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LONDON. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1847,

As an explanation of a somewhat mysterious pro •
needing on the part of Government, the speech de-
livered last evening by the Marquis of LANSDOWNE,
in answer to the inquiries of Lord STANLEY, could
not by possibility have 'been more manly, more ex-
plicit, or altogether of a more satisfactory character.
The explanation had reference to the continental
travels of the Lord Privy Seal, and the supposed in-
terference of the Cabinet in the political events which
have recently convulsed the different states of the
Italian Peninsula. Throughout every syllable pro-
nounced by the Noble Leader of the Opposition it
was manifest that he was labouring under the delu-
sion that the members of the Administration had
grievously committed themselves in regard to the
excursion of Lord MINT°, and that they had thereby
afforded him a delightful opportunity for driving the
Lord President of the Council into a dilemma. Sir
ROBERT HARRY INGLIS was, on Friday evening, the
victim of a similar misapprehension, but his curiosity
wason that occasion baulked by the ingenious
evasions of her MAJESTY'S Secretary for Foreign
Affairs. Lord pALliEyßSTfUNhiwas .3 possiblyh rtesehrviny g
his rejoinder for the'da
representative of 11
the
Tunghai
ci.Howopver this. may be,
the two querists into our -
of Italy iplomatic relations with
the principalitiesforreceolved very different re-
ceptions. The Member
enigmatical
was dismissed..
with a few desultory and
theFr
tcon.tradictions,
whereas the Champion of
ob-
tained a series of revelations from
mctionists
of Lord LANSDOWNE of a nature the
lirs
more plain-spoken, we conceive, than he
had anticipated, and certainly as rational ande
.conclusive as they were plain-spoken. If the Hon
Gentlethan the A:ember for Nottingham has acquired
for hinisdi the somewhat invidious fame of having
delivered the most intemperate and injudicious speech
of the session, the Noble Marquis the President of the
Council has assuredly raalefed hurrssE if conspicuous
by the enunciation of sentiments more frank, more
unreserved, and more characterised by the emphasis
of candour, than any yet pronounced since the assem-
blage of the new Parliament.

It was judiciously observed by Lord LANSDOWNE
that the-occurrences which have of late transpired
in 'the Italian . territories have been alto•
getlitr pf a nature so extraordinary as
to riot* it, in a particular manner,
essen3st or the Government of the country to have

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some immediate communication with the different
Courts of that peninsula. To invest this correspond-
ence with the cordiality and confidence so peculiarly
requisite under the circumstances, it appeared to the
Ministerial advisers of our SOVEREIGN that this cor-
diality and confidence might be at once insured by
the departure of one of themselves to the seat of this
great movement of social and political reformation.
That such a conclusion was dictated by the sagacity
of true administrators every one will at once acknow-
ledge who comprehends the importance of the changes
taking place in the internal condition of Italy.
Considering that those changes must affect, more or
less, every one of the European sovereignties, it be-
came absolutely necessary that some individual,
duly accredited by the Government of Great Britain,
should proceed to the scene of these glorious commo-
tions, for the purpose of transmitting the most accu-
rate information homewards, and of affording such
advice to the several princes of Italy as might tend,
in some degree, to allay the turbulence and dissipate
the evil consequences which might otherwise result
from their legislative innovations. The rationality
of such reflections is indisputable. Satisfied,
therefore, as to the advisability of sending some
competent envoy to the Peninsula, it became evident
that one of the Ministers of the Crown would, from
the elevation of his official rank, convey more authority
and inspire more reliance than any other personage,
however distinguished. Of all individuals, moreover,
who could have been more appropriately selected for
the fulfilment of this extraordinary mission than
Lord MINTO ?—a nobleman eminently qualified for
the delicate duties of the.occasion by his unquestion-
able skill as a diplomatist, and one, besides, who
could, with the least inconvenience to the public
business, be spared from his Ministerial occupations.
Having made this selection, and having provided for
the performance of the duties appertaining to the office
of Privy Seal under commission from the Crown,
the Government deputed the Earl of MINTO upon his
memorable excursion across the Continent. So far
we have the assertion of the Lord President of
the Council, that " the Earl of MINTO has
not been a mere pleasure traveller in Italy during the
last few months," but that, on the contrary, "he is
there accredited to all the sovereigns of Italy, with
the exception of one, to whom, by the law of the
country, as it is understood, he could not be legally
accredited." In touching upon this question the
Noble Marquis adventured upon ground still more
delicate than that to which the Lord Privy Seal had
proceeded. So thought Lord STANLBT, and, acting
upon this impression, he exonerated Lord Laes-
DOWNE from the peril of entering upon the matter,
by interrupting him with the reminder that " the
subject formed no part of his question." Again
the Leader of the Opposition plunged—by an
error of judgment—from the frying-pan. " No,
(said the Marquis of LANSDOWNE), the Noble Lord
alluded to it for the purpose of abstaining from giving
any opinion upon a most important subject. Now I,
my Lords, alluded to it for the express purpose of
giving my opinion upon the question. My Lords, I
think it would be most desirable that we should
have an accredited Minister at the Court of Rome.
My Lords, I think it monstrous that while this
country is represented at, and has the means of
procuring the best information from, every state
in Europe, in America, and in Asia—that while
she is represented in all climes, and at Courts pro-
fes,ing all creeds, there is a Court in the very centre
of Europe at which she has no Minister, nor any means
of procuring that information which is so necessary,
situated as England is both at home and in her co-
lonies ; nor has she any means of giving advice or ex-
planation which might avert much misunderstanding.
My Lords, there is no Court at which it would be
more useful that the Government of this country
should be able to explain the nature of many of their
transactions than at the Court of Rome. That can-
not now be done, because of the law to which I have
before adverted ; but I think it but fair and open and
frank to the Noble Lord, to your Lordships, and
thrsugh your Lordships to the country, to state dis-
tinctly my opinions upon the subject." We thank
the Lord President of the Council for the manly dis-
tinctness of this declaration, a declaration which must
be the more satisfactory to the lovers of religious
toleration, seeing that it implies the unanimous coin-
cidence of opinion upon this matter among the dif-
ferent members of the Administration. The Noble
Marquis considers the existence of a law preventing
any diplomatic relations whatsoever between the

Courts of the Quirinal and St. James's to be-nothing
less than a monstrous anomaly ; and we ask any
sensible man whether it is not a monstrousanomaly.
that we should hold ourselves aloof from apy
i ter-
coarse with the Papal States, at yet propose to
admit Jews into the House of' Legislature !
whether it is not a monstrous anomaly to accredit
an Ambassador to the Court of the Emperor NienObl44,
and to recoil from the notion or, sending ate, to• that:
of the illustrious and benevolent Pius !—whether

it is not a monstrous and incomprehensible anomaly
to admit of a diplomatic correspondence with Prince
METTERNICIT, and to revolt at the idea of holding
any communication whatever with such a man as the
Cardinal FERRETTI !

The Committee on the causes of the late commer-
cial distress has not yet been nominated; all that
has been decided on is that it shall consist of twenty-
,ix Members, but strong oljections have been offered
to the selection made by the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, as not affording a fair representation of the
various classes of opinion entertained both in the
[louse and throughout the entire country. The
labours of such a Committee can only be beneficial
when the most unreserved confidence is entertained in
its composition. As we have repeatedly declared,
we do not hope for any very valuable results
from the investigation. The subject has already
been more fully inquired into than any
other that has ever come before Parliament.
There is an enormous mass of evidence published, so
that there could be no imputation of rashness, or of
legislating on so important a subject without suffi-
cient information having been obtained, if measures
were forthwith introduced. But if every proceeding
is to be suspended on this, the most important topic
of the day—if the country is still to be subjected to
the operation of the code under which it has so long
suffered, and the operation of which bas led to such
general and wide- spread ruin, which has paralyzed
our trade and commerce, and occasioned so lamentable
a depreciation in the value of every description of
property, until the report is obtained it would
certainly be desirable that such an appointment
should take place as would leave the nature of the
final decision in some degree of doubt, and not induce
the public generally to conclude that the only object
was to obtain a temporary postponement, and to
evade any change or alteration in the present objec-
tionable system.

It is not very often that we find our opinions in
accordance with those of the Noble Lord the Member
for Lynn, but there certainly appears to be a remark-
able exclusion of the gentlemen who, on a former
occasion, opposed the passing of the Act of 1844.
It is admitted, too, that the Bank of England is to be
put upon its trial. The conduct of its directors is
directly impeached, and they have intimated their inten-
tion of not insisting on the privileges that have been
accorded to them, by former Parliaments, as a bar to
the immediate introduction of such measures as the
wisdom of the Legislature may devise. Under such
circumstances, it would be but reasonable that they
should be fully and fairly represented. The Hon.
Member for London (Mr. PATTISON), a gentleman
of great experience, of the most undoubted integrity,
and who long has occupied a seat in the direction of
that great establishment, possesses therefore undoubted
claims to a place in that Committee, but he has most
unaccountably been passed over, and only one
person at all connected with tke Bank (the Member
for 'Westmoreland) has been nominated. Again,
there are but two of the Scottish representatives pro-
epoousendt,ryaltohfouagpherafeestyl
y3tden bankingififerernt
character
existsfro imn thatan
that is practised in England, and from which the
most beneficial results have
been
any degree
produced, and
neither of those Scottish Members
are in
fconnected with the joint-stock banks,
theor
'ss
com-
mercial interests of Scotland. There is also but one
Irish Member selected. In both countries an issue
of one-pound notes is sanctioned, which is not per-
mitted in England. Surely one of the
most important inquiries connected with bank-
ing would be the prudence and propriety of

such a currency, whether it could with safety be
adopted throughout the entire nation, and whether
any and what precautions should be introduced with
respect thereto; and yet but three Members of the
twenty-six are competent to speak as to the practical
operations and effects of the use of the smaller de-
nominations of notes, and not one of those three are
connected with the banks by which these denomina-
tions are sent into circulation. The omission of the
Hon. Member for Birmingham (Mr. MuziTz) is, if
possible, more strange than any to which we have yet
alluded. That Honourable Gentleman may be
looked on as the representative of a large and rapidly
increasing party, who entertain the strongest
objections to the Acts of 1819 and 1844, and who
trace the continued fluctuations in the value of money,
and the deeply injurious consequences thereof, to the
effects of these enactments. He has repeatedly ex-
hibited the greatest tact and skill in the examination
of persons who were produced to g:ve evidence in
favour of the views of the bullionisti, and by judi-
cious interrogatories obtained answers showing on
what slight foundations the opinions of the party
under examination rested, so as greatly to reduce, if
not altogether overthrow, the value of the testimony ;
but he is passed by, perhaps, for that very reason, as if
the inquiry was not instituted for the purpose
of testing the efficacy of the present system,
but that it was only conceded in order to obtain a
report in favour thereof. The feeling of confidence
will certainly be greatly increased if the amendment
of Lord GEORGE BENTINCK is acceded to, and the
names of Mr. HASTIE, Mr. PATTISON, Mr. W.
BROWN, Mr. HENLEY, and Mr. MUNTZ substituted
for those of Mr. LADOUCHERE, Mr. CARDWELL,
Mr. RICARDO, Sir WILLIAM CLAY, and Mr.
J. WiLsoN. Not, as we have already stated,
that we wish to be understood as casting a
censure upon any of the last-named gentlemen, but
that the opinions which they are known to entertain
would be fully represented on the Committee, al-
though their names were omitted, and that parties
would be more fairly balanced if the proposed change
was effected.

Letters from Malta of the 4th have been received.
The Earl and Countess of DALHOUSIE had arrived
there safel%, and had left for Alexandria. The
French steamer Tancrede, on her passage from
Smyrna, had lost one of her men from cholera. She
was consequently ordered to quit Malta.

Intelligence has been received from Lisbon to the
19th instant.

The elections of the electoral colleges took place
throughout the kingdom on the preceding Sunday,
and in every instance Cabralbts have been elected.
The Septembrists protest against the elections as
illegal.
Intelligence from Madeira to the 4th December
had been received at Lisbon. The health of the
QUEEN DOWAGER was much improved.
Madrid pipers to the 7th have arrived.

The debate on the Address was proceeding in the
Senate, and NARVAhZ had in the course of it re-
peated the declarations as to the line of policy he
intended to pursue, which he had previously made
to the Deputies. The Congress have granted to the
Government authority to colle,q taxes until after
Christmas.

We have received the Paris papers of Monday.
The Opposition papers all comment on the article
on Swiss affairs, which appeared in the Davis of the
preceding day, and on the helplessly absurd position into
which M. GurzoT's Jesuit propensities have caused
him to place himself. We give the following short
extract from the Siimile as a specimen of the manner
in which these journals comment on M. Guizor's
proceedings :
" We had yesterday the day of dupes, to-morrow we
shall have that of the spurs, for it is not possible that
the Ministry will not beat a retreat from the irresistible
ridicule which on every side attacks its unfortunate me-
diation. It has, so to speak, pissed itself on the pillory,
and each passer- by can fling insult or clerision is its face.
In the discussion which took place in the Diet relative
to the absurd dispatch of M. aeis-le-Comte, M. Guiz.it
passed like a deserter before the Swiss Deputies to un-
dergo his flagellation. Already our Catholic journals
have inflicted a discipline oa him; General Maillardoz
pummels him with the fragment of his sword, and de-
monstates in toe jeurnales the folly of the enterpriee in
which the perfidious invitAtions of our Government had
driven the misled population. At present, the co reli-
gionists of M. Guiz .t protest aloud against the political
heresy of intervention."
The Eurnal des Debuts, in the course of a long
article on the subject of the recent decree of the
Spanish Government imposing additional duties on
foreign manufactures, takes occasion to strenuously
advocate the . principles of free trade. The same
journal publishes a letter from Naples of the 4th,
which gives the following account of the recent de-
monstrations in. Sicily :
".The manifestations which took place here some
.days past could not fail to produce their effect in Sicily,
.country which- supports with great impatience the
'Neapolitan Administration, and where emissaries, it is
said, from Malta and Corfu, keep up a sort of repeal of
the Union agitation. At present you must have leareed
at Paris the demonstration which took place at Palermo
on the 27th ult.. in the Carolina Theatre. It is said that
M. Franco, ex•Miuister of Sicilian Affairs, happening:to
be in a box with his wile, regarded with an evil eye
a hat was passing. The cries then became more violent,
and from every side cushions were thrown at him, until
at last, weeping with rage, he was obliged to cry out
like the rest. A quantity of printed papers
were scattered about, containing Liberal senti-
ments. The next day (Sunday) the gigantic
statue of Palermo was crowned amidst the accla-
mations of several thousand spectators, the crowd
was harangued by several orators, and the agitation con-
tinued to spr,ad. A petition praying for the immediate
formation of the National Guard was at cnce signed by
a multitude of citizens, but the authorities did not
think it advisable to entrust at that moment arms to the
people. On the Monday the aspect of the city was
gloomy and menacing. The authorities wisely avoided
bringing the Neapolitan troops in contact with the
population. It is said, however, that a conflict took
place between a portion of the crowd and some police
agents, and that several persons were wounded. How-
ever that may be, the counsels of good citizens suc-
ceeded for the time in calming down the effervescence.
On Dec. 2, when the steamer left Palermo, all was
quiet. A number of absurd reports have been in
circulation here about these troubles—that the consti-
tution of 1812 had been proclaimed, and that Sicily
having declared itself independent, had applied to the
English for succour. Do not place any faith in these
allegations ; all that is true I have told you."
The Courrier de Marseilles of the 10th says—
" The Prince de Syracuse, brother of the King of
Naples, arrived here yesterday, and immediately pro-
ceeded to Paris. This new journey of the Prince, after
his so recent sojourn in France, would seem to have
some political motives. The ridlections of the Journal
des Debuts, in announcing the departure of M. de Serra
Capriole, to take upon him the vice-royalty of Sicily
.are calculated to warrant this opinion."

The Duke DE DINo is about to be sent as envoy
from the Court of France to the Shah of Peas's.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse
on Monday, at 75f. sc. ; New Loan, 76f. 25c. ;
the Five per Cents., 1161. 35c. ; the Orleans Rail-
road Shares, 1,186 f. 25c.; Rouen, 898 f. 75c. ;
Havre, 4701. 50c.; Avignon, 555 f. ; Vierzon,
542 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 482. 50c. ; Boulogne,
3751.; Dieppe, 2601.; Basle, 162 f. 50c.; Paris and
Strasburg, 407 f. 50e.; Tours and Nantes, 3901.;
Paris and Lyons, 383 f. 75c.; Spanish Actives, 23} ;
Spanish Three per Cents., 30k; Spanish Domestic
Debt, 25f.
MARSEILLES, DEC. 9.—Marseilles aid Avignon,
571 f. 25c.

BUSINESS DONE 1N FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 14.
Boulogne and Amiens, 14%—Dutch Rheni.Qh, 234
Northern of France, 11%—Paris and Lyons, 55i—Paris
and Rouen, 343/—Paris and Strasbourg, 3% —Sambre and
Meuse, 6% —Tours and Nantes, 4—West Flanders, 114.

SUPPLEMENT TO "THE LONDON
GAZETTE" OF TUESDAY, DEC. 14.
[The following should have appeared in last right's
Gazette]:—
, In pursuance of the directions of an Act, passed in
the twenty•fourth_ year of the reign of his late Majesty
King George the Third, intituled An Act to repeal so
much 'of two Acts, made in the tenth and fifteenth
years of the reign of his present Majesty, as authorises
the Speaker of the House of Commons to issue his
warrants to the Clerk of the Crown for making out
writs for the election of Members to servo in Parlia-
ment, in the manner therein menti,ned, and for substi-
tuting other provisions for the like purp, sea:"
I do hereby nominate and apppoint Ralph Bernal,
Esq., the Right Honourable Robert Grosvenor, com-
monly called the Right Honourable Lord Robert
Grosvenor, Sir William Ileathcote, Bart., William Ord,
Esq., Thomas Greene, Eiq. and Thomas William
Bramaton, Esq., being Members of the House of
Commons, or any one or more of them, to issue war-
rants to the Clerk of the Crown, in cases in the said
Act specified.

Giveil%nder iny hand and seal this 13th day of
December, 1847,
CHARLES SHAW LEFEVRE, Speaker.

- - -
RE-ELECTION OF AIR. CHARLES BULLER FOR
lasicEsnn.—The election tor Liskrard took place yes-
terday, when Mr. Charles Buller was re-elected without
opposition.

1,0001.
50J/.
Small
oNE
O'CLOCK

Ditto,, ditto, New . .... 2 ...
Exeter, Yeovil,& Dorch. 2%....„
Ditto, New

Glasgow, Dumfries, and
Carlisle Bl. 68.8 d .....
61asgow,Kilmar.,86 Ayr 50
Ditto, New .. 40
Do. I'referenceConsol. 121/2„....
Great Nortkern lO4 ...... 4%
Do., London and York 2k..
Great South. and West.

43%

TliE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDA EVENING, DECEMBER l5, 1847.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was
firmer, at Friday's rates. Sales 2,500 to 3,000 bales.
American realising 4id. to 6d. per lb.—Railway Shares
had been quiet, but were steady in value.
We have no letters yet by the steamer from Halifax,
but the following received via Havre, respecting the
specie movement is interesting :

" The demand for foreign exchange, for the packets
which have left this port and Boston during the past
week, has been limited, while the shipments of specie
have been about one million of dollars. The arrival of
these shipments in England must have a very favourable
effect upon the money market, and the re-action upon
this country will, of course, be of a corresponding na-
ture. As soon as confidence begins to rise again, and
credits become established, the sterling bills in our market
will be in more demand for remittance, and the outward
current of specie be very much reduced. The panic pro-
duced by the exportation of specie within the past week
or two, shows how sensitive the public mind is upon
this point, when the movement first commences, and the
tide, is setting from us, but the moment it turns and
sets in, there will be as great a reaction in the public
mind, and we shall rapidly recover everything we have
lost. We shall be in a much better and stronger posi-
tion, as the check upon credits, which the panic has pro.
duced, was necessary, and must have a beneficial influ-
ence upon commercial matters generally. In times like
these, all such restrictions are desirable, and produce a
healthy state of things. It is necessary that we should
at times stop and take an observation of our position,
that our course may be more carefully marked out and
our condition better understood. A little panic is a good
thing, and creates a degree of cautiousness in commercial
circles calculated to prevent too great an expansion in
squally times, when sail should be taken in, and every-
thing made snug."

The accounts from the East Indies, as stated yester-
day, are considered to be favourable on the whole, and
the remittances which have come from Bombay are in a
form which will be useful, not being upon any of the
great houses which at that presidency were known to
have fallen. The China intelligence is not at all of re-
cent date.

A new loan for Belgium is said to be on the tapir,
and the amount is reported to be 60,000,000 francs.

The English Funds have been steady again this morn-
ing. Cousols for Account, 851 to New Three-and-a-
Quarter per Cents., 861 i; and the Three per Cents.
Reduced 841 to 85; Bank Stook is 1861 to 1881; Ex.
chequer- bills have been 7s. to 1015. premium, and India
Bonds, 183. discount.

Rather more business has been done in the Foreign
Market, and prices have been generally steady. Spanish
Five per Cents. 17k, and the Three per Cents. 28,t.
Mexican Bonds, 18 to I ; Grenada Deferred, 31 ; and
Chilian Three per Cents., 49i ; Dutch Two and-a-Half
per Cents. have been at 55.

In the Railway Share Market the purchases have not
been large, and prices have varied but little. North.
Western and one or two others are better. The Paris
and Lyons and Boulogne and Amiens have also im-
proved.

ONE CLOSING
-
NIECES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES
Bank Stock 18614 188 188
3 per Cent. Reduced Anns.. 84% 85 84% 85 85
New 3;‘ per Cent. Anns 86%14 8614
LongAnns.to expire Jan.lß6o
India Bonds, 1,0001.
Ditto under 1,0001.. ~, 24 dis
Consols for Account 85V414 85%
Exchequer Bills. Bd.

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RICFS OF FOREIGN FUNDS.
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent.........,
Ditto 3 Der Cent 49%
Grenada Bonds, 1 per Cent. —
Ditto Deferred
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 lB
Ditto, Account lB ti %
Portuguese 5 per Cents. —
Ditto, 4 per Cent. —
Spamsh 5 per Cent. 1840. • 17141
Ditto, Passive
Ditto, 3 per Cent 28%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Frenchßentes, 5 per Cent llsf. 75c. 115 f. 75c,
Exchange
25f. 70c. 25f. 70e.
Dutch, 2% per Cent., 12 Guild 55 55%
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 84% 843 A
PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen
Amber., Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 2% %
Ayrshire and Galloway.. 2% —
Belfast & County Down 10 ......
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction -
Birmingham, Wolver-
hampton, and Dudley 10 ..... 13% %. .... .....
Birming.,Wolverlepton,
and Stour Valley 101. 14e....
Birkenhead, Lancashire, •
and Cheshire Junc.... 7%.
Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 6 — •••• •••• —
riatol and Exeter SO
Ditto, Thirds
Buckinghamshire IW. 4s. ....
Caledonian
Ditto, Half Shares 33/4 —
Ditto, Clydesdale Junc 50 ......
Chester and Holyhead... 371,u
Ditto, Preference .. 8
Clarence -
Do. let Class, 6 per Ct. 10 ......
Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 ...... _
Do. Government Loan,
4 per Cent.
Dublin and BelfastJunc 2O ......
Dundalk & Enniskillen 15 ...... _ -
East Anglia, •z 5/., L. &
E. and L. and D....... 25 •••••• .. .....
Do., 181., E. & H.... 18 ...... ..... . •
Da., 31.105., E. &H. 2 ......
E_at= Cou -Wes ......... 20 ...... 15% 16 ..
Ditto (13) 2O .... . _
1 Lto,Extension, b per
Cent, No. 1....... 6/.135. 4d...
Ditto ditto, N 0.2... 61. 13s. 4d... par
Do., York Extension.. 10 „....
Do., North. & Eastern 60
Do., Quarters ......... 121/2
......
110., New
Et: tern Union ........... 60 ..... ... .....
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% .....
Ditto, Thirds .......13s. 40..,...
Do., (guar. 6 percent) ...... ... ...... ....•
r..,..t Lancashire ......... 25 ......
Ditto. New
Ditto, New Quarters... 3% ..... ..... ......
East Lincolnshire ...... 121/2..,... ..._
•4 •
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 43% 46 ... .....
Ditto Half Shares ... 15 ......
Ditto, Quarter Shares 121' ...., _
Edinburgh &Northern.. 221,...
Ditto, New
Ditto, Newport ..... ..• 9?t--
2 /

CLOSING
PRICES.

49%

liil/2
181,4

22%
1714
314
29

Do. New 50/. ... . ... 32%.. .. 28% ex new ...2814.x.n.
Do. New 401 .. 26
Do. Tenths (Consol.) 50
Ditto ditto . .... .... 40
Ditto, Thirds 61.135. 4d....
London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil
Londonderry &Coleraine 27%. .......
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen 23% ...... ... ..... .... •-•
Manthester•Buxton,and
Matlock. ..... ........
Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire ...100
Do. Quarters (No. 1) 13 - ••.. —
Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25
Ditto ditto (No. 3)... 7%
Ditto and Grimsby.... 25
Ditto ditto . ......... 7 ...... .....
Ditto ditto
Ditto Sheffield and
Lincolnshire 7%..• •, ....w.....„.,
Manehost.& Southampt 2% . _.
Mildand lOO 107% 108%...... 108%
Do. Consolidated Pref.loo
Do. 401. Shares
Du. 504 Shares lO
Do. Birm., and Derbyloo
Midland ConsoL Brist. &
Binning., 6 per cent. 100 ......
Midlnd, Brist. & Glocstr. 34 ...... ..... ••••••
Ditto, ditto
Midlnd, Leicest. & Swan-
nington, 8 per ct.guar.100
Midland Great Western
Irish ... 85
Newcastleand Carlisle...100
Do. Quarters 25 ......
Newmrk et & Chesterford 18%
Do. Extension ........21. 125....
Newport, Abergavenny,
and Hereford
-
Newry and Enniskillen 7 -
Newry, Warrenpomt,
and Rostrevor .. 12% —.. ........ ....
Norfolk .......... 100 E— ,
Do. New 201.
Do. Extension . 16
Do. Scrip, 1847, North
of Norfolk
Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 —
Northern Counties Union 4 — ...
North British ........ ... 25 ...... 26%
Do. Half Shares; 12%...... 11%
Do. Quarters
Do. Extension
DUO Thirds 2 ...... 1% 2
Nort , Staffordshire...... 7%...... 7%1A
North Wales
North Western
Oxford, Wor 'iter td

134

2%
13%
17i

2614
11%
.4%
71.

...Irceater. an..
Wolverhampton
Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate
Rovston and Hitchin ... 1% — ... ........ ..
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland 17% . ....
Ditto, New ......... ..... 10
ihetlield, Rotherham,
and Goole
Shrewsbury and Birm... 6
Ditto ditto, Class B. 3
Shrewsbury & Chester
(Nor. W. Min.) l6
Ditt• Halves ... ditto 8 ...... .. ....
Ditto Oswestry ..... 12
Ditto New -
Shrewsbury and Herefd. 2 ......
Shropshire Union
South Devon
Do. Preference
South Stafibrdshire...... 4
south Eastern & Dover. 33% 3034 31% 30% 3114
Do., No. 1 2O •
Do., Nc. 2.
Do , No. 3
Do., No. 4
South Wales
.:: outh Yorkshire, Don-
caster, and Goole
Swans. & Loughor & Ca-
meron's Stm. C0a1.... 4
faw Vale Extension ... 4
Thames Haven Dock
and Railway ..... ...... 17% —
Vale of Neath 4
Waterford and Kilkenny 13% — ..
Waterford and Limerick 40 —
Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw,
and Dublin
West Cornwall
Whitehaven & Furness 12 —
Windsor, Staines, and
South Western ..... ... 525. —
Wilts, Somerset, & Wey-
mouth ........ ......... 30
York, Newcastle, and.
Berwick. .... .. —
Do. Original New and
Berwick .. 25
Do. North Shields Pur. 25
Do. Extension No., 1. 10
Do. do. No. 2........410
Ds G.N E.Preference 8
York and North Midland 50
Ditto, Preference
Do. East and West Rid-
ing Extension

FOREION RAILWAYS.

23

%.dis

...
4%

(Ireland)
IlreatNorthof Eugland..loo ......
Ditto, New 40/......... 5 ......
Ditto, New 30/.
Ditto, New 15/ 61,4 ......
.)1 eat Western. B5 ......
Ditto, % Shares 5O ...... 57%
Litt°, !A Shares
Ditto, Fifths 2O ...
Ditto, New 171
Huddersfield & blanches. 22 -
Ditto, Thirds
......
Hull and Selby 5O .. ... ........ ••••~—
Ditto, Half Shares 25 •
•
49
Ditto, % Shares....... 12%
4pswic Bury St. Edm. 15 ..
Do., do., and Norwich 15 ......
Do., do., Extens. Scrip
(late Camb. & Ely) 2%
Lancaster and Carlisle... 50
Ditto, Thirds ......... .. 10
Lancashire & Yorkshire 93
Ditto, ditto ............ 82 ...
Ditto % Shares .
... 38
......
.....
DDoo.. Qyiufarthste.i.dS.idhisar.hie.esEff...r...y.).....
384134784%%..
...
....--
.............
..
2%
_dia.
• ....
Do. Sixteenths ...... .. 614
Do. Thirds (Reg.)....10/. 4a.... 514 dis 51,1i die.
•••• •••• .....
Ditto 14 (late Hud-
DvDpoooofd...:(ea((l:2%vvepVtifirv.a.eBBBl:kitodeiPGdifiallenliidg,uwPnoyr:lotnee))-4526
34% 34%
Do. % Shares (A) 9 — Ditto .--
ditto (B) ... 1.!4
Leeds and Bradford...... 60
Leicester and Bedford... 16s.
Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 37% —•-• ......... ••• Do., Branch 54 Shares 125..
Do. New Branch(blue) 254
Do. Extension (green) 254.. ... -
Do. NewExten. (pink) 2%
Leeds and Thirsk • 36 ......
Ditto, New 20 — ........ ••...•
Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 31h — ......N..•• -
Liverpool, Crosby and
Southport .... .... 2
Liverp., Mnchstr& New-
castle Juncti0n......... 2% ... ...
London and Blackwall..l6/. Us. 4d.
Do. New, No. 1
... .. ...... .... ...
Do. New, No. 2 .. 4/ l3s. 4d....
Do. Extension ......... 17% — •••
London, Brighton, and
South Coast ...., ..... 50
•
Do. Guarant. 5 per ct. 9 -
Do. Pref. Con.s per ct. 50
London and Greenwich 12115 s 4d...
!,Ditto, Preference ... 18/1;s 2d...
.
London and N. Western 100 152% 153. ••
153
Do., Quarters L. & B. 17
Do., do., New
.
Ditto Fifths .........2
Do. 14 Shares (G. J. 25
Do 40/.Shares(L.M.) 15
Do. 40/. (M. & B.) ... 40 Do. 10/. (M. & B.) A. 7% —•-• -- .........
Do. 10/. (M. & B.) B. 71. E —
Do. 10/. (51. & B.) C. 1
....• ......... .. ...
Lond.. teSw.Wcoesnstez
8411118/. 6:08d 54 533/4 x.n.... 54Ux.n.
Do.

221,

57%

53/4

13%

9%
75%

Anglo-Belgian ... 4 —
Barbadoes .. 1 -
Boulogne and Amiens.... 20 ...... 14%%%. ... 14%
Central of France (the-
leans and Vierzon) ... 14
Central of Spain ........ 2
Ceylon
Demerara ... •• ...... ..... 5 ...... ---
Dandre Valley —
Direct Bombay and
Madras
Dutch Rhenish
.......
East Indian ... ..... .... 114
Great Indian Peninsular ss. ......
Great Southern of Madras 55.
Great Western Bengal... se.
Great Western Canada... 314 ......
Italian and Austrian.... 4 ... ..
Jamaica &Mid. J unction 1 -
Louvain ala Sambre ... 7 ... . .. —
Luxembourg. —
Lyons and Avignon
56 .....•
....
ii:.0...
• •••.....• ••
Madras 1 -
Madras. Nellore, and
Arcot % .
Madrid and Valentia.... 2 ..• .. .. —
Namur aid Liege 1 l4 ...... 5%.... 5l
N orthern of France lO .. ... 11% .. . ll%
Orleans and I3Ordeaux 6 - .••••• ....... •••
Over Yssel ...: 413 s 4d . ...
Paris and Lyons .. 10 ..... 51. i.....
Paris and Orleans 2O
Paris and Ao aen
Paris and:' Strasbourg 8
Rouen and Havre
Sambre and Meuse ... .• 18
Strasbourg and Bale ... 14
Tours and Nantes ...... 8
..... ,•.•••
Tournay, Jurbise, Lan-
den, and Hasselt....... 16
Trinidad —
West Flanders : ..... .... 81/Ii! —

JOINT STOCK BANKS.

Australasia - ----
- 4
0
- --
--
00000 •••
British North American 50 - 00000000 ••••••
Colonial ... 25
Provincial of In tland ... 25
Commercial of London 20 —
London & West: ninster 20
London Joint Stack lO.
National Prov. E ngland. 35
Ditto,New .. .... 10
National of Ireland 22 - ••••••• ..... •**
Ditto New............... 10
Union of Australia
Ditt0,New......—...... 2% — •
Union of L0nd0n..... lO
Union of Madrid ....
MINES.

Anglo Mexican ..........100
British Iron ._..... 12 ......
Bolonos Scrip .. .......
Real Le Monte, 17n:reg.

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ROLLS' CtOURT.-(THIS DAY.)
cCHILDE V. CLEAVE.

This was a mot i( >n for an injunction to restrain the
defendant from wor ling a mine, of which he was joint
proprietor with the. ;plaintiff, and for the appointment of
a receiver to the e its ite.

Lord LANGDALE„ in delivering judgment, said, that in
:his case both pat ties deserved to have their affairs
wound up. If it al ►p eared, in carrying out their wishes,
that either party w at in danger of not having his proper
share, then the Cio urt would interfere to appoint a
receiver, and do for .them what they should do for them-
selves; but in the present case there was no exclusion,
no bad management,, no damage, no waste, and nothing,
in fact, to warrant s h interference. Ile would there-
fore refuse the motig ,r ►.
J The motion was dit imissed with costs.

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SECONDA ItIES.—(THIS DAY.)
There was only o cog case set down for hearing,
PETERS .1, BEAT AND ♦NOTHER.
The plaintiff is the proprietor of the George and Blue
Boar Inn, Holborn, ,ia id the defendants are wine mer-
chants. The actions v; Is to recover the value of six pipes
of wine, alleged to h a ye been deposited with defendants
for cellarage during tl repairing of the above inn. The
defendants set up a c o tinter
The case did not :possess any features of general in-
terest, although the n 'hole of the morning was occupied
in hearing very coi ii lictory evidence. The case was
likely to occupy a coat 3iderable time longer.

4:.
001•1•

CRIMINAL CrOURT.—(THIS DAY.)
a LD COURT.
(Before the LORD La ICOR, Mr. Baron ROLFE, and Mr.

aStiCa WIGHTMAN.)
William Newton Onstt, a boy aged about twelve years,
was placed at the bar charged with the wilful murder of
his grandfather, Se. m uel Nelm, by mixing arsenic in bite
food of the deceased:.; and he was also charged with lar-
ceny in a dwelling-h ouse.
Mr. RYLAND condi acted the ease for the prosecution.
He went through 2 statement of the facts, but was, for
4 ,f ost part, inaudible to the reporters. Towards the
nsiusion of his at ldregs, he said, that a question might
'arise from the isv:At .nce for the grave consideration of the
jury, respecting thi a soundness of the prisoner's mind
at the time when h 4 mixed the arsenic (if they found
that he had mixed i t) with the arrowroot and sugar in-
tended for his gram dfather's use. It was statedbythe
prisoner's mother tb at his father was subject to epileptic
fits, and that at thus time of his death he was decidedly
insane. Sb.o a.Esn► stated before the coroner that the
prisoner Himself 'b i
ad received in very early life an
n-
jury of the lima, which she suspected to have affected
his reasoning powers He had frequently strange .con-
versation w ith her on the subject of poisons.. Other
witnesses a could also speak to strange conversations with
him on other subjects. If from that evidence the jury
should bob LYC that the prisoner was not in a sane state
of mind A the time of the alleged a
acquit hir ; but if they believed that, however theyeve must
strange;
his coed act mklht be upon other oceasions, ho mixed the

poison with the food for the purpose of procuring the
death of his grandfather, being at that time in a sound
state of mind, it would be their duty to find him guilty.
The Learned Gentleman, after some objection on the
part of Mr. Ballantine, who appeared for the prisoner,
read two letters, addressed from Newgate by the prisoner
to his mother, in which he confessed his guilt, and gave
a description of extraordinary dreams or visions which
he had after hearing exhortations from the Ordinary of
Newgate, Mr. Davis. (These letters have already ap-
peared in The Sun.) The Learned Gentleman then pro-
ceeded to call various witnesses to prove his case, but
their evidence has been so recently given in The Sun, in
the reports of the proceedings before the Coroner, and
before the Magistrate, that it is unnecessary to repeat it.
Mrs. Mary Louisa Allnut, the mother of the prisoner'
in the course of her cross-examination, said that the
father of the prisoner died about two years and a halt
ago. He had been in the habit of drinking, and was
subject to epileptic fits. When he died he was (we un-
derstood) in a state of insanity. At the time of the
birth of the boy at the bar, the mind of the witness was
much affected, and had long been so, from family
troubles. The prisoner, when a year and a half old, had
a fall upon a ploughshare, and when he was first brought
in he was thought to he dead. The accident was
followed by brain fever. The cut was above the top of
the nose. In December, 1844, he had an obstinate attack
of ringworm, and, singe that, manifestations of scrofula.
He was a boy with whom she had had a great deal of
trouble, and frequently had to remonstrate with him for
misconduct. That made no impression on him, and he
would say that he did lot feel that he was doing wrong.
Ho had been much worse since he had a fall upon the
ice in January last. Since that time he complained very
much of headaches, and seemed to suffer greatly from
them. When she spoke to him about the wrong things
he did, he used to say that some one seemed to talk to him
in his head, and to say "do it, do it; you will not be
found out."

To the COURT—Iie never said that, until witness
remonstrated with him about a watch. That was since
her father's death. Before that she had observed him
to suffer much from headache. He was always very
different from all her other children in morals and
in his health. tie had been subject to walking in his
sleep.
Mr. Justice WIGUTMAN then called Dr. Letheby, and
asked whether he considered walking in the sleep a
symptom of disordered brain.

- Dr. Letheby said it might be, or only of a disordered
stomach. In answer to further questions from the
Learned Judge, the witness said that scrofula would
affect the brain, and that it was possible such a wound
as the prisoner received in his infancy might produce
injuries that would result in disorganization of the
brain. Noises in the head arose from a disordered
state of the brain. So also might calling out in the
sleep.
_ _

After a long discussion upon the subject of the letters
which had been put in, as written in Nswgate by the
prisoner, and addressed to his mother,
The Rev. Mr. Davis, the ordinary, was called by Mr.
BALLANTINE, and said that he had in his exhortation of
the prisoner told him to confess to God, and had never
said a word (as was stated in the letter) about confessing
to his mother, or to any other person. Had never said
a word about God striking him dead; all that was mere
invention. The prisoner was a very clever boy; but, in
prison, he told a great variety of falsehoods on a variety
of subjects.
The letters were then put in, and the case for the pro-
secution was closed.

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
Mr. Peter Dimwit, who described himself as a gen-
tleman, following no profession or business, was brought
up on a warrant charging him with having " written,
sent, and delivered, or caused to be written, sent, and
delivered," a letter, challenging Mr. Phineas Gold-
smith, a West India merchant, to fight a duel.
Mr. Dimont, it appeared, had been in the habit of
calling at Mr. Goldsmith's house to visit a Mr. Phillips.
On the occasion of one of these visits, ho said some-
thing to Mr. Phillips concerning complainant, which
induced the latter, on hearing of it, to order him to
leave th© house. The next day (the 7th inst.) defen-
dant sent a letter to complainant, saying that his con-
duct was ungentlemanly. and demanding either an
apology or " satisfaction," but giving the alternative of
a" thorough thrashing," and posting as a coward.
Mr. Clipper, an attorney, who appeared for the de-
fendant, was about to set up a defence to the effect, that
defendant had received great provocation from Mr.
Goldsmith.

Mr. HENRY said no provocation would justify any one
in writing such a letter as this.
Mr. Clipper said it was written in a moment of anger,
but his client had now no intention either of pressing
Mr. Goldsmith to fight, or of putting hie threats of
" thrashing" and " posting" into execution.
Mr. HENRY said he must find bail ; and, after some
discussion, ordered him to enter into his own recogni-
sances fur 5004, and find one surety in the same amount,
to keep the peace for twelve months.
The defendant found bail, and was liberated.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT,

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock.
Mr. JoRN NEELD and another Llon. Member took the
oaths and their seats.