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In the Commons, Sir T. FREMANTLE moved for a
new writ for the borough of Londonderry, to elect a
Member in the place of R. BATESON, Esq., deceased.
The Bury branch of the Manchester and Leeds
Railway Bill was read a second time, and ordered to
be committed.

Mr. O'CONNELL presented a petition from the Cor-
poration of Dublin praying for a repeal of the union.
The petitioners stated, among other things, that
1,500,0001. had been spent in the most profligate
manlier to obtain the Act of Union. He also pre-
sented petitions to the same effect from various other
places, the total number of signatures to which was
387,864.
Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD presented a petition
from Edinburgh, signed by 17,000 inhabitants, pray-
ing that the grievances of the people should be taken
into consideration before the supplies were voted;
also a similar petition from Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
The Great Western Railway Amendment Bill was
read a second time.

After the presentation of other petitions and notices
of motions, which possessed little public interest, the
order of the day for going into a Committee of Sup-
ply was read.
Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD moved that the consi-
deration of the estimates be postponed until some in-
dication should be made by the Government to re-
dress the grievances of the people. Colonel RAWDON
seconded the motion.

After a few words from Sir HOWARD DOUGLAS,
in explanation, Mr. W. WILLIAMS said he did not
think the Member for Rochdale had made out any
good case for the postponement of the Committee of
Supply. Had he taken another course, and pointed
out the extravagant expenditure of the Government,
the large army and the large fleet maintained in time
of peace, and moved that these should be fully investi-
gated before the estimates were voted, he would have
joined with him. The Honourable Member then
entered into lengthened details of the extravagance
of the Government, who kept up a larger standing
army than ever was known in the country since the
occupation of France.
Mr. FIELDING, Dr. BOWRING, and the CHANCEL-
LOR of the EXCHEQUER made some remarks, but, ac-
cording to the report, they were scarcely audible.
Mr. GisnoarTE opposed the motion, which, on a divi-
sion, was lost by a majority of 94, the numbers for
the motion being 11, and against it 105.
Sir CHARLES INTAriEu then brought forward his
motion relative to the Board of Admiralty, and pointed
out numerous defects in the management of naval
affairs. His speech is not long, and will be read with
interest. After some remarks from other Members,
Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT brought forward the navy
estimates. The first vote was agreed to, and the
House resumed.
The Horse-racing Penalties Bill was read a
second time, and ordered to be read a third time
this day.
The House adjourned at a Quarter to One o'Clock.

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Since we noticed the Bill before the House of Com-
mons for facilitating the recovery of debts under 201.,
and extending and multiplying the jurisdictions
hereafter to have cognizance of processes connected
therewith, another Bill, " for the more easy recovery
of small debts and demands not exceeding 51.," has
been put into our hands. It is of the same class of
petty legislation, which, however commendable may
be its objects, almost necessarily degenerates into
vexatious and objectionable details. It is the curse of
statutable remedies applied to minor grievances con-

netted with the economy of social life (whether these
regard the expense of legal proceedings or the diffi-

it is thus to be ruled beforehand against
the debtor, and in favour of the creditor. Witnesses
are in like manner, under similar summons, served,
whether within or beyond the limits of the justices'
jurisdiction, to be compelled to attend with books and
papers, on tender of their reasonable expenses. The
justice may adjourn the case; or, on the first hearing,
if he deem the claim well founded, may order pay-
ment of debt and costs. If claim not well founded,
or plaintiff do not appear, the justice may order
payment of costs to the defendant. And what of
damages for the sort of imputation thus cast on de-
fendant, for his anxiety, for the contingent
mischief :occasioned to him Eby the issue of this
trumpery process ? Nothing. But it is not, we
hope, necessary to proceed further with the analysis
of a Bill which is thus palpably inoperative, because
insufferably oppressive in its present shape. We
reprobate all such needless interventions of Parlia-
ment with these minor matters, which are much
better dealt with by local Courts, that, despite of their
occasional inefficiency, have acquired a certain sanc-
tion and confidence with the public, by reason of their
promptitude and practical utility.

culty of obtaining—in certain cases of private
wrongs—prompt or effectual redress), that they over-
lay the case which they propose to succour. The
machinery is too ponderous for the object. It is too
apt to crush both the party who invokes its action
and the party against whom it is set in motion. The
credulous plaintiff who achieves success with such
an auxiliary usually awakens from his dream of
triumph to the luxury of discovering that he has
" gained—a loss." Independent of all objections to
some of the enactments in The Bill before us, on the
score of their unconstitutional stringency, and the un-
technical latitude of their phraseology; the same re-
sults would attend the measure, were it passed into
law, which have so generally attached to similar
efforts for the attainment of similar purposes.

In the House of Lords, on Friday night, the Bishop
of EXETER took occasion,—after presenting petitions
from the clergy of Powderham, in Devon, an& Pen-
ryn, in Cornwall, praying their Lordships to: cause
effectual means to be adopted with a view to provide
spiritual instruction for the inmates of the different
workhouses in the several unions of the country ;—to
submit a motion for the appointment of a Select Com-
mittee on the same subject. But the keen-sighted
Prelate took care to incorporate into the terms of his
motion a gloss, to the effect that this spiritual instruc-
tion should be administered by chaplains of the Esta-
blished Church, one of whom he would have nominated
to every principal poor-house. This was the point
which the Bishop chiefly laboured throughout
his very long and statistics-crowded speech. The
gravamen of his complaint—we shall use his own words
—was, that, in the union of St. Austell, as in others,
" the Church was thrust out from her place as the
instructress of the people." The remedy he proposed
for this state of things was the nomination of chap-
lains, as we have already stated. To corroborate
his statements, and to enforce the deduction he thus
drew from them, the Right Reverend Prelate read a
vast number of communications which he had re-
ceived from numerous districts, both within and
beyond his own very extensive diocese,—from the
north, as well as from the west and the south,—
all more or less illustrative of the condition
of spiritual destitution in which the pauper in-
mates of poor-houses were left, in the locali-
ties specified, by the defective provisions of the
Poor-law Commissioners at the original crea-
tion of the particular union, or of the board of guar-
dians of the parish or district, on first entering upon
their duties under the administration of the amended
poor-law. Liskeard, St. Austell, Bodmin, St. Co-
' lumb, St. Germain's, Penzance, and Redruth, all
came in, by turns, for a share of his Lordship's cen-
sure, touching their management of these matters.
He reflected pretty severely on the illiberality and
unorthodox indifference manifested by the Cornwall
boards of guardians especially, and by the Cornubian
public, in general. Then his Lordship moved on,
like a thunder-cloud, and passing over the county of
Devon, fulminated against Axminster and Axbridge,
Tavistock and Tiverton. Anon, as if caught in a sudden
flaw of wind, he veered away with surprising velo-
city to discharge the remainder of his bolts over
" devoted York and Lancaster ;" from the city of the
Minster, to the town of guilds and pageants. Finally,
leaving York and Preston, he rolled over Cheshire,
he re-appeared in the counties of Durham, North-
umberland, and Westmoreland, and expended his
last wrath upon the monotony of Cambridgeshire.
Thus, after muttering in the North Riding of York-
shire, his ominous denunciation became furious at Mac-
clesfield ; terrible throughout the proud Palatinates of
his spiritual brothers of Durham and Chester ; and
finally sank hissing—as a red-hot Oxford man will
ever do in such a locality—amidst the sedges of
the sluggish " Cam." In sober truth, the whole
effect of this declamatory address was not so much
to bring under the eyes of their Lordships the un-
questionable evils of deficient spiritual instruction
among large bodies of the community—segregated
as the inmates of poor-houses are, from that active
communication with other classes of society, which
might, in some sort, supply this essential want—as to
show that those evils could only be grappled with
through the instrumentality of chaplains of the
Establishment.

Thus, the preamble recites that " it is desirable to fa-
cilitate the recovery of small debts and demands not ex-
ceeding 51., and to lessen the expense thereof." Within
our own experience, we have known summonses sued
out in Courts of Requests in this metropolis, for sums
not exceeding Si. respectively, the expenses of which
have not exceeded those entailed by the issue of one,
two, or three summonses, amounting, with Court
fees and all, to something under 205.; and there has
been no difficulty, on a fair statement of a fair case
by the plaintiff, in obtaining from the Commissioners
an order for the payment of his claim and all costs
incurred : and certainly no lack of diligence in levy-
ing, where that proceeding has become necessary,
on the chattels and property of the defend-
ant. Take, for example, the Borough of South-
wark The records of the Borough Court would
show, on the one hand, an immense amount of these
small debts thus recovered and paid into Court, with
costs of process ; on the other, a large yearly number
of debtors committed to the debtors' side of Horse-
monger-lane Prison, where such levy could not be
made, or did not satisfy the amount of distress or exe-
cution. And it must, in fairness, be admitted that
the Commissioners are, for the most part, good prac-
tical men of business, and quite as competent to

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To say that the debate, throughout, was only one
long, but involuntary exposition of the interested
championship of a High Church Prelate on the one
hand,—or of a heartless, sordid, calculating indif-
ference to the spiritual consolation of the poor, on the
part of the framers of the new poor law, and of its more
responsible functionaries, on the other,—would neither
be correct in fact, nor fair in construction. We can
easily believe, objecting as we have ever done to much
of the unnecessary hardships and stringency of the
amended poor-law, and to its want of flexibility
and adaptation to perpetually occurring combina-
tions of circumstances, which no anticipatory legis-
lation can meet even in the mass, but with which this
law affects to deal, categorically, even in their minutest
details ; we can easily believe, that its enactments had
their origin in a spirit of the most unaffected and
comprehensive charity. In like manner, we can do
justice to the sincerity of the Bishop of EXETER'S zeal
on behalf of the Church, in whose hierarchy he wears
a mitre, albeit that, on coming into, contact with the
temporalities and influence attaching to expanded
patronage, he is apt to become a little purblind to the
connexion—so visible to all the world beside—be-
tween his own orthodox affection to the " loving

judge of the merits of a case brought before them,
whether as to the plea of defendant or plaintiff, and
as to the extent to which it may be proper for them
to use whatever discretionary powers they possess, as
any professional gentlemen who could be substituted
for them. Now the very first enacting clause in this
Bill (No. 2) confers on the creditor, in lieu of the ex-
isting remedy, a power which in practical execution
would be absolutely intolerable. Any such creditor
" in respect of an express or implied agreement, or of

mother," and the present advantages, and lively hopes
of benefits to come, by which she excites and main-
tains that affection. This infirmity of the
Reverend Prelate's is occasional only, so
occasional—and, truly, so convenient too,—that it
reminds us of the " night blindness" of European and
Asiatic soldiers in hot climates, and bad quarters.
Their disease is never so aggravated, so disabling, or
so epidemical, as when they fancy they are about
to march from an indifferent station to a worse one,
or to exchange a good for a bad one. If it were day
time they could, literally, "see their way." It is
but charity to suppose that the Bishop's solicitude,
touching the nomination of chaplains of the Es-
tablishment to poor union-houses, is not at
all affected by the mere accident of the pa-
tronage that would attach to such appointments.
We dare wager that he has not the sight of half an eye
for any such valuable results from the consummation he
so desires! Only, we could wish that he had not
laid so much stress on the Liskeard Dissenters hav-
ing communicated to every board of guardians in the
kingdom, the fact of their having defeated the proposed
nomination of a Church of England clergyman to the
chaplaincy of their union. Again, when the Bishop
complains that a Dissenting minister officiates twice
every Sunday at St. Austell's poor-house, in the room
set apart for a chapel, though not specially sent for by
any of the inmates,—does it not occur to him that
herein consists the truest praise of the Christian
teacher's voluntary devotion to the spiritual wants of
the poor ? or, that it may suggest an unfavourable
comparison with other parties who do not go to such
abodes, nor among such forlorn ones, until they are
sent for, and then not voluntarily? And what are
the Bishop's notions of the moral guilt of what we
must call the " ecclesiastical" apostacy of which he
speaks, in the case of an individual who had cast off
the office he once held in our Church, and whose
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Dissenter, a banker in Penzance ; 2d, that he
went so fat as to attend her chapel, and
have his children baptized there ; 3d, that
he took away the prefix of " Reverend" from his
name ;" and 4th, that he actually (proh pudor),
" went so far as to appear in a blue coat, and other
coloured unmentionables?" Let us finally ask the
Bishop how he can suppose the public will sympathise
with his indignation, that at Redruth the Dissenters
were not willing that the chaplain appointed should
perform the two services ; and so the consequence
was that one of the two services was performed by a
Dissenting minister ? Very good, say we. Just as
it should be. The members of the Established
Church had the advantage - of one service in
conformity with their own opinions ; the mem-

the taking, keeping, or converting of any goods or
chattels where such claim or demand shall not ex-
ceed 51.," may . . . "apply to any justice of the
peace for the county where the defendant shall re-
side," whether the subject matter of such claim shall
have arisen in such county or not, and whether the
plaintiff shall reside there or not ;" and such
justice shall thereupon grant a summons to the
defendant to appear before him, or some other
justice for the same county, at a time and place

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therein specified, to show cause, &c., and, if required
by plaintiff, to produce then and there " any
books, letters, or accounts, or other documents in his
possession, which plaintiff may have specified." We
really marvel how gentlemen who bring in bills of
this kind can speculate so extravagantly on the care-
lessness or apathy of the House of Commons, aye,
and of the House of Lords, as to imagine that either
body would tolerate such flagrant encroachments on
the ordinary rule and practice of the common
law as these. Here, for the sake of a trumpery
demand, between 40s. and Si., the justices of
the peace
in effect, the most detesetmabit
are to be empowered to tporocisessusees,
ever attempted to be enforced in England, since the
quasi general warrants. A
days of Wu. KEs—these
man may have dealt with, and regularly paid, a
tradesman for twenty years. At the close of this pe-
riod he may have ordered, upon credit proffered by
this tradesman, Si. worth of necessary clothing and
provision for his family. Instead of being in cash to
pay the 51., as stipulated at the end—say of three
months—unforeseen circumstances deprive him of the
power, and so seriously damage his prospects and re-
sources, that he is compelled to go down into the
country in quest of an appointment which he has
reason to believe will re-establish his position. Per-
haps at the very moment which would have installed him
in the post, and enabled him honestly to discharge all
his debts and obligations, this Si. creditor pounces
upon him in Essex or in Kent, with this sort of sum-
mons, and destroys his own, as well as his creditor's,
best chances of ultimate payment. The same
creditor, if vexatiously disposed, may compel the
production of books, papers, and documents, in-
volving matters of the most delicate and confidential
nature, all of which are to be made patent to the
new jurisdiction in hunting for evidence, direct or
indirect, touching the demand for the five pounds'
justices' signature is to be
sufficient worth of
evidenceg°ds.T
he
that he issued the summons, so
that where a point of Jaw could be raised, and
perhaps equitably under particular circumstances,

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bers of the Dissaiting denomination heard
another service, in ccaformity with their opinions.
If the same arrangemed could only be carried out
universally, we should hear of no more complaints of
deficient spiritual instuction for the inhabitants of
poor-houses.
We are, however, ;lad to perceive that this defi-
ciency of instruction 'ill be attended to in the pro-
gress of the pending Pill through the House of Com-
mons. What the Bishop stated of the voluntary
offers of clergymen to officiate gratuitously in
several cases being rejected, on account of a trum-
pery, ill-considered, and brutal enactment of
the present poor-lay, which requires that the
officiating chaplain must be an officer of
the paid for fuli seilices, is enough
to make one bluil for modern legislation,
and its utter forgetfulness, or something worse, of the
moral welfare of those whom it affects to protect.
The spiritual destitttion of the poor, especially
youth and children, it the union-houses of Kings-
bridge, Tavistock, and Preston, does appear, from
the Bishop's account, to be appalling; the desecra-
tion of the Church services, in these and other such
houses, almost incredble from its indecorum. And
this last instance of the scandalous neglect even of
soci: and moral discipline, to say 'nothing of spiri-
tual instruction, we cuote, adding only this acknow-
ledgment, which it undoubtedly extorts from us, that
it confirms the case laid by the Bishop for the neces-
sity of a Parliamentary inquiry. His Lordship's
motion for the present, however, has been rejected
by the Lords :
" The Right Rev. Prelate here read the evidence of Mr.
Tufnell on this part of the question, in which the inferiority
of the instruction given, and, in some instances, the cruelties
practised by the schoolmasters towards the children were
detailed at considerable length, the master, in one case,
having been detected by the chaplain—herein showing the
value, again, of the appointment of such an officer—in
attempts to seduce some of the elder girls in the union."

Madrid journals, of the 18th, have been received,
and, if they are to be credited, no doubt remained
that the means adopted by the Government to put
down the insurgents would speedily be crowned with
success. Accounts from Bayonne, however, state
that risings had taken place at several places ; among
others Teruel and Barcelona. At the latter place
Senor BORELL, a very rich merchant of that city, of
Republican principles, and several other persons, have
been arrested, and domiciliary visits in search
for arms are made daily. A report, prevailed at Ma-
drid that BONET had, in retaliation for the execution
of seven officers, by Rowcau, near Alicant, put four-
teen of his prisoners to death. We fear the report
will prove too well founded.
On the Madrid Bourse the Three per Cents. were
done at 29f for cash; 29 15-16ths for 60 days. The
Fives, for cash, 20 ; and at 60 days 20k.

caused considerable drifting, the roads were rendered
almost impassable. This was the cause of delay in
the mail, from which serious inconvenience to the
commercial world, must yesterday have been expe-
rienced.

MONEY ANDAJOMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, MONDAY -LNG,

Consols closed well this afternoon a 974 to 4 ; and parties
have been endeavouring to borrow, rather than carry over
stock. We do not notice the slightest alteration since the
morning in any of the other English securities.
The rise in Spanish Stock was supported• up to the termi-
nation of business, the Five per Cents, being 24i to 4, and the
Three per Cents 34 to 334. Brazil Stock was 794 to 80.
Belgian Bonds ranged from 1064 to 1064. Portuguese Con-
verted were 454 to 4.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been
these :—Birmingham and Derby Thirds were 7 ; Eastern
Counties, 124 to 4 ; North Midland, 124 ; and South Eastern,
144 to discount. Eastern Union have been 4to 4 ; Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, 9 ; Ditto Registered, 24 ; Great Western,
Half, 174 to ; Harwich Extension, 11; Brighton Loan
Notes, 14 ; Birmingham, 130 to 1314 ; Ditto, New Thirds,
374 ; Norwich and Brandon, 24 ; and Yarmouth and Nor-
wich, 64 premium.
Colonial Bank Shares were 124 to 13 discount ; and Pro-
vincial of Ireland, 164 premium.

Owing to the severity of the weather we have no
accounts from Paris later than those of the 23d, of
which we gave an outline on Saturday. In the
Chamber of Deputies on the 22d a rather sharp dis-
cussion took place, relative to the resignation of
M. DE SALVANDY, late Ambassador at the Sardinian
Court. M. ()DILLON BAREOT demanded some expla-
nation on the subject. M. GUIZOT at once replied,
"I will give no answer to questions which have been
or may be proposed on that topic." M. DE SAL-
VANDY in like manner refused to answer any ques-
tions. M. THIERS felt annoyed at this, as he expected
to hear from that Deputy some account of the inter-
view between the KING and him ; and then made an
attack, not upon the Foreign Minister, but the
Crown. We may judge from the following part of
his speech, that M. TRIERS has met with some slight
or disappointment at the Tuileries :—" Did a Minister
say to M. DE SALVANDY, an Ambassador ought to
be so firmly bound to the Ministry, as never to vote
against it; we pronounce your dismissal ?' Was it,
I ask, a Minister who said this ? If so, we have
constitutionally nothing to say. We may discuss the
question, if this conduct of a Minister was judicious
—and nothing more. But in my opinion it was not
a air ,inter who so addressed M. DE SADVANDY.

(From The Sun of Last Night.)
In the Liverpool Cotton market on Saturday the sales
were about 4,000 bales, including 2,000 on speculation, at
previous rates.—Shares were steady, and South Eastern and
Dover were better. Birmingham and Gloucester were 724 ;
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 574 ; Grand Junction, 2244 ; Great
Western Fifths, 184 •, Hull and Selby, 594 •, Liverpool and
Manchester, 2214 ; Birmingham Quarter, 274 ; Paris and
Lyons, 24 ; ditto and Orleans, 314 ; and South Eastern, 354.
Accounts from Liverpool give the following particulars of
the Wool trade :
" There has been a fair amount of business done in Wools
this week, and prices of all descriptions continue firm. The
lowness of stocks, of both Foreign and Scotch, is very much
felt. There has been a very animated inquiry for Alpaca
Wools, both black and brown, and some transactions have
taken place at a still further advance. The market is still
looking up. The goods made from this article are getting
much into favour, and are likely to become very fashionable,
as her Majesty has lately ordered some patterns of this fabric.
Some improvements have lately been made in the process
of dyeing them, and it is said that they are about bringing
some patterns of a thinner make, adapted for summer wear,
which is expected to have a great run this season."
The accounts from New York to the 3d Feb., per Mediator,
state that there continued to be some speculation in Cotton,
and that the intelligence of the rise in prices here, had caused
some of the holders in the south to be most unreasonable in
their demands. The article was not being freely shipped to
Europe, as it is the game of the speculators to keep it back ;
but no doubt the opposition of the manufacturers here will
do some good. The Americans were looking for an outlet
in Russia, for some of their broadstuffs, owing to the failure
of the harvest in the empire, and the permission that has
been accorded by an Imperial ukase for the free importation
of foreign grain. It appears that important arrests bad taken
place of one or two parties supposed to be concerned in the
Treasury note-robbery. The Money Market was firm.
There is nothing new from Canada. The Mexican Com-
missioners are reported to have failed in coming to an ar-
rangement with Texas.
A short time back we alluded to the peculiar position of
Paraguay, and the necessity of friendly relations being
promptly cultivated by us with that remarkable country. We
are sorry to read the following, being an extract from a letter
dated Paraguay, Nov. 10, and written, as the tenor will show,
by a citizen of the United States :
" The Government of Paraguay are anxious that the prin-
cipal and most friendly relations should be with the Govern-
ment of the United States, as the treaties which exist between
most of the South American Republics and Great Britain,
give the idea that they look to the latter as their principal
support. It was, therefore, that her Britannic Majesty's En-
voy-, Mr. Gordon, was coldly received, and that the Govern-
ment of Paraguay are so anxious to cultivate the most friendly
feeling with that of the United States, before all other nations."
Accounts of the 30th of September from Sydney nptice no
particular alteration in the state of the mercantile markets.
The Legislature was expected to propose a reduction of the
minimum price of land. As the labouring classes continued
to suffer, emigration, till the colony rights itself again, will
evidently not be advisable, and much the same may be said,
we understand, of New Zealand also.
The Stock market continues steady, and the principal busi-
ness has been the preparation for the Account settlement toy
morrow. There is not the least difficulty in carrving over
accounts, and the continuation is not thought of. the Com-
missioners have taken about 20,000/. Consols at 974, and the
range of this security has been from 974 to 4. Bank Stock
is 1954 ; and India Stock, 278. The New Three-and-a-Half
per Cents. 1024 to % • and the Three per Cents. 984 to 4.
The Spanish market is better and prices come over much
higher from Amsterdam. The Five per Cents. are 24% to 4,
and the Three per Cents. 334 to 34 ; Mexican Stock is quiet
at 344 to 4 ; and Peruvian realises 30 to 304 ' • Colombian
are 134 to 4 ; Brazilian realise 794 to #; Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents. are 544 to 4.
Shares are quiet, but they look firmer, and there is a rise
in Birmingham to 131 and 133, and in South Western to
361 premium ; Brighton are (ii to 4; South Eastern, 14% to
134 ; and North Midland, 12% to 114 discount ; Northern and
Eastern are 11% to 4 premium ; Bristol and Exeter are 2 to 1
discount ; Great Western are 31, and Manchester and Leeds
374 to 38 premium.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(Froin the Official List.)
Bank Stook ... 195%
Bank
per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 1,374q%
a% per Cent. Reduced Annuities
New 3% per Cont. Annuities lO2
Long Annuities, Expire Sth Jan. 1860.....» l2l 13-18
Ditto 31 Years, Expire 10th Oct 1859 .....» l2 1-16
Ditto 30 Years. Expire sth Jan. MO. 12% 9-16
India Stock
Bask Stock for Account ........»......» 195
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bale, 1)4(1
1,0004 .............. ....... 611 pm.
rtito Small
Ditto Advertised
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, b per Cent.
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent.
Columbian Bonds. l3 %
Mexican Bonds. 487,5 per Cent. ..... 34
Ditto for the Account. 241%
Ditto Deferred ..... 19%
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent 5.......... ... . .... 80 30
Ditto for the Account. SO
Spanish Bonds. Five per Cent 24
Ditto for the Account 24 SKfj
Ditto Passive Bonds.
Ditto Deferred ....... .......... 13
Ditto Three per Cent ........ 33143 i%
Ditto for the Aetiourit ....... ......... 33% 34 33%
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent
11
...-
Ditto Deferred
Dutch 2% per Cents
Dutch 4 per Cents 102% 10 % 10234
New Loan 1887, b per Cents. .............. 101
PRICES:OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. PAID. Psa SNARE
Bristol and Exeter
Chester and Holyhead 5 5% t
Eastern Counties ....... 23
Ditto New......~. .....
great Western
Ditto }t, glares 5O 87% to
Ditto Fifths l2 18%%... to
London and Brighton 3O 43%14 ... I.
London and Birmingham Stock ....... 231 ...... to 233
Ditto % Shares 2 ..... 28
London and South Western 41% 77 14 ... to
Ditto Eighths.. ......» ..... % 2 ....« to
Manchester and Leeds 7O ..... Ic7 to 108
Newcastle and Darlington Junct
Northern and Eastern to
Ditto Scrip
Morth Midland
Ditto % Shares 4O . 43
Paris and Orleans 20 ..... 82%
Paris and Rouen 2. 32t0 ii... to
Rouen and Havre.
South Eastern and Dover 5O 35% to 38%
Ditto Scrip 25 .....«.. 35%% to 36345(
York and North Midland
Ditto New Shares. 2O ......... 53%
Ditto Scarbore' Branch 234 17%

(Contusion, and cries of • Order, order?) M. DE
SALVANDY thought it his duty in such a case to
tender his resignation. He perceived that he ought

,o see in all this only the Ministry, but this resigna-
tion was afterwards withdrawn through respect for

:he KING, and again offered, because they wanted to

impose a condition on him which amounted to a penal
clause. Such are the facts, and I again repeat that it
was not a Minister who spoke, as I have stated above,
to M. DE SALVANDY.—(Cries of Order, order; you
are attacking the KING?) I hear the Minister of the
Interior crying out ' Order.' There is only one way
of showing that there is good reason for such an ex-
clamation, and that is to prove that what I state is
false. What are we to conclude from all this ? Why,
nothing less than that, under the present Administra-
tion, acts pass which are at variance with the rigour
of constitutional rules."
M. GUIZOT followed, and in firm language pointed
out what he considered constitutional government:-
4, my friends, my colleagues, and myself," said he,
" consider the representative government in as se-
rious a light as any one, and it is because we do so
that, after serious reflection, I refused to reply to the
questions addressed to me. I accept the responsibi-
lity on everything, but not the discussion. There
are matters which I allow myself to be fully respon-
sible for, but on which I ought not to speak before
the Chamber. If any of you think the silence of the
Government blameable, let him come forward and
prefer a bill of indictment against me. At no period,
in any constitutional Government, has it been the
practice to force the Ministry to come forward and
state the reasons why a resignation is accepted. You
speak of constitutional rules, and yet you ask us to
infringe them. Silence may be as constitutional as
language, and we know how to maintain and prac-
tice, as scrupulously as you, the constitutional rules,
when we refuse to give explanations. Take from the
Cabinet the majority—overthrow the Ministry—at-
tack it as you best may—such are your constitutional
privileges, and no one contests them. But do not
pretend to dictate to us our duty, or say that we
ought to render an account of all the acts that take
place in the fulfilment of the constitutional preroga-
tives. It is through respect for the constitutional
rules, of which you have spoken, that I descend from
this tribune without having replied to your questions.
—(Approbation from the Centre, and rumours from
the Left.)" The motion, as we stated on Saturday,
was lost.
We have since received the Paris papers of Satur-
day, but they bring no additional news. The
Journal des Debats contains a bitter article against
M. MIENS, which leaves no doubt of the fact ad-
verted to above, that a complete rupture has taken
place between him and the Court. The conduct of
Admiral DUPETIT TUOUAUS was the subject of
gene 1 conversation, and was viewed with alarm by the
frien.l.3 of peace in Paris. It was generally believed
that the Government had nothing whatever to do
with the affair, and that he had acted on his own re-

JOINT STOCK JUNKS.
Union of London. ............ ......... 10

sponsibility.
On Saturday the French Three per Cents. closed at
82f. 50c. ; the Fives at 125 f. 80c. ; Orleans Shares,
842 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 830 f.; Havre, 672 f. 50c. ; Avignon,
745 ; Spanish Active, 32i.

The dinner to O'Connell is finally arranged to take
place at Covent Garden Theatre, on Tuesday the 12th
of March. The difficulties which had, in the first
instance, prevailed as to holding the meeting at the
Theatre, having been overcome, the occasion will be
marked by a festival on a very grand scale. The pit
and stage will form one grand area, on which the
tables will be spread, and a grand military band, as
well as a full choir of singers
the willeading Members l add to the attrac
of
-
tion of the scene. Many f
the Liberal party in Parliament will be present, and
several of the Peers have signified their intention to
attend. In fact, never, at any time, did the Irish
question occupy so large a portion of the sympathy
of Englishmen, and Justice to Ireland, never was so
favourably entertained as at present.

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 24.—We have had
a dull market to-day, and only a small amount of business
has been transacted.—Eastern Counties, 101 i London and
Brighton, 42i ; Manchester, Bolton, and Birmingham, 97 ;
Sheffield and Manchester, 71 to 72 ; Manchester and Bir-
ntinghara, 401 to 404.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.

Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red 981 Ditto Bonds B7 pm.
3 per Cent. Cans.
3% per Cent. Re 1 lO3 Ditto New Annuities... 96%
New 3% per Cent lO2 Ex. Bills, 1,0001. INd... es pm.
New 5 per Cent....
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 69 pm.
Jan. 1860 l2 13.16 Bank Stock for Acct.... 195
Oct. 1859 l2 11.16 India Stock for Acct.... 278%
Jan. 1860 l2 9.16 Consols for Acct. 97%

The mail from Scotland, by way of Newcastle,
did not arrive yesterday morning. The mail which
ought to have reached London on Sunday morning,
came up by yesterday's train. A very heavy fall of
snow, which commenced on Thursday and lasted
until 12 o'clock at noon on Sunday, had so impeded
the roads, north of Durham, that the Edinburgh
mail did not reach that city on Saturday, until five
hours after its time • and, of course, too late for the
railway. On Sunday, the mail was again impeded.
The road was clear up to Darlington, and the rail-
way carriages passed freely and in good time. In.
Durham and northwards, the fall of snow was little
less than ten inches deep, and the wind having

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