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that this rescript is an untoward event; and the Irish
:people should at once dispatch a delegation to Rome,
to lay before his Holiness the true state of this coun-
try, and explain to him how desolate, and friendless,
and utterly abandoned the Catholics would be,
if their hierarchy and clergy did not assist and guide
ti tem in their political -movements. The members of
such delegation snust go instructed to assure his
rioliness that f.nere is nothing licentious—nothing
f;uilty, as in Vie French Revolution—nothing rash or
imprudent, As in the attempted Polish Revolution—
connected
This with the Repeal movement in Ireland:'
?selegation of Repeal members to Rome—of
wl.',ch it is scarcely to be supposed that Mr. O'CoN-
N E LL disapproves, inasmuch as the project is broached
in his own journal, the Pilot—is an ingenious idea,
at least so far as it will tend to sustain the hopes of
the Repealers, which are just now greatly discou-
raged, and keep them in a sanguine state of excite-
ment, until the return of the delegation from its
mission to the Vatican. Considered in this light, the
project, we repeat, is an ingenious ruse on the part of
the Repeal agitators to gain time ; but no one can
possibly doubt the result of the mission ; it will prove
a most egregious failure, and will ultimately leave
Mr. O'CONNELL and his subordinates in a worse posi-
tion than that in which they now are. The POPE
cannot, even if he possessed the inclination to do so,
rescind the orders which, after much grave delibera-
tion, he has deemed it expedient to issue to the Irish
clergy on the subject of the Repeal agitation. The
Infallible cannot confess to fallibility, but must be
consistent in spite of himself. Like the laws of the
Medes and Persians, his rescripts must be unalter-
able. But were it not so—were the Vicar of CHRIST
at liberty to change his opinions as coolly and as
readily as a Bishop of EXETER ; still it is not to be
supposed for an instant he would do so—certainly not
in a case like the present. For mark the dangerous
political precedent he would thereby be establishing
throughout the Catholic portion of Europe ! If he
once yielded to the entreaties of the delegation, and
withdrew his rescript to the Irish clergy, he would
be virtually acknowledging their right to interfere
in all matters of temporal agitation ; and this ob-
noxious privilege once conceded to the Catholic priest-
hood of Ireland, with what propriety could it be re-
fused to the Catholic priesthood of other countries,
should they at any time imagine their interests con-
cerned in heading a popular movement against autho-
rity ? It is ridiculous to suppose that the POPE
could ever be brought to concede a dangerous right
like this to his clergy, for it would be sure, at no
distant period, to bring down on him the wrath of
France, Austria, and the other Catholic States of
Europe, who have no notion of putting too much
temporal power into the hands of their priesthood.
Then, observe the nature of the arguments which the
delegation are to address to his Holiness, in the hope
of flashing conviction on his ghostly mind! He is
to be solemnly assured that there is "nothing licen-
tious—nothing guilty—nothing rash nor imprudent
connected with the Repeal movement in Ireland !"
It is as innocent as a lamb of mischief; in fact, it is
as moral, well-behaved, orderly, and rational, as it is
possible for an ultra-revolutionary movement to be.
To be sure, if it could by any remote chance be
crowned with success, it would put the sister country
into a state of absolute phrenzy from one extremity
to the other ; be the means of originating discord,
spoliation, and anarchy, without end or limit ; de-
stroy the integrity of the empire ; confound and con-
vulse all orders of society, and astonish Europe by
mingled folly, rashness, and atrocity of its ex-
cesses—to be sure, Repeal, if successful, would do all
this; but what then ? These are trivial considera
tions, beneath the dignity of a patriotic Repealer,
whose vocation it is to act as much as possible from
impulse, and as little as-possible from the dictates of
common-sense ! We cannot conceive a richer or
broader joke than this proposed petition of the Irish
delegation to the POPE, that he—a ruler still more
jealous of his temporal than even of his spiritual
authority—will be graciously pleased to patronise
anarchy, by allowing the Catholic clergy of Ireland
to take active part in a great popular movement,
which is ultra-revolutionary in its character, and
.ends directly to the dismemberment of the empirel

other with the aversion of brute animals, one of
which is ready to destroy the other for devouring the
fragment of food for which both are famishing. We
have shown that this unnatural state of things, in a
country swarming with opulence, abundant in the
luxuries as well as the necessaries of life,—can
traced to no other but some great disorganising
cause. The want of a power of distribution of all
this abundance of food, and these accumulated products
of industrial labour is that cause. But it is itself
the effect only of our present monetary system and
the disastrous legislation of Sir ROBERT PEEL in
1819 and 1844. This fact cannot be too often re-
peated. In 1845 it must be remedied. We shall re-
cur more at large to this subject in noticing a very
able pamphlet, entitled, " Money the Moral Power
of Exchange," which we have not yet had time fully
to peruse. But it strengthens every conviction we
have arrived at on this the most vital question which
can occupy the Parliament of Great Britain.

Madrid journals of the 11th and 12th inst. have
been received ; but they are very barren of news of
any importance. The affairs of Government seem
now to be conducted without any violent outrages on
the liberty of the people, who, indeed, appear to be
completely subdued. The Ministerial journals state,
and they are not contradicted, that the most perfect
tranquillity prevails throughout the country.
On the 11th the Three per Cents. closed at 31 7-16
for cash, and 31i at 60 days ; the Five per Cents.
at 24 for cash, and 24f at 60 days ; the Four per
Cents. at 21 for cash ; the Floating Debt at 78 at 30
days; the Coupons at 27* at 60 days; and the Debt
without interest at 7 for cash, and 7 3-16 at 60 days.

LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1545.

The only speech made in the French Chamber of
Peers this session that has attracted public attention

in Paris, is that made by the Duke of BROGUE on
Thursday. It is almost entirely in favour of the
Ministerial policy, and must render considerable
support to M. GUIZOT, while, at the same time, it is
exempt from all party feeling, is temperate and im-
partial. The Noble Duke considered the occupation
of the islands in the Pacific an injudicious measure,
and in this all the world concurs ; but he justified to
the full extent the whole policy of the Government

. . _
with respect to the Morocco war, and also the main-
tenance of a good understanding between England
and France. In place of blaming the Government
for treating Morocco so generously after the success
of the French arms, he praised the Government for
that wise policy. France had already enough
on her hands with Algeria. He rather
wanted less than more territory, and she should
take a warning from the position of the English in
Hindostan, where, in fact, more territory was forced
upon them than they either wanted or knew what to
do with. His allusions to England, and the difference
between an English and a Russian alliance, show the
same good sense, candour, and total absence of
national rancour. "France," said he, "at present
has no alliance in Europe, but she has interests, and
these interests she is at liberty to maintain by what-
ever means she deems best. But as to alliance with
England, she has none, more than with any other
power. Does that imply that we ought to hold our-
selves with respect to that country in that state of
coolness which I spoke of just now? I think not.
In the general situation of Europe, France cannot be
to-day the intimate ally of any one. If I were to be
told (to offer an hypothesis) that France was at peace
with Russia, but not in good intelligence, I would
say that I regretted it, but that I could
console myself, for between us and that Power
there are but few points of contact. I would
say, too, that this state of things can continue for a
longer or shorter time without any great inconve-
nience, in consequence of the geographical position of
the two countries and distance between them, and
on account of their interests being distinct and diffe-
rent in many respects. Is it the same with respect
to England and France ? I think not. They are
two great nations, both free, and where liberty and
the press exercise a vast influence ; both almost
touching each other, and having every day immense
commercial relations together ; both possessing es-
tablishments in the Mediterranean, in America, in
India, and even in the Pacific, which latter circum.
stance, I may parenthetically observe, I am not at all
delighted at. This situation requires that the two na-
tions should live in good intelligence. I say then, if

Could we persuade 'ourselves that any apology were
needed at our hands for the earnestness—the per-
tinacity, it may be—with which we have deemed our-
selves called upon to press on the attention of her
MAJESTY'S Government the necessity of preparing
themselves at an early stage of the ensuing session of
Parliament to originate or co-operate in some great
and decided measure for the amendment an I re-
modification of our existing Monetary System, we
should have but to refer to the terrible evidences of
social misery and domestic disorganization which it is-
our painful duty, day after day, to lay before our
readers. The growth and the intensity of crimes, the
offspring of a poverty withoat resources, a misery
without hope, a despair without mitigation, are
moral phenomena of which the parallel is scarcely
to be found in the history of civilised nations. With
the grandest development of every noble quality that
is an element of the National character, in all the
services of the State civil, military, ecclesiastical, we
perceive, in frightful juxtaposition, the excesses of
the most abandoned crimes that can dishonou•
human nature, exhibited, for the most part, among
those classes whose subsistence is derived from the
hard and incessant labour of their hands ; or that far
larger community who have willing hearts, stout
arms, and skilled and experienced habits, but can
find no work, no employment upon which to use
them. Few kindly relations subsist between two
branches of one vast family that would seem to
be so intimately connected, or rather so slightly sepa-
rated, as the masses who work long hours for the
smallest pittance which the employer can dole out to
the employed, and the masses who would work as
long or longer, for as little—aye, or for less. These
conterminous conditions of distress, where the heels
of him who can just live, are galled by the on-
pressing foot of him who has not wherewith to live
at all, are the prolific spring whence flow fierce
jealousies and sanguinary dissensions, as if the parties
to them were Borderer clans, on the old frontier
" marches" between England and Scotland, or Wales
and England. The classes are animated by a class
hostility; the one against its more fortunate, the other
against its less orderly competitor. Life—a living
For themselves and theirs—is the stake they fight
for ; and it is not to he war without death, in
some variety of form or extent, to the loser. Hence
habits of ferocity and recklessness are engen-
dered; the rights of property are disregarded in
strife where the sacred charter of human existence
is little heeded. The brutalising influences that act
upon the class seem to be concentrated in the indivi-
dual. The most wretched become the most wicked.
These on whose personal efforts or deportment the
mo,t numerous and the dearest interests depend,
sacrifice themselves, or the beings whose interests, by
every law, human or divine, they are solemnly bound
to protect—with equal recklessness. Burglaries, ac-
companied with acts of ferocious violence, infanticide,
manslaughter committed under hideous excitement ;
murders perpetrated upon cold deliberate calculation
—parricide, matricide, fratricide—(we avow the fact
with horror and humiliation)—have stained the annals
of metropolitan guilt here, in London, as well as in
the provincial districts, within the last three months,
three weeks, three days (we are afraid to consider
how recently), to an extent unparalleled, we believe,
in the memory of living man ! Without adverting
to primary, or possible, or moral agents, what,
tet us ask, is the great proximate cause —the
immediate motive of these atrocities ? We
answer, from the appalling evidence tendered at coro-
ners' inquests and criminal assizes—distress. The
labourer who looks upon his starving family and fire-
!eS3 hearth, the mother, who regards with eyes to
abich the intensity of her sorrow denies the relief of
tears, her perishing infant—her perishing husband ;
-he sons, just passing from boyhood into manhood,
desperate from privation and the presence of so much
,uttering under their own eyes, become habituated to
the dark suggestions of hunger and want, cold and
-uffering, and the dread of "worse behind" to come
with the morrow. The ties of kindred are soon sepa-
rated when those of citizenship are broken. Violence,
perhaps, brings after it its own punishment ; punish-
ment fosters the intense desire for revenge ; revenge
xplodes in murder! Even the maternal affections
take the same fearful hue. The cherished infant be-
comes an object of aversion and discontent, or of
anxiety terminating in frenzy ; and the hand that
tended it yesterday, to-day terminates its exist-
ence. The husband and the wife regard each

when France decided oa attacking Morocco, with which
country England kept up commercial relations, and from
whence she revictualled Gibraltar, if, I say, the
French Government had taken into serious conside-
ration the interests of England, if it endeavoured by
its acts and its language to convince her of the right
of France, of the legitimate character of her com-
plaints, and of the moderation of her pretensions ; if,
even for this object, the French Government had
made some slight sacrifices, in no way infringing on
its rights, I say the Government acted sensibly and
reasonably. The question, the only question then to
ascertain is, whether it has gone too far in this way.
In the first place, then, has France taken England
is the arbitrator of her differences ? Certainly not.

She has herself freely regulated the conditions
which she made known to the Emperor of MOROCCO.
Whim she had decided on her mode of warfare,

lid she consult the interests, the taste, or the in

clination of England ? Not at all. Has the French
Government abandoned any of her belligerent rights ?
No, it declared on the contrary that it would use
those rights to their fullest extent. When the war was
terminated, did it consult England on the conditions
of the treaty ? There is nothing to authorise such a
supposition; it signified to Morocco all those conditions
which it suited France to impose. What is it prin-
cipally reproached with ? With not having occupied
Tangiers. But when it was decided on attacking
Tangiers, a city half English and three-fourths Euro-
pean, it thought with reason that it would not be just
to submit Europeans to all the damage resulting
from the war, and it was in this view that it confined
itself. to destroying the fortifications of Tangiers, and
respected the town. When, therefore, the Govern-
ment had determined not to make any conquest,
after having publicly declared to France and to
Europe that it did not aim at conquest, it com-
mitted the great crime of repeating it to England !
this, then, is the complaint of the adversaries of
the Cabinet ! Truly the reproach is without
foundation. A conversation has been alluded to
which took place between the English Prime Minister
and a Member of Parliament in the House of Com-
mons. This is not the first time that an English Minis-
ter, when speaking to the Opposition, has employed
expressions stronger than his thought, and had after-
wards to regret ; neither will it be the first time that
in exaggerating the exaggeration itself, an interpreta-
tion has been given to words which they did not bear.
A good harmony between France and England is, is
must be admitted, the condition of the peace of the
world ; but this does not say that it is necessary to
sacrifice to that good harmony our interests or our
rights, but which might lead two Governments,
moved by reciprocal goodwill, to make mutual con-
cessions on questions more or less delicate. It is
necessary to take into account the difficulties which
both Governments have to smooth down, the common
efforts which they are making: for this object, and
the consideration which they are obliged to show
towards one another. This is the proper part of a
reasonable and sensible policy."
This speech elicited loud approbation, and when
the Marquis DE BOISSY rose to reply to it, and said
he would prefer the alliance of Russia, the House
lost all patience and refused to hear him. The speech
of the Duke DE BROGLIE, of course, is praised by
the Jourual des Debats, but its merit cannot be denied
even by the Opposition journals, though some of them
speak of him rather in terms of contempt. The Na-
tional says :
" However we may differ in opinion with the
Duke de Broglie, we must admit that there is at
least order in his logic, together with a simple and
correct manner of connecting facts, a principle
clearly established, and consequences accurately de-
duced— something, in fact, which commands at-
tention. He re-made M. Guizot's speech, but he im-
proved it, and reduced to their exact proportions the
doctrines of the existing . Administration. With Al.
Guizot, when be is well inspired, it is possible to be
mistaken. He raises a trifle to such a point'of elevation,
he covers an indigent body with so splendid a clothing,
that we often ask whether we have not been deceived
with respect to the miserable facts to which he has given
so much splendour. With the Duke de Broglie all is
dry, cold, and confined as if it were within a piece of
machinery. The Duke de Broglie has not language for
ideas which are foreign to him. Confined to a limited
snace, he scarcely breathes, and he proves to his hearers
that this confined space is sufficient' for his short sight
and his limited aspirations."
The Constitutionnel says the Duke spoke only for

In the last number of the Dublin Pilot, which is
generally regarded in Ireland as the organ of Mr.
O'CoNNELL's sentiments, occur the following signifi-
cant remarks, in reference to the recent official com-
munication from Rome, addressed to Archbishop
CROLLT :—" It is useless in us, Irish Catholics, to say
:bat this reseript is uncanonical, informal, and there-
'lre can have no influence upon the priesthood, for
hey will regard it as a private letter of advice from
he highest personage on earth, and cannot treat it
ith indifference. It is not to be concealed, then,

E SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 21. 1845.

one reason. " When Count MOLE rises, the Duke DE
BROGLIE finds it almost impossible to remain seated ;
when M. MOLE opens his lips, the Duke DEBROGLIE
is impatient to break silence. M. DE BROGLIE, in
fine, is jealous of M. MOLE, and M. GuizoT is much
snore indebted to his adversary than to himself for
the support he received to-day, if it can be called
support." The observations of the other Opposition
journals require no notice. The Peers on Saturday
brought the discussion to a close, when the Address
was adopted by a very large majority-75.
In the Chamber of Deputies on Friday, M. SAUZET,
the President, read the Address as agreed to i❑ Com-
mittee. A. paragraph in favour of unhappy and de-
serted Poland has been inserted, simply expressing a
wish that France will not forget that Foreign Powers
should be the hope and support of a generous nation
whose rights they have consecrated. The following
are the paragraphs relative to the right of search and
I the visit of the KING to England :

this morning. Consols for Money have advanced from
1001 to 1008, and for the Account to 1001 The pre-
mium on Exchequer Bills has been up to 605., but it is
now rather lower. Bank Stock for the Account has
reached 213 ; India Stock has receded to 287 and 288,
but the Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are firm at 1041.
An improvement has taken place in the Spanish
Bonds this morning, the budget of M. Mons being held
more favourable upon re-consideration of its items, than
at the first. The Three per Cents. have advanced to
39* 4, and the Five per Cents. to 271 g. The Dutch
Funds were a shade higher than they were on Saturday;
and the Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. hare been
quoted at 102. Columbian are at 141 Mexican at
341 4, and the Deferred Stock at 151
An immense amount of business has been done to-day
in the Railway Share Market, and the fluctuations have
been constant and rapid, to a degree not known of late
years. It is not possible to refer to all the changes that
have occurred. The most prominent variations of the
day are in the Great Western, which have advanced, as
well as the London and Birmingham, the Brighton, the
London and York, the Midlands, and most of the French
lines. The United Mexican Mine Shares have realised
4, and the London and Westminster Bank 71 premium
per share.
PRICE OF BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK
(From the Official List )
Bank Stock 2lll/2 212% 211
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities lOO3 3/4
3 per Cent. Consols Anns lOOl/11/8%
New 31% per Cent. Aunuties
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 —
Ditto 30 Years, Expire Jan. 1860
India Stock 2871/ 287 288
Bank Stock for Account.
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. 13jd. I%d.
1,000/.
500/.
Ditto Small
Ditto Advertised .....

" Incidents which at the first moment appeared calcu-
lated to disturb the friendly relations existing between
France and England, had sensibly moved the two coun-
tries, and occupied the attention of your Government.
We are satisfied to learn that a mutual feeling of good-
will and equity has maintained between the two states
that happy accord which is indispensable for their pros-
perity, and the guarantee of the repose of the world.
We hope that this mutual spirit of justice and concilia-
tion will soon bring to a favourable issue the negotia-
tions commenced at the repeatedly expressed desire of
the Chamber, with a view to insure the repression of the
slave trade, and replace our navy under the exclusive
surveillance of the national flag. The reiterated marks
of a friendship so precious to you, and your wish to re-
spond to it in a becoming manner, induced your Majesty
to pay a visit to the Queen of Great Britain. France
beheld with legitimate pride the homage offered on all
sides to her King. Those signal and spontaneous mani-
festations of respect for the Monarch, and of cordial
esteem for the French people, have afforded new pledges
of the long duration of that general peace under the
tegis of which our country, in maintaining abroad its
power and dignity, finds the elements of a constant pros-
perity, and the quiet enjoyment of its constitutional
liberties.
The journal des Debats in adverting to this docu-
ment says :
" This Address fully realises the hopes that the majo-
rity of the Committee, and the choice of its reporter,
M. Hebert, led us to conceive. It expresses in terms
perfectly dignified, though moderate, a free and sincere
adherence to the policy of the Cabinet. It has cur un-
reserved approval, and we trust it will obtain the assent
of all true Conservatives. The debate, which has occu-
pied the Chamber of Peers throughout the week, has
already done much good, and shed sufficient light to
authorise our declaring that the Government has nothing
to fear from another discussion, however more enlarged
and profound it may be. We have a conviction that the
discussion which is to be opened on Monday will com-
plete the work, and totally dissipate the clouds, which
passion and intrigue have accumulated."
The remarks of the Opposition journals on the
subject possess no interest.
The following extract of a letter, dated Greece,
Dec. 9, appears in the Courrier de Nantes :
" The Court of Assize of Bathurst, presided over by
the Chief Justice, has acquitted the captain of the ship
"urieuse, which was seized and sold in the Gambia, for
having been engaged in the slave trade. This is an
anomaly witiout example. The ship condemned, and
the captain acquitted ! At present this affair is assum-
ing a favourable turn for us, of which we shall not fail
to take advantage. We expect the details of the cap-
tain's trial, which we shall publish, and at the same
time we shall bring an action for the value of the ship.
Could you believe that the captain and crew of the Cu-
rieuse were deprived of their wearing apparel ? Every
article was sold, and it was with regret they were per-
mitted to retain the clothing in which they were clad."
THE BOURSE—SATURDAY, JAN. 15.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
FrenchFiveperCentS•• •• •• 122 25 .. 122 25 122 5.. 122 5
Four-and-a-Half.. •• 112 75 .. 112 75 .• 112 75 .. 112 75
Fours,. .
Three per Cents.•• 85 20 .• 85 20 .• 85 15 .. 85 15
New Loan ..•••••• 86 45 .• 86 45 .. 86 40 .• 86 40
Bank of France.•.— ..... 3265 ..3267 50 .•3265 ..3267 50
Gouin Bank, I,ooof. Shares • • 1100 ..1100 .. 1100 .. 1100
Belgian Bank..• •••
Belgian Fives, 1840
1842.•..•••• 106% .. 106% •• 106% •• 10614
Four•and-a-Half. .•. 103 .. 183 •• 103 •• 103 -
Two-and-a-Half.• 62 10 .• 62 10 .• 62 10 •• 62 10
Spanish Threes•••• •••••• 37% •• 371 37% .. 37%
Active 36% •. 36% •• 36% .. 36%
Passive. •..
New Deferred •
Portuguese Five per Cents • • 59% .. 59% .• 59% .. 59%
Neapolitan .•• •• .. 98 50 .. 98 50 •• 98 50 .. 98 50
Roman .• ••• .• ••......... 105 .. 105 .. 104% .. 104%
RAILWAY SHARER.
St. Germain
Versailles, R. 8.• •• . • ...... 490 .. 490 .. 490 • • 490
L.B.•••••••••••• 397 50 .. 397 50 .. 397 50 .. 397 50
&men •• •••• ••
Rouen to Havre............ 822 50 .. 822 50 .. 822 50 .. 822 50
Orleans .............-.....1130 ..1130 ..1127 50 ..1130
Strasburg to Bale.• ••••.... 300 .. 301 25 .. 298 75 . 298 75
Avignon to Marseilles...... 950 .. 968 • 950 .. 960

PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Belgian Bonds, 41/2 per Cent.
Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent
Ditto Deferred
Columbian Bonds. l4l/2%
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. 343/4
Ditto for the Account.: 34%3/4
Ditto Deferred Stock l5-y
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 2734%
Ditto for the Account.
Ditto Passive Bonds 6
_ _
Ditto Deferred
Ditto 3 per Cent
Ditto for the Account
Dutch 21/2 per Cents
Ditto 5 per Cents

39
991

PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Birmingham and Gloucester 100
Ditto, New...
Bristol and Exeter
Bristol and Gloucester
Caledonian
Cambridge arid Lincoln
Chester and Holyhead
Churnet Valley 2 4l/2%143/4 to
Direct Northern 2l/2 2% to
Direct Norwich
Dublin and Galway
Eastern Counties "5 191/214 183/4 1914t0 18 19
Do. Perpet. 5 per Ct. No. 1. 35/Q —
Ditto, ditto, No. 2.
Eastern Union
Ely and Bedford
Great South and W. (Irish)... 5
Ditto Extension
Ditto Additional
Great North of England 100
Ditto New
Ditto
Great Western
Ditto, Half Shares
Ditto Fifths
Lancaster and Carlisle
Leeds and Bradford
London and Birmingham ...100 2321/2 to 233
London and Blackwall 16% 7% to
London and 8right0n.......... 50 ...52141/2 513/4 to 521/23/4
London and Greenwich ...... 1234
London and South Western.. 41,8......791/2 781/2 to 79
Ditto, New .. 2
London and Croydon
London and York ... ..... ...... 21... .. 4% 3% to 414%
Lynn and Ely
Manchester and Leeds 7O 129
Ditto Sixteenths
Manchester and Birmingham 40
Ditto Quarters
Midland
100 l3O
Ditto New
Midland, Birm. and Derby ...100
Newcastle & Darlington Sane. 24 ...... 66
Newcastle and Berwick - to 10
North British
Northern and Eastern
Ditto Scrip
Norwich and Brandon 8 ... 151(2 to
Ditto New Shares 1
Richmond and West End June. 1
Rugby .. 1
Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Birm. 2% 314%... to
South Devon
__.. ....

South Eastern and Dover ... 3318 4Bl/, to
South Wales /21/5 to
Trent Valley
Yarmouth and Norwich
York and North Midland ... 50 10912 to
Ditto % Shares
Ditto Scarboro' Branch
Ditto Selby Scrip
Ditto, Extension
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens
Great Northern of France ... 4
Lyons and Avignon
Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 2
Pans and Rouen.
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
London and Westminster
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 18.—There
has been a good business done to-day, in most cases at higher
prices. South Easterns have been in good demand, and are
quoted fully 51. higher:—
Lancaster and Carlisle 25
Manchester and Leeds, 16th Shares 5ll
Manchester and Birmingham, Quarter Shares 517,
South Eastern New 19% 20
Ditto New Creation
arnsley Junction
Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington
Caledonian
Cambridge and Lincoln
Churnet Valley 4l/8
Huddersfield and Manchester Rail and Canal 4 I-A
Leeds and Bradford (long line) lB
Leeds and West Riding Junction 4l/4%
London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby 1 11-163/4
London and York 4
North British
Trent Valley 9%
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consols
Neiv 31/4 per Cent
Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 12 3..16
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860
India Stock
India Bonds, 1,000/.
Ditto under 1,0001. ... ..
Bank Stock for Account... ... 213
Consols ..
India Stock for Account 2881,,2
Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., I%d 57 pm.
Ditto 500/.
Ditto Small ... .. 59 pin.
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Columbian:Bonds 6 per Cent 14%
Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent.
SHARES.

to
to 576
to
to
to 41

Birmingham and Gloucester, 100 paid
Bristol and Exeter, 70 paid 77
Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid
Caledonian, 5 paid
Churnet Valley, 2 paid
Dublin and Belfast Junction, 21/2 paid ......
Eastern Counties, 25 paid........ ...............
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per,Cent, 3% paid, No. 1 —
Ditto ditto, 13s. 4d. paid, No. 2
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid 63
Great Western, 75 paid 176
Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid lO2
Ditto Fifths, 20 paid 4O
Harwich, 1 paid ll/2
2514

Lancaster and Carlisle, 15 paid
London and Birmingham (Stock) .. ..
Ditto, Quarter Shares, 2 paid
London and Blackwall, 16%
London and Greenwich, 12% paid
London an : South Western, 41a paid BO
Ditto New, 21/2 paid
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. r aid ......
London and York. 21,4 paid
4
MaticheiLei and Leeds, 70 paid
Ditto Half Shares, 30 paid 55
Midland, 100 paid
Ditto New, 2 paid
Midland, Birmingham, and Derby, 100 paid 9B
Newcastle and Darlington:Junction, 24 paid 661
North British, 7% paid
Northern and Eastern, 45 paid
Ditto Scrip, 30 paid
Portsmouth Direct, 214 paid
Rugby, 1 paid 2%
South Eastern and Dover, 33h paid 4B'.
Ditto New Shares, 4 paid 2l
Ditto, 2 paid
Yarmouth and Norwich, 20 paid 29 q
York and North Midland, 50 paid
Ditto Half Shares, 25 paid
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens, 2 paid
Paris and Lyons, 4 paid
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
London and Westminster, 20 paid 27IA

ASSESSED TAXES.—Now that Sir Robert has got
a surplus revenue, he may. readily vary the assessed
taxes. Instead of eight windows being subjected to
duty, let the scale be no lower than twenty ; repeal the
duty upon trade horses, carriages, horses and dogs of
carriers, carriages let to hire, and horse dealers' duty.
Lighten these burdens, and add to the following luxuries
--they are luxuries, and the parties can and ought to
pay for them :—General game certificates, instead of
41. Os. 10d., make them 5/. ; gamekeepers, instead of
1/. 7s. ; greyhounds, instead of 1/.25., 21.; pointers,
instead of 15s. 5d., 1/. ; and mind, also, that the
" shabby-genteel " gentlemen are reached for their
'" Torn-and Jerry " gigs.—From a Correspondent.
We have heard with satisfaction that her Majesty's
Ministers have made such an arrangement as will in-
crease the income of Mlle. D'Este to 1,0001. a year,
being equal to that which she enjoyed during the life-
time of his late Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex.
BURGLARIES IN SUSSEX.—Burglaries have been
committed in this county almost nightly during the last
month, and yet not a single person has been detected.
Twenty houses, at least, have been broken open, and the
gang are become quite a terror to the country people.