The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-15 00:00:00

THE St N, LONDO4NLSATITIADAY MOItNING, rtiIII,ITARY

lowing he estimated as the loss upon each :—The
estimated loss on sugar, 1,300,0001. ; on coal,
183,000/. ; on minor articles imported, being the raw
materials of manufactures including staves, 320,0001.;
on cotton-wool, 680,0001.; on auction duty, 250,000/.; on
glass, 640,000/. ; the total loss to revenue, 3,338,000/. ;
very nearly absorbing the whole of the surplus. lie
did not believe that the income-tax necessarily dimi-
nished the revenue from the assessed taxes, and he
proposed its continuance in order to enable the Govern•
tnent to make this great experiment in the reduction
of taxation. And the period for which he should
propose the income-tax would not exceed the
period for which it had been originally
introduced. He did not ask that the
income-tax should endure for more than three years,
and, at the expiration of that period, he hoped they
should be in a condition to dispense with it altogether.
In every case of reduction he had absolutely repealed
a tax, and, therefore, from the increased consumption
of the article he could not expect any benefit ; but
he hoped that indirect and incidental effects would be
produced, and would be the cause of increased con-
sumption of many articles subject to duty, and by
invigorating the industry and extending the com-
mercial enterprise of the country, and by indirect
channels to supply that void which he could
not hope to supply by direct taxation. These
were the conclusions to which he had come,
after most mature deliberation, and he submitted
them to the judgment of the House. The Right
lion. Gentleman then sat down, amidst great
cheering from the Opposition benches. Indeed, it
was remarkable that throughout the whole of his
speech the cheering, which was on many occasions
most hearty, came almost exclusively from his op-
ponents. His ordinary supporters sat on the Minis-
terial benches in sullen but most significant silence ;
they seemed to be, to make use of a nautical phrase,
quite taken-aback by the Budget. •
A desultory conversation followed, in the course of
which Mr. LIDDELL denied, and Lord HowlcK de-
nounced, the combination of the coal owners in the
north. The latter Noble Lord also protested
against the continuance of the distinction between
free -labour and slave-labour sugar. Several Hon.
Members took part in it, and as had been pre-
viously suggested by Lord Jous RUSSELL, the fur-
ther discussion on the subject was postponed until
Monday.
The CHAIRMAN then obtained leave to report pro-
. gress, and the House resumed, and immediately
afterwards adjourned, at a Quarter past Nine o'Clock.

The debate of Thursday, on Sir CHARLES NAPIER'S
motion for a " Select Committee to inquire into the
manner in which the money voted, since the year
1835, for the construction (..f ships has been expended,
and as to the extent to which the ships so con-
structed were improved," was certainly the most im-
portant which has been taken, as yet, in the House
of Commons since the commencement of the session.

The division by which this valuable motion was lost,
we must add, appears to us to have been one of the
least commendable we have had to record. From the
nature of Sir CHARLES'S very striking statement, it
would be hopeless to attempt any analytical digest of
the facts he adduced ; but they comprise a mass of

details which every reader who desires to acquire a
:air insight into the arcana and iniquities of Admi-

ralty Ship Building, will do well to study. The
general question, suggested by the terms of the Gal-
hint Commodore's motion, is one of such vast import.

ante, at all times, to the well-being, the independence,
the very existence of this country as a First-rate
Power, that we are too overpowered by its import-
ance to risk any review of the speeches it elicited,
which might inadequately represent the grave and
impressive character of the charges adduced by the
gallant mover; the important confirmation those
charges rectived from high professional authority at
a subsequent period of the debate ; or the very lame
and unsatisfactory defence to them offered by that
distinguished officer Sir GEORGE COCKBURN. Sir
GEORGE COCKBURN had, indeed, this point to fall
loack upon, and he was not slow to avail himself of it;
namely, that the charges applied, almost exclusively,
to an epoch of Admiralty and Navy Board
Administration some years prior to the last
accession of Sir GEORGE to office. But how
the House of Commons, with the case before
them, set out in his broad, bold, uncompromising,

manner, by Sir C. NAPIER, and incidentally and even
through the adduction of other particulars into which
Sir CHARLES had not entered, by Captain Rous, from
_ _

the opposite benches (in a speech admirable for the
frank, manly, and holiest tone that pervaded it)—how
the House could be brought to find a verdict for the
Admiralty culprits, and nonsuit their impugner, in a
division of 93 Noes to 32 Ayes, we cannot under-
stand. On such a question, as Sir C. NAPIER truly
remarked, every representative of the people ought to
forget, for the time, on which side of the House he

sits, and vote only according to his own conscientious
conviction of what his duty to the country requires
at his hands. And what were the circumstances in
connexion with the past operations of that department,
to which is confided the supreme control and imme-
diate superintendence of our naval architecture in her
MAJESTY'S dockyards, that the attention of the
House was on this occasion invited to ? Sir CHARLES
told them what was the complement and condition of our
ships of the line and ships of war, in 1800, when he
first entered the naval service, of which the first and
second classes alone could be considered of the highest
character and properties. He then gave a humorous,
but a faithful account of the wasteful and incessant

process of alterations, by cutting down, lengthenin'g,
taking to pieces, altering, and breaking up, which
successive Admiralty Boards had followed, at a vast
and ruinous expense, according to the caprice or the
favouritism, the folly or the incompetency, of the
presiding authorities. He showed how, despite of re-
ports from the most qualified officers, of the tests of
experiment and observation on the performances of
vessels of different classes, those which ought to have
been for ever discountenanced were built in numbers,
only to be lost or laid up shortly afterwards ; and
ships of the force, capacity, armament, and qualities
most to be desired, emphatically discouraged and neg-
lected. The " forty . thieves " (rasies) and the
"donkey" frigates, and the "patent coffin" gun-brigs,
came in for a just share of his sarcastic exposure.
With regard to the unpardonable delinquencies, the
scandalous incompetency of the Admiralty under
Lord MELVILLE'S Administration, during our
last war with America, and the disastrous
results of that reign of mismanagement and
imbecility, he expressed himself in terms of severity
by no means, in our judgment, commensurate with
the official malfeasance of those days. He proved.
irrefragably, that it was the feeling at all Boards of
Admiralty to discourage scientific improvements when
brought forward by civilians : and to this cause,
giving Sir W. SYMONDS, the Surveyor, full credit
for some good vessels, he attributed the failure of the
recent constructions by merely practical men. But
the great force of his speech, and we state it with
regret, was—the exhibition of our slow advances in
naval war-steamer building, and the very capital
defects of the best models we have yet got
afloat ; steam-frigates, for example, without,
in one class, any guns on their main-decks--in another
with guns there, but no means of properly running
them out and working them ; with prows and sterns
too sharp or contracted for the one or two great guns
they are meant to carry ; and other mistakes of
draught-lines, &c., than which we can imagine nothing
more urgently demanding instant rectification. The
Terrible seemed to be admitted on all hands to be the
best steamer-of this kind yet produced, though by no
means faultless. This part of the subject, however,
is of too much importance to be further pursued by us
within our present limits, and we shall therefore, re-
turn to it at an early opportunity.

The result of the proceedings in the Convocation
at Oxford, on Thursday, may well excite the greatest
alarm among the Protestants of the United Kingdom.
Mr. WARD, a man of high standing in the Univer-
sity, in a book lately published by him, has avowed
his conviction that the English Reformation is "des-
titute of all claims en our sympathy and regard ;"
and that were we " to pursue such a line of conduct
as has been therein sketched, in proportion, as we did
so, we should be taught from above to discern and
appreciate the plain marks of Divine wisdom and
authority in the Roman Church, to repent in sorrow
and bitterness of heart our great sin in deserting her
communion, and to sue humbly at her feet for pardon
analearesstitoarllation." express is imp
ossible
iy: find
in unequivocal terms

fullest adherence to the doctrines of the Church of
Rome—the abhorrence of Protestants, and which
every Churchman has taken vows to resist to the ut-
most, yet we find, that at a meeting consisting
of 1,363 members, not fewer than 586 supported Mr.
WARD and the Popish religion. A motion for de-
priving the delinquent of his degrees was then put, and
carried by a majority of only 58. Among the supporters
of Mr. WARD we find the names of Mr. GLADSTONE,
late a Cabinet Minister; Dr. llooa, Mr. H. WILBER-
FORCE, Mr. COURTENAY, the protegee of the Bishop
of EXETER, and Mr. ERNEST HAWKINS, Secretary of
the Society for Propagating the Gospel. We have
not space for comments on this event, so full of
danger to the Reformed faith ; bat they are hardly
required. Every reader can judge for himself, and
every good Protestant will only be the more roused to
resist these innovators till a victory is obtained over
the enemies of liberty and true religion.

Madrid journals of the 6th inst. hare been received,
but they are destitute of interest. The Chamber of
Deputies were still engaged in discussing the Bill for
the prevention of the slave trade, fourteen clauses of
which had been adopted.
The Three per Cents. closed at 31i for cash, and
321 at 60 days; the Five per Cents. at 24 at 60
days ; and the Debt without interest at 7 at 60 days.

The leading French journals are chiefly occupied
with discussions on the present state of the Ministry,

and the probable result of the vote on the Secret
Service Money Bill; but we find no new arguments

and but very little that can interest the English
reader. The Opposition journals continue to main-
tain that the Ministry have already been tried and
found wanting, not on an accidental question, but on
one of the very first importance—peace or war with
England. These are the words of M. THUM'
journal :—" The question of the PRITCHARD indemnity
bore upon the principal act of the Cabinet in the in-
terval of the session ; it had for an instant placed
the peace of Europe in peril ; it was con-
, nected, besides, with the question of Morocco,
as is shown by the correspondence of M.
DE JAI6:AC, and with the question of our
relations with England in the way in which the
Ministry understood the maintenance of them. It
never therefore could have entered into the mind of

any man of sense that such a question, chosen besides
by the Ministry and parties' in the Chambers as a
Parliamentary field of battle, was a question of
secondary order, an accidental question the solu-
tion of which did not directly interest the policy and
existence of the Cabinet. Had not M. Guzzor said
that he would not be satisfied with a doubtful ma-

jority, and that for a good policy, the majority mus
be firm and decided ? After forty-eight hours em•

ployed with all the activity of men who were
playing their last stake, a majority of four was ob-
tained, and then, vi hen'the entire Address was to be
voted, and when the policy of the Cabinet in
its ensemble was more evidently in question, only

three new votes could be added to the number, and
the sense of such a division appears subject to discus-
sion and comment. The journal which has now
doubts did not dissimulate. the gravity of the vote,
and came to the conclusion that the Ministry ought

toootrectoinresevnotliuongtartiolyg, not
rhoavwiintgh ltoosot twheeakmaajoinraitjyo,rliryt,
A majority of eight, 'added the Debate, cannot
satisfy a Ministry like
,that of the 29th of. October.
The 140 members of the Lemardelay club have not
increased this majority of eight. It is a mockery to
equivocate on what is as clear as the sun at noonday.*
Tne Ministerial papers on the other hand contend
that the Ministry could pursue no other course, and
that they would have negleCted their duty to the KING
and the country by resigning before their general
policy was unequivocally condemned. Should the
vote be unfavourable, understood that Ministers
will not immediately resign, or perhaps not resign
till the meeting of a new Chamber—that the urgent
business of the session will be disposed of with all
possible 'dispatch, and the Chamber will then be dis-
solved. The Journal (fps Debate contains some obser-
vation on the state of agriculture in France, the truth
of which will be admitted by' all travellers who have
paid attention to the skeet. Much is yet to be
done-for the country4n-that respect. The following
complaints differ little froin'those made by VOLTAIRE
seventy years ago : •
" Our situation in this respect is deplorable. Meat in
France is scarce and dear. . It is a species of food almost un-
kinn
manufactures.ocwhen theytoear
Our
population
isap rwo
anet seksngocewanwne7rtaohtl ,a
that
procureha en
n gspeasants,sffih e
operative
sufficient,
t iac oud-
larly in the poor departmentsi,ndmo nanotyeraetspflecostha mwietaht
rteegnatridmteos
lt
ywork, on an average, as a French
been established in the construc-
tioncwonassumtewhaoenrnkcme
performan. arises
twice
eifnaa inferiority ihoo
ar icsht
relative
proportion railroads n
f;
animalbu t whenfuu
di t inquireded
by eachw h a what
labourer, was the
it was ascertained that the British labourers consumed twice
as much flesh meat as the •French. We can easily compre-
hend, therefore, the disadvantage which our manufacturers
labour under in their competition with other countries in
consequence of the high pride of meat. The inferiority of our
agricultural produce acts in 'a most unfavourable degree upon
our manufacturers. It has often been asserted that France
ought to produce sufficient iron for her consumption. Iron
has been declared as necessary in war as in agriculture.
Horses likewise are necessary in war, and still we have been
obliged to import 300,000 more than we exported between
the years 1823 and 1841."
The following are miscellaneous extracts from the
Continental papers :
on which tobacco is cultivated, has lately,
who possesses one of the
.cildotiu'AnrrigPaPerr7F9Yrncais, entered into a contract with the
richest do-
mains
says C
tuhni
ent
Government at Paris for, the supply of 1,000,000 kilos.,
2,000,0001 b. of tobacco in leaf.
rhHoeaajdvorbelymhawasl,hedicruehcifetialvird'eeniffisce from the Postmaster-General
and
eTd :t—te."mAslill trhuenspobsetrwaseetnersparoins
that, from Marchl, the AdMinistration will have no further
need and, consequently, that they might
thenceforth eir
ofedisspr:sieces ;
their horses for any other purposes.
The Post-office at Havre has not received any communica-
tion as to the new mode of service to be adopted for the con-
veyance of the dispatches in lieu of that now employed."
A letter from Vienna, of the 4th, in the Journal de Franc-
part of Hungary, and
fithiratt' isn.taotensetyhiallt a
ageftrirtinye Pre-sixttllsdrienn had died of hunger.
A letter from Dresden, Feb: 3, says :—" We have to de-
plore another fatal duel which-.has just taken place at Frei-
berg. One of the officers of the garrison, lieutenant
having at a ball trod on the foot of a lady, who was dancing
with Count Dembinski, a student at the Academy of Mines,
aged 19, and having forgotten to apologise for his awkward-
ness, was challenged by the Count.. The weapons were pis-
tols, and the distance 15 paces.. • The Count grazed the arm
of his antagonist,,but the ball of the latter proved mortal,
striking the Count-in the heart. He had only time to ex-
claim, "My poor mother!" when he fell dead. The de-
ceased was the son of the late General Dembinski, who com-
manded the Polish army' during the last revolution. The
mother is still alive. She lost a few weeks back a daughter,
aged 18, and has another daughter at present dangerously ill."
Tuscany is pot only constructing railroads, but the cele-
brated engineer, Count Marchetti Tomasi de Rietti, is en-
gaged in perfecting a plan fox a junction between the Medi-
terranean and the Adriatic, by•means of a canal, which would
unite the Esino, the Chiasio, and the Tiber. He requires
five years,to complete his work.
The Posdata of Madrid states that the Spanish Govern-
ment has conceded the intended line of railway from Madrid
to Cadiz, with- branches to Toledo and Xerez, for a period of
99 years, to a French company, but it is added that the Bank
of Belgium has engaged to, furnish a third of the capital,
which is estimated at 125 millions of francs.
On Wednesday the- Funds were more firm. The
Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse at 85f. -
E
the New Loan, at 86; the Five per Cents., at 122 f.
oe. ; Orleans Railroad Shqves, 1,157 f. 50c. ; Rouen,
1,097 f. 50c. ; Havre, 885 f.; Spanish Three per Cents.,
401 ; Ditto, Domestic Debt, 321; Belgian Two-and--
a-Half per Cents.„62.

ST. ANN'S SCiCirri.--:--Thursday the half-yearly
general court of the members of the above society was held at the
London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, for the purpose of receiving
a report of the proceedings of the committee and electing twelve
children into the asylum. Alderman Johnson was in the chair.
The report stated that the . institution is in a high state of pros-
perity, and notwithstanding:the, necessarily large expenditure, the
committee had been enabled during the past year to add the sum
of 1,5504 to its permanent funds. The Duke of Cleveland will
preside at the next anniversary festival. The report having been
unanimously adopted, the following resolution was passed
" That,in addition to the children elected by ballot at each half.
yearly election, the child who shall have polled the largest num-
. ber of.votea during the time.that he or she has been a candidate,
shall also be admitted into the Brixton Asylum, provided that he
or she shall have polled upwards of two thousand votes during
that period." The election then commenced, there being one
hundred and two candidates, and at four o'clock, an hour after the
closing of the ballot boxes, the names of the twelve highest on the
poll were read. After voting thanks to the chairman, the meeting
separated. .
TROTTING MATCH roe. 401.—Thursday the match
between Mr. James's horse Paddy and Mr. M'Clue's mare, to trot
in harness over twelve miles of road, came off on two miles of
measured road at Penge, near Dtilivich. The usual and necessary
preliminaries being adjusted, the race was commenced, and the
first mile accomplished in 3 minutes and 35 seconds, and the
second mile turned in 7 minutes and 19 seconds ; and at the com-
pletion of four miles, which ~fiocupltd 14 minutes and 41 seconds,
the mare had an advantage.. They were pulled in and rubbed
down, and resumed the match, and concluded four miles more in
15 minutes and 26 seconds. They were again pulled up and re-
freshed, and appeared ratherpitieue4,
the road being exceeedingly
heavy, and the race became one of strength rather then one of
speed. They again started,
and on the approach of the tenth mile
the driver of the mare deemed it necessary to relinquish the race,
and the horse was driven in the winner, accomplishing the twelve
miles of road in 48 minutes and4s seconds.
The following gentlemen are to be raised to the
rank of Queen's Counsel :--Messrs—Lee, Parry, and Wood,
of the Equity Bar • and Mesas: Ifumfrey, Hayward, Butt,
Russell Gurney, and Montigu Chambers, of the Common
Lew Bar.

MONEY arid COMMEICIAt NEWS,
CITY, FRIDAY
Stocks closed etuietly this afternoon, Consols at 991,4 % for
Money, and 99% for Account ; Bank Stock rallied to
212% ; Reduced Three per Cents. were not higher than par.
Spanish Active Bonds were a trifle better, being at 28 ;
and the Three per Cents. touched 411 A Mexican were
65%
The ridditiOnill tfadAdaiOtis, in iidliNVO,*, Stittrel bate beets
these :—Cambridge and Lincoln were 214 ; Chiifitet
6%; Dublin and Belfast, 3 ; Eastern Union, 9 ; Great
Southern and Western (Ireland), 7 ; Ditto Extension, 3%;
Great North of England, 80; Harwich, 1 ; Lancaster and
Carlisle, 14; South Western, New, 103/ to 14 ; London
and York, 4A to 414: Newcastle and Berwick, 151/2 ;
Norwich and Brandun, 641 Richmond and West
End, 2 to %; Rugby and Tring, 31 Staines and
Richmond,
.% ; South Wales, 314 ; Trent
Valley, 17 ; ork and North Midland, ex. div., 531/4 to 54%;
Do., Half, ex. div., 26% ; Do , Selby, 47 ; Do., Extension,
10% to 11 ; Boulogne and Amiens, 31
; Great Northern of
Fraoce, ; Orleans and Vierzon, 9% to 10 ; Tours and
Nantes, 1, and Bordeaux and Toulouse, 14 % premium. Di-
rect Northern were % discount, and Dublin and Galway par.
The Foreign Exchanges rose pretty generally this after-
noon, but principally on llamburgh, Paris, and Antwerp.
(Fro'. The Sun of Last Night.)
A large business was done in Cotton at Liverpool yester-
day. Sales, 10,000 bales, of which about one third was on
speculation.—Shares were quoted as follows :—Birmingham
and Gloucester, 134 ; Bristol and Gloucester, 59 ; Caledo-
nian, 7% ; Chester and Birkenhead, 39%;; Chester and
Holyhead, 8 74 ' • Dublin and Belfast, 5/. 16s. 3d.; Churnet
Talley, 81/2 7% ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 30s. 6d.; Glasgow
and -Greenock, 151/ ; Grand Junction, Quarter, 56 55 ;
Lancaster and Carlisle, 2914 ; Lancaster and Preston, Three-
quarters, 311,4 ; London and Birmingham (321.), 4314 ;
London and Brighton, 55 ; London and York, 6% ; Man-
chester and Birmingham, 65.; Midland Counties, 1261,4 127 ;
Newcastle and Berwick, 1314 ; North British, 13%; Scot-
tish Central, 6 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 105; South-
Eastern, 41% ; Dtto (No. 1), 16% ; Trent Valley, 17% 15%;
Paris and Orleans, 45 ; Paris and Rouen, 4214 ; Boulogne
and Amiens, 5 • Northern of France,
An intense Clegree of anxiety is expressed in all circles
this morning for the exposé of the Minister in the House of
Commons this evening. So short a period will elapse ere the
full details will be laid before the public, that it is scarcely
necessary to refer to the current reports of the day as to the
changes which are likely to be made in the tariff, and possi-
bly in the income-tax. We cannot, however, but reiterate
the rumours which are in increased circulation, that some
material change will be made in the sugar, the tea, and other
duties ; and buyers to a very considerable extent are holding
back in order to ascertain the variations to be proposed this
evening.
The advices which have come to hand from Canada this
morning, are generally speaking barren of interest, with the
exception of the following extract relative to the
lumber trade, which is from the Quebec Gazette of the
13th ult. :
" A public meeting had been held at Toronto, on the 4th
inst., of shipowners and others concerned in he carrying
trade of Canada, at which it was resolved that a petition
should be drawn up and presented to the Legislature, setting
forth the grievances under which they labour from the in-
terference of foreigners in the trade. The nature of the
grievance is stated to be, that timber, cut and dressed
for market on the shore of Lake Erie, and throughout the
western part of Canada West, is there purchased by foreign-
ers, carried by them in foreign vessels to French Creek, a
port in the United States, rafted there; afterwards brought
into Canada, entered at the Custom-house at Coteau du Lac
as foreign lumber, nominally pad ing a duty of 5 per cent.,
and again shipped for the British market as Canadian
lumber." •
Dates of December 20, from the Cape of Good Hope, state
that at Natal matters were still unsettled as regards the
emigrant farmers, and that many of them were leaving for
Delgoa Bay.
There is a more firm market for money this morn-
ing, the pressure occasioned by the settlement of
the Railway and other Share accounts having, to a
great extent, passed off very satisfactorily. Consols for the
Account have been done at 99% %, and for looney 991/.2
The Three per Cents. Reduced keep at about 10014 ; the
New Three-and-a- Quarter per Cents. at 100%. Exchequer-
bills 545. to 565; India Bonds at 70 premium; and Bank
Stock at 1111/2 to 112%.
There has not been any business of extent done in the
Foreign Funds this morning. Brazilian Bonds have been
quoted at 88 ; Mexican at a fall from 36 to 35%; Portuguese
Converted at 58; Spanish at 27%, the Three per Cents.
at 40%; and the Dutch Four per Cents. at 98% 3%.
The Share Market is somewhat heavy this morning, gene-
rally speaking. The usual list will furnish the correct quo.
tations.

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock ..
47
/4,
• 3,

3 per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consols .. 991,6% 99%
New 31A per Cents
Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 12% 1-16 12 1-16
India Bonds, 1,0001..
Ditto under 1,0001.
Consols for Account.
Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., 112 d.... 56 54 56 pm. 56
Ditto 500/. .
Ditto Small
ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839 BB
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 ......
Ditto, Account
Ditto, Deferred Stock l6l/2%
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Converted
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840
Ditto, Account — 2
Ditto 3 per Cent. 403/4 41%
Ditto, Account 4l 14
Dutch, 214 per Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 98X4541 983 A
Ditto, 5 per Cent — 991%
PRICES OF CLOSING
PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. piuurs.
RAILWAY SHARES
Birmin and Gloucester. 100 132 1351/2 ...... --

Ditto New Shares 171/2 33 ...
Ditto 1,4 Shares
Bristol and Exeter
Ditto New.... . ......... 2
_6l/2

35%

8%
--+

Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ...... 59
CalJdonian
Cambridge and Lincoln 1% 4 31;04 ......
Chester and Holyhead... 5
Cliurnet Valley
Direct Northern
Dublin and Galway..... 21/4 2l/2
Dublin and BelfastJunc. 21,4 —
Eastern Counties 141. 165.... 171
Eastern Union lO . ...
Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Great South. and West.
(Ireland) -
Ditto Extension
Great North of England..100
Ditto New
Ditto New 2 -
Great Western BO ......17714 -
Ditto % Shares
Guildford, Farn'm,l'orts. 21/2_ .. 41/2
Harwich
Lancaster and Carlisle l5
London and Birminghm (Stock)......—
Ditto, Quarters...
London and Brighton... 50 551,4 56%
London and S. Western 4116 s 10d 80 ..
Ditto New 2% l2 •••
Ditto New
London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d. 181A3A
London and York .....• ')
Manchester and Birmin. 40
Ditto 1,,i Shares
Midland 100 1251/2
Ditto New 2 ..... 814
Midland, Ilium, Derby...100
Newrasiie and Berwick 11/2 ...... 141/2 16
Newry and Enniskillen. 21/2
Newark and Sheffield ... 11A, 2% .....
North British

—„..... —.... ..
Ditto New 1
. ......
Norwich and Brandon... 10
Richmond and West End
Junction
Rughy,Wor'ster,& Tring 1
Shrews., Wolverharnp.,
Dudley, and Birm 2l i 61,01 ,
South Devon... lO ...... 151
South Eastern & Dover 3312 s 4d... 41:
Ditto, No. 2.
,
Ditto, No 3 ... 21-,

2%
21/
51?9
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71
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Staines and Richmond... 1
South Wales 212...... 51/1/2 ...... ..,
Trent Valley
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ..
Yarmouth and Norwich. 20 ...._ 26 /2
York and North Midland 50 lO5
Ditto % Shares 25
Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 20
Ditto, Selby 2O —
Ditto Extension:— ... 114 —

.041,4
51%

.24
5%

FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens... 2
Great North. of France.. 4
Orleans and Bordeaux... 2
Orleans and Vierzon ... 2 ...
Paris and Lyons .. '
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Strasbourg ... 2
Tours and Nantes 1
Bordeaux and Toulouse 2
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 12. —We have
had an extensive business done, generally at lower prices :
Blackburn and I'reston, 141/. ; Bristol and Exeter, 82 ex
new ; Eastern Counties, Perpetual, No. 2,26 s ; Man-
chester and Birmingham, 65 64%; Ditto, Quarter Shares,
111 ; Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 111/; Birken-
head, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 7% I,‘ ; Black-
burn, Burnley, and Accrington, 574, 6 ; Bolton, Wigan, and
Liverpool, 7 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 3% ; Churnet Valley,
81,4 54; Liverpool, Ormakirk, and Preston, 3% 3-16; Lon-
don and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, 4; Newark and
Sheffield, 2% ; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 1 11-16;
Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, Dudley, &c., 6%; :Southport
and Euxton, 3%; Trent Valley, 17% ~/1.

12

42%

MARSEILLES, FEB. B.—Yesterday morning, at
half-past ten, Sir Win. Follett entered this port on board the steamer
Alecto, from Naples. Sir William, on his passage, experienced most
rough weather, so much so that it was at one time expected the
Alecto would be obliged to run into Toulon. During his stay in the
Bay of Naples, the Alecto ran aground and lost all her boats. She
leaves in a day or two for England to be paid off, having been five
years on the Mediterranean station. Such has been the violence of
the north-west winds for the last fortnight, that upwards of 200 ves-
sels have been o:diged to seek shelter in the ports of Sardinia.
THE WEATHER.--THE PAaas.—The weather
on Wednesday was intensely cold,the wind blowing keenly from the
east. During the night the frost was most severe, and at break of
day on Wednesday the streets of the metropolis had the appearance of
sheets of ice, the pavement being extremely slippery. The snow
which fell during the tint two days of the week lies in seine places
four feet deep. This is the case on the Lammas lands at Fulham,
which at high tides are usually under water. At the Receiving-
house on 'Wednesday farenoon, the mercury, at ten, was as low
as 14 degrees--the lowest point it has reached this winter. The
fineness of the day caused the parks to be thronged, and thousands
disported themselves upon the ice. In the Regent's-park the ice
was in excellent condition. The number of persons who ventured
-on was upwards of 4,000. Several duckings took place in the
course of thi day, but none of any moment. In St. James's-park
the ice was very unsafe. This is always the case in this park;
but, despite of this, there was a good number of skaters. The
ice broke several times, and, although many were immersed,
nothing serious occurred. Upon the Serpentine the ice was in a
bad state, but in the middle of the day the skaters were very nume.
roue. No accidents occurred. In Kensington.gardens the number
of slaters during the day was upwards of 1,000. The members of
the Skating Club were there. Several of them went knee deep into
the wee:, Dut were rysecii.b, PI out.
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