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London, England, 1847-12-02 00:00:00

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LOND' )N, TLHJRSI)AY. -DECEMBER 2, 1847.

A well-known means of evading the consideration
of a disagreeable question, whenever its advocates be-
come unusually troublesome, and it is forced in a pe•
culiar manner on the Ministerial attention, is to grant
a Special Committee for the purpose of inquiring into
matters, of which, perhaps, the fullest knowledge is al-
ready possessed. It is not that additional evidence is
required, or even desired—it is not that there is any
want of ample materials to enable the House to le-
gislate in a satisfactory manner, or that a dozen
votes will be influenced by the mass of evidence that
may be taken, or the report of the Committee, the
nature of which may be easily understood, and in
almost every instance correctly stated, from the
avowed politics and principles of the majority of the
Members nominated to serve thereon, even before
the commencement of their labours. In fact, in
nine cases out of ten, the Committee is con-
ceded merely for the purpose of gaining time
and with the hope, which generally speaking is ful-
filled, of thereby shelving the question for the session,
and perhaps getting rid of it entirely, as before the
conclusion of the solemn farce new circumstances may
arise to divert the public attention therefrom, or per-
haps the Ministerial benches may be filled by new
occupants, to whom the labour and responsi-
bility of solving the problem, and meeting the diffi-
culty ,may be left.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer's motion of
Tuesday evening
objectforma no exception to the ordinary
rule ; indeed the
He has not attemptedto conceal, we shall not say, his
leaning, but his fixed
determination, and from the
happy knack which he possesses of remaining blind
to the signs of thie)
thing couleur de rose—densleis-Tregarcung every-
and disregarding the apprehensions . the dangers •
forced on his unwilling ear some that are
importunate de-
putation, to whom he is unable to refuse an audience,
maintaining the vis inertice, and constant
policy, we have little hope that he to the
laissez faire
abandon the doctrines to which he so unfortunately
11
committed himself in 1844, and to which en Tues-
daye he avowed his still unshaken allegiance, notwith-
standing the bitter experience of the past season,
and his own co operation in the virtual suspen-
sion, we might say abrogation, of the law founded
thereon. As if sufficient differences did not
on the much controverted questions of
banking, the currency, and the law for regu-
lating the issue of bank-notes payable on de-
mand, a variety of topics are opened by the terms
of the proposed resolution, sufficient to take up the
time of ,the Committee and provide them with ample
occupation, not only for the remainder of the present
i onion, but fir the entire existence of the present

Parliament, until the several constituencies shall

again be called on to make choice of fit and proper
persons to represent them in the popular branch of the
Legislature. It would, indeed, be hard to enumerate
the subjects that might, :and most probably will, be
legitimately introduced into the investigation, it would,
perhaps, be equally difficult to find one that is ex-
cluded. We are by no means certain that even
amongst the members of the Committee itself
there may not be some disposed to think
that the measures that have been passed
for the relief of our Roman Catholic brethren
from the unjust and impolitic laws by which they
were so long oppressed ; and the Act of the Prime
Minister, in supporting the claims of a Jew to a
seat in the Legislature, with the manifest intention
of immediately removing the Jewish disabilities,
have been some, and not the least certain, of the
causes: of the recent commercial distress. Sir
CHARLES WOOD must have felt but little gratitude to
Mr. WILSON, for whose opinions he professes such
unbounded respect, for the exposure of the abortive
proceedings of the former Committee on the same
subject, in 1841. We may judge of the probable
results of the present resolution by what then
took place. We shall adopt the statement
of the Member for Westbury :—",Some Honourable
Members might not be aware of the position
in which this question had been left in 1841 by the
last Committee, which had entered upon a similar
inquiry. A Committee was appointed in lB4O, to

inquire into banking and currency, in reference to
the operation of the Bank Charter Act, and the inves-
tigation was without result, in consequence of the
dissolution of Parliament in 1841. Of that Com-
mittee the Right Hon. Baronet the Chancellor of the
Ezcheper was the efficient Chairman, and the Right
Hon. Baronet Sir R. PEEL an efficient member. The
report on the evidence, so far as it went, was interest-
ing. The Committee stated, in reference to the great
question involved in the inquiry, that they felt it
would be impossible, before the probable termination
of the session, to give that consideration to
the many important points suggested in the
evidence which would enable them to re-
port a well-grounded and definitive opinion to
the House. They were aware of the disappointment
which would be experienced at the circumstance of
no final report being made after such a protracted in-
quiry, but on a subject of such magnitude to the
whole country, and involving such complicated in-
terests, they would not allow the knowledge of that
fact to weigh against the expediency of due caution
and careful deliberation in arriving at a conclusion.
It would be (said the Committee) for the House, in
the next session to determine whether another Com-
mittee should be appointed, to whom all the evidence
should be referred, for the purpose of framing a
report ; but under the then existing circumstances
they considered that they had only one course to
pursue, to report upon the evidence they had heard
without any observation. Such was the conclusion
of that long investigation of 1840, and from that day
to this no further inquiry had been instituted. Par-

liament proceeded to legislate without seeking for any
more information." Of course they did, when
they decided on doing anything. We have seen what
occurred in 1840.41, and what hope can we now
reasonably entertain of a different result. Then the
question was confined to banking and cur-
rency, in reference to the Bank Charter Act
of 1819, the Right Honourable Baronets
(subsequently the sponsors of the JONES-
LOYD bantling, the " tidily icksy sing " which trey
both regard with as intense admiration as the fair
Lucavri® Tox exhibited towards the infant Dom-
BEY), were on that Committee,—one, the efficient
chairman, the other an efficient member. Now there
is, in addition, the Act of 1844, free trade, railway
expenditure, the Irish loan, undue speculation,
overtrading, usury laws, the whole question of the
national taxation, and a variety of other topics, every
one of which has, at some time or other, been put
forward as a cause of the commercial distress, and the
Right Hon Baronets will again sit, probably, the one
as the efficient Chairman, the other as an
efficient member of the new Committee. Then
two sessions were consumed in the inquiry
and the investigation was without result. We must
leave our readers to judge for themselves the probable
consequences of the present inquiry, and the nature
of the report that may be presented by the Committee
jubt moved for.

Ti-e frightful increase of mortality in the metro-
polis which has occurred within the week ending on
Saturday last, is something so enormous and unpre-
cedented as to demand a more than merely passing
consideration. According to the latest return of the
Registrar-General, the deaths which have occurred
within that brief interval are, of males 819, of females
858, yielding a total of not less than 1,677. This
number shows an excess of 631 over the average mor-
tality of the season ; and the largest amount in the
corresponding week of former years may be found in
the statistical tables for 1843, at which period the num-
ber reached 1,114, minus by 563 the amount recorded
for the week which has just expired. Of these 1,677
all causes of death are enumerated, but from the
comparison of the different registered cases it would
appear that this extraordinary increase has principally
arisen from the epidemic diseases. The mortality
originating from those diseases and from the affections
of the respiratory organs are declared by the Regis-
trar-General to be very nearly " double the average."
" Under the former," he continues (namely under the
epidemic class of diseases), " measles, influenza,
and typhus are predominant; under the latter"
(namely, under the affections of the respi-
ratory organs), " hrore hitis and pneumonia are the
most fatal." The rapidity Ns ith which these physical
afflictions have spread may be estimated by the signi• i
ficant statement that influenza rose, within seven days,
' from 4 to 36 ; while bronchitis and pneumonia in-
creased with equal suddenness from 156 to 366. Such
is the appalling havoc which is perpetually being
made amidst the population by the prolonged and in-
comprehensible neglect of such sanitary precautions
as the natural instincts of man declare to be essen-
tial for his preservation.
Morally and physically the work of destruction
proceeds and flourishes. Morally and physically the
Legislature is culpable until it has renounced its
former lethargy, and thereby removed the doom
which is at this moment hanging over so many thou-
sands. On a former occasion it was remarked, by
one eminently qualified to pronounce such an opinion,
that " the disease-mist, arising from the breath of two
millions of people, from open sewers and cesspools,
graves, and slaughter-houses, like an angel of death,
has hovered for centuries over London ; but it may
be driven away by legislation." That is the declara-
tion of the •Registrar• General. It is a declaration
which should smite remorsefully against the doors of
Parliament, and clamour for the removal of that
deadly haze by the potential breath of the law. If
the simple but terrible sentence of the Registrar-
General be insufficient to enforce this gigantic neces •
sity, let the eloquent adjurations of CHARLES
DICKENS plead for the abased and neglected. In the
fifteenth number of Dombey and Son there are these
most forceful passages, demanding the removal of the
mists of both moral and physical disease. The plea
of Mr. DICKENS is especially for the whole class of
juvenile offenders, and for the inhabitants of the
filthier parts of the metropolis. "Alas ! " he
exclaims, " are there so few things in the world
about us, most unnatural, and yet most
natural in being so ! Hear the magistrate or
judge admonish the unnatural outcasts of so-
ciety ; unnatural in brutal habits, unnatural
in want of decency, unnatural in losing
and confounding all distinctions between good and
evil ; unnatural in ignorance, in vice, in recklessness,
in contumacy, in mind, in looks, in everything. But
follow. the good clergyman or doctor, who, with his
atlitnretoirnthieeirridileends,
car-
riage wheels
stones. Look round upon
—millions of immorta
inanity revolts, and dagi
on earth—at the li
leyvienrg)
withinb rea breath
thehe eclerha,
owes;
ogfeosurdo'6:
and daily tread upon the pavement
hnttgys til creaturese
delicacy
c,hya. veno oitnh er
the worldn e x t
the world of odious sights
withfe. every
mention
living of which hu-
street, stops her ears, and lisha.ve every
and
d and
Breathe the polluted air, eop
es
l I don't believe it !'
that is poisonous to health and life impurity
sense, conferred upon our race for' andits
delightcan
einntade
happiness, offended, sickened and disgusted
a channel by which misery and death alone'
Vainly attempt to think of any simple plant, o;

flower, or wholesome weed, that, set in this foetid
bed, could hare its natural growth, or put its little
leaves forth to the sun as GOD designed it. And
then, calling up some ghastly child, with stunted
form and wicked face, hold forth on its unnatural
sinfulness, and lament its being, so early, far away
from Heaven—but think a little of its having been
conceived, and born, and bred, in Hell ! Those
who study the physical sciences, and bring them
to bear upon the health of man, tell us that if
the noxious particles that rise from vitiated air, were
palpable to the sight, we should see them lowering in
a dense black cloud above such haunts, and rolling
slowly on to corrupt the better portions of a town.
But if the moral pestilence that rises with them, and,
in the eternal laws of outraged Nature, is inse-
parable from them, could be made discernible too,
how terrible the revelation ! Then should we see
depravity, impiety, drunkenness, theft, murder, and
a long train of nameless sins against the natural
affections and repulsions of mankind, overhanging
the devoted spots, and creeping on, to blight the
innocent and spread contagion among the pure. Then
should we see how the same poisoned fountains that
flow into our hospitals and lazar-houses, inundate
the gaols, and make the convict-ships swim deep, and
roll across the seas, and over-run vast continents
with crime. Then should we stand appalled to know,
that where we generate disease to strike our children
down and entail itself on unborn generations, there
also we breed, by the same certain process infancy
that knows no innocence, youth without modesty or
shame, maturity that is mature in nothing but in
suffering and guilt, blasted old age that is a scandal
on the form we bear. Unnatural humanity ! When
we shall gather grapes from thorns, and figs from
thistles ; when fields of grain shall spring up from
the offal in the by-ways of our wicked cities, and
roses bloom in the fat churchyards that they cherish ;
then we may look for natural humanity, and find it
growing from Bush seed." Such are the:utterances
of that spirit of practical philanthropy which
has originated all the recent agitation for
sanitary improvements. To-morrow the first
report of the Metropolitan Sanitary Com-
missioners will be delivered to the Members
of the House of Commons. Steps are at last about
to be taken by the Legislature for the release of the
community from an accumulation of so many and
such miserable afflictions. Everything hastens on
this beneficent laboul%of amelioration—the approach
of the cholera and the increase of the mortality being
the most urgent means of incitement. If, however,
these sanitary reforms must be rapid, they must on
no account be superficial.

Letters from Lucerne of the 27th ult. confirm the
report to which we alluded yesterday of the capitula-
tion of Schwytz. The capitulation was ratified on
that day, and on the morning of the same day Uri
sent two envoys to declare its submission to the
Federal Government.

The following proclaimation has been issued by the
Municipal Council of Lucerne, temporarily charged
with the Government of the canton :

" PROCLAMATION.

" Inhabitants of the city of Lucerne,—Well-beloved
fellow-citizens!—We have just heard with much regret,
and fiom various quarters, that there have been menaces
held forth against the safety of the persons and property
of the inhabitants of this town. It is not only the duty
of the Municipal Council to prevent disorder, but they
have moreover the firm desire to employ all the means
at their disposal to guard against excesses, and to
punish with severity all offenders. They have therefore
taken measures in reference to this matter, and have
concerted with the federal military authorities, from
whom they will receive every necessary co-operation, in
case of need.

" We have confidence in the upright sentiments of
the great majority of the inhabitants of the town, that
they will never afford occasion for such military inter-
vention; that, on the contrary, they will strive to be
united amongst themselves for their own interests, and
that they will give us their aid to maintain quiet and
good order, and to avert any troubles which might other-
wise arise.

" The consequence of offences against good order, of
violence against persons or property, could not fail to
show themselves, and the condition of the town could
not fail to become worse than it is, for in that case it
would undoubtedly be placed in a state of siege, and
every offender would be brought up for trial before the
Council of War. ,

" Dear Fellow•citizens!--In appealing to your senti-
ments of propriety, in behalf of public quiet and legal
order, we do so with confidence, and we will use all our
best energies that the public peace shall not be dis-
turbed or endangered.

" Go—d save the City of Lucerne!
" In the name of the Council of the town,
" SCHUMACHER UTTENBERG, President.
" PFYFFER, ZU NEUCK, Secretary.
"Lucerne, Nov. 26, 1847."

On the 26th the assembly of the people to form
the new Government was held, and a Provisional
Government was appointed, consisting of the existing
Municipal Council, and two members for each baili-
wick. On the motion of Dr. STEINGER (who it will
be remembered, had been condemned to death by
the Jesuits, and ha I escaped from a miserable dun-
geon, eight feet square, in which he had been con-
fined), the following resolutions were agreed to as
the basis of the policy for the future Government :
" 1. That the Jesuits be ordered to quit the Canton of
Lucerne within 48 hours.
" 2. That the members of the Grand Council who had
adhered to the Sonderbund (or separate league) should
be subject to public accusation, and be held responsible
for everything which bad resulted from this course of
policy.

"3. A general amnesty for all who had been impli-
cated in prosecutions by their acts on the Eth of Decem-
ber, 1844, and the 31st of March and Ist of April, 1845.
(The dates of the two invasions of the Corps Francs
against the Sonderbund.)
" 4. That the Provisional Government take steps for
the recovery of the Government chests, and also of the
corn which had been sent out of the canton by the late
Government before their departure.
"5. That all persons comprised within the terms of
Art. 3 should be held inadmissible to election in the
Grand Council of State."

In the sitting of the Swiss Diet, on the 26th, a re-
port was received from the Vorort on the measures
which it has taken to provide for the support of the
troops. The report states that the Governments
have been required to pay up their double money-
contingent, but that the canton of Neufchatel has not
as yet paid anything. The Directory had provi-
sionally borrowed money from the cantonal band of
Berne. This report was referred to the committee
of seven.

A letter from Berne, of the 27th, says—
" I have seen a letter written this morning from Lu-
cerne by Sidler, Paymaster-General of the Federal
troops. It states that the municipal council, composed
fur the most part of Liberals, administers provisionally
the canton, whilst waiting for the arrival of the Federal
representatives. The carrying off of the state funds is
certain, as is the withdrawal of the members of the late
Government to Uri ; one of them, M. Schopf, has al-
ready made the amende honourable. lie has written a
letter, in which he prays to be allowed to return ; he
promises
to do all he can to get the funds sent back to
Lucerne ; he adds that some of his colleagues are of
the same way of thinking as he ; they were led away,
he says, &e."

The following resolutions were come to respect-
ing Lucerne by the Swiss Diet, in its sitting of the
26th :

"1. Three Federal representatives shall be named, and
they shall proceed immediately to Lucerne. 2. The
canton of Lucerne shall be provisionally occupied by a
sufficient number of Federal troops, and the represen-
tatives shall come to an understanding on this subject
with the staff. 3. The representatives shall propose to
the Diet the measures proper to be adopted for the
security of the Confederation, and the durable pacifica-
tion of Lucerne. 4. They shall adopt the measures re-
quisite according to Art. 21 of the ordnance on the war
funds of 1835 to cause the restitution of the military
federal chest, and the articles of the hospitals which
belong to the Confederation, and for which Lucerne is
responsible. 5. The troops of occupation of the canton
of Lucerne shall bosolaced at the orders of the repre-
sentatives for the drojects indicated in the present in-
structions. 6. It one of the representatives should be
unable to accept the mission, or be momentarily absent
after having accepted it, these instructions and powers
shall be equally ♦alid and binding in the others.
7. The Vorort is charged to communicate the present
resolutions to the Federal representatives and the staff.
The representatives named are Messrs. Kern, Baffler,
and Latour."

Madrid papers of the 25th ult. have arrived.

The amendment proposed by ESCOSURA to the Ad-
dress was negatived without a division. Senor
SAGOSTI drew the attention of the Chamber to the
fictitious sale to the State of the hotel of General
NARVAEZ, and to the illegal arrest of the editor of
the Clamor Publico for exposing the job. General
NARVAEZ explained, and an animated discussion
ensued; after which the Chamber resumed the con-
sideration of the Address.

MADRID, BOLSA, Nov. 25.—The Three per Cents. were
done at 26k, at 50 days; the Five per Cents., at 15 for
paper ; the Debt without interest, at 41 ; and the
Coupons, at 10-i.

We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday.
The Reform meetings are already producing effects

on the electoral body. A vacancy having occurred
in the representation of Rochefort—a place in which
it might be imagined the Government was particu-
larly strong (inasmuch as Rochefort has a dockyard
and arsenal)—General Dum.ts,;the aid de-camp to the
KING, started as a candidate, he was opposed by M.
BAROCHE, a Reformer, and defeated by a majority of
eleven, the numbers being—

➢l. Baroche
M. Dumas

... 246
.. 235

The result of this election has caused a great sen•
sation in Paris.
Sir STRATFORD CANNING arrived in Paris on
Monday, and had an interview with M. GUIZOT, and
with the Austrian, Russian, and Prussian Ambassa-
dors. He was to leave on Wednesday for Neufchatel,
where it is said the Congress will be held. The fol-
lowing are the terms on which the mediation of the
five Powers will be offered :

" ' 1. That the Catholic cantons appeal to the
Holy See for counsel on the religious part of the
drspute.

9. That the Diet undertake to protect those o
the cantons whose sovereignty is threatened.

" ' 3. The dissolution of the Sonderbund.

" ' 4. General and reciprocal disarmament.
~ 45. An undertaking not to infringe or in any
respect modify the Pact without the unanimous assent
of all the cantons.'

" Should mediation on these bases be accepted
then the representatives of the five Powers will im-'
mediately proceed with their work of pacification.
If refused, the five Powers will respectively regard
the attempt at mediation at an end, and resume
their respective positions as if no such proposition
had been entertained, and act according to circum-
stances."

The influenza is raging fearfully in Paris, and the
cholera is rapidly approaching. The Semaphore de
Marseilles of the 27th says :—" We did not think
proper to mention the occurrence of a case of cholera
on board the Mentor steamer during her passage from
Constantinople to Malta, for fear of uselessly alarm-
in the population. We can now announce that the
First-Lieutenant of the vessel died from the visitation
of that dreadful malady, and that the Mentor, after
landing her passengers in the lazaretto of Malta, is
now undergoing quarantine at the Frioul. The sani-
tary board of our city, on the declaration of the com-
mander of the packet, adopted the necessary precau-
tions. On the arrival of the Mentor on the '23d, it
decided that she should be subjected to a rigorous
quarantine of twelve days, and that the cargo should
be landed in the lazeretto. The Sanitary Board,
moreover, decided that all steamers without distinc-
tion arriving from countries where the cholera pre-
vails, although no cases or deaths occurred on the
passage, should be held to perform a quarantine of
ten days. That quarantine is to be augmented in
proportion to the number of cases that may have
manifested themselves on board."

_ On the 29th the Polish refugees celebrated the 17th
anniversary of the revolution.

The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse,
on Tuesday, at 77f. 10c. ; New Loan, 76f. 90c.;
the Fire per Cents., 116 f. 55c. ; the Orleans Rail-
road Shares,l,2l7f. 50c.; Rouen, 9131. 75c.; Havre,
500 f.; Great Northern, 567 f. 50c.; Avignon, 567 f.
50c.; Vierzon, 557 f. 50o.; Bordeaux, 492 f. 50c.;
Boulogne, 385 f. ; Basle, 1681. 75c. ; Paris and Stras-
burg, 421 f. 25c.; Tours and Nantes, 405 f.; Paris
and Lyons, 406 f. 25c.; Belgian Two-and-a-Half per
Cents., 52a; Spanish Three per Cents., 22.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TILE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DECEMBER 1.
Boulogne and Axiiens, 15%—Dutch Rhenish, 21,4—Lux-
embourg, I,4—Namur and Liege, 53/4—Northern of France.
12.14—Over Yssel,2l/2 dis.—Paris and Lyons, 6!4—Sambre
and &tense, 63/4—West Flanders 11/2.

We have heard with sincere pleasure that the de-
sign of Richard Tress, Esq., of Little St. Thomas
the Apostle, an architect of experience and ability,
has been approved by the board of guardians for
the City of London Union Workhouse. It appears
that the competition for the prize was a strong one—
forty-three designs having been exhibited on the
occasion. As might naturally be expected, a great
deal of jealousy has been excited on this occasion, and
some remarks have been made on the unfairness of
the selection; but on examination of the plans it must
have been apparent to every impartial person that
the design of Mr. Tress. has a vast superiority over
that of his competitors in chasteness of design and
completeness of arrangement ; and having had an
opportunity of inspecting the whole of the plans ex-
hibited, we cannot see any grounds for impeaching
the decision of the board of guardians ; and we con-
sider Mr. Tress is fairly entitled to the honour of
having submitted a design which, when carried into
effect, must meet with general approbation. The
design is made especially for the wants of the City
of London Union, and is not a copy of any suburban
or rural workhouse, the arrangements and require-
ments being in many respects wholly different—the
perfect separation and classification of the sexes ob-
tained in the design is capable of subdivision to al-
most any extent, with great facility of communica-
tion throughout the whole establishment.

CIVIL AND MERCANTILE JOURNAL, No. 111., EDITED
BY JAMES IRVING SCOTT.—This journal may now be
considered as firmly established in public opinion as
the organ of those engaged in the civil service, and
as such we find the editor coming boldly forward as
the defender of that old public servant Mr. Stephen,
against those who find fault with his conduct at the
Colonial-office. The parsimony of the Ordnance
authorities, in awarding only a miserable 201. per
annum to the widow of Marsh, the chemist, a man of
European fame, is justly vituperated; and we have
an admirable article on the important subject of
suretyship. This is the best number of this rising
periodical that has yet appeared.

S.—(THIS DAY.)
evl arlyosdull,
manzETs.
MARKETEANTE
SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 21 lOs to 31 12s ; Clover,
ditto, 31d
I and Straw, 11 3s to 11 8s;
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 105 to 31. 14s ;
at the above quotations.
Clover ditto, 31 perloa. lOsTr
a tdo 4
lOs to 4110 s; and Straw, 1/ 4s to I/ 9s
per load. A full average supply, and a heavy demand.
WHITECIIAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 21 108 to 31 10; ;
Clover ditto, 31 lOs to 41 12s ; and Straw, 1/ 3s to
11 8s per load. Supply good, and trade dull.
NZWGATE AND LEADENEALL.
The supplies of each kind of Meat on sale to-day
were somewhat extensive, yet the demand was tolerably
steady, at full prices. Beef from 2s 6d to 4s; Mutton,
3s 6d to 4s 6d; Veal, 38 8d to 4s 8d; and Pork, 3s 10d to
5s 2d per 81bs by the carcase.
MEAT MARHETS.
SOUTHALL, Dec. I—Prime Beasts and Sheep were in
moderate request. Otherwise, the demand was in a very
sluggish state, and last week's prices were not supported.
Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 8d; Mutton, 3s. 6d. to 55.; veal
4s to 4s 6d; and Pork, 4s 2d. to 4s 8d per 81bs, to sink
the offals.
ROMFORD, DEC, I.—We had a very slow trade this
morning, on the following terms:—Beef, from 3s 6d to
4s 8(1; Mutton, 3s. Bd. to 5s 2d; Veal, 4s 2d to 4s 6d;
and Pork, 4s 2d to 4s 8d per 8lbs; Suckling Calves, 20s
to 28s; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 20s to 255; and Mulch
Cows, with their small Calf, 151 to 18/ each.
LEWES, Nov. 30.—Beef from 3s 6d to 4s 8d; Mutton
4s to 5s 2d; Veal, 4s to 4s 6d; and Pork, 4s 2d to 4s 6d
per 81bs.. A moderate supply and a sluggish trade.

COAL MARKE'
Adair's Main 163 6d
Carr's Hartley
Hasting's Hartley lB3 Od
New Tanfield l6s 6d
Original Tanfield 163 Od
Pontop Windsor 163 Od
Tanfield Moor 17s 6d
Townley
West Hartley ... lBs 8d
Wylarn
Ships at market

;T.—YESTERDAY.
II Wall's End, &c.

Belmont 2os 9d
East Hetton
Hetton

Lambton
Russell's Hetton 21s Od
Seymour Tees
South Durham 2os 3d
W. Hartley Netherton 18s Od
Sidne) 's Hartley
23—sold, 28.

CORN AVERAGES.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN
For the Week ended Dee. 2, 1847, made up from the Returns of the
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns In England and Wales
per Inv)erial Quarter.
WEEAT. I EARLEY.' OATS. I ate. BEANS. I PEAS.
PRICE .• 182 e hid 31, 64 22s 104 32s 10d I 44s 6d 44e 5d
The Duties on Foreign Grain are now suspended,

The Rev. J. H. Gurney is to be Rector of St.
Mary's, Marylebone. It is probable that the Rev. W.
Jacobson, of Magdalen Hall, will succeed Dr. Hampden
in the chair of the Regius Professor of Divinity.
PRAGUE, Nov. 21.—The sudden failure of one of
our most important spinning manufactories here, Messrs.
Richter and Co., has caused great consternation. A
number of hands are thrown out of work, but it is hoped
that the creditors will endeavour to arrange matters so
as to allow the firm to continue working. The deficit is
estimated at 50,000/. Near Aussig, where the Prague
and Dresden Railway runs alongside the Elbe, a boat
containing a number of workmen employed on the line
was upset, and thirty of the unfortunate men found a
watery grave. Owing to the late rains the river was
unusually high.
The Hon. W. Temple, the British Minister at
Naples, was to have left town on Monday, on a tour of
visits in the provinces, but was that morning taken with
the prevailing epidemic, and has since been extremely
unwell,

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QI7A.R7'ER TO THREE.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was flatter,
Sales, 3,000 bales. Egyptian and Surat were ad. per
lb. low( r. Railway Shares were tolerably firm, and
with a good demand.
At Messrs. Lamond and Co.'s sale yesterday, there
was a decided improvement; buyers are beginning to
get confidence, and to operate more boldly than for some
time past. The following aro a few of the quotations:—
Great Northern £l 0 6
Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock 0 19 0
South Staffordshire
North Staffordshire
North British, Thirds
Shropshire Union and Canal 1 13 0
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 7 3 0
Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston 0 13 0
East Lancashire 2l 5 0
Eastern Counties. York Extension 8 4 0
Boston, Stamford, andßirminghan ...... 310 0
Eastern Counties
Caledonian, Halves
There are no later colonial or foreign arrivals with
news of general interest.
The resumption of the debate upon the Currency Bill
of 1844 is looked for with some anxiety. People begin
to perceive more clearly what we yesterday stated
as our own impression, that the Government
is likely to persevere in the maintenance of the obnoxious
and that because the position of the Bank of Eng-
land exhibits temporarily a decided improvement, there
may be an attempt to "gloss over" our past misfortune
This, however, must not be. We have clearly much
suffering yet to undergo unless the Bank Charter Bill be
altered, and•for an alteration, at least in part, every man
of business, we should think, will inflexibly contend.
The arrival of the Overland Mail is anxiously looked
for both here and in the manufacturing districts, as by
it the effect of the stoppages in England upon the
houses in India will be known to some extent. As to
the affairs of Messrs. Fletcher, Alexander, and Co., it
would appear that there are still some difficulties in the
way of a satisfactory arrangement, although the friends
of the house are yet sanguine of success.
The English Stock Market has been rather fluctuating,
b-ing, unsettled both by the rumours concerning Messrs.
Fletcher's position, and by the suspense uto a reduc-
tion of the rate of interest at the Bank of England, upon
which point we may be enabled probably to make some
announcement ere going to press. Consols have been
86 to 85i for present transfer, and 86i to for Ac-
count. Exchequer •bills have realised Is. to 3s. pre-
mium. Bank Stock is worth 187 to 189. The New
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 851 to 86i.
In the Foreign Securities there has been very little
doing. Spanish Five per Cents. are 18+, and the Three
per Cents., 29 to 29+. Portuguese Four per Cents. are
221. Mexican Bonds are 17+ to Dutch Two-and-
a-Half per Cents, are 54i to I.
Railway Shares have been at improved rates.
THREE O'CLOCK.
REDUCTION OF THE RATE OF DISCOUNT.
The Bank "Parlour" meeting has just broken up,
and the rate of discount is reduced to 6 per cent.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock lB9
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 84614
3 per Cent. Consols Anns B6 881/2
New 314 per Cent. Antis.
Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 B% 9-16
Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10, 1859 B% 7-16
Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860.. 8% 13-16
India Bonds under 1,0001....... ........ 20
Ditto Old Annuities Bl%
Consols for Account ...
Exchequer Bills. 2d. 1 3 p
5001.
Small
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Equador Bonds 23,4
Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent —
Ditto for the Account 17%1A
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent 22%
Ditto for the Account 22% %
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840
Ditto for the Account ....... 18
Ditto Passive Bonds
Ditto, 3 per Cents 29 'A
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2% per Cent.,l2 Guild 54%,04
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILT WASIIARES AT ONE O'CLOCK
RAILWAYS. PAID. PIA SHARE.
Aberdeen

Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. 2% — ...... to
Ayrshire and Galloway
Belfast and County Down .. 10 .. ..
Birmingtaam lk Oxford June... 15
Birmingham, WoL,& Dudley 10 ... . 14
Binning., \Vol., & Stour Val. 8
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction 734
Boston, Stamf., & Birming... 5
Bristol and Exeter
Do., Thirds .. 20
liockinghanishire lOl. 4s
Caledonian
Ditto, Half Shares
Ditto, Clydesdale Junction 50
Cheater and H01yhead......... 37% — to
Ditto, Preference 8
Clarence. . 7814
Do., let Class, 6 per Cent:— 10 - • ... to
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, 251.& L. , E.
and L. &D.
Ditto, 181., E. & H le
Ditto, 31. 108., E. & 11... 1
Eastern Counties
Ditto, ditto (B)
Do. l'erpet., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d...
Do., do N 0.2,6/. 13s. 4d... ...... to
Do., York Extension
Do., Northern & Eastern 5O
Do., Quarter .... .. ........... 12%...
Do., New
Eastersn Union. ... .. 50
Ditto, Quarter Shares ...... 12% — to
Ditto., Thirds l3s. 4d — to
Ditto (guar. 6 per cent.) ... ......
East Lancashire
Ditto, New ... l3
Do., New Quarters
East Lincolnshire 12% l 2
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O 46%...... to
Ditto, Halt Shares
Ditto, Quarter Shares 121%
Edinburgh and Northern ... 221,C —
Ditto, New 2l/.2 —
Ditto, New port 7
Ditto, ditto, Now l% — ...... to
Edinburgh and Perth
Ditto, Extension
..

Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% — ...... to
Ditto, New
Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle..Bl. 63.8(1... to
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 — to
Ditto, New
. _ __ —

Do. ix; Shares (5 per ct. gua.) 12% ... to
Great Northern ... 10% — to
Do. London & York Exten. 21,E — to
Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 35

Great North of England 100
Ditto, New 40/ 5
Ditto, New 30/.
Ditto, New 151.......... ...... 114
Great Western
Ditto, Half Shares
Ditto, Quarter Shares
Ditto, Fifths
Do. New 17/
Huddersfield and Manchester 22 .. _.
Dittc, 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 (Camb. and Ely) 2% — ...... to
Lancaster and Carlisle.... ... 50
Do., Thirds
Lancashire and Yorkshire ... 93 .....
Ditto, ditto
Ditto Half Shares

Ditto Quarters
Ditto Fifths
Ditto Sixteenths ... ..... ... 6%
Ditto Thirds (Reg.) ... 101.45. —
Do. Liverpool and Bury... 34
Do. (Budder.. and Shetf.) 33
Do., Wakefield, Pontefract,
and Goole 47% —
Do., West Riding Union .11. 25..... ...
Do., Preston and Wyre ..725
Do., do., Half Shares (A) 9
Ditto ditto ..............(B) 11
Leeds and Bradford
Leicester and Bedford
Leeds, Dewsbury, & Manche& 371, —
Do., Branch % Shares 12% — to
Ditto, New Branch (blue).. 2% — to
Ditto, Extension (green)... 2% — to
Do., New Exten. (pink)... 2% — ...... to
Leeds and Thirsk 36
Ditto, New
Do., do., Prefer., 6 per Cent. 3%.....
Liverpool. Crosby, and Sout h-

_
port.
Liverpool, Manchester, and
Newcastle Junction 2% to
London .' Blackwall...l6/. 13s. 4d —
Ditto New, No. 1..
Ditto New, No. 2 4l. 13s. 4d.... .. .. to
Do. Extension
Lond., Bright., & South Coast 50 ..A41,4 44 4414 to 43:4
Do. Consolidated Eighths... 30 ......
Do. Guaranteed riper Cent. 9 . .....
Do. Pref. Cony. 5 per Cent. 50 ......
London and Greenwich... 121.155. 4d...
Ditto Preference lBl 17s 2d... ...... to
London and North Wcstern..loo ...156% 155% to 157
Do. Quarter .....L. and 13. 17
Do. do. New ...... .... ...... 2
Do. do. Fifths
Do. Quarters ......... G. J
Do. 40/. Shares.....L. &M. 15
Do. 40/. Shares...sl. and B. 40
Do. 10/.... M. and B. (A.) 71 to
Do. 101. .. M. and B. (B.) 71
Do. 101.... M. and B. (C.) 1
London and S. Western.... 411. 6s 8d... 551
Do. New Consolidated Bths. 40

Ditto New 501. ..... .:..- ... .. . aiq...... 291,4 co
Ditto New 404 .... ..... .. -. 26
Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 50 ......
Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 40
Ditto, Thirds 61. 13s. 4d... ...... to
London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 11,4 — ...... to
Londonderry and Coleraine... 271,4 —
Londonderry and Enniskillen 23%
Manch, BnAton, & Matlock 3