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LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 15, 184%

The Lords met at Five.
The Earl of DEVON postponed, until next session,
toveral measures of which he had given notice.
-Their Loriships then proceeded to discuss the ques-
tion of privilege which had arise❑ in the case of HAR-
LOW V. 2.,;;;Eft. The plaintiff and his attorney, Mr.
Illttovna-, having been called to the bar and examined,
The LORD CHANCELLOR moved that John Harlow had
.been guilty of a breach of the privileges of the House.

The motion was opposed by Lord BROUGHAM in a
most eloquont speech, which was replied to by the LORD
CHANCELLOR,

Their Lordships were subsequently addressed by
Lord CAMPBELL and the Earl of Wicz.Low. After
which, the parties who had been called to the bar were
on the motion of the LORD CHANczLLon, committed to
the custody of the Usher of the Black Rod.
The House then adjourned.
The Commons met at 12.
The Lunatics Asylum and Pauper Lunatics Bill was
reported.

The Lunatics Asylum (Ireland) Bill passed through
Committee.

At the evening sitting Mr. HUME withdrew the motion
of which he had given notice on the subject of the recal
of Lord ELLENBOROITGH.

Mr. HOPE gave explanations as to the recent disas-
trous occurrences in New Zealand and the Cape of Good

Hope.

Sir R. PEEL promised to lay the New Zealand papers
on the table to-morrow, and the discussion on the sub-
ject was fixed for Monday.
The House went into Committee on the Coal Duty
(Port of London) Bill, having previously agreed to an
amendment made by Mr. HUTT, imposing the same
duty on coals brought into London by railroad or other
conveyance, as on coal brought by sea.
The Earl of LINCOLN proposed an amendment con-
tinuing the Id. a ton duty, and ordering the proceeds to
be invested in the name of the Commissioners of Woods
and Forests, in trust to be applied to defray the ex-
penses of Metropolitan Improvements.
The motion was apposed by Mr. WILLIAMS, Mr.
HUME, Mr. MASTERMAN, Lord HOWICE, Mr. HA.WES,
and Mr. EWART, and supported by Sir R. PEEL, Mr.
Alderman HUMPHERY expressing an opinion that the
tax on coal ought to be taken off altogether. On a divi-
sion it was carried by a majority of 27 ; the numbers
being for the amendment, 69; against it, 42.
The remaining clauses were agreed to, and the Bill
was ordered to be reported to-morrow (this day).

The House then went into Committee on the Scotch
Poor-law Bill, several clauses of which were agreed to.
The House then resumed, and after disposing of the
other orders of the day, adjourned at Two o'clock.

If the intelligence last received from Algeria were re•
garded only as the usual succession of events in that part of
Africa, we should scarcely feel it necessary to invoke the

attention of our readers in that direction. Not becaust.

whatever regards the condition and progress of the French
settlement and the French army in that noble region, is
other than a lesson full of instruction and of matter for
remark, but, because the occupation of the territory—
the costly price of blood and treasure which France has
already paid for her possession, and must still continue
to pay in keeping her own there—and the ruinous
disparity between her outlay upon, and her returns from
it—the charges she defrays for, and the revenue she
derives from it are all matters of contemporary
history, the principal features of which are brought
daily, in some shape or other, under our notice.
What the Algerine question, however, may want
in novelty, it must ever retain in importance. Whatever
the casuistry of political party, or the promptings of the
national vanity may have suggested for its justification,
the whole history of the transaction establishes the fact

that it was a political crime ; that it originated in an
act of political deception, and has been followed by
casualties and disasters, which have realised the penalty
that, in the scheme of PROVIDENCE, great offences are

found inevitably to entail upon themselves. The
previous duplicity in contriving the sustained falsehood
in elaborating, and the unscrupulous avowals on rnatur-

ing designs of spoliation, exhibited by the French
Government during the last three-and-twenty years,
were not less powerfully exemplified in the counsels and
combinations which led to the invasion of Spain,
in 1822, by the Duc D'ANcouLEmE, than in the
whole course of their proceedings touching the
permanent occupation of Algeria. They were guilty, in
this latter case, to an extent even greater than in the

former one, of deliberate and palpable falsehood in the
declarations elicited from them in reply to the applica-
tions of the English Ministry. France solemnly and
repeatedly disclaimed, from 1830 to the close of 1833, all
intention of permanently occupying the Algerine do-
minioas, and afterwards, in May, 1834, elated with the
susses'-ea of her disciplined troops over some of the
Nomadic tribes of the desert, she threw off the
mask. How her "conquest "—as she somewhat
prematurely calls it—has since been maintained ; by
what " razziav," what visitations of fire and sword,
what laying waste and plunder of Arab
villages, what conflagrations of whole harvests,
and wanton destruction of human life, in
predatory expeditions against the unhappy natives, and
devastation and ruin of families, that conquest has ever
since been waited on (as by so many fearful shadows,

inseparable from the fearful object they are de,-

tined to accompany)—these are matters within the
cognisance of every man by whom these lines may
be read. In these results—in the excited, and,
perhaps, implacable resentments, of the semi-bar
barons nations among whom they have intruded them-
selves—in the incidental expenses which their collisions
with the Emperor of MOROCCO, and the formidable
cavalry of ABD -EL-KADEIt have caused to them—the
French Government has been taught, by this time, the
price which must be paid for indulging in the luxury of
military aggression. Still, as we have before intimated,
all these things being now matter of history, the facts of
which are far beyond the reach of argument, as they are
physically incapable of recal, we should have abstained
from recurring to them. A new and aggravated crime
against humanity, against policy, against civilization,
has, however, been recently committed by a French officer
commanding a detached force of the army in Algeria,
urder circumstances that tail for special denunciation.
Let us say, however, that the French press has expre%sed

its indignation, its astonishment and disgust, in terms
which are most honourable to the writers. They have vin-
dicated the couamon sympathies of our nature, whilst pro
testing against the dishonour which so inconceivable an
atrocity on the part of a French officer has cast upon the
French name. They require that a searching inquiry
shall be instituted into the facts, and that the
party who may he proved to have been guilty
of authorising so execrable a massacre shall be sub-
jected to severe punishment. They are naturally and
honourably solicitous that the name of Franca
shall not be sullied by the infamy of an individual, or
the national character for generosity and courage be
compromised by an outrage detestable alike for its
cowardice and its cruelty, We do but bare justice to
our Parisian Contemporaries in declaring that we have
never met with a more eloquent, genuine, or dignified
exposition of sentiments becoming the organs of public
opinion in a great nation than those which have been
elicited, in their columns, by the statements which have
reached their capital of this Hun-like sacrifice to the
demon of extirpation. It is in a spirit of the most
perfect good-will and respect for these emotions, and for
those who are actuated by them, that we would guard
ourselves against the supposition of imputing to the
French people those deficiencies of moral principle,
or those culpable delinquencies of personal conduct
to which we may have occasion to allude. Our purpose
is to contribute our feeble appal to the French nation
to set itself right with the civilised world, with all
Christendom, by decreeing a most signal punishment
not only against the monster criminal who shall to,
proved and declared to have been the guilty mover of
this dreadful sacrifice, but also against the monster
system—namely, that of her military Algerian occupa-
tion—under which only could he have ventured on such
an outrage, or French soldiers been found to be the
willing instruments of its commission.
We believe that the voice of the French nation will
continue to insist on a signal exposition of this execrable
infamy, and we hope that PELISSIER will be brought
home immediately from Algeria, and put on a fair but
searching trial. If he be imitocent, he will no doubt be
able to fix the blame on the guilty parties. If he be
guilty, the mute but intelligible voices of the more than
600 murdered Arabs cry out for the doom of retributive
justice on his head.

The intelligence which appeared in part of our
impression yesterday, from New Zealand, is of a
most distressing character, not so much on ac-
count of the lives already lost, which all sin-
cerely deplore, as the dismal prospects which this col-
lision holds out for that fine colony. It is admitted on
all hands that never was any settlement made
by Englishmen so favoured by climate, soil, and
locality. It is within a few weeks' sail of British
colonies in Van Diemen's Land and New Hol-
land, increasing every day in wealth, population, and im-
portance to the mother country; it is capable of pro-
ducing all the necessaries as well as the luxuries of life,
and from its comparative short distance from populous
islands in the Chinese seas might in time become a
great mart of commerce. All these bright prospects are
blighted for the present, because we fear this unfortunate
collision will only make the natives more hostile, and
render peaceable occupation next to impossible, Much,
however, may be done by wise and conciliatory measures
on the part of the Colonial Government and the Legis-
lature. Lord STANLEY has now a fine field for the dis-
play of •his abilities as Colonial Minister ; but should he
not improve the opportunity, and still adhere to the

system which has had such ruinous effects, he must be
removed from his post, if not by the Government, by the
voice of Parliament and the nation.

Pecuniary corruption is not the sin of English states-
men ; and we do not at all participate in the fears of
some of our Contemporaries, that the recent unfortu-
nate disclosures in connexion with the Ordnance will
be likely to damage the general character of our public
men. The fact is, that Captain BoLDEno and Mr. BON-
JUN are startling exceptions to the general rule, even of
our Members of Parliament, and much more of our
holders of political office. The universal surprise ex-
cited by the revelations of Mr. BONHAM'S parliamentary
transactions of 1836, and the condemnation of his con-
duct and of Captain BOLDERO'S much less serious pecca-
dillo by a Committee, containing a majority of their
political friends, are strong and honourable proofs (if
proofs be needed) of the high standard of public cha-
racter in England.
But while we speak of Mr. BONHAM'S pecuniary
transactions with the South-Eastern Company, as an ex-
ception to the general rule of onr Members of Parlia-
ment, we de not, of course, mean to say that no others
have done likewise ; and we regret that one part of Mr.
WRAY'S evidence was not a little followed up by the
Committee, to an elucidation of the motives of the
activity of some other of the South-Eastern Company's
Parliamentary friends in 1836. Mr. WRAY states
that some other Members of Parliament were
very active in the cause of the South-Eastern
Company ; and, when asked whether they received
valuable consideration, can only say that he does not
knew. Mr. FEARON, the solicitor to the Company, does
not know either. An investigation into the names of
the other active members, and the nature of their rela-
tions to the Company, would not have been further
beyond the province of the Committee than an inquiry
into the conduct of Mr. BONHAM in 1836, when he was
not an officer of the Ordnance ; to have established the
fact that no other Member of Parliament did receive
bribe before, or gratuity after, would have been much
more satisfactory to the public than to leave it,
as it is left now, to be surmised that other
Members of Parliament were tampered with ; or should
such further investigation have led to the discovery of
other misdeeds, it were only just that they should have
been exhumed with Mr. BONHAM'S. But, with Mr.
ROEBUCK and Mr. DUNCoMBE on the Committee, we are
bound to suppose that there has been some good reason
for not pressing the inquiry suggested by Mr. Wrtar's
answer.

The salutary changes which have taken place since
1836 in the constitution of committees on private bills,
and, most of all, the great improvement, effected during
the present session, in the constitution of Railway Com-
mittees, have necessarily diminished greatly the possibi-
lity of such transactions as that of which Mr. Bortneat
is now paying the tardy penalty. We trust that the
new constitution of Railway Committees will be ex-
tended in the next session to all private Committees. A
small number of Members, consequent concentration of
respectability, and the exclusion of personal or local in-
terest, are the best securities which can be given, and
are securities which the experience of the present ses-
sion of the Railway Committees shows to be effectual,
for honest and careful decisions. And though, when
the Bills have got out of Committee into the House, the
system of canvassing, to which Mr. HAwEs's Committee
has so properly directed attention, has been almost in-
variably resorted to, not less gratifying is the experience
afforded by the present session of the prevalence of jus-
tice and right feeling in the House of Commons over all
the exertions of interested parties.
In all the cases of attempts to overturn decisions of
Committees, with the single exception of one, where an
overwhelming majority showed that there were
strong reasons for differing from the Committee,
the just men of the House of Commons have turned the
scale against the attempts of disappointed interests. And
let us hope that this may lead to a cessation of such
attempts in another session. For, though right prevails,
wrong is done, and in both majority and minority,
on these occasions, will be seen men vot-
ing with an obvious personal interest, or in ob-
vious accordance with the wishes of constituents. And
this is a far more dangerous snare to public character in
this country than any pecuniary temptation. The Mem
ber of Parliament who votes on a railway Bill in which
he has a direct pecuniary interest, as much for-
gets his duty as he who receives a present
from the promoters of a Bill; and Sir THOMAS FRE..
MANTLE who, it will be remembered, made a speech and
gave a vote for an Irish railway, in opposition to the
standing orders of the House, that he might gain a spu-
rious popularity in Ireland ; or the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER, who threw the weight of his official influ-
ence in favour of another violation of the rules of the
House, in order to gratify his constituents' desire for
the success of the Cambridge and Lincoln Railway,
ought not to be entirely exempted from the censure
which is now so frPely meted out to Mr. BONHAM.

We have accounts from Lisbon to the 9th instant, which
announce a rare piece of intelligence. The Portuguese Go-
vernment have at last shown some honesty in their en-
gagements to putting down the slave trade. Official in-
telligence had been received from Benzuela that a successful
effort had been made by the Portuguese navy, on the coast
of Africa, by which three different slaving expeditions had
been defeated at the same period, two prizes made, and a
third ship destroyed. The preparations throughout Por-
tugal for the elections were going on with great activity, and
it was confidently anticipated by the Government tk►at they
would have a large majority. We hope it will be obtained
by honourable means. No decision had been come to by
Ministers respecting the projected railways. The Ex-
change on London was 544.

Accounts from Barcelona of the 7th instant state that the
resistance to the new conscription in Catalonia was extending.
In addition to the towns mentioned yesterday two others
Igualada and Villafranca, has also risen, and General CONCHA,
who was still at Barcelona, was only waiting for reinforce-
ments to act against the insurgents. The Heralds, a Madrid
journal, states that a dispatch had been received from the
Spanish Consul at Perpignan announcing to the Go-
vernment that a number of Spanish refugees had
left Marseilles and Toulouse for Spain, and orders
had consequently been sent to the authorities to pro-
vide against their frruption into the country. CABRERA
had addressed a letter to a Madrid journal, in which, after
contradicting the rumour of his escape and subsequent cap-
ture, he protests his firm and unalterable allegiance to Don
CARLOS, and his concurrence in the manifestos of the 23d
May. He affirms that he abhors the idea of replunging his
country into the horrors of civil war.
The Funds on the Madrid Bourse were still further de-
pressed on the 7th, by several failures which had taken
place in consequence of the previous fall in prices. The
Three per Cents. closed at 28 for cash, and 28% at 60 days;
the Five [per Cents. at 2036 cash, and 21 at 60 days ; and
the Passives at 6% cash, and 6% at 60 days.

The Paris papers contain no later intelligence from
Algiers respecting the horrible massacre at Dahara, but
the Echo de (Atlas confirms the statement respecting the
numbers that died after having been taken from the
cavern where so many had perished in such agony ; of
150 men, women, and children who were taken out alive,
only 37 survived. The Chamber of Peers had passed
the Paris and Lyons and Lyons and Avignon Railway
Bills. The Dieppe and Fecamp and Avignon and Aix
branch Railway Bills, it was understood, would also be
passed, The Paris and Strasbourg line is to be post-
poned till next session. Files of the Oceanie Frangaise,
a journal published in Otaheite, had been received in
Paris. The intelligence is more satisfactory than usual.
Captain BRUAT appeared to be on good terms with the
English missionaries and the British officers on the sta-
tion. Tile following is an extract from the paper of the
17th of December :
" On Tuesday last the Governor, accompanied by a numerous
staff, and by some native chiefs of Otaheite, embarked on board the
Phaeton steamer to visit the island of Mores. The Phaeton pro-
ceeded first to the anchorage of Papetoai, and brought to opposite
the village. In the evening the principal chiefs of the island dined
on board. The following day the chief Tairapa gave a grand
breakfast to the Governor and his staff, at which each of the chiefs
delivered a speech protesting their attachment to the present order
of things. Presents were afterwards offered to the Governor.
While at Papetoai Captain Bruat received a visit from Mr. Simp-
son, the English missionary, which he afterwards returned at the
residence of that gentleman. Mr. Simpson is well known for the
spirit of intelligence and love of peace and moral order which he
instils into the natives who surround him. The Governor after.
wards visited Mr. Henry, the elder of the missionaries in those
islands. He has been here since 1797, and was the person
to whom is due the conversion of Queen Pomare. On the
morning of the 7th the Phaeton quitted Papetoai, and making the
tour of the island to the southward and westward passed through
the Straits of Haonmi and came to an anchor opposite the village
of Afarraiten. The reception here given to the Governor and
suite by the chiefs and the inhabitants who assembled on the beach
was no less friendly than what they had experienced at Papetoai.
After receiving and returning the visit of Mr. Battle, another Eng-
lish missionary, and going round the village, the Phaeton get under
weigh and returned to Papeiti. The marriage of Capt. Hamond,of
the British steam-frigate Salamander, to the daughter of General
Miller, her Brltanhic Majesty's Consul-General for the Islands in
the Pacific, was celebrated at Papeitl on the 15th. All the officers
of the Salamander, the French authorities, and the principal officers
of the land and naval services, were present. Capt. and Madame
Bruat officiated at the ceremony as the parents of the gentleman.
In the evening there was a display of fireworks from the vessel,
and the band of the Uranie played the English national air of
" God save the Queen."

At TORTONI'S, on Sunday, the Three per Cents. were done
at 83f. 25c., and the Fives at 121 f. 30c.

The following are the quotations, at Lyons and:Marseilles,
for the new lines of railway :
MARSEILLES, JULY 9.—Nlarseilles and Avignon, 960 f.;
Boulogne, 620 f.; Orleans and Bordeaux, 675; Yierzon,
740 f ; Avignon and Lyons (Talabot), 531 f. 25c. ; ditto
(Sebastiani), 510 f. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 500 f. ;
Bordeaux and Cette (Espeleta), 502 f. 50c. • Toulon, 496 f. 25c.
LICOICS, JULY W.—Avignon and Marseilles, 975 f., end of

July ; Paris and Orleans, 1,163 f., ditto; Paris and Rouen,
1,0:35f, ditto ; Orleans and Vierzon, 745 f, ditto ; Orleans
and Bordeaux, 660 f., ditto.

Her Mc.j :sty and Prince Albert, and their august
visitors Le sing and Queen of the Belgians, left the
Nine Elms terminus of the South-Western Railway, by
a special train, at half-past nine o'clock this morning,
for Gosport, for the purpose of reviewing tl- e naval
squadron. After the grand review, the illustrious party
will proceed to the Queen's new marine residence,
Osborne-House, Isle of Wight, where they are expected
to pass a few days, and will then return to the metropolis.

SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BuRCHELL.)
BENDREY V. PROSSER.
The plaintiff in this action is a wholesale grocer, the de-
fendant a retailer, in Golden-lane, Barbican.
Mr. THOMAS appeared for the plaintiff, and said that he was
willing to shorten a long case by admitting all payments except
two, to the amount of 171. 16s. 4%d., which he had to contend
had been paid to a person unauthorised to receive them. They
had, ever and over again, offered to refer the matter to arbitra-
tion, and would do so now if defendant's solicitor would under-
take to pay if he lost.
This offer was rejected, and, after a long:and tedious ex-
amination of witnesses,

The UNDICR,SHERIFF said it was quite " unconscionable" to
expect the jury to go through an account of three or four
hundred items, item by item ; to do justice to it, it would pro-
bably occupy a whole day.
The case, however, was cut short, in consequence of one of
the witnesses proving himself to be a partner of plaintiff during
part of the time, and a nonsuit was claimed, on the ground that
he ought to have been a party to the action, and also that he
was an interested witness.

Mr. TNOMAS contended, that as the action was one for a
balance of account, and part of the goods had been delivered
after the partnership had been dissolved, plaintiff had a right to
sue.

The UNDICA..SHIRIFF expressed himself doubtful on this
point, but inclined to an opinion that the plaintiff could not, as
the whole account had been delivered from the commencement.
It was ultimately agreed to refer the matter.
mumaN v. LLOYD.
This was an action on a bill of exchange. The defendant
was the drawer, and resides at Liverpool, the plaintiff at Man-
chester. The plea put on the record was that due notice of
dishonour had not been given. No person appeared on the
part of the defendant to support the plea ; the facts, there-
tore, were not gone into, except proof that the bill was dis-
honoured in London one day, arrived at Manchester the next,
and notice given on the day after. The acceptor had been sued
at the Liverpool spring Anises, and became bankrupt. The
present action was brought to recover the amount of tee bill
and costs.—Verdict for plaintiff.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUAR7'ER TO THREE.
The gales of Cotton in the Liverpool market yesterday were
8,000 bales, 3,000 of which were on speculation, and 1,000
for export. There was no change in prices. shares were firm.
Bandon arid Bantry, 1%; Birmingham and Gloucester, 135 ;
Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 9% ; Blackburn, Darwen,
and Bolton, 5%; British and Irish Union, 9s. ; Belfast and
Ballymena, 614 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 171/2 % ;
Caledonian, 10% %; Ditto, Extenson, 2%; Cambridge and
Lincoln, 5% ; Chester and Birkenhead, 63 ; Ditto, New
Shares, 58% 60; Clydesdale Junction, 834 % ; Cork and Ban-
don, 61% %; Derby and Crewe, 2% 1/2; Dublin and Belfast
Junction, 8 73/4 ; Dublin and Galway, 3% 34 ' • Eastern Coun-
ties, 2134 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 75,4 ; Edinburgh and
Northern, 345. ; Edinburgh and Peebles, 595.; Glasgow and
Dumfries, 18s. ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 2014 ;
Ditto, Half Shares, 10; Glasgow and Ayr, 731,4; Great
Southern and Western Extension, 11 ; Huddersfield Canal
and Railway, 8%; Huddersfield and Sheffield, 6%; Leices-
ter and Bedford, 4s. 6d., ss. ' • Limerick and Waterford, 6%;
Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 565. 6d. 575. ; London
and Birmingham, 321. Shares, 5514; Ditto, Quarter Shares,
36 ; London and Brighton, 75%; London and York, 314;
Leeds and Dewsbury, 18% 19%; Leeds and Thirsk, 61. Is.,
61. ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 6/. Bs. 9d. 1 ls. 3d. ; Man-
chester and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 9% ; Ditto, New
Quarter Shares, 7%; Midland, Great Western, and Canal,
; Midland Railway, 190 ; Ditto, 40/. Shares, 29% ;
Newark and Sheffield, 2%; North Union (A), 175; North
Western, 938. 6d. ; Nottingham, Erewash, and Ambergate,
465. 6d. ; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 63/4 '% ;
Preston and Wyre, 32%; Ditto, New Shares, 78s. 9d. ;
Sheffield and Manchester, 131 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 17
16% ; Shrewsbury and Herefordshire, 9s. %• Shrewsbury,
Wolverhampton, and Birmingham, 3% 68s. 6d. ' • South-Eas-
tern and Dover, New Shares, No. 1, 19 ; Ditto, No. 2, 17% ;
Ditto, No. 3,8%; South Midland, 365. 6d., 375.; Welsh
Midland, 68s. 6d. ' • West Yorkshire, 514 %; Worcester
and Tring, 31s. 6d. 285.; Boulogne and Amiens, 1034 ;
Dutch Rhenish, 41/2 %; Lyons and Avignon, 51s. 6d. ; Nor-
thern of France (Rosamel's) English, 2% 48s. 6d.; Orleans,
Tours, and Bordeaux, 10%.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 14.-The sales are
-Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 91/2 9/. 12s. ; Black-
burn, Darwen, and Bolton, 514 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liver-
pool, 1614 17 ; British and Irish Union, prem. ; Cam-
bridge and Lincoln, 5% ; Fleetwood, Preston, and West
Riding Junction, prem. ; Glasgow and Dumfries 18s. ;
Grand Union, 134 ; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway
and Canal, 8 7-16 ; Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction,
6 13-16 ; Lancaster and Preston, 6014 ; Leeds, Dewsbury,
and Manchester, 191/2 3/4 ; Leeds and West Riding Junction,
6% ; Leicester and Bedford, ss. prem. ; Leicester and Bir-
mingham, 1% ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 2% ;
London and York, 3% 7-16 ; Manchester, Bury, and Rog-
sendale, 2214 ; Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland,
5% ; Manchester and Birmingham, 60 ; Ditto, New Quarter
Shares, 7% ; Manchester and Leeds, Quarter Shares, 24% ;
Midland Railway Consols, 189% ; Ditto, 40/. Shares, 291/, ;
Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire, 13s. 9d. 12s. 6d. prem. ;
North Staffordshire, 3 3/4 ; North Western, 4% 34 ; Notting-
ham, Erewash, Amber-gate, and Manchester, 20s. 6d. 20s.
prem. ; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 6% 15-16 ;
Preston and Wyre, Half Shares, 3% ; Sheffield and Man-
cheater, 13334 ex int. ; Shrewsbury and Herefordshire,
,96
prem. ; Shrewsbury, Herefordshire, and North Wales, 2%;
Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Union, 1% •, South-Eastern
and Dover, No. 3,7% % ; South Midland, 365. 3d. 365. ;
Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, 15; Welsh Midland, 3%;
West Lancashire, 11 5-16 prem. ; "West Yorkshire, ;
Whitehaven and Furness, 23/4 ; Worcester, Shrewsbury, and
Crewe Union, 355. 6d.
In the Canadian papers, received to-day, we have very sa-
tisfactory proofs afforded of the energetic and humane
exertions of the more fortunate inhabitants of Quebec in
affording relief to the sufferers by the dreadful conflagra-
tion. That so much should have been accomplished, espe-
cially by some of the poorer classes, is most praiseworthy.
The following will give some idea of what was effected :-
1. The sales of provisions from the country, sold at re-
duced rates to the sufferers, amount at present to 2611. 14s.
2. The number of sufferers (amounting to upwards of
10,000 rendered houseless) who remained unprovided with
lodgings in the dwellings of the other inhabitants, during the
night after the fire, was only 46 ! At present there are only
88 of the sufferers at the Old Custom-house, the others being
still provided for by the inhabitants.
3. Clothinghas been furnished to 5,488 persons, amount-
ing, according to a low estimated value, to 1,329/.lBs.
/7.,9r persons were relieved with
mbesides 69/. given under pecu-
ao4rn.
:iDyr
c,uuar
min
in
sgotuatinhaceienfisg.r stto w3e,9e5k3,
5. Stray articles, amounting to about 1,000/., have been
recovered, chiefly by the exertions of the police, and distri-
buted to their owners, under the superintendence of Robert
Symes, Esq.
It will be remembered that the services of the ladies in
assorting the immense quantities of clothing was zealously
given, and was most valuable. Indeed, the conduct of the
whole population of Quebec, of all sexes, classes, and de-
scriptions, on the occasion of the late calamity, does them
the greatest honour, and to none more than the poorer
classes in the town and adjacent parishes, who, mostly gra-
tuitously, lodged, and, in many instances, led and clothed
the sufferers, amounting to about a third of the whole popus
lation of Quebec. If the calamity has been great, it never'
was met in a better spirit in any country-a spirit which
indeed is " doubly blessed."
The number of passengers arrived at Quebec up to the
21st ult. was 12,739, being an increase over the number to
the same time last year of 3,886.
The accounts from the United States relative to the grow-
in appear to be conflicting.
There are some hopes, judging by the tenour of to-day's
letters from the Brazils, that the increased duties on British pre-
duce will not be enforced at Rio on the Ist instant as proposed,
but that a delay will be accorded to ascertain what has been
done in England. In the meantime trade at Rio necessarily
suffered very much.
There continues to be a fiat market for the Public Se-
curities, the state of affairs in Spain no doubt co-operating
with the unsettled weather. Consols have been 98% % for
present transfer, end 98%,s for Account; Exchequer-bills
have not been higher than 545. to 565., premium ; the New
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 102 to 10214; Bank
Stock is steady at 2101/2 to 2111/2.
Spanish Bonds have gone lower again, upon the intelligence
from Catalonia. The Five per Cents. have been down to
24%, and the Three per Cents. to 36 and 35%. Portuguese,
Converted have been at 65%. Colombian Bonds are 1734.
Shares, with one or two exceptions, have been rather
lower. The old lines are best supported, and Great Western,
Midland, and Brighton are higher.

ONE CLOSINU
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock 2lOl/2 2111 21114
3 per Cent. Reduced
3 -,' C - . •'. •,,, %

per Cent. Consels Annuities 98%3 98 1
New 31% per Cents ...1021% 10214
Long Annuities to exnireJan.lB6o 11% 7-16 11 7-16
India
Exchequer
India Ditto
Honda,
ot3on Oedksl3: years,ilso
00
CoDnsitotlos
sfooor Openingi.. 274 275% 275%
68
71 68
98% 54i% % 98%
pm. 53
pm. 54
pm. 55
Ditto Small I,OOOL, I%d.
5g:6 565

ONE
O'CLOCK.

CLOSINO
PRICES.

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839 BB
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela li 34
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837......•• —
Ditto, Account —
Ditto Deferred
Portuguese 3 per Cents.
Ditto, Converted 65%g
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent ..
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
25%
5%
353/4
DDD
iii
ttt
ttt
too)
:3 r
.Apa
sce crs oi
CNt.
eennt
t. ..
3_246 /8355/8
Ditto, Account 36 35% 35%
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent —
Ditto. Deferred
Belgian 41/2 per Cent.
Dutch, 21i par Cent .
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certinc....

88
173/
36%8
37%8

65
64%

9 9 1,4
624
991%

CLOSING A ONE O'CLOCK.
PRICES OF
A rBA. Ab
mei Aberdeen SHA R E S 3IA
portrusCholeraine, and
* 31/2
1% ..... 13/4
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Bristol and Exeter
Do. New . 2 ... . 11
Caledonian
Ditto Extension - De%
Cambridge and Lincoln 11A .••••• 4 4
Chester and Holyhead... 10 ..... . 15 A.
Churnet Valley
Coventry, Bedworth, and
Nuneaton
Cork and Waterford ... 11, .....
Coventry and Leicester 114 —
Direct Northena
Eastern Counties 14/. 165...... 2114
Ditto New 4/. 16s.
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No, 1..44 13s. 4c1.,,,... 1,4

41/2
95

103%
2%
15%

1%
1%
1%
2114
714
IN,