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THERMOMETER, Lowest, 33; Highest, 41 ; Noon, 38.
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inconvenience attendant on a doubtful and unst*led
state of the law, particularly on a point in which
such vast numbers are interested in one way or the
other. A. period of nearly fourteen months has now
elapsed since litigation commenced between the cre-
ditors and individual members of the provisional
committees of the several schemes which
owed their origin to the temporary in-
sanity that prevailed so extensively in the year
1845. And it is not too much to say, that greater
doubt and uncertainty prevails as to the legal effect
of certain acts than at the commencement of that
period. In fact, at the time when the debts, the sub-
ject-matters of the several actions, were incurred, and
the proceedings instituted, and during the earlier
trials, no difficulty was imagined ; the full responsi-
bility of every single person, who permitted
his name to go forth to the world as a
member of the committee, for every debt
that was properly incurred in furtherance of the
object for which he had consented to act, was uni-
versally supposed, as well by the creditors as by the
committeemen themselves ; on that faith the credit
was given. No tradesman hesitated to trust a com-
pany that numbered amongst its promoters and
managing members persons of undoubted solvency
and respectability. Every such person was bound
by law to have an interest in the company as a share-
holder; it was his bounden duty to see that no ex-
pense was incurred or debt contracted that could
not be liquidated in dtte season, and if he neglected
the duty he so assumed, and suffered the persons, put
forward w ith his consent and approbation as the servants
and agents of the company, recklessly to involve the
company in debt—whether is it 'more just that he
should be the sufferer, or the innocent tradesmen
who, without any hope of gain save the fair profit on
the sale of his goods, delivered his property to the use
of the company? It haslong been justly remarked, that
in ninety-nine cases in a hundred the decision of law
will be found to be according to that of common sense
and common justice, and that a man of sound judg-
ment, wholly unacquainted with law, will arrive at
the same conclusion, although by a different process
of reasoning, to that which the most learned judges
would come to. We should be well contented to
leave the ultimate decision of the question to be
tried by this test, and would have little fear of the
result.

In BARNETT v. BURDETT, the first of the cases
brought forward, and which was tried on the 20:h of
January, 1846, the learned and eminent counsel
who appeared for the defendant scarcely attempted
to deny his responsibility, and Baron ALDERSON, the
presiding judge, declared, " that there was not the
least doubt about the matter that the defendant was
responsible as soon as he became a member of the
provisional committee, and that when a man becomes
a member of a provisional committee, from that
moment he is liable for the contracts of the
company; and the man who enters into those
contracts for the company stands in the posi-
tion of agent for the committee." And this view
was sanctioned and approved of by the Chief Baron on
the trial of WILLIAMS v. BRADLEY, which took place
the following month, and was unanimously confirmed
by the full Court of Exchequer, who refused to set
aside the verdict had for the plaintiff. This latter
judgment, which was arrived at coolly and deli-
berately, after hearing full argument, and without
the hurry incidental to nisi prius decisions, declared
that it was well left to the jury to say whether
the defendant, by joining the committee, had
sanctioned the supply of goods from that period,
and that there was no ground for disturbing the ver-
dict ; and yet, notwithstanding these opinions so
strongly expressed, and at the time so universally
received and acteron, we find the matter again in-
volved in doubt and perplexity ; creditors tied up,
and obliged to hold over the actions they have long
since commenced, until the judgment of the Exche-
quer Chamber shall be obtained on the
vexata questio; and principles, the reverse of
those then put forward, receiving the judicial
sanction. We trust most sincerely that some ar-
rangement may be speedily made, by which uni-
formity of decision may be attained ; that it may be
consonant with the principles of natural justice, and
such as will merit the public approbation ; and that
we may be spared from again finding a jury protest-
ing, as in the recent case of BARKER V. TAYLOR, against
the direction of the presiding judge, and. stating,
"that if they were at liberty to consider the honesty
of the case, they could not agree to a verdict for the
defendant."

Strange as is the proposition, and not less im-
practicable than novel in its character, yet has it not
taken us by surprise, that, when the proper period
for sowing seed had arrived, some Member of the
House of Commons should suggest and call upon the
Government to undertake to furnish a wholesale
supply of seed to Ireland, with the view of enabling
the proprietors and occupiers of small holdings
to invite the people to return to the culti-
vation of the soil. Such was the purport
of the speech which was made last evening
in Parliament by Mr. J. O'CONNELL, M.P. for Kil-
kenny. The staff which would be required to super-
intend all the operations necessarily incidental to
such a scheme for insuring the due application of the
resources, which the Government were hereby de-
manded to place at the command of the impoverished
landlords and tenants, would be enormous, and its
expense proportionably great. The Government,
had the suggestion been acceded to, must have taken
a lien upon the crops. Mr. J. O'CeNNELL recom-
mended the Executive to compel the absentees to con-
tribute towards the heavy expenditure which would
attach to his plan. The respective replies of Mr.
LABOUCHERE and Lord J. RUSSELL were precisely
what we should have thought every one might have
anticipated. Temperately, but firmly, and, we may
add, most wisely, they declined to entertain the sug-
gestion in any the slightest degree. Had they acted
otherwise, they would have undertaken not only what
no Government ever did, not only what it is not
within the power of any State functionaries to accom-
plish, but they would have engendered evils of an
insuperable character. Private enterprise would have
been effectually paralysed, and, from the loss of this
motor of public wealth, the Irish nation would have
been inevitably involved in national bankruptcy.
Because there happens at this moment to be the ex-
traordinary spectacle of 700,000 persons being em-
ployed on public works, it appears specious enough
to propose that this huge expenditure, with which
the national treasury is, to a great extent, tram-
melled, should be directed and allocated to the tillage
of the land. It must be remembered, however, that
the existing gigantic operations, to which we have been
beneficently impelled, to rescue thousands from misery,
famine, pestilence, and death, are fraught with
seeds of destruction to the social system. " The sys-
tem of public works," observed Mr. LABOUCHERE,
" has grown to such a magnitude as to have become
wholly uncontrollable and unmanageable." What
may be defended upon the ground of temporary ex-
pediency, and has been rendered inevitable by the
dreadful visitation which has spread throughout Ire-
land, could not be justified, but, contrariwise, would
be held vicious in the extreme, if legislation were
to be resorted to calculated, by measures of a per-
manent tendency, to supersede private enterprise
by means of State interference. All that has
been hitherto done we willingly concede was
indispensable, sed revocare gradum Mc labor, hoc opus
est. For this purpose, the first step taken by the Go-
vernment is to administer food in the place of wages
to the stricken population. This is sound policy. It
will set labour free, which we hope to see will be
rapidly employed in its primary and legitimate chan-
nel, the cultivation and improvement of the land.
Whilst, therefore, we deeply lament the unavoidable
displacement of labour that has occurred, and enter-
tain a natural anxiety to witness its earliest
restoration to its proper sphere of action, we cannot
too highly extol the decisive resistance which
the organs of the Government on Friday evening
presented to the proposition of the Member for Kil-
kenny. Mr. LABOUCHERE well said, that upon such
an occasion " doubtful, ambiguous language, which
may lead to misconceptions of the intention of
Government, is not true humanity, but is most likely
to lead to deplorable results." The conduct of some
of the Irish absentees, who have been liberal in their
contributions, according to their means, was freely
praised by the Irish Secretary, who, nevertheless,
truthfully remarked, that " he would not compare
anything that could be done by an absentee with that

which it is in the power of a resident Irish landlord
to do, for he is able to encourage and support those
around him, both by his example and his adviee."
Of other absentee landlords Mr. LABOUCHERE did
not hesitate to speak in terms of severe reprobation.

" Some absentee landlords, I am bound to say, sadly and
shamefully neglected their duty, and, I am sorry to add, I
know many instances like those mentioned by the Hon.
Gentleman, where the resident proprietors have come forward
with their time and their money to assist their distressed
neighbours, and where there are owners of a very consider-
able property held in the district who refuse to come forward
with anything whatever to relieve the destitution of the
place. I assure the Hon. Gentleman that I agree with him
in thinking that the proper place for an Irish landlord, under
the present circumstances of that country, is in Ireland • but
I must say, that if a sense of their duty to their dependents
and of their public duty to their country does not operate
with them to produce that effect, I am afraid that a resolu-
tion of this House would have very little efficacy to bring
about that result."

We seriously advise those landlords whose proceed-
ings have evoked this trenchant language not to impose
too far upon the forbearance of Parliament. Selfish
apathy may be persevered in beyond the limits of tolera-
tion, and, when too late, the landlords may be dismayed
by the discovery that Parliament will be disposed to
bring them to a due sense of their past and present
errors, by something of a far more stringent nature
than what could be embodied in the shape of resolu-
tions. Lord J. RUSSELL himself intimated, at the
close of his speech, that, upon a future occasion, he
should be prepared to express his views upon this
subject. " Coming events cast their shadows before."

The Augsburgh Gazette of the 28th ult. states that
" after the departure of the Turkish Ambassador from
Athens, the foreign Ministers in that capital waited in
a body on M. COLETTI, tnd inductd him to write a
letter of apology to the Turkish Minister for Foreign
Affairs, whilst King OTHO should on his part write to
the SULTAN to explain the subject of difference." The
Paris Presse, however, which copies the above para-
graph, observes that " the fact stated requires con-
firmation."

The Nuremberg Courrier states, that according to a
rumour which was in circulation at Vienna, the Prus
sian Government was about to propose a general law
relative to the press fur all the states of the confe-
deration, and to which most of the Sovereigns of Ger-
many had already givc:n their adhesion. It was added,
that this Bill had been communicated to the Court of
Vienna with an invitation to adhere to it. A letter
from Berlin, of the 25th ult., announces ;,that the
Council of State had just terminated the examination
of the measures alluded to above, and that it was to
be forthwith submitted to the KING, with the expres-
sion of a wish that it may replace the censorship now

existirg.
A letter from St. Petersburgh of the 17th ult. says—
" The EMPEROR has just issued an ordonnance, which
is to be annexed to the military code of the empire, und
which orders all commanders of corps n-t to require
from such Jewish soldiers as may be under their com-
mand any service during the Jewish Sabbath or feast-
days, so a, to allow these men to repair regularly to the
synagogue."

The jubilee on the occasion of the accession of Pius
IX. to the Pontifical Throw is to commence in Paris on
the 14th inst., and will continue to April 4.
It is reported, that on the 18th ult., the POPE had an
attack et epilepsy, but from which he soon recovered.
It is said that the attack was brought on by grief at
hearing of the decease of his brother, to whom he !vas
much attached. We are sorry to hear that this excellent
Pontiff has had a sudden attack, but we trust that it
was epilepsy, and that it was occasioned solely by grief
for the decease of his brother. We cannot, however,
forget that eNery POPE who has attempted to introduce
reforms has been considered as an enemy by the Jesuits,
and has died suddenly.
Letters from the Romagna of the 23(1 ult. state that
the POPE intended shortly to grant permission for the
establishment of a National Guard throughout the Pon-
tifical dominions. A collision had lately taken place at
Faenza between the people of the town and the inhabi-
tants of the Borgho, who had been instigated by Austrian
agents, in which six persons were killed and eleven
wounded. The Legate of Ancona, Monsignor RUSCONI,
had caused two clergymen, who were endeavouring to ex
cite a popular movement, to be arrested and removed under
an escort to Rome. At Sinigaglia another clergyman,
who had preached against the POPE, was apprehended,
and, being considered insane, was confined in' the
lunatic asylum of Pesaro. Monsignor RIIBCONI had
entertained at a dinner the captain and officers of the
Neapolitan war-steamer Intrepido, which had been
lying at anchor for some days in the harbour. This
demonstration seemed to have greatly dissatisfied the
commander of the Austrian squadron, which was cruizing
off the coast. The King of NAPLES had evinced of late
more liberal sentiments. During the Carnival his
MAJESTY. appeared in the Corso, with his aide-de-camp,
dressed after the Italian fashion of the middle age, and
bearing the banner of the Lonsbardian League.

The Madrid mail had not arrived in Paris on Thursday.
The Foment° of Barcelona, of the 25th ult., publishes
the following circular, addressed by MANUEL LESCALA,
the Political Chief, to all the alcaldes within his district,
which fully confirms the rumours which have been for
some time in circulation as to the force and the
success of the Carlists in Catalonia.
A band of rebels, commanded, as it appears, by the fero-
cious Mosen Benet, having appeared in the province of
Lerida, I consider it necessary to give due notice thereof
to the 'inhabitants of the province under my orders,
in order that by their loyal conduct they may escape
the terrible misfortunes which have already begun
to be felt in other localities Her Majesty's troops are ac-
tively pursuing those misdoers, and will inflict on them the
mostietriplary punishment; but., in order to accomplish
this, necessary that the inhabitants should lend their
assistance. This is, moreover, for their individual interest, as
that cannot but suffer from a protracted continuance of such
disorders. In order to prevent such calamities to the extent
of my power, I have adopted the best means of ascertaining
the names of those who in this their duty, and they may
rest assured that the guilty will not escape the most exemplary
punishment. I charge you to give this circular the greatest
,essible publicity, and to assist its operation by every means
in your power."

ARRIVAL OF THE LISBON MAIL.
A telegraphic message was received at Lloyd's this morn-
ing, announcing that the Ripon steamer, from the Mediter-
ranean, had arrived at the Motherbank at half-past three
this morning. She reports that the Pekin left Gibraltar at
11 A.M. 25th February. The Pottinger, at Gibraltar, 25th
February, all well, would sail 26th. Spoke the Oriental, all
well, 26th, ninety miles west of Gibraltar, and saw the Erin,
5 4th inst. off Ushant.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

(From The Sun of Saturday Night.)

The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were4,ooo bales,
with a dull market. Prices were without change. Shares
were flat.

Therd'are no late ship arrivals to-day. •
The principal variations in the Balance-sheet of the Bank
of England during the week to Feb 27, were these:—
Notes Issued £25,349,820
Decrease
Notes reserved ... 6,016,695
Increase
Bullion .
Decrease
Public deposits increase 58,964
Other deposits decrease 484,602
Other securities decrease
Rest, increase
The , ontinued decrease of bullion and increase of notes in
the banking department indicate the restriction which the
bank directors are compelled to put upon their issues, and
should inspire due caution among the mercantile interest,
especially as the exports of bullion continue both to the
United States and to the Continent.

The Money Market is in a disturbed state, and, contrary
to expectation, the funds are more depressed than before the
payment of the deposit on the new loan. The
causes assigned for the sales that have been
made are the unfavourable tenor of the accounts
from France relative to the grain and money markets, the
little difficulty that has arisen in Greece, the willingness of
the Great Western and Birmingham Railway Companies to
borrow money at 4►/.2 and 5 per cent., and the specie re•
mittances still in progress. This has been a heavy week,
however, and the heavy payments for bills due and the loan,
are quite sufficient to account for the reaction. Consols are
as low this morning as 891/z for transfer on Tuesday,
and for April have been marked the same, though
upon the opening of the market they were called 89% to 90.
Consols Scrip has been % to % premium. Exchequer-bills
have brought 3s. to 6s. premium, being steady. The New
31A per Cents. have been 9134 to 92%. Bank Stock was
firm at 204 to 205.

The Foreign Investments have been depressed. Spanish
Five per Cents. have declined to 223/4 %, and the Three
per Cents. to 33 V 2. Brazilian Bonds have been marked 86
to 87. Dutch Four per Cents. are 9214.
The market for Railway Shares has experienced a further
decline. Sales have been made to some extent, and parties
seem to apprehend, that in the event of money becoming
scarcer, they may experience a difficulty in getting accom-
modation upon share property. As in all periods of excite-
ment, too, there are not wanting parties who exaggerate the
difficulty, and by so doing, really create the pressure they
predict. Such is our contemporary the Times, which is again
at its old work to-day, never taking a pleasing view of any-
thing. Circumstance a are unfavourable, but why make
them worse ?

BRITISH FUNDS.

ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PR B ES.
Bank Stock .. .. .. .. .. .. •• 205 204 204
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. .. 8934 % 89%
Three per Cent. Console Annuities .. .. 8934 Ti, 891/,
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anne. 9214 9IN 92 92
Long Annuities. Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 9%)i 9
India Bonds, 1,0001. .. •. •• • • ••
Ditto, under 1,000/. .. .. .. .. par par
Consols for Account, April 15 .. .. .. 8914 90 89%34 Bi%
Consols, Scrip .. .. .. .. .• •• 0%%% p 05'4 p
Exchequer Bills. IN d. I L 6 d.
1,0001... .. .. •• 3 6 pm. 6 p
Ditto, Small .... 10 pin. 10 p

ONE CLOSIN(
O'CLOCK. PUKES,

FOREIGN FUNDS.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, for the Account ..
Ditto, New Bonds, 1829 and 1839 .. 86
Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent ..
Ditto, Deferred ..
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, for the Account .. • • .. 223 %
Ditto, 5 per Cent. '38,39,40, d1v.1841 21%
Ditto, t'assire Bonds .. 5
Ditto, Three per Cent .. ..
Ditto, for the Account .. 335 i% %
Dividends on the above payable in Loudon.
Dutch Two-and-a-Halt per Cent
Ditto. 4 Der- Cent. Certificates

53%

.. 92 4

BUSINESS
PAID. DONE AT CLOSINt
PRICES
• ONE O'CLOCK.
Aberdeen.. 30 .... 28X % .... •• • •
Amber., Notting., Boston, and
Eastern Junction 2% .. 2 %..•• • • • •
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 5 .... ••• • • • ....
Birming., Wolver., & Stour Valley 5 .... •••• • • .. .
Birkenhead, Lancash., & Cheshire
Junction • .. .. 4 .. .. 4th .. •• ..
Boston, Stamford, & Birmingham 7 .... 614
Bristol and Exeter .. .. 75 .... .......

PRICES OF
RAILWAY SHARES.

P
264
2%
20%
4 !4

Ditto, New
Buckinghamshire ........
Caledonian 30 .... 2654 ..... .
Ditto, Half Shares .. -- •• • • ......
Eastern Counties .. .. 20 .... 2054 % ........
Ditto, York Extension .. 4 .... 414 . • •• • •
Eastern Union .. .. 40 .... 5554 56 •
East Lancashire .. • . .. 14 .• 16% •• • •
Ditto New .. 5 .. • • ..
Ditto, ditta New Scrip • . .. 154 .• • • 2% %..•• .. • •
East Lincolnshire •. .. 4 .... 7% •• • •
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. 50 .... 77 .• .. • •• ..
' Ditto, Half Sharers .• • 10 .... 20 tq ••.•• • . . .
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 12% .... 18% 18 ......
Ely and Huntingdon 12% 13)6%.. • • • • ..
Great Northern (London & York
ltegd.)
Great North ot Engla,nd
-,. Ditto, New .. - -
giDitto, New .. 151 • • .... 18%
Great Western .. 85 •• .. 117
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 50 .... • • 7'
Ditto, Quarter Shares • • .. 1254 .... 191 A • • ........
Ditto, Fifths .. .. 20 27% . • ........
Ditto, New 4%854..
Lancaster and Carlisle .. .. 50 ......
Ditto, New • • • .. .. 5 .... 10% ..........
Leeds, Dewsbury, & Manchester 2754 .... 33% .....
Leeds and Thirsk • • 2251 .... 21U . .....
Ditto, New;.. 4% •
Ditto, Preference 6 per Cent. .. 351 ....
Liverp., Manch., & Newc. Junct. 254.... • •
London and Blackwell .. 161. 13s. 4d. .....
Ditto, New, No. 2 .. • • 11. 13s. 4d. % p.. ••• • • • % p
London, Brighton, and S Coast •• 50 .. 5454 54
Ditto, Consol. Eighths .. .. 10 .. • • 13% • ..... .• 1351
Ditto, Guarant. Five per Cent. 9 .... • •
London and Greenwich .. 121. 15s. 4d. 9 4 91,4
London an North-Western • .100 .... 183 184.182% .. 184
Ditto, Quarters . .• .. 2 ..... ... 21
Ditto ditto, New Shares .. .. 2 .... 13944 .......... 14
Ditto, Fifths .. .. 2 18% • • ........ 18 ;4
Ditto, 101. Shares M. &B. (C) 1 ...• ..... •• • • 7 u
London and South-Western-41/. 6s. 10d.•.... • .... 63
r Ditto, New .. 22% .... 25% .. • 2514
Ditto, Scrip.. .. .. .. .. 5 .... .... . 5%
Ditto, ditto .. • • .. .. • • 4 .... ••••• • • • • •
London and York Extension Scrip 2% ••• • • .....
Lynn and Ely .. .. 20
Manchester and Leeds ..
Ditto, Half Shares ..
Ditto, Quarter Shares
Ditto, Fifths • • • • • • • • ..
Ditto, Thirds (Reg.) .. • • • 84s. p. • • •
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. • • • • p• • . • • • • • •
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 1
Midland .:100 .. • 120
Ditto, New .. 30 ...• 35 •..... 34
Ditto, New .. • • • • 2 •• • • ••••• • • • • • 5%
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 100 .... 9454 .. • • ...... 94;4
Midland, Birming. & Gloucest...loo ....124 124
Newcastle and Berwick •• 20 • • 34% 35 34% 35 34% 3454
Newmarket and Chesterford .. 10 .. • . 10% • ••• • • • 1054
Ditto, Extension • • • • V. 12s. •• .. ••••• • • • • • 34 p
Norfolk .. .. • • ..100 •• .. 140 •• .. ...... 140
Ditto, Ilalf Shares -. .. 10 . .. •• • • ...... 13%
Northern Counties Union .. 2% .... 158 1
North British .. • • 25 .• • • 35% 35 .. •• • . 34%
Ditto, Half Shares .. .• 1214 •• .• • . ....... 16%
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. 234 .... 434 %
Ditto, Extension .. • • .. .......... 11,4
Ditto, Thirds • • .. • • • • 1 .... 33. E % 3%
North Staffordshire .. 5 .... 8
North Western • • .. . • 4 .. • • ...... • ...
Oxford,Worcest.,& Wolverhmptn. 17% .
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 5 •• • • 54% • - .... • • 414
Scottish Central 15 .... 221,4 %•••••• ••
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 3 .... 3ja 4% ...... 4
Ditto, Class B • • • • • • 114 •• • • 154 ••••• • • • • • 1%
Shropshire Union .. . 42s dis... ..... dIsI
South Eastern and Dover .. •• 335,4 ••37 38 . 37%
Do.. New (do. 33/. 65.8 d.) No. 2. 12
Do.. New (do. 30/.) .. No. 3. 15 „„, ~ 17
Do., New (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 3% 4%
South Wales .. • • •• 10 ..• 8 % ••• • •• 8
Trent Valley and Midland Junc. 425. % p % p
West Riding Union • • • • .. 425. • •
York and Newcastle .. • . 25
'47.,Ditto, New.. • • • • .. .. 10 ... • 16% • • ..... • 1654
Ditto, Preference .. .. 4
York and North Midland .. .. 50 .... 86% ••••• • • • • • 861,4
Ditto, Extension • • .. .. 20 .... 36% 37% .. • • 3754
Ditto, Preference • • .. .. 2 .
Do. E, and W. Riding Exten.— 10 - 22% •• . ..... • • 2254
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens .. 18 .. 1
Bord., Tool., & Cette (Mackenzie) 2 .... . „
Ditto, ditto (Espelete) .. 2 ...• sq ..
Louvain ala Sambre .. • • • . 6 ..
Lenternbourg
Namur and Liege .• .. 10 •• .. 5% ..........
Northern of France • • .. • • 8 .... 1251 ..........
Orleans and Bourdeaux .. • • 6 .... 7 ..........
Paris and Lyons • . .. 8 7U „„ „
Rouen aid Havre -. .. 20 .... .....
West Flzmders .. • • • 6 .... 214 . .. . .
,-F. MINES.

. ..100 .... - .... ....

38
..
.1 ... ......
.... .

104
3334
214

49%
16%
10%
2%p
% I)

2%
4%
12%

Real del Monte, lJnrezistered 3%„„„; 334
3%
Amsterdam .. ....C.F. 12 3% Gibra1tar..............
Ditto, at sight • 12 1 Leghorn ........ • . . • 30 20
Rotterdam .... ••2 U. 12 4 Genoa .. •... 25 85
Antwerp. •.. • . . • .... 25 80 Milan . .. • •
ilamburgh .... • • M.B. 13 103 Venice.. ...• ..... •• •
Altona • • ••• • • • Naples ..... ....• 40%
Paris, 3 days' sight .. • • 25 45 Palermo, perm. ... 121
Ditto, 3 months...... 25 75 Lisbon.... • ...... 53
Marseilles ••—••• • •• • • 25 85 0p0rt0....
Bourdeaux.. •• • • 25 85 Rio Janeiro • • ...... • • 28
Frankfort on Maine.... 121 Bahia ..
Petersburgh, 3Us .• Buenos Ayres .. • • • -
Berlin ...... •• • • New York, 21 days' sight
Vienna, effec.flo ••• • • • 10 3 Philadelphia .... ••• • ••
Trieste, ditto .... ...... 10 3 PRICES OF BULLION, TEL oz.
Madrid 36 Foreign Gold in bars ...£3 17 9
4 Cadiz .•• .. : ........ 36% New Dollars ••.. • • 0
4 10
Bilbao •••• • • • • Portugal Gold Coin • •

Barcelona ..
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Spanish Doubloons .. 0 .0 0
Silver in bars ...• .... 0 5 0%

THE POTATO DISEASE.—At the meeting of the
Botanical Society, held on Friday, at the Society's Rooms,
20, Bedford-street, Strand; J. E. 'Gray, Esq., F.R.S., Pre-
sident, in the chair. Mr. Monro communicated a paper "On
the Potato Disease." The author was of opinion that the
disease originated in our neglecting to secure thoroughly
ripened tubers from which to produce our future crops, and
he thought that the most probable means of restoring the
plant to its pristine vitality, would be to commence with the
practice of a mode of cultivation more consistent with its
nature and habit, than that which has been followed for a
series of years. At the latter end of November last, the
author commenced raising a portion of his crop, and found
that, among potatces grown from sets taken from tul, ra
which had undergone what he called the sedative process h r
two years successively, only about half a dozen in a bushel
were affected. A crop raised from sets, which were left in
the ground last winter, taken up and replanted early in
April last, exhibited tainted tubers to the amount of one in
fifteen ; while another crop, raised from tubers, which were
sfaeallsyon two of 1816,sshofoltvhede
taken up early in November, 1845, and secured in a pit, after
the usual manner, until the planting
the taint in a most inveterate form,
entire crop being diseased.
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TAmousi BENEy )LENT INSTITUTION.---T 1 lb tenth
igas
anniversary of this excellent charity was celebrated on Friday
evening by a public dinner at the London Tavern, under the
re de icy of Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P. About 3CO
*alb rs attended. After dinner the noble chairman P
1o ed the toast, " Success to the Institution." The seerro-
e-
y then read the report and list of the subscriptions, limn
which it appeared that the receipts exceeded the e r .end"l
by 1,3701., and the subscriptions of the evening aml\ounted-i-o
nearly 9 /0/. Thanks were voted to the chairman, and the
meeting broke up at a late hour.

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