The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-15 00:00:00

MRS. TROLLOPE'S NEW WORK.
Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,
F A THER EUSTACE.
A TALE OF THE JESUITS.
By Mrs. TROLLOPE.
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1 tion which, notwithstanding ,their familiarity with ,
suffering, has been hitherto unkm: an to its inhabi-
tants. Famine and winter, disease .and want of
employment to millions, combine to render' the desti-
tution insufferable. The perennial barrenness of
protection in the landlords is accompanied by an extra-
ordinary barrenness in the vegetation. A ban appears
to pervade the land. Ireland is in a state of national
bankruptcy. At this moment of tribulation, when that
strength which is the consequence of unity is more
than ever requisite, the ranks of Ireland's avowed
leaders are thinned by the defection of certain hair-
brained dissentients. All the world knows upon
what cause this division occurred ; all the world
knows that Mr. O'CONNELL maintained the neces-
sity of striving for repeal only by moral agency
and loyal agitation, and that Mr. WILLIAM SMITH
013alux insisted upon the Association infusing
treasonous principles into its code, and proclaiming
the rectitude of physical force. Since the first se-
paration of these parties, by a contrariety
of views somewhat more striking than that
of the Big and Little-endians, immortalised
by SWIFT, the public have heard scarcely anything,
and, what is more, have cared scarcely anythingabout
the redoubtable personages 'yclept Young Irelanders.
A casual display of oratorical pyrotechnics in the
Rotunda at Dublin has, at intervals, amused
the more sober members of the popu-
lation. John Bull, however, is blase in
regard to those spurious specimens of patriotic
enthusiasm. He looks at the dissemblers with the
scornful nonchalance of a POCOCURANTE. Meanwhile
the condition of Ireland has been gradually becoming
more terrible and appalling. Want of employment
and dearness of provisions are greater afflictions
than hitherto from the severity with which the
season has commenced. Murders and outrages are
of more frequent recurrence in consequence. Each
successive week affords a frightful catalogue of deaths
by starvation. Contagious maladies are begin-
ning to affect those constitutions, the rigour of
which has been already undermined by inanition.

entertained, if at all, till other preliminary reforms
have been accomplished.

By the Levant Mail intelligence has been received
from Constantinople and Smyrna of the 27th, and
from Athens of the 30th ult. The following is from
the Constantinople paper of the 27th :
" The Government bas just received satisfactory intel-
ligence from Diarbekir and Mossul. 'layer Pacha,
governor of the last-named province, has put to file t
and dispersed the rebels of Kurdistan, the major part of
whom have made their submission. The imperial troops
have suffered much from the advanced season, but their
constancy bas been rewarded by a success which insures
the tranquillity of this distant country until the Porte
shall adopt broader measures for settling it upon a
durable basis. The cholera.has, unfortunately, attacked
Mossul, but the mortality is not great, and it is hoped
that the severity of the weather will entirely deprive it
of its malignancy." "On Friday last his Highness
the Cheik ul Islam, Mustapha Assim Effendi, died
of an attack of apoplexy. He was upwards of eighty
years of age. The Cheik ul Islam and the Grand
Vizier are the two first personages of the empire, be-
ing the vicars and representatives of the Sovereign, one
in spiritual, the other in temporal, affairs. By an im-
perial ordonnance, dated the same day, Arif Effendi,
Grand Judge of Roumelio, was called to replace Aszim.
This eminent man is distinguished for his profound and
varied knowledge. All his opinions tend towards
reform, which consequently finds in him a powerful
support."
On the 17th ult. 800 houses were burned down at
Salonica.

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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed a new Opera. entitled THE BONDMAN.
Marquis de Vernon, Mr. Weiss ; Floreville, Mr. Rafter ; Morliere,
Mr. Ilorncastle ; La Valllere, Mr. Galli ; Ardenford, Mr. Harrison ;
Mal-a-Propos, Mr. Harley; Madame Corinne, Miss Romer; Grisette,
Miss 35 ebecca Isaacs ; Frivole, Mrs. Hughes.
After the Opera, will be presented a new grand Ballet, called
THE WAGS OF WAPPING (performed at the Academie Royale'
Paris, under the title of " Betty. ') In which will appear Mdlles.
Sophie Fuoce, Louise, Benart, Madame Giubilei ; MM. Huguet,
Adrien, Paul, Tell ; Messrs. Howell, Priorson, &c.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed an original Comedy, entitled LOOK BEFORE
YOU LEAP; or, Wooings and Weddings. Mr. Oddington, Mr. W.
Farren ; Mr. Rashleigh, Mr. Hudson ; Mr. De Vere, Mr. Roll ;
Mr. Brandon, Mr. Howe; 3lr.llardnian, Mr. Rogers; Jack Spriggs,
Mr. Webster ; Tom Tilley, Mr. Buckstone ; Miss Brown, Mrs
Glover; Claribel Oddington, Miss Fortescue ; Mary Oddlngton, Miss
P. Horton ; Elinor Mortimer, Mrs. Yamold ; Fanny Hardman,
Miss Julia Bennett.
After which the petite Comedy of PERFECTION. In which
Messrs. Tilbury, Holl, Clark ; Miss Reynolds (her firs: appearance),
and Mrs. Humby will perform.
During the evening the Band will perform the Overture, " Cheval
de Bronze ;" " The lumen" (Volka) ; " Czarina" (Mazourka) ;
" Douro " (Walzer); and a New Overture.
To conclude with the Farce of HIS LAST LEGS. Characters
by Messrs. Hudson, Holl, Tilbury, Mrs. Clifford, &c.
Box-orrice open from Twelve till Four ; under the direction of
Mr. T. Archer, Box Book-keeper.

The Moniteur Grec of the 29th publishes an official
bulletin, signed by six physicians, which states that
COLETTI, the Prime Minister, is convalescent.

system :

The Prussian Gazette of the 4th states, that nobody
in Berlin supposes that a war in Europe will arise
out of the Cracow affair. " England," says this jour-
nal, " will not be so weak as to allow herself to be
again duped by France." Curiously enough, whilst
an English journal pretends that the KING of the
FRENCH has demanded a congress on the affair of the
marriage, the Berlin journal talks of a congress as
probable for the termination of the Cracow affair by
means of a convention, which will calm all excite-
ment ; and adds, " If the Cabinet of the Tuileries re-
fuses to join, it may return to the isolation in which
it has already found itself."

At this moment Mr. O'CONNELL makes a fins:
effort to conciliate those who insulted him by their
vituperations. He swallows all the selfish instigations
of pride, and renders himself liable to every species
of obloquy, because of the existing emergency, and
because he is more than ever persuaded that the per-
petuation of such a quarrel, and its consequent heart-
burnings, can only prove injurious to the national
interests. To us, there is something admirable in
this forgetfulness of personal considerations for
the sake of a famishing people. There is
something noble in this sacrifice of private
sentiment to public conviction. One gap was still
open in the forum for the salvation of Rome, and
CURTIUS immolated himself for the good of the state
by plunging into the chasm. Mr. O'CONNELL has
dared the jeers and ribaldry of venal tongues and
hireling pens because, by his proposition for a con-
ference with the leaders of the Young Ireland party,
he felt he could alone hope to heal all existing dif-
ferences, and to battle against the troubles of the
country with one unbroken phalanx. Among the
many sacrifices which O'CONNELL has made for
Ireland, this sacrifice of feeling in proposing a con-
ference with his traducers is not the least.
The result of this proposition is what might have
been readily anticipated. The Young Ireland brag-
garts have rejected all offers of a conciliatory cha-
racter. Their wonderful captain—the hero of the
coal-cellar—the victor of the tea•and-dry-toast—Mr.
WILLIAM SMITH O'BRIEN, has emphatically refused
the conference. He has virtually spat upon the offer
of his more noble. minded adversary. It is rumoured
in some quarters that the co-operation of this honour-
able malcontent may be ensured on certain
conditions. Conditions—pshaw !—the Irish don't
care twopence for his co-operation. Mr. WILLIAM
SMITH O'BRIEN is not the ATLAS upon whose shoul-
ders the fate of Ireland is dependent. He has shown
the obverse side of his character. He has proved that
as he is without sterling patriotism, so is he without
magnanimity. CORIOLANUS in the hall of AUFIDIUS,
and THEMISTOCLES asking protection from ARTAX
ERXES, must be incomprehensible spectacles to Mr.
WILLIAM SMITH O'BRIEN. We trust that Mr,
O'CONNELL may be more successful in his generous
negotiations with those whose reconciliation is of some
importance.

The change of Ministry, which had been for some
time expected in Baden, has taken place. The Mi-
nister of the Interior is appointed President of the
Council of State, and is replaced by M. BEEK.
The Frankfurter Journal, in a letter from Schles-
wig of the 4th instant, states, that in the sitting of
the Diet of the 30th, the KING'S Commissioner rose
and attacked, in ironical language, the Deputies of
Galert, Fredeman, and Hansee, who had defended
the proposition concerning the suppression of the
present mode of levying taxes without the con-
sent of the States. The three Deputies replied
warmly to the attack, and their indignation was
shared by the whole assembly. The President
then communicated to the assembly a letter from
the KING'S Commissioner against the petitions sent
in on the subject, and came to the conclusion that
the Government had struck the blow with which
the Diet was menaced ; that, in fact, the right of
petition was set aside, and the institutions of the
country attacked. "We are not any longer," said
he, "either representatives of the people, or indepen-
dent witnesses of public opinion—we have sunk to
the position of a subaltern Government authority !
He concluded by declaring that the threats of the
Commissioner did not cause them any apprehension,
and that the Government would find it to be two
different things to show a ferula to children and to
beard men ! The Duke D'AUGUSTENDURG declared

that, considering the course which the Government
was pursuing, he found himself under the necessity of
withdrawing his note from the Council of Represen-
tatives of the people..
A letter from Frankfort, of the 6th, states that

there is no longer a scarcity of money at the Bourse
of that place, and it is difficult to obtain good paper
for discount at four per cent.

A letter from Vienna, of Dec. 10, says that the
payments of the end of the month having been made
with facility, it was hoped that the banking-house,
about which such unpleasant rumours had prevailed,
would continue to maintain its credit.

Madrid papers of the 7th have arrived.
The elections are going on most favourably for the
Progressistas. The return of three of that party,
viz., SAN 21IIGUEL, MENDIZABEL, and LUGAN for
Madrid, is considered as certain. The other three
representatives of the capital are Ministerialists,
viz., Moy, PIDAL, and the Marquis DEL POVAR.
Rumours of a change in the Ministry continued to
be rife in Madrid.
The Infante Don ENRIQUE arrived in Madrid on
the 6th, and was visited by his brother, the King-
Consort.

We adverted last week to the paramount im-
portance, to every civilised country, of a sound body
of criminal law ; to the reasons that constituted this
importance, and to the duty which men owe to them-
selves to scrutinise, with the utmost jealousy, the ad-
ministration of this branch of their legal code. We
alluded to the vast quantum of ministerial power that
is lodged with the magistracy, who admit or reject
the probability of the criminal charges brought be-
fore them, by either committing or releasing the ac-
cused parties; we urged the consequent indispensa-
bleness of having the magisterial bench, metropolitan
and provincial, filled with men duly qualified to dis-
charge such grave functions ; and we, at the same
time, took occasion to notice the notorious incom-
petency of the subordinate justices with which the
country is afflicted throughout. The evils arising to the
State from magisterial incapacityare not to be measured,
and cannot, therefore, be lightly disposed of. It is
impossible to say how much the feelings of the inno-
cent have been unnecessarily rankled, by their
having been committed for trial, owing to the crassa
ignorantia, conceited perversion of facts, caprice, or
inattention of the magistrates before whom it was
their unhappy fate to be first taken. Where men
have not fitted themselves, by education, for the
judicial vocation, in the subordinate, yet most im-
portant and extensive sphere of magisterial action,
they are without due self-reliance, and are like
!hips without ballast, rolling with every wave. Fre-
quently, these sage justices of ours are but mere
automata in the hands of their salaried clerks, who
compel them to move, and go through the mock ex-
hibition of criminal inquiry in its preliminary stages,
just as the fancy hits them. Others consider them-
selves too high-bred to condescend to play the part
of " dummies ;" and, like young colts, before they
have had the least training, are bent upon showing
a pace of their own, when, if their mettle be only
well put up, there is no fence of the law they
will not clear at a bound. The responsibility
of magistrates is, practically, a fiction. There is no
redress against any wrongs suffered as the conse-
quences of any errors they commit, unless such errors
can be proved to have been wilful, so that, in effect,
the injured party has no remedy. Where ignorant
justices will manifest an independence, and not stoop
to be counselled by their official clerks, they are
prone to fall into opposite extremes, the effects of
which are most pernicious to society. Some are so
nervous, that, where there is only a shade of a possi-
bility of guilt, speciously presented, and, it may be,
maliciously wrought up, on the one side, whilst, on
the other, the evidence preponderates, almost to a
certainty, in favour of innocence, they will, never-
theless, because they have no confidence in their own
judgment, and have unfortunately assumed an office
for which they are wholly unfit, send the accused
before a jury. Others, again, pursue a reckless course
in the opposite direction : by
imagining themselves
to be Solons, before they have read through the preface
to "Burn's Justice," they coolly discharge many a cri-
minal from custody who ought to have been compelled to
stand his trial. In this way justice is indirectly con-
verted into an instrument of oppression to the inno-
cent, and of protection to the guilty. Such per-
versities will continue to stain our administration of
justice until a radical change be effected in the
magisterial body. The Government must dispense
with gratuitous services altogether. As it is, every
squireen aspires to be cock-lofted on to the bench, not
because he considers himself in the least qualified for
the duties, but because he wishes to be more on a
par with his betters in the country. If he happen to
be a busybody in polities identical with those of the
Lord-Lieutenant of his district, with a little patience
and perseverance, his ambition is pretty sure of being
realised. Thus, the machinery of justice is prosti-
tuted to political purposes, and patronage is loosely
dispensed in a service which, of all others under the
Crown, should be kept free from the slightest taint or
corruption.

The Government contract with the' Bank of San
Fernando hp been renewed by the Minister of

Finance.

MADRID BoLsA, DEC. 7.—The Three per Cents.
closed at 34; cash, 34, paper offered; the Four per
Cents., 21; the Five per Cents, 21; Debt without In-
terest, q; and Coupons, 19i,

We have received the Paris papers of Saturday and
Sunday.
The weekly reception of M. GUIZOT was attended
on Friday evening by the Marquis of NORMANDY,
Count D'APPONY, and all the other Ambassadors, for
the purpose of showing that their absence from the
fete given to the Bey of TUNIS did not arise from any
coolness to M. GUIZOT.

vV
We find the following in the Presse, on the subject
of the resolution of the BEY not to visit England :
" The presence of the Bey of Tunis in Paris appears
to have seriously occupied the attention of Lord Pal-
merston, even in the midst of the cares demanded from
this Minister by the marriage of the Duke de Montpen-
3ier and the Cracow affair. England is very touchy
about all that relates to the Mediterranean ; and the Bey
of Tunis, the neighbour of Algeria and the ally of France,
ould have been seen with great pleasure at the court of
Queen Victoria, where everything would have been done
to snatch him from the exclusive patronage of the French
nation. But an obstacle occurred. Scarcely had the
Bey arrived on the French soil, when he was treated as
a sovereign prince, and England, which has not yet re-
was not inclined to
vassal of the Porte.
c(L'noognrnsdiidsNeerdorhhrniisamnribogythhtewriaswo it,sheathttehlraeunfaolariset3;a, charged to negotiate
this grave affair with M. Raffo, and to prove to him that
his master had a great interest in showing consideration
to Great Britain ; that hitherto the Bey had been
animated with intentions equally favourable to all
nations, but that he appeared at present inclined to
change his policy, and give himself up entirely to France,
which fact would be completely evident if he did not con-
sent to go to England on the conditions proposed to him.
The Bey, not being convinced that he ought to give up the
prerogatives of reigning princes, M. Raffo informed Lord
Norman by of the refusal expressed by his master. Lord
Palmerston, considering that he ought not to rest satisfied
with his first effort, a few days back sent a dispatch in-
tended to be read to M. Raffo, declaring that if the Bey
proceeded to London he should be received with great
cordiality, but that the British Cabinet had duties to
perform, and obligations to observe, which would prevent
it from admitting this Prince to the Queen, unless pre-
sented by the Turkish Ambassador. The Bey, it said,
ought to bear in mind that be has other countries near
him besides Algeria, and that he ought not to conduct
himself solely with this latter consideration in view.
This new advance was not attended with any greater
success than the former, as the Bey persists in his reso-
lution. It is even announced that he leaves Paris on
Tuesday for Tuni', whither M. de Lagau, the Consul-
General, is to accompany him."
The Presse is wrong in saying that the English
Government invited the BET. The BEY expressed a
wish to visit England, and was given to understand at
once that, in the event of his doing so, he would be
received as a vassal of the SULTAN, and not as an in-
dependent Prince. The following is the conclusion
of the article in the Debuts on the subject of tariff
reform :

" By a decree bearing date the Ist of March, 1793, all
treaties of commerce were annulled, and British produce
of every description% was prohibited. The law of the
10th Brumaire,
year 5, was conceived in the same spirit,
with the hope of
inflictin a mortal wound on Pitt and
Coburg. For the same reason the Natiomal is at pre-
sent opposed to the application of the principles of com-
mercial liberty. Napoleon, having been created Empe-
ror, wishing to prepare the public mind for a continental
blockade, and yielding to the suggestion of unenlight-
ened fiical authorities, instituted by a decree of the 17th
Pluviose, year 13, a new tariff. By this measure the
duties on coffee, sugar, cocoa, and tea, imposed by the
tariff of 1791, were increased fivefold. Some duties on
articles of luxury were increased tenfold, and even me-
dicines were highly taxed. The decree of the year 13
was about to be converted into a law in 1806, when the
Emperor, in a fit of fury against England, without con-
suiting the legislative body, prohibited every article
composed, in any part, of cotton. At a later period, in
1810, Napoleon, when his hatred against Great Britain
arrived at its paroxysm, endeavoured to exclude colonial
produce altogether by raising the duties. He fixed the
duty on raw cotton at 880 francs for 200 pounds weight.
The Levant cottons, by favour, paid 440 E, and if they
arrived by laud 120 f, i raw sugar was taxed 330 f, ; tea,

We have been led to these remarks on account of a
desire that has been expressed in some quarters for
the abolition of the grand jury. We shall return to
this subject to show that such an idea ought not to be

•
THE SUN, _CON DON, TUESDAY EVEN NG, DIOEMBI-4;li. 15. 18th

990 f. ; coffee, 4401. ; cocoa, I,loof. ; cochineal, 2,2001.,
the same quantity of 200 pounds. This was real in-
sanity. The consequence of such a tariff was to or-
organise a prodigious baud of smugglers. The year
1814 arrived,France was invaded, the Imperial throne was
levelled, and peace succeeded to war. In that year the
tariff was revised. All duties were removed from cot-
ton and wool, as under the Constituent and the Re-
public at the same time the duty on iron was fixed at
1611. for 200 pounds weight. This was four times the
amount fixed by the Constituent. Butcher's meat was
suffered to enjoy the immunity granted by the Em-
pire. In the year 1815 France suffered new disas-
ters, and in 1816 the financial system of the country
was completely remodelled. A duty of 22f. par 200
pourels weight was imposed on cotton wool, and 3f.
a head was imposed on oxen. The prohibitionists
were modest, they only demanded prohibitive duties
for a few years, in order, as they said, to compete
with foreign manufacturers. It was thus that during
a long peace the severities practised during war
were continued against the pockets of the consumer, to
the detriment of the manufacturer ; and, if we examine
the customs laws of 1817, 1818, 1820, 1822, and 1826,
we find a series of uninterrupted aggravations. This
system was pursued after 1830. Thus machinery pays
heavier duties since the Bill of 1845. The year 1836
alone produced some reduction, and it abolished the
prohibition existing on above twenty articles. Thus the
general tendency of our commercial legislation since
1791 has been to prohibit, and that in the midst of as-
certained progress, whilst our manufactures are every
day acquiring new strength and even compete with the
English in the London market. Is not the moment
arrived to suspend this prohibitive movement, and to
demand a temperate liberty, which must produce ame-
liorations not to be procured by prohibition, even ad-
mitting that it ever was indispensable ?"

The following article from the Siecle shows the
beautiful working of the protective and prohibitory

"The Northern Railway Company, after having at-
tempted in vain to procure rails in France, has applied
to the Government for leave to import 25,000 tons of
foreign ails. To avoid appearing to decide a question
of general interest by a private one, the company did
not propose to have the iron which it requires admitted
tree. It merely showed that the Northern Railway
wanted 25,000 tons of rails for June, 1847, at latest ;
that the French establishments could not furnish them ;
and that in such a case of necessity it was only equitable
that it should be permitted to introduce these rails at a
duty which, joined to the prime cost and carriage, would
raise the whole price to 350 f. a ton deliverable on the
line, that being the price of the first contracts the com
patty has made. The rails are at present worth in
England from 240 f. to 250 f. ; the transport is
from 40f. to 50f. per ton ; so that it was
consequently a duty of 50f. or 60f. which the
company offered the state, in place of the absurd
and impossible tariff of 206 f. now imposed. The Go-
vernment publishes each year an account of the produc-
tion of mines and forges. It knows what quantity of
raili these establishments can furnish, and it is aware of

the engagements which the iron-masters have contracted.
Nothing, therefore, was more easy than to pronounce on
the demand of the Northern Company, and to decide on
its own information. But the present :Ministry has no
more the sentiment of its dignity than of its duties. The
iron-masters, brothers-in-law, sons-in-law, or relatives of
the Ministers, hold the Government in ward. Could it
take any decision without consulting its high and
powerful guardians? The demand of the Northern
Company has, therefore, been sent to the superior
council of forge-masters. They, for the purpose of
avoiding the introduction of foreign rails, have not given
national rails; for if they undertook the contract, they
could not fulfil it. But they have sent in a reply, and
the Ministry, in order to give itself airs of impartiallity
in its slavery, has thought fit to communicate this answer,
not to the company itself, but to a member of it, with a
recommendation to be discreet. Should the company
persist, the forge masters will reply by another state-
ment, so that the Government will thus become a sort of
journal, not public, in which the arguments of the two
parties are to come together. Thus discussion will be
the order of the day, in the place of action. The
Ministry will gain time, and the monopoly will drag on
some days additional, which is all that is wanted. We
ought to add, that the Northern Company, having treated
with the Fampoux Company for the cession of 6,000 tons
of rails, hastened to reduce to 19,000 tons the demand
which it had addressed to the Ministers. It is said that
all the forge• ma,ters are busied in making a subscription
amongst themselves to furnish this quantity, at the exor-
bitant price of 350 f. a ton, which they hope to impose on
the Northern Company. Unless the rails are fabricated
with Belgian or English pig iron, we should like to know '
how they are to proceed. We may also mention that
the Northern Company is still waiting for the crossings
and platforms which our forge-masters had engaged to
deliver. But why should they put themselves out of the
way? When one has the Government in one's favour,
public censure may be treated with indifference."
It is said that the Chambers will not meet until the
.11th of January.
According to the Constitutionnel, ABD-EL-KADER
has written to the KING of the FRENCH, making
overtures for peace.
Algiers papers, to the sth, have been received in
Paris ; but their contents ar• unimportant.
The Paris papers of Sunday contain no news.
They are wholly taken up by reports of the proceed-
ings at meetings of electors of the different arrondis-
sements of Paris, preparatory to the municipal elec-
tions, which take place on Sunday.
The price of corn continues to rise in all the
markets of France.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Saturday at 81f. sc. ; the Five per Cents., 118 f. 45c. • the
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,267 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 895 f.; Havre,
652 f. 50c.; Great Northern, 6461. 25c. ' • Avignon, 8821:
50c. ; Vierzon, 593 f. 75c.; Bordeaux, 562 f. 50c. ; Basle, 2201. ;
Dieppe, 352 f. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 481 t. 25c. ; Tours
and Nantes, 4911. 25c. ; Paris and Lyons, 510 E; Lyons and
Avignon, 485 E; Spanish Three per Cents., 381,4 ; Ditto Do-
mestic Debt, 32 1/2 ; Ditto Passives, 6.
The Three per Cents. were done at Tortoni's on
Sunday at 80f. 90c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DECEMBER 14.

Bordeaux, Toulouse and Cette (Espelete), —Central
of Spain, %—Demerara, 41,4—Dutch Rhenish, 4%—Italian
and Austrian, VA—Jamaica South Midland Junction, 114
Louvain ila Sambre, 134—Luxembourg, %—Madras, Nel-
lore, and Arcot, 14 —Namur and Liege, 3%—Northern of
France Constituted, 10%—Orleans and Bordeaux, 81i— Paris
and Lyons Constituted, 514,—Sambre and Meuse, 4%.