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THE MARCHIONESS OF BRINVILLIERS.
A Romance of Old Paris.
By ALBERT SMITH.
Chap. Vll.—Louise Gauthier falls into the hands of La Maussee.
Chapter VIII.—The Catacombs of the Bievre.
Chap. IX.—The Revenge of it. Croix.—The 2teneontre in the Bas-
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With an Illustration by Leech.
2. Anecdotioal Gatherings, by R. B. Peake, Esq.
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to the councils the power of removing from the re-
gistry men who had been guilty of flagrant misconduct.
He proposed to give to the Faculty of Physicians and
Surgeons in Glasgow co-ordinate powers of licensing
with the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Edin-
burgh. He would give time to the profession to con-
sider the provisions of the Bill, which he then moved
for leave to introduce.

After a few words from Mr. WAKLEY, leave was
given to bring in the Bill.
Mr. BELLEW then moved for copies of the papers re-
lating to the dismissal of the Earl of LUCIN from the
magistracy in Ireland.
Sir T. FREMANTLE said there could he no objection
to the production of the papers.
After a few words from Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL, the
ATTORNEY-GENERAL fur Ireland, and Mr. Ross, the
motion was agreed to.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of,
and the House adjourned at One o'clock.

It is with unaffected pleasure that we refer to some
items of naval intelligence, which are received with
sufficient confidence in the best-informed professional
circ'es to warrant us in assuming them to be founded in
truth. It is understood that the Admiralty Board are
about to take a decisive and immediate step in the right
and wise direction of giving the utmost efficiency which
it comes within the province of their constitution to
communicate to that which is now destined to be the
right arm of the most vigorous of our national forces—
namely, our war-steamer navy. We are tempted to hope
that the days of official favouritism and personal in-
fluence are numbered at that department in which, of
all ether branches of our Executive administration, it is
most essential that public trusts and public duties should
be sternly discharged with unsleeping vigilance, as well
as with uncompromising impartiality. One of the
most emphatic indications which can be given to
the public of the prevalence of this healthy state of feel-
ing at the Board of Admiralty must, of course, be looked
for in the demonstration of their inaccessibility to other
claims but those of the public service, and other solicita-
tions but those of their own sense of public duty, in de-
termining on the plan for the construction and armament
of ships building or to be built, and of their promptitude
to give reward and encouragement to those candidates
for eminence, or those most important services, whose
merits have been duly tested and found to justify the
distinction of such a preference. A most intelligible in-
dication of the character we speak of has just been ex-
hibited by the Lords of the Admiralty, in their marked
recognition of his abilities and skill, who may hope long
to be remembered as the builder of the Terrible. We
have no wish to reflect unnecessarily on the much-con-
tested qualities of the models produced by the Surveyor
of the Navy. But the practical judgment of the dis-
tinguished authorities who have now confirmed the
superiority of the Master bhipwright's principl©s of con-
struction, Sx., as evidenced by their opinions of the
Terrible, is worth a hundred theoretical pleas in favour
of those exemplifications of naval architecture that have
been produced on the Surveyor-General's "intuitive
principle." Among other announcements we find the
following in the columns of the Times :

" Mr. Lang, master shipwright at Woolwich Dockyard,
has given such satisfaction to the Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty in the design and construction of the Terrible,
which has also met with the approbation of all the naval
officers who have seen her, that he has been ordered to build
another of the same magnificent dimensions and tonnage,
and in every other respect like her, with the exception that she is
to be fitted with the screw propellerinstead of paddle-wheels.
Messrs. Maudsley, Field, and Sons, are t• supply the steam-
engines of 800-horse power.
" Mr. Lang has also been ordered to lay down a first-class
steam-sloop, to be named the Niger, upon a plan submitted
by himself, and she is to have a screw propeller, and be com-
plete in March, 1847."
All this is ♦ery good. If the Admiralty will cause a
few such standard ships as the " Terrible" to bo built it
is easy to see how the Government in the next and fu-
ture years may go on adding to the number, increasing
the strength, enlarging and vastly reinforcing the arma-
ment, and securing the efficiency of our war-steamers,
and even line-of-battle ships, with much reduced esti-
mates. We take leave to notice a few of the heads
under which these very desirable results might be
realised. In reference both to the indispensable neces-
sity for, and superior effectiveness of, war-steamers over
sailing ships-of-war, and the growing conviction of the
superior advantage of a heavy armament mounted on two
decks, over an equal, or somewhat greater, weight of
metal distributed over three, it is to be presumed that
the Admiralty will discontinue, for the present, altoge-
ther, the building of any new ships of the line of the first
class—three-deckers. Among all the wasteful and ex-
pensive follies of past Admiralty administrations, none
have been more signal than those of the pertinaciously-
adhered-to system of constructing, at a vast expense,
ships of those dimensions and capacity, only to cut them
down, after a very few years' experience of their objec-
tionable working, into second-rates, at a further enormous
expense to the public. The public is, by this time,
feelingly convinced that, independently of the grievous
grounds they have for complaint on the score of profli-
gate expenditure, occasioned by this wanton process of
alternate " building up and pulling down," rasees seldom
turn out good vessels of that class into which the trans-
formation has lowered them. The great height of three-
deckers, the enormous addition which the upper deck,
with its guns and appointments, makes to the superin-
cumbent mass and weight above the water-line, and the
general tendency of their build or their stowage to bring
the ports of their lower deck-tier too near the water-
way—these conditions are found to mar their sailing
qualities, to make them steer heavily, or to render it in
blowing weather dangerous to keep her lower ports
open, and absolutely impracticable to do so in the event
of going into action ; a defect by reason of which the
force and operation of one-third of her battery are ne-
cessarily lost. The advantage of building long two-
deckers (not such as the " Albion," by the way, but ships
that will carry their lower tier of guns and heaviest
metal some feet higher out of the water than those of
the lower deck on a first class line-of-battle ship) are
manifest. They are, for the reason last mentioned,
bettor sailers, having that quality in common with
the frigate, which makes the frigate, as a class,
the cleanest and fastest " sea-boat" in the service.
It seems to be allowed, that whilst two-deckers could
carry heavier metal, with more room to work the guns,
they would also economise the numerical strength of
crews. Their heavy ordnance would be so judicially
placed in relation to tonnage, stowage, ship's working,
and the plane of her motion, that these would be much
less affected by such disturbing forces,' as the discharge
of such great guns, than they would be in the case of
any three-decker under ordinary circumstances. There is
yet another advantage attaching to these long two-
deckers. You might increase your complement of
marines in each ; for they would be most expert and
efficient in assisting to work the guns abroad, and be
found, in operations on shore, where military, conjointly
with naval services, might be requisite, a still more
valuable and able force, if that indeed be possible, than
this admirable corps has on all occasions approved itself.
Let it not be said, that to adopt, on a large scale, a new
system of naval constructions and armaments, would
lay up too large a portion of the navy in ordinary. On the
contrary, you would then have abundance of shipping of
the highest character, to carry to the remotest settlements
which our flag protects the various military reliefs
incessantly required by extraordinary emergencies, or by
the regular rotation of the service. What can be more
proper than that QUEEN'S troops should be carried in
QUEEN'S ships ? What more wise, just, humane, or
economical, than thus to get rid of the costly and clumsy
adjunct of your transport service, and to avoid the
frightful sacrifices of human life which every year occur,
from the unseaworthiness of the craft you are now too
frequently obliged to take up for these purposes ? What
more politic, than by such a course to secure at once the
constant practical exercise and discipline of your sailing
men-of-war crews, and the cultivation of friendly and
comrade-like relations of good fellowship and intelligence
between your soldiers and your sailors ?
If we advert to the requisitions which the progress of
steam navigation establishes on all the attention of a
Government like ours, we shall find ample additional
reasons to rejoice that the Premier has been fortunate
enough to realise a surplus revenue at the same time he
calls for increased navy estimates. Let us suppose that
a fatal necessity shall have arisen for the immediate
embarkation of a large body of troops, and an instant
descent upon an enemy's coast. In these times the
delays of former Executives would be our ruin. Happily,
by means of our steam navy, we can run almost any
number of soldiers or force in one day, two, or three,
accork;ing to the geographical position of the point to be
reached, in commodious, roomy vessels, drawing very
little water, and bidding defiance to the tides and the
winds. The two great essentials to be provided in these
craft are, an armament of which the power, range, and
execution may more than compensate for the fewness of
the pieces ; and such a system of defence for their
machinery as may secure it as much as possible from
the effect of external violence ; for without this protec-
tion to the means, the ends they are intended for cannot
be accomplished.
The armament of the Terrible, which was launched at
Deptford on the 6th inst., may serve as a criterion for
estimating the tremendous force of the floating bat-
terries which our steam navy will comprise. The
Terrible is to be fitted on her upper-deck with two 68-
pounder guns, of 112 cwt. each, mounted on pivots
forward; two 68-pounder guns, of similar weight and
mounting, aft; four 8-inch guns, of 65 cwt. each, mid- •

ships, mounted on ship carriages, and capable 'of firing
63-pounder shells. On the lower-deck two 56-pounder
guns of 85 cwt. each, forward; two of the same kind aft;
four 8-inch guns, of G 5 cwt. each, midships, for 68-
pounder shells. The range and effect of such terrible
artillery may be collected from the fact that the guns
on the upper deck, made on the principle of Lieutenant-
Colonel DUNDAS, are of a description which was found,
in recent experiments at Deal, to carry 68-pounder solid
shot considerably more than two miles. The guns on
the lower deck will carry 56-pounder shots also more
than two miles. The sixteen guns which the Terrible
is to mount will weigh, without their carriages, more
than sixty-five tons. It may be anticipated that the
naval conflicts will be abridged in the ratio of the
colossal powers of these engines of destruction. So
much for armament.

As to the steamer machinery, and the means of pro-
tecting it, we venture to presume that the Admiralty
will, in the first place, as fast as occasion may offer, fit
out our ships-of-war, whether steamers or others, with
FOULERTON'S ship propeller. This admirable invention
will enable every ship in a squadron or fleet, in case of
action, to work her head round in four or five minutes,
so as to lay herself in any position she may desire to
occupy in respect of her antagonist. By this simple
mechanism we may hope to lose no more naval victo-
ries, as has happened to us ere now, when hard fighting,
consummate seamanship, and inflexible intrepidity, had
put them within our grasp. Had NELSON possessed
this equipment, how many of the Combined Fleet
would have escaped to tell in Spain or France the tale
of Trafalgar? But, as we predicted when first noticing the
invention, its uses are so manifest, and their application so
facile, that prejudice and prepossession themselves must
du homage to the discovery, by making way for its uni-
versal adoption. The other grand application of mecha-
nical science to the working of our steam navy will
undoubtedly be, we should say, the total disuse of paddle-
wheels and boxes, and the employment of the Archime-
dean screw, as the impelling power. To say nothing of
the unsightliness of that extension of beam, which is a
necessary incident of the paddles, the creation of a
counter-force in the backwater they produce, and the
consequent retardation of the steamer's way, by these pad-
dies, with the integrity of wheel, the whole motive prin-
ciple is identified. It is evident that in a stormy passage
one half of her engine power may be lost by the
continued dip of the vessel to the action of a
continued wind and running sea, the stress of which
is on that side of her. The other, at the same
time, may be so much submerged as to endanger
the putting out of her fires, and therefore the loss of
her course, and all the accidents which may follow,
But in action a few red-hot shot, or a heavy ball from
one gun of large calibre, may demolish the box, unship
the engine, and leave the craft a complete log upon the
water. This liability is so self-evident, that the only
wonder is how it can be, for a moment, lost sight of.
Now the steam-engine and machinery to work the Ar-
chimedean screw, which screw cannot, from its position,
aft, and descending through the keel, as it were, be at
any time so much lifted out of the water as to be in-
capable of continuing its regular action, as every new
ship (and we know not why it should not be so managed
in old ones to which this screw may be fitted) can be
conveniently placed in her waist, and otherwise pro-
tected from such fearful and incessant exposure to external
injury. By this change of position, moreover, the ship or
vessel will be better ballasted, if we may so speak. The
weight of the machinery will readily be adapted to the
true centre of gravity, and the line of displacement will
assume conditions more favourable to her rapid and easy
progress. The paddle-box must presently follow the
fate of the towering sterns and elevated poops of our
war-vessels under the TUDORS and the STUARTS. They
will be useless, and remembered only to be smiled at
We sincerely trust, and believe, that the Admiralty has
now embarked in good earnest on their noble and all-
important task of improving the navy, reforming our
naval architecture, and retrieving the errors and mis-
management, the imbecility or favouritism, of too many
among the present Board's predecessors in office. Let
us heartily congratulate the Lords Commissioners them-
selves, the country, and the service, on these auspicious
auguries of better and wiser counsels than have for a
long past period presided in this department.

EIIGEI WATEIt—A.TLOSfDO24.-BRlDGt—iltlSDix.
Morning .. 24 minutes after 4 I Evening •. 42 minutes after 4.

The eighth anniversary of the Buckingham Conserva-
tive Association was celebrated yesterday in the Town-
hall, when about 300 members sat down to dinner. The
Duke of BUQKINGUAM was in the chair. We are glad
to find that the complaints against Sir ROBERT PEEL
and his new tariff were not so loud and violent
as might have been anticipated in a county so
much under Tory and clerical influence. The
Conservative members, it is true, grumbled and
spoke " at PEEL," but their anger was compara-
tively mild, and they resolved not to despair while they
had the Noble Duke at_their head, and, to do the Duke
justice, he claimed for himself and his party sufficient
power. In fact, he reiterated the well-known words of
the Duke of RicamoNn, which have been
condensed into the following phrase:—" Those
who made PEEL can unmake him." "It was
his firm belief," said the Duke of BUCKING.
SIAM, " that it was entirely in the power of the country
gentlemen of England to keep any Government within
proper limits and in proper order, and that if they acted
up to the principles which they avowed upon the hust-
ings there need be no fear that the agriculture of the
country would be protected. He offered this humble
opinion honestly and conscientiously, and were he
in the House of Commons he would act boldly up to
it." The real gravamen, however of the charge against
their own idol was, that he seemed to have forgotten
entirely that the English language contained the word
" agriculture." " Already," said Mr. EATON, "in the
present year they had heard much about the reduction of
the auction duties, and the duties upon glass and a va-
riety of other articles, from men who were supposed to
be the leaders of an agricultural Parliament. But, alas !
it was no longer an agricultural Parliament, for even in
the opening speech of the session so much as the name
of agriculture was not once mentioned." Captain
FITZMAIIRICE sings in the same strain, " From the
circumstance of their depressed state not having been
even alluded to, one would be led to think that the
Right Hon. Baronet had been rehearsing the old ballad,
Oh, no we never mention them,' " The only just and
unanswerable speech made on the occasion was by Mr.
CLAYTON, the Member for Aylesbury. It was very
brief, but quite to the purpose, and requires not a word
of comment. "He had great confidence," he said, "in
the measures of her MAJESTY'S Government, for, al-
though agriculture could not participate in the improve-
ments made by those measures, yet he would not be
dismayed, because it would be contrary to all experi-
ence and to the soundest principles of legislation, to sup-
,a nadg
rmanufacturesl
do f r
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icno uinn tirtys
cpoonsetinthuaedt iftothetiotruardiseh
present depressed state."

Madrid journals of the 18th inst. have been received
On that day the Senate passed the Bills for the repres-
sion of the slave trade, and the maintenance of the es-
tablishments for nuns throughout Spain. General
CONCHA. had been ordered to resume his command at
Vittoria, where disturbances had taken place. An ex-
traordinary courier had arrived from Catalonia, and it
was rumoured that disturbances had also broken out in
that province.

The Three per Cents. closed at 33 1-16 for cash, and
33i at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 24 at 60 days ;
the Floating Debt at 79 for cash ; and the Four per
Cents. at 21 for cash.

The Paris journals are chiefly occupied with the
affairs of Spain and Switzerland. The leading Govern-
ment paper, the Journal des Deberts, at last begins to see
danger in the reforms introduced by CHRISTINA. and
NARVAEZ into the Spanish Constitution, and especially
in the last movement made to satisfy the clergy and the
POPE, by restoring the unsold national properly to the
Church. It justly describes this as a retrogade move-
ment, and as a step towards the restoration of the pro-
perty sold as well as unsold. The promise of the present
Ministry, however solemn or sincere, in reality, is worth
nothing, and public faith in Spain is of the same value.
Another Ministry, having given no such assurance as the
present, would not scruple to break every previous en-
gagement, and this appears to bo the general and anxious
feeling of all those who have purchased Church pro-
perty. The following are the remarks of the Journal
des Debate :
" The avowed object of this Bill is to make advances to the
Court of Rome, and facilitate the negotiations for re-estab-
lishing a good understanding between the two countries;
but it is only the first step in a retrograde path, and upon
which no party can entertain a doubt. The total value of
the national property, the restitution of is hich to the clergy is
proposed, has been made to amount, and as we believe offi-
cially, to 58,000,000 reals, about 15,000,000 of francs ; but in
reality it is worth no more than 7,000,000t'. or 6,000,000 f.
The charge of maintaining the Church and clergy of Spain
amounted to about 39,000,000 E per annum, and consequently
the Cortes will have to grant 32,00°,("f. per annum to
partlysupply p
throesperilevtaonrsts.of Tjahnidsesdtatese
toaftesth,inagnsd partly dependentmaking the clergy
upon the Government for a subvention, will not satisfy the
clergy themselves, and will, at the same time, form a striking
contrast with the Constitution which Spain now enjoys. In
fact, it is stated that the Court of Rome and the clergy de-
mand a re-establishment of the tithes, and which, in truth,
have never been wholly abolished. Thus regaining the privi-
lege of the mortmain the clergy, once restored to the posses-
sion of a part of its former wealth, and to the faculty of re-
ceiving devises and gifts, will, from the known superstition
and ignorance of the higher classes in Spain, be incessantly in-
creasing in riches. It must at once be evident that the clergy

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, 1845.

will rapidly regain all its former influence, and concentrating
in its hands immense estates and property, inalienably
must arrest the progress of the general prosperity of the
country. The holders of property which did not belong to
the clergy, and of which about three-fourths have been sold,
are greatly alarmed; and although in this first sitting the
Government, through the President of the Council of Minis-•
ters, gave them the most positive assurances of the mainte-
nance of their rights, they aro far from being easy as to
their future fate. It is more than probable that as long as
the present Cabinet remains in power it will succeed in keep-
ing the Absolutist party in a state of impotence, as it has
subdued the anarchists and revolutionists. But it is known
that the two most dangerous adversaries of this Ministry—
the Marquis de Viluma and M. Tejada—have openly declared
their opinions to be in favour of the clergy, and that even
already at the elections they openly oppose the constitutional
candidates."

We fear there is too much truth in this statement.
The QUEEN-MOTHER is bent on reconciliation with
Rome ; she will risk the safety of the country for ker
own personal interests, and the result to a certainty will
be a dreadful outbreak, which NARVAEZ will find too
strong for him. France will find a cordon of troops
necessary at the foot of the Pyrenees as well as at the
foot of the Jura. The same journal gives rather a
gloomy prospect of Swiss affairs. After adverting to the
religious struggle it says :
" The question of the Jesuits disappears before a much
more general one, that of the maintenance of the compact
and of the cantonal sovereignty, which is the basis of it.
This is so true that Protestant cantons, by an apparent
anomaly, find themselves supporting the cause of the com•
parry of Jesus, and, on the other hand, the minority,
which at Lucerne itself had rejected the appeal of the
Jesuits, at present joins the Government to defend the in-
dependence and sovereignty of the canton. The re-
ligious question was already by itself dangerous enough
not to need to be complicated by the political question.
This state of things is not only grave for Switzerland,
but also for Europe, and the consequences which it may pro-
duce are of a nature to affect the equilibrium established by
treaties. Without any doubt, foreign Powers have no right
to interfere in the internal affairs of Switzerland, but this
restriction exists only as long as Switzerland herself does not
change the conditions on which her existence is guaranteed
by the great Powers. The treaties of Vienna and Paris have
constituted Switzerland as a federative republic and have
recognised her perpetual neutrality. The revolution, directed
at present by the Radicals, wou!d be the overturning of
both."

The Quctidienne mentions a report that the mission of
M. Rossi to Rome has for its object principally an appli-
cation to the POPE to recal the Jesuits from Switzerland.
According to the same report, M. Rossi is to stop at Ge-
neva and Lausanne, and exert himself to calm the effer-
vescence which prevails there.
The Presse makes the following remarks on the dis-
cussions in the House of Commons on Mr. DUNCOMBE'S

the goods sold really belonged to the plaintiff or to another
person, who was indebted to the defendant. The case was
likely to occupy the whole of the day.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS
(THIS DAY.)
(Before the ASSISTANT-JUDGE.)
A most respectable-looking tradesman, named Edward
Jones, was indicted for stealing three valuable snuff-boxes,
the property of John Ward. The prisoner, who pleaded :not
guilty in the first instance, denied in the most solemn man-
ner that he had any felonious intention when he took the pro-
perty. However, at the suggestion of Mr. Ballantine, who
appeared as his counsel, he retracted his original plea, and
pleaded guilty. A host of most respectable persons, many of
whom deposed to having known the prisoner for upwards of
twenty years, gave him the highest character for respectabi •
lity and honesty.
The Learned .ASSISTANT-JUDGE expressed his regret that
such a person as the prisoner should be placed in so disgrace-
ful a situation, and sentenced him to six weeks' imprison-
ment, with hard labour.

William Johnson, a powerful-looking young fellow, was
indicted for stealing a quantity of tools, the property of
George Barnes and others.
It appeared by the evidence that the prosecutors were en-
gaged on some of the new houses erecting in Kensington,
and when leaving, on Saturday night, locked up their tools,
and the same night the prisoner broke open the doors, and
took the property.
The jury having returned a verdict of Guilty,
The Learned ASSISTANT-JUDGE said this was a most heart-
less robbery, inasmuch as it tended to prevent industrious
men from earning their living, and he was determined to
punish it severely. The sentence of the Court was, that the
prisoner be imprisoned for six calendar months in the House
of Correction, and be kept to hard labour.
Thomas Ricketts was indicted for stealing a number of
books, the property of George Willis. The prosecutor is the
extensive bookseller and publisher under the Piazza at the
corner of James-street, Covent-garden.
He was found Guilty, and sentenced to three months' im-
prisonment with hard labour.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
. .

The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was quieter.
Sales, 2,000 to 2,500 bales, all to the trade, at previous rates.
—Shares rather improved. Birmingham and Derby, 94% ;
Birmingham and Gloucester, 131 ; Bristol and Gloucester,
58 ; Caledonian, 7% ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 595. ;
Chester and Holybesel4B ; Churnet Valley, 7% % ; Eastern
Counties, 171/8 ; Ditto, Perpetual, No. 2, 235. ; Edinburgh
and Glasgow, New Quarter, 51,4 ; Glasgow and Dum-
fries, 16s. 6d. ; Glasgow and Greenock, 15% ; Kendal
and Windermere, 4% ; Lancaster and Preston, Quar-
ters, 7 ; Liverpool and Preston, 2% 3 ; London and
Birmingham, 230%; Ditto, 321. Shares, 41% ; London and
Brighton, 58 ; London and South-Western, 50/. Shares, 124
12%; London and York, 7%; Direct Northern, 2 ; Man-
chester and Birmingham, Quarter, 11% ; Manchester and
Leeds, Half, 60% 61; Ditto, Quarter, 14M %; Midland
Counties, 125%; Newcastle and Berwick, 14 13% ; North
Wales, 11%; Shrewsbury and Grand Junction, 54 ; South-
Eastern, No. 1, 14% ; Ditto, No. 2,9%; Trent Valley,
193/4 20; Paris and Lyons, 3 ; Orleans, Tours, and Bor-
deaux, 61,4 3/4 ; Boulogne and Amiens, 5L 12m. ; Northern of
France, 5/. Ils. 3d.
There are no arrivals to-day with later intelligence from
any quarter.
The public securities have been rather lively to-day, but
the market continues unsteady. Consols for present transfer
have realised 99% to 99%, and for the next account about
993/4 to 99%. Exchequer-bills have been fluctuating from
635. to 675. prem. ; New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have
realised 104% to 103% ; and the Three per Cents. 100% to
1004. Bank Stock is 212 to 213; and India Stock 281 to
283, being rather better.
The Foreign Investments are flat again : Spanish Five per
Cents. at 27 %, and the Three per Cents. at 404 to N.
Portuguese Converted have been 60% to 61%. Mexican
Bonds have realised 354 to %, and Buenos Ayres 42. Dutch
Two-and. a-Half per Cents. have been 63% to 4.
The Share Market is more buoyant to-day, with one or two
exceptions, as the list subjoined will show.

ONE
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consols
New 314 per Cents
Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 12 1 -16
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 ll%

CLOSING
PRICES.
212
1003(3
99%
104
12 1-16
11%

India Stock
India Bonds, 1,0001
Ditto 1 d uner ,0001. . .

South Sea Stock
Consols for Account ..........
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 111 d 63 66 pm. 64
Ditto 5001. .
Ditto Small
Ditto Advertised 63 65 pm. 66
ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
8934
35%

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.
Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent. 42
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 ......
Ditto, Deferred Stock 16% 16
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Converted
Ditto, Account ..... ...... 61%
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Passive
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 45 44
Ditto, Deferred
Belgian Scrip, 2% per Cent 6OA%
Dutch, 2% per Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 991 98%
PRICES OF CLOSING
PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
RAILWAY SHARES
Birming. and Gloucesterloo 131% 132%
Ditto % Shares
Bristol and Exeter
Ditto New.... . ......... 2

......
271 A

63%

Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ...... 56% 57 ..
Caledonian
Cambridge and Lincoln 11/2 2%4% ......
%7
Chester and Holyhead... 5
Cliurnet Valley
Cornwall
Direct Northern
I Mblin and Belfast Junc 2% 5l/2%
Dublin and Galway..... 211/2 3
Eastern Counties 141. 165.... 1634 1714
Eastern Union lO .. ..
Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Ditto, Quarter Shares 121,E 1534
Great South. and West.
(Ireland)
Ditto Extension
Great North of England-100
Ditto New 5 44
Ditto New
Great Western sq ......174,
Ditto % Shares
Ditto Fifths 2O
Guildford, Farn'm,Ports. 2% ... ..
Hull and Gainsborough 1% 214
Hull and Selby 5O
London and Birminghm (Stock) 228
London and Blackwall. 16/. 13s 4d. 71,4
London and Brighton... 50 ... 57% 58%34 59% 59%
London and S. Western 41/6s 10d 78% 79
Ditto New 2%. .12 111 h%
London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d. 18%
Ditto Guaranteed per
Cent.
London and York 2% 6% 7%
Manchester and Birmin. 40
Ditto Quarters 4 —
Manchester and Leeds... 73
Midland 100 ......125 . .
Ditto New 2 ..... 73/414
Midland, Birm.,Derby...loo
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction .. 24 .. ... 47% 49
Newnasi le and Berwick 1%
Newark and Sheffield ... 11/2
North British - 7% l2 4 12
Ditto, New
Northern and Eastern... 45
North Kent
Rugby,Wor'ster,&Tring 1
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
Dudley, and Birm 2I%G 4%%%
South Eastern & Dover 3312 s 4d... 393/ 40%1A
Ditto, No. 1
Ditto, No. 2.
Ditto, No. 3 7p 8
South Wales 2ll
2
Trent Valley 2 .. 20 A3A
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 .. ... 2%
West Cornwall 114...
York and North Midland 50
Ditto % Shares 25
Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 20
Ditto Extension ...... 1 %
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and A miens... 2
Great North. of France.. 4
Orleans and Bordeaux... 2

24
8

17%

11%

38%
41

81
23034

184

63%
11
138

. 2%
110
61 2
3%
414
40%
914

33/4

t'aris and Lyons 2
Paris and Orleans 2O
Paris and Rouen ..
Strasbourg and Bale 1... 14
Tours and Nantes 1
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia
Colonial 25
London Joint Stock..... 10
London & Westminster. 20
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 25.—We have had
a steady market and a fair business. The quotations are
Bristol and Exeter, New Shares, 6 3-16 ; Chester and Holy-
head, 7% 8%; Great North of England, 301. Shares, 19%;
London and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 29 ; Manchester
and Leeds, Quarter Shares, 14%; Manchester, Bury, and
Rossendale, 104; Midland, 40/. Shares, 8 ; Sheffield and
Manchester, Quarter Shares. 13 ; South-Eastern, No. 1, 15 ;
Barnsley Junction, Half Shares, 2%; Birkenhead, Man-
chester, and Cheshire Junction, 7% 8; Blackburn, Darwen,
andßolton, ; Caledonian, 6% ; Churnet Valley, 7% %;
Ely and Bedford, 1%; Erewash Valley, 9; Huddersfield
and Sheffield Junction, 4%; Kendal and Windermere, 4%;
Leeds,, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 33% ; London and Wor-
cester, Oxford and Rugby, 31%; London and York, 7% ;
Manchester and Buxton, 3% ; Newark and Sheffield, 2% ;
Trent Valley, 19% ; Union Plate Glass, 18.

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LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, FEB. 26.—Wind easterly, strong breeze and fine ;
it rained hard last night.
DEAL, FEB. 25, P.M.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd. Duke of
Portland, Hamlin, Madras; Achilles, Trevett, and Rockliff,
Garrett, Ceylon; Tanjore, Stewart, Calcutta; James, Wil-
liams, and Magnet, 'Veal, Ichaboe ; Rosanna, Ichaboe for
Newcastle; Hendrika, Batavia for Rotterdam. The James,
in the Downs, reports 280 vessels at Ichaboe 26th ult., and
not half would obtain cargoes.
OrF DOVER, FEB. 25.—Marchioness Douro, China.
PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 25.—Wind N.E. by S.—Arrd. her
Majesty's ships Skylark and Nautilus, eastward.
COWES FEB 25.---Wind S --And Lily, Lanfesty Bahia.

DARTMOUTH, Fun. 24.—.Arrd. Brothei-;, WaltolOchaboe,
sailed Dec. 27, touched on the Skerries, but got off without
damage.
LIVERPOOL, FEB. 25.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. lone, Ichaboe ;
Arica, Davidson, Arica ; Speed, Brewer, Buenos Ayres;
Zanoni, Sims, New Orleans ; Douglas, and Coronation, Sa-
vannah. Sld. Dryad, Singapore; Mars, Batavia; Elizabeth,
Barbadoes ; Mammon, Antigua; Albatross, New Orleans;
Ashburton, New York; Charlotte, Wilmington, and Osprey,
St. John's, New Brunswick. Off, Safeguard, Charleston.
The Ardent, of Londonderry, reported from Sligo, was seized
in the Mersey yesterday afternoon, with about twenty-one,
tons of tobacco on board.
Conic, FEB. 23.—Arrd. Sarah, Murray, and Till, Ichaboe.
Dusisix, F. 24.-51 d. Garonne, Trinidad.

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