Star.
London, England, 1825-03-30 00:00:00

COMBINATION LAWS.

Mr. HUSKISSON said that lie could not but feel
the deepest regret on witnessing the effects of the Act
of last Session for the repeal of the laws against com-
binations amongst workmen. In different parts of the
country workmen had broken out into acts of great
•iolence and outrage against the property of their
masters, and he was afraid that this was in a great de•
gree to be ascribed to the law of last year. It was in
the recollection of the House, that the Hon. Member
for Aberdeen moved for a Committee in the last Sec-
sio., to inquire into the state of tho-e laws. He (Mr.
H s:isson), gave his entire concurrence in the appoint-
mat of such a Committee. The laws regulating the
re.ations between masters and men, though plausible
enough in theory, were said not to be equal in their
practical operation. He therefore willingly agr;ed,
that at the laws respecting Comhin stions were calcu-
lated to keep up discontent, and enmity, and heart-
burnings. they ought to be inquired into, and that be-
ing the opinion o: the majority of the House, a Com-
mittee was granted on the Hon. Member's motion.
T e e was a very full Committee, it consisted of no fewer

than fifty members, it sat constantly for a r:onsiderable
period of time, and took a great variety of evidence.
,The result of these labours of the Committee was, that
they came to certain resolutions, which they submitted
to the House without any explanatory statement. He
was himself a member of that Committee, but he was
sorry that he was prevented by his official avocations
fioni giving his attendance. He regretted that the same
cause prevented him from paring due attention to the
enactments of the Bill that was brought in on the reso-
lutions of the Committee. That Bill went, not only to
repeal all the penal statutes relating to the Com-
bination Laws, but also to prohibit the punish-
ments that were awarded by tt e common law.—
The Hon. Member, in his argumei,ts on the Bill, stated
oa the most respectable authority (that of the Hon. and
Learned Member for Peterborough), that if the si acute,
were repealed, the common law would be found suffi-
cient to all necessary purposes. The Bill was sanctioned
by the Howe; it went to repeal between thirty and
forty Acts of Parliament. It was brought in at a 1s e
period of the Session ; it was read a second time on
Tuesday the lit, and it was passed on Saturday, the sth
June, only four days after the second reading. It was
natural at that period of the Session that the House
should proceed with expedition,and that was the reason
that the Bill did not undergo sufficient examination. It
became his own duty, him the situation which he occu-
pied, to look to the proceedings of the operative classes
in different parts of the country since the passing of that
Bill. The accounts he received were of an alarming
character. His Right Hon. Friend the Secretary for
the Home Department also received from various parts
reports of the most disgraceful acts of outrage and vio-
lence. These acts of outrage were grown more nume-
rous and more alarming daily, and they betrayed in
the working claues a strong tendency to foster a spirit
of combinatioskand mischief. The evil had arrived at
such maturity, that If the House did not interpose their
timely authority, it would soon become the duty of his
Eight Hon. Frimsdo the &mem for the Home Depart-

anent, to attend to it. He woe bound to ate the
power with which his official situation armed him, to
pro•ect the propeity and the persons of his Majeity's
subjects from this lawless outrage of the workmen. But
it was more becoming the duty of that House to inter-
fere. By looking more closely at the subject, they
might treat it as one of commercial policy. He was
satisfied that if the House did not interfere in due time,
they would soon find the evil of such magnitude, that no
man could foresee the consequences. If the House did
not step in, and if the working part of the population
continued to commit these acts of intimidation and

violence, his Right Hon. Ftiend would not be back-
ward in using his authority, and in calling on the
House for assistance for the protection olproperty. He
hoped that be would not be considered by any man as
entertaining a principle hostile ro that reasonable maxim
of allowing every man to make the most of his time,
and to dispose of bis labour and of his skill to the best
advantage—( Hear). He supported the principle that
every man ought to be allowed to carry his labour and
his ingenuity wherever he pleased. His 14bour was the
only commodity that the poor man had, and he ought
to be permitted to carry it to the best market and make
the best bargain for it—(Hear, hear). But he with
equal zeal contended for the freedom of will of those
who gave employment to that labour and that skill; t
employers *ere as much entitled to protection as the
workmen—(Hear, hear). They afforded the capital
for the employment of that labour;. 'that capital, the
property of the master, ought to be as sacred as the
labour employed on it, the property of the poor. With-
out protecting this capital, that which gave employ-
ment to labour could not be sustained. By the te-
ports which he bad received, it appeared that great
outrages were committed, and many lives were lost,
under circumstances that prevented the punishment of
the guilty if not their detection. He would refer the
House to documents which he held in his hand, and
which contained the rules and articles of the Associa-

tion of Operative Colliers of Lanark, Dumbarton, and
other places. That Association had drawn up a regular
Constitution;—they had Presidents, Vice-Presidents,
Treasurers, Secretaries, Delegates, &c. All their pro-
ceedings were those of a fully constituted government.
In one article of their code, they provided for the ap-
pcintment of delegates to be sent to and to assist at thp
general meeting of the traders. There was a anion of
the trades, and that was to consist of delegates from
the different trades forming a central meeting. Each
delegate by those articles was t' be pad by his own
work, but the Treasurers and Secretaries were to be
paid out of the general fund, and they were elected'for
six months. The Right Honou able Gentleman having
pointed out the dangerous tendency of those meetings,
came to t"e consideration of another article, the
eleventh, by which it appeared ta be 66 the duty of
each delegate to point out those masters whom he
disliked (Hear, hear)—and to warn them of the
dangers in which they were placed." lie asked it
it was fit that any persons engaged in the lawful
disposal of their property should be kept in that,
state of terror? But to shew the House how those
Associations were disposed to tyrannize over the
people, be found that those articles were Fable to be
altered or amended by a third of the delegates. The
power (,f levying money for ail the Associations forming
the union, was to be vested in the General Committee.,
Another of their regulations was, that they would not
allow their masters to have on hands,'. ;t any time, al
stock of webs; for if the masters could have such a
stock, they might be able to free themselves ham the'
contrcul of the men. Another regulation of this Ass.l.
dation was, that every man who came among them for
work, was to be amerced in the sum of f 5 before he was
admitted to work, and alter wards he was to pay Is. per
week. Another article was, that the child of each mem-
ber was to be reckoned one-fourth of a man— (it I.ltlghl
and to have that proportion of pay? The Right Ho-
nourable Gentleman appeased to the House, if, in
the state in which this country was placed with re
spect to Poor Laws, those people had a right to
waste in this manner, those funds, which, if taken
care of, would keep them from pauperism? If the fine
of 51. with this shilling per week, were put in a Savings'
Bank to accumulate for those depositors, it would turn
out more profitably for them as well as for their parish,
than to be thus intrusted to these Committees of Ma-
nagement. The object of those delegates was, to direct
great bodies of men to concur in their own v ews. One
article in their constitution said, that in any business,
that arose at their meetings, there shou'd be a fall dis.'
cussion of the matter. He called the particul .r a•ten-
tion of the House to the 2241 article, by which it was
declared that no Member of she Associatioa should
engage wi,h any master for any period of time, at any
price, without first obtaining the consent of the General
Committee. It these articles were to be rat nd d, and
if they were adopted by the trot kmen in other b• inches
of labour, such as ship building, &c. what would be
the consequence? The system. nvirl already extended
'to that branch of useful and teceassry em,rloym?nr,
called the coasting trade, although the men had not
reduced the it views into writt,n articles, like the i p!ra
live cabers of Dumbarton and its neighbourhood.
principle on which they proceed. d was tkis, namely,
that they had a right to select those persons who were
to have authority over them. Was this a fit ststeof things?
Were the workmen it appoint their officers? He, how.
ever, bad accounts of some cases in which the men
combined to choose their over lookers, as they called them.
A case of this sort happened, in which the men refused
to do that which was necessary for the safety of the
'ship. in the articles of the Union of this coasting trade,
which were in the form of a di rlogue between Tom
and Harry, it was laid down that the men should not
be employed in shifting or moving the ballast. A case
happened lately, in which it became necessary far the
safety of the vessel to have the ballast removed, and
the men refused. It was stated that the danger in
which the vessel was placed, and from which she was
rescued, was owing to the insubordination of the men.
If these were not proceedings that deserved the consi-
deration and interference of chat House, it would be as
well to relinquish all protection of property. This
spirit of insubordination proceeded in a great measure
from the obscure meaner in which the Act of last Ses-
sion was worded, and from the construction artfully
put on it by evil-disposed or mistaken persons. The
Act repealed all the Statutes on the subject of combi-
nation, and left the punishment for all such offences to
the Common Law. The second section of the Act
might mislead many persons. It stated that all " jour-
neymen and workmen, kc. who enter into any combi-
nation, to get an increase of wages, or who combine to
regulate any trade or manufacture, Sec. shall not be
liable to any punishment under the tatute or Common
Law." Any man reading that part of the Statute,
would be inclined to think it right to take upon him-

self to regulate trades. It was 'necessary to stet tieE
people right on this point, and to :hew them *hat the
law Was. In another part of that Act, It was declared
that any persons who should intimidate persons, or
destroy any machine, or goods, or.merchandize, if they
were convicted by two Magistrates, on the evidence of
two witnesses, might be punished with two months'
imprisonment. Now, he would appeal to his Ha
pourable and Learned Friend, the Attorney-General,
whether intimidations, or destruction of property
were not acts punishable without the aid of this Act ?
All these acts of the destruction of property, all threats
and intimidations being either felonies or misdemeanors,
were subject to alpanishment of at least two months im-
prisonment without this Act. But again, combining
and plotting to raise wages, or do other matters, was no
offence by this Act. This law was not sufficient to put
down those evils which he had stated. If those deluded
men could refl.ct but for one moment on the necessary
consequences of that course of violence which they now
followed, and could see that their acts of outrage would
make it impossible to expect that any person would
risk their capital under such circumstances, they could
not fail of perceiving that by their violence capital would
be driven tf, other places, or protection should be granted
against such consequences. He would advise the capi-
talists through the country not to yield to such preten-
sions—(Hear). Let them call on the Magistracy of the
country to give them support and protection. If the
Magistracy were not sufficient, his Right Hon. Friend
would not be backward in rendering the aid required.
To what event it would be necessary to alter this law,
or wheth:r it would be necessary to repeal it entirely,
and to consider of something more summary and effi-
cient, to prevent the extenoon of those combinations
which were not necessary, he could not then take on
himself to say ; but it was a subject well deserving of
inquiry--(Hear, hear). Holding a situation by which
he was bou-id to give protec i ni to the labourers and
to the masters, hr did hot conceive that he did more
than belonged to his pubic duty to protect the people
from oiara4e. He had eivertained a bore t!.at what-
ever might have been the ebul:iti n of the winkmcnOn,
the r. peati of the Combination Laws, they would have
the gcbd serve to co-olerate with the misters in forming
a scale of prices. That hope, he was sorry to say, was
now diminished. He felt it therefore necessary to move
for the appointment or a Select Committee, to inquire
into the. Acc of Sth of George IV. chapter 95, respecting the con-
duct of workmen and others, through the United Kingdom, and to
resort to the Ilene their opinion, how far it was necessary to repeal
or amend the said Act.

Mr. HUME said, he was certain that no person had
watched the progress of these laws with more anxiety
than himself—no person was more anxious to ascertain
their effects upon the operative classes. The result of
this inquiry was, that many of the workmen in the
country had availed themselves of the benefits of the,
measure, and had not abused Many, he was sorry
to admit, had gone g. eater lengths than the interest of
their employers or the community would allow. He
expected some re-action would follow, and the old laws
could not be repealed without it. If we were placed in
ordinary circumstances, this re-action, whether caused
by unions, or other means, would perhaps he lighter;
but since the passing of the Act, every description of
emp.oyment was on the increase, all classes of labourers
were in demand, ;led some of them, in consequence,
presumed to act against their cini.loyers. There were
formerly two medea of prosecuting for combinations,
under the Statute and Common Law—the prosecution
by the latter was much more severe than that by Sta-
tute. The Committed sat 57 days, the various Resolu-
tions were submitted to the members fourteen days be-
fore their final determination; they would not there-
fore be accused of precipitation ; and at two meetings
there was not a single dissentient voice, except upon the
subject of machinery, the consideration of which was
posrponed until the present Session. The Right Hon.
Gentleman made objections to the wording of the Bill ;
but if he referred to the nth and 40th Geo. 111. he
would find the present Act taken serbatim from them.
The other clauses did not, as the Right Honourable
Gentleman seemed to think, lessen the power aed effi-
ciency of the laws ; on the contrary, they increased them.
Formerly combin.tion could not be prosecuted except
at the Sessions, and a period of five or six months might
elapse before trial ; at present a summary conviction
may take place before two Magistrates, upon the testi-,
mony' of two witnesses, and tee party convicted may
be imprisoned fo two months. His opinion upon these
matters was, that the master should make what arrange-
ments he thought proper, and the woe kman, as long as
he was well conducted, should be at liberty to accede
to or refuse them as he pleased. It was said, minders
were committed in consequence of the combinations of
milkmen. - He did not think there was one committed
in England. There were some in Dublin, but this
was the consequence of an inefficient Police in that city.
There were in Dublin unions of fifty trades, and if the
carriers were dissatished with their masters, the carpen-
ters inflicted punishment. If the carpenters were dis.
pleased with uequalified persons, whom they called
11 colts," it was the duty of the shoemakers to inflict
punishinetit on them. The Chairman of one of these
Unions had a few days ago written to him, to state
that no law could be too severe for acts of violence;
but he trusted that they who were well behaved would
not be d prived of the liberties they enjoy ; that they
would not be punished for the faults of others. The
men, he thought, were o ten less to blame than their
masters. When, upon what they called their first great
trial at Glasgow, the men of Mr. Dunlop refused to
work, he summoned a meeting of the masters, and
told them to stand out against the men. They then told
those in their employment, that if Mr. Dunlop's men
did not return to their labour on Monday. they would
dismiss them to the number of 10,000. Was this rea-
sonable? Was this just on the part of the masters? Mr.
Dunlop's men said they did not like their regulations,
and in consequence the entire, to the number of 10,000,
were deprived of employment. He thought masters
might form regulations in doing their business which
should be complied with. He was *acquainted with a
Mr. Yng, who employed seventy men in the tin trade.
He would not allow them liquor in the workshop ;
they left him in consequence, and told him that none
of the union would work for him. He advertized
for labourers, and added as a qualification, that he
would employ no man who was a member of a union.
He finally procured as many men as he wanted.
Might not some such regulation be acted upon by
the.r employers with the seamen? There was a prac-
tice amongst the masters at Manchester of which he
did not approve; lists of those who struck for wages
were seat about to each manufactory, and thus it was
impossible for any man who displeased his employer
to obtain employment elsewhere. In these respects he
bought the masters were carried as far beyond the

hounds of propriety as as@ Men. the lasi Committee
certainly contemplated a clause for the specific occa-
sions alluded to by the Right Honourable Gentle.
'man (Mr. Huskisson), as for example, in the cases its
Ireland, where they had formerly acted retardless of
all the old Combination Laws. He prerred that
specific clause, rather than any general law rodeo-
latest fOr the indiscriminate punishment of all pers"as
guilty of combination. Urn the question of the dis:.
turbance in the Scotch collieries, he (Mr. Hume) had
put a question to the Learned Lord Advocate, and
he was willing to try the remedy provided for their re-
pression by the former Bill; rather than by any violent
or general act upon that particular case. if upon the
whole subject any new and better remedies could he
provided to repress combination, consistently with the
preservation of the principle of free labour, be for one Woild sec
certainly object to it.
Mr. Secretary PEEL said, that the unpleasant states
meat which had been made by his Right Honourable
Friend, was the consequence of the precipitate repeal of
thirty-five laws, without substituting something better.
He (Mr. Secretary Peel) was, however, glad that at the
present moment there were no political feelings mixed
up with the question, and that they should all go into
it dispassionately, and with a due consideration of the
interest of all parties. But they must not forget, that
if the evil were allowed to continue, they might have
to contemplate these unions under a very different
aspect. The Right Honourable Gentleman then read
the tenth Resolution of the Committee, and said that it
held out an expectation that some new measure of pre-
vention was contemplated, when the old law should be
repealed with respect to malignant combinations. But
what was the fact? As it now appeared from the
Act, it was only provided that upon the oaths of two
witnesses, the offender should be taken before a Ma-
, gistrate, and punished with two months imprisonment.
Such a law would evidently not teach them at all, be-
cause they would take care to commit the offence where
there could be but one witness; and even should they
be convicted, the punishment was quite inadequate to
prevent a repetition of the offence.. He could not
con-
cur with the Honourable Member when he proposed
that punishment should be restricted to acts of violence.
He really thought the system of delegation which was
spreading over the country to be highly injurious, and
also wholly inconsistent with the operation of those
principles of free trade of which they heard so much,
and which they had so justly praised on all sides.
He would put the case of a ship where the sailer , be-
longing to one of these unions, should refuse to act
unless they had certain officers of their own appoint-
ing, or upon some other equally extravagant pre-
tence. What would be the situation of such a ship, if
a dispute arose between the resp-ctive parties, those
who did, and those who did not belong to the union?
The whole principle was utterly inconsistent with that
freedom of action so necessary tw all transactions of
trade and commerce. Ile was informed that there was
now sitting upon the banks of the Thames a body of
delegates, who undertook to obtain work for all who
joined the Union, and to dictate to the master ship-
wrights what men they should or should not employ.
The course taken by them was this. Workmen ap-
peared in the yards, and when the foreman of the ship-
wrights told them that they were not waited, that his
master had plenty of hands, their answer was, "Oh !
but we were sent here by the Committee, and you must
find us work." The con equence was, that if the master
refused to employ them, all his other men belonging to
the Union immediately left him, and his business suf-
fered accordingly. This was the same, he understood,
in various other places. The conduct of these deluded
men was exceedingly injurious to themselves; for, is
fixing a maximum of wages, they destroyed the advan-
tages of bodily activity and superior skill v.hich were
legitimately entitled to better wages. In seeking to
establish an equality of wages, the best workmen were
acting against their own interests. He was quite
prepared to admit that these combinations existed
before last year, and he deprecated the idea of con-
demning the Act of last year, or attributing the evils
to that or any other particular Act. He believed
that the present discussion would be productive of
much public good, in e:ewing the unanimous de-
termination of the House not to tolerate these com-
binations which went to destroy or counteract all
those principles of free trade and freedom of action,
without which the measures they were now adopting
would be entirely nugatory. Let them look at their
effects upon the ore of society.—lt appeared that
within the last three years, ten innocent persons had
been murdered for not joining, or acting according
to the rules of the combination—and their murderers
never brought to justice. It was a state of things which
belonged to an uncivilized state of society—a dreadful
vulgar tyranny, less endurable than the absolute des-
potism of one man. The effect upon the prosperity of
the country was not less destructive. There was one
case appeared in the evidence taken before the Com-
mittee, of a Mr. Robinson, who established a manufac-
tory of nails in Ireland. The workmen, for some cause
or other, objected to using these nails, and when their
masters persisted, they railed a meeting to the number
of three thousand, and agreed 44 that if their mas-
ters compelled them to use Robinson's nails, they
would drive them crooked" (Hear, hear).
Thus an attempt to introduce capital into Ireland was
frustrated, and the manufactory was driven back to
Birmingham, where the Irish had to follow it and buy
their nails. He was glad that his Right Hon. Friend
had taken the course of proposing an investigation by
a Committee. There would be no use in repealing the
Honourable Member's . Act, and leaving the old
system of the Combination Laws where it was—he
wanted to see something better substituted in its place.
The Honourable Member was mistaken in supposing
that no persons had suffered violence anywhere but in
Dublin. And he really could not conceive a stronger
(claim upon their compassion and protection, than that
lof the man, who, refusing to join these Unions,
would nct dare to appear in twenty towns in this coun-
try, after nightfall, without exposing himself to personal
violence. He trusted something would be done by the
House, for nothing so dangerous to the peace of the
country had come within his notice since he had the honour of
filling his present situation.
Mr. H. GURNEY said, many of the evils now in
exi,t,mce could not be attributed to the repeal of the
Combination Laws, and he should deprecate their re-enaeuneat.
Sir M. W. RIDLEY expressed his satisfaction at
finding that the Right Honourable Gentleman had di-
rected his attention to this important subject. He could
corroborate the statement of the Right Honourable
Gentleman, respecting the ports on toe northern coast.
He knew of one case in which the mate, who was
.the
Captain's son, was compelled to go ashore to be sworn
a Member of the Union, before tine sailors would go to
sea; and if he bad refused, the ship must have lost beg

!voyage. the Ilonoutable Baronet SW. he was de-
sirous of taking -that opportunity of bearing his testi
mony to the good conduct of that t kcellent class of
workmen, the Coliers of the North. Since the repeat
'of the Laws, they bad never attempted to enter into a union or
combination of any kind whatever-Hear.)
Mr. TR ANT expressed his conviction that the repeal of the Act
• Was imperiously necessary is Ireland.
Mr. C. GRANT said, that as a Member of the Com-
Mittee •.1 last year, he was extremely anxious to shew
-the persons whose infamous conduct had been stated to
the House, that however well-disposed he had been to
forward a measure for their protection, he was no less
determined in his desire to punish abuses such as those
which they were committing. Their conduct, gross as
it was, was doing far greater injury to their own inte-
rests than to those of any other parties. It excited feelings
of such a nature as almost to induce a o i,h to restore
the old combination laws. It was unfair to attribute
the present state of things to 'the Hon. Member's Act,
• for the same combinations existed before it was passed,
and most of the murders spoken of had been perpetrated
previous to that time. A complete system of terror had
then been established, of which they had proofs in the
trembling and alarmed manner with which many wit-
nesses gave their evidence before the Committee. The
Right Hon. Gentleman warmly defended the It Itr-
tions of the Commitee, and contended that re Act
only repealed so much of the Common Law as rendered
peace-Isle ir.eetines of two or three individuals penal,
under the 28J of Edward I.
Mr.KRNNEDY said a few wnrda in approbation of the measure.
Mr. LA M BTON said, the thanks of the country were due to
the Right Hon. Gentleman, for calling the attention of Parliament
to a subject so alarming.
Mr. HUziKISSON explained, that he had made no
objection to the Resolutions of the Committee. The
Act lath, it was cusie clear, had creates a mi.con:eir-
tinn. Ullowed by prejudicial eff cts in son e pal tt to
the want: y. The Honourable Member for Aberde,n
had Called upon him not to visit with seve:ity ti:e
anion of the few upon the uncffetiding conduct of the
many. It was not his intention to proposa anytimg
severe or penal towards a:ry parties. He only asked the
house to consider how far the into rests of commr re-
and the general race and welfare required the adju t-
nient of this question, with a due protection to the rights both of
the master and the labourer?
The motion was then agreed to, and a Committee appointed.
Mr. ARBUTHNOT moved for leave to bring in a Bill to ex-
tend the juri.diction of the Commissioners appointed to regulate
the paving, &c. of the Regent's Park, and the new street leading
thence to Pall-mall.—Agreed to.
The Dissenting Marriage Bill was committed, and the Report
was ordered to be taken into further consideration on the 18th of
April, sod in the meantime to be printed.
The Irish Bankers' Bill was then read a second time, and ordered
to he committed to-morrow.
The Police Magistrates' Bill was then read a second time, and
k ordered to be committed to-morrow.
The Threatening Letters Bill went through a Committee, and or-
dered to be read a third time to-morrow.
The Felons' Pardon ISM was read a second time, and ordered to
be committed to-morrow.
Mr. BROGDEN brought up the Report of the Committee of
Supply on the Miscellaneous Estimates' when the several Resolu-
tions were agreed to. The same Hon. Member brought up the Re-
port on the Game Laws Bill.—The Report, after some verbal
amendments, was received, and the Bill ordered to be read a third
unseen the 25th of April.
The Scotch Judicature Bill was read a second time, and ordered
to be committed on the 22d April.
The Scotch Small Debts Recovery Bin went through a Com-
mittee, the report received, and ordered to be recommitted on
the 18th of April.
The other Orders of the Day were then disissed of, and the
Mouse adjourned at a QUA RTAM PAST ELLYIN &CLOCK.

Till!: EVENING- STAR.

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1825.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
The moves or the Great Chess Match between London and
Edinburgh, will appear in the STAZ of tomorrow.

STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Consols opened this morning at 93} a for the Account; but
soon after they were done at 933 3, owing to some good purchases
having been made.
In the Foreign Market all Shares remain steady.
Current Prices: New Spanish 181, Old Spanish 23a 3, Rus-
sian 943, Mexican 791 80, Chilian 903, Colombian New 891 90,
Brazil Scrip 13 2 prem. Mexican Scrip a 3 prem. Greek Scrip
S 43 disc. Danish Scrip par to a discount.

PK ICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
S per Cent. Cons. 9314 931/8
4 per Cent. New 1053/4 11/6 Y 4 54
India Bonds 78 77
£l,OOO Exclieq. Bills 54 57
£6OO ditto 54 57
£lOO and £2OO ditto 54 57
Cons. for Acct. 933/s 1,4 3/4
FOREIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds 5 per Ct. 98/ Mex. Bonds, 5 p Ct. 80 791
Ditto Ace. 981 Ditto Acc. 80A 1
Brazilian Bonds Ditto Scrip 1825, Oj 1 pm
Ditto Scrip, 5 per Cent. Ditto Acct. 01 pm
Ditto Scrip 1825, 1/ pr Neapolitan Bonds, 5 per Ct.
Ditto Ace. • Peruv. Bonds, 6 per Ct. 871 61 7
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 901 Ditto Acc.
Chilian Bonds, 6 p Ct. 90 Portuguese Bonds
Colombian Bonds, 6 p Ct.9l 901 Prussian BondslB22, Sp Ct.look
Ditto Bonds 1824, 891 11;} Rusa.Bonds,lB22, 3p. Ct. 951 j
Ditto Ace. 901 Ditto Acet. 951
Danish Bonds, 5 per Ct. Spanish sp. Ct. C. 23/ 1
Ditto Marks Banco 1011 Ditto Acct. 231
Ditto Scrip, j dis Span. S p.Ct C. 1823,
Greek Bonds 51; Ditto for Acc.
Ditto Scrip 1825, 5 41 dis French Renter, 5 per C. 10211
Ditto Acct. 41 dis Exchange 25f. tlc.
(BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO OC'LOCK.
MINKS.

SHALL PAID. PIMP PER IMAM
Anglo Mexican - . ilOO -.C15. isa. 415 pro. £lOO
Anglo Milian - . 100 - 5 - -31 1 i i
Brazilian - - 100 - 5 - - 224 21
Chilian and Peruvian Company 5 15* 1 1
General Mining Aso. 190 - 5 - -15
Pasco Peruvian - 100 - 5 - .24 2.1 i 241 24
Peruvian - 100 - g- • 71 81 S
Royal Irish 2CI us. 3d. 2 prem. 4 gals.
Rio de la Plata • 100 - 5 - . 241 27
'rialpuzahua - 400 -20 • - 210
United Mexican 40 -80 - 2 pm. -45
Welch iron & Coal 25 - 5 - - 71 *
GAS Lictur AND COKE COMPANY.
Continental - - 100 - 8 - - 9
Provincial Portable - 100 - 1 • 24 4

MISCELLANEOUS.
'Amis. TAID. TRICK !KR IMAM
Atlantic and Pacific • £lOO - £lO -,S
British iron Company - 100 - S • 91 9
Canal Gas Engine . 50 1 9i 4 21
General Steam Navigation 100 5 - 10
Great Westininster Miry 2.5 - 2 • 11
London Brick Company 50 1 1; *
Metropolitan Fish Company 25 1 2
• Pearl Fishery 26115 sh. £92 pd. in. AO pus. .19 90
Ditto White - 47 -
Trovinclal Bank of Ireland 100 5 -12 e 14

Patent tricks ll : kip 1 - Si
Patent Steam Carriage S ili .Si2Ak if
Pearl and Coral Miry 40 4 29 MI
Royal Stannary -- 2 4;

Just as ou'r Pap* Was going to press, we received
the Moniteur of JVlonday, and tht 'Doge of yesterday by
express. Neither of them contain the slightest political
news. On Friday, Comte Poem DI Boac.o, the Russian
Ambassador, gave a grand diplomatic dinner, to com-
memorate the anniversary of his Imperial MAMMY'S
coronation. The Rentes few money, on Monday, were
102 f. 70c. and for time 1021.85 c.

This forenoon we received German Papers to the
24th inst. The Agenteine keitung, of the preceding day,
contains two articles of some interest. The first, from Sr.
Petersburgh, notices the frequent conferences between
our Ambassador, Mr. STRATFORD CANNING, and the
Russian Government. Nothing, it is said, is suffered to
transpire ; but is is conjectured that these deliberations
relate to the Greeks. The probability of Greece being
recognised as an independent Power, is hinted at, but
it is said that the Emperor of RUSSIA will not, in con-
cert with his Allies, consent to that independence, ex-
cept on condition of the Greeks receiving a Prince and
a Constitution from the Allied Powers; but the Eng-
lish Cabinet is said to be of a different opinion.
The next article relates to the effect the recognition
of the South American States by England has had in
Prussia, whO, it is said, has gone farther in its relations
with South America than any other Power, England

excepted.
It is said that the prices of wool have risen 25 per
cent. and that at the Fair of Frankfort on the Oder,
much business was done, and the wool fair in June is
expected to be equally favourable.

The French Papers last received, contain the con-
clusion of the long and desultory discussion on the re-
duction of the rentes. The Ministerial project, without
any material amendment, passed the Chamber of De-
puties on Saturday, by a great majority, the num-
bers being—
For it, 237 I Against it, 119 I Majority, 118.

Last night, Mr. Secretary CANNING, who, we regret
to state, appeared in extremely ill health, said, that on
Tharsday (to-morrow) he should move the adjournment
of the House to the 14th of April next ; the period of
adjournment we stated in the STAR on Monday. The
meeting on Thursday will be merely pro forma, but the
business requisite to be got through before the tecess
cannot he completed earlier. On that day there will bel
a Commission to give the Roya Alssent to the Wine
Dutics Bill, &c. which it is desired should become law
hefore the Easter holidays begin. Owing to the vast
multiplicity of private business, there was some thought
of a shorter adjournment than a fortnight.