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BY THE AUTHOR OF " THE MYSTERIES OF PARIS."
Now ready at all the I.ibraries, In 3 vols.,
EUGENE SUE'S DE ROIIAN;
Or, THE COURT CONSPIRATOR.
An Historical Romance.
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HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
THIS EVENING
(Being a Subscription Night)
Will be performed Donizetti's Opera, entitled LUCIA. DI LAM-
MERMOOR. Lucia, A. Castellon ; Alicia, Madame Bellini ;
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.....—..------
The Heritable Jurisdiction (Scotland) Bill was
read a second time.
The second reading of the Infeftment (Scotland)
Bill was postponed for a week.
Lord ASHLEY moved the second reading of the
Calico Print- works Bill. _

Sir J. GRAHAM would not oppose the second read-
ing of the Bill, because he thought that some legisla-
tive enactment was necessary c.O the subject, but he
begged to be understood as not pledging himself to
the details of the measure. On the contrary, there
were many of the proposed provisions of which he
highly disapproved, and it would be his duty to pro-
pose several material alterations in Committee.
Lord ASHLEY, although he regretted the loss of
some advantages which he had hoped to attain by the
present measure, yet thought it so important to
secure the co-operation of the masters and of the Go-
vernment that he would accede to the Right Hon.
Baronet's proposition.
After an interesting discussion, in which Mr. M.
GIBSON, Mr. COOPER, Mr. HUME, Mr. T. DUN-
COMBS, Mr. ESCOTT, and Lord F. EGERTON took
part, the Bill was read a second time, and ordered to
be read a third time on Wednesday next.

The order of the day for the House going into
Committee of Supply was then read, when Sir JOHN
EASTHOPE brought forward the case of two persons
imprisoned at Leicester for non-payment of poor-rates.
Sir J. GRAHAM, in reply, stated that he had made
inquiries into the case, and had advised her MAJESTY
to order the immediate liberation of the parties
alluded to.

Mr. T. DUSCOMBE said that the intended mercy of
the Right Hon. Baronet would come too late, as the
term of the sentence of the parties imprisoned would
terminate the day after to-morrow.
The House then went into Committee, and a vote
for 1,111 men having been agreed to, the House
resumed.

The Bill for the Protection of the Treasures of
Art in Museums then passed through Committee ;
after which the LORD-ADVOCATE obtained leave to
bring in a Bill for the better administration of the laws
relating to the relief of the poor in Scotland, which
was read a first time, and the House adjourned.

(Ise first maritime Power in the globe, was wound
up by the report of the Queen—a much-cracked
first-rate, on the Surveyor's new construction, which
had been taken into Sheerness-yard, where it was
found necessary to give her a new bow, and a false
stern. The Bosca wen, a new 70 gun-ship, had been
taken to pieces again. The Union, the Severn, the
Porcupine (20 guns), the Sea-lark, (10), the Tigris,
and the Iris, had been likewise all pulled to pieces.
We assume that this scandalous exposition is also a
true one. It met with no denial. It can never chal-
lenge an adequate degree of indignation and surprise
in the public. It is a lesson from which, if the Ad-
miralty do not profit, the country will, by dislodging
the Admiralty. But we have better hopes of the latter
now, thanks to this exposition. Sir GEORGE COCK.
BURN made the best fight he could for it ; and he did
better. He admitted that many of Sir CHARLES
NAPIER'S hints were most valuable, and pledged him-
self to the immediate and careful attention of his de-
artment to this vital subject, with a readiness to call
for and receive information, which induces us
to hope that we shall soon be rid of that
incubus on naval architectural improvement—
the " intuitive " principle of Sir WILLIAM
SYMOND'S construction—and all the absurdities and
failures to which his " wedge" has been driven. The
" discovery" has now had a full and often-repeated
trial ; and it consists neither with the dignity nor the
safety, the renown nor the power of Great Britain,
to put the noblest of her national inheritances, the
grandest element of her political and natural power,
the supremacy of the seas, on the maintenance of an
uninterrupted Admiralty patronage to the most costly,
as well as unlucky, Surveyors-General of her navy,
of whom we remember to have read.

The speech of Sir CHARLES NAPIER. of Monday
night last, upon that which should have been a mo-
tion for a Committee on the construction of steam
ships-of-war, and the present condition of our steam
navy—was full of details calculated to excite the
most anxious interest in the mind of every English-
man. We can imagine no facts of a more weighty
character than those enunciated by this gallant and
distinguished officer, in that peculiar and effective
manner which never fails to add force and point to
his argument. But there are circumstances in the
present condition of this country's relations with
foreign powers, which impart to them a degree of
intense interest, of unspeakable importance. For, be
it observed, the allegations of which we are about to
give an outline, were not attempted to be contra-
dicted by the official authorities to whom they were
addressed. With some such qualification, only, as
tbat supplied by Sir GEORGE COCKBURN, who ra
minded Sir CHARLES that, though many of our
armed steamers had now become old craft, one of
them only had been broken up. These formidable
allegations of erroneous construction, of wanton ex-
penditure, of incessant alterations, cuttings-down,
lengthenings, and reductions, defective principles of
naval architecture, and bigoted adhesion to the school
producing these defective models, were tacitly
affirmed by those parties who are, in fact
responsible for so much permitted mismanagement.
Let us look the hazards we are running, by the

The accounts from Ireland, we mean the political
accounts, are highly satisfactory. The sympathy
shown by the Government towards the unfortunate
Catholics is beginning to take effect—the re-action in
that country, so long oppressed and so little accus-
tomed to English kindness or generosity, was evinced
at the meeting of the Repeal Association on Monday,
and fair play to the Irish is all now required to make
them the most willing, for they have ever been, in
battle, the most gallant defenders of the empire. The
great Agitator, the man who has done so much for
his Catholic brethren, and whose word is more
powerful than twenty thousand troops, described with
just feeling the horrors with which he was impressed
by the last intelligence from America. The real
Yankee he never liked, the slaveholder and slave
breeder, even when they were courting his favour, he
spurned from him as he would spurn malefactors
polluted by the most atrocious crimes. True to these
generous sentiments, he has expressed candidly, and
in his usual nervous language, the sorrow with which
he heard of the annexation of Texas, and the dreary

prospect which it holds out for the friends of the
African race. " It was idle," he said, " for the
Americans to talk of liberty and practise slavery.
For his part, he would repudiate any assistance from
America if tainted with human blood ; and he was
glad he had the opportunity of denouncing the atro-
cious system. The PRESIDENT likewise talked of
seizing Oregon, and he would certainly do it. Eng-
land, however, should have the assistance of Irishmen,
which would enable her to obtain Oregon, and pre-
vent the annexation of Texas ; but the equivalent

longer endurance of such a state of things, full in
the face. If we do not, shall we fondly ima-
gine ourselves fully prepared for any and all exi-
gences that may arise out of a rupture with America,
or France, or any combination of naval States of
inferior power ? We go all lengths with those who
entertain the most unhesitating confidence in the ex-
tent to which the moral constancy, the physical
courage, and the indomitable resolution of our sailors
can outweigh the enormous odds of material force, by
their calm energy and characteristic prowess. But
there maybe, and in the unhappy event of a war there
speedily would be, in reference to that condition of
our navy and its steam arm, described on Monday
night in the House of Commons, such an overwhelm-
ing disparity of means arrayed against us, whenever
circumstances might enable our enemy to collect and
concentrate them—that it is the most imperative duty
of the Government to anticipate and provide against
such a contingency, by securing to this country a war-
steamer force of unmatched efficiency, extent, and
power. _ _

should be justice to Ireland, and the re•
storation of her domestic legislature." The

last part of the paragraph is merely for show, or
to round the sentence, for Mr. O'CONNELL has as-
serted fifty times that if he could obtain justice-, he
would cast repeal to the winds. Sir ROBERT PEEL
has now a noble game in his hand. Even his most
hitter political opponent admits that his measures
are admirable ; and, to produce lasting peace
and lasting union between the two countries, he has
only to press forward these measures, alike despising
the attacks of bigotry and the selfishness of a broken
remnant of the Tory faction. That faction, we learn
by the same mail from Ireland, is again rearing its
head in Dublin, denouncing the Premier and his new
schemes, and threatening damnation to all Pro-
testants who refuse to join in the holy war against
Catholics; but they are now powerless, and must yield
to their fate. This is the opinion of an old friend
of the Catholics, and almost his dying speech—we
mean the late SYDNEY SMITH, who thus foretels, we
trust, coming events :
" I have some belief in Sir Robert. He is a man of great
understanding, and must see that this eternal O'Connelling
will never do, that it is impossible that it can last. We are
in a transition state, and the Tories may be assured that
the Baronet will not go too fast. If Peel tells them that the
thing must be done, they may be sure it is high time to do
it ; they may retreat mournfully and sullenly before com-
mon justice and common sense, but retreat they must when
Tamworth gives the word, and in quick step, too, and without
loss of time. And let me beg of my dear Ultras not to ima-
gine that they can survive for a single instant without Sir
Robert—that they could form an Ultra-Tory Ad-
ministration. Is there a Chartist in Great Britain
who would not, upon the first intimation of such an at-
tempt, order a new suit of clothes, and call upon the baker
and milkman for an extended credit? Is there a political
reasoner who would not come out of his hole with a new
constitution ? Is there one ravenous rogue who would not
be looking for his prey ? Is there one honest man of com-
mon sense who does not see that universal disaffection and
civil war would follow from the blind fury, the childish
prejudices, and the deep ignorance of such a sect? I have
a high opinion of Sir Robert Peel, but he must summon up
all his al courage, and do something next session for
the payment of the Roman Catholic priests. He must run
some risk of shocking public opinion ; no greater risk, how-
ever, than he did in Catholic Emancipation. I am sure the
Whigs would be true to him, and I think I observe that very
many obtuse country gentlemen are alarmed by the state of
Ireland and the hostility of France and America."
The subjoined paragraph we recommend to the con
sideration of that wild persecutor, Dr. MiGuEE, and
the bigoted clique that still infest the Castle at
Dublin :
" I have always compared the Protestant Church in Ire-
land (and I believe my friend Thomas Moore stole the simile
from me) to the institution of butchers' shops in all the vil-
lages of our Indian empire. We will have a butcher's shop
in every village, and you, Hindoos, shall pay for it. We
know that many of you do not eat meat at all, and that
the sight of beef steaks is particularly offensive to you ; but
still a stray European may pass through your village, and
want a steak or a chop ; the shop shall be established ;
and von shall pay for it.' This is English legislation for Ire-
land! There is no abuse like it in all Europe, in all Asia, in
all the discovered parts cf Africa, and in all we have heard of
Timbuctoo. It is an error that requires 20,000 armed men
for its protection in time of peace, which costs more than a
million a year ; and which, in the first French war, in spite of
the pulling and panting of fighting steamers, will and must
break out into desperate rebellion."

It was not an unreasonable expression of surprise
indulged in by Sir C. NAPIER that there should be
so much reluctance to grant the Committee of Inves-
tigation he was desirous to have appointed, seeing
that, during a peace of thirty years' duration, in the
course of which between forty and fifty millions
sterling had been expended on our navy, it might
have been expected that her Majesty's Government
would have been prepared to submit to all the world
a statement that should demonstrate that navy to be now
i,n a condition of the utmost possible efficiency. But
in truth, without invidiously reflecting on the existing
Board of Admiralty, have we not a full right to infer
enormous incompetency or mal-administration in this
important branch of Executive authority, or that
other argument suggested by the same Gallant
Officer to show that the Board in question gave a
better representation of the state of the navy
than facts could warrant. For if, said he, the
present much increased estimates are not necessary
for repairs, and making good present deficiencies,
there could be no reason for withholding the returns
he wanted. If they were necessary, they would suf-
fice to fit cut a fleet of fifty sail of the line. But if
vast sums were now to be expended on repairs, why
was not due supervision exercised over these matters?
If ships were kept in a condition of timely as well as
efficient repair, there would be a great saving of the
public money ; and the enormous number of useless
hulks and other craft in dock might be sold, as they
ought to be, and thus a very considerable sum would
be raised, applicable to the putting in an effective
condition a great many fine ships which ought to
be thus restored without loss of time. But, was ever
a case laid more startling or more stringent on this
point for the necessity of such a Commission or Com-
missioner as Sir C. NAPIER would have asked for
to inquire into the system pursued in the con-
struction of steamers for her Majesty's navy,
and the application of Parliamentary votes for the
building of such steam-ships," than was suggested by
the various cases of failure and mismanagement
he cited ? There had been built the Retribution, of
1,640 tons,—larger than a sailing frigate,—which,
when completed, was found to be unable to carry a
gun on her main deck, whilst it was also impossible
to fire off her stern guns. Then there was a still
larger ship of 1,840 tons that had been so built, it was
not practicable to run her guns out ! She had no stern
posts; though he had heard two were afterwards cut
in her. The Samson came under the same category;
though she had the additional defect of having
her machinery worse placed than in any other
craft. So high, in short, that a shot could
not enter her engine-room without utterly
demolishing her machinery. The Firebrand, one
of the
by experimental squadron, had been pro-
nounced
wChattaihna
dC OBRailileldE, ainmhosetr,able and n dpecrfomecptoily-
tent officer,
useless. The Cyclops had been built for a frigate i
it was found she could not carry guns on her main-
deck, so she was cut down to a corvette; and the
sooner the same operation was peformed on the Gor-
gon, also a steamer frigate,th the bette
at a cost,Thentherer
had been twenty-four steam-ships built,
the whole, of about 462,0001.; the cost of their for
themachi-
nery being, probably, about as much more.
The
Gallant Officer entered into many technical details to
show that from the high and exposed position in
which the machinery was placed in each of these
sloops, it would be, in action, liable to the same fatal
disasters as he had pointed out with respect to the
Samson. Eight new steam-packets, built at a cost of
58,0001. each, exclusive of machinery, he objected to
on similar grounds ; and the Admiralty Lords ap-
peared to be neither prepared nor able to inva-
lidate those grounds. The Centaur had been built,
and another new steam-ship was building, on the
same plan as the Vulture, and he thought their
construction dangerous from the defective position
of their machinery. This long catalogue of fearful
blunders—disgraceful, we might rather call them, in

The intelligence from Madrid is to the 25th ult.
The Bourse was closed on that day, and the journals
are destitute of interest. The Gazette publishes ac-
counts of the capture of some smuggkrs by the
Coast Guard, in which several lives were lost. The
following letter, dated Barcelona, March 23, appears
in the Phare des Pyrenees :

" For some days a sharp correspondence has been ex-
changed between the Captain-General and the Neapolitan
Consul relative to two Neapolitans, Vicente Ferrazano and
Thomas Appignoni, whom General Concha expelled from
Barcelona, and forced to take refuge in France. The Neapo-
litan Consul has protested against this act as arbitrary and in
contempt of the law of nations, as well as contrary to the
guarantees stipulated in treaties in favour of the subjects of the
two nations. But the Captain-General, in place of acceding to
this representation, declared that, being convinced that there
were at Barcelona foreigners who, in place of remaining neutral
in the midst of troubles which had occurred, had, on the
contrary, excited them, he was decided to inquire into the
conduct of each, and to expel, not only from Barcelona, but
also from the province, all whose conduct had not been com-
pletely neutral. General Concha added, that he regretted
adopting these measures, but that he was obliged to do so, in
order to preserve tranquillity in the province under his orders.
Almost at the same time a French subject, M. Kessler, was
thrown into prison by the orders of the Captain-General, on
the most futile motive. M. Flury, the French Consul,
hastened to demand his liberation, and, in addition, required
an indemnity to be paid in proportion to the length of N.
Kessler's detention. But, if I am well informed, it would
seem that all the steps taken by M. Flury have not hitherto
produced any result, the Captain-General having referred the
matter to his Government for decision. This incident has
produced much excitement among the members of the con-
sular body, who all appear decided to support the rights
which treaties afford their countrymen.",

The French Chamber of Deputies on Monday re-
sumed the discussion on the Customs Bill, and the
Sardinian treaty occupied them up to the hour of
post. An amendment was proposed by M. LITER-
BETTE relative to Sardinian ships arriving in French
harbours and the coasting trade between the two
countries, which led to a long, and according to one
account, a magnificent speech from M. Gutzor, who
accepted the amendment as a Cabinet question. It
was generally believed that M. GUIZOT would not
have taken this ground unless certain of a majority.
The domestic intelligence in the papers is not of
importance. Marshal SouLT was suffering under an
attack o
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on Sunday,
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Switzerland are to the 28th ult.
the 27th states, that M
relative to the present unsettled
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year.the gallant
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which his Lordship declined. A Berne journal of
M. GUIZOT had proposed to
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Tll SUN, LONDON., Ti-tritsnAv moitNivri, APRIL 3, 1A45.

Constitutionnel, the cause of the Jesuits is daily losing

ground. Berne, and some other cantons refuse to
restrain the free corps, and Lucerne begins to see

153/4 16%; Shrewsbury. Wolverhampton, and Birmingham,
434 ; Shrewsbury and Grand Junction, 6 61/8 ; Shrewsbury,
Oswestry, and Cheshire, 4% 965. 3d. ; South-Eastern and
Dover, 4314 ; Ditto, New Stsares, No. 1, 17 ; Ditto, New
Shares, No. 2, 1134 ; Ditto, New Shares, No. 3,8% BZ4 ;
Secttish Central, 5% % ; Wexford and Carlow, 234 A ;
Worcester and Tring, 81s. 6d. 81s. 3d. ; York and North
Midland Half Shares, 143 a 15; Austrian and Sardinian, 7
prem. ; Lyons and Avignon (English) 61s. 6d. 60s. ; Northern
of France (English) 6%; Paris and Lyons (Laffitte's
English), 3; Paris and Orleans, 50% 14; Paris and St.
Quentin, 445. 6d. ; Sambre and Meuse, 61A ; Verona and
Ancona, 214/.
There is in the Bankers' Magazine for the present month
information which will startle the honest tradesman and the
merchant, with respect to " Accommodation Bill Swindling*
At present we have not time to quote but the introductory
paragraph upon this really interesting topic. It is as fol-
lows :
" The facility with which a dishonest trader can impose
upon his banker, by means of accommodation bills, where
the parties to them have been able for some time
to keep. up an appearance of regularity and integrity
in their business transactions, makes it a subject of
the first importance that a banker should know when-
ever any of his customers are in any way whatever con-
cerned in such practices. The difficulty of detection,
however, is usually in proportion to its importance ;
for the parties, knowing very well that the least in-
dication to their bankers of such practices being
carried on must necessarily lead to their exposure and
discredit, are always artful enough to give the fictitious bills
as much an appearance of genuineness as possible, so that
they may be taken by the banker as resulting
from bona fide business transactions between the drawers
and acceptors. Too many bankers have been robbed
by such practices to render it necessary to say any-
thing on the extent of this kind of swindling. We need
scarcely remark, that as every banker is liable to be
made its object, so it is a duty on every one to lend his
assistance in detecting and exposing it whenever he has the
opportunity."
We have before us the monthly statement of James
Houghton and Company, of Liverpool, having relation to the
timber trade. It is barren of information, There have been
but few arrivals, and few sales, but it states " The Customs'
duties on mahogany, cedar, and all fancy woods, are now en-
tirely removed, and an extensive business may therefore be
calculated upon."
The market for the British Securities is very dull, and
prices continue flat, Consols being 99% % for present deli-
very, and about 991/2 % for time. Bank Stock has been at
215 for Account. The premium on Exchequer-bills is 645.
to 625., being an improvement.
There is some firmness in the value of the Foreign Bonds,
but they are not active. In fact not a bargain is officially
noted in Spanish, the staple of the foreign house. Portuguese
Converted have been well supported at 661,4 ; Mexican
have been done at 35%; Colombian have realised aniad-
vance to 153/ and 1614 ; Brazilian are 88 ; and Dutch Four
per Cents. 97% 1/s ex div.
The Share Market is buoyant, and advanced prices have
been obtained for Cambridge and Lincoln, and several other
quilwa,ys.

- -
that pubic opinion, as well as the decision of the
Extraordinary Diet, is against it. That journal gives
the following account of the state o!' affairs :
"According to private accounts transmitted to us from the
best sources in Switzerland, the instr.-reotional movement pro-
jected by the refugees from Lucerne, and of which the Swiss
journals no longer make any mystery, and which was to have
been made in the night of the 26th inst., has been put off for
a few days by reason of divisions which have arisen, not
among the members of the committee of the people of Lu-
cerne, but among the members of the auxiliary committee of
Argau, which have ended in abandoning the whole conduct of
the affair to the parties interested. This has evidently put the
Government of Argau more at its ease in its relations with the
federal authorities. Already the Vorort has addressed to it
the most warm remonstrances against its having, at the very
moment when the Diet had promulgated a decree against the
free corps, not only openly tolerated the formation of such
bands within its own territory, but in not having done anything
to prevent volunteers from coming from other cantons, and
ranging themselves under the banners of the rebels of Lucerne.
The lesser Council of the canton of Argaa is said to have re-
plied to the Vorort nearly to the effect that its deputies to the
Diet having discharged it from all the consequences of the re-
solution come to against the free corps, the responsibility
ought to fall, above all, upon the States which had refused to
co-operate in the decree for the expulsion of the Jesuits ; that
as the popular effervescence had been announced to the Diet
as the inevitable consequence of a decision against the free
corps, unaccompanied with a decision against the Jesuits, all
the measures which the authorities might take to prevent the
sympathising of the people in the liberal cause of Lucerne
must fail, in the presence of the deliberate determination of
these people to do their utmost for the triumph of this cause.
The Government of Berne, invited by the Vorort to oppose the
entrance of the free corps: has answered that it has not any
power to prevent the citizens from going wherever they please,
and that if they commit unlawful actsthey may be attacked
by the ordinary means. In consequence of the inert attitude
assumed by Berne, and the direct support lent by the Go-
vernment of Argau to the cause of the refugees, it is reported
that the Directory has resolved to address a new summons to
this last-named canton, and if it does not submit to this to
re-assemble the Diet. In the meantime, as a cantonal govern-
ment, it will propose to its Grand Council to take such pre-
cautionary measures as may be necessary to prevent any dis-
turbance of the public peace. The Government of Lucerne,
on its side, has not remained inactive. Not only has it ap-
plied to the primitive cantons to hold their troops in readiness
to afford it federal assistance, but it has called out its own
Elite force, the whole of its reserve and landwehr, making an
effective body of 11,000 men. In reality, however, not one-
half of this number is available ; for, in the two nights of the
23th and 26th instant, nearly 1,000 armed soldiers have gone
over the frontier to join the insurgents. Under these circum-
stances, the Grand Council of Lucerne has been convoked,
and it is affirmed that the Council of State is prepared to sub -
mit to it a proposal for an amnesty on a large scale. This
proves that the Government feels that its existence is at stake.
The whole line of the territory of Argau bounding the canton
of Lucerne is covered with refugees and well-armed volun-
teers, waiting only for the word to march in. The Govern-
ment of Berne on the 27th had not yet decided upon any
levy of troops, but it is prepared to meet whatever may
happen in case Lucerne should call in the aid of the primitive
cantons."

THE BOURSE--7sIoNDAY, Mancii 31.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price Price.
French Five per Cents. .• •• U 8 .. 118 .. 117 95 .. 118
Fours •• •••••• • • • • •• 107 •. 107 .. 107 • • 107
Three per Cents •. •• 85 55 .• 85 65 .• 85 55 .. 85 60
Loan .•••• • • 86 50 .. 86 50 .• 86 60 .• 86 50
Cowin Eank. I,ooof Shares 1045 ..1085 —1055 1085
Belgian Bank . •• •• 641 641 25 .. 641 25 .. 641 25
lie'gian Fives, 'B4O ir.:s .. 1054 .. 105 .. 105 U
1842 107 .. 107 .. 107 .. 107
Two-and-a-Half. 62 50 .. 62 50 .. 62 50 .. 62 50
Spanish Threes •• • 4l .. 41 .. dl .. 41
Passive .. •• ••
Neapolitan.. • ...... . 102 .. 102 • . 102 • • 102
106 .. 106 .. 106 .. 1156
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain .• •• .•
Versailles, R.B •• • •••• 655 .. 655 .. 655 .. 655
L.B• •• • 4;0 . 410 .. 405 .. 405
Rouen •• .• •••••• —. 1155 • 1160 ..1155 ..1160
Rouen to Havre...
Orleans •• •••••••••• • • • . • • 1323 75 ..1330 ..1322 50 ..1328 75
Strasburg to Bale 340 .. 242 50 .. 340 .. 312 50
Avignon to Marseilles.. •• • 1:35 ..1140 ..1135 1140
Bordeaux to Teste
RAILWAYS FOR TILE ACCOUNT, APRIL 3
St. Germain .•••• • • • . —1225 ..1227 50 P., 15 ..1218 75
Versailles, R• R••• • •
L. 8..
Rouen •••••• • • • • 1155 —1165 ..1155 .. 1160
Rouen to Havre 975 ~ 977 60 .. 975 .. 975
Orleans . ••-• •• • .....
Stralpurg to Bale• 341 25 .. 342 50 .. 341 25 • 342 50
Avignon to Marseilles—. —1132 50 .. 1142 50 —1132 50 ..1132 50
Bordeaux to Teste ......... 230 .. 230 .• 230 .. 230

RESIGNATION OF MR. WALLACE, M.P. FOR
GREENOCK.—We are sorry to see, by the Greenock
Advertiser, that the country is about to be deprived
of the services of that most useful and indefatigable
Member Of Parliament, Mr. 'Wallace. Much as we re-
gret the loss of his services, we still more deeply regret
that ill health, brought on by over exertion in
the discharge of his Parliamentary duties, should he the
cause of his resignation of his seat. The Greenock Ad-
vertiser of Tuesday contains his valedictory address to
his constituents, in which he refers with honest pride to the
many reforms which he has brought abut during the
thirteen years over which his Parlimentary career
has extended, First, among these in importance and in
time, is that Post-office reform which eventuated in the
establishment of the uniform system of Penny Postage.
May the next representative of Greenock be as honest,
as assiduous, as ;ndefatigable as the last.

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISTI FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
3 per Cent. Consols
Bank Stock for Account 215 215
Consols for Account....
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 11/2d 63 64 62 pm. 64
Ditto 5001. .
Ditto Small
Ditto Advertised — pm.
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto, Account — 88%
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela. 153/4 164 16 1614
Danish, 3 per Cent .... BBl4 88%
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 ...... ... 331;„
Ditto, Account 35% 3074
Ditto, Deferred
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents — -
Ditto. Account ... ...
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Converted —
Ditto, Account 663/4%
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840
Ditto Account
Ditto, Passive
Ditto, Deferred
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cerit..
Ditto Deferred
Dutch, 21/2 per Cent
`._ : 63%
_ _ 1/

.. .....

,_
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific.... 971'1/8 971 .
PRICES OF CLOSIN,i
AMWAY SHARES PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. piticEg.
Aberdeen
Armagh, Coleraine, and
I'ortrush l% —
Binning. and Gloucesterloo • 137 .....
Do. New - 34%
Ditto 1/2 Shares
Bristol and Exeter 7O —
atto New
Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ...... 611/.; 60 .....
Cale,ionian
Cambridge and Lincoln 11/2 9 83/4 91/21/9•••
Chester and Holyhead... 5 - B%
('iiurnet Valley
Coventry, Bedworth, and
Nuneaton
Cornwall
Diss, Beccles, Yarmouth 11/2 33/1 .. ... ..... .
Direct Northern
Dublin and Belfast June. 2% B3q ''4 914
Dublin and Galway 2%...... 3%1/, 4%......
Eastern Counties
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1....41. 13s. 4d l%
Ditto ditto, No. 2. l3s. 4d...
Eastern Union lO .. ...
Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Ely and Bedford
Great Grimsby and Shef.
field
Great South. and West.
(Ireland)
Ditto Extension
Great North of England..loo
Ditto New ' 2
Great Western SO ......180% 181
Ditto % Shares 5O lOl% ...
Guildford, Farn'm,Ports. 2%
Harwich .O-40 av. 0 I ••.0 • • 21/ %%
Hull and Selby 5O
Ditto Quarter Shares 1214.
Kentish Coast l—
% 2%
Lancaster and Carlisle... 15
Lincoln, York, and Leeds 1%
London and Birminghm (Stock) 2341/2 235
Do. New Thirds
Do. IA Shares
London and Brighton... 50
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 173%
Do. Guaranteed 5 per
Cent.
London and S. Western 4116 a 10d 7934 8014
Do. New
London and York ...... •.. VA__ 3%
Lynn and Ely
Manchester and Leeds... 73 1471/2
Do. Quarters
Manchester and Birmin. 40
Do. Quarters 4 ...... 10%
Midland 100 1551/.% 157
Do. New
Midland, Birm., Derby...loo ll7l/2.

Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction 24 ...... 491/.z
Do. NPAV Brandling... 10
Neweasil( and Berwick 11% l5l/214 16
Newry and Enniskillen. 21,4
Newark and Sheffield ...
North British

22
2/
40
1%
235
45
32
643 A
17%

8014
13
31s
7 •. %
14714
201/2
61
111 A
158 -
21%
. 118

Do. New
Norwich and Brandon... 10
Preston and Wyre
Richmond and %Vest End

.: unction
Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1
r.- cot t ish Midland 1%...... 31/25%t% 41/5..,
Shrews., Wolverhamp ,
Dudley, and Binn 2IA . .... 47/3 % 51/3 ... .
South Devon...

South Eastern & Dover 3312 s 4d... 42%3/
Do., No. 1..
Do., No. 3
South Wales 2l/2... . 6AI/s
Trent Valley 2 ... 17l 1/2
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 .. ... 312,1/2 ....
%Vest Cornwall ...... 14.- 41/4 ,
Yarmouth and Norwich. 20
Ditto, New 8 —
York and North Midland 50
Ditto 1/2 Shares 25
Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 20
Do. Selby
Do. Extension
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and A toiens... 4
Bordeaux, Toulouse, and
Cott ..... ... . ... ..... 2
Great North. of France.. 4
Lyons and Avignon 2
Orleans and Vierzon ... 2
Orleans and Bordeaax ... 2
Paris & Lyons, Laffitte's ,
Pans and Lyons, Gan-
neron's,
Paris & Lyons, (Calon's) 2
Paris and Orleans 2O . 51%
Paris and Rouen
_ ..
Paris and Strasbourg ... 2
Sambre and Meuse .... 2
Tours and Nantes, Mac-
kenzie's ........... -..... 2
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
London & Westminster. 20
Provincial of Ireland ... 25 ' 46
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL I.—The sales
are :—Jamaica, 30 ; Lancaster and Preston, 54 ex div. ;
Manchester and Leeds, Quarter Shares, 193/4 ex div. ; Ditto,
Sixteenth Shares, 7% ; Manchester and Birminkiam, 58
ex new and ex div. ; Ditto, New Quarters, 5% prem. ;
Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 15% ; Midland ailway.
Preferential, 3 15-16; Ditto, 401. Shares, 20; North British,
17% ; Preston and Wyre, 341/2 3/4 ; Sheffield and Manchester
Quarter Shares, 153/4 ; South-Eastern, No. 3, 83/ 7/8 ;
Barnsley Junction, 8 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 3% ; Birkenhead,
Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 121% 12 ; Blackburn
Burnley, and Accrington, 71% 1/2 ; Blackburn, Darwen, and
Bolton, 4 3-16 14 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 12 13;
Caledonian, 101/2 % ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 83/ % ;
Churnet Valley, 71/2 ; Direct Northern, 43/ ; Dublin and
Galway, 3 7-16 ; Erewash Valley, 15 ; Glasgow and Dumfries,
20s. ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 4% % ; Hud-
dersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 3A3 % ; Hud
dersficld and Sheffield Junction, 6 13-16 ; Leeds and West
Riding Junction, 6% ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston,
21,; ; London and York, 3 ; Manchester and Buxton, 2 9-16 3 ;
Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction, 6% % ; Newark
and Sheffield, VA % ; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver-
hampton, 13/4 ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction,
5; Southport and Euxton, 2% 9-16; Trent Valley, 16%
ex new; Paris and Lyons ((iinneron's), 2% ; Paris and
Strasburg, 2%.

EXCHEQUER BILLS.—The public are indebted to
Colonel Sibthorp, M.P., for a return of the number and
amount of public bills that have been issued under the head
of Exchequer Bills, under the authority of her Majesty's
Controller-General Lord Monteagle, since the sth day of
March, 1844. It is found, on an examination of one branch
of this return, that from the Ist of January, 1844, to the 17th
of March, 1845, the total number of Exchequer Bills, signed
by the Noble Lord the Controller-General of the Exchequer,
amounted to 23,916, representing a value of 38,404,3831.,
and that the total number of Exchequer Eills signed by the
Assistant-Controller during the same period amounted to
21,378, representing a value of 7,759,0801. The total number
of Bills signed, from the Ist of January, 1842, up to the 17th
of March, 1845, both by the Controller-General and by the
Assistant-Controller, amounted to 110,062, representing a
grand total value of 138,722,5964