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

2,M08 E MAaKE; ANU COMM 1M OJAI, rNTaLICIEN=I,7 CITY, 'MO O'CLOCK The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at from 6,000 to 7,000 bale.i, 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 sid. to 100 Egyptian at sd. to 6id., 300 Surat at 3d. to 31d., and the remainder American. Railway Shares were firm at higher prices. The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon for three months' bills were rather weaker. Paris, however, ruled firm at 25 274 to 30. Amsterdam, 11 17 to 17i ; Hamburg, 13 51-1 to 6; Frankfort, 1184 to 1184. ; 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 advanced 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 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 siderable cost, have been resorted to since eman cipation was disposed of to meet the urgency, not only without success, but with an absolute failure and loss. Those efforts were made, Low ever, to supply the want of adequate labour occasioned by the natural repugnance of the eman cipated negro population to submit to the same continuous drudgery oil the estates as was exacted from them in the state of slavery. The introduc tion of free labour was attempted from Europe and Asia, but without effect. The Coolies brought from India returned on the completion of their hiring. The European white element either could not with stind 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 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 count.•y 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, whiPh 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 95f1. to 95k, and for account 95i and have so been done. Bank Stock is firm at 2081 to 2101, and, India Stock 226. Exchequer Bills are par to 2s. premium, and the Bonds of 1859 are quoted 98i. The New 31 per Cents. have ranged from 95i to 96, and the 3 per Cents. from 95 to 95L Foreign Stocks are at enhanced values generally. Mexican have improved to 24r, to 23. 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. Ciii lian Bonds, Six per Cents., are 104, and the Three per Cents. 73. Sardinian Bonds are rather flatter, being 871. 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 5.f 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. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds 6to Mexi can 24- to Z c , 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 18?-, to 18g, ditto 3 per Cents. 37 to 37k, ditto Certificates 41 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.—CLOSING PRICES. (Front the Official List. ) Rualee,. -"non Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 954 5 4 4 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 95 h 4p 5 3f per Cent. Annuities New 24 per Cent. Annuities Lunn. Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan., 1860 44 India Stock India Bonds, Lunn Consols for Account 13th S ep t. Exchequer Bills, 24d. £IOOO 2500 Small par 2 pm 3 Exchequer Bonds 1858, 3a per Cent. 9l pm par 8i Ditto 1859, „ PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS Tills DAY. Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent ........... Ditto 3 per Cent Mexican 3 per Cent. Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 37 4 8 B Panish New Deferred, 3 per Cent lB4 I Spanish Committee Cort. of Coup. not fun. 54 Turkish s cr i p 11, vidends on u., ahnve navA hie in London D utch Exchange, 24 per Cent. 12 Gull . 62 THREE O'CLOCK. Consols ..... ei.. , 9ss D itto Septela3r C: iLAREN DON MINING COMPANY OF JAMAICA.--This s company has iss,ued a report of the progress of or since April, at the various localities on their property, which it was agreed should be tested. According to this, the i ndication s at two places, called Stamford-hill and Mount Pleasant, offer a prospect. of remunerative returns for the labour employed, and the cost of which, up to the present time, has beers limited to 2,700/. The present Current expenses are about 3001. per month, which the director, eons;der sofficient until the success ful relding of the mines now in course of advancement shall encourage a further extension. • A inaster:•hip in St. Paul's Grammar School has be come vacant by the death of the Rev. Charles Coleby Roberts M. A. The rev, gentleman w as a l so curate o f St. Olive's Jewry, in the city of London. EN )RMOIIiii SHEET OF PAPER. --A day or two since Mess',,. Evans and Arrowsinith, of Bristol, received at their estahlishment a sl - n'et of paper weighing 3 cat., and measuring 2,784 feet in length, or more than half a utile. SIIAIE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) BRITISH RAILWAYS. loosing Prices this d,y 8 neineie done thin day. RAILVIAIIi. Aberdeen Asnbg Nottng. Bost. and Eastu. Junct... Belfast & Ballymena. Binning. Wo & Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lanesh. Cheshire Junct Do. Chesh. At £5O had £25 Cons. Myth & Tyno origina £25 (issd. at £45 . Bristol and Exeter... Caledonian Chester & Holyhead. Cork and Bzindon... Cork, Black, &Pass Cornwall Orloff Junction Dublin&BelfastJunc. Dundee PerthdtAber deeu Junction Do. New ...... East Anglian, Do., (.£lB E Si ID_ Eastern Counties Eastern Union, Stock ... . Do., 13. Stock IDo., New A. 'East Lancashire 'Edinburgh &Olasgoa Edinb. and Peebles... Edin. Pith & Dunde, Forth & Clyde Jun, illasgow&S. Weston Croat Northern IDo., A. Stoek,... Do., 1.3. Stock 'lt.Sth.&West.(lre. Great Western ...... Irish South-Easteri Lancaster & Cariis Do Thirds IDo. New Thirds Laneash.aud Y orks. !Do., Fifths 1)1., wht. Rbling Ur I,etts Nort horn Loudon & 131Ackm. Loud. Tilb. & '.mid. Brig Loud. awl N. We-t Do. Fifths 1)0.101. Sh., M&B Do. Eighths London and S. West, 'Jo., £5,.# .L:49 wiiidriy Colerain, !.ncludrry.& Enuis;, Mau. & Lin. Un. Midland it "F L )o. Birumg. & Deri);. G. West. (1 rd. )o. Half Sltares ‘;cureastle & Carlisl • Vewmru•ket )0., Bury Exteusiol, s;wpt.Aberg. & Cewry & Emiiskillui iewry Warrenpuinl And Rostrevor. 'iorfolk .. • ,rth n.Countics Lin N ,rth British N,rch Devon, No. 1 No. 2 io., . A Deferred., )0., i B Guarantee , iortli London Do. New £lO, 20 20 10 10 &S. Wstru. , Hami stead, and City Jn. forth Statfordslart, , North Western v. & S. Westru. Jun, Nuneaton, Elinokie., and Leicester Oxford, Worcester,r, Wolverhampton Portsmouth ieottish Central Scottish Midland ihrewsbury di Biling Do. L. di N. Wester. GuarauteadSt‘t.k shrewsby. do 11eief,, 811 re wsby. dt Cheste (N. W. IViiv.;.., Do. Halves,i Do. Oswestry ihropshire Union Do. A, B, C,& D,full paid up at per ee, South Devon iouth Easton,,, liouth Wales . St. 10 St. 25 i. Yrksh. & Riv. Dui Do 20 20 50 20 ;taines, Wok. &Wo! toekton & Darli. ;toektou & Hartley; NAT Vale Jo. £lO shares. Do. Pref., No, I__ Maraca Haven Doc 12i i and Railway Vale of Neal' Waterfd. & Kilkenn: Vaterford&Limerick \Vest Cornwall. 'Vest End of Loudol and Crystal Palace Nest London Vimbledn &Croy(10, York Newctl.&Rerw Do. Extension) , Igo. O. N. E. Pnrclvt% V (irk & N id! an d 95 76 7 73i 23 31 tor) 5 104 x4l xd 1A xd xd d d xd per cent. 10 all Antwerp&Rotterdan' 64 5 3 Scl,,ial) F,astn. Juuc. 14 20 8 ;eziers toGraissossa , 31 3 0 20 Tiaroda,au , i Central d s p •antral of Italy all2o .) ;i e i m ar e le ra ro ra i& Erquelin all .20 14 )oit and Besancon • p 20 9 hitch Rhenish 2t — 21 d '2O all 4- ;ast 2 ?•P 20 2 Do Extension..... 4d rya' it 5. all )t. Ludlam Peninsul, 4 p 20 10 :0. Juuct. of Franc, ••• P 25 10 :rd. Trunk of Canad 6 3 / 4 100 4; i ' , o. Debentures 7 6 d 100 all D o . d o — 20 10 It. Central of Franc, —lp 20?, all lt.WesternofCanaki, Shares l7i 18 100 all Do. Bonds (Ist is.)'s7 —•• • 1 201 all lamilton & Toronto 1d 191 100 all .Do. 6 per cent. 20 8 Lake C u nt. & Bash 5 all Lucca & Pistoj a 5 p.c. pref • dis 20 10 Tlreat Luxembour: Constituted Shares 21 3A- 2i 4 all Do. Obligations 2i 34 20 0 Lyons and Geneva 20 12 i.yons & Mediterran — 20 13: vhulras d— 4 ▪ p 33!, Vlaria Antonia ••• • 1 0 all Do. do. N ew 21' 2 folbourne Dk, &Ry 20 all Nam ur & L iege (w i tl , interest) 74 8 20 all Do. (ex interest) • •• 16 all N or th ern o f France. 34i —35 20 all Do. 201.3 p. c Bds. B & Ams.Shs. 124 —12 i 10 all NorwegianTrunkPref 8 9 20 14 Paris and Lyons 194 —2O p 40 all Ditto Bonds 20 all Paris and Orleans—. 48 50 20 all Paris and Rouen— 38 40 20 all Paris and Strasbourg ... • 20 10 i'arisCaen & Cherbrg. p m 104 101 Zuebee & Richmond • 20 all Rouen and Havre..... 234 23▪ 234 20 15 Royal Danish 4 d—ip 5 3 , loyal Swedish — d 20 all Sambre and Meuse... 71 8 10 all Do. 51 p. cent. Pref. 20 10 ioutherr of France.. ... pm 20 12 3t. Andrew's and Quebec (A) ..• ••• 8i all West Fl a nd e rs 3i 4 10 all Do 54 per c. Pref ... d 20 10 Western of France 6 20 1 i Nest. of Switzerland 6 all Wiesbaden ....... ••••• ••• 1 20 20 Zealand 3 vibrinsmorm, MISUELLANRO US 5 all tibin Coal and iron ••• 25 17: •ustralian Agrittult. 424 —43pcd x d 20 6 l istralsti.Pcille.M a i! ••• 10 all :u s t ra l n. R oyal Mail • 10 4 terlin water Works ... ••• 50 40 'hit. American Land 05 70 5 1 Irit. & Coln. Smeltg. 100 and Reducti on C o.. 5 324 -.)anada ................. —95 5 :rystal P a 1 a ce........ 34 90 31 3 5 34 Do. N ew e• ••• ••• •• • 4 all crystal Pal.of France 20 5 slastern Steam. ....... 25 20 I.'nectricTelegraph(A) 16 17xn 16 25 all Do. (B) ................ 1 1 t'lectrie Teleg. H of Ir. • 15 14 len. St eam N av i gat. .. 20 all leneral Screw Steam 20 10 Trish Beettoot Sugar 20 10 Magdalena St. Navig. 1 all slat. Pat. Steam Fuel 10 5 Netherlands Land.... 2 1 N, S. W. Coal & Inter. Steam Navigat. Co. 1 all N. B. Australasian... it 1 )o. New .•• •.. 20 124 irth.ofEuropeSteam 5 all soel Rr. Ld. & Minrl. 4 44 4 50 all Peninsnla.r& Oriental . o 50 40 Do. Do. . 2 all Portland Iron C 0.... 2 24xd 100 60 Royal Mail Steam 1 all Scot. Austral. Invest. 24 2Axd 25 25 South Austral. Land 34 1 all Submar. Telegraph., 1 all Do. Registered. ll " aSawirax Diemen !.ancl jai ci 70 - 72 7i - 8 3 - Pi 184 19 4 - 5 23 - 95 43 - 5i .•. 6 - 7 - 76 FOREIGN. 22 - 22 5 - 5I 9 - 10 lli--10i o 16i 17t 97 - 99 65 - 66 15i - 16: 11 - 13 24 - 7 - 8 ... - ... 17 - 18 12 12 69 - 71 58 - 60 .. ---- ... 24 - 25 6S -7) ri; - 69 - 71 25 - 128 91 - 96 751 - 76 90 11 13 t 11 73 oi -- 5 I.t . . u Ii 7 4 IC4. par - 4 • 83 84 9 8.1 8 7 . - 23}- 25/ 72 0 - 45 ,• .... ... .• .". • • • ,• • • • 1 d par 8 6 2A 3 5A 47 41 3g I 14 ... 7 9 1} - - 70 53 - (5 - 4d. p ! 44 3j I 6i par 2 p 36 - ZS 94 - 96 62 - C 4 73 - 75 181 19, 91 i 4 —1 5 i 3a 30 13 - 15 6 .201 -33 i ii = 33 6t 4 -- 3io' 544 LEN ES eiXEI) RENT,:-14 Lca.slug compans. Closing Prices this day. RAILWAY.. tedford and Iletchloy 3uckgliamsli. Clydesdale Je. E. Lincoln gr. 6 pcx cent. 1:las. Barr. Neils. Direct 1)o. New 31str.e.z Dn. Ft Dk. Railway hull & Selby Do. Shares. Do. Shares. Lon. & Greenw Do. Preference Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per ct. anch. Bxtn. and Matlock Aiddlesbro' Redcar 25 12i 134 20 121 St. St. 25 N. Wert L&N.W. Wedon._ • 3.Nrthn. 95 - 100 97 - 99 136 - 139 all 100 100 18i Aidld.Bradfd Northern and Easternsp.e. Do. 6 per et. Do. Fixed.s p Prest. & Wyre Do. 1 Shares. aoystn.&Hit. Do. Shepth. St ihef.Roth a••( - . Gooleg. 5 p.c. .. Stailordsh. Wear Valleygx 6 per cent... Wilts&Somrs' Do ITestn, New. gz Berw. V. &N Do Do 3. Eastern Do Business this day. 136; Norfolk. L.& N. W. & Midi& itek ton & Darnugt. Aidlaud..l . Count, D 0........ , Do L. &N.W &Ln&Yk Do It Northb Do 1 fiancash& Yorksh. si. MCiean itockt. Darlingt. ItlVestn. ii - 30 'l2i - 136 23 - 24 2i - 21 Oi -: 96 59 - Cl 1'34 :. 137 .•• •• 21 lid . . 1 2 30 - 31 93 - 95 PREFERENCE SHARES. PREFERENCE 61.1. MI ES. ,erm....................... : . 3 , . 100 \.i,crileen - • W P St. 10,1 Do, No. 2, p. c . 25 30 Myth and Tyne 10 per ... : iitrb Wlxttion.c. c. pref. (issd. at 500 ... ... St. LOO Brie. & Ex. 4p. c. St. ... ... SUN OFFICE ____ Six o'Clock. _______ 20 5 Do. 4p. c . Shares ... ... ... __ , St. 100 (Jaledonian £lO 96 —9B 974 15 all ;Theater & Holyhead Guar. 54 per cent._ ... ... DERBY RACES . tii 6 4 :lurk &Bandens,lp.e. 1j —id GI all Dundee Perth&Aber decu Junction 3), all ~, astAugliatt (1:310s) 6 per cent 3l 34 5 all Do. (£5) 7 per cent 4 5 (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH . ) 7.i 2 !10. (a.C7 17s) 7p. c. 4-- 11. 6' all ;:astern Counties Ex Pin SELLTNG STAKES. tetanen, 5 p.c. No.) 1 IA,, Mirabeau (it' all Do. No. 2 i 11!. Uncle 10 all . )o. New 6 p. c. 5... 131 131 2 20 :ill Eastern Uwou, Seri i CIIA.TS WORTH STAR ES. l;Uar. 6 per cent... 22 21 Jealous On e 5 all i to. 51., In nor cent. . - ... Le Juif 2 10 all Do. 101. DeLeutr.Sl,- ... ... St. 100 E: l st LaT/CaSII.I; p.ets. ... Five ran. CHESTERFIELD STAKES. 5 all F:ast and West York- shire June. Pref.., ...- „. Fa yaway . .• 1 5 all Ediub Prtli.&Dunde• 4 per cent. St. 1.1,.; liasgow &S.West.eri Guar. 5 per cent._ ... ...x.l CHELMS St. too =real Northn. sp. c. 116 118 118 FORD RACES • St. 1.00 Jo. sp. e. Redeem., • (T HI S DAY.) at 10 p. c. prem llO 112 111 St. 100 Do. 11 p. c. Scrip.... 101 103 10 Rz lt.N.ofScot.lstPre ... ... (BY ELECTRIC TELEG RAPH.) 6i all ;t. Southu.&Westm. (Ireland) Eighths)... ... --... CUP STAKES. 20 6 Do. 4 per c. Pref. Sh ... ... Rackapelt ................................ ...................... 1 SO 6 'it. Westu. (Berks & Vingt•un ......................................................... 2 Hants Ex. sp. e) 6 64 Three ran. St. too Do.cov. red. 44 p.c. 98 10) St. 100 Do. con. red. 4p. c 90 92 QUEEN'S PLATE. St . I_oo D. bred, 4p.c. Sharavogue 16 6 Lan. &York. F. £2lu 14 id Walked ove r . St. too Do. 6p. c. Stock ... 134 136 137 ar this day,) fine harvest h 20 13 Leeds N. 6p. c. No.l ... .. STATE OF TRADE. 12r. 9 Do. Quarters, 1848 .. ... ... •••• St. 100 London and Brighton Guaranteed sp. c ... ... ... (From naEnsci t T h Ea , e R Manchester decline u g. 20 9 G .T u tho a e r i d roe ia om. n apr o k f e St. 100 Do. Pref., sp. e. St. ... ... • weather f A Ne , 50 all 'Do. Convertible, sp. c., 1852 . ••• .•• price of new wheat, have exercised a beneficial influence St. 100 Do. New Guar.l3 p. c. ..._ ... upon this day's market. The tendency towards rather St.; 100 uneaton Lon.&N. W., Coy. & ••• ••• lower prices was ob serva bl e l as t wee k in some descrip -50 5 Loudon &S. Western N lions of yarns and goo d s seems to b e stopped, and an Cou. Thirds 24 3 p accession of some degree of firmness is sensibly felt. The 121 an liondonderry&Coler tone of the market is improved, and buyers have been 4 Shares 7 8 rather more inclined for business than they were ; but 121 all Londy.&Ennis.iSh lO 12 all that can be stated in the wayof improvement in 25 all 'slam., Slid., & Lin, prices is the fact that, in many instances, sellers would 4 Shares, No. 1. 10 all Do. New, £lO ll 11:, - they will not make now. The transactions in yarns 121 6 41 Do. have still been limited, but they show an increase. For all Nlarypt.&Carl.4p c. ... ... printing cloths, T cloths, long cloths, and domestics, 1.2 all Do. 41 per cent ••• ..• 12; 1.W . , Do ••• .., there is a moderate demand. We have before stated it. 100 Aid. Consol.6 p.c.St. ... ... that the extremely low prices to which India goods had it. 1.00 Do. Consol. Bristol & fallen were drawing the attention of merchants to those Birm. 6 per cent 133 —l3sxd 131 articles, and inducing some speculative operations. This 16% 114 ')o. Pref. 41 per cent 1— id die has been more decidedly the case to-day. Some few 10 ii Norfolk Debenture St. 100 Do, Pref. 4p. c. Stock 88 —92 St. 100 Do. 5 p.c. Ext lO2 105 ... morning ; and, as these report e d a re t urn i ng demand, St. :00 .)o. 51 per ct. both for yarns and good s a t C a l cu tt a, w i t h some advance pref ... in prices, considerabl e o p era ti ons i mme d iately arose out St. 100 Do, Way. Val. 5 P.C. ... ... St. 100 North British of them, principally i n 39-i nc h s hi rt i ng, weighing about 20 all North Stafford s hi re ... -•• 71b. ... St. 100 Oxford, Worcester, & HALIFAX, Aug. 26.—Worsted goods are but slow of Wolverh..£ls,6p.e. 116 120 sale, without any improvement in prices. Yarns are in 15 15 Do • ••• demand ; but, as the merchants are unwilling to give 84 all Scot. Cent., New Pre; ... ... such rates as the s pi nners cons i der remunerative, new 8 all Shrews. St Birm.N.G. 10 11 contracts are not readily entered into. There is a mo -10 all iltrewsby. & Chester derate business doing in wool, which is firm at the /ate (Nor. W. Min), 8 p.c. 17 18 quotations. 1.0 10 Do. 5 per cent lO4 —lO lo all South Devon l2 —l4 14 fixed,4 per cent id 4 P RominALE. Aug. 2S.—Th ere h as b een a very good demand for flannels to-d a y, a t ra th er b etter prices, and a lO De. 4 06 all 8. Eastern (Readingconsiderable amou n t o f b us i ness h as b een transacted. Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. 231 21 The wool market remains steady, and the tendency of ',t. 100 Do. 4ipei cent. 10 all Yorkeli.4p.e.Guar ... HUDDERSFIELD, Aug. 29.—We have have had a qu i e t , 5 all Stockton and Dar. .i. ... market to-day in both the Piece-hall and the warehouses. The fancy woollen and vesting trade has been quieter lington, 4 per cent ... ... 5 5 Do. do. do ... ... than for some ti me past. V, all Stockton and Hartle pool, guar. 5 p. c. till Ist July, 1856 ... 1 .. ___ - 2 5 Waterfd.&Kilk.6p.e. g 1 Ai i A tiPi ET N EIVS—(THIS DA Y.) t. 100 York, Neweastle,and Perwick,4 p.e. Pref.! 92 95 o 1 7 5 Do I :ii 3 i CORN EXCHANGE. E , t't 10 York&N. 51i dlandll. The show o f E ng li sh wheat in to-day's market was a ..,,i -, Pneeii...., I ii --i (-1 chiefly composed of TlPtir nllaii+ino ;r1 t.,r•Aa1irk,11..,.... I,,___ t 5 lo St. 5 15 8J 8 10 10 25 10 1.06 MINES. 1 I all JAgua Fria 1 all Anglo Austrln. Gold 10 all Anglo Californian - 10 2 Australasian — 20 6 Australian l4 —l/ 1 all Australian Cordillera ... - 1 all Australian Freehold 1 all Ave Maria — 1 all Baden (Gd.Dachy of) i -- 1 . 50 all Blamarvon Iron and Coal . In. Gold 2 1 0 a . l s !' Britishl t A s Iron ust r 8 35 .44BrazilianItup.(issued l at £5 pm 3 4 30 all Do. Cocees & Cuiaect 11 24 20 15 'Do. St. John Del Rey 26 —2B A Carsous's Creek — 40 all Cobre Copper 42 44 42 5 1 Colonial Gold 1 ... 16 Copiapo ll 12 St. all Copper Min. of Eng 52 57 25 all Do. Prof. 74 p. cont 1 3 p 5 all English and Austin Copper Smeltg. Co l4 11 14 20 all General — 1 all 'Gt. NuggetVeiußeg — 2 Do. Registered — 3f, all Great Polgooth. > 1 all Lake Bathurst — 1 all Liberty 4 - 3 all Linares 8 ... 9 1 all Lond.&Californ.Gold Quartz Crush. Co — 1 all Mariquita ........ 10 9 Mexhan&S.Amerien. 6 —64 1 all Now Granada 1 all New Linares Mining and Smelting Co 1 all Nouveau Monde - 20 all Pontgibaud Silver Lead Min. & Smelt. 154 164 5 1 Port Philip 1 all Quartz Rock 50 all Rhymney iron — 23 15 15 Do. Now B4 94 30 11/ Santiago do Cuba 5 6 1 all South Australian..., 10 7 Tin Croft ...... ..... 284 all Unit e d Mexican 1 all W es t MariPosa 1 all Waller — 4 1 all West Granada,,,,,, 1 12s . WAoursttkilanlgia of ... • 1 all Yuba .. 40 all Austra • lasat ........... 83 35 40 all British Colonial Bank and Loan :ritisb N. 5 1200 2 5 0 5 0 ' 2 1.1 5 1 JOINT -STOCK . I I. k u e f: ll l : d e. iAsiaa 1211: 8 17 Australia, & chith. ••• „, x d 100 20 • ;ounnercial of Lona. 31 33 20 14 Scottish and Australian 2 4 2 d 118 20 20 Loud. Chart. Bk. 01 Australia 50 20 London and County ,,„ 50 10 London Joint Stock ,„ ...• L u nd. & Westminst er x d 10J100 20 35 National Provincial of England 20 10 Do. New •• --• • • 50 Z 2/ National of Ireland ,„ 20 all - New South Wales— 39 41 25 all trienta.l Bank of Corporation. 46 48 25 5 Do. New 100 25 Provincial of Ireland „, 10 all Do. New • • ••• 5 1 itoyal Australn.iikg & Gold Imp Co 25 all iouth Australia 4l 43 25 all Union of Australia.. 65 67 664 ... 2 00. New 74 84 50 , 10 Union of London CORN EXCHANGE. The show of English wheat in to-day's market was chiefly composed of new qualities, in excellent conditi on, many of the samples weighing Gas per bushel. Very fear millers were in attendance, and the trade was in a d o - Frosse4l state, at Monday's &cline. Foreign wheat was in full average supply, and heavy request. Prices were nominally the same as last advised. Floating cargoes were considerably lower to purchase. The barley trade was very dull, and the quotations had a downward tendency. In malt scarcely any business was doing. o.tts moved off heavily, and the quotations were not supported. Beans, peas, and flour were almost nominal. The top price of English flour 'l as 55s per 2801bs. Aftaivets THIS WS &K. Barley. Malt. I Oats. 1 Flom% 20 1,770 110 740 1,1'13 3,130 12,043 120 ska 400br1 En.lllsh Irish .... Foreign .. Wheat, 1,050 6 ,040 IiONV HERRINGS SELL IN AusTßAL sign7 ment of Wick herrings, to the extent of 80 barrels, was sold Melbourne in May last, by public auction, at 2s. 6J. per barrel. The buyer, a Wick cooper, sold then in a day or two thereafter at 225. per barrel.— Edinburg& Witnos. WH ITECHAL. The sale f or each kind of meat PE was heavy, as follows : Beef from 3s 4d to 4s 6d ; mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 8(1; lamb, 4s 2d to os 4d; veal, 2; 10(1 to 4s Od ; pork, 3s 4d to 4s 8d per Bibs by the carcase. There is a sli B OROUGH HOP. kinds of ho ght im provement in the demand for m os t p 55,0001. s, at very full prices. Duty, 50,000/. to LLOYD'S SH IPPING -(THIS DAY.) _,______. LONDON, Aug. 30.—Wi ___ nd this day at Noon, S.W. ; light pleasant bree ze , and fi_ue, clear, sultry weathe r . PTEEHOUTH, Aug. 29.—wind, S.E. to W. Sailed-- Blenheim, for Calcutta. PLYnioUTII, Aug. 29.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Melina, from Labrador; Terra Nova , ton s ound. dine (s), from London, and left for Dublin. Sailed—Lyra, FALMOUTH, Aug. 29.—wi for Dunkirk ; Zareh, London ; Bohemian Girl, Newport ; Cobden, Limerick. nd, variable. Arrived—On- SOUTHAMPTON, Aug. •29 Wind, N.W. Arrived— anti left for London. GLOUCESTER, Aug. 29. ; Duke of Cornwall (s), Dublin, Gloria Deo, from Altona Arri ved —Diamond, from Alex andria. SWANSEA, Aug. Wind, N.B. Arrived—Liver pool, for Cape de Verde • ; Albatross, Alexandria ; Tunis, Algiers. 2 5 9 t ..._ . y w a i e u r d, sm.. —.Y-Vir; AincdtiveB,.NB.oEr.wayA. rrived— Glycon, from St. Vaast ; Emilie, Dram ; Free Briton, Aug. 29. Arrived -Cornelta, 6 uNDEBLAND, and Richard Cobden, dottenburg ; —Wind W.N .W. HULL, Aug. 29. —Wind, Arrived —Schelde (e), and Ernerrld (s), from Antwerp ; Falcon (9), Ham burgh ; Jessie Marie, and ilu'uber ( 8 ), Stettin • Mathilde, Argo, Joseph, Christian, and Tritan, Archangel ; Queen from Qulie Ab e e H R w o ; In i ct e d u ' e n lA d a iu . dge: Harnburgh. Sa iled—Elida, for Idalaga ; of Scotland (8), Fraternity, Sundswald. Stockholm ; Anna, 29. —W i nd, W SHIELDS, Au g.—u ,.. W.Arrived—Alice Cleve land, from Cartnagena ; 6usannah, Hamburgh ; cisk and Maria, Stettin. Sailed — Pilia, for Rio Janeiro. Fran- HOLYHEAD, Aug. 30. —The M. inerva, from Liverpool to Cork has sunk on Coal Rock , the crew and passengers saved. he Henry DANTMC, Aug. 27.—T _ y and Elizabeth, bound to London, which was on shore on IL•la, arrived in Fair. water this morning, when she will have to discharge, being leaky. iAug.- MONTEGO BAY (Jama-ca, 1 •A g• 8 • Lie Harriet (slo o p) belonging to the owners of the b arque Alice, has be en lost ; she had seventeen puucheons of rum on board, which was all lost. (BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday, 10.20 a.m. Wind, N. ; tide, 21 hours ebb ; fine. Arrived—The Archn Magdal ene Sophia, and Eleanor Sophi a , f r om angel. Sailed—The Royal Saxon, for Sydney; City of Rotter dam ster (s)dam, fo . r Dunkirk ; Belgium ( s ), O stend ; Diana (s), Am DEAL, Wednesday, 10.10 a.m. Wind, S.W. ; light and fine. Passed—Maria Gabrielle, from London, for Syd ney ; Clara, from London, for Leghorn ; Onward from Quebec ; Pacific, from Nassau; Robert Newt on, from St. Kitt's— for London. KING'S' COLLEGE HOSPITAL. Yesterday the out. patients' department in the new building of King's Col ) Hospital was opened for the reception of patients. At present it is approached from Cl ement's-lane, till the howl's in Grange-out aro polled down. - # itco:lott t nn CHELMSFORD RAGES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPIT.) CHAMPAGNE STAKES. Calista. f.. Guitar Two ran. TOWN PLATE. Rackapelt John o' Bruges Three ran. STAND STAKES. vestige .... St. Faith .. DERBY RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH-) SUDBURY STAKES. F10ri5t...... . ........................................ . Le Juif Ten ran. INKEEPERS' PLATE—No race. ARRIVALS AT LINCOLN.' Kingston, Lady Vernon, Arribas, Seducer, Horatio, Diligent, Cherry Brandy, Vanessa, Van Winkle, Gar forth, Cleveland, Snowdon Dunhill, and Jack Sheppard. AUSTRIAN AND PR uss rA N 411 7 ,3 WEB TO THE _NESSELRODE NOTE. The Frankfort Post Gazette publishes both these replies to the Nesselrode note of the 29th of June, as they have been laid before the German Diet. The following is Count Buol's reply : " TO COUNT VALENTINE ESTERHAZY, AT ST. PETERSBURG. " Vienna, July 9. " Prince Gortsebaloff has communicated to me a despatch of the Chancellor of the Empire, which con tains the reply of the Russian Governinew, 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 enterinto 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 in, in her favour the equilibrium which, elsewhere espe- I 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 " 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 AR, 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 maritin - ,e Powers, and the more so as, on the whole, it appeals to us to convey a sincere desire that an arrange►nent 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 addre , sed 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 dues not permit us to exercise a direct influence upon the military operations of those Powers, and that, conseque , itly, ouraction mtn.t be limited to a recommendation that they ,hould take it to grave consideration the c. - n , equences which their decision may produce, and to r6ple , ent to them that all Governments are equally ca!b , d upon to concur in pacific eff , rts, by makin:r every sacrifice compatible with their honour and with their interests. "In authorisiog you, AI: le Comte, to communicate the present despatch to the Chanceitor of the Ewpire, I remain, &c., (S:gned) " Duor.." The following is the text of the Prussian reply : " TO M. LE BARON WERTHER, AT ST. PETINISBLIP.G. "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 had supported the demands of Austria, contained in a despatch addressed to Count Esterhazy, dated the 3d of the same month. I add, nevertheless, a copy, as w-11 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 Bud berg, 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 spalmon 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, Al. le Baron, to the knowledge of Count Nesselrode, and receive, :lc., (Signed) " INIANTEUFFEL." TEE NEW STAMP ACT. It was mentioned on Saturday that a question had aria en 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 aft& that day, or to alit hat may the❑ 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 appear.. 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, A ug . 25. Sir —I am desired by th e G overnors o f t h e 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 men cintile 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 its 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 whether 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 t o bill s d rawn a b road 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 England without all the others. " Is it intended absolutely to prohibit the negotiability of one part of a bill unless all parts are transferred, or to require that each of the parts negotiated where they are not all transferred at the same time shill 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 hill, 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. "1 am directed to state in reply, that al the duties contained in the schedule of the Stamp Act alluded to (in cluding the duties on foreign bills) Lake 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, 1834, and to all foreign bills drawn out of the United Kingdom which shall be presented for payment, paid, 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 they 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 tn all the bilPs 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 (si 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 obedi en t servant, J. R. Elsey, Esq." " THOMAS KEOGH. SUDDEN DEATH.-013 Friday afternoon, John Mat thews, Esq., solicitor, of Oxford, was about leaving his office to return to his residence at Ileadingtorx, 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 T 11.5 Hl' ALAY.A ' AND THE SCOTS GREYS. Her Majesty's steam-ship Hinialaya arrived. at Scutari, after a rapid passage from Liverpool of 10 days 22 hours, on the evening of the 7th inst. Col. Griffith and the 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 aptain 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 are copies of the addresses pre sented to Captain Kellock and Mr. Lane, and of the replies of those gentlemen :‘ " Koulalie Barracks, near Constantinople, Aug. 11. "Dear C a pt a i n Kellock,—W e the undersigned officers of the S co t s G reys, canna allow thS Himalaya to-leave us without our expressin g to you how grateful wie• 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 service. Your 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 wislie have been met in the kindest possible manner, and eves since we landed we have been indebted to you for many a comfort which we could not have enjoyed but for ycur considerate care for officers and soldiers. We beg that you will do us the favour of accepting a, small testimonial hi token of our sense of all you have done for us, and, with every wish for your welfar e and prosperity, " We remair, dear Captain Kellock, "Yours very sincerely, "Lieutenant -Colonel GRIFFITHS, and all the Officers. " 'Presented to Captai n Ad am K ellock, of her Ma jests's steamer Himalaya, by Li eut.-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 gratifiA by the receipt of your letter of this date, and a!so by the testimonial ytni have been pleased to present me with. It is at all times pleasing to find (in the ex cution of a public duty) that :ippreciation which the contents of y , ur letter lead me to believe you have formed of my efforts ; and I hope you will :tinny me to add that I have felt honoured by the opportunity afforded me of conveying so distinguished a regiment to the seat of war. In conclusion, al.ow 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. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—It has for some years been too much the habit of English writers to st,gtuatise the law of marriage in Scotland as unsatisfactory, and productive of injurious cinsequences ; 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 form of marriage, while the Scotch disregards the farm, 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 SCOTITS. PRIVATE AND JOINT-STOCK BANKS. The Banker's Magazine furnishes the returns of circu lation of the private and joint-stock banks in E'ugland 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 month, viz. : Private banks Joint-stock banks 2,883,243 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 £53,702 A decrease in the circulation of the joint-stock bauks of 47,249 Decrease on the month 4300,051 and, as compared with the return f.)r the corresponding period of last year, viz., Angust Gth, 1853, it shows— A decrease in the circulation of the private banks of A decrease in the circulation of the joint-stock banks of 110,753 Decrease on the year £252,766 On comparing the above with the amounts of the fixed issues, the following appears to be the comparative state of the circulation : The private banks are below their fixed issues... £1,036,963 The joint-stock banks are below their fixed issues 443,614 Total below their fixed issues.. .t'1,479,5' 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 Lad proved extremely advantageous, and had been acted upon vigorously, especially in the poor and crowded districts. It was stated that the slaughter-houses had been care fully examined, and Mr. B. 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, in consequence of the vast exertions of the commission, the dreadful disease bad not 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 had 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 of 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 Medical 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, a n d repaired by the commission, were ordered to be sued for costs. c The Blenheim, Indiarnan, sailed from Spithead yester. day, at five p. m., for Calcutta, full of j,a,sengers. THE MI LBANK CONVICTS AT DORCHESTER. --The excitement in Dorchester on the subject of the recent re moval of the healthy portion of the convicts from Mil. hank prison to the vacant military barracks in that town i s gradually subsiding, and as the prisoners all continue healthy, and many of the local traoesmen 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 ive buildings are i n contemplation, for which th e planse xtens and sections have been approved by the Government. The high wall at present entirely surrounding the barracks is to he 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 tablishment, 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 l various public-houses in the town. The only aduition o a precautions at present adopted for the safe custod 800 convicts are the erection of perpend icular removal of bars to the outside of the windows, and . the t the I the partitions from the passages leading o r a guard apart ments over the stables. There is, ho f w l eve p k r e e p v t en a t t ing ea t c h h e e o n o t n r v a i n o c t e e , es f oa or pin th g e convicts are at strangers into the establishment. The aimuriapaniosen of tion of the warders, but, as more a mat weaving aPPa antdwathoed a present exercised, by circular paraedeoluvondaeirldthperoifintasphelce. occupation is imperatively needed, rattle bat) been ordered. ~ 27 1 1E -Theitrall:QcSlT MONOPOLY AND THE NEW BEER - BILL. •• (From the Examinfr.) The committee of the House of 'Commons, which in 1 quired during the past session into the operation of the laws affeeting public-houses, have recommended a change in the system of licensing. Any person at present, by complying with certain conditions, can obtain a license from the Excise for the sale of malt-liquor ; but the power to grant licenses for the sale of spirits rests with the magistrates, who confine the urivilege to a select few, instead . of throwing open the trifle 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, ie the vast majority of instances, to sustain the competition ; and thereby the magistrates have virtually the power of nominating the dealers in both departments of thie 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, b e c ause 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 l'on matters of Church and State are not in accordance with those of the justices of his locality, has very little 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 houses exist in different hands to prevent a monopoly. That it is otherwise in the country ; and it is here that the mischief of the licensing system is most strongly felt. The licens e 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 value of the building, because the purchaser knows that he is likewise buying the right to supply the neighbour hood with ale , beer, and spirits. Permission to open new houses is very sparingly granted ; aid the bree er dpiens strict, the hashtohlee monopoly et' of th who ow ns th e village public-house, or, as frequently hap es of a considerable she is full o f ev i de n ce upon this head which is quite irre-is 7eus market. The report tilde. Knowing that the people must drink his beer, or go without, the brewer's Only care is to make it of such a quality as that it ehal; seem better than none. The publican, ag in, who receives an inferior article, of which the wort ingredient is cell-Imo:Ay an excess of water, adapts it. to the dull and craving paastes of his customers by a large admixture of salt, sugar, and drugs. Those who are accustomed to whole comer beverag.eS can seldom drink a glass of beer at a wn3Nide pub lic-Howse without hav:ng t o p ay hea- N iiy fur the refreshment with headache. le siegle cir cumstance is of itself sufficient to show the advantege which is taken by the country brewer of this wonstrone privilege—for sueli it surelfis— to he tae 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 cme 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 con forming to the regulations of the Legislature. To this it has been objected that the multiplication of public houses will give a stimulus to drunkenness. The objeo 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 b rew it ? not wheth er h e s h a ll 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 o f 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 an 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 instances 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 they 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 advanlageous 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 for time, 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 evilpointed out by the committee, has /se tually had the supsAtt 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 have connived at an evil. Something, it was foreseen, must be sacrificed to public opinion ; and the sprat has been resigned, in the hope of being rewarded for such an act of virtue by permission to keep the whale. In Tither words, the more influential • among the li censed victuallers have allowed' 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 tee. 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 be 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 jnded till six ; if on his return, he is not at his destination before ten, he must wind up his one day of ease in the seven with a mug of cold eater. 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 comfort, 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, how ever 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 bones 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 traveller on Saturday does not make one on Sunday, by what magic is the publican to distinguish between the roan who is really just alighted from a carriage, and the wan 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 constructioa to an illiberal bill. He held tnat a gentle man who went every Sunday from Northampton-square t to Hampstead -heath for the express purposeforefddi air r g he the Castle Tavern, and breathing the could get in the week, was a bane excursion to Richmond, Hampton, s in Mr. Long's judgment, r fi -Gdrcen l e Y 'v r traveller.hi oh , would came reason, constitute magistrates may adopt It is to be hoped that his brother h • i s as much as possible an equal title to refreshm ib e r n t t h i e n the prohibited hours. the evils of a harsh and idll this view. They will thus d d i i g m es in ted measure, until Par ent which already has been p itm se ent_ d by the public, and can satisfy the judgment or do away with it altogether. At the best it will be a bill of pains and pe na lti es. But any riOd construction of it can only result in endless absurditiek, contradictions, injustice, and, w h at is worst of all, fraud. On the other hand, if any m e di um is tried between the lenient views of ,Mr. Long and the prepo s t e rous doctrine of the police, who vi r t ua ll y deny li t ai h f,e e v .w p g i b b h r i i Ileieat,Y of a k honest thro u Sunday g men h tshueff eor r, traveller, dtihneary the less trs ac mrnecessitiesscrupulous of wt get by trickery 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 21 to 3. The French rate of exchange is steady, with a tendency to renewed firm ness. From Alexandria, also, the quotation shows an improvement, vvhieh will probably check the export 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 Lyndon at 120 s. per ton. ... 60 50 20 20 THE SUN, LoNDON, IiTEDNESDAV -FTyE,NANoe- AUGUST 30, 1854