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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1845.

The House of Lords met at Five o'clock.

The report of the Irish Land Commission on the sub-
ject of the occupation of land was laid on the table.
On tho motion for the third reading of the Railway
Clauses Consolidation Bill,
Lord BROUGHAM, in the course of a long speech,
stated his objections to the present course of railway
legislation. He denounced the constitution of the Rail-
way Committee of the Board as absurd and mischievous,
and considered that the measure under discussion was
calculated to increase the mania for railway speculation
—a mania which it was their duty to check, and which,
if not checked, would produce a monetary panic more
awful than the panic of 1825. He then eulogised the
system adopted by the Government of France with re-
gard to railways, and thought it might be advantageously
pursued in this country. He condemned the Bill as cal-
culated to add to the enormous powers already possessed
by railway companies, of depriving landowners of their
property without their consent, and thus protesting
against the railway system, he felt he was doing his duty.
The Earl of DALHOUSIE replied that the speech of his
Noble and Learned Friend had relation to everything
but the business now before the House. His Honoura-
ble and Learned Friend devoted three-quarters of an
hour to censure thb Railway Board, and a quarter of an
hour to a lecture upon the evils of railway speculation.
Really, he never saw a smaller pennyworth of bread to
so huge a quantity of sack. The Noble Earl then pro-
ceeded to vindicate the course pursued by the Board of
Trade, and defend its members from the imputation
which had been cast on them. In conclusion, he begged
their Lordships to suspend their judgment as to t he con-
duct of the Board until the conclusion of the Session.

Lord AstasuaToN thought that many of the provi-
sions of the measure ought to be extended to existing
railways.
The Duke of BEAUFORT considered that the existence
of the Railway Committee of the Board of Trade had in
many instances encouraged gambling speculations.
The Earl of WINCHILSEA approved of the conduct of
the Board.

Lord CAMPBELL supported the Bill, but agreed in opi-
nion with Lord ASHBURTON, that some legislative mea-
sure for the regulation of existing railway companies
was necessary.

Lord BROUGHAM, in reply, contended that the proceed-
ings of the Railway Department of the Board of Trade
should be conducted in public.
The Bill was then read a third time and passed, as
were the Lands Clauses Consolidation Bill, and the
Lands Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Bill, after which
their Lordships adjourned.
The House of Commons met at a quarter before Four.

Mr. BAINE took the oaths and his seat for Greenock.
The Hon. Member was introduced by Mr. Hurts and
Mr. BRIGHT.

Various private Bills were forwarded a stage, and
several petitions were presented.
Mr. HUME gave notice that, on Tuesday week, he
would bring forward his motion on the subject of re-
warding the services of Sir H. PorrINGER.

Mr. WYSE gave notice for Tuesday next of his motion
on the subject of Dublin University.
Mr. S. CRAWFORD gave notice that in the Committee
on the Maynooth Bill he should move that the expenses
of endowment be taken from the revenue arising from
Irish Crown lands.

Various returns were ordered ; and after the Casx-
CELLON of the EXCHEQUER had stated, in reply to Mr.
RICARDO, that the auction duty was intended to cease
from the time the resolution had been reported, the
House adjourned at half-past five o'clock.

The accounts from Dublin are of the most gratifying
description. The new policy of the Government has
already been productive of beneficial results, and leads
to the conviction that when fully carried into operation
Ireland will be restored to peace, and form the
strongest bulwark of the British empire. Hitherto she
has only been a thorn in the side of England.
In times even of profound peace, when no external
wars or jealousies harassed the Government, when Scot-
land and England remained in contented tranquillity,
and the industrious inhabitants directed all their ener-
gies to trade and commerce, and great national
undertakings, Ireland has generally only exhibited
scenes of confusion and the bitterest animosity against
her nearest neighbour. English capital, Eaglish improve-
ments—everything English, in fact, except what was
forced upon the Irish in the shape of guns and swords,
and armies and coercion Bills—was driven from the
country, ea if England was not only aforeign nation, but
a determined and implacable enemy. Such a bitter and
universal feeling could not spring up without a cause,
and least of all among an open-hearted, generous, and
grateful people like the Irish. Even these qualities
are now conceded to them by men who had long opposed
their claims, who rarely had tempted their kindness,
and who were known rather as their oppressors than
their humane and just rulers. Sir R. PEEL, who bad so
long tried their patience, alluded in his speech
on the Maynooth grant to the gratitude displayed in
the sister country for even such a small favour, and at
the meeting held in Conciliation-hall on Monday, the
walls of the building resounded with the praises of
the Pri me Minister and of his colleague who
had, in an unguarded moment, roused the in-
dignation. of many millions by announcing that
concession had reached its utmost limits. The
remarks of Mr. O'CONNELL on this subject,
in perfect "keeping with the forgiving disposition of his
his life, llf t had an opportunity of praising Sir JAMES
countryinte n, are to this effect :—" For the first time in
GRAHAX, and he did so most cordially, on account of
the mann cress by which his speech was characterised.
There win i nothing more foolish than the cry of ' incon-
sistency." When a man was in the wrong a change in his
conduct merely amounted to a declaration that he was
wiser to- tiny than he was yesterday. Who shall presume to
say that because a man was once wrong he was never to
emerge f 'rc m the precincts of error ? No, he held out
both his I iands to Sir JAMES GRAHAM with forgiveness
for the r a at, and he should be placed on a pedestal hav-
ing insm 11.3 ed on its base ' Justice to Ireland.' lie had
exPresse d his sorrow for having used the expression that
concessi to had reached its limits, and no man was either
held
vba tion towardsof the
fullesta Christ eau or a gentleman who did not forgive after
the sym ?toms of repentance manifested by him." He
1 aim
tearrs ai SirlanguageayproßO ROBERT PEEL,
meeting
tha t hadthe
ever ass umbled, even when the rage for repeal
was at its
highest 1 i itch. Such avi •
ctory is worth contending for.

DNESDAY EVENT

The internal peace of a great country is one of the first
of blessings ; charity and forgiveness are the
brightest of Christian virtues, and we, there-
fore, honour men who will not foree these
religious opinions on others, nor stand lin the way
of measures which may save the United Empire from
the greatest of all calamities. The good work is fairly
begun, it has the support of the two great parties in the
State, and its consummation, we trust, will form the
most illustrious feature in the reign of our beloved
SOVERZIGN.

We see that Sir ROBERT PEEL is so bent upon pre-
serving perfect good faith—with the gentlemen of Scot-
land—that he will not, for worlds, be worse than his
word. That is passed for Friday next. On Friday,
without remission or failure, he will state the outline of
his plan for assimilating the law which is to control in
future the small bank-note circulation and currency of
Scotland and of Ireland to that of England, under the Acts
of 1819 and 1844. We own Sir ROBERT is a very accom-
plished Parliamentary tactician, and we have often had
occasion at once to admire and rejoice at the dexterity
with which he has exercised his peculiar talent in accele-
rating the progress of great questions involving general
principles. But he is really a little too much given to
display his proficiency in an art which he has so success-
fully studied. There is no gratification which seems
more racy to the Right Honourable Baronet than that
of neutralising all opposition to his projects, by giving
to their opponents no time to concentrate or to direct
their opposition. If the expression of the public senti-
ment against any one of the measures he has, from time
to time originated, have been languid and weak, the
Premier has manifested a singular liberality in allowing
all latitudes of discussion and opportunity for petitioning.
If, on the contrary, the public distaste for any scheme
which he has announced, have been loudly and unequi-
vocally intimated, nothing can exceed the promptitude
and energy with which he urges it on through all the
various stages of its progression. No compromise—no
postponement—no excuses—the public interest, the
honour of his Government, the vindication of a principle,
demand that there should be no relaxation, no modifica-
tion of the " standing orders of the day." Impressions
and opinions may retain all their force for an entire
twelvemonth ; Ministerial majorities cannot safely be
trusted "to keep " (looking to all the accidents of
"pressure from without and cabals within," to which they
are liable, and the " polka"-like mobility to which they
give rise) for a single day. Sir ROBERT, therefore, is
darkly mysterious, unapproachably mystical, on such
occasions, in replying to any remonstrances founded
upon indecent haste, or the expediency of giving further
time for petitioning. He is a disciplinarian of the
severest rule. He has squared the fortunes of the coun-
try by the fate of his motion. He can concede nothing
to this consideration ; he cannot recognise the cogency
of that. The appointments of the " Notice" paper, and
the decrees of Fate itself, are to be looked upon as
equally unalterable, irrevocable. The most pliant of Mi-
nisters becomes the most impracticable dragoon official.
With great reluctance the Premier abandons the
forcing on of a measure which, for our parts, we think
very highly of, for five nights. But, in revenge, he in-
sists on expediting another that we deprecate as most
mischievous, at and from its last appointed stage to its
termination. Of this latter class is his measure for
overthrowing the existing system of the small note
circulation and banking in Scotland. The great
fact before his eyes is the unexampled pros-
perity Scotland has attained under that system
and circulation. The great crotchet of his
mind, yet to be satisfied, is—to denude Scotland of
this beneficial currency which, whilst it exists there,
attests the principles of that widely-based prosperity—
that searching and remunerating diflbsion of capital—
that living compensation for industrial labour in all its
departments, which have ceased to exist in England ever
since the establishment of an exclusive currency of Mint-
cheap, market-dear, statute-recognised standard of
gold. Let not the gentlemen of Scotland deceive them-
selves. The condescension of explaining the outline of
his plan for demolishing the living prosperity of Scot-
land—aye, and of Ireland, too—will be to be paid for by
their submission to a reckless, unflinching, dogged
urging on of his gold standard principle, cn the part of
the Prime Minister, t that boasted but disastrous
" complement" which it has already attained in
in England. On Friday next let no Scottish Member
concede that to an imaginary expediency or conven
tional courtesy, one parallel in the strategy of their op-
position tactics, which, once conceded, will be not only
irretrievable, but turned into a centre of operations
against themselves. They have so much at stake—they
have so much to fight for—they are, in the case of Eng-
land, so justified by a pregnant example of the mischiefs,
the irreparable mischiefs, of a suicidal acquiescence in
the monetary caprices of the Minister, that we trust
they will be at; their posts, backed by the representatives
of all Scotland, to hold this sort of language to the Pre-
mier:—" To you, who pride yourself on being the most
practical of Ministers, we of Scotland desire to tender, in
evidence of the -value, the indispensable importance of
our existing system of small note circulation and banking,
the plain matter-of-fact experience of all the interval
that has elapsed since the union of the Crown of
Scotland with that of England. We of Ireland, desire
you to observe in. what rates' the energies and capaci-
ties of Ireland have been developed since the union of
our kingdom with yours by that monetary system under
which we flourished, prospered, and expanded, side by
side, until 1819, 'when you thought proper to step from
off it, and 1845, when by way of atonemert for the enor-
mous blunder you of England have committed by that
act, you would insist upon our following your ruinous
example and adopting your fatal counsels." Let every
Member of the house of Commons, who would gladly
concur
his
post in
on yxid
r e p a rxing the blunders of 1819 and 1844, be
at ay
night,
were it only to prove the
awakened intelligence of the year 1845 in its repudiation
of the errors of former sessions of disastrous monetary

The Madrid Gazette of the 14th contains a royal de-
cree for suspending, till further orders, the sale of the
convents suppressed three years since. In the Chamber
of Deputies the decree was alluded to, when the Fi-
nance Minister said the suspension of the sales was not
a political, but an administrative measure, and that the
Government wi tnted extensive edifices for various public
purposes. The Cortes will be prorogued about the lath
of May.
On the 15th the Three per Cents, closed at 35 3-16
for cash, and 3.5 g at 60 days ; the Four per Cents. at
23 7-16 at 60 de-Fs ; the Five per Cents. at 25i at 60
days ; and the DI bt without Interest at 8i at 60 days.

In the French Chamber of Deputies, on Monday, the
discussion on the reduction of the Five per Cent. Stock,
proposed by M. de Boni', commenced. The measure is
opposed by the Covernment for the present session, but
they admit the fustice of the principle, and are only de-
sirous that the anamber should postpone the reduction
till a more opporttune time. M. LLADIERE, one of the
KING'S aides-de CI Lnr, was the first speaker, and strongly
opposed the plats), as both unjust and impolitic. M. St.
PRIEST, on the cinher hand, supported it on the ground
that it was perfect iy just, that it would cause an annual
saving to the Government of 12,000,000 f., and
that the country ought to avail itself of the pre-
sent favourable state of the funds to make
the reduction. 'The discussion was going on at
the hour of post. Another outbreak has taken place
in the Polytechnic School, in consequence, as is said, of
the appointment -of General RomLoN, as Governor.
The following stem unt of this foolish affair appears in
the National:—" 41. pupil committed an act of violence
against one of his csompanions. The other scholars who
wished to interfere formed an assemblage in the court,
which the superior- police of the school summoned to dis-
perse. The pupils, who have for some time been ill-dis-
posed towards the s ystem introduced into the school
General Ros-roLAiv, thepresent Governor, opposed resist-
ance. Thence oTcyrred some unpleasant and unprece-
dented scenes. We are assured that some of the adju-
tants, and some even of the superior officers, were struck
by the pupils in a moment of excitement. Disturb-
ances have oc.zurred at former periods, but on
such occasions the pupils were satisfied with
breaking the &rniture, whilst they respected the
persons of their officers. We are far from excusing
these excesses, arid we refer to them in order the
more severely to blame them. In consequence of those
disturbances, twenty-four pupils have been confined in
the prison of the school, and e:even in the military
prison of the Abba.ye. The Council of Discipline has
commenced an investigation of the affair, and it was
expected that it would decide on the fate of several of
the accused on Monday."
The Jesuits are also showing symptoms of revolt.
The Quctidienne says :--‘"l'he partisans of the dynasty
are in great commotion in relation to the Jesuits. Will
they strike them, or will they not ? There are reasons
fur and against it. The wish says yes, fear says no. It
is not a question of right, justice, legality, and liberty,
but a question of courage. There are folks whom
despotism becomes badly." " The Government," says
the Journal des Debats, "is ready to reply. The
question is ripe, and the decision opportune. It appears
to us, besides, that the friends of the Jesuits themselves
feel this, for they are doing all in their power to pro-
voke discussion and to make it violent. The Univers
announces that, within the last year, a thousand new
Members have been added to the society, and that it is
now sufficiently flourishing to make head at the same

NO, APILUIA 23, 1845.

time against the enemies of the Church in Europe, Ame-
rica, and Upper Asia, and all other parts of the world.
This is the greater reason why the legal question should
be settled. We could close our eyes so long as the
Jesuits concealed their title, and presented themselves
to us as mere auxiliary priests, for the spirit of free Go-
vernments is, above all things, a spirit of tolerance and
patience. But now that the Society of Jesus, so humble
a few years ago, takes pride in passing a review of its
forces, and publicly reckons France amongst the number
of its provinces, France must be told when she was
legally conquered."
The Moniteur Algerien of the 15th inst. announces
that ABD-EL-KADER is again in the field, and that a
skirmish had taken place near Blidah between some of
his horsemen and a party of the French, who repulsed
the Arabs, but lost four men killed and twelve wounded.
Marshal BUGEAUD had left for Blidah.

The following are extracts from the journals relative
to the affairs of Switzerland:—

A letter of the 17th from Zurich says—" Yesterday and
the day before all the prisoners taken at Lucerne who are
under 20 years of age arrived at Reinach. A detachment of
Zurich troops received them at the frontier, and conducted
them to the municipality, where they were set at liberty."
The New Zurich Gazette has a letter of the 17th from
Lucerne, saying :—" The court-martial had condemned to
ten years' imprisonment in irons Captain Ulmi, convicted of
desertion. He might have been brought before the ordi-
nary tribunals upon a charge of bearing arms against his
canton, in which case he would probably have been con-
demned to death."
The Bede Gazette says :—" The instructions received by
the Count de Pontois, the French Ambassador, on his return
to Switzerland, correspond with those he had previously re-
ceived, to declare that his Government remained resolved to
act in concert with the other great Powers in the affairs of
Switzerland. Nevertheless, the Count is to recommend the
Government of Lucerne not to call in the Jesuits."
THE BOURSE--MONDAY, APRIL 21.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. •... 117 75 •• 118 •• 117 75 •• 117 95
Three per Cents•.•. 85 85 .. 85 90 •• 85 85 .. 85 90
Loan► ... •. •• ...... 86 50 .. 86 50 .. 86 50 .. 86 50
Bank of France .• • • .• • • •• 3260 ••3275 ..3260 ..3275
Gouin Bank, I,ooof Shares • • 1110 ..1110 ..1107 50 ..1110
Belgian Bank . •• •• • • • • • • •• 637 50 • • 637 50 •. 637 50 •• 637 51
Belgian Fives, 1840— •• •• 102% .• 1023x' .. 102% .. 1028
1842........ 10514 .. 10514 .• 1051 A .. 10514
Spanish Threes 42 .. 42 .. 42 .. 42
Passive
Roman ••• •• •••• •• •• •••• • • 107 .. 107 .. 106% •. 1061/
RAILWAY SHARES.

St. Germain . . .1105 ..1105
Versailles, R.B •
L.B
Rouen • • *

..1105
.. 5115
.. 355
..1110

..1105
.. 555
.. 355
..1110

Rouen to Havre....
Orleans ........1210

.. 935 .. 935
..1227 50 ..1210

.. 935
-1225

Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 311 25 .. 312 50 .. 310 .. 311 25
Avignon to Mar5ei11ea......1033 75 ..1033 75 ..1033 75 . 1030 75
Bordeaux to Testa ........ 210 .. 210 .. 210 .. 210
Orleans to Ylerzon •••• •• 850 -• 852 50 .. 850 .. 852 50

RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, MAY 3.

St. Germain.............. 1100 ..1100 ..1105 ..1105
Versailles, R. 8...... ..... 555 55b •• 550 .. b 52 SO
3.55 .. 360 .. 352 50 .. 352 60
Roueo•••• •••••••• —llO7 50 ..1117 50 ..1105 ..1117 50
Rouen to Havre 935 .. 937 50 .. 935 .. 936 25
Orleans

Strasburg to Bak .......... 312 50 .. 312 50 .. 310
Avignon to Marseilles • • —.1035 .. 1042 50 .. 1035

.. 311 25
-1042 50

THIS DAY'S NEWS

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 7,000
bales, at previous rates.—Shares were generally rather lower.
Armagh and Portrush, 3% 14 • Birkenhead, Manchester,
and Cheshire Junction, 101/8 ; Birmingham and Gloucester,
New Shares, 4 ; Belfast and 13allymena, 7 14 ; Bolton, Wigan,
and Liverpool, 1334 13 ; Caledonian, 12s. Ils. 3d. ; Cam-
bridge and Lincoln, 91/ 83/4 ; Chester and Birkenhead, 51 ;
Ditto, Half Shares, 25% 14 ; Chester and Holyhead, 18 17 ;
Churnet Valley, 8% 14 ; Cork and Bandon, 6% ; Cork and
Waterford, 31. 58s. 9d. ; Dublin and Belfast Junction, 12 %;
Dublin and Galway, 5% ; Dundee and Perth, 3% ; Dublin,
Mullingar, and Athlone, 3% % ; Dundalk and Enniskillen,
5% % ; Eastern Counties, 20 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow,
645 ; Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 61/0 ; Glasgow and Dum-
fries, 11. 4s. ; Glasgow and Ayr, 62 ; Grand Junction, 228 ;
Ditto, Half Shares, 113% ; Ditto, Eghth Shaves, 19 ; Great
North of Scotland, 41,4 ; Great Southern and Western Ex-
tension, 19% ; Ditto Extension, 15% 14% ; Huddersfield
Canal and Raiway, 614 1/2 ; Inverness and Elgin, 1% ; In-
verness and Perth, 30s. prem. ; Kilkenny Junction, 235. ;
Limerick and Waterford, 1014 91/a ; Liverpool, Ormskirk,
and Preston, 2% 34 ; London and Birmingham, 235 ;
London and Brighton, 64 ; Londonderry and Enniskillen, 4 ;
London and York, 33/4 ; Direct Northern, 4% ; Leeds and
West Riding Junction, 714 ; Lynn and Dereham, 3% IA ;
Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland, 91/2 8% ; Manchester
and Leeds, 148 ; Midland Railway, 40/. bhares. 18% 18 ;
Ditto, Fifth Shares, 78s. 6d. ; Newark and Sheffield, 61/ ;
Newry and Enniskillen, 514 % ; North Kent, 3% ; North
Western, 514 5 ; North Wales, 31/2 % ; Oxford and Bir-
mingham Junction, 414 4 ; Preston and Wyre, 333 34 ;
Sheffield and Manchester, 1251% ; Shrewsbury and Grand
Junction, 6% ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheshire, 43/4 ;
South-Eastern and Dover, 42 ; Ditto, New Shares, No. 3,
734 16s. 3d. ; Scottish Central, 71 7 ; Waterford and Kil-
kenny, 41/8 ; West Yorkshire, 5% 1/8 ; Wexford and Carlow,
4% 5 ; Lyons and Avignon (English), 2% ; Louvain and
Jemeppe, 54% ; Northern of France (English), 51/4 % ;
Ditto (Rosamel's), English, 495. -, Orleans, Tours, and Bor-
deaux (English), 11% ; Paris and Lyons (Laffitte's French),
535. 9d. • Ditto (Ganneron's), 23,R ; Paris and Rouen, 421%. ;
Paris and St. Quentin, 2 ; Verona and Ancona, 2.
The letters and papers by the steamer from the West India
colonies, notice the prevalence of very dry weather in various
quarters, and on this account some anxiety was felt relative
to the crops. There had been conflagrations at St. Vincents,
Barbadoes and other places, and unhappily these were in
some cases presumed to be the work of incendiaries. The
second February mail from Southampton had arrived
out with intelligence of the Government plans on
the sugar question, and these were evidently much less
sweeping than was anticipated, or there would have been
complaints and wailings innumerable, with
"Lengthened fineness long drawn out."
The Hill Coolies were expected to arrive at Demerara
and Jamaica in the course of a week or two from the date of
our advice, which is March 29, but some parties were under
the impression that the Hill Coolies, to the number required,
will not be so easily obt4tned in India as has been.
The African immigratlen was about to be discontinued in
most of the islands. ~.- - :.,#
Accounts of the 22d of February, from Honduras, 'state
that the revolution of Guatemala had been nearly, if not
wholly quelled; but on this point there appears to be some
uncertainty.
The Stock Market has been tolerably firm to-day, with a
moderate amount of business doing. Console have been 9834
% for Money, and 98% to 99 for Time. Exchequer-bills
have been 58s. to 60s. premium. Bank Stock has been quoted
209% to 2101,!, and India Stock 2761,x. The New Three-
and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 101% %, and the Three
per Cents. 97% 34. The Government broker invests alter-
nately in Three and Three -and-a-Quarter per Cents.
The Foreign Market has been very quiet again. Spanish
Five per Cents. have realised 3014, and the Three per Cents.
40%, being about yesterday's rates. Mexican are again
a shade lower, being 37% 14. Brazilian are 88 to 89.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are 6314, and Belgian
Four-and -a• Half per Cents. 101% to 314.
Railway Shares rule still rather in favour of buyers, and
the recommendation of the Select Committee that the Chur-
net Valley line shall be postponed, has shaken confidence in
the passing of many other lines, the claims of which are not
so strong. The Shares of this line have been down to 334,
but are now up again to 434 premium.
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced ... 97%3/4 98
3 per Cent. Consols
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726 98% 98%
New 314 per Cents .. 101%34 101
Long Annuities to expire Jan.lB6o WAN 11%
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1859 ... 1T 1114
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 ... 11 s 115/8
India Stock 276 A 278
South Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuities
Bank Stock for Account 2lO 210
Consols for Account.... ..
Exchequer Bills, 1,0004, 11,4 d.
Ditto 5001. .
Ditto Small
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN:FUNDS, O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Brazilian Bonds
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela — 15%
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 37% 371/s
Ditto Account
Ditto, Deferred lB4 184
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Converted —
Ditto, Account
Russian Bonds 11714 1171/4
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account 3014 30%
Ditto, Passive
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Belgian Bonds, 41,4 per Cent — 10114
Dutch, 21h per Cent .
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 973/41/2% 97%
PRICES OF CLOSING
PAID. A ONE O'CLOCK.
BLILWAY SHARES PRICES
Aberdeen
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush l% 2%%
Binnin and Gloucester. 100 134 136
Ditto % Shares
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Bristol and Gloucester... 30
Caledonian
Cambridge and Lincoln 11,4 ...... 8.4 sa
Chester and Holyhead... 5
Chrn uet Valley
Coventry and Leicester 114 nt
17 tA 8 l7
3 2%
1
Corn ;wall
43/
Diss, R,•ccles, Yarmouth 1% 3%14 ... ...... 3.g
Direct Nor , `-la ern
Dublin and 1-:elfast June 2% ll% 'A
Dublin, . Belfast, and

Coleraine ......, 21A 3
Dublin and Galway...... 21,4•••••• 5%1A ...... •• -
Dundalk & Enniskillen 2%
Eastern Counties 25 20%144
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, 50. 1....51.135. 4d.,, 11
EastDereh'm And Nor'ch 1 .... -1%
Eastern Union . l5 . ..
Ditto Extension ...... 11/2 —•• • • 3 1/4C
Edinburgh and Witsgow 50 ....... 65
Ditto; NeW. Quarters.. 2%.....• 7 ••• ••• • •
Ely and Bedford ...... ... 114...... 2%3%
Great South. and West.
(Ireland)
Ditto Extension
Great North of En gl and..loo .. .. • • ...•• •
Ditto New
Great Western BO .......188%
Ditto 1, Shares 5O '...:.106 104% ......
Ditto Fifths
Guildford, Fare'm,Ports. 2% .. ... 6 5%
Harwich
Hull and Selby 5O .. •••
Ditto Quarter Shares 121%.. .... 23
Do. Half Shares
44
Lancaster and Carlisle... 20 ... ... 44%
2 36%
London and Birminghm (Stock) ••.236 441,4
Do. New Thirds
Do. 14 Shares
London and Blackwell. 161.135.4 d. 944 %••• .. 8;4
London and Brighton 5O .... 1. 83 -

1881/4
104%
4511
17

23%

London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d. 17%14
Do. Guaranteed 5 per
Cent.
London and Greenwich 12115 s 4d ll
London and S. Western 4116 s 10d
Do. New
-1/2

17'4

81
14%

London and York 2% 4' :yi. 43/4%... 4
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen 2ls
Lynn and Ely
Lynn and Dereham 1 8 3 I,A. 3
Manchester and Birmin. 40
Midland... 100
Do. New
Midland,Birm.,Derby...loo 117% 116
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction 25 50

Do. New Brandling... 10
Newry and Enniskillen. 2%
North British
Do. New
Northern and Eastern... 45
Do. Quarter Shares... 121/ 17% 173,/
Newcastle and Berwick 11/2
4
Newark and Sheffield ... 11/2 —
North Kent
North Wales
Norwich and Brandon... 10
Richmond and West End
Junction
Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland l%. 3% 3%
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
Dudley, and Birm 2%. 4% IA .. 4l
South Eastern & Dover 33/ 2s 4d... 42 41%
Do., No. 1 8
Do., No. 3
Staines and Richmond... 1
South Wales 2l/ 6 5%... ....... 5%
Trent Valley 2 19% 19%
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ..,... 3% .. 33/4
West Yorkshire
York and North Midland 50 lO3
Do. Selby
Do. Extension ll4 l6l
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens... 4
Bordeaux and Toulouse 2
Bordeaux, Toulouse, and
Cette 2
_ _

4
1%
Great North. of France.. 4
Do. do. (Rosamel's) 2
Louvain and Jemeppe... 2 ... . 414%1/4 ......
Lyons and Avignon 2
Namur and Liege
Orleans and Vierzon ... 2 ...... 151/2
Orleans and Bordeaux... 2 ...... 1114%
Faris & Lyons, Laf!We's 2
Paris and Lyons, Gan- _
_......

neron's,
Paris & Lyons, (Calon's) 2
Paris and Orleans 2O
Paris and Rouen
Royal North of Spain ... 2
Sambre and Meuse
Tours and Nantes, Mac-
kenzie's
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia ...

2%
5%
214
2%

6
15A
11%

463/4
421/2
31/8
73/4
2%

London & Westminster. 20
/2
Union of Australia
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE APRIL 22.—The sales
are :—Eastern Counties, 21; Manchester and Birmingham,
58% ; Ditto, New Quarters, 534 prem. ; North British, New
Shares, 514 ; Preston and Wyre, 35 ; South-Eastern, 42
ex div. •, Ditto, No. 3,7% ; Barnsley Junction, 8%; Birken-
head, Manchester, and Cheshire, 101/2 % ; Blackburn,
Burnley, and Accrington, 9 ; Bolton, Wigan and Liverpool,
131/2 ; Caledonian, 121% ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 9 ;
Clitheroe Junction, 37 3/ prem. ; Churnet Valley, 81/2 ;
Direct Northern, 5% 8 ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junc-
tion, 64 cum new; uddersfield and Manchester Railway
and Canal, 61A %; Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 84 ;
Leeds and Think, 4% ; Leeds and West Riding Junction,
7%; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 2% ; London and
Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, 4% 1/2 ; London and York,
3% ; Lynn and Ely, 7 ; Manchester and Buxton, 4% ; Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction, 91/2 ; Newark and
Sheffield, 6 5-16 1A ; North Western, 51/4 5; Preston and
Wyre Extension, 23/4 % prem. ; Sheffield and Lincolnshire
Junction, 1% ; Southport and Euxton, 2 11-16 ; Trent Valley,
19% ; Trent Continuation and Holyhead Junction, 3% 14
prem. : Wakefield, Pontefract and Goole, 131/2 ; West York-
-1 shire, 5%.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, APRIL 23.—Wind N.E., fresh breeze, and fine.
DEAL, APRIL 22.—Wind N.N.E., moderate.—Arrd. Au-
gusta Jessie, Harvey, Mauritius; John, Davey, and An •
dromeda, Sutton, Ichaboe. Sld. Harmony, Antigua; Clutha,
Quebec. The Apollo, from Amsterdam to Boston, got en-
tangled with the Goodwin Sands to-day, but has been
assisted into the Downs. The Albertine, from Dordt to
Liverpool, got on the Goodwin Sands during the fog, but
has been assisted off without apparent damage, and pro.
ceeded. A small portion of a vessel's quarter, consisting of
top timbers,_ stanchions, &c., the timber heads painted lead
colour over green, and the covering board black, has been
picked up near the Goodwin Sands, and brought in here. A
head rail of a vessel, marked " Crispin," in white letters, has
been picked up in the Downs this morning.
RAMSGATE, APRIL 22.—The Charlotte, from Hull to Con-
stantinople, got ashore on the Goodwin Sands early this
morning, but was assisted off, and brought in here leaky.
JERSEY, APRIL 1 I.—Sld. Fust, Halifax ; Adventure and
Larch, Gaspe.
SWANSEA, APRIL 21.—Sld. Elizabeth Beynon, Cuba.
DOVER, APRIL 22.—Sld. Rowena, Gambia.

PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 22. Wind E.N.L. to S. -- And.
Victoria, London, and sailed for New York.
SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 22.—Sld. Reindeer steamer, West
Indies.

GUERNSEY, APRIL 19.—Arrd. Favourite, Hoskins, New
port, lost bulwarks, stancheons, &c., and sprung a leak on
the 16th inst., 40 miles S.E. of the Lizard, during a gale at
N.E., on the 17th inst., was taken in tow by the Tempe-
rance, bound to Guernsey.

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