The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY E'VENJ NG, ECE MEER 80, 1845.

prone.rty which he holds himself, he pays them, not

out of the ilitee pq• cent., but (-Jut ui the profits
of the farm. The fact is, that he pays no
wages at all out of his three per cent., except to

domestic servants, grooms, gamekeepers, and other
s personal attendants—none of whom are 125.-a-week
labourers. Neither is it true that Mr. COBDEN snakes
1,6001. per cent. His capital cannot be less than
six times, and is most peobably ten times, the amount
at which Sir CHARLES WOLESLEY has assumed it, and
while in some years he may make a profit of 6,0007._
in others he may incur a loss of a similar amount
and therefore it is necessary to make some allow-
ance for risks. But let that pass, and let
those to whom Sir CHARLES WOLESLEY has ad-
dressed his letter ponder well upon the admission
made in this question as to the rate of wages of la-
bourers employed. in agriculture. That rate is
twelve shillings per week. We believe that there
• is not an unskilled labourer employed in manufac-
tures who is paid less than eighteen shillings a week,
We have heard Mr. COBDEN say, in the House of
Commons, that no unskilled labourer in his employ-
ment received less than that sum. It is admitted by
every one that, with a repeal of the corn-laws would
come an extension of manufactures, and an ex-
tension of manufactures, to the unskilled
• labourer, means 18s. a week, and yet
the monopolists have " the modest assurance" to
assume that this law, which keeps down the wages of
the agricultural labourer to 12s. a week, and prevents
the extension of manufactures and manufacturing
wages (18s. a week) into the agricultural districts,
• is enacted for his especial behoof and protection.
Out upon such barefaced hypocrisy !

The Madrid papers of the 22d had not reached
Paris at the departure of the mail on Sunday.

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The intelligence from Paris of Sunday gives a fa-

vourable account of the stock and share-market on
the previous day, both of which continued gradually
to rise from the commencement of business to the
close. The effect produced by the KING'S Speech
was favourable, and the want of confidence which had
so long prevailed on the Bourse, may be said to have
entirely disappeared. The papers of Sunday are
chiefly occupied in`-discussing the KING'S Speech, and
in remarks on the election of President of the Cham-
ber of Deputies. To those of the Opposition it of
course appears very defective on many points, such as
the affairs of the Lebanon, Greece, Spain,
Mexico and Madagascar, and abounds too much
with flattery to England. The Constitutionnel
especially is offended with the multiplied professions
of "friendship, affection, mutual confidence, pacific
and earnest assurances, good and intimate relations,
and cordial co-operation with which the entente cor-
diale between France and England is acknowleged."
The writer admits the advantages of the good under-
standing between the two countries, and is anxious
for its continuance on reasonable and equal terms,
but still thinks that it is obtained at too high a price.
" Our readers," says that journal, " know well how
anxious we are for the maintenance of pacific rela-
tions between France and England. The English
press almost unanimously has done us the justice of
acknowledging our spirit of loyalty and impartiality.
But in truth, by the language which is held, and the
attitude which is imposed upon us, we might be
driven into feelings of a directly contrary descrip-
tion. We blush to see this humility and these
transports of gratitude. Would a short and precise
phrase not be sufficient ? Why, then, always down
on our knees ? Do you think the subordinate position
which you give yourselves gains you the esteem of
our proud neighbours, and will place France in the
position which belongs to her in the affairs of the
world ?" From all accounts, M. SAUZET will be
elected President of the Chamber by a vast
majority. On that subject the Siecle says :
" On Monday the Chamber of Deputies meets to
elect its President. The candidate adopted by the
entire Opposition is the Hon. M. DUFAURE. The
two fractions of the Left and Left Centre will sepa-
rately assemble to-morrow, to agree upon the choice
of Vice-Presidents and Secretaries, who will be una-
nimously supported by the Opposition. The nomi-
nation about to take place would have a great political
signification, if all the Opposition Deputies were at
their post. Unfortunately, the absence of many
was noticed to-day. We trust that the absent will
feel the responsibility which they incur by neglecting
their duty. Last year some of the Ministerial can-
didates only carried their election by majorities of
three and four votes. The situation is now morally
worse, and the negligence of the Deputies of the
Opposition would restore to the Cabinet a confidence
of which its faults had deprived it."
The Ministerial journal states that the whole of
the Conservative party will vote for M. SAUZET, and
reckons upon certain victory. RI. DUFAURE, selected
by the Opposition, it considers a bad choice, and
asserts that the national candidate of the Left should
be M. ODLLON BARROT. ." If it be true," continues
the writer, as a morning paper states, " that a close
and indissoluble alliance will hereafter exist between
the two great fractions of the Opposition, the league
should have chosen, to try its strength, a more signi-
ficant name than that of M. DUFAURE. But it mat-
ters little; we accept M. DUFAURE with the mean-
ing which the suffrages of the Left and Left Centre
would impart to his election. We shall see on what
side the majority lies. Nevertheless, that indissoluble
Opposition was so often dissolved by the first shock,
after having been proclaimed with as much eclat as
on this occasion, that we are inclined to predict the
same fate to this alliance of the Left and Left Centre.
We, however, invite the Conservatives to remain
united, as if an elliance actually existed among their
opponents."

President POLK'S Message also furnishes topics for
the remarks of the journals, of which we give the
following summary from Galigvani:—
" The Ministerial organ, Le Journal des Danis begins
by observing that the Message does not show that the
spirit of conciliation forms a leading trait in the character
of Mr. Polk, and that he talks much about moderation
without displaying any in his language, which, says the
Debats, is such that if it were used from Government to
Government, a war must be the consequence. Our Con-
temporary then enters upon an analysis of the entire
Message, with a running commentary. The facts of the
case are stated with great clearness, and with an evident
desire to appear impartial in the estimation of their
Merits, but the writer appears nevertheless to have an
impression unfavourable to the claims of the American
President. At any rate it is quite certain that the
Debats regards those claims as unseasonable. Our Con-
temporary considers a war between England and the
United States of America probable, if Mr. Polk's demands
be approved of by the Senate, but it has great doubts of
this result. The Debats says:—' From what we have
said it must not be inferred that we regard a rupture
as probable, even after this Message. The House of
Representatives may vote offensive measures, and there
is every reason to suppose that it will do so when excited
to such a course by the first magistrate; but there is
reason to hope that the interests of peace will find refuge
and support in the senate, of which the most illustrious
men of the country are members, and in the interval
the misled people may return to reason.. It is not, how-
ever, to be denied that the President seeks to excite war,
and in this respect his Message is a novelty, even after
those of General Jackson.'
" Towards the conclusion of its article the Dibats
becomes more animated, and remarks with more seve-
rity upon the conduct and language of Mr. Polk, whom
it regards as a man pushed on by democratic ambition
to a course which may be fatal to him. The absence of
the usual courtesy towards foreign powers is particu-
larly noticed and censured, and Mr. Polk's mode of
alluding to France on the Texas question is warmly
condemned. Instead of attempting to imitate the dig-
nified language of his illustrious predecessors (says the
Debats), Mr. Polk places himself on a level with the rude
cultivators of the valley of the Ohio, in whose opinion Eu •
rope is a collection of degraded beings, groaning under
the weight of monarchical principles, and over whom
As Union would obtain an easy and sure triumph. • Our
tostemperary vindicates the French Government with
great energy against the 'Accusations of Mr. Polk, and
declares' that it is as anxious to promote true liberty as
he can la', but that, unlike him, it is actuated by con-
siderations' for the sacred principle of justice. Our
readers may' judge of the anger of the Debats by the fact
that, althoughit studiously seeks to hold the scales with
an equal hand es regards the dispute between England
and the United ,States, it cannot refrain from telling Mr.
Polk that, in spssalting of the Texas and Mexican af-
fairs, he expresses' himself in terms of detestible hy-
pocrisy. The Conselntionnel indulges in a few com-
ments on the Message, but in the little that it does say
it differs greatly from the Debats. Far from finding in
the language of Mr. Polk ,the tone of insult and defiance
so apparent to the Debats, if regards it as soft, consider-
ing what had been published in the American journal
tiL e Union, and which is regarded as Mr. Polles
erg an. The allusion of the American President to France
also finds a certain grace in the eyes of the Constita-
tionnti, for it regards it as a happy hit at the policy of M.
Guixot, rather than as an insult to the French nation.
The Pi esse allows that the Message is rather menacing
than conciliatory, aad admits thas the president has set
up pretensions greater tileme those of his predecessors.
These, obsesses the esse, must be abated, tsut brig:and
en her side must also show moderation. Aecording to

the Presse, the state of things stands thus:—Mr. Polk,
by ;11,-; 11,!;131,'.. NW r 10,171
few pegs in their claims; the Senate will refuse to sanc-
tion the extreme views of the President ; and the two
Governments thus restrained, the one by fear of the
hostile attitude of the United States, the other by the
prudence of the Senate, will again negotiate and at
length come to a good understanding. The Presse evi-
dently calculates more, however, upon the fears of Eng-
land than upon the prudence of America. The National
expresses its regret that want of time and
space prevents it, for the present, from saying all
it thinks of the Message. It must, it says, confine
itself to remarking that the language of Mr. Polk is
clear, firm, and decisive, and that there is no longer a
door left open for compromise. This journal seems to
think that when the President of the United States lays
down his opinion thus decisively, it must, as a matter
of course, be approved of by the Legislature, and that
nothing is left for England but to withdraw her pre-
tensions, and accept peace with the United States on
the terms offered by the President. The Courrier Fran-
cais observes that the Message is very warlike in the
terms used, but really very pacific in spirit, and ex-
presses its belief that the dispute will he arranged.
Our readers are aware of the view taken of this ques-
tion by the Courrier, it is that neither France nor
England has any right to the Oregon territory. The
Courrier coincides with Mr. Polk in what he says about
the French Government and the question of the Texas,
and attacks M. Guizot warmly for putting himself at the
service of England." •
The Emperor NICHOLAS arrived at Florence on the
19th, after remaining five days at Rome. A letter
from that capital of the same date says
The Pope, in separating from the Emperor for the
last time, said, lam an old man, who will soon appear
before God to give an account of my actions in this
world. You are young, but you will one day appear
there also. Think of that ! I trust that God will en-
lighten your conscience. and will make you change your
conduct with respect to your subjects of the Catholic
communion.' "
On Sunday the Three per Cents. were done at
TORTONI'S at 82f. 85c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Dec. 29.
Anglo-Belgian — Madrid and Valencia... 1
Barba does
Boulogne and Amiens.. 11% Namur and Liege
Bordeaux &Mediterran North Jamaica ...
Bordeaux and Toulouse Orleans and Vierzon
Do. & Cette (Espeleta) Orleans and Bordeaux 101/2
Do. (Mackenzie's) .. Over Yssel •••
Callao, Lima, and Pa- Paris &Lyons (Laffitte)
cilic Coast
Central of Spain .. — Ditto (Caloa's).... --
Ceylon .
Demerara
Dendre Valley ...... Paris and Rouen
Dutch Rhenish ..... 83/4 Paris and Strasburg
Dieppe & Paris Junct. (Ganneron's)
Dijon and Mulhouse ... IDo. (Compe de L'Est)
East Indian ........ Do. (Aymard's) —
Fampoux & Hazebrouk Paris and St. Quentin —
Grt Northern of France Rouen and Havre —
Constituted 143/4 Royal North of Spain.
Do. Pepin le Hallear — Sambre and Meuse .... 53/4
Great Paris and Lyons 2% Strasburg and Bale ....
Great Western Bengal -- Tournay,Jurbise, Lan-
Great Western Canada 33/1 den, and Hasselt ...
Jamaica S. DI id. Junction Tours and Nantes
Di. North Midland — (Mackenzie's)
Do. Extension
Jersey — Do. (O'Neill's)
Louvain and Jemappe.. 214 Trinidad
Lyons and Avignon.... Verona and Ancona 2
Luxembourg

THE MINISTRY.—We noticed a few days ago the
statement that Lord Ellenborough would be appointed
First Lord of the Admiralty, vice Lord Haddington.
It is now very generally rumoured that Lord Had-
dington will not leave Sir Robert Peel's Cabinet, but
will take another office in the Administration.

Lord Stanley is said to be assuring his friends that
he does not disapprove of any measure contemplated
by the Government. What does this mean ?—that
Lord Stanley is a free-trader, or that Sir Robert
Peel is not ?

IMPERIAL PARL LAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.)

This being the clay to which Parliament was prorogued,
on the 16th, the Commissioners attended for the purpose
of its further prorogation to the 22d January, according
to the Order in Council just issued, at two o'clock, the
usual hoar.

The Commissioners were, the Lord Chancellor, the
Earl of Haddingtun, and Lord Dalhousie.
A few minutes past two o'clock the Lord Chancellor
took his seat on the Woolsack, and commanded Mr.
Pulman to summon the'Commons to the bar.

Immediately after, Mr. Henry Lee and the other
officers of the House of Commons appeared at the bar.
The Clerk then read the Royal Commission, when
the Lord Chancellor, in conformity with the powers
therein conferred, further prorogued Parliament to the
22d of January next, then to meet for the transaction
of business.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, QUARTER TO TIMER.
The-sales of Cotton at Liverpool, yesterday, were 7,000 to
8,000 bags, 2,000 being on speculation, and all at very full
prices. There was a good business done is shares, and a con-
siderable advance took place in prices.
The commercial accounts which have been received from
India and China are considered to be of a satisfactory tenor.
The current of trade between the British and the Chinese
ports, which have been opened by the treaty with the Em-
peror of the Chinese, had become more steady, and
the great desire previously existing for extensive
speculations in goods appears to have given place
to a more wholesome and regular description of
business. Still, however, there were many difficulties
yet to be overcome before an entire and free intercourse will
be had with the Chinese. The mode in which the merchants
having exclusive privileges heretofore transacted operations,
especially as regards the Chinese, appears to be incompatible
with a free trade, and old prejudices will take a long time
ere they be swept away. Still, however, the private
accounts we have seen are full of hope that a few
years will afford ample proof that the Chinese
merchants must give way to the necessary forms for conduct-
ing business, and that as much confidence will be placed in
individuals of British origin trading with them, as was so
eminently displayed towards the representatives of the East In-
dia Company, down to the very moment when that establish-
ment ceased to be a commercial community. It isunderstood
that shipments recently made to Chinese ports have turned
out well, thus making up in some measure for the heavy
losses which many of our merchants sustained by overloading
the markets of China with goods when the trade was first
opened.
There are no la-ter accounts of importance from the co-
lonies to-day.
The advice given yesterday, under this head, that the
Metropolitan bankers should take into due and liberal con-
sideration the severe labour imposed upon their clerks during
the railway mania, and by which the bankers themselves are
such large gainers, may be extended we think with even greater
force to the sharebrokers. In the majority of cases these
have been overwhelmed with business, which, night and day
combined, scarcely sufficed to bring them comfort-
ably through, and a very ample " Christmas-box" may
not probably cover the injury done to the health of those in
their service. At present, it is true, the hours of business
are greatly circumscribed, and muchl more like those for-
merly observed by stockbrokers, but they must not on that
account, forget that they have had the gingerbread, and now
refuse to give those who zealously assisted them, a trifling
portion of " the gilt."
The Public Securities have been moderately active, and
the quotations are pretty steady.
Consols have been 95 to 94% for time. On Exchequer-
bills the premium has been 255. to 285., being higher again.
The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have realised
97 97%, :and the Three per Cents. 95 to %. Bank
Stock is 2031/ to 204%, having given way slightly. The
prrrnium on East India Bonds is 38s. for those under 1,000/.
Portuguese Stock has been rather lively, but it seems to
be rather on account of sellers than purchasers. The Four
per Cents. have realised 591 h to 60%. Mexican Active
Bonds have been steady at 31%, and the Deferred at 17%
Chilian Stock is worth 99; Spanish Bonds are flat, and
quite neglected ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have
been 61 to %.
The Share Market has been very buoyant again, and
prices are nearly all better, both for English and Foreign
Scrips.

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock ... 203% 204% 204%
3 per Cent. Reduced
New 34 per Cents
Long Annuities to re Jan.lB6o 10% 9-16 10 9-16
India Bonds, 1,0001......•• ...... --
Ditto under 1,0001. .. ......
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., I%d 27 25 28 pm. '26
Ditto 5001.
Ditto Small
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK PRICES,
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent. 41 41
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent..
Granada Bonds, 1 per Cent. —
Ditto Deferred —4%
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 315 31%
Ditto, Deferred 17%% 173/4
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 40% 42 42
Portuguese 5 per Cents. —
Ditto, Converted 603/4 60%
Ditto, 4 per Cent
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Passive
Ditto. 3 per Cent 4O 40
Ditto. Account ..... ... ......
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French Rentes, 5 per Cent.
Exchange —f. —c. 25f. 70c.
Dutch, 2% per Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 93% 94%
PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen
Aberdeen, Banff, &Elgin 2%
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush l%
Aylesbury and Theme.. 1%
Belfast & County Down 2%
Bideford andTavistock... 1%
Birmin. and Gloucester. 100
Ditto New 17%
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Birmingham & Leicester
Direct 42s.
Boston, Stanifd, & Birm. 225.
Bridgewater &Minehead 425. ... ..
Bristol and Exeter
Ditto, New

1 Bristol and Gloucester 30 ....... 54 ... ......
Bristol and T iver. :Envie 214......
Isuckin-i.ali,siiiie
Caledonian
Ditto Extension ...
Cambrian & Grand June 42s
Cambridge and Lincoln 14 35/s%
Do. New
Cambridge and Oxford.. 1% —
Canterbury and Dover.. l
Central Kent
Chelmsford and Bury
Chester and Holyhead... 15
Chester and Manchester 425.
Cheltenham and Oxford 2
Clydesdale Junct i0n..... 5
Cork :Blackrock, and
Passages
Cork and Killarney
Cork and Waterford ... 114 —
Cornwall
Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir.
and Leicester ll4 —
Dartmouth, Torbay, and
Exeter
Derby and Crewe —
Derby, Gainsbro', and
Great Grimsby ... 1%......
Derby, Uttoxeter, and
Stafford .. . 2%......
Direct Manchester

(Remington's)
Ditto (Rastrick's) 514...... 414
Direct Northern
Direct Norwich
Dublin and Armagh l% .... .
Dublin and BelfastJunc 5
Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine
Dublin and Galway..... 4
Dudley, Madely, and
Broseley
Dundalk & Enniskillen 21/2
Eastern Counties 14/. 165....... 2214% 22% ~
Ditto New 6/. 16s. Bl/2 1, • .
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1. 61.135. 4d.... — .,
Ditto ditto, No. 2... 41. 13s. 4d... % p
EastDereh'm andNor'ch 1
Eastern Union
Ditto, Quarter Shares 3% —
Ditto Extension
Do. Ipswich and Bury 4 —
Do. Exten'n to Norw'h 2%
Do., Camb. and Ely.. 2%
East Lincolnshire
East & West of England 1%......
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ..... ...
Ditto Half Shares ... 5
Ditto, Quarter Shares 121,E ...... 18% ,
Ditto, New 7% .
Edinburgh & Northern- 114 — •••
Edinburgh and Perth... 11/2. —
Ely and Huntingdon ... 5 ......
Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2% —
Essex and Suffolk .• ... 1% —
Exeter, Dorchester, and
Weymouth
Exeter, Yeovil,& Dorset 2%
Glonc.,Abelystwith,and
Central of Wales 1%...... •••
Goole and Doncaster .. 425.
Grand Junction 100 —
Ditto Half Shares 5O
Ditto Quarters 25
Grand Union... l% —
Great Eastern &Western 2%...... ••• ••
GreatGrimsby and Shef-
field
Great South. and West.
(Ireland)
Ditto Extension ...... 1214 —
Great Munster 2%
Great North of Scotland 2%
Great North of England..loo .213 216
Ditto New 5 —
Do. New .... - ........ 2 ..-
.meat Western BO 163 162

Ditto % Shares 5O
Ditto 4 Shares 2% lB
Ditto Fifths
Guildford, Fare'in, Ports. 5 ... ..

ilarwich
Elull and Selby
Ditto 1/4 Shares
Do. Half Shares 2 —
Inverness and Elgin 1 - ••..
Ipswich, Norwich, and
Yarmouth
Irish North Midland l% —
Isle ofAxholme 2%
Killarney Junctions 1 IA
Kendal and Windermere 11,6
Lancaster and Carlisle... 30
Larne, Belfast, and Bal-
lymena 2%
Leeds and Carlisle
Leeds and West Riding
Junction
••
Leicester & Birmingham 225.
Leicester and Bedford... 225.
Leicester and Tamworth 425. —
Liverp. and Manchester.loo ... ..
Do. 1/2 Shares
Do. Quarters 25
Liverpool & Leeds Direct 2% .. ... 2%,;
Lpool., Mnchstr, & New-
castle Junction
Lcndon and Birminghmloo 221 223
Do. Thirds

Do. 14 Shares
—• ...,

DittOFifths
Ditto Extension ...... 1 i;1
London and Blackwall. 16/. Ms. 4d. 9%
Do. New

Ditto Extension 3 ........
Condor. and Brighton... 50
Do. consolidated Bths... 40

Ditto, Sixths
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 221/21,4 23
Do. Guaranteed 5 per
Cent.
Lon., Chel., 0x.,G10., and
Hereford
London and Greenwich 12115 s 4d...
Do. Preference ...18117s 2d
Londen Hounslow. and
Western
Lond. & S.Western 411 68 10d 77% 77
Do. New Consol. Bths 20
Do. New
Do. New
London & South Essex 234
London and York 2% 414
London and Windsor ... 1
London, Warwick, and
Kidderminster ... 2% ••• 00000000 "••
London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil
Londonderry&Colerains 5
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen 5 —
Lynn and Ely
Lynn and Dereham 5 —
Manchester and Leeds... 76 135
Ditto 1/, Shares
Do. Quarters 2
Do. Fifths

8

Do. Sixteenths ... 514 —
Manchester and Birmin. 40
Do. Quarters
Do. New Quarters
Do. Continuation and
Welsh Junction
Manchester,Buxtoia,and
Matlock 42s. ...... 3 2 f p...
Manchester, Birm., and

Mould Junction .. ... —
Manchester and Rugby
Direct - .....•........
Manchest. & Southampt. 2 ..- 314%
Midland 100 .....157 156% 15714

Do. I' itths 2
Do. New
Nlidland,Birm., Derby...loo
Midld. & East. Counties 2%
Midland Great Western
(Irish)
Do. Extens. to Sligo 2%.... .....
ii,.

Newcastle and Dar'
ton Junction 25 ...... 59 ...... ....-..
Do. New Brandling 2O
Newcastle and Berwick 5
Newcastle and Carlisle...loo
Newport& Abergaveany 21/2 —
New Ross and Carl0w... 22s
Newry and Enniskillen 21/2 .....
Newark, Sheffield, and
Boston ...
Norfolk Extension 2
North British .... 17% 2514 26%.
Do. Half Shares ..... 3% 8 714.....
Do. Exten. to Carlisle 114
Do. Ext. to Dalkeith 25
Ditto ditto
North Devon
North of Norfolk .., 23j4 - ........
Northern and Eastern... 45

Jong-

Do. Scrip

Do. Quaiter Shares... 12% — .....
Do. New
N. Kent & Direct Dover 2%..... WA._ .. . .....
North Staffordshire 42s. ...... 4% 4 p
North Wales
North and South Wales

and Worcester 1 .....„ A
Northern and Southern
Connecting
Norwich and Brandon-. 16
Northampton,wtenhßamanbury,
Dani
dtt ocNh
eei - ........... •••
............
2
Nottingham and Boston 1% l% 214, .............
Not tingm., Erewsh.Val-
ley, and Manchester... 1% —
Nottingham and Mans- ••" ...........
field —
...............
Oxford, Gosport, Ports-
mouth,& Southamptn 425. —
33/4 ................
•••• .............
Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton
Oxford, Witney, and .............
Cheltenham....
Perth and Inverness ... 2% ~...
-......
Pilbrow Atmospheric ... 1 ~ .....
Portsmouth Direct
Preston and Wyre
• .. .....
Do. IA Shares
..
Reading, Guildford, and .....
Reigate
Richmond 5
••••••
Rugby, Derby, and Man-
cheater ........• • 2% , .............
Rugby and lluntingdon 2
Rugby, Leamington,sed
Warwick
Rugby, Warwick. and
Worcester..... ...... ... 428.
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland
Do. Extension ... 1% — .
Sheffield & Manchester 100
Do. Quarter Shares... 8
Shrevvsbury and Bina... 21/,1•••• • 5 •• ••• ..... ..,
Shropshire Mineral 425.......
Shropshire Union
Shrewsbury & Hereford 2%
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
&S. Staffordsh. junc. 2% —
Sligo and Shannon ~.,,. I%
Soinersetshire Midland 2%
South Davon 25
South Midland 428. 4% 3.it 44 p...
I south & Midlands June. Us. —

1/•2 P

3%
3%
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!. outb Fa,t-rc & Diwr,r 33, 2! 4d... 38 39
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Do., N. 2.
... 1014
Do., No. 3
Do.. No. 4
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ter. & Oxford Junction 425....•••425.......
St. Alban's, Hatfield, and
Hertford Junction ...
Staines and Richmond ... 1 ...... 2%. .....
Staffordsh. & Shropshire 234 —
South Wales 2% 4 3:14
Taw Vale Extension ... ...... ••• •• •-•••
Tean and Dove Valley 1%...... 1% .
Trent Valley
Trent Valley and Holy-
head Junction
Trine, Reading, and
Basingstoke ............ 54--
Ulverstone and Furness 21/2......
Vale of Neath ... ........ 2 -
Warwick & Cheltenham 1%
Warwick and Worcester 425. —
Waterford and Kilkenny 3 •-•••—
Waterford and Limerick 71/ ...... -
Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw,
and Dublin .......... 1%..... ....... •••••
W aterford, Wexford, and
Valentia
Waveney Valley ...... ... 2 -
Welch Midland
West Cornwall
West Yorkshire
WestLondon,Old Shares 20 .....
West End and Southern
Counties .. l%
Wexford and Carlow ... 2V, —
Wisbeach and St. Ives... 2
Wilts, Somerset, and
Southampton
Wilts, Somerset, & Wey-
mouth ........ ... ...... 21/,
Worcester,llereford,Ross,
and Gloucester 42s.
Worcester, Tinbury, and
Ludlow ..... . ............ 23' ...
Worcester, Shrewsbury, /4...
and Crewe Union ..... 1%.....
Worcester and S. Wales 425......
Worcester, Warwick, and
Rugby
Yarmouth and Norwich. 20 —
Ditto, New
York and Carlisle 234 24 ...... ........
York and Lancaster 2%
York and North Midland 50
Ditta % Shares . 25
Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 25 - ••• ...... .••••
Do. Selby
Do. Extension
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Anglo-Belgian 4
Barbadoes 1
Boulogne and Amiens... 10 -
.. .. ......
Bordeaux & Mediterran. 2
Bordeaux,Toulouse, and
Cette (Mackenzie's)... 2 ..... ..
Do. (Espelete's)
Calais, Dunkrk, and West
Flanders
Callao, Lima, and Pacific
Coast
1 Central of Spain ...
Ceylon
Demerara 2% ... . 2%
Dendre Valley
Dijon and Mulhouse 6.. 2 •-• ..
Dutch Rhenish 5
East Indian .6. ..... .... ss.
Eastern Belgian Junctn. 2%
Fampoux & Hazebrouk 2
Great North. of France
Constituted... .. 5
Great Paris mid Lyons 2
Great Western Bengal... ss. —
Great Western Canada... 314 ......
Jamaica S.Mid.Junction 1
Jamaica North Midland 1
Do. Extension 1
Jersey
Louvain and Jemeppe... 4 ... .
Lyons and Avignon 2
Luxembourg...
Madrid and Valentia.... 2 ...
Mauritius .6. 1
Namur and Liege
North Jamaica... ...... ... 1
Orleans and Vierzon ... 10 ......
Orleans and Bordeaux... 6 ...... ...
Over Yssel 413 s 4d —
Paris &Lyons(Laffitte's) 2
Paris and Lyons (Gan-
neron's)...
Paris & Lyons, (Calon's) 2 ......
Paris & Lyons (Sud Est) 2 --- ••• ...... •••••
Paris and Orleans 2O
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Strasbourg
(Ganneron's)
Do. (Compe de L'Est) 2
Do (Avmard's)
Paris and St. Quentin
Rouen and Havre
Royal North of Spain ... 2
Sambre and Meuse 6 ...... 514
Strasbourg and Bale ... 14
St. Laurence & Atlantic
Tournay, Jurbise, Lan-
den, and Hasselt. 4
Tours and Nantes (Mac-
kenzie's) .......... ..... 4
Do. do. (Lefebvre's \ 2
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LLOYDS SHIPPING-(THIS DIY.)

LONDON, DEC. 30.—Wind this day at noon, S.W. by S.,
squally.
Pia-mount, DEC. 29.—The Providence, Vivian, of Sal-
combe, has been lost off Cape St. Vincent ; crew landed here
by the Danish ship St, Thomas, from Palermo.
BEAUMARIS, DEC. 28.---The Sarah and Mary, Edwards,
from Poole, at this port, is upon the sands filling with the
tide, having overlaid her anchor.
LIMERICK, DEC. 27.—The Mountaineer, Davies, was in
contact with the Governor, during a heavy gale, and lost jib-
boom, Sac.

YARMOUTH', DEC. 27.—The Cicero, Cara, of Sunderland,
got on the Cockle Sand last night, but was assisted off and
proceeded.

BANKRUPTCY.-{THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Commissioner SIIEPHERD.)
IN RE JOHN LOVEGROVE.

This bankrupt who had carried on business as a
barge-builder at Rotherhithe, came up for his last exa-
mination, and was opposed by the official assignee and
Mr. Bagley, on behalf of the trade assignees, on the
ground that his accounts were very unsatisfactory.
Mr. BAGLEY said that the accounts were so unsatis-
factory that justice could not be done if the examination
was public. lie therefore trusted that it would be ad•
journed in order to hold a private meeting. The bank-
rupt had filed a petition in insolvency, and his schedule
on that occasion was so materially different, that both
could not be true.
Mr. COOKE, for the bankrupt, contended that the
present schedule was correct, and the bankrupt was
entitled to present examination.
The Learned COMMISSIONER agreed, but observed
that the bankrupt came with a very bad grace to swear
that the present one was correct, after having sworn to
the truth of the other. There were such discrepancies
that there were strong grounds of suspicion. The bank-
rupt would be examined, but if he did not answer the
questions in a satisfactory manner he would be com-
mitted.

The bankrupt then said he had began barge building
with a Mr. Young. in 1843, and on his own account in
August, 1844. The partnership debts were paid, ex-
cepting U., and his accounts were correct.
Mr. Graham (the official assignee) said, there was
only one book, and he had strong suspicion that that was
fabricated.
The Learned COMMISSIONER said he could not ad-
journ the examination to maka it private, but he would
adjourn it for a few days in order to hear evidence in
support of the opposition. The case was accordingly
adjourned.

CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.)
A man named Reed was charged before Mr. Burrell
with a violent assault upon Miss Pretty, the daughter of
a tradesman living in Camden-town.
The prisoner went into the shop of Mr. Pretty on the
previous day, and tendered a bad half-crown in payment
for some goods. It was refused, but unfortunately not
detained, and the prisoner handed it over to his wife,
who just then came in, and who would he said give her
g(lgeadnulg ofoneloj The prisoner then left the shop and joined
afour others outside. Miss Pretty then refused
to let the woman have the goods. She had hardly said
so when the prisoner ran in, and without further provo-
cation struck her a violent blow on the left ear ; the
girl fell insensible from the effects of it. Her earring
was broken, and there was a painfnl wound on the ear
itself.
The prisoner was fined 11., or one month's imprison-
ment.

cpatienitYerAßßlVAL AND DEPARTURE OF MAIM—SMITH-
Amrros, DEC. 29.—The Oriental Company's steam-ship,
Great Liverpool, arrived in the docks this morning, from the
Motherbank, and landed her passengers, fifty-seven in num-
ber, her mails having been forwarded to London by the mail
train this morning. The Liverpool left Alexandria on the
9th instant, Malta 15th, and Gibraltar 22d. She has a full
cargo. The same Company's steam-ship, the Royal Tar,
Captain Evans, came into the docks last evening from Gib-
raltar, and landed her mails, which were forwarded to Lou.don by the mail train ; her dates are Gibraltar 17th inst.,
Cadiz, 18th, Lisbon, 20th, Oporto 22d, and Corunna 24th.
She has a full cargo and eight passengers. The next West
India Mail will be taken out in the Thames, on the 2d
proximo, and the East India in the Achilles on the 3d.
Nor a
The late Sir Robert Crawford Pollock, Baronet, of
pollock, Renfrewshire, and of Frederick: street, Edinburgh,
later
p p 4iedrionerty rth
inß Enitain, and bachelor. His funded and
, within the province of
umn ad t e dt w ato
me
nature, a testamentary
, which is beyond his
effects in Scotland. Amongst the papers of the late Ba-
ronetmade in conformity with the law of Scotland, and
as such were duly recorded in Edinburgh in the books of
Council and Session as probative writs, and registered there
on the Bth inst., and were expressed nearly in these words—
the first dated Oct. 25, 1844 :—" 4,500/. to my friend, Mr.
Gordon Forlong, for the particular attention and kindness he
has shown to me and my affairs whilst living with me and
tlbluerrey, wereis esftoi gl
studying for the law." The other paper, dated Jan. 25,
1845—"To my man servant, 112/., because he has been tole-
rably fair considering," Of the rest of his property the tes-
tator has made no 'disposition, or appointed any executor.
He has left a sister surviving, who is his only next of kin,
and the sole person entitled to the residue, to whom the Pre-
rogative Court of London has granted letters of administra-
ti.on with the will annexed, as contained in the said two
papent,

BRA zLLIAN FINANCES.
The
establishing
improvieg the " Currency"
and
.at Rio de Janeiro, on a solid
basis, was laid before the Cha,
-nber of Deputies on the
10th of July last, by his Excellency Senhor Manoel
iiig
" plat.
r iar for
Alves Branco, the Brazilian Minister of Finance, ana
submitted to a Committee of that Chamber, who re-
, „sted on it the 29th of the same month, recommending
ft;-,40,ti0n. It will, accordingly, be discussed by the
Body- in their next session, which
wßill r
commence in May next, and very little doubt can
be entertainer
of its aucption, and, finally, of its lie-
complishment. #.4
TUE GOTtliNkEkT PROPOSAL.
Article 1. The circulation of notes from five to 500
milreis, shall be limited to a district of one or more pro-
vinces, the Government being authorised to unite 'or
that purpose those that have one common port for; thewhole or a part of their commerce.
2.
provincesThenotevss,hnioch now
mayc
urrbenetuninitetdhetomiejoshpo.:!ie exa
is and in
the
mined and marked only, and put again ti circulation ;
those of each of the other provinces, or union, shall be
substituted by other notes, distinguished from each other
by a different stamp, which shell indicate the union in
which they are to pass, signed by two respectable per-
sons resident in such union,
3. The notes shall be distributed amongst the provinces
or unions, in proportion to the revenue, public and pro-
vincial, collected therein ; the counterparts, or coupons,
of the new notes, remaining in the respective provincial
treasuries where they were issued.
4. The regulations contained in the law of the 6th of
October, 1835, are applicable to the present operation,
the Government undertaking the remittance of the re-
quisite funds, by means of bills of exchange, drawn by
the respective provincial treasuries on each other, or on
the national treasury, and vice versa, cancelling imme-
diately the notes received by the province which draws,
and issuing others in the one drawn upon ; one per cent.
on the amount thereof to be paid by the parties for can-
celling and replacing the same.
5. On this operation being completed, no further sub-
stitution of notes shall take place, except that which is
established by this law, namely, the gradual one of notes
payable at sight, in gold or silver coin, at the option of
the holders, the Government being authorised for this
purpose :
Sec. 1. To establish a new system of gold and silver
moneys, whose denomination and fineness shall
be the same as those now extant, bat the weight
of which shall be the following:—viz., those of
gold, of 5 and 24- " oi ta vas ;" and those of silver,
of 4 and 2 " oitavas," respectively ; but without
any fixed value.
Sec. 2. To establish, in the metropolis of the empire, a
bank of circulation and deposits, the capital of
which may be raised to 15,000 contos of reis, in
shares of 500 milreis each. •
6. So soon as this law shall be duly passed, the Go-
vernment shall announce the sale of the shares, which
shall be effected, in the first instance, through the me-
dium of the public treasury, or by a commission consist-
ing of at least three merchants, appointed by the Go-
vernment; and the choosing of directors shall take place
whenever 1,500 contos shall have been raised, in paper
money, from the sale of such shares.
7. The directors shall consist of three chosen by the
Government, and six elected by the shareholders, who
shall be called together for that purpose by public ad-
vertisement and individual summons.
8. The above nomination and election may take place
at any time, but afterwards it must be renewed on the
first Monday in the month of January in the next and
every succeeding year ; for the purpose only of chang-
ing three of the directors every year, one of those ap-
pointed by the Government, and two of those elected by
the proprietary, to be determined by lot, until such
time as it can be established by rotation, according to
seniority.

9. The directors must be Brazilian citizens, or fo-
reigners having a fixed residence in the empire, share-
holders not being employed in any other bank, nor
Members of the Imperial Legislature, whether general
or provincial.
10. In case any impediment should occur to the elec-
tion taking place on the day appointed by the present
law, it shall be done so soon after as such obstruction
shall have been removed ; the former directors con-
tinuing in the mean time to act ; any vacancies that may
occur between the elections, shall be filled up, ad interim,
by the remaining directors.
11. The directors shall elect a president from among
themselves, and select the officers, clerks, and servants
from able and reipectable citizens ; as also agents re-
quisite for the out-door department, granting them
reasonable salaries.

12. On the president and principal officers being ap-
pointed, the Company of " the Bank of Brazil" shall be
considered completed, and as such fully authorised to
receive and to manage the capital, income, and any pro-
perty the Bank may at any time have in its possession,
and to enjoy all the powers which can, by law, be con-
ceded to such companies, even to the making rules and
regulations for its internal management, being not con-
trary to the laws of the state.

13. The Bank being constituted in the manner above
prescribed, the Government shall enter into treaty with
it, for the cancelling of the paper money now in circula-
tion to the amount of 45,000 contos, in a period not ex-
ceeding twenty years, on the following terms, viz,:—
Sec. 1. The Government shall not issue any more paper
of a forced circulation.
Sec. 2. The Government shall take on the national ac-
count, shares in the Bank, to the amount of
5,000 contos at any time within the first ten
years, the dividends on which shall be ex-
clusively appropriated to the cancelling its
paper now in circulation, or to payment of the
interest thereon during the existence of the
Bank.
Sec. 3. The Government shall pay into the Bank, in the
first ten years of its establishment, 1,500 contos
in paper money, including the amount of divi-
dends due to the Government. The Bank shall
add to this an equal amount of notes, which it
shall purchase from the produce of the sale of
shares ; and reserving therefrom 500 contos,
shall publicly burn the remainder, issuing
directly 2,500 contos, by loans or discounts, in
(its own) notes, payable in gold or silver on
demand.
Sec. 4. In the following ten years the Government shall
raise its contribution to 2,000 contos, annually,
together with the dividends to which the Go-
vernment may be entitled, and the Bank shall,
in like manner, retain 500 contos from each of '
these payments, burning the remainder, and
issuing an equal amount in (its) notes, as above
stated, by loans and discounts.
Sec. 5. The Bank shall, employ the SOO contos annu-
ally reserved in the purchase of gold and silver,
which they shall convert into coined money, of
a new die, at the Mint, and deposit them in its
coffers, in order to form a fund for the discharge
of its notes, payable to bearer on demand.
Sec. 6. From and atter the twentieth year the annual
contributions of the Government shall cease and
determine, and the Bank shall apply the divi-
dends accruing due on the shares of the Govern-
ment to the payment of any debt which may be
due from the latter to the former, on the expi-
ration of the last period of ten years. The
accounts shall be adjusted for the mutual and
definite indemnity of both parties.
14. The Government shall likewise give the Bank
credit for one per cent. commission on the amount em-
ployed in exchange for the precious metals, and what
further may be required beyond the 500 contos in paper
money, to realise 500 contos in gold and silver during
the first years of the operation.
15. The following items of income shall be applied,
exclusively, over and above the dividends arising from
the Bank-shares held by the Government, to the cancel-
ling of its paper money, via.:—
Sec. 1. The produce of all lotteries which may take
place in the empire, exclusive of those already
granted, being comprehended therein, not only
the existing impost, but moreover the part which
appertains to those to whom the grant is con-
ceded.
Sec. 2. The produce from the sales of all national pro-
perty not required for the public service, as like-
wise that arising from gold raised, and any other
minerals, including the revenue derived from the
diamond district.
Sec. 3. The produce of 3 per cent. deducted from the
Bank dividends, from the exclusive privilege of
playing-cards, and from any new impost which
may for the future be derived from the manu-
facture and consumption of snuff.
16. In case the receipts above indicated shall not
amount to the sum of 1,500 contos in the first ten, and
of 2,0001. in the last ten years, that sum shall be made
good by a grand annually in the Budget Law.
17. No authority whatsover, from any motive, nor on
any pretext whatever, can or shall alienate the funds
destined for cancelling the Bank paper, nor shall the
Bank be a party in any transaction which may hinder or
delay the cancelling the same, under pain of the greatest
responsibilty.
18. So soon as the Bank shall commence issuing its
notes, no payment shall be made in the several public
departments connected with the receipt or expenditure
of the empire, which does not consist in the first year of
one-twentieth part in notes of the Bank, or in gold or
silver, in the second year, of two-twentieth parts, in the
third year of the three-twentieth parts, and so on till it
amounts to twenty-twentieths.
The Government ordering that the " oitava" of gold I
of twenty-two carats, shall be received or paid at such
public offices, at the rate of four thousand reis and that
of silver at 250 reis. The Government during the first
years, and particularly in the remote provinces, may
authorise the entry or omission of these quantities in
paper money with the agio of the day, or which they
may fix on the commencement of every financial year.
19. The following shall be fundamental rules and re-
gulations of the Bank, viz.:—
Sect. 1. No proprietor yr shareholder shall vote who
does not hold five or more shares, and no one
shall have more than ten votes, let him hold
whatever number of shares he may.
Sect. 2. No power of attorney of more than six months'
date, nor granted by any shareholder residing
out of the country, or by any one employed in
the Bank, shall be considered valid. No one
person can hold powers of attorney for more
then 300 shares, nor refuse to exhibit his powers;
and shall, on its being required by any other
shareholder on tendering his vote, swear that he
believes his principal to be Fiona fide possessed of
such shares.
Sect. 3. All agreements relative to the transfer of Bank-
shares shall be null and void, which may not be
paid in full, as likewise those entered into by
persons whose names are not inscribed in the
Bank-books ; and no share shall entitle its
holder to vote, or to receive any dividend due
thereon, who has not been in possession thereof
for 150 days previous to that ou which the divi-

purchased , except the share shall have been
Sect. 4. Five mer _afore the first election takes place.
being r -4"aers of the directory, the president
ese,r "41-e of the number, must positively be pre-
press' the discussions on any transactions: the
.dent may nominate any other director to
- .pply his place, in case of illness or any other
Sect. • impediment.
5. Si xty shareholders or proprietors, possessing
'retween them 1,000 shares or upwards, only,
can call a meeting of the proprietors or share-
holders, for taking into consideration any matter
for the good of the establishment ; making
public their reason for calling such meeting, at
least three months previous thereto, in two
public prints.
Sect. 6. Every clerk or cashier of the Bank shall find
two or more sureties for fifty contos of reis at
least, subject to the approval of the directors,
for his good behaviour and faithful discharge of
his duties, before he can enter on the exercise
thereof.
Sect. 7. The Bank Corporation cannot, directly or
rectly, possess any landed property, except those
necessary for its accommodation and the carry-
ing on its business ; or such as may have been
mortgaged to them, or in satisfaction of any
debt previously contracted in the course of busi-
ness, or declared theirs by public auction, in
consequence of any sentence obtained by them
on account of such debts.
Sect. 8. The Company cannot directly nor indirectly
trade in anything but bills of exchange, gold or
silver in bars, dust, or coin, diamonds, produce
or lands by virtue of an execution, or taken beau
fide in payment of any debts, or merchandise
the produce of its estates; it cannot make pur-
chases in the public funds, nor charge snore than
9 per cent, interest on its loans or discounts.
Sect. 9. The Company cannot make any advances to the
General or Pro%icinal Governments for a longer
period than 180 days, and evea so, not in such
sums as may alter the relative proportions esta-
blished by this law, between its realised capital
and its issues.
Sect. 10. All bills or notes issued by order of the Com-
pany, signed by the president and countersigned
by the cashier or chief clerk thereof, payable to
any person or persons whatever, to their order
or to the bearer, although they may not have
the Company's seal or emblem, the Company
shall be liable for the same as if issued by any
one of its members in their private capacity ;
those made payable to any person or persons or
to their order, shall be endorsed in like manner
as bills of exchange, and those payable to the
bearer shall be transferrable. The bills and
notes so issued shall be payable at sight.
Sec. 11. Once every year the directors shall lay before
the proprietors or shareholders at a general public meet-
ing, far their information, an exact report of the debts
outstanding, after the time of payment had elapsed ; as
likewise an account of all their transactions and of their
profits, after deducting the losses, if any have arisen.
Sec. 12. The directors shall establish branch banks of
discount and deposit, in such provinces as the Imperial
Legislative Assembly may direct, on the representation
of the Provincial Assembly, setting forth that the pro-
vince already possesses, or is ready to take shares, to
one-third the amount, at least, of the paper money cir-
culating therein. They may, moreover, establish like
branches wherever they may think fit, assigning them
regulations, and appointing to each from one to three
directors, removable at pleasure.
Sec. 13. The Inspector-General of the Treasury may
demand, every week, information respecting the state
of the Bank, and may inspect or order all the books,
documents, and accounts, including those of the divi-
dends, to be inspected. A statement of its affairs shall
be published monthly, in such manner as the Minister of
Finance may order. The Bank shall be at all times
open for the full and unrestricted inspection of a com-
mittee from either Legislative Chamber, of a committee
of the proprietors, and to all and every one of the
directors. The Minister of Finance, or a committee of
either of the said Chambers, or any person authorised
by the one or the other, may order a notice to be given
for the examination on oath of the directors, officers,
cashiers, agents, &c., of the Bank, touching any matter
relating thereto or to its transactions : any one of whom
refusing to comply shall be fined 100 milreis.
Sec. 14. No paper shall be discounted, nor any loan
granted, for a longer period than 180 days ; and no
written obligation, bill of exchange, debt, nor proof of
debt, of what nature soever, shall be renewed by any
agreement with the Bank, after the term has expired for
wich it was negotiated.
Sec. 15. The Bank shall make no payments in the
notes of any other bank, nor in any other thing than
lawful coins, bars, treasury notes, paper money, or its
own notes.
Sec. 16. The notes which are to be put in circulation
as money shall be prepared at the central banks, duly
signed as above described, and payable at the Bank in
the metropolis, or at any of its branches of discounts and
deposits, as specified in the note. The Bank is not,
however, prohibited from passing orders payable at other
banks or commercial houses, of fifty milrcis or upwards.
See. 17. The notes and bills of the said corporation,
althon,h made payable at a certain place, may, never-
theless, be received at any branch for discounts and de-
posits, whenever they may be tendered in liquidation ur
payment of the balance of any debt.
Sec. 18. The Bank shall not lend any money to any of
its officers or agents, nor discount any bill or note, of
which any one or more of them may be the passers,
drawers, endorsers, acceptors, or a party to, on any ac-
count what( ver ; this provision does not, however, in-
clude the directors, unless they may be serving as a
salaried officer. or agent.
Art. 20. The Bank Corporation shall not be owing
snore than double the amount of the paper moneys,
Treasury notes, deposits of gold and silver, coins of the
precious metals, bonds of the public debt, or landed pro-
perty mortgaged for half its real value ; nor discount
any bills, or otherwise extend its loans, whenever its
notes in circulation shall exceed five times the amount
of the precious metals contained in its coffers, on pain of
becoming responsible individually, as well as the direc-
tors of the Bank collectively, who, being present when
such excess of liabilities over assets was ascertained,
should not immediately acquaint the Government there-
with, and also the proprietors duly summoned to attend
a general meeting.
21. The Bank dividends shall be paid half-yearly, de-
ducting therefrom, besides the three per cent. appro-
priated by Clause 3 of Article 15 to the cancelling and
exchange of the paper money in circulation, two per
cent. more for a reserve fund (rest), which shall likewise
be employed in loans and discounts for tho benefit of the
proprietors.
22. The Bank shall deposit in its vaults, or transfer
from one place to another, the Government securities,
delivering them over to the public creditors on the pre-
sentation of " cheques" from the treasurer of the public
or provincial treasuries, by order of the Government,
without charging any commission or difference cf ex-
change on such transactions.
23. Should the Bank neglect or fail in making any
payment in due time, the party to whom it is due shall
receive twelve per cent. premium for the delay : except
in case of any extraordinary occurrence which may
threaten the existence of the Bank ; in which case, a
previous representation to, and a resolution of, his Im-
perial Majesty in Council, for a limited time, will be
requisite.
24. The Bank shall continue in operation for thirty
years, and two years more for the liquidation and settle-
ment of its affairs ; during the whole of which period it
shall'possess all the rights above enumerated, and enjoy
the following privileges, namely :-
Sec. 1. The Bank Shares shall have the same privi-
leges which the bonds of the National Debt now have or
may hereafter be granted them.
Sec. 2. The paper imported, as also the machinery for
stamping it, required by the Bank, shall be free of duty.
Sec. 3. Those in the employ of the Bank, throughout
the empire, shall be exempt from all military service,
whether of the National Guards, or of the army or navy.
Sec. 4. The Government shall cause to be essayed,
smelted, and refined, all the gold and silver sent by the
Bank for those purposes, free of expense.
Sec. 5. The Government shall provide at all times and
places within the empire, the necessary protection fur
the funds of the Bank Corporation, and convey them
gratuitously, by vessels of war or steam-boats belonging
to companies having Government contracts.
Sec. 6. The Government shall give the Bank prefer-
ence, on equal terms, to any other party, as to the dis-
count of its bills, Custom-house notes, or in making re-
mittances to foreign countries, and in other operations
which it may be lawful for them to undertake.
Sec. 7. The Government shall cause to be kept in the
offices of the Company, and of its branches in the pro-
vinces, a hook, in which shall be registered the
ordered to be made by the law of the 21st of Oct. 1843.
15. All the conditions contemplated by this law may
undergo such modifications as the Company may pro-
pose, and the Government consider proper to be
adopted, so as that the cancelling the present and sub-
stitution of other paper, convertible in gold or silver, at
the option of the holder, shall be accomplished in twenty
years; those, however, which may be attended with any
additional expense to be subject to the approval of the
legislative body.
26. As it will not be possible to organise one national
or public company which shall solely undertake the can-
celling the paper throughout the whole empire, the Go-
vernment may endeavour to effect similar establishments
in some of the provinces, or union of provinces, consign-
ing them in proportion to the amount to be cancelled by
them, not only the funds appropriated to the purchase of
shares, but likewise of those destined for the annual con-
tributions.
27. Those who may forge the notes of the Bank, the
current coins of the empire, or other securities issued by
the Government or Bank, of what description or nature
soever, shall be condemned to the galleys (hulks) for
life, at the Island of Fernando ; or in the naval or mili-
tary arsenals of the provinces in which they may have
been tried ; independent of the fines prescribed in the
criminal code.
28. Those concerned in producing or circulating
counterfeit money or forged paper, shall be condemned
to the galleys (hulks) for ten or twenty years, besides
the above fines.
29. Those who may let or allow their premises to be
occupied by forgers, or makers of counterfeit money,
or paper, for the purpose of forging the same, as also
those who shall harbour or afford any assistance what-
ever to the forgers or circulators of false coins or paper.
or shall in any wise facilitate the accomplishment of
the crime, or shall conceal it, or aid the escape of the
guilty parties, after they have been discovered and pro-
secuted, shall be punished as accomplices.
30. The chief of the police and the Judges de Direito
in all the parishes of the province in which the false
coin or paper shall be found, are the magistrates who
shall take cognisance of the above-mentioned crimes., gnu
before whom they shall be brought to trita.
31. Two or more processes) br prosecutions, may he
formed i different parishes of the §amc province, fur

tIAYMARKET THEATRE.
Romeo and Juliet was produced at this theatre last
evening for the purpose of introducing Miss Susan
Cushman (sister of the Miss Cushman, who acted the
part of Romeo), to an English audience. Had we
not, many a time and ofr, been delighted—delighted
is not the word—carried away—by the acting of
Miss Cushman in Shaksperian characters, we should
have hailed Miss Susan Cushman as the greatest
actress of the day. True, she is as yet unformed—
true she has some of the technicalities of the stage
yet to learn--yet, her Juliet, taken as a whole, is
more true to Shakspere than any Juliet within our
remembrance. There is no conventionality about—
she takes the text of her author, and gives us her
own interpretation of it; and genius interpreting
genius can never be far wrong. Her genius is essen-
tially tragic. In the earlier scenes there was, per-
haps, a want of that abandon which tutored
actresses throw into the part, and which is,
after all, conventional ; but when the girl
becomes the woman, an impassioned, loving,
self-sacrificing woman, Miss Susan Cushman was
very great. The balcony scene was given with an
intensity which we should look for in vain in other
actresses. It was evident that she loved—loved
earnestly ; her whole soul was in love with Romeo ;
and this intensity was kept up throughout. Her
acting in the scene in which the nurse tells her of
the result of her interview with Romeo was very fine.
There was no trickery about it. It was evident that
her love for Romeo absorbed every other passion ;
and instead of showing herself off as a comic actress
(which is too often the case with debutante Juliets),
she made no effort to disguise her impatience. Love
was the all-absorbing passion of her soul. The scene
in which Friar Laurence gives her poison was magni-
ficently given. She hung upon him, and seemed
greedily to devour his words as though they were the
words of life and death. Horror, at the part
she was called upon to act, was depicted in her
every look, her every action, and when at last her
love absorbing and overcoming every other passion
"screws her courage to the sticking place,"
she was magnificent. The soliloquy before taking
the draught was very fine, and her look and action,
as her imagination conjures up before her the frightful
visions of the charnel-house, was thrilling. There was
a dead stillness throughout the house, which was
crowded, and there was not one of that vast assem-
blage who did not feel with her and for her.
Taken as a whole, Miss Susan Cushman's
debut is the most deservedly successful which we
have witnessed for years. There is an impassioned
intensity about her acting which carries the spectator
along with her, and almost paralyses criticism. But
what shall we say of Miss Cushman's Romeo ? Many
a time and oft has Romeo been murdered, but never,
since the youthful days of Charles Kemble, has
Romeo been acted on the English stage until last
night. It was a bold attempt for a lady, even for
Miss Cushman, to attempt the part of Romeo, but
faint heart never yet won favour, and the bold attempt
succeeded. Would that this gifted lady could in-
fuse some of her spirit into our actors, who eschew
Romeo as an uphill part. It is their own cold blood
that makes it an uphill part. They lack " that quick
spirit ;" that intensity, that passion, that pathos
which is required to bring out all the beauties
of the character. These did Miss Cushman
infuse into the part. Ay and there was
no lack of manly bearing and daring courage ; she
was the very Romeo that Shakspere drew. So true
is it that genius is of no sex, that none
would have discovered she was a woman. Her
wooing was overpowering. Her passion, when,
condemned to banishment, she learns the doom
in Friar Laurence's cell, was irresistible ay,
as irresistible as the terrible earnestness of her
attacks of the fiery Tybalt and the courtly Paris.
The Misses Cushman were called for at the conclu-
sion of the tragedy, and greeted with rapturous and
well-deserved plaudits. The nurse of Mrs. Glover,
and the Friar Laurence of Mr. Stuart, were both
admirable. We cannot say as much for the Mer-
cutio of Mr. Holl ; the Mercutio of Shakspere
was a finished gentleman.
T R.

- ,ISLEYS.—We have had a great number of
equilibristes of late years, who have attempted a class of feats
which in some cases have become popular; but we are in-
debted to Professor Risley for introducing an entirely novel
style, which is extremely pleasing in its effect, and which
shows the true poetry of motion. Professor Risley and his
two sons made their first appearance at Drury.lane Theatre
last evening to one of the most crowded houses of the season.
They were warmly greeted, and received enthusiastic ap-
plause throughout their performance, which was remarkably
clever. The feats were all accomplished with much ease and
grace, and reminded us of the same schoolof artistes to which
the ferial Taglioni belongs. Bouquets were thrown upon the
stage (from the private boxes, and the Risleys retired amidst
deafening applause from all parts of the house.
The annual present of fruit to the Lord Mayor
from the Fruiterers' Company, was sent last Thursday. It
consisted of twelve bushels of the finest apples that could
be selected; one bushel was also presented to the sword-
bearer.

AQIIATICIL—During the last season there were 112
boat races, 67 sailing matches, and 54 regatta.
On Saturday last, J. D. Llewelyn Esq., and a
party of three or four friends, in a sporting excursion on the
Penllergare estate, bagged seventy-four head of game in th-.t
course of a few hours.—Cambrian.
BANKS AT BANBURY.—The old-established bank-
ing firms of Messrs. Cobb and Messrs. Gillett and Tawney
have announced their intention of retiring in April next, the
business being merged into one chartered banking company.
The London and County Joint-Stock Banking Company hava
announced their intention to open a branch at Banbury.—.
Oxford Journal.
Messrs. Ditchburn and Maire, the celebrated iron
steam-boat builders of Blackwall, have just completed theit
extensive improvements in their press-shops and other de-
partments of the building, the whole of which work has been
executed by Mr. Chapman, of Lambeth, on whom it reflect:.
great credit.
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The Right Worshipful the Mayor of Plymouth has
received a letter from Lord John Russell, acknowledging
tl. e
receipt of the memorial from the inhabitants to her Majesty;
praying for the abolition of restrictive duties on the impor-
tation of food, informing them that ho has transmitted :t
to the Secretary of State for presentation to her Uajesty
Devonport Telegraph.
THE QUARTER OF A MILLION Lt AGUE FUNDFUND.Since our last--that is, during Wednesday and yesterday,
for Chriol-nas-day was a general holiday here—in two days,
'ten, the subscriptions to this fund have been increased Ly
upwards of three thousand pounds, the total amount, which
on Tuesday evening reached 61,895/., having been aug-
mented yesterday to upwards of 65,0001. Manchester
Guardian.