The Press.
London, England, 1854-09-09 00:00:00

Ito gatig.

ADMIRALTY, Sam. 4.
In consideration of the successful operations against, BOMA,-
sund, the following naval yromotions have taken place :—Co
mender Hon. Arthur Auckland Cochrane to be Captain. Lieu.
tenants Donald Arl.eud Al'Kenzie, George Henry Clarke,
Thomas Davies (B), and Francis Arden Close to he Commanders.
Mr. Henry Lushingtoto Coinyu Robinson, Mr. Charles Smith,
and Hon. Ernest Grey I.ainbtou Cochrsiu to he Lieutenante.
Mr. Daniel John 'Wigan and Mr. Seaton Wade to be Surgeons.
Boatswain's Mate John Farrell to be Boatswain.
APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS.
•PPOINTMENTR.
Lieutenant—George Durbin to the Curacoa.
Surgeon—Edward Newman, M.D., to the 'Trafalgar.
Assistant-Surgeons—Andrew M'Clure to Greenwich Hospital;
Peter William %antics, 11. D., to the Briuunia; John Govea
Smith to Plymouth Hospital; Samuel Downing to the Impreg-
nable; Charles M'Straue to the Caradoc.
Acting Assistant-Surgeons—John Lovett to Plymouth Hos-
pital; William Janett Lewis to the Furious ; D. Money Shaw to
the Spiteful; Thomas Roche, to the Curalos.
Midshipman—A. H. M'Dowell to the Nile.
Cadet—J. P. Holton to the Nile.
Clerk-in-Charge—Edward R. Key to the Beagle.
Clerk—George E. Warner to the Harrier.
Mr. C. H. Flower is appointed a temporary clerk in the store-
keeper's department, Vboolwich Dockyard.
PROMOTIONS.
Lieutenant Archibald D. Jolly, of the Bermuda, to be (;pm,
moulder.
Second Master—James Kiddie to be Master.
Acting Paymasters—Christopher J. Martin and L. G. Drew to
be Paymasters.
Clerks—W. Simmonds, Thomas Ellard, John B. Jackson, Ti
mothy F. Jennings, Richard Batchelor, Robert W. M. Jones,
Robert W. Warwick, George Keut, Robert T. Ba)nes, Charles E.
Tell, John W. Green, John G. Barnes, and Richard Alien to be
Paymasters.
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A STUFFED TOOTH has been found in an Egyptian
mummy, and several teeth in other mummies Which bore
marks of Sling.

SEPTEMBER 9, 1854.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE.
Tuesday, September 5.

BANYRUPTS.—WILLtAii PHILLIPS, Idinories. brushmaker--
Jows ABRAHAM RIPPON I.owth-cottages, Camberwell, cigar
manufacturer JAMES WHITTERINO, Finedon, Northampton-
shire, budder—FRANCIS BURROW, Redruth, Cornwall, draper—
Tuolus GROGAN. Queen-street, Stepney, licensed victualler—
Jowl( RAYDON, Barnstaple, Devonshire, draper—Ozotion E.
Joint JENvev, Barnstaple, Devonshire, bookseller—THOMAS
Liest,Ev, Thirsk, Yorkshire, corn merchant—JAMES STARK
SKIPPER, Liverpool, corn merchant—JOHN WI Lcox, hl ancliester,
coal meroltaut—JouN Firms and ROBERT Firrks, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne, and Gateshead, Durham, tea dealers.
SCOTCIi SEQUESTRATIONS.—Joint TYRE and ROBERT
CAMPBELL, Glasgow, wool men:hant,ii WILLIAM STEWART,
Dumbreck, Dumbartonshire, farmer—WILLIAM GRAY, Glasgow,
commission merchant—WlLLlAM DRYSDALES and JAMES WAL-
LACE, Alva, Stirlingsbire, manufacturers WILLIAM Dins,
Glasgow, commission merchant.
Friday, September 8.

BARKRUPTS.—Istnotte BLOOMENTHAL,, Rodney-buildings,
New Kent-road, lithographic engraver—Jottx WlLeos., Broad-
way, cheesemotiger—WlLLlAM HENRI BOUSFIELD, IRoughway,
Kent, pipet manufacturer—CHAßLES DAVIN and JOHN 1...a.r0m,
Kingston.mpou-Thames, builders—CHAßLES WALDRON, Milton,
clothier—WlLLlAM BATCHELAR, Cr/don, Surrey, baker
WiLuam Howem., Goswell-street, licensed victualler—SAMUEL
STANTON, Birmingham, liceneod victualler—WlLLlAM JOHN
NORSWORTHY, Sidmouth, baker—THOMAS WIOFALL, Sheffield,
table-knife manufacturer—WlLLlAM domes, Liverpool, ship-
wright and boat hUdGer—ROBERT WRIGHT/tett, Liverpool, metal
broker—Nl/m.lam t, Ramat, Wigton, grocer—HENHY Amos,
Bath, shoemaker and licensed victualler—Hexer KERFOOT,
Bedford, Lancaster, silk manufacturer.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.—ALEXANDER
Glenluce, merchant—James HAMILTON BUCELANLN, Aberfeldy,
hotel keeper—JOHN Roy, Stirling, grocer.

CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.—The second annual
meeting of this society was held ou Thursday at
Exeter-hall, Lord Viscount Ranelagh presiding.
Mr. C. 1.. Gruneisen, the secretary, red the report,
which congratulated the shareholders on the great
success the society bad met with, exceeding the most
sanguine anticipations of its founders. It pro-
ceeded as follows :—" The returns show that the
transactions of the present quarter, up to the last
day of August, have been remarkably animated. The
cash receipts on shares up to 31st August, 1854, are
15,867/. 9s. 5(1.; ditto for corresponding period in
1853, 13,9191. 12s. 2d. ; the increase, therefore, is
1,7471. 17s. 3d. The total cash receipts for shares
up to 31st August, 1854, are 131,8331, 7s. 9d., less
the amount of withdrawals up to the 31st Augu-t,
1851, 3,4201. Bs. 3d. The shares in progress or un-
completed, taken up to the 31st August, 1854, were
9,018 ; the shares completed to ditto were 1,181 ;
total shares issued, 10,199." The allottees who are
entitled to the freehold franchise by the selection of
lots on the various estates bought for the society will
receive, free of any expense, legal support of their
claims at the approaching registration. The follow-
ing is the amount of land sold during the present
quarter :—From June 28th to August 31st., 8,4111. Ils.
The committee are happy to announce that negotia-
tions are in active progress for the purchase of new
estates both in and out of London. The allotments
of the second portion of the Brighton Round-hill
Park estate (East Sussex), and of the Seven Sisters
estate, Tottenham-green (Middlesex), took place on
the sth and 19th of July. The Eastern Counties
Railway Company will reduce their fares for annual
tickets to the members who build on the Seven Sis-
ters estate. After some conversation the report was
unanimously adopted. A drawing for 100 rights of
choice took place, and fifty shares were added to the
lists in virtue of seniority.
IN consequence of the high price of bread at
Taunton, a handbill was extensively circulated sug-
gesting the formation of a Bread Consumers' Com-
pany, 200 shares at 21. 10s. ench. The bakers, in
alarm, met the next day, and reduced the price of the
41b. loaf from 71d. to 61d.
THE CONSUMPTION OF WINE AND TEA in the
United Kingdom is set forth in two parliamentary
papers just printed. For the former it appears that,
although the population has almost doubled during
the present century, the quantity of foreign and
colonial wine consumed has decreased during that
period. In • the year 1800, 7,294,752 gallons of
foreign and colonial wines were charged with duty
for home consumption, but in 1853 only 8,813,830
gallons were so charged. In the intervening yea's
the consumption has fluctuated •between the two
amounts. The largest consumption was in 1803,
when 8,228,464 gallons were charged, and the lowest
in the year 1810, when only 4,057,038 gallons paid
duty. Tea, on the other hand, has enormously
increased. During the year ending the sth of April,
1854, 55,549,4511 b. of tea were delivered from the
bonded warehouses in the United Kingdom for
home consumption. The duty received on the ag-
gregate amount was 5,181,908/.
THE last of the autumn fleet for Canada has just
sailed from Aberdeen. The total number of emigrants
from the north of Scotland this year has exceeded
2,000; the numbers that have gone from the county
of Aberdeen alone, during the past six years, are as
follows :-1849, 182 ; 1850, 293 ; 1851, 516; 1852,
559 ; 1853, 695; 1854, I,sso—total, 3,865. The
emigrants are mostly farm labourers and small
tenant-farmers.

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Obituarg.

The REV. SIR JOHN ASIIIIIIIINHAN, Bart, died on
the Ist inst. at his residence at Guestling, Sussex.
The deceased baronet was eighty-four years of age.
He way admitted into holy orders in 1703, and,
having served various cures, was appointed to the
chancellorship of the eathedral church of Chichester,
in virtue of which office he held the rectory of
Pevensey, worth 1,0001. a year. He was also rector
of Guestling, near Hastings—a living the patronage
of wh ch is in his family. Sir John Ashburnham
was the seventh baronet, and succeeded to the title
on the decease of hts brother in 1843. He married,
first, Fanny, fourth daughter of William Foster,
Esq., of Hollington, Sussex ; and second, Miss Anne
Horman.

The sudden death of CAPTAIN MANsELL, K.H., on
board the St. Vincent, 101, will be much regretted
throughout the service. The loss is a public one, for
he was one of the few that linked personal remem-
brances of the old war with the experience of modern
warfare, and active powers of mind and body to take
a prominent position in the threatening stirring af-
fairs. Captain Mansell will be remembered of late
years as the second in command of the Powerful,
84, when Sir Charles Napier was captain of that ship;
subsequently he commanded the Action, 26, and
was for some time senior officer on the coast of Africa,
and a few months since was appointed to the com-
mand of the Powerful, and from that ship turned
over to the St. Vincent, to convey French troops to
the Baltic.

REAR ADMIRAL Jolla; Gotram, on the retired list, died
at Gosport on the 29th ult., aged 88. This officer
entered the navy in 1781, and attained post rank in
1817. He suffered much from indisposition, and
was only n full pay thirty years.
MISS BAILIE died on Wednesday last, of consump-
tion, at Westport•house, where she had been on a
visit with her noble relative, the Marquis of Sligo.
The deceased lady was sister-in-law to the late
Marchioness of Sligo, and sister to Mr. Bailie, M.P.
We regret to announce the death of LIEUTENANT-
GENERAL ARGUIMBAN, C. 8., Colonel of the 80th
Regiment.

THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY held their monthly
meeting on Thursday in Hanover-square, W. J.
Broderip, Esq., F.R.S., vice-president, in the chair.
The number of visitors during the year was stated to
have been upwards of 325,000. The additions to the
menagerie during the last month consisted of various
objects of more than usual interest, including a beau-
tiful male specimen of the wild sheep of the Punjaub,
which had now been imported into Europe for the
first time in a living state. His Majesty the King of
Portugal had been pleased to transmit to the society
a fine specimen of the true boa •constrictor of Linnaeus.
The collection generally, as well as the flower *Arden,
are in a state of efficiency. Among the most con-
spicuous ornaments in the garden are the Japan lilies,
now coming profusely into flower, and an immense
collection of the finest dahlias. _ .

THE Dauntless, 33, screw steanarigate, Captain
Alfred P. Ryder, left Sheerness on Thursday morning
under sealed orders, and it is supposed her destination
is to join the fleet in the Black Sea.
A SAD ACCIDENT happened to Captain Clifford, of
the Sphynx paddle-steamer, son of Admiral Sir
Augustus Clifford, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod
to her Majesty, by the snapping of a hawser, while
towing the St. Vincent, in the Baltic, whereby both
his legs were broken.
THE various watering places of the northern
counties, as well as the lake district of Cumberland
and Westmorland, are full to overflowing. There
never was a season when so many tourists and health-
seekers were in motion, inns and lodging-houses fre-
quently lacking accommodation fcr wayfaring people.
A FARMER, who holds nearly 4,000 acres of land in
South Essex, states that his crops are nearly three
times more this year than he has ever before known
them in the course of forty years' experience. He
offers to stake 1001. to 51. that he has a field of oats
that will produce seventeen quarters per acre, and be
, thinks more.

GOLD has been found in the north of Glenbrerachan,
Kirkmichael, on the property of his Grace the Duke
of Athol ; and also to the north of the Cairnwell, on the
property ofJames Farquharson, Esq., of Inv ercauld.
In both places the precious metal is found embedded
in the detached pieces of rock which there abound.
The existence of gold in these quarters was dis-
covered by a Mr. Lowden, a gentleman lately returned
from Australia.
THE FOUNDATION-STONE OF A NEW CHI:RCH in St.
George's district, Hulme, Manchester, was laid on
Saturday by the bishop of the diocese. This church
is situate in a district containing 10,000 persons, the
greater portion of whom are of the working class, and
of the subscriptions obtained for its erection the ma•
jority ranged from 2%. 6d. to 10s., given by wo. king
people. The entire cost, including the land, will be
about 3,000/.

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Au. ►ersons who desire to attend the Voluntary
Theological Examination at Cambridge in October next
are requested to send in their names to the examiners, the
Regius Professor of Divinity, the Margaret Professor of
Divinity, the Norrisian l'rofessor of Divinity, and the
Itegius Professor of Hebrew, on or before the Ist of Octo-
ber, and to attend at the Senate-house on Wednesday, the
11th of October, at nine o'clock.
A NEW HEAPINQ MaciiiNr., which is expected to work a
least as well as anyof those we have seen tried yet, is state 4
by the Stirling Olmerrer to be manufacturing by a Mr.
Gardner, of Craigs. This invention may be desonhed in
general terms as acting upon the same principle as Bell's
niachme, the horses working behind. In every other
respect the inventor pronounces it to be constructed upon
different cutting principles. This process is effected by
male and female eccentric-cutters, cutting on both sides,
and these are set in motion by a double eccentric-'rank,
which is wrought by a wheel fixed upon the side of the
driving-wheel, and which works into a bevelled pinion—
' thus producing the necessary motion. The deliverer, or
that upon which the grain fulls when cut, is composed of a
great number of laths of light soft tirwood, about three
fourths of an inch wide and fully four feet long, held to-
gether by means of leather straps to which they are tacked,
and thus revolving in the same manner as the cloth-
deliverer in Bell's machine. One decided advantage of Mr.
Gardner's machine will be found in its great lightness.
hell's improved machine is understood to weigh when in
working order about fifteen cwt., whereas this one will
scarcely come up to half a ton, which must render it much
easier for the horses to work. it will cost fully a fourth
less money than Bell's. It cuts the breadth of six feet.
THE UNITED STATES NAVY ColltEills seventy-two vessels-
of-war. Of these, ten are ships-of-the-line, mounting 872
guns ; thirteen are frigates, mounting 656 guns ; twenty
are sloops-of-war of 400 guns; four are brigs of 20 guns;
one schooner of 3 guns : fifteen steamers, mounting 122
guns ; and nine store-ships, mounting 42 guns ; giving an
aggregate of 2,115 guns. This is not, however, all avail-
able force. Of the ships•of-the-line, four are at present Ott
the stocks, earring 336 guns. Two frigates of 100 guns
are also on the stocks. Deducting these 430 guns front
the aggregate, the available force of the navy is 1,679 guns.
Of the whole number, forty-five are now in commission,
mounting 875 guns. Of these forty-five, five are used as
receiving-ships, mounting 206 guns. Deduct this from the
total in commission, the whole navy employed on sea
service mounts 600 guns.

THE ASCENT OF MONT BLANC for the first time by a
woman is announced by "A Tourist," who writes to the
Timer. Of course she is an Englishwoman. The lomat,
states :—" On arriving here (Chamouni) I found tit• shut,
village th a state of commotion in consequence ti this
event. It appears that Mr. and lire. Hamilton, a gentle
man and lady who reside near London, accompanied by
nine guides and by a boy of the village sixteen years old,
started from Chsmount to make the ascent on Sunday
morning, August 20, about eight o'clock. They arrived at
the Uremia Mulets at four o'clock in the afternoon, and
passed the night in the hut the guides have recently
erected there. At halipast three the next morning they
continued their journey, and,atter meeting with difficulties
of no ordinary character, succeeded in reaching the summit
at about half-peat two p.m. They rested there about ten
minutes, when the anxiety of the guides respecting the
weather induced them to commence the descent, and they
got back to the Grande Mulets at six o'clock, and passed
another night in the hut. On the Wednesday morning
they returned thence to Chamouni, and found this to be
the most difficult part of their journey, in consequence of
the descent of avalanches. They succeeded, boa ever, in
surmounting every obstacle, and were welcomed on their
arrival at the village by the tiring of cannon, the formica
of a triumphal procession, and every other demonstratioe
of enthusiastic applause. A fete was given the next even•
ing iu the courtyard of the Hotel de Londres, which pro-
bably surpassed anything of the kind ever seen in Cho.-
nioutii, not excepting that which took place after Mr.
Albert Smith's ascent. Mrs. Hamilton had so far re-
covered from her fatigue as to be able to join the dancers,
and she did so with much spirit. From a conversation I
had with her upon this occasion, I found that neither she
nor her husband suffered from the rarefaction of the air at
the summit, although several of the guides were so utterly
prostrated that they fell upon their faces as soon as they
reached the top. She spoke in the warmest terms of the
two guides Jean and Victor Tairray, who paid her the
utmost attention during the whole route. An avalanche of
immense size fell as they were passing the Grand Plateau,
and in its course went over a part of the track they had
crossed but a. few minutes before, and completely filled a
crevasse beneath, said by the guides to be twenty-five feet
wide and forty deep. This is the first time the top of
Mout Blanc has ever been reached by a woman, althouflx
two have before made the attempt successfully, one being
a French lady of Geneva, Mlle. L'Angeville, and the other
a peasant in the neighbourhood of t.,hamouni."
Tin COMMISSION appointed to seek a new site for tlae
city of San Salvador, destroyed a short time since by an
earthquake, have selected the plain of Santa 'f eels, four
leagues distant from the old site and six leagues from the
old port of Libertad. The entire population would remove
to the new city, which will, it is said, be in the midst of sr
beautiful country, and abundantly supplied with pure Irate
from the cascades of the neighbouring hills.
EMIGRATION FROM GERMANY has never ( says Vas. Gazette
of Berlin) been more numerous than thus year. no
number of persons who embarked during the fast WV
months of 1854, from the porta of Hamburg, Bremen,
Antwerp, and Havre, alone exceeded 120,000. Sty%
thousands left last month, and more than 00,009
making preparations to follow.

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THE Berbice Gazette of the 24th of July states :—" Gold
has been discovered at the crossing of the Colerado, also
silver and copper. A tribe of Indians had been met with
who used gold bullets for their guns."
THE DUTCH GOVERNMENT has just published the official
return of the harvest in that country. In every part of the
country, as far as regards corn, the crops have been
abundant; and in several of the provinces, particularly the
Brabant, the Guelder Holland, and Zealand, wheat, rye,
and oats present the most satisfactory results.
TILE ISLANDS OF THE GREEK ARCHIPELAGO are likely to
suffer from famine through the order of the Porte prohi-
biting the exprtation of corn. Some of these, inhabited
by sailors and fishermen, are totally dependent for suste-
nance on the rich corn-growing provinces of the main land.
Last March a decree put an end to the shipping of all
kinds of grain, and, literally interpreted, it applies to the
cargoes sent to supply the wants of the islanders. But, as
these rocks form part of the Ottoman empire, it seems
unjust that a decree intended only to apply to the foreign
trade should deprive Turkish subjects of their only means
of support. Some relaxation of the order musttatce place,
or these populations will perish of hunger.
STREET FIGHTING is an infectious disease ; it is a sort
of excitement that pleases many, on whom the sound of
musketry has something of the same effect that that of the
trumpet has on the veteran war-horse, or the sight of the
fowlingpiece on the pointer. " What are you doing here?"
was the question asked of a French Socialist (a June '44
man) who on the 19th of July was seen blazing away front
behind a Madrid barricade. "It is not your principles
that are being fought for." " I know that," was the reply,
" mais que coulee VOILA L'odeur de la poudre me grise, et,
quandje la acne, it Taut que je me bane."
THE PRUSSIAN GOVERNMENT made sundry purchases of
agricultural implements at the. London Exhibition. These
purchases were distributed among divers establishments
for trial. The Correspondence Bureau says that the reports
made in some cases are not favourable ; for instance, the
" patent Bedford harrow " is declared to be infinitely less
effective for work than the German iron harrows, and
Hornsby's " corn-cleaning" machine is much too dear. It
is not impossible that the first result arises from want of
skilful management, joined to prejudice; the second is
natural in a country where immediate expense and not
progressive benefit is mainly regarded.
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN DENMARK.—A new synagogue
has just been inaugurated at Aalborg (Denmark), built
partly at the expense of the Jewish community, and partly
at the expense of the State. This is the first instance of
the Government of Denmark contributing to the erection
of a Jewish place of worship.
THE OPENING OF THE FRENCH SOUTHERN RAILWAY to
Dax will take place about the 20th inst. Already trains
and locomotives have gone over the section in question,
but the delay is deemed necessary, for the more perfect
organisation of the service.
A FEW days since the electric telegraph communication
from Elsinore to Hamburg was suddenly stopped. On
investigation it was found that the earth which covered the
wires had been dug up in a certain spot and the wires cut,
and it was afterwards discovered that the author of the
mischief was a little boy twelve years of age, who resided
in the village of Apenrade, near which place the line passed.
He was arrested, and brought before the Correctional Tri-
bunal, by which he was sentenced to be whipped three times,
and to receive in all forty-five lashes.

rontg Varket an Qtitrr ntelligente.

FRIDAY EVENING.

THE Stock Exchange has been very inanimate
throughout the current week. Speculators are rus-
ticating at the moment, and transactions are conse
quently few, with a general tendency to dulness and
depression of prices. The market still remains very
sensitive to all intelligence, or whatever purports to
be such, from abroad. Even an occurrence apps•
rently so insignificant, and at all events so easily
accounted foc, as the departure of King Leopold
from the French camp at Boulogne somewhat sooner
than had been anticipated, produced a noticeable
effect upon the quotations. Notwithstanding a fur-
ther fall in corn at Mark-lane, the receipt of con-
tinued reports of a superabundant harvest crop from
every quarter of the United Kingdom, and the
arrival of a large parcel of specie (232,6001.) from
the United States, the price of Consols receded on
Monday, and a general heaviness prevailed upon the
Stock Market. The first quotations had been 95} for
account, but before the close Consols were done as
low as 941 for money, and 95 for the 13th inst.
From this, however, there was a rally of nearly per
cent. just before keying off.
On Tuesday the market displayed rather more
firmness, but prices did not practically advance.
During the day a large supply of money stock was
brought forward, which sent down the quotations for
a time to 941. Later they improved again, and closed
at the same rates as on the previous day. The un-
funded debt showed signs of buoyancy, Exchequer
Bills being firm at 4s. to 6s. pm.; and Exchequer
Bonds of '59 commanding prices of 981 to 99.
The greetings exchanged between Prince Albert and
the Emperer of the French on Tuesday furnished occa-
sion for a better feeling on 'Change upon Wednesday.
Some misgivings bad previously been entertained

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which were now allayed, and the quotations of public
securities advanced in consequence. Still the im-
provement was slight, being checked apparently by the
dubious terms of some continental advices and the
formal announcement that the French military forces
were to return from the Baltic without attempting
any further enterprises. After a quiet day Consols
closed at 05k k for transfer, and 951 for account.
Yesterday the tidings that Austria would not con-
sider the Russian rejection of the guarantees required
by the Western powers as a cams belli were looked
upon as exceedingly unfavourable. The market,
which had opened rather firmly, underwent a re
action when the despatches from Vienna arrived, and
prices declined kto per cent. The termination of
the weekly meeting in the Bank parlour without any
decision respecting a reduction of discounts also
contributed to depress the quotations. Business was
" tight," and the market closed heavily at 94/ 5.
Speculation to-day has been inactive. The official
record of business done is very scanty, and the quo-
tations continue flat. Attention is now mainly di-
rected to the pending operations against the Crimea,
and it is by intelligence from that quarter that the
market will be principally ruled for some time to
come. Consols have been as low as 94i, and
left off at 941 I. For the account on Wednesday
next the prices were k higher. East India Stock
was dealt in at 229, and Exchequer Bills at 4s. to Os.
premium. Several other descriptions of stock are
shut.