The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-26 00:00:00

IR main ACATAL

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1845.

The house of Lords sat at Five o'clock.

Among the notices of motion was one by Lord
BROUGHAM, for Thursday week, of a Bill to transfer the
jurisdiction in divorce cases from the House of Lords to
another tribunal.

Their Lordships adjourned after sitting a very short

ime.

The House of Commons sat at Twelve o'clock.
Tt.e report on the Railway Companies clauses Bill
was received.
The House then resolved itself into Committee on the
Railway Companies Consolidation Bill. Various clauses
were agreed to, as were some amendments, proposed
by Mr. AGLIONBY and other Hon. Members, and the
House resumed, on the understanding that there should
be a morning sitting on Thursday, when the Bill
would again come under consideration. The House then
adjourned for an hour and a half, and resumed at Five
o'clock.

Various petitions were presented, and notices of mo-
tion given.

Mr. WALLACE postponed his motion on the subject of
railways to the 11th March. The Honourable Gen-
tleman thea brought forward the motion of which
he had given notice on the subject of the admi-
nistration of justice in Scotland, which was :
" To bring before the House the amount of business
done yearly by the Court of Session, and the nature and
extent of the duties of the judges composing that Court ;
and to ask leave to bring in a Bill to repeal so much of
the Act 1 WILLIAM IV., C. 69, as provides that there
shall be thirteen judges in the said court ; and to extend
the jurisdiction of the stipendiary county judges, called
sheriffs, by giving them the power of awarding the
punishment of transportation, in the event of the judges
in the Court of Session being reduced below the number
of thirteen."

The LORD A DVOCITE and Mr. Fox MAULE opposed
the motion, which was withdrawn.
Sir H. INGLIS then rose to call the attention of the
House to the condition of the negroes liberated from
prize slave-ships, and moved for certain papers relating
to the condition of liberated negroes in Sierra Leone
and the Mauritius.

Mr. G. W. HOPE seconded the motion, and defended
the conduct of the Government as respected their treat-
ment of the liberated Africans.

A short discussion ensued, in the course of which
the proceedings of the missionaries were animadverted
upon by Mr. AGLIONBY and defended by Sir T. ACLAND,
and Mr. PLUMPTRE. The motion was agreed to.
Dr. BOWRING moved for a copy of a certain procla-
mation issused by the Governor of Hong-Kong, for a
census and registry of the inhabitants of that island.
The motion was opposed by Mr. C. HOPE, on the part
of the Government.

Sir G. STAUNTON also spoke against the motion.
Dr. BOWRING eventually withdrew the motion, reserv-
ing a right to bring it forward on another opportunity.

Sir J. GRAHAM then rose to introduce his Bill
for the
.better regulation of medical practice
throughout the United Kingdom. He proposed,
first, to establish a Council of Health, to exer-
cise a superintendence over the medical education of
the kingdom ; secondly, to secure to all medical practi-
tioners equal facilities of practice throughout the United
Kingdom ; and, thirdly, by the standard of examination
as to qualifications being uniform, to establish a registra-
tion of medical practitioners, and to confine eligibility to
public medical employment to registered practitioners.
He proposed to repeal the statute of lIENnv
which gave to members of the Colleges,of Physicians and
Surgeons the exclusive right of practising in a district of
seven miles round the metropolis as far as regarded re-
gistered practitioners, but he would exempt graduates of
Oxford and Cambridge from the operation of the Bill,
the effect of which would be to exclude them from me-
tropolitan practice, unless they chose of themselves to
come within the operation of the Act, and be registered.
He hoped, however, some arrangement might be come
to, to prevent the necessity of persevering with this
clause. He proposed to repeal the Apothecaries' Act,
not totally, but only so far as parties registered under
the new Act were concerned. This would
leave the provisions of the Apothecaries' Act
imposing penalties on illegal practitioners totally
untouched, and parties practising without quali-
fication, would be in addition liable, as they
were at present, to a criminal prosecution at com-
mon law, for pretending to be that which they were not.
Any person falsely assuming any medical title recog-
nised by the Bill to be liable to prosecution. He also
proposed to make it necessary that every examiner of the
Apothecaries' Company should be an apothecary of ten
years' standing. With regard to physicians, he thought
thirty-six 3 cars of age not too late to fix as the
limit for their preliminary examination ; and with regard
to surgeons, he proposed that no one should be qualified
to act as surgeon who had not previously undergone an
examination for the degree of licentiate in surgery. He
also proposed that there should be an examination in
midwifery as well as in physic and surgery. He pro-
posed that the Council of Health should be empowered
to examine practitioners in all their branches. He con-
sidered it indispensably necessary that the great
body of general practitioners should be connected with
the College of Surgeons. He proposed to shorten
the time of university residence required by the Bill of
last year to qualify for the office of physician, and he
adhered to the plan proposed in the Bill of last year for
constituting the councils; and he also proposed to give
to the councils the power of removing from the re-
gistry men who had been guilty of flagrant misconduct.
He proposed to give to the Faculty of Physicians and
Surgeons in Glasgow co-ordinate powers of licensing
with the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Edin-
burgh. He would give time to the profession to con-
sider the provisions of the Bill, which he then moved
for leave to introduce.

After a few words from Mr. WAKLES, leave was
given to bring in the Bill.

Mr. BELLEW then moved for copies of the papers re-
lating to the dismissal of the Earl of LLICAN from the
magistracy in Ireland.
Sir T. FREMANTLE said there could Le no objection
to the production of the papers.
After a few words from Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL, the
ATTORNEY-GENECAL fur Ireland, and Mr. Boss, the
motion was agreed to.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of,
and the House adjourned at One o'clock.

It is so evidently the intention of men of all parties
and some eminence, in the House of Commons, to burke
the great pending question of Post-office violation, by
putting Mr. THOMAS DUNCOMBE in a false position, that
we cannot allow this opportunity to pass by without
availing ourselves of it, for a protest against the scanda-
lous manceuvre that is on the eve of being attempted.
When the party which calls itself by the general desig-
nation of " Liberals" (affecting to comprise, as it does,
all shades of political dissent from the general princi-
ples of Whiggery in one common league with the repre-
sentation of Whiggery itself), permitted the motion for
a new Committee of Inquiry on the Post-office question
to be negatived by an overwhelming majority, they did
not, we suspect, foresee all the inevitable conSegnences
of their defection from the cause they ought to have sig-
nally upheld and vindicated. A few unmeaning genera-
lities from Sir JAMES GRAHAM, in the nature
or a plea of official responsibilities and duties,
under an obscure existing enactment, and Sir ROBERT
PEEL'S cool assumption that his Government has
already been acquitted by the finding of the Secret Se-
lect Committee—these were not, as one of our ablest
Contemporaries seems to imagine, the real causes of the
triumphant disposal of the Post-office question by the
majority in question in favour of Ministers. It is impos-
sible that so broad a question of constitutional principle,
of political, nay, of social morality, could have been
thus dishonoured in any popular assembly, where the re-
presentatives of the people had honestly determined to dis-
charge their duty. The party accused, the home Secretary,
admitted his offence, and justified it by (1) the autho-
rity we have just quoted ; (2) by the precedents of
former official practice in his department. The Premier
and his friends relied on both defences, and twitted the
members of the ex-Government with having resorted,
when in power, to the same courses. This latter fact
could not be got over. Lord Josa RUSSELL and his
friends were hampered by it ; and some, who felt its
pressure most painfully, actually concurred with their

political antagonists in speaking, as well as voting, the
case brought forward by the Member for Finsbury out of
court. Now, here is the secret of the premeditated dilemma
into which Mr. DUNCOMBE has been driven, it is
hoped, by his motion. Here is the evil, so common to
all cases where evil is committed that good may come of
it. There were great names to justify, by example'
gross malpractices. But there was also one way, and
but one, in which the owners of those names might have
mitigated the mischief they had committed, by sanc-
tioning those malpractices. They might have con-
fessed to the facts imputed, expressed their regret for
them, and emphatically united in a declaratory vote to
prevent their recurrence in future. Our affections, inter-
ests, opinions, as we have repeatedly declared, are
cherished, engaged, or entertained for measures, not
men. How large a proportion of the House of Commons
majority must have voted solely out of consideration
for the men implicated, not from any conscientious judg-
ment upon their mc3sures The result has been this—
that the House of Commons has justified the most
atrocious and felonious tampering, on the part of a
public functionary, with the private correspondence
confided, on the faith of public honour, to the custody of
one of the State departments of the Executive, in order
that, by the condemnation of an unpopular Minister, his
more popular predecessors in the same office may not also
be liable to the same condemnation. Therefore the
offender is " assoiled" from his great offence. One
moral obliquity in public, as in private life, is sure to
generate another. The Liberal party, who are so for-
ward to attend all public meetings in all public places, on
economic and other questions, and to contribute their
hest abilities to the lucid exposition of sound principles
in reference to them, are silent, profoundy silent,
almost to a man, on a matter of the highest constitutional
importance. The reason is too obvious and palpable.
But they must abandon, in such exigencies, the timidity
of considerations founded on mere personal delicacy.
Letter-breaking must be denounced, disowned, put
down, whether the crime be perpetrated by Whig, Ra-
dical, or Tory. Yet what has been done with regard to
Mr. DuNcomnE. Sir JAMES GRAHAM will not answer
to the question whether he has broken open, or autho-
rised the breaking open, of Mr. DUNCOMBE'S letters,
aye or no? He will not say whether a warrant was
issued for such a purpose,—aye or no? Mr. DUNCOMBE
is thus reduced to the necessity of moving that certain
parties be called to the bar of the House of Commons in
order to be examined, with a view to elicit the information
thus withheld by Sir J. Guanim and the Government.
The Minister, and one or two sycophantic journals who
espouse his conduct and all the acts of his Government,
endeavour to prejudge the decision of the House, and
to prejudice Mr. Duricount's case, by saying
that that gentleman is now occupying the time and at-
tention of the House, not in the endeavour to assert a
great constitutional question, but on a matter purely per-
sonal, affecting only himself. We grieve to say, we fear
that not a few of Mr. DUNCOMBE'S political associates,
by silence, authorise this gross delusion, this most
unfair imputation, this pitiful quibble, devised to get
rid of the discharge of a high public duty. The
mode in which alone the matter can now be
brought on before the Commons was not of Mr.
DUCOMBE'S seeking, but as the resu't of a necessity they
have created. The question is still the same—not per-
sonal to Mr. DUNCOMBE merely, whose complaint as to
his own letters is a mere corroborative incident—but a
great question involving the honour of the Govern-
ment, which is something; the honour of the national
character, which is something more. We warn the
trimming, compromising Members of all parties, that
they must on this question take a clear and
decided course. The public cannot be de-
ceived ; its representatives must do their duty. It
verily can be no reason that Mr. DUNCOMBE should not
be satisfied to urge that the wrongs of M. Mazzna and
others remain unredressed, though acknowledged in
Parliament. No Member professing to represent popular
feeling or opinion can, on this occasion, segregate him-
self from the body of those who will put their vote on
record with a distinct reason for it. No Member may
hope to escape from his responsibility, on this occasion,
to the tribunal of public opinion.

Madrid journals of the 17th have been received, but
they bring no intelligence of the reported arrests at Vit-
toria, nor is any allusion made to them in the telegraphic
dispatch received by the French Government from Ma-
drid, dated the 19th inst. In the Cortes, General NAR-
VAEZ stated, in answer to a question from Senor CAR-
BASCO, that the Bill for the restoration of Church pro-
perty had no reference to those in actual possession, and
the rights of purchasers would be religiously preserved.
The Bill contains only the following clause :—" The
property of the regular clergy remaining for sale, and
of which the sale had been suspended by royal ordon-
nance of the 26th July, 1844, shall return to the said
clergy."
The Three per Cents. closed on the 17th at 33 for
cash, and 33 9-16 at 60 days ; and the Five per Cents.
at 231 for cash, and 24-, at 60 days.

The following telegraphic dispatch was received by the
French Government on Sunday :

" MADRID, F. 19.

" The affairs of Sweden and Denmark, with Morocco, have
been arranged by the mediation of France and Great Britain.
" The Emperor has renounced the tribute.
" The Danish and Swedish Consuls returned to Tangiers on
the 14th inst."

The affair of Morocco has so far been productive 'of
good, and thus rescued these northern powers from the
disgrace of being tributaries to pirates.
There is nothing of interest in the Paris papers. A
wonderful calm has succeeded the vote on the Secret
Service Money Bill. The Ministerial journals appear
satisfied with the result, while those of the Opposition
announce their resolution to fight to the last, and to de-
nounce all backsliders from the party. Desertion, it
would seem, is dreaded by M. TRIERS and his friends.
" Everybody," says the ConsCtutionnel, "is convinced
that the Ministry's position is untenable, and that it is
impossible they can maintain themselves much longer in
the equivocal situation they have been placed in by the
successive votes of the Chambers. A determination has,
therefore, been come to to continue the struggle on all
important questions. The Opposition are sensible that,
under present circumstances, nothing ought to prevent
them from regularly attending the sittings. They have
in consequence, agreed that the names of such Depu-
ties as may not be punctual shall be published in the
newspapers."
The accounts from Switzerland, in these papers,
add little to the previous news. A letter from Berne
of the 19th mentions the arrival in that town of the
POPE'S Nuncio. He is represented to have come in
order to confer with the French Ambassador, and to
urge an armed intervention of France, in conjunction
with the other great Powers. Letters from Lucerne of
the 18th state that six battalions had been organised
for the defence of the Government. The church of the
Jesuits was turned into an arsenal, and consequently
public worship was suspended.
Tho French Funds were rather flat on Sunday. At
TORTONI'S the Three per Cents. were quoted at 84f. 95c.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.

The Funds leave off rather flatly, Consols at 993/4 % for
Money, and Thursday Exchequer-bills fell to 62 premium,
upon sales being made. Reduced Three per Cents. were
1001/, and the New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. 104.
Spanish Bonds remained as in the morning. The Three
per Cents. were done at 401,4 ; and the Passive at 6% ;
Mexican were 35%; Buenos Ayres, 43 ; and Austrian, 115 ;
Dutch Four per Cents. were 98%.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been
these :—Birmingham and Gloucester were 32 ; Bristol and
Exeter, 121/, to 134 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 4 to 1 ;
Chester and Holyhead, 23/4 34 ; Churnet Valley, 43j to 5 ;
Eastern Counties, 2 ; Eastern Union, 8% • Ely and Bedford,
%; Great Southern and Western (Ireland), to 6 ; Great
North of England, 88 ; Great Western, 94 ; Hull and Gains-
borough, % to 3/4 ; Ditto and Selby, 2S; Ditto Quarter, 53/4 ;
Lancaster and Carlisle, 14%; Brighton, 84 ; Birmingham
Thirds, 40 ; South Western, 37% ; London and York, 4%;
Manchester and Birmingham, 23% •, Newcastle and Berwick,
11 ; North British, 5 ; Richmond and West End, 2%; Rugby
and Tring, 24 to %; South Devon, 6%; Shrewsbury and
Birmingham, 24 to 174 ; South Wales, 24 to 1%; Trent
Valley, 183/4 ; York and North Midland, Scarborough Branch,
21 ; Boulogne and Amiens, 4; Bordeaux and Toulouse, %;
Great Northern of France, ; Orleans and Bordeaux,
41/ ; Paris and Lyons, 74 ' • and Paris and Orleans, 26%
premium. Direct Northern have been IA to 3/4 ; Blackwell,
914 ; Greenwich, 174 ; and Midland Birmingham and Derby,
8 discount ; Australian Bank Shares were 4 to %; Com-
mercial, 1/., ' • and London and Westminster, 774 premium.
British North American, 43/4 to 1%; and Colonial, 10% die.
There was an improvement in the quotatim of Bills of
Exchange on Amsterdam, Hamburgh and Trieste. Paris
and Antwerp remained about the same as on last post day.
The following is the official return of the exports of Bullion
from the port of London for the week ending Thursday last.
Specie to Sydney £5,000
Gold Ditto
(Frons The Sun of Last Night.)
The demand for bonded Cotton at Liverpool yesterday
still exceeded that for the duty-paid article, and the former
was about %d. per lb. cheaper. Sales, 4,000 bales, all to the
trade at previous rates.—There was a dull market for Shares.
Birmingham and Derby, 9412 ; Birmingham and Gloucester,
129%Gloucester, ; Bristol and 56 ; Caledonian, 71,E 7 ;
Chester and Birkenhead, 383/4 ; Chester and Holyhead, 8%;
Dublin and Drogheda, 78 ; Churnet Valley, •7% 3/4 •, Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, 60% •, Glasgow and Dumfries, 161. 6s. ;
Glasgow and Greenock, 151,4 3/i ; Grand Junction, 220 ;
Grand Junction, New, 434 ; Great Western, One-Fifth, 303/4 ;
Liverpool and Manchester, 202 ; Ditto, New, 37 ; London and
Birmingham, 321. Shares, 423/4 ; London and Brighton, 5714
% ; London and South-Western, 7931 ; London and York,
7% 6% ' • Direct Northern, 2% ; Manchester and Birming-
ham, 624 ; Manchester and Leeds, 138% ;
ties, 125; Newcastle and Berwick, 141/ ; North British,
Half Shares, 2% ; North Union, 137; Preston and Wyre,
234 ; Scottish Central, 41/8 ; Shrewsbury and Grand Junc-
tion, 5_14 ; South-Eastern, 40 393/4 ; Ditto, No. 2,9%;
Trent Valley, 19% 20; Pail(' and Lyons, 61g. 6d.; Orleans

Tours, and Bordeaux, 6%; Northern of France, 5% %;
Boulogne and .Amiens, 5%.
The Cambridge packet brings advices of one day's later
date from the United States. The papers give an account of
the number of vessels, and their tonnage, that entered the
port of New York in the month of January 1842, 1843, 1844,
and 1845 ; from which it appears that in January, 1842, the
number of American vessels was more by one-half, and
the excess of tonnage was one-third over the arrivals
for January, 1843 ; while on the other hand, there is a
slight increase in the number of foreign arrivals, and
amount of tonnage, in January, 1843, over the corre-
sponding month in 1842. In January, 1844, the gross
amount of American tonnage entering New York from
foreign ports had increased only to the standard of 1842 ;
while the gross amount of foreign tonnage was in excess
nearly one-half over the corresponding months in 1842 and
1843. The analysis of the arrivals during the last month
(January 1845) is highly gratifying in its results, as it proves
satisfactorily that our commerce is now in a more flourishing
condition than it has been for the same month during the
last four years. The gross amount of American tonnage
employed in commerce considerably exceeds that of 1842
and 1544.

It is stated that the pest fever was raging last month to a
considerable extent at Port-au-Prince. It had been rather
mild on board the American vessels, but very severe amongst
tilt French seamen.

From the Cape of Good Hope, adTices of the Bth ult. in-
timate that some of the Kafir chiefs were disinclined to come
into the conditions of the new treaty proposed to them by
the British.

The Fueds are firm to-day.
There have been sales made by the Chancery broker,
but the speculative operations for April have most effect.
Consols have realised 993/4 to par for present transfer, and
997/4 to par for account. Exchequer Bills have gone back
to 695. and 675. premium. New Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents. are 104 to 1044 ; and the Three per Cents. Reduced
1004 to %. Bank Stock has been quiet, at 212.
The Foreign Investments are flat. Spanish Actives at
27% ; and the Three per Cents. at 40%. Portuguese
Converted have been 60% to 61. Columbian Stock is worth
1374; and Brazilian 90. French Five per Cents. are 122 f.
75c., with the Exchange at 25f. 50c. 'Venezuela Bonds are
443/4. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. realise 634 to %.
Railway Shares continue flat, owing to the arrangements
for settling the account.

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF Bitrrisri FUNDS. O'CLOCK. ' PRICES.
Bank Stock ... .... 212 212
3 per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consols
New 31A per Cents
Long Annuities to expire Jan.lB6o 12 1-161 A 121%
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860
India Bonds, 1,0004.
Ditto ander 1,0001.
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 98%
Consols for Account...

987/4
99 Ji

Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., I%d 69 67 pm. 62
Ditto 500/. .
Ditto Small
Ditto Advertised 67 65 pm. 65

ONE
O'CLOCK.

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian,' 5 per Cent. ..........
Brazilianlonds
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent —
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela 13%
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837......
Ditto, Account
Ditto, Deferred
Peruvian Bmids, 6 per Cents
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Converted
Ditto, Account
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Deferred

CLOSING
PRICES.
115

35%
3514
16 •
301 A

6114

Ditto, Passive
Ditto 3 per Cent. ••• •• 40%
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 443/4
French, 5 per Cent
Exchange 2sf. 50c.
Dutch, 2% per Cent .
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 99% 98
PRICES OF PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. CLOSING
W RAILAY SHARES PRICES.
Binning. and Gloucesterloo ..... 133
Ditto 1/2 Shares
Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ...... 537Y1 561/23%
... _
Bristol and Exeter
Calodonian
Cambridge and Lincoln 11/ 2%
Chester and Holyhead... 5 ......
Cliurnet Valley
Cornwall
Direct Northern
I hiblin and Belfast June 21/2 ...... 51,
Dublin and Galway..... 2% 3q
Eastern Counties 141. 165....... 16%8 1714 17...
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1—.4/. 13s. 4d —
Ditto ditto, No. 2. l3s. 4d.
... .
Eastern Union
Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 62
Ely and Bedford ...... ... 1
Great South. and West.
(Ireland)
Great North of England..loo ......191 190
Ditto New
P. DittolNew 2 ...
Great Western
Ditto % Shares
Guildford, Farn'm,Ports. 2% ..• .. 44
Harwich
Hull and Gainsborough 1% 1.% 214
Hull and Selby 5O
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12%
Lancaster and Carlisle... 15
Lincoln, York. and Leeds 1% N
London and Birminghm (5t0ck)...226
Ditto New Thirds
Ditto, Quarters
London and Blackwall. IGL 13s 4d 7% '7X
London and Brighton... 50
London and Greenwich 12/ 15s 4d...
London and S. Western 4116 s 10d 78
2% -.12 11% 121% 111/2 781,6 Ditto New ll
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. -
Ditto Guaranteed 5 per
Cent.....

6%

-f.
-f. -c.

83!,4

163/4

18%

1%

is"
29%

- 4. , 4% _

London ar d Y0rk...... 21 ...... i 76 7,
8
Lynn and Ely
Manchester and Birmin. 40
... •
Ditto Quarters
•••
Midland 100 ......126 124
Ditto New 2 73/
Midland,Birm„Derby-100 . 921;
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction ... 24 48
Newcastle and Berwick 11/, 131/.,
North British
Ditto New 1 ...... 31./” 278
Northern and Eastern... 45 ......
Norwich and Brandon... 10 ...... 16
Richmondand %Vest End
Junction ............... 1 „ ....
Rugby,Wor'ster,& Tring 1 ...... 34%
Shrews, Wolverhamp ,
Dudley, and Birm 2l/2 ...... 41/
South Devon... ............ 10
••••••
South Eastern & Dover 33/ 2s 4d... 391% 40
Ditto, No. 1 ............ 8
14 15
Ditto, No. 2. ............ 2 ...... _
Ditto, No. 3 ............ 2% ...... 71/
Staines and Richmond... 1 ...... 11%
South Wales ............... 21/2 ...... 43,1%14
Trent Va11ey............... 2 ..... . 193/4%1A
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 :34
York and North Midland 50 ...... 103 102
Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 20 ......
Ditto, Selby ............ 20 ...... 66 64
Ditto Extension ...... 11% ...... 123/4
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens... 2 ...... 5%3/,
Bordeaux and Toulouse 2 .....
Great North. of France.. 4 ......
Lyons and Avignon...... 2 ......
Orleans and Bordeaux... 2 ...... 6%%
t'aris and Lyons . ........ 2 ...... 3
Paris and 0r1ean5......... 20 ......
Paris and Rouen ....•••• 20 ...... 423/4
Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 ...... 124
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia ........... 40 ...... 44 ..... 44v
British North American 50
Colonial 25 ......
Commercial of London.-. 20 ...... ... 21%
London & Westminster. 20 ......
Erratum in yesterday's List—Read Shrewsbury, Wolver-
hampton, and Dudley first price 4%.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 24.—We have no
new feature to notice to-day; a fair amount of business
has been done. Edinburgh and Glasgow, New Quarters,
5 ; London and South-Western, 79 ex div. ; Man-
ehe.ster and Leeds, 138 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 14%; Man-
chester and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 11 •, Sheffield and
Manchester, 104%; South-Eastern, No. 2,
D 10; Blackburn,ane,and
Burnley, and Accrington, svi ;Blackburn,
Bolton, 3 15-16 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 7% % ; Ca-
ledonian, 7% 7 ; Churnet Valley, 7% ; Dublin and Galway,
3 9-16; Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 23/4 ; Hud-
dersfield and Sheffield Junction, 4 9-16 ; Leeds, Dewsbury,
and Manchester, 33/4 ; London and Worcester, Oxford and
Rugby, 31; London and York, 714 1/8 ; Manchester and
Buxton, 2/8 ; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 255.
235. 9d. ; Trent Valley, 191,12 ; West Yorkshire, 3% ;
Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, 11% ; Union Plate
Glass, 19 18%.
COURSE OF EXCHA_
Amsterdam CF. 12
Ditto, at sight l2 5i
Rotterdam 2U. 12 8
Antwerp 26 10
Hamburgh M.B. 13 15
Alton l3 15
Paris, 3 days' sight— 25 85
Ditto, 3 months 26 0
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 26 15
Frankfort on Maine 122
Petersburgh, 3Us 37
Berlin 7
Vienna, effec. 11 .3 M 9 59
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 36*
Cadiz
Bilbao 36
Barcelona 36
Seville

631
10. A

121/2
124

3%
3%
4%
16%

14%

73/4
41A
204

61/
26
1 4

12%

GE.—(YE STERDAY.)
Gibraltar... .....»
Leghorn ••.• • 31
Genoa 26 15
Milan ......
Venice
Naples .....
Palermo, par oz llBl
Lisbon ........... 53i
0p0rt0.... • 53
Rio Janetro
Bahia . •••• 24
Buenos Ayres..
NewYork.27dyssight
PRIM% OF BULLION, PER OZ.
FOrßigC. (3rold, bars...E.3 17 9
Porto gat Gold Coin 3 17 5
New Dtstib;oons..... 0 0 0
New DoL!ars 0 0 0
Silver iu Bars 0 0 0

STAMP DUTIES (IRELAN.—According to a D)re-
turn made to the House of Commons, the total amount of
revenue from these duties for the year, ending Jan. 5,
1845, .was 583,3721., being an increase, as compared with
1842, of 129,014/. This is, in consequence of the additional
duty on stamps, imposed when the Property-tax Bill was
passed.
WESTMORELAND SPRING ASSIZES. The commis-
sion was opened on Thursday, at Appleby, by Mr. Justice
Coltman and Mr. Justice Wightman. On Friday morning
the business commenced, the Crown Court being taken by
Justice Wightman, and the Civil Side by Justice Coltman.
wLoanrddoon f-A Broad-street
purpose vi•as
held The business in both Courts was very light.
•
BROAD-STREET WARD.—EECTION OF A COMMON
t New 'Ward School,
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Common Conn
CouNctimAN.—Monday, at two o'clock, a wardmote of the
cilman to fill up the vacancy occasioned by the death of
Mr. G. Hastings Heppe], who has been thirteen years a re-
presentative of the ward in the Court of Common Council.
Mr. Alderman Musgrove, the Alderman of the ward, eolfd choosinga t
pre-
sided, when Mr. Barton proposed, and Mr. Simpson_ seconded,
the nomination of Mr. Thomas Willoughby Foster as Com-
mon Councilman for the remainder of the year. No other
gentleman beiLg ricaut,i ;...r t - ...ii.:,, the resolution 7.us F.;;
and agreet to unanimously. Mr. Foster returned thanks.
Mr. Abrahams then moved a resolution, which was carried
unanimously, expressing the high opinion entertained by the
ward of the deceased, and that the ward condoled with the
family at the 190 they had sustained.