The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL "24,- 1846.

for attaining the end proposed ; and it was wisely consi-
dered that some active step on the part of the general
body of the proprietary should he taken to show
that they were still convinced of the prudence,
of the advantages of the undertaking, and expressive of
their desire for its continued progress. Hence the reso-
lutions now proposed as sessional orders, and few means
could have been devised more equitable, or better cal-
culated to attain the desired object. They provide for
a meeting taking place, of which due notice shall be
circulated, wafted on the wings of the press, through
all parts of our empire, and that full and sufficient
time shall be given to every party interested to appear,
either in person or by deputy, and express his opinion;
that such a number shall be present at such a meeting
as that the general feeling of the shareholders may be
fairly ascertained on the one hand, while on the other it
is not so great as to offer any insuperable difficulty to ,
the further progress of any well-digested and desirable
project. The proposed Bill varies in some respects from,
and is, in our opinion, an improvement on, the plan
brought forward before Easter ; it provides that
the provisional directors, or governing body, may call
a meeting for the purpose of taking into consideration
the propriety of dissol►ing the company. In the event
of their neglecting so to do they were compelled to take
such a course, on receiving a requisition, signed by a
small body of shareholders for that purpose. Precau-
.tions, similar to those in the resolutions, are to
be adopted, for the purpose of securing full
publicity to the intended meeting, and a rea-
sonable time to enable all parties interested to
be represented thereat. At this meeting no ques-
tion but that of the dissolution of the company can be
entertained ; there are minor details as to the manner
of the election of the chairman, and the taking the sense
of the meeting on the question, the constituency to con-
sist of the actual holders of the shares, and the produc-
tion of the scrip certificate to be evidence of the right
to vote. A further provision is given to enable
those who may wish to vote by proxy to
deliver their votes before a Master Extraordinary
of the Court of Chancery, or a justice of the peace—a
very proper regulation, as there may be many persons
unwilling to undertake a journey to the place of meet-
ing, and who might be unwilling to entrust their scrip
to parties who could attend, of whom they might have
little knowledge. Should a clear majority of the stock be
represented at that meeting, and that a majority thereof
voted in favour of a proposition for winding up the
affairs of the company, then the concern should be ipso
facto dissolved. The scale of voting is to be in con-
formity with the provisions of the Joint-Stock Companies
Regulations Acts of last session—viz., every share under
five should each confer a vote; every five shares above
ten, and less than 100, should confer an additional vote,
and every ten shares above 100 an additional vote.
Our readers ~sill recollect that when the measure
was first brought forward we strongly urged in The
Sun the necessity of having the right of voting given
according to this rule, which had been adopted oa mature
consideration as the most equitable, as giving their
due weight to the small holders, and preventing their
wishes from being overruled by those who may have
ether interests to consider besides those of the share-
holders—as, for instance, an existing company to whose
lines the proposed one might act as a feeder ; or, on the
other hand, might possibly prove a rival. A clear ma-
jority of the whole stock should give the power of disso-
lution, but as it might be impossible to procure such a
declaration of opinion, there is a further provision, that
in the event of one-third of the whole stock being re-
presented at a meeting the question of dissolution may
be entertained ; and if three fifths of the stock repre-
sented at the meeting should bo in favour of the dissolu-
tion, that should be sufficient, and the company dissolved.
Both plans appear to have been well matured, and we
are convinced that they will be received by the country
at large with the same unanimity and approbation with
which their introduction was last night hailed in both
Houses.

cant or irate commentaries. We do this solely becaus
we are desirous of presenting our readers with a speci- I
men of the kind of moral (?) force with which a rotten
cause is attempted to be bolstered up, and because, more-
over, we conceive the facts themselves are the most bitter
reproof which can be pronounced against the culpable.
A brief but significant episode in the electioneer-
ing contest of South Nottinghamshire will possibly
be remembered by most parties ; it transpired upon the
declaration of the state of the poll at Newark, and bore
reference more particularly to the opposite candidates.
Lord LINCOLN taxed his antagonist with having accused
himself or his committee of bribery in canvassing ; he
stigmatised this accusation as "a deliberate falsehood,"
though he did not apply that expression of rebuttal to
Mr. HILDYARD personally, seeing that that gentleman
must "of course have stated it on the authority of
another ;" he required the announcement of that
authority from his opponent as a gentleman and
as a Member for the county ; or, at the least, he re-
minded him that the enactments against bribery were
still open, and inquired if he intended a prosecution ?
Mr. HILDYARD in reply, acknowledged having charged
(not his Lordship, but) the free-trade committee of
Nottingham with the grossest species of corruption; that
charge he wished again most distinctly to asse-
verate ; he was prepared, in fact, to prove by
the most incontestible evidence that those free-
traders had tendered a bribe of 23/. to two of kis
own constituents, for the purpose of engaOng their votes
for the opposite interest; at the same time, however, he
declined divulging his authority, while he cautiously ab-
stained from pledging himself to a presecution of the
accused committee. This latter evidence of prudence on
the part of the newly-elected legislator, nevertheless
elicited from the mob of his supporters a valiant decla-
ration of their resolve to carry out the prosecution.
Since that period, up to the present moment, nothing
whatever has been heard of any proceedings, however
small, having been taken to substantiate so sweeping
and damning an accusation against a large body of re-
spectaole gentlemen. Nothing whatever. Not a single
whisper of elucidation ; not one solitary indication of
the proofs which had been so loudly and ostentatiously
vaunted ! The accusation, however, had been uttered !
A gross, a most heinous, and most despicable crime had
been imputed to the free-trade committee of
Nottingham. They stood before their fellow-
men branded with a supposed guilt. Silence,
under these peculiar circumstances, was of course
impossible; the members of Lord LINCOLN'S committee
had characters individually to defend, and a character
collectively to maintain. These considerations im-
pelled their chairman, Mr. THOMAS HERBERT, Mayor
of Nottingham, to address a communication on the 12th
of March to Mr. HILDYARD, inquiring therein if the parti-
culars of the election proceedings at Newark, above enu-
merated, and published in the Nottingham Journal, were
accurately reported, and if so, requiring Mr. HILDYARD
either " to substantiate the same, or openly to ackowledge
that he had been misinformed on the matter," accompany-
ing this requisition with a most absolute repudiation of the
charge as false, both on his own part as chairman, and
his colleagues, as members of the free-trade committee.
To this letter the Hon. Member fur Nottingham returns
a laconic answer on the 14th March, stating the "re-
port" in question to be " substantially correct," and
declaring that he can perceive no reason for altering his
opinions as therein expressed. Two other letters were
thereon forwarded by Mr. HERBERT at different tines
to Mr. HILDYARD, " once more emphatically denying
the truth of the charge," and requiring from him that
he " will at once either endeavour to substantiate that
charge, or have the manliness to retract it." To the
last of these very justly imperative epistles the Hon.
Member at length sends a tardy and unwilling reply, on
the Bth of the present month, simply referring the Mayor
of Nottingham to his former communication as " the
only explanation it was his intention to make," and
which amounts in fact to no explanation whatever. One
other letter terminates this epistolary squabble—a letter
from the chairman of the tree-trade committee, ad-
dressed to Mr. T. B. T. HILDYARD, and couched in the
following langaage:—
"In bringing to a close this correspondence, and sub-
mitting it to the public, in vindication of myself and
those who acted with me during the late election,
it only remains for me to exprivai my deep regret that you
should be so tar mistaken in what is due to your recently
acquired elevation, to say nothing of your personal character,
as to commence your public career with a wretched libel on
a respectable portion of your constituents."
True to our original announcement, we shall not add
to this narrative the addenda of our disgust, or the ap-
pendix of our indignation. Such additions are super-
fluous ; the moral is already so pointed in itself, and
the tale so adorned with its divers characteristics, that
any exposition of the inferences which are alone to be
drawn from it would be in literal truth r matter of the
most complete supererogation.
The fair name of our fellow-men are surely not to be
trifled away with every idle or partizan whim ; even
'AG° esteemed it as more precious than lucre or other
mundane riches ; and it is not surprising that the mem-
bers of the free-trade committee of Nottingham are
aroused at the ruthlessness of such an attempt They
may feel satisfied, however, that in the eyes of their
dispassionate countrymen they are fully exonerated from
the charge by the correspondence just published.

Lecomte was brought back to the Conciergerie, the prison
of the Luxembourg not being yet completed, notwithstand-
ing the exertions of the operatives, who labour night and
day. It is believed, however, that the prison will be ready
for his reception to-morrow. Lecomte affects a trangaillity
which his features belie, whilst, on the contrary, he appears
to be internally agitated in no small degree. The gun with
which the crime was effected was likewise brought to Paris
yesterday. Lecomte, in the examination which he under-
went at Fontainbleau,is said to have exhibited a degree of de-
jection, which is not in accordance with the energetic character
attributed to him. It is now certain that Lecomte, a sports-
man by profession, when committing the crime did not use
his own gun, which was found at his lodgings. He procured
the gun, which he fired on the day of the crime, by means
which will be revealed during the course of the trial."
The Journal de Tou!ouse, of the 18th, subjoins the follow-
ing to the publication of the telegraphic dispatch, dated
Paris, April 17th, announcing the attempt of the previous
day :

"The following fact, which appeared at first as insignifi-
cant, acquires some importance in consequence of the at-
tempt mentioned in the foregoing telegraphic dispatch.
An elevated functionary of our City received three days
since a letter dated Paris, the lith of April, and signed with
a fictitious name. In this letter the death of the King was
announced."

Lord PALMERSTON has recived an autograph letter from the
KING, in reply to the one he had addressed to his MAJESTY on
the occasion of the attempt of Lecostrx. His Lordship on
Wednesday presided over a meeting of the English resi-
dents in Paris, assembled for the purpose of drawing up
a❑ address to the KING, on his escape. The meeting,
which was very fully attended, was held at Lawson's Hotel.
IBRAHIM PacnLt was expected in Paris on Friday. Ile
will reside in the Epee Bourbon, and during his
stay there will give a series of reviews, en a large scale,
The Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, appointed to
examine the Bill for extending the law relating to foreign
refugees, have made their report, which gives numerous sta-
tistical details as to the number and state of the refugees at
present in France. The Committee adds, that it availed it-
self of the presence of the Minister for Foreign Affairs to de-
mand some explanations relative to the occupation of the
free town of Cracow by the troops of Austria, Prussia, and
Russia. The Minister replied that he was assured the oc-
cupation was merely a military measure induced by neces-
sity, and that it would cease with the necessity which gave
rise to it.

The Epoque, the Ministerial paper, publishes a long ac-
count of a conspiracy which had been discovered in Greece,
to dethrone King OTHO, and assassinate Comall, which
conspiracy it attributes to the machinations of Russia. The
conspiracy was to have broken out, according to the Epoqun
which probably speaks from the inspiration of M. PlscA•roaY,
on the 6th of April. As to the reliance which is to be
placed on this story, we leave our readers to judge when
they shall have perused the following extract from the arti
cle in question :

" The Government was informed of all that was preparing,
but, having no prod, it could not proceed againat the con-
spirators."

The Funds remained stationary ion the Paris Bourse on Wednes-
day, and out little business was transacted.

The 'Three per Cents. closed at 83f. 55c. ; the Five per Cents
119 f. 90c. ; the Orleans Railroad 6bares, 1,228 f. 75c. ; Rouen, 1,037 f.
50c.; Havre, 750 f. ; Great Northern, 763 f. 75c.; Avignon, 916 f. 25c.;
Vierzon, 680 t.; Bordeaux, 625 f. 50c. ; Boulogne, 505 f.; Troyes and
Montoreau, 420 f. ; Basle, nor.; Dieppe, 4571. 50c.; Paris and Stras-
burg, 511 f. 75c. ; Tours and Nantes, 441 f. 25c. ; Paris and Lyons,
5701. ; Spanish Tree per Cents., 36% ; ditto Domestic Debt, 30%.
The following are the quotations in the new lines :

Lyons and Avignon Railroad (Talabot),lf. ; ditto (Le-
cointe), 60f. ; ditto (Conapagnie Meridionale), 403 f. ; Charleroi, 49if.
LIONS, APRIL 20.—Marseilles and ♦vignon, 898 f. 75c. ; Paris and
Orleans, 1,203 f. 75c. ; Rouen, 1,02 M. 50c. ; Lyons, 56Sf. 75c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Aram 23.
Boulogne and Amiens, 12 - Bordeaux, Toulouse, aid Cette
(Espleta), —Butch Rhenish, 6--Great Northern of France Con-
stituted, 15!i—Lyone and Avignon, 2—Luxembourg, I%—Over
Yssel, dis.—Paris and Strasbourg Constituted, Sig—Sambre and
Meuse, 6—Tours and Nantes Constituted, 6%—West Flanders, 2.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
There was a fair business doing in Cotton at Liverpool
yesterday, and the sales reached nearly 7,000 bags, nearly all
to the trade. Prices were steady. Shares continued to im-
prove, and a good business vra- done.
The sale of Railway Shares by Messrs. Wickham was well
attended yesterday, and very good prices were obtained,
2,700 shares being purchased :—Cornwall and Central Devon,
30s 6d—South Midland, 395—North Staff ,rdshire, 85s—
Bridgewater and Minehead, 19s—Eastern Counties York
Extension. 314 6d—Ditto, 30s—East Indian, lls—London
and Manchester ( Remington), 18s—Sheffield, Buxton, and
Leek Potteries, 13s 6d—Goole and Doncaster, 80s—North
Kent, 265—Oxford and Salisbury Direct, 7s—Great Kent
Atmospheric, 335—Midland and Eastern Counties, 19s—
Metropolitan Railways Junction, Is—Louvain and Jemeppe,
25s 6d—South Eastern and Dover, No. 4. 46s—Warwick and
Worcester, 155—Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 41s—London
and York, 355--Waveney Valley, 155—Northumberland and
Lancashire, 23s 6d—Norsbern and Southern Connecting, 17s
—Cornwall and Central Devon, 30s fid.
There has been an arrival from Hobart Town, with ad-
vices of January 10. The colony was still annoyed in par-
ticular districts, Prosser's Plain's, for instance, with small
bands of bushrangers, but we are glad to find that the police
were more on the alert, and that captures were more frequent.
The war steamer Driver had arrived, en route for New Zea-
land.

We know not whether there are many such priests in
Ireland as the Rev. J. SAVAGE, of Mullingar, the patron
of the murdered martyr and the sainted SEERY ; but if
only a few such firebrands are scattered throughout each
county, all the mystery of the numerous assassinations
that degrade the Irish people may he easily clesred
up. This SEERT, it will be remembered, was con-
victed of attempting to assassinate Sir FRANCIS
Homaise, and convicted on evidence about which there
cannot be the possibility of a doubt. He was
well known to his intended victim, he had lived with
him as a sort of land steward, and afterwards rented a
farm belonging to Sir FRANCIS, who, on being fired at
on a moonlight night, seized the assassin by the collar,
held up his face to the light to see if he was known;and
distinctly recognised his old tenant. There could be nu
mistake as to the identity in a case of this kind; Sir
FRANCIS HOPEINS could have no interest in swearing
away the life of an innocent man, and he in
the most solemn manner, and with the fullest
conviction of the truth of his statement, distinctly de-
clared on oath that SEER? was the assassin. His evi-
dence was firmly believed by almost every respectable
person in the neighbourhood, and no one whose opinion
was unbiassed had any doubt whatever of the man's
guilt. The priest SAVAGE, however, took a different
view of the case, raised this assassin to the rank of a
martyr (without the slightest intention, of course, to
encourage other assassins), and has been engaged ever
since in collecting subscriptions " for the protec-
tion and support of the afflicted widow and
helpless orphans of the late martyred BRIAN
SEERY." These are the terms used by this parish
priest in a letter addressed to a Mr. DEVITT, of
Limerick, thanking him for the receipt of 61. 3s. 3d.
towards this patriotic I arpose. But that is the least
striking part of the letter, and we therefore give what
follows, to show the dangerous spirit which animates
certain of the lower Irish clergy, and the determi-
nation to destroy all community and all friendship
between Protestants and Catholics. The letter is
published in a Dublin paper of Liberal utilities,
with the words marked in italics as we give
them, the underlining, we presume, having been made
by SAVAGE himself:—" SEER? was a man of the best
character. Six respectable Catholic witnesses proved
at the trial that he was nine miles trom Rochefort at
the hour the attack was made on Sir FRANCIS HOPKINS.
['he man who actually fired the shut at Sir FRANCIS
openly declared his own guilt, but a Protestant baronet
having sworn—no doubt conscientiously—that SEERY
was the man, a Protestant jury believed the Protestant
baronet, an outcry is raised, hang him, hang him,'
and he was banged, having declared with his
dying breath that he had neither act, nor
part, nor knowledge of the crime." Here we
have the loose and unauthenticated saying of the
" man who actually fired the shot," according to this
priest, placed in the balance with the oath of a gentle-
man highly respected in the neighbourhood, and the
solemn verdict of twelve jurors. It is a well known fact,
that ninety-nine out of a hundred of these self-accusa•
Lions of murder are without the slightest foundation
and put forth solely for some temporary purpose, and it
is equally well known that one-half of the persons con-
victed of capital offences on the clearest evidence
declare their innocence to the last. But that is
a matter of trivial importance compared with the awful
consequences of the principles upheld by this Catholic
priest, for he distinctly tells the people that SEERY was
innocent, that the Protestant baronet had declared a
falsehood on oath, and that the Protestant jury were
guilty of murder, in condemnihg a man of the "best
character," on the evidence of one Protestant, distinctly
contradicted by " six respectable Catholic witnesses."
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and that not one of them will bear evidence against
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The Stock Market has not undergone much variation, and
the quotations are maintained at the advance of yesterday
afternoon. Console realise 96 to 961,E for present transfer,
and 9614 to 96% for time. The premium on Exchequer-
bills has been up to 255. and 275., and money is certainly
easier already on account of the Railway Relief Bill. The
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 96% to 1971.
Bank Stock is steady, at 2041/2 to 205.
The Foreign Stock Market, has been very quiescent.
Spanish Three per Cents. have been 36iii to 363/4 ; Brazil
Stock is marked SI to 82 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Hall per Cents.
are 591 h.
The Share Market has been very firm. The new and old
lines are all likely to benefit, it is thought, by the " weed-
ing," and are certainly much more buoyant this week.

BRITISH FUNDS.

ONE CLOKINI:
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock .. .. .. • • . , .. 204!4 205 205
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. .. 954 951 A
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .. 96% 96 96
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anna. 9714 9( 97% 96%
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1660 .. 10 3-16 !.4 10.4
India Bonds. 1,0001. .. .. .. .. ..
Ditto, under 1,0001. .. .. .. ..
Consols for Account .. •• .. .. .. 961 A %
Exchequer hills. l %d. 114 d.
1,0001... .. .... 27 25 27 pm.
5001. . .. .... 27 24 pm.
Ditto. Small .... 27 24 pra.

The Commissioners of the Woods and Forests have
at length, we are rejoiced to find, turned their attention
to the important subject of the embankment of the
Thames. Among the notices given last night in the
House of Commons, we find the following, by Mr. J.
YOUNG, the Secretary to the Treasury:—
A Bill to empower the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods
to form a royal park in Battersea-fields, in the county of Surrey."
" A 11111 to enable the Commissioners of her Majesty'e Woods to
construct an embankment and roadway on the north chore of the
river Thames, from Battersea-bridge to Vauxhall•bridge, and to
build a suspension-hridge over the said river, at or near Chelsea
Hospital, with suitable approaches thereto, including a street from
Lower Sloane-street to the northern extremity of the bridge."
This is excellent as far as it goes. As to the advan-
tages to be derived from the formation of a park in Bat-
tersea, we presume there can be but one opinion ; and
the embankment of the Thames from Battersea-bridge
to Vauxhall-bridge is a plan which, as the com-
mencement of a grand series of embankments,
is deserving of every support. But why do
the Commissioners stop at Vauxhall-bridge ? Surely,
if the public accommodation requires the em-
bankment of the Thames from Battersea to Vauxhall,
still more urgently does the public accommodation re-
quire the embankment of the Thames from Vauxhall
to Westminster ; and most of all is an embankment re-
quired from Westminster to London-bridge. Such an
embankment would act as an easement to the great tho-
roughfare from the West-end to the City, via the Strand,
Fleet-street, and Cheapside; and let those who entertain
the least doubt as to the absolute necessity of some such
easement, attempt to pass through Fleet-street or
Cheapside, at any time of the day between the
hours of eleven in the morning and six in the even-
ing, and their doubts will have vanished before
they shall have persevered in their attempt half
an hour. Some months since a scheme was propounded
for the formation of a company for making such an em-
bankment, which should at the same time afford rail-
way accommodation to the inhabitants of the metropolis.
It was stated at the time that the proposed plans
met with the approval of the Government, but the
November panic affected this, as it did several
other less worthy proposals. It was a plan, however,
which, it' carried out, would have conduced largely
to the public accommodation, and it ought not to be
abandoned.

ONE
FOREIGN FUNDS. - O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 62
Ditto, New Bonds, 1829 and 1839 .. 81
Danish, 3 per Cent • • • • • 37N
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Passive Bonds
Ditt., Three per Cent .. ..
Ditto, for the Account 36%34
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 5914
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 92%

CLOSIN(
PRICES.

.. .. 5%

BUSINESS
CLOSING
PAID. DONE AT
PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.
Aberdeen .. .. • . 10 .. • • 3 •• • • 3
Birmingham and Gloucester....loo ....125 .. •• .. 125
Bridgewater and Minehead 425. .......... did,
Caleaonian .. • • •• .. 10 .... 6% 66% % %
Ditto, Half Shares 2%.... I 1
Ditto, Extension .. 2%
Chester and Holyhead 22%
Cork and Waterford .. 1 %
Derby, Gainsboro', & Gt. Grimsby 1% %• •
Direct Manchester (Remington's) .... % 1 •••• • • •
Direct Manchester (Rastrick'a) 514 .... 3% . 3%*
Direct Northern 2% 14
Dublin and Belfast Junction .. 10 .... —••••• • • • • • 5%
Dublin and Galway .. 4 .... 2 .......... 2'
Eastern Counties .. 141. 165..... 2313, %23 23% 23%
Ditto New .. .. 8/. 165.... • 7'A% p • . • • 7% p
Do Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1. 6/. 13s. 4d.
Ditto, ditto, .. No. 2. 61. 13s. 4d. p
Ditto, York Extension .. 10s. %..
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. 50 .... 72% ..
Ditto 134 Shares .. .. 10 .... 16% ..
Ely and Ilmillngdon . • • . 7% ....
Great North of England . ..100
Ditto, New

PRICES OF
RAILWAY SHARES.

Great Western .. • • •. 85 .•
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 5 .... 1734 17,;.....• 17
Hull and Selby .. 60 ....100% •• •• •• 100%
London an Birmingham . —lOO .. •• 223% 225.....• 226
Ditto Thirds .. .• .. 24 .... 6134 ...... • 61%
Ditto Quarters .. 2•• .. .... 28% 28 ... 28
Ditto Fifths 2
.
161. 13s. 4d. 8 8
Ditto, New .. .• •• 234 3%34 '
74
London and Brighton .• .. 50 ... 6434% ••• • • 64%
Ditto ditto Fifths
.. 20 ..... 29%
_ -

::
. .:
.... 122% .... ... . 221 i::
• •••::::
,ondou and Croydon .. .. 131. 15s. 9d. 22% .........
Ditto, Guarant. Fire per Cent. 9
.... 9% ..........
London and Greenwich .. 12/. 15s. 4d.
.........
Do. Prefer. or Privilege .. 18/. 17s. 2d. .
London, Hounslow, & Western .. a .... X. .
London and south-Western,. 411. 6s. 10d. 77 78
.. 18 .... .. ....
LoDnditotno, aNnedwYork •••
Ditto, Half Shares • • • • • • 254. • • 14%%•• • • • •
LLyylinnn
and
Ei4leyreham.. .... ....
.. 6%
Manchester and Leeds .. .. .. 82 ....
....
Ditto, Quarters • • • • ••2•• .. 8% ........„ 8%
Ditto, Fifths • • • • • • • • 3 .. • • 11% X
Manchester and Birmingham •• 40 , .. 77% 78
Ditto, Quarter Shares (B) • • 4 .. • • 12%
• • $U
Manchester, Buxton, & Mattock 425. .. • • par ...... •• • • par
Manchester and Southampton .• 2 .. • . 114 .
;Id
BDearrw—liinegkto n Jinn c:t... 9058 •;
;; ; 413; .31. ;1.4i
~3%.. ..
; ; 31
114
Midland .. .. •• •• •• ..100 ....145 147.. : 147
NNeeDpwwiienttttii,:tilßeNeirmingham and Derby •toe —.118% .......... 118%
4185%%
North British .. .. .• • • .. 20 .... 2554 26 ...... 26
Ditto, half Shares .. . „ 6 .. .• •• •• •• •• e 56
Ditto, Carlisle Extension
.. 14„ - 134 ••••• • • ' • ' 7(1)36
Northern and Eastern .. .. 50 .... 70 ••••• • • • • . 3% p
North Staffordshire .. „ .. 425..... 2% % 2 P•• •• 25
Norwich and Brandon .. .. .. 18 •• • • 25„ 'i:: ;: :: :•. 8%
Oxill.,Worcester, & Wolverhmptn. 121,4 .• • • 7. 1 %
Perth and Inverness ~ .. • • 2% •• • • 32%
........ 2%
Portsmouth Direct • • • • • • ,g%:: :: 131 i %•••• • • • • 13% Scottish Central . • • • • •"2 ii.
.. •„
2% 2 4 • • • • • • 2
1% t die •• .. I dis.
Shropshire Union .. •• • •
.. ,•
.... _.. ...... 31
South Devon .. .• • • • •
.. ""
42...... % die— .. • • % dis.
Do..
South Midland • • • • • •
.. 33% .... 37.4 .... ••• • • • 37%
Shrewsbury and Birmingham ....
42.^:
....
South Enters and Dover ..
New (d 0.33/. 65.8 d.)
Do.. New (do. 301') ..•
4. 2% .... 3ii •• •• •• • . 214
.. 15.
be., New (do. 151.) • • No.
423.
..
..
. . West Riding Union • • • • • . .... 14, 1)
....
2%
wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth 5 .... 2s ~........ N 0.32..
1150
....... .... .. 12
...... 15 14% 12 14 ...
Ditto. Scarborough Branch .. 25 .... 46% ........ ..
3463 k
Midlande r ••
: : : : 502 %:: : .• 9-8 97 .: •.
:: : : 971 %
Do. E. and W. Riding Extert.• • 1 •• • • A
91 9•• • ..... 9
York York
it
sadta on d
Extension
not
er
ntchassiotn .. .. .. 15 .... 33 .........,

among t n have atvhee beennew
differencestlllinst aaddition
to the
other differences it is raid that the Ministry are disagreed
Minis
as to
Madrid
Policy to be pursued with regard to the Court of
:18 papersslt'il
le ;e
oanrtdi staten lettersutel
dm t
nt htaotel
Rome, t j tuhset edl 6.
-t was rumoured that an intrigue was on foot to
set General SEanAwo at the head of the new Ministry,
in
which I\l. SALAMANCA would have the portfolio of
A
"(Tances•Dl Isrtnntz had beer sent for several times by the
`4"EN, on the 15th and 16th. The Esperanza announces
thatbie onatdt Groh
wecticehunsi
cpeahirenadtl
thicotee LsopaniatoechrNeeeoilAhni,attd,thtl
Captain-General
arendpdotsto:
igohat tonh.ealitnltdsi of
pr
sgeteannttteesdvGalatia,etwdhrialaot
thes
E Portuguese Government have adopted measures to pre-
vent them from receiving succours from that country.
publishes a letter from M. EGA—NA, in which
the worthy nominee of CHRISTINA denies that he is an Abso-
lutist, and takes credit to himself for having for the last
twenty years rendered essential service to the Liberal party.
The Eco drj Comercio says, " It is reported that the whole
Ministry has resigned, and an old Minister of Queen Cnius-
TINA, sent for to form a new Cabinet refused that honour."
There was a report of a Ministry under C;oNzAtzs Bnavo,
whilst others talk of PActtEco, and rumours aro afloat that
the powers in the highest places were at a loss what course
to take.

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens .. .. 12 .... 11N .
Ditch Rhenish .. 5 614
East Indian .. • • • • • • • is. •• • • ••••• • .. • •
Grt. North. of France Constituted 5 15 ....
Narnau and Liege • • .. • • 4 .... 114
Orleans and Bordeaux .. • • 6 .... 10% 11
Paris and Strasbourg Constituted 5 .... 5K
Rouen and Havre • .. .. 20 .... 29% 3034 ....
timbre and Meuse' . 5
Tours and N antes Constituted .. 5
MINES.

------
A correspondence, which is just now published by
Mayor Of NOTTINGHAM, and which consists of
s the
half-dozen communications between hirnssar, as chr.
man of Lord LINCOLN'S election committee, and Mr. -
T. B. T. HILDYARD, induces us to maks some rvtr
spective remarks concerning the recent contest for the
representation of South Nottingham. Th© circum-
stances to which this correspondence bears refe-
rence, and to which our observations are here
daepdpulicetdio,
nas which re
simple enough in themselves ; and the
must necessarily be drawn from
them are so obvious, that we shall content ourselves with
a mere narration of them, unaccompanied by any indig

NaavAtz has left Bayonne for Paris, where he was ex-
pected to arrived on Wednesday. Dun ENItIQUM was still
at Bayonne.

Al.
..,
Anchor, 163 • OLSA APRIL 16.—Three per Cents., 307/8 for
Aloney ;
Fir e per Cents not quoted ; Bank of St. Ferdinand,
280 , Bank
Isabella, 170 ; Company of Probity, 185 ;
Cornpany of Iris, 130 • Gneral Assurance, 85 ; Alliance, 160 ;
Paris, 16 3.
Ga.s C 1 nlnv 600. Exchanges—London, 3717 i ;

Real del Monte, Unregistered .. .... 33/4 ......

"At 12
The p, •
-rl3 Papers of Wednesday have been received. The
Journal des Debats publishes the following particulars of the
fir
et examination of LEcomnt
emy.bocuoach from the Conciergerie to the prison of the Lux-
O'clock this day Lecomte was conveyed in a hack-
thene autissioners appointed by the Court. At 6 o'clock
Ile has been interrogated by, the Chancellor and

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, APRIL 24.—Wind at noon N.E., light breeze, and hazy.
LIVERPOOL, APRIL 23.—Wind E.S.E. med.—Acrd. Blorengs,
Banks, Calcutta ; loss of bulwark, &c., in a gale.
CLYDE, APRIL 22.—Wind N,E.—Arrd. St. John, Richardson, St.
John's, New Brunswick; Helena, Morris, Halifax. Sid. Marquis of
Hastings, Sabiston, Quebec ; Tay, Langwello, ditto.
SHIELDS, APRIL 22.—Wind N.E.—Sid. Louisa Caesar, 'nuke, Rio
Janeiro.