The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-26 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER:26, 1844.

A meeting of the Conservatives of the county of
Durham was held on Wednesday last at Sunderland.
A morning Contemporary, who gives a somewhat
lengthy account of this meeting, prefaces his report
by a sketch of the past and present condition of Con-
servatism in Durham, from which we gather that it
has long been in the most helpless and hopeless
state it is possible to conceive, devoid of energy—
devoid of tact—devoid of union—devoid, in short, of
every qualification that is requisite to make a party
respectable or influential. For some years, during the
sway of the Whig Administration, it was in a tolerable
state of efficiency; it attended to the register, and main-
tained a spirit of concord and unity that augured well
for the cause which it professed to have so much at heart;
but soon after the accession of the present Ministers
to office, it began to exhibit symptoms of apathy ;
instead of being watchful over the interests of—what
it called —the constitutional cause, it became almost in-
different to its duties; for a considerable period, not a
single anniversary meeting was held ; and the absence
of such periodical gatherings had the effect of in-
creasing the supineness which want of action was
naturally engendering in the party. In fact, observes
our Contemporary, it was scarcely known whether a
Conservative association existed or not in the county
of Durham, and questions were even asked as to who
were, and who were not, members of the society.
The cause of this gradual decline in the
power and activity of a once influential
party admits, we think, of a very easy
explanation. It originated, no doubt, in the
dislike with which the Durham Conservatives
regarded the proceedings of Sir ROBERT PEEL and
his subalterns, shortly after their accession to place.
They must have seen that the Ministry was by no
means constant in its adhesion to the principles which
it had professed on the hustings, but was ready to
tack about and make sail in a Whig direction, the
instant opportunity offered. Nothing short of some
such conviction on the part of the Northern Conserva-
tives could have induced them to abandon themselves
to apathy. Our Contemporary, indeed, hints that
this torpor arose from the simple circumstance of the
party reposing confidence in the future from the
success of the past; but this is a very indifferent way
of accounting for an awkward fact; it is nor when a
party is full of confidence that it is most apt to be
lethargic ; success but tends to stimulate it to fur-
ther exertions; it is when distrust and despondency
seize upon political societies, that the principle of
vitality within them becomes gradually more feeble
and deteriorated; it is then that they exhibit symp-
toms of disunion and lassitude which ultimately ter-
minate in a complete break-up. And such, we repeat,
was the case with the Conservatives of Durham.
They were active—energetic—decided of will and
perfect in organization, so long as they felt that they
had grounds of confidence ; but the moment they
found the Ministry of their choice—the Ministry
which they had taken such prodigious pains to instal
in office--the moment, we say, they found these
Downing-street squatters—to borrow a phrase from
the back woods vocabulary—evinced symptoms
of a
disposition to falsify their Conservative
pledges, their spirits became depressed, sullen-
ness and despondency seized upon them ; and
as an immediate and inevitable consequence, they
sank, as a party, into almost complete insignificence.
They are now trying to pluck up a little courage and
confidence again, but we doubt much whether they

will succeed in regaining a tithe of their lost in-
fluence in the county. Rventi are against them.
Ministers bantlot, even if they would, enforce their
principles to the extent they could deAire; they itusti
in spite of themselves, leah to the side of Liberalism ;
and =tiredly a conviction of this truth will not
tend to infuse new spirit into Durham Conservatism.
We are by no means sorry to see the low ebb to
which this party is confessedly reduced in one of the
most important of our northern counties. It is a
shuffling, time-serving party, liberal, so far as mere
profession goes, mean and intolerant to a degree in
point of practice, repudiating ultra-Toryism, yet
never unwilling to act in its spirit whenever oppor-
tunity offers, and prevented by nothing but its
apprehensions—which it calls discretion—from in-
flicting a world of mischief on the community. It
is vain to look to Conservatism for any positive, sub-
stantial, public good ; and it is only where he dissents
from the policy of this party and makes a move to-
wards Liberalism, that Sir IL PEEL exhibits himself
as a sagacious, prescient statesman.

the Congfess was colistittitedi the President d the
Council was to ascend the tribune and read the reform
project. We have said, that thit project wohld have
a double Character, political and administrative, and
we have shown the principal points to which it was
to refer. It remains for us to explain some questions
of detail, which, though lees spoken of, are not less
important; and which prole that it is litOstly that
some friends of the Ministry have accused it of re-
maining inactive. The Cabinet, presided over by
General NA&YAEZ, has advanced slowly, but it has
advanced. Whilst around it friends and adversaries
were loudly discussing, it was working in silence,
and Spain is about to have the power of judging,
which is worth more—that which speaks or that which
acts."

The Legitimatist Quotidienne which is equally dis-
satisfied with the National, but takes consolation from
the prospects of another Carlist rising, says :
"Our letters from Spain announce that this country
is touching on a new crisis, and probably a graver one
than any of those which she has passed through these
dozen years. The party placed at the head of affairs by
extraordinary circumstances has just obtained a majority,
either by the electoral inactivity of the opposite parties,
or by the violence and cunning employed against them.
But this party, which is without root in the country,
only maintains itself by the army, which is not itself
proof against a sudden rising on any point of the terri-
tory ; a serious insurrection would shake its discipline,
and would have the effect at least of dividing its forces.
The Progessist or revolutionary party, under the direc-
tion of secret societies, is organised along the whole
coast from Cadiz to Barcelona ; the insurrectional move-
ments of these two towns would draw with it all the in-
termediate localities. This party possesses some com-
mittees, but very few followers in the interior. If the
Carlist party, on the contrary, has but scattered friends
and little means of action on the coast, it has masses in
its favour in the mountains of Arragon, Navarre, and
Biscay, and very numerous partisans in the provinces of
the interior. These two parties have replaced in the last
two years a great part of the arms and ammunition
which had been taken from them ; they are in a state to
act, and determined to act in concert, although for a dif-
ferent object, well convinced that an isolated action
would be fatal to the party which should attempt it, and
would compromise that which should have abstained.
The Royalists were ready to rise some months back in
the mountains of Catalonia, and the Revolutionists only
waited for the signal to take up arms at the same time
in Barcelona ; a counter-order given to the mountaineers
suspended the common action ' • but it is only suspended,
the Government knows it, and henceforward it despairs
of opposing the Revolutionists to the Carlists, and of
keeping down these parties by opposing them to each
other."

The speech of the Lord Chief Justice of the
Queen's Bench, on the memorable Writ of Error in
the case of "O'CoNNELL and others," ha 3 always
been considered,. by those who had the good fortune
to hear it, a magnificent effort of forensic eloquence.
It may fairly be admitted—without the slightest dis-
paragement to the readiness and tact evinced by the
Parliamentary Reporters and the London Press, in
dealing with the multifarious subjects that enter into
the composition of the debates which they report

that legal judgments form a rare, but necessary, ex-
ception to the class—the very extensive class—of de-
claimed orations which they transfer from their
speakers to the public, and to posterity, with such
astonishing spirit and fidelity. But a prepared legal
judgment, in addition to its more maturely-con-
sidered composition, which excludes and rejects, not
merely a surplusage of words, but even a redundancy
of thought, in favour of a direct, severe, condensed,
and logical train of reasoning—shaped accurately to
the elucidation of abstract principles of law, and the
illustration of their hearings on the case in hand, in
reference to the modifications of statute, common, or
municipal law, and the legitimate authority of usage
and custom ;—such a judgment carries with it, as a
perhaps indispensable and an universal element, a
degree of technical elaboration which the Reporter
cannot, in fairness, be expected fully to represent
upon his notes. For this reason, mainly—and we
could suggest others—we have been well pleased to
find that Mr. D. LEAHY, one of the Counsel engaged
in the memorable cause upon which this Writ of
Error issued, has published the " Judgment of Lord
DENMAN," as delivered by that distinguished lawyer
on the 4th ultimo in the House of Lords. Mr.
LEAHY, as we learn from the brief, but sensible,
preface which he has prefixed to the " Judgment,'
has been enabled to usher into public notice this
authenticated version of it, under circumstances of
unusual interest and importance. Lord Chief Justice
DENMAN " was pleased, in the most obliging manner,
to comply with the request" which Mr. LEAHY had
made to him, "to be favoured with certain state-
ments to which his Lordship had alluded," in the
course of his judgment, as "having committed them
to writing, but which he did not propose to address
to the House." The public are much indebted to
Mr. LEAHY for having shown such commendable
foresight in obtaining, and such industry in ar-
ranging, materials so precious in the just apprecia-
tion of a question of vast constitutional importance and
interest. O❑ another occasion we shall give the whole
of Mr. LEAar's preface, entire, as it presents a real
and accurate resume of the principal distinctive fea-
tures which that question assumed, both in the Court
below, and on the appeal before the House of Lords.
We have also determined to transfer to our columns
the very important matter which it was the Learned
Chief Justice's intention, as we have already noticed,
to have incorporated into the judgment actually de-
livered by him. Mr. LEAHY has interposed a pre-
liminary statement before these " Additional Ob-
servations," which clearly and succinctly explain the
motive for their separate appearance. The pamphlet,
with its "Notes, Preface, and Additional Observa-
tions," is a compact and invaluable record of that
constitutional and legal " Speech " on which was
mainly founded the decision of the House of Lords,
reversing the judgment of the Court below against
the parties arraigned under the recent State Prosecu-
tions in Ireland.

The following are said to be the principal changes
proposed by the NARVAEZ, or rather CHRISTINA
Ministry :—The preamble of the Constitution is to
be cancelled, as no mention is made in it of the royal
power. The crown is to appoint the members of the
Senate for life, as in France. The most important
clause, however, is that which enacts that the offences
committed by the press shall not be submitted to
trial by jury. The article which requires the assem-
bling the Cortes once a year is suppressed, evidently
with a view of suppressing the Cortes altogether.
The clause respecting the QUEEN'S marriage is
annulled, and the Cortes are therefore deprived of the
power granted to them by the Constitution of pre-
venting a marriage which they might consider
dangerous to the country. By another the
QUEEN can leave Spain without the consent
of the Cortes. This is a good beginning, and
when the other changes are accomplished, and
organic laws imade by royal ordinance, France
will have no reason for envying Spain her liberal
institutions. The most painful reflection on this re-
trograde movement is, that the inhabitants of Spain
richly merit their fate. They had the means, as far
as free institutions went, of making their country
great and peaceful, but their statesmen were eternally
quarrelling with one another, their representatives
made long harangues only from factious or mer-
cenary motives ; they, in fine, rebelled against
ESTARTERO, and welcomed with enthusiasm the
woman who has destroyed their liberty.
There is no domestic news in the French papers
of the slightest interest.
THE BOURSE--WEDNESDAY, OCT. 23.

Highest Lowest

Price. Price. Price. Price.
FrenchFiveperC3nts— •••• 118 25 .. 118 30 .. 118 20 .. 118 25
Four-and-a-half...• 11l 70 .. 111 70 .. 111 70 .. 111 70
Fours.
Three per Cents.•... 82 20 .. 82 20 .. 82 15 .. 82 15
Bank of France
Laffltte Bank, I,ooof. Sharesll2o ..1120 ..1120 ..1120
5,000 f. Sharesso42 50 —5045 ..5012 50 ..5045
Belgian Fives, 1840 • • lO3l .. 1031 • . 1031 • • 1031
1842 ....•• •• 1053 .. 1053 .. 1053 .. 1053
Spanish Passive •••••• 53 • • 53 •• 53 • • 61
Active •••••• •• •••• 32/ .. 321 .. 321 .. 321
Threes.. •• •• •••• 351 •• 351 .. 35i •• 351
Old Deferred .... • . 63 .. 63 • • 63 • . 63
Neapolitan— ...... 98 75 .. 98 75 .. 98 65 .. 98 65
Roman ••••••••••

Madrid papers of the 17th have been received.
Some of them give details of the appointments of
President of the Deputies, formation of Committees,
and other business, which to England, or indeed any
other nation, do not possess any interest. In an as-
sembly so constituted, so determined to go all lengths
with the Government, it is a matter of moonshine
whether Senor IsTuaiz or Senor CASTRO r OROZCO
be President. The Eco del Comercio states that re-
ports were current that a Carlist revolution was
on the point of breaking out at Madrid, and that in
several of the provinces the Government seemed to
be taking precautions against a general rising. Pro-
gresistas seem also disposed to have some amusement
in their peculiar way. What a hopeless country !
Upon the Madrid 'Change on the 17th inst. the
Three per Cents. were done at 26 9-16 at 60 days;
and the Five per Cents. at 20i for the same period.

The French Opposition papers have, for one day at
least, passed over the KING'S visit to England—a
great relief to those readers who are compelled to
attend to their lucubrations—and directed their atten-
tion to affairs of another neighbouring country,
where scenes of no ordinary kind are about to take
place. The Opposition journals of all shades, Re-
publican, Legithnatist, and Christino, have articles on
the Bill presented to the Cortes for Constitutional
reform. The Presse, under the influence of Queen
CHRISTINA, has, of course, been made acquainted for
some time with the proposed changes, and the
National, by some means or other, seems equally
well informed. We infer from this journal that the
DOWAGER QUEEN has done it all. After referring
to the Bill it thus proceeds :—" In two words the
programme of the Bill proclaims for the executive
power an absolute omnipotence ; it asks an assembly
of the Cortes, the produce of corruption and violence,
to absolve the acts of usurpation already executed in
the past, by permitting them to be continued for the
future; to substitute for public discussion the will of

the Cabinet, for the solemnity of the law the caprice
of the camarilla, for the action of the three powers
the will of a single one. This is the radical destruc-
tion of the representative Government, and a delibe-
rative assembly is going to decree absolutism. And
what absolutism ? That of NARVAEZ, perhaps. Not
even that ; NARVAEZ is an instrument to be broken on
the first caprice. Not of the young QUEEN ? She is
a sick child, incapable of anything but evil sentiments.
It is the absolutism of the wife of MuNoz that is about
to be decreed ! Of that MARIA CIIRISTINA,WhO, after
having received in her bed the son of the tobacconist
of Tarancon, gave birth to the first-born of her new
amour, when she was still wearing mourning for her
husband ! The absolutism of this woman, who has
violated all the Spanish laws, in exercising the Re-
gency and guardianship of her daughter, when she
was already married to the Garde-du-Corps ! Of
that woman who, notwithstanding the formal text of
the Constitution, and all the existing legislation,
levied, without having the right, in other words,
robbed the treasury of Spain of thirty millions of
francs, as the unmarried widow of the late KING, and
forty millions taken from the revenues of the Royal
appanage and civil list of the QUEEN ! Absolutism
with the greatest scandal, the most infamous robbery
that can be pointed out in history. But is the abso-
lute power to rest, at least in these sullied hands ?

\%'ho is there who does not know that the wife of
MuNoz, ambitious as she is considered, only executes
the solemn engagements which she has entered into
with the POPE and Don CARLOS ? And see the re-
forms proposed in the Constitution ! To suppress
first, the principle of the supremacy of the people, to
efface the article ordering the annual convocation of
the Cortes, and, in fine, to get rid of that which im-
poses the obligation of consulting the Cortes on the
QUEEN'S marriage! The undertaking is bold, but it
will not succeed. The Spaniards are neither suffi-
ciently void of civilisation, nor base enough to allow this
interference in their own affairs; and all these con-
quests, in fact, which they have aimed at in obtain-
ings
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gAiTIfDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 26, 1844.
THE SUN, LONDON,

--WS

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL IN
CITY, FRIDAY EVENING.
Cdnsdis closed at about the quotations of the morning,
fdr Money; and par-for Aceount. Bank Stock
was flat at 20ki.
The only bargains in Spanish Stock were at 23f id
the Actives, and at 34k in the Three per Cents. Mexican
were 341 1; and Belgian, 104/ to 103+.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have
--;,--Birmingham and Gloucester, New, were 8;
Chests 4 and Holyhead, Churnet
Bbereisniotthgesned
El)ietei;; 5 i
Valley, Edinburgh and GlasgotV, Ditto; Quarter,
2i; Great Southern and Western (Ireland), 31; Great
Western, 61 to *; Ditto, Half, 3n• Hull and Selby,
Quarter, 31; Birmingham, Quarter, 22k; 8 ,uth-Western,
341 London and York, ; South-Eastern, 101 g ;
Yarmouth and Norwich, New, 4; York and North Mid-
land, 57; Boulogne and Amiens, 2* to 2; Paris and
Lyons, +; and Paris and Orleans, 19?-4 premium. Cale-
donian,'; Eastern Counties, 111 f; Brighton, 3* to 24;
and Greenwich, 3 to 2+ discount. London and West-
minster Bank Shares were 6i; and Union of Australia,
21 to 11 premium.
The Foreign Exchanges were slightly higher on
Antwerp and Paris, but scarcely so good on Amsterdam,
Trieste, and Hambureh.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
There was a brisk demand for Cotton at Liverpool
yesterday, but no alteration in prices. Sales about
7,000 bales, including 2,000 bales American, on specula-
tion, and 500 for export. The sales consisted of 500
Egyptian, at 54d. to 7d., 800 Surat, at 21d. to 30., 100
Pernam, at 54d., 200 Bahia, at 51d. to sid., and the rest
American, at 31d. to 51d.—Shares were rather droop-
ing. Birmingham and Gloucester, 103 ; Chester and
Birkenhead Junction, 71; Churnet Valley, 4i ; Dublin
and Drogheda, 70 ; Dublin and Mullingar, 31 ; Lancas-
ter and Carlisle, 13}; Ditto and Preston, 42i ; Liver.
pool and Manchester, Half, 99i ; Ditto and Preston,
495.; London and Birmingham, Quarter, 241; Ditto and
York, 31 ; Ditto and Croydon, 161 ; Midland Counties,
1051 ; Newcastle and Carlisle, 105 ; North Union, 107 ;
Sheffield and Lincoln, 2 ; South-Eastern, 42i ; Ditto,
New, 15i i Lyons and Avignon, 455. 6d. ; Paris and
Lyons, 2i ' • Ditto, and Orleans, 39} ; Paris and
Rouen, 39i; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 31 ; Central
of France, 4.

An official notification has been issued this morning
and extensively circulated, relative to the regulations to
be observed by the police, and other City officers, on the
day on which the Queen opens the New Royal Ex-
change, which has created great conversation, and in-
deed surprise, among merchants and others having
business houses in the line of procession, or offices in
the City within the prescribed limits. Surely it cannot
for a moment be contemplated stringently to carry the
third regulation into effect. It is—" That no person be
allowed to pass or remain in the Poultry, Mansion-
house-street, Cornhill, Bartholomew-lane, or Thread-
needle-street, after seven o'clock, except inhabitants and
others going to the houses in those streets, who will be
permitted to pass for that purpose until nine o'clock,
after which time no person whatever will be admitted into
those streets."

BANK OF ENGLAND.

(From last Night's Gazette.)
-suant to the Act 7th and Bth of Vic-
An Account, p.... Week ending on Saturday, the
toria, cap. 32, for the ~
19th day of Octiosbsetiri DEPARTMENT.,IB4 ,
Notes issued ... 27,731,910 Gre
itrnsmeceunrtdio 2
eeht9B 0
11,015,10049
Other 0
Gold coin and
bullion
Silver bullion

£27,731,910

M. MA
Dated the 24th day of Oel

BANKING Dl
.E.

Proprietors'capi-
tal 14,553,000
Rest 3,102,033
Public deposits
(including Ex-
chequer,savings'
banks, Commis-
sioners of Na-
tionalDebt,and
dividend ac-
counts) 3,965,196
Other deposits
Seven day and
other bills 1,074,673

£31,201,7001
M. MA:
Dated the 24th day of Oct

£27,731,910
RSHALL, Chief Cashier.
tober, 1844.

:PARTMENT.

G overnment secu-
rities (includ-
ingllead Weight
Annuity)
Other securities
Notes . 6,648,665
Gold and silver
coin

458,172

£31,201,700
,SHALL, Chief Cashier.
Aber, 1844.

PROMISSORY NOTES.
(From Last Night's Gazette.)
An account of the Average Aggregate Amount of Promis-
sory Notes payable to bearer on demand, which have been
in circulation in the United Kingdom, distinguishing those
circulated by Private Banks, and by Joint-Stock Banks, in
England and Wales, by the Banks in Scotland, by the Bank
of Ireland, and by all other Banks in Ireland, during the
four weeks ending the 12th day of October, 1844, pursuant
to the Act of 4th and sth Victoria, cap. 50 :
ENGLAND.

Now it is known that there are public places of resort
for business purposes within the streets named, and offices
almost innumerable. Can it be seriously intended that
merchants and brokers are to be deprived of the right
they have to go to business, to open and answer letters
(of vast importance to them in many instances, and re•
quiring instant attention)? And let it be remembered
that the General Post delivery is rarely commenced in
the districts named before nine o'clock, or finished before
half-past ten or eleven o'clock. It would be, in the opi-
nion of the merchants and others; a monstrous proceed-
ing to attempt to carry out the regulation we have quoted
above. It is hoped that some means will be taken to
enable merchants and others in the streets mentioned to
reach their places of business without let or hindrance.
There are not any colonial arrivals this morning.
Much conversation is indulged in in the City on the
subject of the rapid extension of the influence of the
Zollverein. At the same time it is not to be denied that
the movements towards liberalism in commercial affairs,
on the continent too may have a beneficial influence
shortly as respects the scales oft duties now levied in the
ports of this country. There must be an onward move-
ment in this respect, and the sooner the Premier makes
up his mind upon the all-important subject the better
for the merchants, the shipowners, and the traders of
Great Britain. The time, it is held certain, is now come,
when England must move in advance, not follow, combi-
nations of Governments' or Customs' Leagues, on the
continent of Europe. The opportunity, if now lost, will
not very soon again occur.
The only feature in the Stock Market this morning is
that the Commissioners bought about the usual quantity
of Consols at 99i. Money is in increased demand, and
some transfers have been made at a fall to 994. For the
Account par has been the only value given this morn-
ing. The premium on Exchequer Bills is firm at 71s.
to 735. Bank Stock has fallen to 2024, a re-action of
about 3 per cent. within a week. The fluctuation in the
New Three-and-a-Quarter per cents. is very trifling,
scarcely exceeding * to i per cent.
The value of Spanish Stock remains nominally the
same as yesterday. Dutch Securities are a trifle lower,
and Belgian Five per Cents. were firm in the morning
at 1041, but they have since receded to 1034. For
Mexicon and Portuguese Bonds the demand was limited
to one or two bargains only.
The Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Shares
have been flat to-day, at Ito 24 premium. Edinburgh
and Glasgow are lower, 10 premium being now the price.
The Great Western Shares have been sold as low as 59
prem.; the London and Birmingham have been at 111 i
to 113 prem. ; Midlands at a fall to 3 premium ; York
and North Midland are firm at 58 premium, and the
Half Shares at 58 premium. The French lutes are
rather on the advance. General Steam Navigation Com-
pany's Shares are worth 13 prem.
PRICSE OF BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.

Private Banks

4,674,162

Joint-Stock Banks... ..... ... ...

3,331,516

SCOTLAND.
Chartered, Private, and Joint-Stock Banks 2,987,665

IRELAND.

Bank of Ireland
Private and Joint-Stock Banks

Total

(From the Official List.) :
Bank Stock .... ......«..... ....... .......... 203 20'4;
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols. Anna
New 314 per Cent. Annuities...
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2 1-16
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1860. 12%
India 80nd5,1,000............ .....
Ditto under 1,000.. ..... ... .......... ........ ....... « 9l
Consols for Account ....................« lOO
Exchequer Bills. 114(1. I%d
1,0001. .....«•«0.«...«•».• - ..«.»..... 71 73 pm.
5001. . • . . V .. . .. . .. . ..
... . .. ..
•..•. 0 .0 0 0 ..
73 pm.
Ditto 5rnad.....«....«....« •«..... ..... -- 73 pm.
Ditto Advertised.........
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent 104% 101%
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. ...... ......
Ditto for the Account « ...... ........ ........ 31%
Ditto Deferred Stock
51%
Ditto for the Account
Poprtiuttgotiecsoenßveoratedds, 5 per Cent.... ......
Dutch 2% per Cents (3 62%,
Ditto for the Account ................... ....... -
Dutch 5 per Cents. ...
.__9B4
PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Ramwsirs. PAID. PER SHARE.
Birmingham and Gloucester lOO .........101
Direct Northern
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O .... .... 60
Great' Southein and Western} 5
(Ireland)
Great North of England. lOO ........,124
Great Western
Ditto Fifths... ..... .. ....... « l2 .." .„.. 25
London and Birmingham.......... 100
London and Blackwall 16% ...... 8% ...., to
London and Brighton
Ditto Loan Notes lO ......... , ll,'
London and South Western
to
London and Croydon
London and Y0rk.............
to
Midland . lOO ......... 104 105 ... to 103
Northern and Eastern 45 ......... 56 ...« „ to
Ditto Shares
_3212 to
Norwich and Brandon
Ditto New
South Eastern and Dover
...... :toot,
_42%
Dpiittttoo New% to M
York and North Midland 5O
to
Ditto Selby Scrip__ --: •
.........47 ... to
Sha..r.e.. -5............"... .....
254
...........
5136 %. .. . .. .
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X 17,047,454
H. L. WICKELI3I.

Stamps and Taxes, Oct. 25, 1844.

THE ROYAL EXCHANGE.

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Central:of France (Masterman's) 2 ........ 414 to ._Ditto Constituted 2 ..... 8%,/, •
to

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Boulogne and Amiens
2 37/ t. 4
...... • , g ...... _
Orleans Tours, and Bourdeaux 1 3' to

Paris and Lyons ... .....

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2 ......... 23A. to

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Parisand R0uen............... ..... .... 20 ~„„... 46"....,.., to
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, OCT. 24.—We have
had a quiet market, and but a moderate amount of
business has been transacted. Cambridge and Lincoln,
2 5-16 -I ; Churnet Valley, 4; Kendal and Winder-
mere, 6; Leeds and Dewsbury, 7; London and York,
al ; Manchester and Buxton, 2 2 1-16; Sheffield and
Lincoln, 2; Manchester and Leeds, 1-16th Shares, 2,1,
premium; Sheffield and Manchester, 98k; Trent Valley,
8,-i; Union Bank, 10.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock ex dlv. 202 Ditto Bonds £l,OOO pm.
3 per Cent. Red 99 Ditto under £l,OOO 9l
3 per Cent. Cons. ...... ..... 99k South Sea Stock
3% per Cent. Red Ditto Old Annuities ...
New 34 per Cent. 101',7,', Ditto New Annuities...
New 5 per Cent. Ex. Bills, 1,0001. 13Gcl ... 73 pm.
Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5001. ...... ....... .. 73 pm.
Jan. 1860 l2 1-16 Ditto Small 73 pm.
Oct. 1859 ll% Bank Stock for Acct....
Jan. 1860 ll2 Consols for Act ......... 100
Indian Stock lndia Stock for Acct....
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per Cent Russian, 5 per Cent...........„
Belgian, 5 per Cent lO3 Ditto, Metallic —
Brazilian Bonds ...... ......... _isSpanish, 5 per Cent., 1840 233
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... Ditto, 1841 ...... .. .......
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent Ditto, 1842 —
Chllian, 6 per Cent Ditto, 1843.
5r
per
enCt en
t.
Colombian, 6 per Cent
Danish, 3 per Cent ............ Ditto, Ditto,
Cent 34S
s,Gireexeikc
a,
n1,8525pe,
French, 5 per Cent.. —t -C.
Neapolitan Bonds,s per Ct... Exchange 1: —c*
Prussian Bonds, 4 per Cent. French, 3 per Cent — . —r.
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Ct... Dutch, 2% per Cent
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Ct Ditto, ;5 per Cent ... 98%
Venezuela Bonds, '2 per Ct...
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Bristol and Exeter (70 paid)
Caledonian (5 paid)
Chester and Holyhead 5 paid)
Direct Northern, 2 paid
Eastern Counties (25 paid)
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid
Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 5 raid
Great Western (75 paid)
Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid 83%
Hull and Selby, 50 paid
I)itto Quarter Shares, 10 paid/ 13%
London and Brighton (50 paid)
London and Greenwich (121. lbs. 4d. paid) 93i,
London and South Westein (411. Gs. 10d. paid) 73
London and York, 234 paid 3%
Northern and Eastern (45 paid) .........
South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid)
Ditto New Shares, 4 paid
1,4
Yarmouth and Norwich (18 paid)
Ditto New Shares ( 5 paid)
:
Boulogne and Amiens, 2 ',lid ...
Orleansaris and Orleans Tours (2O paid) and Bourdeaux, 1 paid
.., .. 09X
uCiOttURSE OF EXCHANGE.-(YESTERDAY)
Amsterdam
at bight CI. 12 6 Gibraltar
12 4 Leghorn 3O 50
P..otterilam 2U.12 6i Genoa 25 85
Antwerp
Hamburgh M.B. 13 13 Venice . . . 47
Altona l3 13 Naples ........ .......... 391
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 60 Palermo, per oz llB

Ditto, 3 months 25 85
Marseilles 25 90
Bourdeaux 25 90
Frankfort on Maine l2l
Petersburgh, 3Us 37
Berlin 7
Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M 952
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 361
Cadiz
lilt ao 36
Barcelona 36
Seville

Lisbon
Oporto 55
Rio Janeiro 23
Bahia 23
Buenos Ayres
NewYork,2ldys sight
Philadelphia
riticEs OF BULLION, PER oz.
Foreign Gold, bars. £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5
New _Doubloons-- 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4 9;
Silver in Bare 0 4 11i