The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-02 00:00:00

TEE Sty'N, LONDON, TlTE§rii:Yl MARCH 2, 1841.

of life, they are ready to stiike-A whole nation
with pain and anguish. They are, in fact, forging
chains for the Catholic Irish, exciting animosity
throughout one4hird of the empire, and seeking to
vex, harass, and disfranchise a great multitude,
by meni us of a law—such a law as the TorLs can
always dress up in the garb of religion and mora-
lity, to stab liberty to the heart; and Sir
THOMAS TROUBRIDGE left his house to arrest
their arm. He fulfilled the. precepts of the Scrip-
ture, and laid aside his own dometic griefs to do
a good deed while it was yet day. A good cause,
a noble cause, had need of him, and he followed it.
Honour, say we, to Sir THOMAS TROUBRIDGE,
that he did not allow his own private grief to
make hini neglect a great public duty. But he
contributed to defeat the Tories, and their po-
litical disappointment, assuming immediately
the mask of domestic affection, ranted and
raved, and whined and moaned, in the very
excess of sentimentality. Such transparent
hypocrisy is shockingly disgusting. Why, the
stern doctrine of the Tories is, that all human
affections, that all the kind and tender feelings,
all the noble and endearing sentiments which are
native to the human heart, must be 'trampled
under foot to give effect to their political theories
and secure their power. Affection, kindness, re-
gard to human feelings in the Tortes!: Pshaw !
What has their whole conduct towards Ireland
been but one continued torture, of which their
resistance to the Irish Parliamentary Voters Bill
was a part? Regard for human feelings! We
turn disgusted from the barefaced hypocrisy, for
we remember that they justified the mur-
der of a °widow's son for the sake of a few
shillings of tithes. Nay, we remember that for
some similar paltry extortions they long deluged
Ireland with blood, and impiously asserted that
it was done in the name of the God of Love and
Peace. •

We remember, too —we cannot forget for
an hour—that these hypocrites are at this mo-
ment shutting out the people of England from
the food of Poland and America, entailing al-
most endless misery on a great multitude of the
most ingenious and industrious people that ever
lived, and annually, but slowly, starving many
thousands to death. It is a gross mockery of
the great sufferings which the Tories inflict, and
have inflicieli on the living people, for them to
prate,
.with affected sensibility, about a gentle-
man leaving the dead for a few hours, to save, by
his vote, the living from farther oppression.
• We can illustrate the hypocrisy of the Tories by
the long debates on the Irish Bill, which,
though mainly turning on personalities or
trifles, are not in this sense uninstruc-
tive. To speak a speech, like writing a
book, lays a man open to his enemies; and the
Tory leaders did not talk for so many hours
without allowing an observer to see more of their
minds than they ought prudently to disclose. For
example, the main objection which Mr. THESIGER,
Mr. SHAW, Sir R. PEEL, Lord STANLEY, Sir J.
GRAHAM, and the rest of the Tories made to Lord
MORPETH'S proposed franchise was, that it would
enable the landowners, who constitute the aristo-
cracy, to create spurious voters. It was not said
that the people•were dishonest or corrupt, but
merely that they were poor, and that the land-
owners, like pirates, would be on the watch for
political plunder, and would pervert'the franchise
to obtain it. That was the character which the
Tories gave of the Irish landlords, and which they.
proved by many facts in past times that these
landlords richly deserved. They did pervert the
40s. franchise—they did degrade and corrupt the
people:—and therefore, said all the Tories, the
landlords will do so again; the landlords are such
roves we cannot trust them, and the people shall.
not have the franchise."

A further apprehension was indeed expressed
by the Tories, of another class of men whom,
when it suits their purpose, they seek to invest
with much reverence. Some dread was expressed
of the influence of the priests, who belong to the
governing body, or to the aristocracy, more than
to the people. They, it was hinted, would use
their spiritual power for political purposes, and
can e unpleasantness and heart-burnings between
the landowner and the vassal on whom he had
coliferred the privilege of registering a vote for
his nominee. Such was the character given by
the Tories in the House of Commons of those
landlords for whom they seek politica/ power,
and that order of men for whom they claim spi-
ritual reverence.

Now we beg our readers will observe that the
statement of the Tories implies no fault in the
people. rt does not say they are corrupt or dis-
honest, The Tories do not deny them the fran-
chise on account of their own demerits. No. The
Tories tell us that the people are to be disfran-
chised because the aristocracy are dishonest, and
because the priesthood are political impostors.
Was there ever such a monstrous, such
a barefaced. proceeding ? The Tories are
'describing- their • owff-friench—they are de-
scribing-their own party—they are describing
themselves—they are describing one another—
they are filled' with suspicion—they make the
foulest ace usation--they admit that they are
political rogues, and because they are political
rogues they insist that the people ought to be
slaves. We say that this is a most memorable
lesson: It was taught by the great debate of last
week. The Tory aristocracy. deny -the - people
political rights because they themselves are poli-
tical rogues. Sir 3. GRAHAM wound up his long
speech by a sneer at a " turbulent democracy ;"
let us conclude our article by asserting that a
turbulent democracy is by far more honourable
than a knavish, hypocritical aristocracy.

We are happy to, direct public attention to the
following extract from the Liverpool Albion, and
to repeat the hope that the same course will be
followed throughout the principal sea-ports and
manufacturing towns of the kingdom. What is
London doing, we must again ask ? Is it landlord.
and Tory ridden ? Is it- become a pocket borough
of the aristocracy, that it has no voice in the
most important commercial question that ever
was agitated in this or any other country ?
. The Mayor in compliance with a requisition most re-
spectably signed, has convened a public meeting for Monday
next, the 6th inst., "to take into consideration the restric-
tions and prohibitions of our commercial code, and to de-
termine upon all proper measures for obtaining such alterations
therein as may appear expedient." The same course will, no
doubt, be followed by the principal sea-ports and manufacturing
towns of the kingdom. Their united appeal to Parliament
and the Government for the removal of restrictions and pro-
hibit ions cannot but prevail, and bring 'about a complete reform
in our commercial code.

It is worthy of notice that at the public dinner
yesterday given to Mr„VINCENT, that gentleman
strongly recommended the working classes to
attend to their domestic duties, forsake the gin-
palace, and prove to the aristocracy that they
were worthy to exercise the power they claim.
Thisis Occellent advice; but much we fear that
the_mOre worthy the working classes are found
the. more strenuously the Tory aristocracy will
denY them their rights. The Tory aristocracy
are the patrons of that vice, which they can
easily bribe.

The attention of our readers is especially
directed to an excellent letter on the Danish
claims, addressed, by one of the sufferers, to the
Editor of the Morning Chronicle, which will be
found in another part of The Sun. We trust that
on Thursday next Parliament will satisfy the re-
maining class of claimants, that it was not to buoy
them up with false hopesthat it was not to
raise the cup of enjoyment to their lips only to
dash it untasted upon. the ground—that it was
not to make their lOSses and wrongs an instru-
ment for reflecting discredit upon the plighted
promises of the House of Commons, that it
thrice voted their claims to be deserving of the
examination. of the Legislature. That respect
which is due to the sanctity of its own votes, must
prevent the House of Commons from performing
a part which would reflect discredit on the acts
of any popular assembly. But more to-morrow
upon a subject, which, having taken up, we shall
not entitely abandon till the claimants have ob-
tained justice at the hands of the CHANCELLOR
of the ExthlEQuEn and the GOVernment.

Madrid Journals of the 20th ult. have reached
us. 'M. DE LIMA, the Portuguese Envoy, had
met with a most flattering reception from ESPAR-
TERO, who_ eXpressed his great delight that
there no longer existed any grounds for the
prevention of the most amicable relations between
the two countries. Letters from Estella of
the Bth state that the General commanding in
that town had learned that a Frenchman was
travelling through the Basque provinces inciting
the peasants to insurrection. Troops were sent
in pursuit of him, and-he *as discovered at Tren-
zure in the house of a Priest. He stated he was
aCaptain in the French service, butrefusing to walk
the soldiers bound him and brought him prisoner
to Panwelmia. His arrest has attracted the
notice of the-French authorities.

Business was not attire on the Bourse. The
Fives were done at 2811 for cash, and 28k at 60
days.

The Paris papers of Friday and Saturday have
been duly received. We quote from them a
summary of the exceedingly interesting debate
in the Chamber of Deputies on the Secret Ser-
vice Bill, which has re-opened the policy of the
Cabinets of the Ist of March and the 29th of
October-on the Eastern question. -M. !Farms'
speech will well repay the trouble of a careful

perusal.. The ex-Minister, notwithstanding his
defeat, is still willing to support the Government,
provided it keep. France in that state of isolation
in which he left it on being driven out of office.
He does not call for immediate war, but
he is for keeping up that excitement—that
jealousy throughout Europe which must
inevitably terminate in hostilities. M. TRIERS
says that while France remains isolated nothing
can he done in the East. Has there, then, been
nothing done in the East during the isolation of
France ? Was it not while France was in a state
of isolation that Beyrout was captured—that
Acre was bombarded and taken—that MEHEMET
Am submitted to the Porte—that the Turkish
fleet was restored—and that a firman was granted
to the Vic ituov, bestowing upon him the Pachalic
of Egypt? Were not all these facts accomplished
during the isolation of France ? And what now
circumstance has arisen to prevent the accomplish-
ment of equally important facts, should France
be mad enough to persist in her scheme of isola-
tion ? France is great and powerful ; but she is
neither so great nor so powerful as to paralyze by
her silence the greater and more powerful exer-
tions of the rest of Eur Ope combined in opposition
to her. It is possible for France to carry her
system of isolation too far. It is possible to teach
Europe that the most important questions in the
government of the world can he as well and as easily
solved without her concurrence as with it. We trust
that M. Guizor and the majority of the Charri-
bers will have the sagacity to perceive that this
would be a dangerous lesson to teach Europe. It
is always the safest and most convenient policy
when we can accomplish it, riot to let our friends
know they can do without us.
We regret to state that typhus, fever pre-
vails very much in France.- Paris has all at once
bedome very. unhealthy. The southern provinces •
are again suffering from inundations.
Of general news there is very little- n these
journals. The following extracts from them in-
clude all they contain of any interest :
La Presse states that Mll. Rothschild, brothers, of Paris,
have just concluded the details of the new Belgian loan,
amounting to 83,000,000 in capital, and 90,000,000 in sbcuri-
ties. The facility with which the MM. Rothschild have nego-
tiated.this loan, notwithstanding the present scarcity of dish
" is," continues La Pi esse, " a proof of the confidence which
that house enjoys are-orm'capitalists, and is besides a powerful
argument in favour of tlra maintenance of_.peace. The Be!-.
gian capitalists have subscribed for 20,000,000 of this capital,
which was at first contracted for by the Belgian Bank, and
which failed to execute its arrangements."
To-day at twenty minutes past two o'clock water has at
length appeared in the well which the City of Paris has
caused to be dug at the abattoir of Grenelle ; the water is
said to be lukewarm. It was to be expected that on account
of the temperature of the low strata to which the well has
been dug, the temperature of the water would be higher than
that of the springs nearer the surface at Paris. The depth
to which the workmen have penetrated is 560 metres ; this
result, which has cost the City of Paris above 160,000 francs,
is the fruit of many years unremitting labour, and solves a
geological problem of tl:e greatest importance, namely,
the existence of subterianeous sheets of water below the im-
mense beds of green chalk of the Paris basin. —Le Moniteur,
Feb: 27.
Our last letters -from Madrid assign as the reason of the,
assembling of a considerable number of troops in that capital,
the intention which Espartero is supposed to have to get himself
proclaimed sole Regent by the Army. We have a letter of the
19th, which confirms this supposition. Espartero is not only
said to have the Army in his favour, but it should seem that
the majority of the Cortes is- likewise well disposed towards
him ; accordingly hardly any doubt is entertained of the reality
of the project and of its result.
The Cortes are to meet on the 19th of March.
(From the Courrier Francais.)
A considerable failure, that of the house of C—, has just
thrown perturbation and terror into the commerce of Milan.
This house, which had undertaken the dyeing of linen and
cotton stuffs, and which employed a considerable number
of workmen, has failed for four millions of francs, and,
though said to have property to the amount of three
millions, will probably pay but a small dividend. Besides
several houses m Milan much compromised by this failure,
there are also some houses in Venice, Trieste, and especially
in Vienna, great losers. To add to this misfortune, the
inundations have again interrupted commercial communica-
tion on the roads of Genoa, Turin, and Piacenza. The con-
tinual rain which has fallen for the last fifteen days, and the
melting of the snow, occasioned by the sirocco, have over-
flowed the 11,•, the Tesin, and the Sesia, in such a manner that
all communication is stopped. The only roads that were open
were those of Switzerland, and these, it is feared, will also be
closed. The French courier from Bale has been delayed seve,
ral days, and that of the 20th has not yet an ived. The rail-
road from Mil n to Monza has been overflowed, and the circu-
lation has been stopped since the 19th.
BO UR SE. SATURDAY, FEB. 27.

liras Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Pricy. Price
tie. ch 5 OCT Cents ll3 ... 113 5 ... 11.2 85 113 5
45% per Cents 102 0 11:2 4'l ... 1.i2 40 ... 162 40
4 per i...ents
3 per Cents 76 55 • 76 60 .. 76 55 ... 76 60
R 414. et r ranee
Lallitte Bank 50006 Stares 5155 ...51.55

gogian S per Cents 10034.. 1011-4 ...100% ... g
Ica
3 per Cents
New Loan 'Mit ... 1 1 .. leo% ... 11.1
Spanish Active Y-1% ... 2436 ... 24% ... .24%
• - Paosive 6 ... 6 ~. sh, ... 57',,
Neapolitan
Roman
RAILWAY SHARES.
Versailles,R. B 415 ... 415 ... 415 ... 415
LB. .... 315 ... 317 50 ... 315 ... 317 50
Rouen

orleans
Strasburg to Bale 242 50 ... i 42 50 ... 242 50 .. 241 50
BELtHAN VlMPS—Bnuasna, res. 27.
A.c-illaatnetjt,
Itothschild'i.Loan,.slper C,nt. L9I4
Loan of Thirty Minims, 4 per Cent.
3per Cent'

---T .hirty.seven— -- ..
( Cent 1 4o) 9B
Loan y,
Belgium,
. 1832,1 per
Bank
o off
4 . '
Society of Commerce, .!,.per Lent lt2tst
National Society . 5 per Cent... .......... —...: lB%
Exchange on Londois (short)
—Brussels Paper's, Feb. 27.
DUTCH FUN DS.—ASISTEaDA3I, FES. 26
Money. Elli!s.
actual Debt, '2j( per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
Amin t Syndic, 44 per cent B7 87%
Ditto, ditto, 334 per cent 7l 71
Commercial Company, 4f, per cent ......
Mtn (1335 and 1837) 5 per cent 99% 1004
Loan 1837, 5 per cant. 95 95k
Exchange on London, One month l2 0
Two months
Dutch Papers, Feb. 27.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vivirre, FEn, 19
Five par Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents
Three igsr Cents
.
Bank shares 1632
—Aligemeine zeuung, Feb. 24
HAMBURG 1301ISENHALLE, FEB. 23.
Bills. Money
Austrian :per Cents.
Bank Shares 16!0
Anglo-Russian Loan
.. 106 K 10634
Itussien 4 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate...... 101%
Inscription, Ist Se i;:s 10234
Itustjan 5 per Cent. Hop., and Co. '3d and 4th
Series -
Ditto in Certificates
Dutch Actual Debt, 234 pe Cent 46%
Ditto 5 per Cent. 4, ii
Polish Bond.
New Ticket
Anglo..l)anish Loan, 3 per Cert l3 X 73%
N •iwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cent...
Sp.nish„ New 5 per Cents. 15%
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, FEB. 93.-13 4%.—Two months, 13 3
Bassirirs,,FEß 13 —Two months, tils.

GOLD, SILVER, AND COPPER COIN.—The fol-
lowing is the number of pieces of various sorts
coined' at the Mint from the Ist day of January"
1837 to the 31st day of December, 1840. Sove-
reigns, 4,395,373; Half Sovereigns, 434,778;
Crowns, nil ; Half Crowns, 567,072; Shillings
9,741,600; Sixpences, 7,524,000; Fourpences,
6,070, 680 (the total•number of fourpences issued
being 10,325,320) ; Pence, 174,720 ; Halfpence,
1,075,200; .and Farthings, 10,913,280.

NEWSPAPETI STAMPS.

Extract from a Return to an Order of the House
of Commons, -dated :2d. February, 1841, for the
ll -foowing-Loncron.Papers, from the Ist of July
to the 31st of December, 1840, inclusive
SUN
GLOBE - 526,000
STANDARD 505,000
COURIER .. 111,000 -

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, MONDAY EVENING.

We have had scarcely any news to influence the funds
to-day, but they nevertheless improved owing to the in-
creased abundance of money. The rise in Consols as
compared with the closing value of Saturday, was k
per cent., the quotations for present transfer being 884 to
881, and for time 89 to 891. The continuation to
the April account has rather fallen off. Exchequer
Bills were a shade higher, namely, 7 to 10
premium., and India Bonds improved to 10 and 15
discount. Bank Stock get up to 1661 and 167 k, the 3f
per Cent. Reduced Annuities were at 974 to 98, the 3 1. er
Cent. at 89 to 89k, and the New 3k per Cents. at 97 to
It is not improbable but that the debate to-night in the
Commons may influence the value of Stocks upon the
opening. to-morrow, but people in the City pretty %ell
guess which way the division will go.
There was a moderate business done in Foreign
Stocks. Slianish Active Bonds Were favourably
influenced by the intel!igence of the Portugue.e
Ambassador having been again received at the Court
of Madrid, on presenting his credentials to the Re.
gency of Eipartero. The Active Bonds got up from
234, 24 to 24 and 244. The news from Lisbon not
possessing the least interest, the New Portuguese 5 per
Cents. were dull at 31k, and the 3 per Cents. at 19k. Cc-
lomhian Stock of 1924 was marked 224 to 231, and
Mexican Bonds of 1837 were firmer at 28,
,being for each rather higher prices. Peruvian
Bonus were at 171. Belgian Old 5 per Cent?. were
firm at 100, and Dutch 21 per Cents touched 50k to 501.
The Railway Shares all had a tendency to advance.
Great Western were 22 to 23 prem., ex-dividend ; the
New 104, the Fifths 5k to si, the Birmingham 81 prem.,
ex-dividend, and the South-Western Tenths 11 prem.
Brighton were 6/, Blackwell 54, Manchester and Birming-
ham 154, and North Midland .29 discount.
The Halifax steamer starts on thb. 4th instant, and the
British Queen on the Bth, so that we may soon expect to
,have a more regular and active communication kept up be-
tween this country and' the United States.

(From The Sun of Last Night. )
The Lisbon mail has arrived, brought by the Tagus steamer,
of the 22d February.
The intelligence by the above conveyance, in respect to
political affairs, is of little interest. The rains and floods,
which have taken place in several parts of Portugal and near
Lisbon, has caused great desolation and distress. At Valletta
the waters rose to such a height that the people were obliged to
take refuge on the roofs of the houses, and a number of lives
have been lost. Further particulars will be found in another
part of the paper.
By the hamburgh mail, of the 23d February, the Exchange
upon London comes 13 3 ; Gold 425 ; Metalliques, 1041 ;
Bank Actions, 1,610.

We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday's
date :

FRONTIERS OF ITALY, FRB. 13.—Accounts from Rome
state the arrival there of a Russian Plenipotentiary. His ob-
ject is to arrange the existing differences between the two
Courts, and particularly that respecting the marriage of the
Archduchess Marie with the Prince Leuchtenberg.

Accounts from St. Petersburgh state the failure of a silk
merchant, to the amount of a million of roubles in money.
BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, F]te. 26.—The accounts received
of the Bourse of Paris and London were weak and receding;
our maional fluids gave way. Money continues abundant, and
the Banklhas lowered their rate of discount pe,Pent. to four per
cent. Nothing. particular has taken place in the foreign funds.
Ardoin's Spanish 22 1-16 to 22k; Coupons, 21. Prices of the
26th Feb., Two.and-a-Half per Cents. 50 5-16; Five per
Cents., 97 13-16.
The Dutch Papers state that the interest on Loans and
Stocks has been reduced to 4 per cent., which is one-half
per cent. lower than before; therefore it must be a mistake
that the Bank have reduced their rate of interest.

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEE. 27.—A fair amount'
of business done at the following quotations :—Great West-
ern, Halves, 6li; Ditto, Fifths, 9; Manchester, Bolton, and
Bury, 54 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 24i ; Manchester
and Leeds, Halves, 3)* ; London and Suuth Western, Tenths,
17s. 6d. prem.

Consols, which left off on Saturday at 89b, opened this
morning with an improvement, at 89b 4 for the Account;
111,,ney, Bsg ;li•Achequer Bills, 7 9 prem. ; Bank Stock, 166
167 ; India S'fock 247 248.
In the "Foreign Market Spanish a shade better ; left off 24b ;
at present, 244 ; Deferred 12* i ; Passive, 5/ 6 ; Portu-
guese same as they left off, 314 4 ; Three per Cents. 19b ;
Colombian better, closed at 22* 23 ; at present, 23b; Mexican
alyo better, 28k; Brazilian 71b 72i; DutchTwo-and-a-Half
per Cents. 50b ; Fire per Cents.; 991 100.
Shares.—Great Western, 20 21 prom ex-din. ' • London and
Brighton, 7b 7 di.. ; Blackwall, 654 6 dis. ; Birmingham,
79 80 prem. ; Southampton, 55 56 ea-dividend; Croydon,
113/ 12 per share ; Greenwich, si per share ; Manchester
andßirmingham, 16 15 dis.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
A IILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Eastern Counties

Ditto Debentures
Great Western
Ditto Fifths .. 4 91 to
North Midland

South Eastern and Dover
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SATURDAY. —There has
been a good demand for Cotton to-day. The sales comprise
8000 bales; including 300 American on specu'ation the
prices remain at yest.rdav's quotations.
LIVERPOOL SHARE 'LIST, FEB. 27.—Eastern Counties
Debentures, 4 ; Grand Junction, 204 ; Ditto Half Shares,
102 ; Chester -an Crewe .504 ; Great Western New Shares
61 ; London and Birmingham, 67h.

In a Cape of Good Hope shipping list received this morning,
we find that the Exploring Expedition, under Captain J. C.
Ross, had arrived at. Hobart Town on the 15th August, all
well, and that an observatory was in progress of being con-
structed in the Governor's paddock.
'1 here is not only a stagnation in the British Funds to the
present hour, but also in commercial speculation, causing
great dulness in the City.
Consols which were in the early part ef the morning 891 for
the Account, have become heavy, and may be quoted at pre-
sent 89 ; for Money, 88i, have been 88:1. Money continues
tight. Exchequer Bilk improved, 710 prem. ; Bank Stock,
1071; ; for Account, 168; India Bonds, 10 dis.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active 24,1 ; Portu-
guese, 314 ; Three per Cents., 19i ; Colombian, 231 ;
Mexican, 28 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 50%;
Five per Cents. lower. 99k.
In the Share Market little doing, with little alteration in the
prices. Eastern Counties, 84 ; Great Western, 87 88 ; Fifths,
94- ; North Midland, 71% ; South Eastern and Dover, 17%.

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.

Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red lr9 Ditto Bonds ...... ...... 15 dis
3 per Cent Cons ......
3} per Cent Red. .....
New 31 per Cent ..
New 6 per Cent ...
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small lO pm
Jan. 1860
Oct 1859 l2l India Stock for Acct ...
Jan. 1860 ...
FOREIGN FUNDS.
A o.trian, 5 per cent... Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent lOO Ditto, New Ditto..... 31h
Brazilian BonOs .. .. Prussian, 5 per cent....

BuenosAyres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent. . .
Chilian, 6 per cant - Ditto, Metallic
Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 246
Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, Deferred •••

, .
Danish, 3 per cent.... French,s per cent —f. —c.
Greek.lB2s, spercent. Exchange ..
Mexican, 5 per cent.... 28 French,3 per cent —f. —e.
Di to, 6 per cent, 1825 Dutch, 2i per cent ..... 50i
Peruvian,lB2s,6 per et. 171 Ditto, 5 per cent..... 99i
SHARES.
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid)........ 8i
Ditto Debentures ( 2 paid) 44
Great Western Railway (65 paid) BB
Ditto New Shares (50 paid)
Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) .... . ... 93
London and Brighton (50 paid)
London and Blackwall Railway (22k pd) I6i
London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 171
London and Croydon Railway ( Trunk) ..... 12A
Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid)... 24i
North Midland Railway (100 paid) 7l
South Eastern and Dover (33 paid)... 17

CONJURING EXTRAORDINARY.—On Sunday
evening, the 14th instant, a main living at Nantgarw,
went to chapel, and upon his return found that his house
bad been broken open, and 124 sovereigns stolen there-
from, being the hard .earned savings of his industry. He,
of course, immediately proclaimed his loss, and suspecting
some of his neighbours of the crime, he gave out that he
intended applying to a cunning woman who resided in tl:e
neighbourhood, and who is a reputed conjuror. The con-
sequence war, that on Tuesday morning following, upon
openirg his door to go to his labour, be perceived his lost
treasure on the threshold, and en reckoning the same,
found, it is said, 125 sovereigns, whether the thief mistook
his reckoning, or added au additional piece cf gold to the
sum for conscience sake, we know not.—Merlin,

THE MARQUIS OF WATERFORD.—The ap-
proaching election of a Lord Rector for Marischal College will
most probably afford some amusement. The Non-intrusion-
ists could not allow the young gentlemen to exercise their own
judgment, but attempted to force on them the Kirk-ridden
Lord-Advocate. What was the result? Why, the boys would
not be dictated to ; and, to show their contempt for Non-in-
trusion and all other pharisaical humbug, started' in opposi-
tion, the Marquis of Waterford ! This celebrated nobleman
ha', it is said, a good chance of being returned—at all events
a better than the Lord Advocate; and we must confess •that
we are not a bit sorry that such should be the case.—Aberdeen

A FACT WORTH ATTENTION.--The Re-
verend J. Mason, Independent Minister, labours in
a poor neighbourhood, among the weavers of Spital.
fields, and though he is very useful, aild labours
hard, his income is less than 1001. per annum. To him,
a short time ago, the Bishop of London made application,
offering to take his chapel and repair it, for about 600 L,
then to license it, and ordain Mr. M. as its minister, with
all its advantageous prospects, if be would conform to the
Establishment. To a man with a family and so small an
income it was a tempting offer. Mr. M. returned an En-
swer to his Lordship declining his offer, as he was a Dis-
senter from conviction.—Patriot.

Mrs. Cockerell, now the Countess of Eglinton,
was the widow of Captain Howe Cockerell, whom she
first;.met on her passage to India, whither the Captain was
also going to push his fortune. He arrived at the period
of the great Whites in Calcutta, and through bis family
connections was appointed to wind up the affairs of some
of the great houses; a service is which be realised
160;000/. in a few years. He died sherdy after his return
to England, leaving his young and beautiful wife the life
interest of his fortune, and 40,000/. at her absolute dis-
posal.— Glasgow Chronicle.
Mr. Button, gardener, at Caistor, had new po-
atocs to dinner on New Yeat's Day,