The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-31 00:00:00

THE SON, L-ONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 31, 1845.

Mr. HUME was rejoiced to hear that the Government
intended to take up the subject next session.

A long conversation followed as to the manner in
which the business of the House should be conducted, in
the course of which it was suggested by Mr. HualE that
the House should meet on Wednesdays at twelve, and
sit till half-past six for the disposal of private Bills, and
measures of minor importance, while Mr. C. BULLER,
suggested that the next session a Board should be ap-
pointed, to which all private Bills should be referred,
and which should examine evidence and report on the
preamble of the Bills to the House.
Lord PALMERSTON, after having animadverted on the
carelessness of Railway management, proceeded to
draw the attention of the House to the state of the de-
fences of the country. France possessed a large steam
navy, and our steam navy ought to be increased, and
our naval arsenals properly secured, so as to be able to
set at defiance all threats of hostile invasion.

Sir B. PEEL deprecated the introduction of such
topics. We were at present on the most friendly terms
with France, and there was no probability of those
amicable relations being interrupted. Ile could, how-
ever, assure the Noble Lord, that if the necessity should
arise for this country to enter into hostilities with any
other Power, at no former period of her history was she
better prepared to do so than at present.
Sir C. NAPIER complained that our ships-of-war
were under-manned, and our steam-ships were inferior
to those of other nations.

The House then resolved itself into Committee of
Supply.
Sir R. PEEL, in answer to Mr. J. ABEL SMITII, an-
nounced the intention of the Government, on a future
day, to propose a vote for the sufferers by the fires at
Quebec.
On the vote for pensions to ministers of Dissenting
congregations,
Mr. HINDLEY moved that the amount proposed to
Independent ministers be withdrawn.
Mr. CARDWELL opposed the motion, which was lost
by a majority of 44, the numbers being, for Mr. HIND-
LEY'S motion 8, against it 52.
The vote of 32,2641. for Non-conformist ministers in

Ireland, was opposed by Mr. S. CnAwronn on account
of its smallness, and by Mr. WILLIAMS and Mr.
hIND-
LEY 04 the ground that no clergy should be paid by the
State. On a division, there appeared for the vote 71,
against it 13; majority for the vote .58.
On the sum of 22,5654 being proposed for the colony
of New Zealand, a long discussion arose, in the course
of which the House was addressed by Mr. ROEBUCK,
Mr. HumE, Mr. SHEIL, ►Sir R. PEEL, and other Hon.
Members; but ultimately the vote was agreeed to with-
out a division.

Numerous other votes were agreed to, after which the
House resumed.

Several measures were then forwarded a stage, and
,he House adjourned at Half-past Two o'clock.

The news we have received from the United States
by the steam-packet Acadia is of great importance and
interest. She arrived at Liverpool on Tuesday, and
brings intelligence of the formal annexation of Texas to
the Federal Union of the American States, by the con-
sent of the Texan Congress.
It is wholly improbable, we are persuaded, to calcu-
late, before hand, all the important bearings and con-
sequences attaching to this extraordinary act of political
degeneracy and self-degradation in a young Republic
which, having through many arduous struggles vindi-
cated its independence, had only three months before
secured the guarantee of the two oldest and most
powerful monarchies of Europe for its territorial in-
' tegrity. We may blush for this inconceivable indiffe-
rence to the dignity and advantages of a national and
independent position among the established Govern-
ments of the American continent, o❑ the part of men
who are Britons either by birth or by descent; but the
people who have voluntarily Eaten out of the rank of
nations—neither coerced by superior force, and by the
pressure of misfortune, nor driven to that alternative
from any lack of the most important phys'cal elements
and natural advantages which constitute the bases of a
State's material power—can have no more claim upon
our sympathy than upon our respect. It were no matter,
therefore, if all memory of the ci-devant Texan
people were to pass as completely out of the
minds of the English public, as the national identity of
l'exas has merged for ever under her acquiescence
in the scheme of voluntary annexation to and incorpora-
tion with the Federal Republic of the United States.
But there may be contingent considerations arising out
of the transaction which are calculated to impart a high
degree of interest, with the English public, to some fea-
tures in the remarkable history of this transaction.
The dates of particular events that go to the making
up of that history are of manifest importance. On the
16th of June last, the " Congress" of Texas received
.a
"message" from Mr. President JONES, announcing and
conveying the propositions of the United States for an-
nexation, and submitting the same for their determina-
tion. On the 18th of June the Senate passed a resolu-
tion, unanimously approving and confirming the pro-
posed scheme of annexation with the United States, and
other resolutions unanimously passed by the Chambers
warranting and enacting such annexation. On the next
day the Senate passed a further resolution, in virtue of
which the introduction of the United States' troops over
the Texan territory was authorized and applied for. The
Acadia brings over a variety of papers and documents
that throw a further light on this singular affair. Among
these will be found a " memorandum of the conditions
preliminary to a treaty of peace as agreed upon by
ASHBEL SMITH on the part of the Republic of
Texas, and M. CUEVAS on the part of Mexico."
Of these preliminary conditions, No. 1, declares
that " Mexico consents to and acknowledges the
independence of Texas." No. 2, is to this effect :
" Texas engages that she will stipulate in the treaty
NOT TO ANNEX herself or become subject to any coun-
try a hattoever." This memorandum, executed at Wash-
ington (on the Brazos), bears date 27th March, 1845.
It is signed by ASUBEL SMITH, and its authenticity, On
comparison with the original document, is attested by
the Baron DE CYPRAY and Mr. BatexnEaD respectively,

the accredited Ministers to the Court of Mexico from

France and England. In a subsequent paper we find that
t was communicated to the two latter by Capt. ELLIOTT,
;her MAJESTY'S Britannic Chargé d'Affaires at Texas.
We apprehend that this must be the same gentleman
who acquired so brilliant a reputation for English diplo-
macy in China, by his sagacity, promptitude, energy,
and decision. His vigilance in Texas seems to be equally
testified by the turn which these demonstrations of anti-
annexation policy actually assumed prior to the determi-
nation of events in that astounding vote of the Texan
Congress, to NI, hich we have above alluded. So early as
the 19th of May last the suspicions of the Mexican agent

seem to have been fully revived, for under that date
M. CUEVAS records the " additional declaration," which

has this significant proviso :
'• If this negotiation should net be realised, on account
of circumstances, or because Texas, influenced by the
law of the United States on annexation, shall consent
thereto, either directly or indirectly, then, the answer
which has been given under this date, to the proposi-
tions of Texas, (namely, that Mexico will accede to
the princip!es proposed by Texas, as the bases of a
final treaty), shall be null and void, and of no effect."
On the 4th of June, President AARON JONES issued
his proclamation, announcing the cessation of all hosti-
lities by sea and by land, between Texas and Mexico.
The treaty, which had been prepared in conformity with
these conditions, was rejected by the Texan Senate in
a secret session ; on the 21st of June the injunction of
secresy was removed ; and the annexation proposal
accepted and confirmed by unanimous vote.
After the disgraceful and fraudulent intrigues set on
foot and conducted, to the last moment of his tenure

of office, by TYLER, the ex-President of the United
States, in Mexico itself, and among the servants of the
Mexican Government, for the dismemberment of the
Mexican dominions, there is nothing in the palpable bad
faith of the Americanized President of the Texan Re-
public to excite our astonishment. What we want to
know is, what can our Ministers at Mexico and at Texas
—what can our representative at Washington (U. S.)
have been about to have allowed themselves to be so
obviously duped in March last, as to have interfered in
one quarter of the New World to set on foot proposals
for a treaty to secure the recognition of Texan inde-
pendence ; and in another, to obtain the concurrence of
Mexico in its conditions, when, all the time, those com-
munications were being carried on between Texas and
the. United States, which have thus speedily issued in
the signal insult tints put by both of them, conjointly, on
the good faith and dignity of Mexico, and the me iator-
ship of Great Britain ? Mexico, which, throughout the
affair, has certainly conducted herself with signal pru-
dence and forbearance, has been grossly outraged
Great Britain and France appear to have been signally
duped ; and Yankee cunning and duplicity have cer-
tainly checkmated the fairer game of European policy
and European honesty. Why did Lord STANLCY (or
ABERDEEN) retain Captain Ewe' ? Why does the

Crown retain Lord STANLEY at the heal of a Depart-

ment whose blunders vibrate, in incessant oscillation,
between the two hemispheres, and are felt, almost
simultaneously, at Heligoland and New Zealand—at.
Texas and the Cape of Good Hope ?
Madrid papers to the 231 have come to hand.

The Casieilano and the ileraldo, which have hitherto op-
posed the QUEEN'S journey to the Basque provinces, say,
that "as the phyticiaus have deolstre4 the baths of iauta

Agueda to be indispensable to the recovery of her MAJEsTv's
health," they shall no longer oppose her visit. The inference
to be drawn from this is, that NAnvat:z and hiscolleagues
have given way to the influence of CHRISTINA, and that the
Ministers will consent to the visit.
The Herald() again affirms that the Duke and Duchess DE
NEMOURS will cross the Pyrenees and have an interview with
the Royal Family of Spain. A lithographed portrait of the
Infante Don ENnicttitc, which had just been exhibited at a
bookseller's window in the Calle de Carretas, was attracting
the attention of all Madrid.

MADRU) BOURSE. —Three per Cents., 281 for cash; 281
for account. Five per Cents. no quotations.

We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday, the third
of the " three glorious days," and, as might have been ex-
pected, they aU comment at considerable length on the fruits
of that revolution.

The Moniteur contains an ordonnance intrusting to M.
DUCIUTEL, the Minister of the Interior, the department of
Foreign Affairs during the absence of M. GUIZOT, who is
gone to his estate of Val Richen, in Normandy.
Tuesday having been entirely devoted to rejoicings, the
Bourse did not open.

.The Gazette de BVe, which first propagated the statement
of the apprehension and escape of the murderer of ➢I. LEU,
acknowledges that it had been misled, and declares that the
matter is still involved in mystery.

The Helvetic, of the 26th inst., says ;—" The regime of
1793 is in full vigour at Lucerne. The death of M. LEU has
furnished a fresh occasion for acting harshly against the ad-
versaries of the Jesuits. Three inns, one of them kept by a
person named TR9LLEUIt, a native of Soleure, have been
closed by the police, and their owners thrown into prison.
M. TROLLEUR received orders to quit the city within eight
hours. Two commercial travellers have also been arrested
without any cause. The city is already full of soldiers, and
four more companies have just been called in. The tribunal
has condemned 117 more adversaries of the Jesuits to ten
months' imprisonment, which brings up the total number to
384."
The Duchess of KENT left Vienna on the 21st of July.
Nothing was done in the Funds at TOnToNI'S.
The following are the quotations for the new lines :
Martsmucs, JULY 25.—Marseilles and Avignon, 990 f. ;
Boulogne, 625 f. ; Orleans and Bordeaux, 675 f. ; Vierzon, 750 f.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.,
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 4,000
bags only, and the Market was dull, but prices were sup-
ported. Sales, 200 bales Marnham at sd. to 5%d, 100
Pernam 614 d. to 6 %d., and the rest American at 3%d. to 6d.
per lb. Shares were quieter, there being less demand :-
Aberdeen, 31.1; Banff and Elgin, % • ' Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire, 54 ; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 7 ;
Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 2614 • Cambridge and Lin-
coln, 665. 6d. ; Chester and Birkenhead, 841/, ; Ditto,
Shares, 81; Derby and Crewe, 3 1/8 633.98. ; Dundee and
Perth, 334 ; Eastern Counties, Perpetual, No. 2, 245.; Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, 85% ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 21% ;
Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 104 ; Edinburgh, Leith, and
Grantham, 21; Glasgow and Dumfries, 245. ; Glasgow, Pais-
ley, and Greenock, Half Shares, 10% ; Glasgow and Ayr,
88 87 ; Grand Junction, 240 2391 A ; Ditto, Half Shares, 119%
.110% Ditto, Quarter Shares, 593/ 60; Ditto, Eighth Shares,
22% ; Grand Union, 2% 2/. Is. ; Great Grimsby and
Sheffield, 5% 14 • Ditto, Quarter Shares, 1 ; Great Western,
222 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 120 ; Ditto, Fifth Shares, 39% ;
Gool and Doncaster, 136 ; Huddersfield Canal and Railway,
13% ; Huddersfield and Sheffield, 11% %; Leicester and
3edford, 33% % ; Leicester and Birmingham, 46s 6d. ; Liver-
pool, and Manchester, 214; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 53% 14 ;
Ditto, New Shares, 42% 43341 Liverpool, Manchester, and
Newcastle, Junction, 28s. 1% Liverpool, Ormskirk, and
Preston, 6 ; London and Birmingham, 244; London and
Croydon, 274 ; London and York, 6% ; Direct Northern,
2%; Leeds and Dewsbury, 22; Leeds and Thirsk, 734 % ;
Leeds and West Riding, 9.36 % ; Lynn and Dereham, 21,E ;
Manchester and Birmingham, 65; Manchester and Birken-
head Continuation, 2 1% ; Manchester and Birmingham,
Continuation, 2% 36 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland,
3% 4%; Manchester and Leeds, 191; Ditto, Half Shares,
85 88; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 30; Matlock and Midland,
6% ls. 3d. ; Midland Railway, 181 ; Ditto, 401. Shares,
281,4 ; Newark and Sheffield, 3; Newcastle, Darlington, and
Lancashire, Junction, 16s. 6d. ; North British, Halt Shaw,
8 ; North Union (A 184 190 ; Ditto, (B), 135 ; North Staf-
fordshire, 43/4 %; North Wales, 61s. 6d. ; North Wales
Mineral, 1814 ; Ditto, New Shares, 6% %; North Western,
5;. Nottingham and Boston, 14 Bs. 6d ; Nottingham,
Erewash, and Ambergate, 314 3s ; Preston and Wyre, 33%
% ; Ditto, New Shares, 3% ; Sheffield and Manchester,
125 126 ex. new and div. ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 1514 ditto ;
Ditto, Quarter Shares, No. 3,9%; Sheffield and Lincoln,
565.; Shrewsbury and Herefordshire, 335. 355. 6d; Shrews-
bury, Oswestry, and Cheshire, 4% '4 ; Shrewsbury and
Trent Union, 3%; Shrewsbury, Worcester, and Crewe, 3%;
South-Eastern and Dover, New Shares, No. 3,7% 18s. 9d ;
South Midland, 51% 5 ; Trent Valley, Continuation, 1% ;
Wakefield, Pontefract., and Goole, 28% ; Welsh Mittland, 33/4 ;
West Yorkshire, 9 834 ; Worcester and Tring, 265. ; White-
haven and Furness, 2% 2 ; York and North Midland, New
' Half Shares, 235. • Belfast and Ballymena, 634 ; Dublin and
Belfast Junction, 83/ % • Dublin and Drogheda, 107 ; Dub-
lin and Galway, 2%; dreat Southern and. Western, 22%;
Limerick and %%raterfori, 7 634 ; Midland Great Western and
Canal, 3% ; Newry and Enniskillen, 314 ; Newf.-Pend War-
ren-point, 58s. 2 ; Dutch Rhenish, 9% 9 ; Great Lnxem -
bourg, 1 ; Northern of France (Laffitte's), 614 3EI ;
Ditto (Rosamel's), 21/2 ; Paris and Lyons (Calon's), 2; Paris
and Lyons (Ganneron's),_4Bs. ; Paris and St. Quentin, 375.
MANcirEsTEn STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 30.-The sales are
-Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, 51,4 prem. ;
Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 11% ; Blackburn,
Clitheroe, and North Western Junction, 2 14 prem. ; Black-
burn, Darwen, and Bolton, 7 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, .1%
cum new. ; Clitheroe Junction, 4%; Derby and Crewe, 2%
Direct Northern, 2% %; Dublin and Galway, 2%; Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, 85% ; Erewash Valley, 323/4 ; Fleet-
wood, Preston, and West Riding Junction, 2 5-16 14 ; Glas-
gow and Dumfries, 255. 245. 6d. ; Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield,
and Manchester Junction, 1% ; Grand Union, 1 15-16 2 ;
Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 5 ; Huddersfield and
Manchester Railway and Canal, 1334 % ; Huddersfield and
Sheffield Junction, 10% % ; Leeds and Thirsk, 74 is ;
Leeds and West Riding Junction, 914 % ; Leicester and
Birmingham. 2% ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 6 1-16;
London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, 1% ; London and
York, 6% 13-16; Lynn and Dereham, %; Manchester,
Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 6% ; Manchester and Bir
mingham, Quarter Shares, 1036 ; Ditto, New Quarters, 81,1 ;
Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junc-
tion, 2% ; Manchester and Leeds, 190 ; Ditto, Sixteenth
Shares, 11 •, Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, and
Mold, Ruabon, and North Wales, 75. 6d. ; Nottingham and
Boston, 10s. pm. ; Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire, 2 Is. 3d.
20s. prem. • North British, New Shares, 7% ; North Eastern,
1% ; North Union (8), 140 ; North Wales, 3% ; Notting-
ham, Erewasb, Ambergate, and Manchester, 3% ; Oxford,
Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 734 ; Preston and Wyre,
Half Shares, 41,E ; Preston aad Wyre Extension, 2%; Shef-
field and Lincolnshire Junction, 2% 3 ; Sheffield and Man-
chester, Quarter Shares, No. 3, 6 ; Shrewsbury and Here-
fordshire, ; Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Union, 34 3;
South-Eastern and Dover, 46; South Midland, 5 4% ; Trent
Valley Continuation and Holyhead Junction, 21,42; Welsh
Midland, 3%; West Lancashire Coast Line, 23/4 prem. ; West
Yorkshire, 8% ; Whitehaven and Furness, 2 15-16 ;
Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union, 2 % ;Fork and
North Midland Extension, 22 ; Great Northern of France,
English, 64 %.
A notice given by the Chancellor of the Exchequer last
night, that he would this evening move an humble address
to her Majesty, praying that the sum of 20,000/. be granted
for the relief of the sufferers by the late calamitous fire at
Quebec, has given much satisfaction in commercial
circles connected with the colony. But, surely,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer ought to have known
that another fire equal in destructiveness has occurred
in the devoted city of Quebec. it is, therefore, • pre-
sumable that he will ask for an additional amount
this evening, so that the wants of the British subjects,
as well as those of French origin, who have so severely
suffered in Canada by two immense conflagrations, may
be most speedily met. It will be seen by the advertising
columns of The Sun this evening that an appeal is made by
the " Committee of Relief" at Quebec, and for subscriptions
in money, and for contributions of clothing, bedding, &c.,
which the Committee in London (Mr. Robert Carter, of
Leadenhall-street, is the honorary secretary thereof)
will undertake to forward by the most rapid con-
veyance to Quebec. There is no time to be lost,
as the next steamer will leave Liverpool early next
week. And when it is known that upwards of 20,000 Bri-
tish subjects have been reduced to misery by the two fires, a
well founded hope may surely be entertained that those in
affluence, as well as those of moderate means, will come for-
ward in aid of their houseless and distressed fellow-subjects in
Canada.
There are not any arrivals of interest in the City this
morning.
The fluctuating state of the weather is a subject of conver-
sation in almost all circles in the City. It is not at all be •
lieved that up to the present moment any damage has
been done to the crops of a serious nature. The
Funds are, however, still heavy; Consols for Account
have just been sold at 98%, and for. Money at 98% and 14
Bank Stock has receded from, 211% to 210, as it is appre-
hended that, should the weather prove unfavourable, there
may be such a serious drain upon the coffers of the Bank for
specie, as to render the continental exchanges most mate-
rially against us. India Stock has receded from 273 to 272.
In the Foreign Stock the alterations have been very
trifling this morning. The only quotations have been for
Mexican from 36 to 3614 ; for Colombian ex Venezuelian,
17%; for Venezuelian, 44% % ; for Spanish, 26%; and for
the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 62% %.
The demand for the Railway Shares is generally very firm
to-day. The payment of differences is going off very
satisfactorily.

CLOSING
PRICES.
211

ONE
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consels Annuities 985/8%1/2 981,
New 34 per Cents lo2ys 101%s 1021 102
India Stock 273 272 272
Cinsols for Account .. .... 985 A% 913 f,
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 11/0.,... 51 53 pm. 53
Ditto 5001. ! 53 54 pin. 54
Ditto Small

ONE
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela. 171/2
• Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 361i31.4
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Ditto, Converted •
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent ..
Ditto Account
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.

•
Ditto, Passive
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent
Ditto. Deferred
I IBelgian 41/.(2 per Cent.
Dutch, 21-A par Cent .
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 99%17i

CLOSING
PRICES
171!,

44!.`,1

651/.;

6
3! 7i
441/2
1334
100%

CLOSING
PRICES 01, PAID. A ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
RAILWAY SHARES
Aberdeen
Binning. and Gloucesterloo
0..). New
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Bristol and Exeter 7O
Do. New .... - ........ 2 ; 12%
Caledonian
Cambridge and Lincoln 11/2......3V8 lAi ili
Chester and Holyhead-. 15
Cheltenham and Oxford 2
Coventry and Leicester 1!4 —
Direct Northern
Dublin and Belfast June. 21/2 B.?-A
Dublin and Galway... .. 91/2 —
Eastern Counties 141. 165...... 211/2%
Ditto New 41. 16s.
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1—.51. 13s. 4d 1%..
Eastern Union l5

Ditto Extension ... ... 11,4 3
Edinburgh and Glasgow. 50
Edinburgh & Northern.. 114 2
Ely and Bedford
Great South. and West.

32%

3
85
2
3

(Ireland)
Ditto Extension
Great Western BO 025 223 224

Ditto % Shares 5O 120
Ditto, Fifths
Guildford, Fare'm, Ports. 21,4 ..... 3
Lancaster and Carlisle... 25
Leicester and Bedard... '22s.
London and Birmingnm kStock)...
Do. New Thirds
Do. Quarters
London and Blackwall. 161. 13s. 4d. 111,E ll%
London and Brighton... 50
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 274 263/4 ....
Do. New l3s 4d 2 p.
Load. & S.Western 411 6s 10d — ... 80
Do. New
London and York 21% • 6%4 6%
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen 2% —
Londonderry &Coleraine 2 !/,', . ---
Lynn and Ely ..... ....... 21/ 6(l
Lynn and Durehain l% —
Manchester and Leeds... 76

2
104

D 0.% Shares
Do. IA Shares
Manchester and Ilirmin. 40
Do. New Quarters ... 2
Manchester,Baxton,and
Matlock 225...•.• 6 53 p
Midland 100 lBO
Do. New
Alidland,l3inn., Derby...loo l4l
Midland Great Western
( Irish)
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Jnnction
Do. New Brandling... 10
N:necas;le and Berwick 11/.., 2ll
Newry and Enniskillen. 2% ..,.., 231 3 2IA
Newark and Sheffield .. 11,4
North British
Do. New
North Staffordshire 2`25....... 3141, p
Northern and. Eastern... 45

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