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LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 28: 1851.

putting money into his pocket. His Lordship then en-
tered ii:to an explanation of his v.;riouz trarosac•i,,ns
with the company, and said the arrangement submitted
t) the meeting had been entirely carried out by the
sclici!or, together with the contractor Mr. Pero, ob-
serving that he would never have a seat at a board which
were not to be made cognizant of every thing connected
with their affairs.

Mr. PETO said Mr. Bmbow, his Lordship's agent,
had distinctly and imperatively made it a condition that
5,000 shares should be allotted to his Lordship; and Mr.
Carter, the solicitor to the North-Western, had refused
to comply with it, observing that he did not think it
would comport with the honour and dignity of his
Lordship to take 5,000, which would be equivalent to
giving him 7,sool.—(Hear, bear.)
Major Coma' said he understood an agreement had
been made with the Great Western, by which that com-
pany offered to give the 100,000/. a year free from all
charges.

A SHAREHOLDER.—There is no submitting agreement.
Major COURT.—I apprehend the Great Western are
bound to accede to such an agreement.
A SHAREHoLDaR —We will not ask them.—(Hear.)
Major COURT.—But I think it will be to our interest
to enter into an arrangement with the-m. Before we can
get 100,0001. a year from the North-Western Railway,
we must have a clear income of 180 0001. Ido not think
we are in a situation to carry out the agreement pro-
posed by the report, and I would suggest that the ques-
tion be adjourned, with the view of enabling the board to
ascertain the legality of the agreement, and whether, in
the event of the line being completed, the Great Western
C,mpany could compel them to lease it to them.
Captain BERKELEY objected to the agreement on the
ground of its not being binding in law, and because it
has been carried out with so much haste. Under the
Act of Parliament they had no power whatever to sub-
stitute the narrow for the broad guage. He entirely
agreed with the Noble Chairman that no such an
arrangement ought to be entered into before the direc-
tors had been all summoned to take into consideration.

Mr. BARLOW said, the meeting had no moro power
to carry out the agreement, than he had to erect a bridge
over the monument, or any other public building.
After some further conversation of a desultory nature,
The question of the adoption of the report was then
put and carried, by a large majority.
Captain BERKELEY demanded a poll.
After a brief discussion the demand for a poll was
withdrawn, on the Chairman consenting to enter the
protest of the Great Western directors against the
legality of the agreement. The other business of the
meeting was being proceeded with when our !report left.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, FEB. 25, 1851.

The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of
Lord Foley, to appoint the undn-mentionpd gentlemen
to her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gem', man at
Arms : —Adolphus George Finch Cotton, Esq., vice Lane,
retired; Charles James Cox, Esq., vice Ewart, Esq.,
retired.

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, FEE. 26.
The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour
of Knigbthcod upon John Thomas Briggs, Eq., Ac-
countant-General of the Navy.
WHITEHALL, FEE. 27.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev.
Norman M`Leod to the church and barony-parish of
Glasgow, in the presbytery of Glasgow, and county cf
Lanark, void by the death of Dr. William Black, late
minister thereof.

CROWN-OFFICE, FEB . 28.

MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT

PARLIAMENT.

County of Glamorgan—Sir George Tyler, of Cottrel,
in the county of Warnqrgan, in the room of Edwin
Richard Wyndham Q lin, commonly called Viscount
_hare, now Earl of Dunrav,n, who has accepted the
office of Steward of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

CIMS

HOUSE OF LORDS.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool-
sack at Five o'clLck.
NEW PEER.

Lord 3flouGaToN (late Sir J. C. Hobhouse) took the
caths and his seat.

CCUN FY COURTS EXTENSION BILL.

Lord BROUGHAM presented several petitions in
favour of this Bill.
NEW VICE CHANCELLORS BILL.

On th 3 motion of Lord LANGDALE this Bill was
read a third time and passed.

MINISTERIAL EXPLANATIONS.

The Marquis of LANSDOVVNE then rose to explain
the state of the Ministerial crisis. On Monday last he
had had occasion to address their Lordships, and to ask
them to give time for the reconstruction of a Ministry,
he had hoped for the last time. He had stated on that
occasion that Lord John Russell was engaged in the Pe-
construction of the Government, and he had hoped
that the crisis would have been passed by this day.
Lord John Russell had entered into negotiations
with a Noble Earl opposite, and with Sir James
Graham. The negotiation had failed ; and then
her Majesty had applied to the Noble Earl op-
posite, who had declined to form an Administration.
The attempts at the reconstruction had failed, not in con-
sequence of any personal difference between the
parties engaged in the_negotiations, but from honest
and honourable difference in principle. Those attempts
having failed, her Majesty applied to the Noble Earl op-
positei to form an Administration, which he
declined. Her Majesty then applied to tre
Noble Lord (Stanley), and yesterday afternoon
the Noble Lord informed her Majesty of his
inability to form an Administration. Her Majesty had
then consulted him (the Marquis of Lansdowne) as to
what course it would be proper to pursue in a state of
things so novel and unprecedented, and this morning her
Majesty had sent for a Noble and Illustrious Duke.
who was not now in the House, in order to obtain his
advice and opinion on the present important and delicate
state of affairs. Be would not sit down without stating that
it was most consolatory in the present state of affairs to
know that the difficulties and differences which had pre-
vented these negotiations from succeeding, had been
differences and difficulties not of any personal nature, but
were the natural results of honest differences of opinion.
All public men were called on to make great sacrifices
of personal ease and comfort for the sake of their coun-
try, but they would not be called upon to make
sacrifices of principle, and no persons would
be justified in making a prolonged attempt
under any circumstances to carry on the affairs of the
country without securing that degree of support which
was necessary to all Governments. Any such attempt
must end in danger to the safety of the Crown
and of the country.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.)
The Earl of ABERDEEN felt called upon, after the
statement of the Noble Marquis, to explain to your Lord-
ships what had been the course of conduct which he had
pursuced in these negotiations. Her Majesty had sent
for him on Saturday, and he had expressed hie
willingness to co-operate in the reconstruction of the
Government. lie had met Sir James Graham and Lord
John Russell, and after mutual explatevions Lord
John Russell had laid before them the
basis on which he proposed to reconstruct
the Government, and had explained to them the
several measures which be intended to propose. What
those measures were he would then explain, because,
after consideration, he believed that himself; and his
Right Honourable Friend, would have been enabled to
accede to all of them with certain modifications.
except one. Their differences with Lord John Russell
arose exclusively on the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill,
and both his Bight Honourable Friend and him-
self felt an invincible repugnance to adopt any measure
of penal legislation towards the Roman Catholic subjects
of this country. To any legislation of that kind they
were opposed. It was at all times exceedinly difficult by
legislation to give a criminal character to acts which were
indifferent in themselves, and it was more especially so
when those acts assumed the appearnce of the perform-
ance of a religious duty.
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

noon, and by the permission of her Majesty, and also
of his Royal Higimen, T. will *cad it to the

Ho use.--(Ht ar, hear.) •
'• Lord Stsniey has, after a cenvereation
her Majesty, declined to undertake the formation
of a Government at present, until in is clear no
other Government could be formed. The: Queen has
sent for Lord Aberdeen and Sir James Graham, and she
wishes to see you immediately."
—(Hear.) I could, Sir, do no other, on receiving that
letter, than conclude that Lord Stanley had declined for
the present to form a Government--(Loud cheers)—
until it was found that no other Government could be
formed ; and I ask whether there was any misre-
presentation in stating, two days after receiving
this letter, that Lord Stanley was not prepared
at that time to form a Government and
used the words "not then prepared?"—(Loud cheers.)
Sir, every one who bus been admitted to the presence
of her Mujesty is aware of the courtesy, of the memory,
and of the precise truth of everything which falls
from her (Loud cheers) —but, Sir, though I
received fiord her Majesty en account of what
passed at her interview with Lord Stanley, I do
not rest solely on her Majesty's statement, but I rest on
'be statement of the interview which Lord Stanley sent
to her Majesty in the course of the same evening, and of
which she permitted me to read the extracts
which bear on the point in question. And let me ob-
serve, that if I state these particulars to the House,
it is in consequence of the contradiction of the
Honourable Gentleman opposite.—(Great cheering.)
After stating to her Majesty the position
of the three parties of which the House of Commons is
composed, I_observed that the present Administration
had never met with any defeat at the hands of
Lord Stanley's political friends.—(Great cheering.)
Lord Stanley than went on to state that he would only
consent to form a Government in the event of no coa-
lition being formed. He believed that an Administration
formed under such circumstances would be more likely
to meet support, than one formed without time for reflec-
tion. Now he asked whether those extracts did not
bear out his statement that Lord Stanley was nut pre-
pared to form a Government ? He would now
state, that having been desired by her Majesty to con-
struct an Administration, and at her Majesty's request
he had obtained interviews with both Lord
Aberdeen and Sir James Graham, I feel it
right to say, that no personal consideration
stood in the way of the formation of a Government com-
posed of those whose opinions appeared to prevail in the
House of Commons. If Lord Aberdeen and Sir James
Graham had concurred in the formation of a Govern-
ment, I believe that no personal consideration would
have stood in their way.—(Hear.) With respect to
' the several points of public importance on which we de-
liberated, although there was not any perfect
agreement, yet there did not seem to be such a
diversity of opinion as might not by further comma-
eication have been removed. There was one question—
the Papal aggression—on which it appeared impos-
sible that we could agree. I think it quite necessary
to proceed with that Bill.— (Loud cheers.) Lord Aber-
deen told me that he thought respecting the late
aggression on this country no legislation at all was ne-
cessary. Upon that point there was so wide a difference
of opinion that it was evident that no Government could
possibly be formed by the coalition of such parties.—
(Hear, hear.) I again repaired to Buckingham Palace
end informed her Majesty of the difficulty which had oc-
curred, and laid before her a full statement of the state
of affairs. The effect of that information to the Queen
was that her Majesty's desire led to a communication
with the Right Hon. Genth man the Member for Ripon
(Sir J. Graham), with the hope that I might be able,
with his assistance, to reconstruct the Government by
such an infusion of new strength as would give force and
efficiency to the Ministry.—(Hear, hear.) I was led to
this course by old associations, by the recollection of the
political aptitude which the Right Hon. Baronet so emi-
nently possesses, and further still, if I may be permitted
to state so much to the House, by the ties of old and
long-continued friendship. We were agreed on most Of
the great topics of public affairs, and I did think that if
an interview was fairly conducted we might come to
some general accord upon subjects on which a difference
of feeling prevailed.—(Bear, hear.) The interview was
abortive, and I was therefore again obliged to re-
sign the commission for the formation of a Government
with which her Majesty had been pleased to honour
me.—(Hear, hear.) This morning I was informed that
her Majesty had received the letter from Lord Stanley
which I have read to the House. Placed under that diffi-
culty, her tlajesty had, most wisely, as I think, sent for
an old friend of the Crown, who is not. more eminent for
his distinguished services abroad and for the
glory of his military achievements—(Loud and
long continued cheering) than he is for
the constitution of the country (the Duke of Welling-
ton)—(Repeated cheers from all sides of the House)—
I trust that I have said enough to assure the House that
the representation of the Right Hononourable Gen-
tleman the Member for Bucks (Mr. Disraeli), that
Lord Stanley was prepared to form a Government
was incorrect.—(Hear and cheers; and cries of " Oh.")
With this statement I conclude the narrative of what
has occurred within the last few days—(Cheers)—but
I cannot omit this opportunity of refuting the assertion
that I was ready to take the helm in a time
of prosperity, and to resign the Ministry as
soon as the Government was placed in a static
of difficulty. To that assertion I respond that
I should not have deemed the adverse division come to
the other night any sufficient reason for a resignation of
the Government if I had thought that it could be curried
on successful.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) If I did not
shrink from the difficulties of the country when
3,000,000 of people were in a state of distress it was not
likely that I should shrink from them now; but I saw
it was useless to proceed when office could only be re-
tained at the risk of power which would be
useful to the country and the loss of that character
which was honourable to its possessor.—(Hear, hear.)
When the directors of the Bank of England came to my
Right Honourable Friend to ask us to suspend the law,
and run the risk of an indemnity from Parliament, I
might have shrunk from the difficulties of the time;
when, at a later period, the whole of Europe was
shaken with revolutions from one end to the other, and
when there was every prospect of the treaty which
bound Europe together, and preserved the peace of
the world being dissolved, we did not shrink
from our parts, nor did we do so even
when in Ireland large bodies of people were preparing
to organise a rebellion.—(Oh, oh!) We might then
have shrunk from the difficulties of the period;
but to suppose that we should do so
now, when all those troubles have passed
away when commerce is flourishing, when the people are
prosperous, and when the only difficulty at the Exchee
quer is, that it is rather fuller than it can conveniently
hold—(A laugh)—is quite ridiculous.—(Hear, hear.)
But, Sir, I wish to state some of the opinions which I.
hold now with regard to the three questions which have
occupied the public mind, and engaged Parliamentary
attention a good deal of late.—(Hear, hear.) One of
the most important of those questions is free trade
and the free import of coru.—(Hoar and cheers.)
Now, Sir, I take no credit whatever for the establish-
ment of thepresent law upon that subject, for the system
which the Government of Lord Melbourne proposed was
a system of a different kind. It was a system which was
based upon a moderate duty on corn, and a differential. duty
on sugar and other articles. That plan was rejected by
the House of Commons, and in 1845 tie circumstances
of the country having in the meantime undergone a
great change and assumed a different :aspect,
Sir Robert Peel pronounced that at no dis-
tant period the corn-laws must be repealed,
and at the same time—in the month of Novem-
ber—without any communication with my party,
I published my opinions that the time was come when
the corn-yaws could no longer be maintained. The only
safe course then was to proceed to their abolition,
and Sir Robert Peel gave the honour of the
change which afterwards followed to the Hon. Member
fur the West Riding.—(Hear, hear.) Now, Sir, I think
it is due in a great part to Sir Robert Peel and to th•
Hon. Member for the West Riding, but I can't altogether
say that I claim no credit but the smallest amount
is due for the part I took to effecting the change.—
(Hear, hear.) That change was effected in 1846, and I
believe its effects have been most beneficial to this
country.—(Cheers.) I believe that the great mass of
the people of this country are enjoying benefits
from that change which they could not otherwise have
obtained.—(Hear, hear.) When the reins of power fell
into our hands it was our endeavour to proceed in that
policy ; and on two very important questions,
namely, in the case of foreign sugar and the
navigation-laws, we succeeded in carrying measures in
conformity with our present commercial policy.—
(Hear, hear.) I rejoice that we were able to carry
these two changes into effect with this willing
concurrence of the two Houses of Parliament, for
that
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hedisturbing
Bil l there, institutions
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it appears to me that while we are ndeavouring to
_(eers.) I will now proceed;
carry such changes into effect, we should, es far as
ibe do so
.
Chha without
astjemept,tion of power in this country by a foreign eccle-
siastical power.—(Hear, hear.) I still concur in the
possible,
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opinions which I expressed on the introduction of that
Pill. P, is my opinicn that, fte of awn

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f power on t'ae
pert of a '•ere ign prince which it eae impos-
sible ter us to pass by unnoticed ; but, Sir, I
will say this, that I thought and still think
that the main object to be attained by that
bill was the vindication of our national iadependence
and the assertion of the supremacy of the Crown and
kingdom of England as against any foreign power what-
ever.—(Hear, hear.) But, Sir, with respect to the
Bill we had introduced, locking to the past proceedings
in the Irish Courts of Law, there are some of its clauses
which ought not to be pressed to the fullest extent.
It was not our intention so to interfere with anything
which belongs to the regular order of Roman Catholic
worship. So tar we were anxious to maintain the re-
ligious liberty which exists in this country. Therefore if
that Bill were proceeded with, I should he ready to make
all such alterations as should prevent any of the inter-
ference which seems to be dreaded. I own that when I
see a man of such moderation as Archbishop Murray ob-
jecting to the provisions of that Bill, I will say I am quite
reading, to examine and go into the provisions of the
Bill, and see whether the objections which have been
stated really do exist.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.)
My persuasion was, and I was induced to believe
so by information which I received from a very
high authority that on these two points which I have
stated this Bill was not calculated to make any inter-
ference. Therefore I am quite ready to carry into
effect the original intention of the Bill, not
to depart from them, and not to go beyond them,
:'here is another question of very great importance upon
which, on the occasion of a late debate, on the 20th
instant, I made a statement to the House on the
subject of extending the franchise. It is fit
that I should state to the House that there
subject has been under the consideration of the Cabinet
during the late recess, but myself and my colleagues
came to the unanimous determination that it
would not be right to introduce a measure
on that subject in the present session. As, however'
a general election must take place in 1853, we deter-
mined that 1852 would be the latest time that such a
measure could be introduced. With respect to the
question itselt. I have to say that having
for ten years before the Reform Bill was introduced
devoted my attention to the subject, and having made
many motions between the years 1821 and 1831, having
had a great share in framing the Reform Bill, I
am perfectly satisfied with the general working
of that Bill. I do not see that it has
produced any of the consequences of overturning the
Constitution which were prophesied of it. But in re-
spect. however, of any future measure which may be
introduced upon the subject, I think you must proceed
w ith the greater caution. I think the general disposition
o f the Reform Parliament has produced a fair represen-
t, &don of the intelligence, the wishes, and the industry
f the people. I should dread any change which might
tee introduced in the representation which deprived
'the House of Cpmmons of that conservative element
which ought to belong to it. I cannot conceive that a
House of Commons merely representing numbers would
act in harmony with a monarchy, an hereditary
House of Peers, and an Established Church. I
think it ought to be the object of any
one who approaches this subject not to create a
House of Commons, which should be a separate
power, but it should be his object to do as we
did in 1831, to endeavour to give to the people
a greater interest in their institutions, and at the
same time to improve the general representation
These are the views that .1 venture to bring
before the House upon these three topics. It
is at the present time a matter of doubt into
whose hands the Government of the country
may be committed, but I feel that on greater subjects,
like those I have referred of Parliamentary interference,
it is not for Ministers alone to look to the solution of such
great questions.---(Hear, hear.) They interest us and our
and own posterity.—(Hear, hear.) Sir I have consi-
dered, in the course of my Parliamentary conduct,
whether on the day I was proposing reform
to a small minority, and amidst the apathy
of the country, or whether I was proposing
a Bill that was receiving the enthusiasm of the
nation. I felt that my great comfort was that I was
acting with them on whom I had the greatest
confidence, and on whose judgment I could rely-
-(Hear, hear)—and on whose integrity I could place
the greateet faith.—(Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord
having alluded to the sentiments of Burke, and
the men with whom he had acted for eleven years, said—
I_ have acted for far mote than eleven years with
such men as Romilly, Mackintosh, and Horner, with
Lord Grey and Lord Althorpe, and with such men it
has been my pride to act. I will not speak of the living,
but I will say this, that as long as I am a public man
I will act with those men and consort with such men as
adopt my public views--(floar, hear.) Some men may
think that our standard of public, virtue is
higher than in the times of Burke, others
:map think it lower, but as long as I take part in public
►tffeirs I shall ever follow the example of such public
men as I think may best guide my publie life.—(The
Noble Lord sat down amid much cheering.)
Mr. DISRAELI rose and was
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

POST-OFFICE NOTICE.
MONEY ORDERS.
The under-mentioned offices will be opened as Minor
Money Order Offices on the following days, viz.:—On
March I—Burnham, Essex; Brighton, Isle ot Wighl ;
Castood, Yorkshire; Chapel. le-Frith, Derbyshire; Cran-
ley, Surrey; Cinderford, Gloucestershire; Eccles, Lanca-
shire; Hyde, Lancashire; Heckmondwyke, Yorkshire;
Heywood, Lancashire; Ixworth, Suffolk; Kirkburton,
Yorkshire; Ramsbury, Wiltshire; Shanklin, Isle of
Wight; Storrington, Sussex; Stoke Ferry, Norfolk;
Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire; Tideswell, Derby-
shire; Wooburn, auckinghamshire.
Marbh 3—Tintern Abbey, M.onmouthshin.
March 4—Cingsclere, Hampshire; Williton, Somerset-
snire.
March s—Newbridge, Monmouthshire.
March 6—Aldborough, Suffolk; Botesdale, Suffolk;
Pangbourne, Berkshire; Troverton, Devonshire; Yox-
ford, Suffolk.
March 7—Llantrissaint, Glamorganshire.
March B—Dorchester, Oxfordshire; Dulverton, Somer..
setshire.
March 10—Aberdare, Gismo rgans hire.
March 11—Colebrook, Buckinghamshire ; Moreton
Hampstead, Devonshire.
March 12 —Barkway, Hertfordshire ; Finchingfield,
Essex; Pyle, Glamorganshire ; Southend, Essex; Up-
well, Cambridgeshire.
March 13—Brixworth, Northamptonshire ; Hather-
leigh, Devonshire.
March 14—Glynneath, Glamorganshire.
March 15—Tregony, Cornwall; Guisiborough, North-
amptonshire.
March 17—Pontradawe—Glamorganabire.
March 18.—Kings Langley, Hertfordshire; Meva-
gissey , Cornwall.
March 19.—Ystradgynlais, Brecknockshire.
March 20 —Bovey Tracey, Devonahiro; Broseley,
Shropshire; Cannock, Staffordshire; Caatletown, Isle ot
Man; Churcheaton, Staffordshire; Dawley, Shropshire;
Overton, Flintshire; Peeltuwn, Isle of Man; Portmadoc,
Carnarvonshire; Ramsey, Isle of Man.
March 21.—Cross lon, Carmarthenshire.
March 22—Looe, Cornwall.
March 24—Llanboidy, Carmarthenshire.
March 25—St. Agnes, Cornwall.
March 26—Solva, Pembrokeshire.
March 28—St. David's, Pembrokeshire.
March 3l—Newport, Pembrokeshire.
N.B.—" Ashton, Lancashire," inserted in the last list,
should have been designated as Ashton, near Warrington,
Lancashire; and " Newton, Lancashire," should have
been designated as Newton, near Warrington, Lancashire.

MARKET IN TELLIGENCE.
(From tho London [Yew Price Current, Feb. 28.)
SUGAR.—To-day lower rates were refused for West
India, although all parties operated with much caution.
Only 90 hhds, Bcc., were gold, making the small quantity
of 658 fur the week, and prices close the same as on
Friday last. The demand for Colonial Sugar is ex-
pected to he better next week.
REFINED.—To-day Refined Sugar was purchased with
caution; low brown Lumps ware, however, not to be ob-
tained under 48s per cwt. For Crushed Sugar the market
is dull at previous rates.

MAURITIUS.—This afternoon the quantity of Mauri-
tius Sugar offered at auction was large, and amounted to
11,800 bags; the rates taken for sorts at and above 408
per cwt were 6d under those current previously, but qua-
lities below that price went at full rates; nearly the
whole offered found buyers, fine yellow realized 40s to
425, low to good 37s to 39s 6d, refining qualities from
37s to 41s 6d. low and mid brown 31s to 345, better sorts
34s 6d to 36s 6d.
EAST INDIA.—This afternoon Bengal Sugar fetched
full rates, and was in good demand. At public sale 3,056
bags were disposed oft fine grainy white 48s to 50s, good
and fine yellow ditto 419 6d to 43s 6d; and a few lots
mid white Benares 41s 6d to 425. For the soft qualitie s
of Madras there are not many buyers, with sellers at
rateer lower rates. Of 3,153 bags at auction a part only
sold, low yellow at 29s 6d to 31s 6d, and better sort e2s
to 36s 6d per *Wt.
FORLIGN.—To-day there was no public sale of Foreign
Sugar, and the private operations were of little moment,
still prices cannot be quoted lower.
Cccoa.—Of West India none has been offered at sue
tion this week, and privately operations have been upon
a small scale; Trinidad red at 50s to 555, grey 45s to
50s, and Grenada 42s to 478. E,r Foreign prices still
tend downwards; Bahia and Para are selling at 29s to
30s, arid other sorts 315 to 82s per cwt.
MOLASSES.—Yrices confirm, firm for West India, and
a fair demand exists; about 200 puns have been sold at
from 15s 6,1 to 17s for low to fine, and supplies are yet
on the increase. The value of Bengal and Mauritius is
12s to 14s, but few parcels are to be obtained. Holders
of Porto Rico and Cuba demand 153 to 16s. Jamaica
Honey has been selling at from 35s to 60s, and fine sorts
are in scanty supply,
COFFEE.—To-day there was firmness on the part of
holders of Coffee, and none was offered at public sale.
The private operations were trifling for all purposs 5,
still g ,od ord Native Ceylon was not offered under 465
per cwt.
TEL-An active demand has been experienced for
common Congou this week, and the upward tendency