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LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1845.

The pending " privilege question," between the
Courts of Law and the House of Commons, is every day
assuming a more grave and unsatisfactory aspect. We
cannot deem so lightly of it, in common with some
of our Contemporaries, as to regard it as a
mere question of smart practice between the So-
licitor appointed to act for the Sergeant-at-
Arms and the Solicitor HOWARD, who is the plaintiff
in the action. Neither is our interest limited to the
consideration whether the law laid down in this matter
by the Judges of the Queen's Bench, and especially by
the Lord Chief, was, as some contend it to have been,
most dangerous to the independence of Parliament, or,
as others consider it, most ♦aluable as an exposition of
the rights of the people. The prospect of any colli-
sion between the Common Law Courts and the High
Court of Parliament, at any time, and under any
circumstances, is calculated to excite in every
reflecting mind much uneasiness; and the very many
difficulties that must attend the issue at stake are by no
means to be disposed of by the ordinary rule of solution
we apply to litigated questions in this country—" Let
it be determined in the ordinary course of law "—for
that course is not applicable to it. The privilege itself is
an anomaly, by the very confession and argument of its
advocates, overriding the law ; but no Englishman can
honestly deny that the law exists, at this day, in its
strength and integrity, mainly by reason of that privilege
ixerted in darker and more stormy periods of its
existence for its protection and support. And it may
be safely affirmed that whatever objections may have
attached, from time to time, to the privilege of Par-
liament in the abstract, that privilege has worked
practically to the signal benefit of the people. Were
there no other considerations but these to rest it upon,
upon these we would found our earnest appeal to the
two parties in the House of Commons and among
the public, who advocate, the one the most extreme
amount and exercise of the privilege, and the
other, its reduction within limits which would neutralise
its effective action altogether, —to dismiss all heat
and passion in dealing with the subject. If they are
rash and unreasonable, who would stretch the cord of
privilege to the tension it had attained in the days of the
Long Parliament, or of the Convention Parliament
which enforced forfeiture of the Crown against one
dynasty, and established its succession in another ;
they are neither more reasonable nor less rash who
denude the House of Commons of all privilege beyond
that possessed by any individual subject of the QUEEN
in her courts of law. The second report of the Select
Committee of the House of Commons appointed to in-
quire into the proceedings of the action of HOWARD U.
GOSSETT, is a document to which it is not difficult to pre-
dict a character of both historic and legal importance
At the present moment it suggests some reflections that
powerfully confirm us in the appeal we thus make to the
good sense and good feeling of all parties.
The Committee, in considering the course which, in
the present stage of the proceedings, it may be most
desirable for the House to pursue, admit that they have
found the case to be one of great difficulty. The facts
of the case it can scarcely be necessary to bring in de-
tail before the reader. Let us suppose them to arise
out of the service of a Speaker's warrant, and an entry
upon premises in virtue of that warrant, in the absence
of the party against whom it had been taken. He brings
his action against the officer• of the House, and in a court
of law a verdict of damages is returned, upon which
proceedings are taken and a judgment obtained. Prior
to a levy under this judgment, the question arose—
should the House interfere to prevent, by its own au-
thority, the execution of a judgment so granted by a
court of law, or seek to reverse that judgment on a writ
of error ? The Committee declare " that they
feel it to be of the utmost importance that
the House should maintain the entire privi-
leges which are essential to the discharge of its
constitutional functions." This may sound like beg-
ging the question, but it does, at all events, very fairly
raise it, and it is of a two-fold character. 1. What is
this privilege of Parliament ? 2. Is it expedient to vin-
dicate it ?

With regard to the former of these branches, it seems
to us obvious that the privilege is an adjunct naturally
arising out of the free exerci-e of the functions proper
to a representative body of this description. If this were
even to be disputed, the fact of prescription could not be.
Sir EDWARD COKE nays that " the power and jurisdic-
tion of Parliament are so transcendant and absolute, that
it cannot be confined, either for persons or causes, within
any bounds. It bath sovereign and uncontrollable au-
thority in making and repealing laws." In the large-
ness of this estimate they may find an answer to their
objections who insist that the privileges which Parlia-
ment claims as inherent in itself ought to be defined.
The very first step towards such a definition
would not only destroy the salutary principle
on which it exists, namely, an exclusive power
in the fountain of the laws to " control," as
COKE has it, their course according to the par-
ticular exigency)and of which it alone can be permitted
to judge) ; but it would subject its own action to in-
cessant zltnterruption and impediments, invoked under
the general authority of any specific law, of which it
might seek to modify or to repeal the enactments.
As to the latter branch of the question, may we not
well ask, if, on the authority of COKE, this transcendent
privilege is indispensable to the theory of an indepen-
dent Parliament, its practical necessity has been less
strongly shown inall our experience of its working since
the reign of EDWARD I. ? On how many occasions, dur-
ing that interval, has Parliament exercised this privilege
to protect the vassal from the rapacity of his lord?
When tenures by grand and petit-sergeantry were
abolished, it was argued that there could be no further
necessity for the maintenance of Parliamentary privi-
lege. In how many subsequent cases, occurring in how
many subsequent years, and down to our own times,
has the same privilege been extended as a shield over
the subject, to protect him from the aggressions, or
the threatened violence of the Crown ? But were we
to attempt to assign a tithe of the reasons that may be
adduced, to show why it is expedient to vindicate the
privilege of Parliament, we should be oppressed with
their number. If it be a salutary aid to support the
popular branch of the Constitution against the en-
croachments of the Throne, it is fully as important in
protecting the popular branch from the too stringent
pressure and irregular passion of its own constituency.
Perhaps it is this very " privilege" in the Commons of a
limited Monarchy which makes the popular Member of
the State the very ark of the monarchical Constitution ;
whilst, he want of it, in pure republics, leaves their coun-
cils so opon to external,but direct influences, so much at the
mercy of the impetuous and intemperate purposes of the
democracy, as too frequently to entail the decay and
ultimate ruin of the Commonwealth. On a large and
general view of the subject, therefore, we are clearly of
opinion that the privilege of Parliament ought to he
upheld, Its abuses, particularly if you will have trien-
nial or shorter Parliaments, are sufficiently guarded
against by the powers of reconstruction vested in the
electoral body who return the Commons. Descending
to particular objections. we come to one very candidly
re-stated in the Select Committee's Report. We allude
to the tone of emphatic deprecation in which any possible
collision between Parliament and the courts of law is

spoken of. To the mischief's of any such col-
lision we are fully alive ; but we cannot think
that the same danger or inconvenience could attach
to it now, It/filch might have been reasonably appre-
hended from is prior to 1761, when GEORGE HI. first
created judges by patents for life. That is to say, so
long as judges held their high and most exalted offices
under the Crown, only " &aurae beneplactto" (as their
appointments then ran), the policy of the State should
have been what the spirit of the Constitution adopts—
namely, to uphold the authority of decisions of the
courts of law against all privilege beyond the law,
claimed by the councils of the Crown, in which there
would probably sit venal judges, its own creatures.
But now, when the tenure of the judge is quanidia se
benegesserit, there is nothing to fear, where other cir-
cumstances justify Parliament in resorting to its pri-
vilege for the protection of its own officers—from its
enforcing that privilege against the decision of courts of
law. Now we can imagine no cases stronger to
justify the assertion of this privilege than that
before the House, or its immediate predecessor, " Stock-
dale v. Hansard." The publication of evidence taken
before the Committees of Parliament, is perhaps one of
the most unqualified public benefits the Legislature con-
fers on "the country. If the publisher of so notorious
and scandalous a work as the " Wilson Memoirs," could
induce a jury to believe that he had really been libelled
in one of the depositions printed by order of the House
of Commons, among a hundred others, he was a lucky
fellow. But we do not see that, therefore, the writ of
a court of law, in which a verdict of damages had been
taken by such a plaintiff, ought to defeat the exercise of
so vital a power as the privilege of Parliament. Under
other circumstances, and as against a private defendant,
it would have mattered not one straw to the public
whether an attorney—Mr. Ssunr, or Mr. HOWARD, or
Mr. JONES— did or did not make " a good thin Cout of his
action, or how light or how heavy damages he could in-
duce a jury to give him. But it matters much, indeed,
whether Mr. HOWARD should be allowed, by the capricious
event of an appeal to a court of law, with the benefit of
his own technical management, to make the House of
Commons change places with him, and sue it, by its
officer, as a civil delinquent. From one paragraph in
the report before us it would appear that others are
emulous of the successful experiment of Mr. HOWARD.
" Three other actions are pending at present against
officers of the House for arts done under its authority, in
one of these actions the damages have been laid at
100,0001. (1 !) and they have all been brought in the
Court of Queen's Bench." Of course, they have been.
We will undertake to promise that Court an enormous
accumulation of business in similar actions, if the Par-
liament do not interpose to put an end to the prevailing
fever of Parliament prosecutions. But when some of
these gentlemen are so m, dest in their estimate of the
damages they shall go for, as to " write down "
100,0001 upon the record, the House of Commons must
interpose to bar it ; if in no other character, surely in that
of guardian of the public purse. But what is the proxi-
mate cause of a condition of things thus false and
complicated ? As it appears to us, the ill-judged in-
structions given by the House to Mr. Attorney-General
to plead to the action. Nothing can be more moderate,
yet dignified, more temperate or reasonable, than the
language of the " Report," which we published on Sa-
turday. But we cannot help deploring the step thus
taken in this remarkable business. The Committee state
(and no doubt with perfect truth) that the probable in-
tention of the House, in permitting its officer to plead in
this case, agreeably to the precedents of " Burdett v.
Abbott," and " Stockdale v. Hansard," was not to sub-
mit its privileges to the judgment of a court of law, but
merely to bring within the cognizance of the Court, in
the most formal manner, the fact that the acts com-
plained of by the plaintiff had been dune by officers of
the House, at the instance and under the authority of the
House. The Committee naturally contend, in this view
of the case, that the picas ought at once to have been
admitted by the Court as a sufficient answer to the ac-
tion. The Court did no such thing, and this is just one
of those cases in which success alone can excuse an
error in judgment, whatever were the grounds it went
upon.

We do not pause to inquire wherein the analogy con-
sists, that pointed out to the SOLICITOR-GENERAL the
utterly different cases of Burdett v. Abbott and Stock-
dale v. Hansard, as precedents to guide the House in
its dealing with this action of "Howard v. Gossett."
But with every respect for the Committee, we dissent
from the doctrine affirmed, in relation to its " First Re-
port," that " as the levying of the plaintiff's execution
" would, in no respect, prejudice the proceedings in the
" Writ of Error," therefore " they did not deem it ex-
" pedient to advise the House to interpose to prevent
" the levy." Let us give the Committee and the House
full credit for moderation in wishing to proceed by Writ
of Error to set aside judgment obtained by the plaintiff.
It by no means followed that the vindication of the
privilege of Parliament would be established. It is now
evident that it did not, in fact, ensue on this permission
of the levy. What have they gained by this course ?
A loss. They are damnified, not bettered. The Com-
mittee postponed the distinct assertion of a great principle
to a choice of proceedings which, at the best, migh t obviate
the necessity for putting that principle immediately in
issue. Which was the more important point Er them to have
established ; that which would have inhibited, in limine,
any challenge in a court of law of the privilege, or that
which might indeed, for this time, keep the great issue
of its vindication out of the law courts altogether ; but
could only do so, by invoking in a specific form the re
medial, and, therefore, the protective, and, therefore, the
superior authority of those very tribunals ? We shall
ever deem it a fatal mistake to have pleaded ; because,
on every principle recognised by the canon, the civil and
the common law in this country, to appear in a jurisdic-
tion under its own form or citation, is to acknowledge
it ; except, indeed, the appearance be under specific pro-
test. Her there has been no such protest. And if
there had been one entered in a former stage of the pro-
ceedings, you tear off your own seal from it by going
elsewhere for a writ of error—unless, indeed, you make
your application SO PROTESTING. And this, as laymen—
but earne.tly solicitous for the integrity of those privileges
which we inform all parties concerned in maintaining
them are held on sacred trust for the highest service of the
public—we say this modification of the recommendation
of the Committee the House of Commons will find it yet
essential to adopt.

It is with great pain that we solicit the attention of
our readers to the melancholy account we have pub-
lished of the conflagration at Quebec of the 28th of
May last. By this desolating calamity no less than
12,000 persons are said to have become homeless, un-
sheltered, and destitute ; and the 2,000 houses which
they had previously occupied have been consumed by
the flames. One hundred human beings, it is feared,
have perished in the burning ruins of their homesteads,
or as the helpless, bed-ridden patients of a hospital, who
had been purposely removed to a dwelling in another
quarter of the city, the distance of which from the area
of the fire, it was vainly hoped, might protect them from
its ravages. But sparks and burning fragments, wafted
n that direction by a furious wind, accomplished the
destruction of the dwelling, and they perished in it.
The loss of property sustained has been variously esti-
mated, but probably exceeds 700,000/. sterling.
A disaster more appalling has not often been regarded
even in the annals of colonial fires. Much as Quebec
has been of late years improved by the introduction of
substantial masonry in the construction of Government
works and of the superior class of private dwellings, it
is still essentially a city of wood. The great mercantile
stores established there, many of the landing piers,
quays, &c., are of that material. Wooden shingle
forms, for the most part, the roofing of the tene-
ments ; and it is, of course, one of the greatest
depots in the world for stacked timber, the produce of
the forests of Canada ; deals, battens, staves, logs, &c.
All these appear to have formed fatal elements for the
action of the fire, although its extinction in one quarter
was happily accomplished by the sudden hurling down
of these piled masses. The writer of one account which
has reached as states, that at its broadest point the
breadth of the densely-crowded area, over which this
sudden devastation has swept, is nearly one-third of a
mile. We remark that Lord METCALFE, with his cha-
racteristic energy, and his prompt humanity, has for-
warded 2,000/. ; the Roman Catholic Bishop, 5001., for
the relief of the sufferers ; the Hotel Dieu, 5001. As
the animosities between the hierarchies of the Roman
Catholic Church and our own Establishment, which
vent themselves nearer home with so much unbecoming
rancour, are happily modified in Canada by feelings of
reciprocal respect and Christian charity, " our good
Bishop " as he is called, does not cast ungenerous reflec-
tions upon, or impute unworthy motives to, his mitred
brother, as a Bishop of EXETER would deal with a
Bishop of WORCESTER, but frankly and assiduously
emulates his example. The Protestant Bishop of QUE-
BEC embarks with ardour in his pastoral labour of soli-
citing charity for the distressed, and sets in motion the
active ag-ncy of all his clergy for the same benevolent
purpose. In Quebec its, if about 3,000 of the inhabi-
tants attended at a public meeting, at which between
3,000/. and 4,0001. were subscribed. In Montreal a
similar meeting was about to be convened with a like
object ;
and we have no doubt that the inhabitants of
the Western will come forward generously in aid of
their compatriots of the Eastern province. In th,. mean-
time we would earnestly commend the afflicting case of

these tZtuebiio suirereri to the humans toosideratien
the English public. It is a case of peculiar claim upon
their sympathy, and one which pres,es urgently for im-
mediate relief. Those who consider how shert is the
duration of the warm season in Lower Candilkirow
rapid the approach, and how excessively seve4- the
rigouts of a Canadian winter, will at •itice appr, date
the necessity for immediate exertion on behalf of the
ruined victims of this calamity. Those who cannot
withdraw themselves from the habit of regarding all Ca-
nadian questions under their political relations, and with s
certain degree of political excitement, will feel that the
sooner a social evil—adomesticmisfortune--of this mag-
nitude is repaired the better it will be for the welfare of
the colony at large. These are not times in which, set-
ting out of view considerations of humanity,
and appeals
of private misfortune, it would be expedient to leave the
metropolis of our most important possessions in America
weakened by the protracted existence of unmitigated
suffering among its population on this gigantic scale'
Such a neglect would amount to a dangerous presump-
tion of national apathy and public weakness, the moral
influence of which, in depressing our own subjects on the
shores of St. Lawrence, and raising the hostile preten-
sions of some among their neighbours on the other side
of the United States' frontier, it is not difficult to calcue
late, though it would be invidious to dwell upon. We
confidently trust that public meetings will be held in our
own metropolis, and in the other great mercantile and
manufacturing capitals of the United Kingdom, to con-
tribute a liberal fund to the relief of our fellow•country-
men in Quebec. It will be gratifying to find, too, that
in an exigency of so awful a nature the Colonial Depart-
ment here can shake off its customary indifference or
indolence, and vigorously employ both its Parliamentary
influence and its executive powers to prompt and reme-
dial measures for the succour and re-establishment of
the surviving sufferers by this calamity, and the families
and representatives of those who have perished in it

If we may credit the accounts brought by the Greek
Western from New York, and the authority of letters
published in that city, said to have been received from
Vera Cruz, the knotty question of Texas independence
would appear to be making good progress towards a Per"
manent settlement, The Mexican Congress are repre-
sented as having intimated their consent to a law for re-
gnizing Texas as an independent State, bothterra*
honourable to Mexico, and advantageous to the
contracting parties. This result is alleged to
be
owing to the exertions and good management of the
English Minister accredited to Texas, who lost no time,
after being fully in possession of the views of the Texas
vernment in g lf in communication
, p with
G uttin himse
the authorities of Mexico, and obtaining the acquiescence
of their Cabinet in the basis of such a treaty as "s
finally negotiated. It was further understood that the
land and of France, on condition that she rejects all
independence of Texas has the joint guarantee of Ear
pro-
posals of annexation to the United States or any other
Power whatsoever.
dveerrivaecrcuozn.firmlfatiitobne bbyorineetteorust obfyafpaeretsvious date
The intelligence to this effect from Mexico appears to
gratulate both the parties to the coniPaet,
United States. The only way in which the mischievous
delusion of TYLER'S unprincipled "annexation" scheme
was to be dissipated, was, by putting the citizens of the
United States in the wrong ; fur that is She etery
chance of inducing them to reason disPe'sieenatify
from
o
n a proposition too well calculatedwet
characteristic shrewdness, so long as -... of their
their national vanity at the exPeu— osb:nglldr coon.;
be no disposition in other Powers to resist their desig w
But Texas, by setting herself right, as she has
no .
The ad
done, has put the United States in the wrong.
vances they made to Texas to induce ber toebeceme *
member of the Federal Union, proceeded on th assuinp-
a
tion—openly avowed—that the Government of Texas
desired that incorporation with the States of the Union.
appeare.dntso.
In vindicating her own independence and integrity,
there
own in'
ment into an unwieldly federation, secures her
Texas, instead of being absorbed as a component ele-
dividual position under the auspices of the two most-
powerful nations of Europe. Perhaps, under the com
plicated relations which the Texas question was fast
assuming, with regard both to the United States and to
this country, no ccurse could be suggested so well calcu-
lated to obviate the probabilities of hostile frontier col-
lisions between Mexico and the United States, and
serious ill-will and heart-burnings between the United
States and this country at some not remote period, al
that of which we are thus apprised, and which we trust
has been adopted.

Madrid journals of the 22d instant state, that on thel2otb
a meeting had been held in the Saloons of Senor PActisC°
relative to the abdication of Don CARLOS and the marriog°
of the QUEEN. It was composed of thirty-one Dr
puties and three editors of Madrid journals. Speech,e3t
were made, and it appeared to be the unanimous opinion tuti:
both the Count DE TRAPANI and the Prince of Asrcin't"
should be rejected as suitors for the hand of her ArejeatAY,;
But ISTURITZ opposed any expression of public opiniea;
the subject, as the initiative should come from the 421.1f,_:
and to this the meeting unanimously assented. A circular
had been addressed on the 19th, by IsTAltvil'falit
Barcelona, to the commandants of the tii"e"-00
provinces, warning them that " the rebel Don GotYm
and the whole of his family have been declared outla
strangers to the kingdom, and excluded by the Constitu the
of the State, and hy special laws, from succession to
te
crown, and deprived of the rights which had belongeac_A°
a.:
them as Infantes of Spain, and that this law must beorc
enf
inexorably up o
oL those who, either directly or indirectly:
thte
tempt to overthrow the fundamental institutions __vm,
country, and derange the order of succession to the Cr"
by deceitful promises and lying sacrifices, which the Q"
repela•
as the supreme head of the State and nation, openlY
; clined
It is generally believed that Queen CHRISTI:NIA is -
rlhisli
to take a v
taken ill oney ek .
that
_as
differentngd kingdom
B. vairillievAl
ooßnfmaa7zu question
Distexpecte loiscAhet la
tates the who
in a short time he would be able to c bontinue hIsJ°n r
had bi n
reach that place on the 24th. cash, and
The Thee per Cents. closed at 32 5-16 for
32 3 16 forr the 25th of July ; and the Five per Cents.
at 60 days.

The French Chamber-"Ill""----
of Deputies, at the close of the
business last week, after having passed all the
mates, proceeded to consider the Bill for granting 1°OtOliel: ~'uv.-assi:flt..lll,
_tut) fit out the squadron to be stationed on the coast of .‘4-1,t71e
planation
dreto
slialatvivegeattrtuaoed trade.
if
ethBet latear convention
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vieheixch
oppeere
ad-
give
ess‘edtisfaction. M. Guizar and M. DUPIN also hrietlY de.
the Chamber, and M. DENNIS tried ted fo°
bate on the question, but was incessantly interrup-- ,_w,
didi n g
not the
give
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tof 1313y1
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only
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The Journal des Debats, on referring to the resit,
furtheratinodn ,IwB suppression 019` ,
.thus points out the vast services of M. BILLAULT. ill sbontion
resignationcu of the Opposition, not be
He it
of the celebrated M. BlLLauur and his
begun from want of combatants. On seeing this eta i he.
whstha
papers'
carried
tewas who concluded the treaty-he it was who ough'
_;l3 a
on
hisd in triumph to the capitol. He is no doubt repoe';
laurels, for the whole world knows it was he ,0;10
mhe has done. Let him continue to
e3das2isk7lieds:oi°Tiuirh.seelvTneellsvie I:47Ativeul:'ll;-;
ductedhis
s the negotiation. Let us leave to this or all the
bundle of _tebe
evil innocent consolation ; it is fully due to hint -° 'tt of a
play the alt of
inLsterious Egeria; as long as his political ideas are rieli,
execution by M. GUIZOT, we shall hale „furi,„lll4
ance both on their tendency and their results." Ai. '-:,,0 of
after some discussion on the appointments to the Leg_L-shell
b Honour, urged, ,4 that every nomination for the future
_et
e published in the Moniteur." All the Ministers Preeslio,
pledged their words that they would publish all t,illon,
minations recommended by their respective depar:el
ei,e,
and on a division, it was carried by
but the motion was intended to apply also to the So r„ ~!_e,
The accounts from Algeria are not very favourable ion.
it was understood there would be a necessity for
rehid
loop Ma .
creasing the number of troops • in the co id Pc
O,
TLD had been attacked with fever, aud vioue' ;00.
bably be compelled to return to France for the 20th
very of his health. The Moniteur A lgerien of the. ,
_:ers
states that the Duke DE MONTPENCIER embarked at Air,he
for , I
on the preceding day,
in the Gomer steam-frigate, c.r.
Levant. The Minister of the ..5 • brine as
h addressed a 1.0
t Ow 1
cular to a great number of officers in his departmen ,
it
was
a majority or Dal.
Paris, ordering them to repair forthwith to their post°. , rve
reported at Paris that on the news of the abdication or A'
of
CAELos reaching Naples, the KING had given uP An i.,delsa
the marriage between Count DE TRAPANI and Quee'
BELLA.
The strikehalfstates
cording to a Geneva journal, ten states and WO
_e the
of the carpenters at Paris still conti Ac-
will vote at the approaching Diet for the expulsion 01 ~
Jesuits, and
should the canton of Geneva
be a majority for their expulsion. r Cell"'
The Bourse was exceedingly flat. The Throe Pef 70c.;
closed on the Paris Bourse on Saturday at 83 i.st 121f-
the New Loan at 841. 90c. ; the Five per Cents.
1,007 f.
60c. ; Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,162 f. 50c. ; Rutien', 957 f.
50e. ; Vierzon, 727 f. 50c. ; Havre, 825 f.; AvigDn7to ro-
50c. ; Basle, 2521. 50c. ; Spanish Actives, 33; - 1
sines, 71A. ...-
Tli, following are the quotations for the new lines •e 1.05 f,
Orleans and Bordeaux, 1651. premium ; Boul4nnd 'Lyons
join, there Wow.
ditto ; Troves and Montereau, 271. 50c. ; Paria
,a;_vneron),
( Laffitte), `2of. ; ditto (Calon), par ditto (titriel),
sf. ; Northern line (Laffitte), 32f. 50c.; ditto (I,r. ditto
6f. 50c ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 7f. su,',Locioes
f 50c • di"
ditto ('`. '
( Drouillard), par; ditto (O'Neill), 2f 50c. ;
Lefevre ), par ; Lyons and Avignon ( Lecoint e), 12; , 6f:soc. ;
a alabot), 361. 25c. • ditto ( Conipagnie Meridiona re Pod Cett.e
50C.; ditto 8 . poi!,
Burdeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie),
(I fla•leta). 3t'. 50c.; Creil and St. Quentin, niatrA mal-
and Stra,bourg (Gannerov), 4f. 50c ; Dijon
bausen, par; Dieppe and Fee mp, 321. 50c. 1,007 f.
lArtn.LEs, JUNE 2arseilles cnd Avignon,,,,jerov,
Boulogne, 620 f.; Orleans and Bordeaux, 70014 T

170 f. ; Avignon and Lyons, (Talabot), 537 f. 50e. ; ~ ditto
(Sehastiani), 517 f. 50c. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale),
507 f. 50c. ; Bourdeaux and Cette (Espeleta) 505 E
LYONS, JUNE 25.—Avignon and Marseilles, 986 E, end of
June; Paris and Orleans, 1,190 E, ditto for the 15th of July ;
Paris and Rouen, 1,040 f., end of June; Orleans and Vier-
ton, 728 f, ditto; Orleans and Bordeaux, 660 f, ditto;
Boulogne, 590 f. ditto; litontereau, 525 f., ditto.

L.tvy CHANGES.—There were various rumours current this
morning as to who were to be the new law officers of the
Crown. Sir Frederick Thesiger will, of course, succeed to
the vacant Attorney-Generalship, and the great question of
interest is, who is to be the new Solicitor-General. The
name of Mr. Kelly has been mentioned, but it is conceived
that the same reasons which prevented his appointment on
the occasion of the last vacancy may still possibly exist. The
names of Mr. Talbot and Mr. Stuart Wortley have also been
mentioned, but the favourite seems to be Mr. James Turner,
the Chancery barrister, who, it is said, is the new Conserva-
tive candidate for Dartmouth.
EXETER ELEcriox.—lt is said that the state of the re-
gistry is such in this city that the Anti-Corn-law League
candidate, whoever he may be, will be certain of being re-
turned.

GRAND REVIEW IN HYDE PARK

(THIS DAY.)

This grand display of military skill, which has already been twice
postponed on account of the unfavourable state of the weather, came
off to-day, in Hyde Park. The lines were formed a few minutes
before eleven o'clock, and comprised the following distinguished
regiments, the 4th Light Dragoons, the 2d Regiment of Life Guards,
the Scotch Fusilier Guards, and the Grenadier Guards. The rigl, t
flank was in possession of the Ist and 2d battalion of the Scotch
Fusilier Guards, and the other division of the regiment occupied
the left. The Life Guards occupied the extreme left. The ground
Was occupied by the 4th Regiment of Light Dragoons, and a de-
tachment of the 2d Grenadier Guards. The cavalry was
under the command of General the Honourable E. Lygon,
and the infantry under Colonel Drummond. Viscount
Combermere was Commander.in.Chief. Precisely at eleven
o'clock, and immediately after the formation of the lines,
her Majesty, Prince Albert, the King and Queen of the Belgian.,,
the Duke of Wellington, and the Marquis of Anglesea, accompa-
nied by a brilliant staff, arrived on the ground. Her Majesty and
party were received with full military honours, the band playing the
National Anthem. Her Majesty, who appeared in excellent health
and spirits, and the Queen of the Belgians, were in an open landau,
Prince Albert and the King of the Belgians were on horseback in
full military uniform. The inspection of the lines being completed,
the various evolutions were entered upon, and gone through with
the greatest order, precision, and rapidity, exciting not only the
encomiums of the Royal party, but the admiration of the vast mul-
titude assembled, amounting to at least 30,000 persons. The
weather, though threatening in the morning, gradually cleared up,
and during the whole progress of the review was everything that
could be desired. We regret to state that an accident occurred
during one of the evolutions which at first bore a very alarming
appearance. While a column of the 4th Light Dragoons were re -
treating before a charge of the Grenadier Guards, one of the horses
became restive, and rearing against the next in the rank, threw both
horse and rider to the ground, the man being underneath, the whole
weight of the horse falling on his body. For a few minutes he lay
quite insensible, and the general impression was, that he was killed.
Fortunately, however, the surmise was not correct, for in about
ten minutes, and after a draught of water had been procured, he
rallied, and ultimately was able to walk off the ground. By per-
sonal inquiry we learn that he had received no serious injury,
having only been stunned by the fall. Beyond this we did not
learn that any accident happened. We need only further add that
her Majesty, both on her arrival and departure, was received with
every token of loyalty and respect.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.-(MONDAY.)

Last week's arrivals of all kinds of English Grain were on
a very moderate scale, but those of Irish Oats were consider-
ably on the increase. Of Foreign Wheat, Barley, and Oats,
the imports were moderately good, but by no means exten-
sive. Fresh up from Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, and other
parts, including Essex and Kent, the arrivals of Wheat of
home produce coastwise, as well as by land carriage and
samples, were small ; hence the stands were again scantily
filled with parcels of both red and white. Although the at-
tendance of dealers was not to say large, we have to report a
very steady demand for all descriptions of English Wheat,
at an advance in the currencies obtained on Monday
last of Is per quarter, and a fair clearance was
effected prior to the close of business. The show
of fine Foreign Wheat was rather limited; selected parcels
of both red and white moved off steadily, at full prices.
In other kinds next to nothing was doing. Corn under luck
was almost nominal in value. Scarcely a single quarter of
English Barley was brought forward, and the supply of
Foreign was by no means large. Grinding parcels sold
steadily at full prices. Other kinds were very dull. The
Malt trade was in a very sluggish state, yet we can notice no
alteration in value. The show of Oats being on the increase,
that article was heavy at barely stationary prices. Beaus,
Peas, and Flour supported late rates.
CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE
Wheat—Essex & Kent, Malt—Chevalier.. • • • • 64s to 65s
Red . ..... 40s to 46s Oats— Yorkshire and
Ditto, White ••• • .. 45s 578 Lincohish., Feed. 22s 235
Norfolk and Lin- Potatoe .•• . • • • • 24s 253
Lin-
coin, Red. •• .. 40s 47s Yougha_i and Cork,
Ditto, White ... •.. 42s 55s Black .••• • • • 20s 22s
Irish, Red ••••• • • • —8 —s Cork, White . 218 238
Ditto, White. ••• • . —s —s Scotch, Feed. •• • • 22s 233
Rye—Old ••• • • • 30s 348 Beans—Tick .
New. ••• • • • 35s 36s Pigeons .•• . • •
Barley—Grinding. •• .. 23s 28s Pease—Grey .•••• • • • • 36s 38s
Malting ..• • • 32s 34s Maple .• .
Chevalier .. •• .. 36s —s White
Malt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers ••••• • • • • 40s 42,
folk .. •• • • ...... 58s 63s Flour—Town-made .• • 42s
Brown .•• • • • ..... 56s 60s Suffolk ..
Kingston and Ware 60s —s Stocktn & Norfolk 33s 358
FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR IN BOND.
Wheat—Dantzie ..
Hamburgh •• . • 3u s --s ; Pease •••••••• • • • • • • • • 28s 32s
Barley •
Oats- —New .•.
eed .
SMITHFIELD,
During the past week, ending on Saturday evening, the
imports of live stock from abroad into London were again
extensive ; the Neptunus, from Hamburgh, bringing 38
oxen; the Ocean, 39 cows, 33 oxen, 9 lambs, and 12 calves;
the Batavier, 39 oxen and cows ; and the Giraffe, 40 oxen
and cows, from Rotterdam ; being a total import of 150 heads
of beasts. At Hull, upwards of 400 oxen and cows have
been received in the above period. The number of foreign
beasts on sale here to-day was small—viz., 48, a large
portion of which was of very middling quality; nevertheless
they were speedily disposed of at extreme currencies.
From our own grazing districts, the arrivals of Beasts fresh
were very limited for the time of year ; whilst there was
nothing amongst them remarkable for excellence of quailty.
The dead markets being tolerably well cleared of their
late country supplies, and the attendance of buyers rather
numerous, the Beef trade was active, at an advance on
Friday's quotations of 2d per 81bs., while, in some instances,
the rates ruled somewhat higher than those obtained on
Monday last, the primest Scots readily producing 45 8d per
81bs, and at which a good clearance was readily effected.
From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire we re-
ceived 450 Scots and Short-horns; from the North of Eng-
land—a portion coming from the neighbourhood of New-
castle-300 Short-horns, &c. ; from the Western and Midland
counties, 400 Herefords, Runts, Devons, &c. ; from other parts
of England, 400 of various kinds ; and from Scotland 400
Horned and Polled Scots. The numbers of Sheep were very
small. For most kinds the demand was in a sluggish state,
at barely previous figures. The Lamb trade was steady, at
full rates of currency in every instance. In Calves only a
moderate business was doing, at barely last week's currencies.
The same may be said of Pigs.

Per 81bs. to sink the offal.
s. d. s. d. s. d. to s. d
Inferior Beasts ••.. 3 2 3 8 Second quality ditto 3 8 4 4
Second quality ditto. 310 4 0 Coarse-woolledditto 4 6 4 8
Prime large Oxen. • 4 2 4 4 Southdown Wethers 410 5 0
Prime Scots •• • • 4 6 4 8 Ditto out of the wool
Largo coarse Calves 3 8 4 4 Large Hogs ••• . 3 0 3 8
rrime small ditto 4 6 410 Small Porkers ••.• 3 10 4 2
Suckling Calves, ..18 0 30 0 Quarter old Pigs ..16 0 20 0
Inferior Sheep •• .. 3 2 3 6 Lambs
SUPPLY AT MARKET.
Beasts. Sheep. I Calves. Pigs.
I 2,325 23,900 220 I • 258
Aram E.A.:O 3C N. II ••',‘ L.
The past week's arrivals of country-slaughtered Meat for
our Markets have been, the time of year considered, large,
and of fair average quality. These extensive receipts are
Principally caused by the comparative high rates now ruling
in the metropolis. With Meat killed in London we have
been somewhat heavily supplied; hence the general demand
has ruled inactive, and, in order to effect clearances, a decline
of 2d per 81bs has been submitted to in the quotations.
Several carcasses of foreign Beasts have been again disposed
of, at prices varying from 3s to 3s 4d per 81bs. Their quality
was not to say first rate.
At per stone, by the Carcase.
s. d. to s. d. i s. d. s. d.to
Beef, inferior. •••.. 2 4 2 8 Mutton, inferior • • 210 3 6
middling .... 210 3 0 middling• • 3 8 4 4
prime large .. 3 2 3 4 -- prime • • 4 6 4 8
prime small •• 3 6 3 8 Pork, large • • .... 2 6 3 6
Veal 3 8 4 8 small •• . • .... 3 8 4 2

Lamb. 4s lbd to Gs —d.
ARRIVALS DURING THE PAST WEEK.
Beasts Sheep Calves Pigs
120 900 340
80 800 300
30 200
10 100 30
30 40 20
20 90 10
20 100 70 100
30 300 80 200
20 10
40 100 100 10
90 300 200 200
---

•
•
Yorkshire • • • • • • ' • • • • • • •
Lincolnshire • • • • • • • • • • "
Suffolk ••••• • • • • • .•
• • • • • • ••• • •
Cambridgeshire •• • • • •
Devonshire ••• • • ***
Wiltshire ******* • • •• • • ••• • • • •••
Otherparts •••••••••• • • • • • • • ••

Total . • .
Previous week's arrival ••• • .. 290 2,610 490 1,020
- -

Difference since our ast •• • . 180 340 -
BOROUGH HOP MARKET.
From most of the plantations our accounts are of a much
more favourable character than for some time past ; hence,
as might be expected, the demand for nearly all kinds of
ziops is heavy, at barely previous rates. Very little is doing
in the duty, which is called 160,0001.
BOROUGH AND SPITALPIELDS.
The supplies of Potatoes being considerably more than
adequate to meet the wants of the trade, the demand for
them continues very dull, at from 25s to 80s per ton.
Large quantities have been disposed of at the former figure
to the cow-keepers.
WOOL MARKET.
The past week's arrivals of wool from our colonies have
been very great, they having exceeded 6,000 bales, chiefly
)from Launceston and Sydney. The imports from abroad
have been very moderate. Public sales of about 16,000
packages, are announced for the 3d proximo and several fol-
lowing days. It is expected that large additional quantities
will be brought forward as the auctions progress. In the
private contract market a fair business is doing, at late rates.

20 2130

TALLOW.
During the past week this market has been dull and inac-
tive, and prices of foreign have generally receded. In Yellow
Candle on the spot there is nothing doing. The nearest
price for the last three months is 405 6d to 40s 9d. By
letters received this morning from St. Petersburgh up to the
19th instant, the price there had risen to 110 roubles, which
is quite equal to 42s laid down here. Town Tallow is 40s
z•et cash.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Stu,—lt being remarked, as a rumour, in the Third Edition of
The Sun newspaper of Saturday last, " that the present Member
for Ross and Cromarty is about to retire to make way for an Hon,
Baronet of his own name, with whom it is supposed that there
has long been an understanding to this effect," I beg to state that
any such rumour is altogether unfounded, and that I have no in-
tention of resigning the representation of these combined counties
in Parliament.
The paragraph in question adverts to other rumours, of which
I know nothing directly or indirectly.
The early insertion of this letter in your journal will oblige, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,

THOMAS MACKENZIE.
17, Clarges.street, Piccadilly, June 30, 1645.
(The rumour was communicated to us by a correspondent in
Whom .we placed coptidence,—TA #51471.3

111()NtY and C rirl Lit CIA L NE WS.

CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool, on Saturday, were 6,000
bags, and included 2.000 on speculation. The market was
quiet, and prices lvere without alteration. There was no
great change in Railway Shares, but there was a great deal
of excitement in West. Yorkshire and West Riding Junction.-
Armagh and Portrush, 21/8 ; Bandon and Bantry, 55. ; Birken-
head and Chester Junction, 11% ; Birmingham and Glou-
cester, New Shares, 3%; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accring-
ton, 9%; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 5% ; Belfast
and Ballymena, 6% ; Belfast and County Down, 33 % ;
Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 161/2 VI; Caledonian 11%
; Caledonian Extension, 2%; Cambridge and Lincoln, 4,it
•y 4 ; Cambridge and Oxford, 11/2 ; Chester and Birkenhead,
63 621/2 ' • Ditto, Half Shares, 311/2 31 ; Chester and
Preston Brook, 51s. 51s. tid. ; Churnet Valley. 5 Is. 3d.;
Clitheroe Junction, 71s. 71s. 6d. • Clydesdale Junction, 8%;
Cork and Waterford, 375. 6d.; Derby and Crewe, 3; Dublin
and Wexford, 2; Dublin and Galway, 3% ; Dundalk and
Enniskillen, 3% ; Eastern Counties, 21 20% ; Ditto, New
Shares, 12 % ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, New Quarter
Shares, 84 ; Edinburgh and Perth, 245. ; Ely and Bedford,
;2% lasgow and Dumfries, 19s. 18s. ; Glasgow, Paisley,
and Greenock, 201/2 20 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 9% ; Glasgow
and Ayr, 72 ; Grand Junction, 239; Grand Union, ;
Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 4% ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, %
17s. 60.; Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 7% 8; Limerick
and Waterford, 7% ; Liverpool and Manchester, 215 ;
Di. to, Half Shares, 1061/2 ; Ditto, New Shares, 42 14;
Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 31. 595.; London and Bir-
mingham, 240; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 34% ; London and
Croydon, New Shares, 345. 101 ' • London, Oxford, and Chel-
tenham, 3s. 60. ; London and -South-Western, New 501.
Share., 164 ; London and York, 3% % ; Direct Northern,
31/2 ; Leeds and Dewsbury, 154 1/2 ; eeds and Thirsk,
64 ; Leeds arid West Riding Junction, 4/. 965. 3d. ; Man-
chest,,,r and Birmingham, New Quarter Shares, 74; Man-
chester and Birmingham Continuation, 38s. 6d. ; Man-
chester. Birmingham, and Bury, 183; Manchester, Sheffield,
and Midland, 3%; Manchester and Leeds, 168 172 ; Ditto,
Quarter Shares, 234 241/2 ; Ditto, Sixteenth Shares, 194 ;
Matlock and Midland, 54 ; Midland Railway, 188; Ditto,
40/. Shares, 291 % ; Newark and Sheffield, 545. ; New-
castle and Berwick, 18% ; Newcastle and Darlington and
Lancashire Junction, % 12s. 60. ; North Kent, 4% ; Not-
tingham and Mansfield, %; Oxford and Birmingham Junc-
tion, 44 3s. 6,1. ; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhamptmi,
614 ; Preston and Wyre, 3114, ; Runcorn Gap, Preference
Shares, 39; Sheffield, and Manchester, Quarter Shares, 16%
; Shrewsbury and Herefordshire, 125.; Shrewsbury and
North Wales, 58s. 6d. ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheshire,
44 % ; Shrewsbury and Trent Union, 20s. ; South-Eastern
and Dover, 47-"!;3; Ditto, New Shares, -No. 2, 16% ; Ditto,
No. 3, 84 Bs. 3d.; Scottish Central, 6% ; South Midland,
2% 425. ; Ulster, f 0; West Yorkshire, 31/2 4; Worcester
and Tring, I% Is. 60.; York and Carlisle, 44 ; Dendre
Valley, 6s. ; Lyons and Avignon, 24 ; Northern of France,
English (Laffitte), 54 ; Ditto (Rosamel's) English, ;
Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 91/2 ; Paris and Lyons (Gan-
neron), 535. •
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 28.-The sales are
-Barnsley Junction, 7 1-16 7 ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and
Cheshire Junction, 11% 12 ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Ac-
crington, 9%; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 54 ; Bolton,
Wigan, arid Liverpool, 17 ; Caledonian, 11% ; Derby and
Crewe, 3 ; Eastern Counties, New Shares, 12 ; Exeter, Yeovil,
and Dorchester, 11-16 ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 18s. 6d. ;
Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield, and Manchester Junction, 14 ;
Grand Union, 365. 6d. ; Huddersfield and Manchester Rail-
way and Canal, 71/2 ; Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 15
17 ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 41/2 ' • Liverpool, Onus-
kirk, and Preston, 2 15-16 ; London and Windsor, 265. 60.;
London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, 11/., ; London and
York, 33/4 ; Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 54 ;
Manchester and Birmingham, New Quarters, 7 5-16; Ditto
Continuation and Welsh Junction, 1% ; Newcastle, Durham,
and Lancashire, 11/2 4 prem. ; North British, New Shares,
63/ ; North Eastern, prem. ; North Union (B), 96 ;
Nottingham, Erewash, Ambergate, and Manchester, 1 1-16
prem. ; Preston and Wyre Exteuslnr, ; Sheffield and
Manchester, Quarter Shares, 16% ; Southport and Euxton,
; Trent Valley Continuation and Holyhead Junction, 2% ;
elsh Midland, 33l ; West Yorkshire, 4 1 ; York and
Carlisle, 44.
Accounts of April 17, from Graham's Town, Cape of Good
Hope, state that a collision had actually occurred, as was an-
ticipated, between the Grigua tribe and the Dutch farmers,
and that, although there was no material lth,s of life, the Go•.
vernment troops to avert danger had gone up the country.
The Public Securities continue rather fiat, and there is
not much doing. Consols have been 98% to 99 for the
opening. The premium on Exchequer-bills has beec rather
lower, viz., 565. to 58s. Bank Stock has been firm at 211 to
211%. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 102
to 102%, and the Three per Cynts. 991/g to 994. East
India Bonds are 70s. to 735. premium.

The Foreign Securities have been heavy also, and the
settlement of the Account occupies chief attention. Spanish
Actives have been 277‘, and the Three per Cents. 40" g.
Portuguese Converted have been 671%; and the Old Bonds, 84.
Mexican Active Stock has realised 361/2 ; and the Deterred,
2114 %. Columbian are at 17%. Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents. have been 63)4 l 4 ; and the Four per Cents., 98%8
The Share Market is influenced by the further progress
of the settlement, and prices are in some instances higher.

CLOSIN!,
PRICES
211
9914
102

ONE
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced
New 314, per Cents
Lon?•Annuities to exnireJan.lB6o 11 7-16 11 7-16
India Bonds, 1,0001
Ditto under 1,000/.
Consols for Opening
Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., 11/2d 57 59 56 58 pm. 58

Ditto 5001. .
Ditto Small

Pm. -
pm. 60

ONE CLOSING.;
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela. 17% 17%
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 36% 36‘?.§
Ditto, Account 3634
Ditto Deferred
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Ditto, Converted 67% 63
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Passive
Ditto 3 per Cent. 40% 40%
Belgian 4% per Cent. — .
99
Dutch, 2% per Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certitic 98% 98%
PRICES OF
PAID. A ONE O'CLOCK. CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES PRICES
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush l% -
Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 1321,4
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Bri'ton, Lewes, & Hast. 20
Bristol and Exeter 7O
Do. New .... . ......... 2
Caledonian
Ditto Extension ...... 21,2...... 23/4_ _
Cambridge and Lincoln 1 %...... 514 43/
Chester and Holyhead... 10
Churnet Valley
Cork and Waterford ... 1% —
Coventry, Bedworth, and
Nuneaton .•• 14 l% •
Cornwall
litrectNorthern
Dublin and Belfast June 2% kith
Dublin and Galway._ .. 2% 3%
Dublin and Mullingar... 2% 4%
Eastern Counties 141. 165...... 21 W 3 %
Ditto New 41. 16s.
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1....5/. 13s. 4d —
Ditto ditto, No. 2. l3s. 4d O%
Eastern Union
Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 . ..... ...
Ditto Quarter Shares 12%...... let.
Ditto, New Quarters.. 2% Bl/2
Ely and Bedlord
Great Grimsby and Shef-
field
reat North of England..loo ...... 24216
Ditto New
6reat Western
G iiidford, Fare'in, Ports. 2 % ... .. 3
null ,d Selby .. 50

1;13
1321/2

4
26%

11%
234
4:4
151,,
1:4

4%8
3%
81iit

41/2
21',71/i
77/ti

2AI
18%
9
21,4

and Selby
Lancaster and Carlisle
London and liirminghni (5t0ck)...241 243 246%
Do. 14 Shares
London and Blackwall. 161. 13s. 4d. 914
London and Brighton... 50
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 213/4 22
Do. New l3s 4d lm% IAS
Do. Guaranteed 5 per
Cent.
Lond. & S.Western 411 6s 10d Si% 82 80 . ... 80
Do. New
London and York ...... •.. 2112 3 1/2 34 33/4
Lynn and Ely
Manchester and Leeds... 73 163 168 165 165
Do. % Shares
Do. Quarters
Manclie;ler and Bimii. 40
Manchester, Buxton, and
Matlock 225....... 4%. 4%
Midland 100 185
Do. New
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction 25 ...... 55 ... ..... ... .. 5'
Do. New Brandling lO
Newgastl( and Berwick 11/, 2O 19% 20%...
Newark and SLeffield .. 11/2; 2 13/4 •••
North British
Do. New
Northern and Eastern... 45
North Kent
North Wales
Norwich and Brandon... 10

Do., dew . 1
Oxford and Worcestcr... 21/2 6%,
Portsmouth Direct 2l
Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland ll/2 • ....
Shrews., Wolverhamp ,
Dudley, and Birrn 2l/2. . ..
Shrewsbury and Trent
Valley Union
South Eastern & Dover 3312 s 4d 474

Do., No. 2.
Do., No. 3
South Wales 2l/, 4% ..... .........
Welch Midland
York and North Midland 50 llOl/0
Do. 1/2 Shares
Do Selby
Do. Extension
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens... 4
Bordeaux and Toulouse 2
Bordeaux, Toulouse, and
Cette ... ...... .... ..... 2 ......
Great North. of France
(Laffitte's)
Do. do. (Rosamers) 2
Louvain and Jemeppe... 4 ...
Namur and Liege
Orleans and Vierzon ... 6
Orleans and Bordeaux... '2
Paris and Lyons, Gan..
nerou's,
Paris and Rouen
Sambre and Meuse : 4
Verona and Ancon I.__ -

JOINT STOCK BANKS.

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About, half-past twelve yesterday morning a fire
broke out on the premises of Mr. Bradley, tailor, King's-road, near
the Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea. When first discovered the
flames were raging furiously in the shop. The engines promptly
attended, but the flames were not subdued till the contents of the
shop were destroyed.