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London, England, 1847-12-18 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY. DECEMBER 18, 1847.

As we anticipated from the very commencement of
the movement for the abolition of Jewish dis
abilities, an important majority of the House of
Commons has decided in favour of that act of tolera-
tion. On Monday evening the Bill for the removal
of the disqualifications affecting Israelites will be
formally introduced for a first reading, and on Mon-
day, the 7th of February, for a second reading•
There can no longer be any doubt whatever as to
the triumph of the principles advocated with so
mug 41 eloquence and forcefulness by oar leading
stet esmen. What has been already accomplished
for the believers in every other variety of re-
ig,ious dogma will be speedily effected for the
ebrew people—for that memorable race from
w'aose prophets have been received the first of the
spiritual revelations of Christianity, the prophetic
announcements of the Redemption, the Command-
ments of Mosss, and the covenants of AIMALIAII.
Before the session of 1848 has been very far ad-
vanced, one of the most distinguished Jews in the
United Kingdom will have been enabled to enter Par.
'lament, and to participate with his Christian fellaw-
citizens in the deliberative duties of legislation.
Sufficient emphasis has scarcely been laid, to our
thinking, upon that argument which contrasts the
lenity displayed by the Constitution towards those
who, while sheltered by the aegis of Christianity, have
the hardihood to deny the divinity of CHRIST, and
even towards such as aver their disbelief in the ex

istence of a SUPREME BEING, with the ignominious
harshness evinced towards the descendants of that
ancient race who worshipped the GOD of Christianity
at a distance of many remote ages, before ti.e epoch,
indeed, when, according to the melodious inspirations
of the Psalmist,—ln exitu Israel de Egypto, domes
Jacob de populo burly°. Those who set limits to
the progress of religs tolerance, should ask them-
selves whether it is reasonable, whether it is just,
whether it is consistent to advocate the exclusion
of JeWs from Parliamer f—the exclusion of mon
who adore the same ..osiers- as ourselves, whose
ancestors afforded us the words of Revelation, and
whose religious error arises from the accidents of
birth aetd the bias of education—and at the same
time to connive at the admission of men whose creed
i 8 infidelity, and whose morality is not sustained by
any sense of moral obligation whatsoever. Nor is
this all. The inconsistency of tie opponents of the
proposed measure is yet more flagrant and egregious.
While endeavouring to keep the Jews in subjection,
theys-unchotincineorinelpyreheptusrmibitiethe entrance of Deists and
.rons actually exist) of
Atheists themselves, but
for the admission of such indivwyiodeuvlaeln afford an opening
debar
seblatitudinarian
and indifferentists. They
LIONLL DE ROTHSCHILD from taking h.s r the. Baron
likeeatamong
the national representatives,
,"anclyet they
Saul, he
believes in " MOSES and the Prophets
would grant every facility for the appearance
the floor of the House of Commons of one whose ufaPiot'l')
is, according to the inimitable definition of SuEtiabAN
like the blank leaf between the Old and the New Tea'
tament. The line of distinction necessitates such
extraordinary inconsistency, injustice, and irrationa-
lity, as would reflect but little honour upon either our
Legislature or our Constitution.
Those who would obstruct the passage of the Bill
to be introduced by Lord JOHN ItUsSELL, because of
its supposed tendency to unchristianize the empire,
should not merely reflect with Mr. GLADSTONE, that a
minority of forty thousand cannot by possibility
effect a change in the opinions of a majority of nearly
thirty millions, hut they should also be inspired with
such an implicit confidence in the indestructible

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cliVracter of the cheiqil/40, telly", as INLinsitktehe
`Re of ARUNDEL and SURREY, by laughinytolcakn
this 'volous a ext • agant objections
k o unit a his ' ometit,.liftbkd for
s%Aprftg a ay. b_ al-erng of legisiationstb
invidious enactments which still interfere with the
religious views of so many portions of the commu-
nity. We would not only see th 3 erasure of the ob-
jectionable phrase "on the faith of a Christian," we
would not only see the accursed penal laws obliterated
from the statute-book with one bold dash of the p3n,
but we would see the Oath of Supremacy and the
Oath of Abjuration at once and altogether abolished.
What, we ask, is requisite beyond the simple
Oath of Allegiance ?—that oath which ensures the
loyalty and avows the patriotism of whoever
advances beyond the bar of Parliament. Two forcible
arguments against the retention of the Oath of Ab-
juration are the extinction of the STUART race, and
the necessity of granting the privileges of legislation
to the Israelites. That a powerful plea may be
entered against the Oath of Supremacy is shown by
the case of Lord CLANCARTY. A more staunch and
devoted Protestant than the Noble Earl does not
exist within the boundaries of the United Kingdom;
and Lord CLANCARTY has been debarred from taking
his seat in the Upper House as one of the many
distinguished Peers of the realm, because he would
not pronounce the Oath of Supremacy—his conscience
revolting from the falsity of that preposterous for-
mula which requires every member of the Church of
England, on taking his seat in either House of Le-
gislature, to swear upon the Holy Book that " no
foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate,
hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction,' power,
supremacy, pre-eminence, or authority, ecclesiastical
or spiritual, within this realm," when it is notorious
that the Sovereign PONTIFF does actually exercise (and
is permitted by the law of this land to exercise)
jurisdiction, power, supremacy, pre-eminence, and
authority, both ecclesiastical and spiritual, over three
millions of EnOishmen and six millions of the people
of Ireland ! This falsity of meaning has resulted
from the Charitable Bequests Act of 1844, and either
the Charitable Bequests Act should be •abrogated or
the Oath of Supremacy should be abolished. The
question is simply this—shall we advance or retro-
grade ? If we would consummate the many past
successes of civil and religious liberty we should at
once erase the Oaths of Supremacy and Abjuration,
and allow the simple Oath of Allegiance to remain as
the palladium of the Constitution.

A remarkable unanimity prevailed in the House
of Lords during the discussion On the Crime and
Outrage (Ireland) Bill on Thursday, when it passed
through Committee without amendments, -and last
night, when it was read the third time and passed.
There was not a single voice raised in opposition to
the measure, although several Noble Lords regretted
that it was not of a more stringent character. We
believe that the value of the measure will be greatly
increased by its very moderation, and that under the
firm administration of his Excellency the Earl of
CLARENDON, it will be found far more efficacious than
any of its predecessors. The innocent will not be
punished with the guilty, but they will be
encouraged to resist the intimidation that has
heretofore been exercised, and to come forward
in support of the lew. A direct inducement is held
out to them to do so, beeaute any degree of apathy
or connivance with the criminals on the part of any
considerable portion of a distriet, must have the effect
of subjecting all the rate-payers therein to a very
heavy charge, which would be; avoided if a sound and
healthy spirit was manifested by the people. There
was great truth in the observation of the _Noble Earl
the Secretary of State for the Colonies, "that the
moral effect of a measure of this nature depended, in
no slight degree, upon the manner in which it was
adopted by the Legislature, and that the moral effect
of a Bill passed without delay, and with the almost
unanimous assent of both Houses of Parliament, was
likely to be much greater than that of a
measure of greater severity, which might only
be adopted after a severe . and protracted
struggle." That moral effect v ill be excited by the
triumphant success of the present measure. Fourteen
Members could alone be found in the House of Com-
mons to divide against the third reading, and we
believe that, at any stage of its progress, the largest
minority only amounted to twenty-three, while many
%ciAtelritlhther'sTrOn-iesE' nanneranylthnmg
approach-
ing to a departure .frorn 'the ordinary law, voted in
favour of the Bill ; in fact, the absolute and pressing
necessity for some enactments that would afford
security to life and' property in the disturbed
districts, was admitted on every side, and the chief
arguments urged by the Hon. Member for Limerick,
the leader of the Opposition, was not so much against
the measure itself, as that it was not accompanied by
remedial measures—that the grievances and evils
which led to so melancholy a state of affairs were not
removed at the same time that additional facilities
were given for the punishment of those by whom the
law should be violated. In the House of Lords, as
we have already stated, the measure has passed una-
nimously, and it was directly intimated by the Lord
President of the Council that if the present measure
(lid not prove sufficiently stringent to restore the
peace of the country, there would be no hesitation on
the part of the Ministry in demanding such additional
powers as might be required, powers which it is ma-
nifest, from the feeling exhibited in both branches of
the Legislature, would be most readily conceded,
provided they do not too greatly exceed the consti-
tutional limits, or introduce the abomination of the
passport system, the curlew sy stem, or the court-
inertial system.

Perhaps the most interesting- speech during the
entire discussion in either House was that of Lord
BEAUMONT on Thursday evening. A most painful
sensation had been created by the speech of Lord
FARNHAM, in reference to the denunciations from the
altar of which some few of the Roman Catholic
clergymen have been accused. Messrs. tiUGUES and
M'DERMOTT, whose cases have 'excited much
attention, were more particularly alluded to. An
autograph statement by the late unfortunate Major
MAHON, respecting a difference ,which had taken
place between the last named pe::son and himself, and
also a correspondence in referetece thereto, was read
to the House, which clearly prayed at least that very
unwarrantable language had be en used by the Rev.
Gentleman a very short time previously to the mur-
der. Mr. M‘DEasioTT has derried in the strongest
terms that Major MAHON had_ been denounced from
any altar, not only on the Sunday, but at any
period whatsoever. He says, ‘4 I can, under the same
sacred pledge, declare that tt single sentence was
never spoken from the altar -which by misconstruc-
tion or otherwise caul,' tend: to stimulate the pea-
santry to the atrocious reurdar that has been perpe-
trated." Nothing can be cl e: irer or more explicit
than this denial, and it is ou.:ly to be regretted that
Mr. MiDEfamorT did not rest rict his letter thereto,
but should therein again have attacked the memory
of the victim of assassination b y speaking of the &flu-
-mows and inhuman cruelties ugh ich were wantonly and
unnecessarily perpetrated." "I,Totwithstanding, how-
ever, the prejudices that are pecessarily excited by
this lamentable exhibition of • bad taste, and the grave
character of the charge, we . should award to Mr.
M'DERMOTT the justice to' which every man is
entitled, and not condemn bum, in the face of his
distinct and positive denial, !until these accusations
have been fully substantiated.. Now, although, even
if the charge is well founded, a, nd that Mr. M'DER-
MOTT actually made use of highly reprehensible
language from the altar, there i night not be sufficient
grounds to subject him to pros() cution as an accessory
before the fact, there is .a tribunal to which
he, as a Roman Catholic . rgyman, is amen-
able—the Bishops of his Chur ch. Lord BeaumoNT,
as a Roman Catholic Peer, pointed out the stain that
might rest on the entire body if such acts of even
individual priests were sauctit a ted, and added " that
T
wan order might be made by wl- ac 11l any priest hereafter
dimreacntlyfrom, the altar, or other-
individual before his indirectly to any
con
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worthy of censure?'reA ation, should be
worthy of notice; them Can
no. 'T-119o:51 of any person
Igg"tion is well
;possible reason, no
valid excuse, for bringing the ntl
before the people, more partieu lurhy when the person
so spoken of is not a member c the congregation, or
under the spiritual guidance of. the clergyman. The
great power that justly belongs to ti 'le pastor has been
sometimes abused, and aldr esse3 'have been made,

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LON DON,

ir of fior...
,purpose of reforming the pa* cen-
s , . t rather bf holAig him up to ttublig
indignation. This should be put an end to, and air
amiable and estimable. Ass should not be subjected
to reproach for the acts of some few indiscreet and
unworthy members of their body—a body of whom
Lord BROUGHAM justly said, " that, to bring a
general charge against them, would exhibit nut
only the greatest want of charity, but the grossest
ignorance of the state of Ireland, a body whose
members are generally men of respectable lives and
characters, and their conduct an honour to the cloth
they wear." _

The Swiss Diet has charged the Directory to make
arrangements with General Durouß for reducing the
number of his troops. These reductions are to take
place principally in the staff of officers. A corre-
spondent writes from Berne on the 12th :—" We now
know all the results of the elections in the canton of
Friburg for the formation of the Grand Constituent
Council. They are greatly in favour of the Radical
party. In the whole number there are not more than
ten or twelve Conservatives, and about as many
whose opinions are not yet known." The new Grand
Councils of Friburg and Lucerne will meet on the
16th, to nominate their governments and their new
deputies to the Diet.
The elections for the Grand Council of Lucerne
have terminated in the return of seventy-five Libe-
rals. Dr. STEIGER was returned in four districts.

In Upper Unterwald M. MIcHEL (a Liberal) has
been elected as deputy to the Diet. This half-canton
has also sent its quota of 14,000 f. towards the instal-
ment demanded by the Diet (payable on or before the
:20th inst.), towards the expenses of the war.
A decree similar to the one against Neufchatel has
been adopted by the Diet against Inner Appenzell.

A letter from Turin of the 11th states that the
Government continues to proceed with a firm step in
the path of reform. It is hoped that a political am
nesty will be accorded for the new year. The reforms
are to be extended to the island of Sardinia. When
the public manifestation took place on the KING'S
return to Turin, the pupils at the religious seminary
were at first absent. They, however, afterwards
came up, with loud cries of " Pius IX. for ever !"
" GIOBERTI for ever !" The cause of the delay was
that the Archbishop of TURIN, who had forbidden the
clergy to take part in the demonstration, had extended
the interdiction to the religious pupils. They, how-
ever, broke through the order.
A Leghorn letter states, that on the Bth between
5,000 and 6,000 people assembled under the windows
of the Swiss Consul to congratulate him on the suc-
cess gained by the Diet in Switzerland. The mani-
festation, in which the National Guards and the sol-
diers of the line took pax t, passed off without the least
disturbance.

Letters from Naples of the sth announce that
Palermo has, since the late demonstrations, remained
perfectly quiet.

Madrid jouri_als of the 10th and 11th have 2rrivdd,

An amendment was proposed to the Address in the
Senate by General MANUEL DE LA Coxcida, expres-
sing satisfaction at the good results which had arisen
from the intervention of the Spanish troops in Por-
tugal, but after a short discussion it was withdrawn,
the Minister of Foreign Affairs having first stated
that the reason why the Portuguese intervention was
not alluded to in the Speech from the Throne was,
that it had not been undertaken by the present
Ministry, and he disapproved of the amendment, be-
cause he thought that in the present situation of
affairs in that country great caution was necessary.
The proceedings in the Chamber of Deputies on
both days were not of general interest. Some of the
papers state that General ESPARTERO was shortly ex-
pected in Madrid.
It was reported in Madrid that the French Go-
vernment had obtained from the Emperor of MOROCCO
the cession of the Zefferina Islands, on the coast of
Africa, adjoining Mellila. Those islands belonging
to Spain, the QUEEN'S Government had ordered two
steamers, with two battalions and two batteries of
artillery, to proceed thither forthwith, to prevent the
French from taking possession •f the islands. The
whole affair appears marvellously like one of those
farces which M. Gum(); in conjunction with the
Spanish Afrancesados, is in the habit of getting up,
in order to make it appear how completely indepen-
dent Snain ig of
From Catatonia tne intemgence was somewhat
important, MAR!AL and his band having been routed;
general discouragement having, as was said, seized
all the armed bands, and peace and order beginning
to be gradually restored in the province.
MADRID BOLSA, DEC, 11.—Tbe Three per Cents.
were done on the 11th at 271,- at 50 days; the Four
per Cents. at 15, for cash ; the Five per Cents. at 15i ;
and the Debt without Interest, at 4i for paper.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.
The case of Count MORTIER is the engrossing
topic of conversation in all the salons of the French
capital. On this subject we find the following in the
IVational I

, " After having read and analysed the rude pleading
of M. Mortier, Peer of France, against his wife, our
duty was to read the reply of Madame Mortier to the
accusations of her husband, with the same care. It was
M. Chaix d'Est Ange who charged himself to make
that reply, and be did it with great abundance of words
hnd with extreme warmth: Nevertheless, his speech
does not contain the enormities of that of M. Baruche.
What Madame Monier reproaches her husband with
nre peccadillos in comparison with the faults, the base-
ness and crimes under which he eadeavoured to crush
and brand her. All the pleading for Madame Mortier
reduces itself to these words—' This man is mad 1' Nut
Only was he mad on the 9th November at Paris, but he
was mad at Turin, mad in Switzerland—he has always
been mad ; so that his Majesty Louis Philippe has
been represented for more than ten years by a lunatic.
It is M. Chaix d'Est Ange, a Conservative and
friend of M. Guizot, who declares it, and who
heaps proofs on proofs. First, there have not been fewer.
than 93 domestics who have been compelled to fly be-
fore the violence and the brutality of the ambassador;
and next, a secretary of embassy, to whom he had taken
a dislike, dared not present himself before him without
being armed with a cane. If such was this character in
repose, judge of what it became when its irritability was
excited ! The ' impressions de voyage' recounted by
M. Chaix d'Est Ange are terrible. Here M, Monier
blackguards his coachman, and calls him, Briyamd
fochon r There M. Mortier causes scenes on the high-
, way, refuses to show his passport, and abandons himself
to the most brutal acts of violence. One day he cries to
his wife, You are enciente by Franyois, the footman
At Bruges he rises, heaps insults upon her, pushes her
Out of her chamber, and leaves her trembling with cold,
almost fainting, in a corridor. In his attack he opens
his drawer, seeks a razor, but only finds a tooth-pick,
and effects with that innocent instrument his idea of
suicide. This same marl, always Peer of France and an
ambassador, who had, or believed that he had, reason to
reproach Madame Mortier with such odious infamies,
wrote letters to her from Berne in April,
1344, and from Turin in November, 1845. in
which he called her his dear and good Leonie
of his how t, and his mimetic chide. He is then a
madman, a madman for a straight-waistcoat ; such is the
conclusion of M. Chaix d'Est Ange and Madame Mor-
tier; and with this system, the madness, as our readers
see, does not date from yesterday; it is profound, chronic,
constitutional, incurable. On the 7th of November, in
that Hotel Chatham, in which he desired to destroy his
children and himself, he had only a new attack of that
delirium which long before had deprived him of his
reason. And yet fifteen days before M. Guizot wrote
the following curious letter to the madman:—
"'Paris, Oct. 23.

". my dear Count,—lf I were susceptible, I should be
hurt at your letter. Have I ever communicated to you
through the newspapers? If ever I should believe right
to propose to the King to give you a successor, nobody
should know it before you. M. de Bacourt has never
refused the embassy to Spain. There has never once
been any idea of him for that of Turin. Return to Paris,
and from there to your post, as if all this gossipping
had never been printed in the newspapers, and believe
nothing of them, even slightly.—A thousand good
wishes. " GUIZOT.'

We will just remark, en passant, that, to prove the falsity
of all these gossippings of the nerispapera,' M. de B.l'.
court is now ambassador at Turin. M. Guizot then
knew nothing of the 93 domestics, and of the scenes on
the highway, and of the terrors of a secretary of embassy,
and of those innumerable acts of violence of which M.
Chaix d'Est Ange was the historian! It appears that
the police of diplomacy is very badly done, for if M.
Guizot knew all, then he knowingly loft a madman in
important ernbassi, s, and, more than that, he gave him
promotion; but, if he did nct know it, what faith can we
have in the worth, the acts, and even the morality of the
representatives of M. Guizot? This last trait, by the
way, was wanting in the noble annals of the present re-
yiine, end we regret that M. Mortior did not remain am-
bassador in Switzerland, for the extravagant policy fol-
lowed towards the Diet would then at least have been
explained. One might have attributed the shamelees
articles of the newspaper of the Chateau to a madman;
one might have rendered him responsible for the project
concocted by distorted minds for Switzerland, on
which should be imposed a landatnmann for life,
in order thus doubly to prepare it to re-
ceive a Wurtemberg for a monarch! But M.
Mortier was no longer there, and these designs traced by
madness must be ascribed to others. We must hasten

SATURpIYe EVEN
to state that M. Baroche, plying, very energetically
protested in behalf of the rec.:lly sound reason of his
Nt bent. Violence of character, he said, doss not suffice to
characterise madness. A man disquieted, tormented,
exasperated by the misconduct of his wife, may be
pushed to extremities explicable to every one who
endeavours to picture to himself the cruel sensations
produced by such a horrible situation. The idea—the
intention of suicide—in such a case, does not, he argued,
show mental alienation. To desire to put an end to an
insupportable life, and to prefer death to public dis-
honour, was it in itself an act of madness? M. Mortier
was not a madman in the opinion of M. Guizot, for M.
Guizot wrote him the letter which has just been read.
He was not and has never been mad in the opinion of
his family, all the members of which were present
at the hearing of the case. He was not mad in
the interrogatory which he sustained with so much
good sense. It is, therefore, Madame Mortier, the
criminal wife, who has caused all these scandals,
created all this grief. It was thus that M. Baroche
replied ; and the tribunal, after two days' reflection, has
delivered its judgment. It was not convinced by the
administrative investigation, nor by the eloquent plead-
ings of the two counsel, nor even by the first interroga-
tory which M. Mortier underwent before it. It has
ordered a new investigation, judicial this time, and,
moreover, has directed three physicians to examine
carefully into the mental state of the Peer of France.
Such are the first phases of this process, which must be
added to all those of which this implacable year has set
forth the scandal. It is now time that a stop be come to,
and that public shame be allowed to breathe ; it is time
for us to turn away our eyes from the high regions of the
Court, of diplomacy, of the Ministry, of the Chamber of
Peers, regions formerly inhabited by the Testes, the
Gudins, the Praslins, the Mortiers ! We are anxious to
fly from the traces of these personages who conduct us
from robbery to corruption—to murder—to madness !
The press has another road to traverse, and for the
country, as for itself, there is more disgust than sad-
ness in following these grands seigneurs of the epoch on
the monotonous road which goes from Montfaucon to
Chareeton."

The differences between M. GUIZOT and M. Du-
CHATEL still continue, notwithstanding the efforts of
an Illustrious Personage to bring about a recon•

ciliation.

The Presse endeavours to show that M. GUIZOT,
in his proposed intervention in Switzerland, has not
even the merit of having originated an impolitic pro-
ject. Even the blunders are not his own, they are
bad copies of the equally mischievous blunders of M.
DE CHLTEAUBRIAND, who, in 1822, interfered in
Spain to put down an idea by force of arms; and
certainly the Swiss dispatches of M. GUIZOT seem
neither more nor less than vapid imitations of the.
Spanish dispatches of M. DE CHATEAURRIAND.
According to M. GUIzOT's own journal, the
Revue des Deux Mondes, M. Gunso-r never in-
tended to interfere in Switzerland, and prevented
Austria from interfering in Italy. Verily M.
GUIZOT must consider his countrymen the most
gullible of mankind, or he would never attempt to
palm upon them a falsehood so " gross," so " plain,"
so " open," so " palpable," as this. We, however,
gather from this article that M. GUIZOT has not suc-
ceeded in his attempts to cajole Prince METTERNICH,
who, in the Swiss affair, has evidently bamboosled
the worthy head of the French Conservatives in the
cleverest possible manner. While the Prince has
secured Cracow for Austria he has managed to make
M. GuizoT take upon himself all the obloquy of inter-
fering in Swiss affairs in support of the Jesuits.
The Persian Ambassador embarked on Saturday at
Marseilles, with his suite, on board the Sesostris
steamer. Before returning to Teheran he is to stop
at Constantinople, where he has some negotiations to
follow with the Sublime Porte. From that city he
proceeds to Trebizonde by the Black Sea, and will then
reach Erzeroum across Armenia ; entering Persia by
K hoi, he will go to Tauris, and thence to Teheran.
The Commerce has calculated that during the last
seventeen years no less than 1,129 prosecutions had
been directed against the journals in the name of
King Louis PHILIPPE, who had inaugurated his ac-
cession to the throne by a formal promise that no
prosecution should be in future instituted against
the press. During that period fifty-seven journals
were obliged to suspend their publication in conse-
quence of the severity of the penalties. The writers
were sentenced to 3,141 years and eight months'
imprisonment, and the journals to 7,110,530 f. fine.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse
on . Thursday, at 75f. 25c. ; New Loan, 761. 40c. ;
the Five per Cents., 116 f. 70c. ; the Orleans Rail-
road Shares, 1,196 f. 25c. ; Rouen, 8981. 75c. ;
Havre, 470 f. ; Great Northern, 8461. 25c.; Avignon,
557 f. 50c. ; Vierzon, 541 f. 25c. ; Bordeaux, 483 f.
75c.; Troyes and Montereau, 260 f. ; Basle, 1621.
50c.; Paris and Strasburg, 407 f. 50c.; Tours and
Nantes. Co 2". • Paris and Lyons__
.fl2sf.
1 Three per Cents., noi,.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Dnc. 17.

Boulogne and Amiens, 14k,—Northern of France, 11%
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Paris•nd Orleans, 46'/2—Paris and Strasbourg, 44—Sambre
and Meuse, 711,f3 —',Vest Flanders, 1%.

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to 2s Gd; Leeks, 84 to is 4d ; and Carrots, 3. to 4. 9d
per dozen bunches ; Savoys, 8d to is per dozen; Pine
Apples 58 to 8. each; Celery, 9d to Is Gd; Horse-
radish, is 9d to 4s 6d; and Brocoli, Is to 1s 9d per
bundle; Hothouse Grapes, 2s 64 to 4s; Filberts, 6d to
ed; and Cob•nuts, 7d to 9d per lb ; Spinach, as to 4s
lie. sieve.

suNGEstatozem.
Our market to-day was tolerably well supplied with
mast articles. The trade was steady, at but little alter-
ation in value.

- Nam/GATE AND LEADENHALL.
Prime Beef and Mutton commanded a ready sale, at
full prices. Otherwise, the demand was in a sluggish
state. Beef, from 3s to 4s 4d; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 8d ;
Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d; and Pork, 3s 8d to 5s 2d per slbs
by the carcase. Turkeys, 4s to 10s ; Geese, 4s to 7s;
Ducks, Is 9d to 2s 6d; Tame Rabbits, is to 2s; Wild
Rabbits, 8d to is Id; Pigeons 61 to 10d; roasting
Pigs, 5s to 8s each; Surrey Fowls, 5s to 10s; ditto
Chickens, 3s tid to ss; Barn-door Fowls, 2s to 5s per
couple; Eggs, English, lOs to 11s; and French ditto,
9s to 103 per 100; Fresh Butter, is Id to is 4d per lb;
Pheasants, 2s 3d to 38 ; Partridges, Is to is 8d ;
Hares, 2s 3d to 3s ; Leverets, 2s 3d to 3s; Woodcocks,
2s 3d to 3s; Grouse, Is 6d to 2s; Snipes, 6d to Is;
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NEWPORT.
Beef, frotu 3s 6d to 4s &d; Mutton, 33 10d to 4s 8d ;
Veal, 3s 10d to 4s 8d; and Pork, 4s to 5s 2d per 81b,.

WHITECRAPLI.
Beef, from 3s 4d to 48 6d; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 6d;
Veal, 3s•Bd to 4s 8d; and Pork, 3s 8d to 5s per Sibs.

BILIANGSCULTE.
Turbots, 6s to 13s ; Bu lls, 2s to 65 ; Cod-fish, 3s to
8s; Haddocks, 9d to is 4d ; Whitings, 4d to 8d ;
Dories 2s to 41 ; and Lobsters, is 6d to 3s each;
Soles, 6d to 2s 6,1 per pair ; Smelts, is 6d to 2s 6d ;
Fresh Herrings, is 4d to is 9d ; and Thames Flounders,
Is 6d to 28 per dozen ; Eels, 6d to is per lb.

BREAD.
The rites of Wheaten Bread in the metropolis are
from lid to 8d; of Household ditto, Sid to 7d per 4lbs
loaf.
UWE IVXMLIKET.

Market Hides, 561 b to 641 b, lid to *per lb; ditto, 641 b
,721bt0 8016,2 d to 2id: ditto, uOlb
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00 78131113 b„ 14(11 toto 23dd; d; iditto,tt(,
881 b to 961 b, 3i-d to std ; ditto,
961 b to 1041 b, aid to 4d; Calf Skins (each), 4s to 6s
Horn Hides, 105 6d; Polled Sheep, 3s Gd to 4s 8d;
Half-breds, 2s 8d to 38 6d; Downs, 2s 6d to 3s.

Ray maIiZETS.
SIIITUFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 21 10s to Si 12s ; Clover,
ditto, 31 10s to 4/ 12s ; and Straw, 11 5s to 1/ 10s
per load. Trade very dull, at barely lute rates.
Cu3tHERIAND.--Meadow Hay, 2/ lOs to Si 14s ;
Clover ditto, 3/ 10s to 4/10s; and Straw, 1/ 6* to 11 11s
per load. A moderate supply, and a heavy demand"
WurrEcßAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 2110 s to 3/ 12';
Clover ditto, 3l 10s to 41 15s ; and Straw, 1/ 4s to
11 10s per load. Supply good, and trade dull.

C0AL8...1.1 16s RK6EdTH.—iidYausTERDAy.
.......
Adair's Main
Huddle's W. Hartley.. 17* 6dHarraton Blain ...... 17* Od
203 Dipton Tanfield ...... 15s Odl Bell
19s 9d
Ord's Redheugh 16s GOast Hetkon 6d
Original Pontop 16s Odllietton
South Pontop ...... 15s OdiKeepier
Stewart's Hartley ..... 17s OdlMorrison lss Od
Tantield Moor Butes... 15s 9d; High Thornley
Townley l6l 9d Adelaide Tees
Wall's End, &c. ISeymear Tees
Acorn Close ............ 19s 9d Tees
17s Od
Cleunell lB3 Oct Whitworth

Medley .......... 20s Od .
Ship at market, 37—sold, 26.

THE LORD CHANCELLORiHIP.—The continued in-
disposition of the Lord Chancellor has given rise to
various speculations in political circles, and it is gene-
rally surmised that, after so serious an illness—even in
the event of such a result as everybody hopes for—his
Lordship will decline to resume the exercise of his ardu-
ous official duties. In that case the prevailing ()pinion is
that Mr. Baron Rolfe will succeed to the woolsack.
REFORMATION .OF JUVENILE OFFENDERS. The
Right Hun. Lord Morpeth having signified his intention
of presiding at the forthcoming anniversary festival of
the Philanthropic Society for the Reformation of
Juvenile Offenders (being the sixtieth annual comme-
moration), the dinner has been appointed to take place
on Saturday, Feb. 26, at the Loi.don Tavern, when the
committee have invited the best exertions of the gover-
nors and friends, not alone to secure a numerous attend-
ance, but to enotble the society to maintain and extend
its benevolent operations.