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04 antet. NVANTED , an ARTICLED PUPIL in a Ladies' lio n 4c1,1001; in addition to English, she will receive Inatrup- Teaca ling the Junior P . renelt and Music _and will be required to assist in a 'tf ..............._l_2_,Lddres A F. T-dinandaid-office. LIVERPOOL DOCKS. TRE LOANS OF MONEY. do COMNIITTEE of the LIVERPOOL DOCKS . HREBY GIVE NTILE, that are to receiv e receivee YENS of MONEY on tte security the y of the Bonds willin of g the Fat C ent ees the Liverpool Docks, at the rate of Four Pounds lerani per Annum Interest, for periods of either Three, ts or Seven Years. The Interest payable here or in London. offers to be addressed—tti GEORGE WITHERS, Tr easurer to th e LiverpeniDocks, Dock-office, Liverpool. ESCI,. -BY order, Do c k DANIEL MASON, Secretary. Liverpool, March, 1850. Co i Ett, I: 13 be LET , a detached VILLA, the first in Bel or ~Inont-road,' West Derby-road, near Newsham-house, with ", "'lout Stable and Coach-house. to S. Jon 550:5,7-,-Cfmrch-street, Liverpool. Pgr he LE'4CLAREMONT, Sandforth-road, West eet t k f u ,s erbY. The House contains Dininv:,. Drawing, and is rallt, a n-rooms, Entrance-hall, Store-room, Kitchen, Scullery, , 4 edr n '„' and Butler's-pantry on the first floor ; eight good , s riat e - ,. 4 P5, five Dressing rooms, Bath-rooms," and Offices. 4 teibl', l l ", all the requisite ,aparttnents. Gas, Coach-house, kiarden, &c. ._PP , Y to R W PfrgsToN, India-buildings, Water-street. Pro ,VILLA RESIDENCE, NEAR FAIRFIELD. oe LET, a neat VILLA RESIDENCE, situate t42. 1 .,""!r Fairfield, and contains Dining, Drawing, and Break pretii,7i., Butler's-pantry, Kitchens, &c., five Bedrooms, Qou„ ooms, Bath-room, and 4 crvants' Apartments, Coach -111:47,4 i. table, end b fueautil' Gden with Hot-house. The 4 , s 6 l jghted with Gas, and an abundant supply of Water. PP be u.„ TO BUTCHERS, &c. h ilte rir, a splendid HOUSE and SHOP, with modern ; rely 0v ,7 8 Front, situate in No. 97, ST. JAMES'S-STREET, gi v by PORK BUTCHER, and contains two Parlours rnDl:23edrooms, Kitchens, and spacious Shop, with Fixtures Urn.Ze, ready for 43pp/ration, and where an extensive and " 4, e Trade has tre'En done. Rent and Incoming moderate. to TO b e ,ATING-HOUSE, NEAR CLARENCE DOCK. th e ~a n old-established EATING-HOUSE, convenient uttin e ntre Gate, Clarence Dock, and where an extensive Prieto as has been done for the last 14 years by the late Pro- Ntl e r '_, The House contains Bar, Parlour, two Kitchens, five 432,D. ur ooms,&c., &c. Rent,. 2. Good-will and Furniture, Itltlrth e 1 14 4 , r Particulars may be bad on application to WILLIAM ~„s ag s, Estate Agent, 47, Ratrlagh. street. Liverpool. ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY, ENE —4l HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD. AV I IEREAs, on WEDNESDAY, the 231 instant, the I, O:IRES of the ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH, on the bONCN . and NORTH-WESTERN LINE, near the BRAN- A~ IA were WILFULLY and MALICIOUSLY tio b "" W ith a view to the interruption of the communi- Aet o V i nd whereas such offence is a misdemeanour under the cap. 44, 14 tor rh 8 IS TO GIVE NOTICE; that any Person giving such tecti: oe the above as will le a d t o fhe conviction of the Offenders will hove Reward of ONE HUNDRED POUNDS. By order, J. S. FOURDRINIE Secretary. 04d0 n, 24th July, 1851. 1 4 °N)2I ON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. NORTHERN DIVISION. 4 1.1VE E RPOOL AND MANCHESTER SECTION. q o "Iblic is requested to take Notice, that, on bean'i l i T 7'fter FRIDAY next,-the Ist of Almost, the TRAIN " T 'g LIVF.RPOOItfor MANCHESTER at 12 30, p.m., t e e , a 12 15, p.m. desp atched By order. .--....,_.4..fhlanager's Office, Liverpool, 26th July, 1851. - 'TER AND lIOINIIEAD RAILWAY. REDUCTION OF FARES ! ! ISSUE bh OF THROUGH AND RETURN TICKETS k .. . v. ,. BETWEEN ', LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, CHESTER, IST 4 BIRMINGHAM, AND LONDON. P „,„t,,,.. after FRIDAY, AUGUST ISt, PASSENGERS 44,1 4 , p 0.,• BOOKED TIIRO U 0 11 , 1111(1 conveyed at the following or"1101„lca includes the PoSsage-money between Kingstown 84,1 tiVad, either by the Boats of the Chester and Holyhead, I. eon -bittrYil,Lf D9lin - Company : '4ll or IN, Single Fares. Return Tickets. Bil7rovirm , ands ist Class. 2d a Class. Ist s Class. 2d s Class. ‘9)a " . d. . d. . d. . d. tt i tt ltot qp i l • • ....... 60 0 40 0 90 0 60 0 L'Oche st ar a ...... 40 0 39 0 60 0 45 0 I.oer .er ...... 25 0 17 6 37 6 26 6 Theo] -• • ..... 20 0 15 0 30 0 22 6 15 0 30 0 2 9 6 tarii% t l itliicets ge o tw o een Dublin, Liverpool, Chester:Man n'P•t:9l4ai l to yElgs,Triningl DAYS iam after date of issue. will be available (or Those between the Return ti te radon FOURTEEN DAYS. 9 0 PROM KINGSTOWN. ARRIVAL IN LONDON. I o aon. Express. 11 0 p.m. - Mail. 4 50 a.m. DAP 1 ) ,, 30 D P.M. i 1 0 p.m. 4 , - 4 ITRE M S:2O3 a I LONDON. ARRIVAL IN DUBLIN. i 8 0 a.m. Express. 10 30 p.m. 6 30m. g , :05 P p.m m . Mail . Express. 11 a a.m. ~/t, j ,.. I. 0. BINGER. e ' . "t•ncl env, Office, Chester, 24th July, 1851. ON L. o r ,,`' , to LEND, in Sums of Ten Guineas and at 4 D.„ Al4O-r )4" ar ds, on sec Stock urity of Made-up or Piece Goods and nufactured . I l Lo t , `,, WATCHES, JEWELLERY, and every kind of A D • valuable Property. 1 14 e l)lic atio ____ k tiqre a : l ,,to be made at (Private House) 16, Grenville ' ...... A ,Jeorge„square. -...ii letters must be prepaid. bt 4 IlticT 4p li IVE FIRES IN GLASGOW, MAN -141-1," ,ESTER, LINCOLN'S-INN, &c. tuar(q,,N6 - '4 ' . n S " lIOLDFAST" std,RßESlialiern 1 ( - the ','' ES are the strongest, b and cheapest safe o,„)'erpo„e,r) th e ° tld against fire, robbery, and fraud; . 20,000 f i',,tY t o n Ar s ,„ books, deeds, and cash of the practical men of tZacati,atly ft ,7,chester, Glasgow, &c., who know their super' ra*, Z e d onT i ers. Five of them have brought their contents t h l lep t jber e f„' of the ruins of large fires in Glasgow alone this thi3Oa e l'Ave „i n acores of other safes )lave been burnt out. vat ett alo ne ces were burnt opt in Lincoln's-inn in January, lo4let,. W ere gq . which the Ikfe-deeds of thirty large landed !p i , It t 7 Saf e , u rnt, whicleivould all have been preserved in * P hi II Se] • from seine hundreds of certificates, the fol +ltierpn wected, ae one out of many instances in which , 4 Saf e " cobsumed in the buildings excepting what ~ 4 ~ ),IllaMed: ,pithebtleni,Lilde-street, Anderston, Glasgow, May 7, 1849. 14;11. 0 p1r D r ` l '?,: - At the calamitous fire yesterday morning, by h t ,e, o „ e d, n or ',,ses, and stock of oil, tallow, &c., were totally N'ith,qtch o , liooks were preserved in the Milner's Fireproof ..,. 4 leati,:u from you. We have great pleasure in thus li st lia Nt.. - ' °ll Y to the great efficiency of these Safes. ltb,, v Wa s " CHARLES BOYD and CO." ,i 'lit th e ,most severely tested; the brass knob and brass rit r qeo t lock Were melted off. t 0 ,.. N. , le r „ . _ " Glasgow, 10th February,.lB49. 14,e,;:aitin,;1,,----The books and papers which we had in your hoezisrai L',3 'are, which was subjected to a most intense heat rte oh o ur,s at the late fire in Gordon-street, on Thursday i lp atiofflDort a ',',Y Preserved—the property saved being of ex li e att tt ltoic at y„ce to . us. We hay . e, therefore, gyeat pleasure Na i llo o ' t ap a g a s t . ll4 fact, _ deeming tyour ffesilvgllaebrle.ll)s. vit t ile oe too well i! . e, c a g n u d a ;l n n te nzen \N l ,e on ar w e i . g ' e w ntlemen, your ' i e . °llt ai7e an f tB, e" a " KER, DOERING, and CO." , 4., °: the above Safe was completely burnt through. at.qeo' t i fs.'?;"-'lriPbant Resistance to Robbers: %a t op t Ota en °a. Milner and Son, Liverpool. g t lOß„'ast o ';',Pur Milner's Safe was attempted to be bro 44andila,,il; but, notwithstanding the great and per aaliagh t , , , aek 0 1 with . which the robbers have worked at the 421 4,9 e 0 ,,, the Safe (both of which are neaten in anti cut 'aioti:aitimutEer plates in numerous places), the lock and I, ' e l' IV(ii t i , , and saved the contents. You may send (.11 48 aer's H oldfast Safe, No. 6. t, 801., , " JAS. RICHARDSON and CO. li, (la 1 -°10:1 December, 1848." Zll,.. s l erte " Manchester, August 13th, 1847. IlqeV r tled ; 1 1 ,--- In the late fire in Market-street, which en- I t 'kt e ,tay ttaed he Whole block of buildings of which my ware- A aiilea t kook s 'lt, I have sincere pleasure in informing you A Safeb,. logether with a quantity . of valuable papers, '/e/t we re Pres t r ot.. , ~,,,, , erved uninjured in one of your . Fire : t, 'lt uedi etr u'en I strongly recommend to the pubic.—l J I. _. t servant, hV il en NT .- 1 1 1. k• -ere] ) "THOMAS HAIGH, of lo s be li ner ant, New Brown-street, and Market-street. i tt g i titi l lniin ro a_ad It. te efts sus accidental tires and experimental . tests th i tatialit v 41 1..-4,`_ a have been exposed to, every description . 4 % O e it •ie% ide t proof (so called) or otherwise—have been ta t t allt 4 , 4 44 l Pra ct P.), confirming the recommendation of te Q i ll oo 0, durl?! authorities who have tested them ; and ki,:ta effe c jPidl y ' l 2g seven years' active working of their us ti„ in, extending scale, have spared no pains nor itlt7a, re'alserv,Provernents, by which they are enabled to t , ,, ,,,, t deb ° Y 3 at all times to u 1 the most complete v, 4141tehde.strsoitno.r.le..! for bOO4, s do p c p um y ents, and valuables ; Mat OD; With Wt. Wrought-iron safes and closets in the ‘l4oet ow ard s o { heir unequalled fire-resisting chambers. Nata"tat 4 1 ) 15 an d 20,000 20 ,000 of their safes in use amongst the l i tls, 4ru !e t o a ' o mMercial houses in Great Britain—the I, i ith ki l In a ce preciate their value—numerous cases . of .10/1 e ,,, ter and iental fires have occurred, from which 4; 1 4%4 are of S on..select the following as instances, in yet at lereaeryypnion that no other safe than their own kt i t ti v `• J. g i i , Its contents unburnt Ili ta ataillieoi; _ ia ckaller's Ship Chandlery Store, Sparling- I fiNt i t IC ; con; e B „ t :rang and fierce fire; safe most severely vo ; i eid seri . .7 •.... 6 nnsinged. kla il tlia ll clu r i . • hoila: a " W. Walker's the extensive builders, -1-g bin -inn entirely , . p i „ 4 %it , g the gutted, everything burnt in 1 14 . 4 4 se ‘, e ILI_ 7ntents of large iron safe spun drawers, % It tN.)44 1 1 t- "'r 8 ; the contents of Milner njured. I , • g e 4 14 ti l r 's. Gam 4 1 „Itt N. eo nt ga and Co. 's, Park lane • a very strong *1 4 4 4t ppes eats of w i - • . vitt pt„, i,„,„ i ner's Safe the only things saved tt litkliittive „All Brothers e wo, -t -e i t •tre. ers, or pi Menai • a very extensive 14. e.„ .. in ...... a large iron safe, covered with brickwork. WL'4 crento.'"te, burnt out ; Milner's entirely preser l4iett4-strft, tilticltt k 4 iit ; --, tGlasgow t a great number of safes and .4, sro. B: n oaks saved throughout the buildings 1 5 lq,._ ''`• aad Thomas Brown's, is iiilner's '44s_ll. Pneal sting s , - 4tr ii. i Silo, cell. Chests, mid Boxes, suitable li lt. Li ° ,,,A , sod s i t s ' 4 ll l . reitnablell% ocks and Cash if./EPAI ? erv ov , r street, Liverpool, and 47 to 57. 4 oat LiNl4Ol) peOt 475, mitintate- , INSTITUTION FOR THE RELIEF OF THE WIDOWS AND ORPHANS OF CLERGYMEN, who have Officiated or are Officiating in the Archdeaconries of Chester, Liverpool, and Manchester. PATRONS : The Lord Bishop of Chester. I The Lord Bishop of Manchesrer. The ANNIVERSARY for the EN . k 1851 will be held at MANCHESTER, on THURSDA e 7th day of August. ... a.rtitt g,r President for the Ye .... Sir Thomas liesketh, Bart. Appointed Preacher fo, eYear. : the Lord Bishop of Manchester. Divine Servic mmences in the CATHEDRAL, at Eleven o'clock A.M. e business of the Charity is transacted imme diately after Divine Service, and the Friends of the Charity, Lay and Clerical, DINE together at the PALATINE HOTEL, at Three o'clock p.m. BANK OF LIVERPOOL. THIRTY-EIGHTH DIVIDEND. THE DIRECTORS of the BANK of LIVERPOOL do HEREBY GIVE NOTICE to the PROPRIETORS, that they have declared a HALF-YEARLY DIVIDEND, at the rate of per Cent. per Annum, on the increased paid-up ('apital of the Company, (being 10s. per Share,lfrom the Ist of January to the 30th of June,lBsl ; and th ch Dividend will be payable at the Bank of the Corn in Water-street, on and after Friday, the Ist day of ust next, between the hours of ten and three on each d Dated at Liverpool, • 9th day of July, 1851. By o • rof the Board, JOSEPH LANGTON, Manager. Each Proprietor will be expected, (if required,) on applying for his Dividenc, to produce the Certificate or Certificates of his Shares. The Transfer Books will be closed until the Ist of August, inclusive. BEARD'S COLOURED PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS ARE TAKEN DAILY FROM 9 TILL 6 AT MR. RICHARD BEARD'S ESTABLISHMENT • 34, CHURCH-STREET, LIVERPOOL; Also at 85, KING WILMA: PET, CITY, 34, PARLIAM " TREET, and the ROYAL POLYPECH . ' INSTITUTION, REGENT-ST., LONDON. Prices (in ing Morocco Case or Frame) from Iss. 0 1 0' 40 J 1 rir I,°II 004, a I THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1851. Kiln - pool. --ztanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 29, 1851. THE NAVIGATION LAWS. EVEN the limited powers to compel reciprocity left in our hands by the insane Repeal of the Naviga tion Laws the Government refuse to exercise. They will wait till the triumph of the Peace Congress, or till the Greek kalends, or any other free-trade festi val, and see if, in the meantime, foreign nations will do as the fox who had lost his tail requested his fellows. If the time were anything different to what it is, and the Government actually assuming to rule the cc,untry, this might be esteemed a per manent blow to the Shipping Interest and to General Commerce. No one, however, we suppose, hoped much from such a Government as this. Its tenure is too nearly expired, and the fact of its living upon sufferance too well known, to make any interest in the country expect to be relieved during its existence. Mr. Labouchere fancied himself replying to Mr. Herries when he said that the Ship owners had cried out ever since the time of Mr. Huskisson. No doubt, at intervals, they have; but the Shipping Interest has been suffering not only since the time of Mr. Huskisson, but since the time of Lord Shelburne : not buffering so as to prevent some progress, but so as to prevent the amount of progress that the interest might other wise have attained. And how could it have been otherwise ? The repeal of the Navigation Code is, perhaps, what the French Revue des Deux ilfondes called it, the "most perfect specimen of national insanity." Consider what it is. We give " reci procity" to Prussia, who has nothing to give us in return. We open our trade to Sweden, and Nor way, and Denmark, that have almost nothing to carry. We open it to France, that laughs at us, and will not give us a single cargo; to Spain and Portugal, equally exclusive; and to our chief rival of all, America. The Navigation Laws were re pealed under a distinct pledge that America would reciprocate. Well, she has taken the trade between England and her Colonies, and has told us that the trade to California is a coasting trade ; we suppose, because it goes round half the world. However, we are to wait; but how long, or for what, is not said. Thanks to the Earl of Derby, power was reserved to the Crown to take measures to enforce reciprocity, where countries are so evi dently determined to evade it as America, or to refuse it as France; but the great organ of the free traders says the Crown is not to do that "at the dictation of Parliament !" An excellent maxim in the reign of Henry VII., but not just so suitable to the present time. Indeed, the Shipping and all other interests may be well content that nothing be done at the " dictation" of the present Parlia ment, for the extinction of which the country looks forward hopefully. STAMPS ON NEWSPAPERS. WE are promised, but happily only promised, a completely new era in the history of the Press—a sort of paradise of ambitious writers—a day of great prosperity for the whole race of pen-and-ink politicians— " The Gordian knot of policy who can unloose Familiar as their garter." If what the Times and the Select Committee on Stamps advocate is to become law, Mr. Thackeray may cease to discuss the status of literary men any longer. We shall have such a race as ruled the public opinion of France for the last twenty years, and placed that Great Republic in its present envi able position ; overthrew dynasties from their garrets ; achieved restoration from their second floors, and established commonwealths from their entresols. It is proposed to abolish the newspaper stamp completely, and all the concomitant restric tions that were appanages of the Stamp Laws. This, of course, opens a brilliant career to the am bition of that penny press, to which we owe the morality of Holyoake, and the decency of Mr. G. W. M. Reynolds, and, perhaps, also the courageous infidelity of Mr. Patterson, whose spirited attacks on Christianity the Baillies of Edinburgh rewarded with the tread-mill. Surely the Whigs are bidding desperately for a little popular clamour, when, just twelve months after the French Republic has been forced to replace the timbre on their news papers, and even to license their hawkers, they propose a course solely levelled (to quote again from France) against " the press of order." That it is so levelled, any reader can in a moment see. The recommendation proposes that the stamp duty be abolished upon newspapers, but, at the same time, that a journal the size, for instance, of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, shall pay one penny postage, and that a copyright in intelligence be established. The first proposal is a blow at the respectable press—the second is openly and scan dalously a sop to the Times and the London morn ing papers. What possible advantage can it be to an established journal to take off a stamp, and charge a penny postage for the transmission of the paper, while it was easy enough to extend to newspapers, properly so called, the benefit of the Treasury minute, under which, at pre sent, the unstamped copies of the Athenceum and the Literary Gazette are published ? By that minute there is a stamped and unstamped edition— the former for sale in town, the second to go by post. In both the publications we have named, there are many columns of advertisements; but they have not that bugbear of the Stamp-office called " news." It is true they may review a pamphlet of the previous week on a current subject of the day, and they may, and do, give the most in teresting and recent accounts of the state of science and literature all over the world; but they do not give the state of the Markets, nor the occurrences at the Police Courts, or other such matters, and therefore they enjoy a privilege that newspapers have not. Those who see the policy of this, have a clearer conception than we. But the suggestion of creating a copyright in general news and intelli gence, simply stultifies the remainder of the Com missioners' report. The Times has long been trying to extinguish the evening papers, by multi plying editions up to two o'clock in the day, as they did during the convulsions of 1848. They now hope to destroy the evening press utterly by the absurd demand of copyright in news; and they desire also, by dropping the stamp and obtaining such copyright, to crash great portions of the country press. They say, indeed, as much. In their leader of Saturday, they inform us to the effect that there are many country districts in which they might greatly increase their circulation, and in which the local journals take their news. Their news ! Impudence really can be sublime. Is not the Morning Post's- foreign intelligence, as regards Europe at least, ten times more full and more honest than theirs ? Did not the Morning Herald beat them repeatedly and signally in the Indian Express; and is there a journal in London more accustomed to take the local news of the country papers, without acknowledgment, than the Times—nay, do they not weekly take the Saturday's Police from the Sunday papers ? Yet these are the people de seditione guerentes ! The Times supported this recommendation of the Com mittee for no other reason than that the relief from the stamp might enable them to flood the provinces, as they hope and fancy, with a cheap metropolitan press, conveyed by express train at so much per cwt:, and sold unstamped in the chief towns ; and, lest others should attempt to invade the monopoly, they demand a copyright in every " dreadful acci dent" and " drunk and disorderly" that they may choose to chronicle. But copyright in news is an absurdity. It is unknown to our law, simply be cause it is unknown to common sense. If a report of a speech in Parliament, for instance, is a true report, how can it be varied, and which of the London morning papers is to proceed for an inva sion of copyright ? If an account of an accident is a true account, what paper is to prove that an other had no friend or reporter who communicated the occurrence. The " manager" of the Times, of course, testified to the Committee that the circula tion of his journal was so great as to be a loss to the proprietors. To vary Thomson— " Their gain is small because it is so great." We should have liked to ask by what influence it was that the issue of the stamp returns was stop ped ? But that might have been embarrassing. One thing only is clear, that the Times and Vaux hall-gardens are the two great wonders of the day. The first increases at a rate incalculable, and the other puts on " one million additional lamps every night"—that is, if you believe the " managers" of both. If there is to be a material alteration made, giving more facilities for the publication of news papers, it must be done on some pr i n ci pl e that will effectually break down monopoly, whether that pretends to take the guise of general good or not. The recommendations of the Committee on the Stamp Duties are both impolitic and impracticable. DOCK COMMITTEE. A special meeting of the Dock Committee was held yesterday, at one o'clock, for the purpose of considering the report of the sub-committee of works, appointed for the purpose of investigating the charges which had been preferred against Mr. Hartley, the Dock Surveyor, Present :—Mr. Thomas Littledale (in the chair), Messrs. Molyneux, Tobin, Holt, Bold, Turner, Sandbach, Ken dall, Tuckett, Langsdale, Jones, Fisher, Robinson, Steele, Gregson, and Rankin. The SECRETARY (Mr. Mason) read the report of the com mittee, and also the questions put to Mr. Hartley, and his replies thereto, referred to 'in the report. The charges were reduced to twenty-seven specific items, which were referred to the surveyor for explanation. They comprised payment of wages to old and infirm men,—to men absent from work during illness, and to widows of men who had died in the service of the dock estate, and which had arisen from a discretionary power given to the surveyor by the committee. There were also other charges relating to the ship Earl St. Vincent. and over-payment of wages to the surveyors and the clerks appointed to measure the work. The committee having gone into the evidence upon which the charges were supported, were of opinion that their confidence in the integrity and ability of Mr. Hartley was unshaken. Mr. SANDBACH moved the adoption of the report, and its insertion upon the minutes. It was ten years ago since such an investigation had been made. A special sub-committee was then appointed, and that report would be found to be an exceedingly favourable one to the system upon which the dock works were carried on. He wished that their present inquiry had been one of the same nature, —(hear,)—as it was rather an inquiry into specific charges against the surveyor, all of which had been satisfactorily explained. There was no doubt that cases of payment of wages were not made as they would have been made if they had been singly brought under the notice of the Sick Committee ; and they had within the last twelve months ten instances of accidents brought before them, and relief had been granted. The surveyor had, some years ago, brought the subject before the Sick Com mittee, and his instructions were to use his own discretion, —(hear)—and upon that he had acted ever since. The other charges arose out of the opinion of one of the labourers, that certain works had been done unnecessarily and expensively. Many of them had arisen in consequence of the variations in the plans, and the expenses incurred in altering those plans. With regard to the charge rela tive to the sawyers, for the discovery of the fraud the committee was much indebted to Mr. Langsdale (hear). It was through his perseverance that it had been disco vered. That was the only matter discovered in the course of the enquiry which he thought showed anything wrong. He concluded with moving the adoption of the report. Mr. BOLD, without desiring to oppose the motion of Mr. Sandbach, moved the following resolution :—" That the report of the sub-committee be received and recorded ; and that in the opinion of the committee the recent inves tigation has in no degree whatever diminished their confi dence in the surveyor, or their high opinion of the integrity and ab litv with which he has uniformly discharged the duties of his office." His !Mr. Bold's) confidence in the honesty and integrity of Mr. Hartley was not at all shaken. Mr. FISHER said he was prepared to take the responsi bility of a sub-committee having allowed a discretionary power to the surveyor. He would second Mr. Sandbach's motion. _ _ _ Mr. LANGSDALE warmly defended his conduct in refe rence to the investigation of the charges preferred against the surveyor, enumerating them as he proceeded. He said it was not with Mr. Hartley he found fault, or cast imputations, but upon the system itself, opening a door to favouritism and partiality, which in many cases had been exercised. Several members of the committee bore testimony to the integrity and business capabilities of Mr. Hartley. Mr. FISHER approved of Mr. Langsdale's conduct in bringing forward the charges, and considered that the committee was greatly indebted to his exertions. Mr. JONES passed a high eu!ogium on Mr. Hartley and his management of the dock works. He was confident that the charges when investigated would turn out ground less, and referred to his experience in corroboration of his opinion. Mr. FISHER considered that as the committee had the highest confidence in Mr. Hartley, it ought to pass Mr. Bold's resolution. He thought Mr. Bold had shown great reason for not allowing the resolutions to be mixed up with the report. Mr. JoNgs hoped Mr. Bold would withdraw the reso lution, for, if it were carried, he should move a vote of thanks to Mr. Langsdale. After some further discussion, it was agreed that the motion should he withdrawn, and that a copy of the concluding paragraph in the report of the sub-committee, stating that nothing had arisen upon their investigation to impugn either Mr. Hartley's integrity or ability, or to shake the confidence that bad been hitherto reposed in him, should be forwarded to Mr. Hartley. The committee then broke up. The Earl Fitzwilliam appears as a petitioner in the En cumbered Estates Court for the purpose of selling a pro perty in the King's County. Archdeacon Manning is to be appointed to the church at Gravesend, which was lately purchased from Mr. Blew by Dr. Wiseman. The Bishop of Durham has given the sum of £3OO towards the erection of a church at Pantasa. The church is to take the place of the one which was erected at Pan tasa, by Lord Fielding. Some one asking Mr. Curran why a countryman of his walked about London with his tongue out of his mouth, he said that he " supposed he did so in hope to catch tLe English accent." At Posen, a schoolboy, seventeen years of age, who lately shot another boy of thirteen in a duel, has been condemned to eighteen months' imprisonment. Three other boys, between thirteen and fifteen, who had acted as seconds and umpire, were acquitted. Mr. Silk Buckingham has at length succeeded in his long contest with the East India Company for indemnifi cation for his losses as an Oriental journalist. The bill before parliament for restitution has been withdrawn, the court of directors and the government having agreed to settle upon him a pension of £4OO per annum. Great numbers of English and Scotch farmers are travel ling through Connaught, selecting and bargaining for farms and residences, where they propose planting them selves, or members of their families. Within the last week several large tracts on the Roscommon estate of Lord Dil lon have been taken by Scotch farmers. It is rather a curious coincidence that Miss Talbot was married and the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill read a second time in the Lords on the same day. On the morning of that day the following advertisement occupied a prominent place in the columns of the daily organ of the Romanist and Romanising priesthoods :—" No. 35, Golden-square. —This evening there will be the usual Tuesday's conver sazione." It can hardly have been a " merry meeting." MR. W. E. GLADSTONE ON THE GOVERNMENT OF NAPLES.—Mr. Gladstone's second letter to Lord Aber deen has just appeared; and, though less startling and shocking in its details than the first. it fills up the picture of the most abandoned wickedness which has ever been deliberately perpetrated by an established government. Few readers will refuse to accept Mr. Gladstone's authority for the allegations to which he pledges his credit.—Morn ing Chronicle, SEIZURE OF COUNTERFEIT COIN.—For some time past there has been a considerable circulation of spurious crown and half-crown pieces and shillings in the city of Bristol and the surrounding district, and the police have been actively engaged in endeavouring to discover the offenders, but without success, till one day,this week some informa tion reached the ears of Police-sergeant Hazle, of the Gloucester constabulary, which induced him to search a house at St. George's, near Bristol, inhabited by two men named Joshua and John Jarrett, who had for 'some time been suspected of being concerned in passing the bad money. In a box which was locked and concealed in a private place, he found counterfeit crown and half-crown pieces to the value of £lO. They were of a very superior manufacture, and contained a large portion of what is termed " pin metal," which causes them to ring like good coin. The two men were subsequently apprehended, taken before Mr. Hughes, magistrate of Downed, and remanded for further inquiry, as the police believe they have a clue to a manufactory of bad coin in the north of England, from which they have no doubt this and mapy preview parcels of spurious mac) , were sent, TO CORRESPONDENTS. ORANGE PROCESSION.—We have no copies of the STANDARD of the 15th instant left. We could have sold hundreds more than were printed. T. S., Dublin.—We have sent his letter to the Telegraph Office. GROOVELESS NEEDLES.—The inventor should advertise. " A LIVERPOOL PROTESTANT" suggests " that on the Eccle siastical Titles Bill receiving the royal assent, the Protes tants, not only of Liverpool, but of All England, should shew their joy by ringing the church-bells, and in all other lawful ways." l We shall be happy at all times to receive communications on subjects of local or general interest; and if our friends will be good enough to authenticate the same by their signa tures, for our own satisfaction, we shall feel obliged. We have been compelled to omit our literary notices, and a great portion of general news, owing to a press of other mat ter at a late hour. THREATS OF DISFRANCHISEMENT. ANY simple individual who does not know that the Times newspaper is truculent and unprincipled, will, probably, be very much astonished to hear that " Queen Anne is dead." It is a story very well known, that, when a small clique, chiefly con nected with one family, who once ruled that most corrupt of all assemblies, the Irish Parliament, could not silence a prudent patriot with a reason able bribe, they employed a certain famous bully to pick a quarrel and shoot him. This gentleman was called Count, or, more frequently, Billy C—; and they were accustomed to say, after sinecures, commissionerships, and hard cash had failed to silence the patriot—" It is no use trying any more, we must set Billy at him." Now, the Times is the Billy C- 7 of the Radicals and Free-traders. When a member becomes unexpectedly consci entious; when a constituency chooses to judge for itself; nay, as in Talfourd's", case, when a judge honestly keeps his oath and administers the law, they " set Billy at 'em." At present, accordingly, " Billy" is employed in threatening the short, simple, and constitutional remedy of disfranchise ment for any borough that presumes to return a Protectionist. Nothing less is to be the punish ment for not supporting the Whigs, and Scarborough especially is marked out for the first victim, because it has thrown out a carpet lord of the household and returned a Protectionist member. The Times does not condescend to tell us how this disfranchisement is to be7accomplished—whether, like James IL, Lord John Russell proposes to resume charters, or whether it will be done simply by refusing to issue writs. The mode, however, is not important, since the awful blow must fall somewhere—that is to say, as soon as the Whigs have the power to inflict it. Of course, the rule on which the disfranchisement: is to proceed is to be quite clear and simple. As long as such excellent and obedient spots as Arundel choose to take orders by electric telegraph as to whom they shall return, they will be left quietly and at their ease. In the same way, the vivacious Foreign Secretary will continue to reflect the opinions of the conscientious and scrupulous electors of Tiverton ; while no such horrible suggestion has ever taken place as the idea of disturbing the Russells in the representa tion of the select and genteel party called the constituency of Tavistock. Nay, Sudbury itself, if it had not fallen upon such evil days, might have hoped to retrieve itself by electing a discon solate Free-trader ; and much-imperilled St. Alban's, whose exiled electors the Sergeant-at- Arms found on the sands of Boulogne, sighing at the sight of Dover Cliff, may still relieve itself from its danger, as it has not returned a Protec tionist. Now, is it at all tolerable that any newspaper, prompted by any desperate and dying faction, should have the audacity to threaten such a con stituency as that of Scarborough with disfranchise ment, because it had acted on its conscientious convictions ? Of Mr. George Frederick Young we offer no opinion. We do not rate his ability too high, nor his consistency overmuch ; but he has placed himself forward in the Conservative ranks, and has a knack of speechmaking ; while Lord Mulgrave, as becomes the son of " the elegant Normanby," directs his ambition to a household place, to teach the duties of which a dancing master would be much more appropriate than a statesman. If Scarborough people voted for a principle, their testimony is still the more valuable; and, doubtless, they may rest at ease about being disfranchised till the meeting of the first Russell- Chartist parliament. ANOTHER TESTIMONY OF THE PEERS. To have heard the debate in the House of Lords on the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, must have reminded the auditor of the good old days before the Whigs were tempted with office, and when they thought that liberality consisted in petting Popery, and liberty in "emancipating" a certain order of the Irish, so that they might vote according to their conscience, viz.,—as the Priest's will directed them. To be sure, there was some little change of place among the old familiar voices of the once juvenile Whigs. Spring Rice metamorphosed into Lord Monteagle, having nothing more to hope for, fell into his second childhood of patriotism, and talked of religious liberty, and gross oppression, as he used to do thirty years ago, before he sold the Irish Roman Catholics for a place. Lord Lansdowne, however, it appears, preferred his place to the old clap-trap; as did also the good-natured Clanricarde, who, doubtless, lamented the necessity of voting against anybody or anything. For the arguments used on all sides, what can be said, seeing that they have been re-produced so often ? There was on the side of England and the Reformed Religion the same noonday light of obvious duty and common sense : and, on the side of Rome, the same old fallacies, and the same apparent unconsciousness that any principle was involved in the matter. The Duke of Newcastle told the House that, as Vicars Apostolic were merely removable by the Pope's own motion, and as Bishops can only be deprived by Canon Law, and for a canonical offence, therefore we ought to be glad to have Bishops instead of Vicars Apostolic. The Duke of Newcastle seems to be interestingly ignorant of the mode of enforcing Canon Law. Does he not know that the Bishop as well as the Vicar Apostolic would be tried in Rome; and that "who enters there leaves hope behind ?" Men have little idea of the actual condition of Rome, under the despotism of the Priests, who talk of trifling with the Canon Law as a defence of innocence. Mr. Whiteside, the Queen's Counsel, in his book on Italy, tells us he met a Roman noble, come some time to the age cf manhood, who had never seen the sea, not having been able to obtain permission from the priestly government to leave the city. What a safeguard must any law be under such a government ! But there is something deeper than politicians of the stamp of the present Duke of Newcastle think proper to acknowledge—principle. Why should a nation that made no cowardly nor unmeaning pro test against the Roman superstitions bargain and chaffer with an imbecile foreign Priest, as to whether he will give to us emissaries more mis chievous or less ; or why, if it pleases Dr. Wiseman to sneak at the eleventh hour, and drop, for a time, both " the Flaminian-gate" and Billinsgate, are we to accept the repentance and place in his hands the means of insolence again ? Lord Monteagle was an unfortunate advocate of the Roman Catholics. He said that no government dare enforce the penalties against Popish Priests falsely assuming the titles of real Bishops; and he instanced the supineness of all administrations, since 1830, in that behalf in Ireland. His lordship seems to forget that Sir Frederick Thesiger has taken care that no such supineness need occur in future, except the whole people are as supine as the Attorney- General ; and, even in Ireland, where Lord Mont eagle threatens a civil war, (an " Irish rebellion !" we know what that is,) we mistake the Pro testants of that country if a private prosecutor be wanting to crush the Cullens and MI-Tales. The Romish party in the House of Lords have not even found such support as to make up decent minorities; and both the second reading, and the clauses in committee, attempted to be disturbed, have been carried by enormous majorities. If the House of Commons, this session, has signalized itself by doing nothing. the House of Lords has done nobly. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY AND CANADA. The adage " Aides-toi et Dieu t'aidera," or, as it is sometimes rendered, " God blesses self-relying exertion, and enables it to succeed," was never more fully verified than in the case of the projected Great Western Railway of Canada, the report of which occupies so large a portion of our space this week. That the undertaking is one of great national importance, there cannot be a shadow of a doubt ; and this opinion is corroborated by the testimony of the chief railway authorities in England, and as well as in the United States, who have admitted it to be the best and most direct line of communication even with New Orleans, but more particularly with St. Louis, in Mis souri, Chicago, in Illinois, and the whole of the far west. Our readers will, probably recollect that this undertaking was brought forward during the busy scene of 1845 ; and the public would then have gladly taken up the stock, had not Mr. George Hudson and ten other railway magnates at once become possessed of it ; and though these gentle men afterwards sold a large portion of the scrip at a con• siderable premium ; yet, in consequence of their other heavy responsibilities, they felt unable to keep faith with the people in Canada, and, with one or two honourable exceptions, took no further interest in the matter. Smart ing under such treatment, the Canadians applied to the provincial parliament for additional privileges, which they obtained, and were thus no longer compelled to rely on foreign aid. Indeed, the charter, as it now stands, is con sidered as the most valuable one ever granted by a parlia ment; for so impressed was Lord Elgin's government with the importance of the immediate construction of this great artery of communication through Western Canada, that they bound the province to advance its bonds bearing six per cent. interest to the Great Western Rail road, to complete the last half of the line the moment the first half is completed, should this be thought to be for the interest of the stockholders. The Americans, as we now see, finding themselves unable to dispute the position of the Canadians, or the local advantages with which nature has endowed their line, have become fired with admiration and sympathy for their neighbours on the north side of the St. Lawrence, and are anxious to assist them in the spirited and inde pendent movement. But, much as we admire the liberality of Brother Jonathan, and grateful as the Canadians ought to feel towards him, we should be both grieved and disap pointed to think that a foreign state should have the entire control of a railway passing through a British territory; and it would say little for the patriotism of our English capitalists were they to permit it. The case stands thus : The Canadians have taken one-half of the 40,000 shares of £2O each ; the Americans have taken the 10,000 shares offered to them ; and the question now is—will the mother country take the remaining 10,000 shares ? Not only from our own knowledge, but on the authority of the chief railway authorities in England, as well as in the United States, we believe all the statements as to the existing and prospective traffic, population, &c., are to be implicitly relied on. Indeed, a glance at the map shows that, if any line in America can pay, this, which is at once a main artery for the province of Upper Canada, and a link in the great line from the Atlantic ports of New York and Boston to the great western states, ought to do so The chief point with gentlemen in England will be, as it was with ourselves, whether the estimates as to cost, construction, and working, opposed as they are to all our English experience, are to be relied on. The broad fact is, that English railways have averaged more than £30,000 a mile, and hardly ever have been constructed under £15,000, while in America they have only averaged about £4OOO, and thousands of miles have been completed for between £2OOO and £3OOO, while the highest cost of those in the old settled and populous districts, such as Boston to Lowell, has only been £lO,OOO to £15,000. Moreover, an American railway is quite a different thing from an English one. Firstly, —You have the act of incorporation and land almost for nothing. Then, you have an unlimited supply of timber almost for nothing on the spot, of which all bridges, viaducts, &c., are very cheaply made. Stations are mere wooden sheds. The line is laid on a sort of framework of wood, with longi tudinal timbers and cross sleepers, and great speed not being required, much less iron is wanted, so that 40 to 501bs. per yard is a common allowance for rails even on the principal lines. Then, again, the bulk of the traffic is through traffic for long distances, requiring very few trains, and consequently little rolling stock and expense to work. The principal railways only run two or three trains a day, where we should run twelve or fifteen. All this applies strongly to the Great 'Western Railway of Canada. It is a very easy line to make, running for the greater part of its distance over a level plateau, with no range of hills, great rivers, or ravines to cross, and plenty of timber; the bulk of its traffic would go with one clear run from end to end, two hundred and twenty-six miles, and would probably be worked with two passenger and one or two goods trains each way daily; so that a plant of one hundred thousand pounds would suffice, and an average per tentage of working expenses of about the same amount as on the American lines of which it formed a link, or less than 40 per cent. Another result of this concentration of the business in a few trains, and of the moderate speed required, is, that you can work great distances with a single line, with the electric tele graph and occasional passing places. We have the highest English railway authority for saying that there is no doubt this line can be made for £5,000 to £6,000 per mile, and it must, therefore, at once pay handsomely ; while in the future the increase in the value of such a property can only be measured by the progress of wealth and population in the district it traverses in Canada and in the north-western states of Michigan, Winsconsin, Illinois, and lowa, to which it must always be the thoroughfare from New York and Boston. We understand that a meeting of gentlemen will take place in Manchester next week, for the purpose of inau gurating the movement. We need scarcely add that it has our best wishes, as we feel assured it will also have of every man, be he Briton or American, who takes the trouble to examine the map, or give due consideration to the hide detailed in the report appended thereto, COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY NEWS. Monday Night. Our Share Market during the past week has presented a more healthy appearance. Prices generally have ad vanced, and business has been more active, a greater disposition to buy, on the part of the public, having been manifested. The market this evening closes at the best of the week, and there are evident symptoms of stock being very scarce for the approaching settlement. We annex this day's quotations:—Chester and Birkenhead, 15k £22-shares, 71d ; Caledonian, 10.1; East Lanca shire, 141 ; Old Leeds. 491 S n•' London stock, 1231 L; Da. new Qu ar t ers , 3:1 P ; Midlands, 40 391 41 ; Do.. Halves, 211 d ; Old Dowers, 21 a 1 1 ; York,Newc and Berwick pref unpnid up, 31d ; York and North Mid land, 18k. With the exception of that of the Brighton Company, when a dividend of £1 16s. per cent. for the half-year was declared, the railway meetings of the week have bees of a secondary character. The Scottish Central share holders have agreed to sanction the creation of a 5 per cent. preErence stock to the amount of £170,000. The directors of the North Staffordshire Company propose to declare a dividend of 2s. 6d. per share. Thera is a gloom over the commercial markets which it is difficult to account for, but though prices are generally low, there is a large consumption going forward which will, ultimately, tell upon the stocks. Since Friday there has been more inquiry for sugar, and 2,000 bags of Ben gal and 2UO Mids. of W.I. have found buyers. 400 pun cheons of Antigua molasses have been sold, to arrive, at 165., and 200 puncheons I3arbadoes, ex ship, at 15s. 6d. There was more inquiry for Cotton on Friday and Saturday, and 20,000 bales changed hands at rather higher prices. To-day there has been less life in the market, and prices have been barely supported. The weather conti nues fine for the coming crop. The arrivals of breadstuffs into Liverpool and Runcorn on Friday and Saturday last were :-4,107 qrs. Wheat; 630 qrs. Malt ; 150 qrs. Oats ; 290 qrs. Beans ; 6,008 qrs.. Indian Corn ; 152 loads Oatmeal ; 140 sacks and 8,314 barrels Flour. The money market at New York continued well sup— plied, notwithstanding the extensive exportations of bul— lion. The bullion in the Bank of England has again decreased, the difference, according to the last return, being £154,608, of which a proportion may be accounted for by payments of coin in small amounts to dividend recipients, whilst probably the larger part was taken for exportation, as it is known that gold was still being sent abroad. It roar be mentioned that money has been more in demand in the metropolis during the last few days in the general loatt and discount market, and though no alteration in the bank minimum rate need be immediately apprehended, it is the speck in the commercial horizon that should be taken timely note of. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. LONDON, MONDAY NIGHT. - - --- ELECTION OF SHERIFFS FOR THE CITY OF LONDON.—• Mr. Richard Swift, a Roman Cathglic, was to-day elected sheriff without opposition. . . AUSTRALIA MINING COMPANY.—The annual meeting• was held to-day, and reports adopted. The directors entertained favourable views concerning the ultimate suc— cess of the adventure. THE ECLIPSE TN LONDON.—The eclipse began to be visible at three minutes past two this afternoon ; but the gloomy and rainy state of the weather prevented any par— ticular observations. The greatest darkness was at eleven minutes past three, when the eclipse amounted to an. observation of about nine-tenths of the sun's surface. After that time it began to go away, and at fifteen mi_ nutes past four it had entirely disappeared. PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.—The Meander, Capt. Kettle, arrived at Spithead this morning from Rio Janeiro, bring— ing specie to the value of 160,000 dollars. PARIS, SUNDAY.—LittIe done in the funds to-day, but there was an advance of 15 centimes. Fives being done at 95 70. There would appear a prospect of ample occupa— tion for the working classes of Paris during the present aulumn. DENMARK, 25Tri.—The Senate has placed several. almost prohibitive restrictions on the transports of emi— grants by the agents of British shipowners. The Senate has also requested the Prussian government to adopt similar restrictive and hostile measures ; and it is stated that the city of Bremen proposes to follow up the example set by the city of Hamburgh. SPAIN.—MADRID, JULY 22.—1 t was confidently asserted at Madrid that Mazzini's proclamations had beat widely circulated in that city, recommending that the Spanish demagogues be prepared to act at the first signal, as the time is approaching for the overthrow of all the thrones of Europe. It was believed, however, that such incendiary publications would have but little effect amongst the population. HOUSE OF COMMONS. YESTERDAY.—The Commons met at twelve o'clock in the new houses, when several bills of little public im portance were advanced a st,ge. The house was then. adjourned until five o'clock in the evening. At the evin . ng sitting, Mr. V. SMITH gave notice of his intention to move next session, that the house resolve itself into committee to consider the expediency of abo lishing all the oaths except the oath of allegiance. THE CASE OP Mn. SALOMONS.—The SPEAKER read a letter from Mr. Salomons, intimating that two actions for penalties had been directed against him for having taken his seat and voted.—Sir B. HALL moved that the house comply with the prayer of the petition presented from the electors of Greenwich, and allow them to be heard by counsel at the bar of the house.—The ATTOR NEY-GENERAL opposed the motion ; the question had already been amply discussed, a n d it was scarcely possible that any new light could be thrown on the sul ject.—Mr. ANSTEY supported the motion.—Sir F. THESIGER op posed it, and remarked that the Greenwich petition was itself objectionable, since it assumed that the House was interfering with the rights of the electors choosing their own representative; whereas it was only taking care that the persons elected were properly qualified.— Mr. Villiers, Mr. Newde,gate, Sir J. Hanmer, Sir R. H. Inglis, Mr. Aglionby, and Lard J. Russell having spoken, a division was taken, when the numbers were—For Sir B. Hall's motion, 75 ; against it, 135 ; majority, 60. Mr. R. CURRIE then stated that he would not trouble the house to divide upon the similar petition from the electors of the City of London.—Mr. ANSTEY said that he would not allow the matter to drop in that irresolute manner, and moved that the prayer of the petition be granted.— After a short discussion, in which Mr. Currie, Mr. Osborne, Mr. Hobhouse, and others participated, the house divided, and the motion was negatived by 77 to 41. LONDON MONEY AND SHARE MARKETS-YESTERDAY. CLOSING PRICES, Consols Account, Money, 969 ; Three-and-a-Quarter per 4 C 7 e n so t s p . ~98. T 9 ; h e ll m an a k ri S , e t t o c b k e , t 2 t e l i r 6 for ; Exchequer Foreign s Stocks l oc 3 k i I s L :, :‘i . ex an ic rl an s s . : 309 1 ; Spanish Actives, 21 4 ; Ditto Thiees, 38 3 ; Ditto Pas sives, 6 4. Railway Shares: London Stock, 1234 9; Ditto Quarters, 39 4 pm. ; Midland Stock, 40 3; Ditto Halves, 21 204 dia.; North Staffordshire, 99 3 dis.; South Eastern and Dover, 223 ; Caledonians, 103 8 ; Ditto Preference, 63 9; Ambergate, Nottingham, and Eastern Junction, 43 8- Eastern Counties, 6 3 ; East Anglian, 29 3; East Lancashire, 144 9; Great North ern, 17 i; Great Western, 833 49 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 49 3 ; Ditto Fifths, 9 83 die.; London, Brighton, and South Coast, 94 5; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 27 8; York, Newcastle, and I3erwick, 183 3; Ditto Preference, 69 3 dis.; York and North Midland, 184 9. English market good, but with little doing. Railway Shares improved from the flat appearance of Saturday, closing at not quite their best, the market having shown great fluctuation, especially in Midlands and Leeds Stock. Continuations will be on heavy stocks particularly light. Dealers are in ge neral short of stock. MANCHESTER SHARE MARKET.-YESTERDAY. The following were the closing prices: —London Stock, 122 k; East Lancashire, 14 3-16; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 48i; London £lO Shares, M. and B. C., n pm.; Great Northern, 17; South-Eastern and Dover, 21 15-16 I. LONDON CORN MARKET-YESTERDAY. The show of English Wheat at market this morning is mode rate; millers are cautious, and on the whole trade is quiet, at about the currency of Monday last. Foreign is firm, at former terms. Arrivals of Barley scarce, and fully as dear. Flour moved off rather slowly, but former terms were well main tained. Peas and Beans each unchanged. Arrivals of English Oats scanty, but, the supply of Foreign being large, light and inferior descriptions are the turn lower. Harvest operations have commenced in various parts of Kent and Sussex. ARRIVALS. Qrs. Qrs. English Wheat „ Barley ~ Oats „ Malt - f 9 „ Flour „ Beans. 429 . . . „ „ Peas SECOND REPORT. English and Foreign Wheat sold at the currency of Monday last. Flour supported former terms. Barley fully as dear. Beans and Peas unchanged. Oats the turn lower. Canary and Rape Seeds rather easier to buy. LONDON PRODUCE MARKET.—YESTERDAY. Sugar : Foreign not higher; but floating cargoes more in demand. The demand for home refined dull, but grocery lumps 465. 6d. to 498.—Ccffee firmer ; fair business doing, and native Ceylon 375. to 375. 6d. for good ordinary.—Tea : Several buyers of low to good ordinary Congou at 10d. to lid., but other kinds dull.—East India Rice dull ; rates asked, but sales small.—The demand for Cotton is better ; a fe w se ll ers at pre vious terms.—Scotch Pig Iron dull, at 395. to 398. Gd. ; full prices asked for common Welch bars and rails, but few buyers. LONDON CATTLE MARKET. —YESTERDAY. The supply of Beasts and Sheep is large to-day, and we notice a little improvement in the trade for Beasts. Sheep, and Lambs each sold at Friday's quotations. Calf trade mare active, the supply being less. Arrivals : Beasts, 3,930, Scotch ditto, 200; Sheep and Lambs, 33,090 ; Calves, 313 ; Pigs, 410 ; Holland Beasts, 994 ; Sheep, 4,360; Calves, 185; Pigs, 100 ; French Beasts, SO. Beef, 2s. 2d. to 38. 6d. ; Mutton, 38. to 3s. 10d. ; Veal, 2s. 2d. to 3s. Bd. ; Pork, 38. to 3s. sd. ; Lamb, 4s. to 4s. 10d. LONDON TALLOW RETURNS.—MONDAY• The market is firm, and there is a good demand. Fine Y. C. 375. 9d. to 38s. on the spot. The stock in hand is 33,889 casks, against 25,330 at the same period last year, being an increase of 8,559 casks this year. The deliveries last week amounted to 1,148 casks, against 1,066 in the• correspondin& week last year, being an increase this year of 82 casks. ST. PETER'S WARD.-It is fully expected that to. morrow a day will be named for the election of a coml. cillor for this ward, in the room of the late Mr. Ferguson, who died on Friday morning , at his residence. Amongst the names mo3ted as likely to be requested to become candidates is: that of Mr. Chidson, of the firm of Wool right and Co., of Bold-street. A. meeting of the leading electors is about to be called,