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THE SUN', LONDON; WEDNESDAY
_EVEN LNG, NOVEMBER 24, 1847.

enforcing their rules in a harsh and arbitrary spirit;
and he trusted the law would soon begin to take root in
the country, and become popular with the people, and
that they would cease to consider it as oppressive, but
as intended as a provision set apart by the State for the
support of the poor.—(Hear, hear.) He hoped, after
this explanation, the amendment would be withdrawn.
Another Honorable Member had alluded to him in very
unkind terms. He did not know what he had done
since he accepted office to deserve such remarks; and
he ventured to say that if he in any degree merited
them he should not be a fit colleague for her Majesty's
Ministers, who had ever acted towards Ireland with the
warmest desire for her welfare.—(Cheers.) The Hon.
Baronet concluded by again expressing a hope that
the amendment would be withdrawn, and resumed his
seat amidst cheers from the Ministerial benches.
Mr. A. STAFFORD said he entirely agreed wiih
some gentlemen who had spoken, when they said
that it was the wish of the House that
the amendment should be withdrawn. He should
wait and see what measures were brought for-
ward by her Majesty's Government. On the very
mild and temperate speech which had just been de
livered, he would venture, in the first place, to remark
upon what be considered a discrepancy between one
statement which had been made and the statement which
had fallen from the Right Hon. Gentleman the Secretary
for Home Affairs. He had understood the Hon. Mem-
ber for Drogheda to say that the poor-law would be self-
supporting in three-fourths of Ireland, but that in the
last quarter of the country it would be necessary to have
another grant from the Government. Now, he (Mr. A.
Stafford) had understood the Right Hon. Gentleman
the Secretary of State for Home Affairs to say that the
funds of the British Association would be found suffi-
cient to meet this difficulty. Then, if the Hon. Member
for Drogheda stated that in one quarter the poor-law
would not be found to be self-supporting, and the Secre-
tary of State for Home Affairs that there need be no
grant from the Government, it remained to be stated by
the Government what became of the one-fourth.—(Hear,
hear.) But he (Mr. A. Stafford) must say that the poor-
law in three parts of Ireland—the experiment having
been made at a time of the greatest difficulty—proposed
an experiment on the property of the country unprece-
dented in the annals of history, except in times of de-
clared revolution. When it was said that Government
came forward to ask for Coercion Bills, it should be re-
membered that there was a great difference between the
periods past and present, and that now, by law, no man
need starve in Ireland. A legislative provision had been
made, and the property of Ireland had been taxed for
the support of the poverty of Ireland. The Hon. Mem-
ber for Drogheda had stated that the peculiarity of the
assassinations, and the attempts at assassination in Ire
land, consisted in their being all connected with land.
Now, he would grant that the greater part of the crimes
were connected with land and the collection of rates, but
the Hon. Gentleman should not deceive himself—should
not take too favourable a view of the state of society in
Ireland, as he assuredly would do if he considered that
crimes which had begun in the resistance to the pay-
ment of rates would stop when other objects were in
view. Take, for instance, the last murder committed
in the county of Limerick, and the particulars of which
had just reached the metropolis. A farmer, of the name
of Dillon, found it impossible to procure the return of
some money, and he went to Limerick to consult his law
agent. On his return, :Mr. Dillon was barba-
rously and brutally murdered. Many of the
crimes were committed for purposes not connected
with land or with rents. Treat the matter as
they would, the civil war which was raging in some
parts of Ireland was a war, not only against rents, but
against rates, as a part of property. The evil with
which we had to deal in Ireland was not the solitary
assassination, but a system of connivance and sympathy
with the perpetrators of assassination. And if it was
found that the system of criminal law of England
worked well, because it met with the sympathy of the
people, it was because in Ireland no such sympathy ex-
isted that the law was inoperative. He (Mr. A. Staf-
ford) had never stood up for old abuses—he had never
contended that the landed proprietors were blameless—
he had never advocated the existing law of landlord
and tenant, and he should accordingly receive with
favour the measure which her Majesty's Ministers
might bring forward. But it would be useless to con-
sider this question unless property and life were se-
cured in Ireland. He did not allude to a law which
should protect the rich at the expense of the poor.
He challenged any one who had been in that country,
in the most disturbed districts, to deny that it was
the wish of the improving tenant, of the best class
of farmers, and of the friese-coated peasant, that
some such protection should be given as was now asked
at the hands of her Majesty's Government.—(Cheers.)
Never imagine that because the murder of a magistrate
was read in large letters, the system of crime and terror
would cease—never imagine because there were resolu-
tions of magistrates and letters from persons in respect-
able positions, that there were not near that spot a set
of men for whom it would be necessary to provide
employment in agriculture, and whose condition it would
be necessary to improve.—(Hear, hear.) When he said
that he approved of all that Lord Clarendon had done
for the assertion of the rights of property and the pre-
servation of life—when he said that he tendered to the
Government thanks for what they had done in that
country, let it not be supposed that he stood up to
advocate partial measures. He stood up in vindication
of the honest labour of the tenant, and in reprobation
of crime and murder. Some Hon. Gentlemen who bad
spoken in the course of the debate had said that the
people were driven to commit all those acts of violence
and blood. But he had listened in vain for the
connexion between the provocation and the bloodshed.
Did Honourable Gentlemen mean to say that it was
only in Tipperary, Clare, and Roscommon, that the
system of landlordism prevailed ? Did they mean to
say that there were ejectments in no other counties ?
If crime, however, could be traced to other causes—and
it was known that there were ejectments in Mayo, Kil-
ls( nny, and Donegal—the argument of Hon. Members
fell to the ground. If other causes could be found they
must be grappled with. Only prove that where eject-
ments were most rife life was most insecure, and he
still said that that did not account for all those dis-
turbances and assassinations of which we had daily in-
telligence, but that it offered an additional reason for
giving discretionary powers to the Lord Lieutenant.
The Hon. Member here gave a most painful account of
the recent attempt to murder Mr. Bayley at Nenagh, and
showed the sympathy which was evinced by the people
of the neighbourhood for the crime and the criminals.
He (Mr. A. Stafford) lived in that part of the country
in which this attempt was made—he lived, as bad been
said, on the opposite side of the house, without barred
windows or locked doors—he had never had &threatening
notice, and his life had never been attempted. But he
would not speak less strongly on that account, nor at-
tempt to lessen that responsibility which the Govern-
ment, by calling upon the House to consider the state of
Ireland, had thrown upon them.—(Cheers.)
Mr. F. O'CONNOR, said that this was confessedly
the commencement of the programme of the usual ses-
sion, and he was not at all astonished to find the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer checking the exuberance of the
Member for Drogheda. He objected to the high co-
louring which Hon. Members used when describing
crime in Ireland, and offered to pourtray murders com-
mitted in this country quite as vividly. He could not
see what great advantage the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer would derive from his financial programme, after
the communications which had been made by the Right
lion. Gentleman the Secretary for Ireland. The object
of calling Parliament together was to give stability so
the money market, and what had the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman told the House? He was about to show that
two million six hundred thousand had been imported
last year, when the Chancellor of the Exchequer stopped
him, lest, in his exuberance, he might damage the cause.
But he had not been stopped in time, for the Right Hon.
Gentleman told the House that the potato crop was
valued at only four millions, whilst its usual value was
sixteen millions. He suspected that tranquillity could
only be procured by coercion ; he objected to
a Coercion Bill, which was to punish those
who were confessedly the victims of bad govern-
ment. He asked the Government whether they
were going to found a Coercion Bill upon their own mis-
government, without first inquiring into the cause of
crime? He thought that one of the chief causes of crime
in Ireland was the premium which was offered to idle-
ness. Ireland was a fruitful country, and the people
were industrious; and why was it that she did not pros-
' per whilst others with inferior advantages were pro-
gressing ? If one Coercion Bill was to pass, what re-
medy had the Government against the necessity of other
measures of the same sort ? There was only one re-
medy now, and that was, to set the people to work in
reproductive labour, and to give them a perpetuity of te-
nure.—(" Bravo" from some Irish Member, laughter,
and cries " Order.") Give the Irish people reason to be
industrious, and they would be so. They had heard
much of the virtues of the gentlemen who had been
murdered, but they should also hear, and think too, of
the sufferings of the people. He called upon the Mem-
bers for Ireland to sink all their differences for the sake
of their country. If an attempt were made to coerce
Ireland again, he would consider himself as a soldier in
her cause, and sit, nay, even sleep, in that House—
(Great laugh ter)—in order to endeavour to prevent such
a result. The Hon. Member concluded by observing,
that he would only give the Government his support
on their Irish policy so long as they did—what he did
not think they were likely to do—bring forward
good measures in reference to that country.
Mr. GRATTAN said he withdrew his amendment.
The amendment having been withdrawn accordingly,
The SPEAKER was about to put the question on the
Address, when
Mr. HERRIES rose, and (in a very low tone of voice,
which rendered it difficult to catch more than the mere
purport of his remarks) said that there was one part of
v(lrfyar c)ttsveiz o.!
her Majesty's Speech to which but little reference had
been made, and yet it was one which appeared to be the
thetheir
state beingof assembled
commercialodnisthtraetss that had
recently prevailed. This question required more notice,
on the part of some
any other subject d member of the Government, than
Majesty's Gar, emended at the present crisis. Her
the Act of 1844,1 andrat'
th
had interfered in the subject of
inter-
fered to avert au i e thought they had wisely inter-
of the Government impending
calamity.
Two members
to do that which, aproposed to the Bank of England
promise of indemnity,without such suggestion,
the a- and without a
could not have done. e
did dire of that institution
would have produced papers expect that the Government
event, and that they woul hand documents as to this
that House for what they had
ctitiovne asked the sanction of
at all events, though there had neOt They were bound,
fringement of the law by the Bank etccurred any in-
went a full account of the state of circumstances
to Parlia-
ment
they made the suggestion they offered tO'etleie tlie
—(Hear.) The lettsr to the Bank directors Itilaanlks.
contained a suggestion that a part of the profits of the
high interest to be charged for money should be appro.
•
prtateto d the public service. But no account had as
yet been given how far any
arrangement of the sort had

been carried out—to what extent the Bank had acted
on the suggestion.—(Hear.) He need not surely tell
so constitutional a man as the Noble Lord (Lord J.
Russell) that the act of raising money without the con-
sent of Parliament was highly unconstitutionaL It had
been suggested in the public papers, that inasmuch as
the Act of 1844 had not actually been infringed, the
proposal to which he had referred would not have effect.
But they ought to have information on the whole matter.
—(Hear, hear.) He was sure he should receive from
one of her Majesty's Government some explanation as
to whether the House wire to calulate on a renewal of
a measure similar to that of 1844, or whether her Ma-
jesty's Government would adopt some measure that
would prevent a recurrence of such a monetary crisis as
that through which the country was passing.—(Hear.)
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said his
Right Hon. Friend must have forgotten his Parliamen-
tary practice, or he would not have expected that a dis-
cussion on monetary matters would be taken on the
amendment moved on an Irish subject. There would be
great inconvenience experienced if two different subjects
were mixed up together in the same debate. He (the
Chancellor of the Exchequer) hoped, therefore, that he
should be excused for not having, on that occasion, made
a speech on financial matters.—(Hear, hear.) No doubt
he had come down to the House expecting that the con-
duct of the Government would be made the subject of
observation, and fully prepared to take part in the de-
bate • but, at that hour of the night, he thought it
would be exceedingly inconvenient to do so. He would
be perfectly ready on Tuesday next, when a motion
would be before the House—a motion for the appointment
of a Committee to inquire into the Bill of 1844—and
which would afford a fair opportunity of discussing the
question. He would then fully state his views, and those
of the Government, on this question, if reqnired.—
(Hear, hear.) He was glad to find that the course pur-
sued by the Government was approved of, and that it
had not led to an infringement of the law. That being
the case, the Government required no Bill of indemnity,
and, therefore, had no proposition on the subject to sub-
mit to the House. With regard to the correspondence
with the Bank, he should take the earliest opportunity
of explaining why that correspondence was not laid on
the table of the House. There were now upwards of
10,250,0001. in the Bank, and that circumstance was
quite sufficient to inspire the commercial world with con-
fidence.—(Hear.)
Mr. J. O'CONNELL expressed his approval of the
course taken by the mover of the amendment, and hoped.
the Government would be induced thereby to adopt im-
mediate measures of relief for the people of Ireland.
The amendment was then withdrawn, and the Address
was agreed to.
The House adjourned at Five minutes past Twelve.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Under the Management ef Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee.
THIS EVENING
Will be produced a new and original Comedy, called FAMILY
PRIDE. Mr. Chapman, Mr. Tilbury ; Doctor Dodge, Mr. Farren ;
Arthur Courtney, Mr. Henry Farren ; Captain Shangenah, Mr. Hud-
son; Blandish, Mr. Brindal ; Mrs. Willoughby Courtney, Mrs. W.
Clifford; Sophia Chapman, Mrs. Nisbett; Letitia Bradley, Miss
Reynolds; Grace, Mrs. Humby.
Atter which, an entiaely new Comic Drama, called THE ROUSED
LION. Characters by Messrs. Webster, Howe, Wigan, H. Vanden-
hoff ; Mrs. Keeley, Miss Reynolds, Mrs. Seymour, and Mrs. Stanley.
To conclude with the comic Drama, entitled THE IRISH I'OST.
Characters by Messrs. Tilbury, Braid, Hudson, J. Bland, W. Sauter,
A. Brindal ; Mrs. liumby, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, and Miss Woulds.
Stage Manager, Mr. Fasten; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Web ;ter.
J. T. Archer, Box-bock keeper.
Sexes, ss. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is.
Doors open at Half-past Six, Performance is commence at Seven.

TREA.TRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Under the direction of Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING

Pill be presented a new and original Drama, called GABRIELLI;
or, the Bequeathed Heart. Fitzgerald O'Carrol, Mr. Boyce ; Major
Dunmore, Mr. Worrell; Marques di Mincio, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Bal-
tit:tzar Vaidarno, Mr. 0. Smith ; Bob Bit, Mr. Wright ; Gabrielli,
Madame Celeste ; Signora D'Ossuua, Miss Brooks.
Atter which, a New Farce, entitled THIS HOUSE TO BE SOLD
the property of the late William Shakspeare), Inquire Within. Cha-
racters by Messrs. Wright, Cullenford, Worrell, 0. Smith, Paul Bed
ford, Mrs. Laws, &c., &c.

To be followed by the original farce, called HOW TO SETTLE
10-CoIJNT:-. WITH YOUR LAUNDRESS. Whittington Widgetts,
Wright; Jack Brown, Mr. Manyard; Squibb, Mr. Redmond
riyan; Ilary Willie, bliss Woolgar ; Mdlle. Cherry Bounce, Miss
tonna Harding.
To conclude with the Farce of SHOCKING EVENTS. In which
Mr. Lambert, Mr. Worrell, Mr. Munyard, Miss Harding, and Miss
Chaplin will perform.
Boxes, 45.; Pit, 25., Gallery, ls.
Dnors open at Half-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Management of 31adame Vestris.
Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews.
THIS EVENING,

Will be presented A SOVEREIGN REMEDY. Cbaracters by
Messrs. Selby, Granby, and C. Matthews, and Miss Connor.
To be followed by the Comic Drama, entitled THE PRIDE OF
THE MARKET. Principal characters by Messrs. Buckatone, Leigh
Murray, Granby, and Parsene , awe H. Gilbert, Mrs. C. Jones, and
Madame Vestris.

AAlter
which a new Cowie Drama, called A ROUGH DIA3IOI4D.
To conclude with a ltomance of Steal Life, called BOX and COX.
Principal characters by Mr. Harley. Mr. Buckstone, and Mrs. Mac-
namara.
The Interior of the House has been entirely re-designed ►y Ni. IV.
Bradwell of the Colosseum.
Dress Boxes, Is. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Ne
half-price to any part of the house.
The New Box-office, No. 2, Wellington-street, Is open to the
Public every day, from Ten to Slx.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Engagement ef Mr. MACREADY and MISS CUSHMAN.
TIIIS EVENING

Will be performed a new Historical Play, entitled PHILIP VAN
A RTEVRLDE. Characters by Messrs. Macready, Ryder, rainier,
Cooper, J. Vining, Convay, Neville ; Miss E. Montague, and Miss
Susan Cush .nan.
To conclude with a Drama, entitled TIIE VIOLET. Characters
by Messrs. Cooper, Neville, Conway ; Mrs. Fosbroke, Miss Emma
Stanley, and Miss Emmeline Montague.
Dress Circle, 55.: Boxes, 45.; Pit., 2s. ; Gallery, Is.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Lessee. Mrs. F. Davidge, No. 1, Davidge•terrace,Kenaington-road,

Sure/.
Last Week of the Opera Company.
THIS ETENINO, the performances will commence with the
celebrated Opera et

LA SONNAMDULA,

In which Mr. W. Harrison,lr. Borrani, Miss R. Isaacs, and Miss
Romer will appear.
To be followed by a new Divertissement called UNE KERMES.
To conclude with a new and original Drataa, entitled TIIE TRA
TELLER'S ROOM. Principal characters by Messrs. F. Vining, 11.
Hughes, T. Fredericks, Lewis, Oxberry, and Mrs. W. West.
A distinct entrance to the private boxes has been made (which
have been re-fitted). Private boxes may be had "tightly of all the
•rincipal Librarians ; and at the Box-oetizo of the Theatre, which is
open daily from Ten until Four.
Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, is. ; Gallery, 6d.

AsTLEY'd ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
FroprleWr and Manager, Mr. William Batty.
Mr. Batty's performing Elephants.
Tins EVENING
The Grand Slsectacle of THE CASH! OF SILESIA.
Entirely new Seems In the Arena, by the talented Artistes ol
the Establlihment, In the •arious modes of equestration.
To conclude with the Ballet called LOVE and VOLLT.
Box-oflice open from 11 till
Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. W West.

tVIEETI NG OF PARLIAMENT

CIE WEATHER.—Sux Otiricz, Nov. 24.
THERMJMETER, Lowest, 36; Highest. 46 ; Noon, 48.
BAROMETER, 30.1.—WIND S. by W.; fine.

iii..ll WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TillB DAY.
Aferninz.. 44 minutes after 2. Evening 7 Min Mei otter 3.

at a time when, not withstanding her MAJESTY'S
assurance that "the pressure on the banking and
commercial interests hi is been mitigated," it is still
obvious that those int nests are in a great measure
paralysed by debility :and by a very rational want of
confidence ; and when, notwithstanding the assertion
of the same authority, to the effect that the late
abundant harvest "has alleviated the evils which
always accompany si want of employment in the
manufacturing districts," it is indisputable that
those evils are at this moment of an enormous
and imperative character. The agonies of her
position render Ireland blind to these facts—her
garrulity is redoubt :d—her importunities are more
than ever importunate. If we bear in recollection
the efforts of amelioration already made by the
Government—the gr ant of 10,000,0001.—the sup-
plies of meal and other articles of nourishment trans-
mitted by the vessels of the State to the most impo-
verished districts—the benefactions ensured to the
oafg:unbcoyrdinate attempts to aid
Ireland
of a benignant poor-
law—and destitute
in t htarhoeu varietymidst through
t the
e of her late gigantic tribulations;
when we remember, moreover, the circumstances
that the Legislature consumed its time and its pa-
st
pa-
tience in the service of Ireland, and that
the nation perilled its commercial strength
and its financial credit in struggling to
extricate that portion of the United Kingdom
from its embarrassments--we shall be astounded to
hear the State accused of indifference and callousness
to the miseries of our fellow-countrymen.
That a cry of indignation should be raised by the
Irish Members at the proposed introduction of coer-
cive measures for Ireland is but natural. It is but
catural that they should protest against the adoption
of a course which was formerly reprobated by Lord
JOHN RUSSELL. It is but natural that they should
threaten with discomfiture a scheme which led imme-
diately to the overthrow of the late Government ;
and that they should tax the present Cabinet
with a wilful and flagrant recalcitration. Until such
time as the authority entrusted to the Lord-Lieute-
nant shall have been tried and found insufficient for
the prevention of crime and the punishment of crimi-
nals, new measures of a coercive character will be
cruel and unpardonable. Even then those measures
of coercion should be preceded by others of a reforma-
tory nature, such as would tend to the diminution of
the incitements to crime, and to the alleviation of the
condition of the peasantry. That the majesty of
the law should be vindicated—that bloody as-
sassination should not flourish with impunity
—that the lives of the peaceable and un-
offending should meet with adequate protection—
that murderers should no longer awe the peasantry
into connivance with their guilt by the beck of their
ensanguined hands—that the history of the country
should not continue to be incarnardined with the
blood-stains of triumphant sin—are truths beyond all
denial or objection. Yet while her MAJESTY may
with perfect truth " lament that in some counties of
Ireland atrocious crimes have been committed, and that
a spirit of insubordination has manifested itself, leading
to an organized resistance of legal rights," Heaven
is the witness of those criminal peasants, that years of
wrong, and centuries of misgovernment have been
goading them on to those paroxysms of desperation !
Let us with a bold hand and a sagacious judgment
re-organise the social and political system of Ireland,
and agrarian assassinations will only survive in a
series of dismal recollections ! Let the Irish, in
truth, be placed upon an equality with ourselves,
and the Celtic Thugs will be no longer in existence.

The letter of the 25th of October, by which the
Bank Charter Act of 1844 waa virtually suspended,
was yesterday withdrawn. The first day of actual
business by the new Parliament was that on which
the law that had been proved to be so deeply injurious
to the country was again restored. It appears, by the
Speech from the Throne, and also from the statements
made by the Marquis of LANSDOWNE in the Upper,
and the CHANCELLOR of the EICHEQUER in the
Lower House, that no infringement of the law has
actually taken place—that the directors did not avail
themselves of the powers bestowed upon them by that

letter_ Whether the intimation, that any additional
profits which might thereby be gained should be con-
sidered applicable to public purposes, had anything to
do with that result, it is of course impossible for those
not in the secrets of the directors to say. They have
avoided the necessity of any application to the Legis
!attire being made on their behalf, and the 8 per cent
interest, and the large gains thereby acquired, will
remain the property and swell the dividends of the
proprietors. We are now told " that the alarm has
subsided, that the pressure on the banking and com-
mercial interests has been mitigated," and the Finan-
cial Minister assures us, " that the reserve in the
Bank is now upwards of 5,000 0001., that the bullion
in her coffers amounts to 10,250,0001.," and adds,
" These circumstances are sufficient to inspire the
whole commercial world with confidence, and I do
not think that it is now necessary to continue that
letter, and I: may conclude by saying that her 11.1 A.
JESTY'S Government do not mean to apply
for further powers than Parliament would
be ready to give in case any emergency
should arise." We cannot, under such circum-
stances, conceive any reason why the directors should
so long have maintained a rate of interest so exor-
bitant and so ruinous to all the best interests of the
nation—acting as a positive prohibition to produc-
tion. Nor can we believe that the alarm has sub-
sided, or the pressure on the banking and commercial
n e
mitigated, while seven per
n
minimum rate of discount, a fact
witieitcr. h
e s
i ints s i
beentslelf the
is materially
indicative of a state of panic, and of
ci still
serious derangement in the money market. The
Bank is now, however, left to its own discretion. The
directors are no longer fettered by the conditions
annexed to the Ministerial letter, and we may rea-
sonably look forward to very considerable reductions
being almost immediately announced.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER has given
notice "that, on Tuesday next, he will move for a Com-
mittee to inquire into the causes of the recent com-
mercial distress, and how far that distress was affected

Iby the law regulating the issue of bank notes payable
on demand ;" and he has also promised, "that on
that day certainly, if not before, he will be ready to
go into a full statement of the views of the Govern-
ment, and to give the fullest explanations that the
House can desire." We must, therefore, be con-
tented to await that information which we had hoped
would have been afforded at the earliest
opportunity. If the Ministry are not prepared
to introduce measures on the knowledge already pos-
sessed of the baneful operation of our monetary code,
it is quite right that every additional light should be
thrown on the subject, and that intelligent and com-
petent persons should be invited to communicate the
results of their experience, in order that sound con..
elusions may be arrived at ; but what is to be done in
the meantime ? Ara matters to remain in what,
with all due respect for the Right llonourable
Baronet, we cannot help designating as their present
untoward state ? Is that Act, that has been proved
to be so wholly inefficacious, but which, on the Mi-
nisterial showing, has in a great degree led to the
' fearful calamities we have witnessed, to be continued
pending the inquiries of the Committee that may be
appointed ? A stronger condemnation of that law
could not be uttered than the simple recital of facts
by the Ministerial leader in the House of Lords.
The Noble Marquis stated " that if the dis-
tress had been confined to persons actually
in a state of insolvency, and if it had
been only that species of inconvenience which
must always, from time to time, follow upon
over-speculation, the Government would not have
felt justified in giving such advice. But when it
did appear that not only was there this amount of
insolvency in the country, and that a panic had
arisen from causes not very difficult to discover, but
that the most respectable, the most firm, the most solid
houses in the country were placed in a state of danger,
then the Government felt that the period had arrived
when they might give that advice which they had
offered to the Bank of England." Here, then,
is the direct admission that the most respect-
able and solvent houses in the country
were placed in jeopardy by the state of the
law, which involved them in the most imminent
danger—a law which, when financial affairs were in
a favourable state, was wholly useless and unavailing,
hut which, when matters were in a worse condition,
led to all these evils, not merely from its actual ope-
ration, but still more from the fears it gave

rise to, and the consequent depreciation of credit.
Let us learn, from the same high authority,
the consequence that followed its suspension. His
Lordship says, " The instant the advice of the
Government had been given to the Bank, the panic
had, without any violation of the law, subsided, and
there had been an increase of bullion in
the Bank from the amount he had just
named (a reserve of 1,600,0001.) to 3,205,000/.,
thus no less than one million of bullion had been
accumulated in the cellars of the Bank within so
short a space of time as fully to accomplish the
object at which the Government had aimed in their
n ter Terence."

With such conclusive evidence against this most
impolitic enactment, we trust that it may no longer
be retained on the ;statute•book, but that it may be
immediately repealed without waiting the result of
the proposed inquiry, or deciding what measure (if
any) shall be introduced as a substitute therefor.

The accounts from Switzerland bring no news
from Lucerne. The new Government of Friburg has
chosen Dr. BERCHTHOLD as Chancellor. They have
reinstated the Communial Council, which was arbi-
trarily dissolved by the Jesuits in January last, and
have annulled all the acts of the late Council from the
time of the accession of the canton to the Sonderbund.
The house of the late Avoyer FOURNIER (a furious
partisan of the Jesuits) was pillaged by the Landsturm
of his own party, who are now outrageous against the
Jesuits, and their partisans for the deceptions which
they have practised upon them. Several chiefs of the
Sonderbund have been preserved from their fury by
the Federal troops. At Schwarzenbourg two Land-
stunners, who were about to return home, were heard
to swear that they would not go to church for a year,
because they had been deceived by the priests. The
priests took to flight when the first shot was fired.

The Federalists are using their victory with great
moderation ; not a single arrest has been, or will be,
made on account of the past ; not a single Conserva-
tive has been insulted ; and the only disorders that
have been committed have been committed by the dis-
banded troops of the Sonderbund.

Madrid papers of the 16th have arrived.
Senor MoN was elected President of the Chamber
of Deputies on the 15th. He had 135 votes ; Gene
ral EVARISTO SAN MIGUEL, 39; and Senors OLOZAGA,
BAItONA, and TEJADA, one each. The Committee of
Afrancesados, charged to draw up articles of itn-
peacliment against SALAMANCA, have commenced their
labours.

M A DRID BOLSA, Nov. 16.—The Three per Cents. were
done at 26k, at 50 days ; the Five per Cents., at 141,
for paper ; the Debt without Interest, at 4f ; and the
Coupons, at 11.

We have received the Paris papers of Monday.

The withdrawal of M. Bois LE COMTE from
Switzerland is commented on in all of them, and
they all, with the exception of the _Wats, justify
the conduct of the Swiss Government. The Union
Monarchique declares that M. Boss LB COMTE was
placed in the falsest of positions at Berne, in conse-
quence of the undecided conduct of M. GulzoT, who
sutl,2red him to remain accredited to the Diet, while
at the same time it was easy to see by his notes and
his proceedings that he leant towards the Sonder-
bund. The Presse, too, considers that under the
suspicious circumstances in which M. Boss LB COMTE
was placed, the refusal " the safe conduct solicited
by him for one of his secretaries for a mysterious
mission to Lucerne," is in no way astonishing. The
Presse also combats the absurd position taken up
by M. GUIZOT, that the Ambassador was accre-
dited to the twenty-two cantons individually, and
declares that he is accredited to the Helvetic Govern-
meLt, and cannot treat but by the intermediation of
the Vorort, and sneeringly asks what next is to be
done, since M. Boss LE COMTE has gone to Basle to
sulk. " All these embarrassments," says the Presse,
"are the consequences of an equivocal and shirking
policy which does not know clearly what it wants, or
what it aims at." The Constitutionnel considers the
surrender of Friburg without striking a blow as a
proof that the insurrection of the Sonderbund is
quite factitious, as its starting point is a series of
lies which have been propagated and encouraged, not
only by the Jesuits of Switzerland, but by the Go-
vernment of Austria, and by that of France.
Accounts from Algiers of the 11th announce the
arrival of the Duchess of AUMALE on that day. It
is said that ADD-EL-KADER has, through the inter-
vention of the Governor of hlellila, made new ad-
vances towards a treaty with France.
The number of persons injured by the accident on
the Orleans Railway is thirty; of these two are since
dead. A land slip to the extent of 100 yards has
taken place on the Rouen and Havre line, between
Beugeville and Niontot.
The Three per Cents. closed at 76f. 75c. ; New
Loan, 76f. 55c.; the Five per Cents., 116 f.; the
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,206 f. 25c.; Rouen, 9101.;
Havre, 487 t. 50c. ; Great Northern, 563 f. 75c.;
Avignon 5631. 75c.; Vierzon, 551 f. 25c.; Bordeaux,
485 f.; Boulogne, 380 f. ; Troyes and Montereau,
265 x.; Dieppe, 2601.; Paris and Strasburg, 417 f.
50c. ; Tours and Nantes, 4001.; Paris and Lyons,
403 f. 75c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, NOVEMBER 23.

Boulogne and Amiens, 1514 ex int.—Namur and Liege,
434—Northern of France, 12%—Orleans and Bordeaux, 5:14
—Paris and Rouen, 35 <,—Paris and Strasbourg, 414:—
Sambre and Meuse, 6%—West Flanders 11A.

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)
DUNCAN V. BENSON.

The LORD CIIIEF BARON gave judgment in this case
to-day. The ease arose upon a demurrer to a plea► in
the first count of a declaration in assumpsit, brought by
the shipper of certain goods from Pernambuco to a
London agent, for the purpose of recovering from the
owner compensation for the loss he sustained in conse-
quence of damage to the ship by perils of the sea in a
foreign port, the master having properly hypothecated
for the due repairs of the vessel.
The case has been before the Court on several occa•
sions, and his Lordship now decided that the judgment
should be entered for the plaintiff.

SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Commissioner Bvx.Locx.)
This Court sat this morning for hearing causes under
the Small Debts Act, but nothing of the slightest in-
terest transpired.

CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN.)
Thomas Stiff, a letter-carrier, having pleaded guilty
to an indictment for stealing a letter from the Post-office;
containing ten shillings, was sentenced to be transported
for twenty years.
James Mordan, Thomas Skirts, and Thomas Cummins,
each eighteen years of age, were indicted for an assault
and robbery in King-street, Cheapside, on the 9th of
November last, during the Lord Mayor's procession.
The prosecutor, Mr. Richard Hibbs, stated that
on the day
__ named he was turning from Lawrence-
lane into King-street, about the time of the procession,
when be was surrounded by a mob in which were the
three prisoners, who beat his hat over his eyes, and
knocked him down. In the scuffle his watch guard was
broken, and, together with his watch, was pulled away.
Mr. PAYNE addressed the jury for the prisoner Shires.
Mordan said that he was in the crowd, and that he
joined them in bonnetting Mr. Hibbs and others, but he
had nothing to do with the robbery.
Cummings denied that he had taken any part what-
ever in the riot.

The jury found the prisoners Guilty of the assault,
and not guilty of the robbery.
They were sentenced to aix months' imprisonment
and hard labour.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
Jane Bellard was indicted for stealing a gown, a
velvet shawl, and various other articles, the property of
Leonard George Needes.
Tho prosecutor was a pawnbroker, and on last Thurs-
day the prisoner went to his shop and stole the gown,
which she pledged at another pawnbroker's in the next
street ; and on the following Saturday she paid him
another visit, and took the shawl, which she disposed of
in a similar way.
She was found Guilty on both the charges, and sen-
tenced to two terms of imprisonment of three months,
and six weeks with hard labour, for each offence.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER.-TUESDAY.

DERBY.-11 to 1 agst Surplice, 11 to 1 agst Glen-
dower, 16 to 1 apt Springy Jack 16 to 1 agst Assault,
20 to 1 agst the Stinger, 25 to 1 agst Nil Desperandum,
40 to 1 agst Rosslyn, 40 to 1 agst the Fowler.

THE QUEEN'S SPEECH.—Our active and enterpris-
ing newsman, Mr. Grant, delivered The Sun at our office at
four o'clock yesterday afternoon, containing her Majesty's
speech.—Brighton Guardian of this day.
The rumours at Westminster on the subject of the
illness of the Lord Chancellor were yesterday rather unfa-
vourable. It is stated that one of the consequences of the
inflammatory irritation, accompanying the severe cold with
which his Lordship has been afflicted, has been the rupture
of a blood-vessel. The profession and the public will hear
this with profound regret, not more from the delay of public
business than from the respect entertained by all classes for
his Lordship's character,

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
1
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
There was a firm market for Cotton at Liverpool yes-
terday. Sales, 3,000 bales. American advanced *cl. per
lb.—Railway Shares were firm.
It should be remarked that The Sun, with the Queen's
Speech, arrived in the City at about a quarter past two,
a most unprecedented instance of dispatch.
The Madagascar has arrived from the Cape of Good
Hope, with dates to the 25th of September. The
troops were on their march, and the Kafir chief
Macomo was under strict surveillance, near to
Graham's Town. The flocks had been removed
to places of safety. It is stated that Sir Henry Pot-
Linger was in favour of Sir E. F. Young remaining as
Lieutenant-Governor of the Eastern Provinces.
The correspondence between the Government and
the Bank of England, which appeared in a Third Edi-
tion of The Sun of last night, has not caused
any remarks of consequence, nor has it affected the
Funds. Most parties connected with commerce and
trade in the City are at a loss in what department
there has been any such improvement as that noted in
the letter from Downing-street to the " Chairs " of the
Bank of England.
An account made out of the affairs of Mr. M. L,
Bensusan is before us, and certainly not a very favour-
able one ; indeed, it has been the subject of much con-
versation. The debts are 52,0161., and per contra there
is 3,951/, 16s. 6d. The accountant, Mr. James Hatton,
had, it is said, a difficult task to make out the statement.
'The market for public securities has been very firm
this morning. Consols for the Account have reached
85i, and the same for Money. The proceedings in
Parliament last night were read with some satisfaction
in probably all points excepting those connected
with Ireland. The present value both for
Consols for Motley and Time is 854 Exchequer-
bills are 2s. discount to par. Bank Stock opened at
189 to 187. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents.
have been sold at 85a.
In the Foreign Stocks the bargains done to-day were,
in Chilian, at 89 ; in Mexican, at 15i ; in Z"panish Five
per Cents., at 174 ;in the Three per Cents., at 284 ;
in the Venezuela, at 35. Dutch have advanced to
54 for the Two-and-a-Half per Cents., and in the
Four per Cent. Certificates to 83k.
The Railway Share Market is little disturbed by the
approaching exposé of the Ministry as to extensions,
grants of further time, &c. The prices are very
variable.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock 189 187
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 831,4 844, 83%
3 per Cent. Consols Anns.. .. B5 84% 855Zi
New 314 per Cent. Anus. 8541/e%%14
Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 8 7-16 9-16
Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10, 1859 8 .5-16
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. 3d.
1,000/.
5001.
Small
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent B9
Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent. 15%
Ditto for the Account
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840
Ditto for the Account l7q
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Venezuela Bonds

Ditto Deferred
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 21/2 per Cent.,l2 Guild 5414% 1.'2
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK
RAILWAYS. PAID. P SHARE.
Aberdeen
Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. 2% % ...... to
Ayrshire and Galloway -
... _ . _.

Belfast and Ccunty Djwn .. 10'
Birmingttam 8; Oxford June... 15

13irmingliam, W 01.,& Dudley 10 ... . . ..... to
Birming., Vol., & Stour Val. 8
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshira Junction 734
Boston, Staini, & Birming... 5
Bristol and Exeter
Do., Thirds
Buckinghamshire lOl. 4s — ...... to
Caledonian
Ditto, Half Shares
Ditto, Clydesdale Junction 50 ......
Chester and Holyhead... 37% — to

Ditto, Preference 8
Clarence.
Do., Ist Class, 6 per Cent
Do., 2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10
Do., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10
Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 20 -
Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 15 ......
East Anglia, 25/., L. & E.
sad L. & D.
Ditto, 18/., E. &II lB ... 10
Ditto, 31. 10s., E. & 11... 1
Eastern Counties
Do. I'erpet.,s per et. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d JA dia.... to
Do., do N 0.9,6/. 13s. 4d... dia. .. to % dis.
Do., York Extension
_

Do., Northern & Eastern... 50 ... 48%1A i.iAt to
Do., Quarter .... .. ........... 121/2...
..
Do., New
East ersn Union ... ... .. 50
Ditto, Quarter Shares ...... 12% — to
Ditto., Thirds .. ......... ...13s. 4d — ...... to
Ditto (guar. 6 per cent.) ...
East Lancashire
Ditto, New -
Do., New Quarters
East Lincolnshire 124......
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O — ...... to
Ditto, half Shares
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12%. — to
Edinburgh and Northern ... 22%......
Ditto, New..... ... 2% ...... to
Ditto, New p0rt..... 7
Ditto, ditto, New l% — ...... to
Edinburgh and Perth
Ditto, Extension ... 10s.
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% — ...... to
Ditto, New
Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle..B/. 65.8 d... to
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50
Ditto, New

Do. lA. Shares (5 per ct.gua.) 12% ..... .. ... to
Great Northern 8
Do. London & York Exten. 2% — ...... to
Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 35
Great North of England 100 226
Ditto, New 40/ 5
Ditto, New 30/ ... 30 ... .. .. ... to
Ditto, New 151.......... ...... 11/‘...... • ... to
Great Western
Ditto, IlallShares
Ditto, Quarter Share.;
Ditto, Fifths
Do. New 17/
Huddersfield and Manchester 22 .. ...
Ditte, Thirds
Hull and Selby
Ditto, half Shares
' Ditto Quarter Shares 12% — to
Ipswich & Bury St. Edmunds 15
Do. do. and Norwich
Do., do., Extension Scrip
(late (Carob. and Ely) 2% — ...... to
Lancaster and Carlisle.... ... 50
Do., Thirds lO ...... 11
Lancashire and Yorkshire ... 93 .....
Ditto, ditto
Ditto Half Shares
Ditto Quarters 14% — to
Ditto Fifths
Ditto Sixteenths ........... VA."... to
Ditto Thirds (Reg.) ... 101.45. 43/4 dis to
Do. Liverpool and Bury... 34
Do. (Hudders. and Shelf.) 33
Do., Wakefield, Pontefract, _. .

and Goole 471/2 to
Do., West Riding Union ...41. 2s — . .... to
Do., Preston and \Vyre ... 25
Do., do., Half Shares (A) 9
Ditto ditto ..............(B) 14
Leeds and Bradford . 50 ..... ..... to
Leicester and Bedford
Leeds, Dewsbury, & Manchea. 37% — to
Do., Branch 1,4 Shares 12% — ...... to
Ditto, New Branch (blue).. 2%
Ditto, Extension (green)... 2% — to
Do., New Exten. (pink)... 2% — to
Leeds and Thirsk

Ditto, New ..... ...... .. 171,4..... ....... to - -
Do., do., Prefer., 6 per Cent. 3%..... ....•• to
Liverpool. Crosby, and Sout h-
port.
Liverpool, Manchester, and
Newcastle Junction 21,4 — to
London & Blackwall...l6/. 13s. 4d —
Ditto New, No. I-
Ditto New, No. 2 ......41. 13s. 4d.... .. .. to
Do. Extension
Lond., Bright., & South Coast 50
Do. Consolidated Eighths... 30 ...... 23
Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 . .....
Do. Pref. Conv. 5 per Cent. 50 ....~
London and Greenwich... 12/.155. 4d...
Ditto Preference lBl 17s 2d... ...... to
London and North Western..loo 155 ...... to 156
Do. Quarter .....L. and B. 17
Do. do. New ...... .... ...... 2
Do. do. Fifths
Do. Quarters ...... ... G. J. 25
Do. 401. Shares.....L. & M. 15
Do. 40/. Shares... M. and B. 40 ...... 60
Do. 10/.... M. and B. (A.) 71,2..... -,-
Do. 101. .. M. and B. ( B.) 71/2 113% ...... to
1)o. 101.... M. and B. (C.) 1
. ....

London and S. We.stern.T... 411. 62 8d 551 A 55 to 551
Do. New ConsolidatedBths. 40
Ditto New 501. . 32',x...... 283/ to

Ditto New 401. .. .. -. 26
—...
Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 50 ... ...
Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 40
to
Ditto, Thirds 6/. 13s. 4d... 1 die.— to :-t dis.
London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 11,4 — * —.. to
Londonderry andColeraine... 271 At — *** .... to
Londozderry and Enniskillen 23,Y4 —
blanch, Buxton, & Matlock 3
Manchr, Sheffield, and Linc.100
Ditto !,q Shares (No. 1) ... 13
Ditto, ditto (No. 2)
Ditto,',4 Shares (No. 3)... 7%.•.•••
Ditto Grimsby
Ditto, ditto.
Ditto, ditto ...
Ditto, Sheffield, and Line. 7%..• ..
Manchesterand Southampton 21A ...... —.— to
Michaud ........................... 100 ••....110
Ditto, Consol. Preference...loo .. —1
....
Ditto, 40/. 5hare5............ 40 ...... 42 /2 to
to 9%
Ditto, 501. 5hare5........... 10 ... .. 9
Midland, Birrn., and Derby...loo ..... 82
Midland, Consol. Bristol and
to
Birmingham 6 per ce0t....100 ...... —__
Midland, Bristol and Glouc. 34
Ditto ditto ..................... 71.95.... „ to

Midland, Leices. and Swan-
nington (8 per ct.gaa.).... 50 .... .
MiLild. Great Western(lrish) 30
Newcastle and Carlisle lOO .....
Ditto Quarter Shares 5O ... .. ...... to
Newmarket and Chesterford 131,4......
Ditto Extension
Newport Abergy., and Heref. 4
Norfolk ......... ....
Ditto New 201.
Ditto Extension
Do. Scrip, 1847,N. of Norflk 2
1)o. do. Waveney Valley... 2
Newry and Enniskillen ...... 7
Newry, Warrenpoint, and
llostrevor
Northern Counties Union .... 4
Sorth British
Ditto Half Shares.
Do. Quarters 4% 4:14 %xt to
Ditto, Extension
..... to
Ditto Thirds .... 1%...... 214 ...... to
North Staffordshire... .. ...... 714 7%34... to
North Wales -
North Western . 6 -
Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton
Reading, Guildfd., & Reigate 71,4 7 ...... to --
Royston and Hitchin
Scottish Central
icottish Midland ... 17% — ...... to
Ditto, New -
Sheffield, Rotherham, and
Goole
Shrewsbury and Birmingham 6
Ditto, ditto, Class B. 3
Shrewsbury and Chester
(Nor. W. Min.)
Ditto Halves, Ditto... 8 ... .. .
Ditto, Oswestry l2
Ditto (New) .... 1
Shrewsbury and Hereford... 2
Shropshire Union ... 4 ...... 1% to
South Devon ....... ...... ... 40 -
Ditto, Preference
South Staffordshire
South Eastern and Dover 3344
Ditto, New, No. 1
Ditto, New, No. 2 l7 ...... to
Ditto, New, No. 3
I)itto New, No. 4............ 61i 4% ...,... to
South Wales
South Yorkshire, Doncaster,
and Goole

Swans. and Loughor and Ca-
meron's Stm. Coal ...... ... .. 4 -
Chames Haven Dock and
Railway 1714 —
Faw Vale Extension
Vale of .Neath

Waterford and Kilkenny 131A......
Waterford and Limerick..... -
Waterford,Wexford,Wicklw,
and Dublin
West Cornwall 4 -
Whitehaven and Furness ll ..... ..... to
Windsor, Staines, and South
Western s2s.

Wilts,Somerset,&Weymouth 30 ...... ... to --
1' ork, Newcastle, and Berwick 2.5 ... . 33% ..... to 33 ,
Do. Original New & Ber'ck 25 ..... 31 to 304
Do. North Shields Purchase 25 .. ... -
Do. Extol. No.l (Y. & N.) 10 -
Do. do. No. 2, New &B. 10
Do. G. N. E. Pur. or Pref. 8
York and North Midland .. 50 -
Ditto, Preference ' 10 -
Ditto East and West Riding
Extension .... -
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Anglo-Belgian 4 ...... ... .. to •""
Barbadoes

Boulogne and Amiens
Central of France ( Orleans 20 ...... 14% xi... to -.--
and Vierzon) -
Central of Spain ... 2 -
Ceylon
to ---
Dumerara.
Dendre Valley -
Direct Bombay and Madras ss.
Dutch Rhenish 7 . _.
...... to --0
East Indian -
Great Indian Peninsular
Great Southern of Madras
...... . ..... to --
to --
Great Western Bengal 53. -

Great Western Can-ada -
It alian and Austrian
Jamaica S. Midland Junction 1
Louvain it la Sambre ......... 6 - ...... to ---
Luxembourg
Lyons and Avignon (Con-
stituted) - ••• •• to ---
Madras -
ladras, Nellore, and Arcot %...... ...... t 9 '-'.
Madrid and Valentia -
Namur and Liege....... l4 -
Northern of France.
Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 6 -
Over Yssel 413 s 4d..•.. ...... t°
Paris and Lyons -
Paris and Orleans 2O ...... -
Paris and Rouen .. - .. ••. to ---
Paris & Strasbourg ........... 8
Rouen and Havre 20
Sambre and Meuse -
Strasburg and Bale l 4
Tours & Nantes ... .. ...... .. 8 -••-•• tO ---
Tournay, Jurbise, Louden,
and flasselt - •••••• to ---
Trinidad.. ........ ......... ..... 2% -
West Flanders 8 -
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia
British North American -
Colonial -
Commercial of London
London Joint Stock ... ..... 10
London and Westminster. .. 20 -
Ditto, New
National Provincial of Engld. 35
t• •••••
Ditto, New
National of Ireland 221,4 ••• .. to --
Provincial of Ireland -
Ditto, New ... •• lO .•••• -- •••••• to ---
Union of Australia -
Ditto, New 2%
Union of London ...... .• . 10
Union of Madrid ... 40 ...... _ ........
ttt:o
..........--
MINES.
Anglo Mexican lOO -
Astrian Mining Company ... 11 .
--
Australian
Blaenarvon Iron and Coal ... 50
British Iron . lO - ..... to --
Brazilian Imperial .... • - ... 21 -
Cobre Copper -
Galvanized Iron -
Roal del Monte, Unregistered ..... 3I A...... to ---
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.
....
smiler 'am .......... 12 9 Gibraltar..
Dit'..,,, at sight
26 40
Rotterdam .......,
--
Atttvrerp • 26 35 Milan .••••••• • • • • " • • ..-
0 amhurgh .... —MM. 14 1 Venice........ • • ...... 31
Altona •• . .......
Paris, 3 days' sight .. 25 S 5 Palermo, peros— ....
.. SO%
ditto, ...... —.. . .
Marseilles •• •••••• • • 26 30 Oporto •• .. ..... •••:: .. 23%
Bourdeaux.„. ..... • • 26 20 Rio eillaetro ••• • • •
••
Frankfort on Maine 1241 Bahia •• •• • • ••
Petersburgh, Sil. Itble
erli. ••••••' " • • •• • 7lO New York, 210 l' Wit 'Li'
Vienna, effcc. flo ••• • •• 10 24 Philade p
hiR
Trieste, ditt0.... • •
Madtid • ... • •
.1:1•.:7'051:1 °IS
Cadiz • • •
at Gold Coin •• 0
Bilba°
•••••••• • • • • • • • • _—• Srp°Artnsi.f.ll poubloons •'0 4 1%

Barcelona •• •• •••• •. ••
•• .... •• .. ••

I Silver In bars • • •.....

MARKET NEWS.-(TRIS DAY.)
_O.--
CORN-EXCHANGE-WEDNESDA.Y
Since Monday, the arrivals of English Wheat for out
market, coastwise as well as by land carriage and sam-
ple, have been on a very moderate scale. With that
grain we were somewhat scantily supplied this m
quali-
orning.
The attendance of buyers was small, y!t the finest
ties of Wheat of home produce were in steady request,
at fully Monday's quotations. In all other kinds verf
little business was transacted, at the late decline in
value. The imports of Foreign Wheat have been verf
small, viz., 1,210 quarters. That article met a very slow
inquiry, but no alteration took place in prices. Not'
withstanding dullingow of Barley was small, all kinds
met a very nquiry, and the currencies bad a
downward tendency. In Malt next to nothing I!"
doing, on somewhat easier terms. The Oat trade Was
again dull, and inferior parcels of Foreign might
MO:
been purchased at 6d per quarter less money. 1301".
Beans and Peas were very dull, and the turn
cbesper.
Indian Corn, Meal, and Rye Flour were tolerably firo•
Flour, both sack and barrelled, was bold at full pric°.•
1 ARRITALB.
Wheat. I Barley. C4os. 1 Iles:is.
English •• •... 2,820 qrs. 2,710 qrs. 130014 3.
Irish. ...... .. -- ---
Foreign •••••• - -- 2,110 1
1,790 I ....--

I 900 1 -•
Malt, 1,860 an.
On the whole, the demand here to-day
avaXTMCRAVOL.
weto
of meat was to and last week's quotations Wer
well supported. Beef, from 2s 8d to 41 2tl' guttli
8,6 d to 4s 6d; Veal, 4s to ss; and pork, 31 10d $0 5°
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per 81bs. by the carcase. for each kind

1,210

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case TNoAf D
suicide,
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following by a respectablegr•
man, occurred in •
Nile•street, oxton Ni"e TO
Air d to
Prizeman
,an extensive grocer in the above street r---e na-
bed •
with his wife at the accustomed hour last evening, Ma
AN.—This mornngtradtr
this
ly in his usual health and spirits. At about five 0 cijog
.s morning his wife was awakened by a loud guril be-
noise, and upon her placing her hand upon his eb_iej° -tit of
came wet and slippery. Her husband now jump!" out
bed, but almost immediately fell to the ground. DUI' it frail
man alarmed the servants, who brought lights, onu riti a
then discovered that Mr. Prizeman had cut his throat -be
most frightful manner, the wound ext,ending
to ear. Medical aid was obtained, but life was found to
ou
extinct. The act is attributed to pecuniary difficulties' if,
enoLENA.—Three cases of cholera occur" et
A DOW '
Sligo during the week. One man, a tailor, ham --, 0,
died after two hours' illness. We entertain strong
u'llor.
however, that the disease which has appeared in this
oiL.._
tunate town is not that fearful scourge, the Asiatic ch le''-'
but the English cholera.
nearly frothl .__

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On the Gth iust., at Wiesbaden, the wife of the
Ref-
Bramwell, of a eon. reet, Pic-
On the 18th lust, Mrs. Daniel I3ax, of Regent.st
cadilly, of a daughter.
On the 20th inst., at Quernmore- park, near Lancaster,
wife of Mr. Serjeant Bellasis, of a daughte
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yhe

TrimmerLoawLo`d.;
11,4R.RIED.
On the 22d lug., by the Rev. Edward
Brentford Church, William Sprott Boyd, Esq., °ll3, d, 114:5q.,
square, London, youngest son of the late William Yer,p;sq.,
of Hillhousefield, to Laura, daughter of George C4°P
of Brent ford

D rOla:nnotothnheeG2,ilo,
lat
shrtd Maj o r Dilvxe,Dt. on flames, late of the 2a
On the 22d inst., Mr. William Rattenbury of BerrnondoP
*Mr. John Townsend:
market, aged 79
klungerford-

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London: I'rinted and Published by MURDO YOUNG 2..,
No. 112, Strand, Printer, at the Sun Office, . 11:i
Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the cosy/
Middlesex, Wednesday, November $4. 1847;

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