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those onerous restrictions by which the trade of
Nottingham has been ruined. The electors of
Nottingham will not, we are sure, suicidally
elect a man who is the enemy of their dearest
interest.

But we have said that Mr. WALTER, as a
public man, is nothing separate from the Times.
What, then, has been the conduct of that journal,
in reference to the great question of free trade and
the abolition of the Corn-laws, on which the

prosperity of Nottingham depends ? It knows

that the Corn-laws are an iniquitous evil. For
years it took pains to demonstrate that. It
knows that restrictions on trade are the curse of

the country. It once advocated all that is liberal
in commercial legislation. But, of late, the
Times has been regularly pledged to the Tories.
It has been a thorough party journal; and the
bulk of the landed gentlemen, and the bulk of
the monopolists, are necessarily Tories,—
for Tory, monopolist, and bread-taxer, all signify
the same thing. It has accordingly ceased
to say anything against the bread-tax, or
in favour of the principles of free trade. At least
it has not evinced any zeal in advocating a cause
which it knows is most righteous. It has not
been merely an opponent of Corn-law abolition
and free trade—it has been a traitor to that
cause. It professed noble and just principles,
but it has betrayed them. Mr. WALTER cannot
be separated from the Times, and the Times is an
apostate from truth and righteousness, and a
traitor to the cause of the people and of freedom.
To elect Mr. WALTER as the representative of

the Times is to give a triumph to all that is dis-
honest, and ought to be despicable in politics.
We value principle more than we value our craft,
and much as we desire to see the press
honoured, we hope never to see it honoured in
the treacherous and apostate Times.
We do not join an Evening Contemporary in
condemning Mr. WALTER for seeking the support
of the Chartists, but we must seriously condemn
any Chartist who supports Mr. WALTER. No
journal has been more bitter in reviling and
stigmatizing the Chartists than the Times, and
to support Mr. WALTER is to support their bit-
terest enemy. No other journal has so signalized
itself by vehement religious intolerance—no jour-
nal has been so forward in ridiculing political
dissenters and in putting down freedom of reli-
gious discussion.
It is the friend of Church-rates, and the foe of
democracy. It has latterly become the parsons'
journal, and has even lent its pages to advocate
faith in the priests as far superior to knowledge
in guiding the affairs of the world. It upheld
Catholicus, who censured Sir ROBERT PEEL
for supporting education. If Mr. WALTER
is to carry out in Parliament the principles
latterly espoused by the Times he must be the
opponent of the progress of knowledge and the
advocate of Church extension.
The conduct of the Times must endear that
journal and Mr. WALTER to the squires and the
parsons, and to them, we submit, should be con-
signed the duty of bestowing on him ho-
nours and rewards. For Chartists and Dis-
senters to vote for the representative of a Tory
journal, is to strike down all the principles
they hold dear. That Mr. WALTER should en-
deavour to slink into the representation of Not-
tingham under a Chartist cloak may be suitable
to the character of the journal he represents but
he must be a base Chartist who lends a cloak to
Mr. WALTER.

The letter of Sir THOMAS COCHRANE, which
we publish from the Ipswich Express, is as com-
plete an exposure of the means by which many
Tories have been returned to Parliament as could
possibly be desired. Sir THOMAS was offered the
representation for a certain sum, and he paid that
sum before he left London. After he had been
elected a further demand was made oil him
through the instrumentality of Mr. FITZROY
KELLY, who had guaranteed him the seat fora cer-
tain sum, which the Gallant Officer paid. Subse-
quently Mr. KELLY communicated to Sir
THOMAS COCHRANE, that there were 2,0001.
out-standing debts for previous political occur-
rences; and, for the sake of the Conserva-
tives, these must be liquidated. Mr. KELLY
agreed to pay 1,0001., but the Gallant Officer reso-
lutely refused to be plucked any further. He
did, however, afterwards, on a demand being
made for 5001., express his willingness to con-
cede to it, if it would secure the future support
of the Conservatives of Ipswich; but that not
meeting the views of the electors, the Gallant
Officer announced his intention of dissolving his
political connection with Ipswich.
We hope, for the honour of Sir T. COCHRANE,
for the honour of Mr. F. KELLY, and for the

honour of the electors of Ipswich, that this
letter is a forgery. if it be not, it reflects in-
delible disgrace on all the parties concerned. It
may be customary to get into Parliament by
bribery, and one party may bribe as much as the
other; we exonerate neither; but this letter is an
open avowal that seats in Parliament, and of
course the liberties of the country, are bought
and sold by venal electors and corrupt men
of wealth. We do not know how.
the House of Commons, for its own credit sake,
can refuse to make an inquiry into the subject,
and we are sure that the Gallant Officer will not
again take his seat in the House without some
honest Member asking whether he acknowledge
the statements of that letter, or whether it be a

forgery.
It will be noticed that Mr. FITZROY KELLY is
represented by the letter as the negotiator of the
bargain. He it is, too, who represents to the
Gallant Officer that the electors of Ipswich are
not satisfied; and on his statement mainly rests
the proof of their corruption. He is described as
the author of the terrible imputations against
his own constituency. If that letter be true, can
Mr. FITZROY KELLY face the gentlemen of the

House of Commons, and face the public ? If
it be not a forgery, he admits that he sits
in the House by bribery, and as the representa-
tive of electors who have sold their votes. If
that letter be not a forgery, Sir THOMAS Coml.-
RANE is in the same position, and the profession
he belongs to, on which lustre has been shed by

the name he bears, assures us that he never
again will resume his seat in the House of
Commons. It may not be thought advisable
to give the venal electors of Ipswich
another bribe by a new election, but the least
the public will expect is, as probably Ipswich
cannot be immediately disfranchised, that neither
of the nominal representatives of that borough
should again presume to vote, or take any part in
the proceedings of the House of Commons.
But the exposure is peculiarly valuable as
an index to the practices in other bo-
roughs. Walsall, St. Albans, and Canterbury,
have all lately been accused of bribery. Who
will now believe, whatever may be the verdict of
Committees of the House of Commons, that
bribery was not practised h those cases? And
what is the important general deduction? Why
that a great number of Members of the House
of Commons, at least of those who sit for small
boroughs, are returned by similar means. The
11'orwich iirercury, apropos of the .cases we
have just alluded to, refers to the elections foriel
that borough,
and shows that, since 1832,
t
Tories have carried Norwich by bribery. Here,
then, we have, to the disgrace of the country--
equally dishonouring the electors and those whom
they elect—the House of Commons, under the
Reform Act, founded on bribery.
As no persons poorer than 101. householders can
now vote, and as the representatives must be
persons of property, this bribery and corruption
are wholly carried on by what are called
the respectable classes. The poorer classes, who
are suspected and accused of so many crimes,
who are so terribly mistrusted, have nothing to
do with it. The unenfrancliised may safely as-
sert that they could not possibly do worse than
the enfranchised. Indeed it is the opinion of
the Morning Chronicle, heretofore the ad-
vocate for a more restricted and more re-
spectable franchise, that the remedy for the
corruption is to enlarge the constituencies
or purify the respectables by an infusion of
the lower classes. At any rate these circum-
stances
furnish a valid argument against re- '
stricting the franchise to a few, and against
allowing none but wealthy persons to be repre-
sentatives. Nothing worse could possibly result ,

from extending the suffrage, than the corruption
of the present electors and the present repre-
sentatives.

The state of the representation, however, gives
rise to still more serious considerations. The
non-represented are required to obey laws which
they have no share in enacting. When they see
these cases of bribery, what must they think,
what must they say—as the electors act for them
as well as themselves—but that they are sold to
the highest bidder? If they doubt the wisdom
of laws proceeding from such a source—if they
refuse to be thus bought and sold, by refusing to
render that obedience which is the main consi-
deration in the purchase, what honest, what
sensible men would say they are to blame ? How
can pure water flow from a polluted source,
or who can give force to laws which spring
from a bribed constituency and a corrupt House
of Commons ? The bribery avowed at Ipswich,
and asserted in other cases, taints the Ark of the
Constitution. It is no light matter, fbr it im-
peaches all the acts of the House of Commons,
and endangers the supremacy of the law.

While the Clergy of the Protestant Church
rested satisfied with abusing the Catholic faith,
and professing abhorrence of its doctrines, the
teachers of the rival creed, greatly to their praise,
took little notice of their wicked revilings.
Though they hired religious and political en-
thusiasts, or renegade Catholics, to range over
the country, sowing enmity and discord amongst
the religious classes, the Catholic prelates and
priests, as well as the laity in general, looked
upon these firebrands rather with pity than anger;
but the case has become altered since a new
sect sprung up in the English Church, who, while
they still abuse the Catholics, have the effron-
tery to profess openly their indisputable doc-
trines. One Catholic Prelate has discussed the
subject with his usual ability, and we have before
us a pamphlet, written in somewhat the same
strain, by an English Catholic layman, and pub-
lished by RIDGWAY, in the shape of a letter ad-
dressed to the Rev. J. H. NEWMAN, author of
No. 90 in the " Tracts for the Times." The
writer, who displays great skill and close reason-
ing, complains justly of the irruption of PUSEY,
NEWMAN, and Co., into their sabred territory,
while they still abuse it, calling the "water naught,
and the ground barren," and then, by comparing
the tenets of the intruders, with the .decrees f
the Council of Trent, universally received in the
Roman Catholic Church as the authoritative
enunciation .of the orthodox belief and practice,
proves that the Puseyites are in every respect,
except one—charity—as good Catholics as the
Pope of ROME and Dr. MURRAY. " Rely upon
it," says the writer, " there is no use in endea-
vouring to conceal, either from yourself or others,
the undoubted fact, that from the moment when
you admit the doctrines and authority of the
Council of Trent, you are, in belief, as complete
a Roman Catholic as the Archbishop of PARIS,
or Dr. MURRAY himself, and; as far as faith is
concerned, satisfy every term of the definition
with most philosophical and logical nicety." He,
therefore, has just ground fbr this indignant ap-
peal. "We have a right to complain, and we
do complain, that in order to screen yourself in
the adoption of our tenets, from the obloquy
and ruin that your profession of them, as ours,
would undoubtedly entail upon you, you deli-
berately distort and misrepresent our faith and
practice ; that in order to aveyt the impending
storm of Protestant ire from your own devoted
head, you erect a counterfeit image of '
1/6:nan-
ism,' to serve as an ecclesiatical lightning con-
ductor, and thus secure to yourself the midis-

turbed enjoyment of that very orthodoxy, which,
in us, you would gladly see reprobated, and
perhaps punished as heresy and dissent."
He does not, however, confine himself to mere
assertions, but convicts the Puseyite, from his
own words, of distorting some of the tenets of the
Roman Catholic in order to make the real tenets
his own, and adopting others root and branch.

Mr. NEWMAN, for instance, rejects the Bible as
a rule of faith, and stands up manfully fur the
infallibility of General Councils. These are his
words :—" In the sense in which it is commonly
understood at this day, Scripture is not, on Angli-
can principles, the rule of faith." This certainly
is sufficiently Jesuitical, but it is surpassed by
the following :
General Councils may err
case it is promised as a matter of express supernatural
privilege, that they shall not err--a case which is beyond
the scope of this article, or, at any rate, beside its deter-
mination. Such a promise, however, does exist in cases
where General Councils are not only gathered together
according to the commandment and will of Princes, but
in the name of Christ, according to our Lord's promise.
While Councils arc a thing of earth,
their infallibility cf eourte is not guaranteed; when they
are a thing of heaven their deliberations are over-ruled,
and their decrees authoritative. In such cases they are
Catholic Councils.

Why, every Christian sect puts in the same claim,
from the General Assembly of the Church of
Scotland to the wildest sect of fanatics. ' They
all proclaim loudly that whatever they do is done
by Divine authority, and should the Puseyites be
successful in gaining over the great body of the
people of England to their doctrines, we should
speedily be commanded to obey their edicts
issued from Westminster in the name of CHRIST.
As regards " translation," too, Mr. NEWMAN
is a Catholic to the back bone. His expressions
on this head, as on most others, abound with
mysticism, for what purpose he knows best but
as to the fact the following quotation leaves no
doubt :

It seems, however, that you think the 28th article does
not deny " every kind of change," from which I think I
am fairly led to imply that you believe some change ckei
take place in tle sacred elements by the effect of the
words'of Consecration. At p. 55, you say, " The body
and blood of Christ may be really, literally present in the
holy Eucharist, yet not having become present by local
passage, may still literally and really be on God's right
hand." Again, p. 56, Now this is what the Catholic
Church seems to hold concerning our Lord's presence in
the Sacrament, that ke then personally and bodily is with
us in the way an object is which we call present. How he
is so we know not," &c. At p. 58, we have these words :
" Let them but believe and act on the truth, that the con-
secrated bread is Christ's body, as he says."
For the other parts of nominal distinction be-
tween the parties, we must refer our Protestant
readers to the pamphlet itself, in which they
will find, to their sorrow, that there are in the
Established Church a numerous sect of teachers
entertaining doctrines alike subversivt of the re-

formed faith, and civil and religious liberty. The
following quotation from the pamphlet, we trust,
will not be, without its effects on those who

malign others less guilty than themselves :
We can easily disregard the taunts of the infidel, the
sneers of the Deist, or the shallow arguments of the Swei-
nian, when directed against our crtnodox faith ; but tine

may be allowed to feel, and we are called upon emphati-
cally to express a just indignation, when we find those very
men whose theological researches have brought tht m
round, most reluctantly, to a belief nearly identical with our
own, eschewing our spiritual fellowship as if it were con-
taruination,—chargii,g us with idolatry in our faith, blas-
phemy in our prayers, and "impurity " (I) in our rites ;
and degrading us, in the eyes of our fellow-Christians and
countrymen, to the level of the worshippers of Damson and
Jagernaut, he priests of Cybele or Coty tto I

Letters from Constantinople of the 27th of
March state that no fewer than six Cabinet
Councils were held at the foreign Minister's du-
ring the previous week, to deliberate upon
MEHEMET Am's request fbr a modification of the
Finnan. The result was not known, but the
impression was that the Porte would yield as
soon as the will of the Four Powers was known.
When the ambassadors were interrogated res-
pecting the will of their Courts, they answered
that they had no powers, with the exception of
the Austrian Internuncio, who implored the
SULTAN to avert a renewal of the horrors of war,
by making all the concessions required by the
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SAIYRNA.
The Lodovico, which arrived on the 24th, states everything
morning the Swedish frigate
to be quiet on the coast of r►a. The plague was at Jaffa,
but the steam-boat did not communicate. Four English and
two Austrian men-of-war were at Marmorice.
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consort, who is to return home." theihe English corvette Daphne
and the three French vessels in roads hoisted their colours,
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were passing
returtnh eedi4ajaden, saluted
them by hurrahs. The salutes
English barque wim.ediately.
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Of all the •
equipage the mate
totally lost in the Black
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Sea.
himself to a Plank, and only was saved, he having lashedwas
drifted on shore.

SYRIA.
BEYROVT, MARCH B.—The Emirs who were treacherously
de'ivered up to Mehemet Ali on the first insurrection Of the

Mountain, and who have been so impatiently expected here,
arrived a few days ago in an Egyptian corvette. They are
ten in number, namely, the Emirs Faours, Aidar, and, his
nephew Ali, Moharnet Jaheb, Ali, and Abdallah, and the
Sheiks Mahmoud, and his son, and .Nicholas Has<.et. They
had a suite of fifty persons, and were accompanied by a son of
Commodore Napier, in order that he might certify their re-
turn into Syria. On the evening of their entrance into port
couriers were sent off to the Mountain, and at the following
dawn the armed mountaineers came down in crowds to give a
brilliant reception to their chiefs, thus restored to them after
so long and so painful a captivity. The chiefs came out of
quarantine the day before yesterday, and their appearance
threw all classes of the population into ecstacies impossible
to describe. All is quiet on the mountains, although
it was reported, a few days ago, that a sort of en-
gagement had taken place between the Druses and the Ma-
ronites at Moollaka, a village between Saida and Betteddin,
in which several Christians were killed. The Emir Beschir,
seconded by the Pacha, succeeded in arresting these disorders,
and there is every reason to hope that they will not be re-
newed. The plague has made its appearance at so many points
at once, that it may be said to have invaded the whole pro-
vince. At Acre there are from 15 to 20 deaths a day. At
Jaffa it rages with great violence, and it prevails at Saida,
Sour, Damascus, and several villages of the mountains. It has
also declared itself at Geitroun, a village uf the Lebanon. The
Board of Health has sent emisearies to the infected districts,
with orders to establish sanatory cordons where necessary.
After the evacuation of Syria by the army of occupation, there
still remained in the country twelve thousand of the Egyptian
troops, part of which have been incorporated in the Ottoman
regiments, and part sent to Constantinople. The English still
have the semblance of a garrison both at Acre and Beyrout.

The Paris Journals of Thursday have all
reachej us. In France there is the same stagna-
tion of poi;:_ical news which prevails in this coun-
try. The peop2e are tired of the Eastern ques-
tion, want to hear nd more about the fortifica-
tions, and are growing in 4ifferent to the con-
tinuance of armaments whic;:
threaten them
with increased taxation. In the abs','"ce of any
other topic for vituperation the Courrier .53.an-
cais makes the following attack upon Marsiiai
SOULT, for demanding, as President of the Coun-
cil, 20,000 f. a year:—

" Let it be well noted that Marshal Soult receives already
30,000 f, like the other Ministers, and 20,000 f. for frais de
representation, as chief of the army. He has 40,000 f. as
Marshal, and 10,000 f. as Grand Cross of the Legion of Ho-
nour; total 150,000 f. Add to this, that if he was engaged in
the wars of the empire, he was not ruined by them ; and that
if he made a skilful retreat from Spain, he brought back with
him something more than glory. He possesses perhaps all the
virtues of Epaminondas, less his poverty, and his negative dis-
interestedness has procured for him a private fortune which
permits him to do liberal things, in which, however, he is not
in the habit of indulging himself. Marshal Soult is not con-
tented with his lot. The State pays him 150,000 f. a year and
more, and yet he begs a supplement of 20,000 f. We must
pay for his services at the rate of 170,000 f. a year, or do with-
out them. The Committee proposed that the 20,000 f. should
be granted, and the Chamber voted the grant without saying a
word."

The Moniteur states that the receipts of indi-
rect taxes for the quarter just ended scow a de-
crease, as compared with the corresponding quar-
ter for .the year 1840, to the amount of 639,000
francs,
The Univers affirms that M. Thiers and Count Mole are re-
conciled, and are on the most friendly terms.
The Report on the. Budget will be presented in the course of
next week. The Deputies. who seem to be much fatigued by
the length of the session, which has already lasted five months
and a half, have resolved not to discuss any important project
of law before and after the great members have made their arl
rangements to leave Paris in the first fortnight of May.—.
Univers.

The Court of Cassation will deliberate to-day on the affair of
the Arab El-Chorerli, who was put to death by the order of
the military authorities at Algiers, notwithstanding his appeal.
The affair of the National (offense towards the person of the
King), which has already been put off several times on account
of the illness of M. Delaroche, will be brought on again to-
day. It seems that the trial will be again put off for the same
reason.—Le Constitutionnel.

A broil among some soldiers of the garrison of Versailles,
which might have been attended with deplorable consequences,
took plows on Sunday, at seven o'clock in the evening. About
thirty cannoncers were seen running from Le Chesney, pur-
sued by one hundred and twenty Lancers and soldiers of the
10th Regiment of Light Infantry. On reaching the Boule-
vard de la Reine, they stopped and drew their swords to de-
fend themselves, but, being overpowered by numbers, they
fled in every direction. The Commissary of Police and two
town sergeants having interfered, succeeded in separating the
combatants, but not, however, before several had been more
or less seriously wounded. The next day the troops remained
confined to their barracks.

Letters from Carpentras of the 11th instant mention the
that town on the 10th of thirty-six individuals be-
labouring classes, who were implicated in the
-4. of Marseilles. All the brigades of
the neighbourhood went into the
- (Yates, and effected the cap-

arrest

longing to ti.,

anarchical moveme..
Gendarmerie stationed in .
town during the night, closed the
turn of those persons before day.
A Letter from Athens of the 27th of March,
deputation of Candian emigrants had had a confere..
board au English frigate, with the Consuls of the European
Powers. They were asked whether they desired a union with
Greece, the protection ofEngland, or a Sovereign Prince ; they
replied to the questions with negatives, and declared that they
wanted a Republic, and that they would rather die than be go-
verned like the Samians. It was resolved these petitions should
be addressed to the protecting Powers, and the deputa-
tion was concluded by an English escort to the camp of the in-
surgents. Such, says the letter, is the real state of things at
this moment.—Le Commerce.
The Silesian Gazette, under the head of the Ukraine, the
24th ult., announces that it had been definitively determined
that the confiscated lands belo, ging to Prince Adam CzartG-
ryski, Counts Alexander Potocki and Sobousky, and others, si•
tuated in the governments of Podolia and Kiew, should be
transformed into military colonies.
130 URS-..k.PARIS, THURSDAY, APRIL 15.

says that a
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PRESBYTERIANISM.--The Puseyites and all the
believers in apostolical descent, and the unsanctity
of sacraments administered by any other hands
than those of a priest ordained by a Bishop who
has derived grace from the Apostles, assert and
contend that Presbyterianism is no Church at
all. They are at direct variance with Mr. Car-
lyle, who thus speaks of Presbyterianism :
" But in our islands there arose a Puritanism
which even got itself established as a Presby-
terianism and national Church among the Scotch,
which came forth as a real business of the heart,
and has produced in the world very notable
fruits. In some senses one may say it is the
only phasis of Pi otestantism that ever got to the
rank of being a faith, a true-hearted communica-
tion with heaven, and of exhibiting itself in his-
tory as such." We take sides with Mr. Carlyle
so far as to pronounce that the Anglican Church
is, in this sense, no faith, no true-hearted com-
munication with heaven, but rather a " simul-
acre" which has no heart nor truth in it.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS
(From The Sun of Saturday Evening.)
LIVKRPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL 16.—The sales of
Cotton this day comprise 3,000 bales, the demand in the early
part of the week improved, and the Market assumed a steadier
aspect, prices of Surat and American, particularly the better
class of the latter, being inclined to harden. The change so
favonrable in appearance to holders, passed away on Tuesd.y,
and since then, although the China news was considered, on
the whole, auspicious, the demand has again fallen off, and the
Market closed heavily at our last quotations. A good extent of
business has been done by exporters, who have taken 3,2110
bales of American, and 200 Pernams. ' Speculators hare
taken 1,500 bales of American.

LIVEItPOOL SHARE MARKET, APRIL 16.—A moderate
business has been transacted at the Stock Exchange this day—
the following are reported :—Eastern Counties, 9k ; Edinburgh
and Glasgow, 35k • Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 27k ;
Grand Junction, Half-shares, 105,10 Liverpool and Manches-
ter, 200 ; London and Brighton United Company, 47 ; London
and South Western 51. Shares, 44 46 ; North Midland, Half-
shares, 381.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 16.—Prices con-
tinue firm although the business done has been limited.—Man-
cheater and Birmingham, 25 244 and 2.4 • Midland Coun-
ties, 89k; ditto, New, 22} ; orth Midland, 79 ; Eastern
Counties, 9k ; ditto, Debentures, 71, ; Edinburgh and Glasgow,
35 ; London and South Western, 58 ; ditto, Tenths, 2/. 45.,
Manchester and Liverpool Quarter Shares, 47 ; Union Plato
Glass, 10k.

Consols opened this morning at the leaving off quotations
of yesterday ; for the Account, 90a 1/2 ; Money, 9t.li ; Ex-
chequer Bills, 13 15 prem. ; Bank Stock, 172 173 ; India
Stock, 254 256.

In the Foreign Market the prices are nominal to the pre-
sent hour. Spanish Active 23h; Deferred, 121 I; Passive,
55 4 ; Portuguese, 334 i ; Three per Cents., 20/ ; Colom-
bian, 221 23 ; Mexican, 305 5 ; Brazilian, 69 70 ; Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 521; Five per Cents., 98% 994.
r eShares.—GreatLondonand Western, estern,
Brighton, 29
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Blackwall, 534 i. ; Ne w , 141 3,
p
dis. ; Birmingham, 67 69 prem. ; Southampton, 57',, 58 per
share ; Croydon, 131 a per share ; Greenwich, 81 per share.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Birmingham and Gloucester ...... 100
Cheltenham and Great Western. 625...... 321-- to
Great Western
'Ditto New ......... 50 ..... 641
London and Brighton 5O .... 465 to
London and Birmingham ... 90 ...... 159 to 158:1
London and South Western...... 385•••••• 58 .••

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The following has been posted at the North and South Anie.
rican Coffee-house :
" Ship Thomas, for Cape Miercken, forty-six days from
Liverpool, with merchandize, twenty-three steerage passengers,
Alarch 20, 9 A. 31, lat. 42, 35 N., ton. 59 W., passed a steam-
boat standing East by South. Wind light from the North
West, and fine weather. The T. P. C. has sailed this pas-
sage, 5,050 miles."
The above we have taken from the Philadelphia United
States Gazette, March 29. 1841.
It is the general opinion that the above steam-boat was the
President, and her course was towards the Western Islands.
She was steering E. by S.
The British Funds have remained inactive during the
morning, without a feature worth notice : money still continues
at an easy rate in the house, the public and speculators are LOW
waiting for the arrival of the West India mails to learn if the
President has put into any of the Western Islands. The insu-
rance this day asked at Lloyd's on the President, is 60 per
cent.