The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-12 00:00:00

matt,
F.E)/ tin 'itut

LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1846.

The Lords did not set yesterday.
The Commons met at Twelve o'clock.
Oa the motion of Mr. T. DUNCOMBE, the House resolved
itself into C'mmittee on the Friendly Societies Bill.
After a few observations from Sir J. GRAHAM, Mr.
WAKLET, and Mr. HAWES, the Bill passed through Com-
mittee.
The Salmon Fisheries Bill was read a second time.
Mr. BICKHAM Escorr moved the second reading of the
Roman Catholic Relief Bill.

Sir It. INGLIs opposed the motion.
Lord MORPETH supported the Bill, as getting rid of
• the last remnant of the bigoted institutions of the dark
ages.

Mr. Putcn deprecated the spirit at present so prevalent
among all sections of Protestants, to look favourably on Ro-
man Catholics, and to make unjust concessions to them, and
would oppose the Bill.
Sir J. GRAPEAM supported the motion for the second read-
ing of the Bill, because he was favourable to its spirit, which
was the spirit of toleration. He, however, reserved to him-
solf the power of proposing certain alterations in Committee.
He denied that the Bill would repeal the Act of Supremacy,
the repeal of which he would certainly oppose.
Mr. WYSE denied that the temporal supremacy of the
POPE was acknowledged anywhere beyond the Papal domi-
nions, and he would deprecate any extension of the POPE'S
temporal power beyond those dominions.
Mr. COLQUUOUN considered the Bill contrary to the spirit
of the Constitution, and would vote against the second read-
ing. He thought every effort should be made to counteract
the machinations of the Jesuits, and to prevent the eccle-
siastical power from superseding the civil authority, lie
thought the present movement in the Church of England
was a dangerous one, and, when the proper time arrived, he
should not shrink from grappling with it, and asking the

Legislature to arrest its progress.
Mr. liCoNsau, considered that, in ecclesiastical matters
-ecclesiastical authority should be supreme, and in temporal
matters civil authorities should be supreme. The Hon. and
. Learned Gentleman then passed a high eulogium upon the
order of the Jesuits, and designated Pascal, Michelct, and
Eugene Sue, as persons of no authority, and the two latter
sta authors of atrocious books.
After a few words from Mr. PAKINGTOY, Mr. J. (nom-
: mu-, and Mr. NZWDEGATE,
Lord Joitx MANNERS expressed his admiration of the
Jesuit.s and their principles, and thought that the House
would do better to imitate their example than to asperse
their characters.

Mr. EsTtOURT opposed the Bill, which was supported by
Mr. P. BORTIIWICK and Mr. M. MILNE&
Colonel SIISTIIORPE considered the measure would under-
mine the Protestant religion, and would give it his strenu-
ous oppwition.
After a few words from Captaiu Haunts, Lord J. RITSSTI4,

and Mr. P. HowAnD, and a reply from Mr. Escorr, the
House divided; when there appeared—For the second read-
ing, 66—Against it, 23—Majority in favour of the Bill, 43.
The Out-Pensioners Payment Bill was read a second time.
In Committee of Supply 800,0001. was voted for the public
service.

The Metropolitan Buildings Bill was read a third time
and passed.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE moved for leave to bring in a Bill for
limiting the hours of night labour in lace factories.
Sir J. GRAHAM objected to interference with the hours of
labour. He would not, however, oppose the motion, but
wait to see the Bill before he gave an opinion, on it.
Mr. FORSTER objected to the Bill.
Colonel ROLLESTON supported it, as did Mr. HEATHCOTE,
who found it beneficial in hie own factories to reduce the
hours of labour.

After a few words from Mr. FIELDEN, leave was given to
bring in the Bill.
Certain returns were then ordered to be made, and the
House adjourned at Half-past Five.

Accidenlp placed together two subjects of debate on Tuesday,
in the House of Commons, closely and painfully connected
with each other. Mr. WILLIAMS'S account of the lamentable
want of education in Wales fitly preceded the motion by
which Mr. I'. DuscostuE reminded the House of the sad, but
sure consequences of ignorance, in the fatal outbreak for
which FROST, WILLIA3IS, and JONES are suffering banish-
ment. But while Welsh ignorance calls forth pity for the
multitude who followed on that occasion, it furnishes
no plea of extenuation for the ringleaders. Our regard for
the interests of the working classes, and sympathy a ith
their grievances, will not permit us to join in the movement
which they have organised in favour of the leaders of the
Newport insurrection, and to which Mr. THOMAS DUNCOMBE
(with whom generally we are proud to agree) gave articu-
late expression last night in the House of Commons. We
cannot, indeed, conceive a case in which there is less ground
for the interference of the House of Commons to procure a
remission or mitigation of punishment. The preserva-
tion of the peace of the country, the prevention of vio-
lent resistance to the Government, is an object nllich
all citizens, no matter what their polific7fll opinions,
okilA unite for. The worl;ing• ilaszies have grin aw.e.
which require redre.; but armed insurrection it nut the
to redress them. We do clot go the length of some
who hold that resistance is in no case justifiable : there are
extreme cases of misgoverninent where the general principle
will not hold ; they are cases which speak for themselves, and
were success proves the necessity of resistance and justifies it.
" Great evils ask great passions to redress them,
And whirlwinds fitliest scatter pestilence:"
But the state of society, the grievances of the working
classes in 1839, do not make the case of Fnosr, WILLIAMS,
and JosrES, an exception to the sacred general
rule of obedience •to civil authority. There is no
parallel between the Newport insurrection and the
Rebellion of 1641' or Revolution of 1688, and it
FROST, WILLIAMS, and JONES have no claim for indulgence
on the merits of their case, the legal plea made for them is
not worth much. Mr. DUNCOMBE tells us, that if a technical
objection had been taken in time it would have been valid
in the opinion of nine judges to six. But valid for what ?
Only to
.postpone the trial, in the opinion of all the judges.
The trial would have been postponed, and the prisoners
would then, probably, have been convicted, and, there
being no technical objection to the conviction, would
have suffered the last sentence of the law, which,
as it is, they have escaped. Or, even if the
technical objection had been sufficient (which it was not), if
taken in time to procure an acquittal, it was a technical ob-
jection, and it does not lie in the mouths of those who rested
on a technicality to complain that another technicality has
deprived.them of its benefit. It is another very important
circumstance to be considered that the prisoners did not
suffer, but) on the contrary, gained an advantage on their
trial by the informality which they complained of. The
point taken by the counsel for the prisoners was, that they
were not served with a copy of the indictment and a list of
the witnesses at the same time. This was because the Solicitor
to the Treasury indulged the prisoners with a copy of the
indictment four days before the period that the law pre-
scribed. Under these circumstances, we cannot but. think the
working classes, and their able and courageous champion,
Mr. DUNCOMBE, have not exercised a sound discretion in
agitating this question.

Mr. Disitam." strangely misunderstood Sir J. GRAHAM'S
closing intimation, that though he did not feel it to be his
duty to accede to Mr. DUNCOMBE'S motion, it was
not to be inferred that the door of mercy was
entirely closed. This was no encouragement of agi-
tation, but a proper and considerate intimation that con-
tinuance of good conduct might entitle the banished men,
after a longer term of punishment than they have already en-
dured, to a merciful re-consideration of their case. Mr. MA-
CAULAY, we think, was carried away, perhaps in the fervour of
discussion, into a rather exaggerated view of the offence
which had been committed; and there is one part of Mr.
MAcAtmAv's speech which we cannot assent to with ut
much qualification. We mean . that part in Which
be reprobates in such unmeasured terms the sympathy
which had been shown for the fate of Ta.wiaa, and other
criminal'. There is an ingredient in that sympathy which
Mr. Micauf-tv has entirely overlooked—hostility to the
punishment of death. There was no sympathy with 'f.swEt.t.
—no consideration of his crime in the efforts made to pro-
cure a review of the sentence which consigned him to death.
The origin of these efforts was aversion to capital punish-
ment.

It is a matter of great regret to all the friends of Ireland
that any Coercion Bill, or indeed any extraordinary legis-
lative measure, should be found necessary for that country,
while England and Scotland are exempted from its opera-
tion. We wish to see the three countries governed by the same
laws, enjoy the same rights and privileges, and form one
free and independent kingdom under our gracious Sovenews.
Unfortunately, however, Ireland has been so long treated
like a conquered country, suffereil so much at the hands of
British rulers and legislators, add one class has been so
urged on against another, even by parties that ought to be
alike the protectors of both, that a law which will apply to
these parts of the kingdom and be sufficient for its object will be
totally ineffective in Ireland. The Irish have been subjected
to the most cruel misgovernment of any people on the face
of the earth. Till very lately they were denied all the pri-
vileges of freemen ; their very priests were outlawed ; they
were treated as serfs of the lowest rank; and cruelties un
heard of in any land, and disgraceful to the humai. race,
were inflicted on them, solely because they would not abjure
their religion and submit .patiently to the iron hand that
crushed them to the earth. Circumstances are now happily
changed; their religion and their priests are respected and
recognised by the Government, and the present Cabinet
would in all respects, as regards both, place their church on
the same footing with that of England and Scotland but
for the prejudices entertained against the Catholic faith.
Their political liberties also have been to a great extent
vindicated, and with a very few exceptions they may be
said to enjoy the blessings of the British consti-
tution. But sudden changes rarely produce the
effects anticipated, and people enslaved for ages
require long nursing and kind government before they can
enjoy freedom or conduct themselves in obedience to those
laws which are absolutely necessary for its security. These
remarks are true as regards Greece, Spain, and more espe-
cially Ireland. In neither is law sufficiently re,pectea,
and extraordinary remedies, therefore, are required.
Possibly the undefined relations between landlord
and tenant have been the main causes of the de-
plorable condition of the Irish .peasantry, and have
led mans- of them to resort to the most horrid of all crimes
—assassination—to obtain redress for what they .onside-ed
their wrongs. But such a means of redress cannot be en-
dured for a moment in any country whatever. It is abhor •
rent to the human mind ; it tends to dissolve the bonds of
society, and bring civilised beings to the most brutal and
barbarous condition. It cannot be denied that this inhuman
practice has been carried on, and is still carried on, in parts
of Ireland to an alarming extent; it bas been adopted as a
system, and independent of the atrocities of such deeds, they
have the most ruinous consequences on the very people who
resort to them fdr relief. It drives capital, and consequently
employment from Ireland ; no man that can help it will live
in a country where his life is never secure even
against the mid-day assassin ;no improvements can take
place, and unless the Government have the power
to repress such horrible crimes, and afford security to life
and property, the land will soon be occupied only by bands
of ignorant and lawless savages. The Government, by the
present Bill, has made the attempt to discover a remedy,
but whether it will be successful or not is another ques
Lion. Like all Coercion Acts, we fear that it will
ultimately fail, and that nothing but better go-
vernment and time will be found sufficient to abate
such er,ying evils. But so deplorable and so inju-
rious to the miserable peasantry themselves is the state of
the country, that even the best friends of the Irish wish to
give it a trial, in the hopes that the crime of assassination
may be put down. No doubt several of the clauses, are se
vere, but great crimes require severe laws, and we,
therefore, regret to find Mr. O'CoNNELL railing, not so much
against the objectionable parts, as against the very attempt.
ait usingo
eshel I a
against
saintitigsee
turt,aiolg: eos
afw.y:
he haEI a
:m.webepeoeffnret
oeae
rnry
\NslrTrplilciolskisoi
ueonneLl
dythsseau:recsbh
hi:
it eatyn:
,h;ueska,Aap3.iscsieol
hp(aileose,
himit heas'ituslet
this ;" and in another place, " it has the hellish perfection of
perpetuity of pain and' infliction." We lament
s‘
lament that such
language should be used, and that many
1i
such
ad- eelslpokti: known
for their humanity should be ranked wit
find such epithets applied to a measure which they con-
scientiously believe necessary.

Eighteen hundred and forty-six has dawned upon the Go-
vernment of Great Britain with a series of phenomena more
startling and portentous than have accempanied the com-
mencement of many antecedent years. Abroad our position
is embarrassed in various directions and by various contin-
gencies. Among the Asiatic tribes the germs of warfare
have been fructified, and, beyond a spectacle of present blood-
shed, spreads forth a prospect of protracted campaigns and
continuous carnage. America, in the opposite direction—
whether excited by an unholy lust for aggrandisement or a
still more unholy aspiration to cross swords and measure
strength with her mother country—intimates both by in-
sinuatioq and by overt act lied longing to embroil hers**

with England. In addition to these impending war-blasts,
we are afflicted at home with the grim and unmistakeable
prognostications of famine, and the maladies which invariably
supervene upon that direful visitation. The fetch of starva-
tion has been recognised among the bleak fens and mountain
paths of Ireland : the fever-cloud is settling down above the
homesteads of that afflicted country. Simultaneously almost
'with these occurrences the Spanish Ministry was changed,
and by our latest information• it appears that Poland ha's
again raised her chained hands to smite the oppressors of
her past and present generation ; the dykes of tyranny have
been overflowed once more ; the shade of KOSCIUSKO has
glowed upon the walls of Cracow. Stirred, however, as the
public mind is by necessity in consequence of these political
convulsions without,'and occupied as the Legislature must be
from a similar cause ;=a greater revolution than all these,
one more vast in its application and more durable in its ;very
essence has been evoked within—an agitation by which the
laws of man shall henceforth be made more accordant
with the laws of Gcp and Nature—an agitation by which
the rational portion of creation shall have as ready access
to its nourishment as that enjoyed by the irrational—an
agitation by which an universal good shall supersede an
individual advantage. That agitation- has been accom-
panied, and stirred on, and developed by a combination
of occurrences more unforeseen and more memorable
than almost any on the • Parliament cry records—
occurrences which we ourselves, however, have so fully
and repeatedly particularised, as each transpired in succession,
as to require no more at this moment than a casual men-
tion. Engrossed by topics thus momentous, with reference
both to foreign, home, and colonial legislation, it is not pos-
sibly surprising to observe the scanty benefits of a practical cha-
racter produced by Government during the last few months.
And in employing the term Government, we do not mean the
Ministry alone, or the Houses of Parliament alone, or the
Cabinet Council alone, but Government in its most compre-
hensive and concrete signification. Its attention, diverted
now to the Sutlej, by dispatches penned amidst • the
smoke of blood and gunpowder ; new to the
hovels of Galway, by the catalogue of blighted
potato-crops; now to the Oregon, by the testy squabblings and
irate announcements of the representatives of the 'United
Ststss ; POW to Maiirid, by the failing voice of I`.-Tsnvs
now to iii,nnetnbered Poland, by tip.

r~.L:ol~~i~;

abalfi to

.:;

cosnintiniy, by the petitios, r..- tra,le. and
the petitions for protection (the latter being at a
moderate computation the units, and the former the thou-
sands)i—distracted by these conflicting movements, it is
not, we repeat, surprising that Government should be baffled
at first into something like dilatoriness or procrastination.
There are ample excuseS, for a first delay—such a delay as
may afford full oppertunity for reflection. But, beyond
a certain limit of time, there is no available palliative fora
continuance of that torpor in the Executive department. An
over-protracted hesitation on the part of a Government is the
most heinous political :crime of which it can well be guilty—
it is the arch-sin of legislation—it is more pernicious (if pos-
sible) than over-rashness. It is the key-stone to misgovernment.
In the present instance that limitation of time to which we
haVe alluded is fast 'aPproaching. Words will not suffice ;
when that moment of demarcation arrives, action will be re-
quisite. Indian warfare and arbitration for Oregon are
subjects no more capable of being trifled with by any minc-
ing measures than is the question of free trade, to the
inhabitants of the British Isles themselves, ens admitting
of a pottering policy.: Parliament must neither dream for
a single instant that, their discussions upon this clause
and upon that clause can continue on their present
glib progression, than that the Seikhs and Americans are
the most conceding and patient of mortals. Our legis-
lators must acquire fresh capacity for Parliamentary and
practical proceedings; they must be au fait in the march of
soldiers as well as in the march of opinion; they must keep
pace with the accumulation of exigencies—remembering the
vast and petty grieVances,which have to be rectified both at
home and abroad. Sir ROBERT PEEL has a thorough appre-
ciation of this necessity: he perceives the duty most incum-
bent upon himself; upon his colleagues, upon the Imperial
Parliament itself: the duty of doing instead of talking,' His
whole bearing throughout this session proves such to be his
conviction; his abrupt and copious explanations upon the
first meeting of that august House; Isis rapid introduction
of the policy proposed for adoption by Government; his
observations night after night from the Ministerial benches;
nay, his declaration. on Monday evening was alone sufficient
evidence of the deep riot which that opinion has taken in
his judgment. The glee displayed upon the latter occasion
by the protectionists is, indeed, to ourselves a matter
of the most supieme astonishment. These eccen-
tric gentlemen appeared to • have detected "some
astoundingly invisibla cause for exultation in the
miniature debate which ensued upon Mr. Ewan T's amend-
ment : they crowed—absolutely crowed with delight at that
little interlude to the discussion—that mere episode in the
great epic of commercial freedom. What really could excite
such manifestations of rejoicing among a party so
miserably and irreparably erest-i'allea as the agricultu-
rists, we cannot in all sober earnestness divine; for to
us, the remarks uttered by the Government officials upon the
introduction of that amendment appeared only like another
conquest over the monster monopoly. It was a triumph is
this respect, that the Ministerial measures will admit of no
unnecessary opposition Whatever, while, at the same moment,
an important announcement with reference to international
copyright arose out of the present rejection of Mr. ENYART'S
suggestion. On this latter account we feel assured that Mr.
Sergeant 'faurounD will entertain feelings of thankfulness
to the Hon. Member for. Dumfries as the unwitting means of
eliciting a very pleasant piece of intelligence. That intelli- •
gence came forth as an announcement from Sir GEORGE
Cnanx, who, while he acknowledged the excellence of some
speedy reduction in the tax upon foreign bOoks (as specified
in the amendmenl), objected to the adoption of Mr. EWART'S
suggestion, for the following reasen :—" At the present mo-
ment," said the 'Hon. Member for Stamford, " negotiations
are pending on the subject of international copyright between
Prussia, France, and thii country. Those negotiations halt('
made great progress, and I hope will be soon brought to a
satisfactory conclusion ; -but, by the Hon. Member pressing
his motion, the probability of effecting such arrangements
will be materially diminished." Mainly, almost exclusively
on this score, the amendment of Mr. ER-ART was pushed to
withdrawal ; and, nevertheless, the protectionists indulged in
acclamations of rapture, as though Government were reced-
ing from their • free-trade policy. Surely these sagacious
corn-dealers have regarded. the Ministerial opposition with
singular obliquity, or they would recognise, instead of any
set ession from their principles of abolition, an additional
expression of their determination to persevere in • that
glorious labour. Prospects, in fact, are held out by
a distinguished member • of the Cabinet of a reciprocation,
literary as wek as commercial, between the principal Euro-
pean countries—a reciprocation of mental as well as bodily
nutriment—a reciprocation of untaxed thoughts as well as of
untaxed cattle. And it is for the purpose of ensuring the
speedy and permanent' settlement of this reciproeation
that the amendment in question was rejected.
Nevertheless, these CYMONS, the protectionists, rejoiced!
As if, however, to amend any misconception of the inten-
tion of the Ministry, the Premier made the unequivocal de-
claration that " neither this nor any other minor difficulty
would induce him to rebiX in his exertions to bring tin
great miestion of our commercial policy to a satisfactory con•
clusion. It was the maid object for which at present he
should strive." Yet with these syllables ringing in thels
ears, the pleasantry of the protectionist Members still re-
mained undiminished—they had indeed " a par
lons pertinacity of fun." Nay, so confirmed was
this feeling, that one of the chiefest ornaments of
the party actually indulged himself in touches of
exultant sarcasm ! The language, however, of Sir ROBERT
PEEL is decisive : it profcs four great facts in one little sen..'
tence : first, the necessity ofimmediate•action ; sscondli, the
unconquerable' strength of his position as the representative
of the popular will; thirdly, the ultimate victory of free trade
for mind as well as for beidy; a al fourthly, the imminence of
she present juncture.

We have accounts from Madrid to the 3d instant, but
though they bring 'no intelligence of a striking character.
they lead to the belief that the present Ministry cannot go
on long. NARVAEZ and 'his party keep aloof from them.
MAr.TINEZ DE r..a. Rosa, though not entirely opposed to them.
has in a manner deserted his post by retiring to Paris as am
bassador, and the funds are rapidly declining. The large
sum required as an indemnification to the lay proprietors has,
no doubt, had an unfavourable effect in this respect, for to
raise such a large sum as 6,000,0001., or even provide for the
annual interest, is no trifle in a country like Spain. The
Government are making exertions to put down smuggling,
and very properly have begun with the foreign ministers
The Gazette of the 3d contains a circular addressed by the
Minister of Finance to the Director-General of Customs, fix-
ing the amount of articles -to be imported for the private
use of the diplomatic body. An ambassador is allowed to
import articles free of duty to the value of 2,000/.; a minister
plenipotentiary 1,4001; 13 resident 8001.; and a chargé d'
affaires 600/.

On the 3d the Three per Cents. closed at 2934 cash, and
29% at 60 days; the Five per Cents. at 21% for the 30th or

The Paris papers are chiefly occupied with the Polish
insurrection and the affairs of Africa. On the former sub-
ject we have given elsewhere the latest particulars received
from Germrny and 'the different places where insurrection
had broken out. They leave no hopes whatever of success ;
and, perhaps, under all circumstances, the best that could
happen would be the speedy suppression of this ill-advised
and ill-planned demonstration. Should it proceed further,
only more persons will be implicated, and more victims
destined for punishment, A Polish committee has been
formed at Paris, with a view to raise subscriptions and. aid
the Poles in the righteous cause, but we have great doubts
of the expediency of such a step at the present inauspicious
time. The Reforme says, the committee is composed of the
following members morn others :—Messrs. AEAGO, BAUNE,
DAVID (D'AllgetS), DUPOTY, ETIENNE ARAGO, FLOWN,
GUINAED, LEDRU ROLI.IN,-10.UIS BLANC, MICIIELET, QUI-
NET, and RECURT, and Subscriptions have been opened in
the offices of nearly all the'Opposition papers.
The accounts from Algiers are very unsatisfactory. Mar-
shal BUGEAUD, as our readers are aware, had arrived at the
place, and reckoned upon remaining there some time to form
his plans and recruit his exhausted troops, but ABD-KL-
KADEg will not give his consent, and is resolved to 'allow the
Marshal no rest. He has suddenly appeared on the cast of
the French frontier, and BUVEAIII3 is thus compelled to set

out in pursuit of him, with every man that can be spared.
The following account of this new movement appears in the
and is dated Mascara, Feb. 25 :
" In consequence of the sudden appearance of Abd-el-Kader in the
east of our possesions, all the columns of the province of Algiers
have been directed towards that point. The Governor-General has
been forced, in order to cover the lerg opening which their movement
occasioned! in the central line of the Tel, to call front the province of
Algiers the column. of Colonel Pellisler, which is now watching the
pass of Boghar, and that commanded by Colonel Renaud, which is
in observation of the country beyond the' sources -of the Cheliff.
This -• disposition could not take place, except to the detri-
ment of the combinations adopted, in order to close the
province of Oran 'against the noir. In fact, the line of the
Kell i without troops from Tiaret to the Oued-cl-aid, and
the A:4111110(s of the Sdamas and Flittas, where the insurrection had
been Sc- :reeky mulled, was left open to the first agitator who should
attempt again to rouse them. It was necessary, therefore, to fill up
these,idanks as soon as possible. Lieut.-General de Lamoricii!re int-
in! Mutely set himself to the work, and notwithstanding the enor-
nems diminution that his treops have experienced, he adopted rapidly
all the measures commanded by circumstances."

The article goes on to describe the arrangements made by
General LAMOIZICIERE to attain the desired object. They
app3ar to haVe been skilfully planned, but have necessarily
called into use every detachment at his dispoFal.

The French Fu►xls ou Monday were greatly depressed. The Three
per Cents. closed at 84f. 10e.; the Five per Cents., 120 f. 15e.; the
Orleans Railroad shares, 1,300 f. ; Rotten, 1,035 f.; Havre, 741 f.;
Great Northern, 780 f. ; AvEcnon, 9801'.; Vierzon, 750 f.; }turtle:tux,
he 2f. 50e. ; ltkiulogne, 5i3 ; Basle. 240 f. ; Fa►npoux, 41,01'. ; Dieppe,
4701.; Paris and Strashurg, 510 r.; Tours and Nantes, 5711. '25e.;
Parts and Lyons, definitive, 125 f. 50e.

The follbwing are the quotations for other lines :

Lyon and Avignon Itallroad, definitive, 507 f. 50c. ; ditto (Talabot)
512 f. 50c. ; ditto ( Lecointe), 505 f. 50c. ; ditto (Conitignie Mei idle-
nab:), 5021.50 c. ; Bordeaux and Cettfo (Mackenzie), 5031. 50c. ; ditte
(4.:,:teleta), 510 f. ; Charletoi, 495 f.
31 A USE 31-Aacit s.—Marseilles and Avignon, I,olof. ;
Northern, 7921. 50(.. ;

I,YoNs, 31.1acti 7.--3farseilles and Avignon, 1,002 f. 50c. ; Paris and
Orleans, 1,337 f. 50e. ; Rouen, 1,067 f. ; Vicrzon, 7G3r. 50c.

I;CStNESS I)ON1 IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT VIE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, .11Aucn 10.
Boulogne strni Amiens, 10N —Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cetto
(M.tekenzie), 2- Dutch Rhenish, 5 4 —East Indian, 54—Great North-
r of trance Constituted, IG%—Jamaica South Midland Junc-
tion, 2 —l,yous and Avignon, 2—Limenibour,,,, I%—Natnur and
Orleans and Pierson, 19—Orleans and Bordeaux, 11%
West ilanders, 3%.

Th‘ following Members are proposed to be nominated by
Mr. Etwall for the Committee on the Andover Union :—Mr.
Email, Mr. Christie, Mr. Wakley, Lord Courtenay, Mr.
Charles Wood, Captain Pechell, Sir W. Heathcote, Mr. Man-
ner-3 5n too, Mr. Disraeli, Mr. T. buncombe, Mr. BPekstt
Mr qr. .Pakington, Mr. John Ppilden, and
V 1 0111,-y.

MO NEY and COMMER.CIAL NE S.
(From The San or Last Night.

The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was very quiet, but
s'eady. Sales 3,000 bales, including a part for export. Shares were
not active.

At Messrs. Lamand's auction of Railway Shares, yesterday after-
noon, the sales were :-Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham, 7s. 6,1.-
Great North of India, 3s. 6d.- Direct -Northern, 21.-Essex and
Stiffo,k, 10s. (id -Great Kent Atmospheric, 11. 14s. 6d.-East Indian,
135.-Shropshire 3/Heeral, 17s. 6d.-Eastern Counties. 201. 1e5...-
Calcutta and St. George's Point, 7s. 6d.-Whitehaven and Furness,
31. 4s.- Buckinghamshire, 11. 145.-Louvain and Jemcppes, IL 55.-
Bordeaux, Toulunse, and Cette (Mackenzie), 21 Os. 6d.-Manchester
and Southampton, • 2/. Is -Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and
Ins.-York and Lancaster, 11. 65.-Central of Spain, 10s. 6d.
and Galway, 21. IN.-London, Hounslow, and Western,
15s.- Belfast .County Down, IL 2s. 6d.-Great Western of Bengal,
108.-Yale of Neat!), 21. bas-Ches• er and Holyhead, 19/. 7s. 6(1.-
Eastern Counties (York Extension), 11. Os. 6 1.-Northernaud Eastern
(New), IV.- London and Eirminghani, 2181.
There are not any arrivals to-day from the British
colonies. Some additional accounts have come to hand
from the East Indies, but in a political point of view
there is nothing of interest beyond that already made public as re-
spects the West Indies, and the progress of the colony of Jamaica, a
correspondent observes, " It is with feelings of more than ordinary
gratification that the exports from the colony arc on the increase."
It is satisfactory that such an admission is now made, especially as
fur years past complaints have beets made of this position of mercan-
tile affairs there.

the Funds still keep vacillating, but, upon the whole, the market
is rather mote firm to-day. The Government brokers made their
usual purchases at noon. Consuls for the Account have reached
9G ; for the Transfer, the prices have been 953,4 and 96 ; and for the
Three-and-a-Quarter p. r Cents.. froth 9S to 97%4. The premium
upon Exchequer-bills has been heavy, at a decline to 345. premium.
Dank 'tuck fur the Account has been done at 210. In the other
Stocks the variation has been slight to-day.
Not 'a great dual o' business was transacted in the Foreign Stock
Exchange to day. Mexican Bonds are a shade loWer, as well. as
Portuptesu. The Dutch nur per Cents. hare rallied to 95.
The Railway. Share Market keeps muen the same for ordinary
scrip. Thu shares of established lines are pretty firm.

BUITISIL FUNDS.

ONE
O'CLOCK.
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9GM M M
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities 95% 1.4 96

New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Antis.- 98g 971.4,
Long Atn.luities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. .
India Bench, 1,0001.
I)itto, under 1,0001.
Y4outh Se:LS:eel(

CLOSING
PRICES.

10 7-16 10 7-16

•• ..• ••

Ditto, New Annuities
Bank Stock fir Account
',7olistls for Account, ..

. 9•5 i%
. .. 210

961,i 9G 96

Exchequer Mils.
rinni

d.
34 - - - pm.
35 - - pm.

Ditto. Small

FOREICIN FUNDS.
Equatior Bond's' •
Grenada, 1 per. Cent

ONE
O'CLOCK.
2i
4!4j
.. 3l'

' Ditto, Deferred • • ..
Mexican Bonds. 1837, 5 per Cent

_ .
Ditto, Deferred ..
Portuguese Four per Cents
_ _

Ditto, for ,the Account ..
RuFsian Bonds
Spanish Roads, 5 per Cent
DlthyThree per. Cent
Ditto, for the Account
Venezuela tomis, 2 per Cent ..
" Ditto, Deferred 1314
Dividends on the above payable in London
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 59
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 94% 95
BUSINESS
PRICES OF CLOSING
H PAID. DONE AT
RAILWAY S ARES. PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.

95%
2101

CLOSINI
PUICES.

.. .. .. 105%

10S%

1,111
iitirra, in:ba,i,ltesi;i:rt::::,nxihi
I,,,lN7J;itiattiiiiiititsitdgiy:.;(l,,:ioxßrio7o:sy,sitt
joe(iitit.,,,:il..c. and:
:I
020% : : :
.. 2 s
!,,
..,....
::
...
',Jo' .; 172' .: :: '',21'04 :.• : .... : ::
Bristol and Exeter .. .. .. 70 .. .. 83 .
Ditto, New .. .. .. .. 5 .... 10 ....”....
latickinglianishire .. .. .. .. 425. .... % dis .
Caledonian .. .. .. • • •• 10 .... 114 %5i ..
Ditto, Half Shares .. • • • • 2%.... 2% ..........
Ditto, Extension •.. • • • • 2% .... 1% ..........
Cambridge and Oxford.. .. • . 1% .... sA
...,
......
Chester and Holyhead .. • • •• 20 .. • . 20 ......., ~
Churnet and Blythe .• .. .. 2 .... N,..........
Derby and Crewe .. • • • • • • •• .. 2% p........
Direct 'Manchester (Remington's) 2%..., % 1.....
Direct Manchester (ttastrick's) .. 614 ..., 3% q .... •• : :
Direct Northern .. • • • • • • 2%.. .. 2 ..........
Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine .. 2% .. • . —•
.......
Eastern Counties .. ... 141. les. .... 21 20%
Ditto New .. ••- • • 8/. 16s. .... 6% p.......
Ditto, York Extension .. .. 105..... 114.......
•:•tist Lincolnshire .. • • • • .. 1% .... 1%
..........
Edinburgh and Glasgow • . •• 50 .. •. 72 ..., ....
Ditto 3.4 Shares .• • • • . .. 5 .... 13%
... ..
Ditto 34 Shares .. • • • • • 12% ••• • 18
Grand Union (Nottingh. & Lynn) 1% ~
.. .7,
.........
great-North of England . ..100 .... _
Ditto, New .. • • • • • • • 1% ••• • 15 •
15
Great Western .• • • • • •• 85 • • ..145 147 145
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. .. 50 .... 61 82
.. .
Ditto, Quarter Shares
42253. i
..
.. 2 i
3,
• • • • 5 ... 16 17 .. ... 17
Ditto, Fifths ........20 •• • . 32% .... .
r,eiceste: and Birmingham • .. 225. .... ii dis . .
Leicester and Bedford .......... 225..... % dis
.: .: ; ...
2-20 2171 : : : : : : •••
:• ' 219
1% dis .... 11/
• • A tits
B.'
Directe• • • • • . . 2 %
3
Lehiceersptoeori,
au
air
ri,ve,codtsh.
IL,oivin:irptotto.i.lS,ihilliarrdiTsilrti..,l&:.,g.titiattl.mv..c.. J.:un..e.t...
101,20%
....
5,36
4934
....
,i,
Ditto Quarters • • • • • • .. 2 .... ~........ 26
' Ditto Fifths .• • • • • • • 2 .... 22 ..
.... 22
London and Black wall .. 16/. 13s. 4d. .....
._
Ditto New
London and Brighton .. .. .. 50 .... 634; y•,:,
... ,,
... ~9
Ditte. Consul. Eighths • • .. 40 ..., _
.° .
...
_"'" '
Ditto ditto Fifths .. • • •. 20 .. •. 29 ...
London and Croydon .. • • 131. 139. 9d. 21% 22 2134 .. 21%
London and Oxford . • • • • • 1%.. • . % .... ..... 3;4
:,ondon and Greenwich .. 12/. 15s. 4d. 9% ... .. 94
Londou,,llounslow, & Western .. 2 ~ . , s, I. .
.. .. 1
London and Senth•lVes'ern.. 411. Gs. 10d. 76% 77 ...... 77
Ditto, NzwConsol. Eighths .. 28 ~~
Ditto, New . . • • • • • 12%.... 2214 x .. .. .. .. .. 221 A
London and York .. .. .. .. 2% .... v 3
.......... 314
London, Warwick, & Kitidermins. 2% ........_—
..
.. 1
Lynn and Ely .. .. .. .. 10 .... 2% 4 ..... ... 9%
Lynn and Dereliam .. .. .. 10 ..., 9
..........
Manchester acct Leeds .; .. .. 82 ..., ._.
..........
_9;
Ditto, Ilalf Shares .. • - • • 38 .... 58 ........ 58
Ditto, Fifths .. •• • • • • 2 •• • • 12% 11% 12% 12%
Ditto Extension
alancliester and Birmingham .. 40 . ..
..
......
.. _
Ditto, Quarter Shares (13) .. 2 .... 9%
..........
94
Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) .. I •• •• 734 7........
7),,
11anchester, Buxton, Et. Matlock 425. .. • • 1% p........ 1, ~
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... 2%14
........ ~,2 1
Midland ..
..
..
..
.. ..100 ..143 142% 144 142 142
Ditto, New .. .. .. .. 18 .... 3134 3034 ..., 31
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 108 ....113 .......... 113,
Newcastle and Darlington Junet. '5.5 .... 43%34 ........ 43g
Ditto, New .. .. •• •• 1 •• •• 93 9........ 9
Ditto, New, Ifrandling
Newcastle and Berwick ~ .. 10 .... 1934% . ...... . IN yea
Newark. Sheffield, and Boston .. 2%.... .. ....... , 1%
North British .. .. • • • • .. 20 .... 25%.......... 25%
Ditto, Ilalf Shares ... .. • • 6 .... 8%
Ditto, Dalkeith •• • •
North Staffordshire .. .. • • 425. .... 3% p.. ••• • • 31% p
Nortiimpton,Banbtvy,&Chelthin. 2 .... 1% ..... ..... 1%
Afil.,Wcreester, & Wolverhmptu. 12%.... 12% . .
Perth and Inverness .. .. .. 2%.... 1% %.. . ..... 1 %
Rughy and littittitigdon iii
ihrewsbary and Birmingham .. 2% .. .. 234 3........ 3
Shropshire Union .. .. .. .. 425..... % d:5........ 34 dis.
South Midland .. .. .. .. 425..... 11% p.. •• • • 1% p
South Eastern and Dovor .. • • 33% ••••36 % • • • .
Ditto, New (iss. at 32/.) No. 1. 16 • .... 17%
South Wales .. .. .„ „ .. 5 .... 4 .......... 4
Trent Valley .. ~ „ .. .. 5 .• ••• 2634 .. • • ...... 26%
Welsh Midland .. .. .. .. 214.... 114 .......... 1 4
York and Carlisle .. .. .. 2%.... 1% l%
York and North Midland .. .. 50 •• • • ••••• • • • • •
Ditto. Scarborough Branch .. 25 .• •• 47 ••••• • • • • • 47
Ditto. Extension .. .. .. li .. • • 31%31 ••• • • • 31%
FOREIGN RAILIVskYS.
Roulogne and Amiens .. .. .. 10 .... 10% %•••••••• • •• • 10%
130 rd., Toul., Sp Cette (Mackenzie) 2 .• • • ••• .. •
Ditto, ditto (Espelete) .. 2 •• • • 2.,,% ;, 2%
Dutch Ellen:sit .. .. ... • • 5 •• • • 5,78,72 53.
East Indian .. . .. .. .. be. •• • • 714 N•••• • • • • %
Grt. North. of Franco Constituted 5 .... 16 15% •• .. • • 15%
.treat Indian Peninsular .. • • ss• •• •• ~
711 M,, ' • ••• ,4
•• • 1
. Great Western Canada .. .. 3% •• • • ••••• • • • • • 334
Louvain and Jemeppe ' .. .. 4 .. . 1% ••••• • • • • • 114
Lyons and Avignon .. .. .. 2 •• •• •• •• 2
Luxembourg .. .. .. .. 4
.... 2 1•%%% l%
carom and Liege .. .. .. 4 .• • • 21,5% •• • •
3rlcans and Vierzsn .. .. ~ 10 •• • • 19'A •• ••••• • •• 19%
Over Yss,el .. .. .. .. 4/. 3s. 40.... 2%. die
Sombre and Meuse ......6 '' ' ' •,43.iii,1/4 •••• • • • ' 4141
West k'landers .. .. .. .. 4 •• • • •-' AP,••• • • • • • 371
:ALINES.
British Iron .. .. .. .. .. 10 •• • • '2l "••' • • " •
:teal del Mute, Unregistered .. •• • • 3 ••• • • • •• •

?a lis
11%
2.4

2% .ii

11,,E
21%
6% p
114

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
•
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
Hy dr Jgr. phic Office Admiralty, Feb. 20, 1816.
WEST INDIES.
REVOLVING LIGHT AT PUERTO RICO.
A revolvii-g light leas been established at the entrance of
the harbour of St. Juan, in the Island of Puerto Rico. The
lighthouse stands in 18 deg. 20 min. N., and long. 66 deg.
7 min. 15 sec. West of Greenwich, on the Morro Castle, and
at an elevation of 157 feet above the level, of the sea. Each
revoluti.n is completed in two minutes, during which inter-
val the light appears only for six seconds, and may be seen at
the distance of about five leagues.
LONDON, Mallen I L—Wind W. light airs and hazy.
Coax, MAuett 7.—The schooner Industry, which grounded on the
wreck of the, Clifton yesterday, has got off without damage. Arrd.
S. Inglewood, Smith, China ; Christina, Bateson, Batavia. Off port,
Echo, Honduras (out 34 days), and sailed for Sunderland.
CAnatcxrzecus, Mattel' B.—The Hero, Mary, and Jane, drove
from their moorings at this port, 4th inst., during a hurricane from
the S.W.;-and went on Shore, but are expected off without damage.
DUBLIN, Mama B.—Sid. Sea Nymph, Veasy, St. John's, New
Brunswick. 9. Ann Hall, Hubert, St. Joint's, New Brunswick.
LONDONDERRY, 3Lutcu 7.—Sid. Valiant, Batson, St. Andrew,
New Brunswick.
ARDROSSEN, Mitacu 9.—The Duke of Gordon, of Glasgow, from
Liverpool to Limerick, put in here on the 7th inst., with considerable
damage, in a gale, on the 4th, at Lamlask.
KILLYBEGS, MARCH B.—The Courtney, Jones, of and for Beau-
=l'ls, from St. Joint's, New Brunswick, has put in here with the
crew quite exhausted, having been waterlogged for 41 days.