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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1844.

In the House of Lords the Earl of CLARENDON
asked Lord ABERDEEN if he had any objection to
produce the correspondence which had taken place
between the Government and Don CARLOS, relative
to the marriage of his son with the Queen of SPAIN.

The Earl of ABERDEEN did not consider it ex•pe-
dient to produce the correspondence, but, at the same
time, admitted a letter had been addressed to him on
the part of Don CAuLos, offering to resign his pre-
tensions to the Spanish Crown, OR condition of the
marriage of his son with Queen ISABELLA. He had
communicated the fact to the Spanish Government,
without-pressing for an answer.
Lord BROUGUA.,I moved the third reading of the
Insolvent Debtors' Act Amendment Bill. The ob-
ject of the 13111 was to screen unfortunate debtors, II
and not those guilty of fraud or contumacious con-
duct.

After some discussion, the Bill was referred to a
Select Committee. Lord COTTENHAM then moved
the third reading of his Bill on the same subject,.

The LORD CHANCELLOR moved that it be recom-
mitted. A division took place, when there were fur
the third reading, 4; and against it, 28. The Bill
was then referred to a Select Committee, in com-
pany with Lord BROUGHAM'S, and the House Ad-
journed at Half-past Nine.
After the presentation of petitions and some other
business of little importance in the Commons, Mr.
CHRISTIE asked the SOLICITOR-GENERAL whether the
current report was true, that, at the. election for
Abingdon, the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had

I distributed 501. among the crowd from a bag of money
in his lap. The speech of the Hon. Member on this
subject is very amusing and instructive. The Som-
crroß-GE:*EnAL did not deny the charge, but he found
fault with the mode of putting questions to Members.
He could not deny, however, that he had
received due notice ; for he candidly ad-
mitted that Mr. CHRISTIE had informed him

a week ago that he would put the question, but
at the same time he must state that he could not
give his sanction to such a practice, and that he must
decline answering the question. Is everything going
to wreck in this Conservative Government ? The
second law-officer of the Crown is charged with a
heinous offence, and he tosses up his head and says,
I will not plead." We hope Mr. CHRISTIE will
not lose sight of the question. Of what use is it for
the Commons to order the law-officers of the Crown

to indict Sudbury for bribery and corruption, if
the SOLICITOR-GENERAL is charged with the same
offence, and cannot deny the charge ? Sir FREDERICK
TIIESIGEIt is much mistaken if he thinks that any
class of-the community will suffer such insolence.
In answer to a question from Mr. SHEIL relative

to national education in Ireland, of which he had
given notice, Sir R. PEEL cautioned Hon. Members
not to place implicit confidence in newspaper reports,
snd asserted that the instructions to the Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland were to give the patronage of
the Government to those who had the best claims on
the ground of professional merit and character.

On the report of the Sugar Duties Bill being
brought up, Mr. EWART moved that slave and free-
labour sugar be admitted on the payment of equal
duties. A division took place, when there were for
the motion 65, and against it 183. The Bill was or-
lered to be read a third time on Monday, with the
understanding that the Bank Charter Bill should
have the precedence.
The House went into Committee on the Dissen-
ters' Chapels Bill, when the principal clauses were
agreed to, the amendments being rejected. The House
then resumed, and the report was brought up and or-
lered to be received on Monday.
The County Coroners Bill was read a third time,
after an amendment, proposed by Mr. Hum; had
been rejected by a majority of 18.
The other orders of the day were then disposed
of, and the House adjourned at Half-past Twelve
o'clock.

A Conservative dinner took place on Tuesday last
Middleton, at which, among other topics of con-
;ratulation, one of the speakers—a parson, answering
to the name of WILKINSON —felicitated his audience on
the fact that though " this was the third week of
O'CoNxeLe's captivity, he had not hanged himself; and
,he Irish Channel was not yet on fire, Ireland was
not yet in rebellion, the DUKE was not beheaded, nor
PEEL in the Tower." Truly these are excellent
theme 3 for Conservative congratulation ! The
party anticipated, no doubt—and most reasonably
so—that the consequences of their Irish policy would
have been a general convulsion throughout the length,
and breadth of the sister-country ; and because this
has not taken place to the extent they apprehended_
because, instead of being in open, desperate rebellion,
Ireland is only in a state of ferment and discontent,
and becoming more and more the weakness rather
than the strength of England, therefore the Con-
servatives—who, to do them justice, are singularly
Lie:Aerate in their expectations—conceive that their
policy has been most successful, and that the late trial
Ind imprisonment of O'Coeeeen has been a master-
stroke of generalship ! Not to have precipitated Ire-
land into rebellion, this purblind party imagine
to have been the most convincing proof possible
uf their dexterity and wisdom as statesmen,
which shows, notwithstanding their boastings,
that at heart they entertained sore misgivings re-
specting the probable issue of their Irish policy.
The Chairman of the Middleton dinner, fired with the
glorious ambition of equalling, if not of surpassing,
the Rev. Mr. WILKINSON in the faculty of talking
nonsense, expressed his conscientious belief that "in
this cause of Conservatism, as well as every other in
which they were engaged, Providence guided them."
Here, then, we have at length a clue to the twistings,
and wrigglings, and tergiversations, of the Conserve
tive party ! We were long at a loss to account for
the unhesitating, bare-faced inconsistency of this
eccentric party; but the Middleton Chairman has
now kindly come forward and explained the
reasons of their conduct. Their late decisions
in the House of Commons were, it seems,
given, not at the instigation of Sir ROBERT PEEL,
but under the direct " guidance of Providence." It
was " Providence" who prompted them to abandon
the sacred claims of humanity, and fling the unpro-
tected factory women and children overboard ; and it
was the same " Providence" who suggested the expe-
diency of their stultifying themselves on the question
of the sugar duties ! " Providence"—to parody the
language of the Times on a certain memorable occa-
sion—" Providence did it all !" He was the
arch-tempter! But for his direct suggestions the
Conservatives would never have dreamed of vio-
lating principle, and disgracing themselves in the
eyes of every thinking and upright man in the
community; but would have maintained at all
hazards an inflexible, high-minded consistency. In
the good old days of Toryism, it was the Devil who
used to have the credit—or rather discredit—of being
the great tempter; but the Conservatives, among
other bright discoveries, have now found out that i
is " Providence" who is entitled to this equivoca
distinction ; and to his express interference the quick.
witted MIDDLETON Chairman attributes the tergi.
versations of his party. Surely there is gross bias.
phemy as well as egregious nonsense here, ane
the Society for the Suppression of Irreligion will
do well to take this gentleman's irreverent cant about
" Providence" into their attentive consideration ! At
the same dinner, Mr. SOWLEB, a barrister of Man-
chester, thus gave vent to the party enthusiasm which
overpowered his delicate sensibilities :—" It is a proud
satisfaction to me to find so many honest and respect-
able men as I now see before me, united in carrying
out the greatest cause on which English glory ever
daWned—the cause whigh has made England what
it is—the cause which has made you and me
at this moment free to express our sentiments
without fear, and to do that which our hearts dictate,
to plead for the common freedom of our common
country." Mercy on us, what a farrago of words is
here! Is it Conservatism that the speaker is talking
about, when lie alludes to " the greatest cause on
which English glory ever dawned ?" Surely not, for
no cause can be great that is not based on principle,
and not even the most bigoted of the squad will have
the intrepid effrontery to assert that the Conserva-
tives have a single shred of principle adhering to
them. Principle, in fact, is the very thing in
which they are mostglaringly deficient—the qualifica-
tion which of all others they most strenuously repudiate,
and which they treat with the most contumelious
indifference. Talk to a Conservative about principle;
and if he be a frank, sincere man, who really speaks
as he thinks, he will laugh outright in your
face, and ask you in what benighted quar-
ter of Christendom you have received your
political education. Principle and Conservatism !
Was there ever a greater contrast than is represented
by these two terms ? Oil and vinegar have not a
more marked antipathy to each other. Night and day
are not more distinct from each other. Conservatism, let
its advocates say what they will, is neither more nor less
than a downright negation of all principle, and is
fitliest defined by that jesuitical phrase_Expediene

House at large, of enfeebling his own party, and com-
promising hi§ own control over it, by these ill-timed
ebullitions of an unbecoming vexation, and these
vexatious airs of an unbecoming authority.

The Madrid journals of the 14th inst. contain no
fresh intelligence. According to letters from Bar-
celona negotiations for modifying the tariff were still
going on with every probability of success; and it
was generally believed that foreign cotton goods
would be admitted on payment of a duty of 30 per
rant

The Three per Cents. were done at 2.7 i for cash;
the Five per Cents. at 201 at CO days, and the Float
ing,Debt at 50.

Most of the Paris journals contain articles on the
quarrel•between France and Morocco, but with the
exception of a few remarks in the Constitutionnel,
they possess little interest. That journal infers that
the affair cannot be finally settled without a contest,
and at the same time states that a much larger
force is to be sent under the command of the Prince
DE JoniviLLE than was originally intended. As it
speaks the sentiments of M. TRIERS, and also those of
the Prince, the amount of satisfaction to be demanded
on the part of France and the scheme proposed by the
young Admiral, are entitled to some credit. "We
are assured," says that journal, " that the satisfac-
tion consists of these three points—the repulsion of
ABD-EL-KADEE from the territory of Morocco, the
dismissal of the chiefs who commanded the Moorish
army in the engagement with our troops, and the
retreat of that army into the interior to a distance
of several leagues from our frontier. Now,
the EMPEROR has not, perhaps, even power
enough to execute those conditions. England
has offered her Mediation ; but has she herself the
means of rendering it efficient ? It is not enough to
persuade ABDERRAHMAN, but we must get the better
of ABD.EL•KADER ; for our serious object is not the
humiliation of the EMPEROR, but the expulsion of the
warlike Marabout. Despite, therefore, of all the
conferences between Lord COWLEY and M. GUIZOT,
and of the entente cordiale, war will, perhaps be in-
evitable. The Prince DE JOINVILLE has proposed a'
plan •of campaign, the result of which would have
been the bombardment or temporary occupation of
the ports of 'Tetuan, Tangiers, and Mogador. This
vigorous planots is affirmed, has not been accepted,
and vague and less energetic instructions will be
given to the young Admiral. Nevertheless, an in-
crease of force has been conceded to him. The squa-
dron will consist 'of three line-of-battle ships, six
steamers, and some for landing troops. We know
not how far the force of circumstances will lead the
French Government. It is, however, probable enough
that, in presence of these threatening preparatisns,
and under the influence of Great Britain, the EM-
PEROR will promise France every satisfaction, and do
his best to expel ABD-EL-KADER. But it is rather

We shall not be suspected of any extraordinary
affection for Sir ROBERT PEEL. On general princi.
pies, and as to many prominent departments of his
ministerial policy, we have ever been decidedly op_
posed to him. If we have freely given him all credit
I for some important relaxations of the screw of mono-
! poly, and for his not unfrequent exhibitions of a spirit
of conciliation and liberality in dealing with religious
dissent, and the political disabilities formerly conse-
quent thereon, we have never disassociated him from a
party hostile to the intellectual improvement, the mo-

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ral amelioration, and the political progress of the
people. But we would willingly see his Government,
EC long as it is destined to last, available to these great
objects, whether he himself feel a personal interest in
their achievement or not. Neither the Right Hon.
Baronet (were his public services or merits double what
they really have been), nor his party (were it's preten-
sions to the advancement of a generous and enlightened
statesmanship tenfold all that can be predicated of its
actual career), will weigh with us for one moment
against what we consider to be the true interests of
the people. In the name of these interests we must
renew our protest of Wednesday against the principle
and the tone of Sir ROBERT'S proceeding on the sugar
duties question on Monday evening last.
We will assume, for the purposes of this protest,
that owing to the delay which must be interposed, at
the present critical conjuncture of affairs, to the trans-
action of the public business from any change of ad-
ministration, by reason of difficulty in finding parti-
cular individuals in the ranks of Opposition sufficiently
qualified for particula.r offices, or, being so qualified,
sufficiently_willing to accept them, such a change of
administration would be politically inexpedient for the
nation. This is an hypothesis surely not unfavourable
or unfriendly to the case of Sir ROBERT; and yet we
contend that, in reference even to this, the whole
speech and deportment of the Right Hon. Baronet, on
the occasion in question, were not only calculated to
prejudice, but must have inevitably damaged his cause,
and the duration of his tenure of office.
Sir ROBERT PEEL complained, on Monday night,
that "here was a combination of parties against
him ;" and he showed himself at once irritable and
unwire in denouncing the attempt which had been
made by the West India interest to enlist the agricul-
tural or landed interest under their banner, on that
occasion, by proclaiming the common danger that
would accrue to both these great bodies in the event
of Ministers being enabled to carry a certain saltine
of duties, which in practical operation must be fatal
to the one immediately—and, in the application of its
principle, must ultimately prove just as fatal to the
other. Why, the West India body, in that appeal,
were only paying the compliment to the Premier of
accurately copying his own tactics ! By what other
arts did the Right Hon. Baronet carry his Currency
Bill in 1819, or his Tariff two years ago, or the
Catholic Emancipation Bill in 1829, or the No-
Confidence votes against former Governments to which
he was in opposition, or his most unconstitutional In-
come and Property-tax in 1842, or his Bank Charter
Renewal Bill of the present session—but by enlisting
the apprehensions of one class in aid of the desires of
another ; or by operating on the alarms of separate
sections of political opponents, through the argument
that the interests of each must be sacrificed to those of
another, unless the whole would consult their common
advantage by concurring in the propositions submitted
by him for their adoption ? In these puerile re-
proaches Sir ROBERT did injustice to himself, as the
Great Original Artificer of these successful amalga-
mations of heterogeneous materials of hostile action
into one mass of flexible supporters. He had already
worked Protestants and Dissenters, Calvinists and
Roman Catholics, manufacturers and farmers, opera-
tive labourers, and master millowners, Radicals and
Tories, bankers and bullionists, debtors and creditors,
mortgagees and mortgagors, into a concordia discors
on the above-named occasions, and as often on others
as occasion required. Why should ha quarrel with
Mr. PHILIP MILES for doing a little kneading of the
same kind, on his own account ; and flavouring with
the sugar of our West Indian colonists the corn pro-
duced here by British growers ?
Sir ROBERT PEEL, moreover, talked on Monday
night as if it were in the mature of mere factious ob-
struction to Ministers of the Crown, to propose amend-
ments on fiscal regulations which those Ministers, " in
the exercise of their highest duty," and with the ad-
vantage of all the official informatiol in existence on
the subject before them—had, after mature and an-
xious deliberation, recommended to Parliament for
adoption. But this notion is grounded on a mere
childish absurdity of assumption ; namely, that the
Ministers of the Crown must necessarily have mas-
tered the zo,ble bearings of such official information ;
and, by a species of patent infallibility, have arrived
at the soundest possible conclusions upon it. But this
impatience on the part of the Premier of the exercise,
on the part of representatives of the people of that
which is—constitutionally and positively, net con-
ventionally, only—their first duty to their con-
stituents—is the most unreasonable, the most unlike
an English Statesman, we remember to have read of.
The fact seems to be that Sir ROBERT PEEL is so
spoiled with the success of his dictation in some recent
and memorable cases, that he anticipates, from the
House of Commons at large, the same blind, unrea-
soning deference which he habitually extracts from his
supporters within its walls, but which Mr. DISRAELI,
with equal spirit and emphasis, indignantly repudiated
for himself and the friends who usually vote with him.
The last and most commonplace artifice to which
the Premier resorted, whilst still under the influence
of his fears, and before the result of the incredible
division of Monday had re-assured him—was, the
threat of abandoning office if the House should ne-
gative the Government scale, and affirm that proposed
by Mr. MILES. We will not weaken the effect of the
manly and indignant castigation which this threat
received from Lord JOHN RUSSELL, who remarked
that such a process of attempted intimidation con-
sisted neither with the constitutional demeanour of a
Member of Parliament, nor the responsible position of a
Minister of the Crown—its obvious design being to deter
Members from the free and frank expression of their
opinions, by considerations extraneous to the merits
of the question really before them. But we would
remind Sir ROBERT PEEL himself, that he adopts the
surest means of losing his personal influence with the

late to succeed, and if the Emir has in Morocco all
I the influence he is supposed to possess, the difficulties
will be but adjourned."
In a letter dated Toulon, the 16th inst., we find,
the following intelligence
" The last letters from- the R est of Algeria do not commu-
nicate any new fact; but it would appear that the Govern-
ment has received some intelligence of interest, for last night
orders were received here to form a battalion of 700 men from
the 3d regiment of marine infantry, now in garrison, and to
embark them immediately. The preparations for the de-
parture of the squadron, under the orders of the Prince de
Joinville, are proceeding with all possible rapidity. It is an-
nounced that the Triton, the Jemmepes, and the Belle Poule
frigate will form part of the expedition,"
ln the Chamber of Deputies, on Wednesday, the
line of railway from Paris to Lyons gave rise to an
animated debate, one party contending that it should
run through the valley of the Seine, and the other
through that of the Yonne. The question, however,
was left open for discussion, and a vote was taken for
a grant of 71,000,000 f. to form the line.
On 'Wednesday morning, at eight o'clock, a
general assembly of the Cour Royale took place,
to deliberate on the rupture between the First Presi-
dent, Baron SEG UIER, and the members of the bar.
After a discussion, which lasted six hours, it was de-
cided that the twenty-one members of the Council of
Discipline, who all signed the letter addressed to M
SEGUIER, shall be cited befcre the Court on the Ist Of
July, to explain their conduct.

According to the National the Government are re-
solved to cancel the resolution of M. CREMIEUX, by
which Members of the Chambers are excluded from
all participation in the management of railroads, and
have for that purpose summoned all the absent Mem-
bers to Paris.

THE BOURSE THURSDAY, JUNE 20.
First highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five perCnits• ••• •• 122 15 .. 122 15 .. 122 10 .. 122 10
Four-and-a-half.... 113 25 .. 113 25 113 25 .. 113 25
Fourper Coats. ••. • • 108 20 .. 103 20 • • 103 20 • • 108 20
Three per Cents....• 82 60 .. 82 60 82 50 .. 82 60
Bank of France • 3070 • • 3090 • 3065 .• 3080
Lailltte Bank, I,ooof Sharesll3s • •1135 ..1132 50 • • 1132 50
5,000 f Sharesso9o • • 5090 ..5090 —5090
Belgian Bank.... •• •• •••• • • 660 .• 660 • • 660 •• 660 Belgian Fives, 1810
Spanish Active •.• ••• • • 30/ •• 31# • • 30i 31i
Threes •••••• • • • • 35 •• 35 - • :3.5 •• 35 Neapolitan... ...... • • 99 60 .. 99 60 99 63 . 99 GO
Roman •• • ••• 1041 .. 1045 .. 1045 .. 1041
• --

RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain •• .• •• •• .• 885 •• 885 .. 885 .. 885
Versailles, L 8....—. • • •
• •
• •
• • 246 25 .. 247 50 .. 248 25 . • 247 50
Rouen ....... . 982 50 .. 982 50 .. 980 ••
Rouen to Havre.. ...... • 765980
. • 765 •• 760 . • 760
Orleans • .. • ..23J . • 986 25 .. 98.5 .. 981
Strasburg to Bale 235 .. 235 .. 232 50 .. 232 50
Avignon to Marseilles...— 758 75 .. 758 75 .. 758 75 • 758 75
RAILWAY SHARES FOR 30rn JUNE.
St. Germain 892 50 .. 892 50 •. 892 50 •• 892 50
Versailles, MB-- . 376 25 .. 376 25 .. 376 25 .. 376 25
L.B .
Rouen •• • 980 .. 982 50 . 980 .. 962 50
Rouen to Havre.... •• •• • .•• 760 -• 761 25 .. 7:37 50 .• 757 50
Orleans ... 982 50 987 50 982 50 .• 937 50
Strasburg to Bale 235 .. 235 .. 231 25 232 50
Avignon to Marseilles— • . 762 50 .. 762 50 .. 760
•• 760

MONE Y AND COMMERCIAL NE WS.
CITY, QUAR7'ER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool, yesterday, were 5,000 to
6,000 bales.—The Share Market was not very active, but a
fair business was done, on the whole, at about the subjoined
prices :—Chester and • Birkenhead, 19d; Ditto,. and Dreg-
heda,.6s-1 ; Eastern Counties, Registered, 13A-; Glasgow and
Greenock, 11A; Grand-Junction, 219 ; Ditto,-New Quarters,
39k ; Great North of England, 102 ; Great Western, 121/ to
122; Ditto, Fifths, 224; Liverpool and Manchester, 109;
London and Birmingham, 218 ; Ditto and South-Western, 86 ;
Manchester and Birmingham, 57 ; Midland Counties, 93i 4;
Ditto, Fifths, 2L ; North Midland, 934 94; South-Eastern,
New, 11A 4. •

The trade in bark from New South Wales appears to be
growing into some importance. Recent advices give the fol
lowing statistics, in reference to the probable transactions of
the current season—say from October, 1843, to the same
month in this year—and state that, whereas in 1841-2, the
quantity of bark exported did not exceed 400 tons, it will
most likely reach to near 3,000 tons this • season. Of the•
great importance of this national product, and the necessity
of protecting its future growth, we trust that the Government
is fully aware ; the amount paid to the bark-strippers, and
others engaged in hutching, bagging, &c. will, upon 3,000
tons, be 9,0001., the freight to the shipowner in England
near 13,0001. It is not generally known that, highly as the
bark of Van Diemen's Land is esteemed in England, that of
Austria Felix is of a still superior quality.
The circulation and general return of the Bank of Eng-
land is from March 23 to the 15th inst., and the weekly
average, on a comparison, shows the following results :
Circulation, Last time
Now

THIS DAY'S NEWS.

Deposits, Now
Last time

66,000
13,483,000
13,345,000

Decrease .

138,000
Securities, Now
Last time 21,786,000

Increase

Bullion, Last time
Nov

We understand that Mr. Thomas Duncombe pre-
sented, this morning, to the High Bailiff of West-
minster a requisition, signed -by sev2ral hundred in-
habitant householders and electors of that city, in-
cluding twenty Members of Parliament, requesting
him to convene a public meeting of the inhabitants,
for the purpose of taking the present state of Ireland
into consideration, and of petitioning Parliament for
the immediate release of Daniel O'Connell, Esq.,
M.P., and the other State prisoners. The High
Bailiff acceded to the requisition, and appointed
Monday, July 1, for the meeting, which will be held
in Covent-garden, at one o'clock.

130,000
16,010,000
15,900,000

Increase

Decrease
The Banking deputation returned at a late hour yesterday
afternoon, from their interview with the Premier, having
-gained a point or two for the modification of the famous cur-
rency scheme on which Sir Robert Peel evidently not a little
plumes himself. As to such alterations as will make the Bill
what it ought to be, the banking fraternity have
quite given up the idea, and positively think themselves
fortunate in having obtained any alterations. They are not
to be quite so closely screwed down, it seems, in regard to
their issues of notes, as the average will be, on February,
March, and April last, and if they do not exceed the amount
apportioned to them on the monthly average, will not be
liable to the penalties at first intended to have been inflicted
,on a weekly excess, aiming at steadiness of currency indeed
with a vengeance, whereas the smallest tradesman can
scarcely average his assets on six months,' much less on six
days. The month of October next will be the period when
the new Bill comes into force. In the Savings Banks Bill
there have also been a few improvements. Rather more in-
terest is to be allowed than at first proposed, though the ne-
cessity for cutting down the present rate is not generally ac-
quiesced in.
The rising tendency of our Consol market is still the fea-
ture, as there is a dePided scarcity of stock ; otherwise the
amount of business done is not large. To-day the rates
are 98# to for the opening. Exchequer Bills have- been
steady at 735. to 755., and India Bonds at 945. to 955.
premium. Bank Stock is firmer, viz., 198 to 4. The Reduced
Phreeand-a-Half per Cents. realise 1024 to 47 and the Three
per Cents. 99i to 4.
The speculators in Spanish Bonds are again rather encou-
raged by the tenor of to-day's advices from Madrid, as to
Mon's financial arrangements. The Three par Cents. have
been 34i to 35, and are row 35* to The Actives have
realised 231, and the Passives sa. Colombian look better,
also, at 31i to 4 ; and Brazilian are 82. Dutch Two-an&a-
Half per Cents. obtain 614 to 62. Nothing has been done
in Mexican or Portuguese.
The Share Market presents a blank appearance. Birming-
ham are a shade lower, South-Eastern are rather better, and
the others generally firm. French look more buoyant.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)

Bank Stock -
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
99%84
W%
3% per Cent. Reduced Annuities
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2 •/-16%
Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859
India Bonds,l,ooo
95
Ditto under 1,000
Consols for Account DB%%
Exchequer Bills, I%d. I%d
1 0001. — 75 pm.
boor— ...ea" 75 pm.
Ditto Small ... ....... .. 75 pm.
Ditto Advertised
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Columbian Bonds. ll%
Danish Bonds, 1825,3 per Cent. E9
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent llB%
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1810 —
Ditto for the Account. 23%
Ditto Passive Bonds.
Ditto Three per Cent. ........ ..•..... ....... ..•.....••
Ditto for the Account
Dutch 2% per Cents 61% 62
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHAM
Birmingham and Gloucester
Dublin and Cashel - 2%
Eastern Counties ........* **ll/. 0.. ... ..... 23
Ditto New Registered fl. Ad.
Great North of England
Great Western
to
Ditto 34 Shares
Ditto Fifths l2 224 to
Hull and Selby
Ditto U Share •
London and Birmingham. lOO 215%
London and Brighton 5O 4fiX
London and Greenwich
London and South Wesitern ...... 41%
Midland Counties
South Eastern and Dover 32% 3'l 4
Yarmouth and Norwich
Ditto Scarboro' Branch
Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux... 1 ... ...... 2% 4
Paris and Orleans 2O ....... 38%% to
... to
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, Juxa 20.
3 per Cent. Consols 98%
Three and a Half Stock ......
Ditto New, 1830 lO2
3% per Cent. Debentures 91%
Grand Canal Stock l3
Grand Canal Debentures, 6 per Cent.
LAST PRICES OF SHARES.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
.
Dublin and K. Road
Drogheda 55 a/r;
Dublin and Cashel ditto
Hibernian Bank 25
Royal Bank
National Insurance 25 76
Patriotic ditto
Wicklow Copper Mines
City of Dublin Steam Company
Steam Ship Building Company
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 21.—We report
a slight improvement in our prices to-dav, and rather more
business doing. Dublin and Drogheda, 65; Grand Junction
Half Shares, 1091; Great Western, 121}; Hull and Selby,
Quarters, 1111; Manchester and Leeds, 106 ; Paris and Rouen,
38; Trent Valley, 8. -

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)
TIIE BARON DE BODE V. THE QUEEN ON A PETITION OF

The examination of witnesses in support of the Baron de
Bode's claim was resumed this morning. The case of the
claimant was not concluded when we went to press.

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RAILWAY RETURNS.
We extract from the Railway Magazine the stuns
received on the principal Railways of Great Britain for
the week ending on the day of the month prefixed to
each. The return includes the money received for
passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and mer
chandise:--
ended Name of Railway.
June 15 Arbroath and Forfar
15 Birmingham and Derby Junction
14 Birmingham and Gloucester
15 Brandling Junction
14 Chester and Birkenhead ....
13 Dublin and Drogheda.
Dublin and Kingstown 16 Dundee and Arbroath 272 17 101
15 Durham and Sunderland 279 14 10
15 Edinburgh and Glasgow 2,170 10.11
16 Eastern Counties and North Eastern 4,463 18 1
. 15 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr 1,465 14 11
15 Glasgow and Greenock 955 10 6
15 Grand Junction 9,152 15 4
15 Great North of England 1,432 6 • 8
16 Great Western
Liverpool- and Manchester
15 London and Birmingham
16 London and Blackwall 1,555 17 5
15 London and Brighton
18 London and Croydon
20 London and Greenwich 894 1 0
16 London and South Western .......
13 Manchester, Bolton and Bury 723 12 2
15 Manchester and Birmingham 3,299 3 4
• 15 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc 6,879 13 6
15 Midland Counties
15 Newcastle and Carlisle 1,702 . 7 0
16 Newcastle and North Shields - 330 14 7
15 North Midland
14 North Union and Bolton and Preston 1,428 19 6
11 Paris, Corbeil. and Orleans
17 Paris and Rouen - . 6,282 8 0
15 Preston and Wyre 4lB 8 9
15 Sheffield and Manchester 572 18 0
20 South Eastern
15 Taff Yale . 781 11 5
16 Ulster
483 16 0
6 Yarmouth and Norwich .......__ -- - -

Total
£. 8,
144 2

1,397 3 5
' 2,318 11 5
649 19 2
505 4 8
631 8 4

onvich ........ ......... 356 17 1
5 York and North Midland ......... 1,723 17 6

A BIRD'S•NEST IN A LETTER•ROX.—A small bird
has built its nest, and at the present time has young ones,
in the letter-box in the gate at the residence of Mr. J. T.
Leader, M.P., at Putney; and, what is still more singular,
this is the fourth season that the same bird, or one of the
same species (tom-tit), has built its nest and reared its young
in the same place.
SETTLING WITH A CREDITOR.-011 Saturday, about
two o'clock, while ?L Schnell, who lived in a country-house
at Louvecienes, near Bougival, on the road to St. Germain,
was walking in his grounds, he was accosted by a person to
whom he had formerly lent 25,000 francs, demanding
another loan. As M. Schnell had not seen his debtor for
sixteen years, and the money remained unpaid, he peremp-
torily refused compliance, making some remonstrances
against the he had reeived. Uon ths th ap• plicant drewtreatment out a pair of pistols,c and said p,
" Wei wille soon
settle the account—take your stand ;" and offered M. Schnell
one of the weapons. He, however, refused this challenge,
and held up his hand to some men who were mowing in his
park, calling them .to his assistance. Upon this the man
tired at M. Schnell one of the pistols, the bullet from which
entered his back and lodged there; with the other pistol the
assassin blew out his own brains. M. Schnell was not
dead yesterday, hut lay in a dangerous state.—Galignani.
WILTSHIRE.—We have now lying before us a list
containing the names of eighteen men, living in one parish,
with wives and families, varying in number from one to
seven, each family averaging six individuals, and whose
wages amount in no case to above 75., but which descend as
' low as ss. a-week! Where such destitution exists meetings
of, the distressed to tell their griefs, and to. compare .notes,
are important. Such meetings will increase. We trust their
importance will not be overlooked. "A stitch in time saves
nine" is a homely saying, but a true one.— Wiltshire lade-
pendent.
•
PROTECTION OF THE DUKE OF. YORK'S MONUMENT.
--It appears that electrical rods have been placed from the
base to the summit of the Duke of York's pillar to bring down
the lightning. When, ask certain creditors, is it intended
on the part of his Royal Highness to bring down the dust?—
Punch.

A FRENCH. Bur.L.—A quarrel happening: between
an old. gentleman and , his, son, the former reproached the
young man for his ingratitude. "I am under no obligation
to you," said the youth : "on the contrary, you have done
me a serious injury : for if you had never been born, I should
now have been heir to my grandfather."