The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-09 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY. AUGUST 9, 1845.

The Lords met at two, and judgment was given in
several outstanding Appeal Cases.
At four, the Royal assent was given by commission to
several public and private Bills.

The Appropriation Bill was read a third time, and
their Lordships adjourned.

The Commons met shortly before Four o'clock, and
proceeded to the Bar of the House of Lords to hear th..
Royal assent given by Commission to several Bilk.
New writs were ordered for Belfast, in the room of
Mr.-EMagoN TENNJNT, who has accepted the Chiltern
Hundreds ; for Cirencester, in the room of Mr. CRIPPB,
who has been appointed a Lord of the Treasury ; for
Linlitheow, in the room of the Honourable CHARLES
HOPE, appointed Governor of the Isle of Man ;
for Warwick, in the room of Sir C. Dotn.ts,
appointed a Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital and

for Sunderland, in the room of Lord Howics, who has
been called up to the House of Pcers.

The Silk Weavers' Bill was read a third time and

pissed.
_

Lord PALMERSTON presented a petition against the
use of propelling engines on railways, and urged the
House to adopt some legislative enactment on the subject.
Lord COURTENAT brought up the report £f the Com-
mittee on Group X, recommending the postponement of
the Hertford and Biggleswade, the Swinton and Lin-
coln, the Lincoln and Ely, acid the York and North
Midland, and Doncaster Extension Railway Bills.
Mr. HOPE brought in a Bill for the improvement of
the waste lands in Australia.

Lord PALMERSTON then rose and, in a speech of con
siderable length, directed the attention of the House 1(

the affairs of Syria.
Sir R. PEEL commenced a reply to the Noble Lord
but an Hon. Member moved that the House be cnuntrd
and there being only-25 Members present, the HouA.
adjourned.

` ln the rapid but clever review which Lord JOHN RES'.
SELL took, on Tuesday night last, of the labours of the
' session that will close on Saturday next, there were two
' omissions, upon which we deem it of more immediate
importance to offer a few remarks than to follow the
Noble Lord through his observations on the stateee
' affairs in Ireland, and the condition of our foreign rela-
tions. The omissions to which we allude were, the over-
whelming difficulties attending the present mode of con-
ducting railway Bills through Parliament, and the very
unsatisfactory aspect of our monetary system, considered
in its general bearings, and in reference to the inevitable
influence Vacctimulated railway projects more especially.
With regard to railway Bills, and the method in
'which the projects for their construction are diseu-eed,
examined, and adjudicated upon, before Committees of
either Heu-e, it is impossible to deny that nothing can
be more unsutisfa•ttory than the conrse adopted since the
eommencement of Committee business this session. It
is not only that, from the vast accumulation of projects,
all pressing for speedy investigation and report, the
number and extent of the preliminary inquiries to in
instituted far exceeds the capacit) of all the physical
energies and business application of the individuals
before whom the merits of every such scheme are, in the
first instance, to be tested, but that the confused, slo
verily, and hurried character of these investie a-
' tions gives rise to contingent abuses, as well
as to immediate evils that largely involve the
interests of capital and the rights of property. A few
designing sp,culators can readily ascertain the fact that.
Group X or Y occupies the S, lect Committee charged
with the railway business coming under that classification
much more incessantly and laboriously than Group B and
C respectively absorb the attention of their Committees,
On this discovery, such parties speedily concoct all
kinds of ingenious frauds in the nature of factitious
evidence to bolster up unlikely or suspected lines, to
tamper with the share appropriation lists, &c. How vast
a proportion of the time of Railway Committees may be,
and constantly is, occupied by matters foreign to the ques-
tion of the merits of the line under their consideratiom—
its expediency and practicability, probable advantages
to the public, and chance of profitable returns to its
proprietary—foreign to everything, in short, that it is
the main object of their appointment to ascertain—our
readers cannot have faded to observe, in the long and
searching investigations which the " Great Western,
Ireland," alias the Dublin and Galway Line Committee,
were compelled to institute into the frauds which had
been practised upon, and the gross unfairness com-
mitted by, its management in the appropriation of the
Company's shares.
In the meanwhile, he must be gifted with a large
excess of credulous simplicity, who can be per-
suaded that, amidst all the variety of inqui
ries—all these various classes of * witnesses, these
conflicts of evidence, these organised deceptions,
and concocted lists, traffic tables, vouchers, &c., the real
justice of the case is often satisfied by the selection of
the best line, or the reception of the soundest evidence,
or the recognition of the most genuine documentary
pieces. The truth, we suspsct, lies much more the other
way. The interests of the public, the convenience of
the residents in large districts, and enormous amounts of
private capital, are much more frequently put in immi-
nent jeopardy, or positively sacrificed, by the decisions
of Railway Committees, than duly consulted, or perma-
nently guaranteed. This result may be still more posi-
tively predicated of those cases in which there happen to
be one or more competing lines of railroad
between the same given extreme points. how is it pos-
sible, that when sixty, seventy, or an hundred new lines
are brought into Parliament in a single session, any num-
ber of Members of the Select Committees can find time
enough—not to spare for their leistire or their own busi
'Jess, fer that they are no longer permiled to retain—
but from their other Parliamentety duties, to investigate,
sufficiently and properly, the surveys, reports, maps,
gradients, plans, and sections of the engineers, the con-
sents and dissents of proprietors, &c ; the contracts put
in, the calculations and estimates proposed for their in
spection, and the proofs by which they are to be sup-
ported? How are ,hey to make themselves masters of
the reasons for and against every such undertaking, as
developed in the arguments ef counsel, and the
evidence of witnesses ? How are they to form their
own judgment between the very different conclusions ex-
pressed by those arguments, and the conflicting character
of the allegations made by the witnesses produced on be-
half of the supporters. as compared with the evidence of
the witnesses for the opponents of the line under consi-
deration ? And if these be grave difficulties at any pe-
riod of the session, however early, how much are they
enhanced as it progresses towards its expiration ? Cal-
culations must be sworn to by the sheet—surveys affirmed
by the hundred weight—witnesses examined by the
gross—notes to guide the decisions of the Members taken
by steam power, to enable the Select Committees for the
various groups to keep pace with the running out

the term of the session's existence. Now this slovenly and
mischievous mode of transacting such important busines.
ha., never been so Agilely illustrated as in the course of
the pr►sent y• ar. We lament to find that it has not
elicited the marked animadversion of Lord JOHN Rus-
BELL. We willingly concur in the well-merited tribute
which the Noble Lord paid to the pains-taking industry
of Hon. Members on these Committees, and to the
devotion which they hsd shown to the public service.
in addressing themselves to such painful labours so
much in earnest. But the Noble Lord, we
submit to him, with all respect, should
have denounced the viciousness of a ay etc
which mischievously professes to do what it is beyond
the reach of any available or working portion of the 658
Members of the House of Commons to accomplish, in
addition to their other duties. "Do not tell me," said
Mr. BROUGHAM, in a debate on the Bankruptcy Juris-
diction; in May, 1827, "do not tell me that the system
is in fault when the men are in fault." But in this in-
stance of Railway Committees, not the men, but the
system fails. " Mr. Shadwell, when he was asked it
three men could get through the business of the Court of
Chancery, replied, No ; nor three angels." How many
would be required, on this doctrine of the present
Vice-Chancellor of England, to dispose of all the
pending projects in the " railway jurisdiction '

of Parliament is a problem we will as little undertake to
solve as .to point out—(though we have an opinion on
the matter)—what should be the better scheme of deal-
ing with this department of business, which we think
it quite possible that the Legislature might adopt. We
only remark, in reference to the enormous dissatisfae-
gtven by the defunct Board of Trade Committee
on Railways, that Lord Joust RUSSELL'S silence un the
st.ll defective nature of the tribunals before which the)
are brought up, as it were, by mixed trains, and stowed,
ticketed, and dispatched, to extinction or construction,
as the merest accident may decree—seems to be a capital
orni,sion in a speech otherwise remarkable for its ana-
lytical and critical synopsis of the session's "sins of
omission and commission." But his Lordship's utter
sil4-nee on the currency question we hold to be matter
still more sincerely to be deplored among those who,
instructed by the fatal experience of the past, look with
well-founded and trembling apprehension to the future.
The gambling in railway shares during the last twelve
mouths has been only more reckless, and more infatuated,
but not more guilty, more mischievous, nor more ruin-
fraught, than Sir ROBERT PEEL'S gambling with his
currency "counters" of 1819 and 1844, against the real
wealth and latent resources of the people of England,
But only too many occasions will offer, we are con-
vinced, and in a succession but too rapid, l'or at once
confirming and illustrating our anticipations as to the
results of a coming crisis,
which already "casts" its por-
tentous " shadow before."

The Observateur du Rhin, published at Coigne, and
the Weser Gazette, issued at Bremen, have been inter-
dicted in Bavaria. The Observateur is said to be pro-
hibited f)r defending Protestantism in Bavaria, which,
being in the minority, is the object of the must violent
attacks from the ultra-Catholic press, towards which the
censorship is more lenient than towards the Protestant
journals. The Weser Gazette is supposed to tie excluded
because it is the zealous organ of the schism with which
the Catholic Church in Germany is agitated.
Letters from Wiesbaden state that the Duke of NAs-
S.A.O is about to start for Italy, where he will meet the
Grand Duchess HELENA of Russia. The arrangements
for the marriage of the Duke with one of the daughters
of the Grand Duchess HELENA have been completed.
The Duke of Lisette 141 offered Qom Vic Toni. the

use of his palace at Biberich, and also of his residence
near Mayenee. The King of PRUSSIA is giving as much
éclat as possible to his visit to the banks of the Riiine,
and superintends in person the preparations for the re-
ception of the Queen of ENGLAND. It is said th it he is
rather hurt that neither the King of HOLLAND
nor the King of the BELGIANS has hitherto intimated
any intention of visiting him during the time Queen
VICTORIA will be his guest. The papers have an•
flounced that Prince METTERNICH has had an attack
of paralysis ; but there is no truth in the statement. His
Highness is at his castle of Johannisberg in his ordinary
health, where the Count MUNCH 'BELLINGHAUSEN is on
a visit to him.

It is stated by the Magdeburgh Gazdte that the King
of PRUSSIA has charged Prince de NRUWEID with the
task of drawing up a constitution, the project of M.
de Cutlrrz having been fotind to be attended with in-
surmountable difficulties.

We hare received the Paris papers of Wednesday.
They all give lengthened accounts of the late tire in the
Toulon dockyari. The value of the property destroyed
is estimated very differently in the accounts published
in the .Paris journals, some taking it as high as 20 mil-
lions, and others 15 and 10. We subjoin an extract
from the ConAtitli ionnel on this point, as giving the most
moderate calculation of the loss that we can meet with,
after the Government journals, which declare it to by
3,000,000f.:—" The loss sustained by the naval depart-
ment is much more considerable than the Government
is willing to acknowledge. The timbers in the sheds
were of the finest description for ship•building, and
14,000 stores (about as many cubic yards) are certainly
worth more than 3,000.000 f.; and to this sum must be
added the value of the roofs, which is put down in the
inventory of the marine at 800,000 E, but which cant:ot
be replaced fur less than 1,500,000 f. B.- sides, the mere
value of the timber burnt give s no exact idea off the loss
sustained, for there must also be taken into acci.?unt the
time, ditficulti•s, and expenditure required to replace n
store so precious"

There seems to be little reason to doubt the fact that
the fire was the work of the convicts, who were dissatis-
fied with the treatment they received.

The Commerce states that a fresh creation of Peers is
about to take placu. The following appears us La

France :

We have been assured that the Dictatorship of M.
Bugeaud in Algeria is drawing to a close. The journal of
his department announces the Duke of Isly has obtained
leave of absence to visit his estate of Excideuil. This leave
is considered as the forerunner of the retirement of the Mar-
shal. It is certain that M. Bugeaud has become too un-
wieldy and too restive an instrument in the debilitated
hand of Marshal Soult. That quasi vice-royalty of the pos-
sessions of Africa does not sound well in the cars of the
Minister of War, who finds his ascendancy and power sadly
contemned."

All these papers contain accounts from Algiers of
successful " razzias."

Private letters state that it is probable Queen Vic-
TORIA will visit the French Court on her return from
Germany, and that the Palace of Petit Trianon is being
prepared for her MAJESTY'S reception.
The French Funds rose somewhat considerably on
Wednesday. Shares fluctuated, but, generally speaking,
the market was firm :

The Three per Cents. closed on the Bourse on that
day at 841: 25c. ; the Five per Cents. at 122 C 40c. ; Orleans
Railroad Shares, 1,290 f. ; Rouen, 1,085 f.; Vierzon, 795 f. ;
Havre, 905 f. ; Avignon, 1,075 f. ; Basle, 281 f. 25c ; Spanish
Three per Cents, 38; ditto Passives, 6%.
The following are the quotations for the new lines :-
Orleans and Bordeaux, 1851. 'premium • Boulogne, 130 f.
ditto, Troyes and hlontereau, 50f. ; iaris and Lyons,
(Laffitte), 31f. 25c.; ditto (Calon), par; ditte (Ganneron),
Of. 50c. ; Northern Line (Laffitte), 45f. ; ditto (Rosa-
mel), 14f. 50c.; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 12f. 50c. ;
ditto (Drouillard), par ; ditto (O'Neill), 5f.; ditto (Jacques
Lefevre), par ; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 17f. 50c.;
ditto (Talabot), 36f. 25c. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale),
7f. 50c. ; Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie), par; ditto
and Cette (Espeleta), 16f. ; Creil and St. Quentin, par;
Paris and Strasbourg (Ganneron), 11f. 25e.; Dijon and
Mulhausen, par; Dieppe, 20.
LYONS, AUG. 2.-Avignon and Marseilles, 1,0221., for
the 15th inst. ; Paris and Orleans, 1,230 f. ditto; Paris and
Rouen, 1,065 f. end of August; Orleans and Vierzon, 773 f.
ditto ; Nistries and Montpelier, 5601. ditto ; Montereau, 522 f.
ditto.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 7.

Boulogne and Amiens 'Over Yssel ......... 1 p
Bordeaux &Mediterran Paris& Lyons (Latitte)
Bordeaux and Toulouse Ditto (Ganneron's).
Do. and Cette 2 Ditto (Calon's).... -
Dutch Rhenish ... .. .
Dendre Valley ...... Paris and Rouen
Dieppe & Paris J tura. , Paris & Strsburg (Gan-
Dijon and Mulhouse ... I nerun's)
East Indian ....- ........ ;Do. (Compte de L'Est)
Grt Northern of France :Paris and St. Quentin.
(Laffitte's)
Ditto (Rosamel's) 2% Royal North of Spain. 2%
Great Paris and Lyons. Sambre and Meus..:
Jamaica Juno io,. .Strasbourg and Basle .
Do. South -Aid] nd uric. , Tour, & N ants( M'Ken-
Louvain and Jerneppe 4%1 zie's).
:.eons and Avignon. I Do. (Lefebvre's)
Namur and Liege sXlVerona and Ancona.... 3%
Orleans and Vierzon .. 17 West Flanders 4%
Orleans and Bordeaux 1114

Madrid papers of the Ist inst. have arrived. Several
arrests had taken place on the morning of the 31;4 ult.
Among those smsted are M. SAGUSTI, who, during the
regency of EsPeaTEao, held the office of Political Chief
of Madrid ; General CRESPO, lately second in command
with General ALCALA in Manilla, and the Commandant
and Captain in command of the guard at barracks of
the regiment of Gallicia.
We learn from El Herald() that the public prosecutor
baddemanded the penalty of death against several of the
Malaga conspirators. Several arrests had taken place in
Grenada. Letters from Saragossa, published in the
same journal, state that the Ayuntateiento of that city
are extremely dissatisfied with the Minister of Finance
for his retusal to modify his new system of contributions.
According to El Castellano the Cortes will meet on
the 10th October, and be immediately afterwards d.e.
solved, when the Senatus will be nominated in accord-
anc6'with the provisions of the new constitution.
corre‘potident of the Espectador mentions that
General the t:aptai►e General of Seville, had
whipped an inhabitant of that city publicly in the Alar-
ket• place, whose only crime was that he had called out
" Liberty fel. r ver."
The QUEEN, who was at San Sebastian on the 3d,
had been well received throughout her journey. The
inhabitants, however, occasionally display their feelings
on the subject of their fiteros, and the authorities are
about to petition the QUEEN for their restoration.
Colonel AGUIRRE and 100 prisoners of the insurgents
entered Barcelona on the 20th, escorted by a battalion
and a squadron of cavalry. -
There was a decline in the Three per Cents., and a

ise in the Fives ; the former being quoted at 291 cash,
and 30* at 60 days ; 28,800,000 done ; the latter at 221
cash, and 22 at 60 days. After two o'clock matters
were reversed—the Threes rose a trifle, and the Fives
declined.

FLANDERS and HAMBURGEI MAIL.
BRUSSELS, A uo. 6. —The Monilevr Beige of this date pub-
lishes the statutes (with his Majesty's approbation of them) of
the Joint Stock Company of the iron railways from Tournay
to lmbine. 'I he capital is fixed at 12,500,000 francs,
which may be increased for executing branches. The
capital is divided into X 5,000 shares of 500 francs each.
The Company is to be governed by a board of nine
members. For the first time they are—Messrs. Robert and
William Kinnard, Paterson, Gladlino. Mosley, Mackenzie,
Barry, Bullot, Tereelan Sigart, and Bruneau, who have taken
for themselves and others the whole 25.000 shares, excepting
1 000 shares taken by Mr. Jobri Pierce Kinnard, and 100 by
Mr. Thomas Rhodes.

The King presided yesterday in a Council of Ministers.
Her Royal Highness the Duchesi, who left Vienna on the
29th to proceed to the Rhine, is accompanied by the Archduke
Frederick, who goes to compliment Queen Victoria, in the
name of the Emperor, on her arrival in Germany.
BRUSSELS. Auc. 5.—M. Nothomb will return to Brussels
at the end of this week He has passed the principal part of
his absence in LuxembOurg with his family. It is believed
that he will shortly go to Germany as his Majesty's repre-
sentative at the Court of Berlin.

THE BRAZILIAN PIRATES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN

Satz,—l believe it is not, usual to try the crew of a vessel
captured for an offence against the laws for the suppression of
the slave trade for piracy. Had Lieutenant Palmer taken the
Pelicidade into Sierra Leone, would not the captain and crew
have been discharged without any trial—the vessel itself being
merely condemned and forfeited as a prize? If se, why was a
count entered in the indictment on which the Brazilian pri-
soners were tried at Exeter for the offence of piracy ?
If the offence of carrying ~n the .lave tiede be piracy, every
crew taken should be put on trial : the Crown may show
mercy on conviction, and pardon the offenders—the Crown
has no power to exempt from trial; conviction must first take
place, then pardon afterwards.
If the Brazilians were legally convicted of piracy at Exeter,
then those crews who have been captured (and had their vessels
condemned at Sierra Leone), and been released without trial
for piracy, must have been illegally pardoned, as the royal
clemency cannot legally be exercised before trial and convic-
tion.-1 am, Sir, yours, &v.,
Ilfracombe, Aug. 6. B. W. D.

FOLKESTONE STEA RS-
To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SM....The insertion in The Sun of the subjoined prompt
and attentive reply, which I have received to a note complain-
ing of the annoyance that myself and other passi•ngers by
these steamers are exposed to from the demand of " remem-
brances" by the stewards. is, I conceive, the most natural
channel of communicating the information to others cro,sing
by these vesels, that the stewards are not authorized to make
any such demand. Your obedient servant,
August 6. SENEX.

" Seuth-Eastern Railway, Superintendent's-office,
London Terminus, Aug. 5.
" Sir,—ln reply to your note addressed to Captain O'Brien,
I beg to inform you that the stewards on board the steam-
packets conneeted with this Company are not authorivd to
demand fees. I have written to Mr. Hayward, the manager
of these packets, requesting he will at !ince put a stop to this
practice. 1 am, Sir, your obedient servant,
E. G. SHARLWOOD."

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

(From The Sun of Last Night.)
There was a grid market for Cotton at Liverpool yester-
day. Sales, 5,000 bags, incluaing 500 on speculation, and
500 for exprt. There was no change in prices. Shares
were rather flat, and with less doing.
There are same few later accounts to-day by a transit ship
from New Zealand, flont which we learn that the colonists
were in a somewhat beter situation, business having im-
proved.
The rains continue to excite a considerable degree of
anxiety among the Bull speculators in the Funds, but prices
have not altered much on the Stock Exchange to-day. It is
to bs hoped after all that the damage said to have been done
to the crops is much less than has been reported. Consols
have advanced for the Account from 99 to 99k, and lee
Money from 9834 to 991/4. One or two bargains have been
made at 102% >4, in South Sea Stock at 113, and in Ex-
chequer-bills at 495. premium.
'ln the Foreign Stocks a slight increase of business has to
be noticed. Spanish Consols have receded to 26% 74, and
the Three per Cents. to 3S For Austrian Bonds 117 ha,
been the value to-day. Portuguese Converted are a shcde
lower. The other Foreign Stocks have remained much the
same its yesterday.
The Railway Share Market is in a firm state. The prin-
cipal rise bas been in the London and Birminghams, which
have advanced from 14R to 152 premium. Manchester and
Leeds are up to 205 (with 761. paid), and the Great Northern
of France to 21/4 premium. These have been the greatest.
changes this morning. The market is firm on the whole.

ONE CLOSINc,
PRICES OF BRITISH FUND . O'CLOCK. Loc PRICES'
per'ecnt. Reduced 99% 1A234 993%
3 per Cent. Consels Annuities 9`.4
Sew 31A per Cents lO2l/2% 1021;',
Long Annuities toexni reJan.lB6o 11%1/2 11i ,
Ditto 30 year., Jan. 5, 1860
272%
113
991 A,
99
pm. 51
pm. 49
pin. 54

India Stock ..
Aotith Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annu,tieß
Consols for Account — 991A14
e-lxchequer Bills, 1,000/., DAd 49
Ditto 500/. .. 49
Ditto Small

ONE
StICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Austrian, 5 per Cent .........117
Braziliai Bonds
.• .....
Columbinn Bonds. ex Vo)eztiebt. 1714
Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cen.. ;01,47
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 18737....... .
Ditto, Account 3'3/4
Ditto, Deferred 1917
/2
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents —
Portuguese 5 per Cents. —
Ditto, Converted 64
atto Account
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent

CLOSINti
PRIC ES.
117
881",

171
90q-

3714,

64
64');;
64

Ditto, Account —64l
Sparush 5 per Cent. 1840
I )itto 3 per Cent. — 38 ,-,
Ditto, Account ...... ............ 38 381/
Dutch, 21% par C 'nt .
Ditto, 4 per CAit. Certific 99% 99%
PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
ISAILWAY SHARES AT ONE; O'CLOCK. PRICES
Aberdeen
/.2 - _ 31/

Aylesbury and Thame.. 173
tiristoi and Exeter
Do. New .... . ......... 2

,!aleaonian •
Ditto Extension - 212..... 2el
Oaen bridge and Lincoln 1.1 ...... 3/2 tit
Chester and Holyhead... 15
Cheltenham and Oxford 2
Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir. _ _.

and Leicester 1
Cornwall
f)t rect Northern
Dublin and BelfastJunc. 214 Bl/21%
Dublin and Galway... . 21/2 —
E•otern Counties 141. 165...... 21i%
Ditto New 4/. 16s.
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1....51. 13s. 4d —
Ditto ditto, Nu. 2. l3s. 4d. 0%
,:astern Union l5 .. .. 25 ..
Ditto Extension ... 11,4 3tl/2.-
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Ditto Quarter Shares 1214...... 21 . .
Ditto New 4 Shares... 2% lOl/
Edinburgh & Northern.. 11/4 — ... ..
Great South. and West.
(Ireland)
4reat North of England..loo ...220 217% 221 20
Ditto New 5 55
Ditto New 2
.great Western BO
Ditto, Fifths , . 20
Hull and Selby
Do. Half Shares
Leicester and Bedford... 225. 2% p
Limerick and Waterford 2%
London and Birmingnm. (Stock) 252
Do. New Thirds
Do. Quarters. 2

8q;
91
1? e. 3

iof
22
3%

13/4
3
2)
81/i
2%
203/4
P

Olitp

30
225
491 A
108
261,2
2%

London and Blackwell. 16/: 13s. 4d. 114
London and Brighton... 50
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. Id. 244... ......... .
Do. New l3s 4d l3/4 ....... ... ..
Loud. & S. Western 411 6s 10d B3
Lso. Consolidated Bths 12 —
Do. New - " 2% —
London and York 2h. 5l/a 5% .-
London, Salisbury, and
.Yeovil - 2%..... 2% 3
Lynn and Ely
Lynn and Dereham lsy, 4%
ilanchester and Leeds... 76 205
Manche:ter and Birmin. 40
Manchester,Buxton,and
Matlock 22s . .... 574 % 61/21/0/4
Midland iO4l lBO 178
Do. New
Midland, Birm., Derhy...loo 1.181/a
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction 25 ...... 55
Newcastle and Berwick 114 25%34 25
Newry and Enniskillen. 21,4
..„. 3
North British - 30 ... ...... .....
Do. New
North Kent
North Staffordshire 22s. .... nt4 p
North Wales
Norwich and Brandon... 14
Do~ New
Oxford and Worcester... 21(2 _
i-erth and Inverness ... 2%
Pilbrow Atmospheric ... 1 ......
Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland l%, ...
Shrews., Wolverhamp ,
Dudley, and firm 2l/2, .... 4%
Shrewsbury and Trent
Valley Union 22s.
Shrewsbury, Hereford,
and,:Plorth Wales 234 —
South Midland... 22- - 4'

111 A
79
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82t.
303/
14%

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651

63/4 p
177
2734
133

55
24%

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soak Eastern & Dover 33/ 2s 4d 47 46%
Do., No. 3
Staines and Richmond 1
SoUth Wales ..... ...... ••• 91/2 538
Trent Valley •• 9 ...... •••••• ..
Trent Valley and Holy-
head Junction
% 8 2*
Witerford and Kilkenny 1 .., 9%
Welch Midland
Worcester, Shrewsbury
and Crewe Union ... .. 1%..... 3%
orl: and N.o s la 111Mland 50 llO
Do. 1/, Shares
Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 25
Do. Extension
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens—. 6
Bordeaux, Toulouse, and.
Cet te
Dutch Rhenish
Great North. of France

5 4.

3"A
35
110

(Laffitte's)
Do. do. (Rosamel's) 2 ...... 2%
1 Jamaica Junction........ 1% 6:rt
Louvain and Jemeppe... 4 ... .
Namur and Liege
Orleans and Vierzon ... 6 .......1714a
Orleans and Bordeaux... 4
Over Yssel 413 s 4d — ..... ...
I aria & Lyons. Laflitte's 4
Paris and Orleans
Pans and Rouen . 2O ...... 413/0/2
Paris and Strasbourg
( Ganneron's) 2 ...... 214
.Do. (Compte de L'Est) 2 ..... . 25,i
Rouen and Havre ...... 16 ..... 311/2
Royal North of Spain ... 2 ..... . 21/4 .... ... .
Sambre and Meuse .... 4 ......
Verona atid Amon t...... 3 ...... 4%
West yJanders 2 ......
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
British North American 50 —
Co:nmercial of London 20

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491'
24

RETIRENIENT OP SIR EDWARD LEER FROM THE
• GENERAL PosT-orriez.—This event. which has been antici-
pated for some time past, owing 'to the delicate state of Sir
Edward's health, has at length taken place ; and we need hardly
say that fe.v public servants retire into private life more univer-
sally respected. To the press, and the inhabitants of Edinburgh
generally, his courtesy and affability have long been well known ;
and there are few, if any, who have had occasion to transact
business with him but will bear ample testimony to his zeal and
anxiety in discharging his official duties. In no case, we be.
lieve, has a complaint been made to Sir Edward Lees of an
irregularity in the dispatch or arrival of mails, &c., but the
molt strict and thorough investigation has taken place to remedy
the evil. Sir Edward Lees is succeeded by Francis Abbott,
Esq., from the Secretary's office in London.—Caledonian
Mercury.
THE STORY OF A ROYAL FAVOTTRITE.—We are
requested to state that Mr. Colburn. of Great Marlborough.
st eet, has this day published " TEE STOAT OF A ROYAL
FAVOURITE," by Mrs. Gore, in 3 vols. po=t Bvo., which can
new be had at all the libraries. Mr. Colburn has also just
published the following new novels :.-2. Count Koningamark,
by Captain Frederick Chamier, R.N. 3. The White Slave
and the Russian Prince. by the author of " Revelations of
Russia." 4. Self; or, The World as it Goes, by the author
of " Cecil." 5. Maids of Honour, a Tale of the Court of
George I. 6. Jonathan Sharp ; or, The Adventures of a
K,nruckian : and 7. De Rohan ; or, The Court Conspirator,
by M. Eugene Sue, author of " The Mysteries of Paris," &c.
CoUNT ICONIG'IKA.RIC, AN HISToRICAL ROMANCE,
BY CAPTAIN CHAMIER, R.N.—Captain Chancier is an adept
at choosing a subject, but he has never before pitched upon a
more happy one than in that of" Count Konigemark." Not-
withstanding Konigsmark's many bad qualities, and the;personal
vanity which was the leading feature of his character, and
which
and a
temptedmhai
man
mwh
intot generous
ehroisuseirmropruskeans.d crimes, he was a
man of courage, a gallant soldier, a gentleman by birth and
bearing
high aspiring., and
a most active and fertile imagination. All these are excellent
materials of which to make a hero of romance. and Captain
Chamier has very happily and skilfully availed himself of them
blending th m also with many of the actual scenes anti circum-
stances in which his hero was engaged during his eventful life,
and calling to his aid his own fertile fancy, when needed, to
heighten by fiction the facts of history. There is an easy, off-
hand manner about everything Captain Chamier does, which
falls in very well with the tone and spirit of reckless adventure
and exuberant life depicted in this novel, which is by far the
best of all the author's works which do not treat of nautical
life.— Cour t.hurnal.

BRIGHT .N, AUGUST 8.--ThP steamer Magnet ar-
rived last night from Dieppe, bringing over several families of
distinction, and the Prince de Castelcicala and Captain
Corhet,

FAILURE ON THE STOCK EXCHANGE, LIVERPOOL.
—Thursday a broker on the Liverpool Stock Exchange failed.
The liabilities are stated at 0,0001.

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