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LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1545.

The House of Commons did not make a House.
The house of Lords met at Five o'clock.
The Public Nuisances Bill was read a second time.
Several petitions were presented on the subject of the
Maynooth Bill.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE explained that he had
made inquiries into the conduct of the Shei ill's in admit-
ting the public to the condemned sermon in the case of
'locker, and had found that they had only followed the
example of their predecessors ; at the same time, he
thought the practice had better be discontinued.
Aftcr a complaint (founded on a petition) made by
Lord BROUGHAM of the inconvenience to which the in-
habitants of Newfoundland were subjected by having
their letters from England transmitted via Halifax, and
an explanation on the subject from Lord STANLEY,
Lord BEAUMONT moved for certain papers relating to
zrecent transactions in Greece, and made a lengthened
statement of the history of recent transactions in that

country.
The Earl of ABERDEEN shortly replied, after which
the Noble Lord (BEAtrmoNT) withdrew his motion.
The LORD CHANCELLOR then moved the second read-
ing of the Charitable Trusts Bill, and in so doing ex-
plained at some length the bearings of the measure.
_ _

After a short discussion, in which Lord COTTENHAM,
Lord CAMPBELL, Lord ASHBURTON, and Lord ABIN•
GER took part, the motion was agreed to, and the House
adjourned.

possibly widely divergent paths, are under a sad ae-
lusion, or are rushing to their ruin ; our goal is a com-
mon one. I hope, I pray, I believe, that many of us
may reach it in common." Let us trust the reign of in-
tolerance is past. The Government have entered upon a
course which friends and foes must alike admire and
approve, they have commenced by acknowledging
officially, the just claims of Ireland ; they are
about to treat Engiiah and Irish, irrespec
tively, as the common subjects of a common Sove-
reign—the common worshippers of the same CREATOR.
They will proclaim to the neglected and oppressed,

" Ye are brothers, ye are men,
And we govern but to save."
A distinguishing feature in this debate is the absence of
party spirit. Last evening the chief of the Govern-
ment and the leader of the Opposition both de-
clared their intention to follow their own opinions
regardless of friend or foe. Sir ROBERT PEEL
spoke as became his proud position—he boldly
declared himself the Minister of England, not the
chief of a faction. We know not if his former promises
led his friends to think otherwise, but we are sure that
every one must agree with him, that a Minister must do
his duty to his country without any regard to indivi-
duals. "It seems to me," he observed, " that a mis-
apprehension is entertained in some quarters with
respect to the position of a Minister of the Crown. I am
proud of the confidence, as any man can be, which a great
party has placed in me ; still I never can admit that he o xis
any personal obligation to those members who have
placed him in a certain position, and I should consider
it as the happiest day of my life when I was permitted
to act merely as an indvidual Member of Parliament,
unconnected even with party, rather than continue to
hold office by the servile tenure of the advice I give to
my Sovereign upon every subject being exactly in con-
formity with every opinion which every member of that
party might hold." Lord JOHN RUSSELL, after ap-
proving of the measures of the Government, declared
that no party views should induce him to oppose what
he thought right, and added:—
" I would say to the Government, Do net stop short with
this measure, as you see you have no party differences to fear when
you bring forward measures really advantageous to Ireland. What-
ever obstacles you may meet with, you will not be encountered by
the anxiety of those who have lost power to possess themselves of
office ; expect a majority of this House to go with you if you
fairly and boldly declare your intentions, and rely, as the Right
Hon. Gentleman declares he will, on the value of those measures
themselves for the support and acceptance they will receive.' "

From these sentiments we are led to anticipate the
downfal of all those narrow party views which for so
many years have disgraced our Legislature, divided states-
men into placemen and expectants, caused questions of
right and wrong to be regarded but as factious disputes,
and given rise to that fatal system of expediency, the curse
of modern legislation, which has proved alike destruc-
tive to the fame of Parliaments and Ministers, and op-
posed to the happiness and welfare of the people.

When we very lately animadverted on the strange
anomalies and deficiencies of our criminal law, and in-
stanced the absurd inequality with which punishment
was apportioned to offences coming under the cognisance
of its jurisdiction (an inequality by reason of which the
severest penalties are sometimes meted out for the most
venial transgressions of a statute, having regard to cer-
tain acts in themselves indifferent—and the lightest are
inflicted for crimes the most revolting to humanity, be-
cause of some technical informalities in the indictment,
or some error in the pleadings), we little imagined
that we should so soon encounter an evidence of the
physical existence of one of those unconvicted ruffians
who now and then escape in the last crisis, as it were,
of fat', the ignominious doom they have justly merited.
It is undoubtedly a sound principle of humanity, and
of justice as well as of law, to assume any man inno-
cent, in the face of whatever evidence may have been
brought forward to substantiate his guilt, until a verdict
of Guilty shall have been recorded against him. At
the same time there are facts and circumstances on
which, though the cumulative and legal proof necessary
to establish a conviction may be wanting, the impression
of the public mind is clear and distinct that they
are conclusive of the guilt of the accused. We
mentioned the case of one " SHEENE," tried many
years ago at the bar of the Old Bailey, for the murder
of his infant child by cutting its head off. This ruffian
escaped conviction at the time, solely by virtue of some
worthless quibble as to the technical description in the
indictment of himself or his victim—(for we really
forget which). Whichever it was, he had been
styled in the pleas of the Crown " THOMAS "
for " JOHN," Or " JOHN " for " THOMAS." So-
ciety, it might have been supposed, was in-
terested only to know—first, whether a murder
had been committed upon the child; secondly, by whom;
and upon neither of these points was the slightest doubt
expressed, either by the jury or the judge. The flaw
in the indictment, however, being pleaded by his
counsel, was held to be fatal, and he escaped that doom
which it would he an affectation of delicacy to suppose
that any individual in the country, who had perused the
evidence tendered at his trial, ever doubted that he had
most richly merited. In these distressing cases, where the
meshes of the law may be said to break through after hav-
ing netted their prey, natural instinct usually deters the
monster which has broken out of them from ever ven•

The accounts from Madrid, which are to the 14th inst., are
without interest. The Chamber of Deputies had adjourned
to the 16th, when it was understood the Cortes would be
prorogued by the QUEEN in person. The Court was to leave
for Barcelona about the 24th.

The Three per Cents. closed at 34 3-16 for cash, and 35 at
GO days; the Five per Cents. at 24 for cash, and 25i for 60
days; the Coupons at 271 for cash; and the Debt without
Interest, at 8j at 60 days.

In the French Chamber of Deputies, the Minister of Fi-
nance, in reply to questions put to him relative to the propo-
sition of M. GANNERON to raise the sum of 21,000,000/. on
certain conditions for the construction of railroads, said he
could not accept such an offer. The demands were exor-
bitant, and he had too good an opinion of the
credit of France to contract loans on such disad-
vantageous terms. The adoption of the line by Haze-
brouck and Fampoux had caused unbounded joy among the
delegates from the department of Pas-de-Calais. One of the
Paris papers says—" Scarcelyhad the President declared the
amendment adopted, when they fell into one another's arms,
and tumultuously rushed to the Salle dee Pas-Perdus, which
the members for the north and Pas-de-Calais were
at the time entering. The latter were immediately
seized and embraced. The ladies from Fampoux and
Hazebroack, unable to resist so much enthusiasm, fell
into the arms of the Hon. Gentlemen. At length the emo-
tion subsided, and the Delegates, storming a table allotted
to the officers of the Chamber, who draw up the reports of
the discussions in the Committees, hastened with every paper
and pen they could pounce upon, to transmit the glorious
news to Fampoux and llazebrouck." At the opening of the
sitting on Tuesday the Minister of Public Works presented a
Bill for regulating the police of the Channel fisheries, and
also two other Bills, one demanding a vote o
5,000,000 francs to construct a vet dock at St. Nazaire
and the other 3,000,000 f. for works on the Adour, between
Bayonne and St. Esprit. The Chamber then resumed the dis-
cussion on the northern line, when it was proposed that the
condition of the contract for the branch line from Haze-
brouck to Fampoux should be the same as for the St.
Quentin and St. Creil line, and that the security
should be fixed at 1,500,000 f. This clause was adopted
as well as another, of some importance to Boulogne and Ca-
lais, that no reduction of fares or charges for goods should
take place on the lines to these towns which should not be
common to both. The debate on the fourth clause relative
to the duration of the concession was going on at the hour of
post. The Government had proposed a period of 45 years, and
the Committee on the Bill had reduced it to 33.

turing again into their vicinity. So, in those rare cases
where a technical informality has overridden the whole
force of direct proof, positive depositions, and circum-
stantial evidence, the lucky delinquent has gene-
rally been too happy to withdraw himself from the yell
of public indignation and the pointed finger
of scorn and infamy, in the safe retreat
of obscurity and silence. In the police re-
ports for Wednesday last, under the head of Wor-
ship-street, we read of a WILLIAM SHEEN, brought up
for having assaulted and threatened the life of a re-
spectable publican. The case was proved to the satis-
faction of the magistrate, and SHEEN was bound over to
keep the peace, himself in his own recognizance for
100/, with two sureties of 501 each. These were very
readily procured, for this SHEEN, it appears, is a pros-
perous personage, possessing household property in the
vicinity of the office to the amount of more than 701 per
annum. It is further stated that he is the same than, we were
going to say, who, having cut off the head of his infant
child, was allowed, through the carelessness of the Clerk
of the Arraigns, to slip his own out of the halter. We
had no expectation of ever encountering this " wolf-head"
again. We had thought that even the most obscene and
darksome purlieus of Shoreditch and Spitalfielda could
have vindicated themselves from the imputation of har-
bouring such inhabitants. But this is an age of surprises•
It must be imagined that the public like to renew old
acquaintances of however questionable a reputation
under any circumstances however startling. For our
own parts, we are beyond the reach of such emotions.
Nil ari 13 the motto we take up with. We shoul I
scarcely utter an interjection were we told to-morrow
that the injured and scientific experimentalist, Mr.
BELANEY, was endeavouring to get enrolled as licentiate
in medicine and surgery under a new Charter for " par-
ticular " instead of " general " practitioners. Yet we
do marvel at our law of bail, or the discretion of our
magistrates in administering it. To-day a gentleman of
great respectability is brought before one magistrate,
for soundly horsewhipping the seducer of his own
daughter in the person of his brother-in-law, her uncle.
Application is made to bail the gentleman who has,
under such irrepressible feelings of ' resentment, com-
mitted such an act of violence. The Magistrate, Mr.
TWYFORD, refuses under eircumstan'ces thus special to
accept bail, and asks, with a simplicity quite touching—
" Why should he ?" To-morrow you shall have a no-
torious murderer, with no other recommendations but
those of his luck in defrauding the public executioner,
brought up on a charge of wanton and brutal assault,
without any such provocation of intolerable injury, before
another magistrate. The charge is proved to his satis-
faction, and this Magistrate, on bail being tendered for
the notorious offender before him, accepts it with a
facility that seems to ask—" why should he not?"

The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Tues-
day, at 86f. 25c. ; the New Loan, at 86f. 65c. ; the Five
per Cents. at 122 f. ; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,252 f. 50c. ;
Rouen, 1,130 f. ; Vierzon, Bf. 30c. ; Havre, 917 f. 50c ; Avig-
non, 1,065 f. ; Basle, 275 f. ; Belgian Two-and-a-Half per
Cents. 62 20; Spanish Active, 40; Spanish Three per
Cents., 42 ; Spanish Passives, 8.
The following are the quotations for the new lines :-
Orleans and Bordeaux, 235 f. premium ; Boulogne, 140 f.
ditto ; Troyes and Montereau, 75f. ; Paris and Lyons (Laffitte ),
22f. 50c. ; ditto (Calon), If. 50c.; ditto (Ganneron), 20f. ;
Northern line (Laffitte), 32f. 50c. ; ditto (Rosamel), 14E
Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 12f. 50c. ; ditto (Drouil-
lard), par ; ditto (O'Neill), 15f. ; ditto (Jacques Lefevre),
par ; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 25f. ; ditto (Talabot),
35f. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 12E'. 50c. ; Bordeaux
and Toulouse (Mackenzie), sr. ; ditto and Cette (Espeleta),
17E 50e. ; Creil and St. Quentin, If. 25c. ; Paris and Stras-
burg (Ganneron), 15. ; Dijon and Mulhouse, 4f. 25c.

DIVISIONS ON THE MAYNOOTII BILL.—The num-
ber of Members who divided on the third reading
were :—Ayes, 317 ; Noes, 184 ; Tellers, 4—Total, 505.
The number of Members present at the division on the
second reading, which took place on the morning of the
18th of April, was 503, being two less than in
the last division, and were arranged as follows :

Ayes, 323 ; Noes, 176 ; Tellers, 4. So that the ayes on
the second reading exceeded those of the third by 6, and
the noes were less by B—a very trilling difference after
so many speeches, both in the House and out of it.
On looking over the lists we can di cover the names of
only three Members who have changed sides. These are
the Hon. CRAVEN BRRILELEY, Mr. JOSEPH BROTHERTON,
and Admiral DUNDAS, who reversed their votes. Mr.
POULETT SCROPE voted for the second reading, but was
absent at the third. Mr. ALEXANDER PRINGLE voted
against it, and was also absent at the division yesterday
morning. Mr. WAwN voted consistently at both divi-
sieus in support of the measure.

SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER HALL.
The last performance this season of Ifaydn's beautiful
work, " The Creation," is fixed for Friday (this
evening). _ _ _

NEW TREATY WITH FRANCE.—The friendship
between England and France has just been further consolidated by a
treaty in reference to the slave trade, orwhieb that honest statesman,
the Dnc de Broglie and her Britannic Majesty's Government have,
we hear, definitively settled the conditions. It requires at present
only to be reduced to official form, to be initialed, then signed, and sub-
mitted for the ratification of the respective sovereigns. While speak-
ing of the relations between the two countries, it gives us much plea-
sure to add that there is not the slightest foundation for the rumours
recently circulated of the retirement of the Comte de St. Aulaire
from the Embassy of France at this Court.—Post.
A letter from Berne, of the 16th, states that the
Councillor of State Aubry, who was sent to Lucerne to solicit cle-
mency iu favour of Dr. Steiger, had returned without accomplishing
the object of his mission, but that it was hoped the Pope's Nuncio
would exercise his influence on the side ofmercy, and in that case it
was considered that Dr. Steiger was safe as regarded capital punish-
ment, although he might be condemned to a long imprisonment.

The division of Wednesday decided the fate of the
Maynooth Bill. This result is not the triumph of any
sect or faction, it is the triumph of the sacred cause of
Justice —an acknowledgment of Ireland's rights and
England's duties. We gladly receive this measure
for its own sake, but, above all, we hail it as the
harbinger of better things—as the first step in
a system of legislation, which, not based on the
shifting sands of expediency, but founded on the
solid rock of principle, shall not veer with every breeze,
and quail before every storm, but remain firm and in.-
vincible as truth. It is another triumph for the cause
to find those very men who once were chiefs in the
ranks of oppression—they who were first amid the arbi-
trary and intolerant—should now be foremost in the cause
of justice—become conciliators, and messengers of peace.
They have been taught in the stern but effectual school of
experience—they have learned that right is more power-
ful than might—that tyranny may control for a time,
ever
butli
the
justice alone can eventually conquer. Ireland has
been e
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like a conquered province • it must be, and, thank
Heaven, it is, not only difficult but im • possible to govern
a free and generous people by any
laws but those of
justice and equality; to say to
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opinions shall be your opinions,a
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be your religion," and our ways shall
bereligion shall
your ways."
The power of conscience is the strongest feeling
human breast. A man that dare not worship his in the
s
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without coercion or control has lost his greatest and
noblest privilege; his actions may be free, but hiir
is fettered—he is a slave indeed! Would that men
of all sects and all religions could concur, in the
tolerant words of Lord FRANCIS EGERTON on Wednesday,
" I believe, indeed, there is light for my guidance,
but I do not walk with sufficient confidence
to say that others, who pursue different, parallel, or

THE ROBBERY OF PAPER AT MESSRS. MAGNAT.
—John Ell, late a warehouseman in the employ of Sir W. Magnay,
and John Nicholson, a stationer, were tried before the Common
Sergeant, at the Central Criminal Court—Ell for steaing, and
Nicholson for feloniously receiving certain quantities of paper, the
property of Messrs. Magnay. The jury having heard the evidence,
acquitted both the prisoners. Nicholson was discharged, there being
no other indictment against him. The trial of the indictments against
the other parties charged with robbing Messrs. Magnay was post-
poned until next sessions.
TALLOW CHANDLERS' BENEVOLENT SOCIETY:
The second anniversary of this Society was heidon Wednesday at the
London Tavern, and was very numerously attended, John
Masterman, Esq., M.P., in the chair. The Society is in its infancy,
but promises to be a very useful and excellent charity, and the toast
of its " prosperity," proposed by the chairman, was universally re-
sponded to with every wish for its success. The amount of subscrip-
tions was considerable on the occasion, including 100 guineas from
Mr. T. S. Clarke, 10 guineas from the chairman, Alderman Fare-
brother ten guineas, the Proprietors of the Loudon Tavern five
guineas, Bzc.
On Wednesday information was received by the
police that on the 16th instant there were stolen from the person of
the Rev. J. Heathcote Brooks, of Brasenose College{ Oxford, while In
the Polytechnic Institution, Regent-street, a nissla, leather case con-
taining several letters, the scrip of ten Birmingham and Oxford Junc-
tion Railway shares, receipts of the deposit of ten Great North of
Scotland shares, and a cheque for 201. drawn in favour of Mr. Wood
upon the Old Bank of Oxford, and backed to Messrs. Coutts, Strand,
London.

As a proof of the increasing inclination of the in-
habitants of London to proceed towards the sea for recreation, it
may be stated that in the year 1943 upwards of 1,200,000 persons
were landed at the various piers at Gravesend, and which was In.
creased to upwards of 2,000,000 in the year 1844. These, of
course, are exclusive of those who visited Southend, Sheerness,
Herne Bay, Margate, and Ramsgate, amounting to upwards of
250,000.—Eases Herald.
FOREIGN POTATOES.—Tuesday there was a sale
of fourteen baskets of new potatoes from the Bermudas, brought
over byh tp.eh
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pronounced very good, and the prices realised were under 2d. per
►b. The speculation having proved thus successful, and the root
htdhae:stirntoguebs"ofn:ebtt:iintaiecthl in very good condition, there is no doubt but
food to our markets.
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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY
,MORNING, MAY 23, 1845.

Ditto Perpetual, 5 per -
Cent, No. 1—.5/. 13s. 4d.
Eastern Union l5 ••

Ditto Extension
Great Grimsby and Shef-
field
Great South. and West.
(Ireland)
Ditto Extension
Great Northof England..loo 220
Ditto New

Norwich and Brandon... 10— —
North British ..... ...... 10
Do. New
Preston and Wyre
Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland I %...... 3%
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
• Dudley, and Birm 2l,i. . . 43/1
South Devon l5 ... .. 26%
South Eastern & Dover 3312 s 4d... 41

Do., No. 1 8
Do., No. 3
South Wales 2lh sit 44
Trent Valley 2 ..
Trent Valley and Holy-
head Junction
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ...... 3VI % ...
West Yorkshire
West Cornwall 114..
York and North Midland 50 —
Ditto 1/ Shares 25
Do. Extension
FRENCH RAILWAY.).
Boulegne and A miens... 4
Bordeaux and Toulouse 2
Bordeaux, Toulouse, and _ _

•
Cette 2
Dv - blur - 2 2%'!

Jijon and _ulhouse ••• A %
Great North. of France.. 4
Do. do. (Rosamel's) 2
Great Paris and Lyons 2 ...... 2
Louvain and Jemeppe... 2 ... . 3 ...... .....
Lyons and Avignon 2
Namur and Liege
Orleans and Vierzon ... 2 ...... 15 1 8 43/4
Orleans and Bordeaux... 2 ...... 111,(
Over Yssel 413 s 4d 1(2%
Paris & Lyons, Laffitte's 2
Paris and Lyons, Gan-
neron's,
Paris & Lyons, (Calon's) 2
Paris and Rouen .. 2O
Paris and Strasbourg ... 2
Do. do. (llainguerlot') 2 .....
Royal North of Spam ... 2
Sambre and Meuse ..... 4
Tours and Nantes, Mac-
kenzie's
__ _ _ 31,4
_

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
London Joint Stock lO
London andWestininster 20 27%...
National of Ireland 17% 2l
Provincial of Ireland ... 25

New Shares, No. 3, 63/4 ; Scottish Central, 6%; Trent Valley
Continuation, 19s 21s. 9d. ; Welsh Midland, 335. ; West
Yorkshire, 465. ; Worcester and Tring, 454; York and Car-
lisle, 2% ; York and North Midland, New Halves, 1814 •,
Bordeaux and Toulouse, 2%; Lyons and Avignon (English),
58s. ; Louvain and Jemeppe, 41,4 •, Northern of France
(Laffitte's), 6 5% ; Ditto (Rosamere), 21/2 48s. 6d. ; Orleans,
Tours, and Bordeaux (English), 12; Paris and Lyons ( Eng-
li.h),Laffitte's, 6rs. 6d. 3/. ; Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's),
61s. 6d. 3/. ; Paris and Rouen, 42%.
MANCHEKTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 21.—The sales are
—Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 1014 ;
Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 8% 1,4 ; Caledonian,
Extension, ; Cliurnet Valley, 6 614 ; Clitheroe Junction,
214 prem. ; Direct Northern, 3%; Eastern Counties, New,
414 prem. ; Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield, and Manchester,
20s. ; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 7%;
Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 6.% ; Leeds and Thirsk,
; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 9%; Liverpool,
Ormskirk, and Preston, 2 11-16 3/4 ; London and Windsor,
7s. 611. prem. ; London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby,
41,4 ; London and York, 4%; Manchester and Birmingham,
Quarter Shares, 7%; Manchester and Buxton, 5%; Man-
chester and Leeds, Quarter Shares, 21%; Ditto, Sixteenth
Shares, 6%; Midland Railway Consols, 401. Shuts, 20;
North Western, 4% ; Nottingham and Mansfield, 2%;
Preston and Wyre Extension, 3 ; Sheffield and Manchester,
119%; South-Eastern, No. 1, 15; Trent Valley Continuation
and Holyhead Junction, 2% 7-16; York and North Mid-
land Extension, 17% ; Great North of France, English,
61-16 % • Ditto (Rosamel's), 2:3/4 ; Over-Yesel, 4/. 10s. 10d. ;
Paris and Lyons, English, 3% ; Ditto (Ganneron's), 2
15.16 3.

There are no late arrivals to.day from any quarter.
The ungenial state of the weather is much complained of
by all who are connected with the piece-goods and fancy
trades, and the sales usually effected about this time have
been much diminished in consequence. In sugar, coffee, and
other articles of large consumption, there is more business
doing than for some time past.
The Funds have been steady this morning, but scarcely so
high as yesterday. Consols have been 9914 % for present
transfer, and about 99% % for account. Exchequer-bills
have realised 58s. to 60s. premium. Bank Stock has been
marked 211, and India Stock 279, being very firm. The New
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 1011% %, and the Three
per Cents. 984 to 9g%.
Spanish Bonds have been at about previous rates, but there
is no- disposition to speculate in them. The Five per Cents.
are 30% A, and the Three per Cents. 424. Portuguese
Converted have touched 673/4, and Brazilian 90. Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. brieg 633/4 %. French Three
per Cent. Scrip has been done at 1% premium.
The Share Market is pretty well supported in most in-
stances. The most extraordinary movement, however, is the
I continued rise in Great North of England, which have
touched 120 premium, the shares being apparently in first-
rate hands. The French lines are not in general so buoyant,
and the same may be said of the other Foreign Shares. The
English Scrip Shares are relatively not so good as those of
the established lines.

ONE
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consc Is'
New 314 per Cents .. 10114%
Long Annuities to expire J an. 1860 11 1-16
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859... 111/2
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860
India Stock 279
India Bonds, 1,0001..
Ditto under 1,000/.
South Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuities
Bank Stock for Account. . 2ll 211
Consols for Account..... .... . .
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 11,4 d 6O 58 pm. 58
Ditto 5001.
Ditto Small
Ditto Advertised 57 59 pm. 59

CLOSING
PRICES.
211
98%
99%
101 t
114
11 1-16
11%
279

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S—YEsTERDAy.

So much time was occupied in comparing books, that
betting until late in the afternoon was almost at a stand
still. And when it did commence, so fitful was it, so
small the investments, and so great the crowd, that we
had some difficulty in drawing up a list of market prices.
Except in Pam, who was sent to the right•about by a
bet of 1,000 to 20. no material change presented itself in
the first class favourites for the Derby ; we should state,
however, that The Lil-,el opened at 18 to 1, and was in
very slight estimation until six o'clock, a rush was then
mad 6 to back hith, arid at the closing of the doors he had
regained the position assigned him on Monday. An im-
provementinJinglepot, and the reappearance of Kedgpr,
were the only movements in the outside division. The
Oaks doings were confined to Lady Wildair, Lancashire
Witch, and Glee, whose backers were numerous and
" fond." The following quotations are made up to seven
o'clock :

CLOSING
PRICES.
115
90

ONE
'RICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Austrian, 5 per Cent ........115
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839 BB
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela 15% 1514
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 —
Ditto Account
Ditto. Deferred
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
- Ditto, Converted. 673/4 673/4
Ditto, Account — 675/8
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto. Account
Ditto, Passive
Ditto 3 42
per Cent. % 4214
.. .. _ .

Belgian 4% per Cent. - 99
Dutch, 2% per Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 9314% 98%
PRICES OF CLOSINGPAID.
RAILWAY SHARES PAID. A ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES
Aberdeen
[firming. and Gloucesterloo
Bri'ton, Lewes, & Hast. 20
Bristol and Exeter 7O -
Do. New ..............2 ..-.. 73/4
Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ......
Caledonian
Cambridge and Lincoln 1% ...... 71% ..
Chester and Holyhead... 5
Chichester and Brighton 10
Caumet Valley
Cork and Waterford ... 11/2 2%
Direct Northern
Dublin and Belfast June. 210 ll 10%
Dublin and Galway
Dublin and Mullingar 2l/2 434%
Eastern Counties _ 25 ...... 18%%..,

10%
71/i
161/9

61/i4
21.

10%
4
18%

214
514
22%
12%
220

Ditto New 2 —
Great Western BO . ...187% 187%
Ditto, Fifths 2O —
Guildford, Fare'm, Ports. 2%... .. 5%
Harwich
Lancaster and Carlisle... 20
London and Birminghm (5t0ck)...237 238 236 239
Do. New Thirds
Do. 4 Shares
London and Blackwall. 16/. 13s. 4d. 91A% 9%
London and Brighton... 50
Do. New consolidated Bths 25 ...... 37
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. rB% IBF2
London and Greenwich 12/ 15s 4d...
Londonderry & Coleraine 21A...... . 3%
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen 2l/
Lynn and Ely
London and S. Western 411 6s 10d 79
Do. Consolidated Bths 12

Do. New
Do. New
London and York 2l/2 4361/2 414
London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil
Lynn and Dereham l% 2% 2l/2
Manchester and Leeds... 73 155 " 155
Do. Quarters
Manchester and Birmin. 40
Midland... 100
Do. New
Midland, Birm., Derby...loo l3ll/2 ......... ..... 133
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction 25 ...... 49 51
Do. New Brandling
Newcastle and Berwick 11/2 1414 17%
Newry and Enniskillen. 21/2 4
Newark and SLeflield .. 11/2 ..... ••••••••• 414
North Kent
... -
.. .

43.
2611
40
14,

5%
18%
2,6
3%
2

53
17%

2%
14%
1126

234
214
1014

DERBY.
7 to 2 agst J. Day's lot—taken freely
8 to 1 agst Forth's lot
9 to 4 agst Lord Stradbroke's Idas
6 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Alarm •
7 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Weatherbit—taken
14 to 1 agst Mr. A. W. Hill's The Libel—taken
18 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Pantasa—taken
20 to l agst Mr. Gratwicke's Doleful
30 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Old England
40 to 1 apt Mr. Waller's Columbus
40 to 1 agst Mr. Wyatt's Sis. to Laundtess colt
40 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Kedger
40 to 1 agst Col. Cradock's Jinglepot
40 to I agst Mr. St. Paul's Mentor
50 to 1 agst Mr. Ferguson's Clear-the-Way
50 to 1 agst Mr. Ford's Fuzbos—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Gratwicke's Merry Monarch
1000 to 15 agst Mr. Gratwicke's Titmouse
100 to 1 agst Mr. Coleman's Young Eclipse
200 to 1 agst Col. Peel's Cobweb colt
OAKS.
5 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Lady Wildair
6 to 1 agst Mr. Worthington's Lancashire Witch
9 to 1 agst Mr. Gulley's Maid of Orleans
11 to 1 agst Mr. Rogers's Glee—taken
The Subscription Room will be opened this afternoon
and to-morrow.

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MR. ROBERTS, LATE LESSEE OF THE STRAND
THEATRE.—We understand that this gentleman sailed last
week for New York, and that it is his intention to take
a professional tour through the States before he returns
to England. We augur favourably of his success, for
cur transatlantic brethren are not only excellent
patrons, but excellent judges of actors, and they will,
no doubt, appreciate the refined manners and the joyous
abandon of our friend Roberts in light comedy parts.
We understand that he takes out with him Don Cesar de
Bazan, in which we have no doubt he will make a hit.
Mr. Roberts is not only an excellent actor, but a good
singer and a dancer—witness his Lord Allcash in
F,'a Diacolo, and his Polka. The Polkamania is now
over, but we must confess that of all the Polkas, that
danced by Roberts and Mrs. Montgomery pleased us the
best, and the public were of our opinion, if we may
judge from the fact of its having been repeated upwards
of 150 times. We wish him every success during his
transatlantic trip, although we should certainly have
been better pleased if we could have kept him amongst
us, for dramatic talent is now-a-days so scarce that we
cannot afford to spare any of it.
THE GOVERNESSES BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.
We are glad to hear that Mr. Sideman will be enabled, after defray-
ing all the expenses of the recent concert, -which amount to about
2001., to hand over to the committee of the Governesses' Benevolent
Institution the handsome suns of 2241., inauding forty guineas In do-
nations,