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THE FUNDS.(CiOSING PRICES).
BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.96Wis%

sJ%ree per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .
tong Anntlitiv!, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .
Ditfo, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. •
India Bonds. 1,000/.
Ditto, under 1,0001.
Consols for Account
xchequer Bins.
1,000/. .
5007.
Ditto, Small

10 7-16

95%%

34 '2:7 - -- Pm-
-34 37 - - Pm.
34 37 - - Pm.

FOREICIN FUNDS
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent
l'ortuguase Four per Cents •
kprinish Bonds, 5 per Cent •
Ditto, for.the. Account .. •
DeLrred - .• • • •
Ditto, Three per Cent ..
Ditto, for the Account .. :33%
Dividends on the above payah!:. in London.

ONE
O'CLOCK.
.. 31% Y:.

Fren,:h Scrip, 3 per Cent. .. • •
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates

.. 55
• 60 5934
▪ 94% 95

10 7-16

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BUSINESS CLOSING
PRICES OF PAID. DONE AT PRICES.
RAILWAY SHARES. ONE O'CLOCK.
Bideford and Tavistock 1% •• • • %•••• • • • • ..125%
Binningham and Gloucester ..100 .. 125 ••••• • • • • •
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Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 .... ••••• • • • • • 84%
Bristol and Exeter .. .. 70 .. 84% •••• ' • • • y 4 dis
Buckinghamshire 425. •• • • %Os••• •' • '' 11%
Ca1ed0nian..........10 .• .. 11%% •••• • " • 3
Ditto, Half Shares .. • • ••••• • • • • • 1%
Ditto, Extension .. • • I-1• • • ''''' •
Cork and Waterford .. • • • • 1% •• • • —„,t ; ; : 2
Direct Northern .. .21/2 •• • • `l. 4
Dublin and Belfast Junction • • 5 •• • • 2l
.. 2e% 21% •• -
Eastern Counties .. 141. Its. • • 6i, 14 6to P
Ditto New .• 16s• ".i. .584 n P
Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61. 13ss. L. ;
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Ditto, ditto, .. • • No. 6/* 13 1, I, 11A
Ditto, York Extension 10s. 7.372 ,
Rost Lincolnshire .. • • • • • 1U '• • •• •
.. 50 .... 3 •• •
Edinburgh and Glasgow • •
Goole, Doneast., and •iheffield,&e. 425..... p
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 15 .• .. 17
Great North of England • • •
Ditto, New • • • • • • • •
Great Western . • • • 85 •
Ditto Half Wham .. 50 .... 8% 83.......
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. 5 .... 17% ......
Ditto, Fifths .. • • .. .. 20 .... 32
Liverpool and Leeds Direct .. ... 21. E %........
London aril Birmingham ... .100 ....218 219%
Ditto Fifths .. 2 .... 24
London and Blaekwall 16/. 13s. 4d.
Ditto New .. 21 .... 4
London and Brighton .. 50 .... 64%
London and Croydon .. .. 131. 15s. 9d. 22 I. .....
London, Hounslow, & Western .. 2 .... .. . .
London and South-Western.. 411. 6s. 101. .•..•• • • • -
Ditto, New . 12( 22% •
London and York .. 3%1-1 • • • • • • • •
London, Salisbury, and Yeovil .. 2% .... ........
Londonderry and Coleraine .. 7% .... .
Lynn and Boreham .. 10 .... ... •
..Manchester and Leeds .. 82 ....129
Ditto, Fifths .. 2 .... 12 ........ • •
:Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 . • • • . •
Ditto, Quarter Shares (B) .. 2 ....
Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) •• . • 87%••• • • • • •
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. .... 1% s 8 p
31 idland .. • • • • • • 100 -• • • 144 ••••• • • • •
Ditto, New .. • . 18 .... 31
Newcastle and Darlington Junet. Q 5 .... 43% .• •• • •
AIL., New, Brandling .. 20 .. .. 37 • • .... .• • •
NeNle and Berwick .. 10 .... 19% 20
North British .. 20 .... 27
Ditto, Half Shares .. 6 .... 9
Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. .. 214% •••• • • • •
Northamp.,Bedford, &Cambridge ••••• • • • • •
North Kent and Direct Dover .. 2y,.. 2 % .. ••• • • •
North Staffordshire .. .. • • 425. •• • . 3%% P
Norwich and Brandon .. 18 ..

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Ditto. New
Oxfil.,Worcester, & Wolverlimptn.ll2%
Preston and Wyre • • • • • • 25
Ditto, Half Shares • • • .
Rugby and Huntingdon .. 2
Scottish Central .. • . .. 7 • •
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 231,...
Shropshire Union .. 423. ...
S )11111 Midland .. • • .. .. 425. ...
South and Midlands Junction .. 425....
Trent' Valley 5 .
Waterfd., Wexfd., Wick., & Dub. 133 .... --
Yora and North Midland .. ZO .... 97
Ditto, Half Shares .. 23 .... 4634
Ditto. Extension 15 .... 3034 313. i
Do. E. and W. Riding Exten.• • 1 .... 9,L a .
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Dutch Rhenish .. .. 5 .... 631_
East Indian . ss. .... ••• • • •
Grt. North. of France Constituted 5 .... IG% .. .. •• • •
Great Western Canada .. • • 3% •• • • 3% ••• • ..
Luxembourg 4 ....
Orleans and Bordeaux 12% .... •• . •
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JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
to:A.oo'4nd Westminster .. 20 .. 27 •• •
Lontbn Joint- Stock • • .. .. 10 .. •• •

Real del Monte, Unregistered

MINES.

3% •• • • • • •• •

1254
2% (Its

ASYLUM FOR DISCHARGED
PRISONERS.—(THIS DAY.)
A public meeting was held this day at Willis's
Rooms, King-street, St. James's, " for the purpose of
considering of an appeal to Parliament to carry out
the humane objectlof establishing national houses of occu-
pation and shelter for persons discharged from cus-
tody." The meeting was fixed to take place at two
o'clock, but for a considerable period after that hour
there were not more than a dozen persons in the room.
Mr. Sheriff Launre having taken: the chair, the se-
cretary said he had received several letters of apology
from gentlemen who were unable to attend.
The CHAIRMAN then addressed the meeting. He said
it was really deplorable the state of persons discharged
from prisons. He found, by documents he held in his
hand, that there was 20,000/. a year paid fur a model
prison, but it failed to effect any good object. In fact,
he knew of nothing that existed calculated to meet the
crying evil the suppression of crime committed by
persons discharged from prison, who had no place of
refuge. He understood that the Government was will-
ing to listen to any useful suggestion that would remedy
the evil. He had heard it argued that providing labour
for criminals would interfere with honest men's means ;
but he would ask, would it not be better to give cri-
minals employment outside than pay for their mainte-
since in a prison ? There was a benevolent Christian
in Manchester, a Mr. Wright, who ought to have
a monument erected to his memory; that gen-
tleman had actually reclaimed ninety-six of what
he called the gaol population, and only four
of them had returned to crime. Now, if an individual
could do that, he would ask why should not the State do
so? He for one would say it was their duty to do so,
and he trusted that no effort would be left untried to
effect so desirable an object. He was glad to see pre-
sent at the meeting so high a dignitary of the Church
as the Lord Bishop of London, and the Noble Lord
(Lord Kinnaircl). He would now conclude and give'
place to the Right Rev. Prelate who wculd move the
first resolution.
The Bishop of LONDON then proposed the first re-
solution. In doing so he said he thought that a great
Old of credit was due to Mr. Sheriff Laurie, for the
exertions he had made in the cause of humanity. This
was a subject in which he (the Bishop) took a deep in-
terest, as did also the clergy generally ; but the nature
of their avocations did not enable them to take a very
active part in it. He Lad long been impressed with the
necessity of providing for those poor creatures, who,
when discharged from prison, had no place of refuge
whatever. had no doubt but that Government would
take this subject in hand; but even if they did not, he
felt confident that charitable individuals would be found
to so so themselves. But it saes the duty of the Govern-
ment to do it, and the consideration of the expense should
not weigh for a moment, because it would be better to
expend large sums in the reeamation of criminals, than
in keeping up large prisons at an enormous expense to
the country. There could be no doubt that for years
back the effect of the penal sentences upon prisoners had
had any but a useful result, for the convict invariably
came out infected with the moral pestilence of the
society of the gaol. He had attended at the Pentonville
Prison, and he had the satisfaction of being
able to say that the result of tile system there
enforced had been attended with the best possible I
results ; and the aline observations applied to the
Parkhurst Juvenile Prison. But it would be mcst de-
eirable to have some institution f,r the refuge of
persons who had committed but ono offence, and who,
when discharged, might easily b 3 reclaimed if taken up
in time ; but he did not mean to say that those who had
offerded more than once should not also have a friendly
hand holdout to save them from ultimate destruction.
He would also be desirous to see a similar institution for
the reception of people discharged from hospitals, but not
sufficiently recovered to return to their labour. With
these observations he would readily propose the first re-
solution.
MONCRTON MILNES, seconded the resolu-
Ile should have long taken an jnterest in this
• bject, but had been repelled from taking an active
pilule part in it by reason of what he had heretofore
consie'ered the many difficulties by which it was sur-
'rounded. But he would not now throw cold water upon
-the benevolent exertions of Mr. Sheriff Laurie by men-
tionng them, but whatever they
were, every member of
eoeicty should lent his Ilioeurreitinove the difficulties and
remedy the evil. He i
lions in Boston and otherpartsofvery useful imaitue
Americr, for
tee rest tamation of disehargedml and their
results had been most successful, sals'
fory
us:fortunate creatures had been rescued inti7)ceMinatnhye
fearful abyss of crime into which many had fallenle
in
country, for want of similar institutions. li
would
contend for it, that the prevention of crime, rather than
its pnnisliment, should be the first object of every state,
and, therefore, the state should not hesitate to establish
such institutions as would effect the sacred and excellent
objeet ; and he had no doubt but the Legislature, of
which he was a member, would take up this subject
• warmly, and nothing should be wanting upon his part
to aid the object by every means in his power.
Ler.] KINNAIRD moved the next resolution. Ho
said he found he had been left very little to remark
upon, by reason of the speaker:; the meeting had already
beard. There was one point on which he would make
sin observation, namely, the sourae from which the
funds were to be derived for this object. He was proad
to, say, as ret Englishman, that it only required to :how
the English public the usefulnera and necessity of a
groat pubEe work to induce them to come forward rea-
dily and liberally with aid to carry it out. His Lord-
eldp concluded by stating an instance that had come
under his own observation of a criminal who had been
reformed, and who now kept a school. The resolution
suggested that the Government should provide the
. funds fur the support of the institution.
Mr. Alderman SIDNEY seconded the resolution. He
-said he greatly deplored the state of contamination to
which prisoners were subjected by the present sys-
tem of prison discipline. He then read some statistical
tn.',lea to shbw the decrease of crime in places where
-prisoners were taken up and put in places where they
`.ere reformed.
Mr. D. W. WIRE, Under SheriN proposed the next
resolution, which was to the effect that a committee
should be formed to carry out the object of the meeting.
Sir DE LACY EVANS, M.P., said this was a subject on
-which he had acquired no information, and therefore it
would be idle for him to make any observation upon it.

But it had his entire concurrence, and he was very glad
to see it taken up by the City authorities.
Mr. B. B. CAI:MELD proposed a resolution to the effect
that subscriptions be entered into to defray the expenses
of printing, advertising, &c.
Mr. JAMES ANDERTON seconded the resolution, and
spoke of the necessity that existed for making provision
for the ventilation of the houses of the poor.
A vote of thanks was then passed to Mr. Sheriff
Laurie, and the meeting separated.

THE HURRICANE IN SCOTLAND.
The following interesting details regarding the hurricane
have been supplied by Professor Nichol of our observatory :
—" I have now had experience of a good many storms here ;
but certainly none of them at all equalled in fury the gale of
this morning. The devastation caused by it in the district
over which it has passed must have been quite unprece-
dented. The facts, as observed at this Observatory, are the
following :—About I o'clock on Tuesday afternoon
the baro-
meter began to fall. It was then 29.156 (corrected per tem-
perature), and it fell very gradually, by a small quantity
each hour, so that at midnight it stood at 28.980. The
wind was not high as yet. Towards the evening it blew
fresh, but nothing more. The subsequent occurrences are
too important to be passed over with only a general notice,
and I therefore give them in a table :-
4th March. Height of Force of Direction of
Hour. Barometer. Wind. Wind.
1 a.m. 28•944 6. S.
2 —.855 10.— S.
3 —.779 12. S.
4 —lO5 23. S.
5 —.628 28. S.
6 —, —*566 29. S.
7 —.546 30.-- S.
8 —.526 37• S. slightly W.
9 —,LSO 45. . S. by W.
10 —'549 S. by W.
11 —.680 S.W.
12 —193 S. W.
The temperature at eight in the morning was 47 degrees 12
seconds of Fahrenheit, at nine it was 45 degrees 5 seconds,
and at ten, 46 degrees .04 seconds. The force of the wind in
the foregoing table is expressed in pressure of pounds' weight
on a square foot. The record of force ceases at nine o'clock,
as the tempest then broke the part of the anemometer
which indicates it. I was too much engaged in efforts
having regard to the safety of the house to take particular
note of minute changes ; but I have reason to believe that
the storm at that time was near its maximum. One pecu-
liarity very much struck me. In general these hurricanes
come in mere gusts of great waves. This one did so too ;
but I never have known a storm in which the power of the
gust was so persistent; the pencil of the anemometer remain-
ing at its full height for a very considerable space of time.
The dynamic effects of the wind here have been quite equal
to what the indications of the anemometer would prepare us
for. A front window of the observatory was early dashed
in ; and, but for the aid afforded by a visitor in my house,
and Mr. Johnston, farmer, at Horslet-hill, in barracading
the shutters, I make no doubt that the roof of the building
would have been carried off. The stand of the Herschelian
telescope was blown down under peculiar circumstances. It
was secured by strong ropes to heavy stones
.buried in the
ground. The rope, attaching it to one of the stones, broke ;
but the other stone, a block two feet square, and about a foot
in thickness, was torn from the earth, and tossed ten yards
from its place ! The magnetic house is levelled to the
ground ; but, what is most strange, its floor. consisting of
very heavy beams, has been driven some six yards from
where it was. Fortunately, no instrument, except the
trilling damage to the anemometer, has suffered. I am
quite at a loss to account for this storm. It gave very little,
if any, premonition of its approach. I think it must have
been a storm of translation, or a moving whirlwind of large
radius, but of immense power. If that was its character, the
same thing will be found to be the case as occurred on our
last great gale, at all similar to this, when Professor Airy
informed me, that at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich,
the atmosphere underwent no commotion whatever. Sup-
posing my conjecture accurate, I would expect very serious
intelligence from both coasts of Ireland ; from the west
coast of England, as far south as Liverpool, and from the
north. But it were quite wrong to speak dogmatically on
so obscure a subject."—Glasgow Argus.