The Sun. — London, England, 1854-08-30 00:00:00

() :7„ MAIIKE AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, T\ 0 o'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were I s , estimated at from 6,000 to 7,000 bales, including 2,000 American taken for export and on specu lation. The market was firm but tame, without alteration in prices. The sales comprised 140 - Pernam and Maranham, at sd. to 6id., 100 Egyptian at Md. to 61d., 300 Surat at 3d. to 3d., and the remainder American. Railway Shares were firm at higher prices. The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon for 2 three months' bills were rather weaker. Paris, however, ruled firm at 25 271 to 30. Amsterdam, 11 17 to 17± ; Hamburg, 13 54 to G; Frankfort, E 1181 to 118/ ; and Trieste, 11 32 to 36. The Atlantic has arrived from New York with 700,000 dollars on board. Her accounts are to the 19th inst. Money was still easy. Flour had I advanced 1 dollar per bushel. The intelligence from the West India Islands by the Atrato, Royal Mail steamer presents few fea tures of interest. From Jamaica to the 11th of August we have a repetition of the complaints respecting the scarcity of labour, chiefly attri butable to the extensive emigration of the negro labourers to Panama, where work on the rail way was paid so much higher than could be afforded on the plantations or even in the towns by the planters and merchants. How to re medy .F the evil, which was an admitted obstruction to the increase of cultivation and the prosperity of the island, was a question of anxious , discussion. Various experiments, involving con- E siderable cost, have been resorted to since eman- s cipatiou was disposed of to meet the urgency, not only without success, but with an absolute 1 failure and loss. Those efforts were made, how ever, to supply the want of adequate labour I occasioned by the natural repugnance of the eman cipated negro population to submit to the same continuous drudgery on the estates as was exacted 1 from them in the state of slavery. The introduc tion of free labour was attempted from Europe and E Asia, but without effect. The Coolies brought from India returned on the completion of their hiring. The European white element either could not with stand the climate of the plains, or emigrated to the - United States. The free black immigrants alone from the coast of Africa were found serviceable, and had readily amalgamated with and became a part of the population. But these could only be attracted or procured in very insufficient numbers, and, meanwhile, the native inhabitants had been t i swept away by thousands yearly by the plagues and pestilence of small-pox, scarlatina, and cholera. Under these circumstances the proposition for permitting the introduction of a particular and select class of convicts from the mother country was obtaining more and more a favourable conside ration. It was observed that the objection to the unsuitableness of the European constitution for field labour in the plains was of local application only. "Of the salubrity of the mountain ranges" in the interior of the island there neither was nor could be any doubt. They are habitually the re sort of sufferers from disease and convalescents, both native and from the United States, in the sultry heats of summer. In such salubrious locali ties it is proposed the convict immigrants should be exclusively located, there to remain under proper regulations and surveillance of appointed authorities. A portion of the produce of their labour would be their own, and at the end of their time they would be induced to settle and become part of the people, as small proprietors or free labourers, and thus promote the great end in view, of increasing the population without reference to favouring the cultivation of the plantations, which hitherto had been the prime object in view. It was the free range of the towns, and free access to the grog-shops which had been the bane of former European immigration. The English Stock market again presents an animated appearance. The splendid harvest weather, the largeness of the expected yield, the favourable foreign news, and the easy money market, all tending to force up the prices of the Funds. Consols are now to / per cent. higher than at this time yesterday, the rates for money being 95# to 95k, and for account 95i and have so been done. Bank Stock is firm at 208 to 2101, and India Stock 226. Exchequer Bills are par to 2s. premium, and the Bonds of 1859 are quoted 98k. The New 31 per Cents. have ranged from 95i to 96, and the 3 per Cents. from 95 to 95k. Foreign Stocks are at enhanced values generally. Mexican have improved to 24i to 25. It is under stood that the Committee have received powers to draw against the Messila Valley indemnity money such a sum as will be sufficient, together with the amount now in hand here, to liqui date one of the dividends in arrear. Chi lian Bonds, Six peil Cents., are 104, and the Three per Cents. 73. Sardinian Bonds are rather flatter, being Bn. Spanish Three per Cents. have risen to 371 to 38, and the New Deferred to 18i /. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are 62. The Turkish Scrip, which closed yesterday at 54 g, has rallied to-day to 61 and 61. It is believed that the difficulties which have arisen between Messrs. Trouve, Chauvel, and Stanley, on the one part, and the promoters of the loan on the other, are in course of arrangement. 10 5 20 20 The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds 6 toll, Mexi can 24i to 7 g , Peruvian 71 to 73, ditto 3 per Cents. 52 to 54, Portuguese 4 per Cents. 40 to 42, Russian 5 per Cents. 99 to 101, ditto 4i per Cents. 86 to 88, Spanish New Deferred 183 to 181, ditto 3 per Cents. 37 to 37k, ditto Certificates 42 to 5, ditto Passive 31 to 4. The Railway Share Market has shown further symptoms of improvement to-day, but the business done is chiefly in connection with the settlement. The generally unfavourable reports from the various companies, and the expectation that the meetings for the, most part would be unsatisfactory, have caused the Bears to preponderate. The rise in prices is about 1 per cent. on the heavy lines. The French lines are quiet but buoyant. Mines are inactive, and in Joint-stock Banks and Land Companies the dealings are limited. ~ BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'uLOcti (Prom the c fficial List. ) TtßiTleri• Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ... 951 5 0 3 per Cent..Consols Annuities 95 h 44 54 34 per Cent. Annuities - ,5i A 6 54 New 24 per Cent. Annuities Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan.,1860 4li India Stock 226 Consols for Account 13tH Sept. Exchequer Bills, 2! d. 21000 2500 par 2 pat Small 3 1 pm Faxchequer Bends 1858, 34 per Cent. — Ditto 1859, „ PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent • .. .. 10 t Ditto 3 per Cent Mexican 3 per Cent. Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent.— 874 Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 370 i 8 Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent. ...... Turkish Scrip , Dividends on lb. 4hove rolvahle in Loudon . Dntoh Exchange, 2i per Cent. 12 Gull 62 lIA LF-P AST T WO. Consols - 95A Ditto Septem b er 95,4 Account, ;I, to ?4.18-2 '3 i all .3i all a i IM 2 lB4 :5 30 ;t. 'too io 14 .0 i 0 45 ;5 all I all 1100 . 8 i all It.lloo it. lO4 8 it. 100 .0 9. ;t. 100 ,0 1 ft. 00 Ou >c. WI) ,00 I 12 W, 4 CLARENDON MINING COMPANY OF JAMAICA.—This company has issued a r e port of th e progress of operations since April, at th e var i ous l oca l i t i es on their property, .which it was agreed should be tested. According to this, the indications at two places, called Stamford-hill and Mount Pleasant, offer a prospect. of remunerative returns for the l a b our employed, and the cost of which, _e up to th e p resent time, has been limited to 2,7001. T h e present current expenses are about 300/. per month, which the directors consider sufficient until the success ful yielding of the mines now in course of advancement shall encourage a further extension. A in , stership in St. Paul's Grammar School has be come rtcant by the death of the Rev. Charles Colell Roberts, M. A. The rev. gentleman visis also cura' eof St. cm five's Jewry, in the city of London. EN oissous SHEET OF PAPER.— Messrs. Evans and Arrowsmith, of Bristol, received at their establishment a sheet of paper weighin g 3 cwt., and measuring 2,784 feet in length, or more than half a Nike THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY• EVENING, AUGUST 30, 1854 Leashlg CoMaus L:tosnig l' yesterday. Suui►►oae this day. • ~. 98 ' di s St. 20 25 1361 MARKET INTELLIGENCE. ( From tlec London iVcto Price Current of yesterday.) SIM-Alt.—The market is quiet, ihequantity Offered being small. Tho quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 2,176 hhds 479 tierces 992 brls. There were taken for home consump tion 1,220 Mitts 166 tierces 642 brls. The stock in the same places is 11,131 hhds 1,890 tierces 3,075 brlt. REFINED.—Foreign goods are Arm in consequence of limited supply. Home made dull and cheaper, brown lumps having sold at 435, crushed quiet at 31s Gd for British, and 24s 9d to 28s Gd per cwt. for Dutoui. MAURITILTS.—At public sale 1771 bags sold slowly, very low dark brown went at 25s Gd, low to good 27s 6d to 31s, grocery sorts were bought at full prices, viz. 34s to 36s per cwt for low to good. EAST INDIA.—To-do.y sales of goo d d r y gr ocery descrip tions have been m a d e a t 36 s t o 37 s per cwt w hi c h i s a bout former terms. M aur iti us ki n d s were withdrawn a t 34s to 35s (id, with inferi or a t 33 s per cwt. COFFEE.—There is n o t muc h d o i ng. Runt.—The qu a ntity l an d e d l ast week at t h e E as t and West India Docks was 949 puns 151 hhds. There were taken for home consumption 322 puns 93 hhds, and ex ported 78 puns 266 hhds. The stock in the same place is 10,316 puns, 2,492 hhds. OlLS.—Supply does not exceed demand, and prices are on the rise, pale seal realizing 411 to 411 103. Other sorts 3.1 t o 401, cod 401, southern at 401 to 4.1/, sperm 1041 to 1061; headmatter 1021 to 1041, Gallipoli 561 to 57/, other sorts 521 to 551, Lucca 71 10s. per jar, and Florence 245 to 25s per 'half chest. For cocoa nut prices are easier, Cochin selling at 51s to 51s 6d, and in other sorts at 49s 61 to sds Gd. In Linseed Oil a larger business has been concluded, and 34s 3d to 345 Gd accepted on the spot. A good business doing in Palm, still there are sellers of low to fine at 45s to 475. Of Rape Oil supply exceeds demand, and there are sellers of Refined at 44s to 44s 6d, and Brown at 42s to 42s 6,1 Lard Oil is cheap, 51s to 52s having been accepted. American Spermacetti sells more freely at is 3d and is 4d per lb. TALLOW.—Although it is evident supplies from Russia will not be equal to the previous year, still speculators and the trade are reluctant to operate. There are sellers of first sort P.Y. Candles at 66s to 66s 3d on the spot, and GGs Gd to 67s for delivery last three months. Of town tallow supply now exceeds demand, TA there are not sellers under 67s cash. Australian, fair to fine mutton at 63s to 67s 6,1, and South American 62s to 67s 6d. Stock of tallow is 12,000 casks more than last season. Deliveries 5,000 less, and prices range higher by 14 to 15 per cent. MARKBT NEws-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The show of English wheat in to-day's market was chiefly composed of new qualities, in excellent condition, many of the samples weighing 641bs per bushel. Very few millers were in attendance, and the trade was in a de pressed state, at Monday's decline. Foreign wheat was in full average supply, and heavy request. Prices were nominally the same as last advised. Floating cargoes were cons' lerably lower to purchase. The barley trade was very dull, and the quotations had a downward tendency. In malt scarcely any business was doing. Oils moved off heavily, and the. quotations wero not supported. • Beans, peas, and flour were almost nominal. The top price of English flour was 55s per 2801bs. ARRIVALS THIS WISH. Barley, Malt. 20 1 1,770 Wheat. 1,050 Oath. English .. Irish .... Foreign .. Flour. 740 6,04 - 9 i 3,130 110 1,150 12,048 120sks 400brl WHITECHAPEL. The sale for each kind of meat was heavy, as follows : Beef from 3s 4d to 4s 6d ; mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 8d ; lamb, 4s 2d to 5s 4d ; veal, 2s 10d to 4s Od ; po r k, 3 s 4d t o 4s 8d per Bibs by the carcase. AUSTRIAN AND PRUSSIAN ANSWER TO THE NESSELRODE NOTE.' The Pyantz.fort Post QaTette publilhes' both thes4 replies to the Nesselrode note of the 29th of Juno, as they have been laid before the German Diet. The following is Count Buol's reply : " TO COUNT VALENTINE ESTERIIAZT, AT ST. PETERSBURG. • ,c Vienna, July 9. " Prince Gortschakoff has communicated to me a despatch of the Chancellor of the Empire, which con tains the reply of the Russian Government to the invi tation which we felt bound to address to it concerning the evacuation of the Danubian Principalities by the Russian troops. In this reply Russia shows herself disposed to enter into negotiations upon the question, with the view of ascertaining at what precise epoch the eva cuation should take place, in case we should be enabled to offer to her the assurance that she should not be mo lested upon the evacuated territory, and that the Powers should not employ their forces, thus become disposable, in attacking the shores either of her Asiatic or her European possessions. The Russian Cabinet justifies itself by this consideration, that Russia could not volun tarily abandon the only position in which, if she took the offensive, there would he any chance of re-establish ing in her favour the equilibrium which, elsewhere espe cially, is . destroyed, to her detriment. In a word, Russia demands that the evacuation of the aforesaid pro vinces should be followed by a general suspension of hostilities. " We cannot but sincerely regret that the Court of Russia, in opposition to the remarks which we deemed it our duty to tender to it, should have thought it right to attach to the acceptation of our proposition a condition which obviously does not depend upon our will. But as, under the circumstances, the demand of Russia is not, in our opinion, without an appearance of equity, and as his Majesty our august master attaches great value to the policy of exhausting every possible means to bring about an understanding, the Imperial Cabinet will exert itself to utilise this communication with the maritime Powers, and the more so as, on the whole, it appears to us to convey a sincere desire that an arrangement should be concluded. "In delivering the present communication to. Count Nesselrode, you will not fail to make him clearly under stand that, notwithstanding the conciliatory spirit which inspires us to make this approach to the Cabinets of London and Paris, we are obliged to maintain, in all its extent, the demand addressed by us to Russia in case the object proposed by that Court does not obtain from the maritime Powers the acceptance which we desire. Have the goodness further to represent that the position which we have taken on the question does not permit us to exercise a direct influence upon the military operations of those Powers, and that, consequently, our action must be limited' to a recommendation that they should take into grave cowideration the consequences which their decision may produce, and to represent to them that all Governments are equally called upon to concur in pacific efforts, by making every sacrifice compatible with their honour and with their interests. "In authorising you, M. le Comte, to communicate the present despatch to the Chancellor of the Empire, I remain, &c., (Signed) The following is the text of the Prussian reply TO M. LE BARON WERTHER, AT ST. PETERSBURG. " Berlin, July 17. " You are already acquainted with the last communi cation addressed to us by the Cabinet of St. Petersburg, in reply to my despatch of the 12th of June, in which, following the orders of the King our august master, I bad supported the demands of Austria, contained in a despatch addressed to Count Esterhazy, dated the 3d of tho same month. I add, nevertheless, a copy, as well of the reply made to the Cabinet of Vienna under the form of a despatch addressed to Prince Gortschakoff, as of that addressed to Baron de Budberg, of the latter of which the Baron had the goodness to allow me to take a copy. " Your sojourn at Berlin must, M. le Baron, have convinced you that the sincere and constant desire of the Cabinet of the King, notwithstanding the excessive tension of the situation, to arrive at and to establish a starting point for ulterior negotiations, has not been de viated from in the conscientious and impartial exami nation to which we have subjected the declarations of the Cabinet of St. Petersburg. " You cannot better discharge, M. le Baron, the im portant functions to which the confidence of the King has called you, than by being made the organ to his Majesty the Emperor and the Chancellor of the Empire of the impressions which the last Russian communica tion have produced upon our august Sovereign. The King highly appreciates the spirit of moderation and conciliation in which they are conceived. His Majesty appreciates at its real value the sincere desire expressed, in the terms used by Count Nesselrode, to respect to the greatest possible extent the wishes and the obligations of the ancient allies of Russia the same as the interests which they are inevitably bound to protect. " Guided by this tranquillising appreciation, the King, while persisting in the views expressed in my despatch addressed on the 12th of June to the Baron de Werther, will rely upon the Russian answer, and will renew his efforts both at Vienna, and, in common with the Court of Austria, at London and Paris, in the hope of ar riving at some just and practicable basis for new chances of re-establishing a mutually good understanding and peace. " We do not disguise from ourselves that this is a mission of extraordinary difficulty. We should before. hand consider it impossible, if we did not believe our selves authorised to expect from the wisdom and the loyalty of the Emperor Nicholas that the dispositions which have dictated the last declarations of his Cabinet will determine his ulterior attitude, and that, converted into deeds, the German PoWers will consider them as sufficient guarantees for the safety of the interests the defence of which is the object of their engagements be tween themselves and towards the Cabinets of London and Paris. " Bring this despatch, M. le Baron, to the knowledge of Count Nesselrode, and receive, &c., (Signed) " MANTEUFFEL." " Bum." P E 111 14A. KET S, (THIS DAY.) BRITISH RAILWAYS, Closing Prices yesterday. Business done I 66' this day. s tr. !Paid.' 9? 18. A 11 ,1,, 111 LO it. too it. [OO .0 I 1 ;t. I to° ;5 all r 5 all it. 100 2s 4p it. 100 it. 100 :5 1 22 ;t. too 6i N 5 1.9 It. 1100 it. 100 .6 16 16 all 8 all 8 8 10 1 7 1 LO 11 Is ;0 17 !O all .0 1.0 .0 1 ;t. I too it. lOU it. 100 it. 100 io I 10 !CAI all .3! !O 1H 6' al 50 I all St. mo 20 15 20 5 !,0 6 25 ati LO 9 ;t. 100 15 21 !O1 all .to aii O I 16 LO 81s. ;t. 100 ►5 20 15 13e, 3t. 100 214 -22 j, 5 - 51 9 - 10 114--10 i 6 16i -- 17 7 -6,. 96 - 98 65 - C 6 15. - 16; 'll - 13 2i lid 7 8 14 - 171 1 2 / 11 36. - 40 25 -2, 68 - 70 58 - 60 24 - 25 riA • -7,) 87 - 89 69 - 71 26 - .26 91 - 96 75 - 6 - 90 11 - 13 11 - ii 71 - 72 5i -- 52 44 - I - . -9 05 107 .031 • 104 u-I par 4 k 82 9 8 8 - ii 70 70i 39 - 41 d par 8 6 2i 3 54 - 6i 46 - 48 3i 31 34 ... 35 7 9 11 - 64 - 7i 53 - 55 4h 61 6i Pl I par 2 p 34 - 36 94 - 96 62 - C 4 72 - 74 58 -- 72 7i - 8 L 8 - 194 - Ut i 4 - 15 3i - 3ikt 3 15 6 , 1 •i 1 - 33 :31. - 33 31 - 18 t 19 4 - 5 23 - 44 - 54 si 7 4 -- 544 rald.l EALLWATB. Bt. 100 Bucliklittinsh. all Olydesdale Jc. WO E. Lincoln gr. 6 pur cent. all Gies. Barr. & Neils. Direct all Do. Now— ... all Glstr.& Dn. FT all ; frtlpl. Dk. & Railway all Hull & Selby all Do. Shares. all Do. S Shares. all Lou.&Greenw l all Do. Preference 100 Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. WO Do. 6 per et. all Manch. Batn. and Matlock all Aiddlcsbro' & rear all!Vlidld.Bradfcl all thern_ awl lon Szi Jaledon,.. caldonian. Do Gt. Westn Irk. New. & Berw. y. &NAV Do D 0....... 3. Eastern 12! St. St 25 Easternsp. C. all Do. 6 per et. all Do. Fixedsl”' all Prest. & Wyrc all Do. shares. 100 Itoystn .1z Hit. :)o.Sheptii.Sl Roth a 4. Gooleg.s p.c. t 4 S. Statiorash. all Wear Vali eygi 6 per cent... all IDo t Nilts&Somrs' 'Norfolk.. L.& N. W. & Stckton & Darlingt. Midland.. R.. Count D 0... Do L. &N.W, SzLn&YL Do Callorthri Do Lancash Vorksh. A.MClean' itockt. Darlingt. ItWestn 100 ,erdeen DX , Do. No. 2, p. c. 30 lllyth and Tyne 10 per c. pref. (isscl. at 501) 100 Bris. & Ex. 4p. c. St. 5 Do. 4 p. c. Shares 100 Caledonian £lO all Chester & Holyhead Guar. 5l per cent 64 Cork &Bandens4p.c all Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction all EastAnglian (£3los) 6 per cent all Do. (£5) 7 per cent 2 Do. (.£7 17s) 7p. c all Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No. 1 all Do. No. 2 all 1)o. New 6 p. e. St. all Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent all Do. 51., 10 ner cent. all Do. 101. Debentr.Sh -100 East Lancash.6 p.cts. all East and West York shire June. Pref... all EdinbPrth.&Dundee 4 per cent. 100 Glasgow &S.Western Guar. 5 per cent 100 Great Northn. sp. c 100 Do. sp. c. Redeem. , at 10 p. c. prom.., LOO 00. 4 p. c. Scrip (lt.N. of Scot. Ist Pret all Gt. Soutlin. &Westm. (Ireland) Eighths) 6 Do. 4 per c. Pref. Sh. 6 (It. West. (Berks & Hants Ex. 5 p. c) 100 Do.cov. red. 41 p.c 100 Do. con. red. 4p. c. 100 Du. irred, 4p.e. 6 Lan. &York. F. £2O 100 Do. 6 p. c. Stock 13 heeds N. 6p. c. No.l 9 Do. Quarters, 1848 100 Loudon and Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. 100 Do. Pref., sp. c. St. all Do. Convertible, sp. e., 1852 100 Do. New Guar.6 p. c. 100 Lon.&N. W., Coy. & Nuneaton 5 London &S. Wester! Con. Thirds all Londonderry& Color Shares ?, all Londy. & Ennis. Sh all Kan., Shef., & Lin , Shares, No. 1. 10 all Do. New, £3O 6 44 Do. £6 12: all , larypt .& Carl. 4 p c 12; all ,)o. 4i per cent 12) 101, Do St.. 100 - Consol.6 p.c.St. St. 100 Do. Consol. Bristol & Dim. 6 per cent.... 11i n). Pref. 4A per con , Norfolk Debmture 10 , Do. Pref. 4p. c. Steel. 100 Do. sp. c. Ext. ...... 00 )0. 51 per ct.pref..,. LOU Do. Way. Val. sp. c, 100 North British all North Staffordshire 100 ixford, Worcester, $; Wolverh.£ls,6p.c. 15 8 10 15 Do all Scot. Cent. , New Pre all 4hrews. & Birm. N. G. all ihrewsby. & Cheater (Nor.W.lllin). 8 p.c. 10 Do. 5 per cent all south Devon 14 De. fixed, 44 per cent all S. Eastern (Reading Aun.) of £1 Os. 6d. 100 Do. 4ipet cent. • all S.Yorksh.4p.e.Guar all Stockton and Dar lington, 4 per cent 5 Do. do. do. all Stockton and Hartle pool, guar. 5 p. c. till Ist July, 1856 Waterfd.&Kilk.6p.c. [lOO York, Neweastle,and _Eterwick,4 p.c. Pref.i 5 IDo 10 York&N. Midlauda -tn.l S. Pure)) • •.. ••• 95 - 100 91 - 99 135 - 137 ii = 5) , .. -- • j:i -13 i 23 - 24 2i - 2i -_-_ 59 - 61 132 :: 135 2} lid 30 - 31 93 - 95 PREFERENCE SHARES. l• ""' ••• ~ '''''' ... Z• ••• ••• li id 31 - - 3 4 5 - P 1- lip ] - lip' 131 -13 i 22 - 24 3k - 3i 1i.i..6 -- .ail' 118 110 - 112 .01 - 103 6 6} 98 100 90 92 24 96 id L 34 136 ••• ".." re ". ." .2i -- 3 p 7- 8 10 -- 12 7 - 8 - 11 - iP •• • - 2 - 92 95 3i 11— d 33 - t - 135xd 58 -- 92 102 - 103 116 - 120 10 "11 104 12 id 23i 99 -18 1 -- 10i -- 14 - P -- 24 -- 101 MINES. i - i i i i# -- i. . -- i 8-83 3 - 4 li - 24 26 - 28 42 - 44 i - 11 - 11 12 52 - 57 1 - 3p 11 - li 4 - 1 - ... 8i i - 6 - 6 i j i - § - 16} -- 16, 27- h9 84 - 5 - 6 94 4 1 --3 i 34 - 4 4 - 1 i - i ... all Agua Fria .. ........ all Anglo Austrin. Gold all Anglo Californian 2 Australasian 6 Australian all Australian Cordillera all Australian Freehold , all Ave Maria all Baden (Gd.llaelly of) all Blmnarvon Iron and Coal all IBritish Austrin. Gold 13. 51British Iron 44 Brazilianlmp.(issued at £5 pm all Do. Comes & Culatia 15 Do. St. John Del Rey Carsons's Creek all Cobre Copper 1 Colonial Gold 16 Copiapo all Copper MM. of Eng. all Do. Pref. 74 p. cent. all English and Austin. Copper Smeltg. Co all General all Gt. NuggetVeiußeg.; 2 Do. Registered all Great Polgooth all Lake Bathurst all Liberty all Linares all Lond. &Californ. Gold Quartz Crush. Co : all Hariquita 9 Mexieau&S.Amerien. all New Granada all New Linares Mining and Smelting C 0..., all Nouveau Monde all Pontgiband Silva' I. ad Min. & Smelt 1 Port Philip all Quartz Rock all Rhymney Iron 15 Do. New 11 I Santiago de Cuba all South Australian 7 Tin Croft ........ all United Mexican all Waller all West Granada all West Mariposa 12s. Worthing Mining of Australia all Yuba JOINT-STOC all Australasia all British Colonial Bank and Loan Company all British N. American 5 Ohartd. Bank of Asia 2 Chrtd. link, of India, Australia, & China 25 Oolonial 20 Commercial of Loud, 14 English Scottish and, BANKS. 83 - 85.1 1 ----: id a 1 ii Australian 20 Ifond. Chart. Bk. of 2i - 2 a' 21 -21 i Australia 20 London and County 10 London Joint Stock 20 Lond. & Westminster 35 National Provincial of England 10 Do. New 226 National of Ireland all New South Wales all Oriental Bank of Corporation. 5 Do. New 25 Provincial of Ireland all Do. New 1 :loyal Australn.Bkg & Gold Imp Co all south Australia all Union of Australia 2. Do. New 10 Union of London 39 -- 41 46 - 48 41 i n i 65 67 76 8i ....ERRINGS S&LL IN AUbTRALIA.—A consign ment of Wick herrings, to the extent of 80 barrels, was sold in Melbourne in May last, by public auction, at 2s. 6d. per barrel. The buyer, a Wick cooper, sold them in a day or two thereaftor M 225. per barrel,— Rainburgl4 Wifricim TO THE EDITOR OF THE SEN. SIR,—It has for some years been too much the habit of English writers to stigmatise the law of marriage in Scotland as unsatisfactory, and productive of injurious c"nsequences ; and I observe it in your leading article in yesterday's Sun on the Mountgarret case. The monstrosity there does not pertain to the Scotch law, but to the English jury, which could decide against the validity of the English marriage on such evidence as that produced to prove the Scotch ; and if the laws of mar riage obtaining in the two countries are examined, it will be seen that the English law gives value to the ford/ of marriage, while the Scotch disregards the form, and attaches value to the essence of the contract. The essence of the Scotch law is present consent to live toge ther as husband and wife ; but the essence of the English law is the form, in which the marriage ceremony is con ducted. An instructive instance is now the subject of judicial investigation. A girl complains that she thought she was married, but found she was not, because the cere mony was performed by a Romish priest, without the presence of the Registrar. In her evidence the girl says : —" He promised marriage, and after that we became more intimate, and found myself pregnant." Now, Sir, had this case happened in Scotland, a marriage would have been constituted by the promise of marriage, and the consequent connection, and the woman could have proved the marriage by the evidence on oath of the man —a mode of proof of old standing in Scotch law, though but lately introduced into England.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, • LEX SCOTUS. PRIVATE AND JOINT-STOCK BANKS, The Banker's Magazine furnishes the returns of circu lation of the private and joint-stock banks in England and Wales for the four weeks ending the sth of August, 1854, and gives the following as the average weekly cir culation of those banks during the past mouth, viz.:— Private banks Joint-stock banks.. 2 . ,583,242 , Average weekly circulation £6,453,735 On comparing the above with the returns for the pre ceding month, ending the Bth of July last, it shows- A _ decrease in the circulation 'of the private banks of A decrease in the circulation of the joint-stock banks of R 53,702 47,249 Decrease on the month £100,951 and, as compared with the return for the corresponding period of last year, viz., August 6th, 1853, it shows— A decrease in the circulation of the private banks of A decrease in the circulation of the joint-stock • banks of Decrease on the IT 110,753 2252,783 On comparing the above with the amounts of the fixed issues, the following appears to be thecomparative state of the circulation : The private banks are below their fixed i55ue5...21,036,963 The joint-stock banks are below their fixed issues 02,614 Total below their fixed issues £1,479,57' CITY COMMISSIONERS OF SEWERS Yesterday the Commissioners assembled in the Guild hall for the first time since the holydays ; Deputy Pea cock in the chair. There were but few members present, and the paper of business was a blank. It was stated that during the last month the officers of the commission had been most actively employed in surveying the crowded localities of the city, and that, under the direction of the Medical Officer of Health, much work of cleansing and purifying had been accom plished. Mr. Daw, chief clerk, stated that he had obtained the consent of the New River Company to supply water for purposes of cleansing courts and alleys during the present season, on demand of the inspector of nuisances. That consent had proved extremely advantageous, and had been acted upon vigorously, especially in the poor and crowded districts. It was stated that the slaughter-houses bad been care fully examined, and Mr. D. Stubbing, of Leadenhall market, and Mr. Sawtell, of Newgate-market, had been summoned before the magistrates for non-compliance with the rules of the commissioners, and severally fined in penalties and costs. CHOLERA. The Medical Officer of Health reported the cases of cholera, 61 in number, which had occurred in the whole city during the four weeks ending Monday, the 28th instant, and stated the gratifying fact that, it+ consequence of the vast exertions of the commission. the dreadful disease had nut appeared in a severe form in any of the districts of the city, where on former occasions it had assumed the very worst features. The Medical Officer also stated that he had felt it to be his duty to adopt measures by which, in cases where owners of property in the city bad not con formed to the orders of the court to amend their houses and put them in proper condition, the neglect might undergo investigation before an inquest jury in case 01 a death from cholera on any such premises, and the responsibility be fixed upon the party answerable for such preventable evils. The commissioners most warmly expressed their ad miration of the vigorous and skilful zeal of the Medicai Officer of Health, and congratulated their fellow-citizens upon the comparative sanitary condition of the populous districts within their jurisdiction. Several parties, whose premises had been neglected by themselves, and repaired by the commission, were ordered to be sued for costs. The Blenheim, Indiaman, Failed from Spithead yester day, at five p. in., for Calcutta, full of passengers. TEE MILBANK CONVICTS AT DORCHESTEII. -- The excitement in Dorchester on the subject of the recent re moval of the healthy portion of the convicts from Mil bank prison to the vacant military barracks in that town is gradually subsiding, and as the prisoners all continue healthy, and many of the local tradesmen have received extensive orders for provisions and other necessaries, the Government decision is regarded rather as a boon than otherwise to the inhabitants. In the establishment it self operations are going on quietly. Some extensive buildings are in contemplation, for which the plans and sections have been approved by the Government. The high wall at present entirely surrounding the barracks is to be immediately carried considerably higher : and other alterations, it is said, will be made with the view of forming the buildings into a permanent convict es tablishtnent, auxiliary to the Government depot in the Isle of Portland. The warders from Milbank have been accommodated within the establishment, and a number of the Coastguard have been billeted at the various public-houses in the town. The only additional precautions at present. adopted for the safe custody of 800 convicts are the erection of perpendicular iron bars to the outside of the windows, and the removal of the partitions from the passages leading to the apart ments over the st a bl es . Th ere i s , h ow ever, a guard f kept at eac h entrance, for the twofold purpose of _ dm of strangers into th e es t a bli s h men t. The convictsa are at preventing the convi c t s escaping and the admission present exercised, by c i rcu l ar parades, under the inspec tion of the warders, but, as more active t.weaving appa. and profitable occupation is imperatively needed, ama ratus hae been ordered. BOROUGH HOP. There is a slight improvement in the demand for most, kinds of hops, at very full prices. Duty, 50,000/. to 5.5,000/. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Aug. 30.—Wind this day at Noon, S.W. ; light pleasant breeze, and fine, clear, sultry weather. PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 29.—Wind, S.E. to W. Sailed— Blenheim, for Calcutta. • PLYMOUTH, Aug. 29.—Wind, S.W. Ai-lived—Melina, from Labrador ; Terra Nova, '[ongsound. FALMOUTH, Aug. 29.—Wind, variable. Arrived—on dine (s), from London, and left for Dublin. Sailed—Lyra, for Dunkirk ; Zareh, London ; Bohemian Girl, Newport ; Cobden, Limerick, SOUTHAMPTON, Aug. 29.—Wind, N.W. Arrived— Gloria Deo, from Altona ; Duke of Cornwall (s), Dublin, and left for London. GLOUCESTER, Aug. 29.—Arrived—Diamond, from Alex andria. SWANSEA, Aug. 29.—Wind, N.E. Arrived—Liver pool, for Cape de Verds ; Albatross, Alexandria ; Tunis, Algiers. SUNDERLAND, Aug. 29.—Wind, S.S.E. Arrived— Glycon, from St. Vaast ; Emilie, Dram ; Free Briton, Quebec ; Adelaide, St. Valery ; Active, Norway. HARWICH, Aug. 29.—Wiud, S.W. Arrived -Cornelta, from Holtusund. HULL,' Aug. 29.—Wind, W.N.W. Arrived—Schelde (s), and Emerrld (s), from Antwerp ; Falcon (s), Ham burgh ; Jessie Marie, and Humber (s), Stettin Mathilde, Stockholm ; Anua, and Richard Cobden, Gottenburg ; Argo, Joseph, Christian, and Tritan, Archangel ; Queen of Scotland (s), Hamburgh. S a iled—Elida, for Malaga ; Fraternity, Sundswald. SHIELDS, Aug. 29.—Wind, W. Arrived—Alice Cleve land, from Carttingena ; Susannah, Hamburgh ; Fran ciska, and Maria, Stettin. Sailed—Pilla for Rio Janeiro. HOLYHEAD, Aug. 30.—The Minerva, /ram Liverpool to Cork, has sunk on Coal Rock ; the crew and passengers saved. DANTZIC, Aug. 27.—The Henry and Elizabeth, bound to London, which was on shore on gels, arrived in Fair water this morning, when she will have to discharge, being leaky. ld °Num() BAY (Jamaica), Aug. B.—The Harriet (sloop), belonging to the owners of the barque Alice, has been lost; she had seventeen puncheons of rum on board, which was all lost. (BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday, 10.20 a.m. Wind, N. ; tide, 2i hours ebb ; fine. Arrived—The Wopka, Orion, Magdalene Sophia, and Eleanor Sophia, from Archangel. Sailed—The Royal Saxon, for Sydney ; City of Rotter dam (s), for Dunkirk ; Belgium (a), Ostend ; Diana (s), Amsterdam. DEAL, Wednesday, 10.10 a.m. Wind, 5.11". ; light and fine. Passed—Maria Gabrielle, from London, for Sydney ; Clara, from London, fo r Leghorn ; Onward, from Quebec ; Pacific, from Nassau ; Robert Newton, from St. liitt's— for Loudon. KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL. Yesterday the 011 t patients' department in the new building of King's Col lege Hospital was opened for the reception of patients At present it is approached from Clement's-lane, till the houses in Grange -court are pulled down. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following mem bers of the college were admitted fellows at the last meeting of the council, viz. :—Messrs George Ireland Russell, Gravesend, diploma of membership dated Jan. 7, 1820 ; Donald Dalrymple, Norwich, August 19, 1836 ; William Statter, Wakefield, February 3, 1529 ; Isaac Massey, Nottingham, April 15, 1831 ; James Sart, Camd en -t own, December 7, 1832 ; F re d er i ck Josiah Burgess, Bi s h op ' s Waltham, May 5, 1834 ; John Pttty Aldridg e , D orchester, June 6, 1834 ; S amue l Hill, Clifton, Yorkshire February 5, 1836 ; Christopher Johnson, Lancaster, February 22, 1839 ; Thomas S. Cooper, Cantereurn Ap r il 2 4 , 1839 ; S am uel M a ye Turner, New cas tl e - under-Line, May 6, 1839 ; Frederick John Lowe; G osport, May 13, 1.839 ; Thomas Allason Furness, New cast l e - upon-Tyne, May 22, 1839 ; Philip Rowling Steelman, Bristol, June 3, 1839 ; John James Purnell, Charterhouse-square, June 24, 1839 ; and R. Byther Steer Bowker, New South Wales, May 7, 1833. At the same meeting, Messrs. Isaac Arthur D'Olier, or Tredegar-square, Bow-road, and Thomas Eastwood, of Oldham, Lancashire, were admitted ad eundem members of the college. TICKET-OF -LEAVE M E/I.—Yester d ay a man g i v i ng the name of Thomas D ornan (but who bad been transported in the name of Thomas Fletcher, and was at liberty on a ticket-of-leave) was brought before Mr. Maude, at the Borough Court, Manchester on a charge of being con cerned in a garrotte robbery. The evidence was that on Saturday night, Dr. Brown, of Collyhurst-street, Salford, was on his way through the Sun-entry, Man. chester, at a late hour, when he was attacked by three men, of whom the prisoner was one. The prisoner held Brown, while the other men robbed him of 2/. 10s., and then made off, but not until Brown had torn a piece from his coat. He was followed and afterwards given in charge to Police-constable Freeman by Brown, when he was without a coat. es —a being taken to the police offi Inspect he was asked by salspector Alack why he was without his coat, and replied that he had thrown it away. The coat had been subsequently found. The evidence as tia("nld was sentenced to trans was, that he had b een t r i e d at the e of 1851 f or a garrotte y , portation for seven years. The mag i strates committed him for trial on the present cha rge at the next Liver roht obr the previousLivern e pool assizes. Two other men, nam e d J o h n Fleming and John M'Donough , bei ng also tr ansports with tickets atlache°sntveire of leave, were charged with a garrotte robbery, by which the prosecutor was deprived of 125., but the evil dence was not complete, and they were set at liberty again. CAUTION TO MILITIA D ESERTERS.—At the Chelms ford Petty Sessions, on Friday, before Messrs. Round and Tufnell, Henry Heard was charged with being a deserter from the East Essex-Rifles. Superintendent Raison stated that, being at that time stationed at Hedingha.m, he was present when the prisoner was sworn into the force, and saw him take his 10s. ; he at tended an assembling of the corps for 28 days' training, but, the regim • ent being permanently embodied, he de serted. Last night he met the prisoner accidentally in the town, and took him into custody. The prisoner, who admitted that he was a deserter, was committed to gaol. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.—Yesterday morning informa tion was received at the Chief Police-office, Great Sant land-yard, of a counting-house robbery at Sheffield, when the following cash and securities, amounting to 1321., were carried off, viz., four 51. notes, Northainp tonshi) e Banking Company ; oue Si. note, Sheffield and Rotherham Banking Company ; 3/. 3s. 6d. in gold and silver ; 41. 16s. and Si. in Post-office order s ; a bill f or 291. Cs. 6d. accepted by Wm. Grindall at four months, and payable 16th September at Willis and Co.'s, Lon don ; a ditto for 291. at five months, same acceptor, and payable at same time and place ; a bill for 201., accepted by Thomas Shields, Oxford, Augu s t 12 , and payable at Messrs. Masterman's ; a bill for 15/. lls. Gd., accepted by Wm. Berr all Northampton, and payable at Messrs. Denison's, London. A reward has been offered for the detection • and conviction of the offenders, and measures have been adopted to prevent the negotiation of the securities. - - - - THE NEW STAMP ACT. It was mentioned on Saturday that a question had arisen with regard to the new Stamp Act, which is to come into operation on the 11th of October, as to whether in the case of foreign bills it is to apply only to such as are dated on or after that day, or to all t hat may then fall due. Upon this and some other points of the act the following correspondence has passed between the Bank of England and the Board of Inland Revenue, and it appears not only that it is to operate retrospec tively as regards foreign bills, but also that that result, instead of having been caused by an oversight, as most persons were inclined to suppose, was intended when the measure was framed : " Bank of England, Aug. 25. " Sir,—l am desired by the Goveruors of the Bank of England to submit to you the following points on the new Stamp Act, which are of serious importance, and have ex cited great interest in the city of London among the mer cantile community. " By the Ist section it is enacted that from the 10th of October certain stamp duties shall be repealed; and, in lieu thereof, shall be granted, charged, and paid certain duties specified in the schedule. Some of the duties specified in the schedule are altogether new and not substitutes for any existing duties. I refer to the duties on foreign bills. The question is, if the new duties imposed on foreign bills are to take effect from the 10th of October, or whther they take effect immediately, under the general operation of the act for want of any time being fixed ? "2. Supposing such duties to take effect on the 10th of October, will they apply to all bills at that date, or only to bills drawn after that date? The latter was obviously in tended by the proviso in section 1, but that proviso appears only in terms to save from repeal or alteration any stamp duties then payable in relation to any bill of exchange dated before the 10th of October,—there were not, how ever, any stamp duties then payable in relation to foreign bills which could be the subject of repeal or alteration, and the question is, if the proviso will prevent the now duty from attaching on such bills ? ." 3. With respect to foreign bills drawn in sets,—does clause 6 apply to bills drawn abroad and payable here, as well as to bills drawn here and payable abroad ? As re spects bills drawn abroad, all the parts of a bill do not ordinarily arrive together, and where there are three or more, it is not unusual to keep back one or more parts. Further, it is usual to send one part of a bill to the drawer's agent for acceptance, and to negotiate the other parts ; but section 6 appears to restrain the negotiability of one part of a bill in r ngland without all the others. " Is it intended absolutely to prohibit the negotiability of one part of a bill unless all parts aro transferred, or to require that each of the parts negotiated where they are not all transferred at the same time shall be stamped with full duty, as a single bill, in such case ? " 4. In reference to the provision in section s,—will it suffice, on endorsing a foreign bill, that the date be stamped or written by a clerk, or must it be written by the person who endorses it ? This, though it may appear a small matter, is really a serious consideration in the conduct of business. " I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, " J. R. ELSEY, Deputy-Cashier," "Inland Revenue, Somerset-house, London, Aug. 29. " Sir,—l have laid before the Board of Inland Revenue your communication putting four questions with regard to the operation of the Stamp Act of the last session, 17th and 18th of Victoria, chap. 83. " I am directed to state in reply, that all the duties contained in the schedule of the Stamp Act alluded to (in cluding the duties on foreign bills) take effect from the 10th of October, 1854, that is on the 11th of that month, and not before. "2. The new stamp duties will apply to all bills and notes drawn in the United Kingdom on and after the 11th of October, 1854, and to all foreign bills drawn out of the United Kingdom which shall be presented for payment, pail, endorsed, transferred, or negotiated in the United Kingdom on or after the 11th of October, 1854, without regard to the date of such foreign bills , or the time when thy were drawn. The proviso in section 1 does not apply to the last-mentioned foreign bills, and it was not intended that it should do so. " 3. Section 6 applies to foreign bills drawn and payable abroad if negotiated in this kingdom, as well as to foreign bills drawn in this kingdom payable abroad, such bills re spectively purporting to be drawn in sets ; but it does not apply to bills drawn abroad and payable here. The effect of this section in regard to all the bills to which it applies, is to prohibit the negotiation of one part of a bill unless all the parts are duly stamped and transferred. "4. The object to be effected by the writing of the name and date on the stamp is (as expressed in the act) to cancel it, and the Board think that it will be a sufficient com pliance with the law if this be done by a clerk. "I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant " J. R. Elsey, Esq." THOILIS KEOGH. SUDDEN DEATH.—On Friday afternoon, John Mat- thews, Esq., solicitor, of Oxford, was about leaving his office to return to his residence at Headington, when he was seized with a fit of apoplexy, and died in about an hour after his attack. Mr. Matthews was about 50 years of age. THE CAPTAIN OF THE HIMALAYA . AYD THE SCOTS GREYS. Her Majesty's steam-ship Himalaya arrived at Scutari, after a rapid passage from Liverpool of 10 days 22 hours, on the evening of the 7th inst. Cob Griffith and ie officers were so gratified at the re sult of the voyage, and so pleased with the atten tion that had been paid to and care which had been taken of them, their horses, and men, that they presented to Captain Kellock a handsome piece of plate, with a letter of thanks and a suitable inscrip tion, expressive of their feelings at the termination of the voyage. The following dre copies of the addresses pre sented to Captain Kellock and Mr. Lane, and of the replies of those gentlemen : _ _ " Koulalle Barracks, near Constantinople, Aug. 11. " Dear Captai n Kellock,—We, the undersigned officers of the Scots Greys, cannot allow the Himalaya to leave us without our expressing to you how grateful we feel for the unvarying kindness and attention with which we have been treated by you during our passage to Turkey, which has been more like a pleasure excursion than a voyage on se rv i ce . Y our care and skill in the manage ment of the noble ship which you command have brought us in safety to our destination ; all our wants and wishes have been met in the kindest possible manner, and ever since we landed we have been indebted to you for many a comfort which we could not have enjoyed but for your considerate care for officers and soldiers. We beg that you will do us the favour of accepting a small testimonial in token of our sense of all you have done for us, and, with every wish for your welfare and prosperity, " We remain, dear Captain Kellock, "Yours very sincerely, "Lieutenant -Colonel GRIFFITHS, and all the Officers. " Presentel to Captain Adam Kellock, of her Ma jesty's steamer Himalaya, by Lieut.-Colonel Griffiths and the officers of the Scots Greys, as a small token of their esteem, and in recollection of his skill and kindness while conveying them on service to Turkey."' "To LIEUTENANT-COLONEL GRIFFITHS AND THE OFFI CERS OF THE ROYAL NORTH BRITISH DRAGOONS, OR SCOTS GREYS. " Steam-ship Himalaya, Constantinople, Aug. 11. " Gentlemen,—lt is impossible for me to convey to you how much I feel gratified by the receipt of y our letter of this date, and also by the testimonial you have been pleased to present me with. It is at all times pleasing to find (in the execution of a public duty) that appreciation which the contents of your letter lead me to believe you have formed of my efforts ; and I hope you will allow me to add that I have felt honoured by the opportunity afforded me of conveying so distinguished I a regiment to the seat of war. In conclusion, allow me to offer you my earnest good wishes for your success and increased honours. "I am, gentlemen, yours very faithfully, "ADAM KELLOCK." A similar compliment was paid to the purser, Mr. Lane. THE LAW OF MARRIAGES, BAILWATi. Aberdeen.. ..... Ainbg Nottug. Bost and Eastu. 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I St. 76 St. 20 St. 15 73i 23 I 66 106 5 I 104 71i I St. I 20 47 13i I St. 50 42& x d 50 50 100 10 20 50 20 25 x d 171 f 111 i 21} THE PUBLIC-HOUSE MONOPOLY AND TILL NE!V BEER BILL. (From. the Examiner.) The committee of the House of Commons, which in quired during the past session into the operation of the laws affecting public-houses, have recommended a change in the system of licensing. Any person at present, by complying with certain condition:, can obtain a license from the Excise for the sale of malt-liquor ; but the power to gran' lenses for the sale of spirits rests with the magistrates, who confine the privilege to a select few, instead of throwing open the trade to all respectable applicants. The right to vend spirits as well as beer proves so advantageous to the publican, that the seller of beer alone finds it impossible, in the vast majority of instances, to sustain the competition ; and thereby the magistrates have virtually the power of nominating the I dealers in both departments of this enormous branch of trade. Such a system, which is opposed to every sound principle of commerce, has produced its natural results. It is admitted that the magistrates are guided more by private feelings than by public convenience in the ex ercise of their discretion. One man gets a license because the brewer who owns the house has friends or acquaintances on the bench ; another is favoured because he votes at elections on the same side with the majority of his- judges ; a third, because be has been butler or footman to one of their wor ships. The applicant who had not had luck to sit or wait at the table of a magistrate, or whose opinions on matters of Church' and State are not in accordance with those of the justices of his locality, has very little j chance of being permitted to sell spirits. In towns, nevertheless, a sufficient amount of competi tion is managed to be kept up. There, in spite of these unjust partialities, a sufficient number of contiguous souses exist in different hands to prevent a monopoly. But it is otherwise in the country ; and it is here that the mischief of the licensing system is most strongly felt. The lic ense once granted, it is practically considered as attached to the house. If the latter changes hands, it sells for a price which is quite disproportionate to the t e i s e ln s ef the building-, because the purchaser knows that hoold likewise buying the right to supply the neighbour new houses is very with ale, beer, and spirits. Permission to open who owns the village the whole of the P aringlygrated and the brewer p public-house, or as frequently hap pens,district, has the monopoly public-houses of a considerable of the market. The report is full of evidence u this head which is quite irresis go without, the brewer ' s° people must drink irresis tible. Knowing that t n h p w u h b i l e i h ca n, the again, ors t i who ngre receives s commonly a quality as that it shall seemny care is to make it of such his beer, or better than none. The an inferior article, of an excess of water, adapts it to the dull of his customers by a large admixture crazing palates and drugs. Those who are accustomed to 17 ° somer beverages can seldom drink a glass of b l e v er n f) ; a wayside. public-house without having to pay ahea vily for the refreshment with headache. A single cir cumstance is of itself sufficient to show the advantae which is taken by the country brewer of this monstrous _ _ privilege—for such it surely is—to be the exclusive ven der of particular liquors in particular districts. When a public-house has an independent owner who can choose his market, they are accustomed to furnish him with far better beer than that which they impose upon their own publicans. This fact is proved in fifty instances. But in truth such evidence is almost superfluous. To state the case is to expose it. Competition is the life of trade ; when it stagnates, it grows corrupt. To remedy these evils, the committee proposes that the distinction between beer and spirit licenses should cease ; that one license should confer the right to sell all intoxicating drinks ; and that any respectable person should be entitled to the privilege, on giving his own bond, with that of two sureties, as a security for cons forming to the regulations of the Legislature. To this it has been objected that the multiplication of publics houses will give a stimulus to drunkenness. The objec tion comes too late. The brewers have already taken care that wherever a cluster of houses exists one of them shall be set apart for the accommodation of the thirsty. It is no longer a question of whether the labouring man should be supplied with beer, but who shall brew it ? not whether he shall confine himself to tea, coffee, and water, but whether he shall drink from a good tap or a bad one ? The lady who asked her butler how she could economise her barrel of small beer, was told that the surest method was to place a barrel of stronger beer by the side of it. This will be the ordinary effect of a reform in the licensing system. The drugged and worthless barrel of beer will be left untested, and the barrel of generous ale will be drunk in its stead. It is probable that in very many country places no additional public-house will be opened ; for the instant the monopoly ceases, the brewers will have the prudence to secure that custom by the ex cellence of their goods which they now attain by the pro tective tyranny ~of their licenses. Or, if a successful rival springs up, it will soon absorb the opposition estab lishment, and the only change will be that a new house is built out of the ruins of au old one. But it is urged that labouring men are more attracted by cheapness than quality, and that it will not be so much a race of who shall produce the best beer, as of who shall sell it at the lowest price. If this should in some iestances prove the case, the change will still be advan. tageous. At present the consumer has neither cheapness nor quality. As he is entirely at the mercy of the brewer and publican, they sell him the worst mixture !ley can venture to concoct at the highest price they can venture to charge. With free competition he can take his chance ; and either he will give less money or he will get better beer. Those who profit by an abuse readily persuade themselves that the system which is most advantageous to them is most beneficial to the pub lic ; but all other persons will probably be of opinion that it is high time this anomalous and pernicious mono poly should be broken down. Our legislators, however pressed fortime,have preferred to give us a new Public house Bill of another sort. And this piece of notable legislation, very far from' having touched the real evil pointed out by the committee, has ac tually had the support of those "licensed victuallers" most interested in maintaining the grievances by which they profit so largely. To avert a good, those who are most anxious to maintain the close system of licensing bays connived at an evil. Something, it wss foreseelei, mug be sacrificed to public opinion ; end the sprat has been resigned, in the hope of being rewarded for such an act of virtue by permission to keep the whale. In other words, the more influential among the li censed victuallers have allovVed the " New Beer Bill" to pass, that they may defeat the proposition to throw open the trade. In both cases the poor man is the victim. By the licensing laws he is confined to dear and often dele terious drink, and by the New Beer Bill he is not per mitted on Sundays to drink at all except between the hours of one and half-past two, and between six and ten. Such a restriction will commonly be found in practice either useless or mischievous. The man who is sottishly inclined will find abundant scope for his propensities in the hour and half at noon, and the four hoursof evening; while his sober neighbour, whose wholesome tastes carry him out of noise, smoke, and tainted air, to seek health and quiet in the suburbs, will find that he is debarred the ordinary refreshment which nature craves. If, when he is outward bound he does not arrive at his goal till half -past two, he must remain thirsty and jaded till six ; if on his return, be is not at his destination before ten, he must wind up his one day of ease in the seven with a mug of cold water. The complications of life are so various, and indeed endless, that not a single Sunday can ever pass without the stipulated hours in this vexatious act interfering with the convenience, the gpmforr, the necessities. of thousands. It is almost impossible to calculate the effect of social restrictions ; but there is a much greater likelihood that the orderly man who finds his innocent recreation turned into a penance, will have recourse in its place to some neigh bouring public-house where he can tipple and smoke from six to ten, than that those who are in the habit of profaning the Sunday by their over addiction to drink will be driven by the New Beer Bill to church between half-past two and six. In the meanwhile, the difficulties which might have been anticipated have arisen in the interpretation of the act. As it was impossible to decree that no person, under any circumstances, however urgent, should be permitted to taste drink at certain hours at a place of public entertainment, an exception is made in favour of lodgers and bona fide travellers. The police have main tained that the passengers who arrive in London by rail way are not travellers within the meaning of the act ; which, now that nobody comes from a distance by any other mode of conveyance, is equivalent to saying that a bona fide traveller cannot exist. If, on the contrary, the plea be admitted, and the person who has come all the way from Plymouth or York is no longer to be told, in defiance of truth and common sense, that what makes a dfrc.m dis t ingu ish a carriage, anden the the traveller on Saturd a y d ues no t ma k e one on Sunday, by whatmman wh magic i s really tl justpublican l alighte d t t e o roan who feigns a journey to obtain a pot of beer It is evident at a glance that the act must either be a nullity or an intolerable oppression. The determination of which it shall be rests for the present with the magistrates. At the Marylebone Po lice -court on Saturday last, Mr. Long, in the first deci sion which has taken place under the act, . rejected the stringent interpretation of the police, and gave a liberal construction to an illiberal bill. He held that a gentle man who went every Sunday from Northampton-square to Hampstead-heath for the express purpose of dining at the Castle Tavern, and breathing the Only fresh air he could get in the week, was a bona .fide traveller. An excursion to Psichmoud, Hampton, or Greenwhich, would in Mr. Lonts'e judgment, for the same reason, constitute an equel title to refreshment in the prohibited hours. It is to be hoped that his brother magistrates may adopt this view. Th e y will thus diminish as much a s po ssible the evils of a h a rsh and ill-digested m easure, un ti l Par liamenth can satisfy the judgment which already ywith it has been passed by the public, and amend or d o away altogether. 't the best it will be a bill of pains and penalties. But any rigid construe . t : on of it can ouly result in endless absurdities, co ntra :belong, injustice, and, wh a t other- hand, if any m e diu m is worst of all, fraud. On the . ovrt;ofr. to atid t he is tried between the lenoieltatheviie)olice, tN A. ,ho virtugally deny preposterous doctrine f of a Sunday traveller,. the necessities of the possibility will break through the ordinary trammels of the lifefw While honest men suffer, the less scrupulous will get by tr ic kery what they are refused as a right. HAMBURG.—The advices from Hamburg yesterday mention a further increase in the demand for money, dis count having advanced to 2 to 3. The French rate of exc h a nge is steady, with a tendency to renewed firm- ness. From Alexandria, also, the quotation shows an improvement, which will probably check therexport of sovereigns to that quarter. The Odessa advices are to the 18th inst., but they contain no information, except that one or two vessels had been engaged to carry lin seed to Loudon at 120 a, per ton. r,',7 t2ll - i