The Sun.
London, England, 1826-01-11 00:00:00

WE/GILTS AND MEARUIits.

On the motion of Mr. So SIN En, it Was resolved that a
Committee of Magistrates be appointed for the purpose of con.
sidering the most effectual method of carrying into efThet the
late Act for an alteration in the IVerghts and Measures, with a
view to economy, and the general convenience of the several
pouts of the. country, and to report their opinions thereupon
with all possible speed to the Court. The Committee was or-
dered to inset on Wednesday next.
INSTRUCTION IN PRI,zONS.
Mc. PA LitEit. rose to submit a propoaition (the consideration
of which had been Adjourned fronithe last Court-dayl which,
I,e said, was of a most important nature. It was, that Risque-
Lion shonlit be given to the prisoners in the several gaols of the
cooky more frequently than it was at preatint. The lion. Ma-
gistrate observed, that the advantages of his motion would he
so apparent on his making it, that it would he unnecessary for
him to trespass more than a few minutes on the attention of the
Court in support of it. It would not be denied that the advan-
tage of instruction in our prisons was very great, and as far as
it had extended had already been productive of the most bene-
ficial effects. The lion. Magistrate then referred to a late Act
of Parliament for the regulation of prison discipline, in which
it wathdd down as one of the rules, that instruction should be
frequently given to the prisoners in reading and wilting. On
this subject, a Committee of the Magistrates haul met, and it
was determined, that in all the prisons of the county where the
tread. wheel was not used, the prisoners should be instructed for
one hour in the day for three days in the week, and in the pri-
son of Kingston and so:ne others, it was resolved, that such in-
srruction should be given for one hour each day during the six
days of the week. From the adoption of this last resolution,
the greatest benefits had been derived. Many persons who had
been committed to prison, wholly ignorant of reading and writ-
ing, had, after a confinement of three or four months, been dis-
charged, well able both to,read and write. A person committed
to prison fur two years would have the advantage, in those
daily hours, of one whole month's education, which should not,
he thought, be considered too great an indulgence, after so
long a period. Alter some farther continents on the benefits of
education thus
given, the lion. Gentleman moved—
" That notwithstanding the repot of a Committee appointed
to consider the instruction of persons committed to prison, it
be a recumnientlittion to the visiting Magistrate of the different
prisons to cause instruction to be given one hour in each day
during every day in the week, instead of three days." •
Mr. 11. SUMNRit thlt it hula duty to oppose this motion, as
it was only a repetition of a question which had already been
fully discussed and decided by a large majority in the Coin-
mittee to which it had been already referred. it was no wonder
that one day should he found insufficient for the business of
the county in the consideration of motions, &c., when ques-
tions were brought forward again and again, after having been
before 'fully decided. The practice of giving instruction so
many days in the week led to au abuse, in being made an ex-
cuse for a relaxation of labour ; for the Governor of Brixton
would tell them, that-persons who had already learnt to read
and write, Were, on their recommitment to prison, known to de.
dare their entire Ignorance of either reading or writing, in
order dist they might thereby be released for so ninny hours in
the week from the tread-wheel. [The Governor, Mr. Green,
llen
being referred toi fully confirmed this part of the lion. Mem.
bet'swoui
do statement.]
havetei the effect
Not thinking that the proposed motion
effect which the lion. Mover believed, he
would move " the previous question" as an ameselment.
Mr. Dmortsorf entirely concurred in the view taken of this
question by his Ron. Colleague. It had been already fully
Liiscusse.l, and he thought the decision of the Committee ought
to be allowed to remain. Redid not mean to say that reports
...and decisions of committees ought always to be gnal, end with.

out review by the Court; but in the present case, the decision
of the Committee had been reviewed, discussed, and confirm- '
ed. He would therefore oppose the motion.
Mr. R. JACKSON expressed himself favourable to the ori-
ginal motion, and bore testimony to the great advantages
which had resulted from the practice of instruction on three
days in the week. A person confined for a long period might
by instruction for three hours in the week, be taught to read
and write before his imprisonment expired; but persons con-
fined for short periods ought to have increased opportunities
by giving them instruction for six h s ittatead orthree. He
would4lcswever, beg to stidA.44.4 that it aeicstruction.to the
tvjshing 4 lagishates to conNide Ofunitkir ty o -givitteeinstruc.
cii,c„
tNt on aliree 'daya-instead ONiXi.
Mr. CIiAJURERA supported the original motion, and con.
tended that it was the intention of the Legislature that the
ignorant prisoners should be instructed, and therefore that the
most effectunl mode of conveying that instruction should be
adopted ; and it would ! not be denied that six hours a-week
would be mote effectual for that purpose than three. He would
mention one fact—that at a'school at this 4ide of Blackfriars-
bridge, there were upwards of 400 children, who, though they
went to their priests once a-week for instruction, were ignorant
of the number of the commandments. They knew not the
commandment which
.prohibited stealing. If a poor child of
that description came into prison, was he to be left in his igno-
rance, or was he to be enlightened by instruction ?
Mr. HUDSON thought, from the specimens of improvement
he had seen of the boys who had been confined ford weeks, that
instruction fur three hours a-week would be sufficient. Many
horniest parents were not able to have their children taught to
read and write, and he was of opinion that persons should not
derive by crime that which they could not procure by honesty.
Mr. -BRISCOE said, he did intend to reserve what small por-
tion of strength he had left for his own motion, (on the subject
of female punishment at the tread-wheel), but this question
was of such importance, that he could not avoid giving his opi-
nion on it. Ile owned it gave him great pain to find the Hon.
Members for' the county, differing as they did on so many
points, concur in wishing to limit the benefits of education.—
They had stated, that they thought. enough had been already
done with respect to the, education of prisoners. lie differed
widely on the subject, and he thought that he could not well
discharge his duty as a Magistrate, if he did not take every
means in his power to carry into effect the intention of the he.
gislature in the Act alluded to, which evidently was, that ig-
norant prisoners should be instructed. It was such unfortunate
persons that ought to he peculiarly the object of their care. If
lie read his Bible right, and he was not ashamed to quote
Scripture here, it was not for the whole, but the sick, that as-
sistance was required ; and they were told that sinners, and not
the righteous, were called to repeLtance. The Hon. Magis-
trate, after dwelling very forcibly on the advantages of in-
creased opportunities of' education, concluded by expressing his
entire approbation or the original Motion.
Air. ALLEN supported the original motion.
Sir T. Tu ItTON opposed it, and thought that in its pre-
sent form it would be fettering the visiting 31agisuates as
touch as they were by the resolution of the Committee, naming
three hours in the week. lie bad no objection to moral in-
stroction, but he did not think that the minds of prisoners
would be much enlarged by the merely learning to write.
Mr. 'LItoTTER did not wish to have it understood that the
Court had any wish to fetter the visiting Magistrates.
Mr. PALMER had no objection to allow his motion to be
amended, as had been suggested by the Learned Uentleman
(31r. R. Jackson).
Mr. 11. S u NNE n objected to it in any shape.
After a few words from a Magistrate whose name we did not
learn, the question was read from the Chair; and after sonic
discussion as to the mode of putting the amendment of the
" previous question," a show of hands was taken, when the
Chairman declared the majority to be in favour of the amend-
ment.

It was then moved, that the names at each side should be
taken down. This IrkS done, and du) Chairman decland the
numbers to be—.

For the original motion - 16
For the previous question . 20
Majority against the original motion - 4
PUNISHMENT OE FEMALES BY Tit TREAD-WIIKEL.
Air. liniscoE said, that in consequence of the lett:may of
the hour, he was willing to postpone his motion, anti he thanked'
those lilentleriien who had come to support it. He had never
before had the good fortune to have so large an attendance of
Magistrates ; but in consequence of the late hour (
he would postpone it.
Mr. 11. Sumo:it thought the course which the Hon. Ala-
giatrate was pursuing was strange. After having got the
Largeet assemblage of Magistrates, whom he had called loge.-
biz o'clock)
titer by public advertisement, he 'then turned round and said
he would put it off' for three month* longer. It would be better
to dispose of it now.
Mr: Blasco': Said he was willing to do so, if Gentlemen
did not think it too late.—(Cries of " Uo on, go 0n.".)-11
e
would do so, though he could tteettre the Court that he was
very weak. The Honourable Magistrate then proceeded,
and observed, that he did not des
;air of getting the
vote of the Honourable . Member' ter Surrey (Mr. /1-
Sumner) in favour of his it otion, if he gave hint an at-
tentive and unprejudiced hearing.- The great difficulty
opposed to him was this,—that the objection to the
one
pkytnent of females on the tread-wheel was confounded
with objections to that machine ay a mode of punishment gene-
rally; but he thought the cases were very different, and a pa-
wn might fully approve of that mode of punishment
as applied
to men, and be opposed to it es far as it included the punish.
ment of women. Tide was what he contended for. lie thought
that women ou;dtt to be exempted fr.sin this species of prison
employment. Ile had visited the prison of Brixton yesterday,
and there saw several females on the wheel; they appeared to
have had every humane attention paid to their situation, but
from the manner in which they were clothed, (having been fur.
nished with long flannel trousers), it was clear that the. tread-
wheel was not a tit mode of punishment for them. The lion.
Gentleman then proceeded to urgue, that on physical and moral grounds, women should be exempted from the wheel.
In the course of his argument, he mentioned the case of the
Athenian lawgiver, (Greco), who held that death was a lit
punishment fur every offence, even the lightest, but he knew
no greater for the heavies--so said the lion. Member, Mr. 11.
Sumner.
Me. 11. SUMNER warmly denied that he ever held any such
opinion, and begged that the speaker, when he attempted to
quote his sentiments, would quote them correctly. ' Most cer-
tainly he had not done soin this instance, and begged lie
would explain.
Mr. BitiscoE said he was willing to do so. He only in-
tended to apply the fact as illustrating the lion. Member's
opinion with respect to the tread-wheel, which he seemed to
think ought to be the punishment for prisoners confined for
every description of offence. He then went on to contend, that
it was a most unequal measure of justice to the females of Sur-
rey, that they should be exposed to a mode of punishment
front which females were exempted in almost every other county
in England. lie concluded by moving, that females imprison-
, tit in the jails of Surrey he exempted, from the punishment of
the treed-wheel, as being altogether improper for their sex, etel
greater delicacy of their conetitutiona.
Sir Tu wrote seconded the motion. ;s
of coryoral punish.
He not only objected
to the tread-wheel but also to every specie
tent fur women. Ile thought that, as a mode of punishment,
,
it was ineffectual ; for women who went into prison compara-
tively innocent, were injured by association on the wheel with
the most abandoned females, and came out much worse titan
they had gone in.
Mr.if. JACSSON opposed the motion, and contended, that
comparatively innocent females were mote exposed to contioni-
nation from the company of the most abandoned women, under
the former state of prison discipline than under that of the-tread.
wheel. They were formerly kept together in a room, picking
oakum or beating hump, anti there was no check to their in-
dulging in the most licentious laeguage, whereas, on the tread-
wheel, they were obliged to keep silence. The Learned Gentle-,
man then went on to contend, that physically and morally the
tread wheel was a better it.ode of pumehment than that hereto-
fore used in prison.
Alr. 11. SUMNER contended, that according to the Hon.
Mover's own allowing, there was no ground for the assumption
that the tread-wheel was an improper punishment for fe-
males. The lion. Mover's humane consideratiori for females
did hint credit, but it was carried to an excess. He. (Air. IL
Sumner), too, had a great respect for females, and for females
of pure character he had the highest respect—the greatest
veneration. lie knew that women had a stronger moral 'feel.
tug than men, and they were with greater difficulty urged to
the commission of crime ; but. when they passed the
barmier of virtue,
they plunged to depths of crime at
which men shuddered ; and were such women not to be
punished ? Ile contended that as a mode of punishment, they
had abundance of evidence in favour of the tread-wheel.—
When it Was first introduced, they used to have :300 men, and
60 or 70 women, in a prison at a time ; and now the number of
the former was reduced td 150, and that of the women to 30.._
Was not this a proof of the efficacy of the tread-wheel in the
prevention of crime ? This question had been already decided,
on more than one occasion, though under different shapes, by a
large majority of the Magistrates of the County, and he hoped
if again it should be similarly decided, it would be heard of no
more.
Mr. DENISON agreed with his lion. Colleague, and thought
no reason bad been given why this mode of punishing females
should be discontinued. He would therefore oppose the mo-
tion. Experience had shewn, that the tread-wheel had not a
bad effect on the female constitution. On the contrary, it was,
well known that many unfortunate females who had been on
the pave for years, with debilitated constitutions, were so ninth

improved in their general health, after being for a time at the
wheel, that in the course of a year after they had occasion to be
sent to lying-in-hospitals.—(A laugh.)
Mr. PALMER admitted that the motion was but
still he would support it, because he thought such a mode of
punishing females was disgraceful to the country. It had bees
so described by the 31 in ister of a neighbouring country (France)
who had expressed his surprise that England should bad'
adopted such a mode of punishing font/tit!. It was a strong
argument in favour of the motion, tharkm 24 prison:ou ..10
country,counties in this that mods„,of pt "s femalitt was
not adopted. , • ;
Am-KA ilr.,BoLLAsrh dpi#osed file motlint, belauseNt
been most clearly proved that the tread-wheel was not injurious
to the female constitution.

Mr. SWJBET opposed the motion.
Mr. Butscox replied, ai.d wished to have his motion
changed to the one for the appointment of a Committee to cus-
sider the subject, and report to the next Court.
This was declined by Mr. H. Sumner and others, though
warmly pressed by Sir T. Turton and BI r. Palmer.
'rhe motion in its original shape was then put, and the num-
bers were—For the mouon, 7—Apinst it, 26—Majority against
the motion, 18. _ _ .

A poor fellow among the bystanders was so much impress.
ed in favour of the motion, as to assume one of the functions of
a magistrate, and held up his hand for the motion. Ha was
noticed, and ordered into custody ; but on the application of
Mr. Briscoe, who stated that the prisoner imagined that it was
like the London Tavern Meeting, where all had a right to Toth
he was discharged.
The Court (after some routine business) adjourned at half
past eight o'clock.

DREADFUL CATASTROPHE.
ON THE CANAL, IN ST. JAMES'S PARKA

Yesterday, Owing to the severity or the frost
for the last day or two, the Canal in the PEA was frozen o'er•
and in consequence vast numbers of persons of every denonu-
nation were assem bled during the day, skating,islid an il Prn`::
tieing others ports. Many parts of the piece of water weredeenica
ebnydthine mordenerbteolopongiinntgotuotthtehiPseep.
Yfd
places Hu
ntela diene Soviet}'
at rs.' ' be
unsafe'
a rope w".
thrown across the Canal, but in our opinion the whole hotly (.)
the ice was unsafe, as it most certainly was too thin to wear
the number ofindividuals that were congregated upon It. 110"
ever the skaters continued their spores till about a emitter
past two o'clock, regardless of any danger that might vl6°l
when about that period a dreadful shout from the men, en"
the shrieking of the females who were assembled on the green
on either side of the Canal, announced the dreadful calamity
we are about to record. In a few minute.; the throng that well
dispersed in all parts of the Canal were attracted to one particle'
lar spot, the ice having given way, and nu less than 9 unforta-
ttate Individuals were inguiphed in the watery element. Before
any effort could be made to extricate any one, the ice, frotu
their exertions to escape, cracked and separated for a consider-
able distance around them, and tour or bee clung to one soon);
man, who was endeavouring to get away .by swimming, and
brought him down, and the whole sunk together, but irnme•
diately rose to the surface, and separated. The bystanders by
this time had procures ropes, which were cast to the atruggling.
persons, and 4 were drawn out. There were stills persons In
the water, mostly in an exhausted state, and clinging to one so-
other ; 2 of those, by the courage of some gentlemen, were dam'
ged out, but the ropes breaking, the fate of the others scorned ir
evitable. One of them, raising his arms, shrieked out, "On'
God, save me ! my poor mother ! my mother !" and suulr'
below the ice. This distressing ejaculation seemed to ad'
mulate to renewed exertion, and several persons ran to tug'
brink of the broken ice, and grasped at the drowning ma. bet
the ice again breaking, they were immersed, and with dia.
culty escaped. However, ropes being fastenedeiround thre'l
young men, they plunged in, seized the struggling peron.'
and rescued one youth, who was then takes ashore m n stAge
of insensibility. The attention of the throng was at this ill;
scant attracted to an elderly gentleman, who, at great personal
risk, saved the lives of two, but in his third effort the tee Pe"
way, and he sank beneath it, but almost instantly he extr'
cated himself, and called for assistance. Ropes were lbw"
to him, but the danger was so apparent, that none would /41,1
proach to his rescue, and the venerable gentleman aelgsre
likely to share the fate of. the remaining two' but the Ice beifl
I broken to the bank, several persons locked their hands, an°
advancing into tile water, dragged him to the side., to ethe
great delight of the assembled multitude. But it was checaee
instantaneously by the convulsive cry of the two young men
who had grasped a firm hold of each other, as they sunk
rise no more. Some watermen, in a few minutes, came vr
with a boat and the drags, and in about twenty minutes are:
ceeded in bringing from the bottom the two bodies, Or
were brought to the bank, and an itnutediate circle bial
~
formed by the crowd, sonic persona stripped the bodies,
proceeded to use the means recommended by the Humane ..."••
i ceety for the resuscitation of drowned persons ; the bodies Wens
rolled and rubbed for nearly half an hour, without any
'selglar
I ance of returning animation, when, by the advice of a sur-
geon, they were wrapped- in great costs, and carried across I V
Park out at Storey's gate, to the King's Arms and Prince'.
Head public-houses, in Prince's-street, Weetminster, wheeo
the bodies being properly placed on tables, the usual remediq
were used for above an hour; but although the chest, feet, en''
extremities were exposed to the most continual rubbing with
c
cloths, re-animation could not be produced, the vital le%
appearing to have departed a considerable time. One of 11,
dead was attired in a sailor's dress, and his right ann.':
marked with a blue compass and square. The otherlir
very genteelly attired in a blue coat and dark trouser* 'IP; .
were both line young men, apparently not aged more than 'O,
Too much praise cannot be bestowed on the persevering PL,
rage of those individual, who at the imminent peril of their !D.!:
saved to their families seven persons, all• of whom must nsT•
perished had it not been for their praise-worthy interference:'' '
t hie-young man, named Villiers Pearce, on seeing the sitttauf
of so many of his fellow-creatures, jumped in three several Linn
although warned by the by-standers of the danger that aWnI"Z
hint, and each time succeeded in conveying ropes to the 11if,
fortunate persons ; and althertigh drenched to the akin, he
terwards assisted in rubbing and carrying the dead bodiess.to
~
the above-named houses. It is lamentable to describe the la
fatuation of those persons who could remain on the CIII/eee
',kitting and sliding ofter so melancholy an accident had tn.—A
persona oet o.f
fiaiuleu
Persons
orisnnio.sswTt
assembling oie
itlieeirceaoplace:,cnstiuti
olallandue:yud aben:.
Canal
al:
,eonindys
employed
means
Serpentine
xei
Is:
ira
dn
cartst
et oo nt e
2::::,0-.
place, particularly as the ice in no Dart was actually sell• a
be renewed to save those who had by their 0W
obligednlohiuraueesuvdiebish:et;a°rt :4
by the by, was also thronged) when the ice is in such aid alleer
i, ,
horses, breaking and carrying it away, which must also t'''.
to weaken the entire surface.

(PUITTITER PATITICULARS.--ANOTIIER BOY DROW)ISLI
The melancholy catastrophe on the Canal in at. date—tie
Park yesterday, did not prevent the assembled persons er)
nuing their amusement even close to the fatal *pot, and thee;;.
~
sequence was the Humane Society's men, having rescuetl_,,
veral persons, were compelled, by using force, to prevent nyes
who were fool-hardy enough to venture their lives, trom%
posing themielves on the fragile surface. Notwithstanp
this precaution, numbers were immersed,
and a young rasa'
nearly dark, was extricated, in a drowning siate'rle
As the group who performed the melancholy but Won duties duties of carrying the dead bodies of the two unfortunate youn:
risen, across the Park to the public-house, where they now
an affecting instance of sympathy took place at Story's gate
two ladies were standing amidst the crowd, and upon the sg*
proach of the awful train, and on seeing the dead they sill;
dered, and one of then* fell to the ground in a fainting Atli.
which state she was removed to a neighbouring house. ;ht
deed this was not the only instance as the melancholy 'tibia
produced the most poignant feelings in all who beheo
it. It grieves us to state that white a number of pei*°,
were performing the humane net of endeavouring to produce ~
suscitation, a band of heartless miscreants seized the opporton
and a vast number of those persons who were so huniancif
ployed were stripped of their CP
pocket handkerchiefs, tt.c.
Gentleman, who lent his great coat to covir one of the bS;
was hustled away, whilst a confederate carried off the ns
coat, with which he escaped. A number of persons, durintaare.
evening of yesterday, flocked to the house where the bodielthey
to see if they could identify, but up to twelve o'clock to-tls7_
were not owned. One of them (the sailor) had twarnt
re 4
pawnbroker's duplicates upon hint, chiefly for wearing sPilite-
pledged in the name of " Jones," at a pawnbroker's in NV hit
chapel ; the other is supposed to he a married man, as boy
pockets were found a female cap and frill. The cries of ;lake
were heard after dark last evening from the Canal, near , (Torn
ingham.gate ; a number of persons ran towards the spot
whence the cries proceeded, and sonic object was "%Id be
struggling in the water, but before any
assistance
afforded, the surface of the water became still and the bob
cry had ceased, and the unlbrtunate being sunk to rise nniiptho
His body has not been picked up. To-day the ice 411
Parks was thronged with shaters.

The River Thames above the bridges yester'
day displayed abundance of loose ice..
The Thermometer yest..rday
afternoon
VS deg. FAlllt. towards midnight it rose to 31-4
stood a
(freozin g point.)

The doubts that have hitherto bung on the suc-
cession to the Throne of Russia, are at length dis-
pelled by intelligence from St. Petersburgh, an-
nouncing the proclamation of the Grand Duke
NtessoLAs as Emperor. That a crisis so remarkable
should be passed without violence or bloodshed,

were utterly improbable; it cannot, there-
fore, excite susprise to learn that the successive
proclamations of two Emperors has produced a
strong expression of resentment and resist-
ance frem the military adherents of CON-
STANTINE. According to -the statement that
is given, it appears, that after Ntcnor,As had
been proclaimed, the oath of allegiance was
administered to the troops—but on that mark of
obedience being required front the Regiment
or CONSTANTINE, the answer, unn voce, was,
Wo have already taken an oath of allegiance
to one Emperor, and that we hold sacred—we do
nut mean to take another." A scene is then said
to have followed, such as was exhibited at the ex-
termination of the revolting Se poys a t Hai-rad-pore
—the regiment of CONSTANTINE had to sustain
the attack of• their fellow soldiers adhering to
NlCHOLAS,—beneuth which they finally succumb-
ed, after considerable loss. Subsequently the
individuals who were supposed to have excited
the Regiment to resist were shot.
This military effervescence was, however, suc-
ceeded by tranquillity ; the people took no part
in the affair, and at the date of the advices

communicating these interesting particulars,
perfect order reigned throughout the Russian
CuOW. Although our knowledge of these events
is not derived from any official statement, little
doubt is entertained by the merchants connected
with Russia, of their being founded substantively
in truth.

We are hitherto so entirely in the dark,on the
origin and true cause of the extraordinary
coquetts of these Imperial Brothers, who in their
turns have so coyly rejected a Crown, that
it were idle to reason on the cause that
may have finally determined NICHOLAS to yield
the point. But for the immobility of CON'
ST A N Eat Warsaw, hisconduct might have been
suspected as the result of political finesse. Ilis
presence in the Capital was so essential, had he
&signed to mount the Throne of Russia, that
ti settled resolution to resign his claim, could
alone have detained him in a state of inaction in the
Capital of Poland. The Roman Emperor Cox-
vrAeTtNe, whose name the Russian bears, was
at York when his father died ; from that
place he instantly took horse to Dover, and
erming to Calais, rode day and night to
Rome, and by his activity secured the
Throne. The -next advises will perhaps shew
whether CONSTANTINE can be considered to
have been privy to the resistance of his Regiment
at Petersburg)►, or what is of equal importance—
Whether the ruling party betray suspicions of
such being the fact.

11'Ir• ROTIIVCIIILn yesterday paid into the Bank
450i0001, in sovereigns.

TM'. FUNDS.

Colllol6—Yestorday closed S4Pd-
After the Close

This rim tsing olieneti

The market opened, nominally, at 824 /, the
closing price of yesterday, but it soon became ap-
parent that large sales had been effected privately,
which immediately reduced the price to 894.
Subsequently, the rumoured insubordination and
resistance of COMST INITINE't regiment in the
Russian capital, dropped the market suddenly
to 811-7,-; but it being stated in the accounts
from Petersburgh, that the revolters being sub-
dued tranquillity had been restored. Consols re-
vived to Sw,i, .-I—the quotation at one o'clock.

The business of the morning has not been on
an extensive scale. Although Money Stock is now
abundant, the transactions have been compara-
tively but few. In the House, Money is
abundant, but out of doors, the sce►city is
heavily felt.

Bank Stock has receded to - - - 214
India Muds . . 23 20 put.
Exchequerlls, .C100:1-8 7 4 pm.
.C. 100.---8 4 pm.
.ClOO 7 pal.
3 per Cent. Consols, ex. dir. .503.
11 per Cent. Reduced - - 81}.
3i per Cent. Reduced 004.
4 per Cent. (new) ex dir.
FOREIGN.

Russian Bonds have fallen nearly 3 per cent.
Bargains were :done yesterday at 854--the quo-
tation to-day, at one o'clock, was 821-. In every
other Foreign Security there has been a slight
decline from yesterday's prices. Colombian (1824)
651 ; Danish, 6 ; Mexican, 681; Spanish, 141.

FASHIONABLE I NTMLLIGYNCE.

DUKE OF VOAK'S LEVEE.

Yesterday afternoon, at a quart:r before live o'clock, the
Duke of Yost held *a
Levee at his Office in the Horse Guards
as Commander-in-Chief, for the first time for a month past,
which being bUtthinly attended only occupied three quarters of
an hour. The following were among those present :.--General
t.ascoync, Lord Craven, Lord Churchill, Lord Saltounv Lieu-
tenant-General Skinner, Major Stevenson, and about thirty:
others.