The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-09 00:00:00

THE SWN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1847.

ONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS,

CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton this week in the Liverpool market
have been 58,030 bales, and the advance in prices is about
id. pi,r lb. Stock now 420,670 bales against 900,720
bales at this time last year. Shares were quiet.
The following aro a few of the principal sales of Rail.
Way Shares yesterday, at Messrs. Latnond and Co.'s:—
East Indian ...
Great Indian Peninsular
London and Manchester (liemington's) 0 9 0
Manchester and Southampton 1 19 6
Waterford, WextlnA, and Valentia ...... 0 5 0
Leicester & Bedford, Exchange Certificate 0 13 6
Derby, Statlerd, and Worcestershire, New 0 15 0
Taw -Vale Extension and Dock
Madrid and Valencia 0 19 0
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole 2 12 6
Newport and Abergaveuny 1 5 0

Azoyston and Ilitchin
Beston,Stamforchandßirmingham
Great Luxembourg
Buckinghamshire
Two arrivals from the Cape of Good Hope furnish ad•
vices of the 3d and 7th instant respectively. There iv,
however, but little information to be gleaned from the
Papers beyond the melancholy detail of isolated cases of
outrage, such as are to be expected in time of war on
an exposed frontier. The local authorities were collect-
ing information as to the extent of the losses incurred by
the settlers.
The advices of September 8, from New Zealand, have
inspired the friends of the colony with brighter hopes
for the fu•ure.
Consols both for money and account have been steady
this morning at from 931 to 93:41 for immediate transfer,
and 931 for the account. The payment of the divi •
dends has cased the market a little. Exchequer-bills
have ranged from 14s. to l ls. premium, and East India
Bonds from 20s. to 225. premium. The Reduced Three
per Cents., after having reached 94, receded to 934.
Mexican Stock is flat this morning at 231 The
correspondence upon Mexican finance, just published,
C
1 deemed unsatisfactory. For Portuguese Four per
fents. the current value now is 374 ; for Russian, 112 ;
6Spanish Consols, 25/ to 26 ; for the Three per Celts.
; for the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 594; and
for the Four er Cent. Certificateq, 93.
In the Railway Share. and Scrip Markets not much
business has been effected this day. The tendency of
prices is generally downwards. The official rates are
annexed as usual.-

iitrb Xbition

THE FUNDS—(CLOSING PRICES.)
olsE , CLOSING
3PRICES OF BRITISII FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
PPer Cent. Reduced Anns 93% 94 9314 93Wi
i'ZCent. Consols Annuities 93%;5 93,
ngw 34 per Cent. Annuities 95%%' 95%
flgAnnuities to expire Jan.lB6o 9% 9%
India Bonds, 1,000/
Ditto under 1,0001. .. ...... .- l7 22 22
Consols for Opening 93%% 93. N
Exchequer Bills, 1000/. 11/0. ... 11 14 11 p 11 p
Ditto, 500/
Ditto. Small
PRICKS OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK PRICES
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent.... -•• •• •
Ditto Deferred _ 54%
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 231/ 23%
Ditto, Account 231/4% 235,8
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent
tussian Bonds .. „..... 112 112
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account . 25% 26 26
Ditto, Passive
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Ditto, Account 36 35%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2% per Cent. .
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 923,4 93 93
Pnit;Es OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSLNG
RtILWAY SILUtES PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES
Aberdeen
Amber., Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 2.%..... 27s 23/4
Belfast & County Down 4,N — • Birrnin. and Gleucester..loo Ditto New l7m
% ... "'. —
Birmingha and Ox-
ford Junction
Birmingham, Wolver-
hampton, and Dudley 423......
and Stour Va11ey..... 425. ......
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire June.... 23/4 —
Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 225. —
Bristol and Exeter 75
Ditto, New .......... 10
Bristol and Gloucester... 32 ..-..
Buckinghamshire
Caledonian
Ditto Half Shares...-. 2%... 274.... "" ....,
Ditto, Clydesdale Jane 25 ......
Chester and Holyhead... 27% 26
Cheltexham and Oxford 2 ...... . ...
Clarence lOO
Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10
Do. 2(1 Class, 5 per Ct. 10
Do. Government Loan,
4 per Cent.
Cork and Killarney
'Jerk and Waterford ... 11,E Cornwall
..... •
Ditto, Half Shares
Direct Northern Scrip.. 21)4 ":% ..
Direct Norwich
Dublin and BelfastJunc. 12% —
Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine
Dundalk & Enniskillen 10
Eastern Counties 14/. 16s .. 23% 22%
Ditto New
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1. 6/.135. 4d...
Ditto ditto, N 0.2... 61. 13s. 4d...
E as
Do., York Extension.. 2 ...... 3zli:i..
tern Union
Ditto Quarter Shares 10
Do. Exten.(Harwich) 1% — ......... .....
Do., Camb. and Ely.. 2% _
But Lancashire
Ditto. New
Do., do., New Scrip... 114
East Lincolnshire ...... 11,; —
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 .....• ......... ••• -
Ditto Half Shares ... 10
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% —
Edinburgh & Northern.. 121/4
2. Ditto, New
Ditto, Newport —
Ditto, ditto, New .... . 114 314 81,4
Edinburgh and Perth... 3 .......
Ely and Huntingdon ... 12% ..... 13% 13%
Exeter,Yeovil,& Dorset 2%
Glasgow, Dumfries, and
Carlisle
5 ..... •••• .....
Glasgow,Kilmar.,& Ayr 50 ......
Ditto, New
Do., 14 Shares (5 per
cent. guar.)
Great Nortkern (London -`
and York Regd.) 3!e
Do. (Direct Northern
Regd.)
Great South. and West.
(Ireland)
Great North of England-
100 —
Ditto New 5 — -
Ditto, New .
Ditto, New
Great Western
Ditto % Shares. —
Ditto 14 Shares
Ditto Fifths
Ditto, New .. 414 —
Huddersfield & Manches. 13
Ditto, Extension 3
Hull and:Selby
Do. Half Shares 25
Ditto 14 Shares -
Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 14 • 1314 I3IA
Do., do., and Norwich 5
Lancaster and Carlisle... 50
Leeds and Bradford
Leicester and Bedf:lrd... 163.
Leeds, Dt wsbu-y, &c.... 27% — •
Do., Branch 1, Shares 214.. ... ......... ... ..
Do., Branch (Blue) ... 21,4 5,,,, 5%
Do.Extension(Green) 21/2- ...
17. 16!.i 1614
Leeds and Thirsk
Ditto, New
Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3% —
Liverpool, Crosby, and
Southport .... .......... 2
Liverp., Mnchstr& New::
castle Junction 2l .... . •.. -
Landon • Id Black- -"' '''' - .. ...

_1 p

P
234

.....
a%

. am. .wa11.16/. 1:34.4 i ...... —
Do. New
Ditto Extension - -•—
London, Brighton, •
and
South Coast .. 50 .. ..
s
Ditto, Fifth'
Do. Consol. 14
Eighths lO
De. Guarant. 5 per et. 9
14
•• •• .
London andGreanwich 12/ 15s4d 91A••• .. •• 91A1
D. Preference _lB/ 17, 2d.
London and N. Westeruloo
.. ..... 198 197 197
Do. Quarters ......... 2 ...... _
D0., do., Now
Ditto Fifths ••••• .••• 2 ...... 19%1,4 ........ IN • • 19 I
Do. 1% Shares (G. J.) 5 ...... _
............
1)o 401. Shares (L. M.) 8 ...... .
.....
Do. 40/. (M. & B.) ... 40 ......
..........
..._
Do. 10/. (M. & B.) A. 5
............
Do. 10/. (M. & B.) B. 5
...... ...
.........
Do. 10/. Al. & B.) C. 1 - ••n ......... •.. a..., London. Oxford. and

...,,•., ~,
Cheltenham
Lond. & S.Western 411 6s 10d — ... ............
............ ••• •••••••
Do. New Consol. Bths 40
22.1... 27IA ............ 27
Do. New
.... DD°it.toNelw'enths
.. 51A
18 ... .
_—
Ditto Tenths ..... 4
Ditto Scrip
6
Ditto ditto ... - .... 4
London ar d York. Scrip 2 th; .. - •
Do. Extension
London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil ..... ....
".•••
Londonderry & Coleraine 15
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen ..... ... ....... Lvnn and Ely ... - ..... 20
Unn and Dereham .... 15
501 X,
Do. Quarters ............ 1.2 ...., 171,;
Fifths ............. - 5 .. . 11A
_
Do. Sixteenths ....... .. 614 ......
Do. Extension ......... 425. ...... 15.414, p........ 114 P
Do. Liverp. and Bury 21
Do. do. Fifths .... 1
••• ...... .... • -
blaa,.thester,Buxton,and
Matlock
illan, Sheffield,
hemolnshire ...... 103
... ..
Do. Quarters (No. 1) 8
...
Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25

24

sf)
17%
1 1 I/4

—Ditto ditto (No. 3)... 21,4
Ditto and Grimsby.— 15
Ditto ditto
Ditto ditto .
DUN Sheffield and
Lincolnshire 21,4
Manehest. &Southampt. 2 ......
Midland
Do. Fifths 2
Do. New
Ditto, New
Do. Birm., and Derbyloo

Midland Great Western
Irish
Newcastle and Berwick 20
NewcastleandCarlisle.-100
Ditto New
Ditto Quarter Shares 64
Newmrket &Chesterfrel 5
Do. Extension — 5%
Newport& Abergayeuny 24 „....
Newry and Enniskillen 7
Newry, Warrenpoint,
and Rostrevor
__

Norfolk .. lOO - •••• ••• 000000 -
Ditto Half Shares .. 9
Do. Extension
Do. Scrip, 1847, North
_ of Nortblk... —

Do. do. Waveney Val. 2
Northern Counties Union 2IA —
North British ... ..... ... 25
Do. Half Shares
Do. Quarters
Do. Extension 5
A
Ditto Thirds
Northern and Eastern... 50
Do. Quarter Shares... 121,1 —
Do. New
North Staffordshire...... 4 ...... 91,g 9144
North Wales
Northern and Southern

Connecting
North Western 2l/2 3l/4

Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton
Oxford, Wi tn ey, and
Cheltenham....
Portsmouth Direct 3.7% —
Preston and Wyre
.._ Do: 1/2 Shares

Readini, Guildford, and
Reigate 3/. 12s. — dis.
Royston and Hitchen ... 1%
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland l2l/i — . —
Sheffield, Rotherham,
and Goole 2% — . 31%
Shrewsbury and Birm... 3 ....
Ditto ditto, Class B. 114 2% 2
Shropshire Union - ...... .... ... li dii
South Devon..„ _ 40 34% 34:j4

South Staffordshire Jtuac. 11. 13s. 4d
South Eastern & Dover. 33% —
Do., No. 1 2O —
Do., Ne. 2.
Do., No. 3
Do., No. 4
South Wales
South Yorkshire, Don-
caster, and Goole 2 -•
Swans. & Loughor & Ca-
meron's Stm. Coal. ... 2
Taw Yale Extension ... 3
Trent Valley, Midland, &
Grand Junction 42s. -
Vale of .Neath 2
Wakefield, Pontefract, &
Goole 22% — ... ......... ..
Waterford and Kilkenny 11
Waterford and Limerick 27% l7 ... 17
Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw,
and Dublin
Wexford, 11' aterford, and
V alentia - -
West Riding Union .....• 425.
West Cornwall —
Windsor, Staines, and
South Western .....
Wilts, Somerset, & Wey-
mouth
York and Newcastle. . .. 25
Ditto New 5 ...... 12% 12 ... . ... 12
Do. Preference
York and North Midland 50
Ditto % Shares ..... ... 25
Do. Selby
Do. Extensioa
Ditto, Preference ...... 2
Do. East and West Rid-
ing Extension
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Anglo-Belgian... 4
13arbadoes 1
Belgian Eastern Junctn. 2%
Boulogne and Amiens... 18 ......
Bordeaux, Toulouse, and
Cette (Mackenzie's)... 2 .. ...
Do. (Espelete's)
Calcutta and Diamond
llarbour ....... .....

Central of Frcuce (Or-
leans and Vierzon) ... 10
Central of Spain ... .... 2
Ceylon
Demerara
Dendre Valley
Direct Bombay and
Madras - ..... ..• .• • •
Dutch Rhenish
East Indian ... ..... .... ss.
Fsimpoux & Hazebrouk 4
Great Indian Peninsular ss. ......
Great Western Bengal... ss.
Great Western Canada... 3% ......
Italian and Austrian.... 4 ... -
Jamaica S.Mid. Junction 1 1 ,`3,8 ......
Louvain ala Sambre ... 6 ... • ...... .
Luxembourg...-. ..... .. 4
Lyons and Avignon 2
Aladras ...
Madras, Nellore, and
Arcot tirs —
Madrid and Valentia.... 2 ...
Mauritius ..
Namur and Liege
N orthern of France. 8 ~... 101,i lOl4
North Jamaica 1
Orleans and Bordeaux... 6 ...... BIA 8 ....
Over Ysstl 413 s 4d
Paris andl.yons ... .... 8
Paris and Orleans 2O
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Strasbourg 5
Rouen and Havre
Sambre and Meuse ...... 10 ...,
Strasbourg and Bale ... 14
Tours and Nantes Con-
stituted ........„,.... 5
•• —
Tournay, Jurbise, Lan-
den, and 11a55e1t....... 8
Trinidad
West Flanders ...... .... 6

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JAN. 9.—Wind E., moderate breeze and hazy.
RAMSGATE, JAN. B.—Wind E.—Arrd. lorgianne, Hanson,
Porto Cabello.
DEAL, JAN. B.—Wind S.E., fresh.—Sld. Bussarah Mer-
chant, Beale, Sydney, New South Wales; Lotus, Barbadoes.
COWES, JAN. B.—Wind E.S.E., fresh.— Arrd. Heyworth,
Watson, Cuba, for London, leaky ; Denmark, Christensen,
St. Domingo, for llamburgh.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. B.—Wind S.S.E., moderate.—Arrd.
Lanercost, Mann, China; Hero, Rio Janeiro; Elizabeth
Ellen, Taylor, New York; Devonshire, Thompson, ditto;
New York, Cropper, ditto, sld. Dec. 16 ; Leander, Phelan,
St. John's, New Brunswick ; Satellite, Bambridge, Lima ;
Grace, Eyrie, Antigua • Exchange, New Orleans.
OFF Pora.—Monarch, China ; Alecto, Anwyl, Mauritius ;
William Russell, Brazil; Stirlingshire, Maranham ; Lanca-
shire, Savannah ; Burlington, New York, with part of cargo
thrown overboard; Marmion, Edwards, New York.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. B.—Wind, S.E., fresh.—Staadt Am-
sterdam, Blutzel, Batavia; Huge Grotius, Glazina, ditto;'
Lady larke Lawrence, Calcutta ; H. M. S. Hyacinth,
Barbadoes ; H. M. S. Albatross, Eastward; Fairy Queen,
Owen, Cape of Good Hope. Sld. Triton, Paulsen, St.
Croix. Off port, Plantagenet, Bird, Calcutta.
PLYMOITTII, JAN. B.—Wind, S.E.—Arrd. H. M. S. Spider,
Rio Janelro ; Lloyd's, Calcutta; Tyne, Story, St. John's,
New Brunswick, for Hull.
FALMOUTH, JAN. B.—Wind, S.E., fresh.—Arrd. Ruth,
Saguenay, for London. Sld. Penguin Packet, Brazils.
CLYDE, JAN 7.—Wind, S.W.—Arrd. Akbar, Giles, Mau-
ritius, Sld. Brooksby, M'Ewan, New York; Glaucus, Banks,
Newfoundland.
CORK, JAN. 6.—Wind, S.S.W.—Arrd. Minerva, Marsden,
Pernambuco.
lIuu„ JAN. B.—S.S.E.—SId. Caledonian, Savannah.
DEAL, JAN. B.—The George Marsden, Scott, from St.
Stephens, New Brunswick, to Hull, got on the Goodwin
Sands last night, but was assisted off with loss of anchor and
chain, and brought into the Downs.
DOVER, JAN. B.—The Estafette, Deickert, of and for
Reval, from Messina. was brought in here this morning with
seven feet of water in her hold, having been on shore near
the South Foreland.

LivEnrooL, ,JAN. B.—The Pantaloon, for this port, has
put back to the Clyde for repairs, having been in contact off
Cantyre.
ISLE ORNSAY (SKYE), JAN. 4.—The Jane Gaudry, of
Inverness, from Newport to Leith, was driven on the rocks
at this side of the harbour this morning, but is expected
to be got off this evening's tide, if the weather moderates.

ALMSHOUSES FOR PRINTERS.—We are gratified to
learn that the executors of the late Praed, Esq., have
devoted the sum of 50/., from a large sum left by this
benevolent individual for charitable purposes, to the
objects contemplated by the originators of this institu-
tion. We are also informed that the committee ei?tr-
tain the most sanguine expectation of being in a position
to lay the foundation-stone of the asylum in a few
months; and we can but wish them success in so praise-
worthy a design as securing a home for the declining
days of their aged fellow-workmen.
RISE or TnE THAMES.--I have noticed, for nearly
half a century, the gradual and regular rise of the waters
of the river Thames. My attention was first drawn to it
by finding that extreme high tides were not preceded,
nor succeeded, by similar tides. These were recorded
by the watermen of the Westminster Horselerry, by
notches cut by them on a post there, ere the post was re
moved when the street was raised. I now observe, that
professional men in reporting on some localities, such as
Westminster, say that the sewers there were originally
too low. But it appears that the said sewers were high
enough. when they were first made, but are not so now,
Tung to the rise of the river. It appears that lam the
first person who has noticed a circumstance so univer-
sally, continuously evident. The architects of modern,
as well as ancient buildings, were not aware of it, as will
be too plainly seen by referring to the floor of West-
minster Hall, the upper line of the starlings of old
London- bridge, the gate of Lambeth Palace, the York
Water- gate, Adelphi, the level of the wharfs there, &c.
The ground line or plinth of the palatial houses of Par-
liament is already below the level of extreme high tides.
The difference of the rise of the highest tide before the
Parliament Houses were burnt down, to the last highest
tide, viz,, in December, 1845, is but ten inches. The
preceding highest tide was in October, 1841. These
two tides were very carefully noticed at the "Fox under
the Hill," Adelphi, the people there being up at the late
hours both these tides occurred at ; the difference was
exactly one inch ; the lines of elevation are painted in
the tap•room there.—Correspondent of the Builder.

PRIVATE BILLS.

There has just been issued (pursuant to an order of
the House of Commons, dated 26th August) a return of
a list of all the Private Bills which have passed during
the present session of Parliament, for which a subscrip-
tion contract, or undertaking in lieu of a subscription
contract, has been deposited in the Private Bill Office,
classified according to the nature or object of the work;
stating the amount of the estimate for each work, of the
capital stock to be raised in each case, and the sum au-
thorised to be borrowed over and above such capital
stock, and showing the total amount of the estimates,
capital and money, to be borrowed for each class of such
works. This return has previously been issued in dif-
ferent forms; giving a complete list of the several Rail-
way, Navigation or Canal, Waterworks, Ferries and
Docks, Piers and Harbour, Bridge, Road, and Miscel-
laneous Bills. The Railway Bills occupy in enumeration
four and a half folio pages, and the estimates of expense
altogether amount to 90,789,2741.; the capital stock is
78,382,3901.; and the money authorised to be borrowed
to 30,597,595/. There are five Navigation and Canal
Bills named i❑ the same list—the estimates of expense
being 297,9501. ; the capital stock 170,0001. ; and the
money authorised to be borrowed 166,6001. The Water-
works Bills in the same document are twenty-three in
number; the estimates of expense being 1,063,63 U.; the
capital stock 1,514,5801.; and the money authorised to
be borrowed 509,3331. The Ferries and Docks Bills were
seven in number ; the Piers and Harbours Bills also
seven; one Bridge Bill, two Roads Bills, and six Mis-
cellaneous Bills (Drainage, Cemetery, and Thames Em-
bankment, &c.) The following summary shows the total
results of the document:—

Estimate of
Expense.

190,789,274
297,950
1,063,631
2,996,683
263,031
130,000
13,140
186,353

[95,740,067

Capital
Stock.

178,382,390
170,000
1,514,530
1,590,000
174,000

270,000

182,100,970

Money
authorised
to be
borrowed.

30,597,595
166,600
509,333
1,913,000

86,266
60,000

140,000

133,472,794

Number of railways in this return which have received
the royal assent
i
Other Railway Bills for which no subscription con-
tract, or declaration in lieu thereof, has been depo- 29
sited, but which hare received the royal assent....

Total royal assents . 268
WM. HAWES.
Private Bill Office, August 28, 1846.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
The Leeds and Thirsk are showing symptoms of a
speedy commencement of actual working traffic between
their termini. Their last public notification gives an
inventory of their wants for working plant, in the shape
of 24 second and 36 third-class carriages. Of heavier
plant they require 50 close vans for the conveyance of
general merchandise, 50 flat trucks, 20 horse-boxes,
30 trucks for the conveyance of cattle, 20 trucks for
the conveyance of carriages, eight vans for passengers'
luggage.
The grand central station about to be erected on the
land opposite to the present terminus of the Chester and
Crewe branch of the London and North-Western Rail-
way, at Chester, is estimated to cost 80,0001.
The North British are about to take tenders for the
execution of the whole works on their Duns.), Tranent,
and Cockenzie branches, about eleven miles in length.
No tender has been made to the Minister of Public
Works for undertaking the Saint Dizier and Gray Rail-
way, consequently the execution of the works remain in
the hands of the Government.

One of the workmen of the-London and North-West-
ern Railway Company's works, Crewe (says the Liver-
pool Mercury), gave a vocal entertainment in the girl's
school-room, on New-year's evening, which, though not
numerously, was very respectably attended. The audience
were extremely delighted with the abilities of the per.
former, and expressed their desire, amidst rapturous ap-
plause, for the repetition of the entertainment, on some
future evening, when, it is hoped, his exertions will
meet with that reward he has so justly merited.
RAILWAYS AND PAROCHIAL RATES.—The following
instance of the benefits derived by parishes through
which railways pass, was related by one of the speakers,
a Mr. Hudson, at a public meeting of landholders and
occupiers, held at Chobham a few days since, to take
into consideration the proposed Windsor, Staines, and
South-Western Railway. Mr. Hudson stated, as a proof
of the beneficial results of railways on parochial rates,
that in the parish of Woking a piece of land which, be-
fore the completion of the railway only paid eleven shil-
lings towards the rates for the relief of the poor, now
paid no less a sum than 1751.

PROJECTED RAILWAYS.—STANDING ORDERS
OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, SESSION 1847.
In pursuance of the standing orders of last session,
authorising Mr. Speaker to appoint one or more officers
to be called " The Exarniners of Petitions for Private
Bills," one to be chief examiner, that Right Hon.
Gentleman has appointed Mr. Smith (chief) and
Mr. May, who, in accordance with the 9th standing
order, have fixed Friday next, the 15th inst., for the
commencement of their duties. The petitions have been
entered on the general list, in the order of their deposit,
and by the Speaker's regulation the petitions will be set
down for hearing before the examiners in that order.
The examiners will commence their sittings daily at
10 o'clock precisely, and, by the 10th standing order,
"In case the promoters shall not appear at the time
when the petition shall dome on to be heard, the examiner
to whom the case shall ha►e been allotted shall strike the
petition off the list, and shall not re-insert the same;
except by order of the House."
The following is a list of the petitions for the 15th and
16th inst.:—

41
Week
ending NAME OF RAILWAY. Last "11,3
week. z ~..7.1;
t rd,
----
Z 4
Jan. 2 Arbroath and Forfar ............... 229 163
I Chester and Birkenhead .••••• • - • • • • 632 655
Dec. 31 Dublin and Drogheda ••
Jan. 5 Dublin and Kingstown ••••••• • • • • • • • 837 1,062
3 Dundee and Arbroath . •
- Durham and Sunderland .• • ...... •• • • - 611
2 Edinburgh and Glasgow .••••• • • • • • • 3,999 3,005
8 Eastern Counties and North Eastern • • 9,011 'um
2 East Lancasihre •. • ..... .... •••• • • • • 951 --
Dec. 27 Eastern Union ••••••••••• • • • • • ' • " • • 501 -
Jan. 2 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ••• • • • 2,710 2,464
2 Glasgow and Greenock• •
- Gravesend and R0che5ter............- -
2 Great Southern and Western •••• • • • • 1,016 -
3 Great WesternAc •• • ...... •••• • • • - 14,424 14,212
- Hartlepool ...... •• • ....... ..... .... _ _
2 London and North Western, &c. ..... 34,177 33,192
3 London and Blackwall. ..... ....... 660 695
2 London and Brighton .•••••• • • - • • • • 5,701 4,542
- London and Croydon . - -
3 London and South Western
- Manchester, Bolton, and Bury...-.. _ -
2 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc.. 8,156 6,951
2 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 2,299 1,987
3 Maryport and Carlisle •.. ...... ..• . • 474 343
2 Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham.. • • 16,775 14,904
2 Newcastle and Carlisle ••••••• • • • • • • • 2,018 1,594
- Newcastle and North Shields. • ...... - -
2 Newcastle and Berwick .••••• • • • • • • 541 438
3 Norfolk ••.•• • • • • •
2 North British .. •••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • 1,444 -
4 Paris and Rouen . •
2 Preston and Wyre •••••• • • • ..
1 Shrewsbury and Chester ............301 -
2 South Eastern and Branches •• ••• • • • 7,512 5 122
1 South Devon ••• • • ... . • ..... •..• . • • • 719 ..!--
2 Taff Vale ••••• • • • • ......... •••• • • • • 1,328 853
3 Ulster .• • -•.... ••••• • • 682 577
2 York and Newcastle . • ........ ..... 5,021 4,003
2 York and North Midland ...•• • • • ... 4,975 4,462

The Porcupine steam-vessel, Captain Bullock, is now
ready for sea, and is to be sent to Ireland to convey corn
And Ober prOiDiQuti (NM sae port to another.

MAGAZINES, ETC.-(CONTINUED.)

THE COMIC HISTORY OF ENGLAND.
By Gilbert A. A'Beckett.
Merrily does Gilbert A. A'Beckett laugh through the
reigns of Richard 11. and Henry IV. in the present
number, and right merrie are the illustrations of
Leech. In accordance with " time-honoured cus-
tom," our historian gives us a chapter on " the con-
dition, customs, candlesticks, sports, pastimes, pit-
chers, mugs, jugs, and manners of the people, tracing
the progress of art fronr the coarse pipkin of the early
Briton, to the highly respectable tankard found in the
ruins of Glastonbury Abbey, which proves the teeth
of the Monks to have been decidedly liquorish."
According to our facetious historian—
" The Anglo-Saxon husbandman was little better
than a serf who was paid for his labour by the land-
owner, but the former furnished the base without which
there would have been no locus standi for the latter's
capital. It was customary in those days to encourage
the peasantry by prizes, which did not consist of a coat
for a faithful servitude of nearly a life, but a grant of a
piece of the land to which the labourer had given in-
creased value by his industry. The proprietors of the
soil had not yet learned the wisdom of trying how much
a brute could be made to eat, and how little a human
being could exist upon.
" With reference to the domestic habits of the period,
it has been clearly ascertained that people of substance
took four meals a day, and as they took meat at every
one, their substance can be no matter of astonishment.
The Britons had not been in the habit of dressing their
food, which is not surprising, for they scarcely dressed
themselves ; but the Anglo-Saxons were not so fond of
the raw material. With them the pleasures of the table
were carried to excess, and drinking went to such an
extent, that every monk was prohibited from taking any
more when his eyes were disturbed, and his tongue
began to stammer. The misfortune, however, was, that
as all who were present at a banquet, generally began to
experience simultaneously a disturbance of the eye and
a stammering of the tongue, no one noticed it in his
neighbour, and the orgies were often continued until the
stammering ended in silence, and the optical derange-
ment finished by the closing of the organs of vision.

DAVIDSON'S UNIVERSAL MELODIST.

Parts I. and H.
Each of these parts contains the music and words
of 125 popular standard and original songs, for one
shilling. The work is edited by Mr. George Ho-
garth, whose name alone is a sufficient guarantee for
its accuracy and its merit.

THE FREEMASONS' QUA.RTERLY REVIEW.
This is an excellent number of The Freemasons.
Quarterly, and in addition to a vast amount of masonic
lore, which is most interesting to the craft, it contains
a very learned article on "The Vitrified Forts of
North Britain," the perusal of which will be gratify-
ing to all who have a taste for antiquarian research.

THE ART UNION
The Art Union is the most superbly illustrated
periodical ever published. This is the first number
of a new series, and is dedicated, by command, to
his Royal Highness Prince Albert. The illustrations
are a life-like portrait of the Queen, beautifully en-
graved by Robinson, from a miniature by Thornburn.
A print, dedicatory to Prince Albert, drawn by
Merchant, and engraved by W. and J. Measom. A
superbly illuminated Almanac for the year, and an
exquisite engraving by Alfred Revel, from the Eu-
gene Lepattevin's picture of the " Studio of Paul
Potter." Besides these steel engravings we have a
profusion of wood-cuts, illustrating different ar-
ticles. Mrs. S. C. Hall contributes the first part of a
fanciful fairy tale of love, entitled " Midsummer
Eve," the illustrations to which are the most ex-
quisitely beautiful specimens of wood engraving ever
presented to the public.

THE WORK-TABLE MAGAZINE.
This is the first number of a new periodical, de-
voted, as its name indicates, to the art of " plying
the polished shaft." The present number contains a
variety of patterns for different kinds of work, one
of which is very beautifully coloured, accom-
panied by very careful explanations. This
new magazine will doubtless prove attractive
to the fair circle for whom it is intended. It is in
character somewhat similar to a very excellent French
publication, the " Journal des Demoiselles." The
French magazine is, however, not exclusively devoted
to the work-table, and in this respect it would be
well for its English contemporary to follow its
example. Its attractions would be greatly
increased by the addition not of sentimental tales,
like those which too often fill the pages of ladies'
magazines, but of some literary contributions calcu-
lated to benefit, as well as interest and amuse their
readers. It is, perhaps, right to add, that the Work-
table Magazine appears under the special patronage
of her Majesty.

THE RAIL WAY REGISTER. Edited by Hyde

Clarke, Esq.
The present is the fifth volume of The Railway
Register, a periodical which, as the editor justly
boasts, in his opening address in the present number,
" so far from being an ephemeral production, has ac-
quired for each volume the character of a standard
and indispensable work of reference." This high
character the present number fully maintains. The
opening article is a well written review of the "Rail-
way Policy of 1846." All our readers have heard of
" the stags," they were the produce of the Joint-stock
Companies Registration Act, and albeit, they have
been deprived of some of "the honours of their head,"
they flourish still as projectors of 2s. a share " little-
goes ;" but the "knacker " is a species us yet
scarcely known out of the railway world. Like the
stag, he is the creature of an Act of Parliament.
"The Dissolution Act may be shortly named as a
farce, which has done no good to the shareholders, and
no hurt to the conamittemen, but which has given much
trouble, and has fostered a new set of gamblers, who,
under the Stock Exchange name of " knackers," have
played their pranks, by means of Lord Dalhousie's Act,
to the heavy loss of the old shareholders, who went into
the undertakings with honest views. Lord Dalhousie's
Act came as a godsend to the lower members of the
Stock Exchange, and to the brotherhood of outsiders.
They saw at once how it could be worked, and how, in a
time of loss and dulness, it would give profit and em-
ployment.
" The trick of knacking' was this. Having, as
nearly as they could, learned the money remaining to
be shared, they beared the stock in the market, below its
worth, and having bought in in strength enough to make
a large body, they began to cry out for breaking up the
company, and putting Lord Dalhousie's Act in work,
whether the old shareholders who held their stakes were
willing to go on with the undertaking or not. As they
were on the spot, and went together, the knackers, for
the most part, won the day, and by this means carried
on a thriving trade ; being willing to take a small sum
whereby they made a large gain, and doing all they
could to get back at once the money they had laid out,
heedless whether the undertaking were good or bad ;
though they did not forget to put forward anything
which would anger the shareholders against the com-
mittee-men, or bring the committeemen to yield to their
demands. Very nearly the same men played this trick
in each undertaking broken up, and although they lost
sorely in some cases, where the knavery of schemers
had been beforehand with them, by spending every
farthing, yet, on the whole, they had every ground for
thanking Lord Dalhousie in giving them this staff to
play with ; when, otherwise, they would have had
nothing to do, and many must have starved."
The editor continues his valuable series of papers on
Indian railways, and Mr. Rettie likewise continues
his paper on the mode of preventing accidents in
mines. We have also an interesting historical sketch
of the mines of Guatemala; an account of a rota-
tory steam-engine recently invented by Messrs.
Allingham and M`Gauley ; and an account of the
position and resources of the Newmarket and -Ches
terfield lipe, illustrated with a map. The Portfolio
contains the original prospectuses, &c., of the Grand
Junction Railway.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From last Night's Gazette.)
In Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Sth of Victoria, cap. 32, for
the Week ending on Saturday, the 2d day of January, 1847.
18817 Z DKPALETMENT.

4.
Rotes i55ned........ 28,258,260

428,258,260

Government dobt 11,01b,100
Other securities .. • • 2,984,900
Gold coin and bullion 11,788,770
Silver bullion • • • 2,469,490

Dated he 7th diky of January, ;

X 28,258,260
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
847.

Government securi-
ties (including Dead
Weight Annuity).- 12,826,362
Other securities .. • • 15,071,820
Notes ••••••• • • • • • • • 8,227,085
Gold and silver coin• . 693,312

£36,818,579
r. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.