The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-16 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1846.

At four o'clock on the morning of May the sixteenth,
eighteen hundred and forty-six, a British House of Com-
mons sanctioned the principles of Free Trade as incorporated
in the great measure of Sir ROBERT PEEL, by a majority of
Ninety-eight. Until the Constitutions of England are ex-
tinct, that day and that hour will be memorable. Posterity
will revert to that division as the commencement of the
most salutary system ever adopted by a Legislature. It
will contemn the factious, scorn the asolete, and forget the
invidious among the Opposition ; but its most grateful
rec ollections will be concentrated upon the noble act with
which this discussion has terminated. In the achieve-
ment, however, the achievers will not be alto-
gether overlooked ; they will have their memo-
ries embalmed by the gratitude of after generations.
Often as we have already particularised those illustrious
statesmen whose patriotism has formed the weapon through
the instrumentality of which the people have thus accom-
plished the destruction of monopoly, this momentous occa-
sion will, we are assured, more than palliate the repetition of
our acknowledgments in their regard. The victory achieved
this morning—this bloodless and sinless victory, the
deed of reason and the triumph of justice—will embellish the
reign of our most gracious SOVEREIGN more than a thousand
Aginconrts. The age of VtcroatA will be the more espe-
cially cherished and revered because it will be associated with
those evidences of a QUEEN consulting in every instance the
happiness, the welfare, and the interests of her people. Nor
can our more prominent and distinguished legislators escape the
most enviable fame which can be acquired by public servants,
by public benefactors. Sir ROBERT PEEL, as having pos-
sessed the moral heroism to sacrifice personal ties, party
power, and the most fostered policy of a career, because he
recognised the benefits which would thereby result to the
nation ; Lord Jost RUSSELL, as having, irrespective of all
other considerations,first shown that opinions might be changed
with consistency ; Mr. COBDEN and his Siamese colleague, as
the most untiring and earnest orators for the dissemination
of free-trade principles without the House, and Mr. VILLIERS
as the most persevering and undaunted supporter of
those principles within the House—have individually
and collectively obtained a most enviable renown.
In anticipation of what has so recently transpired,
the readers of The Sun may remember that, on Mon-
day se'nnight, we ventured upon a prognostication that
this third and final division in the Lower House of Par-
liament would be remarkable for an overwhelm-
ing majority. That prognostication has been ful-
filled. In relation to itself, but especially in re-
lation to the antecedent majorities, the present is parti-
cularly remarkable for its magnitude. Firstly, it is a majo-
rity, short only by two of a hundred! Secondly, it exceeds
by one the majority upon the first division ! Those who
would willingly deteriorate this estimate of the division list
will possibly feel inclined, at the first blush of this announce-
ment, to ridicule that single vote as an extravagant and dis-
proportioned cause of satisfaction. On a second considera-
tion, they would, however, speedily perceive their ridicule to
be excessively ill-timed and unfortunate ; for, on investi-
gation, the excess of the third majority over the first
proves to be vow considerably more than that of a solitary
unit. " But," these malcontents will persist, " the first
division, in February, brought a majority of ninety-seven,
while the third division, in May, brought merely an addi-
tional vote, ninety-eight 1" Granted ; the apparent increase
is trivial enough. But the proportions show it to
be at once important and satisfactory : the ma-
jority of 97 was in a House of 581 Members,
while the majority of 98 was in a House of merely
560 Members. The arithmetical and logical inferences are
ostensible : the majority is in all essential particulars over-
whelming. Thus far, therefore, these wonderful measures—
germinated in the popular will, advocated by the Member for
Stockport, and advanced by the Premier—have received the
most emphatic approval of one of the three great divisions
of the Constitution. The- ►SOVEREIGN has already evinced
her gracious acquiescence in those measures which the
greatest statesmen of the age have pronounced as absolutely
necessary for the welfare of all classes in the United King-
doms. It, therefore, rests only with the august assembly of
Peers to testify their accordance to the Bill : that their own
interests are peculiarly involved in its acceptation we shall
take an early opportunity of showing. And in celebration
of the recent sanction given to the principles incorporated in
that Bill, we may virtually date, from the present day, the
proclamation of Free Trade.

It is a curious and instructive fact in the history of corn.
mercial nations, that England, after an experience of three
hundred years, after restrictions upon trade and commerce
without number, whether by heavy imposts or absolute pro-
hibition, or navigation laws, is, in the middle of the nine-
teenth century, rapidly adopting the political as well as fiscal
principles which rendered the small republic of Holland the
most flourishing, industrious, wealthy, and most powerful
state in modern times. That little community, which after-
wards became so illustrious, commenced its very existence
with the free-trade system, it encouraged the importation of
corn and wine, and iron and wood, in short, of every neces-
sary of life, and every material for manufactures; during its
prosperity too, and when some neighbouring nations were
gaining ground upon the industrious Dutch, still they ad-
hered to their principles under every temptation and pro-
vocation which might excuse a departure from the sys-
tem, and finally triumphed over all their opponents.
begaint teaches
Zit°
History,a the mistress of wisdom," teaches us these facts,
tanhaat
tradethe to
ogreraetcneessde
from
mthietsrsehpourbmliewfihresnt
and the folly of the people, imposed
the ambition of Btadtholders, and the expenses of foreign wars,
y
to
us not
WITT, who saw the evil day comingmp said, duties.
4D,
If
these augmented custom-duties belong
imagine that our people, thus burdened, will bene
com-
pete with foreigners." Sir ROBERT PEEL, to his honoourhs
compli-
cated state :of society
profited by such lessons, and has resolved, as far as a
will admit, to remove every possible
obstacle to the full development of what the Protectionists,
using the phrase in a different sense, call "native industry
admitted
wool, or
by silk
all ;
Free trade, in fact, is the only source of real industry, whe-
ther
great
principle,applied to
which
cotton,
ors
corn,
u l o
thean d oedna in thisg
statesmen of this country, the Minister has founded a
commercial system remarkable alike for its daring and its
certain results. Experience, which shows what it has done
points out with a precision approaching to reality what it
can do ; and it is singular that the question had only to be
fairly opened for consideration to ensure complete success.
Never on any measure did such unanimity prevail among
men whose opinions are of value, as on this corn-law ques-
tion : statesmen, political economists, practical manufac-
turers, the great body of the representatives of the people,
and the people themselves, are all on one side, and though
speeches have been made almost
ovation,
without number showing
the certain ruin which will follow this great innthe
majority in its favour, after some three months' deliberation,
has rater increased than diminished. On the first grand
division which took place for going into Committee, on the
last day of February, the majority was 97, and on the last it
was 98, in a House with twenty-one Members less. The fate
of the new system of policy is thus sealed. The prospects
which it opens up are almost too vast for human conception ;
for it creates a commercial revolution not in the United
Kingdom only, but throughout the world. Want of space
Prevents us from adverting further to the subject.

We yesterday drew the attention of our readers to the
result of the debate on Thursday night on Mr. SPOONER'S
motion. The subject is too important to be allowed thus to
pass over. It assumes many phases. We yesterday touched
only on that which concerns SEARCH-WARRANTS themselves
and to this we shall again recur. But, another point of little,
if any less constitutional importance, was strongly put by
Mr. WAILLEY, namely, this—ls the system to be permitted
under which now, systematically, any petitioner to the
House of Commons is liable to slander and abuse, in order to
screen the Government ? Here is a strong case. Such
teetinioniee were borne in the House to the char

racter of Mr. TOULMIN SMITH, that no honest man
can suspect the motives of any part of his proceed-
ings, but, be it observed, the Attorney-General thinks
fit, in his place in Parliament, to charge a member
of his own profession with conduct unworthy of his profes-
sion—that he had first tried to get money, and when that
attempt failed had professed a public object. Now what
were the facts of the case which, with all the mystifi-
cation and suppression attempted, came out ? They
were these among others :—That there are now
in the hands of Government documents placed
there by Mr. T. SMITH himself, which not only show every
insinuation against him to be wholly unfounded, but to be,
in every respect, the direct reverse of the facts. This has
been alleged in a published document by Mr. T. SMITH,
was re• alleged by Mr. SPOONER in the House, and a letter
from Sir J. GRAIIA3I read to prove it, and it was uncontra-
dieted and unnoticed, though Sir J. GRAHAM was in the
House. Yet the Attorney-General professed to oppose a
Committee, because all the facts were before the House.
Why, here: are these very documents, not one of which was
before the House ? In a Committee Mr. T. SMITH
would have proved their contents ; therefore, in reality,
was a Committee opposed. Again, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer says, "We only judge Mr. TouLatrx SMITH
from his own letters." But he knew this was not so. Those
letters were read only with a colouring given to them on in-
formation derived from a man whom Sir Thomas WILDE de-
clared guilty of perjury. It was this colouring that gave
effect to the letters. Everybody knows that a letter can
only be understood by knowing the circumstances under
which it was written. Again, the Attorney -General as-
serted that Mr. TOULMIN SMITH tried to entrap the officer.
To every plain understanding we think it must be perfectly
clear that the attempt at entrapping was the other way. The
following facts came out :—Tbat it was not Mr. SMITH who
went to the officer, but the officer who went to Mr. SMITH.
This alone is suspicious, and clearly shows no wish of Mr.
Salmi to entrap. One naturally asks—who sent the
officer to Mr. SMITH, and why did he go ? But it was ac-
tually further declared—inconsistenly enough with the
charge of Mr. SMITH trying to get money and not being
able to succeed—that 251. was tendered to Mr. SMITH, and
he refused to accept it. This is stranger still. But the
mystery gets still deeper when we learn from Mr. SPOONER'S
reply that, notwithstanding all the tattle about actions
all the three speakers on the Government side, no actin
had ever been commenced, and the time within which it
could be brought had long elapsed.
• -

Now, we can, of course, know nothing of the contents of
documents unproduced. But this is clear, that all the facts
are not before the public ; but on the face of the facts which
came out in the course of the debate, put together, more
than enough appears to show that the insinuations made by
the Attorney-General are wholly destitute of foundation.
Again we say, then, shall a private man, bringing forward a
case of public importance, be suffered to have his reputation
blasted, and his professional prospects necessarily in-
jured by such language on the part of the Attorney-
General ? We do not enter into the inquiry whe-
ther there was any private motive on the part ofthe Attorney-
General. We say that every man who looks to Parliament
as the grand inquest of the nation, before which public ques-

tions should be brought, is interested in the protection of
petitioners to that House. Ministers have here refused in-
quiry, apparently from fear of what certain suppressed do.
cuments would disclose, and have endeavoured to damage,
by all possible means, the person of the petitioner, by a
mystification and misrepresentation of facts which of them.
selves in reality throw only more suspicion on the conduct
of the Board of Excise, or its emissaries.

Letters from Posen, of the 4th, state that several arrests,
chiefly among the noble proprietors of land, have been re-
cently made in that province, in consequence of new traces
of a conspiracy having been discovered.
Madrid papers of the Bth have arrived.

The province of Malaga was declared to be in a state of
seige in consequence of the recent attempt to assassinate the
Political Chief. The Her aldo tells a long story about this
attempt having been the result of a political conspiracy
having ramifications in Granada and Vimeira and
concocted at Gibraltar by General NOGUERAS. It
however, adduces no proof of the existence
of any such conspiracy, and the story altogether has the air of
a clumsy fabrication. So completely is tranquillity restored
in Galicia, that the province has been relieved from martial
law. The Galician insurgents, who had taken refuge in Por-
tugal, have been sent to Perriche.
MADRID BoLsa, MAY B.—The Three per Cents. were done
at 32% for cash ; the shares of the Bank of San Fernando,
at 320 ; and those of Isabel, at 188.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.
In the Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday, in the debate
on the extraordinary and supplementary credits, a credit
was demanded for the mission of M. DEFFAupts to La
Plata. M. TIIIEAS took this occasion to attack the Go-
vernment for not having sent out a sufficient military force
' to La Plata. 'M. Guizor replied, and a personal and some-
what bitter altercation ensued between them. M
Trnzas concluded by moving, as an amendment (solely
with a view, as it would appear, of testing the strength
of parties), that the credit should be augmented by 1,000
francs. This amendment was rejected by a majority of 80,
there being 183 in favour of the Ministry, and 103 only voting
with M. Tnizus. The discussion was resumed on Thursday,
and the Minister of Marine stated, in the course of the
debate, that the Government was satisfied that the fire which
had destroyed the dock-yard of Mourillon, at Toulon, was the
result of accident. _ .

The Three per Cents. closed at 831. 85e. ; the Five per Cents.,
119 f. 90c. ; the Orleans Railroad shares, 1,240 f. ; Rouen, 1,027 f.
50c.; Havre, 755 f. ; Great Northern, 75Sf. 75c. ; Avignon, 907 f. ;
Vierzon, 660 f. ; Bordeaux, 617 f. 15c. ; Boulogne, 502 f. 50c. ; Troyes
aid Montereau, 400 f. ; Basle, 2161. 25c. ; Dieppe, 435 f. ; Paris and
Strasburg, 5071. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes, 520 f.; Paris and Lyons, 535 f.
The following are the quotations in the new lines
Lyons and Avignon, Definitives, 515 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette,
Deflnitives, 503 f.
Liroxs, MAT 11.—Marseilles and Avignon, 920 f. ; Paris and
Orleans, 1,2451. ; Vierzon, G7ll. 25c. ; Northern, 763 f. 75c.

BUSDIESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAT 15.

Boulogne and Amiens, 123—Dutch Rhenish, IN—East Indian,
%—Luxembourg, 17 —Namur and Liege, 4%—Orleans and Bor-
deaux, 11— Paris and Lyons Constituted, 7—Paris and Strasbourg
Constituted, s—Sambre and ➢ieuse, s%—Tours and Nantes Con-
stituted, 5 —West Flanders, 2%.

WAKEFIELD CORN-MARKET, MAY M.—The supplies
of all griln are tolerably goad. There was a very thin attendance
of buyers this morning, and an extremely limited business was trans-
acted in all descriptions of wheat, at a decline of fully 3s. to 4s. per
qr. Barley, of fresh malting quality, in fair request, at Is. per qr.
less money. Beans dull, and rather cheaper. Oats 3d. per stone,
and Shelling Is. per load lower. Malt as before.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM.—
About eleven o'clock yesterday forenoon a fatal accident occurred at
the British Museum to a poor man named Collins, who was carrying
a bucket of water up the ladders to the stonecutters engaged in facing
the left wing, when on reaching a height of fifty or sixty feet, he fell
backwards, and was precipitated to the basement. On being picked
up he presented a piteous spectacle—his bones, dislocated and broken,
were protruding through the skin. The unfortunate creature, who
was nearly sixty, was conveyed to the Universl;y College Hospital,
where be expired in less than two hours.
LORD'S DAY SOCIETY.—The fifteenth anniversary
meeting of this Society was held yesterday, in Exeter-hall, the
Bishop of Calcutta in the chair, supported by the Rev. Messrs.
'larding and Hoare, Mr. Plumptre, Mr. J. Wilson, &c. The
Secretary read the report, which deplored the continued desecration
of the Sabbath, especially on railways, and also by the immense
number of pleasure-vans and steam-boats which, crammed with
passengers, plied on Sundays. It then congratulated the meeting
upon the success with which the Society's efforts to enforce the due
observance of the Lord's day were, in many instances, crowned, and
stated that Windsor Castle was closed on that day. The receipts
amounted to 7601., and the expenditure to 400/. The report was
adopted, and the meeting separated.
IRON, HARDWARE, AND METAL TRADES' PENSION
SOCIETY.—Yesterday, the annual general meeting of the supporters
of this society, for granting pensions to members of the above trades,
and their widows, was held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-
street. The chair was taken by T. B. Simpson, Esq., the treasurer.
The report was read by the secretary, and congratulated the meeting
upon the progress the society had made since its formation three
years ago. The receipts, which last year amounted to 1,3851., were
now above 1,7011., this increase arising from the contributions of the
original members, and not, the committee regretted to say, from any
great number of new subscribers. From the state of the funds there
was, however, every reason to hope that the object for which the
society was established would be carried into effect in September
next, when two distressed members of the trade would be provided
with pensions.
TOWN MISSIONARY AND SCRIPTURE READERS' &-
cam—Last:evening the ninth annual meeting of the above Society
was held in the large hall, Freemasons' Tavern. The chair was taken
by John Dean Paul, Esq, The report stated that, through the
limited means of the society at present, they have not been able to
extend their mission fUrther than to a few of the principal towns,
Resolutions to earry out the objects of the society were adopted.!
FEMALE SERVANTS' IioME SOCIETY: Last evening
the tenth anniversary meeting of the raembersof this society-was held
at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street ; John Labouchere,
Esq., in the chair. The Chairman said, that since July, 1844, up-
wards of 2,200 female servants out of place had been received into
the houses in Knutsford-place and Ilatton-garden, and discharged
as soon as they had obtained situations, according to the rules of the
B_4r-letY ; while more than 5,000 had placed their names on the re-
isuy
considered that there were all:
that .Thbeercowmmoulidtteneotha:e notni as et been able to opewnhemnortet,twhanur
two "houses." Ir they had s they would open twenty, fo
metropolis out of spare. than sufficient.
place, it would be seen how' • t was the
upwardsm repototf, I.2nooothogrseintravotainotsnoinf
theuie
necessity for such an institution.y
Rev. Mr. Hutchings, was unanimously adopted, and the meeting
broke up.
WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOClETY.—Yesterday the
annual public breakfast, in aid of the City of London Branch Mission
to Feejee, in New Zealand, took place at the London Tavern, Bishops_
gate-street, and was numerously attended. Thomas Farmer,
Esq , presided. After the breakfast the meeting was addressed by
the Rev. Dr. Legge, from China, the Rev. Dr. Archer, the Rev. Dr.
Morison. the Hon. and Rev. Baptist W. Noel, Mr. Mortimer, Dr.
acrihdrit:tiaant ofehthuereihnh. inhabitants eejteep,reasebouat tm2isB,ooomomihaeds renounced
Bennett, and Mr. Ilindley, M.Y. A report was read, from which It
appeared that this mission had been established about seven years,
Thereats werea Feejee,
cannibalism and idolatry, and 1,000 had become communicants of the
in the Feejee Islands. The meetinga was extremely well attended,
and about 2001. was collected i
ing separated. n aid of the mission, when the meet-

LOVE AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—Last night, shortly
after twelve o'clock, amsost determined attempt at sutilVde2lV4Sl made
by a young female, near() Clarke's timber-yard, at
parejthuantgKgirl, whose name is Wemllrnea,danodf
Kennington is much attached tb a .
youngwho
oe
,and while he
to a female residing at the lVest-
mWaantewrlioloo-risoad.
paying his addresses
resides with her
.ciaLrasket,sevyearnidng
ale
followed him about
ran up to him, with a sharp table
would stab herself, as she was-
a the
arm, but she disengaged
herself into her
wasiii in s ter-
passingr os d
ik,nelafreyl no
f herlifeh. and,T h
The
nydoue
young
ami mane dses
seized
eiw oh
herself from him, and was in the act of plunginger
tmheanknafalfemocdut OlanheThit
Hobert and Lady Peel give a
asinctiei,3,wa•hneanwartesrateddes
The Puke and Duchess of Norfolk
removed to her father's home in a cab. ran up and seized her
had a dinner
s. She was secured, and
parTtyhleastßniigghhtt, atn Nonor.foslkirHnouosbee.
grand entertainment to a distinguished circle this
evening at the
Right Hen. Baronet's residence in Whitehall. gardens.
It is stated that a robin is not permitted to live long
than four years. At that age he is attacked by the younger birds
and killed. Though at other times the most pugnacious of birds, he
dies tuneesistingly.
RATHER NE w.--A few days ago a lady visited one
of the most extensive shopping establishments in Glasgow, and made
purchases to the extent of 801. On examining the contents of her
purse, she found she had only 50/., and suggested that one of the
shop-boys should just step into the carriage along with her, and re-
ceive payment at her mansion. Instead, howe
thever, of arriving at a
fine mansion, judge of his surprise when officials of lunatic
asylum seized him and held him fast. The lady had, of course,
specially prepared a warrant for his committal. Before
and hhe could
procure liberation the fair one and good 9 had disappeared,
not aim Wen heard of.—arasgoty 4MM

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. I
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.I
In the Liverpool market yesterday the sales of Cotton were
8,000 to 10,000 bales, 3,000 of which were on speculation.
Prices were very firm. Shares continued dull.
The sale of Railway Shares by Messrs. Lsmond and Co. was flatter'
it being account day, and prices were rather lower. We have marked
a few sales. Cork, Mallow, and Killarney, 6s.—WariVick and Wor-
cester, 10s. 6d.— Grand Trunk, 18s. W.—South Midland, 31. 13s.
—Ceylon, 9s.—Manchester and Southampton, 2L—Essex and Suffolk,
135.—Northampton, Bedford, and Cambridge, 11. 3s. 6d.—Direct
Northern. 1/. 17s.
The result of the division in the House of Commons this
morning upon the Cornßill has afforded very general satisfac-
tion in the City to-day. Hopes are now sanguinely entertained,
after so strong a demonstration on the part of the Lower House
of Parliament, that the Lords will not waste much time in
carrying into effect the determined intentions of her Majesty's
Government. At the present moment such is the intensity
of feeling in commercial circles for a final settlement of the
corn question, that operations in the foreign and colonial
trade have been very much cramped; but with a majority of
98, as voted this morning, business transactions have already
increased, under the full expectation that, within a month at
least, the corn question will be finally disposed of. It is not
considered an uninteresting fact that the French Ministry stand
as strong as that of Sir R. Peel's, as this day's news from Paris
show that Ministers there, upon a grand point, had a full ma-
jority of 85, and this too against the aid of M. Thiers, in con-
nexion with the La Plata question.
The features in the Bank of England monetary movement
during the week, to Saturday last, were these :
Notes issued .. £27,244,995
Increase
Rest Increase
Public deposits, increase
Other deposits ... 16,256,526
Decrease 523,854
•
Seven day and other bills, increase 15,687
Other securities, decrease 167,123
Bullion
Increase
The public deposits, therefore, are now taking a turn
again, the other securities are being lessened, and the notes
increased.
The Stock Market has not been influenced by the third
reading of the Corn Bill, as it was pretty well " discounted,"
or reckoned upon, beforehand. Consols have been 96% 3%
for next week, and 96% 34 for time. Exchequer-bills have
been heavy, at 235. to 20s. premium. Bank Stock has
realised 204% to 20i%. The New Three and- a-Quarter
per Cents. have been 971% to x,
Mexican Bonds have receded from 33 to 321%, but there
have only been about one or two bargains. Brazil Stock is
worth 84 to 83%. Portuguese Four per Cents. have been
quoted at 58%.
There is not much doing in Shares, but the few bargains
entered into have been at previous rates generally, except
for the French scrips, which are heavy.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)

Bank Stock .. • • • • .. • • .. .. 204% 2053(
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 95% %
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .• 96%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 97 %
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10 3-16
India Stock .. 264
Consols for Account .. .. • . .. 96% %
Exchequer Bills. I%cl. 14d.
1,000/. .. , ... 23 20 pm.
Ditto, Small .• 24 21 20 pm.
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent • • 84 833
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent. • •
Ditto, for the Account • • .. 41
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent • •
Ditto, for the Account • • .. 33 323
Portuguese Four per Cent • • .•
Ditto, for the Account .. .• 583
Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent • • .. 11034
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-llalf per Cents.
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 92

BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Birmingham and Oxford Junction • • 2 .• .. ..., to
Bristol and Exeter .. • • • • •• 75 •• • • 85% •••• to
Buckinghamshire .. • . 425. •• • . %!4' pto
Derby and Crewe • • .. .. 2% •• • . 6%.... to
Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) . • • • 5M •• • • 3% •• • • to
Eastern Counties .. 14/. 16s. Od.• •• • 24 •• .. to 23%
Ditto, 'York Extension .• • • • • 10s. • • 1% . • to
Great North of England • • .. —l9O .. 217 • • to
_—
Ditto, New .. .. .. 10 •• .. 28% .•.. to
Great Western .• 85 ....151 •• .. to
Ditto Half Shares • • •. . 50 ••. • 89 ••.. to
Leicester and Bedford 225. • . •• 34% dis. to
London and Birmingham • • •.100 —228% ••.. to
Ditto, Fifths .. .• .. 2 ••• . 25 •••• to
London and Brighton .. 50 .... 66 .. • . to
London and York g.. .......21/.... .... to
Manchester and Leeds • • • • •
Ditto, Fifths .. .. 3 ••• • 13 ••.. to
Manchester and Birmingham • • •• 40 ••• • • to
Ditto, Quarter Shares (A) • • • • 4 ••• • 13 .... to
Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock .. 425. .. 1%% p.. to
Manchester and Southampton .• 2 •• • • 2 •• • • to 1%
Midland
Ditto, New .. •• 18 33% to
Newcastle and Darlington Junction •.25. • • • 44% to 45
Ditto, New .• 1 •• .• to
Newcastle and Berwick - • • • •• 15 .•• • 26 .... to
North British .. • • .. .. ••22j2.. • • •••• to
Ditto, Carlisle Extension • • 1IA• • ,• 2%% •.to .
North Staffordshire .• • • .. 425. •• • 4%% Pto
Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton 12% •• .. 9 •• .. to 8%
Scottish Central ........10 •••• 16% •• • . to
Scottish Midland .. .• .. 10 •• .. 8 •• • • to
Shrewsbury and Birmingham • • .. 2% •• • • 31 14.. to
Shropshire Union . .. • • .. 425.• • • dis. to
South Midland • .. 425. .... 1% %pto
South Eastern and Dover • • •. 33% 40% .... to 40
Ditto, New, No. 1 .16 .. 20%.... to
Ditto, New, No. 2 .. .• .. 10 ••• 14 •• .. to
Ditto, New, No. 4 .• • • .. 2%•..• 3% .• .. to '—
West Riding Union .. 425..... 3% %pto
York and Carlisle .. 2%. 1% .• .. to
York and North Midland • • .. .. 50 .• .... to
Ditto East and West Aiding Extension 1 .... 12 •.. to 11%
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Paris and Lyons Constituted •• .. 5 .... 6% %• . to 7
MINES
Real del Monte, Unregistered • • •• •••• ...•