The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-09 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRI AY, D ApRIL 9, 1847.
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There are many subjects, in thernselvesgra
trice:lt epaptarently
of trivial consequence, that exercise the
fiuence over the welfare, happiness, and
in-
thousands of our countrymen. It may seem of little
importance to the public generally, that wealthy
landowners should be permitted to deal with their 3
own properties in the manner they may think proper ;
that they should sedulously encourage a superabund-
ance of game, not only on their private demesnes, but
on the farms of their tenantry, and that they should be
enabled, by means of stringent enactments, to pre-
serve that game, and to punish with the greatest
severity any attempt to interfere with what they
are taught to regard as much their private properties
as any other portion of their possessions. They ask
why should not the surreptitious taking of a hare or a
pheasant be dealt with as a theft as fully as if a
pocket-handkerchief had been abstracted—or, to make
the analogy more perfect, as if a domestic animal, a
sheep or fowl, had been purloined ? And they con-
tend that, because there are greater facilities
afforded for obtaining possession thereof, that

a greater degree of punishment is absolutely ne-
cessary to prevent persons from taking that to which
they have no manner of right. There is some ap-
pearance of justice, some colour of equity, in these
assertions ; but a little close examination will enable
us to detect the fallacies, and to show how wholly
unwarrantable are the assumptions. It its
now uni-
versally admitted " that property has duties as
well as its rights;" that it was originally conferred,
not merely for the sake of the grantees, but for the
benefit of the public generally, and that no
person has a right to deal with his property in any
manner that may be injurious to the community at
large or even to a single individual. If, then, these
laws can be maintained without detriment or mis-
chief ; if no public evils can be traced to their ope-
ration ; if they are founded on the principles of na-
tional justice, and conducive to that which is the foun-
dation of all correct legislation—the greatest`good
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This is the simple question to be dealt with
—to this the voice of public opinion is required
to give an answer. There are constitutional
modes of giving expression to that voice, which can
not be slighted or despised. It may for a time be re-
sisted, but must ultimately prove victorious. Hitherto
philanthropists have proclaimed the serious and
demoralising effects of the game code to the peasantry of
the country, they have pointed out that it holds a
prominent position amongst the social evils that are
suffered to exist, to the public detriment ; that by its
means thousands of our fellow-citizens are taught
habits of idleness, and made acquainted with crime ;
the county gaols filled, and the rates greatly magni-
fled; once happy families deprived of their natural
guardians and protectors, and becoming the inmates
of parish workhouses, and the recipients of parochial
charity. But, still the public generally have not been
fully awakened to the great extent of the mischief.
Inhabitants of cities and towns do not feel the pres-
sure of the grievance. The rural part of the commu-
nity are widely dispersed ; they are not in the
habit of congregating together in masses, and
giving expression to their feelings. The
wound may rankle at their hearts ; their
maledictions, though deep, may not be loud,
and their apparent apathy is not ascribed to its true
causes.

Other matters, too, up to a recent period, ab-
sorbed the public attention. It was but within
the last year that the doctrines of free trade were
triumphant ; that monopoly was prostrated, and a
tax that pressed on the national industry, and en-
hanced the price of the people's food, removed.
No question of minor interest could be fully inves-
tigated while those of such paramount importance
remained unsettled. Happily they have been dis-
posed of, and the public mind is no longer distracted
in reference thereto. We may now look for other
measures of reform, and what can be more urgent or
pressing than that to which we have alluded? The
distress that has unhappily afflicted the sister king-
dom has occupied the earlier part of the session ;
there remains, however, ample time for legisla-
tion. Let it not be supposed that tl.e
peoFle are indifferent or supine ; their voices
must be heard. The prison returns of the past
year would alone speak trumpet-tongued as to
the necessity of a sweeping alteration, a radical
change. Many of the higher classes have not been
inattentive to the signs of the times. They have,
with a good grace, surrendered the strict preservation
of their estates. The Duke of DEVONSHIRE has
lately directed that a considerable quantity of hares
on his property should be destroyed. We trust
that many will be found to follow the example.
Let them ask themselves what real benefit or gratifi-
cation they derive from the excess of game, to set
against the immense mass of crime, vice, 'And misery,
produced by these game-laws. If a conscientious
answer is returned to the question, we are
convinced that a majority of our gentry will cease to
be game-preservers, and that a thorough and efficient
reform will take place, to the benefit not only of the
public generally, but also of the landowners them-
selves.

Anything more ungenerous and disgustingly
servile than the conduct evinced towards Mr.
FREDERICK Douoi.Ass (whose letter we published
in our columns of yesterday), by the Liverpool agent
for the steam-ship Cambria, which runs between this
country and Boston, it were difficult to conceive.
Four weeks before this ship sailed Mr. FREDERICK
Douotass, in company with a gentleman of the Hall
of Commerce, London, called upon the London
agent, and having inquired whether his being a man
of colour would prove any barrier to his enjoying all
the rights and privileges enjoyed by other passengers,
and having been answered in the negative, paid
401. 195., the amount of the passage-money, and then
received a ticket assigning him a particular berth in
the Cambria. On repairing on board Mr. DOUGLASS
learned to his surprise that his berth had been given
to another, and was told that the London agent had
acted without authority, and he was further informed,
proh pudor! that he would not be allowed to proceed
in the ship unless he gave up his berth, agreed to take
his meals alone, and not mix with the saloon company.
Desirous of returning to the United States, this gen-
tleman had to submit to these mortifying conditions,
which however reflect no degradation upon the party,
on whom they were imposed, but have fixed an in-
delible stigma upon the company owning the
Cambria. Such treatment is, indeed, an outrage
upon British feeling and British philanthropy.
Against such a scandalous proceeding Mr. F.
DouorAss, on the eve of his departure, wrote a pro-
teit which, to quote his own appropriate language,
" he felt to be due to his own rights as a man, as
well as to the honour and dignity of the British
public." In having taken this step Mr. DouoLass
has faithfully anticipated the judgment which every
high-minded Englishman will pass upon the dis-
graceful conduct he has experienced. We do not
envy the feelings which ought to actuate the minds of
the American on reading the concluding paragraph
of Mr. DOUGLASS'S letter :—" I have travelled in this
country nineteen months, and have always enjoyed
equal rights with other passengers, and it was not
until I turned my face towards America that I
met with anything like proscription on account of my
colour." The more we reflect upon this matter the worse
it appears. The assertion that the London agent
acted without authority is a trumped-up excuse.
How happened it that Mr. DOUGLASS was not informed
of the objection to the contract he had entered into
till the last moment ? A month had elapsed since he
had taken his berth, and he had made a particular
inquiry before he paid his passage-money. From
the singular nature of this inquiry, even if the
London agent had no doubt as to his authority, it is
not improbable that he had, in the interim,
acquainted either the directors in London
(if any), or the Liverpool agent, with the
question which Mr. Donwass had put and
the answer be had received. If this was so, and the
arrangement made was viewed as objectionable andun-
authorised, Mr. DOUGLASS ought to have been warned
of the fact at the earliest moment. As the matter
now stands before the public, who can say but that
the other passengers intimated to the company their
repugnance to the manner in which they had agreed
to accommodate Mr. DOUGLASS in the Cambria, and
that then, and not before she was on the eve of
leaving the harbour, regardful only of their pockets,
and shamefully regardless of the constitutional
laws of freedom, for which England has so long been
proudly renowned, the company determined to sacri-
fice Mr. DOUGLASS to the vilest prejudices that can
warp the human mind ? But whether this was the
real state of the case, or not, it is grievous to con-
saider the miserable and dishonourable extent to which
con-
descended partly formed of Englishmen, have con-
t„.ol. panderi to the tyrannical concits of the
upholders
qtouashty,
vaunted principles oofnge
freedom, but slavery.
Aasm.ehrierca may boast of her
freedom will laugh her practice belies her
For ourselves,gencoerntment were in a
beenracatifto mark its
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Mr.
Doerrr to the
should heartily rejoice if thetricirlovhe sons
ofuiwnee
condition, without a breach of
sense of the insult which has
British nation, in the person of
withdrawing the allowance which they make theby
company for the conveyance of the mails.

We learn from Konigsberg (Prussia) that all the
Russian students of that University, about 150 in
number, have been ordered to return to their country
immediately. It is said that the Emperor NicsoLes

intends to forbid all his subjects to receive their edu-
cation in foreign universities.
It is stated in a Berlin letter that M. A. DE HUM-
BOLDT has been charged by the KING to convey to
London the magnificent shield which his MAJESTY
has caused to be executed for his royal godson, the
Prince of WALES.

The Madrid mail of the Ist had not arrived in
' Paris when the post left on Tuesday.
We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday.
The Presse returns to the recent change in the
Spanish Ministry, and in an article of the " willing
to wound and yet afraid to strike school," expresses
its surprise at the reception which the Pacheco
Ministry has met with from the Madrid press, and
considers the " benignity of polemics" which all the
journals have exhibited on the occasion as even more
strange than the manner in which the new Ministry
came into power. We think we can enlighten the
Presse on this subject. The Pacheco Ministry is a
Spanish Ministry, chosen by the Queen of SPAIN of
her own free will to serve Spanish interests alone.
It is what no other Ministry since 1843 has been—a
national Ministry. Since 1843 until the present
moment, every Ministry in Spain has been really
nominated by the Neapolitan agent of France,
CHRISTINA, for the all but avowed purpose
of sacrificing the interests of Spain to those of
France. Hence the general joy with which the
appointment of a national Ministry is hailed. Here
we take note of another admission, made by the organ
of Queen CHRISTINA :
"The Progressists, satisfied that the Puritans were
preparing the way before them, have too much tact to
continue against that party the war which they have
waged against every Ministry since 1843. Making all
necessary reservations for saving appearances, they will
vote with them on all important occasions, as they have
heretofore done with M. Salamanca. They expect to
reap very shortly the fruits of their tactics. They have,
it appears, already gained M. Olozaga, and want only
Espartero and the National Guard. They see that they
will gain all this by a dissolution of the Congress, for
which they are striving."
If a dissolution of the Congress would give a Pro-
gressist majority, it is evident that the present Con-
gress does not represent the Spanish people; and
having been elected only a few months, it is also
evident that but for the unconstitutional and illegal
coercion exercised by the Afrancesado Ministry of
ISTURITZ, under the inspiration of the French
Government, the Progressists would hare had a

majority in the present Congress. It is pleasant to
find the Presse every now and then in its agony thus
blurting out a truth. Queen CHRISTINA is in the
greatest consternation—
" She wanted," says La Patrie, " to return forthwith
to Madrid, and it has required the most earnest entrea-
ties to prevent her doing so. She bitterly regrets having
left Madrid, and not submitted to the sorrows she had

to endure there. She considers the intrigue which has
subverted the Casa Irujo Cabinet as but the prelimi
nary scene to a drama which she awaits with terror.
The recal of Olozaga and Espartero would give her
mortal pain."

It would appear from the following article in the
Presse, that France is likely to be embroiled with
the Brazils on account of the seizure by French
cruizers of certain Brazilian slavers :

" Since the month of March, 1846, during which the
convention of 29th May, 1845, has been in full execu
tion, a considerable number of Brazilian vessels, destined
probably for the slave-trade, have been sized and pro-
secuted for piracy, in virtue of the dispositions of the
law of 10th April, 1825. Among them were a Brazilian
schooner seized on 17th April on the coast of Congo,
and brought into Brest on the 25th June; another
schooner of the same nation, seized the 221 May in the
Gulf of Benin, and arrived at Brest the 6th August ; a
three masted Brazilian vessel, captured the 20th at
150 leagues from Gabon, and brought into Brest the
15th August ; a Brazilian brig-schooner, seized the
18th at Congo, and arrived at Brest the 17th Decem-
ber ; together with several other vessels, Sardinian or
Brazilian, proceeded against before the Maritime Tri-
bunal of Brest. All these vessels were laden with
negroes, who were disembarked at Goree, and placed
at the disposal of the local authorities. If France were
invested with the right of applying her own repressive
laws to foreign vessels, without doubt the seizure
would be valid, and the slave-ships ought to be con-
demned. The offence of being engaged in the slave
trade would in their case be incontestable ; but France
has not the right to prosecute and judge them on that
account—that right belongs only to their national
jurisdictions. The Government of Brazil has, there-
fore, strongly protested against the seizures made, and
the prosecutions undertaken against its subjects, in
violation of the right of nations and of its own sove
reignty. It never ceases complaining, and the fact
becomes evident that if justice be not done in the case
grave misunderstandings will arise between the two
Governments. We hesitate not to say that the demands
of Brazil are well founded. The vessels have been
seized in despite of the most evident right. The slave-
trade, criminal as it is in the eyes of humanity, is not
a crime in the face of international law, and its repres-
sion belongs only to interior jurisdictions. Odious
though the slave-trade be, we have not the right to
assimilate it to piracy, and we cannot do it without
wounding the nationality and menacing the security of
all navies."

The Journal des Debuts has an article urging on
the Government the necessity of abolishing, until
1848, all import duties on corn and provisions of
every description.

The Commerce gives the following particulars as
to the provisions of the new Customs Bill, which has
been introduced by the Minister of Commerce :
"‘ The new Customs Bill lately presented in the
Chamber of Deputies has not yet been published. Its
principal provisions are, however, known to some of the
Deputies. It appears that the only important article:of
this Bill relates to the admission, free of duty, of mat-
ters necessary for ship-building. This article runs thus :
' Bar iron, copper, zinc, flax, and tow, destined for the
construction of French trading vessels, shall be admitted
free of duty, on condition that it be shown within the
space of one year that these articles have been employed
as specified. The same immunity is accorded to sheet-
iron destined for the construction of trading vessels.
Royal ordonnances will hereafter point out the nature
and conditions of the proofs to which this immunity
shall be subjected.' "

On the same subject we find the following in the
Emancipation of Brussels, from a Paris correspon-
dent :

" You would probably like to be made acquainted
with some of the modifications of the tariff of Cuitoms
Duties Bill, just laid before the Chamber of Deputies.
As far as a rapid glance at it has enabled me to see,
there are several provisions which will affect your pro-
duce and manufactures. Raw zinc is to be altogether
free of duty. The prohibition on looking-glasses is to
be taken off. The duty on plain glass is to be reduced
30 per cent. There is also to be a reduction of the
duties on hops and on marble. In general the reform,
for such the new law proposed by M. Cunin Gridaine is
declared to be, is framed on the most timid and insigni-
ficant wale. It is presented to our manufacturers and
traders in a dose so mild, that their complexion, so easily
affected, is not changed in the slightest degree. It is to
raw produce that relief is applied, and even this is not
radically done. Neither coal nor cast-iron is touched
on • something certainly is granted to cast iron appli-
cable to ship-building, but that is a trifling boon. No
change whatever is made with regard to cloths of any
kind. The partisans of free trade, and the great railroad
companies, who have need of rails and engines, cannot
be satisfied with this Bill."

The French Government has forbidden all French
subjects to accept letters of marque from Mexico,
thus following the example which had been previously
set by the English Government.
_ _

M.
DUCHATEL, the Minister of the Interior, in-
troduced on _Monday, into the Chamber of Deputies, a
Bill for granting a supplementary sum of 1,000,000
francs for the secret police service. This Bill, and
the speech of the Minister of the Interior on intro-
ducing it, are the subject of some indignant com-
ments in the National.

The Prince DX JOINVILLE'S squadron will sail from
Toulon on the arrival of the Descartes from Cher-
bourg and Brest. The destination of the squadron is
said to be Athens.

Count ST. AULAIRE arrived in Paris on Monday,
and had interviews with the KING and M. GUIZOT.
It is said that the Due DE bIONTEBELLO will replace
Count DE ST. AULAIRE in London. The Baron
BILLING will g o to Madrid and Count BREssoN to
Naples.
OLOZAGA left Paris for Madrid on Monday night.
The Paris Bourse became very firm towards the close of
business on Tuesday. The Three per Cents. closed at 78f.
65c.; the Five per Cents., 1161. 65c.; the Orleans Railroad
Shares, 1,240 f..; Rouen, 8801. ; Havre, 6771. 50c. ; Great
Northern, 633 f. 7 5c.; Avignon, 7951.; Vierzon, 565 f.; Bor-
deaux, 515 f.; Bou 10gne,425f. ; Troyes and Montereau, 300 f.;
Basle, 210 f.; Diep pe, 335 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 432 f. 50c.;
Tours and Nantes , 427 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 436 f 25c.;
Lyons and Avign on, 460 f. ; Cette, 447 f. 50c.; Spanish Three
per Cents., 34%.
MARSEILLES, A YRIL 2.—Marseilles and Avignon, 808 f.
75c.; Northern, 6: 3f. 75c.

BUSINESS DON E IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 7.

Boulogne and A miens, 1634—Dutch Rhenish, 4—Luxem-
bourg, I%—Nortl iem of France, 123—Orleans and Bor-
deaux, 61—Paris and Lyons, 54.

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The nuptials of Lord
Alfred Paget, s( in of the Marquis of Anglesey, with
Miss Wyndham, daughter of the Cuuntess of Listowel,
arid sivter of Lady Macdonald, were solemnized yesterday
morning in St. Js anpv's Church, in the presence of the
relations and
con aexions of both families, and of a
distinguished circa 3, consisting of the principal nobility
in town.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. 1
Tie Suit u; :af,t Night.)

The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 4000
to 5,000 bales at firm rates. American 4d. to 7id. per
lb. Shares were dull.

The full confirmation of the total loss of the Tweed
mail packet ship, which has been communicated to all
those deeply interested tkis morning, has cast a consi,
derable degree of gloom here, especially among the
parties connected with the West Indies and
the Spanish American traders. The Avon royal
mail steam ship places this sad loss beyond
a doubt, and with her letters the fact
is demonstrated that thirty-one of the passengers, and
forty-two of the crew, have met with an almost
instantaneous deai h. Of passengers there were saved
twenty-nine, out of fifty-two souls. Under this most
trying circumstance it is a relief to be assured that
the loss of this fine ship and so many lives is not
ascribed to want of skill, nautical or otherwise, on the
part of the commander and crew, but of one
of those inevitable accidents which must occasionally
occur in the navigation of the seas, where strong and
impetuous currents prevail, and where all may be fair
at eight bells, and a strong ship, seven hours afterwards,
become a total and entire wreck. In other respects the
intelligence from the West Indies, brought by the Avon,
is of a very satisfactory character. The fact that all the
letters put on board the Tweed have been lost will cause
no inconsiderable inconvenience to the merchants here,at
Liverpool, and elsewhere, who were looking out for ad-
vices. To some extent the difficulty may be remedied
by the accounts obtained per the Avon West India
steamer. The letters are certainly written in very high
spirits. Excellent crops are looked for in almost all the
colonies. The weather was all that could be wished for
the cutting of the canes and the housing of the produce.
The works at the mills had been commenced in Bar-
badoes, St. Lucia, Trinidad, and other parts. The sugar
granulated out of the new crop is spoken most highly of
in respect to colour and quality. Thq Coolies at Deme-
rara are still as a body ill-disposed. This is, in truth,
the only drawback upon what may be, as far as at pre-
sent advised, the rising prosperity of the group of our
West India colonies.

It appears by the accounts received from the country
grain markets that the farmers have begun to send for-
ward supplies with considerable alacrity. Perhaps they
begin to fear that the highest range of values has been
passed. There is very little fear of this, in the opinion
of practical men in the City.
This has been a very heavy day at the Stock Ex-
change, and the tendency of the prices is still most un-
questionably to recede. It is now alleged that the Ac•
count on Consols, which is to be adjusted on the 15th
instant, is what is called a " rank Bull" account. It
may, however, turn out to be the very reverse. Consols
for the Account opened this morning at 871 and for im-
mediate transfer at the same; since which the former and
the latter have fluctuated from 891 to 89k.

_ -
The sales for the savings banks are continued, but as
only rather over 11,000/. have to be invested in the re•
demption of debt this quarter, should stock in the
hands of the Commissioners for regulating the former
be still thrown upon the market, it is quite clear that
even present values cannot be supported, without a tar
greater demand than now exists for portions of the Na-
tional Debt.

The payment of the dividends, which commenced to
the public this morning, is going on rather actively, but
still there is no apparent anxiety on the part of recipi.
ents to come early for their cash. The Exchequer Bill
market has fluctuated only from Is. discount to Is. pre-
mium. The sole quotation for the Consol Scrip is
discount. Bank Stock has fallen from 200 to 198. The
Three and-a-Quarter per Cents. have ranged from 87
to 87i.

Li the Foreign Funds the transactions hive been
few this morning. Danish Five per Cents. are quoted
at 861 to 87; the Spanish Three per Cents. at 351.; the
Active Stock at 244; the Dutch Two-and a-Half per
Cents. at 58
; and the Fcur per Cents. at 901 1.
There is not any variation in the quotations or Rail-
way Shares this morning which demands et-pecial com-
ment. Certainly the market wears a more steady
appearance.
FUNDS.

ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. Bill, ES.
Batik Stock .. .. .. .„ .. .
... .. 280 198 ex div 198
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 86% %ex div 86
three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .. 87% '4% 87
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anne. 87% %% ex div 87%
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5,1860 .. 8 15-16 9ex div 9
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1839 .. 8 13-16 ex div 8 13-16
south Sea Stock .. .. .. • • .. .. 96% 96%
Bank Stock for April 14 .. .. .. .. 198 197
Consols for Account .. - • • • • .. 87% % % 87
Three per Cent. Consols, Scrip .. .. • 1% dis 2% die
Exchequer Bills. t 3id. 2d.
1,000/... .. .... 1 die 1 p 1 p
5001. ~ .. .... I die I p 2 p
Ditto. Small .... 1 dis I p I p
o-srE CLOSINI;
FOREIGN' FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Danish, 3 per Cent -• .. • • • • 86% 87 87
Russian Bonds •• •• •• .• •• 1 10%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. ..
Ditto, for the Account .. ..
.. 24% 24%
Ditto, Passive Bonds .. „ „ 5
Ditto, Three per Cent .. .. „ _,
Ditto, for the Account ..
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent „ ~ __-*
40%

Dividends on the above payable in London,

Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 58%14
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 90% % 90%

_
•
PRICES OF PAID. BUSII
DONE TESS
AT CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES.
ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
firming., Wolver., and Dudley.. .... 10% ...... . 10%
Bristol and Exeter • • • • •• 75 74 .... . 74
Caledonian .. 30
..... '• • 25,
.. .
Ditto, Half Shares • • • • • • 2 •• .. 24,.

Junction •... 12%. .... 212 :::....... 2%
Eastern anCoduni3
EDau
20 .. •• "
18%14 „,..... 181,
Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1. 61. I 3s. 4d. 14 p........ i
~
Ditto, York Extension • • • • h3i •••• 4% % ........ '14,k,.
East Lancashire • • • • • • • 1,7, ••• • ......... _/'
Ditto New .• • • • • • ' • • 2•
~,71, •• '' 8% ••••.. .. •• IN
Great Northern • • • • '•••-4 '• '• 336% • ....... 314
tielfeaastfun.c.
Do., Loudon & York Extension N .... 2% „
........ ,
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 30 .... ___
.....
.....
_.•,ii
Great North of England • • • 100 .... ___
.......... 2
232%
Great Western • • • • • • • • !,5, •• ' • 115 •• • ....... 115
Ditto, Half Shares • • • • • • ~, •• • . 68 ..
...
Ditto,mffo NQuewarter S
Ditto, Fifths • • • ' • • "
h"ares..
• • 16/. 413:.•4•I —7%••• •• •• ••• •••• —7l:
.. .. 12%.• .•
.......... 6178%
20 .... 27 ..... ..... 27
Huddersfield and Manchester .. lff .... 18%......., .. 18%
Leeds and Thirsk • • • • " • • ,n
Ditto, New • • • • • • ••A''• " 8% .. 8%
.... ...•
..100 .... 175% 175 176.. 175%
Liverp., 31aneh., & Newc. Junct. 2% ••• 114 ~ ....
....
London and Blackwell • •
Ditto, New, No. 2 • • " 11' ~11. 4d• %P• • .... • • % p
Ditto, Extension • • • • " 'A •• • • 4% 5.. ••, , .. 5
Ll.,funn,idifooffnio,,arif2BoriaNgrefoetrorstnh,_rvcdateS
North-Western
•. 50 .... 52 51 ...... 5 I 3,4
L. and B. 7
5... 234
..........
23%
Ditto ditto New Shares • • • • 2 .. • . 12% 12 .....• 12
London and South• Western . • 41/. 6s. 10d.• • 63% 64 ... .. 64
Ditto, Tenths (Consolidated) .. 50 ....
._.
52%
Ditto, Scrip.. • • • • • • • • 5 ••• • •• • • ......
25
Lynn and Ely .. • •
• • „
Lynn and Derehiun • • • • •• 20 21
Manchester and Leeds . - • • **2 ••• . .... .. •• ••
Ditto, Thirds ( Reg.) • • • • • • '.,`• 4s• •• • • 2% p.. ..
.. .. 254 p
Manchester and Southampton •• 2 ..., 114 .
.......
..
114 sLdland .. .. .. •• •• ••143° ••••114 .. .. ~ „ 114
Ditto, New .. • • ' • • • 36n •• • • 384 ••••. • • • • 39%
Ditto, New .. .. • • •• . ••••4% % % , .
20 5%
Nortn British .. .. .. 4%
Ne wcastle and Berwick • • ' •
25sp 26 26
• • ••
i 2-% :::: 7514 .. ....... 1514
Ditto, New .. • • • • • • ,„,,5 •• • • 87%.. .. . 7%
Norfolk .. .. .. • • '• " `wc ••• • ..... .... .
Ditto, Extension ••
• • ' ' • ,;.: •• " 5Yel4••• • • • • •
_
Ditto, half Shares • • • ' • •
Ditto, Quarter Shares • • ••2%•• .• 3% ... ..... .. 3%
Ditto, Thirds • • • • • • • • 15
•• • • 3/3,141u•• ••• • • • • 7311
North Statfordshire • • • ' ••„;•••• • is Al .. • • • Preston and Wyre .• •" • •• • • 34% ....... . • 34%
Shrewsbury and Birmingham •• 3% .... 37(....... .• • • 3%
Ditto. Class B ~ • • • • • ' 14• • • • 1 ••..•• • . • • 1
Shropshire Union .. •• •• • 425..... 1% dis. ..... . 1% Ws
South Eastern and Down* • • • • 33% •••• • . •• • • 36 '4 Do., New (do. 331. 6s. Bd.) No. 2. 12
.... •.• • • • .... 12%
Do., New (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 3%.... 4
...... .. • • 4
Sinai Wales ••
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and
Swans. & Loughor & Cameron's • • 2 .... ..... ....
.2
34
Vale of Neath .. . •• .. 2 .... %. .
........
West Riding Union • . • • .. 4/. 25... .. 1% p........ I% p
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth 20 .... 12 .... ••.• . 12
York and Newcastle .. .. .. 25 .... 34 ...... ,• • • 34
Ditto, New.. .. .. .. .. 10 .... 14 4% 4 14'
_ .

Ditto, Preference .. .. 4 .... 7 .. • . ..... 7
York and North Midland BO .... 8334 82% •
.... 82%
Ditto. Preference .. 2 .... 10 ••
. ...... • • 1014
Do. E. and W. Riding Exten... 10 ...• 20% h •• 20%
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens .. 20 .... 16% • • 16%
Dutch Rhenish .. 7 4 •• .. 4
Northern of France .. .. 8 .... 12% •• • .... • . 12%
Paris and Lyons .. 8 5% • 5%
Rouen and Havre . •
.. 20 .... •• .. 26%
Sambre and Meuse
London Joint-Stock JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
10 15% .. • ••
• • • • 15%
London and Westminster
.. 20 .... 26%
Real del Monte, Unregistered —••"34 • • • • •• • 3%

The following
important notice was yesterday issued
by the Bank of England :
" The minimum rate of interest on bills discounted
by the Bank of England, not having more than 95
days to run, is 51. per cent.
" April 8, 1847."

THE COAST OF AFRICA.
By an arrival from the above quarter, we are put
in possession of intelligence to the 10th of March,
being a month later than the last advices.
The coast was healthy, as was the squadron em-
ployed upon it in the futile endeavour to suppress
the slave trade. One capture had been made since
our last letters, but she was an empty prize.
Sierra Leone and Ascension were healthy, and
turtle was abundant at the former place.
A frightful massacre of slaves had taken place at
Lagos Bay, some months since, the owners not
having vessels to ship them in, nor food for their
sustenance. This had no relation to the report
which re-appeared some days since, about 2,000
slaves having been taken to the beach at the Gal-
linas, and slaughtered, which report had no founda-
tion in fact.

PRESENT FROM THE KING OF PRUSSIA TO THE
PRINCE OF
WALES.—It is stated in a Berlin letter, that
M.A. de Humboldt has been charged by the King to
convey to London the mag:ificent shield which his Ma•
jesty has caused to be executed- for his royal godson, the
Prince of Wales.

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