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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 17, 1845.

mittee; and on the motion of the committal of the
Vrtioation of (Ir..lanri) 13111, the House was

counted out.

The objects of Lord ASHLEY'S Bill for the regulation
of the care and treatment of lunatics in England," which
has occupied two morning sittings of the House of
Commons, are undoubtedly excellent ; but it is equally
undoubted that there are grave objections to the machi-
nery by which these excellent objects are to be effected ;
and the little effect which has attended the attempts of
Mr. DUNCOMBE, Mr. WAKLEY, and other Liberal
Members, to amend the machinery of the Bill,
greatly diminishes our satisfaction at the prospect of
success for this last important effort of Lord
ASHLEY'S unwearying benevolence. One thing, however,
Messrs. DIINCOMBE and WAHLEY have succeeded in;
and for this they deserve the thanks of the public. It
was proposed in the Bill to allow past years of servico
on temporary Commissions, during which the gentle-
men now for the first time appointed permanent Com-
missioners have been remunerated on a high scale calcu-
lated with reference to their haN ing no retiring pension
to look to—have been paid, in fact, by the job, and at
the rate of a guinea an hour for the time they were
employed—to count for retiring pensions; and it was
stated, without contradiction, that some of the proposed
Commissioners had already served on the previous tem.
porary Commissions the number of years (fifteen)
which is to entitle a Commissioner, when permanently
disabled, to a retiring pension. This monstrous pro-
posal has been abandoned. That it should ever have
been sanctioned by Lord ASHLEY is only to be ac-

counted for by attributing to his Lordship such a de
gree of simplicity as is too often conjoined with pre.
eminent virtue.

Never, we suppose, was such a working commission
thought of, as is proposed by this Bill, certainly not
since the days of JEREMY BENTHAM'S publications on
administrative government. It were almost enough to
startle the Utilitarian sage from his grave, that so
heavy a responsibility as is involved in the superin-
tendence of all the lunatic asylums of the king-
dom should be entrusted to a commission, com-
posed of no less than eleven members. If there
is one political axiom more undisputed than another, it
is that to have responsibility as efficient as possible it
must be as much concentrated as possible ; and that
nothing is more adverse to efficient responsibility than
a numerous board. " What is everybody's business is
nobody's business ;" and the blame, which has to be
divided between eleven, will tall with the weight of a
feather on any one individual. Eleven Commissioners
are appointed by this Bill. Six of them are not to be
paid, and one of the unpaid is to be the chairman. Mr,
CHRISTIE pointed out how the fact of Commissioners
giving their services gratuitously would interfere with
their responsibility, but to no purpose. And
then the six paid Commissioners, three of
them being physicians or surgeons, and three barristers
of five years' standing, are each to receive 1,5001 a year,
over and above their travelling and other expenses ;
with a retiring allowance after fifteen years' service, if
permanently disabled. We do not hesitate to designate
this a most disgraceful waste of public money. Six Com-
missioners at 1,5001. a year each, over and above tra-
velling and other expenses, and what on earth may not
be covered by "other expenses?" But 9,000/, a year in
salaries to the Commissioners, and 8001. a year more to
a Secretary, who is also to have a retiring pension to
look to 1 If it had been a commission consisting of only
two or three members, who would be taken from among
the most eminent in the medical and legal professions,
then, indeed, 1,500/. a year would not be one whit too
high a salary. But for the ordinary barrister of five
years' standing, or for a medical man of moderate prac-
tice (and it is only such a man that will take even 1,5001.
a year), then we do say that these salaries are an unjusti-

fiable squandering of the public money. But much may
be done at a morning sitting which will not bear the
light of a full House ; and it can only be a fear of the
grave responsibility attendant on delaying for another
year a Bill that will relieve so much misery
and stay so much cruelty, that can have led Mr.
DIINCOMBE, and his small but patriotic minority,
to consent, under any circumstances, to the grant
of these extravagant salaries. The Prison Inspec-
tors are paid 7004 a year—the Assistant Poor-law
Commissioners are pail 1.0001. a year—the Police Ma-
gistrates are paid 1,0001 a year—and is it pretended that
the men who are looked to to fill the Lunatic Commis-
sionerships will be, or need he, superior to those who fill

the above-named offices ? So far as the Commissioners
and their salaries are concern« d, thi. Bill is a flagrant job.
But all the rest of the Bill is good. Not the least vain-
able among its provisions are those for the inspection of
houses containing single patients, which, because deranged
members i if aristocratic families are generally confined in
such houses, the House of Lords has always hitherto
perseveringly exempted from legislation on this subject.
But, according to Lord ASHLEY, whose testimony on
this subject is in e.try way moat valuable, there is no
class of houses more requiring inspection, or in which
mere frightful cruelties take place. Some deference is
paid to aristocratic prejudices by a different arrange
ment, attended with greater precautions for secrecy, for
the inspection of these single patient houses. There is
to be a " Private Committee " of the Commissioners for
these houses ; hut if the cocient of the House of Lord to

an enactment embracing the single patient houses can be
Obtained on no other terms, on any terms let inspection
of them be secured. We trust that Lord ASHLEY Las
made sure of the consent of the Upper House.

A privilege question again engages the attention of
Parliament, and comes before the House of Lords under
circumstances well calculated to exemplify the vast im-
portance of the considerations which are sure to be in.
volved in them. It seems to be the fate of this class of
cases, in nine instances out of ten, to be raised upon
circumstances which are of themselves trivial in the in-
verse ratio of the issues which immediately depend upon,
or may be immediately determined by. them. The mo-
mentous character of these results, whether contingent
or direct, every one seems capable of estimating. It ap-
pears to be allowed, with scarcely a dissentient voice,
that Parliament, which originates, digests and declares,
promulgates and repeals, the laws, should have certain
powers intrinsic, as it were, and inherent in its own con-
stitution, to modify the application of those laws, wher-
ever their literal enforcement, under exigencies either
unforeseen, or not sufficientlycoesidered, where such en
forcement might compromise the independent action of
its legislative functions. It is easy to see at a glance to
how vast an extent any crippling or interruption
of these functions may endanger the public wel-
fare. But it will be difficult beforehand to
particularise in detail the points which would be thus
periled. These, in the nature of things, must be inde-
terminate until the specific exigencies arise which deve-
1, ip and illustrate them. .Ori the other hand, the rights
or property which the exercise of the inherent privileges
of which we speak, by Parliament, may affect or disturb,
are generally of the simplest and most universal charac-
ter. These are such as there is little or no difficulty,
irrespective of the considerations of privilege, in establish.
ing. Lord Beoucaaitt made a ma terly speech
in some respects, but still it seems singular that
a man so astute, and a lawyer withal, should
be so forward to abandon and sacrifice the first, as if so to
dispose of them were the only means of maintaining the
latter. The Learned Lord argued on Monday night, in the
discussion on the case of HARLOW v. BAKER, as if the sole
and inevitable result of the House of Lords, inhibiting
HARLOW from further proceedings in au action brought
by him against BAKER fur certain passages L 3 BAKER'S
evidence before a Select Committee of their Lordships'
House, reflecting upon the character of BAKER, must
be to put BAKER as much out of the pale of civil and
legal rights and protection as if he were a Brahmin
of high caste about to be degraded into a
Pariah. N. what was the case ? Examined
by the LORD CHANCELLOR, HARLOW admitted that he
had brought an action against THOMAS BAKER for false
arid malicious language used by RAKER in speaking of
him, the said HARLOW, in giving evidence before the
Select Committee in the House of Lords on the laws
rt spect.ng gaming. HARLOW stated that he had surf red
much since that evidence was printed from being pointed
out as a gambler ; but that when he brought his action
against BAKER he did not know that he was thereby
committing a breach of the privilege. of Parliament.
But it should seem that Mr. PETER HARDWIN, his pro-
fessional adviser and attorney, did. BAKER, of course,
appealed to the House by petition for its protection, and
we are at a loss to conceive how the House of Lords
couid do .less than accord the protection prayed. To
this end, it adopted the inteliigible and efficacious course
or committing both HARLOW, the plaintiff, and HARD-
WIN, his attorney, to the custody of the Black Rod.
The expediency of this power was, we think, as plainly
established on broad and general principles of what we
shall call constitutional necessity, by the LORD CHAN-
CELLOR, as were the facts of the case. And, let us
remark how cogent are the reasons on which this
expediency rests. It is not even disputed that the
House of Lords, whether as the supreme legislative or
judicial tribunal, should retain its powers of examining j
witnesses upon oath. It is admittt d on ad hands, that a
man giving evidence b, fore it in its judicial capacity,
and in the course of his testimony either uttering libel-
lous reflections upon third parties, or' committing per-
jury, would subject himself, on the evidence of two com-
petent witnesses, to civil action or criminal indictment.
Therefore, it is asked, if you give no F.otec494 yo tilt,

witness in this case, why extend it to him when exa-
before the Lords in their legislative capacity?
The distinction seems to us a. clear one. In a court of
justice the rules of evidence are stringent and definite.
The law protects the witness from the reach and scope
of examination beyond certain limits, and its courts dis-
courage every attempt to push the interrogation of such
witnesses beyond those limits. Select Committees of
either Rouse partake of the character of Parliament as
the grand inquest of the nation ; and their modes of
conducting inquiries into the questions referred to them
are neither limited, like courts of law, to single specific
issues, nor to such certain and determinate forms of exa,

mining evidence upon them. Ina court of law the process
of such investigations is more exact, if it be more limited*
but then the powers of enforcing answers are much
more stringent. In the witness-box of a court the at-
tempt on one hand is to extract all the evidence you
can legally compel—the object on the other is to furnish
no more than court or counsel can insist upon his giving.
The process is as it were under bond—one party exacts
as much as he can get, the other surrenders no more
than you can compel him to yield. In the Committee-
rooms of Parliament the witnesses are rather invited
than forced. It is more difficult there than in a law
court to elicit what they may desire to conceal, because
there are many moral influences wanting in the one case
which are very cogent in the other. But much fuller
evidence on all other points is to be obtained from the
spontaneous communications of witnesses, who, under the
assurance of protection, feel no disposition to withhold
whatever information they can give. Now how could
the inquiries of Parliament be conducted without the
guarantee of this protection ? The three law Lords who
spoke on Monday night delivered their respective opi-
nions characteristically enough. The LORD CHAN-
CELLOR stated the facts with his usual perspicuity.
Lord BROUGHAM'S speech was one of research, marred by
its technicality and its over laboured effort to adapt ge-
neral principles of law .and equity to cases of
this peculiar character. Lord CAMPBELL'S was a plain
straightforward, and, we think, successful effort to show
by HARLOW'S case fairly came within that class, as to
which the House of Lords were perfectly justified in
vindicating their privileges, and also wherein the neces-
sity for those privileges consisted. In defining the vari-
ous objects of those privileges, Lord BROUGHAM stated
these among others—namely, of declaring from time to
time what those privileges were ; of declaring as occa-
sion arose what constituted a breach of them ; of punish-
ing parties pronounced by vote of the Legislature to
have been guilty of a breach of them ; to inquire into
any given matter ; to call all persons before them
necessary for the purpos. s of such inquiry, and to pro-
tect them in respect of evidence given by them on such
occasions. Now, in the case of HARLOW and BAKER,
were the Lords to leave BAKER to be proceeded against,
because, in evidence given before them at their desire,
his disclosures happened to impugn a third party as in-
clined to pursue those practices into which, and the laws
affecting them, the Committee of the Lords desired
especially to inquire ? What sort of inducement to wit-
nesses to come forward with unreserved evidence
before Parliamentary Committees on far more vital
questions than one which might incidentally im-
ply the existence of sporting propensities in a
respectable tobacconist, for example, who indignantly
repudiates the impeachment—what inducement would
the Lords hold out for candid testimony if they did not
protect those who gave it against the sharp practice of
over-zealous attorneys ? limier what obligation would
reluctant witnesses feel to speak the truth which they
might desire to conceal, if they felt that the forum in
which they stood was powerless or unwilling to punish
their contumacy by its own independent action ? What
respect would the public feel for the decisions of such a
forum, which could neither compel evidence from those
who had it to give, but withheld it, nor protect those who,
having given it before therm, should be proceeded against
penally in other tribunals ?
Upon the whole view of this case, as of other recent ones
of the same kind, we arrive at these conclusions—that
in these times the privilege of Parliament can scarcely
be exercised otherwise than for the interests of the
public at large ; that the possible injustice or hardship
resulting to individuals from its being put in motion,
especially in cases of vexatious prosecutions of witnesses
examined before Parliamentary Committees and officers
of either House, is likely to be far less than the absolute
mischief which would ensue to the country from the
virtual abandonment of that privilege, or the submitting
it to the adjudication of the common law tribunals,
which Lord BROUGHAM himself argues san know
nothing about it ; for that privilege, being nowhere de-
fined, forms no part of the written law which the Judges
administer and are the authorised expounders of. And
finally, with Lord CAMPBELL, we call upon the House of
Lords to persist in asserting this privilege upon the pre-
sent occasion in the manner they have already adopted
(nut by pleading), "and thus for ever to put an end to
these contumacious proceedings" against the just, leg

ffitte), 18f. 75c. ; ditto (Calon), par ; ditto (Ganneron), st.
Northern Line (Lailiate). 32f. 50c. ; ditto (It ,samell. 81.
50e. ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 7E 50c. • ditto
(Drouillard), par; ditto (O'Neill), 31. 50c. ; ditto (Jacques
Lefevre), par; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 12f. 50c ;
ditto (Talabot), 27f. 50c; ditto (Compagnie Aleridionale),
51. ; Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie), par. ; ditto,
and Cette (Espeleta), 4f. 50c. ; Creil and St. Quentin, par ;
Paris and Strasburg (Ganneron), 6f. 50c. ; Dijon and Mul-
house, par; Dieppe, 27f. 50c.
MArsamuazo, JULY 10.-Marseilles and Avignon, 962 E 50c. ;
Boulogne, 6201. ; Orleans and Bordeaux, 670; Vierzon,
7401. ; Avignon and Lyons (Talabot), 531 f. 25c. ; ditto (Sebas-
tiani). 507 f. 50c.; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 500 f.;
Bordeaux and Cette (Espeleta), 502 f. 50c. ; Toulon, 4951.
LYONS, JULY 11.-Avignon and Marseilles, 9571., end of
July ; Paris and Orleans, 1,1451., ditto; Paris and Rouen,
1,022 E, ditto; Orleans and Vierzon, 732 E, ditto ; Orleans
and Bordeaux, 6651., ditto ; Boulogne, 600 f. ; Monterau,
522 f. ditto.

MONEY and COMMT RCI AT, N".F.
_

( From The San )
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 6,000 Oates,
2,000 being on speculation, and 1,000 for export. The quo-
tations of Friday were fully supported.--Shares were steady,
but there was, not a great deal doing in them :-
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 5% 5; Belfast and
Ballymena, 614 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 183/4 19%;
Caledonian, 10% 16s. 3d, ; Ditto, Extenson, 2%; Cambridge
and Lincoln, 5 ; Derby and Crewe, 2%; Dublin and Belfast
Junction, 7%; Dublin and Galway, 3% ; Eastern Coun-
ties, 21%; Ditto, Perpetual, No. 2, 14 ; Edinburgh and
Glasgow, Quarter Shares, 181,4 34 ; Glasgow and Dumfries,
18s. 6d. 19s. ; Glasgow, Paistev, and Greenock, 204 1/2 ;
Ditto, Half Shares, 10% ; Grand Junction, 236 ; Ditto, Halt
Shares, 118 ; Ditto, Eighth Shares, 22%; Great County
Down, 3% 14; Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 8%; Hud-
dersfield and Sheffield, 6% • Leicester and Bedford, 7s. 14 ;
Leicester aiad Birmingham, 335. ; Limerick and Water-
ford, 61/2 ; Liverpool and Manchester, New Shares, 42 ; Li
verpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 2% ; London and York,
3% 1/2 ; Leeds and Dewsbury, 19% ; Leeds and West Riding
Junction, 7 ; Manchester and Birmingham, Quarter Shares,
91/s; Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 7%; Manchester and
Leeds, Sixteenth Shares, 9% ; Midland Railway, 194 ; Ditto,
40/. Shares, 303/4 31 ; Ditto, Consolidated Birmingham and
Derby, 150; Newark and Sheffield, 2%; Newry, Armagh,
and Londonderry, % Newry and Enniskillen, 71s. 6d.;
North British, 25; Ditto, Half Shares, 6% ; North Stafford-
shire, 79s 6d; North Western, 4% % ; Oxford and Birming-
ham Junction, 4% 34 ; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver-
hamptoa, 71,E ; Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares,
17 ; Ditto, No. 2, 54 ; Shrewsbury and Herefordshire, 4 ;
Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and Birmingham, 68s. 6d.;
Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheshire, 3% ; South-Eastern
and Dover, New Shares, No. 2, 17% ; Ditto, No. 3, 834 % ;
South Midland, 365. 375. ; Trent Valley, 121%; Trent Valley
Continuation, 345.; Welsh Midland, 68s. 6d. 3%; West
Yorkshire, 614 i ; Worcester and Tring, 265. 6d. ; Dutch
Rhenish, 44 6 ; Jamaica and South Midland, 4%; Northern
of France (Rosamel's) English, 48s. 9d. 51s. 6d.; Paris and
Lyons (Laffitte's), 595.; Ditto (Ganneron's), 2%; Sambre
and Meuse, 7%.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 15.-The sales are
-Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire, 113/4 ; Blackburn,
Burnley, and Accrington, 9% ; Blackburn, Darwen, and
Belton, ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 20 4 ; Cam-
bridge and Lincoln, 5 3-16 ; Churnet Valley, 4% ; Derby
and Crewe, 21/2 % ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, New Quarter
Shares, 81,4 ; Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction,
7-16 prem. ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 19s. ; Grand Union,
1%; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 814
5-16 ; Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 6% ; Leeds,
Dewsbury, and Manchester, 19 ; Leeds and West Riding
Junction, 7 11-16; Leicester and Bedford, 7s. 6d. 7s. prem. ;
Leicester and Birmingham, 345. 335. 9d. ; Liverpool arid
Manchester, Half Shares, 105 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and
Preston, 575. 6d.- 58s. 9d. ; London, Worcester, Oxford, and
Rugby, 114 ; London and York, 31, % ; Manchester, Buxton,
Matlock, and Midland, 5% ; Manchester and Birmingham,
601/s 34 • Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 714 ; Manchester and
Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction, 1%; Man-
chester, Sheffield and Midland Junction, 3,j4 ; Midland Rail-
way Consols, 40/. Shares, 301,4 ; Newcastle, Durham, and
Lancashire, 9-16 1/2 prem. ; North British, 25% ; Ditto, New
Shares, 6% ; North Staffordshire, 3% % ; North Union (A),
176 ; Ditto (B), 107 109 ; North Western, 91s. 6d. 91s. 3d. ;
Nottingham, Erewash, Amber-gate, and Manchester, 465.6 d. ;
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 71/8 ; Preston and
Wyre, Half Shares, 3%; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junc-
tion, 1 9-16 ; Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares,
No. 2, 434 prem. ; Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Union, 2 ;
South Eastern and Dover, No. 3, 8 9-16 ; South Midland,
365. 3d. 375. 6d. ; Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, 16 ;
Welsh Midland, SA 7-16 ; West Lancashire and Coast Line,
114 prem. ; West Yorkshire, 6% %; Whitehaven and Fur.
ness, 23/4 ; Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union, 1% ;
York and Carlisle, 3%; York and-North Midland Extension,
22; Great Northern of France (English), 514.
The Funds are much the same, or perhaps we may say, a
little firmer. Consols 98% % for present transfer, and
9834 % for Account. Exchequer-bills have been again
535. to 555. premium. Bank Stock is 210% to 21114.
The New Three-and-a-quarter per Cents. realize 1021/8 to 4.
Spanish Bonds -are a little firmer. The Actives have
touched 2514 to 34, and the Three per Cents. 353/4 to 361/4.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are 62 to 14, and Belgian
Four-and-a-Half per Cents. 994. Brazil stock is at 9114.
The Share Market is considered to be firmer to alay, and
there is a moderate business doing in the principal railways,
both old and new.

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
bank Stock
i per Cent. Reduced .... 99 tAy 9915
3 per Cent. Consels Annuities 985;g34 983/
New 314 per Cents —1021414 1021.4
Long Annuities to expireJan.lB6o 111,4% 11%
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 ... 111/g 111
'ndia Stock
___

ndia Bonds, 1,0001
Ditto under 1,0001.. .

Consols for Opening 98%3/4 98
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 11/2d 53 55 pm. 56
Ditto 5001.
Ditto Small — pm. ' 57
CLOSING
PRICES.
903/4
904

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto Account
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent
Ditto. Deferred
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela IS
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837
Ditto Deferred
Portuguese 5 per Cents. —
Ditto, Converted 643/4
Ditto, Account —
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent ..
Russian Bonds ` ... - .... 118
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840
Ditto, Account
Ditto, Passive
Ditto 3 per Cent. ... ..
Ditto, Account 35% 361/ 361/2
Belgian 41/2 per Cent.
Dutch, 21/2 per Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 99%1/2 991ji
PRICES OF CLOSING
PAID. A ONE O'CLOCK.
It AMWAY SHARES PRICES,
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush l% 2 1%...
Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 135 134
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Bristol and Exeter 7O
Do. New .... - ........ 2
Caledonian
Ditto Extension ...... 21/2
Cambridge and Lincoln 11/2.-- 43% 5
Chester and Holyhead... 10
Churnet Valley
Coventry and Leicester 11%
Direct Northern
Dublin and Belfast June. 21/2 8
Dublin and Galway..... 21/2 3%
Eastern Counties 141. 165...... 211/2 IA **
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1....5/. 13s. 4d —
Ditto ditto, No. 2 . 133. 4d...
Eastern Union l5 .. ... 22
Ditto Extension ... 11/2 21%
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Ditto Quarter Shares 121/2 —
Ditto New 11l Shares... 21/2 Bl/4
:treat South. and West.

03TE
O'CLOCK.
91q.
9114

36%8
203 A
6434
64j8
641/i
1171 A,

(Ireland)
Ditto Extension
31-eat North of England..100
Ditto New
;mat Western BO ......2131/ 213%
Ditto % Shares ' 50 ll6 1171/ ...... ... 118
4uildford, Fare'm,Ports. 21/2 ... 32% 2%
3arwich
Hull and Selby
Lancaster and Carlisle... 20
London and Birminghm (5t0ck)...244
Do. 14 Shares - 35%
London and Blackwall. 16/. 13s. 4d. 9% % 9%
London and Brighton... 50
London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d 22% % 22%
Lond. & S.Western 41/ 6s 10d
Do. New
London and York 2l/2 ...... 33454 3%
Londonderry& Coleraine 2%.. 3l/2...
-
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen
34
vrin-and Ely
Lynn and Dereham I% 2l/214 ............ 2v,
vianchester and Birmin. 40
Midland... 100 194 ............... 193
Do. New
Nlidland, Birm., Derby 100
Midland Great Western
(Irish)
%ewcastle and Darling-
ton Junction .. 25 ...... 541,4 ' 541
N.-weas& and lierwick 1% 1914 1914
Newry and Enniskillen. 21,4
Newark and SLeffield .. 1% 2% .. • 2%
North British
Do. New
North Staffordshire 22s. ...... 2% 2%
North Wales
Norwich alio Brandon... 10
Oxford and Worcester... 214 74 6% 6/8
r erth and Inverness 21/2? 2
Preston and Wyre
Richmond and West End
.function .. 1
Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
Dudley, and Birm 2%.. 31404. .
South Devon ls
south Eastern & Dover 33/ 2s 4d... 273/4. .......
Do., No. 2.
Do., No. 3
south Wales 2%...... 4%14
Trent Valley and Holy-
head Junction
Waterford sad Kilkenny I ...... . .
Welch Midland
Yarmouth and Norwich. 20
'ork and North Midland 50
Do. Extension
FOREIGN RAILWAY :s.
Boulogne and A miens... 6
Great North. of France
(Laffitte's)
Do. do. (Rosamel's) 2
Jamaica Junction ll/ 5
Do. South Midind. Junc. 1
Louvain and Jemeppe... 4 ... . 5
Namur and Liege
Orkans and Vierzon ... 6 ...... 15
Orleans and Borde.iax... 4 ...... 10%%14
Paris & Lyons, Laffitte's 2
Paris and Lyons, Gan-
neron's, 2
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen . .
Royal North of Spain ... 2
Sambre and Meuse ..... 4
Verona and Anc0n.i...... 1
West Flanders

31/4
25
4814
164
834
4;j4

13(4
23/4
31/s
29%

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Colonial
London Joint Stock lO
London & WestminstQr 20
Union of Australia

151%
15
2634
26

The Constitutionnel states that the presence of the
Duke de Montpensier at Tunis was the means of reconciling the
French Consul, M. Lagau, and the British Consul, Mr. Read, who
was present with his lady at a soirée given by M. Legau, to tho
Prince.

UNIVERSITY OF LoNnoN.—ln consequence of the
great increase in the number of candidates for matriculation in the
University of London this year, the chambers of the University at
Somerset.house not being sufficiently spacious to accommodate the
whole ofthem, the Principal of King's College, on being applied to,
placed one of the lecture-rooms of that institution at the disposal
Of the Senate during the, exarainetion.