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CONTENTS. THE ECONOMIST,

The Debate on the Greek Claims ..... 701 Foreran CorrEsPONDENCE :— ; M. de la Hitte, Saron Gros, Mr Wyse, Par 80 occ coccccccecce -eccccccccce cosccecseccoocs TOD

and ‘Our own Correspondent”... 702 Corresr — . Outraze On the Queen.......srceveseeeree 702 Friendly Socteties..eceesesseeceeceeceseee 7 9 Sunday Postal Arrangements «0... 703 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT esses « 710 Hankering after Cuba..... esepesecancesees SOS Parliameotary Papers...... 714 The Growh of Beetroot Sugars in News or Toe Weexk:—

France and Belgium... ...++. oe 704 Courtand AristOcracy .+«-cccccccsoee 714 Sugar Duties....corcecccscessesees 795 Metropol is.ce.se-eeceesceccers 714 Territorial Aggrandisement .... woe 705 Provinces .... 7:4 Scarcity a Treland secsescceceeceeserereceeeres 715

GOFMMANY ccorcorcesccscessccccccccesccesce 706 Foreignand C olonial souenenns - 715 Louis Philippe *s Civi I ‘List... -« coccercecee 76 Births, Marriages, and De aths.. covose 216 The Stoppage of the Post on Sundays 707. Lirerature :— AGRICULTURE: — Autobiography of Leigh Hunt ..06 716

Suffalk Farming and Land Manage- Earnestness .... on MONE sooseesee ree one -ccesescoccocce TOT The Sabbath .....

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THE BANKERS’ GAZETTE AND COMMERCIAL TIMES.

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FOREIGN POLICY.

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THE DEBATE ON THE GREEK CLAIMS.

Tue debate on the Greek claims mus: make every Englishman feel that it is fortunate for the best interests of this country that party passions have been seldom let loose on the subject of foreign policy. Englishmen can afford to quarrel upon domestic subjects : in that arena hard words, distorted facts, blind exaggerations, impassioned misrepresentations, go all for nothing. At most, they may assist one party or another to a triumph, which will be temporary or enduring only in proportion as it consists with the true interests of the state. But to feel how much otherwise is

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JUNE 29, 1850. No. 357.

No one has ventured to impugn the honour, the integrity, the fairness of Mr Wyse, our Minister at Athens; but, while the bitterest objectors to his acts have distinctly said they could not do so, no pains have been spared to distort his acts and his motives, for the purpose of sustaining the pretensions of the opponents of the Government. What must be the reflections of an honest, conscientious, and high-minded man, serving his country abroad, when

he sees all questions with which British inte rests and honour are indissolubly united, grossly misrepresented and distorted for mere party purposes!

Is it needful that we should once more refute the tations which have been made upon these subjects? We think not. Lord Palmerston’s speech, which his bitterest opponent described as ‘*a gigantic, intellectual, and physical effor t, while, ‘for nearly five hours, from dusk of eve to dawn of day, the ** noble lord kept a thronged House of Commons hanging upon ‘*his lips,” has been read by every man in England, and in every place in Europe, to which time has yet enabled it to reach. It answered all that had been said before. Nothing has been said since requires answer. But if more were necessary to show the unfounded character of the charges against Lord Palmerston, we have only to look to the admissions which his opponents were constrained to make.

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Take the speech of Mr Gladstone on Thursday. If not a word had been said in defence of the Government with regard to the proceedings in Greece during the last four y abundance of admissions are made in that speech to justify the acts

| of the British Government and their Minister at Athens. He admits that *‘in these transactions there is no char ion the honour of Mr Wyse.” Ile admits that “an apology was fairly due to us for the affair of the ship Fantome.” He admits that the conduct of the Greek Government with regard to the

Ionian subjects was not * satisfactory.” le admits that Mr Finlay’s claim was a just one. He admits that “the plunder of Pacifico’s house was a detestable and execrable outra ’ He admits that * he is not satisfied with the way in which the Greek Government acted.” ‘I wish,” he continues, * they had shown

more vigour in the gerne of the offenders’—knowing per-

the case with questions of foreign policy, we have only to refer to | the revolting characteristics of the debate of the week, as humili-

, ating in their immediate aspect, as dangerous in their future consequences. To see a great and imposing party in the British Legislature, headed by men of high political reputation, themselves as the champions of the Greek Government in all the petty and contemptible subterfages which, for years past, were

| appoint, | notoriously sometimes the practice,

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employed, first to trample on the rights of E nglishmen, and next | to evade redress when demanded—employing all the dexte rity of diplomatic quibbles suggested by foreign antagonists, in order to place England in the wrong—is an exhibition from which the people of this country will shrink with instinctive abhorrence. All the world knows there are two sides to every question, and they also know that a clever advocate has little difficulty at any | time in making at least a colourable case, if he be but suffi- |

| clently blinded by party feelings or mercenary considerations.

fectly well that they showed none. And he admits that ‘the

* pro¢ “dings if the ‘Greek CG vernment with reg sard ull these

‘transactions had been vexatious, if not shuffling.” What ad-

missions more are required to make up the outline of the case ? It is a fact which no one disputes, that all efforts used over a

period of many years had been unavailing to indu to settle these claims—to redress these wi

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of great omissions and misrepresentations, which are not easily explained in one who has taken so much pains to master the

ease. Mr Finlay, no doubt, had a good claim. He had a claim not alone for the value of his iand, but its forcible possession. But

Mr Gladstone says, why had he not recourse to the courts of law? Why, Mr Gladstone cannot be ignorant that this claim, being personal against the King, the courts now existing in Greece have no jurisdiction in the matter; and that if even they had, it would have been a mere mockery to resort to courts in which the cause would be tried by any judge whom the defendant might choose to

even for the special occasion, for such is the power, and of the Government of c,reece,

But, then, itissaid an arbitration was offered. Yes,tobesureit was, and Mr Finlay gladly seized the chance which it offered him of redress. But to his astonishment, how was it to be composed? | He was to select one arbitrator: the Greek Government the ||

other. Lut an umpire was wanted. The Gre rovern= || ment would appoint him also. Can any one b nished || that Mr Finlay refused this proposal of two to one?— On all this Mr Gladstone is silent. It was not convenient he |} should recollect it. But, bye and by, another arbitration was ap- | pointed, on a fair and satisfactory footing. Mr Finlay thought, || at last, that he saw a satisfactory conclusion to his wrongs. This ,| was in October 1849. But by the Greek law arbitrators must | make their award within three months, or the reference 1s 00 |

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| longer legal. Well, but certain papers were needful to enable o-

to pursue their inquiry, which the Greek Government alone co | furnish, but which they pertinaciously neglected to do during the

whole three months. But this fact again Mr Gladstone forgets to

| mention: on the contrary, by way of heaping obloquy on his

| wronged countryman, whom he admits to be “‘a man of oo

| and respectability,” he reverses the fact, and charges Mr Fin ay

| with having kept back the necessary papers. The charge is

} utterly unfounded with regard to that gentleman. With regard to

' the Greek Government, it has never been denied. But, then, says

i Mr Gladstone, the Greek Government offered again to renew

i the arbitration for another three months. No doubt. But they

never offered the papers. No more convenient mode could have

| been resorted to, in order to hang up a claim which their only

| object seemed to be to evade. ; sl sie

| ‘Again, Mr Gladstone is indignant that the British Minister

| assumed the amounts of the claims of Finlay and Pacifico to be

| correct, and demanded their amount. Whose fault was that,

| even were it true, which it is far from being? If the Greek Go-

‘| vernment pertinaciously refused or neglected to take necessary | means to ascertain these claims, what means could Sir Edmund | Lyons adopt but to ascertain them himself in the best way he | could. That gentleman, whose integrity has never been impeached, | and is unimpeachable, declared that he had taken means to ascer- ' tain the accuracy of the demands so far as they were within his power. But were these demands made in a specific sum,as Mr Gladstone states? No such thing. No one should know better that so far from being so, all that Mr Wyse demanded was, that they should become the subject of a fair investigation, and that their amount should be so determined. Here there is no room

| for doubt. The French and the English papers laid before their respective legislators, are agreed upon this point at least. Any statement to the contrary is simple misrepresentation, ‘The claims may have been exaggerated or not in amount ; that was ‘eft to the negotiators, and ultimately it was a matter on which they were agreed.

These are only examples of the means which have been used || throughout this debate to humiliate the British name abroad, and

to destroy the influence of our ministers at foreign courts. We will allude only to one more such effort of Mr Gladstone’s. In

| referring to the famous despatch of Count Nesselrode of February, he quoted a passage which he described as a lesson read to this country by a despotic power—a lesson which he believed had

| been submitted to by the foreign minister, without any reply. Now, no man inthe House of Commons knew better than Mr Gladstone

| that along with that insulting despatch to which he referred, at | the same moment was delivered to Lord Palmerston a second despatch from Count Nesselrode, and written subsequently, though

| bearing the same date, couched in very different terms, the one | being in effect an apology for the other. The poison and the anti- | dote were dexterously enough administered to our Foreign Secre-

|| tary at the same moment. It was apparently determined that the ;| insult should not be resented, and therefore the apology was made

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| ** lessons” to be received without remark, as the celebrated de- {| spatch of February contained, and carefully hiding from the world || the existence of the accompanying letterwhich rendered any notice

| of it unnecessary and impossible. , This is a new species of party warfare. We have heard of

things being un-English. But what name to give to this movement we are utterly at a loss to determine. Where is it to end ? What will be the consequences upon British interests and British honour? The party struggle in the House of Commons is the en-

| couragement of intrigues against British interests and British Mini- || Sters in foreign courts. And the most alarming feature of the whole

s|| affair is, that English legislators and the English public are left || to derive their information upon foreign politics through the || correspondents of our daily papers in foreign countries who are ] in the confidence ouly of those opposed to British interests. The || Zunes’ correspondent at Athens, it appears from the published \\ papers, was the close confidant of Baron Gros and the Greek || party, while he seems to have been an entire stranger to the

| British Minister, as he was to British interests. As a fitting reward for his efforts against his country, he has since, along with

| Baron Gros, M. Thouvenal. and M. Persiany the Russian Mini- ster, received a decoration from the hands of King Otho!

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M. DE LA HITTE, BARON GROS. MR WYSE, AND “OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.” Ix our last number we published a letter from Mr Wyse to Lord Paluerston bearing upon the charge made against him by the French Government, that at the time he re-commenced coercive measures he knew of the London Convention, and had been told that it would arrive in afew days. The French Government have

to M. Drouyn de Lheuys as meaning something else. And they are content to withdraw any imputation against Mr Wyse of having acted with a knowledge of that convention. Weil, be it ‘80 No doubt their letter to Baron Gros, by the Vauban, was dated the 12th of April, and the convention was only first proposed on een te ee een ta ——$———

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the 15th to Lord Palmerston. It is then difficult to understand how the Convention of London should be known in Athens by the Vauban. But there is something more to explain away than M de la Hitte’s letter to M. Drouyn de Lhuys. There is the Jetter of the correspondent of the Zimes, who states distinctly that Baron Gros communicated the fact of a convention being ex. | pected on the same day the Vauban arrived. The question js, || when did the Vauban leave Toulon ? The proposal of a conyen. || tion must have emanated from Paris on the 14th, and its accept- i ance known on the 16th. Was there, or not, time to telegraph its | substance to Toulon before the Vauban left? We do not suspect * M. de la Hitte. But it is clear the intelligence must have beep | conveyed by that steamer, if Baron Gros communicated the fact of a convention as stated by the Zunes’ correspondent on the 24th of April, as no such means of dealing with the case had ever || before been suggested. To make it plain, we again insert Mr Griffith's letter to Mr Wyse :—

“ Mr Griffith to Mr Wyse. “« (Extract.) ‘Athens, May 28, 1850, |

On looking over the newspapers brought by this day’s post | ‘* (unfortunately after the departure of to-day’s mail for England), || ‘‘ 7 was much struck by the passage in General Lahitte’s letter

recalling M. Drouyn de Lhuys from London, which says: ‘ This deplorable consequence has resulted therefrom : that at the ‘moment when a Convention negotiated directly, and defini-

“¢ tively agreed on between the Cabinets of Paris and London, “was on the point of arriving at Athens, where already the ‘* essential bases of it were known, Greece attacked afresh by ‘“* the naval forces of Great Britain, in spite of the energetic re- ‘¢ * monstrances made by the French Envoy, was obliged, in order “ * to escape complete ruin, to accept without discussion the clauses ‘ * of an ultimatum infinitely more rigorous.” But my astonish- ‘* ment was much greater on reading in the ‘ Times’ of the 5th of ‘* May, the letter from ‘its own correspondent’ at Athens dated “ the 2nd May, in which, after giving a translation of the Con- ‘‘ vention agreed to in London and Paris, he says: ‘ When the ‘* * French steam-frigate the ** Vauban” arrived at the Piraeus on

“the 24th of April, with a despatch from Baron Gros from his ** * Government, stating that the bases of the above Convention “«* had been already entered into by Lord Palmerston, M. Drouyn || ** ¢ de Lhuys, and Baron Brunnow, M. Gros at once wrote to Mr *** Wyse, communicating to him the intelligence he had received ‘+ from Paris, and begging him in the most earnest manner to ‘“* * suspend operations until he had received further instructions ** * from home.’

‘** T immediately called on Mr O'Brien, the correspondent of the * Times,’ and asked him where he had got the information just quoted. He replied, ‘ From Baron Gros, to be sure ; did he not

‘** * communicate to you the same intelligence, on the same day ? ‘** Surely he wrote to Mr Wyse immediately the ‘* Vauban” “ * arrived.’ * Certainly he did,’ I answered ; ‘ not only one note, ‘“** but three, did he write to Mr Wyse on that same day ; but not “* in one of them did heallude to a Convention having been agreed ‘*** upon in London and Paris for the settlement of the differences * * here; had he done so, he might be quite sure we should not ‘** have resumed coerceive measures, but have awaited the arrival ‘* * of the Convention ; indeed to-day is the first time we have had * * even an idea that the ** Vauban ” had brought such important ‘* ¢ intelligence.’ ”

Looking to these facts, and to all the others that have come to light, can any man entertain a reasonable doubt that there has been a conspiracy against England and English interests, to which the correspondent of the Times has been a party, and to which the protectionist party at home are now willing to lend them- |

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OUTRAGE ON THE QUEEN. Ir is with regret and indignation that we record an insulting outrage on Her Majesty. As she was leaving Cambridge House on Thursday in her carriage, a person, who turns out to be a Mr Pate, formerly a lieutenant in the 10th Hussars, struck her with a stick. He was instantly secured, and saved by the police from the summary chastisement the bystanders were eager to inflict on him. Whether he were drunk or mad, or in his sober senses, and resolved to obtain notoriety and a whipping we know not; _ the fool or madman is in the hands of the authorities, and will be dealt with as he deserves. It is more gratifying than to dwell on his crime, to notice that the dastardly outrage did but furnish another occasion for Her Majesty to display that courage and coolness for which she is eminently distinguished. As the blow reached her head, it deranged her bonnet, which Her Ma- jesty, without taking otherwise the least notice of the assault or betraying the least symptom of being pcrsoaally discomposed, immediately arranged, as if it had been put out of shape by accident, and the carriage passed on, while her Majesty was greeted by the hearty cheers of all present, and the ruffian was conveyed to prison amidst execrations. In the evening, as if intentionally to quiet all alarm on her account, Her Majesty appeared at the Opera, and the enthusiastic reception she met with from the vast assembly must have amply atoned for the outrage of one unfortu- nate or wicked person. The whole audience rose siniultancously

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|“ God Save the Queen” was sung with the greatest enthusiasm.

| Such 4 reception from the refined part of the population must have been very gratifying to her Majesty. We may even hope that

| she found in it a compensation for the attack, and might almost | welcome the scoundrel’s insult for the sake of the affectionate attachment and enthusiastic expression of loyalty it called forth from the assembly—a type and sign of the affectionate attachment

| and loyalty of the whole people. It is not possible, by any human contrivance, wholly to guard against such attacks ; all that

| we can hope for is, that the motives for them may be extin- _ guished by the evident attachment to the Queen, deservedly felt | and displayed by the vast majority of the nation.

SUNDAY POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS.

Tue more all irrelevant and extraneous matter can be stripped away from a question, the ecasicr is it to arrive at a fair decision. The propriety of stopping the transmission and delivery of letters on Sunday may be argued on very simple grounds. The whole discussion lies in a nutshell. Either the cessation of all work on aSunday is a matter of duty, or it is a matter of expediency.

| It is either a Divine ordinance, with which we have nothing to do but to obey it, or it is a question of advantage and disadvantage,

| of preponderating good and evil, on which human wisdom must decide according to its light.

If the Sabbath be a religious institution, binding at the present day, let it be religiously obeyed. If the inajority of Englishmen sincerely take this view of the subject, we bow to their decision as conclusive for them and for all public servants whom they appoint and govern. AJl we demand is what justice and religion both require—viz., that they should carry out their principles honestly and unflinchingly, indifferent alike to public mischief and to personal inconvenience. ‘Till they do this they can never really be certain whether these are their principles or not. A

| Divine law admits of no exceptions, and is not to be put aside | because frail and blind human intelligence shrinks from the con- | sequences of implicit obedience. poor, in public and private life, in danger and in safety.

It is binding alike on rich and Then

let us act accordingly; let us act consistently. Let the house- maid’s brush lie idle in her closet; let the kitchen fire be un- lighted on that day; let the footman, the scullion, and the cook have a day of real rest ; let it be penal to harness or to groom a horse; let the carriage of the rich, as well as the omnibus of the poor, remain undisturbed in the coach-house ; let the bishop and the countess walk decorously with their families to the parish church, and afterwards dine conscientiously on cold bread and meat placed upon the table by their own hands. Let the rich and the saintly show that comfort and convenience weigh as nothing in their minds when they clash with a Divine decree ; let it be made manifest to the world that the burdens of observance which they bind on other people’s shoulders, they are at least equally ready to take upon their own. But this is not all: the public service also must be suppressed one day in seven; no minister must open or answer a despatch upon the Sunday; the very administrators of this severe law must abstain from their ordinary functions; the electric telegraph must cease to work, even for the prevention or the pursuit of crime; the police have souls to be saved as well as others, and cannot be permittted to emperil them Dy a violation of the Sabbath ; society must be handed over to the tender mercies of ruffians and rogues; and Sunday must be allowed to become the very saturnalia of crime. We are not pushing our argument to an extreme: all these absti- nencies are forced upon us by a simple sense of justice and con- sistency, if the fourth commandment, prohibiting in the most unmistakable and peremptory language ali labour on the Sab- bath, be still extant and obligatory.

But if—as we hold, and as all, save a small minority admit when you press them hard and compel them to define their meaning and deliberately weigh their words—sabbatical observances are matters of human enactment, not of Divine decree ;—if the duty of abstinence from work on the Sunday rests on the basis of the public good, then the practical question we are called upon to decide, is simply this: What exceptions from this rule of abstinence the public good requires? We have now ‘ of mere d. ground beneath our fect. tions may be classed under three heads. In the first place, it is obvious that those parties, on the regular and unremitting dis- charge of whose functions the safety and good order of society depend, cannot be allowed to rest from their labour on the Sun- | day. Many of the State officials occasionally, and the officers of Justice always, must continue on duty. In order that Sunday may be a day of rest to society at large, it must be a day of

| labour to these servants of society. In the prompt detection and prevention of crime, the electric telegraph has now become | essential: the telegraph clerks therefore, some of them at least, | must be at their post on Sundays as on other days. | Next to the preservation of order and the security of life and

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and demanded the National Anthem ; the opera was stopped, and, | comfort and wellbeing of society.

got out of the region | eclamation and vague generalities, and begin to feel the |

Now, we think these needed excep- |

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It is very questionable whether a great portion of the Sunday can be more serviceably or more wisely spent than in family intercourse, more especially among the poor, whose avocations so much curtail this intercourse during the week. Of all social influences this will be admitted to be most powerful for good. Now, a very large portion of this intercourse is carried on by letter ; and the new postal arrangements forbid this intercourse one day in seven. How many families have members living at a distance, in illness or in sorrow, regarding whose condition they are tortured with anxiety which only a daily bulletin can relieve? How many children are sum- moned to the deathbed of parents by each Sunday’s post, who in consequence of the new arrangements will arrive too late? Few

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can have forgotten the painful case of the Duchess of Sutherland, | who, being detained upon the road for twelve hours by the regu- | lations of Scotch Sabbatarianism, found that her father had ex- | pired before shé could receive his blessing. Many such cases, we know, must now happen every week. Only two days ago a case | came to our knowledge in which a young lady knew that a letter | was lying in the post office all last Sunday to inform her whether | her father (who had been seized with sudden illness), was alive or dead. We will put the crucial question to Lord Ashley or to any one of his 93 supporters: if he were himself the victim of some accident or sudden malady, and felt that he had only a few hours to live, would he scruple to send off a special messenger to his wife to summon her to his bed-side? If not, then it must be evident to himself and to every one that, in preventing others from doing the same, he is not acting a just nor an honest part. Special messengers are for wealthy men: poor men and ordinary men must communicate by the public post or not at all. Nay, if such things can be measured by degrees, special messengers are a greater violation of the Sabbath than the regular transmission of the mail ;—in the one case each letter requires a whole man; in the other, a few men suffice to carry the messages of thousands

The third exception is to be found in those cases where the work of a few enables many thousands to spend their Sunday in the most agreeable and beneficial manner; where steam-boats | and omnibuses carry out of the smoke and dirt of great cities | countless numbers of tradesmen and artisans to whom the re- freshment of green fields and country air is inaces other day. The weekly sight of the beauties of Nature and the works of God cannot fail to have an influence on the minds of these children of toil which fully repays and sanctifies the amount

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of labour which a few of their fellow-citizens undergo in order to | procure it to them. needful and healthy recreations of the poor entail an incalculably smaller amount of Sunday occupation than the superfluous plea- sures of the rich. The great man’s carriage, with his two horses, his footman and his coachman, carries two, three, or four individuals to Richmond or the parks, the omnibu ys the opera- tives by twenties, and the steam-boat by hundreds at a time.

In all these three cases the principle is the same, and we think it an irrefragably sound one,—viz., that a few should perform certain necessary fuuctions on the Sunday, in or may yield to the greatest possible number the greatest possible amount of good. On this principle our whole social proceedings on the subject have hitherto been founded, and to except the

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HANKERING AFTER CUBA.

Some of the United States journals treat the Cuban affair as an injury to the United States. They inveigh against the duplicity practised by Lopez and his friends to deceive the brave men who adventured on the expedition. He is treated as an agent of the Spanish Government, and those who went with him on his pira- tical expedition are spoken of not as bucanneers or pirates, but as injured dupes. The American public scems more inclined to protect or reward than punish them, and would have had only

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property, the freedom of social intercourse and the transmission | of domestic intelligence is probably the most important to the

the feelings of people of the Southern States. A person of considerabl ritv, who has lately had great opportunities of studying the opinions of the Americans on this subject, assures us that the int tants of the Southern States, one and all, look on ¢ almost b-longing to them by right, and as certain to be th ind they are so impatient to possess it, that they scarcely bro |

of their own Government, and regard the project of revolutionising and conquering it as most meretorious. Their f come importance to us. Though their Governnient be now honestly

opposed to such projects, the time may come when a President of

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but make a pretext for attacking Spain, as Mr

Polk made one for attacking Mexico, and of wresting Cuba from

her.

Whatever may be the opinions of the inhabitants of the North- the rest of their

and regard the possession of Cuba as of great poli-

tical importance, while the inhabitants of the Southern States are

quite intent on having the island. The Mexican war has given a

spur to their ambition. They believe that nothing could with-

stand their present power; and foresecing, from their recent

rapid growth, their future greatness, they fancy they can hasten

it by military exploits. They measure their power rather by the

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extent of their territory and the number of their people than by

| the amount of their present army and navy; and believe, when-

ever a case requires their exertions, they will be able to raise a mi-

litary and naval force capable of astonishing the world. On the

point of ambition they are nearly all alike. They have promul-

gated the principle, that no European power ought to hold terri-

tory in America; they include the islands in their description,

and would seize Cuba as a means of carryiug out their principle.

They say it would make for them an admirable naval depot.

It commands the Gulf of Mexico. It is, as steam navigation is

now used, only a short distance from their own shores,

and not more than 640 miles from New Orleans. They

have no good ports in that quarter, and Cuba would in this

respect be to them an important means both of defence and aggression. They look on it as a position whence they can go further, and enable them in the end, should circumstances continue favourable, to unite the whole of the West Indies to their republic. Ambition, conquest, the seizure of territory, has ever been dear to the heart of man; as yet it is little restrained by any moral teaching, or any forcible convictions of the injuriousness of national glory, and the Americans have as much of this passion as any of the sonsof Adam. Every one of them is in this respect an Alexander. They are becoming a nation of kings or emperors seeking to extend their dominion.

In addition to the ordinary motives of ambition, common to them all, the planters of the South have strong pecuniary motives for coveting the possession of Cuba. In Cuba, says our informant, | the price of a slave is not more than 400 dollars, in the United States the price is 1,200, and the cost of the slave, in the planter’s estimation, is the most important clement in the manufacture of sugar. The American planter therefore who regards Cuba as a splendid field for the investment of capital, particularly for the cultivation of sugar, supposes that if he could work his own negroes there, while the foreign slave trade was suppressed, that the disadvantage of the Cuba competition would be annihilated ; he would have the rich soil of the island at his own disposal, and would rapidly make a large fortune. He contemplates the aboli- | tion of the African slave trade as the consequence of annexing | Cuba to the United States, and he holds that forth to the Northern | States and to England as a philanthropic motive for the former | promoting and the latter acquiescing in the annexation. At the | same time he thinks there would be an additional security against | the abolition of slavery in the States by annexing Cuba, which | might otherwise at some time imitate the example of the English | islands. He is satisfied he could preserve there, as at home, his | own system, if he can keep far away the contagion of example and | the voice of justice. He believes he could preserve slavery, while he would be protected against the consequences of the slave trade ! in which unholy traffic he is not allowed to engage, by uniting | Cuba with the States.

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Of course the planters are also desirous of strengthening their | political power in the contest with the north by adding another Slave State to the Union. The Northern States might object to it, but their opposition would be neutralised by their ambition. Already people from all parts of the Union have planted themselves in Cuba, or they have commercial relations with it; and they are annoyed by restrictions on their settling, by passports, and by many vexatious laws. They are aware that they cannot avoid these as long as the island remains subject to Spain; and those who are already resident, urge their countrymen forward in the career of annexation as a means of abolishing restrictions. Thus notions of liberty, a semblance of philanthropy, strong covetousness, and lordly ambition, all unite in the Americans to make them regard Cuba as destined to be their own.

Assuming that our informant and the American newspapers do not misrepresent the views and desires of the Americans, we may inquire what will be the consequence. At present General Tay- lor resists the desired consummation. He has ordered Lopez to be prosecuted ; and he never countenanced the expedition, which was concocted in secret to escape his observation. But General Taylor may, next presidential election, be succeeded by General Cass. It is the opinion of many well informed Americans, that

| had the latter now been President, the expedition of General Lopez would have been encouraged and assisted, and Cuba would | now have been deluged with blood or annexed to the States. | It is, however, quite certain that if the public opinion of the States be now in favour of the annexation of Cuba, and continue in tavour of it, the time is not far distant when a President will be eleeted who will undertake to give it effect. In the States the Government is the creature of the popular will, and must do its

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bidding. For the contingencies of a President willing to effect to the general ambition and cupidity, which involves consi= derable danger to our political powers, it is our duty to provide, As yet public opinion in the States is not ripe for the outrage ; the Government is opposed to the annexation ; and it is now our business to strengthen its hands, and strengthen the opinion that exists against the annexation. The Americans are not insensible to the voice of Europe; and were the public here fairly and honestly to denounce such spoliation, setting forth the disad- vantages to the Americans themselves of extending their territory over more Slave States, losing, in proportion as they extend it, that freedom which distinguishes them from other people, and becoming only a community of arrogant lords and debased workmen, making their country no longer fit for the residence of Europeans, and excluding from it all the supplies that now so rapidly hasten its progress, there would be a possibility of im- pressing more moderation on the Americans. The principles of morals, and the natural laws which determine the welfare of mankind, are the same on both sides of the Atlantic. We have had experience of the injuriousness of conquests ; and though from their practices the Europeans can searcely speak to their American brethren authoritatively on this point, they may warn them that such ambitious designs carry vast misery in their train. As the rule, men can only be restrained from gratifying their own passions by being shown that the gratification will be an injury to themselves,—even if that can restrain them; but a zest is given to the gratification when it is merely spoken of as an injury to the political power of others. To terrify the Americans from their presumed designs, they must be convinced that success | would lead to disunion and corruption, and be destructive of their own greatness and happiness. It is clear, from the nature of the American Government, that we can only effect any good on this point by informing the people.

Another branch of this subject—What the Creoles of Cuba contemplate? which our correspondent also refers to, we must postpone till next week.

THE GROWTH OF BEETROOT SUGARS IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM. |

We have been favoured with official returns from the Govern- | ments of France and Belgium, showing the quantities of beetroot | sugar produced and consumed in the former country in each of | the last nine years, and produced in the latter in each of the last seven years. In France the quantity of land under this cultivation |

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was, in each of the years in question, as follows :— | Hectares,*

NOEL siersbvnitnecsiinnnsnnitiinncnamiapineitiiiaiinineiions 19,808 1342 .resseces ee 16,804 — aueeien 7417 ROOK ioitesmetavesicenceincnel 18,894 } ME cana = 25,119 BORE cccncnvensseens oh 25,047

1547 seescreseres eve 29,867 1548 ...ceee0 ee 19,192 | 1849 scccccecee weceesenseccosessoos Ls19nenee see envesecesccesersoes 26,679 |

‘ * A bectare is equal to 2 acres, ! rood, 35 perches.

A theory has been widely circulated for some months past, for the purpose of accounting for the large surplus of wheat which has been produced in France during the last two years, that a great reduction in the enltivation of sugar has left much more |

Such, however, is evidently not the case. The assumption has arisen from the fact, that in 1848 the excise duty chargeable on beetroot sugar became equalised under the gradual approximation, provided for by the laws of 1840 and 1845, with that chargeable on colonial sugar ; and it was inferred that in consequence the production of the former would entirely cease, or nearly so. It is true that in 1848 the production fell off, but in 1849 it again increased, and, so far as we can learn, | the production of 1850 will be still considerably more. Already, indeed, the land cultivated in 1849 exceeds that of any former | year whatever, with the solitary exception of 1847. So far there is, therefore, no evidence that the beetroot sugar of France will not be able permanently to compete with that of the colonies, | though chargeable with equal duties.

The number of beetroot sugar manufactories in France, in each of the years referred to, was as follows :—

Fabriques. 1841 2. cocccesee $00 sor savenecee soe cescoascsaseres cocccecccesosee cor ecsesncesessone 380 1842 373 18:3 324

1844 289 1845 303 1846 296 1847 306 1848 - 283 i849 0 000 SOD eOC CDEC OL CEs O00 00Ced LN Ee 000 000 cEs o00 000 600000 ERs OneeSs Coe ce 288

In these figures there is a very instructive and significant fact. It will be seen that while in 1841 there were only 19,808 hectares in cultivation, which produced 26,842,000 kilogrs of sugar, the number of factories was 386, while in 1849 when the cultivation extended to 26,679 hectares, there were only 288 manufactories. It thus appears that with the gradual removal of protection between 1841 and 1848, larger capitals have been employed in the trade, and as is well known new and improved methods of manufacture have been introduced, which larger capitals alone could have effected ; and we are assured that by these means alone has

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Kilogs. Tons. Kilogs. Tons. 1841 esoore §=626,842,000 or 2',842 27,162,000 or 27,162 1842 seceee 34,254,000 34,204 35,070,900 35,070

{ 1813 sseove 28,445,000 28,445 29,1°5,010 29,155 TB44 sesoee 30,563,000 30,563 32,075,006 32,075

| 1845 see 37,019,000 37,019 35,132,°05 25,132 B846 sevens 49,115,000 49,115 46,845.000 46,845 1847 seveoe 60,169,000 60,109 52,369,000 52.369

| 1848) wveoe 56,281,000 56,281 48,103,000 48,163 | 1849) sce 44,551,000 44,551 43,793,' 00 43,793

We'have taken 1,000 kilogs to the ton, as being sufficiently near to indicate the quantities in English weights.

In Belgium the quantity of beetroot sugar produced in cach of the last seven years were as follows :—

{| Beersoot SUGAR PRODUCED—BELGiUM. | Excise duty charged.

1 | Kilogs. Tons. fr. per 100 kilogs. || 1843—4t Ee ne 1 1844—45 = ~~ | 1845—46 2,455,351 2,435 - 20

j 1846—47 4,799,717 4,299 ox. oe 1847—45 5,700,263 5,709 ose ee 34 1848—19 4,658,932 4,558 49 1849—50 5,600,357 §,690 . eo 37

By this it appears that notwithstanding the increase of duty and the near approximation to equality with that of all foreign sugars, the cultivation is rapidly increasing.

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In reply to a * Liverpool Correspondent” last week, we stated _ the present and fature duties on sugar. Our attention has been

| called to an inaccuracy which was made in the heading of one , of the scales of duty there given, that for sugar imported from colonies having the privilege of importing sugar. For clearness’

| sake we now re-print the scales entire :-— | On SvuGar, the growth and produce of any British Possession, per cwt. | White Mo-

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July 5, 1851, to July 5, 1852..... 2 @..a Fe 6... M6 we 8 8 4 ¢ July 5, 1*52, to July 5, 1853...... 11 6 12 5 13 5 we 16 4 14

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TERRITORIAL AGGRANDISEMENT. Lanp in this country is esteemed for two peculiar qualities : for its steady and permanent value ; and secondly, for the social distinction and influence its possession confers on the proprietor.

| The former quality is a sterling and substantial one, the latter is in a great degree imaginary and factitious. At a period not very remote the possessors of land were the chief if not the exclusive

| representatives of permanent wealth, and a sort of traditional | sentiment that to own land is to be wealthy still exists amongst / us. Oflate, however, it has only been the class of new landowners | of the first or second generation who can be deemed wealthy. that is possessed of large and unineumbered incomes ; while the

owning classes. In point of social rank, the owner of land is | pre-eminent, He has a territorial influence, not altogether de- pendent on his real wealth, but as the administrator of property which affords much opportunity for the exercise of a controlling power over others. He can accept, displace, or accommodate a

ployment of the local peasantry ; he has a constant demand for |, the services of local professional meu, tradesmen, and others; and

his territorial rights may often be made obnoxious or otherwise to the inhabitants of his vicinity, according to the manner in which those rights are asserted or enjoyed. Then he is the justice of the peace, the grand juryman, and occasionally the sheriff of his county. He also exercises considerable political influence on the county elections. And all these social advantages are in a great measure independent of the wealth or poverty of the landowner, rovided his estate be of considerable extent. Whether his

income be his own, or whether he is a proprietor in name only, receiving rents to pay them over as interest on incumbrances, he can still enact the landed magnate in most of the particulars we have mentioned. Up to the hour when his utter and hopeless

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numerous tenantry; he can affect directly or indirectly the em- |

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the production not only kept up but greatly increased. The fol | insolvency was proclaimed to the world the Duke of Buckingham

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enjoyed, if such a term is applicable, all this territorial power ; and there are many extensive landowners exercising similar influence, who are notoriously embarrassed or insolvent.

Much of this influence depends on the aggregation of a large

quantity of land under the control of one individual ; and such | is the seductive effect of the possession of power, that real wealth, comfort, and respectability are constantly sacrificed to attain it. Hence the ambition amongst our aristocraticclass to maintain, and amongst our wealthy classes to found a family—that is, to secure a large landed estate in the hands of the head of the family. In the one case, acre is added to acre by means of borrowed money, to the loss of bencticialincome and real wealth; inthe other, a vast tract is purchased and retained, without improvement, for the sake of attaining at once the position of a landed grandee, rather than by | a judicious combination of purchase and improvement to make such investment in land as will give a reasonable and secure income upon the outlay. It is difficult to listen with becoming gravity to the statements we sometimes hear, that Mr So-and-So, the great capitalist—who has, perhaps, an eye to the peerage— is anxious to lay out large sums of money in land, and has several persons employed in making inquiry after eligible purchases, but cannot find enough land to suit him; for we know well enough that the largest capitalist might soon find investments in land amply sufficient to absorb his capital if he would first buy land, and then put it in a fit state for immediate and profitable occupation. But, then, perhaps, he could not get a great mass of Jand altogether ; he could not at once become the owner of a territory. And it is not a little remarkable—and it forcibly illustrates the injurious social influence of the desire for territorial aggrandisement which exists in this country—that the new landowner by purchase, the aristocrat by affiliation, is at least as eager for entail- ing the estate by settlements, and is as indifferent to improvements, as the twentieth representative of a territorial family. It was Thellusson, the money-lending jewel merchant, who demonstrated the degree in which our law formerly permitted property to be rendered useless for generations, and whose will produced the well-known ** Thellusson Act,” which limits the power of accumu- lation to twenty-one years after the death of the possessor.

Now, the factitious value attached to land under what we may designate the territorial system, is not only inconsistent with the management of landed property as the source of a steady or im- proving income, but is the cause of many and enormous social and economical evils. Looking at the actual condition of the land—we mean agricultural land—in this country, it will be seen that in order to render it most productive as property, that is giving the best income, the owner must have available capital beyond that which his land represents. ‘To take a well known instance: Lord Ducie’s farm at Whitfield, in Gloucestershire, a small dairy farm of 240 acres let at 200/ a year, by the outlay of about 8,0002 in clearing the land of trees and fences, draining, fencing, subsoiling, and making roads, bridges, and buildings, has been converted into one of the most productive and complete arable

farms in this country, and returns to the landlord his original rent, together with an increased reut equivalent to 5/ per cent per annum on his outlay in the improvement. And this increased income is far more secure than the smaller income from the unimproved farm. And though in this instance the proportion the outlay in improvement bears to the original value of the farm is large, there

is nothing extravagant or extraordinary in it. the land in England might be protitably improved by outlays equally large in proportion to the present value of the land. But if instead of an outlay of between 302 and 40/ per acre as at Whitfield, one

of from 10/ to 15/ per acre should be found suflicient to effect some of the most essential improvements in farming land, where

the large estates who would not declare even

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is the head of the family, and has a certain rank and station to support in his county, perchance in parliament; he las all the expenses incident to the management of a large estate, of which perhaps

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territorial system has involved him, It will require a —- :

| system, and an abandonment of the suicidal policy of holding ann

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system of our landed proprietors has inflicted on other classes of

‘the community, and will suggest means for modifying the evils of

| that system uutil the time shall come, which we trust will not be

| distant, when the landowners will be w ise cnough to abandon it

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| SCARCITY AND CRIMINALITY. | FRANCE AND GERMANY.

Tue intimate connection between scarcity and criminality, or

|, between abundance of food and a diminution of crime, to which

| we adverted last week as manifested in England, is also visible

‘in France. The harvest of 1846 was a failure ; the French Go-

'! vernment took extraordinary measures, without adequate success,

|! to keep down the price of food, and 1847 was in France a year of distress and suffering. We have said before, and now repeat,

| that the sufferings then experienced by the French exasperated

the contrast between the condition of the bulk of the people and

of the governing classes, and contributed to the revolution of 1848.

If the harvest of 1846 had been as abundant as the harvest of

1849, which has been favourable to Louis Napoleon, the Te-

|| public might have been postponed, and Louis Philippe might

| have died King of the French. It was otherwise ordered, and

-' the revolution ot 1848 seems to have been expressly sent to warn '' those who are insensible to ordinary events, that they cannot ' push their arbitrary schemes of government to an extreme point

without bringing on society, whenever an unfavourable season ‘| occurs, the greatest calamities. Before 1847, France was groan-

ing under restricted trade, and much too onerous taxation—under _ the arbitrary system of a soldier administered by a pedant—and the distress felt in that year, exasperating all the evils of such a

' Government, hurried on the revolution, which broke it to pieces. , Now in that year the increase of criminality was as remarkable | in France as in England :— 1] Compa:ed with the two preceding years (says the Minister of Justice ina

report just addressed to the President of the Kepublic) the year 1847 presents a | @onsiderable increase in crime. In 1846, for example, the courts of assize tried

5,077 cases und 6,908 accused ; in 1845, 5,054 cases and 6,685 accused ; whilst | in 1547 there were 5,857 cases and 8,704 accused. In 1847, then, there was,

|; Compared with the two preceding years, au increase of about 800 cases, that is 16 per cent; or one-sixth ; and of 1,900 accused, or 28 per cent, or nearly three- tenths. Siuce 1825, when the accounts of criminal justice wire first published, it is 1847 which presents the greatest number of accusations and accused ; the years 1845 and 1846 are, on the contrary, those in which the number descended the lowest. The 5,857 eccuvations were divided into 1,622 crimes agniust the

' person, and 4,235 against property ; 2,102 accu-ed (24 per cent) were implicated in the former, and 6,612 (76 per ceu!) in the latter. This makes the increa-e in the crimes against the person 12-bundredths, and against property 31-hun- dredths. The small increase in the number cf accused of crimes against the person comp. ises «lmost all descriptions of crimes of that category, but more particularly assasina'ion, false'testimony, and infanticide. Amongst the accused of crimes against property, fraudulent bunkrupts alone were less numerous than in 1846. The accused of all other descriptions of crime against properly increased in a manner wore or less sensible. Thus highway soblerics increased 52 per cent, and certain other descriptions of robbery 26 per cent. There were

_, al30 530 persons accused of the pillage of corn and flour, whilst the annual average | number of such offenders from 1841 to 1846 did not exceed 20, In 1847, there was for #11 France 1 accused for every 4,967 inhabitants; in 1846, there was 1 in 5,125 ; and Lin 5,296 in 1845. It is worthy of remark that the number cf women tried annually before the Courts of Assize is very restricted, compared to that of men. In 1847, out of 8,704 accused, only 1,424 were women, that is & little Jess than a sixth, or 164 per 1,000 ; in 1846 the proportion was 169 per 1,000, aud in 1845, 171. In 1847 a notable increase is remarked in the number of totally uneducated accused ; it is 55 per cent of the whole, and in 1846 it was only 52 per cent and in 1845, 51. In what sre called “offences,” which are tried by the Tribunals of Correctional Police there is also a considerable augmentation. In 1846 the number of cases before these iribunals was 161,376, and of accused 207,476 ; in 1847 there were 184,922 cases, and 289,291

, accused. This makes an increase of 23.546 cases, aid 31,815 accused, or about 15 per cent of bo h. The iucrease must be ascribed to the bad harvest of 1846, and to the disiress which ensued. The same cause led to an increase in the number accused of mendicity from 3,916 in 1845 to 5,272 in 1846, and 10,646 in 1847; of vagabouds, feom 4,074 1. 1845 to 5.004 in 1846, and 6,231 in 1847 ; and of accused of simple robbery from 26.257 in 1845 to 31,768 in 1847.

Great crimes, therefore, petty crimes, and vagrancy, all increased conziderably in France in 1847, without a rapid increase of population to justify some increase of criminality, as in Eng- land; and there the increase is clearly traced to a deficiency of the supply of food. That year was, morally as well as numeri- cally, the parent of 1848. For the preservation of Government. as well as the mere satisfaction of physical wants, abundance is necessary. On that the existence of the State and the well-being of the people depend, and we rejoice to see it recognised iu some documents published in Germany, as well as by the Minister of Justice in France, as it has heretofore been by the Registrar- General in England. “ Where every man,” says the Free Trade Society of Stettin, in a declaration dated the 14th inst., “ finds

, * the means of living, all readily unite to support a system, in |, * maintaining which all have an interest, because all are prosper- | ‘ous under it. Wherever the large

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[June 29, “‘ contrary, by the greatest exertions can scarcely obtain the scan. ‘ tiest means of subsistence, and have no enjoyment to reconcas “them to their wearisome toil, the settlement of unavoidable con- “ flicts becomes extremely difficult. Between the condition of “ those who easily obtain abundance, whether from their propert

or from peculiar professional skill, and the condition of those ‘who, by severe manual labour, have to seek a very scanty and “ precarious subsistence, the difference is so striking, that sym- “pathetic minds are much affected, and driven to think of the “ means of establishing equality.”

Where there is abundance for all, terrible inequality, the source of so much danger, cannot exist. One man cannot consume much more food than another, and when all have plenty of food that it is differently prepared according to the taste of different persons is an unimportant matter. Nearly every other enjoyment is contingent on abundance; with that every thing else merely ornamental may be easily had, and cannot be had without it, Every line of policy which does not ultimately or immediately adq to the quantity of food at the command of society is worthless, every line of policy which decreases it is mischievous. On the quantity of food depends the number of the people, and they are virtuous or vicious, civilised or barbarous, as they can command a constant and abundant supply. On that depends division of labour, on that depends skill, on that depends knowledge ; ‘and | though abundance is by no means every requisite to social welfare, |

yet it is the prime requisite, and without that there can be no other enjoyments and no safety.

What has the Government of France, to which so severe a. lesson was read in 1848, done since that period to secure abun-— dance for the French? Nothing. It cannot create food, it cannot even buy it, for it has no means of purchase but taxation, which | is levied on the people: it can only remove the obstacles placed, by foolish legislation, in the way of the people procuring abun- | dance for themselves ; but it has not removed one. All its taxes, all its restrictionsare continued. Some of them have been augmented, So it is in other countries. None of the Governments of the continent have either lessened taxation or removed restrictions. They propose to wait apparently till another failure of a harvest | shall inerease habitual distress, and place in fearful contrast the well-being of the governing classes with well assured incomes, and the destitution of the governed, and give double force to revolution and to communism.

The mercantile classes of Stettin, and probably of other parts | of Germany, are sensible of that, and sensible that society has much to dread from Government not carrying into effect the ex- | pected abolition of restrictions. In addition to the address of the Stettin Free Trade Association already mentioned, the mercantile | classes of that city have forwarded an address, numerously signed, | to the chiefs of the city, and by them it has been sent to the | Prussian Minister, backed by an urgent demand for attention to it. | They say, * They thought themselves justified in relying on the |

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* King’s Government not to allow the proper time for making a * change in the tariff of the Zollverein to pass by without doing ** justice to the often and urgently expressed wishes of two such ‘* jmportant classes of Prussians as the agriculturists and the | “merchants by lowering the protecting duties, which fall so | *‘ heavily on trade and agriculture. They sce themselves, how- ‘* ever most bitterly deceived. Instead of the reforms in the sense “they hoped for, they are met by propositions, some of which | “openly avow the intention of still further impeding the im- | * portation of those articles for which foreigners take in exchange , ** the products of our soil; and others of which look to a very “doubtful increase of the export of our home manufactures to | * be purchased by a certain waste of the public wealth.” The | Prussian Government, like the other Governments of the continent—instead of taking measures for removing the impediments which the protective system has laid in the way of the industry of | its subjects, and so enabling them to insure abundance for them- , selves—is continuing its old restrictions, and is enhancing them. | It is making itself an obstacle to the progress and well-being of | the people ; as they increase in number that obstacle will become | great and glaring, and, if not removed, will in the end again pro- | voke insurrection. The great secret of all good Government | is to enable the people to secure their own welfare by their own | honest industry. Prosper they must in order to live; that is || their nature ; and if a Government prevent them from prospering, | they have no other alternative but to perish or destroy it. The criminal returns of Europe, and the desolate condition of Asia, speak the same truth. For Government to be safe, its subjects must be prosperous; and for the sake of domestic happiness and social order they must be free to earn their own bread by their own honest industry.

LOUIS PHILIPPE’S CIVIL LIST. Tue recent proposal to augment the revenue of the President of the French Republic has revived the interest in the expense of the monarchy. It has been appropriately observed, that the Pre- sident, succeeding a royal family which has been expending upwards of 700,000/ a-year, finds himself in an invidious position. He is compared to his predecessor, and is blamed for not showing

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The income of the crown, exclusive of the allowances and private property of the Duchess of Orleans and some of the Princes, on the average of the 18 years of the Orleans dynasty, amounted to 15,400,000 francs, or about 740,000/ a-year. Of this erormous revenue on/y 600/ a-year was assigned by the king for his personal service, and 400/ a-year for his personal expenses; 4,900] a-year for the queen’s establishment, and 30,000/ a year for the princes and princesses, exclusive of journies, The establishments of the palace were on a magnificent scale —-17,0001 a-year for the household of the Tuileries ; 50,0001 a-year for the table ; 38,0001 a-year for the stables, with about 310 horses, and 11,0001 more for the stud and field sports; 17,0001 a-year for washing, 21,000/ for lighting, &c. The royal manufactures of Sevres, Gobeling, and Beauvais, whose productions were destined for presents, cost 50,000/ a-year. These expenses alone, amounting to about 500,0007 a-year, were not susceptible of material reduction. The enter- tainments, presents, and journies of the Royal Family cost about 50,0001 more. The charities of the King 42,000/ a-yesr, and of the Queen, 18,0002 without reckoning those of the Princes. In patronage of the arts, subscriptions to literary worke, purchase of works of art:, and architectura! embellishments of the domains of the Crown, the King annually expended upwerds of three millions and a-half of francs, or about 140,000/ a-year, during his whole reign :—the whole of the property thus collected and coustructed, which had cost not much lees than three millions sterling, has of course passed into the possesrion of the State, and become the property of the nation The result ofthese munificent expences was, that the Civil List was exceeded by about 30,000] a-year, and that the Royal property was left cherged with a debt of 600,0001.

The personal expenses of the monarch and his family did not exceed 40,000/ a-year, and the 700,000/ was appropriated to the Royal State, the patronage of the arts, &c. ‘The money was expended, not for the comfort of the monarch, but to gratify ex- pectant artists of various kinds, and reward them as necessary to the splendour of the State. The money was appropriated for mere outward show. If the individuals who were sustained by the royal expenditure were not the foes of royalty, the classes to which they belong, and which continually demand more similar expenditure, were the foremost in overthrowing the monarch. They wanted a greater share of that expenditure. The idea, we believe, present in general to the minds of those who expend large sums in patronising the arts by building palaces and adorning them with pictures and statues, and on such works, is, that thereby artists of every kind will be encouraged, and will be the supporters of the monarch and the monarchy. The reverse seems to be the case. The appropriation attracts an undue number of persons to follow the arts as a means of subsistence, and more of them are offended than gratified with every application of the royal bounty. They are more envious of the individuals who obtain it than gratified for the appropriation to the class; thus the measures adopted to secure their approbation and support make them discontented. Literary men and artists, it is the common boast, are more thought of and better taken care of in France than in England ; and literary men and artists were amongst the most formidable opponents of the monarchy and the most ardent revolutionists.

THE STOPPAGE OF THE POST ON SUNDAYS.

Tue stoppage put to collecting and delivering letters on Sundays is making itself felt in numerous inconveniences and complaints in many parts of the kingdom. We must quote a few examples. Mr W. Chambers, writing from Glenormiston, Peeblesshire, says,—

In many parts of Scotland people travel six, eight, and even ten miles to church, or to the meeting-house of their choice; and on such occasions, a call at the post office for letters which may have arrived for them during the past week is a regularly performed duty, How these people—shepherds, ploughmen, farmers, and others living far away among the hills are to get their letters without monstrous inconvenience, if the post office is to be entirely shut on Sunday, I cannot possibly imagine. In the part of the country in which I re- side, parties walk upwards of six miles to churc!), and after divine service call at the post office for letters. It would not be difficult to get up petitions from persons placed in these circumstances, urging the impropriety of the proposed measure ; but why should quietly disposed people be obliged to take any such step? They of couree look to the common sense of the government to protect them against all sorts of oppression, and this among others.

“The grievance,” it is added by another writer, “will be felt over all the rural districts of Scotland.” A newsagent writes,— The shop which I now conduct has been carried on by myself and my father

for above 30 years. In conjunction with a respecta! le Lookselling and printing business we have car.ied on an extensive newspaper agency, but during the whole of that time we have never sold a newspaper or as much as a sheet of post on a Sunday. As in the case of other respectable country newsmen, our Sunday papers were addressed by a London agent dir ct to the subscribers, and we visited them quarterly for the cash. Now, I must surrender this branch of my business, which I cannot afford, or commence Sunday trader; and I have been obliged, from the competition of others, to engage t rly three messengers to deliver ona Sunday morning the London papers to my subscribers, The other newspaper agents are doing the same thing; so we shall have nowon a Sunday mcra- ing 10 or 12 newsmen at the least running about the town delivering and hawk- ing papers, while four letter carriers have hitherto delivered all the letters and newspapers for the whole town, and in much less time. Another matter to be borne in mind is that a new branch of active Sunday traffic is opened, as our walls are placarded with the addresses of competing agents, announcing the delivery of papers on a Sunday morning; and there is scarce'y an inn or beer-

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707 house in the town but has been canvassed to tuke a Sunday paper under this new and puritanical regime,

An attorney at Cambridge complains,— Yesterday being the fir-t day upon which the Sunday delivery of letters wis

prohibited, I had naturally enoug': expected to enjoy an eutire day’s rest from all secular oecupation, but I found myself favoured with two lette:s sent to me (»y country clients whose legal businesa required attention) by special messengers. Tam one of xbout 30 attorneys living in this town, and if each of my profeesional neighbours had one special despatch only, then we shall find 30 persons kept from church, in o der to relieve two carriers and three letter sorters from the performance of a few hours’ duty, in respect of which they are paid,, and for which the whole country is taxed. Ifthe s‘ate of legal business in this quiet neighbourhood require such attention as I have referred to, kow much more important and inconvenient will the change be felt in more business-stirring counties,

The following facts are communicated in letters to the Times :— Sir,—I have been most anxious to receive the next letter from adear friend

and relative now t:avelling in Scotland. Ife wou!d, I calculate, arrive at a certain town in the Western Highlands, 50 or 60 miles from Glasgow, on Satur- day aft-raoon last. The London post leaves that town at noon, and will have lefc before he urrives, Sunday. His letter will be forwarded on Monday noon, and, whatever may be his health, or the necessities of the case, it will not reach me till Taesday after-

Too late for Satur lay’s post, he now cannot write on ||

noon, or, more likely, Weduesday morning. By rail, through Glasgow, I could | reach the epot in 20 hours. F.om my friend’s arrival there to the time at which | | I may get his letter the time consumed must be 96, an’ may be 1/5 hours! If this is to continue, do we not pay too dearly for Post-ofli e managewent ?

A lad, a gentleman’s servant, in this villaze received this morcing a leiter informing him that his father broke his thigh in two places while working in a | quarry near Stroud, on Saturday last, and was conveyed to the Gloucester In- | | firmary, where he lies ina dangerous state, anxiously desiring to see his son. Had it not been fer the late unchristian measure which passed the House of Commons, he would have received the letter yesterday, and thas the poor suf- ferer (if still living) has to thank the Judaizing section of that House for 24 hours of prolonged and fruitless anxiety and disappointment.—Bourton-on-the | | Water, Jane 25.

From Bristol we are told,— The altered postal arrangements in reference to Sundays have formed a sub-

ject of general conversation in that city, especially in the commercial circles. The general feeling is that it offers to» great an interruption to mercantile pur- suite, and occasions too much inconvenience generally, to be tolerated as a permanent arrangement.

Other examples might be quoted of the way the arrangement is working : we must, however, content ourselves with a specimen or two of the manner in which it is defeated :—

The London newsagen's have received ‘a great number of orders from the country to stop weekly pipers which used to be delivered by the Sunday morning’s post. London on SaturJay by the day mails, but as they did not contain th: latest postcripts, and as most of those fur rural districts will not be delivered until this (Monday) morning, it is most probable that the eale of the weekly papers will decline considerably. A great number of the country newspaper proprietors who publish on Saturday have commenced preparations for a Sunday morning delivery of their papers in rural districts by private messengers, It is expected that the railway companies will find it neces-ary to cause a Sunday parcels delivery. The London and South Western Railway Company have volunteered, pending more complete arrangements, to receive at the Waterloo station, and forward to any station on the line, on p:yment of one penny, newspapers addressed to private individuals, and directed to be lefc till called for.

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lation, and they are only postponed because it is felt that the stoppage of the delivery of letters and papers on Sunday cannot be continued. The gentlemen who have carried this measure will now learn from facts that their principle involves an imprac- ticability. If we remember the origin of the old practices cor- rectly, they might have known it beforehand. The commencement of Sunday deliveries was a matter of necessity. One gentleman expected a communication, and he called on the reluctant postmaster, perhaps an acquaintance, to deliver it ; another under similar circumstances did the same ; others followed the example, and favours granted to some could not be withheld from others. A ship was about to sail on Sunday, and some officer called for her letters before she departed; how could he be refused? Another arrived after a long voyage on the Sunday, and all her crew were eager to get news from their friends. How could the postmaster withhold from them for an hour the letters that were lying waiting their arrival? A merchant expected a remittance that might save him from bankruptcy. Was the letter to be detained, and he kept on the rack of uncertainty for twenty-four hours? ITm- possible. Out of such necesities as these, and not from any desire to violate the Sabbath, or minister in any way to improper pursuits, the practice of a Sunday delivery of letters came into use. Founded on them, it cannot be altered, and those who act against it will be defeated. The present consequences of their attempt to lessen labour on Sunday is to increase it, and to increase labour altogether, by putting a stop to one method of abridging it. They inflict immense inconvenience on the people to secure a great violation of the Sabbath.

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districts, as regards improvements in the arts of agriculture, so much

yet remains to be done, affords matter for much reflection, and sug

the necessity for large alterations in our system of land

which Jand is, is seldom sufficiently attended to by takers of land ; that condi. tion is a much more important element in judging of its value than the mere agricultural capabilities of the soil ; that land out of cultivation cannot be 1

ests > iarily productive in one course of rotation ; |

Salenaanatehs The Scotch farmer remarks on the marshes of Suffolk: ee oro srunedl tas tneiilegt ants Sarkar farmers i

Here and there are to be seen a windmill, and in oneor twoinstances a steam Does not this speak volumes as to the absolute necessity of a lease | |

engi: e, to pump the water out of the lev lx, but these are quite inadequate for to the tenant-farmer’s success 2 j

the purpose. The erection of proper steam engines, with the necessary levels And, as is natural, the Lothian farmer was struck with the defi- || * _— ne PD nd n hic of "EE " z .

for the water, would not cost beyond one pound per acre, w veh, with a yearly cient education of the Suffolk labourers. He says,— : ture of about two shillings per ecre would render them in all respects y : |

Se coaanatenaul thy quality f the soil would at l-ast equal our best an As regards education among the farm labourers, I found it to be most lament- |

lands. The importance of proper drainage here does not rest simply on ine eas- ably deficient, and parents careless, or rather hostile as to the instruction of i

: ' iuc mowers of the soil, but becomes a sanitary question. When their children. The evidence of the parish registers as to the numbers who can

a ee awe Sar ne erwise attend | Sign their names cannot be taken asa eure criterion that they are able to read

to their sanitsry condition, why sould these marshes be pira .4 to remain | 80.88 to understand what they do read, Upon endeavouring to enforce upon —

to generate disease in the country. The sickly look of the neighbouring ‘hhabi- | the mothers the benefit- resulling from education, and the advantages arising

tants shows how prejudicial t\ey are to the neighbourhood, and upon inquiry, | from it to their families even with the view of forwarding their worldly interests,

I found that fever, ague, diseases of the chest, rheumatiems, &c., prevail so much | I was met with the answer, that if their children were to gain their bread by

at certain eea-ons that they might be almost classed under the bead of recurring working with their hands, they could not see any advantage arising from their

diseases. Upon further inquiry 1 found that plura among the cattle had been being able either to read or write. Still such mothers had their children clean

extremely fatal on some farms. One ingtance wos mentioned near Norwich, | and tidy, their cottages clean, ord: rly, and comfoitable ; perhaps a print or two

where, out of alot of one hundred head, upwards of fity had died. The rot in of a saint, or some highland love affair adorned the wall-, and they cultivated

sheep, and influenza in horses, were also some seasons very fatal. At present flowers in their windows and gardens. Upon one farm, out of ten labourers ||

the legislature is granting another loan of money under the drainage act, but there was only one who could read and write. I could not find out of all the |

none of it will be applied to the drainage of marshes. boys one who had ever been at a day school. Upon the Sunday, howeve r, come

. : of these children went to church to be taught the doctrines of the establishment.

The state of property occupied hy owners is thus referr: d to:— There could be no apology in the want of a school, as there was one conveniently

One remarkable peculiarity of this and the adjoining county of Norfolk, is the | situated under the patronage of the Church of England, for poor children; and

number of stnall proprietors farming their own properties. These properties do | the fee one penny per week. But the mothers refused to pay even that sum,

not appexrto change hands asin Scotland. These gentlemen farmers have the | and if paid for them they considered they were conferring a favour in allowing greatest possible interest in farming high, and, as a general rule, adopt every | their children to go to school. \\

agricultural improvement. None are more alive to the necessity of a high state

of cultivation to meet the present prices, but while acknowledging this necessity,

the legislature is compelling i shabitauts of towns to drain and o

corn much of the land must become comparatively uncultivated, and that the

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among those who are holders of clay farms. This opinion I found to be very London, June 21, 1850,

‘| general. If we consider that many of the small proprietors are burdened, and The principal feature in our market during the past month has been the in- | |

| that the interest of money has not fallen in proportion to the value of agricul- creasing value of common congous, owing to the demand both for home con- '

|| tural produce, there must of nee ssity exist a certain amount of distress among sumption and export. In other sorts of congou, as well as in all kinds of ||

{| such proprietors, who, by the rules of society, consider themselves compelled to | black tea, the business done continues to be limited, and prices remain nearly || i keep upa certain show of expenditure, and continue to pay the same burd.ns | as last month. The new arrivals of green have been brought forward rather |

| with a decreasing income from their farms. freely, and sales have been made to eome ex'ent at prices which, although

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The writer thinks the farmers in these counties fully equal in point The demand for common congous nvtic. d above has raised the price fully 1d | of intelligence and education to the Scotch farmers of the best class ; | per Ib, there being buyers at 93d per 1, and but little on offer in first hands at |

but farming, when tenanis, under yearly holdings, they are generally | 10d perlb. In the fair blackish-leaf kinds and the strong Ho How sorts there | behind-hand in agricultural improvements :—- has been a fair amount of business from 10d to 11d perlb. The sales of flavory |

As regards the tenure hy which land is let, Scottish farmers regard leases as | te48 has been small, but at about previous prices. In the good and fine me- | | essential; not so the English farmer. In this county leases when granted ex- dium and fine kinds business has been very limited, there being few to be had

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|| universa!. There is, however, much less changing of tenancy than in Scotland, | trade would be purchasers, Souchongs of fair quality have been rather more \| either by those holding under leases cr those holding at-will. Indeed, the inquired for, but all the better sorts are heavy of sale, and quotations in @ |

tenant-at-will, as a rule, may be held to have the most secure tenure of occu- | Measure nominal. In flowery Pekoes and Ovlongs but little has been done, but ||

pancy. One member of the same family generally succecds to the holding. previous prices have been maintained. Scented capers are in limited request |

| The same fumilies are known to bave remained for generations on the same | ®t about former rates. Scented orange Pekoes have been taken to some extent, | | estates. Yeurly tenancy is justly considered to be most prejudicial to the | 84 the lower kinds show a slight advance. interest of the tenant, and such tenants are generally regarded as behind’tho-e Green teas, although not in active demand, have been taken to a fuir extent. 1]

farmers who farm under leases ; and although I met with one or two exceptions In Twankays, owing to the small quantity on offer, we have no transactions || to this rule, yet in general, as a body, they were behind in agricultural improve- | notice. Sales bave been made in common hysons at previous prices; the |

ments. I found that they rather preferred yearly tenancy with the present fair sorts are rather easier. The good and fine kinde are without alteration, || prospects, but they complained that ifthey did anything which might not be whilst the finest continue to realise extreme rates. Low and fair Canton young ||

quite in accordance with the views of their proprietor, there was a mark put hyeons have met with a good inquiry, and sales have been made at full prices. || opposite to their names. The dread of thus “ offending” kept them ina slavish | 2he fair Twankay kinds sre in moderate demand, and the good and fine kinds, ||

i fear and paralysed all their political independence. And with this feeling they being scarce, Woul i commaud aready sale. Imperials are without alteration, '

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|| preferred pulting up with any inconvenience, such as their wretched st ndings, with the exception of fine, which are rather cheaper. Canton gunpowders are rather than by making application be marked as troublesome persons. I may saleable, at about last month’s prices. The fair Twanksy kinds continue

; remark in passing, a ; l prices. The sales of good and fine have been at Scvttish farmer can form little idea of the total want of ; oy and sell freely at fal convenient farm buildings, farm houses and cottages exce pted, which, as a rule nearly previous rat 8, may be said to extend over the whole of Evgl.nd. Such ill arranged insuffi- ae | cient buildings few Scottish fa ra would x oi * . | () , hands ew Scottish farmers would wgree to take off the landlord's | (Messrs Win Jas. Thom; son and Sons? Circus) London, June 21, 1850.

The effet produced in the sugar market by the receipt of the intelligence of But though the Seffolk firmer , | ae OV i TA ers are unal a n optatl: » ~ tas . . ie to undertake th per- | the expedition against Cuba was very favourable to the holder, a rise of fully 18

manent improvements of the Scote , ‘ rs. tl } I nts of the Scotch tenant-farmers, th y feed more | per ewi en the previously enanced rates of the month being established, but . argvely anit 3 ‘oe artinhci 7 : a sr us? more artificial manure than the northern farmers. | the news of the utter inefliciency of the invaders to effect a permanent

“eee ; landing having caused speculatcrs here to withdraw, this advance in price was

The light soils resting upon the chalk formation requires a large supply of | not long maintained, The present rates are however about 1s in advance of

ne oe nder them productive. To obtain this supply 7 wae ths those current at the date o' our last, and the sales have gone off with considerable

Somers is — out to the fullest extent and with great success, 5 es ee accounts from the continent during the month have generally been

1 ane ee = - “ on d a on a farm is much beyond what a Scottish o ae ee nature; The Dutch Trading Company have deciared a sale of ,

eee oe ~ 7 nt. Si me lots of cattle, I was told, were eating | °° ae me on for the llth of July proximo, Some little anxiety has been

eattic teckel ey a + - a anew ance of beetroot and cuthay. The it - 7 the anticipation of a short crop of fruit this season, which if realised,

they were only paid re eee — ere The feeders admitted Coffee 1 pee wae yal check the deliveries which are now on the a [em erage a, * ae mae : his extra quantity by the increased value of the ° = a a — been subject to vi rons fluctuations. The receipt of —

quantity applied in thle best farmne 5 eae plied to the soil is also beyond the | cans, co pes enc for colory plantation Ceylon created a general bricknae # || tions of nitrate of soda ealtpetre, nediaeens a ate large importa- clin ‘d ny a ——y Soa - “4 ei — ee —— a || Missene ef'ccde te angled at che tone es seen? the cowaty is beyond belief. | fone 65 per owt be Native Ceylon also experienced an improvement, a rieé) j| to make a difference of two bolls per al a oe on wee at, and is said | dt 4 Rae oe on . =a Gme, but it has since ane vos 4

sidered the best application About OL ated —s _ hing soils, is con- 1 he fi ww Sales nih ea ts on a reduction of 3 on the ate —— i || beetroot, the other half with turni.. mi ny of the allow-break is cown with = — of the continental cvflee markets generally has induced —

,| the horses. The crops are c! mane 5 ies tatic ~ Ser nemat one gree Ser cane " = coalain a — yg epliendncinaningp linn: ior panies ee ewts of guano per acre is applic! eile See , cri round. About three cline 1 “compos aaa re — and, in consequence, quotations show a general de- |

j| While these farmers consider that ‘without 0 is ad } Se a ee ner tal r “ a oe ae attendant on the unfavourable accounts ofthe — |

} go on, there is no filling off by them in fons eae ities © Cems sonnet offere a 4 amas - ao eon, We heme yon & Se ee

| the necessary labour of cleaning the crops pplication of foreign manure, or in | ee tere ee eed hands at about 3d per owt below the late | © Crops. prices. A large business has been done in ealtpetre, but latterly at rather |

lower rates. Pepper has advanced about 4d per Ib; fair Malabar is worth 34d |

improvements “ vradually going eae : Cassin ligne . also shows an improvement, while pimento has risen fully | |

forward throughout Evg!and ;” and in the best i rm d 3 z oe et atl oe om nacage is very firm, but transactions are few. Cotton has been |

| Suffolk cattle “are kept confined and soiled wit! a ee Fe eee latterly, an importation of 47 bales from Natal, sold yester- |

| green food, with or without an ; Mowance - oe ae — ain Soe con en aud prices ranged high, viz., 7d to - |

farmers expend besides fully one pound ana - ate aad many hus Leen re in Chi seen mash alteration in silk bit a qoarteratie DORE || {} manures ; and here he makes th; i. t Se Se yearly in artificial \ a ne eae no, and at the commencement of the month at rather |

oe nakes this just remark :— wer I ite » but the market is now firm at former prices. The public sales are | : een: pantteat tne tear tel The tea market has decidedly improved, and aaa lj

cada etetne on a ugh farming is not sufficient to bring land up toa | has not yet ery oes to be met with under 10d per lb ; the next grade

; equires a@ eeries of rotations to put land into that con- y eited im price, but they are held very firmly. Three public

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Manchester, June 21, 1850. During the past month nothing requiring special comment has occurred in this

market. The export demand has been very limited, and the aggregate transactions on a smill scale compared with the previous months of this year, notwithstanding we have to report a rise in the value of all our productions with the exception of 40-in shirtings,and these are not lower. Our home trade houses for the season of the year are buying liberally, and wi'l, we anticipate, in a very few weeks, come freely into the market. A very general opinion now prevails that we shall not have cotton lower for some time to come, and that stocks of goods and yarns being unusually light, there will be no advantage in deferring

| purchases. The transactions in 40-in shirtings have been exceedingly limited, confined for

the most part to 64 reeds to our printerz, and 52 reeds to the Greeks. For India and China nothing whatever has been done, and in the face of dull markets, large exports, and advanced prices, we do not ex;ect a revival in this branch of our trade for some time to come. Stocks are now accumulating, and within the last fortnight there has been some anxiety evinced to effect sales. 9-S8th shirtings have gone off to some extent, and prices have advanced during the month

| 1d to 3d per piece. 7-8th printing clotha continne in good request, more particularly the lighter descriptione, which have been taken in quantity by the Levant buyers, and for which large contracts are nowin hand. Madapollams are not heavy instock, and command fair rates. Thetransact.onsin T cloths have been large, at materially improved rates, still however falling tar short of the cost of

' production ; the same may be said of long cloths and domestics. The +tocks of | all these articles are sensibly diminished, and it is therefore only reasonable to Calculate on a further considerable increave in their value. Jaconets, althoug little sought after of late, fully maintain their position with regard to prices. 6-4 cambrics continue much depressed, and can, as well as fancy muslins, be had at very low rates. The low prices at which fustians had been selling for many previous months attracted attention in the present one, and large

| have been made at a considerable improvement in price—they are, however, | still much under the cost of production.

Yarns.—A very steady and satisfactory business has heen done during the past month in all descriptions, at advancing prices. Stocks are exceedingly light, both here and in all the principal continental ports, giving confidence that pre-

| sent rates will at least be maintained. LEEDs.—This month, usually one of the dullest in the year for woollens, has

| Nevertheless been characterised by steadiness in price, and we have to report a fair average business doing for the month of June. According to our anticipa- tions in April, the price of wool at the sales now holding in London is rather higher than it has lately ruled, althoughthe quantity offering is larger than was ever brought forward at any previous sale. The rapid annual increase in the growth of colonial wool is tending much to the greater steadiness in the price of woollens, and to keep them at such moderate rates that they can be more ex- tensively consumed than formerly. With this advantageous change in its position, and with the aid of the improved finish lately introduced, the woollen trade

| is apparently in a healthy state, and likely to recover the business which it has lost with the United States and other countrics formerly its customers.

sales

(From Messrs Drake, Brothers, and Co.'s Circular.) Havana, June 8, 1850.

We have had an active demand for sugars during the past month, and our exports amounted to 160,315 boxes. The unfavourable accounts from Europe have had no influence on our prices. Yellow sugars are very firm, and have been in brisk demand at our quotations, and whites have advanced in consequence of more favourable advices for that quality. Vessels taking about 42,000 boxes are now loading for Russia. We notice again some more inquiry for the United States, and muscovado sugars are also in more demand; advanced prices have been granted. We place our general quotations as follows :—

Per ewt, f.0.b. rials. rials. s d s d

Cacuruchos......0. 4$to05 atlO percentprm.equaltol5 2tol6é 4 Ordinary yellows 4 id - _ it WW 7 Middling do «0. 5§ 6 _ _ lg 2 18 9 Fine do .cescosoe 64 63 _ _ 19 4 ivi Florete’ Go wc 6$ 7 ~ — 20 6 21 § Ordinary whites... 8 s4 -- — 23 6 24 8 Middling do...... 8% 94 _ —_ 2 3 2 6 Fine & florete do % 10 - _ 27 1 28 3 Muscovadoes we 5 54 _- _— 140 15 2

The exports to the end of last month compare as follows :— 1850 1849 1348

Wlted Btebeseccenecssccvevcesccccnesneecece BIGDGS cecece FO,504 cccvse 103,659 Russia and Cowes :whites).cocccssscsssee 73,544 coerce 61,996 eevee 45,746

213,239 208,105 225,430 — seveee Great Britain & Continent of Europe Mediterranean .......6 cco §=— 3,849 ccoree «6, 211 38,865 BPain cocccerccccesscecerceseccvecccccccccccecse D7 ,L15 coovce 54,866 ceoeee 93,988

Total DOXES...cccrerccscscccerseece 546,130 410,946 499,393

SJorciqu Correspondence. From our Paris Correspondent.

Paris, June 27, 1850.

The Assembly have given their vote on the Dotution Bill, and it | has not satisfied the President of the Republic, though the majority have adopted the amendment which had been ultimately adopted by the Ministers.

M. Fiandin, the reporter of the committee, read to the Assembly on Friday last. It was quite hostile to the Elysee and the Ministers. It completely refused the permanency of the allowance, as it wou!d have assumed the character of a dotation or civil | It hinted that the Assembly suspected in the

| sire to demand a prolongation of his powers, and perhaps to go a step farther. It reproached M. Fould with having ridiculously called the

his report

President a second Providence, and stated that the sifuation of the | President of a French Republic was not the same as of a king’s or an emperor's. It concluded by proposing to the Assembly to grant the President an extraordinary credit of 1,600,000f for the expenses made in 1849 and 1850, in consequence of his installation. It was then agreed by the committee that such a credit was an uct of munificence of the Assembly which could not be renewed.

Louis Napoleon considered that amendment of the cominittee as an injury to himself, and declared that he would not accepi it, and would then make an appeal to a national subscription in his favour. He imagined that such a subscription would have given him more than six millions, and there was nobody about him to recall the diffi-

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709 culties of such subscriptions, the national subscriptions of General | Foy and J. Laffitte, who were certainly more popular than Louis | Napoleon, having scarcly amounted to one million of francs.

There was then an active canvass among the representatives of the majority ; but there was such a reluctance among the legitimists for the dotation of the President, that it was apprehended that the amendment of the committee would be adopted. The conser- vatives did not agree in their] private meetings at the Rue Riche- lieu and in the Council of State; when the debates were begun the majority were evidently unfavourable to the President. Besides the resolution of the committee, who proposed a credit of 1,600,000f, there were two amendments, one by M. Dampierre, who proposed to grant 2,600,000f for extraordinary expenses of the President during the years 1849 and 1850, and the other by the minority of the committee, demanding to grant the same sum, but as an evtraordi- nary credit upon the budget of 1850 as expenses of the Presidency.

Negotiations had taken place during two or three days in order to reconcile the President to 4. Dampierre’s amendment, but he would not accept the word extraordinary in the place where it was inserted in that amendment, and he adopted the amendment of the minority of the committee,

There was an animated discussion in order to decide which amendment would be first put to the vote. ‘The Assembly decided that they would vote at first for the most liberal amendwent (that of the committee) ; but it was evident that it would have been rejected by & majority of at least fifty votes had not an unexpected support changed the minds of the Assembly. Genera! Changarnier demanded of the Assembly to adopt the amendment of the minority of the committee, as he said that a dissidence in the conservative party would bring very sad results. Those words had a decisive influence over the majority. Many representatives tore to pieces the blue bulletins which they were about to give, and voted in favour of the amendment, which was adopted hy 354 to 308,

Nothing could have becn more disagreeable to the Elysée than the victorious interference of General Changarnier in this affair. You know the s:cret enmity which exists between that general and Louis Napoleon, General Changarnicr aff-cts to be quite independent of the President, and endeavours to increase every day his influence and authority. Ie hopes to be named President of the Republic in 1852, if the republic has not been put down before that time in favour of Henry V, or of the Count of Paris. ‘The legitimists and Orleanists cherish him, as they think that he would be easily prevailed upon to play in France the part of a Monk. Buta sort of conspiracy had been formed against him. The President thought of dismissing him, and he was about to name General Mag- nau in his place. Lis intervention in favour of the ministerial amendment was then very skilful; it made it impossible for Louis Napoleon to displace him, because the President would be accused of ingratitude.

I know that when the result of the debates were brought to the Elysée there was a burst of wrath from Louis Napoleon, whose personal influence is now quite annihilated by his rival; and I should not be astonished if he should again meditate on a coup d'etat. But the success of a coup d’etatin his favour is more impossible than ever, and it would only prepare his own defeat and the triumph of Changarnier.

Louis Napoleon is dissatisfied with his Ministers, whom he re- proaches with great unskilfulness in this affair of dotation. It is said that a ministerial change will immediately take place. M. Bareche and M. A. Fould would remain in the new Cabinet, but all the other Ministers would be changed. M. de Persigny would be named Minister of Foreign Affairs, and M. Baraguay d’Hilliers Minister of War ; but it is impossible that M. Baraguay d’Hilliers, who is devoted to the President, can agree with General Chan- garnier.

The Dotation Bill was the only important affair of the week. The majority of the Assembly have voted it against the grain, and the Ministers have lost by that dangerous bill the apparent harmony which had been established by the Electoral Bill.

The following are the variations of our securites from June 20 to June 26:— f we f c

The Three per Cents improve to 57 20 and left off at 5d 50 The Pive per Cents .oc-eeseee t 20 § 40 The Pank of France d if kandinouijine » O 2175 O ex dividend of 50 The Northert D csmenccesaneenwndabeneen 417 2 Strasburg ly 7 0

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Hatr-past Four.— ithout tions, though the prices previ us days. Fhe Three por Cents were

95ce, and the Five per Cents froin 94f 30c to 94f J5c. The Bank Shares were at 2,175f. The Northern Shares varied from 446f 25c

0 $471 5M vantes fi 21 95 to 212! 50c : Strasburg fron o27f

50c to 328f 75c 3; Orleans were done at 760%; Rouen at soof; Havre + OIF V * < 4"

at 22 erZun at odo’.

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to principles which have always been recommended and enforced by the Eco-

that friendly societies, either as at present constituted or as

.e new bill passes, do nvt offer sufficient guarantees to parties

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society for the nation, referring particularly to the proposed New Savings B ink

5 i!, in which, as is well known, a clause is introduced extending the existing

system of government annuities, and for the first time empowering the commis-

sioners to grant policies of !ife assurance. s

Your correspondent advocates payment of premium in one sui, and de-

in other words, annual premiums

trap« forthe saoguine.” This point may safely be left to be det: rmined

between your correspondent and the S.cie y of Actuaries, and the numerous

avd important offices which they represent may perhaps also have something

to say to the proposed new and formidable rival with which they are threa-

tened ; for we may be sure that if the “ sma'l end of the wedge” is successfully

introduced, even the “ Equitable” will scon bave to look to itself; ia any event,

I, as an Engli-hman, have always been used to think that the functions of go-

vernment should be narrowed us much as possible, and that mercantile opera-

tims (and what el-e is a life ageurance as-ociaiion ?) are best left to private

enterprise and competition. What is there, Sir, to prevent a society enrolled under the Friendly Society's

Act granting policies with all safety? It ust have trustees in whose names

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, terests of all parties coucerned.

' all confidence to the amount of my policy being duly paid to my heirs.

or in the government fands; it can only adopt tables certified as safe by actuaries of known standing, and cannot alter those tables, or a single one of its rules, wi'hout the consent of three-fourths of the members, and a certificate of the government's own officer that such alterations are legal, and protect the in-

It is already bound to make a return to the same officer every five yeurs of all its operations, and, by a most excellent alteration in Mr Sotheron’s bill, that return isin future to be made annually; in addition to all thia, it is bound to elect auditors annually, to present its accounts to an annua! meeting of the members, and to furnish copies of accounts to members if required.

Certainly, Sir, these appear to me to be strong guarantees; and I lo : with can-

not epeak for the operations of other societier, but that to which I belong was formed in 1840 ; its assurance and annuity operations are conducted as a dis- tinct business, and at its first division of profite, in 1847, the profits appropriated to policies of five years’ standing were equal to 33 per cent on the premiums paid, or ove per cent ou the amount assured; the division was made by two emiuent actuaries, and the operations of the society have been 80 successful, that, undertheir sanction and advice, its limits of assurance have been

| successively increased from 5001 to 1,000/ and 2,0001.

| tron on postal regulations.

| tional Education in Ircland negatived—Supply.

That you may be quite sure Iam not supposing a case which has never occurred, I have no objection to say, that the society to which I refer is the Provident Clerk's Association. I send you my name aud address, though I sign this as

June 27, 1850. A ConsTANT READER.

kinpertal Barliament.

PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK,

Hovse cr Lorps.—Friday: Conversation on the Post-office regulations, and on the accommodation for the Ambassidors. Monday: Routine. Tuesday: Conversa-

cebated and withdrawn—Accommodation of Foreign ministers: report received. Avse oF ComMoxs —Friday: Motion for address to modify the sys'em of Na-

Monday: Me Roetuck’s motion for approval of the foreign policy of Ministers debated and acjourned. Tuesday: Ad- journed debate on Mr Roebuck’s motion, Wednesday: County Rates Bill negatived in second reading—Larceny Snmmary Jurisdiction Bill passed—Copyholds Enfran- chisemeat Bill read a second time—Accivents on Railway Bill rejected on second reading. Thursday: Adjourned debate on Mr Roebuck’s motion.

HOUSE OF LORDS, Friday, June 21.

[CONTINUED FROM OUR LAST } Lord Brougham in seconding Lord Lansdowne’s motion respecting the

accommodation for the foreign ambassadors, expressed considerable indignation at what he alleged to be the gross misrepresentations which had gone forth to the public with regard to what he had said on the occasion in question. The noble lord then gave his version of what had occurred, and insisted on the propriety of his conduct.

After considerable discussion, in the course of which Earl Grey, the Marquis of Londonderry, and the Ear! of Harrowby toak occasion to express their sense of the high character of the Chevalier Bunsen, and regretted the unpleasant position in which he had been placed, the committee was appointed, and their lurdships adjourned.

Monday, June 24. Lord Brougham referred to the inconvenience cauaed by the recent change at

the Post-office, which, so far from causiug the Sabbath to be kept holy, would he feared, lead to its desecration. : Vi-count Canning drew the attention of the House to a charge which he was supposed to have made again-t Sir E. Lyons, in the debate on Monday night last, of thinking more of bis private feelings in the transactions alluded to than of the good of the country. The noble Viscount, appealing to the memory of the noble lords who heard him, said he had made no such charge, which would have been unjust as regarded himself, and injurious to a distinguished officer

Two bills having each been advanced a stage, their lordships adjourned. / Tuesday, June 25.

oe Royal _— was given by commission to several bills, er some further complaints as to the working of the new post 2ulatio

the Leasehold Tenure of Land (Ireland) Act Amendment Bill. parc gine committee.

— The Marquis of Londonderry postponed ur

the abolition of the Irish Lord-Lieutenancy, Their lordships then adjourned.

Thursday, June 27. Esrl Talbot having presented a petition against the erection of the building

for the Industrial Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde park, Lord Brougham gave not - of his intention to bring the subject before their lordships to-morrow evening

In reply to Lord Stanley, The Marquis of Lansdowne stated that he intended to postpone the commit-

tal of the Parliamentary Voters (Ireland) Bill until Monday next.

itil Thursday his motion respecting

Thursday: Resolutions respecting the Irish Viceroyalty !

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[June 29,

Ear! Grey, in fixing for to-day the bringing up the report upon the Australian Colonies Bill, announced that he had withdrawn the federal clauses,

The Marquis of Londonderry moved a series of resolutions, condemning the proposed abolition of the Irish viceroyalty as being contrary to promises made at the union ; ill timed at a moment of severe agricultural distress and political agitation ; ruinous to the trade of Dublin ; aud removing the executive to g | dangerous distance from the scene of action.

After a few words from Lord Brougham, The Merquis of Lansdowne counselled the noble lord to postpone his motion

until the bill f.r the measure to which he objected came defiaitely befure the House for disscussion.

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The Duke of Wellington said that enough had been urged to show the neces. sity of withdrawing the mo ion, especially as the question could be fully dig.

cussed when it came in due form before the House. He did, however, hope that

the goveroment would c sider the whole subject in all its bearings and details befure they pressed the House to adopt the measure. Speaking from a military | point of view, he could not help remaking that for the last 50 years a series of military operations had been going on uninterruptedly in Ireland, and it should be remembered that by the British constitution such opertions could only be

carried on under the sanction of the civil power. The euperintendence and oo.

operation ofa civil authority like the Lord-Lieutenant were absolutely necea-ary |

to direct any measures of precaution which the Commander-in-Chief might deem requisite in Ireland. He had felt the force of this most fully during the last few | years in Ireland, when be hd to provide against the echemes of a revolutionary | faction. Supposing the Lord-Licutenancy were abolished, the chief authority in Dublin would be the Lord Mayor, and if he should prove to be such a Lord | Mayor as the late Mr O'Connell, or Dr Cane, the Mayor-elect of Kilkenny, the latter of whom had been imprisoned under the provisions of the act for suspend. | ing the habeas corpus, it would be impossible for the Commander-in-Chief to take | any steps in concert with such an authority. |}

Earl Grey fully agreed with the noble duke in the observations which he had made respecting the necessity for frequent communications between the civil and the military powers. It must, however, be remembered that Dublin was now nearer to the seat of government than Manchester had been a few years | ago, and their lordships would recoll:ct that during recent disturbances in the North and in Sco:land no difficulty had been experienced iu transmitting the necessary orders to the authorities at much greater distances.

After some further discussion, the progress of which was painfully disturbed | by the intelligence that an atrocious assaulthad been committed upon Her Majesty, The Siseede of Londonderry said that after the impor!ant speech which had

been elicited from the noble Duke he should fullow his advice aud withdraw the resolutions.

The Marquis of Lansdowne brought up the report of the special committee on the eubject of providing accommodation for Foreign Ministers, which was to | the effect that the lower portions of the Peers’ gulleries—those nearest to the strangers’ galleries—shou!d be set apart for the reception of Foreign Ministers. It was hie wish, and he doubted not it would be their Lordships’ wish, to afford || accommodation to strangers, to those Foreign Ministers, and to other description | cf strangers, whom on all accounts they desired to treat with peculiar courtesy; but, at the same time, they reserved to themselves the pow.r of regulating the proceedings of their own House, and of retaining such power in their hands as would make any admission to it an act of grace and favour.

The Duke of Wellington expressed his sutivfaction at the report, which was | accordingly received.

Their lordships then adjourned.

Friday, June 28. After the transaction of some routine business, The Marquis of Lansdowne introduced the subject of the late assault upon Her

Mojesty ; and, after narrating the circumstances, said that he did not feel it needful to call for an address on the occasion, but that had he done so, he

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to a participation of its benefits, without striking at the roots of the system.

feelings of loyalty and attachment to Her Majesty and her family. After some responsive remarks from Lords Stanley and Brougham, the subject

dropped. Lord Brougham then moved the committal of the Criminal Laws Consolida-

tion Bill, and was (LEFT SPEAKING.]

HOUSE OF COMMONS. Friday, June 21.

[CONTINUED FROM OUR LAST]

{ {In seconding Mr Hamilton’s motion, Mr Walpole went on to remark that in England education was based upon religious toleration ; in Ireland the rule was

reversed: there it was founded upon religious exclu-ion, which alienated some of the sincerest friends of education. In 1848, in the church schools, of the

120,000 children on the rolls, 46,000 were Roman Catholics and 15,000 Pro- tertant Dissenters.

Sir W. Somerville opposed the motion, the object of which was to supersede the national sysiem of educatiop, which had been in beneficial operation for eighteen years, and was a united system of education. The modifications coD- templated by the motion meant the compulsory reading of the Scriptures in the schools connected with the National Board, in which the Bible was not now excluded; and compulsion, which was not adopted in other educational institutions in Ireland, would destroy the national schools.

Mr Newdegate supported the motion, believing that the national system of education might be so modified as to admit members of the Church of Ireland

Mr E. H. Stanley opposed the motion, and defended the national system 38 introduced by Lord Stanley in 1831. In considering this subject, it was ne cessary to inquire into the system which was then superseded, and, on the other hand, What +ystem it was proposed to substitute if the national system was abolished. With the first view, he adduced much evidence respecting the state of the education question prior to 1831, and the ill-effect of compulsory Scrip!ure reading in the Kildare street Schools, whence he concluded that the system pri r to 1831 could not be defended. He then examined the only scheme that could be proposed as a su! stitute fur the present system, which had worked in- | comparably better than any other, and that scheme he considered impracticable | and undesirable.

_ Lord J. Manners supported the motion, which he would not do if he thought it would destroy or endanger the national system, He denied that to be a combined sy-tem, or that a combined system of education could, « priori, find favour in Ireland. If the house agreed to the motion, they would not supersede the national system, whilst the ecncession would conciliate a loyal and peaceable

body of her Mojesty’s subjects in Ircland. Mr W. Fagan, though agree'ng that the distributicn of educational grants in

Ircland upon the seme principle as in England was prima facie reasonable, | believed it would, in the circumstances of the furmer country, be exceedingly

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dap The national system, as it existed, was the only system of education adapted to these peculiar circumstances, and under that sys'em the religion of every child was abundantly provided for. He opposed the motion, though he admitted the proposition to be a reasonable one.

| Sir W. Verner defended the motion. He denied that the Kildare street

Society’s echools were disliked by the Roman Catholics ; and he saw no evidence

that the national schools had improved the character and habits of the people. Mr Heald explained the grounds upon which, as a nonconformist, he supported

the motion, and he repudiated the argument that the Church of Ireland had sufficient resources in its own funds. The great question of education should be dealt with upon the denominational principle.

Lord J. Russell said the question concerned a system of education supported by grants from taxes paid by the people of the United Kingdom ; in disposing of such grants the benefit should be made as extensive as possible, but it would not be a fair appropriation if made upon any narrow or exclusive principle. Then, as a matter of policy, in order tomake the grants useful, the obj-ct should be not to provoke jealousy and opposition, but to avoid all regulations that might induce a suspicion of a design to convert the largest and poorest class in Ireland to the religion of that which held in its handsthe power of the State. This was the principle upon which the national system had been based, and the progress its schools had made established a strong claim to a continuance of support. In the absence of an overwhelming case for interference, Parliament should not intemperately or iniescreet!y endanger a system under which half a million of children were receiving a united education. Such a modification of the system as the motion contemplated would strike a fata! blow at the whole system, arousing do:mant jealousies and defeating a'l hope ofa united education. The other alternative, that there should be a separate grant for educating the children of Church of Ireland parents, was a plausible proposition ; but in the peculiar circumstances of Ireland its adoption would lead to the establishment of exclusively Roman Catholic schools, whereby the effect of the grant, as now applied, in reconciling persons of different religious persuasions, would be lost. The system was now working well, and if departed from, all those jealousies and ani- mosities would revive which were now in some degree appeased.

Lord C. Hamilton supported the motion, and contended that there was no evidence that the national system had succeeded ; whereas the church schools had eminently prospered.

Sir James Graham, as a colleague of Lord Stanley in 1831, declared his steady adherence to the system then established, and regretted extremely that members of the Church of Ireland did not partake of all the benefits of the system —why ? Because their clergy, with some sp'endid exceptions, have led the way to an uncompromising opposition to it. Mr Hamilton had charged the system with being latitudinarian ; but at the last annual examination of children by an association in Dublin, the largest proportion of those who gained premiums for their knowledge of the Scriptures were pupils of the national schools. Then as to conscientious scruples, he should like to ask whether the system of education ia Trinity College itself was of an exclusively Protestant character. Ile admitted that the distribution of rewards, honours, and emoluments there was most exclusive; but he denied that the education was in the least degree so. Again, in all the workhouses of Ireland were schools based upon the national system ; to these workhouses chaplains were appointed who without scruple attended the schools; but then there was a salary attached to the office. The motion presented an alternative, which suggested an important modification of the system, viz., that the Scriptures should be read in school hours according tothe authorised version. They might as well declare at once that the national system

| shall be extinguished. If the proposed change were made, upon the principle of | justice there must be exclusive grants to Roman Catholic school», and then | the object of uniting Roman Catholicz, Presbyterians, and members of the Established Church in one harmonious system of education must be abandoned. Although the national system had not borne all the fruits desired, its results had been successful. He believed there was no Roman Catholic country in Europe in which, with the consent of the clergy, an education so scriptural, without note or comment, had ever been tolerated as that given in the national schools; and

| he warned the House that if this light be extinguished, there was very little | hope of the social improvement of [reland.

Mr Napier protested against the imputation cast by Sir J. Graham upon the clergy of Ireland of being influenced by mean and mercenary motives, which

| was unworthy of his high position. He defended the motion. Mr Sheil avowed that he should not deem any system of education in Ireland

|; national, against which Protestants could take any just exception. He did not believe that the Protestants of Ireland were opposed to the national system; the great masé of the gentry, and some of the most eminent ecclesiastics, were favourable to it. The Protestant clergy had an opportunity of attending the schools, and of gathering Protestant pupils about them; why did they not take advantage of it? The res] cause of their not attending the national schools was that Protestants and Roman Catholics were there placed upon an equality; this

| the Protestant priest could not stomach, because it was incompatible with the ascendancy which the law accorded tohim. Providence had given to the Church of Ireland abundant temporal means of doing spiritual good ; why did they not apply for liberty to appropriate a portion of the Church revenues to schools in connection with the Church? Lord Stanley had founded the National Board ; Sir Robert Peel had added to its funds; parliament had again and again ap-

| proved it, distinguished statesmen had concurred in that approval, which had | been crowned by a royal vi-it (by accident, ofcourse) before Her Majesty visited Trinity College.

Mr Plumptre supported the motion, which was opposed by Mr Reynolds, who believed it was an aunual device to guard the outposts of the Protestant Church of Ireland.

Upon a division, the motion of Mr Hamilton was negatived by 225 against 142. The House then went into Committee of Supply on the Civil Service Estimates,

| when certain votes were agreed to on account. The other business having been disposed of, the House adjourned, at a quarter-

| past one o'clock, until Mondey.

Monday, June 24. A somewhat animated conversation, originated by Sir Robert H. Inglis, took

place in reference to the conduct of Lord Brougham, in expelling the Chevalier Bunsen from the seat he had taken in the House of Lords that day week. The discussion elicited warm expresions of admiration fur the character and talents of the Chevalier Bunsen,

On the motion for reading the orders of the day, Lord J. Russell said that the goverament was desirous of taking the sense of

the House upon Mr Roebuck’s motion, and he euggested the withdrawal of the amendments of which notice had been given.

Mr C. Anstey withdrew bis amendment. Mr Hume declined to do so, and said that he should, as at present advised,

move his amendment when the proper time arrived. Mr Roebuck then brought forward the motion of which he had given notice.

He declared that, although he did not consider that it was the duty of a minister to resign merely because there was a hostile majority against him in the House of Lords, still, since we had determined upon having two chambers, it was the part of a government, when one chamber had expressed a marked opi-

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| nion on a course of policy, to obtain the opinion of the other. came to the consideration of the policy of Lord Palmerston with s mind disposed in its favour; fur, though he hid seen much in its details to condemn, with its principles he entirely agreed. There were two classes of cases which that policy embraced—one regarding individual rights and wrongs; the other the general interests, the dignity, and honour of this country. The object of Lord Palmerston, with relation to the first, was to extend the protection of the government of England to her wandering sons so far as the rules of civilised nations would permit ; and with respect to the interestsof this country, as a people, he believed Lord Palmerston’s policy had been to maintain the peace of the world, not by truckling to d-spotism, buat, as far as permitted by the rules of international law, by the exertion of the moral furce of the English name. Might there not be a minister of this country whose policy was to make tyranny safein Europe? These antagonist principles were now upon their trial, and the House of Commons was called upon to decid2 whether England was openly to countenance, not struggles for anarchy, but the efforts of mankind for self-government, or lend its aid to crush these «ffurts. Mr Roebuck then rapid!y reviewed the system of foreign policy pursued by this country from 1790 to 1815, and from 1820 to the pre-ent time, contrasting its principles in the two periods. Kingdom of Greece was established by the three Powers ; the petty intrigues of which the little Court of Athens soon became the focus; the obstinate ignorance of the English people as to foreign affairs; the insolent demands made by Russia and Austria upon Turkey for the extradition of the Hungarian refugees, and the appearance of the English fleet in the Dardanelles, which had vindicated the rights of independent nations. He then applied himself to the specific case of the claims upon Greece, to which it was objected that the demands were unlawful; that their amount was insignificant and exaggerated ; that the manner in which they were urged was imperious and uncalled-for; and that the time for exacting redress was inopportune. He denied that there wae anything in the claims contrary to the law of nations, which was a system of general morality, the rules of which were somewhat vague. But how had they been interpreted in practice? France in 1831 had sent a fleet into the Tagus to ex- act reparation for injuries suffered by French subjects, our offer of mediation being refused. In 1842 the French government had in a similar manner obtained redress for its subjects at St Salvador. There were many similar instances on the part of France, America, and England herself; and with weak nations it was a merciful mode of proceeding in such cases, not to declare war, but to blockade their ports and take possession of certain property. For many years there had been continual compliints of the conduct of the Greek government towards British subjects, letters from our ministers remaining unopened and, of course, unanswered. In Mr Finlay‘s case his land had been taken possession of, not fur great nation»! interests, but fur a garden in which the King might disport himself at the expense of a British subject, who was refused all payment whatever. He applied to Lord Aberdeen to intercede with the Greek government; Lord Aberdeen acknowledged the justice of his claime, and directed Sir E. Lyons to urge them; but Mr Finlay obtained no redress. M. Pacifico, on a Sunday, when the Chri-tians of Athens were at church, had his house attacked by a mob, hesded by certain young noblemen, his family beaten, and his whole property destroyed. He cared not what M. Pacifico was; he was born a British subject, and had a right to demand the protection of Eng- land. He appealed tothe Greek government, and, obtaining no reparation, he sought that protection. Had it been Baron Rothechild who had been thus attacked, all Europe would have rung with the outrage; but M. Pacifico being a poor Jew, he was treated with insult and his demands set aside. It had been said that international law furbade compliance with such an appeal; this he denied, and he showed what would be the effect of such an interpretation of the law in despotic countries. Then it was said that these were isolated cases; but there were other cases, and if we once relaxed, in the case of half-civilised nations, te rules by which the subj cts of this country are guarded abroad, there would be no safety for Eng'ish commerce. Mr Roebuck then went into a minute examination of the details of the transactions betwixt M. Gros and Mr Wyse at Athens, and Lord Palmerston and M. Drouyn de Lhuys in England, and concluded by expressing a hope that Mr Hume would not, by persevering in his amendment, enable members to ride off from deciding upon the general policy of the government,

Mr Hume could not join in the tu quoque argument of Mr Roebuck, because he thought the conduct of other states furnished no rule of conduct for England. Finding, however, that he (Mr Hume) had taken a wrong step, and that his amendment would place some hon. members in a difliculty, he should not press it.

Sir F. Thesiger observed that Mr Roebuck, in placing himself in the gap and moving such a resolution, had purchased a claim to the substantial gratitude of the government. He recollected, however, a debate, in 1843, upon the war in Affghanistan, in which he had declared that Lord Palmerston was typified by a lucifer match, and he was astonithed that, with such an impression, Mr Roe- buck had proposed this resolution, the lucifer match being still in the foreign- office. Mr Roebuck had not called for a reversal of the resolution of the House of Lords, but had prudently given an ample range to every one who desired an excuse for voting with the government. After some general reflections upon the policy of Lord Palmerston, than which nothing, he thought, was more likely to embroil us with other nations, and which had resulted in the deepest humiliation to England, Sir Frederick examined at some length the cases of Mr Finlay and M. Pacifico, neither of which, he contended, afforded a ground for

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hostile aggression ; the former having been referred to arbitration, and the | | latter, which involved absurd, unfounded, and exaggera'ed claims, being a case for the tribunals of the country. He then went into the particulars of the negotiations carried on by the intervention of France, and observed that Lord Palmer-ton, having being churged with a breach of the arrangements, was compelled at last to adopt the very convention he had repudiated, and was now in the sane position as that in which he might have stood without humiliation on the 14th of May. He asked the House whether these transactions were calculated, in the words of the motion, to “maintain the honour and dignity of this country ?”

Mr Wood supported the motion, and in reply to Sir F. Thesiger discussed minutely the several cases of complaint against the Greek government, one of which—that of an individual who had been brutally tortured in the Turkish fashion—had been scarcely noticed. In all these cases rcdress was refused, and it was remarkable how many of the Ionian islanders were insulted flogged, and tortured, because they were British subjects. In such instances it was the plain and bounden duty of our government to interfire, But the mo-t flagrant outrage was in the case of the Fantome’s boat, and yet it was said that British honour was compromised by a demand for redress. It had been admitted by the ablest advocate of the resolution of the House of Lords, that for years pas, the representatives of the three great Powers at Athens had been caballin amongst themselves—one to maintain Eoglish, another French, and anoth,» Russian interests. Then was it for the English minister at such a Court »

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that England dered not enforce her rights without the sanction of France and

Eussia. 1f Greece was to be maintained it was not by handing over our claims

seia or France.

1] Se J. asa be engaged in this discussion most reluctantly ; but

in a question of this kind intentional absence would be cowa: dice, and with the

sentiments he entertained silence was impossible. He had given to the govern-

|| ment for the last four years an independent and honest support, thinking that

|. from the state of parties it was his duty to do so; he had no feeling of hostility

towards the government; but the House was called upon to discuss not the

| narrow question of Greece, for Mr Roebuck, in concert with the government,

had opened a much larger question, “ Do you, on the whole, approve of the po-

licy which has been pursued by the government with reference to our foreign

relations siuce their accession to power?” To that large question he should ad-

dress himself He had been a member of Lord Grey’s government, when the

separation of Belgium from Holland took place ; but this was in concurrence

with all the great powers of Europe. The dangerous nature of our inter’erence,

after the r-tirement of Lord Grey, was peinted out by Lord Howick, when

Sir R. Peel was at the head of affairs. Sir James here read an extract from

Lord How'ck’s speech in 1844, recommending an ab-t nent course of reign

policy, and then proceeded to contrast with these sound and pratent principles

the policy embraced by Lord Palmerston immediately after his accession to

power. He read a despatch from his lordship upon Spanish affairs in 1846,

which, he contended, vivlated all the leading principles of the policy so laid

down. He adverted to verious diplomatic transactions between our Foreign

|) office and Spain, Portugal, and Switzerland, when the latter country was di-

vided between the Sonderbund and the Bernese parties. In the case of the

Spanish marriages, he thought a heavy responsibility re-ted upon Lord Palmer-

ston, who, seeking only to overthrow M. Guizot, had produced a more serious

resuit. Sir James then severely criticised the conduct of Lord Palmerston in | relation to the affairs of Italy, especially his refusal, when a-ked by Austria, to

| mediate in the Lombardy question, the consequence of which refusal, he believed, had been the insurrection of Hungary and the intervention of Russia in Austrian polities. He condemned the imprudent act of sending a British

|| fleet into the Dardanelles. The excuse made wag, that the fleet had been driven by stress of westher. Was that consistent with the fact? Approaching the Greek question, Sir James pointed out the offensive language held by Lord Palmers'on towards the Greek ministers. Much, be admitted, might be said in

|| vindication of the claims of Mr Finlay and M. Pacifico; but they were the least | important part of the question; the nicest and most difficult part was the terri- | torial claims tothe islands of Cervi and Sapienza, over which Mr Roebuck, | with the skill of an advocate, had lightly passed. With respect to the transac- | tions growing out of the intervention of France, he thought it was a great mis- fortune that the Convention of London had not been at once accepted. Sir James touched upon the Danish dispute, end, again referring to the frustration

| of all the views of Lord Palmerston at the Courts of Spain, Portugal, and Rome, | observed that it was because that noble lord was not a Minister of Austria, Russia, or France, |,ut, par excellence, the Minister of England, he was invited to vote that he had “ maintained the honour and dignity of thiscountry.” This vote he could not conreut to give.

Ou the motion of Mr Osborne the debate was adjourned. The other business having been disposed of, the House adjourned at one

| O'clock. | | Tuesday, June 25. | On the order of the day for the resumption of the debate on the foreign policy,

Mr Osborne said, the point for the consideration of the House was. how far the int: rnational principles of our foreign policy were to be guided by the estaolished code of nations, and how far British commerce and British subjects were to be protected by the Government of this country ; not whether every,

| particular act of our Foreign Minister had beed right, but whether his policy | was hereafter to be regulated by the ideas of ministers of other states, he being a mere sutoma'on, and his moves governed by the wily and unseen agency of a foreign prompter. Mr Osborne then passed some severe and sarcastic strictures upon the course taken by Sir F. Thesiger and Sir J. Graham, who for four years past had either maintained a perfect silence, not disapproving, if not

|| @pproving, the policy they now affected to view with so much alarm. This con- | duct, he observed, savoured rather of the jesuitical evasions of Muscovite chi- |} Canery than of the honest, open, and candid conflict of English political warfare. | He then discussed the policy of erecting a Greek kingdom, whoee financial maxim i] was, “Base is the slave that pays”; and, glancing at the salient points of M. || Pacifico’s case, asked whether the House had not a shrewd suspicion that the || envenomed hostility evinced towards Lord Palmerston could not be traced to

his being identified on the continent with responsible government, and regarded as an advocate of liberal opinions. Greece was a mere pretext ; there was a

' Conspiracy against him which had extensive ramifications, and the reversal of his policy would cripple British commerce, arrest the progress of civilisation, and seal the humiliation of Great Britain. Believing her interests and those of the world to be at stake, he gave his support to the motion with pride and pleasure.

i Lord J. Manners opposed the motion, because he believed that Cossack dom- | ination, which Mr Osborne so much dreaded, would be promoted by the policy pursued by the government. He denied both the propositions contained in the motion, snd disputed the assertion of Mr Roebuck, that the leading principle of

|. Our foreign px licy had been to protect the commerce and the people of this country. If the egis of England was extended over British subjects in every part of ij the world, why had a British subject in one of the S'ates of North America been |; Seized and cast into prison like a common malefactor without redrest? In his conduct towards Greece Lord Palmerston could not have taken more: ffectual mea- fures to extinguish British influence inthe Levant and to extend that of Russia — he ae really a Foreign Minister. Reviewing his policy in the affairs of Swit- ) 2erland and of Italy, he asked how that policy had conduced to the honour and dign ty of Engl nd, or even to the extension of liberal principles. In the case | of Obaries Albert’s invasion, Lord Palmerston and Mr Abercromby had mani- | fested the _— of keen partisans in that unjust encroachment upon Austria and | Lombardy, the people of which were attached to their ruler, and when this ini | Quitous apy eal to arms had failed, Lord Palmers'on endeavoured to secure } wre i. bardy to Charles Albert by diplomacy. The practical result of these insur : | tions in th: Italian Penineul i d ile hindi,

ve Tt enineula was the extension of the Zollverein restrictions to the pr-judice of the commercial interests of this country. ‘ Mr Anstey found a preliminary difficulty in being unable to comprehend the || motion. If it referred to the recent passages of our foreign policy since 1848 | he should be prepared to vote for it, for, in a spirit of fair play towards Lord | Palmerston, he was bound to say that he had erred rather on the side of mo- i] deration than of excess. He justified this opinion by a reference to the t ; actious in Italy subsequent to the election of Pius IX, to the affair of the Hun. garian refugees, and the entrance of the British fleet into the waters of the j Dardanelles. He also vindicated the proceedings of the noble lord in oaetien to the two Greek islands as well as to M. Pacifico. As his approval of our foreign || Policy was cov fined to the latter part of it, he could not vote for the mation ; at the i i = = took ma as a not pronounce the whole policy as blameable, he

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Mr Cochrane said, he had charged Lord Palmerston with having spread revolutionary doctrines throughout Europe and tampered with the interests of this country; he now charged him, in addition, upon the authority of M. d’Hausson-

ville, with bad faith in connection with Swiss affairs in 1847. After giving the details of this accusation, Mr Cochrane traced the proceedings of Lord Minto in 1

his Italian mission, which, he contended, had aided and abetted rebellion at Rome, and at Naples had widened the breach between the King and his Sicj. | lian subjects. These were grave charges against the foreign policy of the go- {| vernment, which was anything but an English policy, being based Upon oppression of the weak and concession to the strong.

Lord Palmerston, whose rising was accompanied by loud expessions of excite. || ment and approbation, defined the cause then pending before the house, ay far | wider than a mere question of office; it involved important points of inter. national law. In a question of such consequence, he considered that the con. || duct of the impuguers of the ministry was not benefiting the character of the || tribunal, or the gravity of the occasion. Whether inspired by a hope of taking | the government by storm, or by a genuine disapprobation of the ministerjg] |

policy, they ought to have laid the resolution passzd by the upper house befyre the Commons, for their authentication. That resolution referred both to the future and the past; censuring the one, and enjoining a course of policy for the other, which he considered incompati)le with the rights, intereste, honour, and |

dignity of England, no lees than it was contrary to the practice of this and al] other countries. He totally dissented from the doctrine that British subjects abroad should be left subject to the laws and tribunals of the land they happened to be in, without protection from their own government. Yet this doctrine was | laid down in the vote of the Peers, without distinction of despotiem or consti. tutional governments. English subjects were, nevertheless, not to be placed | above the laws, but shielded from suffering under the incompetence or the cor. | ruption of the tribunals. Of the fact of corruption he asserted the right of the | English government to be the judge. Rapidly tracing the formation of the Greek nationality, from the date when the recognition of their independence was wrung from Turkey by the united influence of England, France, and Russia, the noble lord assigned to the desire to secure to the people the enjoyment of the promised constitution the disfavour in which England had been held by King Otho and his administration. A representative constitution was definitively erected upon the first selection of the Greek sovereign, but being delayed during his mimority, was evaded afterwards, and to this evasion , not only despotic Russia and Prussia, but even constitutional France, | became parties, leaving this country in a minority on this question, | and the object of bitter jealousy at the court of Athens. Under the im- | pulse of this jealousy, incidents occurred which at length called for inter- position by the British government to protect their subjects, and guard againsta | repetition of the injuries they had sustained. The absence of a representative | constitution had at this time led to many evils. The executive administration of Greece was full of abuses, the finances were disordered, the legal tribunals | corrupt, brigandage abounded, and the police themselves became sometimes the greatest criminals. They perpetrated the most violent atrocities and inflicted tortures on the inhabitants, to which, if the protection of their own country were , withdrawn the subjects of England would be equally exposed, Having thus laid down the general principles and detailed the original situation of affairs in the country, Lord Palmerston reviewed the several occurrences which formed | the grounds of complaint and claim against Greece. For the insult to the officer and buat’s crew of the Fantome an apology only was demanded. Times, he remarked, were much changed since those when the glory of the British navy was the watchword in that house if the demand of an apology was | termed doubtful in principle or exaggerated in amount. Turning to the claim | founded upon individual wrongs, he observed that the ridicule that had been | lavished upon them, though much more convenient than argument, was worthy neither of those by whom, towards whom, or before whom it was offered. The noble lord then went through the details of those occurrences, removing mavy of the fallacies with which they had been surrounded, and contending that | the claims were at all events well founded in principle, and that justice was so long delayed or so industriously baffled as to justify the government | in taking them up. In this contingency the coercive measures were ordered, and Sir W. Parker received instructions accordingly. His enormous force, the | employment of which against a weak power had been termed ungenerous, in reality saved the dignity of Greece, by rendering resistance impossible. Reprisal were then commenced, government vessels only being at firet seized, aud a blockade enforced, such being the modified form of a war often adopted under similar circumstances. Entering then at much length into the history of the French mediation, the noble lord declared that the good offices of France were accepted readily and cheerfully, that the premises of mediation were distinctly

laid down, and no misunderstanding on any point had, in fact, arisen between — himself and M. Drouyn de Lhuys. As matters in London drew towards & conclusion, the delay in sending certain intelligence to Mr Wyse had been charged | as acrime against the Foreign office; but there was nothing to send which | could meet the contingency thus occurring at Athens. Baron Gros, although sent out simply to settle the amount, had taken upon him to deny the princi- | ple of one of the claims. The negotiations were thereupon broken off, and Mr Wyse renewed the coercive measures upon the 24th April, necessarily in ign rance of the treaty which was discussed upon the 17th, settled on the 18th, and confirmed upon the 19th of that month. Baron Gros’s assertion, ons had received and communicated to Mr Wyse the intelligence of the expect conclusion of the treaty, although false in itself, must be left for determine | between that functionary and his own government. Justifying the subsé qed

conduct of Mr Wyse, he proved that the acceptance of a delay which wont have given time for the convention to arrive lay entirely at the door of ve French mediator. Such portions of the London convention as were applicab € to the question would, however, be still adopted in place of the corresponding

terms agreed upon in Athene, and by consenting to adopt this partial —_ tion the English administration had arranged matters with France, and _

misunderstanding between the two governments was now at an end. lf had not been detained by debates in his own chamber, the French minister |

might indeed have assisted with his presence at the proceedings of that wry

in the British legislature. The last topic of blame referred to the islets of Sa-

pienza and Cervi, on which, after giving some historical details, Lor ,

Palmerston contended that England could produce a prima fucie plea of posses sion, and that Russia had long been cognisant of the existence and nature our claims. Embarking into the question of general foreign policy, the noble lord re-

ferred to and vindicated the interference of England in the separation of Belgium

and Holland, though against the opinion of three great powers of Europe. It = . | vast experiment, justified by its results. In Portugal they had espoused the cause | constitutional government which had also right on its side, and in the credit 0

this wise and sensible course Sir J. Graham had a right to share. The parte” | failure of this experiment was assignable to the slow growth of free jnstitutions

in anew soil; and their interference had in the end left Portugal in ® muc’. better condition than it was before. Alluding to the efforts which he had beeD

charged with using to obtain the dismission of Costa Cabral, Lord Famen complained that every opposer of the foreign policy of England endeavoure’

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ment that an attack against a foreign secretary in his individuality was like

shooting a policeman. The system remained and must remain, as if twenty | ministers were knocked down the twenty-first could not retain power uoless his

policy was consistent with the true dignity of his country, With Spain a similar | course was adopted. Their interf-rence was used, and used successfully, in sup-

| port of constitutional government against arbitrary power. But the tone of

|| their despatches had been censured. On this point he contrasted the language

| used by Lord Aberdeen himself to Sir E. Lyons with that of his own missive to

Sir E. Bulwer, and drew the conclusion that if one ought to be blamed the

other possessed no right to condemn. In the charge of undue interfere:ce with

| France he traced the same tendency to impute personal motives ; and while contending that the French nation would have yielded the firmer support to a minister who was assailed by a foreign conspiracy aided by partisans in his own legislature, the House, taking home the allusion, responded by a vehement aud prolonged burst of approbation. Rebutting the charge of complicity with the French revolutionists, of ill faith towards the mediators in the Sonderbund war in Switzerland, of suppressing Austrian despatches, and championing revolutions in Italy, the noble lord explained the true nature of Lord Minto’s mission as beiug, not to encourage retellion, but to afford advice, under invitation, to the sovereigns which might teach them how to allay the discontents wherever re- bellious were founded. Explaining the degree to which the English fleet had approached the straits of the Dardanelles, he showed no breach of treaty had

| taken place, and at the same time the excuse of the stress of weather, trans- || mitted in reply to the representations of Russia and Austria, were perfectly true,

Thus finishing the clauses of the indictment against his policy, the foreign secretary expatiated upon the proud position occupied by the minister who wielded the magnificent power of England, and submitted that in that high place he had not failed of his duty, but had acted so as to warrant the approval expressed in the resolution, and deserve the confidence of the people of England. He fearlessly challenged the verdict of the house and country upon the principles which hid throughout guided his policy in witching over the interests and safety of British subjects abroad.—The speech of the noble lord, which occupied four hours and three-quarters in delivery, was listened to by a very crowded house with anbroken attention, and closed amid enthusiastic cheering, which lasted for some minutes.

On the motion of Sir J, Walsh, the debate was then, at half-past 2, adjourne? to Thuraday next. The House rose a few minutes afterwards.

Wednesday, June 26. Sir H. Halford, in moving the second readin ur the County Rates Bill,

justified its object upom the ground tat these rates, although they were nominally paid by the ocoupler, fe!’ upon the owner, and that the relief it afforded to the former, by transferzing the rates altogether to the owners, would, in the condition of the tcuant farmers, be opportune.

Mr ©. Lewis opposed the bill, as contrary to the general principle of the law of England, that the incidence of these rates shall be upon the owner except under special and peculiar circumstances, and he moved to defer the second reading for six months. { [Sir J. Pakington recommended Sir H. Halford not to persevere with the bill, which contained a general principle it would be inexpedient to adopt.

Mr M. Gibson opposed the bill, because it would in some cases inflict gross injustice upon landlords.

Mr Robert Palmer agreed that those rates which were for the permanent improvement of the land should be paid by the owner; but there were other rates for purposes in which the occupier had a concurrent interest.

Mr Sotheron suggested that the bill, the principle of which he supported, should be referred to a select committee. ' After some further discussion the amendment was carried and the bill was ost. On the order of the day for the third reading of the Larceny Summary Juris-

diction Bill, Sir G. Strickland renewed his opposition to the whole policy of the measure,

| Teiterating the objections he had urged at the second reading of the bill, and moved to defer the third reading for six months.

Mr M. Milnes seconded this amendment, which was likewise supported by Mr 8S. Crawford and Mr M‘Callagh, and opposed by Sir J. Pakington, Mr Rice, Mr Banker, and Mr Aglionby.

Upon a division the third reading was carried by 119 against 25, and the bill passed.

Mr Aglionby moved the second reading of the Copyholds Enfranchisement Bill, the principle of which, he observed, was to relieve copyhold lands from the incidents of the tenure, part of the old feudal system, which were oppressive and created general dissatisfaction ; due regard being had to the rights and interests of lords of manors,

Mr Christopher opposed the bill because it was still a one-sided measure, and waa calculated to injure the rights of property. If this subject should be legis- lated for at all, it ouzht to be taken up by the government. He moved that

| the bill be read a second time that day six months. The amendment was seconded by Mr Heathcoat. Mr S. Adair suggested thatthe bill might be read pro forma, and referred to

a select committee. Sir G. Grey said, there seemed 'o be a general opinion in fayour of a com-

}, pulsory enfranchisement, and being arrived at an agreement upon its principle the better course was to read the bill a second time (not pro formu), and refer it to a select committee.

Mr Mullings opposed the bill, as well as Sir G. Strickland, who pronouuced it a delusion; it was not for the enfran-

chisement of copyholds, for it retained the tenure, but simply to commute reuts under that tenure to a rent charge.

After some remarks by Colonel Sibthorp and Mr Henley, the second reading was affirmed on a division by 103 against 84.

Mr Newdegate moved the second reading of the Accidents on Railways Bill, the object of which was to make it incumbent upon railway companies in cases of accident to send for medical assistance, without incurring the liabili y to ex-

| pense unless the accident arose from the negligence of the railway officers. If the party was unable to pay the expense the company might recover it from the parish.

Mr Ellis protested against the injustice of confining this obligation to railway | Companies, and moved to defer the second reading of the bill for six months.

Mr Adderley supported the bill, which cast no liability upon railway com- | '| panies except in cases of their own negligence.

Colonel Sibthorp also supported the bill, and regretted that it did not go || further, and compel railway companies to make ample compensution to partics

| who suffered through their neglect. Mr Labouchere could not recommend the House to agree to the bill, which

|| was extremely objectionable in priuciple. Its effect was to alter the general | law of principal and agent ; to compel railway companies in all cases to call in medical assistance, they being responsible in the first instance for the expense. At present the companies were ultimately liable fur medical assistance in accidents arising from the fault of their servants, aud there were uo special circumstances which would justify the application to them of a particular rule.

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Mr Spooner contended that there were especial circumstances, and denied that the object of the bill waa to alter the general liability of railway companies; it merely provided that there should be no delay in the first instance in sending for medical assistance.

The Attorney-General said his objection was that the bill did alter the law, and in one case only, and nothing was so bad as exceptional legislation.

Mr Ricardo likewise opposed the bill, which on a division was rejected by 108 against 53.

Mr Keogh obtained leave to bring in a bill to give further facilities for the improvement of towns in Ireland.

At six o’clock the House adjourned.

Thursday, June 27. The adjourne! debate on foreign policy was resumed by | Sir J. Walsh, who, after commending the speech of Lord Palmerston as an

unrivalled effort of parliamentary ability, assailed some of his main and characterised the principle of a policy whch spared the strong and op- pressed the weak as one of conquest. In reviewing the Greek transac'iona, he dwelt upon the suspicious omission of a reclamation on bebalfof Stellio Sumachi, | the unexplained conduct of the Briti-h Consul at Patras in the matter of the | brigands, and the monstrous disproportion between Don Pacifico’s pecuniary claims and the injury inflicted upon Greece. Observing that the effect of this

part of tbe noble lord’s policy had been to place Russiain the light of a defender of the weak, Sir John surveyed the wider field of our foreign politics under Lord Palmerston’s management, which after thgowing the continent into disorder, in the end riveted more firmly than ever the fetters of despotism.

Sir H. Verney, in support of the motion, read extracts from private corre- | spondence describing the anarchy, the fruit of misgovernment, which had prevailed in Greece fur the last six years, and asked whether, in such a ctate of things, after vain effurts to procure redress for our couutrymen there, it was not time to resort to the only means of obtaining it. So far from the policy of the Foreign Secretary having fomented disturbances in other states, it had a directly opposite tendency.

Sir R. Inglis said the ques'ion at issue was not that which bad been decided in another plage, tiad it been limited to the policy adopted in respect to Greece alone, ne should have felt some difficulty in giving his vote ; but the House was now called upon gratuitously to give a vote of confidence in the Ministers as to every part of their foreign policy, and he was not prepared to obey the mandate of Mr Roebuck. Besides his inability to approve the general course of their foreign policy, there was another consideration which would have determined his vote—namely, the position upon which the First Minister had been daring | enough to rest the issue of the question—namely, that he did not intend to | alter his cour-e in consequence of the resolution of the House of Lords, since | the privilege of controlling and advising the Crown in this matter rested with | this House. But if the Upper House were not entitled to give an opinion upon such a subject as this, Sir Robert professed that he hardly knew on what subject it could exercise any discretion whatever. =

The Marquis of Granby observed, that the ruling principle of Lord Palmer- ston’s brilliant speech was that the object of the government was to propagate liberal opinions, and it was because he believed that a restless intermeddiing | with the affairs of other nations was injurious, not only to them, but to this country, that he was totally opposed to the principle eru ciated by the noble secretary.

Sir W. Molesworth said, the motion put in issue the general principles which had guided the foreign policy of the government in the shape of au appeal from the decision of another branch of the legislature. This Hou-e, there!ore, sat as | a courtofsolemn appeal, bound by the obligations and duties of such a court, to give the deliberate opinion of the people of England upoa the foreign policy of | | the ministers, What, then, were the principles which had guided that policy ? Mr Roebuck had laid them down, and Lord Palmerston, in one of the ablest speeches ever delivered in that House, had affirmed his exposition of them. | First, that it was the duty and policy ofthe government to extend the protection of England to her wandering sons. This was an unsound and a dangerous |

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position. If Englishmen chose to wan ler where pleasure or profi: called them, the general rule was that they mu-t take the consequences of so ing. The | second principle wae, that it was the duty of the British minister, vith relation | to foreign affairs, to cause other governments to make concessions to their people, to employ all their effur's to obtain self-goverament and cru-h despotism.

Though an advocate of the principle of self-government he protes'ed against a doctrine which would make us the pedagogues of the world; which in practice had made us hated throughout Europe, and prevented, and would prevent,

reductions in our military expenditure. He dis-ented, therefore, from Mr Roe- buck’s propositions, and after weighivg the risks which might be incurr:d by @

change of ministry, and, expressing his deep regret at taking a part against his political friends, he declared his intention to vote sgainst the motion

Mr 8S. Adair ontended thata British subject abroad ought not t» beina wore position than when resid:ng at home; and that although non- ference

in the internal aff irs of ot‘ier nations was the rule, circumstan< t render it impossible to refrain f om interference. Upon these two grou l-fended

at some length th: foreign policy of the government, which was peculiarly en-

titled to the support of those interested in the commercial prosperity of England, Mr S. Herbert in the outset of his speech, defended Sir J. Graham against the

reflections of Lord Palmerston in relation to his despatches to Mr Bulwer at Madrid, and then turned to the affairs of Italy. rupt state of the Roman government at the accession of the Pope, whose sole object in hig reforms was to convert a bad despotism into a good one. He nex rted to the affairs of Lombardy, vindicating the Austrian court from the designs upon

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Sir G. Grey complained of the accusations levelled by Mr Herbe: sinst hia noble coll-ague. The question was not about any particula: 1, but whether the principles of our foreign policy, looking at it as a w were such as to command the respect or to merit the censure and reprobati louse. No course of pro, agandism had been adopted by our foreign min ; distinet disavowals had been repeatedly given of any desire to interfere with the p litical

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despotism on the one hand and anarchy and disorder on the 0 p

! saab with other countries might be purchased at too dear a price by the

sacrifice of the national honour, and he trusted that the House would not by

their vote lower this country from the high position it had hitherto occupied

ticns of the world. ,

oe Gnaaee arraigned the conduct of the First Minister in sitting down

contente ‘ly under the censure of the House of Lords, sheltering himself under

precedents which were, in fact, no precedents at all. He had left the office of

vindicating the policy of the government to the hon. member for Sheffield, who

did not deem it prudent to raise the same issue as in the upper House. It was

deemed wise to shift the issue in order to enlist in favour of Lord I almerston

' the eympathies of those who believed that he studied to promote popular princi-

ples. Upon the Greek question he observed that the original vice of the noble

lord was disclosed in the case of Mr Finlay, in which there came out the grand

question how the relations of British subjects domiciled in foreign c untries were

to be regulated. It had been admitted that where the law of the country was

applicable to the case the tribunals must be first resorted to. The law did apply

to that case; Mr Finlay, therefore, was bound to go before the tribunals to

which he had been always referred by the Greck Government; yet with the

tribucals open to him diplomatic measures had been employed. Baron Gros, ex-

ercising the impartial agency of France, declared that it was owing to Mr Finlay

that the arbitration was not proceeded with. The fruit of this policy has been

humiliation to Frence, and a lesson, received without reply, from the Autocrat

of all the Russias. On the sudject of our conduct towards other nations, Sir G.

| Grey had asked, what was the antag«nistic principle? That of non-inte:fer-

ence; whereas the policy of Lord Palmerston had been characterised by a

sp'rit of active interference. Thaton fit occasions British influence might be

exercised with other countries to extend institutions from which we derived | go much benefit, no one denied ; but we were not to make occasions and be- | come propagandists of even sound political doctriaes. No minister could really

| protect Englishmen except upon principles of pelicy which universal consent had |

prescribed for the government of nations. This spirit of Lord Palmerston’s

speech was apparent in his illusion to the Rom-h Citizen, Who was the citizen of | a conquering nation, who had a law for himself which he denied to oiticrs; aud | claimed privileges peculiarly his own. Were the peop'e of England to arrogate | this distinction ; were we to stand upon any other platform than that of the civilised nations of C bristendom ?

Mr Henry Drummond declined to oppose the motion. His speech embraced a variety of rather incongruou: topics, including the Reform Bill, to which he attributed the late continertal revolutions.

On the motion of Mr Cockburn the debate was again adjourned. After some further business the House adjourued at 2 o'clock.

Friday, June 28. Lord John Russell, in moving that the House at its rising do adjourn till

| Monday, drew attention to the recent attack on the Queen, and having detailed | the particulars, made some remark expressive of his sorrow and indignation, in | which he was loudly cheered. Ra Herries considered the circumstances of the case called for an address

t, Lord John Russell did not think the presentation of one advisuble, though

| had he felt disposed to move such an address, he felt quite sure that he would 1 | have met with the cordial concurrence of the House.

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Sir De Lacy Evans, on the part of his constituents, rose to express the | strong objection which they had to Hyde Park being appropriated to the in- | tended Exhibition in 1851; and he would beg to suggest that Battersea Park

|| would be a much more convenient and a less objectionable place for the erec- || tion of the propos: d building. {| Mr Labouchere wished that all discussions should be postponed until Mon- i| day, after the meeting o! the Commissioners, which would take place on Satur- | day (this day), and afier some conversation the wisli was complied with.

i Mr Cockburn resumed the adjourned debate on the foreign policy of the Go- | vernment, and was [LEFT SPEAKING ]

| PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS

402 St James’s park—estimate for improvements. | 413 Poor law unions—return. i I

| $24 Sir James Brook~return. | 435 Poor relief—return. 362 Freemen’s, &c., admission—abstract of returr. 424 Ships (Navy) —abstract of returns. 447 Printing—report from committee.

| 431 Bills—tenant right (Ireland) | | 446 — Sunday trading prevention. {| 448 — Railway audit. | 445 — Cruelty to animals (Scotland).

449 — Co nty courts extension (amended on re committment). 458 — Incorporation of boroughs confirmation (No. 2).

| Subdivision of parishes—s-cond report of commissioners. i Criminal! offenders (scotland)—tables, { Greece—further correspondence.

381 Postal communication between London and Paris, &c.—report from committee. i) 441 Sunday tradi »g (metropolis) bill—Lords’ report. { 443 Episcopal fund—return.

462 Bills —metropolitan intertaents (amended, on consideration of the bill as amended). 463 — General Board of Health (amended).

{ Public hea!th act (St Giles’s cemetery—report of Messrs Austin and Rawlinson. { Criminal! offenders (England and Wales)—tables. i Greece—further correspondence. ,| 439 wee ve (lreiand.) || 455 — andlord and tenant (amended, on consideration of bill as amended)

466 — Court of Chancery (county palatine of Lancaster), " 440 Sir Thomas Turton—report from committeee, 464 Bili—home made spirits in bond.

Prisons (Ireland)—28th report of Inspectors-Genera).

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| COURT AND ARISTOCRACY. Her Masesty and the Royal Family continue at Buckingham palace

j The baptism of His Royal oteees the infant Prince, third auaee r Maje-ty and His Royal Highness Prince Albert, took place on Saturday in the Chapel within Buckingham palace. The sponsors were His Grace the | Duke of Wellington, Her Royal Highness the Duch ss of Kent, proxy oor

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Her Serene Highness the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar, and His Roy | Due ‘cimar, oyal High- eon Prince of Prussis, who had that morning ariived on a visit to Her

The Queen gave a State Ball (the first this season) on Wednesd i ) ay even: | st Buckingham palace. The reception was unusually brillient, the et , tons uumbering nearly 2,000, and comprising the Royal Family, the foreign | Princes in this country, the whole of the Diplomatic Corps, the Cabinet

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Ministers end principe] members of the Administration, with their wives and 1} daughters, the oflicers of State and the ladies and gentlemen of the house. | | holvs of the Queen and Princes, and the diff-rent members of the Ro a 1 Family, all foreigners of distinction at present in town, several hundved members of the House of Lords and the House of Commoner, and;many di

tingui-hed officers both in the naval and military service. 7 a

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WE:-TMINSTER TEMPORARY BRipGE.—The committee of the House of Com. | mons have decided that the standing orders may be dispensed with in favour of |

this measure, which is to enable the Commissioners of Westminster bridge to build a temporary structure from Bridge street to the opposite shore, to main. | tain it during the repairs of Westminster bridge, and to suthorise the commis. sioners to mortgage the bridge estates. The bill isto be brought in by Lord | Robert Grosvenor, Sir Charles Burrell, and Mr Frewen. i

Tne Lonpon NewSaGENTs AND THE NEw PosTAL REGULATIONS.—It jg intended to calla meeting of the London newsvend-rs for the purpose Of form. || ing a deputation to wait on the proprictors of the metropolitan weekly news. papers with the following proposition—viz, That an early edition of gj) the weekly newspapers be published on Friday afternoon, in time for post to the | most distant places, so that the payers may be supplied to the subscribers in || those localities on Saturday evening. Another edition, to be publisheq oa |!

Saturday morning, to be forwarded to the less distant parts by the morning |

mails; and a town edition, for distribution throughout the metropolis ang its ||

suburbs on Saturdsy afternoon. Should the foregoing proposals be adopted, it would considerably lessen the labours of the working newsmen, who are now | equally as hard worked on Sabbath as on the week days. \|

ATTACK UPON THE QueEN.—Oa Thursday evening shortly after six || o'clock, Her Majesty, accompanied by three of the Royal children, and || Viscountess Jocelyn, Lady in Waiting, left Cambridge lanes Piccadilly, || where Her Majesty had been calling to inquire afer the health of her illus. |! trious uncle. A crowd had assembled without the court yard gates to wit. | ices Her Majesty's departure, and as the Royal carriage passed cut of the || gates, a person reepectably dressed, and about six fect high, advanced two or | three paces, and W!th a small black cane, which he held in his hand, struck a sharp hlow at the Quec. The blow took effect upon the upper part of Her Majesty's forehead, and upon ez bonnet. which being of a light texture || was driven in by its force. The act was witnessed by a great many persons, || and a rush being made, the delinquent was instantly seized. Her Majesty || betrayed no feeling of alarm, and immediately after the occurrence drove up || Piccadilly, on her return to Buckingham Palace, the spectators cheering her | 7 loudly as she passed along. The prisoner was taken to Vine street station, || ¢ and on being asked his name, he replied, without hesitation, “ Robert Pate,” 3 describing himself as a retired lieutenant of the 10th Hussars, and adding |, § that he resided at No. 27 Duke street, St. James’s. It may be well to state ‘ that the small stick with which the prisoncr struck the blow was not thicker |. i than an ordinary goosequill—that it measured only two feet two inches in | ‘ length, and woighed less than three ouvees. Of course such a weapon as |, : this could not under any circumstances occasion very serious injary, and Her Mejesty’s sppearance within two hcurs in the Royal box of the Covent | garden Italian Opera proves beyord all possibility of doubt thas she has not || sustained much injury. About nid-day yesterd«y the prisoner was brought || up for eximination at the Home Office. He stands about 6 feet lin. | high, has Jight hair, and wears a nwustache and rather bushey whiskers. || His face and forehead are indic.tive of intelligence, but his eye is somewhat | vacant. He is of slender muke, and stoops +lightly. He appeared to be | quite collected, and evenindiftcrent. Altogether his appearance is prepos- | sessing and gentlemanly, His age is about 10. After the examination of the witnesses, and upon the application of the Attorney-Geueral, the prisoner |, was r-manded till Friday next, at twelve o’clock. |

NON-DELIVERY OF NEWSPAPERS ON SUNDAYS. —Thie following short form of | petition, with a view to the abrogation of the absurd resolution of the House of Commons, which was carried by a majority of 32 in a house composed of 158 | members, and which has led to thesuppression of newspaper perusal on Sundays, is recommended. It is only necessary to copy it on a sheet of foolecap paper, , and, having obtained as many signatures as possible, send it to any member of | parliament for presentation. The petition should be placed in a cover open at , both ends, with the words “ Petition to Parliament” on the cover, it will then — pass through the Post office free :—* To the Honourable the Commons of Great , Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled.— Your petitioners have seen with | surprise and regret that, on a resolution of your Honourable House, the Ministers have directed the discontinuance of the delivery and expedition of letters and newspapers on the Sunday throughout the kingdom. They beg to state thats continuance of this suspension of the Sunday post will be attended with great injury and inconvenience to your petitioners and pray that your Honourable House will rescind the resolution on which the Ministerial order has been found. d at the earliest possib'e moment. And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will \| ever pray.” |

1HE ScoTT! H FeTeE.—The preparations in the park of Holland house || for this interesting event are now nearly completed, and are on the most || ample and magnificent scale. Three graud stands have been erected, each capable of containing nearly 1,000 persons. Her Majesty ie expected to honour—as she did last year—the fete with her pre-ence, and a further eclat will be communicited to it by the appearance ot the Nepaulcse Ambassador.

PostaL COMMUNICATION WiTH PARis.—The select committee appointed by the House of Commons to ascertain the most expeditious and least expensive mode of postal communication between London and Paris and the Northern \\

parts of Europe, have decidid in fi vour of the Calais route. te | HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.—The present return happily |

shows a continuance of that low rate of mortality which has now been observed , for many weeks, and which must be considered as favourable, when comp w.th what has prevailed in London atthe same season in former year, T ” | deaths in week ending last Saturday did not exceed 775. Taking correspon | ing weeks of ten previous years, the mortality was never so low, except in 1841 and 1842, and it rose in 1847 and 1849 to nearly 1,000 deaths ; the average is 864, or raised in the ratio of supposed increase of population, 945 ; the deaths last week were, therefore, less than the latter number by 168. The births, during the week numbered 1,430. At the Royal Observatory Greenwich, the mean daily reading of the barometer was above 30 in. on the last five day$ of the week ; the mean of the week was 30052 in. The mean temperature of the week was 62 deg. 1 min.

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| Brighton Gazette. {| GeENLRAL GARIBALDI IN LiveRrooL.—It will be interesting to our readers

to learn that, on Saturday, General Garibaldi, the celebrated defender of Rome,

| arrived in this town by the steamer Queen from Gibraltar. The general, who | was accompanied by an aide-de-camp, looked exceedingly well in health, and appeared in exccllent sprits. A Paris letter, written some few weeks ago, says, « General Garibaldi, the well-known leader of the republican system at Rome, is now residing at Tangiers, in Africa, and he is busily engaged in w iting memoirs upon the great events iu which he touk euch a lorge part. The manu- script haa been sold to a bookseller of Paria, who will publish it at the same time in the French and Italian languages.—Liverpool Allion,

SUNDERLAND Docks.—These docks were opened last week. Mr George Hudson, M.P, was present, and presided at the dinner in the evening. The Sunderland Herald states the length of that portion of the dock which has just been opened at 2,000 feet, and the average breadth 440, the width at one point being 360, at another 440, and at another 550 feet, and covering in all 184 acres. The dock will be capable of containing 260 and the hal’-tide basin 38 vessels; the depth of water, too, wiil suffice for ships of the largest tonnage. The estimated cost of the works yet to complete—viz., the sea outlet, the piers, and tidal basin, does not, we understand, exceed 60,000/, and it is probable that the

| whole will be finished in about two years. | EMBARKATION oF PoLisa Rerucecs At Sovuruiurton.—A party of Polish refugees, 16 in number, left the Royal pier, on Wednesday mcrning. for Spithead, toembark on board the American Eagle for a passage to America. The Mayor was in attendance to bid them farewell, and on leaving many of them were affected to.tears by the kindness shown them, Rather more than one-half the original number having decided on remaining in England - at least for the present—most of them have come to London, where they will en- deavour to obtain employment until they can retu:n to their own country, Others have resolved on going, as soon as they can obtain passports, to France, Belgium, and Prussia’ Deatu BY CHLOROFORM.—Mr James Smith, a medical student aged 21, un-

intentionally killed himself on Sund:y night last, by, taking chloroform. He was found in bed upon his sight side, quite dead. In his hands he he'd a pocket- handkerchief, which was firmly pressed to his mouth and nostrils, Mr Smith, it appears has for aconsiderable period been in the habit of inhaling chloroform, which he poured upon his handkerchief, and applied to the nostrils, for the purpose of allaying a severe pain in the face, to which he was subject. There seems no doubt from the medical eviderce that Mr Smith, after retiring to rest, had poured chloroform froia a bottle found in the watch-pocket upon his handkerchief, and while inhailing this became insensible, and never afterwards rallied from the state of unconsciousness into which it threw him. AMATEUR HANGING.—On Sunday week two fishermen belonging to Stour-

port performed a very remarable feat. They were drinking at the Cross public- house, when one Levi Rowley, a man thirty years of age, intimat«d to the other Josiah Burton, who is much his junior, that he was tired of the troubles of the world and would hang himself. Burton offered at once to be his executioner, and accordingly they procured a piece of rope and adjourned to a neighbouring spot, where atree well calculated for a gallows, was standing. Rowley got up upon a block of wood, and Burton soon had the rope fixed to bough and neck, then, kicking the wood away, he started his friend upon his journey to another world. He then returned to the public house, and told his other companions what hehad socleverly perfurmed, but nobody believed that he was telling the truth, so nobody moved. Burton presently went out again alone, and found that the features of his friend had undergone considerable change, so he thought he had better cut him down, and ascertain ifhe still was serious in his determination to bid farewell to mortal things. This cutting down was, however, a work of difficulty, as bis knife was dull, but at last he succeeded, and laid his companion upon the turf; but believing that the insensibility which the hanging man exhibited to be all sham, he again staggered into the house and left him to hisfite. The other people in the house, thinking at last that something serious might real'y have occurred, went out and found Rowley apparently dead. The immediately got him in doors, and after using the proper means for recovering him, they at last had the sati-faction to see their effurts successful. It is said that he has had

| enough of hanging, and is now resigned to life.

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IRELAND.

INCUMBERED EsTATES.—Between the 15th and 20th instant, thirty-one new petitions for the sale of estates were lodged in the Incumbered Estates Court. Several of the inheritors in this list are petitioners in their own cases. The total number of petitions is now 978. At this rate of progress, the commissioners, before the end of the summer, would have more estates to sell than they could dispose of in four years. They are, however, preparing for vigorous operations after the recess, Within the week ending on the 19ti inst, no less than | fifty- two conditional or absolute orders for sales were pronounced.

THe MINISTERIAL Crists.—The feeling in favour of Lord Palmerston is more widely spread on this side of the Channel than in England. Indeed it might bere be called unanimous ; for the noble lord has always enjoyed a popu- larity in Ireland which the usual sectarian sources of difference, that from the primary distinctions of party amongst us, have never interfered with. Hence it is that the Evening Mail and other conservative orgy nsin I) eland have not hesitated to defend the manly English policy of the Foreign Minister, and those who know nothir g of any foreign politics, and who hate the whigs as cordially as

| they well could do, yet esteem Lord Palmerston asa good Irish landlord, and are | ready to stand by him.

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“evangelical ” paper, says:—" The total ce sation of delivery at the Pust- office on Sunday has caused universal disappointment and perplexity in every department of business, and in every circle of the community, as well as

|, country. Very serious loss and i: jury, which no after legis! tion can repair, ;| Must be the consequence of this abrupt and il!-advised proceeding.” | THE HaRVEST AND THE Potato Crors.— Fortunately, there are no ;, authentic accounts of the re-appearince of potato bligh’, but, on the contrary,

the provincial journals, of this week, are almost unanimous in describing the healthy appearance of the crop, and the general prospect of an

|| abundant harvest. The supplics of new potatoes are ste: dily inercasing in j| all the markets, and the prices are Lecoming moderate for this “luxury.” The |, “* Cork Reporter ” declares that nothing like the present cheering prospects

has been witnessed for five yearspast. Wheat, ovte, and barley are ripening

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under the influence of tlie present fine harvest weather.—The “ Mayo Con- stitution” says:—“ We are happy to state that we coutinue to receive the most favourable accounts of the thriving condition of this crop fom every

| part of the country. We were alarmed at tlhe rumour reaching us that in the | neighbourhood of Westport and Hollymoant the fatal blight had appeared, but upon close investigation we have found that this unpleasant report was

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THE ECONOMIST. 715 | | created either from ignorance of the reil symptoms of the disease, or for ‘speculative purposes.’ In Westport district the alarm wes increased by the | practical instruct hiving made the statement for the object of frightening

the peasantry into an ex'ens ve turnip cul-ure, which, though the end might have been desirable, the means were not the most to be approved of. Whilst the disease har, up to the present, heen averted, this e op has suffered considerably frou the ree: nt high winds —in wany cases blackening the stalks; bat the genial weather now set in wil', we tru-t, restore this

desirable produce and secure an abundant yield.”

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FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

PAPAL STATES. The Armonia of Turin states, from Rome, 12:h, that a commis- |

sion of six cardinals has been named to discuss the affiirs relating to the Pontificial State. It is composed of C wdinals Antonelli, Marini, Cagiano, Altieri, Della Genga, and Riario, Cardinal Della Genga, who had gone to Naples for the bathing season, has been sent for by express. The greatest sccrecy is observed concerning the object of this commission. According to the same correspondence, the police of the four legations has been confided to the Austrian mi itary authorities.

NAPLES. We read in the Nouvelliste of Marseilles :— ‘“‘ A letter from Naples, of the 18th inst., informs us of a terrible

catastrophe, which has caused the greatest consternation in that city. Che morning betore, at 5 o'clock, a.m., a part of the Grenagtio, an immense edifice, which the troops occupy as barracks, gave way and fell down, swallowing up in its ruins 400 or 500 persons.”

Later accounts prove the statement to be exaggerated. It appears that the roof of an old building, formerly used as a granary and turned into a barrack, fell in on the 16:h, burying 80 soldiers under the ruins.

SPAIN, An occurrence expressive of popular feeling took place at a bull-

fight a few days since. ‘The Duke and Duclicss of Montpensier were present, and according to the custom which prevails when any mera- ber of the Royal family assists at the spectacle, the chief of the To- readors requested their permission to commence the fight on his bended knee, At this proceeding the entire assembly looted and | hissed. When the second bull was about to be led forth, the same ceremony was repeated with the same result, although the famous Montes, the conqueror in al! his battles, was one of the Toreadors. On the third bull-fight being about to commence, the Toreador merely saluted the Duke and Duchess, without bending his knee. A shout of applause was immediately raised by the entire mob. The Royal party, visibly affected, quitted their box after the death of the third bull. ‘This manifestation, so spontaneous aud so unanimously produced, surprised everybudy, even those who took part in it. It is regarded as a political event of considerable importance,

The Madrid Gazette of the 19th inst publishes a report of the Al- cade of Culmenor Viejo, stating that at 11 o'clock, a.m, on the 17th, thirty-two armed persons, some of whom were mounted, presented themselv:s at the Bridge de! Granjal, on the Manzanares, That functionary imm: diately gave the necessary orders to the alcades of the neighbouring towns, and sallied out in pursuit of the malefac- tors, with a detachment of civic guards and a large body of peasants. They overtook them at Puente Nuevo, and after a resistance of half an hour captured the entire band. Among the prisoners were— Andres Armatizal, a colonel of infantry ; Miguel Paris, a commander of cavalry ; Jose Felipe, a captain of infantry; Genero Diaz Alvaro, an ensign; and Dionisio Vega, a standard-bearer. All these officers had served in the Carlist army. Several persons were arrested in Madrid, in consequence of disclosures made by some of the prisoners. It was believed that they intended to repair to the mountains of Toledo, and proclaim Charles V King of Spain.

AUSTRIA. A cabinet council took place onthe 2Ist in the presence of the

Emperor, to deliberate on the affairs of Hungary. The results of this deliberation are most important. It was decided to leave the Hun- garian constitution question for the present entirely in suspense, and to regulate merely the administr.tion of that country. Since the re- occupation of the Magyar territory the administration of Hungary has been carried on by a provisional authority, at the head of which is General Haynau, assisted by a civil commissary, Baron Gehringer, In the subordivate districts the civil authorities were entirely under the orders of the district military commanders. The ministry have decided that this state of things shall cease immediately. The highest authority in Hungary is to be placed in the hands of a civil vice- roy, and the exclusive control of political matters is to be withdrawn from the military powers, ‘The real constitutional question, the Hungarian statute, has by this decision been postponed to an indefi-

things to gain time. ‘This resolution must create a great excite- ment in Hungary, for all partics are anxiously awaiting the ultimate | | decision of this important question.

The approaching harvest in the Banat and Servia promis most abundantly. The wheat, barley, aud rye are the appearance of oats and maize is that of Official Gazette.

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solemnly and peremptorily declars d that, albeit she may be dispos :

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right emanating from previous acts. She further declares the o d |

Diet to have been swept away, or to have morgi d into new inst! u- |

tions resulting ‘from the events, or, In otner words, from the el

Jution of 1848: and she further insists that, although I russia and her

allies, members of the union, do not object to meet in Congress at

Frankfort, she and they will not assent to that Congress assuming |

the character of a plenum; that is, of resolutions then and there

agreed to by a majority being at all binding upon dissenting Govern:

ments. According to the judgment and decision of Piussia, the old

Diet is absolutely extinguished ; and vothing remains of the old con-

federation but the skeleton of organic laws on which it was founded

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| it was carried, and after some conversation the meeting adjourned,

tion of obsolete forms. Austria no less positively and peremptorily

holds to opposite conclusions. ;

The Danish and Prussiaa p!enipotentiaries held another conference

on the 24th, at the British legation, in presence of Lord Westmore-

land. Nothing more can be said at this moment of the resuli than

that it adds little or nothing to the hopes of arrangement.

UNITED STATES. a Papers from New York are to the 12th inst, and telegraphic

| All anxiety on Cuban affairs is at an end. The latest intelli- ence states that all questions relating to prisoners are referred to

Washington, to be adjusted between Mr Clayton and the Spanish Minister. ‘Ihe President has directed rigorous proceedings against

| all persons known to have incited the Cuban expedition. The Go- || vernment steamer Saranac had arrived with Havana dates of the

6th inst. Her commander received assurances from the Spanish authorities that the prisoners should be honourably dealt with until advices are received from Washington. The prisoners of the late expedition have been well treated. There was no truth in the statement of five having been shot.

Few additional tacts have come to light relative to the Cuban ex- edition. General Lopez had been again arrested, and it was the

intention of the Government to prosecute. Various alarming ru- mours had been afloat relative to collisions between the naval forces of the two Governments, but happily they were without foundation,

Some apprehensions were entertained of a hostile movement on the part of the Cuban Spaniards against Haytien Soulouque, and in favour of the Spanish population of St Domingo. The United Siates agent, Mr. Green, had returned to communicate with his Govern- ment.

From Havana we learn that 61 of the volunteers captured during the late invasion were under trial in the Marine Court. The island was perfectly tranquil.

CANADA, Accounts from Toronto dated June 12, state that on the previous

night the Provincial Parliament refused, withont discussion, Sir Alan M‘Nab’s motion to introduce the Indemity Bill of last session. The vote stood 36 to 16.

BIRTHS.

l On Tuesday, the 25th inst, at Windmill hill, Sussex, the lady of Herbert Mascall Curieis, Esq., M.P., of a daughter. 3

On the 26:b inst, at 27 Upper Seymour street, Portman square, the lady of the Rev Browslow Maitland, of a s0n. : Ou Monday, the 24th inst, at Brandsby lodge, Yorkshire, the wife of Henry P. Cholmeley, ksq., of a son. : :

MARRIAGES. On the 26th inst, Baron Meyer de Rothschild, of Piccadilly, to Jutiana, elde

ter of the late Isaac Cohen, Esq., of Park !ane. c On the 26th inst, at St George’s Church, Hanover square, by the Rev. William

Carter, M.A., Fellow ot New ( ollege, Oxtord, sir William Dickson, Bart, of Sydenham, Roxbarghshire, Captain R.N., to Laurette Emmeline, « nly daughter of Colonel Northey of Liangwathan, Pembrokeshire, and late Assistant-Quarterm aster-Gencral, oe

DEATHS. On the 25th inst, in Upper Grosvenor street, after a severe iliness, the Viscount

Cantoupe, son of the Earl and Countess De la Warr. , On the 27th inst, in Sloane street, the Hon. Esther Charlotte Baird, widow of the late Major-General Joseph Baird, and sister of the Right Hon. the Lord Bish p of

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Killaloe. ; On the Sth ult, at Giluock hall, St Elizab-th, Jamaica, the Hon. Duncar Rr member of Mer Majesty's Council in that island, where he had resided

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COMMERCIAL NEWS.

Canapa Comrany.—The half-yearly general meeting of the proprietors of this Company was held on Thursday. In ‘detailing the condition of the Company's affairs the chairman said that “ whilst the receipts of the Company, for the half year ending June 6, 1849 had amounted to 12,390/, the receipts for the same period in 1850 amounted to 22,240/, showing an excess over the half year of 1849 of 10,000/. As, therefore, the payment of the usual dividend tor the balf-year would amount only to 9,000/, the directors thought, under such circumstances, they might maiutain it at its present rate, Of land, there had been sold for the half-year ending June 6, 1849. 1,751

| acres; during the corresponding half-year of 1850, 3,608 acres had |

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been disposed of. Of the lands leased for the half year of 1849 there | were 24.580 acres; during the same period in 1850, 34,626 acres, ||

showing an increase of 10,000 acres. The social affairs of the coun. || try and the company—for with politics they had nothing to do—were also looking promising, There had been a good harvest in 1849, a good one might be expected in 1850. The sales had been good. The |! people were all paying their debts and doing extremely well. Per. |

haps the Canada Company had not, so far, derived the tull benefit of | | this, as the settlers had in the first instance devoted their increased receipts to the payment of the storekeepers and others ; but its bene. ficial effect would be sensibly felt during the present year. In con. clusion, therefore, he had no hesitation in recommending that a dividend of six per cent. upon the paid up capital should be de.

‘To this motion there was no opposition ;

witterature.

Tus Avropiocrapny or Lercu Hunt, with Reminiscences of Friends and Contemporaries. Smith, Elder, and Co., Cornhill. {|

Mr Leicu Hunt has now been nearly fifty years known to the | public. In that time he has passed through many Vicissitudes || of fortune and been acquainted with many men of distinction, | Ile has been the friend of Lamb, Byron, Shelly, Moore, Hazlitt, | Campbell, Hook, Wordsworth, and is now the friend of other first. rate men. Ile was a successful journalist, and a martyr for his poli. tical opinions. He has attracted much inimical criticism and been engaged in frequent literary warfare. Though born and bred in London, which he has scarcely left except for a visit to Italy, he hag seen and known in this microcosm specimens of all that is worth and | all that is not worth knowing of humanity. If he were as dull as he | is lively, as ignorant as he is learned, as unacquainted with English | as he is a great master of our noble speech, using it in its easiest and || simplest and most pleasing forms, it would be impossible for sucha man to call back his recollections of his friends and describe his com- | munications with them, to trace the formationof hisown thoughts, to de- | scribe his own doings in the world, in short, to write his autobiography, and snatches of the biographies of many great men, without producing a delightful work. Mr Hunt need not make an apology, even if the bookseller had not fostered the undertaking, for adding to the | number of amusing and instructive books, What if sone of the anecdotes and stories have already been published ; what if the death | of Shelly and the quarrel with Byron have been told over and over again,—the latter is now told in a different spirit from formerly, and with some contrition ;—it is good to have all these historiedées and a number of others collected together and bound up with the reminis- vences of one in whom they must live as long as lite remains. Some- thing perhaps of egotism might be spared, though we have not found | anything we should desire to have omitted; and none of that | could well be taken away without taking something with it of more | value. Mr Hunt has much to boast of. He has outlived many of | his antagonists as well as many of his friends, and if we may judge , from his portrait, has yet, now that he has, even without the || Laureatship, a respectable provision, and is still patronised both by | the public and booksellers, many happy bookwriting years before him. Mr Ward was almost as old as Mr Hunt before he began to || write his novels, and it would be rather dishonourable to literary pursuits if they should blunt sensibility more than the daily routine of

The present work, though it looks like the last, may be only the successful precursor of others. It will undoubtedly be much read, and may induce Mr Hunt to look back to his “reminiscences” for other eutertaiuing anecdotes of men and things, From such a book taking so wide a scope and speaking of many of the distinguished men and of the great events of the present century we can mike no quotations. If we quoted one page we must quote another till we quoted nearly the whole book. It contains something for every class of readers, They will all find some person or some event mentioned in which they take a deep interest. By the mere force of circumstances—a lengthened life, an acquaintance with the world, an easy style, and a vivid memory—Mr iiunt has given us a pleasant gossiping work that will be generally, not to say | universally, read,

Earnest NEss, the Sequel to “ Thankfulness.” dy Cu ARLES Taytor, M.A. Sampson Low, Fieet street.

Puce is no disguise about this book. It is intended to represent under a most favourable aspect, the episcopacy of our church. It assumes the form of a history of a bishop and his family, It is not ouly a book of earnestness, but of calmness and peace. Mr Vaylor has attained his end, und given a very charming picture of the life of a bishop.

Tue Sabpatu ; or, an Examination of the Six Texts commonly adduced Jrom the New Testament in proof of a Christian Sabbaih. By A Layman, Chapman and Lail, Strand.

Ar TER a very elaborate, controversial, critical, and minute examina- ‘ion of the six texts which are supposed to justify Sunday observance, iu which we can by no means tollow the author, he comes to this || couclusion :—

I now repeat, with that perfect confidence which knows no doubt, the all- important proposition which, from the outset of the discussion, it has been my design to maintain and to prove, namely, that in the Christian Scriptures no warraut is to be found for the belief that we are enjoined by Divine authority to observe the Sunday either as a Sabbath day, oras a stated day of © assembling

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Centuries of the Christian era passed away before the Sunday was observed by the Christian Church as a Sabbath. History does not furnish us with a single proof or indication that it was at any time 80 observed previous to the Sabbati- cal edict of Constantine in A.D. 321.* On the other hand, there is inferential proof of the most satisfactory character to be collected from Scripture and from non-Scriptura!l writings, that from the time of the first promulgation of Chris- tianity to the middle of the second century the Christian Church observed no Sabbath.

Of the human origin of Sunday observance, he says,— There are al-osome facts in point which I have not yet, or only slightly, adverted

to, but which, with the legitimate conclusions to be drawn from them, wil), I

trust, make it perfectly clear to impartial inquirers, that the observance of Sun- Gay, as a stated diy of assembling for pubiic prayer and religious instruction, is of no other than of human origin. They are but two in number, but each of them is strikingly indicative of the human origin of Sunday observance.

The first I shall notice is this, that no ecclesiastical writer of the first three

centuries of the Christian era has attributed the origin of that observance either

to the injunction or the example of the Apostles, or to any precept from Christ himself

The other fa , that the two writers of that period who undertake to give reasons for the observance of the Sunday, do not agree in their reasons for it,

them assigns as one reason, what is either too absurd or tuo and that « improbable for b lief; which proves that nothing certain was known on the subject: a most unlikely circumstance, if the practice itself had been enjoined by Diviie or Apostolic authority.

fe With respect to the fact first mentioned, I have to remark that Barnabas (or whoever sius, bishop of Corinth (A.D. 170), Tertullian (A p. 192), Clement of Alexandria (A.D. 192), Or gen (A.D. 230), and Cyprian, bishop of Carthage (AD. 25°), all

mention or allude to the religious observance of the Sunday, but not one of them

even hints that it originated in any precept of Cbri-t, or in any recommenda-

tion of the Apostles, either by precept or example. Yet had any such precept been given, or example set, it is incredible that it should not have been known

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else wrote the epistle ascribed to him), Jastin Martyr (a.p. 147), Diony-

in the times of the writers above named, and hardly to be believed, that, if | known, it would not have been mentioned by them, or by some of them.

These specimens will show that this is a calmly reasoned, well written work, composed in a spirit worthy of the solemn theme it treats, while it is equally well timed as to publication, with reference to the discussions of the hour. sideration of the Sabbatarians; but we know \hat in them g: nerally zeal stifles reflection, and they reject all works which do not add fuel to the flame that consumes their intellect ; and of course they would reject our recommendation with disdain. They inherit their opinions in favour of a Jewish observance of the Sabbath from some of the first reformers, and the respect deserved by their noble struggles for freedom is spread by their admirers over all their opinions. ‘They forget apparently that the precepts of the Mosaic law harmonised better than the mild principles of Christianity with the rude manners and fierce morals that prevailed in the fifteenth century, particularly in those Northern countries where the rigid observance of the Sab- bath and the striking off heads—whether of kings or other backsliders —were alike defended as precepts of religion. ‘To such intolerance ut present—particularly as regards the Sunday—both Christianity and the course of society are alike opposed. day as a human institution, beneficial to all, and so observed as to be consistent with that principle, is now required both by reason and religion.

We would recommend it to the con- |

A wise observance of Sun- |

| | ‘

OnsERVATIONS ON THE INDIAN Post-oFFicr, and Suggestions for its Improvement, with a Map of the Post office Routes, &c., §e. By Cartatn N, Srapves, Bengal Artillery. Smith, Elder, and Co, | 65 Cornhill.

Tue following information about the Indian post-office is new to us, and perhaps may be to most of our readers. It is one of the most

| elaborate systems we have ever met with of an attempt tosubstitute | checks on dishonesty for the encouragement of honesty,—

| In all offices there are six regi:ters kept—three for letters despatched, and three for letters received; both classes being registered under the heads of

| “ paid,” “ bearing,” and “ free.” The weight, address, &c, of each letter ia | registered ; and thus each letter is twice registered ere it reaches the hand of | the person to whom it is addressed—once in the office whence it is despatched, ' once in the office to which it is addressed ; and a considerable time elapses after the arrival of any mail at an office ere the letters can be distributed, for all must be registered previous to distribution. In addition to this labour (immense in itself), is the duty of stamping in the ddk-book of the sender the copy of the address ofeach letter, as a receipt for each letter received. This some may corsider a matter of emall importance; but the crowds that wait round the doors of the Calcutta post-oflice, on the eve of the departure of a steamer for Suez, attest that this must be a labour of considerable amount. And to such an extent has this system of receipt been carried, that separate written receipts for each letter forwarded to Europe were formerly sent from the General post-office in Calcutta to the postmaster of the office whence the letters were r ceived, and by him transmitted to the parties who had posted the | letters, Latterly, on account of the great number of English letters, a list of those despatch: d from each office is sent, and a receipt for the whole to each postmastkr

No such minute system of receipta or registration was ever attempted, or apparently thought of, in Great Britain, nor would it be possible to carry it into effect ; and no receipts were ev: r given there, or registration made, of any

letters un!ess specially paid for. The whole system appears peculiar to India, and to have grown out ofthat excessive spirit of record-keeping so marked in

the transactions of the Indian government. It may, however, be thought that

this system of registration and receipts, though not necessary in a country like

England, where trustworthy servants can be procured, yet is necessary in India by reason of the supposed impossibility of finding honest men for the inferior departments of this and similar offices.

* In a subsequent work I propose to take some notice of the history of the ( Sabbath from the time of Constantine, and shall there offer some ob-ervatior ‘ edict, and sha!l only remark upon it at present, that the emperor mukes 1 therein to Apostolical or Scriptural authority for its Justification. It is, in fact, a Sab- bath of his own invention, its chief feature being completely anti-Seriptural: for it

| Commands a Sabbath to be observed in towns, but exempts the country, in order, say

the edict, that the bounty of Providence (intended for the sustenance of mat t not perish,

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Captain Staples shows that the system does not prevent letters being lost, that it does not prevent fraud, and that it might be simpli- fied with advantage to the revenue and the reduction of postage, benefiting at once the government and the people. The present system benefits only the lower class of clerks. Amongst the reforms which will promote the peace, prosperity, and civilisation of India, a postage reform would be one of the most efficient, and we hope it will be carried into effect. Captain Staples’ book being dedicated to the Directors of the East India Company, we presume the subject has their full approbation, though they may not assent to all Captain Staples® propositions. He has acquired much practical knowledge by having had charge of the post-office in the city of Dacca in Bengal, and has given us information essential to all who study the system of our Indian government,

BOOKS RECEIVED. The Ministry of the Beautiful. By H. J. Slack. Bentley. ait’s Magazine for July. ; Latter Day Pamphlets. No. VIL Hudson's Statue. By Thomas Carly! Pavou Song birds. N Jand2. Edited by HW’ G. Adams. W. 8S. Ore and Co, Notes on a Map of the World. (Pamphiet.) Sy George Smith Breat. Bret:

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To Readers and Correspondents.

eS Communications must be authenticated by the name of the writer

O. G. Mitter.—The traffic statement to which he refers is given On the authority ofa ’ .

tary s offic return received direct from the s

Che Bankers’ Gasette.

RETURNS AND MONEY MARKET.

BA) K OF ENGLAND. (From the Gazeite.)

BANK

An Account. pursuanttothe Act 7thand Sth Victoria, cap. 32, for the week ending on Suturday, the 22nd day of Jun? 1850 :—

Iss5Uk DEPARTMENT. L. L

Note@S iSSUCd cccccccsccceccccscccseee GUyi92,2°9 | Government deb! ecccoceses 11,015,100

Other Securities... ccccosee 2,784,900

| Gold coin and bullion .. 15,983,127

Silver DULION .ccccesceeee ceversres eee 209,158

30,192,285 30,192,285

BANKING DEPARTMENT. L. L.

soccccceccee 14,553,000 Government Securities, includ- 3,064,630 | ing Dead Weight Annuity ... 14,315,770

Other Securities coece eooe 11,115,436

NOLES cevccccccccecsccccoes 11,334,375 Gold and Silver Coin seovessevece

Proprietors’ capital RSt cc cccccccesccccsccccces eoscereeces

Public Deposits (including Ex- chequer, Savings Banks, Com- missioners of Nationa! Debt, 774,538 and Dividend Accounts) ...... 9,27%,119

Other Deposits ee cee ces coseeeceoes: 9,473,140

Seven Day and other Bills w+. 1,181,239

7,545.119 4 37,545,119 of,

Dated the 27th June 1850. M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. THE OLD FORM,

The above Bank accounts would, if made out in the old form, present the following result :-—

Assets. r Liabilities. L. . a5 : oe i

Circulationine. Bank post bills 20,934,140 ) SeCUTITICS scsceeeerees 24,878,2( 6

Public Deposits oes eecceee cevecee 9.273, 119 | BulliOdecccccee see seeceeees 16,946,823 2,473,149 Other or private Deposits...

38,780,399 41,845,029

The balance of assets above liabilities being 2,064,630/, as st aled in the above account

under the head Rest.

FRIDAY NIGHT. The preceding accounts, compared with those of last week,

exhibit,— A decrease of Circulation Of ce: cee reccceses coo ceceoeceoecs

An increase of Public Deposits of s+. .0000

ssescsesesee £603,735 $57,125

A decrease of Other Deposits of 173,240

An increase of Securities Of seveee 58,284

An increase of Bullion of sss» 24 46 An increase of Rest of seo 2,38

> 53! 68 An increase Of Reserve Of... scecesereresceceveres sees eceececccecsecss 46.681 685 oy pate heal

show a large decrease of circulation, The present returns , -

I . 124 of public dep p27fs, S57. t25/ 2 ¢ de Pease 603.7352; a large mere sits, 173.2407; an increase of bullion, 24.5462: an increase of rest, 2,383/; and

an inercase of reserve, 631.6851. There is nothing remarkable in

these returns except that the decrease of circulation, whi h at this

spread more equally over several weeks, has considerable amount. ‘The increase this week taken place to a oe

1 will be available for the pay- a

has all gone into the Bank till, and | .

ment of the dividends, which in the course of a few days wul

bein.

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call at 14 per cent, and the best bills are discounted at 2 o1

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718 THE ECONOMIST. [June 29, —_—_———— 5 Closing prices Closi inflict great injury on trade and on the public, and are the sources last Friday. oe

of much more harm than good, and incur much ey. Lancashire and Yorkshire... ‘i eon sasens : 5 : : 3 i anking m- North British .....ccccccsserccesee 7 68 i

At the annual meeting of the South Australian es 0 “ a aes 3 i

pany, held on Tuesday, the report and accounts were a i e Hulland Selb nnnerenee 26 8 meen ae i|

‘vide ‘as declare » rate of 6 per cent, free of in- Lancaster and Carlisle . aan $66 a dividend was declared at the rate of 6 } SaneRRNE 008 OSE ance I

come tax. : : ; : ; Birmingham and Oxford, gua. 27 8 Sy

At the fourteenth annual meeting of the South Australian C om- Birmingham and Dudley,do. 7 § pm - 78pm If

pany, held on Wednesday at the company’s offices, the following ye tees ees eneeenes: . 2 . itd |

balance-sheet up to the 50th April 1850 was exhibited :— Northern of France.... - 8g § esee 134 14 i

Dr 1 TABILITIES. £ s d CONtPal cocccrecccceccscees oo 13% - 13

To capital instalment On BHATECS...cccserse-eceevecessevevecerserevsesscee 245,200 0 0 Paris and oe wose cocesees A eeee SF ott |

awe iced by shareho'ders under deed (clause 55) 250 0 0 Rouen an AVTE see coe 83 g eee 9 I

Diviaonds not Be erincaeectianen i 142 4 0 at ROUND cowranemoneseee 6h 5% dis wsvere 64 6 dis, | Debts due to SUN TY PerSOMs sesseseseescersseceessesssesceraseane ove-ee —_ / a We have nothing new to notice as to the Exchanges, but that |

ere eg wre pie : ~ Tes 0 8 the influence of the circumstance we mentioned last week gg | “0 e eee eeeeee “* . , ~ > 4 38

Pet eid Nettecencccenamnan oor w- 1423913 0 — | affecting the exchanges with Holland has ceased.

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r. ASSETS. By lands, buildings, sheep, merchandise, &c , in South Australia 314,301 2 10

Cash, &., in hand ......ccccecers sree neo ennpncencuenene ° 937 4 9

Debts due to the company by sundry persons... 9,865 13 10

Office furniture, &C sos.s-cossseresceecssereceesssseesersesserenreseonesssoes 361 7 6

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The report made by the directors to the shareholders was adopted. The dividend declared at the half-yearly meeting of the Canada

Company, held on Thursday, was at the rate of 6 percent. The annexed figures illustrate the progress of the company :—

Lanp Sold and Leased to the 6th June 1859. SaLes.

Acres, Average. Crown Reserves ..-cccccrcossssceereracecessee 1,100 lts Id Huron Tract crcccocccccecscesscserssersceres 2,008 13s 9d

—_— — 3,608 Leases.

Crown Reserves ....cccccccscssesccsccscseroce 8,496 Huron Tract ...... pevensgecepenecsovasanocecs: 20, 1S0

— 24,626

Total ....00.c0cccccecerescevcncccosccesssenecesssseesessens 35,234 Rec-ipts in Canada, to the 6th of June, 22,243/.

Silver, to the amount of 280,000/7, was shipped on Thursday for St Petersburg, being the last remittance to be made on account of the late loan.

The stoppage of the Reigate and Dorking Bank, of Messrs Nash and Neale, which was announced in the course of the week,

| has occasioned some discussion amongst the friends of the parties, and some trifling inconvenience in the neighbourhood, but is otherwise of not much importance. The notes in circulation amount to 10,766/. Efforts are making by the friends of one of the parties to avoid a bankruptcy.

The Public Funds have been affected by the debates in || Parliament, and have been depressed, considering the abun-

dance and value of money, below their value, by the uncertainty | which has prevailed as to the result of Mr Roebuck’s motion.

Business has been flat all through the week, and the tendency has been downwards. Our usual list, which we here insert, will give

|| the particulars :—

| |

ConsoLs, Money Account

Opened Closed Opened Closed Saturday .....000 Shut seve SHUt cocssseee 96 § soveee O64 4 Monday .... a oe ° 964 4 won. 964 3 Tuesday ...... _— oe ccccsesee 96 & cooree 96 § Wednesday ..... _ eee ccoreseve G55 G6 eevee 953 6 TEWSARY correc, = —ccnece «= —sevenncee 955 6 ccren 96 B ORE cence == ee eroccecce §=96 evoree 952 6

Closing prices Closing prices iast Friday. this day.

3 percent consols, account «. 35% 6 ex div eoccvsees 954 6 - - money.. Shut sesessoee Shut

DE POT WOMES, .-.cecccrerescoossensces. 96 Bb 97% 5 8 per centreduced ....60.. 963 2 96% ¢ Exchequer bills,large .. 67s 70s pm 678 70s p

| BORK BIOCK. sccccocemomcsncnese $08 9 2u8s 93 | East Indiastock ...... « Shut Shut | Spanish 3 percents... 388 | Portuguese 4 percents sco 345

a a

Mexican 5 percents sssssoevee 292 30 Dutch 23 percents .......0000

— 4percents...... eves

Basslan Scrip .cocrcccocsesce sovcce 44 § pm The Share Market has been influenced by the same cause as

the public funds, and has been flat, very little business doing, and prices stationary. The fine weather, in which everybody rejoices,

FOREIGN RATES OF EXCHANGE ON LONDON AT THE | LATEST DATES,

Rate of Exchange | ov London.

3 days’ sight I month’sdate |

Latest Date.

Paris secssccsecessee JUNC 27 covoee £25 40 25 324 mt - rt

ANLWETP crsreresrees DT caves £25 479 ssese 3 Gays’ sight |

ee 9: flt2 bo sovsee 3 days’ sight | Amsterdam seooe — 29 eseee 2 5 wees Stmonths’ date |

m.13 8% eoveee 3 Gays’ sight | Hamburg eres — 25 ssaree { 137 esse, Stnonths" date |

St Petersburg ox — 15 ese. 58 1-!6d to 38§d wee 8 — i} Madrid ...ccsccccce —— 21 cooere 50 30-100d coos 8 _ | Lisbon.e.cosccescesee == 1G coeeee 544d covers 8 = Gibraltar secoooeee — 14 croeee 50fd crore _ New York sscosoee — 15 oooee 92 to 103 percent pm. 60 days’ sight

{ 14 per cent pm ° 30 Jamaica coves cveoee May 22 coves i per cent pm ersere 60

4 per cent pm ll percent pm 283d to 29d

Flavana ccccvccoocee JUNC 8 covers Rio de Janeiro... April 5 esse : ; mo So

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Bahia .cccceresseveee 24 ssooee 283d 60 Pernambuco veers = 2A aveeee 23d -- 60 | Buenos Ayres .. Mar. 20 sees eed covers 60 Valparais0 seseeesee — 30 sovere 46d covers 90 : |

e» percent pm eves | month's sight | Mauritius ....000 Feb. 22 esses «. per cent pm eevee 2 _

ev percent pm covers 6 - — one secese 6° days’ sight

Gingapore sow. May 3 sevoee { 4s 7d neecee 6 Months’ sight

«. to... percent dis ....0. 1 _ CEY]OM sevesreveree == 10 covers «we per cent dis a oo

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Hong Kong «oe April 24 seooss 4s 6d to 4s 7d erccee 6 — Sydney ...cccccsree Fed. 22 ccoeee l percent pm. — ess. 30 days’ sight

COMPARATIVE EXCHANGES. The premium on gold at Paris is i3 per mille, which, at the English mint

price of 81178 10$d per ounce for etandard gold, gives an exchange of 25°47; an 1 the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25°50, it follows that gold is 0°12 per cent dearer in London than in Paris, .

By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 436 per mark, which, at the English mint price of 32 173 104d per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13°10}; and the exchange at Hamburg on London at short being 13°95, it follows that gold is 0°40 per cent dearer in Hamburg than in London. :

The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days’ sight is 110 per cent; and the par of exchange between England and America |

being 109 23-40 per cent, it follows that the exchange is nominally 0°42 per |

cent in favour of England ; and, after making allowance for difference of in-

terest and charges of transport, the present rate leaves a small profit on the

importation of gold from the United States. }

PRICES OF BULLION. £s4 { Foreign gold in bars, (standard) ...... «-perounce 317 9 \\ Spanish Goubloons ....000ccccececceeces ove moimuw @ 2s \) Foreign gold in coin, Portugal pieces . 2 es | DROW EIEN incchssciudeinaschciiinkin s puusaseae » oa Silver in bars (standard)asecoocecccocosseceosscecseseccsocce sec csecseese 0 4 LIE

THE BANKERS’ PRICE CURRENT. PRICES OP ENGLISH STOCKS

: oe ete ; z : ao ae y Fri and which sets many travellers in motion, should ‘naturally have iecbialitne suits aaatmnelieo lemma aane a favourable influence on the Railway Shares, as well as on | Bank Stock, percent vos 209 209 209 209 wwe 2084, 9 every other species of property : but the discussions about our eee Cent Reduced Anns, .. 963 4 veg é 953 § 263 3 965 3 064 §

oreign policy into which Lord Stanley has dragged the Parlia- Shee Sani i ” ae a a vc mY Se and the penoumnets Which loom from them have prevented | $2petCent Anns. 4. 98 § = 98} BORE TE OTF 97 ee purchases, and prevented a rise j > walna nf sharnc Tha ¢ New 5 per Cent... ove ore, ee “ oes eee ove “

loering ts our esnal Het of nee iu the value of shares. ‘The fol- | tong Anns.Jan.5, 1860 %-j “88-16 eh 5-16 aE” SHIGE me, ae isual list Of the closing prices last Friday and the | Anns. for30 years, Oct.10,1859 ... si AE ge ee os Ober

closing prices this dav :— . Ditto Jan. 5, 1860! ss ae ia oi ai os 7 Ditto Jan. 5, 1880 ss “ RAILwayYs. : ’ one eee ove oes

last Friday. aden Do. Bonds, 33 perCent 1000. ... 88s p 8389sp oo. sp 86s 905 P London and North Western... 108} 9} nes 10s 99 y- . hp E under 10007 ...85s p 85s8sp 883 p {om oe = spitsnd conation......... 3633 . e0ees 335 § S — s —— 39 perCent... ese eco ese ooo ove ;

i | Brighton Stock ...... B24 34 mull ~:" itto Old Anns.,3 per Cent sxe vo | wee |e oo 24 G We - ‘ Ditto New Anns.,3perCent ase ‘di me Sean iain. <s 8 perCent Anns.,1751... sx, aes ae eae en oe = South W. meres oe Bank Stock for acct, July 17 | a ove outh Westerns ..... - 59 60 $p Cent Cons. for opg, July 17908 }x096! | xd 962d <GExd O5$6 xd 96 5520 an Ramee... . 4915 Seite Danek for - ee * 7 95h § xd 963 3 xd 96 xd 96 x 5 oe

Norfolk ......0000 - 257 Cc Ne CG g. Y Ukeee! — one one ie ae oe 2 ee Great North of England. . 228 33 anaca Guaranteed,4 per Cent, ... a walt cea pm ooo __ | TohentNoa Mined tei i Excheq. Bills, 10001 1jd...678 p 67s 698 p 6689s p 693 p 698 P one York, Newcastle,and Berwick 143 153 : ao meets oe ad * Pe | = Seep a 2 678 708 P

| Newcastle and Berwick Ext... 10} 10 dis svvseseee 104 10 dis aie ee a ee salaries ctiaaiidiaeenniiraniseadetiini enim eee a,

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COURSE OF EXCHANGE.

| 1 Tuesday. Fridey.

| Time | 7 - | | Prices negotiated Prices negotiated i} / on ’Change. on "Change.

Amsterdam oe. ove eee eee short 1z 23 12 23) 12 2 is 23 Ditto eve vee eee ose 3 ms ” 2 6 | 12 33 123 33

Rotterdam .c. eee eee eos — 13 32 12 4 12 34 eco Antwerp ore eee ove eve _ 25 724 25 774) 25 729 25 77%

Brussels ose ove on on — 25 723, 25 773] 25 724! 25 77% Hamburg owe eee one eee — 13 t43 one 13} 13 113 Paria. eee eco ove one short 25 45 25 52§] 25 4! 25 50 Ditto ove oe eve ooo $ ms 25 67$, 25 76 25 65 25 67%

Marseilles... ons eee - 23 70 | 25 75) 25 67g, 25 70 Frankfort on the Main ° ove —_ 121k | 1213 21 12! Vienna ooo eos eee ove os 1212) 1216 3 12 !2 12 14 Trieste ove ove ose ove aoa 12 i2 | 12 16 i2 12 :2 14 Petersburg aa ia ae -_ ae 1 7 37k Madrid one eee sii oon _ 492 492 49$ 493 Cadiz ... eee ooo eco eee — 493 =| «49% 48 ose Leghorn ove eos ove eee — 30 46 30 70 3, 60 30 70 Genoa om ove eee eos as 26 10 26 15 26 40 26 10 Naples on ose = ose a 404 403 40? eee Palermo eco om on on a 121 1212 1213 1213 Messina eve ove ose eco 12te 122 1213 122 Lisbon ove oe one eve 90 de dt, 53% 53) 53% ove Oporto ~~ -_ -— i — 533 534 553 ee

|, Rio Janeiro ... aie aa ese CO deems; ws | oa un eee || New York os ove eee eee [ eee ove ee

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| FRENCH FUNDS.

|| Paris London Paria | London. Parcs London | | June 24 June 26 June25) June27 June26 June 28 | SS — sae

| . —_— en 0 ee Se a F.C. per Cen entes, div. ‘

|| March and 22 Sept. w 7 9475 ase 94 50 , oo 943 ie

Exchange se see ove ove eo | we || 8 per Cent Rentes, div. 1% | 56 90 6 $ | June and 22 December | ove o eee 56 50 eee

| . ae P. es ove + eee - ooo eee eee | ank Shares, div. anuary y) ee ee

and | July a oa j 235 0 ove 2239 0 ove 2175 #@ eee

{| Exchange cn London I month 25 429 os 25 42} eee 25 40 eee Di: to Smonths 25 35 enn 25 35 ooo 25 32% aoe

PRICES OF FOREIGN STOCKS,

1 oat dion | hues Wed ‘Thur, Fri

Brazilian Bonds, 4 per cent ... oe eee eve oe ©6900 803 Ditto New, 5 percent, 1829 and 1839 uc! ave ooo | “ ove ove

{| Ditto New, 1843... ove vee oor ose eos ove ese ,, Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 percent ase eos, eee eo | (Sth ove owe «655 4G

Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent eco eco eee “. on eee see or eee

Chilian Bonds, 6 percent ooo ese ° coe foes eee eos eo | _ Ditto3 percent aw. eee ere ae ooo | eve “ eee Danish Bonds, 3 percent, 1825 eee oe eee e ee eee ee

Ditto 5 percent Bonds... eee ++) eee coo 6} oe §=61100 eels os | Ditto Scrip a. ove eee ove eco} 0 . eee eee ooo | Dutch 24 per cent. Exchange 12 guilders... os . ove ove ove * Equador Bonds... eve eee ove tee tee eee ee ove ove ee Grenada Bonds, 14 per Cent... eco ooo| cco =\ 182 183 eco §=|183 183

Ditto Deferred ove ooo ooo sl ie coe | ooo ove oe _| Greek Bonds, 1824.and 1825... ose ans oe | a eve “ {| Ditto ex over-due coupons... eve senate ove * “ we ove

| Guatemala ove ove ove eee ove eco | ee ove ose || Mexican 5 per cent, 1846,ex Jan. coupons "30 10 4 «6297 30, 305 30 295 3049293 {| Peruvian Bonds, 44 per cent, 1849... eco ene 4% 78 2 78 78 73 76 | Ditto Deferred one eve ove eoe| oes coo (344 382 $34 4 339

Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent ooo eco! ove ove eve ooo joe | 858 | Ditto 5 per cent converted, 184! ... eee, eee e eee eee ove eee | Ditto4 percent x. cco ove wae! ove | cee (SAR GF SURE] 0p 34h G

Ditto 3 per cent, 1848 oo ooo joes oes eee ove Russian Bonds, 1822,5 p cent, in £s st erling - 63 ee = 105 eco exe

Ditto 44 percent o. eve eee $74 (O78 & 973 ow 973 ¢ | Ditto Scrip so _— one ae ee 4h ip, . fap Ap 4gp Spanish Bonds, 5 per c div.from Nov. 1846,17§ § !7§ } [7j 173 172

| Ditto ditto ditto 1844 ave pa one ove oo | Ditto ditto ditto 1849; 00 ose eco eco eee eee | Ditto Coupons ooo eee ooo on “ ove oo ‘ie “a

Ditto Passive Bonds wy eco eos! one eee ove ove ° eee Ditto Deferred ooo eee eco eos 00 eco eco ove one a Ditto 3 per cent Spanish Bonds .. oe 3350 38G 383 8i 4 383 4

|| Venezuela 2} per cent Bonds eco coo] eee eas ~*~ ove eve ove Ditto Deferred eco oe co | 00 ose eve eee ooo §=(12

| Dividendson theabore payudiei ni condon. !

Austrian Bonds, 5 per cent. 10 gu. p.£ st.) » * eee eee eee |, Belgian Scrip, 2$ percent .. eee eco} ee ie eee oe eee - | Ditto Bonds, 44 per cent ... - oe . sit ve tie ini |, Dutch 24 per cent, Exchange 12 nin 58 4 - 539 533 Sa 58s

Ditto 4 per cent Certificz ove ; ° oe ©6883 § 8S) &8 Ditto 4 percent Bonds coe ee - om «oo

JOINT STOCK BANKS,

No. of Dividends Names. Shares Paid 1 a Shares per annuin pr sore

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22,500 ll 4s ‘ie a ° 40) 10 6 9 ae 29,009 5! per ct th Americans. 50 59 9 9 e 5,000 7l perct Ceylon nia ees os ee 25 2 0 0 ee

20,000 51 perct Colonial _ ee we «100 25 0 0 oe eee 62 per ct Commercial of London .. Lon 20 0 0 24

10,000 Gi perct London and County wm 50 20 0 O ene 60,000 6/&7s6d bs London Joint Stock eee ee 50 10 0 0 173

‘ 50,000 6/ pere London and Westminster oe 100 20 0 0 aa 10,000 6! per ct Nationa! Provincia! of England 100 35 0 0 seo 10,000 57 per ct Ditto New ove oe 20 10 0 0 eve 20,000 = 5/ per ct National of Ireland eee eos 50 22 10 0 eee 20,000 = =&8i perct Provincialof Ireland — o.. os} 360 25 0 0 44

j 4,000 8 perct Ditto New eco ee 10 lo 0 0 eco 12,000 15! per ct Gloucestershire .. eee es eee eve ee

| 4,000 6/ perct Tonian a “ 25 25 0 0 - | eos 67 per ct South Australia ... eco ee 25 9% 0 6 193 | 20,000 6i & bns Union of Australia ove o- 25 25 0 0 334 1 8,000 61 per ct Ditto Ditto eco o- ooo 210 0 ve | 60,000 6) perct Union of London coe vee 50 1 0 OU s2g || 15,000 ose Union of Madrid... se ww. 40 40 0 0 ove i

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j Amount in’ ge s3- Payable.) Dollars. Dividends. =22S)8<8

| a5 “#3 ET a atest F } cent | | |

United States... os oo 6 i868 | 65,000,600 Jan. and July 120 _ eee eee eee 1862 | ooo -— — Ce rtificates. ore 6 1867-8 eee _ 1164

Alabara .. ooo Sterli ing 5 1858 | 9,000,000 ~ 80 61) }

Indiana oa. eee eee eo 4 fd 5,600,00¢ = "9

-_ eee eee eee ee 26 1861-6 | 2,000,000 - 34 — Canal, Preferred ee 5 | 1861-6 4,500, 00 _ 28 30 —— — Special do. aoe © 1861-6 1,3 0,°0% —

Illinois ss eee eee wwe 6 1870 10,000,000 ion 42 74

Kentucky eee eve oe 6 1868 4,250,000 -_ 102 ( 1844

Louisiana ono Sterling 5 hoes 5 + 7,000,000 Feb. and Aug. 89 95 1852 |

Maryland... ooo Sterling 5 18388 3,006,000 Jan. and July 92 Massachusetts ss. Sterling 5 1868 3,000,000 April and Oct.'i03 | Michigir w. ove ove oe 6 oe 5,000,000 Jan. and July |

Mississippi o- oes owe 6 1866> | 2,000,000 May and Nov.! 1871

on eee eee oe 5 1840-8 | 5,100,000 Mar. and Sept. New York a ae eo «5 1860-58) 13,124,270 Quarterly | 109 One es ae oe ee 6 1860-70) 19,000,000 Jan, and July 1093 Pennsylvaria ee owe ow § 1854-70 | 41,000,000 Feb. and Aug. 97 South Carol!na os. oe owe (5 1866 3,000,000 Jan, and July Tennessee eee eco mf 1868 3,000,000 —_ . 103 Virginia ... ao 6 1857 7,000, 00( = | United States Bank Shares de 1866 | 35,000,000 in 23 Louisiana State Bank . eo 16 1870 2,000,000 _ Bank of Louisiana oo —— 1870 4,000,000 —

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New York City ... ~~ we 5 ican) 9,600,000 Quarterly 933 104 4 bis 51

New Orleans City ove wo 5 1863 1,500,000 Jan. and July Camden & Auiboy R. R. ee 6 1864 £225,000 Feb.and Avg.)

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a Dividend Names. Shares. Paid. t, 4

he a 2,000 32108 Albion eco eee oo o- 500 59 0 0 82

50,000 7/l4s6d&bs Alliance British and Foreign .. 100 ll 60 0 204 50,000 62 p cent Do. Marine ove oo -, 100 5 0 0 24,000'!3s 6d psh Atlas ... one ome eve ow. 50 § 6 8 i 3,000 4d pcent ArgusLife... . ooo oe 100 16600

12,000 7 7s id British Commercial .. 50 5 0 0 “Th 5,000.51 pe & bs Clerical, Medical, and Gene eral Life 100 10 0 0 20 4,000 32 County ~_< =~ «- a 3 ee 8) @ eee lds Crowa ove eco eee eee 50 5 0 0 14} 20,000 6s Eagle eco eco ose eee 50 5 ¢ 0 63 4.651 43 pcent European Life eee ove eee 20 20 0 0 15

1,°00000/ 6/p cent Globe... eee eee eos oo. Stk. eee | 130 20,000 51 Guardian ese eco ese eo. 100 3610 0 54

2,400 122 p cent Imperial Fire ove ene oo 500 50 0 0 230 7,500 128 Imperia! Life ose eve oo. 100 10 0 0 164

13,453 ,tésh & bs Indemnity Marine ... ee - 100 20 9 O| ae 50,060 Law Fire e aon 100 210 0 28 10,000 12 lis Law Life oe ose oe 100 lo 0 0 45 20,000 eve Legal and General L ife eee eee 50 200 4 on eee Licensed Victuallers ’ eve 1 0 QO} wc 3,900,103 London Fire eee a eee 25 1210 0 17}

31,000 108 London Ship eee woe os 25 1210 0 173 10,000 12spsh Marine «., 160 is 00 10 19,000 44 p cent |Medical, Invalid, and General Life SO 136 Ol «a 25,000 54 peent National Loan Fund ooo oon 20 SMO) w 5,000 81 pcent |National Life eee ove «. 100 5 0 0} ce

30,000 5/ peent (Palladium Life eee eee oo. 50 200); 32 ial one Pelican ese eco oe ese eee ove | oe eco 32 psh &bs Pheonix eco ooo ose eee eee eee 4! 2,500 1/ 5s & bus Provident Life eee ooo . 100 10 0 0 26

200,000 5s ;Rock Life... eco eco eee : 01 0 6 689,220/ 6i pe & bs Ruyal Exchange .. eee o- = “Stk. | eee 209

eee 64/ Sun Fire eee eee eee eee oes ove 209 4.000 1/ 6s Do. Life... ese one eee eee one 48

“5,000'4/ pe & bs United Kingdom .. . o 20 40 0 3 5,060 109/ pe&bs Universal Life eve eee oe 100 10 0 0 eee

eee 5ipeent Victoria Life .. . ° ove 412 6 45

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“No. of ~ Divi lend = oe J Riis rai? Price

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313.4001 4p cent Commercial eee Stk eee Bl 2,0656687 6 p cent East a West Ind tia ove Stk, see 140 xd

1,038 12 posh East Country eee one 100 21 $,6343102 5 p cent London eee eee eee eco Stk ove 12i 30 0,000 4 p nit Dit tto Bonds eee ove ose eee es

7521 4 p cent St Katharine oes eee ee 6S oes 51g 2 00 44 p cent itto Bonds ove eee oes ese ee eee

7,000 2 p cent Southampton on ae eae 50 50 0 4 84

INDIA EXCHANGES

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ai 6) days’ sight bills att é t ( pany sbiits er Cols ru ver C s7 drawn,

‘t d . 1 ; s d s d + s 4 Billson Bengal... 1 11% to D> gy 2 010 0 0 sseree 4,185 19 4 — Madras...... 1 14 0 0 ws 2 9 0 B22 4 8 — Bombay... 1 Ilg 0 0 coo 2 CED Ocoee 776 4 2

Total of East India Co yuui8 from Ju 7toJ PS) eeeeee oS g ;

Do. do Jan.7 to June 22, 1850 1,135,7 , «=

N.B.—Bills against indents from India and shipments to India var} ee afticles drawn aguinst, being generally gd to ld t p Ws =i soa

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Mails Arrived.

LATEST DATES.

On 22nd June, AMERICA, per Asia steamer, via Liverp 0l—New found! and, June 6;

Prince Edward's Isiand,8; Montreal, 10; Fre Jerickton, 10; St John’s, N.&., ll,

New York, !!; Boston, 12; Halifax, 13. a a

On 24th June, Pexisceiar, per Madrid steamer, tra Southampton—Gibraltar, June

14: Cadiz, 15; Lisbon, 19; Oporte, 20; Vigo, 20.

On 26th June, America, per Ai antic sieamer, tra Liver;

On 27th Junc, Havana, June 8, via United States.

_— a ree l—New York, June 15.

Mails will be Despatched FROM LONDON

On 2nd July (m pe), for BenmMuDA, Nassau, West Inpiks, and GOLF oF Mexic

in } xa, VERA Cruz, TaMeico, and MoriLe Point; i , for ion-

| DURAS Venrzveta (MaperrA, New Grenapa, Grey Town, Cuacre

{| PANAMA, i Western Coast of America excepted; mails to thes ices on the

1} lit f ear :, only), per Great Western steamer, via Southampton.

| On 2nd J V , for MADEIRA, Cark pE VERDE ISLANDs, SiEKRA LEvNE, a!

j Ascension, per H.M.S Sea Lark, via Piy mouth. ee .

| On 4th J evening), for Mapeira, BRazivs, aud Buenos AYRES, per H.M. packet

i ia Falmouth. :

On Sth J ng), for Bririss Norta America, Bermoepa, and Unii

STaTes, per America steamer, via Liverpool. On &th July (morning), for Vico, Oporto, Lisson, Capiz,

—— steamer, via Southampton.

On Sth July (ovening), for the MEDITERRANEAN, Ecyprt, and Inp!IA, via Marsei!!

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WEEKLY CORN RETURNS.

From the Gazetieof last night.

Wheat. Barley. Uats. Rye. Beans Peas.

Sold eccooeeeQrs| 103,815 3,242 $ 2 2 5,813 72

me e d s ad s ad sd s a

Weekly average, June 22......| 49 5 22 8 15 10 2 6! 26 7 6 _— = 5.0.) 8911! 21 9) 161] 82 8! 2610) 27 3 oo mie: Basen 39 § 22 4 16 7 23 7 7 0! 26 8

_ — Bcccoee 40 2 23 0 15 il 22 © 26 1A 2% 2

— May 25......; 40 7 22 10 16 63 23.4 26 «4 25 6 = — Beco} 39 7 22 5 15 5 2.7 25 6 24 11

Six Weeks AVcTAZE cvvreree coos | 49 0 22 6 i6 4 22 5 26 6 26 2 i SS ,

Sarretime lastyear ~coccrcree| 44 6 27 3 17 11 25 11 21 60 31 3 seeerecceeee | BOR vevcccccnccsene cco ces 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0

GRAIN IMPORTED. Anaccount of the total quantities of cach kind of corn, distinguishing foreign and

colonial, importedintothe principal ports of Great Britain, viz:—London, Liver- pool, Hull, Newcastle, Bristol, Gloucester, Plymouth, Leith, Glasgew, Dundee, and Perth, in the week ending June \9, 18:0.

| Wheat | Barley j a Indian | Buck end and (Oatsand Rye and Peas and & bean- °O™ and wheat & wheat , barley- | oatmeal ryemeal peameal ai Indian- ‘buck wht flour meal — meal meal

ar qrs | ars qrs qrs qrs qrs qrs Foreign ... | 52,35% 19,176 | 17,438 1,320 2,202 225 8,157 ooo Colonial... $9 1. 2 oe os at’ cae i8 <

Total ... | 52,942 | 19,176 | 17,438 | 1,820 | 2,202) 4,725 8,175 2

Totalimports Of the Week ....cccccccrcsscrersecsvsveceserssesseres- 105,980 GIs,

COMMERCIAL EPITOME. FRIDAY NIGUT,

The Corn Trade, under the influence of the fine weather, was dull to-day at last week’s prices. The arrivals in the week have been short, and the grain from abroad continues to come forward in a bad condition, with a probability of the supplies being further limited ; but the improved prospects of the harvest, from the change in the weather, have kept the market flat. At the same time sales are not pressed, and prices have not receded. As everything tending to throw light on the harvest prospect at home, and in the neighbouring countries, is of interest, we copy the following observations from a contemporary :—

An excursion (says the Morning Chronicle) made through Westphalia, Hol land, Belgium, and the Netherlands, during the past week, for the purpose o- inspecting the grain and produce crops, gives, as a general result, that, with the exce;:tion of peas, winter barley, and potatoes, none has been observed particularly good. Wheat in Hollandstands pretty wel!, but everywhere else scarcely moderately we!l, and looks besides sickly. The yield will be limited both in quantity and quality. Of rye scarcely a good field is to be scen; itis tolerably high in the stalk, but very thin, so that scarcely the third and fourth grain is to be expected. Drovided it harden well, half a harvest may be expected, but the ears are deficient. This is occasioned by the late frosts, which deprived the plants of their chief power. Besides there has been but little warmth and sun- shine. Barley and oats are sickly, like wheat. The winter oii seeds, of which in Holland about one-eighth, and on the Rhine about ten per cent, more have been sown this year, appear,sin Westp! a'ia, Belgium, and on the Rhine, short, and on the average very thin. In Zealand they are higher, but not heavy, and so thin that the fields may be walked in without injuring the plants. About half a harvest may, therefore, be expected; but this may even be diminished by from 10 to 15 per cent if the roots of many of th plants dry up, and the plants themselves die. In Zealand I found this ex- tensively the case, owing to the late frosts. In Belgium, as also on the Rhine, the crops are more forward, and the plants look, therefore, more dry and riper;

wherea; the healihy plants exhibit their natural fresh and dark green colour. The rapid ripening of rapeseed is observed in Thuringia, and which is ascribed to worms attacking the roots, as well as to a honey dew. The plants there look dead, and their stalks, instead of the usual brown colour which indicates their ripening, are bright green. In Holland and Belgium no summer eecd was sown, and but little on the Rhine, which has not yet come up.

The circular of Messrs Pluygers and Hauck, dated Rotterdam 25th inst, also says, ‘* The weather here remains very dry ; and, in consequence, we hear serious complaints from the lower Rhine of the

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deterioration of the wheat fields. In our country the heat is particularly hurtful to the progress of the spring corn. Our northerp provinces, on the contrary, complain that by the sharp night frosts at the beginning of the previous week several sorts of grain but particularly beans and buckwheat, have been injured.” We hear no similar accounts from our own country, and hope, therefore, | that we may be blessed with an abundant harvest.

The Produce Markets have been rather animated this week The sales of British Plantation sugar have been good at rather improved prices, while the sales of foreign sugar, privately and at auction, have been considerable. These large transactions on the eve of a change in the duties are made from an expectation that the price will then improve, and the holders reap part of the advantage arising from the reduction of the duties.

The price of Coffee has undergone no change, but the demand continues steady, and a fair business has been done.

There has been a slight advance in the price of Tea, and a further advance is expected. Our consumption continues to be extensive. Duty was paid in the port of London in the week ending the 20th instant, on 525,962 Ibs, against 499,999 Ibs in the corresponding period of last year. At the same time, our stock is not large, and a demand has arisen from New York for a supply. Shipments have lately been made from here to that port. The little advance obtained is likely therefore to increase. We meutioned on May 11 that two English ships had previously

loaded tea cargoes at Canton for New York. We may now add, on the faith of the correspondent who supplied us with that information, that since that time another English ship, the Jane, has | been despatched from Canton (on March 9) for the same port; and, further, that the latest Manilla accounts mention the sailing

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on March 9 of the English ship Blackfriars, and on Feb. 18 of |! the Russian ship Reform, with cargoes for the United States. British shipping, then, in the India and China trade, have found a new source of employment, rather than having their existing em-

| plovment lessened by the Americans. The Cotton Market has been unusually brisk, and upwards of

8,000 bales have been sold in the course of the week at a rise of td per Ib.

For Silk, too, there is a fair demand at rather higher rates in some cases.

For other produce the market was steady, with not much | business doing.

Some apprehension is expressed lest the debates going on in Parliament should lead to a dissolution of Parliament, which turns the attention of retail traders from their ordinary business to clectioneering, and for a time interrupts the steady course of | trade. As we gather new political wisdom, no doubt the election of members of the legislature will take place in a more quiet manner than at present, so as to interfere less with the ordinary business of society. Strong feelings and great party contests cannot be avoided, but probably some means may be found of quietly and unostentatiously gathering the suffrages of the electors.

By the last arrivals from the United States we learn that the | protected manufacturers there are as full of complaints as our landlords.

Here is a specimen of a still protected trade—

The New York Tribune says: “A friend who has been for some time collecting statistics of the present stateof the iron business throughout Pen- nsylvania, has ascertained that of six hundred furnaces in that state TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE are nowin the hands of the sberiff, and of three hundred and twenty iron forges ONE HUNDRED AND SIX are likewise in the sheriffs hands.”

The iron masters, of course, like our landowners, would have protection, and the New York Herald tells us—

It is stated that one of the minority of the Committee of Ways and Means with the assistance of the Secretary of the Treasury and several leading whig members of the House, is peparing a tariff bill, which will be presented as soon as perfected. We have not heard what the complexion of it is, or likely to be, but take it for granted that it will be highly pro:ective in its character, and be upon the specific and ad va/orem systems combined, It will be, on the part of

the individuals engaged, labour lost, for we have not the slightest idea that he present ta: iff will be a'tered or modified, at all events during the present

session of Congress. The partial suspension of a few manufacturing esta-

blishments at the East, has ncw doubt been seized upon by the protectionists in congress, as an argument in favour of a change; anda great cffort will

doubtless be made to create sympathy in the public mind, for the poor stock- holders in those manufactories which have earned only six and seven per cent

on the capital invested, instead of twenty and thirty, as in years past.

It appears to be found in the United States as well as here, that nothing so effectually reduces a business to bankruptcy as protection.

INDIGO. The declarations for the forthcoming sales now amount to 12,014

chests, viz., 10,364 chests in Catalogue A, being goods in first hands, and 1,650 chests old goods, in Catalogue B, the whole comprises about 6,700 chests of new B: ngal, &e., ex crop 1849, about 3,500 chests

Bengal from old crops, and about 1,800 chests Madras and Kurpah. Yhe prominent marks are :—H & C: Kisuy., H F & Co. Kistx., HARRIS & Co Kisuy., HS & Co. Kishn., K & R Jessone, R & Co.

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COTTON. New York, June 12.

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New York, on LL | GEORGIA, ON nccccoccorcocseree- Ure § New ORLEANS... 1 { Sovura Caron 7 MOBILE cccccesseccccccccecscee 1 | Norra Caroim 8 FLORIDA covccccveccecescescooceeses ) 250 | VINGINTA.. l RAD ascccesds ene vescnnse ctssensconnbece ) } Orner Port ;

18i9- 1848-9 Ine re 1840- e

bales bales bales bales

On hand in the ports on Sept. 1, 1849...cccccccoresceees) 140,934 144,815 a 3.881 }| Received at the ports since do. ... eve 1 eve 663.3

Exported TO GREAT BRITAIN since do. .. 9 ove 7, Exported to France since do.......+. ) oe 5 Exported to the North of Europe since do..... : 90,' Exporied to other foreign ports since do, ......ss+0e. ‘ ove 47,8 TOTAL ExPoRTeD TO ForEIGN Countries since do 1,2! 2 ove 806,! Stock on band at above dates, and on shipboard at

theS€ POrtS.corcccccccccccocccccecerceccessccseces «seccveve! 413,000 275,553 137,419 eee

Stock or Cotton 1. Inrerton Towns (Notincluded in Receipts),

1849-50 1848-9

bales bales At latest corresponding dates.ecccoccsssseeess 98,736 sevcseeerere 60,765

COTTON TAKEN FOR CONSUMPTION IN THE UNITED STATES Jrom Sept. 1 to the abuve dates.

1849-50 1848-9

bales bales bales bales Stock on hand Sept. 1, 1819 .coccscosceecescceres a 140,934 a 144,815 RECEIVE BINCE ceesseseeseee #0 eee eonene nee reeces ee = 942,425 ain 2,608,764

Total SUPPLY cccccececcce cov cecsereceesosovccee see eos §=2,983,359 ee 2,753,5 Deduct shipments...... s+. coe | 1,212,591 2,019,502 Deduct stock left Om Hand sssecorssersceeseresvers 413,000 275.5381

mm 125,59) | mae 295,083

Leaves for American consumption ...... | 457,768 458,196

VESSELS LOADING IN THE UNITED STATES.

a Ports. For Gt. Britain For France. For other Port

At New York ..cccccorccscsosreeeedune J] 24 9 gs 1 = New Orleans . l 17 5 5

= BEOREIS cn ccisses l 4 eve on — Savannah .... . 45 5 l one — Charleston seersee ccovoe 7 i 3 — Apalachicola oe ceccrrecreereeeMay 25 eve

Total. ccascsasonssccesedacceasceneseces 57 16 9

Freight (Packet Rate) to Liverpoo!—Cotton, square bales, Ad per ib. Earchange, 10%} to 110.

|| same, though on some kinds we advance our quotations one-ciehth of ae per pound, The recvipts of cotton (to latest da es) at all the shipping ports

are—1,942,125 bales, against 2,608,761 hal-s to sime dates la-t yeor—a crease this season of 666,339 balvs, The total forcign export thi y year i 806,911 bales less than last, say 587,148 bales dees ise to Care t Brit

81,824 decrease to France, 90,061 decreise to Norsh of Ew ype, aud 47,878

decrease to other foreign ports. The shipments from southern to north ports are—26,899 bales less this season thin list ; and there is an in in stock of 137,419 bales. The sales since our list 12,800 bakes. W quote,—

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Low to good middling.. 12$ 123 12) 123 Middling fair to fair... 126 «(13 13 134

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oP 3 per Ib per Ib per Ib per Ib hi per Wola sscsnscesccesssens) 64 7d) 7% 7 : ij New Orlean 65 73 7% 8 84 ) ' “ . Pernambuco . -| 73 7i 73 8 83 . if ; Egyptian .... 7 73 72 8 4 ) i 7 Surat and Madras,.....| 44 43 5 5g f 64

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| Imrornts, CONSUMPTION, Exrorts, &c.

Whole Import le sumption ! s ‘ } ’

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A large business has been done in cotton th’s week The trade have somewha creased their stock, and speculators and exporters have operated freely. An

|| Cotton has advanced fully 44 per ib during the week, Brazil id to 4d per It ! | are decidedly worse to buy. The ousiness to-day is again ia ge—say 4,09 bales || the trade are the chief operators. The market is quite firm Speeu on tals we 16,000 American, 1,750 Brazil, 350 E } urai

. » 1,7! nul, 390 Egyptian, and 3,900 Surat, Can, 1,140 Brazil, and 580 Surat. - ;

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THE ECONOMIST.

Sales’ prices. Of inferior sorts there is but a scanty selection. The The market

There has been an active demand since our last, elie ly for export, which

however, has been very freely met by holders, and prices remain about the

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tARKETS OF THE MANUFACTURING DISTKICTS,

MANCHESTER, Tuvrsoay Evenine, June 27, 1850.

(From n Correspondent.)

CompaRaTive STATEMENT OF THE Corron Trat

Price Pi Pree P i Price

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The news brought by the Asia from America resp c'ing cotton had co n ight by I siderable eff. ct upon the Liverpool cotton market on Satarcd last, and th'

improvement was well maintained on Monday snd Tuesday. On Wednes lay morning the Atlantic arrived bringing ace -unts which gave a furthe impulse to demand. This improvem:nt in the raw material hid an immediate «ffeet upon our market ; and the business done in yara since Siturday is large, and of that geveral charae’«r which embraces all quilitics and markets. For India and Germauy business is limited only by inability to find thise qualities in stock; even 20°s water is now becoming scarce, an d im- proving. Pricer, taking them all round, may be quoted gd per lb higher than last week. {

In cloth, also, there is a decided improvement to notice, although not ag | much as yarn, there being still a want of demand for our eastern markets, but more inquiry is now being made after such fabrics, and last week’s quotations are asked with great firmness. Our home trade buyers and the Grecks coutinue to operate on a moderate seale. For other markets there is nothing in the demand that calls for remark. As itis now a very general practice to take stock at the end of June, we may reasonably expect a lurger business to follow, which we hope to be able to report in our next

The failure of Messra D. Briggiotti an 1 Co, noticed in to lay’s Time , we

understand will not affeet Manchester, their business being a!most entirely confined to transictions in Ltalion produce, in which they are reported to have suffered heavy losses,

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IlupDERSFIELD, Jane 25.—It is with great pleasure we r port an improve- mentin the sta‘e of our market this week: there has been an average business doing at the warchouses: and although the wool trade has not been much better than last week’-, there has been more doing in the Coth hall than has been knowa for some time past. During the week things have been rather flat.

MAccLEesFIELD, Jane 25.—We have very little worthy of note to record as regards cither the manufacturing or throwing departments of the silk trade,

A few goods have been sold during the week at prices barely, if ll, re- munerstive: and the coutinuance, on the one hand,of advancing prices for the r.w material, and on the other the stationary, if not depressed, state of the market for goods, are compelling our manulacturers to s'op production

: far as practicable, untila better disposition as to pricessh«il be inanuifested Phe throwing mills and warehouses are now stopped for a few drys, in conse- juence of midsummer holidays: butcomplaints are etill neral of the impossibility of obtaining adc quate prices for thrown iks. In raw silk

mirket a decided improvement has taken pl and in many instances, slightly advaneed rates have been obtained, with mueh bu we y

RocupaLe, Jone 24.—There is little change in the flannel» to-day from that of last Monday either in dewand or price. There has been very little d yin the wool market, principally from the dealers holding out for

prices the manufacturers Were unwilling lo give, LTALIFA J 22.—The attendance ia our Piece hall hes been very

large to-day, but there is r bu iness doing in wor lg at steady prices ih nqury for low las‘ings, noticed in former repo Pontinues,

but ‘here is not a large make of that article justnow. ¥ is in active Lat ais big rat rhe ' I market extibi I , a con-

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of holders restrict les, and we have | ut to note 4, 1 pris white

Canada for export, at 1 do! 20c; and 500 do common, 1 dol 22, both in I ee e has been yoxt demand for corn since our last, butt sup- ] ha used 1) lrs more diaposed to reali-e, prit ive de-

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| 792 THE ECONOMIST. Indians, 5 dols GS3eto 5 duls 75¢; mixed Michigar, 5 Cola 75¢e fo 5 dols 810

straight do and Onio, 5 dle 8l4cto 5 do!s 874¢, Corn mea! has continucd

in fair request, but prices have yi lied a trifle.

Export of Breapsturrs, from the United States to Great Bri‘ain and Ireland,

since Sept. 1, 1839.

nls flour. Meal. Wheat. Coro. | Vats. Barley |

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New Or leams..+sccceese- cee -er eee 5it 3i2 6.24. 78,2 33

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Total ..occs.+-e since SO" 782 5,°H6 §=430,320 4,139,9%2 About same time lust sear...... $74,964

CONTINENTAL CORN MARKETS.

Antwerp, June 26.—The reports respecting our wheat crops have

| | |

71,653 1,026,759 10U2Li7» 1,000 1,856 |

been unfavourable of late, owing to which there is much disposition | to buy, and we have to note a further advance of fully Is per qr since | last weck. 62 |b Louvain wheat, 39s Gd; 61 to 62 lb Antwerp, 38s; 61 Ib white Ghent, 41s; 60!b white Z-aland, 38s per qr, f.o.b.

Attoxa, June 24.—We continu’ to be but scantily supp'ied, and consequently there has not been much doing in our market during the past week, Holders of wheat have succeeded in obtaining an advance of 1s per qr upon last weck’s rates, and 62 ib Waren is not to be had below 40s 6d; 60 to Gl lb Mark Mageburg and Saale 36s to 38s Gl Ib Holstein 365 6d; Gl 1b white Upland 40s to dis perq-. Saale barley has been much souglit after of late at gradually advancing rates, say 52 lb 17s 61; 58 lb Cuevalicr 21s 61 pergqr. Danish barley is also firmly maintained in valuc, and 52 to 54 1b is worth 15s to 163 6d per qr, f.o.b.

Srettix, June 24.—Suppties continue to come but sparingly for- || ward, and consequently very little has been passing in our market

during the past week. .We quote 62!b Pommeranian wheat 37s 6d, 614 Ib Uckermark 37s, 61 1b red Stcttia 363s 6d per qr; barley 15s to 163 6d per qr, f.o.b. Rostock, June 23.—Our market remains ia the same position as

for some time past, and we continuc to quote 624 1b wheat 38s to 388 6d; 52 lbs barley 15s 9d to 163 per, qr f.o.b. GreirswaLp, June 23.—We have to note no alteration in the state

of our markct, but there seems to be a firmer tone prevailing amongst We quote

614 1b wheat 37s 6d, 52 Ib barley 15s 6d per qr, f.o.b. Ancuiam, June 23.—Our market has been in a state of perfect

tranquillity during the past week, supplies from our farmers having | | arrived from the Wert Indies. There was some falling offin the deliveries almost entirely ceased, and granaiy parcels being held for very high

rates, holders generally anticipating an improvement in prices. We quote nominally 62 lb wheat 38s, 521b barley 13 per qrs f-o.b.

Danzio, June 22.—Our markct continues in the same state of firmness as for some time past, and though there is not much disposition

| to increase stock at the present rates, holders are not at all inclined |

62 Ibs high mixed wheat 42s to 43s, 61 Ibs fine mixed 39s to 40s, 61 Ibs good mixed 38s to 39s per qr; 53 to 54 Ibs barley is obtainable at

|, 16s 61 to 17s, 50 ibs citto 133 6d per qr, f.o.b. Srratsunp, Juve 23.—There has been very little doing in our

market, all supply having ceased, and holders being determined to keep their reduced stock tora later period. 614 lbs wheat is held tor

, 37s; 52 Ibs barley 15s Gd, 50 Is small ditto lds per qr, f.o.b. Konicspenc, June 22.—There has been a good demand for all

sorts of grain in our market during the past weck, and late prices are firmly supported, and in some instances even exceeded. 139 Ibs

| high-mixed wheat is not purchaasble below 39s; 130 lbs mixed, 37s; ar red, 343 Gi per qr f.o.b. 52§ barley, 153; 49 to 50 lbs ditto,

|| 13s 6d.

1|

| LONDON MARKETS.

STATE OF THE CORY TRADE FOR THE WEEK. MARK LANE, Fripay Mornxinc,

The short supply of English wheat at last Monday's market in Mark !ane |; enabled the factors to dispose of it at the full prices of the previous weck,

notwithstanding the most favourable state of the weather for the crop ot || this article in particular. Foreign wheat was taken in small quantities for }, immediate use, without any quotable change in the value of good samples:

the imports consistcd of 540 qrs from Amsterdam, 540 qrs from Antwerp, 5,981 qrs from Dautsic, 600 q:s from Greifswald, 1,931 qrs from Hamburg, 18 qrs from Harlingen, 1,723 qrs from Konigsherg, 600 qrs from Laaneeston,

| 1,185 qrs from Pillav, 30 qrs from Pon Abbe, 539 qrs from Rostock, 680 q's from Rotterdam, 950 qrs from Stettin, and 600 q°s from Wismar, making a

| total of 14,967 qrs. Fresh made flour continues in good demand, and at j, somewhat higher rates, Barley for grinding purposes realised rather more

money, with a good steady sale: the qu vatity imported consisted of 6,602 qre, principally from Denmaik. Fine oats are very scare’, and such commanded 6d tols pr qr advance, with a goo] steady sale for all sorts: the importation amoun‘ed to 13,949 qrs—730 qrs from Assens, 650 q's from Emden, 1,030 qrs from Faaborg, 1,195 qrs from Gothenburg, 50 qrs from Harlingen, 900 q'8 from Horsens, 150 qrs from Karrebscksmonde, 1,867 q's from Kisge, 590 qrs from Middleforth, 990 qrs from Nak+kow. and 1,592 q's from Srettin.

The imports at Liverpool on Tuesday were pretty good, 7,200 sacks flour |, from France, 4,293 qrs wheat from Baltic ports, 4,415 qrs from Holland, and || 4,675 qrs from the Mediterranean, making a total of 15,370 qts: there was ;; Only a moderate demand, but purchases of wheat could not be effected on {| lower terms: avi rage 39s 5.1 on 829 qrs.

| There was a short delivery of wheat from the firmers at Hull, and the || best qualities realised an advance of 1s per qr: average 393 94 on 750 qrs. ij There was not much passing in foreign wheat for want of really fresh par- || cels; importers and holders are not disposed to sell at the present rate , i which would leave them a lose, preferring to wait the resuit of the harvest

| before they quit their stocks, asso many chinges occur during its progress to maturity. el

to abate their demands, and we cannot reduce our quotations, viz., |

| middling to good middling, 363 6d to 383; low, 35s 6d to 36s, low grey to | middling strung refining kinds, 553 to 363 6d, fair, 373 to 37s 6d; brown, 30s

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[June 29, |

The arrivals at Leeds were good; the millers however bought cautiously durivg the favourabl: state of (he weather 5 still factc rs were pretty firm, and || all fresh thrashcd samples of wheat were quite as d:ar: average 41,114 on | 7,390 q's. A |

There was a small delivery of all graio at’ Lynn, and a fair extent of busi. | | nese was transacted in wheat at full prices: averige 408 54 on 1,976 qr, i}

A moderate quantity of wheat was bréught forward at Lewes, and it met

w steady fate at former ratea, flac samples communcing a slight advance: average 39+ 2d01 76 qre.

The fresh errivis of Eoglish grain at Mark lane on Wedwesday were very limited, but there were fair imports of foreign, »nd the trade gene ally was | | eousidcered much the same as on Monday for all good articles,

The weekly averages announced on Thairsday were, 40; 51 on 103,816 qrs wh at; 22s Slon 3,242 qrs barley; 16% 10d on 9,902 qrs oate; 22s 6d on 52 qrs rye; 26: 0n 3,813 qrs beans; 26s 9d on 573 qrs peas. :

The deliveries of wheat were not larze at Newbury, anl fine red must be quoted Ls per qr dearer: average 42>. 2d on 1,028 qrs.

A short quantivy was brought! forward at Uxbridge; there was no change

in the value of the best qualities, whilst secondary soits were ls pergr | desrer: average 435 110 on 881 qrs. |

There were limited supplics of all Eoazlsh graia at Mark Inne on Fri tay, but moderately good imports of forcigu wheat and cats during the week. A change of weather, since Wednesday, has given a rather firmer tone to

wheat, and full prices were paid for good quilitics, but the bu-iaess trans- seted was not large; the raia having come opportuacly for spring corn, | there isnot that activity in any sort.

The London averages announced this day were,--

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Rye 8 22 0 1}

Beans 195 27 4 \| Pea one encase <0: 000 cocece vos 00050s NES 200 000 e008 52 26 3 |

Arrivals this Week. i| Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oals. Flour. | | Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs.

Eng'isticsccccce 1,420 seores 40 coeese 2680 senses 1,430 soovee 2210 sacks ] Trish sesseee eeeee ee onneee «ee weeene = wee wens eee nee = |

. 1,329 sacks Foretgneerccocee 16,420 ccccce 3,349 ccccce ce —eeveee 12,690 coors 608 bris

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL PRODUCE MARKETS. | TRANSACTIONS OF THE WEEK. |

(For Report of This Day’s Markets sce “ Postscript.”) |

|

MincinG LANE, FRIDAY MORAG. Sucar.—A steady business has been done in colonial descriptions at the ful!

prices of last week, and the market is rather firm. Sales to some extent are again reported in fureiga. The West India market has been better supplied with grocery sugare, which have sold readily at full rates, but yesterday there | was again an indifferent assortment. On Tuesday, 286 casks 363 barrels Bar- badoes sold at previous rates—viz, fine, 408 6d to 428; good, 393 to 40s, low and soft to good middling, 343 6d to 588 6d per cwt. Several vesse's have |

during last week, 3,086 tons of all kinds being cleared—viz , 2,217 colonial and $¢9 tons foreign, against a total of 3,177 tons in the corresponding week last year. The stock of West India has increascd considerably, and equals that of 1849. That of foreign is g: tting rather low. {|

Mauritius.— The sales on Tuesday consi-ted of 7,208 bags 64 casks, and there | | Was asteady demand, about 5,500 bags finding buyers at the full prices of last || week : good to fine grocery brought 383 to 403 6d; a few lots very fine, 41s 6d ;

} to 84s, very low dark ditto, 26s to 283 6d. There has not been much business done privately since the sale. Last week the deliveries did not exceed 9,646 ||

| bags 19 casks, equal to 608 tona. The stock still shows some falling-off when | | compared with that of 1849 at a like period. ||

Bengal.— There were only 1,130 bags offered at commencement of this week, aud the whole withdrawn at higher prices, from 363 to 393 6d for good soft | yellow tomidd ing white Benares. The parcels sold by private treaty have | | brought full rates. i |

Madras.—1,531 bags of the lower qualities were principally bought in at | previous rates, from 278 6d to 293 fur dark heavy to good damp brown: low | damp yellowsold at 3le. There is a large stock on hand, and about 39,000 1 bags in excess of last year’s at same date. |

Foreign —Considerable sales have been effected this week, partly speculative, About 8,000 chests Havana are reported sold by private contract, chiefly fine | | brown yellow, from 18s to 20s 6d Three cargoes were also said to have been dis- | | posed of yesterday, but no particulars transpired. About 5,000 bags Manilla || brought 178 3d to 178 6d. 1,712 chests white HMavana were offered by auction, || and the sound portion withdrawn at highrates. 1,724 boxes yellow and brown \| were rlso chiefly taken in rather above the market value: low to good, 198 | | to 21s 6d. Some washed sold at 183 to 193 6d per cwt. |

Refined.—There has been a steady demand at the rates of last week, but the || market is rather quiet. Brown goods are quoted at 493; middling to good, 498 | 6d to 51s; fine, 52310548. Wet lumps meet with aready sale at 464 to 483 | 6d. Bastards and pieces are in fair demand, but treacle remains very flat. | Sugars refined under bond are quiet, and crushed has been sold at a decline of | 6d —viz, 273 to 288 6d, according to quality. Dutch has been in limited de- ||

|

| mand at the quotations. No alteration to report in loaves, aud few sales made: 10 Ib, 338. Other goods are as Jast quoted, || MoLass£s.—Very little business has been done in West India this week.

100 puncheons Barbadoes offered by auction were withdrawn at 17s to 17s 6d || per cwt. } Correr.—There has not been much business done during this week, but ||

prices have continued firm, and few parcels offering Yesterday the sales went |— off with more animation, and the shippers bought to some extent. 76 casks || Jamaica sold from 493 to 55e fur fine fine ordinary to low middling. Very little has been done in Native Ceylons, holders demanding 433 for good ordiuary | quality, and which could only be obtained for small parcels. Oa Wednesday the sound portion of 600 bags low ordinary, rather unclean, sold at 408 to 408 6d, and tea damaged 363 to 393. The sales of plintation, comprising 376 casks | | 1,432 bags, have gone off with more spirit, above two-thirds of that quanuty | finding buyers at full prices: good marks brought 60s to 628; low middling to good middling coloury, 518 6d to 58s, fine to fine fine ordinary, 488 to 528 ;

triage and ordinary, 40s to 468 6d; pea berry, 52s 6d to 593 Gd. The deliveries keep satirfuctory, being 472 casks 2,082 bags during lust week. 3875 bales, &., | Mocha found ready buyers at high prices, good clean garbled yellow bringing |

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59s 6d to 60s, with a few lots long berry, 70s to 748 percwt. There has been very little business done in foreign this week.

TEA —The market has been very active during the last two or three days, | with a partial speculative demand. Common congous have again advanced, i

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vate treaty there has been a good demand, and the market presents a very firm

1850. several sales being made at 104d to 103d; medium qualities up to 13 also show a proportionate improvement; good have not advanced at present, and the fins

| grades are quict as importers appear unwilling to accept the ex reme Jow rates

| established at the close of last month. Commonyzreen teas have met with mach

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attention; there have been several parcels offered in public sale, for which an advance was paid, viz., 1d to 2d upon young hyson, imperial, gunpowder, anc

hyson of common to medium qualities. On Wednesday 8,553 pkgs were sub-

mitted, and about 3,200 sold ; yesterday the sales concluded, only 640 pkgs finding buyers, owing to the importers demanding much higher rates, Fair common

| congou brought 104d, and medium up to 1», being an advance of jd. By pri-

appearance. 895 pkgs Assam all found ready buyers at high prices: congous ranged from 9d to 13 5d perlb. There hus ben one vessel reported here this week. The deliveries of all kinds show an increase of 658,000 lbs over las' season's.

Cocoa .—There have not been any public sales of Trinidad. A few lots | Grenada so!d at full prices, fair to good bright red bringing 41s to 428; low grey | to middling red 36s 6d to 39s. The deliveries are large, 100 bags Guayaquil aud | 100 bags low Para were bought in above the market value.

Rice —The market remains rather quiet, 3,207 bags 149 pkts Bengal were chiefly so'd, but at rather easier rates for the better kinds of white; very good brought 10s 6d to 11s, good 9s 6d to 10s; brok«n and dusty 7s Gd to 83 6d. 1,502

| bags Madras were chiefly dispored of at a dccline of 3d, common pinky to govd | white Bengal grain biinging 8s to 9s. Very little business is reported to bave

been done privately. Cleaned rice is dull, Caroline, 28s and 22s fur first and second qualities.

| SaGu.—295 bags common large Boinco were taken in ut 113 per ewt | Arrowroot has been dull, and the few parcels West India offered chicily | tiken in at former rates. | Pimento.—The d-mand is not quite so active, and 127 bags sold at | barely last week's rater, from 6d to 63d for ordinary to fair quality. The | stock is rather large. | Perrer.—Former rates have been obtained fora few small pircels common kinds of blick. ‘Tie stock is still very low. White continues seirec.

|, OrneEr Spices.—300 barrels Jamaicr ginger have beea brought forward | this weck, which nearly all sold at much low r prices, ranging from 3! 9s

to 7/ 10s for ordinary small to fine. No sols have been made in Eust ludia. Cassia lignea meets with more inquiry at higher rates, Nutmegs are rether scarce at present, aud biown kinds wanted.

| SaLTPETRE.—A steady busivess is reported in East India by private treaty at full rates, and the market presents a firm appearauce. 100 bags Bengal sold in public sale at 2738 for good bo'd quality, refrac 53 per ecut. The deliveries are steady, although not quite so large as during the last few weeks. There is av increase of 2,400 tons in the stock over last season’.

Nirrate Sopa.— Nothing has been done, buyers awaiting the large public sale. Cocuineat.—On Tucsday, 112 bags Honduras silvers were sold ut

about former rates, ordinary to fair bringing 3s 8d to 4s ld. 150 bags Mexican went rather easier, silvers selling ai 3s7d to 3s 84,

| and blacks 3s 8d to 3s lld. A few lots Teneriff were bought in at 33 10d per ib, The stock consists of 4,956, against 2,830 serons at a like period in 1849.

Lac Dye.—There has been very little business done in this dye since last weck, but holders are firm, demaudivg former rates, and the stock keeps low.

Drugs, &c.—Sales to some extent have been made iu East India camphor this week at 70s, and an advance now demanded, 180 cases castor oil so!d steadily at fully previous rates: fair to good pale 64d to 7d: low straw to good second 34/4 to 64. All kinds of gums are quiet. 172 chests shellac Were bought in above the market value,

1,092 bales Gambier all found buyers at lis 6d, with a few lots LIs 9d; 300 baskets good taken in at 123. ‘Turmerie is quiet. No alteration in other goods, Merats.—The markets re rather quiet, with scarcely any change

in prices to report. ‘There is a steady demand for Welsh bar iron at 4/7 12s 6d to 47 15s. Scotch pig has been sold at easier ratcs, viz, mixed numbers 44s Gd, and the market is now dull, Spelter remains

quiet at last weck’s prices. East India tin is held firmly at 70s to 723, but not much business doing. No alteration has been made in British, Other meta's remain as last quoted. Hemr.—A few sales have been made in clean Petersburg at easier

rates, as arrivals of new are expected daily. Jute continues in good demund,

Oins.—Th: re has been rather more business done in fish this week, 75 tuns colo: ial sperm offered by auction, all sold stvadity at previous

| rates, chiefly 84 to 84/ 10s for good quality. 92 tuns Sowhern also | sold from 31/ 53 to 33/7 5s for low to fiue. There has not been much business done in pale seal, the trade expecting Considerable ariivats.

, Cod is rather scarcer, Linseed has advanerd to 31s, and few parcels | on offer yesterday even at that price, which is ls higher. | Mains rather quiet. | Lixseep.- Several purchases have been mate in Black Sea, both on the spot and for arrival, at about 43s to 433642; the market is now very firm, Linseed cakes remain as last quoted, viz., fine English

| made, 8/ 5s to 82 10s per thousand, | TurPENTINE.—No sales in rough this week. Spirits ste former rates, viz., 30s to 30s 6d, per owt for Briish drawn,

| Tattow.—The mark: t remains inactive wi hout change in prices, fine Y C selling at 36s Gd to 37s on the spot; 38s to 34s 3d is sill demanded for new to arrive in the lust three mouths, but some busi

| ness Gone below that price. Delivered during the last wick 946 casks, leaving the stock on Monday 24733, against 23,504 casks at

| Same date in 1849,

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FRIDAY EVEMING, SuGcar —There was no: wketto-dav. About 650 eask« W. 1 sold

at full prices, including haf of 272 ca-ks 197 Diriels batbadoes in public sale, and the weck’s business amounts to 2,3 Mauritius.—5,603 bags “5 casks ubout three-fuu ths sold steadily at the rates previ usly quoted Bengal.—568 bags brought full rates: low to good white Benares, 388 to 4's 64 per cwt Foreign.— No furiier

large sales reported to day. Refined.—Phe merket was quiet, an no further alteia- tion i: prices. Corree.—3 casks 360 bags plantation were taken in at high prices,

ld steadily at the \ormer value. per cwt.

Rice. —2,016 bags very fine white Rengal sold at 12s to 12s 61 per cwt. Perrer.—A few lots low Eastern realised 24d to £jd per Ib.

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0 CASAS

50 biles Mocha

179 barrels, &c., Malabar sold fiom 42s tu its 6d

THE ECONOMIST. 723 CocutNEAL.—39 bags were mosily taken in at previous rates: Hondara: silvers, 3s

7d to as 1Md; Mexican blacks, 3s $d to 3s Hd ; silvers, 3s 7d to 3s Sd per Ib. GAMBIER.—774 b.les were taken in at 1s 6d. Curcu —1,°30 bags fair Pezue withdrawn at 18s per ewt. Rum.—The market has been rather active, and a large business done, the sales

amouvting to 800 puncheon:—viz.,4 0 Demerara, 20) Jamaica, and 2.0 puacheons Leewurds at {s 4d tu ls 4jd per proof galloa for the latter O1ms.—75 tuns sperm chiefly sold at 83! 10s to 85! per tun for colonial.

Ceylon cocoa nut taken in at 29s to 3’s per ewt. PatLow —2's8 casks Australian went off fil:tly, and part so'd at 31s 3d to 35s 6d.

265 casks 251 boxes South American partly realised at 323 6d to 36s 3d.

227 hhds

ADDITIONAL NOTICES. ; Svear.—The home market for refined sugar at the bezinning of the week was firm, with an advance of 6d, aod every app arance of a further advance being obtained by the sellers, since which it has relapsed to its position of last week. The bonded remains for loaves without alteration, but crushed has been sold at 6d reduction on last week's prices. Dutch crushed in Holland is held for higher prices, Belgian rather more freely offered, without any sa‘es being effected.

Dry Frurr.—The demand for all sorts languid, and to all appearance currants particularly: a further considerab'e relucction in price must be submitted to before sales | can be effected to apy extent. Another cargo of currants jast reported from Cephalonia,

Clearances of Dry Fruit for the week ending June 24. Currants. Spanish Raisins. Smyrna Raisins Figs. Almonds

cwt cwt ewt cwt cwt 1BSO ceccecese BSED ccccccece B27 — cecccerce S91 cccccccee I8G ss ccccccece «6.2.8 1849 oo DORR ccemcen BAB. . cocecceee BBB ccocnees 107 e 437 1848 ecco GBOD cccccence 406 aeee 740 ceocercce 119 1,144 ° eecces cee Green Fruit —The market is near'y cleared of oranges and lemons, a parcel of

the ‘ormer consisting of 25. boxes per Iberia steanner from Lisbon, sold by Keeling and Hunt at public sale, sold at 3s per box advance. Lemons sustain the high price obtained of late, and the supply is now entirely depending upon those obtained from Lisbon. A parce! of Smyrna nuts has been taken by the trade ata high figure. Bar- cclona, owing to the competition of some l-adiog houses, are selling below their value. Brazil have advanced 2s per barrel. 8 CoLoxitaL Woor.—The public sales of colonial woolare going on still, at about the ame rates as fromther commencement, and with a good atiendauce of buyers; a considerab!e proportion is taken for foreign account. SiLk.—The transactionsio China during th: week, though to some extent, have been

comparatively limited, owing no doubt to the large purchases previously made. The prices actually realived were for Tsa‘lee 154 to 20. 3d, and for Taysaam 1le6d to 16s. In Beugals everythixg fine to good medium s rts has so'd freely, at full prices, but the lower descriptions are entirely neglected, CottTon.—An active demand has prevailec, and a large business has been transacted

at the fall p:i.es of last week, and in some instances gl per Ib advance durivg the fortnight Yesterd»y 1,000 bales Midras, (ine!nding damaged) were offered at public sale, th» whole of which were sold at the ex'reme prices of the transactions by private

contract, say 45d to 4jd per 1b, middling fair Western to fully fair Northern. Sales of cotton wool from the 2ist to the 27th inst, inc’usive:—6,000 bales Surat, at 4gd to

5d, mddling to good ; 6,500 bales Madras, at 5jd to 5§4, middling fair to good fair Tinnivelly.

Fusax anp Hemp.—Rather more business doing in flux this week, and in som: justances at advanced prices. Very little done in hemp but at rather lower prices. LeaTUER AND [lipgks —During the past week there has been a fair general demand

for leather, but at Leadenhall on Tiuursday there was a small attendance of buyers, andthe bu 83 transacted was limited. Crop hides, puarticu'arly those of heavy Weights, dressing hites of all kinds, and ca'f skias under 50 lbs per doz, continue scarce and in good request. Prices remain unalicred

METALS generally remain quiet, and prices sam: as last quoted. Tin plates are in good Cemand and prices are tirmer thanour last quotition, with arising market. Soelter reatins unaltered, as also copper and tia, with but small demand. Iron has assumed rather a firiner aspec’, aud prices may be quoted a trifle higher.

ENSUING SALES IN LONDON. Turspay, Jaly 2.—150 hids Barbadves sugsr—18 casks Cey on coffee—52 cases

Malabar, 4 buges African ginger.

WeEbNesbay, July 3.—1,-0u bags pepper—10,000 bags nitrate of la—!,354 bags 3,4" Canis rice,

Tuespay, June 9.—10,651 chests East India indi

PROVISIONS. {eT i 3 of foreign butter hasinlacel se'lers to sabmit toa reduction of 3s

to 4s verewt on lat w c's rates ih smand forlrish very lanzaid

Int mi very little doing, she shippers generally left off curing; some aie looking for 63s, free on board, but this is not to be made yt. American stul? moves a little Detter

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bus ) tI 5 la we 4 i} qaotanons have a downward tendency.

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The number of lambs was large ; all breeds moved off heavily, but we have no further _ SEEDS.— Rape at a slight advance, Lin—For crushing, at a smal] reduc- decline ‘o notice in their value. = ‘ satan Aes le tion. Clover—A few lot fair new red Maese were taken for export, nothing

Inferior calves were amere drug. Prime qualities of veal soldat last week's value. | jg done in white. Mustard—Fair yellow would find ready buyers at 1if per Scarcely any business was doing in pies, at late rates. heet ; prime brown selling at 18;f to 19f. Canary is held firm. }

June aan ied 05,1849, June 24, 1850. Corn.— Wheat at advancing rates, Rye, Barley, and Oats well maintained.

BEAStS ccoccecrcovecsccsece B25 covsereveres —BsH1T aeveveeereee 3,832 Buckwheat at former prices. Sheep and LAMbs eevee 25,590 cevoeerereee 30,420 - 36,900 —_ me

CBIVES corcceccscsreceres ene 329 809 3( — ™ a ee EE

B wer cosccccosesecscoosses 290 ove 240 . 320 ee... t- --Qur market to-day was tolerably well 1 with beasts, but c h & Ch a * e t t e.

their g } y was by no means good, and the beef trade ruled dull, at Monday's

quotations. ihe umbers of sheep were large, the demand for that de tion of ’

stock was steady. Prime lambsat full rates of currency. In lambs very little business Friday, June 91.

was ‘ransacted. Calves were et lust week’s prices, The pork trade was inactive PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

Milch cows 14/ to 18! each, including their calf. Nrown and Prichard, Nottingham mews, Marylebo e, and elsewhere, coachsmiths— Per ®ibs to sone the offals, and kit ittin ham, lace manufacturers—Bell, Watson, and Co., Duffeld, | |

s ds a ; s dad hire, cary ers—Gilover and Thorp, Liverpool, commission ogenis—Wardle | Infer t S seccccesccccessossees 2 AtoZ 6 | Second quali y she CP ; 3 60 s, Rustiton, Staffordshire, < dyers—Paul and Co, Kirby stieet, Hatton |

Second quality dO sesso 2 § 2 10) Coarse woolled do .... 3 6 _ prin-ers’ brokers—Rothwell and Wild, Rochdale, hat manufacturers—J. and Prime large ox eid aan ae 2 Southdown wether. 3 verall, Leeds, bricklayers—Finchett and Thompson, Liverpool, fruit brokers—

Prime Scots,&c 6 Large hOgs sss... 3 of g and Sutton, Brighton, soda-water manufacturers—Schilling and Lugard, Large coarse ca 10 Smiail porkers ... ao 1, cork manufacturers—North Country Coal Company and Radford and Co, Prime smal! do 4 | Lambs ccccerccscee ( echurch street, coal merchents—Ayshford and Merry, Broadclist, Devonshire, Inferior + P qunnses . = ae ‘ aaa ; Z surgeoos—Hunt and Son, Bristol, bru-h mannfacturers—Cobham and Ashfield, Ware, |

Total supply ¢ ; sheep, 15,620; ca ves, 322 rs,309. Seotcl lie:tfordshire, attorneys—Hitching and Stansfield, Halifax, carpenters—Chapman and supply:—Beasts, 100; sheep, 60. Foreign supp.y:— Beasts, 120 5 sheep, 920 , calves, 140 Stayley, Macclesfield, silk throwsters—J.and W. Duck, London road, Southwark, me-

on ear tul merchanis—E, and R. W. Symons, Old Fish street, importers of foreign goois— POTATO MARKETS. 7 Hammord an! Co, Wolverhampton, oi! refiners—Horsfield and Glover, Sandbach,

Sovrnwank, WATERSIDE, June 24.—There have been several fresh cargoes arrived | Cheshire, salt proprietors—Macey and Elliott, Dartmouth, crapers—City of Glasgow from the continent since our last report, in good concition ; but the weather is su hot Bank: as far as recards A. Sim.

they are selling very slow!y at the following quotations :— DECLARATIONS OF DIVIDENDS. per ton | er ton W. Shaw, Leeds, ironfounder—first and final div of 1s 7d, on Tuesday, June 25, or . : s auy subsequent Monday or Tuesday, at Mr Hope's, Leeds,

10 G9 | Rhenish Whitessers.cerseeees J. Walton, Leeds, tailor—first and final div of 7d (on new proofs only), on Tuesday, | | : June 25, or any subsequent Monday or Tuesday, at Mr Hope's, Leeds. |

meeeenme J. Jockson Lackenby, Yorkshire, corn factor—first div of Is 63d, on Tuesday, June BOROUGH HOP MARKET. 25, or any subsequent Monday or Tuesday, at Mr Hope's, Leeds. :

T. M. Adams, Holton-le-Beckering, Lincolnshire, corn factor—second div of 4s, any |

Yorkshire Regents ccccce.sreve s ; cotch Cups saneme ) 70 | Belgian .....

Monpary, June 24.—The bine continues to progress favourab'y, with scarcely any fly. : : Our market remains without alteration : oe re Friday, at Mr Carrick’s, Hull. saan

na remais thout ration. ; 3 ; ce ae aml ee . ela ia Fribay, June 28.—Favourable accounts having reached us from Kont and Sussex, tT K lowitt, Liacoln, miller—first and final div of 6d, any Friday, at Mr Carrick’s,

and the cuty having been done as high as 165,0C0/, our market isexceedingly inactive peal Li : b : = en i ’ oi

Prices as follows .— New mid and East Kent pockets, 642810 10/105; new Weald ot F a Su a y, Kings ee millwright—second and final div of 1s 53d, any riday, at Mir Carrick s, Ou

Kent do, G/to +2; new Sussex do, 5/58to 6/ 12s; new Farnhams,!2/to 13/3; yearling hents,3/ 3s wo 4/ 583 os Sussex, 2/ 10s ” 3i5s8;3 old ma, rae 3i ao Carrick’s, Hull.

be en aera dona a We. ies ads teak a cana dane pre : - Goawin, Lincoln, shipbuilder—first and final div of 2s 4d, any Friday, at Mr |

ei er cnn tocar tne promt te Lie a geet | "ts Prot ot, Presto, spindlemaker—fest div of 6% on Tussdey, July 2, or any su ; ,a hee he ; ; 2 A . aes ome a St nt iuesday, at Mr ots, nehester. Ee i badd Or

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J. Saner, Kingston upon-Hull, tailor—first and final div of 7s 1d, any Friday, at Mr

» | Thomas Croft, Whitechapel road, stablekeeper. week of such weather will send the bines over the tops of the poles —a position which ‘~ : .

they should now soon attain. Since our iast Las beeii @ tresh flight of fly; thei William and Henry Haris, Wrexham, Denbighshire, paper manufacturers.

a : SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. ee

| numbers, however, are by ne means formid.ble ; in some gardens there is scarcely one | ;

4 t , ; I. Henderson, Edinburgh, baker to be found ; and sunilar accounts are pretty general from the surrounding parish Be ‘on, Ednburgh, bi : \ uir, Glasgow, Coilector of tonnege ares, W.M f 1

seen aie J. Waddell, Dundee, manufacturer, AAY MARKETS.— Teurspay. A. \\*Farlane, Blairgowrie, baker.

REGENt’s Park.—Fine upland meadow and rye grass hay 70s to 72s, inferior ditto | J. Houston, Paisley, draper. 48s to 55s, superior Clover 84s to 68s, inferior ditto bUs to 70s, straw 23s to 50s per ae load of 36 trusses. Tues or

: art ics uesday, Jun 9 PortMan,—Old meadow hay 60s to 72s, inferior ditro 52s to 683; old clover 63s to uemont y> € ~~

758, inferior ditto 48s to 58s; wheat straw 265 to 40s per load of 35 truss PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

DMITUFIELD.— fine upland meadow and rye grass hay 68s to 70s, interior ditto 485 Bather and Griffiths, Shrewsbury, builders—Frost and Wright, Portland, Dorset-

to 583; superior clover 85s to $Us, inierivr Gilto UUs to 7Us; straw 22s Lo 303 per | gcons—Leeds Union Company, Leeds, or elsewhere, common carriers—Liver- load of 36 trusscs. a Company, Live poo!, or elsewhere, common carriers—Boorman and Ander- New HunGenrorD.—Fine upland meadow and rye grass hay 68s to 70s, inferior | son, Liverpool, rice millers—Wilson and Doughton, Ipswich aad Bentiesham, Suffolk,

ditto 485 to 58s; superior clover 88s to Yus, inierior ditto 6Us to 7Us: straw 22s tw | manufacturers of East Incia oils - Prior and Bick, Ma'mesbury, Wiltshire, millers— i

30s per load of 36 trusses. Stec! and Sou, Trinity street, Rotherhithe, lightermen--Wilkinsen and Co., Liverpool, Wuirecuarst.—Tue supply at this market to-day was short, and the demand slow, ipotheearies—Sparks and Jackson, Liverpool, ship store dealers—Buchanan and Hill,

at the tollowing quotations :—Old meadow hay ircm 70s to 7553 Clover 75s tO S45; Liverpool, and Maranham, Groazil—Lambert, Brown, and Co., London, and Lambert,

new hvy 45s tu 6.8; straw 23s to 20s per load. Brown, and Clowes, Dublin, gold lacemen; as far as regards H. C. Pigott—Jobnson anaes al ie, Wigan, Lancashire, engineers—Ely and Foulger, City road, Shore-

COAL MALKKET, ditch, } builders—Bathe and Breach—Rushforih and Co., Bradford, York-

Monpay, June 24.—Begbies West Marticy iss—Carr’s West Harti 13s 94d—Ches- shire, irom fou lers; as far asregurds B, W. lis Roberts and Walker, Moorgate street,

ter Main 1Zs 94—Last Adair’s Main IIs—fauticla Moor (2s Gd—Tanticld Moor but tailors—J. and W. Blaker, Brighton, coach makers—Huskisson and Terrill, Birm‘ing-

1 ham, and elsewhere, carriers— King and Parkinson, Barrowford, Lancashire, washing. 1 18s 3d—Ldeu Main i4s $4d—Lambion PV:

lés Yd—Harticy is to, ids. i 1 Wallsend: Bewicke and Co, | a" ‘’s Gus ils—Hotspur 132 34—Lawson 13s—Belmont lis—iradds]i ld vd say Wa

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qnor, mantfacturers— Attwood and Braim, Kidderminster, boot makers—J. and W, rd, Oswestry, Shropshire, attorneys—John Leighton, sen., John Leiyhton, jun,

—Hettoul5s 9d—Haswell 16:—Kepier Giange i5s—Laiuiston ids 3d—Russeli's Mettou mes Leighton, Brewer street, Golden square, booksellers; as far as regards J. lds 3d—Scarb » 14s—Stewart’s los—iiast epooi 16s—Soutm Hartiepe ts n, sen—Cochrane, Son, and M Kee, Newcastle under-Lyme, mercers; «8 far

Thornley lis 3i—W bitworth 12s—Adeleive le 143 94—Brown’s Deanery 13s Ba— | 4&5 regards J M‘Kee—Quilter, Bal, aud Co, Coleman street, accountants; as far as

: egards G. H. Jay—Hinchiitf and Co., Chelsea, and elsewhere, wholesale paper hang- Cownden Tees los Sd-—Lees ids Od. Ships at wiarket, 3 s0id, 59 5 Unsvld, « : ing manufacturers: as far as regords B.S, Hinehiiff.

DECLARATIONS OF DIVIDENDS. Hi. Parker, Sh: field, banker—final div ot 3s 6d, making 20s in the pound, any day,

LIVERPOOL MARKETS, t Mc Freeman’s, Sheff: 1d — - C, Sander , Sheftield, iron merchant—first and final div of &d, on Saturday, June

WOOL. Furpay Nici. 29, or any su juent d-y, at Mr Freeman’s, Sheffield. (F ur own Correspondent’) W. L. Oddie, Clitheroe, scrivener—div of 1s 6d, on Thursday, June 27, o> any subse-

The market is very firm, With a pret!y scuve business doing, and there is | quent Thursday, at “ir Freeman's, Leeds, every prospect cf an improvement in th” price of foreign in proportion to ihe | G+ Hutton, Sarai onan ee 7s Gd, on Saturday, June 29, or any subse- ad ane +h } lens i . ai ‘i ; . quent Saturcay Mr Freeman's, Shr Meld. q adv. ne the has t Ke n place in E blisu aud Irish wooels, but it is chic fly O. Richards, Fleet street, law bookseiler—third div of 9d, on Wednesday next, and cuntined to wouls of a combing Characi. r. three subsequent Weduesdays, at Mr Graham's, Coleman street. s

CURN., L. Gu lieaume, Berners street, Oxford strect, manufacturer of artificial flowers—first (From our own sponaent.) div of Is Llc, ou Wednesday next, and three subsequent Wednesdays, at Mr Graham’s,

This nm iss transact in anya Was Very Si . All qualitics | Coleman street. * of wheat were 1 Bele, abd prune Oul g scarce, were urn ceaer. | TT Loisel, jan ,and A. Edan, Hatton garden, foreign provision mercbants—first div

ss ‘ ur Was ia fair request: at previous prices. jeal Gull, Incian Corn of 33d, on Wednesday next, and ihree following Wednesdays, at Mr Graham’s, Coleman bas Ce “ er q’, and af this reduction mets with only w limited demand, strect.

METALS. BANKRUPTS. (From our own Corr i. John Barnard (and not Burnard, as advertised in last Fricay’s Gaxelie), Stanford

, At t € neg t he by nasters, it ha Rivers, Essex, baker. decid uu n y bxed fur manufactured iron. Scvtel } beth Appleton Peakome, Princess street, Cavendish square, saddler. pig as t i Mi to effect sales a recuciiun in p.ce | T! ias (heatwood Jones, Blackfriars road, linendraper,

Das be ave laken place in uixcd Nous, al 44. 6d | Samuel Taylor, Staines, grocer, to 45s pert Letals Willout change. James Newla: d Baker, Alton, H: mpshire, auctioneer,

Jobin Richardson, Edgeware road, ironmonger, ——————— Clement Pretty, Leicester, grocer.

—— ea : } John White, Dudley, Warwickshire, innkeeper,

FO R E IGN MARKET 5S. Williom Tyther, Birmingham, taliow chandler. Johau barker, Manchester and §.]ford, victuatler,

TOD! * ’ Huch Hughes, Porimadoc, shipowner AMSTERDAM JUNE 24 i ; nadoe, pe .

C.. FrEE.— Ba inees was active both for home-use and « xport. ree MASCOTCI SEQUESTRATIONS : > (ray } tr ; . te . . _.. 2Y i \ i NS. SuGAR. (RAw)— About 500 bhds Su inam were sold at 22fto 2 43f, 200 | W. Ross, Portobello, Edinburgh, innkeeper.

box«s brown Havana a -o', DCW Condition, and about 500 baskets Java | W. Hodge, Leith, shipowner. at f. J. Norie, laverness, merchant.

Dyes, &e.—INp1Go—about 70 chests and boxes Java wire taken for cx- J. tiewat, Dumfries, chymist. port. Cc ‘ himeal—Priecs remain ste: dy. Dye wood: —Log and fustic rather dull of sale. Rosiun—No sales of any mom: nt took place. Turpentine Ol— Gazette of Last Night. Io bette: demand, Quercitron Baik--Without change. Maddere— Without | : BANKRU PTS, change. , | Joseph Moore, victualler, Hanover street, Islington.

Oms, — With « lis ited trade William Jones, statiover, Nelson street. | George Holmes and Henry Holmes, ironmongers, Derby. ».—Small lots Rigs ish fine cl l 1tG3!: cles . = Hemp.—Small luts Riga Polish fine chan brought 63!; clean 61f; outshoy seph Boycot, drape, Kidderminster,

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Inferior calves were amere drug. Prime qualities of veal soldat last week's vulue.

ly any business was doing in pigs, at late rates. Scarct - SUPPLIES.

June 26, 1848. June 25, 1849, June 24, 18590, Beasts cvccceee K eceresecocce S017 cocccccersese 3,832

Shee] d Lambs .. eccecccccece §30,420 « 36,900 CAlVES coreccccocsscvecceone 329 309 . 3c.

A Tia ecceisiesnasabiniianns SOE senitassuinne 240 one 320 Farvay, June --OQur market to-day was tolerab] y Well supplied with beasts, but

their g ra 1ality was by no means good, and th beef trade rule i dull, at Monday’s

quotations. ihe numbers of sheep were large, the demand for that description of Prime lambs at full rates of currency) In lambs very little

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Total supp)y ket :— Beasts, 835 ; sheep, 15,620; calves, 322; pigs,300. Seotch supply:—Beasts, 100; sheep, 60. Foreign supp:y:— Beasts, 120 5 sheep, 920 , calves, 14d.

POTATO MARKETS. WaTeRsIDE, June 24.—There have been several fresh cargoes arri

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BOROUGH HOP MARKET. Mow pay, June 24.—The bine continues to progress tavourab'y, with

Our market remains without alteration. scarcely any fly.

FRiDAY,. 28.— Favourable accounts having reached us from Kent and Sussex, and the cut ving been done as high as 165,00U/, our market is exceedingly inactive,

Prices as follows .— New mid and East Kent pockets, 6/28to 10/105; new Weald ot

Kent do, 6/to $2; new Sussex do, 5/48to 6/ 12s; new Farnbams,!2/ to 13/3 yearling hents,3/ 3s wo 4/ 583 yearling Sussex, 2/ 10s to 3/4 58; old hops, 14 to 34

Maipstone, June 20.—The sudden changes to which our climate is ever liable, have beeu fully exemplified duriag the past week. We have had bot summer days and

cold wintiy nights—last Saturday night there was a decided frost. Such varied temperature lias tended considerably to retard the growth of the bine, alt gh we do not find that ic has been otherwise injured. Again we have had an improvement in the weather ; yesterday and to-day has been cai «nd hot, such as hops deught iu. A week of such weather will send the bines over Wie tops of the poles —a position whict

they should now soon attain, Since our jast © Las beth @ tresh flight of fly; thei numbers, however, are by no means formid.ble ; in Some gardens there is scarcely one

to be found ; and suniar accounts are pretty general from Ue surrounding parishc

AAY MARKETS.— Tuvurspay. REGENT’s Pang.—Fine upland meadow and rye grass hay 70s to 72s, inferior ditto

48s to 55s, superior Clover 843s to 08s, inferior ditty GUs to 70s, straw 23s to SUs per load of 36 trusses.

PortmMan.—Old meadow hay 60s to 72s, inferior ditro 5%s to 683; old clover €3s to 758, inferior ditto 48s to 8s; wheat straw Zs to 50s per load of 3 srusees. DMITuFIELD.— Fine upland meadow and rye grass hay 68s to 70s, interior

to 58s; Superior clover 85s to $0s, imferiur Gillo UUs to 7Us; straw 22s 303 per

load of 36 trusses.

New HuNGeRroRD.—Fine upland meadow and rye grass h Gs to 7Us, inferior Gitto 485 to 583; superior clover 88s to Yus, imierior ditto 6Us to 7Us: straw wo 30s per lou Jo trusses.

Wairecuaprl Tue supply at this market to-day was short, and the « lema at the follow quvtations :—Old meadow hay ticm 70s to 7553 cloves 75s new hey 455 tu 6: 8; straw 25s to Lbs per ivad

COAL MALRKET, Monpay, June 24.—Beg am" West Hartiey iss—Carr’s West Hartivy 13s 9d

ter Main is ast Adair’s Main bls—Tauiicla Moor t2s 6d—Tanti - vio l:is—Wes W) am 'o—Wylem i3s 3€d—Ledeu Main i4s $d—Leambion V1 yt |4ds Su

—Derw twater liar ley lis Yd—Harti Yi.s ts, i388. Wallser > BDewicke al

13s 64—Brown's Gus ils—Hotspur ib- 3i—Lawson i3s—Belmont lis—Uradds hi lds:

—Hettou!5s 94d—Haswell 16:—Kepier Grange i5s—Laindston 15s 3d—Kusseti's be 15s 34—Seail h lds—Stewart’s los—iisitiepooi 16s—So0utm He rea Thornley iis 3 hitworth 12s—Adeleive le 14s Yo—Brown's Deane

Cowndenu Tees lbs Sd-—Lees ios Od. Ships at wiarket > S0id, OY 5 Unsold,

LIVERPOOL

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The mark very tum, With a pretiy octuuve business doing, and th every prospect (ft an improvement in th price of toreiguin pro,-crtion to ihe advance that has taken place in Evuglisu aud Irish woels, but it is chictly coniined to w of a combing Characi.r.

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METALS own C¢ poudent.)

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AMSTERDAM, June 24. C.. FFEE.— Bu iness was active both for howe-use and export SuGaR. (RAwW)— About 500 bhds Su inam were sold at 22fto 243f, 200

box«s brown Havana at 25’, new condition, and about 500 baskets Java at f.

Dyes, &e.—In —about 70 chests and boxes Java wire port. Cochin Prices s remain ste: dy. dull of sale. RB siu—No sales of any mom: Io better demand, Quercitron Baik--Withot change.

Oms. — With 2 lis ited trade Hemp.—Small lots Riga Polich fine clean brought 63"; clean 6

58f; Codilla 23f.

taken for ex-

Dy woods —Log and fustic rather ut took place. Turpentine Oil—

itchange. Madders— Without

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Serps.— Rape ata slight advance. Lin—For crushing, at a smal) reduc. | | tion. Clover—A few lots fuir new red Maese were taken for export, nothing | | is done in white. Mustard—Fair yellow would find ready buyers at lif per heet ; prime brown selling at 18;f to 19f. Canary is held firm.

CoRN.— Wheat at advancing rates, Rye, Barley, and Oats well maintained, Juckwheat at former prices.

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The Gasette. | #4

Friday, June 21. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. |

t\rown and Prichard, Nottingham mews, Marylebo e, and eleewhere, coachsmiths— | :, Nottin- ham, lace manufacturers—Bell, Watson, and Co., Dufheld, | |

ert rpenters—Glover and Thorp, Liverpool, commission ogenis—Wardle | ind Cook, Ruston, Staffordshire, silk dyers—Paul and Co, Kirby stieet, Hatton garden, priners’ brokers—R deed and Wild, Roehdale, hat mar ufacturers—J. and J. Cathera!!, Leeds, bricklayers—Finchett and Thompson, Liverpool, fruit brokers— |

Sutton, Brighton, soda-water manufacturers—Schilling and Lugard, k manufacturers—North Country Coal Company and Radford and Co, street, coal merchants—Ayshford and Merry, Broadclist, Devonshire, | | nt and Son, Bristol, bru-h manufacturers—Cobham and Ashfield, Ware,

Wi ' », attorneys—Hitching and Stansfield, Halifax, carpenters—Chapman and Stayley, Macclesfield, silk throwsters—J.and W. Duck, London road, Southwaik, me-

1 merchanis—E. and R. W. Symons, Old Fish str et, importers of foreign gools— Hammord ani Co, Wolvernampton, oi! refiners—Horsfield and Glover, Sandbach,

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DECLARATIONS OF DIVIDENDS. W. Shaw, Leeds, ironfounder—first and final div of 1s 7d, on Tuesday, June 25, or | |

any subsequent Monday or Tuesday, at Mr Hope’s, Leeds, | J. Walton, Leeds, tailor—first and final div of 7d (on new proofs only), on Tue: day,

June 25, or any subsequent Monday or Tuesday, at Mr Hope's, Leeds. | J. Jeckson Lackenby, Yorkshire, corn factor—first div of Is 64d, on Tuesday, June |

25, or ans sut sequent Monday or Tuesday, at Mr Hope's, Leeds. T. M. Adams, Holton-le- Sener Lincolnshire, corn factor—second div of 4s, any |

Friday, at Mr Carrick’s, Hull i. Howitt, Liacoln, miller—first and final div of 6d, any Friday, at Mr Carrick’s,

Hull. W. Suddaby, Kingston-upon-Hull, millwright—second and final div of 1s 544, any

Friday, at Mr Carrick’s, Huil J. Saner, Kingston-upon-Hull, tailor—first and final div of 7s 1d, any Friday, at Mr | |

Carrick’s, Hul |

R. W. Godwin, Lincoln, shipbuilder—first and final div of 2s 4d, any Friday, at Mr Carrick’s, Hu

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pindlemaker—first div of 6s, on Tuesday, July 2, or any sub- ' sony Manchester. !

BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. Thomas Croft. Whitechapel road, stablekeeper. William and Henry Haris, Wrexham, Denbighshire, paper manufacturers,

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. T. Hender-on, Ed nburgh, baker. W. Muir, Glasgow, collector of tonnage dues, J. Wadd il, Dundee, manufacturer, A. Kit ari, ne, Blairgowrie, baker.

J. Hous » Paisley, draper. } '

ae I Tuesday, June 25.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. |

an r and Griffiths, Shrewsbury, builders—Frost and Wright, Portland, Dorset- re, ons—Leeds Union Company, Leeds, or elsewhere, common carriers—Liver-

ion Company, Live poo!, or elsewhere, common carriers—Boorman and Ander- T

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son, : verpool, rice millers—Wilson and Deoughton, Ipswich aad Hentlesham, Suffolk, Inanufacturers of E ast Invia oils - Prior and Bick, Ma'mesbury, Wiltshire, millers— St ind Son, Trinity street, Rotherhithe, lightermen--Wilkinseon and Co., Liverpool,

Liverpool, ship store dealers—Buchanan and Hill, theearies Sparks : borg tian, T

, ; iverpoo ad Maranham, Brezil—Lambert, Brown, and Co., London, and Lambert, wn, and Clowes, Dublis 1, gold lacemen; as far as regards H. C. Pigott—Jobnson

md me vistenholme, Wigan, Lancashire, engineers—Ely and Foulger, City road, Shore- | D teh, horticultursl builders—Bathe and Breach—Rushforih and Co., Bradford, York- y

founders; as far as regords B, W-lis—Roberts and Walker, Moorgate street, |} b nv sot y 1 W. Blaker, Brighton, coach makers—Huskisson and Terrill, Birming- ||

am, and elsewhere, carriers— King and Parkinson, Barrowford, Lancashire, washing- mavufacturers—Attwood and Braim, Kidderminster, boot makers—J. and W.

ard, Oswestry, Shropshire, attorneys—John Leighton, sen., John Lei; hton, jun,, | | F end Je mes Leig! ewer street, Golden square, booksellers; as far as regards J.

t sen— Cox , Son, and M‘Kee, Newecastle-under-Lyme, mercers ; «8 far ' i J. M‘Kee u ter, Bal, aud Co, Coleman street, accountants; as far as || N

regards G. H. Juy—Hit ff and Co,, Chelsea, and elsewhere, wholesale paper hang- |; Manufacturers: a Saran rds I. S. Hinechiiff.

DEC L ARATIONS OF DIVIDENDS. JH. Parker 1, bar ker—final div of 3s 6d, making 29s in the pound, any day, || 5

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ron merchant—first and final div of &d, on Saturday, June equet it Mr Freeman’s, Sheftield. B

. L. Oddie, Clitheroe, scrivener—div of 1s 6d, on Thursday, June 27, o> any subse- | t Thur-day, at r Freeman's, Leeds.

, shi field, grocer—first div of 7s 6d, on Saturday, June 29, or any subse-

ay ut Mr Freeman’s, Sh: field. | rds, Fleet street, law bookseiler—third div of 9d, on Wednesday next, and | quent Weduesdays, at Mr Graham's, Coleman street. ‘ |

L. Gu lieaume, Berners street, Oxford street, manufacturer of artificial flowers—first | | \| div of 1 I , ou Wednesday next, and three sul sequent Wednesdays, at Mr Graham's, | Cc

nd A. Edan, Tlatte l,j mn garden, foreign provision merchants— first div

32d, on Wednesday next, and hree following Wednesdays, at Mr Graham’s, Coleman |

BANKRUPTS. John Barnard (and not Burnard, as advertised in last Friday’s Gaxelie), Stanford |}

Rivers, Essex, baker. i; } b ppleton Peakome, Princess street, Cavendish square, saddler. rr a heatwood Jones, Blackfriars oad, linendraper, } |] E

Samuel Taylor, Staines, grocer. i i| B

James Newlar d Baker, Alton, H: mpshbire, auctioneer. 1} John Richardson, E ware coad, ironmenger, Clement Pretty, Leicester, grocer. Johu White, Dadley, Warwickshire, innkeeper, Willism Tyther, Birmingham, taliow chandler Joho barker, Menchesrer and §.lford, victuatler. Hush Hughes, Porimadoc, shipowner.

Jolin Hun’, Middleton, Lancashire, silk manufacturer. ij * SCOTC!i SEQUESTRATIONS. 1]

W. Ross, Portobello, Edinburgh, innkeeper. 1] W. Hodge, Leith, shipowner. | J. Norie, loverness, merchant. 1} J. Hiewat, Dumfries, chymist. j

Gazette of Last Night. BANKRUPTS. | R

Joseph Moore, victualler, Hanover street, Islington. M Wiliam Jones, statiover, Nelson street. ! | E George Holmes and Henry Holmes, ironmongers, Derby. | } H Joseph Boycot, drape, Kidderminster. i! ! | J

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SUGAR.

j | Imported j ~ Duty paid | Stock

| ae is eae British Plantation, | 1849 1850 1849 1850 1849 1850 |

PRICE OF SUGARS.—The average prices of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, exclusive

' | tons tons tons tons tons tons WestI ndia .+..0-.+.+ ' 3,142 31,838 | 37,935 | 52,803 | 15,739 15,745 Beast TPmdia sos ree corse ee vee] 23,955 | 25,419 | 24,714 20,167 | 16.392 | 20,207 |

Mauritius oo. oe ceeceeee 36,965 21,064 | 18,950 15,694 11,744 10,899

Foreign sesenecesanennnansannanseesens| oe ove 8,261 13,797 ove ose

| 71,062 | 78,321 | 89,860 | 82,261 | 43,875 | 46,851

Foreign Sugar. Exported : 79? : || Cherfbon. Siam, & Manilla ..| 1,519 %348] 2,068 1,395! 2,631 9,170 | being at the rate of 979! per mile.

FAB vad occ 000000000 000 v00 000 ove ces ees 9,734 5,2/8 4,694 8,045 | 13,963 12,1906

Porto Rico eeocosenane 2,250 1,166 4il 1,014 2,802 2,517

| ee os ccceee ces eve 6,324 3,776 4,162 3,011 5,636 8,137

19,827 18,460 11,335 13,465 | 25,032 32,°%4

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|| ofthe duties :— , es d From the British Possessionsin AMCTrica sec-seoneseee. 24 4 percwt,

_ MGUTItIUS cccccorreee, 24 6} _ = East Indies .....0.. 29 95 ae

The average price of the three Is....+..see0e0. 24 119 _

ative Imports, Exports,and Home Consumption of the followine articles

” ‘pendent 1 to Sane 22, i$49-50, showing the stock on hand on June 22 én each POR THE PORT OF LONDON.

f thosearticlesduty free, the deliveries for exportation are iacluded under the

} East and West Indian Produce, &c.

THE ECONOMIST.

MOLASSES. Imported | “Duty paid | Stock | Weat COG ite.crses ccc vscse <coovecoscee | 2,855 | 3,798 8,489 | 3,221 | 2,274 | 5,562

7 RUM. ~~ Imported Exported Home Consump. | Stock |

1 | 1849 | 1850 | 1849 | 1850 |] 1849 , 1850 | 1849 ©1850 | | gal gal gal gal gal cal gal gal |

West India’ 905,310 712,089, 525,285 542,205, 630,585 | Eastindia’ 330,660 147,735) 247,635 180,720, 62,775 | Foreign ...| 40,770 44,730 = 13,320 el 900

| 1,276,740 904,515 785,240 765,090' 693,260 2 gat . : COCOA.—Cwts.

| Br. Piant..., 10,423 7,991 157 439 | 9,400 | Foreign......, 2,097 7,828] 5,856 4,235 | 2,408

1] _| 12,520 | 15,819] 6,013 | 4,674 | 11,808 1 | COFFEE.—Cvts.

}| Br. Plant...) 5,244 7,012 800 388 p 11,042 || Ceylon ....| 81,980 96,520] 14,402 | 7,63: | 108,850

|! Total BP.| 87,224 | 103,532 | 15,202 8,019

|| Mocha .....| 6,574 7,318 705 787 | 5,599 || Foreign EI.) 6,304 2,561} 11,929 | 4,617] 3,959 || Malabar ... oo 276 a 142 |! Stwomingo.! 1,492 3,743 115 418 27 || Hav.&PRic! 20,596 1,483 | 16,26! 681 322 | || Brazil ...... | 30,501 | 14,236 | 36,335 11,505 | 10,957 {| African ceceee eee 3 eco =| ote ooo |

|| Total For...{ 65,397 29,620] 65,345 | 18,011 | 20,986 |

|| Grand tot.\ 152,621 133,152 } 50,547 | 26,030 | 140,878 | RICE,

| Tons Tons Tons Tons Tons | British ET...; 8,75) 3,873 1,391 980 6,793 Foreign El. 620 525 336 261 | 553

| Total......| 9,371 | 4.398} 1,721 | 8,181 | 7,346 PEPPER Bags Bags Bags Bags Bags

White ...... | 392 685 i59 163 | 1,533 Black.....0.0.08 | 7,885 1€,902] 19,480 re 15,687

| Pkgs Pkgs Pkes Pkgs Pkgs || NUTMEGS 490 633 157 i190 429 | Do, Wild. 9 eee 2 5 210 Cas. LIG. 7,399 12,377 4,425 8,547 463

| | CINNAMON.) 4,253 5,407 2,757 3,568 428

| | bags | bags bags bags bags } i PIMENTO) 19,030 6,425 |] 14,171 | 1,473 1,931

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CocHINEAL Serons Serons;Serons Serons | Serons 4,007 7,621 ooo ove 5,901

1| | chests chests | chests chests | chests chests | chests chests LAC DYE.) 908 1,510 | ove ove 1,039 2,271 3,460 | 3,600

{ | tons tons tons tons tons tons | tons tons || Loewoon...| 1,964 2,705 | as sm 2,686 2,548] 1,057 3,429 \\ | |; FUSTIC | Sil 992 eee ose 807 960 687 498

1 in ae a INDIGO. _ | chests | chests { chests chests | chests | chests ; chests chests

East India.| 15,342 | 15,019 om a 14,197 | 15,745 | 29,644 | 28,337 siaciatstaaed inlets a ealiiadil eionammeabia Madea a 1”, | 804 dollars.

i | : serons serons serons serons serons serons serons serons

|; Spanish.....| 1,014 1,390 one on 1,024 1,077 973 710 i |

1| : SALTPETRE. } j ma

| Nitrate of tons tons tons | tons tons | tons | tons tons Potass .... 4,839 7,372 a. 2. cen 4,279 5,923 2,938 4,642

Nitrate of | | Suda ..... 8,825 2,109 ove ee 3,289 1,799 1,911 2,76

i COTTON, .

j | bags bags | bags | bags bags bays bags | bags

|| American...) 2,409 3,¢ 04, ae ove 1,368 1,445 1,920 ~=1,900 |} Brasil ...... 307 we | 770 5 487,152 | East Indiea.| 7,042) 21,911) so | oo 15,629, 24,199] 32,565 48,955

|| Liverpl., all } | kinds...... 1,318 388 $12,900] 99,590 76.890 747,230 672.520] 573,690 £39,420

| Total......,1,128,145, $37,8574 90,599 {

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686,700:2,462,085 2,030,670

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119,892 | 101,132 | 153,647 202,83:

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_Raw Materials, Dye Stuffs, &c.

76,30, 765,007

648,270, 1,881,276 1,552,995 38,250, 476,055 346,365

189) 104,760 131,310

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD.—On Tuesday the committee of the House of Lord® upon this company’s biil for sale or lease to the London and North-Western Rail- way, after hearing evidence and counsel on both sider, intimated through the Mar- quis of Salisbury, their chairman, that they approved of the principle of the clauses | proposed by the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Company for facilitating the interchange of traffic between them and the Chester and Holyhead line, but that they would require amendments to be made. RAILWAY AuDIT.—The committee of delegates on this measure have taken

resolutions for continuing their labours in favour of the passing of a bill upon the principle of that introduced by Lord Stanley in the House of Lords. RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The gross traffic receipts on railways in the United

Kingdom during the first 24 weeks of the present year amounted to 5,291,235),

8,172,9501, being at the rate of 1,477 per mile.

[June 29,

| Che | Ratlivay Monttor,

EPITOME OF RAILWAY NEWS,

At the corresponding period of 1849 the receipts amounted to 4,664,032/, being at the rate of 1,020/ per mile ; of 1848, to 4,136,837/, being at the rate of 1,127/ per mile; of 1847, to 3,654,196/, at the rate of 1,273/ per mile; and at the same period of 1846, to

The aggregate length of the railways open over which the traffic was carried at the end of the 24 weeks in 1850, was—5,500 miles; in 1849, 4,711 miles; in 1848, 3,804 miles; in 1847, 3,031 miles, and at the end of the period mentioned in 1846, 2,232 miles. The increase in the receipts during the 24 weeks in the present year over those of the corresponding period in 1849 amounted to 627,203/: the increase in the receipts during the same period in 1849 over the preceding year was 527,195/; in 1848 over 1847, 482,641/; and in 1847 over 1846, 481,245z. the increase at the end of the 24 weeks in 1850 over the corresponding period

In the milesge |

of 1849 was $19 miles; in 1819, 907 miles; in 1848, 773 miles; and in 1847, the increase of mileage over the end of that period in 1846 was 799 miles, The diminution in the receipts per mile for the 24 weeks, as compared with those of the preceding year, amounted in 1850 to 41/7; in 1849, to 107/, im 1848, to 146/; and, in 1847, to 2041; making the total diminution of receipts per mile during four years, 498/, or about 34 per cent. It appears from the above that a

the present year, which is attributed in a great degree to the comparative falling off in the mileage opened, which for the present year shows an increase over the preceding one of only 18 per cent, while in 1847 it amounted to 35'S per cent cf the mileage open in the preceding yar.

10,319 8,315 9,049 1,282 4,983 | 10,598

11,601 13,298 19,647

sider to be unworthy of serious refutation. ness of their report in various particulars, and state that the cost of the land for | the railway, when all the claims are settled, will not be less than 140 years’ purchase of the original value of the land, made by competent valuers, who allowed 50 years’ purchase. circular, as to heirs of entail, the committee assert is not correct, as the case |

5,350) 15,472) 10,874 95,782 | 138,175 191,957

ScoTTisH CENTRAL.—The committe of investigation of this company’s affairs have just issued a letter to the shareholders in reply to the circular issued by the late board of directors, which impugned the correctness of the statements in the report of the committee, and also imputed motives to the latter which they con-

The committee defend the correct-

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considerable impzovement has taken place in the traffic receipts per mile during

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The distinction attempted to be drawn in the

6,930 | 12,918 11,980

3,766 | 39,393 | 16,651 | of Mr Stirling showe, With respect to the statement of the directors in their | 28 145 376 October report that 40,0002 was the amount of unsettled land claims, the com- |

on ooo — mittee state there were at that time the same materials to show that it would

3,308 19.528 | 18.317 | 2€ 80,000/, as sated in the report of the committee. | 3 1} 2

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14,361 | 87,116 57,782 RAILWAY SHARE MARKET. 115,493 * 240,763 260,563

Tons Tons | Tons 5,262 20,:81 } 19,302

700 3,034 1,737

5,962 | 23,215 | 21,039

Bags Bags Kags 1,410 ,

11,851 37,926 51,463 alteration.

supply of shares. J }

Pkgs Pkgs | Pkes THURSDAY, June 526 443 | 423 | change, the operations have proved far from exteusive. |

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64 786 332

1,234 978 2,553 4,131

3,343 3,787

bags bags bags 1,251 4,693 7,619

Serons 4,956

Serons

2,830 | Serons

6,58C j

ledged by von Hassenpflug in a receipt. : accused took the repairs off the hands of Reich, paid him out of the money in hand 401 dollars for the work already executed, and induced the contractor to

this process,

698,469) 708,672, 590,427

Fuipay, June 28.—Shares are scarcely so good,

CoMForT FoR THE ProTecTIoNISTs —A Liverpool merchant publishes in the Times the following extract from the letter of a New York Correspondent :— “New York, June 11.—Fiour and grain have taken a further start, and, strange to say, we are sending supplies of the former to New Orleans, as it is now dis- covered that we have drained the Western Country, and if any accident were to befal the present crop, we would become large importers in place of exporters, aud already orders for wh at have gone out to the Mediterranean and the continent, and I should not be surprised if they should do well. wheat, say Dantsic, or similiar quality, could be bought with you not to cost | here over 1 dol. 39 c. per bushel, I think it would be a safe shipment.”

TRIAL OF THE PRIME MINISTER OF HtssE CAssEL FOR FORGERY.—M., yon Hassenpflug, now Premier of Electoral Hesse, has been tried and found guilty of embezzlement and forgery; the following are some of the particulars. autumn of 1846, a person by name Reich undertook from the government of Stralsund a contract for the repair of the Court house of that city at the sum of

This sum was paid, by December of the same year, by the agent of the Rcyal treasury into the hands of M. Hassenpflug, who occupied a part of the building under repair as an official residence, being in the service of the government; the money was for the payment of the contractor, and acknow-

give a receipt fur the whole sum of 504 dollars. out the works at his own risk and brought the expenditure to an excess of seven dollars over the sum receiv: d. tracted for at a fixed sum, and Hassenpfiug again intervened between the contractor and the treatury, took the work into his own hands and induced the tradesman to give him a receipt for the stipulated sum: the latter declares that

he never received any money on the occ :sion. transactions were carefully investigated by the court at Grieswold, and the result, as has been stated, is the condemnation of M. Hassenjflug to fourteen day* imprisonment, restitution of the embezzicd sum, and payment of the costs of

The counsel for the defence did not attempt to deny the crime, but dwelt upon certain extenuating circumstances.

LONDON.

MonpDay, June 24.—The railway share market was on the average pretty well maintained, and a moderate amount of business was transacted. | » TuEsDay, June 25,—The railway share market was steady this afternoon, but | there was not much business transacted.

WEDNESDAY, June 26.—The railway market was tranquil to-day, and prices, 4.161 2,725 ' with the exception of Caledonian, which declined, did not experience material |

In the arrangement for the settlement there promises to be a good |

27.—The railway market bas not experienced material |

If good fureign |

In the

Oo the 22nd January 1847, the

Von Hassenpflug then carried

In the following year fresh repairs were con-

The minute details of these

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50000' 20 20 Birmingham & Oxford Junc- 71656 20 113, — West Riding Union..... - 34) 23 250 20 23 — Oswestry } tion, calls duly paid, or 18000' 50 50 Leedsand Bradford... 96 | 94 27600 10 1 — New... | WIth @ {UAFANTCE seeccseeveee 28 279 27820 50 50 |Leeds & Thirsk.. a | 7 13560 10 lo —& per cent preference oe

coe | 20 |) — Without a guarantee 106 269 sores 7411 20 6, — Pref. 6 per cont, "No. Tue 2 [cccece 165000 20 €$ Shropshire Union...ececesee 35000 20 15 Birmingham, Wolverhamp- 3883 20 14 — — No. 2 ws eaccecscsese, © leccese 20060 560 50 South Devon.. esiiae

ton, and Dudley, calls duly 7645) 20 5 | me NO. 3 cconerceess 33} 2 20000 25 25 — Preference ......... a | j paid, or with a guarantee... 23) «+++ 10000, 123 9 — Pref Qrs., 1848, 7 p. ct. 9 | cco 78750 12 4 South Staffordshire ......

coe | see | 15 _—= Without a QUATANteCeses 21} ever 111900 Av 114 Londonand Blackwall ..... 43) 44 56000 Av. 334 South E aceon (Dover) §5500/274s 274s Birmingham, Wolverhamp- | $tock 100 100 London, Brighton, & S.Coast 81 | 83% 28000 32 32 — No. - a

| ton, and Stour Valley ...0/ 99 eros Stock 100 100 — New, guaranteed 6 p. c.. 139 |...... 42000 334 334 — No. : 12600) 26 | 1445 Boston, Stamford, and Birm, soo. see | 44252 9 9 — Guaranteed 5 per cent, 31500 30 30 —No. 3 15000; 100 | loo Bristol and Exeter secsscssesee! G5 csevee late Croydon Thirds ... 270000 10 !0 —No. 4, registered 15000 334) 334 — Thirds soo ssenee ove woe) BG evveee $219 50 50) — Pref, Com, 5 pe seeseres 56900 50 47 South Wales ......ceccserseees 45128) 173) 17 } Buckinghamshire ... | U7G veeee 1640 50 50 — Do, do. 1852... 37500 20 14 South Yorkshire, Doncaster, Stock! 50 | 50 Caledonian......++ of 63: & 43077 Av. !2} London and Greenwich ..... . eR a 74518) 10 | 10 — Preference .....0.+++ » 6) 5} 11136 20 20 — Preference or Priv. ...... 14000 25 18% Shefeld, Rotherham, and

42000) 50 5¢ Chester and Holyhead... 94 3s Stock 100 100 London & North Western ... Goole (N.div.),gua. 5 Pe et. 31256, 15 | 15 — Preference ...... 9; 9 168380 25 12 — New g Shares soocercesees 26650 20 & Taw Vale Extension ° or eee| ses eee 18671/ 56 | 424 Dublin and Belfast June: ion ig 98 Gili] 20 12 0 — Fifth Shares .ccccssecereee 13.) 13 6700 50 , 17} Thames Haven Dock an a 22806, 25 | 25 East Anglian—L. and E, 70000; 10 1 —10/ Shares M. & B. (c).. 4 RSENS in castnintiisetaitiniied anceantionins

and L. and D. .s.-0- eos i eevee Stock! «. i100 London and South W estern €04) 60 12500 20 | 20 Waterford and Kilke “nny a @ eee 10890) 18 | 18 —— E. amd [issccccceccecserresee! 1h coe eee S989, 50 | 424 — New Shares cos sereeecee ees 22h cee .ee 2186 50 | 50 Wear Valley, 6 per ct. guar. soe! coves % 10800) 39| 33 — E.and H., 6 perct pref.. 14 ev-+ 413340 34 ' — New.. 19 | .eocce 2860 2:'%9 — — —_ -—t.. y Stock] 20 | 29 Eastern Counties... 74 7h 120560 16% 8 = Thi: ae. , senmdite chenatemntt 2406 95/15 — aaah on mane &

67592) 10 | 10, — New, guar. 6 percent... 11% 115 31006, 50 =—5 | — New Scrip, 1848, pref. . 7h sevens 50000 16 14 Windsor, Stem, & South- #! 144000| 63) 6% — Extension 5 perct. No.1}, 7} ses 6000 20 20 Lowestoff, guar. 4 per cent. = . 4 WEStern scoceee ceccee| coecee i 144000} 64) Gi —— Ditto, NO. 2 ssossesceeeeene TE ¢ 6000 20 13 — 6 perce: ite. covces | eeecee 30000 50 £0 Wilts, Sor erset, oa ‘Wey- Mt |

50/50 ¢ — Northern and Eastern,| oa 82500 lo 5% Manchester, Buxton, and / WROTET coe ccsers.conesseorenecstese 42 | .cccce 3 Be 16097; i | G PEF CENL...cceresseessreve soveee) OF Matlock. eccccececce’ i Stock 25 25 York, Newcastle, k Barwick 154 154 | ais m7

50/56 — —5 per cent BOg\-se | Stock 100 109 Manchester, ‘Shefiteld, “and 126000 25 20 — York & Newcastle Ext. 10 of ! a

12200) 124, 12 — —3 Shares .. seence ceeeee | Lincolnshire ceesececerssoveeee 16 ‘seveee 159000 25 3 |— G. N. E. Purchase or 7g 6156! 50 | 43 — NOWececceceesevcceceecee) SL jeeeeee 18000 25 25 — 4 Shares, No. aces -« 9 ° Preference ...... ginidaienins 3/ 3 e 4 10300) 25 | 25 Eastern Union, class A — {| | 10640 25 25 — $Shares, No. 2 : Stock 50 50 York and North Midland 164 16% 4 Fi } | E. U. shares)..c...ccescsoce 4 3% | 41200 12g 128 — 2 Shares, NO. 3....c0-cceee serves 62950 25 10 — Preference ...c.... oot il 73 jeu

38600) 25 25 — class B and Cc. sececsecee BJ vereee 87 00 10 lv — New, 16/ preference. 10600 25 (25 — East and We 4 > 150001 29 | 99 | — Serip, guar.G per cent.. 16} 163 43210 162s 82s — Manchester and Linco!n Estenslen «..<... a h} 83600) 25 25 (East Lancashire seoceseecseeee 7% 7% ! TEROIGEE caccsocsenctvencsexs B ccvece Ny & 34720) 63! > — NeW ESHArES seeseeccesee snnvee soteee Stock 100 100 Midland...... vvoes 365 37 Foreign Railways. ‘ae 46140! 64} 6})/ — 6 per cent Prf. 3 Shares . eceee . 77223 56 20 — New.. 4 3} ‘ 24000, 25 o ‘least Lincolnshire.. eoovesee’ $98! 298 Stock 100 100 — Birmi ngha im ar and De rby ern 44422 6} 53 Anglo-Italian, late Italian & Stock} 50 | All /Edinburgh ana Gl isgow. ° 27§ seers Stock 100 100 | — Consolidated Bristol and 5 and Austri iccxissctenwam | lca 28125) 25 | * = & SHALES 200200000000 oe cccees eve .c0 e800 Birmingham oes ces eee oee 75009 20 | 20 Boulogne and Aimiens.........| 64 6% 197466) 25 | 24 |Great Northern...... ccvcce’ LOR! 208 7539 50 50 — Erewash 7 pref. 66000 290 20 Central of France (Orleans of 25/ 123, 124' — @ shares, A, deferrad...... 3} 3 Stock 100 10) Norfolk ss. seee ceccscoce 27 cccece and Vierzon) each | !% 2) 113 — }shares, B, 6 per cent 9856 20 15 — New . woo D ‘ecceee 10000 20 175 Demerara ......+..

| BUsMranteed ..cs.eeeee soccoces’ GE Fi 15000 20 209) — Suarantced 5 percent... 18} «+ loowv0 20 6 Duteh Khenish 93668) 124! 123 — 5 percent preference . ove 108 10g 2ic00 «65 5 | — Guaranteed 53 per ceut. 50010 20, 7 tast Indian 6690 ee All Great North of England ...... 235 se... {| 6000050 4 Northern Counties Union... es ~ !' 90 2% — do Se eis al 7500| 35 — Tae RD eeeses Stock 25 25 North BritisM cocccssecsseereee 7h 7 100000, 5 5 Great Indian Pe cateeste ” a... sean oe 30 — New 30/ Shares. ooo, FE jececce 32000 124 12— — Halves.cccor.es sie iit lite sia a l Do do es f 10000; 15 15 | —— N@Weeecccccescrccscceses BG seen. 95000 64 63 —} Shares 88500 4 7: Louvain ala Sambre .. baby, Wie ea 50000' 50 50 ‘Great Southern & Ww est Cl. ) 31. 30 78400 «8&4 «84 — Thirds.. 000 ceceee eee see 150000. 20 & Luxembourg... sce ceeeee 31 "ae 50000) 62, ig, — Erghths #0 00 ceeee : : 104552 5) & — Preference oe... oe «6448 ose os ' 40 Do naaenidiaibien 24 25 > ing Btock'100 .100 \Great ‘Vestern 168566 20 173 North Staffordshire .....-..-.0. 7 63 50000 20 20 ‘Namur and Liege ..... SR cwene fe i 28000 50 All| — 4Shares 30000 50 50 Oxford, Worcester, & Wolvn ON cicute 400006 20 16 Nortt rio: France a Daas eh. | OBO0G) BB. | 95 | mB BRA OR iis nce cesses cas scccee' conics ee 14520 25 25 Preston and Wyre ssererseeeee 130000 20 7 Orleans and Bordecux 2§ «23 ‘ey 37500, 20 | 20 | — Fifth Shares ....00.seccccce coveee soccce 16720 124 10 — 4 Shares ( A). es eve eee 80006 20 Al) Parisand Orleans. gl ED cecal HM

64700, 17 15 | — Ne@Weseeeeees selmi 40000 !5 15 Reading, Guildfor -d, ‘and Rei- 72000 20 ©All Paris and Rouen....... Se evan + B80), 550) Al) Hull & Selby. . BAL] cor-cvevscerene reeves sossevere 155 153 250000 20 15 | Paris& StrasburgC onstituted _ if i 8000 25 | 25 — 4 Shares. 32000 &4 4} Royston and Hitchen ... 5h occeee 40000 20 20 |Rouen and Havre , «| 9 8% 4 Py $000, 124 123) — 3 Shares... ° 10663 65 § — Shepreth Exten:io 1 Jesceee 31000 20 20 |Sambre and Meuse.... 23 3g be Bi Bj 13000 50 | 50 Lancaster and Carlisle * 524 Stock, 25 25 Scottish Centra) 80060 26 13 \Tours & Nante s Constituted! fog ee

| 18000 163 113 — New...... coccccccecccesece 12§ cocres 12000, 25 , 25 Scottish Midland. we 30764 20 83 West Flanders.. a ; 2 b anand iidanelamnssian =

OFFICIAL ‘RAILWAY TRAFFIC Ri) RETURNS. i Dividend per cent. RLCEILP1S. ; cia _ }

Capital | Amount | Average per anna Weck —-—- —-——__- — —__— es 2 Miles ie and expended cost On prict-u »canitel, Name of Railway. di sk Secale Merchandise.) . Same 2&8 open in ; & +

Loan. per last (| Cr ude, 9 ee ee CREPE | Saeeenerr es minerals, Tota week BSS ae Revort. 1846 | 1847 1848 ) 1849 parcels, &¢, attic, ac. | Teceipte | igag " &S 1850 | 1949 i

£ £ £ £ £ z | £ 1850 a e«¢4 £ed £ sé) @£ £ f : 1,474,666 | 1,366,713 25,000 ove a | ove Aberdeen ee ee June 15 726 0 0 669 O 01! 1329 0 O 713. 18 72 31 € ye 500,000 | 491,159 12,925 sia i 5 a Belfast & Ballymena . ‘iat ‘i 22) 358 10 7 «21517 11! 874 8 6 498 (15 373, 373 tH

2,200,000 1,795,563 112,285 23 25 6 | 5 Birkenhead, Lancash., & Chesh. 23 81919 7 357 11 8 | 117731 «3 1067 73 16 16 ' * 3,000,000 | 2,992,429 34,146 ees 43 4 53 Bristol and Exeter vee 16 3354 9 4 893 & §| 4747 17 10 4277. 350 R54 85} ag §,460,000 | 5,326,143 33,248 eve eve 1é eee Caledonian os eco 9 2810 0 0 3138 O © | 62948 0 @ 6063 39 160 154 Sy 4,339,332 , 3,915,383 41,215 eee eee ee eee Chester and Moly head oe 16 2862 0 0 409 0 0} 3262 0 0 1750 34 943 80 ba 800,000 785,152 22,433 + 23 ae 13 Dublin& Drogheda ... an 22 86317 5 127 6 3 “a9, 3 8 a2g 18 53 354 :

450,000 , 442,000 55,223 5 7 a Dublin & Kingstown... eco 25 cece ecccee-ccces covcce cocscecees-| 1075 7 8 1.07 138 73 7% 700,900 f60,1S0 13,900 4 3 63 13 Dundee,Perth, & Aberdeen.. 22 306 13 461 6 5 476 «8 31 31 te

1,445,400 1,299,235 21,117 ove om an eee East Anglian ... - one SS seves g2t 0 6 649 13 614 614 ik 3,000,000 | 2,887,818 50,663 6 3 6 53 Edinburgh & Glasgow m Oe cistissiinintiantis imaeeniiitatiins 533 | 3 3509 61 574 572 2,759,000 | 2,371,335 33,100 ene so 2 eco Edinburgh, Perth, & Dundee 22 1352 4 7 5 | 2209 12 6 20359 32 71 ra | ‘ 13,000,000 12,585,959 39,986 q 5 3B 1} Eastern Counties & N. & EK. 2310291 5 19) 618 2 7 j64n0 § B& 3508! 451 322 322 1 3,440,300 3,192,759 42,570 eve coo | one l East Lancashire oe eve 4 4 322 3289 3 75q = 754 ‘ 2,416,333 2,000,353 2!,056 one eee ooo | tee Eastern Union ove eve 2 1 | 945 1329 26 95 5!4 ¢ 2,804,550 2,705,6:1 27,056 7 63 3 1} Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr ; 2471 27 100 100 ; 866,666 866,462 30,155 1h 3 xa 24 Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock ‘ 1049) «654 223 224 7 ‘

8,200,000 | 5,405,157 37,805 a “a os | oe Great Northern & Fast Lincolns, 2637 «23 143 126 $ 4,000,000 3,89v,228 20,693 ee se na eis Great Southern & Western (I.) 3418 23 188 "6 83 4

45.448,913 13,224,411 57,558 ® 73 63 4 Great Western cee time 2 Ss) | oe ; 14,202,045 10,518,479 49,175 7 7 54 84 Lancashire & Yorksh ire eee 13649 66 4273 1063 ie

2,000,000 — 1-950,000 21,560 ove 4 44 44 Lancaster & Carlisle .. ee 0 2273 «36 90 7 Re 32,040,853 28.192,031 59,315 10 83 as a-€ London & North Western, &c 2 Ss 3 3 4 4 44252 192 470 435 a 1,400,009 1,862,156 247,654 36s 28s 14) 98 London & BI wali on 16 1037 9 11 31.10 0 | 1078 19 11 1604 196 53 53 ; eo 7,440,930 7,103,103 4!,532 6 4 38 ' 34 London, Brigh‘on, & S. Coast 2210275 16 0 2095 9 10 12374 5 10 10371 72 171 , 170 t¢ 9 952,756 } | 8,113,460 33,948 10 9 5d 23 London & South Ww estern ... 16 10897 0 ¢€ 2106 0 0 (12503 0 0 11964 52 259 2163 to 7,600,000 | 6,470,533 37,141 23 5 on we Man., Shefid., & Linealnshire 23 2914 010 3179 14 8/6993 15 6 3630 28 69% 136% 4 17,762,169 15,319,419 | 31,227 64 7 53 23 Midland, Bristol, & Birr. 8G Kictisetnmendnrimnumit OO 6 6!9006G 48 Big | 400 5 2,596,200 , 1,168,628 , 23,372 ove ove ove ewe Midland Gt. Western (Irish) E 1251 16 7 1028 25 9 59 ut 1,717,871 . 1,576,490 23,486 5} 6 6 6 Neweustle and Cartis'e 8 2136 0 0 2057 «35 60 60

4,200,000 4,043,757 30,000 5 5 5 | 24 North British ... se oe 23 1018 6 3 22. «135108 ie | 3,500,000 3,208,677 25,648 e an eee een North Staffordshire ons ‘ 4531 0 ¢ ee 112 . ;

1,673,333 1,448,910 | 32,202 ace ae 7 | § — Scottish Central oa 4246 4 1292 31 45 45 ia 759,000 537,720 | 16,804 is on ove we Scottish Midland Junction... 449 12 8 335 14 52 32 ea

| 1,629,000 1,161,840 23,711 ooo ein ove 23 Succes & Chester ov 472 4 9 i575 30 49 49 +S 9,100,000 ; 8,907,515 | 47,912 5 63 | 5% 3 South Eastern uw. co owe 12186 @ 0 B177 53 224 163 ta 2,397,000 | 2,063,841 35,553 eco eee ooo eee South Devon ... ~ ove 1926 TH 4 seere ove = 53 sé 58 : 2H

y oe ate ese eve ove eee So. Yorkshire, Don., & Goole ae. 6 Whee 69 920,900 | 907,393 | 22,459 5 54 63 6 Taff Vale tel 25°5 G10 63 4 4 ‘

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, by packet FREE OF POSTAGE, to th Can be forwarded

following British Colonies and Foreign Countries, viz. :—

Aden Bremen India via South-

Antigua ampton Buenos Ayres

Bahama Jamaica Cuxhaven Barba ‘oc3 Malta Denmark Jerbice Montserrat France

Bermuda Nevis Greece

Hamburg Hay tior

St Domingo

New Brunswick Newfoundland Nova Scotia

Canada Cariacow Demerara Dominica Quebec Lubec Gibraltar St Kitts New Grenada Grenada St Lucia Peru Halifax St Vincents Spain Heligoland Tobago Honduras Tortola

Ionian Islands Trinidad

Venezuela |

NEW PAT- }

1 Smyrna Sponges

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rCALFE and CO.'s TERN TOOTH-BRUSH a: M*;

THE ECONOMIST:

EAFNESS and DEFECTIVE VISION RELIEVED.—Patronised by their

| Majesties the Queen Dowager and the King of Hanover, their Graces the Duchess Hamilton, the Dowager Duche Bedford, the Archbishops of Canterbury,

York, and Dublin, the Dukes of Devonshire, Norfolk, Argyle, Marlberough, and Manchester, Bishops of Exeter, Lincoln, Cork, Kilmore, and Kildare.—The ORGANIC VIBRATOR, an eatraordinary, powerful, small, new!y-invented instrument, for deaf entirely d fferent from all others, to surpass anything of the kind

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that has been or probably ever can be produced ; it is | modelled to the ear, so that it rests within, without pro jecting; being of the same colour as the skin, is not perceptit It enables deaf persons to enjoy general conversation, to hear distinctly at church, and at public assemblies The unpleasant sensa:ion of g noises in the ears is entirely removed, and it aff s all the

assistance that possibly could be de-ired. valuable newly-invented Spectacles. The most powerful Te!le- scopes, Opera, and Race Glasses. <0 a very smal powerfal waistcoat Pocket Glass, only the size of a wal- nut, to discern minute o! jects at the distance of from

SOLOMONS, Aurists, 39 the York hotel.

four to five miles.—S. and B.

Albemarle street, Piccadilly, opposite

—The Towh-brush has the important advantage of + > - > . oa =

aaa ng thoroughly into the divisions f the teeth, and . ROY A L : PANOP TICON of

cleaning them in the most extraordinary manner, and | SCIENCE and ART

is famous for the hairs not coming loose, Is. An ime | Incorporated by Royal Ch irter preved Clothes-bru-h, that cleansin a third part of the | i: (21st February 185°),

usual time, and incapable of injuring the finest nap. | Whereby the hability of Sharchol Penetrating Hair-brushes, with the du:able unbleached | 3 the amount of their sh 8

Russian bristies, Which do not soften like common hair. ; FE x¢ ter an rs S¢ Southam} nsreets, Str u d.

Fle-h- brushes of improved graduated and powerful fric- | Capital £50,010, with power of increase tu £100, » in tion. Velvet-brushes, which act in the most surprising | Sha es of £10 eacl and successful manner. Genuine Smyrna Sponge, with | Deposit £1 per Share.

its preserved valuable properties of absorption, vitality, | ; Patror ;

and durability, by means of d t impor s, dis- | The Most Noble the Marquis of Northampton, F.R.S., pensing with all intermediate perties’ profits and de- FS.A., &c. ;

bleaching, and securing the luxury of a geoni! The Most Novle the Marquis of Londonderry, G.C.B., ‘ Only at Mercatre, BinGLey, and | | G. H..& ees a

sole establishment, 1208 Oxford street, one dovr | 4 lo-t Noble the Marquis of Ailesbury, K T. ’ Ho street. Beware of the words * ft ym Mete Th Noble the Marquis of Granby, M.P.

calfe’s” adopted by some houses, Metca'fe’s Alkaline | Th t Hon, the Earl of Shrewsbary, F.3.A, tooth-powder, 23 per box. rhe - n. the Earl of Ca

] CAUTIFUL TEETH.—ROWLAND'S ODONTO, or PEARL DENTIFRICE, a Wuite

Powp R,compounded ofthe choicest an a most rechere!.¢ Ingredients of the Oriental Heibal. It eradicates tartar from the teeth, and thus lends a iene uy aaa and freshv.ess to the gums. It removes (rom the surfice of |

cay, J lishes aud pre- |

most pure and pearl- ious and disinufect- |

1 perfuee to the

the teeth the spots of incipient d serves the enanel, imparting the ike w while, trom its salubr ing qualities, it gives swee

iifeness ;

ness ar

breath. 1g an anti-scorbutic, tl urs also share in

its corrective powers; scurvy is eradicat:d from them, und ahealthy action and redness are induced, so that the teeth (if loose) are thus re: red firm in thei sock- |

ets. Its truly efficient and fragrant aromatic pro

have obtained its selection by the Queen, the C Roya! Famity of Great Britain, and the Sovereig Nobility throughout Europe. —Price 2s 9d per b

Caution. —The genuine article has the words

LANDS’ ODONTO” on the wrapper, and the ters’ Name and Address, thus—*t A. ROWT SON, 20 Hattros Garpen,” are also engray

Gov ment Stamp, which is offi jon each box. Sold

and by Chemipsts in

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BiUSH t \ nM tiie h

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if f ‘ > less bard, N ! oO e - su yail-bre w es not t an hh

brush, ch th rn ‘ PASC

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ha ush, be Zz s t vad a

hair ured ! ( c Al t izt I yinver *% ,

to ics brusl 1 old t « ea

new : I k * doube the usua

in Iovent by ROSS and SONs, 119 aud bis

THE ATRAPILATORY, or LIQUIL | HAI® DY. The only dye that rea'ly sn rs for al c ira, and does not require re-doiug, but as the hair crow t never fades or acq es that tuialred or

purple tint commen toall other dyes. ROSS and SONS cu » withs * greatest confivence, re mmnend the above bY b as infallible; and ladies or ger nen requiring it are reque-ted, if convenient, to have it done for the first time at soos r establishment, which will e hem to use it

a‘terwards themselves wuhout the chance of failure

They think it sary toadd tnat, by attending strictly ; to the instructions given with the dye, numerous parties

have succeeded equally well without coming to them.— i i

Address, ROSS and SONS, 119 and 120 Bi-lopsgate street

Loniou.

BOTANIC WATER AND GREASE.—When the hair is becoming thin, and falling off, the oniy effectual Temedy, besides shaving the head, is the useof the two above-named artic plied alter- nate'y, the botanic water toc he r curf ’

wurisher. if

irtues of bears

air, Mr Catlin's h of hair ob-

uld be

and asastimu'ant, and the be any further evidence Was req grease for renovating and preserving t! aceount of the quantity used, and the tained by some of the North American Indians, w a sufficieat answer.—ROsS and SONS, 1.19 and 129 Bishopsgate street, London, wiio first introduced the use of bears’ grease in this country, and who fatand kill the animals, recommend the public to purchase none other ut with their names and address printed on the po’, or the

| chances are their obtaining a spurious article.

BEARS’ |

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R -at Adn ni the Earl of Cadozar : Th Right " m the Earl of — The Right Hon. the Earl of Verula The R “hi: Han, t ie Ear! of Ducie, r R.S., F.S.A,

Th Righ t Hon. the Earl of Eliesmer , © 8A.

Tie Right Hon. Lord Beaumont. The Riaht Hon. Sir F. Pcllock, Lord Chief Baron, F.R.S.,

F .S.A.

The Right ym . Viscount Brackley, M.P. i I Th. Right beet William Pow'ett, M.P.

COUNCIL. President

The Right Hon. the Earl «f Arundel and Vice-President.

Rl. Hartley Kennedy, Esq, Deputy-Chairman of the Oriental Bank, Resington lodge, Notting hil!

mas Richie, Eq , Dorset squore, Middlesex n Robert Taylor, Esq., of Parliament street, Red

ire

Ro n, ] qs R.N > I Ans I R.G OQ»

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art irner, Esq , 8 Jew ( nt, and Hoddcsden,

Herts

1 Chandler, Eq, M.R.C » 38 J 1 t t Roth

Charics King, E-q.. U ra ( ( I

Mr Un . r M rd, Cordwa s . Nuts ting Tis!) te <

Daniel K sq 124 i str-et, C ny

Moris » Lew I k Thecdore M , Esq, lo w Pa ard 1°4 James

street, Buckir g Sam is) ex 1, iisq., 12 Dev aint

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In t} Me ( there is li't pr is or s¢ fic

and artist I ts i I tican mea

to supply this dete vill teresu tua t tl nat ' t 1 exhib

in the 8eVv hatural pl Vv, indu y,

and the fing ver bef submi 1 to public inspec.

ion. Her most g is Majesty * being is of e.couraging this laudable des ” bes nl h Reyal Charter, inc ting t Association, thereby r l . ndividual I il

Cs} i i { ‘ By

the Associat Noshbareh er f an by ny} So

sibility lose more than his stock shiaic the Capi al,

namely, 10/ per shar Dartng the | ours of « bitior, every shareholder will

be entitled to a free admission; and every holder of 25

shares will have the further privilese of introducing a frend; a holder of 59 shares may introduce two friends,

and a holder of 100 shares will receive annually 100 singie admiss diy

n tickets (only one to be used in the same

The Panopticon has been brought under the novice of men of business, who, entered closely into the

necessary deti of « ind allowing for contingencies, have coufident that a dividend of 1¢/ per cent Pannum may reili-ed to the proprietors,

Z payment of t sit of 1/ per share, two

mor notice w be given of each call of Il per share, and it i, believed that not more than five calis will be required. In'erest at t-e rate of 4/ per cent per annum will be allowed, until the opening cf the institution, on

the 6: per share paid in advance. Applications for prospectuses and for the remaining

chartered shares, to be made to the Sec retary, No. 428 Strand, from i0 till 4 o'clock ; or to Mess:s Edward and

A'fred Whitmore, Stock and Share Brokers, 17 Change alley, Cornhill. By order of the Council,

E MARMADUKE CLARKE, H.M.GS, No, 423 Strand. Managing Director and Curator.

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[June 29, 1850. EGISTERED SELF-PRIMING SIX.~- SHOT REVOLVING PISTOLS.—B.COGSWE LL,

of No, 224 Strand, near Temple bar, begs to call the attention of gentlemen to his great improvement in REe VOLVING PISTOLS, whereby the tedious (and in the dark almost impracticable) process of capping each nipple is obviated by a magazine, containing the requisite number of caps, being fixed on each pistol, which, as the barrels revolve, supply the nipples with caps as the barrel presents itself uppermost to be discha; ged, thus rendering the Revolving Pistol the most s afe, rapid,

and effectual weapon for defence in use, whet th r for |

| house or ee each pistol being furnished with |

| the least

| Guns, Rifles, and Pistols constant!y on sale. |

| of paintir

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two magaziues, twelve discharges can be secured with a sivle delay ; the work is Warranted equal to

the best manufactured in London. Sx barrel rey ving pistols on the old principle, two guineas each and up-

wards. A large assortment of New and Seco d-hand

Established 1770.

\ “SUBSTITUTE t r PAINT.— CLEANLINESS is necessarily at all time

cucive to HEALTH, and this, as well as ecr rreatly promoted by substituting for the noxious process

g with oi! and white lead, STEPIIENS’S DYES for | STAINING WOOD, as asubstituie fo paint, tor Dec. rating Churches, Large Public Rox ms, and Theatres, as well as Private Dweliines,

When economy in expenditure of materia! and time is of importance, these dyes will be found of the greatest

advantage, as they give a rich colour to plain wo ds, while they reflee tall the beauty of the natural graining, which is so superior to imitations by art, and, at the

| same time, ae the disagreeable iL and dele- terious consequences of paint.

The Dyes and Stains are prepared and soldat y HENRY STEPHENS, 54 Stamford street, Blackfriars rood, Lon-

|} don, im bottles at 6d and Is each, and 8s per gallon— The Oak, Mahogany, and Satin Wood Colonrs may be obta'ned in powder at 8s per Ib, which dissolve Water to furm Hiquid—and Ib will make one giil

N.B.—The trade supplied, Sold at the office of “Tue Buiter,” 2 York street,

Covent garden, Londbdn; at both of which places may be

had the proper varnish and size, with directiuus for its use,

PILLAR 42s, is the only one rez

Nn of stain.

NEW "2 NE BATH, at

SHOWER without a

pump. It is of the simplest constructi and is not likely to get out of order. Part of the bottom can, inan nstant be detached, and used separately as a sponge bath. Llaud shower Baths, 3s 6d ¢ shower Baths with curtains, 7s each. Pillar Showe + Bat s, With copper conducting tr —s brass force pump «nd top, complete, with eur s, and japanned, f om The Col- lapsible (the only ama portable) Bath, 1} in, deep, 15s. The TorTicellian, said to be without a pump, and all the oveltics in this department, always on sale at WIL-

LIAM 8, BURTON’S (late Rippon and Burton), 39 Oxford stree’, corner of Newman street, and No. 1 New-

man street. D led catalogues, With engaravings, per pust, I . Esta shed in Wells street, i820.

7 BEI ISTEADS and CHILDREN’ COTS.—A very large Assortment of these Be Se

In iror l brass, from 16s 6d each,and Cots from 203

each, fitted with dovetail joints and king, and

en! y free trom screws, u's, or pins, is on SALE @

show-rooms of WILLIAM S. BURT te R Rurton), 39 OXFORD STREET,

! s ), and Now i wmin reet

t the world; v 1 PA LENT RHEIOCLINE, o+ easy 1 1s a] alike to iron and

‘ ‘ u ary t rfec

" Le Mo mon ir l

) ? T i * ’ ? } | + ,

s , | of Cll Ss WATSO S SOLID

t LTA PLATI : is] } W .

1 1 year It h

tt has g the ¢ ( ha

t j weetness a! Ip °

{ es ( i tic Us and, howe y

I © the al re Cc, Vv } bis Te- 1 n ¢ & ssi r si a s Ol

t I rand sweet s

I I ent al r y eu é ( t from the t neat ! to

ther stly and re ( K per Tea , Dish Covers, and a ety of Jewellery

ro! ‘ Tl l Ibata Plate aa TuNee Plated “) ,

A , le Fidd — } iCe Fic

Doz. Doz. Doz. Doz Dor }

sd sad sd s ad s a Table Spoons 16 ¢ 21 0 30 49 45 0 63 0 — Forks |166 210; 300 450 63 0

DessertSpeons, 12 6 16 6 25 uv 26 0 43 0 . an ¢ 19

— Forks |}126 .66 25 36 0 a. : Tea Spoons ...' 5 6 8 0 13 6 i8 0 v0

verging A Gold C jain for either Lady or Gentleman, Weighing

half an ounce, 40s,

A WEDDING RING dome at d Ar Gl

14 and st: RING for 21s, both of them sterlin ge Parties at any distance, by cuttii he circle ¢

finger on a piece of card, and enclosing it wit) office Order, will have them sent oy ret f post.

This is an agreeable and plcasant mode these articles, and saves a personal appli

enn These premises have just undergone ext tions, aud are now re-opened with an entirely new a! d

elegantly assorted stock of Jewellery, Alb vata plate, Electro » late, Cutlery, &c.

ESTABLISHED in 1795,--Address, 4] BARBICAN,

Merchants, Shippers, &c., allowed a liberal A Catalogue sent post free.

Carriage paid to any part of the Kingdom.

and 42

discount.

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