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THE Arm, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 81 18461

alleviated, in a great degree, the distresses of the people in
Ireland.

Mr. LEF&OY denied that distress was general, and read
several letters from Irish landed proprietors to the same
effect.

Mr. BORTHIVICK impugned the conduct of the Prime
Minister in deserting his party, and contended that the
French Government would never adopt the principle of free
trade.

Mr. HmorLET would give the measure his most decided
opposition in every stage.
After a smart personal altercation between Mr. ROEBUCK
and Mr. DISRAELI,
Mr. S. HERBERT addressed the House in favour of the
measure.
Lord GEORGE BErrisciE spoke at some length ; after
which strangers were ordered to withdraw, but no division
took place, the report being agreed to without it.
The report was then received, and the Bill ordered to be
read a third time on Monday next.

The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the
House adjourned.

We rejoice to find, from a statement made by Sir
JA.MES GRAHAM on Thursday evening, in reply to a
question by Mr. ROEBUCK, that a Commission has been
issued for the purpose of making inquiries into the state
of the law and its administration in the Channel Islands,
and that he should have no objection to lay the Com-
missioners' report on the table when obtained.

It is really astonishing that during the many and
valuable reforms which have taken place of late years,
and the vast improvements which have been effected in
the constitutional liberty of the subject, islands, which
lie in our immediate neighbourhood, which have for cen-
turies formed part of the appanage of the British throne,
which, from the freedom from taxation they have ever
enjoyed, and the beauty of the country and the salubrity
of the climate, have been selected by thousands of our
fellow-countrymen as their place of residence, should
have hitherto escaped the observation of the Legis-
lature, should be subjected to misgovernment of the
worst description, in the power of an oligarchy who
suffer no considerations of justice or equity to restrain
them in the full indulgence of their worst passions and
prejudices, and who, like the Triumvirate of old, are
ready to proscribe and punish any person falling under
the displeasure of their body.
Such is the state of society, that it is openly said that
justice is not to be obtained by an Englishman, and yet
our SOVEREIGN in her Privy Council is paramount, can
vary or alter the laws, or their mode of administration ;
in fact, has greater power than in her own country, but
that the power is not exercised, or at least is suffered to
remain in their hands, by whom it has hitherto been so
grievously misused.

The two principal of these islands are Jersey and
Guernsey. The former contains about 50,000 inhabi-
tants, of whom nearly one-half are natives of Great
Britain or Ireland. Guernsey contains nearly
30,000, about 8,000 or 9,000 our own country-
men, a large proportion of whom are persons
in independent circumstances, living on their own means.
Many have acquired property in the islands, or would
gladly do so, but that they are deterred by the unjust
and oppressive nature of the laws, and the partial man-
ner in which they are carried into execution. Can this
state of things be permitted to continue ? Most assuredly
not.' 'All that is wanting is, that an inquiry should be
conducted under the auspices of just and im-
partial men, who will fearlessly expose the
system, and lay ,bare the root and origin of this
misgovernment, and who will suggest alterations and
amendments by which improvements may be effected.
Let the real state of things be once known to the
country, let the force of public opinion be brought to
bear upon the question, and the evils will speedily be
grappled with, liberty be restored, and all classes of the
inhabitants of the islands will be conciliated, and pleased,
except the selfish, grasping, and monopolising few, who
have hitherto played with the social rights and sported
with the liberties of their brethren.

In each of the islands the law is nearly similar, and
similar abuses have crept into the mode of its adminis-
tration, consequently our observations will apply to
each, although we shall select and speak of Guernsey
only.
Most of the mischief is occasioned by the extraordi-
nary powers assumed by the Royal Court (as it is
called), which consists of a bailiff and twelve jurats.
Those jurats are elected for life, by a small
body, not exceeding one hundred and sixty electors.
The most corrupt influences are brought to bear during
an election ; compacts are made, and all the worst fea-
tures of an election, in one of the rotten boroughs, that
so long remained a stain upon the British constitution,
are presented to the view. It is easily to be concei►ed,
that much prejudice will be felt by the newly-elected
jurat in favour of the friends by whom he was sup-
ported, and in hostility to those by whom he was op-
posed, and, unfortunately, he finds too many op-
portunities for exhibiting this prejudice in the course
of his subsequent career ; there is no legal education
of any kind, no knowledge of law necessary for the
jurat. On his election he at once becomes the ex-
pounder, the administrator of the law, of which pre-
viously he might have been in total ignorance. No
record of any of the proceedings of this Court
is kept, or, if kept, it is not open to public inspec-
tion. All they condescend to announce, in any case,
civil or criminal, is the conclusion they have arrived at
—the sentence they have pronounced. This sentence is
frequently of the most arbitrary kind. No appeal
lies from their decision in criminal cases.
The majority decides as to the guilt and
its punishment—fines, imprisonment, flogging, mu-
tilation, banishment, nay, death itself, may be decreed
without the hope to the accused of the sentence being
revised. No matter how erroneous it may be in point
of law, the fiat which has once gone forth is most as-
suredly carried into execution without delay. No power
exists in the island to stay the execution, none to miti-
gate the punishment ; thus, the most valuable preroga-
tive of the Crown, that of mercy, is practically abolished.
True it is, the QUEEN in Council may pardon, or
lessen the punishment ; but it is invariably executed be-
fore the application can be entertained and inquired into.
In civil cases, an appeal only lies when the amount at
stake exceeds 2001. sterling, and thus justice is refused
to the vast majority, and, in consequence, great discon-
tent is felt by all except the favoured few. But this
monstrous judicial power is not all that is exercised by
the Court. It assumes to itself the magisterial capacity,
acts as a police-court, inquires into every matter ex
mero motu, holds a preliminary examination pre-
' vious to the criminal trial. There it examines wit-
nesses on oath secretly, decides whether a trial
shall take place or not, and the result of that trial, the
verdict, the sentence may be, and we fear too frequently
is, settled at this secret inquisition, before the accused
has an opportunity of being heard in his own defence.

In addition to these extraordinay functions, it arro-
gates to itself a third, still greater than either of the
others, the right of promulgating ordinances, which shall
have all the force of law, and by which the most op-
pressive laws may be enacted, and taxes imposed with-
uut reference to any other body whatsoever. It is little to be
wondered at if, with this extraordinary assimulation of
power, executive, legislative, and judicial, the Court and
its members should have got the entire island under
their control, should become arrogant and little solici-
tous of the manner in which they discharge their duties.
Who will care to impeach the conduct or offend any one
possessing such authority, such power for good or evil?
True liberty has ever been found to consist in the sepa-
ration of these functions and their entire independence of
each other ; it is to that separation and independence we
owe the freedom, and the consequent happiness of
the land in which we live ; from their junction no other
consequences can be expected than those which are
found to exist in the Channel Islands. And we fear-
lessly call upon those in whom the authority is vested
to abrograte all privileges which shall be found injurious
and detrimental to the liberties of the people. We feel
deeply the importance of this subject, and we shall
shortly show the public something of the working of
this most extraordinary Court in the exercise of its
despotic and unconstitutional powers.

There is evidently a scheme formed by certain parties
throughout the country to make a new inroad upon the
enjoyments of the lower classes on Sunday. The par-
ties who present petitions on the subject have not yet
ventured to name the precise enactment which they have
in view—even they seem afraid to propose such a tyran-
nical Bill, but they try to paint in the strongest colours
the evils of drunkenness, the depraved condition of the
lower classes, their insatiable thirst for spirits
and malt liquors, especially on the first day of
the week, then call on the Legislature to pass a
law to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors ; in other
words, to shut up every public-house throughout Eng-
land and Scotland on Sunday. The Bishops take a most
active part in this business, and for that reason, indepen-
dent of others, we view the attempt with well-grounded
suspicion. We never knew the clergy, as a body, attempt
any reform in the condition of the lower classes,
except by brute force, by the strong arm of the
law, by enactments which a layman would hardly
venture to recommend, their sacred calling and their i
own unspotted life, being, in their vain conceits, a suffi-
cient guarantee that they would propose nothing unjust
and nothing except what was absolutely necessary for
the regeneration of the people under their care. The
amusements of the people, and even their harmless re-
creations, whether on Sunday or Saturday, they view

with a sort of horror. The Bishop of LONDON de-
nounces skittles and playing a certain number of games
for a quart of beer, even on a week day, as a most
dangerous enormity. Another would put an end to cricket
and every healthful exercise, because hard-working peo-
ple should devote their little spare time to more solemn
duties, and especially th• duties pointed out by Mother
Church. The Bishop of ST. DAVID'S goes a step fur-
ther, and not only calls for a Bill against the sale of
intoxicating liquors on Sunday, but blames the
Government for doing nothing—not even giving any
notification of their intentions with respect to this
grand scheme for regenerating drunkards. The
Bishop has a bad memory, or he wilfully forgets a
most important speech made by Sir JANES
GRAHAM a few years ago. A scheme was then in agi-
tation to extend the public-house law which applied to
London to the entire kingdom, but this was vigorously
opposed by the Home Secretary, who said, with great
truth, that when a labouring man had either to walk a
considerable way to church or was engaged on a jour-
ney, whether to see his friends or for any other lawful
purpose, he could see no harm to religion by allowing him
to refresh himself with a crust of bread and eheese
and a glass of ale at a public-house. No rational
man could see any harm, but merciless bigots and sel-
fish churchmen cannot see as men of practical know-
ledge see, and would reduce every one to their standard
by the severest penalties. It is but right that the lower
classes should have something to say in this matter,
and they might well ask the Bishops—" What
have you ever done for raising our character by
encouraging education, or in what way have
you tried to allure us to the Church ? In every
instance you have opposed education for the people; not
openly, it is true, but in a more effectual way—by ex-
citing among' Churchmen a horror of Dissenters, and
weekly sermons against every species of education
which did not accord with the Thirty-nine Articles and
the Athanasian Creed. And what example have you
shown to us uneducated men ? Have not the crimes
committed by the clergy for some time been the
universal theme of reprobation ? Have not
deeds been brought to light, and left com-
paratively unpunished too, which bring disgrace
upon the nation ? Have not one-half of you treacher-
ously broken the solemn vows taken at the altar ; and,
while professing to be Protestants, and receiving the
emoluments of the Protestant Church, have openly ad-
mitted the tenets of Popery, and exerted yourselves to
the utmost to undermine the Reformed religion,
and rob us of all the blessings conferred by
the Reformation? Have you made any attempts
to reform yourselves ? No. You reserve all
your reform for us, and because one man in a hundred
conducts himself improperly, you will punish the whole
clue Never was there such a barefaced attempt to
pass a tyrannical Act under hypocritical pretences.
The law is already sufficiently strong to punish evil-
doers, as the poor peasantry know to their cost. Have not
the justices unlimited power over the publicans—cannot
they ruin them, by taking away their licenses—and is not
that alone sufficient to make a publican preserve order, and
call in the police when any attempt is made to dese-
crate the Sabbath ? But that will not satisfy these un-
charitable men. They will have a law which shall apply
to all the middle and the lower classes—they will hind
them down like wild beasts, make no distinction between
the good and the bad, and thus the thousands upon
thousands of steady, hard-working artisans, who enjoy
themselves, with their families, on .a Sunday afternoon,
the only day they have for beholding the face of nature,
will be debarred, they and their children, from all re-
freshment, even in the most sultry weather, because the
Bishop of ST. DAVID'S bad observed some disgraceful
scenes among the mountains of Wales and the bigots of
Exeter-hall would bring the faith and practice of every
man to their perfect models.

Although, as might readily have been anticipated,
nothing definite or conclusive was arrived at yesterday
evening in respect to the final reading of the Corn and
Customs Bill, some not unsatisfactory deductions may
be drawn from the very discursive discussions which
thereupon transpired in the House of Commons. From
the general characteristics of that debate it is percepti-
ble that, granting them an allowable proportion of dis-
appointment at the recognition of their own discomfiture,
the Protectionists are less inclined than heretofore to pro-
crastinate matters by their obstinacy, that they perceive
at length the abstract futility of their opposition, and
are, to a considerable extent, prepared to testify their re-
signation at the overthrow of their very obsolete princi-
ples. Such at least are the most rational inferences to
be deduced from their behaviour overnight; and, unless
some fresh paroxysm of pertinacity goad them on to ad-
ditional demonstrations against the measure, we may in-
dulge our hopes of a speedy settlement of the free-trade
Bill, that is to say, as far as the Lower House
of Parliament is concerned. We are in-
clined to regard the matter in this sanguine
light from the consideration that the speeches
delivered yesterday, ostensibly for the championship of
agriculture, contained in reality the last bubbles of fer-
mentation upon the subject from the lips of the anti-
Ministerialist faction ; and this we conceive was espe-
cially recognisable in the sickly acid of personalities
with which those harangues were severally flavoured.
It was the last feeble ebullition of expiring spleen and
subsiding acerbity. These personalties, however, whe-
ther uttered by the Noble Member for Lynn or any
other adventuring representative, we possess neither
the inclination to elucidate nor the appetite to con.
Nevertheless a quotation from EDMUND BURKE, as
uttered last night by Lord G. BENTINCK, forms in itself
such a ridiculously appropriate parody upon his Lord-
ship's present behaviour and manifest ambition as to be
deserving of particular mention. " The people of Eng-
land," said the Noble Lord, " had that aversion to poli-
tical vacillation and political inconsistency, and political
tergiversation, that, as BURKE, ho thought it was said,
they thought that a man to be fit to be the representa-
tive of a great constituency should be a man of stible
mind !" Never was adjective more susceptible of a sar-
castic and nzalcipropos signification ; it is an unintended tra-
ves tie and an unfortunate identification of the speaker him-
self. In an anterior portion of the discussion, however, the
attention of the House was occupied with explanations
of infinitely greater importance, explanations indeed
which, to a certain extent, may be numbered among the
most interesting of the present session. Our allusion
is obviously directed to the language uttered by the
Right Honourable the new Member for the Falkirk
burghs, the Secretary for Ireland. Lord LINCOLN appears
to have been dragged into these explanations
without any previous warning on the part of his inter-
rogator, Mr. G. BANKES. He is abruptly called upon by
that Hon. Gentleman to give some explicit corroboration
of the Government statements about the scarcity of pro-
visions in Ireland, or, in case of his incapacity to do so,
to acknowledge the exaggeration contained in those
statements. Notwithstanding, however, this unusual
method of catechising a Minister, and interrogating him
"by the book," the Noble Earl by a few simple facts
altogether refuted the notion that Government had been
tampering with the credulity of Parliament by an ex-
travagant representation of Irish poverty. In this re-
spect he treated the imputations upon himself and his
colleagues in a manner the most likely to exonerate
them from all similar suspicions, and to place the in-
tegrity of the Cabinet and the destitution of Ireland in a
true and incontrovertible light. Far from the picture
of privation being over-coloured in any single
particular, he insisted, upon the most indubitable
authority, that the preponderating mass of the
Irish population were visited with a remark-
able accumulation of wants, and of wants that
augured their own greater extension. He instanced
Limerick and Clare as counties in which " the extent of
the distress was most alarming :" and although he con-
fessed that the scarcity might not be universal through.
out the island, he maintained in the most emphatic terms
that it was both " general and decisive." Within the last
twenty-four hours, he himself had been the recipient of a
very imperative communication from the county Kerry,
informing him that the people in that neighbourhood,
contrary to their own expectations, had exhausted their
stock of potatoes, both by necessary consumption and
unforeseen disease, insomuch that they were now left
wholly unprovided with nourishment. With reference
to the inuendo uttered by the Hon. Member for Dor-
chester, that the Government had tended con-
siderably to increase the difficulties of the Irish
population by an undue interference with the potato
crop, he pointed out the beneficial influence upon the
market prices of Ireland which had resulted from the
extensive importation of Indian meal and Indian corn ;
while, as a conclusive repudiation of the charge, he
assured the House, in the most categorical way, " that
the distress in Ireland, though not universal, is general,
and that so far as the statements of it go which have
been made by her MAJESTY'S Government, they will
be found to be fully borne out by the facts as they
exist." The corroboration of these assertions, which
were subsequently pronounced by Mr. STAFFORD
O'BRIEN, are simple and brief, but assuredly they are
emphatic enough. We
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and, to some extent, a lawless population." After these
unanswerable proofs of the wretchedness which has
already enlisted the sympathies of Government, and
proofs which no caviller, without the most consummate
amount of scepticism, can gainsay, the Hon. Member
objected, we conceive somewhat unfairly, to the manner
in which the Premier mingled the question of Irish
distress with the corn-laws, immediately upon the intro-
duction of his measure. It must be remembered, how-
ever, that the fact of destitution in Ireland was then ad-
duced simply as an argument for the immediate modifica-
tion of the enactments pressing upon the importation of
provisions, while the facts of experience, of logic, of
philosophy, and of common honesty were adduced as
arguments for the ulterior and permanent settlement of
the protective system. That was the only manner in
which Sir ROBERT placed those two important matters
in juxta-position, and, as a conscientious statesman,
he could not well have acted otherwise. The
immediate preservation of Ireland, and the future pros-
perity of the British Isles generally, require an instant
modification of the duties imposed upon articles of food.
Justice and Charity league together for the impulsion of
a free-trade agitation to its triumph, and since the world
has existed an ultimate acquiescence has ever been ac-
corded to the demands of Justice and Charity when
pronounced by the voice of an united people.

The Jesuit party has been defeated in the Swiss
elections.

The Zurich Gazette of the 4th says:—" The Liberal
party has gained a complete victory at the elections
which took place yesterday. Out of the 171 elections
for the Grand Council the Conservatives were not able
to gain more than 29."

It appears as if the Austrian Government was ap-
prehensive of some outbreak in the north of Italy.
The fortifications of Verona, which have been only
recently completed, and which were not to be armed unless
in anticipation of a war, are, according to a letter from
Verona, dated the 20th ult., which appears in the Con-
stitutionnel , armed forthwith, and the park of the Adige
is to- be provided with a considerable reserve. General
RUDETSKY was expected at Verona in the course of the
week.

The companions of the unfortunate BANDIEEA having
been pardoned by the King of NAPLES, on Good Friday,
have arrived at Marseilles. It is said that his MAJESTY
has also shown mercy to many other political prisoners.

The state of affairs in Finland is anything but tran-
quil. A letter from Helsingford of April 20 says—

" Two nights back, between ten and eleven o'clock, this
town was thrown into confusion by the appearance of 500 or
600 young men, chiefly students of the University, who pro-
menaded the streets singing national songs. They stopped
before the houses occupied by the Russian functionaries, and
broke the windows with stones, crying out, Poland for
ever!' Down with the Muscovite tyrants!' Oscar I. for
ever !' This last cry had reference to the fact of the Grand
Duchy of Finland having formerly formed part of Sweden,
before it was ceded to Russia in 1815. A great number of
these disturbers of the public peace were arrested, and the
Governor-General of Finland has given orders to have them
tried by court-martial."

Madrid papers of the Ist instant have been received.
The Gazette contains the official dispatches of the ge-
nerals employed in the recent affairs in Galicia, and an-
nounces authoritatively the complete pacification of the
province. It also contains a royal decree, dissolving
the regiments of Gijon, Segoyia, Oviedo, and Zamora,
which had taken part in the late insurrectionary move-
ment. The colours of the dissolved regiments are to be
deposited in the church of the Virgin of Atoeha, and
covered with black crape. All the privates who
took part in the insurrection are to suffer ten
years' additional service beyond the usual
time wherever the Government may direct, and the
non-commissioned officers are to be brought to a court-
martial. The Government have dispatched orders to VIL-
LALONGA to suspend any further executions of those con-
demned by courts-martial. The Archbishop of SANTIAGO,
whose life had been saved by Sous during the insur-
rection, exerted himself to procure the pardon of the in-
surgent chief, but without effect. SoLIs end fourteen of
his companions were shot through the back at Carrel.
The other insurgent officers, it is said, will be re-
duced to the ranks, and sent to the Phillippine
Islands, to serve for tea years. CONCHA, as a reward for
his services, has been promoted to the rank of Lieute-
nant-General. General Pow SAMPER, to whose dilatory
conduct at Santiago the partial success of the insurrec-
tion there has been attributed, is to be brought
to a court-martial forthwith. VILLALONGA, to
whose vigour and prudence it was entirely
owing that Corunna did not join the movement,
was one of ESPARTERO'S general, and remained faithful
to him to the last, refusing to acknowledge the new
order of things until ESPARTERO bad quitted the king-
dom. A steamer had left Vigo in pursuit of the
Nervion, on board which the members of the insurgent
junta had made their escape, taking with them all the
treasure in the Bank of San Fernando ; and the salt rent,
amounting to 6,000,000 rials, which they had seized
as soon as they received information of the defeat at
Santiago.

The yellow fever has appeared at Barcelona, brought,
it was supposed, from the Cape de Verd
According to the Esperanza, CARD; the former Presi-
dent of the Barcelona Junta and the leader of the
pronuncianziento at Alicant, has been arrested at Medina.
MADRID BOLSA, MAY I.—Three per Cent., 31i for
cash. Exchange on London, 37i.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.
On Wednesday the Dijon and Mulhausen Railway
Bill passed the Chamber of Deputies without opposition.
The New Postage was in the course of the same sitting
withdrawn by the Minister of Finance, and in its stead
the Minister proposed a measure abolishing the usual
decime, and reducing the duty on money orders from
five to two per cent.

The St. Diziec and Gray Railway was then brought
forward, but the discussion was not finished. The non-
publication of the Address of. the Archbishop of PAnts
in the Moniteur, is the subject of comment in most of
these papers.
The Constitutionnel says :—" We do not yet find in the
Moniteur, the Address of the Archbishop of Paris. The fol-
lowing is said to be the purport of the phrase whieh gave
offence, and caused the Address to be suppressed :—"lhe
Church does not want the protection of any one—it only
asks for liberty.' "
The Quotidienne gives the following as the phrase
which was deemed objectionable :
" Happy is the Government which, deeply convinced that
religion, in order to render the people virtuous, aspires only
to the liberty worthy its celestial origin, worthy of the human
conscience, which it governs, and of the supreme Master
which confided to it an empire so glorious."
The Moniteur Algerien, of the 30th, has the following :
" The last news from General Yusuf, and consequently of
the movements of the ex-Emir, go back about ten days. ,At
that period everything announced a series of operations in
the Djebel-Amour, when Abd-el-Kader, finding, however,
still slighter resources there than with the Ouled-Na,yl,
came and encamped near the Boukail, one hundred leagues
south of Algiers, and thence by a parallel march, and inverse
to that of General Yusuf, reached Gharza, a point four days'
journey from Boghar, towards the south-east. He had
collected together all the disposable horsemen of the
Ouled-Nayl, to the number of four or five hundred
and these compose all his forces, for of the men whom he
brought from the west, only a few still remain mounted. It
was on the 19th that General Yusuf learned this complete
change of position, and he immediately proceeded towards
Gharza, followed by the column of Colonel Ladmirault,
who was bringing him a convoy. Since then, nothing
whatever is known of what has passed, This eircum•
stance, which is not rare, and which may be explained
by the negligence of an Arab courier, or any other such
incident, appears to have been seized on by ill-disposed per-
sons to spread sinister reports, of whieh the administra-
tion would certainly punish the authors if it succeeded in
discovering them. The news from the provinces is satisfac-
tory. That of the west scarcely shows any insurrection,
except in the Lower Dahra, where the column of Mostae-
nem is speedily to act, if it has not already commenced. 'I he
principal affairs of the spring would appear to be these : the
subjection of the Ouarensenis, for which the Marshal was to
set out on May 4th or sth ; and the operations in the south
of the province of Titteri, which are to be entrusted, it is
said, to the Duke d'Aumale."

According to the Akbar of the 30th, intelligence had
been received from General YusuF the preceding day.
He was on his way with his column to Medeah, where
he would wait for a reinforcement of cavalry, and on its
arrival would resume his operations in the Djebel-
Amour, in concert with Colonel MOLIERE.

The Three per Cents. dosed on the Paris Bourse on Thursday at
83f. 95c. ; the Five per Cents, 120 f. 20c.; the Orleans Railroad shares,
1,252 f. 50c.; ltouen, 1,037 f.; Havre, 757 f. 50c.; Great Northern,
7676 50c.; Avignon, 925 f. ; Vierzon, 675 f. ; Bordeaux, 621 f. 75c. ;
Boulogne, 510 f. ; Troyes and Montereau, 410 f. ; Basle, 220 f. ; I'4'll-
- 440 ; Dieppe, 450 ; Paris and Strasburg, 516 f. 25c. ; Tours and
Nantes, 537 f. 50c.
is ; Paris and Lyons, 575 f. ; Spanish Actives, 32%. ;
ditto Three per Cents., 371, ditto Domestic Debt, 31U.
- --

The following are the quotations in railway shares .
Lyons and Avignon, deflnitives, 545 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette
(Mackenzie), 504 f.; ditto (Espeleta), 510 f.; ditto definitive, 535 f.
Charleroi, 490 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TIIE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 8.
13°ulogna and Amiens 12! —Central of Spain, 1 IA —Dutch Rhenish,
6%—East Indian, %—Great Indian Peninsular, 14—Italian and
Austria'', l —Jamaica South Midland Junction, IN—Namur and
Liege, 4 4—Paris and Lyons Constituted, 7%.

MR. WILLIAM S3IITII O'BRIEN.—Th• following. is
the resolution which the Limerick "reformed" Corporation
unanimously adopted at their meeting on Tuesday ;.-4$ That
this Corporation, ever filled with the highest admiration for
the public career of Mr. Smith O'Brien, M.P. for this
county; his undeviating sustainment of those principles to
the accomplishment of which this county looks with un-
abated determination; and, considering the course now
adopted by a portion of the Legislature towards him,
whereby he hag been deprived of his liberty, and been com-
mitted to prison for his strictly persevering in that cause
best calculated to test the soundness of those opinions to
which he had long previously pledged himself; and that,
under the circumstances, we feel it to be our duty to address
➢ir. O'Brien in entire approval of his conduct, and our fixed
resolution to sustain him in the opinion he advocates; and
that it be referred to a committee of this Council to prepare
the addreee."

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 7,000
bales, including 2,000 for export and on speculation; with a
firm market. Shares were rather heavy.
At Messrs. Lamond's public sale of railway shares, held
yesterday afternoon, as usual, there was a decline in prices
generally, and leis disposition to bid. Manchester, Midland,
and Great Grimsby, 145.-Wexford, Waterford, and Valentia,
Bs. 6d.-Direct London and Portsmouth Atmospheric, 31. 4s.
-Eastern Counties, York Extension, 1/. 175.-Taw Vale
Extension and Dock, 13s. 6d.-Great Luxembourg, 2L 45.-
London and Birmingham Extension, 11.-Calcutta and St.
George's Point, 6s. 6d.- Shrewsbury and Herefordshire, 7s.
-Shropshire Union and Canal, 11.75. 6d.-Midland Eastern
Counties, 155.-Ceylon, 93.-London, Bristol, and South
Wales, 19s. 6d.-Northern and Eastern, 62/.-Welsh Mid-
land, U. 6s. 6d.-Isle of Axholme, Gainsborough, and Goole,
1/. 95.-Vale of Neath, 11. 155.-Northampton, Banbury, and
Cheltenham, 1/. 25.-London and Blackwall, New, 31. 19s. 6d.
- Rugby and Huntingdon, 11. 35.-Over Yssel, 1/. 43.-
Essex and Suffolk, 14s. - Manchester, Huddersfield, and
Great Grimsby, 18s.-Churnet and Blythe, 18s. - Man-
chester and Southampton, 2/. 25.-Ceylon, 9s. 6d.
There are no arrivals to-day with late accounts from any
quarter possessing the least general interest
In the return of the assets and liabilities of the Bank of
England the more prominent alterations for the week to the
2d May are these
Notes issued £27,072,295
Increase
Public Deposits ... 2,578,451
Decrease
Other Deposits
Decrease
Seven day and other Bills, increase
Other securities, increase 16,616
Bullion
Increase
The English Securities have been very quiet again this
morning, and are at about the previous value, or perhaps
rather better. Consols realise 96% % for transfer, and 96%
34 for time. Exchequer-bills have been marked 245. to
275. •, and East India Bonds, 345. premium. Bank Stock
has been firm at 205 to 2051,%, and India Stock at an advance
to 265. New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have risen to
97%.
This has been quite a dies non in the Foreign Market.
Spanish Three per Cents. are 37. Dutch Two-and•a-Half
per Cents. realise 591.
Shares generally are firm to-day, but there is not enough
doing to test the strength of the market.
BRITISII FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)

Bank Stock .. • . 205% 205
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 95%14
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities • • 96% %
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 97% %
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10% 3-16
Ditto, 30 years, Jau. 5, 1860 .. 10%
India Stock .. .. 265
• India Bonds, 1,0001. 34
Consols for Account .. • . 96% %
Exchequer Bills. I%d. I%d.
1,0001. • • .. ...• 27 —— pm.
5001. •• •. • • '27 24 pm.
Ditto, Small .. .... 24 27 pm.
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent .. • .
Ditto, filr the Account .• .. 39
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. • • • .
Ditto, Three per Cent .. • • 37
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian Four-and-a-Half per 'Cent. 96%
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 59%
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 91%
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK
EALLWATS. PAID. PEE SHARE.
Aberdeen •. . • . .. 10 ...... 5% to
Amber., Notting., Boston, & Eastni Jn. 2% .. 1% .. to
Bristol and Exeter .. .. 75 .... 85 .... to
Buckinghainshire • • .. .. 425. •• .. Ipto % p
Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) .... .... to
Direct Northern .. .. 2)6 .... to 2

Eastern Counties 141. 16s. Od.• 23.1 %.• to
Ditto, New .. 8/. 16s. Od.• ••• 7,A% pto
Do., Perpetual,s per Ct. No.l, 61 13s. 4d.• •.. •• .. to
Ditto, ditto .. .. No. 2, 61. 13s. 4d..... p.. to -
-Ditto, York Extension 10s. .... .. • • to
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 .• .. 75 ••..to 77
Ditto, Halt Shares .• .. 10 .• .. 18 •• .. to
Ely and Huntingdon . .. • • 7% .. • • 5%.... to
Exeter, Yeovil and Dorcnester .. 2% •• • • 1% •• • • to
Goole, Doncaster, and Sheffield, &c... 425. .. • • 14 p.. to
Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 20 .. • • 25;4 .... to
Great North of England • . • .100 .. 215 .... to 217
Ditto, New • . • • .. • • • • 114 •• .. 14 .... to
Great Western • • • • • • • • .. 85 ••• • .... to

Ditto, Quarter Shares • • .. • • 5 .. 183 .... to
Hull and Selby .. • • • • • . 50 •• • • 03% .... to

Ipswich, Norwich, and Yarmouth • • 2 .. • • 11/; .. • . to
Leicester and Bedford .. • • • • 225. .... dis. to
•

Liverpool, Mauch, and Newe. Janet. 2% .... ..to
London and Birmingham •• ..100 ....228 to
Ditto, Quarter Shares • • • . .. 2 .... 29% .... to
Loudon and Brighton • • • • •• .• 50 .... to

Ditto ditto Fifths .. • • • • •• 20 31% .... to
London and Croydon • . • • 13/. 15s. 9d. .... 22% .. to
London and South-Western • • 411. GJ. 10d. • . 78 .... to 79
Ditto, New Consolidated Eighths.. 34 .... 53 .... to
Ditto, New .. .. • • .. 12%.... 23U to
London and York • . • • . • • 2% .... 21A .... to
Ditto, Half Shares • . • • . • .. 23C .... 2 ... to
London, Salisbury, and Yeovil .. .. .... 1 .... to
Londonderry and Coleraine .. .. 10 .... 61j .. to --
Manchester -and Leeds • • • • .. 82 .... .... to --
Ditto, Quarters • • .. • • • • 2 .... 10 •... to

Ditto, fifths .. • • 3 •... 13 ~.• to
Manchester and Birmingham .. .. 40 .... 81 .... to 82
Ditto, Quarter Shares (A) .. 4 .... 12%.. • • to
Ditto, Quar-er Shares (II) • • • • 4 .... 12% .... to
Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) • • .. 1 .... 5%34 .. to
Manchester, Buxion, and Matlock .. 425. .... 1% % pto
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... to
Midland
Ditto, New .. 18 .... 32% %.. to 33%
Newcastle and Darlington Junction 23 .... 44%.. •.to
Ditto, New .. 1 .... 10 .... to
Newcastle and Berwick .. 10 .... 20% .... to
Newark, Sheffield, and Boston . • • . 2% .... %.. to
Norfolk .. .. 20 . 27% •. • - to
North Kent and Direct Dover • • .. 2% 1% 34 .. to
North Staffordshire .. . • .. .. 425. .... 4%14 pto
Oxford, Gosport, Portsmth , & Sthmpt. 425. .... 1 dis• •to
Scottish Central .. 10.. 15N .... to

Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 234 334.... to --
Shropshire Union . .. 42s 34 dis.. • to
South Midland 42s 1 pto
....

South Eastern and Dover .. .. .. 33%.. 41} to 41 40U
Ditto, New, No.
,1 . 16 . 21 to
Ditto, New, No. 2 .. .. 10 ... 14% .... to
Ditto, New, No. 3 .. .. • • .• 15 •• .. 17 .... to

Ditto, New, No. 4 .. • • .. 24 •• • • 3%%.. to
Wexford, Waterford, and Valentia .. 1% . • • to
West Riding Union 425..... 2zji p.. to 3 p
York and Carlisle .. • • ..2%•. 1% • ... to
York and North Midland .. .. 50 •• •• .. to
Ditto, Extension .. •• .. 15 .. • . 34% •• . to
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Central of Spain •• •• .• .. 2 .... to
Dutch Rhenish .• •• •• 5 .. G 34 .. • • to
.

East Indian • • .. .. • . .. .. ss. .. • • 7/.% .. to
Paris and Lyons Constituted .. .. 5 .... 7% .... to
Paris and Strasbourg Constituted • . 5 .... 5%.... to

MINES
Real del Monte, Unregistered .. .. .... 33i .... to

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(T HIS DAY.)
LONDON, MAY 9.—Wind this day at noon S.E., light
pleasant breeze, and fine clear weather.
DEAL, MAY B.—Wind light and variable.—Arrd. the 7th,
Helena, Blom, Batavia, and sld. for Amsterdam.
PORTSMOUTH., MAY B.—Wind S.S.E. to S.S.W.—Arrd. her
Majesty's steamer Penelope, Sierre Leone, left 27th March,
Cape de Verds 11th ult, and Madeira 24th; Nautilus trans-
port, Ascension. Arrd. the Bth, her Majesty's ship Childers,
Cape of Good Hope.
LIVERPOOL' MAY 8. —Wind W.N.W. moderate.—Arrd.
Earl of Lonsdale, Peile, Calcutta; Thomas Battersby, White,
Paraiba, aid. the Ist ult.; Reliance, Bedford, Ceara; Mary
Ray, Ellwood, Demerara; Orion' Porto Rico; Lord Sandon,
Walsh, New Orleans; Glammis Castle, Duncan, New York.
Sld. Senator, Wilson, Batavia; Washington, Benson, New
Orleans ; Columbus, Coning, Boston ; Elizabeth, Mossop,
Halifax ; Funchal, Reed, Newfoundland.
OFF LIVERPOOL, MAY B.—Tapley, Calcutta, for Fleetwood ;
New York, from New York.
OFF Dovin, MAY B.—Wind W.S.W.— 7th, Wilhel-
mina and Maria, Batavia, for Prussia; Sarah and Eleanor,
Adelaide.

OFF TORBAY, MAY 7.—James Cruickshank, Sayees, St.
Vincent's.
FALMOUTH, MAY B.—Wind E., light—Arrd. Britannia,
Maun, Marseilles, with loss of sails, bulwark, &c., and long
boat, having been struck by a heavy sea on the 24th ult. off
Cape de Gatt. Sld. Damascuss, Bliss, New Orleans. 6th,
011; Tanjore, Calcutta; 7th, Symmetry, French, Adelaide;
lieornan, South Seas, for Cowes; Nymph, Munteridon, Ba-
tavia, for Rotterdam.

SWANSEA, MAY 7.—Arrd. Elizabeth Beynon, Valparaiso.
CLYDE, MAY 7.—Wind W.—Arrd. Peggy, Smith, Jamaica.
Sld. 5. Hannah Isabella, Marshall, Boston. 6. Mariner,
Russell, Chaleur Bay. '7. Henrietta, Boston.
CORK, MAY 6.—Wind N.W., fresh.—Arrd. Caroline, Dan-
gerfield, Callao ; Growler, Allan, St. John's, Newfoundland.
Sid. 6. Ariel, Robinson, St. Andrew's, N.B. ; Sapphiras,
Johnson, Quebec.

LEITH, MAT 7. -- Wind ;S.W.—Sld. 6. Ann Elizabeth
Mowat, Prince Edward's Island. ,
WHITBY.—SId. 7. Eleanor, Hetherington, Quebec.
GRAvasEND, MAY B.—The Moreland barque, waterlogged
and abandoned, and with the brig Resolution, of Penzance,
alongside of her, was seen 18th ult. in lat. 47, lon. 21, by
the Sir Robert Peel, of St. John's, N.B. ; spoken with by
the Islander, Gordon, arrd. from Demerara.

CowEs, MAY 8. The Weatherall, Draper, reported on
the 6th as on shore here, wag from Sunderland, and not from
Southampton, as there stated.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)
covmwr-G.a.itimisr.
Pines, 7s to lOs per lb ; Strawberries, Is to 2s per oz. ;
Hothouse Grapes, 15s per lb. ; Apples, 2s 6d to 9s per
bushel ; Oranges, 58 to 12s ; and Lemons, 6s to lOs per
100 ; Rhubarb, 7s to 9s per dozen bundles ; Asparagus, 3s 6d
to 8s per bundle; Seakale, is to 2s 6d per punnet; French
Beans, 2s per 100 ; New Potatoes, 4d to 2s per lb ; Brocoli,
4s to 9s ; Cabbages, 9d to Is per dozen; Greens, Is 6d to 2s
per dozen bunches; Celery, ls, and Horseradish, 2s to 3s
per bundle ; Mushrooms, 9d per pottle ; Spinach, 6d to Sd
per junk; Cauliflowers, is 6d to 3s per dozen; Cucumbers,
Is to 2s each ; Carrots, 3s, and Turnips, is to 2s per dozen
bunches.

NEWGATE AND LEADENEALL.
We had a very heavy trade here on the following terms :
—Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 4d; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 4d;
Lamb, 5s 4d to 6s 4d; Veal, 4s to ss; and Pork, 3s 4d to
5s per 81bs, by the carcase.—Turkeys, 4s to 7s ; Goslings,
5s to 8s ; Ducks, is Gd to 2s. 6d ; Ducklings, 3s. 3d to
4s 3d; tame Rabbits, is 3d to is 8d; Pigeons, 8d to Is ;
and Guinea Fowls, Ss 6d to 5s each ; Surrey Fowls, 9s to
13s ' • and Chickens, 6s to 9s. per couple ; fresh Butter is to
Is 3d per lb.
NEWPOILT.
Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 6d; Mutton, 33 6d to 4s 6d; Lamb,
5s Gd to tis 6d ; Veal, 4s 2d to 5s ; and Pork, 4s to 5s
per 81bs.
BILLINGSGATE.
Turbots 6s to 14s; Brills, 3s to 4s 3d ; Cod Fish, 2s ad
to 7s; Whitings, 4d to 8d ; Mackerel, 4d to 8d ; Lobsters, Is
to 3s 6d ; and Crabs, 8d to 2s 3d each ; Soles, 8d to 3s 6d
per pair ; Smelts, is 6d to 2s Gd; and Thames Flounders,
Is 6d to 2s per dozen ; Salmon, 10d to is 3d ; Eels, 3d
to 10d ; and Crimped Scate, 7d to 8d per lb.
WHITECHILFEL.
Beef from 2s 4d to 3s Gd; Mutton, as 4d to 4s 4d ; Lamb,
5s 6d to Gs 4d ; Veal, 4s to 5s ; and Pork, 3s 8d to 5s per 81bs.

HUN GER,Fora).
Full average supplies of most articles were on sale to-day,
while the general demand ruled heavy, and prices were not
supported.
BREAD.

The prices of Wheaten Bread in the metropolis are front
Bid to 9d; of Household ditto, 6kel to 8d per 41bs loaf.
HIDE MARKET.

Market Hides, 561 b to 641 b, 3d per 14 ; do. 6411) to 721 b,
3d ; do. 721 b to SOlb, 3d to 314 d ; do. 101 b to 881 b,
3%d to 314 d ; do. 881 b to 961 b, thd to 4174c1 ; do. 961 b to 1041 b,
4d to 5d ; Calf Skins, each, 3s to 6s 6d ; Horn Hides, 138 •
Polled Sheep, 6s to 7s 6d; Runts and Half-breds, 4s 8d to
6s 6d; Downs, 4s to ss; Shearlings, 6d to 8d; Lambs,
2s 9d to 4s.