The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4, 1847.

MRS. GORE'S NEW WORK.
Now ready at all the Libraries, In 3 vols.,
TEMPTATION AND ATONEMENT.
By Mrs. GORE.

Authoress of
" Mothers and Daughters," " The Banker's Wife," ice.
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough•street.

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anxiety of the Irish party, on the one hand,:to acquaint
themselves, as early as possible, with the outlines and
details of the scheme of the Member for Lynn ; and
of the equal anxiety of his Lordship, on the other,
that the Irish proprietary should lose no time in can-
vassing over among themselves the merits of his plan,
in order that the discussion of the subject, which will
be this evening entered upon in the House of Com-
mons, might advantageously serve 'to elicit the
deliberate views of those who, by property and local
associations, are most deeply interested in the future
welfare of Ireland. An additional inducement to an
early and close attention being devoted to the ques-
tion of establishing, with promptitude, railways in
Ireland, was, and is, that, supposing the Legis-
lature should be disposed to sanction their im-
mediate formation upon a comprehensive scale,
some of the measures of the Government, which are
identical in their object—viz., the remunerative em-
ployment of the labouring poor—might be altogether
dispensed with, or certainly would hereby be rendered
unnecessary to be carried out to the large extent at
present contemplated. It is gratifying, in the outset,
to know that the Government are by no means hos-
tile to the view of alleviating the severe misery of the
Irish by the development of a well-organised system
of railways; that, on the contrary, Lord J. RUSSELL
has already assured the House of Commons that the
subject has been for some time under the anxious
consideration of his Cabinet ; and that the Premier
took the earliest opportunity of intimating to Lord
G. BENTINCK his readiness to weigh, and, if possible,
to co-operate in favour of any measure of inland
communication by steam, calculated to minister to the
social requirements of Ireland. Herein we have a
satisfactory proof of the wisdom and provident fore-
sight of the Government, and which is not to be the
less favourably regarded, seeing, that on account of
the magnitude of the question, and of their peculiar
responsibility for everything that emanates offi-
cially from them, they have been careful not
to act with undue precipitation. The Go-
vernment are, no doubt, aware that if they take
the initiative in facilitating transit by railroads in
Ireland, it must, to be effectual in dealing with the
dire emergencies of that country, be undertaken upon
a most extended scale. Nothing has contributed to
furnish a more striking proof of the general and
bitter destitution of the Irish, than the painful ano-
maly which was recently exhibited, when the hun-
gered classes violently interfered to obstruct the pro-
gress of public works, undertaken with the sole and
charitable view of enabling their starving fellow-
countrymen to earn a temporary livelihood. Here
we had nature bursting the very bonds of reason•
Such conduct, whatever may have been said, could
not have resulted from the absence of all benevolent
feelings, though it was apparently open to such a
censure ; but it was dictated by the very intensity of
their sufferings, and was indulged in from the rude,
but not altogether unnatural, supposition, that the
authorities of the State would not allow them to
starve in a body, and would therefore be driven to
find employment for all or none. The same
difficulty, we have no doubt, would present
itself to the Government unless (if, they de-
termine upon rendering the public resources available
for the construction of railways) they open those
channels of employment with a width and depth pro-
portionate to the surplus labour of Ireland that will
remain over what may be absorbed by the other
concurrent measures of the Government.

Considered in the abstract, railroads are works of
the most reproductive character ; for we already
know by experience how fruitful are their every
contingency for the advancement of civilisation.
Wherever a railroad has been laid down, it seemed
as if the earth had been struck by a wand, so magi-
cally, as it were, has plenty gladdened the face of
the adjacent lands, where sterility alone had previ-
ously prevailed. In Ireland, in particular, the effects
of such a system would be of the most inspiriting
kind ; for, let us but once furnish the masses of the
able-bodied peasantry with the means of permanently
acquiring fair remunerative wages—and to so desirable
an end railway employment would most essentially
contribute,—and a home market in Ireland would be
speedily constituted for the consumption of the
wholesome and nutritious grains which the hardy
Irish now raise from their native soil, only
to be chiefly exported to other shores, their wretched
poverty denying them the blessing of purchasing for
themselves the envied stores of plenteousness.
Again, the Government are threatened with much
opposition to their commendable endeavours for ex-
tending the Irish Poor-law, arising from the appre-
hensioa that if the able-bodied indigent should be-
come entitled to relief under its provisions, the rental
of the country would be absorbed. Were the diffi-
culties, however, of forming railroads but jlldiciously
grasped, and mastered in a comprehensive spirit, we
believe that much of the apprehension we have alluded
to would be allayed, if not altogether removed from
the minds of the Irish proprietary. We have upon
farmer occasions dwelt upon the cardinal advantages
of a national character derivable from Irish railways
under the influences of public aid and private enter-
prise judiciously combined. To these we shall have
other opportunities of reverting.

Lord GEORGE BENTIECK'S proposition may be
briefly summed up. Twenty-four millions to be
raised; one-third by the shareholders of legally-
constituted companies, the remaining two-thirds to be
advanced by the Government, in a series of loans,
during a period of four years ; and to be repaid in
thirty years, at fixed periods. Other de tails were
enumerated, which we shall consider hereafter. The
scheme enunciated by Lord GEORGE BENTIECK
seemed to be well received V his auditory.

The good effects of the liberal and benevolent con-
tributions for the impoverished and destitute Irish are
becoming already manifest. The system thrt has
been taken as the groundwork of the Government
scheme for supplying the wants and providing for the
exigencies of the sufferers, through the medium of
soup kitchens and relief committees, has produced the
most beneficial change in every locality in which it
has been brought into operation. A letter that
appeared in our columns on Tuesday detailed the
manifest advantages attendant on the working of the
soup kitchens. The writer, Mr. J. REDMOND BARRY,
is well known as a gentleman of great experience and
intelligence ; he has long superintended the fisheries
of the south coast of Ireland, and the district in
which he resides is that where destitution and misery
attained the most fearful height. It is enough to say
that it formed part of the union of Skibbereen, the
harrowing details respecting which have been brought
so prominently before the public. Mr. BARRY'S commu-
nication points out what a vast quantity of good can be
effected, and wretchedness averted, at a trifling outlay,
if the funds are judiciously expended. He speaks
with the enthusiasm of one who has seen the almost
magical amelioration in the condition of the people
when he says, " If I was to name one word which
should convey my opinion of the most prompt, the
most efficient, and the most practicable means of
saving the lives of thousands, that word would be
soup--not food, but soup." In the village where Mr.
BARRY resides 7,000 quarts of soup are distributed
daily. Every description of edible is made available :
poor beef, unfed veal, bean-meal, bruised peas, rice,
oatmeal, commissariat biscuit,—all are turned to good
account, the entire staff employed in the distribu-
tion costing less than two shillings a day, and the
total loss—selling it at such a moderate charge as to
bring it within the reach of the humblest—is but ten
shillings per diem. A wholesome:and nutritious food is
thus placed within the reach of thousands who, a few
short weeks since, were suffering all the horrors of
famine, who were pining away in hopeless misery,
seeing their nearest and dearest friends daily perish-
ing before their eyes, and themselves reduced to such
a state that death had lost its terrors ; whose strength
was so greatly impaired and their energies prostrated,
that they were unable to perform the tasks by which
they could have earned wages sufficient for the sup-
port of themselves and families—all these are restored
to health and strength, their depression removed, and
happiness once more a visitant at their humble dwel-
lings—and all for ten shillings a day ! But let Mr.
BARRY speak for himself. He says—
" The labourers going to the works take a pint in the
morning and a pint on their return. They are no longer
staggering from weakness; their aspect is already im-
proved, and their physical powers amazingly so—the
women and children in the neighbourhood all partici-
pate in the advantage; and any benevolent persons who
wish to give gratuitous relief, purchase tickets, which

have in place of copper become the relief circulating
medium."

Hear this all ye who, without abridging a single
comfort, or depriving yourselves of a single luxury,
could spare many times ten shillings per diem ! who
waste in useless follies more than enough to afford
such comforts and advantages to thousands of your
fellow-creatures ! Consider whether you would not de-
rive more real gratification in promoting such objects
than in the temporary pleasure of useless expendi-
ture. To philanthropists it may be worthy of con-
sideration, whether the system may not be more
generally adopted, whether they are not acquainted
with localities into which it might be introduced with
the most favourable results. How many of the
casual poor, in want of a single meal, might be re-
lievedin such a manner? A ticket, entitling the bearer
to a loaf of bread, or a quart of soup, would be a less
objectionable mode of administering charity than in
money, which might be misapplied or wasted. The
charitable societies that abound in this country may
engraft the system on that already in use. It is de-
serving of a trial, and if it should not be found to
answer their expectations, it would at least have this
advantage, that the cost of the experiment would
be very trifling indeed.

The Levant mail brings Malta papers to the 22d, Con-
stantinople and Smyrna journals to the 16th, and Athens
journals to the 20th. The Porte is justly indignant at
the haughty answer which M. GUIZOT has returned to
its note of remonstrance on the subject of the reception
given by the French Government to the Bey of Trims.
The Ottoman Cabinet has returned a very proper and a
very dignified reply, in which, after alluding to the in-
trigues which for years past France has been carrying
on in Africa, the Turkish Minister calls upon M. GUIZOT
to retract his note, and desist from his attempts to
detach the Bey of Terms from his allegiance, if not out
of a sense of what he owes to a faithful ally,
at least out of respect to the sacredness of international
laws, and reminds the French Government that the mea-
sure it has adopted in declaring a subject independent •f
his sovereign will recoil upon itself whenever an oppor-
tunity may occur to enable a seeming friend, but a
secret enemy, to follow against France the example of
the French Government. From the bold tone of this
note it is conjectured that the Turkish Government
must have received assurances of support from England,
Austria, and Russia.

The SUITAN has issued an order that the streets cf
Constantinople shall be lighted at night. The news of
the annexation of Cracow had produced a❑ intense sen-
sation throughout the Ottoman empire.
There is no news of importance from either Athens
or Malta.

Madrid journals of the 27th ult. have been received.
The Tiempo states that of the two programmes pre.
sented to the QUEEN by Senor CASTRO Y Oaozco, her
MAJESTY bad chosen the combination suggested by
Senor BRAVO MURILLO, and that the new Ministry is
to be composed of the Duke DE Rlves, MM. BRAVO
MURILLO, SEJAS, DONOSO CORTES, and EOCA DE TA-
GORES. Another list which was circulated contained the
names of the Duke DE EITAS, MM. SEIJAS, LAZANO,
TOPETE, J. DE LA CONCHA, and the Duke DE SOTO-
MAYOR ; the last-named personage being entrusted with
the Finances.

It WAS rumoured that in consequence of the appoint.
merit of the Duke DE Rivas to the Ministry, Genera]
PEZUELA had resigned the Captain-Generalship of
Madrid.

Senor GONZALES BRAVO has arrived from Lisbon.

The authorities of Navarre have applied for reinforce-
ments to suppress the disturbances which have broken
out there.

MADRID BOLSA, JAN. 27.—The Three per Cents.
closed at 32i ; the Five per Cents. at 20 15-16 ; Coupons
at 18i.

We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday. They
are filled with reports of the debate on the Address,
which commenced on the day preceding.
M. BILLAULT, who addressed the Chamber during the
course of the debate, was heard with marked attention.
His speech confirmed the rumours that had been circu-
lated of a schism in the Opposition camp on the subject
of the Spanish marriages. Acting upon the Yankee
maxim, "Our country, right or wrong," M. BILLAULT
alluded not at all to the manner in which those mar-
riages were brought about. "He had considered the
question of the marriages, not as a special paint, but as
an affair of which the solution might trouble their rela-
tions with Spain, and when they had seen the solution
such as they had desired they could not find it bad."
He, however,Eu,
censured the verbal conferences at and
considered that France had better remain isolatedthan
submit to the immense sacrifices which were required
for the maintainance of the English alliance. He ad-
vised France to look for alliances on the other side of
the Rhine, not with Me Sovereigns, but with the people for
the protection of the independence of nations and the de-
velopment of liberal institutions. In commenting on his
speech the Journal des Debats says:—
" The little event of the sitting was a speech from 31. Bil-
lault, which is naturally more open to the comments of the
Opposition than ours. M. Billault held a perfectly reason-
able language, and expressed sentiments which were really
patriotic. He could not but give his approbation to the po-
licy adopted by the Government in the affair of the Spanish
marriages, and he declared that he was not one of those who
odf atphpeesaer fpraotmriotthieis
seaerttiicealeeettheaotf M. GBunizoT ap-
provessought to give reason to a foreign Government against his
own. How will these declarations be received by certain
fractions of the Opposition? We shall see."
prepared to form alliances with people against
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approval,
M. LA.ITLT,
aitheirdw would
Ss overeigns. It is not Lord PALMERSTON who is
now the brouillon of Europe. The speech of the sitting,
and
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Princes had no influence over international relations, or, if
any, a detrimental one. The present alliance had not' been
negotiated with Spain, but only with a small party in that
country, and it bad thrown the two others into the arms of
England ; it bad been concluded with Maria Christina whom
the will of the nation had expelled from Spain (the Ministerial
party roared as M.Pages reiterated it), and who, with her
party, had been restored through conspiracies and commo-
tions which the French Government
_had connived at; all
Spain had been thus delivered up to a party, and that party
placed in the hands of a woman, who had been easily guided
from Paris; the formatien of an anti-French party had been
the consequence, and a reaction already threatening; yet,"
added M. pages, amidst the continual clamour of the Centre,
"I am not of those, who, knowing your love of dotation,'
say that you have concluded this marriage for the mere sake
of securing the Infanta 's fortune. No, I do not think so;
and I do not think so, because her thirty millions are derived
from so impure a source that it was alone enough to make
you reject the alliance. The money was extracted from
French pockets. The Minister
fo Foreign Affairs seems to
deny it—well, let him answer this:—Fr
or ten years together
the late King Ferdinand negotiated at the Paris Bourse
436,00,000 francs worth of bonds ; and it was to this sum,
which was not paid, that
Ferdinand and a rich banker were
indebted for their fortunes; it is from this sum that the In-
fanta's 30,000 000 are derived. These are undeniable facts,
and I challenge you to stand up and tell me the con-
trary. Yes, gentlemen, this money is of r iTpure an origin,
that nobody in this House
would avow it—if any of us had
inherited of his father a sum of money due to his creditors,
his first duty would be to return it to them, and thus redeem
his honour. And, now, what lam about to say claims the
utmost attention of the Chambers; you are all aware of the
difficult financial situation in which we are placed, and of
the sufferings of industry and commerce.
.Well, then, it is
at such moment that the Minister for Foreign Affairs, for-
getful of the sacred engagements entered into before the
Chamber, has authorised at the Paris Bourse the negotiating
of the very stock that we had condemned. Yes, sir (turn-
ing to M. Guizot), you have done this, and you have done it
to procure fresh advantages to the Spanish Government at
the expense of our small Rentiers—you have
. thus concluded
the Spanish marriages bargain. I hear cries. of Cchl n
e.
pas !' Stand up any of ye, and tell me such is not the case ,I
I affirm what I advance, and Id. Guizot will not dare deny it. '
The result of the day's proceedings was the postpone-
ment of the vote on the paragraph on the prospect of the
preservation of peace, until after the discussions should
have taken place on the subject of Cracow and of the
Spanish marriages. In the sitting of Tuesday, the dis-
cussion of the paragraph relating to the Spanish mar-
riages was commenced by M. DE LESSEPS, who censured
the Government for the want of candour and good faith
which it had exhibited. The pretensions of England, if
exacting, should have been resisted openly, and not
by cunning and deceit. He was followed by M. DM
LAVERGNE, who defended the Government. M. CRE-
MD= followed, in opposition to the Address, and de-
clared that he looked upon the whole matter as a mere
personal dispute between M. GITIZOT and. Lord PALaeER-
STON, in which both parties were wrong. He did not
consider the Montpensier marriage advantageous for
France. M. CREMIEUX was speaking when the post left.
The corn riots still continue in the departments of the
West, Centre, and the South-west, and fears are enter.
Wiled that the tranquillity of Paris itself may be dis-
turbed. The Reforme, a Republican print, mentions
rumours as to arrests having, for some days past, taken
place at Paris, of a ferment existing in the "faubourgs"
of that capital, and of the Government having already
adopted some formidable military measures, in order to
repress commotion.
It is possible that there may be some foundation for
these rumours of a ferment in the faubourgs, but it is
much more probable that the agents of police have re-
ceived orders to get up an emeute, in order to afford the
wily French Monarch an excuse for arming the fortifi-
cations of Paris—and shutting up its inhabitants in the

trap in which they suffered themselves to be caught
seven years ago.
It is stated that orders have been sent to the com-
manders of the several military divisions to call in all
the soldiers who are absent on the usual six months'
furloughs.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Tuesda♦ at 77f. 90c. ; the Five per Cents., 118 E sc. ;
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,228 f. 75c.; Rouen, 878 f.
75c. ; Havre, 687 f. 50c.; Great Northern, 608 f. 75c ; Avignon,
827 f. 50c.; Vierzen, 567 f. 50c. ; Bourdeaax, 537 f. 50c.;
Boulogne, 410 f. ; Basle,' 202 f. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg,
468 f. 75c.; Tours and Nantes, 467 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons,
488 f. 75c. ; Lyonvand Avignon, 480 f. ; Cette, 448 f. 75c.;
Belgian Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 54; Spanish Three per
Cents., 34k.
MaasslLLEs, JAN. 28.-Marseilles and Avignon, 835 f.;
Northern, 613 f. 75c.; Paris and Lyons, 495 E

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEBRUARY 3.
Boulogne and Amiens, 14 —Dutch Rhenish, 4q—Luxembourg,
2—Northern of France, 12—Rouen and llavrc, 26.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 4,500
bales, including 2,500 American on speculation. There were
4,000 bales American sold at 614 d. to 73,4 d.; 200 Surat at
414 d. to 43,4 d. ; and 200 Egyptian at 7d. to 7%d. per lb.
This is a decline of IA d. per lb. on American, and other
kinds were fiat. Shares were rather firmer.
The Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Shares are in de-
mand, from a rumour that the Manchester and Leeds Com-
pany are about to take the line on lease.
There are not any late arrivals announced in the City
this morning from the colonies. The accounts by the
Overland Mail from the East Indies, brought by Mr. Wag-
horn's route rid Trieste, are considered as very satisfactory.
Trade, we are assured, has improved in most departments
as respects British manufactured goods.
A recent paper received from New York thus comments
upv the state of ship-building in that port in the year
184 :

" The spirit of enterprise which has always marked the
character of the American merchants, and which has done so
much towards the welfare and prosperity of the country, we
are gratified to perceive is still in the ascendant, notwith •
standing the innumerable restrictions which operate against
commerce, growing out of national dissensions, and which
seem to have affected but little that indomitable spirit of
energy and perseverance so peculiar to the nature of our
people generally.
" This most important branch of trade, in which the New
York ship-builders are so justly celebrated, not only for the
fleet and beautifully-modelled vessels they have sent out to
every habitable portion of the world, but also for the largest,
the most durable, and withal the most convenient ships that
float upon the bosoms of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, is
yet, we are happy to state, keeping pace with the rapid and
onward march of this age of enterprise and improvements.
In our annual report of the amount of tonnage built at this
port during the past year, we find that no less than 37,945
tons have been completed, and are now in course of com-
pletion.
_ _

" Twenty-five thousand nine hundred and forty of that
amount is now engaged in its legitimate element, the re-
mainder is yet on the stocks, and will be completed in the
course of one month.

" In addition to the above list of the vessels launched and
on the stocks in the various yards within the precincts of
our city, we may mention that the keels of six splendid
steam-ships will be laid in the coming month. Means.
Westervelt and M'Kay will, next week, put upon the
ways the keel of a steamer of 1,750 tons, the second in
the line of Government mail-ships between this port,
Bremen, and Havre, under the superintendence of
Mr. Mills. The Washington, which is the first
in this line, is nearly ready to be launched. Mr.W. H. Webb
has completed negotiations with Mr. C. H. Marshall, for the
four steam-ships of 1,400 tons each, each intended for the
New Orleans and New York line. The keel of the Pioneer
will be laid immediately. Mr. W. 11. Brown will commence
without delay the second in the line of Charleston steamers
for Messrs. Spofford, Tileston, and Co. She is to run in con-
junction with the famous Southerner, but will be 200 tons
larger.

"Our scientific and enterprising builders continue to re-
ceive the encouragement their taste and skill so deservedly
merit."

The Stock markets are pretty firm this morning. The
purchases of the Government Brokers on account of the
Sinking Fund and for the Savings'-banks, have given
strength to the operations of the speculators for a rise. For
the nextsettlement Consols have fluctuated but from 91 to
911/x, while for money the value has just been increased from
90% to 91M. The Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities
have improved to 91%, and the New Three-and-a Quarter
per Cents. to 931,x. India Stock opened at 249, and has rallied
to 251. Bank Stock is at 203%. In Exchequer-bills the
transactions have been very few, and at 4s. to 6s. premium.
There is little to notice in the transactions in the Foreign
Funds this morning. The quotations of the arazilian are
85 ; of Mexican, 22%; of the Old Portuguese, 83 ; of the
Three per Cents. for Account, 341, ; of Venezuela Two per
Cents., 38%; of the Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents.,
941 ; of the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 58; and of
the Four per Cents. Certificates, 92 to 92%.
Many inquiries have been made to us relative to the
causes of the long delay that has, occurred in winding up the
affairs of the Enniskillen and Sligo projected Railway. A
very small first dividend has as yet only been declared, not-
withstanding the sum paid upon each share was 21. 12s. 6d.
Surely the Noble Chairman of this projected line ought to
look to the matter, and see a speedy return of the balances
in hand, fair expenses being allowed to the holders of the
scrip. In the Share market things look rather better this
morning.
BRITISH FUNDS.

ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock .. .. .. .. .. .. • • 203% 203%
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. .. 91% 91 91% 91
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .. 91% 90% 91% 91
Three per Cent. Annuities, 1726 .. .. 89% 89%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anus. 93% 9270 934 93%
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 9 9-16 9%
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 .. —9%
Ditto, 30 years. Jan. 5, 1860 .. .. 9 5-16
India Stock .. .. . •. .. i.. .. 249 251 251
Consols for Account .. •• .. .. 915 91 91% 915(,
Exchequer Bills. 1301. 114 cl.
1,0001... •• •• •• 46 pm. 6
5001. • • • • •• • • 6 pm. 6
Ditto, Small .... 4 7 pm. 7

CLOSING
PRICES.
84%

ONE
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 85
Mexican Bonds, 1846, b per Cent ..
Ditto, for the Account .. 22%
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent. ..
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 83
Ditto, 4 per Cent .. .
Ditto, for the Account .. 34%
Russian Bonds .. • • ..
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto, Three per Cent ..
Ditto, for the Account —
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent •
38%
Dividend); on the above payable in Leaden.
Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent .. 94%
Dutch Two-and-a-Halt per Cent .. 58
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 9214 92
PRICES OF BUSINESS
CLOSING
RAILWAY SLIARES. PAID. DONE ATPRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.
Aberdeen.. •. .• .. 25 .... 22% 23% .... 23%
Birmingham and Gloucester.. .. 100 .. 126 126
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 5 .... 13% It •..• • • 13%
Birming., Wolver., and Dudley.. 425..... p• • . ..... 51,4
Boston, Stamford, & Birmingham 225. % p p
Bristol and Exeter • . • . .. 75 .........•
Ditto, New .. .. 10 .... 12% •• ..
Bristol and Gloucester .. 32 .... 51 .
Buckinghamshire 84s. % p• • • • ....
Cornwall .. .. 5 .... I
Ditto, Half Shares ..
Ditto, New .. . .. 20 .. • • ••• • •
Ditto, York Extension .. .. 4 .... ..........
Eastern Counties .. 20 .... 21% %•.•• • • ..
East Lancashire .. 14 .. • • ......
Ditto ditto New Scrip .. .. 1% .... .........
East Lincolnshire .. 4 .... 6%•......,
Ely and Huntingdon .. • . 12% .... 14
Great Northern (London. & York,
Regd.) .. • • .. .... %
Great North of England ..100 ....237 ..........
Ditto, New .. .. • • • • 5 .... 59x ..... .
Great Western •85 .
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 50 .... ......
Ditto, Quarter Sharesl2% .... 191.4 %. . ...
• .• .•
Ditto, Fifths .. • • .. 20 .... 29% ..........
Ditto, New .. .. • . •• •••• 9.....
Lancaster and Carlisle .• 50 .............
Ditto New .. •• •• 5..• . 8% •••••••• • • 8%
Leeds and Bradford .. • • .. 35 .... 8114 %
Leicester and Bedford . • .. 16s. dis.
Leeds, Dewsbury, & Manchester 27%
......., _
Ditto, Branch Half Shares • • 5 .. •• 10 •• .. 10
Leeds and Thirsk . • .. • • .• 22%.... 19% .......• • . 19%
Ditto, Preference 6 per Cent. .. 3%....
Liverp., Manch., & Newc. Junct. —2%
..........
London, Brighton, and S Coast • 50 .. . 55%• 55%
London ant North-Western . "100 ....192 190.. 191
Ditto, Quarters ••• • •• • • 2 •• • •
Ditto ditto, New Shares • • .. 2 ••• • ••••• • . • • 141
Ditto, 40/. Shares M. &B. .• 40 ..
London and South-Western —4l/. 6s. 10d.. • 611% ... • ...... 64%
Ditto, Tenths .• •• • • ••5••••8%% • • • • • • • • 5%
Lynn and Ely .. .. 20 .... 22 .
Lynn and Derehana .. • • 15 .... 16% 17 16%
Manchester and Leeds 82 ... 109 . 109
Ditto, Fifths• .. 5 .... 10%%.......•
10%
Ditto Extension . 428. .. • • 1% P ...... 11,4 p
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. •••• P• ••
• • • • • • 3/4 P
Manchester and Southampton 2 .... 1% •• • • ......
Midland ..
..100 • 125 123.... • • 124
Ditto, New
Ditto, New •., 30 35% ..... 35
Ditto, Half ;hare;
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby •100 .... 99 •• . ..... 99
Newcastle and Berwick .. ••20.. • • 32% . .
Northern Counties Union 2% .• 1 • . North British .. .• •.•.25 .. • . 34% ... 34%
• . 16
Ditto, Thirds .. •••• 1 • • •
North Stafordslaire .. • • ••5••.•8U• • • • • • • • • • 8
North Western .. .• 3 ...... •• • • 3
Oxford,Worcest.,& Wolverlunptn. 17% ...• ••• • •• 11%
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 5•• • • ••••• • • • • • 3%
Royston and Ilitchin .•.•.. 1% .... 2A• .. • • Scottish Central .. 15 • • •41%
Scottish Midland .. .. ••• 17% .... 20% .. • 201,4
Shrewsbury and Birmingham ~ 3 .... 4.. . • ...•
Ditto, Class B 1 4 1% •
South Devon ..
.. 40 .... 33 ..... • •
South Eastern and Dove▪ r
33% .. .. ••.• . • • • 37
South Wales .. .•
10 .... • •
South Yorkshire, Donca▪
ster, and
2
Waterford and Kilkenny .. 11 .... 6 •• • • 851
YWest Riding Union
255... • • 1%14 p.... • • IN P
ork and Newcastle
.. ..
Ditto, New.. 5 ,
Ditto, Preference .. . • .. 2 .... 7% •• .. •• • •
York and North Midland .. .. 50 .... •• •• • •• •
Ditto, Half Shares .. •25 .... 45% •••• • • • • Ditto, Selby ••..•• • . 50 .... 90
Ditto. Preference .. . • .. 2 .... 12IA •• ••••• • • • Do. E, and W. Riding Exten... 6 .• .. 17 • • ...... • •
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens .• 18 •••••• • • •
Namur and Liege .. .. • • 8 2% .... ••• • • •
Northern of France .. .. 8 12 ••••• • • • • Paris and Lyons .. 8 .... 7% IA .••• • • • •
Paris and Rouen .. • • .. 20 .. •• • •
Rouen and Havre . 20 26% •••• • • • •
Tours and Nantes .. .• 5 .... 3% •
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Union of London .. 10 •..• 12%. ••••• • • • •
MINES.
Real del Monte, • Unregistered —..••3%• • • • • •
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BANK OF ENGLAND-(THIS DAY).
CITY, THREE O'CLOCK.

The Court of Directors of the Bank of England have
just adjourned, without having ordered any increase in
the rate of discount, as was fully expected in most
quarters.

FUNERAL OF MR. W. CLOWES.—(TRIS
The remains of Mr: William Clowes, Parliamentary printer,
of Stamford-street, Blackfriars-road, were removed from the
deceased's residence, in Wimpole-street, for interment in the
Norwood Cemetery. On arriving at Norwood, the workmen
belonging to the establishment had assembled, where they
jciri9o thc, funeral p:•r,cer.elon to 0:: tl,-. ,•(,,t.
sion the establishment of Messrs. Clowes and Scns was closed,
to enable the workmen to follow to the grave one of the
most respected masters by whom working men could be
employed.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY)
LONDON, FY). 4.—Wind N. W., moderate breeze and hazy.
DEAL, FEB. 3.—Wind S. E. to E.S.E., fresh, from N.N. E.,
moderate.—Arrd. Hull, Boston.
PLYMOUTH, Fan. 3.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrd. Catherine
Boland, Porter, Cuba. Sld. Spy, Santander; Wilton, Rio
Grande; Salacia, Havannah.
LivEnrooL, FEB. 3.—Wind N.E., light. —Arrd. Joshua
Waddington, Wakeham, Calcutta; England, Everard,
Quebec; Marquis of Normanby, M`Fillan, ditto. Sid.
Poblano, Havannah; Pancho, Ondaza, ditto; Albert, Yir
ginia ; Caroline, Philadelphia; New York, Cropper, New
York; Ellen, Stafford, ditto.
WHITEHAVEN, FEB. 2.—Sld. Argestiss, Philadelphia;
Barrow, Andrews, St. Andrew's, New Brunswick.
FALMOUT ft, FEB. 3.—Wind N.E., strong.—A rrd. Forrester,
Steeles, Valparaiso for Hull.
HULL, FEB. 3.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Rolla, New York ;
Watson, New York.

CLYDE, FEB. E.—Arrd. Nautilus, Anderson, St.
John's, New Brunswick. Sld. Laurel, Demerara; Wanderer,
Trinidad ; Pentucket, New York ; Roberts, New York ;
Euceles, Bombay, St. John's; Dick, New Orleans; Lady of
the Lake, New Orleans; Avon and Triumph, New York;
Romulus, Charleston ; Agamemnon, Mobile.
DUBLIN, FEB. 2.—Wind E.N.E. Arrd. Swift, Prince
Edward's Island. Sld. Charlotte and Favourite, Savannah.
KINGSTOWN.—Arrd. Catherine Jamieson, Batavia.
GUERNSEY, JAN. 30.—Arrd. St. George,- Havannab.
WATERFORD, FEB. 2.—Wind N. to N.N.E.—Arrd. Carron,
Thompson, Demerara.

Coxix, FEn. I.—Wind Sld. Isabel, Antigua;
Rolla, Newfoundland.

YOUGWAL, JAN. 30.—Sid. Rebecca, New York.
LIMERICK, FEB. 2.—Wind N.—Arrd. Clyde, Pearson, Bos
ton. Ski. Shamrock, Barbadoes.

BELFAST, FEB. 2.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Lady Gordon, Hud-
son, St. John's; Chusan, New Orleans, with part of cargo
thrown overboard. Sld. Jane, Hughes, New Orleans. The
Mary Jane, of Penzance, from Plymouth to this port, out nine
weeks, with rudder damaged and short of water, was passed
21st ult. in lat. 56 N. lon. 10 W. The crew of the Theodore,
Fielding, were picked up 18th December, about 1,200 miles
east of Cape Hatteras, by the Chusan, arrived here. A brig,
waterlogged and abandoned, was seen in lat. 57 N. lon. 9 W.
MILFORD, FEB. I.—All the materials and stores of the
Eden have been saved. The keel of a small vessel has been
picked up in St. Bride's Bay.
LIMERICK, FEB. I.—The Eclair, Lloyd, which put into
Kilrush with damage, arrived here 30th ult., leaky.
LONDON, Firm 4.—The Magnet, steamer, from Harlin-
gen to London, got aground off the former port, and re-
mains; a revenue cutter had been dispatched to lighten
her.

LLANPAIRINGHORNWY (ANGIMISEA), FEB. 3.—A board,
apparently new, 8 feet long by nine inches wide, rounded
at the ends, with " Margaretta" cut into it, and painted
over, was picked up yesterday near Camel's Point.
lIULL, FEB. 3.—The lodine, from Prince Edward's Is-
land, caught fire last night in the dock, and has received
considerable damage in the cabin and after part of vessel.
Dispatches have been received at Lloyd's from the Ad-
miralty, announcing assistance rendered by her Majesty's
steam sloop Geyser to the schooner Exile of Windsor, N.S.
on shore on Long Island Sound 24th ult, and inclosing
copies of reports from her Majesty's steam vessels Acheren
and Dasher, relating to the effects of the gales 24th and'2sth
ult. to the hipping in the ports of Galway and Westport.
The brig Leo, with Indian corn on board, on general account,
and several other vessels had gone on shore, but assistance
had been rendered.

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