The Sun. — London, England, 1856-03-29 00:00:00

5,- 11 n La I "~ MONE MARKET COMMERCIAL INTET.T.TGENCE. AND CITY', Two o'CLooK. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday was quiet, but prices generally were well sustained. The ordinary qualities of Sea. Island were f per lb. dearer. The sales were estimated at 7,000 bales, 1,000 for export and on speculation. The price of fair cotton was 61d. for Borneo, 6id. for Mobile, and 61d. for Orleans. The Railway Share Market was dull, and the transactions were rather limited. The Bank of England weekly return completed to the 22d inst. does not exhibit any remarkable changes, but the diminution in the stock of bullion and in the reserve of notes was not generally ex pected. The forthcoming return is likely to be still more unfavourable, in consequence of the ar rangements necessary for the completion of the in stalments due this day on the New Loan and the funding of Exchequer Bills. The recent arrivals Of specie, however, will no doubt swell the amount of bullion. Active Circulation Decrease 108,150 Bullion -. 10,372,711 Decrease 180,854 3,813,664 8,284 5,638,865 Rest Increase Public Deposits Increase Other Deposits 0. Decrease Seven-Day and other Bills ....... Decrease • Government Securities Increase Other Securities Decrease Notes unemployed Decrease 132,741 12,107,043 543,492 726,362 29,968 11,951,006 600,000 18,425,297 859,731 5,836,745 48,120 Accounts from California, by the steamer Baltic, state that the miners were doing exceedingly well, and the yield of gold had never been greater than (hiring the two or three weeks preceding the depar ture of the mail. The amount arriving at San Francisco was-large, and the Mint officials had full employment. The farmers had completed the sow ing of wheat, and the breadth of land under culti vation was extensive. The trading association of Rolland has an nounced that the spring sales of indigo will take place at Rotterdam on the sth May, and at Am sterdam on the Bth. The quantities to bo put up for sale at the former market will consist of 216 entire boxes and 460 small ones, and at the latter market 48 large and 431 small. The assessed prices will range from 350 c. to 540 c. (Dutch). These show an advance on the actual prices of last sales amounting to 60c to7oc. for low sorts, 70c. to 80c. for low middling 80c. to 100 c. for good middling, and from 70c to 90c. middling and fine. The quality of the cochineal to be brought forward this season is stated to be very satisfactory, and extra good sorts of zacatille will be in the market. The official returns of the external trade of Bel gium have come to hand, and show a favourable increase in the amount of exports and imports dur ing the two first months of the present year com pared with the corresponding period in 1855. The amount of duties received at the customs has risen to 1,560,000 f., being an increase of 350,000 f. upon that of the preceding year. In the imports the princi pal increase has been in coffee, cotton, wool, wheat, barley, flour, tobacco, cotton and woollen fabrics, &c., and a decrease in leather, sugar, silks, glass, &c. In the exports there has been a diminution in iron, oft's, &c., but a general increase in all other articles. During the week ending Thursday last the only direct shipment of the precious metals from London was of gold coin for the Mauritius, to the amount of 3,0001. The market for Public Securities is still with out any change of importance, in the absence of the announcement of the arrangement of a peace. Money on the Stock Exchange is tight, chiefly in consequence of the amount due to day 'on the New Loan and Funding. Consols were 92i I and 92 while for account the prices im proved to 92i I. The New Three per Cents. were quoted 99k. Exchequer Bills were 4s. premium for those dated March, and is. discount to le. pre mium for the June bills. The Scrip was 2f premium. A good business has been done in Foreign Stocks, at full rates. Turkish 6 per Cents. have risen to 974 to 98± for money, and to 981 and 99 for account. The 4 per Cents. are 1004 and 101 for April 15. Venezuela Bonds are 28 for the Active, and 124 for the Deferred. Spanish Threes have been 451 to 45k, and the New Deferred 241 to 25, being full rates. Portuguese 5 per Cents, brought 53 and the 4 per Cents. 49. Brazilian Fites 102, Equador New Consolidated 14k, ditto Land War rants 4i, Grenada New Active 211 to 22/, and the Peferred 6i. Dutch 4 per Cents. have been steady to 954 and 96. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks :—Grenada Deferred, 61 to 71 ; Mexican, 20 1 ; Peruvian, 78 80 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 56 58; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 48 50 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 103 105; ditto 4i per Cents., 93 95 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 444 454 ; ditto Deferred, 24/ ; ditto Certificates, 54 4 ; ditto Passive, 7± 4. This being " ticket day" in the Railway Mar ket, the dealings are principally in connection with the closing of accounts. The rate of " contango" has gone off for the heavy lines, while on the miller shares, such as Caledonian an advance has taken place. All descriptions of shares are, however, at enhanced rates, and a moderate busi- tress hasbeen done. Banking► shares have been dull, and London and County have ruled heavier. Miscellaneous shares are also inactive. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT eNR O'CLOCK. ( Prom the Oficial List. I _ _ . • Regino.- done. 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities - 92$ 4 i New 3i per Cent. Annuities Consols for Account Exchequer Scrip Exchequer Bina, 24d. March. June. £lO3O ,... . £560 3 Small PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Beads, 5 per Cent. lO2 Squador Bonds Ditto New Consolidated 144 Ditto Provisional Land Warrant Grenada Now Active, 14 per Cent. Ditto Deferred 6/ Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841 53 Ditto 4 per Cent 49 OVlnisli Bonds, .3 per Cent 451 k Ditto Few Deferred, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account •Tttrk kb Bonds, 6 per cent 971 4 8f • Ditto Account 9B 1 9 Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent lOO4 Ditto Account Ylnezuela Bonds, 41 per Cent 2B Ditto Deferred, 1§ per Cant. Dividends or tne above osyahle in tondos. Dutch Exchange, 24 per Cent., 12 Gail... Ditto 4 per Cent. Cortificatos TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, money Ditto Account LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, March 29.—Wind this day at noon, E. ; fresh breeze and fine clear weather. PORTSMOUTH, March 28.—Wind Sanspariel, from Portland, and a division of gun boats. PLYMOUTH, March 28,—Wind E.—Arrived—H.M.S. Styx, from Hong Long. 'CARDIFF, March 28.—Wind E.—Arrived—Eleanor and Ottaive, from Constantinople. Sailed—Ferdinand Leon• tine, for Barcelona. QUEENSTOWN, March V.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Brom. ham, from Sierra Leone, for Plymouth ; Orion, Matan zas ; Veloso, Constantinople ; Lady Ann, Liverpool, for Gibraltar. to setup rigging. Sailed—H. M. S. Russell. SWANSEA, March 28.—Wind S.E.—Sailed.—Bells, for Constantinople; Bridesmaid, Messina. ME ELECTRIC T ELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Saturday Morning. .Arrived - La Poule, from Cherbourg ; Wonder (a), Jersey ; Alliance (s), Havre. Sailed—Atalanta (s), for llavre ; South Western and Express (e), Jersey; Ilialvina, Sunderland. LIVERPOOL, Saturday Morning. Wind S.E. Arrived.—r-Patterson and George West, from New Orleans; War Cloud, Mobile ; Canadian (s s), New York. Sailed.—Laura, for Malta and Gibraltar; Claudine, Konigsberg. ( ST SUBMARINTI AND BRITISH TILBORAPN.) GRAVESEND, Saturday, 9.53 a.m. Wind E., fresh and fine; tide three hours' ebb. Arrived, March 2S.—St. Paul, from Stuer. Arrived, March 29.—Charlotte, from Dram ; Gymet, Dren theim. . _ DEAL, Saturday, 9.41 a.m. Wind E.S.E. ' strong. Fas. B6l .—Lady Hihta, from Barbadoes, for Lond , li. The Chaseley, from Calcutta, for London, is anchored at I) Uligeneria and not in the Downs, as before reported. 20 11 5 al 20 1, 18 al 17i al 20 1: 20 al 20 1: 20 al 20 L 100 al [OO al 20 11 20 al 25 2 Loa 12 LOO a 20 20 26 I 20 Ni n 1 2l 20i1 100 100 al 100 100 al 100 . al 20 I', 20 al 5 al 20 11 20 1 , 20 F 1: 20 11 20 11 31; al _ _ 16 I 011 20 I a' 10 I al 40 I al 20 I al 4 a 20 a It) a 20 20 a 20 a 20 1 (V: e.] 10 al 20 t 20 al 6 al 20 al 100 19 100 2 100 21 20 fti 20 al SHARE MARKETS, (THIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. RAILWAYS. Clueing Prices yesterday berticeu ..... Ambg. /doting. Boat and Eastn. Janet.. 3elfast & Asilymens firming. Wolverb t. Stour Valley irk e.thd. Lancsl, Cheshire Junct.... . 'o. Chesh. ds Birk. £5O and £25 Com, & Tyne origins £25 (issd. at £45 Bristol and Exeter... ';aledonian. Cann. and Cardigas Chester 4 Holyhead riork and Bandon.. T'ork, Black, 4 Pas- Cornwall Do. A Do. B Cried' Junction Di.MindaßelfastJunc. Dun. P. 4 Al) , :r. Juc. East Ang1ian........ Eastern Counties.. !oast. 'Jnion, A. BO De., B. Sto.t Do., New A East Kent e,ast Lancashire :dinturgh & Glasgo Edinb. and Peebles Edin. Prtlik gs Durri.k. 'orth & Clyde Jun :. Furness Glasgow &S. West- Great N. of Scotlncl, Great Northern Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Sth. &West.(lre , 'heat Western 00. Stour Val, Rai' Qua. Stk Irish South-Fasten romenster & Do., Third 5...... ., Do. New Thirds Gancash. an d Yorksh Do., Wet. Riding Un Liv.Crioy. SzSouthpt Gondon & Blaokwall Gond. Bright & S.Cet C.,ond. and N. Wostn h,. Fifths - D0.1.01.13h.,11&13...0 Do. Eighths . .... . Condon andS. West:, Do., £5O Do., £4O Tindnelrry&Colcrain , [adndr7. & Itnnisk 'lsnch.Shef.k, Line' k Lin. TJT2 Aotropolitan Hidland )0. Bit-rang. &Dee) Widld. G. West. (Irk )0. Flail Shares tll Vavroastle & Car lialu all Nwpt.Aberg.&Hrf 84 4ewry & Ennis/611 0 f 103 Newry Warrenpoin and Rostrevor .. `Torfolk Northn.Corinties Urt North British Nth Thw.n Rail. & Dock Stock =o., A Stock 0., B Stock Do., Guaranwe N. astern—Dererir Do. do. Extension . Do.do. G.N. E. 1 4 nro1i De. Lee& Do. York North London N.SaWstrn.,llany stead, and City Jn North Staffordshire, North Western K. & S. Westrn. Juno Nuneaton, Hinckley, and Leicester..... ... 10x, Wore.. k Woly. ►c.rtamouth Ifieottlah Ce atral IgeottishMidland Shropshire Ut i South Devon South Eastern South Walce S. Yrkah. 4 Riv. Dry Do Rhinos, Wc k. &Wolt Stockton Et Darli Starzkton 4 Hartle/it Taff Vale .. Do. Pref., No. 1 Thmnes Rev. 1).4 R. Inveratone (IL Laces. Vale or Noath ...... Waterfd. & Killen) Waterford&Limeriell West Cornwall West End of London and Crystal Palace.. Do. A .. Do. B IWest London... INVimbledn&Croydor FOR tntwerp&Rna rcbm Do. 5 p.c. Oblgs. eon. in Sh. at par till'64 Ardennes tiolgian Eastn. Juno Beziers to Graimeasa. Bombay, Baroda, an •' Central India,Berii Do. Demerara Dutch Rhenish Eastern of Franca Do. Now East Indian, g. 5 p.c Do. Eyteniion.. Do.4i p.e.Bnds.,'s7 no. do. do., 'O, do Gee'ong kr, Melbourne guar. 5 per c nt. . Da:, Lon. allot., do. T)• of CanadaA is Do. Do. Cert. of Deben. con. into Stk. till '6. , Do. Comp. 6 p. e., do. Gt. Ceutral of Frano Gt. Indian Peninsnl , Great Ltucembonn Cons ti tntod Share Do. Obligations... Do. re-is. forftd. Sh Gt. Western of Causes, shares Do. New Do. Bds., payable's7 with option till '55. Do. do., '62, p. '56 Do. do., '76, p. '6O DG. do., '73, withoni option Hamilton & Toront" Do. 6 por cent. Lake Const. & BasL• Lierre and Turnhout Lucca k Pist. 5 p. c. p Lyons and Geneva Lyons di Moditerran Madras, guar. 4 4 p.c De. New e. 0., 5 p. Pe. 4i p. c. Eaten Maria Antonia . Do. do. Now Namur 4 Liege (witl interest) Do. (ox interest) Northern of France. D 0.201. She. Do. 20/. 3 p. c Bds br ) a i 3f t rmrw to i:.ega ßo D. uldandgndLTrulm. She. s yolingkPres Paris and Orleans. Rome and Frascati Royal Danish Royal R werlish Do. Obligations .... Sambre and Memo-. Do. 5. p. cent. Pref. Scinde, guar. 5 p. c Do Southern of France_ St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) West Flanders...... Do 5A rer o. Pref W. &N. W. of Frallef West. of Switzerland Wiesbaden Zealand 261 27 41 - 4i ••• ..... 81 8i 17i -- 18 15 - 1g 12} - 8i - 90 60j - 61 14 - 15 • •• ''''.. 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Bnk. of India, Australia, & China i 0 City :5 Colon' al ;0 Commercial of Lond ill Kng.Seot.&Ane.Cht ►ll Loud. Chart. Bk. of Australia 5 Ditto New • Lendon and County.. Lna.&E.Bnkg. Corp. Lundon Joint Stock. .0 London and Paris... . 10 Lond. & Westminstr 15 National Pro.of Eng .0 Do. Now 12. i National of Ireland. al New South Wales.... ill Oriental Bank of _Corporation 25 Provincial of Ireland all i)o. Now • 1 R Ans B 50 Royal 'rith ArAtmlim,",„ nlz kJD:ort of A us , tritlin .4 Do. Now to Union of Loudon ~,I 96 v 8 65 - 67 • ~- ... --; id 64 66 "" ••• is -- iF, 164 16 , 1 31 3d - 2p 3 -- 2 d ••• ''''' ~ ."' . • •.• - ... 38 - 40 42i - 43 ".... ••• '' ... ...• .. -4s. ••• 7i -4 111 Easiness done this day. 100 1100 61s. all 5J 50 20 20 214 15 A:1 00 too 100 100 all THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 29, 1856 LIN gEi x.r.ASEI) T FLXKD roll ti tk r b , 4.0 ENGLISH ENTBRPRISE AND FRENCH RAILWAYS. Lead* Compan ostn. ii yesterday , neinees ttris lay. RESTRICTION. In high society amongst our neighbours in France, striking contrasts are presented, of supe riority in science and in the clearness of doctrine, in the face of prevalent inferiority and backward ness of practice. Thus, we have no book to be compared with the exposition of the science and art of agriculture, the (,'ours d'Agriculture, by the Count Gasparin—no agricultural writers exceeding the French writers, Leconteuse, Leouce de La vergne, and Passy, and others ; yet in France the average produce, according to the stati s ti ca l re t urns is scarcely one-half of what it is in England. Iu political economy and the science of affairs, they are greatly in advance in th e science. ot to speak of Thruxe, Say, or Bastiat, from whom wo obtained some of the best expositions of the Protec tionist sophisms, the writings of Michael Chevalier, a member of the present Government, a large pro proportion of the papers in the Journal des Eco nomists, conducted by Mr. Joseph Gamier, are first-rate ; and, from the extent and excellence of the literature in political economy, one would fancy, while exploring the riches of M. Guillamin's collection, that we were in the metropolis of free trade and the most enlightened practice. Yet in Paris we were where the people are subjected to dear fuel, for the benefit of wood-growers ; to dear iron, and to extensive deprivation of labour saving machines, and to the other popular priva tions for the profit of various narrow interests. We are led to these remarks by a leading article in the .Assemblie Nationale, on an order to the Bourse in Paris against the quotation of shares in certain foreign enterprises, including in those en terprises a number which had been examined by the Emperor's officers and approved by them, the intent of which order must surely be misrepre sented, for it imparts extension of the practice of protectionism, which must eventuallyaggravate the scarcities of capital, and to add to the burthens of protectionism by which the industry of France is depressed. We have ne doubt that on the Parisian, as on our own Stock Exchange, there may be much gambling in the enterprises purely French, as well as in those for enterprises beyond the boundaries of the empire. As neighbours, we venture to ob ject to their toleration of systematised gambling by means of lotteries, which we have forbidden. To all orders as against fraudulent delusions, as matters of police, we give our applause. Our ob servations are upon the doctrines put forth in the Assemblee Nationale for restraining French capi talists from entering into foreign enterprises, in themselves sound in principle, and for objects un doubtedly beneficial. Speaking of the objections which have arisen is Paris to the restraints proposed upon ad vances into foreign enterprises, the Assemblee Rationale says :—" Our country has been con gratulated on the fact of its carrying out foreign enterprises, and this has been viewed as a proof of the elevated financial position which France has assumed in Europe in the place of England. We do not share the sentiment of pride. We believe it to have led to abuse, and that our financial pre ponderance is only a mania for speculation more strongly developed with us than anywhere else. Doubtless it is useful in an economical point of view to enrich our neighbours, to assist them in constructing their railroads or developing their in dustry, but the favourable moment must be chosen for so doing ? without compromising our future in order to assist our neighbours. This has been com prehended by the English, and for our own part we are in no way jealous of the honour they have left us of entering into foreign enterprise to the prejudice of our own." We cannot help expressing our surprise that a respectable writer in a respectable French journ nal, notwithstanding the expositions of the French economists whom we have named, should write about " enriching our neighbours," as if they alone, and no one else, were to be enriched, or use terms importing exclusive sacrifices or benefits on one side or the other. Our tailor who supplies us with a vest just now, we fear, looks solely to the pound profit he will make by it, and has little of benevolent care as to the protection he may give us against wind or weather—whilst we cannot con scientiou,siy profess any care as to his enrichment by the money we give him, or how it will benefit his family, or whether he have a family. We ha I hoped that by this time it had become well under stood that such social considerations might be eliminated, from financial questions at all events —it being demonstrated, and by none more clearly than by French economists, that the business of benevolence or patriotism is attained by free trade without the labour of considering those virtues in each of the affairs of life. As it is with individuals, so we believe it to be with nations. As to England giving the assistance of her capital to France for the formation of the railways, speak ing of England collectively, she knew and cared little about the matter; she merely allowed her capitalists entire freedom of trade with their own capital ; and these capitalists, instead of being ac actuated by a desire to enrich France, it must be confessed, were intent only on enriching themselves, whilst France, or each of her individual travellers, bestowed little thought on international policy or gratitude to the undertakers of the new works— but only of quicker and cheaper travelling for himself. We submit that the question for France in the case is not about enriching Austria, or Spain, or England, but a question:of free trade—whether the trade in capital should be less free than it now is, and whether France will not be the most enriched by allowing her capitalists to enter freely into the money market of the world, and do what they deem the best honestly for enriching themselves. The English capitalists who moved enterprises and made advances for the construction of railways in France, having seen their working in En g la n d, were confident in them; the French capitalists had not observed them, and were not conversant with them ; and, not being confident of them, left them to the English. Suppose our Government had, during a strait ened period of our mo ne y mar k e t abroad—for there have been such periods during the railway invest ments—restricted the freedom of trade in money, in the mode now adopted in France, and had said, " There is much gambling and a mania for foreign speculation on the Exchange. You may be well informed in domestic enterprises, and your own country needs your money ; in embarking in foreign speculations you are going beyond your knowledge, and such rashness must be prevented." In such a course, the English Go vernment would have simply done mischief to England. It so happens that the domestic enter prises, the English railways, the data of which were presumed to be the best known, were the most disastrous ; whilst the foreign speculations, which the Government would have assumed to be the utterly wild and dangerous, were the most success ful. The returns on English railway speculations have not been, on the average, more than about 3i per cent. ; the returns on the French and Ger man railways, in which English capital has been embarked, may be set down as double. We are happy in the assurance that the railway enter prises have benefited France ; but returns from them have certainly gone to enrich - England, and have gone in augmentation of 'that capital which has been applied to the purchase of estates, and in keeping up the price of land, and to land improve ment, which has been so well maintained since freedom of trade has been secured. To have pre vented the English capitalist from taking seven er eight per cent. from abroad, in the hope that he would lend it for five at home, would, if the measure were effectual, have been equivalent to a forced loan to the extent of two or three per cent. ; but it is by no means certain, and highly impro bable, that the home market would have derived the immediate relief to any such extent as might be conceived intended, whilst it is very certain that the restriction would have been eventually and seriously injurious to its growing prosperity. It would, moreover, have militated against those growing international interests which are the best security for peace and civilisation. This which would have been the effect in relation to England, we apprehend will, notwithstanding the present straitened condition of the French money market, be, to a greater or less extent, the effect of the measures now proposed on France. But that the capital is already sub scribed, we would ask what would be the effect SUN OFFICE, Six o'clock, 94 - 96 94 - 115 DEPARTURE OF THE KING OF THE BELGIANS. 11 - 13 41 ... 41 His Majesty the King of the Belgians left Wind sor this forenoon at 9.40 (10 minutes behind time), proceeding by the South-Western Railway to the junction with the South-Eastern line at Guildford. This is the first occasion on which Royal visitors at Windsor Castle have taken advantage of the continuous, though somewhat circuitous, through route to and from the ports of Dover and Folk stone, which is presented by the Reading and Rei gate branch of the South-Eastern Railway. The adoption of this route renders unnecessary the change of carriages in London, and the tran shipment of baggage, &c. ; and is likely in future to he the route usually adopted on the occasions of similar visits. ... .... ••• .''' 103 - 105 12; -- IR 1071 -24 j -- 114 ••• '''''' .. - 92 - 93 P - IP 55 - 157 ;. The South-Eastern Company's enginehavingbeen attached to the Royal train at Guildford, it Pro ceeded without interruption to Dover, reaching that terminus at one o'clock precisely. Mr. Eborall superintended the arrangements, and the Hon. James Byng and Mr. Teulon (di reeors of the South-Eastern Company) accom panied the Royal party. ••• ... iia --: ii 7 7 3i dl 31 = 32 His Majesty remains at the Lord Warden Hotel, Dover, for the night, there being still a heavy sea running, which his Majesty does not wish to en counter. Bedford and Blat r:bley Buckgh.ttush. Clydesdalo.fc. Col. Stour Vy. Sud. and Hal. E. Lin. z. 6 pc E. ljn. H. Sh. Glas. Barr. Sr Neils. Direct Do. New...... GlstrAt Dn. Fr Hrtlpl. Dk. & Railway Hull & Selby Do. Sham. Do. 1 Shares. Lon.& Greenw Do. Preference Lon. , & S. Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per ct. Manch. Batn and Matlock Hiddlesbro' & Redcar MidM.Bradfd Newmarket Bury E. G.spc N 4 Est.s p.c. Do. 6 per ct. Do. Fixeds p o Prest. & y: , Do. 4 Qrs. 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Scrip ,YO 1 51' :D erne ß tZL. i4 C ' O r' . 4 lLEC — a t r 1 100 284 Va' Dleman'a Lud lA 15} V• Go 6p c.Janagui 7 M • • prietors aro now successfully engaged, some as gerauts, some as managers, and oth ers as proprie tors. Here, then, we have an enterprise of French capitalists in England—perhaps one of the first—in close analogy with that of English railway proprie tors in France. As the French capitalists had not observed the working of the railway system, and having no data for confidence, had left the lead in them, in France, to English capitalists, who had grounds for confidence iu them, so the English capitalists, not having observed the working of the amalgamated system of omnibusses in Paris, giVe the lead, in London, to French capitalists, who have had means of observing what is practicable. The interference of the French Government to re strict the freedom of the French capitalists to embark in such an enterprise, is, we apprehend, just as erroneous in principle, and as injurious to France as it would have been to England had the English Government been, in any such apprehended emergency,empowered to interfere in the like man ner with the foreign investments of English capi talists. To interfere with the freedom of trade in capital, by the French capitalist, in the notion of in ducing him to lend his money at 5 per cent. at home, is no other than a forced loan, interfering with others at home who would probably be willing tb lend at five, and to deprive him, or the French capitalists, or France, of five per cent, of profit due to their enterprise—not to speak of the incon venience to the English community in being de . - prived of the full advantage of the experience and skill acquired in France. From the tenor of the writing in the Assemblce Nationale, it might be imagined that it was only the capital of France which is being sent away by her capitalists to " enrich" foreign countries ; whereas some of the money which her capitalists send out will be money received by them as agents from other foreign countries than the one to which it is sent ; and whilst it is being so sent from France, other foreign capital is going into France to " enrich it," from A us t r i a and Germany as we as from England. The order alluded to, as interpreted by the Assemblee .Nationale, tends not merely to the maintenance but to the extension of the old fiscal wars of protectionism and prohibitions, of which we had hoped to see the termination under the sway of the present Emperor. Every one who has personal communications with him on matters of business leaves him with an impression that he is " up to his great position," and superior to the men by whom he is surrounded. Prom his known tendencies in favour of free trade, there is much doubt whether this backward and anti-free-trade measure is not duo solely to the Minister of Finance. EARTHQUAKE IN CALIFORNIA. ( From the "San Fram.ciso Herald.) The severest shock of earthquake ever experi enced in this vicinity since the settlement of Cali fornia by Americans, occurred on Friday morning, at just 24 minutes past 5 o'clock. Every building in this city and vicinity shook to its foundation, and in some quarters the houses swayed and rolled as vessels in a heavy sea. The inmates of every dwelling were awakened, and some were even thrown from their beds, so violent was the shock. Many persons rushed into the streets, and but that the circumstance of their sudden appearance was of a character to produce sensations of terror rather than merriment, the scene would have been most ludicrous. The large hotels were depopulated instanter, and in the general rush articles of furni ture were thrown down, occasioning noises which added considerably to the clatter- and confusion caused by the earthquake. In the upper stories of the large brick buildings the violent motion produced a general commotion among crockery ware. Vessels containing liquids were turned over, either by the shock or in the hurry of the inmates to escape. Every disturbance was credited to the earthquake, however, and it ap peared to be an almost unanimous impression that San Francisco was about to share the fate of Jeddo. The howling of dogs, and fearful bellowing of cattle in the suburbs, produced a fitting accompaniment to the scene. Even the pigs broke from their pens and ran away grunting with fright. The horses tied in stalls fairly shrieked with terror, and tried to break their halters. Indeed, everything ani mate and inanimate was more or less affected by the shock. We hear of some very remarkable in cidents of birds seeking refuge from the impending danger by flight through open windows. From night watchmen and others, whose duties kept them from sleep, we learn there were several light shocks pre vious to the heavy ones The last shock was preceded by a sound as of a heavy gust of wind passing through the cordage of a vessel, and the motion was accompanied by a rumbling noise like that which is produced by a heavily freighted vehicle passing rapidly over a wooden bridge. The shock occurred at twenty-four minutes past 5 o'clock, apparently ranging from south-west to north-east, and lasted about fifteen seconds. The motion was horizontal and undulating. Some persons describe the motion as of a whirling nature, but this could not have been the case with out occasioning much greater damage to the masonry of the brick and stone buildings. It is evident that the violence of the shock was diffe rently experienced in various parts of the city. In some localities in the suburbs its degree of violence was mach greater than in others. In several in stances the vibrations were so great as to overturn heavy pieces of furniture. Again, the motion is compared to that producel ou shipboard when the side of the vessel is struck by a heavy sea—a sud den shock without vibration. Very few persons escaped being aroused by the shock, but some there are of whom it is said that they slept on undis turbed through the whole. Some estimate may be formed of the violence of the shock when it is stated that a man sleeping on the third floor of the Custom-house building was thrown from his bed to the floor. The walls of this building are composed of masonry capable of resisting a broadside from a ship of the line. Not withstanding its immense bulk and strength, the building was tossed like a feather on the wave. There was a scene of unusual terror and excite ment in Montgomery Block, the large and substan tial building on Montgomery-street, between Mer chant and Washington -streets. As soon as the first movement in the building occurred, the in mates of the various rooms were awakened and leaped to their doors in the greatest imaginable haste. The different halls in the successive stories of the building were soon filled with the terror-stricken' occupants, each running hither and thither in their sleepier , habiliments towards the various stairways which read down into the street. Some of those who occupied apartments in the fourth or highest story rushed from their rooms regardless of their nudity, and came jumping, leaping, and tumbling down the first and second flights of stairs, clearing them in a bound or two at the most, and, with white lips add chattering teeth, hold their way until they reached the ground, where they stood in amazement and doubt until the cold air and the absence of terrestial commotion calmed their fears and reminded them that the apartments which they had vacated were more comfortable than those into which they had so suddenly precipitated them selves. The building was certainly jostled with great violence by the quake, but it moved as though it stood upon elastic springs. Not the slightest cracking or evidence 'of a collapse was heard or seen in any part of it. The consternation among the inmates of the large hotels occasioned scenes which may be better imagined than described. The population of the Rassette House rushed, tumbled, or precipitated itself down the stairways and into the street ; and such an array of beauty unadorned was never before witnessed in San Francisco. This edifice, it is said, shows no marks of injury by the shock. The scenes at Wilson's Exchange, St. Nicholas Hotel, and International Hotel, were equally remarkable. The occupants of Wilson's Exchange took refuge in the Tehama House, which is a frame, and con sequently in less danger than the other. Many of the inmates of the International found their way en masse to the Plaza, where, like their companions in misery, they shared each with the other such articles of apparel as had been caught up in the hurry of flight. Hundreds of the residents of the central portion of the city rushed to the Plaza, naturally thinking that the open space would afford them greater refuge than the roof of a topp]ing building. Wh en the shock was over, the rush for pantaloons and petticoats was quite as great. of the Proposed measure upon a French enterprise - As an evidence of the alarm which had seized in England, to which we refer by way of example? most of the residents about the Plaza, f or squares An able French administrator, M. Foucauld, ob- distant they were found a t the New Y or k B akery, serving in the streets of Paris three omnibusses or near the corner of Clay and Kear ney - s t reets, more competing and rendering badly the service, clamouring for coffee as a sedative for their almost which might, by consolidation, be better rendered palsied nerves. The same scene took place at other by two, conceived the idea that the benefit of the restaurants in the vicinity of the various markets, third or wasted capital might be divided between which are usually opened at an early hour, in order the public and the omnibus proprietors, giving to to accommodate the butchers and stall-koepers of the public increased accommodation, including a various kinds. The proprietors dealt out the system of correspondence at reduced rates, and to soothing beverage unsparingly, as if equally rejoiced the omnibus proprietors steadier if not better at being able to relieve the excitement of their payment. With the intervention of the Govern- patrons, and the consciousness that mutual danger meat on behalf of the public this was accomplished had passed away. with such complete success as to obtain the ap- The fire wall of the north side of the brick build plause of one of our civil administrators, Mr. ing at the corner of Oregon and Front-streets, Chadwick, as a successful piece of administrative occupied by Goodwin and Co., fell over into the skill. M. Foucauld came over to London, and street. The wall was but eight inches in thickness, here without any Government aid or intervention and badly put up at that. he succeeded in convincing all the larger omnibus The front wall of Wilson's Exchange Building, proprietors, or the owners of six hundred and on Sansome-street, near the south end, is cracked thirty—out of eight hundred—to sell to himself and from the foundation to the roof. In its present others the goodwill of theirrespective establishments condition, the southern portion of the building is to bo worked by an amalgamated company, in quite unsafe. which the greater proportion of these pre. The walls of the building No. 76, Front-street, occupied as a stove store by Britten and Co., are cracked in a number of places. The building will probably have to be taken down. The southern wall of the City Hall Building, on the line of stairway ascending to the upper stories, is cracked from the foundation to the roof. The wall plaster has fallen off in a number of places. A number of brick buildings in the lower portion of the city are slightly cracked, but in most instances the damages may be easily repaired. The shocks were particularly severe in that por tion of the city known as St. Ann's Valley, being the continuation of Market-street from its intersec tion with Dupont-street to the vicinity of Yer'ea Buena Cemetery, and lying between the low range of sand-hills through which Post and Geary-streets are extended on the other. From 5 o'clock up to the commencement of the earthquake the en tire canine population of the valley (which un luckily happens to be only too numerous for the comfort and peace of the other classes of inhabi tants) were up and busy with their throats. It is a little singular that with the commencement of the unearthly rumbling (which sounded like the passage of a siege-train or heavy artillery waggons) the clamour gave place to a compl e t e s till ness, on l y broken by the subterranean growlings referred to, and the creaking and wearing of the various habi tations of wood which most abound in this vicinity. One of the attecho3 connected with this office, who had gone home desperately endeavouring to comprehend the extent of the Jeddo calamity, of which news had been received in the evening, suddenly woke to the consciousness that a veritable earthquake (with a power and oscillation that put all table-tippings and spiritual manifestations to the blush) was presenting the Japanese visitation with a degree of truthfulness vastly more convincing than was comfortable. Throughout the valley pictures and mirrors were jarred from their places on the walls, the plastering cracked, and in seine instances —in stores—whop, shelves of bottles thrown on the floor. The shock lasted for some seconds and oc curred and recurred with a vehemence that threat ened no "letup" whatever. Any person who has had the doubtful pleasure ofa stage ride over the heavy roads in the Western States during the spring, and remembers the peculiar jostling occasioned by the passage of the vehicle over rustic bridges or sloughs covered with round poles or logs, can form a very truthful idei, of the motion imparted in the present instance. It did not seem to come from east to west, or from north or south, but was a general rotary up-heaving. On the final dying away of the last tremulous and vibratory motion of the earth, one loud and shrieking howl, pro longed some seconds, by some terrified dog, gave the signal for a general opening, and every " men . geel puppy, whelp, and houn, with cur of lo v degree," within the entire circumference of the valley, gave vent to a series of the most diabolical and frantic barkings and yelpings that human ears ever listened to, and thus terminated the night and the adventure in this locality. In the vicinity of South Park the shock was par ticularly great. Many of the dwellings were severelysha.ken, and some of them partially stripped of the plastering of the ceilings. At the house of Capt. Richie a most affecting and beautiful incident occurred. It appears that a chambermaid in the employ of the family arose a few minutes previous to the shock and was engaged in dressing. The window of her room was open. Immediately after the vibration of the earth had ceased, she was startled by a rushing, fluttering noise in the room, and on looking round observed a pretty white tufted pigeon fly in at the window and fall appa rently lifeless on the floor. She approached it, picked it up, and discovered that lif e was not ex tinct in the frightened bird, by the violent palpita tion of its heart. In a few moments it recovered and gave evident symptoms of relief. The bird was unquestionably frightened by the quaking of the earth, and was perhaps lucky in falling into the hands of a kind family, who will, or ought to, treasure it as a memento of the great shako of February, 1856. The old adage, "It is an old wind that blows nobody good," was fully illustrated to the boarders at the Rassetta House. Upon returning to their apartments yesterday morning, after the shock, a number of them took up their quarters in other houses ; and, upon returning to their rooms an hour later, found that the time of their absence had been well improved by the thieves. Some dozen rooms were robbed during that time. At Mission Dolores the shock was very great. ' Most of the occupants of the buildings were thrown from their beds, and every article of furniture in the rooms was displaced. The church walls and portions of the walls of the other buildings were rent in various places. We learn that the shock was very severe at San Jose. The Clinton Hotel building swayed like the bough of a tree in a gale of wind, and decanters and crockeryware were dashed in fragments from the shelves. We have a similar account from Santa Clara. In Alvarado the shock was felt, preceded by a low whistling or groaning sound. From all accounts the shock in Contra Costa was even more severely felt than in this city. The de struction of window glass at Oakland was suite fearful, very few houses escaping. Accounts from San Antonio, Alameda, and Clinton are to the same effect• The shock of the earthquake (says the San Joaquin Republican) was sensibly felt by our citizens on Friday morning, about 5.25. The shock was of sufficient force to produce nausea of the stomach in some, and awoke others wh o ex- perienced it. The vibration was horizontal and from east to west. The Monterey Sentinel of the 16th says—" A hard shock of earthquake, coming apparently from the north-west, was felt in this town at twenty minutes past 6 o'clock yesterday morning," TERRIFIC EXPLOSION OF A BOILER IN APITALFIELDS. Yesterday morning, about 10 o'clock, considerable consternation was occasioned in the neighbourhood of Club-row, Slater-street, and Church-street, Spitalfields, in consequence of a loud report, and the sudden falling down of numerous buildii gs, which it was soon ascer t lined arose from the bursting of the boiler of a steam engine on the premises of Messrs. Catherali's saw mills in Club-row. The boiler, which is what is termed low pressure, was about thirty feet long, and on bursting it tcok an oblique direction, forcing itself through seve ral walls belonging to adjoining premises, entirely de stroying a cow-shed and stabling in the rear of premises in Slater-street, and also passing through a private house in the same street, knocking out the entire front of the house, and at length passing downwards into the cellar, burying itself into the earth to so groat a depth that scarcely more than four or five feet froth the surface was visible. The entire length traversed by the exploded missile was about 70 feet. At the time of the explosion a number of workmen were on the pre mises, several of whom were severely scalded and it - jured, and one man so seriously that it was found nece. sary to remove him to the London Hospital. Messengers were sent to the various Brigade Engine Stations, and shortlyafter the engines from Jeffrey's square and White cross-street t-tations arrived at the spot, but they were not called into action, the fire having been inumAiately subdued. The damage done to Messrs. Catherall's and the surrounding premises is very extensive. A singular and providential escape took place while the boiler was passing through the house in Slater-street—an aged female was sitting in one of the rooms, nursing a young child, tut they were both unhurt. LATEST PARTICULARS. Upon making inquiry last evening at the hospital, the young man, Francis Wright, who resides at No. 30, Slater•street, was in a very dangerous condition from severe sealds and contusions by the water from the boiler and the falling of the debris. A little girl, named Eliza Turning, aged three years, was seriously injured while sitting at breakfast with her mother, at No. 2, Bren-street, at the rear of the saw mills. The unfortunate child was seen by Mr. Eagle, of Church-street, and subsequently she was removed to the London Hospital, where Mr. Ross, the house-sur geon, rendered every possible aid, and the sufferer is progressing favourably. It appears that immediately after the explosion, which was of a fearfal character, the boiler, which weighed up wards of five tons, passed through three brick walls, and carried away three water-closet., and then went through a stable, leaving a pony uninjured, but forcing the building down. The ponderous mass then dropped into the cellar of the house of Mr. Wright, having previously forced in the brick wall. When the boiler entered the latter building, the injured young man (Wright) was writing a letter to his sister in the country. The mother and four children were in the lower room ; the former was discovered after the explosion under a beam in the kitchen, and the children were fortunately playing in the bed-room. Last evening, Superintendent Steel, of the H divi sion, visited the rains in company with a Government officer, who made an inspection of the boiler, which bad been carried by the violence of the explosion a distance of 76 feet from its position in the saw mills ; and, from what the reporter oluld glean, there appears to be a large fracture at the inner surface of the boiler, which burst at the rear, and passed away forwards, which is somewhat unusual in boiler explosions. The workmen had been employed three hours before the sad accident took place, and whether the misfortune has arisen from the want of water, or neglect in another way, remains to be ascertained. The destruction of property will amount in the total to several thousand pounds; and such is the havoc made on the humb'e dwellings of the industrious people residing immediately round the scene of the explosion, that many will be great sufferers by the disaster. It is a remarkable fact that, notwithstanding such a fearful explosion, no lives were lost. The boiler had been in use several years, but was made by a first-rate firm. MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.) COVENT GARDEN. The supplies generally were very moderate, and the trade was by no m eans ac ti ve , a t l ast week's quotations. FRIIIT.—Pine apples, English, 38 to 12s per lb ; colonial do., Os to Os each ; hot-house grapes, 20s to 30s Od per lb ; foreign ditto, Od to Os ; melons, 2s Od to 3s 6d each; peaches, 2e Od to 6s ' • nectarines, is 6d to 4s per dozen ; apples, 2s Od to 3s Od per half sieve ; pears, is 0,1 to 3s per dozen ; plums, Os to Os per sieve ; green gages, Os per punnet; apricots, ls 6(1 to 550,1 per doz.; common plums, Os Al to Os 0,1 per sieve; cherries, 0,1 to 041 per pound ; lemons, 6d to is 3d per doz ; oranges, 6s to 12s par 100 ; fil berts, Os to Os per doz. lbs ; cobnuts, 12s to 15s ; almonds, Os to Os per lb. ; walnuts, 01 to Od per 100; figs, Os 9d to is 6 , 1 per doz ; strawberries, Od to Od per pottle ; goose berries, Os Od to Os Od per half sieve ; currants, Os Od to Os Od per half sieve ; raspinrries, Od to Od per pottle. VEGETABLEts.—Greens, is Gd to 3s Od per doz. bunches; cabbages, is to 2s Od per dozen ; Savoy ditto, 9,1 to Is 6,1 per do. ; brocoli, is 6d to 2s per bundle ; potatoes, 60s to 904 per ton ; vegetable marrow, Od to Os per doz. ; peas, Os to Os Od per bushel ; French beans, 3s Od to Os 0,1 per 100 ; turnips, 3d to 4d per bunch ; carrots, 5d to 6d per bunch ; cucumbers, 3s Od to 5s Od each ; garlic, Cod to Os gd per pcuud ; spinach, 2s 6,1 to 4s Od per sieve ; old oaious, 2s 6.1 to 4s per bushel ; new ditto, 3d to 4d per bunch ; leeks, 2d to 3d per bunch ; shallots, 8d to 10,1 • horse-raddish, 2s Od to 4s per bundle ; parsley, 4d to Gd per bunch ; celery, Os 9d to is lid per bunch ; endive, is Gd to 4s Od per score ; beet, is Od to 2s per doz.; parsnips, Os 6d to is Od per d ozen; sma ll salad, 2d to 3d per punnet ; mushrooms, is 0,1 to is 6d per pottle; artichokes, is 3d to ls 6d p er h a lf s i eve; ca bb age let tucas,6d to is 0.1 per score ; sorrel, Od to Os per half sieve , radishes, Os to Os 01 per dozen hands ; tomatoes, 3s to 4s per half sieve ; chillies, i s t o i s 6d per 100; Brussels sprouts, 2s Od to 3s Od per half sieve; capsicums, is to 2s Per 100 ; walnuts pickling, Od to Os per 100 ; cauliflowers, is to ts Od per doz. ; rhubarb, 6d to is Od per bundle ; asparagus, 3s to lOs per 100 ; sea kail, is to 2s 61 per punnet. - - NEWGATE AND LEADENH-4LL. Turkeys, 4s Gd to 8s 63 ; Goslings, Gs 01 to 75 63 each ; Ducks 3s ed to 4s 3d ; wild d o ., O s Od t o 0 3 t o 0.1 ; rab bits, is to is 6(1 each ; Pigeons, 8d to 101 each ' • large Surrey Fowls, Oa Od t o O s Od ; m iddli ng , 2 s t o 3s Od ; Chickens, 2s Od to 2s Gd ; Capons, 3s Gd to 4s Gd ; Hares, 013 Od to 4s 0,1; Gruuse, Os Od to (s to Od each ; Pheasants, 04 01 to Os 0,1 ; Partridges, 03 01 to Os to Od ; Guinea Fowls, 2s 9d to 3s 6(.1 ; Roasting pigs, 03 01 to 03 01 eaoh. Ostend fresh butter, 12s 0,1 to 13s Od, and English 13s 0(1 to 16s 61 per dozen lbs. English eggs, 9s to 1030 J ; French do., 6s 0.1 to 7s 6d per 120. NEWPORT. Beef, from 3s 2d to 4s 4d ; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 6d; lamb, G 0.1 to 66 6d ; veal, 4s Od to 5s 2cl; pork, 3s 2d to 4s 8d per Blbs , by the carcase. WHITECHAPEL. Beef from 3s Oil to 48 4d ; mutton, 3s 21 to 4s 41 ; lamb, 6s 61 to 6s 61; ♦eal, 48 Od to 58 41; pork, 3s 21 to 4e 81 per Slbs. BILLINGSGATE. Turbots, 2s 03 to 103 ; Brills, is to 5s each; Salmon, 2s 6,1 to 3s Od per lb ; Cod Fish, 4s 6d to 103 each ; Soles, 3d to Is 4d per pair; Eels, 8d to is per ib; Lobsters, Os 6,1 to 2s 6d ; Crabs, NI to 3s Od • Whitings, 38 Od to 6s per doz. ; Common Oysters, 15s to 203; Natives, 48s to —is per bsh; Mackerel, 35a to 40s per 100; Smelts, is 0,1 to 2s 6d per doz.; Skate, 6d. to Od per lb; Shrimps, is 6d to 2s 6d per gallon; Bloaters 58 0,1 to 8s 01 per 100 • Fresh Herrings, 4s 0,1 to 5s per 100 ; Scotch do., 0,1 ; gprats, Os Od to Os 0,1 per bushel ; Doreys, is to Os each ; Haddocks, 4s to 8s per doz. ; Pike 6d ; Sturgeon, 041 per lb ; Prawns, 3s Od to 4s; ' Mullets, ed to 3s Od each • Plaice, 6(1 to is each ; Halibut, 6d per lb ; Flounders, is 6d to Os Od per doz. ; salt fish, 2d to 8d per lb. BREAD. The prioes of whoaten broad in tho metropolis aro from 9d to 91d; of household ditto, 76d to Rid per 4 lb loaf. HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 591 b to 641 b, Sid to Od ; 641 b to 721 b, 3id to 4d; 721 b to 801 b, 41 to Od ; 80Ib to 851 b, 4d to 4.1c1; 8811) to 981 b, 4i dto 4id ; 961 b to 1041 b, -lid to 4id ; 104Ib to 1121 b —d to —d ; upwards, —d to —ii ; Horse hides, 6s Od to Os Od ; calf skins, light, 2s 01 to 3s Od ; ditto, full, Gs Od to Os Gd; Polled Sheep, 8s Gd to 10s Od ; gents, 7s Gd to 8s Gd ; Half-breds, 7s Gd to 8s Gd ; Downs, 5s 14d to 7s Od ; Shearlings, is 2d to Oa Od ; Lambs, 2s Gd to 3s 9d. HAY MARKETS. S3ITTIIFIBLD.—Meadow hay, 4/ Os to 5/ 15s; clover do., 4/ 5s to 6/ 14s; and straw, 11 4s to 1/ 9s per load. Supply moderate, and trade rather dull. CUMBERLAND.—Meadovr hay, 41 4s to 5/ 15s; clover do., 4/ 10s to 12s ; and straw, 1/ 4s to 11.9 s per load. Both hay and straw sold slowly, at our quotations. WIIITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 41 Os to 5l 12s; clover do., A/ 4s to. (3/ 15s ; and straw, 11 4s to 11 9s per load.. A fair average supply, and a sluggish request. 61 601 1411 1 104 6313 iijoi 1; loo j 1 100 all all all all all LITERATURE. Two Summer Cruises with the Baltic Fleet. By the Rev. R. E. Hughes. Second Edition, revised. Smith, Elder, and Co. We have previously noticed the first edition of this work, which appeared some time ago. The present edition is revised and corrected, with the addition of a preface, in which the writer very justly defends himself from the charge of in humanity which has been brought against him for censuring the immunity granted to Russian strong holds. His observations on this subject are most just and forcible. He upholds that these hesitating and doubtful measures, which aro disguised under the name of humanity, are the most cruel in the end, by unnecessarily prolonging the war; a n d asks, with reason, what is the suffering caused by loss of property compared to the sorrow caused by the bereaved kindred of the soldier, and the agonies of the wounded ? One who has been a witness of the pangs of the wounded and of the distorted - forms of the killed can, he says, find but little sympathy for the woes of private property, when they remember that it consists mainly of timber, tar, and ammunition, to compass the de struction of our brave troops. We have no right to be generous at the expense of the lives of our soldiers. He concludes his remarks by justly ob serving, that " bold men and bold measures are not usually cruel ; it is to the weak, the timid, the irresolute, that the woes and pains of life are chiefly due." The readers of " The Log of the Pet" will, no doubt, coincide in this clear and sen sible reasoning. Sixteenth Annual Report of the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages. To this report of the births, deaths, and mar riages in England, in 1853, are appended supple mental tables, showing the density of population, annual mortality, and excess of deaths, over 17 in 1,000 persons living in the counties and districts of England in the ten years 1841-50, together with the area, population, and number of deaths—the density of population, annual mortality, and deaths in excess of 17 in 1,000 persons living in the towns, represented approximatively by certain districts and sub-districts, in the same period. The volume further contains a report on the no menclature and statistical classification of diseases for statistical returns, in which will be found the proposed statistical nosology for the general accept ance of European nations, a specimen table, and a report on t h e I n t erna tional Statistical Congress, with other matter interesting to the statist politi cian, and philanthropist. The Papal Conspiracy Exposed. By Edward Beecher, D.D., Boston. Edinburgh : James Nichol. The object of the writer of this treatise isti show that the Romish Corporation is dangerous is the political liberty and social interests of man. With what success it has been pursued may be gathered from the facts that the Rev. Dr. Begg has contributed a preface to this the British edi tion, and the Scottish Reformation Society propose to give eight prizes to such students in Scotland as shall, on examination, exhibit the most accurate kiowledge of its contents. It is written is a thc roughly earnest spirit, and is characterised by a good deal of research and controversial skill. THE RECENT RAILWAY FRA.IM IN LIvERPOOL,--Llpajt. POOL, Friday.—At the police court this morning Wm. Parsonage was brought up on remand, before Mr. Mans field, stipendiary magistrate, charged with defrauding the London and North-Western Railway. Mr. Bien kinsopp, for the prosecution (addressing Mr. Mansfield), said he found it impossible to complete the cases against the prisoner so as to put them in trai❑ fora trial at the present assizes, and therefore he would ask for a remand for another week, which was granted. An application • to admit the prisoner to bail was refused nr M ;6 it. the' i one All red Ito uld 91 26 10 40 100 5 34 31 77 i llf i 83j 5 Ilk 1 9 i i 72i 3