THE MONEY MARKET.

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY EVENING.—Although there have been two holidays this week, on one of which the house was closed, considerable business has been done in Stock, both for money and the account. The variation in price, however, has been trifling ; the highest price of Consols since our last being 861, and the lowest 861; the operations, therefore, not possessing any decided character either way. A considerable purchase (above ..E100,000 Consols) was made on Tuesday by the Chancery Broker, which advanced the price from 8fii to 8f ; but it was considered an unfavourable indication of the state of the market, that after this extra demand had been supplied, the price receded to the point from whence it had advanced. No further fall took place, however ; and to .day the price was again Wel to t7.-, at which the market closed. The continuance of these prices will depend greatly on the ability of the one broker spoken of in our two last reports, to take his Stock on the account-day ; and if that Stock should prove to have been bought on the mere speculation of a rise during the present account, and is to be again brought back for sale, a considerable fall may be apprehended,—as we are still of opinion, that had it not been for the purchases of that one individual, the market would have given way before now. The supply of money is still abundant; and Exchequer Bills and India Bonds, the usual absorbents of floating capital, maintain their high prices. A good deal of business has been done in the Foreign market, and several of the South American Bonds have been sold at lower prices: Mexican 6 per cents., for example, at 331; Brazil at 63i ; Colombian at 181. &c. &c. It not unfrequently happens, that the dealers in the market, in their eagerness to anticipate events, sometimes overdo the thing; which seems to have been the case in a slight degree this week, as some of them seem to have sold more stock than they are likely to be able to deliver on the account-day, unless a fresh supply come in. Accordingly, some of the Bonds have again advanced,—Mexican to 34k; Brazil to 644. to In Shares there has not been much doing this week; but the prices of some of the principal conceens have declined. Title renowned Real del Monte, for which 1500/. premium was paid in some instances, and refused in many more when offered, are now at a discount of 2301. per share, the amount paid on each being 4001. The Bolanos, which were lately at 2001. premium, are now at about 20/ premium. In the other Mining Shares prices have rather advanced a little; but neither the high premium nor the heavy discount of any of the Shares of those concerns furnish any criteria of their true value, but rather of the exaggerated hopes or fears of the holders. SATURDAY, ONE O'CLOCK.—COHSO1S 851 selfers—very little doing.

tVilt-o'crecx\--,Consolsi$64 .,. • • . We are concerned to state that the health of His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence is exciting the most anxious apprehensions in the minds of the royal fimily. His royal highness has not been able to appear in public since he resigned the office of Lord High Admiral. He has been confined to his apartment, and generally to his bed, for the last four weeks; and his medical attendants have frequently been called upon for their advice and assistance under circumstances which are of a too painful nature to allude to more particularly. Time other journals have been silent on this topic, for reasons which may be guessed ; but we think it right that the public should be made in some degree conversant with the real facts. One day last week his Royal Highness was in a most alarming state, but since then he has partially recovered, and hopes are entertained that he will speedily be restored to health—Morning Journal, Saturday. The Princess Sophia. on Monday, completed the fifty-first year of her age. She was congratulated by the Duke and Duchess of Clarence on the occasiott.

The Princess Augusta, attended by Miss Wynyard, left her residence in the King's Palace, St. James's, on Tuesday, for his Majesty's Pavilion at Brighton, where she is expected to remain for some time.

The Dukeof Clarence has been elected an elderbrother of the Trinity House, The Duke of Sussex arrived at Newstead Abbey, the seat of Colonel Wildman, and formerly the residence of Lord Byron, on Thursday evening. i His Royal Highness is n good health. The Earl of Aberdeen left London on Friday for the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Mr. Berries returned to London on Wednesday from a tour. Mr. Huskisson arrived in Paris on Sunday. The Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury entertained a distinguished party at dinner, on Tuesday, at her house in Arlingtou-street. Earl Talbot, Lady Cecil Talbot, Lord Ingestrie, &c. were of the party. Iligh mass was celebrated on Tuesday, at the chapel of the French Embassv,—it being St. Charles's Dayethe natne-day of the Kiog of France. In the evening Prince Polignac gave a grand dinner to thirty guests. While Prince Esterhazy was yesterday pursuing his usual equestrian exer cise in Mr. Hall's riding school, at the entrance to the Regent's Park, upon one of his own favourite horses, the animal suddenly reared up perpendicu lady, and his Highness experienced a fall so severe as to fracture his left leg, a little above the ancle. The fractured limb was speedily set; and the Prince was last night in as favourable a state as could be expected. Preparations are making at Guild-hall for celebrating Lord Mayor's day, on Monday with surpassing splendour.

The Duchess of St. Albans has given a donation of 300/. to the London University. The Committee of the inhabitants of St. Dunstan's in the West, have ordered that the church of St. Dunstan's shall come down, and another one be built somewhere else. The inhabitants have approved of their report. They are to apply to Parliament for the necessary powers.

.1Naw Cm:sac:E.—A new coinage of crown -pieces is in greatforwardness at the Mint, and will shortly be issued. 'Fite manber directed to be struck in the first instance is one million of piece,, of the value of 250,0001. sterling. They are intended, it is said, principally for the country circulation, where it is conceived they may be of smite utility, as an aid to the circulation, when the small notes come to be withdrawn. The new coinage will not differ in weight from the crowns already in use. There is also some activity at the Mint, we understand, in the coinage of sovereigns.—Doily Papers. COMMON COUNCIL.—At a meeting of this body on Thursday, a motion was made by Mr. Legge that the office of Secondary should not be sold; and the proposition met with various supporters. On the other hand, some were of opinion with Mr. James Richardson, that to bestow the office as a gift, would not prevent the extortions and impositions complained of, and that it might as well be sold as given to " the most influential beggar." The discussion was hot and stormy; and the Council got several times into great confusion. Attempts were made to get rid of the question by moving an adjournment; but these were all successfully resisted. At length the motion was reduced to the single propositiou, "that the office of Secondary be not sold ;" and to this the Council unanimously assented.

CITY LIREARY.—The library of the Corporation of the City of London, for the use of the members and their fellow citizens, is now open for the reception of donations and visiters. The library is expected to become the most considerable historical library of any in the kingdom. The collection relates chiefly to the general history of London. A number of valuable ancient manuscripts have already been obtained ; and besides, a museum of antiquities belonging to the City' and fur works of art, has also been begun. Among the works illustrative of the commercial history of the City, is the most complete series of the London Gazette known to exist in the kingdom. Independent of the library, the Corporation possesses an immense depository of historical documents, comprised in upwards of one thousand volumes of records, which, since the present Town Clerk entered into office, have, under his superim. tendence, been put in a course of careful preservation and excellent repair by Messrs. Caulfield. Neither Stowe, Hallam, Southey, nor any historian ancient or modern, has had recourse to these records, which are supposed to be the depository of much valuable information. The City library has already received considerable donations, and several valuable bequests have been promised. Nal H ACGOUNTS.—Mr. Minsbull and Mr. Halls held a special sessions at, 1:law-street., on Saturday, for the purpose ef examining the accounts of 4%

overseers of the poor, St. Paul's, Covent-garden, for the year ending at Easter last. Mr. Corder, Vestry-clerk, the auditors appointed by the parish, and a great number of the parishioners were present. Mr. Corder first objected to the sum of 18/. charged by the overseers, churchwardens, and •

others on their annual visit to the establishment for pauper children at Norwood. There was 6/. for dinners, 3/. 1Ss. for coach-hire, and the remainder was for wine and waiters, except V. 18s. allowed to the nurses and attendants at the establishment. It was contended that this expenditure of the parish funds was extravagant, since, on Friday, three gentlemen performed the duty at an expense of 17s. 10d., and " fared comfortably." The Magistrates refused to pass the account. Several other items were in like manner objected to ; and after a stormy discussion, the Magistrates adjourned the sessions till a Vestry was called, and a report made to them. DINNER TO Mn. Sniso—As an afterpiece to the comedy on Penenden Heath, the opposite party entertained Mr. Shiel to a public dinner on Monday, in the London Tavern ; where three or four hundred were assembled as actors and spectators, and many applicants for tickets were disappointed, for want of room. There are different ways of estimating the " respectability" of the assembly ; but we are inclined to hold, with Mr. W. Smith, M. P., of Norwich, the Chairman, that it may be taken as a tolerably fair representation of the middle class of Londoners. They assembled, professedly, on the broadest principles of civil and religious liberty ; and this was constantly kept in mind, in the toasts from the chair and the aspirations of the speakers. Mr. Fox, an eminent dissenting preacher, observed that Christians had nothing to do with the creeds of men as a test for civil office ; and if the repeal of the Test Acts was meant to bribe the Dissenters to silence in the matter of the Catholic Claims, he for one would rather fling back the concession than enjoy it on such tertos. Mr. Shiel's speech occupies three columns of the Times ; but the distance of a week nearly, takes away much from the freshness and interest of the oration, and renders it unnecessary to do more than recapitulate some of the leading points. England was the field, he thought, where Catholic freedom was to be won : there was much prejudice against them, but it arose in some degree from ignorance, and would disappear with a more frequent " intellectual intercourse" with Catholics. The Association, and the Rent too, were condemned by those who did not know what the one was, or how the other was applied. The Association, was no secret or mysterious union : it was the Catholic people, with the gentry, the priesthood, and the intellect of the body ci their head ; and the Rent was the voluntary contribution of the body, applied scrupulously to redress their own grievances. They had been charged with exciting the tenant against the landlord at the elections ; but in the exercise of the elective franchise they had violated no principle of the constitution, while they had taught their enemies their power, and they meant to make the next election the scene of other peaceful victories. Mr. Shiel admitted that some violent expressions might unheedingly be uttered at the Association ; but these he justified, on the ground of the endless insults to which their Catholic brethren were everywhere and at all times exposed. They felt themselves aggrieved and spurned, and in the heat of the moment they might uncourteously retort. He thus continued " Away with the allegation, that it is a question of boroughs and of silk gowns, and.of seats for lawyers in the Courts, and for gentlemen in the House of Commons. It is a question whether common justice shall be done in our public tribunals—whether Orangemen shall murder Catholics with impunity—whether blood shall be shed in the common day, without retribution, and the whole body of the people shall be trodden down and trampled upon, and b00,000 men shall keep their feet upon the necks of 7,000,0uo. That is the question. Those are our wrongs ; and let me ask you, whether, with such wrongs, anti while our heart= are bursting in our bosoms at their endurance, you expect that we should speak in soft and mellifluous phrases, and that instead of heaving upon the rack on which she is stretched, Ireland should breathe her complaints in gentle murmurings, and that her petitions should be as soft as her national music, to which every spinster in your drawingrooms lends the enchantment of her dulcet intonations. No, Sir ; the groans of a people are not to be turned into a set of Parliamentary melodies ; and in demanding redress, we do but follow the promptings of human nature, by putting before you the full extent of wrong."

The other principal speakers were Mr. Alexander Dawson, the Member for Louth, Mr. Thomas Campbell, the poet, a Mr. Williams, and Mr. Henry Hunt—who seemed anxious that his views of the Catholic question and tine Penenden Heath meeting should not be confounded with those of his friend Cobbett.

THE TREASON TRIALS IN 1794.--The acquittal of Hardy, Home Tooke, and Thelwall, on the charge of constructive treasons, brought against them and ten other persons in 1794, was celebrated on Wednesday, by upwards of one hundred persona, who dined at the Golden Lion, Smithfield ; Mr. Harmer the solicitor in the chair. Mr. Hardy, who is now in his seventy-eighth year, was present. The speeches chiefly referred to the days of the London Corresponding Society ; and it was remarked, that there was more treason in the letter published by the Duke of Newcastle, than in the whole correspondence of the London Society, or of any other Society that the metropolis had ever produced.

GUNPOWDER PLot—The anniversary of this treason was celebrated on Wednesday, by the firing of of the Park guns, the ringing of bells, and the display of flags from churches. The day was, as usual, kept as a holiday at most of the public offices.

Murix Y.—In the course of the last week, a mutiny broke out at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst ; which, but for the active and decisive conduct of the Governor, would have been attended with the most serious consequences, probably the destruction of the greater part of the premises. As it was, indeed, the woods adjoining were fired simultaneously in four places, and the elegant summer-house and hedges of the Governor's garden were burnt to the ground. Ten of the ringleaders have been expelled in consequence.—Irindsee Express.

BRUNSWICK CLUBS.—A meeting is to be held at Leeds, on Monday, for the formation of one of these associations. Clubs are also forming at Hon iton, Newton Bushel, and other parts of Devonshire ; and a Protestant declaration is in the course of signature in the hundred of Ottery. CAMRRIDGE.—On Tuesday last the Rev. Gilbert Ainslie, Master of Pembroke-college, was elected Vice-chancellor of this University for the ensuing year. The Seatonian prize, for the present year, is adjudged to the Rev. E. Smedley, of Sidney-college, for his poem on " Saul-at Rotor." The subject for the .Norrisian prize essay for the ensuing year is—" The Doctrine of Types, and Its Influence on the Interpretation of the New Testament."

The vacant representative peerage in Ireland is contested by Lord Dunally

iand Lord Castlemaine. On Monday, the former hat tell votes, and the latter lel one, The Oraile rapers accitse the Lord Lietiteunt of will oll big

influence in favour of Lord Dunally ; but they nevertheless predict his defeat.

The Dublin Warder, after noticing a vague report that the Marquis of Anglesea was about to retire from the Government of Ireland, enumerates some of the political sins of which the Marquis has been guilty in the eyes of the Or:or-men ; and then observes, "The sooner he goes the better ; and he may account himself a winner in the game, if an impeachment does not follow7 him."

A person named Sullivan has lodged informations before some Magistrates in Killarney, against A stints Mahony, John Scanlan, and Andrew Morrough, described as " gentlemen," for having administered unlawful oaths. They entered his hotone on the night of the 23rd of October. and swore him " to bear allegiance to Daniel 0' Cconnell, and to be ready when called upon to render same." Maltony has been arrested and lodged in gaol; but the others have absconded. The Cork Reporter makes the matter a " drunken freak." The words they made the man repeat, were " to be true to the cause, religion, and O'Connell." There is now a military disposable force in Ireland of nearly 50,000 men. —Morning Register. The illwwing Journal suggests four schemes to the Duke of Wellington, by the adoption of which the peace of Ireland would be secured, and the condition of the people benefited. 1. The abolition of the College of Maynooth, and the application of its revenues to the common objects of education. 2. To restrain the Pope from at all interfering in the affairs of Ireland. 3. To get rid of the " agitators " and the men who levy and live upon the rent, by sending them to New South Wales, or elsewhere. 4. The introduction of a system of poor-laws and the cultivation of waste lands.

The Catholic Association has received one thousand dollars from New York, remitted by Dr. M'Nevin. A "Rent" Society has been recently organized in Paris.