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London, England, 1844-10-30 00:00:00

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THE FUNDS-(C

OSING PRICES).
FUNDS.

BRITIS H
Back Stock ex thy. 203
9 per Cent. Red ......... 99%
3 per Cent. Cone. ..... 100
3% per Cent. Red
New 31,( per Cent lOl%
New 5 per Cent —
Long Annuities to expire

DitioßOn—ds £l,OOO pm.
Ditto under £l,OOO a 94, pm.
(South Sea Stock

Ditto Old Annuities ... 77,

Ditto New Annuities 98%
Es. Bills, 1,0001. I%d 6l pui.
Ditto 5001
Ditto 5ma11........- 72 pm.
Bank Stock for Acct —

Jan .11 15-16
Oct. 1859............... 11 13-16
Jan. 1860......... 121,4

Consols for AcL lOO
India Stock for Acct —

Indian Stock.-- .......... „::
FOREIG

FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per Cent —
Belgian, 5 per Cent
BrAzilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres, 6 per
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent
per Cent .....
Colombian, 6 per Cent
Danish, 3 per Cent ......
Week. 15..5, 5 per Cent —
Mexican, 5 per Cent ..... 3134
Neapolitan Bonds, 5 per Ct —
Prussian Bonds. 4 per Cent —
Pr, uvian Bonds, 6 per Ct —
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Ct —

Russian.„ 5 per Cent
Ditto, metallic •••••• ****** •••••••
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ipaniih, 5 per Cent., 1849 21%
ilitto, 1841 ........
Ditto, 1842
Ditto, 1843...............« —
Ditto, 1841
, Ditto, 3 pet Cent
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Ct
French, 5 per —t —c.
Eachange
French, 3 per Cent —r.
Dutch, 2% per Cent ..
Jitto,:s per Cent UB%

SHARES

Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid)
Churnet Valley, 2 paid
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid
Great Western (75 paid)
Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid B5
Liverpool and Manchester, 100 paid —
Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid
London and Brighton (5o paid)
London and Greenwich (M. Us. 4d. paid) 9%
Londoe and South Western (411. 6s. 10d. paid) 74
London and York, 2% paid 3%
Lynn and Ely, IIA paid
Manchester and Birmingham
Norwich and Brandon, 6 paid ........ ....... ....
Ditto, New Shares ..... ....... ........... ..... ..
Yolk and North Midland (50 paid) lO%
Ditto Half Shares (25 paid)
Central of France, 2 paid
Ditto Constituted 9%
Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, 1 paid

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—The English, as contrasted with the
French press, and the pet qualities with John Bull,
for a " leading journal," have been humorously de-
scribed (as our readers may have seen in our columns)
by a weekly Contemporary. They correspond to
party weak and partly strong points of the English
mind, and may be pretty well comprised under the
two heads of the Sea-saw and the Fault-find.
Nothing can tend more to suicide in this immi-
nent month of November, than the contemplation
—not of "London's column"—for that the cirium
largitas has now rendered anti-suicidal---but of Lon-
don's columns. As we run our eyes down them,
what do we see, but now a violent attack upon a pasty
of country gentlemen, met for the innocent purpose
of eating and drinking and improving the condition
of the poor—now " dreadful doings" in a union
workhouse, and then an ,elaborate exposure of prison
discipline, lunatic asylums, and the Dean and Chapter
of St. Paul's. A little lower down we have a letter
from a poor old woman who has been run over by an
iron hoop—or a gentleman complains that his peace
of mind is disturbed by the matutinal beating of
mats at house doors—or some unfortunate person h s
strayed into Mr. Close's church at Cheltenham, and
seen that gentleman turning in his devotions towards
all quarters of the compass but the East, when straight-
ways ho rushes to pen and ink, and unbosoms his sor-
rows to the Times, knowing full well the condolement
he will meet with in that quarter. There never was a
piper which had so many unhappy correspondents as
that journal. All its "old subscribers" and "constant
readers" are the ino,t melancholy race of beings in
existence, fit only for the company of Mr. Croaker,
in the Gaodnatured Man. If we are to: believe tl em
all, society would, indeed, be in an awful state. '1 he
least crimes that we have to reproach ourselves with
appear to be irreligion, avarice, cruelty, oppression,
injustice ; and how Heaven has spared us so long, and
still continues to spare us, is really a matter of won-
der. We certainly must be in a very deplorable
condition ; but there is one pleasing reflection left to
console us, and that is, that if the world is " out of
joint" (as it would undoubtedly seem to be), there
is one at last born to " set it right." We presume it
is because the Herald (as Punch lately affirmed) is
not it newspaper, that it no longer follows, even at
humble distance, this Flagellant procesion. In c.Ji-
sequence' we suppose, of having ceased to have any-
thing to do with journalism, how cheerful and con-
tented the Standard and Herald are, and have been
for some years past! Everything with them is
couleur de rose since the Tories have been in. We
have, as they assure us, the best of all possible Minis-
tries, the wisest magistrates, the most enlightened
country gentlemen, the most exemplary Bishops
—in short, everything to please us, and nothing to
complain of, if it be not a plethory of riches, anal
a superabundance of physical comforts. They know
nothing of harsh poor-laws, oppressive guar-
dians, disorderly prisons, and ill-conducted lu-
natic asylums—nothing of the long train of evils
on which the Times is for ever dwelling. Their
friends are never run over by iron hoops, besprinkled
by the twirling of a mop, or driven to madness by the
conduct of unfeeling housemaids and the beating of
mats ; no, these misfortunes they escape, and all their
clergymen, we have no doubt, turn the right way.
There are classes which must make up their minds to
be treated as ferce naturce by the small print " pro-
riders" to the lion's mouth of leading journalism
Amongst these may be reckoned Low Church Bishops
or Archbishops, Deans and Chapters, Poor-1s w
Commissioners and Guardians—and, it would Seem
also, Wesleyan Missionaries. These, like the rest of
animated nature, have particular descriptions of vermin
which prey on each ; and which, in journalist entomo-
logy, are classified under appropriate appellations—as
" Catholicus," "Churchman, "Master ofArts,""Rate-
payer," &c. &c. There are individuals, however, of
more sensitive minds than can be supposed in any of
the above categories ; who are not class hardeeed
against censure ; and to whom the position of dangling
gibbetted in the columns of the Times (for example)
is truly formidable. We would venture, therefore,
to recommend (except, of course, in the case of pre •
lutes or poor-law guardians) that such individuals
should be spared from figuring in this way, when
milder treatment might be sufficient; and that, as
our leading Contemporary has a giant's strength, so
it should exercise that strength with the bonhommie
which, notwithstanding the dreadful apprehensions
we were taught to entertain in our nurseries, we
have every reason to regard as rather a giant-like
characteristic.
STANDARD.—The Soult• Guizot Ministry has
completed the fourth year of its existence. It would
be no novel remark, either in the way of wonderment
or praise, to say that the present French Cabinet is
the longest in duration of any that has been finatied
eince 1830. Such compliment was paid to the states-
men composing this Administration last year, and
even with no slight emphasis the year preceding.
But we can -ay now, confidently, that which, at
the periods referred to, we could only utter in
hope, that we see no likelihood of chancre,
within any given period of time, so far as we may
be allowed to look tOrward to, without being open to
the charge of rash speculation in the composition
of the administration of France. Our hope in
the stability of the French Cabinet rests upon
three distinct grounds Firstly, upon the policy
which they are engaged in perfecting ; secondly,
upon the success which has hitherto crowned their
measures ; and, thirdly, upon the character of
the statesmen who tom the Administration.
The policy which actuates the Statesmen, in
whose hands are the destinies of France, has lately
received an exposition from the mouth of his Majesty
Louis Philippe, in his replies to the addresses ficen
Portsmouth, London, and Dover. It is peace with
Europe, guaranteed by the cordial understanding of
Great Britain and France, and we need hardly ad.!,
that so long as the two great Constitutional Govern-
ments of the west are united, war in Europe is impoe•
Bible. We believe that the sentiment of peace is in the
hearts of the great majority of the French people, as
we know it to animate those of our own. We be-
lieve so, because we see the people of France in a state
of unexampled prosperity. We believe it, because the
whole country is in such a state of repose, that vie
have almost forgotten that there were such things as
emeutes, that previous to the accession of the present
Ministry were the familiar expression of ceaseless
discontents. And we believe it the more firmly, be-
cause we see France, through the enterprising spirit of
her Government, entering that wide field of com-
mercial exertion, abroad and at home, which, inde-
pendently of the creation of bonds of interest anal
friendship with other nations, and our own especially,
affords an outlet for the restless activity of a viva-
cious people, in a manner free, healthy, cheerful, anal
halm, different from the mad stimulants of laver and
invasion, because constant and continual and ever re-
warding. We place in the next degree of order the
history of the measures of the administration, because
the great policy of the day has only been approached
through difficulties the most complex and disheart-
ening. We think it a grateful pleasure to stand upon
the hill, and at the one view look back upon the path
we have laboriously trodden, while at the same tin.e
we command the promised land. Having thus ;
enjoyed ourselves, el e may, if we please, once more
toil through the detail of differences, such as we
trust
we shall never have to encounter in reality
again. The history of the past four years is one of
immortalhwonasourtol.
summoned (.lufro izot and his colleague`Then he s.
his ambassadorship
of London to take the hmelm, he found the
Anglo-French alliance broken,u,F:rce regarding
England Lord' as incarnated in
airsmerstr, and
consequently all that Lord Parlmetu
Guizot, with his happy art of characnterls:isin g a
Ai.
situation, pronounced the word isolation. This
word England blamed and could not understand. But
it expressed the feelings of France, and satisfied them.
With the accession of Sir Robert Peel that isola-
tion began to thaw; the two Governments quictdy
unelerstood each other. When men at both sides
are enimated by good intentions, and possess
frank jxanners, with clear heads, they soon sp alc

out without fear or equivocation ; and M. Guizot
again, by a happy phrase, " cordial understanding,"
hit the mean between suspicious reserve and full alli-
ance. In France this phrase, entente cordiale, has
been attacked right and left. We think late events
have tested its propriety. Cordial understanding
means goodwill, or the disposition to treat in the best
temper, and with the best spirit, such incidents as
might, in the case of mutual irritation or suspicion,
lead to hostile results. Now, suppose that in the late
complicated questions of Otaheite and Morocco, there
existed at either side a predisposition to take offence,
and having taken offence, to demand unwarrantable
satisfaction, could those questions have been resolved
as they have been ? If neither Otaheite nor Morocco
leaf to war, we thank the entente cordiale, uttered
a year ago, in that foreseeing spirit, and with that
pregnant meaning, such as only men of the first
order of genius can give to expression. The
journals at this side of the water, who at the fir.,t
blush of the matter fulminated threats about
Tahiti and declared war about Morocco, were cer-
tainly not among those who understood the enten to
cordiale as the resumed exposition of a grand policy, to
which England and France were equally parties. We
now enter, we do believe, upon a third phase of policy,
in which cordial understanding will be changed for
cnrdial alliance. 'We have no doubt that Louis Phi-
lippe will, with that fearless frankness exhibited
so lately in his replies while in th country, call
upon the Chambers to rebate and ratify the policy
adhered to by his Government; and that it will be
the glory of the Soult-Guizot Administration to have
consummated the great scheme of turning the
critical point at which France, abandoning the
spirit of war invasion for mere war's sake, shall
adopt the ideas, already established in England,
of civilisation through free institutions, with
honourable labour and commercial enterprise. The
third ground of our hope is the character of
the statesmen who form the Administration. They
are a united Cabinet; they have long toiled together;
they have battled and they have won ; they have en-
dured no shameful defeats ; and they Each stand per-
sonally high. While all hale been victorious, each
has had his individual triumphs. Marshal Soult is a
great administrator; by his hands the army has been
reorganised. Of M. Guizot less may be said than of
another man, for his fame is European. M. Duchatel,
the Minister of tne Interior, is distinguished for the
solidity of his understanding, and is every day rising
in debating qualities. M. de Villemain is an accom-
plished debater of the very first class ; upon him has
devolved the delicate task of upholding the independ-
ence of the University, without lessening the just
authority of the clergy in the eyes of the people. The
Minister of Finance, the Minister of Public Works, and
the Minister of Justice, have severally distinguished
themselves in their departments. To such men the Op-
position have none of any weight to oppose, but them
the Opposition are split into factious sections, soldere d
together for the moment, and for a temporary pur-
pose, while the Cabinet are united heart and hand.
It was owing to this conscious inferiority of talent,
to the impossibility of finding a man capable of
combatting M. Guizot, that they, resorted last
session to the disgraceful attempt to cry him
down, and :only afforded their mighty antagoni-t
an occasion for covering himself with fresh glory,
as a man whose courage was equal to his unrivalled
oratory. Thus, whether we look to the mission of the
Cabinet, that mission of peace and civilisation to
which the King has attached the glory of his reign,
or take a retrospective view of the struggles and
triumphs of the administration ; or look at the men
themselves, individually or as a Government; or
rather when we take in the whole combination, no
matter how rapidly or crudely, we are forced to the
irresistible conclusion that the French cabinet giv,•s
more evidence of stability, with power to carry out
its views, than it did at any period during the four
previous years of its honourable existence.

STATE OF TRADE.—There is no change in cur
market this week. Yarn continues extremely scarce,
owing to the greater part of the spinners being under
contract, and prices are consequently buoyant. In goods
there is no great amount of business doing, bat pricts
are quite firm.—Manchester Guardian.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.
(From the London Neu, PI ice Current, Oct. 29.)

SUGAR.—To-day buyers of West India Sugar came
forward with more freedom, and for bright 3 ellow sorts
there was a good demand; indeed, the quantity on show
is not ample for the wants of the trade, and very full
rates were paid; in inferior kinds a fair business was
transacted, and generally upon former terms; but there
is still a large supply. The total purchases are 500 hhds,
&c., including a public sale of 144 hhds 6 lava of Baibadoes
Sugar. which went upon former terms, excepting for the
low sorts, which are rather cheaper, the whole found
purchasers, fine selling at 62s sd, good 59s to 60s
good middling 57s to 58s 6d, middling 56s to 56s 6(1, and
low middling 55s to 55s 6d per cwt. The Sugar on show
is that principally worth from 53s to 57s 6d. Raw Sugar
is cheaper than at Liverpool, Bristol, or Glasgow, by 2i
to 5s per cwt.

REiINED.—To-day there was a good business trans-
ac ed in Refined Sugar for home consumption; brown
grocery lumps fetched 725, and standard lumps 73s per
cwt. Bonded crushed Sugar was much sought after,
and buyers were compelled to pay 28s 6d per cwt for
delivery. For Loaves an extensive demand has sprung
up, and the market has been nearly cleared, 400 hhds
have been sold, 101 b at 29s 6d per cwt.
Matinnius.—lmporters have shown firmness, and
the market has been sparingly supplied with all descrip-
tions : by private contract some parcels have been dis-
posed of upon former terms : at public sale 89 bags
were disposed of, middling yellow at 545, low Ms 6d,
mid brown 465, and very low black brown 39s per cwt.
The quantity remaining in first hands is reduced to
12,000 bags ; there has been one small arrival since this
day week. The stock is rather less than it was last year
at this period.
EAST INDIA.—This afternoon at public sale 2,296
bags of Bengal Sugar were offered, the principal por-
t-on consisted of grey brown and inferior yellow, they
went off with heaviness, and a part only sold at rather
lower rates, brown at 40s to 435, low and middling yel-
low 50s to 53s 6d, good middling 57s 6d, good grey
57s 6d to 58s 6d, low and mid 52s to 565, but the better
kinds fetched full rates, middling white 59s 6cl to 60s,
good mid and good 61s to 63s 6d, fine yellow Dobah 66s to
675, mid to good 61s to 645. Madras, 773 bags, duty paid,
and 1,344 bags, in bond, were offered at auction, the
former nearly all taken in, low brown 42s to 42s 6d,
washed 41s to 41s 6d, damp low to middling 42s to 445,
and good 47s to 51s ; the latter sold at lower rates, very
coin:non damaged dark brown at 13s 6d to 14s 6d, mill
17s to 19s, better quality 22s 6d to 30s, and good sound
bright yellow 30s per cwt. For public sale on Friday
8,100 bags of Bengal Sugar were declared, 1,500 (*)f
which consist of fine yellow chrystalised.
FOREIGN.—To-day there was no public sale of Foreign
Sugar, and little business was transacted privately, but
holders would not submit to lower rates. On 'Change
a floating cargo of 700 chests of white Bahia was sold,
deliverable here, at 22s 6d per cwt, being a full price.
MoLasse.s.—This afternoon, at public sale, 27 hhds of
Bengal Molasses, duty paid, were taken in at 21s, being
above the value, and 2 casks of Madras in bond at 7s 6d
per cwt. _ _ _

Cocoa.—This afternoon, 21 bags of Grenada Coeur,
at public sale, fetched 42s 6d per cat, for middling Red,
being the full value.

COFFEE.—The lower descriptions of West India Cof-
fee are abundant, and further reduced rates have been
accepted, still the trade purchased with caution ; for
the better kinds there are few orders, and prices are still
going down. To-day there was little inclination to
purchase Ceylon Coffee, and 50s ed to 51s per cwt
is the value of good ordinary. Mocha was in dull
demand, and 167 bales 10 cases at auction were
only partly sold at low rates—bold rather dull
greenish Mysore went at 38s to 40s 6d. yel-
lowish mixed 395, low broken 18s to 225, and sea
damaged 31s to 58s, middling small sound greenish
mixed with Mocha was taken in at 655, and good mil
greenish Mucha at 75s per cwt. The stock of West
India Coffee at this port is 147 casks less, but of barrels
and bags 3,143 more than last year at this time. Of
Mocha it is 890 bales, and of Ceylon 21,696 bags greater
than in 1843 at this period, but of other East India sorts
it is 15,576 bags less than at that time.

TEA.—'There has been more activity in the market
since this day week. Importers are less inclined to
realise, and none has been brought to public sale ; Con-
gou has been in good request but hollers are unable to
obtain any advance in prices; the rates previously
established are, however, sustained, large parcels
have been sold at 10d to 104 d for common,
and 10Id to lld per lb for good common. Of fine sorts
the supply at market is small, and they are held for stiff
rates. To-day several parcels of Tea were disposed of,
and at stiffer rates for the lower qualities. Common
sound Congou cash is with difficult to be purchased at
10d per lb ; common yellow leaf 'rwankay is fetching
Is lid to ls 2d per lb.
_

FamT.—To-day Currants met with increased atten-
tion and prices are firmer for Old, Zante and Cephalonia
fetching 41s to 42.1, Patras 42s to 44s—New Patras are
47s to 50s, and Zante 46s to 47s per cwt. Valentia
Raisins are much wanted, but there are at present none
in the market. Of Turkey Pulled Figs none are left in
first hands.

RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—There has been a
much better demand for Leeward Island Rum, and the
rates paid are rather above those formerly quoted —the
market for Jamaica has been quiet and only a limited
business has been transacted by shippers or the home
trade ; 100 puns have been sold at 4s to 4s 2d for fair
quality 30 to 32 per cent overproof. Demerara
quality selling at 3s 3d to 3s 6J. For Calcutta Rum
2s 3:1 proof has been refused for a large parcel. Prices
are fully supported for Brandy, and a good demand exists
at the following rates, viz. :—Cognac, best brands of the
vintage of 1838, hhds 5s Id, puns 4s Ild ; 1839, hhds
4810 d, puns 4s 8d ; 1840, hhds 4s 10d, puns 4s 8d ; 1841,
hhds 4s 9d, puns 4s 7d ; 1842, hhds 4s 6d, puns 4s 4d,
low 3s to 3s 3d, and middling 3s 4d to 3s 10d. Geneva
has been taken sparingly; export sort at is 9d to is 10d,
and fine for duty at 2s 6d to 3s 6d. Prices are still sup-
ported fur English Corn Spirits. To-day an increased
desire was shown to purchase Brandy, and large parcels
were, disposed of at firm rates, 4s 4d and 4s 6d paid for
Cognac best brands of the vintage of 1842.
Eastd India Rice was sought
some parcels were after, and
600 bags of Madras at auction of privately at full rates ;
sold, in consequence of ratheorn7lre however only partly
higher prices being asked—
I mid rather dusty
andand bra oketl went at Os 6d to 10s, low
se
ditto 9s to 9s 6d,damaged 55 to 8s 6d per cwt.