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London, England, 1845-03-21 00:00:00

Mr. MORRISON moved the following resolutions :-

1. That it is the duty of Parliament, in giving its sanc-
tion to the establishment of new railways, to render them
the means of affording to the public the best and safest
communication, and the greatest amount of accommoda-
tion, at the lowest possible rates.
2. That the clauses heretofore introduced into Rail-
way Bills to limit the amount of tolls to be demanded
for the use of the railway, having proved practically in-
operative, it is expedient to make more effectual pro-
vision against the undue enhancement of the cost of
travelling and transportation in every future Railway
Bill, by fixing the highest rates which the railway com-
pany shall be allowed to charge for the conveyance of
passengers and goods.
3. That for this purpose every Committee on a Rail-
way Bill, introduced in the present or any future session
of Parliament, shall report a table of fees and charges,
the lowest which they shall judge to be consistent, under
the circumstances of each case, with a fair and reasonable
return for the capital to be invested.
4. And that every Committee to which two or more
competing projects for new railways may. be referred,
shall require the promoters of each to put in statements
as to the rate of charge for the conveyance of passen-
gers and goods to which they are content to be limited,
and the amount of accommodation which they will bind
themselves to provide for the public at those rates ; and
that, in determining on the comparative merits of com-
peting schemes, regard shall be had to the extent and
nature of the advantages which can be thus reserved to
the public from each. _

In the Course of his speech the Hon. Gentleman
complained bitterly of the conduct of the railway
companies in regard to third-class passengers. In-
stead of attaching third-class carriages to all their
trains, a plan which would be more economical to the
company, and more convenient to the public, they
preferred starting separate trains for the third-class,
which travelled at a much slower rate, thus incurring
additional expense for the sole purpose of inconve-
niencing third-class passengers.
Mr. WARBURTON seconded the motion, and sug-
gested the propriety of adopting a maximum of rate s
beyond which a company could not charge.
Lord G. SOMERSET admitted the justice of some of
the complaints which had been made ; but he doubted
whether the remedies proposed were calculated to
meet the evil. He would advise the Hon. Member
to withdraw these resolutions. But if he could de-
vise any other mode of attaining the object he had in
view, so much was he impressed with the importance
of the principle, that he was quite ready to go with
hitn. For instance, if he would propose some altera-
tion of the standing orders of the House, which
would have the effect of obliging railway companies,
before their coming to Parliament, to lay down
some rate of charges, it might accomplish the end
desired.

Lord HOWICK had heard with great satisfaction
the declaration of the Noble Lord, that though he
did not coincide altogether in the terms of these re-
solutiona, yet that he was prepared to accede to the
principles which they contained. And if the Hon.
Member should be induced to withdraw them, he
hoped that her MAJESTY'S Ministers would adopt
some other mode, and that speedily, to accomplish the
object at which these resolutions aimed. At any
rate, he trusted that the Government would take up
the matter, and give it their best attention before the
great mass of Railway Bills which had been intro-
duced this session were committed. He thought it
would be well to introduce some enactment by which
lines of railway should, within a certain period after
their formation, revert to the Crowh.

Sir R. PEEL acknowledged the great difficulty of
the subject. How could they erect a tribunal to
adjudicate upon the prices which railway companies
might charge ? The great doubt in his mind was,
whether such a tribunal would not establish too high
a rate. He thought that Committees on special
Bills, keeping the principle of these resolutions in
view, might be safely left to take care of the public
interest.

After a few words from Mr. DENNISON, Mr. S.
WORTLEY, Sir G. GREY, and Mr. PARKER, the
motion was withdrawn.
After a short conversation between Mr. HUME and
Lord LINCOLN, on the subject of lighting the House,
the report of the Committee of Supply was brought
up and received. _

The Railway Clauses Consolidation Bill (Scotland)
was read a third time and passed ; and Mr. WAXLEY
having given notice of a motion for the production of
the Secretary of State's warrant, authorising the
opening of Mr. T. DUNCO26IBE'S letters, the House
adjourned at Twenty Minutes before Eight o'clock.

What is Sir ROBERT PEEL about? Does he under-
stand the position which he is compelled to maintain?
Is his occupation of it his own 'voluntary, spontaneous
act, or the effect of circumstances which he cannot con-

trol? Does he retain office as the head of a party, or of
a principle? If of a party, what is it? Between him-
self and the Whigs there is nothing in common, but the
reciprocity of mutual repudiation. True,—he talks of
_ _ _

his intimate relations with the Conservative community
of the empire, and the identity of his views with those of
the Conservative section of the House. But the com-
munity in question disavow his political doctrines, as

being too liberal for the scope of their own opinions and

wishes. The section reject him, as having compromised
their interests, and falsified his pledges to them, by the
line of policy which he has adopted since he last resumed
the reins of power. Neither the Duke of BUCKING-
HA3I, nor his Grace of RICHMOND, nor even Mr. W.
MILES, hesitates to remind him that the landed interest,
which each of them conceives himself to represent,
placed the Premier in his present position; or forbears
to hint that they can, at any time, displace him when
they shall be so minded. It is not with their party,
therefore, that he is identified. What, then, is the
principle of which he is the exponent? Of the pro-
tective monopoly-class-legislation system? Why, it is
very true that he has avowed himself over and over
again the champion of the corn-law monopoly ; and,
until lately, of agricultural protection. It is also cer-
tain that, by an unfortunate inconsistency, he has greatly
marred the effect of his relief to commercial enterprise
and trading industry, and to the pocket of the home
consumer, by an ill-judged positive increase of protec-
tion to our West Indian colonist, although it is accom-
panied by a reduction of the duty on foreign sugar, the
growth of free labour. But, on the other hand, the
author of the tariff of 1342-43, and of the financial pro-
ject of February, 1845—the one largely reducing the
rate of duties on articles of extensive consumption (corn
always excepted)—the other striking off; altogether, at
one erasure, the duties on 430 articles, and contemplating
the virtual extinction of all export duties whatever ;
this man cannot be said to embody the principle of pro-
tection. Sir ROBERT PUEL, then, is a ministerial ano-
maly, an official nondescript. His influence and his suc-
cess aro not the less palpable facts. The strength which
supports him is in the inverse ratio of the basis on which
it apparently reposes. If consistency in a public man be
strength, the Premier's public position should be weak.
If inconsistency be a principle of weakness, it works—
in Sir ROBERT PEEL'S case—to the consolidation of his
strength. Many previous Ministers have been upheld
by the superior force of their own party to that of the
party opposed to them. None before him, to the best
of our knowledge, have made their fortune by securing
the opposition both of their followers and their adver.
saries. Let it not be said that if they maintained their
authority in virtue of party support, Sir ROBERT holds
his in despite of it ; for no man was ever more indebted
than he is to the assistance of party. It is his habit
practically to recognise this fact. He throws him-
self, as the occasion may demand, and without
hesitation, out of his own ranks and into those
of the opposition ; ar he defies opposition,
whilst making a sentimental appeal to the
sympathies of the treasury benches. The attrac-
tion which, one should suppose, would draw him out
of his Premier's seat, is counteracted by an equivalent
force operating to retain him in it. Like the fabled
coffin of Mahomet, he is equipoised between two mag-
netic principles. 'Whatever the shock of parties, or his
own oscillations, the result always leaves him in un-
disturbed suspension between them.

In this whimsical, undefinable, capricious interpolation
between two extremes, there may be something very
astonishing, very artificial, very clever. We doubt whether
it is very becoming in a statesman at the head of the
councils of a great country. Is it a fair or a generous
return for that confidence which a great people has
shown itself disposed to place in him, notwithstanding
its dissent from some of the mo re prominent measures
adopted by his Government in past years, and its dis-
satisfaction with many details conaiected with his present
Administration? Why should 'he be any longer unjust

to his own reputation, and the demands of his own sta-
tion, by declining to adopt some more prominent and
decided rule of action? Why hesitate between a broad
and intelligible vindication of the sound principles of
free trade, and a halting, unsatisfactory compromise
with the obsolete errors and importunate demands of
monopoly-protections and class selfishness? Surely the
Premier is now strong enough to feel his own ground;
to use his own feet; to throw away his "sliding-scale"
crutches; to abandon his shifty supplements, his ricketty
expedients. Does he imagine that, in that case, he will
not find supporters enough in the House? Let him throw
himself upon the support of those without ! Such a pro-
ceeding would supply a summary means of realising
that victory over interested opposition, which the very
fact of daring thus honestly and openly to encounter it
would assure to him beforehand. It is clear, then, that
he can gain nothing further by remaining within his
present entrenchments. How much he may lose, he
may have inferred from the spirited but serious de-
monstration of the Hon. Member for Shrewsbury, of a
mutiny in the camp behind him, which already reckons
able heads, stout hearts, and prompt hands, among its
leaders. How much he has yet to gain by heading, in-
stead of following, the movement of liberal principles,
and of a truly patriotic policy, to which the whole em-
pire is looking forward with the most intense solicitude,
he can only surmise, by imagining himself already what,
in that case, he would inevitably become—the most po-
pular Minister who had. ever directed the affairs of the
noblest empire which a statesman can aspire to serve.

The Lord Bishop of EXETER is a man of consistent '
contumaciousness. He has long acquired a notoriety as
extensive as that of his compulsory divorce from the
Rectory of Stanhope for his high-flying principles of
prelftical infallibility, and of the inherent supremacy of
the spiritual over the temporal jurisdiction. From a
period long anterior to the time at which he polemicised
himself into a factious importance, and the political re-
version of a bishopric, by running a tilt at the projected
concession of the Roman Catholic claims, to the present
time, he has lost few opportunities either of dis-
playing the " prelatica superbia" or vesting the odium
theologicum so congenial to his nature. It is a pity—(for
the Bishop)---that the times have passed away when a
true soldier of the Church availed himself of the abun-
dant opportunities which offered for vindicating the
prowess of the Church militant on her temporal enemies.
In those good times your fierce Bishop doffed his mitre
and assumed his helmet with as much nonchalance as,
now-a-days, a young cornet exchanges his smoking cap
fur his shacko. These hierarchical pastors moved to
consecrati,ms or to battles with equal alacrity. If they
were ready to preach or preside at the preaching of the
Christian doctrines of peace and humility, with an array
of armed partisans, resembling the splendid retinue of a
powerful military baron, or with a sumptuously habited
court and clergy (numerous enough to have gratified
Lord J. MANNERS' yearnings for the revival of Convoca-
tion), they showed no unworthy weakness of purpose—no
diffidence about their moral justification in marching to
the more exciting pastime of war. Like WALTER
SCOTT'S modern Irish soldiery, " they move to death
with military glee." Many a hard blow, in border
forays, was dealt by Bishops of DURHAM or CARLISLE;
and Bishops of WINCHESTER and of SAINT ANDREWS
are recorded to have fought in pitched battles with a
zeal not less intense than—and we may surmise about as
holy as—that which animated Pope Junius, when work-
ing in the trenches, or directing in person the opera-
tions of the siege and the' assault. Bishop PHILLPOTTS—
HENRY of EXETER, we mean—is a most worthy repre-
sentative of the bishops-belligerent of our historical tra-
ditions. Could our times be rolled back to that remote
point at which the enlightened toleration and Christian

liberality of a few such unbigoted and self-denying
priests as this Right Reverend Father would heartily
desire that they should be, how astounding a lesson
would he_ read to some of those meddlesome laymen who
now presume. to interpose their unwarranted opinions
in matters ecclesiastical ? Why, we would
not trust Mr. CHARLES BULLER, for example,
after a debate in which Puseyite innovations
and their Episcopal patrons had been somewhat freely
handled, within ten miles of Exeter city, were Bishop
HENRY in residence there, armed with the old blew--
chical authority and power: In our mind's eye, we can
fancy our gentle Bishop, mounted on his Barbary jennet,
and cased in that" harness of proof" which still seems
to render him insensible to the rudest assaults of his
adversaries, heading his body guard at a fierce gallop
to the spot where private information had led him to
believe he might fall in with the luckless Member for
Liskeard, on his unsuspecting return from a legislative
campaign, to the head-quarters of his family in Devon-
shire. Oh with what a fiery glance of anticipated triumph
would our good Bishop—followed by his deans and his
canons and minor canons, his prebendaries, priests, and
deacons, his proctors and precentors—all armed like him-
self, to the teeth, despite the cassock or the stole—have
betaken himself to the spoil of such a Philistine But
the days of practical prelatical doughtiness are past. If
the Bishop of EXETER expect the advent of the most
furious anti-Puseyite protester, by the fastest special
down- train, in these deplorable days of radicalism and
railroads—be cannot, publicly, venture ever to anathe-
matise anything more sentient than the boiler of the
locomotive. He may exorcise the demon-whistle, or he
may threaten the stoker with the censure of the spiritual
courts ; but it is doubtful whether be would be much
more successful in stopping the momentum of the train
than he has been in staying the impetuous current of
anti-Puseyite feeling. Yet still, the Right Rev. Father,
albeit shorn of the good old power of other days, and
oppressed by the accumulating forces of that freedom of
thought and independence of action which the disas-
trous tendencies of the reformed constitution of our
Anglican Church have so fatally fostered in the laity—
still he retains the ancient instincts of his caste. He is,
even in defeat, haughty, domineering, and litigious—
smooth of speech, but eager and reckless in the indul-
gence of once adopted prejudices. Courtier enough to
have studied the science of dissimulation profiundly, he
is so much of a churchman as to permit the expression
of his constitutional temperament sometimes too un-
guardedly to develop itself.
The Bishop of EXETER has been of late too much, too
often, and too discreditably, we must say, before the
public in connexion with what, notwithstanding his
Lordship's testimony to its solemnity and importance,
we shall take the liberty to designate as one of the
most worthless and impertinent squabbles that has ever
vexed the repose or disgraced the dignity of the Esta-
blished Church. He has, in that unhappily officious
spirit which, since his elevation to, the Bishops' bench,
has always been embroiling him in some shape or other,
put himself forward as a determined champion of the
offensive pseudo-papistical observances, which make
small Birmingham: martyrs of the WARD and PALMER
disciples of Dr. PUSEY'S school, but which offends and
disgusts about four-sixths of all the congregations of the
Establishment in the United Kingdom. We had hoped,
from the signal nature of the reproof's lately administered
by every organ of public opinion, that our excellent Bishop
would have been, by this time, aweary of the controversy.
He has been already compelled—and compelled against
his own declared convictions to the contrary—to abandon
the ceremonials he had most vehemently contended for
in a most elaborate correspondence. Yesterday we re-
corded another case of defeat. The curate of Falmouth
has given up, it seems, the Puseyite forms which had so
much estranged his parishioners from his church. Bishop
PHILLPOTTS writes to him and the churchwardens in
a sulky, " I won't-give-in-though-I-am-beaten" sort of
style—that though, for the sake of peace, he had con-
sented to this abandonment of particular forms, " he
could not permit, in any of the churches of his diocese
the discontinuance of any part of the Liturgy (as ordered
by the Rubric) which was used there at the date of his
lust letter to the clergy (Bth January last). He must,
therefore, require that the reading of a sentence of the
offertory, and of the prayer for the Church militant,
after the morning service at Falmouth, be continued as
before."

Poor Bishop ! He would have thought it graceless to
leave his concession an act of grace ! Is there no retir•
ing fund on which Bishops, after certain periods of active
service, may be pensioned off the bench ?

cite any interest, and will, of course, be passed. In the
Chamber of Deputies the Minister of the Interior an-
nounced that it was the anxious wish of the Govern-
ment to calm the public mind relative to the Church
lands, and a negotiation had been entered into with the
POPE on the subject, the object of which was to get the
sanction of his Holiness to the sales already made,
Which would increase the value of the property, and
quiet the consciences of the purchasers. It was under-
stood that the session would be closed about the end of
April.
The Three per Cents. closed at 35* at 60 days; the
Five per Cents. at 261; the Coupons at 28k; and the
Debt without Interest at 8 at 60 days.

A discussion has been carried on in the French
Chamber of Deputies for some days on the motion for
abolishing vote by ballot, which posesses considerable
interest, as the question is one applicable to all consti-
tutional governments. At the last sitting it assumed
more than usual interest, from the remarks which it led
to on the overthrow of the BOURBON dynasty, and from
one of those brief, sententious, and cutting speeches
which M. DUPIN only can make. The Bill, as is usual
in France, had been referred to a Select Committee,
consisting of nine members ; of these, four had voted for
the total abolition of secret voting, and the other five
thought it ought to be retained, but only in certain in-
stances. M. BERRYER, who was one of the Committee,
said the members were unanimous in allowing that
it was most awkward, when the Chamber had voted
by aseis and lel,q (one party sitting and the other
standing), and the vote appeared doubtful, it was
necessary to have recourse to a secret vote, which
too frequently had the effect of giving a broad contra-
diction to the decisidn of the Secretaries. Another
member said the ballot was an utter delusion—it no
longer existed. Some of the journals had published
lists of the PRITCHARD Deputies, and had announced
that they would have them placarded in the 44,000 com-
munes of France. The practice of secret voting bad
only one result—to favour a permanent system of
calumny against all the Deputies who ;served or sup-
ported the Government, by furnishing a pretext for
doubting of the sincerity of their opinions and of their
courage. M. DE TRACY declared, himself a convert to
the ballot. At one time, before he had the honour of
being a juryman, he had thought that " nothing was
more desirable for an honourable man than to
give his verdict openly, but experience bad en-
lightened him, for when he felt the anxieties and doubts
—the moral torture, in fact—incidental to the delibe•
rations of the jury, whenever the vote was public, he felt
it a happiness that by a secret vote such tortures could
be avoided. Let the Chamber remember the address of
the 221 before the last Revolution. Every one was
aware what an influence it had exercised on the fate of
France, yet it was notorious that amongst those who
had then voted there were some who did not desire to
acknowledge that they had done so. It might be re-
membered that at that period it was proposed to per-
petuate the event by a medal. But the medal could not
be distributed, for 221 Deputies could not be found
willing to receive it. They had voted, but they did not
wish to avow their vote.—(Sensation.) The Chamber
might do what it pleased—it would not be able to change
human nature. All had their weaknesses and their
fears." This roused M. DUPIN, who had drawn
up the address signed by the 221. He demanded
the parole. M. DE LA ROCHEJAQUELEIN wished
first to say only one word, but the assembly would
not hear him, and the calls from all parts of the Chamber
were for M. Dueler. He then made these remarks on
the great event which placed Lours PHILIPPE on the
throne, not forgetting to put forward his friends, the
Jesuits, as the prime actors in the mad schemes of
CHARLES X.:—

" I drew up the address of the 221 ; and, on the part of
those with whom I then voted, I cannot admit the reproach
of their having in a measure denied their vote, and shrunk
from the duty of avowing the part they had taken. I deny
that the address of the 221 was one of destruction. When a
revolution had taken place, when it had been lawful and
useful to the country, care ought to be taken not to allow
its principles to be misrepresented or its origin falsi -
fied. The actuating motive of the 221 had been fidelity
to the Crown and attachment to the institutions of
the country. They only wished to lay at the foot of the
Throne a constitutional warning, which it was their right
and duty to give. When the Crown, abused and worked
on by evil counsels, allowed itself to be persuaded to
guard at the head of public affairs a Government hostile to
the opinions of the majority of the Chambers, the duty of
the Chamber was to respectfully offer its advice. Could the
document containing such advice be termed an address to
subvert things existing? Certainly not. lat that period de-
clared to M.Guernon Ranville that the Crown had a right
to dissolve the Chamber. The Crown used that right; and
what caused the overthrow of the dynasty then reigning was
that, after that solemn appeal to the country, after a disso-
lution which was to give a contradiction to the majority of
221, or confirm the advice which they had constitutionally
given, another Chamber came which held precisely their
opinion. The Government dared not meet the new Chamber,
and the ordonnances were issued. Yes, the ordonnances
were then published by the suggestions of detestable ad-
visers—of
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listened to by Princes in times of danger. The Chamber
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replied by a revolution. But those who gave the best advice
were the least listened to.—(Cheers.)"

This closed the general discussion on the principles of
the Bill, and the Chamber rose at six o'clock. On the
same day the Minister of Public Works gave an outline
of the proposed conditions of the two Railway Bills from
Paris to Lyons, and from Lyons to Avignon. It autho-
rises the Minister to adjudicate the line by public com-
petition. He is to declare in a sealed paper the maximum
of the duration of the lease that can be granted. This
period in no ease to exceed forty-five years for the part
from Paris to Lyons, and fifty years for that from Lyons
to Avignon. No person is to be allowed to compete fur
the line unless previously approved of by the Minister,
and unless there have been deposited in the Caisse des
Dip(lts et Consignations twenty-five millions for the
part from Paris to Lyons, and eight millions for that
from Lyons to Avignon. The same Bill also opens to
the Minister of Public Works a credit of five millions for
the works on the line from Dijon to Chalon. The station
at Paris is near the site of the Bastile, and the line
proceeds along the right batik of the Seine to Melun,
the
thenceval passingvalley
o fChangy
and Loing, along through the forest of Fontainbleau, along
far as Aisy, a distance of 147 miles. It thence proceeds
by Dijon, Chalons, and Macon to Lyons, the distance
the left bank as
from Paris to that town being about 320 miles. The
cost is estimated at 7,210,0001. ; the revenue is calculated
at 1,030,000 f. ; the net proceeds 566,0001., or about 7
per cent. The line from Lyons to Avignon proceeds
along the left bank of the Rhone, by Vienna, Monteli-
mart, and 'Mamas, and the cost is estimated at 3,200,000 f.
and the revenue at 225,0001., or better than 6} per cent.
The Univere publishes the following letter from the
Archbishop of LYONS to the Minister of Justice and
Public Worship, but it is evidently directed against M.
DUPIN :
ad-
ministrative rights for the use of Messieurs les Procureurs-
Generaux and Procureurs•du-Roi, and for the instruction of
" If I had composed a znanuel of legal, commercial, or
young advocates, and had in this elementary work, bearing
the impress of my ignorance in jurisprudence, attacked the
rights of the nation, of the King, or of the Chambers, placed
privilege above common law, and confounded ordounances
with laws, and liberty with servitude, and if this book had
been laid before the magistrates and condemned by them,
my duty would have been to recognise the justice of the sen-
tence, and accept in silent respect the double brand of ridi-
cule and of the tribunals. But when I remain within the
limits of the spiritual Dower, and, seated upon my pontifical
seat, cite before me doctrines opposed to the Catholic doctrine,
in order to judge them, I do not acknowledge upon earth any
power that can revise my judgment except the Roman
Pontiff and the councils. The Council of State has not been
made my judge in these matters by Jesus Christ."
THE BOURSE--TUEDSLY, MARCH 18.
First Highest Lowest I ast
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents...... 118 20 .. 118 20 .. 118 10 .. 118 15
Three per Cents... 85 25 .. 85 30 .• 85 25 .. 85 30
New Loan ........ SG 10 .. SG 10 .. SG 10 .. 86 10
.. 103. N
Bank of France ............ 3162 50 ..3162 50 -3162 50 ..3162 50
Gottinllicat,l,ooof.Shares..lo9o ..1090 ..1090 ..1090
Belgian Fives, 1840 .. 105 M .. 10534 .. 1051,
1842 ........107 .. 107 107 •• 107
103% .. 103% .• 103%
Two-and-a-half.... 62 35 .. 62 35 .. 62 25 .. 62 25
Spanish Active ..... ....... 391; 39% • • 39 34 • • 39%
Three 5............ 41 .. 41 .. 41 .. 41
Passive
Portuguese Five per Cents.. 67 6734 •• 671/2 .. 6734
Neapolitan•• •• .

goiman • • • ...... • • ••• • • •• 106

The intelligence from Zurich is to the 14th inst. The
committee, according to a letter from that place of the
13th, had already met several times, but it is said the
members do not agree on the main points—a very likely
circumstance. Four Radical members propose to draw
up a paper for the expulsion of the Jesuits, and then
those of St. Gall, Bale (city), and Zurich, are to draw up
one inviting Lucerne to deliberate at once on the in-
structions to be given to its deputies for the ordinary
Diet. The majority, it is said, propose to send to Lu-
cerne federal commissioners to convoke the Grand Coun-
cil of that canton, and to transmit to It the invitation of
the Diet, which is to declare itself. The labours of the
committee were expected to terminate on the 14th. On
the question of the Free Corps, the committee has pro-
posed the adoption of the two first paragraphs of the
Vorort, with some modifications. As to the amnesty,
they agree on the propriety of sending an invitation to all
the cantons having political offenders to adopt it. A let-
ter from Lucerne of the 12th, states that several of the
persons who were sent to prison three months ago on
charges of rebellion, have been set at liberty.

.. 106

.. 10G

.. 106

RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain • —llB5 ..1185 ••1185 ..1185
Versailles, R.ll .. ~ ...... 6.55 .. 665 50 •• 655 • • 665 50
L.B ........ ...., 395
.. 398 75 .. 395 .. 397 50
Rouen ••1190 ..1190 ..1185 ..1190
Rouen to Havre••
•••1155 ..1155
Orleans . ••1145 ..1155
Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 347 50 .. 348 75 .• 345 .. 346 25
Avignon to Marseilles.... .. 1180 ..1180 ..1165 ..1175
Bordeaux to Teste ... ..... 225 .. 230 .. 212 50 .. 230
Paris to Seeaux ....„ ...... 702 50 .. 725 •• 702 50 .. 725

RAILWAYS FOR TUE ACCOUNT, APRIL 3.
St. Germain lO9O ..1195 ..1190 ..1190
647 50 .. 670 .. 647 50 .. 667 50
L.B 4OO .. 408 .. 392 75 .. 392 75
Rouen ****** ......1195 ..1195 ..1182 50 ..1192 50
Rouen t 0 Havre............990 .. 995 .. 987 50 .. 932 50
Orleans •.
Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 346 25 .. 350 .. 345 . 347 50
Avignon to Marseilles......llB2 50 ..1182 50 —1165 .•1172 50

Madrid journals of the 12th have been received. The
new Electoral Bill, an outline of which we gave yester-
day, appears in the Gazette, but it does not appear to ex.

A Deputation from the Chester and Birkenhead
Railway Proprietors wait, d yesterday on the Chester and
Holyhead Directors, to endeavour to make better terms
for the sale of their line to the latter Company, but were
met with a decided refusal on the part of the Chester
and Holyhead Board to entertain any proposal for re-
opening the terms of the existing agreement, which has
been arranged by the Directors of the two Companies,
and been ratified by the Shareholders of each.
It is rumoured that the Earl of Clare is to have the
vacant Ribbon of St. Patrick.
Colonel Sibthorp, M.P., and W. R. Collett, Esq.,
have each forwarded a donation of 50/. in aid of the fundraising in Lincoln for the relief of the poor in that city.

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 21, 1845

Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester,3l. 12s. ed. 31.115. W. 4 ;
South-Eastern and Dover, 43 434 ; Ditto, New Shares,
No. 1, 18 ; Ditto, New Shares, No. 2, 123,4
'' • Ditto, New
Shares, No. 3, 834 • Scottish Central, 54 ; South Wales,
61A; Tring and Worcester, 3/. 18s. 9d. ; Bordeaux and
Toulouse (Mackenzie Company), 2/. 12s. 6d. 2/. 16s. 3d. ;
Bordeaux and Cctte, 23/4 ; Central of France, 173%; Lyons
and Avignon (English), 2/. 12s. 6d. 21. 14s. ; Northern of
France (English), 61/s ; Ditto (French), 5/. 14s. ; Paris and
Lyons (Lallitte's English), 4/. 4s. 41. 10s. ; Ditto (Ganne-
ron's), 21. 10s. 6d. 21. lls. 6d. ; Paris mad Rouen, 44% % ; Paris
and St. Quintin, 465. ; Sambre and Meuse, 6 ; Verona and
Ancona, 20.

Accounts from the Continent describe the mortality among
the cattle as continuing very serious. In Belgium another
contagious malady, called the black typhus, is said to have
broken out, and our farmers, from all we heat, have very
little reason to be alarmed at the prospect of extensive im-
portations. For the sake of the consumer it might be wished
that it were otherwise. Owing to the influx of German
labourers into Holland, the Dutch Minister of the Interior
has decided upon employing natives only upon the
public works, unless in cases of special recommendation
by the engineers, on account of talent or other qualifications.
It would appear by this that employment is scarce in Ger-
many, and indeed, from circumstances mentioned under this
head a few days since, we believe such to be the case.
The English Funds have been very dull. Consols have not
been higher than 993 % for Money, and par for Account.
Exchequer-bills have been 625. to 60s. premium.
The Foreign Investments have been also very quiet. Spanish
Five per Cents. have realised 30%, and the Passive, 7% %;
Portuguese Converted are 68 to % ; Mexican have touched
364 to 37 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been
63 .
[he Railway Shares are generally steady, but with
scarcely so much doing. The French Shares are vet y
buoyant.

ONE
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
3 per Cent. Consols
Bank Stock for Account
Consols for Account..
Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., 11%d 62 60 62 pm. 59
Ditto 5001. .
Ditto Small
Ditto Advertised — pm.
ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.

CLOSING
PRICES.
993/4
216
100

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 —
Ditto. Account 37 36%
Ditto, Deferred 17%
Po -tuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Converted. 6814 68 653/4
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto Account
Ditto, Passive
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Ditto, Account
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent —
Dutch, 21, per Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 99%141/2
PRICES OF CLOSING
PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAY SHARES riacES.
Aberdeen
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush l%
Birming. and Gloucesterloo 131r2 134% 134 133
Ditto % Shares
Bristol and Exeter
Bristol and Gloucester... 30
CalJdonian
Cambridge and Lincoln 1% 6%5/4%
Chester and Holyhead... 5
Churnet Valley
Coventry, Bedworth, and

Nuneaton ........ ...... 114
Diss, Beccles, Yarmouth 11/2 _
Direct Northern
Dublin and Belfast June. 2% 6%%
Dublin and Galway..... 21/2 3
Eastern Counties
Ditto ditto, No. 2 l3s. 4d... 0%
Eastern Union
Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Ely and Bedford ... 1 ..... 2
Great Grimsby and Shef- '
field
Great South. and West.
(Ireland)
Great North of England..loo
Ditto New 5 —
Ditto New 2 21%
Great Western
Ditto % Shares 5O lOl
Guildford, Farn'm,Ports. 21/2 ... ..
Hull and Gainsborough 1%
Hull and Selby 5O
Kentish Coast l% —
Lancaster and Carlisle... 15
Lincoln, York, and Leeds 1% l%
London and Birminghm (5t0ck)...235
Do. New Thirds
Do. Quarters
London and Brighton... 50
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d lB%
London and Greenwich 12l 15s 4d...
London and S. Western 4116 s 10d 793 A
Do. New
London and York 2%. „ 3%1/4
Lynn and Ely
Manchester and Leeds... 73 l4B
Do. 4 Shares -
Midland 100 l3Bl/ 1393/4
Do. New
Midland, Birm., Derby...loo lO7 106
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction
Do. New Brandling... 10
Newcastle and" Berwick 1% l4l/.;...
Newark and Sheffield „ , 11/
North British
Do. New
North Kent
North Wales .. lv, —
Norwich and Brandon... 10
Richmond and West End
Junction
Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1
Scottish 'Midland ll/) 12;'f/3
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
Dudley, and Birm 2%. .... 44%... ..... ..
South Devon lO .. 19 20
South Eastern & Dover 3312 s 4d..... 43% 41
Do., No. 1 8
Do., No. 2.
Do., No. 3
Staines and Richmond... 1
South Wales
Trent Valley 2 ...
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 _ ... 31 z
West Cornwall l4 1
Yarmouth and Norwich. 20
York and North Midland 50 lO2
Ditto IX?, Shares 25 51%
Do. Selby 2O
Do. Extension
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens... 4
Bordeaux and Toulouse 2
...
Bordeaux, Toulouse, and

Cette 2
Great North. of France.. 4
Lyons and Mignon 2
Orleans and Bordeaux... 2
Orleans and Vierzon ... 2
Paris & Lyons, Laffitte's 2
Paris and Lyons, Gan-

neron's,
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen .. 2O -
Paris and Strasbourg ... 2
Rouen and Havre
Sambre and Meuse .... 2 ...... 5%3A
Strasbourg and Bale ... 14
Tours and 'Nantes, Mac-
kenzie's 2

5%

I-401
27%

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
British North American 50 ..
London & Westminster. 20
Union of Australia
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 18.—The sales
are :—Eastern Counties, 22 2134 ; Manchester and Leeds,
Quarter Shares, 171/2 ex div. ; Manchester and Birmingham,
5714 ex new and ex div. ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 4 15-16
prem. ; Midland Railway Consols, 401. Shares, 133/ ; Preston
and Wyre, 304 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 113 ; Ditto,
Quarter Shares, 131.% ; South-Eastern, No. 2, 12% %; Ditto,
No. 3,8% 13-16 ; Barnsley Junction, 7 ; Ditto,lldalf Shares,
34, ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 93% ;
Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 6% ; Blackburn, Dar-
wen, and Bolton, 41/s 4 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool,
83/ %; Caledonian, 10 1%; Cambridge and Lincoln, 61/2
Churnet Valley, 7 ; Glasgow and Dumfries' 21s. 3d. 215.;
Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 514 % ;
Leeds and Thirsk, 5 ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 6% ;
Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 33/ ; London and Wor-
cester, Oxford and Rugby, 3 15-16 4 ; London and York,
31,1 %; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 1 15-16 ;
Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 255. 245. ; Shrewsbury,
Wolverhampton, Dudley, &c., ; Trent Valley, 16 15.16
ex new ; Weat Yorkshire, 3/4 ; Boulogne and Amiens
(English), 111,4 ; Great Northern of France (English), 614.
COURSE OF EXC LTA N GE.—(YE STERLA .)
Amsterdam CF. 12 74 Gibraltar__
Ditto, at sight l2 5i Leghorn ...
Rotterdam 2U. 12 7i Genoa ..... ...... 26 15
Antwerp 26 15 Milan ...... .....
Hamburgh M.B. 13 5* Venice .... . .„.„
Altona — Naples ......... ...... .. 40
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 87i Palermo, per oz . 119 i
Ditto, 3 months 26 10 Lisbon 53
Marseilles ... 26 15 Oporto .. s3i
Bourdeaux 26 15 Rio Janeiie
Frankfort on Maine 1221 Bahia ...... ......
Petersburgh, 3Us — Buenos Apes
Berlin — New Th. ~.I:ldys sight
Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M lO 2 Philathiph;
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 36Z- Foreign 4,,td, bars...E.3 17 9
Cadiz
Bilbao — New Poubbons..... 0 0 0
Barcelona — New f)t,'...tars O4 9i
Seville

We understand that T. P. Dickenson, Esq., bas
been recommended to her Majesty by Sir Robert Peel,
for the vacant Commissionership of Customs. Mr. Dick-
enson was for some years a member of the Commission
of Revenue Inquiry, over which the late Lord Wallace
presided, and has acted as a Special Commissioner under
the Income•tax Act since the passing of it.—Evening
Paper.
EXPERIMENTAL STEAM-BOAT CRUISE.—THE SCREW V.
THE PADDLE-WHEELS.—The Rattler, screw-propelled steam-
sloop, Commander Smith, and the Alecto, paddle-wheel
steam-sloop, Lieut. Commander Hoseason, have left Wool-
wich, on an experimental trip. The Admiralty have or-
dered them to cruise in the North Sea, and not to return
until they have had sufficient opportunity of establishing
their comparative superiority in point of speed and other
qualities. Their Lordships on this as well as on other recent
occasions granted permission to any naval officer who was
desirous of witnessing the trials to be accommodated on
board one or other of the sloops. The vessels are of equal
tonnage and horse power, and are commanded by experienced
officers, but we still think it is hardly fair to the principle of
the screw propeller to risk its character in such an ill-
adapted form as that of the Rattler. In rough weather, the
Alecto's paddle-wheelg must be of good service in keeping
her comparatively steady, while the Rattler will necessarily
roll, and in some degree paralyse the efforts of the screw,
and reduce her speed through the water. Under all circum-
stances, however, the Admiralty deserve the greatest credit
is instituting these trials.
AMERICAN SEAMEN.—By a report made to Con-
gress by the chairman of the Naval Committee (Mr. Reade)
it has been ascertained that out of 109,000 seamen sailing
out of the United States, only 9,000 were Americans, or a
proportion of Ito 12. The Ohio ship-of-the-line sailed from
New York on a three years' cruise, with a crew of 1,000 men,
only 182 of whom were Americans ; and the Delaware went
to sea with a less number in proportion.