The Express. — London, England, 1847-10-30 00:00:00

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OTIIIIIRLYti Roty of Arta' Pate Mttr-.lto. In Mirl., *Over. ie. iim w J.. oadall.ll. Old Ikad-aloat.aad all toatoetablo dealers. • salaam* eaten receipt of • postage mutat - - -- -- - - -- - - - • —.....-- AND LON U 7L DYLTOwDLL adassaUds• • 41" Oa .ialala ) . EAT DRINA, AND Av ; el& nvaseau.. ILD DM T11:1(4 tar all " O &a. 00111Ma--.11.• lasareagial haw" pea Ib mil Tglialk Sin urS t ▪ do vast my _ameba the r ai ampaban. Nana the pedal ea ,11▪ 1 bal et porwirt. p, Palarscaber-row ; flerra , An,l4l. Pls . dolt • lbela Oallimil; Nelms. 457. Wan Strand ;or d.ract from gasavilar.lo.MlNSOlaw. icamaasnat - - _ LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THIS DAY, Four o' Clock. We have accounts from Madrid to the 23rd inst., m.' at which date , according to the letter of our cor puadent' ano ther ministerial crisis was deemed by MO m eans improbable. There is no doubt that the queen bad taken offence at some of the recent men ores of the government. It is said that aa attempt made by the camarilla to dismiss from the royal household the Count de Santa Coloma and others, which was resisted by her Majesty, had nearly occasioned the dissolution of the cabinet ; it was, bow saw, bellowed that the Queen had ultimately con sented to the removal of the oonnt, and to the nomi nation of the Marquis de Miraflores in his room. Lord Canning had left Madrid fur London. MADRID, Oct.. 23. It seems by no means improbable, according to brormatii.n which I have this moment received, that before this letter ',ochre cots you may have heard, through the telegraph , of a fresh change of ministry. It is certain that the Queen is extremely offended with the ministers for some of their late proceedings. She regards the arrest and banish ment of Senor Minn as a personal affront of the most insult ing kind, and as a step expressly calculated to give credit to the stories circulated about the favours destined to be lavishi d by the royal bounty upon the bus singer of the Circa. The ministerial crisis which results from this displeasure will no doubt be decided rapidly, and Narrate may be upset by one of those rapid sad energetic shocks that have proved fatal to so many ministers. We shallnow see whether the ptegreiistsa are prepared to act with vigour, fur now is their time fur making a decisive charge at their embarrassed rivals. I hear that a great number of agents, paid by a party whom interest it is to blacken the character of Isabella as much as possible, circulate in the societies which they fre quent the most dials ustiag calumnies against the Queen. As most of these slanderers are friends of the ministry, it is supposed that the tone of their conversation, if not borrowed from persons high in office, is, at least, not discouraged by their patrons. Farther important revelations have been made with re ford to the COUcCI,IOII and malversation which have made so much noise. An anonymous letter appeared in the Espanol yesterday, stating that the convervion had been made in the old bonds bearing six coupons; so that the per sona concerned in the operation had pocketed nine per cent. upon the whole sum, or upwards of 14 millions of reels. Thus," continues the correspondent, " it is of importance to ascertain whether the patrimony his received or will receive old or new bonds, since, in the lint case, in order that no fraud msy have been committed, the director of the treasury ought to have cut off the coupon. due ' or the intendente of the royal patrimony ought, in his entries, to take into ac count the I I millions proceeding from the coupons attached to the old bonds. If, on the ether band, the royal patrimony has received new bonds, it ought to be stated into what hands have passed the six coupons attached to the old bond., of width, as I hear, use had been made to effect the conversion detreed." A notable contradiction is observed between the statement in Pena Agusyn's communication to the fspanol, that up to the present date only fifty millions of Three per Cent. bonds had entered into the royal treasury, and that the go vernment owed the rest, and the affirmation of the Herald°, that the government's attention to the subject had been fiat called by the press, and that it potessed no antecedent inform ation about the matter whatever. Certain'y the latter asaertion appears extraordinarily at variance with the truth; as it fol lows clearly from Salamanca's letter that the first and second delivery of bonds to the royal patrimon must have been made in virtue of orders given by Orlan do. The following facts are stated by %he Clamor: The order for the delivery of the bonds wits given by Or lando. The easpioyie in the Redemption Fund were work ing all the night of October 9-10, by the express direction of the same minister to get ready the bonds. The executive part of the conversion has been effected under the ministry of Senor Orlando, the last million having been paid into the royal treasury only two days ego. Senor Orlando, far from revoking the illegal order of Senor Salamanca, excited the zeal of S. Arietizabal, accountant of the treasury, to promote the manufacture of the bonds with all despatch. S. Pastor having declined to sign the document, relative to the operation, S. Arche undertook to do this at the instance of S. Orlando, who did not rest till he had effected the delivery of the first 6.5 millions into the royal treasury. Thus it appear.; that some of the present ministers are implicated together with members of the late cabinet in this standalone business. The semi-official Herald° says that the government having made this the subject of two ministerial councils, have deter mined upon referring the whole matter to the Cortez; and in the meantime have ordered all further operations in the business to be suspended. The Gazette publishes an important decree. The ordi nance of Salamanca put forth in last June, and directing the sale of the estates of the four great military orders, and the order of St. John of Jerusalem, is repealed. Also some ad miaistrative arrangements made by Salamanca in the Hacienda, with regard to the nominations of officials in that department, are abolished by royal order. A circular is issued to the political chiefs to urge Fetter regularity in the service of made, which has latterly, in con sequence partly of the excessive rains, been greatly retarded. Oar intelligence from Canada is to the following dates • Montreal, Oct. 14, and Toronto, Oct. 9. Lord Elgin bad left Quebec, atter a stay there of eight days, on his return to Montreal, which he reached on the 30th Sept. Among the many addresses presented atQuebec to his excellency (says the Mantrral Courier) we noticed one from the Quebec Board of Trade, in which his lordship's attention was directed to 'the natural advantages possessed by their city for all descriptions of business, and to its importance as a seaport. We, however, were surprised that our neighbours omitted to point oat to his excellency the still greater advantage it would be to Quebec were the works in Lake St. Peter completed. Since the commencement of the work, we have all along ad vocated its being proceeded with without let or hindrance ; but we regret to learn that little progress has been made this summer towards its completion, and that there is no chance of the new channel being made available for large vessels this fall. If the pro posed canal between the St. Lawrence and Lake Champlain is undertaken and speedily completed, our Quebec friends will learn to their cost that the im provement of Lake St. Peter is a matter in which they are much more interested than we are; for what with this canal and the railroad to Portland, they will find it difficult to maintain the position they now hold, notwithstanding the natural advantages they possess, and which are admitted to be greater than are possessed by any other port in the province. A delegation, composed of gentlemen from the dif ferent colonies under the jurisdiction of Lord Elgin, recently arrived in Montreal, to confer with his ex cellency in reference to the mutual interests and future prospects of the British possessions in North America. Among these the most prominent are the equalization of duties, a general system of internal postage, and the means most effectual to be pursued for the com mencement and completion of the great lines of rail way from the provinces bounding on the Atlantic Ocean to the interior of the Canadaa. The Right Rev. Dr. Power, bishop of Toronto, died at the palaec in Toronto on the Ist inst., of the typhus fever. Two more ministers of the church of England, Bev. Mr. Morris and Rev. Mr. Anderson, have fallen victims to the emigrant fever, contracted during their ministrations at Grosse Isle. The number of emigrants arrived at Quebec ap to the oth inst., was 91,02, being an increase of 60,889 over the corresponding period last year. Lord Elgin proceeded on the 4th on his tour to Upper Canada. lie made but a short stay at Toronto, on the morning of the Gth, and re-embarked for Ha milton the same day.. Ile reached that town the same day, and was present at a large agricultural show held there, which, however, turned out a failure from badness of weather. The works on the Lachine Canal were in such a state of forwardness as to lead to the certainty that it would be re-opened for traffic on the 15th inst. The fine weather had gone at length. Nearly the whole of Upper Canada had been visited with a succession of storms, accompanied by thunder and lightning. The railway gauge question has at last been finally settled, so far se the St. Lawrence and Atlantic R road is concerned. The governor in council his de cided that the medium gauge of five and a half feet L shall be adhered to as agreed upon between the Port land and Montreal companies, The accounts of the harvest in the different districts of Upper Canada are very varied. In some sections the crops are reported to be below an average, whilst in others they are said to be unusually prolific and abuudant. On the whole there can be no doubt that the harvest has turned out highly favourable. In Lower Canada, wheat, although it has sustained some damage front the ily, is regarded as the best crop; the other crops have generally turned out rather unfavourably. The telegraph between Montreal and Quebec was put into operation on the 9th instant. For some days peat silly rumours have been circu lated affecting the monetary condition of the South-Eastern Railway. We are enabled to give those reports the most unqualified contradietion.—Morning Paper. - - FALL OP WORKSHOPB.—ESCAPE or SEVERAL WORKMEN.—About half-peat ten o'clock this morning the neighbourhood of Leicesteroquare was terribly alarmed, in consequence of the falling in of the workshops of Mr. Bar rett, brasier, of Oreen-street, Leicester-square. Mr. Bar rett, jun., at an early hour, bad some misgivings as to the safety of the shops, and refused to work, whereupon the men immediately followed his example, and left the workshops, but occasionally ran in again to save what tools they could. Over the shops were a women and her Rosily, who also left the spot ; and scarcely had they done so, ere the whole fell in with a tremendous crash, carrying an adjoining boilding with it. Happily no lives were lost.— HALF-PAST TRIBLYIL—The side of the house of Mr. Roberts, hair-dresser, Long's-eourt, has also fallen in, and other bowies are expected to fall. A strong muster of workmen are engaged shoring up the adjoining house', and a police force of the C division keeping back the mob of parsons as semb'ed on the spot. DREADFVL SUICIDE IN WRITECROSS-STREET PRINON.—it is our painful duty to announce the suicide of a gentleman named Richards, aged 23 yeah, who was eon fined as a prisoner in Whiteeross-street prison. He had been complaining of indisposition for some days. and was removed from his usual ward to thn infirmary of the prison. where he showed symptoms of delirium. About 6 o'clock yesterday afternoon the nurse bad left him for a few minutes to iftood to soother pliant iant During her absence he hail seined a razor and ma , e an incision in his throat; after which he had risen from his bed, stepping Into the pool of blood near it, and it appears that he had walked to the neared window, and on finding it barred he proceeded to another window, from which he threw himself on the stone pavement beneath, a height of 30 feet. He was lifted up by some of his fellow-prisoners and carried to the infirmary, Where he was immediately seen by a medical gentleman, who is a prisoner; but in. a few minutes he breathed his last. The medical attendant of the prison arrived within ten minutes of the accident occurring, and agreed with the medical gentleman above referred to that death ensued chiefly from the injuries caused by the fall. Mr. Richards' friends are undetstood to be respectable, but it was stated they had deserted him; in consequence of which be had not the means of sub-istence during the six months of his imprisonment, excepting what he received from his fellow prisoners. . e,.. _ . ‘z.—s-.G-- , co' Tbt COMMERCIAL & MARKETS. MONEY MARKET & CITY INTELLIGENCE. Two o'Clock.—Our stock-market has a gloomy ap pearance, and prices are in a fluctuating and depressed state. Nor is the fact surprising.in view of the Bank of England returns for the week ending last Rater day, which will be found elsewhere. It is now quite clear that, in consenting to relax the restrictions of the Bank Act on this day week, the government were influenced much less by the representations of the deputation of private bankers, ostensibly paraded as the cause of the interference, than by the knowledge of the critical position of the Bank of England at the exact date, furnished of course by the Bank directors themselves. The Bank was reduced to a more pe rilous condition than it has been placed in far many years. Its real available capital was diminished to 1,547,2701. in notes, and less than half a million in specie, to meet the demands of deposits to the extent of above thirteen millions and a quarter. Such a reserve fund might have been exhausted in a week, unless the Bank mean while had ceased to discount, or greatly moderated the amount of its accommodation, whilst leaving its would have out. Till, bill *entities to run ibis course greatly aggravated the difficulties of the crisis, and could not fail, indeed, to have multiplied ineolvencise in trade and industry. The government, therefore, acted with commendable discretion in the resolution taken, though unfortunately at a period too long de layed, to suspend the act of 1844 in its leading pre. vivion. The result, excepting for a few days, hen not corresponded entirely to the hopes entertained, end which may be justly imputed to the knowledge evidently posymed by speculating capitalists of the dangerous position of the Bank last week, as now dis closed. But it is impossible to deny that confidence has been very much reassured by it all over the country, and not the least beneficial consequence of it is that all banks, both in town and country, have this week been more free in their advances. --- The funds, however, continue drooping, although rather better now than one or two hours since. Con sole we quote at 801 tol for money, and 801 to; for account. They have been lower and higher. Re duced Threes, 791 to 1. Three-and-a• Quarter per Cents., 80,1 to . 2 . F.:chequer Bills, 20s. to 151. &s.l count Bank Stock, 183 to 5. We have no business to report in foreign stocks, the attention of dealers being entirely absorbed by the excitement of speculation in the Consul market We quote Mexican, 15 , 1 to 161. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 53 to 4 ; the Fours, 811 to 21. Danish, 79 to 81. Spanish Fives, 16} to 171; the Threes, 261 to 78. ENGLISH FUNDS. Bank Reek. 183 6 r Ct. Cala Ae l go6 3 per Ct. Bed. Anna, Z ik k per Cent., 101 3 per Ct. Corm Azusa, s itzt 0 For BUD, 15i. +item, Ct. Austrian Bonds, rat 8 1 per Oent. Grenada Bale., 171 181 per Ct. Belgian Boa* 88 Grenada Deferred Bda., 31 per Cent. ditto, per Ct Mexican, 1848, 151 3 1111 per CL &Lillian Bd., 734 6 per Ct. Peruvian lids., 19 3 Ditto New. 71 4 Porturuear Con, Brie r 211 6 m e Ct o . Su m o. Ayr Da 7 4 1ra, 33 5 6 Tr o. sp. ltuard h an Bala. 1044 6 DMA Column. Dd. Bch., 3 per Cl. riplilab Brig., 27i Columbian 161nador Ilda• 31 3 BPinish Deferred Bela., 13 14 3 pg, Cl. Ergaiga 8d.., 78 10 Branlah Passive Bala, 34 4 31 Per Ct. Dutch Ma, Ili 3 2,lser Cl. Venezuela lida., 34 5 Cl. eff DUt.a.. at 2 %Lim:duels Deferred Bd., 810 RAILWAYS.—The share market is extremely heavy to-day, and prices depressed. Guildford and Reigatee have been done at 1 discount; Ambergates, at lbs. per share; North British Thirds, at I discount ; South Staffords, at I'4 discount ; North Staffords, at 11 discount; Eastern Counties, York Extension, 21. discount. SALES EFFECTED II? TO TWO THIS DAY IN LONDON. (Yesterday's pleas will he found in last page). Sir., Wolv , & St. Valley, 51 I Welland. 103114 Bristol and Exeter Thirds, 91 9 Do. 401. sh., 49 Dock= 3 d arnshlre, Do. 50/. sh., 7/ 34 3 Do. Con. Britt & Dir. 6 pet Ct., IL Otimades, 131 1 114 HaFerp.3 per Celt, No, s,l d Norfolk New 201., 3 Do. Took Estee., 71 1 Do. Exteusaws, 11 101 Do. North. & East, 0 1 Honk British, 241 Bra Lancashire, 131 Do. Halvsa, 101 1 Dag Liatelaidre, 71 Do. Qr.., 21 1 IX Noreen, 11 2 et Honk ee Ilkikund, 215 Do. Wo Th re & W 1 1 Oaf., , olver ,IN 01. Weems, 91 691 Royston sad Hitchin, 01 De. lialvef t p .. 4 Scottish °claret 221 Do. Fifths, 22 Do. New 171. eh., 7 Ipswich & Bury SLF.dmazd's `Sc. (late (m. & Ely), 14 Lane. & 494 50 Do Third& 104 10 Lane. it York,. N. & L., 75 44 IS,. litres. 34 So ▪ t o Dram, 22 & \rg9 d 3 11. E. 13 Dover. asi 73 Do. do. No. 1, 13 Do. do. No. 9, 101 10 Do. Do. No. 3, 9 Do. do. No. 1, 31 e Booth Wales, II Do. FIJIAN 3/ Do. Preens k Wrre, 33 2 Do. Halve., A, 11 Leeds end Bradford, 85 6 Lewis and Think, 12 lon., BrIPA., & 8. Cored. 79 9 Lon. end N. Western. 141 81 Do. Orr. G & B. 281 Do. New alre j 71 Do. laths, 11 12 Do. 49/. oh. . & 8., 38 Do. 10/. eh., M. & B. (A), 7 Do. 10/. eh., M. & B. (13), 7 Do. 10/. eh., M. k B. (C), 4 Lon. & P. We tern, 34 Do. New 501., 2$ Do. Tenth, Cone., 491 Do. Thlnle, 11 d North ti re, q Wilts, Baser, k *sr., 9 York, Nowa, k Bernick, 30 2143 Do. (Original Newe. k Her.), 261 71 Do. F.xtension No. 1 (York & Near.), WI Do. No. 2 (Niue. and Her.), 2 / Do. G.N.P.. Purchase, 71 1 York k Midland, 691 701 Do. E. k W. R. Fs, 211 Boulogne and /omens, th Dutch Rhenish, 21 Lyons k Avignon (Omit), 3 N. of France, 101 Orisons and Bordeaus, 41 Park sail Lyons, 3 Roars k Havre, 193 LIVERPOOL SAI Birkenhead, Ign.,&Ches. Jo. (tots C. & B.), 16J 16 Do. 221. sh., d Edinburgh & °Largay, 48 GL Wader', Halve., 24 & York. (late id. and L.), 6 De. Fifth" 4 d Load. & 131 Do. New Qrs., Its. (blanch. Is Bina. Qrs. (A. and B.), S blanch., Shelf. &Lincoln Eighths, Sf Do. Peet, I d - - - ,ES, Denise& 29. Midland, 107 i Do. 407. eh., 40k lax Halves, 21 4 d & Eastern & Dover, 27 Do. No. 1, 5 Do. No. 2, 5 Do. No. 4,2 k York, Newe., & Ber. Ella. (No. 1), Do. Nlt .& B. No. 2, 1 Huddersfield C. h It, 5 Shrews. & Bina. (9U. 12e. 3d. the. B.), 2 . MANCHESTER BALES, Ocrosxa 29. E. Countka, 16 Man , Bit., & Lln. Prat (Gun. at E. Lancashire, Si d 7.1 per oent.), 4 d Hod. and Mak R. and C., 3 d North Liston (A), 200 Lane. and York. Fifths, S d Shrews. and Bir. B, 24 d Loa. Man., k Bir. Qrs. A, S 1.16 p Shropshire Union, 22 d Do. do. 5, 3 p B. Eastern and Dover (IN. at 101.), Do. do. C, 13.18 No. 4, 11 d N. Stafferdahlre, 1 X d LEEDS SALES, ()cram 29. E. Lancashire (Roo ids. d Cara de Extension, 3e. is. d Rudders. a p t a ris L d New Thinks, 143 d Leek and 118 p E. Lancashire, 7 (1 I W. Riding slake. 34 d N. kafibMaltire, 21...6d. li d Thirska, IS 193 d North Western, S i d N. Brsh tdrs., 17a. ed. d News& k Ber. New, Se. d par DO. Thkds, 10s. 12a. Cd. ~_ l"~ ~~ N0.365.] LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING. OCT. 30, 1817. [3d. 818A11N011421 BALES, Ocrossa 99. Midland 088 Bir. k Der., 82 Shrews. & Biro., A, 33 d 8. Easter* sad Dower, 221 Do. do. a, 41.. al. 24 Bit., tYsL, k Bt. VW., 24 d Shropshire Union, 33.. 9d. d N. otadWdshire, 10388 d. 31834. d 8 81affordahlr8368 3d. 38s. 9d. d YOWL BALPA Ocrosaa 29. Gt. Northern, 2!. 3a. 6d. 21.15. I Leicester and Bedford. Ils. N. Britidt Thirds, , 1 York, New, & Der. Ex., No. 2 Olds Do. Extension, 38 As. 6d. New„Berws.), 108 10 ousanw BALES, °crown M. Caledonian New, Me 9d. 24, ed. Manche& & South., 94 04 9& Dundee and Perth Qrs., Mu Ms. I N. Hellen New Qra4 Glen, & Ayr, 100 BtlrL & Mid. Jo., 61. 13e. Do. New, 40 'fork, Newe., l Bee. (Gr. N. of Do. Halves, No. I, SI. 10a. Ingland F or.), 9 Gt. 8. of Medrea, 9& PRODUCE.—ANTWERP, Oct. 28.—Coffee remains calm, and only small parcels find buyers at declining prices. The sales amount to about 800 bags Brazil. real to good ordi nary, at 201 c. to 211 e. ; and 1,100 bags fine Domingo, at 22 lc. ; Java is in vain offering at 23ic. per Cotton is very dull, and prices are nominal; 100 bales Surat have been placed at a price which has not transpired.—Rice : Purchases are made only to supply immediate wants. The supplies from neighbouring ports have been rather heavy. —Sugar continues neglected. Refiners having lately had opportunities to make large purchases of damaged Sugars 4 public sal_ ,as and being able to buy at lower rate, to the London market, no transactions (deny moment have taken place here. 500 boxes middling yellow Havasnah, sold at 1615., and 14.5 boxes brown Ilavaunah, at 141 L These prices show a decline of 35. to 1111. per 50 kilo.—Hides have been in good demand. The sales comprise about 10,000 dry River Plato, at 27c. to 42c ; 2,200 salted, at 1.5 c to 21e. • 3,150 dry Rio Grande, at 261 c. to 200.; and 1,100 salad, at 15c. to 17e. The dry de scriptions have realised higher prices.—Plmento is in re quest, bat there are no parcels offering for sale.—Totiseeo We have to report the sales of 150 bales Hermosa, at 724 e. to 80c. ; 25 bales Domingo, at 60c. to 52e. ; and 230 bales Java, at 161 c. per 4 kilo. There is soma inquiry for Ken tucky, of which the stock continues much reduced. HAMBURG, Oct. 22. -Coffee has been in better demand, and the sales comprise 4,200 bags Brazil, at 3s. to 4s. ; 2,400 begs Marszabo, at 31.. to 315.; 2,ooo,bags La Ousyra, at 31s. to 445.; and 800 bags St. Domingo, at 31s. 31s.—Cot ton There is nothing doing, and prior are quite nominal. Sugar : The market is very quiet, and no transactions of importance have taken Vac.. We quote yellow Havannah from 17 mans to 191 mars, and white Havannab, at 201 marts to 22 mans per 100 lb. Bahia, from 17 mares to 20 mares for white ; and 15 marts to 161 mares for brown.—Rice There is very little doing, and purchasers are made only to cupply immediate wants. Carolina at 16 mama to 17; mares ; Jaya, 121 maim to 131 marts per 100 lb.—Spices: Cassia Lignza finds buyers at 71s. to 71.. Pepper is quilt ; 150 bags Sumatra sold at 21a. English Pimento is required for, and 6s. is easily obtainable. TALLOW.—The market continues firm. Peters burgh Y. C. on the spot, 455. 31. ; all the year delivery, 445. 6d. to 445. 9d.; January to March delivery, 455. 9J. HULL, Oct. 29.—Tallow has been slow of sale, though offered lower. LIVERPOOL, Oct. 29.—Tallow is very dull, and the tales only reach 60 casks. P.Y.C., 4.35. to ; Odessa, els. 6d. to 455. There has been more doing in American Lard this week, at rather lower prices; 49 tierces and 270 barrels are reported at 621. to 655., and 66 baskets, very fine, at 651. per cwt. CORN.—BARNSLEY, Oct. 27.—We had a very fair supply of grain, and the business done was but little below an average. In Wheat a reduction of 6d. to le. per three bushels took place; in other grain there was a downward tendency. Average price of Wheat per qr., 21. 19s. 4d. Doaxtrro, Oct. 28.—We had a short supply of Wheat at market to-day, but abundantly supplied with *Bother grain; trade ruled very heavy, and the coarser Dort of Wheat re ceded in price, but other grain fully maintained last week's quotations. Wheat, white, 121. to 151. 10s. ; red, 101 lOs to 121.; Barley, grinding, 30s. to 335.; malting, 335. to 355.; Oats, 225. to 245.; Peas, 40a. to 42s ; Beans, 425. to 445, ELY, Oct. 28.—Our market to-day was well attended, and the supply of grain liberal, and for all descriptions prices nearly the same u last week. EXETER, Oct. 29.—We hare had small supplies of all grain in our corn market, which sold at the prices of last week. __ Hexer. HEMMTED, Oct. 28.-Old Wheat, 34e. to 38s. per load of 6 bushels ; new, 295. to 335. Beane, 29e. to 341 Peas, 295. to 32a. Barley, 295. to 365. per qr. Oats, 231. to 28e. Tares, 71.6 d. to Bs. 6d. per bushel. Hutt, Oct. 29.-Orain: 'There has been a good demand for the finer qualities of Wheat at rather improved rates; but inferior are the same as last week. In Spring Corn no alteration can be noted. Rye Meal moves off in small quoin titles at steady rates. Linseed Cakes meet a good sale to consumers at well supported rates fee the hest qualities ; say, Hull-made, 111. 10*. per ton; foreign, 101. 12a. &1., down to 91. per too, according to quality. Rape Cakes are in fair demand, at 61. per ton. Bones are free sale at rather improved rates, say 90s. to 925. 6d. per ton, according to quality. Guano in steady demand at unaltered rata. Pigeon manure, 71. 61. per ton. The arrivals of Linseed this week amount to 12,248 quarters, all from the Bleck Sea: say, 2,073 qrs. from Erlich; 1,422 qrs. from Marianople ; and 8,751 qrs. from Taganrog. Part of these supplies having been pursed on the market for prompt payment, prices have tilled a trifle lower ; but on the general tales the value hes been well maintained, and a good steady business bas been doing. Black Sea may be quoted 465. 6d. to 475.; fine heavy Petersburg, 46e. ; middling, 425. to 41s. inferior, 395. to 40s. • Archangel, 41s. to 42a. • Rigs, 42.. to 445. ; Memel and Konigsberg, middling, 31;s. to 40s. ,• common, 375. to 38s. per qr. In Rapeseed very little doing, and the nominal quotation is 281. per last. Nitrate of Soda has been sold pretty freely at lls. per cwt. Foreign Imports into Hull during this week: Linseed, 12,246 qrs.; Rapeseed, 1,126; Wheat, 2,493; Barley, 1,498; Oats, 349; Beans, 2,125; Peas, 1,305. 'rewrote, Oet. 26.-There was a decrease in the value of every description of grain to-day ; the market opened dull, and continued in a depressed state until its close. The trans aetions in the Wheat and Barley trade was rather small, the former being 2.., and the latter from Is. to 2s. per qr. lower than on this day se'nnight. White Wheat, 624. to 54s ; mixed, 50s. to 62e. ; red, 465. to 50s. Malting Barley, 288. to 31s. ; grinding, 24a. to 261. French Tick Beans, 41s. to 435. Orey Pea, 41s. to 434. English Oats, 275. to 31.. per quarter. LINCOLN, OCT. 29.-We have had a small show of Wheat today, and prices full 2a. higher, with a good demand. Wheat, red, 525. to 585. ; white, 555. to 60s. A good de mand for Barley, at ls. over last week. Malting, 325. to 37e. Oats, new, 21e. to Ns. Beans, new, 445. to 461. ; old, 68s. to 60s. _ _ . LIVERPOOL, Oct. 29.-The Hibernia steamer, arrived hero yesterday, corroborates the previous accounts of a certainty of limited shipments of breadstuff. from the American states and Canada foe some time to come, the small stocks on the sea-board, being looked to for hams consumption, stiU keep ing the proportion of prices above the rates current at this side: the approaching winter season would also materially limit supplies into Great Britain from foreign countries, even were our prices such, or a speculative d, sposition remained, to induce their importation. We must, consequently, for some months, rely much on our own growth rather than any extensive aid from abroad. Intermediately from the close of Tuesday's market until to-day we have had a fair steady business trans acted in the leading articles of the corn trade, especially in Flour and Indian Corn, which were held firmly on rather higher terms. The aggregate arrivals, during the same period, are light ; whilst the exports, with the drain for local consumption and the interior, exceed the present supplies. Influenced mainly by the American reports, our market this morning generally evinced a rather lively appearance. Upon a tolerably active demand from the country millers, and some parcels having been taken for shipment northward, Wheat of all descriptions realised an advance of 24 to 3d. per 701 b. ; and Flour, moving freely to eonsumers, States and Canadian was 2a. per barrel, and Irish Is, per sack, dearer. The moisten. haying previously supplied their wants for the moment, malting Barley receded Is. per qr.. while grinding samples and Malt maintained late prices. Beans, command ing somewhat more attention, were Is. per qr. higher, and Peas remained steady in value. Good kiln-dried mealing Oats, upon a fair demand, were the turn dearer; but undned and inferior qualities, being little noticed, were en tirely without improvement. Indian Corn, continuing to meet a very animated inquiry, on both English and Irish amount, transactions therein were repeated extensively again to-day, and • further advance of ls. to 2a. per 4801 b. was readily acquired. Cora Meal also was in good request at an amendment of GI to la, per barrel British: Wheat, per 701 b.., English, red, new, is. to 7s. 6d. ; old, is. RI. to Be.; white, new, 7s. to 81. ; old, So, to Bs. 3d.; Irish, red, new, 6a. 6d. to is. 6d. ; old, 6.. 9d. to 7.. 34. white, new, 7s. to 7s. 9d. Barley, per qr., English, new, 355. to 375. ; Chevalier, 38s. to 3!es. ; Scotch and Irish, per 601 b., old, 3.. 94, to 4e. Malt, English, per qr., pale, 01d,615. to 655. Oats, Eng liah and Scotch, per 4.51 b., *ld, 3s. 6d. to 3s. Bd. ; Weleb, old, 31. 54. to 3s. 6d. ; Irish. fine aorta, new, 2.. Ild. to 3s. Id.; old, 3s. sd. to 31.84 ; general, new, 2.. Bd. to 2.. 10d. ; old, a.. 3d. to 35. sd. Beans, per qr., English, old, 50s. t 0545.; Scotch and Irish, per 480 lb., new, 42.. to 445. ; old, 445. to 465. Peas, English, per quarter, white, new, 465. to 60.. ditto and Irish, grey, 365. to 38e. Flour, per 280 lb., English and Irish, fine, 375. to 380.; superfine, 40s. to 425.; extra, 43e. to 445. Oatmeal, per load of 240 lb., Irish, new, 275. to 28s. ; old, 2.3 a. to 245. ; Cs. nadian, old, 2.34. to 243. Bran, per 24 lb., 1.. 2d. to Is. 4d. Foreign : Wheat, per 701 b., Canadian, red, fie. Bd. to 75.; white, 7s. 2d. to 7s. Gd.; United States, red, 7s. to 7.. 4d. ; white, 7s. 9d. to Bs. 3d. ; Dantzic. mixed and red, 7.. to be. 6d. ; high mixed, Bs, to Bs. Bd. Lower Baltic and Hamburg, red, 79. to 70. 64.; white, 7e. 4d. to 71. 9d. ; Riga and Petersburg, red, 6e. 6d. to ' Gs. 9d. ; Archangel, 6.. to 6s. 4d. ; Odessa, common, red, 6e. 2d. to 6.. 6d.; Polish, 6.. 9.1. to 7.. ; French, Spanish, and Italian. red, G.. Gd. to 6.. 94. ; white, fie. 9d. to 7s. ; Bennet and Marianopoli, red, 6a. 3d. to 64. 93 . ; Egyptian, 3e. 9d. to 4s. ; Mediterranean, dc., hard, red, ss. to fn. 3d. Rye, per qr., Baltic, Bte. ' 3.35. to 36e. Barley, per 601 b., 40. to is. 3d. Oats, per 441 b., 3.. 54. to 3s. 7d. ; Rumania, 2.. Bd. to 2.. 104. Beans, per quarter, European, 48e. to 52a. ; Egyptian, per 4801 b., 325. to 331. Pete, per qr., Baltic, dn., white, 45e. to 485.; Canadian, 365. to 40s. Indian Corn, per 4h01b., 29e. to 32a. Gd. ; Indian Meal, per barrel of 1961 b., 130. to 14s. Flour, per barrel of 1961 b., Cana dims, smeet,26e. 6d. to 275. ; United States,sweet,2B". to 275. United 84stes MA Canadian, sour, 19s. to 21s. Arrivals into Liver9oo l and anneons from the 26th Oct. to the 28th Oct., inanely.: Wheat, 2,333 qrs. ; Barley, 4 ; Malt, 24 ; Oats, 3,218 ; Indian Corn, 1,280; Indian Corn Meal, 3,064 bar rels ; Oatmeal, 1,679 mks ; Flour, 497 sacks, 6,244 barrels. Rtron, Oct 28.—At this day's market the apply was good. The be samples of Wheat maintained last week's prices; inferior Is. to 2s. per qr. lower. For Barley the de mand was slow, at a slight de&se cm last week's quotations. In Oats and Beans no alteration. Wheat, white. 6s. 9d. to Bs. ' • red, 61. 3d. to 74 9d. Boons, 7s. to Ba. per bushel. Barley, 36.. to IMs. Oats, 245. to 325. per qr. - - RONSBY, Oct. 28.—1 n the corn market trade was rather dull. One sample of very prime old Wheat fetched 141. New Wheat ranged from 121. to 131. 6e. Barley fetched no more than SAL, and Oats were about the same u last week, from 22.. to Ile. Scannononott, Oct. 28.—The weather continuing in fine for the farmers getting their seed into the ground, we hare but little doing in any kind of Com. Where sales ore made in any article very little under last week's rates are paid. Wheat, is. to is. 9J. per 5 at. Barley, 31s. to 335. ; grind ing, 30s. per qr. Oats, 121 to 13d. per at. Flour, seconds, 40s. ; superfine, 455. to eils. per sack of 20 it. SOUTHAMPTON, Oct 29.—There was a short supply of English Wheat at market to-day, for which there was an improved ails at fully last week's prices. There was more doing in foreign, for the best desenptions of which there is also a re►d sale at late prices. Barley dull. Other articles unchanged. WAKEFIELD, Oct. 24.-TO•day we have to report a good 'mina of Wheat, bat there is only a moderate show of good fresh samplee, for which there is a free sale at an improve ment of 2s. per qr. Barley, from its scarcity, supports its late wale*. Oats sad Shelling are sold on Tether easier terms. Beglaln rarit dimentl ..0-41114 , Odds. per qr., 1301 b. to the Nisbet, SaSolk, Hams, and Kent, red. new, 54e. to 55a ; extra, 561.; white, 565. to 68e.; extra, 60a. Norfolk and Hants, red, 535. to 640.; extra, 554. ; white, 525. to 5.15. extra, 5055. ; Lincolnshire nd Cambridgeshire, red, 51s. to 535. ; extra, 541. ; white, 51s. to 535. ; extra, 565.; Yorkshire, red, 62,. to 531.; extra, .58s. ; white, 535. 'to 545. ; extra, 66e. • Denude and Konigsberg, white, 525. to 545.; extra, 585.; Lower Baltic and Hamburg, red, 50s. to 52a.; extra, 545. ; Mediterranean, red, 40s. to 445. ; extra, 50s. Old, red, 465. to 525.; extra, 545, ; Barley, per quarter imperial, Norfolk and Suffolk, 345. to 364. ; extra, 375. . • Lincolnshire and York, shire ' 341. to 365.; extra, 375. • foreign 30s. to 31s. ; Beans, per quartet, 63 lbs. to the bushel, small, One, uew, 465. to 475. ; old, 555. ; Ticks, 431. to 4.55. ; extra, 58s. ; foreign, 435. to 445. ; extra, 521. Oats, per stone, meal ing, 11d. to 13d. • extra, 131 d. ; feeding, 11d. to 12d.; extra, 13d. ; foreign, lid. to 121. ; extra, 121 d. WETIIBRbY, Oct. 28.-We had an average supply of grain at the following prices Wheat, 19s. to 245. Beans, 224. to 244. 63. per load. Oats, 225. to 355. Barley, 355. to 365. 81. per qr._ ---•--• • - • - - • . . BRl:Rfiltl.B, Ott. 28.—From the 20th to the 25th of October nine vessels, laden wholly . or in part with corn, entered the port of Antwerp. The importations made were:—Wheat, 462,060 kil. ; Rye, 48,050; Barley, 266,800, Rice, 275,600. Total, 1,052,560. This morning prices seemed disputed to remain &met in the market. The sellers asked a much higher price than last Friday, but there were only a few buyers, and prices remained nearly the same as last week. Wheat was sold at 51 to 51 11 sous the half-hectolitre. Rye, 4fl. Bs. to 4fl. 15s. Potatoes, without variation, were 7 to 8 per 100 kilogrammes. We have not had such an abundance of Apples as tithing the present season for many years. LEIPSIC, Ott. 23.—Throughout the whole week the mar ket has been vey slack, and everything that wu sold was at considerably reduced prices. It is more and more evident that the effects of the magnificent harvest must have their due course, however much it may be the aim of the holders to keep up the prices to a certain standard. At the market today very few bargains were concluded ; there were plenty of seller*, but a lack of buyers. Offers for the harvest Wheat, of 18016. per sheffel, were 72 rixdollars per wispel. The highest price given was 74 rix-dollan per wiepel. Rye was offered at 50r. to 52r., but even the best qualities were sold for scarcely 51r.; inferior qualities were sold for 49r. to 50r. Barley, which even a week ago was sold at 44r., could not fetch more than 41Sr. to 42r. per 1501 b. Very little other grain wu brought to market. STIITTIN, Oc'. 25.—The importations by water, as well es by land, continue to be very scanty, especially in Wheat : in Rye the arrivals have been greater ; the seller,, however, hare no mind to let down the priors. HOPS. BOROUGH MARKET, Two o'Clock. Mears. Pattenden and Smith, Hop Factory, report that the demand la extensive for all deecriptlotui of Hops with colour and quality. Estimated duty 205,0001. New Mid It E.KeoSe Q. otoN. 12 Twitted' lisibsp. cwt. 21.10 to N.lO New Hasid we Isola 113 toe 0 YwilwiNemst 2 I. to 3 3 New Na ww: .... ..210 to 3 10 1 01d Hop ... ... .. .. 0 oto 2 0 HAY.--SMITHFIELD, Two Clock.—Messrs. Cooper and Davis, Hay and Straw Salesmen, report a large sop. ply, and trade Prime Meadow rra to 76 Rowen to —a Otasw .26 to 30, latorlor 666 to 606. I C 666 ....6b. to 966 CATTLE, &c.—DErtat, Oct. 26.—T6ere was a large supply of Beasts, and an averate of Sheep ; Calves very scarce; Pigs en average supply. Beef made from bid. to 64d. Mutton, 6d. to 7d. Veal, 6d. to 7d. per lb. Pigs, 61. 6d. to 10.. 6d. per score. Rough fat es. 6d. per stone. Ride*, 21d. per lb. ; Calf Skins, 2d. to 4d. . _ Extras, Oct. 29.—A very short supply of all descriptions of stock, which sold at full prices. There was another small lot of fat Heifers from Ireland, which, as they were in good condition, sold at about 10s. per score, the price of fat Beef generally being from 9s. 6d. to 10s. 6d. All kinds of poor stock sold at about late rates. Cows and Calves, 101. to 16/.•, butcher's Calves, 6d. to 61d. ; fat Wethers were worth full 61d. per lb. for the beet ; Ewes, 6d. A good supply of Pigs, which moved off at price* quite equal to last week. O ISBURN FAIR, Oct. 2.5.—We had an unusual quantity of fat stock to-day, but of middling quality. Anything good sold at high prices, owing to the attendance of butchers being so numerous. A tolerable quantity of present calvers. The best Cows were in great demand, at high prices, but in ferior ones were bad to ►ell at even low rates. Irsvaccu, Oct. 28.—The market presented an average ;t ri ply of fat and lean stock, the trade in which appears to be There were four; Spanish Beasts exhibited, which, from the extreme length of their horns and symmetry, mated universal attention. Fat Beef, per stone, 7.1. to 7.. 3d. Mutton, Bs. Pd. to 9s. Pork, 7s. to 7s. 9d. ROMISZY, Oct. 28.—At our fortnightly market, which was held this day, of fat Sheep and Oxen there was but a scanty supply, and good prices were obtained in some cues at an advance on former prices. Pip were very plentiful, and somewhat lower in price. SALFORD, Oct. 27.—Wc have a large show of Beasts, but generally of inferior quality. For good Beef a fair demand exists, but inferior is almost unsaleable. Prime Mutton good *Ale at previous rates. A good clearance effected of all stock of fair and good quality. SCARBOROUGH, Oct. 28.—Our market presented a good supply of strong fresh store Pigs, which folly realized recent prices, whilst those of about a quarter old averaged from 12s to 13s. each. Bacon and Pork Pigs sold at 7s. per stole; Lamb, 7d. to Sd. ' • Beef, 7d. to Bd.; Mutton, 7d. to 84. ; Veal, Bd. to 9d. ; Bacon, 9d. to 10d. DUNDBE, Oct. 27.—At Meigle market today there was • good supply of stock ; most of it, however, of inferior qua Oood fst cattle were scarce and in demand, at from es. to Be. 6d. per Dutch stone. Fine Highland stock changed bends at an advance of 6d. per stone. Mach Cows and Calvets were in much request, and brought high rates. Plenty of Sheep . were exposed, but not of that description to command superior prices. At Melville fair, held here yes terday, the supply of cattle wu limited, with no satiation in price. Fo► Yeaterdft's Marks& eae Lug page. SHIPPING • _ - MAILS ARarreo.—Dublis.3 ; Waterford, 2; Denaghades, 1 ; French, 1; Flanders, 1; Hamburg, 1. LONDON, Oct. 30.—Wind this day at noon, E.S.E., light breeze and fine. DEAL, Oct. 29.—W.S.W.—Arrived : Pallas, Surinan, for Amsterdam; Palestine, Saguenay ; Marianne, Baltimore; For titude, Joseph Anderson, and Ida, Quebec. Arrived from the river: Posthumous, Port Phillip; Larkins, Caps of Good Hope ; Orion, St John's, N.B. Sailed: Emily, Gambia. A large ship, water-losged, and abandoned, with white sides, a male figure, painted white, far figure-head, coppered, masts and bowsprit carried away by the deck, and attached to the sides, deck blown up, was passed, 3rd inst., lat. t 6 N., long. 39 W., by the Fortitude, arrived here. LEXINGTON, Oct.2B.—Arrived : John Thompson, Quebec. OFF MARGATE, Oct. 23 —Mary, Quebec. Poaremount, Oct. 29.—W.N. W.—Sailed : Bittern, Madre. ; H.M.S. Arab, Cape of Good Hope ; Lady Caroline, St. John's, N.B. Cowes, Oct. 29. -S.W.—Sailed: William and Alfred, Demerara. Th ioiti;aT, Oct. 29. S.W.—Arrived : Susan Am, New York, and sailed for London. CLTDll.—Attitrd : Veritol2, St. John's, N.B. Sailed: Janet Boyd, St. Vincent. WATERFORD, Oct. 27.—Sailed: Mazy, and Feda, Per nambuco. _ Stitti.ns, Oct. 29.—W. to W.B.W.—Arrived : Fanny, Prince Edward's Island. WHITEHAVIN, 00t. 28.—Arrived : Royalist, Quebec. HULL, Oct. 29.—W.N.W.—Arrived: loathe, St. Ste phen's, N. 8.: Oregon, Quebec. WHITS; Oct. 29.—The Garland, Sunderland to Hart lepool, run on Upgand Rack this morning, got off very leaky, bet proceeded in tow. OFF THE WIGHT.-371rester, New York, for Stettin. FaLatouva, 28.—Amved : Picton, St. Stephen's, N. 8., and sailed for Hull. Off port William, Quebec. Oet. 29.—The John and Mary sloop was picked up in Abengall Bay, 27th inst., and brought in hare. GALWAY, Oct. 2 7..—The Bufrasis (Austrian barque), took the ground outside the dock-gates, 26th inst., making a good deal of water, and was muc h s t ra i ne d, b u t came o ff after dis- L charging part of cargo. ..._ ~~. ~,~~~~_ gilt eportoo. 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LONDON, SATURDAY, OCT. 30. Tax meeting of the States-General, at the Hague, is expected to form a remarkable epoch in the history of Holland. The King, although with much reserve, has signified in his speech that the constitution of Holland shall be re-examined, without hindrance on the part of his cabinet, and that its un sound provisions shall be reformed. By this promise he opens a door for reconsidering every grievance, and affords an opportunity . to the friends of Holland to suggest important alterations in foreign and colonial policy. Indeed, the affairs of the colonies are so much mixed up with the financial doings in Europe, that they cannot be separated ; and, if we are not misin formed, a desire to put the trade with the East upon • sounder footing is one motive which has induced the liberal party to press the revision of the constitution. As the nearest neighbours and the most interested dell foreign countries in the trade with the Dutch dependencies in the East, the proceedings of the States- Geseral will not fail to be watched with attention by England. We are far from joining In the outcry that has been raised against Holland, as desirous of mono polising the trade of the Eastern Archipelago. The Dutch tariff, which admits our yarns to be worked up at a low duty, and which only imposes six per cent. upon finished goods in Europe, gives no proof of any such desire. The duties levied in the East are cer tainly higher than those taken in Europe ; but the Dutch have a precedent in our own Indian tariffs, which are in the highest degree offensive to our neighbours, and equally unjustifiable in political and in financial respects. Our Indian presidencies are prohibited from importing any foreign sugar by the act of par liament, which admits Laid India sugar into this country on the same terms with that of the Welt Indies. But since nothing is easier than to fix an import duty on foreign sugars brought to Calcutta or Madras, equal to the difference between our colonial and foreign duties, which would put an end to all danger from substitution, it is clearly time to do so and to revoke the prohibition. Until this obnoxious clause is removed from our East India tariff, we can not pretend to any claim upon Holland for liberal treatment towards our merchants. The change can be the more easily effected, as it is a restriction im posed in England, and not one devised by the council of Calcutta. Were that bar to negotiation removed, there seems to be no reason why we should not be able to come to an understanding with Holland, which would be immensely advantageous on both sides. The interests of the two countries are strikingly exposed in a letter which will be found in another column of our paper. The writer shows the origin of the great tra di ng company which was called into life by the late King, the services it rendered to the state, and the field of exertion which was opened in consequence. He does justice to the improvements in the mode of collecting the revenue, and ascribes to them the successful trans formation of annual deficits into a large animal tribute from Java to the mother country. It is, however, easy to see that an export of rent is no basis for trade. The Javans export their rent now collected, with moderate deductions, to Holland. Bat trade only begins after that rent is paid. Trade sup poses a return to be given for what is taken, and the higher the terms offered by the buyer of colonial produce, the greater willingness will be shown to produce on the part of the landowners. But the agency of the company is not at all necessary to car rying out this principle. Indeed, the privileges which have hitherto made of the trade in the interior of Java a monopoly of the company, militate seriously against the extension of the traffic, which would draw out the resources of that fine colony, and increase the revenues of the crown. The monopoly of the Masts choppy has been felt in Holland to be injurious to the private trader, and no doubt will form one of the prominent subjects of debate at a later stage of the anticipated reform. It is easily shaken off, since the company is now in the habit of selling to shipping houses in Java the largest .por tion of the surplus produce collected from the natives.. Owing to the high rates of export duties taken on goods shipped in foreign bottoms, the price of this produce is necessarily low, and the company has no claim upon the profit which would result from allow ing free intercourse between the shipper and the planter. The great trading company might remain, as before, the agent for the collection and transmission to Europe of the produce belonging to government ; but before a constitutional assembly it will be able to substantiate no claim to repress the growth of trade in the east to the disadvantage of the trading commu nity at large and to the diminution of the revenue. We should deem it matter of congratulation if a oordial understanding were established between this empire and our industrious neighbours. Holland is said to be engaged in active negotiation with the states of the Zollverem, and to have shown a dispo aition to meet those states on liberal terms of recipro city. There can be no reason why the Dutch govern ment should refuse to meet us in a similar spirit when we convince our neighbours that we mean fairly by them. But it is not unreasonable to require of us to give proof of this intention, and the best that we can offer will be a revision of our East India sea tariff. ONE of the justest opprobria of the new poor-law ' administration has been the niggardliness with which l boards of guardians have paid their medical officers. The fact is not to be disputed. Pariah and union sur geons have, as a class, been shamefully underpaid : guardians have availed themselves of the stress of professional competition to cut down the salaries of these officers below their actual expenses of drugs and horse hire. The threat, "If you don't like the pay there are plenty ready to take your place," has been used to good purpose. The hope of picking up stray patients among guardians, the vague anticipa tion of good to follow from publicity, the mere wish to seem employed, the determination to cut out a rival practitioner at any coat—all these and similar causes have worked in aid of the sordid economy of some parochial boards, and the selfishness and ignor ance of others. Together they have, as a general rule, brought down the payment of the pariah sur geon to a point at which he must choose his alter native between neglect of his duty and positive pecuniary loss. It is difficult to lay one's hand on any records more disgraceful to local poor-law authorities than the cases since 1834, in which this niggardliness has borne its fruits. Humanity turns revolted from the task. The question is one, happily, in no way bearing on the conflicting principles of poor laws. The advocate of the old law and the supporter of the now may join in denouncing the practice. No doubt, such de nunciations have generally come from those who systematically distorted every hardship which oc curred under the old law into an argument against the new law. The Times, for example, has generally spoken, as if the inadequacy of medical relief were an inhuman feature of the act of 1834. But it must be evident to every one who looks fairly at the subject, that ordinary relief might still be ad ministered strictly according to the new law, with medical relief placed on an entirely different footing. We believe that such a change is in itself desirable. We believe that the experience of the last 15 years has shown it to be necessary. We are, therefore, delighted to welcome the new combina tion of new Poor-law Medical Officers, which held its first meeting at the Hanover-square Rooms on Wed nesday. Such an association has it in its power to bring facts to a focus. It can throw in a concentrated fire on the points which it attacks. Now that the parish surgeons, themselves, have put their 'shoulders to the wheel, we may look forward to real results. It would be idle and dreary work to go over the state ments of the different speakers at Wednesday's meet ing. They exhibit a melancholy unanimity, in the main, with disagreeable little varieties in the particu lars. One surgeon may expend rather more beyond his salary than another. Tne sickness of one batch l another may be farmed out at 2s. fid. of at Is. 30. per head. Some bo ards may allow extra fees for amputations, while others hunt on legs and arms being thrown in under the general charge. The Holborn union stands alone in one application of economy. It allows no extra fees for midwifery cases. It gets its pauper children brought into the world without any expense to the rate-payers. This is the closest shaving achieved by parochial medical economy. It deserves record for its ingenuity. There really did not seem room for . any saving whatever. The proofs of inadequate payment are, as we have said, numerous, obvious, undisputed, and disgusting. The results of this scale of payments arc evident. They come under one of two sets of categories: low salaries, incompetent and careless surgeons, neglect, suffering, and death of paupers. This is the class of category covering most examples. The other is low salaries, competent and humane surgeons, private ex penditure in relief and drugs above salary, comfort and health of paupers, lose, fatigue, and grievance to surgeon. As things stand, either the medical officer squares his practice with his pay, and ne6lects his patients, carries his practice beyond lus pay, and injures himself. So much for the case as it affects the sur geons How does it tell upon the patients ? Is the s Case, they suffer from the parochial system ; in the second they are benefited in Rite of it. The parish extends its aid, grumblingly, msufficiently, bru tally. They hate the parish official, and have no gratitude for the parish surgeon. The race of pau pers, we are told, is ungrateful. In truth, not only the race of paupers, bat the race of poor men, occa sional recipients of parish relief, have very little grounds for gratitude. That relief is robbed, in the mode of its administration, of every humanising aid kindly influence that can be dissociated from it. The pauper comes to the beard with a scowl, and quite it with a curse. The board receives the pauper with con tempt, and relieves his necessities grumbly. There is no good seed grows oat of the giving or the receiving. The tie which our poor law recognises between rich and poor is made into an iron one. It weighs heavily on him who gives, and galls him who takes. By different handling it might be made, if not a pleasant, at least a salutary, burden, recalling the sense of inter dependence, and not that of repulsion—of the common humanity that links pauper and guardian, and not the social distinction that divides them. But while guardians and paupers continue to be what they are, in respect of education, this cannot be otherwise. The new law did not create these things. The old law only escaped them by not putting any efficient machinery into action. The central body of commissioners has always done its utmost to mitigate the harshness of local authorities. Of all sins laid to its charge, that of enforcing a severer application of the law on local humanity is the least borne out by facts. If these evils, however, be inseparable from any system of poor-laws which unites local agency with central superintendence, they may be got rid of in the medical machinery of such a system. The sick pauper in the workhouse, or sick labourer out of it, has special claims on sympathy. There are, moreover, sound economical reasons for curing him as speedily as possible. An efficient treatment, botk medical and dietetic, is the cheapest for the rate payers in the long run. Such a treatment can seldom be pursued under the present system, which cuts down the remuneration of the medical officer to a level which either draws young and thoughtless practitioners into the service of the parish, or, if it is submitted to by men of experience and humanity, imposes an outlay which they often are unable to afford, and which in no case they should be called upon to incur. Bat while boards of guardians have the privilege of engaging medical officers their services will be contracted for like other articles of parish consump tion. The sick will be let to the lowest bidder, no matter if he be the most ignorant, the most unscrupu lous, or the most disreputable practitioner in the union. . . --- The interests of the rate-payers, no less than the comforts of the sick, suffer from this practice. The only remedy for it is for government to interpose. The sanitary necessities of the kingdom furnish them at once with an opportunity for doing so in a way effective not only for this, but for further good. Every town should have its board of health, with a responsible health officer. Why should not every anion have the same organisation imposed upon it P The duties of health officer might in most cases be combined with those of parochial surgeon. In large towns, where each would find sufficient employment in his own special duties, the union surgeon, no less than the healtk cater should be in communication with the Board of Health, appointed by it, respon sible to it, and paid by a rate expressly levied fer the purp on a scale determined by competent medical authorities ose in London. Until some such measure as this be adopted, all the hardships of all the parochial surgeons will do little to improve the present system, however glaring in themselves or powerfully set forth. The health of the parish poor must, in a word, be treated as a branch of the general sanitary legislation for the community, if the common rules of humanity and policy are to be applied in relation to it. TAP. Catholic bishops of Ireland, stepping, as they are most prone to do, on the political stage, arc not personages whom we can receive with either favour or welcome. There are many most estimable men amongst them, tolerant, enlightened, and liberal. But they have a fanatic tail of episcopal brethren, narrow, rancorous, retrograde, and replete with those qualities, which render the word priest the object of every free and liberal man's abhorrence, and which consequently desecrate and contaminate religion. The episcopal pastors of the Irish catholic church, the good, the christian, the humane, have bandits among them, armed as partizans, whose mission is not that of charity and peace, bat of rancour, and war, and spoliation. We cannot see their names, coupled with those of their brethren, attached to any document, without thinking of CURISTIE of the Clint hill and Father EUSTACE linked together, the rapa cious and unscrupulous feudal retainer, by the side of the pious, unworldly, and conscientious churchman. All this starts more prominently to the mind at a time when one of the effects of these bishops' uniting, and of the lambs being led by the wolves, has been the dealing of almost a death-blow to the establish ment of educational institutions for the middle class of Irish. Will these reverend Harplota do more for the lower classes? We fear not. They have coma before the Lord Lieutenant with a representation of their views, which are those of book-worms and recluses, more than of men of actual life. We have not yet heard of their lecturing their own people, bat they came to lecture the Lord Lieutenant on the evils of past centuries, on the great mistake of tho Irish poor law, and upon the advisability of replacing " unions" by monasteries. The catholic prelates would have done far better to have mingled their just allusions to the fatal effects of past misrule with some monitory reference to the equally undeniable faults of the Irish people. Men in their position ought not to utter one-sided truths. The bishops trace the depressed condition of the country to the effects of the penal laws, not to the " innate indolence " of the population. Now, it is not more certain that those laws were barbarous and abominable, than that the Irish peasantry are now deficient in those hardy virtues which good legislation might have fostered. The laws were demoralising, but the laws are abolished and the demoralisation remains. Whether the present faults of the national character are entirely, or only partially, to be ascribed to historical causes, is a point more curious than practically interesting. It is for the friends, and particularly the pastors, of the people to rebuke their follies or their vices, let speculation trace them to what source they may. We see with regret in this part of the episcopal memorial another proof of the unfortunate propensity of Irish men to brood over past grievances, rather than apply themselves with stout hearts to the contest with actual disorders. A pastoral appeal to all classes of the people upon the duty of industry and the cardinal virtue of independence, would at least be a proper accompaniment of a prelatical discourse on the penal laws. Lord CLARENDON does not deny that history may be referred to with great advantage, that there is a profitable application to be made of its lessons. He observes upon this part of the subject— The eternal principle of judo. and Christian morality can never be violated with impunity, and the unrighteous legis lation of by-gone times has left traces which must be long and severely felt. By penal enactments, doubtless, industry