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LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1845.

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 Howicic (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 fear
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,"—exmero 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. DUNCOMBE'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 espccial 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.

Bank of France •••• 3250 ..3255 ..3251 ..3255
Gouin Bank, I,ooof Shares-1110 ..1110 ..1107 50 ..1110
Belgian Fives, 1940•- •• •• 102% .. 102% .. 102% .. 102%
Four-and-a-Half lOl% .. 101% .. 101% .. 101%
Two-and-a-Half 62 30 .. 62 30 .. 62 30 .. 62 30
Spanish Threes•••• •• •• •• 42 .. 42 .. 42 .. 42
Active . • • • • • • • • • • • 40% • • 403 .. 40 • . 40 la
Passive • • • • • • • • • 7% •• .. 7% .. 7%
Portuguese Five per Cents•• 67 .. 67 .. 67 .• 67
Roman .•• •• •• •• •• •• 107% 107% .. 107% 10751

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; but 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. INGLIS'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 ar.d Liberals vs ho noted 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 he
consistent they must still cling to the skirts of Sir R.
INGLIS, 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 one 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, and conciliatory
speech of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, as well as the discreet

silence of Sir ROBERT PEEL, on Friday night, Ireland,
and the friends of Ireland, may reckon with" certainty
that the days of that unsightly fabric, so injurious to

We have accounts from Madrid to the 13th inst. The
Chamber of Deputies was still engaged in discussing
the estimates, most of which had been passed with little
opposition. A letter from CORTINA, 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 hina3elf and take his
scat. The letter was referred to a Committee.

On the 12th the Three per Cents. closed at 35 11-16
at 60 Ways; the Five per Cents. at 251 for cash, and 25i
at 60 days ; and the Debt without Interest at 9 at
60 days.

BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
•
There were no 'notions of any interest this morning,
(Sittings at Nisi Prius.)
JENNINGS V. HADDOCK THE ELDER.

The Paris papers state that M. GUIZOT was seizes
with sudden illness on Saturday. It was not, however,
of long continuance, as appears fromthe following notice
in the Messayer 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 1,500 f., but may be
allowed to accumulate with interest to 2,000 f. (801.).
The interest is to remain the same, and 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 Presse, 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 SEYMOUR, 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 to
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 of the
treaty of Washington in 1842 will equally bear its
fruits." We hope the anticipations of the Presse 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-
derahle 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. GUIZOT, 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 secondary 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 France 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 presented 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
fixad 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.
The intelligence from Swi'zerland is not satisfactory.
The Const:ttitionnel says, the demand of Lucerne, made
in the Diet on the 16th, for an indemnity led to an ani-
mated debate, which ended in a rejection, six votes only
appearing for the indemnity. All steps to induce that
canton to grant an amnesty would, it was said, fail, un-
less by money. y The Diet adjourned without
fixing a day for discussing the propositions of the com-
mission.

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 among
the rising generation of Consrrvatives—will yet
complete this great work of justice and mercy. The
prospects of Ireland never were so bright. Ste 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
sheddinz 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 into
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. IL 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,throngh 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 hss 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 amc>ndments
on the legislation of last session; simply because
Bills were then passed into law, in a condition too
crude and defective not to came them to break down
on the first attempt at practically administering them.
Intheus
of timeualcours which course, also, there
might
eht
hasavebe
beenaen
vast
much
ex-
pendituremore profitably appropriated, on the discussion of
abstract principles and general questions, such as, to the
thinking ofall 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
HONVICK, Mr. DUNCOMBE, and Mr. AGLIONBY, On
Friday night, we are compelled to infer that the
defects of the Railway Department of the Board of

E SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 21, 1845.

RAILWAY SHARES.
Versailles,• 560 .. 560 .. 550 .. 550
L. 13•••••• •••• 360 860 .. 355 .. 355
Ronen•• ••••—••••••••••••1120 . 1120 ..1110 —Edo
Rouen to Havre••••••• ..... 937 50 .. 937 50 .. 935 •• 935
Orleans
Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 320 •• 320 .. 315 .. 315
Avignon to Marseilles.• —lO5O ..1050 ..1040 . 1042 50
Bordeaux to Teste •••••••• 212 50 .. 21.2 50 .. 210 .. 211 25

RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, MAT 3.
St. Germain ••• • • • •• •.1110 ..1120 ..1103 ..1105
Versailles, R. 8.... • • ••• • • 565 .. 566 .. 552 50 .. 552 SO
L. 8.. .• •••• • • • • 360 .. 360 .. 352 50 .. 352 60
Rouen— •• •• •• •••• ••••••••1120 ..1125 ..1110 ..1110
Rouen to Havre. •••••• • • • • 940 942 50 930 .. 930
Orleans. • •
Strasburg to Bale ••••• • • • • • 320 .. 325 .. 315 315
Avignon to Marseilles •• • ...1050 ..1055 .. 1040 .. 1042 50

THIS DAY'S NEWS.

Mr. V. Lee for the plaintiff, Mr. Petersdorff for the
defendant.
This was an action brought to recover an amount of 301.
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 301. 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 101. 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 41. 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 negotiated.
On cross-examination of the defendant's son, it appeared
that he 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 retained 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 ➢Lr. 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. Objection 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 30/., 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. LEwrs) 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 large 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. Warsir called upon his Honour to adjourn the case
sine die, 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 HONOUR, 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 of
what the insolvent would then be required to prove.

Boulogne and Amiens:: 4
Bordeaux and Toulouse 2
Bordeaux, Toulouse, and
Cette
"

SOUTHWARK.-(THIS 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. He 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, he came up to
London, 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 in the situa-
tion described.
Mr. TRAILL 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.

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The sales of Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were 5,000
bales, including 1,500 on speculation. The market was very
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Birmingham and Gloucester, New SBhlaareesk,bn4ryrt;
13Ctster and Birkenhead,
;5 'Y Caledonian, 5/-
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Shares,
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13% • Churnet Valley, 9% 9/. ls. 3d. • Clydesdale Junction
110%4%;
11( Dublin;Cork a
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, ; Dublin and
Galway, 5% i; . .Dublin, lullingar, and Athlone, 31,‘ ;
Dundalk and 'nniskillen, ,1%; Eastern Counties, 21 ;
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 63%; Ditto, New Quarter Shares,
614 • Glasgow and Dumfries, 11. 4s. • Grand Junction,
2271!/, ; Ditto, Half Shares, 113 i/
/2 111 ; Ditto, Quarter
Shares, 56%; Ditto, New Quarter Shares,44l/Q 3/4 •
Ditto, Eighth Shares, 19 ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield:
6% ; :Great Southern and Western, 19% 20 ; Ditto Exten-
sion, 15% ; Great Western, Half Shares,loeie /2;Huddersfield
Canal and Railway, 41. 18s. 9d. 4% •, Huddersfield and
Sheffield, 8% ; Inverness and Elgin, 1% •
, Lancaster and
Preston, Three-quarter Shares, 33; Limerick and Waterford,
8% %; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3% ; London-
derry and Enniskillen, 3i. 17s. 6d. 334 ; London and South-
Western, New 501. Shares, 15%; London and York, 414 % ;
Direct Northern, 4 1/2 ; Leeds and Thirsk, 45/ % ; LYnn
and Dereham, 3% It; Manchester and Buxton, 5v2 ;
Manchester, Bury, and 9ssendale, 181/h
; Manchester, Shef-
field, and Midland, 9% %; Midland ailway, 1581/, 158 ;
Ditto, 40/. Shares, 1914 ; Ditto, Fifth Shares, 4 ;
Ditto,
consolidated Birminghamand Derby,
120 ;
% ;
Newark and Sheffield, 6 Newcastle and Berwick,
16% • Newry and Enniskillen, 151/8 ; North Union (A),
145; ' North Wales Mineral, 184 ; Ditto, New Shares,
6%; North Western, 5% %; North Wales, 31h%; Oxford
and Birmingham Junction, 5 4%; Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton, 1/. 18s. ; Sheffield and Manchester, 125%;
Ditto, Quarter Shares, 16%; Sheffield and Lincoln, 1%;
Shiewsbury, Wolverhampton, and Birmingham, 4% ;wes ry
Shrewsbury and Grand Junction, 6% ; Shrewsbury, Os t'. ,
and Cheshire, 43% 4/. 13s. 9d. ; South-Eastern and Dover,
New Shares, No. 1, 16% ; Ditto, No. 2, 11; Ditto, No. 3,
8%; Scottish Central, 7% 7 ; Trent Valley, 19% 204 .
Ditto, Extension, 5 6% ; West Yorkshire, 6 ; Wexford and
Carlow, 4% %; Worcester and Tring, 54% ; Whitehaven
and Furness, 31. le. 6d. 3/. Is. ; Central of France,l7 ; Lyons
and Avignon (English), 2% ; Louvain and Jemeppe, eu ;
Northern of France (English), 5% ; Ditto, Rosam'el's
(English), 21A ; Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's), 2%
21. 16s. ed. ; Ditto (Calon's), 2/. Is. 6d.; Paris and Orleans,
48%; Paris and St. Quentin, 2/. 13s. ed. 2% ; Verona and
Ancona, a Is.
There are accounts of the 9th January from Hobart Town,
which advise very unfavourable weather for the crops, a
material deficiency being fully anticipated.
is _
From the tenor of the published accounts it 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. .
Consols, and
There has been a further decline to-day in .
he some
on which
although we attach but little weight to t .
der
it is grounded, viz., an apprehension of some mistin -
standing with the United States, we _are not by any meanso
surprised at a reaction from another cause, viz., the
have
nr
temptation of railway investments. Consols
,-i b
8 for down to to 98% % for Money, and to 99 and
t 8 former,
count, and are now about 98% to 74 for
one
and 98% for the latter. The premium Ex he-
e
quer.bills has been steady at 59s •
to 61s. Nk
and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 10 Ito 1005 4. Ban w Three-
Stock has been firm at 210 to 210%. Reduced hree per
Cents. have been 98 to 97%.
by the declinein
The Foreign Securities have been affected
1
Consols. Spanish Five per Cents. have receded to 30% 4;
and the Three per Cents. to 40% Vt. Port9guese Converted
iven way to 371/,.
Stock has been 661%, %. Mexican have g . _
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.
ONE
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
.. ••••••••••""
3 per Cent. Reduced
' 4

Dijon and Mulhouse ... 2
Great North. of France.. 4 - ---- ......
Do. do. (Rosamel's) 2
Great Paris and Lyons 2 ----
Lyons and Avignon 2 —
Louvain and Jemeppe... 2 ... . 4
Orleans and Vierzon ... 2 ...... 154 1,6
Orleans and Bordeaux... 2 ...... 124 12
Paris & Lyons, Laflitte's ,
Paris and. Lyons, Gan-
neron's' ... .. ............ 2
Paris & Lyons, (Caton's) 2
Paris and Strasbourg ... 2
Paris and Rouen 2O - ......... •••..
Royal North of Spain ... 2
Sambre and Meuse ~... 2
Tours and Nantes, Mac-
kenzie's 2
JOINT STOCK BANKS.

CLOSING
PRICES
2161/2
97%
98%
'l3/

~7.,
3 per Cent. Consols ~.... ........... 99 9.8 'All/ -- ~_
100% 101 100 A is 11°°3A
New 3% per Cents
16
Long Annuities to expireJan.lB6o 11% 7-16 11 7
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 •• • 111 11 114
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 ... 11 11-16% i 5/
s
_
India Bonds, 1,000/..
74
Ditto under 1,000/. •• •• 74
South Sea Stock ............
96%
Ditto Old Annuities ............ 96%
Ditto New Annuities
Consols for Account. •..... 99% 98Ts 99
pin. 61
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., llhd. ... 59 61
Ditto 5001.
Ditto Small .• 61 59 pm. 59
ONE CLOSING
voLocK. PRICES.
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. c 44
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent.. 44
16
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela. 15% 16
983'
Chiliau Bonds 6 per Cent..., • •••••• 37 q
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 —
Ditto, Account 37 37%
Dittos Deferred

Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent ... op
Ditto, Converted. 661,6 653/
Ditto, Account 66%1/2 66
Russian Bonds , „ ...... 117%
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account
Ditto, Passive
Dilibe Deferred
Ditto 3 per Cent. 4C
Ditto Account
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent —
Ditto, Deferred 14% 143/
1 !Belgian Bonds, 4% per Cent — 1013
Dutch, 2% per Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 97% 97%
PRICES OF PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. CMSINa
RAILWAY SHARES PRICES.
Aberdeen
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush . 1% 23% 3
Birmin. and Gloucester. 100
Ditto % Shares
Bristol and Exeter 7O
Do. New .... . ......... 2 ...... St
Caledonian
Cambridge and Lincoln 1%
Chester and Holyhead... 5
Chumet Valley
Coventry, Bedworth, and
Nuneaton ll/2 5l/2 5l/2
Coventry and Leicester 11/2 3l/2 3
Cornwall
~ . 5%14 . .... .. 51
Direct Northern
Dublin and BelfastJunc 2% 11%A%
Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine
Dublin and Galway 2%.._.. 5%%%
Dublin and Mullingar... 2%
Eastern Counties
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1....51.135. 4d ll%
Ditto ditto, N 0.2 l3s. 4d...
Eastern Union l5
Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Ditto, New Quarters.. 2% 6%...... .. .....
Ely and Bedford
Great South. and West
(Ireland)
Ditto Extension
Great North of England..loo 20133/ 202 ...... 202
Ditto New 2 24%3A 24 24
Great Western BO ......190 191
Ditto 1,4 Shares 5O 106%
GDitto Fifths 20 —
uildford, Fare'm,Ports. 2%..... 6% 6
Hull and Selby
Ditto Quarter Shares 12% 231 %1/2 .. ... 23%
Do. Half Shares
L ineaster and Carlisle... 20
London and Birminghm (Stock)...
Do. New Thirds
L lndon and Blackwell. 161.135. 4d. 98% 9% 8% 914 9%
London and Brighton... 50 ...... 633/4
London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d. 17% l7l/
London and S. Western 41/6210d 813/4 .. . . .....
Do. New
London and York 21,6 3%%% 4 33/
Londonderry &Coleraine 2 A —
Lynn and Ely
Lynn and Dereham l%
Manchester and Leeds... 73
Do. % Shares
Midland 100
Do. New
Midland,Birm.,Derby 100
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction 25 . 51
Do. New Brandling... 10
Newcastle and Berwick 11/2 l5l
Newry and Enniskillen. 21/2 ..... 4%
Newark and SLeffield ... 11,4 6%1/2
North British
Do. New
Northern and Eastern... 45
Do. Scrip • 30
North Wales
Norwich and Brandon... 10
Do., New ... ..... ..... 1
Richmondand West End
Junction
Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland l%. 4%1A 4l/2
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
Dudley, and Birm 2l/2 414%... 4IA
South Devon
South Eastern & Dover 3312 s 4d... 41:
Do., No. 1 8
Do., N 0.2.
Do~ No. 3
7 3% 7l/2
Staines and Richmond-. 1
South Wales ..... -.... ... 2% 6%3/4 614
Trent Valley 2 . 20% 2O
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ..,... 41 ... .....
Yarmouth and Norwich. 20
York and North Midland 50 lO4
Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 25
Do. Extension
FRENCH RAILWAYS.

8434
83A
1214
17%
9

3%
64%
7
3

Australasia - --
40
British North American 50 .. ... 45% 4SIA
London & Westminster. 20 -
Provincial of Ireland ... 25
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE' APRIL 19.—The sales
are :—Birmingham and Gloucester, New Shares, 4% ' • Lan-
caster and Carlisle, 391,/ ; Manchester and Leeds, Sixteenth
Shares, 7% ; Manchester and Birmingham, New Quarters,
5 13-16 pm. ; North British, New Shares, 5%; Sheffield and
Manchester, Quarter Shares, 15%; South Eastern, 42% ex
div. ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction,
9% %; Blackburn, Darwen' and Bolton, 53/ ; Bolton,
Wigan, and Liverpool, 133,E ; Caledonian, 133/4 ; Clitheroe
Junction, 414
1% prem. ' • Direct Northern, 4 14 ; Glasgow and
Dumfries, 14 ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 61,4 ;
Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and'Canal, 54 ; Hud-
dersfield and Sheffield Junction, 8%; Kendal and Winder-
mere, 5 7-16; Leeds and Thirsk 4%; Liverpool, Ormskirk,
and Preston, 34 ; London and York, 44 ; Lynn and Dere-
ham, 3% ' • Manchester and Buxton, 5% 5 ; Newark and
Sheffield, 64 ; North Wales, 3% ; North Western, 54 % ;
Scottish Central, 7% ; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction,
1/. Bs. ; Trent Valley, 20 19% ; Ditto, Continuation, 4% 3/4
prem. ; Whitehaven and Furness, 3% ; Bordeaux, Toulouse,
and Cette, 23,rq ; Great Northam of France (English), ;
Union Bank of Manchester, 10%.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, APRIL 21.—Wind this day at noon, Northerly,
fresh breeze, and fine.
''''DF,AL, APRIL 19.—Several oars, white blades, and some
butter firkins, marked" Ostrfriesriscb, F.H., M. H., 42, H.G.G.,"
(Hanoverian horse), have been landed here from the galliot
lost on the Goodwin Sands.

oFF ST-% -ALBAN'S HEAD, Amu. 17.—Rebecca, Buenos
Ayres for London.
OFF THE WIGHT, APRIL 20.—Calcutta, Ross, Hobart
Town, sailed Jan. 9, and Pernambuco 14th ult.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY

CORN EXCHANGE-MONDAY

As is almost invariably the case at this period of the year,
the arrivals of English Wheat up to our market during the
past week has been on a very moderate scale, yet the various
parcels have come to hand in good saleable condition. Of
English Barley, Malt, Beans, Peas, and Flour, the receipts
have been small, but the aggregate supply of Oats has
amounted to 50,000 quarters. Fresh up, only a limited
quantity of Wheat of home produce came to band from
Essex, Kent, Lincolnshire, and Cambridgeshire; hence the
show of samples of that descriptidn of Grain was small. The
attendance of both town and country dealers being
tolerably good, the finest qualities commanded a ready
sale, at prices fully equal to those obtained on Mon-
day last. In all other kinds, a fair amount of business
was, transacted at late rates, and a clearance was effected.
From the whole of our grain districts our accounts relative
to the young wheat plants are very favourable. The supply
of fine foreign Wheat brought forward was comparatively
small. Selected parcels were in fair request, and last week's
prices were readily supported. All other kinds were in slow
request. Bonded grain was heavy. Owing to the large
imports of Barley the sale for that article was extremely
inactive, at a further depression in the quotations of is per
quarter. Malt. the supply of which was small, moved off
slowly, yet we can notice no alteration in value. Notwith-
standing the large display of Oat samples a good business was
doing, at prices about equal to those paid on this day se'nnight.
Beans and Peas, owing to their scarcity, realized a trifle more
money. The Flour trade was dull, yet the millers were firm.
CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE .
Wheat—Essex & Kent, Malt—Chevalier •• • • 648 to 65s
Red .•••• • • • • 38s to 45s Oats Yorkshire and
Ditto, White ••• • • • 42s 548 Lincolnsh., Feed. 22s 23s
Norfolk and Lin- Potatoe 243 25s
coin, Red. —• • 38s 43s Youghall and Cork,
Ditto, White . • 408 47s Black .. .
Irish, Red
Ditto, White .. —s -8 Scotch, Feed. • 22s 23e
Rye—Old ••• • • • 308 34s Beans—Tick .••. • .. 34s 36s
New. .. •. •. ••• • • • 35s 36s Pigeons 388 39s
Barley—Grinding 23s 28s Pease—Grey . 348 36s
Malting . •••• • • • 328 34s Maple 3ss 36s
Chevalier •. .. •• • • 36s —s
White . ....... . 33s 358
Malt—Suffolk and Nor-
Boilers
_

folk ...... ••• • • • 58s 63s
Brown ... .•• • • • 56s 60s
Kingston and Ware 60s —8
FOREIGN GRAIN A
Wheat—Dantzie • • 32s to 36s
Hamburgh ....... 30s —s
Barley ..... 20s 24s
Oats —New l9s 23s
Feed ...... • 19s 22s
SMITEPXELD•
In the past week three steamers have arrived in the por
of London, direct from Rotterdam, with live stock for our
market--the Batavier bringing 47, the Giraffe 10, and the
Columbine 8 Oxen and Cows, or a total of 65 head. Respect-
ing the quality of the above importations, we may observe
that it has proved extremely good ; indeed finer beasts have
not been received under the new tariff, for sale here than
those which have reached us since this day se'nnight. The
average weight of these animals has been about 116 stones
(81b). The number on offer did not exceed 17, the other
imports finding purchasers on Friday last, while they
commanded a steady demand, at full prices. We doubt
not • that every precaution is exercised at the Custom-
house to prevent the landing of diseased animals ;
still. we are fully convinced that some of the Dutch beasts.-
which were very badly on their feet—here this morning were
suffering from the effects of the go-long-complained-of epi-
demic. As to those from our own districts, we ought to ob-
serve that large numbers of them were thus affected. Al-
though the supply of Beasts from our own counties was, the
time of year considered, very moderate, and of middling
quality, compared with that brought forward on some pre-
vious market days, the Beef trade (owing principally to
the dead markets being rather heavily supplied) was by
no means so active as many persons were led to expect.
Still, however, the priinest Scots were in good request, at

Flour—Town-made .• . 42s - s
Suffolk ••••• • • • • • 33s 35s
Stocktn 8c Nortblk 333 353
13 FLOUR IN BOND.
Beans
Pease • 28s 32s
Flour—American .•• • • 19s —s
Baltic ....... .... Ids —e