The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-21 00:00:00

AFTERNOON SITTING.

The members of the Conference assembled as usual at
four o'clock. The interest manifested by the public in the
proceedings had, if possible, increased, and the hall was
crowded to excess. The Rev. Dr. Cox having taken the
chair,

The Rev. Mr. WKERROW opened the business by
reading a letter-from the Rev. Mr. Candlish, of Edin-
burgh, one of the leaders of the non-intrusion party in
the Church of Scotland. The Reverend Gentleman agreed
generally with the party who had summoned the Con-
ference as to the injurious tendency of the Corn-laws,
and apologised for his absence on other grounds.
The Rev. Mr. AcKwoaTli, of Horton College. Brad-
ford, came forward amidst loud cheers to move the con-
sideration and adoption of an address to the Queen.
The Committee, in wording the address, had avoided all
alluSion to party politics. They Would, if possible, have
made some reference to the late measures proposed by
her Majesty's Ministers, and which were likely to cost
them the forfeiture of the Government of this country,
but fearing that it might have the appearance of a party
movement they had thought it better to avoit it alto-
gether.—(Hear, hear.) He then read the memorial,
which was to the following effect :

" TO lIER 310 ST GRACIOUS MAJESTY.

" May it please your Majesty—We your Majesty's
dutiful and loyal subjects, being Christian Ministers of
various denominations,.and from different parts of the
United Kingdom, assembled in Manchester the 17th,
18th, 19th, and 20th days of August, 1841, to consider
the laws restricting the food of the kingdom,-be; per-
mission to approach your Majesty with an expression of
our sentiments in relation to the momentous subject
which has thus brought us together.
"In craving this indulgence, we beseech your Majesty
to believe that we are influenced by an affectionate vene-
ration for the person, and an ardent attachment to the
throne of your Majesty, as well as' by a deep heartfelt
interest in the subject itself. _ _ _

" Our unceasing prayer to the Supreme Ruler is, that
he will continue to smile on your Majesty, your august
Consort, and your illustrious offspring, preserving your
Majesty in the uninterrupted enjoyment of health, sur-
rounding you with all the endearments of domestic life,
and after rendering you, through a long course of years,
a blossiug to your people, giving you, in the realms of
eternal glory, a crown that fadeth not away.
"Brought by our professional avocations into daily in-
tercourse with the more numerous classes of our fellow-
subjects, it is, as it has for some time past been, our
painful lot to witness scenes of wide-spread, heart rend-
ing, and ever-deepening distress, arising mainly—as alas!
is too obvious—from a want of adequate employ, and a
consequent destitution to a verg great extent of the com-
mon necessaries of life.

" In endeavouring to ascertain the cause of this most
deplorable state of things, we beg to assure your Majesty
that after patient and dispassionate investigation, we have
been constrained to admit the conviction, that it is to be
found primarily and chiefly in those laws which, by un-
righteously interfering with the arrangements our be-
neficent Creator, produce an artificial scarcity of food,
impose shackles on trade and commerce, cramp the efforts
of industry, and, even where they seem to benefit, occa-
sion only a delusive advantage.
" Encouraged by the parental solicitude which your
Majesty has uniformly manifested for the well-being of
your subjects, we humbly, yet most earnestly solicit your
Majesty's gracious interposition on this behalf, so far as
it can be constitutionally rendered ; assured that nothing
more becomes the dignity or answers to the office of
Princes and Potentates, than an imitation of the Sove-
reign Ruler, who is good to all, and whose tender
mercies are over all his works.' "

The Rev. Mr. FLETCHER seconded the motion. They
knew full well the opinion of her Majesty already con-
stitutionally expressed.—(Cheers.) Their object was
not to enlighten their Sovereign, but to show her that t
large and influential body of her subjects coincided in
her opinion.—(Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN then put the address, which was con-
sidered to embody the opinion and the views of the Con-
ferenc. as to the corn and provision laws. The address
was carried by acclamation.
The Rev. Mr. SMITH, A.M.; tutor of Rotheram Aca-
demy, moved that the Rev. Dr. Cox, 1).1). and LL.D.,
the Rev. Thomas Spencer, A.M., of Bath, the Secretaries
of the Conference, and the Rev. Messrs. Atkinson,
Chaplain, Massie, Fletcher, and M'Kerrow' be appointed
to present the address to her Majesty. This question
was one of life or death to this great country.—(Hear,
hear.) The destiny of the world were bound up in the
condition of England. He trusted that God would deli-
ver us from the incubus that rested upon the country.—
(Hear, hear.) In this question was bound up the wel-
fare, the progress, and the happiness of this land. Slimy
parts of Scotland were within a hair-breadth of the starv-
ing point. The poor had everything to gain and nothing
to loose, and he prayed that the influence of the Confe-
rence might prevent the calamities which he foreboded
were fast coming on the land if the present system of
exclusive commercial intercourse was longer continued.
The Rev. ])r. VAUGHAN, of Kensington, seconded the
resolution, which was put and carried unanimously.
It was moved by the Rev.'Mr. MAssIE, and seconded
by the Rev. Mr. GWYTHER, that George Thompson,
Esq., be requested to address the Conference. The mo-
tion was carried by acclamation.
GEORGE THOMPSON, Esq., then came forward amidst
the most rapturous applause. His strength would not.
permit him to do more at that moment than read the
document he held 'in his hand for their consideration,
and, indeed, it was unnecessary, as it contained all that
he could say on the subject. Gazing upon the unex-
ampled assembly he saw around him, he gave thanks
to God on behalf of the perishing poor.—(Lend
cheers.) Mr. George Thprapson then read an address
to the people of Great Britain and Ireland,- which was
as follows : _

TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT

BRITAIN AND IRELAND. •
" FELLOW-COUNTRYMEN—AR assembly of Christian
ministers, unprecedented in its numbers, and embracing
almost every denomination, yet united as one by the
object which has brought us together, we proceed in the
discharge of our duty, to lay before you the result of our
deliberations.
" Suffer us to claim for our present very brief ad-
dress the calm and earnest attention which the import-
ance and solemnity of the subject demand.
"We were convened for the purpose of considering
the laws restricting the food of the community.
"We have endeavoured to approach this. subject with
minds uninfluenced by party feeling or sectional interests,
and to try all questions submitted to us by the unerring
standard of Scriptural morality.
"Our attention has, in the first place, been directed
to the principle upon. which the corn and provision laws
of this country are based. The immediate effect of these
laws is to make the food of the people dear. It •is de-
monstrable that this can be done only by rendering food
scarce. From the artificial scarcity so created the diffe-
rent classes of consumers escape, in proportion to their
wealth, the evil pressing with accumulating severity
upon the humbler classes exactly in the degree of their
inability to sustain the burden.
" These laws operate with continually aggravating
force, in consequence of the natural and inevitable in-
crease in the numbers of the people.
" The most painful evidence of the truth of this prin-
ciple has been laid before us from all parts of the king-
dom, proving the poverty and privations of the labouring
classes, whose general fortitude under their augmenting
wretchedness has awakened our sympathy, and called for
our present interference in their behalf.
" In addition to the existence of domestic sufferings,
often in the most distressing forms of misery and dis-

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ease, proof or an increased mortality, has been forced upon
us, and we have had the appalling fact disclosed that fa-
mine already is doing its deadly work among the most
destitute portions of the community.
" The moral effects of the corn and provision-laws
have occupied our serious consideration.
" It has been proved to us that the physical deteriora-
tion of multitudes of our countrymen has produced an
alarming amount of demoralization. Under this aspect,
these laws have appeared to us to require the most
anxious attention of all who are concerned for the ad-
vance:nent of the spiritual and eternal interests of their
fellow-creatures..

" As Christian ministers, prizing above all other con-
siderations the interests of morality and religion, we have
been unable to anticipate without apprehension and
dread the growth and development of those passions
which are stimulated and called into action by hunger
and destitution.

"Fellow countrymen ! We have asked ourselves if the
calamities we have been called to contemplate, and the
more dreadful consequences with which we are threatened,
are to be regarded as the just judgment and visitation of
the Almighty ; and our unanimous answer is—no. We
have sought instruction in the word and through the
works of God, and have been taught by both that a
bountiful and unfailing provision has been made for the
wants of every living creature.. We stand forth, there-
fore, to assert and vindicate the divine wisdom and bene-
ficence. We charge existing misery and impending
danger upon the selfish or ignorant inventions of man,
which have frustrated the principal designs of the Ruler
of the universe.

" The chastisements we are enduring are self-inflicted,
our nation:d distresses arc the results of a departure by
human legislation from the spirit "and mandates of the
Divine law ; and our strong conviction is, that our pre-
sent deliverance and future safety are to be secured only
by.recognis: ,g and observing.. the unerring and clearly
revealed will of a beneficent Creator.

" Our duty, then, as nainiszo• of religion is plain.
On scriptural grounds we are called upon to denounce
all human restrictions upon the supply of food to the
people, and to employ tiK appropriate means to place the
fatherly provision of God within reach of his suffering
and famishing children.
" In the attainment of this object, we affectionately
call upon the Christiar. public to aid us by an instant, an
united, and a vigorous effort. The case is one of ex-
treme urgency. The poor are daily perishing, and
though we would not stay the hand of individual cha-
rity, we must declare our solemn conviction that all as-
sistance will prove ineffectual to the relief of prevailing
wretchedness during the continuance of laws which im-
piously interfere with, and limit the enjoyment of the
all-sufficient bounties of Divine Providence.

Our first advice to our brethren and friends through-
out the country is to investigate the subject now before
them.

" Let every one convinced of the justice and necessity
of,abolishing these laws, do all in his power, in the spirit
of meekness and love, to enlighten and convince those
who are around him. Under the responsibilities of citi-
zenship, let every opportunity be embraced of bringing
the nature and effects of the corn and provision laws under
the notice of the Legislature.
" We would also earnestly exhort those who are suffer-
ing from the operation of these laws to be peaceful and
loyal, and to co-operate in all Christian and constitu-
tional efforts to effect their extinction with patience, re-
lying upon the sympathy of their friends, and the bles-
sing of the Most High.
" Finally, let increasing supplication ascend, that it
may please the God and Father of us all to give our law-
makers the wisdom that is profitable to direct and to in-
cline their hearts to do justice and love mercy."
The Rev. Mr. HisToN, after eulogising the sentiments
contained in the address, moved its adoption.
Dr. Cox, the Chairman, intimated that a request had
been made by several newspapers for a copy of the ad-
dress to the Queen, with a view to publication. He
thought it indecorous that the address should be pub-
lished before presentation to her Majesty. He therefore
trusted that the nimble-fingered and all-veracious Press
would take this into consideration, and receive the inti-
mation kindly from his lips.
The Rev. Mr. MASSIE seconded the adoption of the
address in an able and eneretic speech. It was agreed
to, and ordered to be printed and circulated throughout
the kingdom.

The Rev. Mr. SCALES then moved the adoption of the
following petition to Parliament:—
" TO THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS, ETC.
" The humbly petition of a Conference of Ministers of
Religion, of various Christian denominations, and from
all parts of the United Kingdom, held in the town of
Manchester, on Tuesday, Ang. 17, and following days;
" Showeth; that your petitioners arc ministers of the
God of love and mercy, who have assembled to con-
sider the laws which restrict the supply of the food of
the people.
. .

"That to your petitioners, dwelling in the midst of
their respective charges, and, by habits of frequent
and pastoral intercourse, familiar with their actual con-
dition, and still further informed by the evidence sub-
mitted-to this. Conferetied by uniMpeachable witnesses ;
it is most unquestionable, that evils the most serious are
preying on the very vitals of the country, and that
the labouring classes throughout the kingdom are sinking
into the lowest condition of physical suffering, and
pining away under a wasting destitution of the neces-
saries of life.

" That your petitioners would feel themselves most
unworthy of the office they sustain, and the Master
they serve, were they to view such a state of things
with indifference, or to allow it to become daily more
and more aggravated, without directing their attention
to its cause, and seeking the means of its alleviation.
" That, to your petitioners, it appears obvious beyond
all doubt, that whatever other causes May have contri-
buted to the frightful amount of misery which they de-
plore, the principal has been the provision laws, which-
make the very necessaries of life scarce. and dear, and
by their mischievous operation have at the same time en-
hanced the price of food and diminished the ability to
purchase it ; and that as obviously the remedy for this
evil is the abrogation of the laws which have produced it:
That, to your petitioners, it is manifest that any law
tending to produce a scarcity of the food necessary to
sustain the life of man, or_ to increase its price, and so
to throw difficulties in the way of procuring it, is a
wrong done to society at large, and a direct and glaring
violation of the will and law of the universal Parent of
mankind.

"'That your petitioners are only acting in the spirit of
their office when they remind your Honourable House
that laws of human legislatures should be framed in strict
accordance with the deelared wilkof God and the benefi-
cent designs of his providence ; and that all laws which
contradict his will, and counteract his bounty, must of
necessity be wrong in principle, and injurious in their
tendency ; and that it is the deliberate and solemn con-
viction of this assembly that this is the unrighteous cha-
racter of the operation of the provision laws of this king-
dom, under whose baneful influence our beloved country
is severed from profitable intercourse with other coun-
tries which are ready to exchange their products for our
manufactures—the skill and labour of the industrious
classes of our countrymen are rendered of less and less
avail to their own subsistance, whilst immense numbers
of them from day to day are thrown out of employment,
and reduced to a state of utter destitution ; or cast upon
the rapidly decreasing resources of the humane and cha-
ritable, who, in their turn, are sinking down into the ab-
ject condition of paupers ' • and famine, disease, and death
are spreading with fearful desolation throughout the
length and breadth of this once prosperous and happy
land.

" Your petitioners, therefore, convinced of the sinful.
ness of these laws, which violate the paramount law of
God and restrict the bounty of his providence ; of their
injurious operation on the domestic comforts, and the
social, moral, and religious condition of the people of
these realms ; of the vast amount of evil they have
already produced, and of the fearful rapidity with which
they are driving on their injured and suffering victims
to despondency or desperation, and threatening the
peace and safety of the empire, implore your HOnourable
House, as you fear that God who is the friend and
avenger of the poor, as you love that country whose in-
terests are committed into your hands, to take into your
early and most serious consideration the provision laws,
the Corn-laws, which have wrought this
etr-ensPee
tousillY
amountil of evil and misery, for the purpose of
devising such means as to your lion. House may seem
meet for their abolition.

And your petitioners will ever pray," Sze.
The Rev. Mr. APRErtaow seconded the adoption of the
petition. The destitution throughout the country' Was
ealxoos
tirentiee.ver They.
county
heyhad received 460 communications from
7 and everyia England,
and Scotland, one
o f andw from
contained mos t it nh Walese
most
conclusive evidence of the injurious bearings of the
Corn-laws upon almost every class of the community.
They Would prepare them for publication, and he was
sure they would tell upon the public mind.—(Hear.)
The petition was then agreed to.
The Rev. Mr. JAMES, Of Birmingham, here inquired
whether, if the Corn-laws were repealed, our agricultu-
rists could compete with the Continental growers, and
if not, to what use could the land of this country be
turned ?
After some observations, it was agreed that Mr. Cobden
should be requested to reply to the question.
A motion to that effect was made and agreed to.
RICHARD COBDEN, ESQ., M.P., then presented him-
self amidst loud cheers. He had been asked whether the
agriculturists of this country could compete with those
abroad if the Corn-laws were repealed, or, in other
words, could they sell corn as cheap as it could be im-
ported from other countries for sale? The agriculturists,
in 1815, asserted that they could not possibly exist if
corn was less thun eighty or ninety shillings per quarter,
and in five years after it went down to half that sum.
When the present Corn-laws came into operation, it
was confidently affirmed that the agriculturists could
not live if corn was under 565. per quarter, and yet
in 1835, when corn was no more than 395. 4d. per
quarter, instead of land being thrown out of employ-
ment, in that very session there were no less than
four acts of the Legislature obtained to sanction
the inclosure of additional tracts of land.—(Cheers.)
He held it presumptuous. for any body of men to say
what might be the price of corn at which we could pro-
dace. Lord Stanley has said, when presiding over the
great agricultural meeting the other day at Liverpool,
that the man who should at this time form a correct
estimate of our national improvements during the next

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EVENING SUN.

entury would be considered a visionary enthusiast.
With such sentiments as these, how would he venture to
predict the consequences which would result from a re-
- real of the Corn-laws, with all the advantages of science,
and the additional stimulus which would be inaparted to
individual exertion ? From the evidence taken before
the Poor-law Committee in 1830, it appeared undeniable
that when, fowl
.was at a . high price the labourer was
plunged down to tbea lowest diet. The wages of the
peasant were not so good in dear as in cheap years.
Thus, evidently, the labouring classes were peculiarly
interested in the price of food.—(Hear, hear.) Let
even the worst anticipations of the opponents of the
Corn-laws be fulfilled, it would only have the effect of
lessening the landlords' rents ; and, without advocating• Agrarian principles, even if the Duke of Rutland emi-
grated, as he had threatened, why he could not take the:
land along with him.—(Cheers.) They had evidence to
prove that the people were not sufficiently fed, and com-
pared with the labourers of the United States of America,
they were net half fed.—(Hear.) His conviction was, that
repeal would benefit the landlords as murk as any other
Class. The transition state would no doubt have its in
conveniences, and he would have no objection to legislative
enactments to assist the working of total repeal .; but ulti-
mately it would be beneficial to the landowner. In
Switzerland. where there was ano Cornlaw, the land
was three times more valuable than in Strabia anti the
neighbouring territories, from which the Swiss drew their:
supply of corn. In Devonshire, Dorsetshire, and Susses,
the wages of the labourer amounted to no teina2 than Ss.
or 9s. a-week. He employed alone 600 workmen in the
neighbourhood of Manchester, and the most unskilful
amongst them earned 12s. a-week. What benefit, then,
did agricultural labourers derive from the operation of
the Corn-laws ?—(llear, hear.) He tendered them his
sincere thanks on behalf of the body with which he was
connected. They had given an impetus to free trade
greater than that imparted by the Anti-Corn-law League
during the two years that Association had been in
operation. If such was the effect of the invitation
`of the twenty-six Manchester ministers, who had brought
seven hundred of their brethren together, what might be
hoped for if the hundreds in London would send an
invitation to their brethren throughout the king-
dom ?—(Loud and continued cheering.) Yes, gentle-
men, why not meet in the metropolis—(Tremendous
applause)—and why not also come attended by their peo-
ple?—(Cheers and laughter.) Let Exeter-hall be filled
by their people.—(Hear and laughter.) Its walls were
accustomed to the voices of -those who sought to strilie
the fetters from the slave, and where was the difference
between stealing the liberty of a man, and deprivinghim
of the fruits of his industry ?—(Cheers.) He hoped that
they might count upon the co-operation of every indi-
vidual. in that vast assembly—(Loud cheers)—and
(pointing to the ladies at the lower end of the hall) lie
trusted, too, 'that they might count upon the aid of the
fair, who were ever foremost in the cause of humanity.—
(Cheers.) However dark the atmosphere might now ap-
pear around them, if the two were united, they would
soon see the bright beam of sunshine upon their future
efforts. (The Honourable Member sat down amidst rei-
terated applause.)
___

The Re;. E. F. NOLAN moved " That the petition to
the House of Commons be presented by the Members for
Manchester and Salford, and that Richard Cobden;•Esq.,
M.P. for Stockport, be requested to support such peti-
tion ; also that the petition to the House of Lords be
presented by Lord Ducie."

The Rev.-PATRICK BREWSTER, of Paisley, seconded
the motion.

The R. Mr. Davis said that, although only 700 sig-
natures might be appended to the petition, many of them
were deputed by four or five congregations. At a mode-
rate computation they had assembled there' the represen-
tatives of about 2,000 congregations.—(Cheers.)
The Rev. P. MURSELL. of Leicester, moved the fol-
lowing resolution :—" That this Conference earnestly
recommends to all who may approve it, to set apart
Monday the Gth of September, as a day for humiliation.
before Almighty God, on account of our sins, and for
solemn prayer that it might please him in his superin-
tending providence to remove the distresses which at this
time afflict the country, and which especially' bow down
the hearts of the suffering poor, to revive trade and com-
merce in the land, and to endow our senators at this
important crisis with the wisdom which is profitable to
direct."

It was seconded by J. WEI3II A NNSLEY, and carried
nem. con.

, Au address from the Operative Anti-Corn-law Asso-
ciation was then received, when thanks were voted to
the Chairman, and the meeting broke up at a late hour.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

POST.—The magnificent weather we still have is
most embarraSsing to our corn speculators, and, in the
event of its continuance, of which there is, happily fur
the country, every prospect, many of the number 'Cannot
fail to be ruined. There are at present no quotations of
prices in Mark-lane by which the public can be safely
• regulated, but we find that a forced sale was made of a
parcel of wheat in tha course of the morning at a decline
of Gs. per quarter, the holder being afraid to n-ait longer
for a change from cloudless skies to drenching rains,
with appearances so much against him. A temporary
falling of the glass during a portion of the day,. for it
proved but temporary, was naturally viewed by man'.
with a feeling of reviving hope. With a - season so en
couraging as the present has become, there -is but little
occasion to enlarg,e`just now on the financial bearings of
the corn question. We may, however, refer to a most
able letter, with the signature of " Mercator," inverted
in this day's paper, confirmatory of the accuracy of 'the
views we have taken upon it.
The British . Queen. steam-ship having, as we stated
while that vessel was on her last voyage to and from New
York, been sold by the BritiSh and North American
Steam Company to the Belgian Government, will pro-
ceed, in the course of about a week or ten days, from Li-
verpool to Antwerp. The Belgian Government mean,
we understand, to run her three times a year from Ant-
werp to New. York, and back, the vessel touching vt
Portsmouth on her outward passage ; but it is not ex-
pected, nor indeed Ntended, that she shall make another
voyage across the Atlantic this year. The arrangement
originally entered into between the Company and the
Belgian authorities from the transfer from the former to
the latter of the President steamer also, cannot, of course,
in the circumstances in which the Directors are placed
with regard to this unfortunate vessel, be carried into
effect ; at all events for a time.

CHRONICLE.—Mr. Thornton, Chairman of the
Committee of Spanish Bondholders, has received a
communication from Lord Palmerston, requesting
that certain documents might be sent to him,
referred to by Mr. Thornton in his letter to
M. Surra y Bull of the 7th inst. His Lordship, we un-
derstand, stated at the same time to Mr. Thornton, that
his object in wishing for these documents was to for-
ward them, along with his above-mentioned letter, by a
special messenger to Madrid. The bondholders of
foreign states are all under deep obligations to the
Noble Lord at the head of the Foreign Department, for
his constant and active exertions in, their behalf. The
holders of South American Securities have -put their
expressions of gratitude on record, and we observe with
satisfaction that Mr. Thornton also bears testimony to
the great value of his Lordship's advice, assistance, and
influence, in behalf of the creditors of Spain.
By the arrival of the Great Western steamer from
New York, which was known in the City early this
afternoon, bringing dates of the 7th inst., we learn that
the Stock Market was very heavy, United States having
declined t 0.14. There appears to have been no particular
cause ar.3igned for this fall. A few weeks since it is
said, however, that Prime, Ward, and King, by large
purchases, had run the price up to 22 ; since which,
prices have been falling, and the firm in question haVe
been the large sellers at the board, even on speculation.
TIMES.—Much impertinence is vented daily in the
City in attempts to support the au ten tici ty of the supposed
intelligence from China, to which the only answer that
ought to be made at present is by a reference to the state
of the teamarket, which is, at any rate, in no better state
to-day than before that " news" was received. These
people ought to reflect, fur their own sakes, that tale-
bearers are as bad as tale-makers, and that the rage of
their dupes, who have suffered by both, may possibly
react on the tale-bearers, because they are more acces-
sible. There is, however, some hope of discoveries in
this matter, to which it may be prudent at present not
more particularly to allude.
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edre.
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account
SUN.—The Stock Market looked steady in the absence
of any transactions
The
unfunded
of the n
debt,
however,
t raemand for accommodation. Consols for imme-
diate transfer realized 89-4 to 89i, and for Account, 89i.,
nged so me of u a
was the only quotation. Exchequer Bills felt the influ-
ence of the scarcity above alluded to, and were not done
Bank Stock was dull at 168 to 169; the New
higher than 12 to 15 prem. East India Bonds 6to 3
prem. ;
Three-and-a-Half per Cents. ranged from 981-- to ; and
the Three per Cent. Reduced from 89:1 toy.
The Foreign Market presented a slight increase of ac-
tivity, but this was attended by no rally in the general
run of quotations. The Spanish Active Bonds were
marked 19% to 4, being scarcely so good as yesterday ;
Porttiguese New Five per Cents., being the first bargain
this week were done at 294 ; olombian Stock. was at
204 to ; Mexican at 254, and Brazilian at 67 ; Aus-
trian Metalliques were at 109, and Dutch Five per
Cents, at 102, being firm prices.
Shares supported the improved appearance we have
noticed for the last two or three days. Great Western
Railway shares were 161, the New 64 to 4, the Fifths 44,
the London and Birmingham Thirds 214, the New 211
to 224, the York and North Midland 28 to 274, and the
South Western 13 to 134 premium. Brighton Shares
were 54 to 5,1, Greenwich New 24, Manchester and
Leeds 14, North Midland 35, and the New 84 discount.
Gosport Shares were 4 premium. London Joint Stock
Bank Shares were 2- premium, Union of Australia, Li-
premium, and National of Ireland 24 discount.
The Foreign Exchanges were firm this afternoon, and
if anything a shade higher. Bills on Paris were nego-
tiated at 25f. 624 e. to 674 e., on Amsterdam at 12 4 to 4,
on Hamburgli at 13 9 to 4, on Antwerp at 12 34 to 4, en
Frankfort at 1491, and on Trieste at 9 48 to 50.
The private advices by the Great Western steamer,
will not be delivered till to-morrow.
The Hendrik Hudson, of New York, 1,000 tons bur-
then, a new line-of-packet ship, commanded by Captain
Morgan, arrived on Thursday in the St. Katherine-docks
from New York, with a cargo and . a great number of
passengers. She was locked in after high water. This
splendid ihip has attracted great and deserved attention.

The Tories duly record any solitary cheer, how-
ever faint, with which any of their party may be greeted,
We have the satisfaction of stating on the authority of
an eve end ear witness that Lord Melbourne, on leav-
ing, the hlouse, of Lords yesterday, was greeted by loud
and gene! a 1 cheering, as he passed to his carriage ; and
that a ccnsiderable number of respectable persons fol-
lowed the carriage to Downing-street, to greet his
Lordship with similar demonstrations as he entered hi
official residence.