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proclaiming his adhesion to the doctrines of
free trade, excited universal attention and almost
universal sympathy. It was at once recognised, not
as an explanatory address from a Member of Parlia-
ment to his constituents, but as the manifesto of a
great political leader ready to become the exponent
11
of the popular will. As such it was received with
1 general satisfaction. The great question wag decided.

that passionate ejaculation which a modern poet has

state which they constituted in concert with all the
great powers of Europe, and which they placed under
the guardianship of those very persons who have now
confiscated it to their own profit, to be thus destroyed,
without taking formal notice of this brutal infraction of
public faith. What force would a united act add to
these protests ? We believe, for our parts, that
it could only weaken them. France and Eng-
land, in fact, are not in the same situation with
respect to the treaties of Vienna. England called them
forth, and even dictated them against us ; England
owes to them the preponderance which she now ex-
ercises in Europe; England is, besides, the particular
ally of Austiia, who profits by the spoliation that has
jtuersetsttakienn thepl
ace. England has, therefore, a great
maintenancein-
terest of the treaties of Vienna
France, on the contrary, has quite opposite interests ;
it is her chains, it is the instrument of her abasement,
which the three Northern Courts have just broken
Without her desire to preserve peace, without the sym
pathies which unite her to the fate of Poland, withou
the profound sentiment
which she feels of the formid-
able complications and infinite disasters that a European
war would produce, she would clap her hands with joy
at the violation of these odious treaties, no longer
binding on her, from the moment that they who im-
posed them free themselves from them without her
assent. France cannot view this violation in the
same manner as England. Iler demonstration cannot
certainly be either less energetic or less complete than
that of the English Cabinet, but it must have another
character, spring from a different principle, and result
in other conclusions. Und mbteclly, she must show to
the three Powers the extent of the fault which they have
committed in hazarding all in Europe for so futile an in-
terest ; undoubtedly, she must blame them for having
taken from the Polish nationality the shadow of exist-
ence which the treaties of Vienna had guaranteed; un-
doubtedly, in fine, she must by her example call forth
protests from all Europe against an act which destroys
the common bond of sovereignties, and proclaims the
law of the strongest; but she must not stop there. She
must provide for the eventuality of her representations
remaining of no avail; she must show that, if the case
arrive, she will regard herself as freed from the engage-
ments which force imposed on her in 1815, and which
she has since religiously observed; she must accept in
all its extent, without complaining of it, and with its
advantages as with its risks, this reign of force which
the three Courts that have seized on Cracow have just
proclaimed in Europe. This is what England cannot
have either the desire or the will to do, because she has
quite opposite interests. France ought not therefore to
accept a common action, even were it on both sides frank
and energetic, because she would no longer be free to
act as her interest demands."
As might be expected, France will not confineberself
to merely protesting ; she is but too glad to be re-
leased from the fulfilment of the burdensome condi-
tions imposed on her by the treaty of Vienna; and
takes advantage of its repudiation by the three
Northern Powers in the Cracow affair, to declare that
she shall only continue to execute the conventions
entered into in 1815 until it may suit her to set them
aside. The following, from the Epoque, may be re-
garded as an official declaration to this effect on the
part of M. GUIZOT :
" The only thing which we believe to he positive and
altogether certain is, that the French Government is
firmly resolved henceforth to consider the treaty of
Vienna as broken, and completely bsokrn-loudl3 to pro
claim that resolution, and to execute the conventions o'
1815 just to the moment when it may suit France to set
thorn aside. Austria, Russia, and Prussia have relieved
France of her obligation, and France is much obliged to
them."

placed in the lips of the sempstress :
" 0, bat to breathe the breath
Of the cowslip and primrose sweet,"
With the sky above my head,
And the grass beneath my feet."
We might enlarge, and with deplorable justice,
upon the brutality of harnessing women like cattle,
to drag heaps of coal up steep acclivities to the
mouth of the excavation. We might dilate upon the
distortion of limb, the debasement of mind, the de-
struction of morality consequent upon these cruel
and indecent proceedings. We might do all this
and more, and be justified in so doing, but, under the
circumstances, we shall content ourselves with a
naked statement of facts.

If the Government were backward in the per-

formance of their duty, others were ready to
fill their place. The leader of the Opposition,
giving voice to the sentiments of the people, an-
nounced to the Minister what line of conduct the
country expected him to pursue—a line of conduct
which that Minister had himself already decided on
adopting! A year has elapsed since these events
transpired, yet few can have forgotten them and the
earnest interest they excited; they are written
in our memories in lines not easily effaced. A
year has elapsed—a year, perhaps, unparalleled
in the annals of statesmanship. The chief of the
Opposition, then writing as a simple Member of Par-
liament to his constituents, has been since called upon
to legislate as a Minister, and achieve the glory of
contributing to the welfare of the people, but not
until he had achieved the yet greater glory of as-
sisting a rival in so doing—not until (to use his own
words) he had "had the satisfaction of feeling that,
although out of office, he had mainly assisted in pro-
ducing the triumph of the Minister:of the Crown." The
Minister, whose intentions were last year a problem
which all were desirous of solving, whose political
sagacity was about to.be tested, and whose patriotism,
severely tried, has since then bien proved, and
found not wanting, regardless of personal sacrifice,
he has consummated the great measures which the
welfare of the country rendered exigent. He
has retired from office followed by the bless-
ings of his countrymen, leaving, as he him-
self prophesied, a name "execrated by every
monopolist, but a name remembered with ex-
pressions of good-will in the abodes of men whose
lot it is to labour." Such are the changes one short
year has brought about in the once rival leaders of
the once great factions. And other and not less im-
portant alterations have been effected. Monopoly is no
more—the corn-laws were ! Such facts require no
comment—there is a satisfaction in their simple
enumeration. The League, crowned with victory has
(as Mr. COBDEN happily phrased it) " subsided into
its primitive elements on the triuleph of its prin-
ciples, while its spirit has been diffused through all
the nations of the earth," as is daily manifested by
the reception foreign countries are giving to its
great apostle.
To these extraordinary facts we have again
and again alluded, but we are more pecu-
liarly induced to do so on the present occasion,
because we have now arrived at the anniversary
of that anxious time when they were as yet in
nubib,fs ; aryl because, from the realisation of past
hopes, we would deduce bright expectations for the
future.
Another November has arrived; another year
will shortly have terminated ; in two months the
Parliament 1% ill again assemble. It is at such
a time, more especially, that all really
anxious for the general welfare should
look thoughtfully on the past and on the
future. If some of last year's expectations have been
fulfilled, let such triumph only stimulate us to more
exertion. In the great things that have been done
let us recognize the yet greater that remain to do.
Last session the power of the people was peculiarly
manifested ; the battles fought were with their arms,
the triumphs achieved by their champions. It is
now, therefore, that we would have impressed upon
the mind of every individual member of that
great body the consciousness of their extensive
power, and the necessity for vigorously exerting it.
Victorious in their recent campaign, let them not
abate in energy or exertion. In nothing is the skill
of a great general more conspicuous than in his con-
duct after a victory. If vigorously followed up, one
triumph may lead the way to universal conquest if
otherwise, the triumph may be worse than a defeat,
These thoughts should now animate the breasts of
Englishmen at the present moment. Their battle of
Cannes has been won ; let them on to Rome ; let no
Capua delay them, no false security delude them.
Perhaps in very distant times, when the future phi-
losopher shall look back on the annals of this country,
at no peliod of her whole history will England
appear more interesting than at the present. Now,
when her conquests and her commerce have rendered
her prosperous at home and powerful abroad,
not dazzled or deluded by such triumphs and
such prosperity, she is turning all her
thoughts and energies to her social regeneration. The
power of her kings and her captains has given way
to the more peaceful, but all potent, authority of her
people. That authority has already been exercised,
and not in vain. Last November, Lord JOHN Rus-
s Ear., after enumerating the evils of protection, and
pointing out the remedy, observed, in conclusion,
"but, if this end is to be achieved, it must be
gained by the unequivocal expression of the public
voice.," That voice was expressed, and the end is
gained. And so say we now, in the words of the
Prime Minister, when we look upon the many evils
yet existing—upon the many great reforms yet ne-
cessary—so say we now—" if these great things are
to be achieved—if the triumphs of last session are to
be followed up—if the real blessings of good go-
vernment are to be diffused throughout the land—
such a glorious end can only be achieved by the un-
equivocal expression of the public voice !"

Three females were destroyed in the Coppall ex-
plosion : JANE MOSS, aged 21 ; JANE HALLIWELL,
aged 13; and MARY BOOTH, aged 11 ; and they were
all what is technically called "drawers," they were
all toiling in the ropey and leathern bands attached
to the teal-carts, they were all debarred from
the decencies and amenities of domestic life. Mary

BOOTH, aged eleven years! We can understand how
CHARLES LAMB came to say that the children of the
very poor "never prattle," that they are " not
brought up, but dragged up !" What is the extenu-
ation attempted by the parties who were na-
turally looked to as responsible for this inhumanity?
Why, it was insisted that the owner of the coal-
mine was i_oorant that there were females among
his labourers. From all the facts which were eli-
cited on this remarkable inquest, we believe that Mr.

HARGREAVES was unaware of this execrable cruelty.
We acquit him of all knowledge of the actual cir•
cumstances in this particular. Nevertheless, we
cannot, and we do not acquit Mr. HARGREAVES of all
blame in the matter. He should have regarded as one
of the necessary duties entailed: upon him by the pos-
session of a colliery the preservation of decency and
propriety upon his works ; he should have been most
scrupulous as to the sex of those engaged on his
establishment; he should have compelled his la-
bourers to have appeared periodically before an espe-
cial inspector. Instead of doing this, and although
he acknowledges that the ordinary inspector assured
bim that he entertained suspicions " from the voices
of the drawers" that there were girls in his em-
ployment, he allowed matters to jog on uninterrupted
on the idle assertion of a subordinate that his sus-
picions were erroneous. There is something surely
very culpable in all this, and its culpability has been
fearfully signalised by the violent death of a woman
and two little children. What! after suspecting that
girls were toiling in his pit as " drawers," after ac-
tually going down to the Coppall coal-mine for the
express purpose of bringing the question to a settle-
ment, he is satisfied with the bare denial of a man
who would have been regarded as blameable had the
proprietor's suspicions been verified on investigation,
and w'rlo was consequently little solicitous for the
prosecution of such inquiries. If Mr. HARGREAVE3,
however, was only partially to blame, the conduct of
his manager, JOSEPH ELLIS, merits our unmitigated
reprehension. The manager, according to his own
acknowledgment, was aware, notwithstanding the
general disguise of male attire worn by the deceased
females, that JANE HALLIWELL was the daughter of
one of the colliers ; he was satisfied that she was in-
capacitated from employment by her sex; he even
remonstrated with the father, and threatened either
to prevent the child's further service, or have her
examined. Notwithstanding all this, and in spite of
the suspicious retort of HALLIWELL, that he would
" stick his pick into any one who would attempt to
examine his drawer," JOSEPH ELLIS allowed the
matter to continue without investigation. For this dis-
creditable tardiness (to give it the mildest expression)
the manager has shown himself essentially culpable;
and the consequence has been the destruction of the
woman and the children, and the exposure of his own
negligence.

The Presse announces the departure of a mission
to the Emperor of MOROCCO, which prcceeds to the
capital of the empire where no official personage has
ever been before received, foreign envoys having
always been detained at Fez or Mequinez. M.
CHASTEAU, the Charge d'Affaires of France in
Morocco, is at the head of this mission.
General LAMORICIERE has embarked from Toulon
for Algiers. He has received full instructions from the
War-office for conducting the exchange of prisoners
with ABD-EL•KADER, NN hich has not yet been car-
ried into effect.
The Bey of TUNIS is to leave Paris for London in
about a fortnight. One of the objects of the Bey in
visiting Europe is to endeavour if possible to nego-
tiate a loan.
The Paris "Association pour la Liberte des
Echanges" held its third general meeting on Tuesday
evening in the Salle Montesquieu, the Duke D'HaR-
'COURT in the chair. The meeting, which was very
numerous, included several of the most distinguished
of the partisans of free trade of Marseilles, Lyons
and other places. Very able speeches were made
by the Duke D'HARCOURT, M. LEON FAUCHER,
Member of the Chamber of Deputies, M. BLANQUI,
and M. ORTOLAN.
The newly-married Duchess DE BORDEAUX has re-
mitted to the Marquis DE PASTORET a sum of
10,000 f., for the relief of the sufferers from the inun-
dations of the Loire.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Thurs-
day at 81f. 75c. ,• the Five per Cents., 117 f. 20c. ; the Or-
leans Railroad Shares, 1,220 f. ; Rouen, 865 f. ; Havre,
632 f. 50c. ; Great Northern, 628 f. 75c. • Avignon, 858 f. 75c.;
Vierzon, 565 f. ; Bordeaux, 545 f. ; Boulogne, 435 ; Basle,
218 f. 75c.; Paris and Strasburg, 477 f. 50c. ; Tours and
Nantes, 485 f.; Paris and Lyons, 5001. ; Lyons and Avignon,
490 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 4751.; Spanish Domestic Debt,
3231.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, NovEmsErt 27.
Boulogne and Amiens, 131/2—Demerara, 4-lA—Dutch
Rhenish, 4%—Jamaica South Midland Junction, I%
Namur and -Liege, VA—Northern of France Constituted,
101/B—Orleans and Bordeaux, 73/4—Over Yssel, 3 dis.—
Paris and Lyons Constituted, 5.

Again, considerable discredit is thrown upon the
ability of the fireman to discharge his duties properly.
Still, despite the fact of his having been engaged
until recently as a weaver, and hence
being totally untutored as the fireman of
a coal mine, we cannot regard this im-
putation as sufficiently substantiated. The cir-
cumstance which actually led to the explosion, how-
ever, evinces a most grievous negligence on the part
of those entrusted with the supervision of the pit.
According to the established custom, the fireman has
to enter the mine first every morning, carrying a
Davy lamp ; he has to discover that the ventilation
is everywhere correct, and on finding a perfect
freedom from sulphur in the atmosphere, lights a
candle in each " steight," as a signal to the workmen
that they can enter and commence their operations.
On the morning of the explosion the deceased THOSIA s
H ALIA WELL had entered his " steight" before the fire-
man harLexamined the state of its atmosphere, and hence,
either by removing his clothes, or on igniting his candle,
caused the explosion by which himself and seven
others perished. It is manifest that every precaution
should be taken to prevent the colliers from entering
the excavations until after the atmosphere has been
duly tested by the flame of the Davy lamp. Unless
some stringent precautions of this nature are ren-
dered obligatory in the collieries these dis-
astrous accidents will be of continual re-
currence. It is frivolous to insist upon the pay-
ment of heavy deodands to the relatives of the suf-
ferers ; that would
_be beginning at the wrong end
with a vengeance. No; all possibility of such ex-
plosions may be prevented by proper arrangements.
Let these arrangements be enforced upon the owners
of coal-pits, and let the employment of women and
and girls as " drawers" be rendered a severely
punishable offence.

STATE OF TRADE.—LANCASHIEE, Nov. 26.
The demand for cotton goods at Blackburn is limited,
and manufacturers are obtaining scarcely any profits,
but, in many instances, some descriptions of manufac-
tured goods aro sold at less than prime cost. The yarn
market is very dull, stocks continue to augment, and
prices, in some instances, are rather lower. The calico
block printing at Accrington, Church Parish, and Col ne, is
very dull, and operatives have not half employment.
The trade in the cotton mills at Oldham, Royton, Shaw,
and vicinities is rather better, and this week several occu-
piers of factories have given notice to commence work-
ing full time again on Monday next. The batting
branch at Stockport, Hyde, and Oldham is un-
usually flat, and many hat-body makers are totally
destitute of work. The woollen cloth trade at Sad-
dleworth is dull at present. The flannel and coarse
woollen trades at Bury, Rochdale, Bacup, and vici-
nities is not brisk. The operatives in the same
districts employed in cotton mills, are principally work.
ing full time, but manufacturers make loud complaints
of the smallness of profits. The silk smallware trade at
Manchester and the neighbourhood is exceedingly flit,
and at many mills hands are only partially employed.
-ed in the
ad

The recent catastrophes which have almost simul-
taneously occurred in the coal-mines at Oldbury and
Coppall, have demonstrated with a dismal emphasis
the necessity for some legislative interference fur the
better protection of the lives of our subterranean

Madrid papers of the 20th have arrived. They
contain no news. The Heraldo, however,
and the other organs of the Government, promise
great measures of commercial reform. These pro-
mises are considered to be put forward merely for
the purpose of influencing the elections. It may be
that such is the case, but whether it be so or not we
rejoice to find such promises made by the Spanish
Government. If the Spanish Ministers are sincere in
their promises, we shall ere long have Spain adopting
the principles of free trade; if they are insincere, it is
a proof that the doctrines of free trade must be popu-
lar in Spain, or these promises could not be supposed
to produce any influence on the approaching elections.
It is certain, therefore, that the seed sown by RICHARD
COBDEN at Madrid, at Seville, and at Cadiz, is al-
ready producing its fruit, and the apostle of free
trade will, ere long, have the satisfaction of number-
ing the great bulk of the Spanish nation among his
disciples.

labourers. In other circumstances the destruction The operatives employ:. iii. le cotton and worsted smae
wares, at most places, are working short time. Cotton
of human creatures may be purely accidentally, if
hand•loom weavers in the towns ten or fifteen miles
not absolutely unavoidable ; in the cplliery explosions round Manchester are in wretched circumstances; most
blame is invariably attributable to some individual or of them are only pareally employed, at a very low rate
individuals. With all the appliances of mechanical of wages.—The Hat Trade.—We are sorry to have to
ingenuity, with all the advantages of chemical in- announce that the hat trade of Denton is in a most de-
pressed state. Very little is doing in either felts or silks,
1 vestigation, with all the aids of science, and and a majority of the inhabitants, who are entirely de-
all the warnings of experience, it is mon- pendent upon the hatting business, are consequently in
strous to suppose that the wretched colliers are the greatest distress—in fact, a great many are receiving
relief as paupers.
constantly to be dependent upon casualties for the At Fochabers, on Monday, the 16th, the Duke of
preservation of their existence. No arguments, how- Richmond, and other directors, formally opened an
ever specious, no subterfuges, however plausible, can elegant free school, known as " Milne's Free School "
100,000 dollars having been left, in 1836, for that pur-
pose, by Alexander Milne, Esq., New Orleans, a native
the reprehension which is excited by such terrible of Fochabers. The school will accommodate about 260
calamities as those which have lately occurred in pupils. The opening was conducted with ceremony.—
Staffordshire and Lancashire. We have already com- Inverness Courier.
CAUSES or HASTE AND CARELESSNESS IN BUlLD-
mented upon the shameful negligence which had MADRID Boma' Nov. 20.—The Three per Cents
cash the Four per Cents., ING.—We
have
on various occasions pointed out the ino-
h ;
clearly produced the Oldbury explosion, an explosion were done at 34i for
which destroyed nineteen men, fourteen of whom left 20i ; the Five per Cents., at 211 ; the Coupons, at 19 at perfect manner in which bricklaying is now performed
i ; in England, and the causes which have led to this state
wives and families in a state of deplorable destitu- and the Debt without Interest, atet. of things. " Operatives, speaking generally, have ceased
----,60.--- to feel interested in the production of good work ; all
they desire is to get over the ground, and very often
tion. Scarcely have our remarks appeared when a
We have received the French papers of Thursday.
cthuilsatiiTse
The Journal des Debats, while contending that work, induced by competition and the operations of spe-
similar catastrophe hurries eight unfortunate creatures
out of the world at Co all near Chorley. Such
there is not the slightest resemblance between what the case whiatshbtehceoimr me
so
osters too." "Hasty bad
much the habit of our
bricklayers, that it is difficult to find men capable of
fatal accidents must convince every intelligent and
feeling mind of the necessity there is for some deci-to induceproducing
begets indifference : whateveerehisraksill
it chooses to call " the pretended violation of the
treaty of Utrecht" by France and Spain, in the affair
hasty,all evecnatrse,lietsiasmdoiffidecuolti
once, will do so again, it is thought;
slue investigation into their origin, for the purpose of
of the Montpensier marriage, and " the palpably proceeding, and exercisoentht they possess." Use
enabling us to devise the most ready and effectual answeredn d
so thems
np purpose
oo sne,
means of preventing their recurrence.
In misfortunes like these we are always particu- flagrant violation of the treaties of Vienna" by the
extinction of the liberties of Cracow, is reluctantly h
at improvement.nf
laxly desirous of divesting our observations of any. house after house, in the same defective course, without
compelled to admit that England has refused to join once thinking
does occasionally, too often, indeed, occur, but that
"Thinee
thing which might be construed into personal invec- France in a joint protest against the usurpation of
structures so raised shoul.l stand: at all.—The Builder.
ffic
wonderieneyi,
is,
o r
not making
that
an
y e
accidentffort efforts
tive or malapert vituperation. Whenever we are the Northern Powers. Speaking of this refusal, the
EXTRAORDINARY DISAPPEARANCE or A RAILWAY
inveighing upon any egregious exhibitions of Debats says—
"As to the refusal of the British Cabinet, we shall EMBANKMENT.—A very extraordirary event has just
carelessness, or any shameless neglect of precaution
to
tbeeirtheaelr complain orh be anned at it. Supposing it taken place in the works connected with the Scottish
we would be understood to inveigh more against the wl not
the
our sentiFnents.;
.it will not Central Railway. It was necessary to erect an embank-
system than against the individual. With this pre- make us suppose that British Cabinet, in its resent- meat fifty feet high in a field near Allan Bridge, where
went for the check which it fancies it has experienced the railway was to pass. The works accordingly com-
mise, therefore, we shall freely express our indigna-
in the Spanish marriages, sees with a less dissatisfied menced, and many •
tion at the peculiar and grievous circumstances con- eye than we do the trouble caused •in Europe by the act in the requisite place, and the work was left for the pur-
nected with the fire-damp explosion near Chorley. of violence of the three Northern Powers. England was pose of acquiring solidity, but on visiting it again it
.
free to refuse our assistance ; she will protest on her was found to have disappeared, with the exception of a
By the inquest held upon the eight victims, two
side,dis-
and we on ours." few feet. On inquiry it was found that the field had
closures were elicited which loudly cry for
England has already protested singly, and it is to
. ,
originally been a bog,andthe weight of the soil neces-
theform the
immediate and vigorous interference of. sail to embankment had broken through the
be hoped that France will lose no time in protesting external solid earth.
the Legislature. Those two disclosures are :
singly else. Even had there been no interruption of the COMPLETION Or MADAME Tl' A ' D ARY
..., ...WILLY 8 I .
first, that great doubts were expressed
entente cordiale no violation on the Dart of France of The Seventh Volume -
as to whether Cie persons charged with the ventilation of ' and Letters," completing published this
the provisions of the treaty of Utrecht, we think thatae ma
ae
now be
is
had
of all book-
die mire were competent for that responsible office ; day, by Mr. Colburn,
the single protest of each nation, independently for sellers. The following new works are also now ready :
and, secondly, that females are employed at the
itself, would be far more effective than any joint 2. H_oohelagit ; or, England in the New World.. 2Edvioteisd
of "Madame D'Arblay's Diary
Coppall colliery. It is impossible to consider these
protest could possibly be. In the following article on h
complete in 2 v s royal _ys.Ebioutn
d.
3.Warburtonn(au.re,Eyl.
thec
Lianti°dned Gentry,
two imputations without expressing a vehement ab- the subject, which appears in the Preste,-the quo- 21
2!. 103. bound. 4.
horrence of men who would thus voluntarily en-Col Sir
tion of joint or separate protests is well argued, and
danger the lives of their industrious dependents, and Canada and the Canadians in 1846. By Lieut.-
Richard Bonnycastle. 2 vole. 21s. bound. 5. Vol. 9of
reduce women, however lowly their origin, to the conclusions drawn appear to be reasonable :
" What matter is it whether the protest be collective es Strickland's Li •Queens of England •
cAogmn ri•ain Mary of Mve s of, the Consort of James 11. 6.'
the condition of the brute creation. How-
ever fitting the opportunity, we are not or isolated ? What is important. is, that it takes place,.
TheP Nelsong Letters aonddenaDispatchee, complete, in 7
disposed to excite that the two great constitutional Governments, which
a spurious sympathy in have taken part in drawing up the treaties'of Vienna, vols. 8".
behalf of females brought to this state of degrada-Handel 's Solomon
tion. We
might apply ' more particularly to them • •
articles of these treaties ; that they do not allow a take place on Wednesday next, whep 14
protest against the most evident violation of the clearest The Sacred Harmonic Society's next Concert will
nationality of which they guaranteed the maintenance, a ' will be performed.

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 3O, 1645,

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS
(From Me Sun of Saturday Evening.)
There was a steady market for Cotton at Liverpool
yesterday. Sales, about 7,000 bales, including 2,000
American on speculation.
The sales of Cotton for the week have been 31,420
bales at Liverpool, and the stuck is 513,000 bales against
926,000 at this time last year.
The transfer books at the Bank of England begin to
close on the 10th proximo. India Stock shuts on
the V.
" Accounts from the Rhenish province:, state that bread
and potatoes had become excessively dear there, and that
there was a want of water for the manufactories, owing
to the unusual lowness of the Rhine and the Buhr.
This offers a singular contrast to the recent inundations
in France. Wood and coals were likewise very scarce,
there being no less than 270 vessels, mostly charged
with grain and fuel, lying to, between Dordrecht and
Lobitb, owing to the shallowness of' the river.
The half-monthly steamer from Halifax is now looked
for, though scarcely due, and the merchants are
anxiously awaiting their Indian letters. It is feared
that the steamer must have been elt-tained by some ac-
cident.
The Funds have been steady to-day, but not quite so
buoyant. Consols are 94-1 to 95 for transfer next wevk,
and 95* for Account. The premium on Exchequer-
bills has been down to 11s. and 7s. Bank Stock has
touched 2061, and East India Stock 258. The New
Three-and a Quarter per Cents. have been 951 i.
The Foreign Market hr.s been very dull. Portuguese
Four per Cer.ts. are not quite so good, being 36i- to 371
for Money ; Spanish Passive Bonds are 51 ; Austrian
Stock, ex dividend, is at 10815 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents. are 591.
There has been an improvement in the value of
Shrewsbury and Birmingham, North Stafford, West
Riding Union, Eastern Counties, and a few other of the
lines, with small amounts paid up. South-Western are
flat, and North-Western and Great Western somewhat
firmer. The French lines are held better.
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. FRICF,S.
Bank Stock 206% 204.11 x,
3 per Cent. Reduced Anne 93%% - 93.,,,i
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 95 017/8 95
New 314 par Cent. Annuities 95%% 953,
New 5 per Cent. Annuities 118 118
Long Annuities to expire Jan.lB6o 97/1E; 9 15-16
India Stock 258 258
Consols for Opening, J:in. 15
Exchequer Bills, 10001. I%d. ... 811 7-- p 7 p
Ditto, 5001 - p 11 p
Ditto, Small
ONE CLOSINu
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK PRICES
- Austrian, 5 per Cent. ....... ........ 108% ex div 1081
Brazilian Bonds
Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent 8614 8614
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent
Ditto Account
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto. Account — 2614
Ditto, Passive
Ditto 3 per Cent. ... •• —
Ditto, Account •
37%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch, 21A per Cent .
PRICES 05' PAM. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
II AMWAY SHARES
AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen
Amber., Nutt., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 2%.....
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrash IV, —
Belfast & County Down 4N
Birmingham and Dudley 41s. ... ..
Birmin. and Gleucester..loo
Ditto New 17% — .... ... .....
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire June—. 2i —
Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 225. —
Bristol and Eketer 75
Ditto, New .
Bristol and Gloucester... 30
Bristol and Liver. June.. 21/,.....•
Buckinghamshire
(,!aledonian
Ditto Half Sharas...... 2% 2ly,f, ... ...... ...
Cambrian & Grand June 42s
...
Chester and Holyhead... 27%
Churnet and Blythe
Chester and Manchester 425. —
Cheltexham and Oxford 2
Clydesdale Junction.. ... 20
Cork, Blackrock, and
Passages
Cork and Killarney
Cork and Waterford

Cornwall
Ditto, Half Shares
Cornwall & Cent'l Devon 2%
Direct Lincoln, East Ret-
ford, and She ffd. June. 2% —
Direct Northern

Direct Norwich
Dublin and BelfastJunc. 12,-;
Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine
Dublia and Galway... .. 4 - ****** ••••,
Dundalk Sr, Enniskillen 10
eastern Counties 14/. 16s 231/8 22%
Ditto New l2/. 165 7Sa r
Ditto Perpetual, 5 par
Cent, No. 1....... 6/. 135. 4d...
Ditto ditto. No. 2... 61. 13a. 4d... % p...
Do., York Extension.. 2 ...... 3%1(1
EastDereh'wn andNor'ch 1

Eastern Union 33 .. .. 62 51%
Ditto, Quarter Shares 8%
Do. Exten.(Harwich) 17/6 —
Do., Camb. and Ely.. 2% —
East Lancashire
Ditto, New
Do., do. (late Preston
and Ormskirk)...
East Lincolnshire -
East & West of England 1%......
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 .....•
Ditto Half Shares ... 10
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% ...... ... ..... ,
Edinburgh & Northern.. 12% —
Edinburgh and Perth... 3
Ely and Huntingdon ... 12%...... 121/2
Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2% —
Ezeter,Yeovil,& Dorset 514
Glasgow, Kilmar.,& Ayr 50 —
Ditto, New ......... .. 15
Do., IA Shares (5 per
cent. guar.)
Glouc.,Aberystwith,and
Central of Wales 1%...... — ,
Goole, Doncaster, &c. .. 425. -••• . ••• .•..
Grand Union (Notting-
and Lynn ... l% — .. ...... ...
Great Eastern &Western 2%
GreatGrimsby and Shef-
field
Great South. and West.
(Ireland)
Great Munster 212...•••
Great North of Scotland 2 h......

GreatNorthof England.Joo —......—
Ditto New
Ditto, New .
Ditto, New
Great Western B5
Ditto 1_,4 Shares .. 50
Ditto 14 Shares lO —
Ditto Fifths 2O —
Ditto, New
Huddersfield & Mal:miles. 13
Ditto, Extension 3 —
Hull and Selby 5O - •• 00000 ••—,
Ditto 1% Shares
Do. Hf Shares 25

Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 111,4 12:4'14—.„....
Do., do., and Norwich 2% 2%
Lancaster and Carlisle... 50
Do. New
Leeds and Bradford
Leeds and Carlisle
Leicester & Birmingham 225. —
Leicester and Bedbrd... 225.......
Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 221/, • 34% .
Do., Branch (Blue) ... 2% — . ....... ....,
Do•Extension(Green) 21/2..
Leeds and Thirsk l7l/2...... 161/2
Ditto, New
Lpool., llinchstr &New
castle Junction
_ .

Liverpool and Bury ... 24 .. ... .. ,
Lmdon and Blackwell. 16/. 133.4 d. Bth
Do. New - •••••• •••• •,
Ditto Extension
London, Brighton, and
South Coast 5O •• ••
Ditto, Fifths
Do. Guarant. 5 per ct 9
Loudon and Greenwich 12115 s 4d —
Do. Preference —lB/175 2d —
London, Hounslow. and
Western
London and N. Westernloo 194 193
Do. Quarters .. 2
Do., do., New Shares.. 2
Ditto Fifths
Ditto, Eighths (G. J.) 12% — ,
Do., New 14 Shares
(4. J.)
Do 40/.Shares (L. M.) 8 -•• •••
Lond. & S.Western 411 6s 10d 63% 62
De. New Consol. Bths 40 ••
Do. New .............. 22% .. .. 2834%
Do. New ........... .. 18 ... .
Ditto Tenths ..... .. 5
Ditto Tenths ... .....4
Ditto Guaranteed...... 5
• 4
Ditto ditto ...... . ....
..,ondora and Y0rk......... 2% 2IA. _ .
..... -...
Do. Extension
••• .....
London and Windsor . IN, ... ._.
.• .
........
London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil ...... ... ........ 2% —
Londonderry& Coleraino 15 — ..••.•...,.....
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen
Lynn and Ely
Lynn and Dereham :5 • • /5t,(...,
Manchester and Leeds B 2
Ditto % Shares
Do. Quarters 2
Do. Fifths —
i •• .. 1014 •••
Do. Sixteenths ..... ~.. 6 i 4, .....
Do. Extension 425. — p
Manchester and Birmin. 40
Do. Quarters (A) 5 •••••• 11% • ••• ••
Do. Quarters (B)
Do. Quarters (C) 1 —
Manchester,Buxton,and
Matlock 428. 1 p
Manchester Birm., and
Mould Junction .....
Manchest. & Southampt 2
Midland lOO .....123 124
Do. Fifths 2
Do. New 24
Ditto, New
34 31 .......
%
• Do. Birm., and Derbyloo
idlnd& East. Counties 2%..."
......
Midland Great Western —
Irish
Newcastle and Berwick 20
Do. North Shields ... 25
Neweastleand Carlisle...100
No., vmrliEt &Cheiterfrd 5
N 2wport &Abergavenny 24 —'
Newry and Enniskillen 7