The Sun. — London, England, 1853-07-21 00:00:00

~: e MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE -(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were t tiraated at 15,000 bales, of which 5,000 were t alc w en for export and on specu l a ti on. Th e mar k e t ti j l , Very animated, and prices of all kinds were 1 , 1 :ut• The sal es comprised 12,000 American, 5 00 : I rlain and Maranham at 6d. to 7g-d., 200 Bahia at 6 500 Egyptian at 5/d. to 9d., and 2,000 s ' Ilrat at 3d. to sd. per lb. Railway Shares were finer. The advices from the Continent add nothing im prtant to th e p rev i ous accoun t s , b u t they are still ;Pella generally as to a pacific adjustment of the Astern question. 3 The ship Geelong, which left Adelaide March 0_ is rep or t e d off the coast, and b r i ngs 38 , 000 oz . l a gold. The Alecto, advised yesterday afternoon, (4 oz.from 312 )000 1. S At the genera l meet i ng o f th e L on don Joint ' At Bank Proprietors, held this mornipg, the bowing report has been adopted : g, t o vn Presentin g th e half-yearly accounts, the direc t: are happy t o h ave it i n th e ir power to report the atirmed progress of the business of the bank. It will b e seen that the net profits of the half-year 4 t,, e , ,, 31 ,_, 5 401. 35., out o which sum the directors propose per a diviend for the half-year after the rate of 81. " 4 cent, per annum, and to carry forward the remainder, O F;_ 7 ,540/. 3s. to the credit of profit and loss account the next half-year. i; " The directors have had under their careful consider t4lsll the suggestions made at the last meeting of share- Ri °cle rs res petting the expediency of placing some re trietion on the amount g of which the Guarantee Fund 14 (1 "° 1 11d be allowed to attain, and they have consequently n eter roined to divide annually in future the whole of the ti t ?refits among st the shareholders, and not to put t o it at fund any part thereof, excepting such fractions as th e in aY be impossible to divide : so that henceforward z O nly additions to it will be interest after the rate of wi P l e r cent., as required by the Deed of Settlement ; and f ea th e y consider the important objec for wich this fund lhWas established, and that for the ts attainment of °'le objects, a resort to the reserve which it provides be occasionally necessary, the directors trust that 1,9 arrangement will be satisfactory to the shareholders. t i t " While calling the attention of the shareholders to te duty they have this d a y t o di sc h arge , i n filling up existing vacancy in the direction, the directors wish th e themselves of the opportunity of expressing i ta ' seftse of the great worth and highly honourable a r aeter of their late colleague, William Curling, Esq. ; the„, the shareholders will, they are sure, participate with ha in a feeling of regret at the loss which the bank eat sustained. The only candidate to supply the va qua is Philip William Flower, Esq., who is duly —l ucti, and has given the requisite notices. the dividend will be payable on and after Friday, e nth inst." LIABILITIES AND ASSETS, JUNE 30. To a t P ch Dr. To 10/. at ai d up, viz., 60,00 0 shares oa T o 4ltiount due by the Bank non/It of "The Gua :tee Fund," 31st De- Totuber 1852 £146,613 8 2 i x , di tt enths interest on per o , at 31. per cent. £600,000 0 0 4,485,329 19 7 `),199 4 0 To mio unt carried to profit and loss am ount 59,471 0 1 £5,293,610 11 10 Cr. llyo, e lleer ills India Bonds, &c... £565,324 16 9 -'s discounted, ' loans, and ca5h....4,698,610 15 1 s:building, furniture, &c. 4 111 ' 410 es-street £20,675 0 0 ,p an t o ditto ditto in fa 11.......... 9,000 0 0 29,675. 0 0 £5,293,610 11 I 0 lotIT AND Loss ACCOUNT FOR THE HALF-YEAR ENDING 30TH JUNE, 1853. c e Dr. 1111 'ent expenses, proportion of build lh,,b e xpenses, directors' remuneration, IC: debts, income tax, &c £16,498 17 5 41 . 140 tint carried to profit and loss, o z , - ", Account, being rebate of interest l,'Ols di counted not yet due 11,431 19 8 a Vdend account for the payment of /: ' 4 -year's dividend, at the rate of B flr ,"' Per centum per annum, upon , amount of paid-up capital T n uPon 60,000 shares 24,000 0 0 Wtance, being undivided profit for the past half-year 7,540 3 0 X 59,471 0 1 Cr. s balance brought down £50,471 0 1 I s is but a limited business doing in Public k t - Z 't:l-ties eith er f or T rans f ero r Account, but prices 3. ' r Yfirin. Consols have been osi i , I, the Now Thep Cents. 1011 -a, and the 3 per Cents. 99 to 4. I :avi; ‘ ,klt3 of East India Stock is still fluctuating, ''''` ,l s. - r° l l 255 to 257. Exchequer Bills are par 1411 Iol' e ruium, and India Bonds 225. to 275. pre pBouth Sea Stock has been done at 116. 'very reign Stock Market has been quiet, but bia r k; 4l 4 a • Spanish Deferred Bonds have been 2 31, and Portuguese 4 per Cents. 43-i. Q , ei l t;" ll Stock realises 261, to 27. Russian 5 per ,114 — m aintain the advance of yesterday, being 11)4 r ,_ Sardinian are quoted 96, a further rise of (35, a - ,7, 11 „t• Dutch 21 per Cents. are very firm at her e Danish 5 per Cents. at , 061. ki te is Some activity in Railway Shares, but T . k s are not higher. to 0, 4 ,,, e last week's railway receipts ascertained up 4 d ay, are in round figures as under : Soli 1853. 1852. _.e4;t W estern £26,404 £20,437 -uli bt tut 4 to ztere 19,075 17,624 n .... 15,204 15,088 and ... 20073 18,264 10,645 8,870 li "tl L Western 17,658 14,335 ert letid) i. t Western 56,543 52,469 G ; 41 4. xl io t r i: a l4- ( o l Wiern le 16,250 10,664 7L'a terw ? ic r t h , an li fil n e l ds N ;o w i c il a i s e t rn 26,094 24,437 u ec 3 e returns are very encouraging in view of I lldavourable weather lately experienced and p r il4 tend greatly to the consolidation of railway d o ,t' e rtY, and, provided the expenditure is kept I _ l T .,, to tile payment of larger dividends. am 'le Gold Mi ne Sh ares h ave b een flat generally, a r ' ths Australian Agricultural and Peel River e A rk : r e ceding. The Australian Bank Shares ar ar.r ISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (.Prom the Official List.) - - Rosiness done. n 4 , l'els Cent. Iteduced - Annuities. ...... 99i I ,er Cent. C onso l s Annuities . Ne e Cent. Annuities, 1726 nageW3l per Ccnt. Annuities lO4 i Ann u iti es, Expire sth Jan., 1860 n Stock Idi a B on d s £lOOO g ob.% Se a ...... ••• ••• - • ••• • Bonds, ................. • 801 1th Sca, New Annuities . .......... ... 316 994 i CO '!,a for Account 11th August,.. . ..... • It2Echequer Bills, Id. 21060 - ....... .....• par 3 2500 .......................................... 1 „, , _ 5ma11.......................................... p a , i i : P-UCE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK Da aish Bonds, 5 per Cent lo6k Me rican 3 per Cent. Po. tugueso Bonds, 5 per Cent. , 3 )itto 4 per Ce n t. ~/ . 1 ) asian Bonds, 5 per Cent. ................ : 96 118 A ~ Aliniau Bonds, 5 per C en t °J) trash Bonds, 3 per Cent 474 8 1 1 . apish New Defen•ed, 3 per Cont 231 Dividends on the above payable in London. D ntc h Exchange, 2i per Cent. 1 )i tto for the Account 65 Consols HALF•PAS9BT TWO. Ditto August Account 9B t L.blIG-111TION FROM LIVERP OOL .—Th e t o t a l n um be r of :e'w.els now preparing for the various ports of Australia ; the total amount of registered tonnage 16,300. sailings from this port from the 7th to the 13th Ittit,, have been—one vessel for Moreton Bay, 997 tons ; hi vessel for Sydney, 1,650 tons ; three vessels for g AllSourne, aggre ga t e t onnage 987 t ons, or an aggre „4 k. tonnage of 3,634 t ons . I n th e h a lf- year ending "u e 30th of June, 138 ships sailed from Liverpool to 4 stralia, and their tonnage was 73,190 tons. The ;I.Pments of manufactures and ordinary merchandise ire increased, and, since the arrival of the overland too ail the rates of freight have exhibited an advance. h Wi ng, howev er , t o the greater demand for labour at emigration has for some time received a check. I,r..iverlool Chronicle. tiAN INTERESTING ATLAS.—The Constitationne2, in t i. .ucling to the sale in London in which the Bouillon b.ible was lately disposed of, says :—An atlas of the IPercr Napoleon, on which are traced with his own l ies his principal plans of battle, and which was to en put up at 501., was withdrawn from the sale _l' the owner. A visit made to him by the French am oassador is said to have induced him to do so. We ezwanot but congratulate our representative in London tqa the result obtained. There are souvenirs whose origin entitle them to respect, and this is one of th em . Th e relict has, it is said, been just sent to Paris to be placed At the Invalides by the side of the impe/ial sword." isth ANOTR ER ABORTIO N .—W e understand th a t one en d e n ew b asin in her Majesty's Dockyard, Devonport, Wicitil•' to be taken up, th e entrance not being of eutficient .7431Pe9z44 ;t. Roo 1 St. 100 £59,471 0 1 1 20 5 h. 100 .5 all 611.1 T 3,i1 all 51 all 74 2 63ia1l 6t all l 0 all !O all it. too 5 all SHARE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). BRITISH RAILWAYS. Closing Prices Yesterday. Business done this day. ihr. 1 Paldl It. 100 ;0 14 I all a I 28 rTil all :2 1841 It. 100 ;t. 100 i 0 all i 0 all 0,0 all io 45 .t 5 all 5 all :5 all 3 all all all M I 81' 5 all >t. 100 PO all St. 100 10 11 St. 100 - St. 100 St 100 St. 100 St. 100 St. 100 St. 100 26} -26 i 5a 51 91 - 104 9 7d 22 24 d 102 69.} —22 i 3 -4 p 8 - 9 5i 4 12a —13 A 41 46 ,- o 3 35 72i —73 A 50 - 54 70 -- 72 2 - 31 86 87 54 56 .34 - 136 LOSA 109Ai 894 9 0 r - 7a 99 102 16 —I7P 77A 78 4t 4Ad 3i 3 d 15 —15 A 9 h 1h —2 pal 1041 165 115 A 116 - 894 -90 i 53 - 3Ad 11 16 18 20 29 2911 _al iii —71 i 41 - 43 53 56 4 g P 4 d 2 i t 3 8 - 9 50 - 52 31 1 24 dl, 33 ••••-34: _ . - ... PI - 5)4 1 92 - 60 - - 62 55 - 60 65 70 idis 17 19 9 91: 13 14 3i -- 3/d 19 21 71i 724 35t —36 t 13 -- 14 1 23 - 25 2R 24 - 151 8. - 9 30 - 32 0i - 103 69 - 7i - 2H -- 594 - 3 101 68/ 22 19i RAILWAYS• Aberdeen ........-- A.mbg. Nottng. Bost & Eastn. June. ....• Blrmng. Wolverh. & Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lanesh. & Cheshire Junct Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O & £25 Cons._ Do., Bristol & Exeter Caledonian. Chester tit Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Black. & Pass Dublin&Belfo.stJune Dundee Perth &Aber do an Junction Do. New ....... East Anglian (£25 L. & E. & L. & D.)... Do., (£lB E. & Eastern Counties Eastern Union, Class A. late E. U. Sh Do., do Do., B. & C East Lancashire East & West Ind. Dk dr Binning. June—. Edinburgh & Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles Edinb.Prth. &Dundee, Glasgow & S. Western Great Northern Stk Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock I Gt. Sth. &West. (Ire. ) treat Western Irish South-Easter. Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds Lancash. &Yorkshire Do., Fifths Do., Wst. Riding Un Leeds Northern Liv. Crsby. & So utbpt London & Blackwall Loud. Tilb. & Sthend. Lond.Bright.&S.Cst. London & N. Western Do. Fifths Do. ,16/.Sh ~M&8...0 London & S. Wester Do., £5O ........ Do., £4O Ludndrry.&Coleraine Lncludrry. & Eunisk. Ilanch.Shcf.&Linclu. Do., Man. & Lin. Um Ylidland Do. Birmin. ' . & Derby Midland G. 'vVest.(lr.)l Do. i Shares Newcastle (St Carlisle.. Newmarket Do. Bury Extensions Newpt.Aborg.&Htfd Newry dr Enniskillen Newry Warrenpoint da Rostrevor Norfolk.. Do., New ...... Nortim. Counties Un North British North Devon, No.l-1 0., No. 2 Dc., A Deferred Do., :I B Guaranteed North Staffordshire North Western N. & S. Westrn. June Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton Scottish Central Scottish Midland.— Shrewsbury & Birmg. Do., L. & N. Wcstn. Guaranteed Stock Shrewsby. & Herefd. Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Do. Halves, do Do. Oswestry Shropshire Union South Devon South Pastern South Wales S. Yorksh. River Dun Do.. Stockton & Hartlepl Thames Haven Dock and Railway Vale of I\ eath Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford&Lirn click West Winbledon &Croydoi Woodford York owetl. & BerlV. Do. Extensions Do. G.N.E. Purchase York & N. Midland 73 _ - 86 2 891 9$ )0 all it. 100 6 , 4 15" 174 ;0 I all' 1. 100 5 1 all 100 - 6 16 6 14 - 8 all 8 8 '0 17i ',O all 0 10 >t. 100 1. 100 ;t. 100 It. 100 ;t. 100 .0 9 Zi all 3 all 9 all 6 4) all k. 100 'lO all .. I i 6 5 20 !O I 17 >0 all !O 14 LO 21s LO 1 It. 100 20 111 : 3t. 100 70 70 1 201 601 PREFERENCE SHARES Aberdeen Do., No. 2, 7 p. c Bris. & Ex. 4 p. c. St Do. 4 p. c. Shares ICaledouian £lO ,Chester & Holyhead Guar. N per cent Cork&Baudonki p.c. Dundee PerthdtAber deen Junction EastA nglian (£3los) 6 per cent....... ..... Do. (2,5) 7 per cent.. Do. (t 7175) 7 p. ct.. Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No.l Do., No. 2.. ...... Do., New 6 p. c. St.. Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent.... EastLauctish. 6 p. cts. Ediub.Prth. &Dundee 5 per cent........... Glasgow & S.Westorn guar. 5 per cent.... Great No:thr 5 p.c. Do. 5 p. c.,Redeem., at 10 p. c. prom .... Gt. Southn. &Westn. (Ireland) Eighths... Gt. Westn. (Berks & Hants Ex. 5 p. c.) G. West. fixed 4 p C Lan. & York. F. £2O, , Do., 6 p. c., Stock London and Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. o Do. Pref., s'p. c. St Do. Convertible, 5p c., 1852. ....... ...• Do. New Guar. 6 p.c. Loudon & S.Wostern, Con. Thirds LondondeiTy& Color. Shares ........ Lonely. & Ennis. A Sh Manch. ,Shef. , & Lin., i Shares, No. 1...... Do. Now, £10......... Do., £6. . I Marypt&Carl. 4 p. c. Do. 4i'i per cent—..... 'Do Mid. Consol. 6 p.c. St. Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent Do. Pref. 4i per cent Norfolk Extension Do. Pref. 6i per ct Do. Way. Val. 5 p c North British North Staffordshire Oxford Worcester & Wolverh. £15,6p. c Do Shrews& Birm. N. G Sbrowsby. & Chester (Nor.W.Min),B p. c. Do. 5 per cent South Devon Do. New S. Eastern (Readily , Ann. ,) of 21 05.5d. 1 S.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar. Watera&Kilk. 6p. c. York Newcastle and Berwick,lp.c.Pref Do York& N. Midland H. & S. Purch 92 - - 96 88 - 92 LO3 -- 105 ... 109 19i - 20.1 - 4 - 5 -- 14- 24 p 1 1i -- 2 p 14i -15 h 20} -- 204 3i - 3i 128 - 130 13 - 114 8- 9 ei —7l 103 10: 1 An 51 d --ir a 15 - 77 3i - 4 10 - 11 13 - 14 8 9 10a - '4l 151 152? par 114 11Cx 118 122 L 1 - 117 25i - 2 101 io 17 17i l 1 p 14 15 Par i P 25i -- 26i1 19i --20 : id -- par, tO2 - 104 5i - 5j pax— i PI FOR: 4 Antwerp&Rotterdam 3 Belgian Eastn. June. 8 Bezicrs to Graissessac dl Charleroi & Erquelin. l 0 Dijon and Besancon.. 8 Dutch Rhenish.,,,,,, al East Indian,,. 1 Do. Extension..... .....i; ..... di Gt. Indian Peninsula Gil. JuncL. of France 11 Gt. Western of Canada Shares ....... 3 Lucca & Pistoja sp. c. prof .5 Luxembourg .0 Do. (Railway) 2 Do. 3 Do. (Canal) 4 Do. 6p. et. prof 9 Lyons & Mediterran 7L, Madras ill Namur & Liege (with interest)... all , Do. (ex interest).— 1 'Northern of France Do. 201. 3 1:1. 'e Bds, NorwegianTrunkPre .0 Paris and Lyons all Paris and Orleans... all Paris and Rouen..... all Paris and Strasbourg 4 ParisCaen & Cherbrg. 7 Quebec & Richmond all Rotten and Havre.... 2 Royal Swedish al Sambre and Mouse... 2 Sth-Eastrn. of France 6 Southern of Franee..l - - - s. Upper India Scrip 1 611 West Flanders LO Do. 54 per c. Pref .0 Western of of France... 2 West. of Switzerland 1 4 talaUdilMolleaufilit 1 d 1 — 1 1 4 —l5 par— 1 p 2 lid 5 18 p 2 p 1 p 7 id 1 41 1 1 2 2 d 1 p 2 2ip 7i -- 3 . 5 35i 14 -- 15 8 _- 9 44 17 -- 46 42 -- 44 37i -37 i 4 -- 5 ad-- par 19 20 8 - 8 4i 5 p P dis 3 =.2d 641 all ;t. 100 6 6 it. 100 it. 100 il 12t., . 2 11 all ~ 5 I all .0 I all 6 3 12:11 all X2l 10i i 3t. 100 3t. 100 .6i 5 it. 100 'it. 100 3t. 100 ;t. 100 . ) ,(1 all 3t. 100 5 15 8 all LO all 10 10 25 all 10 14 .0.6 all :0 all 5 3 'it. 100 L 7 I 5 Z 10 20 20 al 20 1 20 • 20 al 5 a] 20 1 1 20.4 a] 2011! 10 11 10 20 20 20 I al 20 a, 10 al 20 11 10 20 20 20 104 20 20 20 20 20 121 101 11 20 11 10 ! 24_ 1 1151 i 71/ 2 11 MEM THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, .J L'LY 21, 1853. IMPEIiI AL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS—(YESTERDAY•) ATTORNEYS' CERTIFICATE DUTY (No. 2.) the Government thought the prudent course would be received. The noble lord concluded by moving the be to make neither of these reductions, and on their adjournment. part he had submitted a plan to the consideration of the After a few words from Mr. C. BERKELEY and Mr. house. He would not speak now of the chance NEWDEGATE, the motion for adjournment was put, and divisions taken on the advertisement duty at a late agreed to. hour in the evening; but he would admit that those divi- Mr. NEWDEGATE moved that the debate be re siona did indicate to his mind, and to those of his col- sumed this day fortnight. leagues, a strong feeling and desire on the part of the The motion was agreed to and the debate was ad house that that duty should be repealed. (Hear.) The journed accordingly. opinion of the Government was that it would have been After the reception of some reports the house rose at more prudent not to repeal that duty. Their opinion a few minutes to 6 o'clock. was that they could not repeal both these duties, and they were not prepared to repeal both of them ; but he had not the least hesitation in saying that if the question came to be between the one duty and the' other, and if the house was disposed to press for the repeal of the advertisement duty in opposition to the views which Government held as to what the interests of the revenue might require, and if they were called on to exercise a judgment on the question where they should take their stand, and where they should say they could not conscien tiously accede to the propositions of the house, then their duty with regard to the tax on attorneys' certificates would be to declare that they were not prepared to accede to the repeal of that tax. (Hear, hear.) They admitted that the house had shown a strong desire for the repeal of the advertisement duty. They placed the two ques tions before the house, and they frankly owned that if one of these duties was to be repealed, that one should not be the duty on attorneys' certificates. He had never said more than that. There had been no tacit under standing. He entirely declined to give any sort of pledge with reference to the future ; but he had stated that, in the view of the Government, it would not be consistent with their duty to consent to the repeal of both these taxes. (Hear.) He would now leave the matter in the hands of the house, and express the hope that this subject was not to be made a tax in another form—a perpetual tax from year to year on the time of the house, but that it would receive some final and decisive expression of opinion, from which both the Government and the parties might have the oppor tunity of judging what course was to be taken, and that they might be able to apply themselves to business in future sessions without the perpetual discussion of all the incidental accompaniments that attached to the sub ject of attorneys' certificates. (Cheers.) After a few words from Colonel SIBTHORP, Mr. EWART had repeatedly moved in former years the repeal of the advertisement duty, and had as repeat edly supported the motion of the noble lord the member for Middlesex, but he could not for a moment hesitate now in giving his support for,the repeal of the advertise ment duty in preference to the repeal of the attorneys' certificate duty. Mr. MAGUIRE urged the claim of the attorneys to the consideration of the house. The house then divided, when there appeared— For the second reading lO2 Against it Majority —B4 The bill was consequently thrown out. RECOVERY OF PERSONAL LIBERTY BILL. On the motion for resuming the adjourned debate on the second reading of this bill, Mr. BOWYER rose to order. He understood that the second reading was negatived by the division which took place on the 23d of June, and he wanted to know how they could resume the debate on that question now ? The SPEAKER said they were strictly in order. At the former occasion the question was " That this bill be now read a second time ;" to which an amendment was moved to leave out all the words after the word " that," in order to insert the words moved by the hon. and learned member for Bath, and the question which the house had now to decide was whether these words should be added. Mr. J. BALL was glad that the question had been so narrowed, because it rendered it quite unnecessary for him to answer the flimsy arguments which had been urged in favour of the bill. As for the amendment of the hon. and learned gentleman the member for Bath, he insisted that it was wholly uncalled for. The whole movement was an unjust attack upon a number of most valuable institutions, which ministered to the wants of the sick, provided education for the poor, and pro moted the religious welfare of the Roman Catholics. Those who opposed, or wished to pry into them, did not do so for the sake of securing the interest of so ciety generally, but with the view of spreading religious discord and exciting unholy animosities amongst the people. That was the great object of the Protestant Association, the Evangelical Alliance, and similar socie ties, and they sought to accomplish it by resorting to scandalous libels, which they published, upon the Roman Catholic Church. Now, he wanted to know if the house was ready to assist such a movement by passing a mo tion like this ? He hoped not ; and therefore he called upon them to reject the motion. Mr. E. BALL believed that the essence of religion was charity, and, although a Dissenter, he was yet hi favour of maintaining the Established Church. (Hear, hear.) Through life he had been the advocate of religious liberty, and often had he been persecuted for the views which he entertained. He was consequently not disposed to join in the persecution of others, and as he had not yet heard anything in support of this motion he should resist it. He might be looked upon as the very antipodes of a Roman Catholic, but he never hoped :o convert others to his views by persecution. No ; it BILL. Lord R. GROSVENOR moved the second reading of the bill. He had postponed the second reading from time to time, and had he been pressed to bring it on at an earlier period he should probably have declined to do so ; but as the financial scheme of the Chancellor of the Exchequer bad safely , passed through the ordeal to which it had been very properly subjected, and as the returns of the quarter's revenue, lately published, showed a considerable surplus, he thought he was not taking an unjustifiable course in now pressing for the entire reduction of the tax. The pro position of the right hon. gentleman with regard to the tax had not been at all approved of by the attorneys and solicitors. He understood that the Government had been beating up for recruits in all directions, and it was said that they had succeeded in obtaining the support of the right hon. gentleman the member for Manchester and his friends, on the underst an di n g that the Govern ment would take the newspaper taxes into their favour able consideration. If the right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer would give an assurance that he would take the tax into his consideration next session, he should not press the bill to a second reading. Mr. MURROUGH denounced the bill as a political sham. He never had seen such a ridiculous manner of advocating the cause of a class as the course adopted by the noble lord, and he thought that if the noble lord had taken as straightforward and sincere a course as the right hon. gentleman the member for Manchester, the attorneys would now be in as good a position as the newspaper proprietors were. Mr. HUME had always been opposed to the abolition of the tax, but he did not think the hon. gentleman was advancing the interests of the attorneys by imputing partial motives to any member of that house. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER must say he sympathised very much with the pain which the honourable member opposite (Mr. Murrough) suffered on account of the vote he was about to give, but he would respectfully suggest to him that he might very easily spare himself that pain by not giving it. (A laugh). There were two motives on which men generally acted ---the one was from duty, the other was from pleasure. The honourable member, it was plain, was not going to act for the purpose of duty, for he said he was about to vote for a. political sham—(a laugh)—neither was he going to vote for the purpose of pleasure, for he said it was painful to his feelings to vote for the motion. (A laugh.) Perhaps he would pardon him for offering a suggestion, that, in these circumstances, he would be acting entirely in accordance with the dictates of his conscience if he removed himself from the house alto gether. (Great laughter.) But he must be allowed to say he thought the hon. member had entirely mistaken the motives and character of his noble friend's conduct. (Hear.) His noble friend, at his suggestion, agreed to take the division on the second reading of the bill, but it was not at all true that his noble friend by that agree ment in any way put an advantage into his hands. If he had done so the hon. member would have had a right to complain, or at least would have had some colour of complaint; but the hon. member was perhaps not aware that, this being a case of reduction of duty, it was not necessary to introduce it by a preliminary resolution at all, and that, by not opposing his (the Chancellor of the Exchequer's) resolution, his noble friend did not lose his right to introduce a bill to take away the duty altogether. It was, therefore, a mere matter of courtesy that led to any arrangement between them. If it had not been for the attack just made by the hon. member opposite, he should have been dis posed to take up his noble friend from an opposite point of view, and to compliment him for the tenacity, he would say the chivalrous tenacity, with which he had taken up the cause of this unfortunate and helpless body. (A laugh.) His noble friend's cha racter as a philanthropist had been long esta blished, otherwise, no more illustrious example of it could be quoted in after times than the manner in which he had held out the right hand of succour and support to a meritorious class, entirely without organi zation—(laughter)—not represented in that house — (laughter)—cut off from all the ordinary means of com munication with it enjoyed by other clasees—(laughter) —and, last of all, having their friends on circuit. (Great laughter.) But, with regard to the question at issue, it was understood that they were discussing a bill with two objects—one to repeal the annual certificate duty paid by attorneys and solicitors, the other to amend the law with regard to their registration. The question to be taken on the second reading, however, had no relation to this last clause, and therefore they were going to debate the ques tion whether they would repeal the certificate duty or not. He was sorry to find that besides the offence of refus ing the repeal of the duty he had committed another offence by introducing a plan for the reduction of the duty, that was more unacceptable than its maintenance —for his noble friend had told them that the plan which he introduced gave satisfaction to no one, while it would be a sheer loss to the revenue. (Hear, hear.) Now, all he had to say upon this point was, that if the noble lord and his friends felt so much aggrieved by the proposal which he had made, he did not say the Government was so obstinate in their adherence to the plan as that they might not be induced, on the representation of the par ties, to give it up altogether. (Laughter.) But, most unquestionably, they would not be parties to a repeal of the certificate duty and setting the profession free from a tax to the State which they had paid for 60 years, and which they were brought up in the expecta tion of paying, and at the same time leaving in its unmitigated force the enormous tax now paid upon the stamp that was required in the case of every little boy whose father wanted to put him into the profes sion—a tax of 1201. in the case of a boy, who might, perhaps, turn out to be unfit, or who might be pre vented by circumstances from following out the voca tion. (Hear, hear.) The Government would be no party to levying such a burdensome tax and repealing the other. (Hear.) His noble friend said, if he would consent to put his refusal on the ground of a temporary injury to the revenue, and promise that by another year he would somewhat relent, he would be ready to take the present plan of the Government as an instalment, leave the question in the meantime in his hands, and be ready to take it up again in a future year. Of course, it was open to his noble friend to use his own discretion in the matter ; but it was open to him also to say that be hoped the house was now disposed to come to a final vote on the subject. (Hear.) He could give what he thought conclusive reasons from the state of the revenue of the present year why the re peal of this tax should not now be granted ; and he could not give any promise conscientiously to his noble friend in the next year, or any future year, he could repeal this duty—and for this plain reason, that, forming the most sanguine estimate of the resources of the revenue, he still felt there were other objects of legislation beneficial to the attorneys and solicitors, in common with the rest of the community, far preferable to this, and far more imperative than this, in the claims they made on the Chancellor of the Exche quer and that house. (Hear.) He therefore could give no pledge as to the future, because he saw a long array of claims coming in for the repeal of taxes—claims of a far higher nature than could be urged in favour of the present object. Now, with regard to revenue conside rations, he would state a few words to the house. On the 18th of April, having stated to the house the changes which the Government were prepared to propose with reference to their fiscal legislation, he calculated that the result of those changes would be to leave them with a surplus of 495,0001. Since that time various changes had taken place, and he was able to speak more positively on subjects scarcely then ripe for a conclusion, and the result had tended materially to alter the statement he had made. His noble friend must not found his calcula tions upon the last quarter's revenue. Tho returns for the last quarter were swelled adventitiously and acci dentally by a variety of causes which he could easily point out ' • and he would say, looking at the present state of the country, enlarging on that view of it, and the prospect of the harvest, that if ho were to go now into his department and ask them to give him a new estimate of the revenue for 1853-54, they would not be able to give him, to say the least, a more favourable estimate than that which he laid before the house in April. (Hear, hear.) As to the surplus he then calculated upon, it would the necessary to make one or two state ments. In one item, that of the militia, there would be a gain, the expenditure under that head being 52,0001. less than was anticipated. The packet contract, however, would exceed the estimate by 35,0001. Then there was a sum of 56,0001. which he expected to have got from the Channel Island harbours, but which it would not be possible to save during the present year. There was 100,0001., the probable result of the financial measures that had been taken, a sum which would be realised as a permanent saving to the country from the contracted amount of the Exchequer-bills, but which would not be available for the balance of the present year. There was likewise 110,0001., which he had calculated on receiving from licenses, but this it d er i t t ) was so cut down by deductions which be bad foun _ necessary to make in order to satisfy the fair claim f a s o it parties who had made representations to him t t h t rof the was deemed betterinot to insist on that surplus disposed di r po e s a o r d .) of, H an er d e of f cre t d b i e t after giving of for the sum saved from the militia, the amount that was le3fot,l", ired to meet cer -150,000/. to 200,000/. would be r 000/. o.puat. 'r eq d u uty to take in a 250,000/r (Hear, hear.) Then a sum of from tain charges that it would be t at all they had left of supplementary estimate ; , • (H ear.) reneal of There was a demand made for the_ the the surplus would be from 5°0,0%0/. to 100 000/ adver tisement duty, amounting totoBo,oo7ltdlandbotf ifthe attor neys' duty, also amountingboth of they would have to carry on the operations of the financial year, not with a sur plus, but with a deficit. (Hear.) Something had been these duties were to be repealed.o sa id abort a tacit u nderstandin g with the ri g h t hon. gen tleman the member for Manchester. Whatever under standing there had been on this subject was not tacit but outspoken (hear, hear) and whatever had proceeded from him, directly or indirectly to the members for Manchester in regard to the relation between these two questions of the attorneys' and a d pro v o e o r e t d is e e d m f e r n o t in d h u i t rn y, dwiraosounyotomtohree noble than ber for Middlesex one or two days lohraddthleikmewemise ago, when he called upon him, when he pointed out that in regard to the national accounts there was a very close relation be tween the two questions: (Hear, hear.) They were asked to repeal two sets of duties amounting to 160,0001., and it was acknowledged that if they did so they would -start, not with a surplus, but with a deficit, Now: PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-JULY 20. (Front the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) ATTORNEYS AND SOLICITORS CERTIFICATE DUTY (No. 2) BILL. • Order for second reading read ; motion mado, and ques tion propond, " That the bill be now read a second time ;" amendment proposed, to leave out the • word " now," and at the end of the question to add the words " upon this day three months." Question put, " That the word ' now' stand part of the question." The house divided—Ayes, 102 ; Noes, 186. MINORITY—AYES, 102. Adderley, C. Graham, Lord M.W. Newdegate, C. Alexander, J. Gro,,-hi I , Edward Ham i i ton, 0' Arlen, C. Barrington, Viscount Hawkins, W. W. Annesiey, Earl of Hadfield, G. l'ailey, C. . Palmer, R. Go.- A. Parker, R. T. Pi elicit, Sir G. Eelibow, John lief:bort, Sir Thomas Peel, colonel Beres:ord. William Hotliain, Lord Potter, R. Berkeley, 11. Ingham, Stolen Price, W.:P. Elandforil, Marquis Jones, Captain n ig h, ti.' liooth, Sir It. Kendall, Nicholas Repton, G. Brooke, Sir A. Ker, D. Roll, P. Brown, 11. King, James King Russell,F. W . I'm rroughes, Ilenry N Knatch bull, Wm. F. Sib thorp , Colonel Butler, Charles S. Knight, F. W. Smith. J. Camac, Sir J. Rivett Lathan, It. M. Somerset, Capt Child, Smith Lawton, 11. G. Spooner, R. Cobbold, J. C. Langum. W. Cl. stairord, A. Codrington, Sir Wm. Lase,elles, E. Stanley, Lord Conolly, Thomas Lenuox ,L ord A. Taylor, Col. Crook, J. Leslie , C . I'. Tudway, R. C. Cubitt, Mr. Ald. Liddell , IL G. Tyler, Sir G. Davison, R. Locke, J. Vance, J. Duckworth, Sir J. Lytton, Sir E. B. Vyvyan, Sir R. buncombe, WE. Macgregor, James Vyse, Capt. W. Dunne, Col. Maguire, J. F. Waddington, IL Egerton W. Martin, John Walcott, Adm. Egerton, E. Niles, IV. Welby, Sir G. Ferguson, Joseph Michell, William Whiteside, James Fitzgerald, Sir J. Moody, C. A. Whitmore, 11. Frewen, C. H. Morgan, C. Wise, A. Fuller, Augustus E. Morris, D. IVoodd, B. Galway, Viscount Mowbray, J. Wyndham, Oen. Goddard, A. L. Mullings, J. R. TELLERS Goderieh, Viscount Murrough, J. F. Grosvenor, Lord R. Gore, W. Napier, J. Ball, Edward MAJORITY—NOES 186. Aclanil, Sir T. Fitzroy, Hon. H. Oakes, J. A'Court, C. 1 itzwilliam, G. O'Connell, D. Anderson, Sir James Foley, John H. O'Flaherty, Anthony Bailey, Sir J. Forster, Charles Oliveira, Benjamin Baines, M. T. Fsrteseue, Chichester Osborne, Ralph Baird James Fox, R. Otway, A. J. Barnes, Thomas Gardner, Richard Owen, Sir J. Barrow, William 11. Geacb, Charles Palmerston, Viscount Bass, M. T. Gipson, T. M. Patten, J. Beaumont. W. B. Gladstone, William Peel, F. Beckett, W. Goodman, Sir G. Percy, J. Bell, J. Gordon, Admiral Peto. S. Berkeley, Admiral Goulburn, H. PhiHipps, J. H. Bethell, Sir Richard Gower, F. L. 1-hiliimore, R. Biggs, William Graham, Sir James Pigott, F. Blacken, J. F. B. Greydie, Colonel F. Pilkington. James Boldero, Col. Hall, Sir Benjamin Pollard-Urquhart, W. Bonham-Carter, 3. Hamilton, Lord C. Ponsonby, lion. A. Bouverie, E. Emile, Alexander Pritchard, J. Bower, G. Mane, Archibald Ramsden. Sir J. Boyle, Hon. Colonel Headlam, T. E. Robartes, Thos. J. A. Bramston. T. W, Heathcoate, Sir G. Roche, E. B. Bright, John Herbert, Sidney Russell, LordJ. Brockman, E. D. Hervey, Lord A. Russell, F. C. Browne, V. Ileyworth, Lawrence Sadleir, J. Bruce, Lord E. Hindley, Charles Sadleir, John Bruce, H. A. llorsfall, T. B. Sawle, C. B. G. Campbell, Sir A. Howard, W. G. Scholefl eh], W. Cardwell, Edward Howard, Lord E. Scobell, Captain Cavendish, Hon. Geo. Hume, J. Seymour, Lord Chambers, 'l'. Hutchins, E. Seymer, H. D. Cholmondeley, Ld. H. Jermyn, Earl Shelburne, Earl of Clifford, Henry M. Jocelyn, Viscount Shelley, Sir J. V. Cobden, Richard Keating, It. Sheridan, R. B. Cockburn, Sir A. Kennedy, T. Smith, John Bcnj. Coffin, W. Keogh. William Smith, R. V Cowan, Charles Kershaw, James Strutr, lit. lion. E. Cowper, W. Kinnaird, A. F. Stuart, H. Craufttrd, E. 11. 3 Kirk, William Sutton, J. 11. M. Crossley, F. Lacou, Sir E. Tancred, Henry Wm. :S i Earl Laing, S. Thompson, Ge,.rge Davie, Sir H. Lawley, F. C. Thornely, Thomas Denison, E. Lee, William Vernon.G. E. H. Denison, J. E. Legh, G. C. Villiers, C. Pelham Dent, J. Lockhart, A. E. Wal', C. B. Hering, Sir Edward Lockhart, W. Walmsley, Sir J. Divett, E. Lowe, Robert Walpole, S. 11. Drumlanrig,Viscount Luce, Thomas Walter, John Drummond, Henry Mackinnon, W. A. Wells, W. Duke, Sir J. M`Gregor, John Whelley, George H. Duncan, G. Maddock, Sir 11. Wickham, 11. W Dundas, G. Mauls, Colonel Wilkinson, W. A. Dindas, F. Miall, E. Williams, W. Dunne, Michael Milligan, R. Wilson, James East,:Sir J. B. Mills, T. Wood, Sir C. Eleho, Ldrd Moffatt, G. Wrightson, W.' Ellice, E. Molesworth, Sir W. Wyndham, Wiliam Elmley, Viscount Monck, Lord .Wy vill, M. Esmond°, J. Monsell, W. Young, Sir J. E'rart, William Muigrave, Earl Feilden, M. J. Mure, Col. TELLERS. Fergus, John Newark, Viscount Hayler, lion. W. Ferguson, Col. Norreys, Lord Berkeley Grenville GREAT LONDON" DRAINAGE BILL. TO THE EDITOR. OF THE SUN. SIR,—You are aware that a bill under the above title was introduced into Parliament this session, by which it was proposed to accomplish the following objects :—" To afford means for effectually draining the Metropolis—to preserve the Thames from the pollution at present passing into it—and to preserve the contents of the sewers for agricultural purposes." These objects were to be secured by the construction of a tunnel sewer on each side of the Thames, passing under and intercepting the contents of the present sewers, conveying the same to a distance from the Metropolis, and there, by deodorising and precipitating it, to form an inodorous and dry manure. This bill was referred to a select committee before whom, during an investigation of seven days, the fol lowing facts were proved by evidence : That the proposed tunnel sewers were capable of car rying off 37,000,000 of cubic feet of sewerage per diem, whilst the daily amount of sewerage, according to the highest estimate, is only 12,000,000 of cubic feet. That by these tunnel sewers, and by no other means, can the whole of the low-lying districts of the metropolis be efficiently drained. That for the ordinary rain-fall ample provision is made, the flushing or scouring power of which will carry down into the tunnel sewers all the foul matter that may be in the general sewers, leaving them clean channels through which any amount of storm wPter will afterwards pass into the Thames. That the proposed terminal works were sufficient for ie purpose, and that the process of .manufacturing the atiure was so inoffensive as to admit of the works ter eating at the River Lea, 3& miles short of the distance must be done rather by charitable and Christian persua sion, and not by a recourse to violence. He strongly deprecated these efforts to increase religious animosities, they produced no good ; but above all he deprecated the vile and unchristian manner in which the institutions of the Roman Catholic Church had been assailed. Be had visited some of them, and he found instead of a pri son, a charitable asylum where children were educated, I who would otherwise have been left to the lanes and streets—where poor women were employed or re claimed from an ill course of life. He had visited the convent in Blandford-square, the asylum of the Holy Shepherd at Hammersmith, as well as the nunnery at Roehampton • and instead of finding dungeons in them, he discovered places where charity, good will, and religion prevailed. While, therefore, he had the strongest faith in his own Protestant principles, which could thrive without the assistance of legislative enactments, he had no fear of their being undermined by institutions like these ; and his course was clearly to vote against the motion. Mr. WHITESIDE treated this as a legal ques tion, and contended that the house had no alter native but to appoint a committee of inquiry with a view to the amendment of the law relat ing to the inmates of conventual establishments. He wished to have no disagreeable or painful inspection of conventual establishments, but he desired to protect their inmates from having their property taken away from them against their will. He was surprised to find great unanimity among Roman Catholics in favour of throwing some protection around ladies in convents in regard to the execution of deeds and wills. He could not see any reason why the Roman Catholic members of the house should object to inquiry if they were so satis fied it would redound to their honour, or that the cases of oppression which had been cited were without foun dation. He denied the assertion of the hon. member for Carlow that the object of this measure was to assail the Roman Catholics of Ireland, and to deprive them of their rights of property. There could be no doubt that the opposition for finquiry came from the ultramontane party of the Romish Church. In making that assertion, he did not stand alone. Mr. Berwick, the principal-of the college at Galway, had said it was impossible for that institution to withstand the machinations of this priestly party. Mr. DRUMMOND said the real question was the secular power assumed, without ever being abandoned, mitigated, or modified, by Rome and all its clergy ; and he should never, whether in or out of Parliament, cease to expose the means by which they had boldly avowed their intention to carry out the system into effect. He considered that the motion was a very injudicious one, because it would not secure the object intended. Hon. members had alluded to the abuses connected with these establishments in England, but nothing was done here equal to what took place on the continent. The—state of Europe justified all that had been asserted of them in the course of the debate. Wherever in France did they hear of the beloved priests or hierarchy ? Where, but for the standing army in Rome, would the priests be? (Hear, hear.) He would recommend no one to withdraw those troops if they had any mercy for the Pope. He had no hesitation in saying that convents were abodes of cruelty, and he did not think the bill would hit at the real evil. A writer on Portugal, Gen. Dumorier, stated that 400,000 out of the 2,000,000 in nfconventual the p o p u l a population in t a ish re c h e at s c o e u e n e t r y e f themr e confined e saesraegfltihoeofmtheeetkiinngfa,naineedshee h d a e ra s c e r t i e b r. ed the rr h w o h o c l o e n o d f u t c h t them priests for th e m w a t s obe subversive loya li o n f a Protestant m orals, country.a s impossible p H o sesi be lievedb theth aMt Romanrit. hßi would, Catholics. orßurolod sharersoal3n withß unjusti ctEenN Protestant aEoncpt p ointerferencesed f rtheeemmweonitti with no nthe o the n conducting libertiesg r uc o t u i n no g df with the late Duke of Wellington, that it would be seen that it was impossible for slaves to the priesthood thoebaeffairs of this country. (Hear.) on s t t r te d . ed I th n at d i i t sc w u as ssin th g e the essential gues. without principle of the religion of the Roman Catholics to bo tloyaleMn,r they h o E e this coming to any satisfactory conclusion, steep themselves to their necks in theology, exasperate the Catholics, and confute the Protestant people of the country. Nothing could be more un statesmanlike than bringing forward a measure of this kind without any good grounds, when it was shown that in every case of hardship which had been referred to the law had been vindicated. It was like stepping in where angels feared to tread. Sir J. TYRREL attributed the opinions of the hon. member for Cambridgeshire to his innocence in regard to the system adopted in convents. He protested against Wednesday afternoons being fritted away by gentlemen who seemed speaking against time, and he expressed his astonishment that no member of the Government had risen to interfere. Mr. FITZGERALD contended that the arm of the law was strong enough to protect the inmates of con vents both in regard to their own personal liberty and to the disposal of their property. Wherever moral coercion had been proved, deeds making away property to the Church had been set aside. But where there was one case of coercion in these convents there were fifty in private life by the parent over the child. In Ireland convents had existed openly and notoriously for centuries, and was it not extraordinary, if such abuses had existed in them, that there should be only four cases in the books in which assignments of the property had been obtained by undue means, in all of which the law had set them aside. He protested against inquiry as unnecessary, and also because it would raise sectarian animosity, and be most mischievous i n its effects. _ at • Lord PALMERSTON suggested tha h t the d.ch e should be adjourned, in order that awn° rePQrto m ight proposed by the plan. That the tunnels could be constructed without inter fering with the traffic of the thoroughfares under which it was intended to pass ; and That the proposed tunnel sewers, branch sewers, and works could be efficiently constructed for the sum of 900,0001., eminent contractors being fully prepared to undertake the contract. The minutes of evidence taken before the committee were ordered to be printed, on the motion of the chair man ; reference to which will confirm the foregoing statements. _ _ _ _ This important public work, originating with, and now proposed to be carried out by, public enterprise, and in all reasonable probability without charge to the rate payers, could not fail to confer such incalculable advan tages upon the metropolis that it was deemed reasonable that the parishes benefited should share the risk in a small degree. A clause was, therefore, inserted in the bill, providing that they were to contribute towards a divi dend of 3 per cent. on the outlay (not exceeding 900,0001.), in so far as the sale of the manure failed to produce that rate of interest. This guarantee was to extend only over 25 years, and to be altogether extinguished whenever the profits amounted to 3 per cent. Under this clause the greatest amount which, under any circumstances, could be pay able by the metropolis would be 27,000/. per annum for twenty-five years, equal to a present value of 450,0001., or one half the cost of the works. The parishes, the parties really interested, did not oppose the bill in committee, which was opposed only by the representatives of the two Commissions of Sewers, and on them, therefore, will rest the responsibility of any delay that may occur in the carrying out this work, or of devising some better plan for the drainage of the metropolis, and a more advantageous method of raising the capital.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, W. C. STEPHENS. 29k, Royal Exchange, July 13th, 1853. By the minutes of evidence taken before the com mitteee, you will see that the commissioners do not con template taking any steps for relieving the Thames from its pollution ; but, on the contrary, they contend that such pollution is not particularly injurious, and that they intend to confine their labours, for many years to come, to the formation of extended inland sewers in connection with the present outfall sewers, which will greatly increase the pollution of the Thames, and still further endanger the health of the metropolis. BURlALS.—Yesterday the Government bill for burials beyond the metropolis was printed. By this measure her Majesty, on the representation of the Home Secre tary, may restrain the opening of burial-grounds. There are several provisions for burial grounds beyond the metropolis. THE FACTORY HANDS' STRIKE AT MANCHESTER.-- During the week arrangements have been come to by several employers, either with the whole or part o f the hands who had struck work, and some lar g e ments arc again in full operation ; but ilitootZset:Wish mills piecers have either struck or given notice Monday next, if their demands be not complied d w o istho on . Manchester Guardian. WEST CORNWALL ELECTION. —The election for this division of the county took place gt Truro . on Tuesday morning. On the nomination of J. P. Gilbert, Esq., seconde by W. M. Tweedy, Esq., Michael Williams, Esq., of Trewinc e, was una nimously elected to represent this division in P arliament. AUSTRALIAN ROYAL MAIL COMPANY.—At the ad journed meeting of this company held yesterday, the accounts were presented and referred to the committee of investigation, it being understood that when their re port is ready the whole question of management will be brought under consideration. The sole point of inte rest touched upon were the return of the Melbourne, and the advices from St. Vincent of the arrival of the Victoria. It appears by the profit and loss account, that the ordinary expenditure to the 30th of June last was 1 2,3381., while the receipts were only 4,9871., leaving a balance of 7,3511., which added to the sum disbursed for a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum in December last, namely, 5,6731., makes 13,0141. to be carried against the general account of the company, LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Dr. Paid. RAILWAYS. c L om eas p a n ini i CiCtgaryices Badness 50 all Bedford and London & Bletchley. . N. West. ••• ••• 304 all Birm. & Oxfd. gua.antec Gt.Westn 304 all Do. withoutgr Do ......... 30 all Birm. Wolv. & Dudley guar. D 0......... • 304 all Do. wtht guar. Do . . .. St. 100 Buckghamsh. L.SzN.W. 106 108 50 all Clydesdale Jo. Caledon... 54 —56 St. 100 E. Lincoln gr. 6 per cent. Gt.Nrthn. 150 152 152 25 all Glstr.&Dn.Fr Gt. Westn 33 34xd d 100 all Hrtlpl. Dk. & Yk. New. R a il wa y & Berw. ••• 50 all Hull & Selby Y. &NMd 112 114 25 all Do. a Shares. Do 56 57 12a all Do. Shares. Do 272 282 131 all Lon.&Greenw S. Eastern 144 —l4i.d 1.42 x d 20 all Do.Preferenee Do 26 27 20 100 Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Norfolk 9B 100 20 WO Do. 6 per et. 5a all Manch. Bxtn. L.& N. W and Matlock & Midld 3 31 50 all Middlesbro' & Stekton & Reclear Darlingt. 00 all Dlidld.Bra,dfd Midland.. 106 108 50 all Northern and Easternsp.e. E. Count. 65 67 50 all Do. 6 per ct. D 0... — 50 all Do. Fixeds pg Do — 25 all Prest. & Wyre &N.W &Ln&Yk ••• 121 12 Do. a Shares. Do — .. . St. 100 Roystu.&Hit. GtNorthn 151 153 St. 100 Do. Shcpth .St Do 151 153 25 18a Shef.Roth.2 id Lancash& Goole g. sp. c. Yorksh. 12 9A S. SLafiordsh. M.MClean 14 d 50 all Wear Valleygr Stockt. & 6 per cent... Darlingt. 25 all Do Do 32 33 St. 100 Wilts&Somrst GtWestn lO3 —lo4xcl x d 1 all 1 all 00 all tO 2 !O 5 1 all 1 all 1 all 1 all 1 all 13.5 15 24 Wl I all I 0 I 15 I : 0 all It. all 5 all 5 all !O all 2 all 2 all 3 all 1 all 1 all 3 all 1 all 1 all .0 9 1 all 1 all LO 5 5I 1 1 all I all 5 15 1 I all 0 I 7 81, all 1 all 1 all 1 all 1 all MINES. Agua Fria Anglo Austrin. Gold Anglo Californian Australasian Australian Australian Cordillera Australian Freehold Ave Ma is Baden (Gd. Duchy of) British asixln. Gold British Iron Brazilian Imp. (issued at £5 pm. Do. Cocaos & Cuiada Do. St. John Del Rey Carson's Creek Cobre Copper Colonial Copiapo Copper Min. of Eng. Do. Pref. 7 p. cent. English and Austrin. Copper Smeltg.Co. General Great Nugget Vein... Do. Registered Great Polgooth Lake Bathurst Liberty Linares Loud. &Californ. Gold Quartz Crush. Co Mariquita Mexicau&S.Americn New Granada Nouveau Monde Nova Scotia Mining and Copper Smeltg Port Philip Quartz Rock Rhymney Iron Do. New Santiago de Cuba South Australian Tin Croft United Mexican Waller West Granada West Mariposa Yuba lip d pm 2 par 3 id par ad id p ad 7 9 3A 4 32 34 Ad par 1 -- 11 10i -- 11 60 -- 70 7 - 8P 2 lid 14 l6xd i— 1 p .d i dis— p 9 10 d— par 61 74xd par— 4 : p 4 PI par Ad par 26 28 7 9 4 5 . id par 41 id par par - d d JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 40 all Australasia BO 81 50 all British N. American ... 20 2 Chrtcl. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China t 1 p 100 25 Colonial — 100 20 Commercial of Lond — 20 10 English Scottish and Australian 4 r 20 15 fond. Chart. Bk. of Australia 1 —2l p 174 50 20 London ar d County ... 50 10 London Joint Stock — LOO 20 Lond. & Westminster ••• 20 2 London Bank of Aus tralia and India 50 22 National of Ireland — 25 all Oriental Bank of Co:poration 47 49 49 Si 25 5 Do. new — 100 25 Provincial of Ireland xd & bon 10 all Do. New 5 1 Royal Australu.Bkg & Gold Imp Co k dis— par 25 all South Australia 45 —47xd x all 25 all Union of Australia 79 80 794 2 Do. New Bi 8i 50 10 Union 01 London — 40 all Union of Madrid...... •.• MISCELLANEOUS 100 35 Australian Agricult. 36 38 354 6 20 10 Australsn.Pcifie.Mail 10 7 Australn. Royal Mail ... 50 38i Brit. American Land 66 68 100 324 Canada 5 5 Crystal Palace 1 —24 p xn 7A x new 4 4 Crystal Pal. of France 1 20 1 Eastern Steam ••• 1 1 Electric Teleg. of Ir — 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat ••• 20 14 General Screw Steam 20 5 Irish Beet:oot Sugar 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel ... 10 3 Netherlands Land. 20 7) Nrth.ofEuropeSteam 50 all Peninsular& Oriental ... 77 50 25 Do. 100 60 Royal Mail Steam ... ..• 25 25 South Austral. Land 40 412a1, xn xd, x n 1 all Submar. Telegraph.. 5 2 Univeral Emigration and Colonization.... 100 284 Van Diemen's Land 174 IS4 18 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, July 22.—Wind this day at Noon, S. ; plea sant breeze, and fine.— The Princess Royal sailed from Constantinople on the 24th of February last, for England, and has not since been heard of.—The Zuluka, Akyab to Bremen, and the Falcon, Liverpool to Australia, were in contact at sea, and the former received considerable damage, but the latter received but trifling injury. DEAL, July 20.—Wind, W.S.W. Arrived—Theodor Bebrends, Pugwash ; Ennerdale, Shanghai. Arrived from the River—Windsor, Sydney, N.S.W. ; Deslandes, Cape Coast Castle ; Constancia, Rio Janeiro ; Yorktown, New York. Put back—lnglewood, Sydney, N.S.W. July 21.—Wind, W.S.W. Arrived from the River — California, Adelaide ; Progress, Quebec. Sailed—York town, New York. Passed—Heather Bell, from Black Sea, for London ; Four Figle, Constantinople, for London ; Symmetry, Leghorn, for Newcastle ; Deborak, Sines, for Hull. Anchored—Progress, from London, for Quebec ; California, London, for Adelaide; Rainbow, London, for Cardiff.—A ship, supposed the Owen Glendower, passed down at the back of the Goodwin Sands. SOUTHAMPTON, July 20.—Wind, S.W. Sailed—Wash ington (s), New York. PLYMOUTH, July 20.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Nelly and Rachel, Porto Rico. Sailed—H.M.'s st. Comus, East Indies. FALMOUTH, July . 20.—Wind, W. Arrived—Ellen, Mazanilla ; Jessie, Aux Cayes. Off Port—Elizabeth, Cal cutta, and sailed for Hambuqh ; Pompeer, Monte Video, and sailed for Liverpool ; George, Rio Janeiro, for Ham burgh. LIVERPOOL, July 21 (10.30 a.m.)—Wind, S.W., mode rate, and cloudy. Arrived—Eudocia, St. John's, N.B. ; Thomas Ridley, Newfoundland ; Arabistan, Tarcius ; Fides, Alexandria ; Release, Gallipoli ; Moira, Malta ; James, Bahia ; Franconia, Richibucto ; Ocean Breeze, Montreal; Edith, Finland. Sailed—Mermaid, Philadel phia ; Maria Catherina, Sydney, N.S.W. Off Port—Bri tish queen (s), from the Mediterranean. BRISTOL, July 20.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Sybella, Trinidad ; Meldon,Miramichi. GLOUCESTER, July 20.—Arrived—Eleanor, Quebec. DUBLIN, July 19.—Wind, N.N,W. Arrived—Hebron, St. John's, N.B. CLYDE, July 19.—Wind, W. Arrived—Thetis, Mira michi ; Brazilian, St. Stephen's ; Miramichi, St. John's. NEWPORT, July 20.—Wind, N.N.W. Arrived—Annan dale, Bristol, for New York ; Abegael, Gloucester, for Quebec. Sailed—Nerudo, Jamaica ; Elizabeth, City Point. HARTLEPOOL, July 20.—Wind, W. Sailed—Hermann, St. Thomas'. CHRISTIANSAND, July 14.—The Constance, Konigsberg to Hull, has put into Arendal leaky, and must discharge. —The Dunrobin, Dantzic to Leith, has put into Arendal with cargo heated, and must discharge. HAMBURGH, July 18.—The Clasina Bruins, from Dant zic, was abandoned in a sinking state in the North Sea, on the 15th hist ; crew saved, and arrived here. BOSTON, July B.—The Gondar, from Liverpool, which was partially destroyed by fire at Charlston on the 16th June, and scuttled, is likely to be made seaworthy. THE LATE DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT DERBY.—The young man (Mead), who dropped from the window , upwards of 60 feet, a t the late destructive fire at Mr. Davenport's mill, died yesterday afternoon. Bennett is still lying in a very precarious state ; and Thorpe, the man who escaped by the ladder, is somewhat better. - • POPULATION OF FRANKFORT. —According to a census taken in December last, the state of Frankfort contains 73,150 inhabitants, of whom 62,511 are in the city, and 10,639 in the country. In the above number are in cluded 829 soldiers of the contingent. The federal gar rison not included in the above amounts to 4,821 men, so that the total number of th.e inhabitants is 77,971. In 1849 the inhabitants of the,43ity numbered 58,426, and of the country 10,038, so that the population has in creased 3,814 in three years. ;'he federal garrison com prises 1,717 Austrians, 1,713 Prussians, and 1,391 B ava rians. There are now i•s, Germany eight sovereign States each of which has a pr )pulation inferior to that of Frankfort, and before the territorial modifications of malt and f4940 11 4 9110 ru 11 3 Liao Ivey? twelTe, ~~~ xd I il 69 i 12 6N 60 74 35 2 3 xd i pm SPORTING NOTES, SOMETHING ABOUT STAMFORD. Fine sunny weather, and the attraction which invari ably centres in a " Cup Day," brought together a large assemblage of spectators. The sport, however, was in significant and unexciting, the principal incident being the starting and defeat of Weathergage for the Steward's Plate. This horse arrived at Stamford unexpectedly this morning, having been "telegraphed" for on the preceding day. He was freely backed at evens against the field, and his party appeared to be sorely disappointed at his sorry exhibition. Young Steggles rode the winner (Racka pelt) with admirable patience and consummate judg ment. Nutpecker won the Gold Cup, little Oliver wearing Lord Exeter's colours for the first time. His successful mount was very fortunate, and he will now, perhaps, frequently sport the " blue and white jacket." The other races were too unimportant to require particular comment. Having already referred to the events to be decided at Nottingham to-morrow (Thursday), I will now direct attention to the probable result of Friday's " fixtures." lanthe, notwithstanding her 51b. penalty, ought, if in tended, to be capable of winning the Chesterfield Han dicap. Her most formidable opponents will perhaps be Calot and The Maid of Mouton filly. The Bunney Park Stakes may occasion an interesting race. Meteor, Village Lass, and Horatio are most entitled to notice ; and should the three start, I shall expect to see them pass the judge's chair in the order in which I have set down their names. I have not yet received the nomi nations for the other stakes. By an accommodating arrangement, a train was in readiness after the races this afternoon to convey the sporting visitors from Stamford to Nottingham. A FRESH MAN. Stamford, Wednesday night. BETTING-HOUSES. We have been requested to publish the following reasons which have been respectfully submitted to the Attorney-General against the bill for the abolition of betting-hotises :- 1. Because the preamble states matters which are, to a great extent, exaggerated as to the tendency of a system which has long been in existence without any law against it, and which has been and is extensively patronised 4t only by many noblemen and gentlemen, members of the Legislature, personally as well as through their agents, but by merchants, professional men of all grades, and trades men of every denomination. 2. Because the principal establishments have been formed and are carried on by persons of probity and capi tal, whose transactions have invariably been conducted in the most open and legitimate manner, without any attempt at unfair dealing, by means of which they have secured the confidence of all classes of the sporting community. 3. Because the national sport of horse racing has be come in degree a general necessity, the furtherance and success of which are matters of increasing national in- terest. 4. Because embarking in legitimate speculation has ever been the characteristic of Englishmen, and enterprises of this description are no more demoralising in their tendency than " Freehold Land" and similar societies, which noto riously evade existing statutes, and rely upon the ballot and the general doctrine of chances for success, which are not only unrecognised by law, but, with the exception of the Art Union of England, are actually prohibited. 5. Because there ought not to be one law for the rich and another for the poor, which would practically be the case if the bill should be passed into a law in its present form, enabling the man of wealth and leisure to frequent and bet upon races either at the post or at Tattersall's, or some two or three similar places in London 9 particular days and hours; while the less fortunate individual, whose avocations prevent his absence from home, would be de barred his favourite amusement. 6. Because the journals of the House of Commons, upon reference, will prove that not more than half-a-dozen pe titions in the aggregate have been presented against the present system, with signatures not exceeding a hundred in the whole, and which have been chiefly prepared by persons inimical to the general recreation and amusement of the less favoured classes. 7. That the learned introducer of the measure must have been misinformed about the fact, that there was " not a Prison or House of Correction in the country, there was not an establishment for the punishment of offenders, but furnished abundant and conclusive testi mony of the evils that had resulted from betting houses, and of the vast number of persons that had been led into dreadful temptation by moans of these houses; for, speaking from memory only, it is believed that even from " confessions," obtained from persons committed to prison for trial in the metropolis, averaging more than 6,000 annually, there have not been above twenty who have attributed, or rather have had their unfortunate position attributed by others, to frequenting betting houses, although it may have happened that inducements had boon held out equally more alluring in other esta blishments, which have been carefully concealed. 8. That the most prominent, and indeed the chief case of the kind in the metropolitan districts, was that of a butler, who had robbed his master from having injudi ciously betted on horse races, and was convicted. But many persons have become ruined from time to time among the higher classes of society—men of mature years and standing, from over indulgence in the system which is pro posed to be exempted from the operation of the Attorney- General's measure, which has terminated in suicide ; and the melancholy result has also occasionally occurred from pecuniary liabilities of other kinds, both from the Stock Exchange and numerous speculations authorised by law. 9. Because it is a pure error to suppose that the system of betting has been established for the encouragement of youth ; on the contrary, the great majority of persons fre quenting betting establishments are persons of mature years, who have brought experience to bear on their in vestments ; and the presence of a youth under twenty-one years is the exception, and not the rule. 10. Because even assuming some few clerks have, through infatuation, been led into a departure from the paths of honesty, and have made occasional bets on horse races, it does not follow that the system should be suddenly prohi bited on that account ; for it would scarcely be argued that if a servant had embezzled large sums of money, and had subsequently been discovered with an inordinate quantity of apparel and jewellery, the proceeds of the plunder, that the vendors of such apparel and jewellery should be stigmatised as having by the vending of their wares indiscriminately conduced to the ruin of the thief, which would be precisely as inconsistent a course as the sweeping charges now made against persons who have in vested their time and capital in an honourable occupation. 11. Because there never has been any good without some alloy, and although it is readily admitted that there have been from time to time a few dishonourable persons en gaged in the pursuit, yet the system has grown so thoroughly in improvement, that such persons have now no chance whatever of gaining a livelihood, and their practices as in other cases have been gradually finding their proper level. 12. Because there are during the present and the next two months many heavy sporting events to be decided, upon which large sums of money have been deposited by the public, and if the system of business ba suddenly stopped, without enabling both sides to " hedge*" accord ing to custom, the greatest injustice will arise ; for which reason, should the Legislature in its wisdom see ;lit to pass the measure complained of, it is hoped that may not come into operation, at all events, until after the 1 foughton Meeting at Newmarket, which closes the regulr br Racing Season. 13. Because the bringing in of a Government; measure at so late a period of the session does not afford the requi site time for calm deliberation on its provisions, especially where interests of such magnitude and general popularity are concerned ; and that time ought t o be 94 forded for giving the requisite explanations, ur g i ng objections, and calling evidence in support thereof, by a reference to a select committee. 14. Because vested interests are invariably respected by the Legislature, which never willingly sacrifices without due notice any class of her Majesty's subjects, and it. would be a very serious matter to a great num b er o f gentlemen engaged in this puruit, if sufficient time be in ,t afforded to enable them to satisfactorily wind up their business according to the present system. 15. Because many gentlemen, who have rec eived and are now occasionally receiving large sums of mo any in the aggregate, from backers of horses u p on f u t ur e events, by comm ission and otherwise, although deposited in i dividually in small sums, have contributed mainly towards the estab lishment and support of well-known, prominent, and popu lar stakes at the Spring Meeting at Epsom, and l they are among others entitled to be protected and hea rd. against the measure as affecting future betting generally.. 16. Because if a select committee of the 'house be granted, the parties interested will be enabled to prove the truth of the preceding objections,—that hundred's of thou sands of pounds have yearly changed hands with unerring punctuality where the law would not enforce the payment of a shilling, thus showing a degree of honour and honesty in the sporting world, wholly unparalleled in. the general dealings of life, in matters supported by the strange st legal protection. London, July 19,1853. THE NAVAL ENGINEERS AND THE ADMIHALTY.-. We regret to find the recent Admiralty arra ngernents for the retirement of this now valuable class of officers has, whether intentionally or otherwise, been made the occasion of another slight, not to say insult, to the whole class. Instead of placing them in the same posi tion as other officers of similar rank, pensi on-tickets have been issued to them, as in the case of a ship's cook, and which compel the holder to go to the superin tendent of the nearest dockyard for his signature, before the pension can be received. It is no use—the stiff back of the " executive officer," even though a Lord of the Admiralty , m ust bend. The " rutl Jess hand of science" has levelled sterner stuff than a bluff I old com modore, or snarling, waspish admiral in office,, and they must yield to the march like all others. It may be morti fying to find all the pomp of circumstance with. which a ship was hove-to, stayed. or box-hauled, supplanted by the simple cry of " stop her," " turn ahead,"' or " turn astern ; " but there is no avoiding the chan g es, an d if for the safty of our shores we must have a steam-ileei, and, consequently, men to rule the ne wl y -a dopt ed powe r whose education and knowledge of their profession com pel their being paid as, and ranked with, "w ar d. room 9, officers, there is a littleness in yielding what', is due to them with a niggardly spirit, or in attempting: to make or keep up distinctions which create a distaste " for the service. Rear-Admiral Berkeley may talk of hik; Eton, Harrow, and Rugby " acquirements until he empties the House of Commons benche s ; but corn.caon sense will soon teach him that the efficiency of the service de mands that he be not allowed to empty the ateam-ships of their engineers, by giving way to his con ce its or his prejudices. He will find that the hospitals a.nd the fac tories will make short work of his impetuous - and loud mouthed oratory, and the public will not confound our intelligent scientific marine engineers with hiis " drivers and stokers ;" nor the M.D.'s and members of medical colleges that are now in the navy with the. " doctor's mates of his overbearing age. --Plymouth, h 1 ail. THE MILITIA ESTIMATES.--Yesterday the militia estimates for the year ending March 31, 1854, were printed in a Parliamentary paper. The estimate to the 31st March, 1854, is 478,7401., and the numbers to be raised 91,812. For the past year, ending the 31st March last, the numbers were 56,746, and the estimate 386,715 1 . BENEFICES. —According to a return printed on Wed nesday, six benefices have been united, under the 13th and 14th Victoria, chap. 98, since May, 1851, all within the diOCOSS Of 3i 21 I 7 as i IGN. 1014 69 13 it 33 i 778 i 15i i 72i i 128, 103 f ~. i f