The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-11 00:00:00

ON, TUESDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 11, 1845.

But in the midst of all these blessings and distinctions of
internal prosperity and foreign power, it is but too evident
there are disturbing influences at work, which, if not counter-
acted promptly, may go far to sap and undermine the foun-
dations of this magnificent political and social fabrid. Bad
economic laws, such as those which regulate the trade of
corn and of money—impolitic principles of fiscal administra-
tion—abuses or incompetency in great branches of our exe-
cutive departments—and, above all, un-Christian, unwise
and antiquated civil disabilities, on account of religious opi-
nions, still affecting certain classes of her MAJESTY'S subjects,
tbese are fruitful sources of disunion, discontent, and disor•
ganisation of public feeling, which it becomes, with the lapse
of every day, more and more the imperative duty of the Itp-
vernment and the Legislature to remedy or to remove. In
more than one quarter of the political horizon
every observant eye detects a threatened explosion
of that morbid animosity and insatiable envy which
the grandeur and the power of the position oc-
cupied by this country among the nations bas generated
among the most unprincipled of other Governments with
which, up to this moment, we are on terms of ostensible
amity. Of all kinds of wisdom political wisdom is that
whereof " timeliness" is the most indispensable qualification.
The movement in our dockyards, arsenals, and harbours, is
all satisfactory enough, as being in the right direction ; but
in the meantime the Government should reform all admitted
anomalies in our legislation and our civil institutions, so as
to " knit together, in the bonds of amity and peace, the
hearts and minds of all classes of her MAJESTY'S subjects,"
against the day of that catastrophe—a 1% ar—which at no
distant period may be forced upon us. Whatever enemy we
may have to combat with may be assured of ultimate and
signal defeat, provided only that we leave him no auxiliary
so formidable as the existence of rankling internal grievances
affecting large masses of our countrymen, and laws specially
oppressive to the poor, by their cruel enhancement of the I
price of the first necessary for human subsistence.

The last number of the Law Review contains an article on
he subject of the controversy between the bar and the press,
which is well worthy of attention. As might have been
naturally supposed, the writer leans rather to the side of the
bar. He would fain insinuate that no insult was meant to
the press by the members of the Oxford and Western Circuit
in passing their too famous resolution. We will not stop to
inquire whether or no insult was meant; certain it is
insult was offered, and such being the case, we are
glad to find that the Law Review, a periodical which
numbers among its contributors some of the highest names
in the profession, offers this excellent advice to the members
of those circuits:—
" We believe that in both circuits there has been, on the divi-
sion as to the resolution, an opposing, but of course unsuccessful
minority, although on the Oxford Circuit it was a small one. This
minority may then easily become a majority, and we sincerely
hope that no time may be lost in rescinding the resolution in ques-
tion. It is painul to ❑s to offer this advice; it grieves us to find
that two bodies so eminent and respectable as the Oxford and
Western Circuits, so nearly allied to ourselves, and each of which
numbers among its ranks so many men whom we not only value
and esteem as distinguished members of the profession, but to
whose judgments we would gladly defer on other matters. But as
we feel a strong conviction that it is for the honour of the profession
and the interest of the public that the step should be taken, we
would only say that the sooner it is taken the better. Circuits,
like all other public bodies, are fallible. If they have been led into
error, they have neither been the first nor will they be the last
placed in similar circumstances. It is quite possible that both
these circuits acted from a generous feeling. We therefore, with
all sincerity, tender them this advice."
This is wise, sensible advice, which we trust will be fol-
lowed; and thus will this controversy, from which no pos.
Bible good can arise, be brought to a conclusion. The
writer goes on to state that, in giving this advice, it must
not for one moment be imagined that he considers the
bar has anything to fear from the press. If, by
this phrase, he means the abstraction called the
bar, he may possibly be right, but if by the Far he means the
aggregate of barristers, he is decidedly wrong, for the pulelic
would not be cognisant even of the existence of any one
single barrister if the press were invariably to exclude the
names of all counsel from its reports and notoriety—that
notoriety which the press alone can bestow, is the Pabulum
vita to a barrister. Besides, in a preceding portion of the
same article, we find the following passage :
" One word more, which we address quite as much to the true
interest as to the generous feelings of the leaders of these circuits.
The bar owes its strength, its reputation, its standing in society, to
its power of attracting to its ranks from the lowest station by far
the greater proportion of the clever men of the day. It is its
proudest boast that its sons rise, without any other assistance than
their talents and character, from the lowest rank to be the com-
panions of princes, and to wield the destinies of the world. Let
the bar beware of shutting any avenue to this class of men ; and
the public press is one which has already sent, and will again send, a
large part of the talent and character of the bar. The reporter of
to-day may become the reported of to-morrow. The bar of the
present day boasts but little beyond mediocrity ; we look along the
ranks, and, in the midst of a larger extent of average ability than
was ever before known, we find but few rising above the middle
height, and no one standing above the rest from his shoulders
and upwards.' Let us not, therefore, poison a spring from which
already so much good has down, and which may help us in time of
need "

Now surely that bar which boasts little beyond medi-
ocrity, has every thing to fear from a contest with that press
which, to use again the words of this writer,
"Is a power properly called the Fourth Estate, before which
the Prime Minister, be he who he may, daily trembles; which dis-
poses of crowns and subverts empires ; which changes the face of
nations and the very habits of the people."

It is most assuredly a great anomaly, that men who
exercise this vast power—who are in the nineteenth cen-
tury what the priests were in the thirteenth—the defenders
of the oppressed against the oppressor—the denouncers
of evil persons and evil things, the excommunicators of
those bold bad men wLo set the laws at defiance, but who
yet fear that their evil deeds should become publicly known
—it is most assuredly a great anomaly that the exercisers of
this mighty power should have no fixed social status. The

writer in the Review regrets this circumstance, which in face

renders the power of the press a perfectly irresponsible power,
but he endeavours to account for it by saying

"If the newspapers wish to be respected, they must show that
they respect each other. They impute to each ether, in plain
language, crimes which, if true, ought to drive them out of all

civilised society. Over-reaching, unfairness amounting to theft,
suboination of perjury, and lying, are repeatedly laid to each other's
charge."

To this, as a general accusation against the press, we
demur That it is true of some papers we admit, but that it
is so of all we as strenuously deny. Besides, this very fault
is owing to the fact that editors of paper,: have no social status.
The abstraction Star may abuse the abstraction Bee in the
most virulent language. Like corporations they have neither
bodies to be kicked, or souls to be saved ; but if Mr.
THOMPSON were known to be the editor of the Bee,

and were received as such, and ➢lr. JOHNSON we;
known and received as the editor of the Star,
then these papers, being no longer abstractions, would
be forced to respect each other, or a duel between JOHNSON

and THOMPSON would be the inevitable consequence.
The following accusation against the Press we meet at

once with an indignant denial :
" An impression has got abroad that in society no one is safe in
the company of a gentleman connected with the press ; that there

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must be an end to all the ease, and abandon or society in his pre-
sence, that random thoughts and careless opinions will be seized

upon, and at some future and convenient time divulged to the
world."

It is not the gentleman connected with the newspaper press
of England who is the penciller by the way, the sketcher of
fashionable sketches, the betrayer of confidence, the purveyor
of scandal. No, it is the attache—the fashionable member
of the fashionable club—the man who has and who holds
his status in society—that is the retailer of " the after-dinner
nonsense." He it is who brings his budget of gossip to the
market, and sells it for what he can get; and he it is who is
most loud in his denunciations against newspaper men, be-
cause his proffered services have by them been rejected with
loathing and contempt.

The intelligence from Switzerland is of an unfavourable
character. The excitement caused by the suicide or assassi-
nation of M. LEu appears to be still on the increase, and
several persons of rank and the greatest respectability had
been arrested in consequence of the confessions of a man
named MULLER, who calls himself an accomplice. The
Basle Gazette of the 29th ult. says, that no reasonable and
impartial man believes that Dr. PFYFFER, who has been
arrested on the pretended confession of MULLER, as an ac-
complice in the reported murder of M. LEO, had anything to
do with the affair. The Federal Gazette of Zurich expresses
the same opinion, and, in announcing the arrest of Captain
WEGELLN on the same charge, states that no man, how-
ever respectable, is now safe. The Grand Council
of Lucerne, however, actuated by the wildest spirit of perse-
cution against the Liberal party, takes all this man's evi-
dence for gospel, and acts on it. At a late meeting of the
Council the President read the Confession of MuLLER, with
the testimony in support of it, and also the report of the jus-
tices appointed to investigate the affair, from which it ap-
pears these magistrates assert that they have reasons to be-
lieve that deep and odious machinations have been carried on
in the dark. We fear that from such detestable means to
excite one party against another the most lamentable results
may be anticipated. Switzerland and the United States are
doing everything in their power to make republics odious in
the eyes of all good citizens.

We have received Madrid journals of the 2d inst. The
Gazette of the previous day puts an end to all doubt about
the assembling of the Cortes, and contains a royal decree con-
voking that body on the 15th of December. Before that
period about forty- five vacancies must be filled up—new
Members to supply the vacancies caused by the acceptance
of offices under the Crown, or other causes. From all ac-
counts, however, nearly the whole of the new Members will
be Ministerialists. The NARVAEZ Cabinet is not very
scrupulous as to means; and, accordingly, arrangements
have been made by which majorities must be in their favour.
Reports prevailed that the whole of the garrison of Madrid
was to be changed, and other regiments substituted, more
likely to be under the influence of the Queen-Mother and
NARvAEz. The General, it is said, will have everything in
the army according to his own views, and CHRISTLNA sup-
ports him. He is wise in his generation, for without the
adhesion of the army he could not remain in office for one
week.

The Bourse was closed on Saturday, the Ist, it being
Ali Saints' Day.

A sort of panic took place on the Paris Bourse on Satur-
day, said to have been caused by the advices from London,
announcing the depression in the English Funds and the
resolution of the Bank to raise its discount to three-and-a-
half per cent. Great crowds flocked to the Bourse, which
was extremely agitated, and a great deal of

business was done. For the Account the Five
per Cents. and Three per Cents. had fallen about
25c., and the new Loan, 40c. Shares in the Great Northern
line had fallen lower than on any previous occasion, and closed
at 7351. Most of the other lines fell in proportion. The
Ministerial journals contain articles on the present crisis
and the anticipated rise in ,the price of grain, which
they consider greatly exaggerated. The Epoque, for-
merly the Globe, a Government journal, says :-" As
to the financial crisis, one word is a sufficient
answer to all these predictions of ruin and bankruptcy. The
Chambers have decided that the railroads shall be executed
by companies, and capital has been naturally invested in
shares. There have been variations in prices, as must always
happen. But has money been wanting? No. Have works
been suspended? Look at the numerous edifices rising
around-tell us what branch ofindustry is really in sufferance.
We proclaim with confidence that every affair which is pre-
sented with honour and solidity finds more capital than it re-
quires. The harvest has been bad in some parts of the country,
but it has been tolerably good in other parts, and positively
good in several departments. We do not live on potatoes alone,
as they do in Ireland, and by taking the measures, required
by circumstances, we shall have sufficient wheat, rye, maize
chestnuts, and potatoes, to supply those districts which have
suffered in their crops. Of those who say that moral feeling
is lost in France, we ask if they reckon themselves among
those who have forfeited their probity and independence.
Assuredly they still hold themselves to be most honest, most
independent. Why, then, should they not believe their
neighbours to be as much so as they are? If, then, the old
press, instead of writing under the influence of its rancorous
passions, would write under the influence of truth and modera-
tion, it would find that things are not going on so badly as it
is sa ready to represent."
The Journal des Debats thus endeavours also to dissipate
alarm as to the state of the crops :-
" Theevil of a panic has no limit; it is contagious, and spreads
without meeting a cheek, and seizes possession equally of the most
violent, and most temperate, and most cautious dispositions. No
Interest is more irritable than that of the stomach when it believes
itself to be compromised. Under such circumstances a popular
panic Increases to gigantic proportions, and produces in a few days
the most deplorable results. We still recollect the disturbances
which prevailed during the year 1839 throughout the country
situated between the Gironde and the Loire, and the scenes of vio-
lence which occurred at Manure, at Litcon, and at Brault, under
the influence of the fear of a famine. We refer to those events
because present circumstances are similar; and we trust that
the results of the present apprehension will not be more un.
pleasant than what followed that momentary crisis. The
harvest of the year 1839 was but indifferent throughout
England, Ireland, France, and parts of Germany ; and, as
it always happens under such circumstances, England, whose
consumption generally exceeds its production, was obliged
to make larger purchases abroad than usual. The price of wheat
in England rose in that year to 735. a quarter, a price which it
had not reached since the year 1816; and at that price the sliding-
scale opened a large field for foreign importation. Still the im.
portation was not exorbitant ; it did not exceed 7,312,428 hecto-
litres-that is, only the double of the usual average amount of
imports. 7,1)(10,000 hectolitres is, at most, but the 24th part of
the produce of France. Had the entire amount been purchased
in our markets, the country would certainly have suffered; but it
would not have incurred the risk of a famine. The Government,
however, in order to relieve the existing apprehension, thought it
necessary by an ordinance, dated the 25th of January, 1839, to
forbid the exportation of grain. Such a measure was eeonomi.
catty, as well as politically, a wise measure ; for political parties on
one hand, and commercial speculations on the other, were
already _ hastening to take advantage of the popular fears.
Eiperience demonstrated how much exaggerated had been
the apprehensions entertained, and after a few months the
ordinance having been withdrawn, the trade in corn re-
sumed its free and regular course in our ports. The expor-
tation of grain in France during the last quarter of the year
1839 did not amount to more than 870,124 hectolitres-that
is to say, to about the double of the annual average. But we must
remark by the way, that all this great foreign trade in corn in
France merely affects the re-exportation of grain, one of the prin-
cipal branches of commerce in Marseilles; the native produce of
France feels not its effects. In the mean time English speculation
is confined to the countries where grain is one-third or one-half
cheaper than in France, or to the grain from those countries stored
in France. What is the fact at the present moment, when specu-
lation and a panic combined cause the prices to rise in Western
Europe. The fact is that at Odessa, Riga, Dantzic, those great
storehouses for corn, the price of wheat remains still at 12, 15,
and 17 francs the hectolitre (we speak of middling quality), whilst
with us the price is 21E, and in London, at the end ej October, the
price was 555. 4d, the quarter, that is 24f. the hectolitre. If we
now calculate the difference between the prices in the Baltic and
in the Black Sea, and add the expense of freight and commission,
and if we add a duty of 2f. imposed upon wheat exported from
France when the price exceeds 25f. the hectolitre, we shall find
that, at the price of 27f. for the English purchaser, our consumers
would be sufficiently protected both by the competition of foreign
grain and by the nature of our tariffs."
The Journal des Debats, however, though generally con-
ducted with ability, occasionally display s crude notions, which
will not bear the test of examination ; for instance, in refer-
ring to the numerous Cabinet Councils held lately, it comes to
this conclusion :-" The most likely result is an Order in
Council opening provisionally the ports of Ireland, but the
ports of Ireland only, to foreign corn. Nevertheless, if we
are to judge by the language held by the Viceroy. of Ireland,
we may believe that the English Ministry is inclined to wait
until it has acquired more complete information. However
this may be, the resolution come to will probably be soon
known." This shows how sadly the writer is puzzled to form
any idea of what will happen. The inference that the Irish
ports only will be opened displays great ignorance, for of what
use would it be to confine this measure to Ireland? If corn
were admitted into that country free of duty, it would in a
few days find its way into England on the same terms. The
ports of both countries, if opened at all, must be opened at the
same time.
' In the Rot& (a Paris journal generally devoted to naval
affairs), we find an article on the present state of the French
and English navy, extending to more than six columns. It
claims credit, and justly, for the superiority of the French
in constructing large vessels of war, but allows England the
advantage in building smaller vessels, such as corvettes,
brigs, &c. It wisely, however, comes to the conclusion that
"France may build the finest vessels in the world, and have
also the largest navy, but to have a grand marine, which
may live more than a day, she must have a vast
maritime commerce ; she must have large and flourishing
colonies, such laws for favouring navigation, even
should that be done at the expense of other interests. At
present we have nothing of all these, not even the right of
pre-emption for forest trees, a wise provision of the great
COLBERT, of which one ruinous vote of the representatives
of France deprived our royal marine. Our maritime corns
merce is sinking more and more every day under the in •
fluence of existing laws. As regards colonies, we have only
ruins. This is the disastrous state of affairs ; and when the
Chambers, which wish for a grand marine, shall
have re-established by new laws whatever they have
destroyed by law, then France will reap the
fruits of a quarter of a century of sacrifices." The compara-
tive state of the two royal navies is thus stated :-" The
French navy is numerically about one-third of that of Great
Britain. This immense inequality is moreover greatly in•
creased by the great number of three-deckers which the
English possess. The number of vessels upon the stocks is
nearly the same in both countries. Our neighbours are far
from having any advantage over us as regards the construc-
tion of first-class vessels and frigates. They are incontes-
tably superior to us as regards the construction of inferior
vessels, such as corvettes, brigs, schooners, &c. And if
the artillery on board our (the French) vessels is
in general as well-disposed as that on board the Eng-
lish ships, there are some notable improvements to be made
on board all our vessels, by arranging our guns so as to be
used either when giving chase or when in retreat, and also
in the manner in which our vessels are equipped. In refe-
rence to the trade with China, the Constitutionnel contains the
following sensible remarks, conveyed in a letter, it sayssfrom
a person worthy of confidence :-" Notwithstanding the am-
bassadors and the commercial commission, we shall not obtain
advantages from the treaty as long as the French will not
make up their minds to drink tea, and the Chinese claret.
Our commerce in this country will be always limited, from
the want of a commercial organization, for which everything
is yet to be done."
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Satur•
•
day at 81f. 95c. ; the New Loan at 821. ; the Five per Cents.,
1171. 25c.; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,140 f.; Rouen,
9701. ; Great Northern, 7351. ; Fampoux, 505 f. ; Havre, 766 f. ;
Avignon, 935 f. ; Vierzon, 707 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 613 f. 75c. ;
Boulogne, 5401. ; Troyes and Montereau, 500 f. ; Basle,
2461. 25c. ; Spanish Actives, 37; Spanish Three per Cents.,
38i ; ditto, Domestic Debt, 35 ; ditto, Passives, Q.
The following are the quotations for other lines :-
Paris and Lyons Railroad (Laffitte), 17f. 75c. prem. ; ditto
(Calon), 4f. ; ditto (Ganneron), 7f. ; ditto (La Pinsonniere),
11. 50c. ; Paris and Strasbourg (Hinguerlot), 10f. ; ditto
Aymard), Sf. ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 20f. ; ditto
Drouillard), 4f.; ditto (O'Neill), 10f. ; ditto (Lefevre), 41. ;
Lyons and Avignon (Talabot), 241 ; ditto (Lecointe), 91.;
ditto (Cempagnie Meridionale), sf. ; Bordeaux and Cette
(Mackenzie), lf. 25. ; ditto (Espeleta), 12f. 50c. ' • Creil and
St. Quentin (Carette), Bf. ; ditto (Colbert), If. ; Charleroi
(Kysaen's), 500 f. ; Dieppe (Sellieres), 26f. 25c.; Caen (Dela-
marre), 3f. 50c.
MARSEILLES, Nov. 4.-Marseilles and Avignon, 1,005 f. ;
Boulogne. 580 f.; Vierzon, 740 f.; Orleans and Bordeaux,
662 f. 50c.
LYONS, Nov. 6.-Marseilles and Avignon, I,ooof. ; Paris
and Orleans, 1,177 f. 50c. ; Orleans and Vierzon 730 f.
Northern, 761 f. 25c. ,

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 8.
Anglo-Belgian — Luxembourg
Boulogne and Amiens.. 91,i Madrid and Valentia —
Bordeaux &Mediterran Namur and Liege 4
Bordeaux and Toulouse North Jamaica ...
Do. & Cette (Espeleta) Orleans and Vierzon 17
Do. (Mackenzie's) .. Orleans and Bordeaux 10%
Central of Spain .. — ,OverYssel
Demerara
Dendre Valley
Dutch Rhenish
Dieppe & Paris Janet — . Paris and 0r1ean5......
Dijon and Mulhouse ;Paris and Rouen .......
East Indian
' Fampoux & Hazebrouk (Ganneron's).
Grt Northern of France j Do. (Aymards)
(Lsffitte's)
Ditto (Rosamel's)
Do. (Le Boeuf) . — ;Rouen and Havre...... 27
Do. Pepin le Halleur — IRoyal North of Spain.
Great Paris and Lyons — Sambre and Meuse ....
Great Western Bengal Strasburo. and Basle ...
Great Western Canaa 31/2 Tournay,Jurbise, Lan-
Jamaica S. Mid. Junction j dent, and Hasselt...
Do. North Midland... Tours and Nantes
Do. Extension
Jersey — ' Do. (Lefebvre's)
Louvain and Jemeppe.. 25 Verona and Ancona —
Lyons and Avignon.... 1-,4 !West Flanders 4

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We do not remember for many years a season so
fine as we have had since the two last weeks in October. The
sky has been almost constantly clear and bright, and so
warm as to merit the designation of the Summer of St.
Martin. All accounts from the country concur in declaring
that there never was a more favourable seed-time.—Paris
Paper.

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MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were 4,000
bales, including 1,200 on speculation. Prices had an up-
ward tendency.
It is said that the Ministers have resolved to appoint a
Commission to inquire into the extent of the failure of the
potato crop in this country as well as Ireland, and also to
express an opinion what remedial measures should be adopted
before any Order in Council is issued for the reduction of the
duties upon the admission of foreign corn, or of opening the ports
free. Such a course, if decided upon by the Cabinet, must
lead to the greatest misery among that larger portion of the
Queen's subjects who are already severely pressed by the high
prices paid for food, and who unquestionably must suffer still
further by the inevitable result of a protracted inquiry into a
matter which'is beyond doubt already. The state of the markets
for grain and potatoes, for rice, and all ether articles forming
the leading edibles of the millions,sufficiently testify the fact
that some remedial measures are instantly required. The
season is already :far advanced, and, after so mild an
autumn, winter will, in all probability, soon set in with
severity. And yet the people are to be told that a Commis-
sion is now about being appointed to inquire, while,
before any report can be made, famine, with all its 4oncomi •
tant miseries, may desolate the land. If such be the result
of the deliberations of the many Cabinet Councils that have
sat of late, it may be truly said that they have ended almost
in nothing.
It is with much satisfaction we find that a subscription has
been set on foot for the purpose of presenting a testimonial
to Lieutenant Waghorn, for his long-continued, zealous,
and highly successful endeavours to demonstrate the feasi-
bility (now a groat fact) of having communication with
the East Indies within a month. A most influential com-
mittee has been formed to promote the object in view. We
wish it every possible success.
There are accounts from New York this morning one day
later, in point of date, than those before received, The most
important feature is, that the wheat and flour markets were
rising, in consequence of very large orders having been re-
ceived out for exportation to British ports.
The Public Securities have advanced a trifle this morn-
ing. Consols for the Account have touched 96; they left off
on Saturday afternoon at 951/2 34; for Money the price has
ruled from 95% to 96. Bank Stock is from 200 to 202 ; and
the premium upon Exchequer-bills has advanced from 20s.
to 265.
The Portuguese Four per Cents. have advanced to 56. ; the
Spanish Five per Cents are more firm, at 28%; and the
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 59.
A very limited amount of business has been transacted in
Stock and Shares to-day. Lord Mayor's-day has had but
few charms for the holders of depressed Scrip.
In consequence of various alterations rendered imperatively
necessary in the official Share list, the publication has been
delaye4 to so late an hour that it is doubtful if it can be
ready for our first impression. It may be said, however, tha
the market is more firm.

ONE
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
I per Cent. Reduced - . 9434%
3 per Cent. Conso/s Annuities 9534 96
New 314 per Cents
Long Annuities toexnireJan.lB6o 10 7-16
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1859
India Bonds, 1,0001 -
Ditto under 1,0001. . . 45
Consols for Account ... . . 95% 96
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., I'lo. 22 26
Ditto 5001.

ONE
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela l7
Equador Bonds
Granada Bonds, 1 per Cent.
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 ......
Ditto, Deferred —
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent ..
Ditto. Account
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account 28%
Do., 1841 .., 27%
Ditto, Passive
Ditto 3 per Cent. ... ••• —
Ditto, Account 37%
Belgian 4% per Cent.
Dutch, 2% per Cent .
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 93%

CLOSINO
PRICES
202
947
96
9714
10 9-16
10 3..16

PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE
RAILWAY SHARES PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Aberdeen.................. 5
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush ................. .1% —
Aylesbury and Theme.. 1%
Belfast & County Down
Bideford andTavistock... 1X
Birmin. and Gloucester. 100
.... •••
Ditto New ............... 17% —
Birmingham and Ox-
brd Junction ........ 2
Boston, Stam!d, & Birm. 22s — p
Bridgewater & Minehead ... ..
Bristol and Exeter 7O
Ditto, New .......... 2
Bristol and Liver. June • ••..••
Caledonian ............... 5 ...... 101 A 9%
Ditto Extension
Cambridge and Lincoln 1% 414 3%
Do. New . .............. 1% 33 2%.. ....
Cambridge and Oxford.. 1,4 — ... .... ....
Canterbury and Dover.. INi
Chelmsford and Bury... 1%......
Chester and Holyhead... 15
Chester and Manchester 425. —
Cheltenham and Oxford 2 ...... 2%
Clydesdale Junction 5
Cork Blackrock, and
Passages
Cork and Killarney ... 21/2 —
Cork and Waterford ... 1%• l4
Cornwall
Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir
and Leicester l4 ...... 1:54 —
Chichester and Brighton 20
Coventry and Leicester 114 —
Churnet Valley
Chatham and Portsm'th 1
Derby, Gainsbro', and
Great Grimsby ... ...... ....
Derby, Uttoxeter, and
Stafford 2%....„ ......
Direct Manchester

(Remington's)
Ditto (Rackstrick's) n:::::: 4234,,,
Direct Northern
Direct Norwich -
Dublin and Armagh
Dublin and BelfastJunc 5 ...... -
..........
Dublin, Belfast, and ...
Coleraine
. ..
.....
Dublin andGalway..• - 4 .... 4 .
Dundalk & Enniskillen 21/2 ........ ... ....... - .......
Dublin and Cashel - .""......••..............
....
Dublin and Mullingar 2l/2 ...... - Diss, Beccles,Yarmouth 11/2 .. ... ....... ...... -.
Dublin and Belfast June 5 ...... -
.............
Eastern Counties 141. 165....... 21 2014
Ditto New 4/. 16s. ...... 71/2 r p ...... ~
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
DiCtteondt
EastDereh'm andNoech 1 ...... -
............ „
Eastern Union 2O ..... -
............ .•
itNtoo,2N1o•••2•••6.1.211 381•3431. i•ii:2.2. -3/4 p
..........................
East Lincolnshire - - 3 21,
......
..
DDitto,
Cam
nuba.r
andter Shares Ely . .
22%1% .. .. .. .. . .
_...-
........................
East & West of England 1% ...... -
..............
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50_ ...... -
..............
Ditto, Quarter Shares 121/2...,_
.... .
........ .
Ditto, New'
••• ...... - ..............
Edinburgh & Northern.. 11A ...... .__.
.........
•Enniskillen and Sligo ••• 21/2 ....... . -
...... ......
EEldyi Edinburgh g.i. hit andltHuntingdon
gdoil Perth.... . . 15. 1/2 ......... -- . :
.......
Essex and Suffolk .. ••• 1% ...... -
...........
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorset 2% ...... - ....
...............
Glcouecn.t„rAalboe
GrandJunctf7oNisVi _lOO ...... -
Ditto Half Shares...... 50 .. .
.. -
...
Grand Union 1
Goole and Doncaster
Ditto Quarters... .....• 25 ...... _
% ...... -- • •
I awl ei st 1 .. 2.
a.
. n.
.. 1 ... . • - .. .
Great Easteni &Western 2 1;4 ... „, 2%
GreatGrimsby and Shef•
field -
..
Great South. and West ..
(Ireland)
Ditto Extension - ...............
Great Munster
Great North of England 100
;7 147 15.1; ..
2 ......
•••
210 214.. .........
Great North of Scotian
Ditto New
4DDeaiott.tolNvleeisteirni.a.r.e.
s- ......
..; 8(.1 50 .............
50
Ditto Fifths -
Guildford, Fare'm,Ports. 2!4 2 ..
Harwich
Hull and Selby 5O .... -
Ditto 14, Shares ...... 121/2 ...... -
Do. Half Shares ...... 2 ••-•• -
Hounslow Western .....
.2 -
Hull and Gainsborough 1$ ...... -
Inverness and Elgin ..... . 1 ...... -
Ipswich, Norwich, and
Yarmouth ...... ...... 2 - •.• ••• ...... ••
Irish North Midland ...... 1% -
Isle ofAxholine ....
ge..sh.t.ae,rar..i,
Kendal and Windermere 11/6 -
Kentish Coast 1. Q, _
............ 72 ••••••
Killarney Junctions ......
L incaster and Carlisle... 30 -
Larne, Belfast, and Bal-
lymena ..................... -
Junction ............... 11; -
LLieviceersi,t.earn&d Bmiarrnnelnh
LeicesterLLeeDiecdoe.s ti4ae nr
Shares niniddi e:Bssaet 1 nd.
Ridingfwj
Ir
.tii 25:0211 p
Do. Quarter 5..........,... 25 ...... - •••
-
Liverpool & Leeds Direct 2% ..
Lpool., Mnchstr, & New- •
castle Junction .... 21/. ....•• 41/2
London and Birmingnniioo- 216 217....
Do. Thirds ............ 10
44
Do. 14 Shares ......... 9 - •• •• •
Ditto Fifths .......... 2 . .. 201/..':
•
Ditto Extension ....., iv, - . 1%
London and Blackwell. 16/. 132.4 d. 914 9
Do. New ............... 11,4„. „ 4
Ditto Extension ...... _l'4.
... _
London and Brighton... so
~.. 601/2
Do. consolidated Bths.. 35 -.., _
LoDnditotno2aSnidxCthrosyd•O2n.,• ... 0X1.::::;d: 2204 20 21
Do. Guaranteed 5 per
Cent. .•• ............... 8
Lon., Chel., 0x.,G10., and
Hereford .. ........ ••• lA.-. % ..... ''''''••
London and Greenwich 12/ 15s 4d
Do. Preference ...18/17s 2d
London, Hounslow, and
Western ........... 2
-.••••-• • •••
Load. & S.Western 411.62 um
Do. New Consol. Bths 20
DDo. New .............. 21/2 - •
o. New ............... -
London& South Essex -.
..
London and York
London and Windsor ... 1 "`• .
- •••
d 0202235: 1/1.1/2.-............_.. p
.......
....
...... . ..
. .

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17
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213 A

55%
28%
281 A

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PRICES.
71/2

20.14
7p

3/1 P
- P

-P

2%

p
1 p
14 P

2%
4%
217
44

201,4

601,6

4%

t'ondon, Warwick, and
Kidderminster 2% 214 •••
London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil ,. 2 /,4 .....
Londonderry & Coleraine 5
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen ... .. 5 ... .. ~.
Lynn and Ely
Lynn and Dereham 5 —
Manchester and Leeds .. 76
Ditto 1,4 Shares
Do. Quarters 2 "' ....
Do Sixteenths ..... ... 414
Manche:ter and Birmin. 40
.
••••• .... .
Do. Quarters 4
2••• •• 73 74
..
Do. New Quarters ..- 2
Do. Continuation and
Welsh Junction ... 1% —
Afanchester,Buxton,and
Matlock
Manchester, Birm., and
Mould Junction ..... —
Manchest. & Southampt. 2 ... 3% %. ..
Midland 100 139 140 133
Do. Fifths 2
Do. New
Ifidl and, Bi rm., Derby...loo 10514 104 108...
Milld. & East. Counties —
Midland Great Western
( Irish) - •••• ..... •4••
Do. Extension, No. 1 234 —
..........
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction 25 ...... 5514 55
Do. New Brandling... 15
Naweastle mid flerwick 5
Newcastle and Carlisle...loo - .••
Newcastle, Durham, and ...... . • ••
Lancashire Junction-. 1 i':. . ,
Newport & Abergavenny 9
--
New Ross and Carlow... 22s
Newry and Enniskillen 21/2 ....
Newark, Sheffield, and
Boston ...
North British
North Devon ...
...
..
...... ......
Northern and Eastern 45
Do. Scrip
Do. Quarter Shares... 1214 —
Do. New
N. Kent & Direct Dover 2/.... 23/4 g7/
North Staffordshire 423.
_.... 31/2% p
North Wales
••••
North and South Wales •••
and Worcester - •.,„
Norwich and Brandon... 16
Ditto New 1
Northampton, Banbury,
and Cheltenham
Nottingham and Boston 1% 2%
Nottingin., Erewsh.Val-
lev, and Manchester 1% — ...
Nottingham and Mans-
field
Oxford, Gosport, Ports-
mouth,& Southamptn 425...... 14dis. ...
Oxford and Worcester... 21% 76% 7% 6:i
Oxford, Witney, and
Cheltenham...,
Perth and Inverness ... 2%
Pilbrow Atmospheric ... 1
Portsmouth Direct ..... 3%
Preston and Wyre
Do. 1/, Shares
Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate
Richmond .. 5
Rugby and Huntingdon 2
Rugby, Leamington, and .
Warwick — —
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland 1 4 —
Sheffield & Manchesterloo
Do. Quarter Shares... 8
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
Dudley, and Birm 2%..... 5 4% ....... . ...
Shrewsbury and Trent
Valley Union
Shrewsbury & Hereford 254,
Sornersetshire Midland 2% - •. "'. .....
..
South Devon... 25
... • ..
South Midland 225.
South StaffordshireJunc. 2% —
South Eastern & Dover:33l2s 4d 35
Do., No. 1
Do., N.. 2.
Do.. 1\0.3
Southampton, Manches-
ter, & Oxford Junction 2 „,.
St.-Alban's, Hatfield, and ...
Hertford Junction ...
Staines and Richmond... 1 -
Staffordsh. & Shropshire- 234 —
aouth \Vales . „, 21,/2 4% 5
Teau and Dove Valley 14/
frent Valley
2 ..... . --••••••• ..... .•
Trent Valley and Holy-
head Junction
Tring, Reading, and
Basingstoke -
Vale of Neath ... ..
Warwick & Cheltenham 1% ..-• -••
Waterford and Kilkenny 3 ..,. .
Waterford and Limerick 7%...... •••
Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw,
and Dublin - ..•
11' aterford, Wexford, and
Valentia
Waveney Va11ey.........
Welch Midland
vest Cornwall
West Yorkshire
WestLondon,Old Shares 20
West End and Southern
Counties
Wexford and Carlow ... 214 ......
Wilts, Somerset, and
Southampton ........ 18 -
Wilts, Somerset, & Wey-
mouth
•• - 4%3A ..... ... ..
Worcester, Shrewsbury,
and Crewe Union
Worcester and S. Wales 425.
Yarmouth and Norwich. 20
Ditto, New
York and Carlisle 234- 314 ...... ....... •
York and Lancaster 2% 2% York & South Connecting
...... ••• ••
York and North Midland 50
Ditto q Shares
Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 25
Do Selby 2O -
Do. Extension IIA 27
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Anglo- Belgian 4
Boulogne and A miens... 8
Bordeaux & Mediterran. 2
Bordeaux. Toulouse, and
Cette (Mackenzie's)... 2 ..... 134
Do. (Espelete's) . ... 2 ..... _4
Calais, Dunk, and West
Flanders
Central of. Spain ... .... 2 ,
Ceylon
Demerara ... .. .... . 2l/2
Dendre Valley ...
Dijon and Mulhouse ... 2
Dutch Rhenish - 5
Fast Indian... ..... .... ss.
Farnpoux & Hazebrouk 2
Great North. of France
(Laffitte's)
Do. do. (Rosamel's) 2
Do. Peppin le Elalleur 4 .. _, —,„ „.. ........
D a (Le Boeuf)
Great Paris and Lyons 2
Great Western Bengal... ss.
Great Western Canada.- 3V,
Jamaica S.Mid. Junction 1
Jamaica North Midland 1
DO. Extension 1
Jersey ... 1
Louvain and Jemeppe... 4 ... . 21/0
Lyons and Avignon
Luxembourg-. 4
Madrid and Valentia.... -.2 ... ~
Namur and • Liege
North Jamaica 1
Orleans and Vierzon ... 10 ... 17
Orleans and Bordeaux... 0 ...... 10%14
Over Yssel 4133 4d —
Paris &Lyons(Laffitte's) l - .....
Paris and Lyons (Gan-
neron's)'
Paris & Lyons, (Calon's) 2 -......—
Paris and Orleans - 20
Paris and.Rouen .. 2O
Paris and Strasbourg
(Ganneron's)
Do. (Compte de L'Est) 2
Ditto ( Aymards) 214 — .•... .. ...
Paris and St. Quentin ... 2 - ... . .
Rouen and Havre ....... 18 - •••....
Royal North of Spain ... 2 -
Sambre and Meuse ...... 6.. . ... -
Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 ...... 9
St. Laurence & Atlantic .. . ...
Tourney, Jurhise, Lan-
dent, and 11a55e1t...... 4 ...... --,-
Tours and Nantes (Mac-
kenzie's) - 414%
Do. do (Lefebvre's N, 2
Ditto (O'Neill's)
Verona and Ancona._ . 3
West Flandere
MINES.

Reg], del Monte Unregd.
.........

UNITED STATES.
LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY.—The New York packet-ship Ox-
ford, Captain Rathbone, arrived here this afternoon, after a
voyage of twenty-four days, during which she had expe-
rienced very bad weather. She sailed from New York on the
16th ult., and has therefore brought papers. from that city
one day later than the last arrival. The Oxford has twenty-
one -cabin passengers. She reports the arrival of the ship
Ashburton at New York on the 16th ult.
We do not find any news of importance in these papers.
The following are a few extracts :
The Commercial publishes a letter from Washington Insinu-
ating that Mr. Buchannan will resign, and .fir. Walker take his
place; and that Mr. Huger will resign his seat in the Senate,
which will be taken by Mr. Calhoun. The same writer thinks
that Mr. Dromgoole will be elected Senator from Virginia.
The Secretary of the Navy returned to Washington yesterday.
During his brief absence from the seat of government Mr. Bancroft
has visited all the naval stations north of the Potomac, which he
had not previously inspected. He has given his careful attention
to the condition of the navy yards at Portsmouth, New York, and
Philadelphia. He has embraced the opportunity also to visit the
Naval Asylum at the latter city. A busy week's work.— Union.

COMMERCIAL.
WEDNESDAY, P.m..--The news from Europe by the Great Britain
continues to be highly important. Great Importance is attached to
the partial failure of the potato crop.
Letters have been received from the continent, ordering potatoes
to be shipped from here. Besides grain and dour, cheese has con.
tinned to go forward to England ever since the tall season com-
menced in greater quantities than usual, and at higher prices.
As soon as the news by the steamer transpired, there was a good
deal of excitement in the market. The dour and grain dealers
were very active. Flour advanced halts dollar per barrel, and
nearly 5,000 barrels were taken, mostly for export. Wheat went
up five cents, and corn was held at an advance. Ashes are a little
quicker. 'I he cotton market is depressed.
Exchange on England is at least j per cent. lower. Sterling is
sold freely at 10911 to 1094.

SELLING HUMAN BONES.—We have been informed
that a quantity of the bones turned up by the excavations
now going on at Redcliffe church, were sold by some of the
workmen. - A repetitipn of the revolting act has been pre-
vented by the authorities.—Bristol Journal