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effect of. the protective system to be the very reverse of this, 1
namely, to discourage the conversion Of pasture into arable
land. They show that the system of farming, of which the
Gloucestershire dairy-farm is the representative—a system
under which the tenant merely collects the natural produce
of the soil with the employment of as little labour as pos-
sible, is that in which the greatest excess of returns over ex-
penditure arises from the protective system. the value of the
returns being increased 1/. Os. Bd. the acre, while the ex-
penses are only increased ss. 4d.
" This kind of farming, therefore, enjoys a clear pro-
tection of 15s. 4d. the acre ; and as the rent of such land does
not exceed 20s. or 255., three-fourths or three-fifths of it may
be said to be made up of protecting duties.
" On the other hand, when the same land is broken
up, yielding grain and forage crops alternately, employing
more capital and more labourers, at wages which enable
them to live as well as the few who, under the former state
of husbandry, .were boarded in the farm-house, the cost of
production becomes raised by protecting duties mere than
the value of the returns by Bs. 7d. the acre.
" It is evident, therefore, that even supposing the
protecting duties on food to be repaid in wages, they injure
the agricultural labourers by diminiihing the demand for
their labour, and consequently depressing the value of it."
We are glad to see the effect of the corn-laws on the
cost of cultivation brought so ably under review by a
practical agriculturist. Cheapness of production has
been found the best source of profit in every branch of
industry, and it would long since have been applied to
agriculture as well as to other branches of production,
had not farmers been duped into the belief that high
prices are coincident with large profits. Farmers are
too apt to forget that they, their families, and their la-
bourers, are consumers as well as producers, and that
every addition made to the cost of their consumption is
an equal addition to the outlay requisite for repro-
duction, a cost which must be defrayed before
they can begin to estimate profit. When they cannot
buy cheap corn they must purchase dear manures, they
must pay higher rates of wages, or they must pay higher
poor-rates to atone for the inadequacy of wages. They
must also live in constant insecurity, and see capital pre-
vented from flowing into their business from the want of
confidence in farming pursuits. It is because the corn-
laws compel the farmers to produce a diminished quantity
at an increased cost, that " protection" has been justly
stigmatised as " the bane of agriculture."

LONDON, TUESDAY. DECEMBER 2, 1845.

The general demand for the abolition of restrictions
on the importation of food which has been raised by the
principal manufacturing towns in the empire within the
last fortnight, has been witnessed with apathy by the great
body of English farmers. They have raised no antago-
nistic cry for the continuance of protection—they have
not shown any anxiety for the retention of the corn-o
laws—they have held no meetings, and framed no peti-
tions. This abandonment of a cause for which they
were recently ready to make large sacrifices, arises from
two causes : the agriculturists are convinced that their
prosperity is identified with that of the manufacturers,
that distress in Lancashire is inconsistent with pros-
perity in Lincolnshire, and that the fall of profits on
cotton takes away customers from the growers of corn.
A second, and more important cause, of this change
in the " agricultural mind " is, that the farmers are
beginning to discover that the system of agricultural
protection is a system of mutual plunder, under which
the growers of the different descriptions of agricultural
produce mutually rob one another ; and that it besides
creates an uncertainty which prevents the application of
capital to the improvement of the productive powers of
the soil. This view of the question is very ably main-
tained in a pamphlet just published by two eminent
practical agriculturists, Mr. MORTON and Mr. TRIMMER
—the former already favourably known as the author of
the best treatise on the nature of soils which we possess
in our language. Estimating the average cost of pro-
tection at ss. 6d. per quarter, he proceeds, first, to calcu-
late the effect of this enhanced price on the farmer of
400 acres of land in East Norfolk. Such a farmer sells
no protected article produced by himself except wheat
and barley. Now, it is clear that he must either repay
I is labourers the amount of the protecting duty which
they pay on their articles of consumption in the shape
of increased wages, or that the system robs the labourers
to that amount. Having examined all the details of ex-
penditure, with a minuteness which it is not necessary
to follow, Mr. MORTON arrives at the following con-
clusion:—

Ametint paid by the cultivator of 400 acres of light land
in East Norfolk, in the shape of protecting duties on agri-
cultural produce consumed by himself, his labourers, and
cattle : and first for seed, as we have allowed the protective
duties on the gross produce of the farm without deducting
the seed, we must here charge the same duties on the corn
sown:—
Seed Corn. Bushels. Acres.

X 9. d,

>4 100 = ali qrs. at ss. 6d.... 811 10
Barley N 100 = 434 do. at 4s. Bd. ... 10 0 1
Clover, red 12 lbs. fi 100 = 1,200 lbs.
white 8 fe 100 = 800

lbs. 2,000 say 17icwt. at 10s. 8 17 6
Trefoil 8 lbs. 100 800 say 74 cwt. at ss. 115 9
Rye-grass, Y bushl. oe 100 =5O boslals.l2iewt. at 10s. G 5 0

£35 10 9
Horse-keep 29 11 6
Oil-cake tbr sheep and cattle
Tradesmen's bills, 10 per cent. on 1001 lO 0 0
Sandries
Twenty labourers' food
Twenty labourers' beer 4 13 2

farmer, has been one of the orators at the great League
meetings in Covent-garden. We should like to have
proof furnished of the extent to which the kuowle.ige
disseminated by the League, with such untiring perse-
verance, and on so many various ways—by lecturers,
orators, public meetings, tracts—has told among the
farmers. There is no knowing this till one tries. Con-
tests bring out converts. A contest now may ensure
victory at the next election, if it is not within reach at
this moment. Defeats beget resolutions and energy
for the future. Besides, when we hear on all sides of
Tories flinging party overboard, and proclaiming them-
selves free-traders, there is no saying how many unex-
pected recruits may come, when the issue of the con-
test will be famine or free-trade. By all means Hert-
fordshire should be fought.
Another election is impending, also, in the borough of
Woodstock, where about four hundred Englishmen, in-
vested with the elective franchise, as a trust to be exer-
cised for their country, have twice, within the last
eighteen months, written themselves slaves of the Duke
of MARLBOROUGH, and are now called upon a third time
to do the same. Is there no hope, in this crisis, of
something better even at Woodstock ? Is there no
shame among these four hundred freemen ? Past pro-
ceedings have shown that there is no shame in the dege-
nerate Nobleman who domineers over their consciences.
But we cannot believe that the electors of Woodstock do
not pant for deliverance from the disgraceful thraldom in
which the Duke of MARLBOROUGH has held them ; and
we could wish to see some man of spirit giving them the
opportunity, and going to beard this ducal lion in his
den. The once glorious name of CHURCHILL is known
now to stink in Woodstock. The Duke's electoral serfs
are most unwilling slaves. If an opposing candidate were
to appear, all political questions might possibly be
merged in the question cf the Duke of MARLBOROUGH'S
personal unpopularity. But even as to politics, rotten
potatoes may teach the Woodstock electors much. If
Lord ALAN CHURCHILL, the Duke's nominee, will not
promise to help to give them cheap bread, he should
have the full benefit of their rotten potatoes.

The hostile feeling towards England, which animates
many of the writers in the French Opposition journals,
occasionally leads them into strange vagaries. In the
bitterness of their resentment for supposed injuries, and
in the overflowing of national prejudices directed against
their nearest neighbours, they confound right with
wrong, forget the very history of their own country,
and make assertions which the most common observer
' sees at a glance tell infinitely more against France
than England. The National but Se other day drew
up a fearful catalogue of the losses which Great
Britain had sustained in North America in 1782,
old the acquisitions made by the United States both
at that period and afterwards. These are facts
known in history ; they are honourable to the Anglo-
Saxon character, and only show that the spirit which per-
vaded their ancestors was still cherished by the WASHING-
TONS, and JEFFERSONS, and Musmos, and that the Eng-
lish were compelled to yield to that spirit, not so much
from the power of the young and exhausted republic, as
from the sacred principles of justice and liberty, and the
cordial approbation which the noble deeds of these pa-
triots received from a vast proportion of the British
people. England lost her dominion over these pro-
vinces, but liberty was established--a fresh barrier
was raised against despotic and monarchical Go-
vernments her trade with the independent
States continued undisturbed, and on the whole
she gained infinitely more than she lost by the American
Revolution. It is singular, that in making statements
of this description, for the purpose of humiliating this
country and cheering on the Americans to pursue their
victories, the French writer should have utterly forgotten
the exhibitions which France has made in regard to her
colonies, her trade, and her commerce, since the middle
of the seventeenth century. No country In the world,
if we except helpless and effete Spain, ruled by
women and priests, has suffered such colonial
losses as the mighty kingdom of France ; and
one of these losses, the greatest of all, was
sustained, or rather promoted, by the idol
of the war party in France—tbe man who looked to
ships and colonies as the only substantial means for
1 conquering England, or, at all events, of sharing with
her the dominion of the seas. The French kings
of the CAPET race did a great deal in that
respect for France. They established colonies,
some of them of the most noble description.
Need we mention Pondicherry, and Lower Canada,
and Louisiana ? Never was there a more thriving set-
tlement, nor one so likely to benefit France, as Pondi-
chery was about the year 1750. French settlers
were trading with the natives, commerce was
increasing daily, and the shipping and commerce
of France felt the beneficial consequences ; yet
all these were sacrificed, not from any love of
liberty or any noble sentiment whatever, but from sheer
mismanagement and national apathy. Quebec and all its
dependencies were lost somewhat in the same way; but
what are we to say of Louisiana ? It was settled,
we believe, under the reign of Louis XIV., and
promised fair to be one of the noblest
colonies in the world. After many negotiations with
the Court of Spain, who claimed it as a portion of her
domain in the new world, it was finally ceded to France,
and handed over to NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, when First
Consul. What did he do ? He imitated the profligate son
of JACOB, and "sold his birthright for a mess of pottage."
He wanted money to fit out his new domestic establish-
ment as Emperor, and sold the right of France to a
rich country, extending for 2,000 miles in length and
650 in breadth, producing everything that France
most required. No acquisition could have
been so valuable in every respect, and, though
England in the course of the war might have
seized New Orleans, and formally taken possession of
the country, at the general peace, it would to a certainty
have been restored. Yet, by BONAPARTE'S base and
selfish act, it was lost to France for ever : her only
hold on the American continent was gone, and
the finest opportunity for creating shipping and
colonies, and a powerful royal navy, was sacri-
ficed for the paltry consideration of 400,000
dollars. It would be impossible to point out any
one instance of more egregious political fully; yet M.
TRIERS, the blind worshipper of NAPOLEON, finds no
fault with him for the transaction, but spends all his
eulogies on the deeds of his hero at Austerlitz,
and Jena, and the conquests he made on the Continent,
which speedily vanished like the morning mist. NA-
POLEON was the greatest enemy France ever had,
and had she suffered no other losses than that
of Louisiana, ought, for that deed alone, to be
execrated by every good Frenchman. We advi,e,
therefore, these instigators of war between England and
America to look at home, and mind their own affairs.
They will find that, though England has lost muzh
colonial territory, she still has more than she
really wants, and that France, in that re-
spect, is reduced to the very lowest ebb among
the nations of Europe. We called the attention of these
fire-eaters some days ago to the humiliating condi-
tion in which the French Chamber of Deputies placed
themselves by refusing the insolent demand of one mil-
lion sterling made by America. The Siecle, no friend to
England, admits the truth of our remarks in these
words : I

" We shall take no part in the dispute ; all that we have to
do is to state facts, and, if possible, prevent a collision. We
are far from depreciating the interests engaged in the Oregon
question, and if it should be settled by a *ar, it is well
known on what side our good wishes would be; but it ap-
pears to us that the affair of twenty-five millions of francs
demanded from France has proved that American democracy
can push its demands beyond what is just. We admire the
enterprising boldness of this republic, and sincerely desire its
grandeur, but we must not accustom it to think that its
equity is to have no other standard than its own pretensions."

We trust that the Liberals of Hertfordshire mean to
make some effort to prevent the representation of their
county from passing quietly, if pass it must, from Lord
GRIIISToN to another Peelite. The Hertford Mercury
has named a number of gentlemen who ought to be
looked to by the Liberal party upon this occasion, and
among them Mr. BRAND (who has old and strong claims
on the county), Sir BuLwEn LYTTON, Mr. SPENCER
COWPER, and Mr. BLAKE, formerly Member for New-
port. Where there is such abundance of likely candi-
dates, it will be hard, indeed, if no candidate turns up.
At such a time as this no county—even where the
chances are much worse than any one can pretend to
consider them in Hertfordshire—should be suffered, to
go uncontested. Lord Joint RUSSELL'S and Lord MoR-
pETH's letters have suddenly dashed away the distiitc-
tion between Whigs and Free-traders. The cause of
the Anti-Corn-law League is now the cause cf the whole
Liberal party. A week ago there might have been jea-
lousies and shades of opinion in the party ; that is now
at an end—we hope and believe for ever. When Lord
MORPETB has sent his subscription for Mr. COBDEN'S vote-
making machinery, we do not expect to hear ever again
objections to League interference from Whig mouths; and
Mr. e°IIDEN has made the amende honourable to
nrd JOHN RussELL and the Whigs for all that he
may ever have said distasteful to their feelings. Let
Hertfordshire then seize the opportunity, and be, as
she may be, the first county to show the bread-tax Mi-
nister the determined union of the whole Liberal party
against the starvation laws, to which his Cabinet have
nailed their colours. The battle may not be won; but
a victory now for corn-laws and famine will carry no
joy to the heart of Sir ROBERT PEEL,
If we remember right, Mr. BAKER, a Hertfordshire

Gross as have been many of Lord LYNDHURST'S pre-
vious jobs, we doubt whether his last is not his worst.
One of the Commissionerships of Lunacy, created by the
Act of last session, with a salary of 1,5001. a-year and a
retiring pension (all this emolument was argued to be
necessary in order to secure the services of first-rate
barristers), has been filled up by the appointment of a
Mr. CAMPBELL, who is a hriefless barrister of some nine
years' standing on the Northern Circuit, and the expla-
nation of whose appointment is that he is a natural son
of a late Peer. We had hoped that the Reform Act had
done for the system of making the public pay for aristo-
cratic indiscretions by blows. We still hope that it has
found its last upholder in the present LORD CHAN-
CELLOR. There is only one word for this appointment,
and that word is disgraceful. Mr. CAMPBELL has been
jobbed into an appointment for which certain
members of the bar have strong claims—viz., those of
the former Metropolitan Commissioners of Lunacy, who
were not included in the selection for the smaller num-
ber of Commissioners created by the Act of last session.
If none of these gentlemen were to have it, then many
distinguished members of the bar would have been glad
of it. It is an office much better paid than those of
police magistrates. or assistant poor-law commission-
ers, or inspectors of prisons;—and distinguished mem-
bers of the bar are candidates for all these offices.
When Lord JOHN RessELL said of the Lord Chan-
cellor, that he received the best pay and did the least
work of all the Ministers, we presume he did not in-
clude his job-work. Lord MELBOURNE had some time
before traced Lord LYNDHURST'S mode of using his
talents to a certain infernal personage ; but he beats his
supposed instructor hollow—

" When the Devil W 53 sick,
The Devil a monk would be."
But in sickness, and at a time of life when sickness
might be supposed to occasion serious retrospection,
Lord LYNDHURST does not cease to job.

We have received Madrid journals of the 22d and 23d.
The election for Deputies to supply the places of mem-
bers appointed to Government offices was going on favour-
ably for the Government. At Cadiz, Valladolid, and several
other towns the Ministerial candidates were at the head
of the lists. This is extremely probable—indeed it is
beyond doubt. NARVAEZ has so arranged matters that
elections in Spain resemble very much county meetings
in England, as described by the Duke of WELLINGTON.
The Opposition, however, propose to make a show of
resistance by nominating PACHECIIO as a candidate for
the Presidency of the Cortes, but they may save them-
selves the trouble. On the 23d the Three per Cents.
were done at 35i at 60 days, and the Fives at 24i for the
same period.

The sudden rise in the Paris Stock and Share-market,
which took place on Thursday, continued throughout
the whole of Friday, and on Saturday morning, prices
appeared rather firm ; but towards two o'clock every-
thing gave way, and a heavy fall ensued, though prices
remained considerably better than they had been about
the middle of the week. The Three per Cents. rose to
82f. 15c., on Saturday, and the Fives to 117 f. 15c., but
the former closed at 87f. 70c., and the latter at
116 f. 75c. Shares in several of the railways also
fell considerably, but we hear of no serious fail-
ures, and anticipate a more settled state of business.
The Opposition and Ministerial journals are occupied
with letters on the state of the relations of France with
ROSAS and long comments on them. The Constitutionnel
began the attack, accusing Captain PAGE, sent out to
the Plata on a special mission, for neglecting his duty
and suffering himself to be duped by the artifices of
Roses, and his daughter. But the Constitutionnel rec-
koned without its host. Captain PAGE, in a spirited
letter, denies every word of the statements put forth.
We subjoin that letter, with the comments of the
Journal des Debuts, which may be useful in explaining
some of the mysterious proceedings in that quarter.
Captain PACE addressed the following letter to the Con-
stituticnnel

" I have read in your number of to-day a recital entirely
fabulous, relating to the presentation of letters which accre•
dited me to General Roses, Governor of Buenos Ayres. lam
perfectly aware, Mr. Editor, that every man who has the
honour of being called upon to serve the King's Govern-
ment in La Plata must expect the most injurious attacks
from a system of falshood and calumny which has for years
been organised in order to delude Europe, and draw it into
unjustifiable measures. I, however, owe, to the dignity of an
officer commanding one of the King'.; ships, and charged
with a special mission to declare—first, that the letter which
you have published was delivered by myself into the bands of
his Excellency M. Arena, Minister fur Foreign Affairs of the
Argentine Confederation, to be fully and entirely communi-
cated to his Excellency General Roses, according to the
ordere. I bad received ; secondly, that this letter was re-
turned to me by M. Arena himself, and that it is still in my
possession ; thirdly, that at the time of the presentation of
this letter, and of my first audience of General Roses, I had
never in my life seen Donna Manuelita, his daughter ; con-
sequently 1 give the most formal contradiction to whoever
may dare to repeat or maintain the truth of the fable you
have published as to the pretended intervention of Donna
Manuelita in the presentation of the letters which accredited
me to the Governor of the Argentine Confederation."

The attack made by the Constitutionnel calls forth a
severe reply from the Government paper, and reminds
M. TRIERS of his boasting on the Syrian affair. "What
were the wishes of the French Government," says the
Journal des Delats, "in accordance with that of Great
Britain ? It wished to establish peace on both sides of
the Plata ; it wished to put an end to a war at variance
with the general interests of commerce, and to acts of
hostility contrary to existing treaties. But it did not,
nor does it now, wish to overturn the Government of
Buenos Ayres ; it never had any motive for private ani-
mosity against the man who is its legal and acknowledged
chief; it was never within its intentions any more than
within its tastes to interfere in the internal affairs of
the Argentine Republic, nor to substitute any other
authority for that which was established. Thu Cfrovern-
tnent then was right, before resorting to an armed inter-
vention, to endeavour to gain its end by pacific mediation
It desired nothing better than to see Rosas voluntarily
accept the mediation of the two powers, instead of being
obliged to use compulsion. To re-establish peace by
force upon the banks of the River Plata was an un
grateful task for both Governments, and even for the
military and naval forces employed in it. Little, very
little glory was to be gained by it, and the disdainful
attitude of the sailors of the two countries, amidst the
contests of these two pitiable republics, of these
questionable nationalities, sufficiently prove the
estimate they make of them. Had they no other object
than to save the expenditure of money and exertion,
which might be better employed, the endeavours of the
French Government to bring the question to a pacific li
resolution would be more than sufficiently justified. The
intervention will be carried, we do not doubt, to such an
extent as circumstances may render It necessary. This
is a question which the two Governments reserve to
themselves the right of deciding upon. But, throughout
the whole affair, the French Government has nothing to
disavow, nothing to regret. It has first tried con-
ciliatory means, before having recourse to coercion.
Is not this better than the reverse ? Is not acting thus
more worthy a Government like that of France than to
begin with menaces, and then recal them?—to send a
fleet the moment of negotiating, and then withdraw it
when the time of fighting is come? We do not wish to
make a great noise about the expedition to La Plata,
but we candidly ask, is it not at least worth the cam-
paign in Syria ?"

£209 8 9
" Amount received from protecting duties on the produce
which this &rater sells :
Wheat 4 qrs. at 100 acres = 400 qrs. at 51. 6d. £llO 0 0
Barley 5 qrs. H 100 acres = 500 qrs. at 4s. 8d....116 13 4

£226 13 4
“Deducting the amount paid for rot ction fr the amount
received by it on the produce sold,P we find that the
of this farm gains 171.45. 7d. by the protective system." P
But he has to pay for protection 541. in the shape of
increased rent, and at least 40/. in increased household
expenses, so that instead of a gain we find a positive
lure of 76/. 159. sd. But this is not all ; if the price of
grain were sufficiently low to allow of his feeding she 'p
the manure produced by such
and cattle on oats, Bw.,
stock would be more beneficial than the bones, rape cake,
or guano, which could be purchased for 2001. ; so that if
he sold his sheep and oxen when fatted at their prime
cost, he would still save the 2001. which he is sow obliged
to expend in the purchase of artificial manures, because
the high price of grain will not now allow of his feeding
A similar estimateitives the loss on farming 1,000
Beres in Lincolnshire, at a rate of something more than
2L per acre. In fact, the only persons that appear to de-
rive any gain from protection are the dairy farmers, and
their gains would be converted into losses if they turned
any part of their pastures into arable land. On this it is
JuAtiv remarked,—
"We are often told that the object of the protective
system
is not to keep up rents, but to benefit the agricultural
labourer., by preventing millions of acres of arable land
being thrown out of cultivation, which means being con-
verted to pasture. The result of our calculations shows the j

The following statement of facts, which we find in

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, DI4ICV'
_._I4MBER 2, 1845.

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And COMMERCIAL 3N EWS

ton, ano
I,V ........ .......
" ' - •••• •
Do. New Consol. Bths 20
Do. New
Do. New
London & South Essex 23/4
London and York . 2% 3IX3 1/4
London and Windsor ... 1 ••. ......... ••
London, Warwick, and
Kidderminster
•
Loudon. Salisbury, and
Londonderry& Colerain 5 ...••• 6 ......
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen ... 5
Lynn and Ely
Lynn and Dereham 5
Manchester and Leeds... 76
Ditto % Shares
Do. Quarters 2
Do. Sixteenths ... 414 — .
Manchester and Birmin. 40 ...... 66
Do. Quarters
Do. New Quarters
Do. Continuation and
Welsh Junction
Manchester.Buxton,and
Matlock 425....... p
Manchester, Birm., and
Mould Junction ..
Manchester and Rugby
Direct
Alanchest. & Southampt. 2 21/2
M abind 100 .....137 135 140.
Do. Fifths 2
Do. New
Midland,Birm., Derby...loo llO
Midld. & East. Counties 1N...—.
Midland Great Western

(Irish)
Do. Extens. to Sligo... 2%
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction 25 ...... 49 50 ....
Do. New Brandling... 15
Newcastle and Berwick 5
Newcastle and Carlisle...loo
Newcastle, Durham, and
Lancashire Junction... 1 .i-,' —
Newport & Abergavenny 2% ......
New Ross and Carlow._ 22s
Newry and Enniskillen 2% — .....

Newark, Sheffield, and
Boston ... .... 2%.. ... 2%
Norfolk Extew'ion
North British
Do., New -
Do. Exten. to Carlisle 114
Do. Ext. to Dalkeith 5
North Devon 2 .. ... ...... .......
North of Norfolk ..
Northern and Eastern... 45
Do. Scnp
Do. Quarter Shares... 12% —
Do. New
N. Kent & Direct Dover 21,.. .. 2%
North Staffordshire 42s. ...... 3 "liii 3 p.......
North Wales -
North and South Wales
and Worcester -..-..

20%
4%

De
11.• 3p

Northern and Southern
Connecting — —
Norwich and Brandon... 16
Ditto New 3 —
Northampton, Banbury,
and Cheltenham
Nottingham and Boston 1% 1.114
Not tingm., Erewsh. Val-
ley, and Manchester 1%
Nottingham and Mans-
field
Oxford, Gosport, Ports-
mouth, & Southampta 425. —
Oxford and Worcester... 12% 14:14
Oxford, Witney, and
Cheltenham....
Perth and Inverness ... 2%
Pilbrow Atmospheric ... 1
Portsmouth Direct 3% 3 %
Preston and Wyre 5O
Do. % Shares
Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate .
Richmond 5
Rugby, Derby, and Man-
chester
Rugby arid Huntingdon 2
Rugby, Leamington, and
Warwick
ScrAtish Central
Scottish Midland l%
Sheffield & Manchesterloo
Do. Quarter Shares... 8
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
Dudley, and Birm 2%•••• • 351;
Shropshire Mineral 425........ % dis.
Shropshire Union
Shrewsbury & Hereford 2%
Shrews., Wolverhamp ,
&S. Staffordsh. June. —
Sligo and Shannon l%
Somersetshire Midland 2% — ..... •
South Devon 25 ... .. 28
South Midland 425....... 2% 1% p...
South Staffordshire June 2% --
South Eastern & Dover 33/ 2s 4d —
Do., Ne. 1 l2 —
Do., No. 2.
Do., No. 4
Southampton, Manches-
ter, & Oxford Junction 2 —
St. Alban's, Hatfield , an d
Hertford Junction ...
Staines and Richmond... 1
Staffordsh. & Shropshire 23%
South Wales .... ... 2% 3
Taw Vale Extension ...
••• •• •••••
Tean and Dove Valley 1%
Trent Valley 2 ...... 141 i 14 15 ..
Trent Valley and Holy-
head Junction
Tring, Reading, and
Basingstoke 514
Ulverstone and Furness ......
Vale of Neath
Warwick & Cheltenham 2% 2:3‘
Warwick and Worcester 425. —
Waterford and Kilkenny 3
Waterford and Limerick 7%
Waterfd,WxfrGl,Wicklw,
and Dublin
W at erford, Wexford, and
Valentia
Waveney Valley 2
Welch Midland
West Cornwall
West Yorkshire
WestLondon,Old Shares 20
West End and Southern

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~. 143/4

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Counties -
Wexford and Carlow ... 21/2- ......
Wisbeach and St. Ives... 2
Wilts, Somerset, and
•Southampton ... ..... 1% —
Wilts. Somerset, & Wey_
mouth
Worcester,Hereford,Ross
and Gloucester 425.......425.......—
Worcester, Tinbury, and
Ludlow —
Worcester, Shrewsbury,
and Crewe Union ... .. 1%
Worcester and S. Wales 425.
Worcester, Warwick, and
Rugby - ••• •• ......
Yarmouth and Norwich. 20
Ditto, New
York and Carlisle 23/4 214. ...—.
York and Lancaster 2%
York and North Midland 50
Ditt.) 1/2 Shares
Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 25
Do Selby
Do. Extension . 5
FOREIGN RAILWjAYS.
Anglo-Belgian 4 -
Barbadoes — ...... •
Boulogne and Amiens 8 —...• '7%
Bordeaux & Mediterran. 2
Bordeaux, Toulouse, Toulouse, and
Cette (Mackenzie's)... 2 .. ... .
Do. (Espelete's) ...... 2 .... . . .. ......
Calais, Dunkrk, andW est
Flanders - ,
Callao, Lima, and Pacific
Coast
Central of Spain ... . -
Ceylon - ....
Demerara 2l/2 ... . ---
Dendre Valley ...... ...
Dijon and Mulhouse
Dutch Rhenish
East Indian ... ..... .... ss.
Eastern Belgian Junctn. 2%
Fampoux & Hazebrouk 2
Great North. of France
Constituted
Great Paris and Lyons 2
Great Western Bengal... ss. —
Great Western Canada... 3IA ......
Jamaica S.Mid. Junction 1
Jamaica North Midland 1
Do. Extension
_ 1

~.. 1

~••• 1

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Po. 1%

... ot4
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63/4
•• 1%;

... 10%

•••
1%

Jersey
Louvain and Jemeppe... 4 ...
Lyons and Avignon 2 -
Luxembourg... 4
Madrid and Valentia.... 2 ... -
Mauritius ..
Namur and Liege -
North Jamaica 1
Orleans and Vierzon ... 10
Orleans and Bordeaux... 6 ...... ...
Over Yssel 413 s 4d - - . ••
Paris &Lyons(Laffitte's) 2
Pans and Lyons (Gan-
neron's) ' - 3 - .
Paris & Lyons, (Calon's) 2 ...... -
Paris & Lyons (Sud Est) 2
Paris and Orleans 2O
Paris and Rouen . o 2O
Paris and Strasbourg
(Gannoron's) .. 2 ...... -
Do. (Compto de L'Est) 2 ......
Ditto ( Aymards)...... 214
Paris and St. Quentin ... 2 -

, • •••••
~ 13%

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~ 2

• 134
.. 1%

Rouen and Havre ...... 18
Royal North of Spain ... 2
)ar Sambre and Meuse ...... 6 ...... 4;2-
- Strasbourg and Bale ... 14
St. Laurence & Atlantic
Tournay, Jurbise, Lan-
- den, and Hasselt....... 4
Tours and Nantes ( Mac-
kenzie's) .1— _ _
3 Do. do

D• ...

(Lefebvre's' 2

'Ditto (O'Neill's)
Trinidad - ....
Verona and Ancona... 3
West Flanders ...... .... 4
MINES

Real del Monte Unregd.
JOINT STOCK BANKS,.
London Joint Stock lO

OPENING THE PORTS. -We 1 earn from the
Sheffield Independent, that a requisition, calling upon the Mayor
to convene a public meeting of the inhabitants of Sheffield
to address her Majesty on the subject of immediately calling
Parliament together, with a view to immediately repealing
the corn-laws, is in the course of circulation in the town,
and that it has already received many 'ism &tures.

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