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LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1844.

The Lords met last evening, but no business of
the slightest importance came before the House,

which adjourned shortly after it met.
In the Commons, Mr. G. HOPE complained that,
in some of the ordinary channels of information (in
plain, English newspapers) the speech of Mr. SCOTT,
the Member for Roxburghshire, relative to squatters
in Australia, had been given at length, while his
reply to it had not been given. He rose, however,
merely to state that the Government did not agree•
with the statement made by the Hon. Member.
Lord PALMERSTON deferred, for a fortnight, his
motion on the right of search.
tlr. V. SMITH postponed his motion relative to
oaths taken by Catholics till after Easter.
Mr. W. a STANLEY corrected a statement which
he had made with respect to the duel at Camden-
Town, and read a letter from Mrs. MUNRO to war-
rant him in making the correction. The letter will
be found in the Parliamentary report.
Mr. COCHRANE moved for extracts of any corre-
spondence between her MAJESTY'S Government and
Sir EDMUND LYONS, or the Courts of France.and
Russia, relating to the recent events in Greece.

Sir R. PEEL said in about ten days he would lay
urt the table of the House all the portion of the cor-
respondence which, he trusted, would satisfy the Ho-
nourable Member. A brief discussion took place on
the present state of Greece, in which Lord PALMER-
VTON, Sir IL DOUGLAS, and Sir R. INGLis expressed
their opinions, all of whom paid high compliments to
Sir E. LYONS, and the motion, on the understanding
expressed by Sir R. PEEL, was agreed to.
Mr. MILNEs made a motion relative to the present
state of criminal jurisdiction over British subjects
within the dominions of the Porte. He pointed out
the hardships to which English subjects were ex-
posed under the present system, and thought the
Government ought to establish a criminal court at
Malta, as had been done at Trieste. He moved an
an address to the Crown to that effect.

Mr. HOPE thought the Government was not justi-
fied in interfering in the matter; and, after a few
words from Sir R. PEEL and Lord PALMERSTON,
the motion was withdrawn.

Mr. TURNER moved a resolution to the effect that
duelling is immoral in its tendency, that it brings
into contempt the laws of the country, is contrary
to Divine command, and ought to be abolished. He
entered into a brief history of duelling, and pointed
out some remarkable cases to show its baneful effects.
Sir R. PEEL opposed the resolution, and after
speeches from several other lion. Members, the mo-
tion was withdrawn.

Mr. ELPHINSTONE then moved that the House re-
solve itself into a Committee to take into consideration
the Legacy and Probate duties, which gave rise to
scltne discussion. This motion was also withdrawn.
The other business on the paper was then gone
through, and the House adjourned.

The subject of duelling was again brought under
the notice of the House of Commons last night by
Mr. TURNER, who moved a resolution to the effect
that the practice is " immoral in its tendency, that it
kings into contempt the laws of the country, is con-
tvary to the Divine command, and ought to be abo-
lish ed." The Hon. Member spoke with sense and
spirit on this question, and concluded by expressing a
hope tha't an Act would be passed which would ren-
der the punishment for duelling more certain and
expeditious. We doubt much whether any inter.
ference on the. part of the Legislature would have the
slightest effect in repressing this pernicious practice •
on the contrary, ive think it would be very apt to make
matters worse, vy giving undue importance to a silly,
barbarous custom, for which, among other blessings,
we have to thank the " wisdom of our ancestors."
The question had much better be left to the good
taste of society, and the silent operation of that
common sense which is gradually making itself felt
among all classes. Even fashion—the despotic ruler
of us all, who exercises a power far greater than that
ex,orcised by Sir ROBERT PEEL, with a majority
of nieety at his back—even this arbitrary tyrant is
beginninj to set her face against duelling; and
we may opfely infer from this =doubted fact

that the practice, like other absurd practices,
must ere long fall into desuetude, provided
Parliament will but keep a still tongue in
its head, and make no more of the matter
than it deserves. When a usage manifestly ridicu-
lous in its nature—more ridiculous, indeed, than
dangerous, inasmuch as, in seven cases out of ten,
duellists quit the field just as sound as when they
entered :it—when such a usage is gravely and for-
mally discussed among Legislators, an air of conse-
quence, and even dignity, is imparted to it, which
gives it a sort of sanction in the eyes
of fools, and strengthens, rather than checks, the
vulgar prejudice in its favour. As for Mr. COWPNR'S
remark that "he would suggest the appointment of
a Court of Honour; a jury might be selected
who were as nearly equal as possible in station to the
parties concerned, and who would, therefore, be able
to decide, in a satisfactory manner, upon the question
brought before them ;" we can conceive nothing more
ridiculous than this suggestion, to say nothing of its
impracticability. Suppose, for instance, that two
attorneys quarrel—for even attorneys are not
wholly free from the frailties of humanity—
how is it possible for them to get twelve
more of their amiable fraternity sufficiently
disinterested to neglect their own business, in order
to sit as a jury, and listen to the long story of the
dispute ? Is it likely that a dozen attorneys will allow
themselves to be called out of Court or chambers, in
order to decide upon the wrongs of a brother, whose
mishap it may be to have had his nose pulled, or a
horsewhip shaken over his head ? Impossible. They
will pity him, no doubt ; and if his story be not a long
one, they will, perchance listen to it with attention ;
but as for going gravely and minutely into the merits
of the case, they will repudiate the horrid idea of
such a tax on their time and patience, and leave the
injured man to get out of his quarrel as he got into
it. Courts of Honour might be all very well in the
olden time when Englishmen had plenty of leisure
on their hands, but in these hard-working days, when
time is money, it is not, to be expected that any
twelve men, no matter from what class, can be
brought together to listen to the statements and decide
upon the claims of a gentleman "in trouble." For our
own part, if it be found impossible at once to put a
stop to duelling, we should recommend that all quar-
rels should be settled, as one was actually settled some
years since by a British merchant in Portugal, who
conceiving himself insulted by some remarks con-
tained in a letter from a correspondent in London,
wrote to the latter to " consider himself horse-
whipped." Whether the Londoner did so or not,
we cannot say ; but the conception was a bright
one, and worthy of general imitation, for it would be
an effectual preservative of human life, and prevent
the unpleasant necessity of gentlemen getting up' at
day-break to be shot at, and carried on shutters into
the agonized interior of Chalk Farm.

We are disappointed, on looking over the resolu-
lutions agreed to by the House of Commons, on Mon-
day, the 4th instant, in reference to railways, at finding
that they are merely seven orders touching the
organisation of Committees for the consideration
of pending Bills to authorise the construction
of competing lines, and the suspension of
certain standing orders. The resolutions are
purely technical, without a particle of public
interest about them, or the slightest bearing
on THE public interest in connection with railways.
We have very recently expressed our own views of
the necessity, on every conceivable ground of sound
policy, and the present and future convenience of the
public, for some great and intelligible system of
general supervision, as to these important works, on
which Government itself should take the initiative.
The slightest consideration of the extent of social
comfort or derangement involved in the execution of
such undertakings,—of the magnitude of the capital
invested in them,—of the variety of properties, rights,
tenantcies, &c. &c., affected by them, must satisfy
one that the great outlines of their projection, con-
struction, and administration, and the adjustment of
their relations to other and similar enterprises, pre-
viously entered upon or already accomplished—should
not be left entirely to be determined by the result
of the conflicting interests of private speculators. It
should never be forgotten that errors in any of the
particulars we have just recapitulated, are, practi-
cally speaking, irremediable in completed lines of
road. The public is familiar with oases in which it
has been satisfactorily demonstrated—after the execu-
tion of dangerous and most costly tunnelling, has
been completed—that a slight departure from the ori-
ginal line, too hastily adopted, would have obviated the
necessity for any tunnel at all, and would hare con-
tinued that portion of the railroad by a much more
convenient curve, and at a considerable saving of
expense, or have approximated it to given points,
which it would have been most desirable, on every
account, that it should have been brought nearer to,
than it has actually been left.. Besides, any
one who will examine a map of Great Britain, in
which are traced the several lines of railway

already executed, or now in course of construction,
will perceive at a glance, that for want of a pre-
concerted scheme of radiating lines, from one or more
great centres, converging ultimately in the metropolis,
as their common point, some of our principal rail-
roads, having their termini in London, approach each
other so nearly at certain stations in their respective
courses as to be within sight and hearing of each other.
The necessary inference from this vicinity of two lines
is, that remoter, and perhaps more important, districts of
country, are deprived of their fair participation in
the benefit and accommodation of a travelling rail-
way. Anything like preconcerted scheme, whilst it
might have allowed ample latitude for choice between
numerous given lines of projection, would surely
have obviated the practical anomaly of two being
run, at some distance from London, within five miles
of each other.

Any reform of these matters is, of course, im

practicable as to railroads already complete, or near
completion,—and in whole, or in part, in actual
working. But with regard to such as are the im-
mediate objects of the resolution of the House of
Commons of the 4th of March, namely, new and
competing lines, we are strongly disposed to think
that some such comprehensive, matured, and
efficient system of control, limited to the particulars
we have indicated, should be immediately applied.
In justice, indeed, to the existing railroads, the Di-

rectors of which cannot be blamed if they have not
conformed their lines to some plan, which might have
been more advantageous to the public, but which
was not formed for the adoption of the Com-
panies referred to, when they began the works
they have with so much spirit and energy
constructed, and so magnificently administered—
some such guarantee from actual, though it may not
be in technical strictness, illegal, encroachment by new
lines, should be assured them. The great objects to be
secured, however, are the public benefit and accom-

modation. If we could imagine that such a Go-
vernment contract as we advocate could not be

exercised without entailing some degree of vexa-
tious, or inquisitorial, or unwarrantable inter*
vention with the unfettered appropriation of private
capital, in legitimate branches of application, we
would be the last to recommend any interference
on the part of the Legislature or the Executive. But
(as we took occasion in a former article to remark)
the Irish government of the Marquis of NOR..
MANnr—or,
talent and vigilance ilanjusticeeeof
Ltoordtmhe admirable official
should
rather say the Noble Secretary of that Lord
Lieutenant —has supplied us with an encou-
raging and signal example of the perma-
nent advantage which the .community may de-
rive in the matter of railroads, from the previous
cases, investigations, and ordinances of public func-
tionaries and servants of the Crown, who will under-
take to watch the growth, and direct the early
progress, of such undertakings, not merely out"of a
conscientious desire to discharge to the uttermost the
demand of official duty, but from their love of
national improvement for its own sake.

Parliament passed. P.un't Currency Bill. We hare
before shown the excessive cruelty, on both the pro-
ducer and the labourer, of a law which, diminishing
the circulation in the ratio of the amount paid by the
country in taxation—or nearly so—left the cost of
taxation unrepresented in those depreciated prices
which, only, they could obtain when value was deter-
mined by a gold standard exclusively. So the burden
of that taxation cost was iniquitously transferred from
the consumer, by whom it was the meaning of the
Legislature that it should always be ultimately borne,
to the ill-paid producer or labourer. So the robbery
(for this is not too strong a term) annually committed
by the system of currency established under Pszes
Bill—(which compels the farmer and the manufac-
turer to take only the natural or gold-measured prices
for their produce and their goods ; and leaves the
wages of the labourer and the artisan minus, in effect,
the amount annually abstracted from them by taxa-
tion, which they ought never to have paid ; or, rather,
for which the scale of those wages should have ade-
quately compensated them)—amounts to not less
than 30,000,0001. wrung from the hard and honest
hands of famishing industry But Mr. TAYLOR, on
the occasion of which we are speaking, completed
this picture of spoliation. " Notwithstanding this
law," said he, " which was to guarantee the farmer
80e. for his wheat, prices kept lowering till 1822,
when wheat was 435. 3d. per quarter, on the year's
average; little more than one-half the price contem-
plated by the framers of the Act of 1815. Need I
remind you how many farmers are ruined at this
period.? The state of things, at that time, ought to
have warned the farmers never again to rely on a corn
law for protection,—and it ought still to warn them.'
To be sure it ought. Do they want further evi-
dence to convince them of the futility of such
protection" as that on which they would, it
seems, again rely, in so many of our agricul-

tural districts ? Let them mark what follows :
"In the seven years, 1815 to 1822, the average price of
wheat never reached 80s. per quarter, except in 1817
and 1818"-:-and those were very bad seasons. This
law,' having failed in effect, in 1823 a new law was
called for by the clamour of agricultural distress;
and , by this new law, importation—when wheat was
below 70s. per quarter—was prohibited ; when above
70s. importation was permitted at a duty of 17s. per
quarter. This corn-law was not less ricketty than
its !predecessors. It fell to pieces when left to " walk"
—and work—alone. The landlords and tenants,
who flattered themselves, that whilst their bantling
could keep its legs, they would be secure of 70s. per
quarter for their wheat, discovered that, during the
whole term, from 1823 to 1828 (in which latter
year that profound invention of landlord-legislation-
magic—the "sliding-scale" talisman, was first set
up), the average price never touched 70s. at all !
That , the price per quarter, in two only, out of
those five years attained even 605., whilst in 1823 it
was actually so low as 51s. 9d. "Great imports,"
(Mr. TAYLOR sensibly argued) " did not produce these
low prices ; for the imports, during the same period,
did not average 300,000 quarters per annum." If
thef• statistics fail to convince the agriculturists of
the folly, the mischief, the absurdity of all at-
tempts to work a statutable protection to home-
grown wheat,—no reasoning of our's can ope-
rate such a conviction ; and we shall, on

that account, forbear to follow Mr. TAYLOR

through the remainder of his interesting and well-
reas oned precis of corn-law history. But we cannot
take leave of him without quoting the pithy remark
with. which he closes his review of this quin-
queimial period—(lB23-1828). " The landowners,
how ever, during the time, were* getting high
rents, set according to Act of Parliament price
bf thr74 NOT its market value." This is admira-
bly 'put. It is " a great fact." It suggests an
impressive moral lesson. The landlords are
now reaping a fatal harvest of distrust and
disco rntent—of estranged relations between them-
selves and their tenant-farmers—of leases thrown
on their hands, and lands deteriorating through in-
solvent .cultivation—of which harvest the seeds were
sown by their own reckless selfishness ! How (as
hone rt men, we are disinclined to ask, for we would
not over-hastily impugn their moral integrity, but)
as reasonable or consistent men, could they dream of
exae4 ting high rents of those who held under them, when
the Clurrency Act of 1819 had crippled, from one end
of E- agland to the other, the tenant's means of raising
even a. living profit—a means of mere subsistence ?
How , could they set high rents when the contracted
issue s ocf the Bank of England, and therefore of all
provi sicial banks, had taken from those who were to
pay t hem, not simply the chances of legitimate prices
(that I is, such as would represent the natural or gold
price and the taxation cost of raising their produce),
butt he chances of all that healthful encouragement
to et terprise, and the extended application of skill, la-
bour„ and capital, to improved processes in agriculture
and husbandry, which was extended to the working
occu piers of land, and the breeder and the grazier of
stock ; with a wise and liberal confidence, by those
who 'possessed absolutely, or could otherwise com-
mon(' t, surplus capital for such purposes, before the
Legi ilature adopted the ill-considered nostrums,
under e the administration of which our monetary
syste cn. has experienced nothing but convulsion,
derangement, terror, and paralysis ?

Ac counts from Madrid of the 7th Announce that the
QuEr &i and her sister had arrived on that day at
Aranj tuez. The progress of the QUEEN-MOTHER
throu kh Catalonia is described as the triumphal pro-
cessic in of a conqueror, or saviour of the country. Al-
most divine honours are paid to her. She is styled " a
great Queen," " a magnanimous Princess," and the
" Mot her of all Spaniards." Poetieal effusions are ad-
dress( id to her, some of which are ornamented with cuts
repro: tenting her entering Barcelona conducted by an
angel, . and trampling the demon of anarchy beneath her
feet. And this takes place in a city from which she
was b zt three years ago glad to make her escape.
The Three per Cents. were done at 30 for cash, and
30i at '6O days, and the Five per Cents. at 221 for cash,
,
and 22 for 60 days.

The intelligence brought by the Paris papers possesses
little i interest. On Tuesday the Committees of the
China er of Deputies were engaged in considering seve-
ral line s of railroad—namely, a continuation of the Or-
leans lit le to Vierzon; the second from Paris to the Bel-
gian fro nt ier, with branch lines to the coast opposite
&gland and a third from Montpelier to Nismes. The
opinion a the Members was generally against the con-
strnctio) a of the works by the State ; and, as regarded
the nort kern line, se46 out of the nine voted that it
should 1 e left to public companies, but with short leases.
It is not ; probable, however, that companies will enter
into sue k a hazardous undertaking with the prospect of
a short lease, and little security that they shall be remu-
nerated for their outlay and risk at the option of the
State. The Minister of Justice has addressed a circular
to the p refects of departments, in which he recommends
that in : ill cases full protection shall be extended to Pro•
testant t congregations, whilst in the quiet exercise of a
right rt spected by the principle of religious toleration.
The Mn iister's circular has been rendered necessary by
•
some at p.,empts to throw obstacles in the way of the
public N vorship of Protestants. He desires that the
principle i of religious liberty may be, at all times,
acted tr. ?on with great liberality. Thesubscription for
a sword 'to Admiral DU TIT THOUARS is still making
progress ), and boys and girls who hate the English vie
with eat other in subscribing half a franc each. The
boys of tnother Paris school have subscribed 51 francs.
The Du', aof NEstctras had completely recovered from
his late . )cttack of illness; and, whether from this result
or some it other cause not stated in the. reports of the
Money' Market, the Fuads have had a considerable rise.
On We inesday the Five per Cents. advanced 45c., and
the 'TY trees 30c., and closed respectively at 122 f. 30c.;
and e 3 lOc.

TITE BOURSE--WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13.
VIA% Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
tread Y Five per Cents. ex dly 121 70 .. 122 • • 121 70 • • 122
PourperCenta.tadiv .104 75 104 75 104 75 .. 104 75
I Three per Cents... • • 82 85 . • 82 02 80 • • 83
Beak +!. ofqtrance 3250 .. 3250 • • 3250 • • 3250
lattlthl 'Plank. I,IIW. Sharesllos ..1105 ..1105 ..1105
5,000 f. SharessoBs —5085 .•5085 —5085
Belgian p Kink
Belgian..., Wes. ..... ....• •
1840....
Spanish i.ct' tive1842.........„ 1;94 34 19913,m 10r . 4
thrN,,,t„.....
361 ..
8:1 i
We resume to-day our eomments on the speeches PortliCtic se7ive per Cents 47s •• 48 .•: 471 ::
. . 102 60 .• 102 60 .• 102 35 .. 102 45
and proceedings of the Harleston (Su 48
ffolk) meeting, Roman .In. .................. 1, 106, 106
106
held on Wednesday,ae RAILWAY SHARES.
the 4th instant, and ape-cially referred to hi oUr -leading article of Monday siviter• sari es. R. 8.• osln .•
8380 Nt) :. 8383 P
LB.
last. We then concluded by quoting a remarkable,. Rimy.. 890 •• 890 .. ass 75 :.• sae 75
passage in the Chairman's speech, in which he showed
Fi 575° ..
28181 i 48816 FLSI) i14;7
that, pending the operation of the Corn Bill of 1815, rßtrluaseeal,' 75
50
and the prohibition of foreign wheat when the price
mMonulbatpuellium •ttoo
348700
384700
384700
34;00
of wheat here was under 80s. per quarter, the ruin of. 1 'RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT. •
382 40 •• 385 •• 382 50 .• 385
the tenant-farmer and the labourer commenced; and Versailles.: R.B.
L. 8... •••• ...175 " 175 " 175 " 175
yet that in the same plied; namely, in 1819, the R Wen • • ,-- • • •• • • • •11••••••• 898 .. i 93 .. 857 30 .. $96

Rohm to Havre.
Orleans ..... ........ • • 890 • . 892 56 887 50 .. 887 50
strabur, to Bide_ • • 248 75 .. 248 75 • • 245 .. 147 50
Avivuon to ..•• 777 50 .. 777 50 •• 767 7G7 SO

TEE COURT.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert, ac-
companied by the Royal Family, and attended by the
Royal suite, are expected to leave Buckingham Palace,
about five o'clock this afternoon, for Claremont, where
the Royal party are expected to spend a few days, re-
turning to town on Tuesday next.
BARRACKS (IRELAND).--A return has been made to
the House of Commons, on the motion of Captain Bernal,
of the expenses incurred in the fortifications of barracks
and other stations for troops in Ireland in the year 1843,
from which it appears that the total amount i*. 14,450 L
The return includes five districts—Dublin, Limerick,
Cork, Athlone, and Belfast. The expenses for barracks
in the city of Dublin are the largest, being 3,2481. ; for
Limerick, 1,6251. ; and Athlone, 2,0691. The number
of places where expenses have been incurred is 75.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--( THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MARCH 15.—Wind this day at noon, fresh breeze at
W.S.W., and fine clear weather.
DEAL, MAnca 14.—Wind E.S.E.—And. Fairy Queen,
Laing, Trinidad ; Lurnley and Sunderland, from St. John's,
New Brunswick ; Evening Star, Hull, for ditto ; Eclair, ditto,
for Rio; Gipsey, Blyth, for Boulogne, with damage, having
been in contact on the 9th inst. with a light brig, name un-
known. Sld. British Empire, Madras ; Rosebery, Bombay;
Skisilia, Boston; Evening Star, St. John's, New Brunswick;
and the rest of the outward bound.

SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 14.—S1d. Pacha steamer, Gibraltar.
DARTMOUTH, MARCH 13:-.-AlTd. S. Durham, Hartle-
pool for Phillipville, leaky, decks swept, loss of sails and
rigging, and part of cargo thrown overboard, having expe-
rienced very severe weather.
OFF DARTMOUTH, MARCH 13.—Margaretha, Batavia.
PLYMOUTH, MARCH 14.—Wind W.--Acrd. Trio, Cooper,
Buenos Ayres.
STANDGATE CREEK, MARCH 14.—Acrd. Royal Tar steamer,
Evans, Constantinople; left 16th ult.
OFF DOVER, MARCH 14.—Calder, Kennedy, Madras.
PORTSMOUTH, MAW,' 14.—Wind variable.--And. Gla-
diator, London, for New York. Sld. Y, Newfoundland.
CHEPSTOW, MAncif 12.—The Royal Oak, hence to Neath,
grounded on the Shoots, on the sth instant, but came off
with damage, and proceeded.
STOCKTON, MARCH 13.—The Bell Gowan, or Abel Gower,
from Berwick to this port, came ashore on Coition Sands,
during a heavy gale.
PORTRUSII, MARCH 11.—The Bridget, Pascoe, from Deny
to Liverpool, put in here yesterday, with. pumps choked, and
must discharge.
GALWAY, MARCH 9.-The Rosanna, Fenton; bound to
Gibraltar, has put in here with loss of bulwarks, and making
twelve inches of water per hour, and it is expected must dis-
charge.
LIMERICK, MARCH 12.—1 t has blown a very heavy gale
from W. to N.W. for the last twenty-four hours.
BARMOUTH, MARCH 13.—The jolly-boat of the Caroline,
from Liverpool to Africa,.-last at Pwllheli yesterday, has
reached the land about seven miles to the southward; with
seven of the crew, Nine others have come ashore in the gig
(three dead in the boat), and thirteen others were left in the
wreck. Mem.—An account from Aberdovey states the num-
ber saved at seven and eleven, and states that a quantity of
wrecked goods are to be seen in the bay.
RAMSAY, Isis OF MAN, MARCH 13.—The Lark, Norrii, of
Whitehaven, for Dublin, was run ashore at the mouth of this
harbour last night, leaky. :
DUMFRIES, MARCH 13.—The smack Jabez, from Liverpool
to Ballyshannon, was run ashore to the S.W. of Southerness
Lighthouse, in the Solway Firth, but may be got off ; part
of cargo saved.
_ _ _ _

COiK, MARCH 12.—1 t has been blowing a heavy gale ai
N.W. for the last 24 hours, with violent squalls, and con-
tinues, but with fine weather. _ _ •

WELLS, MARCH 14.—The Bertha, Fisher, from Hartlepool
for Lynn, is ashore at Hubstanton, and it is feared will re-
ceive damage.
LIVERPOOL, MARCH 14.-Wind S.E.—Arrd. Gulnare,
Stephenson, Possession Island, South Africa; Navigator,
Lefevre, Buenos Ayres, Dec. 29. Off, Islam, Barbadoes ;
Athens, Mobile. Sld. Earl 'Harewood, Madras; Xarifa,
Lima; Camoens and Huddersfield, Africa; Clio and Rival,
St. Lucia ; Eureguita, Havannah ; Columbus, Santa
Martha; Susan, Drew, Mobile; Frenaima and Sheridan, New
York ; Tamworth, Boston ; Caroline, Halifax. •
HULL, MARCH 14.—Wind N., light breeze.—Sld. Prince
of Wales, Greenland.
TORBAY MARCH 12.—Arrd. Ruby, Seville for London, in
distress, short of provisions, and mate washed overboard.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
There was a very dull market for Cotton at Liverpool
yesterday; sales, 2,500 bales. Prices were id. per lb.
lower than before the Hibernia arrived. Shares were, on
the whole, rather firmer. Birmingham and Gloucester were
831 ; Eastern Counties, 11/. 13s. 9d.„; Chester and Holy-
head, 61 ; Grand Junction, Half, 119 ; Birmingham, New,
411; South Western, Eighths, 41; Manchester and Leeds,
115; Midland Counties, 90; North Midland, Half, 451;
Paris and Lyons, 21. 13s. ; Paris and Orleans, 33/ ; Paris and
Rouen, 341.
Much interest is attached in banking circles of the City to
the proceedings of the delegates of the Private and of the
Joint-stock Banks to obtain concessions in their favour.
The result of a meeting of the delegates an-
nounced to be held yesterday afternoon upon this
subject is looked for with anxiety by all parties
above referred to. But it is much to be apprehended that
unless a most vigorous stand be made, that the Bank of
England will, in course of time, entirely absorb the entire
privileges of issuing notes payable upon demand. 'The policy
of the managers of the Corporation has been for some time
tending in this direction ; and how singular it is, that at a
period so closely approaching to that when the discussion must
commence relative to the renewal of the charter of the Bank
of England, which must, occupy a very considerable portion of
the attention of the Bank of England, a scheme should be issued,
offering advantages to such country banks as will consent to
give up issuing their own paper, and taking that of
the Bank of England on comnussion, for the purposes
'of conducting their private business, and upon
terms and more ready advantages than those now
possessed, we believe, by those establishments who use now
the notes of the Corporation. It is necessary to direct the
attention of the delegates now assembled in the Metropolis to
this subject.
A commercial correspondent in Upper Canada informs us
that not only is grain smuggled extensively across the bor-
der, but that American butter, cheese, lard, &c. is supplied in
vast quantities for shipment, as British Colonial produce, to
this country; and a paragraph in the Quebec Gazette of the
14th ult. confirms this assertion in the following extract of a
letter, dated Lacole (U. C.) :
" It is a notorious fact, that persons residing in the vici-
nity of the lines, who were never known before the passing
of the law to sell a single pound of butter or cheese, are now
freighting these articles in considerable quantities to Mon-
treal. Not only are the different kinds of American agricul-
tural produce daily brought into the province in contraven-
tion of the law, but the smile is the case with almost every
description of merchandise that can be procured cheaper on
the other than on this side of the lines.
"The truth is, every one who stands in need of either tea,
tobacco, sugar, molasses, whiskey, cotton, cloth, &c., passes
from one side of the lines to the other, on some pretence of
the above nature, without attracting the slightest notice, and
thus supplies himself at the expense of the revenue, and to
the prejudice of the Canadian merchant and mechanic—the
latter of whom, in order to compete with his neighbour on
the other side of the lines, must turn smuggler."
The Commissioners bought this morning 20,0001. Consols
at "98.
present
F per or the
moment
Ate. n tuhnet anvalue
equally high rate was paid. At
h slue for Account is 981, but for
The premium upon Exchequer
bills is firm at ,725. Bank Stock is at 1981; Long Annuities
Honey
ncc
lower.o
(of 1860) at 121; and these are the only quotations for the
day.
This is the half-monthly account to-day in the Foreign
Funds.s hyet, progressed well. Spa-
e Three Account have been quoted at 251,
angdenwereaal
; Portuguese Converted at 461;
Chilian Deferred at 501; Mexican at 36 ; Brazilian at an ad-
iiFive The
per
per Cents.
Cents. forat settlement3shas, as
t
vance to 83. In other Foreign Bonds the variation has been
slight.
In the Share Market not much business has been trans-
tlyminster Joint-Stock Bank
speakinprices have re-
Shares have advanced to 5i premium.
caecdteedd.thisThmeomLoinngd,and,
on

BRITISH FUNDS THIS
From the Mil DAY AT
t.) OWE O'CLOCK.
(d Lis
3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities.... O%U%
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 —
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. lees.
Bank Stock for Account 198%
Consols for Account ... ......' .... - ... 911%,‘
Exchequer Bills, IV. ..I.U.
1,0001.
5001. ..— ••••••• ..... 72 pm.
Ditto Small ..... ..... ':2 pm.
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto New Bonds. 1829 and 1839. .7eg
Ditto New, 1843
Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent............ .......... . .Li
Ditto Deferred
Columbian Bonds. 14% 15
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent „.••• 36
Ditto for the Account as
•
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto Converted 46%
Spanish Bonds. Five per Cent 1840 —
Ditto for the Account
Ditto Passive Bonds.
Ditto Three per Cent...... .... ................« 3S %
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent. ........ —
Ditto for the Account .......... .........» 4O
Dutch 2% per Cents•••••••••••••••••«••••••••••••••••• 57
Dutch 5 per Cents lO2 101%%
New Loan 1837, 5 per Cents. lOl%
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
umwait 11. PAID. Pal SWUM
Birmingham and Gloucester.... 100 .... 82 ......... to •-•
Bristol and Exeter
Chester and Holyhead
Eastern Counties
Ditto New Registered...... 81. 6s. Pd. •Lir ... to
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Lancaster and Carlisle 5. ..»..... 7 ... to
London and 81ackwa11........
London and Birmingham.: ..
..
Stock ••••••33.7 234 ••• to 235
Ditto New % Shares ...`.. .. ... .. .. 2 ..»•••••. 22% ..».. to 28
Midland Counties -
Norwich and Brandon ....... • 2 .....-- 7 674••• to 7%
North Midland ........... ..........7.... 100 ..•.•» 9l
Paris and Orleans 20 .... 34n•
... te ....
••••••••••••••••••••• ....
20
.. 34,
to _
Paris and Rouen
•••«• .
Rouen and Havre.
South Eastern and Dover .«...... 50 3534 ...... to
JOINT STOCK DANIS.
London Joint Stock lO .•.•...• 134 ...•. to .-
London and Westminster .......» 20
__ 23 to
- • -

IHANCIIESTER STOOK 11ANGE, MARCH 14.—There is
no animation in the market to-day, but prices remain pretty
stationary. The sales are':—Eastern Counties, 114 ; Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, 624 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 444 ;
North Union, 1044 ; Manchester and Liverpool District Bank,
104 ; Manchester Assurance, 104.

SOUTHWARK LITERARY INSTITUTION.—Mr. White
delivered a lecture on Astro-Meteorology, at this Institution,
on the evening of Wednesday last. In his exordium he pro-
duced a file of almanacks, from Moore's to Hannay and Co.'s,
and dwelt upon them with critical exactitude, dividing the
laurels promiscuously amongst them. In the course of the
lecture he took a wide And comprehensive view of his
favourite theory, which was illustrated by a variety of dia-
grams. In this part of the lecture we began to discover the
acuteness and profundity of a highly observant mind. That
Mr. White is a clever man has been attested by the best
authorities, and his intellectual and scientific acquirements
might better procure for him the admiration of the world if
less tinctured with egotism. Verbum sate--
The members of the orchestra under M. Jullien
have presented him with a handsome testimonial of esteem,
in the shape of a baton, superbly mounted with gold. This
is no more than a just tribute to his spirit and enterprise. It
has been manufactured by Mr. S. Cherrill, of Newcastle-
place, Clerkenwell, and is in the same style as those pre-
sented to Sir George Smart and Signor Costa. The follow-
ing is the inscription :—"Presented to M. Jullien by the
members of the orchestra, as a mark of the high admiration
they entertain for his musical talent, and in acknowledgment
of his liberal and gentlemanly conduct towards them during
his management of the. concerts at the Theatres Royal Eng-
lish Opera and Covent-garden. London, February, 1644."
Dramatic and 21logical