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LONDON, SATURDAY. JANUARY 29, 1848.

The spirit of the Anti-Corn-law League yet sur-
vives, and is as vigorous and as well prepared
as ever to come forth and do battle in support
of the glorious principles of free trade. The sugar
monopolists, who have of late been " making night
hideous" with their " howlings" after protection,
have reckoned without their host. Finding the
Anti-Corn-law League dissolved, and RICUARD
COBDEN, the soul of the League, absent from Eng.
land, travelling on his mission of " goodwill to man-
kind" through the different countries of the Conti-
nent, where, to quote the words of Mr. GEORGE
WILSON, the earnest and indefatigable chairman of
the late Anti-Corn-law League, " he has been
received as the accredited and honoured am-
bassador of free trade and peace in every city
and port in Europe"—the " members of the
aris-
toeracy of the sugar cask," as Mr. COBDEN
was wont felicitously to designate them, fondly
imagined that the spirit of the League was
dead—that the reign of the humbug of Protection
was not yet over, and that again they would be en-
abled to revel in the luxuries of Belgravia, by
plundering the hard-working labourers of this
country under the specious pretext of humanity to
the blacks. All these visions, however, have vanished
into air—thin air. The men of the late Anti-Corn-
law League are up and doirg; they are as earnest,
as enthusiastic, as logical, as just, as honest as they
ever have been, and infinitely more powerful—wit-
ness the glorious Free-trade demonstration at
Manchester on Thursday last. On that day
two thousand five hundred ladies and gentlemen
assembled together in the Free-trade Hall, " to
celebrate the return to Parliament of the distinguished
advocates of commercial freedom who have been
members of the National Anti-Corn-law League."
Among these distinguished advocates of commercial
freedom who were present at this banquet were—
Richard Cobden, Esq., M P.; the Right Hon. Thomas
Milner Gibson, M.P.; Thomas Thornely, Esq., M.P.;
P. l'ilkington, E,q., M.P.; Wm. Ewart, Esq., ALP. ;
John Dixon, E3q., M.P.; EA. ThiekLesse, E-q., M.P.;
John Bright, Esq., M.P.; Dr. Bowring, M.P.; M. Wil-
son, E,q., M.P.; J. B. Smith, Esq., M.P.; Colonel T. P.
Thomp-on, M.P.; James Kershaw, Esq., M.P.; J.
lirotherton, Esq., M.P.; G. Thompson, Esq., M.P.; J.
Williams, Esq., M.P.; R. Gardner, Esq., M.P.; and
the Mayors of Manchester and Ashton, besides many
gentlemen who took a distinguished part in the agitation
of the corn-laws.

Here we have a goodly list of free-traders re-
turned to the House of Commons ; but this list does
not include the names of all the members of the late
League who have been returned. The name of W.
J. Fox, Esq., M.P., certainly not one of the least
distinguished members of the League, is not to be
found in this list ; and there are various others, Lord
MORPETII, for instance, whose names are enrolled as
leaguers, who were not present, so that this assem-
blage, brilliant as it was, important as it was, can by
no means be considered as demonstrating the whole
strength of the free-trade party in the House of
Commons. The chair was taken by GEORGE
WILSON, Esq., a gentleman to whose name we would
fain see attached the letters M.P., for with his peculiar
and happy power of exposing fallacies, his untiring
energy, and his business habits, his presence in the
House of Commons would be of infinite service.
Ile explained the object of the meeting in a few
words :--" We do not meet here," said he, " to cele-
brate a victory obtained by one constituency, but by
a number of constituencies—not to record a triumph,
carried to a successful issue, in a small pocket
borough, but to record the triumph obtained by the
people of England—one unexampled in the history
of any previous election." It is, indeed, a triumph
unexampled in the history of any previous election.
The chiefs of the League have been by the free
choice of the people transferred en masse to the
[louse of Commons, which henceforth will take the
place ofeovent-gardenTneatre as the temple for which
the doctrines of commercial freolorn will be expounded,
to the world. The Protectknists, utterly defeated on
the corn question, appear inclined to fight on the
%Vest Indian question; but, as Mr. WILSON pro-
pheticaliy observed, " We will meet them on that,
too, arid defeat them upon that as upon other ques-
tions." The question of protection to the West India
body was so admirably discussed by Mr. MILNER
GIBSON —the success of the great free-trade experi-
ment in this article of sugar, whether regarded
financially or socially, so clearly demonstrated, and
the rules by which a representative of the people
should guide his conduct in voting on this question,
so justly laid down, that we feel no apology is neces•
nary for quoting in extenso what fell from the Vice-
President of the Board of Trade on this important
subject:—
" We are asked to give to the \Vest India body a
protecting duty of 10s. per cwt. upon sugar-10/. per
ton upon all the colonial sugar—upon all the colonial
sugar imported into this country—is the modest re-
quest which is made to the representatives of the
people. Ten pounds per ton upon all the colonial
sugar would amount to upwards of two millions of
taxes, to be imposed upon the people of this country ;
not for the purposes of the State ; not to be paid into
the coffers of the Exchequer; but to be transferred
from the great body of the consuming classes of
England to the proprietary body of colonial lands.
Now, I have no doubt it is very easy for persons
to say that granting this protection to the West,lndia
body will make very little addition to the price of
sugar ; will not be felt by the consumer, and will
prevent the ruin of many respectable families, and
restore to prosperity, perhaps, many West Indian
mercantile houses. If I were asked to give my own
property, I might say, ' Very well, I have no objection
to grant you from my own funds the amount which
you ask, and I only hope that it may relieve you
from
your distress ;" but that is not the position of
a l‘le
andmbe
r of Parliament ; he is not dealing with his
rutsyth.ice—e
betwixt(Applause.) He is trustee for the
people,Ociwpnle property:
jPe isbound taollacctlauspseosn tohfe
thestrict
people.prin-
And what is, therefore, the position of a Member of
Parliament when a request est is- made to him for a ten-
shilling differential duty upon colonial sugar ? He
says to himself, I am asked to transfer a portion of
the earnings of all the factory operatives and the
agricultural labourers to a body of men, upon the
ground that they are in distress and Canmake l
the
o tp. be.
business in which they are engaged p
(Hear, hear.) But an Hon. Member must ask him-
self this question— Is there a more obvious and clear
title—one more inalienable, or less capable of being
shaken—than that which the labouring man has to the
earnings which he has received as the reward of his
whattold
is the wages
naturegin
ofe
industry ? Can there be a higher title to property than
the title which the labouring man has established for
thethish n
hfiogrhheirs labourti
title which
? INr ell,w
e a then,re
exists on the part of (Vest India proprietors to a
v
portion of those wages; how can he make out a higher
or 4 letter title to get a portion of those wagt-s than the
labouring moan who ha, received them directly tor his
industry ? (Hear, lirar, and applause.) I cannot
r:Lrg‘uv;:iebnyts
c""eile it to my notions of justice that it can be
proprietor has any
awnhyi c
hpreviouslegislationevyerp h e athat of this a
n y country,
colonial
that it can be shown by an rescri tive right, by any
betterrd,
claim to this man's wages

than the man has himself.—(llear, hear, and cheers.)
And until a better title can be shown than the labour-
ing man himself can show to the wages he has re•
ceived from his employer, I must refuse, merely at
the request of proprietors, and upon the plea of dis-
tress, I must refuse, in my capacity as a trustee, to
transfer any portion of these earnings to the proprie-
tors of the soil.—(bear, and loud cheers.) When the
Sugar Duties Bill of 1846 passed through Thalia-
merit all the facts were before the Legislature which •
are now before thein.—(Hear, hear.) Everything
was taken into consideration, and, after a mature
discussion of the Government, sugar duties were
placed upon a permanent footing.—(Hear, and ap-
plause.) The measure of 1846 has conferred great
benefits upon the country.—(Hear, hear.) It has
done as the Protectionists predicted it would do, it
has added materially to the revenue of the State, and
it has increased the quantity of sugar to the con-
sumer.—(Hear, hear, and applause.) I will take the
liberty of reading to you the effect which it has had
upon the revenue of the State, and also the addition
it has made in the quantity of sugar consumed by
the people.—(Applause.) For the twelve months
ending August, 1845, the year previous to the pr€ sent
Bill being passed, for the twelve months, I say, ending
August, 1845, the revenue from sugar amounted to
3,339,182/. ; for the twelve months ending August,
1847, being the first year of our Sugar Bill—the
Free-trade Sugar Bill—the revenue from sugar
amounted to 4,652,4921.,. showing an increase of
1,313,000/.—(llear, hear)—that was the sum gained
to the revenue, accompanied, as I said before, with
less taxation to the consumer, and an increased quan-
tity of sugar at a lower price brought within the
reach of all classes of her Majesty's subjects.—
(Applause.) I am therefore prepared to stand by
the Bill of 1846.—(Loud cheers.) I think it is a
good measure— (Hear, hear)-1 think it has answered
the purposes for which it was introduced—(Hear)—
I think it was a just measure—l think it was a well-
considered measure, and I think the country will
never regret that it was parsed into a law."
After this clear and lucid exposition of the subject,
we trust that the West Indian body will be wise
enough to abstain for the future from asking for pro-
tection. The defeat of any attempt on their part to
plunder the people of England of two millions per
annum for their own private benefit is certain, for,
as Mr. COBDEN said, this glorious Manchester de-
monstration is to be regarded not so much as a meet-
ing to celebrate past triumphs, as to show that the
free-traders are alive to the future. As might be
naturally supposed, Mr. COBDEN alluded at some
length to the subject of our national defences, and
thus explained his Stockport speech :

" I stated, at Stockport, very candidly, what I will
state now, and what I stated in my writings twelve
years ago, that you cannot have any material reduc-
tion in our armaments until a great change shall have
taken place in the public feeling of the country with
regard to our foreign policy.—(Hear, hear.) The
English people must first abandon the notion that
they are to regulate the affairs of the whole world.
I wish to do no injustice to the Minister that main-
tains our armaments, nor do I blame him for it now;
but all I wish is to .invoke public opinion upon the
folly of conducting our foreign policy as it has been
conducted in times past, and this I will do on all oc-
casions.—(Applause.) When the public opinion—
the majority of the public opinion of the country—is
on my side, I shall be content to see my views on this
question carried out, but until that time I consent to
be in a minority, and in a minority I will remain
until I can make it into a majority.—(Cheers.)"
This is a very different version from that which has
hitherto been considered Mr. COBDEN'S speech at
Stockport, and is no doubt the correct one. We
felt convinced at the time we read the first version of
Mr. COBDEN'S speech, that there was a gross error
somewhere. Mr COBDEN then proceeded to show
that our present naval force was amply sufficient for
all purposes of defence if it were properly distributed,
and contended that if our fleet, now worse
than uselessly employed in the Tagus, in
defending the Queen of PORTUGAL against
the just indignation of her own subjects, were sta-
tioned in the Channel, for the protection of our coasts,
there would be no necessity for increasing the esti
mates by one farthing. The Honourable Gentleman,
in conclusion, thus replied to the taunts at free trade
in which some of " the willing to wound, but yet
afraid to strike," party have of late been wont to
indulge:—
" We began by advocating free trade, believing it
would bring in its train peace and harmony among
all nations ; but the most enthusiastic free-trader
among us never said, as some of the papers now say,
that we expected a millenium after we had obtained
free trade. We never expected anything of the sort
—we expected that other nations would require time,
as we had, to carry out our views; but what we did
hope was this—that the continent of Europe would
not, at all events, have seen that we were the first to
doubt as to the tendency of our own principles, and
that we should be arming ourselves against those
from whom we expected to meet only with friendship.
We thought, and we endeavoured, to make free trade
the harbinger of peace. When we planted the olive
tree we never expected its fruits to be had in a day,
but in due season we hoped to gather them; and,
with Heaven's help and your help, it shall yet be so."

The veteran Colonel TnompsoN followed, and he
too repudiated the absurd idea, that because the free-
traders are essentially men of peace, therefore they
are for incontinently disbanding the whole of the
army, and breaking. up the whole of our ships. After
his own quaint fashion, he thus put the question upon
its proper basis :

‘AII must wish the time to come when armies
and fighting men shall no longer be required; I wish
the time was arrived when we could do without sur-
geons, for instance, and I with also the time was
come when we could dispense with lawyers.—(Loud
laughter, and applause.) Not the slightest objection
shall you find me making to the dispensing with
these classes of persons when the time shall come that
we can do without them.—(Hear, hear.) Indeed, I
will not stand upon the retention of the clergymen
when we can profitably dispense with their services.
All these are persons and offices which we must
endure ; for though our object in wishing their re
moval would be a good one, it is a question whether
we can, by doing away with them, produce what we
wish to achieve.—(hear, hear.) Now, I have not
put it to you that it is impossible to do without veer,
for I am persuaded that we cannot wholly dispense
with our armaments; but I now put to you whether
we cannot do without those costly preparations for
war which are proposed to be forced upon your
stomachs and purses."
Mr. BRIGHT, Mr. BROTHERTON, and Mr. GEORGE
THOMPSON followed, and the meeting, which lasted
until a quarter before twelve o'clock, broke up, after
passing a vote of thanks to the Members of Parlia-
ment who had attended it.

We regard this magnificent meeting as a pledge
given to the country that " the free-traders are alive
to the future." We trust to see many similar meetings
held in all parts of the country, as assurances to the
leaders of the free•trade party that the principles
which they have foe the last seven years been incul-
cating have taken root and are bearing fruit through-
out the length and breadth of the land—as warnings
to the Protectionists that we are on our guard
and as earnests to the country that, as
on all former occasions, we have not only
always held what we have acquired, but have year by
year progressed and obtained something more, so we
intend to press forward, under the leadership of Mr.
COBDEN, from victory to victory, until every existing
monopoly of every sort and description shall be
destroyed.

The Special Commission for the county of Tippe-
rary was opened at Clonmel on Monday, the num-
ber of important cases in Limerick and Clare having
prevented the possibility of an earlier attendance by
the Learned Judges. The total number of capital
convictions in these counties amounted to sixteen—
six in Limerick, and ten in Clare, of whom it is
supposed that eleven will suffer the extreme penalty
of the law. The legal arrangements in Tipperary
are similar to those which were adopted in the other
towns. The prosecutions are conducted by the AT-
TORNEY and SOLICITOR-GENERAL, assisted by MT.
SCOTT, Q C., and Mr. M. SAUSSE, the ordinary
Crown prosecutors for the Leinster Circuit, while
the prisoners are defended by Mr. ROLLESTON,
an eminent barrister, who has the most ex-
tensive criminal rractice on the circuit, and
who, like Mr. O'IIEA, has been sent down
special on behalf of the several prisoners. Although
there are more than four hundred persons detained
in Clonmel gaol, most of them upon very serious
charges, the more important cases will only be pro-
ceeded with under the Commission, sufficient to show
the vigour and determination with which the law will
be enloiced, and its penalties carried into execution
against the habitual violaters of its provisions.
Such an example will be most valuable, as it is
essentially necessary that the Tipperary boys should
see in their own county that jurors and witnesses
will not be deterred from the conscientious discharge
of their duties by the system of intimidation and

terror that so long prevailed. We doubt not that
the gentlemen of Tipperary who have been called
upon to act on the juries, to weigh the evidence
that may be produced before them, and to
return impartial verdicts, will deserve equal com-
mendation to that which their brethren of Limerick
and Clare have so nobly merited. The conduct of
these gentlemen was, indeed, beyond all praise.
As the Lord Chief Justice stated in his admirable
charge to the grand jury at Clonmel, " They bad
discharged their duty with firmness, unmoved by
fear, and unexasperated, as if all around them was
peace and repose ;" and " the evidence was given
by witnesses who spoke the truth, and spoke it
fearlessly." Their country will, indeed, have cause
to feel grateful to the men who shrunk not from
the post of danger, and who, in their position, set an
example that spread among the humbler classes, of
whom the witnesses chiefly consisted, and en-
couraged them to " feel confidence- in the power
and authority of the law, and to resist
the oppression which had become intoler-
able ; to oppose the attacks of the assailants,
upon their habitations, and in many instances to
drfeat those attacks nr.d to deliver the assailants
bound into the hands of justice." These are, indeed,
encouraging circumstances, and afford favourable
auguries for the future peace and tranquillity, and
consequent prosperity and happiness, of the districts.
The illegal confederacies to which these outrages are
attributable most undoubtedly had their origin in the
agrarian code that was introduced—in the desire to
deprive the proprietors of the soil of their just rights,
and to prevent an appeal to the laws of the land by
the bloodthirsty vengeance which was taken upon
every person who ventured to have recourse thereto.
But the system of intimidation was carried further.
It was not merely landlords, or agents, or tenants who
entered into the possession of holdings from
which the former occupants had been ejected that
were, the victims. The sanguinary miscreants
were ready to tu”n their arms against even those by
whom they had been originally fostered and en-
couraged, and ready instruments were found to exe•
cute any project that could enter into the most de-
moniacal imagination, until at last the yoke could no
longer be borne, anti farmers, cottiers, and labourers
found that they could have no safety under such a
system, and that all were equally interested in its
prompt and effectual suppression.
The Lord Chief Justice administered a strong
rebuke to those incendiaries who inflame the passions
of an excitable people, and think that they are justi-
fied in so doing because they add some few feeble re-
commendations against breaches of the law, or the
shedding the blood of their fellow-creatures.
His impressive words should be maturely reflected on
by Archdeacon LAFFAN, respecting whose language
there can be no dispute—language uttered in presence
of four members of the Legislature, and which no
Person has ever ventured to deny. His Lordship
said—" Yes, there seems to be the spirit of demons let
loose upon the land. The spirit of vengeance rages
without control and without limit, and no wonder,
because these crimes are extenuated and palliated,
and excused; nay, more, the saying has gone forth,
the will justice of revenge,' which has now obtained
credit arid currency, as if it were a great moral truth.
Now, not to dwell upon the audacious impiety of
prompting men to arrogate, and to exercise that
which belongs only to man's MAKER—without
stopping to dwell upon the profanation of the
sacred name—the spirit of justice issuing with the
idea of revenge—see what that precept means, and
is understeod to mean. It means this—that murder
is just—that rapine is just—that cruelty is just—
that crime, every crime, is just—provided only that
revenge be the motive, and its gratification the object•
Just to think that such a precept as this should have
been issued to our ignorant, turbulent, excitable
fellow-creatures. How do they understand it ? They
understand it as it was intended that it should be under-
.stood. Every man becomes the judge of his own
wrongs and the avenger of his own wrongs, and
the consequences are what might have been expected.
The innocent fall by the arm of the assassin, and
the assassin, and the accessory, and the con-
spirators in their turn fall by the arm
of the law." We trust that these great truths may
sink deeply into the hearts of the agitators who foster
the evil passions of the uneducated multitude, and
that we may not again hear of persons, whose educa-
tion and position in society should have taught them
better. speaking of murder as being justifiable under
any circumstances, or that if a person was suffering,
and " a man of courage, he would go out and shoot
the first person he saw with a good coat on his back."
Another suggestion of the Lord Chief Justice
was exceedingly valuable, and will, we trust, be
adopted. He spoke of the power of combination for
evil, and recommended that it should be tried
what it might do for good, adding, " I
would humbly suggest the formation of asso-
ciations to preserve the peace in parishes
or lesser districts, and that to those associa-
tions every man should be admissible who chose to
become a member of it. I inter not into the details
of their operations, or the anode by which they may be
brought to bear on the suppression or prevention of
crime, but of this I am perfectly assured, that there
are no rieans within your power, and of those of the
friends of order and peace that are so immediately
capable of being put in execution, or are so likely to
be effective when pat in execution." It is by such
means that the friends of order would, indeed, be
known, by which the rate-payers may he saved from
the heavy expenses to which they would be exposed, if
the Government should feel called upon to bring the
provisions of the late " crime and disturbance"
Act into operation within the district ; and they
would also be spared the shame and disgrace of
seeing the localities in which they reside classed
amongst those that required such stringent measures.
'These recommendations should not, and we are con-
vinced will not, be neglected; and if they are acted
on in the spirit in which they were conceived, Tip-
perary will no longer maintain the bad pre-eminence
in crime for which it has unhappily been so long
distinguished.
The first trial at Clonmel has also terminated in a
capital conviction. JOHN LONERGAN, the murderer of
the late lamented Mr. Rox, and brother of the gen-
tleman whose letter, heaping calumnies on the
memory of the victim of assassination, the Honour-
able Member for Limerick thought proper to read
in the House of Commons, has been found guilty, on
the clearest and most satisfactory evidence, of the
fearful crime, and is to expiate his offence by an
ignominious death on the scaffold. Shocking as it is
to witness a young man thus cut off in the prime of
life, it would be still more dreadful if murder were
permitted to stalk abroad unchecked, and innocent
blood was to be shed with impunity.

The Swiss Diet sat on the 25th, and the President
announced that Sir STRATFORD CANNING, having►
accomplished his mission, was about to leave Swit-
zerland. The President added that he considered it
his duty to declare that the British diplomatist had
discharged his mission in the manner most honour-
able and advantageous to the real interests of Swit-
zerland.

The Diet has already commenced acting on the
advice given by Sir STRATFORD CANNING. They
have relieved the primitive cantons of the fine im-
posed on them, and have reduced the Federal army
to 5,000 men. The title of Pacificator will, it is
said, be bestowed on General DUFOUR.

A letter written from on board an American ship-
of-war, dated Jan. 16, off Messina, states that a tire
of artillery had been opened on the town.
A letter from Civita Vechia, of the 20th, gives as a
rumour that General MAGO hail been killed at Pa-
lermo. According to this account the army possessed
only the forts. It was apprehended in Naples that
an insurrection was imminent in the Calabrias and
the Abruzzi, but the Government feared to send
away troops from Naples. The Kira; was using the
most conciliatory means towards the people of the
capital.
The Swabian Mercury pretends to have news
from Palermo of the 17th, to the effect that after
three days' hard fighting the insurgents had taken
the citadel, and had established a provisional Go-
vernment.

Letters from Rome, of the 19th instant, announce
that Cardinal BUFFONDI, Legate et Ravenna, would
probably succeed Cardinal FERRETTI in the post
of Secretary of State. The Consults had pre-

sented an Address to the Porn, recommending the
re-organization of the army, and the immediate ar-
manent of the civic guard throughout the Roman
dominions.

The Turin journals of the 24th inst. mention the
arrival in that city of Professor CANTU, against NNhom
an arrest warrant had been issued by the Government
of Milan. At Venice a number of persons bad been
taken into custody, and, amongst others, Messrs.
TOMMASEO and MANNIN.

The Diario di Roma, of the 15th inst., given an
official contradiction to the report that Count .13Lunow
had, on the part of the Emperor of RUSSIA, concluded
a concord4l with the see of Rome.

Madrid papers of the 22d have been received.
General ESPARTERO was preparing to leave Madrid
for Logrono, where he will meet the Duchess of
VICTORY, and where he intends residing for some

time.
Don FRANCISCO XAVIER DR BURGOS, a former
Minister of Spain, died on the 221 at Madrid.
The Bolsa was closed on the 22d.

"Ye have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The fourth paragraph of the Address, that relating
to prison discipline, came on for discussion on Thurs-
day, and as it incidentally opened up the question of
the state of public morality, M. DE TOCQUEYILLE
took advantage of it to attack M. GUIZOT for his con-
niving at the corrupt bargain for the sale of places
with M. PETIT. After reminding the Chamber of
the severity which the Minister had exercised against
those of his empfoyes who had voted against him, he
thus addressed M. GUIZOT :—" Here is an agent of
the Government, a man placed in daily contact with
you, who is guilty of a fact which you are compelled
to admit, and yet there is not the slightest dimi-
nution of cordiality between you and the man
who has placed you in this serious position.
You cannot, Monsitur le Ministre, get out of this
embarrassment ; why do you retain the man who has
thus compromised you in your confidence ? Why do
you not punish him ? If you refuse to do this act of
justice, it may be naturally concluded that you were
acquainted with his acts, and that you refuse to dis•
miss him.—(Violent murmurs from the centre, and
approbation from the left.) Does not everything
that passes around you evince that there is in the
public mind a strong spirit of revolution ? Do you
still calculate on the future ? Do not deceive your-
self—you perhaps may yet have some time left, but
the tempest is in the horizon, and it must burst on you
before long. Stop, then, while you have the means—
adopt reforms and changes, for that is your only
resource." This gave rise to an animated dscussion, in
the course of which M. DEVIENNE and M. JANYIER
defended the Minister, while M. BILLAULT gave a
resume of all the recently discovered scandals from the
offuire TESTE to the of aire Rem, and accused both
M. DUCHATEL and M. GUIZOT of corruption and
falshood. The debate was then adjourned, and was
resumed yesterday, and the scene was of the most
violent character ; at the hour the post left, the Pre•
silent was ringing his bell, and calling speakers to
order, amidst the greatest uproar.
PARIS BOURSE, FRIDAY, JAN. 28. The
Bourse has been again very firm to-day; but, with
the exception of the Fives, which have slightly im
proved, quotations reinain about the same as yester-
day. The last call for Threes was made at 74f. 35c ;
fires, at 116 f. 75c.; and New Loan, at 75f. 30c.
Tile market closed as follows:—Three per Cents.,
for cash, 741. 20c. ; for account, 741. 35c.; Five per
Cents., for cash, 116 r. 60c.; for account, 116 f. 75c. ;
New Loan, for account, 75f. 30e.; Bank of France
Shares, 3,165 f. ; Neapolitan, 95f. 50c.; Spanish,
not quoted.

RAILWAYS.—The Share Market is also firm, and
the quotations of yesterday have been pretty well
maintained, though on some lines a slight reduction
has taken place. For cash, Paris and Orleans closed
at 1,182 f. 50c.; Paris and Rouen, 898 f. 75c. ;
ViErzon, 508 f. 75c.; Strasburg and Bale, 157 f. 50c. ;
Dieppe, 255 f.; Nantes, 386 f. 25c.; Northern, 5331'
.
75c.; Bordeaux, 476 f. 25c.; Paris and Strasburg,
405 f.; Paris and Lyons, 39.5 f.; Montereau, 240 f.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THL.
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. Jaw. 28.
Boulogne and Amiens, 14—Dutch Rhenish, 2!.—Norther;
of France, 11:14 Orleans and Bordeaux, 5 ris ano
57,/,—Paris and Rouen, 3534—Rouen and Havre, 177 i
—Sambre and Meuse, 71s.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

COV:CNT-GLI.ILDEIv

Potatoes, from 5s 81 to 8s per cwt.; Onions, 2,
to 3s; Apples, Is Id to 3,; 3d; and rears, 6i to 7
per halt-sieve ; Wulnot6, 84 to Is; and Oranges, 5,
to 12s per 100; Greens, 2 64 to 3z 3d ; Turnips, 26 8d
to 3s 3d; Le,-Its, is to Is 8;1; and Carrots, 4s to 6s 3u
per dozen hunches; Savr)s, 10d to is 4d per dozen;
Celery, is to 2s; horseradish, 2s 6d to 4s 6d; ami
Brom)lt, ls 6.1 to per bundle; Fiibtrrty, 8d to 10A ; ttm;
Cob nuts, 91 to 10d per 1b; Spinach, 63 6d per sieve.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEW "!.;.
• CITY, QDARTER TO THREE.
The Bank of England averages for the week, from
the 22d to the 29th inst., will serve to explain the cause
of the reduction in the rate of interest; the discos nt
business having been reduced about three quarters of a
million sterling; although the resources of the Bank,
both in bullion and unemployed notes, were again aug-
mented. The comparison with the previous week is as
follows:—
Notes issued
Increase
Rest
Increase
Public Deposits
Decrease 252,232
Other Deposits
Increase

Seven Day and other Bills 903,278
Increase 302
Government Securities ... 11,464,665
Increase
Other Securities
Decrease 744,573
Notes 7,447,385
Increase
Bullion
Increase
Active circulation
Increase
The demand for bills of exchange has increased this
week, and the rates attainable for the pound sterling are
in consequence lower.
There are some important arrivals announced, but the
advices will not reach until the afternoon. The Teviot
has arrived at Southampton from the West Indies, the
Madrid from Lisbon, and the Caledonia at Liverpool,
from America.
The accounts from abroad allude to the certainty of
two or three continental loans, those for Belgium and
the Roman States being likely to come first into the
field.
There are further failures here again. Messrs.
Brightman and Co., in the East India trade, and Messrs.
Bertram and Parkinson, of Newcastle, have both sus-
pended.
The Funds are lower, sales of Stock having keen
pressed as is customary after an advance in prices.
Consols have been 89i to 4 for transfer, and down from
89i to 89+ for account. Exchequer Bills have been as
high as 335. to 375. premium. Bank Stock is firm at 201
to 202, and India Steck at 241 to 243. The Nov
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have realised 901 to 91.
The Foreign investments have been moderately
active. Spanish Five per Cents. have been marked 214
to 22, and the Three per Cents. 32+. Portuguese Four
per Cents. have realised 27. Mexican Stock is worth
181 to 4. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been
541, and Belgian 91.
Railway Shares are in rather better request, and
fuller prices are paid.
ONE CLOSING
RICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock ... .202 202

:3 per Cent. Reduced Anne 89% 90 89% 89%
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities.-- 8854% % 89
New 3% per Cent. Anns 9l 9034 90%
Long Anns. to expire J an. 1860 -16 9 9
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 834 81i
India Stock 242 943 241 241
Consols for Account : 89%% 54 69%
Exchequer Bills. 3d.
1,000/.
5001.
ONE CLOSINt-
oiCES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. CRICES
Danish Bonds. 1825, 3 per Cent... 83% 84
Equador Bonds
Grenada Bonds, 1 per Cent.
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 18%% 18%
Ditto, Account . lB% 18%
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 39% 40
Ditto, Account 4O 40
Portuguese 5 per Cents. - .-
Ditto, 4 per Cent —
Ditto, Account 27 27
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account ...... .........
Ditto, Passive
Ditto. 3 per Cent 324 sll,i,
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian 4% per Cent .. 91 91
Dutch, 2% per Cent.o2 Guild.... 54% 5414
Ditto, Account 5414 54%
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 85% 8534
PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Abe, deen 45 ... .
Amber., Nott.,:Boston,
and Eastern Junetion 2%...... %
Ayrshire and Galloway.. 2% — .
Belfast & County Down 10 ......
Birmingham and Ox
ford Junction ..,. ... 20

Birmingham, Wolyar- .
hampton, and Dudley le ..... ... ......... ...
Bi rani i .g., Wolverlepton,
and Stour Valley 101. 145... ......
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Che4hire_June,.... iN - ... • ••..••••• -

Boston, Starnfd & Birin. 5 .....
Bristol find Exeter BO
Ditto, Thirds
ruckinglianithite... 121. 4s. ....• ........
Caledonian
Ditto, Half Shares .. 334...... 1 .• .....
Ditto,Clyclesdale June 50
Chester and Holyhead... 371/2 -- •••... .........
__ ,

Ditto, Preference l2 - —
Clarence

Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10
Do. 2,1 Class, 5 per Ct. 10

no;Governnieni Loan,
4 per Cent.
Direct London & Ports-
mouth
Dublin and Belfast June 25 ......
Dundalk & Enniskillen 17Ih

East Anglia, 251., L. &
E. and L. and D.....• 23 ...... 12
Do.,:18/., E. & 11... 18
Do., 3/. 105.,E. & IL. 2 ..••
Eastern Counties........ 20
Ditto (11)...

Ditto, U3r.-tension, 5 per
Cent., No. I. 61. 13s. 4d.... ••• ...... ••• ••
Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13s. 4d...
Do., North. & Eastern 50
Do., Quarters
Do., New ... .. . 23
Eastern Union 5O
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12!-
Ditto, Thirds .......135.4d.. ..••
1)o. (guar. t.; percent.) 10 .....• • •••• ••
East Lancashire
Ditto, New

Ditto, New Quarters 33/4......
Ea.kt Linco:nshire ...... 12%
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Ditto, Half Shares ... 15 .. ..
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12%
Edinburgh and Northern 22% _
Ditto, New.. 34 —
Ditto, Newport l2
Ditto, ditto, New
Exoter,Yeovil, & Dorch. 2~,,i
Ditto, New ... ..... .... 2.%
Glasgow, Dumfries, and
Carlisle
Glasgow,Kilmar., & Ayr 50
Ditto, New ... . 40
Do. Preference Consol. 12;, - ...... • •••
Great Northern
Do., London and York 2%...... ••• —
ireat South. and West.
( Ireland)
Great North of Englaud.loo ... •
Ditto, New 40/ 5
Ditto, New 301. 3O
Ditto, New, 151.
Great Western 9O lO3 104%..
Ditto, % Shares 5O .....
Ditto, 14 Shares
Ditto, Fifths
Ditto, New 171 .. _. 9% lO% 11 .... ..... 11
Huddersfield and Manch. 24
Ditto, Thirds
Hull and Selby
Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 ...... ••• —
Ditto 14 Shares
Ed 171/ 81i

Ipswich BißurySt. _ an. 17%
Do., do., and Norwich 15 - •••••
Do., do., Extens. Scrip
(late Camb. & Ely) 2%...... -
Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 ...... -
Ditto, Thirds
Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 ..... -
Ditto, ditto - .. •••• . -
Ditto, % Shares ...... 38 ... -
Do. Quarter Shares... 14% - ... 12%
Do. Fifths.- ......... ... 8 -
Do. Sixteenth.: 614
Do. Thirds (11cg.)....10/.43...... - -
Do. Liverp. and Bury 38 - -
Ditto % (late Hud-
dersfield and Shetf.) 33 - -
Do.(Wakefield,Ponte-
tract, and Goole).- 471,4...... - -
Do.( W. Riding Union)4/.25...... -
-
Do. (Preston & Wvre) 25 -
Do. % Shares ( A)... 9 ...... - -
Ditto ditto (11) ... ilji - -
Leeds and Bradford 5O -
Leeds, Dewsbury, &c... 42%. .... -.•••..1 —
Do., Half Shares l5 -.......- •••-• ......... -
Do.Newliranch (blue) 2%... - - -
Do. Extension (green) 21A3 - -
Do. NewExten.(pink) 2%
-
Leeds and Thirsk ...... 36 - -
Ditto, New - •••••••• -
Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3%...... -
Liverpool, Crosby and
Southport. 2 -
Liverp., Alnchstr &New-
castle Junction 21,4 - -
London & Black vva11...13/. 63.8 d.... 5% S3A
Do. New, No. 2 ... 4/. 13s. 4d.... 1% dis l% dia.
Do. Extension ..... ... 17%.....• -
London, Brighton, and
South Coast .......•• 50
Do. Consul. Eighths. 30 -
Do. Guarant. 5 per ct.., 9 - -
Do. ['ref. Con.sper et. 50 .. ... - ...... -
Ditto, ditt0...... 1852 50 - -
London and Greenwich 12/ 15s 4d... - ..........., _
Ditto, Preference... 18117 a 2d... -- -
London and N. Western 100 154 ... 153
Do., Quarters L. & B. 22 -
Do., do., New - -
Ditto Fifths ..... .. 2 ...... - -
Do. 1,4 Shares (G. J... )25 - .. -
Do 40/.Shares(L. M.) 15 -
-
Do. 40/. (M. & B.) ... 40 - -
Do. 101. (M. & B.) A. 7%....•. -
Do. 101. (M. & 13.) B. 7% , - 'natal "".. a

De. 10! (M. & B.) C. 1 ••
n . 14% astern ...41/. fis.Bd.... 84%%
Do. New ( onsoL Bths 40 ......
1)0. New 50/. ... ..... ..

54i
VIM.
00..

Do. New 401. . 26'
MDO. Tenths (Consol.) 50 „... „..
slDitto ditto 40
®Ditto, Thirds Si. 6&
1,,,nd0n, Salisbury, and
Yeovil
Londonderry ScCuleraini. 271 A
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen 25 ;•••••• ••• ••••• .••••
Manchester,Bazton,and
Matlock.... -3
Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire —XX)
Do. Quarters (No. 1) 13 —

-.4

-a

Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25
Ditto ditto (No. 3)... 7%
Ditto and Grimsby.... 25 -
Ditto ditto • •••...••• 7 ....,..•• -- •••......•
Ditto ditto - •••••• •••••••a•
Ditto Sheffield and
Lincolnshire 74.,•••• - 00000 SON • • .1.11
Manehest& Southampt 2A
Hidlan / lOO ll5 116 114%•••
Do.'ConsolidatedPref.loo
Do:401. Shares
Do. 50/. Shares l5 ....• 13%%
Do. Birm., and Derbyloo - •••••.
Midland Consol.Brist. &
Birming., 6 per et. ...160 ......•
Midlnd, Brist. &Glocstr. 36
Ditto, ditto ...... -111.33. 61 — .....,.-
Midlnd,Leicest.& Swan-
nington, 8 per ct.guar.loo -• .....«..„•..•
Midland Great Western
Irish
Newcastle and Carlisle...loo - .......•....•.
Do. Quarters 25 - .• .....,
Newmrket&Chesterford 18%
Do. Extension .........21. 125....
Newport, Abergaveany,
and Hereford . 8 •••••• - ..... NO ••••••
Newry and Enniskillen 7
Newry, Warronpoint,
and Rostrevor . . 12% •-• .............
Norfolk .....• .- 100
Do. New 201. - -• •••••• •••••
Do. Extension . 16 ...•• • • .....• •••• • •
Do. Scrip, 1847, North
of Norfolk

=Mb
116
,tt!

Do. do. Waveney Val. .2
Northern Counties Union 4 — ...«.
North British ... .... ... 25
Do. Half Shares 12%......
Do. Quarters .. 43
Do. Extension - -
Ditt , Thirds
Nort' Staffordshire li ...... 10%U.......... 10%
worth Wales -
North Western 6 - .•••• ..r..... .....
atord, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton ...... 33 ...

Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate
Royston and Ilitchin ... 1% IV4 ll4
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland 2214 3O .....
Ditto, New lO
--
Sheffield, Rotherham,

sad Uoole
ihrewsbury and 'Erni.— V

Ditto ditto. Class B. 4
Shrewsbury & Chester
(Nor. W. Min.) l6 -
Ditto Halves ... ditto 8 ..... .. —
Ditto Oswestry ...... 12
Ditto New ..
Do. 8 per Cent. Pref. ö
Shrewsbury and Heretd. 2 ......
Shropshire Union
-
South Dav0n.......... ..... 40 ......
Do. Preference

South Statlordshire
South Eastsru & Dover. 33% — .. 3l
Do., No. 1 '24
D0., Nc. 2.
Do. N 0.3 ,

Do., No. 4 -
South Wales ...... 18
outh Yorkshire, Don-
caster, and Goole
Swans. k Loughor & Ca-
meron's Stm. C0a1.... •.. "•••• •.
raw Vale Extension ... 4
Thames Haven Duck
and Railway ........... 171,4 ..... . -
Vale of Neath

Waterford and Kilkenny .1.1111•
Waterford and Limerick 4*

Viraterfd,Wmfrd,Wicklw,
and Dublin -
West Cornwall ......

V'hitehayen& Furness 13
Windsor, Staines, and
South Western........ 82s. —
W ilts, Somerset, & Wey-
mouth
York, Newcastle, and
Berwick. .... ...
Do. Original New and
Berwick
Do. North Shields Pur. 25
Do. Extension No. 1. 15 ......
Do. do. No. 2......... 10
ilo. (.I.N !;.Preference 8 ...... 1014
York Atli North Midland 50

Ditto, Preference ...... 10
Do. East bad V 1 est hid-
ing Extension
--
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens... 20
Central of France (Or-
leans and Vierzon) ... 14
Central of Spain ..
Ceylon

Demerara 5
Dendre Valley 4
Direct Bombay and
Madras
Duch I:lleilish 7
East Indian IM —

104

15!4
11%

14'

liteat Indian Peninsular 50.-
Italian and Austrian.... 4
Jamaica S. Mid. J unction 1
Louvain it la Sambre ... 6
I.uxembourg...
Lyons and Avignon..... b

Madrid and Yalentia... 2
Namur and Liege . .... 1S ... ..
b • •••

Northern of France
..
Orleans and Thrilean" 6
Over Yesel 413 s 4d — ........
Paris and Lyons lO ..... 5% ... 3%
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen ..... 2U
Paris and St:asbourg ... 8
Rouen and Havre
Sambre and Meuse lB ..... 7!4
Strasbourg and Basle ... 14
'tours and Nantes 8
Tournay, Jurbise, Lan-
den, and Ilasselt ...... 16
West Flanders.. —...... 81,4.....

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia
British North American tO
Colonial
London & Westminster. 20
Provincial of Ireland ... 25
Ditto New........ -.... 10
Commercial of London 20
Union of L0nd0n......... 10 ......
Union of Madrid 40
National Proc. England. 35
Ditto, New .... .. ..... 10 --

London Joint 5t0ck...... 10
National of Ireland 2214...... •••
Union of Australia
Ditto,New... ........2

MINES.
Anglo-Mexican lOO -
Brazilian Coeaes& Cuiba 30 ..... •
British Iron
Real Del Monte, Unreg.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JAN. 29.—Wind E.S.E., light airs and mild
Weather.

DEAL, JAN. 28.—Wind E.S.E. to S.S.E.—Arrd. from
the river and sailed, United, Monte Video; Forester,
Tobago.
SEAFORD ROADS.—Arrd. William, St. John's, for
Bull.
PLYMOUTH, JAN. 28.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. Gerardas
Jacobus, Ruysch, Batavia; Jeannette, Halfwig, ditto;
Panama, Lawson. Calcutta.
LIVERPOOLVAN. 28.—Wind S.E.—Sld. Emma, Cape
of Good Hope; Hero, Africa; Chieftain, ditto; Presi-
dent, Hayti; Columbus, Mobile; Scotland, Charleston.
Arrd. Caledonia steamer, from Boston and Halifax, with
32,000 dollars on freight—(llb. 42m.)
WHITEBAVEN, JAN. 28.—514. Wasdale, Antigua.
CAMPBELTOWN.—Arrd. Maid of the Mill, Trinidad,
after being on shore.
WATERFORD, JAN. 26.—Wind N. to R.E.—Arrd.
Adelaide, Noel, Demerara, for Liverpool.
Conic, JAN. 26.—Wind E.S.E., strong.—Sid. Eliza-
beth Margaret, St. John's, Newfoundland.
BELFAST.—Sid. Eliza Piree, New Orleans ; Sarah,
Porto Rico.
SIIBERNESS, JAN. 27.—The Catherine, of South Shields,
for London, got on the Nore Sand 25th inst., fell ores
on her broadside, and was abandoned to day.
GLASGOW, JAN, 28.—A large barque, name unknown,
has gone on shore at the Isle of Arran.
ABERDEEN, JAN, 26.—The Paquebot du Havre has
broken up, but little of either vessel or cargo has been
saved.
SHIELDS, JAN. 27.—The Russian ship, Frithio, left
Hull fur this port two months ago, and hes sot since
been heard of.

SCARBOROUGH, JAN. 27.—An old skip's boat, marked
" John Pringle," was washed up on the beach here
yesterday.
NEWPORT, JAN. 27.—Sid. Competitor, St. Thomas;
Bromley's, Bermuda.
ILFRACOMBE, JAN. 28.—The Sarah, Newport to
Perth, has put in here very leaky.
WEVENHOR, JAN. 28.—The brig Stafford, Shields to
London, was totally wrecked on the Blacktail Sand,
near the Nore, the 25th instant.

__—
PENZANCE, JAN. 27.—The ♦lfred, Cardiff to Hull, has
put in here leaky.
OFF THE WIGHT.—Arrd. the Teviot steamer, from
the West Indies, alter being aground on the Spit 10
hours and 35 minutes.

SOITTIIAMPTON_ WATER.—Arrd. the Indus steamer.
from Malta with the remainder of the East India mail
(11 hours 17 minutes); Madrid steamer, from Gibraltar,
with the Lisbon mail.

WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, JAN. 28.—The wea-
ther is now severe, and tends much to improve the cern-
dition of grain. The little reduction in prices has
checked the free deliveries by the farmers, and there is
not the decline in agricultural districts which was ex-
pected. Our arrival to-day is large of Wheat. From
the causes above, this article is held firmly, and wo
quote prices fully equal to this day se'nnigbt. Barley
keeps steady in price. Oats and Shelling as before, but
demand keeps limited. Beans without alteration. Other
articles as before. Arrivals.—Whest, 16,262 qrs.
barley, 5,140 qrs. ; oats, 2,959 cirs. ; buns, 1,148 qrs. t
peas, 67 qrs.; linsted,l4o 41'x;shellet 100 spa

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