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London, England, 1844-07-13 00:00:00

31%-te-76;nwt.' Debentures ....
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Ban Stock
200% j
Grand Canal Debentures, 6 per Cent.
4 per Ccnt. Ballast Office Debentures 9S%
LAST PRICES OF SHARES.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Dublin 'and K. Road
Drogheda 55 . ...... 72
Dublin and Cashel ditto 2%. . 5
Hibernian Bank " 25 30%
Royal Bank
National. Insbranee 25 34
Patriotic ditto
Wicklow Copper Mines
City of Dublin Steam Company 100
British and Irish Steam Company ... 50
Steam Ship Building Company
, .. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 12.—Our mar
ket continues firm, with less business doing :—Eastern Colin,
ties, 12k ; Ditto, Registered, 14 ; Manchester and Birming
ham, 55k; Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, 10k.

MPERIAL PARLIA MENT

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at One o'clock.
RAILWAYS BILL.
Mr. GLADSTONE moved that the Committee on
this Bill be postponed until Thursday next, as he had
been in communication with several of the leading rail-
way companies of the country, and it was his intention
to propose certain amendments founded upon sugges-
tions which had been made to him at these interviews.
Mr. IVAKLEY thought the Right Hon. Gentleman
ought to put the House in possession of these amend-
ments at once. It was of the utmost importance thatthe
House should know what the Government intended to
introduce into this Bill. This was a very serious ques-
tion, and he thought it ought to be :opposed in every
way the House would admit of. He believed that
this was one of the most dangerous measures ever intro-
duced into Parliament, with reference to the power to be
given to the Executive Government of the country, and
he should feel it his duty to give it every opposition in
his power.
Mr. ENTWISLE said it was his intention, in Com-
mittee on this Bill, to move that the tax on third-class
passengers on railways be abolished.
In answer to a question from Sir G. lIEATHCOTE,
Mr. GLADSTONE said it was not the intention of
the framers of this Bill to call for any decision on the
part of Parliament as to the policy of future intervention,
either in the form of a revision, purchase, or in any
other form that might arise out of the provisions of
this Bill. That was the first great object the Govern-
ment had in view. The second great object was, that
no intervention on the part of the Government should
take place, except for some great national purpose, and
on a national scale.
After a few words from Mr. HAWES and Mr.
WALLACE,
The Committee on the Bill was postponed until Thurs-
day next.
The report of the Protection of Purchasers (Ireland)
Bill was brought up and received.
The Soap Allowance Bill went through Committee.

POOR-LAW AMENDMENT BILL.
On the Order of the Day being read for going into
Committee on this Bill,
Mr. HAWES complained that the House had ap-
pointed to meet that day for the purpose of going into
Committee on the Railways Bill, and Hon. Members had
come down prepared to discuss it.—(Hear, hear.) Now,
the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir J. Graham) invited them
to the consideration of the poor-law. He pro-
tested against this way of doing business, and though
it was far from his wish to throw any obstruction in the
course of the Government, he gave notice that on a
future occasion, should a like proceeding be attempted,
he would take the sense of the House upon it.—(Hear.)
Mr. WAKLEY wished to call the attention of the
House to the 11th clause of the Poor-law Bill, which
provided for the management and control of parish ap-
prentices. He had, to his great astonishment, found out
that these pauper apprentices were often bound for a
period of twelve years, and that, during that period, they
were never visited by the parish authorities at all. In
his opinion, they ought to be regularly visited and exa-
mined, and this apart from their masters and mistresses.
He thought the Government ought to confer some new
powers on the Commissioners with respect to this
subject.

Sir J. GRAHAM said he was most anxious to secure
sufficient powers to the Commissioners for the guardian-
ship of the apprentices. It would be seen, by the present
Bill, that the Commissioners were invested with con-
siderable powers ; they were authorised to prescribe the
terms and provisions of the indentures, and to take care
that they should be properly.executed.
The House then went into Committee, Mr. GREENE
in the chair.

On clause 35 being put,
Col. WOOD complained of the deficiency of school-
rooms in different poor-law unions. Parishes had been
called on to expend a large sum in schools, and now
unions were to be called on to erect district schools.
The poor would not permit their children to be removed
from them, and the schools would be entirely left to
orphans and deserted children. He objected to concen-
tration of children in district schools, notwithstanding
the instance of the good management of the Norwood
school. He preferred schools where the children were
kept in connection with their parents. He begged the
Right Hon. Gentleman to postpone this proposition to
another year.

Mr. COWPER hoped the Right Hon. Gentleman
would not consent to postpone this question.—(Hear,
hear.) He conceived that it was impossible to have good
schools unless they had large ones. The success of the
experiment at Norwood had removed all doubt as to the
proper course to be pursued. The only defect in the
clause arose from the want of provision for adequate
iespection, and he hoped that that defect would be reme-
died. He believed the Gallant Colonel could net find
a single good workhouse school in the country ; at least
for one good workhouse school, he engaged to vp ent i pA
100 which were conducted on a different system. The
strongest proof of the inpfkinney of workhouse schools
was to he &Lind in the pFisons of London, Thp inspec. 1
tars declared that the girls in prison who had 1,,,,
w.it The,
to these schools, vqlT the most vint— . _.,,aged
only objection
persons whore they had /no.. - .........t and immoral
he had to "'" —'jclause - _ ...e 35th lnt§ t} }e 14m4tation to fifteen '
miles.
•

Colope4 Wood, Mr. Wakley, and bast of others rose
ftt once and ainlclst groat laughter; hut gave way to

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
Cotton at Liverpool yesterday closed rather quietly and at
barely the rates of last week. Sales 5,000 bales.—Shares had
a heavy aspect, except South-Eastern and Dover, which con •
tinued firm. Birmingham and Gloucester, 98* ; Chester and
Holyhead, 44 ; Dublin and Drogheda 724 ; Ditto, perpetual,
11. Is. 4d; Grand Junction, 215; Ditto, One-Eighths, 12*;
Great Western, Fifths, 23-1 ; Ditto, Half, 794 ; Lancaster and
Carlisle, 44 ; Liverpool and Manchester, Half, 115 ; Ditto,
Quarters, 26 ; Manchester and Leeds, Quarters, 84 ; Midland
Counties, 98 ; North Midland, Thirds, 33 ; North Union, 934 ;
South Eastern, 364 ; Lyons and Avignon, 11. 18s. ; Paris and
Lyons, 21. 9s.

The sales of Cotton for the week at Liverpool have been
33,030 bales. The stock is 998,500 bales, against 970,500
bales to the same period of last year.
A notice issued by the Postmaster-General, this morning,
has occasioned some talk. It has been a practice for some
years past for the consignees of vessels to send letters in ships
in which they are interested.. Now, however, it seems that
the privilege under the new Post -office law has been
done away with. As the object is one which may entail loss
upon owners and captains if the law be not complied with, it
is worth while to give the Post-office notice under this head :
"As there is reason to believe that, under some misap-
prehension of the law, a practice has for some time existed of
forwarding consignees and other letters out of the United
Kingdom by contract packet-boats otherwise than through the
Post-office, the Postmaster-General thinks it necessary to
point out that such a practice is. in direct contravention
of the law, as no letters, whatever may be their nature or
description, can be legally sent out of the United Kingdom
by packet-boats, otherwise than through the Post-office ; and
any infringement of the law in this respect will render the
parties liable to a prosecution."
There are accounts to the 26th June from New York, and
to a corresponding date from Canada. Their general tenor in
connection with trading matters is good ; but in the St. Law-
rence freights continued exceedingly high, owing to the
scarcity of shipping. This arises in part from the great falling
off in the emigration this season to Canada, and the indisposi-
tion to ship goods so largely, the result of the business of former
seasons, owing to alteration of duties, over- supplies, and other
causes, having induced more caution. The greatest advance
seemed to be in the freight for flour, the timber vessels not
being always adapted for the conveyance of that article.
There is an impression also that shipping will continue
scarce, no less than 500 vessels being, we are informed, en-
gaged in the guano trade.
The price of Coasols for Money and the Account has ruled
to-day from 99 and to The premium upon Exchequer
Bills has receded a shade, being now at 76. India Bonds may
be had for 945. premium. Bank Stock is at 1991, and the
New Three-and-a-Half per Cents, at 102. India Stock has
been sold at 285.
Very few bargains have been made in the Foreign funds
this morning. Belgian Five per Cents. were quoted at 104 ;
the Dutch Fives at 104 ; Spanish Five and Three per Cents.
nominally the same as yesterday ; the Deferred at 12i ;
Mexican at 35k, and Peruvian at 26.
The alterations in the Share market havebeen very trifling
this morning, the London and Birmingham Railway ex-
cepted. The premium yesterday was 1261. It is now 1241.
There are no fresh quotations for Bank shares.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock. . . "...."' ......
3 per Cent, Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities... ...... 99%
3)6 per Cent- Reduced Annuities 102%
New 3% per Cent. Annuities.... ....... 101% 102
Long Annuities, Expire sth 12 9-18%
Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859
India Stock ... 285
India 80nd5,1,000... .. ..."." .............
Ditto under 1,000.. ..... ........ .....
Consols for Open ng 99%%
Exchequer Bills, 1 d, I)6d.
10001. •••••••••••••••••••••••• ..... 76 pm.
78 pin.
Ditto 5ma11........- ....„„ 78 pm.
• Ditto Advertised pm.
FOREIGN. FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent lO4
Columbian Bonds. 13%
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent,.............,,,35%
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents.....-- ............ 264
Spanish) Bonds, Five per Cent 1840........„.»,.
Ditto. Deferred 12%
Dutch 236 per Cents 61%36
Dutch 5 per Cents......—. ..... ....... 101%
New Loan, 4 per Cents. (1844)
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. PAID. Pat SHAWL
Birmingham and Gloucester
Chester and H01yhead............... 5 4 ...... to 35(
Dublin and Ca5he1.,...„..~,,,,
Eastern Counties ..... ... . 23 12%% to
Ditto New Registered.....:Bl.. 6s. Bd. ...... 13%
Great Western 75 125 to 126
Ditto )6 Shares
London and Birmingham. lOO .224 ........ to —I
London and Brighton .....„,„.«.. 50 46%%. ... to
London and South Western ..«.. 41%. 62%34 %to
Manchester and Leeds 7O .... ..... 105% to
Midland Counties
South Eastern and Dover 32% 36%36 )6 to
Trent Valley
York and North Midland ..... 50 ....
Ditto 36 5hare5........... ....... 2.5 - ..... .... to
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, Jinx 11.
3 per Cent. Consols gg
Three and a Half Stock 102%
Ditto Reduced
P 2%
Ditto New, 1830