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London, England, 1844-12-10 00:00:00

only mischief provoked by impertinent announce-
ments, that on such a day his Royal Highness, or
his Grace, or the Earl of This, or Sir Robert That,
repairing at an early hour to a grand battu on the
Marquis of —'s preserves, or Lord —'s woods,
" which are known to be swarming with game, and, in
the short space of three hours, with only three guns
to the party "—brought down any imaginable. num-
ber of pheasants you please, or shot more hares than
could be carried away in all the keepers' carts. A
true sportsman, who feels no pleasure in killing unless
his game have had a fair chance, who would rather
fag a whole day over a broken country to bag half-a-
dozen brace of birds, which at the close of his work
he can look upon with quiet complacency at his own
skill and energy, than knock down in well preserved
covers, with double shots right and left, poor devils
who have not a chance of escape where men have two
eyes to look, and two barrels to shoot with ; and
whose fate is equally sealed, if, flying from the random
misses of Lord HENRY, they are exposed to a volley
from half-a-dozen Honourable Masters, whose guns,
boA ever badly pointed, club one chance shot out of
their combined charges which finds the brain or the
heart of its bright-plumaged victim. Yet these six
" Honourable" bunglers, and their titled companions
of the cover, of correcter eye and steadier hand,
equally plume themselves on the wonders of their
prowess. The poor keepers and servants, the men
who load, and carry, and hand their pieces—the boys
who mark for them—the little, yaffling spaniels, whe
run on and pick up the birds for them, and whose
contributions to the products of the day are surely
mare important than their own comparatively stand-
still and mechanical operations—are never mentioned
in the grandiloquent paragraphs which announce to
an astonished world that Lord GEORGE shot the un-
heard-of number of 212 head of game with his

own gun.
In a morning paper of yesterday we find the fol-
lowing announcement, touching an illustrious gen-
tleman, who has acquired a high degree of pseudo-
reputation as " the farmer's friend," par excellence :
"The Duke of BUCKINGHAM, the Marquis of
Cuasnos, and a select shooting party, had some ex-
cellent sport during the last week. On Saturday
week. the Noble Duke and party, with nine guns,
brought down three hundred head of game on the
Noble Duke's preserves at Upper Winchindon ; and
on Monday the noble sportsmen shot over the
Westcott preserves (called Gipsey Bottom), and
with sixteen guns killed four hundred head of game.'
Here are two appeals to the obsequious admiration of
the uninitiated. The nine guns of his Grace and
f:iends in the Upper Winchindon preserves, dropped
3DO head of game; that is to say, 33 and one-third
(for the importance of such matters demands that we
should be particular to fractions) to each gun. On
a subsequent day, the Ducal fowler and his party,
being 16 guns in all, demolished 400 head of
game in the Gipsey Bottom preserves, or
25 head to each gun. Pretty fair this
account for the work per man on one property ; six
teen brace and better one day, twelve brace and a half
the next, is the average return for each gun. But
if seven hundred head of game were slaughtered in
two days only, on but two preserves of all the broad
lands of Stowe, what may we infer the. aggregate
quantity to be on all the Buckingham estates in
Bucks, Hants, &c. ? And of that vast aggregate,
what shall we reckon the daily consumption, occa-
sioned by the pillage of cottage gardens, the destruc-
tian of young corn, the barking of young trees ? Arid
let us take the accumulated amount of all this damage
in a season at as high a figure as we may, or as the
fiercest opponent of the Game-laws assumes it in
arguing against them, how molecular a point does the
social or civil wrong it involves represent, con-
trasted with the fearful sum of human misery
and suffering, of criminal excitement • and law-
less violence and murder, which is to be ascribed
to the partial protection—the arbitrary privilege,
which our code of Game-laws throws around this
-pecies of property—or, rather, the childish manner of
leafing with it. For it is the disgrace of an era of
civilisation, the shame and mockery of a country of
tree institutions, to tolerate enactments of so despotic,
insolent, and fraud-encouraging a description as
'hese. We found statutes on the book, dictated by
,he stern, unreasoning demands of a military no-
bility,. on behalf of the strongest pageinn, nrtxt tn that
~e re,p;ne, of vkiliotT -they were susceptible—conceded
Elik intimidated .r heedless national councils—con-
iyy i-ac wants or weakness of the SOVEREIGN
to his more formidable Barons, and the armed
readatories of his Crown, and submitted to by the
people implicitly, or with murmurs and reluctance in
proportion as they were brought to understand, or
were able to vindicate the rights derived from their
.ncestors. In the process of time we thus got rid of
the most odious of the forest laws, with their san-
guinary penalties of mutilation and death. Iron
penalties they were, decreed, indeed, by iron-hearted
men, but against bold outlaws and fearless foresters,
who—

" Through each deep dingle of the forest hoar,
Chased the fleet hart, or spear'd the savage boar,"
A ith bold front and open hand. If "fere nature "
were then, as they have since been declared, chattels
in which property could be lawfully established, it
must be confessed that our ancestoral lords of the soil_
had their plea for the vengeance they visited upon its
violation ; namely, that it was invaded in a most waste-
ful and wanton manner. In those good times when
"stout Earls" were subject to such impromptu excite-
ments as to vow upon the Cross "to take their plea-
.ure" in the "woods" of other stout Earls on the oppo-
site side of the Border, with a somewhat sign4capt
escort of "full five hundred fighting men," it was na-
tural for the party so threatened with such un-
bidden guests to tremble for the safety of other
possessions besides his venison. But we moderns have
not the excuse to be pleaded for our forefathers. 'We
legislated in the year of grace 1843 for the honour
and glory and monopoly of a mere caprice, with as
much of grim coolness and relentless severity as those
forefathers would have done in 1348 for the mere
reverential approaching of the Holy Rood. We
have surrounded the game with penal and specific
statutes that we deny to the protectors of human life,
or limb, or property—against the great bulk of the
people. Yet we have done so only to secure the de-
struction of that game, and their mutilation in mem-
bers to a privileged class. We visit with detestable
penalties of fine, imprisonment, and transportation,
offences of trespass against game by reason of no cer-
tificate qualification to sport ; by reason of snaring,
shooting, or otherwise taking game off the lands
on which it is found. Yet we legalise the sale
of game, where the commodity is supplied
by, or with the consent of, the landed owner
to the retail dealer. Thus, we give a premium, be-
sides holding out a temptation, to the midnight spolia-
tions of the poacher. The poacher thinks, perhaps,
that it is hard for titled fowlers to be at liberty to
knock on the head 700 hares and pheasants in two
days, which they may sell—if they please—for, say,
one shilling a piece, anti though he has no chance of
getting 35/. in two days, he thinks it would be plea-
sant to make 355. in two or three "cloudy nights,''
by helping himself from their assumed stock—there
to-day, here to-morrow. The owner grants depu-
tations to gamekeepers. These come into bloody
collision with thdpoachers. Outrages, assaults, mur-
ders follow in the train of the hatred thus engendered
between the two classes of men. Our gaols swarm
with poachers for trial; our hulks with poachers
convicted ; our penal settlements with poachers,
who have taken some further but inevit-
able degree in crime. Deserted families, ruined
households, abandoned callings, desolate wives,
u- fathered children, loss of liberty, loss of life, the
reprobation of friends, the rejection of society, despe-

ration, new excesses of crime, new criminal associa,

tions to incite to them—desolation, vengeance, and
despair—these are the daily gathered fruits of laws to
which no man who upholds them attributes any pur-
pose of benefit beyond securing to the aristocracy the
schoolboy, unsportsmanlike, paltry pleasure of exter-
minating game, on high days and holidays, with as
little trouble or art as if the birds were barn•door
fowls, or geese grazing on a village-green. But
justice does not sleep ! Oh, no ! She has a
" red right arm " for the poacher, it is true—
though on a balance of the good effected by

has accorded to him ; and with this hand justice exacts
from the brutal delinquent—a 51. note! Verily this
cannot be that old justice which was used to be " even-
handed."

the offence of the one, or the injury perpetrated by

A report appears to be gaining ground in many
well-informed commercial quarters that the Govern-
ment are not indisposed to revise the laws regulating
the importation of foreign corn. We have heard that
a majority in the Administration think favourably of
a measure having for its object to extinguish the
whole complex and clumsy machinery of the " sliding-
scale," with its relative ranges of prices and duties,
and to establish, in its stead, a low
_fixed duty per
quarter. In reference to any fixed duty on foreign
corn our own opinion would be pretty much de-
termined by the sole question of its amount. If it be
high, it is clearly objectionable in the worst feature of
the existing protective system ;—its avowed direct
tendency to make bread dear. If it be low—it has
this, among the benefits which would result from the
repeal of that system—that, at least, under certain
conditions, and at certain seasons, its direct tendency
would be to make bread cheap. This consideration
will doubtless be deemed of high importance by that
great national body to whose indomitable efforts and
persevering energy, in moving the people as one man
to insist on the repeal of a species of class-legislation
which artificially enhames the price of the first neces-
sary for human subsistence in this country—we have
ever given our humble, but consistent and hearty
support. The very able exponents of their views
have always contended, and with truth, that any
import duty on foreign grown corn would operate
as, pro tanto, a protection to the home grower;
and being, on principle, absolutely opposed to
the doctrine of protection, they repudiate the sort of
compromise or middle term involved in a fixed duty.
But we may be forgiven for suggesting a doubt how:
far the soundness of this conclusion may be modified
by the reflection that the premises may not be neces-.
sarily or universally true. If the foreign grower will
not meet the English consumer on equal terms, for
' instance ; if it be not certain that to open our ports to
the unrestricted admission of his produce would be to
secure an unrestricted market in his for our menu-
factures; then a low import duty on his corn may
prove not merely a salutary means of compensating
our own trade for the burdens so imposed on it by
the foreign customer, but it will meanwhile raise a
revenue more or less considerable in proportion to the
extent of our corn imports, by the agency of an indi-
rect tax, light in amount on our own home consumer,
and inexpensive in its levy. The great objection, of
course, remains to this plan which ever arises where
it is attempted fo compromise a principle, the abstract
truth of which is admitted on all hands. A compro-
mise amounts to as virtual an abandonment of such a
principle as its distinct repudiation. The principle is,
that bread should not be taxed. A fixed duty does
not cure the negative fact that it does tax bread, by
the important qualification it' carries with it—indi-
rectly and lightly. But can we afford to act upon
the simple, unmodified principle, if the party (the
foreign grower) in whose favour, as well as our own,
we raise it, will not concur with us in those com-
mon bases of reciprocity on which, alone, we can
act upon it virithont one-sided injury and prejudice
to ourselves? But experience and time, we may be
answered, will surely bring our foreign customer to
see his own true interest in dealing with us on this
basis of honest reciprocity. From what authority
shall we collect the period at which such a consum-
mation will take place ? It is not in the nature of
things to devise any infallible method of arriving at
this information ; but we are making progress to such
a conclusion.. We believe it. And because we can-
I not get at the when this state of things will arrive,
shall we hesitate any longer to endeavour to accele-.
rate it ? If we cannot now get at the all, which its
advent would "give us, shall we reject the part which
a fixed duty would immediately realise ? The repeal
of the Test and Corporation Acts, and the removal
of Roman Catholic Disabilities, were won by instal-
ments. Had nothing been taken on account, in the
one case, before Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S sweeping
measure of repeal, and nothing previously gained,'
on the other, in the great work of expunging penal
and disabling statutes, when Sir ROBERT PEEL pro=
pounded the- Emancipation measure cf 1829 to the-
!louse of Commons, the two Houses of the Legisla-
tnra might now have been quarrelling whether or
not Quakers could ne
under certain circumstances ; or whether Dr. NI`HALB
had not incurred the penalties of a prcemunire by the
ceremonial assumption of archiepiscopal rank with-,
out the walls of his own church. Had the spirited
introducer and champions of the Reform Bill gone,'
at once, and without having acquired previous con-
cessions, in many Parliaments, to the demand for a
better system of representation and greater purity of
election, they might have been in this cold weather
unprofitably citing abuses of the most flagrant en-
ormity to a discontented and unenfranchised auditory,-
under the one oak tree beneath which, in good old
times, the one burgess of the Old Sarum used to
elect the other one burgess of the New, Member for
his borough, on the equitable reciprocation of that
complement by' New Sarum to himself, as her dele-
gate. It may be good policy, after all, to take a
part where we cannot get the whole ;—and we can
always wait for the balance. •

Madrid journals of the Ist instant have been re
ceived, from which we regret to find that the rnur
derous system of shooting men without trial is stil

persevered in by the NARVAEZ Government. FELI:
CIANO ZURBANO, the eldest son of General ZURBANO,
I*-AltlOt at Logrono on the 28th, alpng with Captain
13ALiANAS, ZURBANO'S secretary, and a third person,
whose name .is not mentioned. These unfortunate
victims had surrendered voluntarily. The Govern-
ment, it was belieired, had decided on bringing to
court. martial General BATONAS, Captain General of
Burgos.; and General ORIBE, Commandant of the
province of Logrono, for not more promptly executing
the orders they had received for the execution of such
of ZURBANO'i band as might fall into their bands.

MADRID BOURSE ON THE 30T11.—Three per Cents.;
for cash, 30; for ACcount, 30 1-16; Five per Cents:
for Account, 21/.

We are glad to find the Paris Opposition journals
daily displaying less animosity against England, and
directing the attention of the French nation, more
especially the trading community, to the decayed
state of their mercantile navy, the commercial treaties
formed by their • neighbours in a spirit of peace and
equality,, and the necessity of a more liberal system,
both foreign and domestic, to place the commerce of
France on a footing with that of Germany and Eng-
land. This is noble rivalry, and infinitely more ad-
vantageous to the glory and greatness of France
than hundreds of victories, which only waste human
life, and in a few years generally leave affairs as they
were at first. The Constitutionnel of Saturday has
an article on the commerce of Prussia, Holland, and
Belgium, as compared with that of France; and after
showing the vast increase which has taken place in
the exports and imports of the latter country, adds :
" Thus we. are menaced and outrivalled on all sides.
Treaties are concluded without our concurrence, and
we daily see our neighbours coming into redoubtable
competition, without; its being possible for us to be-'
come particiPators in any just proportion in this
movement, which interests in so high a degree the
produce of our country, that is to say, the prosperity
of our manufactures and commerce,"
The National too has an excellent article on the
obstruction to trade in France, among which it
reckons quarantine, and the octroi duty (town dues) ;
and, it might add, the obnoxious and useless system
of passports. That journal thus vividly describes the•
injury done to French commerce, and recommends
the Government to imitate the example of Eng-
land :

the tleasures of the other, it may be a grave question
whether the poacher is not much more the farmer's

friend than the Duke. But justice has also a hand
for the ruffian whose brutal violence breaks a woman's

pidity 4' circulation. These reflections are certainly
just, but they ought, we think, to be applied to matt. rs
constantly passing before our eyes. Every day, nay,
every hour, at the entrances to Paris, there may be seen
vehicles loaded with goods, travellers, and merchants,
obliged to undergo veritable quarantines, and that with-
out any fear of contagion serving as a pretext. A
vehicle, for instance, proceeding from Meux to Paris,
takes about four-hours to effect: this distance. When
it has so far advanced as to arrive at the Barriire de Is
Villette, it is detained an hour, mid thus its journey is
prolonged a fifth. It is the same, and even worse, for
all the articles brought to Paris each morning. The
unfortunate drivers are obliged to leave home three or
four hours sooner than would be necessary without
the octroi, and are forced to piss a part of the night
fully exposed to the inclemency of the season, until the
unfortunate moment arrives when it shall please the
octroi-officer-to poke his examining lance into the load.
Everymorning several thousand individuals lose in thisway
a considerable 'portion- of their time, and that without
any profit to any one. There is in this a clear loss for
them and for society. Our octroi 'system, which forces
citizens to stop.on the road at the moment of arriving at
the and of their journey, and sabjects them to the visits
of a crowd of agents, costing large sums to keep up, will
Certainly one day pass for a mark of barbarism, doing
but little honour to our times. There is not a single
Observation justly addressed to lazarettos that cannot
be applied with greater reason .to these fiscal citadels
established round Paris. Our neighbours, who are cited
as a proof of the neemity of suppressing quarantines,
have perceived that it was absurd to maintain amongst
them the entrance duties which weigh so heavily on our
commerce. It is time to imitates them, and to put an end to
a state of things; ,the most manifest result of which is to
harass the citizens, to cause a great loss of time, to cause
a prejudice to merchandise, and to offer a premium to
fraud."

The Presse, which has an article on a similar subject,
praises -the new tariff, and adds But it must not
be forgotten that measures of this nature are incom-
plete as•long as the general legislation of the country
favours the two, most powerful navies in the world.
The day on which the evil is to be attacked in its root
the. Government must determine to strike a more de-
cisive bfow. Whilst waiting-for this moment, which
we trust will soon arrive, we must applaud every act
of the Government which ' indicates a tendency to-
wards that complete reform, and we are certain that
the ordinance published in the Moniteur will be hailed
with satisfaction in all our seaports." The Constitu-
tionnel says, it is the intention of Ministers, if chances
are not against them to dissolve the Chamber at the
close of the approaching session, and, among ether
,reasons for this step, gives the following :—" The
Km,- fortunately, has the strongest health and the
most robust constitution, and his reign will-, without
doubt, be prolonged for many years. It is, however,
only a matter of prudence that the Chamber should
alwayi have three sessions to run, in order that, if an
event, which. is probably very distant, but which
ought always to be provided for, should bring on a
change in the reigning prince, a sufficiently consider-
able period should elapse before the time of a general
election. It ought therefore, it is alleged, to be laid
down as a principle of prudence, that, unless under
grave circumstances, the - Chamber for the future
should be dissolved, not after" the fourth session, but
after the third ; and this rule is, it is said, to be ap-
plied to the present Legislature."
The peaceful 'demonstrations of the war party in
France, which are responded to by one of the organs
of that class in England, has afforded the Journal des
Debats an occasion for a humorous article. After
noticing the reconciliation, it says
" Delightful harmony ! Behold our politicians, our
journalists, who, during the last four or five years, have
been exhausting"themselves in looking out in the dic-
tionary for, anal using all the polemical terms they could
find, and sometimes others much stronger, for their
mutual accusations of lightness, stupidity, ambition, and
thirst for war; who, were we to have listened to them,
would have made us believe that not only Europe but
the world was on the. point of. being put to fire and the
sword. Behold them, suddenly taking the fancy to re-
fit ct and discovering—shall we not say to their own great
surprise—that they are not so malignant as they were
thought to be. What would you have ?' says one
party:. We thought you were going to play the part of
Napoleon—that you intended to take. Antwerp, the left
hank of the Rhine, and even,- perhaps, Ireland ! On
hearing yeu roar so loud, we were afraid you wanted
to eat us up !' No, no,' replies the other, 'Don't be
afraid, -we do. not wish to. hurt you. We certainly
now and then sing the Marseillaise, but it is all in
joke. In the ebullitions of our eloquence we retain
our knowledge of the world and its affairs; in the bile of
our pamphlets there is always-a sentiment of truth. We
thought you wished to thweFt and humiliate us. It is
no such thing. • Let us come to an understanding. Give
us your hand, for we now know what you mean. We
often find in certain fabulous romances,how two knights-
errant-meet in a fog, or in an enchanted forest, with their
sis•a•s Ihwered, had without even taking time to demand
their respective names, or'- to regard their device or
i..u.atehten they vi4afll attack each
in mortal 6arnnat, and then,`euntig.-moment of ht,sita-
tion, they raise their visors, look each other in the face,
and find that the two fierce combatants are brothers in
arms, the best friends in the world—Orestes and P:,..lades,
Damon and Pythias, Nisus .and Euryalus—upon
they embrace, execrating tbeir mistake. Such an ad-
Venture or mischance has, it appears, occurred to M.
Thiers and Lord Palmerston. ' During four years Europe
was a spectator of the battle of thole two champions. The
two 'Parliaments resounded 'with the heroic blows which
they dealt each other. But a fine day arrives, the fog clears
off; the two champions wipe-their eyes, and regard each
other. .M. Thiers recognises Lord Palmerston, and
Lord Palmerston recognises M. Thiers. There is a
moment of surprise ! The encounter lasted so long, it
was so rude in appearance at least, that the unhappiness
of the two Champions may easily be imagined. But 1.4
us not feel any alarm ; neither of the knights
alone were ightshayebee
The
kintnilohetes were public
fighting seriously.
de-
ceived,killed or
who woubnedlieedv. believed
The simple people believed it was a tragedy, whilst it
was only
comedyin fire acts. ' It appears that we are
nowthe fifth act, and that the piece ought to
witnessing
conclude, like every well-arranged comedy, with a ge-
neral-explanation and reconciliation. An explanation
is made, the mystery is cleared up, and all parties em-
brace. This is the spectacle which we are now witness-
ing. The two great statesmen of 1840 are lavishing all
kinds of endearing epithets on each other through the
medium of their respective organs."
THE BOURSE--SATURDAY, DEC. 7.
.41rat-
-o.w. Highest:, k,vrest Lam
• erica: . ?rice. Pries.
French FiireperiCents•• •• •• 120 20... 120 50 •• 120 25 .• 120 25
108
35 ..
1:83 55 ..
108
30 .. 108 40
lienk oflFraziee •• 8200 .".3210 ..8200 ..3203
LaMtte BARti,l,ooof. ShareellCo —llOO . • 1100 .. 1100
5,0001.• SharessoBo ..5080 ..5080 ..5080
Belgian BAAL •••••• • • • • • • 590 .. 590 .. 590 .. 590
1841.... llOO ..1100 ..1100 ..1100
Belgian Fives.4B4o .• ••• • • • 1024 • • 1031 • . 1031 • . 1034
Two-and-a-Half— .• 61 85 .. 62 .. 61 85 .. 62
Spanish Threes •••• • • .. 364 364 .. 361 .. 364
Portuguese Five per cents • • 551 654 56
Seapolit4n...••••••••• • •• 98 90 .. 98 90 98 50 .. 98 50
butch,Two •• 641 .. 641 .. 641 . 641
Ronan 1049' .. 1041 .. 1041 .. 1041
RAILWAY SWARM
yergailles.R.B.•• .. •• •• 453 50 •• 457 50 .. 456 25 .. 456 25
L.B.—•••• •••• •• 327 50 .. 328 75 .. 325 .. 325
Roues.... .. •• •• • •1030 . 1030 ..1030 ..1030
•Ronen to Havre.••• 793 75 .. 793 75 -. 793 76 .. 793 75
Orleans •••••
Strasburg Bale•••• 2••••• 292 51 .. 295 . 292 50 .. 292 SO
Avignon to Marseilles•••••• 927 3(1 .. 927 50 .. 927 se .. 927 50
• " RAILWAYS FOR THE. ACCOUNT. Dac. 16.
St. Germain ..... .....••••• 980 ....NM 75 .. 980 .. 980
Versailles;-MB•••• ••
7.B••••••••••• 327 50 . 336 .. 325 .. 327 50
Roues ••••..•• •• •••• •;••_••1030 ._..1030 ..1025 ..1037 50
Rouen to Havre.• •••• •• •• •• 793 75 .. 793 75 .. 791 25 .. 791 75
Orleans ••••••••••••••1067 50 ••1070 ..1067 50 ..1065
strasaure to,Bale•••• ••••••••291 25 .. 295 .. 291 25 .. 293 75
Avignon to Marsoille4•••• •• 927 60... 930 .. 927 50 .. 927 50

arm, even at the humble feast which her hospitality

" Three days back some just reflections were given in
a Conservative journal on the quarantine system, which
is so rigorously applied in our ports, and which causes a
considerable prejudice to our maritime relations with the
East. It is very right, without doubt, to fear the plague,
and to take precautions against it ; but those which we
take ai-e exaggerated, and the neighbouring nations, who
hare profited better than we by the advance of science,
are gradually obtaining exclusive possession of the Me-
diterranean, for the simple reason that a long preventive
imprisonment is not required in their ports as in ours.
Therefore travellers and goods coming from the
Levant prefer the line of Trieste to that of Marseilles,
and, strangely enough, the journey from Alexandria to
France is sometimes effected more quickly by passing
to England than by landing at Toulon. This places us in
a state of real inferiority, and it is difficult to compre-
hend how such a state of things can be persisted in,
w hen it adds at least ono or two weeks to a passage
of a few days, and this when all nations are devis-
ing means of augmenting in every possible way ra-

Tilt SUN, LONDON, TUES,DAY AIOrtAING, DECEMBER 10, 1844.

FF A.N Df.RS :NIL Ili..

BaussELs, s.—CunilL Mt,uriee Dietri:Atslein,
who is appointed Ambassador of Austria to the Court
cf St. James's, has already left Vienna, to repair to his
new post, passing through Brussels, to deliver to our
King his letters of recal. •
The price of corn again fell in Wednesday's market at
Brussels. This tendency to decline, which has lately
taken place in the markets of the country, is attributed
to the large importation of corn, from abroad.
The ste•Am-b:.7at between Antwerp and Bull will cease
to run after the sth of December.

The French post•office received last year 114,200,000
!otters, of which 3,200,000 remained as dead letters.
The 111 millions delivered produced a gross receipt of
41,569,200 francs.

The Post-office distributed also above sixty millions
of printed papers, &c., which yielded a receipt of
2,400,000 francs.
BRUSSELS, Dk•.c. 6.—We learn from Waterloo that
the house of the keeper of the Monument has been de-
stroyed by fire; ,it was the property of. the Government,
and was worth 6,000 francs. The furniture, &c., de-
stroyed was worth 1,200 francs.
The debates on` the budgets almost always produce,
from the chiefs of the several departments, promises of
amelioration, which it is as well to notice, in order to
call to mind when opportunity offers. In the discussion
of the budget of the finance department, a great deal was
said of the necessity of organising, in a definitive manner,
the services of the several ministerial departments.
The central section had already expressed its wishes on
this point. The Minister of Finance said, that he
should shortly present to the King a plan for the general
organisation of his department. To a question of M.
Osy, M. Mercier replied that he . was persuaded that
his colleagues' intended likewise to submit similar plans
for their respective departments to the King.
RBLGIAN FUNDS.—Bavegni, Dic. I.
Actua Debt, 234 per Cent.,
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent . .. ......
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent.
Three per Cent...........
Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ......
(1840)..... .... . . 111
1844.. ••••••••••••• ••••••••••••••••.••••••••••• 102
Loan of City, 1513, Four per 102

Society of Ccimmerce. Four and a Half per Cent.
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent
iSSUe of

—Brussels Paper*, Dee. 7.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.VIHNNA, Nor 30
Flee per Cents. ....... I IS%
Four per Cents. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 000000000000000000 ISO
Three per Cerits. t 75
sank Share/ •••‘...•••••••••••••••••••••soi.•••••••••••••••• •••••• 16•46
Lnan, 00000 . oo ••••••••••
Dittes, 1830
`Esterhaty's Loan ...

RAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand... ....... 168%
Gloggititz ...........«...».«.r 111••••••••••14,0 •••• 1194
Milan .......... •••••••••••• 0000000 selleill.i•••••••;;;111••• 111
—Ai lgemeine Zeitisni, Dec. S. - •

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
LONDON, DEC. 9.—Wind. N.E., fresh breeze, and
cloudy. There was a slight fall of snow at 10 P.M. on
Sunday night.
DEAL, DEC. 7.—Wind E.S.E ' strong breeze. 8. E.,
strong.—Arrd. Caroline,. Lovett, St. John's, New Bruns-
wick. Sld. Jane, Cape of Good Hope ; William Bryan,
Sierra-Leone ; Lady Sarah, Bayley. Jamaica.
PORTSMOUTX, DEC. 7.—Wind E., fresh breeze. 8.
E.N.E, fresh breeze.—Arrd. Bangalore, London, and
sailed for China ; Bombay, London, and sailed for
Mauritius and Bombay.
SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 7.—Arrd. Iberia steamer, Malta:

PLYMOUTH, DEC. B.—Wind E.N.E., strong.--Arrd.
Brooksby, Thomson, Manilla, Louth, , and Caroline,
Orwell, New Orleans ; Diadem, and Barstow, Charle-
ston, both for Havre.
NEWHAVEN, DEC. !S.—The Theodore Beline, from
Dantzic, which was ashore to the eastward of the pier,
4th inst., has been got off; and into the harbour without
apparent damage. Arrd. Hymen, Callao. Sld. Prins
Carl, Cape and China ; Lochlibo, New Orleans.

FALMOUTH, DEC. 7 AND B.—Wind E., fresh gales and
squally.—Arrd. Rambler, Hutchison, Ichaboe and Per-
nambuco ; Queen, Watson, St. John's, New Brunswick,
for Hull. Sld. Linnet packet, Madeira, &c. Off, Stokesby,
St. John's, New Brunswick ; Asia, of London, Quebec ;
Britannia, of LOndon, Green Island.

OFP THE'IIIZARD, DEC. s.—Glenlyon, New Orleans.
GUERNSEY, DEC. 7.—Sld. St. George, Demerara.
LIVERPOOL, DEC. 7.—A direlect timber-laden barque,
dismasted , and -.with bows stove,, with the letters
" —een,” on,the stern, supposed to belong to Aber-
deen, was passcd- on the 22d ult., in lat. 50, lon. 22, by
the George, arrived here. Bth. The. Saucy Jack, from
Montreal, was-in contact last night off the Crosby light-
ship, with an outward bound steamer, lost bulwarks,
head, cutwater, and the steamer lost her mainmast.
Montezuma, Lowber, New York• ; George, Finch, St.
John's, New Brunswick. Sid. 7. Tyrer. Bombay ;
Helen and La Belle, Barberie, Ichaboe ; Waterville,
Moate Video; Eliza Kincard, Rio Janeiro ; Reliance,
Clara, Chieftain, Laucal, Victory, and Warren Hastings,
New Orleans ; Helen and Henry Gardner, Mobile ;
Jupiter, Charleston ; Margaret, Newfoundland. 8. Sir
Henry Hardinie, Calcutta ; Stirling; Ichaboe ; Xanifa,
Barbadoes ; Pallas, New Orleans; Satellite, Mobile ;
Howard, Savannah. Off, Leila.
GREENOCK, DEC. 7.—A violent shock, as if from an
oarthquake, on striking on a rock was experienced on
the 21st ult., in lat. 42, lon. 29, by. the Thalestris, ar-
rived in the Clyde.
UOWESTOFf, DEC. B.—The Triune, in ballast, ladan
with barley, went ashore on Ness Point this afternoon,
and is expected to become a wreck. The Albion,
%Voolner, ashore on Gunton Beach, bas fallen out to
seaward, and it the present weather continues (a violent
-11.1T.u.) „In prtrosuly go
SWANSEA„DEc. 7.—Sid. Mary Burck, Cuba.
LEITH, DEC. 7.—Sld. Kestril, Bahia.

SJIEILDS, . DEC. 6.—Sld. Johanna, Buenos Ayres.
7. Adeline, Sierra Leone. The Terra de Fea, Balone,
of Dunkirk, bound to Marseilles, broke adrift last night,
and went on the Inner Sand,-but came off the follow-
ing tide.

Coax, DEC. s.—Arrd. Zephyr, Carpenter, Benin, 16
Aug. 24, Fernando Po, Sept. 5 ; Emma, Kemp, Coast of
Africa; Sir H. Huntley, Prince Edward's Island ;
Syrian, Miramichi; Vesper, Dalhousie, Oceana, Quebec;
Victory, Newfoundland. Off, 5. Roseanna, Crighton,
lehaboe. 6. Arrd. Sirion, Cann, Miramichi.
BENIN, SEPT. s.—Arrd. Peru, Eskeldson, Orozambo,
late Watts, Benin; Snow, Oscar, Henderson, Highfield;
Marquis of Abercorn, sld. Aug. 24; Bahias, Ichaboe.
FEIINAPDO Po, SEPT. 4.—Sld. Warrior, Ichaboe.

SIR HENRY POTTINGER —Nearly the whole of the
tickets for the Liverpool banquet to Sir Henry Pot-
tinger have been sold off, and the subscriptions for the
Liverpool testimonial to the distinguished Baronet are
on the increase. Accommodation can only be afforded
at the banquet for 392 gentlemen. The subscriptions
for the testimonial exceed 1,0001. In Manchester the
subscription exceeds 2.350 L, and the banquet in that
town is fixed for the 20th instant. The Mayor of Man-
chester will preside on the occasion. A suggestion has
been thrown out that the whole of the funds collected in
London, Liverpool, and Manchester should be united,
with the view of presenting Sir Henry with a testi-
monial of surpassing magnificence ; but we believe it is
a suggestion not very likely to be adopted.--Liverpool
Albion.
Lady Henniker, whose accoucheatent took place at
Thornham-hall, Suffolk, on the-4th inst., is, with her
infant daughter, going on very favourably.
THE VERT REV. THE DEAN OF GLAscow.—We
are happy to lern that this much respected clergyman
has recently received an additional testimony of the es-
timation
in which he is held by the members of his con-
gre,.:ation in, the shape of a very beautiful baptismal
font, which has been placed in his church in Paisley, by
Mrs. Lee HarieY, of Castle Semple, and which com-
pletes the interior requisites of their beautiful place of
worship. The •font is of grey freestone, from the neigh-
bourhood of Troon, and is of an octagonal form, resting
on a triple base, and ornamented at the top by a range
of quatrefoils. This mark of regard is the more grati-
fying, as the whole of the interior ornaments of the
church are'the gifts of private individuals.—Edinburgh
Observer.

?9-

REPEAL 'OF THE MALT-TAX.—On Saturday, a
meeting of 'the agriculturists'of Surrey, was held at the
Town-hall, Croydon, for the purpose of taking into con-
sideration the malt-tax, and of adopting measures to ob-
tain its repeal. Among the gentlemen present were C.
Bleanden, Esq., of Coulsden (chairman) ; IL Rowland,
--- Esq., of Coulsden ; Mr. Willes ; Mr. Gutteridge; T. L.
GREAT LEAGUE MEETING' AT LEEDS.—One of Robinson, Esq.; Mr. Week, of Woodcote; Messrs. Cox,
the most enthuilastic meetings of free-trade electors ever Washbourn, Turner, Streeter, Stenning, Beynam, T,Ellman ; Messrs. W. and J. Russell, Mr. J. Drummond,
held in Leeds, took place at the Music-hall on Wednes-
The
day evening. Alderman Stansfield in the chair. and a number of the other principal farmers of the dig-
object of the meeting was to hear addresses from Richard trict. Resolutions to petition for the repeal of the malt-
Cobden, Esq., M tax were adopted..P., and John Bright, Esq., M.P., on THE WEATiteit.—A decided change has taken place
the best means of adding to the strength of the free-trade
party in the'West Riding.
.'The meeting wasconvened in the weather since Tuesday last. Previous to that we
by circular, signed by Hamer Stansfield, Esq.,Ch
had a succession of fine mild days, but on 'Wednesday a
of the Free-trade Committee ; and notwithstanding that airman
keen frost set in, which still continues with unabated
Only Stich persons as were most likely to qualify for the severity. The thermometer has been ranging from 25
to 30 degrees. The hills and fields are covered with
West Riding were invited, the extensivecompletely saloon,filled thde
hoar frost as with a mantle of snow, and all the shallow
Was'le d . ; and
brooks and ponds are, of course, completely frozen over.
judlargestging
fr publicoin
tbs room i n
enthusiasm LeeLee Leeds, ,
which
reva.i dur_ing thet
It is almost needless to say that in such weather the
eunciation of the plans of the League, in the enlooqubeunt
condition of the ill-fed and poorly clad portion of our
speeches of Mr. Cobden and Mr. Bright, we
.can t
population cannot be otherwise than miSerable.—Scots-
man of Saturday.
' f free trade in this district.---Leeds Mercury.
cause o
THE WEATHER.--The moderns, ' in imitation of
Sir William Middleton has let 20 acres of land
infer thtit a most important stimulus was given to the
the wise men of ancient days, have a propensity for
drawing auguries from the movements of birds, and
rents varying from 1/. to 2/. an acre. many prophesies, founded on ornithological observations,
THE BAPTISTS.—Last evening the Right Hon. have, recently, been put forth touching the quality of
among the cottagers of Great and Little Livermore, the
Lord Teynham preached at the Baptist's Chapel, Myr- the present winter. Some difference of opinion amongst
tle-street, to a preached and respectable congregation. the feathered tribes, however, caused the prophets no
His Lordship has been some months in Ireland, and is
now on his way from Dublin to London.—Liverpool little perplexity, for while the geese, who have no
Al- great reputation for sagacity, appeared, by their south-
blue of Monday.
ward flight, to insist that old winter was hastening
THE PALAIS ROYAL.
in the world to which there attaches speedily hither, certain crows were reported to be con •
trtlams se
st hseor there is
roan}'
and loe as luiet yil
strutting nests, as if in anticipation of mild airs and
varied associations of interest and curiosity, both social cloudless skies. The crows, though deemed clever birds
and historical, as. the paiaii Royal, and in no era of in their way, have been proved to be less weatherwise
French history are the germs of those associations more than the geese, for we hear from all quarters of low
thickly sown than in that of the Fronde—when Bourbon thermometers and biting frosts. In this vicinity the frost
was arrayed in civil warfare against Bourbon—father set in, last week, with great severity, and the increasing
-against son, brother against brother, and even lover ice on the ponds was re garded by skaters of all classes
against mistress, and friend against friend. That the
and ages with extreme satisfaction. Nor were they dis-
announcement, therefore, of an historical romance b,,-, appointed in their anticipations, for though the frost
longing. to that period, and bearing the title of "THE : oni-
s set in fairly on Wednesday, yet such was its
PALMS ROYAL," should have excited unusual curiosity, 1
Severity, that even as early as .Friday, the ice
was not to be wondered at ; and the publicae,on of the i tad attained considerable thickness, and on Sa-
work has not disappointed the expectations it raised. J
i ttirdav it was so solid that the skaters were
The principal characters that figure in it are among the enabled to pursue. their invigorating recreation without
most remarkable of their age . and countrK. Some of the slightest apprehension. The waters of Sefton
them, such as Condtli—le grand Condi— lazarin, De meadows, which offer a beautiful extent of skating sur-
Retz, and TurEune—arnongsf the most remarkable of face, are completely frozen over, and
.numbers who de-
modern times ; and the secondary ones, sucli as Anne of light to enjoy the exercise in perfection have resorted
Austria, the Duchess de Chesteuse, the Duke of Beau. thither. The cold, during the last few days, has been.
fort, the Duke of Orleans, ace, &c., are perhaps still more intense. The extreme depression of the thermometer,
fitted than their greater contemporaries for the purposes on Tuesday night, was 29, on Wednesday night 27, on
of the novelist. The novel is replete with spirited and Thursday 23, on Friday 21, and yesterday morning the
stirring pictures of the times and the events which have mercury sunk as low as 20. At nice o'clock yesterday
given it birth, and it will be read with eager interest : morning it was 26, and, at three in the afternoon, 30.
wherever works of this nature find their way. I Liverpocl Albion of Monday.

Y

CITY, MONDAY EVENING.

The English Stocks have gone up again this afternoon,
Consols having attained the high price of 1001 f for the
Opening, without the dividend. Exchequer Bills were
58s. premium ; and New Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents. remained firm at 103.

Spanish were heavy at 241- for the Five per Cents.,
and 36i for the Three per Cents.; Portuguese Con-
verted were quoted 56 to ; Russian were 1194 to 4;
and Dutch Five per Cents. brought 99k.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have
been these :—Bristol and Exeter were 11 ; Cambridge
and Lincoln, ; Churnet Valley, 14 to 1 ; Edinburgh
and Glasgow, 12; Great Southern and Western (Ire-
land), 34; Great North of England, 21 ; Ditto, New,
12 to *; Birmingham, 120 ; Ditto, Thirds, 361; Ditto,
Quarters, 241 to 23/ ; South-Western, 444; Croydon,
2i ; Lynn and Ely, 14; North British, 4; Northen and
Eastern, 124; ; Richmond and West-End Junction, 14;
Rugby, 4; Trent Valley, 7 to 6/; York and North Mid-
land, 524; Orleans and Vierznn. 94 ; and Orleans and
Bordeaux, 44 premium. South Devon were at par;
London and Westminster, 64 • Union of Australia, 2 ;
Ditto, New, ; and Union of London, 24 premium.
We have not yet heard of the West India mail, but
some information is expected to-morrow. It is proper
to observe that it is only just due.
- (From The Sun of Last Night.)
There was an extensive demand for Cotton at Liver-
pool on Saturday, and prices had a firmer appearance.
Sales, 9,000 bales, one half of which were taken on spe-
culation.—The principal Railway Shares continued in
request, but the more speculative were little inquired for.
Eastern Counties, 134; Ditto, Perpetual, No. 1,91 s. 10d.;
Grand Junction, 220; Ditto, Half Shares, 1104; Great
Western, Fifths, 28; Liverpool and Manchester, 211 12;
Ditto, New, 37 ; London and Birmingham, Quarter Shares,
264; Midland Counties, 108; Newcastle and Carlisle,
1054 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 964 ; South-Eastern,
384 4; Ditto, New, 114 ; Trent Valley, 74 ; Lyons and
Avignon, V. 14s. 6d.; Paris and Lyons, 3/ 5e.; Orleans,
Tours, and Bordeaux, 64; Boulogne and Amiens, 5.
The advices• received from the United States this
morning by the mercantile interests are of importance
in this respect; they state that a good market existed for
British manufactures. Money in consequence was
more in demand. The state of the public treasury is
represented as being of a more flourishing character.
In Pennsylvania too the receipts of the States had improved
.Most sanguinely it is to be hoped that the people
of the State will come forward and ,pay their debs. If
so, the other repudiating States of America would be
compelled to follow the good example ; and thus several
of the " stets" of the Republic would recover that "
which honesty is so well deserving of.
In the Canadisn papers, which have come to band by
the Montezuma, there is not any news of interest, except
that the elections had ended in favour o; the Government.

With respect to the Canadian Guarantet d Loan, the
biddings for which were received on Friday last, nothing
is at present known. It is stated this morning that the
tenders were all below the minimum value fixed fur the
200,0001., at which it would be granted by, the Treasury.
A very strong interest is expressed in the City in
favour of lines of railways for extending intercommuni-
cation in Ireland. Confidence in such undertakings
is rapidly on the increase among our capitalists, as
affording an additional means of beneficially employing
their surplus capital.
A shade of depression has existed in the Consol
market 'this morning. For the Account the prices have
recently been given at par, and flit. the Bedheed Three
Three per Cents. at one half per cent. higher. Toe New
Three per Cents. have been at 10.21 to 103. Exchequer
Bills have rallied from 555. to 58s. premium. About six
months back they were at 765. to 775. premium. The
Commissioners bought about 10,0001. of the Three-and-
a-Quarter per Cents. to-day, at three per cent. above par.
A rise in India Bonds, from 735. to 78s. premiarnas
taken place. Bank Stuck has risen from 208 to 2084.
This is the day for the biddings to be made for
the French loan, at Paris, and much curiosity is
expressed to learn the result. There is a report current
that the Messrs. Rothschild and the Messrs. Baring and
Co. are now the only competitors. As the payments
are to be extended over a lung period, the scrip will in
all probability .be dealt in considerably. The Belgian
Scrip has advanced to 1 premium. But one or two bar-
gains have been made. in the Spanish Funds to-day.
The Five per Cents. are at 24k, and the Three per Cents.
at 364. Dutch Stock is in demand. Brazilian have ad-
vanced to 88i ; Colombian Stock is firm at 14k ; and
the Mexican at 363.
The inquiries for shares have been very numerous all
the morning, and in most cases prices have advanced.
The '.Great Western Railway has reached 72 prem.;.
the Hull and Selby; 17 prem.; London and Brighton,
par (the highest point realised for a very long time);
and the French lines are looking firm. British North
American Bank Shares have been sold at 5 dis. ; Lon-
don and Westminster at 6k prem. ; and Provincial of
Ireland at 194 prem.
PRICES. OF BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.

(From the Official List.)
Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent...—. .......
Ditto Scrip
Bank Stock ter Account .........•.... 208 g
3 per Cont. Reduced Annuities .. ...... 100%34
New 311 i per Cent. Annuities.• ....... 103.1tr27
India 80nd5,1,000..
Ditto under 1,000.,
Consols for Opening
Exchequer Bills.
1 0001.

78
100% 100

I%d. 146 d.
I .... •••••••••••• 56 58 pm.
J .... •••••••••••• 57 57 pm.
Ditto 5ma11.... ...... •••••••••••• 57 55 pm.
Ditto Advertised..„..... •......•....
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. .................. ..... 88%
Columbian 80nd5.................................. 14%
23' 5 ,ar Cent Neu.
7dßitgree..n42:l et4k.r...._ ... ~,-..:::: ..... :::-. IRS(
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent i 540..................... 24%
Ditto Three per Cent. „.........................„
Ditto for the Account . .... «••••••••••••••••.."••• 36%
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per CenL .... .......... ....... . 43%
Dutch 2% per Cent 5........... 631i% 64
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS, Pals. PER SHARE.
Birmingham and (Goucester..„.. 100 ......... 95%...... to 96
Bristol, and G10uce5ter............... 30 .... ..... 37 .... to 38
Eastern Counties ••••••••••••••••••••• 25 ••••••••• IA X .•• to
Great Western ....................... 75
Ditto s Shares .....«.„...
Ditto rifth5.............................. Id 0041000410111 2.
Hull and Selby 5O 66 ..... to 67
Lancaster and,.Car1ia1e.......... ..... 10 1334
Liverpool and Manchester
London and Birmingham. lOO .........221 ....... to
Londonand 81ackwa11.........• 16% ...... 6% ••• .to
London and Brighton .............. 50 ........ 45./4 50 to 49%
London and South Western •..... 41% •.... 85 67 to 84
Ditto Eighths...." .......... ..• % ••••••••• 336
London and Y0rk................ .... 2%.......... 3%
Manchester and L0ed5.............. '7O .....«.. . to
Ditto 36 Shares 3O -
Midland
Birmingham and Derby . 100
Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 24
Northern and Eastern 45 57% to
Norwich and Brandon ............ 12
Ditto New
1 ..... „.. 314
Portsmouth t)irect ... .... ... I ..... .. 0% to
Richmondand West End Junct. 1
South Eastern and Dover .„„„,. 3334
38% to 38
Ditto New
Trent Valley
York and North Midland •••„„,„ SIB .....„„, lot% to
Ditto Scarbore' Branch
Ditto Selby Scrip ...... ......
Ditto Extension - •••... 123 .•.., to'—
Boulogne and Arnie.. .........
Orleans and Vierson
Orleans and Bourdeaux
Parisapd R0uen...................... '2O ..... .... Rs%
JOINT sTai"is.Nixs.
London and Westminster
Provincial of Ireland.
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DEC. 7,
3 per Cent. Consols • ........ .....•....• .......... ..... 1(0

3 .per Cent. Reduced
Three and a QUafter Stock....- 000000 .•....•......• 102%
Ditto New, MO
334 per Cent. Debentures 94%
Long Annuities
Bank Stock
Royal Canal Stock
Grand Canal Stock
Grand Canal Debentures,6 per Cent.
Ditto 4 per Cent.. —
4 per Cent. City Debentures ” .
4 per Cent. City Debentures, New
4 per Cent. Ballast Office Debentures —
4per Cent. Pipe Water —
Kingstown Railway Debentures —
LAST PRICES OF IRISH SHARES
RAILWAYS. Pain. PRI SRAM
Dublin and K. Railway
Progheda Ditt0...
Great Southern and Western - 5
Ditto Extension 234 ..... 3%
Dublin and Belfut Junction ....... .
Dublin and Cashel ditto ........« 2% ..... ...
Athlone Railway :. 234 ...... 2%
Belfast and Ballymena 234
Waterford and Limerick ...... —.... 2% .... 3%
Hibernian Bank 2534
Royal Bank
National Insurance.
Patriotic ditto
Mining Company of Deland...
Wick low Copper Mines
City of Dublin Steam Company 100
Ditto Ditto, 1836
Steam Ship Building Company
Ditto Ditto" • SO —
British and Irish Steam Company ... 50
Limerick Extension Railway

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 7.—The
market continues good, with little variation in prices:—
Accrington, 3 ; West' Yorkshire, 6 ; South Eastern,
New Creation, 7i; Huddersfield and Manchester Rail-
way and Canal, 4*; Leeds and Dewsbury, 6; Man-
chester and Birmingham, 53 524; Ditto and Liverpool
District Bank, 10 11-16; Churnet, 34.

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH k LINDS.

[Ditto Bonds
Ditto under £l,OOO 7B pm,
South Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuities
Ditto New Annuities
Lx. Bills, 1,004 8 pm.
Ditto 5001 ........ 58 pol
Ditto Small 5B pat
Bank Stock for Acct —
Consols for Opg
India gook fof Acct 267
FUNDS.
Russian, 5 per 119%
Ditto, Metallic
ipanish, 5 per Cent., 1840.., 24%
Ditto, 1811 .....
Ditto, 1842
Ditto, .......
Ditto, 1844
Ditto, !J per Cent .......
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Ct.—
ereach, J
French, 3 per Cent.......
Exchange ..........
Dutch, 42.% per Cent ..
Ditto, S per Cent 66%

Bask Stock 2ce56
3 per Cent. Red lOO%
3 per Cent. Cont.
per Cent. Red
New 3% per Cent lO3
New 5 per Cent —
Long Annuities to expire
Jan. ......... 12
Oct.
Jan. .... ....... --
Indian Stock
FORBID!.
Austrian, 5 per Cent .........
Belgian, b per Cent .....
Brazilian Bonds 36%
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent —
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent...—
per Cent
Colombian, 6 per Cent:
Danish, 3 per Cent
flreek, 1.4: 5, 5 per Cent
Mexican, 5 per Cent ..... 36%)
Neapolitan Bonds,s per Ct —
Prussian Bonds, 4 per Cent —
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Ct —
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Ct

. -
14%

SHARES.
Bristol and Exeter (70 paid)
Caledonian (5 paid)
Cambridge and Lincoln, I% paid lh
Chuniet Valley, 2 paid
Edinburgh and Glasgois..,o paid
Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 5 i9aid
Great North of England, 100 paid
Ditto New Shares (5 paid)
London and Birmingham (Stock)
Ditto, New Thirds, 2 paid
Ditto, Quarter Shares ( 2 paid)
London and South Western (HI. 6s. 10d. paid) 85%
Ditto Eighths (15s. paid)
London and Croydon ......• l6
Lynn and Ely, 1 paid • 2
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid)
Ditto. Half Shares, 30 paid
North British, 5 paid
Northern and Eastern {45 paid)
Richmond and West End Junction, 1 paid -
Rugby, I paid. 1
South Devon, 10 paid............................•........•• 10
Trent Vag', 2 paid. ....... . ... ... .................»« 8%
York and North Midland 00 paid)................... 10214
Boulogne and Amiens, 2 paid •
Orleans sod Vigils's. 2 p5id...................•.m ll
agleam and BoUrdeaux, 1 raw ; .... ~. .11110.4111411..0 e