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London, England, 1845-10-30 00:00:00

I Cabinet Council 13 to be immediately held for the purpose of
either opening the ports for the free admission of corn, or of
summoning Parliament to consider the propriety of so
doing. I trust this report is well founded. It would be a
wise and prudent act on the part of the Government ; and be
assured, if the ports be once opened, we will never permit
them to be closed again.—(Hear, hear.) In my opinion, the
extension of the commerce of this country should be at the
present moment the great practical object of every British
statesman. For this purpose not only should all protecting
duties be abolished, but other means should be adopted to
increase the number of our customers, and to create new
markets for our goods.—[At this moment Mr. Bright, M.P.,
came into the room, having just arrived from Manchester by
the seven o'clock train, and was received with loud and long-
continued cheers.)—lt is with this view that I have ever
been in favour of emigration. It is with this object that I
have always considered colonies to be of great value and
importance to our country. Ido not value them as means of
increasing our empire. Ido not consider them of importance
because by them the extent of our dominions
is enlarged, and the number of our subjects is
igmentebd ; but I look upon them as communities planted
for ihe purposes of trade, as bodies of our countrymen sent
to dicta Ott regions to develop their resources, to reap their
varied pn:clucti°ns, to exchange those productions for our
manufactures, become prosperous and wealthy, and to aug-
ment her wealth bY,ommerce.—(Cheers. ) We have planted
colonies in every portion' of the globe. Men of our r
ver the vast northern continent
rapidly spreading themselves am"' ish colonies of Central
of America, are menacing the Lm• aviation the pro-
America, and already grasp in their • ceoti.iry, the pre-
vinces of the south. During the last halt.'
viously unknown lands of the southern hemisphe:e have bren
invaded by Englishmen ; flourishing communities are .7nngni
ing up in-Akustralasia ; emigrants are settled on the shores
New Zealand ; and at no remote period an Anglo-Saxon
people will rule as sovereigns throughout the islands of the
Southern Seas. I cannot over-estimate the influence
in our commerce of this fact, that some of the
richest portions of the earth's surface are now
being inhabited by men of our own race, who have carried
along with them the arts and civilisation of Britain, who have
runts, feelings, and interests similar to our own ; who will be
ready and willing to purchase our goods, and who will create
great and daily increasing markets for our manufactures.
Whether they remain subjects of the British empire, or
whether they become, like the United States, independent of
us. in either case they will be equally the colonies, and equally
useful to us. In their infancy, colonies require some care and
protection from the parent country, but they soon reach that
maturer age when they should be left to themselves, to their
own self-government, and when all control over them should
be merely nominal.—(Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, England is
indebted for the position which she now holds among the
nations of the earth to her free institutions—to her ships,
colonies, and commerce ; and by that means, with unfettered
trade, she will long be able to maintain that position.
Before I conclude, there is another question to which I must
refer, not only on account of its intrinsic importance, but be-
cause its discussion formed a prominent feature in the late
contest for this borough—l allude to the question of religions
liberty and equality. To the opinions which I expressed on
that subject, and to the approval which they received from
yourselves, I was mainly indebted for the large majority by
which I was elected.—(Cheers.) In my opinion, there is no
principle of greater impertance to the peace and well- being of
et than
than that of religious equality'. There is nothing
; hi
i-o closely marks the progress of a nation in know-
which - 'Civilisation than the degree of liberty which is
ledge and „etters of faith. No attempt to call a man to
permitted in ni.
~ous belief—to blame, or even to praise
account for his re,
his convictions ; to force him, either by
him for his conscientio
to acknowledge any set of doe-
punishment or by rewarji•
wholly at variance with sound
trines as true, is a proceeding'
reason, and with the spirit of the age. It is an
of
rttempt to return to the policy times tong gone by,
when the Roman Catholic Church wag at the summit of its
power, and endeavoured to put down eve,-v opinion of which
it disapproved.—(Hear, hear.) In saying tbis, let me not
be supposed to speak with want of reverence
er of respect
for the ancient Church of Rome, or in any way tt;
deny or
undervalue the important services which in times lon•
it rendered to the human race. It preserved, amongst
barbarian invaders of the Roman empire,re
ancient civilisation and literature .—(Hear,
t hear.)e remainsltformed oi
the only bond of union between their
etween their scattered and hostile
communities. It taught their feudalchiefs that
there was
something nobler and better than brute force.— (Cheers.) It
inculcated peace, cha •
rlty, and equality amongst them. It
was the civilising •
principle of the dark and middle a es
(Hear, hear.) All knowledge,all g
were confined to the
members of its hierarchy, and amongst
them there were v
able reasonersery
many acute and profound thinkers,
learned divines., illustrious statesmen, great moralists, and
It aspired, however, to a dominion, not
only over the
of men. It did actions,orf but over the feelings and reason
a moment reach this summit of
power, and constituted
a theocrac No one dared to
think, to act, or to •
dared to hold
opinions in
Opposition to its decrees- and the mightiest monarchs of
Europe
were at its feet. From that moment its power began
to decline.
The sovereigns of Europe resisted its temporal
authority. With the progress of learning and investigation,
with the discovery of the art of printing, and with the con-
sequentr facility of acquiring knowledge, the infallibility of the
u ch of Rome in matters of science began to be doubted,

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the borough of SOuthwark," and he hoped they would' take
the :advice of Mr. Bright, and not only be electors of S nith-
work, but also become electors of East Surrey.
Mr. WitsoN returned thanks, and proposed the health of
the Committee of Sir William Molesworth, coupled witl the
name of Mr. Vouseley.
Mr. VOUSELEY returned thanks.
The CHAIRMAN proposed the health of Mr. Lee Stevens
and the stewards of the days. Drunk with all the honours.
Mr. STEVENS briefly returned thanks for the kind manner
in which the name of himself and colleagues had been re•
ceived.
The CHAIRMAN proposed Mr. Herbert Stormy, their elec-
tion agent, in a briefly eulogistic speech.
Mr. STuRMY briefly acknowledged the toast.
The assembly shortly afterwards broke up.

RELATIVE CLOSING P]
RAILWAY SHAR.

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IN Tale
PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS I]
SCOTLAND, AND IRELAN

NAMES OF RAILWAYS,

Aberdeen • .....
Airdrie and Coatbridge
Arbroath and Forfar ....
Ditto Half Shares ....
Ariaaagh, Colr., & Portrush
Bandon and Bantry
Belfast and Ballymena ..
Belfast and County Down
Birknhd.Lan. &Ches.Jne.
Birmingham and Glo'ster

Do. New (las ,at 7% dis.)

Ditto Half Shares- . :
Birminghm & Oxfrd.Jtme.
Illekburn, and Preston..
Blekbarn, Darwn,& Bolin
Bolton, Wigan, & Liverpl.
Beaton, Stamfrd and Birm
Brighton, Lewes, & Hast.
Bristol and Exeter......

Ditto New . ..... • • • • ..
Bristol and Gloucester ..
Bristol and S. Wales June.
British and Irish Union..
Calerlon. and Ayrsh. June
Caloadon. & Dumbar. June.
Caledonian ... • . ........

Ditto Extension • • • • ..
Cambridge and Lincoln..
Chester and Birkenhead..
Ditto New Shares ....
Ditto Half Shares •...
Chester and Holyhead ..

Cheltenham and Oxford
Chichester and Brighton
Churnet Valley
Clitheroe Junction.—
Clydesdale Junction ...
Cork, Illackreic ik /Mane
CEO alld isalif4Ril . t.. :
Cock and icidarno
Cork and Waterford
Cork and Youghal .• • •
04114te1'ellIT 4lld DPW', ••
CoVePti7 sadliCiCe-ster• • I
Comy4,ll ... . .
Derby and Crewe . • • • • • •
PhTet 11011,
lleootea• *allileth
DtrectMan.(Remington's)
Direct Northern •• • •• • •
Direct Norwich
Dublin and Belfast June.
Dublin, iselfast,l Ctgrfle
Dublin 4114 progPeda• • • •
end CialwaY
Dundalk and Enniskillen
Dundee and Arbroath . „
•
Dundee and Perth • •• , •
Durnam and Sunderland
East Lancashire (No. 1)
Ditto (No. 2)
Eastern Counties
Do, New • • • • • It II It,

Do. Peep. Ct., No. I
Do. do. N 0.2
East Dereham & Norwich
East Union .......
Ditto Extension • •• •
Qdinbgh, coaa., and Pilnl•
Edinburgh and Glasgow..
Do. Quarter Shares ...
Do. New Quarter Shares
Edin b. Leith, and Gnintop
Do, 1'4.4 h for Cant„
Edinburgh 811 Northern
Edinburgh an Peebles..
Edinburgh and Perth....
Ely and Huntingdon ....
Eimisktiv.ll „
Exeter, Yeovil, & Drchstr
Fitwood, Prstn, & W. Rid.
Ganikirk and Glasgow • •
Glasgow and Ayr.......
Do. Quarter Shares....
Glasgow and Greenoelt . •
Ditto New. • .• • • •

Ditto Preforciace • .....
Glasgw,Dmfries, and Car.
I ilsgw, K ilmarnck, & Ard.
Glasgow and Belfast Un.
Goole and Doncaster ....
Grand Junction .........
Ditto Half Shares ....

Ditto Quarter Shares ..
Ditto New Quarters ..

Ditto Eighths
Grand Union
Great Eastern & Western
Gt Grimsby & Dk Extens.
Gt Grimsby and Sheffield
lit Stbrn & Wstrn (hind)

Ditto Extension ......
Great Munster.. • • ......
Grt Northern of Scotland
Grt Northern of England
Do. New 401. Shares ..
Do. New 301. Shares ..
Great Western ..........

l/itto Half Shares ....

Ditto Fifths ..........
Guilfrd, Farehm, & Ports.
llurwleh • • ••••..• • • • • •
lludrsfid & Man.R. &Canl
Huddersfield and Sheffield
hull and Gainsborough • .
11►11l and Selby .. ..... .

its decrees in religion were questioned, and the Reformation
commenced. The great principle of the Reformation was the
right of private judgment and free inquiry. The Reformers
protested against the authority of Rome; they contended
that reason, that argument, not the will of Rome, should
guide a man in his religious belief. And then for the first
time in history the principle of religious liberty and equality
was proclaimed. Alas, it was little attended to, or put into
practice.—(Hear, hear.) It was soon lost sight of in the con-
flict of sects who demanded liberty to disagree with Rome,
but refused a like liberty with regard to themselves.
Each sect persecuted its neighbour with a fury more intense
in proportion to the smallness of their doctrinal differences.
Thus Calvinists persecuted Lutherans, and Lutherans Calvin•
ists, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Nonconformists, and every
denomination of Dissent, were equally intolerant, equally per-
secuting, when they had the power, and equally forgetful of
those principles of religions liberty and equality to which
they owed their existence. These times, unfortunately, can-
not be said to be passed, though I trust they are fast passing
away.—(Loud cheers.) The repeal of the Test and Corpora-
tion acts, the emancipation of the Roman Catholics, the
majorities in the House of Commons in favour of the eman-
cipation of the Jews, the conduct of that House with regard
to education in Ireland, and the establishment of universities
in that country—all prove the progress of public opinion, and
that the most important branch of the Legislature is favour-
able to religious liberty and equality. Much, however, still
remains to be done to give practical effect to that prin-
ciple, and especially in the great matter of the education
of the people. The want of a good system of national edu-
cation is the subject of great and well-merited reproach to
our country. If any danger is to be apprehended from the
progress of free institutions, and from the growing power of
the people, that danger can only be averted by educating
and instructing the masses.—(Hear, hear.) Therefore, both
the friends and the foes of the extension of popular rights
ought to be equally anxious for a good system of national
education. What has prevented it in this country ? What
has defeated the efforts of the friends of education ? I
answer, religious bigotry and intolerance, which have re-
quired that, in the education of the people, religious tenets
should be inculcated, and we cannot agree what those tenets
should be. The Church of England wishes that the people
should be instructed in its own peculiar doctrines; so do the
Roman Cathtlics ; so do the Dissenters. Thus a general
system of education is rendered impossible. We ought
to take example from a kindred people—from the in-
habitants of the New England States of America.
In those States there is as great a variety of religious
belief as in this country, yet there is one system of general
education. In the State of Massachussets, with a population
of only 750,000 inhabitants, 100,0001. are annually raised for
the purpose of education. In one single city—Boston—the
education. tax amounts to 30,0001. a-year—a sum equal to the
whole of the Parliamentary grant for a similar purpose. Tha
law ordains that every district containing fifty families should
maintain.* school, Tor which the inhabitants are required to
tax themselves. Perfect religious equality is preserved, for
the law prohibits in those schools the use of any books cal
culated to favour the tenets of any particular sect of Chris-
tians. What prevents our acting in a similar manner? I
answer, bigotry, intolerance, and disregard of the principles
of religious liberty and equality.—(Loud cheers.) I thank
you for the patient manner in which you have listened to me.
I have endeavoured briefly to explain to you what principles
will guide my votes with regard to the most important ques-
tions of the day, and I trust that my conduct in Parliament
will merit and receive your approval.—(The Hon. Baronet
concluded amidst loud and continued cheering.)
Mr. Ashton then sung a song, composed for the occasion
by one of the stewards, which was received with great applause.
Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTII rose, and said he had great
pleasure in proposing a toast. It was the health of their
worthy Chairman—a gentleman to whom he was under a
great debt of gratitude for his exertions during the recent
borough contest; coupled with which, he would propose the
Liberal electors of the borough of Southwark.
The toast was received with loud and general cheering, and
drunk with all the honours.

I)ttta quarter Shares..
Ditto tutlf Shares
Inverness and Elgin •• ••
isle of Jersey
Kendal and Windermere
Kingstown and Bray ....
Killarney Junctions
Lancaster and Carlisle ..
Lancaster and Preston ..
Leeds and Bradford ....

Ditto Extension .. • • ..
Leeds and Dewsbury....
Leeds and Thirsk ........
Leeds & W. Riding June.
Leicester & Birmingham
Loteester and Bedford ...
Limerick 'and Waterford
Limrck,Ennis,& Kn. Jnc.
Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Liv. Man. & Gt N. of Eng.
Liverpool and Manchester
Ditto Half Shares ....

Ditto Quarter Shares•-
Llverrl,Ormakrk.& Prstu
London and Birmingham
Ditto Thirds.

Ditto Quarters .......
London and Blaekwall
Lndn. Oxfd. & Chltnham. 1
L ondon and Brignton • ••

. .
D►tto Consolidr Eighths
London and Croydon • • • •

Ditto New. •• •• •• • •
Do, Ckmrant. 5 per Cnt.
London and Greenwich .
Do. Pref. or Privilege..
London and South Weil trn
- Do. New Cons. Eighths
Do. New, 501. Shares•
Do. New, 401. Shares..
London and York .•• • • • •
Ditto (Bawtry) . ......
London and Windsor— • •
Lund'', Salsbury, & Yeovl
Londonderry & Coleraine
London.] erry & Enulskilln
Lynn and Ely •... • • • • • •
Lynn and Dereham .• • .•
Manchester and Leeds ..
Ditto ilalt Shares ....

Date Quarter Shares..

Ditto Sixteenths • • • • •
Mauch& r and Birkenhead
Manchester &Birminghrn
Ditto Quarter Shares..

Ditto "Sew Quarters . • •
Do. Con. & Welsh June.
Manehestr. Bolin, & Bury
Mnehsti Buatn, & Matlk
Han. Shef. and Mid. June.
Manchestr & Southamptn
Midland ••••••. • • • • • • •
Ditto Fifths ..

1.4 o New •. • .2

Do. Con. Birm. & Derby
Und Ut Westrn (Irish)

Do. Extension to Sligo
Ne west 1 & Daringtn June.
Da. New (Brandling)..
Newcastle and Berwick..
Newcastle and Carlisle..
Nwestle, Durham, & Lan.
Newport & Abergavenny
Newry and Enniskillen . .
Newark and Sheffield .
North British • • • • • • • • • •
Ditto New Shares • • • •
Northern and Eastern ..
Do. Scrip (iss. at 5 dis.)
Do. Quarter Shares • .
Not th fon . • • • • • • • • • •
North Kent . •••• • • • •
North Staffordshire •• • •
North Eastern • • • • • • • . • •
North Union (A) • • • • • • • •
Ditto (B) • • • • • • • •
North Wales Mineral....

Ditto New Shares • • • •
Net th Western •
North Wales ..•...••••
Norwich and Brandon ..

The CHAIRMAN briefly returned thanks.
The CHAIRMAN next proposed " Free Trade, and its
untiring advocates, the Anti Corn-law League."
Mr. BRIGHT responded to the toast. He said—When he
first received the invitation to attend the present dinner, his
answer was that he could not attend, as the Council of the
League had arranged to hold a great meeting on the same
evening, and at the same hour, in the Manchester Free
Trade Hall. A change in that arrangement had enabled him
to attend this night; and he was, therefore, exceedingly
glad to be present. The result of their election was mos,
important and cheering to the cause of free trade. He was
however, strongly of opinion that, wherever there was a
large population and an extensive constituency, and where
no large proprietor or small clique had power to
exercise any undue influence, free trade principles
would be sure to triumph, and Members be elected in agree-
ment with them. They had had three candidates seeking
their suffrages, and yet not one of them had declared in
favour of the protective system.—(Cheers.) Although the
editor of the Standard had been pleased to say that no po-
pulation in the kingdom was so savage and heathenish as
that of Southwark, he (Mr. Bright) viewed the abuse of such
an editor, acting under the corrupt influences of monopoly,
as only the writhings of defeat, and as proofs of the great
progress of free trade principles.—(Cheers.) They were
free traders in the borough of Southwark, though at the
present time there was not so much credit in being
so, as it was difficult to meet with any
person who was not. —(Hear, hear.) People were
now somewhat like what they were at the time of the triumph
of negro emancipation. They declared then they had always
been in favour of it, only they said they did not exactly
agree with the course that was taken to obtain it.—(Cheers.)
It was said that the Anti-Corn-law League had used hard
language in denouncing the corn-law. He admitted it to be
so, but it was not half hard enough, considering the diabolical
character of that law, which brought famine to the doors of
thousands, and was now about to press with the greatest
severity on the people of the British islands. The Hon.
Gentleman, after dwelling at some length on the injurious
nature of the corn-laws, commented on the recent
address of Lord Ashley as an evidence that the
corn-laws were doomed, and pointed out the great
progress the League had made in the recent county
registrations. By the additional votes gained, he stated that
North and South Lancashire, North and South Staffordshire,
and Middlesex, were safe from the power of monopoly. He
concluded by urging the electors of the borough of South-
wark to come forward and secure the county of Surrey to
liberal principles and free trade.
Glee—" Hail, smiling morn."
The CHAIRMAN proposed the health of " William Cooper
Christie, Esq., M.P., and the education of the people."
Mr. CHRISTIE returned thanks for the high honour done
him. He expressed himself in favour of education in its
broadest sense. He had advocated in Parliament the open-
ing of the national universities to all parties, without regard
to civil disabilities—a course which had been advocated by
the Hon. Baronet (Sir W. Molesworth) when there, where
he (Mr. Christie) hereafter trusted he should receive the
able assistance of their:Honourable Member.—(Loud cheers.)
Sir WM. MOLESWORTH said he should be most happy to
support the motion of the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Christie) for
a repeal of the tests enforced by the national universities.
He had atoast to propose. It was, "[The Liberal electors of

Ditt o New . • • • • • • • • • • •
Not., Beivoir, & Grsuithm
Nottingham and Boston..
Nutt., Et wsh. Val. & Mai.
Nottingham & Mansfield
Oxford and Binning. June
Oxford and Worcester ..
Oxford and Cambridge ..
Perth and Inverness • • • •
Portsmouth Direct ......
Preston and Wyre • • • • • •
Ditto Half Shares •• • •

—.—
Do. Pref. i per Ct. Guar
Do. Pref. 5 per Ct. &
Preston & Wyre Extens.
Richmond & W. End June
Rugby and Huntingdon
Scottish Central .• . •• • •
Scottish Midland
Sheffield and Manchester
Ditto Quarter Shares
Ditto ditto (Ne. 2). •
Ditto ditto (No. 3) • •
Sheffield and Lincoln ... •
Sheffield and Rotherham
Shrewsbry & Grand Junc.
Shrewsb., Wor., & Crewe
Shrws.,Wolv., Dxdl, & Bir
6hrwsbry & Trnt Val. Ua.
Shrws, Ilerefd,&N. Wales
Slamannan ... • • • • • • • • • •
South Devon . • • • • •
South Midland • • • • • • • . • •
South Eastern and Dover
Do. New (iss. 321.) No. I
Do. (i55.331.65•8d.) „ 2
Do. (lee. 30/.) „ 3
Staines and Richmond . • •
Staffordshire &Shropshire
Stirling and Dunfermline
South Wales.. • . • • • • • • • •
Tears and Dove Valley
Trent Valley
Do. and Holyhead June.
Vale of Neath.. .. • ....
West London, Old Shares
West End & Sothrn Coun.
Wexford and Carlow ....
Warwick and Cheltenham
Waterford and Kilkenny
Watrfd,Wxfd,Wick & Dub
Wakefield and Bradford..
Wakfid, Pentairct, & Gool
Wakefield and Harrogate
Warwick and London .
West Lancashire........
Worcester and Tring....
Whitehaven and Furness

Do. New Half Shares • •
Welsh Midland
West Cornwall—
West Yorkshire •
Wilsontwn, M.& Coltness
Wilts, Somrst, & Weymth
Wilts, somrst, & Southam
Yarmouth and Norwich..

Ditto New . • . • • ......
York and Carlisle .
York and North Midland
Ditto Half Shares .. • •
Ditto Searbro' Branch
Ditto Selby . ...... ...

21%
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6%
4
160

8%
125

11359

Ditto Extension .. .. • •
Torksbit e &Glsgow Unn.

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20s p
4s6dp

1-1 p

4%
7%
1%
2%

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4%p

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51
4356 p

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PIETER, Oar. 28.
Sroaz ExcliaNGE.—The sales are—Exater and Crecliton,
6%—Exeter, NA Ptichsitti. Donn,


Tilt SUN*, LONDON, THURSDAt MORiVING, OCTOBER 30, 1845.

I.4—Exeter, Topsham. and Exmouth (Head's line), %
Central Cornwall and Devon, % p.—South Wales, 54
Cornwall, VA—Bristol, New, 94.

SHEFFIELD, Ocr. 28.
STOCK EXCITANGE.—The sales are—Derby and Gains-
borough, 2%—Grimsby and Sheffield, 1614—Manchester,
IS tidland, and Great Grimsby, 4—Sheffield and Lincolnshire,
41,4—Wakefield and Harrogate, 33/4.
HULL, Ocr. 28.
The demand for shares at low prices is very great to-day,
an d far less disposition evinced by sellers to quit ; indeed the
market is decidedly better. The sales were—Hull and Selby
(10P per cent. guar.), 100—Ditto, Half Shares, 21—York and
North Midland Extension, 2514—Great Grimsby and Shef-
field, Quarter Shares, 434—North British (Dalkeith), 614
Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush, 134—Axholme, s—fjam-
bridge and Lincoln, 4—Derby and Gamsborough, 2%-. -Dud-
ley, Madeley, and Iron Bridge, 314—East Lincolnshi re, 3%
—Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding, 314,—Great, North
and South Wales and Worcester, par.—Hull an?. Barns-
ley Junction, 21. 6s, p.—Leicester and Bedford, 21. 3s.—Lin-
coin and Wainfleet, Bs. 6d. p.—Liverpool and Leeds, 3%—
London and York, s—London and Norwich Pdrect, 9s.—
Nottingham and Gainsborough, 78. p.—Nottingham and
Boston, 31. 13s. 9d.—Rugby and Huntingdon, 2%—South
Midland, 6/. 3s. 3d—Wakefield and Bradfort'., 3%—Welsh
Midland, 3.

YORK, Ocit. 2&
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Newcastle and Dar-
lington, New (Brandling), 4N—North Britisl,,, New, 41,4
Ditto, Carlisles, 3%--Yark and North Midlp.nd Extension,
231,4—Axholme, s—Coventry, Nuneaton, B'dtaingham, and
Leicester, 2—Grand Union, 214—Leicester_ and Bedford, 2%
—Liverpool, Manchester, and New castle ;‘, unction, 4%—Lon-
don and York, s—Newcastle and Berwick, 141h—North
Kent and Direct Dover,
31A— -Welsh Ylidlands,

REMARKABL
d INTERESTING

ANT"':UARIAN DISCOVERY.
LEWES, OCT. 28 —The usually quiet town of Lewes this
day has been thr
Jwn into considerable excitement in conse-
quence of a racist unexpected discovery in that part of the
Priory grounds on which the workmen are engaged in the
necessa2r excavations for the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings
%Ikea a. In digging close by, in fact amidst the ruins of
the ej.d Priory, the 'workmen lit upon a hard substance, which,
9P. closer inspeetion, proved to be a leaden box, surrounded
by a few square Caen stones. After clearing away the soil,
it was carefully removed, and turned out to be a cist, in which
were human bone's. Further examination led to the still more
important discovery that it contained the remains of Gundreda,
daughter of William the Conqueror, the name Gundradu, as it
is spelt, being cut in upon its lid. The size of the cist is
about a yard in length, a foot in width, and nine inches in
depth. The lid, sides, and ends, are in excellent preserva-
tion, but the bottom is destroyed, an effect apparently pro-
duced by the bones, for where they laid there the lead is, as
it were, corroded away. The lead is ornamented by being cast
in beaded compartments of the lozenge form, five inches by
three, and the lid fits on, or rather laps over the sides. Shortly
after this curious and interesting relic had been found, the
workmen lit upon a second cist, precisely similar in form,
shape, character, and material; being, however, slightly longer.
The bottom was eaten away in the same manner as that of its
companion, and on the lid was inscribed the word—Willelm,
with an abbreviation for the us, an old but usual way of
writing Gulielmus. This our antiquarians readily interpret
into the name of William de Warren, by this means esta-
blishing the fact that these cists contained the remains of
Gundreda and her Lord, William de Warren, the first Earl
of Warren and Surrey, aad founder of the monastery. An-
cient records prove that Gualreda died in 1085, and William
de Warren in 1088, and that both were interred in the
Chapter-house of Lewes Priory ; the latter being, as is
stated, "buried in the Chapter-house, in a tomb adjoining
that in which his Countess Gundred was laid."
Since this morning two skeletons have been found, as also
the remains of an ecclesiastic. The latter were laid in no
coffin, but merely in a grave, the sides, ends, and top of
which were formed of Caen stone, the bottom being strewed
with coarse sea-gravel, two inches in depth. The figure
was in the usual form, the hands being crossed over the
breast. The body had been buried in its clothes, shoes, &c.,
which were still, though greatly decomposed, perfectly dis-
tinguishable—the leather of the shoes especially so, while the-
cowl, drawn over the face, was also apparent.
These discoveries have naturally excited the greatest
curiosity, and crowds have been to visit these interesting
relics throughout the day. The cists, with their contents,
and the remains of the ecclesiastic, have been removed to
the old entrance in Southover Church, where they will be for
the present kept for public inspection.—Surrey Gazette.

THE CORN TRADE.
tFrom the Mark-lane Express.)
The fine v,veather experienced during the past fortnight
has in sorae measure allayed the uneasiness previously felt
respecting, the fate of that portion of the crop so long exposed
in the fic,ids, and within the last eight days harvest opera-
tions lui,ve again been resumed. That all the corn not secured
previor is to the 13th of September must have been materially
injure d by the almost constant wet weather which prevailed
fr,orn that time till the termination of the first week in the
present month, is greatly to be feared, and though the grain
may, under the improved aspect of affairs, be carried in
rather better order than appeared probable a fortnight ago,
still it is much to be apprehended that the result of the har-
vest will prove even worse in the northern parts of the king-
dom, than is unfortunately the case in the southern districts.
As yet, little can be known as to the extent of the deficiency
in the more backward parts; but, judging from the almost
universal complaints of the yield from those counties where
a comparatively good return was expected, there is too much
reason to conclude that the total growth of wheat will this
year fall very far short of that of average seasons. The trade
in the article has, nevertheless, lost some portion of the ani-
mation by which it has of late been characterized, not, we
believe, from any change of opinion respecting the deficiency
in the yield and quality of the crop, but owing to a somewhat
economised consumption, in consequence of the very rapid
and material rise which has already taken place in the value
of bread stuffs. This is a perfectly natural state of affairs ;
an advance of 15s. to 20s. per quarter in the space of a couple
of months must, it may readily be conceived, cause many
sellers to come forward, whilst parties having stocks on hand
may be expected to feel a disposition to work them up pretty
closely, before entering into fresh investments at so greatly
enhanced rates. Nothing has, however, transpired to allow
us to hope that the reports of the defective nature of the
wheat crop have been in the slightest degree exaggerated;
on the contrary, every day furnishes fresh evidence that the
yield per acre, as well as the weight and quality, are to the
full as inferior as was at any time anticipated would be the
case.

Relative to the failure of the potato crop, the complaints
have also become more and more serious ; we are therefore
inclined to think that the slight check which has this week
been given to the upward movement in prices will prove
only temporary, and are by no means inclined to alter in the
slightest the substance of our previously expressed opinion
regarding the probable range of the value of bread stuffs
later in the year. At the same time we must remark that
we deem it by no means unlikely that when farmers shall
have finished the autumn sowing, and have leisure for
threshing, the deliveries may, for a period, exceed the quan-
tity immediately required, and by this means they may
cause a small decline in prices; but knowing that we can
have no important supplies from abroad before late in the
spring, we feel pretty certain that quotations of wheat will
be higher in December and January next than they are at
present.

Considering the favourable opportunity which has been
afforded by the fine weather of the last fortnight for pre-
paring the land, the supplies from the growers have been
rather larger than might have been anticipated, and at
several of the leading provincial markets the quantity of
wheat brought forward, has more than kept pace with the
inquiry. Of spring corn on the other hand, the deliveries
have been short, and an impetus having been given to the
demand for all articles suitable for feeding, in consequence
of the spread of the potato disease, barley and oats, as well
as beans and peas, have commanded advanced rates in all
parts of the kingdom.
We observe from some of our Scotch letters that a new
source of uneasiness has sprung up in that country, viz. the
safety of the turnip crop. There are well authenticated re-
ports that this bulb has been attacked by worm to an extent
threatening materially to de...act from the produce; but as
these complaints apply only to a particular district, we trust
the mischief will prove of a local character. The potato
disorder, or murrain, as it is there termed, seems to be quite
as serious in the north as in the south, and the excitement
occasioned thereby had, by the latest advices, in no degree
abated. At Edinburgh, on Wednesday, all descriptions of
grain were in active request. The value of wheat under-
went a further rise of 2s. per quarter. Barley was quoted ls.
to 2s. higher than on that day week, and a similar enhance-
ment took place in prices of oats, beans and peas. The ad-
vices from Glasgow of the same date are of an equally ex-
citing character, and quotations are now higher in the
northern than in the southern markets.
From Ireland the letters confirm to the fullest extent the
previous statement regarding the potato rot ; in many dis-
tricts which were supposed to have escaped, the disorder is
reported to have shown itself; in addition to which, a further
cause of uneasiness has arisen, owing to the manner in which
the potatoes, apparently sound when dug, had afterwards
gone off; this circumstance having given rise to a doubt
whether the seemingly healthy portion of the crop would
keep through the winter, holders of corn had refused to sell
except at very high terms, and important as has been the re-
cent rise in prices in the English markets, the upward move-
ment on the other side of the Channel has more than kept
pace with the advance here.
The arrivals of wheat coastwise into London have amounted
to 14,709 quarters up to this (Saturday) evening; a large
proportion of the supply has gone direct to the millers, and
the quantity exhibited at Mark-lane has been q tide moderate.
On Wednesday the show of samples consisted of a few runs
from Essex, Kent, and Suffolk, mostly of ordinary quality;
the millers were certainly less inclined to purchase than'in the
beginning of the week, and some difficulty was experienced
in effecting sales at Monday's quotations. On Friday, how-
ever, the trade again resumed a more healthy tone, and the
little wheat offering was easily placed at former terms.
Foreign free wheat has throughout the week been saleable in
small quantities at previous prices. Bonded parcels have
been a good deal inquired for, but the exorbitant demands of
holders have tended to check business. On Friday there was
scarcely any kind of red wheat offered below 545. to 555., and
it was reported that 60s. per quarter had been offered for a
very superior sample of Rostock. Dantzic, of which there is
rather more than of other descriptions on the market, was
also held very high, and really good qualities could not have
been purchased lower than 58s. to 60s. per quarter.
The duty fell a step on Thursday; the weekly average
price for the kingdom, 58s. 3d., was not so high, however,
as expected; the very inferior condition in which the new
wheat continues to come to hand is abundantly proved by
this return.

At none of the leading consuming towns is good wheat
obtainable at present much under 70s. per quarter; still the
general weekly average of the kingdom but little exceeds
58s. per quarter. That the duty must sooner or later fall to
a very low point is now deemed certain ; and with this pros-
pect there is little probability of any part of the bonded
stocks being for some time entered for home consumption.
The nominal top quotation of flour is now firmly fixed at
60s. per sack, and the bakers have paid the enhancement
more readily than is usually the case. Ship flour has also
been in good request, and has commanded very full terms.
American in bond has found takers at 305., and Canadian
free at 355. per barrel.
The market has been sparingly supplied with barley, and
having, in addition to a pretty active inquiry from the dis-
tillers and maltsters, experienced a speculative demand for
this article, factors have been enabled to realize enhanced
terms.

The recent advance in the value of malt has been well
supported, and from present appearances we deem a further
rise by no means improbable.
The arrivals of oats have fallen short materially of the
weekly consumption, and the continued unfavourable ac-
counts from all quarters relative to potatoes, rendering an
unusually large consumption of oatmearprobable, prices have
run up very rapidly. The sales made on Wednesday were
generally at le. per quarter over Monday's currency, and on
Friday a further rise to fully the same extent was established.
Fine corn brought 355. per quarter on the latter day, common
new Irish sold at 305., and for foreign feed as much as 255.
to 265. per quarter was paid in bond.
Some very low returns from Wales caused the last general
average to ba only 235. sd. per quarter; but there can be no
doubt that the recent important rise in prices must soon in-
fluence the returns sufficiently to occasion a fall in the duty.
Beans have come to hand sparingly, and the business done
in the article has been at rates not previously obtainable.
Peas have commarded prices nearly as high as those rea-
lised when the excitement caused by the export demand was
at its height—say 555. to 575. for white boilers, 545. to 58s.
for large blue, and 445. to 465. for maples.

THE FOREIGN CORN TRADE.
The prospect of Great Britain being likely to require a
supply of wheat, and the fact that the harvest has terminated
so unfavourably in Holland and Belgium as to induce the re-
spective Governments of those countries to admit grain free,
have, as may easily be conceived, caused prices in the Baltic
to rise materially ; indeed, at many of the ports from which,
if our wants should prove urgent, we must draw our supplies,
quotations are actually higher than the prices of similar qua-
lities at Mark-lane. _

The latest accounts from Dantzic are of the 18th of Oc-
tober, and inform us that, though little or nothing had
during the preceeding fortnight been brought for shipment to
either England or Holland, about 1,500 lasts had changed
hands on speculation, at very high terms. Really fine sam-
ples, the growth of 1842, had brought 565. to 575. ; mode-
rately good parcels of high—mixed 535. ; and inferior sorts
from 475. to 50s. per quarter free on board. When to these
rates we add freight, insurance, and other charges, it will be
seen that, high as bonded wheat now is, fresh imports can-
not be profitably made unless the duty falls to a very low
point. The supplies of wheat into Dantzic from the inte-
rior had been small ; the qualities of the new wheat is no
longer so well spoken of as was the case immediately
after harvest. The few lots received had, however, met a
ready sale at terms quite equivalent to those at which old
wheat had been sold. Rye is reported to have turned out a
short c,-op in that neighbourhood, and fair parcels had
brought equal to 348. per quarter for local consumption.
At some of the lower Baltic ports supplies of new wheat
had, by the latest accounts, begun to arrive,i, farmers having
been induced to thrash early by the tempting prices.
At Stettin, on the 18th instant, there were a good many
parcels of new wheat offered, of capital quality, weighing
from 621 b. to 631 b. per bushel. The finest lots had been sold
without difficulty at 505., and new Uckermark, of 621 b. weight,
at 49s per quarter, free on board. Of old the stocks were
altogether exhrusted.

The accounts from Rostock speak equally favourable re-
lative to the quality of the new wheat; but, as but little had
been brought forward by the growers at the date of our last
letters, the transactions had been trifling.
At Hamburgh considerable excitement appears to have
been caused by the continual advance in the English markets.
Our advices thence are of Tuesday last ; all sorts of spring
corn, pulse, and wheat, were then in lively request. Of the
latter article several purchases had been made, it was said,
on British account, at 51s. to 525. per quarter for good red
upland wheat.
At the principal Dutch and Belgian markets the value of
wheat appears to have been well supported, notwithstanding
the remission of the duties. _ _

From the Mediterranean the reports are quite as lively as
those from the Baltic, and wheat as risen as rapidly in that
quarter as in this country.
Letters from Leghorn, of the 14th instant, inform us that
rather important contracts had been closed there, partly on
British account. For the finest sorts of Polish, Odessa, and
Marianople, 425. per quarter had been paid, free on board ;
and secondary sorts had brought equally high terms. Egyp-
tian beans had also been in request, and as much as 265. 4d.
per quarter had been paid for fine new.

The Earl of Donoughmore was installed Master
of the Clonmel Masonic Lodge on Friday, and the Earl of Glengall
was also initiated a member.
HEALTH OF NEW ORLEANS.--It is now the 6th
day of October, and we have the authority of many respect-
able physicians for believing that there has not been a real
genuine case of yellow fever in the city this season. It is
now rendered nearly certain that we shall not have any.
The weather has been rainy, cold, and disagreeable for two
or three days, but yesterday it cleared off, leaving the at-
mosphere delightfully cool and bracing. The city is believed
to be perfectly healthy, with the exception of light colds,
and perhaps an occasional instance of ordinary fever. Ab-
sentees, whether acclimated or not, may hurry home as fast
as they wish. The business season is opening under very fa•
vourable prospects. The number of buildings erected during
the summer and still going on is unusually great ; and yet.
judging from appearances, the new dwelling-houses and
stores will not supply the demand. Strangers are beginnin
to rush into the city, so that we anticipate a lively g
winter.—
Tropic, Oct. 6.