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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1845.

The House of Lords did not sit.

The Commons met at four o'clock.

Lord INGESTRE moved the bringing up of the report on
the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway on the
broad gauge line, in favour of which the Committee had
decided.

Mr. COBDEN moved, as an amendment, " That a Select
Committee be appointed to inquire whether, in all future Acts
for the construction of railways, provision ought to be made
for securing one uniform gauge, and whether it could be prac-
ticable and expedient to bring existing lines of railway in Eng-
land, and lines now in course of construction, into uniformity
of gauge, and if so, to report upon the best mode of culling
these objects into effect in the present session of Parliament."
Colonel WOOD supported the amendment.
Mr. SHAW, as Chairman of the Committee, entered into a
most eloquent and lucid statement of the reasons which had
determined the Committee to decide in favour of the broad
gauge line. The Right Hon. Gentleman, who was greeted
with enthusiastic cheering during the course of his speech,
concluded by calling upon the House to support the decision of
the Committee.

Mr. LABOUCHERE thought that the House ought to up-
hold the decision of the Committee.

Sir G. GREY thought that the Great Western should have
an independent line as well as the Birmingham Company.
Sir G. CLERK supported the decision of the Board of
Trade in opposition to that of the Committee.
Sir T. WILDE, as representing the interests of the people
of Worcester, supported the broad gauge line.
Sir GEORGE CLERK explained that the Board of Trade
had distinctly pointed out to the Great Western Company the
objections to the change of gauge, and that it was not until
a full hearing that the Board of Trade had decided.
Mr. WARD denied that he was operated on either by
personal canvass or by private interest. He had nothing to do
with either of the Companies, but he considered that a question
so large ought not to be decided incidentally by a Committee,
but by the Legislature at large.
Sir T. ACLAND thought that if the question of gauges
were to be taken up, it should be taken up gravely ; but it
was not fair to take it up now upon the question
of this particular railway. The question regard-
ing the railway had been referred to the Committee,
and the House would pay the Committee a very ill
compliment if they now raised the question of gauges
to throw the decision of the Committee over. Why
had they not raised this question of the gauges on the Basing-
stoke Bill, when the broad gauge abutted upon the narrow
gauge ?
Sir R. PEEL thought that as a general rule the Minis-
ters of the Crown ought to abstain from interfering in questions
of this sort. H e would exercise no influence to support the report of
the Board of Trado, or to support the decision of the Committee.
. ' r..A.eu by 'ts rliend
of his who had been used to judicial investigation,
and looking to all the circumstances of the case, his cpinion was
that it would not be wise in the House to overrule the decision
of that Committee.

On the motion that the report on the Oxford and Rugby
Railway Bill be received, some discussion ensued ; hut,
eventually, the report was ordered to be brought up by a ma-
jority of 36 ; the numbers being, for the adoption of the report,
79, and against it, 43.
On the reading of the order of the day for going into Com-
mittee, several Hon. Members who had motions on the paper
postponed them, on account of the lateness of the hour. Even-
tually it was determined that it was too late to go into Com-
mittee of Supply, and after disposing of the orders of the day,
the House adjourned at half-past Twelve o'clock.

Thursday night brought to a close the adjourned and
protracted debate on Mr. C. B ULLER'S Resolutions rela-
tive to New Zealand, its government and relations with
the mother country, and the conduct of successive admi-
nistrations of our Colonial Department towards it. The
division on the Resolutions was honourable to the abi-
lity with which they had been opened by the Learned
Member for Liskeard, and proved how strong an impres-
sion his speech had produced on the House. For,
although both Sir R. PEEL and Sir J. GRAHAM took up
the defence of Lord STANLEY'S policy, that
is, of his prejudices towards this noble colony,
with the zeal of partisans and the ingenuity
of casuists, the Ministerial majority of the session was
strangely diminished. A majority of 57 only, in a
House of 395 Members, acquitted the present Go-
vernment of faults of omission and commis-
sion less blameable than those of their prede-
cessors, in dealing with the affairs and colonists
of New Zealand. We have never concealed our
own impressions of the original error in principle,
and the subsequent miscarriage in details of the first
Government which dealt with New Zealand as a con-
nexion with the British Crown, and employed Captain
HOBSON as its negotiator, in the reign of WILLIAM IV.
and of all the Governments which have since held office.
Lord HOWICK'S acknowledgment of this error of princi-
ple and originally vicious scheme of establishment was
so frank and manly that we have not another word to
urge. Even Lord J. RUSSELL, in his speech of much
vigour and cleverness, could not vindicate himself or
his colleagues in administration from the charge of a
misconception of the true character of the New Zealand
connexion, the great responsibilities they were incurring
at every step they were taking in a class of colonial regu-
lations, which required the most matured deliberation
in approaching, in proportion as they were cf a character
utterly novel and anomalous. Now, it does seem to us that
even so lately as that recent period at which the tact and
perseverance of Mr. C. BULLER in conducting his mission
from the New Zealand Company to the great office in
Downing-street, pinned Lord STANLEY to the necessity
of finally proclaiming his intentions with regard to that
Company—its pretensions, its position, its demands, and
its future recognition or disavowal—every Ministry, in
the interval we speak of, has equally compromised its re-
putation for prudence, plain dealing, and sound judg-
ment. Here was a colony, to the territorial property
of which we had as undoubted a title as priority of
geographical discovery and frequent resort and inter-
course with the natives could give us. Our Ministers were
afraid or reluctant, or unprepared to propound their views.
They would not call it a possession of the British
Crown. They would not recognise it as the property of
any other Crown. They would not give protection to
British subjects, in the Bay of Islands, or at any other
point upon which they were congregated. They would
not ratify their contracts nor guarantee their property.
The colony waxed British and strong in spite of their
neglect. Something they must do. They sent
out Captain HOBSON with powers to treat, and
by that very act they moved as the British
Government towards New Zealand as a colony
of the British Crown. From that moment they should
have exercised the rights, and what is far more important,
they stood committed to the duties of sovereignty. The
old reciprocated ties of allegiance and protection were
already formed. On their part the Imperial Government
has,
beyond all question, neglected the most important
of its duties to its British subjects in New Zealand.
But now came a new, powerful, and wealthy associa-
tion projected and established in London, composed
of
many capitalists without rank, of some
aristocrats
without capital, of some Members of Parliament (men of
ability and honour), and, we are compelled to believe, of
some adventurers without capital; without rank, of some
ability, and but an imperceptible modicum of honour.
Here was money subscribed in abundance, and agents of
very differing shades of moral character to force the
largest returns that could be derived from it. With
the exception of Colonel WAKEFIELD'S very doubtful

but much over-rated principle of self paying colonisa-
tion, the New Zealand Company had few claims for
preference over any of the nemerous land companic s
that were at that time seeking public patronage. The
Direction of this Company appears to have thought that
" there was no harm in asking ;" and accordingly, in its
communication with the Government, asked for the most
enormous powers, as far as territorial possession and
rights were concerned, that ever had been heard of.
From Karakoora to Egmont, or to Nelson, the whole
" block" was parcelled out in the Company's prospec-
tuses with the self-possession of an estate-agent, commis-
sioned to let out a given plot of ground on building leases.
If the Colonial- office had been prudent, alarmed, and coy
before, on the question of Crown title or no title, she
threw herself into ,the very arms of this seductive Com-
pany ; gave all that was asked, and was willing to add
more into the bargain. Before its own title was de-
fined to its own satisfaction, or to the right of locating its
own immediate servants on the island soil,—the Govern-
ment permitted itself to be cajoled into a sort of official
coquetting with the New Zealand Directors, which ended
in its granting delegated powers and representative
authorities far greater than any it ventured to reserve to
itself. The Company (for, with all our respect for Mr.
AGLIONBY'S high character and legal talent, we must
turn to the plain but terrible charges brought by Captain
Rous,which it might have been convenient far him to treat
as brought forward out of time, but which, we are satis-
fied, will never be met)—made promises which it had
not then, and has never since had the power to redeem ;
deprived of lands it did not possess ; induced emigra-
tion to a soil upon which it had no power to guarantee
a foot of settlement ; and of itself disppointed by the
Government, deceived its fellow-subjects on a scale of
unpardonable magnitude. After a careful perusal of the
debate, we are compelled to denounce the concern as a
dishonest one from the beginning. Mr. ELLICE declares
that, in an experience of 40 years of the Colonies and
Colonial administration, he has never known anything
to equal in fatuity, folly, and mischievous mismanage-
ment, the whole dealings of the present and former Go-
vernments with New Zeeland. Were they, let us ask, the
absolute dupes of that Company? We do not believe it. We
rather suspect, from some passages in Mr. HOPE'S lame
pleading, that the Government must have anticipated
an accession of Parliamentary and political influence from
their outrageous adoption of a pushing Direction, full of
monied names and names of local authority and mark.
We must object to this debate of so many evenings, as
also a dishonest debate. The chief participators in it
may be divided into three classes ; one of them only in-
tent upon clearing Lord STANLEY and his subordinates ;
a second, bent on making out a good case for Captain
FITZROY, the ex-Governor ; and a third, interested
almost exclusively to achieve the difficult object of
whitewashing the New Zealand Company's Direction.
The wrongs of British emigrants, the murders of
British settlers, the insults on the British flag ; the
hideous savagery of out most intimate native con-
nexions were, for the most part, slurred over.
Great public and political priaciples have been silently
passed ever although notoriously outraged. The condi-
tion of New Zealand, and the relations of the Govern-
ment with the New Zealand Company, were disgraceful
anomalies when the discussion began. It has left them
scandalous, admitted, unalloyed facts. Mr. HOPE and
Mr. CARDWELL, Sir R. PEEL and Sir J. GRAHAM, ap-
pear to have thought that the only result needful to be
accomplished was the justification of Lord STANLEY.
Lord STANLEY'S conduct and correspondence are a mere
personal question, not worth one straw by the side of
this UNSOLVED PROBLEM : What is now to be done with
Acw Zealand and the British seteers in it, and their
future government ? Sir R. PEEL must address himself
to this point, not to a miserable and insidious attempt to
throw the whole onus of culpable mismanagement and
neglect, for which his own Government is so seriously re-
sponsible through the connivance and imbecility of its
colonial department, on that Government which his has
displaced.

Madrid journals of the 14th hare been received. Ac-
cording to the Espel anza, a Carlist paper, the French
Government had granted Don CARLoS passports for the
Department of the Lower Alps, where, it is said, he will
take up his residence for some time. General PRIM had
left Madrid for Paris, and the Count DE BRESSON, the
French Ambassador, was at Bayonne on the 16th, also
on his way to the French capital, The Madrid Gazette
of the 13th publishes the estimates for the year 1845,
amounting altogether to 1,184 millions of reals, or
11,843,771/. The following are the estimates for the dif-
ferent departments in English money :—Civil List,
433,000/. ; the two Legislative Chambers, 11,423/. ;
Foreign Affairs, 102,132/. ; Department of Justice,
187,882/. ; the Interior, 1,226,104/. ; Army Estimates,
1_ ol ;266 -,,Nitinr Ist.? h
1,254,954/. Accounts from the Basque provinces state
that the abdication of Don CARLOS had been received
favourably in those districts, and was regarded as the
precursor of a marriage between the QUEEN and the
Prince of ASTURIAS,

Considerable fluctuations took place on the Madrid
Bourse on the 13th. The Three per Cents. closed at
31i for cash, and 32i account, and the Fives at 231 ac-
count. On the 14th the Threes declined to 311 cash,
and 32* account, ; and the Fives closed at 231.

The Paris papers are still occupied in discussing the
statements made by Sir C. NAPIER and Lord PALMER-
STON, relative to the steam navies and fortified ports of
the two countries, and the writers seem not a little puz-
zled what to make of them. The Journal des Debats
claims credit for the present Government, from the very
fears expressed on this side of the Channel at the great
strength of France, and especially her means of attack
and defence, and ironically attributes all the glory to M.
TRIERS and the Left Centre. "It was easy," says that
journal, " to conceive the embarrassment into which our
opposition journals have been thrown by the speeches of
Sir C. NAPIER and Lord PALMERSTON ; but it is curious
to observe how they try to get out of the dilemma. Is
our naval position improved ? Yes, it is so undoubt-
edly ; but then this has been done independent of our
Ministers, or rather in spite of them. The traitors
would have willingly left us at the mercy and discre-
tion of England, but they were not allowed. They
have raised the fortifications of Paris, they have laid
down railroads—but all this against their own will.
They still remain as mean and miserable as we have re-
presented them to be ; and if France has a navy, an
army, railroads, and steam ships, the honour belongs to
the Radical party alone. To the Radical party ? No,
indeed ; to M. TRIERS and the Left Centre. Who has
governed the country for five years ? The Left Centre,
to be sure. Who has obtained the abolishment of the
right of search ? M. BILLAULT and the Left Centre.
Who passed the Fortifications Bill ? M. TRIERS and the
Left Centre. Marshal SOULT and M. GutzoT have been
merely the puppets of the Left Centre. The part taken
by the Ministry is this—it makes fine speeches about
peace, and then goes to sleep in infantine security ;
while England, foreseeing war, is providing to meet it.
But read the two speeches of Lord PALMERSTON and
Sir CHARLES NAPIER, and it will be found that they
make the same reproach to the Tory Cabinet as is made
here against the Conservative Cabinet. It is accused of
leaving the means of defending the country to perish,
while France, they say, under the direction of an able
and powerful Government, is placing herself in a posi-
tion to invade England, and burn and destroy her ports
and arsenals !" The Presse takes a very different view
of the question, and treats the fears of Sir CHARLES
NAPIER as purely imaginary. We give the following
extract as a specimen :
" Sir C. Napier has fallen into most ridiculous exaggerations.
He has underrated beyond measure the power of his country, and
swelled up beyond all bounds that of France. Such hyperbolical
assertions cannot obtain credit without danger. It is so ntuch the
more necessary to re-establish the truth in this respect, that our
Ministerial journals have affected to take for gospel the fantastical
speech of the Gallant Commodore, proudly opposing it to those per-
sons who say that our naval resources are not what they ought to be,
and who urge the Government to increase them. That Sir C. Napier
should give proofs of ignorance when speaking of our affairs, is not
very astonishing, although he has abused somewhat too much the
permission he might lay claim to of being mistaken, as we shall
show just now. But the French journals must not be permitted
to fall into the same errors, and there is no excuse for their echoing
his assertions. Sir C. Napier has maintained two things; first,
that our coasts are in a formidable state of defence; and, se.
condly, that our navy, and, above all, our steamers, had reached
such a point of development as to leave the navy of Great Britain
far behind. To state this opinion is almost to criticise it sufficiently.
As to the new packets that are being constructed, that is a fact titre
to the imagination of Sir C. Napier. No order in this respect has
been given or could have been given. Nothing will be done until
after the vote of the Bill now pending, and then the packets that
are to be built will belong altogether to commerce, and not to the
Royal Navy."

In the Chamber of Deputies the estimate for improv-
ing and strengthening the harbour of Algiers came under
discussion, when the Members showed themselves more
lavish of the public money than even Marshal SOULT.
The Minister of War had demanded only 1,500,000 f.
for that purpose, but the Committee thought the sum
too small, and recommended a grant of 2,000.000 f.
(80,0000, which was voted, after a sligh) opposition.
The strike of the journeymen carpenters still con-
tinued. " Two weeks," says the Reforme, " have now
nearly elapsed since the ' strike' commenced, and we
are afraid that this will not be the last. The workmen
are determined not to abate their demand ; they have
even enhanced their original propositions, and now claim
for journeymen of all grades uniform wages of five
francs a day." M. GuizoT had a long conference with
Lord COWLEY on Wednesday, at the English embassy.
On Thursday Marshal SELiSTIANI read the report of
the Committee appointed to examine the Slave-trade

Convention Bill. The Committee fully approve of the
terms agreed to, pay high compliments to the nego-
tiators, the Duke DE BROGLIE and Dr. LUSIIINGTO'N,
and recommend the most scrupulous and faithful exe-
cution of the treaty, and the adoption of every means at
the disposal of the French Marine for rutting down the
infamous traffic in slaves. This is a gratifying result,
as the new treaty, we are convinced, will be infinitely
more effectual than all those that have yet been nego-
tiated.

The Three per Cents. closed on the Bourse on Thurs-
day at 84f. 15c. • the Five per Cents. at 122 f. We. ;
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,215 f. ; Rouen, 1,085 f. ;
Vierzon, 780 f. ; Havre, 870 f. ; Avignon, 1,022 f. 50c. ;
Basle, 265 f. ; Spanish Passives, 3814; Ditto Three per
Cents., 411 A ; Ditto Passives, 7A-
The following are the quotations for the new lines:—

Orleans and Bordeaux, 2051. premium ; Boulogne, 115 f.
ditto ; Troyes and Montereau, 30f. ; Paris and Lyons
(Laffitte), 18f. 75c. ; ditto (Caton), 50c.; ditto (Ganneron),
41. 50c.; Northern line ( Laffitte), 251. ; ditto (Rosamel),
61. 25c. ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 9f. 50c.; ditto
(Drouilard), par; ditto (O'Neill), 61. 500.; ditto (Jacques
Lefevre), par ; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe),lBl. 75c. ; ditto
(Talabot), 401. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), Bf. 50c. ;
Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie), lf. 50. ; ditto and
Cette (Espeleta), 41. 50c. ; Creil and St. Quentin, par; Paris
and Strasbourg (Ganneron), 10f. ; Dijon and Mulhausen,
lf. 50c.

MARSEILLES, JUNE 14.--Marseilles and Avignon, 1,045 f.;
Boulogne, 625 f. ; Orleans and Bordeaux, 720 f. ; Vierzon,
820 f. ; Avignon and Lyons (Talabot), 542 f. 50c. ; ditto ( Sebas-
tiani), 522 f. 50c.; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 510 f. ;
Bordeaux:and Cette (Espeleta), 517 f. 50c. ; ditto (Mackenzie),
507 f. 50c.

LYONS, JUNE 16.—Avignon and Marseilles, 1,025 E, for
the end of June ; Paris and Rouen, 1,095 f., ditto; Orleans
and Vierzon, 791 f., ditto. ; Orleans and Bordeaux, 960 f.,
ditto.

MAYNOOTH COLLEGE.-4. report is current in Dublin,
that as the present building is in a very dilapidated
state, and the site not very healthy, a new edifice will be
erected in a different locality—probably on the lands of
Cabinteely, about six miles from Dublin, on the
Wicklow road. The report is entitled to cre-
dit. The present College, we believe, was built
as a private residence, and is not well adapted
for the purposes of education. Two advantages
therefore may be gained by the change—a more healthy
situation, and a more euphonious name. Any name, in
fact, would sound better in the ears of certain English-
men and Orangemen than Maynooth. Cabinteely Col-
lege, for instance, would fall like music on the ears of
Roden, and Winchilsea, and Plumptre—any name, indeed,
would be preferable. Maynooth and Sir Robert Peel,
therefore, committed a great oversight in not abolishing
the odious appellation by Act of Parliament ; but pos-
sibly it can be done by a royal proclamation.
WESTMINSTER HALL.—Scaffolding has been erected
for some time against the gable of this ancient building,
in Old Palace-yard, for the purpose, it is said, of re-
moving it altogether ; and, of course, along with it the
magnificent gothic window so universally admired. We
certainly understood, that according to Mr. Barry's
original plan, the Hall was not to be touched, but no-
thing, it appears, is safe under the new management.
The Commission appointed by the Legislature to super-
intend the construction of the Palace of Westminster (for
this is to be the title of the two Houses of Parliament),
are either asleep or on a journey, and constant deviations
are adopted, utterly inconsistent with the plans sanc•
tioned by Parliament. We should not be surprised if
Mr. Barry, under the guidance of his new patrons,
were by and by to come to the conclusion that the vene-
rated Hall of William Rufus and old St. Stephen's were
incumbrances, and ought to be removed.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
There was no change to notice in Cotton at Liverpool yes-
terday. Sales 6,000 bales, including 1,500 on speculation.
Shares were quiet, and in some instances rather lower.
Armagh and Purtrush, 214 ; Bandon and Bantry, 6s. ;
Barnsley Junction, 7 ; Half Shares, 31/s ; Birkenhead and
Cheshire Junction, 1114 %; Blackburn, Burnley, and Ac-
crington, 91; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 514 • Belfast
and County Down, 114 265. ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool,
15% %; Caledonian, 11%; Cambridge and Lincoln, 43/, 1/2;
Cambridge and Oxford, 4s. 55.; Chester and Birkenhead, 62
63 ; New Shares, 58 ; Churnet Valley, 514 • Clitheroe Junc-
tion, 3% 3/4 ; Cork and Waterford, 2 ; Derby and Crewe, 13/4
; Dublin and Wexford, 21,4 ; Dundee and Perth, 31, ;
Eastern Counties, New Shares, 111/. 16s. ; Edinburgh and
Glasgow, New Quarter Shares, 71/ ; Edinburgh and Northern,
41s. ' • Glasgow and Dumfries, 18s. 6d. 1 ; Glasgow and Ayr,
65 ; Grand Junction, Half Shares, 118 ; Eighth Shares, 22 ;
Grand Union, 1/2 ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 33/4 ;
Great Southern and Western Extension, 134; Huddersfield
Canal and Railway, 6% ; Huddersfield and Sheffield, 614 ;
Lancaster and Carlisle, 46 ; Leicester and Birmingham, I ;
Limerick and Waterford, 8% 18s. 9d. ; Liverpool, Ormskirk,
and Preston, 3% 3s. 6d. ; London and Birmingham, 241 ;
32/. Shares, 4514 ; London and Brighton, 7414 ; London and
York, 795. 3%; Direct Northern, 3%; Leeds and Dewsbury,
10; Manchester and Birmingham Continuation, 1% ; Man-
chester, Bury, and Rossendale, 1714 ; Manchester, Sheffield,
and Midland, 3% ; Matlock and Midland, 5% ; Midland
Railway, 187 186 ; Ditto, 40/. Shares, 29 283/4 ; Newcastle
and Darlington, New Shares, 3614 ; Newry and Warrenpoint,
; North Kent, 41/z ; North Union (A), 160 ; North
Wales Mineral, 15%; New Shares, 514 ; North Western,
414 ; Oxford and. Birmingham Junction, 4% 5/, ; Oxford,
Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 5% 6 ; Sheffield and Man-
chester, Quarter Shares, 16%; Shrewsbury and Hereford-
shire, 15s. 6d. 16s. 6d. • Shrewsbury and North Wales, 61s. ;
Shrewsbury and Grand Junction, 51/8 ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry,
and Cheshire, 4% ; Shrewsbury and Trent Union, 465. 6d.
465. •~S^llllle jr tcrndiAil.„llflYean.aVW.,:o. 19-41 r , S'O'dt ft,
New Shares, No. 3,9; Scottish Central, 6%; South Midland,
IA 3A ; South Wales, 6% 1,4 ; Trent Valley, 19% ; Wakefield,
Pontefract, and Goole, 18%; Welsh Midland, 414 1/s ; Wor-
cester and Tring, ; York and Carlisle, 82s. 84s. ; Central
of Spain, Is. 6d. ; Paris and Lyons (Laffitte's), 58s. 6d. ;
Ditto (Ganneron's), 2% 565. ; Sambre and Meuse, 1014.
MANCHESTER. STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 20.-The sales are
Barnsley Junction, 7 : Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire
Junction, 1114 ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 914 ;
Blackburn, Clitheroe, and North Western Junction, 1 5-16;
Caledonian, 12 • Cambridge and Lincoln, 4%; Chester and
Birkenhead, 6414' %; Chester and Holyhead, 17 ; Churnet
Valley, 5 1-16 ; Clitheroe Junction, 33% S Derby and
Crewe, 13% prem. ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, New Quarters,
734 ; Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester, 1, 4 9-16 ; Glasgow and
Dumfries, 1 ; Grand Junction, Eighths, 22; Grand Union, 1/2
prem. ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 4% ; Hud-
dersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 7 ; Leeds and
Thirsk, 6%; Leeds, Dewsbury. and Manchester, 10% %;
Leicester and
and Preston, 3
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2 15-16; London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, 2%
2 15-16 ; London and York, 3% ; Manchester, Buxton, Mat-
lock, and Midland, 514 ; Manchester and Birmingham Con.
tinuation and Welsh Junction, 2 1-16 ; Manchester and
Leeds, 170 ; Ditto Quarter Shares, 25%; North British, New
Shares, 6%; North Eastern, 1/2 11-16; Nottingham, Ere-
wash,. Ambergate, and Manchester, 1% % prem. ; Oxford,
Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 5% ; Sheffield and Lin-
colnshire Junction, 1% ; Shrewsbury, Hereford, and North
Wales, % 7-16 prem. ; Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Uuion,
2 3-16 IA ; Southport and Euxton, 2 ; Welsh Midland, 4 3-16 ;
Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union, % 11-16 prem.
Accounts have come to hand from the Cape of Good Hope
to April 7, but they have been anticipated.
The features in the Bank of England's operations during
the week to Saturday last, are an increase of 184,515/. in the
amount of notes issued, and of 472,1101. in that of the notes
reserved to the banking department, an augmentation of
101,8341. in the bullion, and of 515,9831. in the public
deposits.
The decision upon the "two gauges" for railways, as ap-
pears by the vote of the House of Commons last night, has
created a great sensation in the City, especially among
the members of the Stock Exchange, who are now
mostly engaged in railway transactions for their prin-
cipals. The general feeling, irrespective of Bull and Beas
operations, is in favour of the " broad gauge."
Consols for the Account have been done at 991,4 ; the
Three per Cent. Reduced at 99% ; the New Three- and. a-
Quarter per Cents. at 10214 %; and Exchequer-bills at 575.
to 595. premium.
Very few bargains have been made to-day in the Foreign
Securities. The Spanish Three per Cents, have been sold for
the Account at 411/$ ; the Portuguese Converted at 6714 %;
the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 633/4 5/8 ; and the
Colombian at 17%.
A considerable degree of firmness has been displayed in
the Railway Share Market this day. Bona fide business is
on the increase.

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced
New 34 per Cents 1024% 102%
Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 11 7-16 11 7-16
India Bonds, 1,0001 _ _

Ditto under 1,0001.
Consols for Opening
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 11hd 57 59 pm. 59
Ditto 5001. .
Ditto Small

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela. 17/4 1734
Dutch Exchange 21/2 per Cent 6334 633 k
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 18.37 — ,
Ditto, Deferred — 211/2
Portuguese 5 per Cents. —
Ditto, Converted 671/ 67%
Ditto, Account 67% 673 67)6
Russian Bonds llB% 117% 117 A
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account
Ditto, Passive
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Dutch, 2% per Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 99%% 99%
PRICES OF
.CLOSING
BA.ILWAY SHARES
PAID. A ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen
Armagh, Coleraine, and
B i Pr
mo ri tnr ush
and Gloucester. 1001% — ...—*******
**
13204
130
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Bri'ton, Lewes, & Hast. 20
Bristol and Exeter
Do. New .... . ......... 2 . 121/ 11% 13 13%
Bristol and Gloucester... 30
Caledonian
Ditto Extension
,1,

A—
Cambridge and Lincoln 11h ...... 44ii %IA 4IA
Chichester and Brighton 20
Churnet Valley
5% ............... SIA
Coventry and Leicester 14 — ............... 11/
Cornwall
. . e%

DireetNorthern
Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine
Dublin and Mullingar... 212; 5% 5 5
Dundalk & Enniskillen 21/„ 43ja 434
Eastern Counties 141. 165...... 21 203/ ......... 21179
Ditto New 41. 16s.
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1-.5/. 13s. 4d ::-7-. ............... 114
Great Grimsby and Shef-
field

Great South. and West
(Ireland)
Great North of England..loo
Ditto New 2 35%
Great Western BO 2ll 212 210 2lO
Ditto Half Shares 5O 118
Ditto, Fifths

TEI.E SON, LONDON, SATITRDAY EVENING, J! NE 01, 184 g.

Hull and Selby
Lancaster and Carlisle... 20
London and Binninghm:(Stock)...
Do. 4 Shares
London and Blackwall. 161. 13s, 4d. 111. ii lO7/$
London and Brighton... 50 ... 74% % 7518 741/ - 74%
Do. New consolidated Bths 25

London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d. 20
Lond. & S.Western 411 6s 10d B9 83
Do. New
London and York 2% 4
Londonderry & Coleraine 214 ...... 4% 4%
Manchester and Leeds... 73
Do. Quarters
Manchester and Birmin. 40
Do. Quarters
Manchester, Buxton, and
Matlock 22s. . ..... 4%.
Midland... 100 lB3 186
Do. New
Midland,Birm., Derby...100
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction 25 ...... 55 . ....... ... .. 55
Do. New Brandling
Newcastle and Berwick 11%2 lBl4l/a lB
Newry and Enniskillen. 216 43/4 43/4
North British
Do. New
Northern and Eastern... 45 -
..
North Kent
Norwich and Brandon... 10
Do., New .. 1
Oxford and Worcester... 21/2 7% 81A 7 7
Richmond and West End
Junction
Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1
Scottish Central
:cottish Midland llh, ....
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
Dudley, and Birm 2%. ... 41A1/6 ... 4%
South Devon...
South Eastern & Dover 3312 s 4d...
Do., No. 1 8
D0., No. 2.
Do., No. 3
South Wales 2% 614% 6%
Trent Valley 2 ..... . 18yi...... ...... .. 18%
Welch Midland
Wilts, Somerset, & Wey-
mouth
York and North Midland 50

Do. 1/2 Shares
Do. Extension

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