The Express. — London, England, 1849-07-10 00:00:00

tent.. 64,098!.; ludia Stock, ten-and-a-ball per cent., 315.0001.; Long Anauttiee, 19,4184 'the tollowir g statement of th t exports of the pre cious metals fir the week ending the 6th inst., is fi our cfneel sooreur, viz. :—Si.ver coin : To Rater dam. 2,000 es ; to Belgium, 10,000 oz.; o i r k, Dunkik, 5,000 es. S Iver bars :To ReAterdans, 000 oz. Belgium, 239,040 cs.; to Dunkirk, 130,000 es. Gold coin : To the Mauritius, 688 oz. With reference to the notice we gave in oar ;ra pt...foe of S.'urdsy, of the intended issue of Tree- - our) notes, to the extent of 25 millions of florins, by sh. l the Austrian gove . norent, we have it now in our 34 power to give tho foilowing extract of the imperial so decree, published in the Vienna Geszsote, whica will so throw , eddiional light open the plan of the govern " sent. From this it !appears that the issue alluded to 30 is only a preliminary to a forced loin, the Bank being tolled upon in the meantime to bear the burthen. no 1. The Ilink shall not be required to resort to en leiter of Ist metes for tee purple of providing foe the wan's of the go venswent. 2. it voluntary lels shall be raised es advantageous terns for the government, end also for the loan ooteriburer.; far that, anticipating eztentive subscripttoes, se ae w or increased toe se fazes WILL be !tent. 3. Fur amnia, in the meantime the setersitirs of the go 1114 "eminent & ingestions bearing interest at the rate of 3 per Ile cent. per ensure shall be issued to the mount of 26 minions of limns, which shall circulate Si t r a il teach rin payesset. 10 4. Nut only the amount which shall be raised accoriliag to 30 this, mulattoes, so fir as it shall not be ri quind for the $1 runttiog amount, hut also the war cootribution due by Bar- 1 21' dins shall be paid over to the asional beaks, in reeked.* of the advances made to the e...rement. 6 It is in costemplatiou to reword the p ro hibitieri to es- es. portiere the silver can of the nide. to According to the same &emits his imperial Majesty has decreed that, it shall bo at the option of all ra holder,' of obligations of the Austrian debt, whethc tre at home or abroad, to receive payment of the coupons to and "lots" which have fallen due, either from the bank as heretofore, or in new obligations bearing i s : five per cent. interest, which interest shall be paid by es rs banke at Frankfort on the Mayne , and Amsterdam, 1 : to be name! hereafter. et The advice. received to -day by the continental 13 mails are, ou the whole , satisfactory. The public 'Ai Rinds appear nearly everywhere to have improved, ra and business in the interior would take a more de- it aided turn but for the continued unfecunate blockade u of the Elbe, which appears to be persevered in so per- in tinaciourly by the Danes, in the hope of arranging a g• peace with the Germans on better terms than they so think they would otherwise be able to obtaio. ISO From St. Petersburg private letters report the a market as being very quiet. Tallow bad been dealt 1 111 in for August at 1 11 and 112 rubles. Potash main- : takes' its price. Some of the new arrivals of hemp Is had been realised at 82 rubles to 85 rubles. The total exports up to date amounted to 210,000 ponde. Soft se wheat had exchanged hands at 28 rubles. Sugar was 41 doll. Exchange on London 36: to 7-16. is; se C .peuhsgen letters announce that the ship Brack. is; Captain Grey, from Newcastle, which attempted to t oo Captain the blockade of the Elbe, had been set at liberty, and had cleared out for the Baltic. At Berlin, the national fande, without giving way, I: were not quite so firm as on the previous day, and to ralway shares generally had declined, some lines con siderably. Magdeburg shares were much better. The ;3 4 exchange on Inndon was higher, and on St. Peters- JO burg rather lower. 30 30 Letters from Vienna announce that the new issue hir of 26 million florins had not affected the funds. The et Two-and-Half p.r Cent. Metalliques had been nego tiated on the Bourse at 491, and the Five per Cents. 32 at 92¢ to 93; the Bank shares at 1,093 to 1,100; gold agio 261, and silver agio 18 per cent. The in current exchanges were, on London, 12.10 ; on Ham burg, 176; on Amsterd am, 1691; on Frankfort, 120; as on Paris, 1431. 10 At Bremen coffee was in animated et mend at e t . higher prices, and ordinary Rio had teslised 71 groats. so Sugar was firm. The exchange on London was in tiln demand, and was quoted two months at 608, and sight 16 at 812 dollars per 100/. s• 100 At Hamburg there was not much business doing u in the funds end railway shares, but prices of the ts former corainued firm. Money win abundant, and g i bil's on London and on Paris were in deemed. In so the exchange and price of gold there was no Nark tko. Bills on Frankfort were also in demand at ir 1874 for three months. ts Letters from Franktxt quote an improvement of sti. lin Austrian Meialliques ; other funds were held firm. et. Amsterdam letters advise great firmness, with some t o, improvement in the national and other public secu rites. In integrals a good r'eal of business had been se done, and the last transaction was at 51 7-16; the ss Three per Cents. at 59¢; the Four per Cents. at 781. s Spanish Three per Cents., local, at 27 7-16. Russian, js 1816, Five per Cents. at 1021 1; Rooks (II pe) Four per Cents. at 831 to 84. Austrian Metalliques, Two-and -a- pee Cents., at 39 1 to ; the Five per a t Cents. at 731 to 741. HaudelersaatriellaPpy, Four- so l 3 and.,'-Half per Ceuta, at 138 . At Antwetp coffee continued In good request, and 33 11,125 bags had been realised during the week. The 9t yak'. sets of cotton amounted toe,Bo o bags against 7,885 bags imported. Ice ts of dty hides so amounted to 13,000 hides, at prices varying from 20 te to 40 cents. to THIS DAY. Two o'cioci In the absence of much actual boldness in the Eng- lish fends di / have declined / below the opening t i , price of the morning. Consols for account si* were first quoted at 92/ to /, but were gi subeequently dune at 921, and are now quoted at 921 to to /. Its operrions in them for money were dune to at 92/ 1,1, and 921. The Three per Cents. Re- r, duc:d wee dose at 921, /, and 1 ; and the Three- 33 and-a-tauarttr per Cents. at 931 and 93/. Bask Stock were done at 196 1, and Ex che q uer Bills at : 475. and 509. premium. m u The transactions in the foreign securities were s e t limited, but the deelings fully maintained the prices s) of yesterday, and in m-at stocks were done a shade better. The Wiliest; of the morning is the follow ss lag : Brazilian Bonds, at 831. Dutch Two-and-a- se. Half per Cents., at sot ; the Four p er Cent. 13 Certiflestes, at 80. Portuteu.se Converted, at 30. Russian at 107. Spanish Five per Cents. at 181 and 1; ditto Three per Cents. at 34/. Venezuela Two 6 : per Cents. at 23. 2. The French Renter on the Paris Bourse closed yes- * 0 terday, the Three per Cents. at 54.50, and the Five N per Cents. at 8870, which is an advance of 5 cents. s in the later over the closing prices of the day 4 previous. to so examen TURD& Boot Rock. 105 8 3 pot et. Con. for A 0.3.. 97) i to a mem zed. Almon s ISt Per Cu. SA t 20 a per Ct. Cum Ma., abut I.zolloquermiu. 47a. to 501. 10 TORSION VUNDB. 20 i pot P. Avotrioa Book 1 per Ct. Orem& Bd‘. M t 2es ft pot P. Boc. Noittla. 33 $ anemia Deferred ado.. 34 t so at Ow Coot. auto. 6 rowt Qt. Ilea.. 1818. P 2 30 Spar et Brazilian 11P.,13 3 grit Ot. Fe sense Ms.. 51 3 Ditto Now, 674 Cos y .. 30 31 28 I w it e o t. co lturnoco u rit 4 6 3 3 renew 133'003 7 116., _lB * Ditto Plumb. Dol. &IL.— Plc aVIOO O DU . 35i 5 00111i1511111 Vapitsior MLA. Iseihnid Rds. 0101. Dooldi IP. 63 T ii Pr Co. Dalt Ilk. itli Ile /a 01.7"4Taillit.M 5 4 pot Co. Path Oortt.. lit at olleilliehli Iblil.• fi 76 to -111a$11140-L•3la, ilmi 0. will be lone public rake of New to-alone. (Temdb), bed T it the habetemi do but bow more lireimem than they did es Thy the Webb drill probably have be whole advantage Cl thendred ism belt Cl dd., or reseeded lo thus ce Friday. Thee ere Si. pubes mitt rate. dee. sad tea m, amd the seszterly ale et blip mill oho oomesebee. Th ste a ms by pinto aratraet to4by hie tom wry limited eeserelly sadlho prime el Priley ramie osettered.—Oettom : 230 bah* eokt letr.—bileer dbl. Ito 34.; Moo, 39e. /d.; rough fat, b. Id. ,• ant eratafteks week 1,277 smite; Mimed, 786 casks; bob II had IS 1 'One ailii; et the ems pried WA year it mot 6,491 embo—Fsdeleiles —Debar t Th ere hamilieem limp arrivals tram Inland, the embet is dA awl prime be guild U. lower. - Terriga Ma Si. d ad a e is het! ibmealb—lbelo MTh iOntll2ol4 im mil ke ilk demel raw privethave bees pad. Ameliellb dm/id. Slo, milk $ lit die mold. limos reward • reedy rio et bet web edam. Dowel pork, WA, la tar demand; the soak es hand Is amell.—Ods moody. WA pale, 331.; mow. 291. to 301. ; brows mod yellow, 211. to 20L; um% 731. ; beeiLmater, 761. :lad 371. 10e. to kW ; booth sea, 121. to 3114 ebb, 04144 aO . to 411.; :sash\ sad Sieily, 361. to 39 11 Latta SOL ; mien aut. 341. r 3314 bid, raps, pole, 37L 10m; 1.031001 1111111 LY DOCK 111112013111.—Jetr 7. - imbed. Dellvered. Pr. bet 1 1 / 800 a 3 . 47 . 1 • 41 e. t.146 — l - 11+3 - — sEili — sow N..ithe . bop MT'S 10.0dt 176223 114212 Preeml '.; Ilifleio. bp 17.831 1.161 1011.714 210.090 /onion _. .... .r- 7,940 6200 193 MO 1 9e rei:a . W ... 1 .......'..... 4 - i6 41 1413 1U 8,814 "*". •'- • • *tail lAN f7 k 21.476 $247 NILL . ......= Is 4233 a O3 111.303 1b1it116•1422, TI72IIDBV 230 17.11. The !loin NO s Si. restoolsq heavily. e;2 will 000 in ewe anal • libber. Itebted baton overly Is beemed, but prime me • bole hibreede at the barer& aOll/17 IMP• kw. ___,to _, 11 .• Colima. Thew soon*. eteedm. Set alb m lOO '''''' to liel ~6 44111011. 4 : 4 Kb Ole hae eamembeed ; eel am see mei at telly het Am% prom ; 1100 iimaiptkmeLie belertill tism.—Th t The Ulm Dhe Pm elver, Weeny. TY isplosis= l ie w,{yob a 5 .,1 7 . -atom 6111.-Lillee bawl sib bet so improve ment la prier ems be mretal. • • • . 1. T isitkait is Amor eantri_ .I=Rs.; gliabar to Doman, ; .1 1 7081. . RAILWAYS. THIS DAY, Two o'Cioct. h the share mart• t to-day paces generally are steady, though business is y inactive. The demand continues to ex:st for Nu tranteed stocks. Great Westerns and Eastern C.nuities are firmer, whilst Caledonians and Brigh•ons have receded a little. York and North Midlands are better, at 291 to 30. French shares are firm. alai to-day up to I o'clock• IN. I Sams ItaLwArs. »~iu-~----- ... . 6l niDs. Pribrens AL . . b0t..1144..1155. 6 earns it Hon nit. (Gt Nat miens, p.• t. sod Onon sr nib ponsiss n Downings ornate. oriftetv., sod lion le e1m.7141.., mai Doan son duly peid. or yid le gio nbons gumbo N nibbl ing Nabs" Is • DID4OIIII/ 10 Eli Pid/Sfleet M. CUM, Ild7bsed IS Do. Nodommoo 31/ MINIM 'Mat Jam. IS Iled Is Do. A (grE. 18 H.) .. 6. D6 ( 61.106)6 p. Ct Pod 10 Editors Cowles 10 Do. New Goo. 6p. C".. VI Do. Lot, p. Ct.. No. i Do. do. No. 60 Do. N. k 11 per Q... _ . 40 Da. nileo Saiis, dais b (kils Lit D. lb.) DIL Ohs C. ditto 20 D6.11=. 6P. Ct.) 33 WI 1 23 Da. Now 61 Da. ds. Yam pow PreL tt. 26 6 j Dale la mbb. si 00 sod 012012 . 3 w. 13 Minfort m 4s ia lOtboa 13 Ds. SO Grist AMY= y% Dane. 11. D 0.4 Arsot,Deferred 7 D0.=. 1. 1, 6p Cl.. Ds. 43 Both. 064 W01.(172 . .) .011 Great Nara of Ihnitma.. 3.. Do. No; SO . 20 Do. Nor. E3O . . 13 Do. New, 3.13 .„ 100 Gnat Westera IS Do. Now, S IS Hull sad WSW -124 Do. Ares - SO Lealsotar sad CarUsle 10 Ds. Mikis . _ . _ 17e to IN Par 2$ 24 13 114 1011 111 I I pm& 4 I 1 pa. Pm• 23 sa dia. 7 die. 11 1 dls. 239 31 116 99 11 2 pm . . 17 19 as ii Si die. 2 2 3 11 2 1 2 2 I 1 11 pai. Po. $5 Pm A 14 ii $ 8 a. 19 17 &IL 19 17 db. 169 199 17 111 .. "i "i ar. 24 1114 Saya.. 1 pa 40 42 _ . .. 11 11 6 2 1i I di& 92 91 olio. 12 di. h dis. 139 134 dig. as 239 11 1 1 4 l Pau 10 i i pm.' 49 pos. 21 pa 1 - it dis. 34 dlib 100 ii lus—.l"[7.l"rnii, 224 Do. & Emu Pt Do. ... - IS Do.llltario .• ~- dohNow (gva. 6 t u 0 21. L )- D Do. o. Limpid & Lo. Watt 111d1ng U 23 Do. Prolog and Wpm 10 Do.i dorm (A) 60 Undo sod DrodtoctL.. 30 Ludo NW Thrtk 30 lbw 191 Lasiesamd IloiwoSl - SO Los, Briglose, i &Owl 1I Do isorolsod p. latoCeold Thai . 30 Do. Prot. I pot OM-. 30 Do.Coant. 1 p.0„1632 I Do. Now /3 pm. 6 p.Ct. 121 Unica sod Oterowaoh t; ltAeam sx; .wi is tlortio7rlstiani;. 2 130. P 11304 1 120.51020.,1.. ;antri(ej 30 Lanka It Soutb.W•stero iii 6.174.,1.5ii ..--- . /4 Do. New, Z4O ... . 161 Do. Turd' ... ... . I Do. Preference 7p. Ct.. 4 Mlinels., Buz., and Mat 1011 Mush., Sher., and LIDO 16 Do. shares, No. 1 .. IS Do. shares, No. 2 ... 111 Do. sham, No. 11 .. 10 Do., sw CIO Pref. .. AO Do., Great Ciaintaby ... Do. 101 Do. do. e Do siss isuxiiniZ42... U Do. Grimsby i Dash ... 44 Do. Llsoola uolos 100 Midland .. 100 Do. C. SO Do. LTO shorts . 10 Do. &rm. sad Derby 100 Do. B. sod B. op. Cent. 1 13 Do. Now :120 ... 30 Do. Gowen. pw — Ct.. Do. Doors& di par et_ 12 SI Do. rds n Do. Preforthos IT_ North Statrurdshhe 30 (Word. Wore., &Waiver. IS Itesd.,Oulld.„ sad Reigate 1 4 Roystoo and lUtahlu . . 3$ Scottish Central 5 lirews,Bl Ihros., elhosh I T Do., Usos It Do., Now Ornalased 1$ 4brewsbary and 0111•411 gr. Ws) ._ I% Do. Oswestry 10 1 _l744iWani . . It:et. -.: 3 S/34p4w Usk. ... ... Dram 3$ Do. Prams* ... ... 14 South Otalkord.hlre ... .. 331 Sash Omura ... ... .. h 33 Ds No. 1 ... ... .. 30 Da Na 2 ... ... _ 10 Ds No. 4 Iteplearsl .. 10 Ds Us 4 Snip ... 10 Tort. Da ,Is °ode_ 12 41140310.11.135draL mai Ossisll34=l. 33 Watseka owl - 03 Wear Vamp, •p. OL ps. U Db. 66 Os . 46 WW_llluir., 01 Wm. DI lreuirosUluelok 30 Ds 1141•4104 (Yak a limulle) —. 4 Ds OJLL Nohow at 30 Taking Sulk Ulan& 10 Dii. lislinus nuns Immo% Amebaean Ns Min " = 8 20 Imes (ffliesii) 74 Doi* si Sot bait S Omit Mao Pedals . lea Do. 1' u. 1 le BA i dls. Par re } Pa. pi $ pes. se maim, *" Is mom of Meer 7 Odom liseissu II Pads arl Odom II Palma Iwo IN MY sealltiosburi SO Imo sal Imre 10 11=1“ orl Mom 11 Twee sod Mew 21 71 die. 7 21) die. 4 32 dls. St as ii ii i di S dia. le 11. 71 71 as. LIVERPOOL, July 9. STOat-Enciennon. The feeling to-dar was ether doll, but idiom remained stead7.—Bales: Birkenhead, Untidily*, and GL (221. dam, 6 rer et. till '3O), 61 d. — Lanteihirs and Tarkike (B. k B.), 191 d.-10Itto (6fth shared, lls. 3d. 4 d.— Ditto (321. slats). 61 a.—Ditto (pad dared, 121—Ditto (I sham), tN .1.-lAverpool, Crosby i , sad loatlypert, 3 ) I , lk. 9d.—Landes sad Nora 131 I—tto (nem e hars 31 p.-11nnobaster, Ilbeinie, and Lincoln (pre ol f. shares), I c ll-11idland, 66+ diaree). e. t 24 6.—.4outh EXAMS and Dover (new No. 161 db. ) , 1.11 L—Dltto (No. 4, tar . as 1.0. 61 din), 61.—Icat and nth JD - Wad, Xt. MANCHESTER, July 9. BTOCK-ZicitAxon.—There were but va7 tor trainm an bobs die =rain radars( Hs SW& Eziasey swil though maw mom Pair Ufa allmosa. the most my be ebsnabsdaril as ivey "dot dimes at prism BIRMINGHAM, Ad, 9. erocz-ExtrArtm—The result of the rarer trammeled Ire to Wheats a greater degree of &mares la thh mutat p. MIS ON whited of a better demand for shwas H t has for eras tree prL North sax were done at 41 Ms. LBBDS, July 9. lITOOR-ISCRAWOI.—There is TIT 7 little business doing this nsonntg, nosy ot the broken sad deniers being mined at the Cret the Lean and Think Railway. In Ike kw tareadione av e a token pnee there is so alteration worth sodas. The beri. nen dime is se the telleeriag washer: Leeds minket Estes ohm. Shiti,ie.dfe. BRISTOL. MY 9 . Ihromlixammen.—There was not meth badness Ma rissi.ia the market to4ta7, but prices went 'toady at my lest Mosul HINT AND GIAVISEND.—This lias is now ready for public treat, sad will be opened to Gravesend on Mon• day, the 23rd test. Lnecouramits.—Yesterday that 'portion of the Man ebasstsr, Shefgeld, sad Lhonlashire Hallway, attests between Shrtield sad Galasboreugh, was walked by Captain Whits, the ataverentant lespesear. mad reported fi t for public Nat. Tas pads* ef the line le sheen 11 =nee in length, and it epees op et direst railway selanntakation between V Liverpool, liseshuisr, Sheffield, sad all the eastern e-antles. The Wins will running on Inesday nest. A BBIDOIS BUILT IN A WEEK —The ereesbn of • large railway bridge, 76 feet 6 lath , s long and 80 fent high, in a we. k, may be regarded by some as an impoembi ity, bat the hat bas b.en all but accomplinhed on the Leeds and Think Railway. Hera Onside and Parker, subraontraetors, laid the trandation of a bride* of the dimensions specified, behind the Retreat, at Arceley, near Leeds, on Monday, June 25 ; on the evening of the following day the abutments were raised to the aprioging, and the centres placed fur support the stones of the arch during its construmbn. On the WWednesday everting the key roles were fixed. On the following Friday the masonry on both sides woe raised to the level el Pra euruices ; and on the next nay a roadway was made across the bridge, which would have been completed but fur some little delay in the supply of stones for the para pet wall. PRZI4CII RAILWAY Tadvrec.—The following are the last mamas at t /moss rereipts of the principal French railways: NO•11111111.—FromJw , e 23 to July I Fassengers, 14i,salt.; goads, 132,19 W.; total, 314.00 Rallol.—From Jun. 24 to June 30 : Poissogers, 67,393 f.; goods, 56,49 U. ; total, 134,0031. Have.—From June II to June SO : Psomagers, 29,001 f.; goods, 43:11t.; 'OW, 73,479 f. 01111ANAL—Pras June 23 to July l : Pareniers, 89,419 f.; goads, 93 13. 22: J .. total, 112,7432 ex.—From Jane 24 toJons 30: Passengers, 33,832 E ; goods, 143,441112; total. 112,r48f. Vilasos.—From June 23 to July l: Passengers, 34,615 f.; goods, 25,412 E ; total, 60,229 , . Botwores.—From June 23 to 1: Pamengers, 23,010 f.; goods, 2,349 C ; total, 26,111112 Linerra.—Yrona June 24 to June Passengers, 3,410 f.; goods, 8,040 f.; total, 11,6701. i io pa. 59 Se p.r pm. 7u 11 a►a ►► a dia. Si 3 dl.. 31 311 7 61 di.. 21 21 Pei. 41 4f 41s. $6 40 6 7 pa. ItO 102 Is 20 32 20 d. 3 gai. 15 14 db. IS 11 dia. dt dia. 111 1 34 as - 9 - i dig. 8 1 *4 44 1 Ile Ilf 19 21 _. ii IS II 3 164 ii au. 7 Ms. 14 dis. 14 di& 4 (Li. we 12 121 dia. 41 41 118 127 38 38 13 II 425 19 20 I$ 1 5 135 II 3 si 11 4 Par 4 t sm. 41 dia. II 19 181 171 23 24 1 Pm. 31 dia. . 6 11 51 di.. 11 pm. 2 ms. paz 1 dia. par 7 2 dig. 13 1 21 2 did. dig. 12 !3. ;O1 ;it di.' n 47 24 22 db. xin 34 1 db. 4 f ea. 3 2 44 3 4 SO We gi 5 44 8; di& 29 . 3°_.. ths. ii ii THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 10, 1849. HOP INTALLIGENOE. MAIDSTONE, July 9.—A close examination of mineral pinches In this immelate locality has led to the conclusion that the tweet vermin hare, upon the whole, increased during the past week, and that the grounds are seen worse than is generally imagined. dune Sew pieces there are, lard ed, which show come improvement, but even these are in a bad Ude. Still it mu-t not bi imuined that Me Wiesen put recovery; favourable weather may yet bring some li Titi.t.ino.—The hire is now turnir g yellow at places, and the effects of the rennin show etroagly on the weak bind. The nigger have made the r appearance but we sea no diminution of lice. Appearances altogether would indicate a lower duty than last week. BRENCRLEY.—Our corpisponrient says: During the past week I have endeavour, d to find out the real state of the hope In this and neighbouring parishes. The general reports an tray unfavour able, end from what I have seen myself, I havens lamitation in quoting them daily falling in to a blight. HAWKRUNAT —Tile grounds here are cluing very badly ; there is no improvement. GOUDRUYST.—ibe preceding week has not been attended with any improvement; in fact, the greatest portlan have retry graded considerably, the fly having attacked them simultaneously one day, and di•perred the Idiom's& and hot without cau si ng injury. In some grounds the whole of the bate, from bottom to top, Is covered with vermin, with not the least indication of lateral shouts making their appearance. ORPINGTON.—About three out of four hop grounds about here will not pow a hop, the fourth only partially, to all present appearance. There is a very little bide, and no chance now of any more growing. and what there is, is dyi ng off as fast as it can. CRANNIMOK —The bine still continues in a very preca rious state, we think rather worse than last week. IGHTHAM AND BSAL.—Tbe hops have improved but slowly during the last week, and are still in a precarious state. EDLNBRIDOS.—The bet grounds are doing pretty well, but the weak Mats are quite done. BUrigni.—At Tunbridge Wells market on Friday the re ports of the Sums planters were that the cluty,must fall counderably under 100,0001. FARNHAM, ALTON, AND COUNTRY DISTRICTS, July 9 Our predictions a fortnight since are verified to the very letter. The plantations, with very few exceptions, are completely blighted, and the only hope remains that we may have • good ground rain, and get a few hope at the tops of the pules. There is scarcely a pocket of yearling Farnham or country hops unsold, and very few of the line growth of 1847, which have advanced very consideruUy.—Maifsfone Gement (ot this day). 1.00111. Ph. Noe is still vigoroue, and branching across the still some lice, and ne .rly as many nigger ; the opinion hers is, that they are cleaner than last week. We era by no means cut of danger, as • change to • moist and cloudy atmosphere might alter appearanoes quickly. They were very much worse at this date in 1647, when hot weath-r saved them. YALDINO, WRIT FARLRIGH, CHART.—The hors are RS wally farther in eh. blight. A few pieces may be found that will through. The crop must be very short. struggle —The hops in our parish remain nearly as they were last week. In tome grounds the blew ennAnues growing, and looks well, but there is a great deal of fie end lice, and in many of the pounds the bine is very weakly and had. Unless there is a change soon for the better, there cannot be many hops. °TEAL—The late hot weather has destroyed the meter part of the vermin. Should the present hot weather cantiatie, we may expect to grow a fair sprinkle, but not an average mop, owing te many grounds being slack of bine, and many of our best do not tracts. well. Uuatax.—As a rather large proportion of our plantations have at no time during the season been very foul, and as we hare no fresh fly, there Is still a prospect of our growing a rather large proem bun of the winning crop. However, as has been before obeerved, the One is very generally short, and the amp consequently cannot be ULCOKBE. LEEDS, BROOMEIELD.—Daring the last week, al weak and sickly bine, which is about ore-half of the plantation, are itoite fast recovering. Toe beat grounds are rather improved, but not free from vermin or honeydew yet. WHOCHAM, SHIPROUItst AND lORTHAM.—The hop plan. cations in this district with few exceptions remain In the same pre carious state as last reported, many are Print way to the alt ack of the vermin. Tame are Weever seek-rut gardens which have scarce any fly or lice. Ar mod Ilaxtul they are certainly not II struck with a block blight" although severely suffering from the effects of too lice. kIuViNOALt AND ADJOINING PARISHIS. The hops have not improved the last week; they appear past recovery—full o ' vermin. WITIRSHAX —Some few grounds that were more lightly sneaked by the lit In the first instance than otl'era have continued to inaprore a little daring the past week, but in general the vermin have Mammal, and the majority of the plantations in this neighbourhood are apparently almost irre wverably blighted. Braranutigor —Lice and hooey-dew appear to be extend ing, end, without a speedy alteration, but few, if any, hope will be grown ta this locality. CHANBROGIL.— fhe few are improving ; the many are in a very bad state; this is the situation we are now in as to the prospect of hop. ROLVIINDEN.—OsT hops are decidedly worse than Ist week ; full of lice, which are following up the bine to the top, with some increase of fly and much honey. lee. It is toady impossible for the nigger to clear them before they go into the blight. lIGRSMONDIII.—Ie some plantations in our parish a de cided improvement has taken place. Fly have entirely disappeared, and the lice are fast decreasing. Hopes are entertuine- that a moderate crop will be grown is these grounds. In others the lies increase; the bine his aimed growing, and a total blight now seems inentabie. East Karim —A corrispondent says, " I have been through the principal Vantations of Fast Kent this week ; I find them generally very foul, and many slack of hire. They are not looking so well as in the neighbourhood of Maida'one." Suestx.—A correspondent at nye, who has examined the grounds in that and the neighbouring partibes, says : "A great and rapid change has taken pint In all the plantations about here. Gar dens that were a week age, covered with vermin and honey-dew are now almost free, the lint sun and niggers have done the work. The forward bine promise a fair crop, but the short bine appear as though they really could not do anything ; but warm showers, and moving the moil by shimming, may yet do mimic s." TICSMURAST.—The hops in this parish are decidedly worse sine our last report. The wash gardens sre In a sad state; we have a sew plantations which have not b , en so full of vermin, and may perhaps grow some hops, but under the mot favourable circum stances not even such grounds will produce very largely.—.Voidstone Journal (of this day). COTTON.—LtveurooL, JULY 9.—The market to-day was well attended, and a good stock was offering. The feeling was very stiff, but prime did not choir, escept Sea Islands which were 11. per lb. dearer. About 9,000 bales were sold, including 3,000 taken for specul .tion. HATAY. July 7 —The soles of the week have been 6,(95 bales, at prices myth, from as low as 52fr. to 80fr. 30c. The aggre gate importations of the week taw been 23,073 bales. The market was alto during the early part of the week, the sales not exceeding 700 or 800 bales per day. The advice' brought by the Hamann from the United Mates immediately brought acty into the m arket, and nearly 4,303 bates were &speed cf the same night, at an advance of lfr. CORN.—Claurscrarras , July 9 —A fair supply of Wheat to day, and a steady business doing at last males prices. Wheat, to:. 10s. to 13/. 3a per load. Oats, les. to Hs. per qr. Beans, Ws. to are. In Barley no ales. HADIIIOII, July 9.—We have to report that our market was thinly attended to day, and moderately supplied with corn. Scarcely anything but Wheat on offer, and of that the supply by no means large. Our millers, however, being needy, late fries were fully sustaUtel. WOOL.—EPPtwo FAlL—This fair was held on Friday last, and though perhops it was not quite as largely attende I by the farmars so we hare seen it on Kane former occasions, ow;ng to many in the district being still busty engaged In the d 7 mo d , there was little fnOl off in the supplies f Wool sent—certainly zone in the real badmen spirit whvb always characterises this mart, for, under the hdlomme of rather better prices than we had to mooed lain year, every Isom (with the exception of one lot for which It seemed no one hid sollisirt authority to bargain) was sold; and, buyers and sellers wising a osition to meet ma other fairly, this was effected with very flaw wends, The sample fleeces were as usual shown In the yard tithe Thslimi Omer. being booted and arranged under the sneer isasndenes Griffith., the number amounting to nearly 7,000 ; last year It was 7,2 t 1. The general prices for Teg Wool, Ild. ; Zee, 10d. Iiky.—SMITIITIILD. JOLT 10. MINIM. Cooper and Divie report the supply short, and trade beak, at the following quo. tattoos : Mae Meadow. 7S. to KW r to Ma Lia to lea New 60.. to No. tvestoe tOn to on+ Clem .. Ca. Ma 'Law—. lOe. to 40a New 63a. to TOL CATTLE, etc.—Cowls Isras, Jaly7.—The show of Sheen and Lambs did mot exceed that of last week, and, owing to the feed grusg cones* diert hoer the MO weather, very few purcha'ers anal le found, awl grime were the tees lower In Sheep, but Lambs I trod quality seistand lamweek% pries, although but few were The supply Mikan' was totem* ped, bet there were not so lit GM as wen ghost Ist week, and readier saes were Lea owe bung co Usk end scarcely any but the best unlities were not end pries ,triad nearly 3 peer cent. No nay good Sikh Cows were to be nu, the demand for which does ea et ell diminish. Deekling Cetus were frem Is. to ht. net had =Tpia, although by no tome pludful, were very dull ia sale, ors full 3 per est. Steeper. Storm and Sows In Pig were Ma N is bum Ie suss, Supply: Sheep and lambs, 4,790; Beasts, IN; Mrs IN • Um, ; floras, 26. There woo a good supply Harm from tbs. Sown by Air. J. Martin. Belgian Cols of two yews eid, W. to SOL PloaWiell, July 7.—Our market exhibited a large show of kola sad abort-bores, with a few Deems and some Irish. Trade was the worst we have seer far eta weeks past, and nearly half the Besets remain scald. Par Bests a poor show, et tram 6a to iis. 64. monotone of 141 h. Tbe pas were well Sill; keeping &beep end were fees Ia to la pd. per bead lower, without a clearance. Blued all ogee a dell sale. Fat !keep, Is. to Cs Gd. per stone, with • dell min. Good Store Pigs a dull site; tat Pork, Se. to to. 6d. per Muse. Ain Mioaoltem FAIL —This fair was held on Tours goy. The Cattle shown were almost esoluslvely small Highland for r o ot& Ilte demand was neither so brisk our are the prices so Itifrh rat the fair of lad. In the early pert of the day Mae was from 10e. to 20a. a•beed of daemon between buyer and seller on all sorts, sad sales were wry tardy la emonenolng. lb. top lot i n w e m ai_ k it were tbres.year-oid Rota, fur which about ff. woe asked. gdrke wen m ire d i t Iso., but the pries cannot be quoted above am to pos. Altogether. It was SAW market. Is the Ilcs, •• market the deemed was sleek, end even superior Wads did Do king w as o w& Th, detest we Yard of was SOL IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS.—MoNDAT, Jut 9. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY (Deputy Speaker) took the chair at 6 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. SECOND READINGS.— Flirawellvent to Hastings Turnpike Road ; East Indian Railway Company (lor mak. ing and mainta ining one or more railways in the East In dies) Incorporation; Bills. THIRD READINO.—Rock Life Assurance Company Bill. PUBLIC, BUSINESS. PETITIONS PRESENTED. ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL, LivearooL.— By Lord BEAUMONT, from Raids. James Wilkinson, Cooke, and others, stating that, by the subs:riptions of the poor, they had erected • Roman catholic chapel in Liverpool at a cost of from 10,0001. to 12,0001 ; that a railway station was about to be estahl•sbid close by the chapel, wh ch would prevent the merle. being performed ; and praying for relief. COMBUSTION or Smoies.—By Lord REDESDALE, from two gentlemen who had invented an apparatus for the per fect combustion of smoke ; and praying that her Majesty's government wouldorder a trial of the apparatus. Snits. fixors.—By Lord WHARNCLIFFE, from Shef field; E irl NELSON, from Cu :adieus of Yeovil Union, for the abolition of licenses to beer-houses. ACCIDENTS tx COAL Lord WHARN. CLIFFE, from 1,200 of the underground miners of Durham on the subject of (incidents in mines. AUDIT OF RAILWAY ACCOUNTS BILL.—By Lord MONT EAGLE, from shareholders of the Eastern Counties Rail way in favour of this bill. DRAINAGE OF LANDS BILL. On the motion of the Earl of Can Linn this bill passed through committee and was reported to the house. SHERIFF OF WESTMORELAND BILL. On the mvion of Lord Castrnam., this hill was read a third time and passed. PRISON DISCIPLINE. Lotd BROIJOHAM wished to add two reulutions to those which be moved on Friday last, in older to state the neces sity of separate confinement, to avoid contamination ; and to shorten imprisonment before trial by makiog more frequent gaol deliveries, which might be efec•ed by the County Courts, the judges of which IMO pethedy oompetent to perform that duty. ASRADLIS (IRELAND) BILL. Oa the 1120L3011 of Lord EDI:INBUILT, this bill was read a tkird time and passed. MUTINY AND DESERTION (INDIA) BILL. This bid went through committee en the motion of Eul OMIT, and was reported to the house. Several other bills were advanced a stage, and their lord ships adjourned at six o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MoND►T, JULY 9. The SPE►.Ett took the chair at 12 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. THIRD READlNllB.—Airdrie Pollee and Municipal; Dean and Chapter of Canterbury's (Walworth) Estate; New North Road (continuation set) ; Bills. LORDS' AMENDMENTS CONSIDERED.—Stockton and Dulington Railwey (consolidation of sus, altera tion of Line, &c ); Wisbech, Chatterie, Tid Oote, and Downham Bridge Turnpike (oontinuation of act, alteration of provisions relating to repair of Waldereey and South Side basks, abandonti.ent as to turnpike of road over same, can [ struetion of new turnpike road) PUBLIC BUSINESS. PETITIONS PRESENTED. MINES AND COLLIERIES BILL—By Mr. THORNELY, from coal owners, of Hutton, Lancashire, against this bi.l. Priorsorrow or WOMEN BILL.—By Mr. FORBES, from places in Scotland; Mr. A. BASTIE (2), from Glasgow, in favour of this bill. MARRIAGE (SCOTLAND) BILL—By Mr. GLADSTONE, from several places in Scotland; Mr. BAILLIE, from Inver ness; against this bill. Pool LAW (IRELAND).—By Mr. W. FAGAN, from Cork, against the proposed alteration in the proportion of poor•rates to be paid by landlord and tenant. HEALTH Or Torun BILL. By Mr. MACKINNON, from a place (name not Lead), in favour of this bill. MARRIAGE (SCOTLAND) DILL. This bill, as amended, having been considered, The LORD ADVOCATE moved that it be read a third time on Monday. Mr. FORBES MACKENZIE opposed the further pro mess of the bill, as altogether counter to the judgment of high legal authorities in Scotland, and to the feeliegs of the Scotch people. He complained that the committee to whom the bill had been referred, had refused to receive the proffered evidence of eight gentlemen, from various parts of Scotland, peculiarly competent to give expression to the popular opinion on the subject. Mr. ELLIOT, as chairman of the committee, explained that the reason why the evidence in question had been de clined was simply that the parties proffering it were net of the legal profession, and it was the business of the Committee to enquire into the law on the subject, and not to go into an endless examination of persons as to the opinion of the country on the matter, pro and con. For his own part, he believed that the opinion of the country was extensively applied to the present most anoma lous and mischievous law. Sir G. CLERK considered that the business of the relict committee heel been, at the very least, quite as much to aster:sin the opinion of the Scotch people on the operation of the law, as to inquire what the law itself was a point that needed no such formal inquiry at all. He had no hesita tion its declaring his opinion that the Scotch people were generally and most decidedly opposed to this measure. He had no objection to forbid Gretna-green mar rives, but would not consent to further change. The purpose of the Lord-Advocate was, according to his own statement, to render his registration plan mare perfect than it would be if marriages were per mitted to be contracted in Scotland as they now were, and to attain this object was calling on parliament to alter the whole marriage of law of that country, which the people of Scotland neither desired nor would agree to. He, therefore, opposed the bill. The LORD ADVOCATE reminded the house that the bills of which the present was one were not new, having passed the House e f Lords in 1848, with the dissent of two peers only to the marriage bill, and no dissent to the regis tration. The bills were brought into the House of Com. mons last year and read a second time, but owing to the lateness of the union they were not persevered in. They again paged through the same stages during the present ses sion, and they had only been retarded owing to the pressure of other business. There was nottiag, therefore, in the circumstance of the present advanced state of the session to prevent the house from taking the whole of the bills into con sideration. As to the bill now before the house, he denied emphatically that there was only one feeling throughout the whole length and breadth of Scotland es to it, and that it was hostile to the measure. The bill was introduced for the express purpose of removing uncertainty as to the con. tear ion of marriages; to ensure publicity to the contract of mar risen. It was to put en end to the state of law—a most digrace ful state—which encouraged the concealment of re aeriages. He bad no hesitation in saying, from the result of a long professional experience, that the law bad acted as a snare, and had occasioned more seduction than any other measure that could well be devised. Now, what was the measure that he proposed ? In the first place, he held all marriages good which were celebrated by clergymen—where the c:erey celebrated the marriage, he left the law of Scotland where he found it, with this exception, that if there were not a proclamation of the banns, a certificate must be produced of having given notice of the intention to merry to the registrar, which notice the registrar was obliged to publish. With respect to all irregular marriages, he should allow no evidence of marriages not celebrated before a clergyman, except such evidence as the registration of banns. What he insisted on was that if ;Avis would not go before the clergyman they must go before the registrar, who was bound to give publicity to the marriage_ The effect of this measure would be, he contended, if not to prevent hasty and inconsiderate marriages, at all events to prev.nt clandestine and fraudulent ones. The hon. gentle man opposite (Mr. F. Mackenzie) contended that the pe nalty of 2001. was not sufficiently large, and would resider the measure inoperative ; but it must be remembered that the penalty was not upon the party who made the marriage, but upon public offioen—upon the registrar or the clergy man. (Hear. hear.) The learned lord proceeded to in. stenos several cases in which great lee nvenience had re sulted from the present state of the law. In one case, mar riage had been contracted between a Scotchman and an English lady. Some time after the marriage a Scotch lady moved to have the English mar riage set aside on account of a previous mania- e by promise with herself. The consequence of the motion wag, that the marriage was set aside, and, though the Eng lish lady married, in all good faith, in perfect ignorance of the clandestine marriage, and in the full belief that her husband was a ainele mac, the eflect would have been, had there been issue of that marriage, that those children would have been bastardited, and would have shared neither in the property nor in the honour of the father's name. (Hear, hear.) Now what were the objections to this measure? He admitted that the =skirt, of the Scotch clergy were opposed to any alteration of the law. He believed, how ever, that the great majority of the laity approved his mea sure ; but the obje , tiore urged by the Scotch clergy were of the most incongruous and extraordinary character—at one , time declaring that he made marriage too easy, and at an other moment, or nearly is the tams breath, that he made it too hard. (Hear) Now a great deal had been'eaid about ' the petitions against these bills; but be would attempt in some degree to analyse those petitions. Agehist these bills altogether there had been 377 petitions, and of these 225 had been received from the established church. With regard to them 226. however, he must say that he did not think they h a d hove obtained in the mist regular manner. In the first place, they had a petition from the General Assembly of Scotland ; but net content with that, there was a petition from the eommircionere, who were precisely the same body to the Oseeral Aesembly. (A laugh.) Then, again, there was a petition from the synod of Aberdeen ; then from all the presbyteries of Aberdeen ; then from the individual seinion clerks and the particular.olergy of Aberdeen. Such war the mode in which these petitions has been multiplied. He spired the bowie, thee, to pas this measure upon three a round': fires, to give esstainty to the constitution of the marrisge contract ? secondly, to ensure publicity to that cvntract, thug preventing the monstrous evil of clandestine ... i.. es ; and, thirdly, he reconsmes led this measure be cause of the provisi in it mule for a public notice of the in tention to merry, and of the impediment which it pre, anted la the way of hasty and fraudulent manisges. (Hear, hear.) Mr. M‘NEILL said that when a law existed, which was satisfactory to a country, great caution should be observed before that law was interfered with. He WAS ready to accede to any reasonable measure which bad for its object to alter the custom %hien prevailed on the borders of Scotland as to the celebration of marriages; ho believed that that custom occasioned much grievance, both to the lower and middle cyders of each ty ; but he denied that the state of the marriage law in Scotland led to the serious evils which had been adv r;ed to. Its evil effects were not proved, and all inquiry was refused. There ware few counties in Scotland that bad not petitioned against this bill; they had also expressed their niens publicly. The boroughs of Scotland contsined one of the population ; the delegates of these boroughs met to consider their interests, and the whole of them had saaniniunsly petitioned against this bill. Also the town ~snails of boroughs of greed importance—the mon moats of Edinburgh. Leith, Perth, Greenock, Inverness, Stirling. Kilmarnock, St. Andrew's and many of the parochial boards had petition( d against it. There was alms the pe ti dos of the commission o' the use mbly in 1848, end the petition of the newly-elected assembly of 1849. It bad been mid that the 'iguanas were so few in number; but if; should be recollected that the se were the petitions of bodies assembled, signing by the chairmen of there bodies. Mr. F. DIAULE had listened with attention to the speech elate hon. and learned member who had just sat down, and °caressed that it it were once conceded that clandestine marriages were good for Scotland, the hon. and learned member's arguments would be unanswerable. On the other hand, if the house thought it time that such a system should be abolished, they Dad no course left but to pass the bill. (Hear, hear.) At present publicity in marriage • was required in Scotland, but not secured, and the only object of the bill wt s to provide that security. The hon. sad learned member alleged that every class in the country bad petitioned against the bill. It was true that petitions had come from several counties ; but from whom h a d th e y emanated? Not from ti e counties generally, but from the commissioners of supply, who had a ceepursta interest in preserving thing( in the it present position. li td there been a single public meeting in Scotland in hostility to the bill ? (Hear, hear.) The grounds on which he supported this measure were not a w ish to force upon the people of Scotia d any measure to which they were opposed, or which would be et outrage on their feelings. On the contrary, he believed that if public feeling were correctly ascertained it would be found to be completely hostile to the *rt.= of clandestine marriages. Besides the present stets of the law caused great insecurity, as there were many cases in which a man could hardly know whether he was married or not. Oa these grounds, he felt bound to support the bill. Mr. HUME said that the arguments it favour of the bill had all been completely demolished by the hen and learned gentleman opposite. It war therefore unnecessary for him to do more than promise it his strenuous Opinion. The bill had been prosecuted in a moat discreditable manner. Every stage previous to the pros , nt had been carried atter midnight, a course that would justify hon. members in moving repeated adjournments the moment.the clock struck twelve. (Hear, hear.) It had been urged that the bill had been already three years before the house all he hoped was, that it might be three jean knger. (Hear, hear.) The house divided—For the motion 73 Against it The annonncem nt of the members was received with loud cheers by the opponents of the bill. Mr. OLADSTONE hoped, aft. r the division which bad just taken place, government would not press the bill further during the present 'anion. (Hear, hear.) Though sot a Sea chmsn, he was Inefficiently c onected with Sc Mend to know that the opinion of the people of that country was adverse to the measure. _ _ Lord J. RUSSELL could not admit that the time of the house had been wasted by a motion, which had afforded an opportunity for the important speech of the hon. member for Argyle, in whiult he had stated his reasons against the bill. After hearing the debate they had just had, all he would now do was to sok the house to allow him • certain time to decide on the amuse the , government should adopt. (Cheers.) He did no wish for any longtime, and would fix the bill for Thursday, when the 13:.veroment would be prepared to annou , ce whether they would proceed with it or not. In the mean time, as tl e motion had been carried, perhaps there would be no objection to the reading of the bill a third time now. Mr. F. MACILENZIE, Mr. Ilt•mx, and Lord Li:scout ex pressed objections to the bill being read a third time, and suggested that the debate should stand adjourned till Thursday, which was ultimately agreed to. Mr. HUME hoped the Registration Biß would be con sidered at the tame time. Mr. BOUVERIE observed that many ton. minters who strongly objected to the present bill, were favourable to the Registration Bill. The house then rose till six o'clock. The house resumed at 6 o'clock. AUDIT OF RAILWAY ACCOUNTS BILL. This bill was brought Cram the Lords, and on the motion of Mr. LAW:CHIME was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Thursday. HARBOURS OF REFUGE. Mr. HUME gave notice that he would to-mwrow (•his day) move for certain returns respecting the harbours of 'Our, the money already upended, and the works to be executed. THE MERCANTILE MARINE. Mr. LABOUCRERE intimated that be would make his statement on the subject of our mercantile marine, not at the morning sitting of tomorrow, hut at that of Thursday, w 1 .en he would move for leave to bring in • bill to amend the laws relating to rilotege, and &leo • bill to amend the laws relating to our comm r.ial marine. The right bon. gentlemen went on to say (in reply to questions from Mr. Ooulburn and Mr. \V. Patten) that it was not his intention to proceed with this latter bill in the present session ; but as he did not contemplate any opposition to the bill yelling to pilot age he hoped to pass it this session. CHOLERA AND GRAVEYARDS. Mr. MACKINNON having read a paper from an officer of health, to the effect that persons living stoma to a church yard had been nearly poisoned by the magenta arising from asked the noble lord, the member for Bath, as a member of the health of towns commission, whether the report was correct, that in the metropolis and other large towns the cholera, in poor direricts, had generally attacked those per sons whose habitations were in the vicihity of graemaeds. Lard ASHLEY said that they received reports from all parts of the cuuntry on the genera health of the places from which they came, but not going into such detail. But there could be ho doubt whatever that the graveyards of the me tropolis and other bags towns were a dangerous evil, and often exercieed a bans lul effect upon those living near them. (Hear, hear.) On Saturday morning, however, they re ceived a report from Dr. Sutherland, of Bristol, fully bearing out that fact. The report stated : I regret to have ti announce a sudden outburst of cholera in the parish of St. Nicholas, Bristol. The locality is a low, damp, over crowded one, but it has been well cleansed, and the houses are gene rally not In a bad condition. A few require lime-washing, which no doubt will be done. There is one circumstance which hits struck rue as being coincident with the attack of the disease in the courts of Itedcrosa.atreet, already reported to the General Board of Health. It L the fact that in both instances there is an overcrowded burying. ground close to the bodes. The soil is raised several feet above the courts, and the most violent outbreak has been in the houses close to the ground. The churchyard is used for pauper interments, and al ready right cholera burials have taken place in it, and other two will be interred to-day. The occurrenoe is aufftsiestly striking to arrest attention. The ground is small, and badly situated. Shou:d cholera increase, interments in it will increase also. (Hear, hear.) THE DANISH BLOCKADE. - - Mr. SANDARS asked the noble lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs it it were a fsct, as was paulicly stated, that the British consuls (or vice-consuls), Mr. Petersen, of Stettin, and Mr. Kruse, of Swinermonde, had been dismissed from their respective offices, and, as was alleged, for having certi fied to facts in certain documents declaring the inefficiency of the Danish blockade Lord PALMERSTON said he bad felt it necessary to re move both of these gentlemen in consequence of unjustifia ble interference on their part, which had been atter ded with inconvenience to the Danish blockade. He considered them to have transgressed the line of duty prescribed for consuls, and to have taken upon themselves a reenontibility which they were by no means authorised or justified in doing. ORDNANCE ESTIMATES. _ _ Mr. HENLEY asked if it were intended to take the ord nance estimates in committee of supply on Thursday ; and, having bison informed by Lord J. Russel that it was, pave notice of his intention W move the reduedlon of Wanes 10 per cent. IRISH RAILWAYS AND DISTRESSED UNIONS IN IRELAND. The house having resolved itself into committee, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then rose to move a reatitrion authorising the government to make an advance out of the consolidated fund to the Exchequer Loan Commissioners, to an amount not exceeding 500,0(101., to he by them applied by way of loan, fee the purpose of constructing railways ‘setween Athlone and Galway. The ' right hon. gentleman said that, as the house was aware, go vernment had for some years put received front time to time various applications from panties in Ireland for such advances, but circumstances had prevented these ad vances to the extent which had been desired, and which, no doubt, might have been desirable. There were special grounds for furthering the progress of one of the great trunk lines in Ireland, which, not only itself ran through districts situ :ted with extreme privation, but which led directly to that portion of the country which was peculiarly design tted the Distressed District. Ihe employment of the many thousands of people requtaite for the works would at once effect a most important alleviation of the miseries of the labourers themselves, and would relieve at the same time the oppressed rate-payers from a large amount of their burdens. The great trunk line between Dublin and Galway occupied a range of country which all would admit to be especially of the character re quiring such assistance ; a portion of the has from Dahlfa to Mullingar, 62 miles in length, had been *Wady constructed, and Mr. Walker, who had been sent to imp. et the line so completed, had reported in the most favourable terms of the ruanni r in which the works had been con structed. The second portion of the line, for which an act hat been obtained, was between Mullingar end 'Athlone, a distance of 28 miles; and early in the present session mucheommunication bad taken place between the company, landholders on the line, and the governme'at; on the subject of a sum of money sought to be advanced bb government to effect the completion of the whole line • thstn Dublin to Galway within two years. The company bad con structed the line to Mullingar at .Mat OMB 'cast, having incurred a debt of only 20,000 L. .beyood its contributed resources ; the estimate of the constremtion of the line from Mullingar to Athlone was 300,0001., sad of that] '" • ' ~y_ ~ .. . 2 9 1 30 29e between Athlone and Galway 500,0001 ; but he had reason to believe that the actual cost might be redu-ed corsiderably below this I stimate, including the construction of bridge; &c. He proper d that up on the sum advanced by govern. mint interest at lil per cent. should he paid, re payment of the capital sem not to commence before the expiration of 10 years, sod then to be made by instalment., the et cur;ty foe the loan ben g the tabula lino between Dublin and GM. way. The money would be advanced in sums not exceed. lag 100,0001. eat a time, no new advaucc being made until it was shown that the previous advance had been tairly expended on the works. For every 100,0001, advanced by government, this company would have to ad vance 60,0001. ; and it was proposed that unless the line wt' comnleted within the stipulred two yese s , the government should be empowered to take pea, session of the line, and dispose of it in the way deemed most expedient. Upon the principle thus etste the sum to be advanced by the government towards the FOO,OOOl. required would be 500,0001. Its need not dwell upon the enormous advantages which this appliectiom of public money would confer in the fist instance, and more immediately upon the baronies and districts through which the line would mos. He held in his hand a letter from Mr. John Macneill, the chief engineer of the South. Western lie, showing the benefits which the conatrue ion of that Foe had conferred upon 0 e population residing on and tear it. One contractor alone upon that Bee, Mr. Daman, had in his constant employment during the °mauve+ n of the line 15,000 men, a xclusive of masons I and other skilled artisans ; these men received each of them 9.. per week, enabling him to maintain his family, and to relieve the peer rte.(' from that burden which would otherwise have inevitably fallen upon them; and there was this other most valuable result stated, that the men who had been employed upon this labour had 'afterwards, tram the character they acquired upon the line, found no difficulty in obtaining employment else. where, as well in England and in Scotland, as in In land, the men themselves thenceforward yreterring is do their work rather upon contract than for wages. abandoning their former indolence for habits of industry and energy. He was happy to ha .e it in his power to state that there was en in creased disposition on the part of capitalists to invest money in the particular part of the country in question, and it only needed to afford such facilities as that now proposed for more ready accvss to the various portions of the dial ict, and for bringing hack the product to the English markets, to in. crease this tendency most largely. (lie ar, hear) Tits right boo gentleman concluded by putting his motion. Mr. FRENCH regarded this pro portion as one of the moat stateamanhae measures that had emanated from the government. It was his opinion that the employment atte.rded by the railways in England had, quite as much as the new poor law, tended to check pauperi.m It. re, and he we. satisfied that the creation f f railways an Ireland would tend to the same happy result there. There had hitherto been far too little dote by the government of this country in the promotion of railways, despite the admirable ex amples shown them by far less weal by and lets commercial countries. What bad been done by tne Belgian government under M. Nethomit's admini•tralon was familiar to every b idy, but he doubted if what had been effected by other continental state s was equally well known. In the smaller Gerrnen states 541 miles had been coastructed at a cost of 9,676,2491., in this proportion:— Di..tance. Cost. Miles. C. Baden Brunswick and Hanover Brunswick and tkliterleben Brunswick and lloi gburg Hamburg to B. rgedurf Alton to Kell .... 64 ... 582,500 Leipzig to Dresden —..— Saxon Bavarian 5l 900,000 Iby slate. Taunees Railway Munich to Augsburg vernment. Louis, Southern & Northern. 70 ... 4,288,500 Gficriument lice. 1 Nuremberg sad Mirth 4 ... 17,708 In Prussia, a comprehensive system of lines was tnced out to the extent of 3,200 miles, of which, up to 1815, G 52 miles were completed at a cost of 7,017,1981., on an average of about 10,0001. a mile, in this proportion. . . - - Instance. Cast Berlin and Anbalt Berlin and ['Madam lhrlin and Stetten Ditto and Frankfort on Oder 49.1 Lower Silesian l3l 131 per cent. gums- 1,400,000 Upper ditto Brnhaw and Schwcrdnitz Magdeburg and Ulnae I. Ditto and Ilaltimtelt Dusseldorf and Elberreld .... Cologne and Ale la Chapelle 1 Dittoand Bonn 632 In Austr's the fellowina lints bad been made : Distance. Budnere Lineguimden ll9 imp. Ferdinat de Nor 179 Vienna to lilognitz Olmutz and rmigue l3l idurtzwellag and GNU. 37S .. -. 0.01. 542,101 1,700,001 1,050,001 1,843,715 600,000 4,936,125 In Sweden the state guaranteed 4 per cent. for 1.5 years, re payment of any money paid by the government, not to take place for 10 years, and then only to be made from 1i the surplus profit over 6 per cent. The terms being the se : The ekes to be purchased by the government for 20 years, unless at a bonus of 25 per cent. To he exempted from ordinary taxation. Crown lands to be given fre s, cud the labour of soldiers, paupers, and convicts at the disp'sal of government to he given to the companies at reduced wage.. Electric telegraphs to be erected at the public expense. Even in our own colonl, a the principle has been acted upon. By an act of the legislature of New Brunswick 6 per cent. was stew ranteed to the St. Andrew and Quebec Railway. The Hut India Company guaranteed to the shareholders in the Greet India.% Peninsular Company a dividend of 6 per cent., and 010 11 &12 Vic , c. 130, authorised her Majesty to gas rantee 4 per cent. for loans for the construction of 'unwept in the West Indies and the Mauritius. Eleven years ago the attention of the government was drum to the expediency of developing the resources of Ireland by a Nantes to Irish railways, and a measure wee introduced by Lord Morpeth for applying two millions and a half to the enrpo.e, but this proposal had not been carried out. Since that time acts had been obtained fur the construction of thirty lines, extending to 1,676 miles. Fifteen of these lines were open or in progress, extending to 450 miles altogether, 361 miles being actually open, le eying 1,200 miles which the legislature lead decided to be necessary and remunerstim not commenced, nor likely to be commenced. The lines open were Kinvatown, Drogbeda, Great Southern and Western, Cashel, Midland Great Western, Mellinger, Ulster, Bally mena. Those in progress are the Belfast Juncioe Newly and Enniskillen . Dundalk and Enniskillen, Belida and County Down, Waterford and Limerick, Waterbed and Kilkenny, Cork and Bandon, South Eastern, It was no great wonder that hitherto capitalists in Ireland bad been deterred from entering more largely upon railway schemes, when cunsileration was applied to the enormous sums which had been expended here upon railway,. In England. up to the present time, a sum of nearly 200 millions had be ea spent in the construetion of railway., the cost tier mile beir g, Blarkwall, 289,9801. ; Croydon, 80,4001 ; Mancha tcr and Bury, 70,0001. ; Manche otter and Leeds, 64,5521. Manchester and Birmingham, 61,624/ ; Manchester and Sheffield, 66,3161 ; Brighten, 66,9811.; Eastern Counties, 46,3561.; Great Western, 46 , 8 7 01 .; South E astern, 41,411!.; North Western, 41,6121. You will not wonder at thin oast when you consider the monstrous expenditure toe land and parl.amentary eh , which upon the Eartem C o unties line amounted to 15,8 81 1 . ;on the Brighton, to 10,1051 ; and on the Bla kwsll, for par:iamcntaiy expenses alone, 14,4121. per mile. (Hear.) Contrast this outlay with the cost of railways elsewhere. The entire cost of the Germ in lines averaged only 10,9901. per mile • that of the American, but 6 , 0001 . under the r e heads : oolumbis and Philadelphia, 10,0001. ; Boston and Wurcute r, 7,700/. ; Western, 7,3001.; Camden and Amboy, 4,1001.; 3,6001 ; Richmond, 3,6001. ; Florida, 3,2001.; Auburn, 2,9001 ; South Carolina, 2,6001. He was deeply grate ful for the advance now proposed, but he found that in tke ciericts no immediately benefited it would be could( red a manifestation of favouritism towards a particular line ; and, at lent, as another illustration of that bit by bit 1. Oilseed which hid long been the subject of complaint m the pert of Ireland as against the imperial parliament. A line from Mellinger to Ballina, with branches to Sligo and Westport, woulal pass through the distressed unions of Baffin*, Swinford, Castlebar, Westport, Ballinrorle, Row common, and Canteen, audit would cost only 880,0001. ; if Sir John MacneiPs plan of construction were adopted, about hall that anisunt. If the government thought lit to make loans, on the same conditiees as the present on , .te existing railway companies, in order to secure the compilers of trunk lines, the following sums would be sufficient to le mire that important object : To the Midland Great Western. 600,0001. ; &Rest Junction, 300001. ; Dun.lolk, or Newry and Enniskillen, 200,0001. ; Londonderry and Enniskillen , . 100,000 e ; Waterford and Limerick, 200,0001.; Killeen/ Junction, 50 0001.; Limerick and Ennis 70,004. tot, 1,500.0001. And, for these advances, the security whin the lines themselves offered would be ample ; and, by this extension of the plan of the government, empleyamet would be afforded to 40,000 heads of families, woich would be tantamount to finding food for 2,000,000 of persona is the whole. The hon. gentleman conceided by saying. the: the whole sum whi h his plan involved did not exceed 2,000,0001., spread over a period of two and a hilt yes", and there was nothing in such an operation to disturb the financial market, or to render money more difficult to ere cure. He should nut make any motion, but should be crow tented with having brought the facts under the observation of the house. Mr. GGC/.I3L e RN • said, he should not follow the bac gentleman Who bad 'just eat down, by offering soy observe tiensee the advantage , to be derived from the compunction et railways inr Ireland.. The speech made by ebat hor. member was perfectly appropriate to tbe.oceasion. He had traly ' said, teat the Chetnellar'speoppeal was fur the benefit of one district only, and, not for the general benefit ti Ireland, and had bled truly said, teat if it was he iirahle • to confer the ' full benefit of railways dot Ireland the full mouse' Heasley for their c‘rotractiM must be advanced: the hon. gentleman had estimated that amount, at 2,000.0001. It would be much more likely le . amotoit, fo four or five times that sum, Tne pres•nt was the time/or die tense to emuldet Whether it was prepared to Atter on such a course as that proposed by the Cifincellie of the Exchequer.. He must ask the coeunittee whetterr, wet so small a surplus • belapee , in tbe.axebegner. diet bed ' lldt better c.ensider deeply if the public money costa cot more advantageously employed. It was now two rem ' shim the' hor. gentlettien opposite had asked for a gnus enent adtance of 600;0001. to complete the rally/me from , Dore to Limeeiclu Goulburn) hard thee weed OM esitention ref the Amin. es the el dicel ete s which ' were consequent upon such a transaction; awl he Ind sated that Occult Wailer elsbassissiobt, be looked ear ttvei 7,617.7 S CI I 131 is 4 i 4 7i ln i