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LONDON:
MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1841.

The late declaration of Lord STANLEY that the
votes of the tenants of England are at the service
of the landlords, and that you could easily tell
the result of a county election by knowing how
-the great landlords would vote, though it taught
nothing new, startled the public by its audacity.
Every person acquainted with rural society in
England knows that the bulk of the tenantry,
holding the land at will, generally undertaking
to pay a rack- rent, and, till lately, legally bound
to pfy as tithes more than they could always
command, follow their landlord or his agent in
all public matters, as a pack of hounds is guided
by the voice of the huntsman. But though that is
familiar knowledge, the fact has for the sake of
the tenantry been glozed over, or kept as much as
possible in the dark, and the community was
Scandalised by a landlord, one of the authors of
the Reform Bill, declaring in Parliament, that
the votes which the Legislature had nominally
given to the tenants, were in reality bestowed on
the landlords.

Contemporaneously with this assertion of
Lord STANLEY'S, Mr. G. WEBB HALL, a
well-known agriculturist, a member, we be-
lieve, of several Agricultural Societies, and
a gentleman who has laboured assiduously
in behalf of the landed interest, before
Committees of the House of Commons, and
by numerous publications, has sent forth a
pamphlet entitled " The Connexion between
Landlord and Tenant," &c., in which Lord
STANLEY'S doctrine receives some illustration.
He says, at page 20, " Instances were related to
me, from unquestionable authority, at the Eng-
lish Agricultural Meeting at Cambridge last year,
of arbitrary oppression on the part of the land-
owners to ;tenants.' " " The landords made de-
mands upon the rights entrusted to the tenants
by the Constitution, for the exercise of which they
were responsible, and which they were con-
strained by intimidation to exercise contrary to
their convictions and their consciences." This, he
z' was credibly infbrined," at the Agricultural
"was not an uncommon practice—
Associatior,
not a rare instance ; it was the rule rather
than the exception in some districts." "Titus,"
he adds, " the privileges of the -tenantry
are considered to be their bane." O,
he affirms, at p. 21, "have r heard with the
deepest sorrow and disgust the assertion that the
right to participate in sending
Members to Par-
liament for the district in which the capital of
the tenants is invested, is converted into and felt
Lobe ameansof bondage and degradation." Again,
he asserts at page 11,that the " tenantry are sub-
jected to gross aggressions on their dearest rights,
calculated to mar the advance of improvement, and
to fix on the class to which they belong a stamp
of servile bondage." All that, and more of the
same kind, is stated by Mr. WEBB HALL, an ex-
cellent authority. It is true he mentions no names,.
for that might expose individual tenants to the
vengeance of the landowners. He gives no in-
stances; but wherefore should he, when he con-
curs with Lord STANLEY in stating. that the "ser-
vile bondage" is universal? But having his
authority, and the authority of Lord STANEY,
we say it is well known, and fully proved, that ,
the bulk of the tenantry of England are in a I
condition of servile bondage.

mr. WEDB HALL inquires into the right
of the landowners to exercise their
power,
and correctly observes, that the capital of
the landowners is invested in the purchase
of the soil, and they' do not possess the means
or the skill to cultivate it. They are described
as Passive possessors of the soil, that is hav-
ing their capital dormant, or locked up in ac-
quiring it. The farmer is the possessor of the
capital which cultivates the land • he must be a
man of education' enterprise,activity, and dis-
crimination, liiithdevoti
him to brave the VI • •on to his art, to enable
fr^m el"4ia(leS andOWlSM.arising

and health

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mals, against which he has not, like the mer-
chant, the refuge of insurance. Why, then, are
the possessors of the passive capital, which is dor-
mant, in the soil, allowed or enabled to exercise the
tyrannyabove described over those whose capital
and skill cultivate it, and, wanting which; the
passive capitalist would get nothing for his land?
Why, for example, should such a man as my
Lord AsHninvrox, who, while he was Mr. BA-
RING, probably bought and sold every year fifty
or a hundred times more than the amount of his
present rent, without ever dreaming that his bar-
gain gave him a right to dictate the votes of
those he dealt with—why should he, or a money-
scrivener, or a bill-broker, when he invests his
capital in land, and contracts with a man to let
him have the use of a piece of his land, on condi-
tion of receiving 1,0001. a-year, have also the
power to constrain his tenant by intimidation to
vote contrary to his conscience and conviction ?
In such a case—and Mr. BARING, the merchant,
converted into Lord ASHBURTON, the landowner,
represents the great majority of those who now
own the land, they, or their immediate ancestors,
having acquired it by purchase—there are no
ancient ties of family connection, no bond of
mutual and hereditary attachment, but merely a
large lump of money on one side invested in the
soil, and a smaller sum on the other, seeking to
find, in conjunction with agricultural skill, a living
or a fortune by cultivating the ground. Mr.WEnn
HALL gives no other solution of this important
question than strenuously to deny that this con-
tract ought to give the landlords any such right,
though he shows in some measure how the land-
lord is enabled to acquire and to exercise it. His
observations on this point are worthy of public
attention.
'First and foremoSt comes the competition of
candidates for the privilege of cultivating the soil,
which is so fierce that it "drives all calculations
to the winds." " Few, very few are the cases
where an intelligent applicant for a farm can
afford the time and the hazard of making a rea-
sonable calculation of the probable produce
of the estate he may be about to engage ;
he is pressed by a crowd behind forward
into precipitancy, or aside into inaction." " The
tenantry of the county, the possessors of all the
agricultural capital and skill, rush like the fre-
quet!ters of a theatre, under attraction or alarm,
and crush and cripple their neighbours and
themselves by 'a reckless and uncalculating
zeal,'," and " thus it is that they sink into de

pendence abhorrent to a generous mind." That
is the condition of the tenantry as attested by this
most competent witness, and against such ruinous
competition no Corn-law can protect them,
though there is no doubt that the distress and
decay brought on by such a competition are
amongst their strongest motives for desiring to
maintain the bread-tax. The merchants and
manufacturers have been repeatedlranswered,
when they have made complaints to Parliament,
that the competition amongst themselves,
underselling each other, was the main
cause of their embarrassment, and Parlia-

anent, on that ground, wisely refused to
give them any relief. By a Corn-law it has
sought to protect the agriculturists from the
consequences of a similar folly, and the result,
after the law has been in operation, in one form
or other, for twenty-five years, is, that the com-
petition of farmers is compared to the rush of the
frequenters of a theatre alarmed by a cry of fire.
Mr. WEBB HALL being a Corn-law advocate,
does not point out the influence of the law in
producing this excessive competition. We will

supply his omission. By impeding the supply of
food, the Corn-law prevents the growth of manu-

factures, and of towns, the employment of capital,
and the increase ofpopulation in them. They, how-

ever, are the natural conduits for carrying off the

surplus population, and,being impeded, though not
wholly stopped by the Corn-law, population and
capital are not drained sufficiently fast from

the rural districts.

At the same time the mono.

poly which the right of property confers on the

owners of the soil is rendered much more strin.

gent and narrow by the law which confines our

people for their supply of food to that particular

property. To feed them the landowner's estate
must be cultivated; those who own it knoW that;
they Bate-made a law to strengthen and enforce
this contingency ; they are therefore enabled
to dictate to the farmer, unable to find any other
occupation for his capital, their own terms. The
supply of land is not enough for the demand,

and hence arises that ruinous competition of
the farmers, which-is like the rush ofa frightened

crowd at a theatre. If the Corn-law be not the

sole cause of this competition, at least it increases

this competition, and gives to it that intensity

which Mr. WEBB HALL has so well described.

To the Corn-law, then, we trace much
of the political dependence of the tenants
of my Lord ASHBURTON on him, of which
the dealers with ALEXANDER BARING had

never the smallest conception. To the same
law we also trace the great disadvantage
which the owners of the capital employed in cul-
tivating the soil, labour under in competing for
farms, as compared to the owners of the

passive capital sunk in the purchase of land.

The Corn-law gives the landowners power over
the tenantry, and favours one class of capitalists
_ _

connected with land, who make the laws, at the
expense of another. The landowners get an in-

creased rent by the excessive competition.

favours the least useful class, too, at the expense

of the more useful class. The passive capital of
the landowners sets no labour in motion, the

active capital of the farmer is the immediate
means of employing and paying the labourer.
What the farmer gives to the landlord more than
he ought, by the forced competition, lessens his

power to employ labour. The Corn-law, there-

fore, by lessening the farmer's capital, and in-
creasing his expense, is as great an injury to the
agricultural labourer as the farmer.

We shall make some further quotations from
Mr. WEBB HALL'S pamphlet, to prove that the

landlords both wrong the farmers in a pecuniary
point of view, and neglect to secure them.pro-
tection by proper laws ; but we will reserve these

for another article.

We must be satisfied now

with having proved by the' authority of an agri-

culturist the degradation of the tenantry, and
with having, in part, traced that to the accursed

Bread Tax.

The _short episode on the Cardigan affair in
the debate on Friday night, is but another proof
that the present House of Commons does not.re-
present the feelings of the country. Mr. RuldE,
in his usual straightforward manner, brought the
subject before the House, and called upon the
Secretary-at-War for some explanation ; when
up started, Mr. MAcA-tmicy (and some eight or
ten more were in breathless haste to do the
same), highly indignant that a " topic of such
violent irritation should have been brought for-
ward," and determined to throw his shield over
Lord CARDIGAN, because, like BURKE and HARE,
he had been hissed and hooted by the public.
The Noble Lord will, no doubt, consider it strange
that his -defender should pronounce his name in
the same breath with such monsters, and the
public will think it equally strange that one of
her MAJESTY'S Ministers should urge, as an ex-
cuse for not dismissing or reprimanding Lord
CARDIGAN, the very strong and general indigna-
tion excited throughout the country by his over-
and tyrannical conduct. On the same
to be the objects of
pbeleaaringsHop and WILLIAMS, and all that class
MACAULAY is no lessUlifor.l1who have had the misfortune
universal hatred, ought tothanvaete m. escahpisedar.gumßuteMntrs.
than in his comparisons. He contends that Lord
CHAILD
wasIGA N ShOll
opposedld ntootsluatchveabseteenp:rianedd,hb:cashuosuei
rniolit
have been put on half-pay for, half-pay never
should be made a punishment, thereby im-
pugning the judgment of the very man whose
authority he had considered paramount, and
who had once punished the same individual for
bad temper and bad conduct, 'by placing him
on the half-pay list. " While I remain Secre-
tary-at-War," exclaims the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman, "it shall not be thus perverted." The
speech altogether was in the worst possible taste.
It abounded with fulsome flattery of Lord HILL,
whom the public unanimously blame—its object
was to screen Lord CARDIGAN, whom Whig,
and Tory, and Radical, and Chartist have de-
nounced, and justly denounced, as unfit to com-
mand a regiment ; and it concluded with the as-

sumption that those who had been the loudest in
clamouring against the Government would ad-
mit them to hatt been in the right. Next came
Lord JoHN RUSSELL, who called the charges
frivolous, and, standing up boldly for his order,
said Lord CARDIGAN had been attacked because
he was a Peer ! Sir HUSSEY VIVIAN came next
to the rescue, denouncing the finding of the
Court-martial on Captain WATREN, and defend-
ing Lord CARDIGAN on that occasion and the
last great gun was Sir H. HA RDINGE, who went far
beyond all his predecessors, and gravely urged that
Lord CARDIGAN could not live on good terms
with his officers, because he supposed they had
libelled him. Unfortunate man, "he had met
with persecution beyond the patience of any man
to bear." What a picture of a regiment, and
what a reproof to Lord HILL, who had sent that
very- officer to command the 11th, whom he had
declared unfit to command the 15th! Could
Lord HILL expect that the gallant officers in
India would submissively brook such an insult ?
And can Sir HENRY HARDINGE suppose that this
regiment will ever be fit for service while
one of the Indian officers remains under
the command of Lord CARDIGAN ? The
discussion will be read by the army and the
people with painful interest, and unless Lord
HOWICK'S advice is followed, and a Court of In-
quiry bo instituted, Mr. MACAULAY and the Go-
vernment may rest assured that so far 'from the
public in a few months admitting that they are in
the right, they will impute to them the chief
blame, and denounce them for encouraging con-
duct which (as Mr. HUME justly said) no man
holding the character of a gentleman could pos-
sibly tolerate or permit.

Letters and Papers from Madrid of the 25th
ult. have reached us. The Regency question
was occupying the serious attention of the Cabi-
net, but no definite resolution had been come to.
The Gazette of the 25th publishes the Conven-
tion for the free navigation of the Douro, which
was ratified on the 23d ult. by the Duke of VIC-
TORIA.

Letters from Mahon announce that the officers of the Ame-
rican squadron are giving splendid parties. It appears that
the Americans have established a quarantine department, but
nothing shows that they have received any Royal permission so
to do, as the French obtained for their settlement, of which

little intelligence transpires. The French have augmented
their cemetery, and are expecting a great number of sick• from
Algiers.
A dreadful accident occurred on the 24th in the neighbour-
hood of Madrid. Two days before, M. Safont, one of the
richest inhabitants of that capital, having gone on an excursion
of pleasure in the vicinity with his family and a few friends,
was returning on that evening, when the mules of his carriage
suddenly took fright, upset it on the bridge of the river Ar-
gando, and the whole party, consisting of twelve persons, were
Washed into the river. M. Safont and another alone were saved;
his father, mother, wife, and daughter, and six others were
drowned. This accident caused a most painful sensation in
Madrid, and nothing else was talked of on the Bourse, where
little business was transacted. Only three operations were
negotiated in the Five per Cents. at 29 at 30 days, and at 29i
for the 9th of March, with a premium.

We have received the whole of the Paris
Journals of Thursday. The Moniteur Parisien
states that an amendment has been carried in
the Committee of the Peers on the Fortifications
Bill, which reduces the grant from 140 millions
of francs to 118 millions, and recommends de-
tached forts instead of the continuous wall
crenelated and bastioned with 2,000 pieces of
cannon. It is of very little importance what
modifications the Peers may make in the Bill.
One thing is certain. Paris will be fortified.
The Km:Vs triumph is no longer doubtful.
While the Peers are making a show of indepen-
dence the works are in progress, which are des-
tined to overthrow the sovereignty of the people.
Rumours were current in Paris on Wednes-
day and Thursday respecting the pecuniary em-
barrassments of M. TRIERS. We know not
whether they be well or ill-founded. The ex-

Minister is a man of very expensive habits,
and we remember that when he visited Italy
several Journals expressed astonishment at the
extent of his purchases of costly and rare works
of art. But if office has not enriched M.
THIERS, he has friends who have known how
to profit by a relationship with the head of a
Cabinet. If half be true that is reported, his
father-in-law is in a condition to relieve him
without any diminution of the wealth which he
possessed before M. THIERS' promotion to a seat
in the Cabinet.
The Courrier Francais has discovered that

Lord PALMERSTON isendeavouring to lull France
to repose only to atto.ol, her at a disadvantage.
We can assure the Courrier Francais that
France need be under no alarm respecting the
intentions of Lord PALMERSTON, which are as
pacific as the Courrier represents them to be hos-

tile. This we believe to be the conviction of M.
GUIZOT, whols wilkly and patriotically engaged
in negotiating a return to those amicable rela-
tions with England, which were interrupted by
the Punic policy of M. TRIERS, and the Cabinet
of the Ist of March. Respecting the progress of
these negotiations, we find the following account
in the columns of a Morning Contemporary :

We have received private letters from Paris, from a well-in-
formed quarter, stating in positive terms, that the negotiations
going on between the French Cabinet and the Powers which
signed the Treaty of London, have advanced to that point that
the Eastern question is expected to be definitively solved within
a few weeks. Al. Guizot's proposition to ameliorate the con-
dition of the Christian population of Syria (not to render it
independent, as it has been erroneously asserted in some papers)
has been much approved of by the Austrian and Prussian
Courts. As the Treaty of London specially engages the con-
tracting Powers to abstain from any act to affect the authority
and independence of the Sultan, the idea of imposing on the
Porte the condition of nominating a Christian Prince to govern
Syria has been out of question; but it has been thought that
the Porte, as a return for the services it has received, will have
no objection to nominate a Pacha: with a separate government,
for Syria, although incorporated in the Ottoman empire ; this
Pacha to be under the control of the Great European Powers,
in order that there may be a guarantee that the Porte govern
on humane principles the Syrian population.

Scandalous attempts are made by some per-
sons at Alexandria and Smyrna to revive the
popular prejudice against the Jews, excited by
the disappearance of Father.TnomAs and his ser-
vant at Damascus. The following is a fabricated
charge against the Jews, quoted by the Temps
from a letter from Alexandria

A young Catholic Armenian merchant, named Joussouf Ta-
houil, had contributed in a great degree to traverse the views
of two Jews from Alexandria, who had come to Damascus
under pretence of making inquiries into the facts attending the
murder of Father Thomas, but who had endeavoured to bribe
the witnesses who appeared. Thus he incurred the hatred of
the Israelites, who determined to accomplish his destruction.
Tahouil unfortunately did not pay attention to the warnings
which were daily given him, and the day after Ibrahim Pacha
left Damascus with his army he perished, the victim of a base
vengeance. An Albanian, notorious for his crimes, entered
Tahouil's shop and shot him through the heart. The murderer
was arrested at the same moment, and declared that the Jews
had given him 3,000 piastres to commit the crime, and seve-
ral lurks came forward to depose that the Israelites had at
different times offered them sums of money to assassinate Ta-
houil as well as other persons who had given testimony in the
affair of Father Thomas.

The Constitutionnel defends M. THlEnfii.from
the charge of having squandered the sum of
500,000,000 of francs during-an administration of
eight months. According to this journal, when
M. TniEns took office, there were not 15,000
cavalry horses fit for service. There were not
sufficient artillery horses to bring 100 pieces of
cannon into the field. Of artillery carriages
'21,000 were wanted, and instead of 3,000,000 of
muskets in the arsenals, there were only 1,800,000.
In whatever way M. THIERS spent the public
money, the result is that in a few years there will
be a deficiency in the French treasury equal to,
forty millions sterling !
Count Alexander de Larochefoucauld, Peer of France, died
yesterday, at Paris, at the age of 65 years.
The Messager contains the following article :
" The lVurtzburg Gazette, the Franconian Courier, and
some other German Journals, pretend that notices have been
published by some French authorities of the left bank of the
Rhine ; for instance, at Lauterburg—inviting Bavarian soldiers
to desert, promising that they should receive the value of their
arms and accoutrements, and be admitted into any French
regiment which they might prefer.
"'I hese statements are absolutely false. Nothing of the
kind has occurred. We give them the most formal denial.
.‘ Even were not such facts entirely at variance with the
honourable principles of the French Government, the existing
laws would. render the entertainment of such an idea impos-
sible. In fact, Art. 2of the law of March 21, 1832, expressly
forbids the admission of foreigners into French corps. No ex-
ception is made to this regulation, only relative to the foreign
legion in Africa, and even in this latter case they are not
armed and equipped till after their arrival in Africa and their
incorporation in the legion. They cannot serve France on the
Continent.
•
46 The Marshal, now Minister of War, has even restricted
within the narrowest limits the execution of this part of the
law of 1832, yoga ltely prohibiting the admission of a foreigner
into a French cps, even as a supernumerary musician, or as a
tailor to a regiment.
We will add, that whenever deserters have come from
g medium
tion of their a •
uof the
the applica
Germany to. France,
.the
mFrielinecs,hanGdotvam
he Government
ehasalways, on
March 4.
g pass,ge in a letter from Amsterdam
Though the houseof
Consuls, ordered them to be given p. e Constitutionnel,
Hope
disposed of only fifteen millions of the last
and Co. has hitherto
.ens of florins, it is affirmed notwith-
standing, loan of fifty nulli
that it is intended to contract at
standing, on good authority,
the 213th
he f oollf oFwei
datedde February .—,6

Amsterdam a new loan of one hundred millions of florins."—
La Commerce.

BO URSE...PARiit THURSDAY, MARCH 4.

first Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
French 5 per Cents;;; 113 40 ... 113 70 ... 113 30 ... 113 70
3 per Cents 76 75 77 ... 76 70 ... 77
Bank of trance ....... ..... 5220 ...320 ...3220 ...3 20
Litlitte Bank I,ooof. Sh 1050 - ...10::(1 ...1050 . ...1050
-5000 f. Sbares 5157 50 ...5157 50 ...5157 50 ...5157 50
lelgian Rank
5 per Cents lOl% ... 101% ... 101% ... 101%
3 per Cents 7O 80 ... 70 90 ... 70 CO ... 70 60
New Loan lOl% ... 12% ... 101 ... 102lyi
Spanish Active 25% • ..„ 25%. ... 24% ... 25%
New Deferred
Portuguese 3 per Cents 19% ... 19% ... 19% ~. 19%
veapolitan lO2 ... 102 ... 102 ... ica
Roman - ....
RAILWAY S 101%
HARES ... 101% ... 101% ... 1(11%
.
St. Germain
Versailles,R. B 402 50 ~. 412 50 ... 402 50 ... 412 50
L.B 312 50 ... 312 50 ... 311 25 ... 311 25
Orleans .. ........ ...........
Strasburg to 8a1e.... .......
louen 452 50 ... 455 ... 452 50 ... 4")5
dordeaux to La 1 este 360 ... 3,.;0 ... 360 ... 3CO

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

( From The Sun of Saturday Es ening.)
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FRIDAY.—Of the transac-
tions this week, Saturday and Monday embraced about 16,000
bales one-third to speculators, the remainder being divided
amongst the following four da3s in about equal portions, and
we have found, as we had noticed on Wednesday last, that in
the rates of demand there has been a steadiness of prices, which
closed the same as on Friday last. It is very evident that since
the receipt of the last accounts from the United States, and
the lack of encouragement from the Manchester market, that a
greater degree of caution actuates buyers, whilst the account
of short crops still has its influence on the hollers. Specula-
tors have taken 7,000 bales of American, and 500 Surat;
1,240 bales of American, and 110 Surat, were forwarded into
the country last month unsold. The sales to-day are about
4,000 bales of all kinds.

'MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 5.-:.-Liverpool
and Manchester, 190; London and Birmingham, New, 321.
shares, '2oi prem. : London and South Western, Tenths, 19
premium; Manchester and Leeds, Halves, 31/. Is. ; North
Union, 82 ex-div. ; Manchester and Birmingham, 25 ; London
and Brighton, 43 ; Lancaster and Preston, 32i; Midland,
Counties, 79i ; Macclesfield Canal, 33 ; Lancaster Canal, 25.

By the Brazil mail arrived this morning, brought by the
Seagull, and sailed from Rio Janeiro 13th January, we have
accounts from that quarter, but they posse ..s little interest.
The packet has brought a freight of 95,000 dollars. The ex-
change upon London 30k, Stocks, 74 ex div.
The following is from the Rio Journal, relative to the
force of Lavalle

"Quebrachito, Nov. 29, 1840.
" Yesterday we came up with the army of the miscreant
Unitarians at this place. We immediately fell upon them, and
the result of the action has heen their compleat defeat and de-
struction, 1,500 of them being left dead upon the field, besides
all their artillery, infantry, and baggage, a great number of
prisoners, their spare horses (few in ntimber), many famines,
their two colours, and the enormous insignia worn by the bar-
barous Lavalle himself, and which he was obliged to throw off.
in his desperate anxiety to escape, have fallen into our hands;
they likewise left a great quantity of arms, both of those dis-
tributed among the troops and of those they had in reserve for
a future occasion. I shall be moreparticular ; in the mean time
I congratulate you on the glorious triumph achieved on the
23th. Lavalle has fled in the direction of El Tio, with a mere
handful of men.—l have the honour, &c.
" MANUEL ORIBE."

" P. S.—We hear that the army has prosecuted its ;era-
tions in the territory of Cordova, and that on the 7th, some
of the advanced divisions were within a short distance of the
capital of that province, the comparatively small forces of
La Madrid not seeking an encounter after the defeat they had
sustained from the column commanded by Colonel Barcena."
PA RAGuAy.--It aprears from an extract of a private letter
in the Monte Video Journalq, that the death of Dr. Francia,
Dictator of Paraguay, vihich took place, as we before stated,
on the 20th of September last, caused some excitement
amongst the people of the capital.
Exchange 2i upon England.

The Quarterly Average of the Weekly Liabilities and Assets
of the Bank of England have been published from December
8, 1840, to March 2, 1841, both inclusive, from which it results
as follows :

Present Circulation
Last Report

More Circulation.

Present Deposits..
Last Report ........ ,

....X16,372,000
16,230,000

142,000

7,567,000
7,365,000

11Iore Deposits .......... ....

202,000

Securities at pre,ent
Last Rep0rt...........

~.,. 22,725,000
~... 22,595,000

More Securities

130,000

Present Bullion
Last Report

4,076,000
3,816,000

More Bullion
Accounts from Amsterdam state, that although only fifteen
millions of florins on the Russian loan of fifty millions by the
house of Hope has been paid, it is positively affirmed that a
new loan of one hundred millions of florins, to be contracted
for at Amsterdam, is on the tapis.
Consols, which left off yesterday at 881 1 for the Account,
opened this morning with a slight improvement, at 881 89 for
the Account; Money 881 with little doing to the present
hour ; Exchequer Bills 6 9 prem. ; Bank Stock shut.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active is rather better;
left off 24 ; at present 24* 1; Deferred, 121 1; Passive,
ss' 6 ; Portuguese 31i 32 ; 'Three per Cen.s. l9i ; Brazilian,
711 72k; Colombian, 23* 1; Mexican, 28$1; Dutch Two-
and-a-Half per Cents. 501 a; Five per Cents.,99i 100.
Shares.—Great Western, 23 24 prem. ; ew, 111/ prem.;;
London and Brighton, 73 6a dis. ; Blackwall, 6 53 dis. ; Bir-
mingham, 78 80 prem. ; Southampton, 54 56i per share ;
Croydon, 114 125 per share ; Greenwich, 85 4 per share.
I'ItICLS Oh: atiARES THIN DAY A'l' CT t.
liAlLorAYs. Paid. Per Share.
Bristol and Exeter 6O ...... 31 ..... to
Great Western
Ditto _
London, and Brighton
Londoh and Birmingham 9O

Ditto Shares - 5 ..... 2611 ... to
Ditto New
London and South Western 3Bl 564- .. to
The following is from a Demerara paper to the 24th of
January :
" The Combined Court had a very important meeting to-
day. Mr. Arrendell brought up, proposed, and carried, a
string of resolutions in favour of the Immigration Loan, that
55,0001. should be granted for the purchase of immigration
steamers. His Excellency leaves this Colony for his own Go-
vernment of Trinidad on Sunday afternoon, when he will not
have seen quite two months here."
We have just received the Hamburgh mail of the 2d of
March, with papers of the same date, which brings the ex-
change upon London 13 34 ; rather higher than last post day.
Gold comes the same, 425 ; Metal, 1044 ; Bank Actions, 1615.
It is this moment reported that the overland express from
India has just arrived.
Consols have been during the morning at 884 for the Ac-
count, with an inactive market ; Money 884 4; Exchequer
Bills 7 9 prem.; Bank Stock shut.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active 244 ; Deferred
123 4; Portuguese 314 4 ; Three per Cents. 194 ; Colombian
234; Mexican 284 4; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
nothing done ' • Five per Cents. the same.'
Shares are lower, with little doing. Great Western 89 ;
Ditto, Fifths, .94 ; London and Brighton 43 ; Birmingham,
Quarter Shares, 264 4 ; Ditto, Thirds, '224 ; South Western 564.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Steck
3 per Cent. Red — Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent C0n5........ 884 Ditto Old Annuities —
per Cent Red...... Ditto New Annuities...
New 34 per Cent .. 974 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 9pm
New 5 per Cent Ditto 500/ lO pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ll pm
Jan: 1860. Bank Stock for Acct
Oct 1859... — India Stock for Acct ...
Jan. 1860 Consols for Acct B9
FOREIGN FUNDS.
A ustrian, 5 per cent... Portuguese, 5 per cent.
i3elgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto..... 314
Brazilian font's.. 72 Prussian, 5 per cent....
fluenosAyres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent. . .
' Chilian 6 per cent — Ditto, I,letallic
Colombian, 6 per cent... 22i Spanish, b per cent 244
Ditto, 1824
Danish, 3 per cent. French,s per cent... —f. —c.
Greek.lB2s, 5 per cent. Exchange f. —c.
Mexican, 5 per cent.... French,3 per cent —f. —c.
Di to, 6 per cent, 1825 Dutch, 24 per cent
Peruvian,lB2s,6 per et. . Ditto, 5 per cent..... 99i
SHARES.
Bristol and Exeter (60 paid)
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid ...
Ditto Debentures ( 2 paid) . . 4l
Great Western Railway (65 paid) B9
Ditto New Shares (50 paid) - . 611
Ditto Fifths ( 4 I,aid) 94
London and Brighten (50 paid)
London and Blackwall Railway (25 pd) 20
London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd)
Ditto Quarter Shares (A paid) ......... 261
Ditto New Shutt ( 2 paid) , 22i
London and South -Western
Ditto Tenths
Manchester and Leeds (70 atd) ...... 6z,.4
Ditto New Shares (30 paid)
North Midland Railway (iOO paid) 7O

TIIE PENNY POSTAGE.---At the last monthly
average made at the Post-office, Brighton, it appears that
the letters have increased rather more than double to what
they were under the old rate of postage: The number of
letters now is about 4,500 daily. The population of
,Brighton is estimated at about 50,000 persons.
HESSE CASSEL, FEB. 24.—Dr. Schruber,
agent for the Westphalian claimants, has answered that,
having applied to the King of Prussia on the subject of
the claims which have Leen so long standing, he has
received an answer stating " that the negotiations in Ber-
bice on these affairs are in such a state of forwardness,
that a speedy conclusion may be expected."
DRAINAGE AND IMPROVEMENT OF BUILD-
INGS IN LARGE TOWNS AND VILLAGES.--This Bill, if
passed, as it is likely to be, will be a very important mea-
sure. The preamble states that :_wbereas there is great
need of sanatory regulations -in the towns and populous
places of this realm, e'pecially by reason of the crowded and
unhealthy manner ef building the dwellings of the working
cdliassesaeses,
iasnedngfoern wdeanretdoafnsudffi alicigernatvmateeadns;
be it therefore of drainage, whereby
en-
acted, &c. The provisionsof the FM should the measure be-
come law, should be known to almost all persons, espe.
cially builders. For instance, the following clause is.im-
portant:—Notice of buildings to be given to surveyor"_
That before beginning to build any, house in such town or
village, the master workmen or other person causing such
house to be built shall give twenty-five days' notice to the
surveyor within whose district the same shall be, and such
surveyor shall view the house, and see that all the
rules in this Act which it is his duty to enforce are
well and truly observed : and such sum of money
shall be paid by the master workman or other person tens-
ing the house to be built, to the surveyor, for his trouble
therein, as he shall be entitled to receive according to a
table of fees to be settled by the Council of a borough at
a quarterly meeting, where the district is within an incor-
porated borough, or else by the Justices in General or
.Quarter Sessions assembled of the county or other juris-
diction within which the district is aituated.—Chesterfield
Repcirter,