The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-30 00:00:00

THE sUN, LONDON. TURMAY, MARCII3O, 1941

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enforcing on them the most rigid obedience to
laws, which will then deserve to be obeyed. But
it is not right—nay, it is manifestly wrong—to
coerce and punish the people because they are
not models of patience under the greatest pri-
vations—we think wantonly inflicted—the want
of food, shelter, and warmth, which men are
ever liable to suffer. Before the middle classes
condemn so loudly the violence of the lower
classes, which, after all, has been little more
than violent speaking, they should compel the
lawmakers to be just and considerate. They
neglect this duty, and hence much of that
mutual mistrust and enmity which cannot con-
tinue without great mutual injury.

We refer with satisfaction to a report, which
we have borrowed from the Leeds Times, of an
Anti-Corn-law meeting at Huddersfield, of
which one peculiar and most delightful feature
was the presence of a number of ladies. We are by
no means desirous of' dragging the fair sex into
the arena of politics. Nothing is more hateful
than a man drunk with party rage, except a wo-
man similarly intoxicated. But the Corn-law is
neither a party nor a political question. It is a
question of right and wrong, of honesty and
theft, of health and disease, of smiling homes
and destitution, of life and death; and it calls
on all the mothers, wives, and sisters of the
empire to understand it, and to struggle for Corn-
law repeal. Mothers submit to numerous priva-
tions, and make prodigious exertions, to procurd
bread for their children, and rear them up in ho-
nesty and virtue. But by one struggle they may
procure the repeal of the Bread-tax, ensure food
r'or their offspring on easy terms, and remove far
off the terrible temptations to which want exposes
them. We see no impropriety, then, but much
virtue, in women taking a part in this great que.:-
,zion.

We have witnessed ladies crowding the rooms
work: Exeter Hall, cheering to his noble the
•nissionary of African freedom; we have seen
them less honourably, but still enthusiastically,
,ngaged in applauding some party clergyman,
whose labours were directed neither by charity
tor love ; and we trust we shall yet see them
.rowding to public meetings to cheer and en-
tourage the missionaries of free trade, who labour
o substitute the dominion of nature for that of
tvaricious man, and to rescue the people of Eng-
and from poverty, disease, and famine. The
natrons of Rome were wont, in times of civil
ontentions, to throw themselves between the
:onflicting parties, and bid them in the name of
country to be at peace ; and the matrons of
3ritain, not less heroic than those of Rome, will
step between the bread-taxers and the starving
-nultitude, and command the sordid tyrants to
•et the people work, and let them live. The
women of Huddersfield and Darlaston have set
is excellent example, which, we hope, will be
:Mowed by their sex in every part of the em-
lire. Age and infancy—men in the prime
>f life, but pining for want of work, and
.dint for want of food youth panting for
he meaps of exertion in some honourable
Areer—all classes and conditions feeling ham-
oered, uneasy, restrained, poverty-stricken, or
worse, struck with famine—all pathetically in
lore the matrons of Britain to come to their
ielp, and soften by their supplications the hearts
)f the most obdurate men that ever were suffered,
for some inscrutable purpose of Providence, to
torture and devastate a great nation.
Besides the presence of a numerous body
)f ladies, the meeting was distinguished by
ome bold and excellent speaking. We
lave preserved the pith and marrow of it,
lot in the hope, however, of shaming the
'tocussed and paralysed people of London into
my corresponding exertions. They are con-
ented to remain the last and the least efficient in
his good work. They are like the dead, whom it
s impossible to awaken; but there are others in the
wore distant parts of the empire who will kindle
It the eloquence at Huddersfield, and spread the
venial flame through the land. Let the people
verywhere do as was done at this meeting, unite
~he graces with the duties, and all who would
ppose the cause of justice—the angry Chartist,
he fearful and surly landowner, will be charmed
into submission arid harmony. If the matrons
c m be induced to take up the cause of the bread-
'axed poor, victory will be certain.

Though we do not agree with Lord MAIION as
the propriety of keeping up the system of
transportation, we are glad to see the question
if secondary punishments again engaging the
attention of Parliament. All other laws—the
laws as to property and person, and the whole of
the constitutional law, depend on the criminal law
to enforce obedience to them. Hence, though the
criminal law has been carelessly or foolishly
given up to the administration of unlearned
squires, and was sometimes framed on the repre-
sentations of " topping attorneys" or " great
brewers," more anxious to protect property than
acquainted with the principles of either law or
justice, for the sake of all other law it
is requisite that the criminal law be pre-
served in harmony with the feelings and convic-
tions of the people. To suffer it to fall behind
the humanity or knowledge of the age,
is to provoke contempt for all law, and expose
society to gi eat danger. It is incumbent, there-
tore, on the Legislature, not only to revive those
statutes which with complete indifference deal
out death, as if a decree of the Legislature could
alter the nature of crimes, but those secondary
punishments which affront and exasperate with-
out checking the offences they are appropriated
to punish.
We are aware of the immense difficulties by
which this subject is surrounded. Little or no
progress has been made since the days of PALEY,
notwithstanding the employment of much tor-
ture-devising talent, in finding out a secondary
punishment, from the effects of which the crimi-
nal does not again come into society more har-
dened and desperate. Medicine has made far
:wore progress than legislation. Many of the
physical diseases which baffled our ancestors
readily yield to modern skill ; but the moral
diseases, if they have not increased, remain, as in
the olden time, the opprobrium oflegislative skill.

We look fur much good from this (may
we not call it almost continual ?) failure
in criminal legislation. It ought to teach
—and we have no doubt it will teach—
both those who make, and those who sub-
mit to law, a wholesome distrust of the mighty
promises which have been made in the name of
legislation. When it is clearly ascertained that
the punishments hitherto employed have little or
no effect in preventing crimes, to whichsend they
seem admirably adapted, it may be expected that
less reliance than now will be placed on regula-
tions to obtain those more recondite and distant
objects, the increase of national wealth or the
prosperity of a society yet unborn.
To take the single secondary punishment of
transportation. More, we think, has been ex-
pected of it than of any other, and the result has
been a greater thsappointment. It is not merely
that it has failed as a punishment, but its effects,
when carried out, have become so extremely
revolting,and compelled the authorities, how-
ever unwilling, partly to give it up and partly
that they have shocked all human
feeling,to try new regulations.
To transportation as a punishment we entertain
t hesame
Man cannot
the
nohnue: employing
existipa leo humblest
and most useful
tul
hg labour as a
lwithout
labour,
and there is much more wisdom in the Chinese
custom of the Monarch holding the plough to
confer
haon a o.nioulur on
custom of making it a punish-
ment for crime. In like manner, it has
been almost at all periods necessary for
men to emigrate. They are attached to their
y leave it unwillingly ; but
of the means by which, in
all ages, mankind have been spread over the
countryem
globe,igratai
on
:la and
ts
Ito:a:1c
always, therefore, been con-
se
sonant to the order of nature. At the present
time, crowded as our people are, it is essential
to the welfare of the whole that no inconsider-
able number should continually expatriate them-
selves. On this account we hold it to be ex-
tremely unwise to make expatriation more pain-
ful by degrading it into a punishment of crime.
Transportation cannot serve as an example, for
the criminal is immediately removed from view,
. unless the example is to be enforced at Van

Diemen's Land or New Holland. Besides the
failure, then, of this and other secondary punish-
ments,,such as hard labour and solitary confine-
ment, which have rarely reformed criminals, and
have not prevented crimes, they have some
collateral evil effects, such as making expatriation
more painful, and labour disgraceful, which
seem to have escaped the notice of legislators,
and which ought neverthqless to be carefully
avoided. We are convinced from these cursory
observations, that there is yet much to be dis-
covered as to criminal legislation, and we shall
rejoice to see the young men of the House of
Commons turn their attention to investigate,
somewhat philosophically, this most important
branch of their art. Crime and punishment, fami-
liar as are the terms, require, we think, much in-
vestigation to be thoroughly understood.

The Levant mail, received yesterday, brings
advices from Constantinople of the Bth, from
Alexandria of the 7th, and from Malta of the

17th instant. The news from Turkey and
Egypt is by no means satisfactory. The SUL-
TAN had been so ill advised as to refuse modify-
ing the firman appointing MEHEMET Am to the
Pachalic of Egypt, and the VICEROY, on his
part was at Cairo, engaged in warlike prepara-
tions. Among our extracts from the advices thus
received will be found the Report of a speech said
to be delivered by Lord PONSONBY, at a meet-
ing of Foreign Ministers at the Divan, which,
if correct, is a very extraordinary produc-
tion. We certainly doubt its authenticity,
but the form in which it has reached us
fully warrants its publication. If it be even
circumstantially correct—if it at all ex-
press the policy of our Government, we hesitate
not to affirm that MEHEMET ALI has been most
unhandsomely treated by England. itad he
not relied upon British good faith, he might be
now the recognised Sovereign of the TurkisE
empire. But we shall await the arrival of more
authentic and positive intelligence before at-
tempting to bring public opinion to bear upon
the policy of our Government in Turkey and
Egypt.

Belgian and German papers have reached us.
The following [brief extracts include the only
news they contain :

BRUSFELS, MARCH, 27.—The Moniteur promulgates the
treaty of commerce between Belgium and Greece, signed at
Athens on the 25th of September, 1840. •
Count Hypotel Velain XIV., harge d'affaires of Belgium,
at the Court of Turin, has set out to-day to repair to his post.
We are assured
improvements
several very important resolutions tend-
ing to introduce into the business of the Post-
office, will be shortly laid before the King for his signature.
Nothing of much importance was discussed in the Chamber
of Representatives in the sittings of 26th and 27th of March.
AUGSBURG, MARCH 21. —lt appears from a letter just re-
ceived from Bean, that the proposed prilongation for one year
of the treaty with Holland is objected to by the King.
The Estates of the Province of Prussia now assemblPd at
Dantzie, approved by a great majority in their sitting of the 10th
of March, the proposal made in a former session to make the
sittings of the Assembly public, so far that a certain number of
persons, especially the constituents of the members, might be
admitted to be present at the debates.
BELGIAN 1 UNDS—Barams, MARCH
Actual Debt, 219 per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 99
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. B9
3 per Cent.
69%
.(1..40)
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent. B9
Society of Commerce, 4%per Cent lOO
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent. ............ 78%
National Society .
Exchange on London (shot t)
—Brussels Papers, March 27.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VtEnstA, MARCH 16
rive per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents. ....... •••••••••••••• ........ •••••• 419
Three per Cents. ••. ..... ..... «••••••••••••••••
flank Shares 00000000000000000 •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 1625
...-411gemeine Zectung. March 24
HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, 26.
Bills. Money
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares l6lO
A n.:10-Ittiszian Loan 106%
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Cwrtificate
Inscription, Ist Se:i-s lOl 10J%
Rusiiian 5 per Cent. Hop.: and Co, 3d and 4th
Series 96%
Ditto in Certificates
Dutch Actual Debt, 21.6 per Cent •9A 49
Ditto 5 per Cent
Poii,ll Bonds
New ticket
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cep.
N twegian limn, 1834, 4 per
Spanish, New 5 per Cents. lO%
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, MARCH 21-13 s%.—Two months, 13 4
PETEIISBUIIGII, MARCH 16.—Two months, 3Sli pence
STOCKHOLM, MARCH 16.—Seventy-five days 11 42.
CkIBISTIANIA, MARCH 10—Three months:4 CO.
VIENNA. MARCH IS.—Three months, 9. 46.

Thirty.seven.

Madrid papers to the .20th instant have come
to hand. The Cortes were opened on the 19th
instant, without any ceremony or speech from
the Throne. On the same evening the Minister
of Finance called a meeting of capitalists, to
whom he stated that without a loan of fifty
millions of reals, the Government could not
defray its ordinary expenses. The terms upon
which he sought this loan were referred to a
Committee of bankers and capitalists. The
Five per Cents. were done on the 20th at 271 for
cash, and 271 at sixty days.

We have received the whole of the Paris
Journals of Friday and Saturday The great
question of the day is the Fortification of Paris
Bill, which is warmly debated in the French
Chamber of Peers. There was quite a scene
there during Friday's sitting. M. PERSIL, who
supported the Bill, accused the Royalists of op-
posing it from a desire to place, by means of
foreign bayonets, a Pretender upon the throne
of France. This called up the Duke de DnEux-
BREZE, Nvho protested, in the name of the Duke
of BORDEAUX, against such a charge. A protest
in the name of the Prince was enough to raise a
storm in the Chamber, and, in fact, it became
quite a hurricane. The Duke withstood fur
some time, but so great was the uproar, that he
was not allowed to utter a syllable. Ni. GuizoT
delivered a long speech on Thursday in favour
of the measure, of which lie assumed the entire
responsibility.
The following telegraphic despatch appears in
the Monitepr of Friday :

" MARSEILLES, MARCH 25.
"THE PREFECT OF TUE EMICHES DU RHONE TO THE
MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR.

" The judicial inquiries are continued with great activity.
The number of arrests is twenty-one. This mad attempt has
excited here nothing but disgust and indignation. Every thing
is perfectly tranquil."
The Aionitcur likewise publishes a circular
from the Minister of Commerce, commanding
all Prefects and Sub-Prefects to take measures
for carrying the Factory Bill into full effect.

There is some Oriental news in the Journals
of Saturday. We regret to find it stated that
Commodore NA PIER and the PACIIA parted
coldly, and that the Gallant Commodore was so
annoyed by the circumstance as to refuse a
splendid diamond snuff-box which Bociios BEY
was charged by the VICEROY to present to him.
The gallant Commodore and the PACIIA have
been both very scurvily treated.

The speech of the Duke do Noaillcs has struck- a dcci,i,,c
blow against the fortification law, in the opinion of all impar-
tial men. This essay of a mind equally solid and judicious,
demol shes all 'the illusions with which the defenders of the
project had invested their work. If the law passes, it will te
ruined in public opinion ; it will be nothing more than the still-
born progeny of two equally culpable ideas—that of military
despotism, and that of revolutionary tyranny.—La Gazette de
France.

_
We have received news from Bona, dated the 10th of
March. General Bugeaud arrived at Bona on the 9th. The
National Guard, the troops of the line, and almost the whole
population, were ready to receive him. The General tra-
versed the ranks, and was satisfied with the appearance of the
troops. On the 10th he left Bona, to proceed to Constantine,
with the intention of visiting all the camps and the interme-
diate ports.
The Univers says—The Journals of London and Germany
have spoken for some days past of negotiations, the object of
which they allege to be to engage France to acknowledge and
sign the Treaty of 1840. We believe that we may assert
that all these assertions are completely erroneous. France
will not sign, and ought not to sign any treaty with the great
Powers, but one which shall give and seriously guarantee a le-
gitimate satisfaction to her dignity, to her influence her inte-
rests, and those which it is more particularly het province to
protect in the East and in the West. —Le Constituttonnet.
SMYRNA, MARCH 9.—Letters from Cania, dated the 19th
of last month, make no mention of the pretended troubles
which were said to have lately broken out in the island of
Candia.—Journal de Smyrna.
BO URSE•PPARIS, SATURDAY, MARCH 27.

i lilt Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
1, rench 5 per Cents .lll 90 ... 112 ... 111 85 ... 111 95
456 per Cents...- lOl 50 „. 101 50 ... lin 40 ... 101 40
4 per Cents 9B .50 ... 98 50 ... 98 50 .., 98 50
3 per Cents 77 35 77 45 ... 77 35 ... 77 25
Rank of trance ••••••••••••••• 3060 4:3080 ...3025 ...3025
14,filtte Bank I,ooof. Sh lO5O ...1050 ...1050 ...1050
sieigian Bank
5 per Cents lO2 ... 102 ... 102 ... 192
New Loan lOl% ... 1 2 ... 101% ... 102
Spanish Active 24% ... 24% „. 24% ... 24%
Pas.ive 5% ... 5% ... sii ••• 551
Neapolitan lO2 75 ... 102 75 ... /12 50 ... 102 50
Raman

RAILWAY SHARES.
st. Germain
Versaillee.lt. B 370 ... 370 .•• 16J . ... 362 50
LB 292 50 ... 292 50 ... 275 ~. 275
Orleans ..
klulhausen to Thatin ..
alontpellier to Cette 205 ... 207 50 ... WA ... 207 50
T.ratburg io Bale 331 25 ... 331 25 ... 330 ... 330

We hear that in the arrangements made by
the Commercial Bank of London, who have pm.-
chased the premises lately occuped. by Messrs.
Wright and Co. in Henrietta- street, Covent-
garden, the first consideration will be to make
some provision for the family of Mr. Wright

, his own,
Biddulph, who, by the failure 9f the late Bank,
has suddenly, and without any fault o.
been reduced from a state of affluence to that of
poverty. We doubt not but that the new esta-
blishment will meet with the encouragement
which this liberal act on their part deserves.
ACCOUNT OF THE POPULATiON.—A Bill has
just been introduced into the House of Commons
to amend the Act of last Session, entitle " An
Act for taking an Account of the Population of
Great Britain." The Bill directs that the ac-
counts required by the said Act to be taken on
the Ist of July, shall be taken on Monday, the
7th of June, 1841, and shall be the accounts of
the persons who abode in the several dis-
tricts therein described on the night of Sun-
day, the 6th of June. The accounts of house-
less persons, persons travelling, kc., shall also
refer to the said night of Sunday. The accounts
in Scotland are to be verified before the 30th of
June. The Act also provides a small degree of
consolation to bachelors and old maids, allowing
them, under certain circumstances, to diminish
their age, if they see meet, by five years. Thus
every person whose age shall be twenty, and not
twenty-five, shall be set down as aged twenty,
and, in like manner, the age of every person
shall be set down as that multiple of five
years which either expresses his or her
real age, or is next below it. ThE Bill
repeals the clause containing a table of allowances
to any parish clerk, or other persons who shall
have assisted the rector, or to any person em-
ployed in the execution of the Act, other than
the enumerators, registrars, and superintendent
registrars employed in England and Wales in
the execution of the Act ; and provides that the
fees shall be fixed by the Justices of the Peace
in petty or special session ; and also that the
overseers of the poor, constables, tithinginen,
peace officers, and the relieving officers in any
union formed under the New Poor-law, shall act
as enumerators if required by the Commissioners.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, MONDAY EVENING.

The public securities tc-day were in rather a tranquil
state, but although the accounts of Ibrahim Pacha's
wsr-
-1 preparations had a tendency to check businesr, no
particular depression was occasioned by them, as it is g.--
nerally believed that all differences will eventually be act
aside. Consols for present transfer realised 88Pf to 884,
and for the Account 89-1,- and 88-4, closing at 89 ; Ex-
chequer Bills were at SR. to 7s. premium, and the New
Three-and-a-Half per Cents. at 971 to 97k.
The result of the meeting of Portuguese bondholders
(one of the fullest we have observed for a long. time past),
has been the aioption of a series of resolutions, setting
forth the hardships under which the bondholders labour,
the shameless conduct of tie Portuguese Finance Agency
in threatening the creditors with being subjected to such
determination as the Government at Lisbon may come to,
in the event of their not accepting the terms offered in the
dedree of November, and the propriety of petitioning Par-
liament to render in future the e•intractors of all ions
amenable for the acts of the States or countries on whose
account they borrow to as to prevent the further waste of per
haps many millions :f Britislwarital, which would be far Int-
ter employed in extending our own nationallresourcel. We
a•e glad to observe that Lord De Walden has been making
energetic remonstrances on behalf of the English creditors
to the Ministry ( f Donna Maria. The Peninsula Bonds
were the favourite speculative stocks to-day, and in them
a very large amount of business was transacted. Port u-
guese New Stock was worth 332. to a in the morning, tut
after the meeting fell to 321. The Three per Cents.
ranged from 201 t) 191 ; Spanish Active Bonds were
worth 23a to 23*; Mexican Bonds 30 to 292-; Colombian
22; Brazilian 72; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
501 to
The ftvilvvay Shares were c'ealt in to some extent, and
generally at full prices.

(From The Sun of Lost Night. )
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MARCH 27.—There has
been a moderate business done in our Cotton Market this day.
The sales comprise 4,000 bales of all descriptions, of which
1,000 have been taken on speculation. Prices remain at
Friday's quotation, and the market continues steady.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, • MARCH 27. Eastern
Counties (Debentures), 64; Grand Junction, 204; London
and Birmingham, 32/. ; Shares, 58i; London and Brighton,
United Company, 434.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 27.—Rather
more business done, but little alieration in prices. Hull and
Selby, 43 ; London and South Western, 55i ; do. Tenths,
21. Is. ; Sheffield and Manchester, 15 ; Union Bank of Man-
chester, 71. 16s. 3d. ; Macclesfield Canal, 28 ; Manchester
and Leeds, 66} to 67i ; Manchester and Birmingham, 24}
to 244.

We have received Port Phillip Papers to the 28th of Octo-
ber: they confirm the accounts previously received, that South
Australia is at present in a most deplorable condition for want
of money. Several heavy failures have taken place, and others
are expected to follow.
We have also Papers from Hobart Town to the 21st Novem-
ber. Private accounts from Sydney represent trade and busi-
ness generally to be deplorably bad. English slop goods are
said to be selling at 50 per cent., under the prime cost. The
Sydney Government have purchased two cargoes of Wheat ;
the quantity is th rty thousand bushels, and the price, we un-
derstand, was ss, 6d. per bushel. .
Our advices from Sydney rea'•h to the 24 of November.
The sesion of the Legislative Council had closed after a long
debate upon immigration. His Excel'ency, in his closing
speech on the adjournment of the late session, intimated the
probability of his not remaining much longer at the head of
this Government. We learn from positive authority that the
South Australian principle of selling land at IL the acre will
be universally adopted at Port Phillip.
We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday's
date :
BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, MARCH 26.—The Bourse of
London and Paris being weaker the National funds remain
lower than yesterday. Business was iu general insignificant
as well as in the National funds and Foreign. Ardoin's
Spanish were lowered on the fall at Antwet p, and remained at
20 13-16th d ; Coupons, 21 1-16th.
Accounts from Coblentz, of the 22d of March, state

" We have experienced this morning at thirty-five minutes
past six the. shock of an earthquake, accompanied with a loud
noise, which lasted about one second."

Consols, which I,ft off on Saturday at 895 for the Account.
opened this morning a shade lower, 884 89 ; for Money 8844,
with little doing as yet. Exchequer Bills 5 7 prem.
In the foreign market Spanish Active also a shade Laver,
left off, 234 4, at present 234 1 ; Deferred 124 ;, Passive 54 4,
Portugues- left off 321 33, at present 324 33/ ; Brazilian
71 72. Colombian, 214 224; Mexican 30/, Dutch Two-and-
a-Half per Cents. same as they closed, 503 ; Five per Cents.
99;1004.
SHARES.—Great Western 241/2 255 prem. ; New 115 121
prem. ; London and Brighton 655 dis. ; Blackwall 6 55 dis. ;
Birmingham 61 63 prem. ; Southampton 545 555 per share ;
Portuguese Stock has again improved to 34.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Great Western
Ditto New
Ditto Fifths
London and Brighton
London and Birmingham 9O 153
London and South Western 384 555..... to
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia
MINES.
United Mexican ( issued at 2/. pm) 40
Ditto New Scrip
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MARCH 27
3 per Cent. Consols
Three and Half Stock 965 Grand Canal Stock ...
Ditto Reduced ...... Ditto Debs. 6 per cent...
Ditto New, 1830 ...... 965 Ditto 4 per cent ...
3i per Cent. Debs.
A notice is posted at Lloyd's this morning for tenders 0
transports to convey to Hal:fax and Quebec 1,600 men, with
77 officers.
Since the early part of the morning there has been a re-
action in the British funds. Consols, which were 884 89 for
the Account, have since reached 89 to 895, at present 89 ;
Money, 884 ; Exchequer Bills, ss. 7s. premium.
Transports going to be taken by Government to convey
troops and officers to Quebec and Halifax does not appear to
have had any effect upon the British Market. Report says
that on the whole 4,000 are to be sent.
In the Foreign Market very little doing. Spanish Active
not quite so good, 235 ; Portuguese, which reached 334 34,
have receded to 333 ; Three per Cents. 20$ ; Brazilian 72 ;
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 504 ; Five per Cents. 993.
SHARES.—Great Western 89N 905 90 ; Ditto New, 62 ;
Ditto Fail., to,, ; Loudon anti trrigl.fon, 443 , Loud— anti
Birmingham, 153 ; South Western, 554.
The delay of the arrival of the President from New York
causes much anxiety in the City.
Consols, Money, 88; ; Account, 89.
Mexican, 29; 30 ; Portuguese Five per Cents. 33 335 ; Three
per Cents. 19; 20 ; Spanish, 234 a.
No arrival from America at Liverpool by the second train.
CLOSING PRICES.

40 ...... 54 ...... to

*• ,f
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