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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1846.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack at
Fire o'clock.

Several petitions were presented on the corn-law question,
which gave rise to conversation in which the Earl of
lIARDWICEE, Lord KINNAIRD, the Marquis of Lox-
DONDERRY, the Marquis of SALISBURY, and the Duke of
Ricnmoxn, who deuounced the scandalous manner in
Which the farmers had been treated, and who declared that
his only wish for a dissolution of Parliament was, that those
Members who have violated their pledges might be taught
that the people of England liked honesty. The Noble Duke
then attacked Lord KINNAIRD, who had, when raised to the
Peerage, not been a free trader.
Lord KINNAIRD: No, no.
The Duke of RICHMOND declared that Lord GREY'S Go-
vernment was favourable to protection ; so was Lord MEL-
BOURNE'S Government, for an Bs. duty was not free trade,
and if an appeal was made to the country it would be found
that the people were in favour of protection.
The Earl of Wicfmow said that up to this time both par-
ties had been in favour of protection; the only difference
had been between a fixed duty and a sliding scale, and,
therefore, both having changed, there was no reason why the
proposal for free trade should be brought forward by one
party rather than by another. He considered the League a
constitutional body, and they ought to be congratulated on the
extraordinary success which had attended them during their
short-lived existence.
Lord BROUGHAM said there was no doubt but that Lord
GREY'S Government held by the corn-laws. He admitted
that the League was a perfectly legal and constitutional
body; but he said it was unconstitutional, though legal, for
any body to raise a fund to purchase votes. It was said the
League did not do so, but only encouraged people to do so ;
but when they collected a quarter of a million it looked very
much like helping people to raise the 501., t• purchase
freeholds.

Lord REDESDALE explained, in relation to the faggot votes
in Huntingdonshire, to which he had alluded some time since,
that the Duke of BEDFORD was not concerned in the trans-
action.

The Marquis
iof LANSDOWNE then rose to present a pe-
tition from the inhabitants of the colony of Van Diem en's La
thecomplainingof
great nurcber of convicts which had
n benden,
transported
to thattha island, and which completely demoralised
been entered colony, contrary to the understanding which had
emigrated, and vil.
,:with them at the time they
should be eh
was that no more convicts
ultimalkly absorbed sent than could be conveniently regulated, and
colony: The Noble into
the population of the
Marquis then went into very
voluminous statistical
the the
showing • the ofimportanceetails for purpose of
manner in which the col
was damaged,
by the
colony, and the
P arrested, and its socioentyy
sink and refuse of society being gv; damaged, its
made it impossible
btricaintsPorted there to the
amount of 16,000 in three years
to reform the convicts, or to prevent the total demoralisation
of the colony.
Lord STANLEY said as the petition referred to a period in
which he had been connected with colonial affairs li.-wola
offer a few observations in relation to its allegations
admitted that, though somewhat exaggerated, it was in its
main statements correct ; the great evil being the arrange-
ment that restricted the transportation of convicts ex-
clusively to that colony. The petitioners had omitted to
state one great fact, and that was that that which was at
first imposed as an obligation was felt to be a boon, viz., the
assignment of convict labourers to free settlers, by which
they received much gain. He believed that, although the
system of assignment was objectionable in some points, it was
nevertheless to. hastily abandoned.
Their Lordships were subsequently addressed by the Duke
of RICHMOND, Lord LYTTELTON, Earl GREY, and the Bishop
of o.xFont), and the petition was ordered to lie on the table.
The Bills on the table were forwarded a stage, and their
Lordships a djourned.

The House commenced business at Four o'clock.
On the motion of Mr. GREENE certain of the standing

orders on railway Bills were suspended with respect to all
Bills tntitled to the privileges granted by that resolution of
the House on the 7th of July last.
a•. . Certain railway Bills were read a second time and ordered
Act.* committed.
Several petitions were presented for and against the Minis-
terial measure for free trade.
Mr. T. DumcomßE gave notice of his intentions on the
18th, to move for leave to bring in a Bill to limit the hours
of labour in factories where machinery was employed.
Mr. O'Commu, withdrew his notice of motion for leave to
bring in a Bill to amend the criminal law of Ireland.
Mr. Vthumits wished to ask the Right Hon. Baronet the
Vice-President of the Board of Trade whether any report
•

was made annually by the Board of Customs to the Govern-
ment of the amount of wheat destroyed in consequence of
being damaged by remaining in the warehouse, owing
to the importer being unable to pay the high duty,
and thereby introduce it into consumption. He asked
this question in consequence of being informed that a large
quantity of wheat had been lately thrown into the Severn
as being unfit for use.
Sir GEORGE CLELE said that the Board of Customs made
no annual report upon the subject alluded to by the Hon.
Member, but if what he had stated was the fact there could
be no difficulty in ascertainingthe grounds under which the
grain had been destroyed.
Mr. NEWDEGATE then moved, agreeably to the notice he
had given, that it be an instruction to the Select Committee
on the petition from Cheltenham that they do inquire whe-
ther forged objections have not been served upon certain
electors for the northern division of the county of Warwick
against the claims of the electors to be returned upon the re-
gister of that division of the county.
Mr. P. BORTHWICK seconded the motion.
Mr. T. DUNCOHBE hoped the Government would oppose
the motion. If it was true that forgeries had. taken place,
the House had nothing to do with it, the parties being
amenable to the law elsewhere. He had complained of the
system of registration long ago, and he was happy to see
gentlemen on the other side of the House had found out its
defects.
Mr. ADDERLET supported the motion.
Mr. WAKLET hoped the Hon. Member would not press his
motion, and that a Committee would be appointed specifically
to consider the subject.
Sir R. PEEL did not think it wise or prudent that a Com-
mittee appointed to inquire into a question of privilege
should be instructed to make the inquiries proposed by the
Hon. Member. He thought the matter ought to be made the
subject of separate inquiry.
Mr. R. SPOONER would advise the Hole. Gentleman to
withdraw his motion.

SIR GEORGE GREY trusted an inquiry would be gone into
upon the whole question, believing that the Registration Act
put voters to the greatest inconvenience.
After some observations from Mr. Disraeli, Mr. W. Ellis,
Lord Sandon, Mr. Lawson, Mr. Brotherton' Mr. Ferrand, Mr.
Fox Mauls, Mr. Packe, and several other Members,
Mr. C. BULLER said he did not see any necessity for an
inquiry at all; and if it would be a proper amendment on
the motion, he should feel inclined to move that leave be
given to the Hon. Member for Staffordshire to bring in that
Bill that he bad got in his pocket. It was not a question
of party, but affected vital interests in the country.
Lord INGESTRE thought the Government ought to intro-
duce some measure to put an end to this crying evil.
Mr. C. Wool) had known a good deal of what had taken
place with respect to the registration of the West Riding, and
he recollected a case where a notice of objection was served
upon the uncle of the Hon. Member for Knaresborough,
signed by that Hon. Member himself:
Mr. Pcxt.AAIT.---What y0.0.r 2
Mr. C. WOOD could not tell, but it did not matter, tbr Lo
believed that the person was in that House who served it.
He thought inquiry ought to take place upon the subject.
Mr. FERRAND said that he did certainly object to the vote
of his Hon. Relative, and the reason for his doing so was
this. His (Mr. Ferrand's) vote had been objected to for
four years, and the person who bad objected to it had received
for his services a silver tea-pot, to which his uncle was a
subscriber.
Mr. JAMES STUART WORTLEY thought inquiry ought to
take place.
After some observations from Mr. Bright, Mr. Stafford
O'Brien, Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Monckton Milnes. Lord John
Russell. Mr. Hume, Mr. Aglionby, and Lord Ebrington,
Mr. NEWDEGATE withdrew the motion.
Mr. CRAVEN BERKELEY, in moving the names of the Com-
mittee on the Cheltenham petition, denied that he was
actuated by any hostility to the Anti-Corn-law League, or-any
of its Members, especially towards the Hon. Member for
Durham, who had moved for a Committee on the game-
laws. He stated that because the organ of the League had
asserted that such motives bad actuated him.
The House then went into Committee on the Corn Impor-
tation Resolutions, and the adjourned debate on Mr.
VILLIERS' amendment for the total and immediate repeal of
the corn-laws was resumed by
Mr. G. BANKES.—He would not give his support to any
part of the measure of the Government, without it was ac-
companied by some alterations in the law of settlement.
He could not agree to the amendment of the Hon. Member
for Wolverhampton.
Capt. HOWARD, although he thought the present a fitting
time for the immediate repeal of the cern-laws, considered that
the measure of the Government was so valuable that he would
not peril it by supporting the amendment of the Hon. Mem-
ber for Wolverhampton.
Sir J. HARMER would support the Government measure
in preference to the amendment, though he was in favour of
an immediate repeal of the corn-laws, and bad presented
petitions to that effect.
Mr. MoFFArr would vote for the amendment.
Mr. G. FINCH preferred the measure of the Right Hon.
Baronet at the head of the Government to the amendment of
the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton.
Mr. WARD would support the amendment of the Hon.
Member for Wolverhampton, believing that, in doing so, he
did not peril the measure of the Government.
Mr. LIDDELL opposed the amendment.
Mr. Hurl supported the Government measure.
Mr. P. BORTHWICK would vote against the amendment.
Mr. HustE would support the Government measure, and,
after he got that, he would try what more he could get.
Lord G. BENTlxcic preferred voting for the Govern-
ment measure to that proposed by the Hon. Member for
Wolverhampton, because before three years had elapsed an
appeal must be made to the people, which the protectionists
hoped would place them in the arms of victory, and defeat
the Government measure altogether. The protectionists
were determined to fight the battle from pillar to post, and
although they might for a time be driven back, they would
rally and gain the good cense.
Mr. COBDEN thought it unfortunate that the motion of
his Honourable Friend had been brought forward at the
present moment, but he believed it was the only time at
which, by the rules of the House, he could have
brought it. forward. He had not heard a single
argument urged during the present debate against the imme-
diate repeal. He believed all the tenant-farmers were in
favour of the total and immediate repeal. The Hon. Mem-
ber for Wolverhampton was justified in bringing forward this
proposition by all that had taken place in that House; and
he for one could not see anything that was likely to damage
the measure proposed by the Government on the adoption
of the proposition of the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton.
The Right Honourable Baronet had given no gua-
rantee that his measure would become law, and such
being the case he did not see why those who were
for immediate repeal should give up their principles.
There were a hundred Gentlemen on the other side, who
were ready to adopt any measure, provided they could only
put the Government in a minority. He doubted the policy
of such a course, because he foresaw dangers and pitfalls
for this measure,- if it was delayed; he should support the
amendment of his Hon. Friend, the Member for Wolver-
hampton. When the division on this question was over he
would support as thoroughly as any man the proposition of
the Government. He should feel it to be his duty upon every
stage of the measure to be present, in order to give it his support.
If the House of Lords would pass this measure, it would
restore itself to that situation in the country which it held
years ago, when it was said of it, Thank God, we have a
'House of Lords.

Sir T. AC AND preferred the measure of the Government
to the proposition of the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE supported the Government measure, and
regretted that his Hon. Friend the Member for Wolver-
hampton had brought forward his amendment. He had
voted for a repeal of the corn-laws long before the Anti-Corn-
law League was in existence, and however much it might
damage him with the gentlemen constituting that body, he
felt bound to vote with her Majesty's Ministers.
The Earl of MARCH was prepared to fight the ghost of the
League with the flesh and blood of the protectionist body.
The Goverment, in his opinion, ought in common
justice and common honesty to appeal to the people,
Mr. HUDSONN supported the proposition o' the Govern-
ment. _ _ _

Colonel SIBTHORP declared that the agricultural interest
or the tenant farmers were in favour of a repeal of the corn-
laws, or the measures proposed by the Government.
Mr. WAKLEY regretted that the Hon. Member for Wolver-
hampton was determined to divide the House on this ques-
tion, because it would lead to a supposition out of doors that
there was a division on that side of the House with respect to
the Government measure.

Lord WORSLEY asserted _his belief that the tenant farmers
were in favour of a total and immediate repeal of the corn-
laws.

Mr. NEWDF.GATE stated, that from information he had
received, he believed the tenant farmers were not favourable
to a total and immediate repeal of the corn-laws.
Mr. VILLtEas replied shortly, and upon a divsion, his
amendment was lost by a majority of 187.
The House then resumed, the chairman reported progress,
and obtained leave to sit again on Thursday.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the
House adjourned.
-

From the depression of the funds caused by the intelli-
gence from America, and the surprise with which it was
received by certain parties in the City, one would imagine
that the rejection by the President of the United States of
the only mode left open to settle the Oregon question Was
totally unexpected, and that the most sanguine hopes were
entertained that his Excellency would recede from his
haughty claims announced in the Message to Congress. But
these persons could have no grounds for any such supposi-
tion. The announcement in that document, that America
claimed the whole of the territory, was evidently made not
without due consideration and good party reasons for main-
taining the point, and whatever has occurred since in Con-
gress, so far from weakening his authority in that respect, or
providing some amicable means of settlement, has all been
in the contrary direction. Violent war speeches have been
made by CASS and others in the Senate, usually calm,
inclined to peace, and disposed to check rather
than encourage popular excitement, and even the
most moderate speakers in that assembly ventured to ad-
duce no argument in opposition to Mr. PoLK'S views, but
seemed to content themselves with expressing a wish to pre-
serve peace and not extend the frontier till the States had ac-
quired more strength. There was no real objection to the
principle. The time for action was the only question. In
the House of Representatives a similar spirit prevailed,
and no meetings out of doors were held either
for the purpose of checking the warlike policy
ofthose
POLE, or giving the least encouragement to
who wished for peace. On what ground,
therefore,
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the last announcement caused surprise we are ut-
and the war to divine. From the commencement of this
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for many years kept a longing eye on Canada,
their time. In the south aggression is the order of the day,
day
because the Mexicans canpot defend themselves. The
tide is flowing in that quarter with fearful rapidity,
and nothing but the interference of European
powers, so abominated by Mr. Pout, can
prevent the whole of that rich country from being swallowed
up by the Anglo-Saxon race. In the west the same spirit
prevails, and California and Oregon are considered absolutely
necessary to make the Union complete. It is said this
spirit of aggression is encouraged by Potx, in order to se-
cure his election a second time, and possibly this may be
the chief cause, but that only renders the position of
affairs more dangerous, and shows that the ag-
gressive system is not the effect of state
policy, or the crotchet of a particular Minister or President,

but the choke of the restless and encroaching multitude. Se
palpable is the fact, that no Government under present cir--
camstances could maintain itself in security for a twelve-
month on the principles professed by WEBSTER and CALHO 177;
POLE is carried with the stream, and all that England has to
do is to look to her own interests and take care that her rights
and possessions are not destroyed by the inundation.
Hitherto she has displayed the utmost moderation and for-
bearance, whether we look to the Government, the Legisla •
titre, or the press. With the exception of a very few hasty
articles in the English newspapers, provoked, possibly, by
that tone of defiance so loudly proclaimed by Members in
both Houses of Congress, scarcely one ground of provocation
can be urged by the American Government. In the
history of mankind it would be impossible to point
out a nation more anxious than the English are at
the present moment to remain at peace, and more
especially with America. If the last resort then gust be as-
sented to, we have here, as on the banks of the Sutlej, right
on our side.

Since writing the above, we learn, by another arrival from
New York, that the proposition to give notice to England
that the joint occupation of the Oregon shall cease in a
twelvemonth, has been adopted by Congress. This is only
what was expected, and therefore cannot materially alter the
position of affairs.

Mr. JOHN ROMILLY, who opposes Mr. COCHRANE at Brid •
port, in the first instance refused to come forward, though
he has long been preparing to contest Bridport at the next
general election. The circumstances under which he has
changed his first intention and come forward are these :
There had been a meeting of Mr. ROMILLY'S friends at
Bridport, at which it was agreed to support Mr. CoCHRANE,
as a supporter of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S measure. After this
handsome conduct of the Liberal party, Mr. COCHRANE
delivered an address from the balcony of his inn,
declaring that he supported Sir ROBERT PEEL, not
so much because he approved altogether of the mea.
sure, as because he saw no other way of keeping Lord
J. RUSSELL out of power. Mr. COCHRANE now probably
bitterly repents his balcony oratory. The Liberals imme-
diately met again, withdrew their support from him, and
sent off for Mr. JOHN ROMILLY, their old Member. Mr. J.
ROMILLY'S professional engagements prevented him from
going down himself immediately, but his brother, Mr.
CHARLES ROHILLY, went down to represent him, and Mr.
Jos's ROHILLY follows to-day. The nomination is on Fridy,
and them -e Mr. ROMILLY'S return. Tint ar.
out, my Lord MAacu, take this as a protectionist triumph.
If the protectionists dare not put up a candidate of their own
in Westminster or in Bridport, the best thing they can do is
to say nothing of either.

We made a slight mistake yesterday with respect to the
Cheltenham petition, but one which does not affect the
merits of the case. The signatures placed on the first sheet
were not, as we said, cut off from another and then pasted on,
but five names appeasing in another part of the petition were
copied on to the first sheet, and a piece of paper was pasted
over the original five signatures, that they might not be
counted twice. We say again that there is irregularity here,
but not fraud or forgery; and that the trouble taken by the
League agent to prevent the signatures being counted
twice by pasting a piece of paper on the original signatures
proves bond fides. And we say again, that the free-trade
Member for Cheltenham might be better occupied than in
bringing forward with such pomposity so small an irregu-
larity, in order to play into the hands of the protectionist
party, and help them to throw dirt on the Leagtie. Mr. C.
BERKELEY did us the honour to refer yesterday to the ob-
servations which we felt it our duty to make on the extra-
ordinary course he had pursued on this occasion. We confi-
dently await the decision of his Committee, skilfully nominated
though it is, to see all that we have said about the trumpery
nature of his charge established, and to show how much the
high notions of love of what is honest and straightforward,
in both public and private conduct, have to do with this pro-
ceeding. The country and the electors of Cheltenham will,
we are sure, without any injustice to Mr. CRAVEN BERKELEY,
allow to the distinguished leaders of the League at least as
high a sense of public and private honour as Mr. CRAVEN
BERKELEY claims for himself.

Madrid papers of the 24th ult. have been received, but
they contain no news. The Three per Cents. closed at 32
at 60 days; the Five per Cents., at 22 13-16, for the 15th
of March, and the Debt wit bout Interest at 7% at 60 days

Most of the Paris papers contain articles on the great ma-
jority obtained by Sir ROBERT PEEL for a repeal of the corn-
laws, but some of them, chiefly those of the Opposition,
though they cannot help praising the firmness of the Minister,
and the noble manner in which be has been supported by tke
Opposition and a large number of his own party, seem more
anxious to seize the occasion for finding fault with M. Gut-
ZOT than to imitate the Liberal journals of this country, and
cheer him on to the same end. " The young Conservatives,"
says the Seicle, " and their chief, M. GUIZOT, are at present
but little satisfied with Sir R. PEEL. They have two rea-
sons for being dissatisfied. One is, that in making himself
liberal, Sir R. PEEL gives a very bag example ; the second,
that he gravely compromises the future prospects of his
Ministry, and that a Cabinet which does not make every
other consideration give way to that of its existence, is an
imprudent, absurd, and almost revolutionary one. We can-
not be suspected of an excessive partiality for England, and
Sir R. PEEL is certainly not one of the statesmen of
that country towards whom our sympathies incline us
most. We blush, however, when we compare the con-
duct of our Ministers with that of the English Cabinet."
The Journal des Debate considers the vote decisive, and
that with 100 votes against it, the game is up. It thus
laments over the defeat of the protectionists :—" The majority
of 100 votes foretold by Lord LINCOLN has been obtained by
the Ministry. It was in vain that the beaten party did all
in its power to keep up the fight : all it could do only pro-
longed Use struggle for a few hours. This long drawn
series of debates has been compared to the Arabian Nights
Tales. The Sultana Scherazade, condemned to see her last
sun rise, lengthened out her marvellous stories. So from
night to night the speakers of the condemned party relieved
each other in succession in relating their melancholy tales of
past times ; but to which no echo was made by the present
or the future. Less fortunate than the Sultana, its lest
hour, though retarded, has arrived, and that voice which
has been called the voice of GOD, has pronounced sentence."
The following just remarks on the evils of monopoly in the
Courtier Francais are fully justified by the present state of
trade in France :

" The era of liberty in commercial policy has just opened fir Eng-
land. The genius of Adam smith has prevailed. The great net-
work of custom-house obstacles has been destroyed, and ere long all
that remains of a heavy chain of servitude will have disappeared from
the soil of England. She will at length become a flee land. There
are people who persist in seeing in this grand result only an Isolated
event peculiar to England; there are people who maintain the incre-
dible arguinent that the principle of commercial liberty is excellent
in certain cases, and detestable in others. There are people who
treat as absurd and dangerous dreamers those who wish to confer
upon France the noble and salutary liberty which Cobden, Russell,
and Peel have just given to England. The partisans of the protective
system do not perceive that the swaddling-clothes in which they
wrap up our industry are stifling it, that they prevent Its growth and
its development. They do not see that by closing our frontiers we
naturally restrict the limits of our markets, and that this restriction
prevents our manufactories from being put upon an equally extensive
and progressive footing. Neither do they perceive that the protec-
tive system is the great cause of the Instability of production, and of
all those disastrous crises which periodically afflict our manufac-
turing industry, and carry desolation into the heart of our labouring
population. How, indeed, is it possible to place production upon a
fixed and regular basis, when is it permitted to the Government
whate-ver it may be to restrain or extend at its own pleasure by an
arbitrary law, and generally in obedience to selfish interests, the
markets for One or more branches of trade, and thus cause a disas-
trous perturbation in general production ? How can we hope to give
constant occupation to the laborious, when governments, to satisfy
petty or rancorous interests, endeavour by means of detestable cus-
toms laws sometimes to displace, and at other times to destroy the
sources of labour? The system which some people have had the
audacity to call protective and conservative, is in truth the most op-
pressive and anarchical system that was ever inventeqy the human
mind."

We are convinced, however, that France cannot be long in
imitating the example of England. The following para-
graph in a Ministerial paper, the Fpoque, is significant, and
leads to the belief that the Government only revire support
to adopt a liberal commercial policy, and that they look with
rather a favourable eye to the Anti-Protection Society
formed at Bordeaux :-" We agree with the merchants of
Bordeaux, in thinking that our Customs' tariff may be
notably simplified and reduced, particularly in what regards
the objects of first necessity and raw produce, and that this
duty calls for the solicitude of the Government. If the asso-
ciation in favour of free trade keeps within the limits of mo-
deration, and enters on a conscientious examination of the
various points bearing on the subject, it must usefully aid
the Administration in the accomplishment of this duty."
The news from America had caused some depression in
the French funds :-The Three per Cents. closed at 84f. 70c.;
the Five per Cents., 123 f. 80c. ; the Orleans Railroad shares,
1,337 f. 50c.; Rouen, 1,072 f. 50c.; Havre, 750 E ; Great
Northern, 796 f. 25c.; Avignon, 1,017 f. 50c. ; Vierzon, 740 f. ;
Bordeaux, 672 f 50c.; Boulogne, 550 f.; Troyes and Monte-
reau, 450 f.• Basle, 252 f. 50c.; Diejpe, 470 f. •, Paris and
Strasburgh, 551 f. 25c.; Tours and Isantes, 585 f.; Paris and
Lyons, 631 E 25c.
The following are the quotations for other lines :-
:Lyons and Avignon Railroad (Talabot), 509 E ; ditto (Le-
cointe), 505 f. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 502 f. 50c. ;
ditto I)efinitives, 5661. 25c. ; Bordeaux and Cette (Macken-
zie), 503 f. 75c.; ditto (Espeleta), 5104; ditto Definitive,
560 f. 50c. ; Charleroi, 4961. 50c.

Lyons, FEE. 28.-3larseilles and Avignon, 1,020 f. ; Rouen,
1,065 f. ; Vierzon, 746 f. 25c.

BUSINESS DONM IN FOREIGN RIILWA.YR AT TILE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Mo.ack 3.
Boulogne aad Amiens, 1134 —Dutch Rhenish, 6% —East Indian,
I—Great Northern of France Constitated, 153‘ —Great Indian Penin-
sular, 34—Italian and Austrian, I%—Jamaica Soutk Midland Junc-
tion, 3 LA—Luxembourg, 2%—Paris and Roden, 41%.

IM PORTANT FROM AMERICA

(From a Second Edition of the Times.)

By a private merchant vessel we have later accounts
reaching up to the 1 lth ult.
On the 9th ult. the following resolutions were passed :
" Resolved by the Senate and House of Represen-
tatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled, that the President of the United States
cause notice to be given to the Government of
Great Britain, that the convention between the United
States of America and Great Britain, concerning the
territory of the north-west coast of America, west of the
Stony Mountains, of the 6th of August, 1827, signed at
London, shall be annulled and abrogated in twelve months
after giving said notice.

"2. And be it further resolved that nothing herein con-
tained is intended to interfere with the right aid discre-
tion of the proper authorities of the two contracting parties
to renew or pursue negotiations for an amicable settlement
of the controversy respecting the Oregon territory."

On Friday last, Colonel Tynte, of Halswell House, in
SOMersetshire, was unanimously elected Grand Master of the Ancient
and Honourable Order of Masonic Knights Templars, as successor to
his late Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex. Colonel Tynte's La.
stallatiou will, we hear, shortly take place.

MONEY ►nd COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

The sales of Litton at Liverpool yesterday were 6,000 bales, in.
chiding 2,000 on.peculation, in some 11151.11.1,,02 at an advance of lid.
per lb. Shares rere nut co good.
In the recent tales of wool, tiore were one or two items VI Or:11
note°. The ner commercial regulations of our Government are in
truth working londers. There has been received fresh beef and
pork, sent here 'Om distances varying from 3,000 to 4,000 miles, and
oysters alive, dito. From the extremity ofthe vast continent of New
Holland do we now obtain wool and tallow, and now have
we America—he Southern States of the Republic—com-
petitors in wills. Somewhere about 700 bales of United
States wool hare just been put up to public auction in the
City, some of thin merinos, or at least so designated, but very few
were sold. A fee samples marked "Actual United states Merino,"
(a regular Yanke must have dictated the description of the fleece)
sold at Is. 3d. to sd. per lb., and 238 bales of United States merino
Wools, ex. Frances Ana, from Boston, were really taken at from
Is. Id. to Is. Nd. per lb. What will free trade accom-
plish in a cparter of a century after this, when the
bare prospect of he adoption of the great principle tends to supply
our markets now with the rich and varied products of all climes, and
what would havebeen, to the last generation, in as inconceivable
short space of flint.

A single paper,of February 12, from New York, brought by the
Switzerland, Capain Knight, arrived off Dover, has been received at
the North and South American Coffee-house, and conveys the
important, but ceetainly by no means unexpected, information of the
House of Representatives haring passed a vote for giving a year's
notice to Great Britain that the joint occupancy of Oregon shall
cease. The Boum, however, afraid perhaps that the President has
gone too far, resoVes that negotiation
may be confirmed. Respect-
ing the revolutior. in Yucatan there are no very authentic details.
The Public Secirities have been flat to-clay. Consols are 95% %
for present transf r, and 95% to 9614 for time. Exchequer-bills re-
alise 355. premiers. New Three and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 97%
to 98%.
6panish Active 3onds are rather good, being 27 to tp . The Three
per Cents. are 37 io . Mexican Deferred are 165„ and Brazilian
84. Dutch Two-anl-a-Half per Cents. have been 59 to 59%. Shares
are dull.

BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock .. • ••

ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES
.• - 209

_. _ .. ..
Three Pei Cent. Reiuced Annuities .. .. 561 % 96;¢
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities „ ~ 95% li 95%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anne. 983 9TX 98M 8',4
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5,1860 .. 10% 10 11-16
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. .. 10 5-16 10 5-16
South Sea Stock .. • • . • • . .. .. 77.

Ditto, New Annuities „ „ 9514
Consols for Account ••••_. _ 95% 961

Exchequer BUIL llid. _ _ _
I % d.
1,0001. .. .. •• • • 35 —— -- pm. 36
5001... .. •• .. —— pm. 36
Ditto. Small •• .. 34 37 Pm. 37
Ditto, Advertised • ... 35 33 pm. 32
ONE CLOSING
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 84 83%
Danish, 3 per Cent - • • . • • .. 89% 89%
Equador Bonds .. • . .. .. .. —3%
Grenada, 1 per Cent .. .. .. .. 22%
Ditto, Deferred .. .. .. ~ —4%
Mexican Bonds, 1537, 5 per Cent ..
relktPantfolia,4 6 j.T.r Cent. .. .. MN
JO
Russian Bonds .. .. .. .. .. ex div 107%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. ..
Ditto, for the Account .. .. .. 27% % 27
Ditto, Passive Bonds .. .. .. 6% 6%
Ditto, Deferred .. .. .. .. .. 16% 17 14
Ditto, Three per Cent .. .. .. 37 37%
Ditto, for the Account .. .. .. 37% 3736
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent .. .. 443(
Ditto, Deferred .. .. .. .. . 14
Dividends on the above payahle in Loudon.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Ceut .. 59%% 593
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 94% 95%
PRICES OF BUSINESS CLOSING
PAID. DONE AT
RAILWAY SHARES. PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.
Buckinghamshire .. .. ~ .. 425. .... par •. • • .... • • %
Caledonian .. .. .. ~ .. 10 .... 12% %13 .... 13

- -
Ditto, Half Shares 2% 314 %% • • • • • • 3%
Dii,to, Extension 21/a . 2
Cambridge and Oxford.. .. • • 1% •• • • •• • •

Chester and Holyhead .. : .20 .... 21 20% .. • . 20
Direct Manchester (Remington's) 2%.... ..... •• •
Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) • • 5U •• • • 334% •••• • • • • 3)t
Direct Northern 2..... .......... 24
• •• •• ••

Dublin and Belfast Junction : • 5. •• • •
Dublin and Galway .. .. .. 4 .... 3% U ........ 3 4
Eastern Counties .. .. 141. 16s. .... 21% .. .. ••• • - 21%

Ditto, York Extension Os. •• • . 1 ••••• • • . • • 1
Edinburgh and Glasgew .. 50 .. •••• • • • •
Ditto New Shares.. .. 10 14% .
Goole, Doneast., and*heffleld, &c. 425..... p......% P
Great North of England . ..100 ....218 215 .... 215
Ditto, New 5 .... 50 52
Ditto, New .. 5 .... 3.5 ••• • • • 35
Ditto, New .. 1 .. 12% •• .. • •
Great Western .. .. 85

84 .....

Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 50
Hull and Selby .. .. 50 •
Ditto, Halt shares .. 7 .... 26 • • ........
Lancaster and Carlisle .. 35 • •
Ditto New .. 5 .... 1014 10 .... • • 10
Leicester and Bedford .......... 225..... dis .. •• .. A die
Liverpool and Leeds Direct .. 2 ...
Liverp., Manch., & Newc. Janet. 21% .... 314 % .
London an Birmingham ... . tgo .... 221 ..
Ditto Thirds .. .. 16 .... • ..... 49
Ditto Quarters .. .. 2 .... 27 . 27
Ditto Fifths .. 2 .. 23
London and Black wall .. 16/. 13s. 4d. 8% 8x d
Ditto New
London aid Brighton .. 50 .... 64
London and Croydon .. 13/. 15s. 9d. 21% .......... 21}4
London and South- Western.. 411. 65..10d. 77 x d
Ditto, New . .. 121% .... 22% 23 x d . . 23xd
Ditto, New
London and York .. .. 2% ....

Ditto, Half Shares .. 2;;' • • • 2% • 25/8
Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 •••• • • • .
Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) I •• • • 7% ••••• • • • • 7%
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425....• .. ••.. •
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... 2% 1/4
Midland ..100 .... 147% 147 • •

Ditto Fifths.. .. 2 .... .
Ditto, New .7 .. .. 18 .... 33 32N ...... 3214

Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 25 .... 44

Ditto, New .. 1 .... 10 9% •••• •• • • 9%
Ditto, Now, Brandling .. 20 .... 3S • • 3B
Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 10 .... 20% 20 •• • 20
Newark, Sheffield, and Boston .. 2%.... 1% •• • • l%
North British 20 .... 26%%% 26
Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 11,4 .. •• ••••• • • • •

North Kent and Direct Dover • • 2k.. • . 2.3;
North Staffordshire .. 425. • ... 3%%„% p.... 3% p
Oxfd.,lVorcester, & Wolverhmptn. 123 .... 13
Preston and Wyre .. 25 .... 34j 35 ..... 35
Scottish Central .. . 7% 15 15
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 2 .... 23 ..
Shropshire Union .. 423..... 1A die........ 4 dis.
South Midland 428..... 1% 1% p

South Eastern and Do'ror 33% 37% . 3T3
Do., New (do. 331.65. Bd.) No. 2. 10 .. .. 12 ....... II

Do., New ‘(do. 301.) No. 3. 10

.. 11K

Do., New (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 2%.... 3% ........ 3q
Staines' and Richmond .. .. .. 1 .... 1% 1..... I. 1
Swans. & Loughor & Cameron's.. 2 .... 2% ••• • • • .... 2%
Welsh Midland • • • • • • .. 2%.... 1% • ....... 1%
Wills, Somerset, and Weymouth 2%.... 2% ........ 2%
York and Carlisle .. .. , .. 2% .... 2 .......... 2
York and North Midland .. 50 .... .......... _
Ditto, Half Shares .. • • .. 25 .... 47 48
Ditto. Extension • • • . .. 15 ....
Do. E. and W. Riding Exten... 1 .... 10% 9%...... 9%
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.

Barbadoes
Boulogne and Amiens •.••• . 10 .. 111. . .• . II
Bord., Toul., Sc Cette kMackenzle) 2 2 .
.. 2
.......

Dutch Rhenish • • • • • • • . 5 .... 6}i .
East Indian .• • • • • • • • bs• .... 1
Grt. North. of France Constituted 5 .... 16 15%
Italian and Austrian • • • . .. 3
.... i%
134
Luxembourg • • • • • • • • 4 .... 2% % ......
Namur and Liege • • • • • . 4 •. .. 2% 2%
.„.
__. —•••••• ••

Orleans and Yierven • • • • .• 10 .... 19 -
Rouen and Havre • • • • • • • 20 29%
MINES.
Real del Monte, Unregistered