The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-18 00:00:00

Ming Ant,

LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1845.

not quite so ably yet still defendel by himself (Lord
BROVGIIA)1).
The Earl of ELLENBOROMII expressed his obligation
to the Duke of WELLINGTON and Lord BROIMHABL
The matter dropped and the Bill passed through
Committee.

The Property-tax Bill was read a second time, on the
understanding that a discussion should take place on the
third reading.

The House of Commons met at Twelve.
The amended report on the Railway Clauses Con-
solidation Bill was brought up.
On the 17th clause, giving certain powers to the
Admiralty to pull down railway works that obstructed
the navigation or defence of the coast,
Mr. Hewn moved, as an amendment, that the Admi-
ralty should go before the Parliamentary Committee of
Merits. On a division, however, the clause was rejected,
the numbers being—For the Amendment, 4 ; Against
it, 37 ;—Majority against it, 33.
The remainder of the clauses were agreed to, and the
Bill was ordered to be read a third time on Wednesday,
at twelve.
The report on the Land Clauses Consolidation Bill
was agreed to.
The Land Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Bill passed
through Committee, and the House adjourned to Five
o'clock. _ _ _

The Companies Clauses Consolidation Bill passed
hrough Committee, and their Lordships adjourned.

On the re-assembling of the House, the Jewish Relief
Bill was, on the motion of Sir R PEEL, read a first
time, and the second reading was axed for the 7th of
April
Lord ASHLEY postponed the second reading of his
Bill relating to labour in calico print-works until the 2d
of April.
The second reading of the Law of Settlement Amend-
ment Act was postponed to th• 14th of April.

The House of Lords met at Five o'Clock.
The Consolidated Fund Bill was read a third time and
passed.
The Earl of RADNOR introduced a Bill to amend the
Law of Bastardy.

Sir R. PEEL announced that the two first measures
relating to Ireland which he should bring forward were
those relating to the College of Maynooth and to Acade-
mical Education.
In answer to Mr. HASTIE,
Sir B. PEEL stated that the Government intended to
renew the Act for grinding corn in bond.

Mr. WA LEY gave notice of a motion on the subject
of opening Mr. DUNCOMBE'S letters for the first supply
day after Easter.
On the motion that the Speaker do leave the Chair to
go into Committee on the Customs' Bill,
Mr. W. MILES moved the following resolution as an
amendment—" That in the application of surplus revenue
towards relieving the burthens of the country, by reduc-
tion or remission of taxation, due regard should be had
to the necessity of affording relief to the agricultural in-
terest."

The motion having been seconded by Lord MARCH,
Sir JAMES GRAHAM addressed the House at considerable
length, and concluded by declaring his intention to op-
pose the motion.
Mr. NEWDIGATE, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, Mr. ESCOTT,
Lord WORSLEY, Mr. D'IsRAELT, and several other
Honourable Members then addressed the House, and
were followed by Sir ROBERT PEEL. The House
then divided, and the motion of Mr. MILES was re-
jected by a majority of 136.
The House then went into Committee on the Customs
Duties Act, and after several items had been agreed to,
the House adjourned at a Quarter-past Two o'clock.

tion of M. MURET DR BORT, that they will be signally
defeated. Theßureaux had elected a Committee to con-
sider and report on the Bill, and of the nine Members
chosen, only one M. DE TRACY was opposed to it. All
the rest were in favour of immediate conversion. The
Deputies appointed to form the Committee are MM.
PERIER (Ain), BENOIST, AGUES, FOULD, LESTIBOUDOIS,
BAUDE, RINCAU, RIHOUET, and DE TRACY. Several Mem-
bers, though formerly opposed to the measure,had come for-
war Ito support it. M. DELASSERT, one of that class
said the question must be settled one way or the other;
he thought the adoption of the proposition of M. Muasr
DE BORT would be desirable as regarded the country,
the Legislature, and even the holders of stock them-
selves : and he considered the present as fa-
vourable an opportunity of carrying the mea•
sure as any other. M. MORNY was against
the principle of conversion, but if it was to be
done at all, the sooner the better. The compromise had
been made between the Conservatives and the Opposition
on the Bill relative to voting in arrondissements, and
twenty-five francs of direct taxes, in place of fifty, as ori-
ginally proposed, had been fixed as the amount necessary
to give a vote. The Bureaux were also engaged in examin-
ing M. LEDRU ROLLIN'S proposition to abolish the pro-
perty qualification necessary to hold a seat in the
Chamber, and to allow a daily stipend to each De-
puty. It was energitically opposed in all the
bureaux, and eventually rejected, eight bureaux being
against it, and only one in its favour. A Committee
had been appointed to consider and report on the Bill
brought in by M. REMUSAT, relative to public function-
aries sitting in the Chamber. Five of the Members are
in its favour, and four against it. A motion was
also made by M. DE MONTLAVILLE for the
total abolition of the duty on newspapers, and,
after some discussion, referred to the Committee.
That Committee had proposed to reduce the present
duty to 4 centimes per sheet, for all journals and pe-
riodical publications appearing in the departments of the
Seine, the Seine-et-Marne, the Seine-et-Oise, and all
arrondissements containing a town of 50,000 souls ; and
to 3 centimes for all journals published elsewhere. This
proposition is generally opposed by the Paris journals.

England is called a free country. Liberal institutions
have been established for centuries, the law protects the
poor as well as the rich, a man's house is his castle,
justice is even-handed, the Habeas Corpus Act secures
all against imprisonment without trial ; these and twenty
other set phrases are constantly in the mouths of senators
and politicians, while in reality there is not a country in
the world where the eyes of justice are so open, where
the law-makers are so favoured and the poor are so utterly
destitute of protection. A certain class of senators
every session seem to exult and riot in discovering some
new scheme for improving public morality, while their
only object, if these contemptible beings have any object
at all, is to oppress the poor and the unrepresented.
The rage this session is to shut up all
public-houses on Sunday. Great numbers of
petitions have already been presented to this
effect, they are still pouring is, and come in such
numbers, and are presented by Members with such eager
zeal, that a stranger would suppose that drinking beer
on a Sunday is the most heinous crime. But even this
remedy is not enough. Sunday travelling by steam is
also to be put down ; and Mr. PLussrrau, on whose
shoulders the mantle of Sir ANDREW AGNEW has fallen,
is exerting himself to rival and even outstrip that Pha-
risaical and, happily, defunct legislator, in making in-
roads upon the established customs, the innocent amuse-
ments, and the only recreations of the poor. No opposi-
tion is made to to these wicked schemes. They evidently
come from high quarters—from the country clergy,
the squires, the justices of peace, and the selfish
landlords, who would not only monopolise wealth,
but happiness aad comfort. If a labouring man is not-
allowed to take refreshment on a Sunday—if he is not
to visit his friends, to spend the only day he has to him-
self in rational employment and amusement, what is he
to do Y Most of his class are without education, thanks
to our wealthy Church ! They have little enjoyment in
books, even if they can read ; they may go to Church,
hear a sermon from a Puseyite clergyman in a surplice,
listen to the prayer for the Church militant, and see
money collected while the offertory is recited, but what.
is to become of them afterwards ? Would it not be
better to chain them up at once, like wild beests, than
curtail—nay, destroy—every source of harmless gra-
tification, and render the Loan's day the moat mi-
serable day even of their painful week of labour ?
The Home Secretary, who is supposed to watch over the
morals of the community, has set his face against this
tyrannical interference, and some two years ago said he
saw no harm in taking cakes and ale at a road-side inn
on a Sunday forenoon ; but this session he is silent,
while these attempts are made to bring the lower classes
down to the very depths of degradation. The party,
too, he has to contend with are indefatigable—they are
also unscrupulous—they manufacture petitions, clothe
their wicked policy in the garb of religion, and by per-
severance may accomplish their object. Forgetting the
Divine doctrines of the Book which they constantly
hold up as the guide of their conduct, they neglect the
education of the poor, and trust only to punishments,
to coercive acts, to imprisonment, and death. Never
was any class of beings so cruelly treated as the poor
of England, by men who call themselves their re-
presentatives ; and no argument could be brought
forward by the Chartists, so strong and so irrefragable,
as this constant meddling with the rational amuse-
ments of the people, who have none to take their part.
Sir ANDREW AGNEW however has been defeated—nay,
disowned by his religious countrymen—the Member
for Kent and his bigoted colleagues may try to follow
is his footsteps, but if there is any spirit left in
Englishmen, or any virtuous spirit in the English
press, they also shall meet with the same just retribution.

THE BOURSE-,-SATURDAY, MARCH 15.
First Highest Lowest Last
Prim Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents ••• • • • 117 90 .. 116 .. 117 80 .. 117 80
Fours..•• •• .. 106 50 .• 106 50 106 50 .. 106 50
Three per Cents... •. 85 15 .• 85 15 .. 85 .. 85
New Loan .• •• 86 .. 86 10 .. 86 .. 86 10
Bank of France • • 8165 .4165 .•8160 ..3160
Belgian Bank..• • •• • • 652 50 .. 652 50 .. 652 50 .. 652 50
Belgian Fives, 1840 .•• • .. lO5 4 .. 105% .. 105 k .. 105%
1842 •••••••• 107 .• 107 .. 107 .. 107
Four.and.a-Half . 1034 .. 10331 .. 10331 .. 103%
Spanish Active .. •. • B9 .. 39 .. 38% • . 33%
Threes.. •• •• 4l .. 41 .. 41 .. 41
Passive .... •• .. ..
6%
Portuguese Five per Cents • • 69 .. 69 .. 69 .. 69
Somali ••• •• ..... 106 .. 106 .. 106 .. 106
RAILWAY SHARES.
Ver5a111e5,R.8.............630 .. 645 .. 630 .. 645
L.B. ••• • • ....... 395 .. 395 .. 395 .. 395
Rouen ....
Rouen to Havre 965 .. 975 .. 965 ~ 975
Orleans .• •• • • • l3OO —1320 ..1297 50 ..1315
Strasburg to 8a1e.... .. 337 50 .. 340 .. 336 55 .. 340
Avignon to Marseilles •• • —.1103 .. 1120 ..1100 ..1112
50
Bordeaux to Testa •• • •
Paris to Sceaux . • ....
RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, MARCH 16.
Versailles, R. 8.... ..... 630 .. 647 50 .. 630 .. 645
L. 8... •• • •
Rouen ••••• • • • • • ll3O ..1170 ..1150 ..1170 50
' Rouen to Havre .••• • • • .
Orleans -.....13(5 ..1320 ..1300 ..1320
Strasburg to Bale • • •....... 336 25 .. 340 .. 336 25 - 338 75
Avignon to Marseilles • • ....1100 ..1130 ..1100 ..1130

She NOBLE EARL also brought in a Bill to preen
the openißg of letters at the Post-office.

The Duke of BUCCLEUCH moved the appointment of a
Select Committee to consider the state of the Parochial
Schoolmasters of Scotland, which was agreed to.
In answer to a question of the Earl of Illwro, on the
subject of the publication by Government of the papers
of Captain Ross, relating to the recent Antarctic
Voyage of Discovery,
The Duke of WELLINGTON said he had not considered
the subject, but that the Government would be willing to
give the most complete information on the subject.
The House then went into Committee on the Deo-
dands Bill. While the Bill was in Committee, the Earl
of ELLENBOROUGH, in consequence of something that fell
from Lord. CAMPBELL, said that he was ready at any
moment to defend his conduct from the aspersions of any
man, great or small, noble or mean, who chose to attack
it, and that he only wished what had been said in his
ahseace might be repeated in his presence.
Lord BROUGHAM begged to assure the Noble Earl,
that whenever he had been assailed in his absence, he
had been defended by the Duke of WELLINGTON, and

The accounts from Zurich are to the 11th inst. On
that day the Diet was chiefly occupied with a debate on
a general amnesty for those engaged in the late disturb-
ances, when the question was referred to a Committee.
The Diet next entered upon the decree of Lucerne,
on the subject of the estates and property of the persons
involved in the late events ; but in each of these ques-
tions no decision could be come to for want of a sufficient
number of members, and there being no more business
before the Diet, it adjourned sine die.

According to the latest intelligence, all apprehensions
of civil war or any serious disturbance had ceased. The
cantons in general are too poor to maintain extraordi-
nary troops, and most of those raised for the occasion
have been disbanded. The disciples of the Jesuits, how-
ever, are still violent against the Protestants. The
New Zurich Gazitte publishes an account of
a review which took place at Fribourg, a
Catholic canton. The Chief Baillie addressed the
landsturm in a furious speech, in which he used the fol-
lowing words :—" Those who are not for the Jesuits are
against them and against holy religion ; the faithful who
meet such ought to rip them up and finish them, and
the Jesuit fathers accord to them absolution beforehand,
Berne wants to overthrow our churches, and Protestantise
Switzerland." The same journal contradicts the charge
against Berne and adds :—" The Catholic cantons most
ardent for civil war are beginning already to cool, be-
cause of the burden of supporting troops, which they
cannot afford to pay. It is on this account that the poor
little cantons of Schwytz, Uri, and Unterwalden, have
already shown a disposition to back out of the quarrel.
We now find that Lucerne, the foremost in the fight, is
in a similar predicament. The news from that canton is
to the 10th. At that time the troops were disbanding,
only four companies being retained both for town and
country. So drained had the State been that they were
obliged to have recourse to the issue of bonds. If the
Committee of the Diet only act with ordinary prudence
the thirst for civil war will expire of itself."

The American packet Hibernia arrived at Liverpool
yesterday morning. She brings New York papers to
the Ist March.
The Bill for the annexation of Texas was still under
consideration in the Senate. The New York Tribune,
a paper adverse to annexation, says :—" It is close
work," and expresses its fears that the decision of the
Senate will be adverse to the interests of peace and
freedom; adding :—" The Presicent elect is the master-
spirit of the Texas intrigue, and is concentrating his
immense power and patronage wholly on this point."
It seems to be the general opinion that the Oregon
Bill cannot pass the Senate without material amendment.
It appears that the British Government bas offered to
leave the matter relating to the possession of the Oregon
territory to the arbitration of any disinterested European
power, to be named by the United States. The Wash-
ington correspondent of the Tribune says :—" I believe
Oregon will be allowed to lie over another summer. The
Bill has answered its purpose by helping Texas through.
It is quite likely that the Bill to make States of lowa and
Florida will likewise fail for want of time."

Madrid Journals of the 9th have been received, but
they bring no news. On the preceding day the three per
Cents. were quoted at 35, and the Fives closed at 26k,
both at sixty days.

We learn from the Paris papers that a large majority
of the Chamber of Deputies are in favour of the imme-
diate conversion of the Five per Cent. Stock, and it is not
at all improbable, if the Ministry should resist the rno-

THE STJN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 161 ma.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
CITY, MONDAY EVIIING.

At the termination of business Consols were firra at 100 to
% for Account, and 993/4 % for Money. The premium on
Exchequer Bills remained as in the morning.
The Foreign Bonds varied but little. Spanish Five per
Cents were 30%; and the Three per Cents. were 405 % ;
Brazilian Old Bonds were 92 ; Portuguese Converted were
6814 ; and French Three per Cents. 84f. 75c., with the
Exchange at 25f. 80c.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been
these .—The Caledonian, 434 to 5%; Churnet Valley, 5 to
Eastern Counties, 81% to 73/4 ; Great Southern and
Western (Ireland) Extension, 5%; Great Western, 100 to
98%; Ditto, Fifths, 20 ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 30 ; London
and Birmingham, 134 to 133%; Ditto, Quarter, 29 ; New-
castle and Darlington, 23%; Armagh, IA ' • Great Grimsby
and Sheffield, % to 1% ; North Wales, 1; Scottish Midland,
1 ; Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 2% to 3 ; South-Eastern,
12 to % ; Ditto New, No. 2, 10 to 11%; Ditto, No. 3,6%;
Staines and Richmond, % ;South Wales, 3% • Trent Valley
Extension New, 16 ; Selby Extension, 123/4 ; Boulogne and
Amiens, 75/9 ; Great Northern of France, 1% ; Rouen and
Havre, 17 ; Aberdeen, % and Diss, Beccles, and Yar-
mouth% to 3/4 premium ; Blackwell have been 9 to 914
discount.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The cotton market at Liverpool on Saturday had a steady
appearance, and prices were firm. Speculators, however,
were the chief operators, the trade takiug but little. The
entire sales comprised 5,000 bales, of which full 3,000 were on
speculation.—Shares were largely dealt in, the most
fluctuation being in those reported on by the Board.
Aberdeen, 2% • Barnsley Junction, 7 ; Blackburn, Darwen,
and Bolton. 4 41,4 ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Chester
Junction, 834 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, New Shares,
in coln, 6%
3% ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 8% % ; Caledonian,
9 8% ; Cambridge and L
; Chester and Bir-
kenhead, ex div., 423/4 4414 ; Ditto, Half Shares, at 5
discount, ex div., 21 2214 ; Ditto, New Shares, at 33 dis-
count, 33% 353/4 ' • Chester and Holyhead, 8% ; Churnet
Valley, 63/4 %; Cork and Bandon, 4 ; Direct Northern,
4% 5% ; Dublin and Galway, 3 ; Dundalk and Enniskillen,
2% ; Eastern Counties, ex div.,2114 % ; Ditto, Perpetual,
No. 2, 114 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, ex div., 61% ; Edin-
burgh and Northern, 114 ; Ely and Bedford, 2% ;
Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 171/2 ; Grand Junction,
ex dm., 229% 230%; Ditto, Half Shares, ex div., 1141
11514 ; Ditto Quarter Shares, ex div., 453/4 ; Ditto,
Eighths, 19% 20; Lancaster and Carlisle, 35 ; Leds and
Thirsk, 43/4 ; Leeds and West Riding, 7% 7 1-3 ; Limerick
and Waterford, 4% ; Liverpool and Manchester, ex div.,
207 ; Ditto, New Shares, 38% ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and
Preston, 3/. 4s. 3/. ss. ; London and Birmingham, Quarter
Shares, 303/4 ; London and York, 3% ; Londonderry and
Enniskillen, 2 ; Manchester and Birmingham, ex div., 65 ;
Ditto, Quarter Shares, ex div., 12 11% ; Ditto, NTew Quarter
shares 51. ls. 3d. 51. premum ; Manchester and Buxton, 2%;
Manchester and Leeds, ex div., 144; Ditto, Half Shares,
ex div., 64 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, ex div., 17 ; Midland
Stock, ex div., 139% 140; Ditto, 40/. Shares, ex div.,
131/ %; Ditto, Birmingham and Derby, ex div., 105%
107%; Mulliligar and Athlone, 2% ; Newry and Ennis-
killen, 21. 1 ls. 6d. ; Oxford, Worcester, and Rugby, 3% ;
Sheffield and Manchester, ex int., 108 ; Ditto, Quarter
Shares, ex int., 13 13% ; Shrewsbury and Grand Junction,
734 % ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 3 ; Shrewsbury,
Wolverhampton, and Birmingham, 64 % ; South-Eastern,
ex new, 43 ; Ditto, New Shares, No. 3. 91,4 83/4 ; South
Wales, 6 ; York and North Midland, Half Shares, New, 14
15% ; Boulogne and Amiens (English), 1114 ; tNorthern
14
of France (English), 6% • Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux
(English), 1014 ; Paris and Lyons (French), 4 ; Paris and
Lyons (Ganneron's), 219 s 2/ 11a; Paris and Orleans, ex int.,
5i ; Paris and Rouen, ex div., 44% 44%; Paris and St.
Quentin, 21. 6s. ; Sambre and Meuse, 5%; Toulouse , Bor-
deaux, and Cette, 2/. 11s. ; Verona and Ancona, 213.:
The Public Securities have been firm to-day, the trans-
actions being limited. Consols have been 993/4 to par for
Transfer, and 1001/8 for Account. Exchequer-bills have been
655. to 675. premium, and East India Bonds, 72i. premium.
Bank Stock, for Account, is at 216.
The Foreign Investments appear to be rather fluctuating.
Spanish Five per Cents. are 30%, and the Three per Cents.
40% to %, being a alight improvement in the former. The
settlement is going off tolerably well. Portuguese Con-
verted Stock has been 6814 to 673/4, and the Old Bonds have
realised 87. Mexican Bonds have been 3614 to %, and the
Deferred 16% to 17. Buenos Ayres have been 4314. Russian
Stock is worth 117, Venezuela Deferred, 13%, and Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 63%•t0
The final arrangement of the Share Account occupies a
good deal of attention, and is a very heavy affair. High rates
of continuation have been paid, and prices generally look
buoyant, especially for South-Eastern, Brighton, Caledonian,
Cambridge and Lincoln, and Eastern Counties. The French
lines are not so active.

ONE
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
3 per Cent. Conscls
India Bonds, 1,0001
Ditto ander 1,0001... .
Bank Stock for Account...
Consols for Account..... ......
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., I%cl.
Ditto 5001. . . 67 65 pm. 65
Ditto Small
Ditto Advertised — pm.
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES,
Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent. 4314
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 ........ . 36%m%
Ditto. Account .....
Ditto, Deferred . . 16% 17
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent ... 87
Ditto, Converted
Ditto, Account E% 69
Russian Bonds .. se mpg 17
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840
Ditto Account
Ditto, Passive
Ditto, Deferred Stock. lB
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent —
Ditto, Deferred
Dutch, 2% per Cent .
0N63?0,5/S:
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 99 A
PRICES OF CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES PAID. AT O'CLOCK.
PR i-C—Es.
Aberdeen
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush l%
Birming. and Gloticesterloo 133
Ditto % Shares
Bri'ton, Lewes, & Hast. 10
Bristol and Exeter
Do. New .. . 2 ...... 61i'
Caledonian
Cambridge and Lincoln 1%...... 61/4 43/
Chester and Holyhead... 5
Chichester and Brighton 10 ...... 111 -
Chiirnet Valley
Cornwall ' 3 • 5A
•••
Diss, Beccles, Yarmouth 11,12 ......
Direct NOrthern ......... 21/2 ...... 4%%4%
Dublin and Galway..... 2% ...... 3
Eastern Counties ......... 25 ...... 211/2 2.1
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1....4/. 13s. 4d. ...... 1% ......
Eastern Union ............ 10 .. ... _
Ditto Extension ...... 1% ...... 33/41/4
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
El - and Bedford ...... ... 1 ...... 2%
Great Grimsby and Shef.
field
Great South. and West.
(Ireland)
Ditto •
Extension ...... 2% ..... 71/2
Great North of England..loo lB9
Ditto New 5 ...... 45
Great Western ......... ... 80 ......
Ditto % Shares .. . ...... .50
Ditto Fifths ........... 20 ...... 41
Lancaster and Carlisle... 15
London and Birminghm (Stock)... _
w...a11; ............. 71/
Do. New Thirds ...... 2 ...... 441
LoDndoo.
London and Brighton... 50
London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d. 1 Ali
nQaunardteßrisa. .....
London and S. Western 41/6s 10d 79
London and York ...... •• . 21/2•..... 31A% %
Manchester and Leeds... '73 144
Do. % Shares ......... 32
Manchester and Birmin. 40 64
Midland... .................. 100 1391/2 141 139...
Midland,Birm., Derby...loo lOB
Do. New ...............2 ...... 13% 14 131 A
Newcastle and Darling-
-24
Newcastle and Berwick 1% 14% 14
ton Junction ........ .... •••••• ..
North British ...........10
Do. New ............... 1
661/.4 66
North Kent ............... 23/4.. .. 358
/
North Wales .. ......... 114, •
Northern and Eastern... 45
Richmond and West End
Junction ............... 1
Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1
:sottish Midland
Shrews., Wolverhamp ,
Dudley, and Birm 21..... 5%5/13%%•-• ••
South Devon... 'lO ...... 18
South Eastern & Dover 3312 s 4d...43 444 43% 45
Do., No. 1 8
D0., No. 2.
Do., No. 3
Staines and Richmond... 1 ...... /X; „
South Wales ..... ..... ..... 2%...... 51 674 • '
Trent Valley 2
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 .. ••••
West Cornwall 11..... 4% •
York and North Midland 50
Do. Selby
Do. Extension
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens... 4 ...... 1114 %
Bordeaux, Toulouse. and
Cette
Great North. of France.. 4
Orleans and Vierzon ... 2 ...... 18
Orleans and Bordeaux... 2
t'aris & Lyons, Laffitte's 2
Paris and Lyons, Gan-
neron's,
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Strasbourg ... 2 ...... 23i% —
Rouen and Havre
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 15.—The sales
are :—Eastern Counties, 201,E ; Midland Railway Consols,
Preferential Stock, 3% ; Ditto, 40/. Shares, 13,
; Preston
and Wyre, 293/ ; South-Eastern. No. 3, 85
Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 8% A ; Blackburn,
ei ; Birkenhead,Darwen, and Bolton, 41/s ; Caledonian, 8% ; Cambridge and
Lincoln, 6 5% ; Churnet Valley, 6% ; Direct Northern, 4% ;
Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 33/4 ; Liverpool, Orms-
kirk, and Preston, 314 ; London and Worcester, Oxford and
Rugby, 3 15-16 ; London and York, 3%; Manchester and
Buxton, 1% ; Newark and Sheffield, 1% ; North Wales, 21,4 ;
Scottish Central, 4%; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction,
235. 9d. ; Shrewsbury and Grand Junction, 71/ ; Shrewsbury,
Wolverhampton, Dudley, &c., 6 ; Trent Valley, 16% ex new ;
West Yorkshire, 314 3-16 ; Great Northern of France
(English), 5% ; Lyons and Avignon (English), 2 13-16.
...—,—._
IV

CLOSING
PRICES.
100
72

871,E

30%
30.Y4

10%

7%

7%

178%

40
35
233%

31
7%

471/

2%4

2%

514
_....
45

13%
il/e,
14,
.6%

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, e regret to have to include in the obituary of
gallant officers, recently deceased, the name of Captain
Richard Spratt, late of H. M.'s 96th Regt. of Foot, who
died on Sunday last, the 9th inst., at the age of 55, after
an illness of a few months. Captain Spratt, who entered
the army in the year 1807, saw much service in the
West Indies in the early part of his military career, and
was present at the capture of Martinique in 1809, and
Guadeloupe in 1810, on which occasion he received the
most flattering testimonials to the gallantry of his con-
duct in the field from the different General Officers under
whom he fought ; he subsequently served in Gibraltar, North
America, and the Bermudas. He was greatly and deservedly
esteemed by his brothers in arms ; and since his retirement
from active service, all with whom he had intercourse tes-
tify to his strict honour and uprightness of character, while
those who knew him in domestic life, lament the
.loss of the
Most exemplary husband and parent,..and the kludeat and
truest friend. —Na val an4l4lfilitary Gazette.