The Sun.
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THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 2, 1E144

the Counsel for the Crown from saying who that
person was. Sir J. GRAHAM supplied the deficiency,
and announced that he was the "person high in
office " alluded to. Lord JOHN RUSSELL made
a brief speech on the occasion. The conclusion was
admirable: and told with great effect. Every discus-
sion that takes place on these Irish trials only tends
to confirm the public mind in the belief that the tra-
versers were not justly tried. " I will state my be-
lief," said his Lordship, "that if the same offence
had been committed in this country, supposing the
Attorney- General for En glan d had pursued a somewhat
similar course, we should have had a different charge
from the Judge, and a different verdict from the jury.
That is my opinion ; and be the persons who they may,
I never will cease from endeavouring to obtain for the
people of Ireland the full enjoyment of all those rights
and privileges, of the possession of which the people
of England are so justly proud." These generous sen-
timents were responded to by loud cheers.
On the order of the day for going into Committee
of Supply, Mr. S. CRAWFORD renewed his motion
for redressing grievances before granting supplies.
Mr. BLEWITT seconded the motion; and on a division
there were for the motion, 15 ; and against it, 95.
The House then resolved itself into a Committee
of Supply. Sir C. NAPIER complained of the thinness
of the House, when millions was voted away, • and
also blamed the reporters for shutting their books ;
but on this occasion he had no reason to complain,
for they reported his speech fully, and, though their
books were closed, we have no doubt the Gallant
Commodore's remarks about the navy were faithfully
given. Some other speeches were made, and several
large grants voted, and the House resumed.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed
of, and the House, at One o'Clock, adjourned till
Monday.

Mr. R
;,onigtontr7n

to which we

adverted—of the " Committee on Harbours of Re-
fuge." This motion urged upon the House the pro-
priety of addressing the Crown "for the appointment
of a Commission of scientific and competent persons
to consider of the best means for giving effect to the
recommendations of that Committee." The Hon.
Member, with reason, rested his appeal to the Legis-
lature on the main ground of its connexion with
truly conservative duties of the highest order, inas-
much as they respected not only the security of our
commerce, but the protection of life and property
from losses at sea. We think Mr. RICE is fairly
entitled to every credit for having divested his ad-
dress to the House, as much as possible, of all appear-
ances of local prepossession. He felt, as we do,
that the interest of the topics embraced in his
speech was national ; and he treated those
topics, accordingly, in a large and general manner.
On this point we are compelled to repeat the expres-
sion of our own feeling—that matters of higher im-
, port—of nearer concernment—not merely to the
trade, coasting and foreign, and to the commercial
marine and capital of the country, but—to the safety,
and consequent political independence and grandeur
of the empire, cannot be brought under the conside-
ration of Parliament. It was obviously impossible
for the Hon. Gentleman to avoid attributing para-
mount importance to the plans already submitted to
the Select Committee by civil engineers, and sane-
tioned by the very highest naval and military autho-
rities, for the construction not only of a harbour of
refuge, but of strong forts and commanding
batteries at the mouth of the Thames. Our
only wonder is, how works of such indispen-
sable necessity and palpable importance can
have been so long neglected, in the face of such
earnest suggestions as those offered by the Report of
the Select Committee in question. What have the
Government been doing in the interval which has
elapsed since that " first" Report (laid upon the table
in August last) was issued out to Members ? What
has been " moved," in the business, by the coun-
cillors of her MAJESTY since the appearance of the
second Report ? Absolutely nothing. No man
can tell how nearly the moment approaches when
reasons of State—not the mere suggestions of a wise
fore-casting policy, but the imperative demands of
some present, overruling exigency—may require that
those works should have been deliberately planned—
carefully constructed—completed--in an effective
condition. Let us forbear to draw more distinctly
the outline of unfortunate, but very possible, contin-
gencies which may arise to interrupt our present re-
lations with some of the Foreign Powers, from whom
her MAJESTY, indeed, always receives " the most
friendly assurances"—at the beginning of the session,
and before the voting of supplies !
Grant the contingencies in question to be but
"possible,"—we ourselves entertain no notion that they
are " probable :"—and there is case enough for the
duty of at least preliminary preparations In such
matters on the part of the Government. But what is
the fact ? The various professional and civil wit-
nesses who gave their :valuable evidence before the
Select Committee, with the Duke of WELLINGTON,
and a dozen Captains of the Royal Navy—Mr.
Wssucisn, and many other eminent engineers at their
head—might as well have sat down with the Tam-
worth farmers, to dine off Sir R. pEsses imaginary
Birmingham bull,—as to have calculated on any more
substantial benefit resulting from all the pains they
took to satisfy the inquiries of the Committee.
Our paragon of Premiers—whose self-appre-
ciation doubtless attributes to his own official
individuality all the administrative sagacity of a
COLBERT, united with the executive energy of PITT,
and the dispassionate judgment of Fox, has not only
done nothing in the business—he has not yet came
to any determination, even ! To the temperate, sen-
sible speech of Mr. RICE, and the liberal offer of Sir
Joins REID, to raise any money which might be re-
quired for carrying into effect the proposition to make
Dover a " harbour of refuge," he replied by a sorry
joke about the singular coincidence of this motion
having been brought forward by one Hon. Member for
Dover, and seconded by another. Then he went into a
rambling summary of the evidence given by some of
the principal witnesses examined, in order to illustrate
the conflicting nature of their views as to the preferable
localities to be selected for the harbour of refuge ;
and, by what we must denounce as a mere clap-trap
to enlist a few cheers from Irish Members, hinted his
own preference for Holyhead over Dover. Now, no
parties can be more perfectly alive than we are, to the
value of any undertaking which shall shorten and im-
prove the communication between the two capitals,
Dublin and London; but really the best answer to
all the balanced pros and cons of Sir ROBERT'S
mystified oration—his sage discoveries that A.
was for one point, and B. was clear that
another was the more eligible for a new harbour ; and
his tedious platitudes about the duties of the Scientific
Commission, of which he gave a quasi promise,—is also
the shortest,—Dover MUST BE made a harbour of
refuge, and immediately.
We shall return to this subject in the course of a
day or two. For the present we can only enter our
protest against the withdrawal of such a measure as
Mr. RICE'S, on account of a speech so jejune, feeble,
and worthless, so full of plausible nothings, and slip-
pery common places, as the Premier's.

The Chronicle of yesterday contains some judi-
cious remarks on the subject of Parliamentary de -
bates. Our Contemporary—and no wonder—is sorely
afflicted at their intolerable length and prosiness, and
suggests the expediency of their being subjected to a
rigid process of curtailment. "Why on earth," he
asks, "do we repeat all the rubbish which no one
listens to in the House itself ? The reporters should
take the tone of the House in this respect
one of the body might stay to make a brief
note of all that passed between five and nine
o'clock, and the rest might pair and dine. If
it were once well understood that, on ordinary
occasions, men who had got no footing in the
House would get none in the newspapers, a
great check would be placed on mediocre oratory.
We invite our Contemporaries, without reference to
party, to give a candid consideration to this project
of Parliamentary Reform." There is no question—
to parody the language of BURKE—that a predilec-
tion for prolixity in the House of Commons " has in-
creased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished,"
and we trust, therefore, that the Chronicle's seasonable
hint will be carried into practice forthwith. It will
not, indeed, put a stop to that cacoethes loquendi in
which many Honourable Members are so prone to
indulge, and to which—it may be .observed -by the
way—those are usually the most addicted, who are

the least gifted with the oratorical faculty; but it
will, at any rate, be attended with this beneficial
effect—namely, that it will spare an inoffensive
and long-suffering Public the infliction of perusing
an almost interminable mass of, what our Con-
temporary felicitously calls, " rubbish." In some
cases this infliction amounts to a positive
calamity. Conceive, for instance, two mortal
columns of a PETER BORTRWICR, such as ap-
peared in the Post the other day ! The effect
of perusing a speech of this length, unrelieved by
the slightest fancy, wit, sarcasm, or information
of any kind, must be quite excruciating ; and the
Public will po doubt jump eagerly at the opportunity
of being disembarrassed henceforth of such an appal-
ling visitation. In the extended form in which the
debates at present appear in the daily prints, it is im-
possible for nine out of ten readers, whose leisure
hours are necessarily restricted, to peruse them with
attention; they must perforce skip every second
column, as little boys skip the tall words in their
nursery-books; and the consequence is, that they
glean but an imperfect and superficial view of the
question in discussion ; and not seldom throw down
the paper, from sheer despair of being able to
form any sound opinion respecting the cogency or other-
wise of the different arguments urged in the course
of the debate. Hon. Members should bear in mind
that an English day consists but of twelve hours, and
that the industrious portion of the community, who
constitute the mass, can devote but a small portion of
these hours to the perusal of their speeches. A very
sound and argumentative oration may be commenced
and concluded within a quarter of an hour, but not a
few of our Parliamentary debaters take a whole hour to
say nothing ; and, consequently, theyproduce no other
effect on the House than that of setting it fast asleep,
-sioning a desperate rush of unsympathising
to the door. But if Hcfhourable Members
!eds talk their full of " fluent nonsense,"
let them, in compassion to the Public,
allow a respite of one day in the week
from the visitation of their oratory. Let them give
up Wednesday to peace and quietness—make it, in
short, a sort of Parliamentary Sabbath—and thereby
establish a claim to the undying gratitude of the vast
majority of their readers. Surely if they get upon their
" eloquent legs"—as Counsellor PHILLIPS would say
—four days in the week, they have every reason to
be satisfied with their good fortune, without encroach-
ing on the Wednesday !

Madrid papers to the 22d have been received, but
they add little to the intelligence published yester-
day. The Corresponsal states that the English and
French Consuls at Carthagena had proceeded to Mur-
cia on the 17th, for the purpose, it was supposed, of
offering terms of submission on the part of the insur-
gents. According to the same authority, the
blockading force before Carthagena consisted of 4,000
troops of the line and 6,000 National Guards. This
is inconsistent with the fact stated in the Ministerial
journals, that all the National Guards had been dis-
armed.

The Three per Cents. were done at 30/ at 60 days ;
and the Five per Cents. at 23 for cash, and 2.24 at 60
days.

The affair of Otaheite is the passion of the :day
among our volatile and excitable neighbours. No
one talks or writes about anything else; but, with
the exception of a brief statement in the Paris Globe,
by no means creditable to a French officer, there is
neither argument nor news in the articles on this
nine days' wonder. " It appears to us evident," says
that journal, " that Admiral DUPETIT THOUARS, a
seaman so distinguished, and so worthy of the esteem
of all, was seized with a momentary hallucination
when he took it into his head that the flag of Queen
POMARE7 with its closed crown, was an insult to
France. It does not appear to us less evident that
this his first mistake generated a. second, when
the QUEEN, having written a letter addressed to
the King of the FRENCH, prayed him to have
the kindness to get it carried to its place of destina-
tion. The Admiral refused her his direct intervention,
and referred the QUEEN to Captain BRUAT, who
had been installed Governor of Otaheite, directing his
letter with the address of—To MadamePornare ! Thus,
a French Admiral thought he owed no special respect
to a Queen whom he had just dispossessed; he
refused her, even on the ground of temporary respect,
the qualification which he gave her the day before,
and which was due to, her at least until his acts had
been approved of by his Government. It is difficult
to comprehend how the Admiral, whose character is
honoured by every one, did not perceive that Royalty
always leaves an august trace on the brow where it
has resided, and that the example of the brawlers of
1793, who called the noble and unfortunate MARIE
ANTOINETTE Madame Capet, was not precisely of all
historical examples the best and most happy to
imitate."

The National reckons on a speedy change of Mi-
nistry, but unfortunately for its party the change
would be of no service, as it would only substitute
for the " man of Ghent," the man who has aban-
doned Ancona. The following are the only extracts
of the slightest interest from the Journals :

" The Aube frigate arrived at Breston the 24th inst., bring-
ing home M. Barrot, the French Consul-General at Hayti,
with 1,600,000 f., paid by the Haytian Government as the in-
stalment on the indemnity to the colonists. As to the loan,
the President, not being able to meet the payment, has,
says the Moniteur Parisien, entered into a solemn engage-
ment, in the name of the Republic, to pay the three half-
years' interest in arrear on the Ist July next."
" The Official Gazette of Naples, of the 16th ult., publishes a
Royal decree, reducing the interest of the Neapolitan public
debt from five to four per cent. The holders who prefer re-
imbursement to the conversion of their stock are to be repaid
at par, gradually by lots to be drawn twice a year—viz.,
June and December ; but they are to be allowed two months
after each drawing to accept the conversion, if they should
then prefer it to reimbursement. It is intended to extin-
guish the Five per Cent. Stock by means of the sinking fund ;
but, as this amounts to only 800,000 ducats (about
3,400,0000 f.), it will require 33 years to effect the reim-
bursement, if the holders generally should object to accept the
New Four per Cent. Stock."

On Wednesday the French Funds were more
firm, the Three per Cents. closing at 82f. 35c., and
the Fives at 125 f. 75c.

THE BOURSE--•WEDNBSDAY, FEB. 28.

Ffxst

Highest Lowest

Last

Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. •• 125 70 .• 125 75 • • 125 65 125 70
Three per Cents.— • • 82 25 .. 82 40 .. 82 25 .- 82 40
Bank of France... 3260 ..3260 ..3260 ..3260
Laffltte Bank, I,ooof. Sharesllo7 50 —llO7 50 —llO5 ..1105
5,000 f. SharessoBo ..5080 ..5080 —5OBO
Belgian Bank
Belgian Fives. 1051 • • 1051 .. 105 .. 105
1840 .• ••• • • • 108/ • • 1081 .. 108 .. 108
1842 •••••• •• 1091 .. 1091 .. 1091 .• 1091
Spanish Active •••••• • . • • • . 32* • • 331 .. 32* • • 33*
Passive .••.•• • • • • • 51 • • Si • • 5; • • 51
Portuguese Five per Cents.. 46 • • 46 • • 46 .. 46

Neapolitan .... .. - ...... .... 103
_25 .. 103
_3O . • 103
_l5 .. 103 30

Roman
RAILWAY SHARES.
Versailles, R.B • •• • • 343 75 .. 343 75 343 75 343 75
L.R.
Rosen 835 .. 835 .. 835 .. 83.5

Rouen to Havre.
Orleans ••••••.••• • • • - • • • • 850 • • 850 •• • 847 50 .. 847 50
Strasburg to Rale•• • • •• • . 247 50 .• 247 50 .. 245 .. 246 25
Avignon to Marseilles•• • • • • 756 25 .. 756 25 .. 756 25 .. 756. 25
RAILWAY SHARES, FOR•THR ACCOUNT.

•
Ver.:tines, L. 8... • .
Ronen ••• • • • •

•• 167 §0
835 '

Rouen to Havre••••.......• 676 25 676 25 676 25 .. 676 25
Orleans

Strasburg t0:8a10.... ...... 247 50 .. 248 75 .. 245 .. 246 25
Avignon to Marseilles.• .. 757 50 • • 757 50 .. 755 .. 755

FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS, FEB. 27.—1 n the sitting of the Chamber of
Representatives to-day, the Minister of Finance presented a
project of law for the conversion of the loan of 100,800,000 f.
at 5 per cent. into 44 per cent., by creating a new loan of
94,836,000 f., to pay off the debt of 80,000,000 f., at 2i per cent.
The Chamber continued the debate on the article of the
budget of the department of public works, relative to the
iron railway.
We receive from different quarters details of the inunda-
tion of the valley of the Senne, which seems to have done
much damage ; the waters rose still higher yesterday even-
ing. The causeway of the bridge of Lacken, leading to the
Palace, was already under water for a considerable distance.
We think it right to notice the observations which are
daily made to us respecting the steamers belonging to the
English Company which ply between between London and
Ostend, and Dice versa. We are asked why does not the
English Company employ one of its steamers in plying be-
tween London and Dover? especially now that there is a
railway by which the journey from Dover to London is per
formed in four hours. This observation appears to be the
more just, as many travellers who suffer from sea-sickness
would. certainly prefer a route which would diminish nearly
ten hours the time they would pass on board.
The interest felt in the fate of O'Connell and his country
has produced at Bonn, in some circles, a resolution to collect
all over Germany signatures to an address to the man whom the
English call an Agitator, and the Irish, Liberator. In every
city a list is to be opened, headed—" List of subscribers to an
address to Daniel O'Connell, the Man of Ireland." The lists
are to be sent to Professor Waller, at Bonn. The address is to
be forwarded by the end of March. We have the draft of the
address before us, but we do not think it proper to publish it
till the persons from whom the invitation proceeds sign their
names to it. A similar step is said to be contemplated in
other places, for instance in Ulm.

OVERLAND MAIL.—The Overland mail for the 4th
March, is by a notice issued from the General Post-office, de-
tained till the 6th.
FRENCH WHALERS.—Advices received from the
Sandwich Islands of October 26. state that the whalers
Jonas of Nantes, the Adele of Havre, and the Ajax, of
Havre, were lying in Hondulu Bay with full cargoes, and
were about to proceed homeward.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, FRIDAY EVENING.

Stocks closed with a quiet appearance, business having
been rather limited throughout the day. Consols were 973 to ;
India Bonds were done at 86s. prem. There was a sale in
the Reduced Three-and-a-Half laer Cents. at 103, but they
closed at 1031.
The Spanish market was not quite so good at the termina-
tion of business, the Fives being 253 to 25 ; and the Threes, 36
to 35i ' • Portuguese Converted were 45i to 46i ;, Brazil Bonds
were done at 801 ; Spanish Treasury Bonds realised 70.

The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been
these :—Birmingham and Derby were 42 discount ; Birming-
bam and Gloucester, 3 premium ; Bristol and Exeter, 4 to
13 ; and Midland Counties, 12 discount. Chester and Holy-
head have been Great Western 323 to 333 ; Ditto New,
19 ; Birmingham, 134 ; South Western, 364 ; Norwich and
Brandon, 4; Northern and Eastern, 12; Paris and Rouen,
121 ; South Eastern Scrip, 103 ; York and North Midland
New, 34 ; and Ditto, Scarborough Branch, 17 to 163 prem.
There was no alteration calling for notice in the rates of
the Exchanges upon the principal continental cities.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The Cotton Market at Liverpool was very steady yester-
day. Sales 4,000 bales—viz., 200 Surat at 4d. to 73d. ; 100
Bahia at 63d. ; 200 Egyptian at 73d. to 73d. ; and the rest
American, at 53d. to 93d. for Orleans. There was no promi-
nent feature in Shares. The market was firmer. Great
Western Halves were 683; Liverpool and Manchester, 2213;
Birmingham, 235 ; Ditto Thirds, 403 ; Brighton, 431 ; Man-
chester and Leeds, 111; Midland Counties, 88 Paris and
Lyons, 21. 16s. ; Paris and Orleans, 324 ; South Eastern, 353.
We have intelligence to the 29th December from the Cape
of Good Hope. One writer states :—" Since my last, infor-
mation has reached me of the release by Moeke of the Loyalist
farmers, who had been arrested by him on their way as a
deputation to the British Commissioner at Natal. Their
papers were seized and copies taken, but the originals were
returned to them, and they were allowed to prosecute their
journey.
" A fracas had taken place between one of Moeke's and
one of Oberhanster's field cornets. The former went to the
residence of the latter, by order of Moeke, to take into cus-
tody an individual charged with treachery towards him. The
execution of this order was, however, resisted, a battle with
yoke keys ensued, and the upshot of the affray was that the
Loyalist field cornet came off victorious.
" The locusts have destroyed all the crops of the emigrants
between the Modder river and Philipolis district : Stennen-
burgh Spruit has also suffered severely. The ravages of this
insect in the Colesburgh district have been considerable,
though partial."
There had been a fight between the Tambookies and the
Galekas (Kreili's tribe), in which 100 Tambookies, at least;
have fallen. It appears that for some time the conflict was
sustained with equal success on both sides, when a party of
Katirs, armed with guns, who are also residing in that
country, decided the fortune of the day by joining the
Galekas, and putting the Tambookies to flight.
The wool exports were likely to be very large, as the
quantity arriving at Port Elizabeth was considerable. The
value is estimated at full 75,0001., and the quality is highly
spoken of.
The George Washington and the French packet both ad-
vise rather less furor in the cotton markets of America, and
many are already anticipating serious consequences to the
speculators who have come in more recently. The prospects
for the holders of State Stocks appear rather better, but we
should advise due caution before making investments. A
seizure on a large scale had been made at New York on board
the Oxford packet-ship, being of woollen goods.
The English Funds have been rather quiet to-day. The
Government broker has taken 20,000/. Consols for the Corn,.
missioners for the reduction of the Debt, at 973, atlcl the
range generally upon private purchases has been from 973
to 973 for Money, and 973 to 973 for the Account.
The Unfunded Debt is firm. Exchequer Bills have realised
695. to 71s. premium, and East India Bonds are 86s. to 85s.
Bank Stock is worth 1953. The New Three-and-a-Half per
Cents. have been marked 102 h to 4 ; Reduced 1033 to 3, and
the Three per Cents. 98 to 3.
In the Foreign market there has been a fair business
r (Thing. Spanish Actives realise 254 to 3 ; the Three" per. Cents.
have been 363 to 353. Mexican are 344 to 3-; Colombian,
13-3 to 143; and Peruvian, 303 to 31. The accounts from
Madrid continue rather indefinite, nor has any decisive affair
yet "copse off" in the provinces. Portuguese ,Bonds have
been firm, at 46 to 453. Dutch Stock is not so good.
The Share Market is quiet, but the quotations are Steady
generally. Brighton are 63 to 63, and South Eastern 144
discount ; Birmingham are 134 to 1353, and South Western
353 to 353 premium.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 29.7—There is no
new feature in our market to-day, and business has been.
transacted in the following :—Bristol and Exeter, 683.;
Manchester and Birmingham, 403 to A; Manchester and
Leeds, Quarter, 93 ; Midland Counties, 87 ; Sheffield arid'
Manchester, Quarter, 73 ;:31anchester Assurance, 10 to 103.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red. 9B Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent. Cons. ...... 97 Ditto Old Annuities
3% per Cent. Red lO3 Ditto New Annuities... 96%
New 5 per Cent lO2
Ex. Bills, 1,0001. 1501... 70 pm
New 334 per cent.
69 pm
Long Annuities to expire
Ditto Small 7O pm
Ditto 00/.
Jan. 1860.,...... 12 J Bank Stock for Acct 195
Oct. 1859 12% India Stock for Acct.... 278%
Jan. 1860 12% Consols for Acct. 973f
FOREIGN FUNDS. •
Austrian, 5 per Cent ..... Portuguese,s per Cent 75%
Belgian, 5 per Cent - 10531 Ditto, New Ditto
Brazilian Bonds eAN Prussian, 5 per Cent —
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... 3'i Russian, 5 per Cent
chllian, 6 per Cent lO5 Ditto, Metallic
Colombian, 6 per Cent • 13% Spanish, 5 per Cent '2s
Ditto, 1824 ,Ditto, 3 per Cent » .............353{
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent 93 !Ditto, Deferred l4
Danish, 3 per Cent
Greek, 1825, 5 per Cent — Exchange • —t —c.
Mexican,s per Cent ... .
Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent... 30% Ditto, 5 per Cent 10134
SHARE
Birmingham and Derby (100 paid) 5B
Birmingham and Gloucester (100 ......
Ditto New (17% daid) -- lB
Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) 63
Chester and Hulyhead ( 5 paid)
Great Western (75 paid)
Ditto Half Shares (50 paid) ...........
London and Birmingham (Stock)
Ditto New Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) 283(
Midland Counties (100 paid) BB
Norwich and Brandon ( 2 paid) 6
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
Paris and Rouen (20 paid) 3231
South Eastern and Dover (5U paid) 35%
Ditto Scrip (25 paid) 35%
York and North Midland (50 paid) ll9
Ditto New Shares (20 paid)
York and Scarborough Branch (2e paid)
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YESTERDAY.)
Amsterdam ...... CF. 12 6 Gibraltar
Ditto, at sight..., l2 4 Leghorn 3O 75
Rotterdam 2U. 12 63 Genoa 25 95
Antwerp
Hamburgh 31.8. 13 15 Venice 47
Altona l4 0 Naples
.......... 383
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 70 Palermo, per cm 1173
Ditto, 3 months ...... 26 90 Lisbon!
53i
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 95 Rio Janeiro 23
Frankfort on Maine.. 122 Bahia 23
Petersburgh, 3 U 3... 363 Buenos Ayres
Berlin ............ ..... 7 NewYork,2ldys sight
Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M 957 Philadelphia ,
9 58
Trieste, ditto
Madrid ......... .
Cadiz
Bilbao 36 New Doubloons..... 0 0 0
Barcelona 36 New Dollars.... .. ...0 4 93
Seville ....... .

ENGLAND;
BANK OF-- -
Quarterly Average of the Weekly Liabilities and Assets of
the Bank of England, from the 2d day of December, 1843,
to the 24thto d
both inclusive, published
pursuantLIALIABILITIES. ASSETS.
Circulation • .......£20,414,000
tahye o
Act
cFte3briainaryd February, 18 18
Wi11.44 IV.,
cap.
98.
Securities X22,482,000
Deposits ......... ... 13,924,000 Bullion
14,993,000

£34,338,000
11, Downing-street, March 1, 1844.

£37,475,000

THE BoscAVEN, 70 GUNS.—It has been finally
decided, and orders have been issued by the Lords Commis-
sioners of the Admiralty, that this fine vessel is to be launched
at Woolwich on Wednesday, the 3d of April next. The launch
will take place about half-past one o'clock P.M.
SCOTT MONUMENT.-- NEW SUBSBRIPTION.—Mr.
Wilson, the vocalist, has sent from London 51. 55., being
one-half of his former subscription. Mr. Tait, the publisher,
and many other contributors, have acted on the same prin-
ciple; while Sir Thomas Brisbane, Lord Murray, Sir Adam
Ferguson, and Colonel Ferguson, have repeated their former
amount. Lord Montague. has sent 20/. ; Coutts and Co.,
bankers, London, 21/. ; Sir Wm. Millar, of Glenlee, 10/. 10s. ;
while the Earl of Stair has sent 10/. more than the sum an-
nounced at the meeting, making his two subscriptions now
20/.—Edinburgh paper.
His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge
attended by the Hon. Captain James Macdonald, aide-de-
camp, has returned to Corfu from a tour in the Neapolitan
and Papal States. His Royal Highness passed three weeks
at Naples. The Prince's establishment at St. James's Pa-
lace is kept up on a reduced scale, and his Royal Highness is
expected on a visit to his illustrious relatives in this country
late in the season.

PEDESTRIANISM.—On Monday evening a solicitor
undertook for a nominal wager to walk round Lincoln's Inn-
fields, taking the fiagway for his coarse, in three minutes.
The pedestrian performed the task within the time, but upon
its conclusion was some time extremely ill.
. INDIGENT BLIND VISITING SOCIETY.—Her most
Gracious Majesty the Queen has just patronized this excel-
lent charity in the true sense of the word, by contributing a
donation of 50/. to its funds, We are enabled to state that The
objects and claims of the charity were brought under the
Queen's notice by her Majesty's Royal Consort.
A few evenings ago, at about half-past nine, as a
respectable landowner of Cusset (Allier), named Louis Givois,
aged fifty-seven, was undressing to go to bed, a shot was fired
from the garden, and he was struck by three balls. The un-
fortunate man was only able to exclaim " What is that ?"
when he fell dead. A servant, who was warming his bed in
the room, cried out for help, but it was too- late. The gen-
darmerie made immediate search for the murderer, but with-
out effect.— Galignani.
THE FINE ARTS.--The following were the prices
at which some of the best pictures in Mr. Peacock's collec-
tion were sold by Mr. Foster, in Pall-Mall, Thursday :—Ruys-
dale, landscape, 140/. 14s. ; Claude, ditto, 73/. 10s. ; Caracci,
ditto, 162/. 15s. ; Poussin, ditto, 1111.65. ; Velascoez, ditto,
' 105/. • Hobbima, ditto, 367/. 10s. ; Domenichino, Europa,
225/. 15s. ; Vanderveld, sea-fight, 1841. 16s. ; WilSon, view,
Sion-house, 253/. Is. ; Terburg, interior, 2211. 1 ls.
TEE COLLIERS' STRIKE.—WIGAN, FEEL 27.
The colliers in the St. Helen's district have been, for several
weeks past, away from work, demanding an increase of wages.
The coal proprietors, unwilling to acquiesce, are bringing
large bodies of miners from other districts, and already much
rioting has ensued. To-day all the efforts of the authorities
to protect the men on their way to the mines have proved
fruitless. The superintendent of the county constabulary and
two of his men have been wounded, the former severely. This
night and to-morrow are, it is feared, to be the time of
great violence and riot, as the authorities seem determined
to carry their point ; and the operatives are prepared des-
perately to oppose every attempt.
THE HOUSEHOLD TROOPS.—Yesterday the House-
hold Brigade of Infantry changed their quarters. The
2d battalion of Grenadier Guards marched from Portman-
street to St. George's-barracks ; the 3d battalion from Wind-
sor to the outquarters—viz., the headquarters, consisting of
7 sergeants and 200 rank and file, to St. John's-wood; 4
sergeants and 67 rank and file to Kensington ; 2 sergeants
and 60 rank and file to the Magazine Guard ; 2 sergeants
and 48 rank and file to Buckingham Palace ; 4 sergeants and
100 men to St. George's-barracks ; and 2 sergeants and 60
rank and file to Wellington-barracks. The Ist battalion of
the Coldstream Guards will march from Wellington-barracks
to Portman-street, and the 2d battalion from the out-quar-
ters to the Wellington-barracks. The 2d battalion of the
Scots' Fusilier Guards will march from St. George's-barracks
for Windsor. On Wednesday next the Ist battalion of the
Grenadier Guards will move from the Tower, and will be ref
lieved by the Ist battalion of S. cots'- Fusilier-Guards from
Winchester.

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