The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-13 00:00:00

Taloa SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, FPARUARY 13, (S 1 717,

tiation, or likely to be any, between this country and
the Brazilian Government for the conclusion of a
commercial treaty.
Sir R. PEEL replied in the negative.
After a few words from Mr. RICARDO and Mr. M.
Ginsort,
Lord JOHN RUSSELL asked if the Right Hon. Ba.
ronet intended to press the House to come to a deci•
sion on his financial scheme on Friday.
Sir R. PEEL would not, if any objections to his
financial scheme were made, press the House to come
to a decision on the subject on Friday.
The House then resolved itself into a Committp
of Supply. _ _

claimer, we are bound to believe they Atto, neither
id them, any communication with Railway Com-
panies. We are bound to accept, also, the Right
Hon. Gentleman's explanation of the retention of
the name of O'BRIEN on certain railway papers and
scrip. But Sir JAMES offered no sort of explanation
is to the grave charge, that secret information of the
.roceedings of the Board is notoriously obtained by
:ertain gambling speculators in the money market.
n England we cannot tolerate in public or official
unctionaries, this tampering with the integrity so
igidly demanded of them by the tone of society and
;le power of public opinion. The specific allegations
.t 4 our Contemporary are still answered but in part.
his important question remains :—How came

MON EN AND COMMERCIAL NE% S
t 1 >t, WttoNtsitet t: Vi)Nll4O.
Consols closed at 99# i for Money anti Aettnint ;
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., 1034 j- ; Exche-
quer Bills remained Ps in the morning.
Mexican Bonds receded to 344 1 ; Spanish Three
per Cents, were 41* 4. Brazilian new realised 88 ; ar.d
Dutch Five per Cents, f)9l,
The additional transactions in Railway Shares him
bean these : Caledonian were 1. to 2 ; Cankbridg.
and Lincoln. 2 ; Chester and Holyhead, 3 to 21 ;
Churnet /alley, 71 to 64- ; Corn Wail, 11
,i- ; Great
Southern and Western (treland), 61 ; Great North
of England, 75 ; Hull and Selby, 24 ; Harwich, 4 ;
Birmingham, 137 ; Brighton, 5 to 1 ; South -Western.
371 ; Croydon, 4 ; Lynn and Ely, 2f ; Manchester
and Leeds, 64 to 65 1 Ditto. Quarter, 12i ; Man
chester and Birmingham, 24 to 25 ; Midland, 261;
Newry and Enniskillen, * ; North British, 5 to 6 ; Ruby
and Tring, 24 t South Eastern, 141 ; Ditto, Nev% .
No. I, 15 ; Ditto, No. 2, 151 ; Trent Valley, 16 to
141 ; West Cornwall. 2+ i ; Yo•lc and North Midland
Half, 26 ; Ditto, Scarborough Branch, 22i 1 ; Ditto,
Ditto, Selby, 47 to 48 ; Great Northern of France,
15s. Bd. ; Lyons and Avignon, 4 ; Orleans and Bor-
deaux, 5 ; Paris and Orleans, 241 .i. ; Paris and Rouen,
221 i ; Tours and Nantes, 1 ; and Bordeaux and
Toulouse, 1 premium. Direct Northern have he. n 1 ;
Blackwall, 84 ; and Midland, Birmingham. and Derby,
81 discount. Provincial Bank of Ireland Shares were
194 premium.
(Fron The Sun of Lad Night.)
Prices continued to have an upward tendency in the Cot-
ton market at Liverpool, yesterday, and the quantity offered
was limited. Sales 6.000 bales, of which 2,000 were American.
—Shares were not very brisk. Midland and Birmingham
and Derby, 95; Birmingham and Gloucester, 1351,44 ; Bristol
and Gloucester, 59 ; Caledonian. 6% ; Cheater and Holy-
head, 81A ; Churnet Vallev,9% 8%; ; Dublin and Cashel, 7
Eastern Counties, ex. div., 171. 13s. ; Edinburgh and
Glasgow, New, 6% 14. ; Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle,
1% ; Ditto and Greenock, 14% ; Grand Junction,
2181/2 ; Ditto, Half, 10916 ; Great Western, 104% ;
Lancaster arid Carlisle, 2914 30; Liverpool and Manchester,
213%; Ditto, Half, 1063/4 ; London and Birmingham, 32/.
Shares, 43%; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 2914 1/2 ; Ditto and
South-Western, 78; Ditto and York, 6/., 51. 18s. 9d. ; Man-
chester and Birmingham, Quarter, 10% 11% ; Manchester
and Leeds, 136 ; Midland Counties, 40/. Shares, 84 %; New-
castle and Berwick, 15%; Sheffield and Manchester, 1041/2
104 ; South-Eastern, ex New, 401/, ; Ditto,,No. 2, New, 11% ;
Trent Valley, 161,4 15% ; Paris and Lyons, 3%; Northern
of France,-&%; Boulogne and Amiens, 5.
There are a few papers to September 11, from Sydney,
and to August 12, from Port Philip. The accounts repre-
sent trade as quiet, but the crops and clip of wool, from
their abundance, may bring the colonists round. The ad-
vices, we believe, are not quite so late as one or two letters
received overland.
Stocks are firm again to-day, and there is a steady busi-
ness doing. Consols are 99% % for Money, and 993/ %
for Account. Reduced Three per Cents. are 100% to 100%.
Bank Stock is worth only 212 to 1/4 • but India Stock has
improved to 28314. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents. are 1033/ to 104. Exchequer-bills continue much the
same, 545. to 565. premium.
There is still very little doing in Foreign Stocks. Spanish
Five per Cents. are 281. The value of Mexican Bonds is
only 35 to 14 ; Columbian, 14%; and of Chilian, 1011/2,
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are 63 to 14,
The Share Market is not so good, being influenced by the
settlement of the accounts, to take place to-morrow.
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock ...
3 per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consols ... 99%34% 99%
New 3M per Cents. 103% 104 10334 103-1,
Long Annuities to expireJan.lB6o 12 3-16 1-16 12 1-16
Ditto L'O years, Oct. 10, 1859... 11% 11 15-16
India Stock
India Bonds, 1,000/.. ...... ......
Ditto under 1,000/. ..
Bank Stock for Account ... 21214 212%
Consols for Account... ... ... 99% % 99%
Exchequer Bills, 1,0004, 11/2d.... 54 56 pin. 56
Ditto 5001. .
Ditto Small .. 54 56 pin. 56
oNE ' CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839.
Buenos Ayres Bonds 6 per Cent 44
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent... • ••• IC Iv,
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela I4IJ
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 35%
Ditto, Deferred Stock. 16%
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Converted
Peruvian Bolids, 6 per Cents 30%
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840
Ditto, Passive
Ditto 3 per Cent. ...... ... .. . - . 4114
Dutch, 2% per Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 9Bl/25/814%
Ditto, 5 per Cent — 991,4
PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK.
PRICES OF CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES
PRICES
Birmin and Gloucester. 1(X) 135 133 ••
Ditto New Shares .... 17% 33 ... %
Ditto Shares
Bristol and Exeter
Ditto New . . 2 ...... 64 ......
Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ...... 58 59 57
CaLNionian
Cambridge and Lincoln 1% 314 4
Chester and Holyhead... 5
m
Chichester and Brighton 5
Churnet Valley
Cornwall
Direct Northern
Eastern Counties 141. 16s. .. . 17%14%
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, Nia. 1—.4/. 13s. 4d I%
Ditto ditto, No 2. l3s. 4d...
Eastern Union
Ditto Extension
Great South. and West.
(Ireland)
Ditto Extension
Great North of England..100
Ditto New
Great Western BO lBl 180
Ditto Half Shares 5O lO2
Ditto, Fifths
iz
Guildford, Farn'm,Ports. 21/ ... .. 4%
Harwich
Hull and Selby 5O
Lancaster and Carlisle... 15
London .and Birminghm (5t0ck)...238
Ditto, Quarter Shares 2
London and Blackwall.. 16% 7%
London and Brighton... 50 5514 551%
London and S. Western. 41% 79 881/
Ditto New 2%
London and Croydon, ]3l. 15s. 9d. 1814 18
London and York • 2% 6%% 6
Lynn and Ely
Manchester and Leeds... 73
Ditto Quarters 4
Manchester and Birmin. 40
Ditto 14 Shares
Midland 100

The'CLIANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER announeo
that the sum proposed by the Government to mee
the demands of the current year would be 15,400;500'
After a few words from Mr. HUME and Mr. War.•
LIAMS on the subject of the reduction of the intere-
on Exchequer Bills,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in answer t(
questions from Mr. T. Baring, stated that the result.,
of the reduction of the Three-and-a-Half per Cent,
would mot become apparent until the accounts shoul
be made up in April, 1845, and that the whole of the
opium compensation money, with the exception of
1,500/. which was in dispute, had been paid up.
The sum of 15,400,5001. was then voted on accoure
of outstanding Exchequer Bills, and the House re-
sumed.

r. I). O'BRIEN to concur in the Board's report

.11 these projected lines in connexion with the South-
!:astern, seeing that the notice required by
the Standing Orders had not been deposited
within the utmost limit allowed ; that is, by
the 30th of November last? Perhaps Lord
GRANVILLE SOMERSET will take the trouble of insti-

toting these inquiries, and apprising Parliament of the
result of them. Some positive information of this kind
will not be long dispensed with, we are very confi-
,lent, either by the House of Commons or the public.

We have received Madrid journals of the 3d inst.,
but their contents are without interest. They con-
tain no accounts of rebellions, or plots, or the pronun-
ciamentos. The capital is quiet, so are the provinces,
and Spain at the present time may be pronounced one
of the most peaceful states in Europe : so well does
despotism suit the genius of the people.
On the 3d the Three per Cents. closed at 32i for
cash, and 33 at 60 days ; and the Fives at 24 at 60
days.

Sir R. PEEL was excused for serving on Election
Committees, and the House adjourned at Six o'clock.

When, on Saturday last, we directed attention to
the reply of Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET, in the
House of Commons, to a home question that had
been addressed to him by Colonel SIBTUORP, touching
the alleged connexion of certain members of the
Board of Trade Committee of Railway Bills Inves-
tigation, we had really no notion how near at hand
was a case for the protest we had entered
against the possible tendencies of the constitution of
the body in question, both in that article, and in three
or four other previous papers on the same subject,
which may be in the recollection of the readers of The
Sun. It certainly did appear to us extraordinary at
the time that a public servant of Lord GRANVILLE
SOMERSET'S high character—a man by no means, we
should venture to surmise, addicted to the se) ing of
very civil things where parties have committed them-
selves to any impropriety—should have given so
jejune an answer to the Gallant Officer's inquiry. It
was at least a significant hope that the latter expressed,
that there was no truth in the rumoured interest in
railway speculations attaching to certain parties
among those who were delegated to report to Parlia-
ment on the merits of new or competing lines of rail-
road coming before the Legislature for its sanction.
If Lord SOMERSET'S reply had been limited to his
simple protestation of entire ignorance on the subject
of this rumour, we should have had no comment to
make upon it. But for his Lordship to have coolly
replied to a charge against official functionaries
so grave as this rumour involved, "that if the parties
took his advice, they would get rid of all their shares
in such undertakings, if they had any, as speedily as
they possibly could," did strike us as a very trifling
manner of animadverting upon the mere assumption,
even, of so gross and palpable an impropriety. But, if
we were to believe the statement which has been
published in a paper of Sunday last, the matter
would almost cease to be any longer one of assump-
tion. It would look like "a great fact." The abuse
must exist. The opportunities of official station, in
this department, must have been scandalously perverted
to purposes of private emolument. There must then
have been, in effect, as we surmised there might be, by
possibility, an antagonist influence at work in shaping
the decisions of the Railway Committee, against
which neither the merits of schemes, nor the legiti-
mate expectations of the enterprising capitalists, could
have any just or equal chance. No man ought ever
to have permitted himself, we repeat, to sit at the
table of that Committee, who knew himself to be,
either directly or, indirectly, interested in railway
speculations of any kind. That he should be guilty
of the indelicacy of adjudicating upon suggested lines,
in the success or rejection of which the storing of his
own private pockets must be a result immediately in-
volved, would suppose a recklessness of public opinion,
an unscrupulousness of jobbing, an insensibility to the
sacredness of a high State or Parliamentary trust, to
which we should feel it difficult to apply any epithet
of sufficient strength to express our reprobation.
Now, the'S'ame journal had informed the world that
shortly afterthe appointment of Sir J. GRAHAM'S pri-
vate Secretary: jo a place at this Board, the brother
of that individual was engaged, at a large salary, as
manager. of the South-Eastern Railway line. Poor
Sir JAMES ! In one respect—only—his official course
is very like the course of true love—" It never doth
- run smooth." He is always in a false position.
Now writing didactic epistles to magistrates or
governors of gaols, on the philosophy of imprison-
, , ment; or the moral luxuries of inventing model
prisons, and enforcing the penalty of solitary confine-
ment for certain crimes and misdemeanours ;—now
breaking seals and opening letters in the sanctuary
of the British Post-office, and afterwards causing
them to be forwarded, surreptitiously re-sealed,
or to be clandestinely conveyed—not into the hands
of the parties addressed by their writers, but into
those of diplomatic or other agents of foreign
powers, for the secret information of the latter.
Anon—his bigotry or his intolerance is within
an ace of making shipwreck of the Government
which rejoices in his enviable co-partnership; and
again, he is at his tortuous modes of defeating large
and liberal plans of factory or of l opular educa-
tion ; of enhancing the privations and punishment of
parties imprisoned for debt; reforming prison and
Poor-law-union dietaries ; or endeavouring to trample
under feet the whole of the general practitioner
branch of the medical profession. In the case before
us, his private secretary,' a Mr. "D." O'BRIEN, hap-
pens to be appointed to a place at the new and salaried
Board of Railway Investigation Commissioners. It
further happens that the Mr. "W." O'BRIEN, who is
the subject of the Economist's statement, had
been appointed to that influential post in the South-
Eastern Railway, shortly after his brother's nomina-
tion to the aforesaid Commission. It happens
again, according to the Economist, that the
Mr. " W." O'B.—by a rare felicity of
speculative calculation buys several hundred
shares of his own Company's Stock or Scrip, at
the very moment that the price has declined
considerably in the market, on account of a manifest
informality which must have been fatal to the appli-
cation for the contemplated extension of the lines con-
nected with the South-Eastern, according to the
standing order of the House of Commons as to rail-
ways, this session ; but which informality is mys-
teriously cured by a report of the Board of Trade
Committee, "in favour of nearly all the said proposed
undertakings, and against nearly all their opponents.'
Finally, it happens that on the 18th ultimo, the fol-
lowing notice was posted "on the Stock Exchange
in the usual course of business :"—" If 100 New
Dover Shares, bought in the name of WILLIAM
'O'BRIEN, at 8f prem., are not delivered on the 22.1
instant, they will be bought in by J. W. SCOTT."
So far, the strange statement we have given on the
authority specified.
Is it a true statement ? Are the facts as stated, in
their relations to Mr. NV. O'BRIEN and his posi-
tion on the Staff of the South-Eastern Railway Com-
pany ? How did he get there ? Why was he selected
for that office ? Are we to infer that it was in virtue
of an old Irish mode or tnanceuvre of jobbing, wherein
a sort of moral influence used to be brought to bear
on the pliant convictions of men engaged in the
management of private or corporate affairs, that it
would be for their interest to make a small nest in
their establishment for some very worthy young
gentleman, a connexion of some other very worthy
person, in a high influential position ? The case as-
sumes so serious an aspect, that we still think the proper
authorities ought to be instructed by Parliament to
ascertain and report, first, who the Mr. O'BRIEN of
the Stock Exchange notice is; secondly, whether infor-
mation, in some unofficial shape, was afforded, and by
whom, to that Mr. W. O'BRtEN, on the possibility or
intention of the Board's overlooking the defective
notice, which was afterwards set right by the Board's
favourable report on this especial application to the
House of Commons ? Now, on Tuesday, Sir JAMES
GRAHAM most handsomely testified to the high and
honourable character of both the Messrs. O'BRIEN
alluded to in this nsatter, his former and his present
secretzrY• After the Bight Hon. Baronet's dis- •

in railway schemes is even
The rage fa. speculating
greater in France than in this country, and has ex-
cited serious alarm that the evil will go on increasing
till a panic takes place, the, bubble bursts, and tens of
thousands becomes the victims of their blind cupi-
dity-. From all . accounts this mania is not confined
to Paris, but extends very generally to the provinces,
as in England, and has such an alarming appearance,
that a Bill is to be brought into the Chamber of Peers
with the approbation of GovernMent, with a view to
check the evil. The anomalous state of the law is
thus pointed out by the Journal des Debals, with the
main provisions of the Bill, which is to be introduced
I forthwith :

" If we are well-informed, the spirit of wild speculation
which has been exhibited for some time past in railroads is to
give birth in an early sitting of the Chamber of Peers to a
proposition which some of the Members will bring forward
with the assent of the Government. Each day sees a new
company start up for lines already contended for by nume-
rous companies. The collective capital of the companies thus,
raised exceeds ten times the mass of the property that can be
appropriated to undertakings of this kind. This implies that
a great part of the subscriptions, the greater portion in all
probability, have no other object than gambling. The dis-
orders of 1830 have returned. In the present state of the law
whoever pleases may open a subscription, and may call fur
payment of the tenth or twentieth part of it, as he thinks fit.
The legislator supposed that in our free countries the citizens
had sufficient discernment to distinguish between the faun •
ders of companies who merit confidence sufficiently to obtain
funds, and mere speculators, who are capable of making an
abuse of deposits. But in that the legislator made abstrac-
tion of the moments, of which, duriag the last four years, we
have had so many examples, when madness seizes on spe-
culators, and the passion of gaming blinds a portion of
the public to such a point, as that men usually prudent seek
on any conditions after shares, no matter of what kind, ar.d
solicit bits of paper without, in return, demanding for their
money the smallest of those guarantees which ought never to
be dispensed with in the ordinary course of business. The
object of the proposition about to be brought before the Cham-
ber of Peers is to cut short not only the real disorders which
have taken place, but the greater scandals which are possi-
ble, and which must in all probability occur, as the fever
seems to increase each' day. It is henceforward to be for..
' bidden to open a subscription for any undertaking of public
works, of which a Bill had not previously authorised the con-
ces.4ion or adjudication. By that means the number of lines,
which might serve as an occasion or pretext for the creation
of a company, would be extremely limited. The contraven-
tion of this enactment is to be punished by the penalties of
imprisonment and fin inflicted by article 419 of the Penal
Code against manoeuvres at the Bourse. To, render sub-
scriptions more serious, and to prevent a real or ficti-
tious exaggeration of the nominal capital of affairs in
course of being organised, it is to be enacted that the
first payment must amount to a fifth at least. Severe
measures are to be taken to prevent the abuses to
which the deposits of considerable sums remaining for
a length of time in hands not very safe might give rise.
The time during which a subscription is to remain open is to
be exceedingly limited—not more than a month at most.
That delay being past, of two things, one either the subscrip-
tion has been made up, or the sums subscribed have been in-
sufficient. In the first case all funds paid into the projectors
are to be transmitted within a short delay, a week for instance
to the Caisse des Depots et Consignations, which is to pay the
interest to the Company, if the latter, having obtained the
concession, shall be definitively constituted, or to the sub-
scribers individually, if bolder or more fortunate competitor
shall become the persons to whom the adjudication is made.
In the second case—where the capital has not been sub..
scribed entirely—the repayment of the sums paid in is to
take place immediately after the expiration of the month."
theThcehalmatbee:u4rsiouweisriestats of
mtthheistryd:vjtisniodn
theby
ballot appears to have made a serious impression on
h e_
proposition of M. DUVERGIER D'HAURANNE to ab-
rogate vote by ballot, has been referred, with the
consent of the Government, to a Committee. On
Monday M. DUCHATEL, the Minister of the In-
terior, presented the Secret Service Money Bill, and
briefly adverted to the state of -the country. France
was at peace with all the World, good understanding
prevailed between her an—
d England, trade, manufac-
tures, and commerce had greatly increased, Algeria
had been conquered, and' was now peaceable. In
short, the country had never been in a more healthfu
or prosperous state ; and it
• was, therefore, for the
consideration of the Chamber, whether, by refusing
the usual vote, they would change the present system
of policy, or allow the KING'S Ministers to pursue
a course which had led to such happy results. They
had no wish to retain place except for the good of their
country, but should the vote be adverse, there
would be only one alternative left—their resignation.
The discussion on this Bill, which will include the
whole policy of the Government, is to commence on
Monday next, and in the meantime it will be sub-
mitted.to the different Committees. According to the
Constitutionnel, M. VILLEMAIN, the late Minister of
Public Instruction, whose health is completely re-
stored; complains bitterly of the conduct of the Mi-
nistry towards him He absolutely refuses to accept
the pension which they have obtained for him, and
insists, not only that the Bill for the grant should be
withdrawn, but that it be so done by an ordonnance.
This,- he maintains, is the best compensation they
owe him for the precipitation with which they have
heaped upon him the consequences of an affection
which, though serious, was but accidental and tem.
porary.
On Monday the Funds were rather more firm than
on the preceding days. The Three per Cents. were
quoted at 84f. 95c., and the New Loan at 85f. 90c.

43/4
138
14%
65
12
126%

Ditto New 2 ..... 8%...
Midland, Birm., Derby 100
Newcsstle and Darling-
ton Junction 24 ...... 70
Newry and Enniskillen. 21/ _
New,as: u and Berwick 1% ...... 1414% 13%
Newark and Sheffield ... 1%...... 2
North British ...... ..... 71/ l2l/ 131/2 13..
Ditto New 1
Norwich snit Brandon... 8
Ditto. New
Rugby,Wor'ster,&Tring 1
Shrews., Wolverhamp ,
Dudley, and Birm 2% 6 5% —
South Eastern & Dover 331
Ditto, No. 1
Ditto, No. 2.
• Ditto, No. 3 2% 10% 9% 934
South Wales 2% 53/4 6 514 . ...
rrent Valley
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 .. ... 31/s
West Cornwall 14....
York and North Midland 50 lO4 105
Ditto % Shares 25
Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 20
Ditto, Selby
Ditto Extension .. ... 11% —
FRENCH RAILWAYS
Boulogne and Amiens... 2
Bordeaux and Toulouse 2
Great North. of France.. 4
Lyons and Avignon
Orleans and Vierzon ... 2 ...... 12
Orleans and Bordeaux... 2
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Orleans 2O —
Tours and Nantes 1
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Provincial of Ireland ... 25
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 11.—We have had
a very large business doing, and prices generally have been
well supported :—Birmingham and Gloucester, 135 ; Ditto,
New Shares, 6 514 ; Blackburn and Preston, 14%; Bristol
and GlOucester, 58 ; Chester and Holyhead, 814; Edinburgh
and Glasgow, New Quarters, 6% ; Great Southern and Wes-
tern (Irish) Extension, 6% ; Manchester and Leeds, Six-
teenth Shares, 6%; Manchester and Birmingham, 641% 64;
Ditto, Quarter Shares, 11 4 ; Manchester, Bury, and Rossen-
dale, 1034 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 106 1051 • Ditto,
Quarter Shares, 13; York and Selby, 50/. Shares, 691 A ; Bir-
kenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 63/4 ; Black-
burn, Darwen, and Bolton, 414 ; Caledonian, 63/4 11-16;
Cambridge and Lincoln, 37% %; Churnet Valley, 81% 1/8 ;
Dublin and Belfast Junction, 6; Huddersfield and llla-
nchester Railway and Canal, 5% 3/4 ; Leeds and West Riding
Junction, 5% ; London and York, 6 %; Sheffield and Lin-
colnshire Junction, 1%; Shrewsbury, Oswestrv, and Chester
Junction, 314 ; Southport and Euxton, 31/Q ; Trent Valley,
16; West Yorkshire, 4% 14 ; Great Northern of France
(English), 5% ; Tours and Nantes, 425. ; Rochdale Canal, 54.

THE BOURSE—MoNDAT, FEB. 10.

first Highest Lowest - Last

Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents•• •• •• 122 30 122 50 •• 122 25 .. 122 50
Three per Cents••••• 84 75 84 85 84 70 .• 84 75
New Loan •••••••• 85 90 .. 85 85 .. 85 90 •• 85 85
Bank of France.•... 3280 -.3280 ••3270 -.3270
Gouin Bank. I,ooof. Shares • • 1085 . • 1085 1085 ..1085
tfelgllll2 Bank ..•••••••••••• 647 50 -• 647 50 .. 647 50 647 50
Reigian Fives, 1840 .........104% •• 104% .. 104% .. 104%
1842 106% .. 106% 106% 106%
Araniab Threes ...... 4114 .. 41 % • • 41 • . 41%
Rosner •• • ..... 195 105 • • 105 • • 105

At the meeting held yesterday at Euston-square
terminus, the Birmingham Railway Company an-
nounced that they had taken the Trent Valley and
the Churnet Valley projected railways, by which
means the Birmingham Company will command the
traffic throughout fr.mn London to Manchester. This
is a bold, politic, and rather monopolising move.
Last week a robbery of Bank notes in the Queen's
Prison was committed under the following mysterious
circumstances:—lt appears that a prisoner, named
Gerard Harvey, of Southampton, at which place
his family resides, and who has been an inmate for
some months, has been in the habit of receiving
remittances by cheques on various occasions. On
Saturday morning he received a cheque for 30/.,
which he intrusted to a man named Tucker to get cashed,
who brought him six 5L Bank of England notes. which
he carefully deposited in a trunk in his sleeping apart-
ment. A charwoman, named Cornwall, was left in the
room to clean it. Shortly afterwards, upon unlocking
his trunk, he found that the whole of the notes had
been abstracted, the lock having been most inge-
niously picked, and afterwards relocked. Mr. Harvey
immediately communicated his loss to Captain Hud
son, the keeper, when a most minute investigation was
instituted before the keeper, Mr. Eversham, the depaty-
keeper, and Mr. Charles Calveli, the clerk, which re-
sulted in ordering the charwoman to be lock. d out. The
aid of the detective police was called in to furthfr
tigatithe matter. The numbers of the notes have been
ascertained,-and payment stopped at theliank.

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND
Pittitir Optitton.

" 11 ho ,uns troy read."

roaEiGN.

On Saturday evening their Majesties the King aild Queen of the
French received the Belgian and Sardinian Amt assatiora, the Ba.
varian and Dutch Mmisters, the Dulc. de Mortemart, counts
d'Hautpoul and de Bondy Admiral Baron Rotissin, Generals
Baudrand and Pelletier, M. Laplagne-Barris, and M. de Cam.
haceres.
On Sunday and Monday the weather was excessively cold at
Paris. On Sunday morning at six o'c lock Fahrenheit thermo.
meter marked 22 degrees, and must have been considerably lower
during the night,
At Pau on the sth snow had fallen for 36 hours, and was nearly

a foot deep.
The number of wolves in the north and east of the department
of the Ardennes is said to be enormous at present. Not less than
twenty.three have been killed this winter in the neighbourhood of
MontOn and in the canton of Rancourt.
The Revue de Paris says ;—" A new department is about to
be created at the Ministry of Public Works. It will be confided
to M. Taisserene, who was recently appointed central commis
stoner of railroads. Its mission will be to receive ane sollect all
statistical Information important to railroads, canals and public
works in general."
On Saturmy evening a considcrab'e force of police. headed by
a commissary suddenly visited the Cafe du Puy.de.Dome and the
caveau on the Boulevart du Temple, both kept by a man named
Picard, and the notorious resort of thieves. The police arrested
more than two humired persons who were assembled. They were
all sent to the depot of the Prefecture of Police.
M. Rolland, the well.known butcher, who for many years has
been the purchaser of the " Bceuf gras," exhibited at the Carnival,
has gone to England to offer hei Majesty the Queen a round of beef
from the finest animal that ha* ever been killed in France.
The daughter of the celebrated dower-painter Redoute died a
few days ago. Of the whole of h►s family, the only bur►ivor now
left is his widow, who is aged 80.
Admiral Emeriau, Peer of France, and Grand Cross of the Le-
gion of Honour, died at Toulon on the 2d, aged 83.
We learn from St. Petersburgh that, on the 16th tilt., Prince
Lieven, General of Infantry, and formerly Minister of Public In-
struction, died at his es: ate, in the province of Courland, in his
78th year.
The Harnburgh Correspondent says—" We have reason to
believe that Holland intends to make concessions to the Zollverein,
which will bear the palm over those of Belgium. The transit will
be free of duty, and German vessels will be on the same footing as
the Dutch, which will insure to Holland the transmission of Ger.
man merchandise to the provinces beyond sea, besides considerable
advantages to the colonies. German ships will have to pay a duty
pro fornra, but it will be re'urned to them on their arrival in a
Dutch port."
We learn from Wiesbaden that the interment of the Duchess

Elizabeth of Nassau, Grand Duchess of Russia, and her infant
daughter, took place on the Ist inst., at seven in the evening, with
great pomp, in the Russian chapel. The Duk. , accompanied by
his brother-in-law, the Prince de \Vied, followed the coffins on foot
from the Palace. _ _

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The Observer of the Rhine states from Vienna that the Duke of
Saxe Coburg was, on the 28th ult., pronounced out of danger by
his physicians
AS. letter from Rome, Jan. 25, says :—" The Roman Carnival

commenced to..lay with the usual ceremonies. The servants of
the Capitol went through the streets at an early hour to the
sound of trumpets, bearing the prizes tor the horse-races. The

ancients of Ghetto went to the Capitol to ask the Senate per-
mission to reside another year at Rome. When this formality
was over, the members of the Senate proceeded in state to the
Corso, where all the troops of the garrison were passed in review "
On Saturday last the diligence of the Messageries Royale* from
Paris to Rennes was robbed of two bags of money, containing
each 10,000 f., which had been placed on it at Laval. The rob.
bery, which was discovered at Rennes, is supposed to have been
committed by some nzrsons who were taken up at Laval, but who
made their disappearance before the diligence reached its place of
destination."