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Bank Stock. 203
3 per Cent. Red lOO%
3 per Cent. Cons.
per Cent. Red
New 3% per Cent. lO3
New 5 per Cont.
Long Annuities to expire
Jan, IEI6O l2 g
Oct. 185.9 ll 15-16
Jan. 1£430......... -
Indian Stock
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FUNDS.
I Ditto Bonds 73 rm.
Ditto under £1,009 lin.
;South Sea Stock .....

Ditto Old Annuities —
Ditto New Annuities —
Ex. Bills, 1,0001. I}6d 8 put.
rAtto 5001.
Ditto Small 5B pm.
Bank Stock. for Acct —
Consols for 0pg....
India Stock for Acct 22,5!•.1
FUNDS.
Russian, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Metallic ......
per Cent., 1840 —
ditto, 1841 .....
Ditto, 1842
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Ditto, 1844
Ditto, :3 per Cent -6 X
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Ct —
French, 5 per Cent., —t. o.
French, 3 per Cent —l. -_e.
Exchange ......... « —t. -c.
Dutch, 2% per Cent
,Ditto,,s per Cent

Austrian, 5 per Cent
Belgian, 5 per Cent,,,,,,,,,,,,
Brazilian Bonda SS
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cenr
Cuba Bonds, 6 der Cent.
Chllian 6 per (,ent
Colombian, 6 per Cen'~:
Danish, 3 per Cent
Greek, 5'.N, Cent
Mexican, 5 per r,...ent
Neapolitan ads, 5 per Ct —
Prussian Ito, ids. 4 per Cent —
Peruvi" P onds, 6 per Ct —
Yort ague/ e Bonds, 5 per Ct

SHARES.
'Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid)
Ditto New Shares, 17% paid 24
Bristol and Exeter (70 paid)
Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid
Churnet:Valley, 2 paid
Cornwall, 3 paid, 2%
Eastern Counties (25 paid)
.F.dlnburgh and Glasgow. 50 paid
Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 5 paid
tireat North of England, 100 paid , l2O
Great Western (75 paid)
Ditto Fifths' 12 paid
Lancaster and Carlisle, 10 paid
llimion and Brighton (50 paid)
Landon and South Western (411. 6s. 10d. paid) 83%
Ditto Eighths (15s.aid)
London and York, 2). paid 4
Lynn and Ely, 1 paid
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid)
Ditto, Half Shares, 30 paid
Manchester and Birmingham
Midland (100 paid)
Newcastle and Darlingron Junction, 24 paid
Worth British, 5 paid
Worths,rn and Eastern (45 paid)
Ports mouth Direct, I paid OX
Richmond and West End Junction, I paid 2
Rugby, I paid l%
So uth Devon, 10 paid lO%
auth Eastern and Dover (33 'Ls 4d paid)
Ditto, New Shares, 4 paid 3lBlt
York and North Midland (50 paid) lO2
Boulogne and Amiens, 2 paid .... ................
Orleans and Vierzon, 2 paid .. 10%
Orleans and tiourdeaux, I paid
Paris and Orleans 0.11 paid)
Paris and Rouen. 20 paid
Paris and Strasbourg, 2% paid 214

"SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
7ROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.
GLOBE.—Dartmouth was among the boroughs
which were redeemed by the Reform Bill from the
degradation of nominal representation. Before that
just and necessary measure was enacted, this little
maritime town gave two seats in Parliament to the
nominees of the Treasury ; in whom its close corpo-
ration invariably discerned all the requisite qualifica-
tions for the honour and advantages then pertaining
to such legislators. The Reform Bill opened the
borough, and assigned one Member to its constituency.
Lieut.-Colonel Sir J. H. Seale had endeared himself
to the inhabitants by his numerous 'virtues, and espe-
cially by the exertions he he.d used to break up the
close corporation confederr‘cy by which the represen-
tation of the borough ha':i been prostituted to the pur-
poses of private gain wed political corruption. That
gallant officer becarree its first representative under
the new system; D'ad continued, without competiteou,
to be returned aa its Member to every successive Per-
liament. Hia death occurred a few days since, and
his remains -will be committed to the tomb this day.
But scarcely had the breath left the body of the
deceased Member than the Tories were on the alert
to recover their lost influence in the borough.
lEb'ctioneering agents of the Carlton Club, metro-
ped'aan and local, commenced operations. Their can-
elidate was announced. Mr. Joseph Soames, Go-
'wernor of the New Zealand Compeny, is to contest
the seat on the " Conservative interest;" and the
Dartmouth Reformers, who have hitherto been
faithful and firm to the principles and party which
obtained for them their long-sought right to tne
-aleetive franchise, are modestly " solicited" to
exercise that right in favour of the candidate who,
with the party wh:ich nominates him, would gladly
deprive them of their votes ! The modesty of this
:attempt on the, constituency is equal to the delicacy
the Tories have shown to the memory and bereaved fa-
mily of the deceased member, in thus needlessly agitat-
ing the cc instituency before his: funeral has taken place.
Althomee taken by surprise by this indecent haste on
the part oftheir opponents—and necessarily unprepared
to engai ;-e in a contest while the solemnities of comni:t-
ting tl ie remains of their deceased member to the
tomb v dere yet unperformed —the Dartmouth Liberels
will le found teue to themselves, and to the cause with
which. they see identified. They have found a candi-
date v:orthy of their exertions in Mr. George Mon 't,
'well known to the Liberals of the metropolis as an
eminent merchant, and as " a good man and true."
Mr. Mo ffatt has already shown by works, as well as
wor, Is, that he regards Parliamentary Reform as only
the means to the attainment of valuable results. As
the Chairman of the London Penny Postage Commit tee
in 1838 be contributed, by his zealous and persevering
ea .ertions, to the attainment of that immense national
b enefit. Mr. Moffatt's opinions on the question of
f zee trade are identical with those who advocate the
removal of commercial restrictions, as essential to the
extension of our trade and the profitable employ-
ment of our increasing population. Mr. Moffat
will commence his personal canvass of the
electors on Monday. We cannot doubt of his
success. The Dartmouth Tories, by violating the
decorum which. the conventionalities of society pre-
scribe—and which, even when political excitemen• is
more ste onga y felt than it is at present, are observe,
indicato the, hopelessness of the contest into which they
are ph enee'eng themselves and the constituency. The
const etreency is small—not more than 250 will vote.
but the employment of corruption and co-
me :inn can prevent Mr. Moffatt's return by a large
P revortion of the electors. The former is, happily,
LYy the new election law rendered more easy of detec-
ftion than it was. Let the Liberal voters be but proof
against the latter, and Toryism will sustain a defeat
at Dartmouth that will discourage any future attempt
to seize upon the representation.
STANDARD.—We appeal to the memory of our
readers to witness whether we have not anxiously
abstained from the agitation upon ecclesiastical mat-
ters, which is now distracting the Church and the
country ; or if our readers are so forgetful of our con-
duct, or so ill-informed of the pressure we have leid
'to resist as to hesitate in acquitting us of a voluntary
part in the agitation, we can appeal to hundreds—
to thousands—of offended correspondents, whose fa-
vours we have rejected or whose suggestions we
have slighted, though heartily concurring in their
opinions. We know our countrymen, and we best
know that most numerous and most intelligent, as
well as best disposed, division of them—the members
of our Protestant Church. We know that they are
slow to move, because they are religious, prudent,
and just, and that they will not move at all except
upon what seems to them a clearly righteous and an
adequate ground ; hut we know also that when
they move, they are determined, inflexible, and
irresistible. When such men arise to action they
stand much more in need of the curb than of the
spur. We should apply the curb if we could hope to
have influence ; but though we might offer violence
to our own convictions, and should certainly forfeit
all our influence in the attempt, it would be an utterly
vain one. Let us close our columns against the pare-
mon' it topic of the day, and we may to-morrow close
our establishment; while the line we could conscien-
tiotesly pursue in perfect conformity with the uni-
versal feeling would be taken up by some mere
tiene-server, as indeed we see already some of the
mercenary class pressing into it—the last and the
decisive proof that the public mind has been defini-
tively made up. We copied yesterday with satisfac-
tion, from the Morning Herald, an announcement, of
the correctness of which we have no reason to doubt,
that the Bishops are preparing to interpose. We can
assure their Lordships that there is no time to spare,
and that they must make up their minds to interpose
effectually when they do interpose. It is now too
late to stand upon trifles ; too late, indeed, to
treat any of the disputed points as trifling ;
every ensign of hostile innovation is an intole-
rable insult, and every rag of such ensign must
be abandoned, if an honourable peace is to be obtained
for the Church. Without the removal of every
tatter of Tractarianism the people will not be satis-
fied—must we add, ought not to he satisfied. in
short, if the Bishops will have an end to the present
distractions, they must exercise their legitimate
influence to have the order of the Church
brought back to what it was a dozen years
ago, the most glorious era in the history of
any Church since the age of the Apostles. That
glorious era it was which tempted vain men,
who had no share in producing it, to turn the deep
religious feeling of the nation to the account of their
own ambition or foppish conceit. They saw the
Church the object of a veneration only less than
that paid to its divine head, and they hoped to
exalt themselves as priests of the Church above
all other men, and to render their persons " the
observed of all observers," by fanatical dresses,
gaudy church furniture, and antic gesticulations.
Such men could not appreciate the true source of the
veneration so universally paid to the Church—the ab-
sence of those personal vanities and passions, and of
those profane frivolities with which they, in the:r
stupid conceitedness, would desecrate the majesty
of religion. If the Church is to become again
what the Church was twelve years ago,the
object of devoted love and reverence to the people,
all pe p
all the innovations introduced by the self-seekers- -l e
y
and coxcombs must he swept clean
out. Men
cant2ot
be too firm, or we will sly too obstinate, where
ciples are concerned; ,iut they who deny thl.)trtTie
a
surplice preaching is a mere sign of novelty, as some
bishops do, will admit that surplices are not prin-
ciples, and will surely surrender surplice preaching