The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-28 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1846.

We have lately thought it our duty to call the public
attention to the constitution of the Royal Court of
Guernsey, the extraordinary and varied powers assumed
by that Court, and the mal-administration of the law,
occasioned by clothing with the judicial authority men
who are wholly unqualified by station, education, or
legal acquirements, for so high a trust.
This evil is greatly increased by the fact, that the
jurat as such, derives no income to render him indepen-
dent of his ordinary trade or calling. He may descend
from the bench, on which he has been acting, in a
legislative, an executive, or a judicial capacity, and re-
turn to his counter, to vend, perchance, a gallon of
spirits or a yard of broad cloth. There is not, there-
fore, that pecuniary independence which has ever been
considered indispensible to the purity and integrity of
the judicial bench. When the " res angusta derni" pre-
vail it is scarcely possible for the man even of the most
exalted mind, to free himself wholly from surrounding
influences, to assume that calm disinterestedness so ne
cessary to the fit and proper discharge of the
:1% `3 c_. •V‘ittppKtant duties entrusted to his care. Can he weigh
thie:sbalanco with an even hand, when he must
be wi4 aware that by a slight inclination or leaning to
: . 01164 he may be enabled to oblige 3 vatted customer,

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a useful assoeiate, or one who has it in his power:to be
of much service to him in his trade or business ? Be-
sides, how can a person who is obliged to earn his daily
bread, by the exertion of his industry, devote a sufficient
time to the acquisition of such legal knowledge, as may
be sufficient to qualify him to become the expounder,
the interpreter of various and complicated codes, re-
quiring a large amount of labour, an almost unbounded
devotion of time and industry, to not merely the ori-
ginal attainment, but even the proper keeping up of the
skill and learning already acquired. The man who
would desire to discharge such functions with pro-
priety, should devote a considerable sum of money to
the purchase, and much of his time to the study, of
those works in which the decisions and judg-
ments of our higher courts are chronicled
and
reported. Without such a devotion he is
unfit for the situation he aspires to fill, no
matter how great his natural endowments may be.
The law is a jealous mistress, requiring an exclusive at-
tention, an ardent, a zealous pursuit on the part of
its professors ; nay, in our own country it has been con-
sidered as indispensible to subdivide its branches. We
have, therefore, the equity and the common law barrister,
the equity draftsman, the special pleader, and the
conveyancer, each of whom finds full and sufficient
occupation in the cultivation and practice of that parti-
cular portion thereof to which he has applied his talents
and industry, and devoted his time. A gratuitous legal
opinion, even when given by a man of high professional
attainments in constant practice has ever been con-
sidered as worth the sum it actually costs—viz., nothing.
It is still worse, when the exposition of the law is a
gratuitous one, more particularly when there is no suffi-
cient controlling power to revise and correct the judg-
ments of such a tribunal, if erroneous.

The evils of the system, which we have already pointed
out in our former articles are, therefore, fearfully in-
creased by the want of that sound judgment and legal
knowledge, which would point out the danger and warn of
the consequences which might result from some illegal or
unjust decision. It has been said that
" Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."

Quacks will venture on experiments at which the highly
educated and talented physician would shudder; the man
with a slight sprinkling of some few legal principles,
picked up perhaps merely by an attendance at some
petty court, will arrogate to himself a degree of know-
ledge, and utter his dicta with a confidence which the
most talented and able lawyer would not venture to
assume. Propose to such a man the most difficult
and doubtful point, some vexata questio which has
exercised the ingenuity of lawyers, and puzzled, per-
haps divided, the Bench itself, and, without hesita.
tion, without taking a moment's time to consider, he will
Pronounce ass absolute and unqualified opinion, assuring
you that there is: not the slightest difficulty in the case.
Such a person, if invested with any authority, will extend
it far beyond the limits of moderation, and will dare or do
anything for the furtherance of that fancied authority, or
the support or extension of some favourite theory. We
recollect the case of a magistrate, the brother of a
former Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer,
in Ireland, who had committed and detained for
some hours in custody a barrister, who had appeared
before him in some case, and who had pressed his argu-
ments, as the magistrate thought, too far, the Learned,
Chief Baron, addressing him, said, " Brother, brother
you have the greatest courage of any man in the world.
I often wished that I could have ventured on such a
step when annoyed and tormented by some of them, but
I dared not. You little know the nest of hornets you
have brought about your ears." And so it turned out.
Bar meetings were held, the profession throughout the
country took to itself the insult offered to one of its
members, proceedings were instituted, and large damages
were given against the man, who, in his ignorance, had
exceeded his authority. In our columns will be found
an extract from an able and talented contemporary, con-
taining its own comments upon the conduct of one of
the Jurats who chose to avail himself of the
Position he occupied, to inflict a most unwarrantable
indignity on gentlemen holding commissions in her
MAJESTY'S service. The honour and integrity of
the British army has ever stood unimpeached, and un-
impeachable. It is that high and chivalrous feeling on
their part, the undying devotion, the esprit de corps,
which induces the British officer to sacrifice even life
itself to the service of his country, to the maintainance
of the character and honour of the body to which he be-
longs. This feeling has been attested for centuries, has
been written in letters of blood on many a hardly-con-
tested and well-fought field. In what age, nation or
climate, has it not been exemplified ? There is no part
of the civilised world, no quarter of the globe, where the
services of our gallant brethren have been required, that
the result has not been invariably the same. Their
valour in the field has been only equalled by their mo-
deration and humanity in the hour of victory, and by the
undeviating faith and integrity with which they have
observed all compacts and treaties into which they may
have entered. The honour of the British name has been
entrusted to their care, and has ever remained un-
tarnished in their hands; and every succeeding day but
adds new laurels to their unblemished reputation. But
why seek to praise, to justify the honour of the British
army ? It is but an attempt
" To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
And add a perfume to the violet."

It is written in characters which cannot be
impeached or gainsayed. Words are superfluous
in such a cause, but were there a necessity
there are gallant men who can use the pen as well as
the sword, and any insult to the British Army is sure to
produce numerous and able defenders from amongst
its own ranks.

The learned Jurat may find, in the words of the
Chief Baron already mentioned, that he has indeed
brought a nest of hornets about his ears, and may well
wish that he had not ventured to assail that which
stands on a pinnacle, towering far beyond the reach of
any shaft winged by his feeble hand.

On the resumption of the adjourned debate on Tuesday, in
the House of Peers, no less than eleven of their Lordships
addressed themselves to the consideration of the greatest
measure introduced to Parliament since the memorable Bill
of 1832. Anxious, however, as the majority of the Legis-
lature, both aristocratic and representative, has shown itself
to limit the discussion simply to the abstract merits
of the question, seven out of these eleven speeches
were altogether irrelevant, and singularly rambling. Of the
remarks uttered by the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, and of the line
of behaviour which his Royal Highness has voluntary
chalked out for himself, we could speak in langu -ge of
panegyric, notwithstanding that that behaviour will consist of
the reservation of his vote upon the division. Conscien-
tiously believing that by abolishing protective imposts the
commercial prosperity of England will be jeopardised, and re-
solved, at the same time, not to interfere with the wishes
of the people, or to embarrass the intentions of Government,
his Royal Highness announced his determination to abstain
from voting upon the measure. Such a resolve is, to say
the least of it, worthy of a Prince of the Blood Royal ;
it is consistent with those principles of liberality by
which her most gracious MAJESTY has, throughout her
reign, ever shown herself to be actuated ; and, though
the public may regret that any member of her
illustrious family is not impressed with a sense of the benefits
which must accrue from the acceptation of a free-trade
policy, no supporter of that policy can refrain from enter-
taining the deepest sentiments of respect for the avowed
motives of the Duke of CAMBRIDGE. A diversity of protec-
tionist fallacies were paraded in an after period
the tideetion oerbedie
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of the evening, as very conclusive reasons indeed for
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the various
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idiosyncrasies of the speakers,
appearance of novelty. On examination,
ness resolved itself into mere rhetorical
the harangues of the Peers proved to
re-
vivals of those enunciated by the Commoners. A hand-
full of obsolete arguments, a plentiful sprinkling of
impossible statistics, a few slices of sarcasm, seasoned with
personalities, and garnished with sippets from HANSARD,
and HUSKISSON, and ADAM SMITH, form the ingredients of
these agricultural dishes—hot in the Lower House, luke-
warm in the Upper House. And such is the kind of intel-
lectual banquet with which their Lordships and the
general community were favoured on Tuesday night. But the
diversity of opinion among the opposers of the measure has,
throughout the discussion, lent it the charm of variety. One
protectionist is such from
a conviction that the Bill will
annihilate
home agriculture, another because it will not
cheapen bread, another because it will render us wholly de-
pendent Earl of WILTON maintains that free trade is proved to he
upon foreign nations for ourd subsistence. The
e Duke of WEL-
logically and radically wrong from the circumstance of his
(the Earl of WILTON'S) actually opposing th
LINGTON in regard. His Royal Highness the Duke of
CAMBRIDGE cannot dream of altering his original views
its
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upon the matter of international commerce because of his
years. The Earl of WINCIIILSEA, in like manner,
is a bitter antagonist of the Ministerial policy because
in it he recognises a perspective of destruction to Church,
State, and mercantile affairs, somewhat less picturesque, but
quite as mournful as Mr. MACAULAY'S renowned idealism of
a traveller, a thousand years hence, " seated upon
the broken arches of London-bridge, sketching the
ruins of St. Paul's." Almost as various, we
are ready to acknowledge, are the ideas enter-
tained upon the question by an infinitessimal few among
the supporters of the Bill. Thus, for example, after all that
has been adduced in the Commons and elsewhere to prove
that free trade will materially benefit the labouring classes,
by rendering provision stores more accessible, the
Marquis of NORMANBY " believes that the intrin,ic
effect of the measure, either for good or evil,
has been overrated " affording another illustration

to the classic adage—quot homines tot sententice. These
things, however, are the mere excresences and exuberances
growing out of a discussion of such incalculable importance.
They serve, nevertheless, a good purpose, even in their
very inanity ; they sift the whole merits and
demerits of the measure most thoroughly ; they carry
it through an ordeal, tedious, without doubt, for the time
being, but wholesome and generous in the end—seeing that,
by such an exceeding filtration and analysis, the precise
nature of the scheme is exposed, its bearings are severally
recognised, and the existence in it of anything deformed, or
deleterious, or baneful, is inevitably brought to light.
Looking back upon the dreary months during which the
Corn and Customs' Bill has been thuslcrutinized, and turn-
ing to the conclusions which are alone derivable by common
sense from that scrutiny, our inferences from the past, the
present, and the future, in their relation to free trade and
protection, are a triumphant vindication of the former, and a
withering exposure of the latter. As to the actuality of this
fact, the popular voice has already sufficiently pronounced,
while another, and almost as conclusive, evidence is the
unanimous acquiescence of the greatest statesmen of the age
in the necessity of the proposed alteration. And,
much as we regret the fallacious view of the Prime
Afinister's character taken by the Noble Lord, we
have a peculiar satisfaction in numbering in that catalogue
of illustrious free-traders the name of the Marquis of NOR-
MANBT ; the more so, perchance, because of our consciousness
that individual eulogiums or individual vituperations
will not ultimately influence one jot the estimation of
Sir ROBERT PEEL as a man, as a patriot, and as a states-
man ; and because we appreciate the justice of that eloquent
tribute uttered by Lord BROUGHAM, that Sir ROBERT "may
scorn the sordid attacks, the wretched ribaldry, with
which he has been out of doors assailed, because
he knows he has entitled himself to the grati-
tude of his country, and will leave his name
to an admiring posterity as one of the greatest statesmen
that ever wielded the destinies of this land." Feeling this,
we can forgive all observations to the contrary as harmless,
and turn with sanguine feelings to the adjournment till
Thursday.

We yesterday urged upon the attention of the Govern-
ment the great and imperative necessity of some prompt and
speedy legislation taking place for carrying into effect the
recommendations contained in the report of Lord DEVON'S
Commission. A fearful tragedy has recently been enacted
at Bird Hill, in which two lives were lost, which would in all
probability have been spared had those recommendations
met with earlier attention. We are rejoiced to find, from
an answer on Monday night given by Sir R. PEEL to Mr. S.
CRAWFORD, that the subject has occupied much of the at-
tention of her MAJESTY'S Government; that the delay has
been principally occasioned by the late change in the office
of the Chief Secretary for Ireland, and the recent illness of
Lord Lrscout ; and that three measures have been prepared,
which will forthwith be introduced to the House, having for
their objects-Ist, the making compensation to tenants for
improvements effected by them ; 2dly, for amending the laws
relative to ejectment and distresses ; and, idly, a Bill pre-
scribing a short form of lease, and reducing the stamp duties
thereon.

Although these do not by any means comprise all the re-
commendations of the Commissioners, and still less the several
matters which loudly demand legislative interference and
redress, yet they certainly include many of the most pressing
grievances, and will be gratefully received as a large instal-
ment by the people of Ireland.

Most of the wretchedness of the country is owing to the
bad cultivation of the different farms. As we on Mon-
day pointed out, the person procuring a farm generally
receives it in bad order and condition, without suitable build
ings or offices for carrying on the necessary works on the
land. In the great majority of cases the whole of the avail-
able capital of the incoming tenant is devoted to putting it
in proper order and condition, and he is left without the
means of sufficiently stocking or cultivating the soil. Had
he the power of registering his improvements, so as to make
the sum properly expended thereon a charge upon
the land in the event of his being ejected, or the rent
raised within thirty years, he would easily
be enabled to borrow the necessary sum,
having a tangible security to offer, in the event of his being
deprived of the land, the possession of which would, in itself,
afford a guarantee for him while he retained it in his
hands. He would also be encouraged to expend his capital in
these improvements, as he could be certain of obtaining a fair
return, either in the time during which he might be per-
mitted to occupy the lands, or as a money payment on his
being driven from the farm. There is no other measure by
which so large an amount of benefit will be conferred upon
Ireland generally, or so likely to promote substantial im-
provement throughout the country, and to remove the most
fertile source of discontent and outrage.
The second subject is also a vastly important one—the
amendment of the laws relating to distress and ejectment.
The entire of the landlord-and-tenant laws in Ireland have
justly been designated from the Bench as class-legislation—
each succeeding statute strengthening the former one in
favour of the landlord, adding to his power, and casting
additional difficulty upon the tenant. We do not desire that
either of the remedies afforded to the landlord for the recovery
of his rent should be wholly abolished ; on the contrary, we
do not think it would be for the benefit of either party that
such should be the case. But they are both sadly liable to
abuse, and require considerable attention to prevent an
undue and improper use of the remedy by the landlord, or still
worse, by his agent or driver. We hope and trust that the
measure about to be introduced will be sufficiently efficacious
in its nature to afford a remedy for the acknowledged
evils that exist. The third subject, although
not as important in its nature as either of the
others will still confer much benefit, without any person
whatever being injured thereby. A large proportion of the
land in Ireland is at present occupied by tenants-at-will.
This is partly to be attributed to the high stamp duty neces-
sary for leases, which frequently deters the tenant from ac-
cepting a lease even where the landlord is willing to grant it.
This is one of the causes of that uncertainty of tenure which
is found to be a pressing grievance by all classes of tenants,
paralysing exertion, and placing a fatal impediment in the way
of improvement. If this great evil can be in any degree lessened
by the reduction of the stamp duty much good will be effected,
more particularly as it is, and apparently with justice, said
that the revenue will be increased rather than diminished by
the alteration, owing to the vastly increased number of leases
that will be taken out. Besides, persons, to benefit by the
reduction, will probably accept an improved form of lease,
prepared by the most eminent lawyers, with covenants
mutually beneficial to landlord and tenant. We cannot of
course know the details of the proposed measures, but we
shall anxiously expect the promised statement, and we feel
convinced that much public benefit will be occasioned by
their full discussion.

Madrid papers of the 19th have arrived. The report of
the assassination of RUBIN DE CELIS at Oporto is confirmed.
A paper with the following inscription was found on the bo-
som of the corpse:—" Killed for having betrayed his country
and sold his fellow-citizens." According to El Tiempo,
there at present exists greit coolness between the QUEEN
and her Ministers, and a " Ministerial crisis " is expected.
Intelligence from Lisbon to the 14th inst. had been received
at Madrid. The disturbances in the provinces were repre-
sented in the Diairo do Govern as of small importance, and
nothing was said of any excitement prevailing in Lisbon
MADRID BOURSE.—Three per Cents., 32%; Fives not
quoted.

We have received the Paris papers of Monday.
On that day a grand review took place in the Champ de
Mars, in honour of Initaxim PACIIA. There were upwards
of 30,000 men of all arms on the ground. The whole went
off without the least untoward occurrence.

The riots at Elbeuf appear to have been of a serious character
The local force were unable to cope with the rioters, and it
was not until the arrival of 400 soldiers from Rouen that the
disturbances were quelled and a stop put to the destruction
of machinery. Twenty of the rioters were arrested and sent
off to Rouen, and tranquillity is now completely restored.
The Presse states that some new plans have been sub
mitted to the Minister of Finance for accelerating the dis-
patch of the Indian mail, with a view of showing the supe-
riority of the French route over that by Trieste.

COURS ATHENTIQUE.—PARts, MAY 25.—French Fly.. per Cents.,
119 f. 80c. ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 112 f. 50c. ; Three per
Cents., 84f. 10c. • Bank of France, 3,450 f. Obl. of the City,
1,415 f. Neapolitan (Rothschild's) Dant tives, 102 f. Romans,
100%f. Belgian Five'per Cents. (1840), 100%f. Ditto (1842),
102%f. Belgian Bank, 885 f. Spanish Three per Cents., 38%f.
East Indian,
Exchange on London—One month, money, 25f. 65e. ; three months,
money, 25f. 47%c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 26.
—Paris
X —Namur and Liege, 4—Orleans and Ylersen, 15%
and Strasbourg Constituted. 5.

TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH.
BOULOGNE, WEDNESDAY MORNING.
Prince Louis Napoleon escaped from Ham on Mon-
day morning.— Times.

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portant post of principal and confidential clerk to the Surveyors-
i,asbty, oigno,
General or Drinciped surveying officers of the United
HAVRE REGATTA.—The annual regatta atjun
Havre will
take place in the m nth of July next, and so enamoured are the
French of the sport, that they are determined to begin practising in
a e to Frascati's, the essays of the boat-
mttmene.Cir: witnessedßuada
who
Isz hundreds
tof persons. For the informa ,
we
erward to the coming fetes for a (Po-
tion of regatta meYn
play of skill in rowing, &c.
prac-
tised on this occasion, ha the order
annex a list of the boats that ‘Greville ; 2. La Maria ; 3. L,__e
eip which they came in :—.l L
6. La Vesta. 11 1 e;4. La Fleche ;5. La Riposte;
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The Marquis of Anglesea's Cutter yacht, the Pearl
has come up the river from Spithead, to embark
family on his annual aquatic excursion his Lordship and
in the Channel.
THE BALES.—There was a gay and brilliant assem-
blage on the Downs, and more than the I
usua number of
joyous and happy countenances, notwithstanding the heat o
the weather, the clouds of dust upon the road, and the Iengf
continued stoppages thereon, yet were all these disa e 1711 e-s
borne with more than usual fortitude by the almost countlessi
multitude. One thing could not escape the general observa-
tion, which was the appearance of all the well dressed; till the
present season, black or dark colours, according to foreign 1
journals, being :the mournful characteristic costume of all
our public meetings. Somewhat may be ascribed to the too
general dolorous aspect of our climate, but this singularly
sunny day shone forth hundreds dressed in the registered
paletot, made of llama cloth. These being so variedin colours,
much enlivened the appearance of the course. The patentees
of this popular garment are Messrs. Nicoll, of 114, Regent-
street, and 22, Cornhill. The universal object seems to have
been not only a protection against the heat, but the rain, bad
such been the decree Of the clerk of the weather.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

(From The Sun:of last Night.)
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 3,500
bales, including 500 for export. The quotations were without
alteration, but very quiet. Shares have been dull again.
A fair business was done at Messrs. Lamond's auction of
Railway shares without much alteration in value. East
Indian, 17s.—Great Western of Bengal, 6s. 6d.—Northamp-
ton, Bedford, and Cambridge, IL s&—Dublin and Enniskillen,
IL 10s.—Central of Spain, 11. 9s.—Louvain a la Sambre,
11. I ls.—Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham, 9s. 61—Birkin-
head and Holyhead, 12s.—London, Hounslow, and Western,
16s.—Norfolk Extension, 1/. 15s.— Guildford, Fareham, and
Portsmouth, 4L ss.—Chester and Manchester, 15s.—South
Midland, IL 10s.—Leicester and Bedford, 11. ss. 6d.—Buck-
inghamshire, 2/. 6s.—lpswich, Norwich, and Yarmouth,
19s. 6d.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 21. 19s.—Vale of
Neath, 1/. 10s.—Caledonian Extension, 1/. 7s.—Reading,
Guilford, and Reigate, 1L Os. 6d.
The Mexican bondholders are naturally very anxious
about an arrangement of their claims, but there is every
reason to hope that by dint of the exertions making,
and the attention paid by the committee to the
matter, there will be a satisfactory issue as far
as the obtainment, at all events, of a " promise to pay"
is concerned ; and, really, except the guarantee of the to-
bacco revenue and a larger portion of the Customs' duties, we
do not see what Mexico is in a position to offer.
We are sorry to hear from Ceylon that, " the amount of
sickness in the country is alarming. Government operations
are being postponed in many places, it being impossible to
get coolies. Our own establishment is so much weakened
by the same cause that we cannot issue our supplement till
to-morrow."

There is but a very limited number of members in
attendance at the Stock Exchange to-day, though
more, probably, than there would have been, had not
the settlement been fixed for to-morrow. Consols for
present transfer have touched 96% to 97, and for
time are 9634 to 97. Exchequer-bills have been 17s. and
12s. premium, continuing heavy, therefore. Bank Stoch has
been quoted at 205% to 206%. The New Three-and a-
Quarter per Cents. are 971/2 544,
Mexiean Bonds are a little firmer, but the De-
ferred fare best, being up to 17% 3/4. The Active
are 31%. For Debentures, 13% to 14 are the quotations.
Spanish Three per Cents. have been done at an advance to
37% IA. Dutch Two-and-a-Half are marked 601%.
For Shares the market is very quiet, though rather
firmer.

The demand for labourers, it is very fairly con-
cluded, will be as difficult to meet ere long as is now the
demand for money, and in short, for railway purposes, both
are already found to be inadequate, if we may credit the
report of the contractors and engineers, on the one hand,
and of the discount and monied houses on the other.

ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock .. . . . .. .. .. .. 205% 206% 205% 205%
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. .. 95%% % 95%
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .. 96% % 97
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 97%% 97%
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10 3-16 % 10%
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. • • 10% 10%
India Bonds, 1,000/. .. .. .. .. ..
Ditto, under 1,000/. .. .. .. .. 27 p
Consols for Account .. .. .. .. .. 96% fit'lndia Stock for Account ... .. .. 265
Exchequer Bills. 1%d.. l% d.
1,0001... .. .... 17 12 pm. 12
Ditto. Small •• • • 17 —— Pm. 20
Ditto, Advertised •• .• 15 10 pm. 10
ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.

BRITISH FUNDS.

FOREIGN FUNDS.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto, New Bonds, 1829 and 1839
Equador Bonds ..
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent .. 31 N 3
Ditto, Deferred .. 17%%
Ditto, Debentures .. .. • • .. 13% 14
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent. • • 3934
Portuguese Four per Cent . • • •
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent • •
Ditto, Three per Cent .. • • • • 37 M 34
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 604 60+4
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 92% % 92%
BUSINESS CLOSING
PAID. DONE AT PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.
Aberdeen .. .. 10 .... 43% 4% 4%
Amber., Notting., Boston,• and
Eastern Junction .. 2%.... 1%34
Birmingham and Gloucester.. • • 100 •• • • ••••• • • • • •
Ditto New (issPd at 734 die.) .. 17% ... 31
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 .... 214 .
Bristol and Exeter .. .. 75 • • 543 .• • ..... .
Buckinghamshire .. 425. .. • • 34 P• •••• • • •
Caledonian .. 10 .... 12% 11% .. • •
Ditto, Half Shares .. 2%.... I%
Ditto, Extension .. 2%.... 1 4
Derby and Crewe .. 2%.... 6% 6• 6
Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) 5 •• • • •%1/6 •••• • • • • 334
Direct Northern .• .. 2%.... 1% •• .. I%
Eastern Counties .. .. 141. 165..... 23% %••.. • • •• 233(
Ditto New .. 165..... 7%34 p 73A p
Eastern Union

PRICES OF
RAILWAY SHARES.

_
Do. Extension to Norwich .. 234 .. 234 .......... 214
East and West of England .. I%• • • • %••••• • • • • •
%
Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester .. 2%.... 2 .......... 2
Grand Union (Nottingh. & Lynn) 1% •• • • 34
Great Eastern and Western .. 234 •• • ..... • •
Great Western .. .. • • • • 85 "• • ••••• • • • • •
Ditto Half shares .. • • 84 ••• • .. 84
Ditto, Fifths .. _ 20 .... 34 33 33
Guildford, Fareham, & Portsmoth 5 •• • • 4%
Leicester and Bedford
Leicester, Tamworth, &c.'
Liverp., Manch., & Newd. Junct. 234 •• • . 214 % .... 2%
London an t Birmingham lOO • ... 228
London and Brighton .. .. 50 •• .. 6515414%.. 65%
Ditto ditto Fifths ~ .. 30 .... 4114 ••.. • ..... 4154
London and Croydon .. 131. 15s. 9d. 2254 ... 22%
London and South-Western.. 411. 6s. 10d. 791,4 .
Ditto, New 14 .... 23% • • 23%
London and York .. 23{1 234 254
Manchester and Leeds .. .. 82 ••••• • • • • • 127
Ditto, Fifths .. .. 3 .... 12% . 12%
Ditto Extension 423. ••••• • • • • • 2% P
Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 . Si 8034%
Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) .. 1 .. • . 91M ••..•• • • •• 934
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425..... 154 p.. ••• • •• 134 p
Manchester and Southampton 2 .... 154 .......... 1%
511dIa-id
..100 .. • .149 .. •• • • .... 149
Ditto, New ..18 .. • • 31% 32 .. •• .. 32
Newcastle and Berwick • .. _l5 ••.. •• •
Newark, Sheffield, and Boston .. •X
North British .. 22% .... 30 ••..• • .. 30%
Ditto, Half Shares 854 .... 1134 .. ••..• • .. 114
North Kent and Direct Dover • • 2y4.. • . 1% • ... 134
North Staffordshire .. 425..... 434 !,4 p...... 414 p
Oxfil.,Worcester,& Wolverhmptn. 1254 .... 8% ........ • . 8%
Portsmouth Direct .. • • .. 3% .... 314 •• • • .... • • 3)4
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 425. • • ••• • .. 134 dis
Scottish Central .. . .. 10 16 .. • ••.. • • 16
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 234 .... 2 • • 338
South Devon .. • • • • •• 35 • 3354 •• • • ...... 3334
South Midland .. .• 425. % dis .• •• 34 dis
South Eastern and Down' .. • • 33%
Do., New (do. 331.68.8 d.) No. 2. 10 .... 1314
Staines and Richmond .. .. • . 1
Warwickshire and London • - .. 425..... 34 dis„
Welsh Midland .. • • • • • . 256 _ .......... 114
West Riding Union • • • • • • 425. 2% % p......
York and North Midland .. 50 .
....
Ditto. Extension .. • • •• 15 33%x •
33%
Boulogne
po. ERidingie s FOREIGN
E x.te.n ••
• • • • 11%
12 .. . . 11 %. 11
ford., Toul., & Cette (Mackenzie) 2 14
•1%
Central of Spain .. • • • • • • 2 .... 1%. ..... 1
Dutch Rhenish • . • • • • •• 6 .... 8 ...... •• .. 8
Great Western Canada •• • • 314
Madrid and Valentia .. • • • • 2 ..... 114
Namur and Liege ......6 ... 4 .... •• • • 4
Northern of France Constituted.. 5 14%......•••• 14%
Orleans and Bordeaux • • • • 6 10%
Paris and Lyons Constituted .. 5 .... 10,14
West Flanders • • • • •• • 4 6tBG • f-
-7....

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
London and Westminster • • 20 26% 27 •
National of Ireland .. • • • • 22%
••••
Real del Monte, Unregistered .. 33(

RAILWAY COMMITTEES
(YESTERDAY.)

GROUP XXII.
This Committee met this morning at the usual hour,
Sir George Grey in the chair.

IPSWICH, NORWICH, AND YARMOUTH

Mr. W. H. Palmer, Mayor of Yarmouth, corroborated the
evidence already gone into at such great length on the
general advantages which would be conferred by this line.
Mr. J. Douglas Paine, Mr. Alexander Ady, and Mr.
George Webb, deposed to the great superiority of land to
water carriage in regard to corn. The charge would be less,
and the injury to the corn less.
Mr. Sturge, a corn merchant at Gloucester, and connected
with the firm of Charles and Joseph Sturge, corroborated
this evidence, and was of opinion that land carriage was pre-
ferable to water fer corn.
Joseph Hume, Esq., M.P., one of the Tidal Harbour Com-
missioners, gave evidence as to the kind of bridge which
should be erected over the Waveney Navigation. In his
opinion ; if any bridge were erected it should have a clear
water-way of 45 feet.
Mr. Virtue, a corn-factor in Mark-lane, corroborated the
testimony already given as to the superiority of land over
water carriage.

The Comm—ittee adjourned till twelve o'clock to-morrow.

GROUP XXXI.
SOUTH WALES.

The Committee assembled at the usual hour, and were oc-
cupied the greater part of the day in arranging and settling
the clauses of the South Wales and Dean Forest Railway
Bills.
The Bills were ordered to be reported.
The Committee then proceeded with the investigation
of the
PORTBURY PIER AND EAUOVR BILL.
As the opposition was only against the clauses of the Bill,
the Committee declared the preamble to be proved.
The Committee then adjourned.