Great Northern
Do., ?,,2 A Deferred ... 12%...... 4% sxi
Do., % B 6 per Cent.
guaranteed ... ..... 6% ~.... 44% .. ...
Do. Extension......... 2% — •••
treat South. and West.
(Ireland)
Great North of England 100 .....
Ditto, New, 401 4O
Ditto, ditto 25 - •••
Ditto, New, 307 3O
Ditto, New, 151
Groat Western 100 ...••. 97 .•••••
Ditto, 4. Shares 5O ...... ......... ......
Ditto, 14 Shares
Ditto, Fifths .....
Ditto, New 171— ..-. 15 ... .. 14 .
II lddersfield and Manch. 30 -
Ditto, Thirds
Hull and Selby ..
Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 ...... tiOi 50%
Ditto, IA Shares
Lancaster and Carlisle 5O .. .• ..
Ditto, Thirds
Lancashire & Yorkshire 93
Ditto, ditto
Ditto, % Shares ...... 43 ... • — ...... .... .
Do. Quarter Shares... 171,2 — •
Do. Fifths... ... 10 ...... 6X, 7.. ...
Do. Sixteenths 614•••••• -
Do. Thirds (Reg.) l3 ..... - . .
EA ....
Do. New, Gua. 6 per et 7% ...... 91A3 r..i.......... 9 x
Do. Liverp. and Bury 43 ...... ~„... ........ ' 'l,
Ditto % (late Ea"
dersiield and Shelf.) 43 ...... .. ..... ~,..

IVA
11

333/4

Do.(Wakefield,Ponte-
- clad, and-Goole) ... 5a-
Do. (W. Riding Union) 7 .. •••
Do. (Preston 84 'Wyre) 25 -
Do. % Shares ( A)... 914—.0 -
Leeds and Bradford 5O lOO% 100.... ••• 10
Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 50 ....• •
Do., Half Shares 25
Do., (blue) Serip...... 2%••• „.
Leeds and Thirsk
Ditto, New ... ...... .... 40
~ •• 4a vt. ..
Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 81/2 --.. •e
Liverpool, Crosby and
Southport ......

51
124

Australasia
British North American 50 .••
London Joint Stock lO ... ..
MINES.

Anglo-Mexican lOO
Asturian Mining Com... 14
Australian. 3

~''~'

Do. do (Son. Div.) ... 5
Shrewsbury and 8in8... 9
Ditto ,_ditto. Class B. 5 -• •••
Ditto, New Guaranteed 8
Shrewsbury and Herefd. 2 ......
Shrewsbury & Cheater
( Nor. W. Min.) lB -
Ditto Halves ... ditto 9 ...... .. ... .....
Ditto Oswestry ....... 181/2 —
Ditto New
Do. 8 per Cent. Pref. 10
Shropshire Union 11
•,-;eutn Devon 5O ......
Do. Preference - as., •••• •••• ......
'outh Staffordshire 7IA — --
South iiasteru .. 33% 251 2i
1) 0., No. 1.....- ........ 28
D0~::NO. 2.
Do., No. :3 ....... ~.... 30
Do.. Registered No. 4 10
Do., Scrip No 4
South Wales
South Yorkshire, Don-
caster, and Uoole
‘'swans. ti Loughor & Ca- •
la neron's Stru. C0a1.... 6 - ,

~aw Vale Extension 8 ••• .••••......
Thames Haven Dock
and Railway 17%z...... ...............
Vale of Neath
Waterford and Kilkenny 17%.
Waterford and Limerick 471
Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw,
and Dublin
Wear Valley 6 per Cent.
Guaranteed ... ...... tO
Do. do. do. ... 25
Do. do. do: ... 10 ..... .....
West Cornwall _ 6
West London
Do. Do. Ist Class ... 20
Do. Do. 2d Class 20
W hitehaven & Furness 14
Windsor, Staines, and
South Western ..... ... 12
W ilts, Somerset, & Wey-
mouth
fork, Newcastle, and
Berwick. ....... ..... ... 25 ..... 29 ... .....
Do. Original New and
Berwick
Do. Extension No. 1. 20 „' 21,4 .
Do. do. 2......... 20 .....
Do. G.N.E.Preference 8 ..... 9 Oa 9.
fork sansi North Midland 50 ...... 57 56% ......
Ditto, Prefereme lO -
Do. East and W est Rid-
ing Extension
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
ikliglo Italian (late Ita-
lian and Austrian).... 5
Central of France (Or-
leans and Vierzou) ... 17
Ceylon
15 • -
12
Demerara
Dendre Valley 4
Direct Bombay and
Madras ss. • ---
Dutch Rhenish .
East Indian 31,4 .
Great Indian Peninsular -LA
Louvain a la Sambre 7%
Luxembourg 7 %
Ditto ..• .......... ....... 10
Madrid and Valentia... 2
Namur and Liege 20 ...
3, %.°-
Northern of France...... 12
Orleans and Bordeaux.- 7 2 "ti) ex.div ...... 2% °'

59
%9

~ .;

Paris and Lyons ll ..... -
Do. Do. .
-.-
Paris and Orleans ...... 20
Paris and Rouen ...
Paris and Strasbourg ... 9
--
Rouen and Havre, 2O . 3.'44
Sambre and Meuse 2O ... .. 314_%... .•
JOINT STOCK BANK.

.. -
6 1/41

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS D.AV
LONDON, JAN. 25.—Wind this day at noon, S.‘'';
fresh gales and squa ly. with dry weather. It big(
very heavy gale last night, with tremendous squalls. t,
SUNDERLAND, JAN. 24.—The Gleaner, of this Plral
from Konigsberg to London, has put in here w"
damage.
DEAL, JAN. 24.—Wind W.N.W. to W„ strong<re,./81
Arrd. John Cobbold, Handley, Mauritius. Arrd. tr°-0,
the River, Roscberry, Young, Port Philip; O.ci,
Winn, Bombay; Amwell, Longridge, Mauritius
Sinclair, Pernambuco; Adele, Demerara; Reward, •L'„vs;
nard, Antigua; Remittance, Marshall, New Orle61"
Switzerland, Fletclaer, New York; Nautilus, e,,00/
SHEERNESS, JAN.-24.—The Johannes Mations, 'Lea
Batavia, which was on shore near Dungeness, has Ps.'
assisted into this harbour in a leaky state this dal: to
DOVER, JAN. 23.—The Tigris, Linton, from Ce.Y'°-his
London, which was stranded to the westward of t
of
harbour yesterday, has broken up, and the remaintl:firot.
the cargo (except the cocoa nut oil in tanks) washed °r•
CARDIFF, JAN. 24.—The Jessie, from Troon for .'l,ll
deaux, put into Penarth Roads 23dinst., leaky, and

loss of 'leaf, bowsprit, jibboora, &c. L() sir
NEWCASTLE, JAN. 24.—1 t still continues to
heavy gale from W.N.W. The Mary (brig) (3„' etport, after heaving out her ballast yesterday reere":,7ere
Souter Point, was driven off the Land ; her masts"

cut away, and has not since been seen. rat.°
SALCOMBE, JAM. 24.—The Dorcas, which Belle secil
terday, hes put back with loss of rudder, having
struck by a sca. becP
Yeamotrrn, I. W., JAN. 24.—This clay it b 35 ?fir
blowing s'r,ng gale from W.S.W. with every 8111 at
tt!le of a ditty night. All the wind-bound vesse'

riding saR?. - - • to
HULL, JAN. 24.—The Unicorn (steamer) be
,nlO ,
Antwerp, sank off West Capel (Seimlde), 00 t- he
instant, having been in contact, dual 2le vi'l' :eV
Rob Roy (steamer), from Antwerp ato-adtill ; C. -of
s e by the latter vessel—arrived here,
ZLV d • With It3ssgot
.bowsprit, head, cwwater, &c. The Helen Mog,tcli
(steamer) has arrived lhre from Gluckstadt,' ---?,,g
place she left on the 21st inst,mt, and repoyts,eallyeiri
found much ice below Gluckstadt, and expellent,
heavy weather. A Globe,
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 24.—Wind W,S W..-...Arro• n- o•cf,
Ward,Calcutta; Flora Muir, Stebon ditto; Choice' n'tlet"
Buenos Ayres, and not the Chance, as reported Ye'"v-er
day; Swiftsure, Bonny. Sid. Nov. 94, end frcra "Ole
m.nd.) Po 1.4:c. 1., Arglo-Aincri,.!ar, Kiri:,, 13`-'' ''''.

14,(4 i;utt
c 13.:, CR. fiugs art: hoisted at the entrance' iof etielY `,;(c)re
as a notice toots not to enter, and until one of :0010
a the flags ice hauled down th® inymol bQuo 1"