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Austrian, 5 per Cent
Belgian, 5 per Cent .....
Brazilian Bonds .....
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... 3736
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent—.
Chlllant 6 per Cent
Colombian, 6 per Cent 1436
Danish, 3 per Cent ........ 894
Greek, 18,5, 5 per Cent......
Mexican, 5 per Cent
Neapolitan Bonds, 5 per Ct...
Prussian Bonds, 4 per Cent.
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Ct.. 1:9341
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Ct

SHARES.

Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) 93
Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid
Caledonian (5 paid)
Cambridge and Lincoln, 1% paid 0,,,
Churnet Valley, 2 paid
Direct Northern, 2% paid
Dublin and Belfast Junction, 2% paid ,.%
Dublin and Galway, 2% paid
Eastern Counties (25 paid) . 14%
Edinburgh and Glasgow. 50 paid e.. (2
Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 5 paid ..,. Du
Great North of England, 100 paid
•..... 126%
Great Western (75 paid)
~.. 152
Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid
.. 9l
Ditto Fifths, 12 paid
A•VIt. 00000 P.
Hull and Selby, 50 paid
70
London and Birmingham (Stock) ....
2'.0
Ditto Quarters ( 2 paid) ........
27%
London and Blackwall (161.135. 4
~ j,'""
6%
London and Brighton (50 paid)
_.%
52%
Ditto Loan Notes, 10 paid,— ""
12%
London and Greenwich (1,.... 'lss. 4d. paid) 9%
London and South Wes*.a (411. t3s. 10d. paid) 76
London and Croydon
..., .
•
Ditto Guaranteed 16'
..
.‘J per,Cent., 2 paid ....... 2%
London and Yo-'
4 .4
Lynn an d Ely fL''...?icil-kuu
i. /'
Midland (
....; paid)
Newc.rcti and Darlingron Junction, 24 paid...—. 61
14011.11 British, 7% paid
:Ncethean and Eastern (45 paid)
V
414 i.
...Det' o Scrip (25 paid) 35%
,r'wich and Brandon, is paid ......
YJitto, New Shams, I paid.... ..... ....... .. .... .
Yt!tchmond and West End(Junct. ion, 1 paid.."
2%
~ Rugby, I paid..,..... .........
South Eastern and Dover (1) 2s 4-1 paid) --..... 39%
Ditto New Shares (4, paid)
Trent -valley, 2-paid .. ..• . •••••••••••• lll4
West Cornwall, II Si
York and North. Midland (50 paid) —
Ditto Scarboro' Branch, 10 paid
Ditto, Selby„Serip, 20 paid 66%
Bel dOgne and Ainiens, 2 paid ...... .............« 514
Orleans and itouideaux, 2 paid ........ ...........
Paris and Lyons, 2 paid ....... ..... ....... .........
Paris and Orleans (20 paid)
Paris and Rouen. 21) paid ..... «....... ................... 42
Strasbourg and Bale (14 paid) l3,

CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.)
THE CORPORATION OF GLOUCESTER V. WOOD AND OTH I ,RS.
—JUDGMENT.—THE LATE MR. JAMES WOOD'S WU:. ..
When this case was called on, the LORD Cliastcat. .OR
inquired of Mr. Swanstone, counsel for the Corpora ion
of Gloucester, whether his clients acceded to the to :ms
of the order of Vice-Chancellor Wigram?
"Mn SWANSTONE said they did.
Mr; WALKER—It was not an order of his Hon, fur,
but a proposition suggested by the Court,
Mr. SWANSTONE—The Corporation of Gloucester ITO
ready to aecede to the proposals that have been Int .de,
and they will submit to any order the Court may h. re-
after think proper to make.,
The LORD CHANCELLOR then said he had considt red
this case with great care and attention, and the «m-
-clus;.on he had come to was, that the money hi ii ; ;a-
Cm ought not to be paid to the executors per s ing
, the appeal to the House of Lords against "U tee-
Chancellor Wigram's decision. On looking at the
judgment of the Court below he observed that. his
Honour at the time stated, that in a question of tt
importance, where property of upwards of 200,0001- was
in litigation, it was not likely that either party wool i be
satisfied with the decision of a puisne judge of the art,
!tr.sd therefore he (the Lord Chancellor) considered it a
proper case for an appeal, and that the proceedings s 'ere
not frivolous. After some further remarks, his Lord .hip
said; suppose he was to order the money in disi ute
to be paid over to the executors, they would not feel
themselves justified in distributing it. 111 .der
.the present circumstances, therefore, he though; . it
lhad better remain invested in the Funds, under the I ion-
- trol of the Court, until the appeal to the House of if mds
was decided. At the same time he was of opinion that
the executors were at full liberty to apply to have any
portion of the fund paid over to them on their givinii sa-
tisfactory security. It was asked by counsel for the ex
ecu-
tors that, in the event o loss by a decline in the funds , the
ccrpctration shozad make it good. Now he conk not
make any order on that point, as the Courts had all vays
nnnsidstred Consols in the light of money : if the
Price fell, the executors would lose (in case the ap deal
should be in their favour) ; but if it was higher, I hey
would have the advantage. In conclusion, his Lord dhip
ordered the money claimed by the Corporation, unto er a
codicil in the will of the testator, to remain invests ‘d in
the Funds pending the appeal, with liberty to 09 de-
fendants (executors to the will) to apply to takes sny
portion of it out, on giving sufficient security.
A long discussion ensued respecting costs.
Ills LORDSHIP directed the costs of the present mo-
tion to be paid by the Corporation.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNA. LS,
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—It is curious to observe how mud the
most intelligent persons will believe, or affect t , be-
lieve, when their credulity is urged by an apps A to
their ease or their interest. The wealthier c 'asses
know how they deal with the poorer. They c aunot
entirely shut their eyes to a matter of daily, h any
experience. Of late they have even written and
talked a great deal about it. No one neee in-
dulges in the notion of any innate differeno e be-
tween the classes distinguished in the artificial order
of society. All are admitted to be equally ern lowed
with a natural sense of justice—a capacity to appre-
ciate kindness, and a tendency to resent i ojury.
Yet wealth, holding the lion's share of political I iower,
uses it mainly in a scrupulous care of itself—* eldom
thinks of poverty till its miseries show some u pward
tendency—and withal believes that nothing it iore is
necessary to the permanence of such a systen than
the occasional passing of a few Acts of Parliament,
recognising the existence of the labourer only in
order to make sweeping regulations as to how I mg
he shall work, or how his wages shall be paid, or on
what conditions be shall enter a workhouse. Lick
burning and Chartism are dreadful thing s ; but
we treat them too much as our ancestors did thunder
and lightning :—we deeply deplore their effects,
and do not deeply investigate their causes. We have
already drawn attention to the spirit which seems
to have animated the Legislature in the reforms
of the last few years—to the remarkable facility with
which right principles have been adopted and, forced
into practice in one direction, and the extreme difficulty
which has attended their introduction in another. But
the doings of Parliament present to us the opinions and
feelings prevalent upon this subject among the wealthier
classes, upon so large a scale, and so modified, ;Its to ex-
hibit but half their errors and inconsistencies. Let
them be examined as developed in the local legislation
of large towns, or in the local influence of wealthy in-
dividuals in rural districts, and their want of what has
been well termed " Christian principle" becomes still
more strikingly apparent. In all municipal arrange-
ments, the safety, the comfort, the health of the rich
are first cared for, and the poor are left to take care of
themselves. Mansions replete with everyluxuryand con-
venience that taste or ingenuity can suggest, are every-
where found the near neighbours of hovels less fitted
for human habitation than the huts or wigwams of the
least civilised savages on earth. No house pays so
good a profit to its owner as that tenanted by tivs poor
man. None is constructed with so little regard to
the health or comfort of its tenant. The " gentry "
everywhere bend the municipal authority to the drAn-
ing, ventilation, and cleansing of their own dwellings,
and leave those inhabited by " artisans and labourers"
destitute of the benefit of these processes. Superior
intelligence, the fruit of a better education, places the
resources of modern science within the reach of the
former. These are freely used—for themselves.
They are equally applicable to the condition of, and
far more needed by, those beneath them ; but lem
seldom are they so applied ! These are no hasty or
ill-considered assertions. They are based upon a
careful and painful review of evidence which is only
too ample.
STANDARD. the Bishop of Exeter has
written and published a letter to the churchwardens
of St Sidwed's and St. James's parishes, in Exeter,
in reply to an address from those parishes. Every
one is prepared to expect eloquent and graceful
writing from the Bishop of Exeter ; hut the
reply before us posse--sea merits beyond eloquence
and grace. It is kindly, affectionate, and even pa-
thetic ; a picture of the struggle of an able, honest,
and warm-hearted man, between the wish to con-
ciliate on one side, and a severe sense of duty on the
other. The Right Rev. Lord considers himself as
(if we may use the phrase) amagistrate in the Church,
not required perhaps to be over vigilant in detecting
evasions or transgressions of the Church's laws, but
under a peremptory obligation to see those laws exe-
cuted to the best of his judgment, and in their exact
spirit, without reference to the motives of those who
put their power in motion ; further, as a magis-
trate, strictly bound to make all the 1 gal
provisions against any probable disturbance of the
Church's peace, even though at the cost of offering
violence to his own feelings, in seeming to take part
against those on whose side substantial right and
justice are manifestly arrayed ; lastly, as a magis-
trate who would betray his trust if he allowed
his authority to be treated lightly. This is plainly
the Bishop of Exeter's view of the
nature
and duties of the episcopal office ; and we can
imagine no better concel Jion of the nature
and duties of the office, were a
i 19:isillop merely
" a civil magistrate ;" but we have er esti-
mate of the office of a bishop—we rega'rd lh
it as not
merely in name, but as, in fact, paternal and
• think that as a father has power to restrain or, to relax