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LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1845,

THE

NEW MINISTRY.

Up to this moment nothing has been determined
upon. Lord JOHN RUSSELL has been actively oc-
cupied since his return from Windsor in advising
with his friends, and preparing all his means of
government, if he should be compelled to accept
office. Of this little doubt is entertained. The
PEEL Cabinet is dead, and cannot be resuscitated—

Lord JOHN RUSSELL alone can form an Administra-
ton, and although he will not rashly undertake, he
must ultimately dare the danger and the honour of
achieving free trade, and carrying on liberal prin-
ciples. Lord GREY and Mr. ELLICE will arrive in Lon-
don this morning. Lord BESBOROUGH is also hourly
expected. By Wednesday next something certain
may be known, as Parliament will be further pro-
rogued to-morrow till the 30th instant.

The following appeared in our Third Edition of

Saturday Evening :
Lord Jour RUSSELL left town for Windsor at two
o'clock to-day, accompanied by the Marquis of
LANSDOWNE. His return is not certain, and until
he comes back nothing will of course be known.
It is generally believed, in the best-informed circles,
that the caution requisite in taking so important a
trust is the only cause of consideration ; but no
doubts are entertained in any quarter that the PEEL
Administration is totally and for ever at an end,
and that a new Government will be formed as
quickly as possible.
It is also believed that Sir ROBERT PEEL, and the
more rational of his Cabinet, will be found sup-
porters of Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S measures.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
Lord JOHN RUSSELL left town this afternoon for
Windsor Castle, to have an audience of her MAJESTY.
The Duke of BEDFORD arrived in town: to-day
front Woburn Abbey, and visited his noble relative
in Chesham-place.
It is understood that Sir JAMES GRAHAM had an
interview with Lord JOHN RUSSELL on Thursday.
Rumours have been very prevalent during the day
that Lord JOHN RUSSELL is not likely to form an
Administration.

We believe that the end of the present extraor-
•
ditury crisis will be the formation of an Administra
tion by Lord JOHN RUSSELL. But this is our opinion
only. This result is probable, but not certain. Lord
JOHN RUSSELL is not responsible for the present
State difficulties ; and it woul 1 be not only incon-
sistent with his habitual caution and indicative of in
him a very unusual greediness of power, but it would
be even the extreme of madness, unless he sees his
way to success, or his duty as a patriot
and a loyal subject of her MAJESTY leaves
him no alternative, to commit his fame to the
solution of difficulties of no ordinary nature, in
creating which he has had no share. If he embark
in the great undertaking and fail, the public may
not nicely dispense the just degrees of blame to Lord
Joan RussaLL and his predecessor. The Minister
for the time being will be the person in court ready
for sentence ; and when the question on which he is
to stake his fame is the all-exciting one of the free
supply of food to a nation visited with scarcity, a
much less cautious and conscientious man than Lord •

JOHN RUSSELL would think thrice before he under-
took the responsibility which Sir ROBERT PEEL has
sought to transfer to him.

There are two things which the new Premier will
have to do. He will have to meet the present
exigency, and he will have to undertake a final settle-
ment of the corn-law question.
For the first of these objects, after the delay which
has already occurred, and the further delay which
new ministerial arrangements would probably neces-
sitate, there would seem now to be no alternative
but an immediate Order in Council for the opening of
the ports. Would Sir ROBERT PEEL and the Duke
of WELLINGTON ensure, as they have it in their
power to do, indemnification by Parliament ?

For the permanent settlement of the corn-law
question, there is but one way of doing it, and, at
any rate, but one way in which Lord JOHN RUSSELL
can propose to do it, after his letter to the electors of
London. What course will Sir ROBERT PEEL and
the Duke of WELLINGTON take on a measure of total,
immediate, and unconditional repeal ? Without Sir
ROBERT PEEL'S support, Lord JOHN RUSSELL can
have no hope with the present House of Commons,
though a dissolution would most probably give him a
majority with another. But without the Duke .j
of WELLINGTON'S influence, what is to be done
with the House of Lords ? Will Lord JOHN RUS-
SELL commit himself to collision between the House
of Lords and the country, and to carrying the repeal
of the corn-laws by provoking a popular excite-
ment, such as that which carried the Reform Act,
and by extraordinary measures, if they should be ne-
cessary, for overcoming the opposition of the House
of Lords. A wise man will weigh all the conse-
quences of a step, and if he take it will be prepared
for the worst. But Lord J. RUSSELL would, pro-
bably, refuse at present to incur the necessity of
rousing the passions of the people ; nor is it likely
that he would ask, or, if he asked, obtain a promise
such as WILLIAM N. gave Lord GREY, to swamp the
House of Lords. Other things must be tried
first. Rather than undertake this now, we feel as-
sured that Lord JOHN RUSSELL would compel Sir
ROBERT PEEL to return to his post. Compel, we
say, for it lies on Sir ROBERT PEEL, and not on Lord
JOHN RUSSELL, to extricate her MAJESTY from her
present difficulties. Lord JonN RUSSELL is free to
name his conditions on taking office. Sir ROBERT
PEEL cannot leave her MAJESTY, as he has left her,
without aiding her, if she requires his aid, out of the
difficulties which he has made for her.

the body to whose unwearying :and brilliant exer-
t tio ns the country owes its victory over monopoly.

Madrid journals of the ith have been received.
Thports of the QUEEN'S marriage with the Co,:ent
DE TRAPANI have been again revived, and furnish
•, topics of discussion in most of them. This project
e d' marriage is universally disapproved of by all inde-
pendent Spaniards, and is supported only by the
French party. The Esperanza repeats the rumour
that the notorious BRAVO, once Prime Minister, had
be en dismissed from his situation as Ambassador at
the Court of Lisbon. It appears that great reform
has taken place at Court, and most of the ancient
ceremonies when Spain was a great country had
teen revived. A letter of the 6th says :
" The ceremonies of the ancient reigns have recently
been adopted at the Palace. The day before yesterday
thirty or forty ladies were admitted to the honour of the
`Tabouret, and yesterday several grandees of Spain put
,on their mantle for the.tirst time. The ceremony of the
chapter of the Order of Charles 111., held this day, has

ibean magnificent. Seventy-four knights were present
in their rich costumes. The Dukes de Valencia and
Itianzares, and Martinez de la ROia figured conspicu-
,ously among them."

The Gazette contains a notice from the Sinking Fund
13oard that the dividends on the Three per Cent. Internal
Debt will be paid at Madrid from and after the 2d of
January next, and that persons holding that stock in
Paris and London may receive bills on Madrid at four
days' sight, drawn by the presidents of the finance com-
mission there on the Sinking Fund Board, for their cou-
pons, if they prefer doing so.

The Three per Cents. have advanced latterly, owing
to the combination formed for that purpose ; they closed
on the 6th at 36:i cash, and 36i at 60 days ; 27 millions
done. Five per Cents. 24 at 60 days ; 1,600,000 done.

The Paris papers are chiefly occupied with discus •
sions on the resignation of the PEEL Ministry, and its
probable consequences. The views taken by some
show more knowledge of political affairs in this
country than previous articles would have led English-
men to anticipate. The following remarks from the
Government paper, the Journal des DEbats, will be
read with interest :—" The grave determination come
to by the English Ministry was unexpected. We
were not ignorant of the serious difficulties which
had arisen in the Council on the subject of a change
in the corn-laws, but it was generally believed that
the head of the Cabinet had succeeded in bringing,
his colleagues to his own opinion, and that a una-
nimity had been re-established in the Councils of the
Crown. It must be believed that the principal ob-
stacle which was thought to have been removed has
again come in the way, and that the member of the
Cabinet whose influence alone could counterbalance
that of Sir ROBERT PEEL, the Duke of WELLING-
TON, Ihas felt himself bound to recur to his first
opinion. However this may be, the Ministry of
Sir R. PEEL is dissolved, and the English Government
at an absolute crisis. Without pretending to fore-
see the manner in which this crisis will terminate,
we nevertheless think that, considering the state of
parties in England, and the disposition of the public,
no long time will elapse before Sir ROBERT PEEL
again finds himself called upon to form a new
Cabinet. Without him only two combinations are
possible, a Whig Ministry directed by Lord JoUN
RUSSELL, and a Ministry purely and simply Tory,
with the Duke of WELLINGTON for its chief, and
Lord STANLEY for its orator. A 11/4'hig Ministry,
particularly after the recent demonstration of Lord
Jour; RUSSELL, would find itself in very consider-
able minority in the present House of Commons,
and would have against it nearly all the Lords. It
must therefore have recourse to a dissolution. It is
indubitable that it would still find itself in a
minority in a new Parliament, and that , the
agricultural party, though greatly weakened in
the last four years, would, nevertheless, be still
the strongest at a new general election. There
only remains an ultra-Tory Ministry on the system of
maintaining the present laws, and resting solely on
the landed interest. Such a Ministry will probably
be tried, but all conceive that it cannot last ; and, if
it lasts, it will be dangerous. A political, but at the
same time a progressive, conservatism, like that of
Sir ROBERT PEEL, was the only one capable of neu-
tralising by directing a popular feeling so strong as
that which is now manifested in England. This
mixed party, this party of wise mutual concessions.
would prevent a shock between the two extreme ele-
ments, and gradually, though slowly, prepare the ne-
cessary fusion. The species of crusade undertaken
against the corn -laws has hitherto borne only the
character of a question of economy—this new state
will give it a democratic character. The struggle
which has hitherto been only between two systems,
will become one between two classes; and when
the cause of the freedom of trade and the increase
of labour shall no longer be. debated, only in the he-
reditary Chamber, a conflict will arise between the
middle and working classes on the one side, and the
aristocracy of the great landowners on the other.
We therefore believe that the most probable solution
of the Ministerial crisis in England is, that, after
several attempts by others, Sir ROBERT PEEL will
once more be charged with the formation of a new
Cabinet. The separation of the Duke of WELLING-
TON will, undoubtedly, be a cause of great difficulty ;
but a Cabinet which shall reckon among its members
Sir R. PEEL, Lord ABERDEEN, Sir JAMES GRAHAM,
and perhaps Mr. GLADSTONE, will still combine suf-
ficient influence, as well as talents to form a strong
Government. We will add, that particular circum-
stances will render the constitution of a new Cabinet
most urgent, for the Message of the President of the
United States will in a few days arrive at Liverpool."
We subjoin the opinions of some of the other papers
on this unexpected event::—
(From the CoKstitutionnel.)
"We have already examined, as well as an opinion
could be formed of the future, what were the probable
consequences of Sir R. Peel's withdrawal from (ace, if
this step be certain, which is not yet definitive. The
journals which pass for the confidential organs of his
opinions, declared the other day that, in cons, quence of
the attitude taken by Lord John Russell, all coalition
had become impossible between the Whigs and mode-
rate Tories. The result will be, that the Queen will
summon the Whigs to the Ministry, and that Sir R. Peel
will give, in the Chamber, to Lord J. Russell the perse-
vering and disinterested support which he received from
him during the past 3 ear ; or that the Tories, who have
just overturened Sir R. Peel, will seize on the G mei n-
znent, and endeavour to defend the present legislation.
We believe, as we have already declared, that in presence
of the progress made by the agitation against the corn-
laws, they will not be able to succeed, except by turning
public opinion on a great undertaking, where all the
forces of the country should be engaged."
(From the Nc,fonal.)
" The Cabinet of Sir Robert Peel is dissolved. If the
Whigs were ready for and desirous of office, and if they
could command a majority in the Parliament, all diffi-
culty would soon be at an end. But the accession of the
Whigs requires ,three things which are not easy :—l.
The dissolution of the House of Commons. 2. Favour-
able elections. 3. A considerable creation of Peers.
Lord John Russell must, moreover, be decided to assume
the direction of affairs, and everything indicates that, at
this moment, he has no such intention. The Whigs are,
by this time, accustomed to see Sir Robert Peel sweep-
ing the road for them, transacting their business, and
they rendering government commodious to him. They
then take their portfolios and go to sleep in the
sweetest idleness; when the people grumble and ac-
cuse them of impotency, they request Lord Palmerston
to kick up a bit of a row out of doors, and his Lordship
finds here and there a personage flat enough to pass
threwrii the eye of a needle. The Whigs, enchanted, then
say thatb they have done quite enough for their glory, and
after this exploit they return into private life. Now, as
Lord J. Russell does not appear much inclined to new
adventures, there remain Sir R. Peel and the Duke of
Wellington—which of the two will the Queen send for?
Both, perhaps ; but the position of each is narrow and
difficult.. What can the Duke of Wellington do? Form
an ultra-Tory Cabinet resolved upon resistance. But
who will be chosen by him to lead the House of Com-
mons ? Where is the man sufficiently robust to stand a
single night against Peel and Russell ? There is
not one. Lord Stanley might have tried, but he is now
in the House of Lords, Suppose even that Wellington
should by chance find such a person, where would be
his majority ? The Tories decided on yielding nothing
are not more than 200 ; Peel has the others, and their I
junction with the Whigs would at the first trial
place the Wellington Cabinet in a minority. If, then,
such a minority should be formed, it would not last a
month, and it would only have the effect of facilitating
a coalition between Sir Robert Peel and the Whigs,
which has long been foreseen. On the other hand, the
Baronet cannot hope to direct the affairs of the country,
having against him, not only the Duke of Wellington,
but Stanley, Ripon, Buckingham, Buccleuch, Richmond,
in short, -the whole English aristocracy. In proposing
the abolition of the corn-laws, he would infallibly ob-
tain through the Whigs a majority of the House of
Commons, but he would fall in the Lords before a for-
midable opposition. There would be only one way to
destroy this obstacle, viz., to create at least sixty Peers
which, sooner or later, must be done. Such a measure
may be resorted to in favour of a firm Cabinet, having a
real majority of its own in the House of Commons, but
Sir Robert Peel would only have a borrowed majority,
which would cease the moment the Whigs should vote
against him. Would he himself, with the consciousness
of his weakness, attempt a large creation of Peers ?
and would he not, in such case, be obliged, iu order to

It principally depends then on Sir ROBERT PEEL
how this crisis shall end. It is no ordinary
step which he has taken, in resigning at
this moment. He has resigned while Parliament is
not sitting—not, as is usual, in consequence of a
Parliamentary defeat—with the certainty, whenever
Parliament met again, of a large Parliamantary
majority at his back, even though he should not reli-
giously adhere to the principles on which his Govern-
ment was formed. His Parliamentary majority has
already often followed him in desertion from the old
party standards. How, then, can we read Sir Ro-
BERT PEEL'S resignation but as a confesssion that he
cannot govern the country on his own principles,
nor on any principles so near to them as to
be able to meet again his old Parliamentary majority,
as Minister ? This being so, will he stickle now on
small differences between the measure which he may
have intended to propose and Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S
measure ? He cannot have resigned without ex-
plaining to her MAJESTY the insuperable difficulties
of his ministerial position. Will he refuse her MA-
JESTY the aid which he can render to the only man
who can succeed him ? Sir ROBERT PEEL has ceased
to be Minister under circumstances which must com-
pel him to cease also to be a mere political tactician.

On Saturday a meeting of the electors of 'fled-
Ordshire was held at Hertford, for the purpose of
ascertaining the principles on which Mr. HALSEY
comes forward as a candidate for the county. The
meeting was got up chiefly by his supporters. Sir
MINTO FARQUHAR, chairmen of Mr. HALSEY'S cen-
tral committee, presided. Mr. HALSEY was introduced
amidst loud cheers, and everything seemed to betoken
a triumphant issue to the day's proceedings, but un-
fortunately for the Protectionists, some men of sound
knowledge, and not bigotted to the interests of one
class, were present, and by arguments and undeniable
facts turned the anticipated victory into a defeat.
The new candidate is no half-and-half Conservative
—he goes the whole length, and vies with the most
rabid Tory in denouncing Lord JOHN RUSSELL,
and threatening destruction to any Ministry, " let
them be who they might," who would attempt to di-
minish the present protection to agriculture. Taking
for granted that Lord JOHN RUSSELL had already
completed his difficult task, and was in the confidence
of her MAJESTY, he thus opens his attack upon the
party :—" There was now at the head of her MAJESTY'S
Government a man pledged to the destruction of the
Church in Ireland, to the endowment of the Romish
Church, and the abolition of all protection : would a sup-
porter of such a man suit the electors of Herts ?" And he
thus pathetically describes the woful plight to which
the farmers of Hertfordshire would be reduced by the
new-fangled policy adopted both by him and the
Conservative leader who had betrayed their cause :
"If those whom he addressed were willing to be
forced to leave the farms upon which they and
their forefathers had lived and been happy for
centuries—if they wished to be degraded to a
lower rank, the farmer to the rank of the labourer,
and the labourer to the rank of the labourer on the
Continent—if they wished to be dependent on the
manufacturer for precarious work and a scanty al•
lowance of black bread, then let them support what
was called free trade." Mr. WARD, 111 P., who
knows the locality well, happened to be present, and
showed the blessings of protection for the last thirty
years in such a light, that the tone of the meeting sud-
denly changed, a motion declaring that Mr. HALSEY
was a fit and proper person to represent the county was
rejected, and the following resolution carried by a
majority of two :—"That in the opinion of this meeting
it is the interest of the tenant-farmer, the labourer,
and the landlord, that the corn-law question should
be promptly and permanently settled, the experience
of the last thirty years having proved that protec-
tion drives capital from land, narrows the home
market by crippling foreign trade, and injures
all classes periodically by ruinous fluctuations." As
we stated on Saturday, these " protection" meetings
are of the greatest service to the cause of free trade,
because the advocates of monopoly have not one

sound argument on which they can rest ; and the

absurdity of their principles requires only to be
pointed out, to meet the approbation even

of those whom they have deluled by false promises

and false hopes. The tenants find that, notwith-
standing the vast anxiety displayed by the landlords

fkr them and their labourers, the corn-laws have

really afforded them no protection whatever ; tha

they are now in a worse position than they had been

at any former period, and that there is no hope

for them, but in a final settlement of the question,
That is the feeling entertained by the whole tenantry

of Scotland; it is becoming prevalent in England, and
now that the leading men of both parties, in whom

the public place confidence, are unanimous in that
opinion, it requires not the spirit of prophecy to ten
that this great measure of reform can be no longer

delayed.

We have read, with great regret, a letter from Mr.
VERNON SMITH, M.P. for Northampton, to one of his
constituents, which contains a most wanton and un-
merited reflection on the Anti-Corn-law League.
We believe this gentleman held a subordinate office
bably
under Lord MELBOURNE'S Government, and he pro-
hopes now to come in again for some of the
pickings.
Mr. VERNON SMITH, who, by way of
making the thing perfect, calls himself a corn-law
repealer, says--" My own opinion may sound a para-
dox; but it is, that of late years the conduct of the Tories
has advanced the repeal of the corn-laws, andthe violence
and abuse of the Anti- Corn-law League has retarded
it. The true-hearted people of England loathe insin-
cerity and spurn dictation." The distinguished lead-
ers of the League can afford to treat this imperti-
nence with contempt, and are not likely, we suppose,
to give Mr. SMITH credit for speaking the sentiments
of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and Lord MORPETH, and
other leading statesmen, with whom he has been con-
nected in a subordinate capacity. Mr. VERNON
SMITH might have chosen a better time for abusing

THE s-ETN, LONDON- MONIBA_Y Ett'ENJ NG,
_DECEMBER 15, 1845.

support it, to dissolve t:ne Commons ? Are not the
trials that he has und,_rgone, this painful rupture with
Wellington, the insults that he has re-
is own party, the contempt of the aristo-
r'tchr:aheeyld,nwi'hei from
cholli'he ',tas led against its will, and which de-
tested whilst it followed its leader, with the embarrass-
ments connected with his present situation—are not all
these sufficient to induce Sir R. Peel to refuse any
longer to bear so heavy a burthen ? All is uncertain,
all is grave in the present state of things ; we have been
desirous of stating it clearly in order Galt it may be ap-
preciated by our readers. This -Ministerial crisis in
London will produce a powe:itil sensation in England,
and it ought to isidicate tb our Ministers that the last
hours of the English Cah'.net announce to them also, that
the hand which marks the duration of their existence
has nearly run the c'.fcle of the dial."
(Frora the Courrier Francais.)
"The dissolu'Cion of the Cabinet, after the resignation
of Sir R. Pee;, and in spite of the resistance of the Duke
of Wellington, shows to what point a party in England
shares the fortune of its head, and how that party knows
how to eccept the necessities of the constitutional go-
vernment. At the head of the Cabinet, as at the head
of the Opposition, Sir R. Peel or Lord J. Russell are
entitled to say, the panty of which I an) the leader. In
this way the authority of the Government can be pre-
served entire in passing from one hand to another.
Who in France has a right to speak like Sir R. Peel or
Lord John Russell ? Sir R. Peel had accepted the revi-
sion of the corn-laws only in self-defence, and because,
in his opinion, the existence of the Cabinet depended
on that concession. At the head of the Opposition he
will therefore oppose the measure which he would
have accorded, had he continued at the head of affairs.
The resignation of the Tory Ministry gives the Ministry
of October 29 a blow from which it cannot recover.
Lord J. Russell and Lord Palmerston, succeeding Sir
R. Peel and Lord Aberdeen, will not consent to favour
the system of temporising which the Tory Minister
countenanced, because it was certain to reap consider-
able advantages from it. Perhaps the Whig Ministry
which is going to be formed will lead public discussion
to foreign affairs (it may be looked on as a certainty that
this will be the case if Lord Palmerston gets into power),
in order to turn aside the still graver difficulty, to which
it is pledged beforehand, respecting the corn-laws. In
any case, the struggle will be severe at both sides of the
Channel. May the events which must result from it
have for us this time less bitter fruits."
(From the Sie.ele.)

"The withdrawal of the Tory Ministry will be with
out influence on the difficulties of foreign policy. For
some time past the Whigs have been drawing closer to
France ; and we may add that political traditions, which
are all-powerful in England, establish but very feeble
difference between parties in what regards the relations
of England with the Continent. M. Guizot alone will
lose by it, for he will no longer have a pretext for speak-
ing to us of the entente cordiale."
(From the France.)
"We persist in thinking that Sir Robert Peel is the man
—nreessary, indispensable, for present circumstances.
In that case the question for him would be to choose
other colleagues. The crisis, now commencing, will
undergo many a phase before it arrives at a solution.
It will deeply move the Tory party, which at this con-
juncture may lose much more in isolating itself than in
taking, part in the movement, in order to direct it. Hi-
therto this party had thought it advisable, from not
being able to do otherwise, to take the initiative in the
reforms which the force of circumstances imposed on it.
We shall styli see if it intends adopting a system of re-
sistance to the last extremity."
The following are miscellaneous extracts from the

papers :
The Royal Family are not to quit St. Cloud for the
Tuileries, says the Constitutionnel, before the 22d inst.
The Act of April 22, 1806, declares that "three Re-
gents of the Bank of France must be chosen from
amongst the Receivers-General." The dismissal of M.
Bandon, who formed part of the Council of Regents in
his quality of Receiver-General, therefore, involved his
withdrawal from those functions. M. Baudon, we un-
derstand, on Wednesday sent in his resignation to the
Governor of the Bank.
The Minister of Marine has just rendered an account
to the King of the operations of the squadron of evolu-
tions in the Mediterranean, during the five months since
it first left Toulon Roads, and also sent in the report by
Admiral Parceval Duchesne, who commands it, of
the general inspection he has made of the squads-on. His
report is most satisfactory. In the manoeuvres in which
it has been exercised from June till October, he states
that the captains and officers have given uniform proofs
of perfect science and ability, and that they and all the
crews have constantly manifested the utmost zeal and the
best spirit.

A considerable sensation was created by the an
nounccment that M. Gabrielde Isot, a brother of the
stockbroker who has just failed, had committed suicide
by blowing out his brains, on the previous morning, at
Grenelle. In addition to the affixing the seals upon
the papers of M. Isot, the stockbroker, a warrant for
the arrest of his person has been issued, but not exe-
cuted on account of his having left Paris.
The news of the resignation of the Conservative Ministry
in England produced a fall in the French Funds on Friday,
but next day they recovered. The Three per Cents. on Sa-
turday closed at 81f. 20c. ; the Five per Cents., 117 f. 70c. ;
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,147 f. 50c.; Rouen, 930 f.;
Northern, 695 f.; Havre, 7501.; Avignon, 857 f. 50c. ; Vierzon,
630 f. ; Bordeaux, 6001, ; Boulogne, 500 f.; Basle, 230 f. ;
Fampoux, 4751. ; Spanish Three per Cents, 381/2 ; ditto
Domestic Debt, 35 ; ditto, Passives, 6%.
The following are the quotations for other lines:-
Paris and Lyons Railroad (Laflitte), 4f. 50c. premium;
ditto (Calon), 4f.; union, 12f. 50c. ; ditto (Ganneron), 4f. •
ditto (Lapinsonniere), 3f. ; Messageries, 3f.; Ardoin, 2f.
50c.; Receveurs-Generaux, 3f.. • Paris and Strasbourg (Gan-
neron), 2f.; ditto (Lechet), If: ; Tours and Nantes ( Mac-
kenzie), sf. ; ditto (Drouillard), 4f.; ditto (O'Neill), 41. ; ditto
(Lefevre), 4f. ; Lyons and Avignon (Talabot), 61. 50c.;
ditto (Lecointe), par; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), par;
Bordeaux and Cette (Mackenzie), par; ditto (Espeleta), 4f. ;
Creil and St. Quentin, par. The Lyons definitive shares
sold for 651. premium; Strasbourg ditto, 18f. 50c.; Tours
and Nantes, 40f.
MARSEILLES DEC. 9.-Marseilles and Avignon, 8551. ;
Boulogne, 505 f: ; Vierzon, 627 f. 50e.
LYONS, DEC. 11.-Marseilles and Avignon, 3551.; Paris
and Orleans, 465 f.; Paris and Rouen, 960 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 13.
Anglo-Belgian - 'Mauritius
Boulogne and Amiens.. - Namur and Liege 22
Bordeaux &Medtterran - North Jamaica ... -
Bordeaux and Toulouse - Orleans and Vierzon .. 15%
Do. & Cette (Espeleta) - !Orleans and Bordeaux 914
Do. (Mackenzie's) .. 1% ,OverYssel
Callao, Lima, and Pa- Paris& Lyons (Laffitte) -
citic Coast .. - Ditto (Ganneron's). 2%
Central of Spain - Ditto (Calon's).... - -
Ceylon . - Ditto (Sud Est)
Demerara - Paris and Orleans-. -
Dendre Valley ...... - Paris and Rouen
Dutch Rhenish ... ...... 6I Paris and Strasburg
Dieppe & Paris Janet. - (Ganneron's)
Dijon and Malhouse ••• - !Do. (Compe de L'Est) -
East Indian .............. 3/, Do. (Aymard's) 1 A
Fampoux & Hazebrouk - Paris and St. Quentin 1 1),
Grt Northern of France Rouen and Havre....., -
Constituted lO% Royal North of Spain. -
Do. Pepin le Halleur - Sambre and Meuse .... -
Great Paris and Lyons - :Strasburg. and Basle ... -
Great Western Bengal - Tournay,Jurbise, Lan-
Great Western Canada 32 den, and Hasselt ...
JamaieaS. Mid. Junction - Tours _ and Want,'

Do. North Midland
Do. Extension —
Jersey
Louvain and Jemappe••
Lyons and Avignon —
Luxembourg .... Ijs
Madrid and Valencia...

(Mackenzie's)
Do. ( Lefebvre's)
Ds. (O'Neill's)
Trinidad ..... .
Verona and Ancona
West Flanders