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tison, Mr. J. O'Connell, Mr. Leader, the Earl of Shel-
burne, Sir Thomas Wilde, Mr. Tufnell, the O'Conor
Don, Lord Harry Vane, Mr. Hayter, General Morri-
son, &c. &c.
This unanimity at such a crisis is of the greatest im-
portance, and will afford satisfaction to all the friends of
free trade. But it was only what might have been ex-
pected; any other line of policy would be inexpedient and
dangerous. The whole force of the Liberal party must
support Sir ROBERT PEEL in his present difficulties
they must keep the main point in view, and not play
into the hands of their enemies by differing about trifles.
The Minister has conceded more than ever was
expected ; he deserves, therefore, the unanimous
support of the whole Liberal party throughout the
country, and the vote of every Member who advocates
the removal of one of the most grievous burdens that
ever afflicted a community. Every Member who would
reject repeal, because it is delayed for three years,
ought to be regarded as an enemy to the cause.

rows columns, defeating the best combinations, reviving the
fanaticism of the Arabs, appointing Khalifas to organise war
against us, terrifying by executions and merciless razzias the
tribes who have not yet taken part in the revolt, and who
have been left exposed to his sudden attacks. Twice already
has the Emir penetrated into the interior part of the culti-
vated portion of the country, and been able to pass through it
without obstacle, although flying before our troops; he was
come up with only once, and
which was unable to execute anything decisive. Now, for
that by an exhausted cavalry,
the third time, he leaves the desert after a feigned retreat,
and menaces the province of Titteri, which borders on that of
Algiers. The last accounts announce, in fact, that Marshal
Bugeaud was about to proceed to Boghar with a portion of
the disposable troops, to check the bold attempts of the
Emir on that side. The recent disaster of the column of
Constantine in the mountains of Bou-Taleb, has not been
without influence over this new enterprise of the Emir, for
after this cruel event Medeah might have been uncovered.
In fact, Lieutenant General Badeau, commandant of the
province of Constantina, who gave his useful co-operation to
the Marshal with the column of Setif, commanded by Ge-
neral D'Arbouville, was to return with this column to the
province, to till up the blank occasioned by the lids* hors de
combat of a column which has lost 1,200 muskets, and has
half its men in the hospitals. Abd-el-Kaderjudged that the
moment was favourable to menace us towards the centre of
our possessions, and, as a first success, he has ruined the
Bhanians, a tribe on the skirt of the desert, which had sub-
mitted to us, and which even habitually sent its prime is
assist us in our expedition in the south. The three attempts
of the Emir against the interior were evidently with a view
of penetrating in the province of Algiers, and there accom-
plish a sudden and rapid invasion, not, without doubt, with
the hope of maintaining himself there, but to produce the
great moral effect which such an event would not fail to pro-
duce in France and in the whole of Algeria. • He has not
been able to succeed on the Orleansville side, as the rising of
the Chelif might present an obstacle or compromise his re-
treat : lie has, besides, been followed with much activity by
our columns, for latterly General Lamoriciere, with the dif-
ferent columns of the province of Oran, conjointly with the
troops of Nfarshal Bugeaud, gave pursuit to him on the Mina.
General Badeau having set out for Setif, the field towards
Medeah was open to the Emir, and the more so as the ob-
stacle of the Chelif does not exist on that side. It may easily
be conceived, therefore, that the danger must have been
pressing to have called the Marshal in person to the spot.
We rely firmly on the indefatigable activity of Marshal Bu-
geaud,and his great knowledge of the nature of the war and
the tactics of the Emir will furnish him with expedients to
prevent the enemy from putting his foot on the ridges of the
little Atlas which borders the horizon of Algiers."
Muller, the assassin of M. Len, was beheaded at Lucerne
on the 31st ult. On the same day expired the term of delay
for the payment of the indemnity of 400,000 Swiss livres„
as the condition of the amnesty in favour of the political pri-
soners. The Committee appointed to collect this sum has in-
formed the Government, that it has been able to raise only
220,000 livres, and has entreated it to accept of that
amount. The question will probably be brought before the
Grand Council.
The Three per Cents. closed at BE. 65e. ; the New Loan, at 83f.
50c.; the Five per Cents., 123 f. sc. ; the Orleans Railroad shares,
1.283 f. 75c.; Rouen, 1,007 f. 50e.; Havre, 695 f.; Avignon, 985 f. ;
Vierzon, 697 f. 50e.; Bordeaux, 645 f.; Boulogne, b4of. ; Troyes and
Montereau, 450 f. ; Basle, 256 f. Sic.; Great Northern, 763 f. The. ;
Fampoux, 500 f.
The following are the quotations in the new lines :-
Penis and Lyons, definitive, 6131. ; Paris and Strasburg, de-
finitive, 545 f. ; Tours and Nantes, definitive, 672 f. 50c. ; Lyons and
Avignon, (Talabot), 506 f. ' • ditto (Lecointe), 5031.; Bordeaux and
Cette (Mackenzie), 504 f. ; ditto (Espeltta), 512 f. ; Charleroi
(Kysaens), 495 f. ; Caen (Delamarre), 501 f. 60e.
BUSINESS 801.41 IN FOREION RAILWAYS AT TM®
LONDON STOCK X XCHANGB, Fes. 6.
Boulogne and Amiens, 12% -Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette
(Mackenzie), 2-Ditto (Espeleta), 2-Dutch Rhenish, 73t -East
Indian, Iy, -Great Northern of France Constituted, 151/ -Luxens-
bourg, 2%-Namur and Liege, 31,4 -Orleans and Bordeaux, 12-
Rouen and Havre, 284 ex div.-Sambre and Meuse, LA-West
Flanders, 514.

are facts which to our minds prove! to demon-
stration that there never had existed on the
part of the crew the least intention to mutiny, and we
think that the evidence goes to show that the whole story
of the mutiny was a story trumped up by the captain ai
a justification of his excesses. The forcing the men to
sign the false entry in the log is put down by Mr. JMRVIS
to the account of that cunning which always accom-
panies madness. But what does he say to the fact of
the captain having navigated his vessel in safety to
Fayal, and from Fayal to England ? Could
a madman—that is to say, a man incapable
of distinguishing right from wrong (for such
only are entitled by law to be acquitted on the ground
of insanity)—could a madman have done this ? At a'l
events, there must have been a marvellous method in his
madness. Never has there been a verdict given more
contrary to evidence, and we trust that this case, fortu-
nately unconnected with politics, and, therefore, a case
to which all our legislators and juris-consults can apply
their minds without prejudice, will have the effect of
drawing the attention of the Legislature to the subject. so
that some remedy may be provided for this crying evil.
The task of providing this remedy, as it strikes us, 's by
no means a difficult one. We would suggest that, in
all criminal cases in which it is intended to set up the
plea of insanity, the question of insanity should be tried
and decided on substantively before the trial of the in-
dictment ; or, perhaps it might be better still, to have
it argued on demurrer, taking care, however, that such
demurrer should not be considered as admitting
the truth of the crime charged, so as to
deprive the prisoner of the right to have the
case investigated, thus leaving it to the Judges
to decide the validity of the plea. At all events we would
suggest the propriety of enacting, that in no case shall
the plea of insanity be considered as proved unless it
shall be shown either that the prisoner had been, before
the commission of the crime, under restraint as an in-
sane person, or that measures had been taken before a e
commission of the crime to place him under such re
straint ; or that, on being brought up to plead, it shall
be evident to the Court, after hearing medical evidence,
that the prisoner is at that moment in such a state of
mind as to be unfit to undergo a trial.

When men engaged in a good cause lay down propo-
sitions which they consider grounds for their motives of
action, they generally adduce proofs to confirm their
assertions. They do not call upon the public to take all
their principles as axioms, but defend their case by
legitimate reasoning, and leave their antagonists the
opportunity of refuting them. The very opposite course
is pursued by the party who advocate restrictive and

prohibitive laws in reference to the importation o
foreign grain. For instance, they affirm as facts
beyond doubt, that the repeal of the corn-laws will
lower the rank of our peasantry, and throw thousands
upon thousands of acres out of cultivation. But here
they stop. No problem or proposition follows—conclusion
there is none—the words " which was to be demonstrated"
are not to be found in their vocabulary, and for the best
reason in the world, that evidence would destroy their
theory. The question then naturally arises—what has
Protection done for the English or Irish peasantry?
Are they superior in comforts to those of France, or
Holland, or Germany, or to the peasantry of any
civilised country in Europe ? Men, with large families,
are doomed to live on Bs. a week, they are denied the
use of butcher's meat, they can enjoy only bread and
water, their children have barely rags to cover their
nakedness, and the mothers are often half famished, by
depriving themselves of food to hush the cries and
allay the hunger of their starving children. The
country is studded over with workhouses, and
some six or seven millions sterling a year are
expended in sheltering and feeding those who cannot
provide for themselves. In Ireland the case is infinitely
worse. Every humane mind shudders at the recital of
Irish misery, and all foreigners unite in describing the
people of that beautiful island as the most wretched on
the face of the earth. But if protection were worth any-
thing—above all, if it really was productive of those
blessings which such men as the Duke of RICHMOND
and Sir JOHN TYRRNLL claim for it—lreland should be
the best cultivated country in the world, and the " Green
Isle " a visible and real Utopia—a Paradise in this
sublunary region, and a model for all lands. It enjoys
the benefit of the corn-laws to their full extent ; wheat
cannot be imported at present at a duty less than
15s. the quarter ; oats and barley in proportion ;
it rejoices in the sliding-scale like England, and is, there-
fore, saved from the effects of ruinous competition with
foreigners. But, besides this great boon, it has ex-
emptions of an Extraordinary kind. Neither landlords
nor tenants are subject to the property and income-tax ;
they know nothing of assessed taxes, and till within the
last few years the people never saw a workhouse or paid
a penny of poor-rate. The Government pays one-half
of the police expenses—a large army is maintained in
the country, supplied with provisions and other neces-
saries from the productions of the land or the manufac-
tures of the country—church-rates, and other rates
are of the most moderate description ; yet with
all these protective laws and exemptions from bur-
dens, Ireland is not half cultivated ; some four millions
of the inhabitants are on the brink of starvation ;
men that cannot obtain employment or gain a liveli-
hood by honest means traverse the country in bands
murdering and plundering the industrious, and nothing.
in short, but a large military and constabulary force
prevents a universal outbreak, and a total dissolution of
the social system. Such are the blessings of protection.
The country where it prevails to the utmost extent has
become the reproach of England and a byword among
nations. But for the extensive manufactures carried on
in Great Britain, and viewed with such jealousy by the
blind protectionists, affairs would be still worse ; for the
operatives engaged in these great national undertakings,
not only increase the demand for agricultural pro-
ductions to an incalculable extent, and throw new land
into cultivation, but they also draw large supplies from the
sister island ; yet, even here the land is badly cultivated,
for no other reason that can be assigned by impartial ob-
servers but this miserable delusion called protection.
The farmers have long reckoned that the corn-laws
would give them something like a fixed price of from 565.
to 663. the quarter for wheat ; they have cultivated the
soil upon this security, and though the delusion has been
fading away year after year, they still live in hope, and
willnot exert themselves, like the other industrious classes,
of the community. The Duke of SIITHIRLAND, who
knows the difference between the agricultural systems
pursued in England and Scotland, admits that in Eng-
land, great improvements are required, and affirms that
the Scotch landowners, from the spirit of activity
and enterprise which they have long displayed,
will not endanger themselves by conceding at
once the repeal of the corn-laws. Scotland is
comparatively a poor and a barren country. And what.
then, has enabled the farmers there to compete, with
those of England and Ireland ?—Not protection, but ne-
cessity. And till the English are compelled "to be up
and doing," like their brethren in the north—till they
trust to their own industry and inventions, instead of
leaning on a broken reed—all the protection that can
be devised will neither improve the condition of the
peasantry nor throw one acre of land into new culti-
vation.

Happily for some thousands of our fellow-countrymen,
both Houses of Parliament, on Friday, acquiesced in the
suggestions contained in the first report of the Select
Committee on Railways, to which suggestions, in our
last, we made particular allusion. With the intention
of so far facilitating matters as to open fresh channe's
for the speedy employment of the destitute labourers on
the other side of St. George's Channel, the House of
Lords have very judiciously modified the amount of per
tentage required to be paid upon deposits, before a Mil
could be entertained, from ten to five per cent., in order
to meet the extraordinary exigencies of the moment.
In this manner it is resolved that before the first read-

ing of a Bill, one-twentieth, or five per cent. only, will
be requisite, and before the third reading another
twentieth; a resolution:which amounts, in the end, to
the original plan of operation, but which affords more
ample time to collect the necessary means. In expressing
our most earnest satisfaction at the promptitude which is
thus evidenced by the Legislature, and its manifest
anxiety to ameliorate the fearful and desperate
condition of the industrious classes in Ireland,
we are more especially desirous of repudiating the
insinuation, and of particularising the fallacies, uttered
by Mr. BERNAL. What peculiar " unfitness " or " in-
justice" there can be in giving priority to Irish railways
we cannot, by the utmost ingenuity of reasoning, dis-
cover. A remarkable debility exhibits itself in one
portion of our political constitution ; that portion is
Ireland. Restoratives, or rather tonics and stimulants
of a powerful description, are necessary to amend
that unnatural debility, and to i .fuse new vivor
into the emaciated part—to replace lassitude by
nervous energy. For this purpose, no sane
Government would surely direct the operation
of those tonics, or of those stimulants, equally to the
comparatively strong as to the positively weak portions;
but would rather, by every means within their capacity,
endeavour to animate with its pristine power the part so
deteriorated and decayed. It would be a sin-
gular mode of rescuing the inhabitants of Drog-
heda from their foodless and helpless con-
dition to offer a plentiful supply of provisions in
the furthest limits of Yorkshire;or of Westmoreland ;

HAIIBURGH MAIL.
BERLIN, JAN. 23.—The much, talked-of re-assembling
of the Commission of the Zollverein, to continue the
Congress of Carlsrnhe, is adjourned indefinitely. It ap-
pears to be intended to wait for the measures of the
English Cabinet with respect to the corn trade.
BRESLAU, JAN. 29. —The Evangelic Seminary for
Schoolmasters was closed to-day by a royal commis-
sioner, after the Chief President of Siberia had published
a notice stating that " His Majesty had ordered the itr -
mediate dissolution of the Seminary ; his Majesty judg-
ing that the spirit which had lately manifested if self in
the violations of discipline, a.id after the revival that had
been made in consequence, was not compatible with the
object of the Seminary for Schoolmasters, which should
be otherwise provided for."
BERLIN, JAN. 30.—Among the many totally false ac-
counts respecting the unlawful associations discovered in
the province of Posen, and some parts of West Prussia,
is that given by the Weser Gazette, of an attempt to
surprise one of the gates of Grandenz.—Universal Prus-
sian Gazette.
ST. PETERSBURG, JAN. 25.—The Emperor and the
Crown Prince have always been opposed to compulsory
conversions in the Baltic provinceq, but they have been
scandalously deceived, and both of them are highly in-
censed at what has passed there. Perowski, a very el .ver
man, is said to have been the principal mover. Gen ral
Meyendorff is added to the C mmis,ion of Inquiry.
Sevaral Russian priests and civil officers have undergone
a most rigorous investigation. His Imperial Ilighnes;
the Crown Prince, who is at the head of this commission,
manifested his just sentiments by allowing a German,
who is married to a Russian woman, to have his child
baptised as a Protestant, a case which does not occur
more than once in twenty-five years, and then only to
parties of high rank.
POSEN, JAN. 28.—This morning the Polish Casino
in the Bazaar was closed, as that at Bromberg had been
a week before. Nothing certain had transpired re-
specting the causes of this measure: It is known that a
short time ago two Germans were refused admission,
merely because they were Germans, and that some
time since Count G. was blackballed, which does not
give a very. favourable idea of the spirit of moderation
prevailing in the society, but it is not probable that this
fact has anything to do with the dissolution of the
society.
CASSEL, JAN. 29.—The Dorf Zeitung, which was last
year prohibited in Hess* Cassel and afterwards per-
mitted, is now totally forbidden for the second time.
—Hamburgh Papers, Feb. 3.

and, nevertheless, this would be tantamount to the pro.
position in question, namely, that by a priority of Eng.
lish and Scotch railways, the Irish labourers would re
ceive the readiest amount of assistance. Perhaps, in
refutation of this singular argument, it will be sufficient
to make two simple observations ; first, that
a person incapable of procuring sustenance in
his own immediate neighbourhood is not very
competent to undertake the risks and expenses
of a long journey; and, secondly, that the originators of
any railway would prefer the comparatively insignifica❑t
outlay of hiring workmen in their vicinity to the some-
what costly mode of obtaining " hands" from a very
considerable distance. Schemes for the instanta-
neous relief of our Irsh brethren must be neither
dubious nor inferential; the unhappy populace
of that island must have no sinuosities to track
out, no labyrinths to penetrate, before arriving
at the boon which is to give them a chance of labour, of
food, and of life. Their spades and mattocks must be
called into use upon the very earth adjoining their ho.
vels; the bushels of Indian corn or measures of maize,
with which their bodily labour is to be recom
pensed, must be heaped out upon their thresh-
holds. The compact in this case must be
simple ; home-work for home•bread ; toil upon
their native sod for a crust. Mr. BERNAL stated that
" what the people of Ireland wanted at this moment was
food, and not railways to Galway or the south." As an
aphorism this is correct enough ; the ultimatum of tEe
Irish wish is indubitably " food, and not railways," but
then the food they desire is not the food of bene-
volence or charity ; their demands are just and
honest —so much wages for so much manual
labour —no more. Largesse, or the metings-out
of generosity, are not what they require—they ask not
for a gratuity, but for employment. And, as among
the most reasonable means of affording them that em-
ployment, we regard the present facilitation of local
railway Bills with peculiar pleasure, since, froin this
very depression and impotence of the multitude, may
arise their more rapid and permanent improve-
ment, and that out of the grave of penury may
be exhumed the benignant spirit of regeneration.
On Wednesday next Mr. O'CONNELL will bring before
Parliament the terrible minutiae of famine and disease
which now threaten to decimate the ranks of his
fellow-countrymen. And with these melancholy details,
we would fain anticipate, some still further incitement
will be administered to the Executive department, so
that the measures taken by Government with reference
to Ireland may be neither relaxed nor delayed.

It has long been a doubtful point among thinking men,
whether the plea of insanity in Criminal cases ought to
be left to the decision of an ordinary petit jury, and the
result of the trial of Captain JOHNSTONE on Saturday will
go far to settle the question in the negative. We wi I
not go into the details of the crimes of this man. Our
readers have, no doubt, been horrified by the perusal of
the evidence given at the Thames Police court,
and at the Central Criminal Court against him—
evidence which proves beyond the shadow of
a doubt that he was guilty of three delibe-
rate murders under circumstances of the most
atrocious cruelty—that in every instance he tortured his
victim before murdering him—and that there were many
others of his crew whose lives he attempted, all of whom
he wounded, and many of whom he has maimed for life.
The counsel for the defence admits that JOHNSTONE was
guilty of these crimes, and then proceeds to suggest to the
jury that he must have been labouring under temporary
insanity at the time he did so commit them. This is a
suggestion merely, for not a single witness was called
to prove what had been the state of mind of the prisoner
at any former periol of his life; and Mr. JERVIS himself
(JousisToNE's counsel) distinctly admits that at the pre-
sent moment his client is perfectly sane, so that the
argument really amounts to this, that the atrocity of a
crime shall be its excuse : commit murder simply and
you will be hanged; commit murder, accompanied by every
possible species of atrocity—torture your victim before you
dispatch him—hack, hew, and stab his murdered corpse,
and your counsel will suggest that it is impossible any but
a mad man could be guilty of such atrocities, and an Old
Bailey jury,actiug on the suggestion, will acquit you on the
ground of insanity. On this principle GREENACRE
should have been acquitted, because he mutilated the
body of his victim after having murdered her. The
Learned Gentleman, in his defence of JOHNSTONE, in-
sinuated that the crew were aware that they had been
guilty of the mutiny, or that otherwise they would have
attempted to have put JOHNSTONE under restraint.
Suppose they had restrained him, would not that in
itself have been an act of mutiny? Would not every
man who had made the attempt have done so with a
rape round his neck? Would not the fact of their having
p.ed to re strain him lihvo justified, in the eye of
the law, all JOHNSTONE'S previous proceedings, and
would not every individual of that crew have been tri-d
and couviete4 „f—•:y e, and perchance executed for—
mutiny, on the e.idenee of JOHNSTONE himself' so soon
as the ship should have arrived in any port? Be it re-
membered, teo that these men in such a case could not '
possibly Lae produced evidence to show the neces•
city of placing this man under restraint. As soon
as he arrives in England he becomes sane, ac-
cording to Mr. Jzions's own showing ; and al-
though a mere suggestion of insanity from a counsel,
without any evidence to support it, is considered
by a jury sufficient to justify them in acquitting a cap-
tain charged with the murder of three of his crew,
we doubt whether the same jury would so readily admit
a similar suggestion as a justification for an acquittal of
a crew charged with mutiny against a captain. That
the crew took no measures to r strain the captai h
e
n, tat
thiant.,
they submitted patiently to his tyranwnyan,
notwithstanding all the tortures
so
toannldy
flicted on them, they brought the ship with
her valuable lading to her port in safety,

Madrid journals of the 30th ult. have been received
Most of them advert to the Speech of the Queen of
ENGLAND, praise the liberal measures to which
it refers, and consider they will be of great importance
to Spain. The father of General NARVAEZ, the Conde
DE CANADA ALTA, died on the 28th.
The Funds were more firm. The Three per Cents.
closed at 321 for cash, and 3214 at sixty days, and the
Fives at 23i for the same time.

The Paris papers are almost entirely occupied with
the discussions in the Chamber of Deputies, and com-
ments on the amendments. They are in general, how-
ever, destitute of interest. The last subject was the ex-
pedition to Madagascar, and in answer to questions
from several Members, Admiral MACHALT said, in the
arrangements made with England, the rights of France
had been reserved, but that there was no idea at present
of forming an establishment on the island. The objects
of the expedition were to chastise the natives for in-
juries committed on French settlers, to explore the
coast, and extend the influence of France in that
quarter. It was possible that England might take part
in the expedition, but at the same time it was
fitted out so as to act alone. Some Members objected
to such an expedition, which would cost some
8,000,900 f., and was intended for no practical purposes•
Ultimately an amendment suggested by M. D'ANGE-
VILLE, a supporter of the Government, and to thefollow-
ing effect, was adopted :—" France does not refuse to
make the sacrifices imposed upon her by such great in-
terests, but she reposes with confidence on the prudence
of the Government that it will not multiply, without a
well ascertained necessity, those serious and distant ex-
peditions." M. ST. PRIEST gave notice of an amend-
ment recommending the reduction of interest on Five
per Cent. Stock. The following remarks on the posi-
tion and prospects of the French in Africa appear in the
Journal des Debats ; they fully admit the difficulties caused
by the indefatigable perseverance and skill of ABD-EL-
KA.DER:—

" The situation of Algeria, without ceasing to be grave,
and to call for serious attention, has at last ceased to inspire
uneasiness. Considerable reinforcements were sent from
France with remarkable celerity immediately after the disas-
ters of Sidi-Brahmin and Ain-Temouchen. The army found
itself in a condition to contend against an almost general in-
surrection, and to keep it under, if it was not able to sup..
press it entirely. The native tribes, who had been excited to
delirium by the intoxication produced by the two above-
named disasters, no longer think that the last hour of French
domination has come, and they are beginning to return to
submission, on seeing that all the calamities of war are again
about to fall on them. But Abd-el-Kader is there to inter-
pose with energy obstacles to the difficult task of our nurne-

SUN, LONDON, MON DAY MORNING. FEBRUARI 9, 1846.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Saturday Evening.)
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 6,000
bales, at full prices. Shares were steady.
The sale of Shares yesterday by Messrs. Lamond and Co.
progressed with much better spirit, though prices did not
improve to any extent. More business was done, and a
firmer feeling was manifested. There is accordingly more
disposition to speculate. The following are the quotations
realised for some of the lots sold :-Worcester, Warwick, and
Rugbv,l/. 25.-Worcester, Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester,
1/. Bs.-Great Eastern arid Western, 1/. 25.-Great Indian
Peninsular, 12s. 6d.-Direct Birmingham and Leicester, 1/.
6s 64.-Leicester, Tamworth, Coventry, Birmingham, and
Trent Valley, 21. 4s. 6,1.-Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke,
2/. 14s. 6d.-Madrid and Valenta, 11. 7s. 6d.-Manchester,
Midland, and Great Grimsby, 11. 17s. 6d.-Glasgow, Dum-
fries, and Carlisle, 21. 55.-London and Manchester (Reim),
11. 175.-Derby, Gainsborough, and Great Grimsby, 18s.-
Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junc-
tion, 11. 45.-Exeter and Exmouth, 10s.-Leicester, Tam-
worth, Coventry, Birmingham, and Trent Valley, 2/. 2s. 6d.
-Shropshire Union and Canal. 1/. 17s. 6d.-Rugby, War-
wick, and Worcester, 1/. 1 5.6d.-Jamaica North Midland, 11.-
Louvain and Jemeppes, 2/. 3s. 6,1.-London and Birmingham
Extension, and North Daventry, Leamington, and Warwick,
175.-Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham, 2 /.-G reat
Eastern arid Western, 11. 25.-Nottingham and Mansfield,
21. 55.-Northanipton, Banbury, and Cheltenham, 21.-
Essex and Sullblk, 15s. 6d.-.Metropolitan Junction, 145.-
Great Eastern and Western, 1/. 25.-Gloucester, Aber3 stwith,
arid Central Wales, 165.-Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette
(Mackenzie), 1/. 195.-Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham,
14s. 6d.-Leicester, Tam worth, Coventry, Birmingham, and
Trent Valley, 21.-London and Birmingham Extension, and
Northampton, Daventry, Leamington, rine, Warwick, 16s. fal
-Chester and Manchester, 1/. 3s. -Warwick and Worcester,
19s. 6,1.-Sheffield, Buxton, and Leek Potteries, 15s. 6d.-
Madrid and Valencia, 1/. 6s. 6d.-North Staffordshire,
Churnet, and Potteries, 51.-Goole and Doncaster, 31. 18s.-
Newport and Abergavenny, 1/. s.-Northampton, Bedford,
and Cambridge, 1/. 25.-Sheffield, Buxton, and Leek Pot-
teries, 16e.-Leicester and Birmingham, 175.-East
11. 9s. 6d -Isle of Axholme, Gainsborough, and Goole,
2/. Bs. - Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 21. 45.-
Gloucester, Aberystwith, and Central Wales, 14s _Rugby,
Warwick, and Worcester, 11.-Waveney Valley, 11. 4s. 6d.-
isle of Axholme, Gainsborough, and Goole, 2/. 75.-York and
Lancaster, 1/. 13s. 6d.-Leicester, Tamworth, Coventry, Bir-
mingham, and Trent Valley, 21.-Rugby, Warwick, and
Worcester, 11.-Trent Valley Continuation and Holyhead
Junction, 1/. ISs.-Tean and Dove Valley, 11.-Oxford, New-
bury, Andover, and Southampton, 1/. Is. 6d.-East
11. 9a. 6d.-Calcutta and St. George's Point, lls. 6(.1.- Ma-
dras, 55.-Waveney Valley, 1/. 45.-Dublin and Armagh
(Inland), 125.-Gloucester, Aberystwith, and Central Wales,
145.-Great Indian Peninsular, 11s. 6d.-Isle of Axholme,
Gainsborough, and Goole, 2/. 65.-North Staffordshire, Chur-
net, and Potteries, 4/. 195.-London and Blackwell, 8/. 19s.
6d.-Trent Valley Continuation and Holyhead Junction, I/.
18s. 6d.-Reading and Reigate, 11. 45.-Reading, Guildford,
and Reigate, 1/. 55.-Bordeaux and Mediterranean, 1/.175. 6d.
There are no arrivals to-day, and the stormy weather
thins the attendance at the usual places of public resort
where the news is generally to be heard.
The Bank of England averages stand thus for the past
week :-
Notes issued,tincrease .L 62,330
Rest do. ... ... ... 94,461
Other deposits do. 2,8.28,222
Other securities do. ••• 3,085,987

Bullion do. ... ... 86,260
Seven days and other bills, decrease ... 41,286
Public deposits do. ... 74,996
The amount of the notes issued -was 26,587,3551., and of
the bullion, 13,288,344/.
The large amount of over eleven millions sterling having
been deposited by the new railways, besides one or two
millions sterling more being expected to be received from
the Scotch and Irish projects, the Money Market is expected
to become easier, and some interest is felt to ascertain how
much more cash will be laid out in stock.
The Funds have been comparatively dull after the marked
activity of the last few days. Consols have realised 9714 to
9634 for next week, and 904 to 971 A for time. The Chancery
broker has temporarily discontinued to buv. Exchequer-
bills have been 375, to 40s. premium. Bank. Stock has been
marked 208, and India Stock 258, being both rather lower.
The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 99%
to par.
The Foreign Stocks are very doll. Spanish Five per Cents.
28, and the Three per Cents. 39. Portuguese Four per Cents.
have been 61. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are at 60.
Shares are rather lively, and at fair prics. Direct
Northern have touched 2%, and Dublin and Galway 41,
while London and York have fallen to The Dublin
and Galway, being an Irish line, is expected to pass rapidly
through Parliament.

BRITISH FUNDS,
Bank Stock .. .. .. .

ONE
O'CLOCK
208

CLOSING
PRICES.
208

......
Three per Cent. Annuities .. .. .. 97% 14 % 975
Three per Cent. Consuls Annuities .. .. 97%1A 96% 97 97
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anus. 100 99% 997
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 101/4 10%
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1849 .. 10% li 101/1
India Stock .. .. • • .. .. .. .. 958 258
Bank Stock for Account .. .. .. .. 209 2081/$ 20-414
Consols for Account • • • • • . .. .. 97% IA 96% 97% 97
Exchequer Bills. I%d, I%d.
1,0001... .. .... 40 37 pm. 37
5001... .. ... • 38 37 40 pm. 40
Ditto, Small .... 40 —— pm. 40

ONE , CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.

FORE Ifl N FUNDS
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, for the Account .
Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent
Ditto, Deterred, 3 per Cent
Portuguese Four per Cents
Russian Bonds
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Deferred
Ditto, Three per Cent ..
Ditto, for the Account .. .•
Dividends en the asove payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. GO
Ditto, for the Account .
Ditto, 4 nor Cent. Certificates

PRICES OF
RAILWAY SHARES.

• -
99
. 52

. 23
. 16%

. 39

.. 9514% 95 95
BUSINESS CLOSING
PAID. DONE AT PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.

Birmingham and Gloucester.. ..100 .. ..
Ditto New (issed at 7% dis.) .. 171,E ... 32
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 .... 234 3 • ...
Bridgewater and Mhiehead .. 425. .
Bristol and Exeter .. 70 • . • .
Ditto New .. 6 .... 124 .
Bristol and Gloucester .. .. 30 .... 5634 .......
Buckinghamshire 425. .... % p .
Caledonian .. 10 ....15 14% ......
Ditto Half Shares .. 21% .... 3h 4%
Ditto Extension 214 ....
Cornwall and Central Devon .. 2% ..........
Direct Manchester (Remington's) 2%.... ..........
Direct Northern .. .... 2%% %
Dublin and Galway .. .. 4 .... 4% .
Eastern Counties 141. 16s. .... 22% %34•• • • .
Ditto New ......Si 16s. .... 7 X p••• • • • •
Do. Perpet., 6 per Cent. No. 1. 61 13s. 4d. %1D ... • ...
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. 60 .... 761%
Ditto 1,4 Shares .. .. 5 .... 16
Edinburgh and Perth .. 3 ..
Moue., Aberyst., & Cent. ofWales 1%.... % • •
Goole, Donca.st., and Sheffield, &c. 425..... 2 1 ',77 p•• • •
Grand Union (Nottingh. & Lynn) 1% .... 1%
Great Western ..
Ditto, Half Shares .
Ditto, Quarter Shares
Hull and Selby ..
Ditto, Half • litres .. • • • •
Ipswich, Norwich, and Yarmouth 2 .. • . .. • •
Lancaster and Carlisle .. .. 35 .... 56%1,4
Ditto, New .. .. 5 .... .•• • • •
Leicester and Bedford 22s. %% • • • • • •
Leicester, Tamworth, &c. ...... 425. • ... par .
Liverpool and Leeds Direct .. 2% .. .. 1% •••• • • • •
Liverp., Manch., & Nerve. Junct. 21% 2%7/s •••• • • •
London an Birmingham 100 ....2281%e 230.... •
Ditto Quarters 2 .... 28% .........
London i& Brighton .. 50 .... 6914 .........
Ditto, Consol. Eighths • • .. 40 .... 43 .........
Ditto ditto Fifths .. 20 .... ...
London and Croydon .. .. 131. 15s. 9d. 22% .........
Lund., Chelt., Oxf., Glouc., &c. 1% . . ........ •
London and Greenwich .. 121. 15s. 4d. 10 .
London and South-Western.. 411. Os. I Od. 804 00 .....
London and York .. 2%.... %% •
Lynn and Ely _ 5 7
Manchester and Leeds .. 62
Ditto, Half Shares .. 38 .
Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 .
Ditto, New Quarter Shares .. 2 .
Do. Cont. and Welsh Junction 1%
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425..... 1% 14 p
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... 2)4%
Midland .. ' ..100 ....154 152
Ditto Fifths.. .. 2 .... 2%
Ditto, New .. .. 12 .... 29 281% .....
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 100 —1211( 123 .....
Newcastle and Darlington Janet. 25 .........
Ditto, New .. 1 114 11 .....
Newcastle and Berwick .. 10 .... 23 22% 234 .
Newark, Sheffield, and Boston .. 2% .... 2%
North British .. 1734 ...
Ditto, Half Shares .. 31% ;
Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 14 ...
Northern and Eastern .. 60
Ditto Scrip (issued at 5 dis) .. 40
North Kent and Direct Dover • • 234 ....
North Staffordshire .. • . • • 425..... 27, 31,{ 1,,j p
Norwich and Brandon .. _ 18
..
Ditto, New .. 3 _
Oxill.,Worcester, & Wolverhmptn. 121% ..
Preston and Wyre .. • . .. 25 .. _ _
Rugby and Huntingdon .. .. 2 .... • .
Shropshire Union 42.. .... 1 dis .... • •
South Devon .. 35 37% 37
South Midland .. 425..... p • •
South Eastern and Dovor 331% .... 394 , • •
Do., New (do. 1614 .. No. 4. 234 .... 314 .•• • • •
Staines and Richmond .. .... 2%
Teen and Dove Valley.. .. 1%.... 1 ..
Trent Valley .. • • • - • • F, 21% 22
Trent Valley and Holyhead June. 2%
Waterford and Kilkenny .. 3 „ „
Waterfil., Wexfd., Wick., & Dub.
Wexford, Waterford, & Valeutia 1% .... 1%14
Welsh Midland .. • • .. 21,E .... 2
Yarmouth and Norwich .. .. 20 .... 28
York and North Midland ..
Ditto, Extension .. 15

It is rumoured that Mr. Gladstone will come into
Parliament for Cardiff, in place of Dr. Nicholl.
BUCKINGHAM PALACE.—Cards of invitation have been
issued from the Lord Chamberlain's office for an evening
party at the Palace on Tuesday next.
' M.P., has arrived in town, from
Yorkshire.and Duchess of Sutherland are visiting
Viscount
The M o rDpuekt he
the Earl and Countess of Carlisle at Castle Howard, but are
expected to leave there early in the ensuing week for
Trentham, Staffordshire.
Sir Robert Peel's grandfather, at the latter period of
his life, resided at Stratford, in this county. The house is
still standing in the Broadway, and we believe is now occu-
pied by a fishmonger.—Essex Standard.
The Marquis of Westminster has returned to Eaton
Hall. His Lordship came to town to accompany his son,
Lord Gilbert Grosvenor, to Portsmouth, where he has en-
tered on board the Grampus 50 gun frigate.
Lady William Macnaghten has given up her intention
of going to reside at Malta, having taken Surrey House, near
Cumberland-gate, Hyde Park, for a term of years. Lady
Macnagliten, accompanied by her sister, the Hon. Mrs. Er-
skine, it may be remembered, returned from India about this
time last year. Her Ladyship will enter on her new residence
this day.
Sir George Murray, Master-General of the Ordnance,
is improving in health
It was very currently reported on Saturday that the
Court of Directors f the East India Company were in pus-
sesion of accounts from Sir Henry Hardinge, of twelve
hours later date than those published in the papers, and that
these accounts are favourable.—Observer.
It is said, in the military circles, that Colonel Cath-
cart is likely to succeed the late lamented Col. Gurwcod as
Deputy Lieutenant of the Tower.—Observer.
DRURY LANE THEATRE.—NoveIty after novelty dis-
tinguishes the management of this house We had a new
opera last week, and, as the Risleys appear for the last time
to-morrow, we are to have a new ballet on Thursday. The
Pantomime is quite as attractive as ever, and the houses
crowded every night.
ExpaEs-;Es.—We received Sir Robert Peel's great
commercial reform speech from the Express Edition of The S an,
forwarded by the zeal of Mr. Rutherglen, newspaper agent in
Glasgow, at eight in the morning on hursday (ten hours
earlier than it would have reached by the ordinary course of
mail). The public have been long indebted to The Sun
for giving early information. So fat back as the time of
the Reform Bill agitation, and onward till now, has this
paper been earning for itself a foremost place in the political
world for the speedy diffusion of important intelligence. We
also received an express copy of the new morning paper, the
Daey News, but it did not reach us before Friday morning,
twenty-four hours after we had received The Sun.—Stilling
Observer.
DELAY OF THE LONDON AND -BIRMINGHAM MORNING
TRAIN.—MANCHESTER, FRlDAY.—Yesterday the train which
left London at a quarter past six, and arrives in Birmingham
about half-past ten, did not arrive till half-past twelve, in
consequence of an accident which happened to the engine by
the breaking of one of the tubes.
FOLKESTONE.—The fishing trade during the past week
has been very prosperous, one boat bringing no less than
15,500 mackerel, the produce of one night's toil. They were
sold on the beach for 1501, and sent to Billingsgate market.
This is the largest quantity ever known to have been brought
in here by one boat.—Dover Chronicle.
The musical world is threatened with a great loes—
no less than that of the composer Donizetti, who is suffering
under affection of the brain (ernollissement du cerreau) brought
on by mental excitement, which has reduced him to a state
of imbecillity. H is now at Paris, and is led about his
house like a child.e The physicians say that his recovery is
impossible.
BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY FOR FF,BRUARY.-0 iten have
we mourned over the degeneracy of the present race of pe .
riodicals. Many a time and often have we mentally ex-
claimed, Oh for one hour of the high and palm
ohn Scotty days of
Charles Lamb, of Hazlitt, of Coleridge, of poor J,
of the " Opium Eater," of all the " better brothers," who,
twenty years ago, illustrated and graced our periodical lite
rature. But these are the times for conversions, and in pe-
rusing Bentley for the present month, we must candidly con-
fess that " a change came o'er the spirit of our dream." The
papers are uniformly excelle " The Travelled Man," by
Mrs. Gore, is in her own snt.
parkling and racy style.
reat Christmas
A
Failure," is a favourable specimen of the
,powers or the justly
popular writer; while " Tipperary Hall,' by the " Whiskey
Drinker," is not surpassed by. the best of the far-famed'
Noctes Ambrosiance. We wish that we could command space
for the insertion of some of the capital verses
sand songs
abounding in " Tipperary hall." There is one, he Ves-
tiges of Creation," of which we will affirm that Canning, in
his days, never did anything better. It is well worthy of
the author of the " Loves of the Triangles ;" and we would
strongly recommend our readers to beg,
borrow, , or
even buy Bentley, for the sake of perusing it.—Cambridge
Independent Press.
THE HISTORY OF MARGARET CATCUPOLE, A SUFFOLK
GIRL.—A third and cheaper edition of this remarkable work,
by the Rev. It. Cobbold, of Wortharn, Suffolk, has just been
published by Mr. Colburn, complete in a single volume, with
all the illustrations, price 10s. 6d. bound. The great success
which this work has met with must he attributed, we con-
ceive, as much to the sound and impressive moral which it
conveys, as to the great interest of the narrative. In the
present cheap an l elegant edition it will doubtless meet with
a greatly extended sale. Compressed into one volume (as
the Britannia observes) this biography will probably become
a standard work, for altogether Margaret Catchpole was
sufficiently remarkable in character and fortune to take her
place among the celebrated personages of times past.

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FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens .. .. 10 .... 12% ...
Bord., Toul., 3c Cctte kMackenzie) 2 .... 2% 2.......
Ditto, ditto (Espelete) .. 2
Ceylon .. .. ss. ....
Dutch Rhenish .. 5 .... •• • • ......
Grt. North. of France Constituted 5 .... 15
Italian and Austrian .. .. 3 .... 1% ..... . . . . .

Lyons and Avignon
Luxembourg .
Namm and Liege
Rouen and Havre .

2 .... 2g..

. .... ... 28 x d

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
London and Westminster .. .. 20 .... •••.• • • • • •
MINES.
British Iron . . .. . .. .. 10 .... 24 .. .. ......
Real del 31ente, Unregistered .. .... 4 ...... ...

At the Winchester Petty Sessions, held on Tuesday the
27th ult., James Davy, of Upton, a lad about 18 years of
age, was charged with an assault of a very aggravated cha-
racter on a young woman and he was committed to take Lis
trial at• the next assizes. The constable of Upton forthwith
conveyed him to the New Inn, where he remained for the
night.. On the following morning preparations were made
for conveying him to gaol. The constable, it seems, was to
ride on horseback, and the prisoner to walk, with a prospect
of a lift now and then, should his behaviour justify such an
indulgence. The horse was at the door, but at the moment
of starting the constable remembered that he had a great
coat in the inn ; he, therefore, requested Davy to hold his
horse while he went for his coat. Whither her Majesty's
peace officer staid to fortify his inner man with a glass of
Collard's home-brewed, as well as his outer with the great
coat, or the prisoner considered he was no longer a prisoner,
we know not; but on the constable's return, there stood the
horse, but Davy was non est inventus." The fellow con-
trived to get clear off, and still continues at large.—Some? set
County Gazette.
THE ROYAL LACE.—This beautiful fabric, manufac-
tured by a Nottingham firm, is most beautifully fine, and the
patterns in the best taste ; the whole is the closest counter-
part of the finest Mechlin lace, and may be considered the
greatest triumph ever obtained by British enterprise and
perseverance. The application of the strongest lens shows
no difference between the production of Nottingham and that
of Malines ; this, and the pati onage of her Majesty (who was
the first purchaser) has occasioned it to be called the Royal
Mechlin Lace. It has taken more than four years to con-
struct the machines which produce this most delicate fabric.
—Nottingham .Review.