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London, England, 1844-10-12 00:00:00

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THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES,

BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock....•••••••••x dlv. 206 Indian 5t0ck....••••....... 289
3 per Cent. Red ........ 90% Ditto Bonds 94 pm.
3 per Cent. Cons. 100% Ditto Old Annuities
9% per Cent. Red /Ditto New Annuities ...
New 3% per Cent............. 102% Kt. Bills, 1,0001. I%d ... 77 pm.
New 5 per cent.•".".... Ditto 500/. 77 Pm.
Long Annuities to expire. Ditto .. 77 inn.
Jan Bank Stock for Acct.... 210
Oct. 1859. .... ........•• Consols for 100%
Jan. 1860.•.....•• ...•• India Stock for Acct....

FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per Cent — Portuguese, 5 per Cent ......
Belgian, 5 per Cent. ....».« 103% Ditto, New Ditto.... ...... ....
Brazilian Bonds 85% Prussian, 5 per Cent
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent Russian, 5 per Cent............
Chllian, 6 per Cent 'Ditto, Metallic
Colombian, 6 per Cent
Ditto, 1824..»....«.«.».».» y
Ditto, 3 per Cent 34%
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent"„,
Ditto, Deferred.................
Danish, 3 per Cent ,French, 5 per Cent...... —t.
Greek, 1825, 5 per Cent — Exchange —f. —c.
Mexican, 5 per Cent .. I French, 3 per Cent. —f. —c
Ditto, 6 per Cent., Dutch, 2% per Cent...... 62%
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent 253 Ditto, 5 per Cent 98k

SHARES.
Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid)
Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) 7B
Bristol and Gloucester (30 paid)
Caledonian (5 paid)
Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid) . ............
Eastern Counties (23 paid) .... ..
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid
Great North of England, 100 paid
Great Western (75 paid)
Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid................
Ditto Fifths, 12 paid ............ . . ......... ......
Kendal and Windermere, 1.% paid—..... ..... ....
London and Birmingham (Stock)
Ditto, New Thirds, 2 paid
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, (.
Ditto, Quarter Shares 2 paid) -
London and Blackwall (161. 13s. 4d.) 6%
London and Brighton (MD paid)
London and Greenwich (12t. 15s. 4d. paid)
Di ito, Preference or Privilege, XIS 17s 2d paid 23X
London and South Western (411. 64. 10d. paid)
London and Croydon (Trunk).......,,,. .........
London and York, 2% paid
Midland Counties (100 paid) 1103;
Midland, Birmingham, and Derby, £lOO paid BO
Newcastle and Darlingron Junction, 21 paid 4B
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
Norwich and Brandon, 6 paid lO4
Ditto, New Shares ... ....... ...... ....... ...........
South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid) .. 4O
Trent Valley, 2 paid 8
York and North Midland (50 paid)........ ......
Ditto Half Shares (25 paid)
York and Scarborough Branch ( 10 paid)
York and Selby Scrip. paid 44 p.m
Central of France, 2 paid ..... ........ ..........
Boulogne and Amiens, 2 paid ..... ... ... . . ....., 4
Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, 1 paid
Paris and Lyons, 2 paid .............. .............. .......
earls and Orleans (20 paid).— ..... 394
Paris and Rouen. 20 paid .............,_,............... 39

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.
STANDARD.—The "Romanist Dissenters," or
at least their newspaper organs, are angry that the
followers of Mr. Newman and Dr. Pusey, and the
fellow-labourers of the astute Dr. Hook, should be so
designated ; and the more wary among them, having
ascertained, from the result of the late contest at
Oxford, how utterly they have miscalculated
their strength, would fain appear to disclaim the
bolder Popery of Mr. Newman, Mr. Ward, and
others ; although they feel that they cannot con-
sistently desert the more cautious but not less con-
firmed Romanism of Dr. Pusey. We have already
exposed the jesuitical attempt of Dr. Hook to break
the fall of his Tractarian allies, and the value of his
assertion, that Dr. Pusey was not justly dealt by,
albeit convicted of doctrine which forms a lead-
ing element of the Roman Catholic belief—that of
Transubstantiation. Blinking the question of
whether or not such doctrine ought to have been
preached in a Protestant University, Dr. Hook
professes:it° rest his complaint on the alleged fact
that Dr. Pusey had not a fair trial, although
he seems disposed now to keep his own opinion
of such principles out of sight. A correspondent,
whose letter, under the signature of " A Lay-
man," will be found in another column, has, how-
_ ever, shown pretty clearly that the Doctor's sym-
pathies even with the bolder and more undisguisd
doctrine of Mr. Newman, Dr. Pusey, Mr. Ward,
et id omne genus, are of no very recent growth,
Of the tendency of his friend, Mr. Newman's, opi-
nions before other of the more notable members
of his party had spoken out, we have also the fol-
lowing unexceptionable testimony in a passage of
one of Dr. Arnold's letters, in which he defends
himself from the apparent inconsistency of ad-
vocating the cause of avowed Roman Catho-
lics, whilst he appears to have deprecated the
conduct of Tractarian Roman Catholics (for so
he describes Mr. Newman and his friends) for
signing the articles of a Protestant Church, and
holding offices in the ministry of that Church.
Had Dr. Arnold been alive at the present mo-
ment, he would have witnessed the further
anomaly on the part of these gentlemen, of
boasspg of the impunity with which they have
bee* permitted to openly announce their adhesion
to the Roman doctrine, and yet retain the honours
and emoluments of a Church which they profess to
despise. The passage to which we refer in Doctor
Arnold's published correspondence, if it cofirms our
views of their conduct before these' daring apostates
had ventured upon the indecency of boasts like those
indulged in by Mr. Ward, is still more applicable to
their case at the present juncture :—" You seemed to
think that I was not so charitable towards the New-
manites as I used to be towards the Roman Catholics,
and you say that the Newmanites are to be regarded
as entirely Roman Catholics. I think so too, but
with this grave difference, that they are Roman
Catholics at Oxford, instead of at Oscott—Roman
Catholics signing the articles of a Protestant Church,
and holding offices in its ministry. Undoubtedly, I
think worse of Roman Cetholicism in itself than
I did some years ago ; but my feelings
towards a Roman Catholic are quite different from my
feelings towards a Newmanite, because I think the one
a fair enemy, the other a treacherous one. The one is
the Frenchman in his own uniform, and within his own
prcesidia ; the other is a Frenchman disguised in a red
coat, and holding a post within our prcesidia, for the
purpose of betraying it. I should honour the first, and
hang the second." In an elaborate manifesto of his
principles, recently published by Mr. Ward, Fellow of
Baliol College, Oxford, the extent of the impunity
he has enjoyed is set forth in no very equivocal
terms. In this somewhat remarkable publication
Mr. Ward declares, that in subscribing to the Thirty-
nine Articles, he renounced no one Roman doctrine ;
and that, although he professes to believe " from his
inmost heart" in the "sinfulness of the Reformation,"
the " corruption to its very core of the Protestant
Church ;" delights in the idolatrous language of Bona-
venture to the Virgin; and is of opinion that Protest-
antism is a demon which will cruelly rend the body
from which it is preparing to depart ;" he not
only continues to hold his fellowship, but has
hitherto " received no ecclesiastical censure in any
shape." To have judged of him by the opinions he
has thus thrust upon the public, and to have made
them the ground of condemnation, after the pre-
scribed rules of the University, would, according
to the expressed notions of Dr. Hook, have been
to have subjected him to an unfair trial.
Dr. Pusey has recognised similar principles in
less guarded terms ; but the " pear is not sufficiently
ripe" to admit of his defending himself in the same
bold and uncompromising language, as his defence
could only be founded on his justification of the doc-
trines he has preached. He has, therefore, chosen
to remain silent. He has been condemned, we are
told, unheard ; but the party who bring forward this
accusation well know that he has not been condemned
unread.
GLOBE.—Numerous annual meetings of Agri-
cultural Societies have been held, in different parts of
the kingdom, within the last few days. The after-
dinner speeches of the landlords—spoken specially for
the instruction and guidance of the tenant-farmers,
present and absent—have had almost exclusive rela-
tion to two topics. Low prices, which farmers are
now to expect, must be made up by increased pro-
duction. To effect this, their utmost exertions must
be put forth. The recently-discovered composts must
be spread upon their lands, regardless of expense. La-
bourers must be employed upon it in numbers propor-
tionate to the labouring population of the parishes ;
and at a rate of wages sufficiently high to enable the
labourers and their families to procure the comforts of
life, and thus be rendered contented and happy in
their condition. These points were illustrated and
enforced with both skill and industry at most of these
agricultural meetings. The incendiary fires which
have been kindled in considerable and lamentable
numbers in several, agricultural counties, seem to have
shed light upon tne deplorable state of the farm-la-
bourers and their families; and have furnished to
the landlord-orators at these meetings an occasion
for bestowing some words upon the necessity of rais-
ing these unfortunates a little above the starvation-
level to which they have been pressed. At the Hun-
tingdonshire meeting held on Wednesday last, Mr.
Fellowes, one of the M.P.'s for the county
discoursed with much impressiveness on these two
points ; and Lord Sandwich, from the chair, also
lent the aid of his wisdom and rank to enforce the
Hon. Gentleman's exhortations and advice. Mr.
Fellowes was " especially anxious that his mo-
tives, in pressing the suggestions he was about
to offer, should be appreciated by the meeting."
The anxiety was natural. It might be suspected
that self-interest prompted the advice he gave. If the
land be highly cultivated by the tenant, its value will
be improved at the occupier's cost ; and thus
the owner be certainly advantaged, and his rent
secured, even though the amount of capital drain the
resources of the tenant, and reduce him to bank-
ruptcy. It was therefore necessary for Mr. Fel-
loweg: at the commencement of his address, to be-
speak the favourable opinion of the farmers, by
assuring them that the advice he was about to
give them was purely disinterested. lle there-
fore trusted all his friends in the county
of
Hunts would do justice to his motives, and believe
nis observations to be founded on his anxiety for
the interests and welfare of all classes of agricultu-
rists." The Hon. Gentleman then proceeded to the
main topics of his address :—" When prices were low,
they should:be met by improvement in quality and in-