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London, England, 1825-11-08 00:00:00

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, IS?3.
STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Consols opened at 873 3, with little or nothing doing, and con-
tinue at the above price up to this hour.
In the Foreign Market little is doing.
C.lrrrn• Priers Austrian Bonds 87a 3. Brazil Scrip 93 8e disc.
Colombian Bonds 721 733, Danish Bondi 63 66, Greek Bonds
24 2G, Mexican Scrip 9} 9 disc. Russian Bonds 911 92. i.

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Pr:ICR OF STOCKS AT TWO O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 224%
3 per Cent. Ited. 861 A Vs
3 per Cent. Cons. 87% Vs
S. per Cent. 913/4 Vit
31 per Cent. Red. 9414 14
4 per Cent. New 1031 h ga
Lww. Ann. 21
EI,OOO Ix. Mils 2 3
r.. 7,00 ditto 5
1.100 and P2OO ditto 3 6
Cons. for Acct. 87 y 4 5/3
FRENCH FUNDS, PARIS, Novintsza 5.
Five per Colts. . 991. 65e.
Three per Cents. • . 71f. 26c.
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Bank Stock . 21f. 60c.
Neapolitan Five per Cents. . . 86f. 55c.
Exchange on London, tine Month 251. sc.
Three filwitha . 24f. /15c.
FOREIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK.
Austrian H. 5 p Ct. N!ex. Scrip. 1,425, dis.
Brazilian Bond, Ditto Acct. 91 dis.
I)r.. S 4 I ir,311(.. I s'23, Nt•apOlitati Bonds,
Ditto Acct. 8: di.. Peruv. Bonds, 6 pC.
Meng', Ayr,, :t,,,e Is Dim, Acct. £9l
11.ndi, G p et. 62 )ittoScrip,lB2s. 6 pC.
Colombia!, lids,GpC. Portuguese Bonds
!Mtn Acct. Prim. lids. 5 p C.
Littn Bonds 1824, 72; Do. Bonds, 1822,
Ditto Acc. 73; 73 Rui5.8.1%,1822,5p C. 9'2a
Danish Bonds, 5 p Ct. Ditto fur Acc.
On. Marks Banco Span. 5 p C. Cons. 17
Ditto 13°10%1825, 65; Ditto 510
Greek Bonds Span.s p. Cr. C. 1823,
D0.8i15,18255pC.26 251 265 26 French 'irides, 5pC.
Ditto Acct. 26 251 26 French Rentes,sp C.
h•tex. Bonds, Exchange,
Ditto Acct. Guatemala Scrip,
Do.Bosids,lB2s, 6 p Ct. Ditto Acct.
ritto Acct. Russian Inscript. 6 p Cr.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO O'CLOCK.

bHA II ff. PAIN.
Anglo Mexican spm. 100 30 6! 624
Castello & KoplfitU Santo 100 5 51 6
Alantanese 20 2 14
Poto•i. Ls Paz, & Perim 50 5 5i i
Roy il Waldeck 100 1 11 i 1
United Niesican 40 20
Pim, Nvw 40 10 22
British Gas so 13 4
liritish Iron Company . 100 S 5 154 IS
Gold (At Association 100 5 51 4

We arc right glad to see that many of the Morning
Pape shave followed up, and ably enlarged upon the
suggestion thrown out by us some time ago, that nothing
short of an efficient parliamentary enquit y can wipe out
the stain which at present sullies the honour and in-
tegrity of some of the Nobility, and very many of the
Gentry of these Kingdoms, in respect of the nefarious
practices of share•jobbing. Tine it is that our cotem-
poralies have not had the candour to avow the source
from which they derived their primary reasonings for
the necessity of this solemn investigation: but let that
pa s. We concur with them very heartily in opinion,
tiat while the conduct of the great and powerful whose
names ale assailed, should undergo the most rigorous
scrutiny, not for a moment doubting that the result
will pt ove honourable to themselves in by far the greater
number of cases, and to the character of the nation at
large, which is so deeply involved in that of its leading
men, it is at the same time highly fit and necessary
that the clandestine and hidden practices, in fine, the
bye-play of the lesser performers in this iniquitous
drama should also be exposed, uncurtained, to the
gaze of public indignation ;—more especially those,
it there be any such, connected with the Periodical
P ess ; and we desire this the mote earnestly, as it will be
seen in the sequel who they are that most disintetestedly
take on them the arduous task of directing public opi
n'on. But we ask how, and where is this investigation
to be freely and fearlessly conducted, except within the
wails of Parliament ? Certainly not in a Court of Law,
nor before any other Judicial• Tribunal, whose attention
i necessarily narrowed to the strict merits of the parti•
calm- case at issue.

The Morning Chronicle says, 41 the House of Com.
mans date not enter upon such an enquiry, there being
so many of their own number mixed up in the accu•
sdion, whose influence would defeat and frustrate the
ends of justice." This we pronounce a most audacious
and unfounded calumny. There never was a period
is our history, in which the Commons of England
cont tined on its roll a greater portion of truly ho-
nourable and high-minded men, lifted far above all
sordid views themselves, and above fear of exerci.ing

their awful powers in punishing iniquity in others,—
There are in their ranks men of unquestionable cou•
rage, ability, and integrity, who will derive unfading
h .noun in being the first to come forward to rescue their
native land from the reproach of venality and fraud,
which a few unworthy, corrupt, and rapacious indivi-
duals have conspired to fasten on its ancient ch tracter ;
and foremost among those we doubt not to see the
sery names which are now the most bandied about in
the vulgar mouths as alders and abetters in the schemes
which have brought miser y t,pon so many innoc nt farni-
miller. A parliamentary inquiry is, we are convinced,
_inevitable.
Scat cely a day passes in which we do not see among tl e
ordinary details of our petty Police, complaints, w Welt
scatter distrust and suspicion in quarters which we have
been accustomed to revere. The stupid an infatuated
Share-holders clamour loudly to have back their slakes
from the nest of gamblers by whom they have been
duped, and they never fail to drag forward names of such
respectability and eminence in the public councils,
and in the higher official classes, as caniiot, we should
think, in any rational probability, hive lent themselves

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as covers for fraud ; neither is it pos-Able now to scten
them from enquiry. Ham:Hirable men neither can nor•
will c msent to sit on the same benches with persons
implicated in charges of ven%:ity, until their innocence
And integrity shall, not by their own mete denial,.blit
positive testimony, have been made as manifest to the
world as the base accusations under which they now
labour ate notorious.