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London, England, 1845-03-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 14 1845.

STAMFORD RAFFLES starts into place without any of
these adventitious advantages, and establishes the empire
of his country's political force and renown in Java, orgives
marvellous concentration to her commercial energy and
greatnesss at Singapore. He is only a "practical" man,
of no connexions but great natural talents, expanded by
observation, sharpened by necessity, and matured by
experience, into statesmanlike wisdom. He is a brilliant
exception ; but one of such note and mark as should at
once override the rule. We might in that event look for
colonial secretaries appointed in virtue only of their
extensive knowledge of colonial affairs, their dispas-
sionate judgment, temper, and patriotic disregard of
personal prepossessions or prejudices. We might then
hope for colonial governors, nominated on account only
of their talents for administration, their local know-
ledge, their ability to reconcile the legitimate claims of
individual interests with the paramount demands of the
public good ;—men distinguished alike for being con-
versant with the business of government, and gifted
With a knowledge of human character. On this last
point we are pleased to avail ourselves of the implied
reflection on the mistaken policy which inexperience or
ignorance of the character of the New Zealand Abori-
gines has induced English functionaries of all kinds in
that island to adopt, that was conveyed in the remark of
an Hon. Tory Member, with whom it is rarely our
fortune to side. But we do acquiesce, to the letter, in
these observations by Sir ROBERT INGLIS:—“From the
moment that we thus recognised them, all our pro-
ceedings in reference to them should have proceeded on
the footing of equal rights, not of equal power, for that
was not possible. But, on the contrary, the case, as it
actually stood, was the case of a company of persons, and
the individuals composing that company were men of
character as high and principles as just as any who are
to be found in any part of the empire, the binding prin-
ciples of whom, it could not be denied, were principles of
pecuniary interest."

THIS DAY'S NEWS.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
(THIS DAY.)

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was fiat. Sales,
5,000 bales, including 500 American on speculation. There
was no alteration in prices; 100 bales Pernam went at 53/4d.
to 6d. , • 100 Maranham at 51/2d.; and 300 Surat, at 21/0.
to 3d.—Shares were firm, and a large business was done.
Barnsley Junction,3lA ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Ches-
ter, 81/2 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 8 %; Caledonian,
73A % ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 6 3 ; Chester and Birken-
head, 414 ; Ditto, New Shares, 33% ; Ditto, Half Shares,
201,4 ; Chester and Holyhead, 8 %; Churnet Valley, 7%;
Cork and Brandon, 4 ; Dublin, Mullingar, and Athlone, 2 ;
Eastern Counties, 21 % ; Ditto, Perpetual, No. 1, 51. 13s. 4d.;
Ditto, No. 2, 245. 245. 4d; Ely and BedfOrd, ; GrandJunc-
tion,224 ; Do., Quarters, 55:% 561 A ; Do.,Eighthe,l94 ; Great
Grimsby and Sheffield, 31/% 4; Huddersfield Canal and Rail-
way, 5%; Lancaster and Preston, 53; Liverpool and Man-
chester, 207 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 63 61 ;
i ondon and Birmingham, 233 234 ; Do., 32/. Shares,
43%; Do., Quarter Shares, 301 31 • London and South-
Western, 79%; London and York, 3% %; Direct
Northern, 4%, 41. 18s. 9d.; Leeds and West Riding Junc-
tion, 7 7% ; Lynn and Dereham, 295. ; Manchester and
Birmingham, 66 65%; Do., Quarter Shares, lls. %;
Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 14% ; Manchester, Bol-
ton, and Bury, 16034 165 ; Manchester and Leeds, 142 v,
Ditto, Sixteenth Shares, 71,4 ; Midland Railway, 140% 1404 ;
Ditto, 401. Shares, 13% ; Ditto, Fifths, 33/4 ; Ditto, Consoli-
dated Birmingham and Derby, 109 ; Newcastle and
Berwick, 14; Newcastle and Carlisle, 125; Ditto,
Quarter Shares, 311 A ; North Union, 79 ; North
Wales, 2z%; Preston and Wyre, 30 IA ; Sheffield and
Manchester, 1041/2 105; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and
Birmingham, 3% % ; Shrewsbury and Grand Junction, 534
Shrewsbury, Oawestry, and Chester, 23/i ; South-Eastern and
Dover, 421/ ; Ditto, New, No. 1, 163/4 ; Ditto, New, No. 3,
83/4 %; South Wales, 5% % ; Trent Valley, 22:31 ; West
Yorkshire, 31; Worcester and Tring, 3% ; Bordeaux and
Toulouse (Mackenzie's), 2%; Bordeaux and Cette, 2%;
Boulogne and Amiens (English), 10s. I6s. Bd. ; Central of
France, 17 ;Northern of France (Lnglish), 6 ; Orleans, Tours,
and Bordeaux (English), 9% ; Paris and St. Quentin, 7 %;
Sambre and Meuse, 6%; Verona and Ancona, 255.
There seems to be now no doubt but that all the sugar in
bond, subject to 245. and 5 per cent., will be realised at the
uniform duty of 14s. per cwt., without reference to quality.
We shall have a busy day to-morrow at the docks and
Custom -house.

The SPEAllit took the Chairat Twelve o'clock, and immediately
afterwards the Houle went into Committee on the

RAILWAY CLAUSES CONSOLIDATION BILL

The remaining clauses of the Bill from 94 down to 109, both
inclusive, were severally put and agreed to without discussion.
The Committee then took up the postponed clauses of the Bill.
On the motion of Lord G. SOMERSET, a clause was intro-
duced in the place of clause 5, which had been struck out, giving
to owners and occupiers of land more specific recompense for the
damage or injury they might have sustained by the construction
of railway works, or by the loss of the land taken for them.
The NOBLZ Loco also brought up a clause In place of clause 44,
for obliging railway companies to make sufficient approaches to pri-
vate or other reads which were affected by the works of railroads.
On the motion of the same Nontal LOAD, several clauses which
had been agreed to in the Companies Clauses Consolidation Bill
were also introduced into this Bill. The Noble Lord said that as
these clauses had been fully discussed in the Committee on the
other Bill, he thought they might with safety be introduced into
this Bill, and they were agreed to.
A clause was also introduced to prevent railway companies from
making works to impede, cross, or in any way affect any creek or
arm of the sea, or to alter or amend the same, without the consent
of the Commissioners of the Woods and Forests, or the Lords of
the Admiralty being previously obtained.
Lord G. SOMERSET, in the absence of his Hon. Friend the
Secretary for Ireland, begged to move the introduction of a clause
which provided that no works should be constructed by railway
companies which would affect the fall, or discharge, or alter the
level of any stream of water without the supervision and consent of
the Board of Works in Ireland. The Noble Lord said that was
already partially provided for by the 6th Victoria, but the introduc-
tion of the clause would make the obligation general in Ireland.

The NOBLE LORD then moved an amendment to the 20th clause,
restricting the power of a railway company to take temporary
possession of land without previously paying the price of it. The
Noble Lord wished to exempt from this power cultivated fields,
plantations, approaches to a mansion-house, or any other orna-
mental road or ground. As the clause originally stood, a railway
company would have power to take possession of land for the pur-
poses of the line, extending in depth 1,000 yards from the centre
of the railway. The Noble Lord proposed to alter the number
of yards to 500.
Colonel SIBTHORP moved that the number be only 100.

Lord G. SOMERSET suggested that his amendments should be
agreed to, and then the Gallant Colonel would be at liberty to move
the omission altogether.
Colonel SI BTHORP was understood to agree to this suggestion.
Sir D. NORREYS thought the powers given to engineers by
this clause were too great.
Lord G. SOMERSET said that, if the clause had been made
more stringent in this general Act, the companies might have
obtained greater powers in a special Act than were proposed to be
given here. The words which he proposed to introduce were these:
" Not being an avenue, or other ornamental road, nor an approach
to a mansion house."

Madrid journals of the 6th have been received. In
the Chamber of Deputies, on that day, the report of the
Committee on the restoration of Church property had
been presented. The majority are in favour of the
Government proposition, but a separate report was
given in by the minority, in which it is recommended that
further guarantees should be given to the purchasers of
national property, and that the property about to be
given to the clergy should not be placed at their absolutes
and uncontrolled disposal. The editor of the Espectudor,
charged with publishing a libel on the Gpvernment rela-
tive to the execution of Zurbano, had been acquitted.
MADRID BOURBB.—Thre9 per Cents. for cash 33i,
for account 34 9.16 ; Five per Cents. for account 25k.

There are deplorable accounts from Prussia of the state of
the inhabitants of several districts. In the circle of
Cletzko it is stated that there were four thou-
sand families without food or work, and in Fried
land one-third of the houses are described as being an.
inhabited and shut up. The mortality among the people,
owing to starvation and the severity of the winter, was per-
fectly awful ; and from the 9th to the 16th ult. the
deaths were as 6 to 1 to the births. During the winter
three-fourths of the cattle are said to have perished for
the want of proper shelter and nourishment, and the people
were reduced to such a state that in numerous instances they
preferred remaining in bed half the day to avoid
the cold, and console themselves for their scanty supply
of food. The agriculturists had not even the requisite seed
to put in the ground for the ensuing crops, and there was
little hope for them but from immediate assistance by Go-
vernment. All this is given in a communication fi om Co-
logne, and yet it appears extraordinary th at if matters are
so bad the Berlin Cabinet should not, ere this, have inter-
posed.
The Funds are firmer again, Consols having touched 99%
and par for Money. Nothing has been done in Bank Stock.
Exchequer-bills have been 665. to 68s. premium.
The value of Portuguese Stock has further receded, the
Converted being 651/2 to 661/2. A reaction is to be expected.
Spanish Five per Cents. are up to 29% and 301/i. The Threes
are 40%. Mexican Bonds bring 3614 to %. Dutch Two-
and-a- Half per Cents. are 631,4.
Shares are rather fluctuating. South-Eastern have been
better, Churnet Valley rather lower, Direct Northern firm,
and London and York steady. Brighton are quiet.

Colonel ROLLESTON said the interpretation clause seemed to
be at variance with the limitations the Noble Lord had alluded to.
Colonel SIBTHORP said the limitations were all in favour of
the property of gentlemen. Now he knew of no class that ought
to be specially protected as gentlemen. In what situation did
the clause place the poor man or tenant, farming a few
acres of land ? He might have inroads made on his property for
mere temporary purposes, for the making of bricks, or for every
other possible annoyance. The Noble Lord said he might bring an
action against the company ; but would the railroad company pay
the expenses of that action, as well as the damage done to him ?
He (Colonel Sibthorp) was not sent to that House to defend
the property of what were called gentlemen; they could better
afford to part with some of it than the poor man, and though such
inroads might annoy the gentleman, they would altogether annihi.
late the whole of the hard-earned property of the poor man. If
this was the law and justice dealt out by a British House of Coin.
mons, then it was high time that another reform of it should take
place, and different men sent there. He solemnly protested against the
whole clause, and fromt nothing else but a desire to protect
the property of the humbler classes. The Noble Lord said he had
better take the sense of the Honse on it, and he would do so,
though be knew he should fail.

The intelligence in the Paris papers is not important.
The Chamber of Deputies had resolved unanimously to
take into consideration the Bill of M. MURET DE BOAT,
for the Conversion of the Five per Cents. The Finance
Minister said he had no objection to the measure being
brought forward for discussion, and pledged himself WI
bring in a Bill on the subject next session. A tele-
graphic dispatch, dated the 10th, had been received by
the Government en Tuesday _from the Maritime Prefect
of Toulon, announcing that the strike by the workmen
of the Arsenal had ceased, and that the men had re-
sumed their labours. The Paris papers contain some
additional particulars respecting the late fatal duel.
It appears that M. DUJARRIER, who was killed,
had the first fire, but missed his antagonist.
BEAUVALON, in returning the shot, sent his ball
through the right eye into the brain of his adversary,
who was immediately put into his carriage to be conveyed
home, but he expired before it reached the house. The
duel, it appears, arose out of dispute at a party of
cards. The Droit says, "A writing stained with blood,
found in one of M. DUJARRIER'S pockets, dated Monday
night, twelve o'clock, and addressed to his testamentary
executor, begins in these words:—' At the moment of
going to tight a duel, on the most futile and absurd of
causes, I intrust to you my last will.' Then follows an
enumeration of the legacies, one of which is eighteen
shares in the Theatre of the Palais Royal, to an actress
of the Theatre of the Porte St. Martin. The Procu-
reur du Roi has named an examining magistrate to in-
vestigate the circunistanoes of the death, and an autopsy
of the body has been ordered. Warrants for the arrest
of M. BisAuvALox and his seconds have been issued."

ONE

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PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
3 per Cent. Consols
South Sea Stock —
Ditto New Annuities ... 983% 983%
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 11/4d 66 68 pm. 68

Lord G. SOMERSET agreed to introduce an amendraent into
the clause that would limit the occupation of the land to the time
necessary to construct only that particular portion of the line. _

After a few words from Colonel RoLtsaxeN and Lord Q. So-
ulless; the clause as amended, was agreed to.
Mr. TATTON EGERTON, in the absence of the Hon. Mem-
ber for Sussex, who was engaged on an election Committee, moved
an amendment to the 21st clause, which gave a railway company
power, by depositing the estimated price, to take possession of any
land which might be required fer slip banks, or side cuttings, and
to remove this power was the principal object of the amendment.
In the 22d clause it was provided that disputes between landholders
and railway companies should be referred to two justices of
the peace to see whether the railway absolutely required the land
for the public convenience, but the justices had no power to order
that the lands and materials should not be taken. The Hon.
Member therefore moved another amendment to supply this de-
ficiency.

Ditto 5001. : - - 68 pm. 68
Ditto Small
Ditto Advertised — pm•

ONE
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 43
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 3614%
Ditto, Deferred —
Peruvian Bouds, 6 per Cents 33%
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Converted
Ditto, Account 67 66% 67%
Russian Bonds
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Passive
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent —
Ditto, Deferred
Belgian Bonds, 4% per Cent — 10114
Dutch, 21, per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Cerufic 9914 99
PRICES OF CLOSING
RAILWAY' SHARES PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Birming. and Gloucesterloo 1321. 131
Do. New
Ditto 1/2 Shares
Bristol and Exeter
Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ...... 58% 58
Caledonian
Cambridge and Lincoln 1%...... 6%%
Chester and Holyhead... 5
Chichester and Brighton 5
Claurnet Valley
Cornwall
DirectNerthern
Dublin and Galway..... 21,4 2% 3/4
Eastern Counties _ 25 21% 203 A

CLOSING
PRICES.

Lord G. SOMERSET complained of the vagueness of the lan-
guage in the amendment. It was liable to many and various con-
structions, and gave large discretionary powers to the justices.
He, however, would not object to the amendment then, but on
Monday he hoped the Committee would either be prepared to
modify or strike it out altogether.
The amended clauses were then agreed to.
Sir D. NOEREYS proposed a clause to enable persons in
Ireland interested in obtaining water power, and of carrying currents
over or under a railway, to form the works necessary for such pur.
pose, and in case any dispute should arise between the railway
proprietors and the person desiring to obtain such water-
power, to submit the dispute to the Commissioners of Public Works
in Ireland, who should have to adjudicate thereon, and authorise
the construction of such works as they deemed not likely to be In-
jurious to the railway.
Lord G. SOMERSET said that they had not the power to con-
sider this clause in Committee, and the motion was withdrawn.
The CliAlitYLN having left the chair, reported that the amend-
ments had been agreed to, but it was immediately discovered that
an omission had been made with respect to the interpretation
elause.—The Bill was then recommitted, and the mistake was
Otetified.

The accounts from Switzerland are favourable, and
strong hopes are entertained that the disputes will be
amicably settled by the;withdrawal of the Jesuits from
Lucerne, and the disbanding of the free corps. The Di-
rectory of Zurich has addressed a proposition to the
Diet, the object of which is to put down the free corps
in all the cantons, and the following note on the same
subject has been sent by M. G UIZOT to the French Ambas-
sador, the Count DE PoNToIs, which he had communi-
cated to the Vorort on the 7th. It is dated the 3d inst.:—

Monsieur le Comte,—l have just received your dispatches
of the 28th ult. It is with the most lively satisfaction that I
perceive in them proofs of a complete accord between you
and your colleagues—an accord so necessary in the presence
of the embarrassments of which Switzerland is the theatre,
and which corresponds so well with the entente cordiale that
unites all Cabinets. The formation of the free corps is,
without contradiction, :one of the most serious events of
the present state of things; and already, more than once,
I have apprised you of the anxiety that I felt as to the
eventualities with which, not only the repose but also
the existence of the confederation, were menaced by
this organised anarchy. The imperative necessity of putting
an end to such abuses, and preventing a recurrence of them,
is not contested in Europe by any of the true friends of
Switzerland. In Switzerland itself it cannot be a question
of doubt for enlightened minds. At the moment when the
Diet is about to deliberate on the free corps, I expressly re-
commend to you to call the most serious attention of the Pre-
sident to the radical illegality and incalculable danger of such
an institution. Announce to him in the most formal terms
our full and entire conviction on this subject. Let the Diet
be convinced of the necessity of adopting, before it separates,
the most energetic measures to prevent the recurrence of the
attempts which have compromised the repose of Switzerland.
Insist on the enormous responsibility which, in the eyes of
Switzerland and the whole of Europe, would fall upon such
of the cantonal governments as should, in contempt of the
rights of nations and the stipulations of the federal compact,
tolerate, or not take means of preventing, the violation of the
public peace. You are authorised to communicate this dis-
patch to the President of the Diet, and to furnish him with
a copy of it."

The CHAIRMAN, having again left the chair, reported progress,
and the Bill was passed through Committee. The report was or.
dered to be brought up at twelve o'clock on Monday.

Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1—.4/. 13s. 4d 11,(1 1
Ditto ditto, No. 2. l3s. 4d... ,•• 000000000000
Eastern Union lO .. ...
Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Ditto New 1,4 Shares... 21,,4 5l/2 -
Ely and Bedford
Grand Junction —.lOO
Ditto Quarter5......... 25
Great South. and West. _

(Ireland)
Ditto Extension
Great North of England..loo l9O ...............
189
Ditto New
Ditto New
Great Western ... 80 ......1764 ........
Ditto % % Shares
Ditto Fifths ',
............
Guildford, Farn'm,Ports. 2% 47, .
.......
Harwich
............
Hull and Gainsborough 1% l% ............
Hull and Selby
Do. Half Shares
Lincoln, York, and Leeds 1% ...............
London and Birminghm (Stock) 234 ............... 231%
Do. New Thirds
LondonLo nd o n andand BBlraicgkhwt
Brighton...
.165/0. 13
371:5iN"
.................................... "6-3.3%14
Do. Consolidated Btbs 16
Lbndon and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d lBl4 18 ......... 18

The amount of business done on Wednesday in Rentes
on the Paris Bourse was trifling. The Three per Cents.
had not ♦aried in price; the Fives had slightly advanced,
the formerleaving off at 85f. 10e.; and the latter at 118 f.
for the end of the month. The market closed as follows :
—Five per Cents. fur cabh, 117 f. 65c.; fonaccuunt, 118 f.
Three per Cents. for cash, 85f. 5c.; for account, 85f. 10e.
Bank of France Shares, 3,175 f. Neapolitan, 104 f. 50e.
Spanish Five per Cents., 39g. Spanish Threes, 40-1.
Paris and Orleans Railroad, 1,315 f. Paris and Rouen
Railroad, 1,150 E Rouen and Havre Railroad, 960 f.
Avignon, Railroad, I,llof.

Do. Guaranteed 5 per
Cent.
London and S. Western 41 /6s 10d 793/414 ............
Do. New
. <32 • < 641/2 .... . .. .... .....
London and York ...... ... 21/2.• 3%3,1% .........
Lynn and Ely 2l/2 514- -- ........
Manchester and Leeds... 73 145 ..........
Do. 1/2 Shares -
Midland 100 139 138
.. ............
Do. New. ' 2 13% 14 13%...
Newcastle and bailing-
-24 47%... ............
ton Junction
Neweasar and Benvick 11/2 ...... 131/234 .
.........
North British
Do. New
Northern and Eastern 45 ...... ...............
Do. Scrip
18%
Do. Quarters
North Kent
North Wales .. 1 A ... .... 2%
Norwich and Brandon... 10 ...... 171,414
Richmond and West End
Junction
1. . ....... _
Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1 ...... 43%
Scottish Midland 1 th.„.
Shrews., Wolverhamp ,
Dudley, and Birm 21A..... 61/11/4 51/414
South Devon... —
South Eastern & Dover 3312 s 4d... 423/4 43 ... ...... 421 x,
Do., No. 2.
Do., No. 3
10
9 81/4,% 834
South Wales 2l/2...... 53‘) 614% 6% 6%
West London,Old ShareS 20 ..... 6 4 —
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 .. ... ....... .„ 3%
Yarmouth and Norwich. 20
York and North Midland 50 lOll/2 102 lO3
Ditto 1/, Shares 25
Do. Selby 2O
Do. Extension
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and A miens... 4
Bordeaux and Toulouse 2
Bordeaux, Toulouse. and
Cette ..... .... .... ..... 2
Great North. of France.. 4
8
Orleans and Vierzon ... 2 ...... 17 ,A 2 ..
Orleans and Bordeaux... 2
i'aris & Lyons, Laffitte's 2
Paris and Lyons, Gan-
neron'q,
Paris and Orleans 2O
Paris and Rouen
Strasbourg and Bale ... 14
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 13.—The sales
are :—Eastern Comities, 21 2034 ; Ditto, Perpetual, No. 1,
51. 13s. 6d.; Ditto, ditto, No. 2, 255. ; London and Birming-
ham, 235 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 571,4 ex new and
ex div. ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 9%
11% cum new ; Ditto,
New Quarters, 4% 15-16 prem.; Manchester, Bury, and Res-
sendale, 13/1 ; Midland Railway Consols, 1391/2 ; Ditto, 40/.
Shares, 13% ; North British, New Shares, 41/2 ; North
Union (B), 78 ; Preston and Wyre, 291/2 ; Sheffeld and
Manchester, 107 ; South-Eastern, No. 3, 71/2 %; York and
North Midland, 105 ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire
Junction, 8% ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 5% ;
Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 3.15-16 ; Bolton, Wigan,
and Liverpool, 814 ; Caledonian, 73/4 13.16 ; Cambridge and
Lincoln, 6% N; Churnet Valley, 7 1,4 ; Ely and Bedford, 2 ;
Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 3% 34 ; Huddersfield
and Manchester Railway and Canal, 51% ,• Leeds and West
Riding Junction, 634 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston,
31,i 1/8 ; London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, 3S ;
London and York, 3 % ; Manchester and Buxton, 31,4 14;
Newark and Sheffield, 2 %; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver-
hampton, 21/2 ; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 20s.
225. 6d. ; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, Dudley, &c., 31/, ;
Sambre and Great Northern of France,
(English), 5% Meuse, 6%; Union Bank of
Trent Valley, 17 16% ex new •
14 ;
Manchester, 10% ; Rochdale Canal, 53; Manchester Fire and
Life Assurance, 11%.

Tux WEATIIER.--The thermometer last night marked
12 deg., being 20 below the freezing point, and 2 deg.
lower than it has been at any period during the present
severe winter. The highest point which it reached yes-
terday was only 35, mai king an intensity of cold rarely
occurring in the middle of March. We have had beautiful
clear sunshine all this morning, with a keen north-east
wind.
MORTALITY IN TILE METROPOLIS —The number of deaths
last week was 1,141, being 11l above the average. The
excess is still almost entirely confined to diseases of the lungs
and the other organs of respiration, especially bronchitis,
and pneumonia. Deaths from small-pox are on the decrease,
though still rather above the average. The number of deaths
from burns and scalds is enormously large, amounting to 22
cases. There are 4 suicides.
THE UNIVERSITY BOAT RAcn.—The following is
a correct list of the Oxford crew : et. lb.

1. Haggard, M., Christ Church lO 3
2. Stapylton, W. C., Merton ... 10 12
3. Milman, W. H., Christ Church
4. Lewis, H., Pembroke ll 7
5. Buckle, W., Oriel
6. Royds, F. C. Brasenose ll 5
7. Wilson, F. 11., Christ Church l2 3
E. Tuke, F. E., Brasenose l2 2
Richards, F. J., Merton (coxswain)
The Cambridge crew arrived at Putney on Wednesday after-
noon, and aro staying at Avis's, the Bells Tavern, for the
purpose of paying the utmost attention to their training, as
also to practise over the course selected for the aquatic
struggle. They took a tour up to Mortlake immediately
after their arrival, which they repeated yesterday, shortly
before dusk. The wind from the north was so severe that
they could with difficulty grasp their oars, and where the
4 slightest damp touched their clothes they became frozen
whilst they were rowing. They appear in the finest possible
condition and spirits and average eleven and a half-stone per
man. The Oxford were expected yesterday, and much cu-
riosity was manifested to see them at work, but they had not
arrived late yesterday evening. W. Harrison, Esq., the Com-
modore of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, has consented to be
umpire on the occasion. The race will be started upward,
the distance being from Putney-bridge to Mortlake church,
and will take place at about five in the afternoon.
KING'S COLLEGE HOSPlTAL.—Yesterday a public
meeting was held at Willis's rooms, in aid of the funds of
this hospital, the Duke of Buccleuch, K.G., in the chair.
Amongst the nobility and gentry present were Lord John
Russell, Lord Radstock, It N., the Bishops of London and
Lichfield, the Right Hon. Mr. Gladstone, M.P., Mr. Alder-
man Copeland, Mr. Cotton, &c. The secretary read the re-
port, which, after enumerating the many benefits conferred
upon the poor and on science by the hospital, stated that
the charity would be compelled to close its doors against
many deserving applicants for relief, unless its funds were
replenished. In conclusion, it stated that since its opening
in 1840, the in and out patients who had received medical
and surgical treatment numbered 553,286. The Bishops of
London and Lichfield, Lord John Russell, Mr. Gladstone,
and others very ably and eloquently advocated the cause of
the charity ; after which it was unanimously resolved to
raise 15,0001. towards the maintenance of the hospital. Do-
nations to the amount of 1,658/. and 451. additional annual
subscriptions were announced. Amongst the donations were
the following Majesty (fifth), 100/. ; Queen Dowager
(fourth), 150/. ; Prince Albert (second), 52/. 10s. ; the
Bishop of London, 100/. ; the Puke of Buccleuch, 1001. ;
Archbishop of Canterbury, 52/. 10s. ; Joseph Green, Esq.
(third), 50/. ; I ord Radstock, 20/. ; .ord Manvers, 52/. 10s. ;.
Messrs. Twinings, 311. 10s., &c. Thanks having been voted
to the Noble Chairman, the meeting broke up.
This morning, Messrs. Boutcher, Meek, Drake,
Keasloy, and Cox, being a deputation from the leather trade, had an
interview with Sir George Clerk, at the Board of Trade, Whitehall.

LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G.-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, 14.—Northerly, strong breeze, and fine clear
weather.
RAMSGATE, MARCU 13. —The Betsy, Thompson, from Boulogne to
Newcastle, in ballast, struck on the Goodwin Sands last night, same
off without assistance, and put in here leaky, and has been hauled
on the hard to examine her bottom.
PLYMOUTH, MAReif 13.—Wind E., very fresh.—Arrd. Charlotte,
London, for St. John's, New Brunswick ; and Industrie, Liverpool, for
Ostend, both with damage, having been hi contact with each other.
Orr CROOKHAVEN.—EIizabeth, of Brixham, Cartbagena for the
Clyde, lost bowsprit, foreina,st, &c., 23d ult., off the Burling&