The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-25 00:00:00

DAILY WEATHER TABLE.

State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following
places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning.—The stations
are arranged in order of latitude.
KINGSTOWN ( D B LIN ) —Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast.
PLYMOUTH—Wind S., gentle breeae—partially cloudy.
PORTS3IOUTII—W ind N.E., gentle breeze—overcast.
BRIGHTON—Wind YE., calm—cloudless.
HAsTlNGs—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
FOLKESTONE —Wind S.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
TUNBRIDGE—Wind E, calm—foggy.
GREENWlCH—Calm—foggy.
SWINDON—Wind S.W., light airs—partially cloudy.
OXFORD—Wind S.E. calm—foggy.
COLCHESTER—Wind gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
CAMBRIDGE—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
YARMOUTH —Wind S.W., calm—cloudless.
CONWAY—Wind S., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
HOLYHEAD—Wind S., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
MANCHESTER—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—principally clear.
LANCASTER—Wind S., gentle breeze—principally clear.
Siikr—Wind S.E , calm—overcast.
Bumocx—Wind S.E., gentle breeze cloudy.
The returns from the following places indicate the state of
:he wind and weather on Thursday morning, at nine
o'clock :
CORK—Wind 5.., light brze—ClOUd
CA R Low —Wind W
S.E , gentleee breeze—pa
tially cloudy.
KINGSTOWN (DUBLIN)—Wind S., gentles ree ez— cloudless.
ti SlueraoAß—Wind S., gentle breeze—prtially cloudy.
DuNDABK—Wind N.W., gentle breeze—frosty.
Poomc—Wind W., gentle breeze--partially cloudy.
RUGBY—Wind S.W. gentle breeze—overcast.
BIRMINGHAM —W ind S.V.
gentle breeze—overcast.
PETERBOROUGH—Wind S.W., calm—partially cloudy.
Livimroor—Wind S E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
LEEDS—Wind W., calm—partially cloudy.
YORE—Wind W., gentle breeze—overcast.
SHAB—Wind S.W., -calm— partially cloudy.
WHITEHATEN Wind S.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1851.

Alacrity, it is true, has scarcely anywhere been
evinced among our leading Reformers in anticipation
of the re-assembling of the Imperial Legislature.
Nevertheless, if tardy in their agitation, they are at
length evincing an earnestness that promises well for
the prospects of wholesome innovation. Recently
we have taken occasion to refer directly to the meet-
ings convened of late in reference to such movements
as those in favour of abolishing the window-tax, and
those in behalf of certain changes in the patent laws.
This evening will be found reported at some length, in
another part of our journal, the speeches delivered last
night by two or three of the most distinguished Mem-
bers of the House of Commons in the great room at
the Albion Hotel at Manchester. There they will
find themselves again in imagination listening to the
well-remembered voices of Alunii CrosoN, of joLui

BRIGHT, and of RICHARD COBDEN. The language
employed by those popular representatives will call to
mind the palmy days of the Anti-Corn•law discus-
sion ; a circumstance in no way matter of surprise,
seeing that according to the phrases of the Hon.
Gentleman the: Member for the West Riding
of Yorkshire, there were assembled together yes-
terday, in the apartment already mentioned, " the
pith and marrow of the Reform and Free-trade party
in South Lancashire." Among an audience so pe-
culiarly congenial, no wonder that the advocates of
constitutional reform gave utterance once more to the
sentimen is with which the people of these islands
have been long getting more and more familiarized.
The precise meaning and
.purpose of the " Parlia-
mentary soiree" to which we are now directing public
attention, may berecognized:at once from the opening
speech of the evening, the speech delivered by the
senior Member for Manchester. From the remarks
uttered by that lion. Gentleman, it will be perceived
that the intention with which he and his brother legisla-
tors had met each other in the midst of the scenes of their
former successes was simply that of explaining, in
some degree at least, the policy they have resolved to
carry► out if possible during the ensuing session of the
Legislature. To this end a variety of the most mis-
cellaneous topics passed under the scrutiny of the
orators, upon all of which they were sufficiently plain-
spoken for the most fastidious and inquisitive. For
example, Mr. MILNER GIBSON, not contented with
avowing at once that " he would have Ministers upon
some well-considered scheme of financial policy
repeal those taxes which were most oppressive to
the industry_of the country, and which in the
greatest degree contracted the enjoyments of the
people," insisted that the abolition of the tea-duty
would prove actually beneficial and remunerative to
the revenue. Jumping, shortly afterwards, with some
abruptness to a scornful reprobation of the taxes on
knowledge, the Honourable Gentleman boldly turned
to a consideration of the arch-difficulty of the time,
thrusting plump upon his hearers the inquiry, " What
shall be done with the Roman Catholic hierarchy ?"
The purport of his response to this interrogation is
nothing less than—toleration. One question he an-
swers with another. " Don't you think," he says,
it might be wise for people to mind
their own affairs, and look after their own bishops?'
Mr. BRIGHT, as usual, was ingenious enough to invest
the driest of political topics with the interest
of the ridiculous. His humorous allusions
told well with an audience ever ready
to respond to his facetious oratory with mingled
applause and laughter. But, coming as he did after
experienced and successful orators like Mr. BRIGHT
and Mr. Ginsoet, there could be no doubt that the
speech of the evening was, for various reasons, that
which fell front the lips of Mr. COBDEN. Seldom
has the Hon. Gentleman the Member for the West
Riding of Yorkshire been more happy in his "hits"
on matters " political," " economic," or " ecclesias-
tical," than he was when yesterday addressing once
more his old familiar friends of Manchester. Never
did his tongue declare more clearly that
his is in truth essentially the Genius of
Common Sense. About the Catholic hierarchy
he was, if possible, yet more explicit than Mr.
MILNER GIBSON himself. What, for instance, could
be more suggestive or more significant than these
sentences in which he summed up the Ministerial
difficulty in regard to this most conspicuous
object for legislative enactments :—" Are we (in
the House of Commons)," said he, "all Churchmen,
owning the spiritual authority of the QUEEN ?
Why, we are about forty or fifty of us
Roman Catholics ; and, mark me, you will have a
great many more Roman Catholics returned from
Ireland at the next election. We have an Independent
or two, we have three or four Unitarians, and we
have a Quaker, lam happy to say, and I wish we
had a good many more. And we have a prospect of
having a Jew. Now is not that a very nice
body of men to uphold the QUEEN'S supremacy as
head of England's Church ?" Everything considered,
the observations made upon this remarkable subject by
the Representative of the West Riding are
deserving of more marked consideration on all
accounts than almost anything that has hi-
therto been uttered upon the same fruitful
theme of discussion. Nor were the comments made
by the same speaker upon other matters less entitled
to examination. As, for instance, where he remarked
upon the surplus of two millions of money sterling,
which the Whig Chancellor of the Exchequer made
such a subject of glorification, which he pretended to
return to the nation,by bis brick-dust adroitness, with
a consummate air of magnanimity. " Thank you
for nothing," says Mr. COBDEN, should be the only
reasonable acknowledgment. Such were among the
pithy sentences enunciated by the chief among the
leaders of the League, when yesterday, calling to mind
his old oratorical triumphs, he spoke in the old style, to
his old friends, in the old scene of his political and
commercial labours—Manchester. The entire report,
we doubt not, will be read by the majority of the
intelligent public, and read, too, with the care and
attention to which it is eminently entitled.

" Trial by jury" has long been regarded as one of
the most valued and highly-prized institutions of this
favoured land. It is, indeed, justly considered the
" Palladium" of British liberty, which can never be
destroyed, so long as no man can be punished, either
in purse or person, save on the unanimous verdict of
twelve of his peers—honest, independent, and intel-
ligent men. There is no higher duty than that
which a person summoned to the jury-box, to hear
and decide upon the several matters and things
which may be brought under his considera-
tion, owes to society. He is bound to receive
the legal evidence that may be brought before
him in every case, to weigh it calmly and dispas-
sionately, exercising a nice discrimination in setting
aside irrelevant matters, testing the accuracy of the
different witnesses, and attaching due importance to
each portion of their respective statements. He owes
a double responsibility, vie., to society in general and
to the prisoner at the bar. If the charge be clearly
established—if no reasonable doubt can exist that the
offence has been committed by the person on
his trial, there must be a verdict of " guilty."
No consideration of the inevitable consequences
of such a decision, no compassion for, or
sympathy with, the person whose future wel-
fare is involved in the issue can be allowed to inter-
fere with the stern requirements of justice. The
heart of the juror must be steeled against all such
feelings, and his sole object must be in accordance
with the solemn obligation he has taken, " a true ver-
dict to give according to the evidence "

But the second portion of his responsibility—his
duty to his fellow-man—is even of more vital import-
ance, inasmuch as the consequences of an im-
proper conviction are infinitely more formidable
to the individual, than those of an injudicious ac-
quittal are to the community in general. Guilty
men may escape with impunity without any very
serious mischief to society being the result, but it is
totally different if an innocent man should be sub-
jected to unmerited punishment. Such a case—and,
unfortunately, the instances are not so rare as we
could desire—is justly regarded as a public evil of no
ordinary magnitude. The confidence in the law it-
self is shaken, and each person feels that he himself
may be the next victim to the prejudices or mistakes
of a jury. Hence every possible precaution is adopted
to prevent—we will not say the possibility, fur every
merely human institution is subject to error, and ab-
solute infallibility cannot be hoped for—but the pro-
bability of such a calamity. " It is better that one
hundred guilty persons should escape than that one
innocent person should suffer," is a maxim which
from time immemorial has been recognized and acted
on by the criminal tribunals of the country, which
will be repeated by the judge in every case where
such a caution may be considered necessary.
This humane principle materially relieves the juries
in such inquiries. In a civil case they are required
to balance the evidence on either side, and to pro-
nounce in favour of the party to whom the balance
may incline ; but in criminal matters the truth of the
accusation must be distinctly and unequivocally es.
tablished, and guilt brought home to the defendant.
One of the greatest and most amiable men of the
present century has placed this matter in so clear a
point of view that we cannot refrain from quoting
from the observations of Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY
on the Criminal Law of England the following re-
markable passage :
.6 It should be recollected, too, that the object of penal
laws is the protection and security of the innocent;

that the punishment is resorted to only as the means of
attaining that object; when, therefore, the guilty
escape the law has merely failed of its intended effect—
it has done no good indeed, but it has done no harm.
But when the innocent become the victims of the kw rt..
law is not merely inefficient—it dos not merely fail
of accomplishing its intended object—it injures the very
persons it was meant to protect ; it creates the very
evil it was to cure, and destroys the very security it was
made to preserve."

These admirable suggestions should sink deeply
into the minds of every person about to assume the
onerous functions of a juror in criminal matters, who
should also recollect that his decision is irremediable :
that; there is no appellate tribunal by which the ver-
dict may be revised, so far as the facts of the case are
concerned ; errors of law may be rectified, but errors
of fact never can. In this respect a verdict can
never be reversed, or even varied in any respect. It
must for ever remain on record against the con-
victed party, however clear and indisputable may
be the proof of his innocence.
A case was tried before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS and
a bench 'of magistrates, at the Middlesex Sessions,
on Thursday, which has created an extraordinary
sensation in the public mind, more especially in the
City, where the, probity, veracity, and high character
of a gentleman, whose testimony was directly
impugned by the Learned Sergeant and by the ver-
dict of the jury, are fully known and duly estimated.
We unhesitatingly assert that that verdict has not
given satisfaction, that it was totally opposed to the
weight of evidence, and we call on the Secretary of
State for the Home Department to institute a
searching inquiry into all its circumstances. It
affords the most powerful illustration of the mis-
takes that may occur even under the most judicious
system, and of the absolute necessity for the esta-
blishment of a Court of Criminal Appeal. GOD
forbid that we should be supposed to impute wilful
error or corrupt motives to either Judge or jury,
but we cannot help thinking that a most serious mis-
take has been committed—a mistake fraught with
the most pernicious results to an innocent gentleman,
who has been improperly sentenced to three months'
imprisonment in the House of Correction; while wil-
ful, deliberate, and corrupt perjury has been imputed
to six persons, three of them gentlemen occupying
respectable stations in society.

The case to which we desire to direct the public
attention is that of Mr. JOHN GOLD.iMID, a member
of the Stock Exchange, who was on Thursday tried
for an assault committed on an officer attached to the
department of Inland Revenue. From the evidence
of the prosecutor it appeared that he was subjected to
some very rough treatment by some person whom he
believed to be the defendant, on the evening of Saturday,
the sth of October, at the Blue Posts, in the Hay-
market. Unfortunately he was induced not to give
the culprit into custody at the moment, in conse-
quence of being informed that the offender was
" JOHN GOLDSMID, of the City, who would, on the
Monday, make any compensation for the injury he
might have done to his clothes." This compensation,
however, did not arrive; and three weeks afterwards
the prosecutor having discovered, as he supposed,
the residence of the defendant, summoned him to
the police-office. The defendant did not appear on
the first summons ; a second was accordingly taken
out, and the defendant then refused to adopt a sug-
gestion of the magistrate to arrange the matter,
alleging that he could prove that he was at Brighton
at the time the alleged assault took place. The
matter was then very properly remitted to the ses-
sions for a jury to decide on the conflicting tes-
timony.
From the evidence of the prosecutor, it was mani-
fest that it might be a case of mistaken identity, in
which the prosecutor might have erred as to the per-
son of one whom he had never seen but on that even-
ing. For the defendant, his father and brother (both
highly respectable stockbrokers), positively swore
that the defendant had on the day ise
question gone down with them to Brighton,
from whence he did not return until the
following Monday. This was confirmed by Mr.
GOLDSMID'S footman, and by a gentleman named
STEVENS, a respectable auctioneer in the City. A
clearer alibi was never established, and it was impos-
sible to convict the defendant without supposing that
these four persons bad been guilty of wilful and
corrupt perjury. But this was not all; three other
witnesses to the transaction not only swore that it was
not the defendant who committed the assault, but
declared the name of the real offender, who it was
said " much resembled the defendant." On this
evidence the jury found the defendant guilty,
and the Judge, in passing a very severe
sentence, distinctly charged the several witnesses with
deliberate perjury. The matter cannot rest here; it
must be stringently investigated in every particular,
and must lead to an alteration of the law, and a
full power of appeal in such cases. The consequences
may otherwise be of a very disastrous character, such
as we should not willingly be called on to encounter.

This is the age of newspapers. A recent calculation
made in Vienna gives no less than 1,282 journals and papers
as actually known in Europe, not including therein Austria!
There are, of course, many provincial papers not included in
this list, but the following comparison is curious. In Paris
160 papers of various kinds are published ; in London, 97 ;
in Berlin, 79; in Leipsic, 68; in St. Petersburgh, 36. The
number of journals published in Germany, exclusive of Aus-
tria, in the German language, is 645, nearly three times as
many as Paris and London put together.— The Leader.

COMPENSATION TO THE OFFICERS OF THE DEFUNCT
PALACE COURT.—The officers of the defunct Palace Court
have just received intimation that the Lords of the Treasury
have granted them annuities fur life. It will be recollected
that the court was abolished on the 31st of December, 1849.
The claims of the officers were made within the period
limited by the Act of Parliament, and no decision was come
to until within the last few days, when it was ascertained
that the summoning officer had received his annuity for a
year, amounting to nearly 501. The other officers in a short
time received the gratifying intelligence that their claims
had been considered, and were made acquainted with the
amounts awarded. There were about fourteen applicants for
compensation, but all, it is understood, were not successful.
The Treasury paid the parties who were granted compensa-
tion a year's annuity to each, ending on the 31st of Decem-
ber last. The compensation to the several officers vary from
401. to 601. a year.

THE CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER AT BRISTOL.—
At the resumed inquest, on Thursday, the captain of the
Adolphe, Frederick Dugais, was examined. He did not
witness the assault on deck, but heard the deceased complain
afterwards that Mr. Alexander had ,truck him. Auguste
Dugais, a son of the captain, was also called as a witness;
his evidence went to show that he did not see the cause
which led to M. Bippert's fall from the quarter to the main
deck, but he afterwards saw the deceased, who appeared to be
trembling and shaking from the effects of the falL The in-
quiry was then adjourned till the following day (Friday).
Mr. Long, the surgeon who attended the deceased, was re-
called and examined as to the probable effects of strangu-
lated hernia. The coroner, having read over and commented
on the evidence, commencing with the deposition of the de-
ceased, taken in articulo ?writs, and carefully going through
the examinations of all the other witnesses, the jury, after a
consultation of about an hour, returned a verdict of man-
slaughter against Mr. Philip Alexander, who was thereupon
committed for trial at the ensuing Gloucestershire assizes.
The remains of the unfortunate deceased, M. Bippert, have
just been conveyed for interment in the cemetery at Arno's
Vale.
LONDON ENVELOPED IN A DENSE FOG..—NUMEROUS
ACCIDENTS.—Yesterday afternoon and evening the metropo-
lis and suburban districts were visited with one of the densest
fogs that has been witnessed for some winters past. All tra-
velling by the usuall steam conveyances was completely out
of the question. At four o'clock in the afternoon it became
so dark that it was extremely difficult to see more than a
foot in advance; the consequence was, that several accidents
happened both on the river and along the public roads. Near
Westminster steam-boat pier, a boat containing three men
and a female, who were making for College-stairs, ran their
vessel against the stairs and all four were thrown overboard,
and narrowly escaped drowning. At the foot of the various
bridges, and along the streets, several vehicles came into
violent collision.

CUSTOMS WATERGUARD.--..MY. D. S. Harding,
senior inspector of the river, has, we understand, been ap-
pointed to the situation of inspector-general of the water-
guard department of the Customs, vice Mr. Ansell, deceased.
THE ALLEGED MURDER OF A HUSBAND BY HIS
WlFE.—Yesterday a long inquiry was concluded before Mr.
W. Carter, at the King's Head Inn, Blackfriars-road, as to
the death of John Brown, aged twenty-three, who was
alleged to have been murdered by his wife, Jane Brown, who
is now in custody. The jury returned a verdict of " Man-
slaughter against Jane Brown."
APOTHECARIES'-HALL.—The following gentlemen
passed their examination in the science and practice of medi-
cine, and received certificates to practise, on Thursday :
Edwin Henry Bolton, London; George Elm; William Chap.
man, Sedbergh.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following
gentlemen, having undergone the necessary examinations,
were admitted members of the College on Thursday :
Messrs. Thomas Coke Higgs, St. George's, Bermuda, and
Edward Higgon Evans, Tretlgarne-hall, Haverfordwest.
THE MURDER IN CHESHlRE.—Yesterday her Ma-
jesty's Government offered a reward of 150/. for the disco-
very of the person or persons who so brutally murdered Mrs.
Mary Kinder, on the evening of the 16th inst., at Roads Fold,
Chester. It was announced also that any accomplice, not
being the actual murderer, who will give such information as
shall lead to the apprehension and conviction of his or her
confederates, will receive her Majesty's free pardon.
THE INDIAN COLLECTION.—The Lords of the
Treasury have granted Mr. Catlin, the owner of the North
American Indian collection, the privilege of retaining his
collection in this country, without being subjected to the
duties due on the several articles, for a lurti•er reriod of
time, in order to give him an opportunity of exhibiting it in
the metropolis during the ensuing summer, at the expiration
of which the collection will be talten foal this country.

THE FRENCH REPUBLI

THE NEW MINISTRY.

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT TO

THE ASSEMBLY.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Ministerial crisis is over ; the PRESIDENT has
appointed a new Ministry, not one of the members of
which is a representative of the people, and all of
whom are comparatively speaking unknown.
The Assembly met yesterday as usual, and at half-
after three CJlonel VAUDRY, the aide-de-camp of the
PRESIDENT of the Republic, entered and handed a
paper to M. DurlN, the President of the Assembly,
who, after the disposal of the routine business, an-
nounced to the Assembly that he had received a
Message from the PRESIDENT of the Republic, which
he proceeded to read as follows :

" Public opinion, confiding in the wisdom of the
Assembly and the Govt.rnment, has not been alarmed
by the late incidents; nevertheless, France begins to
suffer by divisions which she deplores. My duty is to
do what iu MP lies to prevent the ill results of them
The union of the two powers is indispensable to the re-
pose of the country, but as the Constitution has rendered
them independent of each other, the only condition of
this union is reciprocal confidence. Penetrated with
this sentiment, I shall always respect the rights of the
Assembly while maintaining intact the prerogatives or
that power which I hold from the people. In order not
to prolong a painful dissension, I have accepted,
after
the recent vote of the Assembly, the resignation of a gi-
nistry which had given to the country and to the
cause of order signal pledges of its devotion.
Wishing, however, to reconstruct a Cabinet with-
chances of duration, I could not choose its elements in a
majority produced by exceptional circumstances, and
have found myself with regret unable to frame a combi-
nation from among the members of the minority, net'.
withstanding its impert.ince.
"In this conjecture, after vain attempts, I have re-
solved on forming a Ministry of transition—of special
men, belonging to no fraction of the Assembly, and de-
termined to devote themselves to affairs, without regard,
to party feeling; and the honourable men who accePt
this patriotic tak will have titles to the gratitude of the
country. The Administration will, therefore, continue
as before; pr:judiecs will be dissipated befora a reineel-
brance of the solemn declaration of the message of
November 12. The real majority will be reconstituted.
Harmony will be re-established without the two powers
having sacrificed aught of the dignity which constitutes
their strength. France, before all things, desires reposer
and expects from those whom she has invested with her
confidence conciliation without ,veakness—calm and un-
altered firmness in the right. Accept, M. le Presidents
the assurance of a high esteem.
" "
LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.
The Message was listened to throughout without
interruption, the attitude of the Assembly being
cool and calm. The new Ministy is as f ltows
General Randon, War; Weiss, Interior; GermieYr
Finance ; Magne, Public Works ; Brennier, Foreign
Affairs ; Royer, Justice ; Vaillant, Marine ; Girauds
Public Instruction ; Schneider, Agriculture and Com-
merce.
M. Waiss, the uew Minister of the Interior, is
the Prefect of the Department of the North ; DR
GERMINY, the Finance Minister, is the Receiver-
General at Rouen ; M. MAGNE, the Minister of Public
Works, was Under- Secretary to M. FOULD, the late
Finance Minister; M. DE ROYER, the Minister of
Justice, is the Attorney-General of the Court of Ar
peal of Paris; M. GIRAUD, the Minister of Public
Instruction, is the Inspector-General of the Univer-
siry ; M.'SCLINEIDER, the Minister of Commerce, it;'
the proprietor of large iron works at Creuzot. Tl3l
War Ministry is entrusted to General BANDON, and
that of the Marine to Admiral VAILLANT.
When the appointment of the new Ministry, anci.
the contents of the Message, became known on the I
Bourse, the funds at first wavered, but closed with I
rise on the prices of the preceding day.
The Assembly continued calm, and broke up with
out the slightest sign of agitation. On Thursday Mb'
DE MONTALEMBERT had a long conference with t 1
PRESIDENT.
The Patric thus relates the failure of the afoul )4
of M. LEON FAUCHER to forma Ministry :--
M Le, 01,
" A report was current at the Assembly that as. - 0
Faucher had succeeded in forming a Cabinet.
names mentioned as those who were to enter the 22 L.;
nistry with him were—General d'Arbouville, for I
War Department; M. Lebeuf, Finances; M. de Flavigt
Foreign Affairs; M. Buffet, Commerce; Ml' Magi let;
Public Works; and M. Lacross, Marine. Our Fire
information enables us to say that this list only exlfitut
in idea. We can even say that, at the present time, t"
arrangement of a Cabinet with M. Leon Faucher, takelr
from the minority of the 286, may be considered l
having failed, end as having been completely abandoned"
Other negotiations have been opened.'
The following are the chief items of the Bank ac_
count :

Francs.
Specie in Paris ••• ••• •.• 350,836,363
Ditto in branches ... ••• ••• 129,553,478
Bills in Paris portfolio ••• ••• 61,462,718
Bills in branches ... • ••• • • 88.423,785
Bank notes in circulation ••• 420:272,900
Ditto in departments ... ... 90,246,125
credit to Treasury 89,052,491
Private credit accounts ... 77,125,881
Ditto in branches ... 21,343,575
The items of this account show an increase uodo
nearly every head ; there is a slight increase of
-L
in Paris, but 4,000,000 more in the provinces. 7,1
portfolio is improved. The note circulation is °ye'
that of last week. The credit to the Treasury 164
3,000,000 mote. What is curious and most grad?'"
ing, is, the absence of the usual debit for bills VW.:
unpaid, and this, for the first time, since the revol"-
tion in February.
The composition of the new Ministry was well receive,4
at the Bourse, and a rise took place in the price of Puu—
lie securities. The Five per Cents. opened at 94f. 900. r,
and rose to 95f. 35c.; they closed at 95f. 30c. The Three'
peiCents. closed at 57f. 10c.; the New Loan at 95r.
Orleani Railroad Shares, 848 f. 75c.; Rouen, 6771. 50°4`•
Havre, 2701.; Great Northern, 4701.; Avignon, 186 f. 251
;;;
Vierzon, 392 f. 50e.; Basle, 141 f. 25c. • Bordeaux, 39.5„,
Paris and Strasburg, 355 f.; Tcurs and Nantes, 248 t.•
;
BUSINESS DUNE 114 FOREIGN RAIL AYb Al TB
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JAIL 24.
Boulogne and Amiens, 9Vs —Central of France (Orle 7
and Vierzon), 15% ex int.—Luxembourg, 21,.,
of France, 1431 ex, int.—Orleans and Bordeaux, 4--Far
and Strasbourg, 9%—Rouen and Havre, 11. —Nortbe

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