The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1851.

low eulogiums like these, transparent flatteries
like these, become rather nauseous when ap-
lied directly to the men flattered and , eulogised.
They are drunk in, doubtless, by greedy ears, and
are welcomed by fervent acclamations, but when they
come to be reduced to print next day they appear
with a somewhat sorry grace in black-and-white.
Added to all which, Mr. COBDEN is damaging the
very cause he is attempting to advance by the erro-
neous and mistaken manner of its advocacy. For
surely it stands to reason that—if the men in the
upper galleries of a theatre are so conspicuously en-
lightened—if the spokesmen among these toilers of the
community are the most gifted individuals in the
land from the circumstance of their not being the
spokesmen of the middle and the higher classes—if
all this be really the case, as Mr. COBDEN says it is,
why then common sense tells us that no very pressing
necessity can, by possibility, exist for abolishing these
same vilified and vituperated taxes upon knowledge.
With enlightenment so pecaliarly diffused among
the working people of the United Kingdom—where
the want of dissipating their ignorance ?
With such exquisite refinement of intellect,
and such delicate sensitiveness of disposi-
tion—where the need of removing imposts said
to weigh so heavily upon both the popular mind
and the popular temperament ? Again we say with
Mr. BURCEIELL—Fudge ! It is precisely because
the humbler classes are not so enlightened, so refined,
and so remarkable for their blending of knowledge
and morality, that we are just now advocating with
all the ardour of enthusiasm the need of the remis-
sion of these same taxes upon knowledge. It is
precisely because we cannot recognize among
our artizans and labouring population generally
the tokens of any such moral and mental advance-
ment as the one here prematurely panegyrised by the
Member for the West Riding, that we, are solicitous
to witness the organization of a regular system of na-
tional education, and to behold, with this purpose in
view, the removal of the duties at present affixed to
the materials requisite for its diffusion. Satisfied
upon these points, we have too sincerely and earnestly
at heart the interests of the working classes as a body,
to listen with indifference to any such ill-timed
and most injudicious arguments. We are too
really anxious to recognize the carrying out
of the present movement against the pernicious taxes
on paper and advertisements, to regard with indiffer-
ence the articulation of sentiments which cannot fail
to retard the progress of the beneficent agitation. It
is, therefore, with feelings of genuine regret that we
perceive the abilities and the influence of Mr. Con-
DEN so egregiously and miserably misapplied as they
appear to us to have been on the occasion of the im-
portant meeting yesterday convened in St. Martin's
Hall, Long Acre. Let him restrict himself to
the logical illustration of an abuse, and to the
manly advocacy of a reform, without striving
to ingratiate himself with his auditors and the work-
ing people generally, by any such melancholy toady-
ings and flatteries. He will then find no reason
whatever to dread the accusation of being a success-
ful or a disappointed demagogue, and give no cause
either for the regret of his admirers or the derision of
his antagonists.

Substantial testimony has already been afforded
that the promoters of the Exhibition are no mere
dreamers—that testimony being the Crystal Palace of
Industry. From the magnitude of that remarkable
edifice, the scale of the entire undertaking may be in
some measure estimated. From the symmetry of its
proportions, some faint idea may be formed of the
skill employed in the general conduct of the enter-
prise. For not less care has been devoted to the
arrangements of the Exposition by the Commis-
sioners than has been manifestly dedicated to the fa-
brication of its home of glass and iron by the con-
tractors and the architect. The manifold regulations
required to be enforced betimes Eby the former, with
a view to simplify in some degree matters which must
otherwise have remained inextricably confused if
only by reason of their very multiplicity, would
be scarcely credible but for the remembrance
that the festival about to be celebrated is one
enlisting the sympathies of the various nations of
both hemispheres. The enormous extent of the
preparations, in short, would be more than sufficient
to bewilder any but men as amply qualified as the
members of the Royal Commission. Naturally
enough the vastness of these same preparations has
awakened among the more sanguine hopes i❑ the
highest degree chimerical and illusory. Instead of
looking upon the scheme simply as one calculated to
impart a wholesome stimulus to the industry and
ingenuity of the multitude throughout the globe,
they have pictured to themselves, as the consequence
of the Exhibition, the dawn of an age of peace which
the union of science and religion may ultimately
perfect to a millennium. Thus, at least, we should
interpret the predictions. As if any better result
could possibly anticipate, than the one we have
already hinted at, the encouragement of handi-
craft and the applause of philosophical ex-
periment, the excitement, in short, of a genial
and beneficial emulation among the labouring classes,
of the different nations of Christendom ! Oat of the
extravagance of these very fantastic prophecies of
good have come equally exaggerated and erroneous
forebodings of evil as the result of the entire enter-
prise. Warnings of the most sinister kind ima-
ginable have been croaked about by the human
ravens of the community—the project appearing in
their eyes a perilous provocation of all the ills re•
puted to have emanated from the box of PANDORA.
" Pride shall have a fall," is the text of these lugu-
brious inuendoes : and in proportion to the pleasure
evinced by the masses generally speaking in the pro-
gress of the arrangements, have their dismal hints as
to their issue become more audible.

Now, without indulging any ridiculous visions of
advantage as likely, to our thinking, to accrue to the
people from the approaching Exhibition of Inter-
national Industry, we must confess at once that
we are very far indeed from participating in
the alarm of those who look forward to its
commencement as to the beginning of a great calamity.
Oa the contrary, we find ourselves disposed to await
with feelings of confident satisfaction the opening of
the Crystal Palace, calculated, as we are convinced it
is, to forward ilia very great way the blessed labours
of civilization. That it may be the ulterior means of
placing mankind at large on a more amiable footing
in regard to each other we believe, and hence we are
not altogether disinclined to view the undertaking as
the probable medium through which the chances of
war may be somewhat diminished, and, at any rate,
through which its rigours may to some appreciable
extent be mitigated. Apart from this more senti-
mental way of estimating the value of the
present plan of intercommunication, however,
we are not reluctant to consider with some
degree of complacency a proceeding which must
tend very materially to familiarise the races
of the world with their respective methods of
experiment and fabrication. From this wide diffu-
sion of knowledge an almost infinite amount of
benefit must accrue to the peoples of the earth collec-
tively. Science must be matured by the interchange
and industry promoted by it to an extent hitherto
regarded as impracticable. The more laborious com-
munities will be encouraged to a continuance of their
assiduity ; and the more indolent be awakened from
their torpor by the contrast of results shaming them
into activity. Practical advantages must therefore
ensue from the Industrial Exposition as its certain
and inevitable consequences. Added to the material
benefit in this manner conferred upon the multitude
by the originator of the scheme, there are others of a
subordinate kind, relating to the improvement of
the social condition of the people, which cannot be
altogether overlooked. Less estimable they may
seem to be to the majority when compared to
the good arising to commerce and manufactures,
but eminently deserving of attention they un-
questionably are to every seriously reflective tem-
perament. Happiness, according to the subtle defini-
tion of some philosopher, does not so much consist in
the success of our greatest undertakings, but in the
agreeable and satisfactory arrangement of all the little
petty details of life in the twenty-four hours. So it
is to a considerable extent with reference to the nobler
community.homilies Sermons,
an do r
moraldogm dogmatic
ea.
qualities
ofof a
any
description,
tnycs,hing and ultra-religious Acts of Parliament,
and matters of a similar character, affect
the disposition of a people in no way at all,
when contriuted with the influence of habits and

customs of apparently the most homely and in-
significant character. Anything, consequently,
which we can possibly do towards securing
the amelioration of whatever is vicious or reprehen-
sible in these national habits and customs should be
welcomed with all imaginable cordiality by the real
philanthropist Trivial they may appear to the su-
perficial observer, but important they are in reality,
nevertheless—constituting, as they do, the very bone
and basis of the national character. Among the
minute advantages which are thus looked upon as
probable cannot be overlooked those which many are
just now anticipating with some eagerness in refe-
rence to the improvement of modern costumes. Very
far indeed are we from regarding this improvement
as undeserving of serious consideration ; and it has
consequently been with satisfaction, as well as with
feelings of amusement, that we have watched the
growth of an enthusiastic indignation against various
articles of attire, and above all against the European
hat, an article of dress which has come at last to
be vilified by one infuriated antagonist as " that
stiff and nonsensical hat—that hat as hollow as the
head of whoever first put it on the heads of others—the
hat, imperious and unswerving, tall, dark, grim, and
dismal—the hat that scowls from above a pleasant
countenance—the hat that crowns all absurdity."
While changes of a desirable nature are being made
in other quarters we are sanguine that such as those
here indicated may not be set aside at this moment
from any belief in their unimportance.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The procession of the Bxuf gras passed off quietly
on Tuesday. Since 1848 there has been no proces-
sion of a Baal gras in Paris ; in that year the pro-
cession, coming immediately after the revolution, was
a grand political demonstration, and with their usual
appreciation of the ridiculous the getters up of the
procession of 1848 called their fat ox Duchatel, after
the heavy, pompous, and over-fed fat ex-Minister of
the Interior, the colleague'of GUIZOT and TESTE. The
following account of the procession of the present
year appears in Galignani's Messenger:—
" The ex was conducted by four sacrificators, dressed
up as,savages, and behind it came a car handsomely
ornamented and drawn by four white horses, gaily ca •
parisoned. Standing on the highest part of the vehicle
was a female, pressed a l'antique, to represent Ceres
holding a sickle in her hand, and at the four corners of
the vehicle children seated similarly attired. After the
car came the representatives of the different nations, in
appropriate costume, the whole cortege being preceded
and followed by mounted republican guards. The throng
of spectators was so great in front of the Elys 43 when
the procession passed, that a man was thrown down, but
fortunately rescued in time to prevent his being
trampled on. The ox which figured in the day's show
bears the name of Liberti, and weighs 1,432 kilo-
grammes."
The illoeiteur mentions that the four regiments
longest in Paris which are to be removed are to be
replaced by others, and that several other changes are
to be made with the view of allowing all the regi-
ments in garrison to take the duty in the forts and the
town in turn. _ _ .

The Bourse was firm, with little business doing. The
Five per Cents. opened at 96f. 85c., and closed at
96f. 90c.; the Three per Cents. at 58f. 10c.; Orleans
Railroad Shares, 885 f. ; Rouen, 647 f. 50c.; Havre, 2751.;
Great Northern, 4761'. 25c.; Avignon, 190 f.; Vierzon,
415 f.; Basle, 158 f. 75c.; Bordeaux, 395 f.; Paris and
Strasburg, 370 f.; Tours and Nantes, 256 f. 25c..

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAncu 5.
Boulogne and Amiens, 9.‘—East Indian, 15 —Namur
and Liege, B%—Northern of France, 151—Orleans and Bor.
deaux, 3%—Paris and Strasbourg, 10:% ex div.—Tours and
Nantes, 5%.

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 28th ult. have arrived.

The Committee on the National Debt has reported
to the Chamber of Deputies in favour of the Govern-
ment project.
MADRID BOLSA, FEB. 28.—Three per Cents., 341;
Five per Cents., 14j. Exchange on London, 50 60
money.

THE SHARE MARKETS.

13RITXSH ItAILWAYS.

Railways.

Aberdeen.. .. • • • •
Ambergate, Nottingham,
Boston, & E. Juncion
Belfast and County Down
Birming., Wowerhamp.,
and Stour Valley • •
Birkenh., Lan., & Chesh
June., late 331.6 x. Id..
Do. Chest. & Birkenhd.,

501. & 251. Consolidated
Do., do., 201. • .
Bristol and Exeter •• -
Caledonian • • • • • •
Cheater and Holyhead
Direct Loud. and Portsm.
Dublin and Belfast Junct.
Dublin and Kingstown..
Dundalk and Enniskillen
East Anglian (251. L. &
E. and L. & D.) • • ••
Do, (181. E. & H.) ••
Eastern Counties ..
Eastern Union, class A,
late E. U. shares • •

Do. do. do. ..
Do. do., B & C shares
East Lancashire • • • •
Do. New quarters • •
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Edam, Perth, and Dundee
Do. Newport .. • •
Exeter and Exmouth ..
Glasgow and South-West,
De. do. G. D. & C. stock
Great Northern • • • •
Do. halves, A, deferred
Do. halves, B, 6 per et.
Great Southern and
Western, Ireland • •
Great Western .• • •
Do. New, 171. • • -•
Lancaster and Carlisle ..

Do. thirds • • • • • •
Lancaster and Preston ..
Lancashire and Yorkshire
Do. quarter shares ..
Do. fifths • . • • •
Do. West Riding Union
Leeds and Thirsk • • • •
Liverpool, Crosby, and
Southport .. .. • •
London and Blackwall
Do., Tilbury Ext. Scrip
Loudon, Brighton, and',
South Coast .. • •
London and N.-Weaternl
Do. do. new quarters .1
Do. fifths
Uo. 101. sh., M. & B (c)
Landon and S.-11 estern
Do. new 501. ..
Do. new 401.
Londonderry & Coleraine
Do. hail shares .. • •
Londonderry and Ennis-
Manchester, Buxton, and

Matlock - .. .. .•
Manchester, Sheffield, 8s

Lincolnshire i• • ••
Do. Manchester and

Lincoln Union • •
Midland .. .- • • • •
Do. consolidated pref.
Do. NI. shares • • • •
Do. Blrming & Derby
Midland Gt. West. (Ire.)
Newcastle and Carlisle • •
Do. quarter shares • •
ti ewmarket . • •
Newport, Abergavenny,
and Hereford • • • •
Newry and Enniskillen • •
N ewry, arrenpoint• &
itostrevor • •
Norfolk •
.. • •
Do. New 20/. shares • •
Northern Counties Union
North British.. ..
North Staffordshire • •
North-Western . • • •
North & Sth.-West.JUne.
Oxford, Worcester and
Wolverhampton.. • •
Scottish Central .. • •
Scottish Midland .. • •
Do. new .. • .
Shrewsbury & Birming.
Class A.. .. .. • •
Do. Class 8.. • • • •
Shrews. & Hereford., Old

Do., do., New • •
Shrewsbury and Chester
(Nor. W. Min.) • • • •
Do. Halves .. • • • •
Do. Oswestry • • . •
Do. Now.. .. • •
Shropshire Union • • • •
Do., A, B, C, & D, fully
paid up at per cent • •
South Devon .. • •
South-Eastern .. • •
South Wales.. .. • •
South Yerksh. and.niver
Dun
Shell., Roth., and Geole,
Sou.b. Div iSiOS. • . • •
Stockton and Hartlepool
Swansea & Loughor, &o.
raw Vale Extension • •
Thames Haven Deck and
Rahway .. • •
Vale of Neath - •
Waterford and Kilkenny.
Waterford and Limerick,'
Waterford, Wex., Wick.
and Dublin .. • •
West Cornwall .. • •
West London .. .. • •
Whitenaven and Furness
York, Newcastle, & Ber-
Ditto and Newcastle

Extension .. ..
Ditto G.N.E. purchase

or preference .. ..
York and North Midland

MIIVIIS ZIE.ELS'

Paid.

NomiLal Prices.

15 to 15%

14%-37 dia. set

.. _ ..

13 14 0

10% - 11%

..• • •

17Ni
100

84 —B6 ad'
12 - 12%
22% - 23}4,

5Ni
45
100

23 21 4116. xd

3~i-3%
- 2}.
C 7 -7`(►

6U -6%

4 -4%
16%% - 16%
2% -3%
36 -37
734 -

I I 0
50
8 6 8

1i-

18% -184(
6i - 6i.
12% - 12%

43 -44

91% 92
2 —l% es.
78 —9O

11 13 4
47%
100

9 -10 p .

29 —3I p
504 59%
10% —lO dii.
7 —6% dill.
6 —5% Ws.
16% 17

Balinese done
to-day.

11 6 3
1(

• ••
8 •—8% xd

98 - 99

1313( —131% xd
5X —6% p. id
5% 6St p. id
2X 3%p.xd
90 —9l id
534 dis. xd
43 —3% disad

100
42%
34

a%— 3 q el.

35 -36

4 2 0
100
100

a% —2% dis.
64% —64 id

100
47%
100

13,4 dis.'
36 —3B id

. ,
6% —6% xn

53 - 5

23 —25
14 —l3 dis.

9% 934
6% 6%dii.

•• --• ••
% -- % P

50
25
25
22

18% - 19%
18% - 19
9% - 10
7% -8

s 34
4i6 374 dis.l
~tib— 2

16 —l7
8 —8% 1
12 —l3
X % dis•
3 —2% dia.

1734 18)1
27!s 27%
34

2 1 dis.

5 es.

4 - 3 4.
5 - 6
15% - 16

- -
,7%8

.• .... ..

22 - 22%

3 234 dis.

16yi,%

4% %

13% 13
23% 5

22% 23% x..LI

4% ti
16% 17% 17
37 36%

1% 1 dis.
2530 25% id

18% 74 %

44
91% 92

59
14%
434 %

17% 1i %

8% II % z.d

132 131% x.d
23 x

x.d
90%ii 90 91%
[x.l

36 35%

dia.
:64% 65% x.d
21% %

6% 4 xn

%
191% 34 li

4% die
3% dig.

27% % %
34% 34

3% %

51)i 3l

7;
25% 263( xd

'T.A.X.S.

Business
Railways. Leasing Paid. Closing Prices. Companies. done.
Berks:andHan.s
Ex. 5 per Cent. Gt. Western 6 % 1 p. 6%
Bir. and Oxford
Junc.,callsdul:
paid, or with a
guarantee • Do .. .. 20 283{ 2934
Do., without a
guarantee .. DO .. • • 20 27 —2B 2734
Birm., Wol., &
Dad ~calls uly
paid, or with a
guarantee •. Do .. .. 15 836 936 pad
Do., without a
guarantee Do .• •• 15 7 8p x d
Buckinghamsh. Lon. &N. W. 1754 17% 17%
E. Lin., Guar. 6
per Cent. .. G. Northern 25 32 32% 3234
Hull and Selby Yk. &N. M. 50 101 103 ad
Do. 34 Shares Do .. • • 25 50 —5l Id x.d
Do. % Shares Do • • .. 1234 22% 2334 id
Leeds and Brad. Midland .. 50 9634 97%
Lan. and Green. S. Eastern . 12 15 4 1114 11%
Do., Pref. .. Do .. 20 24 —25
Lowestoft, Gd. 4
per Cent. Norfolk .. 20 1434 1534 xi
N. & East, 5
per Cent. E. Counties . 50 54 —56 xd x.d
no. New .. Do • • • . 43 4 6 Pxd
Preston and I L. &N.W. 1
25 4234 43%
wyre . • & La.& Y.
Do. 34:Shares ADo .. .. 103fi 8 9 P.
Read., Guild.,
and Reigate .. S. Eastern 20 21% —22
Roy. & Hitchin G. Northern 45( 85% x.l
Do. Shep. Ex.. Do .. 1% I%p. xi
South Staffords. Mr. SDClean 934 3% —2% 418.
Wear Val. 6 per
Cent. gua. • • Stock.& Dar. 25 24 —25 xd
Wilts, Som., &
Weymouth .. Gt. Western 50 44 45

Railways.

'REF:

Aberdeen • • • .
Caledonian 10/.
Chester and Holyhead ..
East Angliau (31. los.)
6 per cent. ..
Do. (51.) 7 pr. ct. Pref.
Do. (71. 175.) 7p. c.:Pref.
Eastern Counties Exten.,
5 per cent. No. 1
Do. No. 2 • • ••
Do. New 6 p. cent. Stock.
Eastern Union, Scrip,
guaran. 6 per cent.
Do. 101. Deben. Shares .
East Lancashire, 6 per
cent. quarter shares ..
Glasgow & S.-W. Consol.
Gt Northern, 5 per cent.
Great South. & Western
(Ireland) eighths ..
Lancashire and York-
shire, F. 20/. ..
Do. 6 per cent. Stock
Leeds and Thirsk, 6 per
cent., No. 1
Dol6 per cent., No. 2 •
Do. 6 per cent., No. 3 .
Do. quarters, 1848 ,
London, Brighton, and
South Coast guar. 5 per
ct., late Croydon thirds
De. pref., 5 p ct. Stock,
1851, from 501. share. E
Do. cony. 5 per ct. 1852
Do. new guar., 6 per ct.
London &S.-W., uew
Londonderry and Ennis.

Millen, half shares —..
Manch., Sheffield, and

. -.—..,..
Line , guar. stirs., No. I
Do. new, 19/. .. ..

Do., 6/. .. .. ..
..
Midland Con. 6 p. c. stock
Do. Consel. ISristol &
Binning., 6 per cent...
Do. Bristol & Glouces.
Do.
do. do. ..
_

Do. Erewash Malley ..
Do. Leic. & Swanning.
8 per cent. guar. ..
Norfolk Extension ..
Do. guar. 5% or cent.
Do. Waveney Valley „
North British ..
Shrewsbury and Bins.
New Guaranteed ..
Shrews. and Ches. (Nor.
W. Min.) 8 per cent.
South Devon ..
South-Eastern, 4% p. ct.
Waterlord & Kilkenny, 51.
West London, 1 st Cl. (101.)
Do. 2d Class de. (par),
York, Newc., and Berw.,

Gt. N.of E. Pur. . :
Do.
York and North Midland
H. and S. Purch.

Bonlorne and Amiens • •
Central of France (Or-
leans and Vierzon) • •
Demerara . .. • •
Dutch Rhenish .. ••
East Indian .. .. ..

[Business done
to-day.

% Par
614, 3i li

1:13% %

1143.;

1454 % x.d

13034

514 34

9% 14

Do. do. do. • •
Great Indian PenLnsula • •

Ditto ditto .. ..
Louvain ala Sambre ..
Luxembourg .. .. ..

Ditto •.- .. .. ..
Madrid and Valentia • •
Maria Antonia .• ..
Ditto, New .. ..
Namur and Liege .. • •
Northern of France ••
Orleans and Bordeaux ..
Paris and Orleans .. ..
Paris and Rouen .. • •
Paris and Strasbourg ..
Rouen and Havre .. ..
Sambre and Meuse • •
Tours and Nantes .. ..
Tournay, Jurbise, Lan-
den, and Haaselt • •
bleat Fla./idol .. ..

16 is
3% 4

11 z.d

MINES.

Paid. Nominal Prices. I Business don,
. to-day.
Anglo.Mexican(is. Si p.) 100 .. —..
Asturian .... ••••.. • • .. 15 .. —..
Australian .... •••• • • • • 4 3% 2%
Barossa Range 1 13 0 3% —3%
Blaenarvon Iron and Coal 50 • • —..
Bolanos Scrip ........ • • • • . • •
British Iron ... • • ..... 13 5 .. —• •
Brazilian Imp. (is 51. g.) 24% .. . • •
Do. Cocaes and Cuiaba 30 32% —32
Do. St. John del Rey.. 15 14% 13%
Cobre Copper ...... ... 40 32% 34%
Coplapo ..... • ...... .. 14 5% —6% .
General.
Real Del Monte, Vareg. M %
Do. Black Debentures. .. ...
Do. Red Debentures .. • • • •
Santiago de Cuba ...... 10 7% 6
Tin Croft ..•• •• ......1 7 10% —ll
United Mexican • . .. 28 2 Bit 6% —5% 5%
JOINT STOCK MUMS
Australasia ....
British North America.. 50 42M 43
Colonial .... • • ........ 25 9% - 11%
Commercial of London.. 20 25 25%
London Joint Stock .... 10 18% 17% 17 %
London and Westminster 20 27% 27%
National Provincial Eng. 35 .. —..
National of Ireland .. 22% 17% —lB
Provincial of Ireland .• • • 25 42 —43 43%
Do. New .. ........ 10 15% —l5
Union of Australia .. • • 25 34% —34
Do. New ............ 2% 3 —3%
Union of London • lO 12% 13%
Unlan of Madrid ....
MISCELLANEOUS.
/ Canada •• .. •••• • • •
Gen. Steam Navigation
Penin. & Oriental Steam 5O GB% 72%
Royal Mail Steam .. • •
[We cannot be answerable for the errors of the Official Lists, an

will not be influenced by

.NEOUS.
42% 46
26% —274
72%
73 —69
Le errors of the Official Lists, and
Ited correspondents.]

interes'

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 6,000 bales, comprising 4,500 American at
bid. to 73/4d., 400 Pernam and Maranham at 7id. to
80., 100 Bahia at Bd. to 8 fd., 300 Egyptian at 74d.
to 400 Surat at &id. to sid., and 100 Sea Island
at Is. 2id. to Is. bid. The market closed heavily, ex-
cept for Boweds and Egyptian, which were in favour of
buyers, the latter about lid. per lb.—ln Railway Shares
a fair business was done, but prices had a declining ten-
dency.
The month's Trade and Navigation Returns to the
sth of February, stand well, viz.:—

MARKET NEWS.-(THLS DAY.)
NENTIGATE AND LEADENHAEL.
These markets were tolerably steady to-day, at full
prices:—Beef, from 2i 2d to 33 4d; Mutton, 23 6d to
3s 10d; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s 4d; Pork, 2s 8d to 4s per 81bs
by the carcase.
KAY MARKETS.
SMITH FlELD.—lileadow lia:„2/ lOs to 31 17s 6d;
Clover, 31 Os to 4/0s; and Straw, If is to 11 78 per load.
Supply tolerably good, and trade firm.
CUMBERLAND. Meadow Hay, 21 103 to 41 Os;
Clover, 31 Os to 410 s; and Straw, 11 2s to 11 8s per load.
A full average supply, and a sluggish demand.
WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Ray, 2/ 8s to 3/ 18s;
Clover, 310 s to 4145; and Straw, I/ Is to 117 s per load.
Trade steady, at late rates.

MEAT MARKETS.
SOUTHALL, MARCH s.—Our market has ruled steady
.0-day, and prices have had an upward tendency.—
Beef from 33 to 36 8d; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 4d; Veal,
3s 6,1 to 4s; Pork, 36 4d to 3s 8d per 81bs, to sink the
offals.
ROMFORD, MARCH s.—Prime Beasts and Sheep moved
off freely, at an advance in the quotations of 2d per
81b8. Most other kinds of Stock were firm.—Beef from
33 to 3s 10d; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s Gd; Veal, 3s 4d to
35 10d; Pork, 33,4 d to 3s 8d per 81b5. Quarter-old store
Pigs 16s to 20s each.
LEWES, MARCH 4.—The general demand has ruled
steady, on the following terms :—Beef from 3s 4d to
4s; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 6d; Pork, 3s 4d to 3s 8d per Bibs

CORN AVERAGES.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN
For the Week ended Feb. 27, 1851, made up from the Returns of the
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Ragland and `pairs
per Imperial Quarter.
WHEAT. IBAHLET.I OATS. BEE. I BEANS. I PEAS.
PRICE .. 36a 10d 22s 7d 16s Od 124 s 4d 125 s 3d I 25s lid