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The Bank Charter Act of 1844.—Cap• 32. An Act to Regulate the Issue of Bank Notes, and for giving to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England certain Privileges for a Limited Period.-19th July, 1844. Whereas it is expedient to regulate the issue of bills or notes payable on demand : And -whereas an act was passed in the fourth year of the reign of his lateMajestyKing"WilliamlV., intituled "AnAct for giving to the Corporation of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England certain Privi leges for aLimitedPeriocl, under certain Conditions;" and it is expedient that the privileges of exclusive banking therein mentioned should be continued to the said governor and company of theßank of England, with such alterations as are herein contained, upon certain conditions : May it therefore please your Majesty that it may be enacted ; and be it enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assem bled, and by the authority of the same,—That from and after the 31st day of August, 1844, the issue of promissory notes of the governor and company of the Bank Of England, payable on demand, shall be separated and thenceforth be kept wholly distinct from the general banking business of the said gover nor and company ; and the business of and relating to such issue shall be thenceforth conducted and car ried on by the said governor and company in a sepa rate department to be called " the Issue Department of the Bank of England," subject to the rules and regulations hereinafter contained ; and it shall be lawful for the court of directors of the said gover nor and company, if they shall think fit, to appoint a committee or committees of directors for the conduct and management of such issue department of the Bank of England, and from time to time to remove the members, and define, alter, and regu late the constitution and powers of such committee, as theyshall think fit, subject to anybyelaws, rules, or regulations which may be made for that purpose: provided nevertheless, that the said issue depart ment shall always be kept separate and distinct from the banking department of the said gover nor and company. Ik And be it enacted, that upon the 31st day of August, 1844, there shall be transferred, appro priated, and set apart by the said governor and company of the issue department of the Bank of England securities to the value of fourteen million pounds, whereof the debt due by the public to the I said governor and company shall be and be deemed a part ; and there shall also at the same time be transferred, appropriated, and set apart by the said governor and company to the said issue depart ment so much of the gold coin and gold and silver bullion then held by the Bank of England as shall not be required by the banking department thereof ; and thereupon there shall be delivered out of the said issue department into the said Banking Depart ruent of the Bank of England such an amount of Bank of England notes as, together with the Bank of England notes then in circulation, shall be equal to the aggregate amount of the securities, coin, and bullion so transferred to the said issue department of the Bank of England ; and the whole amount of Bank of England notes then in circula tion, including those delivered to the banking de partment of the Bank of England as aforesaid, shall be deemed to be issued on the credit of such securities, coin, and bullion so appropriated and set apart to the said issue department ; and from thence forth it shall not be lawful for the said governor and company to increase the amount of securities for the time being in the said issue department, save as hereinafter is mentioned, but it shall be lawful for the said governor and company to diminish the amount of such securities, and again to increase the same to any sum not exceeding in the whole the sum of £14,000,000, and so from time to time as they shall see occasion ; and from and after such transfer and appropriation to the said issue depart ment as aforesaid it shall not be lawful for the said governor and company to issue Bank of England notes, either into the banking department of the Bank of England, or to any persons or persons what soever, save in exchange for other Bank of England notes, or for gold coin or for gold or silver bullion received or purchased for the said issue department, under the provisions of this act, or in exchange for securities acquired and taken in the said issue de partment under the provisions herein contained : Provided always, that it shall be lawful for the said governor and company in their banking depart ment to issue all such Bank of England notes as they shall at any time receive from the said issue department or otherwise, in the same manner in all respects as such issue would be lawful to any other person or persons. 111. And whereas it is necessary to limit the amount of silver and bullion on which it shall be lawful for the Issue Department of the Bank of England to issue Bank of England notes : Be.it therefore enacted, that it shall not be lawful for the Bank of England to retain in the issue department of the said bank at any one time an amount of silver bullion exceeding one-fourth of the gold coin and bullion at such time held by the Bank of Eng land in the issue department. IV. And be it enacted, that from and after the 31st day of August, 1844, all persons shall be en titled to demand from the issue department of the Bank of England Bank of England notes in ex change for gold bullion, at the rate of £3 17s. 9d. per ounce of standard gold : Provided always, that the said governor and company shall in all cases be entitled to require such gold bullion to be melted and assayed by persons approved , by the said governor and company, at the expense of the par ties tendering such gold bullion. V. Provided always, and be it enacted, that if any banker who on the 6th day of May, 1844, was issuing his own bank notes shall cease to issue his own bank notes, it shall be lawful for her Majestyin Council, at any time after the cessation of such issue, upon the application of the said governor and company, to authorise and empower the said gover nor and company to increase the amount ° f securi ties in the said issue department beyond the total sum or value of £,14,000,000 ' and thereupon testo to issue additional Bank of England no amou nt not exceeding such increased amou n t an of secur ities specified in such order in Council, an d from time to ti me : p rovided always, that such s° in creased amount of securities specified in such Order in Council shall in no case exceed the proportion of two-thirds the amount of bank notes which the banker so ceasing to issue may have been autho rised to issue under the provisions of this act ; and every such Order in Council shall be published in the next succeeding London Gazette. VI. And be it en acted, that an acc ount of the amount of Bank of England notes issu an e d d by d the i ssu e department of the Bank o f Engl, anof gold coin andof gold and silver bullion respectively, and of securities in the said issue department, and also an account of the capital stock, and the depo sits, and of the money and securities belonging to the said governor and company in the banking department of the Bank of England, on sonic day in every week to be fixed by the Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes, shall be transmitted by the said governor and company weekly to the said Com ussioners in the form prescribed in the schedule hereto annexed marked (A), and shall be published by the said Commissioners in the next succeeding London Gazette in which the same may be con veniently ins er t e d. VII. And be it enacted, that from and after the said 31st day of Au g ust , 1844 , the said governor and company of the o f Bank England shall be released and discharg e d from the payment of any stamp duty, or compositi on in r espect duty, upon or in respect oftie promissory notes allre e andch r o o f m s i t s a so m r P y and such notes payable to bearer on demand n otes shall thenceforth he and conti nue wholly exempt from all liability to any stamp duty whatsoever. yfli. And be it enacted, that from and after t the said 3 1 st day of Au g ust, 1844, t he pa yment or deduction of the annual sum of £120,000,y made by the said governor and company, under the provisions of the said act passed in the fourth year of the reign of his late Majesty Icing -William the Fourth, out of the sums payable to them for the charges of management of the public unre deemed debt, sh all cease, and in lieu thereof the said govern or and co.npany, in consideration of the privileges of exclusive banking, and the exemption from stamp duties, given to them by this act, shall, during the continuance of such privileges and such exemption respectively, but no longer, deduct and allow to the public, from the sums now payable by law to the said governor and company for the charges of management of the public unredeemed debt, the annual sum of £lBO,OOO, anything in any Act or Acts of Parliament, or in any agreement, or the contrary notwithstanding : Provided always, that such deduction shall in no respect prejudice or affect the rights of the said governor and company to be paid for the management of the Public Debt, at the rate and according to the terms provided in an Act passed in the 48th year of the reign of his late Majesty King George 111., intituled " An Act to Authorise the Advancing for the Public Service, upon certain conditions, Proportion of the Ba lance remaining in the Bank of England, for the Payment of Unclaimed Dividends, Annuities, and Lottery Prizes, and for Regulating the Allowances to be made for the Management of the National Debt." IX. And be it enacted, that in case, under the provisions hereinbefore contained, the securities held in the said issue department of the Bank of England shall at any time be increased beyond the total amount of £14,000,000, then and in each and every year in which the same shall happen, and so long as such increase shall continue, the said goiernor and company shall, in addition to the said annual sum of £lBO,OOO, make a further pay ment or allowance to the public, equal in amount to the net profit derived in the said issue department during the current year from such additional secu rities, after deducting the amount of the expenses occasioned by the additional issue during the same period, which expenses shall include the amount of any and every composition or payment to be made by the said governor and company to any banker in consideration of the discontinuance at any time hereafter of the issue of bank notes by such banker ; and such further payment or allowance to the public by the said governor and company shall, in every year while the public shall be entitled to receive the same, be deducted from the amount by law payable to the said governor and company for the charges of management of the unredeemed public debt, in the same manner as the said annual sum of £lBO,OOO is hereby directed to be deducted therefrom. X. And be it enacted, that from and after the passing of this Act no person other than a banker who on the 6th day of May, 1844, was lawfully issuing his own bank notes shall make or issue bank notes in any part of the United Kingdom. ' XI. And be it enacted, that from and after the passing of this Act it shall not be lawful for any banker to draw, accept, make, or issue, in Eng land or Wales, any bill of exchange or promissory note, or engagement for the payment of money payable to bearer on demand, or to borrow, owe, or take up in England or Wales, any sums or sum of money on the bills or notes of such banker payable to bearer on demand, save and except that it shall be lawful for any banker who on the 6th day of May, 1844, carrying on the business of a banker in England or Wales, and was then lawfully issuing, in England or Wales, his own bank notes, under the authority of a licence to that effect, to continue to issue such notes to the extent and under the conditions hereinafter mentioned, but not further or otherwise ; and the rights of any company or partnership to continue to issue such notes shall not be in any manner prejudiced or affected by any change which may hereafter take place in the personal composition of such company or partner ship, either by the transfer of any shares or share therein, or by the admission of any new paitner or member thereto, or by the retirement of any i present partner or member therefrom : Provided always, that it shall not be lawful for any com pany or partnership now consisting of only six or less than six persons to issue bank notes at any time after the number of partners therein shall ex - I ceed six in the whole. XII. And be it enacted, that if any banker in any part of the United Kingdom who after the pas sing of this act shall be entitled to issue bank notes shall become bankrupt, or shall cease to carry on the business of a banker, or shall discontinue the issue of bank notes, either by agreement with the governor and company of the Bank of England or otherwise, it shall not be lawful for such banker at any time thereafter to issue any such notes. XIII. And be it enacted, that every banker claiming under this act to continue to issue bank notes in England or Wales shall, within one month next after the passing of this act, give notice in writing to the Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes at their head office in London of such claim, and of the place, name, and firm at and under which such banker has issued such notes during the twelve weeks next preceding the 27th day of April last ; and thereupon the said com missioners shall ascertain if such banker was on the 6th day of May, 1844, carrying on the business of a banker, and lawfully issuing his own bank no tes in England and Wales, and if it shall so appear then the said commissioners shall proceed to ascertain the average amount of the bank notes of such banker which were in circulation during the said period of twelve weeks preceding the 27th day of April last, according to the returns made by such banker iu pursuance of the Act passed in the fourth and fifth years of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled " An Act to make further Provision relative to the Returns to be made by Banks of the Amount of their Notes in Circulation ;" and the said commissioners or any two of them shall certify under their hands to such banker the said average amount, when so ascertained aforesaid; and it shall be lawful for every such banker to continue to issue his own bank notes after the passing of this Act : Provided nevertheless, that such banker shall not at any time after the 10th day of October, 1814, have in circula tion upon the average of a period of four weeks, to be ascertained as hereinafter mentioned, a greater', amount of notes than the amount so certified. XIV. Provided always, and be it enacted, that it shall be made to appear to the commissioners of stamps and taxes that any two or more banks have, by written contract or agreement (which contract or agreement shall be produced to the said commis sioners), become united within the twelve weeks next preceding such 27th day of April as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the said commissioners to as certain the average amount of the notes of each such bank in the manner hereinbefore directed, and to certify the average amount of the notes of the two or more banks so united as the amount which the united bank shall thereafter be authorised to issue, subject to the regulations of this act. 1 XV. And be it enacted, that the Commissioners , of Stamps and Taxes shall, at the time of certify ing to any banker such particulars as they are hereinbefore required to certify, also publish a du plicate of their certificate thereof in the next suc ceeding London Gazette in which the same may be conveniently inserted ; and the Gazette in which such publication shall be made shall be conclusive evidence in all courts whatsoever of the amount of bank notes which the banker named in such certificate or duplicate is by law authorised to issue and to have in circulation as aforesaid. XVI. And be it enacted, that in case it shall be made to appear to the Commissioners of Stamps , and Taxes, at any time hereafter, that any two or more banks, each such bank consisting of not more than six persons, have, by written contract or agreement (which contract or agreement shall be produced to the said commissioners), become united subsequently to the passing of this Act, it shall be lawful to the said commissioners, upon the application of such united bank, to certify, in manner herein before mentioned, the aggregate of the amount of hank notes which such. separate banks were previ ously authorised to Issue, and so from time to time; and every such certificate shall be published in man ner hereinbefore directed ; and from and after such publication the amount therein stated shall be and bn e providedo deemedtes which unit ed always,thabt anikt to be the limit of the amount of bank shall l not b may sha have in circulation lawful l o r any such united b an k t o issue bank : notes at any time • after the number of partners therein shall exceed six in the whole. XVII. And be it enacted, that if the monthly average circulation of bank notes of any banker, taken in the manner hereinafter directed, shall at any time exceed the amount which such banker is authorised to 'issue and to have in circulation under the provisions of this act, such banker shall in every such case forfeit a sum equal to the amount by which the average monthly circulation, t a k en as aforesaid, shall have exceeded the amount whi c h such banker was authorised to issue and to have in , circulation as aforesaid. XVIII. And be it enacted, that every banker i n England and Wales who, a fter the 10th day of O c t o ber, 1844, shall issue bank notes, shall, the 19 h d on t some one day in every week after ay of to be fixed by the Com- October, 1844 (such day Tlxes) transmit to the missioners of Stamps and , , sa id Commissioners an acc ount of the amount of bank notes of such banker in circulation on every day during the week ending on the next preceding Saturday, and also an account of the average amount of the bank notes of such banker in circula tion during the same week ; and on completing the first period of four weeks, and so on complet ing each successive period of four weeks, every such • banker shall annex to such account the average amount of bank notes of such banker in circulation during the said four weeks, and also the amount of bank notes which such banker is authorised to issue under the provisions of this act ; and every such account shall be verified by the signature of such banker or his chief cashier, or, in the case of a company or partnership, by the signa ture of a managing director or partner or chief company cashier of such or . partnership, and shall be made in th e form tot th is act annexed marked th (B) ; and so muc h o f the said th said return as states the weekly average amo un t o shall be published by the said the notes of such bank commissioners in the next succeeding London G aze tt e in which the same may be conveniently inserted, and • if any such banker shall neglect or refuse to render any such account in the form and at the time required by THE SON, _LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7, 1866. this act, or shall at any time render a false account, such banker shall forfeit the sum of £lOO for every such offence. XIX. And be it enacted, that for the purpose of ascertaining the monthly average amount of bank notes of each banker in circulation the aggregate of the amount of bank notes of each such banker in circulation on every day of business during the first complete period of four weeks next after the 10th day of October, 1844, such period ending on a Saturday, shall be divided by the number of days of business in such four weeks, and the average so ascertained shall be deemed to be the average of bank notes of each such banker in circulation dur ing such period of four weeks, and so in each suc cessive period of four weeks, and such average is not to exceed the amount certified by the Commis sioners of Stamps and Taxes as aforesaid. XX. And whereas, in order to insure the ren dering of true and faithful accounts of the amount of bank notes in circulation, as directed by this act, it is necessary that ~the Commissioners of . Stamps and Taxes shall be empowered to cause the books of bankers issuing such notes to be inspected, as hereinafter mentioned : be it therefore enacted, that all and every the book and books of any banker who shall issue bank notes under the provisions of this act in which shall be kept, contained, or en tered any account, minute, or memorandum of or relating to the bank notes issued or to be issued by such banker, or of or relating to the amount of such notes in circulation, from time to time, or any account, minute, or memorandum, the sight or inspection whereof may tend to secure the render ing of true accounts of the average amount of such notes in circulation, as directed by this act, or to test the truth of any such account, shall be open for the inspection and examination, at all sea sonable times, of any officer` of stamp duties a uthorised in that behalf by writing, signed by the Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes, or any two of them • and every such officer shall be at liberty to take copies of or extracts from any such book or account as aforesaid ; and if any banker or other person keeping any such book, or having the custody or possession thereof, or power to pro duce the same, shall, upon demand made by any such officer, showing (if required) his authority in that behalf, refuse to produce any such book to such officer for his inspection and examination, or to permit hint to inspect and examine the same, or to take copies thereof or extracts therefrom, or of or from any such account, minute, or memorandum as aforesaid kept, contained, or entered therein, every such banker or other person so offending shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of £100; provided always, that the said commissioners shall not exercise the powers aforesaid without the con sent of the commissioners of her Majesty's Trea sury. XXI. And be it enacted, that every banker in England and Wales who is now carrying on or shall hereafter carry on business as such, shall on the Ist day of January in each year, or within 15 days thereafter, make a return to the Commis sioners of Stamps and Taxes at their head office in London of his name, residence, and occupation of every person composing or being a member of such company or partnership, and also the name of the firm under which such banker, company, or partner ship carry on the business of banking, and of every place where such business is carried on ; and if any such banker, company, or partnership shall omit or refuse to make return within 15 days after the Ist day of January, or shall wilfully make other than a true return of the persons as herein required, every banker, company, or partnership so offending shall forfeit and pay the sum of £5O ; and the said Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes shall on or before the Ist day of March in every year publish in some newspaper circulating within each town or country respectively a copy of the return so made by every banker, company, or partnership carrying on the business of bankers within such town or county respectively, as the case may be. XXII. And be it enacted, that every banker who shall be liable by law to take out a licence from the Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes to authorise the issuing of notes or bills shall take out a separate and distinct licence for every town or place at which he shall, by himself or his agent, issue any notes or bills requiring such license to authorise the issuing thereof, anything in any former act contained to the contrary thereof not withstanding : provided always, that no banker who on or before the 6th day of May, 1844, had taken out four such licences, which on the said last-mentioned day were re spectively in force, for the issuing of any such notes or bills at more than four separate towns or places, shall at any tine hereafter be re quired to take out or to have in force at one and the same time more than four such licences to authorise the issuing of such notes or bills at all or any of the same towns or places specified in such licences in force on the 6th day of May, 1844, and at which towns or places respectively such bankers had on or before the said last-mentioned day issued such notes or bills in pursuance of such licences or any of them respectively. XXIII. And whereas the several bankers named in the schedule hereto annexed marked (C) have ceased to issue their own bank notes under certain agreements with the governor and company of the Bank of England ; and it is expedient that such agreements should cease and determine on the 31 st day of December next, and that such bankers should receive by way of compensation such composition as hereinafter mentioned; and a list of such bankers, and' a statement of the maximum sums in respect of which each such banker is to receive compensa tion, hath been delivered to the commissioners of stamps and taxes, signed by the chief cashier of the Bank of England : Be it therefore enacted, that the several agreements subsisting between the said Governor and Company and the several bankers mentioned in the schedule hereto relating to the issue of Bank of England notes, shall cease and de termine on the 31st day of December next ; and from and after that day the said Governor and Company shall pay and allow to the several bank ers named in the schedule hereto marked (C), so long as such bankers shall be willing to receive the same, a composition at and after the rate of £1 per centum per annum ou the average amount of the Bank of England notes issued by such bankers re spectively and actually remaining in circulation, to be ascertained as follows ; (that is to say), on some day in the month of April, 1845, to be determined by the said Governor and company, an account shall be taken of the Bank of England notes delivered to such bankers respec tively by the said governor and company within three months next preceding, and of such of the said Bank of England notes as shall have been returned to the Bank of England, and the balance shall be deemed to be the amount of the Bank of England notes issued by such bankers respectively and kept in circulation : and a similar account shall be taken at intervals of three calendar months ; and the average of the balances ascer tained on taking four such accounts shall be deemed to be the average amount of Bank of Eng land notes issued by such bankers respectively and kept in circulation during the year 1845, and on which amount such bankers are respectively to re ceive the aforesaid composition of one per centum for the year 1845, a similar account shall be taken in each succeeding year ; but in each year such accounts shall be taken in different months from those in which the accounts of the last preceding year were taken, and on different days of the month , such months and days to be determined by the said governor and company ; and the amount of the composition payable as aforesaid shall be paid by the said governor and company out of their own funds ; and in case any difference shall arise between any of such bankers and the governor and company of the Bank of Eng land in respect of the composition payable as afore said, the same shall be determined by the Chancel lor of the Exchequer at the time being, or by some person to be named by him, and the decision of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, or his ncminee, shall be final and conclusive : Provided always, that it shall be lawful for any banker named in the sche dule hereto annexed marked (C) to discontinue the receipt of such composition as aforesaid, but no such banker shall by such discontinuance as aforesaid thereby acquire any right or title to issue bank notes. XXIV. And be it enacted„that it shall be lawful for the said governor and company . to agree with every banker who, under the provisions of this act, shall p e r b e annum banker a compositionsuaetb t a h nk notes, to allow to such foo r lßrl a , nielbsolf relinquishmentko n , e per c entu m o f Ount of . ank . of England notes n i d e d e r and at i h o keptuis in.fccirrnculation ascertainingb y such a n a h w a h n i k eh er s , h o al r l a be ch iss hs no tes ; payable b a l l e t contained l thetlie pri provisions privilege o of herein issuing determining the amount of composition to the several bankers named in the schedule hereto marked (C) shall apply to all such other hankers with whom the said governor and company are hereby authorised to agree as aforesaid: Pro vided that the amount of composition payable to such bankers as last aforesaid shall in every case in which an increase of securities in the issue department shall have been authorised by any order in council be deducted ont of the amount pay able by the said governor and company to the pub lic under the provisions herein contained : Provided always, that the total sum payable to any banker, under the provisions h erein contained, by way of composition as aforesaid, in any one year. shall not exceed, in case of the bankers mentioned in the sche dule hereto marked (C), one per centum on the several sums set against the names of such bankers respectively in the list and statement delivered to the Commissioners of Stamps as aforesaid, and in ' the case of other bankers shall not exceed one per centum on the amount of bank notes which such bankers respectively would otherwise be entitled to issue under the provisions herein contained. XXV. And be it enacted, That all compositions payable to the several bankers mentioned in the schedule hereto marked (C), and such other bankers as shall agree with the said governor and company to discontinue the issue of their own bank notes as aforesaid, shall, if not previously determined by the act of such banker as hereinbefore provided, cease and determine on the first day of August, 1856, or on any earlier date on which Parliament may prohibit the issue of bank notes. XXVI. And be it enacted, that from and after the passing of this act it shall be lawful for any society or company or any persons in partnership, though exceeding six in number, carrying on the business of banking in London, or within sixty-five miles thereof, to draw, accept, or endorse bills of ex change, not being payable to bearer on demand, anything in the hereinbefore recited act passed in thelfourth year of the reign of his said Majesty King William IV., or in any other act, to the contrary notwithstanding. XXVII. And be it enacted, that the said gover- . nor and company of the Bank of England shall have and enjoy such exclusive privilege of banking as is given by this act, upon such terms and condi tions, and subject to the termination thereof at such time and in such manner, as is by this act provided and specified'; and all and every the powers and authorities, franchises, privileges, and advantages, given or recognised by the said recited act passed in the fourth year of the reign of his Majesty King William IV. as belonging to or enjoyed by the said governor and company of the Bank of England, or by any subsequent acts or acts of Parliament, shall be and the same are hereby declared to be in full force and continued by this act, except so far as the same are altered by this act ; subject nevertheless to redemption upon the terms and conditionsfollowing, (that is to say), at any time upon twelve months notice to be given after the Ist day of August, 1855, and upon repayment by Parliament to the said governor and company or their successors of 'the sum of £11,015,100, being the debt now due from the public to the said governor and company, with out any deduction, discount, or abatement whatso ever, and upon payment to the said governor and company and their successors of all arrears of the sum of £lOO,OOO per annum, in the last-mentioned act mentioned, together with the interest or annui ties payable upon the said debt or in respect thereof, and also upon repayment of all the principal and in terest which shall be owing unto the said governor and company and their successors upon all such taffies, Exchequer orders, Exchequer bills, or Parlia mentary funds which the said governor and com pany or their successors shall have remaining in their hands or be entitled to at the time of such notice to be given as last aforesaid, then and in such case, and not till then, the said exclusive privileges of banking granted by this act shall cease and deter mine at the expiration of such notice of twelve months ; and any vote or resolution of the House of Commons, signified under the hand of the Speaker of the said house in writing, and delivered at the public office of the said governor and com pany, shall be deemed and adjudged to be a sufficient notice. XXVIII. And be it enacted, That the term. " bank notes" used in this act shall extend and ap ply to all bills or notes for the payment of money to the bearer on demand other than bills or notes of the governor and company of the Bank of England ; and that the term " Bank of England Notes" shall extend and apply to the promissory notes of the governor and company of the Bank of England payable to bearer on demand ; and that the term " banker" shall extend and apply to all corporations, societies, partnerships and persons, and every indivi dual person carrying on the business of banking, whether by the issue of bank notes or otherwise, except only the governor and company of the Bank of England ; and that the word " person " used in this act shall include corporations ; and that the singular number in this act shall include the plural number, and the plural number the singular, except where there is anything in the context repugnant to such construction ; and that the masculine gender in this act shall include the feminine, except where there is anything in the context repugnant to such construction. XXIX. And be it enacted, that this act may be amended or repealed by any act to be passed in the present session of Parliament. as many cases have occurred among women and children, who have no such refuge at hand as that afforded to sailors by the Seamen's Hospital Society. Appledore, in Devonshire, Sherborne, in Dorset, and Charlestown in Cornwall, have been visited by cholera, several persons having died in these places. During the last few days the disease has abated. The Town Council of the city of Exeter have advertised for paid sanitary inspectors to make periodical house-to-house inspections. The St. Thomas Local Board are most vigilant in detecting and abolishing nuisances, and a powerful disinfectant, hitherto used with great success in deodorising the parochial sewage, is to be served out to the poor people. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN. TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin.,—With the view of making the public aware, at the earliest period practicable, of the dividend likely to be declared by this company at the ensuing general meeting, I am authorised to state that the accounts, though not yet finally audited or approved by the board of directors, indicate a dividend, for the past half-year, at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, STEPHEN REAY, Secretary. Secretary's Office, Euston Station, Aug. 6. 1363, and thus it passed over by marriage to the Hapsburgs. Roveredo, which was held by the Venetians from 1416 to 1609, became in the latter year part of the Austrian monarchy, from which it was never afterwards permanently detached. We have already said, and we now most earnestly repeat, that it would be a wise policy on the part of Austria to rid herself of this last subject of dispute between herself and Italy. The occupation by a foreign Power of the valley of the Adige down to the Lake of Garda, that key to the great gate of Italy thus left in the hands of a hostile neighbour, constitutes a perpetual menace to the new Italian kingdom ; it is a thorn in the side of the Italians which will allow them no rest, till increased strength and opportunity enable them to do for it what they have just done for Venetia. It is a certain source of future wars. But, however desirable it might be to remove this bone of contention for the future, there is no doubt that for the present the Italians have failed to esta blish completely their claims on that district by right of conquest, and it is hardly to be expected that Austria will give up to persuasion what was not wrested from her by force, or that Prussia will re commend the surrender of lands which, up to five or six weeks ago, were no less German than Austrian. The recent victories of Garibaldi and Medici in the Tyrol, which had so nearly put them in possession of Trent, and which enabled them to elicit the vote of the inhabitants in favour of annexation, far from smoothing the difficulty, have only added to it, by encouraging, on the one side, the hopes of the Italians, and on the other by arousing the wrath of Austria, who, anxious to retrieve in the South the losses sustained in the North, has lately poured no less than 90,000 of her very best troops into the valley of the Adige, and is unlikely to listen to a word either of peace or armistice till she has driven the intruders out of the disputed dis trict. But there is more. The " rectification of frontiers," as stipulated in the preliminaries now under discussion in Paris, lends itself to a twofold interpretation. The Italians hope to draw their line in Tyrol at that point between Trent and Botzen where the two nationalities come into contact near two villages bearing the significant names of Mezzo Lombardo and Mezzo Tedesco—the point through. which Lord Palmerston proposed to draw the fron tier line during the pourparlers of 1848 ; but Austria insists not only on the whole Tyrol down to Riva, but even on a part of the Friuli on the side of the Isonzo frontier. It is clear that if any dispute arises on these grounds the Italians will be left alone to settle it, for Prussia, as we have said, will back the Italians in no other claim than that on Venetia, and Italy most assuredly cannot count on any sympathy on the part of either the Government or the people of France. Happily, there are still several days of the existing truce unexpired, and we trust that, if necessary, the truce will be renewed. It would be melancholy indeed, if, with a most advantageous peace already within her grasp, Italy, by insisting on her extreme pretensions, should again expose her self to the attack of Austria and to the risk of a crushing defeat. HERALD.—The most remarkable feature of the opposition offered by Mr. Mill and his friends to the Extradition Treaty Bill, after the intense ignorance they have exhibited as to the practical effects of the clauses against which they protest, and as to the general course of English justice, is the persistence with which they have pretended that the adoption of the principle of extradition is a gratuitous con cession to France, and have ignored the patent fact that during the whole time the treaty of 1843 has been in force the benefits of it have been almost exclusively enjoyed by England. A person deriving his knowledge of the subject only from the speeches of Mr. Mill and Sir Francis Goldsmid would necessarily suppose that this country has really no interest in the maintenance of such a treaty, that its lapse would not encourage in the slightest degree forgery or murder, and that both life and property would be quite as secure in London if to all the other inducements to take either were added this of absolute immunity upon reaching Boulogne or Calais. He would further assume that the treaty was a Machiavellian scheme on the part of the French Government to possess itself of certain for midable political opponents now resident in Eng land, and that the acceptance of such a treaty was a disgrace to the British Government, and that its adoption by Parliament would amount to the aban donment of the sacred right of asylum and a base submission to the dictates of a foreign Power. Now, how far such an unfortunate person would be from the truth anybody who will only read the new bill, and remember that it but alters in a very slight degree an act which has been in force more than twenty years, can discover ; and it really seems sur prising that men like Sir Francis Goldsmid, who is one of her Majesty's counsel learned in the law, and Mr. Mill, who, aLhough unfortunately not a candid, is certainly a clever man, should have talked last night what canjonly be described as such utter rub bish. If they did not know when the bill was intro duced into Parliament, they did know after the ex planations given on the second reading that it enlarged in no degree the old act. The offences remained the same; the same necessity of giving to the magistrate before whom the person arrested in virtue of the Secretary of State's warrant might be brought sufficient evidence of the commission of the crime and of the connection of the prisoner with it as would justify him in committing that prisoner, if an Englishman, for trial upon the charge, was maintained, and the only alteration the new bill made was to save the most absurd ex pense of bringing over a witness to swear to the authenticity of the depositions, when the legal and usual way of proving that authenticity is the certifi cate of the Minister of Justice, which can cost very little, and is far more reliable than the testimony of any witness. Sir Francis Goldsmid and Mr. Mill knew that in the course of the twenty years the French Government had made no attempt to obtain the extradition of a mere political opponent, and they knew, too, that the new bill would not give it any greater facility, except in this saving of expense, a saving which a Government really anxious to get an opponent into its hands would certainly care little about, for obtaining that extradition; and yet they must needs attempt to obtain, last night, the insertion of a clause expressly exempting political offences from the operation of the act—political offences which, be it known, must consist in mur ders or attempts at murder, and so to give practical immunity to all assassins or would-be assassins, whether of the Emperor of the French, his Ministers, or even the meanest of the officers of his Govern ment. Sir Francis Goldsmid's argument was of a very singular kind, and his illustration was stranger still. He attempted to prove that by the French code, the present Emperor of the French is a mur derer, because he shot a soldier at Boulogne, and thence to show that any person resisting authority in open insurrection could be demanded by the French Government and must be surrendered to it. We will say nothing of the good taste or of the decency of this sort of talk. Mr. Neate indig nantly denounced it, but the Radicals around Sir Francis Goldsmid cheered it vociferously. But the argument so impertinently illustrated was alto gether beside the mark, and one must suppose that when Sir Francis left his practice he left his law behind him. The bill has nothing to do with French ideas of murder. No person would be given up for a murder merely because the French code makes out some offence which he has committed to be a murder. The magistrate before whom he is brought has to deal with him as he would with an English subject. He has to satisfy himself that there is sufficient evidence of the crime, and the prisoner's connection with it, to justify him in committing that man for murder, or the attempt to murder, according to English law, before he sur renders him to the agents of the French Govern ment •, and even if the French code, therefore, should make murder out of nothing, no Frenchman need fear being given up to the vengeance of his Government . for that made-up crime. Lord Stanley, and after him Sir Hugh Cairns, showed very clearly that Sir Francis Goldsmid's original clause or either of his alternative ones was unnecessary, and, under the circumstances, impossible of acceptance, and, if it could have been adopted, would have worked most mischievously. There is not, as Lord Stanley said, the slightest reason to apprehend any attempt on the part of the French Government to turn the treaty to political ends • and if the at tempt should be made it would undoubtedly be de feated. On the other hand, as Sir Hugh Cairns pointed out, it was not competent for the Govern ment to alter the treaty without the assent of the French Government, and that the adoption of such a clause would have necessarily had for its conse quence the non-execution of the treaty, and its con cession of perfect immunity to the more skilful and daring of the criminal population of both countries. Further, as Lord Stanley urged very forcibly, the adoption of such a proviso, which must be extended to all our treaties of extradition, would, in the first place, give perfect security to the vilest assassins who might contrive to reach our shores. Wilkes Booth, had such a clause existed in our treaty with America, or in the act of Parliament giving effect to it, would have been perfectly safe, could he have reached any part of her Majesty's dominions. The illustration was well_adapted to the Radical oppo nents of the bill ; for although they think the mur der of a King is a crime, that of a President is in their eyes the greatest that can be perpetrated. And, moreover, the immunity would be reciprocal, and this most undesirable result would follow, that any Fenian who might shoot a witness or a policeman would be safe, if he could once get out of England. In fact, such a clause as that proposed by Sir F. Goldsmid would be a direct encouragement to po heal assassination, an object which neither the hon. baronet nor Mr. Mill, although the Westminster Ire ........ philosopher's repudiation of all sympathy with th crime did not appear very hearty, could have in tended. Mr. Mill, who had greatly misunderstood the operation of the measure, desires safeguards for the criminal which practically would make any treaty a farce. He insists that no person sh ould be given up unless he is confronted with his ac cusers, unless all the witnesses against him shall be brought over and be cross-examined, and he have the opportunity of bringing over all the Wit nesses he pleases. That is to say, the honourable gentleman practically wants for all French crimi nals—and with regard to political assassins he directly claimed it—that before a person can be given up for a crime committed in France the whole matter shall be tried out here. It is qu it e evident that if the French Government had to put all this machinery in motion to obtain its malefactors it would make England a present of all the criminal who could find their way to that then common sewer of crime. Sir Francis Goldsmid ultimately withdrew his amendment, the Government having consented to limit the operation of the act to a term of twelve months. Lord Stanley had allowed that the house was placed at a disadvantage in having to discuss the question at so late a period of the session, and had expressed at the same time opinion that the whole subject of extradition de served to be inquired into thoroughly, and dealt with in a systematic manner. Basing himself upon this declaration of the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Mill , and after him Mr. Ayrton and Mr. Kinglake, aP' pealed to the Government to be content with temporary measure, which would enable the subject to be dealt with comprehensively in the next session! and to that course, as we have said, the Government assented. We may hope, therefore, that som e general measure, dealing not only with the process of extradition,' but with the crimes which it era braces, at present far too limited in number, will be introduced to Parliament early enough next session to allow of proper consideration, and we would fain trust that the honourable gentlemen who have taken so prominent a part in opposing this bill will the recess to acquaint themselves more thorouri with the subject. Our great commercial common might render them some valuable assistance in that respect. Do the bankers and traders of Westminster desire that dishonesty of all kinds shall find a saf e asylum so handy as Calais ? THE CHOLERA. On Friday and Saturday a marked diminution in the number of cholera cases brought to the London Hospital gave rise to a hope that the severity of the outbreak in the East-end had become mitigated, and that its cessation might shortly be looked for ward to, but on Sunday and yesterday the applica- tions for admission became as numerous as ever. From 10 o'clock on Sunday until the same hour yesterday 16 persons suffering from cholera were re ceived into the hospital, and 12 deaths took place during the same period ; of those admitted 8 were males and 8 females. The total number of cholera patients admitted up to the present date is 401, of whom 328 were attacked by cholera and 73 by choleraic diarrhoea. The number of deaths in all is 187, of which 178 were from cholera and 9 from diarrhoea. From cholera 56 persons recovered, and 51 out of the 73 cases of diarrhoea were cured, leaving in the hospital at present 94 sufferers from cholera and 13 from diarrhoea-107 in all. In Poplar and the adjacent districts the disease appears to have increased, in Bethnal-green and Mile end to have decreased in severity. In Bethnal- green the workhouse is BO crammed that 94 persons had to sleep in the corridors during at least one night in the past week, consequently the admission of cholera cases was rendered highly dangerous, if not im possible. ' After consultation with Mr. Far nail, the Board of Guardians have decided to pur chase for £lOO an iron building from the Fever Hospital for the use of cholera patients. A medical assistant and two paid nurses have also been oy e admitted T t The e the dangerous house, en gaged to meet the e xi gency. Since the 11 th July 30 c a a n s d es e o f fthchesoele3 have had p been rd fatal. overcrowding of the house arises from the practice of offering the " house test" to all applicants for re lief. To diminish the number the guardians have resolved to give 3s. a week to single persons and 4s. 6d. to married couples who would leave the house ; but, strangely enough, they determined still to bring into the house all new applicants for outdoor relief. In Shereditch several cases of cholera have occurred, but no serious outbreak has as yet taken place. The medical men of the district say that the cases hitherto have come from the east—that is, from Bethnal-green. The vestry has divided the parish into six districts, each presided over by the Poor-law medical officers, the surgery of each of whom is to be a dispensary where medicines can be had gratuitously, and under each of the medical men there are two medical visitors whose duty it will be to make a daily visitation of 600 houses. The staff will certainly be found inadequate if a re gular outbreak should occur, for the six doctors have their Poor-law duties and their private practice to attend to. But the vestry promise to deal with future difficulties as they arise, and local committees are being formed to aid in the duty of visiting the 600 houses of the very poor in each of t he six districts: At the Westminster Hospital 90 cases of choleraic diarrhoea were treated on Sunday. Yesterday there was a diminution in the number of applicants. Some of those who applied offered to pay for the medicine which was prescribed. At St. Bartholomew's Hos pital the applications hitherto for relief 'in cholera cases have been very few. Yesterday, a gentleman who had been seized with cramp in a Whitechapel omnibus was brought to the institution. Cases still continue to occur among the floating population of the river and in the docks, though up to this time the increasehas been by nomeans great. According to the statistics of the Belleisle hospital ship, nearly one-half of the cases hitherto received have come from vessels lying in the Commercial Dock. The epidemic is still unchecked by any kind of inspection, and, as most districts in London are now organising a regular system of visitation, it appears strange that no action is taken with respect to this very insanitary portion of the community. It is presumed that the health officers of districts through which the river flows are responsible for the sanitary government of . the floating population, but it is impossible that these officers, at such a time, can take river as well as land duty, and it is imperative that some sort of preventive aid should be afforded to that vast collection of small craft constantly moored or moving on or about the Thames, and which, by the locomotive tendencies of their denizens, are specially prone to propag at e a n epidemic. Upwards of 20 cases have been treated on board the Belleisle; but this by no means repre sents the amount of cholera existing on the river, LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN. The directors of this company have resolved to recommend to the proprietors at the half-yearly general meeting, on the 16th inst., that the dividend for the half-year ending June 30, 1866, should be at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum on the ordinary stock of the company. SALISBURY AND YEOVIL. The directors of this company have agreed to re commend a dividend on the ordinary shares at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum for the past half-year, carrying forward a balance of £3,508. ' HAMMERSMITH AND CITY. The ordinary half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders of this company was held yesterday at the offices of the Great Western Railway, Padding ton—Mr. Foakes in the chair. The directors' statement was read by the secre. tary. It stated that the directors had the pleasure to report that within the last week they had received from the Great Western and Metropolitan Compa nies the draft deed of transfer of this company's un dertaking. They would lose no time in considering it, and having it referred to counsel for settlement, and they trusted that by the end of the month it would be submitted to the proprietors for approval. It was satisfactory to observe that the intrinsic value of the line appeared to be fully established. The traffic accounts had not been rendered to the directors since the agreement for sale was entered into, but they noted from the Metropolitan Company's report that the gross receipts on the line were £36,564 during the year just ended, as compared with £22,357 in the preceding year, which was equivalent to an increase of 63. per cent. With the rebate under the old working arrangement this would probably already cover the amount guaranteed by the purchasing companies, and the directors had no doubt that as the district became more and more populated, when the traffic was developed, and when the London and South-Western Company's extension from Kensington to Richmond opened, a very considerable further increase might be antici pated. No advantage could of course accrue to this company from any such improvenient; but it was nevertheless a satisfaction to be assured that the proprietors had invested in a substantial under taking. The directors had pro forma to recommend the payment of the following dividends, receivable from the Great Western and Metropolitan Com panies, at the rate of £5 2s. 6d. per cent. on the original stock, 5 per cent. on the preference shares, first issue, April, 1864, and 5 per cent. on the pre ference shares, November, 1865. The Chairman, in moving the adoption of the report, congratulated the shareholders upon the substantial condition of the company. The report was adopted, and the dividends recom mended therein agreed to. A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the meeting. SPIRIT OF TIIE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—The war-clouds which are rapidly clear ing on the side of Bohemia hang still ominously on the Southern slopes of the Alps. Between Austria and Italy no armistice has yet been signed, but simply a truce of eight days, which expired on the 2d, and has been prolonged till the 10th. Negotia tion 3 are at this moment being carried on at Cormons, in Istria, but by mere military plenipotentiaries, treating without the intermediation either of allies or neutrals. Should their endeavours prove fruit less, there is nothing to prevent a fresh outbreak of hostilities. In the meanwhile Austria will sign no armistice until the Italians withdraw from all Aus trian territory not comprehended within the boun- darTes of Venetia. The wish for a prolongation of the contest in this instance is evidently on the par of iustria. So far as we may gather from the tone of the public press and from intelligence reaching us through private channels, the irritation of the Italians at the turn events have taken since the be- ginning of the war has already considerably subsided They are fain to admit that they have had through• out no one to blame but their ill-luck. They have certainly no reason to complain of their Prussian ally, nor even, on the whole, if they are just, of their Austrian opponent. The cession of Venice, uncon ditional, it is asserted—has been stipulated among the first articles in the Preliminaries of Nikolsburg. Nothing more can be reasonably required of Austria, nor is Prussia bound to support the Italians in any further demands. It seems, however, that not in the Preliminaries, but in some scheme of pacification about to be discussed before the French Govern ment, .a clause has been introduced concerning the " rectification of the frontiers." That clause may be stretched to any indefinite meaning, for Italy may ask for anything beyond, and Austria insist on withholding anything within, the present limits of Venetia. The boundaries of Venetia, agreeably to the Austrian circumscription of its territory in 1815, are very distinctly, though arbitrarily, traced. The coasts of Istria and Dalmatia could hardly be claimed by the Italians with any better title than the lonian Islands. If they secure the whole terra firma of the ancient Republic of St. Mark, they may cheerfully renounce all transinarine possessions. To these possessions, indeed, hardly any serious claims are put forward by sober-minded Italians. There are extravagant men in all countries, and there are, therefore, men in Italy who would assert the abstract rights of their country to Trieste and Istria, no less than to Nice and Canton Ticino, Corsica and Malta. But the vast majority are swayed by no such irrational ambition. They are aware that Trieste has belonged to Austria since 1382, and, although the Venetians doubtless colo nized and ruled over the coasts of Istria as well as Dalmatia, the nationality of those countries is, to say the least, problematical. The mass of the population in the interior is Slavonic, and the ad mixture of Italian elements in the cities and along the coasts is not more remarkable than at Pera and Galata, or any of those maritime towns which bear so deep a trace of Italian enterprise. But if the possession of Trieste and Istria by the Italians is not defensible either on historic or ethnographic grounds, what are we to say on the score of mere expediency? Those harbours and that indented coast are everything to Austria, and, through her, to Germany ; they would he no gain, but rather a loss, to Italy, as they would keep up that rivalry between Trieste and Venice which so nearly gave the coup de grace to the latter city. Indeed, even during the most sanguine hopes of the Italians at the outbreak of the war, no serious thought wag ever entertained of pushing the frontiers of the kingdom beyond the Isonzo ; and if the subject was ever broached at all, if hopes were cherished that Persano's fleet might effect a lauding on those coasts, it was merely that some vantage ground might be secured on which to carry on negotiation, giving up what was absolutely unte nable in exchange for what seemed practicable no less than desirable. By renouncing Trieste the Italians fancied they could make sure of Trent. It is on that small district or districts of Trento and Roveredo that all the longings of the Italian people are now centred, and it is there that lie all the dangers of a fresh collision. There can arise no doubt as to the nationality of those districts. The Germans themselves designate them by the appel lation of Walsch—i.e., Italian Tyrol, and the in habitants are as purely a Lombard race as their neighbours of Brescia or Bergamo. With the excep tion of some valleys incorporated with that terri tory in 1815, the Trentino is, nevertheless, a very old possession of Austria. The bishopric of Trent was made a part of the county of Tyrol as early as COUNTRY MARKETS. CHELMSFORD—Auo. 3. There was a fair supply of wheat at market t o-d 1 1; and generally the prices of last week were made. SPr al i° corn was unaltered. Whegt, old white 475 57s Peas, Partridge ...... 408 4 3 2 6 : new 42s 16s Wh•te .. 3' 20 .... ...• .... g old red 4:s 52s Baling ...... .• 0 00 new 41s 51s Dun.... ...38 3 ....• 8ar1ey..... 2 5 s 3 3 8 dit , o, new... --8 450 Chevalier --s —s Beans, Tick, old ......4 00 , 2 , Grinding 25s 30s new. ... 380 ' 4 6§ Malt... sBs 430 s Harrow lidlts.42s Chevalier 605 624 new.... 403 4' Oats .•• 2..4 26s Mazagan . ..... 360 421 GRANTHAM—AUG. 4. Old white wheat, 54s to 595; old red, 51s to 550; o _ l/ white, 52s to 56s ; new red, 47s to 52s per 36 stone. 13*'; ley for malting, 36s to 42s per qr. ; grinding, 30s to 33s Pe i 30 stone. Oats, old, 30s to 32s ; new, 25 s to 30s per '2 stone. Beans, old, 48s to 51s ; new, 44 s to 46s per 38 stone' Peas, Ns to 40s per 36 stone. COLCHESTER--Ana. 4. Here to-day there was a short supply of wheat, awl: - steady business done at is advance upon previo us ra ; Beans unaltered. Now peas scarce in consequenc e o f wet weather. Wheat, white A n d 0 6 Ms 58s Beans, Mazagan.. ••••=s— red, 50s 548 Middle and small-4 28"8 ,/ o Barley.... 34s 43s Peas, white 388 i" Oat ••• s—s grey ..... ..•••••368 50 NOTTINGHAM—Atm. 4. The show of wheat to-day at our market was scallit) There was a firm feeling in the trade, at rather over 13 , currencies. There was a short supply of barley , and 614 pies were disposed of at late rates. The trade in °3O limited, and at fully late prices. The show of beans W scarce, and sold at late races, with a slow demand. Old white wheat, 56s to 63s ; old red, 55s to 580' ' 1:1 white, 56s to 62s ; new red, 54s to 56s per 3 6 stone. As old, 34s to 35s ; new, 25s to 34 s per 24 stone. Beans. °As 51s to 53s ; new, 48s to 51s per 38s stone. Fine flour, to 41s per sack. ABERDEEN—Au G. 3. le There was a middling business doing to - day, a n-- t 1 market was thinly attended. Prices unaltered. White wheat Bed wheat 4 4 5 6 5 s 0 0 d d t t o o 48s s s 0 0 d d) 62111 Potato oats Common oats 2 2 7 4 5 s 0 0 d d t to o 2 2 4 7 5 s 6 6 d d k 40th 14 bushel. Bere 30s Od to 31s Od n3ib b u shel' Barley 32s Od to 32 s 6d) " Oatmeal Flour, fine 19s 6d to 20s Od 11 boll of 2 881 t. 38s Od to 39s Ode sack of 280 KIRKCALDY—Aua. 4. het` t. A small supply of oats and barley, but good of W a, Wheat was is higher. Oats and barley were undiange Wheat. Bat ley. Oats. First...—. 4s Od 1 34s 61 30s Od r•eoond.. 458 61 1 3. s 6d 318 Od TuArd..... 46s 61 ' 36s Od 3s 61 Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. 0 4 Australia and New Zcaland, via Southampton Aug• .1 Ditto, via Marseilles Aug. t 3. Brazil and Cape Verde. by British packet ScP- ~, Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Aug• China, Penang. and Singapore , via Southampton A.ug gi . Ditto, via Marseilles Aug* Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Aug* 19. 11. 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Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, "of indigestion so'loool. dity of the liver, which had resiste 1 all medical treat 211°' In tins, 11b, 2s 9d ; 21b, 4s 6.1 ; 51b, lls ; 1211, 210 ',dos; Ns. —Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, 14:3,,,eivide also Phillips, tea dealers, 8, King William-otreet I`74ote' at 61, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, nia il ltrs od : street Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford - street • 3 30 ' " • „ A, e 54, Upper Baker - street ; 103, Tottenham-cour t -VP-0 Upper-street, Islington, N. ; Harvey, Notting -11111 40 6 , t. Brothers, 05, High-street ; and Stubbs, Queen's -ter del° John's-wood. London; and all respectable groOur ° mists.—Beware of anurious imitations. Births. DI S' EGAN—On the sth inst., at 6, Bedford - terra ce, , the wife of Captain E. Egan, RA., of a dough° 0:100, HARDING—On the sth inst., at Perry-hill, LovO r o f o ° ,. ham, Kent, the wife of Edmund Harding, Es c l" ; h i , of MEssENT—On the 6th inst., at Tynemouth , the fe o. J. Messent, Esq., C.E., of a daughter. tr the SOMEIts—On the sth inst., at 59, Belsize - p ar-7 J. H. S. Somers, Esq., of a son. Marriages. Cbti ut r 33- . c BYNG—EERR—On the 4th inst., at Holy a io Twickenham, the Hon. and Rev. F. E. C. 133' 113 0 vi jlO r Oi bent of Holy Trinity, Twickenham, chaplal a ugh te ton Court Palace, to Emily Georgina, eldest., _r. Captain F. Kerr, R.N., and Lady Frederic 11-er„. VAUGHAN—PACKER—On the 4th inst., at Stratto"s4.• t he Cornwall, Thomas only son of TNraugli v ' l ttor o f t ", of Stoke Newington, to Ellen, second daq„.. Rev. J. G. Packer, ILA., incumbent of P l ' I Hackney-road. d Deas. , CRAIG—On the 3d inst., Hugh Craig, Esq . / °f I:33c vi $ L i$ Neston, Cheshire, aged 92. EVANS—On the 4th inst. ,a t 36, L d e" hall-st re ea en 1/ 1 1' Evans. r itIOC GARDNER—On the 3d inst., at Balyonkan Lodge , b pi. a, N. 8., Geo. Gardner, Esq., of Polefield, Cheltol.. ve sel i oo GLAnDisH —On the 4th inst., at cliff s, , G :l 3 c ig' Elizabeth, the wife of Lieut.-Col. Gladdish, . „t' Kent Artillery Volunteers, aged 69. , tree", Re 44c0 MARTIN—On the 4th inst., at 30, Argyll-8— ,ster-,,1‘ street, Thos. Martin, Esq. , late of the 110- late Rooms. , of the SAME —On the 4th inst., Harriet Blake, wid ° lll. d, R. Sasso, Esq., landscape painter to George gertiOr THORNTON—On the 4th inst., at Marden gill' Claude G. Thornton, Esq., aged 91. ••••••• _ ___,,-. 00 r . ' .--....- ------.--•-.- ----------- -...--..... jk. s9 i i London : Printed and Published byVVILLIA,ow, 1 4 1 .0 •,, of of No. 112, Strand, Painter. at SUN 'J o ; ol" Strand, in the Pminot of: tile Savo'' , in i Igliddleeex,—Tuesday, August 7, 1866• Dubli Eor no, , SO] by ti Rho], Ob ! llix -___ 14, t i rrt free r atlf, for p --__ for cert sea, arki als c Zatl wa 3 ton