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LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1851.

consider that JosEruna had attended a writing school
for some months before its performance, and that the
letter itself is to be found in the works of FENELON. The
fame of these miracles attracted crowds to St. Sa-
turnin, and the innkeeper, cousin to ROSE TAMISIER,
at whose house the saint was residing, and who was
the most ardent of her disciples, was rapidly making
a fortune. The two clergymen of the town were
divided in opinion with regard to ROSE
the vicar being on one side the question,
and the curate, as is always the case, on
the opposite, yet still, as the report of these miracles
brought crowds to the church and to the village, to
the profit of all concerned, it is probable that the
ecclesiastical authorities would have suffered the
profitable miracle to go on, and that ROSE TAMISIER
would have eventually attained the honours of canoni-
zation had she not taken upon herself to recommend
her cousin to change her confessor. This was an inter-
ference which could not be pardoned ; it affected
the profits of the clergy, and there-
fore all the confessors made common cause
with the ejected ; the Archbishop of Aviesiosr, to
whom an appeal was made, denounced the miracle as
a false miracle, and the prosecution of ROSE TAMISIER
for having outraged religion was ordered. Her trial
commenced before the tribunal of Correctional Police
at Carpentras on the Ist of September, and was
brought to an abrupt conclusion on the 3d, by a
declaration on the part of the tribunal, that it had no
jurisdiction in the case. The evidence, however, is con-
clusive as to the imposture of ROSE, and, in addition,
it affords a curious insight into the manners of the
priesthood and the latitude which they allow them-
selves, not merely in tampering with the truth, but in
indulging in absolute falsehood, when such indul-
gence in falsehood may be necessary to attain any
object they have in view. It appears that ROSE
TAMISIER always remained alone in the church for some
minutes before the miracle was performed ; her habit
was to go, accompanied by one of her female disci-
ples, into the church, and to remain kneeling before the
altar for some minutes, when she should dispatch her
attendant to warn the villagers and the cure that the
miracle was about to be performed, and on their en-
tering the church they found the picture with gouts
of fluid blood apparently issuing from the wounds,
which blood did not coagulate on the picture, but
maintained its fluidity. On the trial a chemist and
an artist, who had been engaged in a series of experi-
ments for the purpose of discovering the me-
thod in which the pretended miracle was performed,
declared that blood disgorged by a leech, and conse-
quently deprived of a portion of its fibrine, would,
when rubbed upon the surface of an oil painting or
canvas, exhibit all the phenomena of the bleeding
picture of St. Saturnin ; the leech theory would also
account for the miraculous stigmata with which ROSE
TAMISIER was, ever and anon marked. The village
doctor who was called in on the first appearance of
the miracle, and who testified to the fact that the fluid
on the picture was really blood, seems to
have had some inkling that a gross fraud
was being practised; for he exclaimed, "It is indeed
blood, but I would not on any consideration have at-
tended had I known why I was sent for. Why, I
shall be the laughing stock of the country." The evi-
dence of Madame MESTRE, a lady who was at first a
believer in the miracle, and who undertook a journey
to St. Saturnin for the purpose of soliciting the
prayers of the saint for the recovery of a sick rela-
tive, is the most convincing that could
be produced, and would, we should ima-
gine, raise a doubt even in the mind of
that most credulous of mankind, Dr. JOHN HENRY
NEWMAN. Madame MESTRE says, that having arrived
at St. Saturnin, she proceeded to the inn at which
ROSE TAMISIER resided with her cousin Madame
JEAN, and finding no one on the ground floor she
went up stairs and heard several persons in loud con-
versation in a room on the first floor, the door of
which was open ; she distinctly heard these words
spoken in the Provençal patois—" There are crowds of
people down by the chapel who are calling out that
they want to see the saint. Let us see her, they cry.
Ah I yes, we will show you saints enough." These
words were followed by shouts of laughter, and
Madame MESTER returned completely cured of her
illusions as to the sanctity of Ross TAMISIER.
There is still another witness whose testimony,
if he be the witness of truth, is even
more convincing as against RosE TAMISIER, and that
is M. FORTUNE CEIA.VARD, a priest, who feeling con-
vinced that RosE TAMISIER was an impostor deter-
mined to lay a trap for her, and accordingly he pre-
tended to be a devout believer in her and her miracles,
and so far succeeded in imposing on her as to induce
her to performs in conjunction with him a neuvaine
(that is, we believe, to say certain prayers together
at the same hour for nine consecutive days),
in order to obtain for him a manifestation of D ivine
grace. The neuvaine was accordingly performed,
RosE and Father CHAVARD being in different towns
at the time, and,at the end the Priest CHAVARD wrote
to ROSE an account of a vision which he had, in which
the Virgin MARY and the SAVIOUR had personally
appeared, and the details of which are of a charac-
ter so blasphemous that we will not translate that
which the Rev. Father CHATARD ventured to write
and to invent, for he acknowledges that it is pure in-
vention. He concludes his letter by declaring that he
has no doubt RosE bad a similar vision at the same
moment, to which she replied in the affirmative-
This evidence is convincing as to the imposition of
ROSE TAMISIER ; but in what light does it place the
morality of the Catholic priesthood ? Here we have
the minister of a religion of truth and of mercy
acting the part of a common thief-taker, worming
himself into the confidence of this girl merely to be-
tray, and not shrinking from the utterance of false-
hood the most deliberate and premeditated, and from
blasphemy the most atrocious (for he actually uses
all that Christians venerate as the most sacred)
as accomplices with him in his fraud),
in order to,, accomplish his
,object; he himself, in
the most shameless manner, testifies in a court of
justice to his own falsehood and to his own blas-
phemy, in which he seems to take a pride ; and there
is not found in all the assemblage either a
priest, a lawyer, or a judge to rebuke this
self-convicted reverend liar and blasphemer. What
must be the state of the consciences of those who
could thus regard the conduct of this priest as a mere
matter of course ? and if a priest does not scruple to
resort to falsehood and blasphemy to expose a poor
peasant girl, to what means will he not resort to
secure the conversion of a rich and noble person

We have at length authentic evidence of the pro-
ceedings of the expeditions under the command of
Captains Annul and PENNY in search of Sir JOHN
FRANKLIN. Dispatches have been received from both
of these gallant officers, a portion of which will be
found in another part of this day's impression, and
which will be perused with ,the greatest interest by
all capable of appreciating the zeal and devotion
which induced the distinguished officer (the object of
their search) and his brave companions to engage in
an undertaking entailing so many inevitable priva-
tions and sufferings, at the call of duty, and the parties
who undertook the search after the missing expedi-
tion, to encounter similar trials, accompanied by
even greater toil and labour in the cause of humanity.
We say nothing of the dangers incidental to the
proceeding in both instances, for that is a word
which, if not absolutely unknown in the vocabulary
of British seamen, is at least one of the, last to be
taken into consideration on any legitimate occasion.
Although nothing decisive has been ascertained
as to the fate of Sir JOHN FRANKLIN or
his associates, traces have been discovered
which indicate the locality in which they
passed their first winter, that of 1845-6. This was
in the bay between Beechy Island and Cape Riley,
and on the former were found three graves_of persons
belonging to the expedition. There was also cir-
cumstantial evidence which, in the opinion of Captain
AUSTIN, was sufficient to show that the departure was
something sudden, but " whether at an early or late
period of the season, it was very difficult to deter-

mine."

This discovery inspired new life into the party.
Having once come upon the traces, they were
determined to leave nothing undone to bring their
arduous undertaking to a successful termination.
Numerous parties were dispatched in every direction,
on the northern and southern shores, in which there
was any reasonable hope of finding any new circum-
stance that might serve as a guide for further inves-
tigation. It will be sufficient to state, as an example
of the mode in which this arduous and important trust
was discharged, that the party under Lieutenant L.
M'CLINTOCK, consisting of six individuals, travelled
no less than 760 miles, and searched 255 miles of
coast, having been out no less than 80 days ; while
that under Mr. A. R. BRADFORD, surgeon, were out
an equal time, travelled 669 miles, and searched 165
miles of coast, of which 135 miles were newly dis-
covered.

Where all so nobly discharged their duty, it may
seem invidious to specify any particular names ; we

only, however, follow the precedent set by Captain
. _

AUSTIN, who felt it " to be due to bring specially before
their Lordships' notice the great performance of
Lieutenant M'CLINTOCK, and the crew of the
sledge Perseverance." We may, , men-
tion on this part of the case, that the
party under Captain ERASMUS OM➢LANNEY, which
was 60 days out, travelled 480 miles, and
searched no less than 205 miles of newly-discovered
coast ; that under Lieutenant SUERARD OSBORNE, 50
days out, travelled 506 miles, and searched 70 miles

of newly-discovered coast; that under Lieutenant
W. H. BROWNE, 44 days out, travelled 375 miles,

and searched 150 miles of newly-discovered coast ;
that under Lieutenant G. F. M'LEAN, 29 days out,
travelled 236 miles, and searched SO miles of newly-
discovered coast ; while (though last not least)
Lieutenant ALDRICH, with his associates, were
out 62 days, travelled 550 miles, and searched 70
miles of newly-discovered coast. Other parties
penetrated into the interior, and nothing was left un-
done on any side to forward the noble object in
which they were engaged. All these exertions were,
however, fruitless. No further indication could be
found, and after so great an exertion of time and la-
bour, Captain AUSTIN was compelled to arrive at the
conclusion that " the expedition of Sir JOHN FRANK-
LIN did not prosecute the object of its mission
to the southward and westward of Wellington
Strait, and that having communicated with
Captain PENNY, and fully considered his official reply
relative to the search in Wellington Strait, by the
expedition under his command, he (Captain AUSTIN)
did not feel authorised to prosecute, even if prac-
ticable, a further search in those directions."
The gallant officer also declares his intention of
now proceeding with all dispatch to attempt the
search of Jones's Sound, and concludes with a
satisfactory assurance that he has the satisfaction of
stating, at the last moment, that he is " proceeding
under favourable circumstances." Of this latter
search we may possibly know nothing during the
present year. We are, however, satisfied that all
which the most devoted zeal and energy, the most
unflinching assiduity can accomplish, will be achieved.
If the fate of Sir JOHN FRANKLIN and his companions
can ever be ascertained, all will be known ere an-
other year has elapsed. Whatever may be the result,
and GOD grant that it may be favourable, al-
though we confess that but little hope re-
mains, there must be an end to all
future experiments of a similar character.
The lives of our best seamen, of those who have
efficiently and indefatigably served their country
under the most trying circumstances, are not to
be sacrificed on a wild-goose chase after a
matter of but little practical utility. Even
if the north-west passage were ascertained,
beyond the possibility of doubt, how could it be re-
sorted to as a means of shortening the communica-
tion between different hemispheres ? It would of
course be interesting in a scientific point of view, or
perhaps we should rather say as a matter of curiosity,
but as to the benefits to society it may at once and
for ever be placed on the same footing with the
ascents of Mont Blanc, or the still less excusable
performances of the " ballunatics."

We commend this matter to the attentive considera-
tion of those waverers who are inclined to lend a
favourable ear to the representations of priests seeking
for converts.

THE YACHT AMERICA.—A challenge has been sent
up from the beachmen at North Yarmouth to sail one of their
splendid largo yawls, named the Reindeer, against the clipper
schooner yacht America. The sum proposed is 100 guineas.
A correspondence is now going on with the owner of the
latter relative to the proposed match.

DEATH OF MR. THOMSON, LATE SCOTS FUSILIER
GUARDS. —Mr. Thomson, late Quartermaster in the Scots
Fusilier Guards (of which regiment Prince Albert is the
colonel), died in North Wales on the 6th inst. The late
Quartermaster Thomson served with the Guards at Waterloo.
He had been on the half-pay list since 1837.
_

At the very moment that the Rev. JOHN. HENRY
NEWMAN, D.D., was at Birmingham, lauding the
doctrine and discipline of the Roman Catholic Church
as the perfection of truth, upholding its ministers as
patterns of morality and religion, men incapable of
imposture, and whom no consideration could induce
to say the thing that was not, and professing his
belief in all modern miracles in general, and in the
miracle of the bleeding picture in particular, a trial
was going on at Carpentras, in the south of France,
which throws considerable light upon the morality of
the persons so lauded, and on the manner in which the
miracle which obtained such ready credence was per-
formed. Our readers no doubt remember the ac-
counts which appeared in the public journals during
the months of December and January last, of a cer-
tain bleeding picture in the Church of St. Saturnin,
which picture, in compliance with the prayers of a
certain ROSE TA3IISIER, would exhibit on its surface
miraculous drops of blood, and to the truth of which
sundry priests, and the sub-prefect of Apt, and a
certain gendarme, besides the innkeeper of the village,
who was the cousin of RosE TAMISIER, were willing
to testify. But this was not all, nor near
all, the miraculous doings of the sainted
Rosa ; she desired to have a letter from a certain
JOSEPHINE TAMER; who could neither read nor
write, and scarcely had she formed the desire when
JOSEPHINE seized a pen, wrote a letter in the neatest
handwriting imaginable, and in the most elegant
language, and has continued to write ever since. This
miracle will, however, appear less surprising when we

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DEATH OF SIR HENRY FLETCHER, BART.---We
have to record the demise of this gentleman, who expired on
the 6th instant, at Ashley Park, Walton-upon-Thames, in
his 44th year. The deceased was son of the second baronet,
by the fourth daughter of Thomas Vaughan, Esq., of Wood-
stone, county of Lincoln. He married, in 1834, the second
daughter of George Browne, Esq., of Bombay, having suc-
ceeded his father in 1821. The first baronet represented
Cumberland in Parliament for 34 years, having been pre-
viously in the East India Company's service, of which, from
1763 to 1784, he was a director. He is succeeded by his son
Henry, born in 1835.

THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
RAILWAY.—The inquest on the unfortunate persons who
were killed in consequence of the accident which took place
on Saturday last on the above line of railway, was resumed
yesterday at Bicester, and after the examination of some of
the officials of the railway company, was adjourned until
Monday, to give time for the production of evidence from
London.

Sr. JAMES'S PALACE.—Considerable alterations
and improvements are now in progress in the internal ar-
rangements of St. James's Palace, to facilitate the entrance
and exit of the nobility and gentry on drawing-room, levee
days, and other state occasions.

EXTRAORDINARY FLIGHT OF CARRIER PIGEONS..--
A carrier pigeon which was let fly at Sarragossa at half-past
four o'clock in the morning of the 28th July last, arrived at
Liege, in Belgium, the following day at six in the evening.
Twenty-three. other pigeons which were let fly at the same
time arrived in a short time after, and ninety-three others
stopped on the road.

Yesterday evening the National Gallery, Trafalgar-
square, and the Vernon Collection, Marlborough House, Pall-
mall, were closed to the public for the annual vacation, and
to-morrow (Saturday), the 13th inst., they close to stu-
dents. ,They will both re-open to the public on Monday, the
27th of October.

FRIDAY EVENING, SETTEMBER 12, 1851.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The National has the following on the recent
measures adopted by the PRESIDENT of the Republic
for the expulsion of the political refugees :
"In the month of February, 1831, Louis Napoleon
entered as a volunteer into the ranks of the Italian
patriots. Did he not then admit the right of con-
quering liberty by force to be legitimate? We read in
a journal of the 12th March, 1831, The two sons of
the Count de Saint Lea set an example to the army of
courage and ability. They have proposed a means of
suppling the want of cannon by hurling large stones to
an immense distance, in a way which greatly annoys
the enemy.' Now, we ask whether the sons of the
Count de St. Leu were Italians or French? If they were
Italians, we cannot praise too highly their display of
courage. Bat what ought Louis Napoleon to think to-day
of the severities practised by his own police against
German patriots ? If, on the other hand, they were
French, and, as Frenchmen, still devoted themselves to
the cause of Roman democracy, why should he think it
a crime on our part to sympathise with democratic
refugees ? The son of the Count de Saint Leu,
who showed the most adroitness in casting huge
stones, is now President of the French Republic—
the enemy at that time was the army of Pope Gregory
XVI. In 1833, Louis Napoleon wrote an address to
the Polish refugees, in which he said—' Banished from
my country, I also groan over the law of exile by
which my family are stricken; but when we see
to-day every noble soul driven from his native land, one
feels proud to be in the ranks of the oppressed and the
proscribed.' Can it be then that nobleness in exile and
dignity in the misfortunes of the proscribed have ceased
since Louis Napoleon has been chief of the executive power
in the very country from which he had been so long
repelled? In 1838, there was a man whose only re-
fuge on the Continent lay in a corner of the Swiss
canton of Thurgovis. The French Government at-
tempted to have him expelled, but Switzerland refused
to betray the laws of hospitality. History does not
afford a more heroic example of firmnes on the part
of a nation, yet it is the protected emigre of Arenen-
berg who now fills the prisons of Mazes with refu-
gees, accused of plotting against the Kings of Germany,
and in the journals of the Government we read that his
main efforts aro directed towards Switzerland, and
against the political refugees of Geneva., It is under
Louis Napoleon that the walls of Paris are placarded
with a document which is a libel upon the guests of
France. There occurs in the writings of the same Louis
Napoleon the passage, The French are the natural
allies of all free people. They neither interfere in other
Governments, or allow other Governments to interfere
with them. They afford an asylum to foreigners banished
from their own country for political causes.' Such causes
cannot fail of striking the eyes of the least observant as
to the value of princely programmes."
The Prefecture of Police was yesterday crowded
with foreigners, applying to have their passports pro-
perly regulated. The Minister of the Interior intends
applying the provision of the ordounance to all the,
provincial towns of France.
N. DUPIN has delivered a speech to the Council-
General of the Nievre, in which he recommends a
legal revision of the constitution. He impresses above
all things on the constituency the necessity of paying
attention to the elections for the Assembly. " With
a good Assembly," says M. DUPIN, "we can effec-
tually control even a Socialist President."
The Bourse was firm at the commencement of busi-
ness, but several large sales having taken place prices
declined. The Five per Cents. opened at 92f. 25c.,
and closed at 91f. 80c.; the Three per Cents. closed at
551. 85c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 870 f.; Rouen, 590 f.;
Havre, 235 f; Great Northern, 458 f. 75c.; Avignon,
205 f.; Vierzon, 433 f. 75c.; Basle, 1481. 75c.; Bordeaux,
386 f. 25e.; Paris and Strasburg, 355 f.; Tours and
Nantes, 265 f.; Amiens to Boulogne, 260 t.

THE SHARE MARKETS.

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BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. 11.
Boulogne and Amiens, 101,4—Namur and Liege, 61A—
Northern of France, 106—Rouen and Havre, 9%.

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 6th have arrived.
They do not contain any political intelligence of
importance. It appears that the Government con-
tinues to display great rigour towards the newspaper
press. The Defensor del Commercio states that it
has undergone three seizures in five days, without
being informed what articles had led to this proceed-
ing. The Herald° gives accounts from the Canary
Islands, dated the 12th ult., announcing that the
cholera was beginning to diminish, after having car-
ried off from 7,000 to 8,000 persons.
MADRID BOLSA, SEPT. 6.—The following are the
prices of Stocks :—Three per Cents., 36-; Five
per Cents., with current Coupon, 171 ; Coupons, 8i ;
Passive Debt, 6i. Exchange on London, 51.

GERMANY.
The King of PRUSSIA. returned to Berlin from
Ischl on the 9th.

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The Augsburg Gazette, under date of Frankfort,
Bth, says—" We learn that the resolution adopted by
the Germanic Diet relative to the liberty of the press
goes no further than that a circular shall be addressed
to all the Governments to request them to adopt
energetic measures with regard to the democratic
journals, and to regulate the laws on the press con-
formably to the monarchical principle. It is
particularly prohibited to the journals to call in
question the principle on which the Federal As-
sembly reposes. The Germanic Diet intends to
await the result of these measures before turning its
attention to the propositions made to it by the
Committee relative to the general laws on the press.
The German Journal of Frankfort says :
"We learn that, at its last sitting, the Ger-
manic Diet voted on the ulterior propositions
of the Political Committee, and that these
propositions had a legal majority. They re-
late, it is said, to measures which shall se-
cure the execution of the last resolutions come to en
the subject of the fundamental rights, and of the re-
gulations which should accompany the publication of
the federal resolutions of the 26th ult., as, for in-
stance, the formation 9f an Executive Committee, and
the determination of its competency, as well as the
means to be placed at its disposal. Among these
means is a federal army,
.of from 12,000 to 16,000
men. It is, however, said that the publication of
the resolutions will depend on certain circumstances."

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
The following is the plan of organization proposed
by the Holstein Notables:—
"Presuming that a common hereditary succession for
all parts of the country is to be established, in a way to
insure the interests of the subject and the claims of the
lawful heirs, the undersigned take the liberty of pro-
posing the following plan for the organization of the
Danish Monarchy:—
" Ist. The Danish Monarchy constitutes a totality,
inasmuch as all parts of it have the same monarch, the
same hereditary succession, and the same diplomatic and
consular representation. The flag is common, but with
the arms of the single provinces. The same is the case
with regard to the army and navy, with the restrictions
and conditions quoted in Art. 8.
"2d. The monarchy consists of the kingdom of Den-
mark, the duchy of Schleswig, the duchy of Holstein,
and the duchy of Lauenburg.
" 3d. The duchies of Holstein and Lauenberg form
part of the Germanic Confederation. The duchy of
Schleswig retains its existing independence. The rela-
tive situation of the three duchies is secured by special
diets, which (together with the Monarch) have the
power of, decision relative to the inferior affairs of each
of the three duchies. Concerning the interior organi-
zation of each of these provinces, the particulars to be
settled by special constitutions, according to essentially
accordant principles.
" 4th. The duchies of Schleswig and Holstein retain
their hitherto existing community of administration and
jurisdiction. Both duchies have a common representa-
tion near the Monarch, and a common high court of ad.
ministration and justice. Only natives of either province
are to be employed in the adminstration of justice. The
isles of Alsen, Arroe, and the Torninglehn (fief of Tor-
ning), continue in their former state, with regard to the
Church and public instruction.
" sth. The two nationalities of the duchy of Sables-
wig have equal rights. Concerning the language used
in the churches and schools, the status quo of January 1,
1848, is to serve as a base. The legal decision neces-
sary to insure this equality of rights is reserved for a
decree of the Schleswig Diet, and the consent of the
Monarch.

" 6th. Each duchy participates in the expenses re-
quired by the common affairs of the monarchy (Arts. 1
and 8), in proportion to a certain quota that is to be
fixed. A minimum for every part of these expenses is
to be named once for all; the minimum will be paid by
the duchies; and in case of a larger amount of ex-
penses, the consent of the diet of each duchy is neces-
sary to its payment. How these expenses are to be
covered, the Monarch and diet of each duchy will have
to settle. _

" 7th. The question of a uniform system of toll, post-
age, mint, trade, and navigation, through the whole
monarchy, is reserved for an agreement between all the
Diets under mediation, and the consent of the Monarch.
In this respect the status quo of January 1, 1841, serves
as a basis for the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein.
" Bth. The entire army of the monarchy is under the
same Monarch, and the same chief command, which is
responsible to the Danish Piet, and to each of the diffe-
rent provinces, with regard to the single divisions of the
army. In respect to the expenses of the command, the
provisions of Art 6 are to be observed, The Holstein
and Lauenburg troops form the German federal contin-
gent, in which only Germans are to be employed, for
whose military instruction the necessary dispositions
will be made in the duchy of Holstein. The Schleswig
troops form a special division, in which, to secure the
rights of the two nationalities (with regard to the service
and the places of garrison in times of peace), dispositions
are to be made. The expenses of each division are to
be paid by the ;respective provinces. The participation
oi Holstein in the Danish navy is reserved for au agree-
ment with the German Confederation.
" 9th. Whether the public revenues and public debts
are to be common, or to be shared proportionally, and in
what manner an arrangement is to be made, will be re-
served for future explanation.
" 10th. This plan of organization is laid before the
diets of the different provinces.
(signed) ‘, BAUDISSIN, A. MOLTKE, RANTZAU,
TH. BERME, SCSARMEIr, WIESE."

and Dublin
West Cornwall • • ..
West London
Whitehaven and Farness.
York, Newt., & Berwick
Ditto and Newcastle
Extension ..

Ditto G.N.E. purchase
York and North Midland

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'ALS.

• Railways. Paid. Nominal Prices. Business duo
to-day.
Aberdeen dis.
Aberdeen, No. 2, 7 pr. ct. 236 .• —.•
Caledonian 101. - - • . 10 —7%
Chester and Holyhead .. all 144 14% 14%
Dund. Per. & Aber. June, all % M di&
• East Angliaa (31. 10,.)
6 per cent. .. all 1% —1%
Eastern Counties Eaten.,
per cent. No. 1 • • all par p pm
Do. No. 2 .• • • • • all % dis par dim.
F Do. New 6p. cent. Stock 10 10% —lO %
Eastern Union, Scrip
guaran. 6 percent. • • all 10 —ll
' Do. 101. Deben. Shares . all •• —••
East Lancashire, 6 per
cent. quarter shares .. all • • •••• ••
E. &W. York. June. sths all ..
Edln. Per. & Dun. 511 p. ct. all %dis. par
Glasgow & S.-W. Consul. 100 • • —• •
Gt. Northern, 5 per cent. all 1334 13% 13%
Great South. & Western
(Ireland) eighths .. S i 4 1 p.
Gt. West. ( Wilts, Som.,
& Weymouth Stock .. 100 9034 —9l
Lancashire and York-
shire, F. 201. .. • • .. 6 • • dis.
Do. 6 per et. Stock .. 100 129 131
Leeds Northern, 6 par
cent., No. 1.. • • • • 11 • • —•• P
Do. quarters, 1848 S •• p
London, Brighton, and
South Coast guar. 5 per
et., late Croydon thirds 100 ..
Do. pref., 8 p ct. Stock,
1851, from 50/. share. E 100
Do. new guar., 6 per ct. 100
Lon. & N. West. (Cov. &
Nuneat.) 5 per cent. 133(
London &S.-W., uew .. b 234 p.
Manch., Sheffield, and
Line., guar. shrs., No. 1 all 11 —l2
Do. new, 101. .. .• all - 11%
Do., 61. • • • • .. 3 % % P
Midland Con. 6p. c..tock 100 •.
Do. Consul. Bristol &
Binning., 6 per cent... 100 127 129
Do. Bristol & Glouces. all
Norfolk Extension all 15 —l6
Do. guar. 536 per cent. all .. —••
Do. Waveney Valley .. 2 .• —• •
North British .. 5 4% —4% x.d x.d
Oaf. Won &IV 01. 151.6 p.c 6 % 7 P
Shrewsbury and Birm.
New Guaranteed .. all 9% —lO z.d
Shrews. and Ches. (Nor.
W. Min.) 8 per cent. all 14% 1534
South Devon .. all 12 —l4
South-Eastern, 436 p. ct. 10 • • —••
WestLondon,lst Cl. (101.) all • •
Do. 2d Class do. (par) all •• ••
York, Newc., and Berw., 16IZ
Gt. N.of E. Par. .. all 16
—4%
Do.
York and• North Midland
U. and S. Purch. 10 —8%
FOREIGN.
Boulogne and Amiens •• all 1034 1034 10%
Central of France (Or-
leans and Vierzon) •• all 17% 17%
Demerara • . • • • • all•
Dutch Rhenish .• 8 —47 dis.
East Indian • • .. .. 18 2% _ 336 p.
Do. do. de. • • 20
Great Indian Peninsula.. all % h P.
Ditto ditto • . 2% %—% p.
Louvain a la Samlare 7% —
Luxembourg • • • . 8 % 1
Ditto • • • • • • • • 10 I% 2
Madrid and Valentia 2 •
Maria Antonia • • .. 2716 s 8d 8 —lO
Ditto, New .. 836 8 4
Namur and Liege all 6% 6% 6
Northern of France .. 16 14% 14% 14% 34
Orleans and Bordeaux .. 9 4% die.
Paris and Orleans .. all 83 —B5
Paris and Rouen .. all 23 —24 z.d
Paris and Strasbourg .. 17 5 —5% dis.
Rouen and Havre .. all
Sambre and Meuse .. all 2% 8 2%
Tours and Nantes . .. 16 9% —9% dis. 636
Tournay, Jurbise, Lan-
don, and Hassan all
West Flanders 8% 1%