The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-18 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY li, 1845.

The Lords met at Five o'clock.
Lord CAMPBELL laid a Bill on the table to improve
the administration of justice in Scotland.
Lord BEAUMONT laid a Bill on the table for awarding
compensation to the friends of persons killed by ac-
cident.
A conversation then ensued on the subject of the
railway department of the Board of Trade, in the course
of which Lord BROUGHAM expressed his dissatisfaction
with the constitution of the Board, and again alluded to
the O'BRIEN affair, on which subject the Earl of DAL-
IIOUSIE refused to furnish any information, while the
Duke of WELLINGTON bore his personal testimony to
the high character of Mr, O'BRIEN. The House ad-
journed at six o'clock.

The House of Commons met at Four o'clock.
Various petitions were presented, and among the no-
tices of motion given was one
pt professions, trades, and offibyees, Mr.fr om ROEBUCK,the operation
t exe I 1 3
llowicK gave rise to a lengthened
of
Atheglunecstoim-ta
question
BLoirldl.
conversation on the subject of the Railway Committee of
the Board of Trade, in the course of which _ _
Sir G. CLERK refused to lay before the House any
statement of the manner in which the different members
of the Board had voted, on the ground of its being con-
trary to precedent.
Mr. &a= said that suspicion would rest upon

those who shut out the light ; and that if the House
did not know all and everything, they would pay no
attention whatever to the reports of that Board.
Mr. WALLACE gave notice of a motion on the subject.
Several other Members addressed the House, and, after
a vindication of the Government by Sir R. PEEL, the
subject dropped.
The House then resolved itself into a Committee of
Ways and Means, and the debate on the resolution for
continuing the income-tax was resumed.
Lord JoUN RUSSELL expressed his regret at the
determination of the Government to retain the income•
tax, which he imagined would, ere long, become per-
manent. He rejoiced to hear that the navy was to be
increased. He approved of the removal of the duties
from cotton and glass, but could not understand why
the auction duty was given up. He thought it would
have been better to take the duty off fire-insurances.
The Noble Lord complained that no details had been
furnished of the articles in which the increase had taken
place in the customs duties. The Noble Lord, in allusion to
the proposed alteration in the sugar duties, took occasion
to go into the general question of protection, and admitted
that protective duties should be withdrawn gradually
and cautiously, rather than suddenly and abruptly. lie
felt the impossibility, under existing circumstances, of
withholding his assent from the proposition which the
Chairman had in his hand ; but he should vote for it,
with the hope that the income-tax would not be con-
verted into a permanent burden.
Mr. ROEBUCK objected to the proposed plan of taxa-
tion as onerous, obnoxious, and mischievous, and con-
cluded by moving as an amendment to leave out of the
resolution the words " professions, trades, and offices,"
not for the purpose of exempting them altogether, but
of subjecting them to a regular system of taxation, such
as he had described.

A long and interesting discussion followed, which was
wound up by _ _ _

Sir R. PEEL, who repeated his conviction that the
country would be relieved in three years from the
burden of the income-tax, and said that even if the ex-
periment should not meet his expectations, the benefit
to the community would more than overpay the loss to
the revenue.

After which the Committee divided, when there ap-
peared:—For the amendment, 55 ; against it, 263 ;
majority, 208.
The House shortly afterwards adjourned, at Twenty
minutes past One.

The prospects of the House of Lords for the pre -
sent session are truly deplorable. Regarding them
as coadjutors of the Commons, and equally bound by
duty to attend to the affairs of the community, the
public must look with apathy on a body which rarely
originates any measure of importance, and which has
absolutely nothing to do till the commencement of
the dog-days. But they are to be pitied chiefly for
their own sake. Idleness is one of the greatest of
calamities, and it is therefore painful to see their
Lordships trotting down to the House, as if they were
in urgent haste to commence business, and after
hearing prayers, presenting two or three petitions,
and getting up occasionally some amusing con-
versation, return as they came. It would be in-
finitely better to adjourn on the first day of the ses-
sion till after Easter, and attend to their estates in
the provinces than to waste their time in empty show
and mockery of legislation. The whole business
announced for the session consists of a Bill on bail in
error and an amendment to the Charitable Bequests
Bill. These were announced by the Lord Chancel-
lor. The other law Lords have announced little,
whether from the effects of the epidemic so con-
genial to the House, or from jealousy and a well-
grounded fear that if one starts a good measure, the
others, true to their vocation, will fight against it till
it is torn to pieces, we have no evidence to show.
This is a lamentable waste of time, but that is the
least evil, for when the Bills of the Commons come
up in shoals, one half of them are thrown aside, many
of the rest are sadly mutilated, and only a few occupy
their Lordships' attention, because they have not time
to do them justice. Last session, for instance, fifty-
two Bills came up in July, while not half the num-
ber, and these chiefly of minor importance, came up
during the five preceding months, being in the pro-
portion of fifty to five. This is the more inexcusable,
as there is one measure adverted to in her MAJESTY'S
Speech which is peculiarly adapted to their Lordships
House, adorned as it is with the Bench of Bishops.
" The health of the inhabitants of large towns and
populous districts in this part of the United King-
dom," said the QUEEN, " has been the subject of
recent inquiry before a Commission, the report of
which shall be immediately laid before you. It will
be gratifying to me if the information and suggestions
contained in that report shall enable you to devise the
means of promoting the health and comfort of the
poorer classes of my subjects." Her MAJESTY on
pronouncing these sentences must have had the
Bishops in view, and, no doubt, thought they would
be much better employed in devising means to pro-
mote the comfort of her poorer subjects, than in
reviving antiquated and Catholic practices, disturb-
ing the peace of families, throwing the Church
into confusion, and endangering the best interests of
the Protestant religion ; and, besides, who are so
well fitted from experience, as Bishops, for relieving
the distresses of the poor ? They have all been
curates, and rectors, or vicars ; they, of course have
mixed with the lower classes, visited them in their
sickness and on their death-beds ; have inquired into
their wants, and the causes of their sufferings;
witnessed with pain the degradation and irreligion
of the mind, caused by ignorance and poverty, and
consequently acquired information ten times more
valuable than could be obtained by a few paid Com-
missioners, who take many things on hearsay, and,
at best, can give only a meagre outline of the melan-
choly causes of their depressed condition. This is a
duty befitting a Bishop, and would form a noble
contrast with that of those worldly-minded pre-
lates who consider the only object of their mis-
sion to the House of Lords is to look after their
temporal and pecuniary affairs. Poverty and
crime and infidelity are near neighbours. But for
want of the very necessaries of life, and the miser-
able state of ignorance in which the lowest classes
are left by their spiritual teachers, three-fourths of oar
gaols would be empty, and our penal settlements
abolished, yet Parliament goes on, year after year, in
increasing the severity of punishments to which the
Bishops give their assent, while, neither by their
speeches as legislators, nor their deeds as the guar-
dians of the poor, do they show any disposition to
avert crime by the only proper means—by destroying
ignorance and relieving suffering. Would they adopt
a different system, there are lay peers ready to assist
them, and none more ready and willing than the
Marquis of NORMANBY, who has humanely turned
his attention to these subjects. We fear, however,
that the idleness of their Lordships arises not from
dire necessity, but the want of will, and that they will
go on in the old monotonous system till an outbreak
greater than that of the Reform Bill rouses them to a
sense of their danger, and makes them again lay elaim
to the title of " Tribunes of the people."

was opposed to the Court, but obligei to yield. The
Envoy still remained at Madrid, and it was believed
would not leave for Rome till he saw the result.
On the Bth the Three per Cents. closed at 32/, the
Five per Cents. at 231, and the Debt without interest
at 7i at 60 days.

The Paris papers last week announced that a Mem-
ber of the Chamber of Peers, the Count DARU, it
appears, had given notice of a motion for a Bill to
check the present rage for speculation in railway
schemes. On Saturday he brought the measure
under the consideration of the House, when the
Minister of Public Works said that he would support
the general principles of the Bill, but it was a subject
of such importance that the Government had resolved
to introduce a Bill of their own. This is a preferable
course, as the Minister of Public Works has access to
information which a private individual cannot
obtain. The main principles of Count DARU'i
Bill met with the approbation of the Ministerial
journals, while they admit that it has some
very material defects. " What is the object of the
Bill ?" says the Journal des Debats. "In the first
place, to prevent as much as possible the formation of
fictitious Companies, the object of which is jobbing,
and not the creation of useful roads ; and, in the
second place, to prevent abuses of confidence which
may arise from persons who present but inadequate
security becoming the depositaries of considerable
suns, amounting, perhaps, to several millions, and
thus placing strong temptations in the way of weak
minds. This double object would be obtained if,
on one hand, as the proposition suggests, the fund
brought in by the founders amounted to one-fifth
of the proposed capital, and if, •n the other hand,
the sums paid in by the subscribers were immedi-
ately transferred from the hands of the founders to the
Caisse des Depots et Consignations. These two mea-
sures constitute parts of the proposition. But since
these two measures are sufficiently protective, of what
use is the clause for preventing the opening of sub-
scriptions before the promulgation of the law for
establishing the railroad ? The formation of a Com-
pany for any great undertaking, such for instance as
the North railroad, or that of Lyons, each of which
will require 150,000,000 francs, is not, in ordinary
times, a matter so easily accomplished, as not to make
it prudent to commence long beforehand. This
clause would frequently obstruct legitimate specula-
tion, and by going beyond its object preventits being
attained."

The Globe is equally opposed to some of the
clauses—for the best reason—that, in many instances,
they would prevent the formation of important lines.
That journal thus points out its defects :
"Art. 1 prohibits opening a subscription for the execution of
a railroad previously to the promulgation of the bill ordering
the putting up to adjudication, or the direct concession of
the works of the said line. This is to suppress the most
efficient cause of the determination of Government in
the presentation of railway bills. The Bordeaux line
would be still on paper, if several serious companies
had not determined the presentation of the bill. At pre-
sent, in particular, that the Government appears de•
cided to leave the execution of all the works to companies,
there can be no doubt that the previous formation of com-
panies calls forth the presentation of the bills. There will
be many lines, and particularly branches, the execution of
which the Government will adjourn, if one or several
companies are not ready to undertake them. It is to take
away the initiative from private speculation, to stop the move-
ment of men's minds and capital towards railroads. And
why is all this? To prevent jobbing in promises. But you
do not prevent it, when the bill deciding the execution of the
line is promulgated. Is it less gambling after than before?
If jobbing in promises is culpable before the bill is pro-
mulgated, why should it not be so after? Before and after,
the company delivering the shares is ignorant if it shall
execute the line; and the jobbers in promises, in the two
cases, play a game of chance. Art. 4 requires that the first
call of each subscription shall not be below the fifth of the
nominal value of the shares subscribed for. That, again, is
a prescription which does not attain its object, and which is
bad, because it doubles the inactive and unproductive capi-
tal. Undoubtedly M. Darn wished to keep away small capi-
talists, and speculators not possessing the nominal value of
the share, and who only subscribe to sell again immediately,
in order to profit by the premium on the promise ; but then,
and to be logical, it is the payment of the whole ♦alue of
the share which ought to be demanded. The payment of
two-tenths, in place of one-tenth, will not stop speculators,
for the difficulties of payment are scarcely felt until the
fourth or fifth-tenth. The payment of a fifth, in place of a
tenth, will not therefore prevent the interference of jobbers,
and, as we said just now, it will double the sum of the in-
active capital, which will go and sleep in the strong-box of
the bankers, or in the Caisse des Depots et Consignations.
To sum up, M. Daru's proposition does not appear to us a
happy one. It is a good intention, which would be more
fatal to railroads than a bad one."

The journals still continue their remarks on the
state of the Ministry, and the probable consequences
of the ballot on the Secret Service Money Bill, but
we find nothing new in their remarks.
We learn from Berlin that the opening of the
General Prussian Diet took place on the 9th instant.
The Cologne Gazette observes that the whole of the
Deputies were present, expecting to find in the speech
on the occasion some allusion to the rumoured inten-
tion of giving a Constitution to Prussia. No allu-
sion of the kind, however, was made.

Accounts from Ham93Bb..7BBusolro2g.sl.l.s.t9apteen,c6sto.ha. t.
9pi,rll7.oieceo.ns..id9pri7eorcae-.
considera-
tion of the active and generous conduct of the Jews
of that city, and of the banker, SOLOMON HEINE, in
particular, on the occasion of the great fire in 1842,
the Government of the city and province has felt it to
be its duty to ameliorate the laws which weighed so
heavily on this class of its population. Hitherto the
Jews of Hamburgh have been restricted to commerce
and to the exercise of the medical profession, but the
Council of Ancients has proposed the opening to them
of all the professions and trades.
811A117
5315
.. 317 50
THE BOURSE-I:301:81 —S6OS
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.. FEB. 15.
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French Five per Cents ••• • • • 122 75 .. 122 75 .. 122 60 .. 122 60
Four-and-a-Half.. •• 113 50 .. 113 50 .. 113 50 .. 113 50
108 20 .• 108 20 108 20 .. 108 20
Three per Cents..• •• 84 95 .. 84 95 .. 84 80 .. 84 95
Bank of France ..... • 3265 ..3265 —3265 ..3265
Gouin Bank, I,ooof. Shares • • 1085 ..1095 ..1085 ..1095
Belgian Bank..••••••••''•• 6,55 •• 657 50 .. 655 .. 657 50
18-4..8a2:H.H.z.iff.....E 1160063110 ...... 1160063110,i50 .... 110063t46 ....
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DspnatftischhTFTAw:'hretiFari-e-veaaesidni..d-d..a.:1:1..a1f.........••::•:•
134:4 .. 64 .. 64 •64
•••• •• 41% 1 4c,
8251 i ..... ..... 1 40%60:51 5 0 ..... .....
105
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50
.. 552 50 .. 550 .. 552 50
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882381 5025
ACCOUNT,
STO, .F.E2810
16. .. 210
..1072 50 —1072 50 ..1072 50
St. Germain Bordeaux to Teste
Versailles, R. 8........... 7.1053758002 50
.....1503885222
555000 ......1503577207 5050 ....:1503858022 5500
Rouen.. •••••••••••• ..
..• BBO .. 885 .. 880 .. 882 50
Rouen to Havre— • • • • • • •
Orleans .. .......•1155 ..1157 50 ..1151 25 ..1155
316 25 .. 316 25 .. 318 • 316 25
Strasburg r,got°mßaairse"...
emes..7 ........ 975 .. 975 .. 962 50 . 962 50
Bordeaux to Teste ......... 216 25 .. 216 25 • 216 25 .. 216 25

4, THE SUN" EXTRAORDINARY
EXPRESSES.

THE BUDGET.

We have just received, through Mr. B. Wheeler, an
extraordinary express edition of The Sun, containing a
copious report of the proceedings of Parliament up to
half-past eight o'clock last night, from which we took
the account of Sir Robert Peel's financial measures.—
Manchester Courier.
We are indebted to a second edition of The Sun news-
paper for the means of promply supplying, in another
page, a full report of Sir Robert Peers important finan-
cial statement in the House of Commons last night.
Ha mpshire Telegraph.
We, are indebted for a lengthened report, nearly nine
columns, which was published in a late edition of The
Sun of yesterday evening, and transmitted by extraordi-
nary express to Newcastle, where copies were received
by Mr. Horn, of Market-street, at seven minuts past
eleven o'clock this morning.—Newearife Journal.
The foregoing report is abridged from a full report in
the third edition of The Sun of last night, to the ex-
press of whose enterprising publisher we are indebted
for it an hour and a half before our own arrived.—Bir-
mingham Pilo a
The Bedford Mercury published a fifth edition, con-
tained a summary of the Budget, on Saturday morning,
from the report of the Evening Sun, received that morn-
ing by post.
DUBLIN, SATURDAY EVENING•—AII happily success-
ful—having arrived at six o'clock at Westland-row,
Dublin—dispatched to near 80 news rooms and provin-
cial papers, whose publication would suit. The excite-
ment was, I think, hardly so great even during the Re-
form Bill, and I hope it will tell with due effect.

Madrid journals of the 9th instant have been re-
ceived. On the Bth the Senate took into considera-
tion the Clergy Dotation Bill, which is likely to give
rise to important results. The Government, under
the influence of the QUEEN-MOTHER, who is under
the influence of the PorE, are evidently resolved to
take some daring'step with regard to Church property.
Before the discussion commenced, the Minister of
Finance, Senor Mos, said the Government had re-
commended to her Majesty to suspend the sales,
with the ultimate view of restoring the un-
sold portion of the Church lands as soon as cir-
cumstances would permit. That period had now
arrived, and he therefore gave notice that he
would shortly bring in a Bill to that effect. This
uneasinessat
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those who had become purchasers, for a belief pre-
vails that the PorE will not grant the demands of
Queen CHRISTINA, unless the whole property sold,
as well as unsold, is restored to the Church. The
Opposition journals are strongly opposed to the
scheme. " The declaration of the Finance Minister,"
says the Tiempo, " little surprised us, because it was
evident when Ministers ordered the suspension of the
sale of the clerical property, that they intended to
restore it to its original owners. On that account
we withdrew our support from the Cabinet the
moment we perceived the course it meant to
pursue. We were not deceived respecting its inten-
tions. In exchange for the property of the clergy
the Government will offer us a concordat. It appears
toit- us
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MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, MONDAY EVENING.
There has been a re-action this afternoon in the value
of the Public Securities. Consols have been 99i for
Money, and 99i for Account, being per eent. lower.
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. were 103# ; and
the Three per Cents., 1004- to par. Bank Stock has
been 2121 ; and India Stock, 283 to.
The value of Foreign Stocks was slightly influenced
by the decline in Consols. Spanish Five per Cents. were
27;1, ; and the Three per Cents., 404. Mexican Bonds
were 35i ; Colombian, 14 to k ; Peruvian, 304 to 31 ;
Russian, 1194; and Belgian, Four-and-a-Half per
Cents., 1011.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares were :
—Bristol and Exeter, 14 ; Caledonian, 2 ; Cambridge
and Lincoln, 21 ; Dublin and Belfast, 3+; Edinburgh and
Glasgow, New Quarters, 3; Great -Sectlrern— and
Western (Ireland), 7i; Great North of Engbaid, Nev,r
15} to 17; 'Great Western, ex div., 92 to 95 ; Ditto,
Half, 49i to 48f ; Guildford and Portsmouth, 2i 1;

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY /81 1845.

Hull and Selby, 26 to 25} ; Ditto, Quarter, 5/ ; Bir-
mingham, ex div., 1331 ; Ditto, Quarter, 28 ; Croydon,
5+ to 41 ; Midland, 27 to 28 ; Newcastle and Berwick,
144 to 131 •, Newark and Sheffield, 4 ; North Kent,
; Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 3/ to I; South Wales,
6; South-Eastern, ex New, 7/ ; South Wales, 2/ ;
Trent Valley, 17 ; Yarmouth and Norwich, 7i ; Great
Northern of France, 11 ' • Orleans and Vierzon, 9/ to
101; Paris and Lyons, 1; Tours and Nantes, / to 1; and
Bordeaux and Toulouse, / premium. Dublin and Gal-
way have been discount. London Joint-Stock Bank
Shares were 4+ premium.
(Front The Sun of Last Night.)
The transactions in Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were
on a moderate scale only, not more than 2,000 bales being
sold, inclusive of 800 taken on speculation. The reduction in
the duty remained to be felt.—Shares were steady. Bir-
mingham and Gloucester, 135%; Bristol and Gloucester, 60;
Caledonian, 714 ; Cheater and Birkenhead, 39%; Ditto and
Holyhead, 7%; Churnet Valley, 81% 8; Eastern Counties,
17%; Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 1% • Glasgow
and Greenock, Half, 7% ; Great North of England 601.), 16% ;
Hull and Selby, 74%; Lancaster and Carlisle, 29%; Ditto
and Brighton, 56 ; Ditto and York, 6% ; Manchester and
Birmingham, 62%; Ditto and Leeds, 138 ; Midland Coun-
ties, 126%; Newcastle and Berwick, 16%; North British,
13%; Oxford and Rugby, 4 3% ; Preston and Wyre,
22%; South-Eastern, New, 16% ; Ditto, No. 3, 714 ; Trent
Valley, 17% 18 ; Northern of France, 5%; Boulogne and
Amiens, 5.

There are not any arrivals of consequence in the City
to-day.
It will have been seen by the readers of The Sun that a
new Assurance Company has been started, under the especial
patronage of her Majesty, with the title of the "Royal Naval.
Military, East India, and General Life Assurance Company."
The importance of associations of this description, founded,
too, upon the most secure basis—i. e. public opinion— must in
the long run be of incalculable benefit to society. The aid
of the Government actuary, Mr. John Finlaison, is in itself
a tower of strength to advance the interests of the society.
It may be proper to state that, with the exception of two
or three points, the financial exposé of the Premier has,
upon mature consideration, given increased satisfaction to the
commercial Masses.

The quotations of Consols have been somewhat heavy
this morning. For the Account the rate has ruled from
99%, buyers and sellers, and for transfer to-morrow at
from 99% % ; the New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have
been pretty firm at 10334 to %. Bank Stock has rallied
again to 2121, ; and India Stock to 283. The premium on
Exchequer-bills has receded a shade, viz., to 545.
The business in the Foreign Funds has been slight, and the
changes in the prices few. The Scrip of the new French
Loan has been quoted at 3/ prem. ; Dutch Four per Cents.
at a fall to 98% ; Spanish Three per Cents. to 41% ; the Five
per Cents. to 28% ; and the Portuguese Converted to 583%.
In the other Foreign Stocks scarcely any alteration has
taken place to-day.
In the market for the Railway Shares, a vast amount of
business has been transacted this morning, and, in general,
at advanced prices. The official list annexed gives the fluc-
tuations :

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced ... 1001/2 100 100
3 per Cent. Consols
New 314 per Cents
India Stock
India Bonds, 1,0001..
71

1,
Ditto under ,0001.
Bank Stock for Account... ...... ... 212% 212%
Consols for Account..
Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., 1%d.... 56 54 pm. 54
Ditto 500/. .
Ditto Small

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela. 14
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 —
Ditto, Account 35% 353/4
Ditto, Deferred Stock — 16%
Peruvian Bolds, 6 per Cents — 31
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Converted
Ditto, Account — 59
Russian Bonds — 1193/4
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto. Account 283/8 27.34
Ditto 3 per Cent. ... . .
Ditto, Account 4114 40‘ta
Dutch, 2% per Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 98%%% 983/4
Ditto, 5 per Cent 99
PRICES OF CLOSING
PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
RAILWAY SHARES
Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 134% 134 135...
Ditto New Shares ... 17% 33
Ditto % Shares
Bristol and-Exeter

Ditto New.... - ........ 2 ...... 7 g%
Bristol and Gloucester... 30
Caledonian
Cambridge and Lincoln 1% 314 IA .'
'A
...... 33/4
Chester and Holyhead... 5
Churnet Valley
Direct Northern
Dublin and Belfast June. 2%
Dublin and Galway..... 2%
Eastern Counties 141. 165....... 171A3/4
Eastern Union lO .. ...
Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Ditto, New Quarters.. 2% —
Great South. and West. •
(Ireland) 21
Ditto Extension
Great North of England-100

Ditto New 2
Great Western 175.

Ditto IA Shares
Ditto Fifths
Guildford, Farn'm,Ports. 2% ... „. 4 '
Hull and Selby 5O —
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12%......
Lancaster and Carlisle... 15
London and Birminghm (Stock)...
_. .

Ditto New Thirds ' 2 . 44 . .

Ditto, Quarters 2
London and Blackwall... 16% B% 8
London and Brighton... 50
London and S. Western 4116 s 10d 80% 79%
Ditto New 21,4 13% 13
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 19
London and York 2l/ 7I,E 67 7 7%
Lynn and Ely
Manchester and Birmin. 40
Ditto M Shares
Midland 100 126 127% l2B

Ditto New 2 ..... 8%%
Midland,Birm., Derby...100
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction ... 24 ...... 49
Neweast ie and Berwick 11, ...... 16%.... .. 1534
Newcastle and Carlisle...loo 122
Newark and Sheffield ... 1}
North British
Ditto New 1
Northern and Eastern... 45
Norwich and Brandon... 10
Ditto, New
Richmond and West End

Junction
Rugby,Wor'ster,&Tring 1
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
Dudley, and Birm 2% 7 6% 7% 53/4
South Devon lO . 1643/4 l6
South Eastern & Dover 3312 s 4d... 42 41
Ditto, No. 1
Ditto, No. 2.
Ditto, No. 3
2
South Wales 5,4 5%
Trent Valley 2 —lB3/4 19 18% 194 19
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ...... 34
Yarmouth and Norwich. 20 —
York and North Midland 50 lO7
Ditto, Selby
Ditto Extension
FRENCH RAILWAYS.

Boulogne and Amiens... 2
Great North. of France.. 4
Orleans and Vierzon ... 2 ...... 12/814 l2-/
8
Orleans and Bordeaux... 2
Paris and Lyons
Paris and Rouen
Tours and Nantes 1
Bordeaux and" Toulouse 2
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
London Joint Stock lO ,14%4 —
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB: 15.—The market
is firm, with a fair amount of business doing. Bristol and
Gloucester, 59%; Edinburgh and Glasgow, New Quarters,
6%; Grand Junction, Half Shares, 112 ; London and Bir-
mingham, Quarter Shares, 293%; Manchester and Leeds,
Half Shares, 60; Manchester and Birmingham, 64; Ditto,
Quarter Shares, 103/4 ; Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale,
111 ; Newcastle and Carlisle, 122%; South-Eastern, No. 3,
7%; Birkinhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 7%;
Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 6 ; Blackburn, Darwen,
and Bolton, 334 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 7% ; Chur-
net Valley, 7% % ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 5% ;
London and York, 7% %; North British, 13% ; Ditto, New
Shares, 3 1-16 ; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, Dudley, &c.,
6%; Trent Valley, 18%; Waterford and Kilkenny, 31A ;
West Yorkshire, 4.

THE THEATRES.
FRENCH PLAYS-ST. JAMES'S.

M. Frederick Lemaitre and Mademoiselle Clarisse com-
menced an engagement at this theatre last evening. The
piece chosen for their debut was the domestic drama, La Dame
de St. Tropez, which has run for upwards of ahundred nights
at the Porte St. Martin, in Paris, and could Frederick
Lemaitre prolong his stay among us, we have no
doubt but that La Damc de St. Tropez would have
an equally long run here. In this piece, which is a dramatic
version of the story of Madame Laffarge, Frederick Lemaitre
acts the part of Georges Maurice (the Laffarge of the real
history), and great as we knew him to be (his Robert Ma-
caire, for instance, must be in the recollection of all
play-goers) we had no idea that he was so
transcendently great as he has shown himself by his delinea-
tion of the character of Georges Maurice. The scene is laid
in the year 1781, at a time when class feelings and class ha-
treds were at their height in France. Hortense (Mdlle.
Clarisse) is the daughter of a poor proud noble, whose estates
are mortgaged for more than their value to George Maurice, a
rich roturier, who has been the architect of his own fortune.
Georges forgives him the debt, and asks the hand of Hor-
tense in marriage. The Count refuses, but Hortense, al-
' though she dearly loves another, accepts him out of grati-
tuda, and they are married. On their road to St. Tropez,
the residence of Maurice, they stop at a country Inn. There
is a young man there, who has been laid up with sickness
for many weeks—and Hortense recognises her lover, Charles
Dellbeyme. They meet, she tells him she is married ; and
writing a letter without direction, which she leaves to be
given to him, rejoins her husband, and urges their instant
departure. Maurice observes her manner, and questions her.
She is agitated, but still all obedience and duty to his
wishes. The horrid truth at once flashes upon him—she
has married him out of gratitude not out of love. They
arrive at St. Tropez. Antoine, his cousin and heir, a low,
vulgar villain, takes every opportunity of insulting Hor-
tense, while Maurice endeavours by the most tender
attentions to win her affections. Madame Langlois,
a friend from Paris, visits her, observes her melancholy,
and speaks to Maurice on the subject. Maurice opens his
whole heart to her, and she promises to aid him in his en-
deavours to gain his wife's affections. The acting of Le-
maitre in this scene was chastely and beautifully pathetic.
It went right to the heart. Charles Dellbeyme, it appears,
had left the Inn at the same time that Hortense and
Maurice had quitted it, and accordingly did not get her letter
which the innkeeper forwards to St. Tropez, and which gets
into the hands of Antoine, who loses no time in endeavour-
ing to rouse feelings of jealousy in the breast of Maurice, and
who in confirmation of his slanders against Hortense, which
are at first treated with contempt, produces this letter,
In a fury of rage Maurice taxes Hortense with
her crime, produces the letter, and swears vengeance
on her and on her lover. This terrific scene was
magnificently given by Lemaitre and Mademoiselle
Clarisse, and the drop-scene fell at the conclusion of the third
act amidst most enthusiastic applause. It appears that
Charles Dellbeyme has been in the habit of receiving sup-
plies from an unknown benefactor. This unknown is Maurice,
who having unwittingly killed his father feels it a duty to
support the son. Maurice gives to Antoine a sum of money
to take to Charles, and then makes a will be-
queathing all his property to Antoine's son. The will made,
Antoine conceives the diabolical scheme of poisoning Mau-
rice. Maurice is taken ill. Hortense attends him day and
night, and prepares all his medicines with her own hands.
Still he gets worse. Hortense has gone to church to pray for
his recovery—he is left alone—his physician enters, accom-
panied by another physician, a stranger. The medicine which
had beer prepared for him by Hortense, is brought in by
Antoine's wife. It is analysed. It is found to contain poison,
and the wretched Hortense, on her return, is accused of being a
poisoner. She demands to see her accuser, the new physician
is brought in. It is her lover, Charles Dellbeyme. They rush
into each other's arms. The look of horror with which Le-
maitre beheld this scene was perfectly sublime. Maurice
is on his death-bed—he calls Hortense to him and
forgives her, urging her to fly from justice. Con-
vinced of her own innocence he refuses and rushes
out to give orders for her own arrest, in order to
vindicate herself. Antoine enters, and Maurice raises him-
self from his bed, and sits at his dressing-table. His medi-
cine is on a table opposite, and on looking into the glass
Maurice sees Antoine, whose back is turned to him, mixing
poison in the cup. He dashes the cup from his hand,
and at the alarm Hortense and Charles Dellbeyme enter,
accompanied by the physician and domestics of the household.
In the presence of all, he declares his wife's innocence; and,
exhausted by the effort, dies, having previously placed the
hand of Hortense in that of Charles Dellbeyme. Nothing
could exceed the pathos and the beauty which Lemaitre in-
fused into the character of Maurice. The audible sobs of
his auditors bore witness to his powers. The acting of Ma-
demoiselle Clarisse, as the innocent wrongly-suspected wife,
was most heartrending. Both were called for at the fall of
the curtain, and received with a perfect tumult of applause.
The house was crowded with the elite of fashion.