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LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 184 6.

FivTehe L oa Cita.xcELLort took his seat on the WoOlsack at
Various o'
cloekietitions having been presented,
Lord KINN man gave
notice of a motion for Thursday on
the subject of' railways.
Lord
Lord Baoutatast complained of the conduct of Mr. GUN-
' STON in refusing to produce. before a committee of their
lordships cert Lin docutnents relAt,tto the conduct of the
Poor-law Commissioners. lie then' h
like the Poor-law Commissioners were
produce papers.
The subject then dropped. that no public body
justified Company
u. soin fg to
,
The presentation cf a petition, complaining of the subst:-
tution by the London and York Railway cpa in ef
amended 4!onfract-deed for the one before the House -last
year, gave rise to a lengthened conversation, which led to
no result.
Viscount CA NNIN( moved the second reading of the Metro.
politan Buit,liugs Bill. Various amendments were now
under conside-.!ation, and it would hereafter be his duty' to
submit them 1 ri thoir Lordships in another Bill. The present
measure was i.;teuded to remedy the deficiency of the present
law, so far as it relk:ted to the jurisdiction of the registrars
and referees. The object was to appoint all additional re-
feree in additio n to the two already appointed, so as always
to secure that !the decision of the board of referees should
take place by i ; majority, and that thus the registrar should
be relieved of tthe responsibility of being called on to give a
decision on questions about which he could have no know-
ledge. This appointment would not involve any increase of
expense to the, public, but the referees were to be permitted
to practise in their private capacity as surveyors; and, in, i
case they sip fuld have to refer their own worgs to the board

the Commissioners of Woods and Forests were empowered to
appoint temporary referees, to which such cases might be re-
ferred. The salaries of these officers were to be paid out of
the consolidated fund, and the treasurers of counties were to
contribute to that fund their respective quotas.
Lord COLBORNE objected to the referees being permitted to
practise as surveyors.
After a few words from Lord CAMPBELL, the motion was
agreed to, and their Lordships adjourned.

The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'cloek.
Several Railway Bills were read a second time, and ordered
to 1.” committed,
Mr. GREENE, in moving the recommital of a Bill, took
occasion to complain of the great delay that took place info
public office in sending in their clauses to Bills, whereby
great expense and inconvenience was occasioned.
Sir GEORGE CLERK believed that such delay did not take
place in the office of the Board of Trade, and would take
care that, in future, the occurrence complained of should be
avoided in all the Government offices.
The Chichester and Bognor Railway Bill was read a second
time, and ordered to be committed, on tke motion of Mr.
ESTCOURT, who moved the suspension of the standing
order 110 for that purpose.
Mr. WILSON PATTEN called the attention of the House to
the sixth report of the Railways Classification Committee,
and moved an address to her Majesty for the appointment of
a Committee to investigate and report upon the various rail-
way projects of which the termini are proposed to be esta-
blished within, or in the immediate vicinity of the metropolis.
Sir R. PEEL doubted the propriety of the House adopting
the motion upon a mere verbal statement. He should pro-
pose the debate be adjourned to Monday, when he would
state the course her Majesty's Government would propose to
be taken.
Mr. F. Manx hoped the Government would follow the
course proposed by the Committee, and address her Majesty
to appoint a Royal Commission.
After some observations from Sir G. GREY, Sir R. INGus,
and Mr. LAROUCIIERE,
Sir R. PEEL said that notice should be given this day of
the motion intended to be made by the Government on the
subject on Monday.
After a short discussion, the debate was adjourned till
Monday.
Lord EBRUNZGTON gave notice of his intention on Tuesday
next to move for papers relative to the letting out paupers to
hire in the Honiton Union.
Mr. P. SCROPE gave notice of his intention, on Tuesday, to
move for leave to bring in a Bill for the better protection of
life and property in Ireland, by more effectually pro-
viding for the improvement of the condition of the poor
of that coantry.
Mr. MActuxxoN gave notice of his intention to move, on
Tuesday next, for leave to bring in a Bill to prevert inter-
ments in large towns.
Sir G. GREY wished to know whether it was the intention
of the Admiralty to institute any inquiry into the loss of the
Great Liverpool ?
Mr. CORRY thought it would be an objectionable precedent
to institute any such inquiry, especially after the directors of
the company had instituted an inquiry upon the subject.
Mr. P. M. STEWART, as chairman of the Committee, said
that every care had been taken to prevent accidents, and
that this was the first serious one that had occurred in the
company's service. Three nautical gentlemen connected
with the company had been appointed to inquire into the
subject.

themselves and the townspeople, and who plume them-
selves upon being sure to escape with impunity, by rea-
son of their high connexions, and the injury any parti-
cular college would receive were the gentlemen of their
importance to retire and patronise some other as yet
less favoured college—were these insurrectionary tyros
to be promptly expelled and finally excluded from par-
ticipating in the advantages (such as they are) of a uni-
versity degree—we should soon have a cessation of
those disgusting practices, anti the authorities would free
themselves from a stigma and scandal for which
they are at present so much to blame.

For the simple and candid manner in which, yesterday
evening, the Marquis of LONDONDERRY ealled the atten-
tion of Government to the helpless condition of the
Irish tenantry, he deserves every possible credit. And,
although we make some allowance for the exaggeration
with which circumstances of peculiar cruelty are usually
coloured in the course of their dissemination, we cannot
but deem the occurrence which the Noble Marquis
adduced as one demanding the strictest scrutiny. Ac-
cording to his Lordship's authority, no less than four
hundred tenants were ♦ery recently dispossessed
in the vicinity of Roscommon, and in addi-
tion to this, it was asserted that upwards
of two thousand human beings have suffered
eviction within the last two years upon the same estate.
Philosophers have not unfrequently observed that a deli-
cate and sensitive female can peruse, with scarcely a
shudder, the lists of killed and wounded, dated, together
with the bulletin, upon the battle-field ; whereas, could
each of those mangled bodies be brought under our
actual inspection, could each broken limb be seen, and
each death-groan be heard, the most callous would recoil
froth the spectacle with horror. In like manner,
their Lordships might listen with merely a casual or
evanescent pang when the voice of the Most Noble the
Marquis of LONDONDERRY informed them that four hun-
dred of their fellow-countrymen were, by this ruthless
eviction, " plunged into the greatest distress, without the
slightest means of shelter." Could they, however, be-
come cognisant of the privations to which those ousted
labourers are subjected, and behold the total abandon-
ment of so many houseless creatures, we might be
assured of an instant and strenuous effort in behalf
of the sufferers on the part of our legisla-
tive aristocracy. In speaking thus, we are far
from wishing to impute any individual or remark-
able indifference towards misery to the House of
Peers : we are merely reverting to an abstract quality
in the temperament of man ; and we do this for the pur-
pose of enforcing the necessity of interposition on the
Legislature by repetition upon repetition of the general
grievance, so as to compensate in some measure for our
incapacity to present a vivid picture of the details. By
the mere utterance of a sarcasm upon the fictions con-
tained in Irish newspapers, the Marquis of WESTMEATH
endeavoured to throw discredit upon the statement
regarding the proceedings in Roscommon. This, we
conceive, was scarcely fair. Declarations are not to be
overthrown by inuendoes, but by counter declarations.
And hence, in the present precarious position of the
multitude in Ireland, the Noble Marquis might, with
more propriety, have suppressed his doubts as to the
authenticity of the rumour until he could have con-
firmed his supposition with facts. A corroboration,
indeed, of these reports as to the continuation
of evictions transpired as recently as Saturday
at an anti-famine meeting, convened in Mal-
low. One of the victims of this cruel
system, a working farmer, addressed the assembly upon
the spread of destitution among his countrymen, stating
that he hires, if had been dispossessed by a landlord of
Annakissy, although he had duly paid up his rent to the
moment of ejection. And in answer to the inquiry of a
clergyman as to how many had been subjected to similar
treatment upon the same property during the last ten
years, he supposed from fifty to sixty families. It is
folly indeed to question the contineance of this greet
social es il among the Irish peasantry. Eviction
is persisted in, and will be persisted in, until Govern-
ment, by some stringent and comprehensive measure,
forces its cesation upon the landed proprietors. At all
times and seasons the sudden dispossession of an Irish
labourer is fraught with wretchedness. Driven from his
cabin during periods of absolute abundance, the colleen
is subjected, ipso facto, to the most bitter penury. How
much more extreme must this penury become at a moment
when the commonest description of human food is almost
entirely beyond the reach of even the most flourishing
of his class. And that this last circumstance is be-
coming more and more apparent, the most indisputable
documents are witness. "It is unnecessary for me,''
says the Mayor of Cork in a letter to Lord HEYTESBURY,
"to go into the numerous and most painful details of
the deep distress of the poor of Cork, and of its
alarming progress : " another account informs us
that typhus fever has been actually traced
to the use of diseased potatoes ; while, as if to afford a
climax to this catalogue of suffering, the Code .Reporter
mentions eve❑ the possibility of an outbreak of—
(and the writer hesitates for an instant, in the very ern-
plc)) meat of the dread word)—cholera So malignant
are the cholics produced by eating decayed vegetable mat-
ter. It is from a consideration of these occurrences, and
the prevalence of so many miseries among the population
of Ireland, that every sane individual must acknowledge
that the matter introduced last night by the Marquis of
LONDONDERRY required no apology whatever. We are
only anxious that the substance of the remarks uttered
by the Noble Marquis may not be overlooked by Go-
vernment or by our legislators generally. By remem-
bering this vile system of eviction, the measures adopted
by Parliament for the alleviation of famine and con-
tagious diseases would be conducive to the more lasting
welfare of the peasantry ; and by shielding the te-
nantry from such arbitrary acts on the part of their
landlords, Ribbonism might be soon numbered among
the bygone, the Whiteboys would be forgotten, and
Coercion Bills would be no longer applicable to the
peaceful inhabitants of Ireland.

Sir. SIDNEY HERBERT, in answer to a question from Cap-
tain LAYARD, stated that he was not prepared, without fur-
ther inquiry, to make any alterations in the circular which
had been issued, by which officers' servants, and other de-
serving and meritorious soldiers were not allowed to benefit
to the full extent of the new warrant.

The report on the Fever (Ireland) Bill was agreed to,
with certain amendments, the Bill was ordered to be en-
grossed, and read a third time this day.
Mr. ELPIIINSTONE obtained leave to bring in a Bill to
limit the duration of polls in counties at contested elections
of Members to serve in Parliament.
Mr. MoßnisoN then moved, in pursuance to notice, for a
Special Committee to inquire whether, without discouraging
legitimate enterprise, conditions might not be embodied in
railway Acts better fitted than those hitherto inserted in
them, to promote and secure the interests of the public. He
had at first intended to have gone at considerable length into
this subject. but, as he understood his motion was not to be
opposed, he would not now do so.
Mr. MANGLES, though he would not oppose the motion,
thought the French system objectionable, and the Hon.
Member for Inverness had admitted that by the course he
had adop.ed.
Mr. PARKEa thought that many of the railways ought to
be postponed for six, twelve, or eighteen months, in order
that capital might not be locked up in the way it was likely
to be.

Mr. HUDSON denied that any alarm need be entertained
with respect to the amount of money about to be expended
in railways.

Mr. LABOUCHERE thought some check ought to be put
upon the extraordinary powers that railways were exercisin,
otherwise it would be found difficult hereafter to dsal with
them.
Sir G. CLERK assented to the proposition of the lion.
Member for Inverness, and assured him that every facility
would be given by the Government to the fullest inquiry be-
fore the Committee.
Mr. HAYTER opposed the motion.
After some observations from Lord EnniNcrrox and Mr.
AGLIONBY,
Mr. ENTWISLE supported the motion. lie believed that
it was the fault of the Legislature that speculation had ex-
isted to the extent it did last year in railways, and he hoped
that the Committee, if appointed, would lay down some rules
by which legislation would be more certain and stringent
than it had hitherto been.
Mr. llumE was glad the Government had agreed to the
Committee, because he was satisfied that great good would
come out of it.

Mr. P. M. STEWART opposed the Committee. He c6nsi-
dered that the course of legislation hitherto had been any-
thing but wise and proper; but he thought such a proposi-
tion as the present ought to have come from the Govern-
ment, and not an italividual Member. If the Committee was
not constituted in a superior manner, it would do more harm
than good.

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Lord OESLEY thought there would be great advantage
derived from the appointment of the Committee.
After some observations from Sir G. GnEr,
Sir R. PEEL, on giving his consent to the Committee,
thought that some early report ought to be made, advising
Parliament as to the course it should pursue with respect to
proposed and future railways.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL thought, if the Committee was neces-
sary, it should have been proposed by the Government.
The CHANCELLOR of the ExcmcQuEn supported the Com-
mittee, and would be ready at all times, as far as lay in his
power, to aid their deliberations.

After some discussion, in which Mr. F. BARINO, Mr.
HORSMAN, and Mr. Wawm took part,
Mr. Mottnisox replied, and the motion was agreed to.
On the motion of Mr. IlumE, certain reports were ordered
with respect to the receipt and expenditure of the Post-
offices of Bengal, Madras, and Bombay.
The Burghs (Scotland) Bill went through Committee, and
was ordered to be reported on Monday.
The report on the Consolidated Fund (8,000,000/.) Bill was
received, the Bill ordered to be engrossed, and read a third
time to-morrow.
The Mutiny Bill, and the Marine Mutiny Bill, went
threugh committee.
The Fever (Ireland) Bill was read a third time and passed,
and the House adjourned.

It was but a few days since that we felt it our
painful duty to offer some commentaries upon the lax
system of guardianship exercised over the minds of the
youth who enter the Universities of Oxford and Cam-
bridge. Those remarks sprung from a consideration of
the recent trial of a doctor of divinity for the crime of
adultery, in which the jury had returned a verdict con-
firmatory of his guilt. Another disgraceful instance has
just been elicited in support of the general observations
we then made, as will be seen by referring to our
assize intelligence of yesterday, which contained a
report of a trial at Cambridge before Mr. Baron
PARKE, developing a fearful scene of riot and bloodshed,
occasioned in that town during this present month, by
what is familiarly known by the expression, " A town
md gown row." The eldest son of Sir JOHN WALSH
preferred an indictment against a policeman for a vio-
lent assault, committed during the excitement of the
scene alluded to. The jury found the charge proved,
and the prosecutor recommended a lenient sentence, as
it was only from a strong sense of public duty that he
had in that instance had recourse to a court of justice.
Nothing could be fairer than the way in which the
Learned Judge put the case to the jury in his summing
up, viz.—whether, the assault being proved, there was
evidence to show that the defendant committed it in
order to quell a riot. Every ono knows how great are
the aristocratical influences that prevail in the precincts
of the Universities, and how dependent are the trades-
men and townspeople upon yielding a pliant obedience
to the dogmatical tyranny of the members of the col-
leges, of all grades, and hence we can easily conceive
that there was the greatest difficulty on the part of this
poor and unprotected policeman in producing satisfactory
evidence to show that what he did was necessary to check
the outrageous disturbance created by the disgraceful
conflict, in which he was called upon to act as a conser-
vator of the public peace. The evidence discloses that
she "flower of our youth" had armed themselves with
weapons of a formidable description, amongst which
were pokers, one of which was produced by a police-
constable, who had been felled to the ground by it by
one of the alumni. On the other hand, testimony was
freely given by tutors and other academical gentlemen
to overwhelm the almost friendless policeman in
his attempt to prove that the circumstances of
the case justified him in striving to suppress
the riot. One thing is clear, that so long
as these annual displays of brute force (unpro-
voked as they generally are) find an arena within the
jurisdiction of the Universities, the authorities must be
held highly culpablei and most wanting in the discharge
of one of the first duties they owe to the public. To
such a pitch does this unpardonable spirit of insubordi-
nation seem to have attained, that we find one of the
tutors remonstrating with the police, and urging them
not to interfere with the youthful disturbers of the public
peace, as it was next to useless. Thus, it
would appear, that even with those, from
whose position and years we might I Jok for
better things, a species of prescriptive right is autho-
ritatively recognised for their pupils to sport with the
very lives of their fellow-countrymen whenever they
find themselves in,the humour. We call upon the heads
of the colleges, who assume the province of giving the
beg education to our future clergy, magistrates, and
members
igoroussoteps
fth eforothpreervelinbteinrg a repetition ofh
professions, to takeose d
s omise.
orderly and shocking occurrences. It is notorious that
the undergraduates sally forth for the indul-
gence of then- pugnacious propensities whenever
it is expected that a town and gown row
will take place. Were the authorities to be but
ordinarily vigilant, and to make a few salutary exam-
Pies of those scions of the nobility and aristocracy, who
are generally the foremost to court a rupture betweeu

In the account we gave yesterday of the funeral of the
Rev. J. T. GUYER, we have another painful instance of
the unfeeling and bigoted prejudice of some of the clergy
of the Established Church, which at once enlists our
warmest sympathies with the deceased, and arouses our
indignation at the conduct of the Rector of Binstead.
For twenty-eight years had Mr. GUYER exercised his
ministry in an exemplary and irreproachable manner,
beloved by all who knew him, and shared in the benefits
of his exertions. Simultaneously with the depositing
of his remains in a vault at the foot of that pul-
pit be had so long adorned, were the shops
of the neighbourhood generally closed, and every
outward token of respect paid to his memory. It was
his dying request to be deposited in the ground at Bin-
stead that contained the bodies of his children, and for
what reason was this refusal by the rector? Simply,
forsooth, because the deceased was a Dissenter, and
worshipped his CREA.TOR in the manner which in his
conscience he believed to be most proper.
Can the Church of England expect to retain any
hold of the affections of the people if this deplorable
and unchristian conduct is practised and sanctioned
by their functionaries, and what greater stimulus can
be given to the growth of Dissent if this cruel enforce-
ment of legal right is to be made at the expense of every
noble and enlarged sentiment? We rejoice to observe
that a numerous body of members of the Church of
England signed a lettetr of condolence, upon the above
circumstances, to his bereaved family, and thus marked
their opinion of the outrage that had been offered to
every feeling of humanity. Such a document carries
with it the strongest commentary upon the proceeding,
and we sincerely hope its moral will not be lost upon
the heads of the Church, whose duty it is to take the
initiative, and, by their influence and authority, to save
us for the future from the pain of any similar occur-
rence; or, if they shotad fail in this, that the circum-
stance will not escape the attention of our Legislature.

Madrid papers and letters of the 12th have arrived.
The MIR kFLORES Labint t was in a state of dissolution,
and the return of NARV.AEZ to power was anticipated
with alarm by all part ies. These pipers contain no
news whatever.

MADRID BOLSA, MA RCH 12.—The Three per Cents,
are 1 per cent lower to.-day, closing at 281 for the 31st
inst., and 2811 for the ;30th of April; 37 millions done.
The other funds are not: quoted.

The Paris papers of V iedtiesday have arrived. They
all eulogist; the speech of M. TRIERS on the previous day
in support of M. REMVS AT'S motion fur the exclusion of

the paid servants of t'tae public from the Chamber of
Deputies, as a masteirpiece of eloquence, although the
Journal des Debuts art d L'Epoque consider M. DUCHA-
TEL'S reply afforded a 'complete answer to all the reason-
ings of M. TRIERS. The latter journal says—
" The speech of M. T-biers was animated, brilliant, and
charming. It is his beet -piece of oratory, but his most de-
testable political productio u. The speech of M. Duchatel was
measured, wise, and practical. He did as much to secure
the vote of the Chamber the other did for the gratification
of the galleries. We and many others have often said that
M. niers was desirous .of again becoming Minister; but
after having heard hisspet ch of yesterday, we are convinced
he has no such thought; when a man treats the Chamber
with disdain and monarcihy with levity, it is impossible for
him to believe that he cat I over obtain the support of one, or
the confidence of the othe r."

All parties seem to agree that by this remarkable
speech M. THIERS has completely closed against him-
sels the doors of office, On this subject the National

says .—_,

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY TEr,ENING, MARCH 20,1 1546.

"We acknowledge that he spoke bold truths. TLis bold-
ness must deprive him of office for a long time to come. He
declared it himself when he uttered ti.ese words,—' I v ,11
place my vessel on the highest point of the shore, and will
wait until the approaching tide shall sot it afloat.' Let him
not labour under an illasion. When the tide rise* it will be
in stormy weather, and M. Thiers's vessel is too fragile to
resist the waves of the ocean."

The discussion on M. REMITSAT'S motion was re-
sumed by the Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday. The
proposition was rejected by a majority of 48. The num-
bers being—For the motion, 184 ; against it, 232 ;
Majority for Ministers, 48. There were 416 Deputies
present.

We extract the following from the Courrier Francais:—
" An extraordinary courier has passed threugh France for
England, from Egypt. It is said that he was sent by the
English Chargé d'Affaires at Alexandria, with the intel-
ligence that he had just obtained from the Paella the autho-
risation to carry through Egypt the reinforcemects that are
to be sent to India."

These papers contain but little news from Poland.
The latest accounts from Cracow are of the 10th. The
town was then tranquil, but nothing had bee* determined
by the protecting powers as to the course to be pursued for
the permanent maintenance of tranquillity.
We learn from Posen, the 12th, that- after having pro-
claimed martial law, a proclamation was issued declaring
that tranquillity was restored, and that the persons who
had attempted to create an insurrection, and who were in
custody, would receive the punishment decreed for such an
offence.

The Augsburg Gazette says it has learned, from a good
source, that the statement of- the Austrians having set a
price upon the heads of nobles delivered up by the peasants,
was utterly unfounded.

The Reforme gives the following account of the pro-
gress of the insurrection :

" The movement in Samogitia and its Courland is confirmed.
At Prague,' says the Augsburg Gazette, the Poles who
were studying in that city all disappeared, with the exception
of two.' A letter from Breslau, dated the 10th inst., relates
that during an engagement which took place on the frontiers
of Russia, several soldiers of Polish origin quitted theßussian
ranks and joined the insurgents. 'The Gazette of Voss con-
tains a letter, dated Kcenigeburg, the 7th inst., which an-
nounces that the Polish insurgents crossed the Prussian
frontier near Ortelsbourg, and captured 700 muskets in that
town. This fact proves that the ireurrection was making
progress in Poland."

The National states that the subscriptions received
for the Polish insurgents by the Paris journals, together
with 43 provincial journals, amou at to a sum of 88,528 f.
55c.

The Univers publishes a long reply to the note of M.
DE BOUTINIEFF on the subject o f the nuns of Minsk,
in which many of the statements of M. DE BOUTINIEFF
are absolutely denied, and others dbsignated as explana-
tions supported only by sophistry..
The accounts from Algeria state Chat ARD•EL-KADER
is retiring, but still the preparatiom of the Government
to meet unfavourable events continued.
The Ministerial crisis in Belgium still continued.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Fairil Bourse on Wednesday
at 84f. 35c. ; the Five per Cents., I 20f. 701:. ; the Orleans Railroad
shares, 1,330 f. • Rouen, 1,670 f. ; Havre, 7571'. 50e. ; Great .Northern,
793 f. 75c. ; Avignon, 9851.; Vierzen, 750 f.; Bordeaux, 6901. ; Bou-
logne,s3sf. ; 'Troyes and Itiontereau, 425 f. ; , Basle, 245 f. • Fampoux,
467 f. 50c. ; Dieppe, 475 f. ; Paris and arse burg, 543 f. '7sc. ; Tours
and Nantes, 578 f. The.; I'aris and Lyons , definitive, 621 f. 25c.;
Belgian Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 57' ; Spanish Three per
Cents., 37%

The following were the quotations 17 Jr other lines :
Lyoits and Avignon Railroad (Tal.ahot), 510 f. ; ditto (Le-
sointe), 504 f. 50e. ; ditto (Compagnie T(eildionale), 502 f. 50c. • per-
deaux and Cette (Mackenzie), 503 f. ; ditto (Espeleta), 'so9f. ;
Charleroi, 496 f. 75c.
IJSINESS DONS IN FOREIGN' ItAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOC E NGE, aan 1.
Boulogne anN O
d Amiens,K M
1 —Bonk tux, Toal souse,9 and Cette
(Mackenzie), 2—Ditto (Espelota), :—Dutch Rhenisik, 6 —East
Indian, %--great Northern et France t ;oestituted, 16—Great West-
ern Canada, 3% —Lyons and Avignon, 2—Namur and Liege, 3
Orleans and Isordeaux, 12%—Sambre and Meuse, 4—Tours and
Nantes Constituted, 7% West Flanders„3%.

THE MAIL OF THE GREAT LI VERPOOL STEAMER.—
The mails saved from the wreck ( f the Great Liverpool
steam-packet, have arrived this :tfternoon at the Ge-
neral Post-office. Many of the h Ite•rs and papers have
been destroyed by the sea-water, vent'l the remainder are
so damaged and defaced, that it cvVil be impossible to
deliver them before to-morrow.

MONEY and COMMEitCIA.L NEWS
CITY, QUARTER' To 711 REE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday amounted
to 3,000 bales, including 500 America .n for export ; 150
Marauham, at 51-“ I. to 53/id. ; 130 Egyptian, at 53,4 d. to
6,Ad.; 400 Surat, at 2%d. to 234 d. per lb. The remainder
Americans to the trade. The market wn as rather more quiet,
and prices rather easier. Shares were: heavy
We regret to hear, by accounts which have come to hand
this morning, that Captain Al‘Leod has. lestroyed himself at
Corunna. It will be recollected that. this ill fated gentle-
man was commanding officer of the Gm At Liverpool, which
recently had been totally lost. The an .ident, no doubt, has
preyed upon the mind of this gallant dicer, and led to the
fatal result above stated.
There are not any late arrivals in tin,' City from the British
Colonies this morning.
The only bargains in Consols made up to the present
hour were at 954 % for immediate tr as .sfer, and at 96% for
the Account. The premium on Excib equer.bills is on the
decline, a pretty evident proof tb at cash is getting
scarce. Some sales have been just, made of the 1,0001.
Bills at 235. premium. In Bank Stock, for the Account, a
fall has occurred from 213 -to 211. Thee .e were many of the
proprietors of the Stock of the Corpotration, who expected
that the dividend would have been. ii.Licreased yesterday at
the meeting. The report inserted in: The Sun, yesterday
afternoon, shows that no such detiermiaxation had been come
to by the Court of Directors.
N'ot half-a-dozen bargains have been made this morning*
in the Foreign Funds. Grenada Stoc k is quoted at 21:4 ;
the Deferred at 414, ' • Spanish Three per-Cents. for the Account
at 3614 ; the DutchTwo-and-a,Half per (';eats. at 5914 ; and
the Four per Cents. at 9414.
For the Railway Shares and Scrips: to a demand continues
very slack. The latest prices are annexed.
BRITI‘II FUNDS. ON E
O'CLO CR.
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities 9 s%
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. b, 1868 ..
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10%
India Bonds, 1,000/. ..
sank Stock for Account .. ••
• .. 213 211
Consols for Account •• • • .. 96%
Exchequer Bills. 13.0. 19141.
1,0001. 24 .27 23 26 23 pm. 27
5001. •• • • 28 28 — pas. 27
Ditto, Small-- •• •• 28 24 pm. 27
toNIT CLOSING
O'CLOC'K. PRICES.
2134
4,

CLOSING
PRICES.
95%

raztEraN FUNDS.
Grenada, 1 per Cent
Ditto, Deferred
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Coat
Ditto, Deferred ..
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto, 3 per Cent ..
Russian Bonds
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Deferred ..
Ditto, Three per Cent
Ditto, for the Account .• • • 716%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Ceat • • '5914
Ditto, for the Account
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates • . 9434
PAID. 2DUC tlB Sir NE
EAS TS CLOSING
PIICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.
Aberdeen.. .. 10 .... G ..... • ...
Amber., Notting., Boston, • and
Eastern Junction
..., , 1%
Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush 1% - ......
Birmingham and Gloucester.. 100 In
.• 126
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2
.... .....
Bridgewater and Minehead .. 425.
.... dis I dis.
Buckinghamshire.. • . 425. .... :34 dis 34 die
Caledonian .. • . .. 10 .... 10% 10 14
Ditto, Half Shares . 2% ........ 234
Ditto, Extension .. 234 .... 134
Chester and Holyhead .. 20 .... 30 19% .... • • 19
Cork and Waterford
.. 1;4 . . . .
34
Direct Manchester (Remington's) 2%. 1 I
Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) ..
... %
.• .
Direct Northern 234 2.... . 2
Eastern Counties . 141. 165••.,. 20% % ..... . 20%
Ditto New .. • • . 81. 16s. - • •
Do. Perpet., per Cent. No. 1.61. 13s. 4d. 34 • p p
p
Ditto, ditto, .. •.. No. 2. 61. 13s. 4d. p.. •• •• % Ditto, York Extension .. 10s. ...... .1 IA .. • • 114
East Lincolnshire .. • • . 1% 6 134
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 .... 72% 73 73
Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester .. 1% 1%
Grand Union (Nottingh. & Lynn) 1% ..... % ..
Great Eastern and Western .. 234 - i •
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 15 .... 1632 17 .. 16%
Great North of England . -100 .
Ditto, New . 1434 13% 14% 141%
Great Western .. 85 -
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 5 .... 165
Hull and Selby .. SO • - -
Ditto, Half Shares .. • • • • 7 .... 2532-14
Lancaster and Carlisle .. 35 5134 52
Leeds and Carlisle .. 2% 54
Leicester and Bedford 22s. % dls.• • • • • • d 3
Liverpool and Leeds Direct
London an i Birmingham . lOO 219 217 218.... 218
Ditto Thirds ..
London and Blackwell .. 161. 13 ft. 4d. 8% • • ........ 814
London and Brighton .. * 50 62% 63 .... • • 63
Ditto, ConsoL Eighths ..
Ditto ditto Fifths .. .: 20 .... 28% .. .
London and Croydon .. 131. 12s. 9d. 21
Ditto, Guarant. Five per Cent. 9 .... - .........
London and south-Wes'ern .
41/. 6a. 10d. 76 ..........
Dttto, New Consol. Eighths
Ditto, New . .• • •
London and York .. • 21,1 3%.
London, Warwick, & Eiddermins.
Lynn and Dereham 10 8
Manchester and Leeds .. .• 82 - ... -
Ditto, Ilalf Shares .. . •
Ditto Extension • • 423....... p......„ p
Manchester and Birmingham
Ditto, Quarter Shares (A) •• 4 .... 11% 34 . . 1134
Ditto, Quarter Shares (B) • • 2 .... 91% .. • . ......
Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) 1..•• 7% • ••• • • • 7%
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. - •
.. 1% P
Manchester and Southampton 2 - .......... 1%
Midland .. • • • • -100 ....145% 145. 144%
Ditto, New .. 18 _ 30 30%
Newcastle and Darlington Junet. 25 .... 43 .... •• .. 43
Ditto, Now . • • • . 1 .... 9% • .....
Ditto, New, Brandling 20
.... 36 54 36 ...... 36
Newcastle and Berwick .. 10 _ 18% • .... 18 ;4
Newcastle and Carlisle •..100 -.• • • • ..... 115%
North British .. .••• .. 20 ... - •. . • 25%
Ditto, Half Shares .. .• •. 6 ..., .•••.• • • • . 834
North Staffordshire .. • • • • 425. .... 3% %I 4 p 3% p
Norwich and Brandon . • .. 18 .... 23 22% .. 2214
Perth and Inverness • • . • • • 234,.., 134 132
Rugby and Huntingdon .. 2 -
Scottish Central .. .. • .. 10 .... 16 15% ...... 15%
South Midland .. •• .. 425. .... 1 p • • 1 p
South and Midlands Junction .. 425..... 1 dis. ..... 1 dis
South Eastern and Dovor .. • • 33% . ,
36
Do., New (do. 331. 68.8 d.) No. 2. 10 .. . • 11% . • ..... 11%
lie., New (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 234 .... 2% •
Tean and Dove Valley.. .. • . 1%
Trent Valley and Holyhead June. 2% 1% ..
Vale of Neath .. • • 2
„..
Waterfd., Wexfd., Wick., & Dub. 1% ...„ %
Wexford, Waterford; & Valenta 1% ••.....
West Riding Union •• • . 425. .... 2% p. • • 2% p
Yarmouth and Norwich .. .. 20 .. .. 25 _ • •.. 25
York and Lancaster .. .••• 2% . • 114 •• • • I
York awl North Midland .. • . tO
Ditto, Ralf Shares .. • • 25 .... • •
Do. E. and W. Riding Exton. I 934% •• ,
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens .. .• .. 10 .... 10% ..
Bord., Tout., & Cette (Mackenzie) 2
Ditto, ditto (Espciete)
.. 2 ..
Central of Spain .. 9
Dutch Rhenish , „
East Indian .. 52.
Grt. North. of France Constituted 5 .... 16
Treat Western Canada .. - . ....
.
Louvain and Jemeppe _ 4 ..
Luxembourg .. .. 4 -
.... 94 . •
. .
Namur and Liege
.. 4 .... . • •

PRICES OF
RAILWAY SHARES.

10~

5914
59%
94%

28
21%
9%
76
42j