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£ s. 0. £ s. d
Bank of Scotland
Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. 100 0 150
British Linen Company Si. per cent. 100 0 0 , 200
Commercial Bank .. • • 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 162
National Bank 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 i 13%
L7nloußanit of Scotland 7%1. pr eent. 50 00' 90%
Western Bank—. •• • • 61. per cent. 50 0 0 82
North of Scotland Bank 6/. per cent. 5 0 0 tiai
Clydesdale Bank 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 13
Eastern Bank ...... •
Caledonian Bank
Edinbak Glasgow Bank 6/. per cert. 5 0 0 6/. 15s
6'lty or Glasgow Bank . 51. per cent. 10 0 0 13
Scottish Union Ins. Co. Si. per cent. j 20 0 0 1 0 0 225. 6d
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. jlOO 0 0 10 0 0 12%
Insur. Co. of Scetlnd• • Si. per cent. i 10 0 0 All paid. 9%
Korth British Incur b% /.pr cent. ,200 0 0 10 0 0 26%
Caledonian Fire Insur lOl. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 22
Edinburgh Life Insur 6/. per cant. 1100 0 0 12 10 0 18
Edin.&Glasg. Railway I /.10s. pers. 50 0 0 50 0 0 i 68
Ditto, 14 Shares—. 78.6 d. p. a. 12 10 0 All paid. 16%
Edin., Leith, ik Grantn 20 0 0 •.:0 0 0 28
Glase'w & Ayrshir Rail. 71. percent. 50 0 0 All paid. 61%
`ilasgw&Greenck Rail. 2/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 18
..11s,,;w&Garnkirk Rail. Si. per cent. i 25 0 0 All paid. 39%
ilundee&Arbroth Rail. 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 37
Standard Liteleswrzice. 5/. per cent. 150 0 0 1 210 0 i 9
VirH.TEIL—WO2.X.S.
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Name of Company. per of Paid. l'ric...
Annum. Share.
.£ s. d.
East L0nd0n...." .. •• 81. 100 0 0 195
Grand Junction .... • • 3/. 10s. 41 13 4 • 'A
31. 100 0 0
Vauxhall ........... 100 0 0
West Middlesex . . . Si. Ins. pr cnt. 43 12 9 :2

THE Nev OFFICES OF THE TREASURY AT WHITE-
HALL —The erection of the new offici-s the Treasury at
Whitehall has been completed, and the whole of the scaffold-
ing removed. The new building c nupletes the whole of the
course of buildings of the Privy Council, Board 01 Trade, and
Home and Treasury-offices, fmerly an unseemly edifice,
but now present ing a fac.ide of elegant and elaborate archi-
tecture, in keeping with the magnificent structure of the
new House. of Parliament, and a great additional ornament
to Whitehall. The interior is in a forward state for the re-
ception of the officers of the diffetent departments.
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IMPERIAL PA it LIAMEN T

HOUSE OF LORDS, June 10.
BISLIOPHIC OF NIANCIIES FEU BILL.

Lord LANSDO WNE rose to move the order of the
day for the second reading OF the Manchester Bishopric
Bill ; and he would vdte that opportunity of stating, his
regret that a jocular observation which was made a,
other night, and which was not intended to have
been heard, should have been published, and
thus making the business of their Lordships' House
appear to be conducted more irregularly than it really
was. It was necessary from the great and spreadb•g
population of Manchester to establish a spiritual head in
that town, and there was fortunately the weans for
the providing of a bishopric out of the paro-
chial funds, which had increased to a very grrat degree.
These were the leading provisions of thus Bi• 1 The
diocese would embrace a population of 1,123,000 per
sons, and 1,220 square miles. He had stated that the
funds were already rovided fur supporting the bishopric,
and therefore the country would be put to no expense
whatever by the establishment of this diocese. He did
not know that there were any further details for him to
remark upon, and he had only, in conclusion, to move
that the Bill be now read a second time.

Lord MONTEAGLE was quite sure the Bill would
be agreed to if it were notcalculated to involve the
country in any expense ; but, under existing cir-
cumstances, their Lordships had long felt
and admitted the necessity of this measure.
If he understood the statements right, it was asserted
that there was a surplus in the fund of the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners, and that it was not contemplated to call
for supplies from any other quarter. It should be
recollected that this idea first arose from the Government
of Sir Robert Peel in 1835 ; and the Commison
then in existence had recommended that there snould
be a consolidation of two of the Welsh bishoprics
as well as as a consolidation of the sees of Gloucester
and Bristol. Through these consolidations it was stated
that the means would be raised for erecting a see of
Manchester. But this question had excited great
attention out of doors, and it was douuted
that the Legislature bad any right to in-
terfere at all with the principle which would be
invaded by interfering with these bishoprics. A petition,
numerously and importantly signed, was presented
by -his Noble Friend (Lord Brougham)—and he did nut
complain of any want of consistency in the conduct of
his Noble Friend. But it should be recollected that
the first object of the Commission of Inquiry
issued by Sir Robert feel's Government was to
make a better provision for the parochial clergy
of North Wales. Of that commission the two Arch-
bishops, the Bishop of Lincoln, and the Bishop of
Gloucester were members, and those Commissioners
came to the conclusion that there was not
a sufficient fund to provide for these paro
chial clergy. But it aas afterwards fount
that the proceeds to be obtained from the consolidation
of trie two Welsh bishoprics were not only suffictent .or
the addition to the isxi.ites of the parochial cler..y, but
that tnere would be funds to make a provision
for the new see of Manchester. But in the
repert of the second Commission it was worthy of
observation that no notice whatever was taken or th-
wants of the parochial clergy of North Wales. 6e,ing
the mischief that was likely to arise from the consolida-
tion of the two bistic.,rice, he had called their Lerdelnps'
attention to the subject, indeed he had hod a Bill upon
their table. But the Bill contained a new and most iin,
portant provision—it was the first time they had been
called upon to appoint tour new bishoprics, the repro
sentatives of which were not io be permitted to hate
seats in that House; and besides their appointment was
not recommended by the Ecclesiastical Cotnmissioners
as in all former cases. They were detnended by the
people, and though they were not immediately to have
seats they were subsequently to be entitled to the 0.
When he looked at the great increase of the population,
especially in towns, and the necessity of instructieg
them, he could not but bring himself to believe that the
parochial clergy were unable, in seine parts of the
country, to provide for this necessity. In North Wales
the inadequacy of church instruction had been felt more
than in any other part of the country ; so de-
feetive had it proved, notwithstanding the appoint-
ment of two Welsh bishops, that the num•
ber of Dissenters actually exceeded the number
of that belonging to the Church, so that the progress 01
dissent had been more rapid than the doctrines of the
Church of England ; and this was a state of things
which they were about to perpetuate by the Bill before
them, and he considered that they should increase the
clergy rather than the Bishops. He considered that the
principle of creating bishoprics without seats, was meat
objectionable.
Lord STANLEY admitted all that had been said by
the Noble Marquis as to the impossibility of the present
Right Rev. Prelate the Bishop of Chester attending to
the spiritual wants of his extensive diocese in the way it
ought to be done. He rejoiced, therefore, that the pre-
sent measure was introduced, although he considered
that some of its principles were objectionable. The ob
jection which he took to the principle of this Bill was the
establishment of a bishopric without the advantage of. a
seat in that House. The Noble Marquis who introduced
this Bill had stated that the Ecclesiastical Commissioners
had recommended that in the establishment to
new bishoprics, an arrangement should be made to
prevent the erection of new seats in that House, except
in one instance. Now he thought it was highly desir-
able that the public should know what was the number
of sees to be established which should have seats in that
House attached to them. It was evident that her Ma-
jesty's Government intended to make a considerable in-
crease to the sees of this country, without, however,
appointing them to seats in their Lerdships' House ;
but, in his opinion, it would be much mere satisfactory
to make the number smaller and affix seats to each of
them. If the principle to be established by this Bill
were the creation of tour-and-twenty sees with seats in
that House according to the seniority of the Bishop, and
four-and-twenty without seats, it would often happen
that the most talented Bishops would be alts gether ex -
eluded from their Lordships' House ; and he therefore
thought it would be undoubtedly more satisfactory to
reduce the number and give them all seats. Adopt
the principle of this Bill, however, and they might
go on establishing these new bishoprics without seats,
until the number of sees reach 48, excluding, perhaps,
the most able and efficient of the Episcopal Bench from
participating in the ecclesiastical government of the
country; and as such a step must of necessity be pro-
ductive of jealousies and dissatisfaction amongst the
clergy, he must rep, at his conviction that it would b,
far better to reduce the number, and give to each of them
equal rights and privileges. It was not his intention,
nevertheless, to offer any opposition to this Bill, but in
pursuing that course, he must earnestly entreat her Ma-
jesty's Government not to mislead the public, or to keep
them its suspense by withholding from them the precise
number, arid the precise principles upon which they pro-
posed hereafter to establish the new bishoprics.
Lord BROUGHAM must also object to the anomaly
of Government establishing one single bishopric in this
country without the advantage of a seat in that House.
It was a dangerous principle, and in refraining from
apposing it now, he wished it to be understood that he
was not to be debarred from resisting every future crea-
tion that may be proposed upon the same principle.
The Bishop of SALISBURY regretted that this Bill
had been placed in the hands of Noble Lords at so late
a period as this morning, and preventing thereby that
careful and deliberate attention which a Bill so important
deserved at the hands of their Lordships. The objec-
tions urged by the Noble Lord against this Bill were
such as had often been repeated in this House, and had
as often been most completely answered. The present
Bill proposed to remedy an evil universally admitted, viz.,
that ef the large amount of superintendence which de-
volved upon the present Bishops, arid their inadequacy
to the• eerforroance in a proper manner of those highi
and important duties. And it was from a deep sense of
the necessity of an increase in the number of Bish ps
that he and his Right Reverend Brethren were resolved).
to give their most cordial assent to the Bill now before
their Lordship's House.
Earl FI l'Z WILLA M concurred with the observation
of the Noble Lord, that it would be a serious anomaly
that there should be one ashe
their Lordships House in comtnuon. with the other Rieht
P had not a seat In
Rev. Prelates. Be teelxttqeuusiitevecovniced that there was a
necessity for a very
number of Bisho addition to the present
ps, and he also that it would
be desirable that a subdivision of the large
dioceses already existing,
with a view to a more efficient
administration of the duties which devolved upon those
Right Rev. Prelates.
The Bishop of OXFORD t tender his most
hearty thanks to the G•overnmet*St for having brought iti
the present Bill, and for having given their minds
heartily and warmly to the consideration of the ques-