The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-10 00:00:00

}OPAL

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.

THIS EVENING, THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. G.
Melville, A. Harris, and Miss Clifford.
Followed by the Farce, CRUEL TO BE KIND. Mr. A.
Harris, Frank Matthews, and Miss Carlotta Leclereq.
After which, a new Christmas burlesque pantomime, by 11.
J. Byron, called JACK THE GIANT KILLER ; or, Harle-
quin King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
Jack, Miss Louise Keeley—Harlequin, Mr. Cormack • Panta-
loon, Kr. isaulo—Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams—Clown,
Mr. AL F. Forrest.

.NTEW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHL
Sole !Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Ben). Webster.

THIS EVENING, ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS, Mr. J.
L. Toole, Chas. Selby, Billington, Mrs. Chatterley, Mrs. Bil-
Wigton, Miss Kate Kelly, and Laidlaw.

After which, PAPER WINGS, Mr Alfred Wigan, J. L.
Toole, D. Fisher, Billino-ton, P. Bedford, Stuart, C. Selby,
Eburne, C. J. Smith, Powell, Romer, Mrs Alfred Wigan,
Miss H. Simms, Miss Kate Kelly, and Mrs Chatterley.

Followed by DINORAH UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford. Eburne, C. J. Smith, Miss
K. Kelly.

Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box-
()Aloe open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats,
nor for bills of performance. All fees to servants of this
establishment are strictly prohibited.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter-
ton. Directress, Miss Wyndham. The nearest Theatre to
Chelsea, Pimlico, and Westminster, the Park being open to
carriages and foot passengers all hours of the night.
THIS EVENING the performances will commence with
"No. le."

After which, MAGIC TOYS. Miss Lydia Thompson.
Followed by a new burlesque called DIDO. Mr. Charles
Young, Mesdames Wyndham, Clara St. Casse, Murray, Eliza
Arden, C. Rance, A. Evans, and Corps de Ballet.
To conclude with FIRST AFFEuTIONS. Messrs. 11. T.
Craven, G. Spencer, and Miss Wyndham.

Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, Is. The Box-office open
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform
ance commences at 7.

CONCERTS..

CANTERBURY HALL
THIS EVENING,
LITCREZIA BORGIA,
(Donizetti).

Donna Lucrezia Miss Russell.
Mafflo Orsini Mrs. Anderson.
Gennaro Mr. Henry Herbert.
Don Altonzo Signor Tivoli.
Conductor—Mr. Jonghm ans.
Comic Vocalists -Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfleld, and E. W. Mackney.
Several interesting Pictures arc added to the Fine Arts
Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and
eautilled, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant
sights of the metropolis.
The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, MARCH 10, 1860.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
42—highest since noon yesterday.
32—lowest this morning and during the night.
40—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-29.92—fallingfast.
WD TD, South-Westerly; light, with fine woather.
Sharp frost in the night.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 3h. 40m.—Afternoon, 3h. 59m
To-moußow.-Morning, 4h. 20m.—Afternoon, 4h. 40m

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THE SUN.
LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1860.

As we anticipated yesterday the Address is
carried, and carried, too, by a large majority—
being about five to one on Mr. HORSMAN'S amend-
ment to omit the eleventh article—that relating to
coals—from the treaty : the numbers being 282 to
56. Indeed, but for the occasion of making long
speeches, however excellent, the Address might have
been voted unanimously.

Having already expressed our own opinion on
the character of this one-sided treaty, we shall con-
tent ourselves by giving a few paragraphs illustra-

tive of the sentiments expressed by some of the

speakers last night. Mr. HORSMAN maintained
that we had made a great sacrifice to France fol.
no apparent benefit to this country. The expecta-
tions held out, to result from the treaty,
were based on false calculations. The Equi-
valents we were to receive were of two
kinds--material and moral. The first consisted
in the extension of Free•trade, the principles of

which, if truly carried out, would be worth ten

times the sacrifices we were making. But how
could these be realised in the face of the menacing
attitude of France, which imposed on us such a
burden of taxes and preparations in time of peace P
As to the moral equivalent of securing peace
and 'friendship with France, it. was rather an Irish
'way of doing it, seeing that we were so scepticll on
the point, that we were urging on our equipments,
at a sort of railway speed. we were
confounding the French EMPEROR with the
French nation, whose views were antagonistic.
On the whole he denounced the titaty as giving
very undue advantages to foreigners at the expense
of English taxpayers. We were contributing to
the exhaustion of one of the great elements of our
commercial prosperity—coal—and our political
strength, by enhancing its price to our own con-
sumers for the benefit of others.
Mr. DISRAELI's objections were threefold—
financial—diplomatic, and political. His first ob-
jection was to the creating a large deficiency of
revenue for the purposes of this treaty. Upon the
second ground, he objected to the treaty that it
had .been unskilfully and negligently entered
into, and he adduced proofs of what he consi
dered precipitation, and of carelessness in regard
to British interests. Then the political objections
to the treaty were a part of the subject which
could not be evaded, as the House, he said, had
been challenged to consider the treaty upon poli-
tical grounds, it having been avowedly negotiated
for political purposes. In consi 7ering the question
of Savoy, he avowed that the conduct of the French
Government appeared to him in that matter to have
been, so far as the English Government was con-
cerned, sincere, frank, and straightforward, while
the latter had been pursuing
a policy which they
knew must necessarily have led to the annexation
of the provinces, yet in the end tu • • Imng round and
affecting surprise.

He charges our Government 'with a guilty
knowledge of what the Emperor of the PRENCII
was driving at, while they were afraid to
_ avow it.
He concluded a very eloquent speech, and Was fol-
lowed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in a
speech equally eloquent. lie combatted the argu-
ments of Mr. DISRAELI and Mr. }IORSMAN with
great earnestness, and vindicated the policy of the
Government with regard to Itaty, the Treaty, and

the benefits likely to result from its adoption, not
to France alone, but England, and, in fact, even-
tually to the world in general.

LAT

s

Lord JOHN RUSSELL, last night, laid on the table
of the House of Commons, the second part of the
correspondence relating to the affairs of Italy, a
copy of which we have been favoured with. It
brings the question down to a late period, the last
despatch from Lord COWLEY to the Foreign Secre-
tary, dated the 24th of February, in which the pre-
sent condition of the Italian question is thus
described :—" M. THOUVENEL mentioned to
me yesterday that, whether the proposals of
her MAJESTY'S Government for the settlement of
Italy were to be accepted in their entirety or not,
her MAJESTY'S Government had rendered an im-
mense service to the Italian cape in making them,
since the Imperial Government had thus been
enabled to enter into explanations with the
Austrian Government, and loyally and honourably
to free themselves from engagements which it had
become impossible to fulfil."

The Emperor of the French now considers him-
self honourably exonerated from the conditions of
Villafranca and Zurich by [the operations of
the English propositions but he reckons,
we suspect, without his host. However, if
he keep true to his recently avowed policy
—not to interfere himself nor allow others to
interfere by force in the settlement of the Italian
question so much the better for the people. Still
his shuffling policy seems to give the go-bye to
his professions--indeed so much so that he is hardly
to be believed when he speaks the truth. Let us
hope that he yet may learn to do better—
both for himself and those who put their faith in
him.

The question mooted by Mr. CAVE on Thursday
night is one on which the British public must keep
a watchful eye. It would be a disgrace, indeed, to
us, after all we have done for the suppression of the
slave trade and slavery, should our own subjects in
India be inveigled into bondage to French planters.
If any class of men have a claim on our protection,
it is the ignorant and helpless coolies of India. We
are told that some 40,000 of these have already
been lured into the French settlement of Pondi-
cherry in India, to be shipped thence, nominally as
free emigrants, practically as slaves, to French
colonies. Lord .1 oio. RUSSELL says that, in the
Mauritius, the immigration of coolies has answered
well. The estates have been cultivated with suc-
cess by their labour, and they have returned after
their three years' service, at the expense of the
planters, with money in their pockets, more than
they ever had before. We believe this is to a great
extent true. But these men have been shipped
from our own Indian ports, under the most strin-
gent regulations, and beneath the supervision of
British authorities sharing the national hatred of
slavery in every form. They also have gone to an
island where British law rules, where British sen-
timents are dominant amongst all the authorities,
and where abuses could never go far without their
being heard of in the British Parliament. There
is every possible security taken for the welfare of
our poor Pagan coolies, and we may hope they are
gainers by their immigration.
The case is almost wholly reversed in the treaty
which our Government has just made with the
Emperor of the FRENCH. He had sanctioned a
contract with some French merchants, under which
those gentry were carrying on a thrifty slave trade
with the French colonies from the east coast 'of
Africa. The old practices of internal wars to catch
slaves for the EMPEROR'S merchants were re-
newed. The old atrocities of slave-hunting were
rife again, and Portugal had, under the advice of
Lord MALMESBURY, to pay the French for violat-
ing the sovereign rights of the feebler State. The
EMPEROR professed loudly to be ashamed of the
slave trade in his name, while he yet made Portu-
gal pay for stopping it in her dominions. But he
also turned to the English Government, and said
—lf you will let me take your subjects and appren-
tice them to my planters for five years, I will—

fifteen months afterwards (always long after our
action in any treaty with the EMPEROR)—I will
cancel the slave-trading contract. In other words,
he will put an end to French kidnapping of negroes,
if we will permit him to lure our poor Indian sub-
jects into his colonies! We do not doubt that he
wishes them to be well treated—but what guaran-
tee can he give us ? They will be in a French
colony, under a French governor, with French
authorities to appeal to. Our Consul might be a
secretary to an anti-slavew society, but yet he
could not watch over the plantations of an island.
We hardly know, therefore, a case in which com-
mon humanity more imperatively demands British
vigilance.

MISS AMY SEDGEWICX'S READINGS.

On Tuesday evening, Miss Amy Sedgewick gave
her second and last reading, for the present season,
at the St. John's-wood Literary Institution. The
large assembly room of the Eyre Arms, St. John's-
wood, in which the reading took place, was filled
with a numerous and fashionable audience, by
whom Miss Sedgewickwas most warmly greeted on
her entrance. She began the evening's programme
with the trial scene in " The Merchant of Venice,"
in which the various and conflicting emotions dis-
played by the different characters of the piece were
rendered with wonderful power, skill, and judg-
ment. To this succeeded "The Irish Emigrant's
Farewell" (read with most touching pathos), and
" Lochiel's Warning."
The second part of the entertainment consisted of
selections from " Hamlet" and " The School for
Scandal," in which, it is needless to say, ample
scope was afforded for the display of the fair
arttste's
great powers, alike in tragedy and comedy.
The frequent and enthusiastic applause which she
elicited, amply testified to the delight experienced
by all
assembledo on the occasion ; and the un-
doubted triumph Miss SedgewickoftiedrhaamsataicchaierNtr, will,
din
this, to her, new branch
fquwreeterunstlty, induce her to carry it out still more
not merely in the metropolis, but the
country.

ish opera
given at the Princess's Theatre, cainmencingEgtrp
THE ENGLISII OPERA 7-- E----n
r
which will run for fifteen weeks. in May next,
gwtenithents are pend•
will be
ing, and, in many instances, concluded'
Miss Emma Hey-
nent artistes, amongst whom, we hear, are Mavdlalrie.°Pusareerapai,
Miss Susan Pyne, Madlle. Jenny Baur,
waod, Messrs. Haigh, Weiss, and Durand, as
Madlle. Bury, a cantatrice of charming voice, possessing
great powers of acting, and of great reputation in Berlin:
Dr. James Pech is spoken of as the conductor, to whose
care the whole of the musical direction is confided.
WEST SURREY ELECTION.—THIS DAY. The
election for West Surrey took place this morning at Guild-
ford. As it was understood that there was to be no opposi-
tion to the return of Mr. Cubitt, the proceedings appeared
to create very little interest. The Hon. J. Scott proposed,
and N. Alexander, Esq., seconded, the nomination of Mr.
Cubitt. No other candidate being proposed, Mr. Cubitt
was declared duly elected, and the proceedings terminated.

Messrs. Sampson Low and Son have in prepara-
tion a new work by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, who has
been spending the winter in Florence.
The First Warwickshire Militia, under the com-
mand of Lieut.-Colonel Boultbee, have received orders to
assemble at Warwick on the 30th of April next, for 28 days'
training.

IMPORTATION OF FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR.

—Daty paid in Hull last week : £2 18s. on 58 qrs. of wheat,
£l6O 16s. on 3,216 qrs of barley, 6s. on 6 qrs. of oats,
£2 18s. on 68 qrs. of beans, £lss. on 25 qrs. of peas, £26
ss. 9d. on 1,402 cwt. of wheat flour, and ls. 101 d. on 5 cwt.
of potato flour.

We regret to hear that the Itlyal Naval Annul.
tent Society at Devonpori has suffered very considerably
from the serious " defalcations" of one of the late clerks,
Mr. William Molesworth Richards, who is now non inven-
tus• The books of the Society are undergoing close inves -
tigation.- -.Plymouth Journal.
THE MINING DISPUTE IN SCOTLAND.—The iron-
masters of the west of Scotland held a meeting in Glasgow,
on Wednesday, at which they resolved to continue to keep
out their furnaces, and not to meet again for the considera-
tion of that particular question. The prospect of an early
adjustment of this unfortunate dispute is thus destroyed.
The men on strike are holding out determinedly.

NEWS.

PARIS, MARCH 9.

The Pays of this evening publishes an article
signed by M. Grapier de Cassagnac, on the manner
in which the project of the annexation of Savoy
and Nice bas been discussed in the English Parlia-
ment.

M. de Cassagnac calls to mind that France left
England full liberty to take and fortify Perim, be-
cause England had to protect her interests in the
East, and says France is now in a similar position
in regard to Savoy and Nice, and he cannot under-
stand why such noisy discussions (criailleries) take
place in the English Parliament, which might com-
promise the alliance between the two countries.
We must understand that the Emperor has not fri-
volously demanded a modification in the French
frontier which the aggrandisement of Sardinia has
renderedindispensable. He will take into consider-
ation the disposition of the inhabitants and the esti-
mation of Europe, but it would be unreasonable to
suppose that the Emperor would renounce that
which regards the security of one of the most 101-
portant frontiers of the Empire.
The Patric publishes an article against a divi-
sion of Savoy, in which it declares that the annexa-
tion of Chablais and Faucigny to Switzerland is
impossible.

CHAIIBERY, FRIDAY.

The Courrier des Aipes announces that the de-
parture of the soldiers of the classes 1830 to 1832,
called out by the circular of the Minister of War
of the 24th ult., has, in se far as it concerns Savoy,
been postponed.

ROME, MARCH 6 (via Marseilles).

A deputation of students has been received by
General Goyon, who delivered a written reply, ex-
horting them to resume their studies, and express-
ing his resolution to support the public authorities
by all means at his disposal in order to maintain
the observance of the laws.

BOLOGNA, MARCH 6 (via Marseilles).

The report that an attack will shortly be made
by the Pontifical troops on the forces of the
Romagna is doubtful, but great irritation prevails
here.

The priests are threatened by the people, and the
fortification of the place is being actively continued.

NAPLES (via MARSEILLES), MARCH 6.

A royal decree establishes modifications of 240
articles of the Customs' tariff, and orders that the
revision of the remaining part should be continued
by the commission.

2d , addressed by Count Cavour to the Chevalier'
Ni gra, at Paris, on the question of Savoy and Nice.
" The note calls to mind :the declarations eon-
ta: fined in the despatch of M. Thouvenel, and de-
cis .res that, while refusing to believe that the
ag grandisement of Sardinia can ever constitute a
di .nger for France, to which country Piedmont is
be iund by such strong ties of gratitude, nevertheless
th e Sardinian Government cannot but give serious
at tention to a demand reposing on the rPspect for
th e wishes of the people.
" The King's Government would never consent,
evon at the price of the greatest advantages, to cede
or .exchange any part of the territory which for so
many ages has formed the most glorious appanage of
the House of Savoy. It cannot, however, refrain
from taking into consideration the change which
late events in Italy have made in the situation of
the people of Savoy and of the county of Nice. At
the moment when Piedmont claims for the people
of Central Italy the right to dispose of their own
fate, it could not without inconsistency refuse the
subjects of the King who reside beyond the Alps
the right of freely manifesting their will.
"However great the regrets of the Government
of King Victor Emmanuel might be if the provinces
in question were to demand their separation, it
could not refuse to admit the weight of a manifes-
, tation to which the vote of the National Parliament
would give legal value.
" The declarations of M. Thouvenel as regards
the great Powers and Switzerland prevent any
false interpretation. and will be of a nature to remove
man', difficulties. Such declarations, inspired by a
sentiment of equity and of justice, do not admit of
any doubt that under any circumstances Sardinia
and France must negotiate together in order to have
between them a suitable line of frontier."

The Nord states that Abd-ul-Medjid has just
narrowly escaped causing a ministerial revolution.
The Sultan wished to marry a slave, which he had
a full right to do, and the minister made no objec-
tion. When, however, he asked them for ten mil•
lions of piastres for the marriage fetag, they pleaded
the penury of the Treasury, and refused. It may
be as well to state that this statement is not con
firmed by other communications received from Con-
stantinople.

Another commission has been entrusted with a
projected extension of the metropolis. The Govern-
ment pretends to have discovered a conspiracy on
the Ist of March last. Several individuals belong-
ing to different classes have been arrested. Some
of them have received their passports and have left
Naples, others are still expecting a decision; among
the latter the son-in-law of Signor Settembrino
may be especially mentioned.

MONEY 112,11cK82' %LAID c.12'17 NEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLocxc.

The Bank of England return completed to the
7th March shows some rather important alterations.
The public deposits, owing to the active collection
of the revenue, have been increased by nearly
three-quarters of a million, while the private de-
posits have been diminished to the extent of
almost a million sterling. The other securities
have been slightly diminished in consequence of the
payments on the 4th of the month. The reserve
of notes and the bullion exhibit a small increase,
although the active circulation has also been aug-
mented. The other items of the balance-sheet and
the changes they present are shown in the sub
joined table :
Active Circulation ..
Increase
Bullion ..
Increase
Rest

Increase
Public Deposits
Increase . , .. • •
Other Deposits
Decrease .. .. • •
Seven Day and other Bills ..
Increase . ..
Government Securities. • .

.. Z 20,669,355
SO 24,045
.. 15,220,193
49,172
3,722,497
GO 41,621
.. 8,341,365

fi I-1A 1?...h• MA

.. 727,923
.. 12,83G,611

„
.. 951,272
.. 697,452
. , 4,088
10,171,190
No alteration.
20,953,896
210,943
.. 8,320,150

Other Securities ..
Decrease
Notes Unemployed

Increase . 12,760
.• ••
An active demand is experienced in the general
market, and as the rate of interest for advances on
stock has risen to the level of the Bank minimum,
there is now a brisk inquiry at that establishment
for loans as well as discounts.
In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday only
a very moderate amount of business was transacted,
and prices were without change. The sales were
estimated at 6,000 bales.
The Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon ex-
hibited no alteration of importance.
A small amount of gold, viz., nearly £3,000, was
withdrawn from the Bank of England yesterday.

The steamer Indus, which leaves on the 12th,
will take out £4,000 in gold to Alexandria, and
£39,100 in gold, and £361,680 in silver for Bom-
bay, making a total of £404,780.

ORDINARY SHARES A:

SY~a.rc:

gal'ways.

12.10

Since Monday last the imports of specie have
been about £336,770, and the exports £464,130,
exclusive of the following shipments direct from
London to the Continent during the week ending
Tnursday last :—Gold bars, from Belgium, 2,500
ozs. ; silver bars, from Boulogne, 5,000 ozs.
There has been very little activity in the Market
for Public Securities to-day, but increased firmness
has been exhibited, Consols being 941 for money
and 941 for the account. Speculation continues
very quiet, and the dealings for investment are too
limited to create activity. A special transfer is
recorded in New Threes at 941 ; India Stock is
firm at 2201 ; ditto New, at 1041 4 ; ditto 5 per
cent. Enfaced Paper is steady at 99: ; and the
Debentures at 97Z ; Exchequer Bills are 17s. prem.
A moderate amount of business is recorded in
Foreign Securities, and prices tended upwards.
Turkish 6 per Cents. are 791, to 801, ; ditto New,
621 Z. Buenos Ayres 6 per Cents. are firmer at
831 841 ; Brazilian 41 per Cents. at 934 ; and Bel-
gian 41 per Cents. at 991. Russian 5 per Cents.
are 108.

Amber., N °Mug. Bost.
and Pastern Junction
aelfa.tt and Baliymena
Wol., and Str.Val
llirk.,La.,andCh. June
Blackburn
Blyth and Tyne
rlost.Slefd.& Mid. Coun
&n,i Exeter
Ca loimpart
Carmarthen & Cardtgan
Cork and Bandon
Cork, bikrock,&rtlssage
Cornwall
Do. A
A revei
•
nutil6p,c.per an.
Do. B hasbeen
Dublin andßelfas t June.
Dun.,Periltok A.br.Junc.
!East Anglian . ...
Eastern Counties
Eastern Union A Stock
Do. do. B stock
Do.Nw.A.(lte.E.U3ds)
East Suffolk

The Ocean Marine Insurance Shares are 31 if
prem., the Universal ditto / prem., and the
Canada Loan is 11 prem. The Buenos Ayres
Railway Shares are prem.

13.14
Sto2l/

In the Railway Share Market a steady business
has been transacted, and prices have shown more
firmness. Caledonian, Lancashire and Yorkshire,
North-Western, Midland, and North British have
improved ss. ; Great Western, Brighton, Oxford,
Worcester, and Wolverhampton, and South-
Eastern, 10s.; and Eastern Counties and Great
Northern, £l.

t3tock
Stock

Stool,
Stock
Stock
Stock

Do
Edinburg and Glasgow
Edin.,Perth, & Dundee
Forth & Clyde Junction
F urn est,
Glasgow & South Westn
Great North of Scotland
Great Northern

Do. do. A Stock

Do, do. B Stock
Gt. South.. Wstn.(lreld)
Great Western
Do.Str.Vl.Rail Gua.Stk.
Iriah South Eastern
Lancashire & Yorkshire
London and Blackw, all.
I Lon.,Brighton &S. Coast
Lona, Chat. and Dover
London g North Westnl
Do. Eighths
London& South-Westn
IL'derry & Coleraine
L'derry & Enniskillen
Man., Shef., &
Maryport and Carlisle .
Do. 40. t Shares
Nletropolitatt „
Indiana
Do. Inm-dug, Ar Derby ;
Mid. Gt. W est. (7reland)
Do. # Shares
Mid Kent
Do. (Cray Line).
Newcastle and Carlisle.
New., Aber., & Herefdl
Newry & Armagh (qef.)
Newry, Warpt., & os
!Norfolk
North. Counties Union
North British..„....„
Nor.Day,Rail.&Dk. Stk.
Do.A Stk.—Arca.no div.
until 6p,c, hasbeenpdß
Do. B stock
North-Eastn.—Berwick
Do. do. U,N.E.Purchase I
Do. Leeds .„
Do. York
North London
North Staffordshire
No. & Sou. W. Junction
Oxford, Wor.,& Wolver.
Peebles ~
Portsmouth
Rhymney
Scottish Central
South. N.E., Aber. Stock
IDo. Scottish Mid. Stock
Shropshire Union
Sittingbourne & Sheer
South Devon
,South-Eastern
!South Wales
South Yorks. & Riv. Dun
Staines, Wok., & Wok
Stockton & Darlington
Do. do.
Stockton & llartlepool
Taff Vale
Do. Preference, No. 1
ThamrsHavenDk&Rail

The Foreign and Colonial Markets have been
inactive. Lombardo-Venetian are dealt in at 11-1-
117„ and Paris and Orleans at 54. East Indian are
101/ ; Grand Trunk of Canada, 33 to 33-4-; Great
Western of Canada, 114 114.
Joint-stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have
shown less firmness. London and County have de-
clined 10s. ; Bank of Australasia, 10s. ; and Union
of Australia, 55.; Peninsular and Oriental fiteam
have receded to 79i; and Royal Mail Steam to 51.

Do.

Do.
Vale of Neath
Victoria Station & Pim
Waterford & Kilkenny
Waterford & Limerick
West Cornwall
West London
Do. let Class
Do. 2d Class

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities Shut
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
Now 3 per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, expire sth Jan., 1860 —
Ditto for 30 Years, expire 6th April, 1885 Shut
India stock
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per cent ..
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Debentures, 1858 97
C*)tmols for Account (April)
India Stock for Acounnt
Ditto Account, 5 per cent.
Exchuquer Bills, £1,000,11d
Ditto Small, 14d.
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
B uzilian 5 per Cent.
Ditto 44 per Cent. 1858
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent ..... 844
Ditto Account
-
ISl2xioan 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
cruvian 44 per Cent 92
riusnian, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent lOB
!Amish 3 per Cent
Ditto Passive
l'utkish 6 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian, 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, M, luy
Ditto Ae(ount

THE TIMBER DUTIES AND NORTH AMERICAN
COLONIAL INTERESTS.—Messrs. A. F. and D. Mackay. of
Liverpool, in their monthly circular just issued, make the
following remarks :—The duty on foreign timber of all
kinds is reduced to an equality with that on colonial; but by
some strange oversight the important timber trade which has
long existed between Great Britain and her North American
colonies not only obtains no remission, but those articles
admitted free previously are now taxed. That is to say,
North American colonial timber is to continue subjected to
an import duty, bearing a considerable relation to the abso-
lute value of the material, while the timber grown in every
other country in the world will be admitted on payment of a
duty equal to that now levied on American colonial, while
the latter, as is well known, labours under the disadvantage
of having a much heavier freight to pay, consequent on the
much greater length of the voyage. Such a proceeding is
not, and cannot be considered, just or reasonable towards
the colonies. Without attempting to set up any claim for
a return to what is now considered the obsolete principle of
" protection," it must be conceded as merely equitable to
admit the timber of our North American colonies, as free
from incidental charges as that from foreign countries, or
at all events to remit that duty which it now pays.

Paid.

all
all
all
all
all

111E"SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING,
_MARCH 10, 1860.

'HIS

.ND S.TOC:

Clocing
Price.

1311 64

72 84
74
114 124

102 el
104
934 D 4

P 11

'4
144 154
56 L 6
37 39
26 28

86 91
27 171