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LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCII 12, 1847.

In consequence of the press of matter, we are corn-
Flied to omit our usual summary of the Parliamentary
proceedings.

Another discussion and another adjournment upon
Mr. HUME'S motion for the non-payment of the
Russo-Dutch Loan, have afforded a pretty tolerable
inkling of the diversity of the opinions entertained in
the House of Commons upon the simplest questions
of honesty in legislation. To the Noble Lord the
Representative of Lynn is due the credit of having
uttered a panegyric before the British Parliament
upon the spoilers of Poland and the despotic robbers
of Cracow. Let not that be forgotten by the popu-
lation of these islands. Let it not be forgotten that
a man aspiring to their suffrages for his installation in
office had the audacity to congratulate the Northern
Emperors on their violation of the neutrality and in-
dependence of Cracow, and its formal annexation to

the Austrian dominions. If Lord GEORGE BENTINCK

had striven to render himself and his political princi-
ples unpalatable to the community, he could not
have succeeded better in so doing than by
the utterance of this extraordinary language.
When M. GUIZOT affirmed that the infraction of the
treaties of Vienna by Austria and Russia authorised
France, "by a just reciprocity, to consult nothing
henceforth but a provident estimate of her own in-
terests," he reverted from an age of civilization to the
system of a predatory and lawless generation. But
when Lord GEORGE BENTINCK exulted over the dis-
memberment of Poland, and expressed his gratitude
to the tyrannical Cabinets in which its partition
originated, he fell back from the enlightenment of
liberalised Christendom to the most odious principles
of the most despotic Governments. Of what value
can be that constitution, which we prize as the most
precious legacy of our forefathers, to the panegyrist
of a deed which does violence to the very soul and
spirit of that constitution ? How can any one have
the temerity to expect that the guardianship of the
liberties cf Great Britain shall be consigned to his
hands, who can enunciate sentiments so directly at
variance with national independence, diplomatic in-
tegrity, and popular freedom ? Lord GEORGE BEN-
TINCIE has estranged from himself the sympathies of
Englishmen by his becoming last session the Pro-
tectionist slanderer of Sir ROBERT PEEL : he ren-
dered himself ridiculous by his railway bubble scheme

for the reclamation of Ireland : he has now dwindled
down into an object of scorn and indignation by ex-
ulting over the extinction of Cracow, and lauding
those anointed spoliators who are infamous and
abhorred in the eyes of GOD and man.
A striking difference of opinion is visible in
the discussion as to the moral right possessed by
England of refusing any further disbursements upon
the Russo-Dutch Loan. It is considered by the
Honourable Gentleman the Member for Montrose,

and by many others, that the violation of the treaties
of 1815, in the annexation of Cracow to Austria, ex-
onorates England from any further payments upon
the loans in question. By a very considerable ma-
jority, however, it is conceived that no infraction of
the kind can justify this country in withdrawing from

these pecuniary engagements. If we regard the
matter under deliberation as a thing to be decided
by the lex talionis, then, undoubtedly, there could
not be a moment's hesitation as to the decision
of Parliament: the Russo-Dutch Loan would
be numbered henceforth among the " have
beens." Upon a principle of equitable retaliation,
the subsidiary monies pouring annually into the ex-
ehequers of the CZAR would be immediately dimi-
nished as a consequence of the villanous appropria-

tion of the KAISER. The extension of the territories
of FERDINAND would produce a contraction of the
revenues of NICHOLAS. In the relations subsisting
between the nations of Christendom, however, a
nobler principle is apparent. Justice and honour are
not with us weighed out in the stinting scales of
quid pro quo. Probity to civilized empires, but espe-
cially to commercial races, is the most precious jewel
of their characters. To England more particularly
it would be a grievous degradation to diminish her
credit for the sake of a splenetic paroxysm of re-
venge. It must never be said of us as a people
that we shirked a debt upon the plea that because
Russia was dishonest we chose to be dishonest!
Russia, and Prussia, and Austria have committed a
great crime in the face of Europe. During its per-
petration we have remained passive, and our conduce
is, as yet, upon this point stainless. Shall we
then forfeit this proud distinction by reducing
ourselves to the position of the degraded Sovereigns
of the North—by imitating their criminality—by
ourselves violating those treaties which they have
violated, and for the violation of which they
are at once detested and despised. But we
Are satisfied that neither Mr. Hume nor any
of those Honourable Legislators who coincide with
him are desirous of refusing further payments
upon the Russo-Dutch Loan simply out of a spirit of
tetaliation. We are satisfied that the Honourable
Member for Montrose has no sympathy in the
unprincipled declarations of M. GuizoT, and
that providing it were indisputably proved that
we are not released from our moral obligation
as debtors to the Government of the Russian
EMPEROR, Mr. Heats would be as much opposed
to the forfeiture of our reputation for the sake of
L. S. D. as are the members of the present Adminis-
tration. But it is precisely because such is not
proved to be the case—precisely because it still re-
mains questionable whether we are exonerated from
further disbursements by the loss of the independence
of the Cracovian republic—precisely because
thepo
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amined, and, consequently, necessitates the utmost
vigilance and scrutiny on the part of the Legislature
before it be finally dismissed. Whether by the re•
tention of the former colonial possessions of Holland
in perpetuity—the Cape of Good Hope, Demerara,
Essequibo, and Berbice—England is not bound, irre-
vocably and under all circumstances, to continue her
periodical instalments upon the Russo-Dutch Loan, is
a consideration which embarrasses still further this
complicated and intricate question. At all hazards,
our fame as an honourable nation must not be sold
for gold or tarnished for convenience.

Continuing our remarks of yesterday upon the
subject of National Education, wherein we proved
from the equal admissions of the strenuous sup-
porters of the Established Church, on the one hand,
and the advocates of Voluntaryism, on the other, that
neither of these systems is adequate to provide the
needful regimen for the general education of the
peOple—we approach the question, whether the State
ought to be exclusively permitted to construct, regu-
late, and control efficient institutions for deve-
loping the intellectual faculties of the rising
generation. If we had to consider this proposition in
connexion with a nascent colony, or infantile state,
we should unhesitatingly support it; but, viewed in
regard to the British Isles, we find the ground has
been already occupied to such an extent, and for so
long a period, by influential partisans of different sys-
tems, that, as a practical people, we are not at liberty
to weigh the abstract merits of the various theories
that have been, more or less, propounded and em-
braced for the promotion of national education.

If Lord MELBOURNE'S Government, when they,
ten years since, scanned the existing and future
evils derivable from suffering the humbler classes
to remain embedded in ignorance, and' became
convinced that the State should take some
precautionary steps in aid of the intellectual
welfare of the people, had commenced their opera-
tions by clearing the area of every material that lay
upon the surface, the proceeding would have been
denounced as one of the most insane ever adopted by
any Ministry. Destruction is seldom the necessary
antecedent to reformation. Wherever this policy
has been sanctioned by those who, enamoured with
the beauty and symmetry of a given theory, never
condescended to reflect upon its practical bearings,
the consequences have been most disastrous. It was
the pursuit of this fatal error that stamped the
French Revolution of 1789 as the most horrible
fantasy recorded in the pages of history. Lord MEL-
BOURNE, however, carefully reviewed the different
agencies at work ; he demolished none, but prudently
determined upon fostering and encouraging them all.
In a parental spirit, he moulded everything he found
at hand. Honourable prejudices were scrupulously
regarded, and he steered a course fraught with reli-
gious toleration, and subservient to the great
end held in common by every influential sect
—a sound secular education for the people.
From the great stress which the different educa-
tional societies laid upon the importance of religious
instruction, the Minister wisely conceived that that
invaluable branch of education, according to the
favoured doctrines and forms of respective religionists,
would never be neglected; and that, therefore, the
State might advantageously assist existing institu-
tions, upon certain conditions, and with reference to
the secular culture of the mind, without in any wise
mixing itself up with theological controversy. How
widely soever parties in Parliament formerly differed,
they are now united in their approval of the wisdom
with which Lord MELBOURNE devised his plan.
Everything savouring of interference has been care-
fully eschewed by the present and the two preceding
Governments. Public monies have been yearly
granted to those bodies who have applied for pecu-
niary aid, and all that the Goverment, as faithful
trustees, have chiefly insisted on, in return, has been
a right of inspection, in order to guard against the
misapplication of the funds they have allocated.
Those who object to this system have, fur the most
part, their minds entangled in a twofold fallacy,
which is admirably exposed by the Rev. Mr. DUFTON,
to whose able pamphlet we yesterday referred.
The first arises froM the presupposition that
there must be a single Educator. " But education is
not one single and simple process ; it is such a train-
ing of all the mental and moral faculties as will fit
the educated to discharge all the duties and fulfil all
the relations of life." The second fallacy is involved
in the question which they are constantly presenting:
" Will you separate religion from education ?"
Quoting again from Mr. DUFTON, "we answer that
we will attempt no such thing, for the simple reason
that it is clearly impossible. Religious and secular'
cannot be separated in education,' properly so called,
because education includes all the moral obligations of
life; but they may, and must be separated in
instruction, which is the instrument of education,
and like every other instrument, must be different in
its applications, according to the different nature of
the objects which it is required to accomplish." The
grievous error lies in this,—that people start with the
presumption that in the vessel of the mind there is an
inseparable union between its religious and secular
contents, whereas they are, from the first, distinctly
separate, and the grave and delicate task consists in
so combining and uniting them, that " the religious
element shall be preserved from desecration, and the
secular from perversion." Towards the conclusion of
his essay, Mr. DUFTON offers many suggestions for
calling the powers of the State into requisition ; and
we consider that we tender him no slight praise, when
we observe, that, in the spirit of most of them, he has
been closely anticipated by the Government. We
are quite certain that both Churchmen and Voluntaries
must by this time be equally convinced, by practical
experience, that they can achieve more by co-operation
than by any exclusive privilege of instruction. In
stating this, we give the animus in which Mr.
DUFTON has submitted his views to the public. We
fuel grateful for his effort in behalf of the intellectual
and moral elevation of the unenlightened classes of the
British community.

Notwithstanding the extraordinary and gigantic
efforts of the British Government and British people
—notwithstanding the enormous expenditure sanc-
tioned by the State, and defrayed out of the Conso-
lidated Fund, by which daily employment is afforded
at this moment to no less than 700,000 able-bodied
labourers on the public works, and provision made
for their families, who may fairly be averaged
at 3,500,000 human beings—notwithstanding the
liberal contributions of benevolent individuals,
who in the most praiseworthy manner have come for-
ward, and from their abundance sought to relieve and
alleviate the destitution and misery under which a
considerable number of their Irish brethren were
suffering, who, from peculiar circumstances, were
unable to obtain employment or food, from public or
private sources ;—notwithstanding these unparalleled
exertions on every side, distress and wretchedness
appears still to prevail extensively in that unhappy
land, and the horrors of pestilence and famine to remain
without mitigation. The coroners of the several
counties, particularly in the southern and western
parts of the kingdom, are holding daily inquests on
the wretched victims, and the almost invariable verdicts
returned by the juries, of "deaths from actual starve.
lion," afford the strongest evidences of the continued
ravages of famine in the stricken districts, of the in-
sufficiency of all that has yet been done, and of the
necessity of increased exertion of the most ♦igorour
description on the part of every one who has the
means to render assistance. In such a fearful emer-
gency it behoves all to set their shoulders to
the wheel ; there should be no hanging back, or with-
drawal from the imperative duty. Every one should
give according to his means ; it is not the
magnitude of individual gifts, but the universality
of the benevolence, that is required,—pence from the
millions would be more valuable than pounds from
the few. It is not a time to inquire whether land-
lords have performed their duties, whether tle
afflicted people have conducted themselves with
perfect propriety, or what may be their deserts;
above all, it is not a fitting time for any attempt at
prot;elytism, or at inculcating the abstract doctrines
of any sect or religion on the minds of
famishing wretches ; it is sufficient that we
are satisfied of the reality of the distress,
and that unhappily requires no additional corrobora-
tion, to induce every person possessed of the common
feelings of humanity to strive to the utmost in the sacred
cause. That assistance is required as well on behalf
of our Scottish as of our Irish brethren. The great

and unceasing efforts of the Scottish people, not only
of the proprietors of the soil, but of those who them-
selves are barely removed from actual want, has
hitherto averted the reproach that any had perished
in Scotland from want of the common necessa-
ries of life, bat their ability has been taxed to
the utmost, and if speedy aid be not afforded
from this more prosperous country, scenes such
as those which have taken place in Ireland must
inevitably be re-enacted on Highland ground. It
would indeed form a bad precedent, and inflict in-
delible disgrace on our country, if we permitted those
who have sought to help themselves, and strained
every nerve on their own behalf, to perish for want
of timely relief.

We have much pleasure in noticing the meeting
that took place yesterday, at the London Tavern,
foe the purpose of promoting the relief of the
distress in both countries of all who are suffering
from want, without inquiring what creed they pro-
fessed, or in what manner or form they thought pro-
per to worship their CREATOR, or deemed that worship
to be most acceptable. Many eloquent speeches were
made, and fearful and harrowing accounts detailed by
gentlemen whose testimony was beyond all dispute or
cavil. Alas ! they only repeated that which has been
wafted on the wings of the press throughout every part
of the country day by day, that which has been already
stated by every person who has had an opportunity
of becoming an eye-witness, and forming a judgment
as to the real state of things, and which has beet,
admitted in the Senate by the Chief Secretary for
Ireland, and others, his colleagues in office, to be as
simple and unexaggerated statement of facts, whiel
it would be impossible to embellish or colour tot
highly. From the fearful tales that were told it
would be' impossible to select, all were of the same
appalling character, which the heart sickens to con-
template. Such meetings are, however, in the highest
degree valuable ; they afford the necessary stimulant to
individuals, and bring prominently before the minds of
those present, and taking a part in the proceedings, the
awful condition to which our fellow-creatures have
been reduced, and are calculated to remove the apathy
of those who remain inert, not from a want of feel-
ing, and an anxiety to benefit the sufferers, but from
a want of consideration, and not sufficiently reflectir
on the state of those who are far distant. We trust that
we shall see the example thereby set, extensively fol-
lowed, and that we may have to record the proceed-
ings of many similar meetings, parochial, and other-
wise, for the same praiseworthy purpose.

The Turkish Ambassador, Cm: Km EFFENDI, was
.again received on the 24th ult. by the POPE, in a private
audience, in the course of which his Holiness repeated
the requests that he had made in favour of the Chris
tians of the East. On the 26th the Ambassador wa-
present at a grand ball given by the Duke DE TOR
LONIA, and passe4 a long time in conversation witl
Cardinal ALFIERI.

A letter from :Rome states that the POPE intends t(
send Consuls to the principal towns in the Otto,uan em
pire, and that the Catholic subjects of the SULTAN art
to be placed under their protection.

" We are assured," says the Frankfort Journal," that
one-half of the new Austrian loan will be on bonds bear
ing two-and-a-half per cent. interest."
On the Ist init. six students and twenty other per
sons were arrested at Munich for making attempts a
hostile demonstrations against LOLA. MONTES, who, ac-
cording to the Augsburgh Gazette, when the crowd as
sembled before her house, appeared at one of the win,
dows armed with a brace of pistols. A proclamatioi
has been issued, forbidding more than ten persons tt
assemble together.
The Cologne Gazette states from Vienna, 3d inst..
that the Austrian Government having been requested
by that of Turkey to send some of its officers to Con-
stantinople, as was done some years ago, to witness tht
manoeuvres of the Turkish troops, and instruct them, 80
officers are to set out for that purpose in April.

Madrid papers of the sth inst. have arrived.

The debate on the Address continued. Senor DENOSO
CORTES addressed the Chamber on the 4th, and declaree
that the renunciation demanded by England of the
Duchess of MONTPENSIER would never be permitted by
the Spanish nation. He also contended that the influence
exercised by England in Portugal was an opprobrium tu
Spain, and declared that the progress of the French in
Africa was fatal to Spanish interests, as Spain had rights
there, and was the only nation capable of civilising
Africa, and deriving benefit from such civilisation. This
allusion to the progress of the French in Africa brought
up Senor MARTINEZ DE LA Ross, who may now be
considered as the French Proconsul, and who, of
course. declared that the possession by the French of
Africa would be exceedingly advantageous to Spain.
With respect to Portugal, he declared that there could
be no doubt but that England would interfere to prevent
the success of Dom MIGUEL, should his movements be-
come menacing.

The Clamor Publico gives the following account of the
termination of the affair at Fonterabia in a letter from

Irun :--

•
"In the afternoon of the Ist a detachment of infantry
and cavalry was stationed on the beach on the right of the
Bidassoa, to cover the departure of the French vessel which
had been on shore on. the coast. Last evening two small
sloops entered the port, in order to take the French vessel
in tow. At four o'clock in the evening all the right bank
of the Bidassoa was lined with French troops, and four
pieces of artillery were posted at Andaya (the
first village on the French side), ready to fire in the
direction of the port of Fonterabia, when the captain of the
port proceeded near the French vessel, and, in a loud voice,
said,' Do you admit this port to belong to the Spanish
nation yes ; I do, was the reply of the French
captain. 'ln the name and by order of my Sovereign,' said
the Spanish officer, I enjoin you not to proceed further, but
to collie to an anchor until further orders.' At this intima:
tion the chief of the staff', who was on board the French
vessel, replied that, if the captain of the port of Fonterabia
had orders from the Queen to prevent the vessel leaving, the
French had also orders from their Sovereign to take her out,
even if force should be required to effett that object. At
this reply, and at the sight of the preparations made to carry
it into effect, the captain of the
port had no other alternative
than to withdraw, to the shame of Spain and of those who
now govern her."
The Eco del Comercio publishes a letter from Tor-
viscon, in the province of Grenada, stating the progress
made by the Carlists in that district. They are under
the orders of CABERELLAS, BASILIJ, and TALLADA, and
will soon be posted in inaccessible Sierras. The misery
of the population is frightful, and it is said the Carlists
arc making numerous recruits.
11fAncii s.—The Three per Cents. were
Five per Cents, at 1914; the Passives
Queen CHRISTINA. was to leave Madrid on Monday.
donMeApatiu3DO
at 6 ; and the Coupons at 17.
B4o;l.lltAthe F

We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday.
The Journal des Debats has an ably-written article
on the English Customs returns for 1846, which prove
the correctness of the principles of free trade. After
advocating the principle of low duties on articles of
general consumption, the Debuts says-
" It is thus that are exhibited to nations the magnificent
experiments of England on her tariffs, without demanding
reciprocity from anybody, so convinced was the Parliament
that the elevation of tariffs is of itself an evil, and the pre-
tended protective system. a deception."
The Constitutionnel states that the health of 11,
MARTIN (du Nord) is every day more alarming, the
paralysis having extended to parts of the body which it
had hitherto spared.
The price of flour continues to increase in Paris, and
provisions are becoming every day more scarce. On
this subject we find the following in the Commerce
" Notwithstanding the large quantities of corn and flour
that have arrived or are expected from foreign countries, the
prices in all the markets are progressively- rising, and towards
the end of last week the advance was considerable in the
north. At Paris the price of flour is increasing daily, and
the average quotation has already reached a point where,
the bread is taxed 57c. the kilometre, and it will be without
doubt charged at that rate for the second fortnight of the.
month. '1 here will thus be a fresh advance of 4c., or nearly
one sou, on the four-pound loaf. This continual movement
upwards is caused rather by the fear of scarcity than by any
' insufEciency of supply. Everywhere the consumers are
alarmed; they carry off all that arrives in the market to
make provision for the future. On their side the farmers,
encouraged by this extraordinary demand, raise their prices,
or wait for still higher ones. We believe that in this state of
things everything that can re-assure the populations as to
the sufficiency of provisions, will have the effect of bringing
'town prices. Soon, with the return of the westerly winds,
Havre will receive considerable quantities of corn and flour
from the United States. As soon, too, as the navigation of
the Baltic is open, numerous cargoes of corn will be directed
towards France • the various ports of the Black Sea also are
sending us hundreds of vessels freighted with grain. It is
probable that all these arrivals will commence about next
month, exercising some influence on prices here."
The French Funds declined on the Paris Bourse on
Wednesday, in consequence, it was said, of large sales
in the Five per Cent. stock made for the account of the
Bank of France. All the other securities experienced a
similar depreciation.
The Three per Cents. closed at 78f. sc. ; the Five per
Cents. 115 f. 90c.; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,2711. 25c.;
Rouen, 863 f. 75c.; Havre, 680 f. ; Great Northern, 6201.;
Avignon, 810 f.; Vierzon, 565 f. ; Bordeaux, 525 f. ; Boulogne,
400 f.; Basle, 208 f. 75c.; Dieppe, 330 f. ; Paris and Stras-
burg, 446 f. 25c.; Tours and Nantes, 445 f. ; Paris and Lyons,
478 f. 75c. ; Lyons and Avignon, 475 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette,
451 f. 25c. • Spanish Domestic Debt, 29.
Lyons, kARCH 8.-Paris and Rouen, 868 f. 75c.; Avignon
and Marseilles, 826 f. 25c. ; Northern, 628 f. 75c.; Paris and
Lyons, 4901.
BUSINESS DONP: IN FOREIGN R4ILIFAYS AT TIM
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Allacis 11.
Boulogne and Amiens, 13;4-Namur and Liege. 04-Northern
of Franco, 12%-Orleans and Bordeaux, 6N-Paris and Lyons, 636
-*omit onslZiivre, 26%.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The. sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 1,200
to 1,500 bales, principally American, at 61Ad. to 7%c1. per lb.
all to the trade. The market closed heavily, and prices were
1,4(d. per lb. lower than last week. Shares were again dull.
Although the Corn market has risen. again to-day, there is
a somewhat better feeling in the City, and should the winter
break up, we may yet have a more buoyant feeling. The
following, received to-day from Amefica, is cheering :
" Judging from the exceedingly favourable weather
throughout the planting, sowing, and harvesting sea-
son of 1846, we should think that the aggregate pro-
duct last year was about 12% per cent. greater than that
of the year previous. Upon this calculation, which we
conside: a very safe one, the total production of wheat in the
Uuited States, in 1846, was about 119,866,500 bushels, equal
to 23,973,300 barrels of flour, and of corn, 470,136,375
bushels. Estimating the home consumption at the rate of
one barrel of flour per head, the aggregate consumption of
the United States, would be equal to 20 millions of barrels,
leaving a surplus of 3,973,000 barrels for the total foreign
demand. Four million bushels of wheat would be required
for seed; this would reduce the flour for exportation to
3,173,000 barrels. This is about double the quantity ever
shipped from this country. The exportation of flour from
this country to Great Britain in 1831, was much larger than
it has been any year since, and that in 1840, after two defi-
cient harvests, the exportation only amounted to little more
than 600,000 barrels.

" Until last year the shipments of grain, such as wheat
and corn, in bulk, have been very limited ; but recently they
have been exceedingly large, particularly of Indian corn. This
;rain has heretofore been but little known in Europe, and we
have been compelled to consume at home the immense crops
annually produced. Necessity has brought about its intro-
faction into the principal markets of Europe to a very great
extent, the prejudices which have existed against it as an
article of human food having been completely removed. It
mist hereafter be a very important staple article of export,
no matter what may be the state of the European harvests.
As an economical nutritious grain it is superior to any other
in existence, and will prove as great a blessing to the poorer
classes of Great Britain as it has ever been to those of this
country. The production of corn in the United States has been
teretofore about four times as large as that of wheat, and with
welve mouths notice, or in a twelvemonth, the cultivation
could be increased to such an extent, that, under favourable
circumstances, the production could be nearly doubled. This
;rain is grown in great perfection in every section of the
country. At the extreme north, and at the extreme south,
it reaches early maturity, and is free from those disasters
and diseases which nearly_ every other grain is almost
annually visited with. The rich prairies of the west are
peculiarly adapted to the cultivation of Indian corn, and the
field frequently reaches in that section 100 bushels of
'belled corn per acre. It is the safest, and with a yield
everywhere of above 50 bushels per acre, is the most
profitable crop our farmers can devote their land to ;" and if
prices remain until planting time in the neighbourhood of the
,ates now current, the extent of soil appropriated to this
;rain another year will be immense, and the production, with
favourable season, encrmous."

As the probable supply of food now is the all-absorbing
question, such assurances as the above cannot but be grati-
.ying.. _ _ _

Tire. Stock Market has been better, although the Bears
:till exert their influence to repress any upward tendency.
Consols have been 881/2 to 88% for present transfer, and
38% to 89 for Account. Exchequer-bills have been at par
to 4s; premium. Consuls Scrip is 14 to 1/2 discount. The
ransfer books for New Three-and-a-Quarter and Three per
Cent. Reduced Stocks are now shut.
The transactions in the Foreign Market have been re-
,tricted, and the quotations are still heavy. Spanish Three per
Cents: bring 34. and Mexican 21%. Danish Bonds have
realised 88 to 881%. Dutch Two•and-a-Half per Cents. are
57%. Venezuela are firm at 391,x.
The Market for Railway Shares has been rather firmer,
out-there has not been much done. The old lines are the
lattest.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. • • 88% % %
• Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 • •
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 • • 93i
liadia Bonds, 1,0001. .. .. par 4 p
Consols for Account, April 15 • • • • • 88% 89 88%
Consols, Scrip 014 % die
Exchequer Bills. 131 d. I%d.
1,0001. .. .• .• 3 p par 4 p
14 p pm.
Ditto, Small .. • • •• • • 3 p pm.
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Danish Bonds, 3 per Cent • • • • 88 q 88
Mexican, 1846, 5 per Cent .• 21%
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent .. • • 39%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto, Three per Cent .. .. ..
Ditto, for the Account .. • • 34
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent .. 31g
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 57%
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 9114 91
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PEA SHARK.
tmber.,Nottlrig.,Boston, & Eastrn Jn. 2%.... 2 .... to
11nningham and Oxford Junction .. 5 .... 13% .. to
3ristol, and Exeter .. .. • • •. 75 .. 77 .... to
Ditto; New. .. .. • • .• 10 .... 11% .... to
luckinghamshire • .• ..61. 45..... % p.. td
oirect Northern Scrip .. .. 2%.... .. •.•to
-:astericCounties .. 20 .... 20%14 .. to 19%
Ditto, York Extension .. • • 4 .... 3% %.. to
East Lancashire .. .. • • .. 17 18% .... to
t Lincolnshire .. • • • • 4 .. • • 614 %•. to
-;dinburgh and Glasgow . • • • •• 50 .... 74%.... to 75
Great Northern (London & York Read) 2% .... 214 .... to
Ditto .(Direct Northern Regd.) • • 3% .... 3% •••• to
;treat North of England • • • . • • 'lOO ....233% .... to
Great Western .. • • • . 55 ....114 .... to
Ditto, Half Shares .• -. • • • • 50 .. • . 66 .... to 67
Dittos-Quarter Shares .. • • • . 12%.... 18 17% to 18%
Ditto.,New • . • • • • .. .• .... %.. to
[lull an Selby .• • • • • .. •s 50 ....103% .... to
Ditto, Halt Shares • • •• • • • . 25 51% .... to
Ipswich and Bury St. Edmunds .. 14 .... -- •• • • to

Ditto, ditto, arid Norvrich • . • • 5 • • 2% .... to
Lancasfer and Carlisle .. 50 .... •• .. to
Ditto, New .. .. • • . • • • 5 .... 9%.... to
Leeds anti Bradford .. .. •• 35 .. •. 78 .... to
Leicester and Iledf..,rd .. • • .. 16s. .... t,4 dis. to
Leeds. Dewsbury, ai:d Manchester .. 27% .... 33)4 .... to
London and Illackwall • • 181. 13s. 4d. .. • 8 to
Ditto, New, No. 1 .. • • • . 4 .. • • 4% .... to
London, Brighton, and South Coast • • 50 .. • • 53% .... to 53
London and North-Western • . 100 .. 177% 177 to 478
Ditto, Quarters .. • • • • 2 .... .. • . to
Ditto ditto New .. .. • 2 .... 12%% to
London and South-Western 411. 64. 10d. ...• 60% .... to 62
Ditto, New .. • • .. • • .. 22% .. •• 241,x .... to
Ditto, Scrip .. • • • • • • 5 .• • • 5 • to
London and York Extension Scrip .. 2% .... 214 to
Lynn llnd Ely .• .. 20 •• 22 .... to 21%
Lynn and Dureliam • • • • 15 • • • 16% .. • • to •
Nlanchester and Leeds • • • •• 82 ••.. to
Ditto, Thirds (Reg.) • • • • • • 71. 45....• p.. to
Nfanehester, Buxton, and Matlock -• 425. •••• % p.. to
Midland •• •• •• .• •• ....115 to 116%
Ditto,•New .. • • .. •• 30 .... 331,E .. to
Ditto, New .. 2 .. • • 4%.... to 5%
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby • • 100 .. • . 89% ... to
Newcastle and Berwick .. • • 20 .• ..32X 33% to 32 X
Norfolk .. • • .. •• ..100 . ..137 .... to 135
Northern Counties Union • • • • • • 2% • .. •• to %
north British .. .. • • .. ••25.. • . 33% .... to
Ditto, Half Shares • • .. • . • • 12% .... 16 X.. • . to
Ditto, Extension .. • . % 1%..•• to
North Staffordshire •• .. • • • . 5 .. • • 8 .. •• to 7%
Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton 17% 10% .... to
Portsmouth Direct •• • •• •• • • 3% • . 3% .. • . to—
Preston and Wyre • • • • •• •. .. 2.5 .... 33% .. to
Reading,'Guildford, and Reigate .. b .. 43i%.. to
icottish Central .. .• •• .. 15 .... 22 k.. • • to 23
Seottish.Midland • • •• • • •• • • 17% .... 25 •• to 24%
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A) • • 3 •• • • •• • • to
Ditto, ditto (B) 114 1%.... to
31iropshire Union • • • .• • • • . 425..... 1 dis..• to
iouth Eastern and Dover .. •. ..331.25. 4d. 37x, to
Ditto, New (do. 15/.) N0..1 3%.... 4% .. to
iouth Wales .. .. • • •• • • 10 .• • • 71,E .... to 754
West Riding Union .. .. • • .. 41. 25..... 14%p to
York and Newcastle . .. 25 .... 341 i% ••to
Ditto, New . • •• .. 10 .... 15% •. . to
Ditto, Preference .. • • .. 4 .... 8 .. • • to
York and North Midland 50 .... 843% .... to 86
Ditto, Extension .. .. 20 .. • . 36 • • to 36
Ditto, Preference .. • • • • 2 .... 11% •• .. to
Ditto East and West Riding Extension 10 .... 21 .... to 20%

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens .. 18 .... 13% . to
Namur and Liege •• .. • 10 .. • • 4% %.. to
Orleans and Bordeaux • • .. 6 .... 7 to
Paris and Lyons
Sambre and Meuse • • • • • • •• I 2 •• .• 6% .. •• o
West Flanders •• s.• • • • • • • 6 •• • • 2% .. ••to
MINES
Real del Monte, Unregistered • • •. .. • • to --