The Sun. — London, England, 1854-07-26 00:00:00

Liberal party. He is 72 years of age. He was a member of the Cabinet in 1823, and was wounded in resisting the French intervention that year, under the Duke of Angouleme. There can be no doubt that the appointment of General San Miguel is only temporary, and for the purpose of conduct ing the affairs of the moment, till the arrival of Espartero. Private letters of the 19th state the Progressistas and Republicans have united on the understanding that the throne of Queen Isabella will be preserved. It is also said that the convocation of the Consti tuent Assembly is not yet determined on. The friends of the monarchy are very anxious to oppose the convocation of the Constituent Assembly, as it is feared that it will be dangerous to the Crown. With respect to Queen Christina, it is said that she is still in concealment in Madrid, and that her hiding-place is the French embassy. The following is a copy of the address which Espartero issued to the inhabitants of Logrono, when leaving that place. It ran thus : "I quit Logrono, my adopted country during the ' last seven years. My country and the call of liberty require me to act, and I leave for invincible Saragossa. During my absence obey the orders of the most serene Junta, and uphold the liberty that has been achieved. Signed) " DUKE DE VITTORIA." FR ,tiNCE. MM. Black and Durand, merchants at Constan tinople, who are charged with the negotiation of the Turkish loan, are now in Paris, and have placed themselves in communication with the Credit Mobilier and M. Mires for that object. It does not appear, however, that these negotiations have as yet led to any definitive result. It is said that a proposition to facilitate the loan was this day presented by the Marquis de Lavalette, ex-Minis ter of France at Constantinople. / The weather has become for the last three or four days intensely hot ; the accounts from the provinces would show it to be general, and they also are highly favourable as to the crops. If the present weather lasts the harvest will be abundant. The accounts contained in the Moniteur as to the progress of the harvest are of the most favour able nature. A considerable fall had taken place in most of the markets, and the yield was expected to be one-fourth more than the average. The following are the last returns of the gross receipts of the principal French railways : n ze e a,- Cor wk. Dates. P g Goods. I Total. rs last year Northern ioly 9 July 15 381,809 418,/04 803,013 669,052 (3 ` 4 " 1 ••••• • • . filly 9 July 15 107.429 100,681 208,110 430,4 . 6 Havre ........ fuly 9 July 15 38,125 5 .5 88,770 102,845 Orleans an, _ fuly 9 July 15 383,495 487,808 8 71,363 695,582 Strasburg •. fuly 9 July 15 275,327 3 3 937 609, 26 4 592,863 r.ontereau.... July 9 July 15 11,551 17,337 28,88 N en ` •• • • ... fuly 9 July 15 267 721 198,067 485,7 , 8 392.128 r " te rn •••• •• July 10 July 16 141,992 43,700 185,692 137,831 Dons to the M editerranean July 2 July 8 127,237 129,956 257,193 Grand Central (Lyons to Ro. arine) • July 2 July 8 52,123 136,724 188,817 164,105 W4l The Three per Cents. closed yesterday at 70f. 95c. for the end of the month ; and the Four-and-a- Ilalf per Cents. at 97f. 90c. ; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,167 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 1,017 f. 50c. ; Havre, 5 72 f. 50c. ; Great Northern, 816 f. 25c. ; Strasburg, 785 f. • New Shares, 620 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 941 f. 25e. • ' Lyon s t o th e M e dit erranean, 840 f. ; W estern of France, l 640 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 605 f. ; Great Central of France, 492 f. 50c. ; Lyons and Geneva, 502 f. 50 c . ; B an k o f Credt Mobilier, 68 3 f. 75e. MARKET NEWN-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. We had a very limited supply of English wheat in to day's market, yet so little business was transacted in it that Monday's prices were nominally unaltered. The show of foreign wheat was good; all kinds moved qlif heavily, and the quotations were almost nominal. There was nothing doing in floating cargoes. Barley and malt were dull, and most descriptions were offering on lower terms. The was very little inquiry for oats. Beans and peas were excessively dull. The flour trade was heavy, at Monday's quotations. Wheat. 220 ARRIVALS THIS WEER. Barley. Malt. 1 Oats. Flonr. 10 2,040 I GO ( 960 14,470 I 2,790 brl English .. Irish Foreign .. 7,310 1,320 i- BOROUuU HOP. There is very little business doing in our market, and Prices are next to nominal. Duty, 50,0001. to 60,0001. WHITECHAPEL. The demand ruled heavy, as follows :—Beef from 3s 2d to 48 4d ; mutton, 3s 4d io 4s 8d ; lamb, 48 4d to 5s 4d ; *veal, 3s 2d to 4s 8d ; pork, 3s 4d to4s 8d per Blbs by the carcase. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, July 26.—Wind this day at Noon, E ; light pleasant breeze, and fine weather. OFF THE SOUTH FORELAND, July 26.—(Per Elec. Tel.) - -Grafton, St. John's. OFF THE START, July 22.—City of Hamilton, from Montreal. LowEsTorr, July 25.—Wind, E.N.E. Arrived—Maria, from Ham burgh. HARWICH, July 25.—Wind, E. Arrived —Lady Eliza beth. flomiLondon, for Rotterdam ; Adler, do., for Altona. SOUTHAMPTON, July 24.—Wind, SE. Arrived—Anna, Cobjornsen, from Christiana ; Henricus, Emden. PLYMOUTH, July 25.—Wind, E. Sailed—Peltona, for Malta. PORTSMOUTH, July 25.—Wind, S.S.E. Arrived—So hia, from Gefle ; Moses, Tonsberg ; Gratitude, Brevig. a.iled—Leila, for Cadiz. FALMOUTH, July 23.—Wind, E. Arrived—Packet, from Rio Janeiro ; Ursus Mino, Krageroe. Off Port— iiindoo from Havannah, for Hull ; Rainbow, Quebec, f or South am pt on ; Ad o lph von Nassau, Samarang ; Clio, Quebec,. OF DUNGENESS, July 24.—Arrived—Swea, from New York, for Bremen ; Michael, Torrevieja. OFF BONCBURCH (Isle of Wight), July 24.—Arrived — A liarabargh barque, showing flag with No. 15 on it. BRLSTOL, July 25.—Wind, N.E. Arrived—Bellero- Phou, from Memel. Sailed Mary Ann Bruford, for Afrioa. Idn.FoRD, July 25.—Wind, N.B. Sailed—Birkenhead, for Q uebec. .. - - - - W. kIIRENPOINT, July 24.—Wind, W. Arrived—Brothers, from Quebec MILL, July 25. —Wind, N.E. Arrived—Rostoff Rosen kage In, from Miramichi. SHIELDS, July 25.—Wind, N.E. Arrived—Pacific, from Licata • Angelia, Genoa. Co RK, July 22.—Wind, S. Arrived—Challenger, from St. .John's, N.B Sailed—Jantina Roeliva, for New York. ; Emilia, Lisbon. So ILLY, July '24.—Wind, E.N.E. Sailed—Lady Sale, for I:remen. Put back—Merliu, Francis Harbour, with loss a .f bowsprit and fureyard, and with mast sprung. ETTIN, July 23.—The Humber (s s), from Stettin to (cargo, wheat and spelter), is on share neaar Caseburg, in tl]t*-; river Swine, and must discharge part of cargo. GIBRALTAR, July 10.--The Cecilia (Danish schooner), from Marseilles to Falmouth, and the iron merchant steatiaer Lisbon (another report gives the name of this *ltem ner Pericles), from Bordeaux to Constantinople, with prov isious and specie (two million francs), came in con tact, on the 6th July, about 30 miles south of Malaga, when both vessels foundered ; crews (except one man) picke a up and landed at Malaga by the French lugger AL:trill—Viand, master. PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY, 10.30 A M. Wind, E S.E.; fine, Thi 3 Himalaya (screw steamer) sailed this morning, at 8 a.m., for the Mediterranean, with the Scots Grays (Second Deagt Ions) on board. )(BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday, 11.5 A.M. WI nd, E.S.E ; tide 11 hours' flood ; fine. Ari ived, 25th.—Merry Cutter, from Rotterdam ; Wil liam Thornborrow, Guernsey ; Young Hero, Konigsberg ; Anseealasia, Portland Bay ; Norfolk Lass, Rotterdam ; Aurae. Ge rgina, Ipata. 26th.—Auguste, from Soderham ; Dantzic ; Johanna Jantina, Leer; Kertina, Ko nig ,herg ; Anna Maria, Schulperseil ; Johannes Minde, Sod. ;diem ; Freedom, Girgenti ; Batavier (s), Rotterdam. S riled 2 5th—Arnon, fo: Launceston ; Irene, Adelaide. S ailed, 2 6th --Alfred the Great, for Bombay ; Druid, Cal ifcinlia ; City of London (s), Dunkirk; Belgium, for Oat, end. DEAL, Wednesday, 10 a.m. Wind E..E., fresh and fine. Nthd igt Hoffning, from east to west vs.] ; Elizabeth, Koser for Bristol ; Beethoven, Bremen, for New York ; Ino, from Newcastle. -ILl:whored off South Foreland, and will pass with next 11004 tide, about noon.—The Grafton, from St. John's; be's,• -,nshire, Trinidad • Sagittarius, Antigua ; Merry Mae C °rregio Quebec' ; Grange. Patras ; Acastus, Mar calla ; Poitiers and Qaeen of Sheba, Port Phillip ; Belle of 1110%4071e. Kest . Boston ; Minerva, Punta Arenas— all for i)Passsed 26th.—Candahar2 from London, for Belize; Bella er tina, London Liverpool. Pawed off Dungeness. —The barque Louisa, from Callao, for ball.ungeness• 1 vrCEl:lNA.—According to the telegraphic accounts from -- "ang Kong Yesterday afternoon, which reach totl u ie n _6 7 l of Jiane, the rate of exchange has experienced only alight declin e at Canton, while at Shanghai it remain without without alteration, th notation at the former p ac 1 : 1 - being 6s. ld., and at the eg latter 6s. 8(1. Shipments o 1 silver front this country are likely therefore to continue. do _ eßpecially as lays do not tis said that the newly-coined Carolus I Pass current at Shanghai. The export of tea to date was bales 73,9 000001 b , and of silk 5 7, 000 New tea niu,ters were ex pected from Oonan in three weeks, but it was doubtful if there would be any from CoopAek. The state of the tea districts was still unfa -vourable. From Calcutta the exchange by the presew /nail appears more favourabl e for this country. TI. /nail steamer Douro, reported to have been lost on th , Paraee!s, is sail to have been got off with considerabl' damage. is Tiis CHOLERA IN L ONDON. —A. death reported i n t h e case of a man named S from choler altin residin, in Bucklersbury, wh o was carried off in a few hour after the commencement of the attack. Should th• isolated cases, which are manifesting themselves 1 'various quarters, be exchanged for a general prevalepe of this fearful visitation, the officials of the metropolita,l boapitais, we are glad to say, wilt be found quite pn , Pared, extra wards having been fitted up, and the means of remedial treatment abundantly provided. "4 . 4 41 V # 4 s ll+ 14 , 411 IV a GOODWOOD RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) GOODWOOD STAKES. BRIBERY Heapy Sixteen ran. NORTH AND SOUTH BIENNIAL STAKES Lord of the Isles Clotilde Boisrdo Baalbee... Twenty-one ran. 300 SOVS. bWEEPSTAKES. Two ran. THE GOODWOOD CUP. AIIRIVED.—Virago. ADDITIONAL SCRATCHINGS. - Stockwell, Crusader, Goorkah, Jerry Kent, King Tom, Ulster, Aquila, Bra.len, Fitzgladiator, Lincoln's Inn, and Erycina. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COIVEVIONS—(IIHIS DAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Earl of Fife (Trustees) Estate Bill was read a third time and passed. Baron de L'lsle and Dudley's Estate Bill, and Lord Petre's Estate Bill, were read a second time, and ordered to be committed. Mr. COBBETT presented petitions from the medical men and clergy of Paisley in favour of a ten hours fac. tory act. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS BILL. The Lords' amendments to this bill were considered and agreed to. MORTMAIN BILL. This bill was ordered to be committed this day three months. PORTLAND CHAPELS BILL. The Lords' amendments to this bill were considered and agreed to. RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES BILL. On the order of the day for resuming the adjourned debate on this bill, Mr. T. BARING insisted that if the laws of the country were not sufficient to prevent trading and speculation in the securities of a Government with which we were at war, some general measure ought to be brought in by Ministers to remedy the defect, because, although this measure was only directed against Russia, it was just possible that in a short time we might be at war with Prussia, and who was to propose a measure which should apply to the securities ? It was, therefore, clear that any change in the law must bo based upon ge neral princip!es, applicable to all the world and not con fined to Russia alone; and as this bill being based on petty spite, did not go that length, he decidedly objected to going into committee upon it. With public opinion against it, there was not the least disposition amongst Englishmen to speculate in Russian securities; but if this bill passed, it would lead to impressions on the continent that without this special enactment there would be, and, as a natural result, instead of depressing Russian securi ties, it would rather tend to enhance their value in many of the capitals of Europe. Lord D. STUART supported the bill. It would be time enough to legislate in a similar spirit with regard to other countries when we had declared war against them. At present we were only at war with Russia, and it was enough, therefore, to direct the provisions at that power. Mr. WILSON remarked that if the real state of the financial affairs of Russia was known, it would go fur ther to reduce the value of her securities than any bill of this nature, even if it were adopted by all the Legis latures of Europe. Mr. ISAAC BUTT had heard nothing which should induce the house to refuse to go into committee on this bill. Mr. SPOONER and Mr. L. HEYWORTH supported the bill. Lord PALMERSTON said he should certainly sup port the bill, which was based upon the intelligible principle that British subjects should not be allowed to aid Russia with money. It was a childish absurdity to draw a distinction between directly lending money to Russia, which was high treason, and lending the same money indirectly. What the Secretary to the Treasury had said was perfect nonsense, and unless they passed this bill they ought to abolish the law of high treason. It was sheer nonsense to say that British subjects should be allowed indirectly to supply Russia with money, and those who could support such a principle must be pre pared to say the Dutch admiral was right, who, in the lull of an engagement, sold powder to his antagonist to enable him to renew the engagement. It was not right to set the interest of the pocket against the honour of the country. (Cheers.) It was not a pounds, shillings, and pence question, but a question of national honour, and no man who w is not anxious to assist the enemy or avoid committing high treason could hesitate to vote for this bill. (Cheers.) Sir J. PAKINGTON asked how it bad come to pass, then, if the bill was of so much importance, that it had not been brought forward by the Government. He was at a loss to understand how the noble lord could call that "sheer nonsense" which a member of the Govern ment sitting near him supported ; but for his own part he should vote in accordance with the expressed senti ments of the noble lord. Mr. KINNAIRD replied that the bands of the Government had been full enough this session, without twitting them for not taking up this bill. Mr. DUNCAN thought the bill would interfere with the operations of commerce. Mr. HENLEY contended that if the act the bill dealt with was nothing short of high treason, the bill did not go far enough—the penalties it imposed were not sufficiently high ; but after the strong opinion the noble lord bad expressed upon it, the Government could have no alternative but to take the responsibility of the measure upon themselves. (Hear, hear.) Mr. BROWN concurred in the views of Mr. Wilson, and protested that before they passed a measure of so mue h lord t he inb importance,emthe7 foroughtthe to have ofave th L e o o n p d i o n n t p o u no o f n the noble it. He should therefore move that the committee be post poned until a future day. The house then divided, when there appeared— For going into committee Against it 24 Majority —s3 After the numbers had been declared, Lord D. STUART said he was informed that a right hon. member, who was in the house before, and in the lobby while the division was taking place, had abstained from voting. (Cries of " Name, name.") He referred to Sir William Molesworth, the President of the Board of Works. (A laugh.) The SPEAKER stated that the announcement ought to have been made before the numbers were declared. The figures could not now be altered. The house then went into committee on the bill. Lord SEYMOUR said he 'had voted for going into committee after the strong appeal of the noble lord, but as he thought the house ought to have the opinions of the law officers of the Crown upon the bill before it pro ceeded further, he would move that the chairman do report progress. (Hear, hear.) Sir J. PAKINGTON supported the motion for re porting progress. Mr. W. A. WILKINSON observed that if the noble lord the Secretary of State for the Home Department was right in his principle, it was equally as applicable to hemp and tallow as money, and therefore further time should be allowed for considering the bill. (LEFT BITTING.) 10 5 20 20 812s1 STATE OF TEADE. ( Front the Manchester Guardian of this day.) MANCHESICER, July 25.—A. decline, in one week, of ten shillings per quarter in the price of wheat, following so large a previous fall, has exercised, as it was sure to do, a cheering influence upon the whole of our market to-day. Speaking generally, we may say that the medium and lower counts of yarns are more saleable now at the full prices of last week than they were then ; and for some kinds an advande of id per lb. upon those quotations is required and obtained. This is the case with pincops pretty generally, and 24's to 32's warps. Some number of doubled, also, are inclining upward. The home manufacturers and the continental mer chants are the princip tl buyers ; and their operations appear to have reached a fair aggregate amount. HALIFAX, July 22.- -There has been scarcely any in quiry for worsted goods of any description in our Piece Hall to-day, and the sales have been very limited. Yarns are languid ; and as the spinners are not able to realise prices adequate to the cost of production, they restrict their operations within as narrow a compass as possible. Wools are somewhat stiffer ; but as the spinners only buy from hand to mouth, there is not much doing: ROCHDALE, July 24.—We have had a better demand for flannels to-day, at prices not less than those of the preceding week. Kerseys and low priced goods have been dull, and the demand for these has been more limited. The wool market has been steady, the demand moderate, and prices very firm. PORTUGAL.—Advices from Oporto, with regard to the vine disease, state that, owing to a long prevalence of cold foggy weather, it has continued to increase, although hopes of an improvement were beginning to be enter tamed from the effects of a change to warmth, which had just set in. From the Upper Douro the recent Ac counts were more favourable in relation to certain dis ricts, and some persons even thought it likely as much wine may be produced as last year. Around the city of )porto, however, the young grapes seemed entirely gone. Throughout the 111inho province they looked better, but in the Beira the b ight was geoerol. Apples and fruit :f all descriptions, particularly almonds, and lil ow:se he potato crop, were less infected than in former years, an 1 promised to bo abundant. A disturl ance which h I taken place in the city, owing to a great advance in In flan corn, caused by the stocks having been bought p by the speculators. had been promptly suppres'ed, 1 hough some of the master manufacturers of the place ppe,tred disposed to turn it to account by urging the nnor, ior, with whom it forms an important article of food, Leo the belief that their privations would increase with every step the Government may take in departing from prohibitory tariff. TUE SUN, LONDON, WEDN,ESDAY ( EVENING, JULY , 26, 1854. SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) BRITISH RAILWAYS. ItuLwArs. 10losing Prices yesterday. Business done this day. 3rdeen kiabg Nottng. Bost and Eastu. Junet... , ielfast & Ballymena. Binning. Wolverh. & Stour Valley ...... Birkenhd. Laucsh. & Cheshire Jnuct Do. Chesh. & Birk , £5O and £25 Cons Do., X2O Blyth & Tyne original £25 (isad. at £45 ; Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Chester & Holyhead. Cork and Bandon Cork, Black, & Pass Cornwall Crieff Junction Dublin&BelfastJunc. Dandee Perth&Aber deen Junction...., Do. New East Anglian..... - Do., (£lB E & 11) , Eastern Counties Eastern Union, A Stock .......... Do B. Stock 'Do., New A.,.,,,,,,, East Lancashire Edinburgh & Glasgow 'Edinb. and Peebles Edin.Prth & Dundee teorth & Clyde June. (Basgow& S. Western Great Northern Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth. &West.(lre.) Great Western [rish South-Eastern Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds 'Do. New Thirds. ifj 16i St. 194 I Lancash.andYorksh Do Fifths all' all all all 100 100 Dl., Wst. Riding Un Leeds Norther-4 Liv.Crsby.&Soiitlipt London & Black cral Loud. Tilb. & Stbend. Lond. Bright & S.Cst Loud. and N. Westn Do. Fifths .00 .00 47:1 Do. Eighths LondmiandS. Westn. Do., £5ll Do., £4O Lndndrry& Coleraine. Lndndri7. & Ennisk. Vlancli.Slief.& Litwin Do., Man. & Lin. Un Nlidland )0. Birning. &Derb) G. West. (Im.) ►o. Half Shares Newcastle & Carlisle, Newmarket 5 Do., Bury Extensiou Vwpt.Aberg. Newly & Enniskillen all Newry Warreupoint and Bostrevor., .00 Norfolk 'ti Northn.Counties Un North British 21 2s 100 100 100 100 North Devon, No. 1. Do., No. 2 Do., i A Deferred Do., i B Guaranteed North London IDo. New £lO N.&S. Wstrn.,llamp stead, and City Jn North Staffordshire North Western & S. Westrn, June, Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester !Oxford, Worcester,Sl Wolverhampton Portsmouth Scottish Central ~ Scottish Midland . 212 s all 16i 100 Shrewsbury 6z Bii mg. Do. L. & N. Western Guaranteed Si GL.k Shrewsby. & lierefcl Shrewsby. & Ghosts] (N. W. Min, Do. Halves, - 1: Do. Oswestry , 81s. 100 20 130,100 Shropshire Union Do. A, B, C,& paid up at per cent south Devon 'South Eastern.. 'South Wales Yrksh. & Riv. Dun Do Staines, Wok. &Wok Stockton & Darling Stockton 6z Hartlepl. ratT Vale . Do. £lO shares... Do. Prof No. 1 Thames Haven Dock and Railway Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford&Limerick West Cornwall West End of London and Crystal Palace West Loudon Wimbledn & Croydou York Newctl.&Berw. Do. Extensions Do. G.N.E. 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Bonds (Ist is.)'s7 iamilton & Toronto Do. 6 per cent. 'Lake Const. & Basle Lucca da Pistoj a 5 p.c prof Luxembourg 1)0. (Railway) ..... Do. Prof Do. (Canal) Do. 6 p. ct. prof Lyons and Geneva Lyons dr Mediterran viadras Maria Antonia Do. do. New Aelbourne Dk, & Ry. Namur & Liege (wit! interest) Do. (ex interest) northern of France Do. 20/. 3 p. c Bds (fmy. B. & Ams. NorwegianTrunkPre Paris and Lyons , Ditto Bonds ...... Paris and Orleans ,Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg ParisCaen & Cherbrg Quebec & Richmond Rouen and Havre Royal Danish Royal Swedish Sambre and Meuse._ Do. 54 p. cent. Pref. Southeru of France St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) West Flanders Do 5A per c. Pref._ ‘Vesteru of France West. of Switzerland Wiesbaden ....... Zealand MISCEL: Rubin Coal and Iron lustralian Agricult. ustral sn. Pei fic. Mai tustraln. Royal Mail Berlin Water Works American Land ;rit. di Coln. Smeltg. and Reduction Co 3anada • .;rystal Palace Do. 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On Saturday afternoon, the Committee of the Napier Testimonial assembled at the United Service Institution, in Whitehall-yard, for the purpose of taking into con sideration the state of the hinds at their command, and the amount of subscriptions still outstanding. Among those who were present were—theßight Hon. the Earl of Ellen borough, the Right Hon. the Earl of Harrington, Gene ral Aitchison, Lieut.-Colonel Kennedy, Captain Claxton, R.N., George Jones, Esq., R.A., and several other gen tlemen who have taken either an active part, or a lively interest, in the project of raising somewhere in the streets of our metropolis a suitable public monument to comme morate the late illustrious General Sir Charles James Napier, the heroic conqueror and administrator of Scinde, the glorious victor of Meannee and Hyderabad. The Earl of Ellenborough having been voted into the chair, the report of the joint secretaries, dated July 22, 1854, was then read by Colonel Kennedy. It proved to be a report in every respect, we are bound to say, eminently satisfactory. It showed that, notwithstand ing the suggestion circulated by the committee, recom mending that subscriptions should be restricted to small sums, yet the subscribers had been so numerous, and some of their contributions so liberal, that an amount has already been realised, amply sufficient, it is calcu lated, to raise a statue twelve feet high, namely, one of colossal dimensions. This, according to the estimates obtained—estimates of a reliable character, and provid ing, moreover, that the first class of artists that the country furnishes shall be employed in the design and erection of the monument. As illustrative of the satis factory operation of the principle of small subscriptions recommended, it may be well to give the following quo tation from Major Wynyard, Birmingham, when for warding his 10th list :—" In forwarding this last list likely to be sent from hence, a significant fact should be noted. The ten lists have contained, besides the contri butions of other classes, the unsolicited subscriptions of upwards of 1,600 pensioners from the Coventry, Glou cester, Northampton, North Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Wolverhampton districts, and in a period of great priva tion and high prices." It was next intimated by the report "That a simul taneous movement having been set on foot in India for the erection of a public testimonial in that country to the memory of the late Sir Charles Napier, it has not been deemed advisable to take any very active steps to bring the subscription list for the home monument before the Indian public." The gross amount of the subscription list reaches the large total of 2,7081. Os. 5 3 / 4 d. The amount actually paid into the bankers', 2,3991. 19s. Bd. Incidental expenses, 1171. 10s. 6d. The sum actually in bank, 2,2821. 9s. 2d. Altogether, as already observed at the outset of the re port, it is estimated that a sufficient sum has even now been secured to the funds of the testimonial to supply the amount requisite for the raising a gigantic metal statue of the Hero of Scinde upon a huge granite pedes tal. The report here adds—" That several subscribers and members of the committee have expressed an opi nion as to the eligibility of giving an additional record by the erection of a tomb, somewhat in accordance with the accompanying design, over the body in the Ports mouth churchyard ; b u t hat the family desire to erect this tribute themselves, and measures are accordingly being taken for its execution." Finally, the Report said, "That a change having taken place in the organisation of the Scinde Camel Corps, the commander of that corps has forwarded the colours of that regiment, with a request that they may be placed in the Portsmouth Military Chapel, inserting under them a marble tablet, with Vie following inscrip tion, all of which has been executed according to his de sire, viz. : " `The standards waving above this tablet are conse crated to the memory of General Sir Charles Napier, G.C.8., the conqueror of Scinde, by whose genius the Scinde Camel Corps was formed. Happier than most con querors, he secured the affections of the vanquished by a wise and beneficent rule of that noble province which his valour and military skill had won for his country. May his glorious name animate the breasts of British soldiers in the day of battle !' " So closed the report, with the signatures of J. P. Kennedy, Lieut.-Colonel, and C. Claxton, Captain, R.N., as the joint secretaries. The following resolution was then proposed by J. G.. JONES, Esq., seconded by H. KENNEDY, Esq., and una nimously resolved— " That Messrs. Drummond, the Oriental, the Union, and any other bankers or individuals, who may have re ceived subscriptions, be authorised and requested to pay to Messrs. Cox and Co. the balances now in their hands respectively, and any moneys that may hereafter be received by them, on account of the Napier Testimonial." Another resolution was then proposed by the Earl of HARRINGTON, seconded by Captain CLAXTON, and una nimously resolved— " That the Earl of Ellenborough, Lieut.-General Ait chison, and Colonel Kennedy, be appointed trustees of the funds, and that the signatures of two of them be sufficient for business transactions; and that the trustees be autho rised and requested to invest the moneys subscribed in Government securities, as to them shall seem best." Subsequently a third (and final) resolution was pro posed by General AITCHISON, seconded by Lieut.-Colonel KENNEDY, and unanimously resolved— " That an executive sub-committee, composed of the following noblemen and gentlemen, be authorised to take such steps as they shall think desirable to obtain designs and estimates for a fitting statue of the late Lieut.-General Sir C. J. Napior, with a pedestal, to be erected in London ; and to obtain a desirable site upon which to erect the same, and finally to conclude such arrangements and bargains as they may think advisable for the speedy execution and erection of such pedestal and statue, and that three members of the executive committee shall form a quorum : His Grace the Duke of Richmond ; the Right Hon. the Earl of Ellenborough ; the Right Hon. the Earl of Har rington ; the Right Hon. the Earl of Devon ; General Lord Seaton, G.C.B. ; General Sir John F. Burgoyne, G.C.B. ; General Sir George D'Aquilar, K.C.B. ; General Aitchison • J. G. Phillimore, Esq., M.P. ; George Jones, Esq., R.A. ; H. A. Kennedy, Esq. ; the Joint Secretaries, Captain C. Claxton and Lieut.-Colonel J. P. Kennedy. The committee then adjourned—everything being now satisfactorily arranged for the speedy carrying out to a successful completion of this very noble and na tional testimonial. ROYAL HIGHLAND SCHOOL SOCIETY. On Saturday last the Rev. Alexander Fletcher, D.D., accompanied by Mr. Mackie, secretary, had the honour of a conference with the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, at Addington-park: The Lord Archbishop having been educated at the same college as the secretary, and other pleasing remi niscences, rendered the visit highly interesting, while his grace's reception of the venerable chaplain was no less cordial. But the chief object of the visit was to present the most grateful thanks of the society for his grace's late pious advocacy of one of the oldest mis sionary and educational institutions in the kingdom, having been incorporated by Royal charter in 1709 ; and to represent the many difficulties which, through his grace's kindness and condescension, had been so happily removed. Public dinners having become no longer a profitable medium for working a public benevolence, the secretary had endeavoured to propitiate the advo cacy of the ministers of the gospel. Some, whose place it was to respond to his repeated solicitations, having declined, he appealed to his grace, and, through his be nign example, several worthy clergymea have since readily consented to preach in behalf of the charity. The excellent prelate returned a most gracious answer, and the party retired, highly delighted with their re ception. Another clergyman, a visitor of Dr. Fletcher, was present at the interview, who was much moved by the courtesy and condescension of the highest dignitary in the Church, whose urbanity of manners has become a proverb in this country. On Sunday the Rev. A. Fletcher, D.D., preached in behalf of the institution in the Rev. 8,. Redpath's chapel, Wells-street, Oxford street, in the forenoon, to a highly respectable and attentive auditory, selecting for his text Proverbs six. 2 " That the soul be without knowledge it is not good." In the course of his sermon he expatiated on the infinite worth of the soul, and the sublime importance of Bible education. He compared all the riches and treasures of the world, the wonders of creative genius, and the vast stores of wealth, all brought together, to the value of the soul of a ragged babe on the breast of a beggar, and he de clared that all the wealth of the world could not be taken in exchange for that single soul. The Highland School Society had more than 12,000 juvenile immortals under their daily care, besides adult and Sabbath schools. From these had been sent out hundreds to every corner of the world, who had been useful members of society. He drew no uncommon picture in mountain life when he described the joy of grandfathers, fathers, and other old people listening to the juvenile missionary reading the word of Divine Truth. The eloquent sermon of the worthy Doctor was followed by the Rev. Ranald Mac pherson, the minister of the Scots Church, Swallow street, who only a week or two since delivered two ser mons for the same benevolent purpose. Being a native of the Highlands, he gave a must in teresting account of the country. He compared other charitable institutions which fed, clothed, and educated children whose parents were iu comfortable circum stances, many above the middle ranks, and those poor suffering children in the Highlands who were educated for less than ss. a-year. He deprecated the practice of converting those charities which were founded for the poor into seminaries for the rich, who were sheltered in the asylums which rightfully belong to the children of penury, who are left to wa nder about in rags, friendless, and destitute of any means of subsistence e xcept by b e gg a ry and theft. He had no wish to conceal such disgr, , .ceful facts. On whatever plea of custom, or of civil law, this perversion of the stream of charity is sought to he justified, it is, in reality, n othing better than a downright spoliation of the truly necessitous. It was the meanest and most atrocious cr ime that why w a s perpetrated coolly a nd deliberately by men were caled by the name of Him who voluntarily became poor that by his poverty the needy might be enriched. He drew a line of demarcation betwixt such charities as the one for which lie pleaded ; the smalinesi of the ex pense of education ; the poorly-paid but well-educated sch o olmasters, whose salary averaged from 18/. to 201.; and the provision for superannuated teachers, who, by age or i n firmity, were incapable—the old men about 101., and the women about St. But we cannot follow the be preserved speaker one with at 1 1 : a r that it is probable his sermon Rill Dr. Fletcher's by the secr etar y , as tn t r f; umplis he has obtained over the secret enemies o f thi s exce llent society, it any such there b e . - ARRIVALS FROM AUSTRALIA. — The Blaclifri a rs, f ro m Sydney, and the British Isles, from Hobart Town, ar• announced, but their quantity of gold, if any, has not yet been, ascertained. PUBLIC-HOUSES ACT IN SCOTLAND-THREAT ENED ASSAULT 02V THE MORAL FREEDOM OF THE CITIZEN IN ENGLAND. TO THE EDITOR or THE SUN. Sts, —Some short time back, one Forbes Mackenzie, ' then in Parliament as one of the members for Liverpool, but afterwards deprived of his seat on account of illegal practices at the election—i. e., bribing the electors with short drink —was successful in carrying through the House of Commons a bill which, among other most oppressive enactments, closed against the public all houses of enter tainment where beer or spirits are sold throughout the whole of Sunday. That a person so insignificant was able to effectuate such tyranny I should think surprised everybody —and must have surprised himself. I now notice that three members of the House of Commons, designated as Mr. Wilson Patten, Mr. Henley, and Mr. Sotheron, have introduced into the branch of the Legis lature of which they are members a bill of much the same description, and that at the fag-end of the session. Several measures of great importance, announced in the speech of the Sovereign at the opening of Parliament, as the plan for extending the franchise—a measure of transparent equity—have been abandoned or defeated. The restri c ti ve, oppress i ve, and most insulting legisla tion of the trio just named may, however, be successful. Those parties I never, to my knowledge, heard of before ; but even feebleness and unpopularity may work wonders in a case like the present. You may recollect that I addressed to you a denunciatory letter before the Mackenzie affair was perpetrated. Ido so again before Messrs. Patten and Co. have had time to earn the same success, and be crowned with the laurels of the same virtue as the ex- M.P. for Liverpool. The people of England are not so ready to submit to fanaticism as my countrymen, I am lorry to lay, are ; and I trust that on this occasion they will stand forth to vindicate their fair fame as the steady supporters of civil and moral lib erty. That the limited right existing at present to procure refreshments such as beer on the Sabbath may be abused, and in abused, in a moral sense, I am sorry to be obliged to avow ; but the idea of punishing the community for the faults of some of its members is monstrous, and exemplified i n any other case would at once arouse indignant opp os i t i on. The law, by an extreme stretch of its power, punishes drunkenness ; it very properly arms the magistr a t es with authority to deprive of license publicans allowing drunkenness on their premises ; it closes houses of entertainment during canonical hours on Sunday. Pre caution has, therefore, been carried to its extreme limits, and homage done to the public services of our holy reli gion. Surely, in reason, this is quite enough. To de prive the poor man of the means of refreshment on the Sabbath because some get drunk, is a piece of prepos terous tyranny, and sh o uld a t once b e resisted in every constitutional way. Such legislation is extreme and unusual, and is utterly unwarranted by the mild, wise, and generous spirit of the Christian faith. In this country for many years every approach to sumptuary laws has most properly been avoided. What we shall eat or drink, or where withal we shall be clothed, has been wisely left to the individual conscience and to personal choice. Sump tuary laws are the parent of fraud and hypocrisy, and tend to demoralise those more immediately employed in carrying out their provisions. In no country of the world was the Sabbath more rigidly observed than in Scotland; but during ages of that piety and virtue which, right or wrong, called forth the admiration of other na tions, such a thing was not thought of as preventing, under certain regulations, the sale on the Sabbath of the ordinary beverages of the country—so often employed even as cordials or adjuncts in numerous forms of ill nes. This transaction, indeed, was regarded as quite different from the traffic or commerce which, lawful on other days, was forbidden on the day of rest. Laws of the kind under notice proceed on principles dangerous to the peace and welfare of society. If some crochetty, prejudiced, or hypocritical persons, without sympathy with the feelings or situation of others, be al lowed to add the force and sanction of law to their va garies the dearest rights of the citizen are perilled. At a former period ty ranny was di rected against religious liberty; its work is now against moral freedom, and it can here operate most successfully. Such evil ordinations tend to prejudice the citizen against the laws of his country— to render the administration of public justice obnoxious as before suggested, depraved. Either the statutes which are of such a character are not enforced, and are, therefore, held to be null and void by an authority lower than that by which they were passed, or, being carried out, are likely to attract public sympathy towards the offender, and that from persons otherwise excellent citi zens and loyal subjects. This is a bad, an unhappy state of matters, and statesmen and senators should eschew what causes the impressions and convictions to which it is owing. Let the people of England recollect, too, that if the bill by which they are now menaced be passed into law it will remain unalterable. In cases of the kind, unlike what obtains in matters of a political or religious nature, there cannot be secured such a pressure from without as will secure the repeal of even a most unjust and oppressive statute. A large number of the people are timid, and cannot encounter the invectives of fanaticism; numbers conceal their real sentiments on such subjects ; and many well-meaning persons, substantially impressed with the sentiment that the opposite of wrong is right, are willing to allow of certain severities in order to ex tinguish obvious evils ; forgetting all the while that the vice they deplore may only be more secretly and more dangerously practical, while great social rights may be invaded or overthrown altogether. There are other good things to be secured besides sobriety, and other evils to be dreaded besides drunkenness. It is not the abuse, but the use, of moral liberty which here and else where is to be reasoned from. (Since the passing of Forbes Mackenzie's bill we have had strange work here. The police, of course, are con verted into a set of spies on the licensed victuallers, arid ono poor wom a n, w h o k eeps a pu b lic - house at Porto bello, a watering place, about two miles from the city of Edinburgh, is under prosecution for selling some liquor to two persons who came from a distance, and alleged they were travellers. Numerous prosecutions have been directed against publicans for contraventions of the sta tute. Hotels, as well as humbler places of entertain ment, are open to the inroads of the police. A citizen without family cannot even get a dinner in an inn as before. In Aberdeen, however, the police commissioners refuse to allow their constables to be transformed into teetotal spies, and the new law is, in the meantime, at a stand still in the "city of bon accord." In some places the abstainers have formed committees of vigilance, to see that the law is enforced. One of those impudent harpies entered a public-house in Dumbarton, along with a local policeman. He was very properly ordered to leave the premises by the landlord. He refused, and an attempt was made to eject him, but so violently did this man of temperance conduct himself even before the officer that the life of the publican was placed in peril. This outrage is to become the subject of a trial in the jury court here, the damages being laid at a heavy sum. Of course the partizans of the bill are loud in its praise, and some of our journals merely pander to the views of these men. All manner of stories are put afloat through the press, and strange theories suggested as to the effect of the new legislation, and the walls are posted over with abstinence placards of the type common to the school. Some "Alliance," too, is mentioned, and a " Maine Liquor Law" is urged and lectured about. What the Abstainers lack in number they labour to make up by activity and forwardness. There is not wanting, also, a sufficient stock of impudence on the part of their allies of the journals I might ask the managers of the Eng lish restrictive and penal bill this question—lies any Scotsman, Forbes blacken: e, or a limb of the law, a noted Teetotaller in Edinburgh, had communication with you, or have others of tire same class and aims interfered, or have abstinence people in England urged you to your present enterprise ? The interpellation is important, for in the bill under notice we may have but the result of a factious intermeddling with the conscience and the rights i of others. I need scarcely say to you, sir, that here there are persons who, if they had the power, would shut up the highways on the Sabbath, and exclude the citizens from the green fields—and prevent a journey even of necessity or mercy on the Christian day of rejoicing and of rest. I may tell you we have some very high purists in the Town Council of the city, to whom the bill of the afore named Forbes Mckenzie was highly acceptable. The Provost (or mayor), a cold-hearted canting member of one of our strictest sects, is at great pains (somewhat un necessarily) to prove what he considers the issues of that wild:and tyrannous measure. Well, a proposal was made in the Council to open the Botanical Gardens near the city—be it recollected when—only after FOUR in the afternoon of the Sabbath ! This measure of concession was resisted by the Lord Provost, and also by others of the voluntary school, who, hostile to the powers of the civil magistrate in matters of religion, have no great ob jection to exercise a part of the obnoxious prerogative so that it embodies itself in their own carcases. The motion was defeated by a majority of 13 against 9, one member declining to vote. So much for the bland liberality of the Edinburgh Town Council. I may men tion that in Glasgow, containing a larger population than Edinburgh, and numbering vastly more of the ' sons of toil, the Botanical Gardens are shut through out the whole oftheS a cordon wouldabbath;and,w b were it the power of some parties,e drawn around Glasgow Green. I am deeply anxious that all able should attend the services of ou r h o l y reli gion. Rightly understood, the ways of Christianito nothing the see ny are t o e e a b s i a n n d t e n r e s a s, amnadn recreation pathsare p e e n a c e t . h e But Christian l ee — no r, the sin of drunkenness strictly a vo id e d , the itoderalte am ilotrefreshment of the body by means of a moderate y. quan tity of the ordinary bevera ges o f the coun the less confident in these views, from knowing that the ferocious zeal which characterises' certain parties agan-t what is called Sabbath-breaf in king and dram-drinking at tim p \ : :ll .t o o se f subject, stoci b u o t f e religions exem plifiestwades u nay p i t 'Otfl else than this furor. I could tell you strange stories as to this e rather choose to forbear. More than I could do the same. I will not at present draw mare largely on your indulgence ; but trusting that the people of England will civilnow as hitherto I guard and p ro t ect t h e i r moral as well as beg to subscribe myself, Sir, your obliged and obedient servant, SAUNDERS FITZSAUNDERS. Edinburgh, July. P.S. May I respectfully beg that the editors of other journals would, on public grounds, kindly copy this let ter into their columns. More may feel gratified at this act—however humble and imperfect the communication —than would avow their feelings of approval and sym pathy. MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION.--This popular ex hibition has ju,t had an important addition—it is a por trait model of her Majesty the Queen of Spain, i and in consequence of the stirring events from day to day passing in her kingdom, great curiosity is felt and cx• pressed by the numerous visitors who crowd this meat excellent place of instruction and amusement. _RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. From the report of = I fr MA NCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLN: SHIRE the RAILWAY. A to Y• be sub m itt e d t o S 1 the meeting of proprietors in Manchester on the 2d Aug., it appears that th e h alf-year shows a total receipt of 237,0221., a total expenditure of 144,5221., leaving, with 3,1021., from the last half-year, 95,6021. available for interest and dividend. This sum will pay the debenture interest, the canal annuiti e s, and the current half- year ' s dividend on the 61. shares, leaving a balance of 3,7921. The attention of the directors continues to be directed to a reduction of expenses, so far as may be consistent with efficiency. In the locomotive department various changes are being introduced, which the directors hope will ensure a smaller per tentage expenditure. The di rectors have consolidated the accounts of the company, under the charge of Mr. R. G. Underdown, appointed chief accountant. The question of economising the per manent way expenditure, and of completing with the least possible delay, all works in progress on ca pit a l account, has not escaped attention. The traffic) receipts for the half-year ending 30th June, 1853 and 1854 show an increase of 19,1641. in favour of the latter, notwith standing the great loss caused by the war, and the de ficient harvest of last year. Under these circumstance., the directors consider the traffic receipts as far from unsatisfactory. As regards the financial position of the company, a portion of the loans falling due on the Ist January, 1855, has been renewed on favourable terms. The directors have before them important negotiations, having for their object the security of the company's ter ritorial position, the increase of its share of through traffic, and a saving of that duplication of expense which all competition of route more or less involves. Should these negotiations end successfully they will be duly laid before the proprietors for consideration at • special meeting. NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY. The report of the directors, to be submitted to the half-yearly meeting of the company on the 27th inst., states that the recommendation of the arbitrators ap pointed to settle the differences between the London and North-Western and the North Staffordshire Companies is now in force in a modified form, and although the committee of the House of Commons have with held their consent to the preamble the bill for which appli cation was made, the systems of the two com panies are combined by mutual agreement, and the work. ing arrangements are carried out in the same manner as if the amalgamation had been completed by act of Parliament. It is the intention of both companies to prosecute the amalgamation bill in the next session of Parliament. Meantime the independent traffic of the line is such, that the directors have no hesitation in con firming the opinion previously expressed by the chair man, that the amount of dividend specified in the circu. lar of the 25th of May, is secured to the proprietary from its own resources. The traffic receipts for the half-year ending June 30, 1854, including receipts under agr ee . ment with the London and North Western Company, and the rents of houses, land, and sidings, have been 112,0281. 16s. 10d., from which, deducting 5,0001. tolls due to other lines, and 48,9421. is. 9d. for the working expenses of the half year, there remains a balance car ried to the general revenue account of 58,0861. 4s. 9d. The canal net profit on the half-year has been 38,8731. 1 Is. 2d. The total receipts carried to general revenue amounted to 98,2791. 15s. 11d. available for interest on debenture debt and dividend on capital and paws capital. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.— Traffic return for the week ending July 22, 1854 £17,122 19 8 Correspondin ,-, week last year 14,177 3 7 Total of the half-year to this date, 1854 4,195 13 4 Total of the half-year to this date, 1853 43,340 5 9 LONDON AND 6OUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.—Traffio re• turn for the week ending July 22, 1854 £21,175 4 9 Corresponding week last year 19,238 15 4 Increase in 1854 £1,936 9 5 GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. —Traffic re turn for the week ending July 22, 1854 £6,002 13 11 Corresponding week last year 5,002 13 5 Increase in 1831 ... £l,OOO 0 6 90i 89i 79i i 1091 10 105 4a 84i 3i 22 11 6Q t i 13,} i per cent. 641 3/ 74 13j 551 22 a in x in x in AIISTRA route will days from compared Golden A 105 524 26 34x 4 d 244 111 dis 111 12 id 2 00 34 . ... 2 -- 92 3 1 - 1 id xi i - 1 I- I I - 2 = 1 •• - •.• ! - 11 - 9 8i 2 24 1 27 29 d __ ii ii i - 1 1 - 12 i 52 __ 57 14- 2 ••• ....... ... i ii 91 —lO i ---- 1 6 ..._ 61 i --. 2t •• • 1 it..... 16 -- 17 31 .._ g 3 4 9 - 10 - 5 - g - -4 i -- i ••• a ••• •.. BiNgs. 83 -73 -5 ••• ••• I— i d ...d, 3 -- 2i d 20i -- 21 46 - 48 41 - 43 72 - 74 RAILWAY SHARE MARKET. LIVERPOOL, JULY 25. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The market has been fiat to-day, with a reduction of 4 per cent. on Midland and Leeds stocks, while other leading stocks are steady. Shef fields lower. East Lancashire, 164 ; Lancashire and York- shire, 67 6, 7 , ; Ditto (West Riding Union), d. ; London and North-Western, 1041 ; Malton and Driffiold, 5g ; Man chester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 23$ 3 ; Midland, 664 ; South-Eastern, 194 ; M anchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 101. shares, 104. LEEDS, JULY 25. STOCK EXCHANGE.—There has been au inactive market in railway shares this morning, and in the few sales effected lower terms were accepted. BIRMINGHAM, JULY 25. STOCK EXCHANGE. —There was very little variation in prices in this market to•day. London and North Westerns closed, buyers at 104 ; Midlands, at 66} 7 ; Oxford, Wor• cester, and Wolverhamptons, buyers at 32. MANCHESTER, JULY 25. STOCK EXCHANGL—There has been buts moderate business. East Lancashire, 164 ; Eastern Counties, 13 ; Leeds, 674 7 ; Midland, 67 ; D over, 19 3-16 ; She ffi eld New Pref., 1 prem. ; Sheffields, 23; North Stafford', 4 1-16 d. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (Freon the London New Price Current of yesterday.) SUGAR.—This article is quiet. There are several auc tions. The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 2,227 hhds 2 9 0 tierces 573 barrels, there were taken forlhome con sumption 1,054 hhds 102 tierces 466 barrels. The stock in the same places is 8,730 hhds 1,460 tierces 2904 barrels. To-day there was again a reluctance to purchase inferior and brown West India, whilst the rates taken were rather under those of Friday, but superior sorts of yellow and grey met with ready buyers at full prices. REFINED.—To-day refined sugar met with ready buyers for home trade purposes, and supply not being more plea. tiful, rates ruled firm; brown lumps at 44s 6d, and low to fine grocery 45s to 49s 6tl per cwt. FOREIGN.—To-day the operations in foreign sugar ware on a more extended scale ; still duty paid parcels and floating cargoes were to be obtained at last week's rates. COFFEE. —The market is firm. Good ord Native Ceylon 44s 6d to 45s per cwt. TEAS. ---The Drics current were—congon, ord to good ord, 100 to lOid -, rather blackish leaf, is 2id to is 3d ; pekoe kind, is hid to 2s 3d per lb. COFFEE.— To-day plantation Ceylon was less in demand; fine to fine ord selling at 64s to 66s 6d, low mid to mid 57s to 60s, good mid to good 61s, one lot fine 675, and triage 535, Costa Rica is wanted, and 1,026 bags went at firm rates ; good to fine fine ord 51s 6d to 543, low mid to mid 55s to 60s 6d- RU3l.—The quantity landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 937 puns 453 hhds, there were taken for home consumption 164 hhds, and exported 80 puns 325 hhds. ARBOWROOT.—Bermuda, 89 barrels sold publicly at is ld to is 2d per lb for good and fine, but 16 packages St. Vin cent's were bought in at 4d. INDIGO.—The quantity passed up to last evening was 12,540 chests, of which 6,289 cheats were sold. OlLS.—Sperm 1021 to 104/ for mid to fine quality. Seal, pale selling at 39/ to 401, and other sorts 351 to 381 10s. Cod, 38115 s to 39/. Southern, 371 to 40/. Cochin 50a to 505 6d ; Ceylon 4Ss to 49s 6d ; and Sydney 47s to 48s Od. Palm good to fine at 45s to 47s 6d. Olive, and the market presents a firmer aspect. Gallipoli at 561 to 581, and other sorts 521 to 541 per tun. Lard oils sell slowly at 53s to 553 per cwt. TALLOW.—The market has an unsettled appearance ; in the early part of last week prices declined, but towards the close advanced ; since which a decline has taken place, speculators and the trade operating with reluctance. Prices now rule for first sort P.Y. Candle on the spot 65s 6d to 65s 9d, 67s 6(1 to 67s 9d for delivery in last three months of the e mutton 61 0 e year. Home melted is now 64s 6(1 to 70s c as h , supply afin ample for demand. There is now on l y a limited sale for to 65s 6d, beef 608 to 635, an d S outh American 60s to 66e p er other cw ts.ort Stock t o o f tackolflow. Australian u is str morealin mid to thanlast season 1y 16,000 casks, and deliveries are 3,000 less, still rates rule higher by 12s to 14s per cwt. THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.—ubc me of the inhabit an t s of Lincoln was held at the Corn etin Ex g change on the 21st inst., on the last day of the Agricul tural Show. The Right Hon. H. A. Christopher, M.P. for North Lincolnshire, and one of the trustees of the Society, took the chair, supported by some of the chief magistrates and gentry of the town and country. A deputation, consisting of Colonelßrownlow Knox, M.P., vice - chairman of the executive committee, C. E. Lewis, Esq., the solicitor, and C. L. Gruneisen, Esq., the secre tary, attended for the society, to explain its plan and objects. The Right Hon. Chairman addressed the meet ing with great force, pointing out the commercial advan tages of the investment, as well as the important politi cal privilege acquired by thteooep)ntdfiroieeseeheoonlddefrdaat,wsrneicasthhoirdnseresatoi7welaulhotoriiohlodeonaelndr,.o shackle or control was imposed by the Society on any person joining its ranks. Colonel Knox gave some in teresting statistics of the progress of the Society froite formation on the 7th Sept., 1852, to the present period;_en upwards of 10,025 shares of 501. per share havingor been taken, than taken, representing a subscribed capital half a million pounds sterling, on which a exhausted on had been to le o tu n a ly lly abo p u a t id 2, up, and th s e hh allotted, and had been estates 1,200. Thirteen estates . n to be distributed three estates were in preparati? ytch, Esq t a mas. of rights exceeded 3,180, and th T e h r e ig amongst the members. L. I trate, stated that having had ear the St. Margaret's Estatc,.n t , was a safe speculation, themeetingdeputation Colonel K is n oo xf completed t o h p e p same. Mr. Fytch ol tso ft ' commended or a r c i t hleia hi det e : ch i t h t l , l : ' l i . d si : e l l ‘g a r.i : v l r l h takenithesi that J. r,e,v.d ss f o re the::thteana the explanation n d y a D o d sl o c i xospf Society, a support."ni eattyi ,on ot Richmond, htu : rni bstoy'of uhaotmenf Idv3 sewingho ' .e became r e. havingmeeting separated, e m p ri o r v a e t d e da, after r e t h o e f opinion that it , Esq.,tli . thanks to t amnouncenaentEthactusTelvoeNrallsNharceAsNionu: beT CANADA.—The immediate) subscribed for._ MILITAar XE . . says that a soldier was shot for desertion on June 26th, at the garrison, Fort Henry ; and adds that and J. G. h .., e t c e h v a e i n r s= the articles of war will be for the future in the case of deserters most rigidly e xecuted. - Mr. Barnum has resigned the presidency of the New York Crystal Palace. The result fell short of his wishes. 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