The Sun. — London, England, 1856-07-23 00:00:00

MONEY' lIIARKET AND COMZERCIAL INT4ILLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLom. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed firmly. 'The dales were estimated at 8,000 hales -500 of which were • taken for export, and 2,000 on speculation—comprising 400 Pernam and Maran ham, at 6Ad. to 70. ; 1,500 Egyptian ; 400 Surat, at Up. to 120. per lb. (500 export). The Railway Share Market was quiet, with an apparent decline in prices. Yesterday afternoon it transpired that the Hert ford and Ware Bank (the principals being Messrs. Samuel Adams and Co.) had suspended payment. This establishment had the power of issuing notes to the extent of 23,6351., but for some time past its circulatien has been diminishing. An instalment of 20 per cent., amounting to 1,000,0001. is due to-dayon the loan of 5,000,0001. This has produced very little increase in the general demand for money, the event, as usual, having been previously provided for by most parties. There now remain only two instalments to be paid, and the entire amount will havo been subscribed on the 18th of September. The fineness of the weather, and the easy condi tion of the money market, have produced increased firmness in the English Stock Market ; but there is still an anxious feeling with regard to financial affairs abroad, and the specie requirements of the Bank of France. This accounts for the dulness of the Paris Bourse, and the caution exhibited by our dealers at the Stock Exchange. Consols have been 95 1 and 95 1 for money. The account values have risen to 95i, 96 ; but the bargains were limited. The New 3 per Cants. have been 961 and the Reduced 95i 968. Bank Stock has de clined to 216. Exchequer Bills are buoyant at 244. premi um , and the Bonds are 1008. India Bonds 22s to 265. There is an upward tendency also in the prices of Foreign Stocks. Turkish 6 per Cents. have risen to MO I, the Small Bonds to 1041, and the 4 per Cent. Guaranteed to 106 k. Spanish Securities are all firmer, the Threes being 441, and the Deferred 24 to 24. Sardinian have been marked 92i, Russian 5 per Cants. 114, and Belgian 4i per Cents. 97. Brazilian 5 per Cents. are 104. Dutch 241 per Cents. 65k, and Ditto 4 per Cents. 97 +. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks:—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 71 4 ; Mexi can, 23 ; Peruvian, 81 3 ; ditto 3 per Cents, 57 9 ; Portuguese 4 Per Cents,, 48 50 ; RusSian 5 Per Cents., 111 13 ; ditto 4k per Cents., 98 100 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 441 45 ; ditto Deferred, 23T f 24k ; ditto Certificates, Gi # ; ditto Passive, 6k 7. Railway Shares have mostly advanced, but ex cept in a few of the leading lines the business done has been unimportant. Great Northern have risen about 1/. Great Northern V. to V. ss. Man chester, Sheffield andLincolnshire, IL, and South- Eastern, ss. Sittingbonrne and Sheerness were to 1 prem. The Canadian Shares have attracted attention at previous quotations, but the Foreign have remained dull. The Riga Shares, however, are firm. The Bengal Siiares which are in course of allotment are prem. Ceylons are 11 I-, and ealcuttas 1 . 1 prem. Mines, BAnks, and Miscellaneous aro firm. naITISH FUNDS TIII6 DAY AT ON.E O'CLOCK. (Fran the 09c3 LW. _ mashie& done. 3 allic Stock per Cent. Reduced Annuities 96 5/ 0 tier Cent. Consols Annuities 9 50 4 i i New 3 per . Annuities Long Anna t i es, expire stb Jan. 1860 33 Ditto 30 Years, expire sth April, 1885 lBB 3.16 India Bonds 4:1000 Ditto, under £lOOO ' 26 22 p C)a63 iti ior Account Etchequer Bills, 2id. i .C1000 £5OO tialan ..................... Ditto Boa:, li Z -8 ... 2l 25 p Ditto, 1859 ' 2 per Cent. 100 i PRICES OF FORRIGN FUNDS AT ONt O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. lols Ch ilian Bonds, 6 per Cent lols Ru ssian Bonds, 1822, Sardi n i an Boni •2 St., 5 per Cent llls D itto Account s 5 per Cent. ..• 02i Bp anisb B on d s , 3 per Cent 4ll hitto Account Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. ~ Ditto Account .. -carkieli Bonds, 6 per cent - Ditto Account Ditto Small lOll Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Ditto Account lO6l B , ~,,I, en la o n clw above ayable In Lowe:, • ei gian, 2i per Cent., ex. 25 francs — Ditto 4$ per Cent.. ex. 25 francs 97 Dutch Exchange, 21 per Cent., 12 Guilders 651 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates • • 05 Consol s TWO O'CLOCG. .p' 95k 96 Ditto Account ROYAL C.RE IfORNE GARDENS. IIUrCI3ERS' CHARITABLE INSTITUTION. The first day' s f e t e f or th e b ene fit of the above excel lent a ssicPciatiela took place yesterday, at this highly- Popular place of resort, and was attended with that Parked success which is the result of unsparing liberality and well-directed efforts. It affords us much pleasure titohoallude to this institution, the history of which, though pregnant with good example. It is now less t han thirty years since a few benevolent individuals de termined to combine for the benefit of their fellow tradesmen, yet the management can now with pride Poin t to a sum of 14,0001. funded in trust, to thirty con venient aluashousee, and to a list of above 600 aged, vl idowed and orphan recipients, whose necessities have be en reliev e d, an d w h o h ave b een ren d ere d, compara tively speaking, independent. The good judgment ne cessary to insure such triumphant results no doubt guided the c omm itt ee i n th e i r se l ec ti on o f Cremorne and th e Aehburnham Pavilion fur this year's demonstration; and we are h a ppy t o b ear t es ti mon y t o the excellence of , a rrangements, and the number of the visitors bene fitted thereby. Especial notice must be taken of the 'avilion, which was changed as if by magic from the lan quetting hall to the dancing saloon, where an excel lent band, brilliant illuminative features, and artistic decorations rendered the scene of that Fairy-like charac ter which exceeds any brief description; and which ren dered the evening a red letter one in the calendar of Charity fetes. The attractions of last evening, though ee great, will be increased this day by the addition of a balloon ascent and other novelties. LLOMA SHIFFING.—(..bIs Day.) „ LONDON, July 23.—Wind this day at noon, S.E.; light breeze and fine clear weather. PORTSMOUTH, July 22.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrived— Star of the North (tpt. 42) and Ossian (s.s. tpt.) from the Black Sea. PLYMOUTH, July 22.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—H.M.S. -r-Ainouth, from Portsmouth. FALMOUTH, July 22.—Wind variable.—Arrived—Kate Evelyn, from Havana ; Agnes, New York. Off the port— Titania, from Rio Janeiro, and sailed for Hamburg. PORTLAND ROADS.—Sailed.—Catherine Elizabeth, for St. Kitt's ; Coustitutioa, Port Philip. _°Pl' TORBAY, July 23. —Gipsey Queen, from Demerara; '"tia, Hamburg, for Buenos Ayres. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) PORTSMOUTH, Wedneday Morning. A rrived—H.M.S. Cueen, from tho Crimea, with troops. SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Morning. W aterford; Caledonia, steamer, from Portsmouth ; Ann, Caledonia, Sunderland. S ailed —Adelaide, for Newport. LiyEnrooL, Wednesday Morning. Wind S. Sailed—; David Crocket, for New York. QUEENSTOWN, July 21. Wind N .W. Ar rived—Apollo, from Baltimore. WATERFORD, July 21. Wind N.N.W- Arri v ed—Apollo, from Galatz ; Maria Terese, from (By SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday, 10.2 a.m. Wind E.S.E, ; tide, 6 hours' ebb; fine. Ar rived —Ann from Skive ; Earl of Seafield, Caan ; Transport, Calcutta. Suled—City of Rotterdam, for Dunkirk. Wind calm. DLL, Weenesday, 9.'9 a.m. tab la4 ssed—C;wn from Colombo, for London; Ladomi e (s.s. tpt. 7), 'Constantinople, for London. The suspension was announced yesterday morning of the lertford and Ware Bank. It was conducted by Messrs, Samuel Adams and Co., and Mr. Adams is 518 0 largely in business as a rnaltster. The Bank was established 43 years ago, and was entitled, mid( r the het of 1 844, to issue notes t o the amount of 22,63 51 . ; but, according to the latest returns, the total in circula tion is only 1 3,123/. Nothing has transpired with re gard to the prospects of MA DAME TUSSAAJD'S EX The Portrait Model of William Palmer in the establishment continun4 th attract great attention from the visitors, and, in fact, aPPears to have lately received a fresh impetus, caused, no doubt in a great measure, by the late trial of Dove, f.o. a Similar offence—Poisociib7 S`r:c'! , • i! Y n ovelties of a highly interostio E! ,d` -1 ;" B ove b the artiste of the establishment, and will soon ready for public inspection. SHARE MARKETS. ~ .°SIHIS BAY.) RAILWAYS. Paid Ambg. ottng. Bost. and Bran. Amt... Bolfast er..- Ballymena. Birming. Wolverh , & Etour Valley Birkeand. Lancala Cheshire Junct Do. Chosh. & Birk. Do., do. Rlyth & Fyne origins £25 (issd. at £45 Bristol and raptor — Caledonian Chester es Holyhead Cork and Bandon... Cork, Blaok, &Pass Cornwall Do. A Do. B Dublin&BelfastJune Dun. P. d Aber. Jnc. East Anglian Eastern Counties East. Union. A SU Be., B. Stock . Do., New A 'East Kent East Lancashire . Edinburgh& Gnaw° Edinb. and Peobl es... Edin. Prth & Donde Forth lt Clyde Jun.). rarness. U!p 9A Do. Extension.. Glasgow &S. Wester Great N. of Scotlnd. Great Northern Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth. SzWest.(ire ) Great Western Do. Stour Val. Rai' Gua. Stk. . Irish Sonth-Eastern. Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds Gancash.andYorksh Dc., WO. Riding Un. Do. South . " or: Louden & Blavkwn.l] Lone; Bright &S.Cst. Loud. and N. Westn. Do. Fifths Do. Eighths.. London andS. Wodn. Lon. trilby. & South Barking Sh LndndrryeaColoraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk, Alanch.Shef.& Linclp Do., Man. & Lin. Dn If etropolitan ilidland Do. Birmag. &DerV:, AIM. G. West. (Ire.) Do. Half Shares Newcastle & Nwpt.Aherg. & Ilrfd Newry Sr Enniskillor Newry, Warrenpoint and liostrevor lorfolk !'Torthn.Countios Un North British Nth. Devon Rail. & Dock Stock Do., A Stock . B Stock N.Eastorn—Berwic Do. do. Extension Do.do.G.N.B.Threh Do. Leeds • Do. York North London . &S. Wstrn.,Hanr stead, and City Jo.. North Staffordshir•.. North Western & S. Westrn. June Ox., Wore., & Wolv. ?ortslaouth icottish Central. 3cxAtishMidlated..., 4 hropshire Unien South Devon oath Eastern South Wales 4. Yrksh. Riv. Dur itaines,Wok. &Wol 3tookton & Dafing. Do., do., 1854 Do., do., 1855 IStoAton h liartler ITe.ff Vale ......... Do. Prof., No. 1 Mimes Ray. D.& B Vale of Noath Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford&Llnaeriel West Cornwall West End of Londol.• , and. Crystal Palace Do. A Do. B ...., ~. ...... West Lon don. Wimbledn St Croydon Closing Prices yesterday 28 30 q - 4 81 91 19} -- 20} 16 18 13i - 7 141 •H ••• 96 - 98 60i - 61 16t 17, 12 - 14 •H ...". ••, :.. -~ ~ 2 3 P 10 - 11 18 -- 19 37 39 26 28 86 - 88 61 - 63 38 - 39 • •• ..... 91 - 96 8 - S 96} -97, 76 - 78 ,30 -• 132 .12 - 1 1 4 63.1 62. 60 63 73 - 76 6i - 7i 6- 7" 97i - 98. 7 - LO9 08 108. 1 . . 4 - i`i - 06 107 1 - 5 - 7 33i - 34 Ad— par 83 1 84 53 55 ~M "~ •+• 4. .... ... 16 55 - 57 34 - 38 39 -83 i 31 - 3 2f - 184 - 19 62i 63 91 - 96 4i - 41 61 - 6 11 - 1G 32 - 34 !08 - HO 77 - 79 49 151 154 16 73? - 74 80 - E 2 4 - 2 .11 - 16 - 17 37. -- 38 19 - 201 5 - 24 • 26 6i - it 6 - 8 2 - 4 5& - 5 7 - 9 FOREIGN. r katwerp&ltott,rderr Ardennes Atlan.& St.Lw. leased at 6 p. c. by Gd.Tak. of Canada Relgian Eastn. June Boziers to Graissessa Bombay, Baroda, an Con. India, g. 5 p. c Do. Buff. & Lk. fur. Carmeaux & Toulouse, Coal Mines and Ry ' Demerara Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Do. Uew East Indian, g. 5 p.. Do. 1 7 x. B, gu.s p. c Do. Ex. C, gu. 5 p. c Do. do. D, gu. 5 p. c. D0.41p.c.8nd5.,'57 Do. do. do., '59, dc. Gee'ong Melbourne guar. 5 per cent. Tk of CanadaAie Do. Cert. of Deben. eon. into Stk. Do. Comp. 6p. c., do. Gt. Cautral of Franck Gt. In. Pen. g. 5 p. c. Do New, gulr. 5 p. c. Great Luxembourt Constituted Share Gt. Weatorn of Canada SI , iao a Do. New Do. Bds., payable '57 Do. do., '76, p. '6O Do. do., '73 do. Do. do., '73, without option Lake Coast. & Basle Lierre and Turnhout Lombardo Venetian. Lucca 5c Pist. 5 p. c.p. Lyons and Genova Lyons & Mediterran Madras, guar. 4 # p.c Do. New do., 5 p. c Do. 41 p. c. Exton Do. ,;(1. Ex., g. sp. Maria Antonia Do. do. Now Lll all all all 5 trt all 3.11 all Namur Is Liege (witl interest) Do. (ea interest)._ Do. do., C p. c. Pref iorthern of France. MorwegianTrunkPre' Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds Paris and Orleans.... Recife & San. Fran., (Perham.) g. 7 p. c. Riga & Dunaburg at 801. por share Rome and Frascati.. Royal Danish Royal Swedish Sambre and Mouse.. Do. 5i p. cent. Prof, Scinde, guar. 5 p. c. all all all all Do.. - Southern of France.. St. Andrew's and Quebec (A).„...... . Wok Fin.naeia Do 64 per c. Pref.., W. &N. W. of Franc, West. of Switzerland Wiesbaden ....... . Zoaland SOINT.S' Australasia , Bank of Egypt ...... Bank of London Bri. Col. Bk.&Ln. C. British N. Amori cap Chartd. Dank of Asir Glut& Bnk. of India, Austraiii, th Chin? ;0 City 5 Colonial O Cominorcial of Lond Il Eng.Scot.StAus.Cht 11 Lond. Chart. Bk. of Australia .5 Ditto New London and Conte 31„ g. Corp. London Joint Stock. London and Paris.... bond. & Westrainste National Pro.Of Eng Do. New Natior.zl of Bank New South Wa:el... Oriental Bank at Corporation Ottoinan Bank I"rGvincial of Ireland Do. Now Ass Royal British... 4.onth kustralio, 'J . :fit . 4 of Anstr4l4 , N t ) f London Wotan Bk.of.Loncl. 8 - 8 4 - 5 1/ -, 2 fl 2 - 3pl 2k - 2R 1 : iir 51 - 51 21 - 3 1 3Gi - 374 23i - 24 231 - 2i 3 22i - 23. 24 - 25 131 - 14,1 85t, 7 7 22t 22 2-t 2 11 5i 5i 3 ; l o. 100 102 124 1.28 124 128 111 112 •N - ♦w. sipl - 21i' 2g- 3r 1 - lip 2i - 2h' Ok - 9 i Eit 9 20 - 20, 41/ - 42, 86 - 9 56 - 56, 61 7 16 - lip 41 ... 19 3 / 4 -- 1 -1; lla -- 9i -- 10 2i -- 34 ... -- pm 5 - 51 ... - ... 37 - 38 •.. --- ••• 19 --. 20 BANIIB. 103 -- 105 - IRp' 70 - 72 ••• ....... ••• i . 1 P . ~.d 73 -- 75 •••• 171 —• 1S 201 -- 21, 2 , par— 1p par 2p • •• ..... • •• • 41, 48 . e. 41 - 43 ' 3 -- :1;.) • •41 ..... •. 44 46 36 38 -- 7 1 it 2.1; BF Business dcnc this day 100 all 100 100; 62i li 34 97i 8 1084 34 4 ga in x in x in x in 13 x in x in 23) xin x in x in 851 214 xin 22i xin x in 42} a d 56; xin Tfl2 tUN. LO N DON, WEDNES DAY EVENING. JULY 2:3, l6$C CHELMSFORD RACES.—(This Day.) From the London Gazette or Last Night. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SCURRY HANDICAP. Golden Plover ... Usurer Lady Horton QUEEN'S PLATE. Winkfield Pembedw Johnny Gilpin nano ran. frEPER,IAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF COTEVIONS.---(rhis Day.) The SPEAKER took the chair at a quarter past twelve o'clock. THE SHEEP CONTAGIOUS DISEASES PRE- VENTION BILL. On the motion of Mr. LABOUCHERE, this bill, which was a continuance bill, was read a first and second time, and ordered to be committed to-morr4w. THE VENTILATION OF THE HOUSE. Lord R. CECIL, in consequence of the excessive heat of the honsv, moved that the windows be opened. The SPEAKER said that opening the windows would aggravate the evil complained of by the noble lord. It would increase the temperature of the house by 10 degrees. Mr. THORNELY said there was another objection to the windows being- opened. Some members could stand excessive heat and cold, but could not sit in a draught without suffering severely, and that was his case. (Hear, hear.) Lord R. CECIL then put the question of which he had given notice, viz.,—To ask the President of the Board of Works, whether he has any objection to place a complaint-book in each of the division Ihbbies, in which members may enter any complaints they may have to make with reference to the ventilation of the house. Tile SPEAKER, in the absence of the President of the Board of Works, said that any hon. member having a complaint to make of the temperature of the house should mention it to the S'ergeant•at-Arms. (Hear.) The subject then dropped, and the windows were subsequently opened. LORD LUCAN AND THE JUDGE-ADVOCATE• GENERAL. Mr. KINNAIRD 'asked whether it was likely the report of the Board of Inquiry at Cheliea would be in the hands of hon. members before the prorogation of Parliament? Mr. VILLIERS said•he had every reason to believe the report would be in the hands of hon. members before that time, and he should therefore forbear continuing a controversy which a noble lord in another place had originated and seemed disclosed to continue. (Cries of order, from Coloel French.) He hoped the friends of the noble lord in' that house would allow him (Mr. Vil liers) to say a word or two more on this matter, which was of a personal nature, and! attacked his character. (Hear, bear.) He repeated that he should decline continuing the controversy then, because he thought it showed a want of respect for that house to bandy personalities there with the noble lord— (hear, hear)—and also because the report would shortly be in the bands of hon. members and before the public, when they would have an opportunity of judging whe ther he had stated anything, incorrect with reTect to the inquiry or to the evidence. (Hear, hear.) They would then see whether a solitary case of personal ani madversion by the Commissioners was satisfied by the evidence, and whether the inquiry with regard to it was or was not complete. (Hear, hear.) He was convinced a friend of the noble lord's in that house would convey to him what passed there, and if he did so he hoped ho would tell the noble lord from him (Mr. Villiers), that he treated with the utmost indifference his personalities. (Loud cheers.) Col. FRENCH said that he considered the explana tion of the noble loid's in another place perfectly satis factory. The noble lord there denied that he had said anything offensive to the right hon. gentleman, and fur thermore that be never meant to have done so. The subject then dropped. GRAND JURIES, &c., (IRELAND)BILL. , After a short discussion the motion for the second reading of this bill was withdrawn. POOR LAW (IRELAND) BILL. The order for the second reading of this bill was dis charged. BISHOPS OF LONDON AND DURHAM RE TIREMENT BILL-ADJOURNED DEBATE. On the resumption of the debate on this bill, Sir W. HE.&THCOTE said that, in the unavoidable, absence of the right hon. gentleman the member for Oxfordshire, he intended to move the motion of which the right bon. gentleman had given notice. He (Sir W. Heathcote) urged the Government not to push-for ward this bill at that period of the session ; and, if there was 'no other objection to be urged against its progress, it was the want of time to properly consider a measure that would be of the utmost importance in its imme diate application to the Church, and the conse quences that might result from it in the considera tion of other causes of a similar character. He called upon the Government to abandon thie measure, and in the next session introduce one of a general nature., If driven to a decision on this 1011, he should feel no diffi culty in voting against it on its merits, believing that it partook largely of the character of simony. The Go vernment ought not to force the house to a decision, and he hoped hon. members would support him in his amendment, that the bill be read a second time this day three months. (Hear, hear.) Lord ROBERT CECIL seconded the amendment. He objected to the principle of the measure, because it would have the effect of leading in every case to re tirement for a twofold bargain. One between the re tiring bishop and the government relative to the amount of the pension, and the other between the government and Parliament relative to granting it. It was also likely to give rise to political jobbery. He should give the measure his most strenuous opposition. Mr. M. MILNES said this was an exceptional mea sure, and to consider that it would be taken as a prece dent or as the groundwork of a general measure, was an assumption on the part of these wbo advanced that line of argument that he hoped the House would not listen to. This measure would be advantageous to the dioceses in question, and no scandal would attach to the Church from it, except from that which had fallen from those who opposed it. He hoped the house would not be led away by the exposition of schemes for a general measure; and in consequence reject this bill. There were only two grounds on which the house could reject it,—first, upon the ground that the duties of a bishop were so unimportant that these aged prelates were able to per form them as well as any one else ' • and secondly, on the ground that the terms which the bishops had proposed were so exorbitant that the house could not agree to them. Mr. NAPIER supported the amendment. He thought Parliament ought not to be called on to assent to the conditional resignation of a bishop, which was unsound in principle. The resignation of a bishop, ac cording to the doctrines of the church, should be pure, simple, and absolute. The correspondence between Lord Palmerston and the Bishops of London and Durham showed that the resignations of these bishops would not be pure, simple, and absolute, but that they would par take of a simoniacal character. [LEFT BITTING.) LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(Thus Day.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque.) llis Honour was the only commissioner, and was engaged during the early part of the day at private meetings up stairs. IN RE ASPIN. This bankrupt was described as of Stoney-lane, South wark, carman and carrier, and to-day was appointed for consideration of his certificate. The estate is very small, the debts being about 2521., assets about 501. His Honour said that such a case as this ought not to have been brought into this court. The Solicitor said that the bankrupt was a very young man, just starting in the world, and was stopped at the outset by being involved in a law suit over which he had no control. His Honour ultimately granted an immediate certi ficate of the third class. SECONDARIES' COURT.'J There was only one ease on a disputed acooant apt, of the slightest interest. About 100,0001. of gold yesterday was purchased on account of the French Credit Mobilier, towards provid ing for their speculations in Spain, Austria, and else where. A further portion also was taken or the Bank of France, and only a very small amount was sold to the Bank of England. APPOINTMENT OF DIRECTORS AT THE ROYAL BANE.—At the Royal British Bink yesterday General AitchesOn, Mr. Geo. Gillott (o 2 the firm of Gillott and Hasell), and Mr. Isaiah Butt were appoinled directors. Mr. Cameron, having retired from the office of general manager on account of ill health, has been succeeded by Mr,. Thos. Craufurd. CRYSTAL PALACE.—A charming addition has been lately made to the attraction of the tropical end of the Crystal Palace, in a collection of 1,000 living birds: which have just arrived from South Australia. They Consist mostly of the smallest Australian variegated parrot (Melopsittacus undulatus), and are in a very hardy and healthy state: The Bank of France nave sent circulars to all persons who have borrowed money of them on stocks or shares either to repay the amount or reduce it. This will ac count, for the increased depression on the Bourse. It also strengthens the impression that the Bank have not made arrangements to purchase gold at a loss to the extent that was reported, but will endeavour to fortify their position by more legitimats means. . The weakly reviews from the Amsterdam and Rutter. dam produce-markets state that business was rather less active. In sugar and coffee, the operations being Prin cipally for consumption, there was little alteration. Pur chases of rice hail increased, and quotations in some were rather tirrw.r. The letters from Rouen men tion that the market for manufactures was well sup ported, the attendance of buyers hiwinglincroaledligi LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. RAILWAYS. ►Wilts&f;'omrat Leasigi, Compans, London & N. West. L. &N. W. Calodon E. Un. & E. C atilt tnn E. Count Caldonian Do Gt. Westn Yk. New. & Berw. Y. &NW. Do.. Do r B 6o EaderT Peto Sc Co, Do L:& W & Midi& Stckton & Darliugt. ' Midlaud En. Cfmn. E. Count. Do ..... Do. L. & N.W Do Gt Nor thn le-mouth& Yorksh. T. Brassoy txt.lhielean Stockt. & Darlingt Do IntWootn. Cloikint rrions yesterlay. 95 - 100 100 - 105 12 - 14 135 - 139 4 ... 4i ... - ... 28 - 30 Vii : ii 9 12/ - 1:34 23i -21 i 111 - 117 2 1' - `ls3 94 - 96 I - i'' 58 - tiO 135 - 138 7 3 - S 2 ---2.01 - 90 - 94 1171 FOREIGN OFFICE, JULY 22. The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Earl Gran ville to be her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary to the Emperor of all the Russias, on the occasion of his Imperial Majesty's Coronation. WAR DEPARTMENT, JULY 19. The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of Lieut.-Colonel Sir Wm. Thomas Denison, Knight, R.E., Captain General and Governor-in adef in and over the colony of New South Wales, and of Rear-Admiral Chas. Elliot, Governor and Commander-in- Chief in and over the Island of Trinidad, to be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. 77IIITEHALL, JULY 22. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the diginity of a baronet in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire land unto Sir Allan Napier Macnab, of Dundurn, in the county of Wentworth, Canada West, Kat.; and to the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, , JULY 19. The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of the Right Hon. Lord Foley, to appoint Cwt. Stephen Ryder Dampier, one of her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gen tleuen-at-Arms, vice Marshall, retired. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JULY 19. The Right: H.nteiltublo , tlit vlaordaibf: the Committee of Privy Council for TrAdo dinirtPdvntations have received through the Secret:l47,d abate for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Plenipotentiaryin China, announcing that the duties on the importation of cotton chintzos rind prints into Shanghae, have been reduced to 5 pbr cent. ad valorem. BOARD OF TRADE, WITITEITALL, JULY 21. . _ _ _ The Right Honourable the Lords of the . Cerumittee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affailes, a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Minister at Lisbon, stating that the prohibitions zand restrictions upon the importa tion of rico from Asia into the continent of Portugal and the adjacent islands have been abolished. WAR DEPARTMENT, PALL-MALL. JULY 22. let Regiment of Life Guards—Charles William bun combo, Gent., to be Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Lord C. W. B. Bruce, promoted. 6th Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant James M. Burn Mur doch has been permitted to retire from the service by the sale of his commission. The first Christian name of Cor net Grainger is Richard. 7th Light Dragoons—Cornet W. S. Carr Standish to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Aytonn, promoted. 9th Light Dragoons—Cornet Edward King to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Steward, promoted in the 2d West India Regiment ; John Evans, Gent., to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Grainger, appointed to the 6th Dragoon Guards. Royal Artillery-- The scond Christian name of Lieut. Hobart, appointed on April 7, is Bartle, and not Birtie, as previously stated ; the surname of the Lieutenant appointed. on June 21, is Moresby, and not Mousby, as previously stated ; the appointment of Lieutenant Harry Adair Tracey to bear date 7th April, instead of 7th July, as stated in Gazette of 11th inst. Bth Regiment of Foot—Captain Astell Thomas Welsh, from the 80th Foot, to be Captain, vice Woods, who ex changes. 21st Foot—Liutenant C. H. T. Bruce de Ruvignes, from the B)th Foot, tu. be Lieutenant, vice John Bennett, who exchanges. 221 Foot—Vaptain Herbert George Bowden to be In structor of lifisketry. 34th Foot—The name of the Ensign, appointed on Bth instant, is Broun, and not Brown, as previously stated. 37th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon William Thomas Irwin, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Smith, pro moted on the staff. _ _ 40th Foot—Ensign Freak. Dudgeon, from the Monaghan Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase (Supernimerary to the Establishment), vice Stuart, whose appointment has been cancelled. 54th Foot—Lieutenant Percy G. Botacld Lake to be Captain, by purchase, vice Sw6tenham, who retires. Lieutenant Henry Ridout Floyd, from the 81st Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Humphreys, who exchanges ; Ensign Thomas Parr to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lake ; Frederick Keppel FitzP,.oy, Gout., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Parr; Lieutenant Thomas Blakiston Houston to be Adjutant, vice Lake, promoted.. ' [The surname of the Ensign appointed on the Bth July, 1856, is Gossa and not Gossett, as previously stated.] 60th Foot—Lieutenant Conyngham Jones to be Captain, without purchase, vice Clapcott, deceased ; Ensign Ken nett Gregg Henderson to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Jones. tilst Foot—Quartermaster-Serjeant John Dewier to be Quartermaster, vice Wall, who retires upon half-pay. 69th Foot Ensign Edward Marwood Vincent to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vico Roberts, who retires ; Montgomery Williams, Gent., to ho Ensign, by purchase, vice Vincent. 80th _root—Capt. Richard William Woods, from the Bth Foot, to be Captain, vice Welsh, who exchanges ; Lieut. John Bennett, from the 21st Foot, to be Lieuten ant, vice de Ruvignes, who exchanges. 81st Foot—Lieut. Wm. Humphreys, from the 54th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Floyd, who exchanges ; En sign Henry Harrison Briscoe to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Weir, whose promotion, by purchase, on the 18th April, 1856, ha's been cancelled. 821 Foot—The Christian names of Lieut. Budgon are Edward Hugo. 85th Foot—Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class John Wm. Johnston, M.D., to be Surgeon, vice Armstrong, deceased. 87th Foot—Lieutenant Sackville George Lane 'Fox, from the 21st Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Fitzgerald, pro na-)ted, without purchase, to an Unattached Company. STAFF.—Brevet-Colonel Edward Robert , Wetherall, Unattached, to be Deputy Quartermaster• General to the Forces serving in Ireland, vice Brevet-Colonel Grooves. DEPOT BATTALION.—Captain John Atkinson, from the 89th Foot, to be Assistant Adjutant. UNATTACEEED.—Brevet-Major the Hon. Somerset John (*onoh c annul uo, Btla Ligirt - Druoiiours, Cu halo hiz Brevet Rank converted into Substantiv;Rank, under the Royal Warrant of 6th Oct., 1851. HOSPITAL STAFF. Assistant-Staff-Surgeon Richard Edward Fitztlibbon to be Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class, vice Robert Win chester Fraser, M.D., placed upon half-pay ; Acting As istant-Sargeon William Page to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces. The undermentioned Acting' Assistant-Surgeons have ceased to do 3 tity, there being no longer occasion for their services:—John Ringland, Spencer B. Gibb, M.D., Archi bald Weir, William Fletcher, John Robert Cole, Robert Turner. BREVET. Brevet-Colonel Itobart Georga Frughea, retired full-pay 521 Foot, to be Major-General, the rank being honorary only. Quartermaster Michael Wall, half-pay of the Glst Foot, to have the honorary rank of Captain, under the. Royal Warrant of the 17th Dec., 1855. The undermentioned promotions to take place in the East India Company's Army, consequent on the death of Lieutenant-General Duncan Macleod, Bengal Engineers, Bth June 1856 : Major-General G. P. Wymer, C. 8,, Bengal Infantry, to be Lieutenant-General. Colonel J. T. Lane, C. 8., Bengal Artillery, to be Ma jor-General. The undermentionedoMeer of the East India Company's Service retired upon full pay, to have a step of honorary rank as follows : Major Henry FitzSimons, Bengal Infantry, to be Lieut.- Colonel. • ADMIRALTY. JULY II Corps of Royal Marines—First Lieutenant T. B. V. Fitzgerald to be Captain, vice Brooker, deceased. ADMIRALTY, JULY 18. Corps of Royal. Marines.—Her Majesty has been gra ciously pleased to restore Mr. Joshua Rowland Brookes to the rank of First Lieutenant, his commission to bear date 11th July, 1856. COMMISSIONS SIGNED $Y LORDS-LIEUTENANT. Alexander Stephenson Fetheretonhaugh, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant of the Tower Hamlets. Royal Mid-Lothian Yeomanry Cavalry—Captain the Earl of Dalkeith to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Lord Aberdour, promoted to be Lieutenant-Colonel Command ant ; Captain Robert Balfour Wardlaw Ramsay to be Major, vice Trotter, resigned; Lord Henry John Douglas Montague Scott to be Captain, vice Ramsay, promoted ; Lieut. James Forman to be Captain, vice the Earl of Dal keith. promoted; Cornet Peter Maclagan to be Lieut., vice Wardrop, resigned; John Crawford Tait, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Maclagan, promoted. Worcestershire Regiment of Militia.—Henry Shirley, Esq., to be Lieutenant, vice Oldham, promoted. BANKRUPTS Arthur Allen, the younger, dealer in cement, Far. row-road, Paddington, to surrender, August 1 and 29, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Paterson, Bouverie street, Fleet-street. Hylton Carr, shipbuilder, North Hylton, Durham, Aug. 1 and 28, at twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle-upon- Ty n e ; Burn, jun., Sunderland. William Webster, tavern keeper, Snow-hill, Aug. 1, at twelve, and Aug. 2'J, at half•past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Canaan. official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Wyatt, Verulam-buildings, Gray's-inn. Edward Ind. Thurgood, builder, Orchard-street, Kentish street, Middlesex, July :30, at half-past one, and August 27, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee ; Chidley, Gresham-street, City. Edwin Kay, licensed victualler, Duke-street, Manches ter-sejuare, Aug. 1, at twelve, and Sept. 5, at half-past eleven, at the Coiftt'igf Bankruptcy. Canaan, official assignee, Aldeirman6tif l / 4 " ''SYnies, Teesdale, and Sandi. lands, Fenchurch-street. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Philip Denholm, fleshor, Dunbar. Hopkins and Bell, engineers, Glasgow. Alexander Fraser, builder, Edinburgh. James Johnstone, wine and spirit merchant, Airdrie. Thomas Macdonald, writer, Fort-William. MARKET NEW 3.---(This Day) 'CORN EXCHANGE. Although the supply of English wheat in to•day's m ar . ket was very moderate, and chiefly composed of Monday's unsold samples, the demand 'for all kinds ruled heavy, and prices were barely supported. Foreign wheat, the show of which was on the increase, moved off heavily, but no actual change took place in value. Floating cargoes were dull. In barley a fair business was doing. Malt sold steadily, at extreme rates. We were fairly supplied with oats, which sold slowly, and inferior kinds were drooping. Beans, peas, and flour ruled dull, at barely late rates. An Arno Tuisws_ Wheat. 113arleY• Malt. Sngltsh.. 72 0 300 2,710 Irish •• •• 100 Forolga 1 9,320 1,490 ( Oats. I Flour. 20 I 610 920 — 6726 brls, 11,830 acks. BOROUGH HOP. • Wo have a slow inquiry for all kinds of hops, and to effect sales lower rates must ba submitted to. WHITECHA.PEI,. The 'demand for each kind of meat is inn sluggish state, as follows :—Beof from 384 d to 4s 6d. ; mutton, 38 Gd to 4s ad ; larob. 4s 2d to 5s 2d; veal, 33 3d to 4e 10d ; pork, 3s 8d to 4s 81 per 81b0,, by the carcase. Lig! LIABILITY. -LA TV OF PART. NERSIIIP. lhlAsmeasurti , according to a goo d Mi n i sterial antlio much tot complicated, and conceals the great prin race mmends it to one party and has excited ciple -stility of another--" limited liability"— under the fierc3hi... - -,iiot-stock Companies Bill." It is for the its title of " ,-egulationofjoint-stock companies and ii a Iporation aim 'is intended to supersede the pre other associations, ant. -hject. It is carefully and sys eent enactments on the at, , ded into five parts. The tematically drawn and is dir. d incorporation of corn first treats of the constitution at. d, Of "the manage panies and associations ;" the secoi ." the third, of ment and administration of them ; ' - s.tion-offica ;" " winding -up ;" th e f our th, o f th e " regist, acts aint] and the fifth relates to the " repeal of form, temporary provisions." The bill has 117 cla.us, w ; with the sch e d u l es , it fill s 54 pages. It re p e als, . " some reservation as to insurance oompanies, the 7th ann. Bth Vict., e. 110, the 10th and 11th Viet, c. 78—the Joint-Stock Companies' Reghitration; ,- tTpcorpora , tion, and Regulation Acts ; the 1 8th and 19th-Vict., c. 133, the Limited Liability Act of 1855, with e;rebervation as to any <o npanies completely registered under the B.h of her present Majesty. It repeals also the 11th Viet., C. 45, and the 12th and 13th Vict., c.lo3, : being the Wind ing-up Act, so far as concerns companies re g istered under this act. It is intend e d t o comprise, therefore, the whole law on joint-stock companies and associations, and is a consolidating, repealing, and amending act. Its chiel and numerous provi,ions are a re-enactment, witl , amendments, of the existing acts for incorporating joint stock companies, for allowing companies to be forrnee with limited liability, and for winding them up. short title will be "The Joint-stock Companies Ac 1856." It commences by excluding from its operation associa tions for banking and insurance, thus virtually enacting one law fur banking and insurance companies, and an. other law fer other and similar associations, while it is desirable that all should be regulated by one law and on one principle. By the first part of the act seven or more persons asso ciated for any lawful purpose may by subscribing their names to a memorandum of association, and otherwise complying with the requisitions of the act in respect of registration, form themselves into an incorporated corn pany, with or without limited liability. Fewer than seven persons, therefore, cannot under this act form a partneraWis on the limited liability principle, and it ex: pressly prohibits all companies once registered from carry. ing on business after the number of shareholders is reduced below Seven. Companies, accordingly, may be wound up whentver the shareholders are reduced in numper to less than seven. With this restriction, and the restriction mentioned as to banking and insurance, it enables individuals to form companies for any lawful purposes, on the principle of limited liability to the shareholders, and bestows on them, subject, however, to many intricate and onerous regulations, all the powers of incorporated companies. Immediately after this limited permission then comes a prohibition. As not fewer than seven persons can form a company, so not more than twenty persons will be able after Nov. 3, 1856, to carry on business of any kind haying gain for its object, unless they are regis tered as a company under this act, or be authorised by an act of Parliament, or letters patent, or be engaged in working mines under the stannaries jurisdiction ; and persons so carrying on business will be severally liable for the payment of the whole debts of the partnership. The memorandum of association by sub ' scribing which any number of persons above seven may form a company, and which is consequently the ba4is of the whole, is to contain the following things :—The name of the proposed company ; the part of the king dom in which the registered office of the company is to be established ; its object ; whether the liability of the shareholders be limited or unlirnited ; the amount of its nominal capital; the number of shares and amount of each share ; and if the company be limited, this word is to be the last in its title, thus, " Eastern Steam Packet Company, Limited." For the memorandum of association there is a prescribed form in the schedule, and this memorandum, when registered, will bind the company and the shareholders as if each shareholder bad subscribed his name and fixed his seal to the me morandum. It will consequently be a very important document, to which all persons engaged in forming com persica will have to give the closest attention. It is impossible to advert to all the minute regulations of this extensive act. The above are its leading provi sions. We must content ourselves with saying, that in the first part, " the constitution and incorporation of the companies," it prohibits companies from assuming the names of existing companies, requires each subscriber of the memorandum to take at least one share in the com pany, permits articles of association to be annexed to the memorandum prescribing regulations for the com pany, but they must contra vene th e voluminous regula tions for the management of companies annexed by sche dule to the bill. The articles of association, of which the form is prescribed, will, like the memorandum, bind the company and shareholders, as if each shareh&der bad subscribed it, and, like it, will require the attention of all associates. Memorandums and articles are to be registered, and certain fees are to be paid for the regis tration, and, when registered, the registrar is to certify that the company is incorporated, and if it he limited be is expressly to state it. When registered, the com pany will have the power to issue shares, &e. There follows numerous regulations concerning the registra tion of shareholders, with which the first part of the act concludes. The second part prescribes in detail hOw companies -ore to bo- manned, requires them to - ffavo - a - registered - office, to paint up the name of the company, and to have it engraved in legible characters on the seal mid all no tices and documents, and inflicts penalties for nonob servance ; it ordains general meetings, permits special Meetings, defines special resolutions, and requires copies to be given to every shareholder. Companies must have permission of the Board of Trade to hold more _than two acres of land, and must keep minutes of all their proceedins. A description and definition are given of the legal instruments of companies, and provi sions are made for adapting their proceedings to the English and the Scotch law of conveyance. The Board of Trade may order an inspection of the affairs of com panies, and companies may appoint inspectors of their own to examine their own affairs, and the reports of these inspectors are to be evidence in legal proceedings. In short, as far as we know, the management of the companieo is fully provided for; but experience has taught us with overwhelming proof that all such regu lations are, alter a time, found to be inadequate, incom plete, and injurious, and therefore fell into desuetude and become obsolete almost as soon as enacted. We shall say nothing of the provisions ^ far winding. up—the third part of the act, which carry out more ef fectually, and are consequently very numerous, the pro visions of the previous acts on the subject. Nor is it necessary to say more of the fourth part, the " regis• tration office," than that the formation of the office, and the appointment of all the persons connected with it, continue to be placed entirely in the hands of the I3Jard of Trade. .Every precaution which legal ingenuity can invent seems to be taken to make trading companies, whether formed on the principle of limited liability or unlimited liability, perfectly safe. We cannot say that the Legislature now or at any time in making new regulations as to companies, with which it has occupied itself , off and on for about a quarter of a century, has meant to place impedi ments in the way of the formation of companies to carry on business; but certainly the effect of sub jecting them ,to heaps of cumbrous regulations to which private business cannot be subjected, places them in relation to it at a disadvantage. We shall be surprised if encouragement be really given by this act to the formation of companies. The Legislature, from some old and we believe unfounded prejudice—for there is ne reason why men should not be fully at liberty to carry on honest business of all kinds by means of con venient associations as by single hands—and many rea sons why they should,-may have endeavoured to pre serve advantages to private traders as against companies; but .certainly, under such complicated and often-changed laws as ours, it is surprising that such associations have flourished at all in competition with tolerably free pri vate enterprise. They must be very suitable to the cir cumstances of the age, or rather they must now be ne cessities of society, to succeed in spite of all the impedi ments sometimes, perhaps designedly, laid in their way by legislation since it began in 1326 to sanction means to promote their establishment, and the success of pri vate enterprise, as general ruled, ara not doubted ; and when associations, incu.nbered by minute legislation, flourish in spite of it, they must be very much needed. • (From the Morning Chronicle.) The Act for extending the principle of limited liability in commercial partnerships is now in operation. Briefly summed up, its provisions may be divided into four cate gories —those, namely, to Registration, Management, Publicity, and Winding-up. For the first object the mechanism provided by the Act is very simple. A single sheet, .called a " memorandum," is obtained at the ap pointed offices. The names of at least seven copartners in tho incipient enterprise are inscribed thereon, and certain blanks filled up indicating the name, locality, object, character, and capital of the. concern—a sum of 51. sterling is paid, and the registration is complete. The company is then organised, and may proceed to basiness forthwith. The clauses relating to the .other objects of the mea sure run into very elaborate 'detail. The principle on which the provisions for management is framed is almost identical with that inco r p or at e in the existing railway and joint stock companies' acts. Care is taken to secure for the shareholders the means of obtaining constantin sight into the affairs of their undertaking, and of control ling in case of need the operations of their directors. By the " publicity" clauses a similar insight, though unac companied with any control, is provided for the general public, whom the Legislature evidently contemplates in the light of probable creditors and possible dupes of an insolvent enterprise. The scheme for winding up companies formed under the act does not differ materially from that provided at present in the case of other associations. Some improve meats are introduced as regards the cast or the compli city of the legal formalities, and tome slightly more strin7ent precautions are taken against fraud upon the shareholders or creditors cf the concern. But, in its chief features, the old sy,tein is preserved without alte ration. As a general result, it may be said that the new act is easily and offeciively workable. A new company may be formed under it with very little difficulty or expense, and the operations of the iutsnded enterprise can be con ducted on a sound basis of profit, with little obstruction from technical formalities. To protect directors from encountering trouble and annoyance at the bands of is trustful or litigious shareholders was, r o doubt, practi cally impossible—aod not less so to shield the share holders from suffering loss by the acts of reckless ex dishonest directors, But if the act does not accomplish !Pead. Business this day. all all all 100 1 3 .11EFERENG1 SELAB,Ed. %horde:al Deben. Do. 6 per cent. Do. N 0.2, 7 p. 0. Ilyths,ndTyne lOpel a. pref. (issd. at 50Z & Ex. 4 P. c. St )o. 4 p. c. Shares Isledonian £lO Ihes. &11e. flu. 5 .)o. do. Pref. No. 2. ')o. do. Pref. No. 2. fork &I3andonslp.c Dun.Prth Aber.J. Anglian Cls. ASh Do. do. Cls. B 6 p. c. Do. do Cis. C 7 p. c. Co.Ex, spc No. ) Do. No. 2. Do. Now 6 g. a. Si, 4 4 . as t Un., G. 6 p. c )o. W., 10 per cent Do. 101. Debentr.Sb. Do. do. 4 per cent.. 'East Lancaah.6 p. ets .kW. York. sthr Edin. & Gi. 5 p.c. sh. Prth.&Dun.4p.c Furness . ▪ & S.W. G. 5 g. c great Northn. 5 p. c )o. sp. c. Redeem. at /0 p. c. 41 p.c Do. 5 p. c. Scrip, Red at 5 p. c. lt.N. of Scot. let Pre it. S. 4W. (Ireland, Do. 4per c. Pr.f. S U. W.;LL.ScII.ExSpe Do. con. red. 43 p.c. DI. con. red. 4 p. c. Do. irrecl. 4p. c. Do. 5 p. c. red. pref Do. Birm. Pref,,S4 Do. Chester 8 p. e. P.B Do. do. 5 P. c. do Do. Birm. Gna. Stk Do. Ches. Gua. Sh.. Do. do. do Do. do. do Lan. &York. Do. 6p. c. Stock . "on. &Brigh. (3.5p.c i)o. Pref., 5 p. 0. St. Do. New Guar.6 p. c Do. do. 5 per cent . Lon.&N. W., Coy. 4 - Nuneaton 5 p. ct Lon.& S.W. 7 per et late 3d Shares L.eudy.& Color. Sh Londy. & Ennis..S L. 6 p. Cent Do. do. do. £ts Do. do. 31 per cent. 7,Sarypt.& Carl. 4 p . Do. 4.} per c0nt..... ,Do. do. Consol.6 p.c.St Do. Con.Br.Pir. 6p , D 4. 4i p. c. Pref. Ditto L. & H. Prof. S New., Aber., &c., pr. 5 p. c. red. 5 p. c. pm Do. Perpet. 6 p ct. with optn. till , 6c, Norfolk Detenture Do. Pref. 5 p. c. Do. 6 p. 0. Ext Dc. 5i per et. pref Do. Way. Val. 5 p. c North British Y. E. Rom, 4 p.c. F Do. do. do Do Leeds 6 p.c Do. do. Quarters .. Do. York &S. Pm North Staffordshire. Ox, W0.kW.15/ 6p, Do R. Pref. 101. Sli Soot. Cent. ,New Prof south Devon 84 - 90 118 120 1116 - 118 t 3 - 95 Do fixed 4i per con • ' Eastern (Readi!: Ann.) of £lO5. f.td. Do. 4i per cent Do. Fixed 4i p c eh H. Wales Gua. 4 p, c Do. do. 4. ) j. p. 0.... . 'i.Yorksh.4lp.c.Guar. 3tock.& Dar. sp. c. de. do 1-lartl. g. t F. c. till July 1, 's'. Watorfd. & Bilk. 6 pc 1.01 - 103 16 - 17 5 -5?) 6 - 107 - 112 100 - 105 / 1 - 1 P 13 -33 A 137 - 139 ••• 78 - SO 119 - 121 111 - 114 105 -- 107 i - it) 6 -6) 95 - 97 88 -8) 89 - 91 98 • 100 10 - 17i -17 i 10f 101 75 -77 201 - 211 10a —10 a 15t - 16 „ , 38 -14 u ••• m.. " ... ..• .... t... ••• '...'' ... sm. 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Steam Navigat. 16 all General Screw Steam 4 all Lond. Gen. Omnibus 41 4i 4a 20 10 Magdalena St. Navig 10 all lediteran. Elec. Tel. 8 ..... 16 10 9 Mexican&S.Amerien. 4 25 5 Nat. Discount Co. ll . 281 7 1 all Nat. Fat. Steam Foe , 10 5 Netherlands Land._ 1k _ 2 20 all Do. Do. 5 3 Do. 8p c P iss at 1 d 100 80 New B. &N. S. Land 24 26 N.S.W. Gov. sp.e.D. d •di N. B. Australs.:dar .— 4 tG 16 Nrth.ciEuropeStsin 11 15 14/ Oriental Gas ll - 1 2s. Do. "New Shares" s RP im all Pool Rr. & IFi rl. 2k 3k 5 . e all Peninsular& Oriental 65 67 fig 10 Lo. New 5 5i p too 6 0 loyal Mai! Steam L 73 71i :-.11 Scot. Austral. invest. 1 Ditto New. - ip 25 ali South Austral.:Lard 37 1 al: subma7. Tel. Ser; , ,,, • 1 „ • f. , •is 190 . 1 8 spa DitM.,llll :6 17 St Rt, St. 25 LOO all 100 1 .00 100 20 25 25 12i pm L pm 89i 091 10 what es statute which human ingenuity can devise is sufficient to achieve —namely, exemption from the possi bility of abase--the legitimate objectc of the measure seem to be very effectually wrought out ,: and the privi lege of associating in profitable adventure, without in curring the risks of unlimited partnership, are secured for the public on safe and easyeonditions. LOBBY OF THE HOUSE OF COMMOXS.-- FRIDAY. (Front the Liverpool Albion.) • A NEW MEMBER. The galleries were filled with strangers ; the lobbies and passages with others hoping to get within the pri vileged precincts of ear-shot in good time ; and an un commonly long while that good time seemed in coming, especially as its duration wagto doubled the expectant listener by th e perpetual tkintintabulan of e ti Itr bells ringi ng to division, whereof there were no less e t c h i au c in the cou rse o f the evenipresent had a s t a id , grave, anxious, semi -clerical, A evening'. The maj or iti es o f th e dams-r. d tapical air about them, very different to the indifferm t aspect observably.among a mi sce ll aneous crowd of _eurio.sity-hunters on an ordinary afternoon. This was aooomi, ted for by th e nature of the business going nn inside, Lamely, let, th e Lords ' amendments to the CamCidge University Bill, which bren g L i t up no , nd of town-aild-gowrismen. past, pre sen t , and prospec tive peers, coml. - toners, and uncommon collegizte sin 4ularilies of all sorts ; a nd, secondly, the indescribable c9rrnorant.l who feared to lose, and the harpitis ,who hoped to clutch, somethin g or other in connectio n with the new Civil Service B.ill. This is now luckily among the many dishonoured a cceptalnces of Palinerst:on and Company —or rather of Palmerston only, f or there is no company .5.13 the concern ; at least the head of the house alorie is thought of when the public are called on to give a redit to the firm, or the "infirm," as Derby describes the.' Cabinet. On its being known that this measure for the curtailment of Tapers and the elongation. of Tadpoles was withdrawn, that Government had again repudiatel its own draft, there was an immediate clearance of one-half the multitude aforesaid, whose illustration of the Benthamic doctrine of the greatest happineos of the greatest number con sisted in a lively regard for the coacernments of Num ber one. As they were leaving the lobby, however, a bustle and a fuss, and a lifting of hats, and a plurality of bows and courtesies, on the part of members round the door, betokened that something unwonted vrtui tran spiring, further proof of the fact being afforded by the presence of ladies peering through the crowd of e3nators at what appeared to be one large bale of s almon coloured satin, placed on en , d, and one ditto smaller ditto, considerably darker, and by no means so erect. Drawing nigh, there became visible a towering Asiatic, as gorgeous as Mr. Disraeli's Sidonian "Myste;ry," and certainly as splendid a specimen of Oriental or any other numanity, Caucasian or what not, as Anglo orbits ever rolled over. A majestic visage, massive, yet finely-cut features, with a grand Columbus-contour of expression, mow-white whiskers, beard, still black in parts, sweeping over the throat, surmounted a huge but nobly-shaped trunk, whose every inflection was full of dignity and ease. The complexion was fair even foran European, with just the least tint •f saffron, like the plumage of a three month-old hen canary. There was " pride in the port, defiance in the eye," but withal great joviality and good nature ; and he shook hands with the cordiality of a rat-trap, which caused several of thoso he so saluted to jump as though they had been embraced by a wild cat. " Gentleman" was written unmistakeably all over him, and. Turvydrop, s e nior, would expire with envy to be hold his unsophisticated mastery of " deportment," which seemed to " snatch a grace beyond the reach of art." Altogether he was worthy to be occupant of a throne of " Ormus or of Ind," or wherever the east, "with richest hand, showers on her Kings barbaric pearl and gold." Barbaric indeed were the pearls, both in the anormity of their size, the roughness of their condition, and the artlessness of their setting. The jewels, which flamed in his pyramidical head-piece, were in the rudest condition as to cutting, several of the greatest value 'Jangling right out from the cap, by a single wire, with apparently no more dressing than the day they were found, but proclaiming their worth with a lustre which all the lapidaries in creation could not impart to spurious gems. His hands were as poetically small as Byron found those of the old two-legged lion of Yanina ; his feet correspondingly diminutive ; so that the pair of them could be very conveniently placed in one of Alboni's shoes when she plays the heroine of the glass slipper. He had slippers, too, which he kept on the tips of his toes as easily as an Englishman would gloves on his finger?, stridiog about the hall with them as though they were a couple of, the ightest fitting of lioby'sliessian;, era those picturesque calf squeezers had. departed. - By his side was a darker, and altogether inferior, though still highly respectable-looking personage, with rich and showy, but less sumptuous attire than that of him who was evidently his master, and whose sword he bore. A tolerable load the said sword seemed, with its gold mounting.?, and precious -stone settings, and the weight of the blade itself, which was enormous, as many judged by feeling it. So they also judgee. of its sharp- nes; which was like that of a razor. Altogether it was just such an implement as, in hands fit to wield it, would have performed either the Saladin trick of carving a cobweb, or the Richard coup of making mincemeat of kitclien pokers. But why did not the owner wear this wondrous weapon by his side ? Wby because Lord Chem. lussell wouldn't let ;t come betwejn him and the wind of his own official toasting-fork :—that was the point. .Etiquette says no Lnan, unless ho be an M.P., Qr serioant7. at•arms, black Tod, silver-stick, or some recognised some thing of that sort, shall enter the llouge armed, save when he crimes to receive the thanks of the CJimnons for deeds of daring by sea or land. Accordingly, when this illus trious stranger presented himself at the door, the Jacks around it intimated that the sword must be abandoned ; and hence he had to hand it to hi icedar• coloured compa . nion, who remained at the portal till the Prince camp int. And who is the Prince? None other than the Ameer Alli Iloorad Kahn Talapoor of Krvpoor, famed in the Somnauth song of Tame ElephantEllenborough, and more famous still in the war blast of " the bearded. vision that swept Seinde," both of whom said that, but far the Ameer's fidelity, it would have been all up with England at Meanee in ''43. What does he do here now 1 Begging ;—not exactly in the Date obolum, Belisorio, for it isn't a crust, but the trifle of 183,0001. per annum he wants ; and out of wiich he is prepared to prove that he has been swindled by the rascality astounding, or aster ounding. of a starry nonentity called Mr. -. Of course " one Hogg," and all the mu►titudinous guinea grubbing pigs of Leadenhall street, are disgusted at the audacity of the Ameer in desiring to do what he likes with his own, when they are doing what they like with it for themselves; so much so that they wouldn't even let hint go to a levee here ; and, when he applied to be pre sented, the court directors of the west sent to the court directorate of the east end, the sages whereof said he was non-admissible; and non-admissible he has remained ever since, though instead of a black cravat he was prepared to . . sport a shawl that would give a forty-Lalla Rookh vision of the vale of Cashmere to all the penis of the palace. Naval and Military Intelligence. The steam•transport Star of the South, No. 49, arrived at Spithead yesterday from the Black Sea. Tile steam-transport Ossian arrived at Spithead yes• terday from Constantinople with troops. Her Majesty's steam frigate Tribune, 30, Capt. Edgell, went to Spithead yesterday after refit ; it is reported that she is about to proceed to the Australian station. Her Majesty's ship Colossus, 81, Capt. Keppel, C. 8., was taken into the steam basin yesterday at Portsmouth ,o refit. By the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Avo, which arrived at Southampton yesterday with the India and Mediterranean mails, we have the following items of naval and military intelligence from Gibraltar : Her Majesty's steam floating bakery Abundance left on the 15th inst. for Deptford with 51 bakers on board. Daring the time the Abundance was in Balaklava har bour there were made on board for the use of the Bri tish army 5,555,6941 b. of bread-18,000lb. a-day— averaging monthly 450.0001 b. The Bruiser, a floating mill for supplying the bakery, and Wye; distillery ves• sel, were to leave Balaklava for England shortly alter the Abundance sailed. The authorities at the head-quarters of the Royal En gineers have had brought under their notice an inven tion, which it is expected will entirely supersede the present description of pontcons •in use by the Royal Sappers and Miners. The improved pontoons in gees tion have been invented by Serjeant-Major Jones, of the Royal Engineers, who has also invented a new descrip tion of gabion, just brought into use by the Sappers and Miners. Yesterday morning, at an early hour, the 'Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, First Lord of the Admiralty, Admi ral P. Richards, C. 8., Admiral H. Eden, Sir Baldwin Walker, K.C.8., Surveyor of the Navy, and Col. Green, paid an official visit of inspection to Chatham dockyard. Their lordships arrived in the Black Eagle, Admiralty steam yacht, on Monday evening, and after remaining on board all night landed at the Queen's stairs in the morn ing, and proceeded to inspect the ships now in course of construction, and the site for the large new steam basin. They first examined the Racoon, 20, 'age of the new class of screw corvettes just laid down on the same slip as that from which the Cadmus, 21, was launched. They also inspected the Hero, 90 (building) ; the Irresistible, 80, intended to be fitted with the screw propeller ; the I Mars, 80, in dock, preparing for sea ; the Charybdis, 21, screw corvette, commenced in March last, and laid down on the same slip as that from which the Severn, 50, sailing frigate, was recently launched. They also imp eted the Hood, 90 (building), and the Calypso, 28, in dock. .After which, their lordships spent some time in examining the Renown, 91, the largest vessel ever constructed at Chatham Dockyard, and which is ordered to bo launched early next year. Their lordships next inspected the large new stone slip,..and expressed their admiration at its fine proportions. Orders were given far a large vessel to bre laid down on this slip imme diately. At 12 o'clock a general muster of the whole of the men belonging to the yard was ordered, when they were inspected by their lordships, who also granted them a half day's holiday. After leaving the dockyard their lordships inspected the Royal Marines at their barracks, and also Melville Hospital, embarking on board the Black Eagle, which landed 'them at .the Railway pier, their lordships returning to theAdrairalty this afternoon by railway. ADMIRALTY, July 21.--A.ppointments : Lieutenants J. Simpson (1845), C. G. Fegen (1853), and A. Buller (1855), reappointed to the Princess Royal, 91, screw steam-ship, of 400-horse power, Mediterranean station. Acting Mate -F. G. Shaw . (1855) reappointed to the Princess Royal. Midshipmen Hon. R. Hare, A. H. Allington, G. G. A. Belson, A. J. French,. Hon. V. A. Montague, and J. Hayden, reappointed to the Princess ;) 5 513, 3' 1 alli. 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