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explained the circumstances under which an execu-
tion had been put into the union workhouse at Tuam,
in consequence of the guardians refusing to make a
rate, and said that the Court of Queen's Bench had
issued a mandamus to compel them to do their duty.
In reply to Mr. BELLEW, Sir R. PEEL stated that
the Earl of LL'CAN had been appointed Lord-Lieute-
nant of Mayo.
Sir R. PEEL then announced that he should, on
Fiiday next, in a Committee of Ways and Means,
propose a resolution for continuing the laws which
impose a tax on income in Great Britain, and the law
which imposes an additional stamp duty in Ireland,
fir a further limited period. He, however, refused
to state what taxes he intended to remit, or to enter
into any further explanation on the subject.
Mr. WALLACE put a question to Sir J. GRAHAM
on the subject of a recent judicial decision, delivered
in Scotland, on the construction of the Weights
and Measures Act, in reply to which the Right Hon.
Baronet stated that that decision would shortly be
brought before all the Judges in the Court of Jus-
ticiary.
A new writ was moved for the county of Bucking-
ham, Mr. C. S. MURRAY, the late Member, having
accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.
Mr. BOUVERIE asked whether any commercial
negotiations were going on with Brazil.
Sir R. PEEL complained that no notice of the ques-
tion had been given ; and Mr. BOUVERIE gave notice
of it for Monday.
The House then resolved itself, pro forma, into a
Committee of Supply, and Mr. HUME, in Committee,
objected to voting any supply until after the financial
statement should have been made. After a few words
from Sir It. PEEL, Lord J. RUSSELL, and Mr. S.
CRAWFORD, the House resumed.
On the motion of Mr. M. SUTTON, and after a
speech from Mr. S. CRAWFORD, a Committee was
appointed to inquire into the administration of the
Poor-law in the Gilbert Unions.
Colonel SIBTLIORP moved for a return of the num-
ber of days each Poor-law Commissioner had been
engaged in the discharge of his duty. The Gallant
Officer complained that the return had been ordered
last May, but had not been made, and accused Sir
J. GRAHAM of now refusing what he had before as-
sented to.
Sir J. GRAHAM would not oppose the motion, al-
though, as there was no roster kept of the attendance
of the Commissioners, there would be considerable
difficulty in affording the information required.
After a few words from Mr. F. FRENCH, the re-
turns were ordered.
Mr. YOUNG moved to suspend, for the present ses-
sion, the standing order No. 103, that all petitions for
private Bills be presented within twenty-one days
after the first Friday in every session of Parliament.
Mr. ENTWISLE at first opposed the motion, but
ultimately withdrew his opposition.
After the motion was carried a series of resolutions,
which will be found at length in our report, were
proposed and carried, for the regulation of the bring-
alyast Billsb us
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The House adjourned at Six o'clock.

MONEY and

chair, the Duke of BUCKINGHAM in the vice-chair
—(two Knights of the Garter) ; two or three Earls;
two or three Viscounts; two or three Barons; two
or three Baronets; and some three dozen Members of
Parliament ; here was surely an ample sprinkling of
Magnates for the exposition to some 850 agricul-
turists, farmers, and others, of the principles of the
society, and of the mode in which the great landed
proprietors,-whoare members of it, propose to reduce
thosepractical application. No such
pr
exposition,
i cP
ihowever,ies to
(so far as we can find) really
took place. No one of the great questions upon
which the public have, within the last two years,
been so successfully appealed to for their repudiation
of the Bread trade monopoly was even attempted to
be met. The noble and rural speakers set up absurd
arguments, which they attributed to others, for the
sake of controverting them, with an eye to their
own especial purposes. They set up imaginary
ninepins, and bowled them down with irresistible
after-dinner logic. What good is to result to the
tenant• farmer—what benefit to the agricultural
labourers, and farm-servant—from the institution or
action of this protective society, was a demonstration
that does not seem to have been considered essential
to the business of the evening. The tone of the
speeches and character of the proceedings were
marked by flatness and insipidity, which, not even
the " enthusiastic cheering" said to have been
accorded to some very mediocre speaking, from very
high places at this festival, can conceal from the
observation of any one who may have carefully
perused the report. We do not mean to affirm, how-
ever, that nothing was said by anybody which was
either well said or good in itself—valuable on its own
account, or important in its bearing on other parties
and other interests. On the contrary, we have lighted
upon some important " admissions" from the land-
lords, to which the tenants will be foolish men,
indeed, if, in all time to come, they do not hold them.
But we cannot forbear a previous allusion to the almost
ludicrous resentment with which Lord BEAUMONT
spoke of the defection of the present Premier's Ca-
binet from the cause of " agricultural protection."
The Noble Lord declared "he could scarcely contain
the anger with which he mentioned the introduc-
tion, by the very Minister whoa' that interest had
borne into power, of the' last Corn Bill and the
Tariff." It is obvious, therefore, that Lord BEAU-
MONT'S support of Sir ROBERT PEEL must have been
founded on the least selfish—nay, on the most disin-
terested grounds ! and he has been sadly disappointed
in his expectations. For the same reasons he fell foul
of the Canada Corn Bill, as the most mischievous
which " the' Minister could have introduced."
The " unkindest cut of all," however, " that
which he had least expected from the Adminis-
tration" was, the " Grinding Corn in Bond Bill,"—a
measure, too, the more shabby in that they had pre-
viously opposed and rejected Mr. HTJTT'S Bill for
effecting a similar object in a plainer and more direct
manner.—Plain speaking has always charms for us,
even though it be heard somewhat late in the course
of a controversy. In this instance it may not be com-
plimentary to the party, but it is instructive, as well
as amusing to the public.—Lord BEAUMONT'S alarms
are not yet appeased ; from " straws which have been
already thrown up," he remarked, " some measure
might be anticipated this session, from the same
quarter, which would still further diminish the pro-
tection of the agriculturist." For our parts, we are
anxious to see what it will be.
The three topics which strike us as having been
the best handled at this dinner were those as to
which we can go further towards concurring with the
views of the speakers. First, "as to the tenant-far-
mers of the country at large, after the example of
Essex, having originated the question of the neces-
sity for protection to agriculture," on the ground that
it is not exclusively a landlords' question ; we think
they have done well. In this way they are led to
look into the whole matter; to study and analyze the
real elements of their real interest in it; and we anti-
cipate the best effects from such examinations and
discussions. Secondly, Mr. BAKER, of Writtle, ob-
served, that "looking to the amount of taxation in
this country, protection was necessary for the British
agriculturists ; at least, something must be done,
either to increase prices or diminish taxation "—and
this sentiment was echoed by other speakers, at a
subsequent stage of the proceedings. We dissen
from Mr. BAKER on the first part of his proposition
ot ou r
Sir remedialßOßEßT
treatment
PEEL form themust
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recastwouldhi
bethe s
(of which he speaks but doubtingly, himself). We
entirely concur with him in the second ; and we
doubtn
same.
currency measures. The monetary system must be
re-established on its former • more safe, more
expansive, more economical, more productive,
more beneficial, more self-adjusting basis of
paper. The costly mistake of giving the
country a circulation of intrinsic, instead of symbolic
value, must be rectified. With that re establishment,
high prices for the manufacturer and agriculturist ;
high wages for the artisan and the rustic labourer;
energy and development for foreign and domestic
trade, will at once return.
The third, and most
speeches delivered, was,
remarkable declarations in
h owns e go
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tthaenyt reeliseuilttedof
stohme
emany
favour of the equitable title of the tenant to partici-
yfohrinit.he meridian of Drayton
declarations stewardshipwere
pate in the advantages of hi
Ts
Manor, or for the admiration of large landowners,
onfotthwe
elland
lesalreeunlateteddb
whose properties are leased to the highest bidder,
without regard to other pretensions than price, or
allotted to tenants-at-will, or under very short terms
determinable—by the landlords---at very short notices.
It is gratifying to find, however, such wise and en-
lightened views of the consideration due to the
tenant as those announced in the following passages
by Mr. Mims, of Engord, Wilts, and by Mr. SOTHE-
RON, M.P., and by the Duke of RICHMOND. Mr.
MILLs said :
"As an extensive landlord himself, and speaking among
extensive landlords, be was anxious to enforce the propriety
and advantage of offering permanent improvements, and so
increase the quantity of consumable food to" be- raised. He
would wish to see this method substituted in place of remis-
sions of five or ten per cent. of the rent. The capital so in-
vested was always returned, while these per-centages, when
the tenant got them into his coffers, he often scarcely knew
what to do with them."
Mr. SOTHERON, M.P., thus followed :
" He would venture to say, he had no doubt that the re-
commendation they had heard that evening would be gene-
rally adopted, and the landlords would cast off all trumpery
attempts to patch up a bad bargain, but would meet their
tenants fairly in the face and say, We are both in the same
boat, let us make the best of it.' He trusted landlords would
not put up farms to tender—(Loud cheers)—and when expe-
rience had shown that rent and taxes could not be paid, come
forward and offer a paltry average of reductions."—(Cheers.)
The Duke of RICHMOND declared that—
,' There could not be a doubt that the landlords of England
could trust their tenants; he knew it from his knowledge of
the tenantry, and he declared that he would rather lose every
acre he possessed than let his farms by tender."—(Vehement
cheering.)
These are important testimonies and pledges—late
though they come—to the true character and rights
and relations of the tenant. If the dinner of the Agri-
cultural Protection Society had been productive
even of positive harm, we could excuse much, on ac-
count of avowals like these.

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The decision of the Government on the question
relative to railway schemes, rejected by the Com-
mittee of Investigation appointed by the Board of
Trade, appears to have been on Thursday universally
acquiesced in by the House. We cannot say that
the debate, which was thus elicited by the speech
of Lord HOWICK of Wednesday evening, at all
satisfies the misgivings we have so often expressed as
to the beneficial working of the Committee. On the
contrary, it has gone far to confirm them ; and we
perceive that Mr. WAKLEY and other Hon. Members
concur in similar apprehensions. It is very true that
Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET, who is a shrewd and
earnest public functionary, and an excellent man
of business, declared " that it never was the intention
of the Government, nor, as far as he under-
stood their sentiments, of the House, to render
tie decisions of the Railway Committee of the
Board of Trade final or conclusive." His
Lordship added, too, that although he would be
disposed to receive the reports of these five gentle-
men with a certain degree of respect and deference,
he should never consider himself tied down, by the
terms or the effect of such reports, to concur in
them, either as the representative of a constituency,
or of a Government department, or as an individual
Member of the House of Commons. But what was
the Noble Lord's reply to a well-timed and very
reasonable question addressed to him by Colonel SIB-
THORP ? The gallant officer, in allusion to certain
rumours which had got abroad, but in which he dis-
claimed any belief, desired to know whether any of
the gentlemen comprising this Committee were, in
any way, directly or indirectly, themselves connected
with railway speculations ? Lord G. SOMERSET'S
reply amounted only to this :
_

" That the parties most interested in the proceedings be-
fore the Railway Board had always, so far as he knew, ex-
pressed themselvee as exceedingly satisfied with the candour
and intelligence with which their schemes had been discussed.
As to whether any of the Committee held shares in any
railway, he really could give his Hon. and Gallant Friend no
information ; but he was quite sure that, if they followed his
advice, they would get rid of all their shares in such undertakings,
if they had any, as soon:as:they possibly could."
It is to be lamented that the Noble Lord was not
in a condition enabling him to give a most distinct
and unqualified, negative to Colonel SIBTRORP'S
query. For our own parts, we cannot, for a moment,
believe that any member of this Committee could be
guilty of the indiscretion and bad taste of remaining
at its board, if he knew himself to possess any such
personal interest in undertakings identical with, or
analogous to, those on the expediency or necessity of
which the Committee has been constituted prelimi-
narily to report. To talk of their now " getting
rid" of any such shares, if they have any, is no way
to get rid of the incalculable degree of odium they
will have incurred, by having adjudicated on the fate
of similar and perhaps conflicting property in the
hands of others. Though we are far from believing
that any member of the Committee can have so far
committed himself, it has surely become necessary
that he should from this day record some public and
distinct disclaimer of any such interest in himself.
If he cannot do so, indeed, then every report he has
been a party to must be considered to have been
tainted by a vicious bias. Another important consi-
deration, powerfully urged by Mr. WAKLEy, who we
suppose will not allow the matter to sleep where the
discussion has left it, was, that there was clearly some
system in action by which early secret information
was conveyed of the decisions of this remarkable
Committee on pending schemes, to favoured parties,
who made their market of such " exclusive intelli-
gence." The Hon. Member alluded to the prevalent
rumour, " that some private information must have
been communicated in the market, or certain parties
would not have made such enormous sums of money
as they were said to have gained during the last few
weeks." And he distinctly added
1 "This was quite clear, that eertain parties in the City (he
had had this information that morning) who had been en-
gaged in the sale of railway shares, happened to have been
right in their speculations, and not wrong in one instance, for
several weeks past.—(Hear.) One gentleman, on Saturday
se'nnight, made 40,000/. by the sale of shares in that single
day, those shares having gone up from a small premium to
91. or 101. in the course of a few hours."

If Sir ROBERT PEEL " really could not tell" how
newspapers get hold of reports of Commissions ap-
pointed by Government, before their promulgation.
we must suppose he might as well be sleeping on the
margin of the Polar Ocean as in Whitehall-
gardens, for any knowledge he can obtain
of mal-practices like these. But what won-
der they should prevail, when, as Mr. WAKLEY
observed, the proceedings, evidence, and arguments on
these railway projects, are with closed doors, now
that they are remitted to this Board of Trade
management, instead of, as heretofore, being open to
the public. What is the meaning of this alteration ?
In spite of all Mr. GLADSTONE could urge, the fact
is significant. Coupled with the manner in which
information oozes out of this new and hermetically
sealed court to certain " wise men in the East," we
do not hesitate to say it is suspicious. We call upon
Mr. WAKLEY, Colonel SIBTHORP, and other Hon-
Members, to pursue their wholesome inquisitiveness a
little further. Who knows but the showman's an-
cient denouement is at hand, and that "we shall see
what we shall see !"

In the speeches delivered at the " grand dinner" of
the Agricultural Protection Society for Great Bri-
tain and Ireland, which came off on Monday, at the
Freemasons' Tavern, we perceive that Noble Dukes
and Right Honourable Earls, Honourable County
Members, and " intelligent tenant-farmers," expe-
-1 ptilaatuesdiblarieggeel
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of E
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Our Madrid letters, of the 30th ult., received by this ex-
press, bring no news. The Three per Cents. were done
that day on the Madrid Bourse at 321 cash, and 33 at
60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 23k, at 60 days ; debt,
without ;nterest, 7.

PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPENDITURE.—It appears from
a Parliamentary Paper just issued, that the amount of
money raised in the year ending the sth of January,
1845, by the creation of Funded Debt, was 18,844,0001.
Of this, 18,348,3001. was raised on Exchequer-bills, and
charged on Supplies. The remainder was charged on
the Consolidated Fund. The amount of Exchequer-
bills issued for the promotion of public works, and in-
cluded in the Funded Debt, was 14,000/. The excess of
Income over Expenditure for the year amounts to the
large sum of 3,356,105/. Bs. 2d. ; and the Balances in
the Exchequer on the sth o January, 1845, to
6,254,113/. 9s. 6id.

" THE SUN " EXPRESS.--A Second Edition of
The Sun newspaper, containing the Queen's ech
Spe, arrived at our
office by eleven o'clock on Tuesday night, Third and fourth editions
of the same paper (which would be put into the London Post-office
by eight o'clock on the same night) reached us by the regular post,
and contained seven or eight columns of the opening debate on the
Address. We have again to thank the spirited proprietor for his
Esq., the highly respected
Master of the Court of Bankruptcy,
courtesy and attention.—Derby and Chesterfield Reporter.
Daniel Higley Richardson, •
has been for some days prevented
FlRE.—Late on Thursday
upon the spacious
attending to the important duties of hi' office by indisposition, but he
is rapidly approaching to convalescence.
night Mr.
J fire br
Tanks oke out
keeper, situate in George-place, Kensington. IVhen first discovered,
the fames were raging with great fury in one of the lower premises occupied by amea , cow.
apart-
ments. The inmates and inhabitants instantly set to work, and with
the aid of buckets of water prevented the fire from extending further.
Information of the outbreak having been furnished to the brigade,
West of England, and County engine stations in town, with all
possible expedition the firemen and engines attended. The damage
done is extensive. Mr. Tanks is insured in the Pho3nix Fire-office
for 650/. A soft from a lighted candle is the probable Calli.e of thn
dlAtater.

THE SUN, LOND,ON = SAT tf FEI3B LiAiz Y e,

CITY, Fa MAY EVENING
The English Market closes again rather firmly, and there
is a cessation of sales. Consols have been 99% % for Money,
and % per cent. higher fir Time. Exchequer-bills have
realised t.;os. this afternoon. India Bonds were 725. to 68s.
premium.
The Foreign Bonds, though still dull, closed in a few in-
stances a shade better. though
Fives were 27% ; Portu-
guese Converted, 60 ; MeXican, 35% to 36 ; Buenos Ayres,
43% ; and Dutch Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 101 to 101%.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been
these :—Birmingham and Gloucester were 32 to 32%; Bristol
and Exeter, 9 ; Bristol and Gloucester, 25 ; Caledonian, 2 to
; Chester and Holyhead, 21/ to 3 ; Dublin and Belfast,
3%; Eastern Counties, 2% to 3% ' • Eastern Union, 8 ; Great
North of England, 72 to 68; Great Western, 100 ; Guildford
and Portsmouth, 23/4 to YR ; Hull and Selby, 24 ; Lancaster
and Carlisle, 14% • Lincoln and Leeds, % ; Birmingham,
141 to 139 ; Brighton 5 to 53/4 ; South-Western, 37%;
Croydon, 4% to 5 ; London and York, 3% to 44 ; Lynn and
Ely, 3 to 3%; Manchester and Birmingham, 25 to 24
Newark and Sheffield, %; North British, 63/4 to 4 ; Rich-
mond and West-End, 2%; Rugby and Tring, 31' ;
Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 4 to 311 ; Staines and Rich-
mond, %; South Wales; 53j4 ; West Cornwall, 414.; Great
Northern of France, 1% •-r4
; Lyons and Avignon, ; and
Paris and Strasburg, 1 premium. Direct Northern have been
; and Blackwall, 8% discount. London and Westminster
Rank Shares were 73/4 premium.
The Exchanges on the principal Continental Cities were
firm this afternoon.
(Fror. The Sun of Last Night.)
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool, yesterday. were 6,000
bales, at steady prices. Speculators took 1,500 bags Ameri-
can of middling quality. A large business was done in Shares.
Birmingham and Gloucester, 134 133 ; Bristol and Gloucester,
57% 57.; Caledonian Big %; Chester and Birkenhead 40%;
Cheater and Holyhead, 71. ls. 3d. ; Dublin and Belfast, 64 ;
Eastern Count; es, 1918% ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, New Qua!,
ters, 6ig ; Glasgow and Greenock,l33/4 ; Grand Junction. Half,
113% •, London and Birmingham, 236 238 ; Ditto, 321. Shares,
43% ' • Ditto, Quarter Shares, 29 301/2 ; London and Brighton,
58 574 ; London and South-Western, 80; Ditto, Eighths,
New, 13 ; London and York, % • Manchester, Bolton,
and Bury, 1264 1274 ; Midland &unties, 129% 130 ;
Newcastle and Berl; ick, 174 ; North British, 134 Ilz
Preston and Wyre, 21%; Sheffield and Manchester, 1041/2 ;
Shrewsbury and Grand Junction, 7% ; South-Eastern, 50;
Ditto, No. 1, 234; Trent Valley, 13%; Ulster, 42%; Paris
and Lyons, 35
; Northern of France, Si. 16s. 3d. 5/. ss. ;
Boulogne and .Amiens, 51/2 14.
Notwithstanding the reserve exhibited by Sir Robert Peel
last night, on the subject of the Scotish Banking question,
not a doubt is entertained but that a bold measure will be in-
troduced for the purpose of placing the banking system upon
an uniform principle in all parts of her Majesty's
dominions, as far as respects the United Kingdom.
But there are a few who think that a certain
probation time, if we may use the term, will be allowed be-
fore the change will take place; thus affording the most ample
opportunities to make full announcements for any change
that mar occur hereafter.
The English Securities generally are firmer to-day. Con-
sols realise 99% 3/4 for Money, and 993% % for Account.
Bank Stock is 214 to 2131/2, and India Stock 281 to 282,
both of these being lower, but especially the latter. New
Three and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 10344 %. Exchequer-
bills have been unsteady at 555. to 625. premium.
The new loan for St. Domingo, of which the allotments,
however, are not yet issued, has been done at 1 premium.
The Foreign Market has been very dull. A copy of the
Dutch decree of the 3d instant, completing the conversion of
the old Five per Cents., has been handed to us by Messrs.
Raphael, from which it appears that the holders of the un-
drawn stock, presenting it at Amsterdam before the 26th
instant, will be paid off on Ist March, with interest to date;
but that, if they do not give notice, their stock will be re-
duced to Four per Cents., at 99, with interest from Ist Oc-
tober last. Spanish Active Bonds are 27%, and the Three
per Cents. 403/4 to %. Portuguese Converted are 59 to %.
Columbian realise 14%. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per-Centr.
are 62% to 63.
The Share Market has been in an animated state to-day,
The authorised list of quotations will show the variations
that have taken place.
The accounts by the Overland Mail from India are of very
little interest. The private letters will be delivered, it is
expected, to-morrow.

OWE
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consols
New 311/1 per Cents
Long Annuities to expireJan.lB6o 12 1-16 3-16
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 11%
India Stock
India Botids, 1,0001..
Ditto under 1,000/. . . . 72 68
Consols for Account.... ....... 9934%
India Stock, kr Account 283
Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., I%d 6O 55 60
Ditto 5001.
Ditto Small ... 60 56

CLOSING
PRICES.

2131 A
1001 if;%
99
103%
12 3-16
11%
282

ONE
PRICES OF FOREIGN' FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 423/ 43
olumbian Bonde, ex Venezuela 14%
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto, Converted
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840
Ditto, Account 2731
Ditto 3 per Cent. ... .. 403/4
Ditto, Account. 4OK
Dutch, 2% per Cent
Ditto, Account 62%
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Ceram.... 98% %

283
pm. 60
pm. 66
pm. 56

CLOSING
PRICES.
433/4

PRICES OF CLOSING
PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. „LeEs.
RAILWAY SHAMES
Aberdeen
Birmin and Gloucester. 100
Ditto % Shares •
Bristol and Exeter
Ditto New 2
Bristol and Gloucester... 30 „..... 54 52 54%
Cakdonian
Cambridge and Lincoln 11,4 4% 311 %33j,4
Chester and Holyhead... 5
Chichester and Brighton 5
Cliurnet Valley
Cornwall
Direct Northern
Dublin and BelfastJunc. 2% 6 53/4
Dublin and Galway 2%...... 2% %
Eastern Counties . 25 ...... 18 17% 3/......
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1.......... 3% , 114
Ditto ditto, No. 2
Eastern Union lO .. ...
Ditto Extension
Ely and Bedford
Great South. and West.

(Ireland) .... ...
Ditto Extension
Great North of England..100
Great Western 75 ...... 179 •••
Ditto 1,4 Shares 5O lO2 100%
Ditto Fifths
Guildford, Farn'm,Ports. 21/.....
Harwich
Hull and Selby SO
Lancaster and Carlis1e... 15
Lincoln, York, And Leeds 1% "'—
London and Birminghm (Stock) -239 238
Ditto New Thirds
11
Ditto, Quarter Shares 2
e!
London and Blackwall.. 16% 7 '
London and Brighton... 50
&Ditto Loan Notes lO
London and Greenwich.. 123% ll 4%s
London :Ind S. Western. 41% 79 ,i
Ditto New 2% 13141/
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. Bd.
London and York 2% 7 6%%1h
Lynn and Ely
Manchester and Birm... 40 -
Ditto Quarters
Midland 100
127 129
_...

liitto New 2 .. ... 8%
Midland,Birrn.,Derby...loo
Newoasue and Berwick 11/2 ...... 161 16
Newry and Enniskillen. 2% 2%
Newark and Sheffield ... 1%...... 2%
North British .....•.. 7% 14 13% 141/4 14 13%
North Kent 23/4.. .. 2%
Norwich and Brandon... 8
Oxford and Worcester... 2% 1674
Richmond and \Vest End •
_...

Junction
Rugby
Shrews., Wolverhamp ,
Dudley, and Birm 2l/2 6%
South Devon... lO ...... 163/4%
Ditto No. 2.
Staines and Richmond... 1
South Eastern & Dover 33% 4Bl/ 3/4
South Wales
Trent Valley
West Cornwall ...... 11A... .
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ...... 3%1/,1%........
York and North Midland 50
Ditto Extension ...... 114 I3IA
FRENCH RAILWAYS
Boulogne and A miens... 2
Great North. of France.. 4
Lyons and Avignon 2 —
Orleans and Bordeaux... 2
Paris and Lyons
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Strasbourg ... 2
Rouen and Havre
293/4 301/z
Tours and Nantes 1

20
1%
.....
8%
314

-,,
53/
234

- ---- ---- ------
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
London & Westin iiister. 20
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 6.—The market
continues good, with a very extensive business.—Birminghon
• and Gloucester, New Shares, 5%; Bristol a: d Exeter. 82 ex
new ; Chester and Birkenhead. 4014 ;• Chester and Holy-
head; 7% ; 'London and South-Western, New Shares, 13% ;
Manchester and ....eeds, Sixteenth Shares, 6%; Manchester
and Birmingham, 62% 62 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 10% %;
Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 10%; Midland Railway
Consols, 129 ex. div. ; Ditto, Preferential, 3%; Ditto, 404
Shares, 914 1; Preston and Wyre, 22 ; South-Eastern, 51%
51 • Ditto, Scrip, 8% 9% prem. ; Barnsley Junction, 6%;
Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 7% 4 ;
Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 61/s ; Blackburn, Dar-
wen, and Bolton, 3%; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 71,4 ,
Caledonian, 8 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 4% 1/2 ; Churnet
Valley, 81/2 34 ;
Huddersfield and Manchester Rail and Ca-
nal, 4%; Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 414 ; Jamaica,
253.1' ; Kendal and Windermere, 4 ; Leeds and West Riding
Junction, 6% 14 ; Liverpool, Ormekirk, and Preston, 3% 14 ;
London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, 5; London and
York, 6 13-16 6% ; Manchester and Buxton, 34 ; Scottish
Central, 4%; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 355.
1 11-16 ; Shrewsbury, Oawestry, and Chester Junction, 3%;
Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, Dudley, &c., 7 ; Southport
and •Euxton, 3% 34 ; Trent Valley, 1314 ; Boulogne and
Amiens (English), 514.
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YESTERDAY.)
Amsterdam CF. 12 8 Gibraltar..... ....,. ,
Ditto, at sight l2 6 Leghorn ...... ....,.... 31
Rotterdam 2U. 12 8i Genoa ..... . .. ...... .. 28 10
Antwerp 26 10 Milan ......
..........•
Hamburgh M.B. 13 14 Venice .. . ... ..... 47
Altona ' 13 14 Naples
Paris, 3 days' sight... 25 80 Palermo, tier oz llBi
Ditto, 3 months 26 0 Lisbon .. ....... ...... .. 53i
Marseilles 26 5 0p0rt0....
Bourdeaux 26 10 Rio Janeiro.— 234
Frankfort on Maine.. 122 Bahia ...... . 24
••
Petersburgh, 3 Us... 37 Buenos Ayres —
Berlin 7 NewYmk .:: 2dys sight
Vienna, effee. 8.3 M 10 Philadeipliis ...... ...
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 34 Foreign 4 'c. 41,1, bars...o 17 9
Cadiz
Bilbao 36 New D0u1.i00n5..... 0 0 0
Barcelona 36 New Dollars 0 4 9i
Seville .... Silver in Dare 0 4 1 A

Income or
Reveuue.

lAL NE-0' S. l PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPEN-
DITURE.
An Account of the Net Public Income of the 'United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the Year ended the
sth day of January, 1845, after abating the Expenditure
thereout defrayed by the several Revenue Departments,
and of the Actual Issues or Payments within the same
Period ; exclusive of the Sum= !t:T.liw! to the 1-Zoth,mption
of Funded or paying off Unit.a,ci Debt and of the Ad-
.v..aPces_and .Re7_payrnents ftir Local Works, &c.
INCOME.

Applicable to

The Consoli-
dated Fund.

Ordinaryßevenue
and Receipts.
Customs •• •• • • •.

s. d.l
19,352,381 19 10
[3,308,050 16 3
7,157,287 17 5

Excise • • . • • • • • • •
Stamps •••• • • • •
Taxes (Land and
Assessed) •• • •
Property-tax • • • •
Post-office . • • • • •
Crown Lands.. • •
One Shilling and
Sixpence, and
Four Shillings
• in the Pound on
Pensions • and
Salaries • • • • • •
Small Branches of
the hereditary
Revenues of the
Crown .. ... • • •
Surplus Fees of
Regulated Pub-
lic Offices • • • •

4,216,488 18 10
5,191,596 15 9
691,000 0 0
155,000 0 0

5,179 12 4

(Other Public
Services.

s. d.
3,152,439 10 11

40,697 9 3

46,969 14 0

150,164,653 3 8

385,007 17 9

Total.

X s. d.
22,504,01 10 9
13,308,050 16 3
7,157,287 17 5

4,216,488 18 10
5,101,596 15 9
691,00 n 0 0
155,000 0, 0

5,179 12 4

40,697 9 3

46,969 14 0

:3,152,439 10 11

153,317,092 14 7

385,007 17 9

114,223 14 11

60,000 0 0

83,418 7 81

114,223 14 11

44,010 16 91

60,000 0 0

150,851,314 0 9

83,418 7 8

44,010 i 6 9

1'i3,152,439 10 11

154,003,753 11 8