The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-01 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON. TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1841.

,re against the Bs. duty as a device to enrich ,

the landlords.
But we have now to look at the proposition
as a means solely of raising a revenue. It is
said, Why should not food be taxed as well as
any thing else ? That is the aspect under which
weave next to consider this question.

It is one of the axioms of taxation, laid down
by ADAM SMITH, that "every tax ought to be so
contrived as both to take out and to keep out of
the pockets of the people as little as possible
over and above what it brings into the treasury
of the State." Will the Bs. duty on corn be con-
sistent with that axiom? During the last few
years the average importation has been 900,000
quarters of wheat. Now, let us suppose that
under the new law the annual average importa-
tion is 4,000,000 quarters, or that all kinds of
grain and flour imported will be equivalent to
that amount. On this supposition the revenue
raised for the State by the corn-tax will amount
to 1,600,000/. We believe that the CHAN-
CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER sets the tax down at
that sum. 1,600,000/., therefore, is the whole
sum which will be taken out of the pockets of the
people, for the coffers of the State, by the Bs.
duty.

How much more will go out of their pockets
into the coffers of the landlords? Mr. M'CuL-
Locx estimated in 1832 the whole quantity of
grain consumed in the United Kingdom of all
kinds, including seed corn, at 52,000,000 qrs.
We must add, we think, at least 4,000,000 qrs.
for the increase of population since that period.
In fact, the ratio at which population increased
prior to 1832 would warrant a much larger addi-
tion; but we are contented to take this, because
we believe that since then the condition of the
working classes has been much deteriorated, and
they do not consume now as much as they did in
1832. Adding the 4,000,000 qrs., we shall
have 56,000,000 qrs. of grain as the present con-
sumption of the United Empire.
The quantity of wheat may be assumed to be
about one-third of the other grain, and we shall
then have 18,600,000 qrs. of wheat as the annual
consumption, on the whole of which, in the price,
a duty of Bs. will, in fact, be levied, equal to a sum
of 6,040,0001., which will be taken by the tax
out of the pockets of the people, not to go
into the coffers of the State, but into the coffers
of the owners of rent.

All other species of grain we shall estimate at
37,400,000 quarters, and taking the duty on the
whole at an average of 4s. the quarter, we shall
have an additional sum of 7,480,0001., which, by
the proposed tax on corn, will be taken out of the
pockets of the consumers—not to increase the na-
tional resources, but to swell the rent .rolls of the
landlords.

This, however, is not all. The same principle
applies to everything grown on the land, and
everything the land bears. Such a tax, by
limiting the sources of our supply, raises the
price of timber, of meat, of poultry, of eggs, and
raises the rent of land. It increases the extorting
power of the owners of every foot of land in the
kingdom. We do not pretend to make even an
approximate calculation of the amount of money
thus taken out of the pockets of the people by
this tax, which will never go into the coffers of
the State. If we put it down rudely at double
the two sums we have already stated, we
shall conclude that the tax will take, on this
account, 13,520,0001. sterling more out of the
pockets of the people than it will put into the
public Treasury.
The question, then, will stand thus :
The tax will yield to the Treasury • £1,650,000
To the landowners for wheat
64 for other grain .. 7,480,000
16 for other produce 13,520,000

Total

£27,040,000

---
Balance more taken out of the pockets of the
people than goes into the Treasury ...

Well, then, this proposed tax will violate, to
an enormous extent, the axiom we have quoted.
It is the continuance under another name of pro-
tection. It enriches the landbwner, who makes
the laws, and defrauds the industrious labourers,
who have no voice in making them. It is the
continuance of the injustice we denounce ; nay,
it is worse, it is lending to it a fresh sanction and
giving it new life.

We will now stop.. On a future day we will
show that the proposed fixed duty violates, in an
equal degree, the -other axioms which, according
to ADAM SMITII, ought to regulate taxation.

The object of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S no-confi-
dence motion is to spoil the game of the Whigs.
That has been avowed by the Tory Journals.
In the course of his speech Sir R. PEEL dis-
claimed the idea of wishing to prevent a discus-
sion on the Corn-laws ; but the Morning Post,
which is in the confidence of the party, and
which announced, on Monday morning, the pur-
port of the notice Sir R. PEEL gave on that
evening, distinctly stated that the party intended
to obstruct the proceedings of the Government.
Between Monday and Thursday, however, the
Tories altered their tone and their policy.
,By
the latter day it had been ascertained that Lord
WORSLEY and his friends would not support a
vote of want of confidence, and then Sir R.
PEEL professed that he had no desire to prevent
a discussion on the Corn-laws. He found he
could not attain his object, and, therefore, he
took the earliest opportunity to deny it. The
cunning man was deceived, and so he fenced
and retreated from his position.

But if Sir ROBERT PEEL did not mean to ob-
i struct the Ministers, why did he bring forward
his motion ? We know of only one object he
could possibly have in view. He knew that a
dissolution was decided on—he knew that the
success of his motion would not alter the deci-
sion, but he might hope by arraigning the Mi-
nisters in the House, to damage them with the
public. He spoke on Thursday far less to his
usual band of roarers and cheerers, than to the
country ; and his oration, destitute of clap-traps,
which tell only in the House, was dull and logi-
cal. The only effect expected from the motion,
and from all the slashing oratory which all the
party can bring to bear, is to make out as good a
case as possible for the Tories fn. the coming
election. To use the misapplied language of the
Times of yesterday, the Tories have made
the Parliament a debating society, is which they
may talk to the country, and canvass the elec-
toral body by motions and speeches intended for
the hustings.
The fact is made palpable by Sir R. PEEL and
his friends obstinately refusing to explain the
policy they mean to follow. Of their intention
in that respect they are ashamed. They have
no merit of their own to stand on ; they can only
pretend to be white by painting their opponents
as very black. The Ministers, on the contrary,
have a plan to propound to the country. They
have become converts to the necessity of altering
the Corn-laws ; they are bound to explain the
origin of this change in their views. Their
proposition to alter the law has not
yet been developed. It is stated, and
we believe accurately, that their proposition, as
to the Corn-laws, is combined with a series of
alterations in the tariff. Where can they ex-
plain their views on these subjects but in the
House of Commons ? The Ministers, then, are
bound to submit all their measures to the House
and explain them fully, and the country would be
ill prepared to decide betwixt them and their op-
ponents, were their case not laid completely be-
fore it. The Tories have no plan—nothing to
submit to the public, except a repetition of their
stale charges against the Ministers, and they
merit the reproach of converting Parliament into
a debating-shop.
We are not sorry that the Tories have em-
braced such a course. Never before did the
bulk of the people take such enlightened views
of our national policy as at present. They dis-
criminate nicely between the Whigs and the
Tories; and every debate only makes the cha-
racter of politicians better known. They begin
to comprehend, with great exactness, the work-
ing ofthe Constitution, and every such obstructive

and party fight as that begun by the Tories, makes
it better known to them. Motions and speeches,
like those of Thursday and Friday, improve their
knowledge both of men and things. Every Par..
liamentary battle, though not so intended, gives
a blow to some false pretension, and puts an end
to.the reign of some prejudice, or weakens the
authority of some political pretender. By expos-
ing- themselves the Tories render the public a
more essential service than by picking holes is
the characters of their opponents. To abate the
reverence of the people for public men and beget
a wholesome distrust of their numerous measures,
have long been objects of all political writers.
They•may not avow it, but every attack on a
statesman, and every condemnation ofa law, have
such an effect, and that effect the Tories are in-
creasing by exposing themselves and attacking
their opponents. We clap our hands and encou-
rage the combatants.

The General Assembly goes on bravely with
the work of destruction. On Monday it deposed
Mr. WRIGHT, of BOrdiwick.,, One, of the most
respected and able Clergymen of the Church of
Scotland, for constructive heresy; on Thursday,
at one fell swoop, it deposed the Seven Strath-
bogie Ministers for obeying the law of the land ;
on Friday it deprived Mr. EDwARDs,
,the pre-
sentee to Marnock, of his licence, and declared
him incapable of accepting a call from any other
parish, or of admission into any office as a Mi-
nister of the Church, and report states that in-
tentions were at one, time seriously entertained
of depos.. all that side of the Assembly, con-
taining:!t Je hundred and . twenty-five mem-
bers, Wito voted for the Seven Clergymen
of Strathbogie. We feel no regret for the deci-
sion as regards these reverend gentlemen, be-
cause Dr. CHALMERS and the madmen who sup-
port him will find the law too strong for them.
The seven suspended clergymen wil continue
their sacred. functions, draw the stipends,; and
keep possession of the 'glebes and manses as
usual, and- the Supreme Court will, with a high
hand, vindicate their rights. After the sentence
was pronounced, steps were immediately taken
in the Court. of Session, at the instance of the
Duke of RICHMOND, to set aside the whole pro-
ceedings, and no doubt remains as to the result.
But the case of Mr. WRIGHT, we fear, is beyond
the power of the Civil Court. For certain doc-
trines, which these disturbers of the Church and
the peace of domestic life, have suffered to pass
unnoticed for twenty years; he has been deprived
of his living and expelled the Church as a heretic.
Before sentence was passed, a prayer was put up
for his repentance, but the cruel inquisitors
would not wait even a day .to see the effect of
their prayers, but proceeded at once to inflict the
highest punishment the law' allowed thernio ad-
minister. But such proceeding's can no icenge,r
be winked at by the Legislature, and instead of,
a Bill like that of the Duke of ARGYLL to give
them more power to do mischief; steps must be
token to bridle their wickedness, and prevent
them from degrading the most exemplary minis-
ters of the Gospel, and ruining their families, to
gratify their own malignant passions.

We have received by express the Me3sayer
of Saturday night, with the Paris Morning Pa-
pers of the same date. The only important news
in Friday's Journals reached us in time to
appear in the Afternoon Edition of The Sun of
Saturday evening. The trial of DARMES was
brought to a close, when the unfortunate wretch
was condemned to suffer death as a parricide.

hat this sentence will be carried into effect we
cannot suppose for an instant. A regard for the
future safety of the Kura's person will induce
the Ministry to advise his MAJESTY to commute

the sentence to one of confinement and hard la-

Lour for. life. Had the
_Noble Judges of FIES-
cm and his accomplices pronounced these
wretches • insane, and sent them to a Lunatic
Asylum instead of to the guillotine,- the world
would have been no longer shocked by the de-
plorable spectacle of a KING momentarily in
danger of death, at the hands of his own
subjects. High treason is more effectually
repressed by shaving heads than by cutting them
off—that worst of all remedies for the repression

of crime.
All the Journals have articles upon the con-
tradiction given by M. GUIZOT to the report that
the KING had promised to evacuate Algiers.
The Quotidienne is the only paper that declines
to accept the assertion of the Ministers as a
proof that-such is the fact.
The accounts from European Turkey are very
alarming. It was beginning to be doubted
whether the Porte, without the co-operation of
the Great Powers, could put down the insurrec-
tions in Bulgaria and Candia.
A protest of Prince Lotus NAPOLEON against
the harshness of the measures for his deten:ion
at Ham, appear in the Commerce. We shall
endeavour to find room for it in our columns of
to-morrow.

TRIAL OF DARMES-SENTENCE OF THE COURT
OF PEERS.

On Saturday at seven, v. at., the Court pronounced iti
judgment. Darmes, eondemned to death, is to be conducted
to the place of execution and punished as a parricide, namely,
bare feet, en chemise, and a black veil over his head. He is
then to be guil:otined. It is expected he will be executed on
Monday at five, A. M.
Considee and Duclos were acquitted, but the latter is to be
detained, to be tried for illegal detention of arms.
Darmes appears resigaed to his fate.
_ _ _

THE EAsVERN Qui;:.s.rtoti.—Both the Moniteur Parisien
and the Presse announce that the signature of the final pro-
tocol on the Eastein question is postponed.
NEWS FROM SPAIN.

It appears from our Madrid letters of the 23d that a powerful
opposition is preparing in the Deputies against the new Ministry.
Don Carlos has issued an order of the day, dated Bourgos,
May 16, countersigned by Don Jose Tamariz, releasing
the Carlists from their oaths to him, in order that they may
return to Spain if they think proper, as the French Govern-
ment was about to withdraw all supplies from the refugees now
in France. This decree is expected to be the forerunner of
Don Carlos's liberation.

Negotiations are still going on at Rome to induce Don
Miguel to resign his pretensions to the Portuguese throneon the
condition of receiving an allowance.
The Moniteur announces that the Jemappes, ship of the line,
had sailed fiom L'Orient for Toulon on the 24th ingtant.
he Didon and the Minerva frigates, and the Acheron
man•of-war steamer, sailed on the 28th from Toulen far the
Levant. This concentration of the French navy in those
waters was held to prove the degree of uneasiness suggested by
the distracted state of the Turkish empire. The disturbances
had extended to Roma Lia.
Letters from Vienna of the 21st inst. state that Prince Met-
ternich had, in consequence of the probable dissolution of the
Melbourne Cabinet, resolved not to leave for his estates before
the latter end of the month of June.

Lord Beauvale had also postponed his departure for the same
reasons.

Letters from all parts of the Continent represent the stand.
ing crops as the•finest ever teen.

A correspondent of the Tuulonnais writes from Algiers :
" Amongst the female prisoners who have recently arrived at
Algiers, and have just been exchanged, were three remarkable
fur their personal appearance. One, in particular, was very
pretty, and was attended by a neeress as her servant. This
Arab beauty, attired in a black burnous, on arriving at Algiers,
remained reclining on her mule, being wounded in the thigh
by a ball. She excited the most lively inter° t among the
males, and the most romantic sympathy amongst the females.
A tale has been told of her which the habits of the Arabs ren.
der not improbable. She was, they say, the wife of a Mara-
bout, whose tribe was pillaged and put to fire and sword by our
soldiers on the sth instant. Her husband was mortally
wounded, and her father used the greatest efforts to prevent.
her falling into the hands of the French, but he himself fell Ii
the rencontre. Her foster brother seeing the impossibility of
saving her, and unwilling that she should become a prisoner.
fired at her almost point blank, but by some chance the ball
only hit her in the thigh, and she became the prize of the
conquerors."
A letter from Salzburg, of the 20th of May, in the Augs-
burg Evening Journal, says—" The report which has been
so often repeated, that Don Carlos will obtain passports from
the French Government, aril will shortly leave Bourges to
come to this city, obtains at this time more credit, because
letters from Vienna, coming from an authentic quarter, make
lic"tim of it. This news has excited a great sensation in our
ei'y."— Gazette de France.
The mission which Messrs. Piscatory and Foy ate going to
execute in Greece, appears to be urgent, for they arrived at
Toulon on the 23d, and were to leave it on the 24th or '2sth
"or Cie Piraeus. This mission, says a letter ft ow Toulon, is en-
veloped iu profound mystery; but it is believed to be very im-
portant. If, as the La Presse says, a squadron is sent to these
seas, it is to support, if necessary, she demands of our Envoy
addressed to the. Greek Government. It is certain that
naval division has been fur some days ready to sail under the
command of Rear, Admiral Baron Lasusse, who has lately
beers summoned to Paris, hut is expected here every moment.
The Triton and the Ville de Marseales are ordered to convey
to Africa apart of the sharpshooters of VinceTillfir ll'ho are
expected at-Toulon at the beginning of next month.
PARIS, MAY 29.—. The Univers says that the Ministry has
received the copy of the protocol of London relative to the
affairs of the East.—Le ComgicrO•
TRIESTE; MAY 19.—The steam-boat which arrived to.
day brings us news of Importance.. At Alexandria the Hat 4
Saherif for the regulation was expected, but, as we learn frOM
delayed by t tAN4bies in Bulgaria, which required all the at-
(Cosieferiesta:thintaired:yirtulerettetr4sro:
Iterxhe 6:,ot,he,pse;hd:rngatcofoiut hado fbie9e:
tent ton of !tie Porte; for tiLe sitmerga4on theConsul-General had
Consf•aUtiniv% of the same date so that irapluiflity i9Srfto-4:01
jet the districts of !Nina, p.m&t ,ati Phiiiippgrosi thot- jo
-r-

after sixty villages had been totally destroyed'by the Albanians,-
Captain Zencovich reports that he met in the sea of Alarmora'
with the Tifkish squadron which 'is to blockade the island of
Candia. It consists of a ship of the line under Admiral Tahir
Pacha, a corvette, a steam-boat, and eighteen transports. The
blockade was to commence on the 15th of this month.
BOURSE—PARIS, SATURDAY, .MAY 29.

• first Highest , Lowest taut
Price Price. Prick Price
French 5 per Cents .. 114 40 114 45 14 30 ... 114 40
4 per Cents 99 ... 99 ... 99 .. 99
3 per Cents' 79 y /8 95 ... 19
q^nk or trance ........
Latfitte rank ,oeot. Shares 5145 ...5150 ...5145 ...5145
ts.igian Dank
1841
5 per Cent 5........, lOl% ... 101% ... 10 a 4 1014
New Loan nava I, 1,4 1012;
Dutch 2Y.2 per Cent 5....... 51 ... 13% 3 ... :314
)1...n0th Ac.ive :414 _
Passive
Veapolitan lt 420 104 25 '^4 L 0... .04 Y 5
Itosnar

RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germai,)
Versailles. L.P ll O.. 187 50 ... 170 ...187 51
R. B .« 222 50 ... 325 ... li2 50 ... 325
Orleans ..
Strasburg to Bale 228 75 .. 218 75 ... 225 ... 2:7 L 0

TuE•EARL OF CARDIGAN.—We haVe ;learned that on
a ballot being taken at the United Service Club for the
adthission of this Noble Peer, he-was black-balled by the
number of 57.

PRICE OF WHEAT IN ENGLAND AND BERLIN.—A
curious table has been published by J. and A. J.
Waterlow, Birchin-lane, of the price of,wheat in Eng-
land and at Berlin, -between the years 1791 and 1840,
inclusive, from which it appears that the price of wheat
has varied in England in that period between 38s. and
1405., and in Berlin between 775. and 20s. At the
same time the wages of labour in Sussex have varied
only between 9s. and 13s. 6d., thus the • price of wheat
has varied 31 times,' while the wages of labour have
only varied one half. Who, then, can say that wages de-
pend on the price of wheat ? The most curious part of the
table is the difference of price at the two.places in each
year, which being multiplied by the quantity of corn con-
sumed in England, it is , proved that the greater
priee paid in England than in Berlin on the
whole quantity • consumed between 1791 and 1840
amounts to the sum of 1,158,00d,0001., or 390,000,000/.
more than the national debt. Stiehl a table
is worthy of the study of these Who undertake to regu-
late the national affairs. We would especially recom-
mend it to Messrs. Goulburn,
_Peel, and Co„., who boasted
of late that they had reduced the national debt. Yes,
they did reduce it, by keeping On Corn-laws, after the
approved fashion of saving, by stopping up the spiggot
and letting the national wealth flow out at the bung hole.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE WS.

CITY, MONDAY EVENING.
The Stock market was dull all day, and. prices were
-a- per cent. lower. It is difficult to assign any better
reason for the fall than the mere want of business, and
the absence of many of the chief jobbers. Consols for
immediate transfer brought 89i to 9q, and for time 90i
to the market closing with a dull appearance, Ex-
chequer Bills were 11s. to 13s. premium, and India
Bonds 3s. premium. Bank Stock - was dull at 169,
the New Three and a Half 'per...Ceuts. realized 98-i to
9918, and the Three per Cent44teauced Annuities 89 to
88f,-. Until after the determiation of the debate re-
specting no-confidence in Ministers, the market is not
expected to rally.
. .

the Settlement in the Foreign Market took place to-
day, and, from the extremely' limited character of the
speculations, within the last fortnight, the Account, and
the differences arising from it, were perfectly insignifi-
cant The fluctuation in Spanish Bonds, for instance,
has been only s and, in Portuguese, per cent. To-
day Active Spanish Bonds have been depressed at 231
to and Portuguese New Five per Cents., at 334 to 34.
As regards the latter, it is not to be wondered at that
they should go lower, seeing the deplorable condition of.
financial affairs at Lisbon, where the Government is un-
able to raise the funds to pay even troops or artisans.
French Five per Cent. Rentes were 114, and Dutch Two-
and-it-Half per Cents. 528 to I.
This was pay day in the Share Market ; but here
again the jobbers came off comparatively harmless.
Now the account has been adjusted, parties are in the
market seemingly for a rise. Great Western Railway
Shares were 281 to 30, the New 14 to 134, the Fifths 74-;
the London and Birmingham, Quarter, 184, the New 22 ;
the South Western 168, and the York and North Mid-
land, New, 10 prem. Brighton were 41. Blackwall 58,
and North Midland 33 dis. Colonial Bank Shares were
11 premium.

(From The Sun of Last Night.)
A Lisbon mail has arrived by the Royal Tar steamer, dated
the 24th of May. The intelligence from that quarter is given
in another part of the paper.
The Lapwing packet has also arrived with the West India
mails, the dates from Barbadoes April b, St. Lucia April 6,
Martinique April 6, Dorninca April 7, Guadaloupe April 8,
Antigua April 9, Nevis April 10, St. Kitt's April 10, Tortola
April 12, St. Thomas's April 21, Porto Rico April 22, and Cape
Henry April 27. She brings no intelligence respecting the
President steamer.
LIVERPOOL. COTTON MARKET, Mir 29.—The Cotton
Market has been extremely- dull today, the sales scarcely
amounting to 1,500 bales, to the trade at Friday's rates. Se-
veral vessels have arrived from the United States with heavy
consignments. _ _ _

LIVERPOOL SHARE-MARKET, MAY 29.—T0-day has been
one of the most indifferent kr business at the Stock Exchange
for, several weeks past. One single transaction has only been
done in North Midland Bank Stock.

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 29.—The Share
Market is still without any improvement, and we have but few
quotations. Manchester and Leeds half Shares, 20 ; Alid-
land Counties, 874 ; North Midland Thirds, bi; Alan-
chester and Birmingham, 244 to 2.5. South Lancashire
Banks, W. 3s. 9d. ; Manchester Assurance, 9i.

By the West India Mail we have received Jamaica Papers to
the 21st. of April :
" THE WEATHER.—On Thursday the high winds indicated
a change of weather, and yesterday morning about three o'clock
the town and neighbourhood were visited by a most welcome
shower of some duration, and we have reason to think that the
rain will shortly set in.— Cornwall Chronicle.
Files of Bahama Papers to the 31st ult. state that a message
was sent down by the Governor to the House of Assembly on
:3lst of March, acquainting them of the separation of the Legis-
lative from that of the Executive Council.

Files of Nassau Papers have been received to the 3d inst.,
whirl], however, contain nothing of interest. We are sorry to
announce the loss ofthe English Brigantine London Packet, of
Bermuda, and for many years a regular trader to this port and
Halifax. This vessel was lost some time last month off the Isle
of Pines, Captain and crew saved.

We have received Demerara Papers to the 22d of April :
The agricultural and commercial condition of Jamaica is said to
be deplorable. Famine and Bankruptcy are the phantoms
which haunt the vision of all classes on the Island.

Accounts are in town announcing the occurrence of a de.
structive fire in St. John's, Antigua.
We have received Hobart Town papers to the 16th January.
They contain little news of importance.. The colony was in a
thriving state.
HOBART Towx MARKET, JAN. 14.—The Grain Market is
exceedingly dull, little or nothing has been done during the week,
the price of wheat is nominally es., but we cannot hear of any
recent sales effected.

Wheat, 7s. to Bs. ; Oats, ss. to ss. 6d. ; Barley, English,
ss. to Sc. 6d. ; Hay, 6s. to 7s. per cwt. ; New Hay, 41. lbs.
to Si. 105. per ton.
SYDNEY Ma RIC ETS.—Flour and Bread remain at the same
figure, and the millers do not appear disposed to reduce the
price ; the fruit season appears to be unusually favourable.
Port Phillip Gazettes to the 10th Jan. received. Commer-
cial remarks :—" Port Phillip Bank—All the cash received at
the Treasury, which, with the land purchases, amounts to a
very considerable sum in the course of the year ; it has been
customary to deposit, in the Local Banks (the Australian and
Union), until required for transmission to heal-quarters ; free
indulgence has been extended to the Port Phillip Bank, so
that each receives its proportion, and equally obtains a share
of Government confidence."

Loss of the steamer Clonmel.—She had gone ashore on the
Ninetymile Beach ; all the passengers, about ninety, have been
safely landed.
We has e received the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday's date.
BoultSE oH• AMSTERDAM, MAY 2s.—Our Bourse is as in •
significant as yesterday, and the transactions do not merit atten-
tion. The greatest calm prevails in the National Funds, as
well as the Foreign. The prices are without variation. Ar-
doin's are more offered for sale.

The British Funds continue' inactive at the leaving off
prices of Saturday.
Consols 9O for the Account ; for Money, 90k. No busi-
neis, either in commercial affairs or in the Funds, is expected
will be done until after the debate on Sir Robert Peel's motion
has terminated. Exchequer Bills; 11 13 prem. ; India Stock,
252 254 ; India Bonds 2 4 prem. ; Bank Stock, 168 170.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active a shade better than
they left off on Saturday, 23i 24 ; Deferred, 11 ; Passive,
5% 4; Portuguese 33134 k ; Three per Cents., 20b i; Colom-
bian, 214 224 ; Mexican, 27-4 28i ; Brazilian, 67 68; Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 53i ; Five per ents., 99i 100.
SHARES.—Great Western, 261 A 27i prem. ; New, 12i 13
prem. ; London and Brighton, 4i die. ; Blackwall, 6 51,
dis. ; Birmingham, 65 67 prem. ; Southmpton, 54 55i
per share ; Croydon, 13* 3/4 per share ; Greenwich, 8i per
share.

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
London andßrighton
London and Blackwall
London and Birmingham

Ditto Shares - 5 . 23i to
London and South Western 3Bi 55 ... .. to
North Midland
Ditto New
We have received the Hamburgh Papers of the 28th inst.
by the Mail, which brings the exchanges upon London hall
shilling lower than last post day, 13 5%; Gold, 430 ; Metal,
108 ; Bank Actions, 1,643.
We may soon expect that some of the French L of about
17 or 18 millions sterling, will find its way into miL British
Market. Our capitalists and moneyed interest will no doubt
speculate in it, which will cause money to become scarce again.
Consols are a shade lower thin in the earlier part of th'e
morning, when they were 90% for the Account, and 904' for
Money, at present. may be quoted 90i for Account and stt fiir
Money. Exchequer Bills lower, 13 11 prem. ; Bank Stock,
nothing done ; India Stock the same.

In the Foreign Market only four quotationiSpanish Ac.
tive, 23L ; Portuguese 41% 34 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
tent 3., Five per Cents., 991. •
T'l; Share Market is also in a very inactive state. London
and Brighton 45% ; London and Blackwall, 194 ; London
and Birmingham Quarter Shares, 231 ; South Western, 55 ;
South Midland, New, an.
Consols, Amount, 90 ; Mexican 281 ; Spanish 23/ j.
Markets rather dull.
CLOSING PRICES,
BRITISH FUND:S.
Bank Stock I6,R [lndia Stock
3 per Cent „„„ 894 'Ditto Bonds 3 par
3 vcr Ott Cons 9O Ditto Old Annuities ... —p
3i per Cent Red 974 ;Ditto New Annuities...
New :3i per Cent 99 Ex, Bills, 1,000/....214 12 pin
New 5 per Cent Ditto 500/ ll pm
Long Annnitiestoexptra Ditto Small l3 pm
Jan, /:2 11.16 Bank Stock for Acct —
04 1849.
Jan. 1860, (Consols for Opg 9Ol
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent.... (Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent — !Ditto, New Ditto 33i
Brazilian ...... PruWau, 3 per cent.
Buenos Ayres, 6 per ent • Russian, 5 per cent
Chil,iaul 6 per Ditto, Metallic
Colopbtan, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent • 234
Ditto, 1824.. 22, Ditto, Deferred ...
Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. 25f. 50e.
Greek, 18:45, 5 per cent — Exchange.......... —f. c.
Mexican, 5 per cent 2Bl Frenels, 3 per cent. —c
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1625, " Dutch, 2i per cent. ... 521
Peruvian,l6.2s, 6 per et, Ditto, Et per cent ...100
SHARES
Great Western Railway (65 paid) 95
Ditto New Shares (SO paid 631

Ditto Fifth (4 paid,
London and Brighton (50 paid) .45i
London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)...
London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd)
Ditto Quarter Sharps (ia paid)
Ditto New Shares (2 paid)
Lotplon and South Western
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) 134
North Midland Railway (100 paid)
Ditto New Shares,(4o paid ).. ......... ...
York and North Midland Railway (50 pd) —l)4to New Shares (10. paid) • 20

THE RAILROAD FROM BRUSSELS TO THE
FRENCH FRONTIER.--M. Desmaisieres, Minister of Public
Works, visited one day this week the railroad now in progress
from MOOS to the French frontier. He was accompanied by
the engineers and other persons connected with this office.
This great national undertaking is in SO great a state of f 0...
warduess that the Minister and the persons with him were.
enabled to proceed, almost uninterruptedly, from Bouistr to the
front:,;," Desmaisieres was universally received'#l,lleyer
mark of attention by the clergy and parish authorities; ;,ands
of music, firing of cannon, and other sinvlar. demonstrations,
marked the interst taken by the inhabitants in tareprogress of
tht ir railroad towards completion. It is eontidoutly asserted
by sewral persons who speak advisedly on the subject, that the
antiie line from Brusels to France might 'b complited during
the present year, at a slight inerease.4 expense, which would
be covered by the receipts during the time thereby gained.
THE PRINCEWROYA L.—We understand that
the splendid TAew iron steam ship, Princess Royal, was tried on
Wodaesday last by Messrs. Tod and M‘Gregor, the builders
and engineers ; and, from the time taken' to perform certain
distances, we learn that she has proved, herseltthe fastest sea,
going steamer afloat. The Prinvese Royal, is the property at
the Glasgow and Liverpool Royal Steam Packet Company, and
is especte4 to mike the voyage from dreenock to Liverpool
NVii binM hours.— Glasgow Constitutional,
ASSASSINATION OF 1101tERT BRYAN,,
Este.-It is our melaneWy Ouq this day to put the following'
fact upon 4 ts an extract from a letter, received this
mu-,:oing, thin the neighbourhood of Ferns, in, the county of
have the very sad news to. convey to you that.
Robert butler tie gentleman who purchased the
palace and dcr4.isn7
of this late Bishop of Ferns, has !men moreevening, at five o'clock‘
i?,A the woods which form
7otning
pvt of o.e domain. was aid the time 01,one
inbre is at presevt kepn oc, the sellect.
.iad lately dis,
tcb 0141 es""-. may his death be at,
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