The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-03 00:00:00

To conclude with WAR IN CHINA.

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THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DEC. 3.
THER3IOBIETEE, Lowest, 35; Highest, 48; Noon, 36.

BARON TER, 25.58.
WIND W.; fino sunshiny woather.

BUM WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning 15 minutes after 4 1 Evening • • 39 minutes after 4.

authority, and which that Government knows England
never can yield.

The Chronicle has administered but sorry comfort to
the seller of railray scrip, frightened by the visions
which the Times as conjured up, of attorneys, and

actions, and denunciations from the judgment seat.

Mr. GLADSTONE'S Registration Act has mach the sale
of scrip illegal, says the Chronicle, and has thereby
taken away from the buyer any right of action that be-

fore existed. But if this Act has done so much it has

done more ; it has made the seller of scrip liable for
any such sale to a penalty of ten pounds. The words

of the Act which the Chronicle, wrongly, in our opinion,
applies to railway companies, are these (7 and 8 VicT.

c. 110, s. 26) :

" With regard to subscribers, and every person ontitkd, o
claiming to be entitled, to any share in any joint-stock com-
pany, the formation of which shall be commenced after the
Ist day of November, 1844, until such joint-stock company
shall hare obtained a certificate of complete registration, and
until any such subscriber or person shall hare been day regis-
tered as a shareholder in the said registry- office, it shall not be
lawful for such person to dispose, by sale or mortgage, of
such share, or of any interest therein; and that every con-
tract for, or sale, or.disposal of such share or interest shall be
void, and that every person entering into such contract shall
forfeit a sum not exceeding t©n pounds."

If the Chronicle is right in applying this clause to
railway companies, we think the Gnllaiit Admiral to
whom in his provisional-ecmmittee-man capacity the
Times so pointedly addressed its gentle warnings, is not
to be congratulated on his alternative. We suspect,
indeed, he would gladly compound for the penalties by
running the risk of the action.
But we venture to think that the Chronicle is wrong,
and for these reasons:—

1. Clause 2 of the Registration Act says--" Except
as hereinafter specially provided, this Act shall not ex-
tend to any Company for executing any bridge, &c., &c.,
railway, &c. &c., which cannot be carried into execu-
tion without obtaining the authority of Parliament ;"
and there is no special provision to bring such companies
within the operation of the clause that makes sales of
scrip illegal.
2. The words " until such joint-stock company shall
have obtained a certificate of complete registration, and
until any such subscriber or person shall have been duly
registered as a shareholder in the said Registry-office,"
clearly limit the operation of the clause to companies
which do not require the authority of Parliament. Such
companies do nut acquire their powers till they get these
Acts. Other companies acquire their powers
on complete registration. It is true that clause 9of the
Act provides for a complete registration of companies
which require Acts of Parliament, and enables them
to obtain a certificate of complete registration on depo-
siting their deeds at the Parliamentary offices, in com-
pliance with the standing orders of the two Houses, arid
returning a copy of the deeds to the Registry-office.
But this complete registration is very different
from the complete registration, which, in other cases
incorporates companies ; and it is not to such complete
registration as this that the words of the penal clause,
" until any such subscriber, or person, shall have
been duly registered as a shareholder in
the said Registry-office," apply. The " due registra-
tration" of shareholders in the Registry-office is de-
scribed in clauses 7 and 11 of the Act. Clause 11
provides for half-yearly returns of new shareholders to
the Registry-office from "the directors of every joint
stock company completely registered under this Act,
except companies which aka?' have been incorporated by
Act of Parliament after complete registration."
3. The Chronicle quotes the words of the 7th clause
of the Act, " That it shall not be lawful for any joint-
stock company hereafter to be formed for any purpose
within the meaning of this Act, whether for executing
any such work as aforesaid under the authority of Par-
liament, or for any other purpose, t, act otherwise than
provisionally, in accordance with this Act, until such
company shall have attained a certificate of com-
plete registration, as hereinafter provided ;" and
then proceeds, " Now, sales of scrip certifi-
cates are beyond the provisional powers of joint-
stock companies by the 26th section." We believe
the 26th section to have nothing to do with the words
quoted from the 7th. The 26th section at most, if the
Chronicle were right, would forbid a certain act on the
part of subscribers to railway companies. The words of
the 7th section refer to the powers of companies for car-
rying out their objects, with which sale and transfer of
shares has nothing on earth to do.
We submit, then, that the Chronicle is wrong in its
reading of the Registration Act. Into the question
raised by the Times, of the liabilities of parties who hold
scrip to actions for the purchase-money, we will not now
enter ; but we think no gallant Admiral's sea-side slum-
bers need be disturbed by any fear of such an action.
What is any scripholder to gain by suing his seller ?
There will be no case of a company which stops short
of applying to Parliament, in which (allowing the ut-
most for bad management) a portion of the deposits
must not be returned. Why, the London and York
Company, after its Parliamentary battle of unex-
ampled length and cost, has still enough of its five
per cent. deposits left to fight again, and
makes no fin they call upon the shareholders for fighting
the battle of next session. In schemes, then, which do
not go to Parliament (and it is with reference to these
that the Times has advised purchasers of scrip to go to
law), a large portion of the deposit money must remain
to be returned. If the scripholder goes to law, judg-
ment in his favour will not console him for the swallow-
ing up of his recovered purchase-money in his lawyer's
bill. We strongly advise, then, all scripholders to
trouble themselves no further about limairsost v, SAUN-
DERS,—if it be necessary to compel provisional com-
mittee-men to return deposits minus expenses, in cases
of abandoned schemes, to do it through general meet-
ings of scripholders, or by the means which a free press
affords of bringing public opinion to bear on unprin-
cipled directors ; but, by all means, if they want to get
any of their money, to shy an attorney that would quote
KEPIPSON V. SAUNDERS and the Times, as they would
shy the ----.

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

DAYIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
W THIS EVENING
ill be performed a New Drama, THE MINUTE GUN AT SEA.
SuPPorted
Mr'. Vinin 137 Means. Hughes, Hicks, Cowell, Heelop, Fredericks,
, and Martin.
To conclugde with THE FACTORY BOY. Supported by Messrs.
Rogers, Hughes, Cowell, Mrs. Vining. Miss Martin, and Mrs. Daly.

ROTAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
THIS EVENING Will be performed a New Drama, THE TOWER OF LONDON ;
or, The Death Omen and the Fate of Lady Jane Grey. Supported
by Mr. Osbaldiston, F. Saville, Mae Vincent, Miss Richardson,
Ifio Eliza Terry. &c.
To conclude with JAPHET fl SEARCH OF A FATHER.

STOPPAGE OF NEW OXFOR.To TREET.—Yester-
bet:in:conuorrlboedrnto
and
day, in consequence of some accidents Zvi
foot passengers in the new street,
is;lioicnleerss,
her Majesty's ceumsmen
Oxford-street, by the passage of the nu
there being no paved footway,
of Woods and Forests gave directions that at each
uputoof the
new street a barrier should be immediately set
vent the thoroughfare of vehicles. They will remain there
till the houses which are now being built on either side of
the street are completed. The stone pavement will be laid
down.
FIEE.—NARROW ESCAPE FOR RAILWAY SPECU-
LATORS.—On Tuesday evening last, about six o'clock, in con-
sequence of an escape of gas, a writer's office in the New
Town took fire, by which the premises were put in great
jeopardy, alongwith the plans and specifications for no fewer
than ten new railways lying in the office, all of which must
have been pat a stop to for the time had the necessary do-
cuments not been discovered and rescued. These were con-
tained in a tin box, which was got out without much in-
jury'. The fire having been observed in time, it was extin-
hitd before doing much damage, beyond the burning of
thhe flooring of the house.—Glasgow Chronicle.
Such Is the excitement in railway matters (says
the cerrsegondent of the Glasgow A
being
10nd s enlK asked b friend Argun), that a gentleman
you terea „ Y a who met him„" How do

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

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

Lyons and Avignon.— 1
Luxembourg—
Madrid and Valencia... --

The Paris papers contain Po fresh intelligence from Al
geirs, from which we are to infer that affairs remain
nearly in the same state ; that the French troops are
making little progres3 in reclaiming the rebellious tribes,
and that the communications between simnel important

THE SUN, LONDON, WiiIDNIESDAY
_EVENING, DECEMBER 3, 1845._

cltions are still interrupted. Several of the journals

contain articles on the Oregon question ; and the Jour-
nal des .Debats, the organ of the Government, has at
length spoken out on the subject. It denies the claims of
President POLK, but, at the same time, states that he is
so pledged by promises given at his election, and the
language of the political demagogues of the west is
so clamorous, that he will, in all probability, b© obliged

to maintain them, to their full extent, in his Message
to the Congress. " The difference of opinion between
the two Cabinets," says that journal, " are very great.

President Pala doubtless, in virtue of pledps given at

the timo of his election, inserted in his inauguration

Message, the most solemn document that can omanate
from him, a passage which nothing had rendered maces-

sary, and which declared the extreme opinion of the
Western States. The English Cabinet was moved at
this unexpected incident in the negotiation ; S:r ROBERT
PEEL and Lord ABERDEEN replied, in full Parliament,
in terms as explicit as those made use of in the Mes-
sage. England did more ; she continued, at the expense
of millions, her maritime preparations, at which France

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was very quiet,
the sales not exceeding 2,000 bales. Prices were rather in
favour of buyers. There was a slight improvement in Shares,
with rather more doing.
The f.llowing Railway shares were disposed of yesterday
at the auction of Messrs. Dimond, and Co., there being more
inclination to purchase in new lines at low prices :
Description. Paid.
Dendre Valley ... ... ... ... ... 2
Ditto . . -- •• • ••• -•••-•
Rugby, Derby, and Manchester ... ... 2%
West End and Southern Counties ... 1%
Calcutta and St. George's Point ... ... 7s
Isle of Ely Wisbesch, and Lincolnshire 2%
Midland Irish Great Western, from
Dublin to Mullingar ..• ... ... 2% 20 0
Ditto ditto ... ..• 2 0 0
Shropshire Union Railway and Canal,- 42s 111 6
Ditto ditto ... ... 111 6
Irish North Midland ... ••• ... ... 1% 015 0 ,
0 15 0
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ... 22s 019 0
Ditto ditto ..• 018 6
Warwick and Worcester ..• ••• ... 425 1 3 0
Over Yssel ... ... ••• ... ... ... 83s 4d 111 . 6
Exeter,Dorchester, and Weym•Ceast... 42s 1 2 0
Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke ... 105 s 210 0
Calcutta and St. George's Point ... ... 75 0 9 6
Ditto ditto ••• ••• ••• 010 0
Direct Northern ... ... ... ... ... 2% 115 0
Grand Union ... ... ... ... ... ... I% 1 9 0
Calcutta and St. George's Point ... is 010 0
Great Indian Peninsular ... ... ••• 5s 0 7 6
London and York ... ... ... ... ... 2% 218 6
North Staff., Churnet, and Potteries ... 42a 5 6 0
Ditto ditto ... 5 5 0
Dutch Rhenish ... .. . . ... ... 5 615 0
Eastern Counties—Stock No. 2 ... ... 93s 4d 416 0
Shropshire Union and Canal ... ... 42s 112 6
Shrewsbury and Birmingham. ... ... 21,4 38 0
Chelmsford and Bury ... ... ... .. 1:74 1 1 6
Term and Dove Valley ... ... ... ... 1% 1 1 6
Man. and Birm. Cont. and Welsh Junc. IN 1 3 0
Ditto ditto ... 1 3 0
London and York ... ... ... ... ... 2% 218 0
Ditto ••• •• ••• ••• ••• 219 0
Noyth Staffer., Churnet, and Potteries, 428 5 7 0
Ditto ditto ••• 5 7 0
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ••• 22s 018 6
Ditto ditto ... 018 6
Leicester and Birmingham ... ... ... 225 018 6
0 18 6
1 0 0
South and Midlands Junction ... ... 42s 1 8 0
London and Manchester (Remington's) 2% 2 0 0
Ditto ditto ... 2 1 0
Essex and Suffolk ... ... ... ... 1% 0 19. 6
Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke ... 105 s 210 0
Chelmsford and Bury ... ... ••• ... 1% 1 0 6
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ... 22s 019 0
Ditto ditto ... 018 6
Northampton,Banbury, and Cheltliam. 2 119 0
Ditto ditto ... 2 0 0
Somersetshire Midland ... ••• ... 2% 1 5 6
Great Eastern and Western .. ... 2% 116 0
Ditto ..• ••• ••• ••• ••• -- 115 0
Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby ... 42s 018 0
Great Indian Peninsular ... ... ... 14 0 8 0
Sheffield, Buxton, and Leek Potteries 1% 017 0
Kentish Coast ... .. ••• ... ... I% 0 3 6
Eastern Counties ... .. • ... ... 14/ 16s 19 10 0
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ... 22s 019 0
Ditto ditto ... 019 6
Ditto ditto ... 1 0 0
Northampton, Bedford, and Cambridge 42e 1 5 0
Warwick and Worcester ... ... ... 425 1 1 0
Ditto ••• ••• ••• ••• 1 1 0
Ditto ••• ••• ••• ••• 1 2 6
Cornwall and Central Devon ... .. 2% 113 0
Direct Northern ... ••• •.. ... ... 2% 118 0
Sheffield, Buxton, and Leek Potteries... 1 % 11 0
Scottish Midland Extension ... ... 1% 1 9 0
Great N. and S. Wales and Worcester 1 012 6
Northampton, Bedford, and Cambridge 42s 1 3 6
Liverpool,Mancle& Newcastle-on-Tyne 508 2 19 6
Callao, Lima, and Pacific Coast ... .. 1 019 6
Calcutat and St. George's Point ... 7s 0 9 6
Great Western of Bengal ... •.. ... 14 0 10 6
Ditto ditto •.. ... ••• _ 011 6
Great Indian Peninsular ... ... 4 0 9 0
Ditto ditto 0 I 8 6
Jamaica South Midland ... ••• ... 1 112 0
Calcutta and St. George's Point ... is 010 6
0 10 6
Ditto
Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke• ... 105 s 213 0
Somerset Midland ... ... ... ... ... 2% 110 6
Bideford and Tavistock ... ... ... 1% 015 0
London, Bristol, and South Wales ". 42s 019 0
Metropolitan Junction ... ... ... 2% 115 0
Great Welsh Central ... ... ... ... 423 019 6
Leicester and Birmingham ... ... 22s 018 0
Ditto ditto ••• ... ... 018 6
Chelmsford and Bury ... ... ... ... I% 1 1 6
Essex and Suffolk ... ... ... ... I% 10 0
Sheffield, Buxton, and Leek Potteries... 1% 11 0
Mauritius ... ... ..• ... ... ... 1 011 6
There are no arrivals in the City to-day, except the Con-
tinental mails, and the commercial markets are compara-
tively dull.
The value of railway property (together with, much other
mend information) is given in the "Banking Almanac and Di-
rectory," and from this it appears that Middlesex, the smallest
county but one in England, is richest in railways, having an
annual income from them of 960,443/. ; Lancashire stands for
593,515/. ; Surrey fur 191.018/. ; Durham for 171,089/. ; Der-
byshire for 104,204/. ; and Yorkshire for 95,5101. The total
amount of railway income in 1843 was, for England and
Wales, 2,417,6091., and for Scotland, 181,333/. ; since which
period a material increase must have taken place. At the
date in question no less than twenty counties in England,
and five in Wales, were without railways.
The Stock Market still looks well, and as respects time
bargains there is an improvement in the quotations. Con-
sols have been 943% to 95 for present transfer, 95% to 95%
for Account. The premium on Exchequer-bills has been
further reduced, being 19s. to 14s. Bank Stock has been
down to 2023/4 and 202%. East India Stock is worth 262.
The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 95% to
95%, and the Three per Cents. 93% 93%.
The Foreign Investments have been rather firmer, although.
with a very limited business doing. Spanish Five per Cents.
are 28; and the Three per Cents. 37%. Mexican Bonds
have been at 31% for the Actives, and 17 for the Deferred,
, being better. Peruvian are 34. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
1 Cents. have realised 583/ to 59%.
The Share Market is tolerably firm.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock 102%1/2
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 97 9 %
3 per Cent. Consols Anna 943/4 95 943
New 314 per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities Expire sth Jan. 1860 lO 7-16 .1/2%
Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10, 1859 l6
India Stock '262
South Sea Stock —
Ditto Old Annuities 93%
Ditto New Annuities
Consols for Account "MN%
Exchequer Bills. I%d. 11/ d.
1,000/.
5001. ... ... .., 2O 15 pm.
Ditto Small — .. .. 20 15 pm.
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Danlsh Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent.... 86
Blexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account 31%
Ditto Deferred Stock l7
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent 34
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840 —
Ditto for the Account .. .. .....
Ditto 3 per Cent
Ditto for the Account . 37%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2% per Cents 58% 59% 58%
Ditto 4 Der Cent. Certificates .. 91%
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE
O'CLOCK.

took umbrege in a very mal a propos manner, and
which preparations have now raised the English navy
to a formidable degree of power ; she has taken her pre-
cautions as though a war might break out in the year
1846. The United States, on the contrary, have pre-
pared nothing against such an eventuality. If things
now passed as in the last century ; if commerce had not
created interests which render a declaration of war very
difficult, we should say that everything depends on the
M essage w hich President PeLx is to deliver to
Congress. In the event of that magistrate main-
taining his assertion of last year, there will only remain
the last argument of kings and people ; for of what avail
would be negotiation thereafter. The question would no
longer be as to tlle dividon of territory, for Mr. PoLK
will have Oregon entire. England has latterly proposed
to refer it to arbitration, but this the President will not
consent to. What other arguments can, therefore, be
brought forward besides those which issue from the
cannon's mouth ? Electoral necessities can, therefore,
alone explain the conduct of Mr. PoLx, who had
the reputation of being a calm and reserved man.
He is a native of Tennessee, one of the western states of
the Union. It is on the west that he founds the hope of
his re-election, and the west demands the entire of the
Oregon territory. It is, therefore, with much reason
that some of the American journals tell their country-
men that the Oregon question, which to be understood
requires an attentive study of old treaties and diplomatic
documents, is solved at once in every village of the west
by political demagogues, who have read nothing, and
who only know one thing—that they are sure to please
the multitude and obtain their suffrages, by telling them
that GOD has given them the new continent from one
extremity to the other for their exclusive use. How-
ever this may be, there is every reason to fear that the
Message will be in accordance with the feelings of
the democracy of the western states. Private letters
from America, which come down to the 10th
of November, hold out little to the contrary.
The annexation of Texas caused the first election of
Mr. PoLx, and to secure his second he wishes to obtain
possession of Oregon. The calculation will be extravagant,
but the general opinion at New York, at Philadelphia,
and at Washington is, that the President will do it. A
war between America and England will be a calamity
for the civilised world, and by degrees every maritime
nation may be drawn in to take a part in the conflict, in
consequence of the vexatious interruptions which neu-
trals will not fail to meet with in the desperate struggle
which will desolate the surface of the ocean. But for
England and for America it will be such an overturning
of interests, that we cannot but think that, whatever
the language of the President in his Message may be,
the cause of peace will not on that account be irretriev-
ably lost. If war should break out, New York, New
Orleans, and Boston would be closely blockaded, and
their merchants ruined, but at the same time what injury
would be inflicted on British commerce, which covers
every sea, by American cruisers ? What would become
of Manchester, if a supply of American cotton failed it ?
and how would the south-western states of the
Union, whose principal produce is cotton, be sup-
ported without that market T What a shock would
it even be for the constitution of the Union itself?"
The writer concludes his remarks with a hope that
peace will continue to spread over Great Britain and
the United States the benefits with which it has loaded
these two great nations, to the great advantage of all
other countries.

Accounts from Toulon state that Inn....uim Pacue ar-
rived at that place on the 27th ult., in the Egyptian fri-
gate the Nile. He was received by a salute of 21 guns
from some of the ships in port and from one of the bat-
teries, and the French vessels were dressed out in honour
of his arrival. The Maritime Prefect and the Marquis
DE LAVALETTE paid the Egytian Prince a visit on board
the Nile, and at elcven o'clock Inrumm landed with his
suite, and was received by the authorities and the troops,
who were drawn up in line. The Prince was dressed in
the most magnificent style, as were also the principal
personages of his suite. He is stated to be apparently in
good health, but his hair and beard are perfectly white..
On reaching the Prefecture, where apartments had been
prepared for him, he received the authorities, and after.
wards went into the roads with the Admiral in his barge.
On their return there was a grand dinner at the Prefec-
ture. He was to stay two or three days at Toulon, and
afterwards, proceed by Marseilles to the baths of Vernet.
The Share Market on Monday was more firm, but no
great amount of business was transacted. The following is
said to be the fall in the prices of several important lines
during the last week :-Rouen declined 521. 50c.; Orleans to
Bordeaux, and Avignon to Marseilles. 47f. 50c. each ; Boulogne,
Rouen to Havre, and St. Germain, 40f. each ; Paris to
Orleans, 35f; Northern, 26f. 50e.; Montereau to Troyes and
Farspoux, 25f. each; Versailles (Left Bank), 22f. 50c.;
Strasbourg, 21f. 25c. ; Versailles (Right Bank), 10f. ; Orleans to
Vierzon, 71. 50c. The market closed as follows :-Three per
Celts. for cash, 81f. 95c., for account, Blf. ; Five per Cents.
for cash, 116 f. 45c., for account, 116 f. 55c ; Bank of France
Shares, 3,290 f. • Neapolitan, 100 f. 505.; Spanish and New
' Loan not quoted.
The closing quotations on many of the lines were lower
than those of Saturday-Paris and Orleans leaving cff at
1,100 f.; Paris and Rouen, 900 f.; Rouen and Havre, and
vignon, not quoted; Vierzon, 605 f.; Strasbourg and Bale,
225. ; Boulogne and Amiens, 482 f. 50e. ; Northern, 6001. ;
Bourdeaux, 5601. ; Montereau, 430 f.
But little was done in other lines. Paris and Lyons (La-
flitte) may be quoted at 502 f. 50c.; (Union), 508 E 75c.;
Paris and Strasbourg (Definitives) at par; Ditto (Ganne-
ron), 500 f. ; (Definitives), 540 f.; Tours and Nantes (Defi-
nitives), 505 f. ; Lyons and Avignon (Talabot), 505 f. ;
(Lecomte), 500 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEc. 2.
Anglo-Belgian ........... Mauritius
Boulogne and Amiens.. 7 A Namur and Liege 2l,
Bordeaux &Mediterran - North Jamaica ...
Bordeaux and Toulouse - Orleans and Vierzen
Do. & Cette (Espelete) 1% Orleans and Bordeaux 91,4
Do. (Mackenzie's) •• 1% OvtrYasel
Callao, Lima, and Pa- Paris & Lyons (Laffitte) 2%
citie Coast ... - Ditto (Gannerea's). -
Central of Spain - Ditto (Caloa's).... - -
Ceylon .
Demerara
Dendre Valley - Paris aid Rouen .
Dutch Rhenish ...... 614 Paris and Strasbarg
Dieppe & Paris Janet - (Ganneron's)
Dijon and Mulhouse
Do. (Aymard's) l%
East Indian ......... Dc (Corapte de L'Est) -
Do.Fa can o
ppnoesutpixitnu&tbeeHd
Ia
alzelbierureu.k.
Sambre and Manse .... - Paris and St. Quentin. -
Grt. Northern of France Bones and Havre.-- -
Royal North of Spain. -
41/
Great Paris and Lyons. 14i Strasburg and Basle ... -
Great Western Bengal - Tournay,Jurbise, Lan-
Great Western Canada - dent, and Hasselt... -
Jamaica S. Mid. Junction - Tours and Nantes
De. North - (Mackenzie's)
Do. Extensive
Jersey Do. (O'Neill's). ....... -
Louvain and Jemappe l% Trinidad ...........
alb
la and As

old for.
0 9 6
0 9 0
1 13 0
0 8 6
0 10 6
1 10 0

RAILWAYS. PAID. PEE SHARE.
Aberdeen
Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin... .. ...
Armagh, Coleraine, Portrush 1% to
Aylesbury and Theme ... 1% —
Belfast & County Down
Bideford and Tavistock .. ~. ug.....
Birmingham and Gloucester 100 ......124
Ditto New Shares
Birmingham and Oxford
Junct ion
Birmingham and Deicester
Direct — ••. to
Boston, Stamford, and Birm. 22s —
Bridgewater and Minehead... 425......
Bristol and Exeter 70
Ditto New
Bristol and Gloucester 3O
Bristol and Liverpool Junct. 2% to
Buckinghamshire 425....... ...... to
Caledonian
Ditto Extension
Cambrian Grand Junction ...
Cambridge and Lincoln ...... 1% 3l/24.— to
Ditto• New 1%...... 2%
Cambridge and Oxford l% tos
Canterbury and foyer IN— to
Central Kent 2% to
Chelmsford and Bury .., ..... 1% — to
Chester and Holyhead
Chester and Manchester
Cheltenham and Oxford ...... 2
....
Clydesdale Junction....— ......
—5
._. .._. . .

Veron- micona.... ..._
pest Flaateri ......... 2%

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
BRAMPTON COURSING MEETING.
A sweepstakes for sixteen dogs was won by Mr. Fox's
Fairy, Mr. Mounsev's Tyrant ran up.
LATEST BETfING AT MANCHESTER —TUESDAY.
TIIE DERBY.-15 to 2 agst Sting (t)-17 to 1 agst Bro-
cardo-27 to 1 agst Spithead-27 to 1 agst lago-30 to 1
agst Malcolm (t)-40 to 1 agst Manilldc. (t)-40 to 1 agst
The Traverser (t)-50 to 1 agst Smuggler Bill.
CIIESTER CUP.-500 to 10 agst Hope-500 to 10 agst In-
trepid-500 to 10 agst Event—and 1,000 to 10 agst Ratan—
offered against each in one bet.

2

Cork, Blackreck, and Passages 225. . ... ...... to
Cork and Killarney 21(2 — . .... to
Cork and Waterford
Cornwall
Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir.,
and Leicester 1 IA — to
Dartmouth, Torbay, & Exeter 42e.
Derby, Gaineboro', and Great
Grimsby . .
Derby, Utlexeter, and Staff'd 2 .......
Direct Manch. (Remington's) 2) — -
Ditto (Rack.strick'is)
-'
2A

,
Direct Northern
Direct Norwich
Dublin and Armagh l% to
Dublin and Belfast Junction 5

Dublin, Belfast,andColeraine 2% to
Dublin and Galway - 4
Dudley, Madely, & Broseley 2% — ..... to
Dundalk and Enniskillen 2% to
Eastern Counties
Do. New Si. 169 6 p..... to
Do. Perpet. 5 per Ct. No. 1. 6/.13s 4d 3/4 p...... to
Ditto, ditto, No. 2. ...4/. 13s. 4d — ...... to
East Dereham and Norwich 1
Eastern Union
Ditto 1% Shares... ........ ... 21,i ••••••
Ditto Extension
Ditto Ipswich and Bury
..•. l'zfi — . .... to
Ditto Extension toNorwich 2iii
Ditto Cambridge and Ely 2 • — ...... to
East Lincolnshire l% — ...... to
East and West of England... 1%...
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O ... . 65
Ditto 14 Shares 12%••••'•
Ditto New 4 Shares
Edinburgh and Northern .....• 1111 —
Edinburgh and Perth
Ely and Huntingdon 5 ...... •• ... to
Enniskillen andSligo ......
Essex and Suffolk -
Exeter,Dorchester,and Wey-
mouth 425....... •••••• to --
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 23/4 - ...... to
Gloucester, Aberystwith, and
Central of Wales ............ 1% — to
Goole andDoneaster 42s.
Gran dJ unction 100
Ditto % Shares 5O — to
Ditto Quarter shansi.szyt 25

ROYAL SOCIETY.—The anniversary meeting of this
Society was held yesterday, at their apartments in Somerset
House. The Most Noble the Marquis of Northampton,
President, in the chair. The royal medals were awarded to
G. B. Airy, Esq., astronomer royal, for his paper " On the
Laws of the Tides on the coast of Ireland, as inferred from
an extensive series of observations made in connexion with
the ordnance surrey of Ireland ;" and to •• Thomas Snow
Beck, Esq., for his paper " On the Nerves of the Uterus."
The Copley medal was awarded to Professor Schwann, of
Louvain, for his " Physiological Researches on the Develop-
ment of Animal and Vegetable Textures." The President
delivered his customary annual address, accompanied by
notices of the distinguished deceased Fellows, after which the,
new Council were elected; and the Fellows of the Society
and their friends dined together at the Crown and Anchor
Tavern—the Marquis of .Northampton presiding. The fol-
lowing is a list of the officers of the Council :—President--
The Marquis ofNorthampton. Treasurer—George Renn;e,
Esq. Secretaries—Peter Mark Roget, M.D. ; Samuel Hunter
Christie, Esq., M.A. Foreign Secretary—Lieutenant Colonel
E. Sabine, R.A. Other Members of the Council—John
Bostock, M.D.; Sir Wm. Burnett, M.D., K.C.H.; Charles
Daubeny, M.D. ; Bryan Donkin, Esq.; Very Rev. Dean of
py; Thomas Galloway, Esq. ; William Robe? t Grove, Esq.,
..M.A.; Leonard Horner, Esq.; Sir John W. Lubbock, Bart ,
ALA.; John Forbes Royle, M.D. ; William Sharpey, M.D. ;
William Henry Smyth, Captain, R.N.; John Taylor, Esq.;
Charles Wheatstone, Esq.; Rev. Robert Willis, -IL A. ; Lord
Wrottesley. The Fellows whose names in the preceding list
are tinted in italics *ere not Members of the last Council.

GrodUnion(Notting.&Lynti) 1%....._ 1%41 to
Great Eastern and Western.. 2%
GreatGrimsby andSlieftleld... 5
Great South and W.(lrish) ... 15
Ditto Extension
Great Munster— 2l/ to
Great North of Scotland 2IA. — to
Great North of England.- „.100
Ditto New 5 — to
Ditto Now 2 — to
Groat Western
Ditto. Half Shares ..-..~. 50
Ditto, Quarter Shares 91, l6l, to
Ditto Fifths ... .
Guildford, Fareham, Portms, 2% — to
Harwich
Hull and Selby .. .. 50 lO2
Ditto Quarters . .. ... ...... 12% l93jj ...... to 20%
Ditto, Half Shares -
Inverness and Elgin
Ipswich, Norwich, and Yar-
mouth - —
Irish North Midland...... l% — ... -to
Isle of Axholme 2:,,,i' -
Killarney Junctions ll4 — to
Ken (14; 1 and Wi nderrn ere ll/2 — to
Lancaster and Carlislo... ...... 30 ...... 41 ex nto 1
Larne. Belfast, to Ballymena 2%...... to
Lecds and Carlisle .... ...... .. 2% — to
Leads and Westßiding June. 1% — ...... to
Leicester and Birmingham... 225. —
LeiceBter and Bedford 228. % p... to % p
Leicester and Tamworth 425.......
Liverpool and Manchester... 100
Ditto Half Shares 50 .....
Ditto Quarters ..... ...... ... 25 ......
Liverpool and Leeds Direct... 2%......
Livorpool, Manchester, and
Newcastle Junction
London and Birmingham ...100 2lO
Ditto Thirds
Ditto J,-4: Shares
.
Ditto Fifths
Ditto Extension
Loudon & Blackwall... 161. 13s. 4d 9 ...... to 834
Do. New .
Do. Extension
London and Brighton 50
Ditto Consolidated Bths 35
Ditto, Sixths Ol/2
London and Croydon 131. 15s. 9d. 18.X.41,4 to 19
Ditto Guaranteed 5 per Ct. 8 -•
London, Cheltenham, Oxford,
Gloucester, and Hereford.- 1 N — to
London and Greenwich... 12/. 15s. 4d...
Ditto Preference lBl lis 2d...
London,Hounslow, &Western 2 . ....
London and South Western.. 41% — ..... to
Do. New consolidatedBths- 20 33
Ditto New 7 .., ~. 16
Do. New • . 6
London and South Essex 234 — to
Lou dnn and Y0rk........ ...... VA . 8% %%to
London and Windsor .. 1
Lon.,Warwck, Kidderminster 21/. ...... 2
London, Salisbury, & Yeovil DA — to
Londonderry and Coleraine... 5

to -

Londonderry and Enniskillen 6
Lynn and Ely
Lynn and Dereham
Mancbeiter and Leeds 76 .....
Ditto Half Shares
Ditto Quarters
Ditto Sixteenths ... ..... ... 414......
Manchester and .Birmicglum 40
Ditto Quarters
Ditto New Quarters
Do. Continuation & Welsh
Junction .. 1% — to
Manch. Buxton, & Matlock 425.
Mancb.,..tter, Birmingham, and
ri.aliciiester & Rugby Direct
Mould Junction

Manchester and Southampton 2
Midland 101 .....142 .... . to 141
Ditto Fifths
Ditto, New
Midland, Birm., and Derby...loo ll3 ...... to
Midland and Eastern Counties l% to
M i did. Great Western (Irish) 2 V.,
Do. Extension (No. 1) ... 2%
Newcastle &Darlington June. 25 — to

Ditto New Brandling
.N'ewcastle and Berwick
N-,,.wcastle and Carlisle
Nn;castle,Durham,andLan.
cciabire Junction IY -
Newport and Abergayenny . 21,4 —
New Voss and Carlow 225.
Newry and Enniskillen ...... 21zi — ...... to
Newark, t-2heffield, and Boston 2%

Norfolk Ex ;.ension — — to
North British •• ... ...
Ditto New 3J;
Do. Extension to Carlisle... 1A...... ...
Do. Extens. to Dalkeith ... 5 ......
North Devon
North of Norfolk
Northern and Eastern 45
Ditto Scrip 35
Ditto Quarter Shares
Ditto New

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SECOND EDITION.