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London, England, 1851-03-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 24, 1851.

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bare arguments. It was rather unlucky, by the way,
for Mr. WILLIAMS to adduce as a justification of his
present proceeding the course pursued in this matter
by the House of Commons during the reign of King
CHARLES 11. When he maintained that the Bill
now before Parliament was no innovation whatever,
but merely the carrying out of the principle of legis-
lation established under the regime of the Merry Mo-
narch, he assuredly lost sight of the inappositeness of
that circumstance as an enforcement of the advisa-
bility of the measure. Much good did the enactment
under CHARLES 11. effect in diffusing morality and
sobriety among the population! Hare was a proof of
the good results of prohibiting Sunday trading,
with a vengeance ! The godliness of the land
under the sway of the licentious Prince
whose 'habitual associates were ETMEREGE
and ROCHESTER, was truly entitled to be taken as a
model for religious observance ! If we are to fall back
upon the legislative system of any reign prior to that
of our good QueenVicToasA, in Heaven's'name let it be
one more calculated to inspire respect, and to arouse a
decent emulation, than the profligate age which fol-
lowed immediately upon the downfall of the Common-
wealth.
Nothing, we are fain to believe, could have induced
the representatives of the people to consent to the
second reading of the measure here particularised,
but the two concessions made by Mr. WILLIAMS to
his very energetic opponents. First he consented
that the Bill, if allowed to proceed so far, should be
referred to a Select Committee up stairs ; and, se-
condly, that this Committee should have full power
to examine witnesses according to its pleasure. Now,
in all this, we only recognize a little quibbling way
of thrusting labour upon the attention of our legisla-
tors at a time when more important subjects should
be engrossing their mind, and upon a matter that
really and actually admits, in no way whatever, of le-
gislation. But for the stipulation of these two things,
as securities that the Bill as it is at present drawn
up should not be forced upon the notice of the
douse, " with all its imperfections on its head,"
so dragging down upon Members the penalty
of an interminable series of amendments, and
upon each amendment an interminable se-
ries of discussions—the measure for the pre-
vention of Sunday trading would, we scarcely
doubt, have been burked offhand, and not reserved
for the grand slaughter of enactments in embryo,
known familiarly as the Massacre of the Innocents.
Even then, however, we should not have been secure
from the horrors of a revival ; we should have re-
mained still liable to intermittent efforts on the part
of the over-zealous religionists to force sobriety by
means of the policeman's staff down the throats of an
unbelieving generation. So long as there shall sur-
vive upon the face of the globe the emulators of the
Pharisee mentioned in the parable, who prayed aloud
in the Temple, with his eyes cast upwards, in the
confidence of an acceptable adoration, rejoicing that
he was unlike his neighbour the Publican—so long
will the children of the earth be troubled by the
sticklers of a rigid and sanctimonious observance of
the Sabbath, in submission, not to the persuasive ut-
terances of the Gospel, but of the mundane force of an
Act of Parliament.
Nevertheless, it must not he imagined that we are
in the smallest degree inimical to the tranquil and
orderly observance of the Sunday. We have too
frequently before now pronounced eulogiums on this
day of rest as a religious institution to leave our ideas
upon the subject matter of doubt with the majority
of our readers, much less of anything like misappre-
hension. It was said in a mood of preternatural daring
by ROBESPIERRE, that if GOD did not already exist
it would be necessary to invent Him—meaning thereby
that the world could not roll on with its inhabitants
even for a comparatively small interval in tranquillity
without the aid of that belief. Almost in the same
way, we might say of the Sunday, that if it had not
been ordained by religion it would have been neces-
sary to assert it otherwise. For, as a means of car-
rying on the toils of every-day,life more satisfactorily,
as a means of bringing about a thirst for social im-
provement, as a means of maintaining a state of po-
litical quiescence, of reconciling all classes to their
position in regard to society, of ameliorating in par-
ticular the condition of the working members of the
community, the Sunday is altogether beyond the
reach of exaggerated panegyric. It is to the social
economy what sleep is to the animal economy—the
period of repose during which the powers ac-
quire to themselves new energies for the resumption
of those efforts which must otherwise exhaust all
ordinary capabilities for exertion. The merchant
from his counting-house, the clerk from his desk, the
trader from his shop, the huckster from his stall, the
pedlar from his pack—all relieved for a time from the
pressure of their occupations, and from the weight of
their responsibilities, find in the first day of each
week leisure for recruiting their strength, and for
nerving themselves for a continuance of their several
avocations. Were it not for this, they must groan
under the toil of business as under an intolerable incu-
bus. The Sunday enables them to count up the
successive weeks of the year with a feeling
of genuine satisfaction ; and, therefore, it is
that, socially speaking, we regard that day of rest
with a peculiar, and even affectionate, reverence.
But it is something more than all this—it is R law of
religion—a command of the Church—a mark of
Christianity. As such it is of course entitled to the
respect of all men, and to the homage and obedience
of those who regard that sublime creed as an emana

tion from the Divinity. Yet for this very reason it
is that we conceive anything approaching to legisla-
tion upon the subject as little short of being abso-
lutely blasphemous. It is as if the Word of GOD re-
quired the ail of man for its enforcement I As if re-
ligion was to be degraded into a bundle of statutes !
As if virtues were to be extorted by threats
of penalty coming from the will of a Par-
liament and exercised by the authority of a
magistrate ! Than this we can concieve nothing
more derogatory to the dignity of the Scriptures.
Surely, allow the poorest man amongst us to perform
his acts of religious obedience according to the dic-
tates of his own conscience, and not in servile sub-

mission to the thraldom of a legislative enactment.
You maintain that it is needless to allow these
articles of food to be sold on the Sunday morning, be-
cause the labouring man can buy his dinner for the
day of rest on the evening of Saturday. If this be
really the case, then let him, by so employing his
wages betimes, evidence voluntarily his obedience to
the commands of religion. You say he must

not go into the barber's on Sunday morning
for the purpose of being shaved. But assuredly
you cannot presume to insinuate here that he
can get shaved over-night on the Saturday. As well
tell him to eat his breakfast at the same unseasonable
time and to dispense with that meal on the so-called
Sabbath ! And pray you—you, Dives, with your
damasked razor, inlaid with a mothero'-pearl handle, or
a case of tortoiseshell, with your gold or silver toilet
service, and your other appurtenances of luxury—do
you never shave on the Sunday morning ? Do you
never go smugly and cleanly shorn to display the
binding of your morocco prayer-book to the rest of
the congregation in that respectable chapel of
ease in May-fair ?Do you evince this wholesome
love of neatness and propriety on what you call
the LORD'S Day (but which, as far as the poor
are concerned, you would transform into a Day of
Dirt), or do you pass with bristles on your chin and
mud on your boots, and hair uncombed and coat un-
brushed, into your pew, to the horror of the verger
and the dismay of the beadle? And yet, what you
do for yourself, you will not let others do for your
poorer neighbours. What you let others do for you,
you will not permit your poorer neighbour to do for
himself! " And so the world wags." So repulsive,
however, is this pseudo-sanctity to us, that we recoil

from it upon all occasions, and shall ever show our-

selves eager to hunt it duwn to general derision.
Henc© it is that we have alluded thus pointedly to
the second reading of the Sunday Trading Preven.

Lion Bill, and for a like reason we shall continue to

follow it in precisely the same spirit into "Private

Committee up-stairs," or back again into the House

of Commons, or any where, in short, until such time
as it has been contumeliously rejected by the Legis-

INCORPORATED SOCIETY OF MERCHANT V.EN-
TUREES, BRISTOL. On Saturday the freedom of the Society
of Merchant Venturers was given to Mr. P. W. S. Miles, une
of the Members for the city of Bristol, in consideration of
his services to the mercantile body in Parliament, and in the
event hall.ening he was invited to a banquet in the society's magni-
fic

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of Saturday
and of yesterday.
The committee on the Departmental and Mun-
icipal Organization Bill has determined to
recommend that a special electoral law shall
be framed to regulate the communal elections.
Should this be carried, the communal elections will
most probably be by universal suffrage, and that
would establish a precedent for the election of the
PRESIDENT of the Republic by universal suffrage
also.

In the Legislative Assembly, M. RAUDOT
asked some explanations from the Minister
of War relative to the expedition which, ac-
cording to report, the Government was about
to commence against Kabylia. General RAUDOT
replied that it was not a war that was intended, but
an expedition of six or seven thousand men, for the
purpose of keeping open the communications. M.
RAUDOT hoped that the Assembly would not allow of
any such expedition without its authority. A de-
bate arose on the question, which was adjourned till
Monday.
M. ODILOI3 BARBOT has, it is said, refused to form
a Cabinet.

The Five per Cents. closed at 94f. 25c.; Three per
Cents., 57f. 85e.; Bank of France Shares, 2,180 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 22.
Boulogne and Amiens, 10%—Dutch Rhenish, 3% East
Indian, 15X—Luxembourg, 114—Ditto, 2%—Maria Anto-
nia, 7% Ditto, iiew, 3—Namur and Liege, B%—Northern
of France, 1514 _Orleans and Bordeaux, 4% Paris and
Strasbourg, 11—Sambre and Meuse, 4%—Tours and Nantes,
61A—West Flandits, 2%.

THE SHARE MARKETS.

BRITXS R.A.ILWAYS.

Railways.

Nomital ?rli.

Aberdeen.. .. • • • •
Ambergate, Nottingham,
Boston, & E. Juncion
Belfast and County Down,
Wolverhamp.,
and Stour Valley !•

Birkenh., Lan., &Chesh
June., late 331.65. Sd..
Do. Chest. & Birkenhd.,
501. & 251. Consolidated
Do., do., 20/. ..
Bristol and Exeter.. .•
Caledonian ..
Chester and Holyhead ..
Direct Loud. and Portam.
Dublin and Belfast Janet.
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,

13 14 0

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100

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45
100

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100

8 6 8

11 13 4
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100

11 6 3

100
42'
34

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100
100

100
47%
100

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25
25
22

16%
10

1634 to 17

2% 234 Ms.

10% - 11%

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5% 53 p.
5% 6 p.
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88% 118%
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63% —63%

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c. Railways. I Paid. Nominal Prices. Business done
, ; to-day.
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q Aberdeen ills.
.. • • ... 8 6 5 % dis —% P
Caledonian 10/. .. .• 10 6% —6% 6%
Chester and Holyhead .. 15 17 173 17
East Anglian (31. Ult.)
6 per cent. .. 334 2% —2%
Do. (51.) 7 pr. ct. Prtt 2% 54
.. Do. (U. 178.) 7 p.c.*Pr ef. 2 .. —• •
' Eastern Counties Eitu n.,
S per cent. No. 1 .. 613 4 par —M p pm
Do. No. 2 .. .• .. 6IS 4 par —U P
Do. New 6p. cent. St/ ack 10 10% —ll
Eastern Union, & zip
a guaran. 6 per cent. .. 20 17 1 734
De. 101. Doben. She./ vs . 10 i •
East Lancashire, 6 per
'0 cent. quarter share s . 6% —*•
Glasgow & S.-W. Cos mai 100 • • —••
- Gt. Northern, 5 percent. 1234 13% 13% 1334
Great South. & Wits tern
~ (Ireland) eighths .. • • 234 % IP.
Lancashire and York-
shire, F. 201... .. • • 6 1% 134 db.
Do. 6 per cent. Stock '. 100 .. —..
Leeds and Thirsk, 61 per
- cent., No. 1.. .. .. 9 .. —• • p
Do. 6 per cent., No.. 2 . 17 ..
Do. 6 per cent., No. 3 . 5 • •
Do. quarters, 1848 .. 9 134 2 p
London, Brighton, and
South Coast guar. 5 per
' ct., late Croydsn th irds 100 .. —..
i Do. pref., b p ct. St ack,
s 1851, from 501. char a. E 100 114 120
- Do. cenv. 5 per ct. 1 852 50 57 —GO
t Do. new guar., 6 per' ct. 100 136 —139 136%
London &S.-W., new • • 5 2% ....51% p.
Londonderry and En nil-
. killonrlhalf shares 10 .. ,
stanch., Sheffield, s.nd
r Line., gear. stirs., Nst. 1 25 1434 1534 16
( Do. new, BM. .. •• 10 12 123(
, Do., 6/. .. .. • • 3 34 % P
t
Midland Con. 6p.c. :4 ock 100 131 jag
Do. Consel. itristai t &
Binning., 6 per cell t... 100 ..
i Do. Bristol & Gloo .ces. 48
F Do. do. do. .... ••.
83 10 6 „
, Do. Erewash Valle: f., 50
..
.....
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Do. Leic. & Swain ling.
8 per cent. guar. • • 100
' Norfolk Extension • • 20 17 —lB
• ou. gaar. 534 per cent, 5 4% —4% Ld
Do. Waveney Valley .. 2 •
North British „ 5 •5%_ 5s
Shrewsbury and Linn.
New Guaranteed .. 8 11 --11% 11%
Shrews. and Ches. (Nor.
W. Min.) 8 per cent. 10 15% x.d
—15 N
South Devon .. . 25 13
.... 15
South-Eastern, 43ei p. et. 10 .. ~
'Waterford & Kilkenny, 5L 1
West London,lst Cl. (101,) .. •
..
10 • ••
Do. 2d Class do. (par) 20 .• —.. ,
York, Newc., and Beim., 17
Gt. N.of E. Pm'. .. 16 —l7
4% 5
York and North 31141. ind
H. and S. Purch. .• 10 13 1 dls.
Edinburgh, I 'earth, and Dundee, 5% per cent., 4%.
POZEIGN.
Boulogne and Amiens ..... 20 10% 1034 10% U
Central of France Kt!. •
leans and Vierzon) ... 20 17% 1834 17% 11354
Demerara ... .... 1734 .. _ .
Dutch Rhenish .. . 8 4% 4 dis.
East Indian .. .. ~., 14 1% 134 P.
Do. do. do. —. 20
Great Indian Peninsula. p a 14 —% p, 6%
Ditto ditto .. .. 2% %—% P•
Louvain ala Sambre ... 7% •
Luxembourg • • • ... 8 1 134
Ditto .. .. ~ „ 10 231 2)o
Madrid and Valentia .•
Maria Antonia .. „ 25 •6
8•
Ditto, New —7% 2 4
8%
Namur and Liege .. .. 20 9% B%i 15%
Northern of France .- ' 16 15 4-- --".... 4sz.
Orleans and Bordeaux .. 8 334, _3% ss. is
Paris and Orleans • • •• . 20 36
—:1
Paris and. Rouen —2026
Paris and Strasbourg .. 16 534 474 dia.
1814
5(1 %
Rouen and Havre .. 20 11% —l2 1
Sambre and Meuse .. , 20 4 —4% 4%
Tours and Nantes .. ..15 8% —B% M. N
Tournay, Jurbiso, Lan-
den, and Hassan •• , " '' —••
Weatrliaders .; ••• . 8% 231 =2%

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MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE WS
CITY. TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were esti-
mated at 1,200 bales, of which 4,500 American, 200 Egyp-
tian, and 1,000 Surat were taken on speculation. The sales
comprised 9,000 American, 800 Penmen and Maranham at
73/4d. to SiAd., 500 Bahia at 73/4d. to B'A d., 150 Egyptian at
73/4d. to 8%d., and 1,500 Surat at 41/2d. to 51-Atd. per lb.
American under 714 d. have advanced 1,d., and other kinds
d. per lb.. caused by advices from New York of an advance
of one cent. per lb., in consequence of smaller estimates of the
crop from the suuth.—RAilway Shares were very flat.
The committee of the Stock Exchange have given notice
that they require that every person who receives a ticket
" after two o'clock," or " after three o'clock," on the name
day, shall notify the same on the back of the ticket (by
drawing a line or otherwise), in order to facilitate the trac-
ing when shares are sold out, and any person neglecting to
do so will be held responsible for any loss that may be in-
curred. Every member dividing a ticket shall retain the ori-
ginal ticket, that access may be had to it, should any portion
of the shares be sold out. The above rules take effect on
and after Thursday, the 27th instant.

A case of importance has recently been adjudicated upon
in reference to the liability of partners in a company, and it
serves as another illustration of the paramount necessity for
a new law upon the subject, corresponding with the principle
of " commandite" that is in force on the Continent. It ap-
pears, from the explanations given in the Alining Journal,
that the Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank sought to recover
from David Ewan and others, partners in the Royal Bank
of Australia, payment for debentures held by them. It ap-
peared that the Royal Bank of Australia was established in
1840; it was not incorporated, nor had it a registered officer,
in whose name it could sue and be sued. The action was
brought in 1849 against all the shareholders, and the defence
set up was that the action was incompetent, because the debt
sued for had not been constituted against the company—that
all parties interested had not been summoned, and that the
action was not laid with sufficient distinctness and precision.
Lord Ivory, in December last, gave judgment, dismissing the
plaintiff's case with costs; and on appeal to the Inner House,
a case for counsel's opinion as to the English law on the subject
was submitted to Messrs. G. J. Turner, of the Chancery bar,
and Hugh Hill, of the common law, who have given the fol-
lowing opinion :—That an action could not be brought in the
courts in England against the company under the title of the
Royal Bank of Australia, it being a well-established rule that,
unless the mode of proceeding be regulated by charter or
statute, the action must be brought against individual part-
ners by their proper Christian and surnames—that those
parties only are liable who were partners at the time the
debts were incurred, and each partner is liable for the whole
amount of the debts. If judgment be obtained against any
individual partners, the partnership property can only be
taken in execution to an amount equal to the proportion of
shares held by such defendant. If all the partners are de-
fendants, and judgment be obtained against them, the part-
nership property may be taken in execution, under a writ
against the partners. The partners may appear voluntarily,
but cannot be compelled, the only course being outlawry
against those who are out of jurisdiction. The Court eventu-
ally rejected the preliminary defences, the Lord Ordinary's
interlocutor was remitted and the case was to be proceeded
further with as might be considered just, reserving the plain-
tiff's claim for costs for future decision.

The Corn Market is steady, and fine sorts are a shade
higher.
The reports from the Continental market] are not of much
internat. At Hamburgh Coffee was exceedingly dull on
Friday, owing to the large supplies advised as coming for-:
ward from Rio. At Amsterdam not much was doing in
Dutch Stock, but Spanish was brisk on Saturday.
'rho accounts from the United States by the steamer
Europa, are to the 11th inst. With regard to trade they are
of a satisfactory tenor. The imports of dry goods were
3,400,000 dollars larger during January and February last
than in the corresponding period of 1849. Upon financial
affairs it is stated :

" We have no apprehensions of any immediate unfavourable
change of consequence in the ➢Money Market. Recent failures
have made the banks cautious, and business paper is more
closely scanned ; but we do not learn that any contraction is
contemplated, or that the usual facilities are not afforded.
California continues to supply us with large amounts of gold
and gold dust. About one million and a halt has been re-
ceived within the past week, and from the acc •unts, we should
judge that a corresponding amount would be received within
the next thirty days. There undoubtedly will be, for
sometime to come, moderate contractions in the money-
market, the result of temporary speculative movements, but
we do not look for any serious stringency in the market
for several months. In the common course of financial
and commercial events, we must expect a collapse
before the lapse of many months, that will add
largely to the list of bankrupts, and show that all
that glitters is not gold. We do not look for any great
speculation in stocks of any kind, but we have no doubt
there will be fluctuations sufficient to give all classes of oper-
ators profits enough to pay their expenses to Saratoga and
Newport during the approaching summer.
" We perceive, by our intelligence, that enterprising per-
sons are taking immense droves of sheep to California, and
that the speculation promises to pay well. There is nothing
to prevent California from becoming one of the greatest
wool producing States in the Union. The soil and cli-
mate are well adapted to the raising of sheep and
cattle of all kinds. On the whole, the news from Cali-
fornia is good. Gold is constantly arriving from there in
large quantities, and although the amount is nut so
large as to cause any apprehensions respecting an im-
mediate great change in the value of that precious
metal, such additions as are received by every arrival here,
and what is sent to other countries in the ordinary course of
trade, in exchange for merchandise, must produce such a
change; for between the Russian mines and those of Cali-
fornia it is impossible for gold to maintain its present value.
The decrease in value, however, will be gradual and natural.
A false step, however—a season of inflation or over specula-
tion— may produce a financial crisis, whose consequences
would be disastrous."

The accounts of the Nicaragua Canal and the progress
making are very favourable. A point has been selected for
it, but further consideration will be given to the matter be-
fore a decision is come to.

In regard to the transit route, the land portion of it will
commence at Virgin Bay, on Lake Nicaragua, and end at
San Juan Harbour, on the Pacific, the distance between the
two points being twelve miles and thirty chains, almost a
straight line, and through a remarkably healthy country.
The whole route will be as follows:-From New York
to San Juan by steamship, thence to the Castillian rapids on
the San Juan river by steam-boat; from this point to the
river above those rapids, a distance of one hundred yards or
so, by land; thence by the river San Juan and the Lake of
Nicaragua to Virgin Bay; thence to San Juan harbour or.
the Pacific, a distance of twelve miles by land ; thence to San
Francisco by steam-ship. Making liberal allowances for
delays, &c., this will bring San Francisoo within twenty days
of I•ew York, being many days shorter than the connexion
can be made by any other route.
From Jamaica we are apprized that the Legislature had
resumed its sittings, and the Tariff Bill was under considera-
tion. Fresh taxation seemed inevitable, as the island was
much in debt. Immigration from America was about to be
vigorously promoted.
Peruvian advices of February 9th, state that freights were
very low and arrivals numerous. An extraordinary Congress
would meet in March to elect a President.
The New Grenada gold mines are stated to be yiolding
twe and three ounces per diem to each of the parties en-
gsged.
Chilian advices of Jan. 24 state that the Custom-house
receipts last year increased considerably.
There is a dull but firm market for Public Securities,' he
transactions having been as nearly as possible at Saturday's
rates. Consols have been quoted 96% 4 for Transfer, and
96% % for Account. Exchequer-bilis, the small, have been
at 525. to 555. prem., and India Bonds at 575. to 60s. prem.
In the Foreign Market, prices are well maintained gene-
rally, although the transactions are not important. Spanish
Bonds have been 20% to 21►%, and the Passive 5%. Mexican
Stock has realized 33% to 14, and Peruvian Four-and-a- Half
per' ents. have been 845/s. Portuguese Five per Cents have
been quoted 871/4. Russian Bonds are 971,E for the Four-
and-a-Half per Cents. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
have been 5414.
Railway Shares have been fluctuating, and there is no
uniform movement either towards an advance or decline.
On the whole, the market is not so good for several lines.
Ambergate have gone back considerably, Caledonian are
flatter, South Eastern steady, and Midland, North Western,
and Great Western are cheaper. Eastern Counties are
supported.

Consois ... QUARTER TO TARED.
.. ... ... 96i 4
Ditto Account ... ... ... 96 I
BRITISH FUNDS TIIIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.

(From the Offieial List.)
6 per Cent. Consols Anns
Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 — „
Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 7'''s
India Stock
Do. Bonds, 1000/ 6O p
Ditto under 1.000/ ........... 57 p
Cestlelt. for Aeooant ................. ...•.. 965,2%
E irelleciaer Bills. l 46. 2d.
March. Jane.
Small — 52 55 p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
99
Cuba, 6 per Cent .....................
Mexican Bionds,lB46, 5 per Cent., C.supon
Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons .........
Ditto for the Account .. 33%14
-;an Bonds, 4% per Cent

Peruvian Bono, _
Ditto for the Account
Portug-uese Bends, 5 pe
5r Ceat B7
Russia's 11011(18.1822, per Cent .....
payable in Lon
Ditto 4% per Cent.
5 per Cent
Spanish Bonds,
Ditto Account . ...... ..
Ditto Passive Bonds 5c4
Orittivit(cliaelszeirial&anbto.7l2
Guild
504 i.
Ditto 4 per Coat. Cori ficatos

LLOYD'S SHIPPING,—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, ?Dawn 24.—Wind this day at noon, W.
DEAL, Duacti 22.—Wind S.S.W., strong and squally ;
23d, V.• •' s Very and squally.—Arrd. Marie, Ton-
N
r 8 , Christiansar,d for Southampton; Scindian, Crimmell,
anlecutta ; Blanche, Willis, Cadiz; Rachel, Brown, Bombay;
Janssen, Jansn, Bahia for Bremen ; Diana, Welder, ditto
for Hamburgh ; lesrlt
irnog
,nWebber, St. Michael's; Cas, Con-
stantinople ; Salucci, Ancona ; Fanny Hill, for
Newport. Ganges, Deus, put back for China. 23d. During
yesterday it blew strong from S.S.W., attended with squalls,
and last night a severe gale from S. to S.S.W., with terrific
squalls. The Bremen, from Bremen for the Havannab, lost
an anchor and chain, and has been supplied. The Creamore
and Fairy, both from London, for Newfoundland, and the
Margaret Milne, from London to Lima, lost anchors and
chains, and have been supplied from hence. The Baund
NVillim (Dutch ship) boat an anchor and chain, and is being
supplied. A French barque was blown out of the Downs
during the gale last night.
OFF THE NORTH F,DRZLAXD, MARCO 21—Countess of
Seafiald, Leach, London, with loss of anchor and chain, and
been supplied.
Cowas, AlAncti lad W.S.W.—Arrd. Elbe, Carter,
Rio Janeiro.
OFF MaaaATE, Maxot 23.—Wind W.S.W. to S.W.,
blowing strong.—Merlcnds Indie, Haacks, Amsterdam for
Batavia; Warrior, Thomas, Jamaica.
D ,vER, MARcn 23.--Wind S.W. to W., strong.—Arrd.
Pauline, Schreynberg, Ostend for the westward ; Hermanna,
Wilinink, Rotterdam for Newry; Elizabeth Rose, Lawrence,
Newcastle for Galatz ; Eenchactb, Heckstra, Eusden for
St,Ubes.

POILISIROUTH;MARCII 22.—Wind S. S.W. to S.S. E., strong ;
231, IV.—Arrd. ' Athenian, Case, London fer Queenstown
and Malta.

TORI3AY, MARCH 23.--Wind W.N. W.—Arrd. Pyrenees,
Eagles, London and Portsmouth f, ,r Swan River; Manga-
lore, Taylor, ditto for Cape and Madras.
FALMOUTH, Mulct' 22.—Wind S.E. to N.W., strong;
23, Y.W., fresh and squally. Arrd. Oscar, Dillon,
Catania. Devonshire steamer, London, left for Dub-

lie, and put back on the 2;d; Ajax steamer, ditto, and left for
Queenstown.
PILL, MARCH 23. - Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. Saghalien,
King. Manilla ; Catharine, Swanson, Barbrdoes ; Ann, Keen,
St. Michael's.
HOLYHEAD, MARCH 22. —The Don Juan, schooner, from
Liverpool to Newfoundland, having taken fire, was ran
ashore outside our harbour, and has burnt to the water's edge.
CAsTLEToWN, I. M., MARCH 2 ~—The Eclair, of Cardi•
gall, from Glasgow to Genoa (with pig iron), sunk at her
anchors in Derbyhaven Bay, in about 12 feet, at low tide,
last evening.
DUNDEE, MARCH 22.—The Maria, of and from Dram, for
Leith, drove from her anchors yesterday afternoon in Sr-
Andrew's Bay, on to the Main, and went to pieces ; crel
saved by the life boat; the principal part of the cargo an
stores are expected to be saved.
NEWPORT, MARCH 22. —Wind S.W.—Arrd. Deodße a
lfasttor
Gloucester for New York; Mary Campbell, Pradgoe,
for Apalachicola; Hilda, Queenstown for Malaga; Pet, Lead-
ley, Gloucester for Quebec. Sld. Lydia, Jamaica; Josephine
New York.
PLYMOUTM MARCH 23.—Wind W.N.W., stronpArrd '
Asia, Welch:Constantinople.
LIVERPOOL, MARCH 22.—Wind S.S.E., fresh ; 23d'
N.N.W., light.—Arrd. Crisis. Gibson, China; Harold, Man,
Calcutta ; Hebrides, Countess of Lawde, and Junior, Bombay;
Manuelita, Cuthbertson, Callao ; San Gunea, Havalinah
Columbus, Jansen, Laguna, Lotus, Watson, New
Orleans ; Seringapatam, Morris, Mohle ; Precursor,
and Augustus, SaVanilla ; Europe, Harris, Phila-
delphia ; Samoset, Tucker, Charleston; Bui
Wright, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Railway, Trallialn,
Michael's ; Victoria, Drummond, Lake Aquillon ; Chapman'
Irving, Ceylon; Lea, M.Kay, Callao; Ellerslie, Laguna'i
Wasp, Page, Wilmington; Mary, Mediterranean. Slu
John Mitchell, Farquhar, Calcutta; Mers? Rio Janeiro;
Nina, ditto ; Marcia, Hull ; St. Martha Jessie, Sheridan,
Maranham ; America, New York; Beckwith, ditto; Buck
port, ditto ; Ticonderaga, ditto • Boyle, ditto ; Baltic steamer,
ditto; Erin-go-Bragh, ditto; 'Juo S. de Wolf, Bradshs!,
St. John's, New Brunswick; Don Juan, Boag, Newfound-
land ; Victoria, Omens, Galatz. The Maria sailed from
Kingston, Jamaica, for this port, on the 19th Oct., and 1115
not Sine* been heardC of,
CLYDE, MARCH 22.—Wind S.E.—Sid. Clifford, St. Tho-
mas ; Hudson, New York ; Sophia, St. John's, New 13runfi-
wick ; Ottawa, Montreal; Erromanga, ditto.
I.UBLIN, MARCH 22.—Wind S.—Arrd. Zephyr, Barbadoes ;
Jenny, Odessa.
BEI.FAET, MARCH 22.—Wind S.E. Arrd. Highlander,
Martin, Calcutta ; Dispatch, St. Michael's.
_making,
YoUGHAL, MA.RCII 2 Wind N.— Arrd. Mary, --
35 orocco ; Delecis, Rio Grande for Liverpool.
SLIGO, MARCH 22.—Wind S. W.—Arrd. Anna, Galatz! •l.
DUNDEE, MARCH 22. Wind Sld. Czar, MiraraiCu
g
QUEENSTOWN, MARCH 21. —Wind W.S.W., vark.,.stWnelf,
and squally ; 22d, N.N. W.—Arrd. Prince George,
Vic-
Moulmein ; Elizabeth, Lord Elgin, and Augusta, Calla° ; -
toria, Rowlands, Valparaiso; Commodore, Asplet,
Ayres • Vincenzo, Premuda, Alexandria; Flora, Plate, LI:
horn ; ''llalyho, Wilson, Port Lagos, leaky, and cargo shifted
Cinderella, Ibrail ; Aristides, Syra.
PORTLAND RoADs.—Arrd. Favante, Parker,
Barbadoes; Mariner, Maypee, Newcastle, for Villancos. /VIM
w rear..—Arrd.
CHA Edward, De Winter, Batavia;
llavannah, for H samburgh. Buenos
LONDONDERRY, MARCH 19.—Arrd. Giacomo Odessa.
Avon, Salonica. London, flor.