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LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1847.

The Lords met at Five o'clock.
In presenting a petition from a civil engineer
named BOLGER, complaining of a system of jobbing
practised by the Irish Board of Works in the district
of Balli&sloe, Lord BROUGRAht took the opportunity
of alluding to the difficulties which the law threw in
the way of the removal of Irish and Scotch paupers
from England, and expressed a hope that some de-
claratory statute would shortly be passed to remedy
the evil.

The Earl of DESART had only heard of one instance
in which there was any foundation for the state-
ment made by the Noble and Learned Lord on a
former evening, that the landlords of Ireland had
paid for the passage of the paupers on their estates to
Liverpool.
Lord BROUGHAM had made the statement on
the authority of Mr. RUSHTON. It was said the
famine had driven these people over, but certainly
the famine had not paid their passage-money. He
had heard that numbers of tenants had received .5/.
each to destroy their cabins, and thus enable their
landlords to get rid of them. The Noble and Learned
Lord then passed a high eulogium on the members
of the Society of Friends, who, on the Fast Day, had
pursued their usual avocations, and given half their
profits on that day for the relief of the Irish. He
quite agreed with them that works of mercy were
better than those of sacrifice.
On the presentation of a petition by Lord ASH-
BURTON for an alteration in the insolvency laws,
Lord BROUGHAM declared that his opinions on the
subject of imprisonment for debt had undergone no
alteration.
On the refusal of Earl GREY to state whether the
Bill for limiting the time of service in the army had
received the sanction of the Commander-in-Chief,
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY moved for copies
of all communications between the Ministers and the
Horse Guards on the subject. He was convinced that
nine out of ten of the general officers in the ser-
vice were opposed to the Bill. He thought the
Government should restore the pensions of the non-
commissioned officers and privates to the rate at
which they formerly stood.
Earl GREY opposed the motion.
The Earl of CARDIGAN regarded the Government
measure with apprehension. He was in favour
of giving a better pension to retired non-cominis-
sioned officers and privates; but if the present mea-
sure were carried, he hoped the present unlimited
power which was given to men of purchasing their
discharges wou.id be restricted.
The Mara;uis of LONDONDERRY, after a few words
in reply, withdrew his motion.
The rciports on the Waterworks Clauses Bill, and
on the Markets and Fairs Clauses Bill, were brought
up P.nd received, and their Lordships adjourned. •
The Commons met at Four o'clock.
The second reading of the Edinburgh and Perth
Railway Bill was, after a short discussion, post-
poned for a fortnight.
Mr. S. O'BRIEN brought in a Bill for the im-
provement of land in Ireland.
In reply to Sir JOHN WALSH., it was stated by
Mr. HAWES that a demand for labour had sprung up
in Canada and in the Australian colonies.
On the motion for the order of the day for the
House going into Committee on the Poor Relief (Ire-
land) Bill being read,
Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN complained of the dismissal
of 20 per cent. of the people employed on the public
works.

Mr. LABOUCLTERE said that the Board of Works
had been permitted to exercise a discretionary power,
and that the reduction had been carried into effect in
the most satisfactory manner, and without disturb-
ance, except in one or two instances.
The Right Hon. Gentleman, in reply to Sir A.
BROOKE, stated that, as soon as the Relief Act came
into operation, it was the intention to reduce the num-
ber of persons employed on public works as speedily
as possible.

In answer to Mr. BORTEIWICB,
Lord PALMERSTON stated that he had received no
official intimation of the bando which had been pub-
lished by General BRETON in Catalonia, ordering
the whole family of any person who joined the
Carlists to be put to death. It was impossible to
read that document without feelings of disapprobation,
disgust, and indignation. It should, however, he re-
membered, that General BRETON no longer filled
the office he had occupied when that proclamation
was issued, The British Government had always
endeavor red to impress upon the- Government of
Spain the necessity of acting upon humane principles.
He trusted that those who had influence with the
Count DE MONTEMOLIN would persuade him to re-
strain his followers, and not again to make Spain the
theatre of a civil war.

After a few words from Lord J. MANNERS, in vin-
dication of the proceedings of Don CARLOS during
the late civil war in shooting his prisoners,
Sir DE LACY EVANS asked, in allusion to the pro-
clamations said to have been issued by the Count DE
MONTEMOLIN, whether it was right that such procla-
mations should be issued by an individual receiving
he hospitality of this country.

Lord PALMERSTON—In answer to the question of
the Hon. and Gallant Member, I beg to say that it
would be a great abuse of the hospitality which this
country affords to every foreigner of any class or
rink, who chooses to reside here that they should '
issue proclamations of any kind tending to incite
war and disturbance between friendly states.
After a short conversation on the possibility of
procuring returns of the deaths in Ireland, the House
went into Committee on the Poor Relief (Ireland)
Bill.

Mr. P. SCROPE moved the insertion of a clause,
enforcing on guardians the performance of the duties,
and enlarging the maximum of land to he hired or
occupied for workhouses from 12 to 200 acres..
Sir G. GREY opposed the motion, whi'a, after a
short discussion, was withdrawn.
Mr. GREGORY then moved a Or..use, empowering
guardians to increase to per sons occupying land of
less annual value than 51., and desirous of emigrating
to where their landlord!, are willing to forgive all
arrears of rent, and t.) advance two-thirds of the
sum required for their emigration any sum not ex-
ceeding one-half "half t'at't sum so advanced by the landlord.
Lord J. Rusr
had no objection to the clause,
'-'6-reed to.
which was a
Mr. C;REr,iORY then proposed a clause enacting
that 7-,0
,erson occupying as yearly tenant any
greater extent of land than a quarter of an acre
sh°l''.d be considered as a destitute person within the
meaning of the Act.

Mr. LABOUCHERE proposed that the clause should
not come into operation until after the Ist of Novem-
ber next.

After some discussion, a division took place on the
amended clause, when there appeared—.
For the clause. • 1 17
Against it . . 7
Majority for the clause --110
Mr. S. O'llutEN proposed a clause reconstructing
the electoral divisions.

The clause was opposed by Sir G. GREY, and ne-
gatived without a division.
Mr. S. O'BRIEN propo-sed a clause authorising the
Poor-law Commissioners to reconstruct the unions,
so that no union should contain more than 150,000
acres.
After some discu,ss
• V. S ion the clause was negatived.
next clause.
Mr. I•Annr,.
The 1-1-o-use-cin.ivPidßeEdOoirtsheids ietlause.
The other clauses were then agreed to without
.
discussion,
rdered to %tie House resumed, and the report was
o, he brought up on Wednesday.

The remaining orders having been disposed of, the
House adjourned at a Quarter-past Two o'clock.

The Bill for limiting the term of enlistment in the
army has excited the wrath of many of the old
officers—men who cannot tolerate the idea of any
improvement or amelioration in the condition of the
private soldier at variance with their own preju-
dices—who look upon him as a dull, unreasoning
machine, without the feelings of ordinary huma-
nity, whose comfort and happiness is a matter of
perfect indifference, so long as he can be brought to
go through the usual routine of his duty, and who
disregard the motives by which he is led to
the performance of those duties, the main-
tenance and preservation of discipline, and of
a fit and proper subordination. The Marquis of
LONDONDERRY last night led the attack in the House
of Lords. He could not wait patiently until the
measure, to which he was opposed, had been brought

properly under the consideration of their Lordships.
He could not restrain himself for the brief period
that must necessarily elapse until the Bill was brought
into the Upper House, when in his legislatorial capa-
city, he would have the full opportunity of express-
ing his opinions, and when his brother Peers
would be well pleased to hear the fruits of his
experience. He sought to attain his object by
asking whether the illustrious Duke at the head of
the army had sanctioned and approved of the measure.
It must have been obvious to the Noble Marquis that it
would introduce a most dangerous precedent as regards
the confidential communications of persons holding
high official stations, if the opinions expressed by
them, as to the prudence and feasibility of any con-
templated enactment, while the same was under con-
sideration, were to be promulgated and published ;
and that any answer to his question must be denied.
The veteran Commander-in-Chief is a Member

of the Senate, and most punctual and assiduous
in tho discharge of his duties. It is not
to be supposed that he will suffer the Bill to be passed
sub silentio, without stating his opinion as to the pro-
bable effects and policy of a measure of such import-
ance to the service over which he so worthily presides.
We have every respect for the Marquis of LONDON-
DERRY as a gallant and distinguished officer. We
have not any desire to detract from his brilliant ex-
ploits, or the acknowledged services he has rendered

to his country on many a sanguinary field, and
through many fierce encounters; but with all that re-

spect, we cannot succumb to his authority, nor would
we do so, even to that of the Iron Duke himself on

a point where an opinion could be formed on the jus-
tice and propriety of the proposed change. We shall
gladly weigh and pay full attention to the arguments
which the Noble Marquis may urge in favour of his
own views, but if not convinced thereby, we cannot
yield to the authority of his name, or the respect we
entertain for his distinguished services.

We cannot agree with the Noble Marquis, that it
is a question that can only be understood by military
men, and on which they alone should decide. Expe-
rience has proved that persons interested in any
profession are the worst legislators with respect
thereto. Their minds are chained down to petty for-
malities, and are more or less prejudiced, so that they
cannot take enlarged or comprehensive views on the
subject. We should be sorry indeed if no change in
the law could be effected without the sanction of
those who made the profession of the law their pe-
culiar study. 'We conceive that a person of clear in-
tellect and sound judgment would be as fully quali-
fied to decide on the means by which crime could
be repressed, although wholly unskilled in legal
subtleties and technicalities, as the sharpest prac-
titioner in the criminal courts. In like
manner, we conceive an intelligent and well-
informed civilian as competent to form a
correct opinion as to the policy of limiting
the time of enlistment, or improving the condition of
the soldier, as those who have spent their lives in the
service. Indeed, more so ; for he would have no
pre-conceived opinions to obstruct his view or bias
his judgment.

The opponents of the measure contend that there

is no necessity for it, because a man, if he has good-
conduct marks, can obtain his discharge at the end of
ten years' service for a mere trifle. We confess that
we would prefer retaining the services of such men, if
by any means they could be induced to remain,
and getting rid of the less meritorious soldiers. By the
present system, the careless and good-for-nothing
man, who is perhaps disgusted with the army, is
forced to remain, and in consequence he becomes ab-
solutely reckless. He has no hope of being discharged
within any fixed time, and he frequently commits
offences in order that he may be sentenced to trans-
portation, or—still more horrible—maims and mutilates
himself; in the hope of thereby obtaining his dis-
chsrge. He becomes an habitual drunkard, or deserts,
because he is without hope, and cannot look for-
ward to the time when he will at length be
liberated from his thraldom ; but if there is a certain
time for his discharge, he consoles himself with the
idea that he will shortly be free. His chagrin
passes, his pride, and the desire of having a good
character at the time of his discharge, induce
him to behave himself properly ; he becomes con-
tented with his position and probably re-enlists,
or else the service gets rid of a man unsuited
to the military life. Many will enter the army under
such circumstances with the full consent of their
parents and friends who would not otherwise be pro-
cured, and in cases of emergency there will be a body
of men trained to arms, ready to come forward for
the protection of their country or the maintenance of
its rights and privileges.

The Baster vacation has happily not arrived before
the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill has passed triumph-
antly through Committee. Parliament has nobly
fulfilled the expectations of the people in labouring
Light after night for the alleviation of Irish destitu-
tion, for the diminution of Irish mortality, for the
assuagement of Irish sorrows, for the final termina-
tion of Irish misgovernment. Nobly has the present
Administration championed on the aggregate Legis-
lature of which it is rendered by the laws of the
Constitution the natural guide and admonisher
—nobly, we say, has the present Administration
championed on the aggregate Legislature in these
labours of political benevolence and national gene-
rosity during days of unparalleled darkness and peril.
The Ester vacation comes upon us simultaneously
w:,th the vernal promises of the season ; it comes upon
us appropriately in that segment of the annual cycle
which is peculiarly redolent of hope ; it interrupts the
session of each Parliamentary year under the grateful
auspices of Spring. On the recurrence of the Easter
vacation we are always induced to cast a retrospec-
tive glance, however momentary, at the preceding
labours of her MAJESTY'S Ministers, of the hereditary
senators, and of the popular representatives. Never
might we be more justified in experiencing emotions
akin to those of trepidation on taking such a retro-
spective survey as at the memorable Easter which
has just arrived. From the tribulations of the
winter of 1846-47 the empire is only just emerging.
The new Cabinet has only just completed the first
portion of its first entire session. The old Parlia-
ment—the Parliament which commenced its sittings
as far back as August, 1841, and which is, conse-
quently, rapidly approaching the term of its septennial
existence—has been compelled again to enter upon the
most embarrassing and laborious deliberations. With
so many adverse circumstances against it the Legis-
lature has valorously wrestled against all difficulties,
and has reached without a catastrophe its present
vacation.

When we bear in recollection the amount of work
that has been got through since the 26th of January;
when we consider the length of the discussions, the
rapidity with which measure after measure has been
passed, the dryness of the statistical details which
have been examined in both Houses; the liberality of
the Commons in voting moneys for the assistance of
the starving millions, the toil of the Ministers, of their
supporters, of their agents ; when we remember,
moreover, the earnest and ucflagging industry of
every individual concerned in the evolutions of
the great political machine, from the First Lord of the
Treasury down to the subordinate clerks in the
Commissariat Department, it would be ungracious
and unjust, as one of the exponents of public opinion,
to refrain from expressing our fullest satisfaction.
The present Parliament and the present Ministry
have had to battle against misfortunes which would
have appalled the pusillanimous and have over-
whelmed the incompetent, By the very fact of their

having conducted the affairs of their country through
so terrible a chaos of calamities as that which has
latterly descended upon Scotland and Ireland, the
Parliament and the Ministry have shown themselves
adequate to any occasion however dismal, and to any
emergency however imminent. And with the exception
of a few fragmentary discussions upon our disruptured
relationship with foreign Powers—discussions which
were absolutely requisite in consequence of the ex-
traordinary occurrences which had recently trans-
pired upon the Continent—excepting these fragmen-
tary discussions, what has been the predominant and
almost exclusive subject of Parliamentary and Minis-
terial labour since the 26th of January but Ireland ?
For upon whom have the eyes of the Legislature been
turned if not upon the Irish peasantry ? To what
portion of the British empire has liberality been
evinced, and sagacious statesmanship been applied,
if not to Ireland ? Whither, during this brief but
fruitful interval of two months, have the capital, and
the charity, and the precautions, and the provisions of
England been flowing, if not into the lap of Ireland ?
Andall this has been accomplished immediately under
the guidance, at the instigation, in accordance with
the example of the Government. Whatever private
munificence has been displayed towards Ireland—and
there has been much—is alone owing to the emu-
lation excited by a provident and benignant
Legislature. We are depicting no Arabic
fable, we are describing no Oriental allegory; the
truth of whit we utter is visible in the golden boom,
and the wise provisions, and the lavish bounties
which have been showered upon Ireland by the Go-
vernment.

Hitherto the recommendation contained in her
MAJESTY'S Speech from the Throne, that in endea-
vouring to provide for the necessities of the starving
multitude, all party spleen and animosity should be
forgotten or disguised by our Legislators, has been
complied with admirably. Hitherto our Legislators
have postponed their personal or party antagonism
until the gloom of famine and disease shall be
dissipated from the land. Hitherto they have acted
like obedient' lieges, like humane statesmen, like
earnest and enlightened Christians. Before the
Easter recess has commenced, however, the suppressed
passions of the representative of Lynn break through
all obstructions. In defiance of the entreaties of his
SOVEREIGN, in defiance of a spurious friendship, in
defiance of all Parliamentary usage, in defiance even
of the commonest decency, Lord GEORGIC BENTINCIC
utters language the most abusive and calumnious
against Lord JOUN RUSSELL and his colleagues. He
accuses of inhumanity a Government that has striven
with the noblest fortitude against the inroads of
dearth and pestilence. He attacks, as the cause of
the mortality in Ireland, a Government by whose
exertions alone it is that Ireland has been pre-
served from becoming one vast lazar-house. He
endeavours to hold up to popular abhorrence a Go-
vernment whose whole energies have been tasked
unceasingly to ensure the happiness, and to effect the
salvation of the million. The retort of Mr. LA-
BOUCHERE upon these gross and inexcusable asper-
sions was at once so dignified and emphatic as
to render further allusion to them superfluous.
After directly, explicitly, and completely contra-
dicting the assertions of the Member for Lynn, the
Right Hon. Gentleman the Secretary for Ireland
says—" I apologise for having interfered, even for a
moment, in referring to such a speech as that of the
Noble Lord." We should be induced to apologise
in like manner, did not our duty as journalists compel
Us to make this allusion to Lord GEORGE BENTINCL,
and to mention him in terms which must render him
the object of national opprobrium.

Matters have come to the pass we anticipated.
The increase of juvenile criminals has, so far as the
letter of the law is concerned, thrown justice off its
balance. The Judges, actuated by motives of the
highest benevolence, wink at the provisions of the
statute. Youths are placed at the bar of criminal jus-
tice of such an exceedingly tender age, that common
sense resists the supposition that they could scarcely
have been either the conscious or willing instruments
in the perpetration of the offences with which
they are charged ; and humanity revolts at the
idea of the certain consequences, adverse to
their morals and future welfare, that would
directly emanate from their commitment to prison.
Our prison discipline is so imperfect, so deficient

in point of classification, that would admit a

a wise discrimination being exercised between the
different ages and characters of prisoners, that the
youthful offender is sure, at the termination of his
sentence, of quitting the gaol far more depraved in
his morals from the contamination he has suffered by
having been mingled with old and hardened

criminals, than when he first entered within its
wails. Thus, upon the whole, we have a fearful
picture to contemplate. 'We have first crime
gaining a rapid and frightful ascendancy; next, we
are unprovided with the requisite means for checking
it in a salutary manner ; and, lastly, we have the
Judges shrinking from the strict performance of their
duties, as enjoined by law. Society is diseased down
to its very roots. According to Mr. Sergeant ADAMS,
the judge at the Middlesex Sessions, we are assured
that " experience has proved to a court of justice how
often it happens that parents endeavour, by inducing
their children to commit crime, to throw them upon

;he State for support, and that only a few days back

he had four cases where the parents had endeavoured
to rid themselves of the natural burden of their children
by prosecuting them !" Last week, at Bury St. Ed-
munds, a boy of ten years, stood indicted before
the LORD CHIEF BARON ; no counsel appeared,
whereupon the jury were addressed by the Judge in
the following terms :

He was unable to comprehend what benefit the
public could possibly derive from the prosecution of the
child. His parents were able and willing to take care
of him ; they
were respectable persons, to whom the
task of reclaiming him might safely be confided ; and
without determining the age. at which responsibility
might safely be enforced, or disregarding the possibility
of precocious maturity, he thought that, as the deposi-
tions did not show the boy to have been the tool of
others, the interests of society did not require that this
child should be branded as a felon for life, and be exposed
to the contamination of a gaol. On these grounds he had
not permitted the boy's plea of`guilty' to stand; on the
same grounds he should abstain from offering evidence
fir the prosecution, so that it would be the duty of the
jury to acquit ; and on the same grounds he should cheer
fully encounter the whole blame, if any was merited, for
the course he now adopted."
One cannot but commend the excellence of the
motive which induced the Chief Baron to take this
step. On the other hand, we cannot shut our eyes
to the fact that a precedent has herein been set which
might lead to pernicious results. A dispensing
authority was assumed which the law does not re-
cognise. The Judge clearly stepped beyond his pro-
vince. He is bound to administer the law as he
finds it laid down, regardless of the consequences,
in all its bearings; instead of which he
dgeoooldioocr bad,
declined
to
enforce it, because in his individual
judgment, the effect upon the criminal would
-be prejudicial in the extreme. This is, in fact,
to confound the duties of the judge with
those of the legislator. Again, this judicial leniency
may tend to increase the very evil by which society
is beset. Parents may be stimulated, by its exhibi-
tion, to persevere in their atrocious speculation, as in-
dicated by Mr. Sergeant ADAMS in the foregoing ;
for whilst their offspring may escape with impunity,
the parents take the chance of benefiting themselves
by the amount of the property which they
have incited the children to steal. One of
two things must happen ; either the law in
respect to prison discipline, as affecting juvenile
delinquents, must be promptly and materially revised
and amended, or the Judges must be taught not to
go beyond the limits to which they are restrained
by law. The first of these is undoubtedly the task to
which the Legislature should at once devote its unre-
mitting attention. Matters cannot remain as they
are. It is not very easy to provide an efficient
remedy for the disease which is preying upon the
vitals of society. We shall, however, upon an early
occasion, offer some suggestions for future legislation
on this important subject.

Madrid Papers of the 23d have arrived.
The Ministerial crisis still continues. It was, how-
ever, observed that none of the Ministers attended
the sittings of the Chambers on the 23d. It was re-
ported that NARYAEZ and GONZALES BRAVO were to
join the Ministry, and that then an appeal would be
made to the army to coerce the QUEEN. There can
be little doubt but that the money necessary
to corrupt the army will be forthcoming from

Paris, and NARYAEZ is an adept in the art of
investing French gold to the best advantage in the
purchase of a military revolution. Senor PACHECO
will be got rid of by being sent Ambassador to
Rome.

3Linniia BoLsA, MiAacrt 23.—The Three per Cents. closed
at 30 1-16 cash ; the Five per Cents, 19 ; Passives, 5z4 ;
and Coupons, 17 cash.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.
The differences between the supporters of the
Ministry continue. The breach is evidently widen-
ing, and the Presse, as the organ of the Progressist
Conservatives, has declared war against M. GUIZOT.
This party numbers in its ranks no less than 43
Members of the Chamber of Deputies, and to
show their sense of the gross insult which
M. GUIZOT offered them, when in the
course of his speech on the motion of M. DUPER-
OTHER DE HARANNE, he told them that " they, did
not know their own position," they all absented them-
selves from his levee on Friday, and have openly de-
clared that the Ministry must no longer reckon upon
them for support.
According to the Constitutionnel a further decline
in the price of flour took place in the Paris market
on Saturday.

The National, in the course of a long article on
Spanish affairs, represents the QUEEN as held in a
perfect state of captivity by her Ministers; and that
such is the case there can be no doubt. There is
treason brewing against her. Of that treasonable
plot NARVAEZ is the leader, and Queen CHRISTINA
the director. It is in order to enable her to conduct
this plot in safety that she has removed to Paris. The
telegraph between Paris and Madrid is constantly at
work. The object of the plot is to depose the
QUEEN, and declare the Duchess of MONTPENSIER
Regent.

The celebrated Count DROUOT, the friend of
NAPOLEON, died lately at Nancy, in his seventy-third
year.

Mr. O'CONNELL was to leave Paris on Monday on
his way to Rome.

Scarcely any business was transacted on Sunday
in the Passage de l'Opera.—The nominal price of the
Three per Cents. was 79f. 32ie.

BUSINESS DANE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Melton 29.
Boulogne and Amiens, l 6i —Dutch Rhenish, 44(—Namur and
Liege, 4l —Northern of France, l 3 !A —Orleans and Bordeaux, 7
Paris and Lyons, 6—Paris and Rouen, 34%—Sambre and Meuse, 634.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, C2L7,4I?7'ER TO THREE.
The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 10,000
bales, including 2,000 on speculation and 1,000 fur ex-
portation. Prices were firmly maintained, and, in some
cases, * per pound higher ; 7,500 bales American sold at
bed. to 7id., 600 Bahia at 7-/d., 1,000 Egyptian at 71d.
to 10id., 500 Surat at aid. to &id., and Sea Island at 10d.
to 22d. per lb. Shares were dull.
Advices from the Cape of Good Hope of January 23,
still describe the troops as being in pursuit of Pato,. and
engaged in the capture of cattle.
By yesterday's arrivals from New York, the following
statement of exports, important at the present time, has
come to hand. It vk ill serve to elucidate the question of
our indebtedness with that one port, balanced against the
imports of British manufactures there:—
First as rigards the general exports of New York in
February, 1847, they were:—
Domestic Merchandise
Foreign " free.
" dutiable 63,697
4,000

Specie .


Total
It will be perceived that the bulk of the exportation
was in domestic merchandise, and the bulk of this was
breadstuffs. The shipments of breadstuffs from. this
port to Great Britain, in February, were as annexed:—
BREASTUFFS EXPORTED TO GREAT BRITAIN, FEB. 1847.
Bush. Bbls. Bush. Bbls.
Wheat. Flour. Corn. Meal.
To England and Scotland 72,666 100,973 393,496 26,826
Ireland ........... 15,869 17,241 402,904 10,719

Total 88,535 118,214 796,400 37,545
This is a pretty fair month's business, observes the
New York Herald, particularly in corn, and exceeds the
shipments for January. If there had been vessels
enough in port to have taken what offered, the shipments
of all kinds of breadstuffs would have been more than
double the above.
The Stock market is very heavy again this morning,
and sales, where pressed, can only be made at a further
decline. Consols realise 88g for present transfer, and
88g for April. Bank Stock is dull at 205 to 204
Consuls scrip is g to s discount.. Exchequer-bills have
been Is. discount, and 2s. premium. The Funds are now
acted upon by the state of Affairs in Spain, by the large
remittances we have yet to make for grain, and by the
approaching payment of another instalment on the loan.
There has been more doing in the Foreign Market,
but sellers predominate. Spanish Five per Cents, have
been quoted 224, and the Three per Cents. 34. Portu-
guese Four per Cents. have been 33g to 34 ; and Bra•
zilian 86k. Mexican Bonds are worth 21g g ; and
Grenada 20g. Dutch Two-and-a-Halt per Cents. have
been at 584,

Railway Shares are all very dull, and lower again, the
Account being against the Bulls. Still it does :not
appear that there are many sellers, awl the depression
is likely to be but temporary, though depending upon
the Funds.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. • 88% %
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .•
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. 9 3-16
India Bonds, 1,000/. .. .. • • • .
Ditto, under 1,0001. • • • • par
Bank Stock for Apill 14 .• .. • • • • 20534
Commis for Account .• .. • • 88%34
Three per Cent. Consols, Scrip.. %34 die
Excl.equer Bills. I%d. 2d.
1,0001. • • 2p 1 dis 1 p
500/. .. •• • • 1 dis
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent • • • • 8634
Granada, 1 per Cent. .. • • • • 2034
Ditto. Deferred .• • • .•
Mexican, 1846, 5 per Cent .. 21%
Ditto, for the Account .. • . 21%
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent .. 39
Portuguese Four pe- Cent .. 33% 34
. Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. • • 111%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. .. •• 2234
Ditto, Passive Bonds • • • • ..
Ditto, Deferred • - • • • • • . 15%
Ditto, Three per Cent .. .. • • 34
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 58%
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 93

BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER sneak.
Amber., Notting., Boston, & Eastrn Jn. 21,4 . . to
Birmingham, V 4 olver., and Dudley • • 5 •• • • 11 4•• • • to
Buckinghamshire • • .. 6/. 4s. •• • • %p• to
Caledonian .. • • .. •• 30 .- •• .... to
Ditto, half Shares .. 234 2% • • to
Direct Northern Scrip .. .. • . 234 .. 2>4 %• • to
Eastern Counties .. . • . - •• 20 • • 1934 % to
Do., Perpetual, 5 per Ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d % p.. to
Ditto, ditto .. .. N 0.2, 6/. 13s. 4d p.. to
East Lancashire .. .. 17
Ditto, New .. .. • . 734 •• • • to
Ditto, ditto, New Scrip .. .. 1 .. • . 2% •• .. to
East Lincolnshire .• .. 4
Edinburgh and Northern .. 15 .. . • 16 .. . • to
Exeter, Yeovil and Dorchester • • .. 2% ..
Great Northern (London & York Regd) 234
Great North of England .. • • • . 100 .. .. ••to
Ditto, .;\ env • 1%
Great Western .. .. • • .. 85 .. • • to
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. • • • . 50 .. • • 7034 .... to
Ipswich and Bury it. Edmunds • • 14 .• • • •• • • to
Ditto, ditto. and Norwich • . .. • • 5 •• • .2%.... to
Leeds and Thirsk .. 2234

Do., do., Preference, 6 per Cent • • 3% •••• 47% • • to
Liverpool, Manch, and Newc. Junct. 2% •••• 1%%.. to
London and Blackwall 161. 13s. 4d. •• .• •• .. to
Ditto, New, No. 1 • • • • • • • • 4 • • 4% .. ••to
London, Brighton, and South Coast • • 50 .... 5214 .... to
Ditto, Consolidated Eighths • • •• 10 • • 11% •••• to
London and North-Western • • • • 100 .. 178%.. • • to 176
Ditto, Quarters .. • • .• • • •• 2 •••• • .. • • to
Ditto ditto New .. • • .. • 2 .... 13 •• • . to
Ditto. Fifths •• .• •• • • • . 2 • • 16%.... to 16
London and South-Western 411. 6.,. 100. 64 Y 4 to 64
Ditto. New ..........23i4.... 25%.... to
Ditto, Tenths (Consolidated) . .. 50 .• •. 54 .... to
I Ditto, Scrip .. .. • • • • • • 5 •• • • 5,/8 •••• to
London and York Extension Scrip •• 2% • 2%.... to
London, Salisbury, and Yeovil • • • • I% •• • • 34 .. ••to
Lynn and Ely .. .. 20 .... 21%.... to
Lynn and Durcham .. • • •• • • 15 . .. 16% IA •• to
Manchester and Leeds • • • •• 82 •• •• •• .. to
Ditto, Fifth; .• •• b •... 10% •• .. to
blanehester, Buxton, and Matlock 425..... p.. to 34 p
Manchester and Southampton .. .. 2 •• • • 1% .. • • to
Midland —lOO 116 115 116 to 114
Ditto, New • • •• •• • . • • 30 •• .. 34%.... to
Ditto, New • • .. .. • • • • • • 2 .. • • 5!."4 to—
Midland, Birmingham & Gioucester..loo ....123%.. • . to
Newcastle and Berwick .. .. •• 20 .... 28%.... to
Ditto, New • •• •• •• •• 5 •• 8%%•• to
Northern Counties Union .. .• • • 2% %•• • • to
North British •• •• •• •• •• 25 ...• 33 .... to
Ditto, Quarters •• •• •• •• •• 214 •• . . 3%.... to
Ditto, Extensiou • • • • • • • • % •••• 1% to "

North StaftOrdshire • • • • • • • • —.. • • 8 .. •• to 7t
Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton 22% 15% .. to
Preston and Wyre .• • • • • • •• 25 .... 34% .... to
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate .. 5 .... 5 to 4%
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A) 3 •• 4... to
Ditto, ditto (B) • • •• • • • • 11;4 .... 1 'Ai . •
•.. to

Shropshire Union • • • • •• •• dis. to

south Devon • • • • • • • • •• •• 40 ••• LI .. ••to
Ditto, Preference • . • • • • • • 5 • • 5 •• • • to
South Staffordshire • • • • • • •• • • .. • • • . 21. 125... p.. to
South Easteni and Dover •• • • •331. 2s. 4d. ••.. to
Ditto, New (do. 33/. Gs. Bd.) No. 2.. 12 ... 13%... to
Ditto, New (do. 301.) No. 3 .. 15 •• • • 16%.. • • to
D New (do. 151.) No. 4 .. 3%.•.• 4*.. • • to—
Vale of Neath •• • • • • • • • • 2 • • % .. • • to
Waterford and Kilkenny .. • . 13% • 6%.. ••to
West Itiding Union .. •• • • • • 4/. 2s. •• • • 1% p•• to
York and Newcastle . • • . .. 25 ... • 3.5 .• • • to 34%
Ditto, New • • • • • • •• • • 10 ...r 15% %.• to 15
Ditto, Preference • • .. .. 4 .. . • 7% ••• • to 7Ts
York and North Midland .. .. 50 .... 844.... to 83%
Ditto, Preference .. 2 .... 11% •••• to
Ditto East and West Riding Extension 10 .... 21%.... to
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens .. • • .. 20 •• • • 16% •• .. to
Bord., Toulouse, & Cette (Constituted) 4 •• .. 1% .... to
Namur and Liege .• . 10 .• • • 4% .• .. to
Northern of France .. >. 8 „ „ 13 „ to
Orleans and Bordeaux • • .. .. 6 •• • • 67. %.. to
Paris and Lyons 8 •. • • 5A .. to
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Provincial of Ireland

.. • . • . 25 •• •• 44 •• • • to

MINES
Real del Monte, Unregistered .. .. —.• 3% .. ••to

LLOYD'S SHIPPING--(THIS DAY.)
LONDON,' MARCH 30.—Wind W.N.W., moderate breeze
and fine. The Chusan, Monacy, from Demerara to
New Orleans, was totally wrecked on the east-end of the
Grand Caymans, 11th ult. ; crew saved.
DEAL, MARCH 29.—N. W. to N.N.W.— Arrd. 28, Hong
Kong, Batavia for Rotterdam. 29. Sarge, Purchase, China;
Mary Bannatyne, Picken, Hong Kong; Zodiacus, Hehir,
Porto Rico for the Baltic; Arcatus, Proctor, New York;
Avon, Johnstone, St. John's, New Brunswick. The Intrepid
exprerienced very severe weather, and saw several wrecks
during the passage.
FALMOUTH, MARcif 29.—Wind N.E. to N.N.W.—Put
back, Cerere for New York. Oft Port, Ann, New York for
Havre; Concordia, Witt, Barbadoes for Amsterdam; Duke
of Wellington, Leadbetter, St. John's.
LIVERPOOL,MAP.CH 29 —Wind N. to N.N.W.,fresb.—Arrd.
Tar, Langley, Mauritius; Abda, Harding, Rio Grande Filipe,
Ybavigarry, Matanzas; Sir C. Campbell, New Orleans;
Pursuit, Spence, ditto. ; Jane, M'Dowell, ditto. ; Commerce,
Jones, ditto; Elizabeth, Barclay, Mobile; Rose, M'Kinlay,
Savannah; Orion, Myers, Baltimore, with loss of bowsprit,
stanchions, &c., having been in contact with the Leonora,
which received the like damages. Sld. Ariel, Newfoundland ;
Priscilla, Rio Janeiro; William Fisher, Bahia; Grog, Cape
Breton. The Alice, Newport to Boston, was spoken 2d inst.
lat. 34, long. 70, with loss of rudder, and supplied with a spar
and bread, by the Gabriel, arrived here.
COWES, MARCH 28.—A ship's head-board, marked Lady
Harvey, in yellow letters, has been picked up off St. Alban 'a
Head.
KINSALE, MAacH 26.—The Mary and Eliza, Crowley, o/
Cork is wrecked on Oysterhaven—gew drowned.
YARMOUTH, MARCH 27.—The Sordhuset, for Dordt, is on
shore on Hasboro' Sand.
Howm, MARCH 24.—The Princess Alice, of and from
Liverpool, to New York, with emigrants, has struck on the
Pier here, but does not appear to be leaking.
ROTHESAT, MARCH 27.—The Isabella, from Sicily to
Glasgow, and the St. Columb steamer, from Glasgow to
Londonderry, were in contact, and both received consider.
able damage.