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and Mexican from 6! to 71 ; but each was again'
slightly lower before the close of basineis. The
French Rentes were purchased here at 104.
25.; Austrian and Prussian Bonds also left
off at improved prices.—The settlement of
the Account occupied the chief attention of
the Stock Exchange, and Consols remained
at 95i until the close of business, when they
were at and for the Account in July 96U.
Private letters were received by express, dated
from Paris on Saturday evening; they quote the
Rentes on that day to have been done at 104 f.
65c. and 80c. for the Account. The recent ob-
servations of the Lord Chancellor with regard to
Joint Stock Companies have had a prejudicial
effect upon the value of the shares of many of
the new companies; amongst them we notice the
Alliance shares, which a day or two ago were
at 18+, were yesterday from 154 to 161. ; Pal-
ladium shares z premium ; Equitable Loan 1 t
to 1+ premium.—The old report was again re-
vived yesterday, of its being in contemplation to
reduce the rate of interest payable upon Bank
Stock. No material alteration, however, took
place in the price.

[BRITISH PR ESS.]
The Westminster Anniversary Dinner was ce-
lebrated at the Crown and Anchor Tavern yes-
terday ; and Sir Francis Burdett, after a seces-
sion from public life during nearly the whole of
the last and present Session, again took the Chair,
and, on his health being drank, addressed the
crowded room in a speech of considerable length.
The Honourable Baronet, from some late allu-
sions to the circumstance, thought it necessary
to account to the electors why his voice had been
so seldom heard within the Commons House of
late ; and he commenced his address with
this difficult explanation :--64 It was too much
the present fashion," Sir Francis said, " to lavish
praises generally on Ministers, for no causes that
he could discover, but that after ten years of un-
interrupted peace the burdens of the people had
been considerably reduced, and we had arrived,
from a state of alarm and distress, at one of com-
plete security and increasing national pros-
perity." In these praises Sir Francis said he
could not join; to his feelings the entire was a
delusion which he would not support, and for
these reasons it was that his" warning voice" had
been so long silent of late. The worthy Baronet's
explanation, we thought, was rather coldly re-
ceived, and the assembly around him seemed far
from satisfied. The spirit of " exaltation," though
it mounted with the kindling glass, and increased
as the night waned, has evidently abated among the
fiery patriots of Westminster ; even they have
become pacific with prosperity ; their leading
Representative rose—and sate down—it is true,
amid considerable applause ; but we can remem-
ber the day when every sentence of his was
drowned with deafening cheers—when his words
were applauded to the very echo before they
parted his lips, and his triumphant allusion to
Parliamentary Reform, to Annual Parliaments,
and Universal Suffrage, was received with shouts
that shook the very dome, beneath which his
constituents sate in hundreds. Sir Francis rose
last night, apparently iu perfect health, but evi-
dently changed in tone and spirit. His appear-
ance created anxious and general attention. We
heard at once the whisper round 11A, whether,
under existing circumstances, he would adhere
to his former principles of sweeping Parliamen-
tary Reform.

" He then prepar'd
" To speak—whereat their doubled ranks they bend
From wing to wing, and half inclose him round ;
Attention held them mute."
All doubt, however, .was soon removed. Sir
Francis said not a word in praise of the past
system ; he abandoned it altogether. In its
place, he recommended Mr. Lambton's plan of a
Session or two since, embracing the right of suf-
frage by all householders—voting by districts in
one day—and triennial Parliaments. This mode
of reform, so everyway preferable to that of other'
days, Sir Francis urged warmly on the assembly ;
and, such is the change of feeling, he was heard
with attention, and the applause and approbation
were general throughout the room. The Greek de-
puties to this country were invited to the dinner,
and their presence created the greatest interest.
Every allusion to the sacred cause with which
they are connected, was received with thunders
of applause. The general attendance was nothing
near so full or respectable as on former occasions
that we remember ; but the anniversary will be
memorable from the altered feeling that marked
it. We shall probably hear of annual Parliaments
and universal suffrage no more : this visionary
theory has expired with the difficulties that gave
it birth, and will now descend quietly to the
" tomb of all the Capulets."

[MORNING HERALD.]
Saturday's Paris Papers arrived last night.
They are wholly taken up with the debate in the
Chamber of Deputies on the eligibility of M.
Benjamin Constant. It excited great interest.
The speeches, however, turn exclusively upon
constructions of law, and have little interest for
foreign readers. One word used by M. Piet,
an advocate, excited some merriment. lie be-
gan a sentence solemnly with the words " Jo
liens pour Constant"—(l hold it for certain),
and the ambiguity of the last term, which
might bear the meaning of his 44 holding out for
M. Constant," contrasted whimsically with the
tenor of his speech, which was strongly against
him. The debate was adjourned to the follow-
ing day. Party spirit runs so high, and the party
of the Ultras is so strong, that M. Constant will
probably be excluded, notwithstanding the report
of the Commission in his favour, and the injustice
and indecency of the case. There is no foreign
intelligence in these papers, with the exception
of what is repeated or derived from the Eng-
lish papers.

The Electors of Westminster last night cele-
brated their Seventeenth Anniversary. Lord
Nugent, Messrs. Lamhton, Sir R. Wilson, Holly-
wood, Sykes, Sir R. Heron, Hume, and John-
son, all Members of Parliament, were present.
The principal part of Sir -Francis Burdett's
speech was a justification of his absence; from
Parliament, on the ground that it rather did

mischief to countenance the humbug of the
House of Commons; yet Messrs. Sir R. Heron,'
Hume, Sykes, and others, left the Meeting be
fore their healths could be drank, for the sake
of attending to business in the House of Com-.
mons. Mr. Hume's was the only health drank
after he was gone; and Sir Francis Burdett
found it necessary to qualify that toast by saying
he was an experiment upon what an unreformed
Parliament could do. The meeting was numer-
ous. Mr. Hardy, who was the first tried for
high treason in 1794, when Mr. Attorney-Ge-
neral Scott (Dow Earl of Eldon, and Lord High
Chancellor of England), and Mr. Solicitor-Ge-
neral Mitford (now Lord Redesdale), were
Counsel for the prosecution ; and Mr. Erskine
(late Lord Erskine) and 11r. Gibbs (late Sir
Vicary Gibbs) were Counsel for the prisoners,—
was present. It is known that Mr. John Horne
Tooke was the next tried and acquitted, and
that the importance of the trial almost wholly
centres in his literary superiority.—(lbid.)

[MORNIN6 VIIRONICLE.]
Consols for the settlement opened yesterday at
95, and as the Account has proved to be a
heavy Bull Account, that is, as the speculators
on an advance have purchased for time more
Stock than their resources 'enable them to pay
for, they consequently are obliged to resell that
portion which they cannot receive. Of this cir-
cumstance the Bears naturally avail themselves,
and they demand a continuation for the next Ac-
count, on the 16th July, far above what the inte-
rest of money would justify ; Consols, therefore,
fella per cent., whilst the continuations rose from
1-16th to 5-Bth per cent. This effect, however,
can only be of short duration, for either the
money price of Stock must advance, or the time
pries must decline. It is now reported that
the dissentients from the reduction of the
Old Fours only possess four millions in
place of seven millions of this Stock; and
when it is considered that a large amount
of these four millions consists of Stock which
probably will never be claimed at all, the pay-
ment of the sum demanded in October next will
not be of much consequence. It is also reported
that the Bank of England will be obliged to re-
duce their half-yearly dividends to three per
cent., because they cannot find commercial bills
for discount at more than three per cent, per
annum. ' The fact is, capital is daily becoming
more abundant, and the interest to be derived
from it in a proportionate degree declines. On
the Foreign Stock Exchange a great deal of busi-
ness was done yesterday, particularly in Ameri-
can Securities. The conduct of the British Go-
vernment towards the new Republics is•watched
with intense interest, for even a rumour that they
were soon to be acknowledged independent,
caused their national securities to advance
fully one per cent. The manufacturing dis-
tricts have at length determined to petition the
Ministers on this subject, so necessary to the
existence of their prosperity, and the Chamber
of Commerce in Liverpool has taken the lead,
and sent a requisition to the Mayor for a general
meeting of all the inhabitants interested in Acne-'
actin Trade. Manchester and Leeds are about to
follow the very proper example of Liverpool, for it
is unjust, both to Aroqrica and to the British Em-
pire, that the absurd claims of the Beloved Ferdi-
nand should be permitted any longer to interfere
with the interests of civilized society. During the
present state of uncertainty all commercial enter-
prize is suspended, and neither merchant nor ma-
nufacturer will know how to act until his Ma-
jesty's Ministers either admit the sovereignty of
the new American States, or candidly declare,
like the beloved Ferdinand, that they are the
lawful and unalienable property of the Peninsula.
It is, however, generally stated that Lord Elliot
did not bring from Madrid an absolute refusal on
the part of his Most Catholic Majesty to recog-
nize the freedom of his former Colonies, for that
further advises from America were necessary to
regulate the future conduct of Spain, the intelli-
gence received there not entirely corresponding
with that received in the United Kingdom. This
is the rumour of the day.

ACCIDENT TO THE. DUKE OF RUTLAND'S CAR-
RIAGE.—An accident occurred to his Grace the
Duke of RUTLAND'S travelling coach, on Wed-
nesday, May 19, occasioned by the Stamford
Stages.—About a mile from Biggleswade, two
coaches had stopt on the road to change coach-
men, when, as the one belonging to the up-coach
was in the act of mounting his box, one of the
leaders began kicking, and turning suddenly
round, darted in between the horses of his Grace's
carriage, and the traces getting entangled with
the roller bolt of the splinter-bar, drew his
Grace's carriage so far round, as to lock the
wheels and completely upset it. The Ladies
behaved, with the greatest fortitude apon the oc-
casion, and fortunately received no injury. The
servants also upon the box, who were thrown off
with great violence, escaped with a few bruises
only. No blame whatever could be attached to
the post-boys driving his Grace's carriage, as the
coach was standing quite still at the time they
were passing, and they were only going a regular
pace. The screams of those who witnessed the
accident were dreadful. The pole of the car-
riage was broken, and it was otherwise much
injured ; but after an hour's delay upon the
ground, they were enabled to proceed to town in
it, and arrived in Arlington-street the same evening.
INQUEST ON THE BODY OF Sin H. C. THOMSON.
—Yesterday an Inquest was taken before HENRY
LE PIPRE, Esq. Acting Coroner, on the body of
Sir Henry Clement Thomson, late adied suddenlyPostCaptain
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Kings Bench Prison, in
which he had been confined about three weeks.
After an examination into the circumstances of
the deceased, it was thought necessary that a me-
dical man should examine the body, and Mr.
Goulding, a surgeon, having done so, was of
opinion that the deceased had died from apo-
plexy.—The Jury unanimously returned a ver-
dict of—The deceased died by the visitation of
God. After some conversation, a statement of
the necessity for a medical man to attend on the
persons confined in the King's. Bench Prison was
drawn up by the Coroner, and signed by the
Jury, and 'directed to the Marshal.