The Sun. — London, England, 1856-09-30 00:00:00

Nti e • tr e -i;.. : 1?-21,' 4 4 t: t * • tt 00 it No, SUN Seven, o'C,7oelo. NEWMARKET RACES—(This Day.) --..-----.. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPIT.) SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS. Cople Oar Creature EASTERN COUNTIES HANDICAP. Blue Rock . Poacher Fiacrow. Eighteen ran. Won by a head. HOPEFUL STAKES. Ayacanora Larnhourn Vanity Eight ran. Won by a neck. A bad third. NINTH TRIENNIAL STAKES. Mceissima Ayacanora Chevalier d'lndustrie Ten ran. Won by a neck. GRAND DUKE MICHAEL STAKES. Waliner.. Firmament Peter Wilkins Four ran. THE CIIP AND 200 SOWS. Fan,lango 1 LATEST BETTING. EASTERN COUNTIES HANDICAP. 7to 2OD Field 7to 1 " bar one" (offered) 9to 1 agst Olympus (taken freely) CESAREWITCH. 100 to 6 agst Quince (taken) ARRIVED —Peter Wilkins. LONDON GAZETTE—(This Evening.) WAR-DEPARTMENT, SEPT. 30. The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of the Hon. John Duncan Bligb, C.B , sometime her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Mi nister Plenipotentiary to the King of Hanover ; of Arthur Chas. Magenis, Esq., her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Sweden and Norway ; and of John Fienne3 Crampton, Esq., sometime her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo tentiary to the United States of America, to be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. FOREIGN-OFFICE, SEPT. 1. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint George Samuel Lennon Hunt, Esq., now British Vice-Consul at Monte Video, to be her Majesty's Consul in the Island of Porto Rico. WHITEHALL, SEPT. 27. The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Evan Mackenzie Masson to the church at Kinloch Likart, or Kinloch Linchart, in the parish of Contin, in the presby tery of Dingwall, and shire of Ross, vacant by the trans portation of the Rev. Charles Maclean, late minister there of, to the church of Ullapool. The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. James Cameron Lees to the church at Carnoch in Strathconan, in the presbytery of Dingwall, and shire of Ross, vacant by the transportation of the Rev. William Charles Mid dleton Grant, late minister thereof, to the church at Dur nese. WHITEHALL, SEPT. 29. The Queen has been pleased to direct letiers'phtent to be passed under the Great Seal, appointing Sir Thomas Ni cholas Redington, K.C.B. ; Robert Andrews, Esq., one of her Majesty's C ounse l ; R o b er t Wilfred Skeffigton Lntwidge, Esq., Barrister-at-Law ; James Wilkes, Esq., and Dominick John Corrigan, Esq„ M.D., to be her Ma jesty's Commissioners for the purpose of inquiring into the state of the Lunatic Asylums and other institutions for the custody and treatment of the insane now existing in Ireland, and also into the present state of the law re specting lunatics and lunatic asylums in that part of the said United Kingdom. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SEPT. 30. • The Right Honourable the Lords cf the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a Despatch from her Majesty's Minister at Lisbon, en closing! copy of a recent Portuguese law,: by which the law permitting the importation of Indian corn into Por tugal, at certain rates of duty, until the end of June, 1857, has been extended to the Azores Islands. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SEPT. 30. The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secrotiry of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from horlArtjosty's lYllpistor at Lisbon, reporting that foreign cereals imported into Portugal will be subject to an additional duty of 10 rein per alquiere. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SEPT. 30. The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, for warding copy of a French Imperial Decree. fixing a duty of 25f. per 100 kilogrammes on all salted fish, or fish pre pared with oil, imported from abroad. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, StisT. 30. _ . The Right Honourable the Lords of the 'Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, en closing copy of a French Imperial Decree, prolonging until the 31st Dec., 1857, the prohibition to export barley and wheat from Algeria. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SEPT. 30. The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, en closing copy of.a French Imperial Dectee, prolonging until the 31st Dec., 1857, the privilege granted to foreign ves sels to carry on the transport trade as respects grains, flour, rice, potatoes, and dried vegetables, between France and Algeria, and that such vessels will enjoy this privilege, whose departure from port have taken place prior to the 31st of Dec., 1857. WAR DEPARTMENT, PALL-MALL, SEPT. 30. let Life Guards—Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant M. W. Viscount Powerscroft to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Davenport, who retires. Royal Horse Guards—Cornet Henry Peach Keighly Peach to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice John Inglis Jones, who retires. 7th Light Dragoons—The appointment of Charles Led Wore, Gent., to a Cornetcy by purchase, as stated in the Gazette of the 29th Aug., has been cancelled. 14th Light Dragoons—Lieut. Frederick Vansittart has been permitted to retire from the service by the sale of his com mission. 21 Foot—Captain Stanhope L. -Douglas Willan, from the 13th Foot, to be Captain, vice G rimston, who ex changes. 3,1 Foot —Captain Charles Dresing, from the 58th root, to be Captain, vice Burningharn, who exchanges. 13th Foot—Captain Wm. Henry Grimston, from tho 21 Foot, to be Captain, vice S. L. D. Willan, who ex changes. 18th Foot—Lieutenant Wm. Norris Franklyn has been permitted to retire from the service by the sale of his corn misPion. 19th Foot—Captain Geo. Bingham Jennings to bo Major, without purchase, vice Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Ito bt. Warden, whose Brevet Rankhas been converted into Sub stantive Rank, under the Royal Warrant of the 6th Oct., 1k54. 234 Feet—Captain Robt. Follett Synge, from the 67th Foot, to be Captain, vice Jebb, who exchanges. 24th Foot—Captain Richard Thomas Glyn, from the 821 Foot, to be Captain, vice Baillie, who exchanges,; Lieutenant John C. Warne, frotn the 89th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Parsons, who exchanges. 28th Foot—Captain Thos. Basil Tuite, from the 67th Foot, to be Captain, vice Worthington, who exchanges. 58th Foot—Captain Henry G. C. Burningham, from the 3.1 Foot, to be Captain, vice Dresing, who exchanges. 64th Foot—Lieutenant John Hudson to be Adjutant, vice IVl`Crea, who resigns the Adjutancy only. 6 7 th Foot—Captain Henry C. Worthington, from the 28th Font, to be Captain, vice Tuite, who exchangef. ; Captain Frederick William Jebb, from tho 23d Foot, to ba Captain, vice Synge, who exchanges. 71st Foot—Assistant-urgeon Walter Leach, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Todd, who exchanges. 82,1 Foot—Captain Wm. Douglas Hall Baillie, from the 24th Foot, to he Captain, vice Glyn, who exchanges. 89th Foot—Lieutenant Frederick William Adam Par sons, from the 24th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Warne, whn exchanges. Ceylon Rifla Regiment—George Hope Ross, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Lynott, promoted. Cape AI - bunted Rifleiaen—James Henry Rondell, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, in succession to Lieutenant Godfrey Clerk, promoted, by purchase, to an 'Unattached Company. DEPOT BATTALIONS. To BE LIEUTENANT-COLONELS. Brevot-Colonel W. S. Ramsay Norcott, C. 8., front the Rifle Brigade. Lieut.-Col. George Dixon, C. 8., from the 77th Foot. Lieut.-Col. Alfred Thomas Heyland. from the 95th Foot. Lieut.-Col. Richard C. H. Taylor, from the 79th Foot. T,ieut.•Col. Arthur Cyril Goodenough, from the 34th Foot. Lieut.-Col. Charles Elmhirst, from the 9th Foot. Lient.-Col. John Alfted Street, C. S., from the 5 th Foot. Lient.-Col. James Wells tkrraßtrong, from the 49th Foot. Lieut.. Col. John W. S. Smith, from the :',Bth Foot. Lieut.-Col. Edmond Auguitus Whitmore, from the 30th Foot. Lieut.-Col. Eilward John Vasty Brown, from the 88th Foot. To DE RS. Brovet-Lientenant-Colonel MAJ Ed O ward Angier Godfrey Muller, from half-pay UnattAched. ,ray Brev rmttacet - Leut.-Cul. W m . Web Turner, C. 8., from half- Tihed, 51ajor Robert Brace, from half-pay Unattached. Major James Rose, from half-pay Unattached. Major Alastair Mclan II:Donal:1; from half-pay Unat tached. Major Wm. Rickman. from 11aIf-pw Unattached. Major John Nason, from half - pay Un a tt ac h e d . - Major John Pool, from half-pay Unattached. Major Montagu Hamilton Dowbiggin, from half-pay Unattached. Major William Pretyman, from half-pay Unattached. Major Robert B. Hawley, from half-pay Unattached. Major Charles Hood, from half-pay Unattached. To BE ADJUTANTS. . eiptain James Baillie, from the 77th Foot. Captain Richard B. T. Thelwall, 65th Foot. Captain Peter Macdonald, from half-pay, Unattached. Captain Robert J. Hughes, from the Ist Foot. , Captain Thomas L. Bell, from the 24th Foot. - Captain Hon. Bernard Mathew Wald, from the 47th Foot. Captain William Little, from the 88th Foot. UNATTACHED. Brcvet•Major John Peel, 34th Foot, to have his Brevet Rank converted into Substantive Rank, under the Royal Warrant of 6th October, 1854. Captain Oliver Barker D'Arcey, from, the 65th Foot, to be Major, without purchase. HOSPITAL STAFF. Assistant-Surgeon Richard Cooper Todd, from the 71st Foot, to - be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Leach, who exchanges. BREVET. The undermentioned promotions to take place, conse quent upon the death or promotion of tho following offi cers : General the Earl of Cork, died 29th June, 1856. General Sir H. F. Campbell, died 2d. Sept., 1856. General Sir Colin Halkett, died Sept. 24, 1856 Lieutenant-General T. B. Aylmer to be General. Lieutenant• General Philip Hay, died Ang. 8, 1856; Lieutenant-General W. A. Gordon, C. 8., died Aug. 10, 1816 : Lieutenant-General T. B. Aylmer promoted in succes sion to three Generals. Major-General William George Cochrane to be Lieut.- General. Lieut.-Gen. W. A. Gordon, C. 8., died Aug. 10, 1856 ; General Sir H. F. Campbell, K.C.8., died Sept. 2,1856; Major-General James Jones, died Sept. 22, 1856 : Colonel Win. Booth, half-pay, 41st Foot, to be Major- General. Lieut.-Col. Henry Phipps Raymond, Depot Battalion, to be Colonel. Major Paris W. Augustus Bradshawe, half-pay Unat tached, Assistant Adjutant-General, Van Dieman s Land, to be Lieutenan' -Ct 1 el. _ Captain Edward C. Butler, 36th Foot, to be Major. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE QUEEN. West Kent Light Infantry Regiment of Militia—Henry Pratt, Gent., to be Quartermaster from 29th July, 1856. 6th Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia Lowick Loftus Reade, Gent., to be Quartermaster. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS LIEUTENANT. 6th Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—John Greg son Harrison, Esq., M.D., to be Surgeon, vice Echlin, re signed. Ist Er Royal East Middlesex Regiment of Militia—Wm. Howard Russell, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Schlotel, ap pointed to 81st Regiment. NOTICE OF INTENDED DISTRIBUTION OF NAVAL PRIZE MONET. Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset-house, Sept. 29. Notice is hereby given to all persons interested therein, that the intended distribution of proceeds arising from the Russian vessels Ottawa and Victoria, severally cap tured on the 20th September, 1855. by her Majesty's ship Nile and her tender the Redwing gun-boat ; the Magpie gun-boat, tender to her Majesty's ship Orion ; and the Ruby gun-boat, tender to her Majesty's ship Majestic, which was suspended by advertisement in the London Gazette of the 9th inst., will commence on Mon day, the 6th Oct., in the Prize Branch of the Department of the " Accountant-General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset-house;' in consequence of the alleged claim for the gun-boat Weasel, tender to her Majesty's ship C2esar, to participate in distribution having been abandoned. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. Isaac Blancknesse, merchant, Birmingham. BANKRUPTS. • John Ince, surgeon ' Eaton-street, Pimlico, to surrender Oct. 8 and Nov. 11, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee. Coleman-street-buildings ; Linklater and Hackwood, Sise-lane. William Grayburn, grpcer ' Kingston-upon-Hull, Oct. 22 and Nov. 12, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court. Carrick, official assignee, Hull; Preston, Kingston-upon- Hull. Richard Flynn ' grocer, Liverpool, Oct. 14 and Nov. 12 , at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan, offi crial ,rsignee James Martin, licensed victualler, High-street, Bo rough, Oct. 15, at two, and Nov. 11, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basing hall-street ; Linklater and Hackwood, Size-lane, City. John Thang Harradine, corn chandler, Needingworth, Huntingdonshire ' Oct. 10, at two, and Nov. 13, at one, at the Court of B ankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Cole man-street-buildings; Lawrance, Gray's-inn-square. John Phillips, grocer, Crumlin, Monmouthshire, Oct. 14, and Nov. 11, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol; Bavan and Girling, Bristol. Thomas Cooling and Thomas Bowsher, joiners, Shef field, Oct. 11, and Nov. 15, at ten, at the Leeds District Court. Brewin, official assignee, Sheffield ; Chambers and Waterhouse, Sheffield. Isaac Parsons, printer, High-street, Rye, Sussex, Oct. 14, at half-past two, and Nov. 18, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee,- Sambrook court, Basinghall-street ; Lovell and Co., South-square, Gray's-inn ; Butler, Rye. Lydia Johnson, nail manufacturer, &c., Duffield, Derby, Oct. 21 and Nov. 4, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Harris. official assignee, Nottingham ; Smith, Derby ; Reece, Birmingham. Anthony Bennett, painter, Ashton-under-Lyne, Oct. 15 and Nov. 5. at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Pat, official assignee, Manchester ; Darnton, Ash ton-under-Lyn ; Sale, Worthington, and Shipman, Man chester. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Robert Young, ironmonger, Newton-Stewart. 31 1 Lachlan and Stobo, wrights, Partick. Thomas Powell, tobacconist, Edinburgh. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—Thift DAT. Amsterdam it 3% Gusraitaz .... •• .. • Ditto, three months .. I I IG% Leghorn •• • . Rotterdam •• •• •a •• •• •• I I 16% Genoa •••••• •• •• •• •• •• 2 3 73 Antwerp •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 25 32% Milan •• .• •• •• •• •• •• •• Brussels •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 25 32% Venlce•• •• •• •••• •..... flamburgh ............13 6% Naples •••• „•• . 44W Altona •••• .• .• .; Palermo' •—• 133% 25 30 Messina ... 133% Ditto, three months .. 25 65 Lisboa ... . 52% Marseilles ••••••••••• •• 25 G 3 Oporto •• •••••••• •• • • • • 52% Ronnie= .• •••••• •• •• • Rio Janeiro ...... •• .• •• Frankfort•on-Yalne ••,• 118% Buenos Ayres.... •••• Berlia •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• New York,6o days' sight Vienna.. .• .• •• .... 10 38 Philadelphia ...... Trieste.. .• .• 10 40 PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ. Petersburg 37 Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9 Madrid ...• 49 3 2 Portugal Gold Coin 0 0 Cadiz • • 50% Mexican Dollars ...'• 0 5 I% Barcelona ............ New Dollars .....• 0 o 0 Seville— •• ......_ iilver in bars 0.5 2% Country Markets. CHELMSFORD—Sian. 26. The wheat trade to-day was very dull, and inferior qua lities must bo quoted Is per qr. cheaper, the best samples also barely maintaining last week's , quotations. Spring corn without alteration. Wheat, white, old, per s. a. qr. 45 74 new 48 75 old 43 68 new 43 67 Barley 35 43 Chevalier 3S 50 Grinding 33 41 Malt 72 76 Chevalier 74 78 B. 8. Oats, per qr 25 31 Peas, Partridge 44 46 White 42 49 Boiling 43 50 Dun 38 42 Beans, Tisk 36 40 Harrow ticks 40 42 Mangan 37 39 Ditto, new red, COLCHESTER- SEPT. 27. Prices to-daywere as follow ;—Wheat, white, 681 to 78s ; red, 603 to 70s; barley, 443 to 4is ; oats, 26s to 30a ; beaus, lifa_tagan, 403 to 423; middle and small, 42s 01. 465; peas, white, 42s to 463 ; grey, 40a to 445. COAL NIARK. Prices of Coal par ton at .. .: ... 3 ZT.—SEPT. the close o( thu mark _t. s. d. West Hartley lB 0 e. A Wallsend, &e. Jetton 19 0 Braddyll lB 0 Montague 17 3 Framwellgate • l7 9 South Hetton 18 9 Riddell l7 0 Heugh Hall 17 e Wayne's Merthyr 22 6 South Kelloe 13 0 Tees Wallsond, Czr. Brown's Moor High Eden Main lB O. Main l5 6 Cassop 18 0 Russell's iietton 18 ( Harton Ships at market... 46 I Sold LOCAL SHARE MA.REETB, LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 29. STOWE EXORANGE. - This market was doing little business to-day, and prices were rather lower. Lancashire and Yorkshire, 05} 'a —London and North Westerns, 1014—South pastern, 213 i i—East Lancashire, 20k — Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 31i $-=Caledonia.ns, 27k—Midlands, fi—Newcastle and Carlisle, 104 — Royal Insurance, 2i p. MANCHESTER, SEPT. 29. STOCK EXCELtNGE.—The market has been dull, but prices are somewhat firmer, at the following Taos : Eastern Counties, 9k—Midlands, 76/ i—Shefficlds, 31. i Dovers, 21. 13-16—Leeds, 95k. CRYSTAL PALAC 3,--ONE SHILLING DAY. Monday, September 29.—Admissions on payment. 6,539; ditto by season tickets, 350 ; total visitors, 6,889. [ADVATITIHnfgNT. I Sicur llitannvia &neurotics, POWERFUL TELESCOPES, OPERA, RICE, AND PERSPECTIVE GLA.SSRS. —Messrs. S, ,i.nd .8. Solomons, opticians, 39, Albe marle-street, Piccadilly. Observe—opposito the York Hotel, By I.:er Majesty's Ro:, al Utters Patent for valuable and extraordinary improvointiats in the most powerful and brilliant Telescopes, Canip, Racecourse, Opera, and Per spective Glasses, to' know the distances. - These telescopes possess such extra ordinar:, powers that some three and a-half' inches, with au extra eye- trace, •isil; show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's rinv 7 and the double stars. With the same - telescope can be seen a person's countenance three miles and a half distant, and an &eject fro in 16 to 20 miles. They are of larger au,l a , l sizes; witirincre tsing powers accordingly.—The Royal Exhibition, 1851. Vale: tble,newly-invonted ,very small , powerful waistcoat-pocket ;Om is, the size of a walnut, by whic'h a perm can he seen and kr on n 1 miles distant; they answer every purpo' , o on th e race - :toc.rse, and at the opera h.uses, country scenery, an d ship. I are clearly seen at 8 to 10 miles. They are invaluable for sh, )oting, deer-stalking, yachting,' to s p or ts:neu, gentiern, L , gar sekeepers, and Tourists. Opera, :ace-course, camp, Led la:: rapcetivo glasses, with wonderfa , power. Newly-constrr-:-.ed Spectacle Lenses or the great eat transparent povier- Me valuable advantage derived from this invonten is; t alt vision beedmin impaired is preserved and strengthen ed, and very aged ° persons are enabled to employ their - sight at the most minute ocer patiou can see with the= e lenses of a mach less magnify. lug power—and they do 1 iw t . require the f requen t c h ange , to the daugerous effects of further powerful assistance. parsons can be suited at ti II most remote part of the world, by s.maling One of the gl as ses out of their spectacles in r letter, and stating the dish ice from the eyes they can read small newspaper print v.ith it; and those who have not made use of specta' ; lei; by stating their ago. Deaf ness. New Discovery:. --- -The Organic Vibrato r , in ex. tract-dine... 7 powerful, tun: al I, .newly-invented instrument far deafness, entirely differer a from all others, to surpass an y. thing of the kind that r .B a been, or probably ever aan be, produced. Being of the.awe colour as the skin, As not per oeptible ; it enables deaf • j p, mons to hear distinctly at church and at public assemblies;: ihe unpleasant sensatio n of s inging noises in the cars is entir sly removed; and it affor ds all the assistance that possibly could be desired.-39, Albemarle street, Piccadilly. Obsai ye—opposite the York Hotel E•J AR, A t li 12. TB. 'THIS I? A IL w &f B. Closing Prices this day. Arabg. BfoLtiq. Bost and Fa St , RalfaSt & Pallyrsicrt. Bitming. Ncolverh. Stour Valley Birleeand, Lanesh. Cheshire Janet_ ~ Do. (Mesh. 4Ss Birk., Do., d0..............._ Blackburn clyth &Tyne ori gi,) a £25 (iaskl. at £45 Bristol an: Exeter.- dons mt. Chester S liolybaad Cork and MlLdon... Cork, Black, 4 Paw. Cornwall Do. A Do. B Dubii n&DelfastJ Imo Dun. P. it Aber. Jnc East Avglian Eastern Counties...„ East. Uric n, ' Be., B. Stook, Do., New East Kent East Lancashire Edinburgh& Ulf:ago - vs Edinb. an Peebles.. Edin.Prth &Duade• Forth & Clyde Jan.% Furness Do. Extension........ Great N. of Scotind Great Northern Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth. Ar,West.(lre ) Great Western Do. Stour Val. Rail Qua. Stk Irish South-Eastern Lancaster Carlisle Do., Thirds Do. Nov Thirds LanCash. andYorksh Do., We t. Riding Tin Do. Sonthi or: London lir Blackwell Loud. Bright s.cet. Loud. and N. Westu. Do. Fifths Do.lol. Do. Eighths .... . ; Landon and& Westn LndndrryesColorain Lndndrry. Ennisk ifanch.Slaef.4 Lin& Do., Man. & Lin. Un Vfotropol i tan Do. J L. Ricardo's arrangement Widland )o.Birmng.&Derb. ~Sidid. )o. Half Shares goweastle & Carßali Iwpt.Aberg. :cowry & Enniskille lewry, Warrenpo int and iCostrovor Norfolk Northn.Coluitioe tin North British Nth. Devon Rail Li Dock Stock )0., A Stock `)0. B Stock. g.Eastera—Berwi ')o. do. Extension • ')o.do. G.N.E. ?tiro). Do. Leeds )o. York North London d.&S.Wstrn.,Ham• stead, and City Jn. forth Statrordshir.. forth Western . & S. West rn. Jun( Wore., Woh-. '62 - Wllollth Ithymney . A,Ottigh Scot. N E.Abrdn St. Do. Scot. Mid. St Ilircpshire 3itingbournekSheer. tenth Devon loath Eastern south Wales 1. Yrksh. 6 Riv. Du 4taines,Wok. &Wol tookton & Darling Do., do., 1854 Do., do., 1855 4toektou (Ss Hartlep saff Valo .. )o. Pref., No. 1 rharnos Hay. D.& R. Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Bilkenn: gaterford&Lhneric% Nest Cornwall Rest End of Londw and. Crystal Palace. Do. A ....., Do. B Vest London Do. Fiist Class . Do. Second Class ifimbledn&Croynol 4k - 4i 7i • 8/ 17 - 18 )5 - 16 12 - 13 91 - f+3 54 -51 i 15 - 16 se. 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Register 1 20 5 `.'rust ir L.Co.U.Car,- bo n t Di4onip 1... r, 15 ;,;-:-] 16 15 , V.01,6p.e. Jan& July Iltstnoss this elf* Pm Pm 12t Til.goToll FISHERIES - The Dutch Government, it would appear, are begin ning to be t!erionsly alarmed at the decline of their deep sea fisheries; The Bolgians, a 4 we have-already-shown, Are making vigorous efforts to regain their lost ground, and, while a healthful competition is in progress for the development of our fisheries, we may note their rise and progress, and thus aid the projects now in band, and in quiries now being made, to improve the value of our ocean Mines: The Dutch, so long ago as the year 1650, bad 5,000 " busses," or large decked fishing lo g ge r s. o n the east coast of Scotland ; they were manned by 50,000 fisher men, and from this source 'the Dutch navy, so long the moat formidable on the North Sea, was chiefly manned. The north-east coast of Scotland was chiefly the locality of the Dutch fisheries, and here they had to compete with the Norse fishers, who had possession of the Ork ney and Shetland Islands, and a great part of the Caith ness coast, the creeks and harbours in which were used for the coast fisheries, while the larger ve- , sels kept the sea. Hence such local names as " Stax-igaa" and " Whalligoe," so common on the Caithness coast, and that mixture of the Norse, the Dutch, and the Celtic, evident a characteristic of the hardy and enterprising race who occupy the fishing stations to the present day. About the close of the 15th century several efforts were made to establish national - fishery in Scotland. A company was .formed, with Royalty for its patron, and embracing nearly all the landed proprietors and gentry of the north. Fishing craft and nets were procured from Holland, Dutch fishermen were engaged, and all was in fair train, when, war breaking out between France, Denmark, and Holldnd, the French seized everything that was of Dutch manufacture, and terns the enterprise was stopped. Soon after another effort was made which was more - -successful, but the Dutch, by their superior cure, were enabled to secure a preference in the markets, and for many years the Scottish fisheries had an unequal struggle. Stimulated by Government, not a few men of capital, however, embarked in the trade, and, receiving large bounties for exported herrings and codfish, the fisheries were prosecuted with vigour, and have continued a source of national wealth to the present day. The bounty system has long ceased, private enterprise bas taken the place of public benefactions, and the trade was never more prosperous than it is at the present moment. In these circumstances the question has been raised whether or not, the Board of Fisheries should be retained. The cost amounts to something like 15,0001. a year, of which sum a very large proportion goes b keep up an official staff in Edinburgh. The establishment there is chiefly engaged in putting the returns supplied by their officers into shape, 90 as to have a yearly report, the statistics of which are deemed necessary for the benefit of the trade. The practical work is done by resident offi cers, whose duty it is to see that the cure is good, and to brand with the Crown iron the herrings presented by the curer when certifiedto be up to the standard required. In 10 sessions the vote has been objected to, and was only passed last year on condition that a commission should be appointed to visit the localities where the curers resided, and take evidence as to the efficiency and desirableness of the brand, or the reverse. That corn mission has just closed its labours, and on its report the fate of the board will depend. Cimplaints having been made that the inquiry haa been too hurriedly conducted and too superficially made, we have been at pains to ascertain the real feeling of the parties chitty interett ad in the various towns where the fish aro cured, and now submit the result. 1. The foreign merchants this year in the herring mar kets are all of opinion that the brand should be continued. They state that it affords a guarantee by which they are enabled to sell the cured fish in confidence, and that if there were no brand there would be great inconvenience to say the least, in examining, the fish; to ascertain the quality of the cure. Mr. Welman, of Stettin, who has long been the principal buyer for the German markets, is strongly of opinion that the brand should be continued. 2. A very decided majority of the curers are in favour of the brand, but they will not pay a fee for it, as has been suggested by Government. They hold that this would interfere with the independence of the official in spection, and argue that, as the cost of production is al ready too large for such a necessary commodity, it would never do to increase that cost. Besides, it would b e ma . . nifestly unfair to charge a general fee, as has been sug gested, the export herring only requiring the brand, and although the number of exports has greatly increased the total amount raised by fee would not compensate for the necessary, expense of keeping up the establishment. 3. A very intelligent minority of curers think that the brand is positively injurious to the trade. They argue thus :—Here are two parade of cured herrings ; one parcel has been prepared with peculiar care, and are of a very superior quality. The other parcel has been care lessly cured, and yet present no such defects as would warrant the officer of the fishery to reject them when pre sented for the brand. Both parcels being branded the price is the same, or, if the first curer should attempt to sell his herrings without the brand he would not be able to get such a price as the second for any foreign market. Here, then, they say, is a manifest iujastice and injury. They wish the trade to be free altogether, and maintain that although at first there would be some inconvenience felt, yet if each curer had a prominent and distinctive brand with his own name and quality, the best cure would soon be identified, and that brand would command a preference. 4. A strong feeling prevails that the board at present is not managed so as to be worth the cost of it, and they suggest that there should be more attention paid to this point than to almost any other of the Government inquiry. G. Tv.. early is much complained of. At present the tables pub lished by the board are of no use to the curer. It is pro posed that the board should collect the statistics weekly and publish them in all the principal ports at the offices of she board, or otherwise to keep the trade informed with a view to regulate sales. The officers at present do collect the returns weekly, but the board only publishes them once a year, and that only about nine months after the fishing has closed. The returns are furnished to local newspapers when applied for ; but, while great care is evidently taken in the Wick papers to have them correctly given, there is no official warrant to give them marketable value. O. There is but one feeling at all the stations in regard to the necessity of improving the harbours and main taining them on the coast. That this should be to some extent, at least, a local charge, is admitted ; but, seeing that the Government has always recognised the necessity of giving public aid so to secure good roadsteads and harbours, it is felt that the creeks and harbours of the fisheries ought to continue to be supported. 7. A very strong wish has been expressed by some of the curers to have the advantage of a steamer on each of the principal coast fisheries in the fishing season to look out for shoals before they come to land, and give intima tion of their approach, that time might be saved in get ting to the right fishing ground. 8 The grounds o❑ which the board rests its case, in as fur as regards the fisheries b,..ing a nursery for seamen for the navy, are generally held to be altogether unten able. Instead of furnishing seamen for the navy during the late war, it was with difficulty that coast volunteers c :uld be raised ; but it is felt that if the board were to identify itself more with the fishermen, and take an interest in their social welfare, there would be good rea• son to expect that a coast defence might always be counted on from among those men. 9. Upon the whole, the impression is very general that the vote should be continued under a new organi3a- Lion of the board, which would provide for such an application of the funds as would insure encouragement to the trade. Tiii4, so far as we can gather the feeling of the parties interested, is the true state of the case. WICK, SEPT; 19. The BAgian Government is at present engaged with a series of important scientific inquiries, with a view to a vigorous prosecution of the deep sea fishery on the east coast of Scotland. By the laws of the British fisheries foreigners :ire prevented from fishing within a league of the shore; measured from headland to headland, which leaves the deep water and all the bays and creeks of the coast open to British fishermen within this limit. The coast fishermen have thus the advantage of prose cuting a fishery for herrings on the spawning-ground, which is generally the most lucratise, although the fish are not always of the best quality when found so far in shore. The Belgian Government, being thus shut up to the deep sea fishery, have hal it suggested to them that the herring i+ a fish with local instincts, and may therefore he found in shoals iu tracks leading to the .coast where the sea bottom affords pro eceien to their spawn. To ascertain this is the chief object of the present inquiry, because if their general haunts can be traced, and the time at which the fish usually leave them fur the shore ascertained, it is -thou, ht that the Belgian fishing vessels may he directed to the main bodies of the fish, and there with cop sea nets they may secure a supply be fore the one t fishermen can get at them. \\+ ith this view the Atalanta war schooner has been on the east coast of Scotland during the fishing teas n, and while protecting the Belgian craft, officers have been engaged in making a survey of the British coast fishing grnueds, in order to prepare a map of the herring haunts. fio-y have inquired into the natural history of the field, they have taken the temperature of the sea at different depths, and conducted a number of rneteorolo gical ohservaions ; they have ascertained the sets and currents of the tides, and how they. affect -the herrings. Toe officers engaged in this inquiry are connected wall the Royal Institute of Meteorology, and they have col lected a body of facts - which it is believed may have an import ant bearing on the British fisheries. Should the results enable the Belgian Government to determine the tracks of the herrings, - it is intended. to send a few steamers to the east coast of Scotland to ' search out shoals of fish, and then inform the nearest of the Belgian coats on the coast of them, that they may fish there. A case happened the other week which shows the practiere , value of this projact. The officers of the Atalanta in pursuing their inquiries off the Orkney Islands f--fl in with a shoal of herrings; information wa 4-psedily cenununicated to ties nearest Belgian boat on the coast, the fishermen in which proceeded to the spot where the li Jr were seen, and, at their firs-, haul, their deep sea nets got 60 l arrels of fish of the finest quality. It is inferr e d from this fact that if the Government and the private fishermen go Laid in hand together, in the course of a season many thousands of barrels of herrings may be taken from the main bodies before they reach the coast, and thus the coast fisheries may come to be to some extent anticipated. It is obvious, =,'.e°, that v. tth such a machinery as this the officers of , the steamer s ma y ; , o to the coact at any time, and, ascer taieieg the state of the fishihg,s. at the principal stattens, such as Wick, regulate their supplies of the markets ac cording as the coast fisheries are prosperous, or the re verse. Now, in view of such facts as these, it is suggested by those who aro practically engaged in the British fisheries that they should have the use of a Government steamer or two, to enable the fishermen to know where the filch *The total expenditure for the year ending March 31, 1856, was 9 1,224,041/. 17s. 9d.—Extract from Finance Ac counts, No. 252. 11. L, Morgan's Financial Statistics. are to be found when they are in deep water, it being their belief that the Board of Fisheries, if it is to be kept up at all, should le charged to see that theßritish fisher , unn has advantages at least equal to those of the fo re goer. Tee board hitherto has had a steamer in use for some tiroo each year, taking their leading officials to the principal station:4, but that is a matter of small im portance compared with the other use to which the steamers may be turned. Of late years the British fish curer has had a preference in the German market, where nearly two thirds of his whole cure are now consumed. Tbis preference the Belgians seek now to contest, and the British curer hold 4; that if the Fishery Board is to be • i maintained at all it must be reconstituted, its present organisation beirg considered defective. The amount of capital invested in the trade is large ; the political as well as social interests in it are important, for as a nursery for seamen who may be used at least for our coast de fences it may be found very serviceable, but in these days of free commercial enterprise it will not do to maintain a system of red-tapism and official superintendence which was created when bounties were bestowed. The most intelligent of the curers think that in such an artcle as herrings, which pass through many hands in the foreign market before reaching the consumer, there should be some such security an a public dean of guild to inspect and warrant the highest possible standard of cure ; but so far as we can gather from those best able to judge here this will not be done until the present Board of Fisheries has been re-organised. ANALYSIS OF TILE DIVISIoWS OF TILE PRESENT _ROUSE OF COMMONS. The following letter from Mr. J. P. Gassiot, ad dressed to Mr. Roebuck, Chairman of the Adminis trative Reform Association, has been forwarded to us for publication : TO J. A. ROEBUCK, ESQ., M.P. ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM ASSOCIATION, September, 26, 1856. My dear Sir,—When in June last I undertook, at your request, the arrangement of a statistical department in the Administrative Reform Association, I decided on making a complete analysis of the divisions in the House of Commons during the present Parliament. A report of how many voted in each division, and whether these took place before or after midnight, is published in a Parliamentary return, annually moved for by Mr. Bro therton, and the names can be found in the division lists, printed in treble columns, filling upwards of 1,500 folio pages ; but that information falls very short of what is required. A comparative and minute analysis, such as I now present to you, in reference to the city and metropolitan boroughs (ot'aers similar, of all repre sented localities, are being prepared), appears to me ne cessary in order that constituencies may thus far obtain a correct account of the Parliamentary conduct of their representatives. It is a work of considerable labour to insure accuracy, for even the division lists have errata. A general election is not far distant, and it is impor tant that not only constituencies, but the public, should have easy and simple means of forming an opinion on the political conduct of those who have undertaken to manage the affairs of this nation, with her 94,000,0001. of annual, and often wasteful, expenditure.* An emineßt living statesman. in an able work on the Constitution, remarks that, "In a free Government like ours, Ministers will always •use the influence of money and patronage that is in their hands to procure them selves adherents;" and he records his opinion of the utility of contested elections, in these emphatic words :—" Mock philosophers, sentimental women, and effeminate men, are always making lamentations over political divisions and contested elections ; men of noble minds know they are the workshops of national liberty and national prosperity." This is perfectly true ; but to give its proper value to the principle of contest, the criterion should be merit ; and whatever may be the talent, the social position, or wealth of him who aspires to a renewal of the confidence of an independent constituency, he should not only be prepared to meet, but anxious to undergo, the ordeal of a reference to his votes, and to his non-attendance. The analysis now submitted is in the form intended to be adopted as regards all other places represented. With few exceptions, these constituencies would require little exertion to put into action the ample means they possess to compel the representative who has either neglected his duties, or misused the power they entrusted to him, to retire into private life, and it rests entirely with them to re-elect, at very trifling expense, those who have acted honestly, diligently, and fearlessly. It is a disgraceful fact, that in contesting for the ho nour of representing independent constituencies, such as Lambeth, the Tower Hamlets, and Marylebone, an expense of upwards of . 6,0001. has been sometimes in curred. There have been four sessions in the present Parlia. merit : In the first there were 257 Divisions. In the second In the third In the fourth I will not occupy your time by entering into a general analysis of all the sessions ; I shall confine myself to the last, and upon that some comments are necessary :- 8 Members did not record their votes in any of the ..... . 198 Divisions. _ • 86 Members were absent 180 times and upwards. 211 f f 150 „ not exceeding 180 244 ,I 100 „ If 150 75 f t 50 „ ~ 100 18 50 10 PP PIP )) 1 Speaker. 6i4 In the largest division 508 members voted, in the least 58 ; 230 members who represent county constituencies, and 329 representing boroughs, were absent 100 and up wards of the 198 divisions daring the last session, and this shows how necessary it is that constituencies should en'erce the attendance of their representatives ; for even a single vote may determine the most important ques tion. The deficiencyjustexhibited in attendanca may, in some instances, be accounted for by the absence of those who be. long to the military profession at the seat of war ; in other much regretted cases, domestic afflictions or con tinued ill-health were the causes ; and there are some members still taking a valuable share in the discussion of important questions, whose long, faithful, and most use ful discharge of their duties as representatives of the peo ple has amply entitled them to exemption from continued attendance ; but such cases should form the exception, not the rule, and the explanation of them must be made to the constituencies. In addition to these legitimate exceptions, there are two classe's from whom a business-like attention to Par liamentary duty seems to be hopeless, for, constituted as Parliament at present is, there are no means of constrain ing them to attend. The first comprises those who, from having very large landed properties, or from being the relatives of influen tial peers enjoying great territorial possessions, are, as a matter of course, in the existing state of the franchise, re turned for counties or boroughs where the family pro perty had influence are extensive, and this occurred in the same families generation after generation. The second class is composed of such nominees of peers and wealthy commoners as are not members of their fa milies, or connected by property with the locality repre rented. These are returned solely for the purposes of their patrons. Instances have been known of wealthy commoners returning men to Parliament, who were bound to vote so as to enable their patron to press the Minister for a peerage ; and it is equally notorious that promotion in that high rank has been the direct result of a nobleman's interfering successfully, in three orfour places, at a general election. The nominees are restricted to act as the reflection of the opinions of the patrons, and, re gardless of the interests of the nation, so to vote as to secure the Treasury bench for one or the other section of the great oligarchy which has so long ruled the destinies of this country, filling our diplomatic, military, naval, and civil services with their relatives and dependents — a course to which the disasters and mistakes that took place during the late war can no wbe traced. I now advert to a class on which the power of public opinion may be brought to bear with good effect, and, through it, many evils arising from the conduct of those previously alluded te, may be rendered much less injurious to the public interests. This class is composed of such as are returned to the House of Commons under popular, not aristocratic auspices, men who represent independent constituencies, some of them enfranchised by the Reform Bill ; and the urgency with which, as the records of Par liament now in our offices prove, they, in 1831, petitioned for the high privilege of voting at elections, led us to ex peat that they would have sent to the house efficient and patriotic men. Several of the members returned by these constituencies have attained to wealth and high position in their own class, by persevering industry ; they are in many respects precisely of that description to which, in your Juno address to the association, you a'luded whn n commenting on the remarkable difference existing between the modes of conducting private and public business in this country ; for we find among , t the representatives of such constituencies, bankers, mer chants, and tradesmen, who, having in previous life evinced all the qualifications you described, yet, as the analysis we are completing w ill s h ow , neg lect their se natorial duty, absent themselve s fr o m important divi sinus, and, when present, seem more anxious to prevent a dissolution of Parliament than to support the prin ciples on which they were elected. Many of those to whom we may have occasion to refer have no pretensions to, and are therefore unfettered by, the aristocratic ties that trammel the great families of the kingdom. They have been elected by Popular constituencies, and must be taught that they depend on them for their temporary elevation. It is humiliating to see such men undervalue the intrinsic respectability of the position of a representative of the people, fancy. ing themselves honoured, and allowing themselves to be cajoled, by the insidious attentions they receive from Ministers when they enter this new phase of their existence, and spring from the counting-house to the Senate. There a spirit of manly iudependence, cherished through all their previous lives, is too often sacrificed fir f t ct the smiles o hisper s o f eaeh high offici it whose a e i s d i e tu n a ti t ' i( i .in w obliges hi m t o a ff ec t cordi nin ar y, end w e ality and intimacy with men, the weakness of whom he ridicules elsewhere, and whose faces he would affect to forget the moment that the prestige of M.P. had ceased to confer its attractions. Some merubtrs appear to regard the House of Com mons as a kind of aristocratic club, where a pleasant hour tar.,•-y h` . Pa;'-el, and throu 4 h which may be entered the portals of noble m ans i ons that would b e otherw i se for ever clod against the aspirant a:,tl his family. A elv,rt time after inhaling the atmosphere of St. St-phen's, the consciences ,of such men becAne satisfied that they have fully discharged all duty to thoir constituents, and re- deemed all their hustings pledges, by voting on the pope lar side, when the ballot and Church-rate questions are brought forward to undergo their annual discussion and foreknown defeat. These questions disposed of, the vote, of but too many members elected on popular principles, which they had given ardent promises to support, are, without hesitation, placed at the disposal of the Mikisters and follow each condescension on his part, the members trusting to the forgetfulness of the constituency, or to their own hardihood in accounting for each bad vote, by the bold and hackneyed assurance that it was necessary for the security of the Ministry, who were, they affirm, the only men in the empire fit to be entrusted with the management of its affair's. In placing before you, in the first instance, a record of the Parliamentary conduct of three of the members for the city of London (the fourth being still, it is greatly to be regretted, excluded from his right of voting), and also of the members for all the metropolitan boroughs, I trust that I shall not be charged with making an invidious se lection ; nothing can be mare remote from myintention. commence with them as representing localities best known. Four out of seven of these constituencies were enfra,n• chisee the Reform Bill of 1831 ; and assuredly mai thus returned to Parliament cannot object to have their opinions tested Ly their votes. It is clear that a constituency, having two naemberg, is not fu!ly represented when only one of them votes in a division ; still less can it be said to be practically re presented when they vote in opposite lobbies ; cone©• quently one of the results at which we arrive by an ex, amination of the following table is, that in the 198 divi sions of last session London was represented fully on only three occasions ; Westminster, six ; Finsburf, eight ; Tower Hamlets, thirteen ; Greenwich, sixteen ; Marylebone, nineteen ; whilst Lambeth was represented by both members voting together, seventy-five, and Southwark, from a similar cause, seventy-three times. A Return of the Votes of the Metropolitan Members (including those of the City of London) during the last Session of Parliament—showing the total number of Attendances at, and Absences from Divisions, dis tinguishing, whether the Votes thus given were single, in conjunction with or in opposition to the Colleague. A Statement is annexed, showing how each Constitu - ency has, by these Votes, during the Session, been represented in Parliament. Total Number of Divisions, 198. On Public Questions, 193 ; on Private Business, 5. Members. Constituencies Row Represented. Places r Total and Absent Voted Votes Fully Representatives Bingl Y of each GRICENWICH. Montagu. Chambers 132 ... 39 ... 66 Peter R01t... Both absent Both agreed Both opposed ll H Nuzeeutdr.s. SOUTHWARK. Sir Charles Napier 89 ... 26 ... 109 Apsley Pellatt 55 tiO ... 14:3 Both absent Both agreed Both opposed lO LAMBETH. W. A. Wilkinson 37 ... 37 161 William Williams 51 ... 20 ... 144 Both absent Both agreed Both opposed WESTMINSTER. Sir De Lacy Evans lBB ... 4 ... 10 Sir John Shelley Both absent Both agreed Both opposed .. 96 . 98 MAAYLEBONE: - Lord Ebrington l7O ... 7 ... 28 Sir B. Hall 7B ... 09 ... 120 Both absent Both agreed 801 l opposed _ FINSBURY. Alderman Challis 160 ... 19 ... 29 Thos. S. Duncombe 177 ... 11 ... 21 Both absent Both agreed Both opposed ~ 160 ... TOWEit - HA3ILETS. ... - C. S. Butler Sir W. Clay Both absent Both agreed Both opposed ~ 103 ... ~. - LONDON. Sir James Duke ..... 154 ... ... 44 Thomas Mastsrman 161 ... ... 37 3 Lord John Russell.. 169 ... ... 29 Baron Rothschild... 198 ... ... ~ 137 For the City of London only one member attended is 43, two in 29, and three in 3 divisi ons . O a t o f 29 times that two members voted, they opposed each other on 14 occasions. London was! neutralised by absences 123, by opposition 14—total, 137 times out of the 193 divi sioas. The members necessarily named in the preceding table may possibly be able to account for their absences in a manner satisfactory to their constituents ; but it seems difficult to conjecture in what manner those who have been elected on Reform principles will explain their so often voting on opposite sides. One of the boroughs being represented by gentlemen of different political prisoners, must expect to see itself neutralised in the great council of the nation, and whether its members attend to oppose each other, or pair off, is of little prac tical consequence ; but in another we find two avowed Reformers opposed on 10, and in a third, on no less than 49 occasions. The result ar i s i ng from an examination of these divisions is somewhat curious, for although the attendance of the members for Lambeth has been more constant than those of Southwark, the former borough has had itself neutralised on no less than 66 divisions (some of them of a most important character), whilst Southwark has been in the same position only 39 times. The localities enumerated in the preceding table con tain a population of 2,132,812, represented by 132,776 electors, of whom 58,048 did net vote at the last general election ; many of those who have hitherto, from mere apathy, ne;lected to record their votes, may, perhaps, on the next opportunity, be stimulated to exercise the high right they possess, by the reflection that millions have demanded it in vain, and that it must be moat irritating to the immense number of their intelligent fellow-sub jects excluded, to see the 'chosen few so indifferent to the responsibilities and duties of enfranchisement, that they will not walk a couple of streets' length to express practically itheir judgment on the qualifications of a person who comes forward offering to represent their opinions and to manage their affairs. • A reference to each note would necessarily occupy toe much space in this communication ; but a complete registry of tne votes of every member of the present Par• liament is in course of preparation. I have felt that in undertaking a revision of them, as they involve the iv' litical conduct of all the members, and through theta, that of the constituencies who elect them, the task wag of too great importance to be dealt with in a hasty man' ner ; but when it is completed, it will, I hope, be found practically useful at the next elections, previous to which I hope to have the pleasure of again addressing you. Believe me, my dear Sir, yours very truly, JOHN P. GASSIOT. J. A. Roebuck, Esq., M.P., &c., &c. An edition of the Dispatch will henceforth be pub lished every Friday, containing particulars of important events, and price of the markets, funds, &c., up to the moment of going to press, and may be received at the most distant parts 'of Scotland and Ireland on the Satur day. 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