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to generation. That germ must be blasted, that
sound must be silenced : those were the necessities—
and Cracow was destroyed.
Now, the question at present under the considera-
tion of the Legislature is not whether this annexa-
tion of Cracow to the Austrian dominions be
a positive infraction of the stipulations en-
tered into by the contracting parties at the Congress
of 1815. That is indisputable. The very protests
forwarded from the Foreign-office, the very language
uttered by her Most Gracious MAJESTY, the very
expressions used by the members of the Administra-
tion, were to the effect that it was a direct and
monstrous infringement of those stipulations. The
question propounded by Mr. IlniuE is this—whether
England is not justified in refusing to pay any
further instalments of the Russo-Dutch Loan ?
" That is the question." Since 1816 we have paid
to the Russian Government, on this score, no less
an amount, in hard cash, than 3,374,0001. "A
pretty fair amount from a distressed country," says
the Hon. Member for Montrose. So say we. Our
lestimated surplus for the next financial year is not
more than 60,0001., and that we cannot but regard
as a rather sanguine estimate. Shall we then, in
this moment of embarrassment, continue to pour into
the exchequer of a perfidious power monies which 1
we have only engaged to pay so long as she preserves
unbroken the compact of the Congress of Vienna ?
Has she not already broken that solemn compact, and
rendered it ipso facto a dead letter ? It contracts itself
to that consideration. If so, then are we relieved
from the moral obligation of disbursing any more of
this Russo-Dutch Loan. That is manifest. Tne problem,
therefore, t.) be decided by Parliament is this—" Has
Russia rendered the Treaty of Vienna a dead letter?"
Supposing that problem be solved by an affirmative
then may we refuse, without any diminution of our
credit, to continue our annual contributions to the
revenues of NICHOLAS; but not otherwise. We are not,
however, amazed at the catastrophe of Cracow.
Arising from the Treaty of Vienna, we are reminded
of the gathering of figs from thistles.

The frequency with which the delinquencies of the
police force are brought under public notice becomes
perfectly repulsive. No sooner has one objectionable
act by one or more of this corps been exposed, arid
subjected to such merited censure, either by the
magistracy, or by the ordinary channels of public
opinion, or by both these authorities combined, so as to
justify the hope of our being spared the repetition of
similar grave offences, than another is laid on the
lapis in very mockery, as it were, of so delusive an
expectation. As we have before now often remarked, it
would be idle to suppose but that among so numerous
a body of men, constantly augmented in order that
their efficiency may be equal to the exigencies occa-
sioned by a rapidly increasing population, some of
them will be found from time to time to abuse the
authority with which they are invested, and to be
guilty of most opprobrious conduct. The infirmities
of human nature preclude us from harbouring the
conviction, that, do what we may, the rights and
liberties of the subject, and the ends of justice itself,
will be faithfully guarded and sustained in every in-
stance by those upon whom we have the best claim
for protection to property, liberty, and life. We
cannot dispense with a police force, and must there-
fore remain liable to isolated acts of aggression, in-
vasive of the rights of the people, and subversive of
public morals, by the very men who are employed
and paid to preserve and promote both the one and
the other. 'The only remedy we have against such
treachery under the guise of authority, and which,
from those who occupy the bench in our
different courts, superior and subordinate, we natu-
rally expect to see most rigidly enforced is, that when
the members of a corps, constituted to aid in the
prevention of crime, themselves become criminal,
they should be visited with severe and exemplary
punishment. But whilst we lament the way in which
the police have for some time past loosened the hold
which they had upon the confidence of the public, by
reason of the nefarious practices in which they have
been proved to have engaged themselves, when we con-
sider the case to which we are about to allude,
our wonder is that their crimes have not been
more numerous. In truth this may have
been the case, of which, to its real extent, the public
have been prevented from coming to the knowledge,
in consequence of the opportunities possessed by the
police of shielding their colleagues, and of which, it
is notorious, they have not scrupled to avail them-
selves. By what follows it will be seen that a latent
poison has been suffered to remain in the very system
itself, entirely destructive of all moral energy, and
directly tending to undermine, through the tempta-
tions thrown in their way, and the lures held out to
them by the authorities of a public department, every
qualification desirable for the proper discharge of
their important functions.
In the Central Criminal Court, on the 3d inst.,
before the Chief Baron, a man and a woman were
indicted for feloniously having had in their possession
a mould calculated to make counterfeit coin. When
the case for the prosecution was closed,—which pre-
sented evidence of so inconclusive a character that
the Chief Baron declared it to be insufficient to war-
rant the counsel for the prisoners addressing the
Court,—the subjoined was elicited by Mr. PAYNE
and the Judge :
" Mr. Payne, far the prisoner—How did you come to be
sent to this place ? Brennan said he went in pursuance of
written instructions from the Mint solicitor.

" In answer to further questions from the Learned Counsel,
the sergeant said that officers who were witnesses for the
➢lint were not paid according to the usual scale, but received
as much as ss. and 7s. a day for their attendance.
" The Chief Baron asked the witness whether he received
7s. a day for his attendance at the Court ? He replied that
he did.

"The Chief Barcn then inquired whether he received that
7s. in addition to his pay as sergeant of police, and he replied
in the affirmative.
" The Chief Baron asked him the amount of his pay ? The
sergeant replied 255. per week.
"The Chief Baron—And the Mint pay you nearly double
when you are employed by them."

Comment upon the above is rendered superfluous.
The summing up of the Chief Baron and the verdict
speak volumes. We cannot do better than extract
them from the report of this singular trial :

" His Lordship then addressed the jury, and in the course
of his observations said he could not understand how such
a mode of payment of witnesses by the Mint had originated,
but he must expresi his opinion that it was highly improper.
He could not see why a person who was in the service of the
public as a police-officer should receive double the amount
of his pay in that capacity when engaged as a witness for the
Mint, and although ke would not go the length of saying
that it would induce men to commit the horrible crime of
getting up cases against innocent parties for the sake of ob-
taining that additional allowance, yet soar as his experience
went as a criminal judge, he must say that did not think it safe
for persons in that capacity to be so paid by the Mint, anti he
said this in the hearing of the authorities of that establish-
ment, because he thought it was a practice that should be
discontinued.

" The jury immediately returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
and the foreman said that the jury entirely concurred in the
observations of his Lordship with regard to the mode adopted
by the Mint of paying the witnesses, and trusted it would not
be acted upon in future."

We have purposely abstained from going into the
merits of the case, as affecting the guilt or innocence
of the parties tried, because we are satisfied that no
English jury would convict persons, were the evi-
dence ever so clear, so long as the system, which hap-
pily has been herein exposed, shall be suffered to con-
tinue. We have no doubt of its being immediately
abandoned. Our surprise is, that it should ever have
been sanctioned.

The Chief Baron and the jury deserve the warmest
commendation for the unqualified reprehension which
they respectively cast upon the authorities of the
Mint.

course, is the production of one head originally—he
calls to his assistance one or two others, and they
resolve on their proceeding. Then comes the pros-
pectus containing the names, it may be of 50, 100, or
even 200 highly respectable noblemen and gentle-
men, merchants, and traders, who give their written
consent to he placed on the committee. The next
thing is to obtain credit with tradesmen and others ;
one supplies the stationery, another advertises the
concern in the newspapers, and thus the public are
induced to fake shares in the project; engineers and
surveyors are set to work to prepare the necessary
plans for Parliament ; the stationer prints the share
certificates and supplies the paper, the advertising
agent is employed to announce to the world the
names of the committee, the objects of the company,
and, perhaps, that no further applications for shares
in the " important" undertaking will be received
after a given day, &c., &c. The shares are allotted,
go into the market at a premium, and all goes on
swimmingly; each of the committee helps his friends
and himself to allotments, his own claim bAng sel-
dom less than 200, and often a much larger number,
which during the palmy days of speculation he
usually disposed of, say at 20s. premium, at once ob-
taining a clear profit of at least 2001. The shares in
the companies projected in 1845 did not, however,
stop at such a premium there were instances
of their coming out at 51., and going up
even to 91. premium, and the committeemen
cleared enormous profits. Such an appeal to the
cupidity of mammon-hunters was responded to as
might have been expected; numbers launched into
every project, hoping that these golden days would
last; but a change came over the scene. The 25th
of October, 1845, ushered in the panic in all its
terror, the golden dreams of the committeemen
vanished, and many of those very gentlemen fled
to foreign lands, to avoid the responsibilities
they had incurred. Who were the sufferers? The
tradesmen, advertising agents, and engineers. The
secretary had obtained credit of those parties on the
strength of the solvency and acknowledged respect-
ability of those whose names appeared on the list of
the provisional committee. The day of reckoning
came at length ; those very gentlemen who had per-
haps realised large sums by their connexion with the
project repudiated all liability ; the parties who gave
them credit, and who had paid away large sums of
money on their behalf, in the full belief of their
solvency and honour, were set at defiance, and the
only means left to the unfortunate creditor was to
bring actions, and to plunge into a doubtful litigation
in order to recover the amounts of his fair demands.
The judges now rule that the committeeman is not liable,
inasmuch as he did not give the orders to the plain-
tiffs to do the work, and therefore they must look to
the parties who gave them the orders. The secretary
and solicitor are then to be attacked, and
made responsible for all the debts, men who
were what ?—the " servants" of the committee ! !
You might just as well turn round upon your baker,
and those who have supplied you with the necessa-
ries you required, and say, I shan't pay ; I didn't
order the bread; look to the party who ordered it—
" the servant." Is that servant to pay for what you re-
quired, and for what .you did, or expected to, derive
benefit from? The thought is preposterous. The judges,
then, rule that the committeeman is not liable, unless
he gives the orders himself. Well, to illustrate this
phase of the affair, let us suppose a company where
there were 150 provisionals—loo out of them happen
to live perhaps 60 or 100 miles away from the
offices of the company. Were all these men
to walk to the tradesmen and request them
to do such and such things necessary to bring
the affairs of the company to a successful issue?
They would have laughed at the idea. They left
those things to the secretary and other appointed
officers, their servants; and are they, because they
were not the parties actually ordering everything, to
be let off?
Again, the judges rule that where there is a ma-
naging committee the provisional committee are not
liable ! What was the managing committee ? The
servants of the provisional. By whom appointed ?
By the provisional committee. And then we are
told, forsooth, that they (the managing committee)
are the parties liable for all the debts of the company
—men acting for others to pay their employers' debts !
The secretaries, solicitors, and managing commit-
teemen were the employees of the provisional com-
mittee; and fur their acts, in the fair construction of
the common law of master and servant, principal and
agent, the provisional committee, and every in-
dividual member thereof, is liable. And yet we find
judges stating to juries for their guidance, "that pro-
visional committees were composed of persons who
merely registered their approval of the schemes."
Would they have been contented with merely regis-
tering their approval if any profit had accrued ?
Would they not have gone in for their
share? Would they have been satisfied
by the company saying, "We only had
your names as sanctions to our scheme ?" No; they
would have claimed (as they would have been en-
titled to do) their dividends, and demanded as a right
further large allotments of the reserved shares.
If I employ a servant, I am answerable in law and
justice for all his acts as my servant. Hence, if my
carter runs over a man, and breaks his leg, the in-
jured man has a right of action against me for
damages. How absurd, then, appears the ruling of
our judges, who de facto assert that the act of the ser-
vant is not binding on the master.
The provisional committeemen area coparcenary
with others, carrying on business, that business,
being railway making; and if the business fail, each
man's estate ought to be liable, as it would be in a
common bankruptcy.
Now let us look at the opinions h&d by those very
judges. In the beginning of 1846 we find Baron
PARKE, in a case tried at Maidstone, thus reported :
" Mr. Baron PARKE told the jury that by consent-
ing to act as a provisional Committeeman the defend-
ant gave authority to the secretary to give all orders
for matters which were necessary for the promotion
of the company, and that therefore the defendant was
answerable for orders so given ; and left it to the jury
(as the only question) to say whether those orders
were so given."
'The Lord Chief Baron, in another case in his own
Court, June 25, 1846, said—" If a person gave his
consent to have his name placed before the world,
that Act would authorise his being held out as a
person who would be answerable for the payment of
all necessary expenses. If that were done there
could be no doubt of the liability of the defendant."
Again, on July 4,—" The Lord Chief Baron, in
leaving a similar case to the jury, said that if there
had been any doubt of the defendant having been a
member of the committee, his own letter, which had
been produced, would at once have satisfied them of
the fact. Now, no man, having once been put forth
to the world as a member of a committee, which
committee was put forward as the responsible portion
of a concern, could withdraw his name, and so get rid
of his liability, unless that withdrawal were brought
under the regular notice of the public at large, and
the persons having claims on the company informed
thereof. That did not appear to have been done in
the present case. If, therefore, they were of opinion that,
by giving his consent to become a member of the
committee, he had authorised the officers of the com-
pany to hold him forth amongst others as one who
had consented to become liable for the preliminary
expenses, it would be their duty to give a verdict for
the plaintiff."
These are only a few of the cases where the judges
have laid down the law as in a partnership. In these
cases verdicts were returned for the plaintiffs.

Lord DENMAN, in charging the jury in a case in
December last, said, after the case of WILD V. Hop.
XINS had been quoted, " That he certainly would not
nonsuit the plaintiff. lie had read the judgment re-
ferred to, and did not think that it dictated to him
the course that had been suggested. The Court
might not understand the meaning of the term pro-
visional committeeman as a matter of law, but it
must mean something. If two men put their names
over the door of a house of business as partners they
held themselves out to the world in that character,
and took upon themselves its liabilities."
Again, on December 22, after a few prefatory re-
marks, he said, "If a man, for instance, authorised
another to build a house for him, the necessary impli-
cation was that he also gave him authority to procure
the materials necessary for the construction ; and so,
if a man authorised another to act in the constitution
MOH, company, it would be inferred that he extended

the authority to all such operations as we ity-115-
pensable to the constitution of the company, although
to nothing which was beyond that necessity."
In a case tried a few weeks since the judge told the
jury that the provisional committeeman was not
liable, and they returned a verdict that he was not
legally, but that he was morally liable. Also, in a
case recently tried at Drogheda, in Ireland, the judge
said that the Court of Exchequer ruled that a pro-
visional committeeman was not liable, unless he gave
the orders, and therefore they must nonsuit the plaintiff.
The jury could not, however, agree to this, retired,
and on returning in a quarter of an hour, asked the
judge whether it was justice or law they were to
consider. If they were to consider the honesty of
the case, they could not agree to a verdict for the
defendant.

We find, then, in these matters, the laze opposed
to justice. Is it to remain so ? Are men still to be
shielded from the consequences of their own acts ?
It is to be hoped that this state of things will not
continue, and that our judges may deal out justice
simultaneously with law; otherwise who can foresee

the end of these contradictions, which in reality con-
stitute a judge, however unwittingly, a defender of
those seeking to evade the payment of their just and
honest liabilities ?

The Vorort of Switnerland has addressed to the Go-
vernment of Lucerne a remonstrance against the as-
sumption of independence of that body manifested by
the military organization at Lucerne, and has also ad-
dressed a circular to the cantons generally, in which
the Vorort de,Aares that it is contrary to the constitu-
tion of the federation for any one canton to call for mili-
tary aid from another canton, or to send its troops
into another canton, even when applied to for that pur-
pose, without first obtaining the assent of the Federal
Directory.

The German Universal Gazette publishes the following
letter from Warsaw:—

" The Russian Government,. fearing, no doubt, that the
passage in the speech of the King of the French and that of
the Queen of Great Britain, relative to the suppression of
Cracow, might produce too great a sensation in this city, has
commanded the censors to suppress that passage in the
national journals, and to cut the paragraph out of all foreign
journals previous to their delivery to their address. The
passage in the speech of the King of the French relative to
the treaty of commerce and navigation concluded with
Russia, has likewise been suppressed, the Emperor not wish-
ing that his subjects should be acquainted with his relations
wilh foreign countries."
A letter from Berlin, dated 22d ult., says—

"It has been this day decided that Prince Solms-Hohen-
solms-Lich is to be president of the General Diet, which
opens on the 11th April. It is said that in all communica-
tions and official documents the nobles will be designated as
the First Assembly,' and the members of the three other
states as the Second Assembly.' The last will have for
president M. de Rochow de Stulpe, Marshal of the Court.
It was stated at one time by the newspapers, that Count
('Arnim de Boitzenburg, late Minister of the Interior, would
be Marshal of the Diet. He was, in fact, nominated to that
post by the King, but positively refused to undertake the
duties.'

Madrid papers of the 26th ult. have arrived.
The President of the Council declared in the Chamber
of Deputies on the 25th that the Government had no in-
tention of superseding General BRETON in Catalonia-
lie further pledged the Cabinet not to contract the loan
unless the measure should be of absolute necessity.

General SANZ is to be appointed Captain-General of
Grenada, General MANSO, of Valencia, and General
PAvIA is to have the Government of Castile.

The Gaceta publishes the royal decree sanctioning
the union of the banks of San Fernando and Isabel.
The eapital of the new bank was fixed at 400,000,000
reels (4,000,000/. sterling), and its duration at twenty-
fire years.

The quarrels between the QUEEN and her husband,
Don FRANCISCO, have attained to such a height that
concealment any longer is impossible. The QUEEN her-
self expresses her abhorrence of her husband, and
scruples not to speak openly with disgust of his infirmi-
ties, physical and moral. CHRISTINA interferes and
supports her daughter ; Don FRANCISCO DE PAULO
supports his son, and these respective parties vent their
exasperation in language of the coarsest character,
and, according to the last accounts, CHRISTINA
is about to retire to France. In the mean-
while a Carlist outbreak on a large scale is in pre-
paratice. Several towns in Biscay, Catalonia, and Na-
varre have been already gained. These are the first
fruits of the Montpensier marriage.
MADRID BOLSA, FEB. 26.—The Three per Cents. were
done at 291/2 for cash ; the Five per Cents , at 191 A ; the
Debt without Interest, at 6; and the Coupons, at 17.

We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday.

The Courrier Francais says:—" To celebrate their
rec•rnciliation, M. Guizor will in a few da)s give to
Lord NORMANDY a grand dinner, to which the whole of
the corps diplomatique will be invited."
We find it stated i❑ the same journal, that an attache
from the French Foreign-office had been dispatched to
Tunis on a special mission. He is said to be the
bearer of the reply of the Frtnch Government to the
application of the BEY for support against the SULTAN.
The French policy in Greece is beginning to produce
its fruit. COLETTI, the Franco-Greek Minister, acting
under the orders of M. PISCATORY, the French Am-
bassador, has refused to give satisfaction to the Turkish
Ambassador for a gross insult which had been offered
to him by OTIIO, and the Ambassador has very properly
withdrawn from Athens. "We announced yesterday,',
says the Journal des Debuts, "that a serious complica-
tion had arisen in the relations of Greece with the Porte
in consequence of the refusal of the representative of
the SULTAN at Athens, M. MASSURAS, to sign the pass-
port for Constantinople of M. TZAMI CAnArusso, the
aide-de-camp of King OTIIO,` because that officer had taken
part in the expedition against the Turkish provinces in
I 841.' The KING had addressed on the occasion angry ex-
pressions and t eproaches to the Ottoman Minister, who
having complained to the Divan, the latter dispatched a
steamer to the Piraeus, which was to bring back the re-
presentative of Turkey to Constantinople, should he not
obtain a reparation within a delay of three days. We
learn to-day that the President of the Greek Ministry,
M. COLETTI, having refused to give the satisfaction
demanded by the Porte, the Turkish Minister at Athens
embarked at the Piraeus on the 14th of February, and
reached Constantinople on the 17th. That event had
excited a lively sensation in the Turkish capital. We
also learn that the Ambassador of France, Baron DE
BOURQUENEY, had obtained full satisfaction for the
insult offered to M. SADATIER, our Consul at Janina."
The French authorities in the neighbourhood of
Bayonne have managed to get into a squabble with the
Spanish authorities on the subject of the boundary be-
tween the two countries, and the French have backed
up their pretensions by marching a squadron of cavalry,
two companies of infantry, and a battery of field pieces
to Behobia. The cause of these military movements is
the seizure, by the authorities of Fuentarabia, of a
French merchant vessel, stranded at the mouth of the
Bidassoa, which river, it appears, is claimed from bank to
bank by the Spaniards,—an assumption the French
will not recognise, and have, therefore, refused to
pay certain duties which the above parties exact, on
the plea that the wreck is in Spain, whereas it lies
nearer to the French than the Spanish shore of the
river. General ILLRISPE, the Commander-in Chief of
this district, has in consequence been ordered by his Go.
vernment to obtain possession of the vessel by force, if
she be not restored forthwith. This demonstration has
created a great sensation on the Spanish side of the
frontier, and universal indignation is expressed against
the French Government for trying to bully the authori-
ties of Fuentarabia into submission with cannon and
bayonets. The Spanish flag has been hoisted on board
the wreck.

We find the following in the Gazette de France, on
the alleged attempts of the French Government to get
possession of the Balearic isles :
"The English journals talk of a pretended notification,
sent from Paris to London, of a resolution come to by the
French Government, to occupy the Balearic islands. We
think we can state, in a positive manner, that this news is
unfounded. We are even assured, that the Cabinet of the
Tuileries, wishing to destroy the effect which the news may
have produced in England, and to take away all pretext for
repeating it, immediately gave orders that no French vessel
of war shall for some time to come station in the waters of
the Balearic islands. Instructions have besides been sent to
the Count de Ste. Aulaire, to remove in the most absolute
terms the fears which the English Government may have
conceived on this subject."
The price of corn still continues to rise in all the
towns of France, and money is becoming same, as the
precious metals are being gradually drained out of the
country in payment of the supply of provisions. The
foreign ships refuse to receive merchandise, and insist
on being paid in bullion. " If," says the Refornie," all
foreign ship' ing continue to refuse to receive merchan-
dise in return for wheat. and insist on bullion, a financial
crisis may be created which would serve admirably the
views of the coalesced Powers against France. An as-
sertion which at first sight may
"appear absurd, may sub-
sequently be justified by events.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Wed-
nesday at 781. 50c. ;
the Five per Cent. 118 E -5c.; the
Orleans Railway Shares, 1,2721 c.,; Rouen, 868 f. 75c. •
Havre, 687 f. 50e, ; Great Northern, 6281.75 c. ; Avignon, 833 f.
75c. ; Vierzon, 582 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 535 f. ; Boulogne,
400 f. ; Troyes and idontereau, 305 f. , Basle, 2101. ; Dieppe,
3451. ; Paris and Strasburg, 465 f. ; Tours and Nantes, 467 f.
50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 492 f. 50c.; Lyons and Avignon,
4801.; Bordeaux and Cette, 452 f. 50c. ; Spanish Actives, 33 ;
Spanish Three per Cents., 5.
OF Spanish Domestic Domestic Debt, 28%.
PRMISES
LYONS, ALARCS I.'Feria And 8914011, 867 f. 50c.; Avigno.2

and Marseille's, 832 e. 50c.i. Vierzon, 6814 2t.c.; -Nart'Urn;
627 - 50c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Maacti 4.
Boulogne and Amiens, 1414 —Dutch Rhenish, 4% —East Indian,
14—Great Western Bengal, % --Louvain A la Sambre, Iy2—Luxem-
bourg, 214—Northern of France, 13—Paris and Lyons, 7% —Paris
and Rotten, 35—Rouen and Havre, 2714—West Flanders, 3.

SOYER'S ARRIVAL IN DUBLIN.—WC understand
that M. Soyer arrived in Dublin on Monday night, and
on Tuesday had interviews with the Lord-Lieutenant
and the Commissaries-General, Sir R. Routh and Sir J.
Burgoyne, who, although they had previously doubted of
his plan of relief for the starving Irish, are now con-
vinced and delighted with it; and he is immediately to
erect a kitchen on the plan of a model which he had
made in London previous to his departure.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool were4,ooo bales, at steady
rates. Shares were rather dull.

The Corn market to-day is again higher, as regards
Wheat. -

The Money Market has an exceedingly flat appearance
to-day, and the pressure of the payments on the new loan
is felt temporarily, even more than was by some expected.
Out of doors money has been comparatively easy, and the
'wavy amount of bills which fell due yesterday was met well
under all circumstances.

The English Stock Market has been very sensitive, and it
seems evident that sales have been made to obtain cash for
payments upon the scrip. Consols have been S9'3;;, and are
now 901,,A. 'lime bargains have been effected at 901/2 ;
to 901/e. Exchequer-bids have been quoted 3s. to Gs. pre-
miAin, being rather steady. Bank Stock has been firm at
2041/1 to 205Vz.

The Foreiganvestments have been lower again in most
cues. Spanish Five per Cents. realised 233, and the Three
per Cents. 34% to 344. Portuguese Four per Cents. brought
34, and Brazilian 8614. Mexican Stock has been at 22 to
221%, and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have realised
58%.
The Railway Share Market has been rather flat again.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock .. .. • • • • • . 20434 20534
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 90%3A %%
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities 904 90%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anna. 92%%
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 9 9-16 %
Consols for Account, April 15 .. 90% % %
Consols, Scrip 11% p
Exchequer Bills. 130. I%d.
1,0001. 6 3 pm.
5001. .... 7 4 pm.
Ditto, Small .. ...• 10 7 pm.
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .• 8634
Mexican, 1846, 5 per Cent .. .. 22
Ditto, for the Account .. 221% g
Portuguese Four per Cent .. ..
Ditto, for the Account • • .. 34
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent.....—
Ditto, for the Account 2334
Ditto, Three per Cent .. • . 34% %
Ditto, for the Account 34
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent. 9554
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 58%
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 9234
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. FEB SHARE.
Amber., Notting., Boston, & Eastrn Jn. .. 2 % .. to
Birmingham and Oxford Junction .. 5 .... 13% 14 to 13%
Birmingham, Wolver., and Dudley .. 5 .... 103434.. to
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham .. 5 .... 7%% .. to
Buckinghamshire • • .. 843. .... 34% pto
Caledonian 30 28 2734 to 26%
Ditto, Half Shares 234.... 234 .. to
Chester and Holyhead 2234 2434 .... to
Cornwall • . .. • . • • .. 734 .... 3% .... to
Direct Northern Scrip .. 234 .. .... %.. to
Eastern Counties .. .. 20 .... 21%.... to 20%
Do., Perpetual,s per Ct. No. 1, GI. 13s. 4d..... % p.. to
Ditto, ditto .. N 0.2, 61. 13s. 4d..... 34 p.. to Ditto, York Extension .. .• •• 4 .... to
Eastern Union .. • • • • •• 40 ••• • 56 .... to 55%
East Lancashire • • • • • • • • • . 14 •. • . to
Ditto, New .. .. • • • • • • 5 •••. to
Ditto, ditto, New Scrip .. • • .. 134 ...• 2% .... to
East Lincolnshire • • • • • • • • • • 4 •• • . 7% .• • • to
Edinburgh and Glasgow • . • • •• 50 .. • . 791 .... to
Ditto Quarter Shares • • • • • • 1234 •. 1934 •. to
Exeter, Yeovil and Dorchester .. 2% ...• 1% .• •• to
Great Northern (London & York Regd) 234....2% 34 .. to
Ditto (Direct Northern Regd.) •• 3%.... 4 .. •• to 3%
Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 2744 .... 2534,... to
Great Western 85 ....120 .... to

Ditto. Half Shares .• •• • • • • 50 •• • • 71 .. .. to
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. • • • • 12% •• .. 18% •• .. to
Ditto, Fifths •• .. • • • • 20 •• • • 27;., ••.. to

Ditto. New .. .• • . 4j4.... S •• .. to
Huddersfield and Manchester .• 16 .• .. 19S •• to
Hull and Selby .• 50 .. •• •• to
Ditto, Halt Shares •• •• •• 25 •• 51% •• to
Ipswich and Bury St. Edmunds • 14 •••. -- •••• to
Ditto, ditto, and Norwich • • • • .. 5 •• • • 33,4 •• • . to
Lancaster and Carlisle .. .. 50 .• 6534 .... to 65
Ditto, New .. .. 5 .• .. 10 ••.. to
Leeds and Bradford .. .• 35 .... T 934 .. to
Leeds and Thirsk 22% .... 21 1A.... to

, -
Do.. do., Preference, 6 per Cent • • 3% .. • • sa• • .. to
London and Madman .. 161. 13s. 4d. •• •• 8 •• •• to ---•
Ditto, New, No. 2 .. 1/. 135. 4d. .... 114 p.. to -
London, Brighton, and South Coast 50 .... 55. ••.. to 54y,

Ditto: Consolidated Eighths .. 10 .... 13% .... to
London and North-Western .. .. 100 1156% .. • • to 185
Ditto, Quarters .. 2 214 %• • to
Ditto. lit ths 2 .... 18% to

Ditto, 101. Shares .• M. and B. (C) 1 .... 754 .... to
London and South•• Western 411. 64. 10d. .... 6134.... to
Ditto, New .. 2314 .... 26 .... to
Lynn and Ely .. .. 20 .... 22%.... to
Lynn and Dureham •• .. 15 . to

Manchester and Leeds . - . 82 —.llO • ... to
I►itto.
Quarter Shares .. .. 12 .... 17 .... to
Ditto, Fifth.. .. .. 5 .... 10% ... to 11
Ditto, Sixteenths .. •. • • 8% to
Ditto, Thirds (Beg.) .. •• 845..... 3 p.... to
Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock - • 425. •••• p.. to % p
Manchester and Southampton .. • • 2 • • Is •• • • to
Midland • • .. ..100 ....121 .... to 122

Ditto. New • • • • • • 30 3514.... to 35
Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 20 ...• 34% 35 to 34%%
Newmarket and Chesterton! .. 10 .... 10% • • to
Nortolk .. • • .. .. ..100 . • • .... to

Ditto, Half Shares .. .. • . .. 10 .... 13f4 •. • • to
North British .. .. • . .. • . 23 .. • . 33%.... to
Ditto, Half Shares • • .. 12y, .. • . 16 .. • • to
Ditto, Quarters .. .... to
Ditto, Thirds .. .• .. • • I •• .. 3•74 to
Norili StanOrdshire • . • • • . 5 .. • • 814 .. to
North Western .. .. • • •. .. 4 .. • • 434 .... to
Preston and IVyre .. • . 23 33 .. ~ to 3I
Ditto, Half Shares (A) .• •• .• • • 10T •... to
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate • • 5 •• .... to
Royston and Ilitehin .. • • • • 1% • ..• 23 •. •• to
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A) •• 3 •• •• 41A •• .. to
Ditto, ditto (It) .• .... l!•,, .. to
Shropshire Union . •• 425..... to
:'•outh Eastern and Dover —331. 25.4 d. •• .. to
Ditto, New (do. 151.) No. 4 .. .• •. 4t4 .... to
South Wales .. .. • • • • .• •• 10 •• • • 85 to

Routh Yorkshire. Doncaster, & Goole 2 .... to
%Vaterford and Kilkoany •• •• •• 11 .• .• .... to 4
West 'tiding. Union .. •• 426....• p.. to

Tork andtiewcastle • • • • .- .. 25 .... 36 to

Ditto, New • • • • . • • .. 10 .. • 10.;;;', • to
York and North Midland • . 50 .... 86 .... to
Ditto. Extension .. .. 20 .. • • 37 ..•• to
Ditto, Preference • • • • • • • • 2 .• .. 12 •• .. to
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Northern of France .. ,• .. 8 .... 127ihi.. to
Orleant; and Bordeaux • • .. 6 •• • to
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
London and Westminster .. • • •• 20 .... 304 Y.. to
MINES
Real dcl Monte, Unregistered • • •• .. 314 .. • • to

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MAECH 5. Wind N.E., light breeze and hazy,
with drizzling rain at intervals.
DEAL, MAaCJI 4.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrd. Wilhehnina,
Lawson, Callao, tor Leith. Sld.l3eulali, Sydney, New South
Wales; Ulenbernie, Sydney, New South Wales; Monarch,
Bombay; Rockers, Trinidad; lloliert, St. Kitts; Tulioch
Castle, Ilavann! h ; Platina, Cuba ; Margaret, Colman, Balti •
more; Marmion, Baltimore; Theodosia, Norfolk; Warrior,
Havannah.

PLymournr, MARCH 4.—Wind. E.—Sld. Isabella Wood,
Valparaiso.
LIVERPOOL, MARCH 4.—Wind E.N.E., moderate.—Arrd.
Kalamazoo, New York. Sld. Henry Winch, Calcutta;
Sarah steamer, Cape of Good Hope and India; Earl of Dal-
housie, Africa; Cumberland, Brazil; Mary Ellen, Barbadoes,
&c.; The Belle, St. Thomas; Rhone, Baltimore; Nonantum,
Boston ; Hibernia steamer, Halifax; Circassian, Halifax.
Off port, Bridget.
LIMERICK, MAncil 2.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrd. Robin, Pata-
gonia. Std. Governor, New York.
MARYPORT, MAncit 3. —Wind E.—Sld. Harder, Haven-
nah ; Eliza, Moore, Liverpool and China.
TRALEE, MAncit I—The Argyle, in the Roads; pricked on
her anchor and tilled; has received much damage, and must
discharge.
SHIELDS, MAncit 3.—The Chance, arrived here from Rot-
terdam. struck on the bar and became leaky.
YARMorfII, MARCH 4.—The Jupiter, of Whitby, and the
Ark, of Brixham, got aground on the Scroby Sand ;his morn-
ing, but expected off next tide.
LONDON, MARCH s.—The steamer which ran down the
Rose, whilst lying oft' Oidhuven. on the 28th ult., is the
Royal Victoria, from London to Leith.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.-FRIDAY.

Since Monday the arrivals of English Wheat have been
on a very limited scale, and the show of sa:nples to day WAS
trifling. Still, however, the home millers purchased with
extreme caution ; but, as about 1,200 quarters of lied were
taken for France, those qualities improved fully is per
quarter. In White Wheat very little was doing, at late
rates. In Foreign Wheat a good business was transacted for
export to France, and the quotations had an upward ten-
dency. Both Barley and Malt were excessively dull, and
the turn lower. Thu large arrivals of Oats from abroad pro-
duced much heaviness in the trade, and prices receded quite
is per quarter. Beans were very dull, and is per quarter
lower than on Monday. All other articles were a slow in-
quiry.