The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-02 00:00:00

THE NUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVRNiNG, FEBRUAIty CIL 11415.

MEETING OF PARLIAMENT

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"THE SU N"

WILL CONTAIN, AS USUAL,

THE LATEST PARLIAMENTARY
INTELLIGENCE,

AND

though copies of the informations had been taken out
ten days previously, and a brief had been regularly
prepared, it had never been sent to him. The objec-
tion, however, was overruled, and the trial proceeded
after a delay of a few minutes, to enable Mr.
RoLLEsToN to read the depositions. The Chief
Justice severely censured Mr. HUGHES for his aban-
donment of the prisoners in the time of their peril; but
that gentleman still most positively refused to act un-
less assigned by the Crown, or paid for his services ;
and all his professional brethren having followed his
example, the Learned Counsel was obliged to con-
duct the defence on that brief notice, and without
any assistance whatsoever. The result was, that the
wretched men were convicted, and are now lying
under sentence of death.

We do not desire to impeach the correctness of this
verdict; most probably the result would have been
the same under any circumstances. But can it be said
that the convicts had a fair trial? The ability of Mr.
ROLLESTON iS too well known to render it doubtful
that everything which legal skill and ingenuity could
effect under the circumstances was exerted in their
behalf; but he was certainly placed under very great
disadvantages in being obliged to enter on such a case
at a moment's notice.
In the trial of the murderers of Mr. BELLCLIAM-.
BEES a serious risk was incurred of a failure of jus-
tice, in consequence of the want of proper instructions,
and a sufficient time for preparation being allowed to
the counsel for the prosecution. That was, however,
the consequence of neglect, and nothing else. There
was nothing to prevent the employment of such
counsel had the parties desired it; or had they_ even
informed the authorities of their intention not to do
so, there is no doubt but the want would have been
immediately supplied. But in the present instance
the case was muck worse. Two persons who might
have been, and by law were presumed to be, innocent,
were placed in a situation of the greatest danger.
Their lives were at stake, and depended on the issue.
We may presume that they had not the means of ob-
taining professional assistance, or else it is impossible
to suppose that, they would have remained until
the last moment without having done so. The
risk here was that innocent persons might have been
unjustly condemned, and, according to the well known
principle of the law, such a contingency was more
to be avoided than the escape of many guilty men.
Neither was it owing to any lathes on their part; they
had no power to help themselves, and for that reason
also the occurrence was the more to be regretted.
It is hard to understand on what grounds the
practice has been adopted to which the Chief Justice
alluded. Surely, if any assistance is to be afforded
to the parties on their trial, that assistance should be
of the most efficient description. A counsel is for-
bidden to accept a brief in an ordinary case except
through an attorney. It must be supposed that such
services are essential, or the rule would not be esta-
blished. Why then should it be dispensed with
in a case involving the life of the party
concerned, and where the expenses are to be provided
for from the public purse? Is the life or death of a
human being a matter of less consequence than a
question of pounds, shillings, and pence ? or is the
Crown to conduct its business in a more niggardly
manner than would be tolerated in a private indi-
vidual ? No expense is spared for the prosecution.
The Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General, the
Crown prosecutors for the circuit, the Crown
solicitors, are all arrayed against the prisoner, but an
attorney cannot be provided for his assistance. Such
an expense would be inconsistent with the economy
that should be observed.

Mr. HUGHES may be blamed by the public, as he
was censured by the Learned Judge, for withhold-
ing his services at such an hour. We cannot,
however, be surprised that the profession generally
should revolt against a system which sets their
humanity in direct opposition to their interests. It
is not astonishing that persons who have had to
incur serious expenses in acquiring their professional
skill, and who are heavily taxed before they are per-
mitted to exercise that skill—every practitioner being
obliged to pay a heavy stamp duty on his certificate,
which must be renewed every year—should object to
give their services gratuitously, when they see
members of the other branch of the legal profession
paid by the Crown for their exertions in the very
same case. Surely a similar rule should be observed
towards both parties. It is no more to be expected
that an attorney should work for nothing than that a
barrister should do so. If one is feed to defend a pri-
soner the other should not be deprived of that fair
remuneration for his services to which he is justly
entitled,

What rule, then, it may be asked, would we desire
to see adopted? Simply this, that in every salons
case where a prisoner made application to be al-
lowed professional assistance, supported by an affi-
davit to the effect that he was unable to pay the
expense thereof from his own private resources, if
the authorities should be satisfied of the truth of
his statement, a barrister and attorney should be as-
signed for his defence, and that a reasonable sum
should be paid by the Crown for that purpose. The
amount that would be required would not be con-
siderable; but, even if it were so, we are satisfied
that no Englishman would object to such an item
in the national expenditure, and the outlay would
be fully compensated if it preserved a single British
subject, even of the humblest rank, from the conse-
quences of an unmerited conviction. It would also
give additional confidence in the fair and impartial
administration of the law. At present the presiding
Judge is supposed to act as counsel for an undefended
prisoner. He should never be placed in such a situa-
tion, or his position in any respect altered. His duty
is to hold the scales of justice with an even hand, and
it is impossible
~to do so unless both sides are fairly
represented before him.

We have received intelligence from Palermo to the
21st, and from Naples to the 24th. ult.
On the night of the 13th the garrison of Castella-
mare commenced bombarding Palermo. No notice,
no signal was given to the inoffensive part of the
population of the danger which threatened it—no
time was allowed to the different Consuls to enable
the residents •f their different nations to retire to
places of safety. The next day the commandant of
the English steamer the Bulldog endeavoured to ob-
tain a suspension of the bombardment from the
KING'S lieutenant, but in vain. On the 15th, whilst
shells were still showering on the city, M. MUSSON,
the Consul of France, thought right to make an ap•
peal to his colleagues, for the sake of the French and
other foreign residents. In company with the Con-
suls of Sardinia, Switzerland, the United States,
Prussia, and Russia, he went to the palace of the
Duke DE Moo, to beg of him to cause the bombard-
ment to cease. The Consul of England, deprived of
the use of his legs, and the Consul of Austria, who
resided at too great a distance to be informed in time,
ratified the proceeding of the Consular Body, though
unable to take part in it. It was not without danger.
Near the palace the deputation was received by firing
from the troops, but fortunately no one was hurt. On
being introduced to the Duke, the Consuls charged
M. BRESSON, the French Consul, to be spokesman.
After a long discussion, the Duke DE Mario gave
a promise in writing that a suspension of arms
should take place for four-and-twenty hours.
The Consuls next proceeded to the palace
of the Senate, which is established in
the centre of the city, and in which the
committees were permanently established. In doing
so they had to traverse numerous barricades.
The propositions which they presented, in order to
arrive at a suspension of hostilities, had not all the
result which was hoped for. Profiting by the short
respite which had been obtained from the authorities,
the French Consul, as we have before stated, freighted
a three-masted American vessel which was not en-
gaged in the port, and after extraordinary difficulties
embarked, on the 16th, all the French who had been
enabled to reach the port. Several foreigners also
received hospitality on board the vessel. The follow-
ing days the situation did not essentially change ;
but it will be easily conceived that every hour the
forces and confidence of the insurgents increased,
whilst the royal troops, confined in narrow
places, saw their food and their resources
diminish. The intelligence from the interior
of the island raised the hopes of the people
by the announcement of an important rising
in all the parts of the country which surround
Palermo. Placards appeared at every instant, and
kept alive the popular agitation. The threat of a ,

general bombardment, much more terrible than that I
which had previously taken place, remained sus-
pended over the heads of the population. On the 19th,
on the invitation of the French Consul, all the
consular agents assembled, and charged M. BRESSON
to draw up a protest against this incessant menace.
This ' document soon became known to the
people. It produced an excellent effect. It
was printed. in French and Italian, and pla-
carded on the walls. It must have greatly
contributed to spare new misfortunes to Palermo.
In the meantime some communications took place
between the Duke DE Maso and the Marquis DE
SPEDALOTTO, Pretor of the city. Vague and unde-
termined at first, the pretensions of the insurgents
increased every day, and at length resulted in a de-
mand for the re-establishment of the old Sicilian con-
stitution and the immediate convocation of the Si-
cilian
Parliament at Palermo. The Duke DE MAJO
not any power to treat on such bases, was
obliged
confine himself to transmitting the having
to
de-
mands to his SOVEREIGN. On the 19th, accordingly,
one of the vessels of the squadron was sent off to
Naples for instructions. The next day the two fri-
gates which, as above mentioned, had previously left
for Naples, returned before Palermo. It conveyed
the four royal decrees of the 18th, an abstract
of which has already been given. Two months
sooner such measures would have excited
general enthusiasm, hut, after the insurrec-
tion, they were clearly and flatly refused. A
Parliament convoked at Palermo, the old consitution
adapted to the present time—such is the ultimatum
which the insurgents say they will not abandon.
They calculate probably on a general rising in Sicily;
but whether any has taken place or not there is no
positive news. A movement attempted on the 6th at
Messina was put down on the same day ; and on the
15th the people of that town did not know what had
occurred at Palermo. The attitude of the people
was disquieting, and in consequence the military
authorities had adopted formidable measures. Our
letters mention that nothing very extraordinary had
occurred in the course of the engagements between the
insurgents and the royal troops. One circumstance,
however, deserves to be quoted for its originality—the
garrison of Montreal, a little town situated at two
leagues from Palermo, had yielded itself prisoner to
the Benedictine monks, who had taken arms, and
whose convent is situated in that town. On the 21st,
the date of our letters from Palermo, the insurgents
attacked a convent called the Novizziato, which was
defended by the troops, and which is situated near
the palace. On the departure of the courier there
had been no result. An English frigate had arrived
off Palmeri) on that day, and the French steam cor-
vette the Tonnerre, sent by the French Ambassador
at Rome, was expected every moment.
At Naples the situation, we are informed, has become
worse since the publication of the first ordinances,
They were at first received with coldness by the
Neapolitan population, and after it was known
that the Sicilians had refused them, they
lost all value in the eyes of the public.
Great anxiety prevailed in the capital, and, as
the reports from the provinces were very alarming,
it was feared, that bands of peasants, called by the
getters-up of the disturbances, would arrive in Na-
ples. A.l the enlightened and leading men appeared
to have agreed to demand of the KING to make the
largest concessions to his people. Among those who
laboured most to prevent by these means the horrors
of civil war, the Marquis DE PIETRACATELLA, Pre-
sident of the Council of Ministers, and the Duke DE
SIERRA CAPRIOLA, Ambassador of Naples at Paris,
are particularly cited. The movement which had
taken place in certain communes of the province
of Salerno had extended to the city, and there
had been cries of "Long live the Constitution I"
At Naples it was believed that, in order to maintain
tranquillity, it would be necessary to remove the
Marquis DEL CARRETTO, Minister of Police, and
Monsignor COCLE, the King's confessor, from their
places.

_
The amnesty, which had been announced, was
publisted on the 23d. It is as follows :
" FERDINAND 11., &C., _ _

" Art. 1. We accord full grace to all the persons
condemned or detained for political offences in the
kingdom.
" Art. 2. The following are included in this grace,
the priest Giovanni Krimy, the canon Don Paclo
Pellicano, Giovanni Andrea Romeo, Stefano Romeo,
Guiseppe Miranda (of Ariano), the priest Don Vin-
cenzo de Ninno, Don Vincenzo Maura, Giuseppe
Scala, who, however for the sake of tranquillity, shall
remain confined in an island until a new resolution
on our part."
The following is the address of the commander of
the insurgent party in:Palermo, announcing his rejec-
tion of the propositions of the King of NAPLES :
"Palermo, Jan. 21.
"His Excellency the King's Lieutenant communi-
cated to the governor by a letter, of the present day's
date, some sterile propositions, which do not respond
to the desires of the people, and have no other gua-
rantee than the absolute will of the Sovereign. Sicily
knows, by the sad experience of numerous years of
grief and despair, what the will of a prince is worth
when the people themselves are not the depositary,
guardian, and avenger of their rights. In conse-
quence, the governor has made the fallowing reply
in the name of the committee and of the people :
" 'Excellency,-1 have communicated to the general
committee the letter which you addressed to me this.
day, and I tun charged to reply to you that the ar-
rangements mentioned in your letter cannot relate tcr•
a people who, for nine days a prey to the horrors of
bombardment, fire, and shells, gloriously maintain
their rights, and those national institutions which are
alone capable of ensuring durable happiness to this
island. The committee, the faithful interpreter of the
firm resolution of the people, can only persist in the
views already transmitted to your Excellency through
me, viz., that arms will not be laid down, nor hosti-
lities suspended, until Sicily, united at Palermo in
Parliament, shall adapt to our present epoch the con-
stitution which our country possessed for many cen-
turies, which was reformed in 1812, under the in-
fluence of England, and confirmed implicitly 13,:y a
royal decree of December 11, 1816.
(Signed) " MARQUIS DE SESDELOVTO.'
Let this be announced to the city of Palermo, a n d to
all the communes of Sicily."

At the sitting of the Swiss Diet, on the 28 ai ult.,
Colonel MULLER took the oaths and his seat as• repre-
sentative of Zug. He afterwards traced au..-reinctly
the conduct of his canton in the late affair 5. He
stated that, as soon as Zug had capitula•t ed, the
liberal population could no longer tolerate a 'Govern
ment which had been in open rebellion aga.;*nst the
confederation, and therefore had chosen a n ew one,
which he trusted would act in concert with t he con-
federation. He declared that Zug had withdra• wn from
the Sonderbund, acceded to the decree of tlay3 Diet
for the expulsion of the Jesuits, and -was ready
to take part in the revision of the federal compact.
Upon this, Colonel MULLER was elected a me tuber of
the committee of revision by a majority of 18 out of
19 votes. A proposal by the Federal Council i)t War
for an augmentation of the staff of artillery was
carried unanimously, with the exception of the
Deputy fur Neufchatel, who wished it to be refer-ed
to a committee. The rest of the sitting was occupie
with the questions of promotions of officers who had
distinguished themselves in the late campaign, but
they were adjourned till Wednesday. At the end of
the sitting the resignations of several officers were
read and referred to the Federal Council of \Var.

A;w-
A letter from Copenhagen states that the King of
DENMARK, on the occasion of his accession to the
throne, has ordained that, in accordance with the
letter patent, which he has already published, all
prosecutions for political offences by the press, now
pending, shall be suppressed.

Madrid journals of the 96th ult. have been received.
On the 25th the :Ministers, with the exception of
NARVARZ, attended the Committee of the Deputies
on the Budget, and gave explanations which were
satisfactory to tl.e majority. The Progresistas had
held a meeting, at which it was determined, that
when the estimates should come on for deliberation,
a proposition shall be made to do away with the
monopoly of salt, and to sell the salt works, applying
the proceeds to the payment of the public debt. The
debates in the two Chambers on the 25th were
without interest ; that of the Senate was on the Bill
constituting the Senate into a court of justice ; that
of the Deputies on the Bill relative to notaries.
MADRID BOLSA, JAN. 26.---The Three per Cents.
were done at 27i at sixty days ; the Five per Cents.
at lq for paper ; the Debt Without Interest at 5g ;
and the Coupons at

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.

The paragraph of the Address on the affairs of Italy
was agreed to on Monday, after speeches from M.
THUM, M. ODILON BARROT, arld 111. GUIZOT.

The amstittilionnel says, of the speech of M.
THIERS—

" The whole of France will thank M. Thiers for
having proclaimed aloud the sympathy which we feel
and are bound to feel for Italy. Never was more
noble thoughts expressed in more magnificent lan-
guage. If every man of feeling applauds the indig-
nation with which M. Thiers spoke of such acts as
the bombardment of Palermo, and the generous
words with which he encourages Italy in the work
of her regeneration, what man of sense will refuss
to sanction the line of conduct which he prescribes
for our government ?"

In alluding to the speech of M. GUIZOT, the
Con-
stilutionnel says—
" There is an absolute contradiction between the
speech of Saturday and that of yesterday ; so much
for the language of M. Guizot. There is an absolute
contradiction between his liberal speech, his dis-
patches, and the whole of his policy ; so much for
his conduct. The explanation of this is to be found
in the liberal, sensible, and generous speech of M.
Thiers yesterday, which compelled M. Guizot to de •
stroy in a new speech the absolute thesis which he
had before taken such pleasure in developing. Un-
fortunately, however, he could not efface in the same
way his acts, in which we find his true sentiments."
The intelligence of the rejection, by the Sicilians
and the Neapolitans of the terms proposed by the
KING had produced a very depressing effect on the
French funds.

The conduct which it is probable Austria may
adopt in this emergency is looked forward to with
great anxiety.
We read in the Union itionarchique :—" M. DE
BACOURT, who was to pass the rest of the winter in
Paris, has, we are assured, received from M. GUIZOT
the most pressing direction to proceed immediately
to his post at Turin. At the same time a similar
intimation was made to M. PISCATORY, our Ambas•
sador to Spain, who did not reckon upon leaving for
Madrid till towards the end of the present month."

The Three per Cents. closed at 74f. 30c. ; New
Loan. 75f. 20c. ; Five per Cents., 116 f. .50c. ; the
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,185 f. ; Rotten, 906 f. 2.5 c..
Havre, 4451. ; Great Northern, 6351. ; Avignon, 556 f
25c. ; Vierzon, 5111. 25c. ; Bordeaux, 4801. ; Basle,
1551. ; Paris and Strasburg, 406 f. 25c.; Tours and
Nantes, 3851.; Paris and Lyons, 39 If. 25c.
MARSEILLES, JAN. 27.—Marseilles and Avignon,
547 f. 50c.; Northern, 525.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. FEE. 1.
Boulogne and Amiens, 133j4—Luxembourg, I—Northern
of France. 11,,i —Paris and Lyons, 51/2—Rouen and Havre,
18—Sambre and Meuse, 7.

REVOLUTION OF PALERMO.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PALERMO, Jew. 23.

The time of partial insurrections is past. We have
here a national movement—a revolution in the full
sense of the word. The decrees of the Provisional
Government of Palermo are obeyed in the whole
island.
As soon as the garrisons of the towns on the sea
coast had been attacked and disarmed, they were
directed on this capital, where they have been
accompanied by all the small corps of the insurgents,
who have come here to make common cause with us
and defend the capital.
The troops shut up in the fortresses begin to look
with indifferenee to the fall of the Neapolitan despot-
ism, and their gloomy looks prove that their own
heart is not associated with the cause, that military
duty still prevents them from openly forsaking a
portion of the troops which occupied Palermo, and a
portion of those sent from Naples are encamped on the
slopes of the Monte Pellegrino, where they are
cruelly exposed to cold and sickness. A great
number of Palermitan ladies, taking pity on the
wretched state of those poor soldiers who are hourly
dying in want of help and medicines, have courage-
ously found their way to the camp, in order to render
their assistance to the sick, and they have even suc-
ceeded in having some of them conveyed secretly
into the town. This. praiseworthy conduct of the
Palermitan ladies has produced an immense impres-
sion on the spirits of the troops.

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE
BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION.
Sir,—ln compliance with the expressed wishes of
many who supported me at the late election, it is my
intention to resume the practice, which was found
useful in gone•by years at Hull, of making a weekly
report of proceedings in the House of Commons.
If my friends insisted on a statement of the general
impression made by the short session, it would pro-
bably be, that the House is composed, in greater pro.
portion than in times past, of men who have lately
attained the legal age of twenty-one years, and that
there are increasing tokens of the extent to w kith the
substantial determination of public questions is trans-
ferred to what a Roman might have called the comitia
prima, or to the assemblages of the community in
places of their own selection. The House of Com-
mons must always be the place where the results of
public opinion will finally be registered, but it is
every day becoming less the place where public
opinion is created and fashioned. In cases of this
kind it is not easy to say how much is cause and how
much effect; but the insuperable wearisomeness of
the debates is the phenomenon which visibly connects
itself with this transference of power. The Ministe-
rial agents and their ex-Ministerial opponents do their
office in a way than which nothing can be better. But
all beyond is a quagmire of gentle dullness, irreme-
diably hostile to the performance of any serious busi-
ness, except counting the votes after a conventional
quantity of tedious pantomime has been gone
through. Fancy, for instance, that the free-
traders had attempted to introduce their ques•
tion by way of the House of Commons. Or
imagine that the Member for the West Riding,
or anybody else desirous of speaking his mind on
questions which have arisen since, had fixed on the
House of Commons as the place where his efforts
should be made. He would either not have been
heard, as indeed seems a necessary result from the
axiom that a vessel filled to the brim already, cannot
be made to hold anything more; or, perhaps, he would
have had a charge of intended assassination made
against him, as is the Parliamentary method of trying
to put down an unpleasant opponent. But the
Member for the West Riding knows a great deal
better. Not a word does he utter in the House of
Commons during the session, but he goes to Stock-
port, and there gives vent to his mi-givings that
things are not going on as they ought. And next he
calls a meeting of the men of Manchester, and of the
women too, and to them he confides his cares and
fears—the Ministerial representative sitting by, to
carry to his colleagues his estimate of the learning of
the Lancastrian mind, and the strength with which
it is supported. There is more sense in this than in
listening to a two hours' speech from the representa-
tive of a few drunken men, whose votes are paid for.
On the whole the right key has been struck. It is
not what a Member does in the House, but what he
does out of the House, which is effective; and the
man who does his work well in one place carries the
influence of it into another. This would have been
something like treason once; but it is grown into
good popular law, and nobody thinks of resisting it.
Neither honour nor duty calls on men to do their
work in an unfavourable way, when they can do it
in a better; and if county meetings and the House of
Commons are changing places, it is the result of
c•auses which it is uselese to oppose or to deplore.
Touching the times and mode of future correspon-
sience, there will be every opportunity for arrange-
ment ; and we shall, in all probability, fall into the
method most favourable to general objects.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
T. PERRONET THOMPSON.
Blackheath, London, Jan. 31, 1848.

DEATH OF THE COUNTESS OF BEVERLEY. —We re-
gret to announce the decease of the above Noble Lady,
Nvho expired at the family mansion, in Portman-square,
"„ Monday last, after a protracted illness. Her Lady-
ip was the second and youngest daughter of the lion.
Is .mes Stuart Wortley Mackenzie, and brother of the
st Lord Wharncliffe. The Countess's demise will
a deeply regretted by all who had the happiness of her
quaiutance, and by none more so than her poorer
pendents.

CABINET DINNER.—Sir John Cam liobhouse
receive the members of the Cabinet at dinner on
tF 9th of February-, at his mansion in Berkeley-
so uare.
Lord John Russell has been suffering from a
coi'd, accompanied with cough, during the last few days,
rig' has in consequence been confined to his house.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. ,
CITY, QUARTER TO TIIPEE.
There was a firm Market for Cotton at Liverpool yes-
terday. Sales, 5,000 bales. Railway Shares were
rather lower, although a good business was done, and
towards the close of the Market the quotations looked
better.
There are no foreign arrivals to-day with late intel-
ligence of interest, if wa except the usual continental
express, which brings advices of grave import from
Sicily. The insurrection spreads, and the apprehension
now is, that unless the King of Naples yields all that is
required, the Austrian troops may be made available.
Monetary and commercial affairs still wear an im-
proving aspect in the City, and there is a probability of
the movement being felt throughout the country. We
are advised by Messrs. Ferguson and Taylor, of Man-
chester, that—
" We are not sanguine, however, that the demand for
the manufactures of this district will be on a large scale
tor some time to come, nor do we expect that any mate-
,' tial advance of prices will be established. The large
stocks of yarns and goods yet here, coupled with the
extraordinary means of production, must naturally
keep doe. n prices, until a great change be wrought in
the consumptive power of our home and colonial markets,
now so greatly depressed by various causes which re-
quire time arid many modifying circumstances to remedy.
I'ho only quarter to which we can look at present for a
material improvement is India, and in this direction we
can only t easonably expect a gradual revival, as confi-
dence may gain ground, after the severe shock which
credit has sustained from the exposé of the artificial
basis on which a great portion of the trade thither has,
during the last few years, been conducted. The advices
from China, at this moment, afford little encouragement
that our manufacturers will greatly supersede native
fabrics, until larger facilities be afforded for an exchange
of equivalents as between the people of that empire and
ourselves."
The Stock Market is still drooping, the result, we
may hope, of better employment for capital out of
doors ; but, perhaps, also of the anticipation that there
will be a funding of Exchequer Bills. Consols have
realised 888 to 898 for present Transfer, and 888 to 894
for Account. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents.
have been 904 to 4, and the Three per Cents. 898 to 4.
Bank Stock has realised 200 to 202. Exchequer Bills
have reached 365. and 408. prem.
In the Foreign Stocks the business done has been at
advanced rates in several cases. Spanish Three per
Cents. have touched 324-, and the Five per Cents. 21g- ;
Mexican Bonds have been 18i 4 fur Money, and 181 to
198 ; Equador Stock is at 38 to 31 ; Russian Bonds
have been at 109* ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
have been 544 ; and Belgian Four-and a-Half per
Cents. 89k.
The Railway Share Market looks well again, and
there is a steady business doing.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONII O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock 200 SO2
3 per Celt. Reduced Annuities ..... 891% 89 8914
3 per Cent. Consols Anne B9 89% 88%
New 314 per Cent. Anna. BOl% 90
Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 -16
India Stock 241 243
Do. Bonds, 10001......... .........
8930 p
Consols for Account WL 887 i 891 i
Exchequer Bills. 3d.
1,000/.
500/.
.. 39 p
Small
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Equador Bonds
314 401's
Mexican Bouts, 1846, 5 per Cent. 183
Ditto for the Account i
13 %% 191 i
Russian Bonds. 1822, 5 per Cent 109%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,lB4o
Ditto for the Account 2l%c,
Ditto Passive Bonds
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 3214
Dividends on the above payable in Londe'.
Belgian 4% per Cent
Dutch 21/2 per Cent., 12 Guild Ltv,
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
RITSINESS 1)010.; IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK
RAILWAYS. PAID. PIZ SHAM
Aberdeen
Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. 2% — to
Ayrshire and Galloway
Belfast and County Down .. 10 ..
Birmingham & Oxford June... 20
Birmingham, W 01.,& Dudley 10 ... .
Birnsing., \Vol., & Stour Val. 10/.145.... 1 dis to dis
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
, Cheshire Junction.. ......,,• 73/
Boston, Starer., & 5 4 —
.... to
Bristol and Exeter ......
to
Do., Thirds
Buckinghamshire l2/. ... 4s
Caledonian
Ditto, Half Shares
.. 1 to
Ditto, Clydesdale Junction 50
Chester and Holyhead..
Ditto, Preference
Clarence. ..
Do., lst Class, 6 per Cent... 10
Do., 2d Class, 8 per Cent... 10
Do., Goy. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10
Direct London & Portsmouth 334 —
Dublin and, Belfast Junction.. 25
Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 17%
• East Anglia, 251. L. & E.,
sad L. &D.
Ditto, 18/., E. & II l3 ..

Ditto, 21. 10s., E. & 11... 2
Eastern Counties ...
Ditto, ditto (B)

Do.Perpet.,Speret.No. 1,6/. 135. 4d...
Do., d 0.... N 0.2,61. 133.4 d...
Do., Northern & Eastern... 50
Do., Quarter .... .......... ... 12%... .. ..._
Do., New
Eastersn Union ........... .--- -- 56
Ditto, Quarter Shares
Ditto., Thirds
13s. 4d —
...... to _
Ditto (guar. 6 per cent.) ... 10 . lO
East Lancashire
Ditto, New
Do., New Quarters
East Lincolnshire ... 12% —
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Ditto, Halt Shares
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% — to
Edinburgh and Northern ... 22% —
..... to
Ditto, New 3% — ...... to
Ditto, New port.. ... ........ 12
Ditto, ditto, New ••• 214 — ---... to
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% — ...... to _
Ditto, New ... 95/
.. ill '''" • ..... to
Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle..B/. 65.6 d — ..... to
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 56
Ditto, New
Do. %.1 Shares (5 per ct.gua.) 121,E
... to _
Great Northern lO% 5 ---.. to 4%
Do. London & York Exten. 2% vita •.. to —'4
Gt. t. South. & West. (Ireland) 37% — ...... to
Groat North of England 100
Ditto, I'4 w 401.
Ditto, New 801. ... 30 ...
Ditto, New 15/...... ... ..... 6%.....
Great Western
Ditto, half Shares
Ditto, Quarter Shares
Ditto, Fifths 2O
...... to
Do. New 171
91,4•• ... 11 .„... to 10.3 i
Huddersfield and Manchester 24 .. _. --
Ditto, T
El al 1 and Selby hirds 8
60 ...... .. .. .... .. ttt
000 =—
hal
f Shares
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 12% ........ . :
Ipswich Bury St. Edmunds 17% -
........... too
Do., _—
Do. do. and Norwich ...... 1.5
Do., do., Extension Seri, ...... to

_-p. .
(late (Camb. and Ely) 2% ...... .....
Lancaster and Carlisle.... to
... BO 54
Do.,Thirds .................... II ...... ......
11 to
% to
Lancashire nod Yorkshire •
... 93
Ditto, ditto ............ ...... 22
Ditto flalf Shares
t,' '••• .. to
Ditto
Ditto Quarters
Fifths
Ditto Sixteenths ... ..... ... 614 — •••••• ti
Ditto Thirds (Reg.) ... 101.43 —
Do. Liverpool awl Bury... 98
Do. (Rudders. and Sheff.) 83
Do., Wakefield, Pontefract,
and Goole 471/2 —
Do., West Riding Union ...41. 2a.... .2304 cis to
Do., Preston and Wyro ... 25 ......
Do., do., Half Shares (A) 9
Ditto ditto (B) 1,
Leeds aid Bradford
. 50
..... 90A.. ... to --
Leeds, Dewsbury, & blanches. ~121

Do., Branch C. Share* l5 ....
Ditto, NQW Branch (blue).. 21,h
Ditto, Extension (green)... 2% — to
Do., New Extol. (pink)...
..2% — ...... to

Leeds and Thirsk ...........••• 36
Ditto, New
Do., do., Prefer., 6 per Cent. 3%. .... •••••• to —.
Liverpool. Crosby, and South-
-2
port.
Liverpool, Manchester, and
Newcastle Juuetion 21,4 — ...... to
London & 131ackwall —l6/. 6s. 6d —
Ditto New, No. 1..
Ditto New, No. 2 4l. 13s. 4d....
Do. Extension ........ -..... 171
•••••• to --
Lond., Bright., & South Coast 60
Do. Consolidated Eighths... 30 ...... _
Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 . .
Do. Pref. Cony. 6 per Cont. 50 . ..... " t: :
Ditto, ditto 1852 50 .....
London and Greenwich... 12/.155. 4d... --
to
Ditto Preference lB/ 178 2d...
to
London & North Western.....loo 150J49... to 160%
Do. Quarter ......L. and B. 22
Do. do. New ...... .... ...... 2
Do. do. Fifths
to
Do. Quarters .... ..... G. J. 25
Do. 401. Shares.....L. & M. 11 to
•••••• ••••••
Do. 40/. Skares...ll. and B. 40 .
•••..
Do. 10/.... M. and B. (A.) 7%. ....
Do. 10/. .. M. and B. (B.) 7% — to
Do. 10/. ... M. and B. (C.) 1
London and S. Western.... 41.. Gs 8d 5414 to 15
Do. Now Consolidated Bths. 40
Ditto New 50/........ - ..... 371,4...... 32% to
Ditto New 401. ... ..... .. .. SO
Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 50 ...... 45% to —.
Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 40 - to
Ditto, Thirds el. 6s. ad ...
London, Salisbury, & Yeovil
_ll4 —

on,. „ - ,
Londonderry and Coleraine... 271/2 —
Londonderry and Enniskillen 25
Manch. Buxton, &, Matlock 3
Manchr, Sheffield, and Linc.100
Ditto 1,4 Shares (No. 1) ... 13
Ditto, ditto (No. 2)
Ditto, is Shares (No. 3)... 71,4
Ditto Grimsby
Ditto, ditto.
Ditto, ditto .. , 4% ...... to
Ditto, Sheffield, and Line. 7 LA2 —
...... to _
Manchester and ba,mthanipton 21,4
... ... ... toto —ll6
Midland 1061 1161,4
Ditto, Consol, rreference...loo - mtg. 0 ......