The Express. — London, England, 1851-06-18 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 18, 1851. ms . 7lleifffirilie In Millie so) in regard to many of the peace which did honour to him and to the country in which rnrGni i_eltielt Ise had from time to time ex- they were proclaimed ; but he should njeet to being sent s that th—lietwever little he might think the bound and uttered into a negotiation through whisk, be w eb& by whielt be endeavoured to give practical effect to confessed, he could not see a practical way—not leans* be leis gemend prinhples were the best calculated to attain his objected to the end which the hon. member to m g.... in !void to his international principles and accomplish, but because he thought that e was sore agge klegnnend feelings which influenced his political likely to be accelerated by the language of the bon. ms- Anus se dm advocate of peace, be (the noble lord) was ber and by the sentiments which he and the boric were ex any to do the most ample justice, u well as to subscribe to pressing, than it would be by the particular and to gra general tendency. (Hear, hear.) He trusted motion which he had now submitted. (Hear, hear .) On gin while it had been his lot to take the those grenade he trusted that his hon. friend would be ehmlahtration of one department of the affairs of this satisfied with the expression of approbation which his sea there had been nothing in his conduct in any timents had met with from the house, and with the eon inconsistent with the opinions that he now ex- currence of the government, in the molt ardent desire gessird. (Loud cheers.) However easy it might be for which any mast in the country or the world could entertain, Ism gnitlemen, in that jaunty way in which these ques- that the govereasis of this country and of ell other fla gmen* been discussed, to talk of intermeddling, he could Lions, as far m their influence and power of 'on ea st hut appeal to the facts to show that during the consider- tended, might seek to avert, as long as they lap an thing s able period he had been responsible for the foreign affairs to do with the affairs of this cottony, the map of this country—although events had happened in Europe calamities of war. (Cheers.) He Mimed the ben. member of a most remarkable kind—(cheers)—attended with great would be content with thnt, and would not press Ws meths commotion in the public feeling, and great agitation in the to • division, which might be liable to othemeleintiga. social and political gastrin of Europe—although during He begged to assure the house that in futon, se Mess that period events had happened which had brought the fore, the exertions of her Majesty's government wrild.be interests of this country, if not into conflict, at least into directed to the maintenance of peace and weir. (Haar, opposition, with those of other great and powerful nations hear.) He should say that the exocrienee of meant times —it had at least been a fact that we had been at peace. was highly encouraging to all who wished for the minima (Cheers.) Not only hail peace been preserved between this nee of that peace. (Hear, hear.) He agreed with the country and other nations, but there hail been no interns- hon. gentleman that the diffusion of constitutional govern flout wars of any magnitude between the other runt throughout Europe should tend to the maintenance great powers of Europe. (Cheers.) If, then, they of general tranquillity. There was a growing disposition were taunted with perpetual interference, end in- throughout Europe to settle the quarrels and differences of termeddling with the concerns of other countries, nations by means of amicable treaty and negotiation. at least they ought to have the credit, that their inter- (Hear, hear.) In the last year they had a strong me ddling had been attended with peace between those proof o f that, when the mighty military governments of countries. ( Bear , hear.) They could not be accused on Prussia and Austria were arming and calling out each its the one hand of interfering constantly in all the transactions hundreds of thousands of men, who, though on the point of other countries, and at the same time be denied the ere- of making war upon each other, nevertheless, by the ope dit of the results of their polies. (Cheers.) They ought ration and effect of good sense and reason in their prelimi not to tie their eyes solely on a great object and not pay nary communications, terminated their dispute—though some attention to the mail by which that object was to be nearly in hostile conflict—without the shedding of one drop arrived at. If all nations were composed of men guided of blood. (Hear, hear.) Therefore be should say the pro by the most philosophic and philanthropic spirit, exempt gress of civilisation in Europe was encouraging II ON= from all selfish feeling., and ;Ode to take the most enlarged who attached importance to the maintenance of press; and and extensive views of human affair., a country might per- he assured the house her Majesty's ministers were as ham he perfectly safe in announcing that it was entirely anxious as they could be not only to preserve this country unarmed, and by throwing its If upon the good feeling of from the calamities of war, but also to exert that influent the other nation.% assuring them that they had none but the which belonged to • country like England, on every most friendly dispositions towards them. (Cheers.) But occasion, to save other countries from such miser= ' the world had not arrived at that pitch of civilisation when calamities. (Cheers.) a country possessed of en many objects of desire by other Mr. ROEBUCK said, that whilst awarding admiration contriescouldrestitinecuritysimply upon itsgood intentions. to the avowals of the noble lord who had just sat down, he The objection he took to his hon. friend's proposal was that should observe that he had not net the proposition of his he aimed too much at divesting this country of its means of hon. friend the member for the West Riding. The noble defence, without waiting till other countries had pieced lord said he coincided in the object of the hon. member. thernselsee in a similar poition. Ile put the comparison of Now let them see. Heretofore his hon. friend (Mr. Cobden) military means wholly out of the question, and confined his dealt in large and extended views as to the pacific disponi motion simply to the comparison of naval resources. But Lion of mankind: at present he did no such thing. He it was impossible to throw out of question the military came down with • practical proposition. clear, defi force of Freese, because if unfortunately any event should nice, and very easy of attainment. (Hear, hear.) The arise which brought the two couutrics into hostile conflict, noble lord (Lord Palmerston) hail adverted to the adran tWo countries so near each other, and brought so much tagcs of general peace ; but it was not enough that France nearer by the modern improvements of nae notion, it was and England should be shaking hands with such impossible not to see that the country which possessed other, what was wanted was to strip the method an army of 3.10,000 men, and a national guard glove from the hand of each. (Hear, hear.) The of about a million as compared with a country hon. member for the West Riding refer red not to the whose standing military force a ithin the realm was armament of France, as evidenced in her internal govern. something like 40,000 men without any militia or ment, required as it was for internal defence, as it was national guard at all—it was impossible, in considering the called, but, as he believed, fur keeping down their own means of defence in this country, to confine it simply to the people. (Hear, hear.) His hon. friend said be did not number of line-of-battle ships ; they must also coitoder the intend to interfere with these internal regulating, end ally milit my means which both possessed. The hon. member's meant to deal with the means and powers of eggrenkm— ' mat had carried him a little too far when he talked of Cher- the navies of both countries. (Hear, hear.) If there was a bourg Si a simple port of refuge, and spoke of the works fee against whom they might reasonably prepare, it was proposed at Alderney as an insult and a menace to France. the 20 millions on the other side of the Atlantic ' possessing (Hear, hear.) The whole island of Alderney would only as they did a great commercial marine capable rat any time of accommodate a garrison of about a hundred, and the har- being converted into a warlike armament. He (Mr. Roebuck) boor would contain but a few steamers. The him. member saw no reason why an understandingcouldnot be arrived at as might as well speak of the aggression of a sentry box against to the policy to he pursued by England and France in the a fortified town. (Cheers and laughter.) Cherbourg was number of vessels each should keep afloat in the Mediterra a great naval arsenal ; the report which the hon. gentleman nean and Black Seas, as was arrived at by the good sense of had referred to stated that the works there had been in the English and Americans ' as to the number of vessels of progress nearly i 0 years, and that between seven and eight war to be kept afloat in the Canadian lakes and the Ontario. millions sterling had been expended on them. Its value (Hear, hear.) They only required that the noble toed was represented as consisting in its being an advanced post should take these common-sense views into consideration, within 60 miles of the English Neat, incapable of and address them to the people of France, who would not being blockaded, and therefore in war a most important fail to acknowledge them. (Hear.) Why not say to point of attack or aggression towards England. lie wished France—" We do not etc why we should go on inereas not to exagaerate the relative means of attack of France, ing our war establiehments ;we intend to decrease them; will still lees to imply that the continuance of these or any other you do the same?" The resolution was not founded on fear; works was to be considered by this country as an indica- it simply . desired peace. There was nothing of an abstract hen of any hostile feeling on the part of k ranee. (Hear.) nature in the resolution. It simply requested of the noble He utteriy disclaimed any . such belief. (Cheers.) He was lord to be the harbinger of peace, and, armed in the esseineed that the great intercourse which had taken place majesty of peace, to offer to other nations all the benefits'' of late years between the people of the two countries had which civilisation and tranquillity could confer. (Cheers.) dispelled many prejudices, and removed many foolish hoe- After a few words from Mr. I, Mal HART, tile feelings, which bed long survived the causes that had Mr. M. GIBSON cordially agreed with the hon. member given rise to them. (Hear, herr) It was one of the most for Sheffield in paying a tribute of app robation to the speech gratifying circumstances of the times in which we lived to of the noble lord the Secretary for I oreign Affair. The ere two great nation., close to each other, each gifted by hon. member for the West Riding had no reason to nature with various qualities, entitling them to the esteem, consider that speech a hostile one. (Hear, hear.) On the friendship, and admiration of each other, capable of ren- contrary , he was entitled to feel that its tone. and the dering to each other the most important services , capable admissions it contained were very much in the direction of also, if actuated by fatal paseimui, of inflicting on each the resolution. But if there was anything to complain of other the greatest calamities—it was gratifying to see that in the speech of the noble lord, it was rather that of omit every day that passed, every month and year that elapsed, tine to give any approval of the precise object which the brought those two countries into Inure general and friendly hon. member for the West Riding had in view, that pre contact, and that feelings of mutual friendship and esteem cise object being a reduction of armaments and then a were rapidly !succeeding to those antiquated notions of reduction of taxation—a reduction of armaments brought national antipathy of which, he trusted, very soon nothing about by means which would not affect the position would remain except the record in the past history of the of this country, which would leave her in as good a two countries. (Cheers.) But if a great and rich country position to repel attack as she was before, and would not like this wished to maintain peace and friendship with a leave her to the necessity of depending upon what the powerful state, it mist take care to be enabled to defend noble lord deprecated—namely, upon the forbearance of itself. (hear, hear.) lie did nut ask the country to arm foreign countries, seeing that she offered great temptations itself with the means of aggression. lie would not wish either to the ambition or avarice of other nations. Thc that there should lie anything in our arrangements in proposition did not invite the house to depend on the for time of peace which should indicate an intention of ag- bearance of any country. It did not ask them to place the greseion, or even appear to a Frenchman as affording the country in a position in which she would be unable to means of aggression against France. England had no repel attack, but it merely asked the noble feeling which would lead to such a course, and he should lord to act now in reference to the reduction be the last man to wish that anything we did should be of the force precisely upon the lame principle capable of that interpretation. On the other hand, it was on which he himself hail acted with reference to its in a duty we owed to ours-Ives, to those functions which Pro- crease, and when, France having increased her force, he videitechaildestineel this country to perform,and to those who frilled upon the house to increase ours and supported an were to succeed us—to place and keep this country in a address to the crown for that purpose. The mode adopted position to be able to repel attack, if' by any unfortunate or by the noble lord for increasing the force was precisely the unforeseeneircurnstmice such necessity should arise. Hishon one now adopted by the hon. member for the West Riding friend (Mr. Cobden) hail naturally seen that his for decreasing it ; and therefore it could not be called an proposal was open to the objection that England and France improper one. (Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Gibson) would were not the only naval powers in theworld,and that either give no advice to his hon. friend as to whether he power might urge in reply to such a proposal from the should or should not divide the house upon the other, that there were other considerations hy which their motion ; but, if he divided, he should have his respective arrangements must he guided. Reference cordial support. (Hear.) He thought the house ought hail been made to a debate in the French Chem- to have rather more of a clear understanding that the noble her in 1816, on an augmentation of their naval lord would practically undertake to do the things which force, suggested, as the hon. gentleman contended, they were anxious should be accomplished. It was not 'by our augmentations • but the great disposable naval enough to make a speech showing the general advantages force of England at that time consisted only of the two of peace and the dangers that might arise from the possi ships he bad specified. That debate, which it was his for- batty of war. lie hoped that as the noble lord had said he tour to hear, had turned upon this ; the government pro- agreed in the end now proposed he would undertake to enter posd 40 sail of the line as the permanent force, not all to on communication' with France with a view to a mutual be in commission, but including launched and unlaunched ; reduction of armaments. He wished the noble lord could and M. Thiers and those who opposed the government have told them that he had ever entered into such commu wanted to have 42. The honourable member (Mr. flimflams with France. (hear, hear.) A more absurd Cohelen) had stated, as an illustration of what he statement could not have been made than that about the should wish, that a convention hail been concluded breakwater at Cherbourg, for that so-called breakwater was between this country and the United States for regu- a mere dyke. toting the amount of force which each power should Lord PAL maintain on the internal lakes of North America—a wise basins there. and good arrangement, and which bad worked very advan- Mr. GIBSON had never heard any one offer a word in tageouely so far. But there was a great and manifest dis- defence of our works at Alderney, where a sum of 600,0001. tinction between inland lakes and the seas of the world— had been thrown into the sea. They were called (hear. hear)—a distinction recognised in this case; defensive works! Defensive of what? Was the pier for having made that arrangement as to inland defensive of the cows ? ("Hear, hear," and laughter.) lakes, these two powers did not make it u to They had made these works for the reception of war the seas of the world. For the same reason, steamers, in order that they might the more easily make an England and France had no hope or expectation of coming aggression on France, and France viewed them in that to any such arrangement with regard to their naval forces, light. (Hear.) He hoped the right hon. gentleman the the amount of which was calculated on a great variety of First Lord of the Admiralty would give them a more defi circumstancee•, and though the relative force of the two nits assurance than had been expressed by the noble lord, countries might be' a main consideration, it was by no means that communications would be commenced with France for the only one in determining it. On entering into such a the purpose of procuring a mutual reduction of armaments. acgotistion especially with the address from this house ( hear.) proposed, he should feel that it could not be dome with After a few words from Sir H. VTANIIT, any practical result. He was ready to adopt the motion Mr. BROTIIERTON expressed his gratification at the and the speech of the hon. member. as the expression of an sentiments expressed by the noble lord, and would reeom influential member, responded to, he should hope—if the mend his hon. friend not to press the house to a division hon. member acquiesced in the a rrangement—by the una- as he thought the discussion would produce greater effeci nimous feeling of the whole House of Commons, as the ex- in Europe if there were no appearance of division in the premien of a hope that the relations between France and house. (Hear.) Englandwould be—nay, must be (if common sense actuated Mr. HUMS said it was desirable that the house should those who had the management of affairs on both sides), as be unanimous on the present occasion. He understood far as human foresight could go, friendly towards each from the noble lord that he approved of the motion other; that those mutual suspicions and reciprocal jea- of his honourable friend, and, if so, he thought (sales which had from time to time misled the cal- that the noble lord should accept the motion. eulations of both countries, would disappear ; and Ile entreated the noble lord to reconsider his decision. that mutual confidence would take the place of Sir H. Inglis, Mr. Clench, and Mr. Lovcdeo, having reciprocal distrust. (hear, hear.) His hon. friend had a spoken, little exaggerated the want of information which either Mr. COBDEN consented to withdraw his resolution, party possessed as to the arrangements of the other. It trusting that the discussion it had elicited might produce was not necessary to send out the spies he had spoken of ; a good effect, and that the foreign secretary would carry for, in regard to our nasal arrangements, nothing more was out in practice the sentiments he hadexpressed in his speech. necessary than to read the debates in that house, or look at Lord PALMERSTON guarded against future Willis* the estimate's, to know how matters stood ; and there was ception by repeating the terms in which he Red given his no greater secresy with regard to the naval slain of France. partial concurrence in the proposition of the hemounie He accepted with pleasure the speech and proposal of member. lie entirely concurred with the prineiple and the hon. member provided it had not been preen ied n a object of the honourable member's motion, * kWh 11111 con way which he thought would very much defeat its object. cetved to be not only the maintenance of pales with He accepted it with pleasure, as the right hand of fellow- France, but the inspiring between the two powers and the ship tendered by this country to France—(cheers)—and two governments those principles of matted senildneee he agreed in thinking that there could not have been a which would put an end to jealousies. He eMosted as the more appropriate time than the _present for a deraonstration motion because he believed it wits act the hest amass of of this kind. (Hear, hear.) We had now converted this arriving at the result. He begged not to le unimmeed country into a temple of peace for the whole world. as undertaking that the government would enter inn me.- (Cheers.) We had invited the natives of every civilised dation. They would consider themselves perfeedy trio le land on the face of the earth to come here, not to a mere use their own discretion according to circumstaasee ; hat rivalship in strength. or brute force, or the the object at which they would aim would be that whisk arts of human destruction ; but to compare the he had stated to be their guiding principle. (Hear, hear.) ress which each nation had made in those The motion was then withdrawn. arts which constituted the happiassi and the ors- THE BIBLE MONOPOLY. meet of the human race. (Cheers.) It was certainly a Mr. HUME moved an address to thecrown, to cancel the pond year for the country—proud in seerypossiblereepect, patent now granted to the Queen's printers, conferring a mo p regarded a greet and mighty nation. (Hear, hear.) And nopoly of printing Bibles and Prayer-books in Ragland and no less was it a satisfaction to see the confidence reposed in Ireland. In Scotland the monopoly of the printing°, theßible this country by those who brought themselves and their was abolished in 1839, and the fears then expressed that the goods to this great and mighty Exhibition. (Hear, hear.) text would be corrupts/la consequence had proved ground- It was no less a source of honest pride to us to know that Ins. It hadheen prolli tO the COMlllattet up stairs thet in an nothing had more struck the strangers who had done us the edition at the Bible plotted by this Queen's printer, noise honour of visiting us, than the spirit of order which they than 12,00 snore bed moaned. The monopoly thrashing had observed to pervade every rank of society in this did not ammo dr mouth Olathe of the scriptures. An country—(hear, hear)—the wonder they had expressed at Americas bed hogs ossmin - I blithe committee, whose ed ucing the respect for the laws, which was the spontaneous dence Warne* to POP* eget Ilf the monopoly ware dens feeling from the highest to the lowest in this land, arising away within, gehrommhibomillatilleheepmedinhigtho from the comparative excellence of those laws (he did not textwonld net be logs assusalely Field. The ,in mean to say they were perfect, any move than any other held, engendered earelesineis, and was net. se human institution), which secured to every man, from the conducive to correct printing as • fair and opth highest to the lowest, the full enjoyment of the honest The motion was seconded by Mr. COWL.‘, and ripper* fruits of his industry, and which protected him against by Sir G. GRIST, who observed that the patents in quashes opm , ssion from above or insult from below. (Hear, could not be revoked except by an enact of parliament. hem.) He was glad the hon. member had takes advents", Sir R. INGLIS also opposed the motinn. I this general meeting of the world lin to peoclim bit. HUME would not divide the home at that herft. 311.4 Pa in parliament those principles duniversal All he could say was—let him not hear any more of brie said that hi allusion was to the Majesty's government being arsine's of ' instruc tion among the people. Rs would v next session, if he lived, bring in a bill to enforce reform. The resolution was then negatived by consent. Tim Lodging-bosses Bill was postponed to Friday. The Survey of Great Britain Bill was read a third time. The Court of Chaaerrr (Ireland) Regulation Act Amend ment Bill Ina read a third time. The remaining business having been disposed of, the house adjourned at a quarter to one o'clock. PAIR-S.—Sir A. Brooke paired off on Monday against the grant for Maynooth College repairs with Sir R. Howard in favour; Mr. Plowden against, with Mr. Mackinnon for; Mr. Monts against with Dr. Power for ; Mr. W. H. Hamil ton against with Sir D. Norreys for; Col. Chatterton paired off on Monday with Col. Estcourt for the night. Lord A. Lennox paired, in favour of Mr. Spooner 's motion, on Maynooth, with /Ir. Smythe, against ,• Mr.Ooddard paired, against the grant to Maynooth, with Mr. E. lieneage, for ; the lion. E. S. Hassell paired in favour of the grant for Maynooth, with the Hon. Colonel Forester against. TO the INDEPENDENT ELECTORS of 6,1 Mw et ulannos. OXIMISSIVI.I ban JIMS Wee este weft newt ef tM midst doll+ armor tesissesa eftremistfte. Itr. Ilftess& I isle fte egftftsuift leemit pee OW, le teamed M Nftamdisindodat am Is Ws, =reit Am the nftrifteftiM left inftereft leteftft tf tee Mire et Ousesess. I dui sergpt pes at Se NmerNW ftiftm& iftl iftestrAlk fta I, Great Osiebelft4elem ftb MOMS pselr. gl an) !SALOMON& 'resift' Maxim JIM IL the 45)4000. I po.end Enka fb;iriereea.7o;atise Nam wevalree Quetta." Y pubilehed every ?sudsy aad Friday Mitt, hi U. for poet. adontweseata Intended Ibr The Farem," Leaks Beady, paw, aunt be at the Mee, Is, Boovertastreet. by Two Web& ea the day et pabdoetica. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tsis 1.43-11orame. 4h. .Aftersomb Db. lOU. To•notao•r—llofebs, sb. 3sm Atterebas, lA. Om LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18. AT no season of the year arc the hopes or fears of the husbandman so easily excited as at the present, and there never was a period, within living memory at all events, when the future state and progress of Eng lish agriculture were so completely within the control of the owners and occupiers of land as at this mo ment. We have gone through a crisis of some seve rity, if not peril, and we have come through it with less of actual suffering and disaster than usually attends the transition of a protected interest to a state of free and open competition. The period of trial is past. All the doubtful circumstances—the apparently endless fall of prices, which made the boldest amongst us, who had not faith in sound principle, quail—have given place to more cheerful views and more hopeful anticipations. Believing that free trade in all the products ot agriculture will be found to be the basis of great and enduring prosperity to the British husbandman, we do not deny that to the change of system from protection to five-trade, with the accompanying cir cumstances, very much of the recent agricultural depression is due. And that not because our farmers are unable to compete with the producers of food in all or any parts of the world. On the contrary, every one who has watched dispassionately the amount of capital, energy, and intelligence which is now applied to agriculture in all parts of England, will be convinced that wheat and meat can be pro duced at less cost in this country than they can be brought for from anywhere else. If three-fourths of the soil of England were as well cultivated as are the arms of our best farmers, there would be, in seasons of moderate abundance, but little room in our mar kets for the competition of foreign grain growers. 'flint the greater part of our soil is not thus well cultivated is attnbutable to a number of complex causes, which we need not now stop to enumerate. The high prices which obtained here in 1847 pro bably led to larger importations of foreign corn than will be made when the trade has become settled, and the ordinary wants of our markets more exactly known ; for it is notorious that a great proportion of these importations have been the reverse of profitable. This produced a rapid and long-continued fall of prices, so that all dealers and millers became unwil ling to purchase more than they required to supply their immediate wants, finding it better to resort to the markets, which came lower and lower, than to risk their capital in large purchases. All speculative purchases, all that investment of capital in holding grain with the expectation of a profit, all those in termediate operations between the producer and con sumer, which usually take place in all commodities of general use in this country, suddenly ceased; and ceased mainly because there was an influential party amongst us who spared no pains and hesitated at no assertions likely to spread terror and dismay amongst the agricultural body. To the unscrupulous conduct of the protectionist politicians, is to be attributed a large share of the depression which the agricultural interest has lately endured ; and, concurrently with this, we have had two indifferent crops out of three. 'rho crop of 1848 was a bad one, and for the losses sustained to that year the produce of 1819 scarcely afforded a compensation, while the following. year, 18.50, barely enabled the farmer in the best districts to hold his own ; in many districts, such as the fens and some others, last year's crop was a total failure. And everywhere the yield of corn wheat especially from last year's crop has been less than the farmers calculated upon obtaining according to the appear aace of the growing corn. That is always the effect when the sprang is cold and the summer sunless, as was the case last year. Another cause of the pressure of foreign grain on our market is to be found in the political and social disturbance of the continental nations. For instance, the large supply of flour we have received from Franco has been a matter of surprise to every one. Franco was believed to be an importing, not an ex porting nation, so far as regards wheat. An open trade, however, has disclosed a source of supply not before much thought of, and it has also disclosed a fact that in the manufacture of flour the French millers arc considerably in advance of our own, a supe riority, however, which it is very unlikely they will long retain. But the chief cause of the large sup plies of flour received from France lies in the anni hilation which has there taken place of the inter mediate trade in corn. Amongst a population so poor and ignorant as the majority of the French agriculturists, and so imbued with communistic and antisocial crotchets as the working classes of their towns, the dealers in corn are regarded with an evil eye, just as the same useful class of traders were treated as "forestallers and regraters " scarcely a century ago. The consequence is that, since the revolution of 1848 no intermediate dealing in corn has taken place; to store up corn in the hope of making a profit—the best and cheapest public granary a nation can have—is a business no man will venture on, lest in some popular outbreak his corn store may render him a mark for the vengeance of turbulent ignorance. Hence, the millers grind and export their flour with all possible despatch, the result being a very low price of corn in France and a more than due pressure of French flour on our market. Such a state of things, however, could not be per manent. Already, the price of corn and flour in France have shown signs of considerable advance ; already many of her statesmen and economists re gard with feelings of anxiety and alarm the absence, the unusual absence, of any stock of grain in that country, and are lo oking with satisfaction to the fact that there is some store of corn no farther from their shores than Liverpool and London. Published accounts corroborate this view which we have received from private and reliable sources. The review of the foreign corn trade of the :hark-lane Express of last Monday says : In the French markets the prices of wheat and flour have steadily advanced of late, and the most recent reports from thence speak confidently of a further rise. We have heard of more than one instance of spe culative purchases of corn in France by capitalists in this country, and should such operations take place to even a moderate extent a considerable rise in prices is certain. For some time our own markets have been getting firmer, and aro now gradually rising, and that, too, with a good promise from our growing crops. Everywhere the wheat is looking more gene rally healthy and vigorous than it has been for seve ral years, while the rain which has fallen during the present week—from June the 9th to 14th—will secure a full plant of barley and oats. And all con temporary accounts are of the same tenor. The Mark-lane Ezpreu, in reference to the cora trade, alp : The reports relative to the wheat plant are, with very few exceptions, favourable. . . . The firm tone which the grain tnde has lately assumed must, therefore, be sari hated to the belief that stocks have been so far reduced as to render our position somewhat questionable, in case the harvest should prove late or the supplies from abroad fall off materially. And on Monday last there was an advance on the price at wheat in Mark-lane of from ls. to 2a. per quarter. If we can rely on our own observation and infor mation, the etc& of wheat in the hands of farmers is less than an average ono at this season, and the holders are camparatively few in number. The in different yield of last year's crop, and the pressure I the majority of farmers have been under for money, will amply account for this. If such be the prospects with respect to grain, they are no lees • with respect to grass, however tardy the mason for th it and corn. Wool has for some time held well. The prices of store sheep or mutton have advanced considerably. All sheep bmght within a year have paid extremely well. There ni something else too that sells better than it used to do. And that is labour. We take by chance the following notice from the agricultural Papers - - Penybout fair.—At our May fair there was a good supply of cattle, which readily sold at an adsauced price. The hiriug fair was crowded; servants of all descriptions asked higher wages, and a number were hired at more money than Met yea►, notwithstanding the depressed state of agriculture. This is, perhaps, the most decisive practical answer to all the lugubrious predictions we have heard of late as to the state of agriculture. There never was a time when so much well considered and determined enterprise was directed towards husbandry in England as is the case at this moment. And this enterprise mainly dates from the period when the system of cockering up prices by means of protec tion virtually came to an end; vie., in 1836, when the last committee on agricultural distress sat, and were unable to agree to any report, because the evi dence only justified a free-trade report, and the majority of the members were protectionists. But the evidence alone did its work on the minds of the more in itelligent owners and occupiers of land, who from that time set to work to advance their own interests in the only sound and safe way, that is by improve ments. The anti-corn-law league was only the na tural result of the exposure the monopolist stl ton underwent in the committee of 1836. 'the harvest was then ripe for the sickle, the free-traders were only the labourers wko reaped the grain. It is impossible but that even the retrograde farmers and recalcitrant landlords should open their eyes to a mass of facts and circumstances all testify ing one way, and showing that agriculturists can have and can need no other way to prosperity than free-trade. IT appears from the abstract of the Census returns which we published yesterday, that the total popula tion of Great Britain and the islands in the British seas, is nearly a million more than the free population of all the United States. The total population of the United States, according to the census of 1850 (as we , announced a week or two ago) is 23,267,498 ; if from this we deduct 3,179,589, the total number of slaves, we have 20,087,909. The total population of Great , Britain and the islands in the British sea, according to the census of 1851, is 20,919,531. In our little island alone (and its little appendages) is concen trated a population more numerous than is scattered over the vast regions of the Union. This crowding has its disadvantages, doubtless, but it has also its compensating advantages. The great emporiums of the United States—New York, for example—present pretty much the same features as our own crowded marts. In New York, as in Lon don or Liverpool, the moat squalid destitution elbows enormous wealth, the must degraded ruffianism, high intellect, and irreproachable morals. But over the greater part of the Union—New England, perhaps, excepted—fewer individuals experience any . difficulty in obtaining a livelihood—absolute pauperism is less known than in Great Britain. It may be doubted, however, whether the middle classes of Great Britain, or even the skilled artisans, would be content to rough it in the manner that the corresponding classes in the United States do, outside of those localities, which, as has been remarked above, are mere cowl• terparts of our large cities. And, undoubtedly, the aggregate property of the twenty millions who in habit Great Britain far exceeds that of the twenty million freemen of the North American Republic, even though their slaves are to be taken into account. The luxuries of art and intellect, to say nothing of more vulgar luxuries, are enjoyed to a greater amount, with greater intensity, and by a wider "select" public in this country than in Ame rica. The quantity of human happiness is in both countries nearly the same—the balance may turn , slightly in favour of America, but the quality excels , here. This is an inference from other data than those as yet furnished by the returns of the last census in either country. Indeed, the mere numerical returns of any census can go but a short way to decide the delicate and all-important question upon which we have touched. But the abstracts of the lust censuses of the two countries, as yet published, arc too meagre (especially: the abstract of our own) to warrant de cided conclusions of any kind. As yet we are only in possession of the aggregate number of inhabitants of England, Scotland, and the islands of the British sea. The comparative num bers of males and females—the ratio of increase since 1841—and the comparative numbers of houses, in habited and uninhabited, in 18d1 and 1841. This is a scanty basis whereon to erect theories, even if it were complete in itself. But until we obtain the same information relative to Ireland, it is miserably incomplete. To enable us to estimate the actual condition of the central empire, the progress it has made during the last decade, we must be in posses sion of the returns from the less fortunate sister island. To the indefatigable and intelligent Chamberlain of Glasgow we arc indebted for more full details of the results of the census in that city, and the country of which it is the head, than we have yet been able to obtain front any other quarter. Dr. STRANG has already published an able and elaborate report of the census of the city and its suburbs, and has appended to it a mere summary bat intelligent report of the country census, by Mr. P. T. YOUNG, to whom the superintendence of the census of Lanarkshire was entrusted by the sheriff. Many of the results embo died in these two documeats appear to be of an ex ceptional nature ; still they are curious, and worthy of attention. It appears from a table prepared by Dr. STRANG, to show the population of Glasgow and its suburbs classified according to the country of nativity, that among 353,220 inhabitants there are 279,454 born in Scotland, 8,615 born in England, 62,925 born in Ireland, 1,036 born in the colonies, 769 foreigners, and 421 whoso origin has not been ascertained. It is to the Irish element of this mixed population we would direct attention ; Dr. STRANG observes on this head: The result of the present census appears to be that the Irish bear to the gross population 2.07 per cent. more than they did to that of 1841 ; but this last cipher gives no ade quate idea of the increase of those who may be strictly considered as belonging to Ireland, and who are domiciled within the limits of Glasgow and its suburbs. Within the last ten years, the children born here of Irish parents have been very numerous ; but these, of course, are all put under the head of Scotch. While, therefore, there appears only to be an increase of 2.07 per cent. in the present enumera tion, above that which the Irish bore to the population of 1841, the real number of inhabitants who are imbued with Irish characteristics, habits, feelings, and religious senti ments is infinitely greater. It is confidently anticipated that the returns of the Irish census will show in a startling manner the effects of the years of famine and sickness by which Ireland has been subjected. But Irish back going will not be a mere off-set to English advance ; the mere rapid ratio of the increase of the Irish por tion of' the population in Glasgow is one of the re sults of Irish distress. Suffering in Ireland accele rates the Iftliernisation which certain districts of England and Scotland are undergoing. The following remark by Mr. YouxG, bears not on the city of Glasgow, but the other parts of the county of Lanark. It presents an unexpected state of affairs : It is rather a singular fact also, that although there has been an increase on the whole country since 1841, of no ler than 98,015 souls, the increase of females over males is much less in proportion than it was in 1841. In 1841, with a population of 434,099, the excess of females over males was 11,105, while at the present census, with a population of 532,114, the excess is only 13,668, or 2,563 more than it was in 1841. • • • In several of the parishes in the country and other burghs (Glasgow excepted) the excess of females is comparatively trifling, and in others there is an excess of males, and upon the three 'wards of the country taken as a whole, exclusive of Glasgow, there is a consider able preponderance of males over females, particularly in the middle ward. . The last feature of the Glasgow Census, to which we would direct attention at present, is the state of education. Dr. STRANG estimates that of 21,108 children between five and ten years of age, there aro only about 6,000 or 7,000 who have not received some education. This is bad enough, but not nearly so bad as might have been expected. Glasgow, however, the scene of the labours of Dr. Cibtxxxits, is an exceptional locality. Dr. STRAND intimates that "the increased seal of ecclesiastical educationists, as well as of general philanthropists," has contributed largely to diminish the educational destitution of Glasgow. These influences have not been equally influential in all parts of the kingdom. Besides,the quality of edneation in Glasgow. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE. BALTIC. The United States mail steam-ship Baltic, Captain Comstock, arrived at Liverpool late last night, bring ing the mails and advice. from New York to the 7tti instant, on which day she left that port for England. The Baltic brings 150 passengers and 827,000 dole. in specie on freight. The United States mail steam-ship Pacific, rapt. Nye, with the English mails of the 28th ult., arrived at New York at 11 o'clock on the morning of the 7th. The intelligence by this arrival is three days later than that brought by the Africa. It is stated that the French government arc about to bring a claim of 3,000,000 dole. against that of the United States, for goods confiscated at San Fran cisco for non-compliance with the revenue laws. The receipts from customs in the United States, from July, 18.50, to May, 1831, exhibit an increases of nearly 8,000,000 dollars. A terrible tornado visited the city of Louisville, Kentucky, on the 17th ult. A number of buildings were levelled, and other damage done to property. Cambridge, Massachusetts, had been vis , ted by a fire, which destroyed a great amount of property. The jury . in the case of Scott, who was indicted for aiding in rescuing the fugive slave Shadrach, in Boston, could not agree on the testimony sufficiently to find a verdict; but there was no doubt among them respecting the constitutionality and pro priety of the Fugitive Slave Law. Another of the parties indicted for the same offence was to be put upon his trial on the 9th, to which day the matter was adjourned. The Missouri Republican says that at no period since 1840 has the emigration to Illinois, lowa, Min nesota and Missouri, been so general as this spring. Large accessions are daily made to their popula tion from other states of the Union, and sections of the country which have heretofore been passed by are now rapidly filling up with population. In addition to the tide from other States, greatly increased numbers of foreign emigrants are arriving. Nearly every boat from the south, and frequently boats from tiw Ohio, come crowded to excess with these emigrants. A new morning paper, on the penny system, has been established in Lowell. It is called tho Daily News. Six barges. laden with dressed lumber, were de spatched from Montreal recently, for the United States, two of which proceeded direct to New York, without re-shipment. This is believed to be tho first attempt made for a direct communication inland with NOV York. Business throughout the states is in much the same condition as NI hen the Africa sailed. Accounts from Mexico, published in the New York Herald, intimate that evidences were visible of a project for revolutionising Mexico. Ilavannah letters received at Savannah state that the cry of liberty is to be raised at Cuba on tho 25th inst. f'ARY BIRKENHEAD Docks BILL.—Thc committee on this bill for giving further powers to the Birkenhead Ibck Company met for the first time yesterday. COALWRIPPRita (POST 07 LONDON) BILL.—The com mittee met yesterday on this measure, which is opposed by several of the railway companies, on account of certain powers sought for with reference to railway-borne coals. "ARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF COMMONS. MALT TAX. Morrow made, sad quoit= pat, "Ti*,O Gated alter the 10th day of October, 1132, ome.hall of the oak tad be repealed." (Yr. Bea.) The house d.vaded . Aye,. 31 ; NGa, 76. AYES. Borrow W. 11. Galway, Viscount Soholetleld, W. Bennet , Pithip thipiu. Odunri Spooner, lbehard Covey, FAward 8. Raiford, Sir H. Ptaniry, W.dosrd Chikl, ?Minh 11.1 , ew..11, E 0. Urquhart, Dertd Cubbold, Joba C. Hatay, Thomas P. Wsodisptoa, IL B. Oodrington, SU W. Jolliet*, sir W. 0. IL Welder, Mums' Colvilo, Marks B. Kettuog, It .Merl Williams, William Cabin, William Leonduun, Van:mutt Drummond, Henry Monis r, Tbomss TELLW. Farnham, Edward B. O'Connor, Isamu Bass, WT. Palos, William Prim., Itathard Moak, Manus Penns, Iliad's W. balway, Cotrual . . NOES. Adair, R. A. 8. French, Vitssteptfen Price, gir Robert Anson, nos. Colonel Gesch, Chines Ricardo. Osman Imbue, M. Ho. IL T. Gib-on, Rt. IIo.T. H. Rich. Ilene Baring, Iln. Mr P. T. Granger, Omar C. Richard.. Riegle , ' • Bell, Jacob Gratifell. C. P. Roebuck, John A. Bellew. IPcbard K. Orey, Rt. lin. Sir O. Russell, F. C. H. Benttnek, Lard H. Gray, Ralph W. Bandar., Owego Birch, air Thomas B. Harris, nichard Smith, John B. Boyd, John Hatch, 11, lit lion. J. Somerville, Sir W. Hot le. Con, Colowl Hawn, Benjamin Stanton, W. 11. Bright, John Ileyw..rth, Lawiener Stephenson, Robert Brotherton, Joseph Howard, Lod E. S - rit.thuul, -fr 0. Brown, William Home, J. Thompson, Col. Carter, John B. limispbery, Mr. Aid. Towishend, Capt. Comm.n Richard Kershaw. James Trelawny, John 8. Cfchborn, ow A. J. E. Lewitt, George C. Verney, Sir Barry Cowie r, lion. W. P. Loved o. Pips Vivian, John P. Craig, Sir William 0. Markle. Jobe Wviondey, ItirJosboa Crawford, R. W. Msekinson, W. A. WAsen, J,men (Yowler. Richard B. Mitchell, Thomas A. Wood, Sir Charism Dawes, 'toward Morgan, IL K. 0. Wood, Sir William P. Don.ho, Admiral Motion, lin. E. M. 1.. Young, SlrJohn trundaa, ittiliglir D. Montt, rraneis gibs, John Palmerston, Viscount TELLIOUL Evan,. John Parker, John Ilayter, Rt. dn. W. lereuaon, Sir R. A. Perfect, Robert Bill, Lord Yams Von, William!. Pigington James 'die court. The Duchess of Gloucester visited the Queen yes terday at Buckingham Palace. Prince Albert, attended by the Marquis of Abercorn, Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, and Colonel Bouverie, pre bided yesterday afternoon at the third jubilee meeting of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, held in St. Martin's Hall. lier Majesty and Prince Albert, with the Princess Royal, took a drive yesterday afternoon in an open carriage and four; the equerries in waiting, General Wemyss and Col. Bouverie, attending on horseback. The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, attended by Mr. Birch, visited the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations yesterday morning. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Leiningen, honoured Her Majesty's Theatre with their presence last evening. The royal suite consisted of the Viscounteea Canning, Hon. Matilda Paget, Hon. Mary Seymour, Lord Camoys, General Weinyse, and Colonel Bouverie. The Viscountess Canning has relieved the Countess of Charlemont in her duties as lady-in-waiting to the Queen. The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce and Lord James Murray, honoured lier Majesty's Theatre with her prrence yesterday evening. Lady Augusta Bruce has relieved Lady Fanny Howard in her duties as the lady in waiting on her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. The Rev. J. Curiae, D.D., F. Boasey, M.D., Mr. John Owens, and Mr. W. Stuart—a deputation from a public meeting at Woolwich; Mr. R. ltuegg, Mr. Aslin, Mr. Joseph Cowen, and Mr. John Hammond—a deputation from the commissioners of the parish of Woolwich, Mr. Nukes, solicitor to the commissioners, and Mr. Sargent, their clerk, had an interview yesterday with Sir George Grey at the Home-office. The Cambridge University Commission had a meeting yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. Present—The Bishop of Chester, the Dean of Ely, Professor Sedgwick, and the Rev. W. 11. Bateson (Secretary). A deputation, consisting of the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Mr. Alderman Roe, Sir Lucius O'Brien, M.P., Mr. Grogan, M.P., Mr. G. A. Hamilton, M.P., and Mr. Heron, had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Eschequer at his officeal residence in Downing-street. Mr. Premly had an interview yesterday with the Chan cellor of die Exchequer. Desprehes were received yesterday at the Colonial-office root the Governor of St. Helena. (Prom it night's Gazette.). FOREIGN-OFRICE, JUNE 7.—The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Lord Cowley, K.C.8., lute her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Con federation, to be her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Germanic Confederation. TILE GREAT EXHIBITION.—For the laat two days the Crystal Palace has drawn together a much larger as blage than on any previous occasion. On Monday the visitors numbered 63069, of whom 57,099 paid the shilling entrance fee. The Queen visited the Crystal Palace at an early hour. An observable incident of the day was the pas sage (referred to in yesterday's Espress) of the Victoria and Albert balloon over the building, at so short a distance above it that the guide-line dangled along the roof, and for a moment, by the noise which it made, caused some appre hension of an accident. Yesterday the total number of visitors who had passed in at fl nv o'clock—the last hour at which the account is taken—was 67,681, of whom 63,82'2 paid at the doors. Even this large number had not the ef fect of rendering the building inconveniently crowded, although between twelve and two o'clock, the period dur ing which the greatest numbers sought admission, the tran sept and nave were almost impassable. Gradually, how ever, the vast crowds spread themselves through the courts and along the galleries, and more comfortable moving room was obtained. WATERLOO DAY—This being the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, the usual inspection of the guards took place on the Parade, in St. James's-park, this morning, in the presence of a large assemblage of spectators, including a number of foreigners. The colours had a bunch of laurel at the top, and each of the men and officers had a leaf in his hat. The battalions were put through the usual exer cise, under the inspection of the officers of the regiment. FETE AT CHELSEA HOSPlTAL.—Yesterday, fancy fair and musical demonstration took place in aid of the funds of the Hospital for Consumption, at Brompton. The musical arrangements were made on a scale of unusual magnitude, the bands of the six household regiment; and of the Royal Artillery uniting to form an orchestra of 350 performers, who, occupying a platform specially erected for the occasion in the grand quadrangle, executed a variety of overtures, selections, and marches, from the compositions of Meyerbeer, Donizetti, Weber, Verdi, and others, with great effect. The lawns, avenues, and promenades of the royal foundation were visited by a very large company, and presented a gay appearence. (car the guns which poin to the river a capacious tent was erected for the fancy fair, which was held in conjunction with the concert. The at tractions of this bazaar were displayed under the presidency of the Duchess of Sutherland, the • eases of Stafford and Aiksbury, Viscountess Combermere, Ladies West, Shelley, Foley, and Leigh, Mrs. Kingaley, Mrs. Mont goner!, and Mrs. Rose. The festival is to be continued this day. COURT OP CHANCERY AND JUDICIAL COMMITTEE BlLL.—Yesterday the government bill brought forward by Lord John Russell to improve the administration of justice in the Court of Chancery, and in the Judicial Committee of Privy Council, was printed. There are 20 clauses in tho measure, and its principal features were explained on Thursday night. It is to be read a second time on Friday. Two additional judges, at 8,0001. a-year, are to be appointed. The Lord Chancellor, instead of 14,000/., as Chancellor and Speaker of the House of Lords, is to have 10,0001. a-year, and the Muter of the Rolls 8,0001. The extra expense is to be paid out of the dividends arising from the suitors' fund. The equity judges are to give their attendance at the House of Lords. There is a blank in the bill respect ing the annuities to be given to the judges on their resigna tion. The jurisdiction of the Vice-Chancellor in Bank ruptcy is to be given to the Court of Appeal under this bill. A nngg to a late return the arrears in the Court of Chancery, a u ' Term last, numbered 983 appeals, desnurren, cases, and claims. FURTHER CALLS TO THE BAR.—A further call to the bar of students of the Inner Temple was made yesterday evening, and comprised the followinuerilemen : Edward Pakenham Alderson, of Balliol C Oxford, B.A. ; George Selater , of Ba ll iol College, Oxfo rd, 8.A.; Robert John Sandiford Farrar, Esq. ; and William Gill, Esq. THE PRUSSIAN LEGATION.—His Excellency the Prussian Minister and Madame Hansen had a reception lot night at the Prussian Legation, on Carlton House-terrace. A very brilliant company assembled, and among the visitors yam may foreigners of distinction in the paths of science. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, JcNzy. Government securities have been in demand throughout the week, end prier. have advanced, the menety not equelltog the de mand. Foreign ex...h.ngem firm. Although the tea ,actions for this steamer have not been particularly heavy, sterling h. been sold at 1104 to 110; and 111 0 . Bills on France,o-1 to 5 u 7,; Amsterdam, Ilj to 42; Ilembiugh, ICI to 3.11, Bremen, 79l to 791. The demand for specie continues a etre, ant the Millie will {dumbly take oat 6.41.000 dole. There lam b en a good itclutry for money walay, mostly for remituince by the lea .tie, but the general features of the money market are unchanged, and the wprey abundant as noticed on WedneelLay. Corros.—The cotton market has again been unsettled by the Asia's emtinned unfavourable accounts front abroad, and the nalee effected, to a lair extent, have been at uneven rate+, but gener •Ily at a decline of half Scent ; the reduction has ben on common qua hies. We again revise our quotations t o conform to the present current rate of prices. The receipts at all the shipping ports, 2,196.603 bales, against 1,9 9,623 to same date last year—an increase this season of 267,070 halm. The total foreign extorts this year Is 410,539 bales more than bat-34030 bales increase to Great Britain, 43,5.11 increase to France, 45,422 Metes*. to the north of Europe, and 118,404 Increase to oth• r foreign ports. The shipments from eouttem to northern ports ate 114,017 bales lees this season than last, end there is a decrease in dock of 3.,616 bake, and the sale since our last are 3,000 bales, making a total for ihe week of 4.10 U bales. Wo quote A - Wide torso inferior nominal; Florid., nominal; other Gulf p eits, nominal; low to good ordinary, 6i to 74. 7 to 71; low to good enWeeing, 7/ to 61. 8 to 9, 8 t to 93; middling fair to tell. 9 to 91. 9 1 to 9i, t 0 to 11. Total imports time We let inst., 6,599 bale+. Ex ports, Cram the Ist to ti.e 31st of May, 1851 -Cotten, -13,219 tiles; I tile, :h , , 1,61 bale , . Helmet. Wont the United states since lot Sept, 1850, 16,369; from the same time for 1849, 117,499. Awres.—We have had a steady demand for pits and pearl ashes during the week, with sales 01 700 bbls. of the lormer at 5.11 per lb., and 3 hair. pearl at 4;e. mr lb. Naval. turpenttne scarce, and held at 3 dot*. to 3 dole. 25e. Spirits of turpentine rams from 4 t e. to .1.5 e., the latter for small lots. 1,01 1 0 barrels north country resin sold at 1 dal. 25e. Tar is dull, at Idol. 4110. City pitch, Ido 62e. Ton ...ea.—There has been a limited demand tor leaf this week. We note sake of about 100 Wats. li..ntucky at (ruin lift, to 104 c. ; 30 Maw. County, tram I lee. to 13e.; 30 Maryland, 8;e. to die.; 31 East • Fonda pot, rig.; 614 bales itancoa, at obsut 19e. ; 150 auto Haven. nab, 35e, to dk. ; 4 t ditto Cienfeegos, on private terms. BleAreirtresk, Ac.—No material change In the market. The large supply and limited demand cheeks all spirit fur apeculAttkil, even at ' the present low rates. The Neck of flour variourey estimated from 300,000 to 400,000 barrels Mall kitida, including a out 40,000 barrels of Cimadian corn meat. 3 dole. 124 e. for Jersey :mil Urandywine. PaimaioNs.—Fork dull, and prices have receded. Wales of 1,200 barrels mess were at 15 dole, on time, and nereral hundred barrels at 11 dole. 75e. to It dots. STI cash. In beef there is little ding; mess is nominally 13 dohs see. to 11 dole. for country, and city prime 4 dots. 50e. to 6 dd.. 26c.; prime Mee, is entirely nominal, at IS dais. 50e. to 17 dots. Lard is easier; early is the week, co• enterahle sales were male fur Wiliment., at 9 dole. to 9 dots. 4c. smoked hams, 9 d dn. to 91 dots.; fancy brought 10 dole. to II dots.; shoulders, 7c. In butter and cheese there is nothing of moment. Isola.—The market is dull and unsettled. Scotch pig cold at 19 dots. SOc- ail months, 150 tons; English lees sold at 34 d as., a cargo of 310 tons; Swe'lioh, on terms not transpired; lead, 125 tuns English mold at 4 dole. 25e. cash. kinder) ro Livearnox.—Cotton is taken at 3-16th, to 7.3245.; grain, 41 cents.; tallow and meal, 1.. lid. ; Sear, per barrel, le. 9d.; turpentine, per 24 abs., Is. •, measuremen , good. per on, 311,.; heavy , goods, 225. 6,1. to 25+. To Ilavre cotton, square bales, per lb., Ite.; ashes, per ton, 5 dol+. to 6 dole. To Glasgow: cotton. 5. erde. Naw °ELL\ Nd, June 5. Not much doing in cotton operations. Waiting the Ass's &deices. PORTUGAL Letters dated Lisbon, June 10, have been received in Paris. They state that the Portuguese govern ment, alarmed at the news of the departure of M. Arnao from Madrid, for Paris, and the reported in tention of the Spanish government to interfere in the affairs of Portugal, has demanded with energy ex planations from Al. Galiano, the Spanish minister at Lisbon, whose answer is deemed satisfactory. An official notice has been published in the Diario do Goveroo, declaring that the best harmony prevails between the two governments, without the least desire of intervention on the part of Spain. SPAIN. MADRID, JUNE 12. In the sitting of the chamber to-day, M. Mayans, the ministerial candidate, was appointed president by 141 votes out of 173. Ohmage obtained 23. The vice-presidents elected were Candido Nocedal, San tiago Tejada, Alexandre Castro, and Canga Ar guelles, all ministerial. The ministry intends to present the budget, and the bill for the settlement of the debt. The chamber will appoint the committees; and the Cortes will then adjourn till October ; on the 10th of which month, the Queen's birthday, they will be re-opened. As it will take a month to get through the present business, the day on which the decree proroguing the chambers will be read is expected to coincide with the 10th of July, on which day the Queen's preg nancy is, barring accidents, to be officially pro claimed. Hence all important questions are adjourned till next winter. FRANCE. PARIS, Tessosv EVENING. The ground upon which M. Lemulier supposed himself alluded to in the rough notes of M. earlier was, it appears, his having solicited and obtained from the government the place of director of the Got*line for his friend M. Lacordaire. He lodges in the house which is assigned to the director. Hence be has incurred the suspicion of sharing the profits. M. Lacordaire is the brother of the famous preacher of that name. M. Lemulier was expected to-day to hand in the resignation of his seat in the Assembly ; but up to the present hour he has not taken this step. This is not the only case in which the character of a representative has been recently called in question. M. Colfavrn, a talented member of the Mountain, has been impeached in a meeting of the Left, not only of general misconduct and neglect of his duty as a representative, but he is suspected of betraying to the police information of the secret movements of his party . He was defended by his colleagues of the extreme Left with more zeal than success, and will have to 'clear himself before a jury of honour. The origin of I the reprimand was the negligence of this democratic member, and his absence in the bureaux uponoces sions wherein his vote would have told orisetrir; y • le cog dic A. Vitt 7 ,- #4 11 raj b t s * -; / 1 1.•• SA, i _z4l