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THE FUNDS-(C

rOSING PRICES).

• BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock
9 per Cent. Red 98% Ditto Bonds 92 pm.
3 per Cent, Cons
3% per Cent. Rel lOl% Ditto New Annuities...
New 3% per Cent...
New Li per Cent — Ditto 5001. '74 pm
Lop Annuities to expire -Ditto Small 72 pm.
Jan.'A 1860.... ..... 12% Bank Stock for Acct I9A%
Oct. 1850 l2 5-18 Consols for Acct. 99%
Jan: 1860 — India Stock for •Acct.... 285%
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian. 5 per Cent .... ..... 113% Portugueee,s per Cent —
Belgian, 5 per Cent — IDittot New Ditto —
Brazilian Bonds SI% Prussian, 5 per Cent ... ......
Buenos Ayres, 6-per Cent — Russian, 5 per Cent ..... ......
Chllian, 6 per Cent —. Ditto, Metallic —
Colombiap, 6 per Cent
Ditto, 1821 ..».»._...._........ ;Ditto, l per Cent .............. 35%
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent Ditto Deferred —
Danish, 3 per Cent — rench, 5 fer Cent —f. —c.
Greek, 18 5, 5 per Cent — Exchange —f. —c.
Mexican, 5 per Cent
Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837. — Dutch, 234 per Cent.... 61
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent — ' Ditto, 5 per Cent ........100%
SHARES.
Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) 92
Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) - 19%
Bristol and Gloucester (30 paid)
Caledonian, 5 paid
Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid)
Dublin and Cashel, 2%.paid
Eastern Counties (23 paid) ......... ............ ..
Ditto Registered (816 s Bcl paid)
Great Western (75 paid)
Ditto Half Shares (50 paid)
' ..
Ditto Fifths, )2 paid 21%
• r Harwich (Braithwaite). 2 paid ^ •
.. , Ditto. Locke, 2% paid... 2
Lancaster and Carlisle, 5 paid O4.
London and Birmingham (Stock)
'•
• Ditto. New 'thirds, 2 p lid
Ditto, Quarter Shares ( 2 paid)
Lon lon and Brighton (50 paid)
Ditto Loan Notes, 10 paid
London and Greenwich (Ht. 15s. 4d. paid) 7
Di ito, Preference or Privilege, £lB 178 2d paid 19
• Londe*. and South Western ()11. 6s. 10d. paid) —
Ditto Eighths (ISs. paid)
London and Croydon (Trunk) 1874
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid.
Ditto Half Shares, tAlpaid 4l
Manchester and Birmingham 55%
- ' Midland Counties (100 paid) —
Ditta Fifths, 2 paid .34
Newcastle mai Darlingron Junction. 18 paid...... 38
North British, 2% paid 2%
• North Midland (1(10 paid)
Ditto. Thirds, X2l 135. 4d. poid 29
• South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid)
Ditto 'cw Shares ( 4 paid)
Trent Valley, 2 paid 9
York and Scarborough Branch (22 paid)
Paris and Orleans (20 paid)
Paris and Rouen, 20 paid
Rouen and Havre, S paid

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
ROUSE OF COMMONS, May 24.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'Clock.
NEW MEMBER.
Admiral BOWLES took the oaths and his seat for
Launceston, in the room of Sir Henry Hardinge, ap-
pointed Governor-General of India.
The South-Eastern Railway Bill was read a third
time and passed.
The Sheffield United Gas Bill was read a third time
and passed.
Mr. GROGAN I:presented a petition from Dublin
against the Standing Older being suspended in favour
of the Dublin and Cashel Railway Bill, and praying to be
heard by counsel against the Bill.
Mr. SHAW presented a similar petition from the
landowners on the line.
DISSENTERS' CHAPELS BILL.
Mr. RICE presented a petition from Dover against
the Dissenters Chapels Bill.
Mr. THORNELY presented two petitions in favour
of the Bill.
Mr. A. CHAPMAN presented six petitions from
Wesleyan Methodists against the Bill.
Mr. TUITE presented five petitions to the same effect.
Lord MARSHAM presented petitions from Tenter-
terden and other places in Kent, to the same effect.
Mr. SCHOLEFIELD presented a petition from
Newhall-hill in favour of the Bill.
Mr. AINSWORTH presented petitions from Bolton
against the Bill ; also a petition against the County
Courts Bill.
Mr. BECKETT presented a petition from Leeds
against the Dissenters' Chapels Bill.
Mr. KEMBLE presented eight petitions from Surrey
to the same effect.
Lord ASHLEY presented petitions from Dorsetahire
to the same effect.
Mr. GROGAN presented a petition from Dublin to
the same effect.
Mr. ACKLAND presented three petitions to the same
effect.
Mr. EVANS presented a petition from Derbyshire to
the same effect.
Mr. RASHLEIGH presented a petition to the same
effect.
Mr. HAWES presented petitions to the same effect.
Mr. MUNDY presented petitions from Derby to the
same effect.
Mr. BOTFIELD presented a petition to the same
effect.
Sir G. COCKBURN presented a petition to the same
effect.
Mr. T. EGERTON presented a petition from Che-
shire to the same effect.
Mr. H. BERKELEY presented six petitions from
Bristol to the same effect.
Sir T. ESMONDE presented a petitior; from Wexford
to the same effect.
Mr. P. S. BUTLER presented a petition from the
city of Cork, praying f)r a tax on absentees.
Mr. LIDDELL presented a petition from the Wes-
leyans of Durham against the Dissenters' Chapels Bill.
Mr. TRELAWNEY presented two petitions to the
same effect.
Mr. FERRAND. presented a petition from the wool-
spinners of Nortwitch, praying the. House to take their
distressed condition into its consideration.
Mr. WARBURTON presented a petition from Kendal
in favour of the Dissenters' Chapels Bill. •
Mr. REDINGTON presented a petition from Dun.
dalk against the Bill.
Sir E. HAYES presented two petitions from Donegal
against the Bill,
Mr. VILLIERS presented a petition from a body of
Weslyan Methodists, against certain clauses in the Dis-
senters' Chapels Bill.
Mr. Ewart, Mr. Hume, Mr. Boyd, and Lord Claude
Hamilton presented similar petitions.
Mr. CARDWELL presented a petition to the same
effect from a congregation of Wesleyan Methodists at
Clithero.
Mr. F. FRENCH presented a petition from an indivi-
dual named Carr, complaining that a sum of money, due
to his late uncle, and towhich thepetitioner was entitled,
was unjustly withheld from him at the War-office. He
prayed the House to interfere, and to cause the money
to be paid.—(A laugh.)
SMUGGLING.
Mr. FERRAND presented a petition from an indi-
vidual named Lundy, at Hull, complaining of the con-
duct of the Hon. Member for Montrose, who, as Chair.
man of the Committee on Smuggling, had brought him
up from Hull to give evidence before that Committee,
and refused to give him remuneration for his expenses.
Mr. HUME said he was always ashamed of being
duped.—(A laugh.) The petitioner had offered to give
important evidence on the subject of smuggling, but
when he came before the Committee he stated a lot of
rigmarole—(A laugh)—but evidently withheld the in-
formation which he could have given. He claimed 171.
for his expenses, and he (Mr. Hume) gave him 51.; but
if the thing were to be done over again he would not
give him a shilling. The fact was he had been the dupe
of a cunning, crafty man.—(Hear, hear, and a laugh.)
He could appeal to the members of the Committee wlio
were then in the House as to the value of the peti-
tioner's evidence.
Dr. BOWRING said he never herd more worthless
evidence in his life.—(Hear. hear.)
Mr..DARBY said he believed that it was the gene-
ral opinion of the Committee that the lion. Member for
Montrose had been done for the first time in his life.
BANK CHARTER BILL.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
'STANDARD.—As it is not improbable that the
high easterly winds in St. George's Channel may delay
our Irish expresS, conveying the report of yesterday's
. proceedings in the Dublin Court of Queen's Bench, we
will take the opportunity to say a few words upon the
effect of the. State prosecutions in Ireland. We are
well aware, thaPthe topic has for some mouths pos-
sessed very little interest ; but this absence of all
interest in the repeal agitation, and in the destina-
tion of i's authors, is the very fact upon which, if we
could, we would willingly fasten attention. We pray of
our readers to reeal, rts faithful a retrospect as they can
. of their views, their feelings, and their expectations
regarding Ireland for the last fifteen or twenty years ;
or, indeed, rs . long as any of us can remember.
We again pray them, having done this, to say,
can they point to any month within .the
period of recollection during which Ireland has been so
little the object of interest as during the last three/
months ; and, finally, whether the interest of which
Ireland has been for so many years constantly the ob-
jecte has not been a painful interest—the interest of some
present danger, or of some evil, the cure of which ap-.
paired to be hopeless. For the first time within the
memory of the existing generation, that interest is
altogether extinguished. If any one now asks a question
about. Ireland, it has relation to the success of the at
moepheric principle, upon trial at Dalkey, or the Cashel
ee -railroad, or the facilities of crossing the Irish Sea,
or the capacity fur improvement of the western
ports or the w estern fisheries, or perhaps it concerns
the. progress of agricultural schools or educational
societies ; in short, whether weak or strong, the pre-
- sent interest in Irish affairs is of a pleasant nature.
Who .would have thought sued a change possible
this time three years, when the country was threatened
with an Irish rebellion if it dared to dismiss the Whig
Minisnrs. ? Who would have thought such a change
possible twelve short months ago, when Mr. O'Connell
was arranging his campaign of monster meetings ?
What would have been thought, in May, 1843, if the
Attorney-General for Ireland, had he been rash enough
to promise the one-half of what he has done by
mildly putting the law in motion in its most
simple and constitutional form ? Even that halt'
would be more for the pacification of Ireland than
- has been accomplished by all the statesmen that have
ruled the country for half a century. This is to walk
in the light of the Constitution, and to stand upon the
law. The path may be often rugged, steep, and tedious,
but it is direct and broad, arid it is sure in the end to
bring you to victory, to whatever toils and attacks it
may expose you by the way ; and it is thusi that
Ml-., Smith has achieved the peace of
,his coun-
try. He has, single-handed, grappled with con•
spirators and a conspiracy that held a long series of
- governments in a slavery more or less degrading ; he
has flung them down upon the threshold of the penal
dungeon about to open for them ; and this not only
without provoking the rebellion so often threatened as
the penalty of la.yinie hands upon the inviolable person
of the arch-incendiary—not only-without provoking re-
bellion—but, as we see contemporaneously, extinguish-
, ing every motive and opportunity for rebellion. This
is what has been effected, by the learning and vigour of
one' man, and he, perhaps, the most modest, unpre-
tending man that ever took su prominent a part in pub-
lic life.
GLOBE.—The erection of the Nelson monument in
Trafalgar-square has given universal satisfaction to the
nation. It seemed to be an atonement to the memory
of England's greatest naval hero, fur a neglect with
which the metropolis was justly chargeable, in omitting
to grace one of the principal thoroughfares of the
chief city of the empire with a statue to* commemo-
rate his unrivalled deeds of heroism. The combined
naval power of France and Spain was annihilated by
Nelson, at the moment when Europe was in arms
against us, and our existence, as a nation, was threatened
by the restless ambition of the former power. Trafalgar
bore the same relation to the destinies of Britain upon
the ocean which Waterloo exercised over them upon the
• hind. Yet Wellington, in his military character, has
been honoured, as he-deserved to be, during life; and the
victories he a-hiered perpetuated by statues erected to
• commemorate his deeds. But forty years were suffered
to elapse ere a public place in London was appropriated
to a statue to remind the country which Nelson ho-
noured—and, we may add, which Nelson saved—of
those heroic deeds that shed a glory around the name
of Britain and preserved to her the undisputed empire
of the seas ! Yet this tardy tribute to the heroic Nelson
has been marred by an official interference as ungra-
cious 113 it is indefensiblts. The Committee appointed to
superintend the management of the • funds subscribed
tor the erection of the monument to Lord Nelson, were
anxious to accompany the opening of the monument
to the public eye by an entertainment, to be given
on the spot, to the survivors of the old veterans who
shared in the glories and the dangers of their invincible
leader. Permission for that purpose had been asked
and obtained from the Chief Commissioner of Woods
and Forests. Circumkanees had caused a postponement
of the dinner for a short time. Yesterday was selected
by the Committee; and arrangements were made for the
purpose. Advertisements were put forth. The Duke of
Cambridge was announced as having graciously con-
sented to preside on the occasion. At almost the last hour,
and when the arrangements were deemed complete,
Lord Lincoln interfered and withdrew the consent he
had' given. Placards were posted around the square
on Wednesday evening, announcing that the dinner
was unavoidably postponed ; and great surprise and
disappointment were in consequence excited. By in-
terdicting the dinner on the proposed and pecu-
liarly appropriate spot the only spot where any
special interest would be created by the dinner to the
brave men who were to be entertained—Lord Lincoln
has caused the project to be abandoned. The old
- weather-beaten, and in many instances maimed and
wounded, veterans were thus deprived of their long-
expected treat ; and the public were disappointed of
witnessing what to every Englishman would hare been
a gratifying spectacle, because associated with events
which can never be recalled without emotions of a
truly patriotic character and tendency. About 250
men of the crews who fought tinder Nelson's
leadership are understood to be " laid up " in
Greenwich Hospital—many of them bruised and
battered indeed, crippled " hulks." Their number is
rapidly diminishing. A few months, and they may all
be removed beyond the reach of such a gratification as
that which was designed for their aged frames ; and far
from the disappointment and chagrin which the aban-
donment of e festival they were to enjoy, and become
the observed of all beholders, has occasioned to their
ft clings.

- The Bank Charter Bill was brought in and read a
first time.

POOR-LAWS.

On laying the tenth Report of the Poor-law Commis
sioners on the table of the House, _ _ _

Sir 3. GRAHAM gave notice, on the part of her Ma•
jesty's Government, that on the first day after the
recess it was his intention to move the appointment of a
Select Committee for the purpose of inquiring into the
Report.

SUPPRESSION OF GAMBLING.

Mr. C. BERKELEY wished to ask the Right Hon.
Baronet, the Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
ment, under what order the metropolitan police force
lately employed on Epsom race-course acted ; whether
under orders direct from the Home-office, or from the
Police Commissioners, or from the local magistrates ?
He begged the Right Hon. Gentleman to understand
that he did not in the least allude to the suppression of
the gambling booths or the thimble-rig tables,
or anything of that kind, but he alluded to the unjusti-
fiable interference of the police to prevent people from
throwing sticks as they had been accustomed to.
Sir J. GRAHAM said he was not sorry that the Hors.
Gentleman had put to him this question, as it afforded
him an opportunity of stating the reasons for the course
which had been pursued. The House was aware that at
a very early period of the session a Committee was ap-
pointed for the purpose of investigating this subject.
The report of that Committee had been presented to the
House. It contained a very strong passage with respect
to the pernicious extent to which gambling on race-
courses was carried. In the execution of his duty he
had called the attention of the police to the great ex-
tent to which gaming was carried on in this metropolis
—an extent unknown in the other great cities of Europe.
Having taken measures for its suppression in the metro-
polis, he had also thought it his duty, in confor-
mity
with the report of the Committee of the House,
to call the attention of the Police Commis-
sioners to the gaming carried on upon race-courses.
He certainly was responsible for the directions which
had been given to the PoLce Commissioners to interfere
with the gambling in question on the race-course of
Epsom. He also gave similar directions to the local
magistracy, together with instructions to announce their
intention of carrying out the laws. There was not
any undue interference on the part of the Police
Commissioners, because nothing could be more un-
just than the play at those games of chance. In fact,
these games were not so much games of chance as games
of perfect certainty, and if it were necessary, he could
produce some of the dice taken by the police in the
gambling-houses. There they were (said the Right Hon.
Gentleman, presenting the dice in his hand across the
table) and they were open to the inspection of Hon. Mem-
bers.—(Laughter.) They were not loaded dice, but per •
fectly correct in every respect, except that
with one set of them it was impossible to throw the
deuce and ace—(A laugh)—and with another set, one
would throw 11 and 12 with equal certainty, and certain
other numbers were repeated mere than once. Also with
respect to roulette games, they were equally against the
party playing; so much so, that they could not be consi-
dered games of chance, but perfect acts of pillage and
robbery.— (Hear, bear.) He could not conceive
more dishonourable proceedings than the conduct such
games involved ; and in this country there was no source
of sorrow and ruin and crime, producing such certain and
fatal effects, as that growing out of the disposition to
gambling of late years. That disposition had grown to'
a most alarmingly dangerous extent, and he certainly
had thought it his duty to carry into execution the law
on the subject. He had not gone one step beyond
the law, and until he saw some expression of opinion
on the part of that House adverse to the course he had.
pursued, he should take every means placed in his
power by the law for the purpose of checking—he had
almost said exterminating this dangerous propensity.
Mr. V. SMITH said, that all that had been stated by
the Right Hon. Gentleman was perfectly correct except
A NEW EPrtzZay.—Rotur M t - in one point. It was not correct that the report of the
apprehensive here of the breakingiasou.t of an epideiny Committee was in the hands of Hon. Members.
*WO, during several weeksAs a Member of the Committee, he begged to say, the
portion of the states of the Church. Its ravages are not fully borne out in what
pectlts of the country; "
I I,liit Hon. Gentlenvin was
confined to the valleys and other low
lan
thev among the in- 1
on the contrary, it rages more e:: a done by the report of the Committee. However, the
question of his Hon. Friend, the Member for Cheltenham
habitants of mountainous districts.little town of had not, in one point, been answered viz., why the
'Eva, Containing about 9.000 inhabitants, 90
e9roarleyrsons died in police had just put down the amusement of throwing
the space of a week. The malady
be 'contagious, but of this fact there is no positivesupPrtaed to
prior with sticks?—(Laughter.) The sport of throwing with
every case in which a post morteni examination has takenn sticks was one which the Committee had especially
place there has been found congestion of the brain, as pointed out as being fit to be exempted from being in-
terfered with by the police.
to, and in, apoplexy. It appears to be the same complaint
which has recently prevailed in Naples and Sicily under the Mr. CRAVEN BERKELEY said the Right Hon.
name of toreicollo. It is clearly traceable to atmospheric ,Gentleman had not answered his question—that ques-
causes. After an exceedingly warm April, we have had 1 tion did not refer to the gambling booths or thimble-
since the let of May several of the coldest days that have 1 rigs, about which the Right lion. Baronet had made
been experiencedymee the commencement of the year. The , such a flourish. What he asked was, whether the order
temperature frequently varies 20 degrees during the day. ; was intended to apply to amusements unconnected with
Winter cloaks, after having been laid aside, are now resumed ,i gambling ?
again. The torcicollo is usually fatal in thespace of 12 hours. 1 Sir J. GRAHAM thought he had distinctli, answered
In Rome, however, it has been only sporadic, and without any I the Hon. Member's question.l,ere Theony police
t hlefy i t would be more sat f
instructed id. t o notca
carry
confirmed character.—Frankfizrt Zeitung. under his direction ;
RELATIoNsnirs EXTRAORDINARY.—An odd sort i out the existing law.
is actory,
of relationship was lately formed by a pair of nuptials ex- be would read the letter he had addressed to them. (The
traordinary in' Camden. - A widower, who was not very Right Hon. Baronet then read the letter,
young, became smitten by a beautiful girl and married her. stating that he
(Sir J. Graham). had had his attention drawn to the
A short time after a son of this man, by a former wife, be- gambling carried on at and during the races of Epsom,
came also in love, not with a younger person, but with the
mother of the father's newand other places, where the police were in the habit of
wife, a widow adv still in the i
bloom of life• lle offered himself and soon the young man or
attending f the purpose of preserving order ; and he de-
and the Widew,,.ere united in the bonds of matrimony ; so sired them to take the necessary steps for enfercieg the
that, in consequence
the son-in-1 o isof these two connexions a father became ' law against the: parties offending against it. With re•
daughter-in .law of het" and the wife not only the I ference to the races about to take place at Epsom, the
mother-in-law of her "o. mother, who is herself the olive
own son-in-law, but still more, the ' police would put themselves in communication with the
daughter- in-law of her oZind
father_in_law obis owil th 0 his mother-in-law, and
the latter is the father-in-lalavugliter, while the husband of their • assistance,
local
they
f wouldthey shoulddwn
proceedfail in
to c obtainingtirry
fa er.—caledo ' xr i the law into effect.) Thus
num ....ereury. . _
(continued the night