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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARGEi 11, 1851.

to introduce during the present session any measure for
consolidating the laws relating to merchant seamen, but
that he should introduce a Bill to amend the Mercantile
Marine Act of last session.

Mr. HENRY DRUMMOND announced his intentio,l of
opposing the mutilation of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL gave notice that he should bring
forward the question of the Jewish disabilities on Thurs-
day.
In the course of a conversation on the Kafir War Lord
JOHN RUSSELL stated that the present amount of force
at the disposal of the Governor of the Cape Colony was
3,699 men, but that it would be speedily increased.
In reply to Mr. BAILLIE COCHRANE,
Mr. LABOUCHERE promised that an inquiry should be
made into the case of ANN CONNELL, whose child died in
her arms on the deck of an Irish steamer from exposure
to the weather, and announced his intention of intro-
ducing a Bill for the regulation of steam-ships generally.
On the motion for the House going into Committee of
Supply, _ .

Mr. W. WILLIAMS moved that no Supplies should be
voted until the amended Budget should be before the
House, but subsequently declined to divide, at that
period, on the motion, and the House went into Com-
mittee of Supply.

Sir F. BARING laid the Navy Estimates upon the
table, and moved a first vote of 1,435,7231. for wages to
39,000 seamen and marines, the corresponding vote for
last year having been 1,344,070, and the proposed increase
this year being, therefore, 91,6531. He also went through
the other items in these estimates, offering detailed ex-
planations under each head, and stating that the total
amount required for the effective service was 4,223,871/.,
being a decrease of 253,322/. upon the sunx of 4,384,015/.,
the corresponding vote of last year; that the total re-
quired for the whole naval service was 5,584,0591., being
a decrease of 281,7711. upon the sum of 5,772,6521., the
corresponding vote of last year, and that the sum re-
quired for the Army and Ordnance Department, as re-
garded the conveyance of troops, was 143,2001., being an
increase of 7,5001. upon the sum of 135,7004, the corre-
sponding vote of last year. The grand total to be asked
was 5,727,2591., showing a net decrease of 171,3211. upon
the corresponding grand total vote of last year.
Mr. Hush moved, as an amendment, t hat the number
of men should be reduced to 30,000. The Hon. Gentle-
man, in the course of his speech, pauticularly dwelt
upon the needless expenditure incurred by keeping up
the African squadron, and upon the large amount of
money squandered in building new ships, which were
left to rot on their slips.

Mr. MACGREGOR commented on the ex'mavagance of the
management of our dockyards, and thought that several
of them might be advantageously done away with.
Mr. COBDEN hoped that France and England would
unite to effect a disarmament, with a view of diminishing
the absurd outlay which each nation j ustified by the
example of the other.
_ _

Lord JOHN RUSSELL declared that the administration
of the dockyards had been greatly ior proved of late
years, and contended that the smallness of our army
and the nonexistence of a militia force Tendered it ab-
solutely necessary to maintain our naval &fences in a
state of efficiency. He trusted that the African squa-
dron would be maintained.

Mr. MILNER GIBSoN opposed, and
Mr. CARDWELL supported the maLittenance of the
African squadron. _ _

Admiral BERKELEY impressed upon :the Committee
the necessity of keeping up a service of me❑ trained to

gunnery.

Mr. PLITMPTRE, Mr. S. CRAWFORD., and Colonel
THOMPSON having briefly spoken, the tCommittee di-
vided, when the numbers were—
For the vote 169
For Mr. HOME'S amendment ... 61
Majority for the vote ... —lOB
On a subsequent vote of 138,6251. for the Admiralty-
office, a division to :k place on an amen {went moved by
Colonel SIBTHORP, who wished to redu 3e the salaries of
the Lords of the Admiralty by 4,600/.
The numbers were—
For the vote ... 193
For Colonel SIRTHORP'S amendment 34
Majority for the ♦ote ... —159

After the division, the Gallant mover of the amend-
ment, loudly denouncing his own party :as quite as un-
worthy of confidence as the Ministerialiaits, walked out
of the House, amid roars of laughter and .cheering.
Several subsequent items were then takE n, after which
the House resumed, and the other orlers were dis-
posed of.

After exciting discussions producing, or relating
to, the Ministerial crisis, Parliament; last night re-
turned to the common place, but ve) ty necessary duty
of arrranging the naval estimates: for the coming
year. Although one of the most ii n portant subjects
that can come under the consideratio a of the legisla-
tive body, it is, we regret to say, gei it lally speaking,
totally neglected by the great majority of the repre-
sentatives of the people. It would dseem as if the
honourable absentees regarded it as a matter of the
most profound indifference whet ;her, on the
one side, the public money is to be wasted in
wanton extravagance and reckless profusion, or,
on the other band, the most important branch of the
national service is to be reduced to a state of ineffi-
ciency by the summary dismissal of the gallant sea-
men, whom it would be very easy to send adrift, but
very difficult to collect again, and bring back to a
state of discipline. The proportion of speakers is
still more attenuated—some seven or eight persons,
at the outside, take part in the debate. Three or four
insist on economy and retrenchment, and are opposed
by an equal number of officials. The First Lord of
the Admiralty, aided and assisted by the First Lord
of the Treasury, fought the battle, and succeeded in
every point. There was a small and compact band of
financial reformers, while on the other side there was
a quantum sulicit of Ministerial followers kept in the
neighbourhood ready to be " whipped in" on any divi-
sion, leave of absence being given to the remainder.
The House was last night occupied in voting some
of the items relating to the effective branch of the
service. On these points there may not be so many
differences of opinion as on others that will hereafter
arise. For instance, although as desirous as any
persons can possibly be of reducing the
enormous burdens that paralyse the national
industry, we know that there is "a penny wise and
pound foolish economy," which it would be most un-
wise to sanction. We have so often inculcated the
accuracy and propriety of the aphorisim, Si via
pacem, para bellum, that it is unnecessary to recapi-
tulate our former arguments. But everything on that
point applies with far greater force to the navy than
to any other branch of the service. We may have all
the materiel—gallant ships, fully provided with all ne-
cessary armaments ; but what use would they be
without the hardy seamen to man—to become
the spirits animating the inert masses ? It is
notorious that it takes a much greater time to bring a
ship's company into good working order, to be able
to perform their duty without any unnecessary ex-
penditure of labour, than it does to enable the differ-
ent companies of a regiment to co-operate together.
And yet we never think of disbanding a regi-
ment, the skeleton is still kept together, ready
to start into life and vigour at almost any moment.
The Executive know well that & soldier is a machine
that requires considerable polishing before he becomes
really valuable—that each trained man has cost so
many pounds, shillings, and pence to the country,
and represents a certain pecuniary value, which it
would be as ridiculous to lose as it would be for a
person to cast his money into the sea, because he had
no immediate want. If this principle be true with
respect to the army, it applies a fortiori to the navy,
and yet we recklessly discharge well-disciplined crews
when they have reached the very highest point of
efficiency, well knowing that it would be impossible
in case of emergency to replace the priceless gems we
were disregarding.
On the first vote, then, the number of men to be
employed daring the coming year, our views are
altogether in favour of the Government, and we find
ourselves opposed to many valued friends. We could
not assent to a reduction of 9,000 men, or nearly 25 per
cent. of those employed, nor do we object to the in-
crease of pay and allowances, and improved arrange-
ments with regard to the victualling department, or
to the liberal commutation for grog, &c. ; the addi-
easses believein
the thatc
tional sums expended in these matters are of trivial
importance in comparison to the good effected, and
we l
ouwnetry: speak
kat not reasonable
heeling of
futlaayll
should be spared which could add to the comforts,
or promote the happiness of
fore, fully approve of the votes given as to the
number of men to be employed, the wages,
and the victualling of
these men. It must,
however, 'corn`' iii mir,l that these
various demands amount altogether to but
1,936,3,55/. out of the 5,727,259/. demanded, and
there is no reason why we should not act with libe-

rality and generosity i❑ that respect, while we closely
scrutinize the other items, and cut off every unneces-
sary demand.
_.

Now, we confess that:our dockyard expenditure,
the sums required for keeping our ships in repair,
and building the new vessels, which it is said should
be launched every year, seems to be very enormous.
2,011,3071. is unquestionably a heavy charge, and it
appears strange that the demand for the vessels should
exceed that for the men engaged on board the fleet by
nearly 75,0001. sterling. We are satisfied that, with due
care and attention, very considerable savings might
be effected in these branches. There is still too much
jobbery sanctioned, and we call on the representatives
of the people to show a greater degree of interest
on these matters than they have hitherto done, if
they desire to retain the confidence of their respec-
tive constituencies, and to be re-elected to the
honourable positions in which they are now placed,
but which they must recollect carry with them
duties—arduous and important duties—as well as
honours and privileges.

But it is to the non-effective branch of the service
that we would especially invite attention. The claim
on that account for the present year is no less than
1,360,1881., or, in other words, rather better than
two-thirds of that for the men in actual em-
ployment. Now it may be impossible to
reduce that outlay at a moment's notice, but some
pledge should be given for its gradual diminution.
What, we ask, do we want of 150 flag-officers of
various denominations, when 15 are all that are
required under even the most pressing cir-
cumstances ? This list, we contend, might, and, we
will add, should be reduced to 90 in the first instance,
and eventually to 60. Could it be said that 9 admi-
rals, 21 vice-admirals, and 45 rear-admirals would
not be amply sufficient for all purposes, and
leave a sufficient margin for all difficulties
that may occur ? That is the number to which
we would eventually reduce the list ; while, in the
first instance, we would allow 90 to remain, or 15
admirals, 30 vice-admirals, and 45 rear-admi-
rals. It may be said that there would be a
breach of faith to those who are anxiously
expecting the reward of their past services.
Although we do not fully assent to this proposition,
we would yet be willing to compromise the matter,
and we offer this suggestion on the point : Let the
present promotion go on until the list of post-captains
comes down to the year 1830; after that, let only
one promotion take place for two vacancies until the
list comes down to that of 1840 ; and after that but
one appointment for every three deaths until the
number of admirals, &c., be reduced to sixty, as
above mentioned. This proposition would, if carried
out, meet the justice of the case and be received with
general approbation throughout the entire country.

An Englishwoman of the present generation has
unhappily surpassed by her atrocities the alinoQt in-
conceivable crimes narrated of Madame LAFFARGE
and the Marchioness BRINVILLIERS. Our heart
sickens at the record of those diabolical acts which
are reported of the two latter assassins. Yet, unut-
terable as is the depth of their criminality, it has
been iu every way eclipsed by the devilish deeds at
last brought home to SARAH CHESHAM. The narra-
tive of the dark and sinister career of this hellkite
is such, in truth, as almost to exceed the limits of
credibility. Reason shrinks from believing in full the
horrors attributed to her. Human nature is re•
luctant to admit the possibility of such sys-
tematic guilt—guilt so gratuitous, so objectless,
save for the gratification of a lust of murder, so
opposed to all the laws of affection and to all the in-
fluences of propinquity. In this woman, or rather
we should say in this fiend, we find not only a
Poisoner, but a schoolmistress of Poisoners. We find
her slowly taking away the life of her husband—and,
not content with the unearthly satisfaction experi•
enced by her in the secret superintendence of this
domestic tragedy, inciting others nearly as depraved
as herself to employ the same dastardly implements
of destruction. She is not merely a practitioner, but
a professor of poisoning—using the deleterious drugs
herself, and instructing others to act in like manner.
She gloats over the decaying strength of her uncon-
scious partner, whom she had pledged herself, according
to the language of th© marriage service, to " love,
honour, and obey." She does more than this—she
slays by the same bidden means her own offspring,
the children she had borne in her womb and nou-
rished at her bosom. Her passions inflamed with
this worst of all species of infanticide, that perpe-
trated by the mother herself, she discovers a method
of slaking her thirst of blood, and of appeasing her
appetite for assassination, by tempting the little chil-
dren of the village to eat lozenges charged with
minute particles of arsenic. Under an appearance
of kindness she hides a ferocity only com-
parable to that of a ghoul or a vampire.
Her deadly assiduity is always on the watch. She
watches her victims fall one after another. She re-
vels in the horror of her detestable secret. Regarded
at length with suspicion, she is twice dragged up for
trial, and twice acquitted—her hideous propensity
for poisoning becoming in the end confirmed by its
impunity. Fortunately for those around her, the
murderess is at last convicted, and the wretch was
finally sentenced to death by the Lord Chief Justice
CAMPBELL on the occasion of the late assizss at
Chelmsford.

Looking with as much calmness as is possible under
the circumstances at the history of the life of this mon-
ster, it is impossible not to discover in it reasons for
lamenting those things which too frequently tend to
retard the approach of justice. The liberty which
has been permitted for so lengthened a period to
SARAH CHESHAM, a liberty enabling her to carry out
her very awful schemes of devastation, is the fruit,
unhappily, of that remissness in the laws of the land
which the conscientious reformer of the criminal
code has again and again reprobated. Often as the
necessity for the comprehensive revision of this code
has been insisted upon, and more especially of late
years, it has seldom been placed so glaringly before
the common sense of the Legislature as by the
facts brought to light by the trial of the
criminal here mentioned as having been formally
convicted and sentenced to death at Chelmsford.
From these particulars it must be sufficiently appa-
rent that, with all our elaborate precautions against
assassination by poison, we are, nevertheless, very far
indeed from having afforded adequate protection to
human lives. Efforts are still making to prevent a
too ready access to poisonous drugs and acids of a
destructive character. As yet, however, those subtle
agents of the murderer are within his reach at a cost
altogether insignificant. The continuance of this
system must be prevented. The sale of
these dangerous liquids and powders must be
restricted to specified cases, and even then, under
the heaviest penalties for any infringement of the
law, they must be only purchaseable upon certain
stringent conditions. True, there is a sort of dis-
cretionary power of this kind exercised at present,
but it is assuredly very necessary to assert that this
power, as at present regulated, is every way inadequate.
What renders the case of SARAH CHESHAM a yet
greater source of horror to us, is the circumstance
that the medical evidence given upon the occasion
of her former trials and acquittals, actually appears
to have suggested to her novel methods of carrying
into effect subsequent schemes of poisoning. After
acquiring the knowledge of this, we may presume
that henceforth at least the guardians of the law will
exercise, in the prevention and punishment of crime,
a more awakened and comprehensive vigilance.
It is impossible, wholly and entirely impossible, we
should opine, that the sticklers for the remission of
capital punishment in all cases as a penalty for crime,
should persist in requiring the unconditional
acceptance of their doctrines. BECCARIA him-
self would hesitate, we should conceive, from
demanding any more lenient infliction in regard to
the author of such preternatural atrocities. We have
seen very recently how the most noted of all the ad-
vocates of Communism and Socialism, M. PROUDIION,
moderated his language when he took unto himself a
wife who happened to be possessed of property. We
have observed, not long ago, how one of the most
conspicuous among the aspirants for substi-
tution of arbitration for bloodshed (Viscomte
VICTOR. HuGo) incited his own son to fight
a duel in vindication of his honour as a gen-
tleman ; and how another equally noted agitator
in toe same movement (Mr. EICW,Aci) CORDIiN)
flung defiance not many months ago in the teeth of
the AUTOCRAT, and, on the part of England, threatened

to crumple up the Russian empire as easily as a
bit of paper. Now, with just as much consistancy
could M. PROUDHON insist anew upon the blessings
of Socialism or Communism, and Viscomte VICTOR
HuGo declaim once more against bloodshed, and
Mr. RICHARD COBDEN re-assert the advantages of
arbitration,—with just as much consistency as
this, we say, could the advocates of the
total abolition of capital punishment rede-
mand the remission of that penalty in the face of
such a stupendous criminal as this terrible SARAH
CLIEBHAM. Humanity demands that the most horrid
and the most certain expiation of guilt should hang
before the eyes of those who dream of perpetrating,
either by wholesale or by retail, any similar atroci-
ties. Unless we would have society desolated through
the instrumentality of these female poisonerP, we must
show the law to be prompt and inexorable in the vin-
, dication of its outraged majesty.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The decree of the PRESIDENT, removing 21 Pre-
fects of Departments, and appointing others in their
place, has given great offence to the Legitimatists.
It is thus spoken of by the Opinion Publique :
" The decree formed the subject of the most animated
explanations between the Minister of the Interior and
the greater number of the ministerial party. The Mi-
nister did not seem much at his ease while besieged
with interpellatiens, which, although from friends, were
by no means amicable. It is quite true that impetuous
zeal has found more favour than old services, and the
new prefects have been chosen rather for their devoted-
ness and their ardour than for their intelligence or wisdom.
M. Pietri is a Corsican, which implies all that need be
said. France belongs at this moment to the Corsicans,
who are all heirs, more or less direct, of the Emperor.
.
M. de Vincent recommended by his manners, which
are rather military than civil. M. Bart, on the
other hand, a man of incontestable capacity, has
been removed from Tarn, as it is said,
because he did not display sufficient ardour for the
Elpie. M. de Maupas, on the contrary, owes his ap-
pointment to the impetuous zeal which he had manifested
as Sub-Prefect. M. de Lengle does not pass for an able
administrator, but ho is what is better—a devoted parti-
zan. M. de Charnailles is nephew, by marriage, to Ge-
neral Baraguay d'llilliers, and is not this the era of
nephews ? M. de Romans was a Legitimatist until he
became an Orleanist, and is of course an Elysean. It
was also remarked at the Assembly that M. Waisse had
given up his own prefecture, from which it was concluded
that he hopes to remain Minister."
The negotations for the formation of a permanent
and Parliamentary Ministry still continue. The
new combination will include MM. ODILON BAEHOTt
BAROCIIE, ACHILLE FoULD, and WAISSE, the present
Minister of the Interior. M. DUZAURE was at one
time spoken of as likely to have a portfolio in the
new Ministry, but his appointment is considered very
doubtful.
The Five per Cents. opened at 94f. 25c., and closed at
94f. 20e.; !he Three per Cents. closed at 57f. 80c.; Or-
leans Railroad Shares, 886 f. 25c.; Rouen, 647 f. 50c.;
Havre, 276 f. 25c.; Great Northern, 476 f. 250.; Avignon,
192 f. 50c.; Vierzon, 421 f. 25c.; Bale, 155 f.; Bordeaux,
3951. ; Paris and Strasburg, 368 f. 75c.; Tours and
Nantes, 256 f. 250.
BUSIINESS troNE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 10.
Boulogne and Amiens, 91/2—Dutch Rhenish, 34,—East
Indian, 15% —Maria Antonia, 614—Ditto, pew, 214—Namur
and Liege, 81/B—Northern of France, 151/B—Sambre and
Meuse, 314—Tours and Nantes, 5 %.

TUE SHARE MARKETS.

BRITISH RAILWAYS.

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to-024y.

Business done
to-day.

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MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimat ed
at 4,000 bales, comprising 3,030 American at 63%d. to 7d.,
200 Pernam and Maranham at Bd. to 8%d., 200 Bahia at
73/4d. to Bd., 100 Egyptian at 7%d. to 9d., and 600 Surat at
434 d. to 5%d. per lb. The market was heavy, and Ameri-
can, at and under 7d., were %d. per lb. lower, but all other
kinds, though declining, were not so much changed.—Rail-
way Shares were quiet, with little variation in prices.
A curious and interesting meeting was held in the City
yesterday afternoon, viz., of parties connected with the
Coffee trade, to give expression to their views as to the
adulteration practised. Strictly speaking, the meeting was
intended to have been a sort of protest by the growers, the
importers, and the public; but there is a section of the less
conscientious dealers who profit largely by the admixture Of
chicory, damaged beans, chesnuts, acorns, &c., and who find
their account in being enabled to sell an article apparently
very cheap, and therefore attractive to the working classes,
but in reality very dear when we consider its inferiority.
The fallacy of assuming that the working classes have either
the money or time to purchase mills and grind for themselves
is scarcely worth refutation; but, on the other hand, it may
be conceded that a poor man would be well content to pay
10d. or ls. for half a pound of Coffee, and half a pound of
Chicory, in preference to having all Coffee at ls. 2d. or ls.4d.
This :granted, however, where is adulteration to stop, if
the SELLEX is permitted to proportion the quantities?
The only
.protection must be to compel the sale of
Coffee and. Chicory separately, as was stated by Mr.
Thomas Baring, the chairman of the meeting. Viewed
altogether, there are great difficulties in the way. It is
hardly possible entirely to prevent a dishonest dealer from
concocting a cheap and palatable but not nutritious article,
and yet while excise laws exist it would be excessively un-
fair to the respectable trader not to endeavour to check it.
Once allow that the adulteration of exciseable commodities
is legal, and we cannot see that one article should be pro-
tected more than another. The revenue and the public must
then suffer together. Moreover, it would be hard to stop the
growth of chicory, and beans, chesnuts, and acorns, no one
can possibly interfere with. With great difficulty the chair
man yesterday carried the resolution against adulteration,
for the " mixers" were in strong force, while Messrs. Baring
and friends had not used any exertion apparently to "whip
up" their supporters, and all know that what is everybody's
business is nobody's, and that the public grumble but leave
the energetic few to agitate. That the respectable retail
dealers admire the adulterating system, we cannot for a mo-
ment admit.

Under this head yesterday allusion was made in general
terms to the news received from Mexico. The official infor-
mation received by the committee of bondholders, and since
forwarded to us, states :
" The Committee have received advices from Mr. Falcon-
net, dated Mexico, the 3d ult. At that date the accep-
tance of the decrees of the 14th of October last by the bond-
holders here was not yet known in Mexico, and Mr. Fal-
connet's letter, therefore, contains nothing relative to what
the bondholders are to have out of the Amer can indemnity
money except this passage :—‘ Had not Mr. Payne's illness
suspended my negotiations, I believe that I should have
succeeded in getting the assignments of the 2,500,000 dolls.
on the indemnity money deposited in such a manner as en-
tirely to remove it from the control of the Giovernment.'
" Mr. Falconnet's negotiations with the Government, ge-
nerally, had been suspended by Mr. Payne's illness, and
subsequent retirement of the Minister of Finance. He is
succeed by Don Ignacio Esteva, who had not taken actual
charge of the department at the date of these dispatches.
" Mr. Falconnet had, however, bad an interview with the
new President, General Arista, who had assured him that
he would do everything in his power to satisfy the bond-
holders. No definite arrangement had been come to yet
with Messrs. Manning and Mackintosh, but Mr. Falconnet
continues to entertain hopes of recovering what is due from
them to the bondholders.

"The Severn brings 56,500 dolls. for account of the bond-
holders from the Custom-houses of Vera Cruz and Tampico."
The firm of C. Kelly and Co., of Hamilton (Canada), are
about to erect a powder mill in the neighbourhood of that
city—the first, we believe, ever contemplated in British
North America. They will be prepared to fulfil orders in
April next. It is satisfactory to notice the increase of do-
mestic manufactures without any excessive protective duty
on the foreign articles to force them into use. It shows true
progress. _

A.-1 Amsterdam on the 9th inst., there was no particular
iteration in Public Securities. Spanish were again rather
better, and Peruvian also were in request, at BJI,G. Mexican
were 3.3%.
This is settling day in the Engl'sh Stock Market, but the
speculative operations have been so trifling during
the last few weeks, that very little interest is
attached to the adjustment. Taking the .highest and
lowest prices of the Account the variation is but 3/4 to % per
cent. The events that have fallen within this period might
well have been expected, at any other time, to have excited
a good deal of fluctuation. There has been the resignation
of Ministers, the failure of the Budget, the danger of a dis-
solution of Parliament, the outbreak of a new Kafir war, and
one or two minor contingencies, but none have occasioned
more than a fractional change; and, with the abundance nf
money to check a fall, and the attraction afforded by shares
to those inclined to deal for time, we cannot much wonder
that the Consol market has been so dull. To-day the prices
are 96% to % for Transfer, and 96% for Account. The .1% ew
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been marked 98% to
99%, and the three per Cents. 971,E to 97%. rank z tock
has been firm at 215. Exchequer-bills have been marked
51s. to 51e., and India Bonds of I,' 0(1. have touched 58s.
premium.

In the Foreign Market scarcely any business is doing.
Mexican Stock is quiet at 333% to %. Equador Bonds are
3%, and Brazilian old 923%. Peruvian Four-and- a-Half per
Cents, have been maintained at 81%. Spanish Five per
Cents. have been 20, and Portuguese Four per Cents. 34.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. realised 58%.
Railway Shares are in many instances looking up again,
and there is a fair business doing. Aberdeen, Blackwall,
Caledonian, East Anglian, Eastern Counties, Great Northern,
Midland, South Devon, and Shrewsbury and Birmingham
have been in particular favour. Foreign Shares are quiet.
QUARTER TO THRISA
Consols ... 96i j-
Ditto Account' 961
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOC&.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock 215
3 pin. Cent. Reduced 97% %
3 per Cent. Consuls Anna
New 314 per Cont. An5e............ 99% 9811 99!4,
Long Annuities, Exp. Jai:l.sth, 1860 7l,i 7 13-16
Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1660 7 7-16
India Stock
Do. Bonds, 10001 55 p
Ditto under 1.0001
Camels for Aecoant 965
E Kthequer Bills. I%d. 2d.
March. June.
1,000/. ..
5001 5l 54

Small — 51 54 P p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 9234
Ditto, Small .
Equador Bonds 3%
ifixican 80ni5,1846,5 per Cent., Coupons
Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons
Peruvian Bonds, 4% per Cent —
Ditto Account ....
Portuguese Bonds,s per Cent —
Ditto 4 ner Cent. - 34
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent lll
cipanisn Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 21.4 per Cent., 12 Guild

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-( THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MARCH 11...—Wind at noon N. W., light breese
and fine, clear, dry weather.
LIVERPOOL, MARCH 10.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. Baron
Renfrew, Bombay ; Columbus, Pernambuco—sld. 11th Feb. ;
John and Lucy, New Orleans; General Parkhill, Charleston;
Perseverance, St. John's, New Brunswick; Gluekauf, Rio
Janeiro ; Hero, Savanilla ; Ellershe and Mary Carson, New
Orleans; Caspian and Greenock, Mobile; Pomona, St.
John's, New Brunswick; Coringa, Halifax. Sld. Lydia, Dew
York. Off port, Ivanhoe, and Derby.
FALMOUTH, MARCE 10.—The Susannah, for Wilmington,
has put back to this port, from long. 21, leaky, and with
cargo shifted, &c.
LYNN, MARCH 10.—A quantity of unmanufactured to-
bacco has been washed on shore at Hunstanton.
NEWPORT, MARCH 10.—The Alliance, of Bideford, Cardiff
to Ballinacurra, foundered off Dungaroon, sth inst.; crew
saved.
Cowas, Rawl' 10.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. Othello, Porta
Cabello.
TORBAY, MARCH 10.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Galley, New
York, and aid. for Hamburgh.
DARTMOUTH, MARCH 10.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Prima
Donna, Porto Rico.
SUNDERLAND.—Arrd. Virgil, from Swinnemunde, leaky,
and damaged ; one man lost in a storm.
DEAL, MARCH 10.—Wind S. to W., fresh; P.M., N.N.W.
squally. Arrd. Minna, Santa Cruz, for Bremen ; Harriet,
Humble, Shanghai ; Moultan, ditto ; Equator, ditto t Ballin-
geisch, Calcutta ; British Empire, St. John's, New Bruns-
wick. Arrd. from the River, Douglas, Sydney, New South
Wales; City of Manchester, Adelaide, South Australia;
King William, ditto. Arrd. from the River and sld. Cle-
manthe, Rio Janeiro; British Isles, Demerara; Jessica, Tri-
nidad; American Congress, New York.
FALMOUTH, MARCH 10. - Wind N.N.W., fresh breezes.—
Arrd. Pilot-fish, Shanghai for Liverpool.
BRISTOL, MARCH 10.—Wind N. W.—Arrd. Barkhill, Per-
nambuco; George Robinson, ditto.
NEWPORT.— Sld. Vrieden, Manilla ; Cargey, Jamaica ;
Maxwell, Havannah ; Herndal, St. Thomas ; Columbus,
ditto; Thorwaldsen, Havannah ; Wilhelmine, St. Vincent.
QUEENSTOWN, MARCH 9. Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. Fanny,
Mauritius; Allan, Callao; Sarah Volsford, Matanzas.
HULL, MARCH 10.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd. Royal Vietoria,
New Orleans.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)
RAT MARKETS.
SMITIIFIKLD.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 10s to 31 17s 6d ; Clover
ditto, 3/ Os to 4l Os ; and Straw, 1/ is to 1/ Is per load.
Both Hay and Straw Moved off slowly, at about stationary
prices.

CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 10s to 41 Os ; Clover
ditto, 31 Os to 41 Os; and Straw, 11 is to 118 s per load.
Supply tolerably good, and trade dull.
WITITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 218 s to Si 17s 6d ; Clover
ditto, 3/ Os to 4/ 2s; and Straw, 11 Is to 11 7s per load.
A. fair average supply, and a sluggish demand.