The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-04 00:00:00

Malting 11UL

LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1845.

Within the last few days rumours of Cabinet resigna-
tions have been rife. Gossip Lhas been especially busy
with the names of Lord STANLEY and Lord ABERDEEN,
who are both said to be about to resign. There is
clearly a stir in the Cabinet. In the present embroglio of
politics, past opinions may help us a little to conjecture
the course which any particular Member of the Cabinet
would take; but, a priori, we should have thought Lord
ABERDEBN the last person to desert the Premier, and
Lord STANLEY the last person to be dissatisfied with the
present do-nothing policy of the Cabinet. We do not
profess to understand the present position of the Govern-
ment, and shall be surprised at nothing ; but, otherwise.
we are not disposed to give credit to the rumours about
Lords STANLEY and ABERDEEN.
If the Cabinet were now in a condition for mere tinker-
ing to be of any use, nothing would be more likely than
for Lord STANLEY to be shifted from the Colonies, which
ke has grossly misgoverned, to some office in which the
Government might have his name and party influence
without the damage of his administrative incapacity.
If the Cabinet were going to repeal the corn-laws,
nothing would be more likely thaa for my Lord TIM-
ROPY to resign; but the Cabinet cleaves to the corn-
laws. Lord STANLEY'S resignation now—even his
removal to a post where he would be less mischievous—
would be a sign of vitality and strength not to be looked
for from a Government that, to all appearance, is dying
by inches.
The question now is, can the Government survive this
crisis? If we saw them throwing out Lord STANLEY,
it would be like a sick man's throwing out the gout ;
and the doctors of the Carlton, who now shake their
heads all day, and look glum, would begin to hope.
But the many meetings of the Cabinet—the many
visits of Cabinet Ministers to Sir ROBERT PEEL—Lord
STANLEY'S long consultations with Sir ROBERT—show
that there is a flutter among the Volscians. Lord JOHN
RUSSELL'S long shot from Edinburgh has been a stag-
gerer.

According to an extract from a private letter received

from New York, and posted up in the underwriters' room
of the Liverpool Exchange on Tuesday, all the strong
and decided expressions respecting the Oregon that ap-
peared in the inaugural address of President PoLx will be
repeated in the forthcoming Message ; he will claim
• the whole of the disputed territory, and propose to the
Legislature that the joint occupancy shall cease, and
that the laws of lowa shall be extended over all the;
western territory to the Pacific. It is said that the
Cabinet, with the exception of Mr. BUCAITANAN, is
unanimous on the subject. The annual ses-
sion commences usually on the first Monday
of December; the Message will consequently be deli-
vered in the course of the present week, and it may,
therefore, be expected in, England about the 18th inst.
By persons tolerably well acquainted with the relations
between the two countries, and the prevalent feeling
towards &gland throughout the Western and Southern
States, this document is looked forward to with very
little interest. The sentiments of the members both of
the Senate and of the House of Representatives, in refe-
rence to this country, have been well ascertainei during
the last and the present Presidency by their rotes on
the annexation of Texas, and the measures for oc-
cupying the Oregon territory. Whether the Mes-
sage on these points may be modified or not,
ought to be to the English Government a matter of per-
fect indifference ; and whether POLK talks about latitude
54 or latitue 49, or the " whole Oregon or none," Eng-
land must not be led from her purpose, and allow the
settlement of a question which, intrinsically, is of little
importance, but which involves the whole policy of the
two nations, to be delayed for even one year. If America
claims what England is act prepared to grant, and
announces her resolution to put an end to the mutual
occupation within the specified time, our Government
must regard that as a preliminary to a declaration of

war, and act accordingly. Delay is out of the question.
These protracted disputes about territory have only
become more difficult of settlement by procrastination ;
and it is better at once to have a clear understanding,
not only on the Oregon dispute, but on many other
disputes of infinitely more importance. No English
statesman, of whatever partylhe may be, can have viewed
the encroachments of the American Republic, and the
projects which its rulers and people have announced
within a very brief period, without serious alarm for
the security of our possessions and the balance of power
in the New World. The voice of the American nation
leaves no doubt whatever about the occupation. of the
Oregon territory and the expulsion of the Hudson's Bay
Company from the banks of the Columbia. Prepara-
tions are in progress for sending out squatters to Cali-
fornia ; Texas has been wrested in the finest insidious
and unfair manner from Mexico, and that unfortunate
and incapable republic, in a very few years, will be so
completely hemmed in by its powerful and unscrupulous
neighbour, that it must fall an easy prey as soon as Pre-
sident PoLx, or any future President may consider the fit
time for conquest has arrived. England cannot stand
by unconcerned and idle when such barefaced and un
justifiable encroachments are made in the very neigh-
bourhood of her valuable colonies, when the annihilation
of her trade in that quarter is openly avowed, and in a
few years the riches of Mexico shall be swallowed sip by
the overgrown republic. War, no doubt, is a horrid and
a dangerous game, but nations never escape from diffi-
culties by disgraceful concessions, nor is war ultimately
avoided by pusillanimous delay. The thirst for conquest
throughout the Union is too manifest to be mistaken ;
England has felt its effects in Canada, and only a few
years more are wanting to make her feel them in
other quarters of the most vital importance to her best
interests. It becomes her, therefore, to be pre-
pared for the worst, and meet the coming danger
in time. She never was in a better position,
nor ever had a more just cause for asserting her rights.
America has rejected even an offer for accommodating
the differences ; she has departed from terms admitted
in all former negotiations on the subject ; she will not
hear of arbitration, but treats England with as much
contempt as Mexico, and is preparing to annex the
whole of the Oregon, somewhat in the style of the un-
principled occupation of Texas. Even hostile writers
in Frew() now admit that her claims are not well-
founded, and though it is our affair, yet it is satisfactory
to know that her best wishers cannot justify the claims
of TYLER and POLK. Both nations would suffer
by having recourse to the last alternative—a
trial of strength but that is not the fault
of England. The first effects would be felt here se-
riously. Manchester, and Leeds, and Birmingham, and
some other manufacturing towns, would lose much of
their trade, though since the last war many new mar-
kets have been opened for them; privateers would in-
tercept merchant vessels without convoy, and other
casualties attendant on war would ensue ; but these
England has already experienced and met with unflinch-
ing fortitude, even when engaged in the dreadful contest
with NAPOLEON. Is she weaker now, after thirty
years repose, than she was, when in 1815 she
astonished the world by her renewed vigour
and exertions, and gained what General For
called the greatest victory of the age ? Is
her credit lowered ? Are the sinews of war
less strong, or the means of both offensive and defensive
warfare less within Iher reach? It is admitted by all,
except perhaps the Americans themselves, that British
fleets could blockade every important harbour of the
Union, that the value of cotton and tobacco and other
productions of the slave-holding states would be lowered
by one-half, and that, even allowing the greatest bravery,
skill, and exertions on the part of the Americans, their
commerce would be nearly destroyed. But she cannct
carry on a war without imposing heavy taxes or bor-
rowing money. The former would net be much
relished even by the warlike States of the west, and
the latter is impossible. The American Government
could not obtain credit for a hundred thousand pounds
on any Exchange in Europe. We do not mention these
facts as matters of boast, or as threats—we merely state
plain truths, in the hope that they may be listend to,
and that a calculation of consequences may induce the
American Government to act with moderation, and not
insist on claims which are rejected by every European
authority, and which that Government knows England
never can yield.

It was with feelings of regret, not unmingled with sur-
prise, that we read the letter addressed by the Earl of
DUNDONALD to the Editor of the Times, on the subject
of harbours of refuge, which letter we republished in The
Sun of yesterday. The Noble and Gallant Officer con-
tends that these ports and harbours are unnecessary, be-
cause he is in possession of means "by which, whatever
hostile force was therein assembled, could be destroyed
within the first twenty-four hours favourable for effec-
tive operations, in defiance of forts and batteries mounted,
with the most powerful ordnance now in use."
" Protective harbours," continues the Noble Earl, "save
as screens from wind and sea, may be likened to nets
wherein fishes, seeking to escape, find themselves in•
extricably entangled." Now, it appears to us that in
that one parenthetical passage (" save as screens from
wind and sea") his Lordship has granted the whole
question. It is as screens against wind and sea that we
contend these harbours are required ; and, whatever
may be the nature of the secret plan which the Earl of
DUNDONALD communicated to the Government in 1812,
we cannot but think that if he found himself at sea, off
a lee-shore in a heavy gale, he would be right glad to find
a harbour of refuge at hand, in which he could in
safety await " a time favourable for effective operations."
The means " for the effectual destruction of all the
navies in the world" would, we opine, be found ineffec-
tual for the preservation of a single ship. Now it is
for the preservation, not for the destruction, of navies,
that we would fain see the formation of these harbours
of refuge ; and, although the Earl of DIINDONALD de-
precates the voting away the vast sums requisite to
carry them into execution as a serious evil, yet, we think,
that, judging from experience, it would not be difficult
to show that the expenditure of even five millions
in the formation of harbours of refuge would be an
act of judicious economy. We should like to see a re-
turn of the number of lives lost and the amount of pro-
perty destroyed by shipwreck in Plymouth Sound for
the twenty years immediately preceding the building of
the breakwater; a similar return for the twenty years
following the erection of the breakwater ; and a return
of the number of vessels which had entered the Sound
during both periods; and we have no doubt it would ap-
pearthat the value of the property saved from destruction
during twenty years by the, erection of the breakwater
amounts to a much larger sum than that expended in
its construction. It is somewhat curious to find the
Earl of DIINDONALD, to whose patriotic exertions, when
Lord COCHRANE, in 1812, the nation owes the formation
of the Plymouth Breakwater, coming forward in 1845
to oppose the construction of similar breakwaters on
other exposed parts of our coast.

The Madrid papers of the 25th ult. are chiefly occu-
pied with the elections, which appear to be going on
more favourably for the Opposition than anticipated.
There are no accounts in these papers of the state of tho
poll at Barcelona on the second day's poll, but accounts
from Bayonne state that the Liberals had been com-
pletely successful at Saragossa, and returned their three
candidates to represent the capital of Arregon in the
Cortes.

On the 25th the Three per Cents. were done at 35
15-16. The Fives were not quoted.

The Paris papers contain no fresh intelligence from Al
geirs, from which we are to infer that affairs remain
nearly in the same state ; that the French troops are
making little progress in reclaiming the rebellious tribes,
and that the communications between several important
stations are still interrupted. Several of the ;siburnals
contain articles on the Oregon question ; ana the Jour-
ea/ des Debuts, the organ of the Go';ernment, has at
length spoken out on the subjcct It denies the claims of
President ',e same time, states that he is
sop
pledged by
b°;r fbcou, a
mtisets ti
given at his election, and the
language of the political demagogues of the west is
so P,lamorous, that be will, in all probability, be obliged
to maintain them, to their full extent, in his Message
to the Congress. " The difference of opinion between
the two Cabinets," says that journal, " are very great.
President Pont. doubtless, in virtue of pledges given at
the time of his election, insertel in his inauguration
Message, the most solemn document that can emanate
from him, a passage which nothing had rendered neces-
sary, and which declafed the extreme opinion of the
Western States. The English Cabinet was moved at
this unexpected incident in the negotiation ; Sir ROBERT
PEEL and Lord ABERDEEN replied, in full Parliament,
in terms as explicit as those made use of in the Mes-
sage. England did more ; she continued, at the expense
of millions, her maritime preparations, at which France
took umbrage in
a very mul-a-propos manner, and
which preparations have now raised the English navy
to a formidable degree of power ; she has taken her pre-
cautions as though a war might break out in the year
1846. The United States, on the contrary, have pre-
pared nothing against such an eventuality. If things
now passed as in the last century ; if commerce had not
created interests which render a declaration of war very
difficult, we should say that everything depends on the
Message which President POLK is to deliver to
Congeal. In the event of that magistrate main.

taining his assertion of last year, there will only remain
the last argument of kings and people ; for of what avail
would be negotiation thereafter. The question would no
longer be as to the division of territory, for Mr. POLK
will have Oregon entire. England has latterly proposed
to refer it to arbitration, but this the President will not
consent to. What other arguments can, therefore, be
brought forward besides those which issue from the
cannon's mouth ? Electoral necessities can, therefore,
alone explain the conduct of Mr. PoLx, who had
the reputation of being a calm and reserved man-
Ile is a native of Tennessee, one of the western states of
the Union. It is on the west that he founds the hope of
his re-election, and the west demands the entire of the
Oregon territory. It is, therefore, with much reason
that some of the American journals tell their country-
men that the Oregon question, which to be understood
requires an attentive study of old treaties and diplomatic
documents, is solved at once in every village of the west
by political demagogues, who have read nothing, and
who only know one thing—that they are sure to please
the multitude and obtain their suffrages, by telling them
that GOD has given them the new continent from one
extremity to the other for their exclusive use. How-
ever this may be, there is every reason to fear that the
Message will be in accordance with the feelings of
the democracy of the western states. Private letters
from America, which come down to the 10th
of November, hold out little to the contrary.
The annexation of Texas caused the first election of
Mr. PoLx, and to secure his second he wishes to obtain
possession of Oregon. The calculation will be extravagant,
but the general opinion at New York, at Philadelphia,
and at Washington is, that the President will do it. A
war between America and England will be a calamity
for the civilised world, and by degrees every maritime
nation may be drawn in to take a part in the conflict, in
consequence of the vexatious interruptions which neu-
trals will not fail to meet with in the desperate struggle
which will desolate the surface of the ocean. But for
England and for America it will be such an overturning
of interests, that we cannot but think that, whatever
the language of the President in his Message may be,
the cause of peace will not on that account be irretriev-
ably lost. If war should break out, New York, New
Orleans, and Boston would be closely blockaded, and
their merchants ruined, but at the same time what injury
would be inflicted on British commerce, which covers
every sea, by American cruisers ? What would become
of Manchester, if a supply of American cotton failed it ?
and how would the south-western states of the
Union, whose principal produce is cotton, be sup-
ported without that market ? What a shock would
it even be for the constitution of the Union itself?"
The writer concludes his remarks with a hope that
peace will continue to spread over Great Britain and
the United States the benefits with which it has loaded
these two great nations, to the great advantage of all
other countries.

Accounts from Toulon state that IBRAHIM PACHA ar-
rived at that place on the 27th ult., in the Egyptian fri-
gate the Nile. Ho was received by a salute of 21 guns
from some of the ships in port and from one of the bat-
teries, and the French vessels were dressed out in honour
of his arrival. The Maritime Prefect and the Marquis
DE LAVALETTS paid the Egytian Prince a visit on board
the Nile, and at eleven o'clock Muslim landed with his
suite, and was received by the authorities and the troops,
who were drawn up in line. The Prince was dressed in
the most magnificent style, as were also the principal
personages of his suite. He is stated to be apparently in
good health, but his hair and beard are perfectly white.
On reaching the Prefecture, where apartments had been
prepared for him, he received the authorities, and after-
wards went into the roads with the Admiral in his barge.
On their return there was a grand dinner at the Prefec-
ture. He was to stay two or three days at Toulon, and
afterwards, proceed by Marseilles to the baths of Vernet.
The Share Market on Monday was more firm, but no
great amount of business was transacted. The following is
said to be the fall in the prices of several important lines
during the last week :-Rouen declined 52f. 50c. ; Orleans to
Bordeaux, and Avignon to Marseilles, 47f. 50c. each ; Boulogne,
Rouen to Havre, and St. Germain, 40f. each ; Paris to
Orleans, 35f; Northern, 26E 50c. ; Montereau to Troyes and
Fampoux, 25f. each ; Versailles (Left Bank), 22f. 50c. ;
Strasbourg, 2 If. 25c. ; Versailles (Right Bank), 10f. ; Orleans to
Vierzon, 7f. 50c. The market closed as follows :-Three per
Cents. for cash, 81f. 95c., for accounk 81f. ; Five per Cents.
for cash, 116 f. 45c., for account, 116 f. 55c ; Bank of France
Shares, 3,290 E ; Neapolitan, 100 f. 505.; Spanish and New
Loan, not quoted.
The closing quotations on many of the lines were lower
than those of Saturday-Paris and Orleans leaving off at
I,loof. ; Paris and Rouen, 900 f. ; Rouen and Havre, and
Avignon, not quoted ; Vierzon, 605 E; Strasbourg and Bale,
225. ; Boulogne and Amiens, 482 f. 50c. ; Northern, 600 f. ;
Bourdeaux, 560 f. ; Montereau, 430 f.
But little was done in other lines. Paris and Lyons (La-
ffitte) may be quoted at 502 f. 50c. ; (Union), 508 f. 75c. ;
Paris and Strasbourg (Definitives) at par; Ditto (Ganne-
ron), 5004. ; (Deiinitives), 540 f.; Tours and Nantes (Defi-
nitives), 505 f. ; Lyons and Avignon (Talabot), 505 f. ;
(Lecomte), 500 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 2.
Anglo-Belgian Maurities
Boulogne and Amiens.. 7% Namur and Liege 2l/
Bordeaux &Mediterran - North Jamaica -
Bordeaux and Toulouse - Orleans and Vierzen .. 14%
Do. & Cette (Espelete) 1 % Orleans and Bordeaux 94
De. (Mackenzie's) .. 1% Over Yssel
Callao, Lima, and Pa- Paris &Lyons (Laffitte) 2%
cilia Coast - Ditto (Ganneron's). -
Central of Spain Ditto (Calon's).... -
Ceylon . - Ditto (Sud Est)
Demerara - Paris and Orleans-- 44
Dendre Valley ... - Paris aid Rotten
Dutch Rhenish ...... 6% Paris and Strasburg
Dieppe & Paris Jtutct. - (Ganaeron's)
Dijon and Mulhouse - Do. (Ayinard's)..--
East Indian ........ De. (Compte de L'Est)
Fampeux & Hazebreuk - Paris and St. Qlentin. -
Grt Northern of France Roses and Havre...-. -
Constituted - Royal North of Spain. -
Do. Pepin le Halleur.. - Sambre and Moue ....
Great Paris and Lyons 1% Strasburg and Basle ... -
Great Western Bengal - Teurnay,Jurbise, Lan-
Great Western Canada - dent, and Hasselt... -
Jamaica B. Mid. Junction - Tours and Nantes
De.Nerth Midland-. - (Maskenzie's)
Do. Extension - Di. (Lefebvre's)
Jersey - Do. (O'Neill's)
Louvain and Jemnppc. 1% ;Trinidad
Lyons and Avignon.... 1% Verona and Ancona.,

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LLOYD'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, DEC. 3.—Wind this day at noon, S.W., light
breeze and cloudy.
OFF MARGATE DEC. I.—Lord Metcalfe, Forster, Quebec.
,

DEAL, DEC. 2.:--Wind W.N.W., [modeiate.—ATrd: from
the river, Brothers, Reid, Madras Ann Grant, Foreman,
Bombay ; Sir John Rae Reid, Dyson, St. Kitts ; Brothers,
Hire, Quebec.
PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 2.—Sld. Port Fleetwood, Vidler, Cape
of Good Hops.
COWES, DEC. 2.—Arrd. Swiss Boy, Perkins, Matanzas.
OFF SWARAGE, Nov. 30.—Isabella, Quebec.
DARTMOUTH, Dec. 2.—Arrd. Mary Ann, Adams, New-
foundland.

BEAUMARIS, Nov. 30.—Arrd. Thompson, Reetigouche.
WHITRHAVEN, DEC. I.—Wind W.N.W., a gale.—Acrd.
Harman, Landel, Quebec.
Conic, Nov. 29.—Arrd. Lady of the Lake, Jameson, Que-
bec. 80.—Duke of Gordon, Bissett, Angra Pepin*. Off
port, Express, Clarke, Valparaiso; Ellerslie, Dalhousie.
PORT TALBOT, DEC. 2.—The Olive-branch, Prout, from
Plymouth to Newport, was wrecked near Porthcawl, Ist
instant; master and mate drowned; nearly all the cargo
saved in a damaged state.
GALwAr, Nov. 29.—The Lara, Roderick, from Newcastle
to this port, came on shore on Mutton Island last night, and
remains; crew saved.
ARBROATH, Nov. 29. The William, of Newcastle, for
this port, was lost on the banks of the Tay last night; mas-
ter and two men drowned.

SIIIHLDS, DEC. I.—The Java, Wilson, from Yarmouth to
Newcastle, has been in contact on this coast with the George
Bell, of London, and received damage.

LLANELLT, Dcc. 2.—The John Barry, Lilean, from Swan-
sea to Cork, in making this harbour last night during a severe
gale, got on shore on Cape Patrick sands, but was assisted off,
after discharging part of cargo,and brought into this harbour.
AmmououGn, DEC. 2.—The Cyrus, of Whitby, and the
Russells, of Arundel, were in contact this morning, when the
latter lost bowsprit ; both vessels have gone to Yarmouth
Roads. _ _

Hum, DEC. 2.—A Norwegian barque is reported in the
llumber, with loss of rudder, &c.

WAAL OCIETY.—The anniversary meeting of this
Society was held on Tuesday, at their apartments in Somerset
House. The Most Noble the Marquis of Northampton,
President, in the chair. The royal medals were awarded to
Cr. B. Airy, Esq , astronomer royal, for his paper " On the
Laws of the Tidet on the toast of Ireland, as inferred from
an extensive series of observations made In connexion with
the ordnance survey of Ireland;" and to "Thomas Snow
Beck, Esq., for his paper " On the Nerves of the Uterus."
The Copley medal was awarded to Professor Schwann, of
Louvain, for his " Physiological Researches on the Develop-
ment of Animal and Vegetable Textures." The President
deliVered his citstornary annual addresso accompanied by
notices of the distinguished deceased rellow3, after which the
new Council were elected ; and the Fellows of the Society
and their friends dined together at the Crown and Anchor
Tavern—the Marquis of Northampton presiding. The fol-
lowing is a list of the officers of the Council :—President—
The Marquis of Northampton. Treasurer—. George Rennie,
Esq. Secretaries—Peter Mark Roget, M.D. ; Samuel Hunter
Christie, Esq., M.A. Foreign Secretary—Lieutenant Colonel
E. Sabine, B.A. Other Members of the Council—John
Bostock, M.D.; Sir Wm. Burnett, M.D., K.C.H. ; Charles
Dan-betty, M.D.; Bryan Donhin, Esq.; Very Rev. Dean of
Ely ; Thomas Galloway, Esq. ; William Robei t Grove, Esq.,
MA.; Leonard Horner, Esq. ; Sir John W. Lubbock, Bart ,
M.A. ; John Forbes Boyle, ; William Sharpey, M.D. ;
William Henry Smyth, Captain, R.N.; John Taylor, Esq. ;
Charles Wheatstone, Esq.; Rev. Robert Willis, M.A. ; Lord
Wrottesley. The Fellows whose names in the preceding list
are printed in italics were not Members of the last Council.
MUNIFICENT BEQUESTS. The late Mrs. Ann
Baker, of Camberwell-grove, has bequeathed the handsome
sum of 5001. to the Philanthropic Society of St. George's-
fields. The late Rev. William Wenthorpe has also be.
queathed the sum of 5001. ; and the late Mrs. Eleanor Smith
flOl. to the same society.
THE OVERLAND MAIL.—We understand that Mr.
Waghorn is now actively engaged in preparing for six trials
of the Trieste route as regards time against that by Mar-
seilles, and that a meeting of the London, East India, and
China Association will shortly take place, in order that the
merchants of the city may choose the six months in summer
and winter to practically settle all doubts on the subject of
the Fount superiority of the Trieste route.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was very quiet,
the sales not exceeding 2,000 bales. Prices were rather in
favour of buyers. There was a slight improvement in Shares,
with rather more doing.
The following Railway shares were disposed of yesterday
at the auction of Messrs. Lamond, and Co., there being more
inclination to purchase in new lines at low prices :
Description. Paid.
Dendre Valley ... ... ... ... ... 2
Ditto

Sold for.
0 9 6
0 9 0
1 18 0
0 8 6
0 10 6
1 10 0

Rugby, Derby, and Manchester ... ... 2%
West End and Southern Counties ... 1%
Calcutta and St. George's Point ... ... 7s
Isle of Ely Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire 2%
Midland Irish Great Western, from
Dublin to Mullingar ... ... ... 2% 20 0
Ditto ditto ... ... _ 2 0 0
Shropshire Union Railway and Canal... 435 111 6
Ditto ditto ... ••• 1 11 6
Irish North Midland ... ... ... ... 1% 015 0
0 15 0
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ... 22s 019 0
Ditto ditto ... ... 018 6
Warwick and Worcester ... ••• ... 42s 1 3 0
Over Yssel ... ... ... ... .... ... 835 4d 1 11 6
Exeter, Dorchester, and Weyrn. Coast... 42s 1 2 0
Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke ... 105 s 210 0
Calcutta and St. George's Point ... ... 73 0 9 6
Ditto ditto ••• ••• ••• - 0 10 0
Direct Northern ... ... ... ... ... 2% 1 15 0
Grand Union ... ... ... ... ... ... 1% 1 9 0
Calcutta and St. George's Point ... 7s 010 0
Great Indian Peninsular ... ... ... 5s 0 7 6
London and York ... ... ... ... ... 2% 218 8
North Staff., Mullet, and Potteries ... 42s 5 6 0
Ditto ditto ... " 5 5 0
Dutch Rhenish ... .. • . ... ... 5 615 0
Eastern Counties—Stock No. 2 ... ... 93s 4d 4 16 0
Shropshire Union and Canal ... 42s 112 6
Shrewsbury and Birmingham. ... ... 2% 3 8 0
Chelmsford and Bury ... ... ... .. 1% 1 1 6
Tean and Dove Valley ... ... ... ... 1% 1 1 6
Man. and Birm. Cont. and Welsh June. 1% 1 3 0
Ditto ditto ... 1 3 0
London and York ... ... ... ... ... 2% 218 0
Ditto ••• •• ••• ••• ••• --2 19 0
North Staffab., Chunaet, and Potteries, 42s 5 7 0
Ditto ditto ••• 5 7 0
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ... 22s 018 6
Ditto ditto ... 018 6
Leicester and Birmingham ... ... ... 22s 018 6
0 18 6
1 0 0
South and Midlands Junction ... . . , 425 1 8 0
London and Manchester (Remington's.) 23/4 20 0
Ditto ditto ... 2 1 0
Essex and Suffolk ... ... ... ... 1% 019 6
Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke ... 105 s 210 0
Chelmsford and Bury ... ... ... ... 1% 1 0 6
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ... 22s 019 0
Ditto ditto ... 0 18 6
Northampton, Banbury, and Cheleham. 2 119 0
Ditto ditto ... 2 0 0
Somersetshire Midland ... ... ... 2% 1 5 6
Great Eastern and Western .. ... 2% 116 0
Ditto •• • ••• ••• ••• ••• ... 115 0
Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby ... 42a 018 0
Great Indian Peninsular ... ... ... 14 0 8 0
Sheffield, Buxton, and Leek Potteries 13' 017 0
Kentish Coast ... .. ... ... ... 1% 0 3 6
Eastem Counties ... ... ... . ... 14116 s 19 10 0
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ... 22s 019 0
Ditto ditto ... 019 6
Ditto ditto ... 1 0 0
Northampton, Bedford, and Cambridge 42s 1 5 0
Warwick and Worcester ... ... ... 42, 1 1 0
Ditto ••• •• • ••• ••• - 1 1 0
Ditto ••• ••• ••• ••• .. 1 2 6
Cornwall and Central Devon ... .. 2% 113 0
Direct Northern ... ... ... ... ... 2% 118 0
Sheffield, Buxton, and Leek Potteries... 1% 1 1 0
Scottish Midland Extension ... ... 1% 1 9 0
Great N. and S. Wales and Worcester 1 012 6
Northampton, Bedford, and Cambridge 42s 1 3 6
Liverpool,Mancli.teNeweastle-on-Tyne 50s 219 6
Callao, Lima, and Pacific Coast ... .. 1 019 6
Calcutat and St. George's Point ... 7s 0 9 6
Great Western of Bengal ... ... ... 14 0 10 6
Ditto ditto ... ... ... 011 6
Great Indian Peninsular ... ... ... 14 0 9 0
Ditto ditto ••• ••• ••• ."... 018 6
Jamaica South Midland .........1 112 0
Calcutta and St. George's Point ... 7s 010 6
Ditto ... ... ... ... ... ... 010 6
Tring, Reading, and. Basingstoke ... 105 s 213 0
Somerset Midland ... ... ... ... ... 25,i 110 6
Bideford and Tavistock ... ... ... 1N 015 0
London, Bristol, and South Wales ... 42a 019 0
Metropolitan Junction ... ... ... 2% 115 0
Great Welsh Central ... ... ... ... 42s 019 6
Leicester and Birmingham ... ... 22s 018 0
Ditto ditto ... ••• ••• 018 6
Chelmsford and Bury ... ... ... ... 1% 1 1 6
Essex and Suffolk ... ... ... ... 1% 1 0 0
Sheffield, Buxton, and Leek Potteries... 1% 1 1 0
Mauritius ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 011 6
There are no arrivals in the City to-day, except the Con-
tinental mails, and the commercial markets are compara-
tively dull.
The value of railway property (together with much other
useful information) is given in the "Banking Almanac and Di-
rectory," and from this it appears that Middlesex, the smallest
county but one in England, is richest in railways, having an
annual income from them of 960,4431. ; Lancashire stands for
593,515/. ; Surrey for 191,018/. ; Durham for 171,089/. ; Der-
byshire for 104,204/. ; and Yorkshire for 95,5101. The total
amount of railway income in 1843 was, for England and
' Wales, 2,417,609/., and for Scotland, 181,333/. • since which
period a material increase must have taken place. At the
date in question no leas than twenty counties in England,
and five in Wales. were without railways.
The Stock Market still looks well, and as respects time
bargains there is an improvement in the quotations. Con-
sols have been 943/4 to 95 for present transfer, 95% to 95%
for Account. The premium on Exchequer-bills has been
further reduced, being 19s. to 14s. Bank Stock has been
down to 2023/4 and 202%. East India Stock is worth 262.
The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 95% to
95%, and the Three per Cents. 93% 93%.
The Foreign Investments have been rather firmer, although
with a very limited business doing. Spanish Five per Cents.
are 28 ; and the Three per Cents. 37%. Mexican Bonds
have been at 31% for the Actives, and 17 for the Deferred,
being better. Peruvian are 34. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents. have realised 583/4 to 59%.
The Share Market is tolerably firm.

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES
Bank Stock ........ ........ ..... 202341A 20214
3 per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 943/ 95 9434 94%
New 314 per Cents 951/008% 95%
Long Annuities toexuireJan.lB6o 10 7-16 %% 10%
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1859 lOl4 1014
[ndia Stock 2E2 262
South Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuities
Ditto New Annuities 94% 94%
Consols for Account . . ..... 9514%1X3 951/9
Exchequer Bills, 1,0004 1%d.... 19 14 pm. 14
Ditto 5001.
Ditto Small

OYE
O'CLOCK

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.
Brazilian Bonds
Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent B6
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837
Ditto, Account ... 31%
Ditto, Deferred l7
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 34
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Ditto, 4 per Cent.
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account 2B

TABTUDAS:yINNaitbEItiecyCLOCK. PRICES.
Ditto Defek -
Ditto 3 per Cent. ...... ...... ......
358:3/44inDI50.9o:nEd London.
Dutch, Ditto, Account 373/4
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 9134
Dutch,D2i%vidpeenrdCs
92%
CLOSING 4 359
PRICES OF
RAILWAY SHARES
eonnttrh
Ale above
Aberdeen
Aberdeen, Banff, lc Elgin — —
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush .................. 1%
Aylesbury and Thame .. 1%
Belfast Si County Down 2% .
Bideford andTayistock.. • 1% ...... - -
Birmin. and Gloucester. 109, 124 .. ••.......... 124

Ditto New 17%...... --

Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Birmingham Sc Leicester
Direct __
...... -- ... ............
Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 22s ...... ...............
Bridgewater & Minehead 42m. ... ........
Bristol and Exeter
Ditto, New
Bristol and Gloucester 3O .....• ...............
Bristol and Liver. June - ...............

Buckinghamshire
Caledonian
Ditto Extension

Cambrian Grand Junc...
Cambridge and Lincoln 14 ...... 31i1/4
Do. New .-?3
Cambridge and Oxford.. 1% ...... •
Canterbury and Dover.. 1% ......
Central Kent 21,4 —
Chelmsford and Bury... og ...... -•••
Chester and Holyhead—. 15 ......
Chester and Manchester 425.
Cheltenham and Oxford 2
Clydesdale Junction..... 5
Cork Biackrock, and
raasages
Cork and Xiilarney ... 21,4 —
Cork and Waterford ... 11,4 ......
Cornwall
Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir.
and Leicester PA
Dartmouth, Torbay, and
Exeter
Derby and Crewe .....
Derby, Gainsbro', and
Great Grimsby .. 1% — ..

•
Derby, Uttoxeter, and - -
Stafford
Direct Manchester
(Remington's)
--- •....
Ditto (Racks trick's)... 5 4 ...... ..,......""• 2
h
Direct Northern
Direct Norwich
Dublin and Armagh IN.—.
Dublin and Belfast June. i
Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine
Dublin and Galway...
Dudley, Madely, and
Broseley
Dundalk & Enniskillen 2% —
Eastern Counties 141. 16s l9l/41/oii
Ditto New 61. 16s.

Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1—.6/. 13s. 4d. l4 P 3% P
Ditto ditto, No. 2-4/. 13s. 4d...
EastDereh'so andNoech 1
Eastern Union
Ditto, Quarter Shares 21 ...... --
Ditto Extension
Do. Ipswich and Bury 1 -
Do. Exten'n to Norw'h 2% --—

Do., Camb. and Ely.. 2%......
East Lincolnshire
East & West of England 1%...... -
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 65 •
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% .....• -- ... • ---
Ditto, New
Edinburgh & Northern.. 11,x...... ••• ......... •••
Edinburgh and Perth... 1% — --- ......
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