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THE SliN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 19 , 1849 is quite equal to that of the previous week. The manu facturers have asked a small advance for pieces, to meet the higher prices demanded for the raw material, which has had its due weight in limiting the number of pur chases. The wool market has been dull, with little doing. MACCLESFIELD, TUESDAY.—The throwing depart ment of the silk trade is in rather a depressed state, owing in a great measure to the excessive use of foreign thrown silk. Some of the small throwsters have com menced working short time, others are stopping rooms, and others frames, as they cannot get n•ork on com mission. A few are turning off hands, and offering a reduction in the wages of those woo remain of from 8 to 10 per cent. The manufacturing department is the handkerchief line is somewhat dull for the present ; but the manufacturers are very sanguine in their expecta tions of a good autumn trade. The piece-trade is brisker than for some time past ; but the power-loom branch is not so brisk as it has been during the summer. HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—Considerable business has been done in the Cloth Hall, and the warehouses during the week have been fairly employed. 'l'he close of the war between Germany and Denmark has caused great satisfaction, much inconvenience having been ex perienced in the transmission of goods to and from Ger many. Every description of Wool continues to advance. HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—There is still a good inquiry for most descriptions of worsted goods, and especially for lastings, which are scarce, and the manufacturers are unwilling to take orders for them at th , present low rates. The demand for yarns for export continues, and prices are improving. The sales of wool are not so extensive, and holders are asking a small advance. LEEDS, TUESDAY.—Not much business doing to-day. The stock of cloths exported for sale was very small; the buyers could with difficulty meet with goods to suit them. Prices are as last week, and there is a large business doing in the warehouses the subject was a most important one, and that he should _ direct his attention to it with the assistance of Mr. An- I derson and Mr. Hopkinson. HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 18. SUPPLY.—ORDNANCE ESTIMATES. Mr. J. B. SMITH said, in the event of war , many of the old stores would be valuless. For instance, there (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) were flint guns of the value of 145,0001., which, as per- Mr.V. SMITH did not think that his Noble Friend at cussion guns were use d , wou ld b e wor thl ess . The p er- Mr.Go the head of the Treasury had treated the observations of vernment s h ou ld b e care f u l no t t o g et an accumulation of the Hon. Member for Montrose with fairness. What that useless stores. Hon. Member complained of was not that there was a Colonel ANSON was understood to say that the gu ns sufficient quantity of stores for warlike operations, but referred to could be rendered available. that while there was a sufficient stock they were conti- The vote was then agreed to. Busily adding to it.—(Hear, hear.) Now every one 236,4361. was next 'proposed for works at Bermuda knew that just in proportion as the stuck increased the and in the Mauritius. establisment must increase. —(Hear, hear.) Besides, Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH compl ained of in this age of science and civilization new discoveries the expense which these works had entailed upon were continually being made which entirely superseded this country. During the last few years they the old ones, just as the application of detonating locks had paid 2,000,0001. on account of - them. This had thrown aside the old flint and steel.—(Hear, hear.) vote was for works at Mauritius, Bermuda, and Then, besides this loss, there was always the waste of the lonian Islands. It was said that military works were r perishable materials to increase the expense and reduc e required at the Mauritius, because the inhabitants were the value of the stock. Much observation had been hostile to us, and that if we once lost it, we should have made upon the defence of the colonies, but it should be great difficulty in regaining it; but this he de recollected that in those dependencies which could pro - nied. Already 10,000/. had been expended on the perly be called colonies there was now a maturity of works at Bermuda, and 5,000/. more was now proposed inherent vigour which quite enabled them to take care to be voted; and as the works would require altogether of themselves. And when such a stage was reached in 216,0001., it followed that it would be 40 years before all private relations the system was adopted of leaving • those who were able to take care of themselves; so it they were completed. He objected, therefore, to both these votes, and hoped that the works would be discon ought, in his opinion, to be followed in all matters of public moment, and the troops, therefore, which were timed. He objected also to the vote for the lonian Islands, which had already put this country to an enor retained for the defence of the colonies ought to be paid mous outlay. by those in which they were garrisoned. As to those places Colonel ANSON supported the vote. which were only fortresses, in which troops were eta- Colonel THOMPSON, as a matter of curiosity, wanted tioned for the general advantage of the empire, of to know the good of Corfu. He bad been up to the course the expense of sustaining them ought to come Gulf of Venice, but had never seen Corfu. out of the Consolidated Fund.—(hear, hoar.) But he Sir DE LACY EVANS deprecated the present vote, did protest against their keeping up an armament that and trusted that it would he the last required for such a was capable of exterminating all Europe; and looking purpose. upon the present state of our foregn relations , the est is Mr. HUME thought that this vote required revision, and that a great deal of money had been wasted in use matee appeared to him to be greatly disproportionate to less fortifications. the requisition of the public service.—( Hear, hear.? He was aware that the report of the Committee, of which he Mr. V. SMITH thought this fortification question had been a member, was not intended to take effect this ought to be considered before next session, with a view session; but he sincerely trusted it would not be lost to its revision. He found fault with a system sight of, and,that it would be carefully considered before that prevailed in the ordnance department of it was entertained in another. applying the money voted for postponed works to the Lord J. RUSSELL explained that he meant to throw construction of emergency works, a s it had the effect of to imputation upon the assertions of his Hon. Friend, reducing the Parliamentary superintendence over the expenditure to a mere farce. out he only meant to say that, though expense might be incurred, it su fficienthad of defence. Mr. HUME also wished to explain, that though he pose money voted f or ano th er . I t cou ld no t b e too called attention t o th e sys t em o f app l y i ng to one pure was by no means opposed to every necessary requisite strongly condemned, and he hoped the Chancellor of the provision for defence, yet he thought that there need be Exchequer would take steps to put a stop to it. no needless outlay for that purpose. And he would take Sir J. GRAHAM said the Committee, in the report the Noble Lord's own illustration for the purpose. If the London merchant had found one wa t c h man quite which had been referr e d to, had not only pointed out the evil, but suggested the remedy. They recommended sufficient for the protection of his premises, why that where any sum was expended for unforeseen services should he increase the force from th e a pp re h ens i on or urgent works, of which P ar li amen t h a d no cogn iza nce , of a danger which might never arise? for if from any the Treasury should be called upon, when the estimates such groundless fear he added three or four watchmen were proposed next year, to record the reasons which to the establishment, he would be justly chargeable with had induced them to make the advances. an extravaganee from which no possible benefit could The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said arise. —(Hear and laughter.) The instance was the more there could be no doubt that there were cases of urgency, striking as the money to pay for it came out of other in which it would be absurd to say that persons on the spot people's pockets.—(Cheers.) should not be allowed to take upon themselves the re - COBDEN believed that Government, could ob- spons ibili ty o f i ncurr i ng expense. There were only two Mr ... ~lahe t p ve rye. article -they required- cheaper from , ,enterprise ahans.they could snaanufacture- it.--( H e ar , .11 sum annually for unf oreseen contingenciee; second)y, to ' . heir.)__ The.Gavernment were abouato bring in a, Bi t postpone other wo r k s f or which sums had been voted : ..J t 9. take railway stock, he thought. they had better take I. in order to . meet the expense of these unforeseen their ~Dirn.,lttock first. —, (Hear , hear.) He - thought . to - c i rcumstances. He was sure he should have the con keep up large ordnance storea.was totally unttecearry„ , and aught_rei . longer to continue. - The Hon. Member vote House that it would not be advisable to vote a sum annually for such "tontingencies. It would etepre.eated t tea .ceustic terms the, desisee-the was be a much better plan for the Treasury to make a re -- dispheyed -by the GOvernineht to create establish- turn every year of the advances which they had made in ments on every barren rock in the world, cases of this kind. and particularly alluded, as e v ide nce o f th at, t o Sir JAMES GRAHAM bore witness to the excellence Hong-Kong and Libuan. He thought the ob- of the form in which the estimates were laid before the serrations of Mr. Sidney Smith with respect to the Tories House, but complained that there were occasional mis was doubly applicable to the present Government. The takes in filling up the different columns. Honourable Member then referred to the ex- The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER had had travegant stock of stores that was kept, and de- his attention already drawn to this. He was fully cog signated it as not only useless, but improper. nizant of the importance which attached to the correct- Now, why keep such an amount of stores always in stock, ness of these papers. when any extraordinary supply could be obtained at a Mr. COBDEN observed that the subject of the lonian fortnight's notice, if they chose to give a small additional Islands had been brought before the House by an Hon. price? The effect of keeping this enormous amount of Member—and he wished to inform the House that many stores was, that last year a quantity of old stores high authorities, including the Marquis of Lansdowne were sold for 760,000/., which he had no and Lord Brougham, had objected to this country taking doubt had originally cost upwards of three possession of these islands. The estimates of the works millions. A notice had already been given, that in the in these islands were, even on the evidence of Sir John course of a year or two the Australian colonies would Burgoyne, . the Inspector-General of Fortifications, be expected to provide their own stores for the forces not much to be relied on. The only way in which engaged in the colonies. That he c snsidered was an ex- they could avoid such lavish expenditure was to make celleut system, and Government ought to be encourag-d up their winds not to expend any more on foreign for in carrying it out. He for one would extend it to tification. He thought that there was very little need Canada and all the other colonies who claimed the right to keep on adding to the fortifications of such places as of self-government. The colonies themselves were not Malta and Gibraltar. He thought that our naval pre averse to doing so, but what they objected to was, eminence, which was put forward as an excuse adopting the policy of the Home Administration. for so doing, was of itself sufficient to pre- They objected to taking to the existing stock of serve them. The Marquis of Wellesley in 1816 had stores and keeping up the forces upon the made a speech which entirely supported him iu this present extravagant scale.—(Hear, hear.) He did doctrine—a speech which, if he, Mr. Cobden, were now not suppose that the colonies could take this responsi- to make, would lay him open to the attacks of Honour bility upon themselves now, but what he contended for able Gentlemen opposite, who would charge him with was the principle that the time must come, and come wishing to abandon all the colonies. The only way to soon too, when the colonies must not expect any contri- reduce the expenditure in this quarter was to stop our butions from the Exchequer ot the mutherscoun:ry towards hands there altogether. the support of their forces. Since 1835 the ordnance The vote was then agreed to. forces had been doubled; bat then,, said the Noble Lord On the question that 49,859/. be voted for the scien at the head of the Government, e+ we have reduced the title department of the Ordnance, taxes." Now, that argument was a glaring fallacy. The Mr. HASTIE was very much rejoiced that the debate taxation had not been diminished ; it had only been had taken place to-day. He had no doubt it would be shifted from one shoulder to another, and so far productive of much good. • He should be glad to know, from the taxation having been reduced, he was in reference to this vote, what progress was being made prepared to prove that since the Duke of in the Ordnance survey. . Wellington's Government it had increased five millions. Colonel ANSON said money was being applied to it He hoped, therefore, the Noble Lord would not cog- f rom ti me t o ti me. plain of the tone an-I temper of these remarks, or con- Mr. COBDEN and Mr. HUME complained that the eider him unjust, when he told the Government that by public had great difficulty in procuring the Ordnance the commencement of next session they must be pre- maps. pared with_ proposals fur large reductions in the ex- Col. ANSON said they could always be had at the penditure if they wished to retain the confidence of the Ordnance office. people.---(llear, hear.) Mr. COBDEN suggested that a central depot should Lord JOII N RU.S eELL could not complain of the be established in London, where stationers could procure tone of the Honourable Gentleman's remarks, or of these maps without difficulty. the principle he ha - I laid down, that before the The eeport was then agreed to. Government undertook the manufacture of particular On the question that 86.669/. be voted for defraying articles the onus probandi rested with them to the expense of the non-effective civil and military ser show that the articles could not be supplied to vices attached to the Ordnance, greater advantage by private individuals; but he Major BLACKALL complained that more colonels eould not agree with him that it was not neces- retired from the engineers and artillery on full pay than sary to keep up the present amount of stores. from all the 146 battalions of the lime, owing to some The Hon. Gentleman's principle Ras, that a great part undue regulations having been made in their favour. of the defence of our colonies should be thrown on the Mr. F. MAULE was understood to say that the colonies themselves. Now, Esrl Grey, when he entered G allant Major was mistaken in his latter conclusion. into office, adopted the principle; and he (Lord John Mr. HUME took that opportunity of recommending Russell) thought that, in many instances, it might Government to reduce the expenditure on cadetships. After some obServati ons f rom C o l onel ANSON and be carried out with great advantage. If, however, they were to say that they intended no longer M r. es vOMIDEN, to undertake the den-nee, for instance, of the citadel of Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that the disputes in the Quebec, he was afraid that such a declaration would be River Plate were now near a termination. looked upon as a virtual abandonment by this country The vote was then agreed to. of Canada. The true wisdom was to steer between The 1 - 1 , -use then resumed, and the report was ordered two extremes, viz., taking upon ourselves the en- to be brought up on Friday. p tire defence of the colonies, and r e f us i ng t o con tribute ' • tribute any assistance whatever for that purpose, ADVANCE OF MONEY (ATHLONE TO GAL which he thought would show that we cared no WAY RAILWAY) BILL. longer about our colonial empire. Very large This Bill, as amended, was considered in C inruittee. and serious questions were connected with Several verbal alterations were made, and the Bill was this subject, which would be maturely considered by the agreed to. Government, with a view, on the one hand, of having no On the motion that the report be brought Up, unnecessary expenditure, and, on the other, of endea- Sir JAMES GRAHAM said he had given a very -souring to act fairly and with goodwill towards our reluctant assent to this measure, believing that it colonies, which, he believed, would not only enhance the was dangerous to give out-door relief in Ireland; but greatness of this empire, but the cause of civilisation, as this advance of 500,0001. was the second that had Mr. COBDEN said, he had a high o pi n i on of. Earl been made for railways in that country, he thought he Grey, and he look e d to him for great and beneficial was justified in asking the Chancellor of the Exche changes in the constitution of our colonies..' quer to give an assurance that this would be the last Mr. ELLIS had bad the honour. ahring Taira' ken. advance that he would propose to make for such spe bourne's Administration, to be- one, sit a Commission culations. along with the . Noble Lord at the . -head of the present The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he was not prepared to give the assurance which the Right Government, appointed to inquire ins° this matter now before the House, and that CommiSeion had seen the HOn.Baronet required. H e cons id ere d that much good necessity of some central control over the expenditure. woul d be done to Irela n d i n encourag i ng enterprise -by He must press upon the attention of the Noble Lord m aking such advances. the necessity of reform, unless they wished to have a After a few word s f rom Mr. F. FRENCH and, SW H. renewal el these disunions. WILLonaaBY, ./e . lr. GIIOGAN . s uggested _ that all the enactments of Mr.. HUMS called the attention of the House to the •• railway B ills i ts Ireland with regard to taking land increase Of the vote for barracks during the last few years. In 183.5 and 1836 the vote was 85,000 L Since should be re-considered. then it had been increasing gradually until this year, The motion was agreed to when it was 183,000/. As lung as they maintai ne d t h e The Relief of Distress (Ir eland) and the House resumed. land) Bill was read a third immense number of soldiers they had at present, with the time and passed. preposterously large lAA; in all direction, they must keep The report of the Customs Act was received and up a proportionate amount of artillery. There never agreed to, after a short discussion. had been such a lavish expenditure in such items in this DISEMBODIED MILITIA BILL. country before. Until tlier,, was in this country, as The House then went into Committee on this Bill. there was in others, a Minister of War, to whom the Mr. HUME wished to see the militia disbanded alto er.tire responsibility might be entrusted, there _would gether.. It had cost more than 8,000,000/. of late years, always be a great waste from the divided authority of . and Was - of no earthly useq- except to provide berths for our present system. • colonels of regiments. lie objected to the principle of Colonel ANSON said the position which he held conscription by which the militia was filled up. forced him to , say a few words. he thought that Mr. FOX MAULE thought t,lsat the Hon. Member his Honourable Friend had not stated .correctly the was wrong in calling the system of filling up the militia increase in the votes, for this -year, and -former a system of conscription. years. The expense had certainly been increased, but The Bill went through Committee, and the report the Governne . ut had thought it rsquisite:to increase the was ordered to be brought up to morrow. strength of the army, and he thought the House wet/Id The Administration of Justice (Vancouver's Island) be inclined to support them in their determination. The Bill was read a third time and passed. expenses of the establishment at home had decreased, Mr. HAYTEti obtained leave to bring in a Bill to but those abroad had increased to the addi- aut h or i se her M a j esty to appoint Commissioners to in nc d owing tional colonies whic h t h ey hail acquired. As to quire into the claims over the New Forest and Waltham the increase in estimates for barracks, the Forest. et O n the htohfpe produce oilmotion(ludeclared cean o d f ll r, manufactures valuell A of Government had complaints exte n d . ci b arrack awrhteircsh. an account was or accommodation from thed a e r O r i fthe ex v p a o ri rte ou d s t a o rt t i h c e le ß s r o i. f had been' forced upon them from all lie did not stand there as an advocate for keeping up tieh West India colonies, for the years ending the sth large quantities of stores, and if the Government thought day ofJanuary, 1840 to 1849, with the rate of duty on each it expedient not to do so, they would be reduced. Why, article in the colonies; amid of the quantities of the prin the old guns would- not fetch 21. a ton; so that on the cipal articles of the growth and manufacture of the Bri ground of economy it would not be expedient to sell fish West India colonies imported into the United King.. them. The Government, during the recess, would take dum; and of the quantities cleared for home consump the whole of the report into consideration. He trusted, tion, and the rate of duty charged ou each article, with therefore, the vote would pass without further discussion. the Gazette average price of Sugar for the year ending The vote was then agreed to. on the sth day of January, 1848; also, the number of 71.3301. was next voted for the • wages of artificers in ,hips di s tinguishing British and foreign, with th e i r ton the United Kin g d om and the colonies , ' page, that have entered and cleared for the British West 163,418/. was next voted for ordnance land and sea India colonies from the United Kingdom, during the stores. same period. Similar returns for the East India Colonel ANSON, in reply to Mr. Hume, intimated Company's territories and Ceylon ; similar return that there was every probability of the quantity being for China; similar return for the Mauritius; reduced. J. GRAHAM bad already said that the report similar return for the British North American co- Sir lonies; similar return for New South Wales and the required much time for consi&ration by o t r h d e na G n Govern- Australian Colonies; similar return for the United went. The cash accou nt o f t h e na States of America; similar return for Cuba; similar army was very satisfactory; hut he naval vy and ordnance d e ) return Me x ico for the Braz:ls ; and similar returns for Also.. extc returnso and the other ports of store-books were most improperly kept.—(Hear, ) The Committee had reported that this subject should b e South America. early attended to. He hoped, looking at the cost of these approved of by the H of ports or creeks in the United Kingdom inonbo,unirda of tea, the -ism' of Customs, Honourable B for the warehousin g stores, that next session they would find an alteration tea, coffee, sugar, wipes, in these things ; and he trusted the Chancellor of the spirits, and tobacco. Of the amount of the above- Exchequer, who was conversant with the mode of mentioned goods in pounds gallons warehoused at accounts, would attend each port, for the year keeping the Admiralty to it. He had intended, when connected with April, 1849, distinguishing the quantities of ding the sth day of years ago, to make the thosewarehoused directly imported into such ports, with the Admiralty flfteen but circumstances pre- the quantities removed under bond from the ports of im alterations he now proposed. vented his doing so ; but at the present time the books portation, together with the number of duty -paid entries 'ere, in the same unsatisfactory state. made at each port during the above period; and of the ,114.t3 CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said . amount of custom' duty received is the United Kingdom IMPERIAL PARLIAMEN T. '"cs: R 1 t;Y:ot fro" ••,, for the year ending the sth day of April, 1849, showing the payments made for services specially connected with the collection of the revenue, together with payments made for services not specially connected with the collet tion of the revenue. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned. LONDON AND WESTMINSTER BANK.-HALF-YEARLY MEETING. A special general half-yearly meeting of the directors and proprietors of the London and WeAminster Bank was held yesterday, in the premises of the Bank, Loth bury; Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., one of the di rectors, being in the chair. There was a full attendance of the directors and shareholders. The CHAIRMAN called upon the Secretary to read the report of the directors, which the secretary did as fol lows: " The directors have to report that the net profits of the bank. during the last half-year, have amounted to 32,7291. 17s. 43. Out of these profits they now declare a dividend, at the rate of six per cent. per annum. After the payment of this dividend, there will remain the sum of 2,7291. 17s. 4d. to be added to the surplus fund, which will then amount to 105,4531. 14s. 3d. LONDON AND WESTMINSTER BANE, JUNE 30, 1849. Dr. X 8. d. To proprietors for paid-up capital 1,000,000 0 0 To amount due by the Bank for de posits, circular notes, &c. To rest, or surplus fund 102,723 16 11 To profits of the past half-year 32,729 17 4 £4,528,310 17 10 AS s. d. 964,800 13 7 By Government stock, Exchequer bills, and India bonds By other securities, including bills discounted, loans to customers, &c. 3,010,867 15 2 By cash in hand ... " £4,528,310 17 10 PROFIT AND LOSS, 30TH JUNE, 1849. X S. d. Dr. To payment of the dividend, now de clared, at the rate of six per cent. per annum, on a capital of 1,000,0001., for the half-year ending 30th June, 1849 30,000 0 0 To balance of unappropriated profits 105,453 14 3 £135,453 14 3 .0 S. d. Cr. By balance of unappropriated profits on 31st December, 1848 By net profits of the past half-year, after defraying the total expense of man. 'gement, paying the income-tax, and making provision for all bad and doubtful debts 3 2 .729 17 4 £135,453 14 3 By balance of unappropriated profits £105,453 14 3 The CHAIRMAN said, in rising to move that the report which had just been read be adopted, printed, and circu lated among the shareholders, he would occupy their at tention but for a very short period. They would permit him, in the first place, to congratulate them, which he did for the first time, that the paid- up capital of the com pany amounted to 1,0e0,0001. That was a guarantee to them hereafter that they might consider their capital account as closed, and that no probable contingency might arise when it would be necessary to appeal to them for further capital. It was further satisfactory to have this capital, because it was an assurance to the public, that however large the undertakings that might be entered into by the company, they would still be under that reservation, which he trusted the board of directors would ever discreetly exercise. Although during the past year there bad been no very great en couragement to holders of money to invest their capital, if the company had not received a large amount of re turn for the outlay of their money, they had at all events done a safe business. Three per cent. for the half-year would be the dividend they had to declare, and they were still able to add a small amount to their reserved fund. He was happy to say the business of the company still continued to in crease both at their branches and their head office. Their accounts were aow second to none in this metro polis, and were of the greatest possible respectability. —(Applause.) He regretted that he had it not iu his power to state that the directors had made any progress in the matter of the clearing." Matters remain pre cisely as they were; the Joint-Stock Banking Companies, and their own among the rest, were still excluded from the privileges of the clearing. In those days of freedom of trade, he could not have th oug ht th at t h ere could have existed in this metropolis a monopoly which was as great a private interest as it was a public wrong. —(Applause.) Justice, like truth, must in the end pre vail; and he trusted, ere long, they would he admitted to the privileges of the clearing. He would not detain them longer, but would simply move that the report of the directors be adopted, printed, and circulated among the shareholders.—(Applause.) Mr. PERRY seconded the resolution. Mr. N. CROUCH said he found by the report that the directors had 4,500,0001. of working capital. It had always appeared to him that a large sum of money like 4,500,0001. ought to raise more profit to the shareholders. Taking it at 4 per cent. that sum ought to raise 160,0001. and that was deducting the 500,0001. cash in hand. But, instead of 160,000 L, the profit had dwindled down to 60,0001. That. was too little, he thought. Either the directors did not use their money to advantage, or their expenses were enormous, or their losses excessive. He expected to-day a bonus of a very considerable amount would have been announced.—(Hear, hear.) It had been promised over and over again. He did tnink with a capital of 1,000,0001, pail up, with a capital of nearly 5,000,0001. at their command, and with a rest of 100,0001., the directors ought to afford the shareholders a greater advantage than they received.—(Hear, hear.) The CHAIR3IAN said the previous speaker considered that, from the amount of capital placed in the hands of the directors, the r•-turn they made ought to be larger, and if that return were not larger, it arose from excessive loss or excessive expenditure. From neither of those causes did it arise. Really and truly the cause arose from the very low value of motrey in the money market.—(Hear, hear.) It was true their capital of 1,000,0001. might be invested at a larger rate of interest; but, if they did so, the time might come when they wanted their 1,000,0001., and might in vain seek for the means of realising it. They were compelled to have their capital available. The money was in their till, and he trusted it would long continue there. Whenever an opportunity arose of investing their money at a fair rate of interest, he assured them it was always the anxious desire of the directors to avail themselves of it. Their first care was security, and he hoped the board would ever maintain that as one of their leading principles.—(Applause.) Mr. LEVY thought the directors had exercised a very sound discretion in not giving more than 6/. per cent., that was all he had to say; he approved of short speeches, re membering the old adage, that what would cure a car penter would kill a bricklayer sometimes. He thought they had better let well alone, and not trouble them solves about the Scotch banking system, or investing money in Ireland, all which was what he called hum bug.—(Laughter.) A SHAREHOLDER asked what was the comparative expense of working the branches ? The CHAIRMAN said their branches were extremely well conducted, and gave the greatest satisfaction to the directors; but entering into particulars at that moment would be injudicious. The SHAREHOLDER said a rival establishment had been said to succeed better than their own, because that establishment had no branches. The CHAIRMAN said he should regret exceedingly parting with any one of those branches. Mr. W. Bitowsr hoped a portion of their reserved fund would be added to their dividends by way of bonus. • The CHAIRMAN said he was aware there was a feeling among the shareholders that whenever the " rest" ex ceeded 100,0001. they should not give to posterity that which they themselves had earned. He did not think the directors differed much from that feeling; but he was quite sure the shareholders would not wish the directors to declare a paltry bonus. Mr. BROWN ,suggested the formation of a "settling house" among the joint-stock banks themselves, since they were excluded from the "clearing" system. There were great privileges to be derived from a " settling house. The Chairman could not deny that it was greatly to the interest of private banks to keep the joint-stock banks out of the clearing system; yet even tually he hoped they would admit joint-stock banks to the clearing, and that without having recourse to the " pressure from without." • The resolutioa adopting the report was then pat and carried. Mr. LIADDO moved a vote of thanks to the Chairman. and directors, and the meeting separated. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian.) MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.— The requirement of higher prices for yarns was, last week, partially successful. To day a more decided move has been made in the same direction. Stimulated by the still buoyant state of the cotton market, the spinners have claimed a- further ad vance of id. per lb., generally, and in many instances of id. There can be no doubt that thieolaim (maintained throughout the day with unflinchitig rnuness), has con siderably restricted the amount of basiness;' yet, it has been so far acceded to by some classes of buyers, as to render the transactions of moderate, if not of fair extent, on the whole. The principal purchasers have been the home manufacturers and the German merchants. The latter have paid the advance most readily for warps and pin cops. The India houses, however, have continned to stand aloof. An additional advance has also been demanded upon goods, and here again, the effect has been a limitation of business. The makers of 7-Bth and 9.Bth printers and shirtings have, however, secured another lid. per piece. The sudden and considerab'e rise which has recently taken place in 34-inch and 36-inch printers and shirtings, is easily accounted for. For some time their value was unduly depressed, through a want of demand ; and now that the demand has revived, it is found that the produc tion has been very much abandoned for that of 40-inch fabrics. India and China goods :ire decidedly firm trout their scarcity, and the degree in which the manufacturers are under contract. In some of the heavier cloths, suit able for shipping, there is a little improvement; least of all in the better qu-dities for the home market. We undrrstaed that in some establishments at Black burn the weavers have demanded an advance of 10 per cent. in their wages, but without success. We are sorry to learn that a Mr. Bottomheitn has left the town without discharging his liabilities, whieh 'are said to amount to about 10,0004 and to tall principally upon the calico printers. • ROCHDALE, MoNDAY.—There has - been another to lerably good market to-day, And. the demand forlianuch ` ' r `., ~ ... FRAN CE. The Commission charged with deciding on the proposition of M. Lestiboudois, which has for its ob ject the securing a retiring pension to workmen who have passed their labour, has concluded its task. The following are the most remarkable paragraphs of the projeet of M. Lastiboudois ...rho retiring allowance ought to be pecuniary. Nevertheless, it were well that the workmen who are so isolated, or who only receive an allowance of a very small amount, should be enabled to live in common, as more economical and more agreeable. It would therefore be advantageous to establish hotels capable of receiving men, vr,.men, and children. The stoppage is to be made on the produce of labour as well as on the wages of the employed; and the supplementary sums indispensable to the amount raised on wages ought to be furnished by industry itself, which is bound riot only to maintain the individual while it employs him, but also when he has exhausted himself in its service." The sum estimated by M. Lastiboudois for the support of a man is 182 francs per annum; of a wo man, about two-thirds of that sum. The saving from wages should, he thinks, begin at the age of eighteen, and terminate at that of sixty, when the party is en titled to a pension. The Commission has recommended that the project should be taken into consideration. AUSTRIA. The young Emperor of Austria profits by the in structions of his fellow Emperor Nicholas. It appears from the Vienna papers that certain Austrian ladies of rank offended in some manner or other the young Emperor Francis Joseph, and whereupon this boy of 18 ordered them to be arrested and flogged, which was done. It may become a question whether or not the representatives of these women floggers ought to he received at the Court of a Queen on the same footing as the representatives of civilized nations. At all events, no man of any decent or honourable feeling can henceforth mix in their society, and the ladies, of course, must in self-defence avoid them. LIAL Y. The Piedmontese Gazette, of the 13th inst., quotes a letter from Venice, stating that, during the night of the 6th, the beseiged had taken by surprise a bat tery erected by the Austrians on the bridge of the railway leading to Venice. The assailants consisted of volunteers from the different regiments under the orders of Captain Buell. They advanced along the embankment, and having invested the battery completely surprised the Austrian cannoneers, several of whom were killed. Captain Buell, who first en tered the battery, was shot dead. The Venetians, after spiking the guns, retired without experiencing any further loss. The Milan Gazette of the 12th states that the Austrian steamer Vulcan had run aground on the night of the 3d, within gunshot of the Venetian fort Monfrin, whence a terrible fire was opened upon her, which however did little damage, owing to the dark ness of the night. At daybreak the Vulcan opened her fire upon the batteries of fort Monfrin, and silenced them. The Oesterreichishe Correspondent states that ac cording to private letters which had reached Trieste on the 9th, the Austrians on the night of the 7th had got possession of the Venetian battery on the Lagoon Bridge, and spiked all the can nons which they f o und. They were, however, ob liged to retreat with a loss of twenty men and two captains. There was an earthquake at Ragusa on the 30th which lasted from three to four minutes. CITY COURT OF SEWERS. On Tuesday the C.mmissioners assembled at Guild hall; Mr. Deputy Peacock in the chair. THE STATE OF THE SEWERS, DRAINS, &C. A memorial was presented from the ward inquest of St. Sepulchre's parish. It stated that although con siderable improvements had been effected in several parts of the parish, still there were most offensive odours con , sternly assailing the inhabitants, that numbers of houses, in each of which two or three families resided, were supplied with no more than a few gallons of water daily, and that one of these houses actually contained as many as eighty-one human beings ; that the slaughter-houses about Smithfield contributed much to the stench which existed, but as that question referred to a matter in con truversy, the memorialists did nut think it necessary to go generally into its merits; that they would have ap plied to the Court of Aldermen, but that they were pre vented by the apprehension of di lay, which they were aware could be obviated by their appeal to the Court of Sewers, to whose exertions the public were already so much indebted. The CHAIRMAN said the Court were obliged by the communication, and were ready to adopt the most ad visable course of proceeding to meet the wishes of the inhabitants. With respect to the supply of water they had rvery reason to bdieve that the directors of tne New River Company were determined to prevent any well founded complaint as to that most necessary article. The manager of the company had intormed the commis sioners that there should be nu deficiency if application were made to him for flushing the poor neighbourhoods. The inqui-st having repeated that they relied upon:the energy of the eommissioners, The CHAIRMAN said, the gentleman who represented the parish had submitted their case to the proper autho rities, and immediate attention should be paid to it by the officers of the Court. Mr. WOOLLER appeared upon the " part of the Ar tesian Well " in the neighbournood of Farringdon-street, about which an extraordinary statement had been made at the last meeting of the commissioners. Upon that occasion it had been stated that the well in question, which had been dug at a great expense as an experiment, by a company at the unfor tunate period of the panic, and which was capable of supplying an immense quantity of the very finest water, was a nuisance to the neighbourhood, and calculated to engender dangerous maladies, in consequence of having been made a depository for dead dogs and cats, and other matter in a state of revolting decomposition. Now, that well had been, in consequence of the panic, left in an unfinished state; but instead of being a nuisance and an ottence, it was serviceable to the neighbourhood, and it was only to be regretted that an experiment of so beneficial a kind bad been checked, instead of being generally adopted, as a means of adding to the health and comfort of the City. Mr. G. WALTER said, that he had made the represen tation, and not w without bic goodad b ca e u e s b e. b r S o o i n g c b e t h f e or h w ad ar m d ad by e the complaint, h b several of the inhabitants of the vicinity in the first in stance, and confirmed by his own observation, and that of the inspector of the district, some improvement had „peen effected by the removal of the superficial filth, bu t :he apprehended there was no such change made as would answer the general requirement. Mr. WOOLLER said he had seen the well bithself, and he believed that a finer spring could not be - found. It had been dug to an immense depth, and 'waif tafiable of producing a supply of 1,000 gallons a minute. The digger of the well was then called. Re said he had been employed by Mr. Stopford , the secretary to the projected company, to sink the well, and that the water was pure and good, only the lads used to thr ow things into it. The CHAIRMAN—That is the very thing of which we complain. Cats and dogs thrown into it must occasion a nuisance, and we must put a stop to that. The pro prietor was with me yesterday, and he assured me that he would do all we might require. Alderman LAWRENCE said the commissioners were not disposed to advertise the company to which the well belonged. Mr. G. WALTER said the foreman of the inquest, Mr. Turner, the inspector, and himself, had gone to examine the well very recently, and they found, as he had stated, an improvement as t) the surface, but it was surrounded by small houses, from which it could be readily supplied with the very matter which constituted the nuisance in the first instance. The CHAIRMAN and Alderman LAWRENCE did not consider that Mr. Wooller had a locus standi it he came to the court as the "adv..crtte of the well," according to his representation, and that he was bound to name a client with a human liabi . ation and a name. Mr. Wooller then produced Mr. Stopforcl as the pro prit- tor. The CHAIRMAN—Why, this is the gentleman who has been represented as the secretary to the company. will be so Mr. Stopf or d—l am s ecretary and proprie tor . go T od h a e i o tikeCHAalacAaNr—e till'hateitth, this iSsatcn•pcteo.ridt. it youb,e one, shall be speedily removed. If )ou do not we must remove it far you. It must be covered over. ; Mr. Stopforct- -- IhaVe the 'authority of medical men of eminer,ce to say, that if it be covered over it will be much less btrvicea bit , than it is LOW. COFFEE BOASTING : A14•11X1A11 SIDNEY said, the neighbourhood of pt. Bride's had been in some degree alarmed by an ob servation which had been made by one of the corn• miisiont , rs, to the effect that danger of cholera might arise from the process of coffee roasting upon his pre mises. Now, nothing could be more erroneous than such an opinion. He had consulted two medical gen tlemen on the subject, and they had concatre i in opinion that the essential oil which was thrown off by the process was calculated to weaken the effect,i of cholera. That opinion received additional strength from the fact that his men, who had been in the cwistant habit of roasting coffee for 20 years, were in excellent hi alit]. Mr. Deputy CORDER said he had been a ooffae-roaster for 30 years every week from Monday morning till Sa turday night. After some desultory conversation as to the state of the sewers leading to Blackfriars-bridge, directions were given to the surveyor upon the subject. The coestion as to the experiment of Mr. Walker's traps, as a substitute for the traps now in general use, and pronounced to be exceedingly defective, was referred t , ) a committee to examine and rep art. REPORT OF THE OFFICER OF HEALTH. Mr. &mot?, the officer of health, reported the eases of cholera in the City to ba rather less than the numbers named last week. This result he ascribed to the zealous conduct of the commission and the inspectors and police on duty reporting the condition of the several localities, and in promptly attending to the sanitary precautions in the same. Ordered that the report of the medical officer be en , tered upon the journals. DRAINAGE IN THE NEIGHBOURII )0D OF PRINTING - HOUSE- SQUARE. A gentleman from the Times' establishment appeared before the commissioners to complain of the condition of the drains in the immediate vicinity. He thanked the commissioners for the exertions they had already made to serve the locality, but there still remained an intole rable nuisance which all that had been done by the com missioners and by the proprietors of the Times had not succeeded in abating. Such, in fact, was the stench pro ceeding from the bad drainage, that those who were em ployed were frequently obliged to leave the office. There were between 200 and 300 persons in censtant occupa tion in the establishment, so that some idea might be formed of the serious inconvenience and annoyance to which they were subjected. Mr. HAYWOOD (the Surveyor of the Commission) said the neighbourhood to which the gentleman had called their attention was certainly not so perfect as it ought to be as to drainage, but the sewer was kept clean and all the lanes and alleys were flashed and swept with the utmlst care and attention. The complainant admitted that such was the case, but he had no doubt that the nuisance proceeded from the undrained condition of some four or five houses behind the premises, which houses had no communication with the sewer, and, consequently, disgorged their filth into the most abominable cesspools. He had narrowly ex amined the !neighbourhood, and was prepared to give every information the commissioners might require on the subject. The CHAIRMAN said, the commissioners were much obliged by the communication, and would pay iti3me diate attention to the complaint, for which they regretted there existed so much cause. Mr. HARVEY (the Commissioner of the City Police) who was in attendance on a matter connected with the force, said he had been given to understand that the warm water which proceeded from the working 4d the machinery of the Times was in itself a cause of annoy ance and inconvenience. The complainant said he could most satisfactorily prove that there was no ground whatever for such a supposition. Mr. Deputy GODSON said, be could not see how the warm water which proceeded from the Times' machinery could be off nsive, when the warm water which pro ceeded from great manufactories in much greater quan tity gave occasion for no complaint whatever. The CliamstAN then issued directions to the surveyor and inspector, and repeated that everything t•heuld be done to remedy the evil. Mr. HARVEY said, he attended to state to the commissioners the amount of service rendered by the City police in furtherance of the sanitary intentions of the Court. They had minutely inspected 7,064 houses, and they had specially reported 119 houses which had been in a bad condition, but were now in progress of sanitary correction. Their attention had been particularly directed to the houses of the poor, and he trusted, when their exertions in the present emergency should cease, their labours would be still made available in order that the condition of the indi gent classes, as to water and other sources of cleanliness, might be clearly ascertained. He had also to state that the police had the best means of ascertaining the extent of the cholera. They had reported that 151 cases had occurred in the City within the months during which their assistance bad been rendered, 95 of which had been fatal, eight had recovered, and of the remainder nothing decisive was known. Now, the reports of the Board of Health did not include that number, which he feared was smaller than the actual amount, for the poor were incommunicative upon the subject, from the ap prehension of the removal of the bodies of their relatives and friends. Upon the motion of Mr. Deputy CORNET, the thanks of the Court were given to Mr. Harvey. STATE OF PARTIES IN ENGLAND. (From the Paris Constitutionnel.) The session of the English Parliament is drawing to a ' close, the sittings of the House of Commons will hardly be prolonged until the latter end of July. One single Act of importance will have marked this session—the abolition of the navigation-laws, which, although it has excited less pas sionate opposition and provoked less striking debates than the abolition t , f the corn-laws, is not the less a revolution quite as serious and quite as complete in the commercial and maritime system of England. A few secondary laws, a few Irish reforms, have, with this great measure suf ficed to occupy the time of the session. In politics these last few days will have witnessed the accomplishment of a fact, the consequences of which will hereatter produce very important results—the dissolution of the party of Sir Robert Peel. Since the abolition of the corn-laws for ever sepa rated Sir Robert Peel from the Tories, and necessi tated his retirement from power, some 100 or 120 Members of the house of Commons have remained faithtul to the fortunes of the ex-Minister, and regulated their conduct by his. This compact phalanx tovk up an intermediate position between the Whigs who occupied the Ministerial benches and the obstinate Tories; sometimes the Peelites offered to the Ministry a sort of semi-opposition, and sometimes they assumed the part of its protectors. Ou several occasions those 100 votes alone prevented Lord J. Russell's Cabinet from being left in a minority in the House of Commons. This state of things has now lasted fur two years and a half. Sir Robert Peel, weary of having ministerial views imputed to him which did not even enter his imagination, and of bearing the responsibility of a party leader with,,ut having the adventag s of the Mi nistry, or the hopes of the OpposAfuti, was desirous of putting an end to all cotninentaries. He loudly ad vised his friends to dissolve as a party, and to enrol themselves according to their own personal predilections. Sir Robert Peel could not disguise the divi.loris which were springing up in the bosom of his party; he was not blind to the value of the hopes which his friends per sisted in conceiving; he was unwilling to lend the au thority of his great name to enterprises which he :deetned Utopian; he was unwilling that the men of talent who had followed him into retirement, should continue to lose,,.and as it were annul themselves in a sort of third party without a future. He has always preferred clear and open situations, for others as well as for himself. The youthful and active section of the party long re sisted this advice. The Peelites believed in the strength of their position, and their small number did not frighten them; they included in their ranks almost all the old colleagues of Sir Robert Peel, that is to say, men of un questionable capacity, and in a condition to make head against the Whig Cabinet; neither the science of public business nor the power of eloquence was wanting to their leading men; they knew that they were an indis pensable adjunct to the Ministerial majority whenever the Tories voted in a body; it appeared to them impos sible not to derive great advantages from such a posi tion; they were convinced that they should at length batter a breach in the Ministry, and conquer several positions by force or stratagem. They accordingly wished to march alone under the guidance of Lord Lincoln, and to turn to advantage both their own personal influence and the prestige of Peel's name. Instead of effecing themselves as during the first year, they took an active part in the debates of Parliament, and it must be admitted that they alone were capable of commencing or sustaining any struggle against the Ministry. In order to carry on the war with more energy and effect, they kired the Morning Chronicle —long the organ of the Whigs—and which, under their influence, has carried on an incessant warfare against a portion of the Ministry whilst it has exhaused its powers of coquetry to win the good graces of the Tories. The campaign was an animated one, because they who carried it on felt that it must be decisive. Twice a sort of armistice was concluded, and negotiations were opened with the Whigs for the effecting of a fusion and the for mation of a coalition Ministry. Twice. as we before explained, the negotiations were broken off. The Peelites, by exacting the immediate sacrifice of Lord Palmerston, and the ulterior sacrifice of Earl Grey, required Lord Russell to decapitate, not only his Ministry, but hi s party, the kernel of which consists of a few aristocratic families united by alliances. They demanded before th e battle as much as after a victory. Lord J. Russell, who felt that, under present circumstances, public opi nion was disposed to support his Cabinet at all hazards, in order to avoid a Ministerial crisis, and who perceived that the mass of the Tory faction was more incensed than ever against the Peelites, saw at once that hi , h a d 110 coalition to fear, and refused all extravagant conces sions, preferring to try to win over individually the men that he could not conquer combined. It was remarked, in iact, that notwithstandin g the resumption of hostilities, Lord J. Russell persisted in treating the Peelites as friends. Several impor tant offices became vacant, as well as NOMe of the high ecclesiastical preterm , nts and rich preb-nds in the gift of the Crown. These advantage s were con ferred without solicitation, and as it were, haphaz-Ard, on the friends of the Peeiites, and finished by fixing some of them as staunch supporters of the Ministry. An enemy w h o l ads you with benefits i s not to b e resisted! Fatigue and the ennui of the contest threw the party into confusion, and the divisions which always arise from failure completed its disorgani sat i on. The Canada question exhibited in broad daylight the hesitations and the dissensions of the faction. We have already related how the Tories em braced with ardour the cause of the Canadian " loyal- Nho protested against the indemnity grarved to the rebels of French Canada ; how they burnt one of the legislative chambers, and drove out the representative of Ow Queen from an excess of fidelity to her Majesiy. The English Mmistry did not hesita , c to suprrt a mea-ure regularly passed by the Coknial gi.kture, and declared its int-ration to sanction the liill.and to maintain Lord Elgin as Governor-General of Catoadzi. Ilereup , tn Mr. Gladstone, a eollettgue of Sir R. Pci 1. a wan of vaeillatin4 character and a rather mystic:ll turn •)t mind, thought lie saw an opportunity of a! tackitt E4r. Gr-v, th, Colonial Moister, and resolved to take th, pin of toe Canadian loyalists." He undertook to prt sent h. it petition, and supported its prayer vtith all his talent, amidst the applause of the Tories; he was about to achieve a victory over the Ministry, when he himself was seized with a panic at the probable consequences of his success. He was terrified at the responsibility that was about to devolve upon him if he upset the Cabinet, and so occasioned a ministerial crisis. He prayed Parliament not to go so far as himself, and withdrew his motion. The next day he resumed it, ur,- ; ed by the solicitations and the reproaches of the Tories. But the next day it was too late. Sir IL Peel had de cided to support the Ministry, and addressed to Mr. Gladstone an overwhelming reply, which the remem brance of their former cunnexiun rendered more sig nificant and peremptory. The attitude thus suddenly assumed by him whom all acknowledged as their mus ter, threw the young Tories into confusion. Lord Lin coln durst not vote either for or against the Ministry ; others either shirked the division or voted on either side; the rout was complete. When, a few days afterwards, Lird Lincoln attacked Earl Grey on his own account, on the subject of the Hudson's Bay Company, the anni hilation of the faction was proved by the untimely death of the debate. and the necessity to which Lord Lincoln was reduced of avoiding a division. It would be difficult to predict what will become of the remains of the dispersed party. It appears certain, however, that Mr. Gladstone goes over decidedly to the Tories, and that he is about to enlist under Mr. Disraeli, who has much need of such a lieutenant. Lord Lincoln is going to travel in the East for a year at least, and will decide upon the course to be adopted whoa affairs have taken a turn. As to the two most able men of the party—Sir J. Graham and Mr. Cardwell —there is every reason to believe that they will join the Whigs. Sir J. Graham was long a member of that party, with which he broke on the Irish Church ques tion, and Lord Russell has made more than one at tempt to induce him to accept a place in the Ministry. As to Sir Robert Peel, he has resolved not to mingle any more in active politics. He will content himself with being the favourite orator of the House of Com mons—with allowing his authority to be invoked by both parties, and with acting as a dreaded censor to both. This great personal situation suffices the ambition of his old age. His time will be devoted to his magnificent picture gallery and the sur veillance of his senools at Tam worth ; and when the ses sion clones he will go and shoot partridges and hunt deer in Scotland. He has hire d from Lord Lovet a whole island—the island of Aigus, or "Eilam Aigus," five leagues from hverness, and near Beaufort and Erchless Castles, the seats of the Beauforts and Chisholms. Sir R. Peel publicly proclaimed his intention at a late dinner given by the Lord May or (Sir J. Duke) to the members of his party. He there pronounced the funeral oration of his Adminis• tration, and his explicit speech admits of no doubt re specting his determination. The dissolution of the Peel party will reduce the number of sections into which the House of Commons is divided from four to three. There will be none but Tories, Whigs, and Radicals. The accession of the Peelites will fortify the feeble majority of Lord John Russell, and as the Radicals cannot as yet act by their own strength, and almost always vote with the Government, the old contest of Whig, anti Tories is about to recommence. The latter (the Tories) will be more fanatical than ever, whilst the Whigs will be more liberal than they have been of late. But it is only next session that the cons,quence, of this fact, which dates from yesterday, and hich cannot sooner produce any definite re•ailii, will become apparent. The fusion of the majority of :sir R. Peel's friends with the Whigs may have a hapy effict in England. The peculiar character of the Parliamentary history of our neighbours is this—that with them political di!cus• sions have always bean, and sill are, a duel between parties, and not a contest between different classes of society. Two fractions of the aristocracy, leaning, by preference, the one on the agricultural, the other on the commercial interest, conduct the Tories and the Whigs; but in the bosom of each party there is no interruption of continuity from the first steps of the social scale to the last. Since electoral reform has given so much more influence to the manufacturing interest, a certain number of the representatives of the large towns, such as Manchester and Birmingham—Mr. Cobden, Mr. Bright, and others—keeping aloof from parties, although generally voting with the Whigs, have affected to introduce new classifications into Parliament, and to represent the majority of the Whigs as attached to aristocratical interests, and themselves as more espe cially the organs of the popular party in the nation. This classification tended to identify the Whigs with the Tories, and to break up existing parties. Here was the germ of those ridiculous and odious distinctions of class which only end in dividing what ought to be united and to scatter the seeds of civil war. The accession of the Peelites to the ranks of the Whigs, by constituting a great party, in which all persona who wish to satisfy the exigencies of their amour propre by refinements, subtleties, and distinctions, will be lost, will stifle these tiers•parti attempts, and these culpable endeavours to substitute class rivalries for con tests of opinion. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, July 18. (Before Mr. COMalliSkaler HOLROYD.) IN RE NOBBS. There was a dividend meeting to-day in the case of Alfred Mobbs, of Brompton, who was made lyinkrupt aFi chairman of the United Kent and Surrey Coal Company. A former dividend of ss. had been declared, and the as sets now in hand, it is thought, will suffice for a further dividend of 7s. 6d. IN RE STOREY. In the separate estate of J. Storey, banker, of St. Al bans, against which debts to the amount of 10,0001. have been proved, a dividend of 5s ss as declared. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. WarrEaniens Doc NIIISANCE.—A deputation from the itiqu-.t of the parish of St. Bride, in Farringdon Without Ward, waited upon the Lord Mayor, for the purpose of entreating his Lordship's pariicul4r attention to a representation which they regretted they had to mike. Mr. Nilson, the foreman of the inquest, then handed to his Lordship a piper, of which the foLowiug is a copy ;-- " To the Eight Honourable the Lord May or of the City of London. "The inquest of the, parish of St. Bride now attend your Lordship as chief magistrate of the , metropolis; to represent that the duck at the end of Whitetriars is a source of great danger to the public health, which at the present time, require s immediate attention. "In , that deck the sewer, which receives the night soil during the absence of the water, has to traverse a Oistance to the tidal part of the River Thames or many hundred yards, exposed to the rays of the sun and open to the air. " The tide at high water enters the cloak and floats into it a vast collection of mud, dead animals, and filthy refuse, which, as the tide recedes, are left at the bottom of the dock. " Stenches of the most offensive description issue from this dock, and impregnate the air of the neighbourhood, which is densely populated. " The urgent representations made by the inquest to the Court of Sewers of the fatal diseases which might be produced by these causes not having produced a remedy, the inquest consider it incumbent on them, in the per formanca of their duty, to request the aid of your Lord ship in accomplishing a remedy for this evil, which the inquest suggests should be effected by the sewer being carried into the river beyond low-water mark, and the rest of the dock filled tsp.—Dated this 18th day of July, 1849. " WILLIAM NASON, Foreman of the Inquests " THOMAS COTTERELL, Churchwarden. " JOHN JEWELL, Sidesman. " JOHN Lows. " ROBERT FINCH." The LORD MAYOR said that as he had been informed of the intention of the deputation to apply to him on the subject-matter of the various complaints contained in their written communication, he had sent for Mr. Daw, the chief clerk to the Commissioners of Sewers, who would probably be able to give some explanation as to the per manent existence of so pernicious an abomination as that which the paper described. Mr. Daw said the Commissioners bad no jurisdiction beyond the boundary line of the sewer, except that which was given by thp late Act of Parliament. Accord ing to the authority which the Commissioners possessed, they had given directions within the last few days that the dock should be cleaned out. The other power, which related to the project of carrying the sewer into the river beyondlow-water mark, belonged to the Lord Mayor and the Navigation Committee, and upon their authority that plan could be carried into effect. Mr. Nason—As foreman of the inquest of St. Bride's, I have considered it to be my duty to represent that this dreadful nuisance has been during the period of disease keeping up a horrible existence. I have already reported it to the Commissioners of Sewers, and I have during the last five or six years applied to the Court of Aldermen upon the subject, but in vain. Still no attention has been paid to the complaint. The inhabi tants at length, assailed by cholera which surrounds them, and is dealing death amongst them, have deter mined to represent their case to your Lordship, in the hope and belief that you will afford to them the relief which has been withheld from them elsewhere. I assure your Lordship, that although Mr. Simon, the medi cal officer of health, has just reported more favourably of the condition of the city of London es to the prevail ing epidemic, the register which I have ke-v of the mot• tality which prevails in our parish shows a very diffsrent state of things. In my register of the week before last, I entered eight deaths from cholera, and in that for last week, I entered 13. This mortality is, ne Moos;., in a peat measure, attributable to the xistence of such filthy nuisances as that of which we complain, and which, if not immediately abated, mv ex , end its pesti lential Mee. ce must extensively through the Tne LORD MAYOR—I shall immediately give direc tions, atid take upon myself all responsibility and heeled ; for the total removal of so dangerous a nuisance, whet her toe authority be a divided one or not. At such a period, ;trid under such circumstances, I will riot allow it to exist. One of the deputation said they were happy to re,Tive satisfactory an as.urancee. Their c,r, at object 1,, watting upon the Lord Mayor was nut wily to obtain his Lordship's aid, which they were sure to obtain, but to learn whether the Corporation of London had or ha o not the power to interfere—it was so much the fash i . * , in ease,' of extremity to s hif t o ff res p oas ibility from 01 1" party to another. Mr. Haywood (the surveyor to the Commissione rs 01 City s ewers ), who entered jut as the deput ation bad concluded their etateme n t, said that Whitefristie ~ ock, and PudOle-dock, and Dowgate-dock, wer: hiti d propel iy of t h e Mayor and ediz,n,4 of London. 50 " b4.eti bought by th e Corporation, nt.der an Act of Per liateeat, af.er the fire of Lond.,n. The Commissioner/I of Sewers had no jurisdiction over these dock , , e xc . e . P t o that given them by their new Act to direct the owner cleanse them. The state of irlrbitefriars-dock ra i l d ra , ported to them a few daya sizce, and he had ' ll3 „,rit diately served the town-clerk with a notice to ele'„b, within twenty-four hours, and the inspector had, S i - o g sequently reported that auc'l was in the course ue done Mr. Haywood added that he believed Whitefrisro'f dock bad been the cause of more mischief than any the sewers. The 14 RD MAYOR said he was resolved to visit the dock himself; and to see that the most speedy tame d, should be aff or d e d, an d h e warmly thanked his fe ll , ° 0 citizens for having a ff or d e d hi m t h e opportun ity of terfering in a matter of such importance. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, JULY 17.—The suPP I I: ( 1 fat cattle to-day is 336, including 90 from Edinburg h oo d, northwards by sea and ra il ; t h e qua li ty i s seasonablY3 ye The show of sheep and l am b s i s a b out 8,1:00 hea d , wh ich of a middling quality. R espect i ng t h e d emand, t h e b e ef is slow at full rate of currencies, and nearly all s old. 00 mutton trade is tolerably acti ve , an d, cons id er i ng the iinw io pi quantity of lambs, trade is by no means d u ll, b ot h descriP e d A of stock are selling fre e ly a t th e f o ll ow i ng quota ti o ns, ; great part remains unsold. P r i ces —B ee f , 5s 6d to 69 rib, stone of 141bs ; she e p, 4id to sd ; l am b s, 5d to bid Pe r sinking offal. orl EDINBU R G H M EAL M ARKET, JULY 17.--There 110 in the m ar k et to-day 83 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 15 0 d, imperial, w hi c h sold thus :- 4 at 11 12s Od, 39 at 11 1 0 7at 11 lOs ed, 3 at 1/ 103 Od, 13 at 1/ 9s 6d, at 1 193 0 0 Average pri ce o f t h e whole, 11 lOs 7d 8-12ths . 7 sacks et j, whereof 4 sold at 335, and 3at 31s. 5 sacks barler i ,, f , whereof 2 sold at 25 5 , and at 24s 6d. 19 sacks pot.bslt'l whereof 6 so ld th us: —1 at 1110 3 Od, 2at 1/ 8s 6d 1 8s Os, 1 at I/ 3s Od. 2 sacks brosenieal, none sold. 17 . EDINBURGH HAY A ND S TRAW MARKET, „ Supplies of all kinds small. Oat straw, from 5 " 6 ,1 to 7s Od per kemple of 16 stones tron ; wheat ditto, b 9 A o 6( 7s 6d ; barley ditt o , 5 s 6d to 7 s O d . Hay from 7d to V" stone. BELFAST, J ULY 16.—Si nce Fr i day there has b e en I led s little grain shown at market, and prices are as noted then. 0 11 store lots the demand has been limited, but prices 1 106 maintained. The weat h er k eeps warm and forcing, 11,1L6,1; crops look w e ll. Wh eat, 9 s 3d to lOs 64; barley, 6s 9d 04,40 oats, 6s 8d to 7s 8d ; oatmea l , I Is 94 to 12s 6d per cwt. ita corn sells at 81 t o Si 5 s per ton for yellow, and 5s more f or W o " 0 ,1; Fruit—Apples, p er d ozen, 6d to 9d ; pears, per ditto, 04 tod; grapes, per lb., 8d to 10d ; lemons, per dozen, Os 9d to 00 , gdi nuts, per quart, 6d to 8d; wall-nuts, per hundred, is to 1 s chest nuts, per ditto, Is Od to Os ; cocoa nuts, 6d to 8 d e fts American apples, 10d to Is Od per dozen mixed pickles , " - yl Is Butchers' Meat—beef, per lb, 4d to 7d ; tnut" n r ' to 74 ; veal, 5d to 14(1 ; lamb, 5d to 6Ad 0M Fish—Trout, Os 6d per lb; brett, 3s Od to 49 4 0 soles, Is to 2s Od per pair ; salmon, 6d per Ib; lobsters, 6d to is 6d each ; crab, 6d to 3s per dt.zen, at Keane: l .4oo son's-court. Poult r y —F ow l s , 2 s to 2s 6 d a . pa i r ; ca,,ttoo6 Is 6d to 2 1 p er pai r; d uc k s, Os to 2s 64 ; turkeys, v' each ' • geese, Os Od to Os Od ; eggs , per d oz , 6d to 7d., to ll old, is 2d to 2, 04 ; new di tto , I s to i s 6 d ; straw, oat, B".totist 4d ; ditto, wheat, 9d t o I s 2d per cwt. Potatoes, pe.,",,,94 9d to lid; ditto, per cwt , 5 s 44 to 6 s Od ; new, 40 per stone. COAL MA RK ET. —YESTERDAY. 11 1 IP Buddle's W. Hartley.. 14 s 6d H aswell 94 15 9 t j dasting's Hartley l4s 3d Hutton 14 9 .1 Holywell Main ... .... , 14s 6d Jonassohns ......... .. 165 r_, New Tatifield ... ...... ... 1 . .1s 6d l ßussell's Hetton ..•••• 1 700 9 Ord's Redheugh anfield i‘lor Penfield Moor Butes 1:18 6d Hartlepool ............. • i' 6s S o l Walker's Primrose 0, est Hartley Wall's End, &c. IWhitworth ............. .69 Uo Brown's Gas Brown's 1 43 3d Ri c h ardson ' s Tees ....•• , 1 6 4 : 0 . Gibson ....... 9" 17064 0 Hebburn 'Wherncliffe Eden Main Bell Braddvll Hetton RAILWAY SHARE IVIARKET S. BRISTOL, J --- r sot JULY 18. 0 STOCK EXCHANGE.—The t ransact i ons to-day were con Great `Pettus, Quarters, at 5 1 4 dis. LIVERPOOL, JULY 18. t O (10 STOCK _BaumINGE. —The share mar k et was rather - quiet l .O er a , yet there was a fair amount of business transacted. Th e° , 11 1 ",.0" Caledonian, Preference, 12 Great Northern, 5 per eon" 1,11 0 ,"1‘ ence, 2%, dis.—Ditto (London and York Extension), 1 1 / 4 di s * - ;relh shire and Yorkshire, Conant. Fifths, 3 1 / 3 dis.—Ditto, 321. dis.—London and North-Western, 132—Ditto, New Quarters , Ditto, Quarters (C), 3% p. — Midland, 66 c.—Ditto, HM0 5, 011 , dis.—North British, :sew Preference, p.—Shropshire 134), way and . , Canal), 21,4 dis. — South-Eastern and Dover, P t 6 ~„P 18s. 9(l.—York, Newcastl e , an d Berwick G.N. E. purclio: t _ cent. till 1850, 4 dis.—York and North Midland, 30 1 / 4 --- cashire, Quarters, 4% c.—Scottish Central, 23N . MANCHESTER, JULY 18. fon° 7 4.) , STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transacti ons t o -d a y w ere Manchester and Leeds, Fifths, 3 3-16 n. dis.— Great Northam /* 111-16 dis.—Dover (No. 4), Scrip, 7.4 c.—North Staffordof dis.—East Anglian, Preference, 6 per cent., 134—East LoPos, Quarters, 4 7-16—Edi n b urg h an d Gl asgow, 4l—Wharf d a le3, —..Nerth-Western, 8% dis.—West Ridnig:Union, 4 dis. 1311tAIINGHAAI, JULY 18. 10 10 ,;s 4 &mlt e EXCHANGE.— The trans ac ti ons to-day were as do Ea.tern Counties. New, guaran t eed 6 per cent. 1% p. —1,01 , "" No/ th-Western, 132—Shr o p s hi re U nion, 21. 'l6s. 9d. Ms.- - (Mt Staffordshire, 4/. I3s. td. dis.—Shrewsbury and Birminghlan 6/. 3s. 9d. dis.—Ditto (8,)4!4 dis. YORK, JULY 17. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The tran sac ti ons to-day have been ,10 low : —Great Northern, 10% ex i n . an d ex neer—Eastern Co r n 9%—North British, Halves, 5/. los. IL—North ..tafftirdshire , ' c oti 6 sllroivsnury and Birmingham, Prates ence, 9%—York, 24,e,!e.Sitj' and Berwick (Extension), 14 1 4—Ditto (G. N. H. Pu.ch. se), .7. GLASOOIV, Jr.a.r 17. f golf STOCK EXCHANGE —The transactions to-day were as -c ' rg n Aberdeen, Preference, 91s. 6d. —Caledonian, 531 A —Edinbu.„. Glasgow,] 82—Edinburgh and Northern, 11—Great Northern 524: firence, 5 per cent. guaranteed, 75s.—North British, PrefererO, York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purehasee or Prefer • Kenney, the veteran dramatist, takes a h eneg !tb P; Drury lane Theatre, on Wednesday next, uot be rt speci 11 patron a ge of h er M a j es t y an d P r i n ce ceo loS Some of the most po u p u l ar names i n the Pre' Ih i hev volunteered their services. A Curious Ca'e' f,ato, Beggar's Opera, the te., , neficiare 's own farce of Love c o, and Physic, with Box and Cox, will be capittl lj i and should ensure the desired support. ro f , i: MONEY MARK ET.--The premium on go ld . t 3 L is per !bilk, which, e t th e E ng li s h Mi nt pri ce ot vg , of lOid. pe.r ounce for s t an d ar d gold, gives ate e l " 3/1 . 2 t 90, 25.431; and th e exc h ange at Paris on London sea` being 25.371, it follows that gold is 0.24 P er from dearer in earis thn in London. By advine w hieb. flarnburgh the pile a .. or gold is 436! per mark, s-e at the En g li s h Mi nt pr i ce of U. 17s. 10i - 1. per Dulle d 00 standard tl,old, gives an exchange of 13.10 i; eu beid exohit, , ge at flamburgh on London at s hort r 13 111, it follows that g old is 0.17 per cent. dea re 4 London than in Hairiburgh. The course of exchso„ of New York on Loiidiin is 109 per cent., and the pa r g 0 exc h ange between England and America being 10920 per cent. , it f.,llows that the exch ange i s 0 . 58 per N et against England. But the quoted exchange at t ot York being for bills at 60 days' sight, the interest be deducted from the above difference. Mankind, in gener a l, mista k e difficulties for possibilities. That is the difference between thne e effect an E t DRdAtihNo.s_esEvhaoridyg not.—Eliza --atEuridizaayGook's j morning, "rnaii . °lb 0 village ( s )t ho l3 w o e n r yi o is f t r. n a p in , a n n s d r el d ten a l s ed bl o fr o o d m fe t li be n o t e h i r aio Od westerly direction over Llantrithyd, towards Lantwit-Majer—it was so manifest that pregnat e d t h e c l ods of earth, many of which we.-9,cervi ruddle. S e ve ra l country people who witnessed B O °- dreadfully alarmed, imagining it to be some 00000 coming misfortune, and very many, who did " t otte d fall, came in th e course of the day to see the dis e°l t o soil. A pheno mena o f this kind has been k u &o 0 1 0 " occur on the south side of M on t Bl anc, b e t w een 0 0 6 mine and Motet, wh e r e it l e f t re d spots on the o ,o' and the natives called it La pluie rouge (the red . 0 Again, in the iron distri c t s o f t hi s country small stry tt o have been so impr egna t e d w i t h chalybeate, t, 13 , 4 5 00e water was of quit e a d eep re d co l our for some d 16.10011 Another traveller says that re d s h owers are very,e°— in the S l' "Quin rubidunt gutter miratum in Alpibus?"- -d '',oll4 l A very sev ere bli g h t too k p l ace the same rl3°. isrr which ' - - • which has left its marks on the potatoes, b e61 : 11 5 1a( 116 fruit trees, and hung over the country till past day.—Cambrian. 3 5 [ADVERTISEMENT.]—An a s t oun di ng vur- j , ; Wounds by H o ll oway ' s Oi ntment ani Pills.—Extrlftloll letter from Mr. Jeremiah Re e d, of Molong, near dated 25th S e pt., 1843. 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