The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-20 00:00:00

AlitWin Cfllt

LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1844.

In the House of Lords, notice was given by Lord
CAMPBELL that he would move the second reading of
the Libel and Defamation Bill this day, in order to
refer it to a Select Committee.
On the motion of the Duke of RICHMOND the
" Gaming Transactions Witnesses Indemnity Bill"
was read a second time.
Lord BROUGHAM brought in a Bill to continue the
patent of Lord DUNDONALD, with regard to improve-
ments in steam-ships, for a further term of seven
years. He at the same time announced that it was
his intention to refer the Bill to a Committee of the
House, and in the event of the Committee being
satisfied with the evidence brought before it,

the House should address the Crown on the
subject, and the subject-matter being referred by
the Crown to the Judicial Committee of the Privy
Council, the Crown should be empowered to grant a
longer term. This to say the least, is a very round-
about way of doing business. The subject-matter
to use the Parliamentary phrase, is first brought be-
fore the Lords, then it is referred to a Committee ; next
to the QUEEN ; fourthly, to the Judicial Commi tee
of the Privy Council ; fifthly, again to the Crown ;
and after all, a doubt remained, whether the sub-
ject-matter should not also be referred to the other
House. To common people these Parliamentary
proceedings appear very absurd.
Lord CAMPBELL concurred in the Bill, and then
broached another subject for the Judicial Committee.
He thought the Council should have the power of
divorce a vincula main' inonii, which we translate a
simple divorce. By giving this power, he said, the
House would provide a remedy for the poor, which
could be had only by the rich.
The LORD CHANCELLOR was opposed to mixing up
questions so different in one motion, and recommended
Lord CAMPBELL to bring in a Bill on the subject of
divorce, and it should have his best consideration.
This is a happy intimation, and we hope Lord CAMP-
BELL will act upon it, for in all the glaring distinc-
tions between the laws for the rich and for the poor,
there is none so glaring as that on the right of
divorce.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE approved of the pro-
posed plan, because the law would be protective, not
to one class as now, but to the whole country.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE was opposed to the measure,
and, after some observations from Lord REDESDALE,
the Bill was laid on the table.

The Metropolitan Improvements Bill was passed.
In answer to a question from Lord RODEN, the
LORD CHANCELLOR said that the judgment of the
House in reference to Presbyterian Marriages in Ire-
land, would be given on Friday next.
Lord MONTEAGLE brought before the House the
importance of a railway to Holyhead. The Duke of

WELLINGTON fully concurred with the Noble Lord
in the importance of a speedy communication be-
tween England and Ireland, and said the Government
were anxious to do everything in their power to for-
ward the measure.

After some routine business the House adjourned.
In the Commons, after the presentation of peti-
tions, Mr. P. BORTHWICK gave notice that, in Com-
mittee on the Poor-laws, he would move clauses to
prevent the separation of man and wife above sixty
years of age, and for out-door relief in certain cases.

Mr. HUME gave notice, that he would this day
move for a return of the number of Custom-house
officers discharged on the discovery of the late frauds,
and the penalties recovered.

Mr. LABOUCHERE said he would, on Thursday
next, bring under the notice of the House the exist-
ing commercial treaties with Brazil.
In answer to a question from Mr. lIINDLEY, Sir
R. PEEL said he had not so much leisure to read the
newspapers as the Hon. Member, and had not seen a
paragraph which stated that the Queen of OTAHEITE,
had been deposed by the French Admiral.
Leave was given to bring in Bills for the forma-
tion of branch lines connected with the Manchester
and Leeds, and various other railways.

Mr. DUNCOMBE put a question to the ATTORNEY-
GENERAL with reference to political associations and
the press, but he got no satisfactory answer.
Mr. EL:PIIINSTONE put a somewhat similar question,
which met with the same fate. We cannot abridge
the report, and refer our readers to the fencing of the
ATTORNEY-GENERAL, which excited much merriment
on the Ministerial benches.

Mr. HORSMAN resumed the adjourned debate on
Ireland, and protested against the policy which her
MAJESTY'S Government had pursued towards that
country. He adverted with much effect, to the
anomalous proceedings of the Crown during the
State trials, to the present smothered hostility of
the Irish nation, and to the calamities which befal the
empire by refusing to treat the Sister Country as an
integral portion of the United Kingdom.
Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT, the Secretary of the Ad-
miralty, followed, and made a liberal and judicious
speech for a man in office. He thought the Catholic
clergy should be paid for educating the people. He
rejoiced to see the kind feeling which prevailed during
the whole debate towards the Catholics of Ireland;
and he believed he spoke the sentiments of the Go-
vernment, as well as his own, when he said they were
anxiously earnest, and at once, to effect the improve-
ment of their common country.
After a few words from Mr. SMYTHE, in favour of
conciliating the Irish nation, Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL,
one of the traversers, addressed the House, and was
listened to with much attention. He defended the
Irish Catholic clergy, and though a " convicted
conspirator," as he had been styled by some
Honourable Gentleman opposite, he would, before he
returned to Ireland to meet the vengeance of his pro-
secutors, announce that he would continue to exert
himself with more ardour and zeal than ever to incur
their vengeance still farther by serving his native
country. His speech altogether showed much spirit,
and, at the same time discretion, and evidently made
an impression on the House.

The great speech of the night was made by Mr. MAC-
AuLA Y. When on a fit subject, and in a happy mood,
he has no competitor in either House for eloquence
and effect. Last night he was fortunate in both, and
his powerful denouncement of the wrongs inflicted on
Ireland, and the unwise policy of the present rulers
towards that unhappy country, told with more than
ordinary force.

Sir Wm. FOLLETT tried what he could to turn the
tide in a different direction, but was unequal to the
task.

The debate was again adjourned, and the House
rose at a Quarter to One o'Clock.

Mr. MAcAuw's speech last night in the House of
Commons on the question of Ireland is one of the
most masterly—the most triumphant displays of min-
gled argument and eloquence that even he has ever
made. Tracing the sad and dark history of Irish
oppression from the earliest periods down to the pre-
sent day, he showed, beyond the power of refutation,
how much just cause of complaint the sister-country
has had for centuries against England; and how little
has been done by the PEEL Ministry—compared with
what ought to have been done—for the last three or
four years, to redress her undeniable grievances.
" As to your executive measures," said the Right
Hon. Gentleman, with indignant emphasis, " they are
all of the same sort—an increase of the number of
soldiers, and the erection of barracks." These, we
may just remark by the way, were always fa-
vourite expedients of the Tories—their panacea
for all sorts of national evils. Did the people,
goaded by famine and desperation, make loud
and fierce complaints against the Government, and
demand, as a matter of constitutional right, the at-
tention of Parliament to their case—the only satis-
faction they got from the Tory rulers of the day,
was a large increase of the standing army ? Did
they hold energetic public meetings, and express them-
selves at those meetings in a manner more remarkable
for its strength than its complaisance, they were re-
warded for their frank, plain-speaking by a barrack be-
ing instantly run up in every district where the people
had most distinguished themselves by their impassioned
sincerity ? No matter what might be the grievance,
the remedy was invariably the same. As Doctor
SANGRADO treated all maladies alike—and whether
_consumptive or
r
hypochondriacal—gouty or
phliesthpoartiioeitssan wereguine oolrd
ho;poyohn
ouongd
dyspeptic—put them all through a vigorous course of
bleeding and hot water; so our sapient Tory rulers
never resorted to any otherremedial process than that
of an increase of soldiers and a multiplication of bar
racks. And just as they acted years ago, they
still continue to act—at least as regards Ireland.
She complains of misgovernment, and by way of
doing away with her cause of complaint, the Irish
Executive accommodates her with a vast increase of
troops, repairs all the old, useless forts on the banks
of the Shannon, claps an extra sentinel at the Castle
gates, and sends a military force, without their
dinner, on a hurried expedition to Waterford ! And
thus acting, our sagacious rulers conceive that they
are laying the foundations of just and enlightened go-
vernment in the sister-country! Was ever
folly—
was ever infatuation equal to this ? Is it a Sir ROBERT
PEEL, or is it a doting purblind old woman that is at
the head of affairs ? We confess we are somewhat
puzzled to answer this question. The " voice is the
voice of JAcoB, but the hands are the hands of ESAU."

Mr. MACAULAY went on to remark—" And now fur
your future measures. 'With respect to your legisla-
tive ones, it is true you propose a Bill for the registra-

tion of Irish voters, coupled with an increase of the
franchise. But what the provisions of that measure are,
we cannot as yet foresee ; all we do know is, that the
subject is one on which it is impossible for you to legis-
late at once with credit toyourselves and with benefit to
the public ; all that we can say with confidence is,
that the measure must either be destructive to the re-
presentative principle in Ireland, or to the remnant of
your own character." This phrase " remnant" is
very felicitously applied. It is indeed but a " rem-
nant"—and that a miserably meagre and tattered one
—that Ministers have left of character. And yet
Sir ROBERT PEEL once took pride to himself in the
House of Commons, for being " clothed in the mantle
of his own integrity!" We should be sorry to hear of
him walking down Parliament-street clothed in no
more substantial raiment, for his appearance, under
such " untoward" circumstances would approximate
rather too closely to that of ADAM before the Fall,
when he walked abroad in all the beauty of unsophis-
ticated nature. Mr. MACAULAY closed by far the
most eloquent and impressive speech that has been
delivered this session, by some allusions to the Pro-
testant Church Establishment in Ireland is hich were
conspicuous not less by their point and cogency, than
by the sincere, manly, and enlightened spirit that per-
vaded them.

By the New York packet-ship Sheridan we have
received a report of the proceedings in the Senate, on
the 24th ult., in relation to a discussion incidentally
connected with the resolution proposed by a Mr.
SEMPLE, "to give Great Britain notice that the joint
occupancy of the Oregon territory shall terminate in
twelve months." The special debate of the 24th ult.,
in Committee of the whole House, on the state of the
Union," was on the resumed consideration of a report
made on the previous day from the Committee on
foreign Affairs, by a Mr. INGERSOLL, " declaring it
inexpedient for Congress at this time to act in any
manner on the subject." Any exhibition more un-

becoming the dignity of a deliberative body--any
expositions of principles more politically dishonest—
any aspirations at statesmanship more profoundly
contemptible than those elicited on this occasion, we
have never been called on to deprecate. The " Ore-
gon" is a question upon which it seems a canon of
Yankee patriotism that every good citizen of the
United States is bound to dement himself without
loss of time. It appears to be the touchstone of their
democratic nationality—the Shibboleth to determine
the purity of their jealous Anglophobia. In ap-
roaching it, the plain, matter-of-fact man of business,
and the ambitious high-flying republican, equally lose
sight of all outlying considerations touching the
relations of their country with our's, and the relative
authority, rank, and power of the two nations, on the
result of any comparison which can be instituted be-
tween them. They will challenge that comparison
spontaneously, and the amusing result they arrive at
is, that it is greatly in favour of their own federal
strength and grandeur ! The very terms of a notice
to such a Power as Great Britain, that the joint oc-
cupation of a certain territory by her subjects and
those of the United States, "shall terminate in twelve
months"-r--implying, of course, that the intentions or
views of Great Britain in such a matter would not
avail for one moment against the simple decree of
Mr. SEMPLE and his party—are a whimsical text
enough for any commentary. And, to be sure,
this absurdity was drawn out into some exquisite
fooling in the speeches of the Mr. OWEN and Mr.
WENTWORTH, who followed. But all the excitement
and vanity, the vaporing and folly (at which we
cannot but laugh in spite of our better judgment, on
account of their grotesque extravagances), do not
conceal, and are not even intended to conceal, the
rancorous hatred, the vindictive envy, the snarling
malice, with which these noisy " legislators" regard
the " supreme among the nations," from whence,
—after a fashion—their own people and institutions
have descended.
Here we have, for example, Mr. OWEN moving, by
way of amendment, the expediency of Congress
0 now" acting in the matter. He is pleased to
assume, when reminded that our Minister, Mr.
PACKENHAM, charged with the duty of treating on
this subject, had not yet arrived out in America,
" that no benefit could reasonably be expected to
result to that country from negotiation ;"—an
instructive specimen of legislative candour, and of a
dispassionate disposition to examine the question in
all its bearings with a statesmanlike absence of prepos-
session ! But he is not unprepared to meet the diffi-
culties that may arise out of such a course ;—not he !
" If," said he, "to give notice to Great Britain that
she could no longer occupy with us the valley of the
Columbia—if that were a cause of war, then war must
come ; it might come sooner, it might come later ; but
come it must at last."
And this sentiment is so present throughout the
whole of the exhibition made by Messrs. OWEN and
WENTWORTH., that we are compelled to notice and
reply to it. But let us first note a little more the
bellicose music of Mr. OWEN'S penny trumpet.
Having asked how England would check the emigra-
tion to Oregon ; whether she proposes to build along
the summit of the rocky mountain range " a Chinese
wall of demarcation," (!) and whether she
will say to the spirits of the western wilderness (i. e.
the intending .squatters), " thus far shall you go, and
no further ;" his impetuous oratory overleaps his
Anglo -Chinese -American masonry, and the heads of
his western wilderness worthies, at a bound. Under
a grand melo-dramatic access of sublimely confused
imagery, the wall changes successively into a moun-
tain eagle, a Sioux pony, and a wild goose ! Such, at
least, is our translation of what probably may be
current in the Union for genuine " States paper"
oratory; but which, " on this side the Atlantic," as
well as " of the Pacific" (to borrow Mr. OWEN'S
and rejected e cnt
noisy
s yb ourtwaddle
dd
Isec schoolboys,
o y s
ipohrr
thea s phraseology), l o
mostg3) ,
worthlessvldb e
at-
tempted to be palmed upon a credulous public :
would
" When they could control the mountain eagle in his
upward course to the sun ; when they could check the
wild horse of the prairie in his impetuous career ; when
they could quench in the bird of passage that instinct
which bids her up and away, then they might expect to
set mete or bound to the spirits of the West this side of
the Pacific."
Certainly, if these wilderness gentlemen can be
negotiated with only by parties pialified to fulfil such
conditions, Lord ABERDEEN must lose no time in
securing the taming powers of Mr. CROSS and Mr.
VAN AM:HAIGH'. And even then, the difficulties to
be encountered would not be mastered. It seems that
" a leading London journal (not a Ministerial organ,
however), had lately asserted that England was re-
solved to arm the Indian tribes in her cause." Where-
upon, exclaims the speaker—
" Let that threat be carried into effect. Let those
Indians be armed, let the first blood follow the blow of
the tomahawk, and would the people wait their tardy
legislation before they rushed to the rescue ? Let the
news of a massacre on the banks of the Columbia pass
over our land, and their armed occupation' project for
the protection of Oregon would be but an idle form. It
soon would be occupied—an armed occupation, too. By
whom ?"
Aye ! Now for it. The description is harrowing.
But first, like the most skilful orators of antiquity, he
tells us whom the dragon's-teeth crop will not fructify
into :

" They will not be smooth-chinned, nicely trimmed,
and uniformed cadets from West Point."
Alas for West Point ! Its little band of smooth-
chinned cadets are not destined to give it immortality
That lot is reserved for certain stalwart old back-
woodsmen of "rather" unsettled habits; and for a
goodly company of young fellows with similar va-
grant propensities, who must be, moreover, "lllor-
monites." For Mr. OWEN will not let them pass for
" fierce young hunters," only, " with musket and
belt," but he tells us they are also hunt-
ing up, like the new sectaries, the mystic
celebrities of the Old Testament. They are
"Nimrod hunters." Now if Nimrod was
" A mighty hunter, for his game was man,"

how much more intense must be the sport of these
squatters who are hunting NIMROD !
" But by veteran pioneers—men from whom old age,
though it whitened their locks, could not
steal their strength and fire ; by fierce young
hunters, who had heard the war-whoop in
their cradles, and who burned to avenge the death of
their fathers ; by parties of Nimrod hunters, who, with
their belt on their arm and their musket on the shoulder
feared nothing, white or black, in the shape of man."
At the close of this balderdash we find a Mr. C. J.
INGERSOLL reinforcing the eulogium of these won-
drous people, " fearing nothing white or black in the

shape of man," by ejaculating " (in his seat)—nor
of woman either." Whether this specimen of Yankee
chivalry was intendel as of general application to the
sex, or more personally to the authority and station
of an Illustrious Lady, we are not competent to de-
cide. In either case its delicacy and spirit are charm-

ing. But we eannot afford further space for sue'

truculent nonsense : though this bit, in which Mr
WENTwowrn is made the expounder of the intentions
of Providence, is too rich to be wholly omitted :

" No ! England had taken her last inch on this conti•.
nent ; in future, instead of gaining more, she might lose
what she had. She might think to get California, but
it was all a vain delusion. God (according to Mr. TV.)
had never made America to be the slave of Great Bri-
tain ; her last foot of territory was Canada, and that
would go by and by."
And again :
" All he wished was, that she would but once try to
get Oregon, and set oa her Indians upon our settlers.
She might meet with success for the first few years, but
there would come rushing over the rocky mountains
such a force as would drive her into the sea. Some
other Jackson would arise to defend the mouth of the
Oregon, as the first had defended the mouth of the Mis-
sissippi."

This last sentence, we believe, supplies the key to
the incessant tendency against which we have so
often to protest, of too many American legislators,
civilians, officers of both services, and editors of
public journals, to indulge in their offensive vitupe

ration of Great Britaini and their own still more

offensive self-glorification.

They persuade them-

selves, because—of the disgraceful misconduct or in-

capacity of some British commanding officers at the
affair of New Orleans, and the easy results which

their General JACKSON was allowed to realise of that

day of disastrous blundering, that laurels, thick as

bilberries, will fall to their share in any and every
future encounter w ith " the Britishers." They should
know better; and if the war for which they so in-
solently clamour do break out, we venture to
predict they will be taught better. It would
not even require the veteran and disciplined troops of
our regular army to read them this lesson. The
Canadian Militia discomfited in a few hours hundreds
of American military adventurers, who crossed the
border with a reputation formidable as that which the

Ambricari papers gave to their sympathizer-general
VAN RENSELAER ; and returned, after feats and defeats
of equal calibre with those of that wondrous Bobadil.
But there is a party in the United States who seem
determined to provoke a war—with our naval superio-
rity too ! The defenceless seaboard of the United
States, the exposed frontier of their great trading
capitals, the dismantled condition of their forts, would
give them pleasant odds in a contest which should sub-
ject them to the visits of our steam-navy ! Let the
United States undertake a war with Great Britain,
and it would require a century to retrieve the de-
struction of property, force and materiel, which, in a
single year, we should have visited on their coasts
from New York to the mouths of the Mississippi.

Most of the Paris papers publish the intelligence
brought by a merchant vessel from the Pacific, an-
nouncing the deposition of Queen POMARE, and the
occupation of Tahiti by Admiral DOPETIT THOUARS.
The news which appeared in The Sun on Monday, is
generally believed at Paris, and also generally ap-
proved of. Indeed, no other result could be expected.
It is the natural course of events. The savage race is
invariably overpowered by the civilised, or, as in
North America, retires like the wild beasts of the
field on the approach of man. The Journal des Debats
gives a long account of the affair in a letter from a
correspondent of the name of GossE. This writer
evidently attributes the quarrel to the intrigues of
Mr. PRITCHARD, the missionary, and the jealousy of
England ; but beyond the fact of the occupation of the
country, his remarks are entitled to little credit. The
letter concludes in the following pompous style :
" Queen Pomare has ceased to reign, and we now stand on
French soil. The flag of the English consulate was imme-
diately struck. A large number of natives had assembled
before the residence of Mr. Pritchard, who was haranguing
them with great vehemence ; his exhortations did not, how-
ever, appear to have much success. In the evening the town
had resumed its usual tranquillity ; the men smoked their
cigars with the same carelessness, and the women grinned
and showed their white teeth, as though they had not in the
morning been present at a revolution. The Governor-
General was installed on the Bth, and proclaimed the Council
of the Government, which was composed of M. D'Aubigny,
captain of the corvette, Lieut. Clon, and M. Moerenhout, ex-
C cnsul of France. A proclamation, addressed to the inhabi-
tants, assured them security for their persons and their pro-
perty, and the free exercise of their religious worship.
Papaiti is declared a free port ; no anchorage dues will be
claimed, nor any custom-house duties ; pilot dues will alone
be demanded. '['he French flag floats over this fine country,
which reminds one of the poetic descriptions of Bongainyille."
The Paris journals contain no news from Madrid,
and indeed for some time no intelligence from that
quarter worthy of credit mey be looked for, as the
Spanish Government has stopped all the private cor-
respondence with the Liberal papers. The French
funds remained stationary, the Three per Cents. being
quoted on Sunday at 82f. 40c.

The Judicial Committee of the Queen's Privy Counci
sat this morning, to hear appeals from the Colonies am
from the Prerogative Court. Lord Campbell, Mr. Pem•
berton Leigh, and other Lords, were present.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
A fair business was done in Cotton at Liverpool yesterday,
at previous rates. Speculators took 1,500 bales, the entire
sales consisting of 5,000 bales, viz.-30 Egyptian, at 70. ;
50 Bahia, at 61d. ; 50 Maranham. at 61d. to 64d. ; 300 Surat,
at 4d. to qd. ; and the rest American, at sid. to 64d. The
leading Railway Shares continued heavy, and there was not
much inquiry for the others. Grand Junction were 225 ;
Birmingham Quarter, 26/ ; Brighton, 43 ; South Western
Eighths, 311; Manchester and Birmingham, 401; North Mid-
land Thirds, 29 ; Paris and Lyons, 2/. 16s. 6d. ; Ditto and
Orleans, 321 ; South Eastern, 36 ; Ditto New, 361.
The additional advices received from the West Indies,
Canada, and the United States, do not contain any facts of
interest beyond those quoted in other columns of The Sun.
A good deal of business has been done this morning in the
Funds. The Commissioners bought 20,0001. Reduced Three
per Cents. at 98i, which is the present quotation. Consols
for Account are a shade lower than they were yesterday after..
noon. The heavy Stocks and Exchequer bills are in request.
For Bank Stock 195 has been again paid. That there will be
some concessions, though perhaps slight, in favour of the
Joint-Stock Banks on the renewal of the Charter of the
Bank of England appears to be rather certain, but it is
not thought that the main privileges of the Corporation will
be interfered with. It may be formed into a single Branch of
Issue.
The alterations in the Foreign Funds have been slight to-
day. Spanish Consols are at 234, Passive at 54 to 1, and the
Three per Cents. at 33. Portuguese Converted have varied
from 44i to 45k. DutchTwo-and-a-Half per Cents. have
been firm at 1021. Brazilian Stock has touched 80, but the
price now is 79*. The price of Colombian Stock is lower,
namely, at 131 to 131. Mexican Deferred have receded a
shade. In other Bonds there is not much variation to notice
this morning.
In the Railway Share market, with but a few exceptions,
prices have somewhat drooped.. York and North Midland
have advanced to 68 premium, York and North Midland at
154 premium, and Birmingham and Gloucester at 29 dis-
count. London Joint-Stock Bank Shares have been sold at
31 premium, and Real del Monte Unregistered Mining Shares
at 44 to 4a.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock
...195
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
rislx
3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities
3% per Cent. Reduced Annuities lO3 u 3
New 3% per Cent. Annuities 102% %
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan 1860 12% 13.16
Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859
South Sea Stock ... ....
Ditto New Annuities 96%
Bank Stock for Account
Consols for Account 97%%
Exchequer Bills, I%d. I%d
1 0001. 7l Pm.
sbo/. 7O — pm.
Ditto Small 70
Ditto Advertised es pm.
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Columbian Bonds., ' 13%%%
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. ...
Ditto for the Account :14%
Ditto Deferred Stock 12%%
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents.
Ditto for the Account 3O
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto Converted
Ditto for the Account
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent
Ditto for the Account 23%
Ditto Passive Bonds.
Ditto Three
,per Cent.
~.
Ditto for the Account
Dutch 2% per Cents sf.%li
Dutch 5 per Cents 102%
PRICES:OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAXS. PAID. PER SHARE
Birmingham and Derby.— ...... 100
Birmingham and Gloucester IOO
Eastern Counties
Ditto New 25 12%%... to
Ditto Extension l3s. 4d...... Mi.—. to
Great Western
Ditto Fifths
London and Brighton - ' Ni

..mghton 5O 42%. ... to
London and Birmingham Stock 230
..... to
Ditto X Shares... ............ ...... 2
London and Greenwich ....... ..... 12%
Manchester and Leeds 7O ll3 to
Midland Counties 100
Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 15
Morth Midland
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen
South Eastern and Dover
Ditto Scrip
York and North Midland
Ditto Scarboro' Branch
_ JOINT STOCK BANKS.

London Joint Stock
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 19.—We have
had a good market to-day in Eastern Counties and South
Eastern Railways at an advance of price. The sales are :
Eastern Counties, 144 ; Ditto New Registered, 121 ; Man-
chester and Birmingham, 40-1 ; South Eastern Scrip, 364 37 ;
Sheffield and Manchester Quarters, 7i.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, FEB. 20.—Wind N.W., moderate.
DEAL, FEB. 19.—Wind, S.W. to W.S.W.—And. British
Sovereign, Cow, Calcutta. Arrd. from the River, for London,
Freeman, Jamaica. It blew very hard at S.W. at 10 A.M.,
with very severe squalls. The outward-bound all rode well.
PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 19.—Wind W. to W.N.W., hard and
squally. Arrd. Pepita, Arotigue, from London, the master
having broken his leg. The Unity; of and for Rochester,
from St. Mawes, with oysters, was abandoned yesterday,
about twelve miles from St. Alban's, having sprung a leak.
PLYMOUTH, FEB. 19.—Wind W.N.W.—Arid. Star of the
West, Beaderick, Africa.
FALMOUTH, FEB. 19.—Wind, N.W.—The Superb, Young,
Shields to Algiers, put in here yesterday, leaky, pumps
choaked, and part of cargo thrown overboard.
BALLINA, FEB. 17.—The Brutus, Hutchins, of Padstow,
hence to London, got aground about half down the Channel
in putting to sea on the 15th, and remains.
GUERNSEY, FEB. 16.—The Francis Yates, collier, from
Rochester to this port, got in contact, on the 11th inst., off
Brighton, with a steamer, supposed to be bound to Liver-
pool, with some damage.
WELLS, FEB. 18.—A boat marked " Ann and Mary, of
Bremen, W. Kennedy," has been picked up here.
WATERFORD, FEB. 16.—The William Fisher, from Car-
diff,
twenty miles N.W. of the South Bishops, saw a long_
boat belonging to the Mannion, of Kincardine; on arriving.
here it was ascertained that three men had been taken out of
it, by the Rose, London.
CORK, FEB. 17.—Arrd. William Campbell, Clark, St. Kitts ;
Mars, Flasy, St. John's, New Brunswick. Off port, Rhode I
Island, New Orleans.
Hum., FEB. 19.—Wind S.W., strong breezes.—Acrd.
Effort, Wells, New York.
LIVERPOOL, FEB. 19.—Wind N. to W., moderate.--And.
Anglesea, Rowland, Manilla • Lebenside, M'Kechnie, Angra
Pequina, sailed 27th Dec., and St. Halena 7th ult. ; Kestrel,
Wise, Callao ; Tartar, Gordon, Macao ; Hope, Lester Dense-
rara ; Eleanor, M'Pherson, New Orleans; Friendship, bra.
per, Mytelene.
SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 17.—SId. Clyde steamer, W. Indies.

SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 19.—A signal gun at eight
o'clock this morning announced the arrival of the Royal
West India mail-packet the Tay, at her moorings in the river,
as also of the arrival of the Oriental Company's packet, Lady
Mary Wood, from Gibraltar. They both landed their respec-
tive mails in time to be forwarded to London by the nine
o'clock train. The Tay left Cuba on the 19th January, Ja-
maica 23d, St. Domingo 25th, Porto Rico 27th, St. Thomas's
30th. There being no mail from Fayal, the Tay had no com-
munication with that place, by which saving of time, and
aided by very fine weather, she was enabled to reach this
port forty hours within her prescribed time. Her passengers
consist of Mr. Tod, Lieutenant Kennedy, Mr. John Barry,
Sir W. and Lady Codrington and servants, Mr. Nurse, and
Mr. Matthew, together with seven supernumeraries. She has
no cargo, and only 1,0001. in freight. The Lady Mary Wood
left Gibraltar on the 10th instant, Cadiz 11th, Lisbon, 13th,
Oporto 14th, and Vigo 15th. She has 27 passengers, 20
cattle in good order, a full cargo of fruit. and a quantity of
green peas, consigned to Covent-garden.
We regret to have to announce the death of the
Hon. William Warren Baldwin, one of the oldest and,wealthiest
inhabitants of this city. This melancholy event
okplace
on Sunday night last, after a long and painful illness.--
Toronto Patriot.