The Sun. — London, England, 1858-07-15 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AI%,D 00hI1ViERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'Cto Accounts from Liverpool :ep.nt that the Cotton Market yea'.c,day presented a heavy appearance, and prices of all kinds are the same, except Ameri. can, which declined :Id. per lb. The sales were estimated at 7,000 bales, 1,000 of which were taken on speculation The Railway Share Market closed with rather more animation, and quotations slightly improved. The City of Baltimore, from New York, has brought 50,0001. in dollars. The arrival of the Royal Charter from Mel bourne, after a pa , sage of 93 days, is important as bringing an immediately available supply of gold to the extent of 406,0001. to meet the heavy con tinental demand, which, since the last Bank return Was issued, has absorbed about 300,0001. of the bullion in its vaults, and which, unless met by fresh receipts, would have still further diminished the amount it has on hand. By the time the * 36 ,000/. has been despatched, there will probably bo other arrivals to render any further drain on the Bank unnecessary. With regard to the destination of these shipments to the continent, we learn that the greater portion finds its way to Vienna and Constanti nople, evidently in connection with the financial operations of the Governments of Austria and Turkey, . The value of money is very easy, being now at 2i and upwards, with a most abundant supply; but there is a good demand for discount. There are a number of railway calls due to-day, amounting, however, to only about 150,0001. The transactions in the English Stock Market to-day have bean limited, and prices, owing to the unfavourable character of the Indian advises, together with a supposition that something un pleasant may occur in New Caledonia with the 'United States' authorities, in connection with the proceedings of the Governor, have exhibited a further downward, tendency. Consols for money have been 95 and 94, 95, and for the account 95 aid , 95 1:b I. They are now rather firmer, viz., 71 I, for money, and 95/ to 95 i for the account. T h o New 3 per Cents. are 954, 951, and the Re duced Annuities, 95g, The New 21 per Cents. Were dealt in at 7E0 2 , 793. Bank Stock remained steady at 222, India Stock at 218, and the Deben tures 991 and 99. The March Exchequer Bills Were at 335.1 prem., and the June Bills at 21s. to 244 . prem. The number of transactions recorded in the Foreign Stock Market are rather limited, but quo tations remain w ith out any alterat i on of importance. Turkish 6 per Cents, are 95 951 ; Brazilian 5 per Cents., 103 ; ditto Scrip, -k dis. ; Alexican 3 per Ce nts-1194 ; Russian 41 per Cents., 99i ; Sardinian 5 per Cents., 894 ; Spanish New Deferred, 27k, and Preach 41 per Cents. 94 37k. The transactions in the Railway Share Market to -day are limited, and in most instances connected With the arrangements for the liquidation of the accoun ts. Prices ha ve s h own a s li g ht a d vanc e. Caledonian improved 1/. ; Great Northern, Lanca shiretaatern_ritish and York s hi re , an d Midl an d, 15 s . ; N or th and North Eastern (Berwick), 10s. ; and Counties, ss. Great Westerns have de :1,,,„,1164 58 . The Foreign and Colonial lines are quiet and show little or no variation in values. '4ltat Indian h ave improved about 10s. ; and Great Western of Canadl brought yesterday's quotati ons. T he Miscellaneous Share Market has been dull. B ank of 'Egypt have improved about ss. ; and Ottoman Bank, ss. The la s t week ' s railway receipts, ascertained up A this day, are in round figures as under :- 1858. 1857. !teat W e st ern £31,248 £31,043 North-We s t ern 68,283 Nuth-Western ' 17,580 17,612 k ighton, 15,431 15,591 kidla n d 14r" 4ntli- •E astern 21,710 22,476 It Northern 22,474 21,351 Beaßhire aud Yorkshire 26,333 26,329 tot and E xeter ae deater, Bheffitdd, 6,765 6,744 & Lincoln 10,409 10,322 - 34,107 35,906 Oxford, W o Edinburoik ree,ster, and Wolver.... 4,394 4,909 Grand Glaßgo w ...... 5,466 5,796 Great Western of ' ll °K of Cts d Canada 7,845 9,479 pnbarde-Venetian 8,427 7,083 Northern of France ,_____JaniTisß FUNDS THIS DAY Al- ONE O'CLOCK. ),Itk Stock . (Prom the Official List:) 222 Th r .. $ lo pep Cent. Reduced Annuities p , n, N e --- ' "2"out Annuiti es 96 44 5y w Three per Cent. Annuities r;evi . , 2i 4 culla Sto pck er Cent. Ann u iti es,,,,,. 7 84 9 i Dit to Bonds, £lOO O lB 10 C on sols 218 dia Lo an D ebentures on sols for A ccount zcz chequerßill ; 16 - 00 is— March: . June. 33 121 24 Small ... 37 i ............................ ••• lel lectiler Bond 1858 3j Cent. s„ . per itto, 1859 .. lOOl. IratiaKa,BsOF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. per Cent lO3 , bi tto Scrip, 1858 ti d 4u. xican 3 nor Cent l9/ Itnuian, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent — Ditto 41 , per Cent k kin.. nigh domts, '3 per Cent -- Ditto New Def erre d . 3 nor Cont. 27 zark sh Bonds, 6 per Cent. ............. . . Dividends on the above payable ... London: , .rrenoh Rentes, 4. per Cent., Ex. 250. ... 91f. 370. TWO O'CLOCK. . Console, money 95i i 951 Ditto account LIVERPOOL RACES.--(This Day.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LATEST BETTING. • LIVERPOOL CUP. Sto 1 agst Jordan (taken) sto 1 aget Beeswax (taken) 6to 1 agst King of the Gipsies (taken) 8 to 1 agst Ta tler 10 to 1 apt Physician (taken) 12 to 1 aget Little Tom 2 0 to 1 agat Julia DERBY. 12000 to SJ aget Viking 3000 to 75 agat Balsam Racing Fixtures for 1858. li: JULY. tittniorQttiugbabl 2O 1 Marlborough . d 22 1 Goodwood 27.. .... AUGUST. 18 Iti"11— • . 2 I York 23 kelford ''''' . ''''''''' .. 2 I Radcliffe • I\l' .................... 24 b(lrth S taffordshire 3 Egbani 06 •urighton 4 Hereford Iltrightou Club 6 Stockton 30 .tevvea 9 Lichfield 31 " OlVerhampton ..... .... 9 Great Yarmouth Iteading ll • SAVAGE ATTACK. ON A WARDER AT CIIATIIAIL—Yes ttrday, as a party of convicts were at work ou the screw ' , Learner, Orpheus, in Chatham Dockyard, under the e„Yarge of a ma n named Donelly, one of them, named xlioreeton; suddenly attacked the warder with a heavy phe iNo of batten, knockin g hi es down and beating hi till became' insensible . He then struck him eeveral t m imes that a mallet. On Donelly's bein g rescued it was found ;net his arm and several of his ribs were broken. Ile was ti,ken to the infirmary of the prison, when he was pro trounced Ur be in a very precarious state. A. rumour is going about which declares the late resig egtion of • G enera l E sp i nasse to Lave been caused e ntirely by an exceedingly hazardous joke of Prince Napoleon, who, in a moment of irritation, had criticised le rather harsh terms certain measures adopted by the ace minister. A tale.bearer had exaggerated the story, '41(1 reported to Espinasse that the Prince bad ' e l: . sanglier ; whereupon Eipin'asse, nlanatieu, was bidden to be comforted, for the Prince ile eied any such imputation, and added that he had seeking an tiever thotight Espinasse wild enough for that. It is Ikiedless to themselves , say on whose side the laughers have rallied Court Journal. enliate Al OßE SlRllB.—lt is sa id no more Sikhs are to b e d. I t appears th a t t h e Commissioner of Meerut, Navin g aepLied f or some horsemen, was referred to Sir John Lawrence, who rep lied thet having a l rea dy raise d a numb er 'of Putijabeeaand Sikhs, he did not thick it advisabl e t o °outhouse() doing, b u t thought it would be better to etili4 men in other provinces. If this rePolu ou has been collie to no one will venture to dispute its Wisdom ; because it would be just as insane to fill the ranks of our native army with Sikhs as it was to do so . 1 o* Rinciustanis. Th e desertion of Major Burton at A tltb by th e Sikh guards, and several other instances, l o o ti ye that as a race the Sikhs are no more to be relied „'" 'he hour o f nee d than any other race of Asiatics. --jzoctras Athens:gum. • 20 24 10 tit. 20 20 20 25 THE 7 SUN, 'ES LEAS} 100 100 all 100 all 100 SH ACE E" (This Day). it,ALLWAY>i. uinetvg r.ricn. yesterlay Blehiess done this day. .!_,II.LLWAri. Shr. 10 1 Anabg. Nottn7. Bost. & Eastn. June.... Fe',fast & Ballyiam I ;Birrang. Wolverh. Stour Valley 1 ißirkenhd. Lancsh. Cheshire Junct Blackburn Blyth & Tyne original .£2.5(i53. at £45) Bristol & Exeter ;Chester & Holyhea' Cork and Bandon... Cork, Black. & Pass Cornwall Ds. A Do. B IDublin&BelfastJuun 'Dun. P. &Aber June. East Anglian Eastern EasternUnion,A.stk ,Do. ' do. 13. ;Do. Now A !Rut Kent East Lancashire East Suffolk Do. Edinburen a GlA.tgov Edinh.Prth.ciDund Forth and ClydeJunc Furness Glasgow & S. Western ,Great N. of Scotland (Great Northern Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock ..... Sth.&West(lre). Great Western. jDo. Str.V.R. gna.St !Irish South-Eastern. ILancaster &Carlisle. ! Do., Thirds.... ...... . Do. New Thirds Lancr.sh. Yorkshir, IDo., do. F £l6 Do. Do., £9 Do., Wet. Riding Us. IDo. Southport ILondon & Blackwall Do. New, ' ' iss 5/ lOs. Lond.Brit. dr S. Cat. !London & V. Wester 'Do. Eighths 'London dr S.Western Lndndrry.&Coloraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. IManch.Shet&Lincln.l ,Metropolitan Midland . Do. Birming.dr Dort) , Sfidland G.West.ar. Do. Shares Newcastle & Carlisle.. Newn+.l. berg &Hrfd (Newry & Armagh Newry, Warrenpoint Restrevor Norfolk.. ......... Northn.Counties Un North British North Devon, Rail. & Dock Stock. ........... Do., A Stock ........ IDo., B Stock ......... IN. Eastern— Berwick Do. do. G.N.E.Purch. IDo. Leeds 'Do. York North L0nd0n........ N.& S.Wstn., Hamp stead, and City Jo. North Staffordshire.. North Western........ N. & S.Westrn. June. Oxford Worcester a Wolverhampton.... all Foebles 19 Portsmouth 10 Ithymney 100 Scottish Central 100 Scot. N.E. Abrdn. St 100 Scot. Mid. Stock 100 Shropshire Union ... all 'Sitingbourne &Sheer. 1.00 !South Devon 100 South Eastern 100 .South Wales all iS. Yorksh. RivsrDun all ;Staines,Wok.,&Wok. all I Stockton & Darling 20 Do. do., 1854 7 Do. do., 1855 16i Stockton & Ilartlepl 1.00 (Taff Vale 100 IDo. Pref., No. 22 II Lames Elm D. &R. 100 Vale of Neath .100 I Waterfd. & Kilkenny all Waterford&Limerich all West Cornwall__ all West End of London and Crystal Palace all I Do, A St. St. St. 50 20 20 10 10 50 100 100 100 all all all all all all 100 36 100 100 100 100 100 16F, 100 100 1.00 31.1 17i all Do. B West London Do. First Class Do. Second Class - 64 7i - 81 67 - 69 11 - 12 26i - 274' 88 - 90 76 -76 A. 31 - 361 4 - 5 Sa 15! 16! 60 61 44 46 29 31 14 - 15i 1 90 - 92 1 61. -- 62 21 - 25 90 - 92 1 9i - 10 99 100 1 77 - 79 128 -- 130 1 102 - 104 49.1 - 5G - 58 87 90 11 1 , 126 11. 126; 90.4 91 d } i a = 4 107 - 109 89 - 904 1$ - 13 93 - 94 3L5 36 2 ld 914 92 63 65 ... ... 12 - 13 59 61 31s 3 47 48. 90i - 90, 2 - 1 45 - 46 70} - 71 95 - 98 4 biri 7 8A 8 9 27 - 29 .. -- •. . 7 4 d 109 - 110 254 - 26, 81 - 83 42 - 44 3 - 2 33 - :55 664 - 67 78 - 80 13 - 15 7 - 5' 9 - 11 34 - S 6 ... ..... s r• 96 - 98 ." ... - 34 6- BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Atian. and St. Law. Bombay, Baroda, and Con.lnd,guar. 5 p. c. Do. Do. Additional A Buffalo & Lake Hur. Buff., Brnt.dzGodch. 6p. s. , 1 Aug..'7l Do. do., 1 July, '7:3 Do. do., 1 June '74 Calcutta and S. East 'Central Oude Ceylon A shares Demerara . Eastern Bengal East Indian Do. C Shares Do. E. do. Do. 4 .1 p.c. Buds. ,'59 Geelong ,St Melbourne guar. 5 per cent. Od. Trunk. of Canada Do. 6 p. c. Gt,. In. Pen. g. 5 pore. Do. New. guar. 5 p.c. Gt. Westn. of Calmat Do. New IDo. Bde. payable '5; Do. do., "76, p. '60... Do. d0.,'73, do. ... Do. do., '73, without option Madras, guar. 4,i p.c Do. do., 5 per c. Do. 44a p. c. Eaten., Do. 3d Ex., g. sp.c. Do. 4th Ex., do. Oudo (Limited) Schack, guar. 5 per c Do i d par! d 4 -- par 7 180 85 75 80 74 78 ••• ..,.. , a ii 1' Iloli -1 04 i •P I * IP 17 19 41i 42 75 7i 20/ 21 id —r, 17i pa 2idi 105 - 108 1.05 - 108 104 -- 106 18 -- 19 20 -20 i , lid -- id d— par d -- par r - iP, FOREIGN. 10 all Antwrp &Rotterdam 53 - 51 53 20 all Ardennes ... - ... 20 3 Bahia .k Francisco.., id ar 5 all Belgian East. J ane t . 1 I .' P it 20 all Beziersto Graissessac ... - ••• 6 all Carmeaux&Toulouse Coal Mines and Ry. 23 - 21 20 15 Dutch Rhenish - 5 20 all Eastern of France - 25i 20 2s. Euphrates Valley - ... 20 all Gt. Central of France ... - 20 all Great Lnxcnibour c f, 73 - 71 16 o, ....Li...Junction 20 all L.,ce Const. & Bale ••• - ••• 20 all Lien° and Turnhout ... - ...d . . 20 6 Lombardo-Venetian 3 - 3.12 5 all Lilco& & Pist.sp.o.p. ... - .. 20 all Lyons and Geneva - 24 33A all Maria Antenla 10 all Do. Now ... , 20 all Namur k Liege - • 94, 94 20 all Do. do. 6p. c. Pref 2ll - 22 i 16 all Northern of France 364 - 36x 1 , • 20 8 Do. New - ••• 10 all NorwegianTrnk.Pref 81 - 91 20 all Paris and Lyons 3Ol - 301 20 all Ditto New • --- ••• 20 all Paris and Orleans 49 - 51 20 9 Recife & San Fran , . (Pernam.) g. 7p. c• 3 - i d 20 11 Riga and Dunaburg ... - ... 10 all ROW and Frascati,.. ... - ... 20 all - Royal Danish 5 all Royal Swedish ...... - ••• 4 • all Do. 7 per cent. , ... - ••• m , 1 20 all Sambre and Mouse- 71 - 74 i 1 10 all Do. 5A per cent, pref. 81 - 9 2) all Southern of France.. 20 - 203 Si all West Flanders 4/ - 5 I t ? all Do. 5,1 k per c. Prd . 9 - 91 20 :di W•daCW. of France 23 - 24 20 6 ,Western of Austria... .... - ... 20 all Sti.:' , “. of Switzerland .... .- ... 6 all *Les Aden 6 all Do.B p, cent. pref. ... - ... 20 , all , Zealand ......... .. - ... JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 100 50 Agra & Ifnited Serv. ... - ... 40 all Australasia B2 - 84 25 all Bank of Egypt 100 50 Bank of London - 49 40 all Flri. Col. Bk.& Ln. Co ' ... - .• 60 all British N. American ... - ••• 12 0 10 o.ltlc.of lnd.A.u.aChi 3t ... 2/ 100 50 City fAi ..- 60 100 25 i colonial 203 all ICommercialofCana.S. "'- "' lOO 20 , C 3 ommereial of Loiad a . ... - - ". 1 20 all i Eng.fkotokAus.Ciit. 1 . 71 - la 20 all ,Lon.Ch-Bk.of A at..t. 18 4 - 19 50 20 'London and County 50 10 , London Joint Stock. ••• ••• . - 10 0 20 Lond.andWestmittst, ::. - .... 100 35 National Pro. of Eng. ... ..... • 20 1C DO. New ••• •.. - 50 25 National Bank 20 all ,Now South Wales 43 - 46 2205 :]Ottoman al l i Orienta l B ank Corp 34 -36 Bann - 17/ 17 100 25 ]provincial of Ireland 61 -. 6 3 10 all Do. New. ............. • ... - ... O 25 all South A astralia - ... 25 15 Do. Now... - ... 25 all Union of Australia i 49 - 51, ... 15 Do. New 4O - 41 - 24 50 10 Union of London ll 23 100 50 Unity Mutual ... ... ... IQO 50 Weatrußk of I, 19 ..r.... 13 RAILWAYS. !Bttekghamsh. Clydesdale Jo. ICol.Stour Vy. !E.Lin. g. 6 p.c E. Un. H. Sh. Gies. Barr. & Neils. Direct. I Do. New Glstr.&Dn.Fr Hull do Selby !Do. Shares 'Do. 1 Shares Lon.diGreenw Do.Proference , Lou. Til., &S. , Do. Bark. Sh. 1 141axich.Bxtoe. and Matlock Mdld.Bradfd. Newmarket BuryE.C4.spc. N. Est.s p.c. Do. 6 per et Do. Fixed 5p .c !Prest. & Wyre !Do. 1 Shrs. Boys - tn.& Hit. Shrows.& Her S. Statlordsh earVal.g6pc Do Wilte liSomrat PREFERENCE SHARES. st. st. - st. 20 20 121 25 20 Bt. St. St. St. 25 10 1.0.6 100 100 100 100 100 all all Myth and Tyne lop. c.pref. (issd. at 6010 Brie. & Ex. 4 p. c. St. I ( Do. 4 per c. Shares ICaledn. £lO 4 p. c Ches. & Ho. 51 p.c IDo. do. 5 per cent Cork &Bandonsip. a Dun.Perth.&Aber.J E. Anglian Cls. A Sb Do. do. Cls. B Op. c Do. do. Cls. C 7 p. c Eas.Co.Ex,sp. c No.l Do. No. 2 IDo. New 6 pr. c. St 'East Un., G. 6 p. c. Do. 51., 10 per cent. Do. 10 Debentr.Sh. ,Do. do. 4 per cent., 'East Lane ash. 6 p.cte. E. &W. York. J. sth , Min.& Gl. sp. c. Sh lEd.Prth.&Dun.4p.e. Furness, 5 p, c...., IGlas. dr 5.W.G.5 p.c Great Northn. 5 p.c. Do. 5 p. c. Redewm 1 1 at 10 p. C. prem.,,. Do. 4i per cent Do. 5 p.c., Red. at p. c. prem. , Gt.N. of Scot. ist Pr i !Gt. S & W. (Ireland' I Do. 4 per c. Prof. St. Gt.W.(B.&H.Ex.Sp, I Do. con. red. 4i p. c. Do. con. red. 4 p. c. Do. irred. 4 per rani. Do. 5 p. c. red. pref. Do. Birm. Pref. Sh.. Do. Chester Sp. c. P. S. Do. do. sp. c. do Do. Birm. Gua. Stk. Do. Chesh. Gua. Sh. Do. do. do Do. do. do Lan.& York. 6pc.St , Lon. &B.G. 5 pc.No 1 D0.,1 , „ 5 p.c.St.No.2 Do. New Guar. 6p. c. Do. do. 5 p. c., N 0.4. Lon. ez N. W. Coy. & Nuneaton 5 r. et.... Lon. & S.W. 7 per ct. late 3d Shares L ondy. & Color. Sh Londy.&Ennis. Sh. M., S., &L. 6 13. Do. do. d0..£6 Cont Do. do. 31 per cont Marypt. &Carl. 4 p. c Do. 44 per cant Do. do. bild.Cousol.6 p.c. St. D 0.C0n.8r.8ir.6 P.C. Do. 44 p. c. Pref. St. Do. L. &11. Prof. St. Now., Aber., &c., p 5 p. c.red. 5 p. c. pmr Do. Perpet. 6 pr. et. Norf k.Deb.4 p.c. Sh. Do. 5 p. e. Ext. 1846 Do. 54 p.c. pf , 1847 D0.Wv.V.5p..,1847 North British . ...... Do. 71. Preforenco N.H. Ber w. 4 p. c. Pd. Do. do. do Leeds 6 po. No. 1 Do. do. Qr=., 1848_, Do. Y ork IL &S. Pur. North Sta,,P,rdsiure Ox., Woe. & Wolv. 6 p.c., Ist guar. !Do, 6 p. c. 2d guar._ IDo. To. Debeatr. St. Scot. Ccnt.Now Pro. Sc.N.E.Aber.g.6p.c. Do. do. 7 p.c. pf. St. ,Do. d 0.34 p.c. pf. St !South Devon ID o. fixod 4A pr cent. S. Eastern (Reading . Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. o. 4A per cent Do. Fixed 4A p.c. Sh Do. New 4. pr. cent S. Wales Gus. 4 p. c. ,Do. do. 4A p. c S.Yorksh.4 p.c. Guar ;Stock. &Dar., s p, a I Do. do. do. IWaterfd& Kilk. 6 pc 48 - 50 95 - 97 1100 - 102 ..i 6 ... o 110 • 115 163 -• 108 115 - 118 113 - 116 13~- 134 79 - 81 1i• = iii 112 - 114 64 -- 66 loi -- 113 91 -- 93 83 - 84 -- 86' 99 -- 100 9A -- 10 16 -- 17 91 -10 i 72 -- 74 18 -- 19 9 -9), 13i -- 14 138 -- 142 1160 - 165 121 - 123 67 - 6v 138 -- 140 102 -- 101 92 -- 94 i 1 - iir 84 - 94 1107 - 16.9 BRITISH 97 99 t - 23 - 24 ip 113 - 120 1105 - 107 1101 - 103 118 -- 120 125 -- 130 73 -- 75 10i -- Iti 23i -,- 24i 101 -- 103 101 -- 103 100 - 102 16i - 171 23 - 29 43 -- 48 MINES. ... 2112 Alfred Cons. (Philk.) 9 - 10 20 14 ' British Iron .... 3 - 4 . . 20 Condurow (Cambrn.) 60 - 70 10 1 Dov. Gt. Casio. (Tay.) 475 - 485 30 , East Basset (Mogan) 85 - 90 "• . 17s Great South Tolgus„ 14 - 15 ..... 114 Grt.W.Alfrd.(Philk.) 5i - 6 7g Grt.W. Vor (Helstn.) 1 ; 1 - 2 ••• 17s Lady Bertha - 1 ••• 8 N. Frances (Mogan) 6. - 71 .. ▪ ... N. W.Basset (Illogan) 8 . - 91 51 ' .. 6115 North Wheal Crofty 4 - ••• 11 tar. Cons. (St. Blast') 18 - 19 . 9 Porkellis U. (Wend.) 68, Sort Cons. Min. CO. 14 - 10 ... - ... . 21 S. Caradon (St. Cleor 390 -• 4 . ... • 7.. 2S. Cans Brea (Illogn. 2.- 3 . . 19 S.W. Frances(lllogn. 230 - 240 541 Tam. S. &L. Min. Co. - 1 10 9 Tin Croft 1 31 - 3i ... 40 Un.Minee (Gwenuap) 70 - 90 ... 128€ V. of Towoy (Carrar a -11 ... 11 W. Basset (Illogan) 23 - 24 ... 20 W. Caradon (Liskrd4 95 - 105 ... 51 Wh. Basset (Illogan).480 - 200 ... 5 Wh. Buller (Rdruth).l2.o - 240 ... 51 Wh. Edward(Calstck) 41 - 6 ... 11 7s Wh. Kitty (U. Limit) 8 - 9 ... 8 I Wh. Ma. Ann (Monht. 46 - 48 4 Wh. Trelawney (Lis.) 24 -. 26 FO&tl1tIN MIDI Ab. 20 ,! 71 !Australian - 11 1 10s. Bon Accord Cop. (li.) 1 -. I p 35 27 Brazilianlmp.(issusd. at .E 5 pm) . . ... -.. 1. - 14 30 all Do. COCRCS 4 Cuiaa. .. - . . 20 15 D.. St. John Del Rey 111 -. 121 1 4 Clarendon Con. Min. Co. of Jamaica ' 40 all Cobre Copper 4l - 43 40 ... 16 Copiapo - 13 1 all Dun Mountain Cop , per Mining Co. - 2 all Fortuna - 2 20 all General - 20 3 all, Linares - 9i 91 5 14 Lusitaniau - 1 d 1 all Mariquita 1 all Now Granada 1 - I - 1 all Noveau Monde - 20 all Pont.Sil.l4dM.dtSinit 5 - 7 5 1 Port Philip * - I 30 ; 16 i , Santiago de Cuba - 1 I all :United Mexican 3} - 31 MISCELLANEOUS. 1000 1000 Atlantic Tel. (Lim.) ... -- 25 19 :Australian Agricult. 29 - 30 10 all lAustraln. Royal Mail 1 .... 11 10 all Berlin Water Works.. 31 - 43 10 2 ,Do. Now las. at Si. d ... - . 50 40 !Brit. American Land . . - .. 1 6 00 t. 1 3 00 21 D Ca o n .c ad o!6pc.Jan&July 1 17 = 1 2 4 1131 1 11 ... St. all Copper Min. of Eng. 25 - 30 25 all ;Do. Pref. 7 4 p. cent. 25 - 27 5 all ,Crystal Palace ll - 1# 5 all !Do. Preference - 4t 4 all !Crystal Pal. of France ... -... 20 all 'Eastern Steam 2l - 3' St. 'lOO Electric Telegraph - 107 1 all Electric Tel. of Irel . . - 5 all En.diAust.Cop.SmCo . li -1 . ; 10 I.oa. Eur. & Ind.Jctn. Tel. , _ - 9 all Eur.&Am.Stm.(lim.) 3 - 371 1 20 ‘ll Gen. Ir.Se.Col.(lim.) ... - 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat. ... -. .. 20 5 London Discount 4 all Loud. Geu. Omnibus 21 - 21 20 10 Magdalena St. Navig, , ... - 10 all Mediteran. Elec. Tel. 7i - 8 10 all ,Do. Extension Teleg, ... - ... 10 all Mexican& S.Amerien . .... 25 5 Nat. Discount Co. ,„ i - i"..1 10 6 Netherlands Land._ . _ .. 10 all Do. Do. - 2 5 all Do.B p.c.PLiss.at ld 1 - 5 3 Do. Do. - 2 i d 100 80 New B. &N. S. Land 14 - 17 St. 100 ,N.S.W. Gov. s p.c.D. 9 i - 994 1 all N. B. Australasian... g _ i 20 all Nrtli.ofEnropeSteam 2i - 3i 1 all ;Oriental Gas - 1 1 10s.1Do New Shares .... ! ... ,ity, 5 all ireelltr. Ld. & Mimi. 2 24 50 all Peninsular 61 Oriental 78i - 79 5 50 0 all l Rh p y 0 m . n N ey 0w 1r . 0 . n ..... .....7.: 2 7 1. 4 -- 8 22 1) 100 60 Royal Mail Steam.... 59 - 61 25 1 all s s Sc ou ot t . h A A u u st s ra tr l a . l l . nv La es u t d . 36 11 - : : St. 100 S.Ans.Gov.6p.c.bds. 101 - 109 1 all Submarine Tel. Scrip i - 1 1 all Do. Registered - 1 20 5 Tram.Ln.Co.UpeCan .• • - .. ui2 B :}, Van theausies Land , 10 -.... 111, 50 all 50 all 50 all 25 all 12i all St. 100 10 ' all 12 all 50 all 25 all St. 100 f l ~ ~ l TII_TIRSuAY EVENING, JULY 1) • A T"F i )ITALS. Leasing Companies Closing Priers yesterday Business this day. Ln. &N. W. Calodon... E.U.&E.O Gt.Northn i E. Count. Caidonian. 99 - 101 101 - 103 13 - 15 139 - 141 4 - 5 14t 140 Do. Gt.Westu. Ir. & N.M Do ••• - .•• 110 - 112 Do. S. Eastern. Do , 12} -13 A 23. -24 i 97 -- 99 Peto &Co Do Ln. &N. W. & Midld. 9G 4 Ay 58 - 60 E.Count- Do Do._ Do.- I Ldils. W Do Gt. North& T. Brassoy 11i. MCloan Stk. &Dar Do ! 138 - 142 8f - 10 - 10fi ..• ..• 324 - 334 90 - 92 at West IL I 99i 8i STATE OF THE Rliji'R TEAITES. PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE—(THIS DAY) The committers met this morning, in Roes No. 3. The nae►nbers present were Mr. Kendall (chairman), Mr. Ackroyd, Mr. Cubitt, Sir J. V. Shelley, the Hon. J. Percy, Mr. Roupell, Lord John Manners, and Sir J. V. Buller. Mr. Bazalgette, engineer to the Metroyolitan Board of Works, examined by the chairman. I have mace some experiments relative to the plan of aurning gases arising from sewage since I was last before the com mittee. Some years ago Mr. Gurney made an applica tion to the Commissioner of Sewers, to try some ex periments relative to the burning cf the sewage gas. The result was unsatisfactory. On Friday last I sent for Mr. Gurney's assistants, in order to Gerry out cer tain experiments with his furnace at low water. Some thing prevented us that day, but on the Saturday follow• ing myself and Mr. Hawkesley saw the furnace, and gave directions that all communication with the sewers and the furnace should be cut off. The dampers and flaps were all closed preparatory to commencing opera tions. On examining the sewers in connection with the furnace, we found a downward current towarks Buck ingham Palace, instead of towards the furnace. Scme time afterwards we connected the so were with the fur nace, and without the use of the steam jet we found a current of 441 feet per minute, which was afterwards increased to 4t32 feet per minute. We then ex amined tl.e sewer, and there found that there was a flap in it cutting of the communica tion of one part of the sower with the other so that it was impossible for the air to be drawn into the ventilators near Buckingham Palace. As soon as the flap was raised the accumulated gases caused an explosion in the clock tower. The chimney is very de fective, and so is its communication with the sewer. While we were conducting our experiments on Tuesday we found the furnace was consuming coke at the rate of eight chaldrons per day ; but this might be attributed to causes unconnected with the experiments. Making allow ances for that, I have put down the coke consumed per day at four ehaldrons ; and for the 1,500 miles of sewers I calculate that it would require 237 furnacee,the oust of coke for each would be 8761. per annum ; nod, taking the estimate of four clialdrons of cake for each, it would cost 201,8371. per annum for coke alone. Each of the furnacee, I estimate, would cost 20,0001 to build. I have made no calculation of what the scheme would cost, for the outlay of coke appearing to me to be so enormous, I feel convinced that the plats could not be carried out with any satisfactory results. By Mr. Ackroyd—l ern the engineer to the plan pro posed by the Board of Works. I estimate the cost of the plan at 2.400,0001. The interest on the outlay of that sum would be 80,000/. per annum, in addition to which the cost of deodorization would amount to 40,0001. The success of the plan depends upon whether the sew age put into the Thames at Barking Creek is brought back to the metropolis. Lord John Manners—l think we had better confine ourselves to consider one thing at a time. The ques tions ju-t anew er-d do not apply to the ply s we are now inquiring into, and I think the questions had better be struck out. After a few word., from Mr. Ackroyd, the questions relative to plans proposed by Mr. Bardgette, were omitted. Mr. Goldsworthy Gurney, re-examined--I consider the experiments made by the last witness to have been conducted under the most unfavourable circumstances, and that my furnace has not had a fair trial. The whole sewage o: the metropo'is would give off about 500,000 cubic feet per day. Three furnaces with shafts similar to the Victoria Tower would be sufficient to consume the gas caused by the whole sewage of the metro pHs. By Mr. Tite—Mr. Bazelgette's experiments were con ducted in a most unfair manner. He seemed to be un favourable to the plan from the first. By Sir B. Hall—l did net go to see whether the trap referred to by Mr. Bazelgettr was open or shut. I had nothing to do with it. I could not get at it. My duty is confined to ventilating the Houses of Parliament. By Mr. Roupell—l consider Mr. Baz-lgette an in. ter'ested party. I don't think it necessary that the ex periments should be repeat but before any satisfar t lry result can be arrived at it will be necessary to have the opinion of disinterested parties. Mr. Woodcock, engineer to the Board of Woods and Work;, examined by the Chairman upon Mr. Gurney's plan—l consider the experiments of Monday last to have been carried on under the most unfavourable cir cumstances—indeed, so unfavourable that no satisfac tory result, as far as I can judge, could be arrixed at. I only speak of the experiments of Moaciay last. Mr. C. Scott, civil engineer, was exarnine.d. 111£ evi dotes was strictly confined to currents of air through certain sewers. Mr. Kelly, clerk of the works under Mr. Gurney, examined by the chairman—l wai present when the ex perimeato wera made on Monday. A . good. Gre wi.s kept up-5 chhldron is usually consumed per diem. That is allowed, so no more can be burned. In estimating a consumption of eight chaldr.)ns of per diem Mr. 831-..11. gotta had done so upon a 'calculation that there would be constant burning without any alternation of heat and crld. Tau committee shortly afterwards adjourneJ THE PERSIA AND TBE QUARANTINE LAWS IN AMERICA. The attention of the British House of Commons has been called to the proceedings had in this city some weeks ago against Captain Judkins, of the steam-ship Persia, arising out of his strict obser vance of the quarantine laws of this State, and out of the offended pride of a petty custom-house offi cial. Oue of the representatives of the British Government iu Parliament has promised that the attention of her Majesty's Ministers shall be given to the subject, and the English papers have taken up :and discussed it,.so that in all probability the affair will net be allowel to rest where it is. The cir cumstances of the case are so recent, and were so fully detailed at the time, that it is perhaps unne cessary to recite them at length. They are briefly these :—The steam-ship Persia, of the Cunard line, which came into this port on Tuesday night, had been, on her last preceding arrival here, boarded at quarantine and placed for a time under the direction of the quarantine officials. While in that co n di t i on one of the boarding officers of the C us t om H ouse, named Denyse, visited the ship, and after making his inspection was about to return to his boat as usual, when he was informed by Captain Judkins that, the vessel being under the operation of the quarantine lawa he could not leave without the permission of the health officer. This federal official, who was pro bably as ignorant of his duties, and as unfit for his position as the large mass of such officials usually are, woes quite indignant at the idea of his freedom of action being interfered with. altlieuali Captain Judkins di rected his etteutana to the fact 'h't he Liel,elf and every person on board his vessel were forced to bow to the rules and restrictions imposed by the quarantine laws, and that - those laws superseded for the time being all others. The inspector haviag besn thus detained on board for a few hours, until the Persia was dis charged from quarantine, smartin g under the sense o f i ma ginary indi gn it y offered o his person and position, lodged a complaint against Capt. Judkins had him arrested and brought before a police ma gistrate, and forced him to give bail to answer the charge of false impr isomnent. An official conies_ pon de - ace between Mr. Cunard and General Cass followed. Capt. Judkins returned with his vessel to Liverpool, and the publicati on of the facts icon nected with his ar rest has led to interp Nations in the British Parliament and to criticism by the Eng lish papers of the anomalies between our State and Federal laws. During the absenc e cf the P ers i a th e matter came before the g lued jury of thi s c ount y, in the shape of a bill of indictment against Captain Judkins, and that body aamewithin an a ce o f find ing a true bill against t h e ca p tain for his stri c t oh setvance of the laws of the State. Bet foritteately for the character of that holly it happened to have among its members a gentleman well-known in maritime and commercial circles, and one; who is practically acquainted with the quarantine laws of all countries. This gentleman, Capt. R. Glover, by his intelligent cress-examination of the witnesses for the prosecution, exhib:ted the frivolousness of the charge, and at the setae time showed the neces sity of having the quarantine laws of each State re cognised by the general Government. The bill was ignored by the gravel jury. The conduct of Capt. Judkins was virtually approved by this flashi'er we hope, useful l e s son was rea d and a salutary and, to the official whose sense of outraged dignity gave rise to the proceedings. But the waits point still an d must so r ema i n until Con remains unsettled, gress pass some geueralla w reco gnising the validity and superseding force of the quarautaie laws of the several States. Every man of comm on sense must see the absolute necessity of quarantine laws being treated as supreme. 0 herwise it is idle to at tempt to have any quarantine at all. E ven as it is, our national vessels pay due observance to the quarantine laws of this and other States, as was instanced by the case of the Susquehanna the other day. But while thus tie efficacy of these laws g is practically achnowleded by the g e n era l Govern ment, a petty officer of the Custom-house under takesand has some l ega l groun d to disregai d theta") for doing so in the a bsence of any general legisla tion on the subject. It is due to commerce, it is due to our self-respect, it is due to international comity, and it is due to the proper carrying cut of our qua rantint system that this defect in legislation shall be remedied as spesdily as possible.—New York Herald. GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, KING's-Crons.—Num bar of patients for the week ending July 12, 955; of wilieh 295 were new casee. INITRIAL PARLIAML;fir. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(7.I7Is Day.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clor.4. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Earl of Fift,'6 E3tate, ildroyd'a Estate, and Sir Benjamin Ball's Estate Bills were reads a third time and passed. SUPPLY. The house went into suppl; ; -. rra fallowing votes were agreed to :- 432,9901. for the disembodied mil;;fia. 133,0001. for barrack accommodation. ' 65,0001. fo: the survey of the United Kingdom, and for the topographical department.. 10001 for the keeper of the regi , itry of patstt 20,000/, for the expenses of •f,he Wellington monu ment. CORRUPT PRACTICES PREVENTION ACT CONTINUANCE BILL, On the motion for going into committee on this bill. Mr. V. SMITH complained was not merely a con tinuance Lill, because it °untamed a clause sanctioning the payments for the convevan:.:o of voters to the poll. He conidered they ought ofly to pass a continuance bill at that late period of the se ision, and not introduce a new principle. Mr. WALPOLE said thero - iivere many conflicting de cisions in law respecting the lwality of such payments, s,nd he thought it right that advantage should be taken of the bill to settle many doubtful points, such as defin ilg what was a member at an election ; secondly, to alter the remuneration to be paid tri the election auditor : at present it was by poundage on the first 1/ spent, and he proposed to pay him 101. up to 2001. F xpended, and a poundage after ; and :thirdly, to ,settle the question of conveying voters to the poll. After come further remarks in which Col. French, Mr. Rebow, Mr. Bentinek, Lord H. Vane, and Mr. Gibs in took part, The buss went into committee on the bill. cl•te•ie 1, which r=lated to the payment of the tra veliiog expenses; ef Voters, Air. D. GRIFFITHS moved an amendment prohi bit ng the payment of such expenses. It wou!ci open the door to wn.deale nribery Mr. J. D FITZGERALD supported the clause. Mr. AY RTON considered the law made it'illegal to pry traveling travelling expenses, but not to provide yAnces, and he thought such a clause as this would meet the difficulty :—" Teat it shall be lawful fur any person to provide conveyance for any voter f r the , pur pose of au election, but it shall not be lee ful to pi any money or give any valuab'e consideration to a vut,r for or in respect of his travel ing exper see for such • purpose." Mr. Sergeant KIN - GLARE said the clause legalised travelling expenses, but the decision in " Cooper v. &ad." laid it down that if the expeuges were paid to the voter on condition that he voted in a particular manner it would be bribery. It was therefore nicessary to avoid future difficulty that the clauses should go further and specify that such a payment should not be con sidered bribery. Mr. WALPOLE proposed to alter the clause to the effect that it should be lawful for any candidate t) pay the cost of conveyance bona Me incurred in taking a voter to the poll and that such payment should not be deemed bribery. He should oppose the amendment be fire the c mmittee. Mr. GREER. considered it would be better to omit the clause altogether. The difficulty might be got over by multiplying the polivg places. Atter some remarks from Mr. H. BAILLIE reiative to the conveyance of voter:, to the poll in the Orkeneys, Mr. V. SMITH contended this c'ause would open a wide door to bribery. They bad declared a ss. dinner ticket to a rnaa who genzrally expended only ls. for his dinner bribery, and there would be as much bribery in the excitement of a man riding in a first-class car nap) who always rode In a third c'ams carriage, or a men's riding in a carriage that always rode in a cart., as in the dinner ticket. He contended the principle of paying travelling expenses was a very important one, and ought not t.) have been introduced into a mere con tinuance bill. [LIzPT SITTING ROUSE OF CO M NIONS-(YESTERDAY.) The SPEAKER entered the house at 12 o'clock, but it was a quarter past 12 More a house could be formed. The difficulty in forming a house extended to the dis posal of the business on the paper. The first: order, the second reading of the Medical Profession and Medical Corporation Bill, had to be postponed till Wednesday next, in consequence of the member in charge of the bill being absent. Tao two following orders had to be postponed from the same cause. This indifference of hon. members is indicative of the speedy terminatio❑ of the session. There were not more than 20 members present at any period of the sitting (except on divisions) after the formation of the house. REFORMATORY SCHOOLS (IREL AND) BILL. The committee on tbis bill was resumed. Clauses up to 17 were agreed to without amendments. The bill passed through committee and several new clauses were added. LEASES AND SALE OF SETTLED ESTATES ACT AMENDMENT BILL. On the motion of Mr. ADAMS, the order for the second reading of this bill was read and discharged. SUPPLY. The report of the Committee of Supply was brought up and agreed to. Tne house than went into Committee of Supply. Several votes were agreed to without opposition. On the vote of 19,2961. for repairing this Embassy House at Paris, the committee divided. The uumbers ware - • For the vote Against Majority ---62 The vote was then agreed to. 1.092/. was voted for the cost of gun metal necessary for the Havelock monument. Mr. HAMILTON said that if the application for a grant of metal for a monument to General Neil bad been made earlier, it would have been included in the vote. LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL. This bill was read a third time and pas,eid. . In reply to a question from Mr. WiLso:vr, Mr. WALPOLE said supply would be taken to-mor row at 12 o'clock, and the Corrupt Practices Bill, and in the evenink; the Chancellor of the Exchequer would introduce a bill for the purification of the Thames. SALE OF POISONS BILL. In reply to a question, Mr, \VALPOLE postponed the Sale of Poisons Bill till Monday. In the meantime he bad appointed to receive a number cf chemists, and hear their objections to it. The house adjourned at 10 minutes pant 4 o'clock. THE METROPOLITAN DRAINAGE. A paper, issued by order of the House of Com mons, contains a copy of a letter to Lord J. Man ners., M.P., First Cammissioner of Works, from the Government Referees for the Main Drainage of the Metropolis, in reply to the report made by Messrs. Biddle, Hawksley, and Bazalgette, to the Metropolitan Board of Work , ' rporr rho report of the referees them o lveo Lis unnecessary to wade Ihrough the details of this elaborate and almost exclusively scientific paper. The referees contend that they have established the conclusion in their report that the influence of the sewage on the river is pernicious, and that they have refuted the state men• a of Dr. Letheby, Dr. °Wing, and Dr. Barnes that such conclusion is a great exaggeration of the influence of the sewage oa the Thames. The objec tions against the sewer guagings of the referees are alleged to be devoid of foundation. We are in formed that the drainage for 81. square miles of the metropolitan district could be conveyed by gravita tion, without any pumping, to Sea Reach, 22 milk di taut from the metropolitan boundary, whereas, Mr. Bidder and his brethren propose to remove the drainage of 21 square miles only to Barking Reach, which is barely outside that boundary, and to pump the sewage from the remaining 93 square miles of tire metropolitan area; while a certain error in the inclinations of the proposed sewers world prevent even the whole of this limited area from being drained by gravitation alone. The referees think the outfall at Barking far too near the boundary of the metropolis, and they say that the cost of deodorising the sewage with lime at Barking Roach would amount in 20 or 30 years from this time to upwards of 100,0001. a year, exclusive of the cost of removing the refuse to some place where it would not ho objectionable. The referees report that the embankment of the Thames is desirable, as a means of preventing deposits of mud on the foreshores, but that it will not purify the river. The construction of reservoirs at the mouths of the central sewers, proposed by the Sewage Commission, is ob jected to. And it is shown by Dr. Hcfmann and his late pupil, Mr. Witt (of the Sehorl cf Mines), that the several processes for deodorising the sewage leaves a large quantity of putrescible organic matter in solution, which is apt to undergo decomposition and to generate most noxious efflu via, while the erection of deodorising works near London might prove very prejudicial to the health and comfort of the inhabitants. The system of the referees—viz ,to cause the sewage to flow in a diluted state through long channels, would deliver it to the river at the outfalls in a condition . com paratively inoffensive, while at the same time rt might be used for irrigation in favourable seasons of the year. Lastly, the referees are certain. that competent contractors will guarantee to execute the works for the amount of their estimates—a total of 5,988,0001., being 3,695, 0001 . for the outfall chan nel, and about 2,293,000/. for the internal drain age. GREAT FIRE AT PORT ELIZAI3ETEL —Thu most de structive fire which ha- yet been kn own i n the Raidetu province ( 0 5, leny occurred at P or; E l i za b eth, on te night when the st ores occup i ed re spectively by Dune ll, Ebden , and Co., A. J. Clairmoote f the of Cape Dias And Co., A Wares and Co., and M. and G. Kemp, were entirely destroyed. The loss is variously estimated at from seventy to a hundred thousa n d poun d s, i nc l u d ing premises and stock. Ciairmonte, it is said, is insured in a Cape company, and . als o i n an i nsurance company in England.--Punt LtactLeth, Mercury. 15, 1558. LITERATURE. Memoirs to Illustrate the history of illy Time. By F. Gulz)t. Vo:ume 1. Bentley. The memoirs of one who has filled a conspicuous position, both in the warfare of political parties and in the republic of letters, must always com mand the attention of the thoughtful and studious reader. If such a record is remarkable when it is written by another, at some subsequent epoch, it is doubly interesting when the politician and litttpa teur is himself the biographer ; when at the tics© of a long eventful life he looks back from the still ness and retirement of age and exile, on the tur moils and manoeuvres of courts and cabinets, on the agitation produced by those great political questions which seemed then as thomeh they would influence the fate of nations, hut which are now scarcely remembered save by the historian or the biographer. The early yeats of M. Guizet's career were full of startling events and eocial disturbances. They form a fitting subject for consideration and recollection, and the politicians of a l e s s s t ormy time, and happier social circumst inces, may find much to suggest and to teach in the strugeles of a great people for that freedom of consti utiunal government which, like childhood's glittering . . bubbles, seems always to vanish in their grasp. Whatever may be the rank among statesmen accorded to M. Guizot, there is no qu stion that he filled an eminent post for a long series of years ; that be mingled in the busy strife of European politics for the greatest portion of a loeg life. He saw the rise and fall of successive dynasties ; he watched the signs that indicated the fall of the great conqueror ; he shared in the premature triumph of the Restoration ; he wiieessed the sudden revulsion of popular feeling that welcomed the hero of the Hundred Days ; he anticipated the sudden extinci ieu of the perial power ; j. peed with hear amt wail the governwent oft-•e sliecee.i ing dynasty ; he mingled in the disetissi•ms and dissensions that :4,gitat,i the Chamber ef Deputies; under a change of•G.-veriarni-nt he took a vieorees tart in the Oppo;iti,n, and he was one of tie cflicial depetation welch pres?ritei to Coarlts th, Tent.li "Andress of the Two Handed and Twerey. one." At this epocli he closes this first ' tcYltrine of his memoirs, lealeng for the opening of the second, the fall of C:iarles the Tenth, and the acces sion of Louis Philippe. All these events, tt ese discussions--chronicled by one who mingled in them, and who, cona.quenily, it prejudiced by party feeling, is impressed with their viti:ity, and imbued with their prevailing spirit—are full of in terest, and not without historic importance to the reader of the present day. The work is rightly named—it is more an illustration of the history of the time than a history itself. It presupposes a knowledge of the plot of the drains, and an ac quaintance with the parts played by the great actors, but it takes us behind the curtain and shows us the pet'y details, the animating feelings, the rivalries and animosities which are not allowed to display themselves on the public stage. M. Guizot himself will be more prominent in the subsequent portion, whets his career is better known to the Euglish public. On the accession of Louis Philippe he assumed the office of Minister of the Interior, which he held fora very brief period. Subsequently, under Marshal Soult, he was Minister of Public Instruction, and at a later period he filled the London Embassy. His name is more familiar among us, though less favourably known, in his more responsible position when holding the port folio of Foreign Affairs, All these busy years and important offices will give ample opportunity to M. Guizot to display his literary abilities. Ho may point the moral with the revolution of February and the record of his own and his master's downfall. But whatever the vicissitudes of his career, or the want of elevation in his principles, he has filled a remarkable place in the political arena. He has combined the arduous duties of an author and a statesman; he has attained iu both spheres of distinction an eminent rank. As such he is entitled to the attentioa of a succeeding gene ration, and his work assumes an important place among the biographiei of the thy. As a literary work it is full of interest and talent, and shows the practised ability of one whose pen has tor so many years been the exponent and defender of his opinions. The following passage contains much truth : "But in thoso social shocks there are deeper ques tions involved than the actors are aware of. The Hundred IY,ys inflicted on France a much heavier evil than the waste of blood and treasure it had cost her ; tPiey lit up again the old quarrel which the Empire had st:fled and the Charter was intended to extinguish, the quarrel between old and new France, between the emigrants and the revolutionists. It was not alone between two political pa-ties, but betw -en two rival classes, that the strugg4 , recommenced in 1815, as it originally .xplotled in 1789 - "An unfavonrable position for founding a Govern ment, and, above all, a free Government. A certain degree of txeitement and emulation iuvariably exists between the people and the political parties, which constitutes the very life of the social body, and en courages its energetic and wholesome development. But if this agitation is not confined to questions of leviels• tion and the conduct of public aflairrn—ef it attacks socitty in its very ba•is,—if instead of emulation be tween parties, there arises hostility amongst classes, the movement ceases to be healthy, and changes to a de stroying malady, which leads on to the most !amenable disorders, and may end in the dissolution of the Stste. The undue ascendancy of one class over another, whether of the aristocracy or the people, becomes tyranny. The biter and continued struggle of either to obtain the upper hand, is in fact revolution, imminently impending, or absolutely declared. The world has witnessed, in two great examples, the diametrically opposite results to which this formidable fact may lead. The contest between the Patricians and Plebeians held Rome for ages between the cruel alternations of despotism and anarchy, which had no variety but war. As long as either party retained public virtue, the repuilic found grandeur, if not social peace, iu their quarrel; but w ken Patricians and Plebeians became corrupted by dissen sion, without agreeing on any fixes principle of liberty, Rome could only escape from ruin by falling under the despotism and lingering decline of the Empire. England presents to modern Europe a different spectacle. In Eng land, also, the opposing parties of nobles and democrats long contended for the supremacy ; but, by a happy combination of fortune and wisdom, they came to a mutual compromise, and united in the common exercise of power : and England has found, in this amicable understanding between the different classes, in this com munion of their righ - s and Mutual influence, internal peace with greatness, and stability with freedom." The following extract gives a portrait of tl:e author of " Las Martyrs" : " TAnne: ed oti ti.a w,rld ainio:l from infancy, M. de Ctialeaubriand had traversed the whole range of ideas, attempted every career, aqiied to every renown, ex hausted some, and approached others ; nothing sall,fied him. My capital deice',' said he himself, has been ennui, disgust with everything, perpetual doubt.' A sti cogs temperament in a man devoted to the restoration of religion and monarchy I Thus the life of M. de Cha teaubriand had been a constant and a perpetual combat between his enterprises and his inclinations, his situa tion and his nature. He was ambitious, as the leader of a party, and independent, as a volunteer of the forlorn hope ; captivated by everything great, and sensitive oven to suffering in the most trifling matters, careless beyond measure of the common interests of life, but passionately absorbed, nn the stage of the world, in his own person and reputation, and more annoyed by the slightest check than gratified by the most brilliant triumph ; in public life, wore jealous of succees than power, capable in a particular emergency, ache bad just proved, of conceiv ing and carrying out a great design-, but unable to pur sue in government, with energy and patienc , , a well cemented and strongly.organised Hoe of policy. He possessed a sympathetic understanding of the moral Ma presiders of his age and coun , ry; more able, however, and more inclined, to win their fevour by compliance than, to direct them toinsportar t and lasting advantages ; a noble and expanded mind, which, whetter in literature or politics, touched all the exalted chords of the human soul, but were ealenla,ed to strike timid charm the imagi nation than to g ,)vern men ; greedy, to an ex,-,,ass, o f praise, • • and fame, to sati sf y his p ride, a nd of emotion and novelty a , reiources from constitutional weariness." There are few iu this country who.will Le prepared to dispute the truth of the following remarks on the punishment of political offeucei . - • / h ave lived in au age of political plots and out rages, directed alternately against the authorities to whom I was in opposition and tho.e 1 supported with ardour. I have seen coespiracies occasionally un punished, and at other times visited by the utmost rigour of the law. I feel thoroughly convinced that in the existing state of feelings, minds, and mannere, the punishment of death in such cases is an injurious weapon welch heavily wounds the power that uses it f safety. It is not that this penalty is without denunciatory and preventive ef f icacy ; it terrifies and holds back from con spirecies many who would otherwise be tempt, d to en gage in them. But by the ride of this salutary conse quence, it engenders others which are most injerious. Drawing no line of distinction between the motives and dispositicus which have incited men to the acts it pueishes, it stifles in the same manner the reprobate and the dreamer, the criminal and the enthusiast, the wildly ambitious and the , 'evce.edly fanatical. By this gross indifference it offends more than it sari-fits moral feeling, irritate more than it restrains, moves indifferent specta!ors to pity, and appears to those who are interested an act of war falsely invested with the forms cf a decree of justice. The intimidation which it couveys at first, eiminishes from day to day; while the hatred and thirst of vengeance it inspires be. come hourly more intense and expansive; and at last. the time arrives when the power which fancies itself saved is expcsed to the iitacks of enemies infinitely more nunierouo and formidable tlian these who have been previously disposed of. "A day will also ootne, I confidently feel, when, for offences exclusively political, the penalties of banishment and transportation, carefully graduated arid applied, will be substituted in justice as well as in fact for the p u niA t . relent of death. Meanwhile I reckon, amongst the most agreeable reminiscences of my life, the fact of my Lato ving strenuously directed true justice and good policy subject, at a moment when both were - seriously cont. • - - ,J •. .• • • C prorni , ?d by party passions and the dangers to which pow ,, r w:, exposed." The work is written without undue bitterness or pail. spirit, and fills a vacancy in historical litera ture. The historic documents at the conclusion are v*liiable and important, and will be referred to with interest. To all who look beyond the fleeting changes of the hour, who sock to read the problems of the present in the past, and to watch the ad vancemeut of civilisation and enlightenment over all the obstacles that prejudice and tyranny throw before them, to learn where a great people have erred in their progress, where wise, and conscien tious rulers have tailed, to all who wish to gain a thorough knowledge of the events of their own time —such works as this are full of interest. It will n o doubt take its place, not among the ephemeral Pro - ductions of the day, but among the standard re cords in which able and eminent men have made their confessions to posterity, have sough , , with that eager desire for an honourable memory which basso much power over those who are raised abcy• their fellows, to show how they have laboured in the public service, how they have had to contend with opponents, with ditliculqi s, and dangers, and. to prove that, whatever their shortcomings, their errors, or their passions, th. 337 have left their im press on the history of reir time. Tke Crisis in the Panjab. By Frodaric 000por, C.S., Deputy-Comtoissioilor of Umritiur. Smith and Eder. •Thi3 work gives us a succinct narrative of the occurrences in the Punjab eluting the revolt, from tl;e 1011 of May until the flll cf Delhi. .It traces the struggle from its earliest symptom; and dwells especially upon the prompt and vigorous measuies which were taken by the authorities. Sir IL M. Lawrence, who has added fie-h glory to an hon our al•le name, is spoken of with the admiration and r,i•pect due to the great qualities he d splayed in a time of unpreceieuted trial. The author justly ohseiv. s dist had s'an been tranquil the evew a in the Pulij:ib would have marked an era ' - but " in the presence of iliudosnn einvulsed, and anarchy sing, the calamities of the Punjab, though individually t rrib!e, its trials, though a'in'st pre- • t.:rlunian, seem sbs' lutely &vatted." The gene ral position of affairs at the ou break of the rebel lion are thus vividly described : On the morning of tha 11th of May, the first intelligence of the revolt at Meerut and the massacre at Delhi wiie flashed to the seat of the. Punka) Government at the ancient capital of Lahore. Notwithst.mling the vague foreshadowings of disaster with which the events at Bar ham pore and at Barrackpore, the successive fires at various military stations, and other rapid and unmistakeable symp toms of wide-spread disaffection had clouded the public mind, there caa be no-doubt that the seizure of Delhi and its concomitant tragedies burst upon Anglo-Indian Society like athunder clap. Under the full force of the first shock of so stupendous a crisis, something akin to a panic was produced. The least reflecting required no Daniel to interpret the dread symbols. The hot weather had set in. Territorial expan sion and aggrandizement had reached its extreme limits, while the force of European troops had dwindled to its ex treme minimum. India was weaker by two cavalry and four infantry European regiments. Cholera had decimated European troops last year, and their vacancies had not been filled up. In Bombay, the European force was not nearly up to the ordinary peace establishment. The first layer of civilization had hardly been spread over Oude ; in the capital of which was but one single European regi ment. The Bombay army was half composed of Poor• beahs. The Persian treaty had scarcely been ratified, while the inflammatory proclamation of the Shah, calling on all the faithful to oust the treacherous tribe of the British, was fresh in the memory of every Mahomedan in India. Delicate negotiations were still pending with Dost Mahomed at Kabul ; and the lives of the gallant Lumsden and his party seemed hanging upon a straw. From Delhi to Calcutta lay a clear field for mutiny and insurrection. The sepey army had been intoxicated, with their sense of power. Every heart prayed, though few dared hope, for the Christians scattered over that boundless area. Every one anticipated the enormities that might occur. The silence which followed from the abrupt stoppage of elec tric telegraph communication, was even more oppressive than the after budgets of dismal tidings, and added to the gloomy forebodings. The vagueness, the immensity, the cloPeuess of the peril, exaggerated alarm. Such were the feelings at Lahora. The tidings from Delhi occupy a prominent place, and the difficulties of the besiegers are represented as formidable. The treachery of the natives employed is shown to have been a source of great perplex ty and disappointment. The bril liant exploits of the British army, and the cheerful courage displayed by officers and men under all disheartening delays and privations, are spoken of merrily. The promptitude and decision of the measures adopted by the authorities in the Pun jab are shown to have been, under Providence, the means of preventing a long catalogue of crimes and misfortunes, such as were too fiequent where weak or fearful har.ds held the reins of govern ment. The work professes to be nothing more than a fai 41111 description of the troubles of the time in one parcionlar locality, and to show how they were dealt with. It was. written, we are told, in the spare half-hours efleisure snatched from the pressure of official duties, and the various facts which have been placed at the disposal of the writer constitute its chief merit. From the cir cumstances of its composition, and from the plain and straightforward manner in which it was writ ten, it will prove a valuable assistant is all who are desirous of acquiring an authentic' knowledge of the recent events in India. The Ballads of Scotland. Edited by William Ed nionq Aytoun, D.C.L., author of "Lays of Ole Scottish Cavaliers." 2 vols. Blackwood, Edinburgh and London. If anything could enhance the delight with which lovers of their country's minstrelsy will regard the work before us, it would assuredly be the fact of its introduction to the public under the auspices of so able and efficient an editor. Professor Aytouu could scarcely have chosen a subject more congenial to his tastes, or more consonant with his literary acquirements. In the introduction to these volumes, a clear and comprehensive account is given of the design of the editor, and of the man ner in which he has put that design into execu tion. He explains fully and fairly the progress made by previous collectors iu the task he here undertakes ; he renders a willing tribute of acknow ledgment to those who " have lent him their aid, or supplied him with information during the pro gress of this work ;" and therefore the most con so= ions can hardly find cause to cavil at the result of his labours. This will prove a valuable addi tion, in the form of a staudird wurk, to the coin pilation of any library. 7.‘.'ezt; Triottis. A Tale for Children. By the author of "Julian and his Playfellows." Parker. This is a most desirable little book for young persons, who meet with a pleasing tale to amuse them, while the moral it conveys cannot fail to be beneficial. It is written in a simple style, and at the Fame time an interesting manner, and the author does IL commit the mistake which is pre valent in this class of stories, of representing one child as a piece of perfeo:ion, and another bad in everything. George Lewis, with all his faults, pos sessed some estimable qualities, which, und.ir fos tering inflnence, might at la s t l ea d t o t h e forma tion of a flag character. F re l er i oa i s also well drawn as an overconfident and kzelf-sufficient child, who thought herself better than the rest of her playmates. It is a satisfaction to meet with so attractive a production dedicated to the service of the young, on whom to bestow a word in season can never be ',blur thrown away. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, July 15. —Wind this day at noon, S.W.; light breeze and very fine. BELFAST, July 13.—The Royal Sovereign, :of ar.d for from Miramichi, is a total wreck at Newfound land ; crew saved. CALCUTTA, July 3.—The Waban (late Fame), from Aky;o to the * United Kingdom, experienced heavy gales shortly after leaving port, and put iu here, May 28, very leaky. She is discharging her cargo, part of which had to be thrown overboard, and the remainder supposed to be much damaged. The Ardvslle, which arrived here from Liverpool, grounded coming up the river, is making water, and will have to be docked. The Tenasserim, of this port from Singapore, is supposed to have foundered iu the late gales. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Thursday Morning. Wind S.S.E. Arrived, July 11 - Constellation, Constance, and Pro gress, from Now York ; Helene, Ostend ; Constance, Arrived, July 15—Pomona, from New Orleans ; Le vanon, New York ; Judah Touro, St. John's, New Bruns \rick ; British Queen, screw steamer, Havre. Off -Jan - )riu, from Licata. Sailed, .1 lily 14 —li.nia, screw steamer, for Constanti nople; Emperor Alexander, screw steamer, Odessa; Dodo, screw steamer, Rotterdam. The Macbeth har put back, having struck between the Zebra and Queen's ChAtuels. (BY SUBMARINE AND BR.TISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning. Wind S.S.W., tide four hours' ebb, fine. Arrived, July 14--Rover, from Dunkirk; Georges, St. Thomas • Schiedam, Rotterdam. Arrived, July 15—Sarah Kay, from Cronstadt ; Juno, St. Petersburg ; Johanna, Siraslund ; Victor. River Gam bia ; Julie Stralsund ; Lenna, Ri ga ; ElizabAth, Cronstadt; Lord Rolls, Stettin ; Meridian, Guernsey; Vliedrop, Cron stad t ; Thernis, Peroau ; Princess , Ca en ; Elise , Ham burg. Sailed July 15—Hotspur, for Calcutta ; M o , ww. Cronstadt. D EA L„ Thursday Morninal Wind S.S.W., light. Paced— Courier, screw steamer, from London, f or Mil. ford ; Brunette, ; Germania, Constantinople —both for London. Passed Dungeness on the 18th—George, from Folmoutli for London. SALE OF THE PROPERTY OP MR. TOWNSEND, 31. P.-- Yeiterday M. Bowes, of the firm of Bowes and B.,1: liogbaiu, put up to auction, ut the Mart. the property in bankruptcy c.f Mr. Townßend, by direction cf the as signets. The property, which comprised various free hold and leaqehold houses, was all sold, vith the tamp tioti of one lot withdrawn. ald ;he Mo. the red not the age 'ant I am lea- F•) 711 4 ? a nit- P, of ►rd El a ich his End 18 18 20 100 100 St. 20 20 100 20 all all all 1100 1100 1100 2s. 25C),.1 881 9 103 4921 f 94 I 5i 91i$ 6i i 1011 100 54! _