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Mr. MACKENZIE seconded the motion.
Mr. DARBY eoecurred in the propriety of the motion.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, that after great con-
sideration, he had come to the opinion that the warrant was
had; but, notwithstanding that, he trusted his lion. and
Learned Friend, the Member for Woodstock, would not per-
severe in his amendment, but would allow the House to ad-
ourn till Monday, as he felt convinced the House could not de-
termine the question:withoat great discussion and consideration.
It was impossible to expect that, having sat now up to one
o'clock, the Members should be in their places this day- at
twelve. Nor would they have had time enough to consider so
important a question—a question. perhaps, involving the neces-
sity of introducing an Act of Parliament ; and therefore, he
trusted the House would not act so precipitately as his Hon. and
Learned Friend the Member for Woodstock required them to do.
Mr. THESIGER refused delay.' They did not require de-
lay to imprison this individual—(Cheers)—and they ought not
now to fear precipitation in releasing him.
Mr. G. BANKS concurred with the Hon. and Learned
Member for Woodstock.
Mr. FERRAND thought that no time should be lost in dis-
charging a man who had refused to obey a warrant which the
Attorney-General had declared to be an illegal document.
Mr. C. BULLER concurred with his Honourable and
Learned Friende that there was-no just ground for the
motion of the Henourablo and Learned Gentleman opposite
( Mr. Thesiger). When notice of that motion was given there
wag no intimation made by the LIOn. and Learned Gentleman
that lie desired disco-lion on the subject, and should
the Ilouse meet to-day, Hon. Gentlemen would come
unprepared for that discusssion ; besides they wanted opportunity
to look for precedents to ascertain the nature of the objections
entertained on the question. Hon. Gentlemen who so con-
fidently expressed their opinions on the subj ect were not aware
of the grounds on which the Attorney-General had founded
his opinions. He (Mr. C. Buller) cancurred in that opinion,
and would support the original motion of adjourning the House
to Monday.
Sir R. PEEL said he bad every reason for voting for the
amendment, seeing, as he did, that if their decision was
postponed till Monday, it would occupy that time which he
would desire to see devoted to the Income-rax.—( Hear, hear.)
He thought they ought to put out of their consideration
altogether the conduct of the witness.—(llear. ) He hoped
that the doubts with respect to it would be cleared up. The
only question was, whether they were justified in detaining
him under the warrant. He thought the presumption was in
favour of the legality of the warrant, the Speaker having acted
under the best legal advice that could be obtained. Con-
sidering, however, that it was then a quarter past
one, and the short notice which would be given,
it appeared to him impossible that they could decide on the
matter at twelve o'clock to-morrow. For himself, he must
say that he could not form a satisfactory opinion in so short a
time. He thought, therefore, that it would be much better for
his Hon. Friend to give notice that he would, on Mouttay next,
move for the discharge of the witness, on account of the illega-
lity of the warrant.
Mr. ATTWOOD said, he hoped the Honourable Member
for Woodstock would persevere •in his motion, or elm
move that the witness should be at once discharged. It
appeared that the highest legal authorities doubted the legality
of the warrant ; therefore they had no proof that the witness
was not justified in his disobedience.
Lord teItRINGTON concurred that it was impossible for
the House to make up their minds on the question between
that hour and twelve o'clock, and he mmt therefore oppose
the adjournment.
After a few words from Mr. HODSON,
Sir C. NAPIER said, that as the Attorney-General had
given his opinion that the Speaker's warrant was illegal, he
thought he ought to vote for the immediate discharge of the
person in custody, and he should therefore move that the
prironer he discharged forthwith.
The SPEAKER having put the motion,
Mr. BROTHERTON said that he understood that the Hon.
and Leernetf Gentleman opposite (Mr. Thesiger) intended to
bring forward the discussion on Monday. The questlen was a
very grave one, but he did not see why they were to presume
that the warrant was bad. He should therefore vote for the
adjournment to Monday.
elr. T. DUNCONI BE taidthat after the opinion which had
been given by the Attorney-General and the Hon. and Learned
Member for Woodstock, he did not see how they could detain
the prisoner for one incenent.—( Cheers ) Ihe question was,
were they now exceeding their power in confining this indi-
vidual? It had been said that the lawyers would be put to
great inconvenience in being taken front the Courts of Law,
but he thought that the duties of a representative of the
people were paramount to every other. He thought that this
individual was illegally detained, and if the Hon. and Gallant
Commodore pressed his motion to a division, he should vote for
it. What would be the consequence? All witnesses sum-
moned under the Speaker's warrant need not at tend. He did not
see the end of the inconvenience that would arise. He should
therefore votel'or the motion.
Mr. THESIGER felt indebted to the Honourable and
Gallant Commodore for having brought the matter so dis-
tinctly before the House, and the House would perceive that
his men motion being grounded on the strength of his convic-
tion that the warrant was invalid, that the matter
and the question should be brought before the House,
lie should not hesitate to vote for the amendment of the Hon.
and Gallant Member. It had bsen suggested that the effect of
the decision would be to destroy every other warrant issued
under similar circumstances. But he apprehended there was
no grounds for coming to such an opinion. He could
not see any great inconvenience from coming to a de-
cision as to the validity of the warrant. The effect
would be that if a warrant granted for the attendance
of witnesses during the last session was invalid, the
witnesses ought to be brought before the Election Com-
mittee by a fresh warrant or a summons of a Judge.
It appeared to him that the Southampton Committee had not
pursued a regular course ; and he for one did not approve of
the doctrine that the proceedings before a Committee were en-
tirely beyond the control of the. House. It astonished him
that they should have been so often called on by the Southamp-
ton Committee to interfere in their proceedings with witnesses.
The Courts of Law adjudicating on the greatest questions were
seldom or never driven to the necessity of dealing with severity
with witnesses for the evidence they might give; and yet
the Southampton Committee, which had sat but for a few days,
had called on the House, on three different times, to interfere
in the cases of witnesses examined before them. He was
strongly of opinion, that the warrant of the Speaker in the
first instance was illegal. He came to that conclusion, be-
cause it was laid down by the highest authorities that a proro-
gation put en end to all proceeokgs in the House of Lords or
the House of Ccmmone. Under these circumstances he could
not think the witness was bound to obey the wa-rant.
He could not have been required to produce any documents.
All he could have been required to do would be t answer the
questions put to him. Under th‘:se circumstances, and feeling
strongly that the warrant was illegal, he had come to the con-
clusion that the witness was not guilty of any contempt, and
that they would destroy their character with the country if
they were to refuse for one moment to discharge this indtvi-
duil.—(Cheers. )
Sir W. SOME RVILLE considered thellon. and Learned Ge-
ntleman had taken an unfair advantage of the House in bring-
ing forward this motion; common courtesy ought to have induced
the Hon. and Learned Gentleman to have given notice to the
Chairman of that Committee of his intention to reflect upon
the conduct of that Committee. He also considered the re-
marks of the Right Hen. Member for Knaresborough highly
unbecoming. Ile did not object to the House meeting this
day, but he could not vote for the motion of the Gallant
Commodore. He felt convinced, notwithstanding all that had
teen said about the liberty of the subject, and the opinion of
the people, that the people would know how to distinguish be-
tween attacks upon the liberty of the subject and attempts to
stifle inquiry.
Mr. sCARLETT supported the motion. •
Lord WORSLEY hoped the House would not agree to the
motion of the Gallant Commodore. He thought it most im-
portant that the House should not consent either to the
motion of the Gallant Commodore, or to that of the Hon. and
.Learned Member for Woodstock.
Sir ROBERT PEEL said this was a new question, and if
they decided upon it it would be quite without parallel. The
proposal was not to discharge the prisoner on the ground of
a doubt of the illegality of the warrant ; but on a great consti-
tutional questi:n to come forward without notice, to
reverse a decision to which the House of Commons
had come to the night before, lie must say that, from his expe-
rience, he considered the course without a paralleL He must
fay that, after the decision of the night before of four or five to
one, it was establishing a most dangerous precedent. Had a
notice been given, it would have been their own fault if they
were not present. Hart a notice been given at 5 o'clock of a
motion to be made in the course of the evening for the dis-
charge of the prisoner, it would have been a different case ;
but on the contrary, no notice whatever was given, but a motion
was made to discharge the prisoner without notice.
Sir T. 1). ACLAND oppmed.the motion.
Mr. JERVIS asked the Hon. Member for Woodstock, whe-
ther the effect of his motion would not be to originate great
incouveniencies? He hoped, therefore, that his Hon. Friends
near him would come forward, as they were bound to do,
arid oppose so inconvenient a precedent as this would lead to.
Sir J. TYRREL said that if there were any doubt as to the
legality of this question, they had a right to give the benefit of
that doubt to the prisoner.
Capt. BERNAL said that he thought the prisoner had
been unfairly treated by both parties. He hoped the Gallant
Commodore would press to a division, because every hour they
kept the prisoner in custody they were doing him injustice.
Mr. BORTHWICK said that if the Commodore opposite
did press to a division, he hoped that he would not only con-
sider the honour, dignity, and convenience of the House, but
also the convenience of the person whom this motion con-
cerned.—( Laughter. )
Mr. ATTW OOD said, the arguments against the illegality
of the warrant not having been disputed, he believed that the
warrant itself Was invalid. In voting for the decharge of the
prisoner, he should disregard all that had been alleged about
-the inconvenience of the proceeding.
_Mr. GODSON could not permit the division to take place.
witholet expressing his opinion, as a IVember of the Committee,
that the prisoner never ought to have been committed.
Sir C. NAPIER replied. If the Right Hon. Baronet would
consent to let the House meet at two o'clock (this day), he
would withdraw his motion ; if not, he should press it.
Mr. BLEWITT could not submit to the authority of the
Attorney and Solicitor •Generals eithout having ar. opportunity
of forming his own opirrion.— (Divide, divide. )
The House then divided, when there appeared—
For Sir C. Napier's amendment l4
Against ...
Majority against the discharge —s3
The House then divided on the original motion • of adjourn-
ment till Monday, when there appeared—
For the motion
Against it 42
Majority in favour of the House sitting this day —3
The SPEAKER then said, as the House had decided to
meet today, he wished to ascertain at what hour he should
take the Chair.
Several Hon. Members having mentioned various hours,
Air. 13ORTHWICK moved that the Speaker take the chair
this day at two o'clock.—Agreed to.
The House then Adjourned at a Quarter before Three
&Clock to Two &Clock this dace

- - -
Colburn's New Monthly Magazine for May keeps
up its character as one Of the most entertaining of the peri-
odicals, Thorns Hood, the Editor,, furnishes his quota of
amusement in a paper entitled " Air. \Vakley and the Poets."
Mrs. Trollope is again en her favourite ground in the chapters
here given of her " Harnahys in America," and the picture
they convey of life and manners at New Orleans must always
rank with her most characteristic sketches ot American society.
The " Recreations in Natural History" are Continued with
the ability so prominent throughout this interesting series.
~Female Arithmeticians," by Leman Blanchard, E., h
an illustration of Cocker, as novel as it is ingenious. o Con-
fessions of an Avaricious Man," by the late H. D. Inglis, E,q.,
are concluded, and with sery striking eft, ct. "In French
Cooks anti French Cookery," a Most attrWive subject is most
attractively disposed of. - " Graduates and Under-Graduates,"
by the author ot " Peter Priggins," affords an able illustration
o: the result ot tsients misapplied. " The 1 ,te Andrew Duerow"
has due justice done to his abilities by the writer of an article
with this title, and " Phineas Quiddy" is allowed by his
amusing author, Mr. Poole, to continue his career of sheer
industry, without any diminution of interest. " The Poetry
of the Law, and the Law of Poetry," and Horace Smith's
" Short Rides in an Author's Omnibus," will furnish the reader
with much amusement ; and the editor, in his " Whispering
Gallery," is as liberal as ever with his apot:-.cgms and put. a.

7144bittio

SUN OFFICE Three o'Cloch.

It is admitted' on all hands that the Income-tax will
operate most unequally on different classes, and more
especially on those who derive income from real pro-
perty, and those who obtain a livelihood from trades or
professions. In order to render an unjust tax as little
burdensome as possible, and make every man pay ac-
cording to his means, various plans have been suggested,
which have been all rejected, on the untenable plea, as
far as we can judge, that in any view of the subject
there must .be great inequality and injustice. If
this tax, says Mr. GouLnunN, were waived, some
other must be adopted which would still less effect the
equality required ; but is it not the highest piece of ab-
surdity to refuse to mitigate an evil because it cannot be
entirely removed ? Men are placed in various circum-
stances as regard their mode of living, their incomes,
and families, and neither direct nor indirect taxes would
fall equally on every individual. That, however, fur-
nishes no reason for making one man pay twice as
much as another—an injustice which this odious Bill
will, in many.instances, effect. It is the duty, there
fore, of our Legislators, and especially those who profess
political principles favourable tolliberty and equality, to
see that the burdens of hard working tradesmen, mer-
chants liable to a thousand vicissitudes, and professional
men struggling for existence, shall not be heavier than
those laid on men born to wealth and idleness. The
party who show such anxiety for the interests of the
people, we should expect would take every opportunity
of defending their cause ; and we, therefore, feel great
disappointment and sorrow to see such meh es Lord JOHN
RUSSELL and Mr. LanoucuEnE voting last night with Sir
R.PEEL against the motion of Mr. ROEBUCK, for lessening
the tax on profits from any trade, profession, o vocation.
We cannot conceive that this was done for any sinisterpur -
pose, such as to make the tax as hateful as possible,in order
to pave the way for the return of the Whigs to office.
The late President of the Board of Trade is above sus-
picion, and the Noble Lord, too, possibly acts from con-
scientious motives ; hut some bow or another he not un-
trequently makes speeches, and gives votes, directly
opposed to the wishes and interests of his best sup-
porters. His finality- speech, afterwards retracted, his
attack upon the electors for boroughs, .hi's eulogy of the
landed interest, and his vote of last night, arennly a few
instances of that mysterious and obstinate propensity for
damping the spirit, and. neutralising the exertions of
the friends of liberty. .He vowed to resist this Bill at
every stage, yet We was absent from one most important
division, and took care to be present to vote against a
motion which had the hearty concurrence of nine-tenths
of the borough constituency. This tax will affect trades=
men more grievously than any other class, for, inde-
pendent of its inquisitorial character, they will be com-
pelled to pay, in thousands of instances, more than their
fair proportion; and every attempt, therefore, should have.
been made to render the burtheff as light as possible.
The case, however, is hopeless ; the leaders of the
opposition are divided, one votes with the Tory Members,
another, in the Scotch family fashion, by way of secu-
rity, votes with the Opposition; and thus, from want of
concert, contrive to share with Sir R. PEEL the odium of
this oppressive and unjust tax. The result is deeply to
be deplored. The other amendments met with the
same fate.. The Bill will pass with all its severity un-
mitigated, and the people must submit to the measure,
without even the consolation of knowing that it was car-
ried in spite of the most gallant fight made by their re-
presentatives.

We observe in the notices of motion respecting the
Income-tax two most valuable ones in Mr. WALLACE'S
name. They are to provide that the commercial and
manufacturing interests shall be taxed only aeeording to
their profits in the past year, in place of by an average of
three years; and the other is that the intolerable inqui-
sition shall endure for one year only, unless it be re-
newed by Parliament. With regard to the first, we
cannot comprehend how any measure so unjust could
have entered the head even of Sir ROBERT
PEEL, as calling on the trading ' interests, in their
present pro 'trate state, to exhibit their incomes on an ave-
rage of years, it being an undisputed fact that trade of any
kind, foreign and domestic, has been getting worse and
worse for the last five years. Surely then nothing short
of a reckless spirit could have conceived the scheme
of going back for three years, in order to squeeze an ap-
rent income out of the little remaining capital
.which
here and there may exist, although no profit has been
made, or any income has accrued to the unhappy victims
of this landlords' inquisition ; for it is to the landed in-
terest in the House of Commons that the trading
community have to look for this ruinous infliction.
The country is under great obligations .to Mr.
WALLACE for the stand he has made against the
Inconie-tax, and the commercial world should give
that gentleman their unqualified support. As to the
endurance of the tax, no set of men are more deeply con-
cerned in having it fixed at one year than the landed
proprietors. By doing so they will be able to ascertain
its intrinsic worth, as well as their own ability to pay it,
after they have felt the effects of the Corn, and Provi-
sion, and- Timber-laivs, to which their properties are
about to be subjected.

We should really wish some Member of the House of
Commons would put a question to the Right Hon. the
Secretary-at-War, as to what is meant by marching
regiments, destined fur foreign service, half round the
kingdom, fur embarkation in ships which are intended to
touch at ports only a few miles from their original head-
quarters. Thus, troops stationed a short distance inland
from Portsmouth, are marched to London, and embark
at Chatham in vesselS which touch at Portsmouth before
leaving England. It is well known that the navigation
of the English coast is dangerous that soldiers suffer
from sea-sickness in the passage from Chatham to Ports-

mouth ; and therefore there is a species of cruelty in
touching at all English ports after they have once em-
barked for foreign service. But what is chiefly objec-
tionable is the expense to which these circuitous marches
must put the country. The army is expensive enough,
without adopting this very silly mode of increasing the
expenditure.

An immense mass of nonsense is daily published in
the United States about England. To correct the half
of it would occupy our columns to the exclusion of every
thing else. We have therefore long given up the task as
hopeless; and when we now notice it, our object is to re-
move impresSions which, if allowed to take .root. might
:seriously affect the continuance of amicable relations
between the two countries. A New York paper of the
Ist inst. now before us, states that the Government of
the United States had reason to believe that the invasion
of Texas by Mexico, -was countenanced by Mr. PA-
KENHAM, the British Minister, and that it was the
design of England to blot. Texas out of the
list of independent States. Now both these ru-
mours are wholly untrue. Mr. PARENHAM did not
advise the invasion of Texas, and we feel perfectly satis-
fied that England has not the slightest intention of at-
tacking the independence of Texas. We know very well
that Mexico never can re-conquer Texas, and that were
the latter unable to stand alone, she would throw herself
into the arms of the United States. Now this is a re-
sult which we have the greatest interest in preventing.
As for a war with the United. States, the very idea is
abhorrent to the feelings of the British people.

We .have Madrid Papers of the 21st inst. The Minis-
. ter of the Interior informed the Chamber of Deputies on
that day, in answer to a question upon the subject, that
the Government was taking the most active measures to
suppress the robberies in Catalonia. Many of the
Spanish Prelates, in disobedience of the order of the;
REGENT, have published pastoral letters, calling upon
the faithful to pray, in conjunction with the POPE, for
the welfare of the Spanish Church. It was reported
that they would be prosecuted before the civil tribunals.
The Three per Cents. were done, pith the current coupons,
at 22i for cash, and 22i nt sixty days ; and the bee per Cents.
with the II coupons, at 27i ler cash, and 28 27% at sixty
da3s. The Foreign Ccnrcrted DOA sold for 20, with % prem.
at sixty days.

The Railway Bill is the only question discussed in the
French Journals. No question can be of more import-
ance to France. Belgium, Holland, Prussia, Austria,
and even Russia, will soon be intersected with railroads,
whereas almost nothing has yet been done to promote
locomotion in a country which, next to England, stands
in greater need of railroads than any other in the world-
Should the Bill now before the Chamber of Deputies be

wholly adopted, more thanien years will be rt quired to
construct all the lines recommended in it.

The youngest son of Louis PHILIPPE is about to
enter the army as a Lieutenant of Artillery. W hat a
pity that loyal personages can never fix upon any other
profession than that of slayers of men ! The Emperor
of CHINA, who is a heathen, displays in this respect a
more Christian example to his people than the professing
Christian Princes of . Europe What time he devotes to
manual labour is employed in agriculture. He takes
more pride in being a ploughman than a sol-
dier. Hence • the comparative happiness of his
people ; nor bill Europe ever arrive at any degree of
lasting happiness till her rulers follow the sage example
of the Monarch of China.

The war in Africa is reported to be at an end.
ABD--EL-KADER is compelled to succumb to the irresis-
tible power of France. Frightful beyond conception is
the misery which so protracted. and cruel a war has
entailed upon the wretched Moors and Arabs. Every-
where the progress of French arms is tracked by desola-
tion. The sites of villages are only known by their ashes.
U RSE—P.4.IIIB, THURSDAY, APRIL 28.
rust Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Pm.. Prie. .
erenct. 5 per Cent!........... 119 75 ... 119 7/ ... 1 0 119 6.5
4,4 per Cons lOl SO ... 1 750 107 50 ... 107 50
4 per Cent!. _ 102 ... 102 ... 102 ... 102
3 per Lwnt• CI 5•1 81 50 ... 61 30 61 30
Loan
Rank or nranc,
Lattitte rant 1,0001. Shires 1032 50 ...W32 50 ...1032 50...1C3•2 5C
5,0001. sv area 5045 ...5045 ...SO-12 50 ...3043
delgian tank
1811 lO5O —.11150 ...DSO. ...lOW
Belgian 5 per Lents
o per Cent:., 1840 lO5 ... 105 105 .. 105
Spanish Active ... 2514 20,6
Parqive 471., 4;li, 474 ...
Portuguese 5 per Cents. r2y4 22,4 32y, ... 3.04,
K►a au lt 6 . 106 105jt, ... 105;

HAILWAS SHARES.
St. Germain
Ver5Aun...a.......... ........ 332 50 ... 33'4:0 ...... V-32 50 ... 3j2 50
Rouen 5.55 ... 555 ... 552 50 ... 552 50
Urie slla •• •

The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Fisher
Miller, Esq., t be one of the Deputy Registrars of
her Majesty's Court of Bankruptcy.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
A sale of Consols to the extent of about 30,0001 , has ren-
dered the market heavy, and quotations 92i to 94 for Money,
and 92 to 92i for the Account ; Three per Cents. Reduced,
91i to 91i; New Three-and-a. Half per Cents., 1001 to 101 ;
Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 994 to 99i ; Bank
Stock, 167 i ; Exchequer Bills, 59 40 premium.
The Foreign Security, which has been dea!t in, has been
the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. Stock at 53k.
Railway Shares are in better demand; Birmingham, 182;
Great Western, 94; Cheltenham and Great Western, 18%,
Sr uth Western, 63; South Eastern, 30%; Eastern Counties
New, 51. 14s. 2d; Thames Haven, 7 7i ; Croydon, 14;
and Brighton, 37.
The Committee of the Stock Exchange have declared that
Monday will be a holiday, consequently no business will be
transacted in the Funds.

The bonds of the insolvent States are quoted, Colombian,
261/2 ; Peruvian, 191/2 • Spanish Five per Cents. and the
Three per Cents. are alike, 24%.
The usual return of the quarterly average of the weekly
s and assets of the Bank of England, for the twelve
weeks ending the 23d inst., when compared with the last re-
turn shows the circulation to have increased 283,000!., the dif-
ference between 17,235,0001. and 16,952,000/. ; the deposits
to have decreased 374,000/., the difference between 8,283,000/.
and 8,687,000/. ; the securities to have decreased 688,000/.,
the difference between 21,891,000/. and 22,586,0007. ; and the
bullion to have increased 465,000/., the difference between
6,590,000/. and 6,125,0001. ; the balance in favour of the Bank
is also less by 132,000/., the eifference between 2,970,000/.
and 3,102,000/. This return shows an increase in the circula-
tion of 649,000/. ; in the deposits of 1,058,000/. ; in the bul-
lion of 1,952,000/. ; and a decrease in the securities of
184,000/., in comparison with the corresponding period of 1841.
Papers to the 2d 'March have come to hand from the Cape
of Good Hope. They are, like the last, completely destitute
of colonial news. A severe hurricane had been experienced
in the Indian' Ocean, whereby three vessels had been di:masted,
and to seriously injured as to be obliged to put into the Cape
to refit.

They *btiec the discovery by an Fnglish whaler of several
islands in the Pacific Ocean, previously unknown. They were
eight in number, of some extent, fertile, and inhabited. The
appearance of the natives and tho canoes, &c., were totally dif-
ferent from any others in that neighbourhood.

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
R A ILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Birmingham and Gloucester 100. 55i to

Cheltenham and Great Western. 72i ... to
Ditto New 2l. 6s. 8d

Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O - to 54A
Great Western

London and Birmingkam 90 lB2 ...... to
London and South Western 3Bi 63i to 68
London and Croydon ( Trunk). 134 l4. to
.7-.

Midland C Junties
Nqrth Midland, (New)

South Eastern and Dover 5O 304U... to
Ditto Scrip ..
York and North Midland... SO
Ditto ?4,...w Shares
COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY.I
Amsterdam CF. 12 8 ;Gibraltar ... .......
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 BfGenoa . 25 95
Antwerp
Hamburgh M.B. 13 13iVenice
Altona
.._

, -
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 I, J 'Palermo, per oz 120
Ditto, 3 months 25 95 Lisbon
blarseilles
Bow Beaux '26 0 ' Rio Janeiro 27
Frankfort on Blaine... 152?; Bahia
t'etersburgh, 3Us ... 36:4 Buenos Ayres
Berlin-- ... ............ 7 ;New York, 21 days sight 46i
. .

Vienna, effee. 11. 3AL 956 Philadelphia
, 57
Trieste, ditto 9 'PRICES OF MULLION, PER oz
Sladrid
Cadiz
Bilbao ... 36 New Doubloons 0 0 0

Barcelona
Seville

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL 29.—The large
business of the two preceding weeks has done nothing towards
placing the quotations at a higher rate. Directly the demand
became more moderate, as it did after Tuesday, the lest Man-
chester market day, the whole class of middling quality of Ame-
rican became heavy, with a tendency to decline. The sales to.
day are from 3,000 to 3,500 bags, and although it is unneces-
sary to change the figures :in the scale of prices, the general
dulness justifies the report of a worse market. The sales of the
week amount to 19,910 bales, of which 2,000 have been taken
on speculation, and 1,600 for export.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, APRIL 29.—The market
was firm, and closed well for South Western and South East-
ern. Eastern Counties, are quoted 91, the New Debentures,
51. 12s. 10d. ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock New, 6 ;
South Western, 63i ; Manchester and Leeds, 86 ; Midland
Counties, 791, Quarters, 19i.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 29.—We have
nothing material to note on' the state of our market to-day.
Our sales are—Bristol and Exeter, 44A ; •Bolton and Preston,
22 ; Dublin and Drogheda, 15 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow,
531 ; Lancaster and Preston, Three-quarter Shares, 184.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING--(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, APRIL 30.—Wind this day at noon, E.
SHEERNESS, APRIL 29.—The John and Mary, from New-
castle, which was on shore on the Nore Sand, got off this morn-
ing, after throwing ab6ut 60 tons of coal overboard, and has
proreeded to London.
DEAL, Arm'. 29.—Wind N.E., light.—Arrd. Forfarshire,
China; John Eve, Calcutta; Royal Saxon, Madras; Bolivar,
No.seastie. and left for Singapore; Commissary, Charleston
Arrd. from the River and ski., Sons of Commere', Sydney;
Mariner, Calcutta; Lord Lynedoch, Bombay; Urania, Monte
Video.

Orr KiNsat.k.—Arrd. Jane, M'Donald, Africa.
Cowas, Aram 29.—Arrd. John and llelena, !hiller, Porto
Rico. Sld. Urania, Rio.
LIVERPOOL, APRIL 25.—Wind S.E., moderate.—Arrd.
Blorenge, Banks, Calcutta; Palestine, Nairn, La guyra ; Liver.
pool, Belmont, Brown, JAn Bolton, Fkidon, and Prudence,
Cattily, New Orleans; Cornelia, French, Glenar, and Espin.
dola, Mobile; Fanny, Sloan, Charleston. .61d. Silksworth,
St. John's, New Brunswick ; Catherine, Halifax ; Port Royal,
Africa; Warwick, Madeira. Arrd. off, Jane, Laguna; Jane
Walker, Mobile ; Franconia, Fenella, Emma Graham, Vera-
city, Isabel, Giraffe, Blakeby, aid Haidee.
Orr TORBAY, Aran V.—Madagascar, Weller, Calcutta.
PLYMOUTH, Artist. 29.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Trusty, El-
son, Calcutta. Sld. Corsair, Demerara. Arrd. off,_Sea-witch,
Baker, for London.
FALMOUTH, APRIL 28. Wind S. to E , light breezes.—
Sld. Sylvanue, Prince Edward's Island ; Ashareru, Alexandria.
Arrd. off, Elise, Bremen for Baltimore ; Phenomenon, Kales-
tick, Batavia; Orestes, Cook, Mauritius; Penninghame,
Grieve, Pernambuco for Hamburgh ; Susanna Maria, Suri-
nam for Amsterdam ; John Hall, Perkins, Matanzas for Ham-
burgh; Elizabeth, Finlay, Sierra Leone.
Oir KINGSBRIDGE, APRIL 28.—John Mitchell, Calcutta.
Orr PENZANCE, APRIL 28.--Arrd. Coromandel, Ryan,
China ; Nautilus, Thomas, Mauritius.
CORE, APRIL 27.—S1d. Martha and Herbert, St. John's,
New Brunswick.

COWES, APRIL 29.—The Francisco, which arrived here
eaky, has come in to discharge.

GRAND JUNCTION AND IMANcnEsTr.n AND But"
HINGHAM gAILWAYS. EXTRAORDINARY CONDUCT.
With no ordinary surprise we have received a letter from a
highly respectable gentleman of Manchester, of which the fol-
lowing is an extract :—" The Grand Junction Railway will not
allow the Manchester and Birmingham Company to open their
line for the present, although QUITE READY. By the agree-
ment, we are informed, that so soon as the Manchester and
Birmingham Company are ready to bring the whole or entire
of their traffic upon the line, THEN the Grand Junction Com-
pany shall receive it, and give up their station at Manchester;
but as the Manchester and Birmingham Company are ready
only with the passenger traffic, the Grand Junction think
they are entitled to resi.•t it coming upon them. Therefore
the Manchester and Birmingham are not to have the advantage
of training their staff for a few weeks until all their trucks are
ready, and they can bring in one day the entire of their traffic.
Chester races are next week, and the Grand Junction will not
allow the Manchester and Birmingham to run to Crewe, but
will compel every Manchester passenger to go 131,2 miles
round, and every Stockport passenger 251/2 miles round, because
the Grand Junction wills at to be so. Thus the public is set
at nought as well as the Shareholders."—Railway Magazine.
SOUTII EASTERN OPENING .—We understand the
Directors and some of their friends are going over the line on
the 2d proximo, and that the line will be opened to Tonbridge
on the ltith.— Railway Magazine.
SUICIDE OF A GEN TLEMAN.—Thursday a long
investigation took place before Mr. Baker, at the Castle
Tavern, City,read, on the body of Mr. John Robertson, aged
49, late Actuary of the Westminster Fire and Life office. It
appeared that the deceased occupied apartments .in the house of
Mr. Tracy, IN°. 18, City-road. He was very precise and steady
in his habits and mode of living, but was troubled with the
gravel complaint, which caused him to fret very much, and was
frequently heard to say, that he thought he was not able to do
justice to the :Westminster Fire Assurance Company. On
Tuesda}• evening he retired to his chamber about ten o'clock.
Next morning the servant went up to wake him, and found the
door locked. The door was burst open, when the deceased was
discovered seated on a chair undressed, with his throat cut in a
dreadful manner. Verdict—" Temporary Insanity."

Thursday being the anniversary of the birth of
Queen Christina, the Queen, Madame Adelaide, the Princes,
and the King and the Queen of Cie Belgians paid a visit to
her Majesty in the Rue de Courcelles. After the Royal visit
she received a great number of Spaniards.

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Who runs may read."

POItEIGN.
The discussion on the Railroad Bill forms the leading topic
of comment in the original columns of the Paris Journals ; but
it is really astonishing to see how little interest they have
thrown over the subject ; their articles are indeed mora an
analysis of the debate, with running remaiks upon the speakers,
than a broad and general criticism upon the principles of the
Bill as involving the two great questions of public utility and
public expenditure. The other subjects commented upon by
the Journals, and they are very few in number, are ,aholly
without interest.

The Monileur Parisien lays—" We are assured that a great
number of Deputies, in order to prevent the anarchy of rivality
respecting the Railroad Bill, and at the same time to husband
the public resoutces, haVe resolved on giving their appraation
only to one great line to be immediately executed by the State,
the other lines to be undertaken successively, according to their
degree of importmee. The direct line of the east is that to
which they give the priority, and they require that the army
should be employed on the cuttings and'embankments."
A letter from Mascara, in the Toirlonnuis, April 5, says :
"At last all is finished here. The last submission of the
Hachems came in this morning. The family of Abd-el-Kader
was to-day at General Lamoriciere's asking fur peace for them-
selves and rest of the disaffected. Flocks are grazing on all
sides in the plains of Eghres, and the tribes are fixed peaceably
near the walls of Mascara. Our last expedition carried every
thing before it. But what an expedition it was ! Twenty-
eight days and as many nights' mat ch, and every day a rassia!
Our men were really admirable. We performed .Its.s leagues
in different directions, and occupied for two days the town of
Frendah, which we restored uninjured to the inhabitants who
have submitted. We suffered exceedingly from ci Id and frost
during two days. We had three feet of snow in 24 hours, and
with it iae and wind in abundance—end all within a Teague ..f

the desert. Four men died of cold in our bivouac. Com-

mandant de Geraudon, whose battalion was charged with the
care of the cattle, left 600 sheep, 200 oxen, and 40 prisoners,
men, women, and children, on the road, dead f►om cold. It

was a real scene of desolation. "

A letter from Cadiz, in the Debats, says:—" Sit great a
landing of contraband articles took place here a few days since,
that th inhabitants never saw anything equal to it. A large
English brig, probably from Gibraltar, kept in the offing
waiting apparently for signals. In the evening she entered our
bay, and east anchor. The next day we were surprised to
learn that 3,400 bales of prohibited goods had been landed, and
afterwards introduced over the stalls into the town."

Several changes have taken place in the Corps Diplomatique
of Holland. Baron Schimmelpenninek Von der Vye, hitherto
Envoy at ►he Court of Russia. succeeds Count de Perponcher,
who has resigned the post of Ambassador at the Court of Berlin.
Baron W. Mollerus leaves the Court of Vienna, and takes at
St. Petersburgh the place of M. Schimmelpenninek, and is
succeeded by Baton J. D. B. A. Van Heeckerer►.