The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-18 00:00:00

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.

UNDER THE DIRECTION OF NM. OSBALDISTON.
Another new Domestic Drama, combining intense interest and
such :powerfully electric situations and effects as have never
been attempted in Dramas of this description.
TlllB EVENING, FEB. 18

Will be performed, a New Domestic Drama, in Three Acts,
entitled MARY WHITE ; or, the MURDER at the OLD
TA BBA RD.—Savage Sam, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Baynard, Mr.
Dale ; Giles' Mr. Gardner ; Mary White, Miss Vin:ent, the
acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Tragedy.
After which, THE WILD IRISH GlRL.—Shelah 01May,
Miss Vincent, in 'which she will dance her celebrated Donny-
brook Rant, and sing several hutnourous chaunts. and a new
Medley Epilogue.
To conclude with the Grand Romance of THE LADY OF
THE LAKE.—Roderick Dhu, Mr. Dale; Fitzjames, Mr. E.
F. Saville ; Malcolm, Mr. Seaman ; Blanch of Devon, Miss
Collett.

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THE WEATIIEII.—Noom, FEBRUARY 17.
ROYAL GALL.K.RY OF 3CIENCS, ADELAIDE-STREET.
Tiberinometer... 46 Highest 47 I Lowest 39
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)turning minutes after 6 I Evening.... 40 minutes after 6.

pleasing ridicule ; but they experiment on the public,
and every one of their devices inflicts misery on some
class of the people.
Though the landowners and farmers are now rejoicing
in high prices—the four successive bad harvests, which
have brought destitution and death to the hearths of the
labourers, having filled their purses—only six years have
elapsed since they were as well convinced as we now arc,
by the price of wheat being down below 505., or even
405., that the Corn-laws, which it is pretended give
them protection, were a failure, if not a fraud. If
there had then been a demand fur the repeal, the
farmers would have offered no resistance ; but
the recollection of past losses is forgotten in present
prosperity ; and having undergone the evils of the law,
they now insist on retaining its temporary advantages.
A short review, however, of what the Corn-laws were
expected to accomplish, will convince the most sceptical,
that in respect to agriculture they have been" a most
egregious failure.

The law of 1815 prohibited importation till the price
of wheat t eached 80s., and was intended to keep it up
nearly to that level, This gem of the Earl of RIPON'S

wisdom was such a wretched abortion that, before five
years elapsed, the country resounded with corn-
' plaints of agricultural distress, and in 1821 a
Committee was appointed to inquire into the sub-
ject. From that Committee emanated an elaborate
Report and another abortive measure, to reduce the price
of protection from 80s. to 70s. but its bantling was
still-born, and never came into operation. Again,
complaints of agricultural distress were continually
made ; rents were unwillingly lowered, because farmers
could not pay them, and, in 1527, Mr. CANNING propoSed
another measure, which in principle reduced the proposed
protection still more. That Bill did not become law,
and in 1828 the existing Corn-law, giving, as was stated
over and over again, a protection to the farmer up to
655., was passed. Now we have Sir ROBERT PEEL again
lowering the scale, and professing to keep the price of
wheat not at 80s., not at 705., not at Gss., not
even at the Lincolnshire mark of 605., but between
545. and 58s. In spite, therefore, of successive
enactments the price of corn, which the law was to keep
up, has gradually fallen, and the lawgiver, who pretends
to regulate that price by his enactments, has been com-
pelled to follow the course of events, and reduce his no-
minal protection from 80s. to 565.
Why does Sir ROBERT PEEL select 565. as a sort of
general price ? Because the average price of wheat,
since 1828, instead of having been 655., as the cheating
law taught the deluded farmers to expect, has only been,
including the last year, 58s. But this is the price as
shown by the averages worked up for the purposes
of speculation, and the actual growers of the
corn have received no such price. To get at
their selling price, we must deduct ss. at least from
the averages, for while the law promised the farmer 655.,
it has been unable to secure him a greater price than 535.
We say, then, that the law has been altogether a failure,
even as far as the farmers are concerned, and yet the
alchymist Prime Minister is to repeat the ruinous
experiment.

This difference between the averages and actual prices,
the former being, as is well known, made up by an exten-
sive system of fraud, leads us to remind the virtuous
SirßouEaT PEEL, who has such a horror of all fraud, ex-
cept legislative fraud, that all the calculations on which

his new law is based, are derived from, and are depend-
ent on, these fraudulent averages. His Corn Bill
will be founded on palpable fraud. TO suppose that
such a system either in past times could have been, or
in future can be, productive of national welfare, is flying
in the face of the moral goyernment of the world. A
certain degree of agricultural prosperity, it is true,
has co-existed with the Corn-law, caused by
the increase of the manufacturing population.
All the agricultural societies that have covered
the land, all the bounties which have been given
for improved cultivation, all the Corn-laws that ever were
forged, would never have brought an additional ear of
wheat into existence, had there been no stimulus to

production from the increasing population and wealth
of our towns. It is altogether a delusion, there-
fore, to suppose that the prosperity of our agri-
culture has been in the least degree owing to the
law, which bas at once cheated the unhappy farmer,
stinted the growth of our manufactures, and starved the
people.

Our opponents reprobate very strongly the appeals
which they say all the Anti-Bread-tax party make to
the prejudices and passions of the people. It is im-
possible, however, for any person to surpass,
on this point, the _crest master of House
of Commons' clarArapeit A Primo Minister, the
leading man of the uationi,,slasmld be placed high above
all the mists of popular passions, and see clearly those
objects which popular delusions hide from other men.
Sir 11...PELL must know, therefore, that former Corn-
laws have not answered—that they have not given any
protection to the agricultural interest—that they
have not, and cannot, in this commercial country, prevent
prices falling to the general level—that they cannot render
us in the slightest degree independent of other nations,
and if they could it would be criminal to attempt it.
Yet for two hours, the night before last, did Sir ROBERT
PEEL address himself exclusively to the low passions
and vile prejudices of his selfish auditors, and persuade

them to support his new experiment, because it would
protect the landed interest, keep up the price of
wheat to 585., and keep the country partially in-
dependent. llis whole speech, whether founded in sheer
ignorance, or worse hypocrisy, was an appeal to such
prejudices and passions, and was worthy of the head of
the monopolisers.
If newspaper writers appeal to the people, by promis-

ing them cheap bread, he appealed to the landed gentle-
men by promising them dear corn and high rents. If
the former write vaguely about growing commerce, and
paint the advantages of free trade, predicting from it an
increase of wealth, and peace, and happiness to all the
world, he could talk about complicated and great
social interests—meaning the rent-rolls of the landlords

—which he would on no account disturb. If the Anti-
Bread-tax party refer to the rights of poverty, he was
eloquent on the rights of property ; and while he had
not a thought to bestow on the starving multitudes of
Manchester and Paisley, he was filled with horror at
the supposition of diminishing the profit of a tenant under
lease. He is quite a master in the art of appealing to
low passions and vulgar prejudices ; and had we half
his skill in that line, and such a favourable auditory as
he has, we should make our fortunes.

We expressed yesterday, by one word, in common, we
believe, with all who heard Mr. ROEBUCK, our admira-
tion at his able speech. It was clear and forcible, and must
have , pierced through the triple mail of Sir ROBERT
PEEL'S self-conceit. The whole House felt the force of
11is concluding remarks, which threw on Sir ROBERT
PEEL the awful responsibility of not relieving the distress
of the people. His statements, however, on some points,
could not command our assent ; and we rather admired
his speech as an intellectual display in that assembly of
gladiators, than approved of its doctrines.
Mr. ROEBUCK was, in our cpinion, much too cour-
teous to the aristocracy. He would impute to them no
bad motives ; he took them at their own estimate
of their value ; and set them down as that leisure class
which spreads civilization through the land. lie must have
ill observed the progress of improvement to have come
to such a conclusion. The independence of the landlords
encourages in. them
,many vices ; and their relative
poSition to other, men, making them proud, and their
tenants and labourers slavish, corrupts the morals of
both. The mutual and equal dependence of man on man,
which grows from division of labour, and which
extends as division of labour extends—a system
from which the mere do-nothing landowners stand idly
and widely apart, is, much more than they are, the
cause of that improvement in morals and manners which
is opposed to their feudal propensities. Mr. lioEnucK,
who aspires, we believe, to lead the democracy, seemed
to ns to desert their standard in his observations on the
aristocracy.
It is probable, we think, that his courtesy was the
result of an unfounded theory which he put forth. He
endeavoured, by a reference to past history, to exone-
rate the present Legislature from all responsibility for
the sufferings of the people. They all grbw, he was
pleased to think, from some unwise encouragement
the Government had in former times given to manufac-
tures. What the Government had to do with promoting
the inventions of WATT and ARKWRIGHT, we arc igno-
rant ; and we do not share Mr. Rounuefes arcadian
prejudice in favour of an agricultural popula-
tion. We Fully exonerate hint individually from
any part of the responsibility for the condition
of the people ; but when he saw on the Minis-
terial benches Sir RonenT PELL, Sir GEORGE CLERK,
:;nd a squad of Tories ; and when he knows that the
Earl of BIUoN and the Duke of WELLINGTON are still
members of the Parliament and the Government, he
ought to conclude that to say the existing Parliament is
not responsible for the distresses of the. people, is to clear
the Tories from that charge of misgovernment with which
they have been so long reproached. Entertaining that
opinion, however, he acted on it, and was as courteous
as a mere Whig to the ffentlemen opposite.
But while Mr. ROEBUCK was so courteous to our op-
ponents, i e was not sparing of our friends. He is
afraid of having that religious and moral rule applied to
his conduct, which is now applied to the conduct of the
Bread-taxers, and he stigmatised those who denounced

as sinful the rash interference of the Legislature with
the laws of nature. Lord PALMERSTON took a
more sensible view, and justly censured the
arrogant and presumptuous dealers in protective
duties and sliding scales, who thwart " the de-
crees of the Power which has created and dis-
poses of the universe." Mr. ROEBUCK seems to think
that' the Gentlemen of the House of Commons can settle
what is right, and that their sovereign will must be un-
questioned. We recognise a higher power than Par-
liament, and we go cordially with those who,
having from philosophy and experience learned some
of its decrees, set them up as better and safer guides fer
mankind than the formal enactments of selfish landlords.

Mr. ROEBUCK did not catch, we think, the
.spirit
which animates this age, and je did not make
himself in the House of Commons the champion
of the democracy. They lack somebody to plead their
cause in that assembly of a larger heart, if not a more
gifted tongue, than Mr. ROEBUCK, and we trust that
in the ensuing debate, such ta champion will be found.
When the aristocracy hear the plain unvarnished truth
in the House of C mum ons,w hen their motives are dissected,
as well as their acts exposed, we shall be on the threshhold
of that moral reform which is necessary for the safety of
the State.

Sir H. PEEL, alarmed, no doubt, at the excitement
caused by the only measure he has yet brought for‘...ard
as Prime Minister, is evidently anxious to hurry the
Bill through all its • stages with the utmost rapidity.
When he assumed ()like he talked of nothing but delay.
The words "mature deliberation," " caution," and "pru-
dence," were constantly in his mouth; now he is deter-
mined to go at railroad speed, and, as if Members were
as little susceptible of fatigue as the snorting, untiring,
and iron-framed machines that are incessantly tra-
versing the country, he attempted to compel them
yesterday morning, at half-past two, and after a three
nights' debate, to listen to the motion of Mr. Vit.-
LTERS. This attempt, howexer, to smother the ques-
tiOn was too barefaced even for his majority, and
he was at last forced to make a merit of a neces-
sity, and profess that he had no wish to throw an ob-
stacle in' the way. The attempt was not made without
good reason. Petitions are pouring in from all ,quar-
ters; in our market towns are kindled daily bonfires, not
composed of tar-barrels and useless lumber, but of the
effigies of the Right. Honourable Premier himself, as
proofs of the strong determination of the people to de-
feat this mockery of a modified Corn-law Bill. Like the
culprit in a crowd, he is therefore anxious to get out
of the way, in the hope that the enactment
of this obnoxious measure will silence the hungry and dis-
contented. He is even anxious, it is said, tohurry on other
measures; in order to break up the Session by the middle
of June. The public, however, are not to be deceived. They
have waited long and patiently for the announcement of
his plans, their turn now is come for mature: delibera-
tion, and he may depend upon it they will be satisfied
with nothing less.

A Bill for the better regulation of Railways has just
been brought into the House of Commons, by Mr.
GLADSTONE, Mr. MANNERS SUTTON, and Sir THOMAS
FREMANTLE. As_ the question of Railways is not a
question of party, we trust that the Government will
really deal with it in that enlarged spirit which alone
is suitable to the commercial wants of this country.
This, however, is not the character of the
Bill before it. It is a Bill for amending an Act already
in operation ; and, in its second clause, it declares that
such provisions of the existing Act as are not re-
pealed by it are to remain in full force. Here is
a gross error at the very . outset. Railways are
in their infancy, and we are to be perplexed with
a reference to two Acts of Parli:unent to determine
the liabilities of their proprietors. Why not embody
such provisions of the old Act, as are to be retained, in
the new, and then abolish the first Act altogether? Why
perplex the public, and promote litigation, when these
evils can be avoided ? The law regulating a railway
ought to be as distinct, and as speedy of application, as the
transit upon it. The crawling pace of a Chancery
proceeding is ridiculous when in anyway associated with
railway locomotion. Instead of multiplying Acts, it is
the duty of Government to diminish them. A good
Railway Bill cannot be too brief. The nearer it ap-
proaches to a sheet almanack the better. As this is a
subject of great importance to every class of the com-
munity, we shall return to it to-morrow.

The most despotic Government in the world is hardly
more potent for evil at this moment than that of France.
Hardly a day passes in which instances of this are not
made manifest to Europe. Does it want to crush a
Journal ? Let it give the signal, and three executioners
arc in attendance—the printer, the Court; of Peers, and
a servile jury. Some time ago the National pub-
lished an article, in which it was truly stated that
the rancour of the working classes was more fiercely
directed now against the middle class than aga.nst
the aristocracy. For telling this truth which has been
told hundreds of thousands of times in England, where it
equally applies, the Government ordered the National
to be prosecuted before a Jury. The Gazette de Fiance
quoted the article. • and so was included in the
prosecution. The act of packing juries is now carried
to perfection in France, and consequently a verdict of
guilty was soon obtained against both the journals. It
was proved in Court that the Editor of the National was
too ill to quit his bed, but the Judges decided
that his presence was a matter of indifference. They
accordingly tried him, had him
.pronounced guilty, and
:ientenced him and the Editor of the Gazette de Fiance
to a year's imprisonment, and a fine of four thousand
francs each !

The Gazette des Pyreunees publishes the following letter :—" The
partizans of Queen Christina have not lost all hope of success, and
their residence in France has facilitated the means of coming to an
understanding with the chiefs of the Carlist party. We need not
therefore be astonished if O'Donnell, Concha, Jaureguy, Brana de
Villareal, Claveria, Riquero, Urbistondo, Triarte Zarialeguy, and
other chiefs, should soon come and plant a new banner on the
summit of the Pyrenees to overthrow Espartero. The Ministry
being questioned on the subject in the Senate, said they were on
their guard."—Constitutionnel.
The Toulonnais of the 10th says :—" We see with satisfaction
that the Government is taking measures to raise the crews of the
ships of the fleet to the full war-complement, which had been
much reduced by the discharge of a great number of men ; besides
the levies ordered in the fifth maritime district, and which have
just been carried into effect, we received a great many men from
the ports en the Ocean. Several vessels have arrived within a
short time from Brest with seamen for the Mediterranean
squadron. Yesterday the Atalanto frigate, which arrived from
Brest, landed 300 seamen.

The Savings' Bank at Paris received on Sunday and Monday,
from 6,541 subscribers (above 924 were new ones), the sum of
954,908 francs. The amount of the sums withdrawn was 535,200 f.

CLOSING PRICES..
BRITISH FUNDS.

BO U RSE-PllllB, TUESDAY, FEB. 15.

Suit Highest Lowest trial
Price Price. Pm,. Pric,.
french 5 per Cents ll9 ... 114 10 ... 1 8 95 ... 119 10
4%, per COM, 107 25 ... 107 25 107 3h ... 107 25
4 per .:ern5.........,.. 103 SC ... 1. 350 ... 1141 SO ... 103 50
3 per Cent, 79 95 ... !Al ... 19 15 ... 80
Loan
tl,.n► of Franc,
...53tia •
I.atitte dank 1.0410 t. St aria 1025 ...1t25 —.1025 ...1(25
5,0001. Mares 1045 ...1632 50 ...5032 50
..igtan Bank
Belgian 5 per Cents.
5 per cent:., 116 1061,4 ...
Active vsg ... :5% ...
qespolitars
..... 10154 ...101% ... 114% ...104y4
Dutch '254 per Cent 5.......... 53 .. 53 ... 53 ... 53
ItAIiWAT SHARES.

sit. Germain
Versailles. ft. is :;40 .., 340 ... 340 ... 310
L 8.... ....... - 210 ... 211 25 ... 208 75 ... 211 f 25
lona 515 ... 51.5 ... 510 ... 510
lima .. 565 ,„ 565 ... 557 SO ... 501 25
S rmtburg to Bale 233 75 ... 215 .. 23.1 75 ... 295
DUTCll:FUNDS.—Asurresuenu, An 15.
Money. Bill.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. ...................
Amore Svndi, 44 percent 92 14 U*, %
Ditto, ditto, 314, per cent 2: ".74t
Commercial Company, 4!;4 per cent 15714 153
Ditto (1535 and 1837) 5 per cent.
Loan 1837, 5 per cent,
kschange on Londow. One month l2 10
Two months
Hamburgh, One month 35 62%
Two months • 33 43%
Dutch Papers, Feb. 16.
uiELU lAN P U Nthi—issusvkLe . Few. 15.
A:tual Debt, 24, per Cant.
ttothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 102,1•4
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 4;314
------- S per Cent.
--- Thirty .seven-------. 73
Loan of City, WIT, 4 per(Cl:l?...
....
..... 11;):547'"
Society of Commerce, 4 y'pet Cent'4
Bank at Belgium, S per Lent..„..,....... 81
NationalBociety. ..... . ........ .........
Exchange on London (shoal ........
--Brussels Papers, Feb. 15. ..........
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, FEB. 7
fiveper Cones. bletalliques .............................. 7%
Four per Cents.
ow%
Three par Cents. • l 75%
Bank Shares ........... ........ .......... ............... .
....411getnettse Zemin!, Feb. 12.
HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, Fen. 12
13111 r. Money
Anglian 5 per Cents,
Bang Shares
Anglo.lttissian Loan llOl4 id 97.,
104 1037„
104
senp,erisCtseen:it.,lsst series, C.:reitiente
Ilussespthi
innleirjjan 5 per Cent. Slope and Co. 3.1 and 4th
Series — 95!4
Ditto in Certificates
e% . v
5 per Cent
Ditto
Polish Bowe.
DuNcwtch4 pAcerCtuaeinut.e(bltB4,
20,11 i
per
cm,
.....
........
sb,
~so,iii,
New tickets 7. is 78
Anglo-Danish Loms, 3 per Cent
3',,,Leiviseh. gian
NewL S eatip,erlbid:4e,nt.
4gper Cent... le.% 1024

A soldier of the 50th ot• the line, says the Ga-
zette des Trihunaur, and an old comrade, who had left the
army, and become a journeyman, met accidentally On Sunday,
in the Rue de Bercy, and immediately went into a wine-shop,
to renew their friendship over a bottle. They remained to..
gether till a late hour, and drank so much that they became
completely intoxicated. and the journeyman, on going out into
the air, was seized by the cold, fell, and shortly afterwards ex-
pired in the middle of the road. The soldier, insensible to the
late of his companion, staggered on till he came to the bank of
the canal ; and, finding that some of the bystanders were
laughing at him, stammered nut—" Ah ah ! you think I am
not steady ! you shall see. I'll bet a wager that I will jump
over this gutter 1" He immediately made a spring, fell into
the canal, and was drowned. His body was not discovered till
Monday night.

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING-, FEBRUARY 18, 1841..

CITY, THURSDAY EVENING,

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

The general belief that for the present, at least, Sir Robert
Peel has succeeded in obtaining the adoption of his Corn-law-
plan, has given more firmness to the English funds, though,
perhaps, for a different reason than is supposed or pretended
by the Conservative party. The fact is, that every far-seeing,
and every enlightened man in the City looks upon it as mo-
rally impossible that matters can rest where they are, and,
therefore, takes the Government plan of duties as a stepping-
'stone to something better. As Lord Palmerston aptly and
ably enough described it, the enemy has for once abandoned
the fortress, and descended into the operi plain ; and though
they this time offer battle to the free traders, on fairer terms
than ever before, and have succeeded in worsting them, there
is every reason to hope that they must again, at a future time,
resort to a sortie, when they may be made to capitulate. Con-
sols for present transfer have realised 894 to 89g, both for
money and time, being per cent. better. Exchequer Bills
235. to 255. premium, and Reduced Three-and.a-Half per
Cents. 994 to 99} ; Bank Stock ranged up to 1681 and 169-6.
Foreign hocks were steady—South American better. Shares
dropped.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FEB. 16.—The sales to-day
afis 2,ooobelesi with a very dull market. No change in prices.
LIVERPOOLSHA RE MARKET, FEB. 16. —The transactions
comprise—Eastern Counties, ; Grand Junction, 184, Half
Shares, 91i ; London and Birmingham 321. Shares, ;
London and Brighton New, sa; London and South Western,
60 ; North Midland Half Shares, 34k,
MANCHESTER :STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 16.—The Market
is still languid, though prices continue firm. Business has
been done in Northern and Eastern at. 34 ex dividend ; Man-
chester and Leeds, Quarter Shares, at 3/. 16s. 6d. ; Bank of
Manchester, 4/. 3s. 9d. ; and Ashton Canals at 95%.
Hobart Town, Van Dieman's Land, papers to the 9th Oct.
have been received at the North and South American Coffee
House, but they do not contain any political news of the least
importance. A further decline had taken place in wheat and
flour at Hobart Town and Launceston. We extract the fol-
lowing from the papers :
HOBART TowN.—There has been little wheat coming into
town this week, and prices remain stationary ; fine flour at
the mills 19/. per ton.
LAUNCESTON.—The price of, wheat has certainly declined,
and although we have not heard of any transactions, yet it is
believed by those in the trade that ss. cash per bushel is the
utmost that it would now realise.

PORT PHILIP, SEPT. 28.—There is not much doing in our
market just now ; Mauritius Sugar is :down a shade, and is
only worth 42/. per ton. Tea from 6/. 10s. to Si., according
to quality.
Advices from Carthager.a to the 27th December have been
received, which state that a decisive victory has been gained
by the Government squadron and the English brig of war,
Charybdas over the Rebels under Carmana. After a battle of
forty minutes in the Zispaat woods, the whole of the rebel fleet,
which consisted of a brig and five galetas, was taken.
Both the English and Foreigh Securities opened firm, with
a tendency to advance. Consols are 89i both for Money and
Account ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 59,4 g ; Ditto Three-
and-a•-Half, 99% 4; Exchequer Bills, 23 25; Bank Stock,
164 1691.
Spanish Active Stock, 241 25; Mexican Bonds, 341 35;
Colombian, 221 i; Brazilian, 65 66 ; Portuguese Five per
Cents., 311 32*; Ditto, Threes, 181 191.
Money is plentiful in the stock Exchange at 3 to 31/ per
cent.

There has been but little business doing in the Stock Ex-
change. Consols have advanced to 89} a for Money, and the
Account ; Three per Cent. Reduced 89i 90 ; ditto Three-
and-a-Half 99i ; India Bonds are 67, and Exchequer Bills
235. to 255. prem.
Columbian Bonds are 22i ; Danish, 82; Mexican, 343 i ;
Deferred, 10% ; Portugues Five per Cents., 32a ; do. Threes,
19:11 ; Spanish Active Stock, 24i ; Deferred, 12%; Dutch
Tv‘o.and-a-Half per Cents., 52*; do. Fives, 102 k.
Very little doing in Shares. Great Western, 841; London
and Brighton, 361%; Gosport Junction, 56i ; York and North
Midland, 87i ex div. ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 29A.

Bank Stock 169/ India Stock ..... ......... --
3 per Cent Red B9l Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent Cons B9l Ditto Old Annuities ... 87a
31, per Cent Red 99/ ,Ditto New Annuities...
New 31 per Cent
New 5 per Cent.. — I Ditto 5001...
Long Annuities toexpire Ditto Small '2s pm
Jan. 1860 ..... ..... 121 ,Bank Stock for Acct —
Oct 1859......... 12 9-16 India Stock for Acct —
Jan. 1860. ... I Consols for Acct B9l
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 psi rent.— Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 pea cent — Ditto, New Ditto
Brazilian 80nd5.......... 7.-__ Prussian, 5 per cent.

Buenos Ayres. 61ier cent 19 Russian, 5 per cent....„ •
Chilian, 6 per cent.— Ditto, Metallic .
Colombian, 6 pet cent.. Spanish, 5 per cent. 244
Ditto, 1824.......... ..... 23 Ditto, Deferred .. . 12i

Danish, 3 per cent. B2 French, 5 per cent. —l. ..-e.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. Exchange — 1 •••c.
Mexican, 5 per rent. ... 35i French, 3 percent —. —c
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 2i per cent.. 52*
Peruvian, 1825, I,per et. 15i Ditto, 5 per cent. .. . 1021
SHARES.
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) ... —
Ditto Debentures ( paid) .... ........ lOl is 8d
Great Western Railway ( 65 paid) B4i
Ditto New Shares (50 paid) ••• 60
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
Gosport Junction Railway (50 pd)
London and Brighton (50 paid) 36i
London and Birmingham (90) ...... ...... ..
Ditto Thirds (32 paid) 57
Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid)
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284
London and South Western
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid)
York and North Midland (50 paid) ...... 876
Ditto New Shares (15 paid 24

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