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mination to resist and defeat his machinations. Fore-
warned is forearmed." This recommendation of our
Contemporary is nearly if not q'iite su erfluous, for
who can doubt that the Irish Tories w 1 muster all
their forces—combine all their energi s—and make
every strenuous effort in their power to defeat a mea-
sure which has for its avowed object t e introduction
into the sister country of a more enlarged and
enlightened system of education ? Who, we say, can
doubt, that they will thus act ? Moreover, who can
doubt that they will be defeated—signally defeated ?
Sir ROBERT PEEL—the wariest of Ministers----would
never have expressed himself, as he did last session,
had he felt that he had any very dangerous apposition
to encounter from Irish Toryism. He is one of those
cautious characters who—to quote the words of the
old adage—" always look before they leap," and never
would he have taken his " leap," had he thought that
it would have landed him in the midst of a bog or a
quick-set hedge.

. any maritime war the advantage will be with us if
we have the United States on our side. Let us defend
• our commercial interests with firmness, but let us not
confound our affairs with those of Great Britain in
the question of Texas, or even in that of the tariff.
Let us never forget that in every naval or continental
war the English have been our enemies, and the Ame-
ricans our friends."
The National writes in the same strain. " The
questions," it says, " pending between the two coun-
tries will be solved in a sense unfavourable for our
neighbours. The hope of seeing a moderated tariff
granted to English manufactures, thereby increasing
their market, will not counterbalance the uneasiness
excited in England, with regard to Texas and the
Oregon. For ourselves, we have never had any other
wish than to see the United States, under the empire
of their institutions, increasing their prosperity at
home, and drawing still closer the bonds of alliance
with France, in conformity with the interests of the
two nations; and, therefore, we hail with joy the ac-
cession of Mr. Fora."
The Constitutionnel sees affairs in a very different
light, and says the reduction of the tariff would be
much more advantageous to England than to France,
and it is not at all probable that the foreign policy of
the Union will undergo any change. The Southern
States, determined on lowering the tariff, will de-
mand a reduction of the land and sea forces, and a
state that disarms is not likely to provoke a war
I ' with England. In short, adds that journal, affairs
will remain in the same state.
Mr. POLE is but the nominal chief of the Go-
vernment. It is Congress that governs. The Jour-
nal de Debats takes a gloomy view of the election,
not at all warranted by circumstances :
"If the last accounts from the United States are con-
firmed, the election of Mr. Polk is secured, and in that
case we shall see the direction of public affairs, at a pe-
riod when it requires the most consummate experience,
escape from the most capable hands to fall into those of
a candidate chosen without reflection, of whom the best
that can be said is, that he is of more than ordinary me-
diocrity. The result of this election will be to give the
ascendancy to the Radical party, that is to say, to give it
to a party whose very essence renders it unfit for the re-
establishment of order, and the consolidation of a society
shaken to its very foundation. We must deplore this
conclusion, not only on account of the confederacy of
North America, but likewise fur the sake of universal
civilization, which is interested in the direction taken by
a nation so highly placed."

THIS DAY'S NEWS.

PRIVY COTJNCIL.—(THISDAY.)
• The Judicial Committee of the Pricy Council sat to-
day in: the Council Chamber, Whitehall. The Lords
present were the Master of the Rolls, Lord Campbell,
Mr. Baron Parke, the Judge of the Admiralty, the
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Sir E. East, Sir
A. Johnston, and Sir E. Ryan.
JUVEER BRAKE AND OTHERS V. VURUJ BHAEE AND

OTHERS.
Their Lordships in this case gave judgment, remit
ting the case to the Court of Sudder Adawlut.

HOSANNA RIRABOOSE V. BERLE:-
The further arguments in this part-heard appeal were
resumed to-day. The case came before their Lordships
upon an appeal from an order made on the equity side of
the Supreme Court of Judicature at Madras,by which the
Court on the petition of the respondent, the Registrar
of the Supreme Court, obtained leave to file a bill as the
next friend of, and on behalf of, the infant children of a
person named Arathoon Kirakoose, an Armenian, who
died intestate. In consequence of this order a bill had
been filed in the Supreme Court at Madras against the
present appellant, by the respondent, as the next friend
of the infants ; and from that decision the present ap-
peal was brought.
The further arguments occupied their Lordships the
whole day.
CHARGE AGAINST THE GOVERNOR Of GUERNSEY.
Their Lordships have specially appointed the 2d and
10th of next month for the hearing of the charges
brought against the Governor of Guernsey by the inha-
bitants of that island.

In the " Money Articles" of all the London news-
papers it will be found that the very high price ob-
tained by Consols is a subject of astonishment to
some, of congratulation to others. In the former
feeling we should certainly participate, were it not
for the very peculiar condition of circumstances
which now affects the investment of capital. In the
latter we should concur, did not our apprehensions
for the future greatly outweigh say easons we can
discern for satisfaction with the present. Between
the extravagant and perilous enterprises which are
on all hands now. soliciting investments, with pro-
mises of tempting returns, indeed, but these founded
on bases of security almost as flimsy and as worth-
less as the sheet of paper on which they are set
forth—between these and the legitimate channels, as
they are called, of the public securities, there are
few left to choose from. The great established cor-
porate stocks of the elder public companies are seldom
brought into the market, and, when they are, soon
disappear, from the avidity with which they are
sought after by capitalists who prefer, and can
afford, a moderate, but certain and unfluctuating
return for their money, to precarious dividends,
ranging this week between an unit and a thousand—
the next, descending from a thousand to an unit.
The Government securities, from this cause, and
others of the same nature, become in demand. The
operations of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in re-
ducing a large portion of the Three-and-a-Half per
Cents., and the considerable sums of money thrown
back on the hands of small annuitants, to whom
many provincial banking establishments decline to
allow the rate of interest they formerly paid on such
deposits, on account of the increased liabilities they
are placed under by the last Joint-Stock Banks' Re-
gulation Act, may hare contributed their influence
to produce this action in favour of one of the most
favourite stocks, notwithstanding the obvious dis-
advantage at which the new funders must invest at
such a price as 100 and a fraction. But what is the
reason of a fact we learn from the concurrent autho-
rity of the same articles, namely, that, notwithstand-
ing a high price of Consols thus unfavourable to the
general operation and object of present investments,
and notwithstanding the release and diffusion of so
many broken masses of money no longer employed,
and, moreover, the enormous aggregate of ready
capital procurable on Government paper and first-
rate bills at from two to two and a fraction per cent
—discounts, on any other bills, however unexception-
Ible, are procurable only with the great degree of
lifficulty they speak of ? Five per cent., and from
half as much more to as much again, would be given,
but these rates will not fetch out the dormant cash.
['his is surely an anomalous and a mischievous state
of things. When it prevails, money accumulates to
an enormous extent in a few hands, but is withheld
from the many. The operations and energy of the
many are more or less paralysed by the torpid action
and dead weight of the few. Property, in its repre-
sented form, ceases to circulate, because the means of
circulation are absorbed by a few isolated points of
the general machine. To give multiplication and
expansion to these means would surely be the first ob-
ject of wise legislation. The legislation of Sir ROBERT
PEEL establishes a more direct principle of absorp-
tion, contracts the number of points, puts additional
checks on the circulation, and keeps down the natu-
ral tendency of representation and expansion by the
high-pressure power of a metallic currency, which
we greatly fear will one day involve in its
own explosion the ruin of our commercial
credit, as it has already effectually sapped . the
foundations of our commercial prosperity. fatal
interference with our monetary system has proceeded
on the normal solecism of attempting to make gold
at once a standard of value at a fixed price, whilst he
has permitted and recognised the trade in that metal
as a commodity or merchandise, subject, like any
other, to all the fluctuations of value in the market,
which are produced by the varying amount of demand
and supply. He compels the Bank of England, and
all other issuers of paper in this part of the kingdom,
to pay their notes on demand in gold, at the Mint
price of 31. 17s. 100.—a price so cheap as to have
repeatedly been, since the enactment of 1819, less
than the price of gold of the same fineness in the
market. All issuers of bank notes—the Bank of
England " first and foremost"—have been compelled
to limit their issues, not according to the simple re-
quisitions of the wants of trade, the exigencies of the
demand, the amount of property of all kinds in the
market awaiting conversion into money capital, but
by the chances of their ability at any future period,
proximate or distant, to procure gold in sufficient
abundance to meet all notes of their issue which may
be presented for payment. Had the principle of con-
vertibility been limited to gold "at the market price"
—if the current payment, instead of being enforced
at the fixed and almost universally cheap price of
3/. 17s. lOid. per ounce, this grievous cause of
currency contraction—of a heavy per centage
loss to banks of issue and of exhausting
weakness, hazard, and decay, throughout the
whole operation of our commercial system and
our domestic economy—would have been, if
not utterly extinguished, at least infinitely modi-
fied so as to become of comparatively innoxious ef-
fect. Under the system as it actually exists and
works, the employer of industrial labour is as much
acted on in an innumerable class of cases by this ex-
traneous pressure as the banker. To compensate him
for the risk he runs of having to take up gold at pe-
riods when it is dear in the market,' and the fluctua-
tion of prices he must meet when it is plentiful, he
impinges on the wages of labour. He no longer gives
a " fair day's wage for a fair day's labour"—that
righteous equivalent which Lord JOHN RUSSELL has
so ably and so eloquently advocated. In what events
these fearful anomalies of our monetary and social
condition are pretty certain to determine, we shall en-
deavour to show in an early notice of the " First Re-
port of the Committee of the Society for the Emanci-
pation of Industry," and of the " Three Letters on
the Scottish Currency Question," by " SCOTUS." To
the former of these tracts we shall direct the especia
attention of our readers.

QUEEN'S BENCH,(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prins, before Lord DENMAN and a
Middlesex Special Jury.)
HILL V. STRATFORD.
This was an action to recover the amount of a pro-
missory note, drawn by defendant, of which the plaintiff
is holder ; and the defence was that the Rote had not
been given for a legal consideration, but for a gambling
debt. The defendant, Mr. Hugh Stratford Stratford, is the
young gentleman whose name has of late been so fre-
quently before the public in connexionwith certain alleged
gambling transactions, out of which the present action
has arisen, and which have already formed the subject
of trial before every metropolitan court of record, from
the High Court of Chancery down to the Court of the
Bankruptcy Commissioners. Various witnesses having
deposed to the :fact that it was a gambling transaction,
the jury, without retiring, found a verdict for the de-
fendant.

EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prius.)
(Before the LORD CHIEF BARON.)
GARDNER V. ALLEN.
This was an action to recover compensation and
damages for the alleged unlawful detention of a horse
and cart. The case was of no interest whatever, except
to the parties concerned.—Verdict for the defendant.

The following are miscellaneous extracts from the

papers :

The France says :—"We can' announce from certain
information that the projected marriage between Prince
George of Cambridge and the Grand Duchess Olga of
Russia is by no means abandoned.''
" MM. de Cormenin, Garnier-Pagees, and de Lan-
juinais, arrived at Toledo on the 17th. They were pre-
sent at the religious ceremony of giving the benediction
to the colours of the reserve battalion of Tarragona."
The Journal de la Haye contains the following :
" A Flemish journal published in Brussels, under the
title of Vlaemsche Belgen, appears to doubt the truth of
our assertion, that General Espartero was at Brussels
when the English journals declared him to be ill in
London. We maintain what we have already asserted
on this subject. The ex-Regent passed eighteen hours
in Brussels ; and we could, if necessary, name the house
where he spent the night, and the persons whom he saw."

CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice MA.ULE and Mr. Commissioner
BuLLocx, &c.)
MANSLAUGHTER ON THE RIVER.—A young man,
named SamueleSinns, was indicted for having, while in
command of the Waterman steamer, No. 6, improperly
run down a small boat, rowed by Edward Everett, a
licensed waterman, and containing four passengers, by
which the said Edward Everett and another person were
drowned. The body of the first-named person was af-
terwards found, and these proceedings were instituted in
consequence.
Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Wilde were for the prosecu-
tion;
,Mr. Clarkson and Sir John Bayley for the de-
fence.

The States of Denmark having, by a large majority,
adopted a motion for a petition to the KING, as Duke of
Holstein and Schleswig, praying him to incorporate
those States with the kingdom of Denmark, several
towns of the Duchy of Holstein, forming part of the Ger-
manic Confederation, have sent addresses to the States
of Holstein,'entreating them to resist this proposition.
THE BOURSE--THURSDAY, Nov. 28.
First Highest Lowest
rice. Price.
French Five per Cents IIP rioe.9
.. 119 10 .. 118 90 .
Fours .
Three per Cents..... 82 55 .. 83 65 .. 83 40 .
Bank of France 3145 ..3150 3145
Ludlam Bank, 5,800 f. Sharesso2o ..5020 —5020
Belgian Bank-- •• • • 590 .. 590 • • 580 .
Spanish4Threes ..
Portuguese Five per Cents.. 64* .. 541 • • 541
Dutch Two and-a-Half.— • • 63 .• 63 .. 63
Neapolitan— •• •• .• ••• • • 96 .. 96 10 .. 96
Rosnan ••• • • ••
RAILWAY SHA.RES.
St. Germain'. ••••••• • • • • 940 • • 540 935 .
Versailles, R.B. •. • . .•• • • 447 50 . • 447 50 .. 442 50 •
L. 8.•• •• •• •• 320 .. 322 50 .. 317 50 .
R0nen........ ..........1010 . 1010 ..1007 60
Rouen to Havre ••• • • . ...... 785 785 -• 782 50 .
Orleans •• ..... -• —lO5O .•1060 ..1047 50
Strasburg to Bale.. •• • • 276 25 • • 277 50 • • 276 25
Avignon to Marseilles•• •• . • 907 50 .. 920 . 907 50

Mr. BALLANTINE having stated the case to the jury,
proceeded to call witnesses.
• John Fryar, a labourer, proved the finding of the body
on the 22d November.
Edward Everett, inspector of Thames Police, saw his
father (the deceased) leave the stairs on the Rotherhithe
side of the river. He had with him four passengers. He
was 66 years of age, and had for many years been a
waterman. There was no obstruction on the water then.
The steamer was making her way across in the wake of
the skiff. Her speed was seven or eight miles an hour.
The proper rate in the pool is only five miles. Just
before the occurrence the steamer had not in any way
slackened her speed.
John Savory, a seaman, was in the skiff with the de-
ceased on the 25th of October. He did see a person on
►he paddle-box of the steamer, Waterman No. 6, when
she was coming up In their wake. Witness made a sign
to draw offmore into mid•channel, but it was unattended
to. The deceased then pulled to the larboard side, in
order to save his boat from being cut in two by the bow
of the steamer. The paddles, however, caught her, and
she was capsized. The steamer was going at the rate of
ten miles an hour. She did not slacken her speed.
John Taylor, another seaman, who was also in the
skiff, gave similar evidence, as did two other witnesses.
John Chambers, examined by Mr. CLARKSON—III
master of the schooner Ann, moored off the Tunnel pier.
There was a strong eddy occasioned by the schooner,
from the position in which she lay athwart the stream.
Were it not for that eddy the small boat could have
made the stairs easy enough. To a steamer coming up
the river the eddy would not be perceptible. He thought
the captain of the steamer could not have avoided the
accident.

Last
Price.
118 90
• 107
~ 83 40
•3145
-5020
.. 185

.• 96 10

• 935

•• 442 50
• 317 AO

• 10J7 50
782 50
.1047 50
• 277 50
• 912 40

RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, DBc. 3.
Versailles, R.B.•••••••• •• 417 50 .. 447 50 .. 445 .
L.E.......... 322 50 .. 322 50 .. 315
Rouen to Havre.• .....• •• • . 787 50 .. 787 50 .. 785 .
Orleans, ......... •• •- •• 1052 50 • •1055 —1046 25
Strasburg to Bale.
Ivignou to Marseilles—. •• 905 .. 920 905

445
315
785
1046 25
277 50
915

By Mr. BALLANTINE—He could not have avoided the
accident, from the position in which the steamer was at
the time I first saw them. There was no time for the
steamer to have backed, as she was just in the act of
striking the skiff.
Richard Field, a waterman, ascribed the fatal occur-
rence to the rate at which the steamer was going.
Mr. CLARKSON contended, that before the prisoner
could be held accountable in such a case as this he must
be proved guilty of some personal act ; and he cited the
law from Carrington and Payne in support of his posi-
tion. Sir John Bayley followed on the same side.
Mr. Justice MAULE said that the whole evidence
proved that the direction of the steamer at the time of
the occurrence, and for some short time before, had been
wholly under the control of the prisoner,
and therefore
he thought that the cases cited by the I earned Gentle-
man for the defence did not apply in the present instance.
Mr. CLARKSON then addressed the jury. He regretted
the decision to which his Lordship had Just come, for,
convinced as he was, of the prejudice that existed in the
minds of the jury against the rate at which steamers
were said to proceed upon the river, he would have had
the matter rather dealt with as a matter of law than one
of fact. The Learned Counsel then adverted to the facts,
as sworn to by the different witnesses, and asserted that,
under the circumstances of the case, the prisoner could
not have otherwise acted.

Witnesses were then called for the defence.
, The jury, not being able to agree upon a verdict, were
"ocked up.

We have received Madrid papers of the 22d, but
they contain no intelligence respecting the flight of
ZURBANO, though it was believed that he would be
able to make his escape, either into Portugal or
France. The Chamber adopted several clauses of
the Reform Bill, almost without opposition.
The Three per Cents. closed at 28} for cash, and
28 13-16 at GO days ; and the Five per Cents. at 201
at 60 days.

Several of the Paris papers hare articles on the
election of Mr. POLE to the office of President of the
United States. The more violent Opposition journals,
falsely called liberal, rejoice at the result, not from
any regard to liberty, but because democracy has
triumphed, and still more because they regard this
demonstration as a blow to the power of England.
They look forward to a war between this country
and the 'United States, and joyfully predict that
neither the affairs of Texas, nor the question respect-
ing the Oregon territory, can be settled otherwise.
France, of course, will take part with democratic
America—the French fleet will co-operate with the
fleet of the United States—and proud England will
be humbled. The constant practice of the writers
in these journals, in looking forward to aid from
some foreign Power, in case of a war with England,
gives us a very low idea of their patriotism.
What ! Is France become so weak that she can-
not defend herself Ndthout the protection of an
American fleet? The Siecle would seem to admit
the fact. " There is," it says, " a great political fault
to be avoided in our negotiations with America. In

THE SUN, VONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 30, 1844.

•
MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
There was no further change in Cotton at Liverpool
yesterday, Sales 4,000 bags.—The Share-market was
animated. Dublin and Drogheda, 58 ; Eastern Coun-
ties, 13 ; Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 14* ;
Grand Junction, 2141 215 k ; Ditto, Half, 107* ; Great
Western, 141 ; Ditto, One-Fifth, 264 ; Hull and Selby,
66 ; Liverpool and Manchester, Quarter, 51 ; London
and Birmingham, 32/. Shares, 37/ ; Ditto, Quarter, 26k;
London and York, 4k i ; London and South-Western,
762 77 ; Lynn and Ely, 2- ; Manchester, Bolton, and
Bury, 123 k ; Midland Counties, 108 ; Newcastle and
Darlington, 79* ; Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter,
1231 ; Lyons and Avignon, -24 495.; Paris and Lyons,
595. 58s. 6d.; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 6i i ;
Central of France, 12 ; Boulogne and Amiens, 4/ i.
The accounts, per Hibernia, relative to money matters
state:—" Prices are now lower than they have been for
at least fifteen years, and the currency of 1843 was
nearer a specie standard than it has ever before been.
So long as this standard. is maintained, so long will
prices remain as at present quoted. The production of
our principal staples increases so fast that the supply
must have an influence on prices, and reduce them from
year to year; but this can be regulated according to the
quantity produced, and a much greater uniformity will
exist than during great fluctuations in the currency and
a depreciation in the circulating medium. By keeping
our circulating medium down to specie standard we
check foreign importations more than a high tariff would,
and the greater the similarity between the currency of
this country and those of Europe, the more we are able
to shut out their productions, and consume our own. An
inflated currency annuls the tariff, as all foreign manu-
facturers require, to enable them to contend successfully
with the protective features of our tariff, are high prices
in our market."
The amount of notes issued by the Bank 'of England
during the week to Saturday last was 27,528,8751., being
an increase of 21,0802 There is a corresponding in-
crease, as usual, in the bullion to the issue department,
and which, added to 113,258/. in the banking depart-
ment, gives the net increase at 134,3381. The public de-
posits continue to rise fast, being more by 932,7331., but
the private lodgments have been diminished.
The English Securities continue very firm, although
business has been dull, and there have heen one or two
sales made by an influential broker. Consols for imme-
diate transfer haie realised 1001 to 100- ; and for time
101 to * ; Bank Stock is 207 to 208, being an advance
again ; the Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 1021 I;
and the Three per Cents. 998 to par ; Exchequer Bills
are rather heavy, at 595. tot 575. premium.
Business in the Foreign Investments is dull also.
Spanish Three per Cents. are 3511. Portuguese Con-
verted are steady at 55k. Mexican Bonds have been
done at 364 I. Belgian Stock is worth 1022. Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are at 63.
The Railway Shares have had a firm tone, and, owing
to the buoyancy of the market at Liverpool, prices rather
tend upwards.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 99,100
3 per Cent. Como's. Anus WA %,4
New 34 per Cent. Annuities ioe%4
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2 1-16 12
Bank Stock for Account
Console for Account .....».».«.».«.«.«.».» 101
Exchequer Bills. 130, I%d
10001. ....................... .......„ ..... 59 57 pm.
5001.......................... ........... 59 57 pm.
Ditto 5ma11„.....«........ ........... 59 57 pm.
Ditto Advertised.
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent 1024
Mexican Bonds, 1837,5 per Cent. .. ..........
Ditto for the Account ..... -............---" 36%%
Ditto Deferred Stock 16%
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent.... ........
Ditto Converted 55%
Russian Bonds, 1822,5 per Cent llB% 119
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840 —
Ditto Three per Cent.
Dutch 2% per Cents 63
RPICES OF SHAR 8 THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Bristol and Exeter I 7O
Bristol and Gloucester 3O . . ..... 35 to —•
Cambridge and Lincoln
Direct Northern 2% 24 to
Eastern Counties ........... ........ 25 ......... 1314% to '1:-
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O .....
.... 62 ......... to --
Great Southein and Western} 5
3
(Ireland) % to
Great Western ................... 75
London and Blackwall 16% ..„.. 6% ... „to
London and 8right0n........., 5O ........ 48
London and South Western 41% 7B 781... to 80
Ditto Eighths 9 ........ 214
London and Croydon
London and Y0rk............ ........ 2% 4%% .., to
Manchester and Birmingham ... 4.0
Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 21 .....„„ 60
Rugby 1
South Devon lO ..... .... 10%% .. to ,_South Eastern and Dover
...... 37% ••«.. to 38
Ditto New .......... ............
York and North Midland ......... 50 lO3
Ditto 34 Shares
Ditto Scarbore' Branch
Ditto Selby Scrip
Ditto Extension —
Boulogne and Amiens 2 4% ......... to 5
Orleans and Vierzon
Orleans and Bourdeaux
Paris and Lyons 2 -
Paris and Orleans
Paris and R0uen............ ....... .... 20 ......... 39%% to
Rouen and Havre. ..... ........... 12
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 29.—We
have an iinvoved feeling in our market to-day, and a fair
amount of business has been transacted at the following
quotations :—London and York, n 3 11-16 ; Sheffield
and Lincoln, li 11-16 ; Churnets, 3,i ; Boulogne and
Amiens, 4i ; Trent Valey, 78 ; London and Birming-
ham, New 321. Shares, 38 ; Paris and Lyons, 2/. 18s. 9d.;
Huddersfield Canal, 19.

MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.)
COVENT-GARDEN.
There was a most excellent supply of Fruit and Ve-
getables, yet the demand ruled steady, and prices
were mostly supported.—Potatoes from 2s 6d to
4s 6d per cwt ; Turnips, 2s to 3s ; Carrots, 4s to 6s ;
Coleworts or Greens, 2s to 2s 9d ; and Leeks, 8d to
ls9d per dozen bunches ; Apples and Pears, 2s to 4s ;
Spinach, 10d to is 8d ; and Onions, is 6d to 2s 6d
per half sieve ; Pine Apples, 7s to 8s ; Out-door Eng-
lish Grapes, 8d to 10d ; Hot-house ditto, 3s to 5s ;
Foreign Grapes, 6d to 10d ; Filberts, 10d to is 2d; and
Cobb Nuts, 8d to Is 2d per lb ; English Melons, 2s 8d to
4s ; and Foreign ditto, is 6d to 3s each ; Red Cab-
bages, 2s to 4s per dozen ; Horse Radish, 2s to ss;
Broccoli, Is 6d to 2s 6d; and Celery, 8d to 2s per bundle ;
Mushrooms, 8d to is per punnet ; and New Oranges,
8s to 103 per 100.

HUNGERPORD.
We had only a limited supply of most articles, yet
the general demand was in a sluggish state, at but little
variation in prices.
NEWOATE AND T.EA.DENHALL.
There was a very large supply of both English and
Foreign game and poultry, owing to which the demand
was excessively heavy, at very low figures. For prime
Beef and Mutton, the demand was somewhat active, at
very full prices, while in most other kinds of meat, a
steady business was transacted. Beef from 2s 4d to
3s 6d ; Mutton, 2s 6d to 3s 8d ; Veal3s to 4s ; and Pork
2s 4d to 3s 10d per 81bs. by the carcass.
NEWPORT.
We had a decided improvement in the trade, and
prices were freely supported. Beef from 26 8d to 3s 6d;
Mutton, 2s 10d to 3s 8d ; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s ; and Pork,
2s 10d to 4s per Sibs.
EILLZNGSGATE.
Comparatively speaking, the supply of Fish was not
very extensive, yet the inquiry was inactive, and prices
were not supported.

177BXTECHAPEL.
Most kinds of Meat were in moderate supply and
steady demand, at our quotations. Beef, from 2s 6d to
3s 6d; Mutton, 25 8d to 3s 8d ; Veal, 2s 10d to 4s; and
Pork, 2s 4d to 3s 10d per albs by the carcase.
BREAD.
The prices of wheaten Bread in the Metropolis are
from 7d to 7fd ; of household ditto, sfd to 6fd per 41bs
loaf.

HIDE MARKET.
Raw hides at per stone of 141bs.—Best steers and heifers
5s 8d to 5s 10d ; middling hides, 4s 10d to 5s 6d ; in-
ferior hides, 4s 4d to 4s Bd. Sheep and calf skins, at
per skin--Market calf, 6s 6d to 8s ; long woolled
sheep, 2s 6d to 3s 9d ; short ditto, 2s to 3s.

HAY MARKETS.
SMITIIFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 15s to 4/ 16s ;
Useful ditto, 4117 s to 5/4s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 5s to
Si lOs ; Clover Hay, 41 lOs to 61; Oat Straw, I/ lOs to
11 12s ; Wheat Straw, 11 12s to 11 15s per load. A
limited supply, and a steady demand at full prices.
CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 18s to 4118 s;
Useful ditto 51 to Si 4s; fine Upland ditto, 51 5s to
Si 122 ; Clover Hay, 4/ 10s to 5/18s ; Oat Straw, 11 Ils
to 11 13s ; Wheat Straw, 11 14s to 11 16s per load.
Supply_ moderately good and trade somewhat brisk.
WHITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3115 s to 4/ 15s ;
Useful ditto, 41 16s to 513 s ; fine Upland ditto, 515 s to
51 lOs ; Clover Hay, 41 108 to 61; Oat Straw, 1/ 10s to
1112 s ; Wheat Straw, 1113 s to 1115 s per load. Both
hay and straw sold steadily, and prices were supported in
every instance.

WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.—FRIDAY.
The Wheat trade is very heavy to-day, best samples
scarcely maintaining last week's prices, and inferior qua-
liti4s must be noted Is. per quarter lower. Fine samples
of Barley are scarce, and for such the prices of this day
week are realised ; but low qualities are difficult to dis-
pose of, at a reduction of Is. a quarter. In Oats and
Shelling no material alteration, but Beans have declined
Is. to 2s. per quarter.

1 Per qr. of 601 b. to the bushel.
Wheat Suffolk, Essex, and Kent Red EXTRA. NEW.
to 46 44 to 45
Ditto ditto White... 51 49 50
Norfolk Red ..^•• 45 43 44
Ditto ditto White... 50 45 4is
Lincolnshire and Cambridge Red....... 44 42 4,3
Ditto ditto Whte... 50 46 48
Yorkshire Red....... 45 40 42
Ditto ditto White... 56 45 48
Foroig- Red 49 41 46
Ditto ditto White... 52 48 50
Pier quarter imperial.
Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk 37 34 35
Grinding
Yorkshire and Lincolnshire 34 31 22
29 30
Foreign .................... .... ......... .. .... — 34 30 32
ier qr. of 6,11 b. to the bushel.
Beans, Small fine ••••••"....«•..."•• ........ •••••
Ticks 44 38 3390
Foreign. 43 35 40
Oats, Potato and Poland —s ... —li ••• ...D.
Mealing lod. to 12d., Foreign —d, to —d. pet Stone.
Shelling 265. to 27w. Od. per Load.
Malt '
Rapeseed 231.05, 251. N. —I. Os. per Last.

Dover has never been so full of company at this
season of the year as at the present time. Nearly all
the principal houses are engaged and occupied by fami-
lies of distinction. Among the more recent engagements
are the Earl of Kenmare, Lord Boston, Lady Went-
worth, the Hon. William Burrell, Mr. Jonathan Peel,
Mr. C. B. Bewick, &c. &c.—Dover Chronicle.
It is rumoured that Sir William Follett is to be
made Judge of the Privy Council (which Lord Brougham
devised for his own benefit)—and that Stafford North-
cote, Esq., is to be brought forward by the Tories 63 his
successor.— Western Times,