The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 3, 1845.

showed a contrary conviction. What chance, then,
has he now, by following a different course, and at a
time when there are so many favourable symptoms
on the part of the Government of a wish to redress
grievances ? An obnoxious Lord-Lieutenant has
been removed—another appointed, who could join in
the liberal policy of Lord ELIOT. The Prime Minis-
ter himself has announced some important measures
for Ireland, and will bring them under the considera-
tion of Parliament during the session. Tory hatred
has abated, the vagaries of the English Church have
shamed the bigots to silence, and there is every pros-
pect that attempts will be fairly and conscientiously
made, if not to place the Irish on a footing with her
more powerful and more fortunate neighbours, at
least to pave the way for an event which
Sir ROBERT PEEL knows can alone give peace to Ire-
land and security to England. This is not a time,
therefore, for Mr. O'CoNNELL to hang back. His ac-
curate knowledge of the wants of his countrymen, his
eloquence and legal skill in framing enactments, would
at such a juncture be of the greatest service ; his
stirring speeches, too, would be read by Englishmen
and Scotsmen, while he might speak in. the Repeal-
hall till the day of his death, and his most eloquent
orations would be scattered by the winds of the
Channel and driven from our shores. We tell him, as
friends, that the speeches made in the Association are
utterly useless for their purpose. There is no de•
bating, no opposition, no rivalry, between conflicting
orators—there is only the soporific monotony of a
" Hole and Corner" meeting. He ought to re-
member, too, that others will fill up his place.
The proverb, " Vixere fortes ante 4gamemnona,"
does not tell the whole truth. Great men
lived after him, and the history of the world
turns to scorn the vanity of a leader who prides him.
self in the belief that, when he withdraws from the
scene, universal confusion will follow. Next day the
sun still shines as brightly, events follow one another
in their usual course, !new combinations are formed,
a new leader springs into view, and the fertility of
nature, in a wonderfully short space of time, fills up
the gap which vain and ignorant men conceived to
be irreparable. There are yet in Parliament great
men—lrishmen, too—who have not bowed to the idol
of Repeal, who will assert the cause of the oppressed,
and only be excited to greater exertions by the seces-
sion of those who should have led the way. In one
great point their advocacy will exceed that of Mr.
O'CONNELL. Repeal has no supporters in Great
Britain ; those who profess it address unwilling audi-
tors ; and either Mr. SUEZL, or Lord Howica, or
Mr. MACAULAY, would produce more effect in Par-
liament, and throughout the country, than the great
Liberator himself. Public opinion here is not de-
spised with impunity, for no great and lasting mea-
sure can be carried without it. On grounds like
these, among others, we regard the new secession as
inexpedient, but confidently hope that it mill not
throw obstacles in the way of reform, nor, in the end,
be injurious to the best interests of Ireland.

class interests, and class influence, that position. Let
him extend the circle of his operations, and give to
his efforts for the extension, the productiveness, and,
therefore, the freedom of our commerce, that unity
of purpose, that singleness of action, that precision,
vigour, and effect, which result from a hearty com-
bination of well-matured designs and the unfl;nching
execution of them. Away with the puerilities of
nominal, not virtual protection; away with the follies
of fiscal duties, pitched so extravagantly high as to
prove irresistible temptations to contraband pro-
duction or to smuggling; away with the monopoly
of trades, of which the staples are the first necessary
elements of human existence, or the comforts most
universally required for social consumption. Let
Sir ROBERT PEEL, whilst he abolishes oppressive
imposts, condemned by all sound reason and
policy as well as by humanity, release from
their antiquated restrictions those branches of
legitimate trade which languish and decline under
their restraint, but would leap into renewed life and
expansive energy on being set free, to the infinite ad-
vantage of individuals, and the perceptible improve-
ment of the national resources. Doubtless he must
long have felt that to give to our commerce that in-
creased activity and development which are so de-
sirable, we have only to will that it be so, in order
that that object should be attained. Let him, as the
first steps towards this consummation, so passion-
ately desired by the country, set the cur-
rency free by removing the fetters he placed
upon it in 1819 and last year, ard thereby
so distribute the representative of wealth and
property among the working classes, more especially,
as to breathe new life into the nostrils of operative
industry, and in so renewing its wasting strength,
and duly rewarding its heretofore ill-paid exertions,
scatter competency, cheerfulness, and improvement
around the land, in the place of bankrupt enterprise,
accumulated pauperism, gloomy discontent, and ill-
repressed desperation. Let him take without hesi-
tation from the foreign customer whatever commo-
dity—corn, wines, sugars, fruits—he may have
to offer in exchange for our surplus manufactures,
our home and colonial products—our fuel, our
machinery. By such a course we may defy,
for scores of years to come, the attempted competition
of France and other Powers with ourselves in foreign
markets. Give us but room to run ;—we are first, and
we will remain so. In this way we shall cease to be
worried with fears arising out of the negotiation of
commercial treaties or the formation of Zoliverein
Leagues between other nations. In brief, let Sir
R. PEEL reflect that he has done enough for himself,
for his party, and their interests. Let him devote
the remainder of his career to realise a condition of
national vigour and prosperity in all departments of our
social and commercial system, which he may bequeath
to his country—to a grateful posterity—as the noblest
inheritance ever consolidated by the talents and the
good fortune of a single Minister. His golden for-
tunes offer him this golden opportunity for reaping
golden opinions. He will scarcely let it pass, whether
he regard with due consideration his own reputation,
or with due affection his country's welfare and
grandeur.

patriotism, all their talents to the re-establishment of
the peace of France and of Europe. It has declared that
the Ministers of the 29th of :)ctober had not ceased to
merit its confidence and that of the country. In pre-
sence of this manifestation, which does equal honour
to the Cabinet and the majority, and for which we must
congratulate ourselves as a guarantee for the future, and
for the progress of constitutional ideas, what was the
duty of the Cabinet ? As Marshal Soult has nobly
declared, it would have betrayed all its duties if it had
refused to yield to the urgent wish of its political
friends. It has not hesitated—it has promised to remain
in office, and to defend a standard which has not been
van quish ed."
M. TIMM' journal, the Constitutionnel, on Wed-
nesday, published a list of the majority, with the
places they represent, who voted with the Govern-
ment on Monday, and to make the affair as national
as possible, gives it this heading—" Lisle du Parti-
Pritchard." The Globe returns the complaint by pub-
lishing an analysis of the minority. According to the
analysis 19 of them are Republicans, five Leg timatists
who performed the pilgrimage of Belgrave-square,
19 Legitimatists who did not perform the pilgrimage,
85 Deputies or the Left, 20 of what the Globe calls
Left Legitimatists, 33 of the TUIERS' party, five
of the DurAuaE party, seven of the MOLE party,
and 44 of whom the Globe calls the party des Insal-
sissables, at the head of which party it places M.
DuPIN, making a total of 205. We have no English
word for the epithet "Insaisissables," applied to M.
DUPIN and his tail, but it is exactly descriptive of the
tail of a certain obstinate, self-willed, and crotchety
animal, that occasionally affords much amusement at
rustic sports. In reference to the meeting, the
Presse says :—" It was without object, and will re-
main without effect, for the 213 having already given
to Ministers all that they possessed; they had nothing
more to give, and it is not by declaring themselves
exclusive and fully satisfied that the majority of a
party will ever make proselytes, or succeed in bring-
inz back dissenters."

The National states that only 157 Conservative
Deputies were at the meeting, and that with the
twenty-four Deputies who announced their willing-
ness to subscribe to whatever might bee agreed upon,
-the total number is only 191, instead of 213, which
was the majority in the Chamber of Deputies. It
cannot, however, advert to the subject without an
attempt to rouse the national feeling against England,
and comes to this conclusion:—

" There is nothing extraordinary in this manoeuvre.
It is not the first time that ambitious men have caused
themselves to be entreated to retain or accept office.
Without going back further than 1830, our history'is full
of acts of devotedness of this kind As to the manifesto
which the Pritchard meeting has proposed to put forth
against its adversaries, France will judge. She will say
wether loyalty and patriotism are on the side of those
who make us pay an indemnity to Mr. Pritchard, or
whether they are not ii:trigans, because we have refused
to humble our country to the man who assassinated our
fellow-citizens at Otaheite."

The following are miscellaneous extracts from filo

papers :—.

" A letter from Copenhagen of Jan. 19, says The
Board of Admiralty has just presented to the King their
annual report on the state of the Danish navy. From
this document it appears that it consists of the following
vessels:-8 ships of the line of 84 guns, 8 frigates of
from 40 to 48, 4 corvettes of 20 to 22, 2 cutters of 20 guns,
4 schooners of 16 to 18, and 4 steamers of 4 to 6 guns—
giving a total of 33 vessels and 100 guns.'
" Another from Christiana, in Norway, 14th inst.,
states that the King was expected to arrive there on
February 6th, accompanied by the Prince Royal and
Prince Gustavus, who in April will go to the University
of Upsal. According to etiquette, the King's Swedish
Court will leave him on his arrival in Norway, and re •
turn to Sweden. _ . .

The rumours of Ministerial resignations, to
which we on Friday alluded, have strangely broken in
upon that torpid lull of news in the condition of
domestic politics which usually precedes, by a week
or ten days, the re-assembling of a Parliament for the
business of the session. In our present state of
uncertainty it would be idle to speculate on the
results of events which may have occurred, as yet,
upon the authority of report, only. These rumours
are a species of game, which, once put up, secure a
numerous and eager field at their heels—hot upon
the scent, and staunch in the pursuit. Our brother
journalists, of course, in such_a field, take the lead;
and it is an object of keen competition among them,
as it is with others interested in such pursuits—to " be
in at the death ;" or, to speak less figuratively, to
ascertain whose selection of rumours approaches
nearest to the realised facts which they finally " run
into." We have already quoted the conflicting specu-
lations of the Times, Chronicle, Herald, Morning Post,
and Standard. These, under our present imperfect
knowledge of the actual intentions of the Crown and
its Prime Minister, we do not here attempt to pursue.
But we are authorised to assume that Mr. GLAD-
STONE has resigned his connexion with office by
retiring from the Presidency of the Board of Trade ;
and this, we repeat, is a very important event in its
bearing on the moral power and constituent strength
of Sir ROBEICT PEEL'a Administration. But in our
view of the matter its main interest is derived from
the possible scope it may give to that Administration
for a far more healthy, intelligible, vigorous, and
beneficial action, than any which itself or its prede-
cessors have been able to exercise for very many years
past. We shall not be suspected of a desire to go out
of our way to say civil things of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S
Government; still less of him, personally. But our
support is ever challenged by measures, not men.
Our solicitude is extreme for principles, whilst we
are indifferent to party. We hare always felt a high
respect for the character and the ability of Mr. GLAD-
STONE ; but we have never blinded ourselves to his
deficiencies, even as a Minister of Commerce, and to
his pernicious example and writings as a polemical
layman. He has contracted his vast sphere of useful-
ness by an obstinate adhesion to anti-Brazilian pre-
udices ; and be has shaken the foundations of the
Church by his Tractarian tamperings with their
massive simplicity. He dies the official death—a mar-
tyr, we are told, to Manilla sugars, and a victim to the
progress of Puseyism. In both instances his own
pinions have supplied the shafts which have brought him
down. The one has been feathered by his " certificate
of growth," or nationality, which was to secure the ad-
mission of foreign sugars into our markets free from
the taint of slave labour—the other, by certain Oxford
Tracts, and by an article in the Quarterly, which, not
disavowed or recalled, connected the Administration
whereof he was so prominent a member, with his own
lkornish prepossessions and his jesuitical casuistry in
'indicating them. Of the latter, we recorded in our
impresssion of yesterday, and at large, the opinions
we have never ceased to hold, since this affliction
was first visited upon the Established Church. Of
the certificate of growth we could only now repeat,
what we have so often urged before, as to the ab-
surdity of an attempted compromise between the
literal and rigorous construction of the responsibility
assumed by this country to abolish and repress negro
slavery, by every act dependent on her own volition;
and the necessity of increasing the supply and
cheapening the price of sugar, to the British con-
sumer, by admitting foreign sugars into consumption
here. To imagine that in the Southern States of the
Union, or in Cuba, sugar is not raised by slave
labour, would not be more at variance with fact
than to suppose that slave-owning growers in foreign
Eastern colonies will not transmit their produce to
Manilla, for example, under circumstances that will
secure them their certificate of having been raised by
free labour, from some British functionary who, in five
cases out of eight, will not be able to testify,' of his
own knowledge, to anything at all about the matter :If
our Abolition and Emancipation Acts invested us with
the authority or power to put down the offence of slave_
h ►lding i❑ America, in the Archipelago, or elsewhere,
these certificates of free growth would have been super-
fluous. But we have neither that authority nor that
power. After all the incalculable sums we have expended
in the work of Negro Emancipation, are we to be still
further taxed, by reason of the diminished produc-
tion and increased cost of sugars grown on our own
West Indian possessions, to eat less of, and pay
more for, this important commodity than many of
our Continental neighbours, who have made no such
sacrifices at all ? This, it is admitted, it would be
too monstrous to require ; and so we have the certifi-
cate scheme of free labour growth, to be deluded
with. The real effective operation of the system is
to give to slave-grown sugars, after a voyage of a
few weeks from the Antilles or the Main to some
other country, a statutable purification from the taint
of Slave Manipulation, on their re-export, so as to en-
sure their admission into this market.

Madrid journals of the '24th ult. have been re-
ceived. In the Chamber of Deputies the report of
Senor PACIIECO, upon the abolition of the slave
trade, had been presented to the Chamber of
Deputies. Upon a demand of M. Ds LATOGA for
the publication of papers, the Foreign Minister
replied that he could only partially comply with
such a demand ; adding, that two objects alone
were sought to be accomplished by the hill—
the first was the acceptance of the treaty of 1835 ;
the second to make it evident how profoundly was
their conviction that the slave trade was infamous,
and ought to be abolished. The Editor of the Eco
del Commercio and M. CALvo MATEO, who •have
been in prison since the attempt on General NAB-
VAEZ, have been let out on bail to stand their trial.
MADRID BOURSE.—Three per Cents. for cash, 31i ;
for Account, 321- ; Five per Cents. for Account, 24.

"At a Council held at Berlin on the 16th, at which
the King presided, the line of the intended railroad of
Eastern Prussia was settled. It is to run by Stettin,
Stutgard, Kceslin, Stolpe, Dantzic, Marienburg, Elbing,
Braimsberg, and terminated at Koenigsberg. The cost
is estimated at 32,000,000 thalers, which are to be raised
by loan in England ; but this, according to the law in
Prussia, must be submitted to the approbation of the
States-General of the kingdom."
THE BOURSE--TnuaspAY, JAN. 30. _

First Highest Lowed Last
_ . _ .

Price. Price. Price. Price.
french Five per Cents•• •• • • 122 40 •• 122 45 .. 122 30 .. 122 30
Three per Cents.•• •• 85 25 , 85 25 .. 85 20 .. 85 20

New Loan •• •• .. •• 86 45 .. 86 45 .. 86 40 .. 86 40.
Bank of France 1272 50 .•3272 50 ..3272 50 ..3272 60
Gouin Bank. I,ooof. Shares.. 10 .0 ..1090 ..1090 .. 1090
Belgian Fives, 1840
1842 •...•... 1061,4 .. 106 y, .. 106 y, .. 106!,i
SpanLsh Active •.•••• .• • • •• 37 ye • • 37'; •• 37% • • 37 Yt
Threes .••• •• • ....• 401,i .. 40; .. 4014 •• 4014
Portuguese Five per Cents • • 597; •• GO 59 %A • . 60
Neapolitan •• •• • •• 99 25 .. 99 50 .. 99 25 .. 99 50
Soman •• •

The Paris papers are chiefly occupied with the
large meeting of Conservatives which assembled on
Wednesday, in support of the GUIZOT Ministry. The
Ministerial journals consider it an event of great im-
portance, while those of the Opposition regard it only
as an additional proof of weakness, and as a vain
attempt to prop up a Cabinet condemned by the re-
presentatives of the nation. Joined, however, with
the return of Court influence, the complete adhesion
of SALVANDY, BUGEAUD, and BRoGLIE, the violence
of the Republican and Radical party in the Chamber,
and especially with the strong expressions used by
the KING in his reply to the Address, with regard to
the importance of the English alliance, it has given
new life to the Ministry, and as a proof of this the
Constitutionnel, which regarded the return of TRIERS
to power as certain, displays the greatest bitterness
and violence at the disappointment. The speech of
the KING is remarkable at the present time for
the stress laid upon the preservation of peace with
England, and fully shows that his MAJESTY is not
deterred by the anti-English mania of those who
have conferred the epithet of the " Pritchard party"
on the supporters of his Cabinet. On Wednesday
evening the Deputation of the Chamber of Deputies,
and the greater number of the Conservative party,
proceeded to the Tuileries with the Address. The
Salle du TrOne was thrown open, and the KING took
his seat, surrounded by his Lords, the Duke of
NEMOURS, the Prince DE JoiNvna.r, the Duke
d'AustALx, and the Duke DE MONTPENSIER, with
Marshal SOULT and M. GUIZOT on his right. The
Address was read by the President, to which the
KING made the following reply
" Messieurs the Deputies,
" I thank you for this loyal Address. It will con-
tribute, with that force which attaches to everything
that emanates from you, to guard the future against
the dangers which the blindness of passion too often
draws upon the people. A mutual regard for justice
and for peace presides over our relations with all
foreign Powers, and the agreement so happily and
so honourably re-established between France and
England attests the spirit of wisdom and of conciliation
which animates the two Governments. Thanks to your
concurrence, to the support that you have lent my Go-
vernment, thanks to the stability that the union of
the powers has given to our institutions, our coun-
try, protected by Divine Providence, enjoys that al-
ways-increasing prosperity which constitutes the glory
of my reign, and, if I may be permitted to say it,
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thatio ion .
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France-
may be employed in the ravages of war or propagation
of revolutionary anarchy, we have inspired them with
just confidence that our resources and our power shall
be for them as far ourselves a pledge of peace and
security.
"I feel much touched with the sentiments that you
have expressed towards my family and myself. Always
devoted to our country, the happiness of my sons con-
sists in being able to serve it ; and their devotedness,
like mine, shall have no other limit but that of our ex-
istence."

His MAJESTY pronounced these last words with
emotion, and a loud cry of Vire le Roi I imme•
diately arose. The KING, at this manifestation of
feeling, advanced towards the circle of the Deputies,
and added, " I am exceedingly touched with these
acclamations, and with the sentiments you express
towards me. Mine have sprung from my heart,
where yours will remain always engraved."
We have already stated that, on the same day, a de-
putation from the Ministerial meeting, held in the
Rue Richelieu, waited on Marshal SoULT, to express
their determination to support the Government. The
Journal des Debats gives the following report of the
reply made by the veteran warrior, who, according
to his own words, has been in the service of hie
country for sixty-one years. We doubt much if any
one man in France, except SoULT, could say the
same :—" The Marshal replied, in the name of the
Cabinet and his own, with his usual firmness. He
assured the deputation that his colleagues would no
more desert than himself. The illustrious Marshal
added, that the weight of affairs and of years would
be lightened by the sentiments of a party such as
that which had just given him proofs of them ; that
lie was in the sixty-first year of his service, and that
his glory consisted in devoting to Conservative
opinions all that remained to him of strength and
life." On this reply the Journal des Debats makes
these remarks :

But we trust that Sir ROBERT PEEL, in respond-
ing to the glorious opportunity which now presents
itself to him for untrammelled action, will not stop
short at putting the trade in sugar, and the peace of
the Church, on more permanent and on broader bases.
The opportunity for developing those liberal views of
commercial and general policy which we give him
full credit for really entertaining, is one such as may
not offer to another English Minister for another
century. He has fairly won his own position ;
hitherto his efforts in it have been thwarted, not
aided, by those whom he helped up the steep which
he had climbed. Let him now call around him the
mtn who will maks good against the united force of

" The striking and spontaneous demonstration which
the Conservative party has just given to Marshal Soult,
President of the Council of Ministers, has decided the
question which engrossed every mind. In simplifyirg
the position of the Ministry it has fixed its resolution.
The Cabinet will not retire—Marshal Soult has solemnly
pledged himself, in his own name and in that of his
colleagues. The Conservative majority has exercised its
rights, and done so constitutionally. It has declared
itself without hesitation, and in an unequivocal manner.
It has solemnly declared that there has been no diminu-
tion of its confidence and sympathy for the men who for
four years have devoted all their efforts, all their

IVlAriNiii.Y and U 0 VIMEMAAL NIL S.'
(From The Sun of Saturday Evening.)
A fair business was done in Cotton at Liverpool yes-
terday, and the market closed steadily. Sales 5,000
bales.—Shares were very good and closed firmly :
Birmingham and Gloucester, 110 ; Bristol and Glou-
cester, 44 ; Caledonian, 611 ; Chester and Birkenhead,
371 38A ; Chester and Holyhead, 68 ; Churnet Valley,
61. 18s. 9d. ; Eastern Counties, 19k 19 ; Ditto, Per-
petual, 92s ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 65-1- 1 ; Grand
Junction, 234 ; Ditto, New,47l ; Great Southern and
Western of Ireland, 108 ; Hare ich, 41s. 6d. ;
Liverpool and Manchester, New, 391 ; London
and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 2811- ; London
and Brighton, 524- ; London and South-Western, New,
121- ; London and York, 54 ; Direct Northern, 21 ;
Cambridge and Lincoln 41 i; Manchester and Birming-
ham, 56; Midland Counties, 1271 ; South-Eastern, 481;
Ditto, New, No. 2, 194 20 ; Rouen and Havre, 264 ;
Northern of France, 58.
There are not any arriVals in the City this morning of
interest from the British Colonies.
It is a matter of satisfaction that the settlements of
the accounts in the Share markets have gone off so
satisfactorily—not a single defaulter having been, as far
as we are able to ascertain, announced. The
amounts paid as differences were immense—indeed,
so enormous, that money was raised to a compa-
ratively high point as to value ; notwithstanding
there is a most abundant supply in the market for all
purposes, commercial as well as speculative. There ap-
pears still a very strong disposition on the part of the
public to invest capital in the various home, as
well as in the French projected lines. We
learn that satisfactory engagements have been
made for carrying on the Bordeaux and Cette Railway,
which the Government of France will, there is little
doubt, be most ready to grant, as the names of
the French as well as the London Board of Directors,
are unexceptionable. There are reports of an amalga-
mation of the rival Companies for the Great Northern
of France. The decisions of the Board of Trade re-
specting those English and Irish railways which are to
be reported on favourably to Parliament, have, as may
be seen by a referef.ce to the official list of prices of
shares, induced a considerable amount of business, and
at advanced quotations.
The usual Weekly Return of the Bank of England's
operations shows the following re-tilts :
The circulation has decreased £14,770
The Public Deposits have ditto 82,319
The oilier Deposits, uitt.
The Stven days' Bills, ditto
Other Securities, ditto
Gold and Silver Coin have increased 36.815
Stock of Bullion has decreased
Bank Depoeits, ditto
The total amount of Builien held, as per present re-
turn is 14,819,8721., and the notes out 28,128,310/.
A considerable amount of business has been transacted
in the British Securities to elay. Consols for the Ac-
count have been quoted at 100 k, and for eleney at 99i-
to 100 k. The New Three-end-a-Quarter per Cents..
have been done at 44- per, cent. above par; Exchequer
Bills at 655. ; South Sea Stock at 1171 ; Bank Stuck at
2141 215; and India Stock at. 285.
There has been an advance in Brazilian Bonds to 90
and 901; the Spanish Three per Cents, have been quoted
at an improvement to 414- ; and the Five per Cents. to
284 k. In the other foreign Stocks the business trans-
acted has been but to a limited amount. The value of
Mexican Bonds has been steady at 36k, and the Peruvian
at 29 to 281.
The transactions in the Railway Share Market have
been conducted upon an animated scale to-day, and in
almost all instances the values have advanced. The rise
is really becoming somewhat fearful, at least should
there be a reaction. The French lines are pretty sta-
tionary.

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock ..
3 per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consols ~...
New 34 per Cents
Long Annuities to expireJan.lB6o 12 3-16 12 3-16

India Stock
South Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuities
Bank Stock for Account... 215 215
Consols for Account....
India Stock, for Account 286 286
Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., 11/2d 64 63 65 pm. 65
Ditto 5001.
Ditto Small ... 63
____ pm.
_._
~. 63

ONE
O'CLOCK.

CLOSING
PRICES.

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.

Brazilian Bonds
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 ......
Ditto Account
Ditto, Deferred 196 lA 161/-.
Ditto, Debentures •• —9%
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents -
Ditto, Account
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Dit t o , Converted 59% % 59%
Ditto, Annuities, 1855...
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840
Ditto, Account 28% % 29
Ditto, Passive
Ditto, Deferred — 1.7%
Ditto 3 per Cent. ... .. ...... , , •
Ditto, Account ... 40% 1 14 40%'
Belgian Bonds, 41/2 per Cent — 1011:
Dutch, 214 per Cent
•634
Ditto 4 per Cent., Certilic 98% 98%

PRICES OF CLOSING
PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAY SHARES • PRICES.
Birmin and Gloucester. 100 ...122 29 27 30 28% 128'
Ditto New Shares ... 17% 321/2 32
Ditto 1/2 Shares
Brigt4 and Exeter
8ri461 and Gloucester... 30
CarAtiian :
Canthiidge and Lincoln 1% 4 8,2 /4 43/
Chester and Holyhead... 5
Churnet Valley
Cornwall
Dublin and Galway 214.- 2% ... 2(1,
Direct Northern
1 niblin and Belfast Junc 2%
Ely and Bedford
Eastern Counties . 25 ...... 19 1814
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1.... 3% 1 ...
Ditto ditto, N 0.2 . l3s. 4d... 01/2%
Great South. and West.
(Ireland)
Ditto Extension
Great North of England..100

Ditto New
2 —
Great Western 75 lB2 183

Ditto % Shares 5O lO4
Ditto, Fifths 2O
Hull and Selby 5O —
Ditto 1% Shares 12% IS
Lancaster and Carlisle... 15
London and Birminghm (Stock)... 236 235 237
Ditto, Quarter Shares 2
1.; 28
London and Blackwall.. 165A3
London and Brighton... 50
London and Greenwich.. 123 A ...... 111
London and S. Western. 41% BO 2
Do. New consolidated Bths 6 ... 26

Ditto New 2l/ l3 123/4 134...
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d lB7gl/2 19
London and'York ...... •.. 2% 5l/2741/,3/4
Manchester and Leeds... 70 l3B 40 36 41 42

Ditto 1/2 Share 3 3O
Midland 100 .. . 128 130

Ditto New. 2 ..... 914 83/4 9
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junctlon .. 24 ..... 68 69 671
Newcastle and Ilerwick 11,4...15 153/4 161,4 1514
Northern and Eastern... 45
Norwich and Brandon... 8

New
Ditto, Shares ... 1
North British
Ditto New Shares 1
Rugby
Shrews., Wolverhamp ,
Dudley, and Birm 2% 5 4% 53./t 6%
South Devon...
South Eastern & Doter 33% 491
Ditto, New Shares ... 4
‘) Ditto No.
South Wales 2%...... 534 614_
Trent Valley
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 .. ... 214% ....
Yarmouth and Norwich. 20
York and North Midland 50
Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 20
Ditto, Selby Scrip 2O
Ditto Extension
FRENCH RAILWAYS.

Boulogne and A miens... 2
Orleans and Bordeaux... 2
Paris and Lyons 2
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen
Strasbourg and Bale ... 14
Great North.of France— 54, —
Lyons and Avignon 2
Orleans and Vierzon ... 2

MANCHESTEIt STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 31.—We
have had a good market, and prices continue firm.
Birmingham and Gloucester, New, 7 7-16 ; Blackburn
and Preston, 10a, ; Eastern Counties Perpetual, No. 2,
255. 10d. ; London and South-Western, 78 ; Manchester
and Leeds, Halves, 571 58 ; Manchester and Birmint;-
ham, 58 571 ; Ditto, Quarters. 611 ; Midland Railway
Consols, 401. shares, 9i ; Sheffield and Manchester,
Quarters, 12i ; South-Eastern, ; Ditto, New Cre
Mica), 19 ; Ditto. Scrip, 8i- prem. ; Barn.ley Junction,
6 ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction,
7i 7 ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 5 ;
Churnet Valley, 6 ; Ely and Bedford, 14 ; Great
Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 2 9.16 ; Huddersfield
and Manchester Railway and Canal, 4 ; Huddersfield
and Sheffield Junction, 3- 11.16 ; Leeds, Dewsbury, and
Manchester, 44 ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 51 ;
London and York, 51 ; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junc-
tion, •1 s; West Yorkshire, 31 ; Great Northern of
France (English),

The Duke of Rutland has been dispensing his mag-
nificent hospitalities during the last week to a numerous
party at Belvoir Castle. His Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge has left for Badminton, and Baron Brun-
now has repaired to town.
THE WEATHER.—Since our last the weather has
been extremely variable. On Saturday we had high
winds and rain ; Sunday was a raw blustering day ;
Monday somewhat calmer ; but on Tuesday there was a
slight fall of snow, to which heavy additions have since
been made, and with which a keen frost has set in. The
wind which is from the east, is pinching, bitter, biting.—
Carlisle Journal.
MURDER AND SUICIDE AT FINSRURY.—On Satur-
day an inquest was held by Mr. Baker, at the Old Blue
Last, Curtain-road, on the bodies of Joseph Barry and
his wife, who were found dead in bed, with their throats
cut, on Friday morning last, under circumstances al-
ready detailed. The jury, after a short consultation,
found " That the deceased Joseph Barry destroyed
himself and his wife, Priscilla Barry, whilst in an un-
sound state of mind."
A sow fed by Miss Palmer, of Sikeside, was killed
last week, and weighed 41 stone. She was of the pure
abort-eared breed, and only fire weeks off the pigs,