The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-17 00:00:00

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LONDON. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1846.

The further discussion which the Corn Bill under-
went in the House of Lords on Thursday and Friday
last has enhanced the gratification with which we have
from the first regarded the free-trade policy of the
Government. The conflict between the protectionists
and their political opponents grew warmer and
warmer ; the former, as a dernier resort, before suffer-
ing the Bill to get into Committee, made some ill-
timed, and narrow minded, but emphatic appeals to
the episcopal bench to vote against the measure ; the
spiritual Peers were aroused. Indignant at the suppo-
sition that, upon the paltry, miserable, and ungenerous
ground of self-interest, they ought to have voted
differently from what a majority of them bad
upon the zecond reading, and that upon
the grovelling principle of pounds, shillings, and
pence, they might even yet be considered
captth of witharv&g their gupput, th 37 at lapel

accepted the repeated challenges thrown out to them
and freely entered the lists. The Bishop of ST.
atom's was the first to appear. His speech was
lucid and temperate ; his argument, pungent, and
the exposure he made of the inconsistencies of the
monopolists, most 'felicitous. His address is all the
more acceptable, as he announced that it was, for the
most part, in unison with the sentiments of the whole
of the episcopal bench. He completely tore away the
flimsy veil which the agricultural Lords, in extremis,
had thrown over their shameful appeals to the hier-
archy, and laid bare their selfish deformity. The
Bishop reminded them it was in vain they affected,
on the one hand, to treat the question as ruinous to
the institutions of the empire, and the labouring mass
of the population, and then, on the other, to invite
the episcopal bench, upon money calculations (which
certain lay Peers had the conceit to imagine they
could make bettaa- than the Bishops themselves),
to regard it purely as a landlord's question.
He repudiated this insulting argument, and showed
they had as much right, and were fully as capable of
taking a comprehensive view of the measure as their
intermeddling opponents. He admitted their in-
comes might suffer diminution, but stated he should
derive ample compensation from the probable effect
of the Bill upon the comfort, prosperity, and well-
being of the great mass of the community. This was
language becoming one of the heads of the Church.
It conveyed, too, a keen rebuke. It showed a dispo-
sition to sustain individual losses, when the general
good of the country was to be promoted, and, at the
same time, operated as a caution to the monopolists
not to let the nation see that whilst their professions
took one direction, their acts took another. The
Bishop vindicated the necessity of some change from
the depressed condition of the labourer, such, that his
children were debarred from want of decent clothing,
to embrace the means of education that was open to
them.

The Bishop of EXETER next entered the arena, and
endeavoured to rescue the protectionists from the da-
maging attack they had received. After a sprinkling
of rhetorical subterfuge, he boldly proclaimed that the
independence of the reverend bench was all in all to
both rich and poor, and that therefore the temporali-
ties of the Church was what he chiefly looked to. So
much did he manifest his heart to be wrapped up in
this view of the question, that he almost licked the
dust before certain of their Lordships, and obsequi-
ously rejoiced that they made it their practice to ap-
peal to the bishops whenever they thought their espe-
cial interests were threatened or invaded. For the
sake of the poor, he desired their custom would never
be departed from. High wages, and not cheapness of
provision, was what he held to be of chief concern to
the lower classes. This Reverend Prelate modestly
disclaimed ap knowledge of political economy. Per-
haps he thought it as well, to do so, for if
there is one point more than another
intimately connected with this science, and which has
been over and over again clearly elucidated and in-
controvertibly established, lupe ad nauseam, it is
this, that whenever provisions have been cheap, wages
have been high. Shrewd HARRY of Exeter !
But the last word from the spiritual Peers was not
to rest with the Bishop of EXETER. The Bishop
of OXFORD couched his lance, and made his adver-
sary reel in the saddle. In a speech of infinite
credit, combining great powers of language with co•
gency of reason, he reduced the Bishop of EXETER
to the level of his own humiliating argument. He
denied the subtle version given by his reverend com-
peer of the appeals that hal been made to their
bench. He denied that the appeals had any
reference to morals or religion, but solely
to their incomes ; and thrcughout his able
address, like the Bishop of ST. DAVID'S, he visited the
authors of this mean argument with marks of
withering contempt. He rejected the narrow idea of
the Bishop of EXETER, that they sat in the
Upper House, solely to represent a particular class,
and denounced these appeals as highly improper and
unconstitutional. What was best for the country,
and not what was best for the clergy, was the beacon
he steeered by. He would not allow the Bishop of
EXETER to escape,: by professing an ignorance of
political economy, and intimated that, a thorough
acquaintance with its principles would have been
readily enough displayed by his acute mind, had it
suited the vote his reverend opponent had pre-
viously determined to give. The evils resulting from
the heavily mortgaged condition of many of their
Lordships' estates, the wretched effects upon the
labourer, consequent upon the produced feeling of
indifference on the part of the landlord towards his
worldly and moral welfare, and the manner in which
this again tended to thwart the exertions of the
clergy, were all of them different points which the
Bishop of OXFORD pressed upon the attention of his.
auditors with peculiar force, and unpalatable truthful-
ness. The only way of doing justice to this eloquent
speech is to recommend our readers to give it a careful
perusal. We cannot, however, omit noticing the
following powerful passage with which he silenced
the cries of " No, no," from the cross-benches, whilst
he was representing the present corn-law to be an
unnatural state of things :—" Do Noble Lords, who
cry No, no,' know the meaning of the term
natural ?' In the prdvidence of GOD and by the
order of nature, wheat grows in the field; it is fed by
the dew and ripened by the sun, GOD working
through certain known laws. But does any one
believe that for the working man to have bread on the
cheapest terms is not a part of the economy of the
GOD of Nature ? I say a corn-law is unnatural.
Legislation is for the most part, I admit, an inter-
ference with nature, but that legislation which as
little as possible interferes with the order of nature
is the best."

Lord STANLEY, who had been absent during the
delivery of this enlightened speech, was warned by
his coadjutors of the impression it had made, and
attempted a reply. He indulged in a vein of ridi-
cule, and quoted VOLTAIRE. He tickled the fancy,
but the conviction wrought by the ennobling argu-
ments of the Bishop of OXFORD remained unshaken.
The concluding remarks of Lord STANLEY bear the
stamp of ingenuity, but not of ingenuousness. He
surmised that, whenever:a dissolution came, the
country might return a majority favourable to the
continuance of the eause of protection, and thereupon
adroitly asked their Lordships, to reflect upon what
would be their position, should they beforehand
sanction the measure of the Government. This was
a rhetorical artifice, of the sophistry of which the
mind of Lord STANLEY itself must have been fully
cognizant. The assumption was too monstrous to
entitle the inference to the least reflection. Mr. COBDEN
long since, in the House of Commons, analysed
. _
the chances of the protectionists, were an appeal to
to be made to the country, and demonstrated their
worthlessness. That analysis has never been dis-
proved. Lord BROUGHAM did not fail to handle
somewhat sharply the gross fallacies propounded by
Lord STANLEY, and wound up by reading him a con-
stitutional lesson upon the topic, repeatedly urged, of
appealing to the country. We are glad to find that
so leading an authority as Lord BROUGHAM lai.l down
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amendments, the discussionez'i7AGgot into Committee.
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resisted it, as directly tending
disadvantages of the present system, which
Lordships had already, in principle, decided should be
removed ; and he farther stated, that the exceedingly di-
minished sliding scale, temporarily imported into the
Bill, had not been introduced in the nature of a ?pm_
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come
denly into full operation, withoutallowing
time to elapse, in order to mitigate the t?inporary
evils, inseparable from any great alteration in our
laws. The Ministerial clause was carried by a ma-
jority of 33. Such a division is most cheering, nay,
conclusive in favour of the ultimate passing
•f the
Bill. The division on the second reading, yielded a
majority of 47. It was stated that, apart from the
proxies, Ministers, on that occasion, had only a ma-
jority of 12. We have now a majority of 33 in Com-
mittee, when no votes by proxy can be taken ! The
inference is complete. A e heartily congratulate the
coun

Itry.

(FROM A CORRESPOND:ENT).
The last faint hope of the protectionists has passed
away. No longer is there doubt or danger either as
to:, the &Al ate of the grf.* meow of fse..3 facie, or

! of its being emasculated or weakened during its pro-
I gress through the Upper House. The Lords have
nobly discharged the duty they owed to their country,
they have shown that no selfish considerations, no
undue desire to keep up high rents, which it has been
erroneously supposed the continuance of an obnoxious
tax on a nation's food was calculated to maintain, have
made them so indifferent to the real interests of their
order, so blind to the signs of the times,
as to induce them to enter into a hopeless and vexa-
tious contest with the popular branch of the Legisla-
ture, with the nation at large. Their Lordships have
well understood the constitutional nature of their
functions. It was intended that they should present
a check to crude and hurried legislation, should in-
terpose themselves against a corrupt and venal ma-
jority of the House of Commons, if such
should have an existence, and to protect
the rights and liberties of the people at large ;
at least until an appeal to that people should enable
them to have their wishes and feelings on a great
constitutional question truly represented in their
own branch of the Legislature ; but it never was con-
templated that their Lordships should constitute
themselves into a formidable obstacle, an all but im-
passable barrier against the strongly-expressed desires
and the ardent wishes of the nation. No rational
man could suppose that an appeal to the
general body of the people could have any other
effect than to swell the ranks of the free-traders, and
to render still more irresistible the patriotic phalanx
who have arrayed themselves on the side of free trade,
the abolition of all commercial restrictions, and the
introduction of cheap food to the many. Their Lord-
ships have therefore acted wisely in at once freely
and gracefully acceding to the popular demand, and
by so doing have done more to retain the respect
and esteem of the public and to strengthen their
own power and just influence, than by any
other course they could possibly have adopted.
Many predictions had been hazarded by the enfeebled
and prostrate faction as to the line of conduct that
would be pursued : first, it was confidently stated that
the noble policy of the Government would be rejected
by the Commons, or so mutilated and altered as to be
quite inadequate to the wants and wishes of the
country. Much disappointment was felt when
it was discovered that the magnanimous and
disinterested support rendered by the great
political rivals of the Ministry, and the
sound judgment evinced by many of those who had
formerly been advocates and supporters of the corn-
laws, removed that hope. Then arose the question,
" What will the Lords do ?" and bald assertions were
unhesitatingly made that the Peers would reject the
measure, and at least delay its triumph until the re-
sult of a general election should be ascertained. This
hope was alse frustrated, and the second reading
was carried by a glorious majority. Then came
the assurance that in the Committee the work of
destruction would be effected, and that although it
was vain to contend against the principle, yet that
much change would be introduced in the details, and
that the proxies being no longer available in that
stage of the discussion, the measure would lose the
great support which had been obtained for it through
the personal influence of the Duke of WEL-
LINGTON and the number of proxies at his
Grace's disposal, and that it could then
be pared down and diluted to such an extent,
that it would no longer be accepted by the
House of Commons, or received by the free-traders
as a valuable and highly prized boon. The division
of Monday night has, however, tested the fallacy, and
proved the inaccuracy of the assertion. The Duke
of BUCKINGHAM, by his amendment, sought to per-
petuate.the small duty retained by the Premier for
the term of three years, to save, as he himself
said, a shadow of protection to the agricultural
interest. His Grace, however,' by his manner
of introducing the subject, showed that whatever
might be the expectations of his party, he himself
had little hope of carrying his proposition. He did
not speak with the energy or confidence of one ani-
mated and inspired by the prospect of victory ; on
the contrary, his speech bore the stamp of conscious
defeat. The Peers who spoke in favour of the
amendment stated the little benefit that they
considered it would afford if carried, and
that, as a measure of protection, it was
ludicrous and inefficient, and that they only gave
it their support because it upheld in some degree the
principle of protection. It was for this very reason
the more dangerous, as some straggling and doubtful
votes might possibly be obtained from amongst those
who had supported the second reading. The majority
of thirty-three has, however, set the question at rest,
and we may now congratulate our fellow-labourers
that in a few short days the Ministerial measure will
have become the law of the land.

Intelligence has been received from Rome of the 4th
June. On that day the remains of the late POPE, hav-
ing been previously embalmed, were exposed to public
view in the Sistine Chapel. The fortune
left by GREGORY XVI. to his heirs amounts
to two millions of Roman piastres. These accounts re-
present that tranquillity at that date prevailed at
Rome ; but a letter from Leghorn, dated Bth June
(four days later), states that the people had assembled
in the streets of Rome, demanding the secularisation
of the Government, and that peace had not been re-
stored until a collision, attended with much bloodshed,
had taken place between the soldiers and the people.
GAET&NINA, the favourite Chamberlain of GREGORY
XVI., is said to have fled from Rome and to have sought
refuge in Tuscany.

A letter dated St. Pet.u.Lu,•gh, June 1, 1846, says—
" Many journals, both Russian and foreign, have an-
nounced that the cholera has made its appearance in
nal•ny towns on the Russian frontier. Such a statement
is entirely destitute of foundation. The epidemic has
not even approached our frontiers."

Madrid papers of the 7th have been received. They
contain no intelligence of any description. No news
from Lisbon of a later date than that already published
had been received in Madrid.

The Tiempo urges the necessity of dispatching imme-
diately to Rome some able diplomatist to watch the pro.
ceFdings 2f the Conclave, and to open new negotiations
on the subject of the Spanish Church.

MADRID BOURSE.—Three per Cents., 339-16 i cash ;
Five per Cents., 20; cash ; Debt without Interest, 6,i -.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.
The Chamber of Deputies on Saturday voted the
colonial budget, and commenced the discussion on the
budget of the financial department. A great num-
ber of Bills have been withdrawn. The discussion
of the budget of receipts, always the last measure of the
session, is fixed for Friday, and there is every proba•
bility that, on Monday, the session, as far as the De-
puties are concerned, will be terminated. The
Constitutionne/, in relation to the late escapade
of ilkike PASQUIER, says, " It has been remarked that
the Prince DE LA MosßowA has not of late been
present at the sittings of the Chamber of Peers.
We have reason to believe that he is re-
solved to avail himself of the earliest op-
portunity of publicly protesting against what,
to speak in the mildest terms, must be de-
nominated the imprudent expression, the use
of which during a recent trial astonished and
hurt the feelings of nearly the whole of the Peerage.
We hope that these words will be explained in such a
manner as to give to the son of the glorious Marshal
NET the just satisfaction which he seeks for."

The National mentions that a rumour is prevalent
that the Government had received very important dis-
patches from Italy, announcing an insurrection in the
Roman Legation, and that Austria had ordered her
troops to be in readiness to march upon the first signal of
outbreak.

The French Government have received important dis-
patches from Syria. M. G taZOT, on Saturday, in the
questionssaid,
which a Deputy had give
as an excuse for not an-
.relative to Lebanon, of
Chamber of Deputies,
I have received by the two last "the despatches which
packets announce that
swering certain
changes have taken place in Lebanon,amstodif and measures have
been adopted which greatly
0 f id Lebanon,
order,ninoonp, inopportune."
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necaeo:n, e:,
modify the present state
of affairs in that province, and that my
discussion would injure the interests of Levi"
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The Moniteur Algerien, of June 6, represents the
pacification of Algeria as complete.
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The Ocean, of Brest, of the 10th of June, announces
the arrival at that port, on the Bth, of the corvette La
Somme,
1 from the
f pc li_a narbtle7.B6' which is-
lands
The colony
was healthy, hut was suffering from want of provisions.
She brings home a portion of the garrison of the islands.
1 e Captain
quitted o An i a
thein
At Otaheite all was tranquil for the present. No colli-
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tribe still remained encamped, it traded with the French,
giving cattle in exchange for seed corn. Queen
PoMARE still refused to return to Otaheite.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 15.
Boulogne and Amiens, 11% —Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette
(Eepeleta), 1 N—Central of Spain, —Dutch Rhenish, 7% —East
Indian, —Louvain and Jemappe, 1 —Northern of France Con-
tituted, 14'(—Orleans and Bordeaux, 10—Paris and Orleans, 47%
—Paris and Rouen, 38%—Sambre and Meuse, 5 —West Flanders, 4.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEW.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were about
5,000 bales. The market was dull, and prices were a point
in favour of buyers. The business consisted principally of
American, at 3%d. to 514 d ; 50 Bahia, at 6d.; 150 Egyptian,
at 51,4 d. ; and 50 Sea Island, at ls. to Is. C.
The probability of the Canadian railways being suspended,
in ^onsequence of the unsettled state of our relations with
America, upon the Oregon question. must be a source of
anxious solicitude with those interested in the prosperity of
our important colonies. It is certain that, as a Toronto
writer upon this subject very justly remarks, the construction
of the Quebec and Halifax Railway is necessary to secure the
completion of all, or any of our Western lines. It is the only
thing which will give them a British tendency and thoroughly
interest British capitalists in their favour. At present the
calculations of the Great Western and Toronto and Lake
Huron Companies are founded chiefly upon the amount of
American traffic which will be secured to these routes. The
provincial business is not indeed lost sight of, but it is
brought in as secondary to the advantage which would be
derived from the travelling propensities of cur neighbours.
" Such being the case, everything is at a stand-still, and
will continue so until the Oregon question is settled, and
the more threatening disturbance with Mexico put to rest.
We understand that the last letters from London to the
Great Western Company were, that the proprietors in Lon-
don would carry it through at whatever cost whenever the
war movement at Washington was a little quieted ; and we
see by the packets of the 19th April that its stock had ad-
vanced another 2s. 6d., having risen to 41. per share. What
our Toronto and Lake Huron Company are about we do not
know :

" We make these observations because we think that, how-
ever much an embroilment with the United States may
affect the temporary and present repaying power of a
Central Canadian Railway, it has little to do with its suc-
cess in the long run. American traffic cannot be de-
pended upon, but a successive increase of our own is cer-
tain. We make them because we think that the
nature of our lines through this western province
has been put in a false position in England, and that
except in entailing. an additional expense, a war with
our neighbours has little to do with their success. Such an
event would raise the price of labour, and consequently in-
crease the cost of construction, but it would also stimulate
internal trade. Our people got rich during the last war, the
farms were better stocked, and the merchants' shops
better supplied at the end of it than when it began. This
is not a manufacturing or a speculating country to be
beggared by such an occurrence—the only evil which it
could do us would be that vague fears and a high rate of pas-
sage money would diminish immigration."
The funds have been very quiet this morning, but upon
the whole are firmer, owing to the favourable appearances in
Parliament for the passing of the Corn Bill. The advance
in wheat, however, is considered to indicate a disposition to
regard the weather as somewhat too dry, though foreign
orders for shipment hence to Belgium are likewise alleged as
a cause, and this may influence the funds. Consols for the
Account have been 951%. Exchequer-bills of 1,000/. have
realised lls. premium. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents. have been 96',Zfi to 97, and the Three per Cents. 95
to 14. Bank Stock has improved to 20514 and 2061./2.
The Foreign Bonds have been heavy except as regards
Portuguese, which have improved on account of favourable
advices of June 7 from Lisbon, received by a Russian man-of-
war arrived at Portsmouth. The Three per Cents. have
been 481/2, and thq Four per Cents. 481%. to 491/2. Spanish
Five per Cont. have been quoted 24 to 14, and the Three per
Cents. 36% to 37. Mexican are dull at 28 to 14, and
Grenada at 20% to 20%.
Railway Shares move uniformly, to a great extent, with
our own securities, being neither very lively in demand nor
buoyant in price, and yet, at the same time, not depressed.
BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PIM Es.
Bank Stock .. 205 V, 206% 2,.6?4
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 954 9a i
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Amts. 9674 97 97
hong Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 101 104
India Bonds, 1,0001. .. .. 26 20 20
Ditto, under 1,0001. 26
South Sea Stock .. ..
Ditto Old Annuities .. .. 94
Consols for Opening .. 9514
Exchequer Bills. l%d.
1,0001...
5001. .
Ditto. Small

11 - - pm. 11
16 - - - pm. 16
16 17 12 - pm. 12
ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
40%
20%

FOREIGN FUNDS.
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent ..
Grenada, 1 per Cent .. 2t:q.2%
Mexican Bonds, 1837, per Cent ..
Ditto, for the Account 283/4 28
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto, 3 per Cent .. •• • • • • 4830
Ditto, 4 per Cent .. • • .. • • 4'14 48%
Ditto, for the Account .. 49%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 2414
Ditto, for the Account .• 2414
Ditto, Three per Cent .. 36% 37
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-half per Cent .. 60 59%
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 9134
Ditto, for the Account • • • • ..
BUSINESS
PRICES OF CLOSING
DONE AT
RAILWAY SHARES. PAID. PRICES.
ONEO'CLOCK.
Buckinghamshire .. 428. di5....... % dip.
Caledonian 10 ... 11% 10% 10%
Ditto, Extension • .. 24.
Derby and Crewe .. 2% .... 6%36
Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) .... 3% ..........
'irect Northern .. 234 .... 1% ...... •• ..
Eastern Comities 141. 24141,5 • • ......
Ditto New .-. 10/. 163..... 8 p..........
Do. rerpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61. 13s. 4d. ••• • • • ....
Ditto, ditto, .. No. 2. St. 13s. 4d. % p ........ % p
Ditto, York Extension .. • -10 s. •• • • 1% •••• • • • • • 11A
East Lincolnshire .. • • 1%• • • • %/4 •••• • • • •
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 .... 75 .. • •. • 75
4loolc, poocast., HIM lottnela, e..c. / .... • .. Ws.
Grand Union (Nottingh. & Lynn) 1%..., 3A
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 20 .... 224 ...... 2214
Great North of England . ..100 .... ..........
Ditto New .. .. 5 52 ......... • 52
Ditto, New . .. 10 .... 39 .......... 39
Ditto, New . 134 .......... 14
Great Western .. 85 ..........

481,C,
491 A
49
24
24
37

634,
3h
1%
2414
a p

Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 5 .... 164 •. •• •• .. 16
Guildford, Fareham, &Portsmoth 5 .... 4% %........ 4%
Leicester and Bedford.. 225. .... ••• • • • par
London an ' Birmingham . ..100 ..........

Ditto Quarters •• • • .. .• 2 .... 28% ..........
London and Black wall .. M. 13s. 4d. ..........
London and Brighton .. .. .. 50 .. . 63 .... . ...
Ditto ditto Fifths • • • • .. 30 .... ........
London and Croydon • • • .131. 153 9d. • • 21 14 ..... . . . . .
London and Greenwich .. 12/. 15s. 4d. ..
Do. Prefer. or Privilege .. 181. 17s. 2d.
London, Hounslow, & Western .. 2 ..., %
Loi.don and South-Western • • 41/. 6s. 10d... 78 77!•Z •• • • • •
Ditto, New Consol. Eighths .. 34 .... 52 .• .
Ditto, New • • • • • • • • 17% .... • •
London and York . • • • • • .. 2% .... 1 4 2
Lynn and Ely • • • • • • • • 15 —.. 13 •••••••••• 13
Manchester and Leeds .. .. • • 82 .• .. 124
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. .. 38 .... ssy2 58%
Ditto, Quarters • • • • .. 2 .... 9% 1 0
.. . . . . .
Ditto, Fifths • • • • • • • • 3 .... 1214 ......... • 12%
Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 , ..
... . BO
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. .... s.i .5 p..... 5/
• A p
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... 1% '..... .
NI idl and .. .••••• • • • • • 100 149 .• . .
149
Ditto, New •• • • • • • • 18 •• • • 31 ,. 311 z
Newcastle and Darlington Janet 25 .... is!,,, 46
...... 4674
Ditto, New
Ditto, New, Brandling .. .. 25
....
44 ... .
•
Ditto, Extension • • • • • 2 .... IN. . . .
... Is.-
North British • • • • • • • • 22% .. ,_
..........
__
Ditto, Carlisle Extension • . 1 ~.. 1%
...
......
1%
North Staffordshire • • • • • • 428. .... 374 4 iii 37,5 p 4 p
No. 4. 2% ..... 2V. •••• ••• • • •
Irlaallibu.r.y,&..Chel.thm„.
102 ........
154
......'....
15
• ........ 1
SNeOrtniiismh
.N. o.. 1•• 31361 A.: :: 32011/.:1:: .. •.: .•: . 2309 '''
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .• 2% ~ ..
Shropshire Union .. •• • • • • 425..... 1% dis
...... oz dis.
South Midland .• • • • • • • 4'25... „ 1,4 di5........ ii dis
Pet°enn't
2%
SoDru)toiht.t:DEN.aseNwteewrno(oais.llldsal.E3v2o.T..)
Vale of Neath • • • • • • .• 2 .... 02
.......... 114
Welsh Midland • • • • • • • • 2% .... i ir:
.......... 1
West Riding Union • • • • • • 425. .... '•
2,A, p•• •• 214 p
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth 5 ....
Worcestr., ilerefd., Ross, & Glou. 425...., 1% di5....... 134 dis
York and Lancaster .. .• .. 254_, 194•• .. IN
York asd North Midland .. .. BO ....
...
Do. E. and W. Riding Exten.• • I .._
....
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Central of Spain .• • • • • .. 2 .... i%.......... 1%
Dutch Rhenish • • • • • • • • 6 —... 774 8.. .. .... 8
East Indla,, .. • • • • • •• ss. •.... v.
........ -- %
Louvain and Jemeppe • • .. 4 .. . 114..........
1% xd
Luxembourg
Orleans and Bordeaux .. .. 6 .... 101 g.••••••••• 10 14
Paris and Lyons Constituted .. 5 .... 6
~i . . . . . . . . .
6i,
Paris and Rouen ........20 —•. 39 .......... 39,74
Tours and Nantes Constituted .. 5 .... _
.. .
Rouen and Havre • . .• • • •• 20 ••• . 28 .......... 21,
51,i
MINES.

2214
%
774

10%

Real del Monte, Unregistered . • •... 334 ......
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.-(YESTERDAY.)
Amsterdam .... C.F• 12 94 Gibraltar ..
Ditto, at sight • . •. 12 qi Leghorn ......... .
Rotterdam .... ••2 U• 12 10 Genoa .. , • 26 10
Antwerp . . 25 15 Milan
liamburgh --31.5. 13 It. Venice.• ..........
/Rolla • ............... Naples
Paris, 3 lays' sight .... 25 80 l'alenno, per oa..
Ditto, 3 months.. 26 5 Lisbon. •.
Marseilles ••..•.• • .. •• 26 10 Oporto ••.. • • 63
80un1eaux.......... 26 10 Rio Janeiro
Frankfort on Maine.... 122 N Bahia ..
Petersburgh, 3 U 5.... Buenos Ayres
Berlin New York, 2l days' sight

Vienna, effee.f10...... 10 10
Trieste, ditto. 10 11
Madrid .............. 35

Philadelphia
PRICES OF BULLION, PEE OZ.
Foreign Gold in bars.. £3 17 9

Cadiz • • •.. : ........ 364'
Bilbao.. • • • • . ...... ...

Barcelona .• ....... .

Portbtgal Gold Coin .• 3 17 5
Nos Doubloons ...... 0 0 0

New Dollars .... •• • • 0 4 9%
:liver in hares ...... •• 0 4 11

Peel's adherents, that ha was determined to try the effect of a disso-
It was asserted on Moods), by -mile of Sir Robert
httion before he resigns.
VISIT OF THE LORD MAYOR TO V AUXBALL-
GAItDINs.—The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor and a large party of in-
fluential gentlemen visited the "Royal Property" on Monday. They
were received by the spirited and liberal proprietors, to wkom, as
well as Mr. T. Holt (acting manager), bis Lordship expressed his
Perfect approbation of the entire arrangements of the gardens the
character of the entertainment—and the good order that prevailed,
His Lordship and friends subsequenty supped in the Grand Pavilion.
PRE ,F.NT FROM HER MAJESTY.—Three splendid
Cochin China fowls, bred by Mr. Walter, the superintendent of the
Royal Aviary, at Windsor, have just been iorwarded to Strathfleld-
saYe. as a present from her Majesty, to the Hon. and Rev. Gerald
Valerian Wellesley, the brother of his Grace the Duke of Wel-
lington.
ABOLITION OF THE et EARLY DELIVERY." BY COM-
MAND OF THU POSTMASTER-GENERAL.—The following order with re-
ference to the early delivery of letters in the metropolis was posted
in the letter-carriers' branch of the Inland-office, a few minutes be-
fore eight o'clock on Monday:---" Order of the Postmaster-General,
dated June 13, 1846.—0 n the 25th instant the early delivery on the
City walks will be discontinued. The sub-sorters who deliver the
City walks will, on and after that date, act as assistant letter-carriers
on their respective walks. Mr. Kelly will make proper arrange-
ments to carry these regulations into effect. To ensure the above
they
w
order of his Lordship being carried into complete operation, with the
smallest possible inconvenience to the public, the letter-carriers hold-
ing
~ order,,"i will
sw ai,t.eh
such walks will prepare statements of the present deliveries, so
that
walks.) be equalised
operation The ise‘land
of the regulated
above incompliance
ehe
above order." (Here follow the names of upwards of 50 o: the early
delivery
the
merchants and traders of the metropolis upwards of 2.0001. pe
an-
num. Extensive changes in the management must follow it,
as
thechief part of the men on the City walks depend principally upon the
public tbr their incomes, the "Crown pay" of the senier men being
only 361. Bs. per annum, or I is. per week. Last night (Monday)
twelve additional letter-carriers were added to the list of general
post letter-carriers.
SUDDEN DEATH OF MR. PETER GRILLION.—M ,rl-
- Mr. l'ettr Grillion, the well-known proprietor oh Grillion's
Hotel, Albemarle-street, l'iceadily, died under the billowing awfully ,
sudden circumstances:—between rdno and ten o'clock the unfor-
tunate gentleman was standing in the rick-yard on his farm at East
Acton, superintending the erecting of a rick of hay, when he was
suddenly observed to stagger and fall to the ground. He was imme-
diately picked up and conveyed into his residence, and Mr. Clubbe,
surgeon, of Acton,
sent ler ; but Mr. Grillion never rallied, and ex-
pired just after the arrival of the surgeon. The melancholy evert
tics occasioned
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