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LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1845.

Both Houses of Parliament sat last evening for a
short time.
In the House of Lords,,-... a
the Earl of t.,T. ,AERMANS
took the oaths and his
seat.TheNoble Earl took
his seat on the Ministerial
.....
-0.0 se dof the House, imme-
diately to the right of the eof WELLINGTON.
After the presentation of k
petitions
The Earl of DALHOUSIE gave notice that he should
to-morrow lay before their Lordships papers relating
to the Railway Department of the B
Gard of Trade,
time, and that he should, at the same submit big
views upon the extent of the jurisdiction of the
Board of Trade, and the course of proceedi •
ng adopted
by them in relation to railways.
The LORD CHANCELLOR presented the answer to
the address.
Lord figot:Gwa3l gave various notices on the sub-
ieet of the law of bankruptcy.
A short conversation ensued between the Marquis
of NORMANDY and the Dike of WELLisaroN on the
subject of the delay which took place in forwarding
Bills to the Lords from the other House.
In answer to Lord CAMPBELL, the LORD
CILtN

cELLoit stated that it was his intention to bring in a
Bill on the subject of bail in error, and that if no
remedy existed in cases in which a jury might be

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improperly impanelled, he would endeavour to de-
vise one.

Lord MONTEAGLE then moved for a. series of papers
for the purpose of showing the working of the financial
measures of the Government, and, in doing so, took
occasion to go into the question of the financial. state
of the country generally.
The Duke of WELLINGTON had no objection to
grant the papers, but declined giving any answer to
the speech of the Noble Lord, as it must be expected
that her MAJESTY'S servants would wait until the
financial statement should be made in another place,
before they interfered in these matters.
Their Lordships adjourned shortly after Six o'Clock.
In the House of Commons, after the presentation
of petitions, and the ordering of sundry returns, the
Select Committees on Divorce Bills and on Private
Bills were appointed.
A new writ was ordered for Lewes, in the room
of Captain FITZROY, who had accepted an office under
the Admiralty.
Lord DUNCAN gave notice, that on the 20th he
should move for a Committee of the whole House to
consider of the repeal of the window-tax.
Mr. HUME gave notice of a motion for papers on
the subject of Sierra Leone and the Mauritius, and
postponed until the '2oth his motion on the subject of
colonial accounts.

Mr. WALLACE gave notice of a Bill to repeal the
Railway Act of last session, and said that to-morrow
he would move certain resolutions on the subject of
railways.
Mr. HUME asked questions on the subject of educa-
tion in India, and of the recal of Lord ELLENBO-
ROUGH, but the answers of Mr. BARING to both ques-
tions were inaudible.

In answer to a question from Sir R. INGLIS, Mr.
BAUM, stated that the lands of the Temple of Jug-
gernaut would be restored, so as to render payments
to the Temple unnecessary.
Lord DALMENY gave notice, for to-morrow, of a
question on the subject of the Scottish Poor-law.
The Report of the Committee of Supply was
brought up.
The various Railway-law Consolidation Bills were
read a second time.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave notice
fur a Committee of Ways and Means for Wednesday.
The House Adjourned at Five o'clock.

year of peace, and the third year of this revived tax,
which other Ministers have always reserved for
periods of such overwhelming exigency, a condition
of hostilities, for example, between this kingdom and
some formidable enemy like France. It is enough
for our purpose to suggest that at this instant the
aspect of our foreign relations is not so utterly pacific,
so decidedly firm and encouraging, as to put out of the
pale ---e€----probability all danger of abrupt
misunderstandings with an European neighbour—of
a precipitated collision with a people equally sensitive
in the New World. Far distant be the day on
which either of these casualties shall eventuate. But
in the meanwhile, let us act upon the wise and self-
evident policy of not exhausting, at a protracted
period of peace, the energies we should be prepared
with to meet the terrible exigencies that will charac-
terise any future war. On every principle of consti-
tutional wisdom, of political expediency, and of finan-
cial prudence, Parliament ought to determine the Pre-
mier's " limited period " on this occasion at one year—
and no more. If the necessity for its continuance at, or
shortly before the close of that period, can be satisfac-
torily demonstrated, Parliament will doubtless renew,
and the English people, with their characteristic
reasonableness, on such demonstration, will cheerfully
pay it. But it is objectionable on every ground, to
entrust a Finance Minister with that sort of credit
margin, on the plea of keeping up a surplus of in-
come, which may be anticipating the most vital and
essential functions of the country's capacity in time
of war, to meet the immediate and positive demands
upon them.
This consideration reminds us that Sir ROBERT
PEEL has shown a marked disinclination to follow
out the recommendation of the Harbours of Re-
fuge Commission in respect of enlarging and im-
proving Dover harbour, on account of the enormous
expense, to which we referred the other day. We
are strongly disposed to recommend to his attention,
as a wholesome compromise, the immediate im-
provement of a neighbouring and very important
point, where such improvement may be effected at
a comparatively small expense. We mean Dunge-
ness. But the Examiner puts its pretensions so well,
that we readily avail ourselves of the language in
which our able contemporary has noticed them :
" Dungeness is nearly twenty miles to the south-west
of Dover, but with a steam navy it would command the
straits almost as effectually ass-Dover, and it has in-
comparably superior capabilities for a harbour.
" Vessels that have beat down Channel to the Owers,
perhaps nearly to the Isle of Wight, and that making
bad weather, are then obliged to bear up and run, have
to put back to Dungeness at the least, losing all the
ground they had gained. So the other way, vessels that
have beat up Channel almost to Dungeness, and then
encountering bad weather are compelled to seek shelter,
have to run back all the way to the Isle of Wight. To
recover the distance so lost will take ships of ordinary
sailing qualities, with contrary winds, several days."

Two petitions relative to Puseyism were presented
to the House of Commons last night by Lord
EBRINGTON, and we hope they will be followed by
many thousands, for it is evident the Protestants of
this country can now look only to the Legislature for
a redress of grievances. One of the petitions was
from a clergyman, the Rector of Stoke Climsland, in
that happy diocese over which Bishop PaILLPOTTS
presides. That gentleman complains that he is placed
in a situation of the greatest difficulty ; that he has
received three pastoral letters from the Bishop, which
were of very uncertain and different import, and he
was, therefore, at a loss to know how he should per-
form his sacred functions with safety or satisfaction,
for if he departed from the Rubric he was liable to
heavy penalties, and if he strictly adhered to
yule Book of Common Prayer, and the canons
of the Church, he would cause great discontent
I among his parishioners He, therefore, prayed that
the House would take the subject into their serious
consideration, and repeal the Acts of Enwann VI. and
ELIZABETH, relative to the ceremonies of the Church,
I and adopt others which might remove the present
difficulties and avert the dangers with which the Esta-
blishment was threatened. The other petition was
from laymen, deprecating- the attempt of the Bishop
and certain clergy to revise obsolete forms and sere-
. monies, w Lich had excited discord and alienation in a
Christian community where there should be only
harmony and peace. They also prayed that the
House would take the subject into consideration, and
grant redress. These, we believe, are the first peti-
tions presented on this painful subject, but, owing
to the recognised practice of the Commons, no remarks
were made. It does not appear that Sir R. PEEL
was present, and possibly Mr. GOULBURN did not
consider himself qualified to give even a hint
as to the course which should be adopted. Lord
EBRINGTON, however, has an easy way to bring the
question forward in a tangible shape. He will be en•
trusted with other petitions, and probably has them
in his possession. Let him, therefore, give notice of
their presentation, and at the same time state his
intention of calling the attention of the Legislature
to one of the most wanton attacks on Protestantism
ever made since the Reformation. There is a noble
field for his exertions—he will bo cheered on by the
whole lay community, and perform the most essen-
tial service to the cause of freedom as well as pure
religion. The present state of the Church is full of
anomalies ; it is not suited to the age. The doctrines
of the Catholic Church are dominant at Oxford, and
rapidly extending through every diocese; the majo-
rity of the Bishops have their faces towards Rome,
and wolves in sheep's clothing have in broad day en-
tered the fold. Can the Legislature stand by idle'
while the Church established by law has not only
deserted its most sacred functions, but adopted tenets
which are in direct opposition to those of the religion
which its members profess ? The time has fully ar-
rived when the strong arm of the law must restrain
the mischievous vagaries of PIIILLPOTTS and BLoM-
FIELD.

It is now certain that Sir ROBERT PEEL will pro-
pose the re-imposition of the income-tax—on the re-
commendation of the Crown (as our constitutional
fiction supposes) " for a limited period." A " limited
period" is a very ambiguous term in the mouth of a
Premier or a player. It means always just as long
a time as the good nature or the prepossessions of the
public—their common patron—can be wheedled into
enduring the speculation undertaken by the one or
by the other. An engagement positively " limited"
to "a very few nights," never prevents a starring
comedian "of the Theatres Royal "—who has made a
hit in the character of Joseph Surface, for example
—from extending marvellously the "limited opportu
nities " he had at first proposed to afford his provincial
admirers for witnessing his conception of a difficult
character. To read his advertisements, any third
party might suppose that he was about to present the
public with some signal benefit, at his own personal
expense, not theirs; and that the prolongation of the
number of nights on which be had "consented"
(such is the usual strain) to " repeat the character,"
was a concession on his part, the self-denial of which
could not be too highly estimated. In the mean-
time, the number of nights is determined actually by
the amount of the money taken at the doors, or the
sale of the tickets. Let no man suppose that it is
the Premier's meaning to measure his " limited
period" by any other than an analogous scale. Let
none be alarmed lest the duration of Sir ROBERT'S
performance in his favourite character of Income-tax
Reviver, in the tragi-comic farce of Raising the Wind,
should prove too short.

The ludicrous divisions which took place in the
French Chamber of Deputies last week form the
principal topics of remark in the Paris journals.
Those of the Opposition in one respect rejoice at the
anomalous state of the Chamber, while they express
regret that a measure of great importance in com-
mercial affairs, as well as in the relations of private
life—the reduction of the postage on letters—has
been unnecessarily delayed for twelve months. If
the Chamber had evinced more character, and the
concealed votes by ballot had not belied those given
openly, a great boon would have been conferred on
the community, with little or probably no loss to the
revenue. These journals, however, take advantage
of the circumstance to run down the Ministry, by
showing that M. G UIZOT has no longer sufficient
skill to manage the reins of Government, and that in
fact the Chamber is like a ship at sea without a
rudder. The Courrier Francais draws the following
picture of its helpless condition :—" The Chamber of
Deputies has advanced to the state of abstaining
from giving a decision. Until Saturday either side
had at least a majority of one, and the decisions were
valid. Men of serious reflection are afflicted at this
decadence of the Government. 'I here is, in fact,
neither Chamber nor Ministry—no will, no impulse.
The Ministry is dead, and the Chamber has abdicated
on its coffin. The most important decisions, the
most useful reforms, are at the mercy of a vote.
Every result is left to chance. Let a Deputy hasten
or delay his attendance, and the decision is changed.
A breakfast prolonged, or a cabriolet too slowly
driven, become the arbiters of our destiny. What is
an Utopia at three o'clock, would be law at a quarter
past three. Would it not be more simple to toss,
and to make hazard the legislator ?" The Constitution-
nel regards the functions of the Chamber, as well as the
Ministry as utterly useless to the country. " We have
before our eyes." it says, " the following political
maxim :—When the majority becomes too feeble on
political questions, it is null on every other question'
and there is no longer a Government." And it says
elsewhere—" The continuation of doubtful majorities
in the Chamber of Deputies on every question sub-
mitted to its consideration, is not the effect of chance.
It is evident that every time the Minister does not
bring into play all the secret springs of Government,
and every time that he does not use a certain force, the
indifferent, the persons having pressing affairs to
attend to, the invalids, and, in fact, the majority,
desert him." Even the Journal des Debats attacks the
Chamber for its want of boldness and contrasts its timid
and niggardly policy with the lofty and daring principles
avowed and acted upon by the House of Commons.
"The Postal Reform Bill," it says, "has been lost in
the Chamber of Deputies. It wanted but a single
vote in order to have been successful. We foresaw
such a result without believing it, and we regret sin-
cerely that we were right. Thus, a legislation which
every one admits to be contrary to the fundamental
principle of equality in taxation, will continue a tax
universally admitted to be injurious to commerce,
and to the development of social intercourse. The
Chamber of Deputies has so willed it. Thus
we are in France—the most timid men in the
world in making useful changes, the most hardy
and the most rash in vain and dangerous inno-
vations. We are all fire for revolutions, and all
ice for good and wise reforms. It is not so that
our neighbours, the English, proceed, and they are
not the worse for it. What boldness and what reso-
lution is there in their conceptions of political economy.
They diminish the postage on letters in the proportion ,
of nine to one, and at the same moment they draw
from their coffers 500,000,000 to indemnify the pro-
prietors of slaves in their colonies. We discuss during
long years the expediency of emancipation of postal
reform and of other subjects more or less worthy of
interest. We make good speeches, we compose better
books, but when it becomes necessary to carry any
of those measures into effect, our heart fails us."
At TORTONI'S the Three per ' Cents. closed at
84f. 85c.

We wish to attract the particular attention of our
readers to an advertisement which appears in another
column, announcing that a fancy dress ball will take
place at the London Tavern, on Wednesday, the 26th
instant, for the benefit of the distressed needlework
women of the metropolis, under the patronage of the
Queen Dowager, the Duke of Cambridge, Lord
Ashley, Mr. Alderman Farebrother, and a Committee
consisting of nobility and gentry. We have no doubt
but the ball will be well attended, and we would
suggest to all those who intend to be present at it, the
propriety of employing those distressed persons for
whose benefit the ball is given in making up their
fancy dresses. We scarcely need add, and of paying
them a proper remunerating price for their labour.

So long as this little ancillary to the legitimate
contributions of the Excise, the Customs, Stamp and
Post-office Duties, Land and Assessed Taxes to the
public income, can bring into the national exchequer
its clear five millions sterling per annum—so long
will her services be retained, and the political ma-
ma-
nager be induced to extend the " limited period"
during which it was once imagined, by some,that
this very remarkable performance of his would be re.
peated. In truth, the income-tax' has every principle
about it of theatrical vitality. It has been, in the
managerial jargon of the day, " a tremendous hit."
It " continues to be played with unabated success,"
and it " draws bumpers" of John Bull's spare cash
" into the treasury."
On all these accounts we implore the representa-
tives.of the people in the Commons' house of Parlia-
ment to watch vigilantly the course of this matter.
Let them, at all events, in closing with the Political
Manager's terms, stipulate for the strictest and shortest
definition of the " limited period" he proposes. The
strongest case that Sir ROBERT and his party could
establish against the Government of their predecessors
was—that these latter could not square the public re-
venue with the public expenditure. They went out
of office, and their successors have worked the finan-
cial problem which they could not solve, by—whe-
ther rightly or injudiciously, is not now the
question re-enacting, in the twenty-eighth
year of profound peace, a tax which had only
been tolerated in former years because it was
imposi'd to meet the extraordinary expenses of
the extraordinary war in which we were then in-
volved, bvextraordinary means. It is now the thirtieth

It is rumoured, an we believe upon sufficient au-
thority, that the title of King-Consort is about to be con-
ferred_ upon his Royal Highness Prince Albert. This, we
presume, would be preliminary to a demand for an increased
grant.—Chronicle.

THE KING OF THE FRENCH.—On Friday, M.
Jones had the honour of receiving from his Excellency the
French Ambassador the gold medal so graciously presented
to him by his Majesty Louis Philippe. On Saturday his
Excellency the Count de St. Aulaire and family honoured
Mr. Jones by visiting his studio to inspect the bust of his
Majesty, and were pleased to express their highest approba-
tion of the work. _

•.
The Rochester and Gravesend Railway was opened
yesterday with the usual formalities, and, notwithstanding
the intense severity of the weather, a considerable number of
passengers passed up and down during the day, whilst the
lookers-on mustered in strong force at the various points of
the line where the train was 'visible.
BoYAL MARINEs.—The sentence of the recent
court-martial held at Woolwich, on Sergeant Zacha riali Baker,
36th company of the Royal Marines, has been promulgated
in general orders, and is as follows :—" To be reduced to the
rank and pay of a private; to undergo an imprisonment of
two years, with solitary confinement of eighty-four days in
each year, agreeably to the provisions of the 10th clause of
the Mutiny Act ; to be placed under stoppages (at the end of
service."
or 2,erthiseio prisoner
m nher is
his imprisonment) until the amount of his defalcations be
tmade good, viz. 58/. 10s. 2id., and further to forfeit all claims
Baker has
beendischargedfromnt uunder
.Majesty's
being
escort
to Maidstone Gaol, where he -
will undergo the term of his
sentence of imprisonment.

E SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 11, 1845.

THIS DAY'S NEWS.

CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
The Lord Chancellor sat in Lincoln's-Inn Hall to-day
shortly after ten o'clock.
LY ICE CLARK.-BANKREPT PETITION.

Upon this matter being called on, it was ordered to stand
over to the next petition day, in consequence of the absence
of Mr. M. D. Hill, who was engaged in the Court cf Queen's
Bench in the case of the Baron de Bode.
EXPARTE VAN SANDAURE MARTM.—BA.NKRUPT:PETITION.
This case stood on the paper to-day for further directions,
the Court of Queen's Bench having decided in favour of the
demurrer put in. by Mr. Van; Sandau to the plea. filed by
Messrs. Turner and Henshman.
I I Mr. SWANSTON, on the case being called on, asked that it
might stand over for a few days, in consequence Of the illness
of Mr. K. Parker.
Mr. BAGSHAWE and Mr. Rol.; for Mr. Van Sandau, sub
mitted that the postponement of the case would be highly
injurious to their clients.
After some further discussion, the casewas ordered'peremp-
torily to stand for hearing on Friday next.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, in the course of the discussion,
intimated to Mr. Swanston that one of the points he would
have to consider and argue was, the power of the Court of
Review to commit.

Messrs. Morrison and Co. and Messrs. Porson and Co., and a
detainer was lodged against him, with the governor of the
gaol, that he might be indicted for the offence when his term
of imprisonment had expired. The visiting justices, however,
after he had been imprisoned for fourteen months,
recommended his liberation, on the ground of good conduct.
This wasmentioned to Messrs. Morrison and Co., who aban-
doned their intention of prosecuting him, on the understand-
ing that he should leave the country, , and it was believed
that he had gone to America. As he had not fulfilled that
agreement, Messrs. Morrison and Co. had felt it their duty
to come forward ani to prosecute the prisoner. As it was
necessary that witnesses should be in attendance to prove
the charge against the prisoner, he should ask the Alderman
to remand him to a future day.
A gentleman from Messrs. Ashurst's, the solicitors,identified
the prisoner as the person who had obtained the property,
worth upwards of forty pounds, from Messrs. Morrison
and Co. _ _

Sir P. LAURIE said that when a man got out of prison
through the instrumentality of his friends, on the understand-
ing that he should leave the country, and did not keep that
agreement, his opinion was that he ought to be severely
punished.
The prisoner said he was only liberated in May, last year,
and that he could not raise sufficient money to carry him to
America. _

Sir P. LAURIE added that when once a man had the mis-
fortune to get into prison and was liberated, he was frequently
compelled to resort to his former practises for a living, as,
from having lost his character, no one would employ him,
and the best thing that could be done for him was to send
him out of the country—elsewhere he might be reclaimed,
and become an useful member of society.
The prisoner was again remanded.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
Large speculative purchases were made in Cotton at Liver-
pool, yesterday, and prices rose %d. per lb. on the supposition
that there may be a reduction in the duty. About 12,000
bales found buyers.—Shares were quieter. Birmingham and
Gloucester, 131 133 ; Bristol and Gloucester, 57% 58 ; Cale-
donian, 6% 34 ; Chester and Birkenhead, 39M ; Ditto
and Holyhead, 8 ; Churnet Valley, 7% ; Eastern Counties,
173/ 1/2 ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 11% ; Grand Junction, 220 ;
Grand Junction, Half, 110; Great Southern and Western,
12%; Great Western, Half, 1011, 3/4 ; Harwich, 2% ;
Liverpool and Manchester, New, 38 ; London and Birming-
ham, 321. Shares, 431/2 43 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 2814 29M ;
Ditto and South-Western, Eighths, 13 ; Ditto and York, 6
5%; Manchester and Birmingham, 65% 6614 ; Midland
Counties, 401. Shares, 8M 7%; Newcastle and Berwick, 16
15%; North British, 143/ ; Preston and Wyre, 22 ; Shef-
field and Lincoln, 355. 6d. ; Shrewsbury and Grand Junction,
5% ; South-)astern, 48 ; Ditto, No. 2, New, 19%; Trent
Valley, 15111 16 ; Ulster, 44 ; Paris and Strasburg, 3 ;
Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 7%; Northern of France,
; Boulogne and Amiens, 5.
Competition is at all times allowable, no doubt, but there
should also be fairness with it, even in railway matters, where
so little attention is paid to that requisite. There are two
lines proposed to the Belgian Government to connect the
Sambre and Meuse, the Central and the Western, and the
former appears, or is stated to be highly approved by a ma-
jority of the Chambers. Within the last few days, however,
there have been various attempts to depreciate, in the estima-
tion of the public, the plan of the Central line,
and without pretending to favour one or the other
of the projects, it must be stated that the means resorted to
by the Western Company to accomplish their object are far
from creditable. The list of intended shareholders in the
Central line has been calumniously misrepresented, highly
respectable parties being described as " unknown," &c. The
Directors of the Central line had an interview yesterday with
the Belgian Ambassador, which was understood to be of a
very satisfactory character.
The well-known firm of Keeling and Hunt have issued a
very good circular on the state of the provision trade, in
which they correctly infer that the large amount of money
likely to be put in circulation by the the construction of new
railways will have an important effect on the consumption of
various articles, especially should these be relieved by a
reduction of duties. The duty on the lowest description of
cheese is now 100 per cent., and on the finer kinds of butter
and cheese only 20 to 30 per cent.—a manifest injustice to
the poorer classes. Were it not for the weekly sup-
plies of Dutch, it is stated by Messrs. K. and H., that
the price of English fresh butter in the London market
would in all probability be 2s. 6d. per lb. Even during the
last six months there has been a decided advance, viz., from
7d. to 9d. and 10d. per lb. It is considered that a duty of 10s.

per cwt. would more than double the consumption, and keep
the English market permanently steady, for it is reckoned that
the decrease in the corsumption of butter, cheese, and bacon
in the agricultural counties has amounted during the past 20
years,to 50s. and 755. per cent., while there has been an increase
in the consumption in the manufacturing districts. Butter
would evidently be an important auxiliary to the consump-
tion of coffee, &c.
The advices by the steamer from the West Indies are con-
sidered very satisfactory, the weather generally being fa-

vourable.
Stocks are firmer to-day. Consols 99% 3/4 for Money,
and 993/4 % for Account. Exchequer-bills are 565. to 535.
premium. Bank Stock is 2121/2. New Three-and-a-Quarter
per Cents. are 1033/4 to 104, and the Three per Cents. 100%
to
Th %.
e Foreign Bonds are very dull, and rather flat in price.
Mexican have receded, owing to the news from the republic
of Santa Anna being still in arms. The quotations have
been 35% to %. Spanish Five per Cents. are 2814 to %, and
the Three per Cents. 41% to %. Portuguese Converted are
59. Buenos Ayres realise 44, and Brazilian, New, 88. Aus-
trian Bonds have been firm at 116, and Dutch Two •and-a •
Half per Cents. at 63%.
The Share Market is in much the same position as yester-
day. A moderate business is doing, and the quotations, with
a few exceptions, are steady. Chumet Valley have risen
again.

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced .... 1001/06%1A 100 Z
34
3 per Cent. Consols
New 314 per Cents
Long Annuities to expireJan.lB6o 12 3-16 1-16 12 1-16
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5,1860... 11% 13-16 11 13-16
South Sea Stock
Bank Stock for Account... ......
Consols for Account.
..... 9934% 99%
Exchequer Bills, 1,0004 110.... 56 53 55 pm. 56
Ditto 5001.
Ditto Small

ONE
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Austrian, 5 per Cent ... . 116
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839. 88
Buenos Ayres Bonds 6 per Cent. 44
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela.
' Mexican 5 per Cent. 1837....
Ditto, Account
Ditto, Deferred
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents
Ditto, Account
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent ...
Ditto, Converted
Ditto, Account —
Russian Bonds
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Ditto, Account 4l 'l/
Dutch, 21/ per Cent . ......
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific — 98%
PRICES OF CLOSING
PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
RAILWAY SHARES
Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 136 135 136...... 135
Ditto 1/2 Shares
Bristol and Exeter
Ditto New....
Bristol and Gloucester 3O ...... 57V 57%
Caledonian
Cambridge and Lincoln 11,4 4
Chester and Holyhead... 5
Chichester and Brighton 5 —
Churnet Valley
Cornwall
Direct Northern
Dublin and Belfast June 21/2 5 4
Dublin and Galway 2l/2. . .
Eastern Counties 25 . . 17%1/2
Eastern Union lO .. ...

CLOSING
PRICES.

1414
35%
35614 3/4 % 16% % 3/4 35%
1

Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Ditto, New Quarters.. 21,4 5l
Ely and Bedford
Great South. and West.

8

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(Ireland)
Ditto Extension
GreatNoith of England..100

614
172

Ditto New 2
Great Western 75 ...... 181 182 179

Ditto 1/2 Shares 5O
Ditto Fifths
Guildford, Farn'm,Ports. 21/2 ...
Lancaster and Carlisle... 15
London and Birminghm (Stock) 236%
Ditto, Quarter Shares 2
London and Blackwall.. 16% —
London and Brighton... 50
London and S. Western. 41% Bl
Ditto New 2% l3 123/4
London and Croydon, 13/. 153. 9d. 18
London and York 2% 6%A%
Manchester and Leeds... 73 l3B
Manchester and Birmin. 40
Ditto Quarters
Midland 100
Ditto New 2 ..... 8%
Midland,Birm.,Derby...loo
Newry and Enniskillen. 2%
Newark and Sheffield ... 1% l% 2
North British
Norwich and Brandon... 8
Richmond and West End
Junction
Rugby,Wor'ster,&Tring 1
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
Dudley, and Birm 21,12
South Eastern & Dover 33% 5%%
Ditto, No. 1
Ditto, No. 2.
Ditto, No. 3 2% lly, 10%
Staines and Richmond... 1
South Wales 21,/2 634141 •• • , 6
Trent Valley 2 —.15% 15 16 4 15•;.i 17
West Cornwall
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ...... 31/1
York and North Midland 50
Ditto Extension ...... 11% l2 11% 124...
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens... 2
Great North. of France.. 4
Lyons and Avignon 2 -
Orleans and Vierzon ... 2 ...... 113 12 11% —
Orleans and Bordeaux... 2
Paris and Lyons '
Paris and Rouen
Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 -
Tours and Nantes 1
Toulouse

101
.. 40
.. 41/,

237
29%

12%
6%
6614

123 k

2%

131/2

473/4
•••• 24

181/2

Erratum in yesterday's List—Read Dublin and Galway
2% to V 2, instead of Dublin and Mullingar.

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 10.—Considerable
activity has prevailed in our market to day, with some fluc-
tuations in prices :—Birmingham and Gloucester, New Shares,
5% ; Bristol and Exeter, 82 ex new; Manchester and Birm-
ingham 67 66 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 10% %; South-Eastern
Scrip, 8% % premium ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington,
6%; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 4 1-16; Caledonian,
7 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 3% %; Churnet Valley, 734 % ;
Glasgow and Dumfries, 31s. 3d. ; Huddersfield and Man-
chester Railway and Canal 51% %; Huddersfield and Shef-
field Junction, 4% ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 51 ;
Liverpool, Ormskirk, and 'Preston, 3 1-16 ; London and Wor-
cester, Oxford and Rugby, 41% %; London and York, 61% 6 ;
Manchester and Buxton, 3%; Newark and Sheffield, 214 %;
Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, Dudley, &c., %; Trent
Vallev,l6% 17 ; Great Northern of France, English, 5 15.16 ;
Tours and Nantes, 2% ; Union Bank of Manchester, 10%.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, FEB. 11.—Wind Easterly, fresh breeze, and fine
overhead. There was a heavy fall of snow last night.

SHEERNESS, FEB. 10.—The Edward Robinson—has been
weighed to-day, and laid on hard round on the shore.
FALMOUTH, FEB. 10.—Wind E., moderate.—Arrd. Her-
schel, Robertson, Ichaboe, left Dec. 10 ; City of Adelaide,
Punch, Ichaboe. Oft; Dispatch, Williams, Gambia, left 4th
ult., Bona Vista, 13th.
MARYPORT, FEB. 9.—Arrd. Atlas, Dublin, boat stove, &c.,
having been in contact with a schooner off St. Bees Head.
IcutaßoE, DEC. I.—Arrd. Lalla Rookh, of Liverpool. Load-
ing Palermo and Hampden ; to sail Dec. 8 ; Doris, Rae ; and
on 10th, Elizabeth, Hughes.
DEAL, FEB. 10.—Wind S. by E., moderate ; P.M., fresh
breeze.—Arrd. Lady Anne, Africa.

DOVER, FEB. 10.:--r.m. Wind S.S.E., fresh.—Arrd. Emma
and Louise, Callao for Hamburgh.
RYE, FEB. 10.—The Bee, Penny, of Newcastle, from
Rouen, is ashore in the entrance of this harbour, but has not
received much damage; crew saved.
LYNN, FEB. 9.—The Breakwater, ashore in here, has been
got off after discharging her cargo.
SouTtrAmyroar, FEB. 10.—Arrd. Dee steamer, West Indies,
left Tampico Dec. 22, Vera Cruz 2d ult., Havannah 10th,
Bermuda 21st; on freight 157,946 dollars, 7,240 ounces gold
dust, and 15 serons cochineal. A large ship, apparently
American, masts hanging over her sides, was seen on the Co-
lerados Reef, off Buena Vista, by the Severn steamer, on her
voyage from Havannah to Jamaica.
ScAnnoßouGit, FEB. 10.—The Unity, Shaw, of Wisbeach
from London to 111iddlesbbrough, is ashore to the southward,
and expected to become a wreck crew saved.