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urged the propriety of referring it to a Select Com-
mittee. Ultimately Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET
consented that the Chairman should report progress,
and stated that he would declare on Monday what
course he would pursue with regard to the measure.
The House adjourned at Half-past Eleven.

The debate of last night, 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 of 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
fair 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-

lant Commodore's motion, is one of such vast import-
ance, 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 received 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 COCKI3URN had, indeed, this point to fall
back 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

In the House of Lords, Lord STANLEY took the
oaths and his seat.

Lord CAMPBELL brought in the Law of Process
Bills for England, Ireland, and Scotland, which he
had proposed last year.
After various petitions had been presented, and
some returns ordered,
The Earl of DALHOUSIE laid on the table certain
reports from the Railway Department of the Board
of Trade, and took the opportunity of vindicating
.the
Members of the Board from the aspersions which had
been cast on them, and of explaining the principles on
which the Board had come to their decisions. The
Noble Earl distinctly stated that the Board had never
considered the claims of private interests, which
were reserved exclusively for the consideration of
Parliament, and that their reports were never intended
to be of a conclusive character. lie also denied that
any information had been surreptitiously given by
any Alemb2r of the Board, and described minutely
the means adopted to prevent the decisions of the
Board from transpiring until they should be published
in the Gazette.

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

Lord Bnoucniim ridiculed the idea that the
decisions of the Board would not operate upon Par-
liament, and asked if those decisions were not in-
tended to operate upon Parliament, where was the
use of taking such extraordinary precautions for
preventing them becoming known until published
in the Gazette r He thought a Board exercising
such immense power should consist exclusively of
the sworn advisers of the Crown.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE thought the instita

frank, manly, and honest tone that pervaded it)—how

the House could be brought to find a verdict for the
Admiralty culprits, and nonsuit their impugner, in a

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. GUIZOT said
that he would not be satisfied with a doubtful ma-
jority, and that for a good policy, the majority must '
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, when 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
to retire voluntarily, not having lost the majority, but
not consenting to govern with too weak a majority.
A majority of eight, added the Debats, 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."
The 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, it is 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 des Debats 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 subject. Much is yet to be
done for the country in that respect. The following
complaints differ little from those made by VOLTAIRE
seventy years ago t--
" Our situation in this respect is deplorable. Meat in
France is scarce and dear. It is a species of food almost un-

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
Muse 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, lengthening,
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 !Orce, capacity, armament, and qualities
most to be desired, emphatically discouraged and neg-
lected. The " forty thieves" (ras ecs) and i 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
Lard 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 ef
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.

known to the population in general, the peasants, particu-
larly in the poor departments, do not eat flesh meat ten times
in the year. Our operatives cannot procure sufficient, and
thence arises our inferiority in many respects with regard to
manufactures. It is well known that an English operative
can perform twice as much work, on an average, as a French
workman. This fact has been established in the construc-
tion of our railroads ; but when it was inquired what was the
relative proportion of animal food consumed by each labourer,
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 price 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
Count d'Appony, who possesses one of the richest do-
mains in Hungary, on which tobacco is cultivated, has lately,
says the Courrier Francais, entered into a contract with the
Government at Paris for the supply of 1,000,000 kilos.,
2,000,0001 b. of tobacco in leaf.
The Journal du Havre says :—" All the postmasters on
the road by which the estaffette-mail runs between Paris
and Havre have received notice from the Postmaster-General
that, from March 1, the Administration will have no further
need of their services ; and, consequently, that they might
thenceforth dispose of 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-
fort, states that a famine prevails in part of Hungary, and
that in one village thirty-six children 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 W—,
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 IS, and has another daughter at present dangerously ill."
Tuscany is not only constructing railroads, but the cele-
brated engineer, Count Marchetti Tomasi de Rietti, is en-
gaged in perfecting a plan for a junction between the Medi-
terranean and the Adriatic, by means of a canal, which would
unite the Esino, the Chiasio, and the Tiber. Ile 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 Jerez, 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. ;
t7lolee. ; N e
o,lwie,aoral s 1
n Br6ora.d Shares, 1,157 f. 50c. ; Rouen,; the Five per Cents., at 199 f.
1,097 f. 50e. ; Havre, 885 f.; Spanish Three per Cents.,
; Ditto, Domestic Debt, 32.1 ; Belgian Two-and-
a-Half per Cents., 62.

tion of the Board was of incalculable advantage.
Lord STANLEY said that the Government never
sought to influence the votes of Members on railway
matter, and defended the proceedings of the Board
of Trade.

After a few words from the Marquis of LANS
DOWNE and the Earl of DALHOUSIE, the House ad.

The result of the proceedings in the Convocation
at Oxford, yesterday, 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 cn 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
and restoration." It is impossible to find words
which shall express in more unequivocal terms the
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. Hoox, Mr. 11. 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 ; but they are hardly
required. Every reader can judge for himself, and
every good Protestant will only be the more rousedi to
resist these innovators till a victory is obtained over
the enemies of liberty and true religion.

lourned.

In the House of Commons the SrmAxER, took the
chair at Four o'clock.

Various petitions were presented, and notices of
motion given. Among the latter was one by Mr.
Baicarr for that day fortnight, on the subject of the

game-laws.
Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET stated, i❑ answer to
Mr. WALLACE, that there were persons on the pre-
sent 113 it ways Committee who were interested, more
or less, in railway speculations.
Leave was granted to the Sergeant-at-Arms to
defend the action brought against him by TUOMAS
HOWARD.

Sir C. NAPIER then moved for the appointment of
a Select Committee to inquire into the manner in
which the money voted since the year 1835 for the
construction of ships had been expended, and if the
ships constructed are an improvement upon the old
system. The lion and Gallant Gentleman in the
course of his speech went into a detail of the various
experiments which had been recently tried in ship-
building, and gave an elaborate critique of their re-
spective merits.
Mr. liumn seconded the motion.

Sir G. COCKBURN, while admitting the justice of
many of Sir C. NArIER's observations, vindicated the
conduct of the present Admiralty from his animad-
versions. Ile considered a Committee of the House
of Commons to be the very worst tribunal to which
the subject could be referred, and concluded by
stating that he knew what the strength of the
French navy was, and he knew what that of Eng-
land was, and he was happy to be in a position to
state that the naval force of England was much better
and larger than that of France, notwithstanding all
that had been said to the contrary.
The House was then addressed by Captain Rots,
Mr. C. WOOD, Admiral I3owLEs, Captain PEcuELL,
Mr. CURRIE, Captain HARRis, and Mr. WAKLEY.
On a division the motion was lost by a majority of
61, the numbers being, for the motion, 32 ; against
it, 93.
Mr. C. HOPE then moved for leave to bring in
certain Bills relating to the management of the pro-
perty of Greenwich Hospital.
After a short discussion the motion was agreed to.
On the illation of Mr. TIIORNELY, certain returns
relating to Trinidad were ordered to be laid on the
I table.

Madrid journals of the 6th inst. have 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
32} at 60 days; the Five per Cents. at 24 at 60
days ; and the Debt without interest at 7 at 60 days.

THIS DAY'S NEWS.

HOUSE OF LORDS-(T(IIS DAY.)
The House sat tc.day to hear appeals. The Peers present were,
Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenham, and Lord Campbell.
FORREST V. nARIrET.
The arguments were resumed in this case, and occupied their
Lordships the whole morning.

The Lonn ADVOCATE obtained leave to bring in a
Bill for the appointment and payment of constables
in Scotland.
On the motion of Mr. CARDWELL, the Printing
Commission was appointed.
Sir J. GRAIIAM stated, in answer to Mr. HUME,
that Sir R. PEEL would commence his financial state-
, ment at Half-past Four.
The House then resolved itself into Committee on
the Railway Clauses Consolidation Bill. Some
opposition was manifested when the first clause was
proposed, and Mr. AGLIONDI and Nr. WAY

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. Limas'
journal :—" The question of the PErrenAnDindemnity
bore upon the principal act of the Cabinet in the
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 'TARMAC,
an
dwith the question of our
with England in the way in which the

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14 1845.

posed to be drowned. The Cohassett, of Boston, was driven
ashore at Buceo, in the river Plate, during a heavy gale,
which continued from the 24th to the 26th of November.
The Alert, Mackay, ashore at Halifax, United States, has
been got off and into Dartmouth, United States.
The Emerald Isle steamer was blocked in by the ice, in
Schvelling Bay, when the Ocean steamer, in the River, left.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
A large business was done in Cotton at Liverpool yester-
day. Sales, 10,000 bales, of which about one -third was on
speculation.—ShareSVere quoted as follows :—Birmingham
and Gloucester, 134 ; Bristol and Gloucester, 59 ; Caledo-
nian, 7% ; Chester and Birkenhead, 391,4:; Chester and
Holyhead, 8 71/.i ' • Dublin and Belfast, Si. 16s. 3d.; Churnet
dallev, 81/2 7% ;Grlatigow and Dumfries, 30s. 6d.; Glasgow
and 'Greenock, 151/2 ; Grand Junction, Quarter, 56 55 ;
Lancaster and Carlisle, 291/2 ; Lancaster and Preston, Three-
quarters, 311/2 ; London and Birmingham (321.), 4314 ;
London and Brighton, 55 ; London and York, 61 %; Man-
chester and Birmingham, 65 ; Midland Counties, 1261/2 127 ;
Newcastle and Berwick, 131/1 ; North British, 131,4 ; Scot-
tish Central, 6 ; Sheffield and Manchester, /05 ; South-
Eastern, 41V, ; Ditto (No. 1), 161/2 ; Trent Valley, 17i/2 15)4 ;
Paris and Orleans, 45; Paris and Rouen, 423 i ; Boulogne
and Amiens, 5; Northern of France,
An intense degree 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 cl.nnot, 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 thel 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 dressAl
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 paying 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

Dergoa Bay.
There is a more firm market for money this morn-
ing, the pressure occasioned by the settlement cf
the Railway and other Shara accounts having, to a
great extent, passed oil very satisfactorily. Consols for the
Account have been done at 99% :3,i, and .for Money 99% %.
The Three per Cents. Reduced keep at about IoOIA ; the
New Three-and-a- Quarter per Cents. at IOON. Exchequer-
bills 5,15. to 56s ; India Bonds at 70 premium ; and Bank

Stock at 1111/ to 1121/2.
There has not been any business of extent done in the
Foreign Funds this morning. Brazilian Bonds have been
Cnoted at 88 ; Mexican at a fall from 36 to 353j4 ; Portuguese
onverted at 58; Spanish at 27311, the Three per Cents.
at 4O ; and the Dutch Four per Cents. at 98%
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
3 per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consols ... 9914% (195/
' /8
New 31/4 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... — •••• 99a/ % 99%
Exchequer Bills, LOON., 11/4d.... 56 54 56 pm. 56
Ditto 5001. .
Ditto Small
ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839...... 88
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 —
Ditto, Account 36 353/
Ditto, Deferred Stock 16%%
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Converted
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account - •
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Ditto, Account •••
Dutch, 21% per Cent •
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 98%% 98.
Ditto, 5 per Cent — 99
PRICES OF CLOSING
PAID. , AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAY SHARES PRICES
Birmin and Gloucester. 100 132 135% ...-.
Ditto New Shares ... 171/ 33
Ditto 1/2 Shares
Bristol and. Exeter
Ditto New. . .
Bristol and Gloucester... 30 .. 59
Cal .:donian
Cambridge and Lincoln 1% 4 314,4 ••••• •
Chester and Holyhead... 5
Ohm-net Valley
' Direct Northern • 214 —
Dublin and Galway..... 2% 2%
Dublin and BelfastJunc. 21A —
Eastern Counties 141. 16s 17%
Eastern Union lO .. ..
Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Great South. and West.
(Ireland) ' 5
. Ditto Extension
Great North of England- 100
Ditto New
Ditto New 2
Great Western ... 80 ......177%
Ditto 1/2 Shares SO
Guildford, Farn'm,Ports. 2% 4%
Harwich
Lancaster and Carlisle l5
London and Birminglim (5t0ck)......
Ditto, Quarters 2
London and Brighton... 50 55 /2' .
561./2
London ar dS. Western 4116 s 10d 80
Ditto New 2% l2 ..
Ditto New
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 1814%
London and York 21% 6l/2 7% 63/4...
Manchester and Birmin. 40
Ditto 14 Shares
Midland 100 ......125%
Ditto New 2 ..... 81
Midland,Birm.,Derby 100
Newcas:te and Berwick 1% ...... 14A 16
Newry and Enniskillen. 21/
Newark and Sheffield ... 112 2IA
North Britisit
Ditto New 1
Norwich and Brandon... 10
Richmondand West End
Junction -
Rugby,Wor'ster,&Tring 1 4 3178
/
Shrews., Wolverhamp ,
Dudley, and Birm 2% 614%
south Devon... lO ..... 15%
South Eastern & Dover 3312 s 4d... 4135
Ditto, No. 2.
Ditto, No. 3 2% 914 10
Staines and Richmond... 1
South Wales 2l/2.... sm. %
...... .
...
Trent Valley
Yarmouth and Norwich. 20
York and N orth Midland 50 lO5
Ditto 1/2 Shares: ..... .. 25
Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 20
Ditto, Selby 2O —
®Ditto Extension:- ..• 114 —
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens... 2
Great North. of France.. 4
Orleans and Bordeaux... 2
Orleans and Vierzon ... 2 ......
Paris and Lyons 2
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Strasbourg ... 2
Tours and' Nantes.. 1
Bordeaux and Toulouse 2 ....-
MANCltEsTitit STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 12. —We have
had an extensive business done, generally at lower prices :.••••
Blackburn and Preston, 141 ; Bristol and Exeter, 82 ex
new ; Eastern Counties, Perpetual, No. 2,26 s ; Man-
chester and Birmingham, 65 64%; Ditto, Quarter Shares,
11%; Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 111,; Birken.
head, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 7% 14; Black-
burn, Burnley, and Accrington, 5% 6 ; Bolton, Wigan, and
Liverpool, 7 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 3%; Churnet Valley,
81,x; X 3; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3% 3-16; Lou.
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 Euston, 3%; Trent Valley, 17% 3/4.

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RAILWAY BUSINESS IN PAR.
LIAMENT.
THURSDAY, FRB. 13, 1845.

Petitions for the following Railway Bills were referred to
the Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills :
Manchester. and Buxton Railway—Chester and Holyhead
Railway—Cornwall Railway.
Greenwich Colliery Railway (Bill for enabling the Com-
missioners of Greenwich Hospital to make a Railway or Tram-
wad from Greenwich Colliery to Berwick Bridge, ordered to
be brought in by Mr. Charles Hope and the Earl of Lincoln).
NOTICES GIVEN AT TILE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE.

Blackburn, Burnley, Accrington, and Colne Railway, Com-
mittee on Petition, Monday, Feb. 24.
Manchester and Boston Railway, Committee on Petition,
Monday, Feb. 24.
Cornwall Rai lw ay, Committee on Petition, Monday, Feb. 24.
Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction Railway, Committee
on Petition, Monday, Feb. 24.
Chester and Holyhead Railway, Committee on Petition,
Monday, Feb. 24.

A supplement to the Gazette of Tuesday was pub-
lished last night, containing the names of Shareholders in
the London Joint-stock Bank, occupying 14 pages, and the
National Provincial Bank of England, 13 pages.
ARUNDEL, THURSDAY EVENING.— Her Majesty
and Prince Albert paid a visit to their Graces the Duke and Duchess
of Norfolk, at the Castle, this morning, and partook of a splendid
dejeune, served up in the Russian style. The party to meet her Ma-
jesty was confined to the family only, it being the wish that it should
be considered in every way a private affair. Soon after her Majesty's
arrival, nearly two o'clock, the Duke and Duchess accompanied her
Majesty and Prince Albert through the state apartments;of the Castle,
and it is more than gratifying to observe that both expressed them-
selves in the highest terms of admiration at the great taste shown by
his Grace ;in tact, her Majesty stated explic tly that she had not
seen anything equal to the splendour of the whole, more particularly
the library, which is supposed to surpass anything of the kind in
Europe. The Duke left this morning for Worthing, from whence he
escorted her Majesty to Arundel. ' The weather was most unpropi-
tious, snowing heavily the whole of the journey. Her Majesty left
about half-past three, by the same route. His Grace escorted the
carriage as far as Calceto Hill, where her Majesty requested him to
return on account of the severity of the weather. There was only one
carriage with the Queen, which contained Colonel Wyld. It is now
determined on that her Majesty .will pay us another visit for three or
four days the latter end of the spring.—From a Corre.spondeV.
Died on Tuesday,the 11th of February, at Llanover,
of disease of the heart, Benjamin Banbury Stuart, aged 19, eldest and
last surviving son of Sir Benjamin and Lady Hall, of Llanover,
Beath Wales,