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COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1

on the Sonth-Eattuvitivto £l,43o—total, £27,504. The
goods and mineral ttiffic on those lines amounted to
£266,596, showing an increase of £13,266. The receipts
passengers, p•reela, drc., amounted to £301,771,
-t £287,533, showing an increase of £14,238. The
1 OD 60 other line, amounted, on 3,613 miles,
sod for the corresponding wea of last
miles, to £121,663, miaowing an increase
said of £7,645 in the receipts. The total
past week show an increase of £2,247 as
those of the preceding weak, 'ending the
market the amount of housii2ess has been
and in mines, English railways, and
abuse, the average of the movements in
s MN towards depression, Americsn
showing • firm tendency. Of the
English lines, South-Western, North-Zustern (Berwick)
tod ditto (York) improved g each, and ditto (Leeds) a
; North-Western relapsed I ; and Manchester,
,eld, &a, destined lg, Metropolitan 1, Great
iorthern (A Stock) and Midland g each, South-Eastern
Er and Great Western a further 1. In colonial no
Change occurred in the closing miens, but Bantam
Bengal is quoted ez D. In foreign, Great Luxembourg
improved g, and Dutch Rheniah are quoted ex dividend.
In American, Illinois Central shares advanced g, ;Erie
shares (paid up) further j, and United States (5-10) •
further j. In British mines Vigra declined 11, and
Chiverton and Rut Wheal Russell g each. In fonslgn
mines Cape Copper and Kapunda declined g and g re-
spectively. Of the banks, Buenos Ayres advanced 1,
Mexico and European I each, and City further 2; Com-
mercial of India declined 1, Provincial (£10) and Scincie
(£10) g each, and Anglo-Austrian j; and Colonial,
London and Brazilian, Union of Australia, and Union of
London are quoted ex n. and ex div. respectively. In
miscellaneous, Panama, New Zealand, dtc., Royal Mail
improved j; City Real Property, City Offices, and
Telegraph Construction declined g each; Imperial
Mercantile Credit, International Financial, and Upper
Amain Tea are quoted ex div. ; Atlantic and Great
Western Debentures are unaltered at 85 to 87, and
Metropolis Sewage at 1j to 2 pm., and the shares of
Ormond, Gurney, and Co., were finally quoted 2g to
pm. The share list of the Dalbeattie and Kirkoonnell
Granite Company will remain open until the 22nd inst.
for London, and the 25th for the country.

receipts,
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In the colonial produce-markets during the week
there has been a more quiet tone owing to the regular
course of business being interrupted by the elections,
but quotations generally remain steady, with diminished
supplies offering. Buyers of sugar °entreated their
operations until Friday, when a good demand again
prevailed; crystallised sorts closing rather higher,
while the deliveries maintain an Increase over those of
last year. The moderate quantity of plantation
Ceylon coffee brought forward from recent arrivals- has
found buyers at about previous rates, excepting for the
common qualities, which show • slight decline.
Considerable supplies are announced for sale next week.
A small parcel of very fine East India has been taken
at high terms. The tea-market is inactive and business
by private contract much restricted. At the conclusion
of the public sales of China on *Monday prices again
favoured the buyers. The result of this series shows
that 34,475 packages, chiefly printed "without reserve,"
were disposed of. The most important feature of the
week has been the decline of 24. to 4cl. per lb. on the
teas of Indian growth brought to auction. Black
pepper is firmer. Bengal saltpetre remains dull.
/3ium has further advanced and the market dill shows
an upward tendency.

OITR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.

Tnet city elections over, and the battles of the
boroughs in the country having been fought, both
parties are counting up their gains and losses. "The
wish is father to the thought" is a practical maxim that
is every day verified in the ordinary affairs of life, and
the elector' jut now illustrate it. The Conservative
and the Liberal journals both profess to be satisfied
with the elections so far as they have proceeded. At
present, however, I think it would be folly to deny that
the Liberals have the best of it. This will be of course
modified by the returns from the counties, where the
Conservatives generally reckon to gain.
The announcement which the Pall Mall Gazette put
forth some time ago that the Emperor of the French
was contemplating a worms of sovereigns, that some
European courts had favoured the idea, and others were I
thinking about it, appears all moonshine. The semi.
official French papers positively contradict it. The day
dream of the Emperor Napoleon is not yet to be
realized.
The utterly desperate prospects of the Confederates
would seem to be shown by the quotations for the Con-
federate loan-8 to 9. When it is considered that the
loan was issued at 90, this quotation is certainly very
significant; but for my part I cannot understand how
it should be quoted even so high as this, for the ques-
tion naturally arises, "Who is to pay the loan?"
During the week all eyes will be directed to the
'raise of the Great Eastern across the Atlantis bearing
with her the hopes of the most scientific men of this
country and of America. It is said that she will leave
the Thames with rather more than 26,000 tons in her, a
burden almost as great as the whole fleet with which
Nelson fought the battle of Trafalgar could have carried.
She is said to be in excellent condition, and, after all
casualties, if ohs suooeeds in hemming the means of
enuring us telegraphic communication with America,
she will do much to remove the reproach upon Brunell
of having constructed a "uselessly huge ship. A friend
of mine who has seen her anchored at the wore in
weather when it was impossible for the service tug' from
Sherness to come near her on amount of the swell, says
that the seas which ran high failed to make the least
impression upon her; and the Times correspondent
writes, "With this trial she remained as absolutely
immovable as if she was aground." Everything on
board her now is bustle and disorder; one writer com-
pares the appearance of her decks to the show-yard of
the Royal Agricultural Society towed out to sea. All,
however, by the time this reaches your readers will have
been committed to the great enterprise, and she will be
carrying with her the hopes and good wishes of the two
greatest nations that speak the English language.
A great many criticisms, not very flattering to Eton,
have been made in the newspapers upon the marked
ascendancy of Harrow over Eton, in the annual cricket
match which last week was played at Lord's ground.
For the great disparity between the powers of the two
schools no one seems to be able to give any very good
account, inasmuch as Eton contributes quite an many
first-rate players as Harrow to University elevens and
the Marylehone Club. Some say the ground
at Lord's, which on each occasions is unusually
gay, presents snob a contrast to that of Eton that
the boys are thrown off their guard. Accidents !
cannot account for so many failures, and those who
Witnessed the play must be convinced that neither side
lacked energy. Skill is requisite rather than strange'
Or we might reedit the assertion that the bracing air .
lihreow-upon-the-Hill had as much to do with the
=II of the boys over their oompetitors as any other
, The verdict that was given • day or two ago in the
; lase of Mr. Debenham, charged with the manslaughter
of • drunken mechanic, is exoiting oonsiderable discus-
[ don. The drunken vagabond entered the gentleman's
, garden, and in a state of stupid intoxication crouched
in a corner; and apparently went to sleep. Haring
previously made some noise, however, the surgeon was
'awakened, his assistant was aroused and Mr. Debenham
having challenged the man, and obtained no answer,
thereupon shot him deed. It was then but half-past I
eleven on Wednesday night ; there were several people
about the road close by, and • police-station not far ;
and ha fact, to put the matter definitely, there was no
ocertsien to kill the men. The Lord Chief Baron '
,sultrined up against Mr. Debenham, but the jury having'
returned • verdict "that the pistol was fired to alarm,
not to injure or kill ;" and Mr. Debenham is at liberty.
A.d /1Tallythe matter must rest where it now is, but the
generally seem to consider that the surgeon
public
• very lucky escape. Had the man who ham bees
thus so recklessly sent to his account been a householder
with respectable friends, depend upon it there would
have been a very different verdict.
We have now once again the builders on strike, or,
at least, • portion of them. Some 2,400 men employed
by Mr. Cubitt have struck for wages. Into the parti-
culars of the dispute I will not enter; but it is deeply
to be regretted that after the Injury that was done alike
to masters and to men last year by the builders' strike
theta should now be another which bids fair also to be
very serious. A levy of Is, per week has been made
the wages of the employed to support the men --
and there is no prospect at present of any rte
being arrived at. 'ithout passing any opinion
merits of the arguments on either side, I may add that
i the builders, n all branches of their trade, are, on the
whole, doing very well just now. Hence, perhaps, e"
.1:141 SPECTATOR.

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... 1,299
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THIC itiCord we that the Lord Chief Justice, Sir A.
Cockbtuint Box) , is about to be mimed to the peerage.
INIe be so, ih es probable he will select the title of
Langton, which is that of the ancestral seat of the
family.

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