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

r - 7I J ' fit L !/ is. 1 /( 7 4. Awe / • S" IRETON LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, have been effected, In defiance of the reco r d e d vo i ces o f the No. 5, ST. JAIIIKEWSTREMT, LONDON. people at the last general election, and without a fresh ?ROOM\ appeal to them, are the measures themselves, and the justi- Moaner Bars. 1 == i m i.i. &scion of them. (g O' i ' 3 =l. W'4- 4 'P' I W.' DISIKTOOL You have, doubtless, all seen the justification set forth, owe. se-Lieut.-Col. Laid . thentr# in the alleged potato disease in the autumn of 1815 Darere-Co tudiei-T. O. ,;_, ~" and winter of 1816. In answer to those statements by a Mbhonier. It t. M.D. Wm :NZ: - diplomatic Lord Lieutenant. and certain learned professors 1 V 11 - h JIM . r awtkii.i jets , Will put in the long-suppressed evidence of one whose position you would have thought entitled his opinions to TIM • . .. M.P. AMU air _ ...... , &„....,8.r.,,, ~....,,,,;=s a 5.,..., pre-eminent consideration. I mean Lieut.-Colonel 8.1'Gre j0e55ec........„..”7„„...j oe e pima s e t E. gor, Inspector-General of the Police in Ireland; and rwe___„,•• ~, m„ f a u ut i .. iliai .ada ,if the thi mral i as et te m = . 41, =5 when I tall a that the police fore, in Ireland consists of o .:Xes Lariat •"' 11.000 men' that the polies barracks throughout the No. 283.] LONDON, TUESDAY 0 , 0 „, , u, brn . mow s o 800 l as dun% eampleas Ms pew- country stand but ten miles apart-that, on an average , mmo ,_ .. widi M . ~,, a o mmiztralfeulpelne drums flimesm. aut , hi there is a policeman for every three square miles - that it is as °4 =iii:_ e riteur 111 4......" 0 7,... g a thi m atra••,...t e l rude the duty of this police to collect the most minute' imports of provisions from Ireland to show what the Irish people bad produced for our consumption :- b ef .'""WeeZ= l l l i Us Jusemems. statistical agricultural information, es regards corn, pots- ir.,.,... ' ._ m en awing ihemr*** amlar_ ao :St_rel**l toes, cattle, sheep, pig', and poultry, you will naturally -- - I - 13 ' 1 " . th " I vr W Y b k.r '.4 • °""*". ...air .. v ....... zE , = , -„,,,,,„,- T . z . :„ 1 , z ,„ ;; , 7 say that lull a witness is the one whom, in preference to - ,7 - .... r - - 4 . r, Qmotm ... biellan dm , r ow twos Om . _ o m it all others, we would have listened to and trusted. Well, um 111,193 , SO 287 1 274 318 314,311 1, 70 531 173 war m ata=,..... d 0 . 0 :.Z.8. peser s ll 4 l . re i what says Colonel M 'Oregoc ? I quote from the blue book i .= ii alt e.t. E.t.a .4 ~..7 boesime sake Pron :_ tod subeequent to Sir Robert Peel's retirement from 11144813 % 2 1: 0 2 : 4 2 7 76 7 1 90 10:, 656 449 1 11 , ; 309: 361 , 9 99 0 7 " 71R 9, 44.1 7 I .15 6;1 7 28 0 104$ , 372,719 83,093 1,679,958 1,412,379 I 1,059,193 " LiallT. COLONEL at'OitXooß TO MR. TILETELTAV. produce, or rather Manufacture, of food il certainly Ami gos, to eseemsenial any ".... 66 . 4 Me, PM" di"' " Dublin Castle, Jan. 31, 1846.-We meet not . jedg• very great. Taking these MM. figures and turning them li A n essest seleinee the Brembutse, OA mat the ago as guy the ens --,. . armor , te sot attained. thin: A person, ova os. of tie probable intensity of distress in any given lota- into money value, I will show, on the other hand, how muck • mite owe d ,e,-,0 en menus um see of 04 as the follow- liter by the extent of the general scarcity. In truth, sterling mosey we have created to send to Ireland to pay sownsese m wee wi ,,,, ~,,, •,,,,,,,,,..,. ~, c .,,,,, 0 , ...,,.. Ido not think that throughout Ireland the potato crop them for this produce. Taking what at, say 50s. a quarter, 0 ,,,,,...._ 2 ,__ 7m...... b... . me. , wee ...... m ..-- e - c -- . is one-ninth, or at meat ouoeigbth , below an average barley at 305., oats at 205., flower at 20, . a cwt., and oatmeal itaest..--.-. AL I LlO Ita, 3d. I 115 10a. 10d. supply. Our difficulties, however, will arise from the very at 15s. a cwt., which ate about the present market priers (for unequal distribution of the sound potatoes ; large area of I quote them from the Mark-lane prices of Jaunary 26, R. D. DAVENPORT. aorretue. be . 1 . 1 country being most tntire 3 , exemptedirom the disease, while which I find in a newepaper on my table) merely making the TIA L--- -- iAD/UM LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, i nnum erable insulated spots or dotnets are approaching sums even for readier calculation--thus, oats are at 223.. and PA., &mum* WC rapidly Si alrecon. to total destitution. About 450 cases of thia kind I quote them at 205., whet at 515., and I quote it at 505.; have already been reported." these imports show the following vellum :- EVNMI, Rut., F.R.S. I Riel t How Mr T. V. Fremantle, IL E. Dough, F.R .8. Davin,/ thus given you the official report of the inspector- -- ,- Wheat moo Mg., I.R.S. , Jamee Murray. so. general of police, written In the end of January, 1848 , 1 will Earley Oats • Wleat _ , Floor Oats 41010' ..- I duanel :Wino,. beq. pale on to the last days of Sir Robert Peel's administration, Years. value at '''''' at n". at nine at solos 13e. Total Mad RAM. Wa. itir William Foam. Berl mo. 365. tor Me. per ~,_ „„_, psi . ~,,,,. Value. FIL A• 11.7 ' ". I.R . V. obert Chasm Em. to that period of the year which, whenever a real potato quarter. quarter. "";„..'` a.* ann. 14. uci. . u.v. famine in Ireland has occurred, has invariably proved the ICU Ch" ' 4. rine A ..-teth Tborapeon, M.D. epoch of greatest suffering and greatest severity, when the - -- 1 or ?emir a -The dfreetars et BO society , wok the view X 4 4 I 4 X X EFIFAve.,„ nom y m ,l o wl,. o r 9 8,, h im 0 b.., mr ,„„„, 00,, prefer stocks of potatoes in their natural course become exhausted, 1891 280.370 73,430 1.2t4,32G 311,311 1,103,379 3,107,043 d ...." 7 - i ve . of rotueed timealsone to a prospoethe bonus i n and their price consequently ries to the highest,-1 mean 1841 1 351,192 165,673 1,361,997 713 , 443 1,770,9711 4,102,291 at root '',,,, . to ibiso ,•• 0 . .-- -.- their ”t e d i Vr . ._ ° rll l.-WI • 05 . !el.. the end of the month of June ; and then I leave to you, who 1014 300,69 J 135,964 1,509,670 1139,567 861,232 3,649,343 dales We "h", ~,rd t "' 4 ,m a i r r ? 4 omomm a' o M7 m e r r o : m 6 T, r,,,,T . are men of business, to extinine into the prices, and to de- 1845 I 031,796 : 139,641 I 1,679,938 1,422.370 794,361 1 4,968,195 motif wv.r m hZ__ If ',,,j,,, o s ee ., t o dt o di or tae jogeooto sad th e cide fur yourselves whether the allege) I r ish famine of "So that poor, miserable, ever.eomplainiog Ireland iv ma * •••• 184.5.6 was a tones fide famine, or anything else than a pre. eeives from England from 4,000,0001. to 6,000,0001. sterling Veer now offers the followlng ad raatedes t text to serve the purpose of the minister. arly, in r etha n e! for these articles of produce alone, to Imed wale of pram= which eon be w ley adopted. To prove this, I commend to your perusal the following nay nothing about pigs, cows, sheep, butter porter, and flax lITAIII,II. lam smannee of XlOO, maids at d a m extracts:- vast quantities of all which articles Ragland purchases from: - eta 8.. RouTtl i fti YR. TIIVILTAN. h er. " , - 4111 " n5m...-.. S . .. 2:: .... err w ' s '''''" . '"" -- . rreadle, bublist, Assi . =TPA VM/lOgy Is 'Thirirs pseliasessisseise-ilest is areas of Cithm sweet _ _ . E . _ mirs's, with an dealers , ious who ha v an e dbeient i 1 li net f u r cara t. to kli m ;w ining the last six months of Sir Robert Peel's Irish gosateil des MI. ; iiii , ........ i . ii r: exact upon it price ; call .. eWs Isee those exactions the market price for an article introduced Coax (or mon olow•rn) ntronrao INTO GREAT BRITAIN - m m o mimosa of ebb* dike ire impeleinglila three expressly for its cheapness, and recommended ander that 9.1011 IRELAND. Mll63•lale el wee. advantage for the use of the poor. Wheat ~, wet Mang goat of Mama end immtheim. " While the price is 365 , per quarter, and it is much under Months. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Fmm. I Oatmeal p '.l„ .ta b s Mlle atm ot as that, it can be sold at a profit at 101. per ton." Ilin7=•• • =reci of a =l Bll2 A. 0017TH 20 1112 TBITELTAN , re toe eimmullea foe easleahme Miestions of premem M " Ifountjopequare, June 28, 1346.--I hope my letter of 1846. , January a . d 6,. amok tv olds b Me meant edgleak yesterday will convince you of the propriety of the price 0. February mot. WI. per ton and the danger of raising it' be daVe ll 'sn at ialat 6 25 op go 'bin Wm' *Return of Provisions in the Market at Sligo, for the dirair..... abi t iNsi x ie . :7:7 Nr ere esk . e rsawi enge . ,ale a reanone audic. , D.t.. week ending on Saturday, 27th June, 1816. • reemilem .e le i np= ed dine Ma la Ihe meter at Ms Moo of Potatoes. Oatmeal. Osta Marcia Qrs. Ctrs. W. Ciet. Cwt. 35,993 16,533 107,323 109,321 118,211 28,305 7,454 93,926 104,176 99,884 19,865 9,053 03,276 86,237 60,04 April..~ May ...... June Total la 6,247 1,829 63,954 83,663 25,731 llwhich the • I Moe Persix 1 536,942 , 49,407 499,550 300,191 393,018 I Prim par . 1 Priceper leferatatlnn and watitadete. 110 WM MaWare 7 N,either at Market was 1 Cat d, Cwt. 1 welt le et months I a a N 0.7. Waterieo-iihme, Idednia teeW Me Denen • mean h o id . 1 ~ la sneriesinal LOOM. Fran i To , Pronif To :: From To J. Longs, sosestan sod Adman% Ja., W. - -I- -'-- -- - ~®' B a '• Calee. 61 = 1 Swine. R OW LAND'S ODO N TO, or PEA It L Is.d.le. d. , ,s.d., s. d. Ir. ds. d. Meath& and Cows. Tombs. ' DENTIFRICE. a o'ilt. Powder for Me Teeth, aim dad of 27th itme l 107' 2 4 3 0 311 013 8 706 16 010 0 - do dreamt sod room welowaM itldoMmto of Me Wallet it liaterdey I i 1646. Na No. Na No. star from the teeth, remove. spots of latiplemt .... 4 . ... 4,813 6a 5,074 41,439 =mid preverres.Ma enamel imparting the meet pore ood - taws' a 1 ... ... .. 600 1 13 6 114 0 .. ... . . January February m oc its eeeo . rd giTebirwolass• and imitime to the breath. 'L in o ... I 6,786 90 2,302 61,709 blir Meows wadi ward Dom the cum., and a healthy action and re • m0 . m ,,, m i ' Month April ........ eietnikat tt. 06 pow boc-Soltf AT A. ROW LAW Daad SON, Mi t H . EOLITH TO MR. TRZVELTAN. May a ammemdee, i wed by all cheralow and pee/ammo " Dublin Castle, July 3, 1846.-1 have the honour to June • WSW WORK BY HOZ. submit to you, that between Cork and Sligo, and, u far as I es Wien tut. wiabliet. twice 14. the Eleventh Number of Total In six 48 609 2,106 67,710 t 71,613 IIZALINGS WITH THE FIRM OF DOMBEY can learn, from thence to Belfast . R IO Ir an , w h lio ,. lesa .,. l: or t _ ......I ...I. pa' T.... 1..., ......... .... sn-wn •wa n months .. 1 . ■aw leTiliK BY BOZ. in lin Si In.. elate peNahat. Wee I. the Eleventh Nambee EBALINGS WITH THE FIRM OF DOMBEY •NWholesale. Retail. nod for Ea portealon. By to D.( ars, With Ilbstratlona by HAIILOT K. Rao. NL Inside: nee-Bevy aixt liwva. 11. Bonverleeneet. finet eneet. " Dublin Castle, July 3, 1846.-1 have the honour to submit to you, that between Cork end Sligo, end, far as I can learn, from thence to Belfast, there IS en wholesale or retail sale of Indian corn meal. From Belfast, however, it is widely extended into the interior. " A Mr. Bosse?' is now grinding and preparing one or more cargoes for sale at Limerick, but I have sot heard any price ennounoed. This person, in the month of March and April, did retail a limited quantity, at 121. per ton, at the time that our price was 111. per ton; but he stated to Mr. Oefan that on the reduction of our rate to 101., he should mil at 111., and which he could readily do, as he could make hi purchases at 71. 10s. to 81. " I annex copy of a letter from Deputy Comm issary General Dobree, on the prices now ruling at Waterford, which, in fact, are the ruling prices on the east coast of 1 Ireland, and even at Armagh and Monaghan, and other places to the north-east, more in the interior. " At Drogheda, and at some other points, the price is 91. " I lay before you extract of the prices on the 31st of May, also on the east side. " The prim of oatmeal, from the increased popularity of the Indian corn m is fallen to 141. and 15s. ; and even at that price is nomi me situations where the latter can be procured, which is o a disappointment to those whe held back this supply with of exacting 255. per cwt." (Endo' .)- DF.PVTT CORXISSART ORNERAL DORRIS TO SIR R. ROLTH. " Waterford, July 2, 1846.—1 think it always my duty to in z ussiih, apprise you that there a a very large quantity of aim in this port, and that if it be consistent with your I could obtain a supply of meal, of the beat quality, adeq to our wants, under 91. 6s. 83. the tom. " I have been told that several cargoes of corn have been parehmed at Cork for 101. the ton by Commissary General Hewetson." 40,609 I 2,106 I 67,790 1277,413 What a picture of a famished or famishing country, ex porting to Great Britain in the first six months of 1816- 1 of grain, 670,899 qrs. of whiat ; flour acid oatmeal, 953,212 cat. ; cattle and swine, 953,212 ! What a happy, what a glorious contrast to the awful and terrible reality of the last nine sad months of 1846 and 1847, when 6,000,0001. sterling have been already expended, and, neverthelena, at least 1,000,000 of human beings have perished in Ireland from famine and pestilence consequent upon famine. But perhaps a still more remarkable cJatradietion to the pretext audaciously set up of famine in any part of the empire in 1815-46 will be found in a return printed on the 10th of this mouth, from which it appears, that, with the exception of 1,361,097 qrs. of grain, flour, and meal, the United Empire was fed from the 6th of June 1845, to the sth of June, 1316, exclusively on grain of British and Irish growth, whilst during the whole of that period the price ef wheat rose but for a single week to 60s. Id., the average throughout the year being 555. In 1844-45 we consumed double this quantity of foridge grain ; the pries of wheat nevertheless, lose to within 4d. par qr. of its highest rice in Sir K. Peel's famine year; whilst in the year ending on the sth of June last, when the reel wolf Caine, though 9,548,870 qrs, of foreign grain actually entered into oar consumption, the average price rose to 102 s. . 111. OVUM! ELLS (MOE TO HEALTH AND LONG LIFE Price Is esch ter poet,_lisAll. le. Di hick WHAT TO HAT RUM, AND AVOID, ( Wail Dlet•tsble• li t dl Ognailatal S. HOW TO Bs WIT. - Juanita Vhsh. , 4l4 lk le hisissiel GM eiNit piv. et eh lima and ratan= sine el sews via sr= ishleisialaisees 4 =l bw heattEl . ll,_. at= alp us at eat coinis is et weillesi la Men hee4etri. the want ems et .40111adieeetion limy he mind hi a IlAwiesitar row ; M 1121 1 ,. 39, C,orribLl; 4 • 747, Fleet einet ; Nehoe. 13T, Walehtee; ailinatnce tbe . Aailier, . Arzytt•olsce Iteeent-eirert. THE EXPRESS.—During the Elections, "THE EXPRESS" will be published at the usual hour; bat subsequent editions will be issued, with returns and the state of the several polls up to the latest reale moment. GOODWOOD RACES.—The result of each day's Races will be published, the same evening, in " TLIE Firms." Raving thus reviewed the past, you may, perpaps, ask ghat I propoes to do for the future. ""--.1 propose to wait tin the confusion created . * the late extra - ordinary calamity has pseud away, and du serrieei--1 tarsi and commercial atmosphere has become clear. My sentiments, however, remain unchanged. Two good har vests, in my judgment, will be required to restore the corn trade to a natural condition, and then, in my opinion, we shall shall see wheat during a series of years average not more than 4.5 e. a quarter, at which price it seems to me that the agriculturist, with tithe, poor-rate, land tax, malt tax, and hop duties to pay, cannot live, asd either his protec tion in some shape and in some degre must be restored to him, or, by a revision and equalisation of taxes, he must be pot upon a fair footing with the Manchester manufacturer. As yet the vast free trade experiment has only been tested under circumstances of famine. Our opponents told us that free trade and plenty were synonymous terms; that free trade and equableness of price were as sure concomi tants as daytght with the noonday sun ; that it was the " sliding scale which would not slide," which under the corn laws created those mischievous ups and downs of price. Mr. Cobden told you that you would enjoy three loaves where before you had two. Sir Robert Peei and Sir James Graham, his pupils, intimated that they would give you cheap bread and high wages. Mr. WOregor, of the Board of Trade, an nounced that the repeal of the corn laws (see his evidence before the "imports committee") would annually save the country 100,000,000/. Dr. &wring proved to poli.ico economical demonstration that free trade in cattle and provisions would save the British consumers in beef alone 20,000,0001. a-year. All the free traders agreed that nothing was required to extend beyond all bounds the prosperity of your foreign export trade in British manufactures, than to open wide and free your ports to all the agricultural and manufacturing industry of your foreign rivals. You can now judge for yourselves how far these free-trade prophecies have been fulfilled. In vain we, the Protectionists, warned the manufacturers that they would be the first to suffer; that they were ex changing their best and surest customers at home for the tsgue chance of new customers from abroad. In vain we warned the manufacturers that the Russian, the Prussian, the German, the American, and the Frenchman, would have gold for their corn, and would foster with English gold their own manufactures. Well, the experiment hat been tried. Have we had equableness and lowness of price ? The same parliamentary return gives these results as regards variations in tbo price of wheat VARIATIONS OP PRIM! PER QUARTER wiTlltee CER MIN PaRIOD!. Varia- CORN LAW or 1846-7, 1817 Within the year 44e. Id. and 102 s. 5d..675. 4d. Within the same month 81 10 „ 102 5 ..20 7 Within the same week 94 10 102 6 .. 7 7 CORN LAW OP 1842. 1843 Within the same year, 455. sd. and 65e. Bd.. 20s. 3d. 1844 Within the same month 49 8 ~ 57 7 .. 7 11 1844 Within the same week 64 2 „ 67 7 .. 3 5 Coax Law or 18 2$. 1829 Within the same year 535. 9d. and 745. 211.. 20s. sd. 1837 Within the same month 61 8 „ 61 9 .. 10 1 1829 Within the same week 67 6 „ 73 6 .. 6 0 Law or 1828.-Highest price was 81s. 6d. in 1839 ; lowest price was 38e. Gd. in 1835. Law or 1842.-Highest price was 6.55. Bd. in 1843 ; lowest price was 455. in 1845. LAWS or 1846 7 f.Fltite TRADI).-Highest price was 102 s. sd. in 1817 ; lowest price was 455. Id. in 1846. The first of these laws, the sliding scale of 1828, was un doubtedly • very faulty and bunel ; 2; piece of legislation. It was a jumping rather than a milling scale, produced com paratively little revenue, and excited the corn-merchants to speculate deeply, and a rtificially to run up or run down the averages. Sir Robert Peel justly takes credit for undoing in 1842 the bad and impolitic law of ISIS, and supplanting it by the more regular aid gradual sliding scale of 1842. Sir Robert Peel truly writes as follows:- " With respect to the corn laws, there were in force on the Ist January, 1842, rates of duty on the importation of foreign core, varying according to the average price in the home market. When wheat was 621. a quarter, the duty was 245. Bd. ; when 68e., 16e. Bd. ; when 735., Is. "Corresponding duties were levied on the same principle on the import of other desariptions of grain. On barley, for instance, and in Indian corn, when the price of barley was under 345. the quarter, the duty on the import of a quarter of barley, and also of • quarter of Indian corn, was lbs. 4d. ; when above 415., the duty was reduced to Is. " These several duties were reduced in the session of 1842. In that of 1846, provision was made for their total repeal on the Ist of Feb., 1849." But whose handiwork was this law of 18281 It was Sir Robert Peel's as oontradietinguished from the measure of Lord Liverpool and Mr. Canna*, which passed the Roue of Commons by a ranhirlay of 229 to 160, and by which, when wheat was 625. a garter, the duty was 160. ; when . ; when 205 • • . Correspmding duties wen levied with, sums principle on the import of other Ihsidideas On barley for Wham, mad ca li Maa sera, when the price of barley was under 345. the quarter, the duty on the import of a quarter of barley, and ales et • quieter of Indian core, was fis 6d., when above 365. the duty was retimedte la. This admirabe project of a corn law , as compowed with that of Bir Robert Peel. in 1828 was defeated by a mad in the House of Lords, led on by die gesedees teem Mr. Can ning's administration, and it was es the sluselders of this cabal, consisting of Lords Bathurst, Mom Westmoreland, Melville, and the Duke of Wellington, that Baleen Peel in the beginning of 1828 rode into power, aid emsied the more restricted corn law of 1828. But that yes may batter judge of the comparative merits of Sir Hubert Peers several scales of corn laws, and how far he is entitled to the repute. SIR R. ROUTH TO Xi. TILETYLTAN. "Dublin, July 5, 1846.—At the present price we shall never sell the oatmeal ; and before two months it will be down to 101. per ton, and fall even lower with the incoming harvest, and the new importations of Indian corn. " If you will consent to take time by the forelock, and agree to sell it at Limerick, and Cork, and Galway at 121. per ton now ' we may save this loss, unless you pare some other service to which you could apply it. But if you slect - le on it you must determine on it at once. Flour or grain speculations require promptitude and decision. You must go before the event, and not wait until it overwhelms you. All these bolder, of oatmeal are coming down by degrees; and their fear of booing now, which prevents them adopting* resolution which they must come to in a few weeks, will be the cause of their suffei lag a heavier loss hereafter." So that it would appear that, far from Ireland being a:- bruited by famine and suffering from dearth at the conclu sion of the potato year, Sir Randolph Routh's only appre hension was that the English government would not be able to extricate themselves from loss on their " flour and grain speculations," and that low prices would "overwhelm them !" The fear was, that their remaining stores and coming low prices would " overwhelm them !" Had government then laid in stores and made provision for" four millions of people," who, Sir Robert Peel assured the parliament, were on the brink of starvation, and could only be saved by a repeal of the corn laws ? Far from it. The balance sheet of the Irish commissariat expenditure shall speak for itself. The minister in his own mind measured the real neces sities of the people ; he did not forget the trustworthy re port of Lieut.-0,1,nel M'Gregor, and judging rightly what would be ample for their sustenance, he made seven months' provision at the outside—not for four millions, as be told the Commons, but for three hundred thousand persons; and right liberal was the provision. Writing from Cork to Mr. Trevelyan, on the sth of July, 1846, Commissary-General Hewetson uses this remarkable language : " The events lock well, and the people were never before so well fed and with such wholesome food." " Balance-sheet of the Commivariat Expenditure and Re ceipts for Services in 'lreland in relieving the Distress occasioned by the failure of the Potato Crop : Dr. To cost and charges of Indian corn and meal' imported from America 105,256 8 8 To cost and charges of Indian corn and oat meal purchased in the United Kingdom 45,923 0 1 To cost of oatmeal purchased ,in Ireland by commissariat department To cost of oatmeal supplied by Admiralty To expenses of kiln drying and grinding Indian corn to June 30 3,887 15 1 To expenses of labour, cartage, boat-hire, &c„ 2 to tune 30 578 13 0 , To expenses of freight from port to port, and by canals to June 30 To sums paid for rent of magazines to June 30 300 0 0 To cost of sacks and other expenses incurred by ordnance department To estimate of further amount required for grinding, labour, and freight 3,500 0 0 To estimate of further amount required for rent of magazines 1,700 0 0 -- £185,432 7 7 Cr. By amount of sales of Indian corn, meal, and oatmeal, to July 15 By estimated amount of fur ther sales of Indian corn, meal, and oatmeal, to Au gust 15 By amount recovered from underwriters ea net avails of Arab, lost 4,684 11 0 By amount recovered from underwriters for general average per Harriet Rock well 95 4 9 61,780 2 9 Balance, being the probable net cost to the public of the Indian corn and other food which has been provided for the relief of the people suffering from the failure of the mop in Ireland 50,481 5 6 £ 186,432 7 7 84,780 2 9 Balance expended in relieving the distress occasioned by the failure of the petal,: crop to to:the 15th July, viz.. a fortnight &SAY the retirement of Stt Robert reel from office £120.652 0 0 Having thus shown the amount of money sent into Ireland to make provision for the people alleged to be famishing in the winter of 1846, I will complete the answer to Sir Rebut Peel, by quoting two documents to show the amount of grain and some other provisions exported from Ireland in 1846, and the first six menthe of 1848. The first document is from the able pen of Mr. Campbell Foster, the well known Times' commindoner the Inn is compiled from a parliamentary paper. In the last week in January, 1848, the Times' commissioner thus orites " Mr. O'Connell quoted the following tabular statement of • In:losed tn 6ir R. Bouth's letter of July 1, 1946. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THIS DAY, Four o'Clock. The following account of a conspiracy discovered at Rome, taken from the Slinephore de Marseilles, is in the main correct Oar ovrn despatches confirm the prin cipal facts, but enter into striking details, tracing the matter to its origin, and furnish the latest particulars, which we will present to our readers in full to-morrow: The Slmaphore de Marseilles publishes a letter from Rome, of the 18th inst., confirming the report of the discovery of a conspiracy against the Papal Government, which was to have taken place on the 17th, the anniversary of the amnesty. Paid agents were, it is said, to have created an alarm among the multitude assembled on the occa sion. Fifty malefactors were to have been let loose from the prisons into the Piazza del Popolo, shortly before the fireworks, in order to occasion confusion. The whole was discovered on the 15th. The people immediately demanded the suspension of the feast, and the Pope having ordered the immediate arma ment of the National Guard, upwards of 2,000 of the most respectable citizens applied to the authorities for arms, and succeeded in maintaining public tran quility. Cardinal Ferretti, the new Secretary of State, arrived at Rome on the 16th, and judged with his own eyes of the terror and indignation prevail iag in the capital. The people received him with acclamation, and in the evening there was a general altuninstion. The first act of Cardinal Ferretti was to dismiss and exile Monsignor Grasselini, the Co nnor of Rome, allowing himonly twenty-four hours to quit the: city. M. Grasselini opposed no resistance, and instantly set out for Naples. The accounts from Amsterdam, of tho 24th inst., refacing to the condition of the markets for public securities, state that Spanish, after having declined a kw points, had suddenly improved, in consequence of Apealatire purchases. The value of Deitch stock had lewd a further depreciation. THE PROTECTIONIST MANIFESTO. Lord G. Bentinck has addressed the following' elaborate manifesto to the electors of the borough of Lag's Lynn : GENTLEMEN, AddiVlSitig a constituency remarkable, individually and 1 sloPectively, for fidelity to all its engagement', public and invite, I will not offend you by excusing myself for not ifring been one of those who violated every political prin *Pls, declared or implied, on which, six years ago, they uncht end obtained the confidence of their countrymen. On the contrary, I pride myself, that, in unison with the later portion of the country gentlemen of England, I have humbly "sista others abler than myself in vindicating the adoofited and essential right of the electors under a free mastitation and representative government to exact from the heights of the shire or the burgesses whom they may hats chosen to serve them in parliaraent, a faithful adherence I) the principles and an honest fulfilment of the understand lea on which they were invested with legislative power. Same there are who have made of late the convenient dis- Mery that it is contrary to the spirit of the British consti• r ation that any recollection of the principles which carried hat into pirliament should survive a candidate's exaltation fiats 4 representative. But whilst good faith, honour, and troth, the national characteristics of England, the foundation ot once of her commercial success and prosperity, and of her Taal strength and grandeur, revolt against this new mo tility, it teemed to me, that, if tamely endured, it must losing sap the entire virtue of our representative system, sowing to the people nothing but the name and the shadow if sovereign power over their own, the Commons House of Putiament, and no safety but in further democratic changes, la the rabritution of annual for septennial elections. I who am content with the constitution as it stands, 'sit it my duty, under these circumstances, publicly to de asasee the minister who by his pernicious example too well Eight ght a lo body of his adherents that to obtain and to political power under false pretences was nothing worse "..a a " Pious fraud;" and, actuated by these sentiments, I shrink not from my full share of the responsibility of baring a 2:l, the violated faith of the representative towards the woustuent body by the signal overthrow of dig Waiter 'to had dared to set the maple of °pray spotting with, rd of contemptuously dime/Moe out tamps( under Ilia the rightful authority of the autos el the United .ledom. however this contempt of the obligations of good sale, evinced bthe administration of Sir Robert Peel and the late par liament, has for a time lowered the national , and destroyed all confidence in public men, this easesiatio. n at least remains, amidst the wreck of public !teractio—that British statesmen, however powerful, have "la tallest a lesson which for half a century or more will let be forgotten—it is, " that the people of England may rot he trifled with, and that good faith towards them can le s•I he violated .7 ith impunity." &Mud in importance only to the manner in which they ~~ L g 1.25 ~ 316 1,163,379 t 3,107,843 1,561,997 1,279,971 4,102,294 1,369,670 863,211 3,949,341 -.I 1,679,936 794,362 4,908,163 -a', miserable, e....,complainiog Ireland re __ .._ _ England from 4,000,0001. to 6,000,0001. sterling yearly, in r schango for these articles of produce alone, to say nothing about pigs, cows, sheep, butter, porter, end flax vast quartettes of all which articles England purchases iron: her.'• 39 ithirrienr pasliesesnenereeenosinsehe-hest sin nrealle el 4(1 .-•• 1110 ** 1848, being the last six months of Sir Robert Peel's Irish 139 I i -' i lo - •__ 38 don which his friend, the author of the " Commercial Policy of Pitt and Peel" now elaicas for him, I place the two scales a wheat and barley and minas in contiguous columns, aids )side, and entire : Sciai FOR WHEAT. 1827 1828 1842 1846 Lord Liverpool and Sir R. Sir R. Sir R. Mr. Canning. Peel. Peel. Peel. a. a. d. a. d. 73 tad upwards 1 .. 1 .. 1 .. 4 72 1 .. 2 .. 2 .. 4 „ 71 I .. 6 .. 3 .. 4 0 70 1 .. 10 .. 4 .. 4 0 69 ~ 2 .. 13 .. 6 .. 4 0 68 4 .. 16 .. 6 .. 4 67 6 .. 18 .. 6 .. 4 ~ 66 r . 8 .. 20 .. 6 .. 4 65 ~ 10 .. 21 .. 7 .. 4 64 12 .. 22 .. 8 .. 4 11 , 63 14 .. 23 .. 9 .. 4 62 „ 16 .. 24 .. 10 .. 4 61 18 .. 25 .. 11 .. 4 „ 69 ~ 20 .. 26 .. 12 .. 4 69 „ 22 .. 27 .. 13 .. 4 58 24 .. 28 .. 14 .. 4 ir 57 0 26 .. 29 .. 15 .. 4 54 28 .. 30 .. 16 .. 4 „ 53 „ 30 .. 31 .. 17 .. 4 52 32 .. 32 .. 18 .. 6 51 34 .. 33 .. 19 .. 8 „ 50 36 .. 34 .. 20 .. 7 ~ 49 „ 38 .. 35 .. 20 .. 8 48 ~ 40 .. 36 2 _ 20 .. 9 SCALE FOR BARLEY AND . M LIZ M • - - - 41 and upwards 1 .. 1 0 .. 1 0 .. 2 0 40 1 .. 1 10 .. 1 0 .. 2 0 1 .. 3 4 1 0 .. 2 0 . 110 .. 1 0 .. 2 0 I ":."'"rni"... .. 2 0 1 .. 410 .. 1 .. 2 0 . 1 .. 710 .. 2 .. 2 0 2 .. 6 4 .. 3 .. 2 0 4 .. 10 10 .. 4 .. 2 0 6 .. 12 4 .. 6 .. 2 0 7 .. 13 10 .. 6 .. 2 0 8 .. 15 4 .. 7 .. 2 0 10 .. 17 10 .. 8 .. 2 6 11 .. 19 4 9 .. 3 0 I 13 .. 20 10 .. 9 .. 3 6 14 .. 22 4 .. 9 .. 4 0 16 .. 23 10 .. 10 .. 4 6 17 .. 23 4 .. 11 .. 6 0 I will now proceed to notice one or two of the questiens which are likely to be discussed in the ensuing parliament. There will be, first, the navigation laws, to break down which is clearly the settled determination of the free traders and the political economists. The navigation laws may be said to be the last kettle groued of oblfisehioned English protection of British interests. The shipping interest now stands alone so a protected ' , interest, and, by joining with the free traders In making war alike upon the agricultural and colonial interests, have, unfortunately, severed from themselves, in great part, the sympathies of those interests which before were attached by fellow-feeling to them. This circumstance will make their position more difficult to defend ; but, as I hold that their position is one of national advantage, the effort must be made sad, with energy, may be successful. Public polity, and the security of our insular position, and distant and wide-spread colonial empire, make it absolutely necessary that, at all times, and at short notice, we should have a numerous, skilful, powerful, commercial marine to fall back upon, to man our navies, in case of a foreign war. Six months suffice to snake a soldier ; nearly as many years are required to make an able seaman. In the last two years of the war 114,000 seamen were scarcely enough to maintain the honour of the British flog. A few years back, our peace establishment had reduced the number of our seanso to 28,000. I believe their strength to be now nearly 40,000; but if we consent to job our ship and our seamen from foreign countries, hiring them in the cheapest market, where can we hope, in case of a sudden emergency, to find 74,000 able seamen to man the Royal navy, and to vindicate the old claim of England to the mistress of the seas ? Of equal importance with this question, even if not of still greater importance, is the reconsideration of our monetary system, and more especially of the Bank Charter Act of 1844, which so crippled the action of the Bank of England, and through her, the whole trade and commerce of the country, in May last. The restrictions of this act are not only mischievous, but highly absurd, in a country the foundation of whose com mercial presperity is its extended credit. They forbid the Bank of England to make use of her character, her honour, and her responsibility—in a word, her credit —to mist the legitimate trade of the country. Year . by year them restric eilas are curtailing them/swans and. l imiting the means et, tranmeting commercial business, which is daily increasing with rapid and prodigious growth. Indeed, of all the prin ciple of modern political economy, the principle which the Bank Charter Act of 1844 embodies, seems at ones the moat monstrous and impracticable. It in as consistent with common sense as it would be to prescribe the same sised shoes for the feet of a child and for those of a giant—the same quantum of foals for an infant in arms and for a railway " navvy." Having so lately, in my place in parliament, * res eed my general views as regards the true financial p ' of the country, more especially as to the clear expediency o getting rid as much as possible of Excise duties and Excise restric tions, and substituting in their stead revenue duties on foreign imports, be they alike the agricultural or the manu factured produce of the industry of foreigners, I shall not reiterate my opinions on this head here. To favour and foster our missiles, and our East Indian possessions, by admitting, as far as the revenue will permit, the free importation of their produce, whilst we exact the utmost duties from the rival produce of foreign countries, consistent with the raising from these a large revenue, ap pears to be natural and parental policy worthy of a mighty eonntry owning colonial possessions containing more than 150,000,000 of inhabitants. I will here only advert to the necessity of England exert ing herself to obtain justice for her own subjects from her faithless and repudiating, but not insolvent, foreign cre ditors. The annual unpaid interest of what are termed the foreign debts, " passive and deferred," due to British subjects, amounts to a BUM equal to the property and income tax, and to a sum nearly equal to that said to have been drained in gold from this country during the last winter and spring in payment for foreign corn and provisions. Them sacred obligations, if honestly discharged, would be paid in cash, gold s or dollars. The punctual payment of 5,000,0001. sterling in gold or in silver would have altogether balanced the foreign exchanges, and we should have - hued nothing of the Bank of England being crippled, nothing of good bills for 3,0001. of the best houses, at sixty days, being hawked about the market and sent a-begging for 2,6001.; or of a South American house being unable to raise notes upon the security of silver bullion ; still less of an Irish bank having 40,000/. worth of silver coin in her coffers being unable to obtain assistance either in note, or gold upon their security from the Bank of England. The distress in Ireland and the mode of relieving it have occupied the greatest and the meat anxious part of the time of the Legislature during the late session. You will recollect that on the 4th of February I proposed a comprehensive measure for the temporary and immediate employment of the people, and the permanent improvement of Ireland. The Whig Government, coalescing with Sir Robert Peel end all the political economists in the House of Commons, defeated the Protectionists, and scornfully re. jetted that proposition as one designed for the benefit of destitute shareholders." At a later period of the session the Government repented the course adopted in February, and embraced the railway plan of employing the people. At the close of the session Sir Charles Wood made his financial statement of the practical results of the various modes of relief in which English money, to the extant of 9,350,0001., had been and is to be expended. The following is a summary of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer's statement, extracted from the Spectator : " Sir Charles presented the following summer! of the expenaihre: 1. Grants: Half of the expense of works ander 9th and 10th of Victoria, e. 107 £2,600,000 Grants by Relief Commissioners (Sir J. Bar goyne's commission) Staff of Board of Works and Relief Commission 310,000 Donations to relief committee made previously to the establishment of the Relief Commission 190,000 Estimated loss on commisaari•t operations, &c , already voted 250,000 Making £4,250,000 Probable expenditure on fishery piers and navi gation connected with drainage 130,000 £4,380,000 2. Advances to be repaid out of rates . _ Half of the expense of works under the 9th and 10th Vie. c. 107 £2,600,060 Loans by Relief Commirdotters 1,200,000 3. Advances for works of utility, repayment of which might be depended on with certainty: For railroads 620,000 Board of Works loan fund 260,000 Estimated advance forbad ithpuggeneut up to Apra, 1848 400,000 • Making a greed total of £9,35 0 t000 thmekee exploded in 1 4 ..4 no., The - mi. __ a .,' August last, and to os, r.- .re 31st of Yank, 1848, was 9,360,0001. The reps — pica* of loans has not began ' • and it would be as menage& as sot to pram heavily on the debtors. In the of the satsuma they would only have to the thstaltneat of the advances of last smi th s ITI To Me stetemeot I will ad add a weed; it Reeds no am mentary. The ma who row may reel too it which party in the state ere the sleet eerekl,=mt, safe, thrifty, and faithful gurgle= et the ligflel In eassirselok, I beg row peosletiew to make wee few ottomans es these_peet whine mite the roll. gigue thaw oi l the Prelmind wait et Ilailsod,-1 mesa =wiweettes, and the mei, temlowirotee the Rama platheed in Ireland. With respect to popular education I have warmly in my' heart, although only with my humble vote, supported the measure of her Majesty's Goverment. I may say of the Roman Catholic endowment, that it is a ' proposition which is repudiated by the Roman Catholic hierarchy, and which her Majesty's Ministers have declared they have no intention of making, and therefore I am not called upon to give my opinion on • question which is not ' likely to arise. But it would be altogether foreign from my habits and nature to disguise a thought which I possess that you have a right to know ; and, after all that his passed on this subject, I think you have a right to know precisely what I do feel and think about it. My animators came over to this country to maintain the Protestant cause and the principles of civil and religions liberty. I should be very sorry, is these respects, to prove unworthy of them. lam ready to maintain the Protestant ' came at any sacrifice, but I never could believe that it was to be maintained by violating the principles of religious freedom. I have always thought that the Protestant cause and religious liberty were identical, therefore I am one of those Who, for 19 years, have consistently and earnestly advocated the removal of all disabilities from, and the fullest and most generous toleration towards, our Roman Catholic fellow-subjects. But while I bold it to be the duty of a true Christian and of a Church of England man to forbear from proscribing in any way the Roman Catholics of England or Ireland, there is not in the Queen's dominions one who would more strenu ously resist than I would any attempt by Roman Catholics or others to raise a finger against the Protestant Church, either in England or in Ireland, or to interfere within either country, still less to diminish, her revenues. Taught, however, by the Ingots I have learned from Burke, Pitt, and Canning —nay, I might add from the prac tice of King George 111., of pious, Protestant, and scru pulous fame; looking to the Canada,, to the West Indies, to Gibraltar, to Malta, to the Cape of Good Hope, to Ceylon, to the Maunnue, and, above all, to our East Indian possessions, where I find all manner of endowments ; remembering that before Roman Catholic emancipation was carried the °li gation by the Roman Catholic priesthood in Ireland to re ceive a state provision was looked to as one of the greatest securities of the Protestant church, I was myself at an early period of my public life, of opinion that • suitable maintenance of the Roman Catholic priesthood in Ireland ' was an arrangement which ought not to excite the religious scruples of the most deep-feeling Protestant. But lam equally of opinion, that this is an arrangement which ought never to be carried into effect without the full and general consent of the English people. This is a question on which the Protestant people of this empire moat not be taken by turpre. They have already been twice surprised - a third experiment may produce alas which a Minister, how ever cunning, may not like to face. The game of 1829 must not be played over again. I will never be a party to such tricks and detestable menceuvres. It must be a question on which ample and due warning must be first given, and the sense of the kingdom asked and taken upon it before it is attempted to be carried in Parliament. Nor would I, under any circumstance'. consent to the endowment, if de cided on, being supplied from English funds or English pockets. The land of Ireland, that has already deprived the Protestant church in that country of one-fourth of its re venue, might well afford, if it be deemed expedient, to supply a liberal and becoming provision for the priesthood ofthit religion which is professed by the vast majority, the tillers of the soil. _ . . .. hr.t) endeavoured to express my opinions without reserve or muivocauoa. If you extend to me again the confidence so which you have often intrusted to me, at least it shall not be betrayed. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your faithful eervant, Harcourt-house, July 24. 0. BENTINCH. £ .. d. rt'At.s V EVENING, JULY 27, 1817. [3d. SECOND EDITION. GOODWOOD RACES. THIS DAY.-(BY EXPRESS). THE CRAVEN STAKES, of 10 soya each, &c. Wilderness .. . 1 Outpost . . 2 Ziska . bolted Won by half a length. THE GRATWICKE STAKES, of 100 son. each. Red Hart .. 1 Clementina .. 2 Montpenaier . 3 Won in a canter by two lengths. TILE LEVANT STAKES, of 50 soya each, &c. De Witt Five ran.—Won by a neck. Stake is scratched for all his engagements. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. Since going to press, our Paris journals and corre spondence of yesterday have arrtved, but their con tents are without interest for the English public. The King of the Belgians left Paris for Brussels on Sunday. Rain had continued to fall in Paris, with out cessation, from Sunday morning to the hour of the departure of the mails hat evening. PAIN Boum., Irtmr 26.—For Bossy.—Three per Cents, 77 23; Iles per Cents., 117 83; Bslstias Theis (1040), 1004; Data ryes MU, 101 70; Bask Shares, 3,300; zathaare as London (30 days), U 374. Oar accounts from Madrid are to the 21st. The ClaNwr Public° hiss done something to stem the tide of unpopularity which has lately flowed with so much violence akainst England, by publishing the reflections in the Daily News of the 13th instant upon Lord Pahnerston's threatful speech on Spanish Bonds. MADIM Boma, 3t cr 21.—Three per Cent* 27 28 15-18; Phe per Cents, 17l; Pardee% 54 t; Coupons, 14; Beak of St. Ferdinand, 136; Bank of St. Lobelia. 123, Exchange an London, 49. Letters from Rome, some of which are dated so recently es the 20th, contain accounts of events so strange that, until further and more precise intelli gence shall arrive, the present reports must be received with some reserve. According to these correspondents an atrocious conspiracy, concocted by the reactionary party and the agents of Austria, having for its object the reproduction of the Sicilian vespers and the mar ,acre of fifteen thousand of the liberal party, has been providentially detected on the very eve of its execution. It will be recollected that a festival was appointed to be held in Rome on the 17th, to celebrate the anniversary of the amnesty, on which occasion the populace would have been assent ' bled in large numbers, swelled still more by the lead ing persons of the liberal party, who had come to Rome on the occasion from a radios of many miles ' round. It was settled, according to these reports, that the military should be provoked against the populace by hired agents, who were to raise an alarm that the soldiers were to be assassinated. The officers, ' many of whom were in the plot, were then to order the cavalry to charge the people, and a general mas sacre was to be commenced. Malefactors were to be liberated from the prisons, and supplied with poignards with which they were to extend the slaughter the moment the fireworks were let off This scheme, it is said, was discovered en the 15th by Cioeroacchio, the popular tribune, who has lately figured so prominently in the movements at Rome, and sufficient proof of it was afforded by him to induce the Pope and the government to order the festival to be postponed, and strong measures for its prevention to be adopted. The Pope is represented as being highly incensed against the authors of this project, and to have exclaimed, in reference to the re actionary party, " The hour of ' gone by, tli;it C.; severe repression and chas tisement has arrived." The National Guards, which was on the eve of being organised, was suddenly called out and arms delivered to it, with in junctions to watch over the public safety. Two thou sand civilians, in their ordinary costume, were petroling the city on the 16th and succeeding days, and were everywhere received with enthusiasm. The principal inhabitants gave up for their accommodation the groundloors of their houses. On the 16th, Cardinal Ferretti, the new Secretary of State, arrived. He was met at the gates by . the populace, who took the horses from his carriage, and drew him to kare , residence, amidst tumultuous acclamations. In this evening the city was illuminated. On the 17th IC Ferretti adopted instant measures of severity the chief persons implicated in the detected OW it, Grusselini, the Governor of Rome, was dimmed. NA ordered to quit the states in twenty-four hew Dreading the fury of the incensed people, that per map, without availing himself of the delay offered. left immediately for Naples. The following plasma was posted throughout the city immediately after tallf diecovery of the *t Norms TO rsn PUBLIC.-1111111111162MS of his otainfirne Card;na - A iiimbnosibel" :To Oleektiouod for the enmities Ks pep papa) Acrelee.—M i llemeliel h ternnmor-Geseru of the Pollee el Pima Pad a ( President of the famous Battery MlMMaleelell wrier_ tae leinebrkut, regrinui); Cepteies Allei and ltmeeerelll Lantlene (Amen eel aeoseorggi ; Beevesed. Islenlimmet of Mgr. Onemelnd ; Mineral, a notoriose epr ; ThipMe brother of the Inspector General of Peres ♦ ; *s areal* Bartok ; Corporal Nonni ; Wee sees of dr Modem Galati ; Fier- Aranti-Patose, doubled Namerabe lerato were dada sad th=en of the alleged casipindoes were seised. Freddi escaped at the dement he wee abbot to be arrested. His servants were found in the ad et Wain his papers, which trey did with such precipitation that they set fire to the curtains of his room. Several documents of importance, however, escaped the flames, and others were taken from the fire imper fectly consumed. MM. Muzzarelli and Bertola have been arrested, but the brothers Galanti escaped. Cardinal Lambraschini, one of the most obnoxious of the reactionary party, and the supposed ooncoctor of the plot, was at Civita Vecchia. It was said that the papers seized at the dwellings of the chief actors contained enough of evidence to develop the entire plot. On the 18th the alarm had in a great measure subsided. The garrison of Rome fraternised with the national guard, and cordially co-operated in preserving order. On the 20th, a considerable number of the leaders, who had been arrested, were committed to the castle of St. Angelo. A letter of that date, from a correspondent of the Courier of Marseilles, says, that the number of civilians under arms was 10,000. The writer of the letter dates it from on* of the guard-houses where he was stationed. The Roman Adreraser of the 17th, which we have received, contains no direct allusion to the detected con spiracy, but mentions the sudden postponement of the festival, the calling out of the National Guard before its equipment was completed, the excitemant of the &c. It is to be remembered, however, that the Roman journals are not yet free from a control which imposes on them a great reserve in all that con cerns political subjects of the day, besides which the journal of the 17th wee printed the 16th, and pro bably contained no intelligence later than the pre ceeding day, the 15th. Indeed, this is apparent from its contents. We wait anxiously further intelligence. Advices have arrived from Berne to the 22nd, in clusive. The delegates of the several cantons had presented to the Diet a formal protest against the resolution which had been passed for the dissolution of the League, in which the legality of that compact and its necessity as a measure of self•defence are in sisted on. The Genevese delegates have proposed a resolution, that every officer who shall enter the ser vice at tle seperio League shall be dismissed the service of the Confederation. This was to be dis , mused on the 23rd, and would no doubt be adopted. The French minister at Berne, M. Bois le Comte, conferred upon the practical joke of the editor of tho Charirari a diplomatic importance, which has ren dered the affair extremely ludicrous., On the 20th ho addressed a note to the President of the Executive Council of the canton of Berne, of which the following is a literal translation : ---.---- . Onteirtemex,—l have this moment been informed that on the day of Saturday, the 17th initant, a member of the grand council of Berne, M. Jenni, by name, hes caused his dog to be dzeorated with the ribbon and cross of the legion of honor, and had thus promenaded him on the public walk of Egoi at the hour when that walk was most frequented. I intrcat you, gentlemen, to give me satisfaction for this act, which I shall refrain from qualifying. Entertaining no doubt that yen will yoursotecs be affected at this, I leave to you the adoption of such measures as you may think fitting in the present ease, whether to prosecute officially M. Jenne, in virtue of the powers which the law confers en the exe cutive government or to the demand of the grand °pulsed of each means of disciplinarian repression as every assembly exercises over its members. Accept, gentlemen, my assurances of high consideration. Berne, July 20, 1847. The govertment of Berne immediately returued the following answer to the above note : • 1. Thst it could not prosecute M. Jenni, geeing that the law gave it no power to that effect. 2, That the affair in question did rot concern the grand council, inasmuch so M. Jenni was not yet sworn as a mem ber of it, and that his election was contested; besides which, even though he were, the rules of the grand council did not confer on it the power to apply disciplinarian mea sures to the private conduct of its members. 3. That, if Id. Bois le Comte considered himself injured, the tribunals were open to him. ILLNESS OF THE. ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF Lottnom.—We regret to learn that the Right Rev. Dr. Griffiths, Roman Catholic Bishop of London, is lying dan gerously ill. On Sunday, prayers for his "spiritual com fort and speedy recovery" were offered in the Roman Catholic chapels throughout the metropolis. COMMERCIAL 4- MARKETS. MONEY MARKET & CITY INTELLIGENCE. Two o' Clock .—The English funds, since the com mencement of business, have advanced nearly per cent. Favourable accounts respecting the crops mat the depression established in the value of grain at the close of business in Mark-lane yesterday have, it appears, induced the speculators for the rise in Consols to extend their purchases this morning, and hence the cause of the improvement noticed. The present money quotation is 881 to g ; and for the account, 88Z to 89. Exchequer Bills are Bs. to 11s. premium; and Bank Stock, 196 to 198. The market for foreign securities may be generally regarded as steady, but the dealings have been far from extensive. Mexican remain 191 to I. Spanish Fives, 214 to 221 ; the Threes, 311 to Portuguese, 30i to 314. INOLISE TLICDOI. lank Sint, IN I per Ct. R.J..Nr.. per Carols A.m. IN I AceL. MjII Se per Costs, NI Zerbegare Bine, SP Ile. p I - - - - TOISION FUND& - 4 par CA Austrian Buda. U 4 I par OM.Oretarla B. IS 4 14 p ili pmer Q lleUriaa Deals, II 6 Omura Deferral teas Dna. INS. 34 I ODD 41DA 5 pu CI. lles, , Di I per O. Ananias /AAA. 67.4 44 6 per Q. Pretoria& Dint lir $ I blue De . . 616 3a per a. Barrer yes sr., r I r--orper :ira . BlL,ll7 l ll * 4 lima Milian DIA, $1 I Ditia Rauh , 111 13 DID* Cohriatt. Del N 0... SI II I par CA Susan DIU, 111 3 Ostuablaa Dumber D1a,14 4 . 4praisli Deldre4 Mu, 14 134 3 pr. Cr Dunk fkis.,46 7 1 Sauna li Nodal Das. I§ $5 lee Q. r Diner Arks, 171 I I per Ct Vestrattla MIL, U4O 4 per Ct. Wm Drink, PA I Ifruzufa Delmer: Das., II 13 RAILWAYS.—The railway market has not at present experienced any material change. Prices however, in some respects, may be considered a shade firmer than last evening; the fineness of the weather, coupled with the better appearance of Console, having slightly increased business. Electioneering affairs, it is asserted, just at this moment interfere greatly with the coarse of operations in this quarter of the Stock Exchange. SALES EFFECTED DP TO TWO THIS DAY LN LONDON. (For Yesterday's prim will he bound in last pipet Arab., Nat, Bost., & E. Jo., II I I Mee. and Leeds Hakes, 45 Air. A Oxford in., MI Do. Thirds Reg., I 4 d =tam-01 8ir., 1 :4 Midland, 1234 44 Do. SOL sh., 91 Hailer ma Holyhead, 254 Nowt & Berwick, 294 IL 00112018, 20 $94 De. New, 94 4 Do. Per. I per Cl., Nc. I, 4 p N. Staffordshire, 104 I Do. do. No. 2,4 p Reed., OuikL, and Reigate, 54 E. Imicaeldre, 194 Scottish Central, 214 II Gt. N. of Engiand, 259 Shrews.lk Elrm. Close A, 24 Do. 14• W 001. oh., 684 S. E. end Dover, MI Si Do. fie. 194 N o. greet Welles Halves, 6/14 74 2, I New ilas. W. Ge. Sd.) Do. FM" 22 Do. New ( . 1014, N 0.4, SI Do. Now 171. sit, 10 ft Yorks., Don., t Gook, 14 Doll 1. /iallig 1005 West Hiding Union, I d i p D Woe C,ornwall, 14 Leeds rit, 94 York and Nowa. Estee., 131 Les.. IK I &8. Coast, $44 i York and N. Mid. Eaten., 414 Da. per Cent, 334 Do. E. & W. Riding Eaten., Mt La is N. ~ 175 Boulogne and Amens, 134 Do. Grelen, New, 114 East ladies, i Li& & I. W., 674 Namur and Liege, eil LIMO sed Denham, 194 4 Pads and Rouen, 11.5 N. DritlbEttension, 4 LIVERPOOL SALES, Jute 25. wee Hpialsolt,.. V Ld.4l: Hry a: li ., ; : tl .7n e ldw:qi d b o p.....usinak ing to-da y .. • .. rm the alseti .... on_ excitement bah Leeds It Minsk, d NM& SlMialares ILP Lon. and N4W.,174 34 111,1 "le 0•2 alai. Dn. New Qrs., 91 p (C&W.M“), la. 4 p Novroastie & Berwick New, 44 p York ad Mir. Wm It Leeds Hideo (Wel eB.), Yost asel N. (IL and W. 2 p BMWs la.), ILI p Do. Fifths (tat. W.R.U. 3 ,1e2d. p ___*__ -. - -- TONE BALES, JOLT 24. Pastern tom Thirds, 41. lie. 4d. rue. kD. New, Si. as. Ot. Northam IL M , . N. British Thirds, 21. h. ed. Leicester and Bedard, Ths. 6d. TALLOW. The market is quiet. Petersburg Y. C. on the spot, ilts. to eSt. 3d. October to December delivery, 475. Separate months' delivery, 475. 6d. PRODUCE.—MVICING-LANE., ifalf-past Two.— The public sales of Sugar consisted of 350 hhcla. Barbadoes, 3,600 bags Bengal, and 300 casks Havannab. There was an evident want of spirit in the bidding' and a portion was bought in to sustain the market. Refined, standard quality, 585., sellers.—Coffee has gone off steadily, without any material alteration in prices.— Saltpdre has become dull, refraction 31 offered, and bought is at 30a.—Cotton dull and inactive.—Rice There has been lam doe. in this article than during the last few days so allevatka in prices.—The Indigo sale went eff unnsaely heavy, and the importer were ob:iged to buy in largely.—ltum ne -0..1,1.— maintained 0 , - date slight ' there di article. 293 13 732 72 3/22 78 51 bezes 34 --......--- f does i r .—f u t fuli appier ynif o laZiiled y dirositiou thil . late el i...:24,4lnw ight advance, but . . 10. ..- CI I MANIOIC-Iltorxrig . 1 .-- 7 7 1 1 : 1 . 10 3 hit ; - r 030001.30. 3 0 . 4 411 oltaankor.-* .• • ''''' "" 98 • ..; 41 s r ... f „ 79 ' bud 7o . ..... - 7 • ! •Z. A • ..-. 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