The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-20 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY. JANUARY 20, 1846.

Notwithstanding the secresy with which Sir
ROBERT PEEL carefully guards his plan on the
corn-laws, symptoms are occasionally manifested
which may lead to the belief that it is of a compre-
hensive character, and that it will not materially
differ from the proposition which, in the words of
Mr. HUME, was " so large and so complete, that his
colleagues were terrified, and resigned." From
every quarter where the influence of Tory
Peers prevails the most dc cided hostility to
the Minister is shown. He is denounced as
a renegade—as a man in whom no confidence can be
placed, and as a betrayer of the party who placed him
in power. In two or three instances a limited con-
fidence ie still repo ed in him, but even that is
r.6llditional, and all that the interceding parties ven-
tured to propose to their unwilling hearers was not to
condemn a man before trial, and to writ
patiently till they knew what he really intended
to do. The symptoms, however, altogether are of
a very unfavourable character for the friends of free
trade, taking for granted that the House of Lords
can control the Alinister. Parties are dropping off
daily. Earl DELAWARE, the Lord Chamberlain, we
are assured, has resigned, the Marquis of EXETER is
going, and many others probably will follow in the
train. Several of the seceders belong to the Court;
they have access to her MAJESTY or her Royal Con-
sort, and may thereby have obtained some insight into
the mysterious secret which now causes so much
anxiety to millions of her MAJESTY'S subjects. In
fact, it is impossible to account for these defections on
any other grounds than the conviction that the Minis-
terial scheme is large and complete, though not imme-
diate in all its operations. A general belief now
prevails—indeed there is hardly any doubt on the
subject, that Sir • ROBERT PEEL proposed to the
Cabinet in December a total repeal of the corn-;airs.
Mr. Hume, usually well-informed on Ministerial
movements, says, "The resolution of the Minister
was so fixed on the measure that he risked the long-
cherished connexion with the Duke of WELLINGTON,
and was certain of breaking up the party of which
he himself was the head. Neither of these conside-
rations (weighty always with men seeking place and
power) deterred Sir R. PEEL front persevering ; and
he resigned, because he saw that he could not carry his
measure without all the influence of the Duke." The
Duke has returned to the Cabinet, it is true, and with
him a number of. inefficient colleagues, but Lord
STANLEY would not yield. lie joined, probably led
the dissentients, in opposing the plan, and has de-
serted them altogether rather than be a party to a
measure which will touch the landed interest. If
Sir H. PEEL had made any material concession, pro-
posed anything much short of total repeal, it is not
probable that the Minister for the Colonies would
have stood out alone, especially after he
had announced to Sir R. PEEL that he was not pre-
pared to form a Cabinet on the principle of non-
relaxation of the corn-laws. This result and the
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leave any doubt that the planalp be proposed on
Monday will embody measures in unison with the
principles of free trade. We 'cannot by any mode
of reasoning or calculation come to any other con-
clusion. Since PEEL came into office all his ten-
dencies have been in that direction. The Bill for ad-
mitting foreign cattle, the Canada Corn Bill,
the magnificent sweep of four htvadred articles
of foreign manufacture or productions from the
statute-book, the abolition of the duties on cotton,
the excise on glass, and many otner acts of the
Minister, all declare that he is a determined supporter
of free trade. The greatest difficulty., however, and
the most material step of all remairjed—the repeal of
the corn-laws. 'Without that all the rest would

be incomplete, and are we to imagine,
therefore, that a Minister who had deliberately pro-
posed a large and complete measure, who has again
and again declared that it is the policy of this country
to buy in the cheapest and sell in the dearest market,
who glories in having already made such important
changes, and rejoices in seeing them succeed beyond
even his expectation, and who resigned rather than
be thwarted in his fixed policy, would resume office
to announce that he had been defeated ? Sir ROBERT
PEEL knows the advantages, nay, the absolute ne-
cessity, of making great plans ample and complete;
and now that he has undertaken the task, and finds
no other party able to form a Ministry, he will not
ruin his character and defeat the hopes of his country-
men by half-and-half measures, merely to please those
who claim exclusive advantages, and yet have not tl e
courage or the power to form a Ministry for their ac-
complishment. That he will be opposed vigorously
in the Upper House we confidently anticipate, but the
Upper House is only one of the three estates. He has
the peoplp of England, and Scotland, and Ireland, at
his back ; he can repose confidence in our gracious
SOVEREIGN. The measure is necessary for the salva-
tion of the country ; and with such aids, and a firm
and courageous spirit, he has nothing to fear.

Frequently as we have recently had occasion to
particularise the various meetings convened by the
agriculturists, we must candidly avouch that no
single assembly of this nature has afforded us so
much entertainment as the one which took place on
Saturday evening, in the Borough-hall, at Tam-
worth. Its predecessors may have numbered many
more influential names ; they may have blown, as
through distant trumpets, the tidings of party
wrath into the ears of the Premier; they may have
sounded to him like a tumult in some remote street ;
but the present demonstration, swollen out with the
tongue-bubbles of a smaller rhetoric, bears a visage
of a yet more threatening expression. As far as the
Conservatives are concerned, Sir ROBERT PEEL has
been heaping barrels of gunpowder round his
threshold, and the present meeting is not unlike a
lighted cracker tied to the door-knocker. It must
undoubtedly, if nothing has hitherto accomplished
such an achievement, force upon the First Lord of
the Treasury a knowledge of his relative position
with his nominal supporters. Cambridgeshire, or
Willis's Rooms, may re-echo with anathemas upon
the League, and vituperations upon its adherents,
without in any especial manner startling Sir ROBERT
PEEL from the seclusion in which he is concocting his
redoubtable proposition for the consideration of Mr.
GREENE and the Committee of "Ways and Means;"
but here a party of infuriated protectionists Come
forward in the very Borough-hall of Tamworth, and
actually lavish upon the head of its landlord every
possible epithet of dissatisfaction and displeasure. In
addition, of course, to the ordinary catalogue of agri-
cultural arguments—that interminable catalogue of
indigence to farm-labourers, destruction to landed
property, &c. &c.—several personalities, in allusion to
the Premier, are introduced, throwing over the trans-
actions of what might otherwise have proved a very
hum-drum assemblage a delightful and unexpected
gleam of novelty. The Chairman, a certain, straight-
forward, blunt-spoken Mr. PYE, is the mouthpiece of
these anti-Peel and anti-free-trade sentiments. With
an extremely agreeable style of banter, which ma-
terially sharpens the subsequent declaration, he an-
nounces himself as inspired with a Personal reverence
for Sir ROBERT PEEL, but he adds that this personal
reverence is accompanied by a Ministerial antipathy.
Then follows the most sledge-hammer blow yet, ad-
ministered to the Premier :—" He would tell them
that they must tell their representatives (explicit
Mr. PlrE !) that they must fearlessly do their duty—
, they must tell them that they had entrusted to them
their dearest interests, and that although they did
not bind them to the adoption of any specific
measures, they did not at the same time bind them to
the constant support of the leader of a party." And
this announcement was received, be it particularly
remembered, with " applause," and this applause
sounded in the Borough-hall of Tamworth. As-
suredly it is an unmistakeable symptom of
cooling on the part of the Conservatives ;
it is a symbol, moreover, that if, like the satyr in
2Esop, they do not positively blow hot and cold to-
gether, they are undoubtedly growing very frigid
towards their former favourites, and very warm in-
deed respecting the abolition of restrictions upon
commerce. Correctly did the Chairman speak when
he declared, that in the event of a repeal of the
corn- laws, a mighty revolution was in store. And
assuredly it must be from the trepidation inspired
by this propinquity of a revolution that such death-
agonies and incoherent death-cries are blurted forth
' by the advocates of a falling principle. Saving for
this spirit of benevolent palliation, we should be un-
able, with any patience, to listen to a gentleman like
Mr. SPOONER—who seconded the resolution against
' free-trade—coming forward with the hoary language
"unaccustomed as I am to public speaking," and
then endeavouring to prove by a series of imaginary
suppositions, that no agricultural system but the pre-
sent was tenable or healthy. In good sooth, the
protectionists are driven to such desperation by the
stern and determinate movements of the League, as
to excuse any ebulitions of frivolity or inanity such
1
as those we have already specified. It is, indeed, by
mervly looking upon them as a party now in the last
stage of delirium that we can dismiss them with a
smile of quiet commiseration.

On one or two recent occasions we have had to re-
cord acts of munificence performed by merchants and
bankers towards clerks in their service, but the follow.
ing extract from the fifth annual report of the Provi-
dent Clerks' Association, the reading of which, at the
meeting last evening, called forth immense applause,
we think speaks volumes, and which we heartily wi,h
was generally adopted in preference to temporary
presents. The report itself was most pleasing, but it
is to the extract we wish to call marked attention :

" The managers would now prominently place
before the members the liberal act of the Treasurer
of the Benevolent Fund, JOHN ABEL SMITH, Esq., M.P.,
who, and his partners of the house of MAGNIAC, JAR-
DINE, and Co., have insured with the Association the
life of each clerk in their house for sums varying in
amount from 1,000/. to 2501., and have presented each
gentleman with his policy as a testimony of their
kindly feelings towards their employes, and their con-
tinued approbation of, and confidence in, the stability
of the Association. This act of liberality does not
merely apply to the first premium, but extends to
the future annual payments by the eminent firm
in question, thus realising to their clerks some pro-
vision in case of death to their families at the ccst
of the house. Besides, this kind consideration, which
is hoped may be generally adopted, the amount of
assurance increasing, according to priority of posi-
tion, length of service, &c., cannot fail wherever it
may he followed, through feelings of gratitude as
well as self-interest, to cement clerks more closely to
employers and their interests."
We need scarcely add that we most cheerfully
record the fact, and heartily respond to the remarks
of the managers of this excellent Association.

Madrid journals of the 12th have been received.
The discussion on the Address was resumed, and re-
ferred chiefly to the negotiations with the Court of
Rome, but no new facts were stated, nor does it ap-
pear that much progress has been made in settling
the points at issue.
The Funds were more firm on the 12th ; the
Three per Cents. closed at, 34 at 60 days ; the Five
per Cents. at 231 60 days ; and the Coupons at 24}
for cash.

The Paris papers of Sunday contain no intelligence
of much interest. On Saturday the Bill to grant
93,100,000 f. for the service of the navy was discussed
in a Committee of the Chamber of Deputies. Admiral
MACKAU briefly stated the proposed changes, and
referred Members for more minute information to the
document laid before the Chamber, from which it
appears that in seven years it is proposed to have a
fleet of 270 sailing vessels and 100 war steamers afloat.
The Committee were favourable to the plans of the
Minister, and some remarks made by one or two
Members, blaming him for not commencing the work
sooner, met with no support from the majority. On
Saturday evening a deputation of the Peers, with the
Chancellor, Count PASQUIER, at their head, waited on
the KING at the Tuileries, and presented the Address
of the Chamber in reply to the Speech from the Throne,
to which his MAJESTY made the following answer :
" I am happy to see that every new year acids fresh motives
of conwatulatioll to those which you have so long offered

me, at the opening of your seFsions, respecting the increase
of public prosperity. We are indebted for that fortunate re-
sult, of which everything presages the progressive continua-
tion, to the co-operation you have so constantly and so effica-
ciously afforded my Government, and to the accord existing
between all the powers of the State. I again find with a
lively satisfaction in your Address the expression of the sen-
timents of the Chamber of Peers for my family and for me.
In returning to them our grateful acknowledgments, I feel
pleasure in repeating the assurance that we will ever respond
to them by our entire devotedness to France."

A grand review took place on Saturday, in the
Champ de Mars, in honour of the Ambassador from
Morocco. His Excellency and suite were mounted
on Arabian horses, furnished from the royal stables,
and several Moorish ladies were on the balcony of the
Military School to witness the manoeuvres. About
45,000 troops were reviewed under the Command
of the Duke DE NEMOURS, who was accompanied by
the Prince DB JOIN VILLE, the Duke D'A UMA LE, the
Duke of WIRTEM BERG, and the Prince of SALERNO.

Some of the journals publish two petitions from
Havre, one to the Chamber of Deputies, and the other
to the Minister of Public Works, praying that after
the warning furnished by the fall of the Barentin via-
duct, the other viaducts, and tunnels, and bridges on
the Rouen and Havre Railroad be subjected to a
" solemn examination," the results of which shall be
published. They have been anticipated, however,.by
the Minister; for it appears that he has just entrusted
M. FRISSARD, divisional inspector of the Ponts-et-
Chausset s, and attached to the service of the first in-
spection of the Havre line railways, with the im-
portant mission of ascertaining the circumstances
that have caused the fall of the Barentin viaduct.
M. FRISSARD will, moreover, have to visit the works
finished or proceeding on the Rouen and Havre
Railway.

It is now arranged that the expedition to Mada-
gascar will sail from Brag about the 15th of
February.

The French Funds were more firm on Sunday.
The Three per Cents. had advanced 10c. and closed
at 83f. Nothing was done in railway shares.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LON DON STOCK EXCNANGE, JAN. 19.

Angle-Belgian
Barbadoes
noulogne and Amiens ll4

Border= &Mediterran
Bordeaux and Toulouse
Do. & Cette (Espeleta)
(Mackenzie's) —
Callao, Lima, and Pa-
cite Coast ..
Central of Spain
Ceylon .
Demerara
Dendre Valley ......
Dutch Rhenish ...... 8
Dieppe & raris Janet.
Dijon and Malhome
East Indian ......
Fampaux & Ilazebrouk
Grt Northern of France
Constituted 144
Great Imdian Peninsular %
Great Paris and Lyons. 21,‘
Great Western Bengal
Great Western Canada 302
Italian and Austrian

Jamaica S. M id. J unction 4%
Do. North Midland
Do. Extension
Jersey
Louvain and Jemappe..
Lyons aid
Lixemlooorg

Madrid and 'Valencia...
Mauritius - —
Namir and Liege —

North Jamaica—
Orleans and Vierzon ..
Orleans and Bordeaux 11
Orer Tssel
Paris& Lyons (Laffitte) 2%
Ditto (Ganneron's). 3%
Ditto (Calon's) —2%
Ditto (Sud Est) 24
Paris and Orleans.-- 45:%
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Strastharg
(Ganneron's)
Do. (Cempe de L'Est)
Do. (Aymard's) —
Paris and St. Quentin —
Bonen and
Royal North of Spain.
Sambre and Meuse
Strasburg and Bale
Tournay,Jurbise, Lan-
den, and Hasselt
Tours and Nantes

(Mackenzie's)
Do. ( Lefebvre's)
Do. (O'Neill's)
Trinidad
Verona and Ancona....
West Flanders

PRIVY COUNCIL.—The Queen will hold a Privy
Council to-morrow afternoon at Buckingham Palace,
at which her Majesty's speech, on opening the session
of Parliament, will be settled. Her Majesty, Prince
Albert, and the Court, will come to town to-morrow
from Windsor Castle. It is expected that the Duke
of Buccleuch will be appointed Lord President of the
Council, and Lord Haddingtun Lord Privy Seal, at
the Privy Council.
We state, on good authority, that Lord Delawarr,
Lord Chamberlain, has resigned, but his resignation
is kept back for the convenience of the Government
till after the formal announcement of the Ministerial
plan. The same is rumoured of the Marquis of Exeter,
Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert. We believe
that three or four more resignations will take place,
on Tuesday next, among subordinate members of the
Government. It is understood that Lord Arthur
Lennox, among others, retains hisoffice only till after
Sir Robert Peel's statement.

The working men and trades' associations of the
metropolis assemble to-morrow evening at the Crown
and Anchor, in honour of Mr. Thomas Duncombe,
who will be present. " Honour to the People's
Champion" is the appropriate heading of the tickets
whioh have been issued.

IVIONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton market was quiet yesterday at Liverpool, but
there was no alteration in prices. Shares wets dull.
Some remarks in a letter of Messrs. Railton and Son, of
Manchester, upon the Share market, afford a little light in
the matter. They state—
" After the experience in railway affairs afforded by the
last session of Parliament, it was quite evident that the large
capital employed in that department of our national industry
ought to have been protected by some legislative appoint-
ment that would have watched over the interests of that por-
tion of the public, who, on sound principles, devoted attention
to its enlargement, against every interference of a contrary
tendency ; and that no new scheme should have been permit-
ted to solicit general support which had not been previously
so sanctioned.
" In February last, and at various times since, we pointed
out the mischief that must inevitably ensue in the share
i
business, by the great nflulF. of persons becoming share spe-
culating brokers, having little or no money, and dealing
with each other through half-monthly reckonings to a most
astounding extent. The break-down, however, overtook
t hem, and spread ruin, not onlyamongst many of themselves,
but also among many persons of capital ; teach-
ing to all reflecting men, that it is a fallacy
ever to depart from the closest cash settlements in
their transactions through brokers. All dealings in shares
should be like money given for a bank-note. This rule ap.
plies particularly to Manchester, where there is no scarcity
of surplus capital for any object to which it can be profitably
and legitimately applied. If our view of the case be correct,
it is evidently the bounden duty of every discreet person to
support cash settlements to the utmost of his power, in order
that the wild flights of corrupt and random enterprise may
be kept in such a position as not to endanger solid and bond
fide interests."
At a meeting of the St. Katherine Dock Proprietors held
just now, a dividend of the usual amount was declared out
i,f the profits. An important commercial fact was noticed—
that the deliveries of goods from the warehouse have, since
the new tariff came into operation, increased greatly.
The accounts by the West India steamer are expected to
be delivered to-day.
The meeting of Parliament is likely to throw everything
into the shade this week, and Thurscay will be quite a dies
non in the City, either as respects public sales or general
business.

The difficulties into which a mercantile house has been
thrown have attracted much attention here.

The Stock market opens better to-day, and the rally is 4
to 1,4 per cent. Cmsols have been marked 93% to 94%, for
present transfer, and 94% to 3/4 for time. The premium on
Exchequer-bills has been steady at 17. Bank Stock has
ruled at 2031,4 to 2041/2. The New Three-and a- Quarter per
Cents. have been 96% to %, and the Three per Cents. 941/2
to 94%.
The Foreign Investments have been rather gayer. Spanish
Five per Cents. have been 28 to 1/2, and the Three per
Cents. 38% to 1/2. Portuguese Three per Cents. have been
591/2. Brazilian Bonds have been worth 83. French Three
per Cents. have been at 83 francs, with the exchange, at
25 70.
Shares are rather firmer.

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
dank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Anns 94%1A2% , 947
8 per Cent. Consols Annuities 93% 94%178% 941.,
New 34 per Cent. Annuities 96%%% 97
Long Annuities toexpireJan.lB6o 10 7-16 lii 101%.
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1859
Ditto 30 years. Jan. 5, 1860.... 104) 10 1-16
India Bonds, 1,0001
South Sea Stock
3 per Cent. Annuities,l7sl 934
Consols for Account... ».....
i..xchequer Bills, 1,000!.,11,4d l7 pm. 17
Ditto 5001.
Ditto Small

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK PRICES
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839.-- 80% 801 h
Do., New, 1813 .. ........
Buenos Ayres Bonds. 6 per Cent 4O ex div 40
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent.... • 9Bl 981/
Ditto Deferred 5l 51
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 4014 40 40
Portuguese 5 per Cents. —
Ditto, Accouut .. 591/2'

591,4
5834
591/2
2814
28s
iii
1%
38%

Ditto; 4 per Cent
Ditto, Account
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840
Ditto. Account ... ...... ..... 28
Ditto, Passive
Ditto. 3 per Cent 3BN%
Dividends on the above pa3*able in London.
French Rentes, 3 per Cent.
Exchange 2sf. 70c. 25f. 70e.
Dutch, 24 per Cent .
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 941/2 95 95

;LUStI4 G
PRIC7FS.
5%

rxicEs OF 811-(1-TMS1. 11
AID. AT ONE O'CLOCK.
BAILWA.Y SHARES P
Aberdeen
Aberdeen,Banff, & Elgin 2% ......
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush 1%...... ---
Aylesbury and name_ 1%
Belfast & County Down 2%
Bideford andTavistock... 1 Ai ......
130
Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 ......130
Ditto New l7l/ ......
Birmingham and Ox- 3
ford Junction
Birmingham & Leicester % dis % dis
Direct 425.......
Boston, Stamfd, & Birm 225....... -
Bridgewater & Minehead 425. ... •• ---
Bristol and Exeter 7O ......
Ditto, New
Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ......•
Bristol and Liver. June . 21/2..•••• ""; 3i P
Buckinghamshire
Caledonian
Ditto New 2% ...... p • • • .... • •• • • F!
3
Ditto Extension ...
Cang)rian & Graucl hue 42s ..,.„ 1,4 • dis..
. • ... 1.4/JA ......
.. 334%7/

Cambridge and Lincoln 1%..
Do. New
Cambridge and Oxford l% —
Canterbury and Dover.. 1
Central Kent
Chelmsford and Bury ... 1% —
Chester and Holyhead... 15 •• ...... ••
Chester and Manchester 425.
Cheltexham and Oxford 2 ...... •
Clydesdale Junction..... 5
Cork Blackrock, and
Passages
Cork and Killarney ... 21,E —
Cork and Waterford ... 1% —
Cornwall
Cornwall & Cent'iDevon
Coventry, Nuneaton,Bir.
and Leicester l4
Dartmouth, Torbay, and
Exeter
I )erby and Crewe
Derby, Gainsbro', and
Great Grimsby-
Derby, Utit )xeter, and
Stafford — ........«....
Direct Manchester
( Remington's)
Ditto (Rastrick's) 5 A__ ........
Direct Northern
Direct Norwich
Dublin and Armagh
Dublin and BelfastJunc 5
Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine
Dublin and Galway... 4
Dudley, Madely, and
Broseley
Dundalk & Enniskillen 2%
EastemCounties 14/. 165....... 221,E% ...... •.... 22%
Ditto New 61. 163.
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1.......61.135. 4d....
Ditto ditto. No. 2... 4/. 13s. 4d... % p
East Dereh'm andNoech 1
lastern Union 25 ..

Ditto, Quarter Shares 34

Ditto Extengion
Do. Ipswich and Bury 4

Do. Exten'n to Nor 21,4 —
Do., Camb. and Ely.. 21/I>, —
East Lincolnshire
East & West of England 1%......
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ......

Ditto Half Shares ... 5
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12%
Ditto, New
Edinburgh & Northern.. 14 - ••• .••
Edinburgh and Perth... 3 --
Ely and Huntingdon ... 5
Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2% —
Essex and Suffolk 1%
Exeter, Dorchester, and

21/i

2%

34

_
'A P

13y%

Weymouth
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorset 23/4
Glouc.,Abei ystw i th , and
Central of IVales 1%...... 034 034
Goole and Doncaster .. 428.
Grand Junction 100
Ditto Half Shares 5O
Ditto Quarters 25
Grand Union 1
Great Eastern &Western 2IA .....• ••• ••
GreatGrims., Lth.,Horn.,
Lin., and 111d.Junct. .. 425.
GreatGrimsby and Shef-
field
Great South. and West

(Ireland)
Ditto Extension ...... 121/2
Great Munster ... 21/2......
Great North of Scotland VA..--
Great Northof England-100
Ditto New 5 —
Do. New .... .. ........ 5 ...... 321/.2
,Ireat Western B5

1%

% dis

32%
163

Ditto % Shares 5O
Ditto IA Shares 2%
Ditto Fifths
~.iuildford, Fare'm,Ports. 5 .....
Hanytch
[lull and Selby 5O
Ditto 14 Shares
Do. Ralf Shares 7
Invernesi. and Elgin
Ipswich, Norwich, and
Yarmouth
Irish North Midland l% - -
Isle of Axholme 2%
Killarney junctions l4 - -
Kendal and Windermere 11,E
Lincaster and Carlisle... 30
Lame, Belfast, and Bal-
lymena 2%
Leeds and Carlisle
Leeds and West Riding
Juncticri - ... ......... .. •
Leicester & Birmingham 225. - ...... .• ••..••
Leicester and Bedfard... 225.
Leifr.ster and Tamworth 425.
Liverp. and Manclaester.loo ...
Do. % Shares
D 9. Quarters 25
Liverpool& Leeds Direct 2% .. ... 214..
Lpool., Mnchstr, & New-
castle Junction
London and Birmingtimloo 223
Do. Thirds
Do. lli Shares
Ditto Fifths ..... .... 2 ...... ...... .....
Ditto Extension
London and Blackwall. 16/. 135.4 d 91,1 - -
Do. New
Ditto Extension
London and Brighton... 50
Do. consolidated Bths... 40 .....
Ditto; Fiftks
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 22!A 54
Do. Guaranteed 5 per
Cent. ... ........... ... 9 - ••• .• •• •• •••
Lon., Chel., 0x.,G10., and

223

. ,
Hereford
London and Greenwich 121 Iss 4d...
Do. Preference ...18/17s 2d —
London Hounslow, and
Western - ••••••• •••
Lond. & S Western 4116 s 10d 77 78 . .
Do. New Consol. BLhs 28
Do. Ntrt
Do. New
London & Smith Essex 234
London and York
London and Windsor . 1
London, Warwick, and
"""Kiddeltninster
roadon, Salisbury, and
Yeovil
Undonderry & Coleraine .5
Londonderry and Ennis-

68%

20%
2234

.

41/
/2

killen - 5
Lynn and E y
Lynn and Dereham
Manche: ter and Leeds . 82
Ditto 1/: Shares
Do. Quirters 2
Do. Fifths 1 .. .. 1234 ...
Do. Sixteenths ... 514 94
Manchester and Birmin. 40
Do Quarters 4
••..••

5N

12Vz
OA

Do. New Quarters ... 2
Do. Continuation and
Welsh Junction -
Malchester,Buicton,and

-
9%2

Matlock 425....... 214,6 p 2% p
Manchester, Birm., and

Mould Junction .. ... —
Manchester and Rugby
Direct
Manchest. &Southampt 2 ...... 314%
Midland... 100 .....155 156 IA
Do. I ifths
Do. New
Midland,Birm., Derby... 100
Midld. & East. Counties 2%...... ...
Midland Great Western
( Irish)
Do. Extens. to Sligo 23/4.....
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction 2.5 ...... 61% 60%
Do. New Brandling... 20
Newcastle and Berwick 10 22 211 23 22,g 22
Newcastle and Carlisle...100
Newport& Abergavenny 21,4......
New Ross and Carlow... 22s - •••• •••• .....
Newry and Enniskillen 2% — .....
Newark, Sheffield, and .
Boston ... .. .. 2%....• 2% ••• .. ...... ..
Norfolk Extension 2
North British ... ... . . ... 17% 243 25
Do. Half Shares ..... 31,E 7;i
Do. Exten. to Carlisle VA 3
Do. Ext. to Dalkeith 25 -
Ditto ditto
North Devon 2 ...» ...... •—••••
North of Norfolk 234 ... ... ........
Northern and Eastern... 50
Do. Scrip ... 40
Do. Quarter Shares... 121,4 —
Do. New
N. Kent & Direct Dover 2%
North Staffordshire 428...»« 41,E 3% p
North Wales
North and South Wales
and Worcester 1 ..... •
Northern and Southern
Connecting
Norwich and Brandon... 18
Ditto New
Northampton, Banbury,
and Cheltenham
Nottingham and Boston 2% — .... ••••.
Nottingm., Erewsh. Val-
ley, and Manchester.. 2% 2%
Nottigham and Mans-

3%
156%

25
74

tield - —
Oxford, Gosport, Ports- '
mouth,& Southamptn 425. —
Oxford, Worcester, and

3% p

Wolverhampton
Oxford, Witney, and
Cheltenham.... . l%
Perth and Inverness ... 21/2 ••• •••••• .....
Pilbrow Atmospheric ... 1
Portsmouth Direct 3% 5
Preston and Wyre
Do. 1/2 Shares
Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate
Richmond
Rugby, Derby,and Man-
chester.......... ...... 2%
Rugby and Huntingdon 2
Rugby, Leamington,and
Warwick
Rugby, Warwick, and '
Worcester.... ... ...... 425.
f!cottish Central
Scottish Midland 5 •... . .
Do. Extension 2l/2
Sheffield & Manchester 100

15%

-
Ilii

43/4

1%

-
6%

Do. Quarter Share 5... 8
Shrewsbury and 13irm... 21,4 436 ..... ••,„ ...
Shropshire Mineral 425....... ...............
Shropsbire Union
Shrewsbury & Hereford 2% —
.......... "••
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
&S. Statiordsh. June. 2'l
Sligo and Shannon
Somersetshire Midland 243 — ............ ''
...
Smith rayon
South Midland 42s.
p...... ......... 3 p
South & Midlands June. 425. ...
SouthStatfordshireJune. 21 "
14 dis.
S auth Eastern & Dover 3312 a 4d... 39
Do.; No: 1 l2
POI, Ne. 2.

`4~e'

88i

Do., No. 3
Do.. Ne. 4
Southampton, Munches-

ter. & Oxford Junction 4.25.......
St. Alban's, Hatfield , and

Hertford Junction ... 425. —
Staines and Richmond... 1
Staffordsh. & Shropshire 2% —
south Wales .. .. ... 2%
Taw Vale Extension ...
lean and Dove Valley 1% ll4 ..
trent Valley 5 ......
Trent Valley and Holy-
head
Junction
Tring, Reading, and
Basingstoke
lilverstone and Furness 21A2.....
Vale of Neath ... .. ...... 2 3 ........ ..
Warwick & Cheltenham •1% ..
Warwick and Worcester 425. —
W aterford and Kilkenny 3 —
Waterford and Limerick 714 — ..
Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw,
and Dublin ..-.... ...... 1%..... ........ .. ...
W aterford,Wexford, and
Valentia
Waveney Valley ..... .... 2 - -
Welch Midland
West Cornwall . : .... 2. ...
West Yorkshire
West London,Old Shares 20
West End and Southern
Counties .. l% — ..
Wexford and Carlow ... 2%
Wisbeach and St. Ives... 2
Wilts, Somerset, and
Southampton
W ilts, Somerset, & 'Wey-
mouth .. 2l/2 •• •• ••
Worce.ster,Hereford,Ros.,
and Gloucester 42s. ..
Worcester, Tinbury, and
Ludlow ..... ....
Worcester and S. Wales 425.
Worcester,Warwick,aud
Rugby
Yarmouth and Norwich. 20
Ditto, New
York and Carlisle
York and Lancaster 2%
ork and North Midland 50
Ditt. % Shares
Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 25
Do. Selby
Do. Extension ... 15
FOREIGN RAILWAY .-,.
Anglo- Belgian_ 4
Barbadoes 1 ......
Boulogne and Amiens... 10
Bordeaux & Mediterran. 2
Bordeaux,Toulouse, and
Cet a (Mackenzie's)... 2 ..... 21y 2143
Do. (Espelete's) ..... 2 ..... ...• —
Calais, Dunkrk, and West

21%

Flanders
Callao, Lima, and Pacific
Coast —
Central of Spain ...
Ceylon .. a- ss.
3/4
Demerara 2% ...
Dendre Valley - I/214
Dijon and Mulhouse ... 2 ... ..
Dutch Rhenish
East Indian ... -- .... ss.
Eastern Belgian Junctn. 2%
Fampoux & Hazebrouk 4
Great North. of France
Constituted ..
Great Indian Peninsular ss. • J/4. %
Great Paris and Lyons 2
Great Western Bengal... ss. 34
Great Western Canada... 3!4 ...... 3PA 3§/4
Italian and Austrian 3
Jamaica SAlid.Junction 1
Jamaica North Midland 1
Do. Extension 1
Jersey
Louvain and Jemeppe... 4 ...
Lyons and Avignon
Luxembourg...
Madrid and Valentia;... 2 ...

Mauritius ' 1 . _
—
Namur and Liege
North Jamaica...
Orleans and V ierzon ... 10 ......
Orleans and Bordeaux... 6 ......
Ai
Over Yssel 4l3s 4d
Paris & Lyons( Latlitte's) 2
Paris an:l Lyons (Gran-
neron's)... - .. -
Paris & Lyons, (Calm's) 2
Paris &Lyons (Sud Est) 2 • _ 2%
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Strasbourg
(Ganneron's)
Do. (Compe de L'Est) 2
Do (Aymard's)
Paris and S t.Qucntin
Rotten and Havre
Loyal North of Spain ... 2 -

. ...,
Sambre and Meuie ...... 6 .... ...... .........
Strasbourg and Bale ... 14
St. Laurence & Atlantic - -
Tournay, Jurbise, Lan-
Alen, and Hasselt....... 4
Fours and Nantes (Mac-
kenzie's)
Do. do. (Lefebvre's \ 2
Ditto (o.'Neill's) 2 ...... . ...
Trinidad
Verona and Ancona.... 3
West Flanders .. 4
MINES.

Real del Monte Unregd.
United Mexican 284 2s. 8id.... 4t,4
JOINT STOCK BANKS.

London & Westminster. 20

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JAN. 20.—,Wind this day at noon, fre h breez
from S.SW. to W.S. W., and fine clear weather. It blew a
very heavy gale last night from the southward, with violent
squalls and rain.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN.l9.—Sid. Charlotte, Port-an-Prince.
FALMOUTH, JAN. 17.—Put back, Proven, Koffod, for Bahia.
CARDIFF, AN. 17.—S1d. Reliance, Wilson, Callao; British
Queen, Lord, New York. .
ARRIVAL OF THE DEE, WEST INDIA STEAMER.
A telegraphic communication was received at Lloyd's this
morning, at half-past nine o'clock, of the arrival of the Dee,
West India steamer, at Southampton, at an early hour this
morning.
UNIVERSAL CODE OF SIGNALS ON THE COAST
FOR THE GUIDANCE OF VESSELS IN DISTRESS.
A resident at Boscast:e has addressed a letter to Lloyd's
upon the subject of the want of an uniform code of sii,nals
on the coast of England for the guidance of vessels in
distress, and refers to the loss of the William and Ann, of
North SLields, at Mellook, in Bude Bay, on the 20th ult., as
one instance out of many that had come under his notice,
where the want of a recognised system had misled the vessel
to :destruction and severe loss of life. Mr. Langford, the
writer referred to, inquires " whether some uniform signal
could not be devised whereby vessels in distress and dis-
abled on a lee shore might understand whether the place
where such signal is exhibited is a place where lives
could be saved, or a place to be avoided." In
the instance of the William and Ann, she was running for
Crackington Haven, but upon a fire being lighted on the
beach, she hauled her wind ; another fire, made a few miles
to the-eastward, with the same result; the crew, consider-
ing the fires a signal to keep off, and she, in consequence,
went on shore soon after; master and six of the crew
drowned, two only saved. The mate stated, that in the
North of England, a fire is understood as a beacon to keep
off, but a flag, or colour of some sort, as a place to run for.
The loss of -the vessel, therefore, is ascribable to the mis-
interpetration of the signals used on the occasion, and the
directly opposite meaning of the same signals upon two parts
of the. English coast. It is remarkable, however, that a fire
should have been lighted in the day time, when the vessel
was in a direct course for a safe harbour.
The want of an efficient and uniform code of signals in
cases of a similar kind .has long been felt, and the danger
attending the present variety of plans calls for reform.
The Committee of Lloyd's, so far back as 1821, had the
subject under their notice, so far as respects vessels, and they
recommended, by public notice, that all vessels should be
supplied with rockets and blue lights; and, in case of distress,
to fire a rocket in the first instance, and then burn blue
lights until relieved. The Committee of the Shipowners' So-
ciety, in concurrence with Lloyd's, issued a notice, recom-
mending, in the strongest manner, that vessels should be
provided With a dozen rockets and three dozen blue lights, to
be used in the manner before noticed.
The establishment of an universal code of distress sign
for the coast appears to rest with the Coast Guard Service.
PORTUGUESE QUARANTINE REGULATIONS.
Portuguese Consulate-General,
5, Jeffery's-square, Jan. 19th, 1846.
Sir,—l beg to acquaint you, for the information and
guidance of merchants, captains, &c., in general, that I
have this day received a communication from her Most Faith-
ful Majesty's Government, dated Lisbon, 9th ins ant, ad-
vising me that a malignant and contagious disorder had
made its appearance at " Buona Vista" and " St. Nicolas,"
two of the Cape de Verd Islands, and that the most effica-
cious measures and precautions were' being taken to prevent
the spreading of the contagion, of a typhoid nature, and
supposed to be the yellow fever; and that the whole of the
forts of Portugal, together with the "Acores," or Western
and Madeira Islands, were closed against all vessels arriving
from, or having in any way communication with the Cape de
Verd Islands, with the exception of the port ofLisbon, as the
only place with an appropriate lazaretto, and where such-
vessels Were. to be.sent and admitted to perform quarantine
—I have the honour to be, Sir,cyoonusrumi.Gosetnoebraeidioefnpt
osretruvgaanl.
(igned) F. J. VAN ZELLER, fl
To Wm. Dobson, Esq., Secretary, Lloyd's.
DUTIES ON IRON AND STEEL IN MOROCCO.
Extract of a letter received at Lloyd's, from Gibraltar
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enormous ofd Mt yi oirsc'encoow,
-and 7- dollars per cwt. on steel, being equivalent to 200 per
cent. (ad valorem) on the former, and 100 per cent. on the
latter article. Previous to the late monopoly the duty on,
both was only 10 per cent;, so that the present rates are
almost equal to a prohibition ; still the present measure is
considered better to mercantile interests at large than the ex-
clusive monopoly of the Sultan."