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duty, as public journalists, to expose the fallacies of
which they are founded, and to enter our protest
against the evil precedents of again recurring to ex-
ploded doctrines and vicious principles.
The session of 1846 was remarkable for the total
abolition of monopoly, and what has been most
improperly termed protection. Class legislation
received its death-blow ; and we could scarcely
have supposed that gentlemen, who were arrayed in
the ranks of the free-traders in their glorious con-
flict and triumphant victory, should be found seriously
pressing upon the attention of the Government the
propriety of preserving for their own exclusive
benefit a taxation, not for the purposes of re-
venue, but of protection, amounting almost
to a prohibition, and practically creating
a monopoly in an article of very general
consumption. Yet such has been the conduct of the
Irish distillers, and such would be the result, if any
weight were given to the arguments of the gentlemen
forming the deputation from that body, who waited
on the Secretary for Ireland on Saturday last.
The object of that deputation was " to represent
the ruinous effect that the diminution of the
duty on rum would have on the distilling
trade throughout Ireland, and to claim, on
grounds of justice and sound policy, that
the projected diminution of duty should be of a tem-
porary, and nct of a permanent character." Hitherto
the extraordinary duty charged on rum has nearly
banished it from the Irish market. In 1809, the
average annual consumption of rum in Ireland
amounted to no less than one million gallons, whereas
for the last four or five years it has diminished to
thirteen thousand, twelve thousand, and even eleven
thousand gallons in each year: this was owing chiefly
to the duty being 6s. Bd. per gallon higher than that
on spirit manufactured in Ireland. It was not for
the purpose of encouraging the consumption of
ardent spirits, or the trade of the distiller in that
country, that the duty on Irish spirits was fixed at
the low rate of 2s. Bd. per gallon ; of all articles
it was that which might most justly be taxed,
and the diminution in the production of which would

PART 11. of BI:TAKE'S HISTORY
OF THE
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manner in which the subject is treated, that the learned
Theban who wrote the article has never read the treaty.
This argument from the treaty of 1824, which was used
by the National of Sunday, is disposed of by the Journal
des Debuts in the following satisfactory manner :
"All the argumentation of the National consists in this
—the occupation of the island of Labuan by England is an
usurpation committed in direct violation of the treaty passed
in London on March 17, 1824, between England and Hol-
land, of which latter country the treaty guarantees the rights
over Labuan. The National appears to think that we
'ire ignorant of the existence of this treaty, and of the
representations which the journals of the Hague and
Batavia, in grounding themselves on it, have put forward
whenever there was a question of Labuan. It is mistaken.
As we said on Saturday, it is a long time since this matter
has been projected, and however ill-informed we may be
thought, it is not reasonable to suppose that some fragment of
the discussion that has anien in England and Holland on
this subject should not have reached us. Far from that, we
desired to search into the matter ourselves, and we have done
what the National ought undoubtedly to have done before
launching forth somewhat rashly into the question. We
have read the treaty of 1824, the basis of the discussion and
of the rights of both parties. We have it at this moment
before us, and we arm that in none of its 17 articles is it
possible, unless one is blinded by personal interest or by
foolish passions, to find anything that is contrary to the
creation of English establishments at Labuan, or even in the
independent part of Borneo. This treaty, which regulates at
present in a sovereign manner the respective situations of
England and Holland in the Malay archipelago, allows to
Holland the entire possession of Sumatra, and to England
that of the peninsular of Molacca. It confirms the rights of
Great Britain to Singapore and the abandonment of all pre-
tensions on her part to the islands situated to the south of
that establishment; it stipulates the reciprocal admission of
the vessels and subjects of the two Powers to all their pos-
sessions, except the Moluccas; it treats of the Celebes, Timor,
Ceram, of little isles like Battam, intang, or Lingin, but it
says not a word of Borneo, and contains nothing which can
apply to the present matter. In even reading attentively the
treaty, and the documents annexed to in studying their
spirit, and seeking to
.explain the results which they are
destined to produce, it is difficult for an impartial mind not
to arrive at the conclusion that in what concerns Borneo and
the isles dependent on it, the intention of the negotiators was
to reserve the question, or still better, to allow it to follow its
natural course without making it the object of any particular
stipulation, and to have recourse for the future to the pre-
scriptions of the law of nations."
The debate in the Chamber of Deputies on the Address
^ommenced on Monday, but as the Address is debated
paragraph by paragraph, it is supposed that the discus-
sion on the Spanish marriages will not take place until
Thursday. The following addition to the paragraph in
the Adepts on the Montpensier marriage will be pro-
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be bailed with the greatest delight by the philan-
thropist. But its use could not be wholly abolished,
or even materially checked, by any amount of tax-
ation, or any restrictive measures. An attempt to do
so would inevitably lead to illicit distillation on a
gigantic scale, and the demoralisation of vast num-
bers of the peasantry—indeed of all classes of
society. As the Chancellor of the Exchequer
most truly stated, " the only limit to the
amount of duty on spirits is the risk of illicit dis-
tillation ;" the measure of the duty should therefore
be the facilities and opportunities afforded in each of

" If, on the occasion of that event, any difference has ma-
nifested itself between your Government and that of a
neighbouring people, France has a right upon reckoning that
the good relations shall be re-established, without costing
anything either to her interests or her dignity."
On Monday, M. ROGER (du Nord) opened the de-
bate by censuring the conduct of the Ministry, in regard
to the occupation of Cracow, as wanting in dignity; he
was followed by M. DESNONVEAUX DE GIVRE, who de-
fended the Ministerial policy with regard to Cracow ;
Ind after a speech from M. GARNIER PAGES, the general
discussion closed, and the first paragraph of the Address
was agreed to.

The Three per Cents. fell 60c. on the Paris Bourse on
Monday, apprehensions being entertained that public
tranquillity might be disturbed in that capital in conse-
quence of the increased price of bread. As measures of
precaution, the military posts had been doubled and the
troops had been confined to their barracks.
The Three per Cents, closed on the Paris Bourse on
Monday at 771. 70c. ; the Five per Cents., 1171. 80c.;
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,220 f. ; Rouen, 875 f. ;
Havre, 6801.; Great Northern. 606 f. 25c; Avignon, 820 f.;
Vierzon, 570 f. ; Bourdeaax, 540 f.; Basle, 205 f. ; Paris and
Strasburg, 4701.; Tours and Nantes, 4661. 25c.; Paris and
Lyons, 487 f. 50c.; Lyons and Avignon, 480 f. ; Bourdeaux
sad Cette, 450 f. ; Spanish Three per Cents., 34.
MAassittas, JAN. 27. Marseilles and Avignon, 8421.
50c.; Northern, 620 f.

the countries for the production of contraband spirits.
This varies materially in different localities, for while
75. 10d. per gallon can be levied in England, it was
found that 3s. Bd. was the maximum that could be
obtained in Scotland, while any attempt to raise a
higher duty than 2s. Bd. in Ireland was invariably
defeated, and led to the most injurious results to the
fair trader, and occasioned the working of an in-
credible number of potteen stills, and almost universal
breaches of the Excise-laws in that country. For
that reason, therefore, and that reason only, the
duties in the several parts of the United Kingdom
were fixed at 7s. 101, 3s. Bd., and 2s. Bd. respec-
tively, and a great boon was thus given to the Irish
distillers, which it is not desired or intended to take
from them.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEBRUARY 2

Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 125(,,—Dutch Rhenish,
4 East Indian, %—Great Southern of Madras, —Namur and
Liete, 2k—Northern of Franca, l 2 IA —Orleans and Bordeaux, 7
Sambre and Meuse, 6% —Tours and Nantes, :N.

The reduction now about to be made in the duties
on rum is a just debt due to our West Indian
colonists. They are our fellow-subjects, and entitled
to all the rights and privileges of British citizer z.
Up to the last session of Parliament a certain pro-
tection was afforded to ti.e staple commodities of the
West India islands, which was then withdrawn for
the general benefit of the entire kingdom:; the colonists
had a just claim for the abolition of all injurious
restrictions on the use of their produce. It should,
in justice to them, have been contemporaneous with
the withdrawal of protection. But, although the
equity of the claim was acknowledged, and a Minis-
terial, indeed a legislative, promise given foritheir re-
lief, the measures calculated to effect the object were
necessarily postponed to the present time. A
differential duty of sixpence per gallon, it was,
on due investigation, found, might justly be retained
as an equivalent for the disadvantages to which the

home distillers are subjected by the Excise regula-
tions, and that is given to the Irish and Scotch as
well as to the English distiller; and, therefore, none
have any just cause of complaint. If the Irish dis-
tillers sought an abolition of the restrictions on the
use of Irish spirit in this country, and that (on pay-
ment of the difference of duty) the same freedom of
transit from Ireland to England should be
allowed that is now sanctioned from one part of Ire-
land
to another, their claim would receive the sup-
port to which it was justly entitled, and its concession
would lead to a great increase in the quantity of Irish
spirits consumed in this country.

It will be remembered that one of the first acts of the
Provisional Government of Geneva, after the late revolu-
tion, was to declare thst it would hold the members of
the last Council responsible for all the damage caiesed by
the troops in the attempt to resist the insurrection. The
amount of damage having been estimated at 4.2',000E,
the members of the late Council were ordered to pay it.
They refused, on the ground that their conduct in the
insurrection was imposed upon them by the law for the
preservation of public order; but a decree having been
obtained from the tribunal for immediate paymenr, they
yielded to force, and paid the money. A few days ago
several of the citizens of Geneva held a meeting for the
purpose of raising a subscription to repay the sut a thus
unjustly wrung from the members of the late Govern-
ment. The latter, however, have, in an address to their
fellow-citizens thanking them for their sympathy,
da-
dined receiving the proposed reimbursement.

Madrid papers to the 26th ult. have arrived. They
cont in no intelligence. No Ministry had been !ormed
up to that date.

MADRID BOLSA, JAN. 26.—The Three per Cents.
closed on that day at 31 15.16; the Five per Cents. at
21 15.16; Csupons at 181,

Accounts from Constantinople, dated 13th 'Ja nuary,
announce that the Cireassians have gained a brilliant
victory over the Russians. Ou the 19th December they
stormed Marquki, having completely defeated tli9 Rus-
sians, and killed great numbers of them. The Loss of
the Circassians was 300 men. When the accoutt2s left
they were preparing to attack Abouhour.

We have received the Paris papers of Monday:.
The note of M. GUIZOT, in reply to Lord PAL 'MRS-.
TON, is the subject of comment in all of them. The
Debats, the Epoque, and the Presse are the only
papers that support M. G tazoT, and it is easy to judge
of the necessity to which they a•e reduced, when e►.e find
the Epoque actually praising M. GUIZOT for the 44 can•
dour, uprightness, and frankness" which he hat: ex-
hibited from the beginning to the end of these !nego-
tiations. The Opposition papers of all shades COI2 eider
this last note as a failure. The Conszitutionnel says
of it—
'• There is nothing new in this fresh pleading of M. Geraizot,
no serious refutation of the conclusions so clearly to be cirawn
from the documents produced by each party ; nothht o can
be more empty than this last document, drawn up as if by
a Procureur, who fancies he is refuting arguments by pre-
tending not to have heard them."

The Siecle comments on it in the same strain, and
adds the following:—

"M. Guizot devotes a great portion of his dispatAlh to
prove to Lord Palmerston that it is the latter who, by di irect-
ing several of his criticisms against the acts attribute I by
him to inviolable persons, has dictated the principle adir lifted
in England as in France, that the King can do no w rong.
This argument would make a good article in the colure ns of
the Journal des Debats; but it is not the less true the t the
only means of seriously carrying this principle into prs ,ctice
is never to speak either of the acts or personal opinions ..of the
Prince, and to deliver up to controversy only the ac is and
opinions of the Government."
The Commerce considers the conduct of M. G
from the moment Lord PALMERSTON entered off ioei to
be proof that the French Minister, and those with
whom he was acting, were engaged in an intrig u e to
overthrow the Whigs and to bring back the Torios.
The Quotidienne and the France are to the I'll,ll as
Levere in their strictures on M. GU/ZOT as the Lib eral
papers are. Speaking of the justification offered by
the Dibats for M. GUIZOT'S reserve to Lord 2 TOR-
MANBY, the France says—
" Nothing authorised M. Guizot to reveal his secr.!!`..s to
the English Ambassador; nothing prescribed an impre dent
confidence in the man charged with the support of rivi d in-
terests; but there is a distinction between the reserve com-
manded by policy and the mesquineries alid falsehood s dis-
avowed by a sense of dignity, which M. Guizot app a Ars to
have disregarded."
The Presse is outrageous with England for taking
possession of Labuan; and, following in the wake of the
National of the preceding day, splutters a vast deal ;about
the violation by England of the treaty of 1824, by • such
taking possession. It is evident, however, fro. lA, the

THE SUN, LO.NDON, WEDNE'SDAY Mi'ENING, FEBRUARY 8, i 847.

Mr Bnekworth's Bashful beat Mr. Squire's Odessa.
Mr. Vipan's Viola beat Mr. Fyson's Fatima.

THE PORT STAKES.
Lord Stradbroke's Mae beat Mr Dobede's Dunkirk.
Mr. Gillett nd F'oxhuuter beat Mr. B. Smyth's Surrey.
Mr. King's Rhea beat Mr. I'N-son's Fair Maid.
Mr. Dobede's Destiny beat Mr. Fyson's Flash.
Mr. Buckworth's Brutus beat Lord Stradbroke's Mintman.
Lord Stradbroke's Mainmast beat Mr. Vipan's Varua.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QV:II:TER TO THREE.
The Cotton-market at Liverpool yesterday was quiet.
Sales, 1,500 to 2,000 bales only, of which speculators took
600 bales American. Railway Shares were lower generally.
The sale of Railway Shares, yesterday, by Messrs. Lamond
and Co., was well attended, and, although prices were a shade
lower, a good business was done. Many purchasers for
investment were present, who took off the better descrip-
tions of shares readily. The following are a few of tke
principal sales :
London and Manchester (Remington's) £0 7 6
Great Western of Bengal 0 5 0
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole 1 18 0
Shropshire Union and Canal 1 8 0
Northern Counties Union
Taw Vale Extension and Dock ..
Northern and Southern Connecting
Madrid and Valencia. 0 14 6
Buckinghamshire 4 6 0
Paris and Lyons
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 3 19 0
Eastern Counties, York Extension 4 13 0
Caledonian .
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham 6lO 0
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A) 4 0 0
East Lincolnshire
Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock 2 17 0
Accounts, per Northumberland packet-ship from New
York, have been forwarded to the North and South Ame-
rican Coffee-House. The dates were January 12th. The
corn trade was dull, and cotton was quiet, though it main-
tained its value. The Mexican war was likely to continue,
as the Congress had adopted Santa Anna's view, and decided
that there should be no treating fur peace while the American
troops were in the country. Respecting the Government
pecuniary wants, we are advised that—
The refusal of Congress to levy a duty upon tea and
coffee has defeated all the calculations of the Secretary of
the Treasury, and compelled him to look about for other
ways and means to raise the revenue and to increase the
credit of the Government. It appears that Mr. Walker
assured those who took the last loan that a duty of twenty-
five per cent. should be placed upon tea and coffee, and it
was upon that assurance the favorable bids were made. We
have no doubt but that the depreciation in the market prices
of the new United States 6's has been in a measure produced
by the vote in the House of Representatives upon the reso-
tion to tax tea and coffee.
Messrs. Ferguson and Taylor write from Manchester:—
" There is certainly nothing in the aspect of our foreign or
colonial markets, nor in the social condition of our home popu-
lation, to encourage a hope of that large demand immediately
springing up which would fully employ all the productive
resources of our cotton manufacturers. On the contrary, the
likelihood of high prices for food continuing, at least
for some months, to rule in this and neighbouring
nations, must tend materially to abridge demand for
manufactures; the drain of money in payment for
imports of foreign grain, to supply the national
loss of several millions of wealth, occasioned by the failure of
the potato crop in Ireland ; the necessary increase in the
rates of discount, and accompanying contraction of the sprin4s
of commerce; the uncertainty of an increase in our local and
national burdens, consequent on the calamity which has
fallen upon Ireland in the first place,—all these cir-
cumstances conspire to render highly probable the fact of
a diminished consumption of goods, and a consequent
decline in their value. On the other hand, the opinion is
pretty generally received that there will be a deficient sup-
ply of cotton, and that the present high rates will be firmly
upheld; and this fact is relied on by many who infer that a
limitation of production will, before long, be rendered ine-
vitable, and that the downward tendency in the prices of
ylltris and goods will be arrested. The ultimate supply of
cotton yet remains problematical. and, as we have no longer
any confidence in manufacturers regulating their production
by the c,rcemstances of the times or the simple rules of
commercial policy, we cannot at present venture to suggest
to our friends how best to time their investments, whilst so
many conflicting influences appear to bear upon the future."
The English Funds have been rather better to-day, though
still somewhat fluctuating. Consols have been 90% to 91 ys
for present transfer and time. New Three .and-a Quarter
per Cents. have been 92% to 931/ ; and the Three per Cents.
90% to 9114. Bank Stock has been firm at 203 to 204.
Exchequer-bills have been 3s. to 6s. premium.
The Foreign Bonds have been very dull. Spanish Three
per Cants' have been 34% 3/4, and Mexican 22. Chilian
have been 941, and Brazilian 85.
Shares have been rather firmer.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)

Bank Stock .: .• •• • • • • .. 204 203
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities • • 911,6 90% 911 9
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .. 91 90% 91%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 93 92% 93%
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 9 9-16 %
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, IMO .. 9%
Consols for Account .. 90% 91
Exchequer Bills. 13( d. I%d.
1,0001. • • .. •• .. • . 63 pm.
500/. .. .... 5 pm.
Ditto, Small •• .. .... 6 7 4 pm.
PRICES OF WOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .• • . 85
Chili= Bonds, 6 per Cent. •. • • 94%
Mexican, 1846, 5 per Cent •. .. 22
Ditto, for the Account .. .• 22
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. ..
Ditto, Three per Cent .. ..
Ditto, for the Account .. • • 34%54
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian Fonr-and-a-Half per Cent. 94%

BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Birmingham and Oxford Junction .. 5 .. 13%54 -to
Birmingham, woiver., and Dudley 425... p• • to
Birmingham, Wolver., & Stour Valley 5 .... 7 .• to
Caledonian .. .. • • • • •. 30 .... 26% .... to
Ditto, Half Shares .. • • • .236 .... 214 %.. to
Direct Northern Scrip .. .... 2% •. • • to
Eastern Counties .. .• • • • • 20 .... 21% 3l .. to
Ditto, York Extension .• • . 4 .. • . •. • • to
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. • • •• 50 .... ••.. to
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. • • .. 12% .... 18% .... to
Edinburgh and Northern 121/ .... to
Ditto, New .. .. • • • . .... 3 .... to
Ely and Huntingdon . • • • • 12% .... 13% .... to
Great Northern (London & York Regd) 234 .• .. 2% 3.. to
Ditto (Direct Northern Regd.) • • 334 .... 3% %••to
Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 27% 26% .. ••to
Great North of England. .. • • • • 100 .... ...• to
Ditto, New .. .• • • .. .. 5 .... 59% .... to
Great 'Western •• • • • • .. 85 .. ..124 .. •• to 125
Ditto, Half Shares .. • • 50 .• • • 72 .• . to 73
Ditto Quarter Shares • . • • .. 12% .... 19 . %
•...• to
Ditto, Fifths .. .• .• • • .. 20 .29 ... •to Ditto, --
New •• .. •• .. .... 9 .... to 8%
Leeds and Bradford .. .. 35 .... 81% .... to
Leeds and Thirsk • • • • • . 22% —••. • to
Do., do., Preference, •6
per Cent .. 336.... 4% .... to
Liverpool, Manch, and Newc. Junct. 2% .... 2 .... to
Loudon, Brighton, and South Coast • • 50 .... 554 .... to
Ditto, Consolidated Fifths .. .. 50 .... 53% .... to
London and North-Western .. ..100 ....191 .... to 192
Ditto, Quarters .. • • ~ 2 .... to
Ditto ditto New .. • . . 2 .... 1414 to 14
Ditto, Fifths 2 .... 19M . .. to 19
London and South-Western 411.65. 10d..... •• • • to
Ditto, Tenths .. • 5 .... 514 %.• to
Ditto, Scrip •• • • 5 .... 534%.• to
London and York Extension Scrip .. 236 .... 2% .... to
Londonderry and Coleraine .. .. 1736 .... 1034.... to
Lynn and Dareham .. • • •. 15 . 16%.... to
Manchester and Leeds . . •82 ....108 .... to
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... 1% .... to
Midland •• •• •• .. —lOO —.12336 to 124
Ditto, New .. .. • • • • • . 30 •• . • 35 •••• to
Ditto, New 2 .... 6 .... to 5%
Newcastle and Berwick .. 20 ....3234 3134 to 32
North British .. • • .. • • 25 .... 34 }4 14,.. to
Ditto, Quarters •
.. 234 .... 414.... to
Ditto, Extension .. % 1% .... to
Ditto, Thirds . • .. 1 3%.. • . to
North Staffordshire .. .. 5 8 .... to
North Western .. .. ••-... 2% .... .... to
Scottish Midland .. • • • • • 17% .. •.2120 }. to 21
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A) .• 3 .... 4 .... to
Shropshire Union . .• •• • • 425..... % di& .• to
South Eastern and Dover .. • • • .331.25. 4d. 371 .... to
South Wales .. .. • • • • • lO .. • • 7% .. ••to
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, & Goole 2.. 1% 2.. to 1%
York and Newcastle •• • • •25 .• • • 37 .... to 36%
Ditto, New,
.. 5 .... 11% .... to
Ditto, Preference .• ••••2 .. • . 634 .• to York and North Midland .. •• 50 .... ••.. to
Ditto, Half Shares .• • • •25 .•• 45 .... to 4434
Ditto, Selby .. .. • • • • .. 50 .. •• 89 .... to
Ditto, Extension .. •• • • .. 20 .... 3636 ...• to 36
Ditto, Preference •• • • • - 2 .... 11% %.. to
Ditto East and West RidingExtenslon 5 .... 17 .... to 16%
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens .• • • .. 18 .. • • 13%..., to 14M
Dutch Rhenish ••..•••• • • 7 • • .• .• ••to 4M
Luxembourg .. • • .. • • • . • . 6 •• • • 1% ...• to 1 2
Norther], of France • • ,• • • • • 8 .. • • 12 11% to 12
Rouen aad Havre .. . .. 20 .• 26; 1.... to

MINES
al del Monte, Unregistered • • • • •• •• 334 •• • to -
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.-(YESTERDAY.)
Amsterdam ......C.F. 12 3% Gibraltar.. ......
Ditto, at sight ...... 12 % Leghorn ........ • • .... 30 45
Rotterdam ...... 2U. 12 4 Genoa ............ •• .. 25 85
Antwerp 25 75 Milan ..
Hamburgh .... • . MX. 13 834 Venice ........ ••• • • •
Altona ......... .... — Naples ...... • • .... • • 40%
hula, 3 days' sight ...• 25 40 Palermo, per 0z... .
Ditto, 3 months.. 25 75 Lisbon...
Marseilles .......• 25 85 0p0rt0.......... ••
80urdeaux......... .. 25 85 Rio Janeiro • ...... • • 2'7 Frankfort on Maine.... 120% Bahia ......
BerlinPetersburgh, 3Us .... Buenos Ayres•
Berlin .......... ••• • • • New York, 21 days' sight
Vienne,
a, effec.flo.... • • 10 3 New
.......... rriest ditt0...... • ... 10 3 PRICES OP BULLION, PER oz.
Madrid ...... • 35% Foreign Gold in bars ...£3 17 9
Cadiz .. •.. : .... •• . • 3634 New Dollars .... •• 0 4 10%
8i1ba0.......... •• • • Portugal Gold Coin
Barcelona .........• Spanish Doubloons
• • .........• • • Silver In !Ara •• •• 03 0%

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY)
LONDON, FEB. 3. Wind N.E. by N., light breeze and
hazy.

DEAL, FEB. 2.—Wind N.E. to N.N.E., fresh and squally.
—Arrd. Louisa Maria, Weuk, New York ; Anna Margaretha,
Rumsden, New York; and both sailed for Antwerp; Mari-
ner°, Mendez, Havannah, and sailed for Hamburg ; Henry
Skelton, Long, Baltimore. Sld. Sharp, Cape of Good Hope;
Arab, Cape Coast Castle; Cato, St. Vincent's; Osbert, Do-
minica; Planet, Jamaica; Caroline, Havannah; Circassian
and Corsair, New Orleans; Zealous, Charlestou.
Foots, FEB. 2. Wind Arrd. Nymph, Thomer,
Newfoundland.
PLYMOUTH, FEB. B.—Wind N.N.E.—Sid. John Oldham,
Jamaica.

FALMOUTH, FEB. 2.—Wind Glasgow,E.N.E.—Off Off port, Helen, of
Moulmin, for London. Sld. Hindoo, Cape of
Good Hoye.
PORT TALBOT, FEB. I.—Wind E N.E.—Arrd. Dominica,
Storach, Quebec.
GLOUCESTER, FEB. 2.—Arrd. Daniel Webster, New York;
Albion, Bowman, Quebec.
BERWICK, Fan. I.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. Margaret Hardy,'
Mann, Callao.
Exmourn.—Arrd. Northumberland, New York.
CORK, JAN. Bl.—Arrd. an American ship, with loss of
foremast and bowsprit. The Richmond Lass, water-logged
and abandoned, was passed in long. 11 W., by the Susan
Green, arrived here. Arrd. British Tar, Harris. Berbice, for
the Clyde. Sid. Bartlett, New York; Indian Queen, Bar-
badoes.
ILFRACO3IBE, FEB. I.—A portion of the quarter-deck of
a small vessel, the combings of the companion, painted green,
has been towed in from the Seven Hills.
COWES, Fan. 2.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrd. Emma, Honduras.
SounitsirTorr, Fan. 2.—Slet. Avon steamer, West Indies.
GRIMBSY, FEB. 2.—Arrd. Olga, Morrison, Richebucto.
OFF TORBAY, FEB. 2. —Wind E. N. E.—Woodside, Guthrie,
Rio Grande; Adolph, Behrens, St. Thomas, for Hamburg!).
LIVERPOOL, FEB. 2.—Wind N.N.E., moderate. —Sid.
Isabella, Demerara; Storm King, Vera Cruz; City of
Rochester, New Orleans; James Bonham, ditto; Elizabeth
Ellen, ditto; R. D. Shepperd, ditto; Medora, Charleston;
Venice, Philadelphia. Off port, Joshua Waddington.
Dispatches have been received at Lloyds from the Admi-
ralty reporting the damage sustained by shipping at Galway
and Sligo, in the gales there of the 24th ult., particulars of ,
which have already appeared.

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CORN -E t: N N SDAY
Since Saturday evening the arrivals of English Wheat,
especially from Kent, have been :artetAln.,t extensive, viz.,
4,440 quarters, mostly in fair condition. The stands were
heavily tilled with samples; at least four-fifths were those
which remained unsold at the close of :Monday. This cir-
cumstance, together with the thin attendance of buyers,
caused the demand for all descriptions to rule excessively
heavy, and, to effect sales, a farther decline of quite 10. per
quarter.must have been submitted to. In Foreign Wheats,
the show of which was not large, exceedingly little business
was doing, yet the holders were not to say anxious sellers;
hence, in prices, we have no material alteration to notice.
The receipts of English Barley have considerably exceeded
those of many preceding weeks; but the imports of Foreign
have been small. The Barley trade was dull, at barely sta-
tionary figures. The show of Malt was moderately exten-
sive. All kinds moved off slowly, at barely late rates.
Oats, Beans, and Peas were easier to purchase. Flour dull,
and the turn lower; 14,190 barrels have come from America
in this week.

ARRIVALS.
I Wheat. Barl'y. Oats I Flour.
English .... • • 4,440 qrs. 6,570 qrs. 5,930 qrs. I 4,370 ,lc;,
Irish. ...... • • ---- -- i and
Foreign •••••• 1,970 1,910 590 I 14,190br1s
Malt, 5,560 qrs.
WHITECECAPEL.
We had a large supply of both town and country-killed
Meat on sale. Generally speaking the demand ruled heavy,
at barely stationary prices. Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 8d;
Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 4d; Veal, 3s 10d to 4s 10d; and Pork,
as 6d to 4s 81 per Blbs., by the carcase.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock. Busi-
ness, however, did not commence for twenty minutes after-
wards, as forty Members—the requisite number to make a
House—did not assemble till that time.
RAILWAY BILLS.
On the motion of Mr. STRUTT, the following resolutions
for the regulation of Railway Bills were severally agreed to :-
1. That a Committee of five Members be appointed. to be
called the Classification Committee of Railway Bills, and that
three be the quorum of such Committee.
2. That copies of all petitions for Railway Bills presented
to the House be laid before the said Committee.
3. That the Committee of Classification shall form into
groups all Railway Bills which, in their opinion, it would be
expedient to submit to the same Comfilittee
4. That as soon as the Committee of Classification shall
have determined what Railway Bills are to be grouped to-
gether, they shall report the same to the House, and all
petitions against any of the said Bills shall be presented to
the House three clear days before the meeting of the Com-
mittee thereon.
5. That there be no more than seven clear days between
the first reading of any Railway Bill and the second reading
thereof, except by special order of the House.
6. That the breviate of every Railway Bill shall be laid on
the table of the House, and be printed and delivered one
clear day before the second reading.
7. That such Railway Bills as shall have been read a first
time before the House shall agree to these resolutions, shall
be read a second time within seven clear days thereafter.
8. That such of the standing orders as relate to the com-
position of the Committees on Private Bills, and the orders
consequent thereon, be suspended, so far as regards Railway
Bills Feuding in the course of the present session.
9. That Committees on Railway Bills, during the present
session of Parliament, shall be compc.sed of a chairman and
four Members, to be appointed by the Committee of Selection.
10. That each Member of a Committee on a Railway Bill
or Bills, shall, before he be entitled to attend and vote on
such Committee, sign a declaration that his constituents have
no local interests, and tl at he himself has no personal interest
for or against any Bill referred to him ; and no slice C
mittee shall proceed to business until the whole of the Mem-
bers thereof shall have signed such declaration.
11. That the promoters of a Railway Bill shall be prepared
to go into the Committee on the Bill on such day as the
Committee of Selection shall, subject to the order that there
be seven clear days between the second reading of every Pri-
vate Bill and the sitting of the Committee thereupon, think
proper to appoint, provided that the Classification Committee
shall have reported on such Bill.
12. That the Committee of Selection shall give each
Member not less than fourteen days' notice of the week in
which it will be necessary for him to be in attendance, for
the purpose of serving, if required, on a Railway Bill Com-
mittee.
13. That the Committee of Selection shall give each
Member a sufficient notice of his appointment as a Member
of a Committee on a Railway Bill, and shall transmit to him
a copy of the twelfth resolution, and a blank form of the de-
claration therein required, with a request that he will forth-
with return it to them properly filled up and signed.
14. Timt if the Committee of Selection shall not within
due time receive from each such Men.ber the aforesaid
declaration, or an excuse which they shall deem sufficient,
they shall report to the House the name of such defaulting
Member.
15. That the Committee of Selection shall have the power
of substituting, at any time before the first meeting of a
Committee, another Member for a Member whom they shall
deem it proper to excuse from serving on that Committee.
16. That power be given to the Committee of Selection
to send for persons, papers, and records, in the execution
of the duties imposed on them by the foregoing resolutions.
17. That no Member of a Committee shall absent himself
from his duties on such Committee, unless in the case of sick-
ness or by leave of the House.
18. That all questions before Committees on Railway
Groups or Bills shall be decided by a majority of voices, in-
chiding the voice of the chairman ; and that, whenever the
voices shall be equal, the chairman shall have a second or
casting vote.
19. That, if the chairman shall be absent from the Com-
mittee, the Member next in rotation on the list, who shall
be present, shall act as chairman.
20. That Committees shall be allowed to proceed so long
as three Members shall be present, but not with a less number,
unless by special leave of the House.
21. That if on any day within one hour after the time ap-
pointed for the meeting of a Committee three Members shall
not be present, the Committee shall be adjourned to the same
hour on the next day on which the House shall sit, which
had been fixed for that day.
22. That in the case ofa Member not being present within
one hour after the time appointed for the meeting of the
Committee, or of any Member absenting himself from his
duties on such Committee, such Member shall be reported to
the House at its next sitting.
23. That each Committee shall be appointed to meet on
each day of its sitting not later than twelve o'clock, unless
by. the regular vote of the Committee.
24. That Committees on Railway Bills have leave to sit in
the present session, notwithstanding any adjournment of the
House, if the Committees shall so think fit.
25. That it be an instruction to all Committees upon Pri •
vete Bills not to hear parties on any petition hereafter re-
ferred to them, which shall not be prepared and signed in
strict conformity with the.rules and orders of this House.
26. That all Select Committees on Railway Groups or Bills
be empowered to refer; if they shall so think fit, to the
Chairman of 'Ways and Means, together with the Members
ordered to prepare and bring in each such Bill, any unopposed
Railway Bill submitted for their consideration, and that such
Bills be severally dealt with by the said Chairman, and those
Members respectively acting with him, as other unopposed
Bills are to be dealt with.

57. That the following clause be inserted in all Railway
Bills passing through this House:—
And be it further enacted, that nothing herein contained
shall be deemed or construed to exempt the railway by this
or the said recited Acts authorised to be made from the pro-
visions of any general Act relating to such Bills, or of any
general Act relating to railways, which may hereafter pass
during this or any future session of Parliament, or from any
future revision and alteration, under the authority of Par-
liatnent, of the maximum rates of fares and charges autho-
rised by this Act.
Mr. 111 ME wished to know if the Government proposed
to take any steps to carry out the principle agreed to by the
private Committee, which sat last session on Railway Bills—
namely, that some responsible board, answerable for those
Bills, should be appointed. He wanted to know, therefore,
whether any measures had been taken for the purpose of
having preliminary inquires made with respect to the pro-
posed railways?
Mr. STRUTT said that he himself was a member of the
Committee referred to by the Hon. Gentleman, and con-
curred in the report that a local inquiry should previously
take place before any steps were taken in that House. Such
an inquiry locally on the spot would be more advantageous
than any that might be made before a Committee of that
House. Since the report of that Committee an
Act was passed in the House to carry out the
recommendation of that report, and, in accordance
with that Act, preliminary inquiries had been made by two
departments—namely, the Admiralty and the. Board of Woods
and Forests. The department of railways was, he considered,
one in which it was especially necessary that these prelimi-
nary inquiries should take place, and he begged to inform the
House that the question was at present under the considera-
tion of the Government. He hoped shortly to be in a con-
dition to state that a measure' on the subject would be in
readiness to be placed before the House. lie did not think
it necessary, therefore, to make any further observations at
present.

CLASSIFICATION OF RAILWAY BILLS.
Mr. STRUTT moved the nomination of the following
Committee for the Classificatien of Railway Bills :—Mr.
Wilson Patten, Lord Courtenay, Sir Robert Ferguson, Sir
John Pakington, and Lord Dalmenv —Motion agreed to.
Mr. HUME wished to know whether there was any pro-
vision that private Bills should be submitted first to a re-
sponsible Committee, as during last session?
Mr. STRUTT quite concurred in the propriety of the
question. By such an arrangement more points would be
satisfactorily arranged than if an Act had been passed, by
which preliminary inquiries on railway Bills should be made
by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, and by the Ad-
miralty.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE moved for a copy of the information,
and the punishment inflicted on certain parties who had left
their masters' service in a manufactury.
Mr. BANKES presented several petitions in favour of the
Ten Hours' Bill, and for the amendment of the Poor-law Re-
lief Bill

Sir W. SOMERVILLE presented a petition from the ship-
owners of Drogheda, complaining of the light dues.
Mr. S. CRAWFORD presented several petitions in
favour of the Ten Hours' Bill.
POSTPONEMENT OF MOTIONS.
Mr. HUME said he would postpone his motions fora copy
of the returns of corporal and other punishments on board
each of her Majesty's ships in the royal navy, in each year,
from the Ist day of January, 1844, to the 31st day of
De-
cember, 1840, stating the name, rating, nature of the offence,
date of punishment, the number of lashes, and remarks of
commander-in-chief or senior officer, as to any excess of
punishments or otherwise, according to the schedules pub-
lished and ordered in the Admiralty Instructions, dated the
Ist day of January, 1844, for the government of her Ma-
jesty's naval service; stating, also, the number of seamen and
marines employed in each year,and the average number flogged,
distinguishing the number of commissioned and warrant and
petty officers; also, specifying the name of her Majesty's
ships and vessels, and the name of the commanders, in which
no corporal punishments have been inflicted in any of these
years—also for abstracts of the total number of men, rank
and file, belonging to the Royal Marines, who,
from the Ist
day of January, 1844, to the 31st day of D G December, 184 ,
have suffered corporal punishment or imprisonment on shore,
in e,
showing the nature of their offences, in classes, for
such punishment has been awarded, and the number h_
d of con-
class ; and showing the greatest and the smallest number of
lashes inflicted; also, the longest and shortest p
finement awarded as punishment to each
person,
and
average period of confinement for each class o
1 number oCrank
-s_ en:
and the
the average number flogged, stating the total
the total
commissioned officers on shore in each year:
and file, and also the number of commissired and
ofri-n-
R03.al Artillery
Ireland,
number of soldiers belonging to the.
and Ordnance corps in Great Britain and