The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 12, 1847.

Poor-law Bill for Ireland, and the Bill for lending
money to the proprietors of land, should proceed pari
passu, so as to go up to the other House together.
His Lordship also stated that in a few days he would
propose a measure for the organisation of the Poor•law
Board in Ireland.
Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD then moved the resolution
of which he had given notice, the object of which was to
secure to the tenant in Ireland a sufficient permanency
of tenure, or full compensation for all benefits created
by the expenditure of his labour and capital on the
lands in his occupation.
Sir D. NOAREYS thought that the stamp duties should
be done away with, and that where leases wore given
for less than thirty years, that all local taxation should
be thrown on the landlord.
Mr. MITE desired that the property of absentees was
as well managed as that of the resident gentry.
Lord CASTLEREAGH could not support the motion of
the lion. Member for Rochdale, as it would be produc-
tire of the greatest mischief to the landed proprietors '
of L eland.
Colonel CONNOLLY opposed the motion.
Mr. LABOUCHERE acknowledged that the subject was
one well worthy the attention of the llouse. Had the
Hon. Member pursued the course he had pursued on
former occasions, and proposed to introduce a Bill, the
Goverranent would not have objected to its introduction,
but he considered that it would be injudicious to agree
to a general resolution on the subject, more particularly
when, as in the present instance, the choice was given
to the House of adopting two alternatives. He also ob-
jected to the resolutions as vague and indefinite.
It would alter the law of property to give permanency
of tenure, but he conceived that the House was already
committed to the principle of giving compensation to the
tenant for improvements.
Mr. FITZSTEPIIEN FRENCH said that the tenant right
was a most unfair and mischievous practice.
In answer to Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN, it was stated by
Mt. LABOUCHERE that the Government hoped to intro-
duce a Bill on the subject referred to in the resolutions
before Easter.
The motion was then withdrawn.
On the motion of Mr. ACILIONIIT, leave was given

bring in a Bill to amend the Commons Enclosure Act.
Mr. SIIARMAN CRAW FORD obtained leave to bring in a
Bill for the better collecting the poor's rate in Ireland.
Mr. C. O'BRIEN moved for certain returns relating to
the proceedings of Captain Wyane as an officer of the
Board of Works, which, after a short conversation, were
agreed to.
Mr. STRIITT, as the Chairman of the Railway Com-
mission, then rose to move for leave to bring in
a Bill for the regulation of railway business.
With regard to new Bills, it was proposed that the
promoters of them should deposit a sufficient sum
to defray the preliminary expenses of a survey, and that
then they should be authorised by the Commissioners to
enter on the survey of lands, giving the Commissioners
power to award damages for any injuries occurring in
consequence of such survey. It was:proposed that stakes
should be driven into the land to mark the lino of the
proposed railway, and that a public officer should be
sent down to receive suggestions from owners or occu-
piers as to any proposed deviations, which if the
promoters were inclined to receive, they should have
power to do, and to include such deviations in
their deposited plans. He proposed that proofs of
compliance with the standing orders, should be received
by the Railway Commissioners, and that the officer sent
down by them should report upon the deposited plans
and sections. He proposed that counsel should not be
allowed to be heard, or to examine witnesses before the
Commissioners. He proposed that the Commissioners
should have power to report to the House upon all
matters relating to tolls, fares, engineering, amount of
capital, construction of the line, number of shares, and
power for borrowing money, to be granted to the com-
pany. He proposei that in Committee, with regard to
questions of fact, which might be the subject of dis

pute, he proposed that either party might complain,
and have the Bill referred back to the Commis-
sioners, and if the complaint should turn out unfounded
that the parties so applying should bear the expenses.
lle did not propose to give the Commissioner power to
authorise railway companies to borrow capital, or to amal-
gamate, without coming to Parliament, nor did he propose
to limit the rate of interest on the dividends of railway
companies. He proposed that the power of revising the
rates of fares on railways, every ten years, should be
given to Parliament; and he proposed that every existing
railway company which came to Parliament for an ex-
tension of its powers should be subject to this revision
of tolls and fares, and that the same power should
be vested in Parliament with regard to all railways.
Tie also proposed that when any company intended to
make alterations in their fares, such company should
give due notice thereof to the Commissioners, stating
at the gams time their reasons for such alterations.
With regard to the Post-office service, he thought that
distinct and definite charges should be made for it,
such rates of charge to be agreed on between
the Post office and the Companies, and to be
reported to the Companies in the same way
as the rates of fares and tolls were reported to
them, limiting the contract for carrying the mails to the
period•of five years. To ensure punctuality, he proposed
that bills of the times of arrival and departure of each
train should be conspicuously exhibited at every
station, that they should be forwarded to the Com-
missioners, and that they should make an annual
report to Parliament of the speed of the diffe-
rent trains throughout the country, calling the
attention of Parliament to the punctuality or want
of punctuality in the different trains run by the
different companies, and their influence upon the safety
of the public. He proposed that, with regard to cheap
trains, the time of arrival, departure, and stopping
at tho different stations should be reported to
the commissioners, and that at night there should be
lights in the carriages ; and that in every carriage
should be affixed a notice, stating the number of pas-
sengers every such carriage was to convey; and that any
infraction of such rules should be punished by fine. He
proposed also to give the Commissioners power to re-
gulate the time of the arrival and departure of third class
trains where two companies meet, so as to answer the

accommodation of the public, and to employ police at the
expense of the company where their employment might
be necessary to insure the preservation of the public

peace.

After a short debate, leave was given to bring in the

Bill.

On the motion for the second reading of Lord G.
BENTINCK'S Bill, for advancing 16,000,0001. to the

shareholders in Irish railways,
Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN appealed to the Noble Lord. the
Member for Lynn, to postpone his motion, in order to

give time to the Irish Members to consult their con
stituents, as the Government had held out an un.

generous threat that they would resign should the

motion be carried.

A long and angry discussion ensued, in the course of
which

Lord JOHN RUSSELL said he would not consent to any
postponement of the Bill. If it were too late to proceed
with it that night, he would give ap to-morrow, which was
a Government night, to the discussion of the measure.
Eventually the second reading was adjourned till
to-morrow (this day).

The Brewing froin Sugar Bill was read a third time.
The Railway Commissioners' Bill was read a first time,
The House adjourned shortly after Eleven o'clock.

Upon the decision of Parliament on the Irish
railway scheme, introduced by the Noble Lord the
representative of Lynn, the Prime Minister has an-
nounced his intention of staking the existence of the
Government. Had Lord JOHN RUSSELL done other-
wise, he would, without question, have been charged
by the Opposition with tenaciously clinging to
office, after a possible defeat upon the grandest
of all matters of Ministerial polity at the pre-
sent moment—namely, the salvation and resto-
ration of Ireland. Under any circumstances,
indeed, the present Administration would have
been liable either to invidious insinuations or to
a pesitive impeachment—under any circumstances, it
would have been pierced with the poisoned arrows of
party rancour—under any circumstances whatever,
saving the peculiar circumstances in which it is placed
by Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S announcement. In speak-
ing as the Noble Lord the head of her MAJESTY'S
Government has spoken, he has acted with a boldness
and a candour most honourable to himself and to
his colleagues. As a conscientious statesman, it
was impossible for him to sanction the reckless ap-
propriation of an enormous loan of 16,000,0001. to
any purpose, however benevolent, unless the applica-
tion of that amount was proved to tally with the
principle of the golden rule of legislation—" the
greatest good to the greatest number." Unless it
was
ostensible to the Ministers of the Crown that the
effects of this gigantic piece of generosity and confi-
dence would inevitably be the restoration of the starv-
ing peasantry to hel l and happiness, and at the
emolument
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BENTINCeB proposition, it would have been criminal
1 in the members of the Government to give their coun-
tenance to any such stupendous venture. " Nothing
risk, nothing gain," is all very well in the atmosphere of
CROCKFORD'S, and might be emblazoned with some
point on the lottery-wheel of the Art-Union, but
in the conduct of a Legislature the proverb would be
a sample of very paltry philosophy. The rulers of
au empire are, by the assumption of authority, ipso
facto invested with a vast and sacred responsibility.
The national resources are not to be squandered away
like the gold of a gamester or the reputation of a
concubine. It is not just, it is not honest, it is not
consistent with their characters as the guardians of
one of the sublimest Constitutions of Christendom,
for the Ministers of Great Britain to lavish sixteen
millions at a time upon the suggestions of a political
adventurer, aided by the clamours of an interested
minority.

Now, it is manifest to every sensible and dis-
passionate man, that the railway scheme of the
Noble Lord, the Member for Lynn, originating pos-
sibly in a benevolent and patriotic sentiment, is one
of the maddest games of legislative, hataard ever con-
ceived by the mind of the most speculative politician.
Ireland is destitute. By a common and spontaneous
sympathy the less afflicted people of the United
Kingdoms evince a readiness to assist the sufferers,
and, in accordance with that general manifesta-
tion of philanthropy, the Parliament, the Minis-
try, and the SOVEREIGN coincide in passing
measure after measure for the relief of
the indigent. For a while the unanimity which is
exhibited is complete and uninterrupted; boon after
boon is conferred upon Ireland; immunity after im-
munity ; advance after advance ; stimulus after sti-
mulus. The consequence of this splendid munificence
is obvious. There is a pause in the distribution of
bounties. A consciousness gradually insinuates itself
upon the minds of the people, of the Parliament, and
of the Ministry, that enough has been bestowed
by Government—that an extension of this assistance
would be injurious if not absolutely fatal to exertion
on the part of the Irish multitude themselves.
CURTIUS and his horse, armed cap-a-pie, had been
plunged into the chasm, the sacrifice of anything
beyond that was unnecessary, and would have been
little short of insanity. As we have said, there
was a pause therefore. The Ministry and the
community at large felt more fully than ever
the wisdom of that noble old motto, " GoD helps
those who help themselves." And having shown the
impoverished peasantry of Ireland an example of
activity, and the landowners a model of timely muni-
ficence, they paused. The work which they had
already accomplished in behalf of Irish penury was
the verb of a great movement of renovation and re-
generation. More on their part would hare been un-
wise, and might have proved actually ruinous. That was
the position of affairs when Lord GEORGE BENTINCK
advances to the table of the House of Commons, and
proposes the transfer of sixteen millions of money
over and above all that has been done already, to
Ireland, to relieve the Irish landlords of any burthen
whatever, and to saddle the industrious people of
England with all the woes produced through the
mismanagement of those same landlords, and in accord-
ance with the all-wise dispensations of the DEITY. Six-
teen millions of money—to set business astir again
in Capel-court, to impart its pristine importance to
scrip, to pamper the able-bodied " navies" of Great
Britain, to protect the agriculture of Ireland from the
most reasonable liabilities—to sow new winds, in
short, for the simple purpose of reaping new whirl-
winds. The alternative of the Government was
visible. Lord Join; RUSSELL has acted with a
wisdom and courage in this delicate position which
cannot very quickly be forgotten.

The clouds are gathering thick and fast anund
the self-dishonoured Minister. The storm of public
indignation, as we predicted would be the case, is
ready to burst over the head of M. GUIZOT. On
every side severe and justly-merited retribution
threatens the man who descended from the high posi-
tion which he held, a short while since, almost uni-
versally, in the eyes of Europe, to become the servile
minion of royalty. M. GUIZOT has betrayed
his country and blasted his reputation.
When he banished every sentiment of honour from
his breast, which, in justice to France, should
have punctiliously ruled his every thought
and action as her high functionary for Foreign Affairs,
he broke a sacred trust, and recklessly abused the
confidence which a generous people had reposed,
under the excusable delusion that his integrity was
as pure as his ability was undoubted. Ills talents
still remain unquestioned; but his integrity, without
which the former are worthless, except for mis-
chievous and malevolent purposes, has been discovered
to be nothing better than a skilful counterfeit. Now
that the lacquer has been subjected to the healthy
friction and trying test •f public opinion, the basis is
found to consist of the coarsest metal. M. Guizor,
in order to continue to bask in the royal sunshine,
wantonly trifled with the interests, and shamelessly
dimmed the lustre of the honour, of his country. The
French Nation are profoundly sensible of the injury
which has been inflicted upon their national cha-
racter, and are already loud in their murmurs
against the perfidy of the Minister. We speak not
of the French Chambers, which, as we have recently
written, present no real constitutional type of the
interests and sentiments of our chivalrous neighbours.
The intelligence from Paris renders it highly
' probable that M. GUIZOT must almost immediately
retire from the Ministry, notwithstanding that the
Address will be carried in the Legislature by a strong
majority. That M. GUIZOT should succeed in passing
the Address in the terms couched by the Go►ernment,
and yet be constrained to resign, is precisely the
anomaly which proves how farcical is the representa-
tive system in France. It proves, moreover, that
public opinion cannot be imperiously slighted, and it
is a satisfaction to England to know that France can-
not be fairly judged of by the acts of her Executive
or Legislature, between which and the people there
is no real sympathy whatever. had any English
Minister been guilty of such duplicity and dishonour-
able conduct towards France as M. GuizoT has ob-
served towards England, he would, in all probability,
have been unable to have shown his face in the House
of Commons. In the first place, his constituency
would have immediately demanded the resignation
of his trust into their hands ; and if this requirement
had not been complied with, the House of Commons
would have prevented any administration, associated
with such a colleague, from carrying an address to
the Throne, by moving a vote of direct censure, and
immediately cashiering them from power.
The speech of the Marquis DE MIRAFLORES, in
Madrid, on the Ist instant, has completely put to the
rack the mind of every honourable Frenchman. The
Marquis has declared M. GUIZOT was " most
inexact" in stating that he, when Minister, ever
made any overtures respecting a marriage be-
tween the Duke DE MONTPENSIER and the In-
fanta. The Marquis denies it in toto—nay, he
asserts that he told M. BRESSON such a marriage was
quite out of the question, in fact, impossible; and that
he could not understand the necessity of the nuptials of
the royal sisters being simultaneously solemnized. The
Marquis appeals to M. BREVSON for the truth of his
assertions. The Marquis admits he was in Paris in
July last, and had frequent interviews with the KING
and conversed over the question of the Spanish mar

riages. The Marquis does not deny that he sought
to impress the KING with the desirableness of a
Prince of COBURG being selected for the
hand of the Queen of SPAIN, which Lord
PALMERSTON alleged (as his belief) the
Marquis was disposed to try and accomplish.

The Marquis is silent on this point, but he declares
that he went to Paris in a private and not in any of-

ficial or diplomatic capacity. If he repaired to the
French city at the instance of Queen Cuaisrms,
he could not have gone officially, for the QUEEN-

MOTHER, not being_ a member of the Government,
could not have conferred any such authority upon the
Marquis; neither could his mission have been a di-

plomatic one, for ISTURITZ,

the Minister,

could alone have invested him with such

a function. Therefore the speech of the Marquis
DE MißarLoaEs completely bears out, in substance,
_ _ _

everything advanoed by Lord PALMERSTON in his able

dispatches, and henceforth no man can place the least
reliance upon M. GUIZOT'S veracity. He will be
offered up as a sacrifice by his wily SOVEREIGN to
appease the offended dignity of France and of civilized
Europe. Lotus Paurprz will have no feelings of

compunction in being driven to take this step. His
system has always been to keep down every man of
talent in his dominions, and wherever, by the ful-
filment of his own wary schemes, a Minister happens
incidentally to have acquired personal weight and
celebrity, the KING .of the FaErircu invariably de-
signs a pitfall for the ruin of his official victim. May
the fate of M. GUIZOT prove a salutary warning to
the future statesmen of France !

Madrid papers of the 4th have arrived. Their con
tents are unimportant.

MADRID BoLsA, FRB. 4.—The Three per Cents
closed at 32k; the Five per Cents. at 20i; Coupons, 19i.

•
We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday.
The leading articles of almost all of them comment on
the financial state of the country as developed in the de-
bate of the day preceding.
A general feeling of uneasiness prevails in Paris on
the subject of the differences between the French and
English Governments, differences the gravity of which
have been materially aggravated by the gross
and wanton attack which M. GuizoT thought
it right to make on the Marquis of NOR-
MANDY in the Chamber of Deputies. It was
rumoured in Paris that the Marquis of NORMANDY had
broken off all communication with M. GUIZOT, and had
sent home to his Government requesting either to be
recalled or to be furnished with fresh instructions. The
letter of Lord NORMANDY on the subject, and the
answer of Lord PALMERSTON, will be found in another
column. The consequence of these rumours was a de-
cline in the value of public securities of every descrip-
tion. To increase the embarrassments of M. GUIZOT,
the direct contradiction made by the Marquis of Ailee-
n-ORES to his statements arrived in Paris on Sunday;
and that has shaken the faith of many who, up to that
moment, believed that implicit reliance might be placed
on any statement made:by M. GrumT. Marshal Soul.;
it is said, has tendered his resignation, and M. DU-
CHATEL will be the now President of the Council. This
change will necessitate the resignation of M. GUIZOT,
who had been promised the Presidency of the Council,
whenever Marshal SOULT should resign, and his place
will be filled up by Count MOLE.
Such is one of the many rumours is the salons of
Paris—rumours which, however they may differ in
other respects, all agree in representing Count MOLE as
the " coming man." It is reported that, on Tuesday,
a Cabinet courier arrived from Brussels, with a dispatch
from the KING of the BELGIANS, expressing his astonish-
ment that the relations between France and Great
Britain should be rendered additionally difficult of
arrangement by a speech from his Majesty's Minister
for Foreign Affairs, not merely because of its containing
passages capable of being deemed contradictory of cer-
tain portions of tho dispatches of her Britannic Ma-
jesty's Ambassador in France, but because of the tone
and air of defiance towards England which it displayed
throughout.

The debate on the financial paragraph of the Address
WAS resumed on Tuesday, on which occasion M.
GEAUDIN inveighed with great fury against the fres-
traders, and was replied to on Wednesday by M.
BLANgui, in a most convincing and argumentative
speech. The paragraph was ultimately adopted. I❑
discussing the paragraph relating to Algiers, the Mar-
quis DE CASTELLANE demanded explanations as to the
mission of M. ALEZANDRE DUMAS, when the Ministerof
War declared that the Veloce steamer had been placed at
the disposal of M. DUMAS by mistake, and the Minister
of Public Instruetion denied that he had sent M. DUMAS
on a mission either to Madrid or to Tunis—it was
to Algiers, and to Algiers alone, that he was sent.

Accounts have been received from Toulon announc-
ing that a French iteet had left that port for Tunis for
the protection of the BEY.

The Presse and the National have, in their ardour
against England, managed to place themselves in a most
ridiculous position. Our readers will recollect their
mageiloquent backing up of what they considered the
protest of the Journal de la Haye against the occupation
of Labuan by England, and their indignation against
the Dlberts and the :Constitutionne/ for not perceiving
that the Journal de la Haye was right in protesting
against it as a violation of the treaty of 1824. It ap-
pears, however, that the article of the Journal de let Haye
referred exclusively to Borneo, and not to Labuan. This

is clearly shown by an article of the Dutch journal of
the 6th, in which it corrects the error of the Presse and
National, and adds:—" We claim our rights only where
they aro well established. We have no claims over
Labuan; the English, therefore, are at liberty to take
possession of that island."

There is some good-humoured banter in the Constilu-
tionnel on the subject of the absurd error into which the
Prelate and the National hare fallen

The Three per Cents., which fell early in the day to
771. 20c., recovered in a slight degree, and closed at 77f. 35c.;
the Five per Cents., 117 f. 75c. ; the Orleans Railroad
Shares, 1,222 f. 50c.; Rouen, 8471. 50c.; Havre, 6771. 50c.;
Great Northern 605 f.; Avignon, 816 f 25c. ; Vierzon, 565 f. ;
Ilordeaax, 532 f. 50c.; Boulogne, 412 f. 50c.; Basle, 203 f.
75c.; Dieppe, 3401. ; Paris and Strasburg, 466 f. 25c.; Tours
and Nantes, 467 f. 50c.; Paris and Lyons, 487 f. 50c.; Lyons
and Avignon, 485 f. ; Cette, 455 f. ; Belgian Two-and-a-Half
per Cents., 54; ditto, Three per Cents., 34%.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TUB
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEartuear 11.
Boulogns and Amiens, 14-Dutch Rhenish, 4%-Namur and
Liege, 2%-Northern of France, 127-Orleans and Bordeaux, 7.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton-market at Liverpool yesterday was very flat.
Sales 2,500 bales. American was I,i d. per lb. lower, but
Egyptian and Brazilian obtained about previous rates.
Shares were in scarcely any demand.
Although there can be little doubt of the ability of our
capitalists to supply double the amount of the loan of sixteen
millions sterling recommended by Lord George Bentinck,
there should be some consideration for the other wants of the
Government, and a little attention to the necessity
of obtaining money for the public service at
as cheap a rate as possible. Were a new
loan for a large sum contracted at the present day in the
open market, we should expect to see Consols decidedly
lower, because it is the practice of speculators to operate for
a fall in these cases, with the view of obtaining a profit upon
their tender to Government ; and now whets upon safe bills at
short dates a return of five per cent. can be obtained by our
bankers, who are themselves taking in the surplus cash of
their customers at 31/2 per cent., it is not likely
that Stock at present prices would attract very eager com-
petition. The Chancellor of the Exchequer can get a loan,
Yee know, but the question arises, will he not have to pay
rather onerously for it? In 1842, when the minimum rate
of interest at the Bank of England was 1,4 per cent. above
what it now is, Consols stood at 89, and this too although
Exchequer-bills then bore an interest of 24 per centum peg
diem. That year was somewhat similar to the one upon which
we have recently entered, since there was an excess of ex-
penditure over income, though to a much smaller amount
than we are now threatened with. Mr. Spring Rice was
no friend to open loans, and, as is well known, resorted to
the plan of increasing the unfunded debt. Under proper
restriction, and guarded strictly by Parliamentary " curbe,"
probably this is the most facile and independent means of rak-
ing money for the public service, and if the requirements of Go-
vernment can be spread over a sufficient period, a gradual
issue of bills, and a funding at favourable opportunities, is
the course which seems to meet approbation in many
quarters. We have before stated under this head the
objections that may fairly be urged to this mode,
but we can also perceive some counterbalancing advantages.
Great interest is manifested for the forthcoming Budget, more
particularly as there is an idea that some of the Continental
Governments may be coming into the market as borrowers
ere long.
The advices received to-day from the United States notice
an improvement in the exchange, which is rather encourag-
ing ; and, should it continue, it may induce a slackening at
least of specie exports from this side of the channel. The
amount of specie imported into New York last year was
about three-quarters of a million of dollars.
The Funds have been depressed to-day, And we call them
to 4 lower. The reports of M. Guizot's probable resigna-
tion, the weak comlition of the Paris Bourse, and the contest
between Lord John Russell and the Bentinck party, have all
their share in producing this state of things. Consols have
been 904 to 1,4 for present transfer, and 00% % for account:
Exchequer bills have been marked ss. to Bs. premium. The
New 1 hree -and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 923 14.
Bank Stock is worth 204.
The Foreign Bonds have been very dull again. The half-
monthly account is going off easily. Portuguese Four per
Cents. have been 35%, being rather flatter. Mexican are
21% to 22. Spanish Bonds are nominal.
The Railway Share Market has been very quiet. Here
the fortnightly account is but a small affair. We perceive
that the question of allowing interest on calls is
likely to be mooted at the next meeting of the
North Staffordshire Railway proprietors, bat we think the
directors have done right hitherto in not " robbing Peter to
pay Paul," and that the line, when completed, will be all
the more valuable, because lees costly. As many have a
difficulty in tracing the couse of this and other new rail-
ways, we should recommend Tuck's last map as a very sex
viceable guide.
BRITISH FUNDS.

ONE CLOSING
Bank Stock
O'CLOCK. PRI, a:S.
.. .. .. • • • • • . • • 204 204
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities ..
.. 90X% 90%
Three per Cent. Consols Arnulties
.. .. 90 % 904
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 92% % 9214
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1863 .. 9 9-16 9 9-16
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 .. 9 7-16 9 7-16
India Muds, 1,0001. .. .. .• .. .. 13 p 14 p
Ditto, under 1,000/. .. .. .. .. 11 p 14 p
Consols for Account • • •• •• • • • • 90-%% 903 i
Exchequer Bills. 1 ti d. 11,4 d.
1,0001... .. •• • • 6 5 8 pm. 8
5001. ~ .. --7 .... 8 --- pm. 5
ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.

FOREICN FUNDS.
Chill= Bonds, G per Cent .. .
Diito, Deterred • • .. 53%
Mexican Bonds. 1816, 5 per Cent 21%
Ditto, for the Account 22
Portuguese Four per Cent • . .. 35%
Ditto, for the Account
Sitioll . .• 88
Russian Bonds .. .. • • .. .. 113
Disldends en the above payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-o-llalf per Cent .. 58%
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 92 9t.
PRICES OF PAID. LDOUSINESS CLOSINGNE AT
RAILWAY SHARES. PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.
Aberdeen.. .. .. • • .. 25 .... 23 4 .......... 23%
Amber., Notting., Beaten, and
Eastern Junction .. ••2 .. • • 2%% .
Birmint7., Wolver.,& Stour Valicy 5 ....• 7 . 7
Buckingham..)lire 845..... 4 p. ex Int... % p x.int.
Caledonian • • .. .. 30 .... ..... 26
Dit,o, Half Shares 2% 2 4 . ....... 2
Eastern Counties .. 20 .... 21 ex dlv. .... 21 x.d.
Ditto, New .. .. 20 .... 20% ex div. —20% x.d.
Ditto, York Extension .. 4 .... 4;i • • .....• ••
East Lincolnshire .. .. 4 .... 6% .• ...... 6%
Great Northern (London & York
Regd.) .. 2%.... 2%
Great Western .. .. • • .• 85 • • ••• • • .....

•-•-- - • •
Ditto, Xew .. • • • • 4% •• • • 8% •••• • • • • 8
•.. 50 '..06%.......... 106%
Llleuellatdsaidn4Seßlbray ••
Bradford
..1
35
80%
Leicester and Bedford .. 165. % di5......• dis.
Leeds, Dewsbury, & Manchester 27%...• 34;g.......,,, 34%
Liverp., Manch., & Newc. Junct. 2% 2 ........ •• 2
London and Blackwall 16L 13s. 4d. .....
Ditto, New. No. 2 • • • • •• .... 1 071, 1,• ••• • •
Ditto, Extension .. 7% .... 5% 6
London, Brighton, and S Coast •. 50 .. . 55 ..........
London:and North-Western . • .100 ....168 189 ....
Ditto, Fifths ..
Ditto, 401. Shares M. &D. • • 40 .. • . 73 ..........
Ditto, 10/. Shares M. &D. (C) -• • 7%• . ••
London and South-Western • • 41/. di. 10d... 64
Ditto. New 22%.... 25,4 .
Lynn and Ely .. '2O .... ......
Lynn and Dereham .. • • 15 .... 16%
Manchester and Leeds .. .. • • 82 .• ........
Ditto Extension •• 425. •• 19%
Mancl ester and Southampton .. 2 ..........
Midland •• —lOO .. • 121 1203 x div.
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 108 ....
Newcastle and Bet ick .. •• 20 •• 32 31% ..
Newcastle and Carlisle .. 100 .112% .........
Newmarket and Chestcrford .5 • • 4 .• .•
Norfolk .. •• .. • • •• ..100
Ditto, Extension • • .. 6 .... 614 .
North British .• • • •• 25 • • 34% ....
Ditto, Quarter Shares • • •• 214 4;g 1,1 . ...
Ditto, Thirds •• .. • • • • 1 .... 3% •• • • .....
North Staffordsh4re . • • • • 5 • . 8% 7%
Oxford,Worcest.,& Wolverhmpth. 17% .... 1114 ..........
' Preston and Wyre .• •• 25
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Ditto, llalf Shares (A) .. • . 6% •• 1% ......... 10%
Royston and Hitchin . •• • .Ali .... • • .• 2%
Scottish Midland • • 17% .... •• 21% Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 3 .... —1q!•,,,,.• •••• • • • • 4
Shropshire Union .. •,, 42a. % 1 ets. x.i.•• I dis.x
South Eastern and Dour .. • • 33;4 . . .. .
Do., New (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 314 ~.. 4%. . .
South Wales .. .• •• .. 10 .. •• ...... •• • • South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and
Taw Vale Extension .'. 4 .... •• • ••
Vale of Neath 2 1
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth 15
.... .. • • ••
York and Newcastle .. 25 •• •• ••
Ditto, New.. .. 5 , 1114 ..
Ditto, Prefe-ence .. 4 .... .......
York ead North Midland .. .. 50 .... •• •• • •
Ditto, Preference •• 2 .... 11%% • • •..

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Northern of France .. • . 8 .... 12 1171 • • ...•
Orleans and Bourdeaux .. 6 .... 6%
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
London Join-Stock .. 10 ....
National Provincial of England 35 ...
Provincial of Ireland .• .. 25 443" a
MINES.
Real del 3lonte, Unregistered 3Y,

• LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(THIS DAY)
LONDON, FEB. 12.—Wind, at noon, S.W., light breeze and
fine, with a very hard frost.
DEAL, FEE. 11.—Wind N.NW. to N.N.E —Arrd. William
Gillies, Clark, China ; Maria, Howard, Boston ; Maranham,
Jamieson, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Stain's Castle, New
South ales ; Bucephalus, M‘Donald, China; Helen, De-
merara ; Gladiator, Bunting, New York. Sld. London,
Jamaica ; Alexander Baring, Calcutta ; Codrington, Antigua ;
Velocity, Jamaica ,• Mysore, Matanzas; Sea Lion, New
Orleans ; Dance Dance, New Orleans ; Sarah, Hand, New
Orleans ; John Craig, Boston ; Christina Watson, Sierra
Leone; Munez, Rio Munez ; Centurion, Pernambuco ;
Isabella, Cape of Good Hope; gate, Bahia; Mary, Bermuda.
OFF DOVER, Fait. 11. Buononento, New York for
Ant warp.
Lrvanroor, Fan. 10.—Wind moderate.--Acrd.
Rowley, Campbell, Demerara; Trenton Cotting, Savannah;
John Brooks, Lokland, Savannah ; Queen of the Wells,
Llewellyn,
Sid. New York, sld. 23d ult. Off port,
Sid. The Outward Bound.
OFF THE SOUTH FORELAND, FEB. 11.—Amboina, Lourer,
Batavia, for Rotterdam, with loss of boats, bulwarks, tpc.
PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 11.—Wind N.N.W. to N. by E.—Sld.
Sir Edward Parry, Baltimore.
Cows, Fan. 11.—Wind N. by W.—And. Magnet,
liams, Patagonia.
Fet.mouvr, FEB. 11.--Wind variable.—Acrd. Australia,
Gate, Callao. Sld. Tyris, Ceylon.
WATERFORD, FEB. 10.-IVind N.W. to N.N.W.—Arrd.
Altborp, Prince, Norfolk.
CORE, Fad. 9. Wind N., fresb.—Arrd. Roone, Harvey,
Baltimore, with 300 barrels of flour thrown overboard. Sld.
Susan, Greene, New York. Off port, dames iPtueen,
Condley, Honduras.
CARRICKFERGUS, FEE. 9.--Arrd, Lucius Carey, Brown, St.
John's, New Brunswick, with much damage.
BELFAST, FEB. 9.—Wind N. strong.—Arrd. Nathera,
Skates, Philadelphia. Sid. Robert Newton, New York;
Conisbrook, New Orleans. I
' RELATING TO THE FRIENDSHIP, FROM LIVER-
POOL TO HALIFAX.
A dispatch has been received at Lloyd's, from the Foreign-
office, enclosing copies of dispatches from her Majesty's
Consul at Lisbon and the Cape Verd Islands, reporting the
loss of the English brig Friendship, of Dublin, from Liver-
pool to Halifax. This vessel was abandoned at sea in a
sinking state, lat. 36. 24 N., andlon. 45. 20 W., on the 26th
of November last; crew saved by the United States ship
Curties, and landed at the Cape Verd.
The Secretary of the British North American Royal Mail
Steam Company has forwarded a communication to Lloyd's,
that the Hibernia steamer had not arrived at New York at
four o'clock P.M., on the 22d of January, but that her time
was not then due for arriving.
T,

RE RAJA or SATTARA.—A public meeting was
held yesterday evening at the National Hall, Holborn, in
order to consider the case of the dethroned Raja of Sattara,
and to determine as to the propriety of petitioning Parlia-
ment in his favour. At eight o'clock, Mr. Fuller was called
to the chair, and after a few preliminary observations, called
upon George Thompson, Esq., to address the meeting.
Haring referred to previous meetings held on the
subject under notice, Mr. Thompson proceeded to
give a full statement of the means which had
been used to effect the Raja's downfall, remark-
ing that after hearing a statement of the accusa-
tions against that injured Prince, the Supreme
Council had declared the charges to be so utterly worthless,
that there was nothing in them by which his character could
be impugned, and the Government at home had for a time
held the same language. Mr. Thompson concluded with a
powerful appeal to all present to sign the petition on behalf
of the dethroned Baja. Rungo Bapogee, the Rgjh's agent,
then addressed the meeting, and supported the ,--revious
speaker in all his assertions. After some other speeches_ end
the adoption of the proposed petition to Parliament, a vote of
thanks was passed to the chairman, which, having been re-
sponded to, the meeting separated.
EnRATUM.—In our first leading article of yester-
day, " a refutation of the fallacious arguments against non-
interference," should have been, " a refutation of the falla-
cious arguments against any interference."