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LONDON, THURSDAY. APRIL so, 1846.

Until some decisive measures are adopted for the
alleviation of distress in Ireland, our sympathies must,
if possible, become more intense, and our commentaries
more frequent and more urgent in its behalf. As long
as privations continue to extend both in area and in
poignancy, it is impossible—it is utterly impossible—to
maintain a callous and continuous silence. Our most
solemn duty as journalists would forbid it.
Every emotion of our heart, every dictate of
our reason, every principle of our morality,
would tend to confirm us in a sense of that
duty, and even urge us on to its fulfilment. This is no
theme to be exhausted ; it is not a subject to be dis-
carded as tedious or impertinent ; it can never be in-
sisted upon too frequently. No, not until those dread
scourges of famine and disease have been either dissipated
or abated. Such, unhappily, is our position with regard to
that fertile but ill-omened country. We cannot consci-
entiously remain voiceless spectators of its wretchedness ;
each would be repugnant to our very nature. A great
moralist, we mean SAMUEL Jourrsos, once exclaimed, in
acc;eats of passionate enthusiasm, " That man is little
to be envied whose patriotism
would not gain force upon

the plains of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow
warmer among the ruins of lona." And, in a similar
spirit, we might reprobate those who could regard Ire-
land in its present hour of tribulation without feelings of
the liveliest commisseration. An island so endowed by
nature to humanise the minds of its people with the holy
splendour of its scenery, and to nourish them with the
most prodigal profusion ; an island whose inhabitants
have evidenced by their historical character a singular
proportion of generosity, bravery, and devotion ; an
island so many years abandoned to misgovernment, and
so many years remarkable for its patient obedience to the
constitution—he must, indeed, be devoid of all capabi-
lity to appreciate misfortune who can listen unmoved
to her story, or remain indifferent under a knowledge of
her present sufferings. It has been said, and said well,
that the most sublime spectacle in nature is that of a
good man bearing up against affliction ; how much
more sublime must that subject become when it refers
to the aggregate multitude, not to an isolated instance—
to
a nation, not to a man ! And such is the spectacle
exhibited by our Hibernian countrymen at this moment.
For it would be alike illogical and preposterous to im-
pugn a whole population of criminality because some in-
famous members of it are addicted to the perpetration of
the darkest deeds of moral, political, and social sin-
Assassins and marauders there are undoubtedly, but
they are still distinct from the mass of the populace ;
granted that these wretches are numerous, nevertheless
ihey are still but an infinitessimal portion of the commu-
nity. Ireland, therefore, in an abstract sense, has an
infinite claim upon our sympathies, and this claim
necemes only more apparent and more determinate
as we descend to practical, and economical,
and (if they can so be termed) selfish principles.
With an eye to its own stability, Government would, if
en that account only, be impelled to a consideration of
Irish wants ; the Ministry would be driven to an in-
erference, if simply upon an economical account, or
with the purpose of relieving itself and the whole em-
pire of a most grievous encumbrance. Everything con-
spires to direct the attention of the people o f Great Britain
to the lamentable exigencies of Ireland, and to require of
the Legislature some active movement for their removal.
This is a proposition admitting of no denial. Common
,ense attests its accuracy. Nevertheless, those exigen-
oies are still allowed to exist ; nay, more, they are per-
mitted to-widen over the land and to settle with a horri,
ole intensity into the very core of society. Nothing de-
terminate is done, though much is spoken of, and though
much also, we believe, is sincerely intended. The great
national wound is left open, no healing balsams are in-
fused, and the virus is spreading over the limb with
horrid rapidity. We speak facts : we do not attempt to
deepen the tone of a picture already sombre enough in
its hue, GOD knows ! And we do this, and shall con-
tinue to do this, at the risk of repetition. Scarcity is
extending too visibly over Ireland to admit of any taci-
turnity on our part at least. The distress of the
people is still attended by all its fearful concomitants.
Sir JA3IES GRAHAM announced the other evening from
toe Ministerial benches that the riots in various pales of
Ireland were, he thought, permanently suppressed. Yet,
iotwithstanding this declaration from a Home Secretary
so remarkable for his cautiousness, fears in mar y quar-
ters are still entertained of their renewal. A party of
dragoons has been summoned into the town of Ennis, to
prevent by their presence the realisation of certain appre-
hensions as to disturbances. The Glare Journal mentions
the general fear of a tunanituary incursion of the neigh-
bouring peasantry into the town, and similar sentiments
,4* alarm are prevalent in other districts. But the most
heartrending evidence of the calamities now rife in
that unfortunate land is that of a memorial to the
Lord-Lieutenant and Relief Commissioners from the
poor resident cottiers on the ploughland of Clennagar-
nane and Clohannes." To this memorial, given in ano-
ther column, we refer all vt ho are interested in the
condition of Ireland—and who is not ? It unfolds a
sample of the wretchedness of our fellow-countrymen
harrowing to hear of, mentioning the extreme destitu-
tion, in that small corner of the land alone, of somewhere
about one thousand souls, and setting forth, in thosimple
language of agony, that they are " the most miserable
ocings on the face of the earth." A more frightful pos-
ture of affairs fur the island can scarcely be conceived.
And shall they continue thus without an effort on the
part of the Legislature for their amelioration?

He is the greatest benefactor of mankind who shall
cause two blades of grass to grow where one alone could
bef.re have been raised. This is a truth which has
stood the test of centuries, and still commands universal
assent. Were it not for the improvt menta in agriculture,
by which an additional produce can now fairly be
counted upon from the same quantity of land, and also
rum bringing new territories, which hitherto have re-
mained unoccupied ,into cultivation,it would soon be impos-
sible to procure a sufficiency of food for the vastly increased
and increasing population of the world; and these new
iands have been sought for with avidity in all climes and
countries. The hardy and enterprising yeoman, who
finds it impossible to procure a farm in his native land
under terms sufficiently favourable to enable him to live
with comfort, takes with him his skill, his industry, and
his capital, and seeks in another hemisphere for that in-
dependence which his exertions cannot obtain for him in
this. Let it not be supposed that the emigrant has
no love for the soil where he was born, and
on which he sprung up to manhood, that he is in-
sensible to the domestic ties of family and friends, which
bind him to his home. No, far from it; his heart is
wrung with many a bitter pang when bidding a long
farewell to all that had been dear and cherished, but he
feels that if he remains at home he must sink in the
social scale, or become a burden to friends, and with
that energy and indomitable spirit, which has ever
animated the British heart, • he sacrifices all
considerations but those of earning his own live-
lihood by his own exertions, and feeling
the proud consciousness of independence ; and
thus has Britain lost many of her most useful children.
This would not be the case Isere there in our own land a
locality to the improvement of which they could devote
their energies. In our sister kingdom, Ireland, this is
particularly the case, and a still greater necessity exists
for the adoption of any means by which employment can
be afforded to, and a house procured for, the myriads of
unemployed, and destitute labourers in that country.
There is no amount of national expenditure we would not
joyfully sanction to attain so desirable an object, even
without the slightest hope of return. The British nation
some time since sacrificed 20,000,000 sterling to remove
the stain of slavery from ber dominions, and, large as
was the expenditure, few voices were raised against its
application, because it was felt to be a great act of moral
justice, and surely our countrymen would not object to a
sum less than one-tenth thereof being applied to raise the
more destitute of our Irish brethren from poverty and
e retchedness to comparative independence and comfort.
It is hardly credible that at this moment there are in
Ireland over 60,000,000 acres of waste lands wholly un-
productive, of which from 4,000,000 to 4.500,000 might
be reclaimed with profit, affording on the one hand ex-
tensive employment to the labouring population, and on
the other a fair rate of interest and return fur the
capital employed in its improvement. Hitherto it has
been left to private enterprise, to the landlords to whom
this large amount of soil belonged, to take the initiative
for its reclamation—and few indeed have been the in-
stances in which active steps have been taken. When-
ever it has been done, we believe we may safely
assert that the person through whose instrumentality it
was effected, not only realised a consideraole profit for
himself, but, no matter what might be his creed or his
politics, he was respected and beloved in the country.
The Irish peasant possesses high and generous impulses,
though easily led away, and, alas! too frequently plung-
ing into crime. Convince him that a real and earnest
solicitude for his welfare exists, and a more grateful
and tractable being breathes not. Some Irish land-
lords have indeed exerted themselves. The Premier,
a few nights since, mentioned in the most laudatory
terms the conduct of Lord G. HILL, who in less .than
ten years has brought into cultivation uo less than from
16,000 to 17,000 acres ; the late Mr. CAREW, father of
the present Lord CAREW, by continued zeal and atten-
tion, by a residence amongst his tenantry, and a foster-
ing care for their welfare, made what, when he came
into possesion, was little better than a furze brake, a
magnificent and profitable estate, now yielding
a greater number of thousands per annum to
his son than it did hundreds to himself when
he came into possession of it, and his proudest
boast towards the end of his long and useful life was
to point to his demesnes—to a happy and contented
tenantry, all possessing interests in their lands, on which
they could live with comfort, and from which they were
sure of obtaining for their ewn use a fair return for
their labour, and say, see what I have myself effected !
Mr. HuGo, of the county Wicklow, might be mentioned
as another honourable instance of similar care and at-
tention, attended with equally beneficial and happy re-
sults both to his tenantry and to himself. Several others
instances might be adduced, but, unfortunately, they form
the exception, the very small minority ; many causes
r ity
many
of tnhye i landlordsnst
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p r them-
selveseve encum-
brancesn t
affect coming
reecgt rtfehoaret mwparraojodperty, so that the nominal
forward.
In
pos-
sessor is in reality in the enjoyment of but a small
annuity from his estates, which are really
ve m
noanag
ed
by receivers and mortgagees, who have
in-
terest in the improvement of the property, and.

care only for the punctual receipt of the interest money ;
in others the property is entailed on an elder son.
Every spare shilling is necessarily appropriated as a
provision for, a numerous family of younger children,
who are but scantily portioned, and the owner of the
life estate will not think of increasing the wealth of his
elder son at the expense of his other children, particu-
larly as he cannot make any claim on the reversion for
the value of the improvements effected. These and
other causes have prevented the great body of the land-
lords from. att, mpting such improvements, and
it is hopeless to think that, if left in their hands, it will
ever take place to such an exteat as to relieve Ireland
from the difficulties in which she is placed. A private
undertaking, " the Waste Lands Society," has been
formed under the auspices of Lord DEVON, and has
effected much public good, and we believe that the
speculation has been found a profitable one to the share-
holders. Let the Government then interpose, let it
make universal the system which has worked so well
wherever it has been adopted. At present it is not
necessary to enter into the details by which it is to be
effected. Mr. P. SCROPE has introduced a measure into
the House of Commons for this purpose, and we are
sure that its discussion will be of the greatest benefit,
and lead to the ultimate adoption of some valuable legis-
lative enactment on the subject.

Accounts have been received from Hayti of the 19th ult.
It is not true that General PIKRROT has abdicated. On the
19th he occupied his former position, and expressed his con-
fidence of ultimately defeating his adversaries.

A letter, dated Vienna April 18, appears in the Augsburgh
Gazette, announcing that a courier from Berlin had arrived
with dispatches intimating that the representatives of the
three Powers had declared that the treaty of 1815, with re-
spect to the Republic of Cracow, should be observed, but
that the urban militia should be disbanded, and that the
three Powers should reserve to themselves the right of al-
ternately placing a garrison in the citadel every two years.
The Post Ampt Gazette of Frankfort, of the 24th, pub-
lishes a letter from Vienna, confirming the report of the
EMPEROR'S having abolished feudal service in Austrian
Galicia. It appears that a fund is to be raised by confisca-
tion of the property of absentee rebels, out of which the
nobles are to be indemnified for the abolition of their feudal
rights.

Madrid papers of the 22d have arrived. The Gazette pub-
lishes a decree issued by General VII LALONGA, Captain.
General of ;Galicia, dated Corunna, April 15, declaring the
entire coast of that province, from the mouth of the Rivadeo
to that of the Guardia, in a state of blockade. The blockade
was to be most strictly applied to the port of Vigo, the en-
trance of which was to be rigorously prohibited to vessels of
every description. national as well as foreign. English
steamers are only allowed to touch at the port of Corunna
for the purposes and objects determined by their Government.
The Gazette also contains a dispatch, dated the 14th,
announcing that the insurgents, who had attacked
SIGVEIRO had been defeated by General PUIG SAAirErt. In
a dispatch, dated April 18, General CONCHA states that he
was preparing to march to the relief of Orense, which haJ,
been attacked by the insurgents. On the morning of the
22d, it was 'rumoured in Madrid that he had marched to
Orense, and had been defeated and wounded by the insur-
gents. It is evident that the insurrection in Galicia has as-
sumed a very serious character, and that the Government do
not place implicit reliance on the fidelity of the army ; for
General PEZIASIA, the Captain-General of Galicia, has
thought it necessary to issue a proclamation to the
garrison of Madril, urging them in the strongest
terms to continue, faithful, and threatening those
who shall suffer themselves to be seduced from their
allegiance with the severest penalties. 'The following are
the principal members of Juntas nominated by the insur-
gents of Galicia :—The President of the Junta of Pontevedra
is Don JOSE SAnzEs, ex-Deputy of the Cortes. At Vigo,
lion RAMON Bucir is at the head of the movement. At
Tay the chief of the Junta is Don ESTEBAN AREAL, ex-
Deputy.
An extraordinary courier arrived in Madrid from Burgos
on the 22d, and it was said that the Captains-General of
Burgos and Vittoria had been ordered to station troops at
intervals along the road from their respective head-quarters
to the capital. Madrid was perfectly tranquil.
MADRID Bors.t.—The stocks were not quoted on the Boise,
but out of doors prices continued unchanged. Bank shares
rose considerably, those of San Fernando selling at 300,
those of Itiabel at 185, and of La Probidad at 230, &C.

We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday. The
subject of free trade seems to occupy much of the attention
of French political writers at the present moment. The
Journal des Debats and the Constitutionnel both contain ar-
ticles on this important subject. The Journal des Debats
seems to approve of the free-trade measures proposed
by Sir ROBERT PEEL, while the Constitutionnel, without
directly avowing monopolist principles, exhibits an evident
tendency towards the doctrines of the protectionists, and
attempts to sneer down the Bordeaux League as propound-
ing wild and extravagant schemes of commercial reform.
Six years since similar language was held by the English
protectionists with regard to the Anti-Corn-law League, and
if the Bordeaux League follow its excellent example six years
will not elapse before the principles of free trade will be as
popular in France as they are in England As free-traders,
we are rej,ticed to see the subject is thus taken up in earnest
in France, because we feel convinced that the more it is dis-
cussed the greater will be the number of converts to the doc-
trines of free trade.

The Chamber of Deputies adopted on Monday the 58 arti-
cles of the Cahier des Charges of the Bordeaux and Cette
Railroad Bill. It next resumed the discussion on the clauses
of the Bill itself, voted a subvention of 15,000,000 f. to the
company which should execute the line, and having sup-
pressed the subvention originally demanded for the branch
to Castr, decided, as an inducement to the company to ex-
ecute it, to increase by six years and a half the duration of
the concession, which thus stood fixed at 66i years.
On Tuesday the Chamber was discussing the Western Rail-
way Bill at the hour the post left. The Committee of the
Chamber on the reduction of the Five per Cents. had reported
against the measure by a majority of six to three.

The 31 oniteur publishes the account of the operations of
the Sinking Fund Administration during the first quarter
of 1846, from which it appears, that the Three per Cent.
Government Stock redeemed in that period amounted to
-79,812 f,, and the capital allocated to that purpose to
7,826,731 f,

A report from Marshal BUGEAUD, dated Algiers, April 20,
has been received by the Minister of War, who states that
he had heard from several sources, that ABD-EL-KADXR was
at Stitten, but that he had reason to think the in-
formation was erroneous, and that the Emir was still in the
south of -the country of the Ouled-Nayls. He had been
successively abandoned, says the Marshal, by the tribs of
the desert. According to other information, however, which
had reached the Governor-General, ABD-EL-KADER had not
abandoned the hope of finding a point d'appui in the
Jurjura. The report of a success by Colonel DumoN-
TEt near Setif, is confirmed by Marshal 1311GEAUD
The combat was with a host of Kabyles, under the
Chdrif, St MOHAMED BEN ABDALLAII, who is said to
have made considerable progress in the mountains to the
north of Setif. The enemy, when about to assume the
offensive, was attacked on the night of the 12th, and after a
conflict of three hours, was routed with the loss of the tents,
baggage, and flocks, and 200 killed. The French had five
killed and 64 wounded, amongst whom were six officers.
No other fact of importance is given in this report. Marshal
BUGEAUD incloses a report from the Duke D'AUMALE, dated
from the bivouac of Ain-el-Hadjer, the 13th. His Royal
Highness gives accounts of several affairs with the hostile
Arabs, in all of which the French were completely successful,
but none of them were of sufficient importance for it to be
necessary to give the details.
According to the Algerie Marshal BUGEAUD will return to
France at the end of Zday, for the benefit of his health. Co-
lonel PELISSIER has been promoted to the rank of Major-
General.

The Journal des Debats gives a long account of the grand
rpeaceehpa.tion
a little under the or-
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sonal appearance :—IBRAIIIIII Pacha is
TghievefonlloowninSguinsdtallye
Binary stature ; his countenance is calm, but very expres-
sive, and his eye animated and penetrating. His beard is
long and grey, his step firm, and his carriage dignified. The
dress of IBRAIIIX was superb. Ills highness's costume was
extremely rich and splendid, consisting of a close-bodied
vestment wrought with gold, on which was a diamond
star. lie wore a golden girdle, with blue trousers, and the
red cecchia of the Turks. SOLIMAN Pacha, and the rest of
the persons with him, were attired nearly in the same style.
It is expected he will remain in Paris three weeks. The
Duke DE MONTPENSIER is to give him a grand military fete
at Vinciennes—the Chantilly races are to be honoured with
his presence, and Colonel THIERRY is to attend him on his
visits to all the principal public monuments of Paris.
It was expected that the Grand Duke CONSTANTINE of
Russia would leave Algiers on the 22d, for Lisbon.
The examinations of LECOMTE are continued, but nothing
new has been elicited.
Montereau, 417 f. 50c ; Basle .'soc. ;
The Paris Bourse of Tuesday was exceedingly heavy.
11TillsTlee per Cents. closed at 83f. 60c. ; the Five per Cents.
c. , the Orleans Railroad shares, 1,2371'. 50c. ; Rouen, 1,035 f. ;
Havre, 755 f. ; Great Northern, 768 f. 75c. ; Avignon, 920 f. ; Vier-
zon, 672 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux 620 f • Boulogne, 493 f. ; Troyes ithel
Strasburg, 529 f. ; Tours and 'ti 2271.
' 1 • Paris and Lyons, 572 f. 50c. ;
Spanish Domestic Debt, 305‘i.antes, 545 ..
The following are the quotations in the new lines :
Dieppe, 465 f. ; Paris and
Boulogne and Amiens,l2%
Deflnitives, 537 e. soe.
Lyons and Avignon Definitive,, 537 f. 50c.; Bordeaux and Cette
; Charleroi, 495 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
11,1.1—aln'adrisstboLuyrires
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Arm 29.
Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette
(Espleta), 2%
%—Great Northern of F Constituted,u 15}£—Great W estern
Canada, 4—Louvain and Jema 13l—Luxembourg, 2% —Namur
—Demerara, 2% D— tch Rhenish, 6%—East Indian,
and Liege, 1%--Orlean, and Ifte,r'so 16% Orleans and Bordeaux,
Sambre and Meuse, 5%.
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MONEY and CONIMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
In the Liverpool Cotton market yesterday the sales were
7,000 bales, including 1,000 American for export and 500 on
speculation. Pernambuco and Maranham have been sd. to
63/i(1 ; 150 Egyptian, 61Ad ; 1,000 Surat, 234 d. to 2%d. per
lb., and nearly 5,000 American.-Shares were improving.
It is stated, in advises from the Black Sea, that the Rus-
sians had not gained much ground in the eastern part of
Circassia, but were certainly in a better position in the west.
The inhabitants of the plains and mountains had certainly
not entirely submitted to the rule of the invaders, but ap-
pear to have been partly inveigled into a tranquil bearing.
Commerce, all subduing commerce, is said to be the medium
employed for the subjugation of the brave Circassians, who are
accused, however, of the Oriental failing of cupidity. The
Russian Governor, aware, it seems, of their national failing,
had established marts and fairs for the exchange of mer-
chandise, and the motive of curiosity, which at first at-
tracted a mere fraction of the mountaineers, had been suc-
ceeded by the more powerful inducements of gain ; the
wily Russian Governor having taken care to give instruc-
tions for insuring these rude and unsuspecting visitors a
cordial reception, and to make it worth their while to come
again, even though the Russian cloths and other fabrics were
exchanged with them at a loss for the products of their soil.
The poverty of the Circassians was by this means relieved,
and the Russian Government, like many other civilized
countries, buys with broad cloth what it cannot conquer with
the bayonet.
In a pamphlet, by Mr. Thomas Turner a Beckett, published
this week, the cause of the provisional committeemen is warmly
taken up against the allottees, we must say in reference to
schemes which have been honestly managed-and oh, how
few are these-with some show of reason. Allottees, where
all has been fairly managed, shoald pay a moderate contri-
bution towards expenses, for in reality they encouraged the
mania, but one or two shillings per share ought to accom-
plish all this, and we hear of scores who, when satisfied that a
concern had been brought out, and befime the panic occurred
(for this is an important point), would willingly pay that
amount.
There has been a very marked improvement to-day in the
value of the Public Securities and the business doing is to a
fair extent. Consols are 95% to 96% for present transfer,
and 964 to 961/2 for Account. The premium on Exchequer-
bills has been 235. to 275., and upon East India Bonds under
1,000/. 325. to 335. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents, have totiched•974, and the Three per Cents. 954.
Bank Stock is 2041/, to 2051/2.
The Foreign market is quiet, but the quotations have been
very well supported. Spanish Three per Cents. have rea-
lised to 37 ; Portuguese Four per Cents., 57 ; and Bra-
zilian Five per Cents., 82. Chilian Bonds are 951 h ; Gre-
nada, 22; and Peruvian, 37. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents. have been marked 59 to 591/4.
Railway Shares again exhibit considerable buoyancy.
BRITISII FUNDS. ONE ct.osixo
- O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock .. 204% 20534 20534
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 9514 95 9514 951/.
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. 96 95% 96%34 964
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 96% 97 4 97N
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10 3-16 34 1034
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1849 .. 10 10
India Stock .. . 261 261
India Bonds, 1,000/. .. • -
Ditto, under 1,0001. .. 32 33 33
South Sea Stock .. -
Ditto, Old Annuities 9314 9334
Ditto, New Annuities 9434 9434
Consols for Account • • • • •96% % 9.i%
Exellever Bills. d. 110.
1,000!... .... 26 23 27 - pm. 27
500!. . - .... 26 27 - - pm. 27
Ditto. Small - 26 24 27 - pm. 27
ONE CLOSING
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 82 820
Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent .. . 9514
95%
Danish, 3 per Cent -• .. • • .• 8714 871%
Grenada, 1 per Cent .. .. 22 22
Mexican Bonds, 1837, A per Cent -
Ditto, for the Account .. - 321%
Ditto, Deferred - 1634
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent. .. 37 37
Portuguese Three per Cent .• -
Ditto, for the Account .. 5634 5634
Ditto, 4 per Cent .. .. • • 57 57
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. - 25
Ditto, Passive Bonds .. 5%
Ditto, Deferred 15% 16%
!Mao, Three per Cent .. -
Ditto, for the Account 36% 37 37
Dividends on the above.payalile in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-halt per Cent .. 5914 5914
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 9134 9134
PRICES OF BUSINESSCLOSING
RAILWAY SIIARES. PAID. DONE AT PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.
Aberdeen .. 10 .... 314 434
Biriningham and Gloucester.. ..100 .. .. 125 ...... 125
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 .... 214 % 2%
Bristol and Exeter .. 75 .. 84 85 B5
Buckinghamshire .. 425. .... par .. •• .. • • par
Caledonian _• •.. 10 .... 71.4 . 7%
Ditto, Half Shares .. .... 1
Ditto, Extension .. 2`4.,•• 134....~
Cornwall and Central Devon .. 2%.... 1% .
Direct Manchester (Remington's) 234 .... ys 1..
Direct 3Lniehester (Rastrick's) ...• 3% .• •••• • • • • 3%
Direct Northern .. .. 254 - . .
Dublin and Galway .. .. 4 .... 24
Eastern Counties 141. 165..... 24%34% ••• • • • 2414
Ditto New .. .. 8/. 165..... 8 4 %31. p 8% p
Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61. 13s. 4d. - .......... -
Ditto, ditto, .. No. 2. 6/. 13s. 43. % p.. ••• • • • 3's
Ditto, York Extension .. 10s. .... 234 2....
East Lincolnshire 1% • • •
Ely and lltintingdon .. • • • • 7% - .......... 4%
Goole, Doncast., and Sheffield, &c. 425. % p % p
Grand Union (Nottingh. & Lynn) 1%
Great Eastern and Wdstern 23% .... 1% 1%
Great North of England . ..100 - .• •• • . 215
Great Western .. 85 • • ..153 155........ 155
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. 5 .... 19% .......• .. 1934
Hull and selby 50 ••10116
Ditto, Halt ...hares .. • • • • 7 .... 2531 ... 26
Lancaster and Carlisle .. 40 . 5814
Ditto, New . 5 .... 1034 •••••••• • • 101(
Leicester and Birmingham .. 225. - .• •••• • • • • dis
Leicester and Bedford 225..... 54 dis. %
Leicester, Tamworth, &c. 425. .... 174 di5....• 74 dis
London an Birmingham . iOO -228 .... •• •• • • 226 A
Ditto Thirds , . .. 24 .... 63 ...... • ... 63
Ditto Quarters .. 2 .... 30 •• • _ 30
Ditto Fifths •2 .... 2534 ...... 2534
London and Black wall .. 161. 13s. 4d. 814%........ 8%
Ditto, New .. 234 - ..... 334
London and Brightoz. .. 50 .... 661/ 6534
Ditto ditto Fifths .. 20 .... 3134 • • . . 31%
London and Croydon .. 131. 15s. 9d. 2334 ...... .• • • 2332
Ditto, Guarant. Five per Cent. 9 .... - ..
London and South- Wes.ern.. 41/. tis. 103. 81 80% .•• .. 82
Ditto, New Consol. Eighths .. 34 .... 54 _ 54
Ditto, New . 1234 - ••••.. • • .. 2434
London and York .. .... 2%14 • 214
Londonderry and Coleraine • . 732 - ••• • • • 4
Lynn and Dereham . 10 .... 6% •
Manchester and Leeds .. .82 ....132 .......... 132
Ditto, Half Shares .. . 38 - .• •• • • -
Ditto, Quarters .. 2 .... 1134 12 ...... 12
Ditto, Fifths . 3 .... 131434 13 .... 14
Ditto Extension 425... • • 3%1434 P•• • • 314
31anchester and Birmingham .. 40 .. 80 82
Ditto, Quarter Shares (A) • • 4 .. • • 1314 • • 1334
Ditto, Quarter Shares (It) • • 4 1312 • ~ 1334
Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) 1 .... 934
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. .. • • 114 p p
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... 2 11 '244- _ 214
..100 ~ • .157 155.. • . 157
Ditto, New .. .. 18 .. •34 35 333 34%
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 108 139 _
........ 130
Newcastle and Darlington Juliet. 25 .... 47 4634 _ 46
14
Ditto, New . • • • • ••1 •• • • 10% II ••• . • • 11
Ditto, New, Brandling 25 .... 4634 ... 464
Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 10 .. 2114 % 11422 20% 2114
Nopiitto r r(.;111 sl
st.t. 20 .... 2834 28 ...... 28
Shares
ar .es.
Extension
: .. 1114 2%14 334 .... 3
Ditto, talkeith • • .. 25 - •• • •
Ditto, ditto .. • • • • • • 5 .... 6% 6%
North Staffordshire .. • • 425. •• • • 334 % 11•• •• • 3% 1
Norwich and Brandon .. 18 .... 2634 ••••• • • • .. 261 z
Oxid.,WOrcester,& Wolverhuiptu. 12% .... 9.... 9
Perth and Inverness • • • • • • 2 •• • • 134 •••.• • • , • , li4
Portsmotith I iirect • • • • • • 3% •• • • 31,4 ••••• • • • • • 34
Scottish Central .. • • . . 10 •• • 1534 ••••• • • • .. 1534
Scottish Midland .. ..• lO .... - „ „ 7
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 234 .... 3% 34 •• • ... 31,
South Midland .. • • .. • • 428• •• • • 2 134 p••
South Eastern and Doror .. • • 331/ 3934 • ..... 3934
Ditto. New (ice. at 32!.) No. 1. 16 .. 2014 • • 204
Do.. New (do. 33!. 65.83.) No. 2. 10 .... 1334 . 133 e
Do., New (do. 30i.) .. No. 3. 15 .... - .. • • .... • • 15%
Do., New (do. 15/4 .. No. 4. 234 , r.
South Wales .• • . .. 5 .... 2 ...... •• • • 23'
Trent Valley and Holyhead June. 254 ....
Vale of Neath .. • • .. 2 .... 134% 134
Welsh Midland .. .• • • .. 234.... 134
West Riding Union • • • • .. 425. .... 2% p...... _ 2% p
49
York and North Al idland 0 -
Ditto. Scarborough Branch ~ 25 .... % 49%
Ditto, Selby „ 30 7, 75
Ditto. Extension .. • . .. 15 .... 36 351 _ 3534
Do. E. and W. Riding Exten.- 1 •• • 10% 11% 11 lo7'
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens .. 12 .... 12134 % 1234
gdoLfJi
Bordeauxee gm
Niemen e e p.. p e
160444
17211
:14%
4%1.
!.
172121!
Central of Spai.Fr.i
France Constituted..:•: 5525• :• :• -1534% •%: ••
•••••• •••
•••
15;
Dutch Rhenish .. . • .. 5 .... 7 6)4
r
41. 3s. 4d.... 2% 3 die
OONGLLE tva:Numalnn Louvain
nb°dr,atti andahivan, nnddr.
Over Yssel
Paris and Lyons Constituted .. 5
Paris and Strasbourg Constituted 5 . •• ..
• • • 814

Rouen and Ilavre . .. • • .. 20 . 29 v
• • • • • **
Sambre and Meuse' .. 304
• • • . 8 .... ,s
5%
West Flanders • . • • • • 4 .... 2% . * 2%
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Australasia ••••••• • • • 40 .. 25% .• • . 25%
London and Westminster . .. 20 .. •••• • • • 27
Provincial of Ireland .• • • .. 25 .... 49% .......... 49
34
Ditto, New • • • • • • •• 10 .... 19% •• • 19%
Union of Australia . .. 25 .... .. •••• • • • • 25%
MINES.
Real del Monte, Unregistered .. —3% ••• • • • •
To-morrow being a holiday at the Bank, Stock Exchange will be
shut, by order of the committee.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)
Lopueow, APRIL 30.—Wind N.W., light airs and hazy, but fine
weather.

DEAL, APRIL 29.—Wind N.E., moderate.—Arrd. Alberdina, Mate-
ling, Matanzas, and sailed for Hamburgh ; Augusta, Daunberg, New
Orleans, and sailed for Gothenburgh. Arrd. from the River and
sailed, George, Todd, Brazil ; Margaret, CI trk, New York.
Poursetouzi, APRIL 29.—Wind E.-81d. Victoria, Morgan, New
York ; Duke of Portland, Cubitt, Bombay.
Cowi.s. APRIL 29.—Wind E.—Arrd. Arrogante Emi ls, Gasoliba,
Havannah and Corunna.

OFF IeLTMOUTH, APRIL 29.—Jane, Reach, Mauritius.
BRIOUTON, APRIL 29.—The Harriett, from St. Croix, to Copen-
hagen, which was abandoned on the 26th instant off Beachy Head,
after being in contact with the Seringapatam, was fallen in with yes-
terday on her beam ends, and towed to the shore between Hove and
this place.

LIVERPOOL, Aran. 29.—The Malvina was wrecked on the coast of
Patagonia, during the hurricane of Jan. 7 ; crew saved.
SHIELDs, APRIL 29.—The Mexico, liunnam, of this port, bound to
Cronstadt, in going out yesterday afternoon struck heavily on the
Bar, and has put back leaky, and must discharge.
ithaboalluthseor
sails and rigging attached, was passed on the 24th instant, off the
Dall'of Kintyre, by the Fawcett, Flynn, arrived at this pc t.
WHITBY, APRIL 29.—The Anna. Clark, of this port, in proceeding
to sea this morning, struck heavily on the Bar, in consequence of the
breaking of the tow rope, but returned Into port without apparent
damage. a i rt
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• -- - -
CORN AVERAGES.
' GENERAL. AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN
For the Week ended April 25, 1846, made up from the Returns of the
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns is England and Wales
per Imperial QUirter.

I WHEAT- I EARLEY.' OATS. I EYE. I BEANS. I PEAS.
PRICE •• 55a 6d 30s Id 23s 4d 338 7d 348 10d 33s 0d
DUTY... 178 04 Ss Od 6s Od 98 6d Ss 64 981 6d

MARKET NE WS.-(THIS DAY.)
MEAT 7483118ETES.
HAILSIIAN, Aran. 28.—The supplies of each kind of fat stock on
sale to-day were but moderate, while the general demand ruled
steady, at our quotations. Beef, from Zs to 4s 2d ; Mutton, 3e Sd to
bs 241; Lamb, bs 4d to 613 6d; Veal, 4s to 4s 8d ; and Pork, 4s to 43
6d per Bibs.
AsUNDEL, Aram 28.—Beef, from 33 2d to 4s 2d; Mutton, 4a to
58 2d; Lamb, bs 8d to 6s 8d ; Veal, 4s to 4e 10d ; and Pork, 4s to
4s 8d per Sibs. A fair average supply and sluggish trade.
CencliEsTEß, APRIL 29.—We had a steady general demand here
this morning, and prices were well supported. Beef, from 2s 10d to
4s ; Mutton, 38 104 to 5s 2d ; Lamb, 5s 6d to Gs 8d ; Veal, ta to 43;
and Pork. 441 to di 8d per Sips. buckling Calves, 18e to 29s ; Quer-
tor-eld Store Pigs, 16e to 181; and Mulch Cows, with their small Calf,
161 to 191 each.
NENVGATZ AND LEADENNALZ.
krlme Beefand Mutton commanded a steady sale at full prices

In all other kinds of meat exceedingly little business was transacted.
Beeffroni 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; Mtittou, 3s 4d to 4s 6d ; Lamb, 5s 4d to
6s Sd ; Veal, 4s 4d to 5s 4d. ; and Pork, 3s 6d to 51 per 81bs by the
carcase.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

nuns.= AND ENNISEZI.LEN, IRISH
NORTH MIDLAND, DUBLIN AND BEL-
FAST JUNCTION, AND NAVAN BRANCH.

The Committee on these Bills met this morning at eleven o'clock
in Abingdon-street. Present, the Marquis of Salisbury (chairman),
the Earl ofJersey, Lord Charleville, and the Bishop of Oxford.
Mr. OIIALLiT occupied the whole of the morning in addressingthe
Committee in favour of the Dublin and Enniskillen Railway, and In
opposition to the other two projects. He expatiated at great length
on the advantages which would accrue to those portions of Ireland
which the line was proposed to traverse on account of its direct
character, and as being the course which was admitted by all the
witnesses to embody a greater stream of traffic than that possessed
by any other part of the county. After commenting with great
severity on the evidence of Sir John M'Neile, the engineer of the
Irish North Midland, he proceeded to say that the fact that share-
holders In the line which he represented having been able to pay up
101. per cent., whilst their opponents had only paid 51., showed that
they could command the necessary capital for its construction ; besides,
if was any doubt in the minds of the Committee as to the wishes of
the shareholders with respect to it, the promoters would, If allowed
time, call a Meeting, and adduce evidence before the Committee that
the shareholders as a body were anxious not to withdraw the Bill
from Parliament, but to proceed with it. He concluded by calling ma
the Committee to pass the preamble of the 8111.
A petition, purporting to be frrm several shareholders of the line,
praying•tbat the Bill might be abandoned, and the Company
dissolved, was placed before the Committee, but was rejected on
account of the signatures not having been appended by the persons
whose names appeared, but by a Mr. Barnett, a clerk in the employ
of Mr. Layard, who had sent a circular to the various parties on the
subject, from some of whom he had received authority to append
their names to the petition, which was accordingly done.
The Committee held that this was altogether inadmissible, and re-
jected the petition.
The CHAIRMAN then ordered the room to be cleared, in order that
the Committee might give their decision on the Bills.
On the admission of the parties,
The CHAIRMAN stated that the Committee had come to the fol-
lowing resolution:—
" The Committee are of opinion that the line from Newtonbntler
to Cavan, with a branch to Belturbet, should be given to the Dublin
and Enniskillen Company. That the line from Kells to Navan
should be also given to them, on condition of their making a junction
with the Navan and Drogheda, and that it be recommended to the
Belfast Junction to take advantage of their present Bill to form this
junction. The Committee will not adopt any line south of Navan,
The Irish North Midland have not proved their Bill."
The Committee then adjourned until to-morrow, when the clauses
of the successful Bills will be proceeded with .

HOUSE i ►F COMMONS.
GROUP IV.

The Select Committee appointed to consider the merits of the Bills
comprised in this group, re-assembled at the usual hour this morning ;
Mr. B. Hope in the chair.
Trim GREAT NORTH OF SCOTLAND.

The CHAIRMAN said he wished, before resuming the evidence, to
call the attention of the parties to the fact, that a meeting of the
Perth and Inverness shareholders had been held at Inverness, at
which it was decided by a majority of 46 to 2 not to go on with the
Bill

Mr. Sergeant BELLASIS said that decision could not be taken as the
opinion of the great body of the shareholders, for they were spread all
over the line, but a small portion of the whole body. But there was
the remarkable case of the London and York.
The CHAIRMAN—What is that?

Mr. Sergeant Bamasts—Why in that case a large number of share-
holders were for stopping the line while the scheme was in a most
healthy and flourishing condition.
Mr. AusTls said It might be as well for him to state that a similar
meeting to that alluded to by the Hon. Chairman, had been held at
Perth. It was pretty certain that the London and York scheme was
on its death-bed.

Mr. Sergeant BELLASIS presumed the wish was father to the
thought.
The Duke of Richmond was the first witness examined this morn-
in.r. Ills Grace said that he preferred the Great North of Scotland
fine, because it i ave more accommodation to his tenants, and to the
public, and gave a decided opinion that there was not traffic enough
to justify the construction of an inland and a coast line. There could
hardly he a doubt, his Grace thought, that the Great North of Scot-
land was the most preferable of the two coast lines, inasmuch it
followed the natural channel of the traffic, while it passed through
vast tracts of land capable of Improverrient.
His Grace, on cross-examination, admitted that the Banffshire line
might benefit Fort Gordon, but that was a small fishing village of
little importance. He did not admit of its being an inconvenience to
go round a distance of 61 miles to get from Perth to Inverness, be-
cause if they avoided that detour they neglected the local ac-
commodation which the important counties of • Aberdeen, Banff,
Maury, and Perth gave. Certainly it would not be a benefit to the
public to have both lines, because it was quite impossible that both
could pay, and railways only benefited the public, in his opinion,
when they paid. The Aberdeen and Elgin line passed through the
must expensive part of the country, and he was fully convinced the
line could not subsist upon its local traffic. He did not anticipate
that drovers would avail themselves of the railway, because, as
there were few tolls in Scotland, it was cheaper to drive cattle over
the bills than send them by railway.
By the COMMITTEE—The Aberdeen and Elgin line crossed the
river Spray in an objectionr,ble manner. On the whole his evidence
arn,unted to this—he should prefer the two lines, if they could be
made to pay, but as he thought the traffic would only admit of one
line being effectively worked, there could only he one line ; and of
the two he tho4ht the Great North of Scotland line was the best.

Another discussion here arose as to the mode of proceeding in
cross-examin dions. The Committee seemed to think that the
Nairn and Perth line was not a competing line with the Great North
or Scotland; and, therefore, the Learned Csunsel, who appeared for
the former, had no right to cross examine the witnesses called by
the latter.

Mr. sergeant BELLASIS said the Perth and Nairn line would not
pay without they had the management of the tra c between Nairn
and Inverness; and they were, therefore, a competing scheme with
the Great North of Scotland, as between those two places. The
Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin line depended for support upon local,
and not through traffic, and for local traffic, and as a local line, it
was a competition with the Great North of Scotland.

GROUP IX.
This Committee met in the room No. 1 (House of Commons) at
12 o'clock, having adjourned till to-day before Easter. Lord Worsley
took the chair.