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LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1845.

The House of Commons met at Four o'Clock.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL presented the report of the
Committee of Privileges, in the case of HOWARD V.
GOSSETT. The discussion on this subject will take place
to-morrow—(this day.)

Mr. HENRY BERKELEY then moved for a Select
Commitee, to inquire into the operation of the Insol-
vency Act of last Session, with a view to remedy
the hardship inflicted by that Act upon creditors below
201. On receiving an assurance from Sir J. GRAHAM and
the SOLICITOR-GENERAL that the subject had occupied the
attention of the Government, and that the LORD CHAN-
CELLOR was about to introduce a measure to remedy the
evils complained of, the Hon. Member withdrew his
motion.

Mr. Sergeant MunpriY then brought forward the
questions of the payment of Ministers' Money in Ireland.
No decision was, however, come to, as the House was
counted out shortly after the Learned Sergeant had con-
cluded his statement.

The opposition made by the Catholic prelates of Ire-
land to the Academies Bill is an unfortunate occurrence
at the present time, as it will be mixed up with the
Maynooth affair, and throw difficulties in the way of
the Government, which may tend very much to mar
,their plans for restoring peace to that country. It ap-
pears to us that the Irish bishops attach too much
importance to the question of religious education in col-
leges. In England the practice of teaching divinity to all
the students at the two Universities has become obsolete,
and it never existed, as far as we are aware, at any of
the five collegiate institutions in Scotland. Our northern
neighbours, as all the world know, have not suffered
on that account. They have neither become in-
fidels, nor Roman Catholics, nor Episcopalians, but
adhere as religiously to the Kirk and the religious tenets
of KNOX, and the other fathers of the Calvinistic Church,
as they could have done, had they never heard of any
other system of belief. Why, therefore, should the Ca-
tholics be afraid ? If their religion cannot stand upon
its merits, there must be something in it radically
bad or defective, and it is rather disparaging to Irish-
men to insinuate that, if they are not watched by their
priests and constantly steered in the right way, they will
become Protestants or infidels. There is not the
slightest ground for such fears, and it would
be well, therefore, for the heads of the Church
to weigh all the circumstances well before
they make demands on the Government which
must be inconvenient, and may be ruinous to the best in-
terests of their country. The mixed education in the
National schools, they know, works well ; Catholic and
Potestant children learn the rudiments, and some of
the higher branches of instruction together in the
same classes, and we have not beard that
any proselytes have been the result on either side.
What fear can there be that attempts of the kind will be
made, or be successful, upon young men whose religious
feelings are already formed, who still may have daily
opportunities of attending their own churches, and
receiving religious instruction from their pastors ?
Besides, they ought to remember that in this world of
difficulties, mankind cannot obtain all that they may de-
sire, or that they believe really good. Parties who
differ in opinion must yield a little, allowance must be
made for prejudices, national as well as religious, and
mutual forbearance be cultivated, else civilised society
would become more intolerable than even the wildest bar-
barism. We have strong hopes, therefore, that the
Irish prelates will endeavour to meet the views of the
Government as far as they can with a conviction, of
safety, and have no doubt that on the other side
every disposition to conciliate will be willingly shown.
It is a fortunate circumstance that the present Lord.
Lieutenant is one qualified for such a juncture, and pos-
sesses a knowledge of the world, and an amenity
of temper, joined to sterling abilities, which have already
surmounted great difficulties in important negotiations.
The reply which Lord HEYTESBURY made to the pre-
lates, on receiving the deputation, augurs well for
the cause. According to the Dublin Evening Pat,
his Excellency expressed his conviction that " the
Government would pay the utmost attention to opinions
and suggestions coming from such a source, and with
the best disposition to adopt those suggestions, so far as
they could do so consistently with their duty. The de-
cision upon those points would rest with the Govern-
ment, who, he felt assured, were most anxious to
provide for the moral guardianship of the pupils,
and to prevent any possible interference with the reli-
gion of any class. Looking to the various suggestions
in the memorial, his Excellency stated it as his own
opinion, that no serious obstacle was likely to arise on any
point but one, namely, the vesting the appointments in
a board of trustees, as the Government, he thought,
would have a decided objection to such an arrangement,
which could not be expected to work satisfactorily."

The dreadful catastrophe at HAGGETT'S Hotel on Mon-
day night, or rather the morning of Tuesday last, was
one of the most distressing we have had to record since
the commencement of the present year, prolific as that
has already proved in domestic horrors. So distressing
a sacrifice of human life, under circumstances so fear-
fully contrasted, in some of their associations, with the
deplorable event that they resulted in, may well seem to
carry with it to all hearts its own impressive lesson on
the frailty of human existence, and the evanescence of
those gifts of nature and fortune which all ranks of civi-
lized society so extravagantly prize. But we do not
affect to discharge the duty of moralists in adverting to
it. Our object is to claim once more the attention, nct
of the municipal, not of the police authorities
of this great city, but of the Legislature itself
to that scandalous deficiency of precautionary
and protective arrangements, in sudden and alarming
exigencies, that ought to be always available, at certain
known stations, in sufficiently numerousi districts,
for the purposes of succour and refuge. We have so,
often, in common with other journalists, pressed upon
the police magistracy and the parochial authorities of
the metropolis the responsible duty that devolves upon
them of providing such means, and duly organising their
supply and application, that we slunild despair—were
we to renew our appeal to them— of doing so with any

greater degree of success than has attended our former '
efforts. It is really high time that the Secretary of
State for the Home Department should introduce some
measure on this subject, with clauses of sufficient strin-
gency to ensure for its enactments a faithful and vigilant
execution. Fire-escapes ought to be, undoubtedly,
deposited in some permanent locality in each
of a given number of districts, into which
the city and liberties 'of Westminster and
their suburbs, for example, might be divided for such
a purpose, without delay. Every possible means should
be adopted for giving the most extensive publicity to all
these details. The deposit, and the prompt supply
of these escapes, should be made with, and required of,
responsible parties, paid for the discharge of these duties,
and amenable in heavy penalties for any neglect of
them. To each of these district stations at least one
messenger should be attached, in order to ensure at all
hours instant communication with the nearest establish-
ment of the fire brigade. In this way there would be
no time lost on the outbreak of a fire—first, through the
absence of any party specially charged with the duty
of looking out for such accidents; secondly, by rea-
son of the distance of the point to be applied to ;
thirdly, by that uncertainty which often produces
irreparable delay with regard to the precise direc-
tion in which fire-engines and fire-escapes are to
be carried, even after the fact of a fire having broken
out is ascertained by the brave and active men who
know not in what direction to hasten. It may be ob-
jected by some that an organised system of this kind,
simple as the plan would be, would entail on parties au
objectionable expense. Such an objection would really
not be tenable, however ; for the expense would form
almost an imperceptible item in the general amount of
the parochial expenditure. But if it did—would pa-
rishioners hesitate to pay an insignificant increase of
rates to sleep in comparative security against the possi
bility of casualties, fraught with such terrible extermi-
nation, as the calamitous fires occurring among them?
In the destruction of RAGGETT'S Hotel the lady of
a Member of Parliament has perished ; her daughter
escaped, but only by an almost miraculous fortune,
merited, se may add, by the exhibition of a
mot meritorious self-possession. An Earl and his
Countess narrowly escaped destruction ; the noble
father only just succeeds in snatching his infant heir
from the devouring flames, which had already began to
gather round his cot—and, horrible to relate, afterwards
consumed his faithful attendant. In a gallant effort to
rescue one of the inmates of that blazing house—(the
ill-
fated lady of the Member for Maldon, who had arrived
in town only the day before, to be present at the QUEEN'S
Drawing-room on the following Tuesday),—the owner and
landlord of the devoted house perishes with her ; and
nothing has been found to attest or to identify their
mortal remains, but blackened, burnt, and mutilated
masses of undistinguishable humanity. The unfortu-
nate landlord's daughter perished by a fate almost
equally deplorable—falling to the ground before the
fire-escape could be properly applied to her chamber
window. The lady in whose bed-chamber the fire com-
menced is rescued with extreme difficulty, and five other
ladies, aroused from their beds, are saved from
the balconies of the drawing-room windows.
If a calamity so awful in its destruction of human life
could be aggravated by the destruction of valuable pro-
perty, that incident of aggravation has not been wanting
in this case. The unfortunate Mrs. ROUND is supposed
to have had with her the jewels on which she fondly,
perhaps, and naturally looked forward to making her
obeisance to her SOVEREIGN, at the Court of Tuesday ;
and they arc valued, it is said, at a considerably higher
amount than even those of the Countess of Husurtnu-
non's, worth 3,000/., and also sacrificed in the flames.
Mr. KING, the father of the lady in whose apartment the
fire originated, had with him a very valuable chest of
plate, which has been, doubtless, melted in the ruin.

Now the fire was seen and the house alarmed, by one
or two active and intrepid men servants, and an omnibus
time-keeper, very shortly after midnight; yet, strange
to say, we find no account of any combined or active
exertions of the police. It was an opera night, and
the French company had been giving a performance at
the St. James's Theatre. There must have been plenty
of the constabulary within reach ; but, somehow or
other, as we have too often occasion to remark, they
are seldom to be found when they are most wanted.
And when two or three do present themselves in such
scenes of unofficial exigency and alarm, we never hear
of bold and disinterested exertions to save human life
in fearful jeopardy. That they should not have assem•
bled on the spot long before Mr. Inspector BERESFORD
marshalled them—which was precisely when all the mis-
chief was done, all the loss of life and property per-
fected—is surely highly discreditable to the vigilance,
and reflects little credit on the courage of this highly-
paid and much-eulogised, but, too often, very inefficient
force. We have nothing to complain of in their subse-
quent deportment, or their services in protecting the
ruins from intrusion ; but why were: they not at hand
to snatch the inmates of the house from the flames ?
They should bo kept in much stricter training, and be
much more easily got at, to justify the enormous charge
of their establishment. According to the evidence of a
witness at the inquest, the man who had charge of the
escape ladders was totally unfit for duty, or all the vic-
tims might have been saved. This shows what might
have been done by the prompt and strict superintendence
of the police.

We have received Madrid journals of the 21st inst.
On that day the Cortes met for the last time previous
to the prorogation. No business was done ; but in the
Chamber of Deputies some questions were put, respect-
ing the news from Rome, evidently intended for the
Ministers, hut no Minister was present. One of the
speakers said, a petition, signed by several Deputies,
had been presented to the President, demanding an
extraordinary meeting of the Chamber, for the purpose
of hearing explanations from the Government on the
relations between Spain and the Court of Rome ; but
the President informed him the petition was not signed
by the requisite number, and, of course, was invalid.
Another speaker complained of the absence of Ministers,
and the President, finding there was no business
before the Chamber, pronounced the adjournment,
and at that moment three Ministers, MARTINEZ
DE LA Rosa, Mot, and PEDAL entered. They
were surprised, or pretended to be surprised,
that the Chamber was adjourned, and thus escaped
some questions which they might not find it convenient
to answer. In reference to the objections of the POPE
to the propositions of the Spanish Ambassador at Rome,
the Herald() says :—" It cannot be doubted that the
Court of Rome will acquiesce in the fundamental terms
of the treaty, which are the political acknowledgment of
the Queen of SPAIN, and the religious sanction of the
sales of national property. The Holy Father's assent is
only accompanied with some restrictions, upon which it
is difficult to pronounce, as they are not sufficiently
known. But it may be safely affirmed that there is great
exaggeration in the rumours in circulation." Rumours
prevailed, and they seem not to be without foundation,
that NARVAEZ has fallen into disgrace at Court, and
that a serious misunderstanding exists between him and
Queen CHRISTINA. Don CARLOS, according to accounts
from different quarters entitled to full credit, has at last
resigned his claims to the throne of Spain, in favour of
his son, the Prince of Asturias. The consequence of
this, it is anticipated, will be the marriage of the QUEEN
with that Prince, in order to put an end to the dispute
about the succession. Louis PHILIPPE, with his usual
skill, is said to have arranged this affair.
On the 21st the Three per Cents. closed at 32i for
cash, and 33i for account ; and the Fives at 24i for ac-
count ; Debt, without interest, at 60 days, 81.

It appears from the Paris papers that Marshal Bu-
GEAUD had commenced operations against ADD-EL-
KADER atd his adherents, and that several skirmishes
had taken place, ending in favour of the French. The
Moniteur publishes two dispatches from the Marshal to
the Minister at War, dated the 6th and 9th of May.
In the first he announces his arrival in the Ouaren-
is, and his preparatory movements. In the second
he gives an account of two affrays on the 14th, between
the rear-guard of a convoy and about 500 Kabyles, who
attacked it. The enemy were beaten off with the loss
of several killed and 20 prisoners. The French, who
had only eight killed and 15 wounded, captured 300
head of cattle, and made other booty. Another affair of
slight importance took place on the following day. Mar-
shal BUGEAUD states that, in the evening of the 14th,
some tribes made their submission. The entire insurrec-
tion in the Ouarensenis was caused, he says, by the
same Scheriff, who raised the Dahra, and who presented
himself as a kind of prophet sent by GOD to delive Al-
geria from the Christians. Two other impostors, how •
ever, are stated to have appeared, one in the Mountain
and the other in the Dahra. Marshal BIIGEAUD attri-
butes these revolts to ABD-EL-KADEIt, who was expected
in that quarter. Some additional particulars had been
received respecting the treaty with Morocco. The
Journal des Debats, in an article on the subject,
which probably speaks the opinions of the Govern-
ment, says—" Fresh intelligence leads us to believe
that this affair is far from having the gravity which bas
been attributed to it, and that it is not of a nature to
compromise the solution of the secondary difficulties
which still remain to be arranged with our neighbour in
Africa." It then gives the following letter from Tan-
giers, dated May 10 :
"The circumstances which have suddenly arrested the ratifica-
tionofthe convention lately concluded for fixing the limits of the
frontiers, are clearing up more and more, and this unexpected
obstacle appears to possess less gravity than could be at fiat {up.

posed. The convention was intended to seek out and fix the
ancient limits of Algeria, such as they existed when this possession
was under the domination of the Porte. But it would seem
that in the convention negotiated between the plenipoten-
tiaries of France and Morocco, the primitive object had
been exceeded, and that a large portion of territory belonging to
Morocco had been assigned to France. When the text of the
convention was sent to the Emperor, the chiefs of the Kabyles,
neighbouring to the frontiers, were in his presence, and he com-
municated to them what had been done. They all cried out
against it unanimously, declaring that the frontier marked
in the convention was very different from that recognised
before the French conquest, and that the new arrangement took
from them a portion of territory which had belonged to them
from generation to generation. In reply to their pressing com-
plaints, the Emperor had to assure them that it was never in-
tended to encroach on their rights, but simply to fix the
ancient limits of the Turks. A fact which, besides, would
seem to prove that the designation of the frontier was still a
subject of doubt, is that the convention was only signed, it
is positively asserted, by one of the two Plenipotentiaries of
the Emperor, the Caid of Ouchda. The second Sid-
Ahrned-Elkadir, refused to affix his signature, for the rea-
sons which afterwards determined the Emperor himself."
That journal adds :—" At no period, and in no part of the world,
have questions of frontiers been easy to decide. We may point to
the frontiers of Belgium and Holland as an example, they having
been only recently fixed definitively. We may also mention the
frontiers of the English possession in North America, which were
in dispute for awards of fifty years, and which were de-
cided only two years back. That did not, however, pre-
vent England and the United States from living in peace for thirty
years, as they do at present, although their limits are again con-
tested on another side. We do not see, therefore, why difficulties
which between two civilised nations are habitually resolved by
means of negotiations ought to be arranged otherwise when one of
the parties is what is called a barbarous nation."

Several of the journals advert to a letter said to have
been addressed by Queen POMARE to Louis PHILIPPE,
and published in some of the London papers, but it is
so evidently the work of missionaries that it requires no
particular notice. The Presse very correctly thus gives
its origin :

" The hatred of the missionaries to the Catholic religion,
and to the French name, betrays itself in every line of this
long address. What is most striking and most characteristic
is, that the Queen has sent a copy of her letter to Kame-
hameha, third King of the Sandwich Islands, with a request
that he would insert it in the Polynecian, an English
journal, published in Honolulu. How probable that this
recourse to the press should be the act of a poor ignorant
woman Moreover, her letter is countersigned by a certain
George Platt, and its contents breathe from one end to the
other the perfume of the doctrines preached at Exeter-hall."

The Basle Gazette states that Dr. STEIGER has re-
ceived his pardon ; but we find by a letter from Lucerne
of the 23d that the statement is unfounded. It appears,
however, that the Executive Council has been called
upon to report, in the event of the life of Dr. STEIGER
being spared, what means can be adopted of preventing
his disturbing in future the tranquillity of the country.

The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse, on Tues-
day, at 85f. 85c. ; the New Loan, at 86f. 20c. ; the Five
per Cents. at 121 f. 80c. ; Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,230 f. ;
Rouen, 1,115 f. ; Vierzon, 830 f. ; Havre, 892 f. 50c.; Avig-
non, 1,0551. ; Basle, 270 f. ; Spanish Actives, 39%; Spanish
Three per Cents., 41% ; Spanish Passives, 7%.
The following are the quotations for the new lines:-
Orlears and Bordeaux, 210 f. premium ; Boulogne, 100 f.
ditto ; Troyes and Montereau, 47f. 50c. ; Paris and
Lyons (Laffitte), 18f. 75c. ; ditto (Calon), lf.; ditto (Gan-
neron), 10f. ; Northern line (Laffitte), 32f. 50c.; ditto
(Rosamel), Bf. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 10f.;
ditto (Drouillard), par; ditto (O'Neill), 15f. ; ditto (Jacques
Lefevre), par ; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 18f. 75c.;
ditto (Talabot, 35f. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale),
10f. ; Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie), 4f. 50c. ; ditto
and Cette (Espeleta), 15f. ; Creil and St. Quentin, lf. 50c. ;
Paris and Strasburg (Ganneron), 12f. 50c.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—The number of deaths
during the week, ending May 24, is the smallest, we be-
lieve, on record since the establishment of the Registrar-
General's office, being only 810—less than that of the pre-
vious week by 25, and than the average of five springs by 78,
and showing a diminution, in less than two months, of about
500. The number about the beginning of March exceeded
1,300. It is gratifying to find, too, that there is a decrease
under every head, if we except small-pox and measles, and
even in these instances the increase does not exceed ten in
the former, and four in the latter. The decrease in diseases
of the organs of respiration is most remarkable, the total
being 227, while the average for five years is 292. Bron-
chitis, pneumonia, and consumption have been much less fatal
than usual. The deaths from old age are 54, average Cl,
and the violent deaths only four, two of which are suicides.
The deaths from small-pox are 25, and occurred at the fol-
lowing ages :—Seven under one year; three 1-3; four 3-5 ;
six 5-10; three 10-15; and two 20-30 years. In one case
the age is not specified.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The supply of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday was plentiful,
but the trade bought 7,000 bales at Friday's rates ; 500 were
Surat, and realised 21/2d. to 314 d., 500 Pernam 5%d. to
55/d.., 100 Egyptian 6d. to 81/2d., and the rest American
3%d. to sd. per lb. A good business was done in
Shares at firm prices, and the market was steady.
Barnsley Junction, 5; Ditto, Half Shares, 2%; Birkenhead
and Cheshire Junction, 9% ; Belfast and County Down, 1%;
Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 123/4 ; Caledonian, 10 914 ;
Ditto Extension, 2% ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 6% ;
Cambridge and Oxford, 6s. ; Chester and Birkenhead, New
Shares, 48; Ditto, Half Shares, 2614 ; Clitheroe Junction,
21. 38s. 94. ; Clydesdale Junction, 9 8% ; Dublin and Belfast
Junction, 10% ; Dublin and Galway, 33/4 ; Dundee and Perth,
3%1 Dundalk and Enniskillen, 43/4 ; Eastern Counties, New
Shares, 9 6s. ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 65 66 ; Ditto, New
Quarters, 6% 14; Edinburgh and Northern, l%; Edinburgh
and Perth, Is. 6d. ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 335. 495. ; Glas-
gow and Ayr, 61 ; Grand Junction, Half Shares, 116 ; Ditto,
Eighth Shares, 20%; Great North of England, 30L Shares,
30% 34 ; Great Western, 187 ; Ditto, Fifth Shares, 42 ; Goole
and Doncaster, 11/2 % ; Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 63A
Leicester and Birmingham, 9s. 6s. ; Limerick and
Waterford, 8 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 51s. 6d.;
London and Birmingham, 321. Shares, 46 ; Ditto, Quarter
Shares, 34 3414 ; Londonderry and Enniskilen, 4%; London
and York, 414 6s. 3d. ; Direct Northern, 314 ; Leeds and
Thirsk, 6% 5/ ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 8% 6s. 3d. ;
Lynn and Dereham, 433. 6d. ; Manchester and Leeds, Half
Shares, 701/2 ; Matlock and Midland, 78s. 6d. 33/4 ; Midland
Railway, 180 : Ditto, 401. Shares, 2154 ; Ditto. Fifth Shares,
33/4 ;Ditto, Consolidated Birmingham and Derby, 1403/4 ;
Newcastle and Berwick, 17 16% •, Newry and Enniskillen, 4 ;
North British, Half Shares, 5 514 ; North Kent, 965. ; North
Western, 4% 43/4 ; Oxford and Birmingham Junction, 3%;
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 2% 41s. ; Preston
and Wyre, 3014 ; Runcorn Gap. Preference Shares, 36%;
Sheffield and Manchester, 120 ; Ditto Quarter Shares,ls
Sheffield and Lincoln, 1% 38s. 6d. ; Shrewsbury, Wolver-
hampton, and Birmingham, 5; Shrewsbury, Oswestrv, and
Cheshire, 314; South-Eastern and Dover, 43 4314; *Ditto,
New Shares, No. 1, 15%; Ditto, No. 2, 131/, ; Ditto, No. 3,
7 ; Scottish Midland, 214 ; South Wales, 514 ; Trent
Valley Continuation, 18s. 11. ; Ulster, 48%; Waterford and
Kilkenny, 334 ; Welsh Midland, 20s. 21s. 6d. ; West York-
shire, 21/2 23/4-; Worcester and Tring, 41/2 ; York and Car-
lisle, 1 ; York and North Midland, New Half Shares, 1814 ;
Northern of France (Laffitte's), 55 ; Ditto (Rosamel's),
English, 465. 3d. ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 11 ; Paris
and Lyons (Laffitte's), 21. 9s. ; Paris and Lyons (Gan-
neren';), 2% ; Paris and Lyons (Calon's), 395. ; Paris and St.
Quentin, I/. 6s. 6d. ; Sambre and Meuse, 10%.
MANCIIESTEE STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 28.-The sales are
-Barnsley Junction, 51/8 1-16; Ditto, Half Shares, 2% ;
Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire, 914 ; Blackburn,
Darwen, and Bolton, 5 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 123 i ;
Caledonian, 10 9' • Ditto Extension,2%; Churnet Valley,
5% ; Clitheroe Junction, 2 % prem. ; Direct Northern,
314 ; Eastern Counties, Ditto New, 414 prem. ; Glasgow
and Dumfries, 1% 2%; Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield, and
Manchester, 1%; Guildford, Chichester, and Portsmouth,
5.%; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 63/4 ;
Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 6 7-16 ; Leeds and
Thirsk, % ; Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 81/2).il ;
Leeds and West Riding Junction, 71/2 7 ; Leicester and Bir-
mingham, 4s. 7s. 6d. prem. ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and
Preston, 2% 11.16 ; London and Windsor, ss. 6d. 6s. prem. ;
London and York, 414 41. ss. 6d. ; Manchester, Bury, and
Rossendale, 15% 3/4 ; Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and
Midland Junction, 4%; Manchester and Birmingham Con-
tinuation and Welsh Junction, 2 1% ; Manchester and Leeds,
Quarter Shares, 21%; Midland Railway Consols, 40/. Shares,
213/4 22 ; Ditto, Birmingham, and Derby, 137 ; Newcastle
and Berwick, 1714 17 ; North British, New Shares, 5% ;
North Western, 4% 9-16; Preston and Wyre Extension,
21/8 2; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 1 13-16 % ex
new ; Sheffield and Manchester, 120% ; Ditto, Quarter
Shares, 15 ; South-Eastern, No. 3, 7 ; Southport and
Euxton, 276 ; Trent Valley Continuation and Holyhead
Junction, 2% • Welsh Midland, 1 1-16 prem. ; West York-
shire, 25 1/2 ; York and North Midland Extension, 18 17% ;
Great Northern of France, English, 5:1/4 ; Huddersfield Canal,
21% ; Manchester Fire and Life Assurance, 11%.
The intimation given by Lord John Russell last evening
that he intended this day to put questions to the Premier with
respect to negotiations with the Government of Brazil, hav-
ing for their object the formation of a new treaty of com-
merce, Ike., has attracted attention in City circles. It is more
than probable, from what we hear, that the answer will
be that there are no negotiations at present for
the purpose alluded to. But from information, through
private sources, we believe there cannot be a doubt that
something like an approximation with the views of our Go-
vernment, and of that of the Brazils, is in progress. It
cannot be too strongly urged upon the attention of our
Ministers that deep and lasting injury must be pro-
duced upon a very large proportion of our manu-
facturing interests, and upon our export trade, by a strict
adherence to the line of policy which has recently been car-
ried out respecting the amount of duties levied upon the
staple exports of the Brazils. And an opening. is afforded
by the fact, that (as we are told) the mission of the
Count d'Abrantes to the German Union has not been quite so
satisfactory as reported in the Continental journals. If
this prove true, no time should be lost by our Government
in resuming, if it has not already done so, a friendly inter-
communication with the Minister at present located here as
representative of the Brazilian empire.
We are without any arrivals of interest to-day from the
colonies.
Railway schemes were so prolific that we confidently ex-
pect to see scores of them of but limited existence-in
fact, never carried beyond the preliminary stage of
the advertising and collection of deposits. Some
lines, however, especially where requiring no large
amount of capital, will be certain to ensure support
from the public, as well as the Legislature, and many of the
Irish lines stand in this favourable position, how-
ever doubtful it may be whether one or two,
which we could name, will pay. A small 'under-
taking of a most promising character, full details of
which, we believe, have appeared in the advertising columns
of The Sun, has been brought under our notice, and cer-
tainly appears to offer an unusually excellent prospect of ad-
vantage to the district for which provided, as well as for
the parties who may be so lucky as to be concerned as share-
holders. The Newry and Warrenpoint Railway is the line
to which we allude, and which, for so short a line, will ac-
complish more than many similar and expensive under-
takings. It will connect Newry, an important commercial
town, with its shipping, port, and harbour, and be an im-
portant adjunct to the Newry and Enniskillen and Dublin
and Belfast Railways.
The Public Securities have been very firm to-day, and
there has been a good business doing. Consols have realised
99% to Al for Money, and 99% to 3/4 for Account. Ex-
chequer-bills have been 61s. to 635. premium. Bank Stock
is rather firmer, at 210 to 209%. The New Three-and-a-
Quarter per Cents. have realised 1011/8 to %. The Three
per Cents. are 91% to Al. The Government broker continues
to purchase New Three-and-a-Quarter and Three per Cents.
The Foreign Bonds are dull, as the Acceunt will be ar-
ranged to-morrow. Spanish Actives have been 293/4, and
Portuguese Converted 663/4 ; Mexican have been quoted
36% to 37%. Brazilian are firm at 90. Dutch Two-a 44 a-
H aU per Cents. were 633/4.

The Railway Shares have been rather brisk again, although
the settlement of the Account is in progress. The old lines
are best supported.

ONE
PRICES OF BRITISII FUNDS. O'CLOCK.

CLOSING
PRICES.

Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consols
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726 9B3s 987*
New 31/1 per Cents 10114%14 1011/1
Long Annuities to expireJan.lB6o 1114 5-16 11 5-16
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1859 ll 3-161/s 11%
Ditto 30 3-ears, Jan. 5,1860 ll 9-16 11 9-16
Bank Stock for Account... 2ll 211

Consols for Account....
Exchequer Bills, 1,0004, IV2d 62 63 61 63 pm. 63
Ditto 500/.
Ditto Small
Ditto Advertised 59 58 60 pm. 60

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Brazilian Bonds
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela l5 Vi 158
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 367/8 371 A 371/8.
Ditto Account
Ditto. Deferred
Portuguese 5 per Cents
Ditto, Converted 66% 6614
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Belgian 4% per Cent. 99% 99 99
Belgian Scrip, 2% per Cent
French, 5 per Cent. —f. —c. 12114 f. —c.
Exchange
Dutch, 2% per Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 9B 98%
PRICES OF CLOSING
PAID. A ONE O'CLOCK.
BAILWAY SHARES PRICES.
Aberdeen
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush l% 2%14 2%
Binning. and Gloucesterloo 134 136
Bri'ton, Lewes, & Ilast. 20
Bristol and Exeter 7O

Do. New ....
Caledonian
Ditto Extension ...... 214...... 21% % 2%
Cambridge and Lincoln 1112 ...... 6Mi 7
Chester and Holyhead... 15
Chichester and Brighton 10
Churnet Valley
Cork and Waterford ... 11/ 214 21%
Direct Northern
Dublin and Belfast Junc. 2% ll 10%
Dubl.- and Galw• ~ 21/2 _ 3%
-- 3's
IA,

Dublin and Galway..... ,
Dublin and Mullingar... 24
Eastern Counties
Ditto New 4/. 16s.
Eastern Union
Ditto Extension .. 1% 2%%, 2
Ely and Bedford 11A 21,-13 214
Great South. and West.
(Ireland)
Ditto Extension
Great Nort hof England-100 252 248 253 255
Ditto New

Ditto New 2 35% 37 36 36
Great Western BO l9O 192
Ditto Fifths
Guildford, Fare'm,Ports. 21/2 ... .. 53/4
Harwich
Hull and Selby 5O ... 1061,4 104% 105 105
Do. Half Shares
Lancaster and Carlisle
London and Birminglun (5t0ck)...244 243 247
DO.New Thirds
Do. 14 Shares
London and Brighton... 50
Do. New consolidated Bths 25 ......
London and Croydon, 131 15s. 9d. 18% ,ei lBl/2

Do. Guaranteed 5 per
Cent.
London and S. Western 41/ 6s 10d 80 79%
Do. New
London and York 2% 4% 3% 3%
London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil ..... ........... 2%...... 234% 2%
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen 2l/
Manchester and Leeds... 73 153 152 l5l
Manchester and Birmin. 40
Do. Quarters 4 .... 9
Do. New Quarters ... 2 ... 7%'
Midland 100 .187 186% 190... 188
Do. New
Midland,Birm., Derby 100 152 ... .
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction

Do. New Branding... 10
33 ... 32
Newcastle and Berwick 11, l7l, 18 17., 17%
North British ...... ..... 121/2 221421%.. 23
Do. New
North Kent
Norwich and Brandon... 10

Do~ New
Perth and Inverness ... 2%
Rugby, Worstr, 81 Tring 1
Scottish Midland IIA ... . 2% 2
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
Dudley, and Birm 2%. ... 474 5 4l,
South Devon
South Eastern & Dover 33425 4d... 413/4 4214
Do., No. 1 8
Do., No. 2.
Do., No. 3
South Wales ... ... 2% WA
Trent Valley and Holy-
head Junction
Waterford and Kilkenny 1
York and North Midland 50
Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 25
Do. Selby
Do. Extension lll lB3/414

FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and A miens... 4
Bordeaux and Toulouse 2
Bordeaux, Toulouse, and
Cette
Dijon and Mulhouse ... 2
Great North. of France.. 4

Do. do. (Rosamel's) 2
Great Paris and Lyons 2 ...... 174 .........
Louvain and Jemeppe... 2 ... . 414
Lyons and Avignon
Namur and Liege
Orleans and Bordeaux... 2 ...... 10%
Over Yssel 4/ 3s 4d .44
Paris & Lyons, Latlitte's 2
Paris ard Lyons, Gan-
neron's,
Paris & Lyons, (Calon's) 2
Paris and Rouen .. 2O
Paris and Strasbourg
(Ganneron's)
.__

Do. do. (Hainguerlot's) 2 ...... 21 y 4
Strasbourg and Bale ... 14

THE MAYNOOTH GRANT.
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY.

18 j,
311
2%
2%

The subjoined address of resident members of the Senate of the
University of Cambridge, in favour of the proposed grant to May-
nooth College, which has been called forth by the one presented last
week, expressing a repugnance to that measure, was yesterday
morning presented to the representatives for that university. The
address is signed by residents only, and among them by no less
than eight professors and eighteen principal tutors of colleges, the
remainder of. the 78 names appended consisting almost entirely of
fellows and officers of the different colleges and of the university.
The Cambridge Advertiser, in the columns of which journal the
address and signatures appear, remarks that "names of greater
weight in this university are hardly known." The address was in
circulation in Cambridge for only four days, and at a period when
many of the residents, including a considerable number known to
be favourable to the object of the address, had already left the
university nn the termination of lectures. The number of names
actually affixed leaves, however, no doubt as to the sentiment pre-
vailing with the great bulk of the resident masters of arts in favour
of the augmented grant.
"TO THE RIGHT HON. A GOULBURN, M.P., AND THE RON. CHARLES

EWAN LAW, M.P.

"The undersigned, resident members of the Senate of the Uni-
versity of Cambridge, desire to intimate to you, its representatives
in Parliament, that the proposed grant to Maynooth College is
viewed by them with no feelings either of apprehension or repug-
nance, and that they deprecate most strongly the agitation now in
progress against it."