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N APRIL 7, 1846.

such work or undertaking, and if in any of the foregoing
oases the person or persons named in such warrant or order,
o: the survivors or survivor of them, or the majority of such
-,ersons, apply by petition to the Court in the name of whose
Accountant-General the sum of money mentioned in such
warrant or order shall have been paid, or such Exchequer-
bills, Stocks or Funds shall have been deposited or trans-
ferred as aforesaid, or to the Court of Exchequer in Scotland,
in case such sum of money shall have been paid in the name
of the said Queen's Remembrancer, the Court in the name of
whose Accountant-General or Queen's Remembrancer such
sum of money shall have been paid, or each Exchequer-
bills, Stocks or Funds shall have been deposited or trans-
ferred, shall by order direct the sum of money paid in pur-
suance of such warrant or order, or the stocks, funds or se-
curities in or upon which the same may have been invested,
and the interest or dividends thereof; or the Exchequer-
hills, Stocks or Funds so deposited or transferred as aforesaid,
and the interest and dividends thereof to be paid or trans-
ferred to the party or parties so applying, or to any other
person or persons whom they may appoint in that behalf;
but no such order shall be made in the case of any such pe-
tition or Bill being rejected or not being allowed to proceed,
or being withdrawn or not being presented, or of an Act
being passed authorising the making of such work or un-
dertaking, unless upon the production of the certificate of the
chairman of Committees of the House of Lords with refe-
rence to any proceeding in the House of Lords, or of the
Speaker of the House of Commons with reference to any
proceeding in the House of Commons, that the said petition
or Bill was rejected or not allowed to proceed, or was with-
drawn during its passage through one of the Houses of Par-
liament, or was not presented, or that such Act was passed;
which certificate the said Chairman or Speaker shall grant
on the application in writing of the person or persons, or the
majority of the persons named in such warrant, or the sur-
vivor or survivors of them.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, APRIL 6.
STOCK EXCHANGE —The sales are—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
teshire Junction, % p.—Caledonian, 3 dis.—Dundee and Perth,
dis.—Eastern Counties, York Extensions, 108. p.—Goole and
Doncaster, 34 dis.—Huddersfield and Manchester, 2% dis.—Hudders-
.ield and Sheffield, 1 p.—Leeds and Thirsk, dis.— Liverpool
Ind Bury, 4% p.--Ditto. New Shares, 18s. 6d. p.— Liverpool and
Leeds Direct, 6s. 3d. dis.-- Liverpool, °nut:kirk, and Preston, Bs. 9d.
‘). —London and Birmingham, 217—London and. York, I % dia.—
Manchester and Leeds, 37 p.—Ditto, Fifths, 834 p.—Manchester,
Midland, and Great Grimsby, 17s. 6d. dis.—Midland Stock, 144%
gewca.stle and Darlington, 44—North British, Carlisle, IA p.—North-
umberland and Lancaster, I % dis.—North Staffordshire, I% p.—
North Union (A), 208—Ditto (B), 141—North Western, Is. 6d. dis.
—Oxford and Birmingham, 10s. dis.—Sheffield and Manchester, 105
—Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 3 dis.—Shropshire Union and
anal, 255. dis,—South Eastern, No. 2, par ex d.--Ditto, New

calves, 10s. dis. ex d.— South Midland, 4 dis.—South Staffordshire,
dis.—Tean and Dove Valley, dis.—West Riding Union, 1% p.
--Bandon and Bantry, 235. 6d. dis.—Dutch Rhenish I ls. 3d. p.
MANC 11 ESTER, Aram 6.

STOGY EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Bandon and Bantry, 134 dis.-
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 34 p.-Blackburn, Darwen,
.uid Bolton, I% dis.-- Br stop, Newark, and Sheffield, I 7-16 dis. c.-
Mielmsford and Bury, 134 dis.-Chester and Manchester Direct, 295.
his. -Clydesdale Junction, 1% dis.-Derby and Crewe, 15-16 p.-
East Lancashire,-No. 2, 34 p.-Huddersfield and Manchester Rail-
way and Canal, 134 dis.-Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, p.
-Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 4 dis.-Leeds, Dewsbury, and
Manchester, 1-Liverpool and Bury, 5 p.-Liverpool, Ormskirk,
uid Preston, 32 p.-Liverpool, Preston, Manchester, and Southport,
14 dis.-London and Manchester (Remington's), 1% dis.-London and
York; I % dis.-Manchester, Buxton' and Matlock, 34 dis.-Man-
chester and Birmingham, 75 c.-Ditto, Quarters (A), 6% p. c.-
BMW, Quarters (B), 6% p. c.-Ditto, Quarters (C), 5% p.-Man-
chester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction, 205. 6d.
dis.-Manchester and Leeds, Fifths, 38 p.-North Staffordshire, 114
p.--Preston and Wyre, 32%-Ditto, Halves, 254 •p. -Sheffield, Leek,
dud Crewe, 18s. 6d. dis.-Shrewsbury and Hereford, &c., 134 die. c.-
South Eastern and Dover, Halves, No. 4, 34 dis. -Tean and Dove
Valley, % dis.-Trent Valley Continuation and Holyhead, )",'8 dis.-
West Riding Union, 1 1-16 p.
LEEDS, APRIL 6.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.-The sales are-Eastern Counties, York Ex-
tension, 10s. p.-East Lancashire, N 0.2 (late Accrington), ss. p.-flud-
dersfield and Manchester, 20s. dis.-Huddersfield and Sheffield, 1%
it. c.- Leeds and Think 434 dis.-North British, New Carlisle
Branch, 6s. p.-Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 434 dis.-
rondon and York, 295. dis.-Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 255.
dis.-Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 10s. p.-West Riding Union,
3/. ss. 6d.-Birkenhead, Chester, Mold, &c., 28s. dis.-Bradford,
Wakefield, and Midland, 225. 6d. dis.-Clitheroe Junction, 255.
Ms.-Great Eastern and Western, 345. dis.-Lancashire and North
Yorkshire, 20s. dis.-Leeds and Liverpool Direct,ss. dis.-Leeds and
York, 30s. dis.-Leeds, Wakefield and Midland, 20s. dis.-Manches-
ier, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, Is. dis.-Manchester and South-
ampton, 12s. 6d. dis.-Northainberland and Lancashire Junction, 245.
dis.-North Staffordshire, 335. 6d. dis. -North Western, 25.6 d. dis.-
Shropshire Union, 275. dis.- York and Carlisle, 365. dis.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

VOTES OF THE THANKS AND THE FREEDOM. OF
THE CITY TO THE COMMANDERS IN INDIA, &c.
Yesterday a special Court was held for the purpose of
voting the thanks and congratulations of the Court, with
the freedom of the City, in gold boxes of the value of 100
guineas, to the Lieutenant-General the Right Hon. Sir
Henry Hardinge, Knight Grand Cross of the Bath, Governor-
General of India; to General Sir Hugh Gough, Bart., Knight
Grand Cross of the Bath, Commander-in-Chief of the forces
in India ; and to Major-General Sir Henry George Smith,
Knight Commander of the Bath, for the valour, judgment,
and ability displayed by them in the recent battles of Aliwal
and Sobraon, on the 28th of January and the 10th of
February last. Also the thanks of the Court to the other
officers, European and Native, for the intrepidity, persever-
ance, and discipline evinced by them upon both of those me-
morable occasions.
There was likewise notice of a motion attached to the
business paper by Sir Peter Laurie, to the effect that the
freedom of the City be presented to Major-General Sir
George Pollock, G.C.8., in testimony of the esteem enter-
tained by the Court, in common with their fellow-citizens,
of the distinguished military services rendered by him in
Affghanistan, and of his indefatigable zeal and energy
throughout that campaign.
_ The cause of the delay in voting the well-merited acknow-
ledgment to Sir George Pollock arose from the general sup-
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Mr. R. L. JoNEs said, in rising to move the first resolu-
tion which related to the Governor-General of India alone,
for it was considered more respectful and complimentary to
give a distinct and separate acknowledgment to each of the
illustrious individuals whose services had done such honour
to their country, he felt no small degree of gratification. He
laboured under no doubt as to the sentiments of the Court
upon the subject. He knew the resolution he had to pro-
pose would be received not only unanimously, but with accla
inations.—(Hear, hear.) It would be presumptuous in him
to go to any length in expressing his opinion of the gal-
lantry, energy, and skill of those who achieved such extra•
ordinary victories under circumstances of a nature which
called forth the astonishment of their countrymen, familiar
as Englishmen were with all the praises and enjoy ment of
triumph.—(Cheers.) He should merely refer to the elo-
quent dispatches of Sir Henry Hardinge, which it would be
a libel upon the Court to say that any member was un-
acquainted with, to exhibit the spirit of description beat
adapted to depict the combination of judgment, gal-
lantry, humanity, and perseverance which made the scene
of war so remarkable. The whole course of the military
proceeding was calculated to exalt the character of our coun-
trymen as well as that of the native troops engaged, and
after the glorious victory, the result of those magnificent ex-
ertions, the mildness of the conditions, and the Christian feel-
ing by which the operations of the commanders were distin-
guished, even against those whose conduct had been aggres-
sive in the extreme, increased the glory which had been pur-
chased by such a sacrifice of human life.—(Cheers.) Mr.
Jones concluded by moving that the freedom, &c., be pre-
sented to the Governor-General of India.
Mr. DixoN seconded the motion.
The vote was carried unanimously, and amidst accla-
mations.
Mr. HannisoN rose to move the vote to Sir Hugh Gough.
It was, he said, impossible for any one possessed of the
heart of an Englishman not to feel delighted at the course
pursued in India by our Government. He held in his hands
the vote to a General of very great distinction, and he felt
that he was wholly. unable to do justice to the occasion. The
result of the victories 'which they were celebrating would be
felt in the establishment of civilisation, of commerce, and of
peace, and the natives would have cause to rejoice in the
protection afforded to them by the valour of the British
arms.—(Cheers.)
Mr. R. TAYLOR heartily agreed in the resolution.
The resolution was carried unanimously, and amidst cheers.
Mr. ANDERTON moved the vote to Sir lienry George Smith.
He felt the greater pride and gratification in submitting the
resolution, as he knew the gallant General when a boy, and
not a member of the army. He thought that after a lapse
of forty years, Sir Henry Smith would not be sorry to hear
that he had proposed, in Guildhall, the freedom of the City
for eminent services rendered in India.—(Cheers.) The
victories in India would not only have the effect of establish-
ing peace in that extensive territory, but would serve as a
lesson to America, likely to convince that people that it was
dangerous to provoke England by acts of aggression and
tyranny.—(Cheers.)
Mr. Jowl Woon seconded the vote.
Dr. LYNCH said, that the man must be cold indeed who
could hear unmoved the glorious deeds of the British army,
or not join with all his heart in paying homage to the daunt-
less valour and cool intrepidity of the men, and to the judg-
ment and ability of the Generals, who had exalted the.
military character of their country to the highest point of
renown.—(Cheers.)
Mr. LAWRENCE admitted that war was full of horrors, but
the war in which these illustrious men had served their
country was the surest and the speediest means of establish-
ing peace, and every one knew that the more quickly san-
guinary contests were ended the better.—(Cheers.) Thei
moderation with which the signal triumphs gained were
acted upon showed that the continuance of the extermi-
nating process was not the object of the commanders of the
troops against the perfidious aggressors. He could imagine
a period when war would not suit the refined capacities of
men ; but the world was still at a great distance from that
happy crisis.—(Hear, hear.)
Sr. WIRE agreed that moral victories were greatly to be
preferred to those which were to be gained by the effusion of
blood ; but he denied that the victories which England ob-
tained were without fruit—witness the twenty-five years of
peace which had resulted from one great battle.—(Cheers.)
The vote was carried unanimously, and amidst cheers.
Mr. J. Wool) moved the vote of thanks to the officers and
men, and
Mr. BOWER seconded the motion, and took the opportunity
of stating that the Court could not think of deviating upon
the present occasion from their usual practice of inclosing the
freedom in a gold box.
The motion was carried unanimously, and amidst cheers.
Sir PETER LAURIE then rose to move "That similar ho-
nour to that paid ,to the other distinguished commanders
should be given to Sir George Pollock, whose absence from
England had prevented the Court from voting to the gal-
lant commander the freedom of the City." Sir Peter Laurie
spoke in terms of the highest praise of Sir George Pollock,
who was a relative of the distinguished Chief Baron Sir Fred.
Pollock.
Mr. ()BEARD who has two sons serving in the army in
India, seconded the motion amidst cheers, and
Sir PETER LAURIE hoped that he should one day move
votes of thanks to the sons of his old friend, if ever there
should be a revival of the horrors of war.
The motion was carried unanimously, and amidst loud
cheers.