The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-22 00:00:00

TH E SUN, LONDON, SATURD Y, MAY 22, Hll

might weak and worthless Administrations retain office through
the natural reluctance of 11embers of Parliament to proceed to
such extremes ? We believe the policy of the Government,
and the attempt of Ministers to hold office under existing cir-
cumstances, to be both exceedingly dangerous, but the more
immediate danger is that of the sordid and base design to hold
the Government in despite of the adverse judgment of Par-
liament.

•
GLOBE.—" Alas !"—Cassandra-like cries the Watch-
man—" for these ominous signs of the times. The cry
of cheap bread was the prelude to the horrors of the
French Revolution." The Wesleyan Methodists of our
towns are too shrewd to let this pass for their language,
or the Corn-law manifesto of their accredited organ.
The Watchman will find himself in the wrong box.
The cry of cheap bread was the prelude to the horrors
of the French Revolution ! When do people cry for
cheap bread ? Apparently when bread is dear. The
fact of dear bread then preceded the cry of cheap bread.
The French were nut mere philosophical amateurs of
low-priced eatables. They cried for cheap bread, be-
cause they felt the inconvenience of scarce bread.
How came bread scarce ? We must know that before
we can know much of the causes of thoSe " horrors"
of which " the cry of cheap bread" was the " prelude."
The answer to this question may be found in the
same meddling spirit of law and administration which
threatens the same effixts in this country. The wise
policy of Turgot had been tried, and succeeded,
only to be abandoned. Turgot was, if ever there
was, a nructical man. He had administered a province
13 years heAn-e he administered the State. He had brought
that province into a condition of plenty and of prospenty,
which caused it to be compared to a small and flou-
rishing independent State, locked on all sides by the
territories of a vast and a wretched empire. And what was
Turgot's secret for arresting the cry of cheap bread ?
What was his policy, for preventing that " prelude to
the horrors of the French Revolution ?" The policy
of Turgot may be described in two words—Free
Trade. Freedom of trade throughout the interior
of France, which had not previously been permitted.
Freedom of trade with foreigners ; it having been
thought as dreadful by the Watchmen of that
period, that France should export corn, as it is now
thought that England should import it. What were the
consequences of Turgot's policy, as long as it lasted ?
The consequences were internal abundance and com-
mercial activity. What were the consequences of the
relapse into the old mania of regulation ? The conse-
quences were what the Watchman puts forth as a bug-
bear—the cry of cheap bread—that prelude to the horrors
of the French Revolution. Nothing in history is more
distinctly traceable to mischievous meddling with the
supply of the necessaries of life to a people than the fa-
mine price of corn in the great towns of France, which
preceded and accompanied the first outbreakings of Re-
volution. Nothing can be more certain than that, if.
Turgot's policy had been carried out, those extreme pri-
vationa and hardships would not have occurred, which
were a main-spur of the lawless movements of the mul-
titudes at that epoch.
STANDARD.—me expectation of the simple few
who have supposed it possible for Ministers to pursue a
straight-tbrward and ingenuous course in any part of
their career, -will be disappointed by what occurred last
night in the House of Commons. It had been
generally reported through the metropolis yes-
terday, and on Wednesday, and the runners of
the Cabinet were the most active in circulating
the rumour, that Lord John Russell would, at the
sitting of the House, clearly state the line which he
and his colleagues will take in their present extra-
ordinary and disgraceful circumstances. • There was,
in consequence, very early au unusually full attend-
ance of ~‘lembers. Anxious curiosity was on the
stretch, as opportunity after opportunity for the
Ministerial leader to make his statement presented it-
self, but he suffered each opportunity to pass ; Lord
John did not rise. At length the Chancellor of the
Exchequer offered himself, and the desired explana-
tion it was hoped would now be given ; but no, Mr.
Baring merely gave notice of the Committee of
Ways and Means upon the Sugar Duties for Mon-
day. At length the Earl of Darlington gave expres-
sion to the universal feeling of impatience, if not
of indignation, at such trifling ; and pressed '
Lord John Russell with a strong remonstrance ; but
all that he could extort from the Noble Secretary was
an announcement that the question of the Corn-law
repeal, or, as
.it is pretended, modification, would be
proposed for consideration upon the 4th of June. As the
debate commenced, upon the day in question must be ex-
pected to last at least a week, the country will have been
governed for more than, a month by a Cabinet unable to
carry any one of its essential measures, without any promise
that even at the month's end that Cabinet will give place
to a more efficient Administration, or that it will throw it-
self upon the people for support. Is this what our French
neighbours call " parliamentary government ?"—we are
wearied of waking- whether such conduct is consistent
with the principles of the British Constitution ?—but
we repeat our question, is this " Parliamentary Go-
vernment" even in the French phrase ? Can anything
like it be found in the practice of M. Lafayette 's mo-
narchical republic, or in the " model republic" at the
other side of the Atlantic ? No ; such a mark of con-
tempt has been reserved exclusively for the Parliament
and people of England—such an insolent stride to des-
potism belongs solely to the Reform Ministry.
COURIER.—The Chancellor of the Exchequer gave
notice, last evening, with, as the Chronicle has it, im-
perturbable coolness, that on Monday next he would
" move that the House shall resolve itself into a Commit-
tee of Ways and Means, with a view to move the usual
annual sugar duties therein." If Ministerial leading
articles may be credited, for the Advertiser and Chro-
nicle have each one in almost the very same words, this
announcement may be accepted as tantamount to a dis-
solution. So much the better. It now remains with
the constitutional party to take the reins into their own
hands, and without waiting upon the convenience of the
Ministry, to-force forward the dissolution to suit their
own. Let them manfully meet the motion of Mr. Baring
with a decided negative ; for why should a Government
be entrusted with the collection and disbursement of an
enormous branch of revenue, which substantially and
repeatedly has been stigmatised by votes of the House
as neither possessing nor deserving the confidence of
Parliament or the country ? Now or never should be
the cry, and let the blow be struck home and at once.
Now or never also will be the cry of the people,
on whom it must shortly devolve to decide whe-
ther they will any longer tolerate a grinding new
Poor-law Ministry, or send men more honest to Par-
liament, pledged to the abrogation of all such odious
clauses of that atrocious enactment of modern despotism,
as contravene or supersede those rights of the poor and
the working classes consecrated in their Elizabethan
Charter. This is one and the greatest of issues the na-
tion will now have to try. Corn-law protection we must
have, or operatives, agricultural and manufacturing,
starving by hundreds of thousands, devouring each
other's substance in a ruinous race of competition for
scanty work and low wages, and ground down to the
" coarser food," the black bread and vinegar wine of the
Polish serf and the German cotton-weaver, with their
miserable earnings, ranging from 2d. to sd. per day.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

FROM THE MORNING TAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
CHRONICLE.—A change from monopoly to free trade is
essential to the safety of the Bank of England. Mr. Horsley
Palmer knew this well when he signed the petition to the
House of Commons, praying for a modification of the tariff.
His experience since the year 1833 convinud him that it would
be impossible to keep the old lady's head long above water
under.the present system. Panics in the Money Marketevery
second cr third year, and unable, with constant tinkering of
the kettle, borrowing from the Bank of France, and appliances
of " the screw" to boot, to bring the bullion above the mark
which old Rothschild declared below the minimum of solvency,
it has been necessary to keep on " the mow," without ceasing,
since October, 1839. Sometimes there has been a partial re-
laxation of its force, but nothing more. The system has not
yet recovered from the shake, and a fortnight of adverse
weather in the neck of next harvest would Make the Di-
rectors tremble in their shoes. They could not stand
against such another drain as that which they experi-
enced in 1839. With all the advantages of a sounder
system of management, they have not strength to weather the
storm. The old lady has never been herself again since that
memorable disease attacked her bowels, and never will be again
unless the free-trade doctors be called to her assistance. The
Directors, in order to keep her alive, have been compelled to
keep money scarce ever since, to look now with averted eyes at
all commercial paper having more than sixty days to run, and
use every possible and incesant vigilance and means to keep the
handful of gold in their coffers from being drawn off by the
unfavourable operation of the foreign exchanges. The conse-
quent effect upon the trade and commerce of the country has
been most painful and distressing ; low prices and forced ex-
portation of goods in the elementary state to keep hands from
.tar vino. But all insufficient to turn the scale, and the short-
hour working of the mill-owners must soon turn to no hours
lalt all, unless a change in our tariff h' immediately adopted: un •
ethepriof neipil.eevoefnpure. protection
is plain
iononimportrabt theismustsubstitutedbe
for
the
principle
speedy re.,ult d persevering in the present prohibitory system.
It is impossible, without admitting foreign corn and timber at
a moderate duty to cure the disease which has attacked the
ovitratlas
ooff ouran
unfaatoitounraoldpgrooos
dp ea r ibtoy I
. mainnzneoi fromtherwayrcaapnid decay,
leaving leaving a starving population in our
the merchant and manufacturer hoveringtsa t hivesp on o thef labour,verge ' and
ruin. Mr. Horsley Palmer foresaw fsioan
thee sya owhu tr ou this,of
f
have stated it, and he therefore prayed the House as plainly as we
gentlemens
od ee o
tuf
aCommons. mYour
flour,
_r
ptooimisodta?ify tHheereta,r%
peide and politics—your private aclass-interests as West India
planters, East India merchants, and Canadian timber mer-
chants, and Brazil slave-holders—tell you that
)gaToockdke ht; sa
and
the. national
compass,tg
oo 4 Io af a
butuyok uwr
of be r ehaveec h e
Englandas-
oints of the
you have only to make the choice between supportints
far your country's good, or monopoly for your own private benefit
but but decidedly for the ruin of the Rank of England. Now, in
so far as the Bank of England, as a bank of issue, is concerned
you you &one are the gainers. The people at large are the losers
ssfurprereolt
thatrie_
by the existence of the establishment in its functions of issue ;
and looking on it a; a close corporation, enjoyine certain
exclusive privileges, it is a matter of comparative indifference
to the nation ( it would, indeed, be much to their profit),
if the Bank of England, as a bank of issue, should cease
to exist. The Bank has private interests to promote. It
has to pay a large half-yearly dividend to its proprie-
tore, which has induced the managers to neglect their public
duties. The only common interest which the public have
with the proprietors of Bank Stock is, that while the charter
continues, while the Bank is entrusted with the management
of the currency, and is thns the mainspring of public
credit, that confidence in her stability should be un-haken;
and this cannot be the case unless the tariff on imports be mo-
dified as proposed *oy the Government. The joint-stock and
p ivate banks need not suppose that the public will retain con-
fidence in them, if they lose it for her ladyship. Unless she
has gold to meet a panic, it is plain enough they cannot sup-
ply it ; and if her head went fairly under water, they would
soon find it expedient to shnt shop. Supposing even that the
Utopia of every man his own money-coiner was to take place;
that every set of men who chose to start a bank should have
the right of issuing as much paper as they chose, subject only
to the check of weekly exchanges, it must be evident that,
under the existing depressed and decaying state of our trade
with the Continent, guld could not be kept in the country even
to pay their differences. A temporary filip might thus be
given to trade by increasing the amount of paper and inflating
Ptices, but it would merely be adding fuel to the flame—a fatal
aggravation of the evil, by a false show of prevent relief; the

hectic flush which plays in the cheek of consumption—that
delusive gleam of returning health—often brightest just before
the moment of dissolution. There is no effectual retnCly-fori
the decayof British manufacture, dr for the relief -of the thou
sands of hOuieless families who are starving in' cur -thickly-
peopled towns, but the emancipation of our commerce from
the shackles of monopoly There is no other way by which
gold can be kept to preserve the convertibility of the currency
—noother way by which the public credit can be maintained
inviolate—no other way by which the government of the
country can be conducted with permanence or success.
TIMES.-The English Stock Market has been in a quiet
state all day, and money was rather easier at 5 per cent.
The meeting of the Proprietors of the British Iron Company
took place to-day, Mr. Larpent in the chair, and was altoge-
ther a sternly affair, which is not to be wondered at, consider-
ing the disastrous losses that have accrued to those who em-
barked their capital in the undertaking. As was promised
in the circulars issued by the Directors, a statement was con-
tained in the report read of the settlement of the matters in
dispute between the Company and Mr. Attwood. As. they
say, they had on more than one occasion been fully au-
thorized to AO so if it was possible, they were now
happy to communicate the information of having effected
a permanent settlement. They have agreed to pay Mr.
Attwood 350,0001., and release him from all liability in
the two hundred shares which he held, in discharge of all de-
mands he made upon the Company. They have already paid
him 200,0001., and the remaining 150,0001. is to be paid on
the Ist of March, 1844, interest in the meanwhile to be allowed
u, on it at the rate of 5 per cent. They value their property,
machinery, &c., at 823,6041. 9s. 7d. ; stock in hand, cash and
bock debts, at about 60,0001. ; and the mineral production of
their estates at 45,0001. per annum. These valuations, they
state, had been prepared with much caution, for the purpose of
giving the beet information possible to the proprietary. The
report also contained a variety of accounts connected with the
company, but from none could be taught any estimate of the
liabilities as compared with these assets, but it was undersloo I
to be mentioned by the Chairman, that by this settlement with
Mr. Attwood an immense sum had been saved, considering
the amo tnt claimed, which would have swallowed up the
greater part of the assets The Report concluded with
a desire expressed on the part of the Directors to have
the tullest inquiry into their affairs, and it • was
agreed that it should be printed with the accounts, end sent to
ceery Proprietor. A discussion thin arose on the election of
two Directors to fill the vacancies occasioned by the retiring of
Mr. Larpent and Mr. Horsley Palmer, who, however, offered
themselves for 're-election. They both first ad iressed the
meeting, stating that without the fullest confidence could be
placed in them, and without the majority by which they were
elected was alarge one, they would be more content to re-
tire from the" scene altogether. Calumnies had been heaped
upon them, they were pointed at as the cause of all the ruin
of the concern, when, in fact, it was the lawsuit ill which the
Company had been engaged that had worked so di-as-
trtusly against its prosperity. Without it was t
great voice Of the meeting, they should wish to retire.
Some of the PrOprietors upon this expressed a wish that the
election shotild not take place till after 'he report was in the
'hant's of the general proprietary. They all would the.: have
the opportunity of examining it in detail, and of testing the
accounts, so that then an expression of confidence in the
Directors, or the contrary, as the case might be, could be given
upon satisfactory data. The mover for the re-election, not-
withstanding these objections, went so far as to pro, ose to the
meeting the insertion in the resolution of an eulogy upon the
characters of these gentlemen, but some strong remarks
against such a course, a:tered their determination, and
their election, as we understood it, was simply carried.
The meeting then adjourned to the early part of
June, which is the special meeting upon requisition, at which
is to be discussed the propriety of dissolving the concern, and
as which alstewill be appointed a Committee to investigate its
affairs. 111 e. Larpent said they were quite ready at once to
name parties, desirable persons, to form such a Committee.
o.i the other hand, some of the Proprietors said the appoint-
ment of a Committee should come from any other source rather
Than the Direction. A good dial was said during the business
of the validity Of the promissory notes issued by the Company
some contending that they were utterly worthless, and the Di-
rectors principally denying it.
It was a most unaccountable circumstance at this meeting,
that the Chairman (Mr. Larpent) expressed a most untena-
ble opinion, that the notice published of the affairs of the Bri-
tish Iron Compat y under this head was intended to effect a
political object. To show how completely the intention of
that notice was misunderstood, or rather perverted, it is only
necessary to bear in mind that it was nothing more than a de-
scrintion ofi circular issued by the " tTni'ed Shareholders," a
body who represent that they are composed of no le‘s than the
holders of 2;000 shares, and who are, in all probability, of every
shade of political opinion. Their objections to the settlement
with Mr. Attwood and to the promissory notes are on legal
grounds, and can be met by legal arguments alone. At ali
events the Directors will not make any favourable impression
of the goodness of their cause, if they stigmatize any attempt
m make public the objections of a large body of their prop ie-
tary as a political attack.
I'OST.—The English Securities were firm and steady
throughout the day.
We are sorry to have to state that some considerable failures
have been announced. A West India house in the City was
yesterday compelled to sespend payment, and, to-day, a firm
in the Brazilian trade was reduced to the same necessity. Two
houses at Manchester and one at Birmingham have to be
added to the number. A recent heavy failure ac Glasgow is
understood to have been b ought on by the circumstance of
the party, a manufacturing firm, having ventured to become
shippers, upon an extensive scale, on their own account. The
Manchester and Birmingham concerns here alluded to have
probably been imprudent enough to depart, in a like manner,
from their legitimate pursuits, as others have but too frequently
done before them, with the same sinister—we had almost said
the same well-merited—result.

LAW INTE LI _IGENCE.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, May 21.
(Before Commissioners REYNOLDS and BOWEN. )
IN RZ WILLIAM BROOKE.

The insolvent, who was a very aged man, applied to be dis-
charged under the benefit of the Act. He hid been a farmer
near Epsom, and ascribed his insolvency to a failure of crops
and fluctuating prices.
Mr. COOKE, on the part of certain creditors, opposed his
discharge, on the ground that the failed to account satisfac-
torily for the disposal of an annuity, which he inherited from
the late William Lake, Esq., of Epsom.

The insolvent, in his examination before the Court, said that
being indebted to a shopkeeper in Epsom, named Barton, he trans-
ferred the annuity to him in payment of his demand, After a
lengthened discussion between the counsel on both sides the
Court ordered the further investigation of the case to stand
over until Mr. Barton and one of the executors of NVm. Lake,
Esq., should be in attendance.
A number of unopposed cases were tried and applicants dis-
charged forthwith, but the investigations were entirely without
public interest.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREET.

Mary Bright, a young woman, apparently about nineteen
years of age, was placed at the bar, before Mr. Jardine,
charged w,th attempting to drown herself.
George Dangerfield, a labourer at Hungerford Market,
stated, that about four yesterday morning he saw the prisoner
walk down to the water at the foot of the stairs at litingerford
Market, and deliberately jump in. He immediately called to
another man, and they proceeded to the spot, and succeeded in
rescuing the prisoner frum her perilous situation, It was high
wafer at the time.

The prisoner, on being asked what she had to say, stated
she had been drinking. and that some time ago she received a
wound in her head, and whenever she took anything to drink,
she did not know what she was about.

The prisoner's sister here stepped forward, and said that the
prisoner lived with hers and that about two years ago she fell
down stairs, and fractured her skull, since which tune if she
took anything to drink she became totally unconscious of what
she did.

Mr. JARDINE directed her sister to take care of the pri-
soner in future, which she promised to do, and the prisoner
was discharged.

WORSHIP-STREET.

A sharp-looking boy, eleven years old, named James
Chick, was brought up for re-examination upon a charge
of stealing a piece of bacon from a shop in Shoredituh.
He was caught at a short distance -from the shop-with
•the-baoo%in=his possession, but he told the policeman;
and afterwards- - assured- the- Mfigistrate, that .he had
picked it up :from the pavement, and was going to take
it into a Mimi* few doorsf'ott; from Which he thtitight it
might have &Tie. When taken to the station-house, he
gave hisriiiihe Oliver Twist, and that, was believed to be
his flash name, amongst his companions. He was knewn
as. having, keen in
,custody before; and his father,
Richard ChiCk; was committed from this office, and exe-,
cuted -at the Old Bailey for a very. daring and extensive
burglary committed at a silk-mercer's in Crown-street;
Finsbury. Horley, the Chief Usher of the- Court, who
apprehended him, now informed the Allgistra. te of the
facts.

The prisoner's mother being brought forward at the
last examination, said that a gentleman had offered to
get him into the Philanthropic Institution ; and the
Magistrate having ascertained that the boy would be ad-
mitted, he was sent to the institution in charge of an
officer.

About twelve o'clock on Sunday last a most
daring robbery of jewellery, to a large amount, was committed
at the residence of Mr. Thomas Gelb the Coroner for West-
minster, in the village of Ickenham. It appears that while the
family were at 'Church the thief effected an entrance into the
premises, by breaking a square of glass in one of the parlour
windows, and, unperceived by the domestics, succeeded in car-
rying off several gold and silver watches, with gold chains, and
various other articles t,f jewellery, to the value of upwards of
1001. On the robbery being discovered, information was for-
warded to the police. Shortly afterwards a man was observed
near the Southall station coming up the line from the direc-
tion of West Drayton, and, on being told by one of the consta-
bles that he was liable to a fine for trespassing on the railway,
he said he wanted to go by the aext train to town, and at the
same time took out a gold watch to see what the time was,
which exciting the suspicion of the constable, who had heard of
the robbery, he took him to the clerk at the station. On the
arrival of the constable, he quesiioned the fellow as to who he
was and where he had come from, when, finding his answers
e asire, he took him into custody, and on searching him found
the whole of the stolen property in his possession While, con-
veying him to Hanwell, the prisoner, whose name is Robert
Heath, made a desperate attempt to escape, in which, had not
Mr. Vickery conic to the assistance of the constable, he would
have succeeded. On Monday he underwent an examination
before a Magistrate at Hanwell, by whom he was remanded for
the attendance of the necessary witnesses.
Yesterday the annual inspection of the house.
hold troops took place on the parade in St. James Park. The
fineness of the morning, coupled with a report that the Queen
and Prince Albert would be present, occasioned a large assembly
of people so early as nine o'clock. Soon, after that time the
battalions of the Grenadier, Coldstream, and Fusilier Guards.
n arched on the ground from their respective barracks, and
formed in line in front of the Horse Guards. A troll) of the
Life Guards followe2, and took their station by the Ticasury.
At half-past nine the Duke of Wellington rode upon the eround
with a numerous company of officers, including Lord Hill. and
Lord Cardigan. The Duke eas in he uniform of the Grena-
dier Guards. In a few minutes after Prince Albert arrived,
an I was tetended by his suite. The band flayed the national
anthem,
the great eman(l
th:iturao
square
so thenf
the
Royal Highness :eft the ground accompanied by the Duke of
ge, gri alarg
e
body Lord Hill, the Duke of Cambridge, d
body of officers iu eavnedn q
ou'ci•lnokektimhies
command. His Royal Highness, and the
Duke of Wellington, were mostenthusiastically cheered.
The number of fashio bl na es present has probably never been
exceeded.

We regret. to announce the awfully sudden death
of the Rev. Mr. Munro, Minister of Kiltearn, in Ross-shire.
The Rev. Gentleman had attended the celebration of the sa-
crament in Dingwall on Sunday last. After Divine service
he went to the manse, and while sitting en the sofa, engaged
in conversation on the sacred exercises of the day, his head
was observed Co drop to one side, and he instantly fell back
and expired. The church of Kiltearn is in the gift of the
Crown.—nnerntss Courier.

its.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S-OFFICE, MAY 19, 1841.
The
..lion. and -Sy. Edward Southwell ,Keppel has been
apppiwed, by tbe
.Queen's co7i ~,,,,,,,,,,,,, the Deputy
Clerks of the Closet to her Majesty., .

PRICES OF CANAL,DOCK,ASSUR- I
ANCE COMPANY SHARES &e. &c. &c.
f:LONUON; FRIDAY, MAY.2I.
SUthher DiTidsi d Price
of per CANALS. r er
Shares. Annum. Paid. Shut
',,766 7 pc: ccnt. Ashtcn & Oldham..Average97l.lB9,sh. 11x1
1,492 41. Ashby • de.le.Zouch .....As*crage 1131.5 h . 72
I, 60 nasingstoke 1001. sh. 5
j Jaz etc Brceknock end Abel gavenny l5O, . sr.. 02
0,001 I. 16th. 101 Birmingham, (.16th share ....8:/. & 711. 200
WOO
600 NI. Bridgewater and Taunton.lool.sh. all pi --
400 51. - Chelrner and 131ackwater ...... ...1001.sh. 191
500 321. Co ecntryl 1001.5 h. 600
Croydon. Average3 11.2 s 10d. sh • -
2,060 51. Os. Dudley ... 1001. sh. 04
609 131. Derby . lOO/. oh. :20
20,0 '0 4 per cent. Danube and illeyne ... ...... 411.135. 4d. pd : 3
3,5751 4' Elleeniore and Chester Averzge 133 ~sti. RI
231 621 Erell'3sil
1,297 301. Forth and Clydv....Averaeeit.ol. 16s. r . 610
11,000 8/. Grand Junction ... 1001.1, 107
2,049 e 958. Grand Onion lOOl. )1 i
1,500 .... ..... Grand Surrey
• 1,000/ 4/. percent. Ditto (optional) Loan. 1001.
096 Grand Western
600 13/.los. 01. 01; Invirgen:hirc, Aver. cost 1701. 135.42. 2',.0
749 l'2l. (IrenThem 159/. sh. 1-0
6,238 9/. Os. timid( roil Ad kr erage :,/1. es. (13, 9h 27
100 Kensingtoo lOO sh. all pd 10
2.;329 11.10 s. Kennet ;nd Avon, Av. 091. 'As. 104. sh 04)4
11,6991 I/. 7s. Lancaster Average 471. (,s. Sd 27%
2,5197 e Set. Locus and Liverpool lOO/. sh 100
545 f ill. Leicester 11))1. it 1:,1
1.897 51.9 s I.o;cester & Norte.amptonAver Ol/, tit 7:3
2,1(9 1331 Monrimuthshire lOO/.01 .'I/3
2010 101. Melton Mowbray ...... ....- ..... , 100/. eh. ice
501) 05/. Merseyaid Irwell . . , . l9O/.sh. 5:5
3,003 2!. lits. Maeciest'eld lool.oh. all p 2 1143,4
247 171. Neath '0:'I .R 3., 300
2.400 51. Peak Forest Avei.go about 7AU.sh. ;:l't
01.418 . Ss. Regent's (or London) Av. 3:',1.1134.E3. sh. 90
5,069 ce, Icchdale Average e.5/.,:11 8'!
500 81. Shropshire ITS/. sh. 1.37
so° 16!. Os. Somerset Coal
3,000/. it per cent Ditto Lork Fund Steck ...... -NI. 11'e. oh. II ie
700 or:. Stafford and Worcester.... ........ 111,1.5 h. CO t
530 .51 Shrcwsbitry 12=0,.5h„ 2e(()
3.0 1)!. Staurliridge ..... ..- e 1451.5 h. 396
3,047 21. Os. Si iatfurd.on- Av,d, A. 1er....791. :VS. (+CI. sh 35
333 1241 Stso.o iea 1e01.4 h. eli;)
1,76:2 2'. 10s. Se t ern and Wye and Railway A r.35t. sh. 45
0,6003511. 02/. 10s. Trent and Mersey, 4 share ION. -sh. 5 0
4,149 Thames. an..l eltdway Av. 191. Ss. Bd. sh. 2
1,0005h.1 ,61 Warwmk aid Wrmirzahem lool.in 240
I,ooo}l 11.5 "
900 13. Was wick and 3apt..n* 1000. sh. 164
7000 4! Woreeslsr & Birmingh sin A v. 701.85. eh 55
4.c0,7 320. Wilts and Berks Av.-rare 671. 108 62. sh. 21
C,Oll 6,. W),/0v and Essington '251. sh '74
.26 ....... ev oitricn --".:' 3h. 511
905 1/. NVey and Ann). llOl. .n . 2."}y
DOCKS.
‘2.6°° * 3is C. Commerc al 'o3!. oh. IS},
1,065e5h. , •
5 par vest. East and West India Stork flii
3./36,310V. :1 p ct. Le-odor ......Stock 711
Ditto liunds
2,209 3!. 6s. 54. Bristql Average 11°1. Ils. sh. 75
111,324/. 51.pcecent. Ditto Nunn., various atnaunt, WA
1,152.752 5 percent. St. Katharine ''ock :07
500,0410 41 per cent. Int In Bonds
209.000 4 per cent. Dittn Bonds for 10 years ....... .
SRI:WES.
1,600 I/. Hammersra iti • 5O/. ite 21
1,231 Southwark, Ohl.. ...... Av. ('33/. •;:s Oil. sh. 3„
1,700 IL 15s. Ditto, New, of 711 par cent. 019. sh. 16
~,noo .... ..... Waterloo.... lO/. oh. :,,y2
5,000 •20s. 0:1 Ditto, Old Anituities of 5' CO/. re,' 21
.5,01") 190. 3d,
Ditto, New Ditto of 71. .... ..... 40/, pd 181
011,0001 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds
5,849 065 Vauxhall .......„Avorage 701. 105.131. sh 26
A:3OURA NCI, COMPAN:ES.
2,000 3110 s Albion ... 'Sc'!. sh. 50/. pd :2
51,000 16 Per mit
, '1 Alliance British nForeignloo/.sh. 111. pd 14
am, 15s. .
50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, 51 4 rine l3lO/. sh. 5e pd .5
24,060 61. per sh. Atlas 591. sh. s'. pd 14"•1.
1,90015 h. 5/. flirraingliem l• ire '5O/. oh. SW. pc] 107%
/0,000 4/. per cent. British Fire 050/. sh. 501. pd 40
11,000 61 per cent. tritish Commcrcial .. ....... sq. ~, tie pd 514
5,000 5!. per cent. Clerical & MeLiical Lite, 100/.010 '2/ lrls pd 414
4,090 3/ Os County
20,000 Is. Eagle. 501. sh. 51. pd 5
903 15 per cent.) ..., , „ Lilt
and nos bs. i "'""l•c
2,271 228. percent. Euroecsii Li • 5571. oh. all pd 52
50,000 9s. Ditto, Non, -e,.4101; sh. V. jowl 1%
•,000,000/. 6/. ne rct Globe 'Mock 113
23,0110 bN G uer4 ten
33,000 4a. O.! Hope 5O/. oh. 5!. pd 0%
2,400 51. 12, 62. limier!, 1 Fire 5OO/. sh. 501. pd 133
7,500 Os. Imperial Lilt. lOOl. sh. IW. pd 10
13;150 5/. percent. Indemnity biorlne 100?. oh. fis, pd 0,..,0
2,020 31 lOs Keet Fire • • -50/. sh. alll4l 02
3!.. Ditto Life s')/. pd 0.6
10,000 Ilis, Law Life • lOOl. eh. 101. ' lid 30%
5,000 IN. London, Fire 25/. oh. Id!. 10s. pi; 1856
3,900 10s. London, Ship - 25/. sh. 12/. 10s. pd 183,i
LOOO,OOO/. ... ..... blinvrva I.ieo , ...1(x)1. oh.
510,0001.
34,000 5/. per cent. Palladium Lit* 5O!. sh. 21. pd 0/ 6s
53,000 51. per rent. l'rotevtor LI oil' sh. 2/.1-1 :& 6d
10,000 4 per cent. Protestant o.nssenters ....1(0/.. oh. Si. pd 5%
0,500 11. Provii.ent Lite
en c,( (0 Os. fd. Rock Life y. pd 3N
81,2'201 5/. per e :mt. Royal Exch.togs
e,0014 5 per cent University Life 100/. sh. 5!. pi' Ali
10,000 4 per cent. United Kinedorn Life. 1001, oh. 51. pd 73
JOINT STOCK 13A 10 tes,
25,1100 Agric. znd Cum. of Ireland2sl. sh. IN. pd
10,000 g per cent. Australasia 4(11. sh. 401.;.4 59
10,031 10 per cent. Bank of Bit ..n.inghe.m 51'!. sh. 101. lei 10.7" e
10,000 IQ per cent. flirminghtlrn Wink .- 5Ol. sh. RV. lei It, 34
31,"100 6 per cent. Lcindon & Westminster MO/ oh. 20/.lpd 22,te
60,000 51. London Joint Stoc" 501. sh. 101. pd 10
3,000 4 per ovnt. Lancaster • 'OOl sh. 40/. (4 50
25,0(10 1,; per cent. Livtaponl If'O/ oh. 1241. lid 13
50,000 74 per cent Manchester anti Liver ] 501.0. 151 pd ioli
pool Distrizt
20,000 7 per Der t. Manchester lOO4. sh. 101. pd
20,000 Bpe ecnt. Provincial Bank of I relandlool. sh. 25/.0 42
11,000 ti ,er icnt National Bank of Ireland 50/. sh. 1731. pd 14
10,000 6 per cent National Prov ~clal Eng.looo sh. 35!. pd 051,4
111,005 ...... ... Ditto New 404. oh, 10/ pd 10%
Kl,OOO Gloucestershire .0/. sh. II)!, pd 32
6,000 lOper cent. Harripshire 5O/. sh. 5/. nd 9
GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES.
2,500 16s Od Oath 201. sh. 114, pd 22
5,000 British .40/, sh. 161. pd 1814,
"°°ls2:tti.rcleics.ers:l Ditto Provincial 2Ol. oh. 11.1. pd 25
928 5! lOs Birmingham 50/. oh. 1.13
1,250 21 Os Bristol ooi sh. 06
9,250 2/ 10s Bri e WWI "01. oh. 131
750 31 lOs Ditto, New 2lll. sh. 15/. pd 9
2,471 43 nee cent. Brighton General 2O/. sh. all pd 9
1,000 71.118. Continental Consolidated ....75/. 601./.pd 100%
1,000 10!. City of London.. ....... ....100/. sh. all pd 195
1,000 61. Ditto New 100/. sit. 75/. pd 150
4,000 3/.os. Eon s tal;le 50/. pd 50
.10,000 31. per cent. Itripert,l 58/. sh. 10%
MO st. per cent. Isie "1 Thane' 25/. sh. 20!. pd 10%
2,1350 61. per cent. I micnendent 00/. sh. all r., 49
0,000 40. per cont. Phoenix 5O/. sh. 391. pd 34
1,000 41. per cent. B.,teliff lOO/. sh. HO/. pd (034
,000 South et,tropolitan 559. sh. 19/. pd lii
iO,OllO 51. per cyst. Untied Geueral 50!. sh. 47!. pd rime
240 51. per cent. Warwick 5Ol. oh. 50
400 51. per cent Wattefteld , 25/. sh. 22
11,000 3/. Westminster Chartered ..... 5O/. sh. 59
6,000 125 Ditto New 5(/. oh, 101. pd 11 3%
7/0 3 per cent. Yarmouth 2Ol. sh. 18/. pd
W ATER. 'WORKS
1,900 3)0. Birmingham 25/. sh. est. pei 21
1,4e3 71. Fas! London 100/.511. 161
5,5(0 2/ 15s. GratiriJiniCtiell Average 41/ Lls. 4d. sh. 61
2,000 2/. Kent 100/. sh. 46%
372 10/. Li v ermol Bootle 2201. sh. 3211
1,500 2110 s flea River London Bridge Water Ann... 60
6,446 2/ les Manchester and Salford 109/.Bh. 55%
1,000 5 per cent. South London
5,2114 41/. West Aliddleux Average 63701125. 9d. sh. 91
1.360 1114 s York Building (,o. Lessee Prop. 1001, sh. 35
IRON RAILWAYS.
6,300 Birmingham and Derby ..... lOO/ pd 6015
0,500 Birmingham and Gloncester 1(0/. pd t 9.%
.15,1100 Bristol and Exeter 1001. sh. 00 pd 3714
7,500 Cheltenham &G. Western 100/.sh. 62 el 3066
3,009 Clarence 100/. oh. 100/ pd 3 )
8.000 Dublin tan! Drogheda 1001. sh. 5/. pd
.50,005 Eastern Counties 25/. Si). 2:3/. pd 614
10,00,3 .
Great North of England 100/. sh. 90i. pd 7,
10,918 14 per cent. (Iran! Junction lOOl. sh. all pd St 4
25,000 ...... ... Great Western 1001. sh. 65/. pd 13%
25,000 ...... ... Ditto New 00/. sh. 00/. pd 64
3,000 per cant Gosport Junction... 50/. sh. 40!. pd 47
2,000 b per cent. Hartlepool 100/. eh. 1(5(1!. pd 14562
5,000 Hull and Selby 5Ol. oh. 501, pd 1:71
2,160 4/. per coat. Leeds and Selby 100 sh. 85%
5,1041 10 percent. Liverpool& Manchester 101./.sh. 100/. pd les
7,969 10 per cent. Ditto Half Shares
11,495 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares 251. pd 4.'n
40,000 ... ...... London and Brighton 501. sh. 501 pc' V%
94,000 London and Blackwall 25/. sh. 25! pd 18%
20,000 :3 per cent. London and Greenwich O.O/. s:4„ tilt! pd 8 4
25,000 8 per cent. London !iz Birmingham 100/. sin 90/. pd 159 •
25,001 Ditto Quarter Shares ....251. sh. 5/ pit 23
31,251 Di t o New Shares '3'l. sh. 30/. pd 5204
351,0e0 5 per cent. London and S. Western Av. 381, 17s. lid. 54
33,900 London and Croydon} Av. 13/. 155.. . IA.
ocl 133"
Ditto New Sci it..
13,000 3 per cent. Blanchester and eeds„.lool. sh. '7O/. pd 13
11,000 ..
10000 Manchester and Birtnisigham 701.01.40!. 214
... ..... Ditto Extension 7l pd 211
10,noo ... ...... Midland Counties 001. sh. 10'/, pd 08
. 15,000 ...... ... North Midland
... : ....... ' o•Ditto 4"4lew 401. rd 340 e
5,128 , .......1 Narthcr4 arid Eastern...lo6l. oh. 50!. To vta
e.,6041 0 ~......... Preston and Wyre 5O/, &b. 20/...pd • :16 ,
aO,OOO Sala 5 Eastern aniEDMier '33/. psilo%
1,000 10/. per cent. Steckton and Darlington ' .. ... . .c.1310.5h. 275
0,000 Thames. Haven .....,. . 50/.,ah 5/. pd
11,000 York and North Midland 50 . oh. 501. pd 73
• ,' : MINES. .
13,000. • ' ' Albion Copper is/. a 0 41. pd .12
4,0(X) U. Ss.. . • Alton l5/. sh 12/.44 rpd 111
10,000 ~..:...- Anglo Mexican,iss. 5/. pm.loo/. sh. a' e d 1%
Ditto, subscription ... ....... .... ........ 00 1
2,000 •: 119. Bolanos, ISO!. sh all p 1 35
13,000 U. 10s ' . Brazi oan Imp. iss. 51. pm... 351. sh. 2.1)/. pd 5
6,000' - . 'Mac:tubas et (,ocaes United 2:.1.Ah.2n1. pri 6
11,000 • -
I'_.ooo Bolivar Copper Company 204 sh. 20/.•pd 1
`lO,OOO ••...•••' Ditto Scrip lO4, pd 2
20,000
.0..... British Iron lOO/. sh. 601 pd
,000 Bit io h Copper W. sh. 441. pd I'f,
Ci.'s Br .nea 64/. pd Des,
Candonga. 7;l. pd 5
In,ooo • 11 Copiapo
8,500 ... Columbian, i.os. 51. pm. 551. sh. 551. pd ose
2,850 0/. English l4/. Cs. pd 2
20,000 General Mining Association2o/. sh.lB/. pd I%
6,155 Mexican Company lOO/. sh. 071/ pa 6
3000 Poltcrou Consols lO/. sli. 8/. pd 4
11,500 Real del Monte, Uniegistered 214
Ditto Loan Notes 150/. pd 160
13,000 Unites! Mexican, iss. 2 pm. 401. sh, all pd 254
DAM Scrip 314
Ditto New Scrip 51 pd 4
West Cork 5Ol. sh 501, pd 38
LICk.:I3.A ItY INSTITUTIONS.
1.000 ........ London, with Bronze Ticket ...75gs. sh. In
1,500 London University lOO/. sh. all pd 7
300
- • King' College lOOl. 1834
MISCELLANEOUS.
10,Y1: Iss. A iistvalian Aericultural.lool. sh. 281. pd 09
6,)0C 1. percent. British American Land Company 3'. i.. pd
10,0t.0 6;. per ce,i. caneda Company 1059. sh. 24. pd :31
40,000 51. eer cent. Upper Cana • a Loan
City nonds, 4 or cent
20,009 I/. (Is. 0 enerel Steam Navigatieit 15/. .., h. 14/. pd 2411
10/.per cont. Hudson's Bay Stock
,1000 U. London Corn. Sale Rooms... Av. 75e sh. 19
,(O,IC Canetchotic Company 123!. pd 1•l
New Itrunsn irk Land Cortina •y... 501 pd 12
2,154 5/. per cost Itev ersietiary Int. 50c...100/. oh 11(0!. pd 104
0 re) 5!. per cent. Ditto New 'OO/. sh. 100'. pd 107
.0
4,0(e) Thames Tunnel • 50/. oh. ell sel iil
0,000 6s. van Di e. nen's Lanii....loo/. oh. 1741. pd 0%

LIST of SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES
MAY 19. 1841,
B AN KS.

1,000,1104/. 6/, p. et, flank 0: ScotlAnd...63/. 6s. bd. sh, ail pd i 59
2,060,00 C/. 6 p. et. Royal of Scott; nd 1001. sh. all pd 154
500.000/. S p. ct. British Lipen Company 100/.sh. an pd i.. 4,4
500,0001. 61_ •.). et. Commercial 5OOl. sh. ISO!. pd 169
500,090/. 6n. ct. Notional lOOl. Ah. 101. pd 1144
54;11,00(4/. 71. p. et. Glasgow Union 250/. sl. 50/. pd Se%
1,000.0001. 6p. ct. Western of Scotland 2001. sh 401. pd 72%

I NSU It A NCE COMPANIES.
,5,..0005h 61p. ct. stottlsh Limon 201... h. 11. pd '241 0
7,500 7p. et. Hercules lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 13L
101,,i100 r, p. ct. InAcrancf,Ce. of Scotland .10/.,h. all pd It'
50,0i)0 Bp. ct. North British 2OO/. sh. 104 pd 17
1,000 Bp. ct. C2.ledontalt Vire 100/. sh. 101. pd '2O
5,000 t p. Ct. Fain:m:o WO/. sh. 10/. pd
100,000 31 p. rt. West of Scotland lO7. pd