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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'l3mEN'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 /ttsus rei publicce.

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'Coms ELL 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 had been dis-
charged because linable to agree, did not and could not arise.
Sir JAatEs GRAHAM said that the difference of result did not
afiect the principle involved in the case, and that the prin-
ciple consisted in the second trial. But here we take leave

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to differ from him. The question which Mr. O'CONNELL
asked was (and he had given some 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
same 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
BRIAN SEERY'S case. Let alone the extraordinary circum-
stance of the seeond 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'CONNELL has given notice of a
"Bill to amend the criminal law in Ireland, by enacting that

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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 haying been discharged by the judge."

responsibility of most extraordinary importance—the re-
sponsibility of so far expediting the present discussion I
as to afford speedy assistance to four millions of
supplicants, as well as 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
amongst a vast number of intolerable impediments to the
accomplishment of this great measure, the harangue of the
Member for Knaresboroueh 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 improbable,
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 Mostriem from his constituents in the West
Riding of Yorkshire one man had actually penned no less
than fourteen thousand autographs—but he didn't I Thus
Mr. FERRAND was "prepared to prove" that the hosiers if 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•
tliets 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 Enutnen 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 ono 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 !1' What a very
miserable estimate the Member for Inaresberough must have
of the discrimination and memory of the representatives.
ADDISON tells us of his friend, Sir ROGER DR COVERLEY,
inflicting a severe punishment upon a certain BULLY DAW-
SON. 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 b :en 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 afford us a just insightinto
the veritable condition of the Irish peasantry. The parties
of whom we thus make mention as a 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 penis 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 cf 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 of
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 tenpence. That brief cal-
culation is a corroboration mere 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 COMYX, parish priest. irons that
most temperate and plain-spoken document, it appears that
" one hundred and sixty householders (in Kilkee), with their
families, amounting to nice hundred and seventy-two indi-
viduals are in a state of abject poverty and nearly deprived of
all earthly means of subsistence—the present supply of
potatoes available not amounting to more than five-
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-v,itnese—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-two 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 is admitted
by all reasonable persons without distinction of political or
religious creed. Hence it was that his Grace the
Duke of RICHMOND expressed his readiness to for-
ward by his acquiescence any proposition for the
employment of the Irish population. Hence also
arises 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-
ment will not assuredly be tritely in propounding some
panacea for the great social malady. Let the Ministry and
, their supporters strive to meet the exigencies of the ocea-
sion, and the temporary misery of Ireland will become in the
end the permanent happiness of the British Isles.

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 LiNcor.N, has been
defeated in the well-fought contest by a majority of about
690. The total number polled was 2,780, the consti-
tuency, 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 theN
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 MoN, which has done
much to improve public credit. " We learn," says the Coed
lano, " that the new Minieter of Finance will adopt a sys-
tem of publicity in all his operations. The receipts
and expenses of last year 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. PENA Y 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
INFAxTE 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 GO
days, and the Five per Cents. at 231/2 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 commercials
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. BERSTER, who belongs to that
expiring class, the protectionists, he added, "AI. 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 pot tion of the Chamber. A
protectionist Member of the name of Tun., 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. DE LAMARTLNE 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 pro-
ceed by gradations ; but the general tendency ought to be
to establish an equilibrium between the products of all coun-
tries, and to break down the barriers which opposed one na-
tion's profiting by the advantages which the soil conferred
on another." The Journal des Debats contains the following
very striking statistical detals respecting the falling off in
the consumption of butchers' meat in France:—

PRICES OF
RAILWAT gIIARES.

LONDOk,

Tale Loras did not sit yesterday.
The Gommons meet at if y 7.911,0 o'cloek.
Sevevsil railway Bills were read : second time.
The seoond reading of the Roman Catholic Relief
postponed after a short conversation in reference
to Lord LINCOLN'S recent declarations on the subject of
the ]Fish policy, in which Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN, Sir
3PMES GRAHAM, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, Mr. O'CONNELL,
and Mr. P. HOWARD took part.
Vim JA)S.O GRAHAM then alluded to the case of SEERY,
"id sticrlhat he had received a communication from the
Lord Lieutenant, stating that a deputation, which had
sailed upon, him
Roscommon, to represent the lawless state of the
eimeity of common,
had certainly stated incidentally
lbat any lenity shown to SEERY would tend to keep
attire a spirit of. insubordination, but that he had not
beeninfluenced m his determination by their represen-
tations.

" There is one fact which rules over the debate opened yesterday
on the entrance duties 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 :—ln 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 23,000,000 kilos., and that per head by eleven
per cent. It is 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 constuned 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 Before the Revolution the people did not find
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 ono essential article of food—that of meat—it is less
fortunate, and has a much more scanty supply than before the
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
anxious solicitude of our statesmen. Its deplorable gravity becomes
more and more unveiled, when all the consequences it brings with it
are reflected upon. A want Of substantial nourishment engenders a race
of puny degenerate beings, and thus nations have become impoverished
cited. By
and degraded. We may, without falling too deeply into error, mea-
sure the productive capabilities of men by the quantity of meat they
taiii.ltcyr.y.tAhesd
.sthideTe
mio.fe
apttrhihicsr
omainfbeb ezufflsoeeft
consume. Many examples of the justness of this estimate have been
itss
t he r
p, whichrti,ee
eh
hasas
isss
sen-
sibly moreinferiorcomes rare,a n
quality,another,
re-
served for the labouring
350. or
40c. the demi-kilo. and this
classes, was, twenty years ago, less than
and that ofeuperior day it is up as high as 50c. or 55e.,
quality has risen In the
55c. or GOc. to 70e. or 75c. and same period of time from
upwwill baerds. This increase of the price
of meat at the butcher's shop
found
same proportion upon the best in the tn to be very nearly In the
the most urgent necessities of the country is forat Consequently one of
quiekly as possible with meet in greater abundance,
it to be supplied as
undance
price." and at a lower
The Constitutionnel says :-4. M, Guizot formally declared on
Mon.
day that the Government had abandoned all idea of the expedlticll.
gAdeifitscar. The garripen of Bourbon and MaytAtil wili

31t. O'ColigißLL gave', notice of a motiiei for giving to
irelfical the two additional members of which Sudbury
bad been deprived.
The Friendly Societies' Bill Was, after a short dis-
mosiol, read a second time, and the House adjourned.

We suspect that Mr. SrAFFORD O'Bnnut has got hold of a
AVE'S nest, in Mr. EVELYN DENLSON'S account of Lord
LMCOLN'S views on Irish Church and State affairs. First of
all, Mr. Diansox's account is singularly vague and indistinct;
and secossdly, Mr. Ilseasox has always been looked upon as
a yew timid Irish C 'lurch reformer among his own party.
14. EVELYN DENISON is brother of the Bishop of SALISBURY.
'When Lard STA,NLEY and Sir JAMES GRAHAM left
th Whig Government in 1834, on the appropria-
tft clause, aed Sir ROBERT PEEL got possession
of office for a few months in 1834-5, Mr. EVELYN
Box followed Lord STANLEY' and Sir J. GRAHAM.
to re Lord LINCOLN may have satisfied Mr. E. DENISON
by his views on the Irish Church, without its being a
seluituAttiat he is prepared to destroy it. But these protect,
tionists loovr not what they would be at. What makes theM
most wore is the uniform' assent to what has so often been
asserted lately—the ludiorousness of the protectionists
,attempting to form a Government. This it is which has
made them keep up a three weeks' debate, in which
smear middle-aged squire is bidding against the
rere tat the post of leader of the Commons under
the ILO ND Government, and every beardless scion of a
fahasipac ons
whic
tbu Dukeeikballithinig
of
f i isetiziovto some of the loaves and
expects to distribute.
`q¢i Tuesday night the Duke of Iticrosoni was in the Peers'
ses,si in the AUUSe of Commons pr a opiumbl e time;
be

A few
by Mr.. more observations, respecting the speech delivered
make; but these 1 we feel ourselves unfortunately obliged to
P
reresentatives in th
se observations have exclusive reference to the
other
a single word of deprecatione Lower House. As to addressing
or remonstrance to the Member
for Knaresborough himself we would as soon trouble our-
selves to reason a current brawling ditch-water into
of
quietude. Our remarks aloneo directed to the
Honourable Gentlemen who are
Were a Tuesday
evening
pelted with his unwholesomeand
personalities. We would express a hope that no feeling of
unblushing
very natural irritability at the indignities of language, the
scurrilous inuendos, the unconstrained imputations, and ;
solent attacks with which their names were severally a
ng:
ponied, will induce them to condescend a reply even to the
length of one syllable. They may remain perfectly assured
(as their sober senses will show them)
tha no doubt t
such manifest bitterness of heart and such
bilious impertinence of tongue, are utterly unworthy
of a rebuttal. On a subject of such singular insignificance,
can
and of such painful abandonment of propriety, we
scaxgely do more than endeavour to enforce the necessity of
its being utterly diaregarded (as we are fain to suppose it
must be) by those legislators witose time is forestalled by a

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING. PEERUAR-1 28. In4e.

merely be reinforce:l. The Minister of Foreign Affairs added, that
the Diglish would not act any more than ourselves against the
11 ovas."
The Committee of the Extreme Gauche of the Chamber of Depu-
ties has fast sent a circular to all its agents in the departments, ap-
prising them of the probability of a general election at au early
period, and urging them to exertion.
The Marseilles journals announce the arrival there of a vessel from
Algiers, with accounts of the lath, 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-Bader.
The Three per Cents. closed at 841. 83e. ; the New Loan, at 841.
54k. ; the Five per Cents 1231. 41e. ; tke Orleans Railroad shares,
1,330 f.; Rouen, 1,057 f. 5c.; Havre, 750 f. ; Great Northern, 77Sf. 75c. ;
Avignon, 1,020 f. ; Vierzon, 735 f.; Bordeaux, 655 f. ; Rasb., 2521.
50e. ; Fampoux, 4SOf. ; Dieppe, 480 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 556 f.
50c. ; Tours and Nantes, 591 f. 25c. ; Paris and Lyons, G3of. ; Spa-
nish Three per Cents., 334 ; Ditto, Domestic Debt, 32% ; Spanish
Passives, 6%.
The following are the quotations for other lines :-
Lyons and Avignon (Talabot), 510 f. 50c. ; ditto (Lecointe). 5051.
50c.; ditto (Compagnie Meridiouale), 5021.; ditto (Definitives),
5721. 50e.; Bordeaux and Cetta (Mackeizie), 6041. ; ditto (Espeleta),
510 f. 50c.; Charleroi, 500 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 25.
Boulogne and Amiens, 11%-Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette (Es-
peleta). -Dendre Valley, -Dutch Rhenish, 6%-East Indian,.
1-Great Nortkera of France Constituted, 165/4-Great Indian
Peninsular, %-Italian and Austrian, 1%-Lyons and Avignon, 2%
-Luxembourg, 2%-Madrid and Valentia, 1-Namur and Liege,
3-Orleans and Vierzon, 18 -Orleans and Bordeaux, 11%-Paris and
Orleans, 51-Paris and Rotten, 40%.

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.

HONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS,

CITY, QUARTER TO TgREE.

The sales of Cotton at:Liverpool yesterday were 6,000 bales, in-
cluding 500 on speculation, and 500 for export. The market was
rather flat. American sold at 3Ad. to sd; Egyptian at 5%d. to 81,4 d.;
Surat at 2N, d. to 3%3. ; and Pernansat 5Nd. 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, U. I Is. 6d.-Great Grimsby, Louth and Horncastle, H. 7s. 6d.
-Leeds and Carlisle, 11. 17s. 6d.-Peterborough and Nottingham,
Os. 601.- Ipswich, Norwich, and Yarmouth, 1/. Gs. 6d.-Wexford,
Waterford, and Valencia, 11. 4s. 6d.-Rugby and Huntingdon, 11. ss.
-Louvain and Jemappe, 21.-Leeds and Carlisle, U. 165.-Jamaica
Junction, 31.-Jamaica South Midland, 31.-Tring, Reading, and
llasingtoke, 21. Bs.-Buckinghamshire, 21. 4s. 64.-Paris and Orleans,
501.-North Staffordshire, Churnet and Potteries, 51. 175.-Real del
Monte Mining (Unregistered), 3/. 10s.-South Midland, V. its. 6d.-
Irish Great Western (Dublin to Galway), 41.-Direct Northern, 21. 13s.
A most anxious desire is expressed in the City for the termination
of the debate upon the corn-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 flat 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% F 4 to 96%, end 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 355., 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% ; Lana the Dutch Four per
Cents., 95% %.
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 G 7 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 .. • • 96434 9G%
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities 96 95r$ 96% 96 961,i
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anus. 98% 98 98% % 98%
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1660 .. 10 9 -16 11-16 10 11-1 G
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1849 .. 10 7-16 107-16
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. • • 10%
.
India Stock .. 259 261 261
India Bonds, 1,0001. .. • • • • • •
Ditto, under 1,0001. .. • • • • • • 41
South Sea stock .• • • • • 7.

Ditto, New Annuities .. • • • • 95
Consols fur Account, April 26 .• • • 96%34
Exchequer Bills. d. d.
1,0001... .... 35 38 Fm•
6001. .... 35 38 pm.
Ditto, Small 35 38
Ditto, Advertised •• •• 37 35 pm.
ONE
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Columbian Bonds .. .. • • .. 51% 52
Grenada, 1 per Cent .. • • .. .. 23
Mexican Bonds, 1837, S per Cent .. 31
Ditto, for the Account .. • . 31%
Ditto, Deferred .. • • .. • • 16%
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent. .. 38
Portuguese Four per Cents .. 5514
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 Loudon.
Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cant
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates

CLOSING
PRICES.

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

Aberdeen
Amber., Notting., Boston and
Eastern Junction .. 2%.... 2
Birmingham and Gloucester.. 100 ....125 ..
Bridgewater and Minehead .. 425. • • ••• • •

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.

(THIS DAY.)

Sub-Committee No. 4.

The Committee met itiaje---usuall7Z. Present—Sir W.
Heathcote (Chairman), Mr. J. O'Connell, Mr. Shirley, Mr.
Evans, Mr. Hope Johnstone, and Mr. Acland.
WEXFORD, CAMMONAT, AND DUBLIN
31.7NCTXON.

The Committee proceeded with the petitions against this
Bill.

The petition of Thomas Greenbam, Thomas Brennan, and
others, alleged that one of the petitioners, Mr. Brennan, have
ing property on the line, had received no notice except on
the '2Bth of December, being Sunday. . . ..

Mr. Brennan was called to prow; 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 en 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 were reported, and the Bills
ordered to be brought in V the undernamed Hen. Members:—
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 25.
Scottish Grand Junction—Lord Advocate, Lord J. Stuart, and Mr.

F. Maule.
Airdrie and Bathgate Junction--Mr. Baillie and Mr. Baird.
Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway, and Port, Ike., of Goole—
Mr. Lascelles and Mr. Mines.
Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Dlrect—Vlscount

Morpeth and Mr. Stansfleid.
Leicester and Swanningten Junction—Mr. Villiers and Capt. Carnegie,
London and Oxford—Mr. Du Pre and Mr. Fitzmaurice.

SECOND READINGS OF RAILWAY BILLS.
MONDAY, DIAILCH 2.
Newmarket and Cheaterford.

TUESDAY, MARCH 3.

Enfield and Edmonton,

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

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
MANCHESTER, FEB. 25.
SToca EXCHANGE.—The sales are —Boston, Newark, and Shef-
field, % dis.—Caledonian, 3 p.—Clydesdale Junction, 9% p.— Derby
and Crewe, 3 p.—Direct Northern, 1-16 p.—Glasgow and DUTllfries,
7-16 dis.—GrandUnion, par—Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 14 dia.
—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3 p.—London and York, I p.
c.—Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, p.—Manchester and
Birmingham, 79—Ditto, Quarters (C), 6% p.—Manchester and
Southampton, Bs. p.—North Staffordshire, 3% p.—Sheffield and
Manchester, Quarters, No. 3, 3 p.—Shropshire Union Railway and
Canal, lyg dis.—Trent Valley, 2134 p.—West Lancashire Coast, % dis.
—West Riding Union, 2 p.

LEEDS, FEB. 25.
STOCK Excite/um-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. dis.-Direct
Northern, 21. 95.-Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 5% -West
Riding Union, 3%-Buckinghamshire (late Rugby), ss. p.-Grand
Union, Is. p.-Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 58. dis.-Lanca-
shire, Yorkshire, and North Eastern, 17s. 6d. dis.-Leicester and
Bedford, 3s. 6d. dis.-North Western, 2%.
HULL, FEB. 25.
STOOK ExcusimE.-The sales are-Blackburn, Darwen, and Bol-
ton, New, 3s. p.-Derby and Gainsborough, 175.-Grand Union, 28s.
-London and York, 3% -South Midland, 41. 65. 6.1.--Shrewsbury
and Birmingham, 3-West Riding Union, 3%.
SHEFFIELD, FEB. 25.
STocK Excaat.tos.-The sales are-Leeds and Bradford, 52%-
Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 3 -West Riding Union, 3%.
HUDDERSFIELD, FEB. 25.
STOCK Excuestua.-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, 51%-Manchester and
Huddersfield Extension, 2s. 6d. p.-Huddersfield, Halifax, and Brad-
ford Union, 314 -Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby,
12s. 6d. dis--Wexford, Waterford, and Valentia, 11. 6s. 6d.-Liver-
pool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 5%-West Riding Union, 31. 19s.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, FEB. 25.
STOCK Excrurroz.-The sales are-Direct Northern, par-Great
Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, Quarter Shares, h p.-Liverpool,
Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 21s. p.-Manchester, Buxton,
and Matlock, 36a. p.-North British, 7 p.-Ditto, Halves (Carlisle),
1% p.-York and Carlisle, 14s. dis.
YORK, FEB. 25.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Direct Northern, 21. 112.-
Ilrand Union, 1%-Ipswich and Bury Extension (Norwich), 2%-
London and York, 31. 13s. 9d.-Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and
Midland, 31. 175.-Neweastle and Berwick, 21-Newcastle and Dar-
lington Extensions, 10%-North British, Carlisle Extension, 21. 178.
-West Riding Union, 3%-York and North Midland Extension, 32
-Ditto, New)_East and West Riding), 1014.
EDINBURGH, FEB. 23.
STOCK ExenAsfox.-Tho sales are-Aberdeen, 101. 101.--Aberdeen
Banff, and Elgin, 11. 16s. W.-Airdrie and Bathgate, 21. 4s. 6d.
-Arbroath and Forfar, M.-Ditto, Half Shares, 161.-Ayr and
Dumfries, 21. -Ayr and Galloway,ll. 18s.-Banffshire, 11. 103.-
British and Irish Union, 21. 155.-Caledonian, 141. N.-Caledo-
nian Extension, 21. 10a.-Caledonian and Dumbarton, 21. 75.-Clydes-
dale Junction, 191.-Direct Northern, 21. 15s. 6d.-Dundee and Ar-
broath, 391.-Ditto, New, 221.-Dundee and Perth, W. 155.-East
of Fife, 21. 25.-East Lothian Central, 11. IN.-Edinburgh and Bath-
gate, 21. 10s.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, 791. 10s.-Ditto, Half Shares,
16/.- Ditto, Quarters, 19/. 155.-Ditto, ditto, New, 161. 10s.-Edin-
burgh Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 16s. Gd. -Edinburgh and Leith
Atmospheric, 11. 95.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 191. 108.-
Ditto, Preference, 20/. 10s.-Edinburgh and Northern, 51. 12s. 6d.-
Ditto, Newport, 11. 35.-Ditto, Lochgelly, IL Bs. 6d.-Edinburgh and
Peebles, 11. 195.-Edinburgh and Perth, 31. 10s. 6d.-Forth and
Clyde Junction, 11. IN.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 761.-Ditto, New
Stock, 281. 10s.-Ditto, Quarter Shares, 191.-Glasgow, Dumfries,
and Carlisle, 21. 95..-Glasgow and Dundee Junction, 21.-Glasgow
and Garnkirk, 421. 102.-Glasgow and Greenock, 191. 10s.-Ditto,
New Stock, 101.-Ditto, Preference, 11. 155.-Great North of Scot-
land, 31. 4s. id.-Granton Junction, 11. IN.-Inverness and Elgin,
1/. Bs.-London and York, 41.-North British, 281.-Ditto, Halves.
101.-Perth and Inverness, 1/. 145.-Scottish Central, 161. 53.-
Scottish Midland, 61.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 21.75.
GLASGOW, FEB. 24.
ST•eft Excfmroz.-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. Gd.
-Caledonian, New 725.-Ditto, Extenilon, 475.-Direct Northern,
545. 6d.-East Indian Railway, 225. 6d.-Edinburgh and Perth, 70s.
-Glasgow General Terminus, 11-Glasgow and Belfast Union, 425.-
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 75%-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Car-
lisle, 455.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 575.-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, 378. 6d.-South Midland,
835.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 455.