The Express. — London, England, 1847-07-27 00:00:00

ll' PRICES C BMlllt. per Mt. WM TAM. W. lialla,ll.P.lonaa3B 0/3-839 Tallow &Grey 40 0 .43 44 0...49 Mauritius, brava 36 0.. 39 Yellow 39 6 . 42 Mee 43 6...46 Blegallt Mahn" la 33 0...36 Yellow 39 0...41 _ 'URRENT. -------- - No. 1. ZO 0... 0 0 Hoope ll 10 . 0 0 Carp steal-Mbar 9 0... 0 0 Swedish ll 10 .. 0 0 Lao, at per tar. Sig, _beat lB 15 10 Mad. sbeet l9 10...50 red or allahua Svelter :0 0 21 1 One, per 132 lap. gal d. Flab, pale 27 1 0.. 24 straw 2O 10 . 0 brown It 'allow 24 0 25 1 86 0...67 rid a llotter B3 0 0 Cad 27 10 0 &adages 24 10 .20 1 Olire,Gallipoll,p.tor 47 0 0 Cocoa Nat 46 0...60 Seed. Rape, pale, per tan 33 16.56 Lateral 27 5..27 1 White 7.3 0 .30 7 brown 23 0.. 37 11 7 4 s 3B 0...19 Grey and white- 40 0...48 brined, Ilambro' 64 0...79 Lamps 38 0...60 Com; in Eked. West WM. ordi nary 35 0... 40 0 Ocad. 45 0. 60 0 ! Fins 7O 0...123 0 Geylen, good rad ian,' 37 8— 38 0 Fine ordinary 39 0... 40 0 Pine 6O 0... 80 0 Mocha, good to thie 34 0... 0 Costa ttka, ordi nary to nue 34 0... 30 0 Sumatra and Pri des( 23 0... 27 I T 0.., at per lb. Congou,oommon 9 0 ... 0 OS Rica, at per cwt. Bengal nhita 180.290 Canl o l4 6... 13 0 Jan. Patna 9O 0.. 24 0 Carona.-. 0... 30 0 .. BM . nr . 24 I=Cad m. Wy Pao. moos, per cwt. Butter—Cork, let 67 0..18 2a4 0 0 0 3nl 0 0... 0 Dublin, let 0 0 0 Limerick, do B5 0..87 Carlow, Ist Newry 83 0...83 Beef, India, per tierces Prime Mere 0 0... 0 Pork, prime mesa._ 83 6...85 13acon-Bork,Lmrk 160 0...02 170., Belfast Bacon, Waterford, per cwt. 72 0...89 Belfast Lard,lielfast,pr frk j 4 0...50 Waterford, do-. ( Ditto Bladder American Rum, On and Cow, at per lb. B. A. and M. Video, Sal 0e.5.1 .0 4 7jd 0 3i Brazil, dry 0 5 .0 61 tad 0 4 .0 4 Lim dry 0 41 .0 5 a& Valp. dry 0 ...0 6 West India, dry 0 4 ...0 5 Belied 0 39 .9 41, Fag India 0 4 ...0 101 Kir, B. Ayres, dry 0 7 ..0 8 Buena, dry 0 61...0 9 0. Aincr.llorse, per hide 3 0...11 8 I Rustic, ditto 6 & 10 6 Doe Wane, at per too. Loprood,Jamoica...Cs 0... 3 19 Honduras 5 5... 3 13 Compeacby 7 10 . 8 10 Punic, Jamaica 5 10...0 10 Nicarr.gua, large and 501i4 .. 9 0...1690.160 Prod .... 2 6 ... 0 0 Demerol% IS to 30 ow oat. o.l' 3 6...4 0 Jamaica, 00 to 36 per mot. O.P. 4 2...4 6 YsTowite marks 3 0 ... 3 6 Broady, Ist broods 4 7 ... 3 3 Britiohspl:lol,d.p. 11 0 .., 0 0 Beata inch ll 0...0 0 PL.:, per ton. 2165,P.T.11. 147 0...54 0 Bt. Petersburg, 9 Ley! 0 0... 0 0 Dutch and Flemish 59 0 . 95 0 Friesland HOU', at per tor. 121.Yeterabarg,cleanC 41 8..42 5a1•1404 ....... 38 0... 0 kW dean 3l 0...33 31142tktaa 0 0... 1,1 Sot 2631irfeiii... 16 OAB Bombay —.. 23 0...27 luta ,by et far ewt. Bann 92 0..94 tv Stratt4 Ccca. in blocks 92 0... 0 01 5ma11....._ Lima. 10 10...16 15 &pan 10 10...16 0 Red Sanders. 5 0... 5 10 Brazil 18 0...50 0 laos, at per t o on. Bars 41 0 £0 0 SOAP TRADE.—Losoox, Jet 26. Price of Y. Candle on the spot, per cwt., London, 48e. 3d. ; Liverpool, 495.; Town Tallow, nett price, ndon, 48s. Rough Fat. letter price, per stone of 8 lbs., London, 2s. 9d. Newgate Market, for good Fat, average price, per at. of Blbe., London, 2s 81. to 2s, 101. Rough Stuff, London, 265. Palm Oil, London, 375. • Liverpool, 31s. 10d. Cocoa Nut , Oil, London, ads. . R.eain, fine transparent, Liverpool, 2s. 7d. to 6s. Alkali, strong and weak, per cent., London, 21d. to 21d. ; Liverpool, 21d. to 2 7-16 d. CORN.-AYLEserns, it'LY 24.-Wheat in good supply, and very dull at last week's prices. Beans a good supply, and mostly sold at Is. advance. All other kinds firm. Wheat, 191. to 211. per load. Barley, 42e. to 525. per qr. Beans, 501. to 625. Peas, 565. to 53e. Oats, 28s. to 365. BATH, JULY 24.-A very large supply of Wheat, which found purchasers on much the same terms as last week ; towards the close of the market the trade became dull and heavy. Barley in limited demand, at former price'. Beans were bed for an advance of 2s. per qr., which checked the sale ; and Oats brought last week s rates. Peas nominally as before. Wheat 70s. to 82s. per qr. Barley, 40s. to 465. Beans, 545. to 625. Peas, 60s. to 62. Oats, white, 31s. to 361.; black, 293. to 331. BRIDLINGTON, JULY 21.-Wheat in fair supply, and sold freely at an advance of Is. to 2s. per qr. Very few Oats, Braes, or Peas offered, and prices were the same as last week. Wheat, 765. to 82s. per qr. Oats, ls. 6d. per stone. Beams, 535. to 565. Peas, a 1... to 53.. per qr. CANTERBURY, JULY 24.-The supply of Wheat was very large, and a full amount of business was done. Now, brown Wheat, 71.. to 78s. ' • new, white, 755. to 80s. Oats, 30s. to 355. Beans, 461. to 48,. Peas, 45.. CARLISLE, JULY 24.-A fair supply of Wheat; the trade was stationary at last week's rates. Barley was duller, and 1.. lower. Oats, no alteration. DONCASTER, JULY 24.-A large supply of Wheat. The Anent fresh qualities sold at last week's rates. Warehoused parcels were a Plow sale, and 6AI. per three bushels lower ; the market generally inactive, except towards the close, when rather more firmness was displayed by holders. Beans sell at extreme rates, but the demand is not extensive. Oats, la. clearer. A sample of new, cut and thrashed in the neigh bourhood during the week, was offered to-day, the quality middling. Barley unaltered. Wheat, new, 28s. to 30s. ; fine, 31s. to 335.; Blendcorn, 255. to 273.; flee, 295. Rye, 21s. to 245. Beans, 225. to 235. ; line, 215.; old, 225. to 23e. Peas, white, 235. ; grey, 225. per three bushels. Oats, sew, 275. to 31s. ; fine, 335. to 40s. Barley, 435. per quarter. HUNTINGDON, JULY 24.-The supply of Wheat large for the season, a great portion of which was not sold, the farmer. preferring to wait a week or two to submitting to any abate ment. Barley, Peas, and Oats were dull of sale. Had any Beans appeared, rather more money would have been given for them, the growing crop having salfered severely from flies. Leicearas, JULY 24.-The Wheat market 2s. per qr. higher. Beans advanced about 66. per qr., and Oats sad Barley fully kept their price. NOTTINGHAM, JULY 24.-A large supply of Wheat, for which higher prim were asked,but not complied with. A fair business was done at last week's rates. Beans were Is. to 25. dearer; but the demand was very limited. Oats dull sale. Wheat, new, white, 80s. to 825.; red, 745. to 78s. per36stones. Barley, grinding, 421. per 30 st. Oats, 341. to 363. per 24 st. Beans, GO.. to 635. ' • Egyptian, 465. to 495. per 38 stones. Flour, super, 54,. to 575. ; fine, 522. to 545. per 20 stone. PETWORTH, JILT 24.-Prices as last quoted. The har vest has been partially beesu, o n in this neighbourhood. The crops are looking well. Wheat, white, 201. to 211. ; brown, 191. to 201. Barley, grinding, 425. to 4.55. Oats, country, 325. to 345. Peas, 50s. to 60s. Beans, 565. to 60s. per qr. PRESTON, JULY 24.-During the week there has been a fair retail demand, and prices have been fully supported. We have again to note an insignificant supply of tanners' Wheat at our Corn Exchange, and, generally speaking, Is.. per swindle advance was demanded, but the sale was languid at this improvement. Flour is fully ls.:per barrel higher : fine, 311. to 355. ; superfine, 36*. to 375., per 1961 b. Oats and Oatmeal without change, but we experience a little mere inquiry for prime samples of the latter article, for which 445. per load might be established. Beans the turn higher. The average price of Wheat this week is 755. 2d. per imp. qr. RICHMOND, YORKSHIRE, JULY 24.-Only a thin supply of grain. Wheat sold from 10s. to Its. 6d. ; Oats, 4s. to ss. ; Barley, 6s. 9d. to 7s. ; Beans, 7s. to 7s. 6d. per bushel. SAFFRON WALDEN, JULY 24.-We have no alteration in the value of Wheat. Supply not large, but quite equal to the demand. Barley and Oats Is. to 2s. cheaper. Beans and Peas quite as good. Some fine new white Peas offering, but the high prices demanded checked the sale. Average : Wheat, 156 qrs. 4 bush., 745. 6d. SHREWSBURY, JULY 24.-The market ruled dull, with little doing in Wheat, at 9s. to 9s. &I. per imperial bushel ; Oats, new, 3s. 2d. do. So complete is the failure of the Bean crop, that fanners continue to plough up the land. YARMOUTH, Jute 24.-We have had rather a better sup ply of Wheat this week. The trade rules dull ; the demand from the millers is slow, partly from having had very little wind lately; and the prices of this day week are barely maintained. In other grain nothing doing. We have had another fine week V. bring forward tho barred, but the appearance of the Wheat crop is not so well spoken of the het fortniit.st. Barley will be a good crop. Beans and Peas are deficient in some places. Swim:rot*, JULY 2G.-The Wheat market was exceedingly dull. A few samples might make the prices of last week, but generally speaking moderate Wheats were Is. to 3s. per qr. lower, and then bat little sold ; 80.. per qr. was the top price, while much was offered at from 68s. to 71s. per qr. '.fhe few samples of Barley were almost unsaleable at any price, though offered at less money by 3s. per quarter. Oats stand at last week', price,. Beans were dearer Is. to 2s. per qr. Peat remain as before. Rye at 2s. per qr. less money. Tares from 7s. to Bs. per qr. Turnip Seed, Its. to 12s. per bushel. Flour 545. to 60s. per bag. Malt, 70s. to 765. per qr. Barley Meal. 225. per bag. Sttoo, Jute 24.-Our market prices are merely nominal, the Commissariat having superseded the functions of the mer chant. Oatmeal, 17s. to 194. per cwt. Indian Meal, 13e. per cwt. American Flour, 365. to 375. per barrel. KIRKCALDY, JULY 21.-Foreign Wheat, Barley, and Oats sell freely, at previous rates. We had a fair supply of Wheat here to day, which, owing to the farmers asking con siderably advanced rates, sold slowly, at 2s. per qr. over last day's rates. Extremely small supplies of Barley and Oats, which sold at same money as last week. Wheat, 70.. to 811. Barley, 425. to 465. Oats, 335. to 355. per qr. Oatmeal, 465. to 48s. per hag of 2801 b. ALTONA, JVLT 20.--The only article in which there is any business doing in Rye; and in consequence of heavy •-- ivals and forced sales at neighbouring markets, the de r,. , 's o r h steady, has failed to prevent a decline of Gems ip,....riance. to-da y is down to 30s. Rev imp, YT - 1 woicale4 tO '.."'" '-' l'' - '' . Ur um... . a lit ,•••••••••,, --- ".101i sad the fresS undried descriptions about 4s. per qr. are no buyers except for what is on the apt, igidlliwydrh floating cargoes might be purchased on low 'bra sallow sellers, no business of this kind is Janet!- , Spiaral has been imported largely during the hat Us lop, sal the price has undergone a considerable decline fa raforquaes. At a public sale held at the close of last week law blab Iron so low (say equal to about 4/. 15s. to 51. per ton, Mkt Ishiegai all charges except freight and insurance) did do Twoul was withdrawn; subsequently, however, • rboban been some demand, in consequence of attention tan turned to the article for feeding purposes at its peelnat value, and at equal to per ton net proceeds an isness te-day, with but few sellers under equal to about 01. to 6f. 53. ; and parties appear the more Inclined THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 27, 1847. to make a stand for these priees, as a purchase of about 1,000 kook, or 140 tons, has been made for Ragland or Ireland, at a price corresponding with the last-named figure ; or, including shipping charges and commission, equal to about 81. per ton gross Eighth weight, free on board here. Wheat, of good quality, is scarce, and for 611*. red, consumers are paying equal to about 78s. 641. per qr. There is nothing whatever doing for output ship ment. Barley and Oats without inquiry or offers. Rape seed is being cut in these districts at present, and the quality promises well, as also the quantity. Prices will apparently epee high, as the German crushers show a great deal of in clination to purchase ; and if good Lower Elbe or west coast can be had at about 261. to 261. 10s., these will, we presume, be the lowest prices for the present. There continue to be buyers for new Danish, at about 265. 10s., but no sellers yet ; eld Danish seed might probably be had at this price. Rape oil quiet, at 345. 6d. for immediate shipment, and 366. 3d. fur October. Clorerseed : There is nothing doing in white, which is held firm, however, at from 265. to 465. for commonest to beat new seed. In red some purchases have been made for France, at 345. 6d. to 337. 61. for fine Bahamian and best Silesian. Atexwestr, JULE 23.—A fresh decline in the prices of groin has occurred in all oar markets. This has been occasioned by the magnificent appearance of the crops, which in the south are secured. In the first days of August the harvesting will be universal, and the result appears to be more favourable than has been known for many years. Beurric, JULY 10.—The weather continues favourable to the harvest. Prices in the Corn market are lower and firmer: arrivals of Rye considerable, chiifiy sold for home consumption, the remainder for exportation. HAMBURO,.JULT 23.—Not much doing in the corn mar ket, except in Rye, in which, as might have beenlexpeeted, there is again a great fall in the price, although many sellers make a moat determined stand. Our foreign trade is not very active at present. KONIGSBERG, JULY 16.—We are quite bare of stock of all descriptions of grain. Oats could perhaps be got at 20s. per qr, free on board. Of Wheat we expect, in the course of next week, about2,ooo lasts from Bohemia, which is said to be of fine quality ; and it will depend upon foreign account at what price it can be bought-believed to be about 565. to , 675. per qr. LEGHORN, JULY 15.—There is not much doing in Wheat; for delivery in September there would be sellers of Polish and Marianopoli fine at 46e. lid. ODESSA, JULY s.—Quantities of corn are offered at re duced prices, but there is no ready sale. Only about 6,000 chetwerts of Wheat have been sold,and 40,000 of Rye within the lest four days. Our store amount' to about--Wheat, 756,000; Maize, 14,000; Rye, 65,000; Oats, 26,000; Bar ley, 5,000; Linseed, 42,000 chetwerts. PALERMO, Jinx 16.-1.7 p to this moment there is nothing said uto the opening of the ports in this kingdom. We have ne alteration to quote in the price of Beans, and until the article comes down more freely to the shipping places, I we cannot expect to see a fall in price. PESTIL JCLY 11.—The harvest is favoured by the finest weather, and &Rhona the crops are not everywhere equal in quantity, it is certainly above the general medium, and the quality of the new corn which hes been brought to mar ket is as fine as it can be. Rosvocx, JULY 19.—1 n some parts the Wheat crops have been laid by heavy rain, but, in general, we expect a very abundant harvest. Oats have suffered much from the dry weather. SterriN, JULY 19.—0 f Wheat our stocks are very much reduced, and the estimated quantity left in granary is about five cargoes. Sr. irreßanuno, JULY 17.—Notbina doing in Wheat. Rye has been sold in various parcels at 23r. to 23Sr. Rye Flour is almost nominal. HOPS.— BOROUGH MARKET. Two o'Clock.— Memo. Pattenden and Smith, Hop factors, report that there is no alteration in the market. Hid .9 Pam Keats. p.cWt. N. 110.944.0 Tesrllng Kest.— p. evrt.ll. tto It. 5 Weeld pi Lou . 4 4 101 9 Y44411ag yucca..„ 111 to 311 /raven , tO4 0 Old Hops.. . . . I l3la S e Parekuul Woticasrsa, JULY 26.—We cannot report any improve ment in our plantation during the week. Opinions and beta are freely offered against 5,0001. duty for the district. The planters will not sell, nor even pat a price upon their Hope, and the high duty estimated for the kingdom intimidates purchasers, so that we have nothing doing on the market. - -• M AIDETONE,JULT 26.—The Hops are going on exceedingly well, and coming forward fast. There is burr to belfuund almost everywh , !re.—CßlNPßOOK : The bine here is gene rally in a growing state, although we have a considerable deal of vermin, besides honey-dew at places. It is expected, if the fine weather continues, that the foul pieces will im prove mush.—IGHTH VA AND SEAL : The Hops are gene rally looking well, having grown rapidly during the late warm weather, except in some few low situations, where the vermin still continue.—GOI:DHURST : A very great improvement in general has taken place in the bine, which is now throwing out shoots to a great extent, The vermin is disappearing. There is a better prospect for a crop than for some time past. : We have no hesitation in quoting a great improvement in our Hops; still some pieces are very foul and abort of burr. On the whole, we show fair for a good crop.— CANTERBURY : The Hops in this neighbourhood have made considerable pragrem during the past week, and those grounds which have exhibited a deficiency of bine are fast improving. At present little mischief has been sustained by vermin in any part of the district. The only drawback on their prospect of an abundant crop is a shortness of bine. WOOL.—Ara FAIR.—A few parcels were sold in retail, as follows Slut-faced, laid, 84. ; black-faced, white, washed, 10s. 6d.; erased, Leicester, and black-raced, washed, 10.. 6d. per stone of 24Ibs. Generally, the quality of the Wool was excellent. MESSIER FAlR.—About hid( the Wool offered was sold at prices varying from 10s. to 301. per tod. LEWES FAlL—About seventy Wool buyer, grower, and persons int,rested in the Wool market, sat down to an ex cellent dinner. Up to six o'clock, not a sale had been effected ; but, before the close of the fair, Mr. John Ellmat sold hi. Wool at 335. 4d. per tod. and Mr. Hodgson got the same price. Several other sales were effected at from 325. to 33.. per tod. Turrrono FAIR.—ARer several ineffectual attempts at selling between the farmers and buyers, the following sales were made :—Mr. Wilson sold his in the lumps for 304. to Mr. Tyson ; Sir W. Folkes sold at 28s. and 3d.. to Mr. Hud son; Mr. Partridge sold to Mr. Tyson at 28s. all round. On the whole very little business was done, the farmers pre ferriog to keep their Wool rather than submit to the terms offered by the buyers. HAY: Tito o'Clock.—Meegre. Cooper and Davis, Hay and Straw Salesmen, report trade very bad. Priebe Ifeadow. 708. to TU. I Now ato a Qn. v .. TU. to 93.. Inferior Cloy.. sew. a: a CATTLE, B.:c.—DONCASTER, JULY 24.—We had a a fair supply of Beasts and Sheep. Cows and Calm from Si. to 171. A moderate show of Pigs, at last week's prices. EXETER, JULY 23.—The number ef Lambs was very large, end prices varied from 21s. to 261. There were net many fat Sheep ; a small lot of five sold for 385., estimated at from 1616. to 1816. per qr., or 61d. per lb. There wero several larger lots, for which full 71d. was asked, but we believe wo may quote 7d. as the real selling figure. Calves were a short supply, and Veal kept up to last week's quo- Wiens. NORWICH, JULY 24.-OUr market exhibited a tolerable show of Soots and short-fiorns, with an excellent drove of Devout, and a few Duteh Cattle. Trade was quite as good, and on the whole a little better prospect, at lest week's prices. Fat Bessie a very small show ; trade good at Ba. 6d. to 9s. per stone of 141b5., end all sold. The pens were well filled. Lambs were in good demand; prime, 30s. to 325. ; big and fresh, 26e. to 28. ; poor and ordinary, 20s. to 21e. per head. Keeping Sheep in good demand, at from 31s. to 40s. per head, and all sold. Ewes of all ages both scarce and dear. Fat Sheep a fair show ; prices Bs. 6d. to 9s. per stone of 141bs. Store Pigs, 20a. to 245. per head. Fat Pork, 7e. 6d. to Bs. per atone. SWINDON, JULY 26.-Tn lean Bouts the trade was (brisk. Store Herons, Herefords, Short-horns. and other Beset sold at from 101. to 141. each; small do., 71. to 101. ; a good num ber of Cows and Heifers, which fetched very great prices, acme as high as 171. to 181. Large weaned Calves, from 21 to 4!. ; small do., 295. to 30e. Stock Sheep, best Wether, 609. to 66e.; Ewe:, from 454. to 645, Lambs, 30e. to 400. Fat stock, Beast, best, I Is. to lls. 6d. per score; common, 10s. 63. Sheep, best fat Wethers, be. per stone; moderate quality, 41. 4d. to 4,. Bd. ; inferior, 4e. Lambs, from 6s. 4(1. to 6s. Calve*, from 101. to 10s. 6d. per score. Fat Hogs and Pigs, 10s. 6d. to 11,. For Yetlerday's Markets see Au! page. SIIIPPING. Matte ARILIVID.—DubIin, 3; Waterford,2 ; Donaghadee, 1; French, 1; Flanders, 1. LONDON, July 27. Winn this day at noon, N.W., light breeze, and fine clear weather. PORTSMOUTH. July 26. N.N.E. Arrived: H.M.S. ' Iris, Penang. Sailed: Southampton, Calcutta. Off port: Roslia Castle, Quebec ; lingo Orotius. New York. OFF PORTLAND, July 22.—Sanspereil, Havannals ; Anna Margsreth, Surinam, for Amsterdam. Ors 11•YLE —Victoria, Quebec. MUMBLES, July 24.—Arrived: Eagle. Quebec. MARTPORT, July 26.—Sally, St. John's, N.B. ; Jane, Reatigouche. Coats, July 24.— Variable . —Arrived Davenport, New York. Saile d: Indian, Barbadoes. OR Port: Marmion, Baltimore, for Limerick. The wreck of the brig Napoleon, i timber laden, water-logged, and bowsprit only standing, was passed, 20th lost., about 160 miles W.S.W. of Cape Clear, by the Logan, arrived here. DEAL, JD'S , 26.—N.R. by E., fresh.—Arrived Letitia, Baltimore ; William Forster, Nassau; Resolution, Quebec; • • ' New York. ancl Acaod fir An t werp. Arrived Intletattgatr. , , . - • '" _ froth the river and sailed: Emma Watt, New York ; Nestor, Calcutta. 0 toucierrest, July 26.—N.W.—Arrived: Alvarado, New Orleans. BRIDGEWATER, July 21. Arrived: William Miller, Quebec. PORT TALBOT, July 2-I.—S.W.—Arrived Richard Cob den, Wallace, N.S. SWANSEA, July 26.—N.E.—Arrived: Eagle, Quebec. Orr Doyen, July 26. Ina, Quebec. Hutt, JULY 26.—W., light —Arrived Douglas, New York. DRAL.—Arrived from the river, and Emerald Isle, Cape and Madras; Arena, St. Thomas'e. Arrived : Thomas, St. John's, N.B. ght erilrefigl• MAILS. llama 1R NSW 1011117:tial is UMW% Land. and him Ling will Lies Ohs at tits Ast haly. 1e well sit kr leseht Honduras, and gassmit ell be awarrtihs Essologurths 7104 August. Us =Mb Dor idea horth god aws United ▪ vill bombs mg an dr owing steward Avant Ifs orwriewit wallah/ Ohrubler Itslot Groot Ihis lawbut Islands, lipptoleMOPejteak , and ChM% Ois Ihmilhaint Ws, IMP lea gimai " Op so Um isorig of the Ord August . .r ▪ mils kr the lhadis qa tbe Jaws nos. Monte Theo, Persusr =bait Igagint Wediiim Aires, be Asir ug ea the ig dim eh August The =Ws kr Ova% Labors. Ifahabit Cadiz, and Gibraltar will %a awls wa ths iliwing a the 7th kept the erafen down amWs, MereseMaa, to Phi Mediterranean, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, Ind* flay Kong, Om, will be made up on the evening Mtn, 7 tit Angult. TO COILTIIPONDENTS. .; GrowAtmdram no Mron, pyppip. m .. at U Tao anima aa v o w publication. MOB WATIS AT LOADON•BiIIDOR. Ti,. D.—Weals& 11. el. p.l 1, Altera... 40 W. pre 1. Te.bl —Yreka& 3 i 3136. POI Atureoge,4ll.ls.". 2. LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 27. IF England, in its long history, has a prominent characteristic, it is the determination of its national mind at all times to be, in political acts and feelings, independent of sacerdotal influences. From the days of the nolumus kges Anglia mutari this has been an English principle. Nor has it proceeded from any indifference towards religion, but, on the contrary, from a conviction that the interests of religion itself are best consulted and provided for by those who take a lay view of them. We do not believe that any religion or any sect ever fell completely under the guidance of its ministers, without that religion or that sect immediately declining. The church of Rome is a striking instance. The self-destruction of the great nonconformist party in this country, and its inability to hold power, even after having beaten all rivals out of the field, is as striking. In the worldly and political affairs of a church, lay wisdom is indispensable, un disturbed by that spiritual zeal which must and ought to be the attribute of the churchman. One of the great safeguards of the church of Eng land is, that it has a strong lay spirit in its members to counteract the ultra-ecclesiastical one, and prevent it from committing blunders and acting under the mere influence of fanaticism. The great failing of the dissenters seems to be, that they who have taken such precautions against being priest-ridden, do, though they have no bishop to dread, still fall un consciously under clerical influence, and act and think, not like men of the world, but like an ecclesiastical synod. Their zealots are not so wild as the church of England zealots in political dictation ; but, on the other hand, the good sense and moderation of laymen in tempering each fanaticism are not so evident. In what a position is their altogether sacerdotal ran cour against state education and a Manchester bishopric hurrying a portion of them! They are literally drawing a marked line between endowment and non-endow ment, and pushing and provoking all those creeds, however opposite, which unite in desiring a perma nent provision for their clergy, to combine against a common enemy. The "Nonconformist" reckons the number of members likely to be returned in England in its interest, and they amount to forty-three. And it would take its stand on this exclusive little coterie of forty-three, in order to attack and disendow the church of England, instead of appealing to the good sense and friendly feelings of the great liberal party, which is both determined and able to protect the dis senters in all essentials ; provided indeed the dissenters do not prefer embarking, in a corsair bark by them selves, which is to sail about, half mercenary, half belligerent, selling their aid now to whig, now to tory, each time for some special favour to their sacerdotal jealousy or interests. The religious interests of the empire are divided into three distinct parties, just as political interests are. It requires the junction of two of these parties to give them preponderance and power. If the nonconformists choose to make war simultaneously upon the church of England and the church of Rome, they must take the consequences, which will turn out to be perilous and strange : In our opinion, the sole way of combating the influence of Rome is for protestant churches to have a clear and fair under standing of their common interests, to lend a hand to their mutual efficiency, and to aid each other zealously and amicably in such tasks as popular education. They may depend upon it that their antagonism and quarrels, by neutralising the means which pro testantism has of winning the rising generation of the lower classes, would be but a delivering up of that citadel, the minds of the people, to an enemy equally menacing to both, which is augmenting inwisdom,and in power, and in liberality, whilst protestant churches are decreasing in all. There are, however, ample signs throughout the country that the great body of the dissenters are not carried away by the madness of high priests, who have set up their pulpit in the press. We may . appeal to what is passing at the election of Norwich for a proof, where the rational liberalism of Mr. PETO is supported by the most eminent and oldest of the dissenters against the wild fury of the followers of !MALL and LIAISES. When we talk of combating catholicism, of course we mean combating it in the fair field of argument, by enlightenment, by education, by efficiency iu the pastoral organisation of protestant churches. We would not combat it by shedding night over May nooth, nor commit the gross blunder of imagining that we diminished the power and authority of the Irish priesthood by making them altogether de pendent on the poorest and most ignorant of the populations of Europe. We have but to look to the addresses of leading candidates of all parties to see what this has produced. Read what Lord JOHN RUSSELL has said to the electors of London, what Sir ROBERT PEEL has said to those of Tamworth, and what Lord GEORGE BEN TINCK uttersto his constituents at Lynn. The latter would endow the Irish catholic priesthood out of Irish land, that land nine-tenths of which is in the hands of protestants, and given to them because they were protestants. Of what use is it agitating a fanatic tail, when every successive head of the tory party is compelled by the exigency of cir cumstances and of the empire to entertain and avow the same idea ? In no place in England arc anti-popery feelings stronger than in Liverpool. In no part of the empire have candidates been obliged to be so full and so frank as in Liverpool. Not a question there has been omitted, not a topic slurred. The currency, the navigation laws, and thoee many subjects on which even London candidates have been able to maintain a discreet silence, have been, in Liverpool, the objects of interrogatories on the part of electors, of explanation on the part of candidates. Yet even here Lord Inns MANNERS and Mr. CARDWELL alike refuse to take the pledge of anti-catholic endowment. And in all large and respectable constituencies the anti-en dowment, anti-education party have been reduced to take for candidates men very much wanting either in intellect or in character. They ma y depend upon it, that their being reduced to this is owing to some egregious fault in their own policy and their own conduct. There are people, however, who will pers , st in thinking that a cause may be served by its rejecting a Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and espousing a Mr. WHITTLE HARVEY. With such, it would be quite idle to argue. Bat we trust that very few so preposterous will be to be found in London, or even in Marylebone or Middlerex. The true wisdom is to entrust the cause of religious liberty to the old defenders of it, in conjunction with civil liberty. Lord Jolly RUSSELL, Lord D3DLEY SWART, Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR, are names that guarantee both. Some object to their being lords. But if their being such should be no claim, it should certainly be no bar. The circumstance does not prevent those from being the most liberal and most influential re presentatives that the metropolis and its vicinity could return. WE believe few have tended more strongly to discourage attempts at reducing the con fused bulk of our laws to system and simplicity than the practical failure of the Criminal Law Commission lt stinnosea ,••• - • - • is. most eminent lawyers, acting with the authority of government, and certain of the ready concurrence of parliament, have allowed many years to pass over without completing the task of framing a plain and simple code of cri minal jurisprudence and procedure, it is hopeless to attempt to reduce the more difficult heads of law into system, or to remove the difficulties, contradictions, and abuses which everywhere beset them. We believe that this impression is wholly unfounded, and that a vigorous and determined minister, who could find time, like NAPOLEON, to share personally in the delibe rations of the jurists whom he must employ, would find that it was possible in a definite time to comprise within a reasonable spece a new code of laws, which should contain everything valuable which is now scattered in fragmentary statutes and in innumerable judicial decisions. A determined 'will is the great requisite. A staff of lawyers who understand logic and grammar might, without difficulty, be obtained to do the actual work. Probably the eminence of the members of the Criminal Law Commission some of whom are now on the bench, may have been the reason of their in efficiency. Lawyers in great practice can give but casual attention to any business unconnected with the' , daily calls of their profession. If one or two of them had been instructed, with an adequate fee, to give opinions successively on all the main points of the criminal law, as if the questions to be decided had arisen in practice, we have no doubt that the government would have been in possession in a few months of the most valuable part of their lucubration. The com mission did, however, after many years of incubation, produce a statement of the actual criminal law as it stands ; and this, as we have often said, is the first and indispensable step to the preparation of an im proved code. It was perhaps less important than it would be in any other department of jurisprudence, because the criminal law, with all its faults, is the easiest, simplest, and best administered of all branches of our legal system. Mr. Greaves's edition of " Rus sell on Crimes," together with " Archbold's Criminal Pleading," contain neatly all that is known or that can be known on the subject. We think, however, that the commissioners were right in undertaking the preliminary labour of ascertaining what the actual law is. Having done so, we fear they are not likely to confer any farther service on the community worthy either of their high character or of the un precedented length of their period of gestation. Yet it seems to us that nothing would be easier than to clear the criminal law of the absurdities which partially disfigure it. It is, we have said, the best part of our law, and it is on the whole well adminis tered. Whatever may be the defect of trial by jury in civil cases, no tribunal is so well adapted to crim p nal justice . In nine cases out of ten no point of law arises on the trial of a prisoner ; and the facts are such that common sense is better suited than any professional acuteness to decide on their true bearing. It is impossible, moreover, not to observe that jurors are more strictly conscientious, more attentive to the literal observance of their oaths, iu deciding criminal than civil issues. Their errors, arising sometimes from mistaken humanity, sometimes from individual perverseness, have often been severely and justly censured by the press; but we believe that inadequate justice has been done to the truly admirable patience, attention, and oonscien tiousnev, which petty juries apply to the discharge of their unpaid and laborious duties. Many of the broad maxims of English criminal law are so tho roughly and popularly understood, from repeated in culcation by courts and advocates on successive gene rations of jurors, that it is almost unnecessary to call their attention to them in particular canes. The effect of the office in educating the classes who fill it has been often remarked ; and it is diffi cult to over-estimate the advantage of the universal confidence which is placed in a verdict, at least when it is against the criminal. A prisoner who has been found guilty by a jury is as much precluded in popular belief as in law from afterwards denying his guilt. It is, however, generally, and not unreasonably thought, that, while our mode of trial secures justice in favour of the accused, it affords criminals too many loop-holes for escape. The technicalities of criminal law, though few compared with those of civil pro cLdure, are often revolting to common sense, and mere impedimenta to justice. It is against these that the labours of the commissioners might have been directed with the greatest certainty of success ; while the more debateable questions connected with tke laws of evidence, and especially with confessions, might have been left for matured consideration. Paradoxical as the statement may appear, we believe English criminal jurisprudence is much less infested by technical subtleties than that of almost any other nation. Those who have read FUEILBACICS 31er1.•- tViirdigr, or LadyGonnoN's English selections fromthe book, may remember the marvellous hair-splittings which German ingenuity has introduced into the law of evidence, the extraordinary difficulty which con sequently attends the legal conviction of a criminal, and the makeshift cruelty by which, as a compensa tion, he may be punished in default of conviction. With us, the principal . peg on which legal ingenuity can hang sophistical impediments to justice is the indictment; and this peg we simply propose to cut away. Indictments are too often attacked and defended on the erroneous supposition that they are intended to give information to the accused. It is right, says the defender of the system, that the prisoner should know the distinct charge on which he is arraigned. It is not right, the opponent with equal justice replies, that he should escape in consequence of a mere verbal error in the written charge ; and, moreover, it is a mere legal formula, full of fictions, and which it is impossible for the prisoner to understand. As a matter of fact, it is perfectly well known that a pri soner never does look at the indictment, and though his counsel may do so, his object is in no degree to obtain information, but merely to take advantage of any flaw on the face of the document, or of any technical variance is the evidence from the allegations which it contains. We should be very unwilling to see a partial alteration, which would leave the main evils of the system the same as at present. It would not be difficult to eliminate from indictments some of the mere forms which are at present indispensable decorations to them. It might be rendered unnecessary to allege that a pickpocket stole a handkerchief, or a swindler deluded he victim " with farce and arms" or " against the peace of our lady the Queen ;" and it does not seem necessary that a prisoner should escape with impunity as at pr,ment, if a clerk should have omitted to insert a certain place and a certain time in describing the criminal act, al though it is in no way necessary that either place or time should be provedas stated. Baron PARKE the other day doubted whether he could assume against& prisoner that 1816 was a sufficiently certain date. If it had been called 1846 years from the creation, or the building of Rome, or the establishment of the French republic, it would have been good ; but counting from no era, it seemed not to be a certain time. Eventually, the learned judge was bold enough to assume that the calculation was referred to the Christian era ; but he intimates that the prisoner, if he thought proper, might try the question on a writ of error. These amusing freaks and eccentricities of the law are, however, rather indecorous than dangerous. Common forms are, practically, the next thing to no forms at all. Clerks of indictments seldom leave out the necessary anno donain I, and the " force and arms " is more certain to be found in the document than the substantial fact to which it refers. A more frequent cause of the failure of justice arises from some variance between the indictment and the evidence. As the jury can only try the issue raised by the indictment, it follows that every fact not strictly in conformity with it is excluded from their consideration. If a prisoner is charged with having stolen the goods of JOHN, and it appears that the goods are the joint property of JOHN and THOMAS, he is at once acquitted. Of late years, some relaxation has taken place in the law of variance. Various statutes provide that the greater shall, in par ticular cases, include the less, so that, for instance, a prisoner indicted for a compound or aggravated felony orassault, may be found guilty of the rumple crime which forms only a part of the original charge. So, again, the name of the prisoner is no longer like that of the prosecutor, a loophole of escape. The acquittal, some years ago, of a murderer who had cut off the head of his child, on the groand that his christian name was improperly alleged, caused a removal of the imme diate abuse. If indictments are to be still used, there can be no doubt that farther relaxations will be intro duced, and a power of amendment given to the court corresponding to that which it exercises over nisi prin. records. But, as we have already said, we should regret a nartial imrtmoonuant in the way of the entire change of abolishing altogether the indictment and the ground on which the indictment rests. If indictments are still to be used, they cannot be altogether nugatory. The laws of criminal plead ing and of variance may be relaxed, but there must be some conditions which the document must satisfy, and some limits within which it mast still restrict the evidence. Wherever it fails in either requisite, there will be so far, as there is in many cases now, a failure of justice. If the indictment was necessary for the information of the accused, it might be allowable to incur the evil of letting him sometimes escape by a technical accident ; but, as we propose to show in a future article, the indictment neither gives, nor is it primarily intended to give, such information. We shall show that the object of it is essentially technical, and that in getting rid of it we may at the same time get rid of what is at best a useless encumbrance ; and at worst a serious impediment to the administration of criminal justice. THAT English agriculture requires the stimulus of foreign competition no one who understands the sub ject will doubt. There is an undeveloped fund of productiveness in our soil, a latent source of wealth to owners and occupiers, which demands nothing but the most ordinary exertion of intelligence on the part of landlords and farmers to bring it forth. Nor is it merely by the improvement of the usual routines of cultivation that our husbandry admits of advancement. More wheat or more barley may most assuredly be produced by a better application and more liberal use of the everyday means and appliances of English hus bandry. But for that, more capital is required. The farmer may know full well that, with additional manure, he could greatly increase the produce of his corn-fields, and the difficulty is how to obtain that manure. From the precarious character of the crops of Lent corn and pulse, and the high price of oil-cake, such articles being those on which tho farmer relies for stock feeding, it is an even chance whether he gains or loses money by grazing. Yet without grazing ho has no means of procuring the manure by which alone his corn crops can be made profitable. It will, however, be only when the owners and occupiers of land can be induced to con eider whether some departure from routine cultiva tion, or the adoption of some new objects of culture, may not benefit them, that the full capacity of our soil will be discovered. Now, there is nothing like a good wholesome competition for sharpening the wits of the landed interests. So long as they hugged the notion—delusive as it was—that an act of parliament price for corn could be secured, they rested helplessly on protection, and shrunk in affright from the neces sity of self-reliance. Protection having been with drawn, the once protected owners and occupiers of land are beginning to find out that there are means within their own grasp of meeting any competition they may have to sustain. There was a meeting of landowners and farmers at Monmouth, some time since, which affords a striking illustration of the truth of these remarks. The occa sion was to hear an address from Mr. JOHN IVARNES, of Trimingham, Norfolk, upon the cultivation of flax and the fattening cattle with the seed, together with an economical method of managing manure practised by Mr. WARNES under the designation of box-feeding. That gentleman, once an active and ardent protec tionist, put it strongly to his audience, consisting apparently of men who, also, had relied on protection, that farmers must meet foieign competition by activity and skill; and he showed that the cultivation of flax would furnish an important mode of doing so. Now, the culture of flax has got into bad reputation with landowners, and has long gone altogether out of sight and out of mind with farmers. It has been said to be amost exhausting crop, leaving the land on which it was grown very greatly and permanently deteriorated in value. In consequence there are probably few forms of leases used in England which do cot entirely prohibit the growth of flax. Then, again, the steeping flax, which is necessary to enable the fibre to be sepa rated from the woody part of the stalk, has been thought to cause considerable stench, and to contaminate the streams which are used for the purpose of steep-, ing. These evils are not necessarily incident to flax culture. They occur only when flax is palled ant steeped in a green state; and it was once sup posed that if it were allowed to ripen, the quality of the flax would be inferior. But that is not the case. During the last eight or ten years there have been considerable efforts made in Norfolk to reintroduce the culture of flax, and those efforts have been suc cessful to the extent of proving, first, that flax when ripened so as to obtain the perfect seed, will produce fibre little if at all inferior to green flax ; secondly, that it may be so grown without injuring the fertility of the land ; but, on the contrary, that the consump tion of the seed (crushed, boiled in six or seven times its measure of water, and mixed with cut straw) affords the cheapest and most certain means of in creasing fertility; thirdly, that the dressing the stalk, called, technically, scutching, affords employment at all seasons to the weaker members of the labouring population, old men, women, and boys, who, after a little instruction and practice, can earn at it better wages than they have hitherto received ; and, lastly, that the flax crop is a very profitable one. There is no one so competent to speak to all these points as Mr. WARNES, he having grown flax for the last ten years to a greater extent than any other person in England ; and he may be fairly deemed the dis coverer of the best mode of using the seed to fatten cattle. It would be impossible here to attempt to follow Mr.Wannes in the detailed explanations he addressed to his Monmouth audience ; but we may mention a few of the facts stated. He said that ripened flax is really superior to flax pulled when green, and that he had himself sold at Leeds the flax produced from one half of a field on which it was suffered to &same completely ripe, for a price higher by one-third than the flax taken before it was ripe from the other half of the same field. The green flax sold for 53/. per ton, the ripe for 851. This seems to be decisive. lI also said that his best wheat was grown on land which had borne flax the preceding year ; and this was confirmed by Mr. PURCHASE, the honorary secre tary of a farmers' club, who said " he had grown a small quantity of flax two years ago on part of a field, the remainder of which he had appropriated to peas. He had found the wheat which followed the flax to be superior to that which followed the peas." Mr. WanNE.s said that since he had introduced flax culture into his own parish of Trimingham, such had bees the increase of employment for the labouring people, that the poor-rates had been reduced from 4s. 3d. in the The to a single yearly rate of 3d. in the pound. The population of the parish is 250. Then, as to the profit to the flax-grower, Mr. WARNES gave the following figures as the average re sult of his own experience : The produce of dressed flax from an acre of land would be 54 stones of 14Ibs. per stone, which cost 2s. 6d. per stone to dress, and, when dressed, would sell at 10s. 6d. per stone. The money price of en acre of flax would be, therefore, 28/. The quantity of seed grown per acre would be 24 bushels, worth at this time at least 10/. From this gross sum of 38/. per acre there must be deducted the rent and taxes, the costs of preparing and manur ing the land, the sowing, harvesting, steeping, and so forth, which, if taken at 15/., would leave a net profit of upwards of 20/. per acre. Mr. WARNES fairly said that his own land was very favourable for the culture of flax, and that for the first few years a new culti vator would not be likely to grow either so much flax or seed as he had stated to be the produce of his own crops. He thought that a net profit of 101. per acre would be a safe estimate. In this calculation he was borne out by Mr. DYKE, who had grown three quarters of an acre of flax (the cost and produce of which he stated in detail) with a net profit of 9!. 4s. 'fne meeting ended in the establishment of a society to promote the growth of flax, " by the employment of competent instructors; and for obtaining informa tion as to the growth of flax and the use of the seed." And sitnihir societies have been established in other districts. We hail this movement as evidence that the pro spect of competition is acting most usefully on land lords and tenants. So long as protection was in the ascendant, Mr. WARNES'S earnest advocacy of flax culture fell dead upon the " agricultural mind." Ox Friday last we drew attention to a statement which had appeared in the Berwick Warder, and was copied into the Morning Pest, ix which the writer asserted, of his own knowledge, that the DAILY News was for sale, and had been offered to be sold for one-quarter the sum which had been expended on it. Now, though we are not very thin-skinned in these matters, and can allow,—have indeed allowed,— all reasonable license to the suffering both in the way ;.;eertion, and that more cautions course, the adopting ;II: := 4; ?.ne of the Berwick, and other obscure provincial prints; still, wren a writer states a thing as of his own positive know ledge, the public may be excused if they put faith in it; for, either it must be true, or he must know ingly and wilfully have stated what was untrue. This was the unhappy position of the Berwick Warder writer, whom the Morning Post had unfortunately unearthed. " T, our knowledge," he said, "both the 'Moans° CHRONICLE and the DAILY NEWS are now in the market. Upwards of 60,0001. hare been spent on Me latter ' and it is note offered fin. a quarter of that own." There could be no mistake. There is not one equivocal word in the whole sentence. It is a good round confident assertion," which, as 13eN JONSON said, "next to truth does well." Our soli citor, therefore, was requested to write to the editor or proprietor on the subject ; and in answer to hi s gentle questionings we have received the following, to which we trust the Morning Post will give the benefit of its circulation : Warder-oelce Berwick, July 24, 1817 . ENTLESISN,-I have received yours of yesterday, requ est , ing explanation of a paragraph rt lating to the lhily Sews which appeared in the Eeriest% Warder of the 17th instant' The paragraph in question was inserted unfortunately with out my attention having been directed to it; and I regret much that it should have appeared. The writer of it, it appears, spoke entirely from hearsay, and has no authority for the statement. A snort " leader" will be inverted itt the next number of tho Warder, apologising for the errqr, which I trust will be deemed sufficient reparation.—l act , gentl e . men, your obedient servant, G. M. —From the Daily -Vews. each according t o th e The Paris journals on Sunday, views of the party whose sentiments it speaks,ga ve a resume of the labours of the legislature. The sole ministerial organ boasts of the fruit of the session, giving a Ion; list of laws which have been pass e d. The mouthpiece of the young conservatives, the rene. gades from the ministerial benches, says, that from the 11th January, on which the chambers met, tuna the 11th August, on which they will be adjourned, seven months have been expended in aewmplishing the following four objects :-1. Concluding the bar gain with MM. Herout, Handel, and Co., for the tran s . Atlantic steam mails. 2. Giving the Bank of France leave to issue 200 franc notes. 3. Obtaining leave to raise a loan of fourteen millions sterling. And, 4. Passing the budget with an interminable catalogue of credits. The journals of the liberal opposition admit that the session has not been sterile, for it has been abundantly productive of scandals, national discredit at home and abroad, and a large increase of the public debt. Its three great works have been the Spani s h marriages, the railway measures, and the elections. The marriages (says Le Constitution set) prodosed, at the opening of the wawa, a garbled report of the diplomatic correspondence, the supplement of which was supplied and extorted by England ; the disclosure of the unwoitity bling with which M. Guizot abused Lord Normanby, th e debasement of the cabinet, feeble powers everywhere sacri ficed, Cracow surrendered to the three powers, Switzerland bullied by France and Austria, France reduced to diplomatic isolation, M. Guizot boasting of having gained the Medit a , ranean, scandal prevailing at Madrid, the French embus". dor hunted from Spain, the French alliance c:iegr eee d aeyond the Pyrenees, the seeds of a war of succession sowa and germinating, and the obedient majority of the chamber affirming its satisfaction at the disastrous meisisres which hare sacrificed the interests of the nation, rood the principles of liberty to the views of a family. The railways and other public - works are recorded in figures, of which the chamber can give account. These results are de. &its, supplementary and extraordinary credits, innumerable squandering., the systematic breach of all financial rules in all the departments of the government ; reports demon strating fraud in the projects, disorder in the working, errors of the estimates, confusion in the accounts, irregularity is the credit., expenses without explanation, and public lime. tions without need for them; an enormously increasing budget, deficits hanging over future years, the finances pledged for twelve years to come, the floating debt over charged, the annulment of the sinking fund, a loan rendered imperative at the moment when Paris, Toulouse, Marseilles, and Konen are severally in the market seeking roans also, and when the railway companies are pressing with their calls ; the public purse exhausted, stock.jobbing at its height, failures unnumbered, cupidity unbridled, the future com promised, and the committees of the chamber straieina every nerve to extort from ministers a pledge not to add new deficits to those with which we are overwhelmed. The results of the general elections have been a majority of 100 votes ready at the bidding of the ministry to declare their satisfaction with the situation, innumerable votes in favour of the cabinet, a relaxation of public morals, the natural consequence of the abuse of official influence; the universal opinion that electoral corruption is the key to the minhterisl system, the di-avowal of corruption by the ministry in the face of evidence which convinces the whole country, lam transformed into instruments of intimidation against elec tors, a St. Bartholomew massacre of mayors and officials who have given honest votes, scandalous facts openly denounced, a minister convicted of selling the patent of a theatre, M. Emile de Girardin challenging inquiry into this corruption, to which the minister dares net accede; the Court of Peers resounding with a deplorable scandal, the Procureur.General attempting in vain to make a diversion by adopting an indignant tone, hut not perceiving that the country is too just and too intelligent to accept even the guilty as expiatory victims ; numerous scandalous Own developed before the tribunals, suspicion everywhere awoke, an odious reput ition spread through foreign countries—be hold the fruits of a policy in which no generous principles have play,and which lives upon the abuse of official influence. The opposition compares the Guizot cabinet to the boots which were repaired so often that scarcely s particle of the original leather remained upon them except the tops. 'The cabinet consisted originally of nine members—viz., MM. Guizot, Duchitel, Curtin , Gridaine, Martin du Nord, Humann, Soult, Tette, Villemain, and Duperre. Of these the first three alone remain, for Marshal Soult has long ceased to ex ercise any other function of a minister except thoseof bearing the name and receiving the salary. M. Catlin- Gridaine is on the eve of retiring, when the two tops of the boots, MM. Guizot and Duchitel, alone will remain. In the course of its official life this cabinet has had four different Ministers of Marine, three of Public Works, three Chancellors of the Exchequer, or Ministers of Finance, and three Ministers of War. Under it, the national expenditure; has swelled to double its amount under the empire, and to 50 per cent. more than under the restoration ; and the national debt has augmented, and is augmenting still. The affairs of Switzerland occupy a large portion of public attention in the states of the east and north of Europe. The Suablan Mercury of the 23rd has the following : The affairs of Switzerland engage, in en especial maser, the attention of the conservative courts. The ra limas de sire to centralise their power in Switzerland, but the Euro pean governments look to the cantonal sovereignties for s guarantee for the happiness of Switzerland and the tran quillity of Europe. Austria, Russia, and Prussia are per. fectly agreed in this, as recent communications have proved; and Sardinia, which by its geographical position has an interest in the affairs of Switzerland, shares the same vises. As to France, it cannot be imagined that that goveromeat would be disposed to countenance radicalism on its frontier. In fine, England, which has just supported royalty is Portugal, cannot protect the radicals without acting against her principles and sacrificing them to her camellia! interests. The Augsburg Ga:ette gives a letter from Lucerne, of the l'ith July, which says: This week, 3,000 muskets have arrived in the grin:Mrs cantons. They are designed for a general arming. To be pre pared for events, the governments of Schorr and Lug will immediately distribute munitions to the troops. Sanwa Sonnenberg ha received eight battalions of the londweir at Lucerne, and in other cantons redoubts have bees raked. The report of the proceedings of the Swiss diet of the 21st has been received. The great event of [ the day was a speech delivered by M. Lucian, the [delegate of the canton of Tesaino, which seems to i have produced quite an explosion of enthusiasm [ Tessin, being a catholic canton, his testimony apart the league was considered as the most severe blow yet given to it, inasmuch as it refuted the objection that the object of the majorit7 is to put down catholi cism in the confederation. fessino is a canton folly equal in importance to Lucerne, which may be con- I sidered as the chief of the Sunderbund. Immedialele after the diet had passed the resolution on the 20th, in favour of the dissolution of the league, the delegates of the seven cantons sent off express couriers to their respective goemm ments, to obtain, it was supposed, further structione. Notwithstanding the great popu l a r ex" „. citement produced by these proceedings at B erne, to most perfect order continued to be observed, nor were any manifestations made against the delegates of the league. L'lfeketie says that M. Bois le Comte has sel dressed to the Bernese government a menacing Dote , in which he demands satisfaction, because a terrier dog, which was, on Friday evening last, on the Eng!" walking by the aide of M. Janie, editor of Le Cho earl wore, suspended to its collar, two crosses, ear d which hepretends was the cross of the "legion d'hon neur." It is said that the terrier's collar war in feet adorned with something like two pieces of tin, more or less resembling two crosses. It will be necessary (no (no doubt, says L'Hefre,'le in order to undeceive M. Bois le Comte, to im t ' collar and tin crones ; and, perhaps, it wi ll be aeons' nary for the terrier itself to give in its oa'b. MADRID, Sc LT General Pavia issued from Jorra ap es the I las the following circular, which seems to me 1.11, deserving of attention :—" On the morning of i w° ds the mail from Madrid to Barcelona wan at: ll tacked by a band of re b e l s between Castello and Casa Pla. That such an attemp t may Pt occur again I have thought fit to adopt the fOl. lowing regulations : All the towns designated in the margin, and which stand neared r i g ht end left d the road from Linda to Molins-el-rey, or in the read itself, will establish upon convenient eminences ter, I