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TIIE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY lB, 1847

stacle of the laws prohibiting the importation
of corn had been removed, and the erroneous sup-
pc.sition follow el thereu,tol. that the path of govern-
uwnt ,s theieby singularly smootht-d and tNideued.
Undoubtedly the Government was relieved from a
tremendous incubus by the repeal of those enact-
ments, I)ut there remained many another incubus
besides. There was the incubus of national ignorance,
there was the incubus of an erroneous criminal code,
there was the incubus of a demoralizing and dege-
nerating social condition, and a long vista of similar
woes and curses. All these had to be removed before
the country could hope to arise in its full strength;
to put forth its full powers, to vindicate its true
character. Knowledge had to be rendered accessible
to those whose poverty debarred them from the
blessings of instruction. Sanatory regulations had
to be compiled for the preservation of public life,
of public health, and of public morality. Criminals had
to be regarded rather as reclamable to the paths of
virtue than as obdurately bound to the perpetration
of iniquity. The whole foundations of the social
system had to be removed, to be deepened, to be
strengthened, and, if possible, rendered sufficiently
wide and absolutely immutable. Those were among
the gigantic labours which the newly inaugurated
Government were expected to accomplish, and the ex-
pectations of the community were confirmed by the
solemn assurances and voluntary engagements of the
Cabinet.

! improvement of their estates to certain landlords, who
I might elect to take advantage of its provisions. The
sub'ect is of sufn,ient imnnrt;:r,c,? to warm, 410^ ;n.
troductiuo 4,1 .;
Nothing can be more objectionable than the practice
of including in a single Bill different subjects which
have no immediate connexion with each other. Many
persons might strongly advocate one of the principles
and be as strongly opposed to another. It also leads
to the greatest confusion when matters legislated
on are not even alluded to in the preamble of the
Act. However just or proper the limitation of the
hours of labour in factories in itself might be,
it could scarcely have been introduced as part of a
measure for a repeal of the duty on raw cotton, or for
an advance to certain manufacturers. The principle
should stand or fall on its own intrinsic merits, and
not receive any adventitious aid from another with
which it had been coupled. The MiniAtry have
therefore acted discreetly in limiting the operation of
the clause to the measure then in question, and to
that extent it has been most properly sanctioned. It
is not for the benefit of the Irish landlords only that
the sum of 1,500,0001. is about to be advanced from

the national Exchequer. It is to enable them to pro-
vide
that employment which, from their own limited
resources, they could not have afforded. It is to
enable them to direct the vast quantity of labour now
remaining useless and unproductive into the most
beneficial channels. It is particularly important that
the whole of the money granted by the Legislature
should be appropriated to the purpose for which it was
intended, and that no portion should be applied by the
borrower to his own use, unless some such safeguard
was introduced. This could easily have been effected.
The landowner, who is empowered to select for him-
self the men to whom he will give employment,
might not have taken any who would not consent to
take a portion of land from him at an exorbitant
price, and to devote the greater part of their wages
to the satisfaction of the rent. This evasion will be
rendered impossible by the additional clause, which
provides " that the payment for labour under the Act
shall only be made in the current coin of the realm,''
and the interests of the labourer will be protected in
the most efficient manner.

The miseries which have descended upon Ireland
and upon a considerable portion of Scotland have
hithertb, however, retarded or interrupted the mea-
sures of reform promised by Lord Join; RUSSELL
and his colleagues. Intermittently, it is true, the
educational and sanatory schemes of the Administra- '
tion have been introduced to the notice of the repre-
sentative and hereditary Houses of Legislation; but
the main energies of the Ministry, the main re- ,
sources of the Treasury, the chief amount of
the industry, and eloquence, and sagacity,
and forethought of the Government, have
been devoted to the alleviation of the distresses and
the amelioration of the condition of the suffering
millions of our fellow-countrymen. Can any one,
therefore, conceive for a single instant that the nation is
in any manner aggrieved by the postponement of the
peculiar benefits anticipated from the present Cabinet
on its first formation ? Not, most assuredly, when
all the labours and anxieties of the Government in
connexion with Ireland are taken into consideration.
Had her MAJESTY'S advisers done nothing more
during the course of this onerous and eventful
session than they have actually accomplished for the
population of the sister island, they would have
entitled themselves to the lasting gratitude and re-
membrance of the people. Nor has the assiduity of
the Administration, in striving to diminish the
dreadful effects of the late dispensations of DIVINE
PROVIDENCE, been without its beneficial consequences
in the way of example and incitement. The
benevolence of the Cabinet has influenced the
benevolence of private individuals and public asso-
ciations, it has even operated in eliciting the cordial
assistance of our brethren on the banks of the Ganges,
and of our brethren also by blood on the northern
continent of America. Upon these exhibitions of a
true cosmopolitan charity the Prime Minister of
England very beautifully observed in the banquet-
chamber of the Mansion House, " I rejoice in this
manifestation of sympathy and liberality; it shows
that no remoteness of distance—that no diversity of
institutions—that no records of separation, even
though written in bloody characters—have obliterated
that sympathy which springs from the same origin.
Remembering that they speak the same language as
ourselves—that they read the same authors—
that they have the same precepts of divine truth
by the banks of the Hudson and the Mississippi that
we read from the same sacred volume on the banks
of the Thames and the Shannon—l rejoice that they
have shown the same enlarged spirit of charity and
liberality; and I am sure, whatever may be the mis-
fortune of the present time, there is this consoling
circumstance—a circumstance tending to unite the
two nations in the bonds of brotherhood, kindness,
and affection." Actuated by these high and enno-
bling principles, the Ministers cannot fail to ensure
to themselves, not merely the sympathies of the po-
pulation of these realms, but of the most distant ter-
ritories. Lord JOHN RUSSELL can afford to con-
temn the opprobrious epithets by which he himself
and his Ministerial associates are mentioned by Dr.
M'kLtLE and other malcontents. The Government
has acquired for itself the confidence of the empire
by its determined, temperate, and generous policy.

Generally speaking, any interference between the
labourers and those by whom they are employed is
objectionable ; but when the nation has been called
upon to advance large sums of money for the support
of the starving people, and thus to take upon itself a
duty which should have been performed by the owners
and occupiers of land in Ireland, it becomes necessary to
take steps that may prevent the recurrence of a si-
milar necessity. One of the chief causes that have
led to such an unhappy result, undoubtedly, has been
that the peasantry of the country have been taught
to place their whole dependence on a precarious
crop. In place of obtaining a pecuniary remunera-
tion for their labour, as in this country, and then
purchasing therewith the necessary supplies of food
for their families, they got a slip of land for which
they mortgaged their labour. If it turned out un-
productive, their only resource was in casting them-
selves upon the charity of the public. This cause has
led to periodical famines, and so long as it is suffered
to continue, the like effects will be produced. The
sooner, therefore, that some general measure can be
introduced to do away with the grievance the better
for the country, and we know of none more calcu-
lated to attain that object than a provision making
void any agreement for the payment cf rent by the
labour of the party taking land, and enabling him to
recover the wages of his labour in money, notwith-
standing any such agreement.

The Frankfort Gazette, of the 9th instant, states,
that disturbances connected with the high price of
provisions occurred atLeutmeritz, in Bohemia, on the
Ist instant. The people cut off the ears of a speculator
in corn. The Hanover Gazette, of the 6th instant,
states, that since the 17th ultimo, horse flesh has been
introduced as an article of food amongst the popula-
tion with the best effect; 5,000 lbs. has been already
sold for consumption in the different towns of the
kingdom.

The smack Speedy arrived on Wednesday, at Fal-
mouth, from Lisbon in six days. The mission of
Colonel WYLDE had, it was hoped, proved effective;
and at.the time the Speedy sailed negotiations were
going on between the Junta and the Government.

The Levant mail brings intelligence from Constan-
tinople to the 26th, and from Athens to the 30th ult.
The French fleet, under the command of the Prince
DE JOINVILLE, has arrived in the Archipelago, as has
an Egyptian fleet, MEHEMET ALI having tendered
the services of his fleet to the Porte against Greece.
The Russian Ambassador at Athens has received
orders to support the demand for satisfaction made
by the Porte. COLETTI is tottering to his fall ; his
majority in the Chamber of Deputies having dwindled
down to one vote, and that one vote his own, he has
had recourse to the desperate step of a dissolution.
The Moniteur Grec of the 26th publishes a decree
dissolving the Chamber, and convoking a new one
on the 26th of July.

The present session of Parliament had scarcely
opened before Lord BROUGHAM, malta revolvens,
pointedly recommended that the heads of families
throughout the, Empire should rigidly enforce the
utmost providence in their domestic establishments
with regard to the consumption of bread. The ad-
vice was given upon the sound policy of taking time
by the forelock. It was at once judicious and bene-
volent. The idea was not an original one; but the
circumstances under which his Lordship revived it,
and the value which he properly imparted to it, by a
reference to the humane resolutions adopted, within
his Lordship's memory, by a large number of Peers,
when the country was threatened with an alarming
scarcity of food, entitled the recommendation to a
cordial approval. Mankind at large are averse to
test by due reflection the pvvoyanee of the monitor,
where acquiescence in his views is likely to entail
upon them the prudent necessity of undergoing
any temporary privations. They like to put
off the evil day, and are willing to believe
upon the slenderest data, however specious, that
results will falsify the gloomiest prognostications.
This temperament is peculiar to JOHN Bum.. He is
always grumbling, but at bottom he is ever sanguine.
He retains his confidence to the last, but it is his
humour to conceal the existence of this feeling from
everybody else. The consequence is, that it is fre-
quently impossible to kindle his energies till he finds
himself menaced by some prominent crisis. The
moment, however, that affairs, individual or collec-
tive, have attained to a critical height, JOHN BULL
rushes in medias res, with a remarkable zest. He
relies upon his indomitable spirit for success, and
enjoys his triumphs all the more if he should, in the
first instance, have complicated matters by a perti-
nacious adherence to his otiose propensities. It
troubled him little, at the beginning of the session, to
warn him that extraordinary supplies of foreign corn
must be imported to meet the demand at home,
occasioned by the extensive failure in the potato crop,
and the wants of a population increasing at the rate
of 1,000 a day ; that a vast amount of bullion would
leave our coffers to pay the foreign producers—that
the restrictive conditions of the Bank of England
Charter would consequently impose a serious check
upon credit—that our manufacturing interests would
its effect; and that the demand for labour would
diminish, which, combined with the probable dear-
ness of provisions of all descriptions, would inevitably
lead to great national privation and distress. All this
might be very true, but until he actually felt it, he
would not compromise his accustomed tranquillity.
'The prophecy is now, in a great measure, fulfilled;
:and accordingly communities of all sorts have sent
-up their representatives to Downing-street to detail
'their pressing grievances. Much more, however, de-
p ends upon individuals themselves than upon the Go-
v ernment. Practical conduct is just now the one thing
m ?.edful. Economy should be universally sanctioned.
P cudence demands thus much, though we are far
fr 3in sharing in the apprehensions entertained by
any that the present crisis will be of some dura-
titan- Example is better than precept. Her MAJESTY
s taken the lead : an order was yesterday issued
by the Lord Steward, commanding that for the pre-
s,:7 it no description of flour, except seconds, shall
b e used for any purpose in her MAJESTY'S household,
a n,l that no person in the Palace shall have more than
u. n oh fe p
breadoor will fee
each dth , and the country
a,
thankful, day. lye hope this patriotic
4;3 mple will be speedilymtated throughout the
wi 1 be largely benefited.

Madrid papers of the 6th have arrived.
The QUEEN, accompanied by her uncle and her
sister-in-law, left Madrid on the sth for Aranjuez.
The KING did not accompany her MAJESTY. The
financial plan of Senor SALAMANCA will, it is said,
be carried into effect by a series of royal decrees.
The funeral of CASTRO Y Oaozco, took place on
the 6th, and was attended by the Members of both
Chambers. There were 180 carriages in the pro-
cession.

MADRID BOLSA, MAY 6.—The Three per Cents. were
done at 31% for cash; the Five per Cents. at 19i ; the Debt
without Interest at 534 ; and the Coupons at 16.

We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday.
The severance between the Guizot Conservatives
and the Progressive Conservatives is now complete.
The Debats thus commences its reply to the attack
made by the Presse of the preceding day on the
Ministerial party :

" We will not enter into a long discussion with the chief
and organ of the defunct party of Progressist Conservatives.
There are no longer any Progressist Conservatives; the mask
is thrown off. They have taken a defined position, and they
declare to the majority that its policy conducts to a terrible
revolution! That is frank and honest opposition."

The Debuts then proceeds to attack, with great
severity and sarcasm, the conduct and projects of the
Progressist Conservatives, and concludes as follows:
"A great and very dangerous misunderstanding is for the
futire cleared up. It is now notorious that a cunning oppo-
sition wriggled itself into our ranks, and laboured by sap and
mine to ruin the Conservative party. We had some idea
that this was the case when we saw the chief of these pre-
tended Conservatives blame, under pretext of independence,
sometimes the foreign, sometimes the domestic policy, of the
G wernment and the Chambers. Whoever has followed the
se doublepr epe•rfinacgedteapniday
tdhoeuble same double-voting
Conservatives. history of the last Legislature, is not ignorant that all the
esti em-
barrassments of the Ministry, all the crises of the majority
were caused
%e.es. by these
e
were
in the present Legislature ; but we congratulate ourselves on
having unmasked them. Their intrigue, caught in the fact,
no longer frightens us. We know what they are, and what
they desire ; and that is important. The Opposition opens
its arms to them. As for ourselves we will no longer consi-
der as Conservatives the men who believe they characterise
the policy followed during seventeen years by these three
words—' Nothing! nothing ! nothing!' But there will still
remain two very precious things to the new Progressist party
and its chief—the esteem of the ATational and the praises of
the Augsburg Gazette—praises which everybody can com-
mand who will."
The recent changes in the Ministry are commented
on in all these papers. The Constitutionnel says—.
" It will be seen by the royal ordonnances that the retire-
ment of M. Lacave Laplange was not a voluntary one. He
persisted to the last, with a pride which does him honour,
in refusing to give in his resignation. He would not meekly
submit to the insulting want of good faith of his colleagues,
and has openly protested against the odious and pitiable cal-
culation of men, who think to expiate the common fault by
the sacrifice of the person amongst them who was the least
culpable. In compelling the other Ministers to dismiss him,
M. Lacave Laplange has deprived them of the entire benefit
which they hoped to derive from his removal. He has
denounced them aloud as the first authors of the disorders,
the deficit, and the gaspillage • he has cast upon them the
responsibility which they had imagined they could throw
upon him."
The Constitutionnel then remarks on the men who
have been chosen to fill up the gaps in the Adminis-
tration, after, as it asserts, all others who were ap-
plied to had refused to join the Cabinet :
" We will say nothing of General Trezel, an ultra-Con-
servative from conviction, but personally so respectable that
he disarms criticism. All the rest of the combination still
further weakens instead of strengthening the Ministry. M.
Damon did will show more character in the Finances than
he did in the department of Public Works. He is capable
of learning what M. Lacave Laplagne already knew ; but
for some time to come he will be much less conversant with
such matters than his predecessor was. M. Jayr was a
I.eettiadygood. Prefect, but he is otherwise of inferior mind.
accomplished his political career when he reached
the Prefecture of Lyons,
and had even exceeded the point to
which his ambition
Montebellochoice of M. de
as
Ministerculd justly soar. The
eof Marine is supremely ridiculous.
We can comprehend that t an effort should be made to place
at the head of this department a man who does not belong to
the navy, but he ought to be at least a skilful adaduis.

VI e Government have adopted the suggeston offered
by th e Duke of WELL INGTON while the Landed Pro-
pe ny (Ireland) Bill was in Committee, so far as the
pap nent of the labourers under that Bill is concerned.
it v ,could scarcely have been proper, however mils-
alai evous the practice complained of had been, to in.
Itroduce a clause interfering materially with the em-
gioym,vnt of labour throughout the country in a Bill
aviiich yas only intended to afford facilities for the

trator. The person chosen is an Ambassador who has ac- WORSHIP-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
quired some diplomatic experience in little courts, but who I James StiVox, 16 yet -a of age, and formerly in the em-
has not been an administrator in any way. It is the history~YTn , ;
of the dancer of Figro. Titus the effect produced by tl.l ; ,
with I
et eLai eti V, I,h i, he tett,,wing robbery and embezzlement
ceived rel laugh, except by the most Ministerial I Mr. Jennings stated that the prisoner, who had formerly
members of the majority, who, however, are discontented been in his employment, left it on the 20th of March
and sad." Two days afterwards, however, witness discovered that he
All the Opposition journals are equally severe on was still acting the calling as usual upon his customers, I.e-
-the new appointments. The Presse declares that " the mthaendrioncgetedhse fgoaphlsrso,
wrenceuisveing the moneys, and appropriating
three vacant portfolios were offered from door to door, The prisoner, who said nothing in his defence, was
but none would accept them, not even the most de- ordered to be again brought up previous to his committal for
voted friends, such as M. VITET, which proves that trial.
no great confidence is entertained in the stability of
the Cabinet. It is, in fact, a Cabinet worn out. In
this respect neither M. GUIZOT nor M. DUCHATEL
entertained any illusions ! They admit that tiaey
have only wished to gain a little time, in hopes that
some favourable circumstances may permit them to
withdraw with dignity, as they might have done
when they experienced the first check."
The Courrier _Francais states that the Ministers
have refused to give Admiral MACKAU the command
of the squadron in the South Seas, for which he had
applied.
In the Chamber of Deputies, on Tuesday, M. ODILON
BARROT asked for explanations respecting the recent
Ministerial changes, and M. GUIZOT named Friday as
the day on which he should be at the service of the
Chamber, to answer any questions that might be
proposed to him on the subject. A Bill was brought
in by the Minister of Commerce on Monday extend-
ing the time for the free importation of corn into
France to the 31st of October.
In the sitting of Monday M. CREMIEUX, in moving
his resolution to prevent Deputies from taking part
in public companies, made some slight allusion to the
recent Ministerial changes, but such was the length
and discursiveness of the speaker, that M. Dusion,
the new Finance Minister, was enabled to give them
the go-bye. M. GRA UDIN then attempted Ito elicit
some explanations from the Ministers, but their
friends, to prevent the questions being heard, set up
a loud shouting, and a scene of disgraceful uproar
and confusion ensued, and which was characterised
by the President as most unwarranted and most in-
decent. The Chamber decided to take the proposi-
tion of M. CREMIEUX into consideration.
The Moniteur announces that the importation' of
grain and flour into France during the second fort-
night of Aptil amounted to 790,445 hectolitres, or
59,280 tons.
The quantities imported from the first of July,
1846, to the Ist of May, 1847, amounted to 6,695,431
hectolitres.
The Semaphore de Marseilles of the Bth instant
announces the receipt of private letters from Malaga,
brought on the 7th inst. by the Sphynx steamer,
mentioning that the Consul of France in that city
had been informed by the Spanish Governor of
Melilla that ADD 13L-KADER had forwarded to him a
second letter for the French Government, offering to

submit.
The Paris Bourse on Tuesday displayed symptoms
of recovery, although to only an unimportant extent.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
that day at 78f. the Five per Cents., 115 f. 90c. ;
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,233 f. 75c. ; Rouen, 936 f. 25c. ;
Havre, 655 f. 50c.; Great orthern, 606 f. 25c.; Avignon,
761 f. 25c. ; Vierzon, 590 f. ; Bordeaux, 511 E 25c. ; Bou-
logne, 4051. ;_ Basle, 1881. 75c.; Paris and Strasburg, 420 f. ;
Tours and Nantes, 407 f. 50c.; Paris and Lyons, 435 f ' •
Lyons and Avignon, 432 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 4411.
25c.; Belgian Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 531/2.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 12.
Boulogne and Amiens, 15%8 —Dutch Rhenish, 31,4—Lyons
and Avignon (Constituted), DA—Namur and Liege, 4
Northern of France, 115 A—Paris and Lyons, 4 Vs—Paris
and Rouen, 361/1.

HONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was dull. Sales
4,000 bales, at previous rates.—Railway Shares were a shade
better, but there was still a good deal of heavy stock pressing
for sale.
Accounts have been received from the Cape of Good Hope
dated the 9th of March. Sir Henry Pottinger had held a
levee, and received the inhabitants with great kindliness
and sincerity, assuring them of his determination to use vi-
gorously, and yet prudently, the great power entrusted to
him, and at the same time to endeavour to settle the affairs
of the frontier on a permanent basis. According to the
official returns made up for the year to January 5, the
exports of wool, beef, butter, and various other valuable
productions, had fallen off considerably compared with 1846,
owing to the abandonment of farms and loss of sheep and
cattle during the war.
Under the assumed name of " Tristram Trye," a party has
appeared in the currency field, as an advocate of 11. notes, or
at least of a measure compelling the Bank at all times to keep
a much larger reserve of specie, so as to enable it to continue
its usual accommodation to the public after the export of live
or six millions. The writer's views appear to have attracted
much attention at Liverpool, and are entitled, in many
points, to general consideration. He remarks :
" The Bank of England holds, we suppose, ten millions of
specie for twenty millions of notes out; 'she exchanges five
millions of bullion for five millions of notes; she has now,
instead of the proportion of ten millions to twenty, only five
of bullion to fifteen of notes. To adjust this variation in
the proportions of the basis, comes in the enforcing
the true principles of currency' of Mr. S. J. Loyd, '
namely, to contract the total circulation of paper, until
the proportions of the original basis are restored. Now it
will be evident that, to render this theory consistent, even
with itself, one thing is required, namely, that a return be
made of the total amount of coin in circulation. You must
know this first—you must know it exactly: and yet the
theorists act without such knowledge, and such fundamental
knowledge appears never by them to have been sought for as
a part of the true principle of currency.' If the total circu-
lation of notes were 40, and of specie '2O, and 5 of the latter
be exported, it is evident that if the relative value of the paper
to the specie can be sustained only by taking more than five
from the forty, you must take ten. You will then have the
proportion of fifteen of specie to thirty of notes, which is
the same as twenty to forty. This 15 all plain enough. Let
us try a converse application to the rule. Let us have a
total circulation of eighty in specie to forty in notes
Let five of the specie be exported, reducing the former*
to seventy-five against thirty. five in notes. You can
sow only restore the original relative value of the paper
circulation, by making the Bank of England re-issue two and
a half of paper! You will then have seventy-five of specie
to thirty-seven and a half of paper—the original proportion.
But to keep the currencies of the same relative value, they
must 'be kept at all times of the same amount.' Now, ac-
cording to the most authentic estimate (for this is all you can
obtain, and therefore the theorists never can see the
barometer to use it as they pretend), there is in circula-
tion of gold alone sixty to seventy millions. There must
be also twenty to twenty-five millions of silver money. It
is perfectly safe, however, to estimate the two at an average
of eighty millions; and the paper being forty, what is the
consequence in connexion with the rule before us ? That
you can only equalise the specie and paper circulation con-
formably with the rule, after losing five from the former, by
augmenting the paper from forty to seventy-five millions !
We appeal to the senior Wrangler whether this is not sound
logic? Is it not, at least, as reasonable that the Bank cir-
culation should confirm to the bullion standard of the coun-
try, as that the circulation of the latter should conform to ti.e
bullion of the Bank ?"
The English Funds have improved this morning, in con-
sequence partly of the Bank of England having made ar-
rangement for accommodating parties with money at a rea-
sonable rate, upon the deposit of stock. This, while it gives
ease, may prevent sales of Consols. We believe the opera-
tion is connected with the loan of stock made to various par-
ties by the Bank some time since. Consols have been
871/s %, but are now 87 to 1/8 for transfer, and
for time they have varied from 871/s to 871/s.
Exchequer-bills have been 4s. premium to par. Bank
Stock is worth 18914 to 191. East India Stock is at 240.
The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have realised
8714 3/4*
The Foreign Bonds have been very dull. Nothing has
been done in Portuguese, although the accounts received
this morning state that negotiations were in progress between
the Junta and the Government. Spanish Three per Cents.
are 333/4 ; Mexican, 20; and Brazilian 82 to IA.
The market for Shares is still languid.
BR 1 T ISII FUNDS. ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock •• 189% 191 19i
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 86% % 86 86 N
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. 87 36 %% 67 871,i
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 87% 87%
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 8 15-16 9 9
India Stock .. . .. 240 240
Consols for May 27 .. .. • • • • •• 87% 87 g
India Stock for Account .. 242
Exchequer Bills. l % d. 2d.
1,0001... .... 4 p par 1 p
5001. ~ 1 p 4 p
Ditto, Small 6 4 p - 4 p
ONE CLOSING
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 82% 82 82
Ditto, Small .. • • .. 82% 83 83
Equador Bonds .. .. 3 3
Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent .. 20 193
Russian Bonds .. 109 108% 103 g 10914
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 22% 22%
Ditto, for the Account .. —22 l
Ditto, Passive Bonds —4%
Ditto, Deferred .. 16 16
Ditto, Three per Cent • .. • • • • 33% 3331
Ditto, for the Account .. 3338
Div;dendA on the above payable in Lendon.
Dutch Two-and-a-Hall per Cent .. 57% 57%
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 87% 88 88'4
PRICES OF BUSINESS CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES. PAID. DONE AT PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.
Aberdeen.. .. .. 30 .... .... •• • ... 23