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London, England, 1846-11-12 00:00:00

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*THE MIRROR.

The editor, Mr. Percy B. St. John, continues his
American Novel, " The Eagle's Nest," in the pre-
sent number, and likewise contributes an excellently
told and very interesting French tale, entitled " The
Will." Eugene Scribe's "Piquillo Alliaga" is con-
tinued, and we have some pleasant gossiping notes of a
tour in Belgium and Germany, which we are glad to
see are to be continued. Mr. St. John, however,
does not, in his editorial capacity, confine himself to
merely entertaining—he mingles the useful in its
proper proportions, and the article on "Free Trade in
France" is superior to many an article on the free
trade question which has appeared in periodicals of
nearly three times the price of the Mirror. The fol-
lowing account of the progress of the free trade asso-
ciations in that country will be read with a lively in-
West by all English free traders.
" The French free traders have now actively and en-
ergetically entered into the campaign, which was opened
with due solemnity in the Salle Montesquieu on the 25th
of August. At this re-union, presided over by the Due
d'Harcourt, were present Anisson, Duperron, Horace
Say, Fiele-ic Bastiat, Leon Faucher, Riglet, Blenqui,
Michel Chevalier, and Louis Reyband, &c. The meet-
ing was successively addressed by the Duc d'Harcourt,
Lean Faucher, Right, and Blanqui, who exposed the
mischief which was and is the result of protection. The
sympathies of the audience were entirely with the
speakers, for the facts were easy of comprehension, and
the truths were home truths ; and each, as dealt forth,
told fearfully against monopoly, finding a ready and con-
firmatory response in the breasts of the auditors, who in
the common occurrences of their daily life, constantly
experience inconvenience and suffering from the prohi-
bitory tariffs of tho Custom-house. The systems of agi-
tation proposed and adopted (as I take it) consists in es-
tablishing in every town of note, and of sufficient popula-
tion, a local league, which, while it acts under the direc-
tion and in unison with the central executive council,
will of itself have sufficient distinctiveness to interest the
inhabitants, and be able to demonstrate daily and
hourly, theoretically and practically, the disadvantages
of protection. Each league will represent as it were a
different class of the community, with their different in-
terests and reasons of hostility to prohibition.
" Thus we see three in full and active life. La Ligue
Bordelaise, La Ligue Parisienne, and La Ligue Marsel-
Isis° ; the first representing the wine growers and agri-
cultural producers, who find the protection awarded to
some of the manufacturers deprives them of a good mar-
ket for their wine, and forces them to use agricultural
implements and machines ages behind those employed
in England or in Belgium, and retards the progress and
improvement dictated alike by nature and reason. The
second, the manufacturers of those graceful articles, in-
digenous to France, and characteristic of her people,
which have a European reputation, and would have
commanded a European market, but for protection,
which also deprives them of good and cheap machinery
and tools, substituting in their stead those which are
extensive, and bad. The third, the shipowners, mer-
chants, and traders, who year by year see their
trade diminish, and pass into the hands of strangers.
Their ships empty, their crews idle, their ports filled
with foreigners. And this the result of that protection
which has not only crippled, but, in spite of the increase
in wealth and population of France, has reduced her
merchant navy far below what it was fifteen years
back."

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, NOVEMBER 10.
STOCK Excriasnan-The sales are-Ambergate and East-
ern Junction, 6s. 3d. p.-Birkenhead, Lancashire and Che-
shire, 17s p.-Birmingham and Dudley, % p.-Birmingham
'and Oxford Junction, 7% p.-Chester and Birkenhead, 52%
-Ditto, Halves, 26%-Ditto, 20/. Shares, 1% p.-Dundee
and Perth, New, 3% p.-Eastern Counties, York Extension,
2 p.-East Lancashire, No. 1, New, 4 p.--Ditto, No. 2 (late
Ormskirk and Preston), cum new, 43%-Edinburgh and Glas-
gow, Halves, 93/4 p.-Edinburgh and Perth, 3j4 dis.-Glas •
Qow and Dumfries, 1,4 p.-Great Grimsby and Sheffield,
uarters, % dis.-Ditto, Extension, 1% dis.-Great Western,
New Shares, 5% p.-Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 4% p.
-Leeds and Dewsbury, 10% p.- Ditto, Branch (Blue), 63/4
p.-Leeds and Thirsk, 214 dis -Liverpool and Bury, New,
18s. 9d. p.-London and North-Western, 197-Ditto, New
Quarters, 14 p.-London and York (Direct Northern), % dis.
-Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Extension, 18s. 93. p.-
Manchester and Leeds, Fifths, 5% p.-Ditto, Extension, 21s.
3d. p.-Midland, 134-Ditto, 401. Shares, 10% p.-North
British, Quarters, 21,6 p.-Ditto, New, IL ls. 3d. p.-North
Staffordshire, 31/4 p.-North Western, 114 p.-Preston and
Wyre, Halves (B), % p.-Sheffield and Manchester, Quar-
ters, No. 3, Is. 3d. p.-Shrewsbury, Oawestry, and Cheshire,
13% dis.-Shrewsbury and Birmingham, % p.-Shropshire
Union Railway and Canal, 1 dis.-South-Eastern and Dover,
New, No. I, 3j4 p.-Ditto, New, No. 4, I Is. 3d. p.-South
Wales, 3/4 dis.-Armagh and Portrush, 2 ls. 3d.-Belfast and
Ballymena, 7 dis.-Newry and Warrenpoint, p. -Dutch
Rhenish, % dis.
MANCHESTER, NOVEMBER 10.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Ambergate, Notting..
ham, and Boston, 14 p.-Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Che-
shire, 2% p.-Birmingham and Dudley, 63/4 p.-Birming-
ham and Oxford Junction, 7% p.-Eastern Counties, York
Extension, 1 13-16 p.-East Lancashire, 4% p.-Ditto, No.
1, New, 4% p.-Ditto, No. 2 (late Liverpool, Ormskirk, &c. )
43/4 p.-East Lincolnshire, % p.-Edinburgh and Glasgow,
Halves, 10% p.-Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding, 2s.
dis.-Glasgow and Dumfries, I% p.-Great Grimsby and
Sheffield, 3 dis.-Huddersfield, Halifax, and Bradford, 1% p.
-Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 4% p.-
Leeds and Thirsk, 3 dis.-Ditto, New, % dis.-Leeds, Dews-
bury, and Manchester, 111 A c. p.-Ditto, New Branches, 7/4
p.-Liverpool and Bury, gew Shares, 1 5-16 p.-Liverpool,
Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, % dis -London, Man-
chester, and Birmingham, 75-Ditto, Quarters (C), 6 p.-
Manchester and,Southampton, 125.6 d. dis.-Midland, Consols,
135-North British, Quarters, 2% p.-Ditto, Extensionj p.
-North Staffordshire, 3 p.-North Union (A), 220-North
Western, 3/4 p.-Oldham, Birkenhead, &c., 17s. dis.-Preston
and Wyre, Halves (A), 4% p.-Ditto, ditto (B), p.-
Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 1,4 dis.-Sheffield and Manches-
ter, Quarters, No. 2, 21%-Ditto, ditto, No. 3, par-Shrop-
shire Union, 14 dis.-South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 9-16
p.-West Riding Union, 1 9-16 p.-Wharfdale (late North-
Eastern), % dis.-Whitehaven and Furness, 234 dis.-York
and Carlisle, 2 dis.
LEEDS, NOVEMBER 10.
STOCK EKCHANGE.-The sales are-Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction, 7 p.-Eastern Counties, York Extension, 2 p,
-East Lancashire, No. 2 (late Liverpool, Ormskirk, &c.),
p.-East and West Yorkshire, 15s. dis.--Huddersfield
and Manchester, p.-Leeds and Bradford, 441/3 p.-Leeds
'and Dewsbury, 11 p.-Ditto, Branches, 7% p.-Ditto, Ex-
tension, 18s. p.-Leeds and Thirsk, dis.-Manchester
and Leeds Extensions, 21s. p.-Manchester, Buxton, Mat-
lock, and Midland, 265. p.-Midland, Preference, 5 p.-North
British, Quarters (late Carlisle Branch), 525. 6d. p.-Ditto,
Extension (scrip), 245. 6d. p.-North Staffordshire, 3% p.-
Wharfdale Junction, 9s. dis.-York and Newcastle, New,
13% p.-Ditto, Preference, 4% p.-York and North Midland,
Preference, 8 15-16 p.--Ditto, East and West Riding, 16 p.
-Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, 6s. p.-Bucking-
hamshire, 10s. dis.-Glasgow and Dumfries, 103. p.-Leeds,
Wakefield, and Midland, 16s. dis.-London and York, 3s. 6d.
e. dis.-Malton and Driffield Junction, 13s. p.-Midland and
Thirsk Junction, 20s. dis.-North Western, 16s. 6d. p.-
Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole, 2s. 6d. dis.-West Riding
Union, 3/. 12s. s.-York and Carlisle, 2% dis. s.--Yorkshire
and Glasgow Union, 41s. 6d. dis. s.
HULL, NOVEMBER 10.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-Our market to-day has been equally,
active with yesterday, and all our quotations, with the ex-
ception of North Staffords, are higher. All stocks dealt in
close firm, with a prospect of further improvement. The
sales are-North British, Quarters, 80e. 6d.-Ditto, New
Quarters, scrip, 235. 9d.-York and Newcastle, Preference,
4L 12s. p.-Aberdeen. 21. 11te -kmbergato, Nottingham, and
Boston, 2L 175.-Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, % p.-
Blackburn, Clitheroe, &c., 5,6 scrip-East Lancashire, No. 2
(late Liverpool, Ormskirk, &c.), Bs. p.-Fleetwood, Preston,
and West Riding, 225.-North Western, 13s. 6d. p.-North
Staffordshire, 3/. 4s. p.-Northern Counties Union (York and
Glasgow Union), lls.
SHEFFIELD, NOVEMBER 10.
STocK ExcriANGE.-The sales are-Birmingham and Ox-
ford, 6L 16s. p.-East Lancashire, No. 2 (late Ormskirk),
41. lls. p.-East Lincolnshire, par-Great Grimsby and Shef-
field, 3/. 6s. dis-Ditto, Extensions, 28s. dis.-Ditto, Quar-
ter Shares, 14s. dis.-Ditto, Docks, 34 dis.-Midland, New
Shares, 4% p.-North Western, 14s. p.-Sheffield and Lin-
coln 12s. dis.-Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole, 2s. die.-
Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland, 2/. 6s. 6d. dis.-South
Yorkshire Coal Railway, lls. dis.
YORK, NovicsusEß 10.
STOCK ERMA/KM-The sales are-Ambergate, Notting-
ham, &c., 2%-London and York, 214-Manchester, Buxton,
Matlock, and Midland, 3%-Newcastle and Berwick, 3314-
North British, Halves, 16%-Ditto, Quarters, 3/. 18s. 9d.-
Ditto, Extension, IL 163.-North Staffordshire, 5/. 95.-
North Western, 1/. 18s. 6d.-West Ridiag Union, 14s. 6d.
scrip-York and Newcastle, New, 18% cum new-Ditto,
Preference, 6%-York and North Midland (East and West
Riding Extension). 23% cum new-Ditto, Preference, 10%.
EDINBURGH, NovEmBEE 9.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 19/. 108.-
Airdrie and Bathgate, 41. Bs.-Arbroath and Forfar, 281.-
Ditto, Halves, 151. 10s.-Ayr and Galloway, 11. 7s. 3d.-
British and Irish Union, 2/. 3s.- Caledonian, 241.-Ditto,
New, 21. 3a.-Caledonian and Dumbartonshire, P. Cs.-
Clydesdale Junction, 341.-Direct Northern, 11. 16s. 6d.-
Dundee and Arbroath, 371.-East of Fife, 1L 145.-Edinburgh
and Bathgate, 2/. 15e.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, 761.-Ditto,
Halves, 201. 10s.-Ditto, Quarters, 191.-Edinburgh. Leith,
and Grantors, 221. 10.4.-Ditto, Preference, 211.-Edinburgh
and Northern, 15/. 7s. 6d.-Ditto, Newport, 3/. lls.-Edin-
burgh and Perth, 1/. 195.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 691.-
Ditto, New Stock, 361.-Ditto, Quarters, 17/. 15s -Ditto,
Halves, 71. 125.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 31. ls.-
Glasgow and Dundee Junction, 1/. 18s. 9d.-Garnkirk and
NewGl Glasgow, 4105/5..-
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IL 17s. 6d.-Newcastle and Berwick, 321. 10s.-North
British, 371. 2s. 6d.-Ditto, Halves, 161. 10s.-Ditto, Quar-
ters, ex new, 3/. 15s. 6d.-Ditto, ditto, New, scrip, 1/. 145.-.
Ditto, Fifths, 71. 10s.-Scottish Central, 201. 10s.-Ditto,
New, 10L 17e. 6d.-Scottish Midland, 131 10s.-Scottish
Grand Junction, IL-Stirling and Dunfermline, 1L 7s. 6d.

ASSISTANCE TO THE WEAK.--Last week, while a
farmer at Ompton, Notts, was ploughing, accompanied
by his shepherd dog, a hare, pursued by a large weaz:-I,
ran into the field where they were. The dog• stood a
spectator for some time, until the p,or hare was almost
exhausted, and nearly overtaken by its pursuer, when
the dog ran across, and having seized and killed the
weasel, allowed the hare to pursue her course unmolested.