The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-06 00:00:00

the idea of men who would be imperious and intole-
rant to the last degree, if they dared; but who, feel-
ing themselves coerced by the power of public opi-
nion, are compelled to abate somewhat of their
haughty, arrogant authority, but make this conces-
sion in so clumsy and constrained a manner, that their
innate intolerance peeps out every now and then, in
spite of all they can do to hide the cloven foot. It is a
fortunate circumstance, that while Tractarianism—
owing in no slight degree to the equivocal policy of
the brace of Bishops of whom we have just been
speaking—has spread far and wide among the upper
and middle classes, though even among them it has
lately, we have every reason to believe, been on the
decline—the heresy has not yet tainted the humbler
orders of society. We make this assertion on the
authority of the Liverpool Courier, which gives proofs
in corroboration of its statement that are every way sa-
tisfactory, and speak volumes in favour of the common
sense, the sagacity, the tone of thought, and the
sound, unaffected religious spirit of the lower classes.

cash, 30; ; for account, 301; Five per Cents. for
account, 21i.

The Paris Opposition journals are evidently pre-
paring the way for a determined attack on M. GuizoT
at the opening of the session, and certainly the pre-
sent state of Spain and the atrocious conduct of Nan-
VAEZ and the Queen-Mother will afford his opponents
in both Chambers a fair opportunity. When Es-
PARTERO was overturned and the French party was
placed in full authority at Madrid the Opposition
press remained silent on the subject. A change how-
ever has occurred ; public feeling in France is roused
against the illegal proceedings, the military despotism
and the numerous executions carried into effect by
NARVAEZ without the sanction of a court-martial or
any recognised legitimate authority. The Journal
des Debats foresees the coming storm, and is there-
fore making every effort to remove the odium of such
deeds from M. GUIZOT and his colleagues. He de-
nounced in strong terms the executions at Logrono,
2nd now expresses surprise at the order
issued for putting General ARAOZ to death. "We
know net," says that journal, " the reasons
which have driven the Spanish Ministry to this mad
measure of re-action. General ARAOZ had retired to
Chiclana, in Andalusia, where he was born, and it is
supposed that he has compromised himself in the
conspiracies formed in the south of Spain. He is
not a general raised suddenly to that rank, but has
gained it by passing regularly through his career.
Leaving the military school with ESPARTBRO, he dis-
tinguished himself in the last civil war, at the siege
of Bilboa, against the generals of Don CARLOS, and
the commands which were entrusted to him in Anda-
lusia and Catalonia. He was called the diplomatist
of the Ayacucho party, and has been remarked for
his reserve in all political affairs. It is therefore with
surprise that we see his name mixed up with plots
which have been rendered abortive. He served as
the connecting link between ESPARTRRO and MM.
OLOZAGA, CORTINA, and MADOZ, which made him
suspected by the OX-REGENT, on the occasion of the
events of last year. In his career, he had the
strange destiny of having ZURBANO under his orders
when he was sent, in 1840, to second the pronun-
ciamiento of Madrid against the Regency of MARIA
CHRISTINA ; and also of having, in the last year,
General PRIM under his orders, when the LOPEZ
Ministry confided to him the mission of combatting
the central junta of Barcelona.
M. TILIBRS, however, will not suffer the GUIZOT
Cabinet to throw off so easily the responsibility
which they have incurred by the French intrigues
in Spain. The Constitutionnel thus directly charges
M. Guizor as the prime mover in all the changes
which have lately taken place :

We perceive, from our report of a case heard a day
a. two since at the Union-hall Police-office, that the
decisions of the rural justices in quarter sessions, on
certain informations under the Game-laws, to which
we recently adverted, may be entitled to more respect
than we really thought it likely they could ever
carry with them. We were wrong in imagining that
only in agricultural counties, like Kent and Sussex,
Somersetshire and Wiltshire, peril of human life and
limb was held to be of minor public import than peril
of partridges. We must suppose, at any rate, that
the stipendiary magistrates of our police-courts are as
cognizant as ourselves of the Midas-law delivered,
from time to time, by our agrarian Solons. On that
assumption, we imagine, they must have conned over
the case we touched upon of an unlucky youngster,
who, having shot at a covey of birds " without
ruffling a feather," was fined 101. for—it must be con-
cluded—an assault with intent to—kill. We stated,
at the time, that this penalty was a much severer one
than the law attached to many grave misdemeanours
amounting almost to felony ; but, in the metropolitan
police-offices, the magistrates appear to be tied down
by the letter of an absurdly imperfect statute to re-
peat these preposterous anomalies in the law of
criminal compensations. At Union-hall, a ruffian,
described as mate of a merchantman, was brought
up, charged with an act of fiendish brutality, under
the following. circumstances :—He called with a
messmate on a poor woman, the wife of an acquaint-
ance of his, then away at sea; and after being
hospitably entertained, in consideration of his in-
timacy with her husband, the fellow repaid the kind-
ness of his hostess by the rudest and most scandalous
conduct towards her, in which the scoundrel who
was in his company assisted him; and in the struggle
she offered to them the poor woman's right arm was
broken. For this assault and injury the sitting
magistrate sentenced the mate (his confederate being
on a voyage, or not forthcoming) to a fine of-51., or
two months imprisonment !
We have not the Act before us under which Mr.
COTTISGUAM pronounced this remarkable sentence ;
hut we suppose, as matter of course, that it was the
maximum penalty inflicted by the statute under such
circumstances. Our complaint, therefore, must be,
not of Mr. COTTISGUAM, who must administer the
law as he finds it, but of the legislation which has
!eft him such a law to administer. Five pounds for
the serious, and alarming, and disabling injury in-
flicted by two brutal cowards on a defenceless
woman ! Ten pounds for a random shot—harmless
as the waggery of an alderman—at a covey of birds!
What is the principle, the proportion, or the justice
of this scheme of punishments ? Perhaps a covey of
partridges, in the eye of the framers of the statute
under consideration, was regarded as in the nature
of a corporation ;—having a right of action for tres-
pass committed on one of its members as for a tool
to the whole body. But this hypothesis will not
much aid the defence of such partial law-making.
For if it be assumed that for one of the partridges to
have been wounded, or in danger of being wounded,
was case enough to ground the penalty of 101., what
is the equation between the bird and the woman ?
That the one arm of the latter is legally appraised at
half the amercement valuation of the two legs of the
former ;—that on this principle, 51. penalty is decreed
in the one instance, 101. in the other. But really
the only Saxon tariff of criminal compensations,
which no nicely ascertained the graduated fines for
murders, homicides, Sce., and so respectfully ran up
the score from the zero point that marked the con-
sideration to be exacted for the simple indulgence of
slaying a " Ceorl," or rural serf, to the patrician
price at which alone the aristocratic luxury of knock-
ing a Thane or an Ealder-man on the head could be
atoned for, was neither more barbarous, nor more
absurd, nor more intolerable, than the "sliding-scale"
of protection which the existing law has applied to
preserves of game and the preserving of human life,
respectively. See to what enormous and preposterous
consequences these " discriminating" penalties logi-
cally tend. The defence of the mate to the charge of
breaking the poor woman's arm was not a denial of
the fact, but, as it were, a plea in abatement—he was,
forsooth, intoxicated. Then, intoxication disposes
men of the mate's temperament to acts of brutality
Drunken men are, proverbially, fools. Fools, ac-
cording to Locales definition, are different from
madmen in this that, in place of drawing right
conclusions from false premises, they draw false con-
clusions from right premises. So a madman would
have rightly inferred, Gn the false assumption that the
Somersetshire m igistrates had laid down bad law, in i
mulcting a man in 10/. who had shot at birds with-
out hitting them, that he himself had only to kill all I
birds that might come within his reach, to be safely
within the law. But a fool, from the correct pre.
miser that to wound, or to attempt to wound, a par-
tridge, incurs a penalty of 10/., whilst an absolute
mutilation of a woman will subject him to no more
than a Si. fine, falsely concludes that it is at once 51.
better and cheaper to commit the one outrage than
the other. If the mate be but a fool, in addition to
being a brute, we are curious to know to what future
atrocities his inductive reasoning and our admirable
statute-law will lead him.

" The situation of Count Bresson, our Ambassad.)r at
Madrid, is become a very difficult One. In conformity
with the instructions he had received, he encouraged as
Touch as he could the Government at Madrid to proceed
in the road of re-action. M. Guizot, when consulted at
Paris by M. Martinez de la Rosa, had recommended that
the Spanish Constitution should be reformed in such a
way that all important matters should be heneerorwaid
mubmitted to the decision of the Ministers, or at least de-
cided by simple laws that could be postponed or remade,
*ithout appearing to violate the fundamental compact.
M. Guizot also advised to get these reforms voted without
discussion; he, as an example, cited the Charter of 1830,
A hich was adopted in a few hours, and which has thereby
inly a greater authority. He forgot that in 1830 France
wanted a new Constitution, and that the changes to be
ntroduced in the old charter were long agreed on and
accepted by almost the whole of France ; he did not
comprehend that Spain, on the contrary, required not
to have her institutions changed, but respected ; did
not want new laws to be written on paper, but to
habituate herself to a constitutional regime by a lasting
and sincere practice. M. Guizot had in all probability
eiimpleted his advice by the grand word of salutary in-
imidation. M. Bresson, in his conferences with the
Ministers of Madrid only developed M. Guizot's recom-
mendations. M. Martinez de la Rosa failed in carrying
the reform without discussion, but he at least obtained
the votes ; General Narvaez, who is no great scholar,
reserved to himself the means of intimidation. We have
seen in what manner he intends spreading it through
'ipain. The surprise at Madrid, however, was great
when the principal Ministerial organ of Paris opposed a
treat part of the acts which our Ministry had recom-
nended. The Members of the Cabinet of Madrid re •
daired to the Ambassador's to express their astonish-
neat, and to ask where the real Niimsterial opinion was to
he found. M. Br( sson, who was exceedingly irritated
.gainst the unfortunate journal, quoted his own
nstructions. Hows.ver, it Appears certain that, after
two Cabinet Councils held at Iliadrid, on the 24th and
25th of November, it was determined to demand ex-
planations from the French Government about the
Articles recently published by the Debella, and, in par-
, icular, about that of the 17th of November, where the ne-
_lessity of the reform was strongly contested. A verbal
tommunication. was made to this effect to M. Bresson
and M. Guizot. The Madrid Cabinet represented to the
French Government that such publications produced a
deplorable effect on public opinion in Spain, and, besides,
contrasted strangely with the language of the Ambas-
sador. M. Guizot hastened to disavow the language of
•he Debats, of which he could not, he asserted, always
govern or direct the caprices. Whilst waiting for the
,eply of our Government, the Spanish Ministry con •
aims to intimidate Spain. General Araoz, an estimable
man, who has a number of friends at Paris, is about to
be shot at Cadiz without trial. The eldest son and
orother-in law of Zurbano, who voluntarily gave them-
.elves into custody, are going to undergo the same fate.
Exile, prescription, the most violent and the most arbi-
trary punishments, are falling on the suspected, and
even reach the Opposition press. Such arc the acts by
which the Government of Narvaez is ushering in the
new Constitution. Contempt for all laws, even those
.f humanity—the most odious despotism arising from
civil war, form the regime which a soldier imposes on
Spain to prepare her for a representative Government.".

The following melancholy intelligence appears in
the Phare de Bayonne of the Ist inst. :
"It is announced that in consequence of information
Siren by Zurbano's son, a:greAt number of persons have
ocen arrested at Burgos, Logrono, Vittoria, and other
Towns. At Logrono, in particular, these arrests have
been exceedingly numerous, and several officers belong-
•ng to the provincial battalion of Valladolid are included
in the number. i,eneral Iturbs, who resided at Az-
petta, has also been arrested, and taken to Vittoria under
escort."

THIS DAY'S NEWS

We have reason to believe, on authority to which
we attach every confidence, that the Right Hon. Sir
Henry Pottinger, G.C.8., will very soon be called
upon to replace our present Minister at Constantinople,
the Right Hon. Sir Stratford Canning, G.C.8., on
the retirement of the latter from the high and impor-
tant embassy he has so long occupied. Her Majesty's
Government could not possibly have made a better
selection of a representative at the Court of the
Sultaun than the distinguished diplomatist whose re-
markable and most successful services in China, have
developed so profound a knowledge of Oriental cha-
racter, and such admirable qualifications for appre-
ciating the tendencies of Oriental policy.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Sir J. Wice.taf.)
His HONOUR disposed of short causes and petitions,
taking the unopposed first, after which he proceeded to
the causes on the paper.
PARKER V. CARTER.
The arguments in this case were resumed by Mr.
Walker. The suit is instituted to recover possession of
tke moiety of an estate under a deed made in 1790,
which did not appear to have been acted on by any of
the parties until on a discovery of a deed the title under
it was insisted on.

QUEEN'S BENCH.--(THIS DAT.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prius before Lord DENMAN and a
Middlesex Common Jury.)
GREEN V. WATTS.
This was an action brought by Mr. Charles Green, an
accountant, to recover an amount alleged to be due to
him irom Messrs. Watts, the ale merchants, in Lincoln's
Inn-fields, for work and labour done by himself and his
clerks, in keeping the books and accounts of the firm of
Messrs. Watts. In the defence it was attempted to tet
up an agreement to do the work for a specified sum, and
the number of hours charged by the plaintiff was dis-
ruted. A discharged clerk of the plaintiff's was called
for the purpose of proving the ;defendant's case. The
attempt to set up the agreement felled, but Lord Den-
man intimated that he thought the charge rather high,
and the jury found for the plaintiff, Damages-45L

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Lord Chief Justice TINDAL.)
MAY V. FISHER AND ANOTHER.

This. was an action on a bill of exchange for 831. 10s.,
the interest 13/. 7s. making together 96/. 17s. It ap-
peared that the bill was drawn by Harrison and Co., and
accepted by oneof the defendants, of the name of Harmer,
in the name of the firm of Fisher and Harmer, drill and
fustian makers, of London and Manchester, in which
firm he was a partner. The defendant Harmer allowed
judgment to go by default, the other defendant, Fisher,
pleaded that he did not accept the bill, but it was ac-
cepted by Harmer without his acquiescence, he also
pleaded that he had received no consideration. The
only witness on the part of the plaintiff was Thomas
Tower, who was clerk to Messrs. Harrison and Ce. at
the tithe they drew the hill. He proved the drawing of
the bill and the handwriting, and he deposed that
Messrs. Fisher and Harmer were partners at that time,
that Mr. Fisher carried on the business at Manchester
and Mr. Harmer in London. He knew both the defen-
dants, and Mr. Fisher was not present at the drawing
of the bill.

The. LORD CRIET JUSTICE directed the jury to find a
verdict for the plaintiff; and said that it was evident that
the defendants were in partnership at the -time, and
therefore it was sufficient that the defendant Harmer ac-
cep.ted.the bill, and it was nut necessary that both should
sign it.
The jury accordingly found for the plaintiff.

The Presse states that " the contract for the loan
of 200 millions of francs is to be decided on Monday
❑ext. Only two tenders have as yet been sent in—
:hat by Messrs. Da ROTHSCHILD and the Receivers•
General, and that by the company formed by Messrs.
EIOTTINGUER and DELESSERT."
THE BOURSE—WF.DNEsnex, DEC. 4

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
(Before the ASSISTANT•JUDGZ.)
John Stereos, a very ri spectable-looking man, sur-
rendered on his bail to take his trial upon an indict-
ment charging him with an assault upon John Bunting,
on the 2d of Nov. last. -

Mr. Ballantine appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Payne for the defence.
It appeared by the evidence that the prosecutor lost,
some bets upon the result of the last Caez•srawitch race,
and upon calling on him for payment, the assault com-
plained of was committed.
The jury, after a short consultation, returned a ver-
dict of Guilty, and the Court sentenced the defendant to
pay a fine of 3L to the Queen.
George Hinton was indicted for an assault upon John
Hinton on the 3d of November.

Mr. Haworth appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Ballantine for the defendant.

It appeared that the prosecutor is a member of the
Hon. Society of the Inner Temple, and also was con
netted with the cutlery trade. (The statement of this
fact cansed considerable laughter.) The defendant car-
ried on business as a carpenter and builder in Leicester-
square, and was also the proprietor of the Leicester
Chambers, in Leicester-squar-.

The Learned CotrssEL stated the facts of the case
which were briefly as foltoWs :—The prosecutor went to
the Leicester Chambers on the day named in the indict-
ment, and inquired of the-housekeeper if a person named
Smith lived there, to which she replied in the negative.
He immediately told her she was a liar, and used several
other most abusive epithets, upon which the defendant
came up to him, and ordered him to quit,the premises,
and when he refused a scuffle ensued, the result of which
was that the prosecutor was put out into the street.
' A number of witnesses having been called on both
sides in support of these facts,
The jury, without a moment's hesitation, returned a
verdict of Acquittal.

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Roman .. . ....

UNION-HALL.—(THIS DAY.)
Alexander Wilson, a notorious burglar, was charged
with breaking into the house of Moss Davis, a jeweller,
in-Alfred-place, Waterloo-road, and stealing a watch.
Police sergeant 16 L stated that, between three and
attention was called on hearing a noise
four o'clock that morning, while passing The complain-
ant's anOt
lt the hie
within.. He listened and heard the
back, and the door was cautiously opened.
balls
ts'
drawnhouse,
str e e
when the prisoner attempted to rush out into the road.
The sergeant, however, prevented this, and the prisoner
retreated into the parlour,' where, in the dark, they had
a severe struggle, during which the prisoner let a watch
fall .on the floor. By this time another policeman
came to the sergeant's assistance, and the prisoner,
upon whom was found a complete set of house-
breaking implements, was then secured. It was sub-
sequently ascertained the prisoner obtained access to the
•house• by getting over the wall of Zion Chapel, and
from thence into the yard of complainant's house, from
which he got into the interior, and went directly to the
front kitchen, whpre the, complainant's sister was asleep,
and, without awakening her, actually took the watch
from the bedstead, where it was hanging over her head.
He was in the act of letting himself out, as above de-
scribed, when the discovery took place.
The prisoner, who has keen repeatedly in custody,
said that the last, time he got out of " trouble," he tried
to earn an honest living, but that, failing in his efforts,
he was compelled to have recourse to his old practices.
He was committed.

A letter from " A Mechanic," which appears in the
columns of our paper to-day, will be found to com-
prise some suggestions in relation to the mode of
giving effect to Mr. COBDEN'S propositions for se-
curing the return of County Members to Parliament,
who shall be the pledged advocates of the unrestricted
freedom of trade. The difficulties opposing them-
selves to the purchase of freehold qualifications for
any large number of voters are, as "A Mechanic"
rightly surmises, of a twofold character:-1. The
enormous aggregate of the funds required for such a
purpose; 2. The enhanced amount of that aggregate,
by reason of the proportionably larger prices which
the smaller freeholds are found to realise in the
market—it being, however, with small freeholds only
that any such plan as Mr. COBDEN'S could deal. For
the mode in which our Correspondent would meet
these difficulties, we must refer the reader to a
perusal of the letter, in which it is expounded with
some degree of care.

Accounts from Madrid of the 28th ult. state that
the Government had received official intelligence of
the execution at Logrono of the son and brother-in-
law of ZURBA.NO. The news had caused a great sen-
sation at Madrid. The Heraldo thus endeavours to
justify the Ministry :—" Really the measures which
Government is obliged to adopt are most deplorable,
but they who consider its position, will admit that its
conduct is indispensable in presence of the arrogance
and threatening attitude of the revolutionists. Fresh
rebellions are daily announced at Madrid, and though
they are :not realised, it is certain that the revolu-
tionists are not tired of conspiring." These papers
announce that a number of officers of high rank
had been banished from Madrid. Among these
are General FERREZ, formerly Inspector-General of
cavalry who has been banished to Talavera, General
TENA to Cuenca, General CAMBA (formerly Minister
of War) to Navarre, General VAN llALzsi to Valen-
cia, General CHACON (formerly Captain-General of
Madrid) to Old Castile, General OLLOQUI to Seville,
General VALLAPADIERNA to New Castile, General
Isinno to Gallicia, and General LEBRUN to Arragon. ;
Several persons of rank had also been banished from
Seville, and orders had been issued by the political
chief that all persons having in their possession fowl-
ing-pieces shall give them up within five days, under
pain of confiscation, a fine of 100 ducats, and being
placed under the surveillance of the police as suspected.
MADRID BOURSE, N0v.28.
Three per Cents. for

ILO YD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.)
LONPON, DEC. 6.—Wind S.E., moderate breeze, fine
weather, an frosty.
DEAL, DEC. s.—Wind E.S.E. to S.S.E., moderate.—
Sid. Carnatic, Bombay.
OFF BEACHY HEAD.—Johannes, Henricken, Rio for
HIWARTgh..
PORTSMOUTH, Dec. s.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Bruns-
wick, London, for Cape and Bombay. The Rose, of
Yarmouth, dismasted, loss of bulwarks, &c., and aban-
doned, was towed in here this morning by the Bruns-
wick, from London.
COWES, DEC. s.—Arrd. William, Fornebecchia, for
Gothenburgh, with loss of, main and wizen masts, and
other damage, having been in contact, 9th inst., 80 miles
S.E. of the Wight, with a ship name unknown.
SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. s.—Sid. Montrose steamer,
Gibraltar.
PLYMOUTH, DEC. s.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Corsair,
Cunning, Ichaboe.
FALMOUTH, DEC. s.—Wind E.N.E., strong breeze.
—Arrd. off, Brookaly, Thomson, Manilla ; Camillus,
Dimerara. _
• SCILLY, Nov. 27.—Arrd. Robert Henry, Legg, Africa
for Cork. Off, Guliane, Quedeus, St. Croix, sailed Oct.
26. Sld, Deke, Amsterdam, from Africa.
LIVERPOOL, DEc. s.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrd. Arthena,
Ogg, Calcutta. Sailed Cinnina, Calcutta ; Intrepid,
New Orleans ; John Bently, Mobile ; Jessie and Ma-
cao, Charleston ; Plutus, St. Andrews. Off port
George Finch, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Eliza,
Quebec. The Jenny Jones, for Syra, is ashore in the
River, off King's Dock.
ICHAROE.—Arrd. Crescent, Liverpool.
WATERFORD, DEC. 3. Sld. John Ball, New Orleans.
GALWAY, Nov. 28.—Arrd. William Sturch,Quebec.
HULL, DEC. s.—Arrd. Employ, St. John's, New
Brunswick. Sailed, Bernhard, Ichaboe.
HARWICH, DEC. 4. Arrd. Lord Althorp, Miram!chi,
for Hull. sth.—A loaded brig is ashore on the Middle
Bank ; also one on the Gunileet.
DUBLIN, DEC. 3.—Arrd. Demerara, Miller, Deme-
rara. Sailed Hugh, Trinidad.

Jswisu FRBEMASONS.—We are pleased to find,
that the communication upon the subject of the non-ad-
mission of Jews toJnasonic lodges in Prussia in our No.
83, which was subsequently copied into The Sun news-
paper, is creating considerable sensation abroad ; and
that the Freemason's Quarterly Review, the masonic
organ -of communication in England, has warmly
espoused the cause. We are informed by correspondents,
that the French.. and German masonic periodicals are
cordially assisting the cause of our co-religionists of the
brotherhood.— The Voice of Jacob.
DREADFUL DEATII BYTIRR.—On Thursday fore-
noon. a child, five years of age, named William Herring,
whose father is a journeyman cabinet-maker, living in
West•place, Shoreditch, was burnt to
death. The mother, it appears, went out in the morn-
ing, leaving the deceased and two younger children shut
into the room occupied by the family, at the upper part
of- the house, and upon her return, about eleven o,clock,
she was horror-struck to find the
.poor child dead, the
clothes being entirely burnt from its person, and the
flesh completely charred. Fortunately the flames from
the burning clothes of the deceased did not retch the
other children.

" LAYING" A GHOST.—Last week, a fellow who
I had terrified some of the inhabitants of Handaworth by
r personating a ghost, was waylaid by six men, who
thrashed him so severely that he had t 9 be talwA to
the hospital:—Cumberland Pacquet.

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DtCENIBER 6 1844.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS

WTI", QUARTER TO THREE.
A large business was done in Cotton at Liverpool yes-
terday. Sales, 8,000 bales, of which speculators took
3,000 bales American. There was no change in prices,
but the market was not so liberally supplied.—Shares
were not so active, and the sales were moderate only.—
Eastern Counties Perpetual, No. 1, 41 1 ls. 6d.; Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, 62; Grand Junction, 219; Ditto,
Halt• Shares, 109 k; Great Western, 143 ; Liverpool and
Manchester, 211 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 1051} ; London
and Birmingham, 219; Ditto, 32/. Shares, 38; London
and York, 3t ; Manchester and Birmingham, 531 ; Mid
land Counties, 108; North British, 5i ; Sheffield and
Lincoln, 1 ; South-Eastern, New, 11k; Lyons and Avig-
non, 21. 14s. 6d.; Paris and Rouen, 24 ; Orleans, Tours,
and Bordeaux, 64; Boulogne an Amiens, 5.
There are no accounts from abroad of general in-
terest.

Some interest is felt tol learn what plan Mr. nobler
can have for cancelling the circulation of the bank notes
stolen from Messrs. Rogers, as not:even an order in Council
could be supposed to meet this end. 'lt would, however,
be very desirable if something could be done, and that
too, not only as regards the present case, but also to
meet future Wholesale robberies of the like description.
The Stock market has to-day been very firm. Con-
sols for the Account hare been sold at 100 ex-dividend,
and the Reduced Three per Cents. at Mk il. The pre-
mium upon Exchequer=bills has declined to 535. Bank
Stock is firm at 2081. The Commissioners bought
Three per Cents. Reduced and New Three-and-a-Quar-
ter per Cents.
The transactions in the Foreign market have not been
to any extent to-day. The Belgic Scrip has advanced
to i premium ; the Dutch Five per Cents. to 99. The
Belgian Five per Cents. have been quoted at 1011 and
10211. In the, other Foreign Funds the variations have
been slight.
In the Share market there has been an improvement
to-day, as our quotations will show.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock fer Account 207% 20F154
S per Cent. Reduced Annuities 100%14%
New 35( per Cent. 10230;
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 12%
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. ..... 121,, %
India 80nd5,1,000.. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• -
Ditto under
Consol for Account ••• ••••••••--
Exchequer Bins.

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