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LONBON, THURSDAY, FE (WARY 26, 1846.

'he Lords did not sit yesterday.

The Commons met at Twelve o'clock.

heard the whole of Mr. FERRAND'S oration (we wish him
joy of his friend), and was for some time in earnest conversa-
tion with Mr. MILES and Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN. We
suppose Mr. O'BRIEN's manifesto about the Irish Church
was the fruit of this deliberation with his chief. The pro-
tectionists are determined to show them that their faculties
can embrace all the great questions of state—church as well
as corn. We still think that a Protectionist Government
will be a fuses rei publicee.

We return to the case of BRIAN SEERY to observe that
Sir JAMES GRAHAM signally failed in his attempt to find
precedents for his execution, after conviction by a second
jury impannelled at the same assizes, the first having been
discharged because they could not agree. In the first case
which he mentioned—the trial before Mr. Justice LAWRENCE,
in 1794—the first jury was discharged, not from being unable
to agree as to the verdict, but owing to the illness
of one of the jurors, before the judge had summed up,
and before, therefore, the jury had begun to consider their
verdict. In this case, then, the trial had to begin de novo,
before it had gone so far as to raise any presumption in
favour of the prisoner from a difference of opinion among the
jury, or to render it possible that the administration of justice
shouldincur a suspicion of harshness by the impanelling of the
second jury. In the second case mentioned by Sir J. GRAHAM,
the second trial, as Mr. O'Commu, pointed out, was not at the
same, but at the next assizes, which makes a very important
difference ; and there is a further important difference, that
the second jury acquitted the prisoner, so that the question
of the propriety of execution, after one jury bad been dis-
charged because unable to agree, did not and could not arise.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM said that the difference of result did not
affect the principle involved in the case, and that the prin-
ciple consisted in the second trial. But here we take leave

to differ from him. The question which Mr. O'CoNNELL
asked was (and he had given soma days' notice of
the question) " Whether there be any instance
in England for the last century of any person
being tried for any capital felony, by a second
jury, after the first jury was discharged by the Court, at the
some session or assizes, and convicted and executed." It is
the carrying into effect the extreme sentence of the law,
after the discharge of one jury, that is the gravamen of
BIZIANEny's case. Let alone the extraordinary circum-
stance of the second trial taking place at the same assizes,
the mode in which the first trial terminated should have
procured a commutation of the capital punishment. We are
glad to observe that Mr. O'CoxNELL has given notice of a
"Bill to amend the criminal law in Ireland, by enacting that
in future no person shall be tried on any indictment for
felony a second time at the same session or assizes, after
having been tried by a former jury at the same session or
assizes, and that jury having been discharged by the judge."

responsibility of most extraordinary importance—the re-
sponsibility of so far expediting the present discussion
as to afford speedy assistance to four millions of
supplicants, as welleas to incorporate a just and enlightened
commercial policy for ever and for ever with the con-
stitution of Great Britain. As one of the most intolerable I
amongst a vast number of intolerable impediments to the
accomplishment of this great measure, the harangue of the
Member for Knaresborow,h was a grievous nuisance
to the question under debate, to the House of Com-
mons, to the Speaker individually, and to the
country at large. And it was thus intolerable because of its
being nothing whatever to the purpose, because of its uncon-
scionable duration, because of its unhealthy venom, and par-
ticularly because (as already stated) of its numerous and
utterly irrelevant personalities. It was in fact built up almost
entirely of personalities, and occasionally of personalities of
the very meanest description, namely, during the absence of
the parties vilified. In this respect we may mention
his allusions to the Hon. Member for Durham. What ren-
ders each of these singular malignities as delivered by Mr.
FERRAND doubly impertinent and doubly contemptible is the
very baldness of his assertions. He gives utterance to a series
of the most prodigious and incredible statements—statements
so completely out of the range of credence, so imprebable,
so impossible in themselves, as to have prevented any
one else from whispering them in the walls of Parliament.
And, notwithstanding their very desperate character, he
vouches for their truth by—what ? Why by his personal
authority ; or, to employ his own favourite expression, he is
always "prepared to prove them." There is invariably some
fictitious evidence—(never divulged !)—in the background.
Thus Mr. FERRAND was "prepared to prove" that all
the signatures affixed to free-trade petitions by workmen
were written on compulsion—but he didn't ! Thus Mr.
FERRAND was "prepared to prove" that in the petition pre-
sented by Lord MORPETII from his constituents in the West
Riding of Yorkshire one man had actually penned no less
than fourteen thousand autographs—but he didn't ! Thus
Mr. FERRAWD was "prepared to prove" that the hosiers of this
country, though protected by a duty of 20 percent., could not
successfully compete with the Saxony manufacturers—but,
again, he didn't ! Such ;incessant and extensive draughts
upon our credulity are surely sufficient to exhaust all our re-
sources of belief; and in the end render our faith bankrupt.
As for refinement of style also, the Member for Knares-
borough is quite an oratorical CHESTERFIELD ; his epi-
thets are so daintily selected, his language is so
choice and delicate. He talks of " humbugging,"
and " thimble-rigging," and " gammoning," and "putting
farmers on their backs," and " sticking to agriculture," with
as much fluency as that with which EDMUND BURKE de-
livered his impassioned and superb perorations. But in Mr.
BUSFEILD FERRAND we detect something of the Alderman
CUTE school : the anxiety to appear familiarised with the
habits and condition of the people by employing
innumerable cant phrases. But the Hon. Gentleman's self-
sufficiency is not retarded by any consideration as to the
very false and questionable position in which he stands
before the assembly of Commons. Hence, in one portion of
his address he actually has the coolness—the consummate
coolness—to speak as follows :—" It would suffice for him to
pledge his word to the House that ever since
machinery had been introduced into this country,
for the purpose of manufacturing goods, the wages of the
working people.had been gradually falling." " It would suffice
for him to pledge his word to the House !! ' What a very
miserable estimate the Member for Knaresberough must have
of the discrimination and memory of the representatives.
ADDISON tells us of his friend, Sir ROGER DE COVERLET,
inflicting a severe punishment upon a certain BULLY Daw-
sox. Would that we could resuscitate the shade of Sir
ROGER, and introduce him to the Parliament House.

Forcibly as the Government officials have spoken upon the
amentable dearth in food of every description with which
the inhabitants of Ireland are afflicted, their disclosures fall
infinitely short of the reality. Their attention has, for very
natural and ostensible reasons, been directed mainly to an
investigation of the aggregate calamity : in the outset of their
labours an eye was judiciously kept upon the gross defi-
ciency. For all practical purposes, this was undoubtedly the
most laudable course to pursue ; it was indeed the most
rational course to pursue : for, by plunging at once
into the detailed destitution of each individual
district, much time would have been swallowed
up in calculations of superfluous minuteness. An
immediate knowledge of the general wants which had to be
supplied would be delayed by such over scrutiny—relief would
have been hampered by this elaboration of fact—woes would
have accumulated while the very preliminary measures were
being arranged by which that accumulation should have
been averted. What, however, the Government agents were
prevented from accomplishing by the actual responsibility of
their office, namely, disclosures of the separate privations
undergone in the hamlets of each parish, in the streets of
each hamlet, and in the cottages of each street, are now being
given by parties most competent to affordus a just insight into
the veritable condition of the Irish peasantry. The parties
of whom we thus make mention are the respectable residents
in the different rural districts of our sister island. From
the reports which these gentlemen are severally forwarding
to the Executive authorities, the awful and growing destitu-
tion of those unhappy people are becoming each day more
and more recognisable, more and more appreciable, more
and more fearful in every possible respect. The accounts
given in those documents are, indeed, heartrending to the
very last degree. We have, in the abstract, a most rooted
antipathy to anything like a panic to serve party purposes
—such a panic, for example, as the protectionists have raised
of late respecting the " destruction of British agriculture :"
we regard any faction which would resort to instruments so
pernicious as that of raising false alarms for the
purpose of insuring their own advancement, as in-
finitely culpable, and infinitely worthy of reprobation.
Any man, however, who would stigmatise the pre-
sent cry about starvation in Ireland as one of this
party character, or as false and erroneous to the extent Of
one single tittle, must either be entirely devoid of common
sense or cruelly callous to the suffering of his fellow- crea-
tures. Whatever statements have already been made re-
specting the lack of common nourishment among
four millions of the Irish populace are only
glimpses, are only fragments, are only scanty
indications of the dark and agonising substratum of evil.
Far from -any exaggeration having been resorted to with
he intention of exciting an undue amount of sympathy,
each packet, as it traverses St. George's Channel, is the
bearer of some new and still more harrowing description
than the one conveyed by its predecessor. Is there any
misrepresentation in our previous accounts of this national
famine ? Let the " figures" given in the Cork Examiner cf
the 23d instant be the rebuttal of such an insinuation. From
those figures it appears that potatoes—(the staple commodity
of the peasantry be it ever remembered)—that potatoes in
the Cork market are now of nearly double the price, and
little better than half the quantity of the corresponding
season twelve months back. In other words, that
in February 1845, there were 424 weights (each
of 201b5.), the highest price of which was five-
pence-halfpenny ; while, in February, 1846, there are merely
230 weights, selling absolutely at ten pence. That brief cal-
culation is a corroboration more forcible and more indubitable
than the most impassioned language could ever be. As a
corroboration of this corroboration, however, let us
for a moment turn to the report recently forwarded
to the Commissioners of Public Works by the Com-
mittee of Relief " deputed to investigate the condition of the
people in Kilkee, County Clare." As some guarantee as to
the authenticity of this report, and as an evidence that im-
plicit reliance may be placed upon its declarations, we may
mention that the individuals who joined in this charitable
labour of investigation were the Rev. James MARTIN, rector,
and the Rev. MICHAEL. COMYS, parish priest. From that
most temperate and plain-spoken document, it appears that
"one hundred and sixty householders (in Kilkee), with their
families, amounting to nine hundred and seventy-two indi-
viduals are in a state of abject poverty and nearly deprived of
all earthy means of subsistence—the present supply of
potatoes available not amounting to more than live-
hundred and sixty stone or six barrels !" And afterwards
that it is the most "solemn conviction" of those two re-
verend gentlemen that " even that residue of the potatoes was
scarcely fit for human 'use, and, from its limited supply,
totally inadequate to satisfy the cravings of hunger." Besides
this, we are informed by an eye-`t itness—one who
has himself visited that region of miserable desti-
tution, that the people in their their wan and hag-
gard looks give indications of the famine which
is thus divulged ; that they are living testimonies of those
six barrels of potatoes for the sustenance of nine hundred and
seventy-taco human beings ; that the stench of those very
vegetables is insupportable beyond description from their
diseased condition ; that the cheeks, the lips, the eyes,
the stark hands themselves of those unfortunate crea-
tures are alone vouchers for the truth of the
two clergymen ; that the livers of the fowls that
have been nourished on that dreadful fare have been found
after death quite rotten ; and that in the hovels, in the
features, in the silent despair and quiet desolation of Kilkee,
may be perceived the progress already made by dearth of
wholesome food. If such be the condition of the Clare
peasantry in February, what will it be one month, two
months, or three months hence, if no measures are adopted to
make up the deficiency : to afford labour and in recom-
pense of labour sustenance, and that sustenance moreover
cheap? That there is an absolute necessity for some ame-
liorative effort being made in behalf of Ireland ie alie:Lted
by all reasonable persons without distinctice-
-e of political or
religious creed. Hence it we:, that his Grace the
Duke of RICHMOND "_'..pressed his readiness to for-
ward by his ",.cquiescence any proposition for the
employmn't of the Irish population. Hence also
arLes our principal anxiety to witness the immediate close
of the present discussion; as until then no arrangements
adequate to the emergency can be made by Parliament to
stay the rapid and sullen advances of famine the most dire,
and disease the most contagious. With this doom threaten-
ing so many thousands of our fellow-countrymen, Govern_
temporary went will not assuredly be tardy in propounding some
panaceaanacea for the great social malady. Let the Ministry and
their
supporters strive to meet the exigencies of the ocea-
sloe, and the
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We regret to find (and our regret will be shared by every
free-trader throughout the country), that the Duke of NEW-
CASTLE'S unconstitutional influence has prevailed in South
Nottinghamshire, and that his son, Lord LINCOLN, has been
defeated in the well-fought contest by a majority of about
690. The total number polled was 2,780, the consti-
taency, according to the last returns being 3,614; so that
a fair proportion of voters had recorded their sentiments,
or more properly speaking, as regards the majority, the
sentiments of the Noble Duke. Sir R. PEEL has thus been
deprived of the services of another official assistant in the
House of Commons, and the defeats of Lord
LINCOLN and Captain Rous, though proceed-
ing from different causes, produce nearly the
same effect. They weaken the power of the Minister and
encourage the protectionists to continue their opposition by
foul means as well as fair, and obstruct the accomplishment
of measures of the very first importance to all
classes. Unfortunately the landlords, and some of
their retainers, cannot yet discover this, but they
will in time. Sir ROBERT PEEL'S plans are too well laid and
too sound to be defeated by a faction in opposition to all the
rest of the community, and in a very few years after the new
tariff has come into full operation we reckon to a certainty
that the farmers will be the loudest in its praise.

Madrid journals of the 18th have been received. The
Ministry appear to be acquiring more strength in public
estimation from openly avowing the constitutional principles
on which they propose to act, and from a determination to
continue the financial policy of Senor Mox, which has done
much to improve public credit. "We learn," says the Castel.
lano, "that the new Minister of Finance will adopt a sys-
tem of publicity in all his operations. The receipts
and expenses of last 3 ear are about to be published,
and they will henceforth be published every month, so that
the Cortes and the country will be acquainted with the real
situation of the Treasury. M. PExA v AGUAYO will omit
nothing to establish a balance between the Active and Pas-
sive of the Treasury."

Accounts from Corunna state that Don HENRY had re-
signed the command of the corvette Villa de Bilboa ; and
one of the Opposition papers adds, that the persecuted
INFANTE had arrived at Santiago in the public diligence on
the 12th, amidst the cheers of the inhabitants.

The Three per Cents. closed at 3234 for cash and at 60
days, and the Five per Cents. at 231/s at 60 days.

A brief, but important discussion took place in the French
Chamber of Deputies, on a motion relative to the octroi
duties on cattle, and this led to remarks on the impolicy of
imposing heavy import duties on the necessaries of life. The
movement in England has manifestly extended to France,
and we despair not of seeing Sir ROBERT PEEL'S commercial
policy adopted in a few years by that country. The Minister
of Commerce, in adverting to the high price of butchers'
meat, said, every proposition tending to diminish the duties
and lower its price ought to be received with favour.
M. DE LAMARTINE considered that the food of the people ought
not to be left at the mercy of self-named protectors ; and, ad-
verting to a remark of M. BERRTER, who belongs to that
expiring class, the protectionists, he added, "M. BERRYER'S
was the opinion, not of the poorer agricultural population,
but of the rich proprietors, whose first object was to secure
a high price for their produce, without any attention being
paid to the difficulties and straits of the working classes.
Notwithstanding the efforts made by the protectionist party,
it would be found necessary sooner or later to satisfy the
legitimate demands of the people, and take off those burdens
which now bore so heavily on them, for the advantage of the
rich." He then referred to the declaration of Sir ROBERT
PEEL, in the House of Commons, that in France the popula-
tion had increased in a far greater proportion than the cattle
of the country, and that, consequently, she required a cer-
tain quantity to be imported each year, which caused the
present dearness of meat. The Hon. Deputy, after dwelling
on the necessity of removing as much, and as soon as
possible, all protecting duties, concluded by declaring that
the whole discussion might be summed up by these words :
—" Let us vote cheap food for the people." These noble
sentiments appeared to produce much sensation, and were
loudly cheered by a considerable poi tion of the Chamber. A
protectionist Member of the name of Tx" said the Hon. De-
puty, seemed to allow that the proposition chiefly was good,
inasmuch as it prepared the way for other reductions, so as
to eventually suppress all prohibitive duties on foreign
cattle. M. DT LADIARITNE replied, "he was far from de-
manding the immediate abolition of the prohibition alluded
to ; he knew that in such matters it was necessary to -•
ceed by gradations; but the general tenct,..!ey ought to be
to establish an equilibrium between tl,-•
tries, and to break down the -e products of all coun-
tion's profiting h" '•
uarriers which opposed one na-
, • Lne advantages which the soil conferred
onan° .1...er." The Journal des De. bats contains the following
very striking statistical detals respecting the Wing off in
the consumption of butchers' meat in Prance:—

Several railway Bills were read a second time.
'the second reading of the Roman Catholic Relief
Bill was postponed after a short conversation in reference
to Lord LINcoLN's recent declaraticens on the subject of
the Irish policy, in which Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN, Sir
JAMES RAHAM, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, Mr. O'CONNELL,
and M. P. HOWARD took part.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM then alluded to the ease of SEERY,
and said that he had received a communication from the
Lord Lieutenant, stating that a deputation, which had
called upon him to represent the lawless state of the
county of Roscommon, had certainly stated incidentally
that any lenity shown to SEEAY would tend to keep
alive a spirit of insubordination, but that he had not
been influenced in his determination by their represen-
tations.

" There is one fad which rules over the debate opened yesterday
on the entrance ditties to be paid upon cattle brought into cities and
towns—the consumption of meat in France has been diminishing for
more than 50 years. The following are the incredible results of a re-
port published by the Minister of Commerce in 1842:—1n 1830, the
people of France consumed 394,000,000 kilogrammes of meat, or,
upon the average, 12 1-3 d kilos for each individual. In 1840 the
consumption fell to 370,000,000 kilos., which, taking into account the
difference of the amount of population, gave 11 kilos a head. Thus,
in the short space of ten years, the annual consumption of meat in
France was reduced by 83,000,000 kilos., and that per head by eleven
per cent. It it true that the correctness of this official publication
has been diSputed : but what cannot be reasonably questioned is the
perfect accuracy of the accounts of the entrance duties of
Paris. These are very ancient. The walls Of Paris were
raised prier to the revolution, and the vigilance observed at
the gates is well known. It results from these accounts that the
quantity of butcher's meat consumed in Paris in 1789, when the po-
pulation was 600,000, amounted to 52,000,000 kilos. ; and that in
1839, when the population was increased to 900,000, the consumption
was only 59,000,000 kilos. If the calculation per head be made upon
this, it will be found that in 1789 a citizen of Paris ate, upon the
average, 74 kilos. of meat, and that in 1839 this consumption fell to
48 kilos. per head. What does this tell ? Before the ReVolution did
the people live in abundance?—did they gorge themselves with the
necessaries of life ?—did they enjoy an excess of the good things of
this world? Alas I Retire the Revolution the people did net And
themselves in this happy condition, It has been singularly ame-
liorated since this great and memorable reformation—this is a
truth of which we have ample evidence. One thing is certain,
that in one essential article of food—that of meat—it is less
fortunate, and has a much more scanty supply than before the
reti
Revolution. It is sad to say—but it is not the less true—
the people of France have not meat enough to eat to supply their
wants. This fact alone deserves all the serious consideration and
and more unveiled, when all the consequences it brings with it
aree
man:rious solicitude of our statesmen. Its deplorable gravity becomes
ected upon. A want ofsubstantlal nourishment engenders a race
of puny degenerat beimnags, and thus nations have become impoverished
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quiekly as possible with meat in greater abundance, and at a lower
price."
The Canstitutionnel says :—" M. Guizot formally declared on Mon-
day that the Government had abandoned all idea of the expedition
against Madagascar. The garrison of Bourbon and Mayotte 17111

PRICES OF
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Amber., Notting., Boston and

Mr. O'CoNNELL gave notice of a motion for
m
Ireland the two additional members of „;,_:vin to
"udb g ury
had been deprived.
The Friendly Societies' Bill was, after a short dis_
cussiou, read a second time, and the House adjourned.

We suspect that Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN has got hold of a
mare's nest, in Mr. EVELYN DENISON'S account of Lord
LINCOLN'S views on Irish Church and State affairs. First of
all, Mr. DENISON'S account is singularly vague and indistinct;
and secondly, Mr. DENISON has always been looked upon as
A VOW timid Irish Church reformer among his own party.
Mr. EVELYN DENISON is brother of the Bishop of SALISBURY.
When Lord STANLEY and Sir JAMES GRAHAM left
the Whig Government in 1834, on the appropria-
tion clause, and Sir ROBERT PEEL got possession
of office for a few months in 1834-5, Mr. EVELYN
IsissoN followed Lord STAWLEY and Sir J. GRAHAM.
Therefore Lord LINCOLN may have satisfied Mr. E. Durcrsos
by his views on the Irish Church, without its being a
sequitur that he is prepared fo destroy it. But these protec-
tionists know not what they would be at. What makes them
most sore is the universal assent to what has so often been
asserted lately—the ludicrousness of the protectionists
attempting to form a Government. This it is which has
made them keep up a three weeks' debate, in which
every middle-aged squire is bidding against the
others for the post of leader of the Commons under
the RICNMOND Government, and every beardless scion of a
ctical house establishing his claim to some of the loaves and
fishes which the Duke of RicirmoND expects to distribute.
On Tuesday night the Duke of RICIIMONb was in the Peers'
seats in the House of Commons for a csesiderable time; he

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FmEonßreANobnse, ectuag the speech delivered
unfortunately. obliged to
make; but these observations have exclusive iiiteclizve reference to the
As st to addressing
other representatives in the Lower
a single word of deprecation or remonstrance tthrseulbliember
for Knaresborough himself—we would as
selves to reason a current of brawling ditch-water into
oitunhtros.
quietude. Our remarks are alone directed
Honourable Gentlemen who were on Tuesday evening
pelted with his unwholesome and unblushing
personalities. We would express a hope that no feeling of
very natural irritability at the indignities of language, the
scurrilous inuendos, the unconstrained imputations, and in-
solent attacks with which their nEunes were severally accom-
panied, will induce them to condescend a reply even to the
length of one syllable. They may remain perfectly assured
(as no doubt their sober senses will show them)
that such manifest bitterness of heart agd such
bilious impertinence of tongue, are utterly unworthy
of a rebuttal. On a subject of such singular insignificance,
and of such painful abandonment of propriety, we can
scarcely do more than endeavour to enforce the necessity of
its being utterly disregarded (as we are fain to suppose it
must be) by those legislators whose time is forestAlled by a

THE SUN, LONDON, TRURSDAT EVENING, PEDRVAII,I
_26 1816.

merely be reinforced. The Minister of Foreign Affairs added, that
the English would not act any more than ourselves against the
Novas."
The Committee of the Extreme Gauche of the Chamber of Depu- '
ties has lust sent a circular to all its agents in the departments, ap-
prising them of the probability of a general election at an early
period, and urging them to exertion.
The Marseilles journals announce the arrival there of a vessel from
Algiers, with accounts of the 18th, but the information that they
communicate is without importance. Nothing new of a positive na-
ture was known as to the movements of Abd-el-Kader.
The Three per Cents. closed at 84f. 83c. ; the New Loan, at 84f.
50c. ; the Five per Cents., 123 f. 45e. ; the Orleans Railroad shares,
1,330 f.; Rosen, 1,057 f. 5c.; Havre, 750 f. ; Great Northern, 778 f. 75c. ;
Avignon, 1,020 f. ; Vierzon, 735 f. ; Bordeaux, 655 f. ; Basle, 252 f.
50e. ; Fampoux, 480 f. ; Dieppe, 480 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 556 f.
50c. ' • Tours and Nantes, 591 f. 25c. ; Paris and Lyons, 630 f. ; Spa-
nish Three per Cents., 38% ; Ditto, Domestic Debt, 32% ; Spanish
Passives, 6%.
The following are the quotations for other lines
Lyons and Avignon (Talabot), 110 f. 50c. ; ditto (Lecointe) 505 f.
50c.; ditto (Compagnie Aleridionale), 502 f. ; ditto (Definitives),
572 f. 50e.; Bordeaux and Cette (Mackenzie), 804 f. ; ditto (Espeleta),
510 f. 50c.; Ckarleroi, 500 f.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEL 25.
Boulogne and Amiens, 1134—Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette (Es-
pelota), 21,4 —Dendre Valley, % —Dutch Rhenish, 6•X—East Indian,
I—Great Northern of France Constituted, 11%—Great Indian
Peninsular, —ltalian and Austrian, 1% —Lyons and Avignon, 2
—Luxembourg, 2% —Madrid and Valentia, I—Namur and Liege,
3—Orleans and Vierzon, 18 —Orleans and Bordeaux, 11%—Paris and
Orleans, 51—Paris and Rouen, 40N.

Lord Ingestre, in his speech on Tuesday night in
opposition to the Government measures, stated that "he
was sprung from an ancient root ;" this is a polite way of
calling his father "an old turnip." Now, although Lord
Ingestre and his father, Earl Talbot, hold opposite opinions
on this question, he might have treated his parent with a
little more respect. During the whole of the contest in South
Nottinghamshire no such disrespectful allusion to the Duke
of Newcastle was made by the Earl of Lincoln.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO TNREE.
The sales of Cotton ativerpool yesterday were 6,000 bales, in-
cluding 500 on speculation, and 500 for export. The market was
rather flat. American sold at 3%d. to sd; Egyptian at 5%d. to B%d. ;
Surat at 2%c1. to 31%d. ; and Pernamat 5%d. Shares were dull.
Messrs. Lamond's sale of Railway Shares was well attended, but
prices ruled very low, and exhibited no improvement, although more
purchases were made. Irish. North Midland, 145.-Churnet and
Blythe, 11. lls. 6d.-Great Grimsby, Louth and Horncastle, 11.75. 6d.
-Leeds and Carlisle, 11. 175. 6d.-Peterborough and Nottingham,
9s. 6d.-Ipswich, Norwich, and Yarmouth, I/. 6s. 6d.-Wexford,
Waterford, and Valencia, 1/. 4s. 6d.-Rugby and Huntingdon, 11. ss.
-Louvain and Jemappe, 21.-Leeds and Carlisle, I/. 165.-Jamaica
Junction, 31.-Jamaica South Midland, 3L-Triag, Reading, and
Basingtoke, 21. Bs.-Buckinghamshire, 21. 4a. 6d.-Paris and Orleans,
501.-North Staffordshire, Churnet and Potteries, 51. 175.-Real del
Monte Mining (Unregistered), 3/. 102.-South Midland, 41. bs.
Irish Great Western (Dublin to Galway), V.-Direct Northern, 21. 13s.
A most anxious desire is expressed in the City for the termination
of the debate upon the cern-laws-commercial operations will con-
tinue at a stand still until the whole matter is settled. In the various
docks on each side of the river Thames, an immensity of all sorts of
produce awaits but the fiat of Parliament, to be taken immediately
the tariff is settled, for home consumption.
Accounts, of Dec. 27, from the Cape of Good Hope, state that the
Natal district was still being thinned by emigration, but that the new
Lieutenant-Governor was expected to take measures that would
satisfy all parties, and protect the farmers who remained behind.
A considerable amount of business has been transacted in the
Public Securities this morning. This is the settling day in Consols,
and a vast amount of business has been transacted. Consols for
Money have advanced from 95% % to 9614, and for the next Account
from 96 to 96%. The continuation therefore shows that an opinion
is entertained that prices will further advance. For temporary pur-
poses cash has been in demand, and sales of Exchequer-bills, early in
the morning, reduced the premium to 358., but since a rise has taken
place to 38s. India Stock has advanced to 261, and Bank Stock to
209%. The Government brokers have bought largely to-day.
In the Foreign Stocks the business done has been very trifling..
Colombian ex Venezuelian have Improved to 52 ; Grenada to 23.
Mexican are worth 31% ; Peruvian, 38 ; Portuguese Four per Cents.,
58% ; Spanish Five per Cents., 27% ; land the Dutch Four per
Cents., 955/8 ,
The Birmingham and Gloucester Shares have been in request at
25 premium ; the Edinburgh and Glasgow at 22 premium ; the
Great Western have improved to 67 premium, and most of the other
Shares have a firm aspect.
BRITISH FUNDS.

ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock .. 209% 208% 209% 209%
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 9614 96%
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .. 96 95% 96% 96 96%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anne. 98% 98 98% IA 98%
Long Annuities, Expire .Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10 9-16 11-16 10 1146
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1849 .. 10 7-16 10 7-16
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. • • - 10%
India Stock .. .-
India Bonds, 1,0001. ..
Ditto, under 1,0001. .. .
South Sea Stock ..

.. .. .. 259 261

Ditto, New Annuities .. .. • • 95U
Consols for Account, April 26 .. .. .. 96%%
Exchequer Bills. llid. I%cl
'
1,0001. .. ..
5001. .. ..
Ditto, Small
Ditto, Advertised

35 38 - -- pm.
35 38 - - pm.
35 38 - - pm.
37 33 - - pm.
ONE
O'CLOCK.
.. 51% 52
23

FOREIGN FUNDS.
Columbian Bonds ..
Grenada, 1 per Cent .. ..
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent .. 31
Ditto, for the Account .. 31%
Ditto, Deferred .. 16%
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent. .. 38
Portuguese Four per Cents .. 5834
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 27 IA
Ditto, for the Account ..
Ditto, Passive Bonds • • . • • •
Ditto, Deferred • • • •
Ditto, Three per Cent .. ..
Dividends on the above payable in Landon.
Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent ..
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates

.. 59%% 59%
.. 95%% 95%
BUSINESS CLOSING
PAID. DONE AT PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.

Eastern Junction 2%.... 2% . ..... •
Birmingh am and Gloucester.. .. 100 .. 125 . .....
Bridgewater and Minehead .. 425. .... . • •
Bristol and Exeter .. .. 'lO 85 ........
Buckinghamshire 425. .... par .... •• ..
Caledonian , 10 .... 13% %.. •
Ditto, Extension 2% 3%
Chester and Holyhead .. .. •• 20 .... 21 •••.. •• 21
Direct Northern • • • 2% .... 2%% .• 214
Dublin and Galway • • • • • • 4 • • 43% 3%
Eastern Counties .. 141. 16s. .... 21%
Ditto New .. • • • •
Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61 13s. 4d.
Ditto, ditto, .. .. No. 2. 61. 13s. 4d. % p
Eastern Union . • • • • • •• 25 ••..
Do. Extension to Norwich .. 2%
Edinburgh and Glasgow • • • • 50 .... 70 72
Edinburgh and Perth • •
Exeter,, Yeovil, lorneoevasilt,., and h
and Dorchester
ter
&c..
Go.
Grand Union (Nottingh. & Lynn) 1% 114
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 15 .. • . 20%
Dilto, Extension • • • • •• 15 •• • • 19%
Great North of England . —lOO
••••••••••
Ditto, New .. . • • • • • • 1% •• •• 14%14
Great Western • • • • • • •• 85 •• • .152
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. • . 50 .t . • 8434 83
Ditto, Quarter Shares • • • . 5 17
Ditto, Fifths . .. 20 .... 34
Hull and Selby • • • • • • •• 50 • • —lO6
Ditto, Half ,hares •
h North •••••7 • • • . 26
Ipswich,ris
l‘
Norwich,t;d
Leicester and Birmingham 225.
% dis . dis
Lee
cc
ee
ss
tt
ee
rr and Bedford
ordi . 242255.. %
" dis
il s
LLlyerp., Manch., & Newc. Junct. 2% 3%
3
London an Birmingham •• • • .100
Ditto Quarters • • • • • • • • 2 •• .. 27 27
Ditto Fifths • • • • • • • • 2 •• 2434 ...... 2;
London and Brighton .• • • • • 50 •• • • 65% % 6
Ditto, Consol. Eighths • • .• 40
Ditto ditto Fifths • • • • • •
London and Croydon • • • • 13/. 15s. 9d. 22
London and South-Western• • 41/. Gs. 10d. 7834
Ditto, New . 1214.... 23% ...
London and York .• • • • • • • 2% •• .• 3% V •• • •
Lynn and Ely .. • • • • ' • .......
Manchester and Leeds .. • • • •
Ditto, Half Shares . • • • •• 38 ••• . 60 ......
..
Ditto, Quarters . • • • 2 •• • . 14 .
Ditto Extension .. • . 425. • '
Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 . 77 76
Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) .. 1 1° •• •
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. • • •• '
Midland .. .. • • • • .6 • • I°o •• • • 146% ,

, 60

▪ 1464
▪ 32
116

Ditto, New .. 18 .... 31% 32%
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 100 .. • .116 „
Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 25 •„ 44
.....
Ditto, New .. • • • • • • I •• • • IOU •
Ditto, New, Brandling • • .. 20 , •.38 3.7 ii
Newcastle and Berwick • • •• 10 .. • • 214 U •• • •
Newark, Sheffield, and Boston .. .......
North British .. .• •• 20
Ditto, Half Sham ......6 944
Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 1/4 „
North Staffordshire .. • • • • 428. •• . p
Oxfd.,Worcester, & Wolv'erhilriptn.,l24 144 134 i
Scottish Midland • • • a • • • • 5 •• • • .• . .. ;
Shrewebitty and Bcrmlngham • .
SbrOpiihito Union .. • • '• • • • 4214.. •• • % ciii ••.
%die.
South Devon .. . a: a• 35 .... 36% 36 37 2
n
37
South Midland a:, :a • • • • 425..... 24% p•
South Eastern and lolovor . • • • 33% • •
TYG,,IC'elt (do. 151.) .. NQ, 4, sis 34
Staines and Richmond .• ) •. • • :• • gif•
South Wales .. • • 5 5 :t• 704..‘.•;••••
Trent Valley , •• , • •• g , 26
Vale of Neath • 4 • 2 .• .. 2% 2%
Wext'Ord, Waiefrord, Valextia 1%.... 1 .. • • • 1
York mid North Midland .. 50 $ ••. • • • Jg
Ditto, Scarborough Branch a: ....
Ditto, Sell* •• .. .... 74 . . ... • • 74
Ditto. EilVttfon 15 .... 32( 32 .... • • 32
D. E. and W. Riding Eaten... 1 10!i ••• • • 10%

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Barbs,does _ 1 .... 0% .
3101,11c;±“1 n
d Amiens .. ..10 .... 11% _
Calcutta and Diamond Harbour.. 75. •• • • ••••• • • • • •
Central of Spain .. _ 2 .• • • ••• • •
East Indian .. . ss. •• • • 1% ••••• • • .. •
Grt. North. of Francs Constituted 5 •• • • 15534 • •
Great Western Bengal .. ss• •• • • 'A ••• • • •
Namur and Liege 4 •• • • 3% ••••• • • . • •
Orleans and Bordeaux 6 •• • •
Paris and Rouen ....20 •• • • 40N • • •
Rouen and Havre . 20 •• • • 29 •••• • • • .
Sambre and Meuse .. 6 . • • 5% •••• • • • •
MINES.

Real del Monte, Unregistered .. •• • • -
Bolanos Scrip .. .. .. .. •• • •

For thGeEWNeEekßiLendedFeb.Fe AVERAGE2I, madeup from the Returns of the
CORN AVERAGES.lnspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England an 4 Wales
per Imperial Quarter,
3P4116,1CES OF BRITISI CORN

WHEAT. I BAILET.I 011 V. i ITN. I BEANS. I PEAS.
PRICE .. 117 i Od 295 lid 215 6d 325 10d 343 9d 345 3d
DUTY... Od 75 Od 65 Od es Gd 75 6d 63 Gd

MARKET NEWS.--(THIS DAY)
SAY MASSIMO.
SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 81 5s to 415 s ; Clover ditto,
4/ 5s to Si 12s 6d; Oat Straw, 11 10s to 11 18s; Wheat
Straw, 1/ 13s to 11 15s per lead. Trade dull, at the above
quotations.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 3/ 85 to 41 8s ; Clover
ditto, 4/ 4s to I/ 105 ; Oat Straw, 1/ 125 to 11 14s; Wheat
Straw, 1114 s to 1116 s per load. A moderate supply, and
a WHr sluggish demand,
rEcuArxr...—Meadow Hay, Sits to 4158 ' • (I,lznr ditto,
;4/Bsto 51 15s Oat straw, :l/ 11s to 1/ 13s ; Wheat Straw,
11 13s to 11 15s per load. Supply good, and trade dull.
=MAT IVIEILANZITS.
SournALL, FEt. 25.—The supply of fat stock here to-day
was by no means extensive, yet the general demand ruled
heavy at barely last week's quotations. Beef, from 2s 6d to
4a 2d; Mutton, 3s 6d to 5s 4d ; Veal, 4s to 4s 8d; and
Pork, 3s 8d to 4s 10d per 81bs.
R031F01:1), FEB. 25. Prime Sheep sold steadily at full
prices, otherwise the trade ruled dull. Beef, from 2s ad to
4s 2d; Mutton, 3s 4d to 5s 4d; Veal, 4s to 4s 8d; and
Pork, 4s to 43 8d per Sibs. Suckling Calves, 18s to 308;
Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 20s; and Milch Cows, with
their small calf, 161 to 1815 s each.
LEWES, FEB. 24.—Beef, from 2s 8d to 4s 4d ; Mutton,
ms:pwliesootTista
3s 10d to 5s 6d; Veal, 4s to 4s 8d; and Pork, 4s to 4e 8d
per 81bs. A moderate supply, and a steady demand.
The jklgt
onneraDe were Nnttiato X:a.y large,
yet the trade was in a depressed state, at barely stationary
prices :—Beef, from 2s ad to as 6d ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 43 6d ;
Veal, 43
to ss; and Pork, 3s 8d to 58 2d per 81bs. by
came.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.

(THIS DAY.)

Sub-Committee No. 4.
The Committee met at the usual hour. Present—Sir N.
Heathcote (Chairman), Mr. J. O'Connell, Mr. Shirley, Mr.
Evans, Mr. Hope Johnstone, and Mr. Acland.
WERZIORD, CARLOW, AND DUIBLIN

JUNCTION.
The Committee proceeded with the petitions against this

Bill.
The petition of Thomas Greenham, Thomas Brennan, and
others, alleged that one of the petitioners, Mr. Brennan, hay-•
ing property on the line, had received no notice except on
the 28th of December, being Sunday.
Mr. Brennan was called to prove that he received a notice
on the Sunday after Christmas-day, but could not say that
it was not left at his house on a previous day.
The petitioner's servant was called to prove that she re-
ceived the paper on that day, and said that she received
some paper then, but could not identify it.
Mr. Curtis, a clerk to the solicitors for the Bill, was then
called, and said that on Christmas-eve he met Mr. Brennan
on the quay at Wexford, and served him with the notice.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
The following Petitions for Railways ►ere reported, and the Bills
ordered to be brought in lay the undernamed lion. Members:—
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 25.
Scottish Grand Junction—Lord Advocate, Lord J. Stuart, and Mr.

F. 3laule.
Airdrie and Bathgate Junction—Mr. Baillie and Mr. Baird.
Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway, and Port, &c., of Goole—

Mr. Lascelles and Mr. Milnes.
Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Direct—Viscoun

Morpeth and Mr. Stansfield.
Leicester and Swannington Junction—Mr. Villiers and Capt. Carnegie.
London and Oxford—Mr. Du Pre and Mr. FitZlriallriC6.

SECOND READINGS OF RAILWAY BILLS.
MONDAY, 3IATLCII 2.
Newmarket and Chesterford.

TUESDAY, MARCH 3.

Enfield and Edmonton

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4.
Midland and Eastern Counties (Cambridge to Weedon).

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
MANCHESTER, FEB. 25.
STOCK Exemoron.-The sales are -Boston, Newark, and Shef-
field, % dis.-Caledonian, 3 p.-Clydesdale Junction, 91%e p.- Derby
and Crewe, 3 p.-Direct Northern, 1-16 p.-Glasgow and Dumfries,
7-16 dis.-Grand Union, par-Lancashire and North Yorkshire, IA dis.
-Liverpool, Onnskirk, and Preston, 3 p.-London and York, 1% p.
c.-Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 1% p.-Manchester and
Birmingham, 79-Ditto, Quarters (C), 638 p.-Manchester and
Southampton, Bs. p.-North Staffordshire, 3% p.-Sheffield and
Manchester, Quarters, No. 3, 3 p -Shropshire Union Railway and
Canal, 14 dis.-Trent Valley, 21% p.-West Lancashire Coast, % dis.
-West Riding Union, 2 p.
LEEDS, FEB. 25.
STOCK ExcriArrok.-The sales are-Newcastle and Darlington
Junction, 44-York and North Midland, East and West Riding, 9 p.-
Leeds and Bradford, 51% -Leeds and Thirsk, 10 cash-Sheffield
and Lincoln, 3%-Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 175.6d.di5.--Direct
Northern, 2/. 95.-Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 5% -West
Riding Union, 3%-Buckinghamshire (late Rugby), ss. p.-Grand
Union, Is. p.-Lancashire and North Yorkshire, ss. dis.-Lanca-
shire, Yorkshire, and North Eastern, 17s. 6d. dis.-Leicester and
Bedford, 3s. 6d. dis.-North Western, 2%.
HULL, FEE. 25.
STOCK EXCAAIME.-The sales are-Blackburn, DariVCE, and Bol-
ton, New, 3s. p.-Derby and Gainsborough, 175.-Grand Union, 28s.
-London and York, TX -South Midland, 4/. ss. 6d..-Shrewsbury
and Birmingham,- 3-West Riding Union, 3%.
SHEFFIELD, FEB. 25.
Stock ExcuANoL-The sales are-Leeds and Bradford, 52% -
Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 3-West Riding Union, 3%.
HUDDERSFIELD, FEB. 55.
STOCK EICHANGE.-The sales are-Hull and Selby, Quarter Shares,
9 p.-Midland, New, 14% p.-Huddersfield and Manchester Railway
and Canal, 5% p.-Leeds and Bradford, 5134 -Manchester and
Huddersfield Extension, 2s. 6d. p.-Huddersfield, Halifax, and Brad-
ford Union, 334 -Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby,
12s. 6d. dis--Wexford, Waterford, and Valeutia, 11. 6s. 6d.-Liver-
pool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 53/4-West Riding Union, 31. 195.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, Ems. 25.
STOCK ExcHANGE.-The sales are-Direct Northern, par-Great
Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, Quarter Shares, % p.-Liverpool,
Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 21s. p.-Manchester, Buxton,
and Matlock, 365. p.-North British, 7 p.-Ditto, Halves (Carlisle),
1% 9.-York and Carlisle, 14s. dis.
YORK, FEB. 25.
STOCK ExcnmidE.-The sales are-Direct Northern, 21. 1 In.-
Grand Union, 1%-Ipswich and Bury Extension (Norwich), 2% -
London and York, 3/. 13s. 9d.-]Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and
Midland, 31. 175.-Newcastle and Berwick, 21-Newcastle and Dar-
lington Extensions, 103(-North British, Carlisle Extension, 21. 175.
-West Riding Union, 3%-York and North Midland Extension, 32
-Ditto, New) East and West Riding), 101 A.
EDINBURGH, FEB. 23.
STOCK ExcnANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 10/. 10s.---Aberdeen
Banff, and Elgin, 1/. 16s. W.-Airdrie and Bathgate, 21. 48. 6d.
-Arbroath and Forfar, 281.-Ditto, Half Shares, 161.-Ayr and
Dumfries, 21.-Ayr and Galloway,l/. 188.-Bariffshire, 1/. 10s.-
British and Irish Union, 2/. 155.-Caledonian, 141. 55.-Caledo-
nian Extension, 21. 10s.-Caledonian and Dumbarton, 21.75.--Clydes-
dale Junction, 191.-Direct Northern, 2/. 155. 6d.-Dundee and Ar-
broath, 391.-Ditto, New, 221.-Dundee and Perth, 14/. 155.-East
of Fife, 21. 2s.- East Lothian Central, 11. 19s.- Edinburgh and Bath-
gate, Si. 10s.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, 79/. 10s.-Ditto, Half Shares,
161.- Ditto, Quarters, 19/. 155.-Ditto, ditto, New, 161. 10s.-Edin-
burgh Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 16s. 6d. -Edinburgh and Leith
Atmospheric, 11. ft.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 191. 10s.-
Ditto, Preference, 20/. 10s.-Edinburgh and Northern, Si. ]2s. 6d.-
Ditto, Newport, 1/. 35.-Ditto, Lochgelly, 1/. Bs. 6d.-Edinburgh and
Peebles, 1/. 195.-Edinburgh and Perth, 31. 10, 65.-Forth and
Clyde Junction, 11. 195.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 761.-Ditto, New
Stock, 281. 105.-Ditto, Quarter Shares, 191.-Glasgow, Dumfries,
and Carlisle, 21. 95.-Glasgow and Dundee Junction, 21.-Glasgow
and Garnkirk, 421. 10s.-Glasgow and Greenock, 191. 10s.-Ditto,
New Stock, 101.-Ditto, Preference, 1/. 155.-Great North of Scot-
land, 3/. 4s. 65.-Granton Junction, 11. 188.-Inverness and Elgin,
1/. Bs.-London and York, 41.-North British, 281.-Ditto, Halves,
101.-Perth and Inverness, 1/. 145.-Scottish Central, 161. 55.-
Scottish Midland, 61.-Stirling and Dunfermline, Si. 7s.
GLASGOW, FEB. 24.
STOCK Excnanon.-The sales are - Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin,
375.-Airdrie and Bathgate, 425. 6d.-Ayr and Dumfries Junction,
465. 6d.-Ayr and Galloway, 388.-- British and Irish Union, 545. 6d.
-Caledonian, New 725.-Ditto, Extension, 475.-Direct Northern,
545. 6d.-East Indian Railway, 225. 6d.-Edinburgh and Perth, 708.
-Glasgow General Terminus, 11-Glasgow and Belfast Union, 425.-
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 75%-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Car-
lisle, 455.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 175.-Glasgow and
Dundee Junction, 38s. 6d.-Lanark and Lothians, 475.-Larne, Bel-
fast, and Ballymena, 315.-Lesmahagow, 51s. 6d.-Scottish Central,
15%-Ditto, New, 9-Scottish Southern, 375. 6d.-South Midland,
835.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 455.