The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MOND A I EVENING, JULY 28, 1845.

superadded charge for carriage. Mr. JOHN ABEL
SMITH entreated the attention of the Government to
the extraordinary scarcity- of silver coin, which pre
veiled in some parts of the country to such an extent
as to have rendered difficult, and almost interrupted, the
payment of wages. Upon this extreme scarcity he was
induced to express his hope that the Government would
institute immediate inquiries, with a view to regulate the
weight of the silver coin.
To any of our readers who bear in mind the pom-
pous announcements of the Premier last year, thet by
his famous complement of the Bill of 1819, he had put
the currency of the country on the soundest of footings,
and by his notable scheme of turning the Bank of Eng-
land into a see-saw establishment of deposit and issue,
the state of things on Friday night brought under the
view of the Heusi! of Commons, must supply matter for
instructive reflection. Sir P. PEEL has applied to the cur-
rency of this kingdom the same intuitive principle which
Sir Wet. Sestoens has been allowed to experimentalize
with on her MAJESTY'S navy, and with much the same
success. Disregarding all the lights of experience, all the
protests a.nd remonstrances of practical men of the
highest authority, they have each of them broken in
upon a great system that they found long establifhed
and working admirably well for the purposes of its Own
constitution, and the best interests of the empire. Rich
projector has been successful in inducing Government
;•, allow him to work out his own favourite crotchet, ;:nd
he has hacked and hewn down, redueed and altered, and
enlarged, with very little skill and less judgment, to
qualify his unbounded self-confidence, till the one had
well nigh left us without any ships of war upon the seas,
as the other will, ere long, leave us without money in
our coffers. That the gold coin should once in every
two or three years be seized with a sweating sickness
and rapid decline, is just the fate which was predicted
from the hour of its birth for Sir ROBERT'S ricketty
bantling. It was seized with hideous convulsions in 1825,
before six years old ; in 1833-38-39 it all but perished
under various forma of commercial and American col-
lapse. Sir ROBERT long since announced himself as is
doctor who had been called in to consultation upon the
state of the country. 'We are at full liberty, therefore,
in exposing his empirical treatment of the unfortunate
patient, to contend that when he dubbed himself doctor,
he dropped too modestly a certain distinctive precnomen,
which posterity will one day be sure to restore him. Ile
administered alteratives in 1844, and in 1845 his patient
is wasting at both extremities. In plain language, or
figures at least, let us contrast a few of the symp-
toms at the different periods. In 1844, he boasted
that such was the action of his monetary sys-
tem, that the Bank had in round numbers
18,600,000 of bullion in its cellars. Three weeks ago
this amount bad declined, by almost regular gradations,
to 16,050,0001. By last Friday night's Gazate we perceive
that this has further decreased, till the aggregate of gold
and silver bullion in store is only 15,393,7001. About
three weeks ago the gold in store, coin and bullion toge-
ther, was 13 911,6071.; on Friday last it was 13,394,3061.
At the former period silver bullion was 2,140,0081., at
the latter only 1,998,394/. The symmetry of the bul-
lion proportions of our model currency is fast approach-
ing to its development, " small by degrees, and beau-
tifully less." A more melancholy exhibition than Sir
ROBERT'S defence against Mr. SPOONER'S demonstration
that the present monetary derangements were not owing
to, but the inevitable results of his own unskilful tamper-
ing with the currency, we never heard. It was too
good an exhibition, however, not to deserve a special
notice ; a compliment we shall assuredly pay to it, when
we have a litte more space to spare for that purpose.
But we must remark, in pT,sing, that the coolness of
his attack upon Mr. SPOONER was only to be equalled
by the bad taste with which he introduced some coarse
allusions to . that gentleman's commercial con-
nexion ; to Warwickshire men, and (ye gods !)
to Castor and Pollux ! I Perhaps—a joke.
Sir RoBE•RT PEEL's facetiousness is always the most
ponderous levity imaginable. One joke of his would
suffice, at any time, to ballast Mr. GREEN'S monster bal-
loon. But one of his currency pleasantries would as-
suredly bring down the serial navigator nearer to earth
than the stoutest grappling iron that was ever wielded.
To pass from Sir ROBERT tO his Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer—Mr. GOULBURN was much too discreet to be
wiser than his leader. In answer to Mr. HUME'S com-
plaint that Government had done nothing to protect the
poor from these periodical losses on light gold coin, he
gravely uttered this defence:—He contended that the
Government had taken measures to protect the poor to
the utmost of their power ; but that, in truth, Govern-
ment had very little power over the coinage. That to
provide district surveyors for great towns and for the
metropolis, with proper weights and measures to test the
coin on application, would be a process moat incon-
venient and expensive, since every little village
and town would be claiming the same accom

modation ; that the Government hud used every
precaution to protect the poor by issuing orders to
all the Postmasters throughout the Kingdom to take the
gold coin at a deduction of threepence each sovereign, if
the parties tendering it chose to part with it on these
terms—and that, besides, every post-office was instructed
to provide itself with an accurate machine to detect light
gold. Admirable scheme for the permanent establish-
ment of a sound, safe, and indestructible gold currency ?
Marvellous measures of protection for the poor from
taking light gold ? These talismanic post-office scales

of course aro to operate to prevent the poor from being
previously defrauded by payments in the market place,
or at the work table, or in the pay room ? Had we not
witnessed the inconceivable apathy with which the Com-

mons have pasted such ruinous measures as those of

1819, 1822, and 1844, on the currency, we
should be unable to imagine how sensible
men could listen to such twaddle as this.

The truth must be told. The fault lies in the profound
ignorance of the Legislature itself on this all-important
subject. The education of the most cultivated of our pub-
lic mon has, in very few instances, been such as to afford

The Gazette de Lucerne, the organ of the Jesuits, calls out
for vengeance and reprisals on the whole Liberal party. The
Journal des Debats comments on the insane fury of this organ
of the bigots in the following admirable terms
" All Switzerland is interested in seeing his assassins, should
they escape the vengeance of the law, become the object of the
unanimous outcry of public opinion, raised to brand this cowardly
and execrable act! But, on the other hand, the shouts of vengeance
and fury uttered by the Gazette de Lucerne are equally deserving
or reprobation. I his is a call for reprisals, which would be as
criminal as the murder of M. Leu, and which would cause more
blood to now; for it is upon a whole party that the Gazette de
Lucerne wishes the vengeance of the Catholics to fall. There is,
we conceive, something even still more revolting in these savage
excitations mingled with words of hypocritical devotion, and put
forth in the name of an all pardoning God. How far would this
frightful system of reprisal extend ? It would engender many
others. The Catholics in the name of Jesus Christ, and the
gof
01
nart. would cover Switzerland with
civil war, with assassinations en
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them an opportunity of mastering the elementary prin-
ciples even of our monetary system. In after-life, men very
generally entertain a sort of traditional distaste fur—a
caste-like prejudice against—all investigations connected
with the currency. In this way only can one account for
the facility with which Hon. Members have been
brought to sanction whatever extravagances Sir R.
PEEL has thought proper to propose in relation to cur-
rency. To the cause of sounder views on this great
question, we hail with unmingled satisfaction the acces-
sion of such champions as Mr. SPooxisa and Mr. NEW-
DEGATH. Thu former, profoundly observed that
Agriculture, manufactures, and commerce were never
in a prosperous condition at one and the same time,
within the period during which the present standard of
value had prevailed." The latter, after a dignified re-
buke to the Premier for the levity and personality with
which he had attacked those who opposed and exposed
his attempt at fixing a gold standard of value, concluded
with these remarkable words.—They involve an appeal
so eloquent and forcible that they must be successfully
responded to.

A letter from Brussels, which has been received in Paris,
states that negotiations have been renewed for the reconsti-
tution of the Cabinet. According to the general opinion
Messrs. NOTHOMB and GOBLET will alone be replaced. The
portfolio of the latter has recently been offered to the Prince
DE CIIIMAT. Messrs. DE LAcosTn, Dzciumrs, and n'Axis-
THAN are all spoken of for the Department of the Interior.
These papers state that the Russian Ambassador at Co.been informed that at a large meeting of
Swedish, and Norwegian students, M. ORLA
LtPhemennhs Danish,aingxe ing
,hvaanavocet of the Supreme Court of that city, had
made some allusions unfavourable to tho Russian Govern-
ment, made a representation to the Danish Cabinet on the
subject, in consequence of which M. ORLA LEHMANN has
been dismissed from his functions as avocat, and a prosecu-
tion ordered to be commenced against him, as well as against
two other persons who spoke on the same occasion.
The 15th anniversary of the three days of July will be cele-
brated this year with great splendour. The statue of the
Duke of ORLEANS, Which has been erected in the court of the
Louvre, will be inaugurated on the occasion.
The Duke and Duchess of NEMOURS arrived at Vierzon on
their way to Bourdeaux, on Wednesday evening. Through-
out the route they have been received with the greatest en-
thusiasm.

" To proceed, year by year, with free-trade enact-
ments, accompanied by measures like the Currency Act
of 1844, would be to cause such a pressure upon the
people of this country as had never been equalled in any
civilised state. Ile called upon the country and men of
1.:3 own standing not to be backward in obtaining a
roper knowledge and understanding of this question.
It was impossible for men to legislate on great questions
of taxation upon articles of consumption without under-
standing IL"

The Levant Mail has arrived, bringing accounts from Con.
stantinople of the ith instant.

The district of Lebanon still continued in a disturbed state.
A dreadful fire had broken out in Smyrna on the 3d, which
had lasted eighteen hours.

The accounts from Athens were to the 10th inst. M.
PETSALI had been murdered at Negropont, on the terrace of
his own house. lle was talking to some peasants who reside
on his property, when he was shot at, and killed, and the
assassins escaped; this happened at eight o'clock at night.
At Chalcis, the house of the Receiver-General had been
broken open by an organised band of robbers, and 47,000
drachmas of public money stolen. Several persons are in
custody on suspicion of having been concerned in this
robbery.

The KING and Royal Family returned to Paris on Satur.
day.

ICll:oolnul'thessnfe..:l;ailtlior6eaelsB2if.pele:tr Cents. closed on the Bourse on that day
at 83f. 55c. ; the New Loan at 83f. 85c.; the Five per
2v96cecfr;olson:D7r6lesasEm:Hß.ahvarileTr,ohBarBde2eESpshoearer.es,C.,eAnlv,t2sig.l,ns3fos.n;
• c.; Spanish ditto Passives, 6%.
The following are the quotations for the new lines :-
Orleans and Bordeaux, 1751. prem.; Boulogne, 127 f. 50c.
ditto ; Troyes and Montereau, 15f. ; Paris and Lyons
(Latfitte), 27f. 50c.; ditto (Colon ), par; ditto (Ganneron),
61
. ; Northern Line (Laffitte.), 45E ; ditto (Rosamel),
12f. 25c.; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 12f. 50c. ; ditto
(Drouiefevre llard), par; ditto (O'Neill), 3f. 50c. ; ditto (Jacques
L), Par ; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 121. 50c.;
Cetteditto (itrasplaebieotta)),,372ll.. 75e. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale),
and Strasbourg (Gann; eCrc.)rnei)l, 121. and
50Sct..;
5E ; Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie), par; ditto and
par; Dieppe, 23f. 50c.
Boulogne, DijonCi uen tainn,d p3airtilhoPliaLis,
MAitstn.r.Es, JULY 22.-Marseilles and Avignon, 950 f. ;
tiani), 510 E ; ditto (COvagnie Meridionalo), 500 f.; Bor-
deaux ; Avig6noosnf.lanOdrlLeavnosns a(nrdaiaßboortd)e,aus2x6,
I.6;6sdtit;to l'(
iSeerbza°sn:
and Cette (Espeleta), 502 f. ; Toulon, 495 f.
LYONS, JULY 22.-Avignon and Marseilles, 9711., end of
July ; Paris and Orleans, 1,171 E, ditto; Paris and Rouen,
1,042 f., ditto; Orleans and Vierzon, 744 f, ditto ; Orleans
and Bordeaux, 6621., ditto.

Accounts from Lisbon have been received. The whole
country was busied in attending to the elections. We are
glad to find that henceforth the Portuguese intend to abandon
physical force, and to work by moral force only.
Senor PASSOS has proclaimed at Alcobaga that from that
time forward the system of Mr. O'CONNELL was established
by the Opposition in Portugal.
The railway proposals of Mr. CLEGG and General BACON
were likely to be accepted.

The accounts from Madrid are to the 20th instant. M.
BERTAN DE LYS, to whom all matters connected with the
Press were entrusted by the Government, has resigned his
post in the Home-office, for the purpose of showing that he
had nothing to do with the late decree. All the Ministers
were to leave Madrid on the 22d, to join the QUEEN at Sara-
gossa, where, amongst other questions, that of the convoca•
tion of the Cortes was expected to be discussed. It was
said that her MAJESTY would successively visit Saragossa,
St. Sebastian, Toloso, Bergara, Mondragon, and Santa
Agueda.
The Narvaez journal, El Heraldo, concurs with the
Liberal prints in deploring this journey of the QUEEN
into the filLique ptovhicul. QacLa emasuNA, how•. i
ever, has carried her point in opposition to NAR-
VAEZ, and this visit has been undertaken for the
purpose ofpromoting the Carlist alliance. It is stated that
arrangements have been made to greet the QUM through-

The Dowager Countess Grey is surrounded by a
numerous family circle at Howick Hall, Northumberland. At
the dissolution of the late venerated Earl, Viscount Howick (now
Earl Grey), the Hon. and Rev. John Grey, the Honourable Cap.
tain Frederick W. Grey, R.N., Lady Georgiana Grey, Lady
Caroline Barrington, the Honourable and Rev. F. R. Grey, the
Honourable Captain Henry Cavendish Grey and Dr. Wilson, were
present beside the death bed. The Honourable Colonel Grey,
equerry to the Queen, did not arrive at Howick until Saturd;.y,
and the Honourable Captain G. Grey, R. N., did not reach
Howick Hall until a few hours after the Earl had expired. Lady
Mary Wood and Lady Elizabeth Liulteel did :not arrive there be.
fore Saturday. It was the late Earl's most earnest desire that hid
uneral should be conducted as privately as possible.

out her progress with cries of "Long live Queen IsARELLA I MONEY and Co )MMERCILAL NE WS.
and the Count DE MONTENOLIN 1" and that this cry will be CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
hereafter alluded to as an argument in favour of a Carlist The sales of Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were 5,000
alliance. bags, including 1,500 American on speculation. The market
The Pharr der Pyrennees publishes some resolutions was rather quiet, but perfectly steady.-There was not much
adopted by the Junta of Biscay, the object of which is to doing in Shares, but previous rates were current.
Birkenhead, Lancashire, ands
.Cheshire, 5 ; British and
petition the Government to withdraw the Basque provinces Irish Union, 9e. ; Bolton, igan, and Liverpool, 5 ; Cala-
from the constitutional regime adopted for the other parts of doaian, 11 ' • Cambridge and Lincoln, 68s. 6d.; Cheater
the kingdom, and expressing a wish that the clergy of these and Birkenhead, 631 ; Chester and Holyhead, 21%; Chester
d Preston Brook, 4 r %; Clitheroe Junction, 4%;
provinces should be supported in the same mariner as before a •
the suppression of tithes. Clydesdale Junction, 91/2 ; Derby and Crewe, 2%; Dundee
and Perth, 68s. ; Eastern Counties, New Shares, 111/2 ; Ditto
The Espanol has started another candidate for the QuEEN'S Perpetual, No. 1, 8 ; Ditto Perpetual, No. 2, 245. ; Edinburgh
hand in the person of the son of the Queen of PORTUGAL, a and Glasgow, 81; Edinburgh and Peebles, 3%; Glasgow
young gentleman not yet quite ten years of age. and Dumfries, 225. 21s. ; Glasgow and Greenock, 20 ;
Grand Union, 1% • Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 3% 41/1;
The Barcelona Fomento of the 19th publishes a decree
Great Western, Half Shares, 119 ; Goole and Doncaster, 1 A ;
issued' by the Captain-General to the Catalans, whereby an Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 13 ; Huddersfield and Shef-
amnesty is extended to all who have participated in the field, 9 ; Leicester and Bedford, 4% %; Leicester amd Bir-
recent disturbances, if they present themselves to the alcade, mingham. 2% %; Liver pool and Manchester, Half Shares,
or military authorities, within the period of eight days. 106%; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 5314 ; Ditto, New Shares, 42 ;
The Fomento of the 20th states that all was quiet in the Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 4 ; London and Bir-
mingham, 32/. Shares, 54; London and Brighton, 71314 78;
provinces of Gerona, Lerida, and Tarragona. "It appears, " London and York, 6% ; Direct Northern, 2 13/4 ; Leeds and
says the Fomento, " that her MAJESTY will leave this city on Dewsbury, 23% ; Lees and Thirsk, 614 6 ; Leeds arid
the morning of the 21st; that she will rest at Cervera and West Riding Junction, 7% 8; Manchester and Birmingham
Fraga, and arrive at Saragossa on the 23d." Continuation, ; Manchester and Leeds, 179 ; Midland
Railway 185; Ditto, 401. Shares, 29 2814 ; Newcastle and
MADRID BOURSE, JULY 19.-Three per Cents., for cash,
13erwicis, 20; North Union (A), 184 ; North Staffordshire, 5;
28 1-16 ; for account, 28g. Five per Cents., for cash, 21.
at e North Wales Mineral, 18% % ; Ditto New Shares 6% ;
_ North Western, 5 1,4 ; Nottingham and Boston, Xt:‘; Oxford
_
and Birmingham Junction 4% 88s. Gd.; Oxford, Worcester,
and Wolverhampton, 7%'%; Preston and Wyre, 32; Run-
corn Preference Shares, ex int. ; Sheffield and Manchester,
ex int. ; Ditto Quarter Shares,;l6% ; Sheffield and Lincoln,
Ms 495. ; Shrewsbury and Herefordshire 365. Gd. 34s ;
Shrewsbury, Oswestrv, and Cheshire, 4 34 ; Shrewsbury
and Trent Union, 2%; South-Eastern and Dover, New
Shares, No. 3,7% • South Midland, 3% 78s. 9d. •, South
Wales, 5% ; Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, 24; West
Lancashire, 3%; West Yorkshire, 7 14 ; Worcester and
Tring, 18s. 9d. 11. ; Armagh and Portough, 2 ; Limerick and
Waterford, 6%; Londonderry and Enniskillen. 314 • Mid-
land Great Western and Canal, 4; Newry and Enniskillen,
3%; Newry and Warrenpoint, ; Dendre Valley, 41s. 6(1.;
Dutch Rhenish, 10A1 10; Jamaica Junction, 7 • Jamaica and
South Midland, 6% 34 ; Lyons and Avignon, 23/4 ; Northern
of France, English (Laffitte's), 6% ; Ditto (Rosamel's),
English, 51s. 6d. 2%; Paris and Lyons (Laffitte's), 3% %;
Verona and Ancona, 4.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 26.-The sales are
-Blackburn, Clitheroe, and North Western Junction, 2%
prem. ; Blackburn, Chorley, and North Union, 10s. prem. ;
Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 25 24% ; Caledonian Exten-
sion, 2%; Cambridge and Lincoln, 3% ; Clitheroe Junction,
54% ; Direct Northern, 2 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, New
Quarters, 10%; Erewash Valley, 30 ; Fleetwood, Preston,
and West Riding Junction, 21 ; Grand Union, 38s. 375. ;
Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 4% ; Ditto, Quarter
Shares, % ; Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 9% %;
Leeds and Thirsk, % ; Leeds, Dewsbury, and Man-
chester, 23 ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 8 14 ;
Leicester and Bedford, 43% %' • Leicester and Birmingham,
2% ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 414 ,• London and
Windsor, 1% ; London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby,
11% ; London and York, 634 76 ; Manchester and Birming-
ham, Quarter Shares, 10 ; Manchester and Birmingham
Continuation and Welsh Junction, 2% 2 ; Newark and
Sheffield, 2% 11.16; Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire,
17s. 6d. prem. ; North British, New Shares, 7%; North
Staffordshire, 4% ; Nottingham and Mansfield, 1% • Not-
tingham, Erewash, Ambergate, and Manchester, ;
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton 734 ,• Preston and
Wyre, 31% ; Ditto, Half Shares, 3%; Sh'effield and Lincoln-
shire Junction, 214 ; Shrewsbury and Herefordshire, 1%
prem. ; Shrewsbury, Hereford, and North Wales, 2%;
Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Union, 3% ; South-Eastern
and Dover, No. 3, 8 ; South Midland, 3% 4%; Trent Valley
Continuation and Holyhead Junction, 2%; Wakefield, Pon-
tefract, and Goole, 25%; Welsh Midland, 334 ; West Lan-
cashire, 2% prem. ; Whitehaven and Furness, 7 7-16; Wor-
cester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union, 2%; East Lincoln-
shire, 15s. prem.; Nottingham and Boston, 7s. 6d. prem. ;
London and Croydon, 26%.; London and York, Bantry
Branch, 4% ; Dutch Rhenish, 1014 ; Great Northern of
Fence, English, 6% %.
LEEDS, JULY 26.-london and Brighton, 7814 ; Lon-
don and Croydon, 26% 27 ; Ditto, Thirds, Guaranteed Five
per Cent., 7% ; Ditto, New, 38 42 prem. • Manchester and
Birmingham, New Quarters, 8% ; Manchester, Bury, and
Rossendale, 23 ; Midland, New, 29% 28%; North British,
263 A ; Ditto, New, 7% % ; Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush,
2 ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 11 1,4 ; Bolton,
Wgan, and Liverpool, 26 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 314 3
prem. ,• Clitheroe Junction, 31. 3s. 2% • Erewash Valley,
34%; Grand Union, 10s. 6d. 12s. prem.; 'Great Grimsby and
Sheffield Junction, 4% ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 18s. ;,20s. ;
Huddersfield, Halifax, and Bradford Union, 378. 6d. 435. 6d. ;
Huddersfield and Manchester, 12% 12 ; Huddersfield and
Sheffield, 9% ; Lancashire, Yorkshire, and North-East-
ern, 7s. Gd. prem. ; Leeds and Bradford Extension, 37 30%;
Leeds and Dewsbury, 23 2234 ; Leeds and Thirsk, 70s. prem. ;
Leeds and York, 15s. ; Leicester and Birmingham, 245. 235.
prem. ; Leicester aad Bedford, 70s. 665. prem. ; Liverpool,
Ormskirk, and Preston, 4% ; London and York, 61,4 ;
Ditto (Bawtry), 5; Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Mid-
land, 7 %; Manchester, Liverpool, and Great North of Eng-
land, 265. 20s. prem. ; Newark and Sheffield, 3 ; Newcastle
and Berwick, 20 IA ; North Staffordshire, 5%; North West-
ern, 334 16s. prem. ; Nottingham, Erewash, and Ambergate,
50s. 455. prem. ; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton,
8% 3/i ; Rugby, 21s. ; Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 455. ;
South Midlands, 60s. 535. prem. ; Wakefield and Bradford,
235. 245. •, Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, 27 1,4 ; Wake-
'field and Harrogate, 30s. 28s. ; Welsh Midlands, 255. ; West
Riding Junction, 734 8 ; West Yorkshire, 7% ; York and
Carlisle, 27s 6d. prem.
There are accounts to-day from Sydney to the 20th of
March, but their contents are not of any importance. We
understand that there has been an improvement in trade in
most branches and this, most unquestionably, is a satisfactory
feature. The colony is on the point of recovering from one
of the most severe trials that has, perhaps, ever occurred in
the history of the connexions of England with distant parts
of the world. We learn from Port Philip that a considerable
amount of damage had been done by fire. The agriculturists
had suffered to a great extent.
The Baltic trade is very active at the present period, but
we cannot quote any variation in prices of importance.
There has been a further advance in the Wheat market
to-day, and from the present aspect of the weather, holders
are looking for a further enhancement. Additional orders
have been sent out, it is understood, for the purchase of
foreign corn by the more wealthy firms in the City connected
with the trade.
The Stock Market has been rather fiat to day; Consols for
the Account have been sold at 99, and for the first transfer
to-morrow at 983% %. Money is rather more in request.
Exchequer-bills have fallen to 535. premium, and East
Indian Bonds are heavy at 695. premium. Bank Stock has
been done at 211, and the, New Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents. at 1024 %.
There has been a reduction in the quotation of the Russian
Metalliques of 3% per cent to-day. The Dutch Funds are
rather firm. Peruvian Stock has fallen. In Spanish, but one
or two bargains have been made in the Three per Cents, at
37%, and in the Five per Cents. at 26. Colombian Stock
has been taken at 17%.
An immense amount of business has been done in the Rail-
way Shares to-day, English as well as foreign. Prices,
generally speaking, are on the rise. The exceptions will be
found in the subjoined list. In the foreign Shares, so much
in request in 1825-6, scarcely a bargain is now quoted.
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock 2ll 211%
3 per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consels Annuities 9834 % 98%
New 3% per Cents ... -102 le 102%
Long Annuities to expire Jan 1860 11% 11 7-16
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1859 ... 114 11 5-16
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 - 11%
India Bonds, 1,0001
Ditto under 1,000/. ...... .-.... 69
Bank Stock for Account 21014
C insola for Account ... 99
Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., 1%d.... 55 53
Ditto 500/. -
Ditto Small ... 55 57
ONE
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Buenos Ayres Bonds 6 per Cent. 50
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela. 17%
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837
Ditto, Deferred •••
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 37% 37
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Ditto, Account
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent -
Ditto Account
Russian Bonds llB
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account 26
Ditto, Passive
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Ditto. Account .....
Belgian 4% per Cent. 160%
Dutch, 2% per Cent .
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 99% %34 9934
PRICES OF
CLOCK. CLOSING
PAID. A ONE O'
RAILWAY SHARES PRICES.
Birming. and Gloucesterloo 135% 134% 13414
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Bristol and Exeter 7O
Do. New ........ 2 ...... 13 12%
Caledonian
Cambridge and Lincoln 1%......2% 3% 234
Chester and Holyhead... 15
Cheltenham and Oxford 2 ...... 3143/4
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We have received the Paris papers of Friday and Saturday.
In consequence of the triumphant tone assumed by the
Journal des Debate in an article purporting to be a review of
the session, published in that journal on Friday, the oppo-
sition journals of Saturday of all shades attack M. GUIZOT
and his ministry. The following extract from the Constitu-
Sionnel will give an idea of the general tone of the remarks
in all the Opposition journals :
" Never has a Government so signalized itself by such an absence
of firmness, by such inaction, by such humiliating contradictions.
We have seen Ministers voting in different ways in order to avoid
being beaten, and calling together their friends to support an im-
portant artioie, and afterwards themselves opposing the article
under discussion before the eyes of their stupified supporters.
During the whole session, the Government, humiliated, has been
delivereduring up to the mercy of the most dishonourable interest.
Ministers have been every day obliged to pay their ransom, and
re-purchase their portfolios, and yet this is what is called establish.
ins a representative Government in our country!
The Globe, which passes for being the especial organ of M.
GUIZOT, replies to these attacks, and thus sums up the events
of the session :

" in oonepinion tke session has witnessed the solution of ques-
ions the serious the most delicate, such as tn., of the
Right of Search, Otaheite, Morocco, the Fortifications, and the
Jesuits, without reckoning the various laws voted for the benefit of
departments, cities, sea-ports, railroads, and Important manufac-
tures, that session, we say, has produced an important fact which
should outweigh every other consideration—the position assumed
by the Conservative party. A fresh coalition was, at the opening
of the Chambers, organised against the Cabinet, and seriously
threatened its existence, seeking for nothing less than to re
store by the fall of the Ministry of October 29 that of Match
1, by the aid of a patching.up more or less skilfully performed.
The Cabinet, shaken for a moment by the candidateship of M.
Billault for the Vice-Presidency of the Chamber, might have
been obliged to quit office. The majority appeared to have
escaped from it. The Opposition had, so to speak, seduced
Count Mold, and it was to be feared that the influence of the
Hon. Peer, and the remembrance of his past services, would
have brought about the decomposition of the Conservatives.
Messrs. Thiers and Billault already seemed sure of victory ;
they spoke in their most mellifluous tones, fearing to startle the
Chamber; in the lobbies they promised all that was asked from
them, even measures the most opposite to their policy ; they
pointed out at a not remote period the termination of all
pending difficulties, and spoke of their future advent to
power with the most charming condescension. In presence
of this difficulty, the Conservative party found in its intelligence,
its devotedness, and its patriotism, a resolution which put an end
to a situation so perilous. It assembled, reckoning its strength,
and after having solemnly accepted M. Guisot as its head, said to
the Ministers of October 29, ';Remain in power. You have our
confidence, and you may reckon on our support. The majority is
acquired for you in the Chambers. The country which we repro.
sent approves of your policy—Lead on, we will follow you.'
From this moment, intrigue was defeated. The Ministry was re-
stored to strength by so noble, so firm, and so wise a manifesta-
tion ; it reappeared in the tribune, and the world has seen whether
it has not honourably sustained the battle which the Opposition has
waged against it for the last seven months, or whether the Conser-
vative party hail ever been found wanting."
The death of M. LEu, the great Jesuit partisan in Lucerne,
is the subject of comment in all the journals of Switzerland
and France. The Liberal journals attribute his death to
suicide, caused by remorse ; the journals of the Government
and those of the Jesuits attribute it to the act of an assassin.
The facts, as far as they can be ascertained, are as follows:
LEu, a rich peasant residing at Ebersol, was shot in
his bed on the night of the 19th. Madame LEU, hearing
the renort of a pistol, hastened to her husband's room, and
found him in the bed dead, with a pistol shot through his
heart. The house was full of domestics at the time, but no
one either saw or heard the assassin. M. LEu was the
chief partisan of the Jesuits in I.ucerne, and he had always
urged the most rigorous treatment of those who opposed
Jesuit influence. The Government of the canton, assuming
that he had been asassinated, offer a reward of 1,000 crowns
for the discovery of the assassin.
The Liberal journals contend that there is every proba-
bility that M. LEI./ died by his own hand, and the National,
after describing the circumstances of the case, thus argues
the point :
" It is around this Improbability that so much furious declama-
tion is flung about! Ah I it costs dear to the Jesuits to find that
their friend, their right arm, the formidable paysan, represented
by them as a model of piety, has plunged into the abyss, to
the edge of- which they had brought him. It costs them
dear to confess that this man, loaded with a responsibility
too heavy for him to bear, continued to reflect upon
it night and day, and, being no longer able to rest, be.
came terror-struck at all the miseries he had caused; they shrink
from a belief in the perturbation of a conscience which Gould not
throw off its remorse, even after it had not only been absolved, but
even blessed by the hand of the priest. They prefer believing in
murder rather than in suicide, although circumstances concur in
rendering murder next to impossible, while suicide appears to be
the supreme effort of despair. The fanatics are unwilling that this
example should be known by the publication of the truth; but we,
on the contrary, wish, in the name of public morality, that the fact
of suicide should be completely established. This is always a sad
lesson, but murder is a still more lamentable one. In both, in this
case, the only real culprit is that evil sect which has sown so much
hatred, and already caused so large a quantity of blood to flow."
The Presse, on the other hand, contends that M. LEu could
not have committed suicide :
" Some persons would wish to have it believed that the death of
M. Lou is to be attributed to suicide caused by remorse, and the
Radical journals of Switzerland just received endeavour to procure
credit for the same hypothesis. Such a supposition, however, can
scarcely impose on the most credulous. Not only is such an idea
contradicted by the facts which we yesterday published, but it is,
ina
wrong, b
moralpointu t heof could
viw most improbable. M. Lou might have
been never have felt remorse for he acted
on a deep and sincere conviction." ,

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