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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-
est 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 01.-
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 moro 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 th® pur-
pose of hearing the Royal Assent given by commission to
certain Bills.

Their Lordships re-assembled at Five.

The Marquis of NORIWANBY 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, itho united in his
ow•n 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 DACRE
Lord ITATRERTON, and the Earl of STRADBROKE took
part.

Earl FITZWILLIAM, in presenting a petition against
the Maynooth Bill, took occasion 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 Di►inity.

Several Bills having been forwarded a stage, their
Lordships adjourned.
The House of Commons assembled at Four o'clock.
The motion for bringing up the report on the Grand
Junction Railway Bill being opposed by Mr. Bream)°,
a short discussion ensued; after which, on a division,
the Bill was rejected, the numbers being—
For bringing up the report 73
Against it
Majority against the Bill --133
Lord HOWICK suggested the propriety of introducing
some measure for regulating the charges on railways.
Sir G. CLERK thought the question worthy the con-
sideration of the Board of Trade, but would not be pre-
pared to offer anything beyond a suggestion.
Mr. LABOUCHERE thought the Board ofTrade should
take up the subject.
On the motion of the SOLICITOR-GENERAL, the Se-
lect Committee was nominated to consider the case of
HOWARD v. GOSSETT.

Mr. B. OSBORNE moved for a return of all monies
'derived from rents of college lands, endowments, be-
quests, fee 3 on matriculations, and taking of degrees ;
specifying the amount of income paid therefrom to
the senior and junior fellows, professors, scholars, and
other officers of Trinity College, Dublin.
In answer to Sir T. FREMANTLE, who expressed a
hope that the motion would be withdrawn,

Mr. OSBORNE said, that he wished to see Trinity Col-
lege thrown open to all religious denominations, and
should certainly press his motion, as he considered that
such must be the result of inquiry.
The motion, which was seconded by Mr. WARD, was
supported by Mr. HUME, Mr. WANBURTON, Mr.
EWART, M. SHEIL, Mr. BELLEW, Mr. M. GIBSON, Mr.
T. DuricomnE, Lord J. RUSSELL, and Mr. BRIGHT; and
opposed by Mr. SHAW, Sir T. FREMANTLE, Sir R.
INGLIS, Sir R. PEEL, and Mr. COLQUHOUN.
On a division the motion was negatived, the numbers
being—For the motion, 53 ; against it, 82—majority
against the motion, 29.
The adjourned debate on the Maynooth Bill was then
resumed by Sir H. W. BARRON, who supported the
measure.

The House was subsequently addressed by Mr. Law-
son, the Hon. H. Cholmondeley, Mr. Ffolliott, Sir D.
Norreys, Mr. Godson, Colonel Rawdon, Mr. Shaw, Mr.
Gaskell, Mr. Bellew, and Sir, R. Inglis; after which,
upon the motion of Colonel Verner, the debate was
adjourned.
_

In a very recent article we gave an outline of Captain
BERKELEY'S argument of Friday evening last against
the absurd practice of sending out our ships of the line to
sea with a different complement in time of peace from
that which they are allowed in time of war, though the
canvass to be carried, and their number of guns and their
weight of metal should be exactly the same in the one
case as in the other. It is remarkable that when Captain
BERKELEY was speaking to the fact of the Albion carry-
ing her proper complement of from 800 to 830 men on
board the experimental squadron, whereas she had been
dispatched to Lisbon, where there lay a large squadron
of the French navy, and at a period in which our hostile
collision with France appeared to be almost inevitable,
short of that complement by 100 men, he was inter-
rupted by a remark from Sir GEORGE COCKBURN, which
seemed designed to impeach the force of the case esta-
blished, by showing that it would not necessarily lead to
the results apprehended. Sir GEORGE remarked that in
the expedition to the coast of Syria wider the late
Government, one of our 90-gun ships had on board no
more than 680 men. If that isolated fact could have
prove-d anything in favour of the vicious system of under-
manning, which it did not, it would have been com-
pletely set aside by the pithy rejoinder of Captain
BERKELEY, that at that very time he was remonstrating
with and almost retiring from his colleagues in office
because they would persist in such dangerous and un-
warrantable experiments. That Sir GEORGE COCKBURN,
a member of the present Administration, by whom
these colleagues have been driven from office, should
now plead the precedent of their pernicious prac-
tice to justify a folly which, on former occasions, he has
himself so stoutly condemned, only supplies a proof how
trouble
prone men in office are to ensconce themselves behind the
authority
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practice
than
for the future. But Sir GEORGE COCKBURN, in his sub-
sequent speech, when attempting to excuse the one, ab-
surdity of the " sliding scale" of manning, adopted by
his predecessors, fell into some of the most startling
in-
consistencies we ever heard of. So good an officer
must
have had a bad case, indeed, when it ran him into such
t
absurc( and illogical conclusions as those which we find
attributed to him. He denied that he had ever said he
could man the navy well, at the present moment, with
good seamen without difficulty ; what he had said was,
that it was impossible to get a number of " able seamen
at the moment they were required." Why, that was
precisely the part which Sir CHARLES NAPIER, Captains
BEIIKELEY, PECUELL, and Roils, have at different pe-

nods of the present and the last session so strenuously
asserted in proof of the defective management of the
Board whereof Sir GEORGE is the first effective Lord.
The question however is, why Sir GEORGE COCKBURN
and the other Lords have never devised, matured, and pro-
pounded, on their own responsibility, in Parliament, a
plan whereby the loss of these valuable men's essential
services, when needed by the exigencies of the country,
may be hereafter obviated? Why have they never

proposed to Parliament to make some permanent
provision, in the nature of half-pay, or pen-
sions, for able seamen, the condition of their title
thereto being that they shall not enter into any foreign
service, and be always liable to be again entered for
duty under certain limitations as to classes and rotations
of liability; and, above all, let them preserve these pen-
sions, not only as a retaining fee, but as an honorary
distinction, together with the wages of any other em-
ployment in the merchant or other British service into

which they may enter. The miserable spirit of inter-
ference which has prompted the Government to act on
the principle of denying to these publi,; servants any
portion of the public money whilst they are earning any
emoluments derived from private services, is one of the
most vexatious and arbitrary among the many causes
which disgust our sailors with the treatment they must
now look forward to after once entering the navy. If
the half-pay or pensions, we propose, be duly deserved,
what have de Government to do with the question of
how much more the recipients may legitimately gain in
other quarters? In the very nature of things the result
of this inquisitorial process can only be, that because an
able seaman or petty officer is found to be getting pri-
vately two-thirds of the amount of his allowance in the
pay, you cut him off directly from the entire of that
allowance, and leave him to starve on the two-thirds of
the sum which he draws from some other connexion.
On both sides of the House the propable objections of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer appeared to be anticipated
as likely to prove fatal impediments to all or any
great measures of improvement. But the first con-
sideration is, what the exigencies of the public ser-
vice demand ? And when we look at the hundreds of
thousands of pounds annually wasted by the Board of
Admiralty on naval cobbling, breaking up, cutting down,
lengthening, reducing, deepening, widening ships of war
that ought never to have been built, if they require such
organic changes in their construction, we must not be
told that the funds requisite for a just and even generous
provision of the nature we advocate cannot be found.
Our gallant seamen will have reason, indeed, bitterly to
complain if they are to be turned upon with that an-
nouncement, when —as we learn from a Hampshire
paper of last week—the new royal steam yacht, the
Victoria and' Albert, the building of which, but two
or three years ago, cost, we know not how much, and
its gilding and decorations we are afraid to say how
much more, is again in dock, undergoing a huge
course of repairs and alterations,. in addition to those
which have already cost the country 33,0001.
Sir GEORGE COCKBURN "concurs in the propriety of
sending all ships to sea fully manned," and yet he allows
that the Albion is limited to 690 men, though, he adds,
she ought to have at least 750 men. In the same spirit
of inconsistency, Captain Bons, after Sir GEORGE, ar-
gued that because when NELSON was in the Agamemnon,
she was 100 short of her complement, and that when
the great action of Trafalgar was fought several of our
line-of-battle ships were very short of their complements,
therefore it is very well that we should continue to sail
our sea-going men of war, now-a-days, under-manned.
If our brave fellows—that is—have really done their
duty despite the odds against them of deficient manning,
to which they ought never to have been subjected ; con-
tinue to hamper them with the same disadvantages, and
multiply, by habitually renewing, them. What logic is
this ? Because your mismanagement rendered them
liable to be defeated, and their intrepidity trampled over
by the very superior forces of their enemy, continue
your mismanagement, increase their deficiency of hands,
and enhance that enemy's superiority of manning 1 But
Sir GEORGE COCEBURN, on the contrary, affirms that
ships without their proper complements of men cannot
be sent out to meet an enemy."
" The Admiralty were now anxious to try certain ships
which had been built upon different plans, in order to ascer-
tain their respective qualities ; and by the aid of seamen who
had been employed as labourers in the dockyards, and of ad-
ditional marines, they would make an effort to render the
crews of those vessels strong enough to manoeuvre them in
the Channel so as to test their sailing qualities. The Admiral
who would have the command of those ships would know
to what extent they were manned, and he would not
expect their various manoeuvres to be performed in so ef-
ficient a manner as if they had their full complement of
men."

Why, then, the result of the trials to be made by this
squadron of experiment must necessarily be—good for
nothing. But we must defer this important subject
again, owing to want of space.

Madrid journals of the 13th have been received. The
business before the Cortes was drawing rapidly towards
a close. Indeed it had been all disposed of in the
Chamber of Deputies, and the Senate on the 13th was
merely occupied in registering the money Bills sent up
to it by the Deputies. The Castellano states that Wed-
nesday, the 14th, would be the last day on which the
Cortes would transact business previous to the proroga-
tion. The same journal says it is probable that Prussia,
Austria, and Russia, would follow the example of the
the Court of Rome, and acknowledge Queen IsABELLA.
The Intendant of the Royal Household had left Madrid
for Barcelona, to make preparations for the QUEEN'S
journey, and a body of troops had also marched in the
same direction.

The Three per Cents. were done at 341 for cash, and
35 at 60 days; the Five per Cents. at 25, at 60 days;
the Coupons, at 28i at 52 days; the Vales, at 11 at 59
days; and the Debt without Interest, at 8i at 60 days.

The French Chamber of Deputies resumed on Mon-
day the discussion on the great northern line of rail-
way. An amendment was proposed by M. DELBAQUE for
a branch line be t ween Fampo ux and Ha zebruck, which was
supported by M. BERRYER and M. BILLAULT; the latter
Member urging as a reason that it would place Calais
and Dunkirk in direct communication with Paris, and
would be of the first importance in the event of a war
with England. The amendment was opposed by the
Minister of Public Works, who recommended the Cham-
ber to postpone the question till next session. The
amendment, however, was adopted by a large majority.
M. GARNI ER PACES then put some questions to the
Government relative to a proposition said to have been
made by M. GANNERON, the banker, for constructing
certain lines of railway. It had been stated publicly,
and generally believed, that M. GANNERON had offered

to lend the Government a sum of 700,000,000 f.
(28,000,0001.), at 31 per cent., to construct the lines
from Paris to Avignon by Lyons, from Paris to Stras-
burg, and from Paris to the Belgian frontier. He
highly approved of the proposition, because it would
enable the Government to keep these lines in their own
hands, and was therefore anxious to know whether such
a proposition had been entertained. The Minister"had
not replied at the hour of p )st. The Chamber of Peers
had appointed Count Roz to draw up the
report on the Bill for the conversion of
the Five per Cent. Stock. The Journal des
Debats publishes a long letter on this Bill,
written by M. C. DIINOYER, described as one of the
ablest political economists of the day. The writer is
strongly opposed to the Bill, but it is of the less impor-
tance at present as it, is well known the Ministry will
not press it this session, and the Peers are decidedly
hostile to it. According to a letter from Switzerland, in
the ContOutionne/, the Catholic cantons are preparing
to csrry into execution the decree for the introduction of
the Jesuits. The Catholic conference at Lucerne had
addressed a note to the Governments of Soleure and
Tessino, inviting them to make common cause for the
re-establishment of the convents.

The public funds improved considerably on the Paris
Bourse on Monday, especially in the Five per Cents.
The Three per Cents. closed at 86E 35c. ; the New
Loan, at 86E 65c. ; the Five per Cents. at 121 f. 90c. ;
Orleans Railroad shares, 1,252 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 1,120 f. ;
Havre, 900 f. ; Avignon, 1,075 E ; Basle, 276 E 25c. ;
Spanish Actives, 40* ; Spanish Three per Cents., 42* ;
Spanish Passives, 8.
The following are the quotations for the new lines :

Orlear.s and Bordeaux, 220 f. premium ; Boulogne, 1501.
ditto ; Troyes and Montereau, 75f. ; Paris and Lyons (Laffitte),
22f. 50c. ; ditto (Calon), 2f. 50c. ; ditto (Ganneron), 12f. 50c. •
Northern line (Laffitte), 32f. 50c. ; ditto (Rosamel), 131.
25c. • Tours and Nantes ( M ackenzie), 11f. 25c. ; ditto (Drouil-
lard), par ; ditto (O'Neill), 15f. ; ditto (Jacques Lefevre),
par ; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 25t. ; ditto (Talabot),
35f. ; ditto (Compagnie bleridionale), 12f. 50c. ; Bordeaux
arid Toulouse (Mackenzie), 51. ; ditto and Cette (Espeleta),
18f. 25c. ; Creil and St. Quentin, lf. 50c.
LvoNs, MAY 17.—Avignon and Marseilles, 1,0551., for
cash ; Paris and Orleans, 1,2221., end of May ; Paris
and Rouen, 1.0961., for cash ; Orleans and Vierzon, 8181.,
end of May ; Orleans and Bordeaux, 720 E, ditto; Montereau,
573 f., ditto.

MELEE. SOPHIE DULCKEN'S CONCERT.-ThiS
talented young lady, who, although only ten years of age, has
already achieved for herself a name as one of the moat delightful
pianoforte players of the day, gives a concert to-morrow evening,
at the Priecess '8 Concert Rooms. In addition to the performances
of the fair beneficiare herself on the pianoforte, we are to have
Herr Edward Meyer on the clarionet, Ginlio Regondi on
the concertina, and Herr Adolph Simon on the violin.
The great attraction of the evening, however, will
be the performance of Mademoiselle Lorenzina Mayer,
on the flute. This lady is the only female fluted ever heard. She
has, during the winter, been giving concerts all over the Continent
]isms,
and Mademoiselle
Madame
Ba e Schloss,
m eet
w ,
ith the greatest success. We understand that her playing is de-
lightful. Among the vocal performers engaged we observe the
names
s, of
MtoisgsetGhaelrbwraiitthh,tht.hsee
.Missesfsta.Wdigi
Brizzi, Handel Gear, and the immortal John Parry, so that we
anticipate a great treat.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 2,500
bales, all, to the trade, without change in prices.-Shares
were not so good, but prices had not materially changed.
Barnsley Junction, 4%; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Ches-
hire Junction, 10% % ; Belfast and Ballymena, 8% % ;
Belfast and County Down, 114 ; Bolton, Wigan, and
Liverpool, 12%; Caledonian, 11 ; Chester and Birkenhead,
541,4 ; Chester and Holyhead, 16; Churnet Valley, 5%;
Clithoroe Junction, 2,4 ; Cork and' Waterford, 234 ' • Dublin,
;
Mullingar, and Athlone, 4% 935. 9d. Eastern Counties,
New Shares, 4% Bs. 6d. ; Edinburgh Glasgow, and 64 ;
Glasgow and Dumfries, 225. 6d. 225. ; Grand Junction, 233 ;
Dii to, Half Shares, 110 A ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 5814 ;
Ditto, New Quarters, 4914- % ; Ditto, Eighth Shares, 2114 ;
Great Southern and Western Extension, 131/8 ; Great
Western, Fifth Shares, 42; Huddersfield Canal and Railway,
714 ; Huddersfield and Sheffield, 714 ; Inverness and
Elgin, 21s. ; Limerick and Waterford, 8% lA r Liverpool,
Ormskirk, and Preston, 2% 51s. 3d.; London and Birming-
ham, 321. Shares, 44% ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 33% ;
London and Brighton, 64 % ; London and Windsor, 7s. •,
Londonderry and Enniskillen, 514 5 ; London and York, 4%
; Direct Northern, 314 ; Leeds and Dewsbury, 10% ;
Leeds and Thirik, 7 • Leeds and West Riding Junction, 9%;
Manchester, Sheffield,
and Midland Junction, 61A ; Man-
chester and Leeds, Quarter Shares, 22 ; Midland Railway,
168% 168: Ditto, 401. Shares, 20 19% ; Ditto Consolidated
Birmingham and Derby, 1311 ; Newark and Sheffield, 5%;
North British, 17 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 4%; North Wes-
tern, 4!,4 86s. 6d. ; Oxford and Birmingham Junction, 765. 3d.
765. 6d. ; Preston and Wyre, 30 ; Ditto Extension, 114 ;
Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares, 14% ; Shrewsbury,
Wolverhampton, and Birmingham, 5; Shrewsbury and Grand
Junction, 614 ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheshire, 43/ ;
South-Eastern and Dover, 41 4014 ; 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, ; 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 (Lailitte'e),
5 6; Ditto (Rosamel's), 2%; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux
(English), 11% % ; Paris and Lyons (English), Laffitte's,
3% 3 ; Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's), 31. 595. ; Verona and
Ancona, 425.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 20.-The sales are
-Barnsley Junction, 4%; Birkenhead, Manchester, and
Cheshire -Junction, 101,1; Cambridge and Lincoln, 71,4 %;
Churnet Valley, 51,4 % ; Clitheroe Junction, 2% 3% prem.;
Direct Northern, 3ci ; Dublin, Mullingar, and Athlone, 4%;
Glasgow and Dumtries. 245. ; Huddersfield and Manchester
Railway and Canal. 714 % ; Leeds and Thirsk, ; Leeds
and West Riding Junction, 10 93/ ; Liverpool, Ormskirk,
and Preston, 2% 34 ; London and Worcester, Oxford and
Rugby, 4% ' • London and York, 4%; Manchester,Bury, and
Rossendale, 17 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 58 ; Do. New
Quarters, % ; Manchester and Buxton, 5% 1,4 ; Manchester
and Leeds, Half Shares, 7014 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 21%
21 ; Midland Railway Consols, 401. Shares, 2014 ; Preston
and Wyre Extension, 2% '% ; Sheffield and Lincolnshire
Junction, 1 13-16 ; outh-Eastern, No. 1, 15 ; Ditto, No. 3,
6 15-16 ; Trent Valley Continuation and Holyhead Junction,
214 ; West Yorkshire, 2%; Whitehaven and Furness, 23/4
% ; 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
9914 to 99% for Money, and for Time 99% to 99%. Exche-
quer.bills have realised 58s. to 595. prem. Bank Stock has
been firm at 210, and India Stock has touched 280.4 The New
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been marked 1011% to
101%, and the Three per Cents. 9814 to 98%.
The Foreign Bonds have attracted less attention than yes-
terda3-. Spanish Five per Cents. have been at 30, and the
Three per Cents. at 42 to 4214. Portuguese Converted have
been at 6714 to 671, : these are all about previous rates.
Mexican have been quoted at 37 to 3714. 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.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY" AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock..

- 2lO

3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 98VA %
3 per Cent. Consols Anns
New 314 per Cent. Annuties lOlllO
Long Annuities ,Expire sth Jan. 1860 lll4
Do. 30 Tears, Expire Oct. 10, 1859 ll 1-1 G
Ditto3oYears,ExpireJan.s,l860
India Stock 2BO
Consols for Account 99%
India Stock for Account
ExcheqUer Bills. 13,4 (1. 11Ad.
1,0001.
500/.
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

Thai) Converted ....
....
Ditto for the Account 67%14
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 —
Ditto for the Account
Ditto Passive Bonds B%
Ditto 3 per Cent...
Belgian 4% per Cent. 99
French Rentes, 5 per Cent.
Exchange.
Dutch 2% per Cents .................
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Aberdeen ............... ........ 2% 3%3/4... to
Armagh, Coleraine, Portrush 1% 2% to
Birmingham and Oxford
Junction 2 ...... 3% to -•-
Brighton, Lewes, Hastings ... 20 ...... 2514 to
Bristol and Exeter
Ditto New — 2 ... 7% to
Bristol and Gloucester 3O ...... 59 ...... to
Caledonian 5 ...
.. 7 111
14tii to
CChaniesbterirdangedanHdoLlyihnecadoln ......
101% ......
164
to _
en iehester and Brighton ...... 10
Churnet Valley 2
Cork and Wrterford ...... 6%34% to o
Cork 2%%... to
Cornwall ...
l'irect Northern .... ........ .. 2%...... 31" A to
Eastern Cotnties
Do. Perpet.• 5 per Ct. No. 1 5/.13s 4d 114 ...... to
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Ditto Quarters
... 15vi to
Ditto New % Shares
o
Great South and W. (Irish)... 10 - 23 - to
Great North of Scotland
Great North of England 100 2OB
Ditto New 5 ... 53% to 53
Ditto New 2 . ..... 26 25 ... to 27
Great Western
Ditto Fifths
Guildford, Farnham, Portms. 2% ....... . 4% % to 5
Lancaster and Carlisle... 2O .... 41
London and Birmingham ...100 236
Ditto Thirds
Ditto 1% Shares
33% to 32%
London and Blackwall 16% 9%%... to
London and 8right0n.......... 50
Do. New consolidated Bths.. 25
London and Croydon.- 13/. 15s. 9d.... 18% % to
Do. New l3s 4d 1
London and South Western.. 41% 79 to
London and York ... ..... ...... 2% 4%%... to
London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 2% 2% to
Londonderry and Enniskillen 2%
Manctie4,l and Leeds 73 .....156
Ditto Half Shares ...... _32 ...... 71
Ditto Quarters
Midland lOO 169 ...... to 1671/
Ditto New
Midland, Birm. and Derby ...100 130% to
Newcastle & Darlington June. 25 ...... to
Ditto New Brandling ...... 10
Newcastle and Berwick ...... 11/2 ,15
Newry and Enniskillen ..... 2% 4104— to
Newark and Sheffield
North British ... 10
Ditto New ......... . ..... ..... 1 .. ... 41/, to 5
Northern and Eastern 45 . 67
North Kent
North Wales 1
Norwich and Brandon ... 10 ....•. 191/1 to
Ditto, New . 1
Rugby, Worcester. and Tring 1
Scottish Central ......... ....,. 2% 6%%3/ to
Scotti,sh Midland ,. 114 3%..... to
Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Birni. 2% 4%3/% to 5
South Devon . 15
South Eastern and Dover ... 33%...... 401,h to 41
Ditto New, No. 3 , 2% 6% to 7
Staines and Richmond......~ 1
South Wales ,. 21/2 5%%... to
Trent Valley .... 2 . .. 18% to
Trent Valley and Holyhead
Junction . 1% l% to 2
Waterford and Kilkenny...,„ 1 ...... 31,0 to
West Cornwall . 114...... 33/4 %... to
York and North Midland ... 50 ......1051/2 • to
Ditto Selby , 20
Ditto, Extension ... 114 ...... 17%14 . to
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens, ...... . 4
Bordeaux and Toulouse ..... 2
Dijon and Mulhouse , 2 , ... 2% to
Great Northern of lerance
(Lai:flue's)
Do. Do. (Rosamel's) .., 2 ..... 21,4%... to
Louvain and Jemeppe . 2 ...... 41A to 3%
Lyons and Avignon
2 2....
Namur and Liege........
............
5tA3A... o .
tot 1-
Orleans and Vierzon
Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 2 .......11%% to —,
Paris and Lyons(Laffitte) ... 2
Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's) 2 ... .. 2% 3/4 to
Paris and Lyons (Calon's)... 2 . ••• 2
Paris and Orleans 20 48% %... to
Paris and Roden to „.....4234 43% to 4234
Paris and Strasburg 2
....., 2% to
Rouen and Havre 4 ...... 294-- to
Royal North of Spain
Sambre and Muese ......... ... 4
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
National of Ireland ......... ... 714

The Countess of Mount Elgecumbe has succeeded the
Marchioness of Douro as tie Lady in Waiting to the
Queen, and Lord Byron has kicceeded Viscount Sydney
as the Lord in Waiting to ht Majesty.

LLO YD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MAY 21.—Wind, at noon, N. W., moderate breeze
and cloudy.
MARGATE, MAY 20.—The Jeune Lucille, Luco, from Sea-
ham to Bordeaux, was abandoned this morning in a sinking
state in the North Channel, having been on shore—crew
saved.
DEAL, MAY 20.—Wind N. to N.N.E., fresh.—Arrd. Sal-
dania, Porto Rico. Sld. Hooghley, Sydney ; Orient, Madras
and Calcutta.
OFF PORTSMOUTH, MAY 20.—Prince Albert, London for
New York ; John Wiavel, Walker, Sierra Le( ne for Ghent,
days. _ _

~OAVES, MAY 20.—Arrd. Free Charlotte, Lundstrom,
Iquique; Isabella and Ann, Main, Bahia.
PLYMOUTH, MAY 20.—Arrd. Pomona, Briggs, Rio Grande.
FALMOUTH, MAY 20.—Arrd. Ellen, Tiller ; Mercury,
Ireland; Nestor, Stewart, Buenos Ayres. Sld. her Majes-
ty's ship Penguin, Plymouth. Off, Falcon, Smith, Ichaboe,
and sailed for Hull.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 20—Wind N., fresh.—Arrd. Virginia,
Wood, Charleston. Sailed, 19—John Bentley, Quebec ;
20th—Emperor, Bombay ; Orozembo, Africa; John Ren-
wick, Rio; Heckla, Augostena Stanley, Santa Martha; Mi-
nerva, Cuba; Ana, Havannah ; Cambria (steamer), Halifax ;
Standard, Quebec; Henry Volant and Triumvirate, New-
foundland. Off, Ann Jeffrey and Hebe, New Orleans.
CLYDE, MAY 18.—Arrd. Sarah, Chambers, Ichaboe ;7:19,
Warsaw, Charleston. Sld. British Isles, Batavia;
Wilmot, Quebec.
DUBLIN, MAY 19.—Arrd. Pearl, John's, New Brunswick.
KINGSTOWN, MAY 10.—Arrd. Trial, Coyle, Ichaboe.
CORK, MAY 18.—Arrd. Emily, Foster, Gape of Good
Hope; Andrew White, Murray, lchaboe.
BRISTOL, MAY 20.—Arrd. Feliza, Pike, Trinidad.
NEWPORT, MAY 20.—Sld. Fame, Aden.
LEITII, MAY 17.—Arrd. Countess of Minto, Von Ichaboe ;
19. Norma, Jackson, and Sarah Fleming, Ichaboe.
HULL, MAY 20.—Arrd. Constantia, Gravel', Greenland.
Sld. Rambler, New York. The Aquatic, Sowerby, from
Stockwitb, ashore on Spurn Point, has been got off.
OFF CASTLETOWN, MAY 15. China, 'Turnbull, New
Orleans.
IPswicH, MAY 19.—Sld. Gannymede, Mauritius.
SHIELDS, MAY 19.—S1d. Colony, Cape of Good Hope.