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LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1845.

The whole British empire, India and the Colonies in-
luded, does not furnish such important and difficult topics
of discussion as Ireland alone. Independent of jarring in-
terests, caused by the mode in which English dominion in
that country was obtained, and her sway continued, the
Irish Established Church is sufficient, of itself, to cause an
annual debate, which must increase every year in in-
tensity till the anomaly is finally removed. The appro-
priation clause, the Maynooth establishment, the pay-
ment of the Catholic clergy, and a variety of other
elements of disunion, all spring out of a grievance
which is every day more felt, and which is with-
out a parallel in the history of Europe. This
evening, on the motion that the House resolve
itself into a Committee upon the appropriation
to be made from the Consolidated Fund for the College
of Maynooth, Mr. WARD is to move—" That it is the
opinion of the House that any provision to be made for
the purposes of the present Bill ought to be taken from
the funds already applicable to Ecclesiastical purposes in
Ireland." This is a rational proposition, and, if carried
into effect, would make the grant to Maynooth even
more popular than it is with the whole of the Catholic
population; bat we see no prospect whatever that such a
just, necessary, and decisive measure will be adopted for
many years to come. When the list of the division is
made out some curious transpositions of names will ap •
pear. Sir R. INGms's party, of course, will retain their
original position, but the supporters of Sir R.-PEEL'S
scheme must change sides, and separate themselves
from the Whigs tied Liberals who voted with them on
Saturday morning. Then what is to become of those
Members who oppose the grant on religious grounds,
and especially on the ground that there should be no
endowment at all for any church establishment ? To 132
consistent they must still cling to the skirts of Sir R.
Lamas, for they cannot, according to principle, vote any
money in support of an idolatrous faith, or of any faith
whatever. The result, of course, cannot for a moment
be doubtful, and the motion of Mr. WARD, unless it had
been preceded by ono of a more practicable character,
would only have added another insult to the Irish people,
and made them despair of justice from the Imperial Par-
liament. Thanks to the upright conduct, the sound judg-
ment, and the wise policy of the statesmen of all parties,
this great calamity has been averted, and
one of the main grounds for a repeal of the union has
been undermined. True, it is hope deferred—but
still there is hope, the last consolation of the wretched---
and from the manly, statesmanlike, ar.d conciliatory
speech of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, as well as the discreet
silence of Sir ROBERT PEEL, OR Friday night, Ireland,
and the friends of Ireland, may reckon with certainty
that the days of that unsightly fabric, so injurious to
Protestantism, and such a source of endless bitterness—
the Church of Orangemen—are numbered ; and, if not
swept from the country, it will speedily be so modified
and curtailed, as to remove all just cause of com-
plaint. The work has already begun ; the principle of
adapting the staff and chief officers of this Church-mili-
tant to the purposes for which it was intended, has already
been admitted even by the most bigoted and obstinate
member of the Cabinet, and when the principle is
granted, and we have to deal with rational politicians,
the details are of less consequence. Time, the in-
crease of liberal opinions—and, above all, the
rapid change which has manifested itself amcng
the rising generation of Conservatives—will yet
complete this great work of justice and mercy. The
prospects of Ireland never were so bright. She has
brought over all the statesmen of the day to her side.
She will yet be placed on a footing with Scotland, and,
to the honour of her leaders, and the spirit of the age,
she will, unlike Scotland, obtain her rights without
shedding a drop of blood.

The remarks which we hazarded at the commence-
ment of the Easter recess, on the evils arising from
the accumulation of Parliamentary business, derive,
we think, additional force from the protracted debate
of last week ; and from the incidental animadversions
elicited in the earlier period of the discussion, in the
House of Commons, en Friday night, of the careless
and unsatisfactory transaction of business by the Rail-
way Department of the Board of Trade. Under the
present aspect of public affairs, and especially of our
foreign relations, we feel increased anxiety to see the
business of the Legislature return into the long-neg-
lected channels of orderly arrangement, digestion,
and dispatch. The ordinary course of ordinary
sessions is mischievous enough. We cannot too often
repeat the fact, certified by the experience of all men
connected with Parliamentary business, that of the most
important questions, and the most useful Bills in-
troduced in any given session, a large proportion are
indefinitely postponed, cushioned for the session, or
passed into laws without a tithe of the investiga-
tion and mature discussion which they demand. The
facilities afforded by the modern practice of Par-
liament for " dropping" orders, and the unbounded
licence which modern Administrations exercise, of ad-
dressing requests to private or individual Members,
to postpone the rotation of their respective notices,
in favour of some Government or official business,
are among the chief causes of that mischievous ac-
cumulation of Bills which results in their wholesale
precipitation in the six weeks preceding a proroga-
tion. The "requests" we speak of have grown ieto
an organised grievance, by reason of the little chance
they run of being refused. It is suicidal policy to
turn a deaf ear to the bland solicitations of a
Chancellor of the Exchequer, or a Secretary
of the Treasury, a Secretary for the Home Depart
ment, or a Secretary to the Admiralty. In the first
place, these Gentlemen have always the plausible pre-
text of the exigency of the business in their depart-
ments. In the second, if they are disposed to retort
the tenacity of Mr. H. to-day, in refusing to allow the
vote they desire to move to take precedence of his motion
on the notice -paper,—Mr. H. runs a pretty certain
risk of discovering to-morrow the art and mystery of
Ministerial tactics, in the shape of a " no House,"
by withholding men from coming in before 4 o'clock,
or the effect of less than 40 members being present,
by a " counting out' of the House, or of " a whip" by the
sudden filling of the House with a formidable
detachment of members, who, not having heard
one word of his speech, or of the discussion to
which it has led, come down, on a preconcerted
notice dispatched to them in all the quarters of the
Metropolis—vote,tbrongh some extraordinary power of
intuition, in favour of any hostile question that may
be raised, off-hand, upon his original motion.
This latter is thrown out, or thrown over, before he
can imagine that two-thirds of the House have yet
heard one word of the matter. It has happened this
session, according to the usual course, that a great
proportion of the time of the Legislature has been al-
ready occupied in the labour of mooting amendments
on the legislation of last session; simply because
Bills were then poised into law, in a condition too
crude and defective not to cause them to break down
on the first attempt at practically administering them.
In the usual course, also, there has been a vast ex-
penditure of time which might have been much
more profitably appropriated, on the discussion of
abstract principles and general questions, such as, to the
thinking ofal 1 practical men, after being once distinctly
enunciated and fairly discussed, might have been very
much more speedily disposed of by vote, with results
at last equally satisfactory with any that have been
arrived at, after so many nights of bootless argument,
subtracted from the term, too limited, that is yet
available for the imperative demands upon it of the
' public service. From the observations of Lord
HOWICK, Mr. DUNCOMBE, and Mr. AGLIONDY, on
Friday night, we are compelled to infer that the
defects of the Railway Department of the Board of

'Trade, to which we were among the first to
direct public attention, are becoming, every day, more
palpable and more serious. But let us note,
in passing, how extensively prejudicial ad-
ministrative defects in that Board—superadded to the
customary alternations of ruinous delay and still more
fatal hurry produced by the technical forms of " pri-
vate business," as it is called, and the interruptions
we have alluded to of even their halting action—.
must prove to the extensive community and vast ca-
pital embarked in railway constructions ; and these
evils, thus aggravated, inevitably re-act on the proper
discharge of the public business. If the legislation on
railway Bills has been hitherto so slovenly and im-
perfect, owing to the mass of preliminary details in
each case to be brought under the cognizance and
opinion of Parliament, and the impossibility of doing
justice either to them or to the measures of the
executive and financial departments of the State, in
consideration of whose exigencies they are so often
slurred over or delayed—what may we not anticipate of
the amount of embarrassment and prejudice likely to
be experienced from the vast increase of railway Bills
now pending in Parliament, and coming before it,
not in that more organised and perfect form of in-
ception, which it was the object of this Board's
creation to communicate to them, in order to econo-
mise the time of both Houses, but in a condition the
very reverse of this. Lord Howrcu (himself a perfect
master of official business) remarked that a certain
omission, in laying a promised report before the
House of Commons, " was only another example of
the system of carelessness which, from first to last,
had characterised the fiscal business of that depart-
ment." We do not remember, in the case of a young
" Board," to have heard so severe a censure passed
in either House of Parliament ; and we greatly fei r
that it is too well merited. In addition to the
objections we have before urged to the constitution
of this Railway Board, which we deny that it was
competent to the Lords of Privy Council of the
Board of Trade, by virtue of their own
" minute,"—extnero motu, as it were, originally to
create so empowered—to its assumption of original
functions hitherto permitted only to the Queen's
Courts at Westminster, and to its exercise of a spe-
cies of equitable jurisdiction, which it is marvellous
to find wholly unexcepted to by the vigilant legal
acumen of the House of Lords,—we have now to
urge those which have been so strongly enforced in
the House. The House will do well, dismissing all
party feeling in the matter (and to say truth, it is
not easy to understand how such feeling can be in-
fused into it), to discuss Mr. DuNcomun's motion on
the subject of this anomalous Commission or Board
with all care and deliberation. Its object involves
considerations of the most extensive and profound im-
portance to the public, and in an especial degree to
parties interested in railway undertakings. The
Board seems equally overwhelmed by the magnitude
of its powers and extent of the business they are to
be applied to, by the incapacity or " carelessness" of
some of its members, as much as by the extravagant
grasp of its delegated jurisdiction.

We have accounts from Madrid toThe lath inst. The
Chamber of Deputies was still engaged in discussing
the estimates, most of which had been passed with little
opposition. A letter from ConTINA, who is in France,
was read, in which he called upon the Chamber to de-
cide on his return as Minister for Salamanca, and if
pronounced good he would present himself and take his
seat. The letter was referred to a Committee.
On the 12th the Three per Cents. closed at 35 11-16
at 60 slays; the Five per Cents. at 25i for cash, and 25
at 60 days ; and the Debt without Interest at 9 at
GO days.

The Paris papers state that M. GUIZOT was seized
with sudden illness on Saturday. It was not, however,
of long continuance, as appears frona:the following notice
in the Messager of that evening:—" The Minister of
Foreign Affairs was this morning seized with a slight
indisposition, a sharp pain suddenly rising in the region
of the liver, which yielded promptly to some slight re-
medies." In the Chamber of Deputies the Savings
Banks Bill was passed by a majority of 207 to 35. One
of the clauses enacts that the total amount of deposits by
one individual shall not. exceed 1,5001., but may b:
allowed to accumulate with interest to 2,000 f. (80/.).
The interest is to remain the same, arra also the time of
giving notice of withdrawal of deposits. Several of the
journals are still occupied with the Maynooth question.
One of them, the Pi esse, has an article on the disputes
between England and America, and evidently would
rejoice if the English Government should be embar-
rassed with Irish discontent should a war take place.
France, it says, would profit by a war. "We learn,"
says that journal, " from a certain source that the
British squadron recently fitted out at Portsmouth, and
placed under the orders of Admiral SEYmoUn, is in-
tended to act in the Pacific Ocean. The principal ob-
ject of this expedition is to be ready, in case of a rup-
ture between Great Britain and the United States, to
occupy, militarily, the ports and important positions of
the Oregon, and to capture the numerous Ame-
rican merchantmen and whalers. We are far
from desiring a war, but it becomes us fo
examine carefully the various chances which
either party has of success, although we would almost
dare to affirm that Great Britain will yield, as she has
always done, in presence of the menacing attitude of her
rival. But it is an historical fact that every time Great
Britain has yielded to America some advantage has
accrued to France. The treaty of 1783, by which the
Cabinet of St. James recognised the independence of
the United States, caused us to recover the possession
of Senegal, delivered us from an English Commissioner
residing at Dunkirk, and restored to Spain, our ally, the
Floridas and Port Mahon, which Great Britain retained
nearly a century. We trust that the example a the
treaty or Washington in 1842 will equally bear its
fruits." We hope the anticipations of the P. esse will be
disappointed, and conciliation will yet make Ireland the
best friend of Great Britain. The same paper makes the
following remarks on the opposition to the grant:—
" Imagine that in Ireland, where it is proposed that a
poor College shall receive 27,000/. sterling to educate the
clergy destined to instruct 8,000,000 Catholics, there are
twelve Protestant bishops receiving for themselves alone
70,000/., and not having the tenth part of the population to
direct. The Presbyterian Church likewise receives a consi-
derable subsidy. Both are gorged with the property taken—
stolen, we shall add—from the Catholic clergy, and they
utter exclamations sufficient to unsettle the three kingdoms
to their foundation, because a miserable shadow of restitution
is granted to the Catholics ! Once more we assert that such
a proceeeding is a disgrace to England."
The National thus contrasts the policy of Sir ROBERT
PEEL and M. G UIZOT, or, rather, that of the " Chateau :"
" Sir Robert Peel knows the men whom he leads, and he is
well aware that with the haughty aristocracy, to which he does
not belong, and on whom he has been imposed by his merit
and his experience, there is no medium between domination
and servitude. He must either be the master of the Tories
or their instrument. Sir Robert Peel has too good an opi-
nion of himself to submit to the humiliating position of a
servant, or even to the seccndary position of a counsellor.
He is the chief, and he leads his party with rare boldness.
But to what point is he conducting them? Into a course
new to the defenders of all the prejudices of birth, of religion,
and of privilege. He has compelled those men to place
their hands on what they ought to have religiously respected.
He has loaded property with an income-tax. He has op-
posed to the absolute spirit of prohibition a vast reform of ta-
riffs. He has impoverished the agricultural interests by a mo-
dification of the corn-laws. He is now placing his foot in the
sanctuary; and, notwithstanding the exclamations against
Popery and idolatry, he is about to endow a Catholic semi•
nary largely, after having treated officially with the Roman
Catholic Bishops of Ireland for the execution of the Religious
Bequests Bill. When the period arrives at which parties are
to be extinguished there always appears an indispensable
statesman who himself undertakes to dig the trench in which
worn-out institutions and exhausted ideas are to find their
final sleep. Thus affairs pass in a country where statesmen
know how to prepare pacific changes. In Prance it is dif-
ferent. A systematic immobility appears to preside over all
the acts of the Government. The party which calls itself
Conservative traces round it a circle which is not to be
crossed. Inclosed in a species of lazaretto, it neither feels
the movement of the flood which rises, nor the pressure of
facts, nor the permanent action of ideas. Nevertheless a re-
sistance is formed. Disaffection is engendered by contempt,
the latter will one day give place to anger, and a final mo-
ment will arrive when the Conservatives, who refused to re-
new some worn-out furniture, will find themselves invaded by
a force, too long suppressed, which will throw the entire
household and furniture out of the window."
The Minister of Public Works had presentcd to the
Chamber of Deputies Bills authorising the adjudication
of the railways from Paris to Strasbourg, and from Tours
to Nantes. The maximum of the leases to be granted is
fixed as follows:—For the Paris and Strasbourg Railway
forty-five years, and for the Tours and Nantes Railway
thirty-five years. The Committee of the Chamber,
appointed
to examine the Northern Railroad Bill, had
reduced from forty-five to twenty- five years the dura-
tion of the lease, and the security to be deposited by the
Company from 30,000,000 f. to 15,000,000 f.
'rite intelligence from Swi.zerland is not satisfactory.
The Const:tutionnel says, the demand of Lucerne, made
in the Diet on the 16th,; for an indemnity led to an ani-
easnst,si nu
supported
Brentrted byanmaomnenye.styTwhoeupldi,etitw
ani-
mated debate, which ended in a rejection, six votes only
appearing for the indemnity. All steps to induce that
fi xinK day for discussing the adjournedtssaid fwaiilt'huonu;
propositions of the cum-

THE BOURSE--SATURDAY, APRIL 19.

First ifigh,st Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price Price.
French Five per Cents. .. • • 117 60 .. 117 60 .. 117 50 .. 117 60
Three per Cents.... 85 95 .. 85 85 .. 85 85 .. 85 85
Loan ............. 80 40 86 50 86 50 .. 86 60

Bank of France • • ••••3250 —3255 ..3251 .. 3255
Grain Dank. I,ooof Shares••lllo ..1110 —llO7 50 ..1110
Belgiar. Fives, 'B4O •• •••• 102% 102% .. 102% .. 102%
Feur-and-a-Half . 101% .. 101 .. 101% .. 101 N
Two-awl-a-Half •• 62 30 .• 62 30 .. 62 33 .. 62 30
Spanish Threes.. • ..... . 42 .. 42 .. 42 .. 42
Active •• .• 4 .. 46% .. 4.)14 .. 4014
Passive .. .. •••• •• 7Na • • 7% .. .. 7 pia
Portuguese Five per Cents.. 67 .. 67 .. 67 .. 67
R0man...........
RAILWAY SHARES.

Versailles, R.B 560 .. 560 .. 550 .. 550
•• •• •• •• •• 360 . 360 .. 355 .. 355
ROW111••••••••••••••••••••1120 . 1120 —lllO ..1110
amen to gaye.•
Orleans ...........

Strasburg to Bale. ..... 320 .. 320 .. 315 .. 315
&vignoo to morsoffies.....• 1050 • •1050 .•1040 . 1042 50
Bordeaux to Teste •• •• 212 50 .. 212 5Q .. 210 .. 211 25
RAILWAYS FOR TIIE ACCOUNT, MAY 3
St. Germain .. • • •• •.......1110 ..1120 ..1103 ..1105
versomeo, R.B. ..... 565 .• 565 .. 552 50 .. 552 SO
L. 8.. •••••• • • • • 360 .. 360 .• 3,2 50 . 352 60
R0uen....................1120 ..1125 .•1110 ..1110

----.- _
Rouen to Havre ..• •• ...... 910 .• 942 50 .. 930 .. 930
Orleans ... .. , ............1230 ..1235 ..1225 ..1230

Strasburg to Bale •-••• • • • • • 320 • • 325 .. 315 .. 315
Avignon to Marseilles.. • ..- 1050 ..1055 .. 1040 ..1042 50

THIS DAY'S NEWS.

BAIL COURT.-(THIS
There were no motions of any interest this morning,
(Sittings at Nisi Prius.)
JENNINGS V. HADDOCK TILE ELDER.

Mr. V. Lee for the plaintiff, Mr. Petersdorff for the
defendant.
This was an action brought to recover an amount of 30/.
on an acceptance granted under the following circumstances :
—The defendants son, a publisher in North Wellington-
street, required pecuniary assistance in his business to the
above amount, and his father accepted a bill for 30/. This
an attorney of the name of Coles, in Holborn, undertook to ge
discounted. After the lapse of a few days Coles gave the de-
fendant's son a note to a Mr. Dipple, also a publisher in
Holywell-street, who advanced 10/. upon the collateral secu-
rity of the acceptance, which was to remain in Mr. Coles'
hands. A second advance of 10/. was afterwards made
by the same gentleman. The defendant subsequently paid back
to Mr. Dipple 4/. and 51. of goods, leaving a balance standing
of 11/. Mr. Coles afterwards negotiated the bill with Mr.
Jennings, the plaintiff in the action, who is the manager of
a loan society in Farringdon-street, and Mr. Jennings applied
to the defendant when it became due for payment.
The action was defended on the plea that the bill was to
remain only as a security, and that no instructions were
given that it should be n.egotiated.
On cross-examination of the defendant's son, it appeared
that lie had been indebted to Mr. Coles in some former
transactions, and that he had instructed him to negotiate the
bill in question; to settle with Mr. Dipple, and pay himself
with the balance.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE said the defendant had not the
shadow of a case, and a verdict was returned for the plaintiff,
with costs.

BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Commissioner SHEPHERD.)
IN RE JOHN CONNOR.

This insolvent, who had been in the green-grocery and
coal trade, in the Edgware-road, came up this morning for
his final order. He was opposed by Mr. Walsh, on behalf of
the creditors, on the ground that several articles had either
not been given up to the official assignee, or not set forth in
the schedule. The articles referred to were a pony and small
cart, a large van, and two account-books. Object►on was
also taken to an entry in the schedule, which described a
large cart to have been sold in December, whereas it had not
been sold until after the petition was filed. The large van
was represented to have been pledged with a Mr. Pargiter, in
Lambeth, for 301., but ,on inquiry no such person could be
found.

A witness was called to prove that a large cart, answering
to the one described in the schedule, was in the possession of
the insolvent in February last.
The insolvent (who was examined by Mr. LEWIS) said
that the pony and cart had been taken away by his son at
Greenwich fair, and he had not heard of him since. With
respect to the large van, he did not know the number of the
street where Mr. Pargiter lived, but he had no doubt he
could take any messenger from the official assignee to the
party, and establish the fact. He was also willing to deliver
up the books required, though he did not think they were
of any consequence. The largo cart alleged to have been
seen in the possession of the insolvent in February was a
borrowed one, somewhat like the one sold in the December,
and hence the supposition that it was the same one.
Mr. WAisitcalled upon his Honour to adjourn the case
sine de, as he considered the explanation altogether unsatis-
factory. He did not dispute the fact that the large van
had been pawned for a sum of money, but he entertained the
opinion that it was made away surreptitiously after the party
was insolvent, to the injury of the creditors.
His HoNowt, who was at first disposed to adjourn the case
sine die, said he would give the insolvent another chance,
and would fix the sth of May for another examination, to
be at the expense of insolvent, and if the insolvent did not
on that occasion give a better explanation of the matters re-
ferred to, lie should most certainly dismiss him without his
final order.

Mr. Walsh was instructed to give Mr. Lewis notice 01
what the insolvent would then be required to prove.

SOUTRWARK.7(TIII.S. DAY.)

Robert Braley, a well-dressed Man, blind of an eye, was
charged with entering a room in the Masons' Arms, Horse -
monger- lane, and stealing several articles.
Mr. Spence, the landlord of the above house, stated that
on Saturday night, one of the servants having occasion to go
up stairs, saw the prisoner in one of the bed rooms. Though
alarmed at the circumstance, she did not make any outcry on
seeing a stranger there, under the dread of his making an at-
tack on her. She, however, descended with all haste, and hav-
ing informed her master of the circumstance, he immediately
went up, and, on entering the room, saw the prisoner sitting
on the side of the bed. He had a bundle by his side, con-
taing various articles of dress, which he had taken out of a
box in the room. lie assumed to be intoxicated.

The prisoner, in answer to the charge, said that he had no
remembrance of what had happened, being so drunk; that he
was a coachmaker by trade, and, work being very slack
in Glasgow, to which place he belonged, be came up to
I.6ndon, and, having met with some of his townsmen, they
gave him so much drink that he did not know what he was
about, and could not account for his being found iu the situa-
tion described.
Mr. Tit Amt, said that the prisoner gave such a very un-
satisfactory account of his proceedings, that he should re-
mand him until Friday.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were 5,000
bales, including 1,5(X) on speculation. The market was very
quiet, and on the whole dull, but without any material change
in prices.-In Shares the business done was limited compared
to the trau,actions recently, but prices had no tendency to de-
cline. Aberdeen Railway, 5 ; Barnsley Junction, Half Shares,
51. 16s. Gd.;
41. 41. 6s. 3d. ; Birkenhead and Cheshire Junction, 9%
Birmingham and Gloucester, New Shares, 414 ; Blackburn,
Burnley, and Accrington, 9% 1/2 ; Blackburn, Darwen, and
Boltonn,
Wigan,a Beulfdastiavnerdpla,llyl3mAent y/7„6
78 i Caledonian, 12% ;
Cambridge and Lincoln, 9%; Chester and Birkenhead,
A ;
52% 52 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 25% ; Chester and Holyhead,
133/4 • Churuet Valley, 9% 9/. Is. 3d. ; Clydesdale Junction,
10% ; Cork and Waterford, 3%; Derehain and Norwich,
1%; Dublin and Belfast Junction, 11% 11 ; Dublin and
Galway, 51/ %; Dublin, Midlingar, and Athlone, 3%;
Dundalk and Enniskillen, 43/4 ; Eastern Counties, 21
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 63%; Ditto, New Quarter Shares,
61%; 1 Glasgow and Dumfries, 1/. 45.; Grand Junction,
`,271 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 113%
- - -; Quarter
Shares, 56%; Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 44% ati ;
Ditto, Eighth Shares, 19 Great Grimsby and Sheffield,
6%; .Great Southern and WestFrn, 19% 20; Ditto Exten-
sion, 15%; Great Western. Halt Shares, 1051/ ; Huddersfield
Canal and Railway, 41. 185. 9d• 4%; liudderstield and
Sheffield, 8% ; Inverness and Elgin, 1% •
Lancaster and
Preston, Three-quarter Shares, 33; Limerick and Waterford,
814 %; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and
Preston, 3%; London-
derry and Enniskillen, 31. 171. Ad
--• ; London and South-
Western, New 501. Shares, 15/ ; London and York, 414 y 4 ;
Direct Northern, 41 ; Leeds and Thirsk, 4% % ; Lynn
and Dereliam, 3,(5 ' Manchester and Buxton, 51,./2 ;
Manchester, Bury, and ossendale, 1814 ; Manchester, Shef-
field, and Midland, 93/4 %; Midland Railway, 1581/ 158 ;
Ditto, 40/. Shares, 1914 ; Ditto, Fifth Shares' 4 ;
Ditto, Consolidated Birmingham and Derby, 120 ;
Newark and Sheffield, 61A ; Newcastle and Berwick,
16%; Newry and Enniskillen, 5%; North Union (A),
145; North Wales Mineral, 18%; Ditto, New Shares,
6% • North Western, 5% %; North Wales, 3% %; Oxford
and 'Birmingham Junction, 41/4 ; Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton, 1/. 18s. ;
Sheffield and Manchester, 1251/4 ;
Ditto, Quarter Shares, 161/4 ; Sheffield and Lincoln, 1%;
Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and Birmingham, 4% ;
Shrewsbury and Grand Junction, 61/4 ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry,
and Cheshire, 43/ 4/. 13s. 9d. ; South-Eastern and Dover,
New Shares, No. 1, 161/4 ; Ditto, No. 2, II ; Ditto, No. 3,
8%; Scottish Central, 7% 7; Trent Valley, 19% 2014 ;
Ditto, Extension, 5 6%; West Yorkshire, G ; Wexford and
Carlow, 4% %; Worcester and Tring, 5 434 ; Whitehaven
and Furness, 31. Is. Gd. 3/. Is. ; Central of France,l7 ; Lyons
and Avignon (English), 2% ; Louvain and Jemeppe, 514 ;
Northern of France (English), 5%; Ditto, Rosamel's
(English), ; Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's),
21 16s. 6d.; Ditto (Calon's), 21. Is. 6d. ; Paris and Orleans,
48%; Paris and St. Quentin, 21. 135. 6d. 2% ; Verona and
Ancona, 2/. le.
There are accounts of the 9th January from Hobart Town,
which advise very unfavourable weather for the crops, a
material deficiency being fully anticipated.
From the tenor of the published accounts it is feared that
the mercantile letters from India will not advise an improve-
ment in the markets there, and this probably will have some
effect in the manufacturing districts.
There has been a further decline to-day in Consols, and
although we attach but little weight to the plea on which
it is grounded, viz., an apprehension of some misunder-
standing with the United States, we are not by any means
surprised at a reaction from another cause, viz., the superior
temptation of railway investments. Consols have been
down to 98% % for 11foney, and to 99 and 98% for Ac-
count, and are now about 98% to % for the former,
and 98% for the latter. The premium on Exche-
quer-bills has been steady at 595. to 61s. New Three-
and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 101 to 100%. Bank
Stock has been firm at 210 to 210%. Reduced Three per
Cents. have been 98 to 97%.
The Foreign Securities have been affected by the declinei n
Consuls. Spanish Five per Cents. have receded to 30% 14 ;
and the Three per Cents. to 40% 14. Portuguese Converted
Stock has been 6614, %. Mexican have given way to 37%.
Columbian are 15% to 16. Dutch Four per Cents. bring 97%.
There has been a good deal of business doing in Railway
Shares, and, taking them generally, it may be said there is a
disposition to sell, and that they rule lower.
URITJSU FUNDS THIS DAY Al' ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock .210%,
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuitie5............ 98,6 97
3 per Cent. Consols Arms .................. 9 98%N:
New 314 per Cent. Annuties ...... 100% 101 1003/4%
Long Annuities ,Expire sth Jan. 1860... 11% 7-16
Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10,1859 • 111%
Ditto 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 11 11-16%
India Bonds 1,000/ 74
Ditto under 1,000/
South Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuities
-
Ditto New Annuities
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. I%d. 11/4d.
1,000/. - ...... 59 61 pm.
500/. ........ ..... - 59 GI pm.
•• •••
Ditto Small • •
61 59 pm.
......
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent.... 44
Columbian Bonds. 15% 16
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. --1`
Ditto for the Account 37%
Ditto Deferred Stock
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent

Ditto Converted
Ditto for the Account.
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 —
Ditto for the Account.
Venezuela Bonds. 2 per Cent
Ditto Deferred
Dutch 24 per Cents ......... ...—...
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAft.w4ifts. PAID. PER Su.utz
Aberdeen
Armagh, Coleraine,Portrush 1% 23/4 to 3
Birmingham and Gloucester 100
Ditto, Had Shares ...... .. 3
Bristol and Exeter
Ditto New ... 2
_B?4 _ to —.

Caledonian 5 ...... 12% 13 to 12%
Cambridge and Lincoln l% ...... 91,2%... to 99
Chester and Holyhead 5 ...... 18% to 18%
Churnet Valley
Coventry, Bed worth, and Nun.
eaton
Coventry and Leicester ...... 114 3% to 3
Cornwall

l'irect Northern
Dublin and Belfast Junction 2% 11%4% to
Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine 2 A 3LA to
Dublin and Galway
Eastern Counties
Do. Perpet. 5 per Ct. No. 1. 3% ll4 to
Eastern Union

Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Ditto New % Shares 2l,ii 6IA ..... to
Great South and W. (Irish)... 5
Ditto Extension
Great North of England 100 2Olll to 202
Ditto New
Great Western
Ditto 1,4 Shares ... 50 l06l
Guildford, Farehani, Portms. 214 6
Hull and Selby 5O 106'4 to 1051,E
Ditto Quarter Shares

Ditto gal( Shares . 2 —. 24 '-'' . ... .. to 23
London and Birmingham ...100
Ditto Thirds
London and Blackwall 16% 9 8% 9% 8% to VA
London and Brighton
London and Croydon... 13/. 15s. 9d.... 17% to
London and South Western.. 41 y 81%...... to
Ditto New 2141 14% 151 A to 141,4
London and York...—. ...... 2 4...• 33 to 4
Lynn and Ely
Midland
Ditto New 2 ...... 18% 19 to 18
Midland, Birm. and Derby lOO l2O ...... to 118
Newcastle & Darlington ;hum. 25 5l
Ditto New Brandling
Newcastle and Berwick
Newry and Enniskillen
Newark and Sheffield ... 1 A ..... 6%% to
North British
Ditto New 1 .. ... 51,4 to
Northern and Eastern 45
Ditto Scrip
North Wales 11,4 4%34... to 3%
Richmond an d West End Junc. 1
Rugby, Worcester. and Tring 1
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland
Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Birm. 2% 4%%... to
South Devon
South Eastern and Dover ... 33% ...... 4114%
Ditto New, No. 3 2% B/4/q to 7%
Staines and Richmond........ 1
South Wales
Trent Valley ... 2 .. 208/ to
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ...... 4,
York and North Midland ... 50' ......104
Ditto Scarboro'Branch
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens
Bordeaux and Toulouse
Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette 2 - 2%341,( to
Dijon and Mulhouse
Great Northern of France
(Laffitte's)
Do. Do. (Rosamel's) 2 ..... 2 %... to
Louvain and Jeineppe
Orleans and Vierzon
Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 2
Paris and Lyons (taflitte) ... 2
Parisand Lyons(Gannerott's) 2 ...
Paris and Lyons (Colon's)... 2 .
Paris and Strasburg 2 ...... 2% to
Royal North of Spain
Tours & Nantes (Mackenzie) 2

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia ... .. .. 40
British North American

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, Amur. 19.—The sales
are:—Birmingham and Gioucester, New Shares, 4% ; Lan-
caster and Carlisle, 391/2 ; Manchester and Leeds, Sixteenth
Shares, 7%; Manchester and Birmingham, New Quarters,
5 13-16 pm.; North British, NeveShares, 51A ; Sheffield and
Manchester, Quarter Shares, 1534 ; South Eastern, 421/2 ex
div.; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction,
91, %; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 5%; Bolton,
Wigan, and Liverpool, 133 ; Caledonian, 13%1 Clitheroe
Junction, 414 % ptem. ' • Direct Northern, 4 % ; Glasgow and
Dumfries, ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 6%;
Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 514 ; Hud-
dersfield and Sheffield Junction, 8% ; Kendal and Winder-
mere, 5 7-16 ; Leeds and Thirsk 4%; Liverpool, Ormskirk,
and Preston, 314 ; London and York, 414 ; Lynn and Den-
ham, 3% • Manchester and Buxton, 5% 5; Newark and
Sheffield, 614 ; North Wales, 3% ; North Western, 514 Vs ;
Scottish Central, 7%; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction,
1/. Bs. ; Trent Valley, 20 19% ; Ditto, Continuation, 4% 3%
prem. ; Whitehavert and Furness, 31,6 ; Bordeaux, Toulouse,
and Cette, 2%; Great Northern of France (English), ;
Union Bank of Manchester, 10%.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, Amu. 21.—Wind this day at nuon, Northerly,
fresh breeze, and line.

PouTsmoilTit, APRIL 19—Wind N.E.-20. E.N.E. to S.E.
—Arrd. Bareurs, Vreenster, Batavia for Rotterdam, sld.
Dec. 20; Ada, Stone, Jamaica; Daphne, Cape of Good Hope.
The hull of the vessel reported on the Goodwin Sands yes-
terday proves to be a foreign hoy, or ketch ; small cask
belonging to her is marked " Osterisch," with a horse under-
neath, and "T. H.—M. H. 42." She beat off the sands
during the night, and about' three P. m. this day was seen
about three miles to the eastward, both masts standing,
mast-heads light blue. The boats report having seen on the
off part of the Goodwin Sands, in seven fathoms water, a
vessel's lower mast, keel upwards, supposed to be attached
to a wreck.

IViiirsTABLE, APRIL 19.—The Margaretha, Wilt, Danish
zalliot, with a cargo of tares, abandoned and waterlogged,
was fallen in with this morning in the Queen's Channel and
brought in here, rudder gone, cargo landing; she appears to
have been previously in the coal trade from Stockton or
Hull, to Altona ; crew supposed to be drowned.
DEAL, Arum 19.—Several oars, white blades, and some
butter firkins, marked" OstrfriesrisCh, F.H., M. H., 42, H.G.G.,"
(Hanoverian horse), have been landed here from the galliot
lost on the Goodwin Sands.

OFF ST. ALISAN'S HEAD, APRIL 17.—Rebecca, Buenos
Ayres for London.
PLYMOUTH, APRIL 19.—S1d. her Majesty's ship Daring, on
a cruise. 20. The pilot sloop Ariel, of this port, was run
into by a ship, and was found, 17th inst., about four leagues
S.W. of the Eddystone abandoned, and brought in here.
OFF THE WIGHT, APRIL 20.—Calcutta, Ross, Hobart
Town, sailed Jan. 9, and Pernambuco 14th ult.
FALMOUTH, APRIL 19.—Wind variable and light.—Arrd.
Mary Gray, Storie, Valparaiso, sailed Jan. 1 ; Eliza
Lennox, Ichaboe ; Thomas Edward, Brickley, Buenos Ayres.
Off, Everhard, New Orleans for Bremen.
LIVERPOOL, Arms, 20.—Wind E., moderate.—Arrd. Pro-
tector, Davis, Ichaboe ; Adonis, Hamilton, Africa ; Laurel;
Knaiston, New Orleans; Robert, Luke, Savannah; Lancas-
shire, Lyon, New York. Margaret, Finnigan, Africa, after
being ashore on West Hoyle, towed in from Beautnaris.
The Euterpe, from St. Domingo, has been taken into the
Prince's Basin floin the beach at Seacombe.
OFF CORK, APRIL 17.—Arrd. Birkby, Bergin ; Lucius
Carey, Watson, leltaboe ; St. Andrews, Leech, ditto. ;
Minerva, ditto., and proceeded with extra hands, crew laid
up with scurvy.