The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY; APRIL 20, 1841

is not necessary to travel beyond the first
page or two of the evidence to find ample reason,
we think, why some of the "population from
Harris or Skye were not brought to London, as
well as writers from Glasgow, and factors from
Morven, to give evidence before the Committee.
The object seems to have been concealment
rather than to make known. At the very com-
mencement it leaks out that "during the.war kelp
fetched a high price; no quantity that could be
made was left unsold, and the proprietors laid
out their properties with reference to the manu-
facture of this article, and a large population
were encouraged to settle on their land." The
proprietors then did not hesitate to divide their
lands, and most of the crofts intended for one
family, had on them two, three, and sometimes
four." At the same time, we find these pro-
prietors and the Government united in giving
bounties on the herring fishery; in consequence
of which bounties, let it be especially
remembered, " very extensive fishing vil-
lages were erected along the coast." But
it turned out that the bounties, though
they caused the villages to be built, and
encouraged the . increase of the population7—to
enrich the landlords, could not secure the sup-
ply of herrings or the supply of food. The mi-
gratory fish did not obey the same laws as the
bounty, and a multitude of persons were col-
lected on the shore, who appear not to have had
the art of following the herrings into the deep
sea, and, when they came no more into the
lochs, could not catch them, and were destitute of
subsistence. We see, then, that the landed pro-
prietors and the Government, with its bounties,
are the really guilty parties in this case. They
have treated these poor simple Islanders and
Highlanders as cattle. They stimulated the in-
crease in their numbers as long as that could
serve to supply the kelp market and catch the
herring-bounty. If the people themselves had
been called before the Committee, instead of
factors, adVocates, parson.;, and Canada Judges,
some inkling of the truth might have broken in
even on the darkness-loving Committee, on the
Legislature, and on the public. But that was to
be kept out, and so the few simple fitcts were
covered over with learned theories, and far-
fetched dissertations by Rev. Doctors and Canada
Judges.

WALTER'S friend, Mr. WHITEHEAD,
boasted for him at Nottingham, that lie had
voted against the Corn-laws, we have looked
back to HANSARD'S Debates for the proofs of that
assertion. We can only find three divisions on
the Corn-law question during the time that Mr.
WALTER was in Parliament. The first was a
motion made by Mr. FRYER, in 1833, for which
Mr. WALTER did not vote. The next was a mo-
tion made by Mr. Ht7ME, in 1834, for which Mr.
WA LTER did vote. The third was a motion
made by Mr. CLAY, for which Mr. WALTER
again did not vote. Thus on two out of three
occasions, when he had an opportunity in Parlia-
ment of recording his vote against the iniquitous
bread-tax, Mr. WALTER was not found to take
the poor man's part. On what ground, then,
does he assume the name of the poor man's
friend? The working man is not a pauper-31r.
WALTER proposes only to befriend paupers.

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The letter signed " L." on the high price of
butcher's meat, is well worthy of public atten-
tion. Our Correspondent is quite correct in say-
ing that the tax on provisions makes grievous
inroads into the comforts of the middle classes.
It is, in truth, somewhat mean in the nation
to give its gallant defenders 65., 10s., or even
20wdeshfa.etn i
a-day. half-pay, according to their rank, and
then mulct them of 20 or 80 per cent. of
given,ltis, toalseon,ricah
htehaortseleasthepyrocheaevde.
L ing on the part of the aristocracy to sti-
enxiutiag
l.aayteaallnocetl:er classes to imitate their splendid
and yet to prevent them having
, the means of comfort b
selfishaxation. We
t
wish that the middle clas'ses would take our Cor-
respondent's remarks seriously into considers-
. Lion,
laarniedslobredyso.nd ill('
reachlp:operly
. don, and by a deteimined
and resolute proceed-
comforts antdthethieutlritr
cliraelr..s'
ing place their,own'
v ear3re not says that
adequate to
the daily increasing population. That is a
our
Our
of
food
plain and palpable fact, and that fact co-
exists with, and is of itself a complete con_
demnatien of, the corn and provision laws,
which are said by their friends to be intended to
him
ALIsoN, and following the Morning Post,
secure our people an ample supply of food.' Mi.'
have insisted with much vehemence lately 011
much the great capabilities which the country yet pos-
sesses to supply food for a larger popula-
tion than at present. They have enumerated
the acres tilled and the acres untilled, and they
to grow food for the people. It is impossible,
say that there is an abundance of land on. which

in qtestion, and with the people into whose con-
dition the inquiry is to be made, and two of
whom have no connection whatever with the
Islands and Highlands, and may never have
been there in their lives; without examining a
single person of those whose condition the Com-
mittee was ordered to inquire into, it comes to
this 'conclusion :
They considered that they shall best discharge their duty by
submitting to the House that portion of the evidence which
has already been received, and' which, imperfect in some
respects as it necessarily is, may have the effect of showing the
great importance of the subject they have endeavoured to in-
vestigate—the urgency of the distress that periodically prevails,
in the Western Highlands and Islands of Scotland, arising
mainly from the excessive population; and also of calling the
attention of the House to the necessity of considering some
efficient remedies to alleviate the existing evils, amongst which,
that which appears from the evidence to be of primary im•
portance is a well arranged system of emigration. '
A very natural and to be expected conclusion
from the sort of witnesses examined—a conclu-
sion, we may well say, come to before they were
examined, at least by the Chairman, and to which
their examination was, we believe, to give a
colour and supply a pretext. What strange no-
tions these Committee . men must have of evi-
dence—of the nature of 'the facts to be inquired
into, ,to have called before them Justice HAGER-
MAN and Writer BAIRD, to learn something,
about the condition of the inhabitants of Harris
and Skye, and not to bring before them
one of those inhabitants. Such a proCeeding
seems to us an outrage on all common sense and
all philosophy, and vitiates, from beginning to
end, all the investigations and conclusions of the
Committee. Unfortunately, 'a similar mode of
proceeding is generally adopted by Parliament,
and by its Committees. While masters know
nothing of their workmen, and neighbours know
little or nothing of each other, the Legislature is
satisfied with the hearsays or foregone conclusions
of theorists or interested persons; and on all
questions concerning the people, rarely or never
examines the people themselves. We know not,
however, that it would be of use were the House
to act otherwise, for it would legislate after the
inquiry as before, on the pre-conceived theories
of its Members, on their passions, or to gratify
their short-sighted. interests. It may as well
spare us, therefore, the expense and mockery of
a one-sided inquiry, intended only to justify
some equally one-sided legislation.
Our readers will probably be surprised to
learn that besides the expense of Committee-
rooms, clerks, printing, &c., the expense of these
one-sided witnesses amounts to no less than 4361.
—yes, 4361. spent to gather guesses and conjec-
tures to justify false conclusions and beguile the
Legislature and the public into a liking for con-
tinued darkness. When such is the basis—the
initiative of a wholesale system of dealing
with the population, and the people whose
condition is thus ascertained through the
medium of comparative strangers, not one of
them being ever consulted, either as to what
is his knowledge or his feelings, what is
the cause of his distress, and what he wishes
done for him, can it excite any surprise that
legislation gives no satisfaction, and that it .fails,
nine times out of ten, to attain its object ? Such
a mode of treatment implies, disguise it how Mr.
BAILEY and his Committee may, that these
Highland lairds and writer bodies yet consider
the population to be slaves, who may be dealt
with as the proprietors deal with cattle. But
that mode of acting will not now do; and if they
have not laid' aside the habits of clan chief-
tains, the people have outgrown the customs of
servitude.

when we look on Stowe Park, on the extensive
grounds of Goodwood, on the domains of Clumber,
and on the many hundreds and thousands of acres
parked off for the pleasure of the bread-taxing
aristocracy, to deny for one moment that the capa-
bilities of our own noble land are not yet Miff pro-
perly appropriated to feeding thepeople. But, with
ail these vast. capabilities, the people are starv-
ing ; the people cannot get food ; the people are
ground down, by poverty and hunger, to despair
and crime. The Corn-laws, then, have failed to
call out the capabilities of the soil, if they have not
locked them up; and the co-existence of those ca-
pabilities, boasted of by the Corn-law advocates,
with the want of food, is the severest possible
condemnation of the Corn-laws.

We agree with Mr. Ausort and the Post that
England is blessed by the ALMIGHTY beyond
other countries, and that her teeming and fertile
soil is matched by the industry and skill of her
people. We agree, too, with Mr. J. D. HUME,
that with our heaven-bestowed capabilities,
facility, and skill, England might be the most
abundantly supplied and the cheapest of all
the countries of the earth. At this monient she
is able to export horses for the supply of France.
Her climate is admirably adapted to the rearing
of cattle, and her green grass hills, never wholly
buried for a long period in snow, subject to
no avalanches or destructive torrents, offer
advantages for this purpose which are not pos-
sessed by either Switzerland or Holland. The
skill of our breeders, too, is great. Why is
it, then, that England has not a great
abundance of meat for her own people, and
does not export horned cattle as she exports
horses? The reason is clear. To export, price
must be lower here than where the goods are to
be sent. But we pass a law expressly to raise
price here, and to prohibit exportation. The
Corn-law raises the price of everything grown on
the soil, and is, pro tanto, a prohibition for the
farmer to export the produce of the soil. It lays
a grievous restraint on the industry of the agri-
culturists.

We can show, too, that it. prevents the capa-
bilities of the soil being called out. Those who
are engaged in cultivating the soil must make a
profit by the capital and labour employed. The
Corn-law only raises rent; and the farmer is
merely the tax-collector for the landowner. At
the same time it raises price, and consequently
places an artificial limit on profitable cul-
tivation. It makes seed corn and the food of
cattle and of the labourer dear. It en-
hances the expense of cultivation. The land-
lords' tax operates exactly like the parsons' tax
(the tithes), which, by taking something from
the farmer and something from the labourer,
makes it unprofitable, and even impossible, for
them to live by cultivating the soil, before it
would be unprofitable and impossible if they had
not to give the tax to the landlords. The Corn-
law is the cause why the admitted capabilities of
our soil cannot be called into activity by the
skill and industry of our people.

Since our 'observations on the Nottingham
election were written yesterday, we have
seen the report of the proceedings of Mr.
WALTER'S friends at Nottingham, and we
have seen this day's Times. In Mr. WA LTER'S
speech not a word is said about the Corn-laws.
The subject is carefully eschewed. In the Times
the destitution of the industrious classes is dwelt
on. A quotation is made from the charge of the
Archdeacon of LEWES, in which it is said that the
" necessity now imposed on the agricultural la-
bourer to eke out his scanty subsistence by all the
meaniin his power,forces parents to take theirboys
away from school if they can get any employ-
ment for them," &c. The Times then proves to
us that the agricultural labourer is just as badly
off under this Corn-law as the manufacturing•
labourer ; but yet the Times, exactly like
Mr. WALTER, does not say one word against
the Corn-law. It harps, like him, on the
Poor-law, which has no effect;; whatever in
lowering the wages of the labourer, or in depriv-
ing the industrious man of employment and food.
So engaged are both the Journal and Mr.
WALTER with the Poor-law—which, though as
much a Tory measure as a Whig measure,
they use exclusively against the Whigs--
that they have not a word to say against the
tax on the poor man's bread. At the meeting at
Nottingham a Mr. WHITEHEAD, who called
himself a Radical, vouched for Mr. WALTER
that he had voted for a repeal of the Corn-law,
and is ready to do so again. But that assertion
is contradicted by the careful silence, on this
vital question, to the people of Nottingham, of
the Times and Mr. WALTER. Their conduct is
much more significant than Mr. WHITEHEAI)'S
words-; and till we see a direct change in the po-
litics of the Times, and till we have a distinct
declaration by Mr. WALTER, we shall say that
both the Journal and Mr. WALTER have imitated
the words and adopted the opinions of Lord
ASHBURTON on this subject.

The Austrian Observer of the 10th inst., which
we have received, contains the following import-
ant announcement :
News received by express from Constantinople, dated the
29th ult., announces that the present Minister for Foreign
Affairs, eschid Pacha, has been dismissed from this post by
the Sultan, and replaced by Rifaat Bey, formerly Ambassador
of the Sublime Porte at the Court of Vienna, who has been
named Pacha and Minister for Foreign Affairs. The Minister
of Commerce, Fethi Achme& Pasha is also replaced by the
preient Capitan Pacha, Said Pacha,-brother-in4an- of the Sol,
taxi Tahir Paella is appointed Capitan Pacha, Great Admiral.
The dismissal of RESCRID PAULA prepares the
way for the amicable 'settlement of the Eastern
question, as RIFAAT BEY is known to be fitvour-
able to a modification of the finnan for establish-
ing MEHEMET ALT in the hereditary government
of Egypt. 4ESCHID PACH.I bated the -VICEROY
as cordially as Lord PON6ONBY himself; whose
rumoured recal broke the only prop upon which
the Foreign Minister could lean for support, op-
posed as he was by the united influence of
Austria and Russia. Private advices state that
before taking office RIFAAT BEY pledged himself
to Baron STIJRMER, the Austrian Internuncio, to
'concede every claim made by_the VICEROY in Isis

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remonstrance to the Suur.us. This is well so
far. In a European sense the downfall of any
Cabinet wa desirable which threatened a re-
newal of hostilities between the SULTAN and his
vassal. But as regards the internal administra-
tion of Turkey the change in the Ministry is un-
fortunate. RESCIIID PACHA was the advocate of
reform on the most extensive scale, and in all
truth reform is much wanted in Turkey.

By the arrival of the Braganza steamer at
ilmouth on Saturday evening from the Tagus,
we have received advices front Lisbon of the
I:2th inst. No change has taken place 'in the
Cabinet. ft was reported in political and com-
mercial circles that the Government was anxious
to conclude the long-pending treaty of commerce
with England.
The Finance Minister, Baron Timex, 'refused
the terms upon which the Bank of Lisbon offered
to advance money to meet the demands on the
Treasury; adding, that rather than Mike such
a bad bargain for the country, he would issue
Treasury Paper, which would be received at its
full nominal value in liquidation .of all Govern-
ment taxes.
The ex-Minister Baron SA•BROSA died suddenly
from an attack of apoplexy. He was buried with
military honours.
Social and physical improvements are of slow
growth in Portugal and Spain. We are there-
fore not much surprised to learn that little has
been yet done to improve the physical and moral
condition of the people. No efforts appear to be
making to extend education, to cultivate regular
habits of industry, and to popularize a better
system of agriculture. The Government clings
with fatal tenacity to the old system of restric-
tions upon commerce, ignorant of the great
truth, that, in the arithmetic of taxation, t*,
and two, instead of making four, do not always
make one. ,But the Portuguese Government never
dreams of inquiring into the effect of taxation
upon consumption. The consequence necessarily
is, that every fresh impost, instead of increasing
e Public revenue, actually diminishes it.
The French Minister at the Court of Lisbon,
M• de VARENNEs, was about to return to France,
having obtained leaVe of absenc from-his GO-

vernment. There is very little for diplomatists
to shake their sage heads about in Portugal.

no importance. On the previous day (Good
Friday) the Duke of VICTORY performed his de-
votions in all the churches of the city in succes-
sion, and at each of them he presented 31. 4s. to
be distributed among the poor. A Bill to ena-
ble the Government to collect the taxes till the
Budget could he regularly brought forward was
presented to the Chamber of Deputies by the
President of the Council. The Five per Cents.
were done on the Bourse at 25 11-16 for cash,
and at 26 7-16 at 60 days.

The Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday
have all reached us. The extraordinary credits
for 1841, amounting in all to two hundred mil-
lions of francs, were voted on Thursday, by a
majority of 105 against 57. On Friday the
question of the occupancy of Algiers by France
was brought forward, but as M. GUIZOT stated
that a campaign was about to be undertaken
against ABD-EL_KADER the Chamber came to
no vote upon it. As, according to M. TRIERS,
France cannot live without a passion, she can
indulge in few bobbies less dangerous to the
repose of Europe than in wasting her energies in
acquiring an extension of her sterile conquests in
Africa.
Galignani's Messenger states that the Cham-
bers will not be dissolved. The question was
mooted at a Cabinet Council, when the majority
of the Ministers declared themselves opposed to
a dissolution. We certainlyieannot discover any
grounds of complaint against the Chamber of
Deputies, as at present constituted, on the part
of a French Minister. The majority are always
ready to vote whatever way the Cabinet thinks
proper. They never trouble themselves about
principle, or consistency, or anything of the
sort. If they want to see, or hear, or decide
upon any question, they employ the eyes,
ears, and understanding of the Minister
of Public Works, by which they save
themselves a great deal of trouble, and establish
a claim to be remembered when there happens
to be a job in the way. With tools so pliable,
what Minister could find in his heart to be out of
humour ?
In the course of the debate on the Enlistment
Bill on Friday M. CORRI proposed that the chil-
dren of foreigners born in France should be
liable to the conscription. MM. GUIZOT and
ODILLON BARROT opposed this as unjust and illi-
beral, and the motion was.consequently rejected.
The Duke of Orleans has returned to Paris from St. Omer.
" It is said," says Galignani, " that eight creations of Peers
will be made at the christening of the Comte de Paris, and
that a further nomination to the Upper Chamber will be made,
principally among Deputies, at the end of the session. Among
the names for the first list those of Admiral Mackau, General
Barrois, 81. Target, and M. Horace Vernet are mentioned."
Another petition of the French residing at Monte Video is
to be reported on to-morrow in the Chamber of Deputies. The
object of it is to obtain some means for the protection of our
countrymen, who having withdrawn from the tyranny and the
vengeance f Rosas, are now in danger of feeling their effect in
consequence of the enterprises of the Dictator.
It cannot be denied that the treaty concluded by Admiral
Mackau has the political power and the confidence of Rosas.
Being relieved from the blockade, he has been able to turn all
his forces against Lavalle, anti having this moment nothing to
ear from his adversary, he is going to divide his efforts against
Monte Video, and the Oriental Republic. In this conjunction
the 8,000 Frenchmen settled in that republic are exposed to the
greatest danger : the blood of Varangot, one of their country-
men, who was assassinated at Buenos Ayres, under the eyes of
Admiral Mackau, during the negotiation, warns them that
their only chance of safety is in the effectual protection of their
Government.
Will 31. Guizot grant their protection to the Oriental Re-
public Which, during the long blockade of the river P 1 de,
afforded to our Admiral all kinds of good offices ? Will he
grant it to the French, whose interests are blended with those
of Monte Video, and whom the enterprises of Rosas threaten
with spoliation, death, or banishment?
The honour of France is interested in this question. Al-
ready much injured by the treaty, it would be ruined for ever
if Monte Video should be given up without protection or as-
sistance to the reprisals of Rosas.
The Ministry must explain itself. If the Chamber has shut
its eyes to the deplorab:e treaty concluded with Rosas, it ought.
at least to show oome sympathy with a Government which
was our ally in our contest -with the Dictator; it ought, above
all, to show its solicitude tor the 8,000 Frenchmen who were in
so critical a situation.
Let us hope that we shall not see in the Plate a second edi-
tion of the affairs of Egypt.—La Gazette de France.
BOURSE.— esattS, SATURDAY, APRIL. 17.
first Highest Low.st Last
Price Price. Prick. Price
French 5 per Cents ll3 85 ... 113 90 ... 113 85 ... 13 1)0
4 per Cents 4O ... 119 40 99 40 ... 99 40
3 per Cents 7B 16 78 95 19
+ink of trance
30
;tank 0,0001. Stares 510
...0160
1,0001. St am 1075
...1073
Bank
5 ;,er Cent.
New Loan lOll4 ... L 13-6 ... 10:34 ... 101,4
N per Cents. ... 52 ... 52 ... 12 ... 5
1'3% „, 24 ... `Sr;i ...
... ,21' ...
Deferrad
Portuguese 3 per Cents
... 20 20 ... 20
Neapolitan 193 •95 ... 1(8 93 ... Itl3 95 ... 93
Roman
BAILWAY 3%aHAREt 103% 103% ... 103%
St. Germain
Versailles.R. B B7O ... 373 SU ... 379 ... 312 50
L.B 240 ... 245 .. 24G ... 245
iouen
Alontpellier4 to Cette ...... 245 ... 245
Strasuurg to Bale !.,38 75 ... 238 75 ... 237 50 ... 28 75

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POST-OFFICE.-011 the motion of Mr. Goul-
burn a return has been laid befbre the House of
Commons of the number of chargeable letters
which have passed through the London General
Post-office (inwards and outwards) since the first
general reduction of Postage on the sth of De-
cember, 1839, dividing the time (as far as prac-
ticable) into periods of four complete weeks each,
and distinguishing as regards each period the
unpaid, paid, and stamped, and total number of.
letters; also a similar return of the estimated
number of letters fin. the year immediately pre-
ceding the reduction. The following extracts
show the rate' of increase since the 30th of
March, 1839 :—Vor the four weeks ending on
that day the totalnumber of Jett
ms's passed
'through the G.eneral Post-office was 1,604,356.
On March 28th, 1840, the number had increased
to :3,372,667 ; and on the 27th of March, 1841, to
• 5,060,127. • Under the old rate of postage the
number of paid letters was about one-sixth
part of the Whole, while for the four weeks
ending Mareh.27, 1841, the number of paid and
stamped letters was about eleven times as great
as that of the unpaid, the numbers being'
4,624,739 paid letters, and 435,388 unpaid. For
the United Kingdom the total number of letters
including franks delivered in one week, ending.
the 24eNovember, 1839, was 1,585,073, and in
the week ending the 22d November, 1840, it
was 3,456,115. The net revenue tbr the
year
ending the sth January, - 1839, was 1,659,5001.,
and for the year ending the sth January,
1841, 465,9'27/. The cost of management iii
1839, was 756,099/.5 and in 1840, 903,677/.

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MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, MONDAY EVENING.
The funds to-day were in a firm position, and in the
opinion of many there is a good prospect for a rise
between this and the next account day. Appearances
at present are certainly in favour of this supposition.
For immediate transfer Consols have realised 901 to
I and for the Account 901 to Exchequer Bills remained
firm at 13s. to 15s. prem., and India Bonds at 2s. prem.
to par Bank Stock was at 172 to 1721, India Stock ad-
vanced to 254, the Reduced Three-and-a-Half per
Cents. realised 98 to k, the 'Three per Cent. Annuities
Bt' to 1, and the New 'Three-and-a. Half per Cents. 99k
to
1. 'l he Foreign Securities have been rather inanimate to-
day, but they have supported fully the previous rates.
The Active Spanish Bonds have been marked 23k to 1,
the New Five per Cent. Portuguese Stock rose, to 331
and 342, closing at 34k ; and the Three per Cents. were
done at 201; Mexican Bonds of 1837 advanced to 301 to
; and Colombian were at 221; Peruvian were steady at
17i, and Brazilian still were flat at 691; Belgian Bonds
rose to 103, but did not leave off higher than 1021;
Danish Bonds were not higher than 771, but Dutch Two-
and-a-Ralf per Cents. improved to 521.
A ready market is still to be found for Railway Secu-
rities, at good prices. The latest bargains were at 31 for
the Great Western, at 15 for the New, at 8 for the Fifths,
at 70 for the Birmingham, at lj. for the Greenwich scrip,
and at 34 premium for the York and North Midland.
Brighton were 2k, Blackwall at h. Manchester and Leeds
at 34, Birmingham and Derby at 28, and Eastern Coun-
ties at 13} discount. London and Westminster Bank New
Shares advanced to 2i premium.

(From The Sun t f Last Night.)
The Lisbon Mail has arrived, brought by the Braganza
steamer. The intelligence from that quarter will be found in
another part of the paper.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL 17.—We have had
a very quiet market in the cotton trade to•day ; 2,000 bales
only have beer, sold, and these entirely to the trade. There
is no change in prices since yesterday's report.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, APRIL 17.—The transac-
tions at the Stock Exchange have been limited, but the
price of Railway Stock in which business has been done
remain at the last quotations. Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock,
271 ; Grand Junction, 211, Hale Shares, 105, Quarter ditto,
28k; Chester and Crewe, 52k ; Great Western New Shares,
65 ; London and Brighton United Company, 47 •, London and
South' Western 5/. Shares 445. 6d. ; Midland Counties, 891.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 17.—We have
had a good inquiry for Railway Stocks and prices are fully
maintained, and the market closed healthy. London and South
Western, 58; ditto, Tenths, 2/. 4s. ; Manchester and Leeds,
66i 67 ' • ditto, Halves, 2Si ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 35i
North lAlidland, 784 ; Liverpool and Manchester, 199; Bank
of Manchester, 7i

We have received Hobart Town papers to the sth December.
These papers are direct. The last intelligence was by the way
of Sydney thelikth. December.
Nr:w 144171,5itt, Al n ET, OCT. 31.—Bread, I. per 21b
loaf; frastrtiar, ls. p lb. per carcase ; fresh butter, Is. 4d.

Letters and papers from Madrid, of the 10th
instant, have reached us. Their contents are of