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directors to prohibit this Sunday travelling on
the plea of its immorality when the clerks upon
their establishment are employed during a consider-
able portion of every Sunday. A more preposterous
or more bigoted act was never conceived by any
similar association than this proceeding on the
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway; it is calculated to
be prejudicial in a sanatory point of view, and, above
all, is inimical to the cause of true religion.

In her former work, inie;ciedfortlTt; preparation of young
fades for society, the author enforced in the most strenuous manner,
the imperative necessity of cultivating the mind, and of forming the
habits. The present volume is calculated to show in what way the
previous efforts are likely to bear upon the happiness of a married
life.

It is alike curious and interesting, it is, indeed,
useful as well as highly subservient to the ends of
morality, to note how frequently sinister objects, in-
tended to be reached, through the prosecution of
schemes skilfully devised and deeply laid, are hap-
pily crossed and rendered nugatory by incidents,
which craft and subtlety, and vigilant circumspection
oftentimes fail to foresee. The records of history are
replete with instances of the evil machina-
tions of states having been seasonably sub-
verted by the most trivial circumstances,
and most ordinary events. It is well for
the interests of the human race, that flagitious exam-
ples of national honour disregarded, of solemn treaties
contemptuously slighted, with the degrading conse-
quences they have entailed upon the countries, by
which such shameless acts have been authoritatively
sanctioned, should be stereotyped on the pages of
general history. They serve as great international
beacons to warn sovereigns and their ministers against
the inimical results of attempting, by a narrow,
crooked, and insidious policy, to deceive and
overreach neighbouring states, with which they
affect to maintain the most amicable and
honorable relations. Were history not pregnant, as
it is, with such high moral lessons, treachery would
be at a premium, and the code of nations nothing
better than a sickening digest of Machiavellian
duplicity.
The Peninsular intrigues to which the wily KING
of the FRENCH, in a wary and underhanded manner,
has not hesitated to stoop, to effect a Spanish mar-
riage, not merely for the miserable object of grasp-
ing a considerable dowry for his son, not merely for
the contingency of his descendants mounting the
Iberian throne, but also for the purpose of gaining in
Spain, through the influence thus nuptially acquirei,
in contravention of existing treaties for the conser-
vation of the balance of European power, a maritime
and commercial influence of an exclusive character,—
such conduct on the part of Louis PHILIPPE has been
deservedly rebuked, and taught us the propriety of
keeping aloof from the contaminating ways of his
faithless dynasty.
The accidental tour in Spain of one individual, in-
stigated to make it for the renovation of his health,
premises to be the simple and efficacious means
of thwarting one of the leading considerations which
doubtless prompted Louis PHILIPPE to bring about
the marriage of the Duke of MONTPENSIER with the
Infanta Dona LUISA. Mr. COBDEN, M.P., has
nobly sacrificed the repose meedful to his deteriorated
health, and voluntarily entered upon a mission the
object whereof cannot be too much lauded. The
great reputation with which he left his native
shore has been, to his honour and their honour,
fully appreciated by the mercantile communities
of every Spanish province which he has happened
to visit. The homage that: has been every-
where paid to him, has been fully justified,
not only by the signal services he rendered to our
United Empire and other countries, through the tri-
umph he achieved this year for the principles of free
trade, but also by the enunciation of the soundest data
of political economy which, in his own peculiar, for-
cible, and felicitous language, he has never failed to
impart to the various civic banquets to which
he has been invited. That a general and
profound sympathy exists in Spain with the
great cause espoused by Mr. COBDEN is evidenced by
the welcome with which his presence has been so
enthusiastically greeted in all the leading cities in the
Iberian peninsula.

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lutionise the lower classes, and even seduce the sol-
diers from their duty, by the propagation of seditious
works in the barracks."

The Post Ampt Gazette of Frankfort, of the 19th,
has the following from Posen:—"
.Although the letters
from the kingdom of Poland announce nothing of
the approaching catastrophe, travellers from thence
report, in the most positive manner, that on the 13th
of next month the kingdom of Poland will cease to
exist, and will be incorporated with Russia."

A letter from Posen in a German paper says—" It
is certain that the Jews of the Grand Duchy of Posen
are not permitted to take any part in elections for
Provineial Deputies. The Government has annulled
the last election in consequence of some Jews having
voted, and a new election bas been ordered. The
Municipal Council, however, has resolved to suspend
the proceedings for a new election in order to give
time for a representation to be made to the Minister
of the Interior on the subject."

A letter from Berlin, of Dec. 17, says—" For
several years past the production of wool has become
so considerable in Germany, that this country at pre-
sent finds itself at the head of all those where this
branch of trade is carried on. The states of the Cus•
toms' Union possess 21,961,551 sheep, furnishing
each year, allowing a minimum of 221 b to 10 sheep,
48,500,0001 b. of wool. The Austrian states produce
each year 700;000 quintals of wool, two-thirds of
which come from Hungary, Transylvania, and the
military frontiers; the other third is produced in
Mora% ia, Silesia, Bohemia, and Gallicia. As to the
quality, the wools produced in Moravia and Silesia
are the best; next come those of Bohemia, Gallicia,
Transylvania, and the military frontiers."

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Madrid Papers of the 16th have arrived.
The Esperanza, of the day before, had been seized
for having published an extract from the Pans .Esprit
Public.

According to the Espanol, the Council of Ministers
has as yet come to no decision as to the time of their
resignation, although Isrumz, SANZ, and CANEJA,
have expressed their positive determination to resign.
The elections are nearly over, and the Tierapo gives
the'following analysis of the new Chamber

MODEI2ADO CANDIDATES RETURNED.
•' Members of the Ministerial majority in the last
Cortes
" Members of, the 9pposition in ditto (Pacheco
party)
" Deputies who did not sit in the former Cortes

" Total Moderados of all shades... 237
Progressistas returned ....
" Absolutists
" Districts for which pd elections are to take place 29

322
" The total number of Deputies, including the Canaries,
&c., is 350."

Up to the 16th 163 Deputies had been returned who
did not sit in the last Cortes.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.
The Commerce gives the following version of the
affair of M. BARBET DE Jour, the French Consul
at the Mauritius :
" M. Barbet de Jouy has thought proper to quit his
residence, and thus anticipate the decision of Ministers,
who, it is said, in order not to displease England, have
appointed him Consul at Honolulu, in the Sandwich
Islands. M. Barbet, Mho has been brought up in the
good principles of the Conservative policy, knows all its
ins and outs, and could not therefore delude himself as
to the fate reserved for him by the Cabinet of the
Pritchard indemnity, and of the disavowal of Dupetit
Thouars. By the Palladium, which has arrived at
Havre, from the Island of Bourbon, with letters of the
26th September, we learn that M. Barbet had been for
some days at Bourbon, where he was waiting fur new in
struetions. We now extract from the Journal du Com-
merce of Bourbon, the account which it gives of the facts
which led the agents of England to put so gross an in-
sult upon one of' the representatives of France. The
account is as follows M. Barbet de Jouy, the French
Consul at the Mauritius, had thought that at the levees
of the chief officer of that colony there was an inclina-
tion to refuse him the precedence to which he was en-
titled by his rank and position, but, as the question was
one of mere ceremony, he did not make any remon-
strance. At an official dinner, given by the Governor
on the 24th of June last, M. Barbet was much offended,
as he had a right to be, at seeing that the health of the
King of the French was given only as a fifth toast, after
Queen Victoria, the Prince of Wales, Prince Albert, and
the Duke of Wellington, and he resolved no more to ex-
pose his dignity, as representative of the King and France,
to such a forgetfulness of what was due to propriety.
Another dinner having been given at the same place, in
honour of the arrival of Admiral Dacres, M. Barbet was in-
vited, but would not go. Neither did ho think that, as
Consul of France, long established at the Mauritius, it
was his duty to pay the firAi visit on the arrival of the
Admiral. The officers of the frigate in which Admiral
Dacres had hoisted his flag gave a ball a few days ago,
to which M. Barbet was invited in his official quality.
On the day following that on which the invitation was
delivered, M. Barbet received the visit of two effieers of
the frigate, who came to declare to him that the invita-
tion had been sent by error, and that the Admiral not
having received from him any manifestation of polite.
ness, could not meet him at the ball. Whether this
tiejustifiable proceeding was the result of premeditation,
or the acci&ntal consequence of the will of the Ad-
miral, it is in either case a grave offence; or, to use the
particular language of Sir Robert Peel, a gross outrage
item the functionary who has the charge of the French
flag at the Mauritius. All that we can add is, that the
sl- p of the face received by M. Barbet has been re-
turned, and remains."
It is evident, from his own account, that M. BARBET
DE Jour is a captious and ill-bred person, whose man
oars may, perhaps, be suited to the society he is likely
to meet with at Honolulu, but who is certainly most
unfitted to represent French interests in any civilised
community.
The Journal des Debuts contains the following
masterly reply to the miserable defence by the Presse
of the conduct of Russia :
" We are aware that for a long time there has re-
mained to unfortunate Poland only an empty Lame, a
shadow of existence, which the treaties of Vienna had
desired to secure to her. Russia, we also are aware,
has laughed at her engagements, and has forced Poland
to endure all that barbarous force can inflict on weak
ness. Notwithstanding the cry of indignant Europe, the
Pules have been dispersed, their property confiscated,
and their children carried off ! Not only have they lost
all their political guarantees, but an attempt has been
made to make them forget their ancient language,
to adopt new customs, to abjure the religious faith
of their fathers. It is against these abominable acts of
violence that our Chambers protest every year, and
their protest, whatever may be said to the contrary, if it
des not prevent the fact, maintains the right—the right
written down in treaties—the right against which exile,
confiscations, and cruelties can do nothing ! No, pro-
tests are not a vain formality, and Russia knows it well,
as her acts prove. The nationality of Poland will still
sebsist in spite of all that cunning and barbarity have
done to destroy it, as long as there remains in Europe a
free tribunal to protest in the name of treaties against
the annihilation of that nationality! A day will arrive
sooner or later when these protests, which persons now
affect to despise, will rise up all together, and
constitute a terrible condemnation against Go-
vernments reckoning only en force ! What is it
that the journal which laughs at the protests
of France and England desire to prove? 1 hat for
fifteen years Russia, by her violence and attacks,
more or less plainly manifested against treaties, has
placed herself outside the pale of public right and civili-
sation? We allow this without any difficulty. In fact,
all that could be destroyed of Poland has been destroyed,
its constitution, its Chambers, its army. There is, how-
ever, a last step to pass, and that step is to all appearance
something, since Russia, notwithstanding all the desire
she feels, has not taken it. Poland has lost everything;
there only remains to her her name; but that name has
not yet been ventured to be taken from her; and the
day on which Russia shall declare that there is in the
world a Russian province the more, and a kingdom of
Poland the less, it will be seen whether right is nothing,
even when violence has reduced it to a vain shadow, a
mere word. The republic of Cracow for a length of time
had only preserved an almost ridiculous shadow of inde-
pendence. Its Senate trembled under the authority of the
lowest Austrian or Russian officer. There is more freedom
at St Peteraburgh than there was at Cracow. The republic
of Cracow was only a word ; every one knew it ; and
yet the day when the Northern Powers scratched out
this word, this vain word, all Europe felt deeply shaken;
Treaties were being eluded ; they were openly and
audaciously violated ; and there was not a free man in
Europe who did not consider himself attacked in his
rights by the same blow I One power alone can rejoice
at these attacks ti;;;ainst the kith of treaties and against
civilisation, and that power is Russia. Pot the Etc:tall-
plishment of her projects on Poland Find tlgoahere she
wants Europe to fall into ufiiiiergai Ciihtiititift; ilia that
fotto should rule over right. For Prussia and Austria
the destruction of Cracow has been an enormous fault—
for Russia alone It is tl. e vital lathlike; the finishing touch
of'stiC;cess 1 She wanted accomplices, and she hes tlieth.
There are no more treaties-z-so uitieh the better 1 that is
what litt4aiii Watited. Lint it Is, Aloe
to L.Tilhat France and England should not draw closer
to each °the.. The alliance of these two free nations is
the only obstacle that she seriously dreads. The day on
which France and England should have fallen out irre-
parably, Russia would utter a cry of joy—she would
have attained the height of her wishes—civilisation and
right would have lost their rampart ! Should the Rus-
sian alliance be worth to us a province, we should never
forget that such presents are not received from such a
power, but by becoming its feudatories ! Cracow will
cost dear to those who have accepted such a present 1
We think that the tactics of the partisans of the Russian
alliance amongst us ought now to be understood ; to
separate France from England irrecoverably, and to dis-
turb everything in Europe. Such is their aim I It
ought also to be comprehended why, notwithstanding a
temporary difference with England, we teman firm to

Our columns of to-day contain a report of a grand
entertainment to the Member for Stockport, at Ma-
laga. His speech will be re td with interest. An
entire perusal will alone do it justice. He again
enforces the broad, intelligible, and sound principle,
that for the purposes of revenue only, and not for the
exclusive benefit of classes or private individuals,
ought custom-house duties to be imposed. "The
custom-house," observed Mr. Conocm, "is alienated
from its legitimate object when it is maie use of for
the purpose of rendering more lucrative the under-

taking of any private individual, and preventing
others from following the same trade. The sole'and
unique object that can justify the creation of taxes
and duties, is, as I have said, the provision of a reve-

nue or resources for the state. This is the basis of
all our present operations in England." Mr. COBDEN
happily, and with becoming modesty, adverted to the
generous and confident spirit in which England has
led the van in favour of commercial liberty. He ex-
horted his hearers to promote the discussion
of freedom of trade, which was certain of being
successfully adopted wherever the people were en-
lightened, and he expressed his conviction that the
mind of the Spanish nation would soon be animated
by a due sense of the inestimable advantages
attendant upon unfettered mercantile intercourse
between all nations of the earth. "Free trade,"
exclaimed Mr. Connasi, " is the presage of peace be-
tween nations; this magic word, peace, expresses in
a thousand ways the progress of humanity and civili-
sation; and you, the people of Spain, will see, with
us, that the dearest interests of the great family of
the human race are involved in our prin-
ciples !" These ennobling truths were ap-
plauded to the echo in Malaga, as they were
in Madrid, in Cadiz, in Seville, and in Barcelona.
We rejoice to receive such gratifying intelligence.
With the spread of free-trade principles in Spain,
under the luminous auspices of Mr. COBDEN, the
crafty schemes of Louis PHILIPPE, for rendering the
commercial interests of Spain exclusively instru-
mental to the augmentation of those of France, will be
completely vitiated.

The King of DENMARK has dissolved the Diet of
Schleswig. In the sitting of Dec. 14th, the Royal
Commissioner read the following letter from his
MAJESTY :

"From the minutes of the proceedings of the Diet of
Schleswig, I have seen with regret that the said As-
sembly, in place of being occupied with the Bills earnestly
required by the country, and with those proposed by the
Diet its,lt; has discussed certain propositions contrary
to the Act of Nil), 28, 1831, and which hnd to change
completely the constitution of the Duchy of Schleswig,
and to bring about its separation from Denmark. Al
though the Diet has several times been informed that it,
is incompetent in this respect, it has not paid any atten-
tion to the information. The Commissioner having re-
ceived an injunction in conformity with paragraph 50,
not to accept the petitions of the Diet, the President
maintained that the right of petitioning was there-
by suppressed. There was every unwillingness to
attack in any way this right ; and if the Diet had pro-
posed changes on the subject of the interpretation of
paragraph 50, regard would perhaps have been paid to
them. The President, however, insisted that the order
of the day should be changed—the Commissioner for that
reason was unable to accept the petitions, which decided
the majority to quit, without any sufficient reason, the
hall where the sittings were held. This proceeding by
the majority, contrary to its duty, and the illegal con-
duct of the President, which has incurred our disappro-
bation, rendering all further discussion impossible, we
hereby declare the present Diet of Schleswig dissolved.
Pained as we are to find ourselves obliged to have re-
course to this sad necessity, we shall always be most
ready to give our dear and faithful subjects of the duchy
of Schleswig proofs of our unceasing paternal solicitude,
and to protect the independence of that duchy, its union
with the other parts of the monarchy, the rights estab-
lished, the Danish and German nationality of its in- ,
habitants, and to labour for well-being of each by useful
measures. With such views we commend it to the sate
keeping of God."

A Frankfort journal of the 21st states, On the au-
thority of a letter from Vienna, that the Austrian
Cabinet had not decided as to whether the answer to
the note of Lord PALMEESTON on the Cracow affiir
shall be given in its own name alone or in that of the
three Courts. It was supposed, however, that a col-
lective answer would appear semi-officially in the
Austriun Observer.
The Nuremberg Correspondent, of the 17th, has
the following from Berlin :—" The judicial proceed-
ings which were commenced in consequence of the
late arrests are going on actively. The affair has
taken a very serious turn, and new arrests are made
every day among the upper classes. It is asserted
that several towns of the kingdom are compromised`'
Amongst the new prisoners is one who is believed to
be an agent of the poet H—. Paris and Switzer-
land form the, central pointf,of the machinations 2
These criminal attempts have had for object to revo- 1

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 28, i 846

our old faith of the English alliance. The English alli.
ance or isolation ! We know of no third position ho•
nourable for France."

The Bey of TUNIS arrived at Lyons on the 20th,
and left it next day on his journey to the south.
" The responsible editors of the Epoque, the Com-
merce, the Journal des Villes et Campagnes, the Gazette
de:France, the Echo Francais, the Esprit Public, and
the Drat, had to appear before the Tribunal of Correc-
tional Police on Tuesday, to answer a charge of offend-
ing against the law, by inserting the advertisements of
foreign lotteries. The chief defence set up was, list
the parties had disposed of their advertising pares to
persons who had contracted for them by the yea!, sad
that they could not, without a violation of their c«ntriot4
refuse to publish the advertisements which were br( seat
to them, unless they could have shown that they welt
acting in defiance of the raw. The Tribunal. it old
that the defendants might be able to plead a corpigli.m
as a sufficient ground for refusing to publish such auyer-
tisements, found them guilty, but inflicted, as punish-
ment for the past, only a fine of 10 francs each, and his
proportion of the costs of the prosecution."

Algiers papers to the 15th have arrived. They
contain no news. At that date the colony was in the
enjoyment of uninterrupted tranquillity.
CoultS AUTITENTIQIIE.—PARIS, DEC. 24.—French Five per
Cents.. 11Sf. 85c. 50c. 60c.; Three per Cents., 80f. 70c. 60c.
55c. 60c. ; Bank of France Shares, 3,490 f. ; Treasury
Bonds, 3% 1 3 m., 34 3 6 m. Obligations of the City, 1,387 f.
50c. 1,355 f. ; Neapolitat (Rothschild's), Detinitives,
103 f. 25c. ; Romans, t 01; Belgian Five per Cents. (1840),
101 f. 100%f. 1011. ; Belgian Five per Cents. (1842),. 102 f. ;
Belgian Tivo-and-a- Half per Cents. 553/ f. ; Ditto, Bank,
930 f. Exchange on London—one month,paper, 25f. 32%c. ;
money, 25f. 321 c. ; three months, paper, 25f. 22 4c.;
money, 25f. 22% c.

POTATO ROT.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Ripon, Dec. 22, 1846.
SIR, —Some time since I saw addressed to farmers
generally, who stored their potatoes in pies, to cover
tern well with stable manure, to secure them from frost,
which I have no doubt would be the case, but it would
destroy the crop for next year, as I am sure not one-
half would ever. grow ; therefore I advise those who
have done so to lose no time in uncovering them, and to
take off carefully a foot thick of those on the outside, for
house use, as I believe! it will not injure them for
use. It would not be unadvisable to take care of some
of the outsides, to satisfy themselves as to the result by
planting them next spring.

•
I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
Q. C.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, DEC. 25.—Her Majesty rode out in a pony
phaeton this morning, accompanied by the Princess
Royal. The Hon. Colonel Phipps, Equerry in Waiting,
attended on horseback.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, and the Princess Alice, took walking and pony
exercise on the Eastern-terrace and Slopes.
The Queen and Prince Albert, the Ladies and Gentle-
men of the Court, and the Domestic Household, attended
divine service this morning in the private Chapel of
the Castle. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay
officiated.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess off Kent also a
tended the service.

In the afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert rode
out in a pony phaeton, his Royal Highness driving. The
Equerries in Waiting, the Hon. Colonel Phipps and Co
lonel Bouverie, attended on horseback.
The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening will
include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the
Viscountess Forbes, and Mr. Vaughan, the Dowager
Lady Lyttleton, Hon. Miss Lyttleton, Miss Pole Carew,
the Lady in Waiting to the, Duchess of Kent, the Ba-
roness de Speth, Lord James Murray, General and Lady
Isabella Wemyss, Colonel and Lady Emily Seymour,
Mr. G. E. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, Sir George and
Lady Couper, Captain Francis Seymour, and Mr. Glover.
The Band of the Scots Fusilier Guards will attend
during dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards
attend in the Castle.

WINDSOR, SllNDAY.—Yesterday morning the Queen
and Prince Albert took their usual early walk.
The Royal Family took pony exercise in the grounds
adjacent to the Castle.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert enjoyed the sport
of shooting yesterd ly morning. The Prince was at
tended by the Earl of Listowel, the Hon. Colonel Phipps
Mr. G. E. Anson, and Major-General Bowles.
This morning her Majesty and her Royal Consort
walked on the eastern terrace of the Castle.

The Royal Family took their accustomed walking
and pony exercise.

The Queen and Prince Albert, the ladies and gentle.
men of the Court, and the domestic household, attended
Divine Service this morning, iii the private chapel of the
C tstle. The Hon. and Hey. C. Leslie Courtenay
officiated.

The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Gloucester on Saturday, at Gloucester
House.

At the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday, the
sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Vane. The
Countesses of Listowel and Charlemont, Lady Leveson
Gower, Lords W. Graham and Mark Kerr, were among
the nobility present.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From Me Sun of Saturday Evening.)
In the Liverpool Cotton market this week there have
been sold 21,310 bales. Prices are fairly id. per lb.
lower, and in some cases more, as compared with Friday
last. Stock, 424,600 bale►, against 890,200 bales at this
time last year. There was, of course, no Share market
at Liverpool yesterday.
The return of the assets and liabilities of the Bank
of England for the past week gives the following
changes •

Notes issued
Increase 2,265
Public deposits, increase €62,272
Rest, increase
Other deposits, decrease
7 Day and other Bills, decrease
Other securities, increase. . .
Notes, increase
Bullion .... 15,162,623
Increase
The directors of the Bank of England are pur-
suing, in this respect, the same course as for some
weeks past. They diminish their note liabilities,
although their bullion and securities are increasing. On
the other hand, however, they have to meet the continued
withdrawal of other deposits, which, although balanced
by the present increase of public deposits will not long
continue so to be, inasmuch as the dividends end official
salaries will soon trench upon the latter. The year,
however, is expected to close without any pressure for
money in the discount market, and soon after tha open-
ing of the New Year we shall have money perhaps more
abundant.
The importance of the railway interest renders the
eighth edition of " Tuck's Railway Manual" a most ac-
ceptable work for " city " men, because the constant
changes in railway property necessitate periodical cor-
rections. The statistics given of the traffic, receipts,
prices of shares, &c., are so ample, that it is almost use-
less to attempt extracts. We may observe, however, that
about four years are expected to elapse before the Bills
sanctioned in 1846 can be completed, and that the ex-
penditure will be about 25 millions per annum. a part of
which amount will actually be obtained by the employ-
ment of the surplus capital which quick communication
affords, considering the rapid circulation of money paid
away for wages, Ste., there cannot at any time of the
year be a million unemployed in the coffers of the
bankers receiving " calls" for the various companies.
Consols for the Account have been very steady this
morning at 941, the Three per Cent. Reduced at 94,
the New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. at 96, and
Exchequer bills at I2s. to Bs. premium. The attendance
of dealers and jobbers to-day is extremely thin, most of
them keeping the holidays.
Abcut a half a dozen bargains were made in the Fo-
reign Bonds this morning. Portuguese Four per Cents.
have been quoted only at 374, the French Rentes at 118,
Exchange 25f. 50c., the Dutch Two and-a-Half per
Cents. at 61, and the Four per Cents. at 924.
In the Railway Share Market there has not been any
movement of importance to-day.

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
3 per Cent. Reduced Anns 94414 94%.
New 34 per Cent. Annuities 96% 96 96
L.ongAnnuities to expire Jan.lB6o 9% WS;
Consols for Opening 941/8 94%
Exchequer Bills, 10001. 1 id.... 912 8— p 8 p

ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK PRICES
24%
24%

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 —
Ditto, Account
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent
' Ditto. Account ..... ••• ........... 37 :3 4
, Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account . —
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Ditto, Account —
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French, 5 per Cent
Exchange 2sf. 70c. 25f. 50r.
Belgian 4% per Cent
Dutch, 2% per Cent .
Ditto, Account..... — 61%
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 923/4 93%
PRICES OF vAm. BUS/NESS DONE CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES - AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen
Amber., Not., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 2%...... :23/4 3 3
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush
Belfast & County Down 4:y4 — .
Birmingham and Dudley 425...... 6% p 6% p
Birmin. and Glencester..loo 1291/2 129%
Ditto New 17%
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire June.... 23/4 .
Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 225. % p
Bristol and Exeter 75
Ditto, New
Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ......
Bristol and Liver. June.. 2%......
Buckinghamshire
Oaledonian
Ditto Half Shares 2% 2%.... ..... .....
Ditto, Clydesdale Jenc 25
Cheater and Holyhead... 27% 25%.
Churnet and 81ythe...... 2
Chester and Manchester 425. —
Chelteeham and Oxford 2
Clarence lOO
Do. ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10
Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10
Do. Government Loan,
4 per Cent.
. _ _

Cork and Killarney ... 21,4
Cork and Waterford ... 1% —
'7ornwall • 5
LL Dlv, 11.1( ch.r.q ... 214...... . % .......
Direct Lincoln, East Ret-
ford,and Sheffd. Jtmc. 2% --.
Direct Northern

Direct Norwich
Dublin and BelfastJunc. 12% —
Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine
Dundalk & Enniskillen 10
Eastern Counties 14/. 165....... 23% 23
Ditto New l2/. 16s 7l/5/ p.
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1....... 6/.135. 4d —
Ditto ditto, No. 2... 61. 13s. 4d —
Do., York Extension.. 2 3%3/4
EastDereh'm andNor'ch 1
Eastern Union 4O •• •••
_ . _ _

Ditto, Quarter Shares 10
Do. Exten.(Harwich) 1% —
Do., Camb. and Ely.. 21,4
East Lancashire
Ditto. New
Do., do. (late Preston
and Ormskirk),...
Do., do., New Scrip
It L; Anshi- - 11-

East ,ineolnshire ...... A ...... .. .......
I..aA & West of England 1%......
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 78
Ditto Half Shares ... 10
Ditto, Quarter Shares 124 ...... 19
Edinburgh & Northern.. 124 l6 151,4 ..... -.. 154
Edinburgh and Perth... 3
......
Ely and Huntit;zdon ... 121/2 — ..... . —
1/2
Enniskillen and Siigo ... 2
Ex eter,Yeovil,& Dorset 2%

Glasgow, Kil mar., ei Ayr 50 -......—
Ditto, New
Do., 14 Shares (5 per
cent. guar.)
' Goole Doncaster, Isc. .. 2
Great Eastern &Western 21/2 — .......
Great South. and West. _

(Ireland)
Great Munster 2%....•••
Great North of Scotland 2% — •••••••......••

Great North of England..loo
Ditto New......... ...... 5
Ditto, New .. l5 ...... 55 ... ........
Ditto, New
Great Western B5 ......
Ditto % Shares
Ditto li Shares lO
Ditto Fifths
Ditto. New
Huddersfield & blanches. 13
Ditto, Extension
Hull and 5e1by............ 50 - .. ...........
Do. Half Shares
Ditto 14 Shares - ............... 231/
Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 14 ~..., —
............... 4
Do., do., and Norwich 5 —
4%
Lancaster and Carlisle... 50
Do. New - - 10
Leeds and Bradford 3O ...... ... —— .*
75%
Leicest,:r and Bedford l6s.
Leeds, De:vsbury, &c.... 22% 3l ..• •.....
Do., Brancb (Blue) ... 2% — •••••
Do. Extensiot:( Green) 2%.. „., —.
Leeds and Thirsk 17% —
' Ditto, New
Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3% 5
Do., Itnchstr &New
castle Junction .... 2%...,. 248%
London and Blackwall. 161. 13s. 4d 8%
Do. New - ...... •• •• ...
Ditto Extension
London, Brighton, and
South Coast 5O .. .. 59%
Ditto, Fifths
Do. Consol. Eighths lO
Do. Guarant. 5 per ct. 9 - ••• •• •• ..•••
London and Greenwich 12l 15s 4d —
Do. Preference ...18117s 2d —
London, Hounslow, and
Western - •• •• • ..... •• •• --
London and N. Westernloo 195% 194% 194%
Do. Quarters • 2 —

59
47%

Do., do., New 2
Ditto Fifths 2 ......
Do. lfi Shares (G. J.) 5
Do 40/. Shares (L. M.)
Do. 40/. (M. & B.) ... 40
Do. 101. (M. & B.) A. 5

Do. 10/. & B. 5

15%

Do. 10/. N. & B.; 1

London, oxford, 'and
Cheltenham .. 1%..... ... ........ ..
Long. & S.Western 411 6s 10d 6314
Do. New Consol. Bths 40
Do. New
Do. New , lB ... .
Ditto Tenths .....
Ditto Tenths ... ..... 4
Ditto Scrip
Ditto ditto ....... .... 4
London ant: York 214 23/4 1/2 ••..
Do. Extension -
London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil ........„ ........ 2%
Londonderry &Coleraine 15
Londonderry and,Ennis-
killen l5
Lynn and Ely
Lynn and Dereham l5 —
Manchester and Leeds 82.
Ditto '4 Shares .... ... 38—
Do. Quarters 2 ..... 7 ..... ......... 7
Do. Fifths 5 .. . 11 10%
Do. Sixteenths 614 7% 7
Do. Extension 42s. 1141% p l3 p
Do. Liverp. and Bury 21 —
Do. do. Fifths ..... .... 1
Manchester,Burton,and - I j
blatl94 424. .... p ra. p

634

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