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London, England, 1845-05-21 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1845.

In the very brief but excellent speech of Earl FITZ -
WILLIAM last evening on the measures brought forward
by the Government for Ireland, there is one fact stated
which he recommended to the attention of Sir ROBERT
INGLIS, who denounces the Academies' Bill as " a
gigantic scheme of godless education." The public will
infer from the words of the representative of Oxford,
that religion is taught to all the pupils in that
University, and what is the fact ? No religion
is taught in the colleges, with the exception of that
taught to Divinity students, and what is more, the high-
ost authorities of the University had recommended the
lay students not to attend the lectures of the theological
professor. In fact, the custom has long been ot-
solete, and Sir ROBERT INGLis knew that as well as
Earl FITZWILLIAM. His opposition to the measure cannot
be founded on religious grounds, and we are therefore to
infer that his acceptation of the word " godless" is very
different from that used by other men. It is quite re-
freshing to turn from the political bigotry of the Mem-
ber for Oxford, to the liberal views, sound sense, and,
at the same time, Christian doctrines of one of the
most upright and religious Members of the House of
Peers. " Infidelity," said he, " was much more likely
to arise from the hostile spirit which actuated one sect
against another, and if they could succeed in educating
the youths of different sects together—in inducing them
to take their recreations and enjoyments together, they
would go a long way in destroying that spirit of intole-
rance with which one sect regarded another."

The House of Lords met at Four o'clock, for the pur-
pose of hearing the Royal Assent given by commission to
certain Bills.

Their Lordships re-assembled at Five.
The Marquis of NORMANDY presented a petition from
the parishioners of Oakingham complaining that they
were prevented from repairing their parish church by
the conduct of the Dean of Salisbury, v:ho united in hip
own person the incongruous offices
.of Patron, Ordinary,
and Rector.

A presentation of petitions against the game-laws by
Lord CAMPBELL gave rise to an animated conversation,
on the subject of those laws, in which Lord DACRF,
Lord HATBERTON, and the Earl of STRADBROKE took
part.

Earl FITZWILLIAM, in presenting a petition against
the Maynooth Bill, took occasioa to state his dissent
from the prayer of the petition, and his approval of the
grant to Maynooth, which he looked upon as the pay-
ment of an instalment of the debt due to the Irish people
His Lordship also expressed his approval of the Minis-
terial plan for establishing colleges in Ireland, and, in
allusion to those who called it a scheme of Godless edu-
cation, said that they were persons of more enthusiasm
than religion, who mistook names for things, and who
must have forgotten their own university career ; for he
would venture to declare that few of the lay members of
the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge ever attended
the theological lectures, and at Oxford, on a recent occa-
sion, the higher powers of the University had recom-
mended students not to attend the lectures of the Pro-
fessor of Divinity.
Several Bills having been forwarded a stage, their
Lordships adjourned.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. I
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 2,500
bales, allt to the trade, without change in prices.-Shares
were not so good, but prices had not materially changed.
Barnsley Junction, 41,E ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Ches-
hire Junction, 10% % ; Belfast. anti Ballymena, 8% % ;
Belfast and County Down, 114 % t Bolton, Wigan, and
Liverpool, 12%; Caledonian, 11 14 ; Chester and Birkenhead,
541/2 ; Chester and Holyhead, 161/2 ; Churnet Valley, 5%;
Clitheroe Junction, 2%; Cork and Waterford, 23/4 ; Dublin,
Mullingar, and Athlone, 4% 935. 9d. ; Eastern Counties,
New Shares, 4% Bs. 6d. ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 64 ;
Glasgow and Dumfries, 225. 6d. 225. ; Grand Junction, 233 ;
Ditto, Half Shares, 1161' ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 58%
Ditto, New Quarters, 491% 1/2 ; Ditto, Eighth Shares, 2114 ;
Great Southern and Western Extension, 13% ; Great
Western, Fifth Shares, 42; Huddersfield Canal and Railway,
7% ; Huddersfield and Sheffield, 7% % ; lnverness and
Elgin, 21s. ; Limerick and Waterford, 8% 1/2 ; Liverpool,
Ormskirk, and Preston, 2% 51s. 3d. ; London and Birming-
ham, 32/. Shares, 441/2 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 33% ;
London and Brighton, 64 1/2 ; London and WindSor, 7s. ;
Londonderry and Enniskillen, 5% 5 ; London and York, 4%
% • Direct Northern, 3% ; Leeds and Dewsbury, 10% ;
Leeds and Thirsk, 7 • Leeds and West Riding Junction, 9%;
Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction, 6% ; Man-
chester and Leeds, Quarter Shares, 22 ; Midland Railway,
1681/2 168: Ditto, 40/. Shares, 20 19% ; Ditto Consolidated
Birmingham and Derby, 13114 ; Newark and Sheffield, 5%;
North British, 17 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 41/2 ; North Wes-
tern, 4% 86s. 6d. ; Oxford and Birmingham Junction, 765.3 d.
765. 6d. ; Preston and Wyre, 30 ; Ditto Extension, 1% ;
Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares,l4% ; Shrewsbury,
Wolverhampton, and Birmingham, 5 ; Shrewsbury and Grand
Junction, 6% 1/2 ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheshire, 4% ;
South-Eastern and Dover, 41 401% ; Ditto, New Shares, No. 3,
6% 16s. 6d. ; Trent Valley, 181/2 ; Trent Valley Continua.
tion, 18s. 18s. 6d. ; Welsh Midland, 365. 335. ; `West York-
shire, 465. 465. 6d. ' • Worcester and Tring, 4%; Whitehaven
and Furness, 2%; York and Carlisle, 2% 6s. 6d. • York and
North Midland, 104 105 ; Bordeaux and Toulouse, 2% ;
Great Paris and Lyons,2 ; Northern of France (Laffitte's),
5 6 ; Ditto (Rosamel's), 21% ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux
(English), 113/ % ; Paris and Lyons (English), Laffitte's,
3% 3 ; Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's), 31. 59a.; Verona and
Ancona, 425.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCIIANGE, MAY 20.-The sales are
-Barnsley Junction, 4% ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and
Cheshire Junction, 101/2 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 71/2 %;
Churnet Valley, 51 3/4 ; Clitheroe Junction, 2% % prem. ;
Direct Northern, 3 ; Dublin, Mullingar, and Athlone, 4%;
Glasgow and Dumfries, 245. •, Huddersfield and Manchester
Railway and Canal, 7% 1/8 ; Leeds and Thirsk, 71/8 ; Leeds
and West Riding Junction, 10 9% ; Liverpool, Ormskirk,
and Preston, 2% 34; London and Worcester, Oxford and
Rugby, 4% ; London and York, 41/2 ; Manchester, Bury, and
Rossendale, 17 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 58 ; Do. New
Quarters, 71/8 ; Manchester and Buxton, 5% %; Manchester
and Leeds, Half Shares, 7014 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 21%
21 ; Midland Railway Consols, 40/. Shares, 20%; Preston
and Wyre Extension, 23/4 %; Sheffield and Lincolnshire
Junction, 1 13-16; South-Eastern, No. 1, 15; Ditto, No. 3,
6 15-16 ; Trent Valley Continuation and Holyhead Junction,
214 ; West Yorkshire, 21/2 ; Whitehaven and Furness, 234
1/2 ; Union Bank of Manchester, 10%.
The interest taken in the project for the formation of rail-
ways in India appears to be rapidly increasing. Already the
applications for shares in the undertaking (the first ex-
perimental line that has been suggested) have
exceeded the number which the Company have at
command. The concern is under the auspices of
the Court of Directors of the East India Company, and will
no doubt meet with every assistance which fairly belongs to
the Court. The prospectus already issued is drawn up with
much care and attention, and no pains we understand will be
spared in order to place the line upon the most favourable
basis.
It may be interesting to state that some American hops
just offered at public sale by Keeling and Hunt, have realised
60s. per cwt. for exportation, the duty being prohibitory for
home consumption; the quality was a decided improvement
on the former shipments, and were encouragement given, no
doubt greater attention would be paid to their cultivation on
the other side.
The potatoes from Bermuda sold at from 255. to 265. per
barrel, and approached very near to our own frame potatoes,
and may eventually become a considerable article of import
by the steamers.
The market for the Public Securities has been
very firm again. The transactions within the last
day or two have been limited in extent. There is
decidedly a better feeling, or, in the absence of purchases to
any extent, prices would not advance. Consols have been
99% to 991/2 for Money, and for Time 99% to 991/.. Exche-
quer-bills have realised 58s. to 595. prem. Bank Stock has
been firm at 210, and India Stock has touched 280.; The \ew
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been marked 101% to
1011/2, and the Three per Cents. 98% to 981/2.
The Foreign Bonds have attracted less attention than yes-
terday. Spanish Five per Cents. have been at 30, and the
! Three per Cents. at 42 to 42%. Portuguese Converted have
been at 67% to 6712: these are all about previous rates.
Mexican have been quoted at 37 to 37%. Belgian Four-
and-a-Half per Cents. were 99, and French Five per Cents.
121 f. 25c.
The market for Railway Shares is a little brisker to-day,
and the quotations are in most instances tolerably well sup-
ported. The Trent Valley Continuation line is reported very
favourably of by the parties sent down to re-survey it, and
as it brings Chester into communication with London, and
completes the railway to the coast, by joining the Chester
and Holyhead, and establishing a railway route to Ireland,
in a national point of view the line is important.
15 Rinsii FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 98%41(
3 per Cent. Consols Anns 99110/2
New 3% per Cent. Annuties lOll4l/2
Long Annuities ,Expire sth Jan. 1860 lll4
Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10, 1859 ll 1-16
Ditto 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860
India Stock 2BO
Consols for Account
India Stock for Account
Exchequer Bills. I%d. 11/2d.
1,0001. - pm.
5001. - ...... 59 58 pm.
Ditto Small -
Ditto Advertised ..... ... -
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. 37
Ditto for the Account .„ „ 371/4
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto Converted ......
... -
Ditto for the Account 671/2%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 -
Ditto for the Account
Ditto Passive Bonds
Ditto 3 per Cent...
Belgian 41/2 per Cent.
French Rentes, 5 per Cent.
Exchanze.
Dutch 21/2 per Cents ................. -
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Aberdeen -
Armagh, Coleraine, Portrush ug -
Birmingham and Oxford
Junction 2 ... 31/2 to -
Brighton, Lewes, Hastings ... 20 ...... 2514 to -
Bristol and Exeter
Ditto New
Bris t o 1 and
......
.• . 3:002(2)11A
.................................... 851962776:441A%.3. ./4., . . .............
titt joo: -
Caledonian"l-
-5 ••• 11%
Cambridge arid Lincoln ....••
Chester and Holyhead
Cuichester and Brighton
Churnet Valley
Cork and Waterford .........
...
:3
ys to -
Cornwall -
ISirect Northern ... ......... .. 21/2...... 3% to -
Eastern Counties -
Do. Perpet. 5 per Ct. No. 1 5/.1.3s 4d 1% ...... to -
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Ditto Quarters .... -
Ditto New % Shares 2l/2 ...... 61/, ..... to -
Great
-
23 -
Great2l/2 2% to -
5... 2201 i
............ 44%
IA
Great North of England 100 2OB -
South and aenf
sdeloVila(nlrdish)... 10
Ditto New ... ............. .... 5
Ditto New ..................... 2 ...... 26 25 to 27
Great Western ..................80 ......187112
to
-
DittoFiflitharseh..a.ta.. ............. ... to -
Guildford, to 5
Lancaster and Carlisle... 2O ...... 41 -
London and Birmingham ...100 ••••..236 -
Ditto Thirds ............ 2 -
Ditto g Shares ............... 2,
London and Blackwall ......... 16% 9% 1/2... to -
London and 8right0n.......... 50
Do. New consolidated Bths.. 25 -
London and Croydon... 13/. 15s. 9d lB%l/2_, to -
Do. New l3s 4d 1 -
London and South Western.. 41% 79 ...... to -
London and Y0rk......... ...••• 21/2 4l/2%... to -
London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 21/2 2% to -
Londonderry and Enniskillen 21/2
Mancliesiei and Leeds 73 .....156
Ditto Half Shares - 32 -
Ditto Quarters -
Midland 100 169 ...... to 1671/2
Ditto New
Midland, Birm. and Derby ...100 .' 130% to -
Newcastle &Darlington June. 25 ...••• - -
Ditto New Brandling -
Newcastle and Berwick
Newry and Enniskillen ...... 212 4l/24... to -
Newark and Sheffield
North British -
Ditto New 1 . . 41/2 to 5
Northern and Eastern 45 -
North Kent -
North Wales -
Norwich and Brandon ... 10 ... . 19% to -
Ditto, New 1 -
Rugby, Worcester. and Tring 1 -
Scottish Central -
Scottish Midland
ly, ...... 3.A:.... o -
_,
Shrews,Wolver., Dud., Birm. 2 h ...... 4%341/2 to 5
South Devon l5 .. 27% to -
South Eastern and Dover ... 331/8.- 401/2 to 41
Ditto New, No. 3 2l/2, ..... 6% to 7
Staines and Richmond........ 1 -
South Wales -
Trent Valley 2 ... .. 181/2 to -
Trent Valley and Holyhead
Junction ... 1%...... 1% to 2
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ...... 31/2 to -
West Cornwall 11...... 3341/8- to -
York and North Midland -
Ditto Selby
Ditto, Extension -
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens
Bordeaux and Toulouse -
Dijon and Mulhouse 2 .. 2% to -
Great Northern of France
(Laffitte's)
Do. Dr 'Ross- "-` 01/ " - tr

Ai. Do. (Rosamel's). ..... 2 ..... 214%... to
Louvain and Jemeppe
to 3%
Lyons and Avignon 2
Narnia. and Liege........ ...... 2% 5%3/4
... to
Orleans and Vierzon
Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 2 ••• .... l I %%... to
141/2 ...... to
Paris and Lyons(Latlitte) ... 2
Parisand Lyons(Ganneron's) 2 ... .. 2)783/, to
Paris and Lyons (Calon's)... 2 . ... 2
Paris and Orleans... 2O ...... 48%% to
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Strasburg
Rouen and Havre - to
Royal North of Spain
Sambre and Muese -
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
National of Ireland ... 171,4 ...... 21 ...... to -'—

The Countess of Mount Edgecumbe has succeeded the
Marchioness of Douro as the Lady in Waiting to the
Queen, and Lord Byron has succeeded Viscount Sydney
as the Lord in Waiting to her Majesty.

TUE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 21 1845.