The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-27 00:00:00

MORNING ST'N

of _a rew Administration appeared, aliout to be rea-
lised, the sums paid-in exceeded those drawn out by
50,000/.—(Hear, hear.) I state the fact—l draw no
inference from it, except that it constitutes an additional
reason fur pausing before. we attempt too suddenly to
apply a remedy for distress. up to the 11th of Septem-
ber the sums paid in had been 32,0001. and the sums
drawn out 20,0001 It is true that a great proportion:of these
deposits are made, by the retail dealers, but it is gene-
rally admitted that their prosperity is a correct test of
that of the working classes.
The- handloom-weavers, who, for want of em-
ployment, are parading carts about Manchester,
with placards, stating " that they are starving
in a land of plenty," could not be depositors in
Savings' Banks. Neither could- the workmen
- and retail traders of Bolton and Stockport. They
are, probably, chiefly tro be found amongst ser-
vants and small capitalists, little manufacturers,
and a variety of persons who could find no bet-
ter employment for their funds than putting
them into a Savings' Bank. We doubt whether
that be an indication of prosperity or the re-

' . verse. When the little capitalist can .xtend his
operations, and when the retail trader has a
brisk and increasing demand, they do not place
their funds in Savings.' Banks; they employ
them in their business, because that is then a
more profitable investment. The increase of in-
vestments in the Savings' Banks, therefore, may
be an index to the want of profitable employ-

ment for capital, and to a stagnating trade, not
to the increasing prosperity of the retail dealers
and of the working classes.
On this principle the explanation of the di-
minished deposits in June, and the increased de-
Posits in August and September, may not be
very flattering to the Right Honourable Ba-
, rotiet, nor very significant of the utility of his
' Government. In June there was yet a hope
that the Corn-laws might be repealed or modi-
fied, and the little capitalists in the manufacturing
districts kept their funds in their own hands, ex-
pecting to use them in new and profitable in-
vestments, arising from the extension of trade
In August and September that hope was extin-
guished. The accession of the Right Hon. Ba-
ronet to office killed it outright, and convinced
the people that nothing was to be done to relieve
them—that trade was to remain hampered, and,
therefore, they could make nothing more of
their funds than the interest which is guaranteed
to those who put money in the Savings' Banks.
Were commerce prospering, and could men in busi-
ness make 10 or 15 per cent. on their money, they
would not put it into the Savings' Bank at 3i or
4 lier cent. It is, therefore, because they cannot
make as high interest on their capital by employ-
ing it in trade in August, which they hoped to do
in June, that they increase their deposits or
divert their capital from active production
yielding profits, to passive non-production yielding
only interest. The accumulation of funds in
Savings' Banks may, under this aspect, be rather
an indication of increasing decay than of increa-
sing prosperity since the accession of the Tories
to office. Looking at the returns quoted by Sir
R. PEEL, in conjunction with the known state of
the country, we are disposed to believe that such
is a true interpretation of them.
Be the interpretation, however, what it may,
,it is quite clear that, by Sir R. PEEL using those
returns in the manner he did, he does not
Credit the statements which have been made of the
public distress. Of course, therefore, he be-
lieves that the Corn-laws cause no mischief. Lord
STANLEY'S gre It argument in favour of them
was, in fact, stolen or borrowed from Sir R.
PEEL, and both assert that the evils the country
now labour under are the result of over-produc-
tion and too large issues of paper money. They
both, therefore, take precisely the same view of
the present state of the country, and both are
agreed as to not altering the Corn-laws. The only,
or at least the chief difference, between them is,
that Lord STANLEY, with the arrogance of a born
Plunderer of his industrious fellow-creatures,
boldly avows his opinions. while Sir R. PEEL,
with some of the shuffling of the half inde-
pendent aristocracy-aping class from which he
8)
ttang, still seeks to keep on good terms with
commercial and manufacturing classes, and
we
ants boldness to express his determination to
sustain the extorted rents of the landowners at
all hazards.
Th

e Tories began their career of economy in
a n
,aPPropriate manner on Friday. They voted
". a-year more as a retiring pension to a Vice-
Chancellor than was necessary, and they voted
to
reward Lord ABINOER'S son for the very un-
justifiable conduct of his father.
Our readers will recollect that in March, 1840,
11 Bill was brought into Parliament to abolish the
Equity Jurisdiction of the Court of Exchequer.
After that Bill was brought in, an office which
Lord A.BINGER knew was to be abolished fell
vacant, and he appointed his son to fill it. To
make such an appointment for the purpose of
rttaining an annuity for the occupant when the
" was to be abolished, was, in a moral point of
disl.onest. But it was made, and the corn-
Pensation clause in the Bill did not except this
(,)lee• On Friday evening, expressly with a view
Prevent the honourable Mr. SCARLETT
from receiving from 1,2001. to 1,400/. per year
of the public money, for having been appointed
by his father to an office which his father knew
was to be abolished, Mr. WARD moved to ex-
clude all those persons from the benefit of the
compensation who were appointed to office after
the Bill had been brought in. This reasonable
and just proposition the Tories resisted, and they
Were successful in carrying the clause so as to
include Mr. Sea RLETT. That gentleman, there-
fore, whose father is already most munificently
Paid by the country for his poor services, is to
have from 1,200/. to 1,400/. a-year of the public
money, for having previously received at the rate
of 2,0001. a-year for about eighteen months for
doing little or nothing. That is a specimen of the
Mannerin which the Tories at this time are to
economise the resources of the country, and re-
lieve the public of its enormous burdens.
For our parts, we object to the whole system.
Why should law officers be compensated for los-
ing.their situations when their services are no
longer wanted, any more than merchants' clerks
or hand-loom weavers? Why should a man be
appointed to an office merely to entitle him to
compensation ?
When Lord BBOUGIIIAM ap-
pointed one of his brothers to at, office in the
Court of Chancery,
he did it conditionally, that
he was to make no claim for compensation should
that office be abolished. The same coarse was-
taken on other occasions, and it may be said to
have lately become a rule that appointments now
made should not entitle the holders to compensa-
tion should their offices be abolished. At any
rate it is monstrous to appoint a man to an office
after it is known that it is to be abolished, and
then demand compensation.
is The principle on which compensation is justified
that a man accepts an office and gives up other
tit 4,14145, relying on that office being continued.
l',uen it is known that the office is to be abo-
:ed, the reason for granting compensation
appears A
14 • Lortl ttnisiGEn's conduct, therefore,
tons_°t rejecting compensation. for his son, appears
"'unworthy of his high station; his son's
e°1101:1_11et lIIIWOrthy of a man of honour and
Rn "tY
; and the conduct of the Legislature, in
f' tnonin,
such sorry behaviour, betrayed its
ana
"". did what lay in its power to degrade
tweintorldise society. That is, however, what
"(ler the -
expect from a Legislature which acts
influence of Tory principles.
Tlte •

orderly/ and
police, hitherto quiet, - ,
have un-
41i!ane gu'ardians of the public pea-:e.
has pre"
fortunately. caught the mania
body of
vthailelctivtor sotne ti,„, in the metropolitan
s acts,
few outrageou
1; 1 e.!t' at'd eOrnt *tt ,d which
I In) c a
which .we ire
city authorities
e
denounce
with rusat 1 to see the .
lar iLi Stall!:
Beveritv A slogn
Sir
of this new systetn of tyranny. •
came before
111-I.lt I'Allatz on Satnlay•W e need
the case. It is very Viler,
and will be found un
der the head of Alansion.bonse. The inspector,b
(whose nanye,%Tas not Inentioned), appears to "e
not recite
an old ciAndei; one of officious,
141eddling, '-'l-yrannical' class, who infest the
those

. .
Bow-street district, And are more pleased in
wreaking their vengeance on honest men for
some hasty expret.sion or imaginary insult to
their dignity, than in abating nuisances or cap:-
turing egregious offenders. We are glad to see
the working of the system begins to make
an impression, and that it is exercised on the
rich as well as the poor. Mr. WARD, the late
Member for the City, had a taste of it. Sir PETER
LAURIE and Mr. HOBLER begin to fear tbat they
may, one night or other, be brought iuto the
same predicament, and if Mr. DANIEL WHITTLE
HARVEY allows this nameless Inspector to
remain on the establishment a day longer,
we fervently wish that he may be led
through the City handeuffed,_ like the two
innocent and faithful servants whom the Inspee--
tor subjected to this
.ignominious and needless
restraint. The short and characteristic remark
of Mr. HOBLER, we quote with pleasure. "No
doubt," he said, " by-and-bye the police would
do every thing they fancied to do, howeVer ty-
rannical it might be. The power given to them
was enormous, and endrmously abused; and it
would be certainly necessary for high authorities
to interfere, to prevent respectable people from
being completely over-ridden." Men in autho-
rity now begin to see that we only stated the
truth when we described this new body of po-
lice as " the greatest curse that ever afflicted a
free people."

The petition of the Committee of the British
and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, presented in
the House of Lords by Lord BROROHAM, on
Monday night, is replete with statements so ex-
traordinary, and, we are inclined to think, to the
bulk of our readers so incredible, that we have
given it at length in another column. If these
statements be correct—and we have no reason to
suppose them exaggerated—we begin to-despair
of the abolition of the Slave Trade during the
lifetime of the present generation. An evil so
deep-rooted, and so little under the control of
public opinion, may be checked, but cannot be
eradicated by Acts of Parliament. The invoca-
tion of penal statutes to abolish a crime in which
it is proved that the wealthiest merchants parti-
cipate without scruple, and which they regard as
a legal, and not as a moral offence, is, we are in-
clined to think, a somewhat useless proceeding.
Besides, with the utmost detestation of slavery,
e,
it cannot be expected that the British people
will continue to tax themselves to an enormous
extent to enable their agents to play the part of
DOll QUIXOTES in all parts of the world in de-
fence of the coloured race. The white slaves of
Lancashire and Renfrewshire have surely as strong
claims to British sympathy as the black slaves
occupying the banks of the Niger and the Gam-
bia. Not that we would countenance any dimi-
nution of a rational zeal on the part of the Bri-
tish Government to effect the abolition of the
Slave Trade. Quite the contrary. But it is alto-
gether a different thing to persist. in a system
which threatens to involve us in endless quarrels
with other Powers—which operates injuriously
upon ourown commerce—which costs the country
a great annual outlay—and which Sir THOMAS
FOWEL BUXTON himself admits, in his work on
Slavery, has both increased the Slave Trade and
aggravated its horrors within the last seven
years. The national exchequer does not so over-
flow that the country can afford to throw away
money; and even if it could, an argument foi
thrift would be found in the fact that the reck-
less expenditure has only increased the evil which
it was meant to eradicate. The complete abo-
lition of slavery is one of those great measures of
human civilization which, to be perfect, must re-
ceive the concurrence of all existing Govern-
ments. While there is one nation ready to sell
its subjects into slavery, and another ready to
purchase them, there will be no want of dealers
in human flesh whatever may be the colour of
the skin. The great experiment of a single
Power abolishing the Slave Trade by force has
now been fairly tried, and the Anti-Slavery So-
ciety itself confesses, in its petition, that it has
failed. More stringent measures may be taken
against British subjects engaged in this inhuman
traffic, but till the Governments in the interior
of Africa are brought to co-operate with Great
Britain in the good work of protecting the free-
dom of the coloured race, it will be in vain for
us to waste our resources in attempts to give
freedom to the world at the cannon's mouth.
No measure of Reform ever succeeded which
was not calculated to demonstrate that the line
of duty was the true line of interest. When
morality promotes self-interest it is easy to
induce men to become moral. Now, in abo-
lishing the Slave Trade, it is not enough to tell
the traffickers in human flesh that they are vio-
lating the laws of GOD and man, and that if we
catch them we will punish them. To succeed we
must convince them, or rather those who em-
ploy them, that the pursuit is not only wicked
but unprofitable. When our own experiments
in the West Indies shall have satisfied them that
free labour is cheaper than slave labour, we shall
have done more to abolish slavery than if we had
spent a hundred millions in protecting, by our
war vessels, the freedom of Africa's sable sons
and daughters.

The whole of the French Journals of Thursday have
reached us. They bring no political news of any
moment. The capital continued tranquil, nor was it ex-
pected that any fresh attempt would be made to disturb
the public peace.

At an early hour yesterday morning, a man attempted to de.
stroy himself with a pistol on the Quai near the Hotel de Ville-
He did not succeed, but was carried to the Hotel Dieu in a
hopeless condition.
The Sentinelle of Toulon states that some veins of iron
have been recently discovered in Algeria, equal in richness to
those of the Island of Elba. The locality is not mentioned.
A circular from the Minister of the Interior directs the Pre-
fects of the departments to send in future any Protestant who
may be condemned to imprisonment for civic offences to such
central houses of detention as are situated in towns where Pro-
testant Consistories are established.
M. Olozaga, Spanish Envoy Extraordinary awl Minister
Plenipotentiary, has arrived in Paris, and has had a private
audience of the King.
The election of a Deputy for the 12th arrondissement of
Paris took place yesterday. M. Boissel, having obtained 308
votes, was declared duly returned. His competitors, M. Pres-
chcs had 177, M. Panis 74, and M. Jube 24.
The rise yesterday in the Three per Cents., which created
much surprise on 'Change, was occasioned by the failure of M.
Joubert a stock-broker, who for years has done an immensity
of business, and ruled the price of Stocks. He had sold Three
per Cents. to an enormous amount, which were obliged to be
re-purchased. A failure also took plaee in the eaulisse, where,
it was 'aid, 300.000 f. Rentes were re-purchased.
_The suit of the Procurcur du Roi against the Gazelle des
Tr ibunaus for giving an account of a trial at Grenoble in
twhileicchoNulr.rieDriddieaiirms•earse defendantplaintiffa (thendthelarl,csspoffineibplteembedeitropr
roo-f
hibitincr reports of trials for defamation), came on 3esterday be-
fore the° Tribunal of Correctional Police. 'I he Tribunal, after
bearing evidence, decided that as the suit at Grenoble was not,
strictly speaking, for defamation, but
for the refusal of the
editor to Insert a letter written by M. Didier in.vitidteatiqn of
the memory of his father, which had_ been attacked by the
Courrier de l' Isere,
othf;shaeecptiem wyri.
cizoisatldthneoTrzette des Tribu,
September
editotrsteoif tilh'h:Qsunoittrd.ai!
ts tsi eediwcie France, against whom -
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anu ndd
decri
as theinz Gazette
0,
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g youngm emn Brusselsmen
na
dag
at
tvee
tions were brought, were also acquitted.
Mechlin,es
nt
fhoeurf odnl6,l66‘t.ssire, i:n.ii,J,it . detailsOhne
hotel.
,o te
Tues-
dayi.
of the suicide they ordered twribottles of wine
0 b s e r vttah:e,
oe ut
1.r4
lon btheeserved in the garden, and soon after eight. two pistol_
the suicide..
e,:e,ia.
hti
evening
shots were heard, one immediately following the tOts
of the servants of the, hotel rushed to the siiot, and
,'theredisfi fgtoiruendd
.
the young men bathed in their blood. One was still in his
chair, the other had fallen over with the chair in which he had
They were both dead, and horribly
her, they were sitting stated that they
The motive fur this deed is unknown, but it is said that a paper
and that theirc
bill at the inn
would their friends of it. Then
woultrbe paid, as they had apprisedthat their death might be made
bbfoeuel onnndsajoet ndt i ntt
the
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a tahlevi
respectable
Prince is improved. By the ap-
plication as paperlittle also
l so
e publico contained
t aa st npeods possible."
brleeY cs. t
13th. The situation of the
constraint of the position has
The latest accounts received from Kirchberg are dated the
been much relieved,
This time is rapidly approaching.
plicatien of a new dressing the
France is very good.
the health of Henry of
In other respects
till the cure is complettne.whTichh he mu,t remain for some days,
No change is perceptible inervous pains, his nights are calms—in N his featutea word, it is now per-
s
that have been
per-
feetly clear that all the unfavourable reports
__he feels no more
La Gazette
published never had the slightest foundation.
dc France.
A letter from Grenoble, in the Reparateur de Ly
the operations of the census were to commence on theons,sa
20thysst
ehpat.
teacher. The Government has made a great display of measures,
somfe they pates.
I'he Gazette d' Auvergne, of the 21st, says
to repress attempts at resistance. The citadel is armed,
da asndatshte
troops have been constantly at their posts for .
A piece of cannon has even been placed at one,:
On Saturdayg
mont, after having removed all the stray and numerous
morning, at six o'clock, the soldiers of ',the garrison of
bCalrerri..-
the
ciaodaesn
.wh•ahil:hantdhienyohtialdereprelacetedea,irnetualrintehdetsotrteheetisrlebaadrrinagektso,
and
all the thoroughfares are again free. On the same day the
Cathedral wasre-opened, and divine service performed as usual.
.. Several arrests have taken place since the publication of
our last number, some of them in the little towns in the
neighbourhood.
The number of persons arrested up to this day, is said to
amount in all to 125.'

The same journal has the following article :---
" A force of about nine hundred men was sent on Sunday,
the 19th, about three o'clock in the morning, to the villages of
Aubiere and Beaumont. When the inhabitants awoke they
were astonished at this great display of military force: The
object of which is said to have been some arrests, and the dis-
arming of the two villages. In fact, the inhabitants Were in-
vited by the Mayor to deliver up the arms of the National
Guard, which was in general complied with. Only three or
four persons were arrested, who, on the application of the
Illayor, were released, except one belonging to Aubiere."---Le
commerce.
BOURSE—P Atlas, THURSDAY, SEPT. 23.

tlrst Highest Lowest
• -- • -- •

Last

Price Price. Pric.. Price
r:ench 5 per Cent=. ex. die 114 50 ;14 60 1.4 50 ... 114 60
.1 per rents li7 50 ... 4)7 50 53 97 50
3 per Cent 5....... 79 10 920 ... 79 /0 ... 79 15
lanA of erance
Lattitte !lank 5,0ia1(. Spares 50737 50 _5067 50
Bank
Belgian 5 per Cents.
5 ;.er t.ent.:., 1840 IC4% ... 104% ... 104% 104%.
3 per Cents 7l 90 ... 71 90 ... 71 00 ... 71
Dutch 2 per Cents.
..14,44bit,t1 ACLIVe V2% .. ...
Neapniiiatr.':a lO5 25 —. 105 35 25 —. .05 30
Roman
••• HALLWAY sHA ItEh.
Versailles. L.R 0.1 ; - 210 ... 210

lt. is 320
ortenot
itraitturg to Batt .shares red 249

g2O
... 480
... 240

.. 268 .75 210
... 320 320
4t44: 480
.. 240 .. 240

EX PRESS FROM PARIS

We have news from Paris of Friday's date,
The payment of the arrears due to the French Legion
his been agreed upon between Colonel Galant and the
Spanish Government.
The Infant 1)on Francisco de Paul has received his
passport, and will leave for Spain in three weeks.
The editor of theNationul, for a libel upon his Majesty,
has been acquitted. This has produced much sensation
in high quarters here, and is consider,ed a great triumph
for the disorderly.

FLANDERS AND, DUTCH MAIL.
BRUSSELS, SEPT. 23.—A salute of twenty-one guns
has announced the fetes of the eleventh anniversary of
the Four Days.
BRUSSELS, SEPT. 24.—The King left St. Cloud yes-
terday morning. He passed the night at Amiens, and
will reach Courtray to-day about four o'clock. A spe-
cial train will be ready to receive him and bring him in
the evening to the capital.
On -Saturday there will be a grand dinner at Court on
the occasion of the arrival of the Duchess of Kent.
Orders have been received at the Palace immediately to.
prepare her apartments.
The Duke of Saxe-Coburg, his Majesty's elder bro-
ther, who is now at Paris with his (laughter, the Duchess
of Nemours, is expected very shortly at Brussels.
A letter from Luxembourg says :—" The news that
King William 11. his refused to ratify the treaty ,incor-
porating the Grand Duchy with Germany arrived here
on Saturday evening, and carried universal joy. Every-
body was glad that the King had been made to under-
stand the true situation and the wishes of the country.
Addresses have been sent by all the Commercial
Councils of the Grand Duchy to his Majesty to thank
him for the firmness he has shown on this occasion, and
to ask a commercial arrangement with Belgium. The
King, in fact, appears to be much inclined to this, for in
announcing to the Commission his refusal of the ratifica-
tion he gives them to understand that the Belgian Go-
vernment had made overtures to him, and that he hoped
the Grand Duchy would find a vent for its manufactures
lon that side. A brillian reception is preparing at Lux-
' embourg for the Commissioners.
The Addresses above-mentioned were sent to the
Hague on Monday last. The merchants of Luxembourg
ask merely an assimilation to the Belgian tariff of Cus-
toms. The inhabitants of the Belgian portion of the
Luxembourg are equally rejoiced at this circumstance.
There, as well as in the Grand Duchy, the inhabitants
are sensible that the rupture of the negotiations with
Germany was a step towards the commercial fusion of
the two countries, which have so much need of each other.
BATAVIA, Are. 30.—We learn from Amborna that on
the Ist of November last year there was an earthquake
at Gelelo, which destroyed all the brick buildings. From
the 3d to the 15th of September the shocks returned with
increasing violence. They seemed to have no connexion
with the mountain of Tunale.

TRIEST, SEPT. 14.—The French steamer Acheron
arrived to-day from Athens and Corfu, with AL Pisca-
tory, the French Deputy, returning from his mission to
Greece.

DUTCH FUND3.—Afl3ritirnan, San. 21.
ill one.. 1.111:s.
Actual Debt, 2% Per Cent 51% 52
Jitto, ditto 5 per cent.
Amert Syndic. 4% per cent 92 92%
Ditto, ditto 3% percent. :6
Commercial Company, 4,4 per cent 154% 155%
Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent. ...... 101% 11)2
Loan 1837, 5 per cent... .»..........»....».» 97% 98
Exchange on London, drie month l2 07%
Two isionths II 97%
Hamburgh, One month 35 75
Two months 35 51
Dutch Papers, Sept. 25.
BELGIAN 4 UNDS—Bausans, Sem 23
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent . .... . ..... 51
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cvnt••• •••••••••••••• 101%
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent..........
3 per CenL .....

Thirty.seven

102fs_
—(1q40)
Loan of City, P.:32, 4 per Cent 90%
Society iit Coniravree, 4 %per Cent 93%
Bank ofßilgium, 5 per Cent.... ......
National Society .
' Exchange on London (shot t)
—Brussels Papers, Sept. 24.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vms.a, Sum 16
fire per Cents. Idetalliques - 1( 6%
Four per Cents. 9834
Three per Cents. ..... ....... ..... ....... ..... 75
Bank Shang ... ...... ................ ............ ......... J 574
...Allgenzeine &Using. Sept. 21

MONEY and COM VIERCIAL NEWS
(From The Sun of Saturday Evening.)
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SEPT. 24. —There has
been an improved demand for Cotton throughout the week,
but holders have supplied it freely ; prices have not changed
since this day week. Brazils and Egypts are stationary at
our last quotations. Surats also. Sea Island continue to be
in good demand, and sell at last quotations. There has been
taken for exportation 3,300 American and 200 Surat, a.nd on
speculation 2.500 American and 100 Surat. The sales this
day amount to 4,000 bales, all to the trade.
The average consumption per week, taken from this market:—
1840 23,296 Bales.
1841 19,872
Total of all descriptions turned over on speculation up to this
date: —lB4O 182,350 Bales.
Do. 1841

Increase, 1840... 27,840 Bales.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, SEPT. 24. The transae-
lions at the Stock Exchange, this day are thus reported:—
Great Western, 201. Share, 7i ; Liverpool and Manchester,
198 ; London and Birmingham, 155; Ditto, Quarter Shares,
2l 1 ; Ditto, 321. Shares, 54 ; Ditto, New Shares, ; Lon-
don and South Western, 504 ; Manchester and Leeds, 551.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. 24. The market
continues quiet. Our transactions arc :—Mancliester and
Leeds, 57 ; Ditto, Halves, 24 ; Ditto, New Quarters, 15s.
prem. ; Hull and Selby, 391-; Manchester and Salford Banks, 91.
LEEDS, SEPT. 24.—The woollen trade of this district still
continues active, but the clothiers still complain that they are
unable to obtain such prices as will yield them an adequate re-
muneration for their outlay and labour. The principal busi-
ness doing is for the domestic fall trade, and though some of
the drapers have purchased sparingly, there has been for some
time past a fair business doing in the warehouses.

Money is very scarce in the Stock Exchange, and as much
as 6 per cent. has been paid upon the deposit of Consols for
short periods. This is in consequence of so much cash being
paid in tenders for the funding. The scarcity is not, how-
ever, expected to last over Tuesday, as all over the required
amount sent in will be returned.

There is no business doing whatever in the Stock Exchange.
Consols are 894 u for Money, and 89i g for Account; Ex-
chequer Bills, 15 17; Spanish Active Stock, 218 ; Portu-
guese Five rer Cents., 30,1,-; Do. Threes, 18i.
There has been no business doing in the Stock Exchange,
and prices remain the same as at the opening.
Consols, 894 % Money, and 90i I for the Account. Ex-
ci.equer Bills, ;
15 17 ; India Bonds, I prem. Spanish Active
Stock, 214 ; Dutch Five per Cents., 10.2 ; Ditto Two-and-a
Half per Cents., 516.
There has been rather more busimss doing in the Share
Market at the following quotations :—Great Western, 77;
Ditto, Fifths, 73 ; London and Brighton, 443; London and
Birmingham Quarter Shares, 21%; Ditto, New, 24 23 ;
South Western, 50i, ; Midland Counties, 743 ; North Mid-
lard, New, 32%.
The Produce markets this week have worn the same heavy
appearance. and neither the importers nor merchants have any
reason to be satisfied with the prices obtained.
The tenders for the conversion, it is generally supposed, are
already completed, but officially the greatest secrecy is observed.
Consols, Account, 8913; Spanish, 213 k.
Not the least appearance of business.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.

Bank Stock ••• • ' India Stock ........... ....
3 per Cent Red — 'Ditto 80nd5,,,,,,,,, 1 pni
3 per Cent Cons
891 Ditto Old Annuities ...
Ditto New Annuities...
3Nt
Iv per 3 e
pernt
Centßed ..
98i Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2td 16 pm
New 5 per Cent
Ditto to 5°0115 pm
5ma11...... 18
Jan. I
Long Annuities to t _ xpire
Oct 1859 --I,Bank Stock for 0pg....
!India Stock for Acct....
Jan. 1860. — Consols for Acct B9i
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgrrin, 5 per cent — :Ditto, New Ditto. — Brazilian 80nd5.... — Prussian, 5 per cent. ...
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent
Chilian, 6 per cent...... Ditto, Metallic —
Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish,l 6 per cent • 21,3
Ditto, 1624 Ditto, Deferred . .
Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. --f. —e.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — I Exchange
Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per cent —f. —c
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1625. , Dutch, 2i per cent. ... 51
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. 154 Ditto, 5 per cent 1021
SHARES
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) 55
Great Western Railway (65 paid)
Ditto Fifth (4 paid) Gosport Junction Ra.............
ilw y (50pd) ....... -a
a
Ditto Half Shares (50 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid)... .........
London and Birmingham (90)..,,....... ... /57
Ditto Quarter Shares ( 5 paid) •.. 21i
Ditto ls, ew Shares ( 2 paid) .. ............ 23
London and South Western .................. iioi
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) ..... . 741 North Midland Railway (100 paid) ......... Ditto New Shares (40 paid) ........ ... 32k

On Thursday,shortly after
three o'clUek, the
Select Committee of the House of Lords, appointed on
Mon-
day last, " to consider and report upon the plan submitted by
the architect of the new Houses of Parliament, end for render-
ing them fire-proof," assembled, with a view of carrying this
object into effect. The following are the Peers constituting
the Select Committee :—The Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord
Chancellor, Lord President, Lord Privy Seal, Duke of Nor-
folk, Duke of Richmond, Duke of Wellington, Duke of Suther
land, Marquis of Lansdowne, Marquis of Salisbury, Lord
Chamberlain, Earl of Shaftesbury, Earl of Radnor, Earl of
Bar, owby, Earl de Grey, Earl of Ripon, Viscount Hawarden,
Viscount Gordon, Bishop of London, Lord Willoughby d'
Ere,bv, Lord Lowther, Lord Melbourne, Lord Colchester,
Lord Penshurst, Lord Brougham and Vaux, Lotd Duricaunon,
Lord Cottenhani, and Lord Sudeley.