The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-14 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1645.

The doleful ditties of Conciliation Hall speak well for the
working of the Irish Colleges measure. The Liberator weep-
ing over Dr. KIRWAN'B adhesion; Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN, of
the white handkerchief, subsiding all at once from his theatri-
cal indignation of last session into faint praise, and Mr.
JOHN O'CONNELL quarrelling with Mr. SMITH O'BittEN for
his faint praises—are all unequivocal proofs that the mea-
sure is succeeding fast. Little as we believed in the power
of Conciliation Hall abuse against the intrinsic merits of the
Irish Colleges Bill, we never expected so soon to see Mr
O'CONNELL'S tone so humbled as in his apostrophe to Dr.
KIRWAN, the newly-appointed President of Cork College.

" That Rev. Gentleman was his friend, and he could scarcely

believe he would have countenanced a scheme which had
been unanimously condemned by the hierarchy. GOD help
the people of Ireland ; but I trust the thought will not cross
their minds that their clergy would be accessible to bribery
Had any man told me that Dr. KIRWAN would have taken a
situation under the Colleges Act, I would have said I
would as soon believe that a stream could return to its
source." The charity of the words we have printed in italics
Mr. O'CONNELL does not say that Dr. KIRWAN has been
bribed. W hat is more, he does not believe it.

But, to appease his own wounded vanity, he wishes to
make his gaping lieges of Conciliation Hall believe
that he imputes bribery to Dr: KIRWAN, and in the same
breath in which lie makes a mock appeal to GOD, insinuates
the vilest of slanders against his friend. We could not wish
a better proof that Mr. O'CONNELL sees himself defeated.
The miracle of the stream returning to its source is more
nearly exemplified in Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN. In his gentle
wooings of the Colleges Bill, he is returning to his first love;
for no man ever was more zealous for mixed collegiate edu-
cation in former days than Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN, who last
session was to die on the floor of St. Stephen's opposing the
Irish Colleges Bill. To be sure Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN'S opinions
are of no importance to any sensible man ; and the world
does not not need additional proofs of the weathercock cha-
racter of Conciliation Hall statesmanship. But the follow-
ing extract from a paper on Education in Ireland, by W,
SMITH O'Baxx..v, M.P., published by the Central Society of
Education, in 1839, presents such an amusing contrast to
SMITH O'BRIEN'S oratory on the same subject in 1845, that we
cannot resist the temptation of giving it:—
" We cannot avoid attracting notice to the fact, that in a
country in which above four-fifths of the population are Roman
Catholics, the Catholics are excluded from all share in the admi-
nistration and emoluments of the only university which Ireland at
present possesses. We regard it as a matter of infinite importance to
the harmony of society in Ireland that the Roman Catholic youth
should be educated in association with Protestants of their own sta-
tion. To those tube are about to enter into either the Protestant
or Roman Catholic Church this union in youth is more peculiarly
advantageous, because the wide difference of their studies and pur.
suits in after life has but too natural a tendency to create angry and
embittered feelings, such as now unhappily exist between the
clergy of the different churches in Ireland to an extent hitherto
unknown in any other country in the world. The period of pecu-
liar preparation for the church ought to follow the completion of a
course of general study. Till that course is fully completed, the
Catholic and Protestant ought to be unfted'in their education."
In the writer of the above one might have expected to find
one of the warmest supporters of the Irish Colleges Bill. But,
dis older cisurn. The Knight of the White Handkerchief
flourished his white handkerchief against Sir ROBERT PEEL'S
Colleges Bill as stoutly as he now flourishes it against the
union. The stream is, however, now returning to its source.
Another miracle for baffled Mr. O'CoisztELL!

The three Presidents of the new colleges are now appointed
and the appointment of two Roman Catholics and a Presby-
terian to superintend academical education in Ireland by the
Minister of Irish Protestantism—the Minister taught of
F.I.DoN, and erst loved by RODEN—is an event, which, in.
times more propitious for the physical prosperity of Ireland,•
would meet with loud celebration. But even now this har-
binger of future moral blessing for Ireland should not be
utterly disregarded; and we, who steadily and zealously
supported Sir ROI3EIST PEEL'S Irish Colleges measure, rejoice
to be able to render thanks and praise for the appointments
with which he is carrying the measure into execution.

At no former period of our experience as journalists have
we felt so sensibly as we now do the value of that maxim
in political criticism which is summarily expressed in the
well-known terms—" Measures, not men." We doubt
whether—since the days of ministerial autocracy, when the
pleasure of the Minister was the will of the SOVEREIGN, and
the will of the SOVEREIGN was the law of the Minister—any
such undisguised assertion of the doctrine, "stet pro ration,
voluntas," has been ventured on as that which the Govern-
ment of Sir ROBERT PEEL is palpably inculcating, in its
utter disregard of the popular demand for the open-

ing of the ports. A very much greater and
more generous statesman than Sir ROBERT PEEL
—we mean Sir ROBERT WALrotz—neither misunderstood

nor affected to misunderstand the popular disgust elicited

by his EXCISE SCHEME, about a century ago. That bold
and unhesitating statesman did not during a Parliamentary
recess assemble councils to deliberate only to adjourn with-
out coming to any decision on the propriety or impropriety
of modifying his obnoxious-plan for creating or rather re
viving new sources of revenue ; but carefully, repeatedly,
and pointedly announced, explained, and reinforced the rea-
sons upon which he felt himself called on to persevere in it.
Between the two Sir ROBERTS of 1742 and 1845 there is,
to be sure, little enough of similarity; yet there does subsist
one remarkable analogy. Both of them have mananifested a
marvellously low estimate of the morality of public men, and
of the dignity of public principle. But the man who " ran
away with the clothes of the Whigs whilst they were bathing"
(to use the felicitous metaphor of Mr. DISRAELI), is all
nothing the greater perverter of that morality—the greater
disparager of that principle. The contemporary of PULTENEY
and, "honest" SIUPPEN was ill-advised enough to blurt out
the stupendous fact avouched by his own Ministerial experi-
ence, "that every man" (of that day) "had his price." The
contemporary and colleague of the illustrious CANNING, whose
early-dated liberality he repudiated for the then stern Toryism
of the Duke of WELLINGTON, since modified to his own
sliding-scale of indefinitely expansive concession, according
to the force of the external pressure brought
to act upon it, sets about exemplifying the same
proposition in a more cunning and less hazardous manner.
Far too plausible to risk gratuitous avowals of dangerous
frankness, our present Premier is neither too high-toned nor
too unaccommodating in his political ethics to avail himself
of those foibles in his friends—or opponents—on which, as
WALPOLE was before him, he is at all times ready to extend
the basis of his own power. Public men are no longer cor-
rupted in this country by rnuleaux of guineas " unexpectedly
discovered on their breakfast tables," or large Bank-notes
anonymously inclosed to them on the eve of debates on
which the probable divisions appear likely to affect the ex-

istence of decaying Governments, or to threaten them with
relapse after their re-establishment. But patronage—(the
possession, on the one hand, of official power or influence,
and the careful appropriation of lapsed or vacated places on
the other, not on the principle of deter optirno, but so as

to be the exclusive reward of official service)—this is
a lever as all-powerful, far safer, and more decorous,
and less palpable than direct bribery. It has never
been wielded—this patronage—with more effect than by
Sir ROBERT PEEL; and to his skill in the use of this
weapon we attribute the sort of disarmed and passive apathy
wherewith public men of aU parties seem to look on, in vague
expectation of the adoption of some remedy for impending
scarcity.

Rating the morale of the Premier's government at no
higher value than this, and thereby not taking up any hypo-
thesis calculated to betray our judgment into any disparag-
ing estimate of his sagacity, we yet cannot compre-
hend the delusion under which he must be labouring
if he imagines that he can with impunity attempt
to obviate, by procrastinating, the opening of the ports.
He who is so ready to school others about their inability to
read the "signs of the times," must be seized with a chronic
blindness—a defective perception pro hdc rice—if he cannot
recognise in the condition of the country the imperious and
paramount necessity for such a measure—in the quiet but
emphatic bearing of the public upon it—the decree which
must compel its prompt concession. The potato crop failure
now shares, with Ireland, the fatal distinction of proving
" his greatest difficulty." His tenure of power is
staked upon the single cast of solving that diffi-
culty. The opening of the ports is the only card
which can save the trimming and difficult game he has
hitherto had to play against adversaries who have become
more formidable as antagonists from the very successes he
has achieved against them, and with partners who are inca-
pable of playing up to him.
But why should Sir ROBERT hesitate to obey the wish of
the vast majority, by virtue of whose past confidence or ap-
proval he retains the first place in her MAJESTY'S Councils?
Is it because he would compromise his popularity with his
own party, the Conservatives? 'Why he has over and over
again relinquished and repudiated them on other ques-
tions, when he could command adequate support
for his purpose from their opponents. Is it that
he dreads a combination of the landed interest ?
In how many instances has he already thwarted and re-
sisted them? Does any man imagine that he is afraid to
appease the alarms of the empire, and to satisfy the clamour
of the famishing, out of some delicacy for the trammels Of
those views and prejudices which the political associations
of his earlier official and Parliamentary career respected and
uph€ ld as identified with the principles of a sound and saga-
cious policy ? Such a man needs only to be reminded
that Sir ROBERT PEEL has thrown them overboard, from
time to time, with as little ceremony as he knocked some
hundreds of items out of the tariff of Customs' Duties
retained by his predecessors. Besides, who among
our modern Ministers has ever bidden higher, or more
largely for the favour of the people than Sir ROBERT, in his
measures for the relief of civil and religious disabilities—
the extension of education—the relaxation of imposts on
raw materials, of manufactures, &c., &c. In a word, it
seems difficult, if not impossible, to ascribe his dogged re-
fusal to open the ports at once, under exigencies so fearful as
those of the present time, to any other motive than personal
deference or consideration for some colleague in offioe, the
prestige of whose continued and close alliance he is rash
enough to set before the cordial and firm support of a great
and determined people. If this be the fact, the career of
the Prime Minister draws as near to its termination as the
past reputation of the statesman.

The Madrid Gazette of the sth contains a circular issued
by the Intendant of the Queen's Household, calling upon all
persons whose pensions on the privy purse were suspended in
1834, to send into his office the documents necessary to prove
that they enjoyed such pensions, in order that their payment
may be resumed. These pensions, it is understood, amount
to about 15,0001. The NARVASZ Government appear to be
adopting a more merciful system. All the persons implicated
in the disturbances which took place in Catalonia, and who
had been imprisoned since at Palma, had been pardoned
by the QUEEN, and permitted to return to their families.
The municipal elections had commenced, and the Progres-
sistas had succeeded in returning their candidates at several
places, among others Saragossa, Cuenca, and Guadalajara.
A mutiny in the regiment of Girona broke out on the 3d
inst. at Valencia, but with what object is not stated. A ser-
geant and twenty-five soldiers attacked the guard, killed its
commandant and twoofficers, marched out, and being joined
by some of the townspeople, attacked the Pilar barracks,
where they were repulsed. Their plan being frustrated,
they fled and concealed themselves. Eighteen soldiers and
other suspected persona were arrested, and, two hours after,
tranquillity was restored. The town and province bad been
declared in a state of siege. A good deal of business was done
outside the Madrid Bourse on the sth, and the prices were
quoted thus
Three per Cents. 36% to 36 15-16 for cash, 3i 9-16 for
time ; Five per Cents., 2514 1-3 for cash, 25% IA for time ;
Coupons, 2614 % for cash, 261 for time ; Ditto, with In-
terest, 81% I,i for cash, 8% 3% for time.

The Paris Moniteur announces the resignation of Marshal
Sonia' as Minister of War, and the appointment of General
ST. Yost to be his succesor. These and other military
changes are made known by five royal ordonnances, dated
the 10th. The first runs thus :—" Marshal SouLT, Duke of
Dalmatia, having represented to us, to our very great regret, the
impossibility in his state of health of continuing the functions
of Minister Secretary of State of War, and being desirous of
preserving the co-operation of his talents and long experience
in affairs, we have ordained and do ordain as follows :—Mar-
shal SOULT, Duke de Dahnatie, ceasing his functions as Minis-
ter Secretary of State of War, will retain the Presidency of
our Council of Ministers." A second ordonnance of the same
date appoints Lieutenant-General MOLINE DE SAINT YON
Minister of War; a third appoints the Baron MAR..
TINEA U DES CIIENES Under Secretary of State of
the War Department; a fourth raises General Mo-
LINE DE SAINT Yost to the dignity of the peer-
age; and a fifth appoints General Baron GAZAN, director of
the personnel and military operations of the Ministry of War,
in place of General MoustE DE SAINT YON, and Major-
General Count DE LA RUE Director of the affairs of Algeria,
in place of M. VAUCIIELLE, who has given in his resignation.
The accounts from Algiers in these papers is not of a favour-
able character. The Generals, it is true, had recommenced
the system of razzias, but these tended only the more to
rouse the natives against the French. Five additional tribes
had revolted from the French and joined ABD-EL-KADER.
BUGEAUD had signalised his arrival in Oran province by
a general razzia. What a contemptible warfare
for a distinguished officer ! We give the facts
from the Moniteur Algerien of the sth inst. :—" The
troops under the immediate command of the Governor-
General effected on the 27th ult. a very large razzia on the
insurgent tribes south of Tiaret and Teniet-el-Haad. A co-
lumn of cavalry and infantry proceeded against the rebels,
who had fled, and fell upon them after two night marches.
Large numbers of cattle, and a considerable quantity of
booty of all kinds, remained in our hands. The enemy, who
had at first made a vigourous resistance, fled, leaving nearly
300 dead on the ground. Our losses are insignificant, in
comparison with so great a result. Thus, ten days after
leaving Algiers, the troops under the orders of the Marshal
were striking energetic blows at a distance of 90 leagues
from this place, and showing the tribes that they may be
reached at whatever distance they may be." The Presse
makes the following indignant remarks on the horrible war-
fare carried on by the Marshal :

Not a report arrives from the army of Africa which does not
contain a formal condemnation of the system persevered in by
Marshal Bugeaud. We read in the report of General de Bar, ad-
dressed under date of Oct. 30, to the Minister of War :—' The
Governor-General charged me to have the honour of informing
you that all the insurgent tribes had fled twenty leagues before
him ; that the insurrection had ceased to advance towards the east,
and that lie was employing all imaginable means to endeavour to
reach the emigrating tribes who are placing between themselves
and our colony spaces too considerable to be passed through in
one night.' Here. then, we have Marshal Bugeaud occupied in
driving the populations from the west, and declaring that they
place spaces between them too great to permit him to reach them,
and consequently to stop them. Thus Marshal Bugeaud, not
comprehending the Emir's policy, favours his projects of esta.
blishing his sovereignty in Morocco, and there fixing a people
who by their mass may resist the Moorish populations, and create
resources to enable him to live. it is now fifteen years that we
possess Algeria; fifteen years that our statesmen seek to solve the
question of fixing the power of France firmly in that country ;
fifteen years that the best forces of France are wasted there; and,
notwithstanding, it is not yet known what mode ought to be em

ployed to attain that object. It is fifteen months since Abd-el-
, Kader, driven out of Algeria, and forced to the west with the
remnant of his power, conceived the idea of founding an empire
in Morocco. What does he do to succeed ?. He comprehends
that power does not lie in an army, but in a numerous popula-
tion ; his design is not to wage war with us, but to withdraw from
our rule the population which he want, and which are to form
the bases of his empire. For that purpose he sets himself up as
an avenger of the oppressed natives ; strikes at Djemma Ghazaouat
a terrible blow in reprisal for the burning at the Dahra, and the
injuries which for more than a year we have extended over the
whole of Western Kabylia."
Some of the journals again advert to Lieut. WAGHORN'S
remarkable journey from Alexandria to Trieste and Germany
to London. The Epoque regards it as a very serious affair,
and thus urges the Government to take immediate steps to
counteract the injury it might do to France :
" Whatever may be the ultimate results of this enterprise, it is
in Itself a heinous fact, which ought to awaken all the solicitude of
our Government, and induce it to take the most prompt measures
to prevent the consequences which would ensure from it to our
commerce, should it succeed. The presence of Count Stadion,tbe
Aulic Commissioner, and the directors of the Lloyd's company, on
the arrival of Mr. Waghorn's boat, the congratulations given to
him, the earnest zeal with which Austria lent her aid to him, fact.
litating by all possible means the success of this his first attempt,
the incessant efforts of Trieste to aggrandise itself at the expense
of Marseilles, disputing with our port the trade with the richest
markets of Asia, disclose a well conceived and concocted plan in
forming and establishing this league of rival interests. To these
indications of all indefatigable competition, it is advisable to oppose
an equally strenuous opposition. It is at this price alone that we
cart maintain our rights as a great nation, and make our strength
and power manifest."
The Constitutionnel publishes, from a letter dated Palermo,
the following Court gossip. It certainly places the Duke
DE MONTEBELLO in a very contemptible light :
•` It was not without surprise that the Duke de Montebello, the
French Ambassador .was seen to arrive at Palermo on the 30th
ult. A Ministerial journal confines itself to stating that he had
scarcely landed when he had an audience of the King, and that
he returned the following day to Naples. On the subject of this
visit we have received the following details :—" Without any
communication with the other members of the diplomatic
body, M. de Montebello took it into his head to go and
make his court to the Emperor of Russia. With this intent
he left Naples on the 30th, with only a single servant, and
without any other suite, by the Norval. Instantly on his arrival
at Palermo he waited on the King of Naples, who did not by
any means expect such • visit, and acquainted him with his
intention His Sicilian Majesty replied that the Emperor
of Russia had expressed his desire to be treated as a simple tra-
veller, and therefore the foreign ambassadors had not been con-
voked. His Majesty concluded by recommending the Duke to
relinquish his intention. M. de Montebello could not but yield to
his Majesty's advice, given as it was with the utmost politeness,
took leave of the King, went and passed the night on board the
steamer, and returned the next day to Naples. It seems that this
foolish enterprise of our ambassador arose out of an idea of his
own brain. He evidently fancied that, inspired by his natural
genius, he could by going over reconcile the Court of Russia with
that of France. He had obtained lease to quit his post, and come
and pass some days in France; but on learning that the Csar was
coming into the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, he suddenly re-
nounced
.his journey to Paris. He it was who first conceived the
notion of offering to the Empress the palace at Palermo, which
belongs to the King and Queen of the French, but the Neopolitan
Government cooly intimated to him that the King had not for.
gotten to provide a suitable residence for her Imperial Majesty.
Is not this sufficient to recall to mind the dictum of Prince Talley-
rand—'above all, no Deal."

The Courrier Francais has a paragraph respecting the Eli-
PEROR himself no less curious. It says :—" According to a
report in general circulation in diplomatic circles, the Em-
peror ..NICHOLAS proposes to abdicate the supreme power,

and with this view left the reins of Government at his de-
parture from Italy, in the hands of the heir presumptive to
the Throne." The writer adds :—•" This becomes probable
when we consider that PETER the GREAT, by a ukase de-
clared that his descendants, on attaining a reign of 25 years,
should have a right to issue ukases in their own name with-
out the participation of the Senate. It is generally known
in Russia that no CZAR ever reigned for so long a period as
25 years; and if NICHOLAS should abdicate, perhaps this
ukase may have been an influential cause of his resolution."
The following are other extracts from the papers :
The France says :—" Yesterday at ten o'clock in the morning,
in all the churches of Paris, number of the faithful crowded round
the alters to thank God and send up their ardent prayers. Re.
ligious faith and monarchial faith possess mysteries of consolat ion
and hope."—By way of solving this enigmatical paragraph to ti.it
uninitiated, we must remind them that the marriage of the sister of
the Duke de Bordeaux took place yesterday at Frohsdorit"
The Archimede left Sues on September 22, stopped for a
few hours only, on the 29th, at Aden, and then went on to die
southern point of Ceylon. She will make a short stay at Macao,
and bring M. Lagrene to Suez. He will return through Egypt.
The Cleopatra will also return to France, so that only two ships
will remain with Admiral Cecille.

The Augsburgh Gazette gives the following from Athens, 28th

ult. ;—'• The note which the Opposition has been so long ex-
pecting from London, is arrived at last, but it does not appear to
be very satisfactory to them, as it is not so much talked about as it
was before. It is said to be in accordance with the sentiments of

Sir Edmund Lyons. It is certain that it demands payment of one_
third of the arrears of interesr due to England, and the guarantee
of the loan. It is also reported that Russia has made the same
demand, and that her Charge d'Affaires has received instructions
on the subject through the Russian Ambassador at London. The

French legation has not received any such orders, which is held to
be significative of the cordial understanding. The nate urges a
reduction of the army, but this is repelled by the Chamber, which
yesterday voted the budget of the Minister of War without any
diminution. Recently twenty Greeks were massacred by the
Turks on the frontier. It is important to bring this fact to the
public knowledge, for if a Turk is killed an outcry is raised as if the
Ottoman empire were in danger; but the murder of a Greek is
spoken of as a natural ocenrrencc."
" The last decision signed by Marshal Soult,'' says the 13. esse,
" relates to the clothing of the cavalry and of the squadrons of
the artillery trains. He wished, it is said, before quitting the
Ministry, to attack his name to a regulation which should settle

definitively the numerous experiments made in the clothing of
these troops by committees appointed for that purpose. The de-
parturef the Marshal has been signalised by favours of various
kinds. Several decorations have been given in the bureaux, ad-
vancements have taken place amongst the employes of all ranks,
and individual presents have been distributed."

The Stock and Share Market at Paris, on Tuesday, was
not so good as on the preceding day. Railway Shares de-
clined. Amalgamations, it was understood, would be formed
between different companies for important lines, and it was
reported that an agreement had alresdy been made between
the company formed by Rorascumn, the Company DE
GANNERON'S Company, and the Company DES MESSA-
GEHIES, for the Strasbourg line of railway, for a fusion, and
that a treaty is in course of being carried en with the other
two companies of GENTIL-FOL and of BECHET, but that it is
not yet concluded. Ultimately the market closed as fol-
lows :

The Three per Cents. 824 20c. ; Five per Cents. 117 f. 50e. •
Orleans Railroad Shares closed at 1,1424 ' 50c. • Rouen, 997 f:
50c. ; Havre, 766 f. 25c.; Avignon, 9514 25e ; tiierzon, 697 f.
50e.; Bordeaux, 622 f. 50c.; Boulogne, 541 f. 25c. ; Troyes
and Montereau, 4671. 50e. ; Basle, 251 f. 25c. ; Northern,
7371. 50 ; Spanish Three per Cents., 38%; Spanish Do-
mestic Debt, 3 51%; Spanish Passives, 6%.
The following are the quotations for other lines :-
Paris and Lyons Railroad (Laffitte), 517 f. 50c. prem.; ditto
(Caton), 503 E 50c. ; ditto (Ganneron), 504 f. 50c.; ditto (La
Pinsonniere), 501 t. ; Paris and Strasburg (Ganneron). 512150 c ;
ditto (Hinguerlot), 5101. 60c.; ditto (Bechet), 5034 50c.;
Aymanl, 74450 c. ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 518. 75c. ;
ditto (Drouillard),so4f. ; ditto (O'Neill), 509 f. ;ditto (Lefevre),
505 f. ; Lyonsand Avignon (Talabot), 525 f.; ditto (Lecointe),
51411. ; ditto (Compagnie hleridionale), 504 f. 50e. ; ditto
(Espeleta), 5121. 50c.; Creil and St. Quentin (Kysaen's),
5004 • ditto (Carette), 507 f. 50c.; ditto (Colbert), 5001. 25c.;
Charleroy (Kysaens), 500 f. ; Caen (Dela-marre), 5031. 50c.

LUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 12.
Anglo-Belgian — Luxembourg
Boulogne and Amiens.. 91/ Madrid and Valentia —
Bordeaux &Mediterran Namur and Liege 3%
Bordeaux and Toulouse North Jamaica ...
Do. & Cette (Espeleta) Orleans and Vierzon
Do. (Mackenzie's) .. 13/4 Orleans and Bordeaux 11
Central of Spain .. — OverYssel •••
Ceylon .
. . ._ _.

Demerara

• uc Lyt.
Ditto (Ganneron'3).

Dendre Valley ... 14
Dutch Rhenish ...... 74
Dieppe & Paris Janet.
Dijon and Mulhouse ...
East Indian ........
Fampoux & Hazebrouk
Grt Northern of France

Ditto (Caloa's)....
Ditto (Sud Est) l%
Paris and Orleans...._
IParis and Rouen . 3B
Paris and Strasburg
(Ganneron's)
Do._(Aymardl) 23i
21/2

(Laflitte's)
Ditto (Rosamel's) 31,,
Do. (Le Boeuf )
Do. (Constituted) l5
Do. Pepin le Halleur —
Great Paris and Lyons —
Great Western Bengal
Great Western Canada 3%
JamaicaS. Mid. Junction
Do. North Midland...
Do. Extension
Jersey
Louvain and Jemeppe
Lyons and Avignon —

!Do. (COMPte de I:Tet) 21,
Paris and St. Quentin.
Rouen and Havre...—. —,
Royal North of Spain.
Sambre and Meuse —
Strasburg and Basle —
Tournay,Jurbise, Lan-
Toduerns t,
aannd Ha it
(Mackenzie's)dNant.e.;
Do. (Lefebvre's) —
Verona and Ancona —
West Flanders
41,4

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE WS.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 10,000
bales, 2,5'00 being on speculation. Prices were 1/Bd. per lb.
higher than at the close of business last week; 750 Maran-
ham, at 414 d. to 4%d. ; 60 Pernams, at 61/id. to 61Ad. ; 400
Surat, at 2%d. to 31,4 d. ; and American at 31/2d. to scl. per
lb.—There was very little doing in Shares, and prices gene-
rally were lower.
It is scarcely possible to estimate the results that will flow
from the announcement of the free-trade principle which
has been adopted by the Government, and by rliament,
as respects the admission of articles of produce eft er duty'
free or at very low imposts. The Customs bills of entry
almost daily have new articles of import, and there cannot be
the slightest doubt that before long there will be poured in
hundreds of articles of produce from distant Darts of the
world, which will be novelties in every sense of the word.
There are no late colonial arrivals announced here to-day.
An improvement in the Consol Market to the extent of IA
per cent. has taken place this morning, and flie money value
is 96%. The Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have advanced
to 971/2, a rise•of about 2 per cent. upon the quotations sub-
mitted to less than a month ago.
The premium upon Exchequer-bills has fluctuated from
225. to 245. South Sea Stock has been done at 107. The
supply of money stock has been much less to-day. East
India Bonds have advanced to 40s. prem.
A very firm market has ruled for the Foreign Securities to-
day. Mexican Stock has improved to 3014 1/2 ; Portu•
guese Four per Cents from 55 to 57, and Spanish for the Ac-
count to 2943. Dutch Stock is also higher.
The Market for the Railway Shares is rather firm to-day
but business is rather slack.

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES
3 per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 964 96 96% 964
New 34 per Cents
Long Annuities to eanireJan.lB6o 10% 7-16 10 7-16
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1859
irdia Bonds, 1,0001..
Ditto under 1,0001. .. ......
South Sea Stock
Ditto New Annuities
Consols for Account
Exchequer Sills, 1,0004 I%d.