The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNibiG, JANUARY_23, 18.15,

his HOLINESS, and imploring him " not to thwart them
in their peaceable exertions to obtain a restoration of
th,air domestic Legislature ?" Surely there is no
omasion for Ireland dispatching delegates to the Pops,
if his rescript contains nothing prohibitory of Repeal,
more especially as Mr. O'CONNELL insists that his
HoLINEss " has no control, or ought to have none, over
! their temporal affairs !" In alluding to the renewal of the
agitation for a domestic Parliament, the Hon. and
Learned Gentleman spoke out with more boldness
and emphasis than he has of late been in the habit
of doing. He would have no compromise—no halt-
ing—no trusting to English justice, he said. "No
palliation—no half-measures—nothing that the Bri-
tish Parliament could give them, would satisfy them
—they were resolved to have nothing but the Re-
peal. England should neither delude them, nor bribe
them, nor intimidate them." " Prave words these,"
as Captain FLusLuzx would say. Nevertheless,
despite Mr. O'Commis determination on the sub-
ject, backed by the " hundreds of thousands" of
agitators of whom he speaks, Repeal will never be
carried ; and we will even go further and state, that if
Sir R. PEEL will but boldly and liberally carry out
into practice the pledges which he made last year in
Parliament respecting Ireland, the question of the
Repeal of
.the Union will very shortly afterwards
sink into comparative insignificance.

'We felt it to be our duty, some time ago, on an-
nouncing the vacancy which had occurred by the
death of the late ILTID Nlcuou., Esq., in the office
of her MAJESTY'S Proctor, to exhibit some glimpses
of that unlimited nepotism which has, for so long a
course of years, appropriated all the lucrative offices
connected with the Courts of Doctors' Commons in
the two families of the Nicitows and the JENNERS,
and their nearest kinsmen. We showed how this line
of hereditary office-bearers, virgule nominis, was con-
tinued, by links of a " golden chain," like that which
the poets fabled as binding this globe to the footstool
of Jovz's "empyreal throne"—from the supreme
judge in the ecclesiastical and spiritual jurisdictions,
down to their inferior officers. We demonstrated
that the rule of office-appropriation, in that somewhat
obscure region of the law, was so strictly exclusive,
that all the possessors of appointments within the gift
of the Dean of the Arches, or the vicarious patronage
of the Archbishop, are but varying phases of the
Jenner-Nicholl, Nicholl-Jenner, Jenner-Dyneley,
Dyke-Jenner combination, which overrules and
over-rides the whole of these judicial and official
establishments. In conclusion, we did venture to ex-
press an earnest hope that on the occasion of filling
this vacancy in the office of QuEsx's Proctor, the
chain of nepotism would be broken, and that room
would be made for the induction of the most ex-
perienced and best qualified practitioner among the
proctor-candidates into this appointment. It gave us
great pain to name one of those candidates, Mr. F.
HART DYKE, as one of the "family compact," be-
cause we knew how highly and justly respected he
was for his probity and business-like habits. But he
stood in a degree of relationship to the judge which
made the several appointments already held by him
distinctions provoking much invidious commentary,
especially when his pretensions were opposed to those
of men of much higher pretensions on the score of
seniority, experience, and legal knowledge, as well as
knowledge of mere technical practice in the courts
and registries of the civil law and maritime courts.

This gentleman (if we mistake not the junior of
the several candidates) has been appointed her MA-
JESTY'S Proctor. It is painful to find so little sense
of decorum operating with those who control such an
appointment. These are not the days in which family
favouritism in public affairs—and this is one of that
class—can be safely persisted in. The public opinion
has been loudly and emphatically expressed against
class-legislation. The motive of this hostility is a
generous desire to see the law devised and ad-
ministered for the benefit of all, not of the few. But
family office jobbing is a sin against the good sense,
as well as the good feeling of the public. They will
not endure that the example of the Roman Pontiffs in
elevating to all points of honour and emolument, not
the worthiest candidates for them, but those most
nearly allied by blood or by family connexions to
themselves, should be imitated, though on a micro-.
scopic scale, in the genial atmosphere of Doctors'
Commons. It may be very true that, as one of our
Contemporaries has stated, the gentleman appointed
her MAJESTY'S Proctor is the Proctor employed by
Sir ROBERT PEEL. This fact does not help the
matter. It cannot purge the transaction of the taint
of outrageous favouritism. But it may be productive
of one good effect, in common with most of the
indiscretions committed by the Premier—it may tend
ultimately to advantageous results never contemplated
by him.
For the last twenty years, at least, there have been
impending over that classic ground of the canon and
civil law, of spiritual tribunal and civil forums, threats
more or less formidable of inquiries into antiquated
customs and modern abuses, snug sinecures, &c., &c.
By dint of some clever management and wheedling
on the part of Hon. and Learned, or of Right Hon.
Members, attached to them in divers capacities, the
discussion of the expediency of going into such
matters is always tided over till the fast outrunning
current of the session leaves it stranded, high and
dry, among the dropped orders of the session, where
it is clear it must remain till the " springs" of the
following year, when, in the shape'of new or renewed
notices of motion, it may float off again upon the
surface of the business periodically brought before
the Legislature. Terrible things have been talked of;
some of them but reasonable propositions ; others,
unfair in themselves and calculated to produce ruinous
consequences. It has been endeavoured to open the
advocates' bar to barristers—to allow attorneys to
practise as proctors—to reduce all fees—to reform the
whole scheme of appeal courts, &c. The peril has
from time to time subsided ; the storm has blown over.
But most assuredly the spirit of indifference which
this last appointment manifests for public opinion (so
decidedly intimated as that has been through the
public press against the continuance of all family
monopolies of office), is the sort of challenge best
calculated to provoke in the House of Commons a
searching, uncompromising, and severe scrutiny into
" the way in which they manage these matters" south
of St. Paul's Churchyard.

The attention of the community has seldom been
more strongly attracted to objects of domestic specula-
tion, as favourite investments for capital, than, of late,
to the progress of those numerous projects for railway
communications which will have to be disposed of in
the now ensuing session of Parliament. The expe-
riment of referring all such applications, in the first
instance, to a Committee of the Board of Trade,
whose preliminary investigations and report on each
case should be somewhat in the nature of the inquiries
and finding of a grand jury on the original bills and
presentments brought before them, was, at all events,
a well-timed experiment. It may hare been—it may
still be—open to some very grave objections both on
legal and on constitutional grounds. We are by no
means satisfied that the rejection, by so anomalous a
tribunal, of projected railway lines, on which certain
considerable sums may have been already expended
on account of previous surveys, negotiations, &c., in
perfect good faith, and under reasonable expectation
of their final accomplishment, may not amount, under
special circumstances, to a defeasance of common-law
rights and equitable claims which the Legislature can
never have contemplated in the constitution of this
Board of Trade Committee, but which the simple act
of, rejection by that Committee may assuredly work
to individuals who have taken the initiative in such
applications. On constitutional grounds such delega-
tions of legislative responsibility to mere official or
departmental sections are, in our judgment) of far
more doubtful propriety. It is easy to plead the
necessity for saying the time of Parliament—" for
relieving the Legislature from some part of a burden
which threatened"—as did this annually increased
accumulation of Railway Bills—" to engross its whole
time and attention." We are neither prepared to deny
the extent which the evil of these accumulations of
budeemed expedient,
was fast attaining, nor yet to suggest any
better
plan for meeting it than that which it has been
expedient, by the Legislature, to adopt.
Nevertheless, the principles on which that plan is
open to the two classes of objection we speak of, are
not affected by these considerations of expediency, or
the still more trite and common-place argument
fouilded on the " many evils that may be anticipated
from improvident or unprincipled railway specu-
lations." Whether it will very materially "reduce
the enormous expense of contests," or, which ja too

probable, the greatest weight of Parliamentary
influence or pecuniary means would prevail, whatever
might he the merits of the particular case—is a ques-
tion as to which we are still more sceptical. Let its
suppose a case in which the whole Parliamenttary
influence—that is the whole number of Metabets of
Parliament really interested in a given railway—is on
one side—what chance against that side will the other
have ? That which would be represented by the equa-
tion of 1 minus 1. All the merits of such a ease,
whether the unrepresented party were supporters or
opposers of the line, would have been already estimated ,
by the proceedings before the Committee of the Board
of Trade without the walls of the two Houses. All
the interest of the court of appeal, by which the fate
of the Bill would be finally decided, would be still to
be encountered, after being reported upon and sent
forward by the Committee. Two great objections to
all such expedients will still attach to this delegated
representation of the Board of Trade, after admitting
everything, as we freely do, that can be urged in its
favour on the score of the capacity, experience, and
honour of the individuals who compose it. First, it is
a perilous policy at all times to interfere by legis-
lative enactment, with the free action of private ca-
pital. The evils of its occasional improvident em-
ployment are more that► counterbalanced by a per-
manent power of interfering in its management,
vested in the Legislature. Secondly, the finding of
any such Committee cannot, on any common-sense
construction of the matter, be regarded as the finding
of the Legislature, whatever the derivative force it
may technically carry with it. People will prefer to
be heard before a Committee actually selected from
and sitting in the House of Lords or the House of
Commons, whenever it can be shown that such
Committees are fairly struck and constituted, to being
heard before the more limited, and perhaps the stricter
tribunal of a permanent Committee, on submitting the
original grounds and scheme of their projected un-
dertakings.

We observe that the author of a clever and very
well-reasoned pamphlet, entitled "Remarks upon the
General Railway Acts, printed, and to be proposed in
the approaching Session, with Suggestions for more
Efficient Restraint on the Arbitrary Powers of the
Railway Companies":—" by a Small Landowner," does
not concur in these our doubts as to the constitution
of the Committee of the Board of Trade. But he
opens up some other views of the character of inter-
ests that may be prejudicially affected by the law of
Railway Bills as it stands—and of the mode in which
they may be so affected—that do not seem much ex-
aggerated, or, in themselves, unfair, although their
avowed leaning is to the side of the landowners, as a
body. He says,—" Three general or special Bills
are proposed to be enacted, with the view of sparing
or saving the repetition in each special Act of the
regulations proper to be established in the generality
of cases, both for empowering the companies to take
the lands required by them, and for laying down re-
servations and declaring conditions and restrictions
for protection of the landowner from excesses and
abuses in the employment of those powers." Ap-
proving of the principles of these Bills, he yet com-
plains that they are open to many suggestions of
improvements, for which " there would have been
little room, if their own great and acknowledged
abilities could have been employed upon the details
and structure of the Bills, and they had not been
unavoidably left to some technical draftsman whose
execution of the task the Board have not hitherto had,
and may probably (from the pressure of so many
railway claims on their attention) not have time to
examine sufficiently, before the session commences."
In the Companies' Clauses Consolidation Act, he is of
opinion that there should have been a clause inter
dieting the payment or allowance of salaries to any
other director than a chairman or president, " till the
shareholders shall have received some dividend, not
out of subscribed capital, but out of profits, after de-
ducting working and other expenses,"—and then but
an allowance in proportion only to the amount of
such dividend ; "so that the interest of the director
should never be paramount to his interest as a share-
holder, but always go hand in hand with his duty, and
form a stimulus to his exertions."

But what is to be done in the case, a very common
one, of a company's present means being utterly dis-
proportionate to its prospective means, the latter requir-
ing only the superintendence of an able business
management to realise them ? It may be of essential
importance to secure the valuable services of a party
otherwise qualified as a clever man of business and
capacity, because he is a director. For that very
reason it may be neither fair nor practicable to retain
his services, except for the consideration of reasonable
fees or salary. Furthermore, it may be very well worth
while, under peculiar circumstances, to give him such
compensation on a greater scale, out of regard to the
importance of the specific object proposed to be accom--
plished by employing him, than the proportion of the
dividend last paid could warrant. The clause should
therefore leave this point of remuneration to be settled
by the vote of a majority of any shareholders, at a
meeting duly convened for the express purpose of
deciding on such a question. How far the 'proposi-
tions of the same writer for protecting the interests
of landholders, through whose property the lines
of any future railway roads are to run, recommend
themselves for adoption, we shall enable our readers
to judge, in a day or two, by the analysis we propose
to make of these suggestions.

We have intelligence from Madrid to the 14th
inst. The Chamber of Deputies was engaged
on that day in discussing the Bill for the endowment
of the clergy, when an amendment, proposed by
Senor CERIA, was rejected by a majority of 93 to 29.
To show the utter helplessness of the Opposition, not
one amendment which they have proposed since the
meeting of the Cortes has been carried. The Chamber
of Deputies, from being the most turbulent and un-
governable assembly in Europe, is now the most sub-
missive and tractable. The Castellano announces
that upwards of 80 inhabitants of the valleys of
['echo and A nso, who had taken part in the recent
revolt, and emigrated to France, had returned to
their families.

The Three per . Cents. closed at 31 15.16 for
cash, and 321 at 60 days ; the Five per Cents, at 24
at 60 days ; the Coupons at 27f for cash; and the
Debt without Interest at 7 for cash.

The debate in the French Chamber of Deputies on
the Address commenced on Monday. The only Oppo-
sition speakers were M. GUSTAVE de BEAUMONT and
M. de TOCQUEVILLE, names familiar to Englishmen,
and we are glad to find that though averse to an
alliance with thi i country, which they regarded as
impossible, they adverted to her government and
institutions in terms of great respect, and professed
an ardent desire to live on good terms with their
neighbour. M. de BEAUMONT said he knew the Eng-
lish too well not to esteem them ; he was too well
acquainted with England not to admire her govern-
ment and free - institutions ; he should never forget
that she was the first to recognise the Government of
July, but all those considerations did not militate in
his mind in favour of a close alliance. Good and
friendly relations-should be cultivated with her, but that
was all ; for it was impossible that a cordial alliance
could exist between two countries whose interests were
at variance not only on one point, but all over the globe.
"War with England," said the other speaker, "would
be a very great calamity ; he honoured and esteemed
the English nation, but the interests of the two
countries were so opposed that no intimate alliance
could subsist between them; for England could not
subscribe to any concession ; her existence would be
the price of it; if she lost the monopoly of the trade
of the world, she must perish. He then contrasted
the political position of both countries. France was
the head and heart of democracy, and her interests
commanded her to propagate as much as possible de-
mocratic principles, whilst England was the stronghold
of aristocracy, and necessarily entertained widely dif-
ferent sympathies." These are just remarks, and
made in a fair spirit, differing in every respect from
many other opponents of the Gutzor Cabinet, who
hate him and his colleagues because they do not hate
England. That is the policy of the Radical, the Le-
gitimatist, and the Republican parties ; and even some,
calling themselves Conservatives, would sacrifice a
Conservative Government, if France could thereby
only become more estranged from England. About
bixty Members of the Left assembled on Sunday at
their usual place of meeting, in the Place de Made-
leiue, to come to an understanding on their mode of
proceeding in the debate on the Address ; and, from
the remarks made; it is evident that they will 'op-
pose the Minister, chiefly, if not solely, on account of

his foreign policy—meaning, of course, his leaning to-
wards England) for among that class of politicians
"foreign" and " English" ate, tyllooymeAs tetras.
Daitb, took the chair. M. TOCQUE.
party also was present. M. ODILON BARROT
was the first speaker, and explained the object of the
meeting. He urged his colleagues to vote firmly
against the present Cabinet, and to support any admi-
nistration which would assume a more dignifled atti-
tude in the foreign policy of the COUhlry. Several
other Members spoke to the same eflect, and the
assembly agreed to the proposal. According to what
fell from M. ODILON BARROT, it is not likely that the
Left will hazard any amendment of its own, but will
support such as are to he made by Conservatives, who
have now entered into the paths of Opposition, so
that if the Cabinet falls, it falls by the desertion of its
own friends. This is admitted by the Presse, an oc-
casional supporter of the Government, though a de-
termined enemy to England. "If M. GUIZOT should
fall," says that journal, " in the contest which is about
to commence in the Chamber of Deputies, none
will deplore more than us the infatuation
which will have caused his disaster, and which will
have deprived the country of a statesman endowed
with such powerful eloquence and with such
elevation of soul. We do not deny the gravity of
the embarrassment which will arise from his fall.
Evidently, if the Cabinet falls, it will be in conse-
quence of a division among the majority. This divi-
sion will be perpetuated, and, however weak M.
GUIZOT'S party may be numerically, it will derive
immense force from his talent. For this reason, we
should have wished that the present Ministers had
assumed a more firm tone towards England, or that,
if they did not consider they could do so with suc-
cess, that they would voluntarily have left the re-
sponsibility -to others. Two things are certain—
first, the Chamber of Deputies, which has twice ex-
pressed its wish that our commerce should be placed
exclusively under the care of our flag, will not suffer
that this wish shall longer be slighted; secondly, the
Chamber of Deputies never will permit, particularly
in its third session, an indemnity to be voted to
Mr. PRITCHARD, no matter how small the amount
that Admirals HAMELIN and SEYMOUR may fix on.
It is not on the amount, but on the principle, that
the debate will turn, and the principle cannot be
defended."

On Sunday evening, a deputation from the House
of Peers proceeded to the Tuileries and presented the
Address to the KING. They were received, by his
MAJESTY on the Throne. The Duke de NEMOURS,
the Prince de JoiNviLLE, and the Duke D'AustALE,
stood on the right and left, and the President, Duke
PASQUIER, read the Address, to which the KING made
the following reply :
" Gentlemen,—lt is very gratifying to me to find in
this Address new demonstrations of the sentiments of
which the Chamber of Peers has so frequently given me
so many proofs. This striking approbation given to the
course that we have followed with so much perseverance
and success will facilitate the continuation of it. In ap-
preciating, as you do, the favourable dispositions which
have permitted my government to re-establish with that
of Great Britain the happy accord which had already
preserved the world from so many dangers, you add new
pledges for the stability of general peace, and the gradual
increase of the prosperity which our country now en-
joys. I thank Providence for having permitted my sons
to show themselves worthy of the sentiments which you
have just manifested to me for them. The affection of
France for my family and myself is the sweetest recom-
pense that I can obtuin for my labours, and our entire
devotedness."

The National contains a long account of a meeting
relative to the disposal of the funds subscribed to
purchase a sword for Admiral DUPETIT THOUARS.
It appears that the total sum received is 19,685 francs
(7831.), and that 175,000 persons had subscribed.
There were still thirty-two provincial journals which
had not sent in their subscriptions; so that the total
sum will probably amount at least to 1,0001. The
following report of what occurred at an interview with
the Admiral was read by one of the deputation :

" We waited upon Admiral Dupetit Thouars as your
delegates, and we wish to render an account of our in-
terview. We explained to the Admiral the sentiments
which had inspired the public manifestation in which
175,000 citizens had joined. The subscribers wished to
honour in his person the entire navy which had taken
part in that contest in which the French flag was opposed
to the insolent pretensions of England. They particu-
larly protested against the act of cowardice committed
by the Ministry disavowing, by order of the London
Cabinet, a general officer who had fulfilled his duty.
Public opinion, excited by that act, had hastened to
extend its hand to the person attacked ; because it
was considered necessary to prove to our armies by land
and sea who are charged with defending the honour
and dignity of France, that esteem, consideration,
and a just popularity are the rewards se-
cured in our country to those who on all occasions re-
collect that our first sentiment ought to be the love of
country, and that the devotion which it inspires ought to
precede all others. After having expressed to the Ad-
miral the sense of the manifestation which we had wit-
nessed in his person, because he alone had been the
object of the disavowal accompanied by calumnies, we
asked him whether he would accept a sword of honour,
or whether the Committee should employ the funds for
another purpose ? Admiral Dupetit Thouars, who ex-
perienced on receiving us an emotion which he did not
'conceal, told us that he was profoundly affected at our
proceeding, that he felt strongly how honourable it was
to him personally, and that the approbation of his fellow-
citizens was assuredly the most legitimate ambition and
the most agreeable recompense for any man called on to
serve his country; but he prayed u 3 to consider that the
imperative duties of his discipline would not permit him to
explain himself as to a political manifestation, nor to re-
ceive, without the permission of his superiors, a mark of
public approbation. Placed, as he was, in the Royal navy
he could not, without a violation of military law, depart
from that reserve imposed upon him either to blame or to
praise an act of the Government; neither, consequently,
could he accept arq recompense which would imply, on
his part, an adhesion to a political demonstration. We
were bound to respect a determination supported by mo-
tives in which Admiral Dupetit Thouars believed his
professional position engaged. We could not, moreover,
without an abuse, refer in this place to the confidential
conversation in which we were enabled to learn the
true and honourable sentiments of the Admiral.
But we may say, that ever occupied with the fate
of the brave men whom he commanded, he spoke with
a warm interest of all those who had fallen in the
expedition against Otaheite. We then asked him what
would, according to his idea, be the best mode of em-
ploying the funds subscribed ? to which he replied,
that he could not believe that he was under an illusion
when be considered the homage of which he was the
object was intended to extend to all the seamen
who had served worthily in those distant seas, and
that assuredly it would be to respond to the wishes of
the subscribers to expend the amount subscribed to re-
lieve the wounded seamen or the wives and children of
those who had died in the performance of their
duty. We regret that we cannot be more explicit in a
report intended for publicity, but we believe we can
Arm, gentlemen, that the mission with which we were
charged has impressed us with a profound conviction
that public opinion was not deceived when it wished to
do honour to a general officer devoted to the glory of his
country, a determined enemy of the foreign foe, jealous
of our interest,) and well-determined not to commit any
act by which it might be tarnished. Your delegates pro-
pose to you, therefore, to declare the subscription closed;
to make public the motives of Admiral Dupetit Thouars'
refusal—motives exclusively connected with military dis-
cipline ; and, in fine, that the funds of the subscription
should be allocated in procuring relief for the wounded
seamen or the widows and children of those who fell in
the expedition to Otaheite."

The meeting immediately adopted the resolutions,
and appointed a Committee to carry them into effect.

THE BOURSE--MONEY, JAIL 20.
First highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. price.
French rive per Cents— 122 .. 122 .• 121 90 .. 121 90
?ours. •• 198 108 108 108
Three per Cents 85 10 .• 85 lb 84 .. go
New Loan
Bank of France 3267 50 ••3267 50 .•3267 50 —3567 50
Belgian Bank. •
Belgian Fives, 1840
1842 106% •• 100!ii .. 106 N 106%
Spanish Threes 3B3i. •• 38 3"4 38'3,4
Active •• •• 3.1 '• fl 7„ .. 37 •• 27
Portuguese Five per Cents•• 5934 •• •• 59 N .. 5914
98 00 98 50 .. 98 50 .. 98 50
Roman .

RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain .. ...1002 50 —lOO2 50 ..1002 50 ..1002 50
Versailles, 377 50 • 377 50 .. 377 50 .. 377 50
Rouen 6... ii104(1 ilO • 1015 no —10.15 50 ..1045 50
Rnuen to 816'15 82 ••8 id .. 8,4
Orleans ..... .....1127 50 ..1128 75 ..1127 50 ..1128 75
Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 297 50 •• 300 .. 297 60 . 300
Avignon to Marseilles.-- 925 .. 927 50 . 925 .. 927 53
RAILWAYS FOR TILE ACCOUNT, JAN. 31.
St. Germain ...... .• ..1005 •.10f5 ..1005 ..1005
Veranillta, 11.11 ..... . 49.5 .. 495 • • 493 435
Rouen —.1045 —lO5O ..1045 ..1050

Rouen to Havre..
Orleans ....
Strasburg to 8a1e....
•. '297 50 .. 230
Avignon to Marseilles-- 926t430 .. 922 50 .. 927 50

The table of the mortality in the metropolis for the
week ending January 18, shows a decrease in the
number of deaths as compared with the preceding
week, the total, except from violence, in the week end-
ing January 18 being 1,001, while in the week ending
January 11 it was 1,098. By far the larger number
of deaths during the past week have been from dis-
eases of the lungs and organs of respiration, the
number of deaths attributed to this cause being 325,
including no less than 146 cases of consumption. The
total number of deaths, including deaths from vio-
lence, during the past week, in the metropolitan dis-
trict, is 1,010. The total number of births in tha
metropolitan district during the same period is 1,331.
During the week three males have died, of the re-
spective ages of ninety, ninety-two, and ninety-four
years, and one. female died at Kennington at the age
of a hundred and five years

EARTHQUAKE IN LIMA.

leArti from El Commercin, a Lima paper, of the
tth of Pet)ti,ri4f; that do flit, preceding evening,
at twenty minutes after ten; Lii,6 r2i&git !!htict..s. ht
an earthquake had been experienced in inaf
city. At the second shock the greater part of the
inhabitants quitted their houses and sought for re-
fuge in the squares and open places. A perform-
ance was going on at the theatre at the time,
and many of thb atitlitinte4 Who 'were much alarmed,
rushed out, although the actors contititied the per,
formances for the amusement of those who remained.
Fortunately, however, no damage was occasioned by the
earthquake, which appears to have been one of the
smartest that has been experienced for years.

this rich country. The interest for two years will be
retained in this country.
PRICE OF BRITISH FUNDS AT CNY., O'CLOCK
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock ". •
per Cent, Reduced Annuities
_5/1/4
8 vet' 6.gt: COI/SOl9 Anns lOOl/4 %IA
New 34 tiff mkt. Annuties
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2l/4
Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. /0,1859 l2 11 15-16
Ditto 30 Years, Expire Jan. 1860
India Stock 286
South Sea Stock —
Ditto Old Annuities
Bank Stock for Account.
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. 134 d. 11/2d.
1,000/.
500/.
Ditto Small —
Ditto Advertised ..... ... —,-

PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. 34',7
Ditto for the Accoant.: 343/.1
Ditto Deferred Stock 15%34
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto for the Account ~449143/4
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent... 119%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840... 27% 28%
Ditto for the Account.
Ditto 3 per Cent 4014 393/4
Ditto for the Account 40% 393/8%
Dutch 2% per Cents
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Birmingham and Gloucester 100
Bristol and Exeter
Bristol and Gloucester
Caledonian
Cambridge and Lincoln
Chester and Holyhead
Churnet Valley
Eastern Counties
Do. Perpet. 5 per Ct. No. 1. 3% 1
Edinburgh and Glasgow ..... 50
Ely and Bedford
Great South and W. (Irish)... 5
Ditto Additional
Great Western
Ditto, Half Shares 5O lOO
Ditto Fifths
Harwich 1
Hull and Selby
Lancaster and Carlisle
London and Birmingham ...100 235 to
Ditto New Thirds
Ditto Quarters
London and Blackwall 16% 7l/2%... to
London and Brighton 5O 5234 5314 to 521/
London and Greenwich ...... 123/4 ll
London and South Western.. 41Y...... 781,E to 79
Ditto, New
London and Y0rk....... 24 ..
Lynn and Ely
Manchester and Leeds 7O l3l 133... to 132
Ditto 1/2 Shares
Ditto Sixteenths
Manchester and Birmingham 40 — to

Ditto yi Shares v 2
Midland 100 l3O 128... to 130

Ditto New
Newcastle& Darlingtonjunc. 24
Newcastle and Berwick
North British
Norwich and Brandon 8 ... .
Ditto New Shares 1
Portsmouth Direct
Rugby ,. 1
Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Birm. 2% 3%./4... to
South Devon
South Eastern and Dover ... 331% 481...... to 48
Ditto New
South Wales
Trent Valley
York and North Midland ... 50 __an A to 111
Ditto 1/2 Shares
Ditto Scarboro' Branch
Ditto, Extension
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens
Great Northern of France ... 4
Paris and Lyons
Paris and Rouen.. ... 20

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
British North American -
DIANCHXSTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN 2l.—We
continue to have a large business doing, and prices generally
are again higher :
Birmingham and Gloucester lOB
Bristol and Gloucester 44
Eastern Counties 201%%1%
London and Birminzham, 321. Shares . 43
London and South Western, New 1314
Manchester and Leeds
Manchester and Birmingham 56
Midland Railway Consols
South Eastern New, Creation
Barnsley' Junction
Birkenhead, Manchester, and Chesh. Junct ,_ 71,4%
-- -cv

Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton
2 7-16q3/4
Caledonian
Cambridge and Lincoln
Churnat Valley 5 13-16% 1/2%
Huddersfield and Manchester Rail and Canal 4%
Leeds and West Riding Junction 41A34 %
London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby 2 g A 3/
London and York 4%-
Lynn and Ely
Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale
Manchester and Buxton 2 5-161,1
Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and Dudley 234
Trent Valley 1034
West Yorkshire
Great Northern of France 6
Lyons and Avignon 23/4
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock

3 per Cent. Reduced ... 1003%
3 per Cent. Consols
New 314 per Cent . 104%
Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 12% 3.-16
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 ... 11 15-16
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 ... 11 15-16
India Stock
. , South Sea Stock
Ditto New Annuities . 993k
Bank Stock for Account 213
Consols
Exchequer Bills, 1,0004 1%d.... 60 pin.
• . Ditto' 5001.
Ditto Small
, - FOREIGN FUNDS.
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per,,Cent
Ditto, Account '6014.
... ....._

_ .
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account ... 28%
Ditto, Passive
Ditto, Deferred 17630
Ditto 3 per Cent. ...... ......-- 448
Ditto Account
Dutch, 2% per Cent .
Ditto, 5 per Cent 99
• SHARES.
Bristol and Exeter, 70 paid 761.4
Catedonian, 5 paid 5l,
Chester and Holyhead, 5 paid 7
Churnet Valley, 2 paid
Cornwall, 3 paid
Dublin and Belfast Junction, 21/2 paid
Eastern Counties, 25 paid lB4
Ditto Perpetual, '5 per,Cent, 3% paid, No. 1 11,4_
Ditto ditto, 13s. 4d. paid, No. 2
Eastern Union, 10 paid lllB
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid
Ditto Quarter Shares, 121/2 paid 164
Great Southern and Western (Ireland), 5 paid 11
Great North of England, 100 paid
Ditto New Shares, 5 paid 27 IA
Ditto New, 2 paid
Great Western, 75 paid ... 175
Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid lOl
Ditto Fifths, 20 paid 39%
London and .Birmingham (Stock) ... . 236
London and Brighton, 50 paid 53
London and Greenwich, 12% paid
London and York. 2% paid
4%
Lynn al t d Ely, 14 paid
44
Mancheito and Leeds, 70 paid
Manchester and Birmitgham, 40 paid .....
Midland, 100 paid
Midland, Birmingham, and Derby, 100 paid.- 97
New,tasni. and Berwick, 1% paid ........ -..- 10Y
North British, 7% paid
Norwich and Brandon, 8 paid l4 A
Rugby, 1 paid 3
South Eastern and Dover, 33h paid 47%
Ditto New, 2 paid
Shrews., Wolverh., Dudley, and Birm., 2i pd 3I,E
Staines and Richmond, 1 paid 1%%
South Wales; 21/2 paid
Trent Valley, 2 paid ll
West London, Old Shares, 20 paid
Ditto Ist Class Preferred 9
West Cornwall, 14 paid 44
Yarmouth and Norwich, 20 paid 29
Ditto, New Shares, 8 paid 153/
York and North Midland, 50 paid
Ditto, Selby Scrip, 20 paid

FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Great Northern of France, 4 paid
Paris and Strasbourg, 2 paid.................•
Rouen and Havre, 12 paid

THE EARL or MourriNGToN.—The answer given
yesterday at his Lordship's residence in Grosvenor-
square, to the numerous friends and relatives of the
Noble Earl, was, " His Lordship is no worse."

REPORTED MINISTERIAL CHANGES.—It is gene-
rally rumoured in political circles (but we do not vouch
for the correctness of the report), that Mr. Sidney Her-
bert will succeed Lord Eliot as Secretary for Ireland,
and Mr. Corry will replace Mr. Herbert as Principal
Secretary of the Admiralty.—Morning Paper.
We regret to learn that accounts have been re-
ceived in town from Paris, stating the serious indisposi-
tion of the popular composer Balfe, who is at present in
the French capital.
SIGNS OF PROSPERITY.—We are glad to learn that
within the last fortnight the Carlisle manufacturers have
advanced the haudloom weavers' wages fully nine pet
cent., making a total advance of twenty per cent. on
wages since the spring of 1844.
NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.—The acci-
dent which happened at the tunnel on this line a few
weeks ago has been entirely repaired, and the engines
have resumed their duties with the greatest safety, addi-
tional securities having been adopted which are calcu-
lated to prevent the slightest tendency to a repetition of
a similar slip, which was of less magnitude than was
generally reported. Notwithstanding the interruption
of the traffic, the revenue during the week was 2001. over
that of the corresponding week of last year, and this
week the increase over the parallel week of last year is
4394—Newcastle Journal.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, JAN. 20.
—There has been but a very indifferent market. Few
buyers have attended, and the business transacted has
been upon a limited scale. Manufacturers are asking
more for pieces, on account of the increased price of the
raw material—Manchester Guardian.