The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-10 00:00:00

-THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, Iq4l.

makers from manufacturing machinery for the
foreign market. It banishes English workmen
to the Continent, by prohibiting them from ex-
porting the produce of their industry and skill.
This is a state of the la* which requires revision,
and we trust Mr. PHILLIPS will obtain the Com-
mittee for which he is to move.

_ • _
That the manufacturers of machinery, now a
numerous class of men, as this is now a most
important branch of manufacture, would be bene-
fited by the removal of the prohibition, there is
no doubt. The only persons who have an inte-
rest in retaining the prohibition, are the persons
who use the machines, and who may fear a still
more intense, and for them disadvantageous, com-
petition with the users of such machines abroad.
They will now however show their sense of justice
by not asking to retain the undue preference
which the law concedes to them.

They think, probably,that if they can keep
exclusive pos3eSsidri of the machinery they may
struggle successfully with t4e manufacturers of
other countries. Brt—they—cannot keep these
advantages. They cannot prevent the expatria-
tion of workmen, and they cannot make them,
before they go, disgorge their knowledge and
unlearn their skill; and if the workmen find a
better market abroad than at home, go they will.
They can only be kept at home by finding advan-
tages at home. To permit the foreigner to enter
freely into the home market for machinery is to
give the machinists those advantages. The pro-
hibitory law, however, gives to the users of the
machines a monopoly, as against the makers
of them. The machinists are, in fact, injured
with a view to benefit the English manufacturer.
Abolish the injury—that is, abolish the prohi-
bition—and the machinist will have far less
temptation, or no temptation at all, to go abroad.
He will make machinery at home in large quan-
tities, for he has greater facilities here than else-
where, and he will export it. In fact, the manu-
facture of machinery is an art in which Britain
is now unrivalled, and our laws ought not to im-
pede the extension of so valuable and ingenious
a branch of industry. Great Britain is capable of
manufacturing machinery for the whole world.
By what right do the law-makers prohibit her
from attaining this eminence, so honourable to
Great Britain, and so beneficial to the rest of
mankind?

We read and quoted with great pleasure, on
Friday week, Sir R. PEEL'S address on opening
the Literary Institution at Tamworth. We saw
in it much to admire, and were ready to praise
the Right Hon. Baronet as a convert to princi-
ples which his party had continually opposed.
He advocated the progress of knowledge, and he
implied that it is very beneficial, if not all-suffi-
cient. We were not at all surprised, therefore, to
find the Right Hon. Baronet's address severely
censured in the Times of last Friday. The attack
appeared,in the form of a letter, (N o. I. of a series,
we presume, though No. 11. has not yet appeared,)
which was honoured with large types, leads, &c.,
to make it as conspicuous as possible, without
elevating it to a leader. The Journal was willing
to inflict that chastisement by the hands of
another which prudence forbad it to inflict by its
own hand.

The writer says—

I shall surprise no one who has carefully read Sir Robert's
Addres;, and perhaps all who have not, by stating my convic-
tion, that, did a person take it up without looking at the title-
page, he would to a certainty set it down to be a production of
the years 1827 and 1828, the scene Gower-street, the speaker
Mr. Brougham or Dr. Lushington, and the occasion, the laying
the first stone or the inauguration of the then called London
University. I profess myself quite unable to draw any satisfac-
tory line of difference between the Gower-street and the
Tamworth exhibition, except, of course, that Sir Robert's
personal religious feeling breaks out in his Address across his
assumed philosophy. 1 say assumed ; I might say affected—
for I think too well of him to believe it to be genuine.

What a character is given of Toryism and of
its chief in that single passage. In It volumes of
instruction are compressed. Hypocrisy is its
corner-stone. The writer accuses Sir ROBERT
PEEL, he belonging to Sir ROBERT'S party, of as-
suming and affecting philosophy,, and he thinks
too well of Sir ROBERT to believe that his lan-
guage was sincere. He professes a burning ad-
miration for deceit. He openly avows, speaking
genuine Toryism, that it is vicious to be honest.
What a mass of crime is involved in that single
sentence which concludes the quotation. Hypo-
crisy, lying, cheating, and boasting of immorality.
I t is the sketch of Toryism by a master hand.
" They best can paint it" who know it best, and
such a description by the Tory Times is a gem to
be preserved in the cabinet of every Liberal.
Sir ROBERT'S philosophy, though " assumed"
and " affected," resembling the genuine philo-
sophy of Lord BROUGHAM and Dr. LUSHING-
TON, is what moves the writer's anger. The
more knowledge is exalted the less the ministra-
tions of a priesthood are necessary; and to lessen
the value and importance of these sets some
persons scolding and hissing as if water were
thrown on red-hot iron. They will not allow
knowledge even to be hypocritically praised,
without taking up arms. Sir ROBERT, following
in the wake of Lord BROUGHAM and Dr. Lusn-
INGTON, as well as quoting Sir ISAAC NEWTON
and Sir H. DAVY, came to the conclusion that
" man in becoming wiser became better—that
he rose in the scale of intellectual and moral
existence—and that, in proportion as the veil
becomes thinner through which he sees
the cause of things, he will admire
more the brightness of the Divine light
by which they are rendered perceptible. "My
firm belief is," said the Right Hon. Baronet,
" that that superior sagacity which is most con-
versant with the course and constitution of nature,
which sees the wonderful preparations which are
made for the subsistence and enjoyment of the
meanest animal, will be the first to believe that
the Almighty Being, who has made such prepa-
rations for mere physical enjoyment, has not left
in neglect and indifference the immortal soul of
man.' All such doctrines are gall and worm-
wood to those who teach that the knowledge
of the world never can lead to Gon; that it is
a hindrance to faith in their doctrines; that to
see Gon man must exclude or conquer the phy-
sical world; that physical enjoyment, which the
Right lion. Baronet regards as a proof of the
Divine existence, and as sufficient to justify a
belief in another life, is the chief snare laid by
the Devil; all such doctrines are directly op-
posed to the doctrines taught by a large body of
of the Established Priests, if not by the whole of
them, and therefore it is that one of their repre-
sentatives speaks in the Tory Times of the Right
Hon. Baronet's doctrines in the following lan-
guage :

On the occasion in question Sir Robert gave expression to a
theory of morals and religion, which, of course, in a popular
speech, was not put out in a very dogmatic form, but which,
when analysed and fitted together, reads somewhat as follows :
Human nature, he seems to say, if left to itself, becomes
sensual and degraded. Uneducated men live in the indulgence
of their passions, or, if they are merely taught to read, they dis-
sipate and debase their minds by trifling on vicious publications.
Education is the cultivation of the intellect and heart, and use-
ful knowledge is the great instrument of education. It is the
parent of virtue, the nurse of religion ; it exalts man to his
highest perfection, and is the sufficient scope of his most earnest
exertions.
Physical and moral science rouses, transports, exalts, enlarges,
tranquillizes, and satisfies the mind. Its attractiveness obtains
a hold over us ; the excitement attending it supersedes grosser
excitements ; it makes us know our duty, and thereby enables
us to di it ; by taking the mind off itself, it destroys anxiety ;
and by providing objects of admiration, it soothes and sub-
dues us.
And, in addition, it is a kind of neutral ground, on which
men of every shade of politics and religion may meet together,
disabuse each other of their prejudices, form intimacies, and
practise co-operation.
This, it is almost needless to say, is the very theory, ex-
pressed temperately, in which Mr. l3rougham once expatiated
in the Glasgow and London Universities.

It is reserved for few to witness the triumph of their own
opinions; much less to witness it in the instance of their own
direct and personal 'opponents. Whether the Lerd Brougham
of this day feels all that satisfaction and inward peace which he
attributes to success of whate►er kind in intellectual efforts, it
is not for me to decide ; but that he has achieved, to speak in
his own style, a mighty victory, and is leading in chains be-
hind his chariot-wheels a great captive, is a fact beyond ques-
tion. Such is the reward in 1841, for unpopularity in 1827.
What, however, is a boast to Lord Brougham, is in the
some proportion a slur upon the fair fame of Sir Robert Peel,
at least in the judgment of these who have hitherto been his
friends.

Whether Sir ROBERT were only shamming
Lord BROUGHAM'S wisdom and sagacity, as the
Tory writer says, or whether he were in earnest,
at Tamworth, and really paying due homage to
" divine philosophy," the palpable discrepancy,
between him and the priest party is not the less
remarkable, and the homage, whether sincere or
not, which he has paid to the importance of
knowledge, is not the less deserving of
public approbation. The bitter hostility which
is avowed to his doctrines must prove that
the Priest and the Ultra-Tory party have a
deadly enmity to knowledge, and will crush it,
though encouraged by Sir R. PEEL, wherever
they can. That is their creed. Toryism and
knowledge, Toryism and humanity, are antago-
nist principles, and no man can serve the cause
of Toryism without labouring to stifle knowledge,
and all the brotherly affections of mankind.
But though Sir R, PEEL, at least in what he

affects-and assumes, is ranged on the side of the ,
Liberals, he must and will, in his actions, go
with the Tories. For the sake of power, he will
condescend to be the slave of the men who ac-
cuse him of being a hypocrite. He will justify
their accusation. Far 'from being satisfied with
promoting secular knowledge, when he returns to
office he will most likely endeavour to plant
more churches, and endow more parsons. Far
from then acting as if knowledge ennobled and
elevated man, he will devote the public income
to hire and bribe an additional army of clergy-
men to suppress knowledge, and. to teach that
they alone can lead men to morality here, and hap-
piness hereafter. Far from then supporting the
doctrine that the preparations for physical en-
joyment supply a proof that the ALMIGHTY
has not left in neglect and indifference
the immortal soul of man—which implies, as the
preparation has always, and everywhere existed,
universal redemption, and the redemption of the
whole human race of all time—he will then de-
mand more Church, aye, and he will inflict civil
privations on those who do not belong to the
Church, though it deny, in opposition to his own
doctrine, redemption to allbut the small number
of human beings who have believed as it has be-
lieved during the last 1,800 years, and who
may have received the sacrament at the hands of
its pastors. Sir ROBERT PEEL, by his conduct in
supporting the Church, proves every day that time
Tory writer of the Times knows him well, and
that he was only shamming philosophy when he
assumed
of Lord BROUGHAM.theIan
language and affected the senti-
ments

Since the above was in type, which a press of
other matter compelled us to defer, No. 11. of the
series in the Times, and the last, has appeared.
The first attack has kindled the wrath of some of
Sir ROBERT'S compromising friends, and the let-
ters on the Tamworth oration are stopped. Some
observations in it at the close, completely identify
the writer, who signs " Catholicus," with the priest
party. His objections to Sir ROBERT'S doctrines
are, that they slur over or dissipate the passions,
and do not by means of ref
.?;ion aim to re-
model- the heart of other words,
the writer derides all knowledge as useless
to rectify and enlighten conduct, except
that of which the prie,,ts claim a monopoly.
He quotes wise man instances of indi-
duals knowing their duty and neglecting to per-
form it; but Christians do that as well as heath-
ens; and, at least, the man who does know his
duty, is more likely to perform it than he who has
no knowledge of it whatever. How a man igno-
rant of his duty is to do it, except, like the slaves
of the Jesuits in Paraguay, they do what the
priests tell them, we know not. To have this
writer, who avows himself an admirer of hypo-
crisy, insincerity, and deceit, who thinks " too
well" of Sir ROBERT PEEL, not to suppose that
he deliberately brimmed the confiding people
who lent him their ear and their minds at Tam-
worth, to impress on them the image of his own
soul—to have this avowed enemy of knowledge
and defender of the lowest and most despicable
vice, identified with the priest party, is for us a
great delight. It demonstrates clearly that they
will stop at no falsehood, no guile, no deceit
which serves to attain their end. They even
brand their greatest leader as committing one of
the paltriest tricks of low charlatans, and as being
one of the paltriest of mankind.

The Paris Journals of Saturday and Sunday
have been received. On Friday the Chamber of
Deputies was engaged with the Customs' Bill.
In the course of the debate M. VICTOR GRAN DIN
had the peculiar French mob patriotism, and
the French mob refinement of taste to oppose all
commercial intercourse with England, alleging
that if a treaty was concluded with us, a repeti-
tion might be expected .of our conduct towards
China, to whom we say, " Receive our opium or
we will murder you. Take your choice ; the
poniard or the poison." The Constitutionnel and
the Journal des Debcit's do not report these ex-
pressions, which we regret to add called forth no
manifestation of disgust in the Chamber, but they
figure very distinctly in the report of the debate
which appears in the National of Saturday. The
man who could utter them after the perusal of
the first night's debate in the British Parliament,
must be too contemptible for serious notice on this
side of the Channel. We leave this man and his
speech to the chastisement of the Journal des
Debats, and the reflections which every honour-
able mind in France must make upon an out-
rage of all decency, truth, and international good
feeling.
The Journal des Debats of Sunday publishes
the following letter, addressed by Admiral
STOPFORD to the Governor of Malta dated the
14th of January :
" Sir,-1 have the honour to make known to you that
Mehemet Ali, having restored the Ottoman fleet, recalled
his army from Syria, and accepted all the conditions which
the Sultan had' offered him ; the port of Alexandria and
the coast of Syria are no longer exposed to any hostility
on the part of the Sultan or his Allies.
(Signed) " ROBERT STOPFORD."
The Moniteur Parisien denies that there is any
truth in the report that Marshal SOULT wanted
to get rid of MM. GUIZOT, lIUMANN, and MAR-
TIN du NORD. The harmony of the Cabinet is
undisturbed and complete.
The following paragraph appears in the Na-
tional of Saturday
On Friday morning M. Montour, proprietor of the
France, and M. Lubis, the principal editor of the same
journal, were arrested at their dwelling-houses, and after
having been examined before M. Justice Jourdain, they
were committed to the prison of St. Pelagie, on a charge
of forgery.
A private letter from Naples, dated Jan. 29, contains
the following passage
" A frightful land-slip occurred in the commune of
Gragnano, neari Castellamare, about 14 miles from this
city, on the night of Friday, the 22d instant, when the
inhabitants, who were almost entirely agricultural labour-
ers, wire in bed. That part of this populous commune
which lies nearest the mountain which overhangs it, was
suddenly overvihelmed, and 113 persons perished in one
grave. The King immediately sent a large body of
pioneers, and went himself to superintend their work. As
yet only 65 bodies have been dug out, and five persons were
found still alive, who, although in great danger, may yet
be recovered."

The Venus frigate and the Veloce steamer sailed on the
2d from Brest for Toulon.

The ANuabian Mercury, under date the 28th ult., states
the Austrian army was on its full war footing. At a mo-
ment's notice the Austrian Government could bring law
the field 300,000 men and 600 pieces of cannon. The
Cologne Gazette publishes a letter from Frankfort, stating
that the Austrian Government was about to borrow
40,000,000 Or 50,000,000 florins of the houses of Roths-
child and Bethmann.

The Malta Times of the 28th of January says—
" Soliman Pacha has arrived at Cairo, with all the
artillery of the army of Syria, 8,000 cavalry, and 8,000
infantry.
6' Ibrahim Pacha was at Jaffa, where the Viceroy's
steamer, the Nile, was to convey him to Alexandria."
We hear that the nomination of General Berthon, aide.
de-camp to the King, to the post of Chief of the Staff of
the Army of Africa, has just been signed by the King.
We have frequently remarked that England, always so
ready to complain of what it calls the spirit of conquest,
neglects no opportunity to extend its own influence in all
parts of the globe. At this moment it is towards central
Africa that it directs its investigation, and no doubt we
shall soon see her established there.

4.11.•••••
• The following details are given by a London Journal,
respecting the expedition preparing for the Niger, of which
we have already spoken.—( Here follows a quotation which
has already appeared in The Sun.)
What is the meantime re we doing? Are we taking
advantage of the posit on of Constantine to establish a
communication with Timbectoo, which may become the
route of a caravan as important, perhaps, as that of India?
No ; we shall wa t till the English have obtained a pre-
ponderance in these countries and exclude us from them,
when we might have anticipated them.
A letter from Luneville, of the Ist of February, says it
is decided that the Duke of Nemours is to go to Africa,
as soon as be recovers from the effects of a violent sore
throat, but will return to Paris, and proceed to Toulon
as soon as General Bugcaud has re-organised the army of
Africa. The Duko of Aumale will command two of these
detached battalions, and perhaps lead the vanguard in the
division commanded by his brother.
Numbers of sailors have passed through Paris to-day, on
their way to Toulon, Brest, and Cherbourg, —Le Com-
merce.
BitusseLs,ffEri. 6.—His 16yal Highness the reigning
Prrai
railway.
e eof SaxeCo busertg
out this Duke of Saxe Coburg arrived at Brussels from Liege to-
day by a special train. Some of his Majesty's carriages
were sent the day before yesterday to Liege to fetch his
have gone to
Royal Highness, who was received at the station by the
officers of his Majesty's household. His Highness will
pass the night here.
even-
ing for London, where be will spend a fortnight.
A letter from Maestricht of the 3d inst. says, " that a
letter from the Hague mentions the nomination of Mr.
OstendThe King
to-day
the wq. He
will
Brandes as; Clerk to the Provincial Assembly of Limburg
as very probable. The Maestricla Journal says, it hopes
the statement is unfounded, because this nomination would
not be agreeable in Limburg.
BERLIN, FEB. 3.—Major-General Von Hess has arrived
here from Vienna.—Prussian State Gazette.
QUEEN CHRISTINA..--Our private letters from Naples
of the 25th ult., deny that the King had sent an invita-
tion to his sister, Queen Christina, to come to Naples.
It appears, on the contrary, that his Majesty had notified
to the ex-Regent of Spain, not to presume to appear at his
Court, and had expressly forbidden the Dowager- Queen
going to Rome on a visit to her daughter. Oar corres-
spondent adds, that the Roman Court, usually so gallant
towards ladies, received Queen Christina with much cool-
ness, notwithstanding the pressing recommendation of
King Louis Philippe, and the officious interference of his
representative at the Vatican.
BOURSE.--pasts, SATURDAY, Fan. 6.
first Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Pricy. Price
French 5 per rents ...... 112 66 ... 112 65 ... 112 35 ... 112 35
4 per Ceuta ..... 99 ... 99 99 99
3 per Ctatisintenstin 76 6b no 76 65 et 76 45 76 15

Hank of France
Lltitte Bank I,ooof. Sh lO6O —.VW —.1060 ...1660
5000 f. Shares 5145 —.5150 ...5145 ...5150
Belgian sank
5 per Cents 29% ... UN ... 9J% ... 99%
3 per Cents 6B 25 ... 68 65 ... 68 15 ... 68 15
New Loan 0844 ... 98; .. 98% ... 983.
Spanish Active 25% ... 25% ... t:5 ... 25%
Passive 6% ... 6% ... 614 614
Neapolitan
Roman
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Ge,rnain
Versailles.H. B 450 ... 450 ....447 50 ... 447 50
LB—. ............
Orleans .
Strasburg to Bale 2'o ... 250 ... 250 .. 253
loucii
17EL(.41AN I! UNDS—Bausekhe. reil. G.

Actual DOt, 2% per Cent.

Hothschild's Loan, 5 per Cant 9714
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per-Cent B9N--- 3 per Cent. —
-----.Thirty.scven— --- •• 64 tu
-(140) 97!,g
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent 440
Society of Commerce, 43.iper Cent lO2
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent FS
Nationa I Society . —
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, Feb. 6.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vitrinx, JAN, 29
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Fear per Cents.
Three pia Cents. ..... ............... ....,... ......
Bank fbarns
—4llgemeine Zeittaig. Feb. 3.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.
There was no improvement in the English Stocks to-
day, for although a few purchases, soon after the ccm-
rnencement of business, gave prices a little more firmness
in the morning, they subsequently more than lost what
they had gained, Consols for immediate transfer closing at
a decline of 881 and 88i, and for the Account at 88f to
88k. Exchequer Bills were at ss. to 7s. premium, and
East India Bonds at 295. to 10s. discount. Bank Stock
was depressed at 163, but East India Stock was not lower
than 2461. The Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents.
brought 98k to 91, and the Three per Cents. 89i to 881.
The Foreign Funds all had a downward tendency :
Spanish Active were at 24 to 23k, Portuguese New Bonds
at 32 to 314, Mexican at 27k, and Colombian at 221 to 1.
Brazil Stock was at 721, and Dutch Two-and-a- Half per
Cents. realised 49,i to 50.
Shares were scarcely dealt in at all. The Great Wes-
tern obtained 24, the New 101, and the Birmingham 85
premium.

The Foreign Exchanges were steady, but not buoyant.
The rates on the principal bill cities of the Continent
were these :—Paris 25f. 50c. to 55f. ; Amsterdam, 12 21;
llamburgh 13 71 ; Frankfort 148; and Trieste 10 1i
to 2.

The exports of the precious metals from the port of
London, in the week ending Thursday last, were 569
ounces of silver coin to the Mauritius, and 106,000 cunees
to Calais.

(From The Sun of Last Night.)
LIVERPOOL. COTTON MA REET, MONDAY.—We had a flat
market for cotton, without material change in prices, the sales
3,000 bags, chiefly American description.
LIVERPOOL StiAax LIST, FEB. B.—Chester and Birken-
head, New Shares, 163/4 ; Grand Junction, 2121;2 ; Quarter
Shares, 521% ; Ditto New, 284 ; London and Birmingham
Quartpr Shares, 28i.; South Western, 57i ; North Midland,
Half Shares, 3634 ; North Union, 81.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE., FEE. B.—The Market
still continues dull, and we have had but few transactions to-
day. London and South Western, 57,i to 58 ; Manchester
and Leeds, to 72 ; Ditto, Halves, 31 to ; Manchester
and Birmingham, 24 to 25; Ditto, Extensions, 211; Stafford
and Rup;by, ; Manchester and Liverpool District
Bank, 11A ; Manchester and Liverpool Plate Glass, 6h.

We have received the Journal of Antwerp of Sunday's date.
BOURSE 01 AMSTERDAM, FRB. 4.—The weakness of the
Bourse of London of Monday caused a slight fall in our prices.
The news of the adoption of the project of the law on the forti-
fications, and the re-action produced by this vote on the Bourse
of Paris, contributed towards the fall of our prices. Ardoin's
are lower, done at '2 1-16; Coupons, 19 13-16.

(From the Calcutta Papers. )
LIEUTENANT LOVEDAY.—When Major Boscawen's force,
about 1,500 men, reached Dadur, which they found in the
occupation of the enemy, and 3UO of our sepoys besieged in
their entrenchments, an attack was immediately commenced,
and the Brahoes dispersed directly and fled to the mountain
passes. On the field the body of Lieutenant Loveday was dis-
covered with the head nearly severed from the body, which was
still warm ; and by the statement of his servant, who had re-
mained with him the whole of his captivity, it would appear
that the guard had joined the fugitives at the first onset of the
British force, but they subsequently returned and cut him
down : the body was not mutilated, but was in an emaciated
state from fever.

Lord Stanley's question last night in the House of Commons
respecting the arrest of Mr. M'Leod, as well as the answer of
Lord Palmerston, is read with much interest in the City, and
more particularly by the Americans.
Consols, which left off yesterday at Bbi for the Account,
opened at 681- with scarce anything doing to the present hour.
Money, 88,4 ; Exchequer Bills, 5 7 prem. ; Bank Stock,
163 165; India Stock, 245 247.

In the Foreign Market Spanish Active same as it left off,
243; Deferred, 124 5 ; Passive, ;5; 6k ; Portuguese same as
they closed, 315 32; Three per Cents. 195 20; Brazilian,
725; Buenos Ayres, 21 23 ; Chilian, 63 65; Colombian, 225
23 ; Mexican, 275 28 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
49; 505 ; Five per Cents. 984 994.
Sit. RES. —Great Western, 24 25; prera. ; New, 105 115
prem. ; London and Brighton, 74 64 dis. ; Blackwall, 44 34
dis. ; Birmingham, 84 86 prem. ; Southampton, 57 58 per
share; Croydon, 125 per share ; Greenwich, 85 4 per share;
Manchester and Birmingham, 155 145 tbs. ; South Eastern
and Dover, 164 154 dis.
We have no arrivals this morning of consequence.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.

Great Western
Ditto Fifths ... 4 .... 9 -
London and Birmingham
JOINT STOCK BANKS.

Australasia 4O 5311 ... to

Union of Australia..
The debates in the Commons last night have not had
any effect on the I3ritish Market. Consols are a shade lower
than in the early part of the morning, and may be quoted
at 883- for the Account; Money 8-4; Exchequer Bills 7 5,
rather lower ; Bank Stock 163, also a shade lower ; India
Bonds 20 10 dis., improved.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active nothing done ;
Passive, 5; , Portuguwse, 32 ; Colombian, 223 i; Dutch Two•
and-a-Half per Cents. 49; 50 ; Five per Cents. 996 99k.
The Share Market is also in a very inactive state. London
and Birmingham, 176.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.

Bank Stock ... 163 India Stock ......... ... —246
3 per Cent. Red BBI Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent Cons ...... .. 88 Ditto Old Annuities
3i per Cent Red— .. 97i- Ditto New Annuities...
New 3i per Cent .. ... 97 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2Ad spm
New 5 per Cent Ditto 500/ opm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small Bpm
Jan. 1860

Oct 159... 124 India Stock for Acct ...
Jan. 1660 ... Consols for Acct B6l
FORE6GN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent... Portuguese, 5 per cent.
klelgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto..... 3
Brazilian Bowls 7.7 Prussian, 5 per cent....

BuenosAyres, 6 percent 224 Russian, 5 per cent. . .
Chilian, 6 per cent
Colombian, 6 percent... 21i Spanish, 5 per cent.
Ditto, 1824 22a Ditto, Deferred ...

,
Danish, 3 per cent. .... French,s per cent —f. ,
Greek.lB2s, spercent. Exchange ..
Mexican, 5 per cent.... 27i French,3 per cent —4. ,
Di to, 6 per cent, 1825 Dutch, 21, per cent
Peruvian,lB2s,6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent..... 98

SHARES.
Great Western Railway (65 paid) 59
Ditto New Shares (50 paid)
Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) 9
London and Blackwall Railway (22k pd) 16}
London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 175
London and Greenwich Railway (20 paid) 9
Ditto New Shares (20paid) ... .........
Ditto Scrip. ( 3 paid)..
South Eastern and Dover (26 paid) ..... ... 12
COURSE OF EXCHANGE—( YESTERDAY.)
Amsterdam CF. 19 5 (Gibraltar . . 48
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam 2 U. 12 4Genoa 2i 85
Antwerp
Hamburgh... ....AL B. 13 10 Venice 47
Altoia l3 101'Naples... ............. .... 391
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 40 Palermo, per oz 119 i
Ditto, S months 93 65 i Lisbon 513
Marseilles... .. ...... .... 25 70 !Oporto
/3ourdeaux... ...... . .... 25 70 ;Rio Janeiro 2B
Frankfort on Maine.... 149 illahia 27

Petersburg'', 3 U 5..... 37
Berlin
Vienna, .fec. fl. 3 /41 lO 2
Trieste, ditto. lO 4
Madrid

Buenos Ayres
New York, Ul days' sight 46f
Philadelphia
ratca Or BIILLIOW, PIA Of.
Portugal Gold Coin.E3 17 6
Cadiz

Billona
Barcelona B.si
Seville Wait

sup.
New Doubloons 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4 10
Silver in Bars 0 5 0i

" THE SOCIALISTS OF LEEDS."—A placard
with this head, on the walls of Leeds, announced the last
meeting of Socialists to be held in the Music Saloon,
South Parade, of which elegant building they have:been
for some years the unworthy tenants. The Music Saloon
having been purchased by the Mechanics' Institute, the
Socialists are obliged to evacuate it on Thursday next, and
we are not aware that they have obtained any other room
for their meetings. We suppose the deluded members of
this sect, the self-proclaimed " Beasts," to be much reduced
in number ; their prcceedings attract no public attention,
The Music Saloon, after undergoing extensive alterations
and refittings, and being thoroughly cleansed, will be opened
for the Mechanics' Institute.—Leeds Mercury.

•,
RUSSIAN NEWS.—From Odessa a correspon-
dent writes, on the 10th ult., to the Constitutionnel:—
" The Crimea is ravaged by a typhus fever which carries
off great numbers both of the land and sea forces. Ad-
miral Lazarcf has been obliged to send nearly all the
sailors to Nicolajef, leaving only a few a* S. bastopol. A
letter from T,flis states that General Illkosowski, chief
of the staff of the army of the Caucasus, has been sent to
the Shah of Persia to settle the amount of the troops
which Russia is to furnish for putting a stop to the brigand-
age of the Kurds. It is expected that these Russian
corps will begin their march for Persia in April. Rear-
Admiral Kazin will, it is said, have the command of the
fleet in the Caspian Sea." The Emperor of Russia has
conferred the Order of St. Andrew on the Archduke Albert
of Austria.

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The Hon. Edward Grimston is shortly to be
united to a lady of great personal attractions, and this is
the immediate cause of the Hon. Gentleman's resigning
his seat in Parliament.—Evening Paper.
The landowners were offering a premium lately
for the best way of making gruel for their hounds,--cheap
cottage dishes, where a sack of oatmeal shall unite with
water in the proportion that shall get most work out of
the peasant bowels that it grates on. Could not they ex-
tend their genius beyond a cookery book, and with the aid
of the other establishment, bestow on us a " New Whole
Duty of Man," or, " Rules for living and Dying on Five
Shillings and Sixpence a week, rent-free."--Letter of Col
Thompson,