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and disaffection, and to the costly atrocities of her
legions in Algeria. FEADINAND would then find that
he can no more hope to compete with NAPOLEON in
capturing Rome and incarcerating the PONTIFF, than
the hair-brained nephew of that great Emperor
could vie with his return from Elba by cracking a
few pistols in the streets of Boulogne.

A week has passed since the verdict of a jury
stamped Lieutenant Muria° with the crime of wilful
murder, and that unfortunate gentleman is still the
inmate of a condemned cell, and subjected to all the

privations incidental thereto. No option, in such a

case, is afforded to the authorities of the prison

certain regulations are laid down which must be;
strictly adhered to. Indeed, no additional comforts,
not rendered necessary by the health of the party,
could be allowed save on the authority of the Secre-

tary of State for the Home Department, and the
gallant and chivalrous soldier—the man who by his
own irreproachable conduct elevated himself from the
station of a private to a commission in one of our
most distinguished regiments—who so deservedly
obtained the respect and esteem of his brother officers
and of the soldiers placed under his command—is
restricted to the same diet and allowances that

would be given to the most degraded and in-
famous malefactor. It is perfectly impossible that the
sentence could be carried into execution ; indeed, the

preaulingjudge, although deprived of all discretion as
to the nature and extent of the punishment he was by
law compelled to award, expressly stated that it
should not be carried into effect, although it was for

other parties to decide to what extent it should be
mitigated. Surely, under such circumstances, it is
desirable that no time should be lost in deciding the

question, and relieving his mind from the painful
and harassing suspense to which it has been exposed.
There cannot, we should hope, be any necessity for
much consideration in apportioning the punishment
to be inflicted. The public are unanimous on that
point ; it is generally felt that Lieutenant MUNRO
has already bitterly expiated his crime—a crime into
which he was forced by unfortunate circumstances.
The usages of society, and more particularly of that
branch to which he belonged, placed him in a
dilemma from which he could not extricate
himself without either violating the laws of

his country, or forfeiting the position he
had attained for himself, and being looked
upon by his friends and brother officers as a
disgraced and degraded man, with whom it would be
impossible longer to associate on terms of friendship
or equality. The strongest opponent of duelling, the
-rtost zealous advocate for its total abolition, we will

venture to say, would feel rejoiced that her MAJESTY
should exercise her royal prerogative to the fullest

extent, and by a free pardon, remit all the future
consequences of the act, and restore Lieutenant
Murat° to his home, to his friends, and to society in
general. It has been stated, and w•e believe truly,
that his brother officers, anticipating that full and per-
fect acquittal which had in every former case of a
similar character been obtained, in a manner alike
honourable to themselves and to Lieutenant Mulino,
subscribed a sum of moneS, sufficient to purchase a
commission in his former regiment. Gratifying as such

a compliment must necessarily be to the gentleman
on whom it was about to be conferred, we should
hope that it would be rendered unnecessary, and that
her MAJESTY'S most gracious pardon will be
speedily followed by his re-instatement in his former
rank and position.
Although we have thus earnestly desired that
Lieutenant MuNno should be immediately released,
we are not the less alive to the evils, or less hostile
to the practice, of duelling. It should be put an end
to by every possible means. New laws suitable to
the crime should be enacted, and it should be fully
understood that their provisions would be strictly
and rigidly enforced in every future case; but
nothing can be more unjust than to judge and con-
demn a person for an act committed several years
ago, according to the altered state of feeling that
now prevails with respect thereto. Why should not
the Legislature grapple with the admitted evil ?
Duelling is not of yesterday—it has been practised
fur ages ; philanthropists have deplored its fatal
results, and have desired to put an end to the prac-
tice, but in vain. It never received a legislative
notice, and our voluminous statute-book is without
one single Act relating thereto. But then our legis-
lators themselves were, generally speaking, duellists,
and it could scarcely be expected that they would
have enacted laws against a system which they sanc-
tioned by practising. The military authorities would
have cashiered an officer who neglected to demand
whatthey termed honourable satisfaction for an insult ;
it was recognised in every rank and station in society ;
and it required a degree of moral courage which few
men possessed to encounter the trials to which any
person who refused to submit a trifling dispute to a
mortal arbitrament, would be exposed. Although a
great change has taken place in the public mind
within the last few years, and a healthier feeling now
exists with respect thereto, no person can look
upon one who has slain his antagonist in a
fairly-fought duel—where no undue advantage was
taken, and where the deceased was not compelled to
fight by unreasonable conduct on the part of the
survivor or his second —as on a par with
the midnight assassin, the fiend-like poisoner, the
cold-blooded and deliberate murderer, or deserving of
an equal punishment. He may, according to the
strict letter of the law, be equally guilty of the
offence, but the public will not regard him in such a
light, and the infliction of the extreme penalty would
be repugnant to, and shock the feelings of all. A
sentence that will not or cannot be carried into
execution encourages the offence it is intended to
repress. If parties escape altogether, the impunity
encourages others to perpetrate similar acts. If, on
the contrary, there is a conviction, the extreme
severity of the punishment takes away from its
effect. The public lose sight of the crime, the
horror of the offence is merged in sympathy
with the sufferer. Either result is equally
injurious. It is not the severity of a punishment, but
its certainty that is efficacious. The great object is
example ; it is not for vengeance that an offender is
made to expiate his guilt, but that others may be de-
terred from similar crimes. Now let us see what has
the effect of preventing duelling. It is found that the
most noted fire-eater will not fight if he is bound over
in a heavy penalty to keep the peace, and it is looked
upon as a sufficient excuse for his refusal. The man who
will not be deterred by the danger to his own life, or
the possibility of being executed as a felon, will
shrink from the pecuniary loss which he knows he
must sustain. Let every subject be considered as
bound over to keep the peace, should he be guilty of
fighting a duel (which should be made a separate of-
fence and indictable as such), let him be heavily fined
according to his means, and also imprisoned and kept
to hard labour for a certain period. Let this punish-
ment be invariably carried into execution without
reference to the result, and let no rank, no provoca-
tion, no circumstances of any kind exempt any of the
parties, principals or seconds, therefrom ; indeed, the
seconds should, if possible, be treated with
greater severity than the principals, for they
can have no injured or outraged feelings to
plead, but wilfully and unnecessarily involve
themselves in the transaction ;—let this be done, and
we venture to affirm that duelling will be suppressed.
It must be made an expensive luxury; and if, in
addition, the parties who fancy themselves heroes are
subjected to the prison discipline for a few months, a
wonderful change will to wrought in their feelings,
and a holy horror will be felt at the offence which
had been regarded with the utmost levity.

We find the following in the Nuremburg Cor-
respondent :—" We announced some time since that
a Polish lady wino had arrived here for the purpose
of seeing one of the accused
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Moniteur and the Journal des Debats affirm
fact is false. Notwithstanding these
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affirm that the fact is true. It is said h
is the sister of the accused MIEROSLAWSKI and ady
'that
,he wished to see her brother once again."
We have no doubt but that the assertion of the
Nuremburgh Correspondent is correct. We know
from his own lips that M. GUIZOT does not consider
it necessary at all times to tell the whole truth, and
acting in this instance as he acted towards the Mar-
quis of Nonsa.anr, he will no doubt say that he did

not give information of the journey of a Polish lady,
of which he was accused, but of the journey of a
French lady, inasmuch as Mdlle. MIEROSLAWSKI was
born in France, and her family claim to be French
subjects. This is just one of the subterfuges in which
M. GUIZOT delights.

Madrid papers of the 18th have arrived.
It is said that the QUERN has consented to certain
terms of reconciliation, and that the Minister of the
Interior had gone to the Prado to lay them before the
KING. A Ministerial crisis is expected, and it is
said that SALAMANCA has made overtures to NAR-
VAEZ. General PAVIA has, it is said, been dismissed
from the office of Captain-General of Catalonia, in
consequence of a note presented by the British Am-
bassador, denouncing the atrocious cruelties of which
PAVIA had been guilty to his Carllst prisoners.
MADRID BOLSA, Ave. 18.—The Three per Cents.
were done at 26i for cash ; the Coupons, at 15 ; the
Five per Cents., at 17-1 for paper; and the Debt without
Interesipat

We have received the Paris papers of Monday.
The constant exposures that are taking place of the
scandals and corruptions of the haute societe of Paris
are beginning to tell. The Ministry not daring to
accept the challenge thrown out by the National and

- -
Courrier Francais—not daring to offer to those jour-

nals, by prosecuting them, the opportunity they have so
long sought, of publicly proving before a court ofjustice
the truth of the charges of corrtption which they

have brought against it, has adopted the plan 01
seizing those journals which comment on the reve.

lation; so made. This is a confession of weakness on

he part of the Ministry for which we were by no

means prepared. It is a proof that the lessons of
TALLETRAND have been forgotten. It is worse than
a fault—it is a blunder, and a blunder of the very
grossest kind. The journals seized are the Gazette
de France, the Reforme, the Charirari, and the
Union Monarchique. The latter journal thus com-
ments on its seizure :

"The Union Monarchique is prosecuted for an article
on honesty, and for the reproduction of a few lines from
the Charivari, on the overwhelming flood of crimes with

which society has been affitcted. To prosecute journals
for making moral reflections on scandalous transactions,
on extravagance and waste, and on murders, is to us in-
conceivable. Is a man culpable because ho thinks that
society has fallen into sickness, when such symptoms of
immorality and decomposition are evident in its bosom?
No one dare venture to maintain this seriously. The
Ministry, by seizing the journals, has fancied that it can
put a stop to these redoublable accusations. It will not
allow of the imputation that it has thrown France into
a frightful condition, both materially and morally; and
to escape from the responsibility it has incurred, it relies
upon intimidation. It hopes to impose silence upon the
press, thinking that the public would not of itself draw
conclusions from the sad events which have put all social
principle and public integrity in peril. The Ministers
who have had M. Teste for a colleague will not have-pe-
culation, forfeiture, dciapidations, and other scandalous
acts and deeds any longer talked of. For ourselves,
we have obeyed the dictates of conscience, and we will
persevere in the mission we have undertaken. Strong
in our intentions, we will appear with confidence before
the judges given to us by the law, and we shall see
whether a jury can be found to punish us for having
spoken honesty, for having invoked honest men, and
for uttering a cry of alarm, not against society as it is,
but to preserve its safety, by protecting it from new
crises."
The National, in allusion to the seizure of those
journals, and to the accusations against the Ministry,
thus turns to terrible account the doctrine of " moral
complicity" proclaimed by M. HEBERT, the present
Minister of Justice, in his prosecution of M. Du-
POTEY, the political writer, and adopted by the
Chamber of Peers in the conviction of that gentleman
for " moral complicity" in the attempt of QUENIssET.

After reciting the various accusations of corruption

which have been brought against the Government,
and quoting the doctrine of " moral complicity," ac-
cording to which those whose acts tend to suggest or
to tempt to crime are equally guilty with the parties
committing it, the National continues—
" Let M. Hebert interrogate himself. When we see
issuing from the bosom of the Government or its flanks
so much effluvium of depravation, does not reason de-
mand that we should inquire into the cause? And when
the accused and the guilty are so closely connected with
our rulers, are the latter to complain if we show that
this perversity reaches even them? And now an atro-
cious and barbarous crime is added to these odious
offences. This column of corrupting and corrupted
Ministers, of an officer of the Court driven out as a
cheat, of gentlemen greeks and thieving functionaries,
has for its head a Peer of France accused of murder. and
yet M. Hebert will not allow the instinct of the public
and the logic of the press to show the connexion there is
in the facts. No I We have not said that your course of
policy had put arms into the hand of the assassin—we have
not said that you were guilty of the disgusting atrocity
revealed by this crime. What we said, and what we repeat,
is that the society that you have composed round you
betrays its morals and its ideas by its acts, and that
those acts are hideous. Have you Ministers no share
in that ? Look at the examples given by you and the
doctrines you have inculcated. As Ministers, you have
regarded truth as a mockery. As governors, you have
been influenced by a factious spirit. You, being cor-
rupt, could maintain yourselves solely by corruption.
You could not exist but by denying your faith in great
actions. You have denied it. Your system required
that you should degrade the banner of France. You
have laid it under the feet of Prince Metternich. It was
for your advantage, in order to arrest all attempt at
action, to waste the finances, and you have squandered
them. You have supported those practices by maxims
the most exciting to cupidity. And you are astonished
that this abominable system should have engendered
vice and crime amongst those who received its first
contact I No ! that society fortunately confined within
a circle, from which the population shrinks with dis-
gust—that society is yours. You have cultivated, che-
rished, and excited it. It belongs and is united to you
by the most tender bonds. It is the offspring of your
ideas. And the press is not permitted to denounce the
infamy, nor demonstrate the relationship, nor evoke
public execration upon you ! Since what period has a
Government been established which is to escape all re-
sponsibility ? Since when have we' been obliged to
treat with delicacy the virus which affects a Ministerial
atmosphere ? Well, let the Government prosecute the
papers ! It is not the latter, but the Ministers who
will be brought before the Court of Assize. We ask
pardon of our cotemporaries if we congratulate them on
being at length enabled to drag before the justice of the
country those who ought long since to have received the
chatisemest of their crimes. M. Hebert has not
thought proper to include us in his anger, and whilst
we express our opinion with all the candour which the
laws permit we will not assuredly challenge the law
officers by any vain bravado. We shall, however,
always wait their attack with a firm and tranquil con-
science. And it, by chance, the Ministers suppose that
others are more deeply impressed than we are with the
profound disgust with which we are inspired by this
regime, it would be a calumny upon the .National—a
calumny against which, as our readers know, we have no
need to protest."
The feelings which are thus given utterance to by
the National are not confined to the Republican
party, they extend through all classes of society. The
Siècle says—
" The Reforme, the Gazette de France, and the Cha-
rivari were seized on Saturday. The object of this step
appears to be to impeach different articles appreciating
the moral responsibility of the Government in the crimes
and scandalous acts which have one after another spread
abroad shame and alarm. We have not immediately
under our eyes the text of these articles, and we cannot
point out the passages specially incriminated ; but we
doubt not that these three journals have, in avowing
their opinions, said nothing that goes beyond public
opinion. If the Ministry wishes to know what is thought
of it, let it listen to the murmurs in the streets, in the
saloons, in the workshops ; and it will find that never
has there been a judgment more formally, more unani-
mously pronounced."
It will, however, be impossible for the Ministers
to prevent a public investigation into the charges of
conduct in Algeria.
corruption brought against the Ministry of War, for
itspub-
lishesThefrCoomurrmie.rwFArlianzicaEßisy,the
the
following
letter
delegate for the city of Bona :
" The Univers calls for a legal denunciation. Under
this bead I am about to put forth a summary of all my
revelations up to the present day. To this summary I
shell add four letters, which I yesterday addressed to the
Minister of War. These letters enumerate more than
eighty instances of peculation and plunder, with the
names of the persons, all of whom are public functiona-
ries, for I know what it costs to denounce as immoral
men who are nut invested with a public character. This
summary shall be addressed by me to M. Delangle,
the Procureur-General, with a letter of denunciation
in legal form. If several printers bad not refused me
their concurrence, being in fear of the laws of Sep-
tember, my denunciation would have been already sent
and published.

" WARNERY,
"Delegate of the City of Bona."

The Journal des Debats states that Marshal
NARVAEZ left Paris on Sunday for Madrid, in con-
sequence of an order received from the QUEEN of
Spain. The same journal, compelled at length to
admit that Ferrara has been occupied by Austrian
troops, preaches moderation to the Liberal party in
Italy, and submission to the will of Austria. M.
GunoT does not even remonstrate, but, as the Na-
tional justly observes, " lowers the flag of France to
the foot of METTERNICH." Matters are strangely
altered from the time which France took possession
of Ancona on an occasion much less menacing.
The body of the murdered Duchess DE PRASLIN
was deposited on Sunday morning in the vault of the

Madeleine. The trial of the Duke will take place in
about a month.
The loan of 3.50,000,000 to the Government is to
be adjudicated on the 10th November, the con-
tractors to pay instalments of 9,000,000 a month to
the Treasury.

The Three per Cents. closed at 761. 60c. ; the Five
per Cents., 1181. 20c.; the Orleans Railroad Shares,
1,228 f. 76c. ; Rouen, 9481. 75c. ; Havre, 6021. 50c. ;
Great Northern, 531 f. 25c. ; Avignon, 592 f. 50c.;
Vierzon, 567 f. 500. ; Bordeaux, 4701. ; Basle, 175 f.;
Paris and Strasburg, 391 f. 25c.; Tours and Nantes,
371 f. 25c. ; Paris and Lyons, 395 f. ; Lyons and
Avignon, 447 f. 50c.
MARSEILLES, Auc. 19.-Marseilles and Avignon,
607 f. 50c. ; Northern, 5251. ; Orleans, 1.230.
LYONS. Au0.21.-Paris and Rouen, 95Sf. 75c. ; Avig-
non and Marseilles, 6051. ; Vierzon, 560 f. ; Northern,
5301. ; Orleans, 1,238 f. 75c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, AUGUST 24.
Northern of France, 10%—Orleans and Bordeaux, •tys.

SOUTH WALES RAILWAY.
(THIS DAY.)
The fifth half-yearly general meeting of the pro-
prietors of this company was this day held at the
Great Western Railway Station, Paddington.
The chair was taken at twelve o'clock by C.
Russell, Esq., the chairman of the company.
The norke convening the meeting having been
read, and the common seal affixed to the registry of
the shareholders,

The CHAIRMAN said that, in the present state o
the money
.market, it had been thought prudent by
all companies to abstain as much as possible from the
expenditure of any large sums of money more than
was actually necessary. This company had also
acted entirely upon that principle, and during the
last session had not pressed forward any Bills which
would increase the rate of expenditure very consider-
ably. The Hon. Chairman then proceeded to state
the course which had been adopted, and the Bills
which had been obtained in the last session. Every
effort, he said, had been made to prevent the resolu-
tions from passing prohibiting interest on calls being
paid. He, as a member of the Committee of the
House of Commons, had most strenuously opposed
the resolutions, but was supported in his opposition
only by one single Member, the Hon. Member for
Salisbury (Mr. Chaplin). Their united opposition
was fruitless, and though renewed in the douse of
Commons, was equally unsuccessful. He considered
that the principle of paying interest on calls was in
itself a perfectly sound one, it was one universally
adopted by all commercial men in all their transac-
tions where the gain or profit to be obtained was
remote or distant. He and his brother directors
regretted most deeply the passing of those resolutions
which would have the effect of preventing the direc-
tors carrying out the engagements they had made
with the proprietors. Upon the best advice they were
enabled to obtain, they had thought it right to enter
into the supplemental contract referred to in the
report. The works of the line, he was happy to say,
were proceeding in a most favourable manner, and he
felt confident that as soon as this line was completed,
and its resources developed, all the returns which had
been held out to shareholders would be most com-
pletely realized. The line was one of the greatest
importance, not only in a national point of view, but
also to the Great Western Company. In conclusion,
he would call upon the Secretary to read the report.
The SECRETARY then proceeded to read the report,
which stated that the sanction of Parliament had
bsen obtained in the last session for certain deviations
and improvements in the South Wales line, and for
the purchase of the Bullo Pill Railway.. The Mor-
gam deviation, which had been rejected in a
former session, had also received the Royal Assent.
This latter deviation would enable the company to
fill up the only remaining gap or interval in the
whole South Wales line, between Gloucester and
Fishguard. The Swansea Valley Bill had also
received the sanction of the Legislature, which
incorporated a separate company, with powers
to sell the line to the South Wales Company; but the
formal act of sale would be deferred, in consequence
of the recent resolutions of the two Houses of Parlia-
ment, until one-half of the capital of each company
should have been paid up, and expended on their re-
spective works. The actual purchase of the Bullo
Pill Railway would also be deferred until one-half of
the South Wales capital should have been paid up.
An arrangement had been made with the Severn and
Wye Company, at the strong recommendation of the
Committee of the House of Lords, to the effect that a
sum not exceeding 15,0001. should be contributed by
the South Wales Company to the former company,
for the purpose of rendering that line available for
working with broad gauge stock, under the manage-
ment and control of the engineer of the South Wales
Railway. The clause in the " Amendment Bill" of
this year, authorising interest on calls to be paid at
the rate of five per cent. per annum, in lieu of four
per cent., as permitted by the original Act, had been
expunged from the Bill by the Committee of the
House of Lords, as inconsistent with the spirit, if
not the letter, of their standing orders ; but
there was little doubt in the minds of the di-
rectors, that they would obtain power in another
session to raise the rate of interest, as contemplated
by their Bill of last year. It was intended, with the
concurrence of the Great Western Company, that an
agreement supplemental to that for the lease, should
be made between the two company's renewing the
condition of paying the advanced rate of interest in
consideration of the contribution afforded by the
South Wales Company towards securing the com-
pletion of the line between Wrexford and Dublin.
The engineers' report also stated that the works were
being proceeded with most satisfactorily, without
any peculiar circumstances either of difficulty or
delay. The statement of accounts of the company
was also laid before the meeting.
The CHAIRMAN then moved the adoption of the re-
port, which having been sanctioned,
Mr. SPENCER wished to know whether the direc-
tors had pledged themselves to pay all the interest
upon die calls which might accrue in arrear when
power to do so should be obtained from Parliament ?
The CHAIRMAN had not the slightest hesitation
in saying that it the five per cent. interest could not
be paid by the sanction of Parliament, yet that ar-
rangements should be made to prevent any loss what-
ever, arising to the shareholders, in consequence of
the resolutions of the Legislature.—(Cheers.)
Mr. Du BOULAT wished
Great W had
`Western Companyto know whether the
any power to regulate
the tolls upon the South Wales Railway.
The CHAIRMAN—They have.
In. answer to several questions put by shareholders,
Mr. BRUNEL, C.E., stated that he had no doubt but
that the line would be completed within the specified
time,
namely, two years,
and that the contracts
the line had been let at
exceeding the original
estimates.
purpiocnea nelairttlyle, the
if wholeanythi ong,
A SHAREHOLDER thought that it would tend to
give stability to the concern if the Great Western
Company would consent to give 5f per cent. in per-
petuity for the concern.
The CHAIRMAN could not hold out any hopes
whatever of the Great Western Company departing
from the terms of the original agreement. Indeed,
he thought that it would be most improvident upon
the part of the shareholders of the South Wales Com-
pany themselves to give up a line so full of promise
for the additional half per cent.
The resolution was then agreed to, a vote of
thanks was given to the chairman and the directors,
and the meeting broke up.

CAETION.--FORGED 51. NoTEs.—This day a pro-
clamation was issued, cautioning the public against the
receipt of forged 5/. notes, of the bank of Messrs. Rud- ,
ford and Wragge, of Stourbridge, of the date of June 1,
1847. Those genuine and issued by the firm on that 1
day were from Nos. 5,001 to 5,400 inclusive. The
forged ones may be detected by noticing that their entry
and signatures have been lithographed, while it is not
the ease with the genuine ones. Messrs. Wragge and
Rudford have offered a reward of 1001. for the detection
of the parties concerned in the above forgery.
EXPENDITURE OF THE LORD STEWARD OT THE
ROYAL llousErtoLD.—The following bill of fare for one
year (1846) may not be uninteresting to economists and
the public:—Bresd, 2.0501.; butter, bacon, cheese, and
eggs, 4,976/.; milk and cream, 1,4781; butcher's meat,
9,4721.; poultry, 3,6331; fish, 1,979/ ; grocery. 4,644/.;
oilery, 1,793/.; fruit and confectionery, 1,7411.; vege-
tables, 4871.; wine, 4,8501.; I:queurs, &c.,1,8431 ; ale and
beer, 2,811/.; wax candles, 1,9771.; tallow candles, 6791.;
lamps, 4,1661.; fuel, 6,849/.; stationery, 824/.; turnery,
3761.; braziery, 8901.; china, glass, &C., 1,328/.; linen,
1,0851.; washing, table linen, &c., 3,1301.; plate, 500/.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The Court of
Examiners sat for the last time this session on Monday
evening, when the following gentlemen, !laving pre•
v!ously undergone the necessary examinations for the
diploma, were admitted members of this College, viz.:—
Messrs. William Lawrence Cashel, Nenagh, Tipperary ;
Robert Twemlow, Spark, Newcastle, Staffordshire ;
Charles Ferraby, Swaffham, Norfolk; Thomas William
Crosse, Norwich ; Robert Abercrombie, Manchester ;
John Mussendine Camplin Finsbury-square ; Matthew
Jabez Booth, Rochdale, Lancashire' ; Charles Thomas
Wagstaff, Brixton, Surrey ; William Ottley James
Fielding Matthews, Bedford.
and,
Woollaston, East Derehatu, Norfolk ; and Benjamin
.CLASSICALITY OF THE LONDON TATEIIN SIGNS.—
It Is curious that when we speak of " Whitbread's
the carne way
En-
tire, &c., we use a most classical phrase. It is the
illerun of the Renans, frequently' translated Wine ;
meant wine originally, nor anything of the kind. It
indeed, that is what it means. But merum never
ration:. entire, fiat isj, sincere, genuine, unmixed. In
discovered in a wire work,
unni:red.— 1 :ilhot's English Etymolcgies.
the Greeks called wine akraton, that is,
. This morning, shortly after four o'clock, a fire was
No. 56, New Wynd ; hut on
the arrival of the enr'ines it wassoon extinguished, with-
out having done much damage.—North British Mail of
I lionclaf.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at ;;Liverpool yesterday were
about 3,000 bales, with a firm market. Shares were flat
again.
There are no later foreign arrivals, but a curious
statement is circulating relative to the very threatening
aspect of affairs in China. After what has recently
occurred the renewal of active hostilities would not
excite surprise, but the statement will need confirmation.
The discount market is in some quarters reported less
stringent, but we cannot find that for the general mer-
chant there is any particular relaxation. Indeed, both
in and out of the Stock Exchange, money is too dear in
relation to the profits obtained.
The produce markets are not active, but sugar has
beon firmer, and tea is held steadily. The general con-
sumption is steady, but the dealers are compelled, by
want of discount facilities, to buy merely from " hand
to mouth."
The gossips of the Stock Exchange have been edified
by the fact having become known that a certain noble
lady who has been speculating in the Funds has not
come forward to arrange about losses. Tbis, we believe,
happened also upon a former occasion, matters subse-
quently being arranged. Consols have gone down
again in consequence to 861, being 864 :/ for October.
The New Three-and a-Quarter per Cents. have realised
884 to 89/. Bank Stock has been at 197 to 4. Exche-
quer-bills have been 2s. premium to Is. discount.
The Foreign Securities are heavy again. Spanish
Five per Cents. have been 194, and the Three per
Cents. 291 4. Portuguese Four per Cents. have been
at 26. Dutch Four per Cents. are 884.
Railway Shares have been steady, but not brisk.
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock 197% 1951,%
3 per Cent. Reduced Anns 87%14 87%
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 87% 86% 87
New 34 per Cent. Annuities B9 88% 891 88% 89
bong Annuities to expire Jan.lB6o 91-16 9 9
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 B%
India Bonds, 1,0001 7 7 dis
Ditto under 1,0001. .-.... 7 p 7 die
South Sea Stock
Consols for Account 874 86% 87
Exchequer Bills. 2d.
1,0001.
500/ 5 1 p 3 p
Small
ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK PRICES,
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PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.
Brazilian Bonds
Portuguese 5 per Cents. —
Ditto, Bonds, 4 per Cent ..
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Passive
Ditto 3 per Cent. ..... .......•
Ditto, Account . 29%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian 41/2 per Cent ......
Dutch 214 per Cent. .
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 88% 883/
PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen
Amber., Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 2%.....
Ayrshire and Galloway.. 21/2
Belfast & County Down 10
Binoingham and Ox-
ford Junction

Birmingham, Wolver-
hampton, and Dudley 10 ... .. 16
Wolverh'pton,
and Stour Va11ey..... 8 ......
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire June.— —

Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 5'
Bristol and Exeter
Ditto. Thirds
Buckinghamshire Bl. 4s. — ..... .... ..
t;aledonian
Ditto Halt Shares 2l/4
Ditto, Clydesdale June 35
Chester and Holyhead... 32% —
Cheltenham and Oxford 2
Clarence lOO
Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10
Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10
Do. Government Loan,
4 per Cent. lO .....
Cornwall
Ditto, Half Shares ... 33A......

Dublin and Belfast June. 20 -
Dundalk & Enniskillen 12%

East Anglia, 251., L. Is
E. and L. and D. ...... 25

Do., 181., E. & H.... 25
Do., 31.10 x., E. &11. 1
Eastern Counties
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1 61.135. 4d.

Ditto ditto, No. 2... 6/. 13s. 4d...
Do., York Extension.. 7 VA..... %
Eastern Union 5O ..... 000000 •••
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% —
Ditto, Thirds 4d — 000
East Lancashire
Ditto. New
Do., do., Exten. Scrip 1
East Lincolnshire

Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 64% ......... ... ..
Ditto Half Shares ... 15
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% ...... .

Edinburgh & Northern.. 20
Ditto, New
Ditto, Newport .....
Ditto, ditto, New . .... 1% —
Edinburgh and Perth... 2
Ditto, Extension los.
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorch. 254
Ditto, .New ..
Glasgow, Dumfries, and
Carlisle V/. 6s. 8d
Glasgow, Kilmar.,& Ayr 50 —
Ditto, New .. 35
Do., Ili Shares (5 per
cent. guar.)
Great Northern
Do., London and York 2%.....
Great South. and West.

(Ireland)
GreatNorthof England..loo
Ditto, New 401.
Ditto, New 301.
Ditto, New 151 llh
Great Western
Ditto 4Shares
Ditto 14 Shares
Ditto Fifths
Ditto, New 171
Huddersfield & Manches. 19
Ditto, Thirds ......... 6
Hull and Selby SO
Do. Half Shares
Ditto Vi Shares 12%
. . .. .. _ _

Ipswich Wilary St. Enm. 15— —
Do., do., and Norwich 12
Lancaster and Carlisle... 50
Ditto, Thirds lO
Leeds and Bradtord 45
Leicester and Bedfard... 16s.
Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 32%
Do., Branch % Shares 7%..
Do. New Branch(blue) 2% —
••••••
Du. Extension (green) 2%.. ...
Du•NewExten. (pink) 2% _ •
Leeds and Thirsk 3l
Ditto, New 12% ... ..... ..
Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3% — ......
.. ....
Liverpool, Crosby, and
Southport .... •••....... 2
Liverp., Mnchstr& N ew-
castle Junction 2%.•••••
London and Blackwall. 16/. 13s. 4d. 6% syi .....
Do. New, No. 1
Do. New, No. 2 3l. 13s. 4d.
Do. Extension 12% -
London, Bnghton, and
South Coast
Do. Consul. Eighths.. 20
Do. tmuarant. 5 per ct. 9
Do. Pref. Con.s per ct. 50
London and Greenwich 121 15s4d —
Do. Preference ...18/1;a 2d
Loudon and N. Westeraloo 163%14% a d... 163%
Do. Quarters L. & B. 12 —
Do., no., New
Ditto Fifths ••••• ••.• 2
Do. -14 Shares (G. J.) 20
Do 40/. Shares(L. M.) 15 —
_ _

Do. 404 (M. 8/13.) 40

Do. 101. (M. & B.) A. 5
Do. 10/. (N. & B.) B. 5
Do. 101. DI. & B.) C. 1
London, Oxford, and
Cheltenham -
Lond. & &Western 411 6s 10d 6014 6O
Do. New ConsoL Bths 40
Do. New 50/. ... 00000 321,4..
Do. New 401. 26 ..
Do. Tenths (Consol.) 50
Ditto ditto ....... .... 40 ...... -- ••••• ••• 41
Ditto Scrip 50/.
Ditto ditto 401 4 ..».. 3% 3%
_

...___ _ _
London,— Salisbury, and
Yeovil
Londonderry& Jo.leraine 25
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen...... .-....-....... 22%...... .....
Manchester and Leeds 82
Ditto 1,4 Shares . ... 38
Do. Quarter Shares... 14%
Do. Fifths VA._ .
Do. Sixteenths 6,4
Do. Thirds (Reg.). -71. 4s. —

Do. Liverp. and Bury 29
Ditto 16 (late Hud-
dersfield and Sheff.) 28
Manohester,Buxton,and
Matlock 42s.
Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire 100
Do. Quarters (No. 1) 13
Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25
Ditto ditto (No. 3)... VA
Ditto and Grimsby.... 25
Ditto ditto . ... ..... 7
Ditto ditto
Ditto Sheffield and
Lincolnshire 71,4
Manchest. & Southampt. 21,4, —
Midland lOO 116% x d ..... ...
Do. Fifths 2
Do.
40!. Shares

1161

44%
8

Do. 501. Shares 6
Do. Birm., and Derbyloo
Midland Consol. Brist. &
122
Birming., 6 per cent.loo
Midlnd, Brist. &Glocstr. 34
Ditto, ditto 7l. 9s ...... . ......
Midlnd,Leicest.& Swan-
nington, 8 per ct.guar. 50
Midland Great Western
Irish ... 30 ......
Newcastle and Berwick 20
Ditto New

Ditto North Shields... 25 ......
Newcaatle and Crirlide. • .100 ..•••• .! •.••.• • ie