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LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1845.

The House of Lords met this evening at Five o'Clock,

The Duke of WELLINGTON gave notice that he should
on Tuesday move the adjournment of the House to the
3d of April.
Lord BnouGtrAm brought in a Bill to enable non-
freemen to carry on business in the city of London,
which was read a first time.

The NOBLE and LEARNED LORD also brought in a
Bill to amend the Law of Divorce.

In answer to Lord BROUGHAM, the Earl of DALHOUSIE
said that the Railway Department of the Board of Trade
bad not come to a decision respecting the London and
York Line until yesterday afternoon. That, therefore,
it was impossible that the knowledge of that decision
could have occasioned a rif a in the price of shares of the
competinef lines at twelve o'clock.

Lord BROUGHAM said he could not but say that the
explanation of his Noble Friend, so far as it went, was
satisfactory ; but he must, at the same time, assert that
judicature like that which was exercised by the Board
of Trade over railway schemes, was one abhorrent to the
Constitution, and odious to the whole country, and that
should such accidents as these frequently occur, he
should feel it his duty to bring a motion bi,fore the
House fur a considerrble modification of that Board.
The Jewish Relief Bill passed through Committee.
The Companies' Clauses Consolidation Bill was read a
second time, and the House adjourned.

The House of Commons met at Twelve o'clock, and
immediately went into Committee on the Railway
Clauses Consolidation Bill. On the 71st clause being
proposed,
Mr. HAYTmt moved, as an amendment, the insertion
of words restricting the power of Railway Companies to
raise their tolls.

After a short discussion a division took place, %hen
there appeared—for the amendment, 19 ; against it, 21 ;
majority against it, 2.

The first public business transacted, on the re-assem-
bling of the House, was the swearing in of the Dart-
mou•h Election Committee.

The Ministerial papers are greatly dissatisfied with the con- I
duct of certain Conservative Members who deserted the;
Ministry for the purpose of throwing out a Bill which, from
all accounts, would not have been pressed through the Cham-
ber of Peers. "A strong difference of opinion"says the Journal
des Debuts, " had arisen in the ranks of the majority
relative to one of the clauses of the Bill. This dissent con-
tinued to the end, notwithstanding the chance which ex-
isted of the matter being fully re-argued before the Chamber
of Peers. For this we are most concerned, for assuredly the
satisfaction which certain Conservatives may feel in carrying
out their individual opinion, by sepirating themselves from
their friends on a secondary point, does not counterbalance
the inconvenience of affording the Opposition one of those
little successes which, for want of better, it makes the most
of, as loudly as it can." The Constitutionnel, in fact, admits
that several of the Conservatives were hostile to the mea-
sure ; and their Conservative feelings, therefore, caused
the defeat. It was not, however, considered a vital
question, the Conservatives, according to the Globe, only look-
ing at the law itself, and putting all political considerations
out of the question, voted for or against it according to their
personal impressions.
IVe regret to learn that a fatal duel took place in the Bois
de Boulogne, on Tuesday morning, between M. DE BEAV-
VALON, one of the editors of the Globe (Paris paper), and M.
DILIARRIER, the director and principal proprietor of the
Presse. The parties fought with pistols, and on the first
fire M. DE BEAUVALON'S ball struck M. MUMMER in the
right eye, and having penetrated into the brain the unhappy
man fell dead on the instant. The seconds on the part of M.
DUJARIDER were 31. DE BOIGNE and the son of General
BERTRAND, and on the part of M. DR BEAUVALON, the Count
DE FLAIR and M. DE QUIVILLIERB. The cause of the me-
lancholy quarrel is not known.
The Revue de Paris states that the Duke de BROGUE was
to leave Paris on Thursday for London, to enter upon a con-
ference with Dr. LUSIIINGTON, relative to the right of search.
It adds—" The right of search is to be declared suspended
for a time, and a certain number of cruisers of both nations
are to be stationed at the usual points of arrival and depar-
ture of the vessels presumed to be engaged in the trade."
The Constitutionnel contains the following paragraph rela-
tive to the affairs of Switzerland :—" We have received news
from Zurich to the 9th instant. The French Ambassador
had employed, more rapidly than was expected, the dis-
patches taken to him by Count CIIAPPEDELAINE. On the 6:h
he informed the President of the Diet of a note from M.
GI:11E0T, couched, it is said, in terms similar to that of Lord
ABERDEEN, of Feb.ll." The Diet was not to meet until the
10th, to resume the discussion on the free corps.
General SONNENBERG had disbanded a great portion of
the troops levied by Lucerne on the sth inst.
TIIE BOUlib'E--TuEsDAY, MARCH 11.

Among the petitions presented were two on the sub-
ject of Post-office espionage: one by Mr. SHEILA the
other by Mr. WAKLEY.

Mr. SREIL subsequently gave notice of a motion on the
subject for Tuesday next.

Sir R. PEEL stated that he would on Monday state in
what order he intended to bring on the various Govern-
ment measures relating to Ireland after Easter.
The Right Hon. Baronet also stated, in answer to Lord
MAiloN, that it was the intention of the Government, in
consequence of the destruction of the Portland Vase, to
introduce a measure for the more effectual protection of
works of art from malicious damage. -

Mr. COBDEN then brought forward the motion of
which he had given notice for a Select Committee to in-
quire into agricultural distress, and how far the present
laws with regard to the importation of agricultural pro-
duce affected the agricultural labourers. As to the ex-
istence of that distress they could not have higher au-
thority than that of the Hon. Gentleman who professed
to be the friend of farmers and protection, and the ex-
istence of distress being admitted, it was their duty to
inquire into the causes which had produced it. It must
be admitted that inquiry was necessary, for while,
on the one hand, the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of
the Treasury attributed the distress to local causes,
which could not be remedied by legislative inter-
ference, the Hon. Member for Dorset contended
that it was attributable to a deficiency of legislative
measures. For himself he way ready to prove before a
Committee, that the farmer had long been suffering from
evils which were attributable directly to the corn-laws•
To the operations of those laws he attributed the present
bad farming and pauperism of the farmer. The farmer
had no capital, and no capitalist would embark in farm-
ing unless under a proper lease. The Hon. Gentleman
then went on to show the ingenious manner in which
the present system of corn-laws operated on the tenant-
farmer and the agricultural labourer, and concluded by
formally moving for the appointment of a Select Cow.-
mittee of Inquiry.
The motion gave rise to a lengthened and animated
discussion, in the course of which the House was ad.
dressed by Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT, Lord HOWICK, Mr. S.
O'BRIEN, Mr. BRIGHT, Mr. WODEHOUSE, and several
other Hon. Members ; and, Mr. COBDEN having briefly
replied, the House divided, when the numbers were—for
the motion, 121 ; against it, 213 ; majority against the
motion, 92.

The other orders of the day were then disposed of,
and the House adjourned at a Quarter to One o'clock.

A case occurred a few days ago at the Worship-street
Police-office, which strongly illustrates the great
utility of the police reports in the London newspapers
and. beautifully exemplifies the genuine and unostt nta-
tious character of English charity. Long may the
course of that charity continue its gentle, vivifying;
flow, unobstructed by the obstach s—undiverted by the
opposing direction which the cold suggestions of utili-
tarian economists may interpose to it There is a species
of private benevolence, whit+. may be erroneous in the
contemplation of mere doctrinal policy, and may amount,
even, to absolute evasion of specific Acts of Parliament
for the statutable regulation of specific charities, but
which has merits that are far beyond what the one can
conceive, or the other can control. These merits receive
their nohlest testimony in the enthusiastic admiration
of a man's fellow-citizens, and their most cheering re-
ward in the impressive sanction of a man's own bosom.
Accident had brought under the notice of Mr. BlNG-
nam, the magistrate at the Worship-street Police-office,
a case of domestic privation and misery, in its intensity
almost unparalleled, even in the appalling annals of me-
tropolitan destitution. An horn st Spitalfields' weaver,
one MUNIKUUYSEN, htscl long been suffering, together
with his wife and family, Ludt r the extren.ity of pinch-
ing distress. aggravated by the illness of one of their
children. In spite of the want of continuous employ-
ment, of scanty wages for his labour when he was so
fortunate as to find an employer—in spite of the require-
ments of his sick child—the poor man Lravely bestirred
hirnseT to hold up his head, and, in the midst of deiti-
tution and wretchedness, to shun the lower degradatisal
of becoming a chargeable parochial paupt r. In this
determination he aprears to have been sustained by the
devotion and fortitude of a very meritorious wife. But
n deeper shade of desolation was yet to brood over their
humble and mournful hearth. Their sick child died ;
and in their inability to provide the means of defraying
even the charge of its interment, except in the alterna-
tive of passing through the portals of the workhouse, to
subsistence indeed, but subsistence at the price of sepa
ration, they had the courage to live on in their dreary
indigence, awaiting the better times which might enable
them to remove from that which, abject as it was, had
)et b :en and still was their common home, the un-
buried corpse. A fortnight passed, and the child, which
had bt come of those who, in the language of Scripture,
are " free among the dead," still remained a fearful,
present embodiment of death at the side and in the midst
of the living. Disease, aggravated doubtless by this un-
natural and horrid approximation of the survivors to the
deceased, seems to have been on the point of snatching
away another victim in another child of this suffering fa-
mily, when the facts we have thus lightly sketched were
made known to the sitting magistra'e. The relieving
officer, dispatched by this functionary to institute personal
inquiries into the case, confirmed the statement which
had been made in every particular. The attention of
some few charitable individuals had been drawn to the
case by the published reports, and they were nor low in
sending in some charitable contributions. 01 these
contributors it is to be observed that their fit care
seems to have been to give their assistance promptly ;
their second, to keep their own names secret. There is
no test that we can imagine of genuine benevolence so
certain as the absence of all ostentation in its exercise.
The last of the contributors, to whose case we would more
especially refer, was a gentleman who, having in person
addressed a question to the magistrate as to the truth of

the statement he had read of the misery of the MUNIK-
HUYSEM family and been satisfied on that head, drew
forth five sovereigns and begged they might be applied
to the relief of these poor people. Whilst he was in the
act of conferring wit'a the magistrate, and de-
clining to give any name with his alms,
the bereaved mother made her appearance ; and it was

in the course of her narrative to Mr. EINGHAM that the
fact was learned, for the first time, of the other child's
apparently imp Aiding dissolution, the dead body of its
brother being still, after the lapse of a fortnight, un-
removed from the room in which itself was languishing
in mortal sickness. The generous stranger, overcome
by the tale of these accumulated distresses, presented
other five sovereigns for the use of this afflicted fatal >";
and hastily quitted the office. After his departure the
funeral arrangements were immediately made, and it
may be, though we fear of this there is but slender hope,
that the other child has cot yet been snatched away to
share the sane grave.

We feel so much and such pure phasure in recording
these prompt responses on the part of the more fortu-
nately situated classes of society, that we gladly cite
them, as furnishing incontestable answers to those
sweeping imputations of apathetic and reckless
selfishness which are too commonly cast upon
them. Such instances as these are by no
means rare, though few will, probably, be found
to surpass, in spieit and genuineness, the un-
ostentatious humanity of the anonymous Samaritan,
who, having " done good by stealth," may " blush to
find it fame." We owe no apology for directing public
attention, however, to his good deeds. We have done
so in the earnest hope of inducing others who may have
hitherto forborne to "learn the luxury of doing good,"
in thus ministering to the wants of the most unfortu-
nate of their fellow-creatures, to apply themselves to
like active efforts of benevolence. We have done so
with a view urging those who have already embarked
in a similar career of relief to that vast class of cases of
extreme domestic affliction and privation, which is sup.
plied from the more miserable quarters and suburbs of
this metropolis, to pers':vere unflinchingly in the path
they have opened. We have done so in a sort of wil-
lingness-to believe, if possible, that other declining ar-
tisans, such as poor MUNIKHUYSEN, may be encouraged,
like him, to face with constancy the most untoward and
continuous misfortunes, in the desire and struggle to
avoid that sort of self-abandonment which, we fear, is,
in nice cases out of ten, the first and the irretrievable
step towards social debasement. This social debase-
ment, for some reason or other, is always identified in
the idea of that most deserving class of the extremely
indigent who are most averse to enter the workhouse,
with the mere fact of the throwing themselves upon
Parochial relief ; and the idea is, unhappily, but too well
justified by all observation and experience of that other
and more extensive class which most unhesitatingly
resorts to that source of subsistence.

We have intelligence from Madrid to the sth inst. One
of the papers _gives the following extract of a letter from
Vittoria, of the 2d inst.:—" Individuals implicated in the re-
cently frustrated conspiracy are daily discovered. The ser-
geants have avowed all. It is said that next week some of
them and an officer will be shot."
The Three per Cents.closed at 3.1 i for cash, and 341 at 60
days ; the Five per Cents, at 253 at 60 days. 1

An ink ff-:ctual attempt was made by Mr. PI. UMPTRE
and Mr. SPOONEa to put down the running of excursion
trains on Sundays. This was opposed by Mr. MuNTz
and Colonel SIBTIIORP, who recommended them to be-
gin by prertnting gentlemen's carriages running on
Sundays. Eventually clauses-up to 81 were agreed to,
an the House adjourned to Five o'clock.

The defeat of the Freud' iliinistry on the pensions forms
the leading topic in most of the Paris. journals. The Oppo-
sition are rejoiced at the result, and regard it as another un-
doubted proof of the utter helplessness of the present Cabinet.

TEE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, MARC 11 14 1845

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, THURSDAY EVENING.

The Funds leave off much the same. Consols 993/4 '/;'i for
present transfer, and 100 to 14 for Account. Exchequer-
bills were 68s. to 66 premium.
Spanish Actives are 293/4 K 3 ; and the Three per Cuts.
407 %. Portuguese Converted have realised 671,4 to 66.
Mexican have been 363/4 ; and Dutch Two-and-a-lialf per
Cents. 1001/z.
The Railway Shares were buoyant in most instances up to
the close of the market.

(From The Sun of Last Night.)
There was no change in Cotton at Liverpool yesterday,
but the supply was free again. Sales, 6,000 bales, of which
500 were on speculation ; 400 bales Pernam went at 53/4d. to
614 d. ; 100 Bahia, at 6d. ; 500 Egyptian, at 6d. to 73/4d. ;
200 Surat, at 23/4d. to 2',ZBd. ; and American at 33/4d. to 7d.
per lb.—A large business was done in the Shares reported
on. Barnsley Junction, Half. Shares, 314 ; Birkenhead,
Manchester, and Chester, 8% ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Ac-
crington, 5 ; Blackburn and Preston, 15 ; Bristol and
Gloucester, 591/2 ; Belfast and Ballymena, 765. ; .Bolton,
Wigan, and Liverpool, 814 ; Caledonian, 7% 8; Cambridge
and Lincoln, 6 tijis ; Chester and Birkenhead, 4114 ; Ditto,
New Shares, 3314 % ; Ditto, Half Shares, 20% ; Chester
and Holyhead, 8% 8/. 3s. 9d. ; Chester and Preston
Brook, 43/4 ; Churnet Valley, 71., 71. 3s. 9d ; Clydes-
dale Junction, 7% ' • Cork and Brandon, 4 ; East-
ern- Counties, 20% 203/4 ; Ditto, Perpetual, No. 2, 235. 6d;
Glasgow and Dumfries, 175.; Glasgow, Paisley, and Gree-
nock, 16 ; Grand Junction, 223 ; Do. Halves, 111; Do. New,
4414 %; Ditto Eighths, 183,i 19 ; Great Grimsby and Shef-
field, 3 ; Great Southern and Western, Extension, 7%;
Great Western, Half Shares, 100% ; Liverpool and Manches-
ter, Quarters, 51%; Ditto, New, 33 ; London and Birming-
ham, 231%; Ditto- Quarters, 293/4 30; Lon ion and Brigh-
ton, 633/4 %; London and York, 3%; Direct Northern, 4%
4%; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 6% 14 ; Manchester
and Birmingham, 651,4 ; Do. Quarter Shares, 11%; Man-
chester, Buiy, and Rossendale, 13%; Manchester, Bolton.
and Bury, 150 155 ; Midland Railway, 134 136%; Ditto, 40/.
Shares, i 1 12 ; Ditto, Fifths, 33/4 ; bitto, Consolidated Bir-
mingham and Derby, 105; Newcastle and Berwick, 14; North
British, 143/4 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 4% • Preston and Wyre,
.293/4 30; Sheffield and Manchester, 104.'2 ; Do. Quarters, 13;
Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and ..Ifirmirgham, 3%;
Shrewsbury and Grand Junction, 5%; Shrewsbury, Oswes-
try, and Chester Junction, 2%; South-Eastern and Dover,
42% 42; Ditto, New, No. 1, 163/4 ; Ditto, New, No. 2, 11 1/2 ;
Ditto, New, No. 3, 714 8%; Scottish Central, 84s. 88s 9d ;
West Yorkshire, 595. 605.; Worcester and Tring, 33/4 ; York
and North Midland, New Ilaif-shares, 161 ; Bordeaux and
Toulouse (lllay.kenzie's). 2%; Bordeaux and Cete, 2%;
Lions and Avignon, 23/4 ; Northern of France (English),
5/ 6%; Orleans and Bordeaux (English), 10%; Paris and
Lyons, ( English—Latlitte's), 81s. 63. 80s.; Paris and Lyons
(French), 3% Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's), 2% 2%;
Paris and Rouen, 4514 ; Paris and Strasburg, 575. ; Parts and
Quentin, ss. %. prem ; Verona and Ancona, 21s.
There are no arrivals to-day from any quarter.
In the produce markets the business doing continues very
limited, but. it is hoped the duties question will be settled
this week.

The half-yearly meeting of the Proprietors of Bank Stock
was held to- dav, and it passed off with much satisfac-
tion, and well may the Stockholders congratulatt,
themselves on the preseut state of affairs. In the
last year Bank Stock has advanced very nearly 20 per cent.
The Governor, in reply to questions, stated that the account
of the rest, as: published, was most correct. The announce-
ment that the rest, or balance of surplus profits, would, after
the dividend was paid, be 3,079,025/ 7s. 9d., elicited much
applause.

There is a quiet market again for the Public Securities, but
prices continue about the same, viz.-99% % for Consols for
Money, and 100% for Account. Exchequer-bills have been
firm, at the ad7ance of 665. to 68s. premium. South Sea
Stock has been steady, at 116. Bank Stock, after beit42l9%
to 220, has receded to 217.
The Foreign Securities have been rather flatter. Spanish
Five per Cents are 29% %. Mexican have been 36% to N.
Portuguese Converted are 68 to 6714. Dutch Two-and-a-
Halt per Cents. are 63% th.
Shares are lively, but there was some fluctuation in them.
The French 'lines are less buoyant. Direct Northern have
risen again.

PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS.

ONE II CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.

3 per Cent. Consols ... 99:%
South Sea Stock

99%
116

Bank Stock for Account... 21914 220 217 216
Consuls for Account.... lOO% 10C IA
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 1%d.... 63 66 pm. 66
Ditto 500/.
Ditto Small
Ditto Advertised — pm.

ONE
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 —
Ditto. Account 3634 %
Ditto, Deferred 167,4
--.1/

CLOSING
PRICES.
36%
163/4
'94/

Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 3214 33 323
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Converted
Ditto, Account 6B 67% 67 65%
R, ian Bonds.- - 116%

.iussl.._
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840
Ditto, Account - 29-A% 29%
Ditto, Deferred
Ditto, Passive
Ditto 3 per Cent. ...... ... ..
D:tto Account
Belgian Bonds, 41/ per Cent lOll,
Dutch, 21/ per Cent .
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 9914% 991 A
PRICES OF CLOSING
PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILSAY SHARES PRICES.
Armagh, Coleraine, and
I'ortrush : l% —
Birming. and Gloucesterloo 133 1311/2 —
Do. New
Ditto % Shares -
Bristol and Exeter
Do. New . . 2 ......
Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ~.... 53 59
Cakionian
Camsridge and Lincoln 1%...... 6A143-1/41/.%
Chester and Holyhoad... 5
Chichester and Brighton 5
( bullet Valley
Direct Northern
2%
Dublin and Belfast Junc 214 6
Dublin and Galway..... 21 K 23/4...
Eastern Counties 14/. 16s 2120% 211 A...
Ditto ditto, No. 2. l3s. 4d O% .....
Eastern Union— lO ..

Ditto Extension
Great South. and West.
(Ireland)
Ditto Extension
Great North of England..loo lBB 190
___

Ditto New V 2
Great Western . 80 176

Ditto Fifths
Guildford, Farn'rn,l'orts. 2/2. ..
Harwich
Hull and Gainsborough 1%
Hull and Selby 5O

Do. Half glares
Lancaster and Carlisle
Lincoln, York, and Leeds 1%
London and ltirminghm (5t0ek)...231

Do.Ncw Thirds - 2 -
London and Blackwall. 161. 13s. 4d. 7%
London and
.86g1it0n.... .50

Do. Consolidated Bths 16
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 18
Do. Guaranteed 5 per
Cent.
London ae.d S. Western 41/6s 10d 80 82 83
Do. New
Do. New
London and York 2l/2 314 2.):
Blanchester and Leeds... 73 146 145

Do. 14 Shares
Manelie:ter and Birmin. 40
Do. Quarters 4
Midland 100 140 139 1401/.; 138%
Do. New
Midland, Birm., Derby 100 lO6 108
Newcastle and Darling-
_.
....

405/
101

64,
8X
644

27(4
20%

39%
51/g
134
11A
96

234
44

28
184

11%
3%

ton Junction .a... 24 ...... 47 ...
Do. New Brandling.:. 10 ......
Newark and Sheffield ... 1% 2
North British ...... ....; 10
Do. New
Northern and Eastern... 45

Ditto Scrip. .. .. 30 ......
North Kent
Norwich and Brandon... 10
Richmond and West End
junction
Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1
Shrews., Wolverhamp ,
Dudley, and Birm .... 4 51/ 6%
South Eastern & Dover 3312 s 4d... 42 y, 413 A 42%
Do., No. 1 8
Do., No. 2.
Do., No. 3
South Wales 2% 5 % %
Trent Valley 2 ..... 23 22%
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ... .... 3% ..... ..•
West London,Old Shares 20
York and North Midland 50 lOO
Ditto % Shards 25
Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 20
Do. Selby
Do. Extension
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and A miens... 4
Bordeaux and Toulouse 2
Bordeauk, Toulouse. and
Cette
Dieppe and Paris June. 2
Great North. of France.. 4
Orleans and Vierzon ... 2 •••-•
Orleans and Borderax... 2
Paris & Lyons, Laffitte's 2
Paris and Lyons, Can-
neron's, • 2 •••
Paris and Orleans 2O
Paris and Rouen , 20
Paris and Strasbourg ... 2
Rouen and Havre
Strasbourg and Bale ... 14
Tours and Nantes, New, 2
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
British North American 50 ..
London Joint Stock lO
National of Ireland 17% l6 .
Provincial of Ireland ... 25
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 12.—The sales
are :—Eastern . Counties, 20 % ; Manchester and Leeds,
Quarter Shares, 17% • Manchester and I3irtninghani, 58 571%
ex new and ex div. ; 'Ditto, New Quarters, 4 15-16 3:4 prem. ;
Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 14 ; Midland -Railway
Consols, 135 140 ; Ditto, 40/. Shares 11 12%; North British,
New Shares, 4% ; Preston and ‘Vyre, 30; South-Eastern.
41% ' • Ditto, No. 3,73 A 8 ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and
Cheshire Junction, 8 %; Blackburii, Burnley, and Accring-
ton, ; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 3 15-16; Bolton,
Wigan, and Liverpool, 81,4 % ; Caledonian, 7%; Cambridge
and Lincoln, Churnet Valley, 6% 3/4 ; Glasgow ant
Dumfries, 18s. ' • Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 4 3% ;
Kendal and IVindermere, 4b/t ; Leeds and West Riding
Junction, 63/4 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston. 314 ;
London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, 3% ; London
and York, 4 %; Manchester and Buxton, 3 1-16; Newark
and Sheffield, 2 5-16 ; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction,
255. 225. 6d. ; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, Dudley, &c.,31/2 ;
Trent Valley, 163/4 ex new; West Yorkshire, ; Great
Northern of'France, ( English ), 61,‘.

3%
18

61%
43

1114
6

3%
22

99

14%
11%

2%
1714

2
51!
44

45%
14%

A DRAMATIC VETERAN.—When the late John
Eme' y, some twenty years ago, left a vacancy on the stage, in rm..
tic characters, several competitors strove-for the honour of being
hie successor. The choice fell upon Mr. Rayner, whose tri-
umphant debut at Covent-garden, in the part of Tyke, in the
School of Reform, must be in the recollection of most of our
old playgoers. It will be sufficient to state, in addition, that Mr.
Rayner takes his benefit te.night, at the Olympic, when be
will re-appear In his first character of Tyke. The merits anti rho
4,,
.04412¢0159 old a favourite ihotria not in Ovetlooliedt

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS
MOM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERRDAT.
GLOBE.—That the payment of Clerks of the Peace and 1,
Clerks of Petty Sessions by fees, instead of by salary, is a
system fraught with mischiefs to the public, and calculated .
to pervert the administration of justice in the inferior Courts,
especially in the country districts, we have shown not merely
by argument but by facts. Many of the latter we have '
carefully selected from the provincial journals, whose
reports of the proceedings at Quarter and Petty Sessions
we have referred to for the purpose. Intelligent cor-
respondents, in different parts of the kingdom, have also
supplied us with well-authenticated cases, by which the vices
of the existing system were exposed, and the necessity of a
change in the made of remunerating these officers of justice
was enforced. We may therefore be supposed to feel grati-
fied on finding that the Government has undertaken to cor-
rect the evils so generally admitted to exist. The Bill which
Sir James Graham—as the Minister whose department is
specially charged with the general superintendence of the
public justice of the country—has introduced to the House of
Commons, and which was read a second time last night,
seems well adapted to remove the evils arising out of
the present mode of payment. Having taken a special in-
terest in the subject, we congratulate the country on the
interposition of the Government, and on the prospect
of a more healthful mode of remunerating the Clerks of
the Peace in counties, and the Clerks of Petty
Sessions, than that which has been found to work so
great an amount of mischief to the community. Sir James
Graham, in the speech with which he moved the second
reading of the Bill, stated the principle on which it was
founded, and the means by which it proposed to secure
the purposes it was framed to effect. The prin-
ciple of the Bill, as stated by the Right klon.
Baronet, is in the nature of an axiom: "That, on the
whole, justice is better • administered by public ser-
vants receiving salaries for the duties pertormed by
them, than by receiving fees for those duties." To adduce
proof support of such an axiom might, indeed, appear to
be superfluous. The Right Hon. Secretary's remarks in sup-
port of this simple and self-evident proposition will be con-
curred in by all who have paid ordinary attention to the
working of the system to which they apply :—" In the
first place, he was satisfied that not only the ends of
justice would be better answered by the payment
of salaries, hot he entertained also a very strong
opinion that, in the end,, economy also, and the inter-
ests of the ratepayer, would be considered, and advan-
tageously considered, by the measures they were then dis-
cussing." The cold and discouraging reception which the
measure met with from several country gentlemen, who
carped at rather than spoke against several of its provisions,
shows the jealousy with which - the "great unpaid "
view any interference with what they regard as a
kind of hereditary jurisdiction. A poacher in their
preserves, and a Secretary of State who , interferes with
their magisterial privileges, is alike the object of their anti
pathy. To transport the one, and thwart the other, is their
study. Who, but persons under the influence of deeply-
rooted prejudices, would have started objections so positively
puerile and self-stultifying as those which Mr. Egerton, Mr.
Darby, and Mr. Henley substituted for arguments in the de-
bate of last night ? The former gentleman paid but a
poor compliment to the county magistracy, as a body,
V% hen he assumed that they would victimise the county rate-
payers by availing - themselves of the power vested in
them by the Bill to award inordinately large salaries to the
functionaries who are now paid by fees, for the purpose of in-
ducing competent persons to undertake the dittimewhich de-
volve on those officers. We know how dangerous !leis to en-
trust any man, or number of meq, with irresponsible powers,
more especially with power over the public purse. We therefore
recommend, as we have invariably done in similar cases, that the
amount of salary proposed to be paid to the functionaries
alluded to should be -ratified by the Secretary •of State
for the Home Department. But who would have expected
that a distinguished member of their own body, as the Hon.
Member for Cheshire is, should have objected to the payment
of clerks of the peace and clerks of petty sessions by salary,
lest the magistrates should award an extravagantly large
amount of salary to the officers of their selection ?
STANDARD.--The Property-tax Bill was, as our readers
have seen, read a third time and passed last night. Several
amendments were proposed and discussed at greater or less
length, but all rejected 'by considerable majorities. The
amendment of Sir IL Inglis, limited as it was by the Hon.'
Baronet, to incomes of 500/. per annum et. infra, shared the
fate of the rest—sufficient proof that the House was resolved
to carry the measure in its integrity, for if any alteration
could be permitted, that proposition had certainly the
strongest claims to consideration. • Most, indeed, will regret
that the danger of allowing exceptions, which, once ad-
mitted, would soon eat up the whole measure, rendered it
impossible to adopt the benevolent-proposition of Sir Robert
Inglis. One or two points were raised in the successive dis-
cussions that are not undeserving of remark. Sir William
Clay entered his, protest against the Bill, as en attack
upon that most amiable and interesting class,
misers; and Mr. Benjamin Hawes hurled after it
his malediction with a spirit and energy, that gives us all
reason to be thankful that the Member for Lambeth cannot
yet launch thunder-bolts. Misers, says Sir William Clay,
are the great benefactors of mankind. Demosthenes thought
differently when he called them " instinctive traitors."
Bacon thought differently when he charged them as
the collectors of fomites of misery and of moral con-
tagion. Lord Chatham thought differently when
he called them bloodsuckers; History tells a ' dif-
ferent story of them, and history is not ill supported by the
experience of common life. However, we concede, for argu-
ment sake, that misers are the objects of all that tender
love and deep veneration which Sir William Clay demands
for them, and we concede, absolutely, that men are not to
be persecuted on account cf their wealth, or presented in the
Turkish fashion with a bow-string, as the acknowledgment of
their merit in accumulating money. But conceding all this,
we take leave to ask, how is the miser more injuriously
affected by a property and income tax than is any other
person ? If the State' take more from the rich man
than the poor man by a property and income tax, does
it not leave him more and protect more for him
also ? For example, the man of 150!. a year pays
to such a tax but 4!. 10s. ; whereas the man of 1,500!.
a year pays 451. This, however, is but one side of the
account; turn to the other side. The State leaves to the
former 1451. 10s., and protects it -for him; and it leaves
to the latter 1,4554 and protects it fur him—there is
surely nothing unequal or unreasonable in this as
they will tell at any insurance-office, where we always
find the premium bearing, ceteris paribus, an exact
ratio to the sum insured. As to the ability of the
parties to pay, it is a very simple sum, whether it is easier to
live and support a family upon 1451, per annum, or 1,455!.?
There is, however, another view of the subject, at which the
Member for the Tower Hamlets appears to glance. He seems
to think that men will be deterred from growing rich, by the fear
of the property tax ! Let him dismiss all apprehension upon
the subject ; men will grow rich if they can, in contempt of
all such dangers, witness the well-taxed Jews of the 11th,
12th, 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries. Nobody will refuse
970/. because it is not a thousand. Well, if the property-tax
neither persecutes the lovely miser class nor deters men from
joining its ranks, where is Sir William Clay's objection?
We, for ourselves, though not altogether so much enamoured
of the venerable order of misers as Sir William Clay, have
nevertheless the highest respect for the prudent, frugal,
saving order, and therefore we much desire to see that
orderinfinitely extended; confident that some thousands of
prudent, frugal, and saving men, will accumulate more
capital in a country than any possible number of
mere misers—capital, too, which may be collected upon
single objects of the greatest magnitude, as we have seen
it in the case of our great companies, and as we see it in the
case of railroads. But how is the order of prudent, frugal,
and saving men to be extended, if not by giving to almost
every man something to save beyond subsistence, and by un-
fettering the pursuits of industry?—the precise objects of
Sir Robert Peel's financial reforms, of which the property-tax
is the essential basis. The difference between the Member
for the Tower Hamlets and the Premier is this—the
former would nurse and fondle a few Harpagons, extending to
their bags an inviolability from even equal taxation, the latter
would have a rich and frugal, industrious and progressive
people—not persecuting the Harpagons, but not sparing to
call upon them for an equal contribution. The ground
upon which Mr. Hawes hurried- his malediction is
the opportunity which the property-tax gives to the Premier
to remove the taxes that affect industry and commerce—a
reason, in the full enjoyment of all the 'honour of whiCh
we shall leave the honourable Member for Lambeth
unmolested. There is a remark of Sir Robert Peel's
equally profound and just, which goes to the root
of the whole question of the preference due to
direct or indirect taxation—a remark which will, we trust, be
seriously considered by the people. All depends upon the
social state of the country. In a new country, where
capi al is scarce and equally distributed, and where
the people live, as it were, from hand to mouth,
almost without capital, direct taxation must be
equally unproductive and oppreMive ; and whatever
revenue the State requires must be raised from taxes on con-
sumption to which all must contribute more or less, and to
which each may in some measure proportion his contribu-
tion to his means. Exactly the reverse obtains in a coun-
try where capital is redundant. In a country so cir-
cumstanced, " the pressure of contiguous wealth,"
unaided by the tax man, reduces the condition of the leas
affluent below what it ought to be, and indirect taxation
affecting them (witness the failure of the 5 per cent. duties •
in 1840) becomes unproductive, and unproductive it cannot
be without having been first most grievously oppressive.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING,
_

TIMES.—It is understood that the Dutch Government are
proposing to establish a line of steamers between Singapore
and Batavia to carry the overland mails, and for the convey-
ance of Dutch passengers. The merchants connected with
the trade of the Eqt are anxiously looking for the remainder
of their letters by the Bombay mail of the Ist ult, via South-
ampton. The inconvenience of there being no regular steamer
for this purpose is much felt in the City, and the plan of
leaving the dispatches for the chance of a steamer from Con-
stantinople calling at Malta, en route for Southampton, to
take them up, is greatly deprecated.
The amount of remittances brought by the Tay packet, on
account of the Mexican dividends, is 10,000 dolls.
The mercantile letters from Mexico contain tolerably full
particulars as to the capture of Santa Anna. Being in the
vicinity of Mexico (city) with about 10,000 men, lie
marched upon Puebla, which he attacked without effect
on the Ist and 2d of January. Retiring to a neighbouring
village, he remained there till the 10th, when hearing
that Generals Bravo and Paredes had reached San Martin,
with 9,000 men, he left the bulk of his forces at Las Vigus—
having first directed them to make their submission to the
new Government—and, with 2,000 men, marched towards
the coast. On reaching the pass of La 011 a, which is situate
between Las Vigus and Jalapa, and was strongly fortified by
the troops under General Rivera, he asked in vain to be
allowed to pass, and being unable to force it, abandoned the
troops, who had remained faithful to him to the last. Oa
the morning of the 13th of January lie went off, with half-a-
dozen followers, by an unfrequented path, along the Sierra
de Perote, endeavouring to escape to the coast, but in the
night of the 15th he was arrested at the village of Jalacingo,
not far from his own estate of Mange de Chive, and was suit
under arrest to the Castle of Perote, where he was a prisoner
at the date of the advices. _ .

Santa Anna has sent a memorial to Congress, wherein,
after recapitulating the services be has done his country, he
offers to exile himself for ever. Some think that Congress
will ultimately accept this proposal, although there seemed a
strong determination to bring him to the scaffold, and they had
actually sent a judge to I'erote to question him, and had formed
a grand jury to try bins. Legal difficulties will, it is Vmught,
stand in the way of trying a chief magistrate ; and should
the process—as it most likely would—prove of long duration,
there is the chance of Santa Anna again rallying his party.
The present quarrel, it is to be recollected, is between two
sections of the Centralist party ; bat the Federalists are be-
ginning to stir themselves, and that might lead to a coali-
tion of their political adversaries. One of the ill cff•cts of
the unsettled condition of Mexico was the state of the roads,
which are now infested by robbers. In trade very little was
doing.
As far as concerns the mere fact of Santa Anna's capture,
these accounts confirm these previously received from New
York; but all the details are so very different, that there are ,
many in the City who consider that the former account was
only a lucky guess, and that the advices by WO Tay bring
the g;et authentic information of the affair;

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