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friends the admirable ,y tern of double entry !
buoy-keeping, which commences its records
after the accounts tobe therein recorded are paid!
We should be glad to know from :what class of
men these Commissioners of Sewers for West-
minster are selected, or do they select themselves?
Such a graphic picture of incompetence to the
management of public business it has rarely been
our duty to meet with. These men possess the
uncontrolled power of taxing the inhabitants of
the City of Westminster to an enormous extent.
How long shall they be suffered to continue ?
It is said that the four King 3 of the subterra-
nean ways of this great metropolis are the
Chairman of the Westminster Commission, the
Chairman of the Holborn and Finsbury Commis-
sion, the Chairman of the Tower Hamlets Com-
mission, and the fourth, that wonderful ac-
countant Mr. Alderman Churchwarden GIBBS,
who is Chairman of the City Commission ! !

A Tory Contemporary of yesterday, con-
spicuous by his old-fashioned politics, and the
twaddling, old-fashioned manner in which he

enunciates them, is more than usually lugubrious

at thought of the cruel sufferings which hence-
forth must be the inevitable lot of the agricul-
turists. He has discovered that they are all

doomed to death, and is only doubtful on the
point whether their dissolution will be a sudden
or a protracted one. " The tariff," he says,
"dooms the British farmer to a slow death—to a
death of gradual poverty, saddened by blasted
hopes. The sentence of the League, on the
other hand, is prompt as the guillotine. Let the
agriculturists of England choose between these
forms of execution." Cheering remarks these, to
open a new year with, and every way calculated
to infuse balm into the heart of the farmer I
But let him take heart; he will neither
be slowly put to death by the tariff, nor guillo-
tined by the League; but, on the contrary, de-
spite the operation of these dreaded influences,
he will find himself at the close of the yearjust
as far removed from dissolution as he was at the
commencement. The Post's croakings are worth
Ino sane man's consideration for a single instant.

nblice the policp I; prcsent, call-
ing out, ' A bas le mouchat ds ' (' Down with the
spies'), and some of them even lifting their sticks
to the Commissary of Police who had followed
them. The police agents immediately arrested
several of the creators of this disturbance, and

LONDON:
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 10, 1844

They are the mere frantic outbursts of dispirited
Monopoly, which, becaue its own doom is irre-

vocahly sealed, takes for granted that the doom
of the British farmer is sealed also. Our dis-
quieted Contemporary indulged in precisely the
same triste spirit when the great question of Re-
form was in agitation, and never tailed to predict,
day after day, the utter overthrow of the
Constitution as the immediate and inevitable
consequences of that measure. Yet the Reform
Bill was carried, and the Constitution evinced not
the slightest symptom of giving up the ghost

the rest dispersed. The number arrested is
eight or ten. An investigation is going on.
The authorities, who were previously aware of

he intention of the students, had taken steps to
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prevent disturbance ; but they were rendered of
no avail, as the demonstration was altogether
more ridiculous than dangerous."
" A thousand or twelve hundred young people
(says the National) went yesterday (Saturday)
to M. LAFFITTE'S, to express the sentiments of

and at this moment—twelve years after the pe-
riod when, according to the Post, it ought to
Lave resigned its last breath—it is just as alert,
as vigorous, and as efficient as it was in its best
days. And so will it be with the agriculturists,
even when the tariff and the League shall have
achieved a perfect triumph. They will be among
the first to laugh at their own idle apprehensions;
and will look at each other, and wonder how it

patriotic sympathy with which the young men
of the schools had received his speech in the

Chamber of Deputies. This is the only public
reward M. LAFFITTE has received for his noble
conduct; but all the true friends of the Revolu-
tion and of the country, at least, applaud him.
With the exception of the Doctrinaire faction,
there is not one in France who does not render
homage to the firmness with which the respect-
able President of the Chamber recalled the
principles of a revolution which he was not suf-
ficiently strong to defend agains;; intrigue and
cupidity."
The following is the speech delivered to M.
LAFFITTE. It was read by one of a deputation:—
" Sir,—The youth of the schools agree with you entirely in
the masculine truths which you caused to be heard from the
tribune. They do not come here to felicitate you for having
courageously fulfilled the duty of a good citisen, for having
obeyed the noble inspiration of your conscience as a public
man ; they come solely to give you a further proof that they
are not so indigerent to the affairs of the country as people
pretend. The portion of the Parliament that lives by the
budget only answered your prophetic words by irony and in-
sult, but the whole of France has learned them through the
medium of the press. France will preserve the recollection of
them until the day when, having rid herself of the shackles
which now oppress her, she will resume, with a firmer pace,
her march towards the high destinies to which she is appointed.
Neither has France forgotten the great part which you took in
the Parliamentary struggles of the Restoration—the memora-
ble struggles which preceded an abhorred dynasty. She knows
that the popularity of your name served as a pedestal for the
enthronement of a new regime. You have asked publicly, in
the face of the same France, pardon from God and man.
Honour be to you, Sir. History, severe and inexorable, will
give every one his due ; and stigmatise with its fatal seal these
that deserve it.
" Before leaving this house, for ever celebrated, which was
the centre of our revolution of three days ; may the young men
who now address you he allowed to express one wish. The
opposition of 1815 was organised and disciplined ; it upset the
dynasty. May the present opposition organise itself similarly.
May it march as one man. In that manner it will will in-
crease its means and strength a hundred fold, and let it not
doubt but that the' whole country, that army of 34 millions of
men, will march in a body after it."
M. LAFFITTE answered—
" Gentlemen—l am touched with the, sentiments you
have expressed towards me, and I thank you for them. Your
patriotism, your intelligence, and your courage, have long been
known to me, and perhaps you have not forgotten that, in spite
of the clamours of the party which dominates to. day, I have
been able to render to your services, and to your devotion during
another epoch, public and solemn justice. The revolution
of July W 33 then the word ! It has lest that dis-
tinction since that time, by the ingratitude of some,
and the carelessness of others ; and you know bow people
listen to those who have continued faithful to their promises
and their engagements. I have recalled to the recollection of
the Chamber the responsibility under which it lies in the face
of dan,cers which threaten us, and corruption, which is
disgraceful. The Chamber did not choose to understand
me. As for me, gentlemen, lam nearer the grave than any
of you are far from your cradles ; but to the end I shall do my
duty; and my heart, I swear to you, will never cease to beat
for the liberty and happiness of France."
The procession then moved to t'assy, the residence of M.
I3eranger, to invite him, it is to preside at a meeting in
honour of Nloliere. But the administration of the Tartuffes
and the police of the "infinitely little," did not wish for the
file. Disguised agents precipitated themselves upon the
students as they left the house of M. Beranger, who was not
at borne. Acts of vi deuce, which nothing can justify, were
committed upon the young men, and several arrests took place.
Thus ended a day in which the young men had the audacity
to manifest their attachment to the revolution. The Govern-
ment, which M. Laffitte aided to upset fourteen years ago. the
"barbotts" of Beranger, and the " Tartuffes," snd the Mar-
quises of Moliere, could certainly not have done more.
Its the Chamber of Deputies, the Committee.
appointed to draw up the address, are proc,,edin4;
with their labour. Uct Saturday, in answer to a
question relative to the collision between the
Church and the 'University, the Minister of
Public Instruction said, the Government would
with all its power resist the pretensions of the
clergy to interfere with the public educati:m of
youth. The reply was received very favourably
The Minister of Finance also made a statement
which gave satisfaction, and showed that there
would not only be a surplus of revenue to the
amount of 800,000 f. over the expenditure for the
last year, but that the various deficiencies for
the years 1840, 1841, 1842, and 1843 would be
reduced to a sum of 350,000,000 f. (14,000,0000
The Budget is to be brought on in the course
of the present month.

was that they could ever have put faith in the
gloomy vaticinations of a one-sided monopolist
journal. The remarks on which we have been
commenting, occur in the course of an article,
suggested to our Contemporary by a late
vgricultural meeting in Lincolnshire. Though
this meeting is decidedly on his own side
of the question, yet his troubled spirit is so far
from deriving comfort from it, that be eyes it
with the same " jealous leer malign" with which

MILTON tells us the Devil eyed Ev.r. in Paradise.
Even the suggestions of such monopolists as

CHAPLIN and. CHRISTOPHER iltil to mee

with his approval. He is a bigot of the "nil-
admirari" school, and can find nothing but
what is tainted in the whole political atmosphere.
D:smissing our Contemporary, we may observe,
that at the Lincolnshire meeting in question, Mr.
CHAPLIN indulged in the following very strange
—say to the least of it—language. " Possibly," he
observed, " if Mr. COBDEN should again present
himself in Lincoln, and if thepeople did notput him
in the river, they ought to get a man accustomed
to mob oratory to answer him." Now imagine
a significant suggestion like this directed by a
member of the League against some sturdy mo-
nopolist—say, for instance, Dr. SLEIGH or the
Duke of BUCKINGHAM ! Imagine Mr. COBDEN
slily hinting the expediency of throwing one or
both of these amiable individuals into the river !
What an uproar there would be among the
Tories ! What a wringing of hands, uplifting of
eyes, and shaking of thick heads Sir ROBERT
PEEL—as on a former memorable occasion—
would take the earliest opportunity of accus-
ing Mr. COBDEN in Parliament of recom-
mending assassination ; and Mr. FERRAND—
he whose genius- for finding mare's nests is
so remarkable—would write long prosy letters
to each of the Tory journals, wherein he would
volunteer to prove before a Committee of the
House, that the Hon. Member for Stockport had
publicly and deliberately advised the murder of
an unotlending Doctor of Divinity, or a Duke,
illustrious by courtesy. Were the League
disposed to make such fools of themselves as
the Tories, they might easily get up as plausible
a case against Mr. CHAPLIN, as their enemies
got up against them ; but they are far too wise to
dream even for an instant of following in the
track of a parcel of spiteful, doting, old women.

OPENING OF THE PORTUGUESE

CORTES.

LisisoN, JAN. 3.—The Cortes were opened
again on the 2d inst. by the Queen in person.
The following is her Majesty's Speech on the

occasion :
Worthy Peers, and Honourable Deputies of
the Portuguese Nation,
With pleasure I see again assembled, in this
respectable place, the representatives of the
nation, whom the fundamental law of the State
has invested with the noble character of legiti-
mate interpreters of the national opinion arid
wishes.

With the view of learning from closer obser-
vation the wants of my people, I left the capital
for some weeks, accompanied by my august
Spouse, and two of my children, to visit the
principal places in Alemtejo and Estremadura
and I hope that that excursion will not have been
without utility for the welfare of the people of
those places, of whose love, loyalty, arid respect
for me, I am happy to make this public acknow-
ledgment.
Since the solemn opening of the last legislative
session, it has pleased Providence to grant, by
the birth of a Princess, another pledge of secu-
rity to the throne of this kingdom.
I have the satisfaction to be enabled to assure
you that I continue to receive from all allied
nations sure proofs of friendship; and I fully
trust that ere long- the negotiations with the Holy
See will be terminated without detriment to the
rights of the Crown, and with due regard to the
wants of the Lusitanian Church.

Accounts from Madrid of the Ist announce
the arrival of Mr. BULWER, the new British
Envoy, on the 31st ult. He shortly afterwards
had an interview with M. BRESSON, the French
Minister. On the 21, the Marquis de Mini.-
FLORZS was to give a grand soirée to M. and
Mme. BRESSON, to which the other Foreign Mi-
nisters had been invited. New Year's Day was
observed as a close holiday, and the Bourse, con-
sequently, was closed.

Most of the Paris papers contain accounts of
the procession of students to the Hotel Laffitte,
to congratulate the senior member of the Cham-
ber on the speech which he delivered a few days
since. Some of the journals reckon the number
of young men who joined in procession at 300,
and others at C)00 and 1,000. The display
gave some alarm to the authorities, and a
considerable number of troops were _ un-

By the Clyde Royal Steam Packet ship, we
have received files of Jamaica Papers to the 9th
of December. The proeeedings in the House of
Assembly
,chi%.,fly occupied public attention, but
tram all accounts they were as long and tedious
as those in the British Parliament. The Bill for
granting a perpetual annuity to the Crown had
been withdrawn, at the instance, it was said, of
the Council, in order not to disturb the Act of
1728... Au . opposition had .been offered to the
granting of any moneys for Church purposes dur-
ing the present sitting. Application having been
made for succour to their establishment, by
Presbyterians, the question of " Non-Intrusion"
hadbeen raised,and will possibly become a subject
of discussion before the Assembly. The Railway
Bill had passed the Lower _House; agricultural
societies are increasing throughout the island,
" performing (says the Jamaica Times) an incal-
unial;le deal of service." All p irtieA seemed to
1; one common desire to encourage emula-
tion ainoug the agricultural population. The
island was
‘generally healthy, and the military
and mtval forces cm the station were in excellent
condition. Front Barbadoes, Trinidad, Dominica,
and most Of the other islands the accounts of

It is exceedingly gratifying to Inc to assure
you that public tranquillity has not been in the
least disturbed throughout the kingdom.

In fixing the amount of land and sea forces
you will attend to the national honour, interest,
and security.
Conformably to the dispositions of the consti-
tutional charter of the Monarchy, the estimates
of receipts and expenditure for the ensuing
financial year will be laid before you; and both
in regard to this subject, and to the different
branches of the public service, my Ministers will
submit to you such proposals as may be thought
expedient, and as experience may have shown to
be necessary.
I am fully confident that the Chambers will
afford to my Government that co-overation
which is to be expected from their zeal and in-
terest in the public welfare.
The Session is opened.

der arms during the night of Friday
The police, too, watched their movements, arid
captured a few of the most noisy. The Journal
des Debats gives the following account of the-
affair :—" A newspaper announced yesterday
morning that M. LAPFITTE was to receive a visit
of felicitation from a, certain number of students,
on account of the speech which he delivered last
Saturday week in the Chamber of Deputies.
Accordingly groups of students met yesterday
morning at the Place de Pantheon and the Place
de l'Ecole de Medicine, and in a short time
about 300 of them set themselves in motion
towards the Pont Neuf, which they passed in
silence. Arrived at the Itue Richelieu, they
saluted the new monument to MOLIERE with
three cheers, and " Vive MOLIERE I" Having
arrived at the Hotel Laffitte, they drew up in the
court of the mansion, and about a dozen of them
went into M. LAFFITTE'S house, and presented
to him a written address. M. LA FFITTE after-
wards came into the court, and addressed to the
students some words of thanks. On leaving the
Hotel Laffitte, the young men seemed at a loss
what direction to take, but ultimately some one
called ' To BMA. ANGER at Passy,' and accordingly
they took that direction. In going along the
Boulevard they were very quiet, but on reaching
the;office of Foreign Affairs they set up a most
tumultuous shouting, amidst which the words,
A has GU IZOT,' were to be distinguished.
The authorities were hitherto content to
watch the procession, but they now in-
terfered, and a commissary of police, who was
present, called upon them to disperse. Accord-
ingly they separated, but the greater portion of
them came together again in the Rue St. Honore,
froin which they proceeded forthwith to Passy.
No disorder took place until they reached the
house of M. BERANGER. On learning that M.
BERANGER was absent, they expressed them-
, selves very much dissatisfied , and commenced to

ARRIVAL OF THE WEST INDIA

the weather and the growing craps are very

favourable.

We direct the particular attention of our
reader %5 to tile report of the important discussion.
in the Westminster Court of Sewers, on the
twenty-seven resolutions of Mr. LESLIE, which
embody his_ plan for the improvement of the ad.
ministration of the affairs of that Commission.
A few startling facts appear on the day's pro-
ceedinp:;. Mr. LESLIE proposed a daily check,
by an improvement on the present system of
daily returns from the contractors, who, it ap-
pears, rt,ceive 7,5 percent. of the whole expendi-
ture of the Westminster Commission, and some
of isiiich is paid before the accounts are even
presented to the -Court ! The chief surveyor
haavio-g start:] that there would be no difficulty in
having such returns, the Court; by supporting
the amendment of the late Chairwan, refused to
have such an important document as a monied
out hill for each day's work I
We commend to the notice of our commercial

AND MEXICAN MAILS.

- -
SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 9.—The Clyde, Royal
Mail Company's steamer, Captain Symons,
arrived this morning, at eight o'clock, .bringing
the following mails :_Columbian, Mexican, and
West Indian.
The news from Mexico is somewhat im-
portant and interesting, inasmuch as it appears
that Santa Anna, is re-elected President for
a term of five years. On the 14th of
November, when the Ciyde arrived at Vera Cruz,
it was learnt that Santa Anna bad visited that
place the day previous, and that he had had the
troops drawn up i❑ the square, and harangued
them. He stated that he had arrived for the
purpose of inspecting the fortifications, and that
war with England was inevitable; that he was
determined to support the honour of his country
to the fullest extent, and would defend the
Castle of St. Juan de Ulloa in person, and
would resign it only with his life. About four
o'clock in the afternoon, however, shortly, after
this bombastic exhibition had taken place, a
special messenger arrived with the information
that he had been re-elected President for a
further term of five years. The news was re-

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARX 10, 1844.

, i-I:!it:try with great rejoicing and

enthusiasm, but no particular manifestation was
made by the civilians on this announcement.
The moment the information had been communi-
cated, Santa Anna immediately mounted his
horse and returned to his house in great haste,
-.without inspecting one of the fortifications or
taking further notice of the troops in any shape
whatever. It is the opinion of the inhabitants
of Vera Cruz, that he merely made the demon-
stration for the purpose of securing his election,
and that his denunciations against England were
sheer bravado, and nothing else.
The Clyde, on the following day, sailed for
Tampico; but on her return, on the 22d Novem-
ber, it was learnt that advances had been made
by the Mexican Government to the British
Minister at Mexico, for the purpose of settling
the differences with England. The British Minis-
ter, however, declined to enter into any corres-
pondence or treaty whatever with the Mexican
Government, until be had received instructions
from our Government : he did not, in fact, open
the letters of the Mexican Government.
The Alexicans had been engaged for some time
in putting all their fortifications into a state of
repair, in the expectation that the British Admi-
ral, Sir Charles Adam, would arrive, and give
them a dressing. Their preparations for de-
fence were most warlike, and it was evident they
expected a conflict.
Sir Charles Adam, when the Clyde arrived at
Bermuda, had gone on for Barbadoos. Every-
thing was quiet in all the 'West India Islands.
Fever had quite disappeared at Bermuda, and
health was completely restored.
It was gathered as a tact that General O'Don-
nell, Captaia-General of Cuba, was openly en-
couraging the revival of the slave-trade at Cuba.
Three large cargoes of these poor miserable
wretches had been recently landed there.
The Inconstant frigate, attached to Jacmel,
sailed for Jamaica on the 6th of November.

Her Majesty's ship of war Albatross, was at
Vera Cruz, as also three French corvettes and a
Spanish frigate. At Havannah, were a French
corvette and an American ditto. There were
none at Bermuda, and at Nassau it was so rough,
that the Clyde held no communication further
than taking in a pilot.
The Company's steamer, Dee, sailed from Ha-
vannah for Belize on the 9th of December; the
Avon ditto, on the 10th, for Mexico; the Dee
arrived from St. Thomas's on the 22d at Bermuda,
bringing the mail to the Clyde.
The Clyde brings home 236,490 dollars, 32,300
of which are from Tampico, and 40,000 from Vera
Cruz to pay the Mexican dividend. The rest are
for merchants' accounts. She also brings 4,661
ounces of gold dust, 3,024 ounces of silver, and
152 of platina ; 1,4631. in British coin, 196 serons
of cochineal, &c. &c.
The Clyde experienced heavy gales from the
N.W. and S.W., all tl►e passage from Ber-
muda, which accounts fur her being four da s
over-due.

COU RT CI 11. c. Li -LA
WINDSOR, TUESDAT.—The Queen and Prince Albert took
their accustomed early walk this morning in the precincts of
the Castle.
The Earl of Liverpool and Sir Henry Wheatley took leave,
and left the Castle in the forenoon.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert left the Castle this afternoon
for Claremont. Her Majesty and her Illustrious Consort oc-
cupied the first Royal earrimze and four, and were accomparii,l
by her 12,iyal Highness the Princess Royal.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales' the Lady in Wa.t-
ing, the Lo •d in Waiting on the Queen, Colonel Arbuthnot,
the Equerry in Waiting on his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
Major General Sir Edward Bowater, and other members of
the Royal suite, followed in the remaining carriages. and four.
The Royal party took their departure from the Castle at
twenty-five minutes past two o'clock, the cavalry escort being
commanded by Lieutenant Lowther.
The Hon. C. A. Murray, and Mr. G. E. and the Hon. Nlrs.
Anson, left with the Royal party for Claremont.
The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay took his departure
from the Castle to-day, on a visit.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady
Fanny Howard, paid a visit to the Queen previous to her Ma-
jesty leaving the Castle. Her Royal Highness afterwards re-
turned to Frogmore Lodge.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at. the
Foreign-office. It was attended by Si: Robert Peel, the Lord
Chancellor, the Duke of Wellington, the Earl of Aberdeen,
Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, Earl of Haddington, Earl of Ripon, Sir Henry Har-
dinge, and Sir Edward Knachbull.
Lord N 4, harncliffe arrived in town in the afternoon from his
seat Wortley Hall, Yorkshire, and joined his colleagues shortly
before four o'clock.
The Duke of Buccleuch and the Right Hon. W. E. Glad-
stone had not arrived in town.
The Council sat two hours and a half.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a meet-
ing yesterday at the Office in Whitehall-place. The Commis-
sioners present were the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop
of London, the Bishop of Llandaff, the Earl of Chichester, and
the Dean of Westminster.
The Attorney-General had an interview with Sir Robert
Peel yesterday. Sir James Graham and other Ministers visited
the Right Hon. Baronet yesterday.
The Archbishop of Canterbury had an interview with Lord
Stanley yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
Sir John Rae Raid had an interview with the Chancellor of
the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-
street.
Dispatches from the Governor of Jamaica, and from the
Governors of the other West Indian Colonies, were received
yesterday, at the Colonial-office.

MONE AND COMMERCIAL NEWS
(From The Sun of' Last Night.)
There was a quiet market for Cotton at Liverpool
yesterday, without any alteration in prices, which were
firm. Sales 4,000 bales, viz., 200 Maranham, at 54d. to
; 50 Egyptian, at 7d. ; 200 Surat, at 3-0. to 4d. ;
300 Pernambuco, at 61d. to 6d. ; and the rest American,
at 44d. to 61d. per lb.—The demand for Railway Shares
was somewhat limited, but they were firm. Eastern
Counties, New, 128 ; Grand Junction, 235 ; Great
Western, Fifths, 19k ; Birmingham, Quarters, 281 ;
Rouen and Havre, lq ; South Eastern, 361 ; ditto,
New, 364 ; Paris and Orleans, 334 and Paris and
Lyons, 3 6-20.
The letters and papers by the West India mail were
not delivered in the usual course of post this morning,
and much disappointment was fat in, consequence.
There were no later colonial arrivals announced in the
City to-day.
A pamphlet (No. 5 of a series, with the title of "
before and after the Union") has been forwttrd,,d
to us for review, as it refers to the subject of banking in
that country. By the way, the previous four numbers
have hot come to hand. The subject isone of itnmensk
importance to the welfare of Ireland, and
.as
ocea,ion serves, we may take an opportunity
of adverting to the contents of the fifth nun:-
her, as it is in, ~t ialat ely c,,nne.ted
monetary affairs, alt.: thcf..;,.1.,, sno;1
;malt under this head. As ie,p,!et:, the politnan 1;4*(1
of the series of pamphlets from the pen of our Aldus-
trious friend Mr. Montgomery Martin, we have that
point to the editorial department. For the present
it is oniy rm'ssary to remark that for 01,
purpo;os of ,thicid.ktin4 truth, the " Banking (Ire-
land) Pamphlet " of the author named is worth a caretid
perk. al ; the more so, ar it refers to tale important t,pie
of " absenteeism," as well as to " Parliament; ry ,L)
svntfition."
• The payment of the divid,,d, comm,eneed at the Bank
of ',gland morning, and there ws.s, indeed, a macs!
nut;u sous attOTlllarWe of the pubiic ereclitot s, aho were
most anxious to get them to interest. " Are the sove-
reigns money ?" was a ques:i,m almost constantly asked
L iy the- recipients. " Whv, cl,n't you see they're mew,"
was as frequently tiiterat, tt h i±r-• ire.A,l•V*Orked (on
such occasions a, the preseut) eiap

Tile purchi-M'S of aock yest,rday 'by the Govertimilv.
br,,kers were externled heyond the :min named under
this hond. They took 70,0001. Consi,ls on priv.l,le
account, and tilyAit 25,0001. to 20.0( )01. tor the Savings'
Banks. 'There is a great diversity of opinion
as to the actual amount of Stock bought yes-
terday by the Government brok,..vs. It is per-
haps not of importance minutely tt s ascertain the
real sum, as, indeed, it is barely possi'Jle to do so, as
privately more is offered on the same I erms as openly
bid for ; but it is an interesting fact to fit :Id so steady an
investment of capital in the funds, as f er as the interest
of the public creditor is concerned. Sot ne accounts give
tko plirohngo,a yesterday at from 530,0601. to 90.0001. stock.
The brokers for the Commissioners for the Sink-
ing Fund mine their first purchase this morning, but
as they bought, altogether, about 26„000!. stock in the
Three per Cent. Consols, we have Ina been üble to ob-
tain the precise amounts taken of Cons.ols and Exchequer
Bills, on account of the debt, the savin gs banks, and for
private individuals. The reappearanc a of the Commis-
sioners for the redemption of the debt. was hailed with
satisfaction.
Consols for the Account have been qu.oted this morning
at 971 and at 97i. Exchequer Bills blase touched 70s.
premium ; India Bonds, under 1,000/. are worth 81s.
premium. Bank Stock commanded as improvement to
1871, or 1-1 per cwt. higher than the day before yester7
day ; while the New Three-and-a Half per Cents. have im-
proved to 1014 without the dividend. Id din Stock has
fallen to 272 ; Reduced Three per Cent..;. hare receded
from 98 to 97- ex dividend.
The market for Spanish Bonds has fallen again to-
day, the Three per Cents, to 301, and the Five per
Cents. to 21-a-, but the latter have since rallied to 21H.
Although the accounts from Lisbon are he Id to be fa-
vourable, the Converted Portuguese Bond s have gone
back from 441 to 44. Dutch Stock is a shade lower
than yesterday. Brazilian Stock has fille7a from 751 to
75; but Mexican remains firm at yeserday.'s rates.
The London and Birmingham Railwa ,y Shares were
sold early this morning at 136 premiums, but they have
since rallied to 135 premium. Grt;a.t Western, the
Brightons, the Eastern Counties, the L: incaster and Car-
lisle are firm. The other Shares remai n very much the
same as yesterday.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAW. S.—Our market
continues very inactive, and business has b, Seri confined to the
following transactions:—South Eastern Sorip, 36 *; Nor-
wich and Brandon, ; Manchester Assura:ace., 91.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITIsH FUND:s.
B
3 r C ent. Red.
t'et:!. Cons.
3/1 i-,r• Cent. 102 k llitto New Ai in uities 956
per Cent.... 1014 Ea. Bills. I,•fks 0. lid 68
Ceti'
to expire i Ditto Small
1860 124 Bank Stock For Act, 272
t. 1659
126 Consols ler )pg.

V(.36.EiGN
th.trirel 5 per coact I)?rtuguese, a r cent..
per cent ' Ditto, New Ditto
80nd5......... Prussian, 5 per pea. „
tmi.s A yres 6 per cent 1 Russlan , 5 per cent.
Unilian, 6 per cere — Metallic ...... .
Co'.oini,lan, 6 per cent — 'Spanish, 5
ukto
f.onds, 6 per cent.. Ili Ditto, Dcferrecl.... ,
9aniAi, 3 per :ent — French, 5 per cent.
1t,25, 5 per cent — Exchange.........:
5 per cent. Fr-mill, 3 i-er r:ent. —f.
t)itto, 6 per cent. 12-437 Onn.ll, 1') per cent.
Veriv inn, 1&,;25,6 per et. Ditto, 5 ner cent....

SHARES.
Eastern Counties (23 paid) •
Great worth of England Railway (1(X) pd)
Hull and Selby .(50 paid) .. .55
Ditto Quarter Sharos ( 4 paid
London and Blackwall (16/ 13$ 4d paid)
London and Greenwich Railway t 12115$ 411 pd
Ditto Preference, or Privilege ..
I.miaton and Bouth ester', (41/1;s lOd pd) 74;
London and Croydon Railway ( Tr.unk) ... 14'
Lancaster and Carlisle (5 paid)
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid)
Newcastle and Darlington Junction(ls paid 28
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
North Midland (100 paid)
Paris and Orleans (20 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid)
Ditto Scrip (25 paid 1 ...
West London, Old Shares I
Ditto First Class Prel
Yarmouth and Norwiah (1
COURSE OF EXCHAN
Amsterdam
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam ..2 U. 12 7i
Antwerp
Hamburgh M.B. 13 15
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 75
Ditto, 3 months 25 95
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 26 5
Frankfort on Maine 122
Petersburgh, 3 Us.
Berlin
Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M lO 0
Trieste, ditto
Madrid
Cadiz 36*
Bilbao
Barcelona
Seville

(20 paid) —u
ferred (10 paid.. 14
i 3 paid)..... ... .. 16i
GE.—( YESTERI )AY.)
:Gibraltar . . -..-
Leghorn .
Genoa ... ...... ....... ..... 26 15
Milan -
Venice ......... . ..... 47
'Naples
Palermo, per oz
iL isbon
!Oporto -
I Rio Janeiro ....,... 23
IBahia
Buenos Ayres • I At •
New York, 21 days sig 'Ht 464
Philadelphia ... 46
PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
'Foreign Gold, bars 4 3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin.; 3 1 5
New Doubloons

New Dollars... ...... 0 4 9i
Silver in Bars... ') 4 1

WESTMINSTER-BRIDGE. —lt appears, f rani the
statement of Mr. Barry, the architect., that no 1 vt.tellit,•g can
make this bridge secure, it is altogether in such a clang, ,rous
state. "It hss become notorious," he says, " that the sy s ,em
pursued by Messrs. Walker and. Burgas for securiog tho
dation of the piers has failed, and the bridge is cot a,equi 2nte.y in
such a critical state as to cause an order to be giver , by the
Commissioners to suspend all further works for the present.
Frori whit 1 have seen of the recent alarming diislor ations of
the present structure, it is now, in my opinion, .) longer a
question as to the propriet yof re-building not the supe structure
alone, but the entire bridge."
To TOE POINT.— A short time belor e Judge
Forster's death, he went the Oxford Circuit in one of the
hottest summers that had been remembered. i charge to
the grand jury was as follows: —" Gentlemen, th. ewi ather is
extremely hot; I am very old, and you al e very well
acquainted with your duty; practice it.