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Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 2y, .. . . :4% . .
Shropshire Union .. Ms • ... • ... 4 ths.
South Midland .. 425..... 2% %% p.... p
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South Eastern and Dovor •• 33% .
Do., New (c)o. 331. 68.8(1.) No. 2. 10 .. 134 . . i3!4
New (do. 301.) .. No. 3. 1d 11% ••• • • • 11.'
tlo., New (do. 151.) s No. 4. 2% .... 4 3%...• •• • • Z 0.4
Staines and Richmond .. 1 .... 2%.Zia
Trent, Valley .. .. b.. 22% 23% 22% 23% 23!3
Welsh Midland .. 2% .... .. • • ...... 2

Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth
Yarmouth and Norwich .. .. 20 .... 27% x d 27% x d
Yon; asid North Midland .. 1-0 •••••• • • • -
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 25 .... 49% 49%
Ditto, Extension .. 15 .... 33 .. • • .... 33%
Do. E. and W. Riding Exten... I .... 10!4 10 ...... 10
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Bordeaux and Mediterranean .. 2 ..........
Ditto, ditto (Espelete) .. 2 .... 24
Central of Spain .. .. 2 .... -
Ceylon .. .. •• • • • • • ss. •• • 1 ••••• • • • • • 1
Dutch Rhenish ' • • • • • • • 5 •• • • 7% .......... 74
East Indian . 511. . 1 IA
GM North. of France Constituted 5 .... 15% .......... 15 'q
Great Western Bengal .. Sc.
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Louvain and deineppe • • .. 4 2

Luxembourg . • ••••4••••• • • • • • • • • • • 2%
Madrid and Valentia .. • • 2 .... 1 .. . ,
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Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's) .. 3 ....
Paris and Orleans .. • . .. 20 .. 4914 %
Paris and Row' .. 20 39
Rouen and Havre .. 20 .... 28% ........ 28y
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Provincial of Ireland ••.. 25 .... .......... 45!4
MINES.
Real del Monte, Unregistered .... 4 •• • 4

THE ROYAL ASYLUM OF-THE ST. ANN'S SOCIETY.-
Yesterday, a general half-yearly, court of the Govern Ora of this so-
ciety (formerly known as the St. Ann's Society, but which designa-
tion has been, by the express command of her Majesty, who is
patron, changed to thatof the '" Royal Asylum"), was held at the
London Tavern, for the purpo,e of receiving a report, to elect offievrs
for the ensuing year, and to elect by ballot eight additional boys mid
four girls out of a Ust of 07 candidates, into the asylum at Brixton.
The Lord 4layor was in the chair. The report read by the secretary
stated that there are now 232 boys and girls in the asylum, and yes-
terday's electlon would increase that number to 244. in addition to
the asylum at Brllitd”, there ism town school in Aldersgate, in which
28 boys and 27
.girls are clothed and educated. The Lord Mayor
briefly, but emphatically, supported the claims of the institution.
At three o'clock,the ballot closed, when the names of the 'successful
candidates wore announced, thanks were voted to his Lordship, and
the meeting broke up. ills Royal rlighaess the Duke of Cambridge,
onti of the noble patrona, his appointed the 30th of April next for
the iasiebratlon of the annual festival, at which his Royal Hlgimess
has consented to preside. _ _
_ _

LATE"HOURS OE BUSINESS. Last night a ,pnblic
meeting, called at the instance of the Metropolitan Drapers' Associa-
tion, for the abridgment of the hours of labour by the early closi; g of
shops, took place in the Music-hall, Store-street, Bedford-square.
B. B. Cabbell, Esq., was in the chair, and resolutions In accordance
with the objects of the meeting were passed ttnanimously.

h; question, that in the petition they expressed themselves I
nxious as the representatives of the largest city in the word
o give Parliament their support ; and in, doing so, they in-
formed Parliament, they were desirous that their conduct and
intention was not to embarrass Sir Robert Peel. His friend
had said that no corn could be brought in Rots. duty. Taking
his statement as true, what was the effect? Why, that wis ,he
Ste° of things the first year ; in the second )ear those who had
Corn were bribed by a four-shilling premium to keep it up
Hear, hear.) They would do the same on the third year, and
so it would accumulate, yielding no benefit for the time, and to
deluge the market at the close of the period.-4 Hear, hear.)
It was all a delusion and a fear. Gentlemen %viola see the,
if they looked back to the experiment that was tiled on trade
in 1842. When that experiment was in agitation, the
same party in the State, the same party. in the coun-
try, the same interest; 'cried ''out that great would he
the ruin that would follow • from 'the -
new tariff. Yet
prices had been better from • 1842 to 1845 than
they had been for twenty years before. Alarmists, therefore,
were only carrying out this principle in the present opposu loot
The question before the meeting was whether they would sup.
port Sir Robert Peel's measures,_ or whether they would lie-
titioti for immediate repeal. Since this new experiment' had
been Advertised, no person, not even at ,any of the agtie.ll-
- meetings, hW said one word in favour of this new 5- 1.-
ture of the measure. Agriculturists all said, rather take
pro-
tection away at once and entirely.
After some remarks from another Councilman in fivour of
the petition,
Mr. WIRE rose to reply. He said he would not detain
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the Court long, but he would notice one or two 01 the
remarks which had fallen from the mover anti toecmder
of the amendment. One of them said, "I am eon.
sistent, because on a form-T occasion I advocated a fixed
duty." The questi.m bef. re them now was very different
from that alluded to. Then it was not for a repeal of the
corn-laws ; it was a petition to the Queen for the opening of
the ports, because a great part of that food, on which the
people of Ireland, and of Scotland, and England depend was
in a great measure destroyed. It was a wisp and salutary
movement that, on such an occasion. But if the gentleman
would speak of his consistency, he (Mr. Vire) must say he

try) was consistent, and he hoped the Court would preserve its
consistency by passing the resolutions. In 18'.9 be found, from
the minutes of the Court, they then condemned the corn-laws,
and why should they not go now and request the present House
of Commons to repeal them ? In 1840 he found them 'neat
the same opinion on free trade. He was sure his biend, Mr.
Jones had not read the whole of that minute before he began
to qiiote it so much to the frustration of his own purpose.
When had these laws been a benefit? They bad a Noble Lord
standing up in Parliament and declaring his experience of their
effect ; he said he had sold corn under their reign at from btls.
occurred in
resolutions
s
up to 705., and all Abds,effect he had. known to have been
tse of the gentlemen had
pro-
duced during that period on she condition of his labourers was,
ot
that their wages, from being Bs.,- had become 93.
Ntirr esca
pwriitcehsstaondfinfogat-ha(tHes:rc,h hear)—some
an rdifferenceom had
time
the
e fo°:
the
e
said that the present was

I.
SOIJT II NOVFING HAM ELECTION,
NEWARK, TRUILiDAY.—The Illeli Sheriff of the county, Mr. T. D.
Hall, having received the ii sit, proclamation has been made, and the,
day, she 'n:ll...Cif February instant, et the Toe nshall: Through his
nomination of candidates Sre this election will take place on &Cure,
I agent, Nil*. Winter, the Duke of Neweastleis using every exertion to
ensure the return of Mr. Ilddyard es a Member fiteebrable to pro-
tection. At Southwell, and at Bingham, I here is much opposition to
, herd Lincoln, whereas at Carlton, Calverton; Woodbareugh," and
iothsr adjacent villages, the electors are resolved -upon supporting his,
i Lordship. About noon, the Earl of Linealu, accompanied by several.
personal friends, repaired to the Town-hall, where a large concourse
of people had assembled. Having stepped forward, to address the!
meeting, -
1
Lord LINCOLN said, he readily availed himself of that opportunity
(the nest since the publication of his address) to express to them, as
their late representative, his honest sentiments upon the great clues-.
Ilion now agitating the country. He was ready to vindicate the
Icourse he had deemed it his duty to pursue, and he would appeal to
them whether, muter all the circumstances of the case, he had not
;acted for their weltare, and the interests of the country -at--large-large--
(hear.) He was willing, at any tints, to speak at length on the
-.proposed measures of Government, but lie thought -it would be a
imore fitting orportunity, when the electors should be assembled at
,the hustings, for the purpose of nominating their candidates. With re- .
Terence to the manner In which he had recently . vacated his seat, :
in Parliament as representative for that division of the county, he
Wished to say a few wards. Had he consulted his feelings he should
have accepted the Chiltern Hundreds, and appealed to the general
body of the electors, but from a sense of duty, he made a great
sacrifice of his personal feelings, and declined that couree. The
bilice he now held having been offered to him in a few days after-
Lwards, he considered the acceptance of it a legitimate opportunity to
ppeai to the electors, and he rejoiced in the occasion. He regretted
*that Mr. Hildyard, as he was a young man unknown to the consti-
tuency, was not then present, since he (Lord Lincoln) would
now have no opportunity of hearing his opponent's senti-
ments upon the great subject at issue until they met
upon the hustings, and then not until he himself had
expressed his own sentiments. He believed Mr. Hildyard to be
an honourable man, but at the saint time .he considered he was nn-
acquaintedwith public business, and particularly the great bulitnesh• ,
he was intending to go into Parliament to transact.—(Bear.) Though
man,ug
he knew Mr. Hildyard, as he had said, to be a verLihctitonneew
hisad_
he did not consider it fair in him to state,
when they knew
coln.'! This, in his Lordship's view, was i
the meeting, as Eng-
aln • and he appealed to
In
that he was coming again
, ....mole on the part
of his
dress, that e a vacancy had occurred by thea,:rtleis:f2 ;loon of Lord Lin-
lishmen, if they considered it
misrepresent i
him.—(Loud Cries of "No,
opponent thus to
reother attacks by Mr. Hildyard,
rove That gentletnan had announced
iPi landowners were against his
Lordship,
oitf
nlislicnboti.:.;)
that "certain " influent awouldread
taapnwoluthnceuhrdis
such was not coreect. He -
he
sihsofiT.lsatniosfit
when
he
writes
—°'
from a large landed proprietor in
he bad received the neighbourhood, •
didThicioretel'-pe
iwhom lie highly esteemed and respected as an excellent man, who
Lincoln's conchae! and principles, that he most anxiously hopes het
)acme.hadb 4P
editsitna trills to
letterbe
win be returned imam as the Member for South Notting II hi ". ms re.
I (Applause.) 1 his geittleman had been represented
by his opponents
as being opposed to his election. (Bear, hear.)
A member 0; the protection Society here interrupted the noble '
epeaker, but the latter having requested him to defeat entil his re-
Marks were concluded,
Lied LlecoLN continued. He would have shrunk from appearing
helve the electors that day, had he not been convinced that the',
course he had adopted was right ; and had he shrunk from seeing his
opinions he would- never have shown his face again.— (Applause.)
Ile had been told that those opinions were not his own, and that IfeS
had yielded to the opinions of Sir It. Peel. He had no hesitation in
speaking highly of the great and superior talents mkt judgment of
Sir R. Peel, and to express his Sinn belief that in everything
Sir It. Peel did he acted conscientiously, and from thorough •
conviction for the good of his country ; but he, at the same
tine, would say that the sentiments he (Lord Lincoln) enter-
tained were his own, and that his opinions had not been changed
in deference to Sir Hebert' Peel's.-- (Applause.) His own change
had been effected by the silent process of conviction of mind.
the Government was not about to deal with the corn-laws alone.
they were not sacrificing one interest for another. but they were
dealing wl,ll all alike. Protection will be taken from all, and his'
Conviction was that from all the circumstances of the country sad
the world, all parties will be better without protection than with it.
e—(Applause.) The Government believed the manufacturer of
woollen cloths and ether fabrics will he better without protective
laws, end they call upon the agriculturists as well as the manufac-
turers to give up all protection.—(Hear, hear.) With regard to the
farmers he believed that the protection they had enjoyed of late
years ;lad not operated in the -.least degree to benefit them
as a class, and that to continue it would he prejudicial
to their interests than they could conceive.—(Hear, hear.)
' He trusted the electors would not ;ejects Mtn, atter they lied heard
him; but should they do so, fie would tell them, that the measures
of-Goternmentevould still be carried ' No election would have any
effect upon these measures, which be would venture to predict would
he carried in the Home of Commons in the course of the present
week- (Applause)—and Mother, by a majority of upwards of 100.—
(Applause.) The tide of opinion had set' in, and it could not be
- stayed.—(Cries of " Bravo," and applause.) He warned the electors
not to believe that the body of men whom they respected en'l whom
he -respeceed, he meant- the 'Peers of this kingdom, would throw out
luced
* the Bill sent up from the House of Commons, as he was c(re,couid
i they would do no such thing.—(Hear, hear.) Day bi day,
landed
assure the electors. the Peers in all directions, Md
adhesion on this
propres era of the kingdom, were sending in 1
i c, tl*Vatient.(APPlause)
poin , and their promises of support to t•-me- -17, moment, it would
; It they could by passibility stem the to o
Id reject the meaeures,
' return with redoubled force. If they s
cile're°u•er contest, as the Corn-
I th y would have to engage in ae•
ti'lite tuid the industrious classes
t law League, the manufacturing te et
dile 'with the protective societies in
r o' the country would an unite..
• ; s amid with timC protective societies in
opposition, one gm-eat amid mighty atrUgttle with leagues and clubs of
opposition, one great and inig.
ensue land the ';test fearful results must
every description wouldentry,
sweat be convulsed from one end to
I ineviably follow. Time country
be stithel. curl political agitation would
day of nomination
be their ' when' he should be heard, and they would
representative.
Ifildyard was their. Member, - have an
declare that Mr.
he should never believe that the-v had
re,lected him.—(Applause.) ,
A Voice.—" I hope heaven will reject then; if they d "
0 Von
lead Liseoasa said he should be in Newark on Wednesday•'.
and should be scatty to explain ally • t
teen the el
He'silifild say farewell ; but lie prayed they
selves agains him till lie had done titer 11 '
haying done this, lie hoped, next,-
and
might wish.
v•-ould not pledge them-
e tete to explain himself, and,
the other,
industry would
laud.— (Hear. hear.) Ile begged once more
extend throughout ._
4uld not promise their vett s against hi till
him the
that the electors,
I which of the t ' '
opportunity ofjude judging two candidates was most fit to
at the end- of the second day's poll, he
should be retprned as their re •
present alive.— (Applause,) 'Several questions were asked by the person who had previously
a • •Mr. Cliouler, and these having been severally eiid -
111lly answered by Lord Lincoln,
leis
.Lordship and (rituals returned-,
to their committee-room, and thenicating dissolved , •
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MR. COBDEN.—The answer to inquiries made at Mr.
Cobden's residence late on Thursday night was, that he was consi-
derably better.

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