The Express.
London, England, 1848-07-10 00:00:00

rftE\ B4CPRgSB, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 10, 1848.

27.. td 305. Beans, 33'. to 361. If" to 465. Malt,
600. te 62a. Oats, 94d. to lOW. per stonll of 141ba. Flour,
per seek of 280th.., 34e. to 365.
DUBLIN, July 7.-The very limited extent of iliar supplies
of Wheat has enabled holders to realise an &du of le.
per barrel on the rules of this day week, and F :ly
maintained its value. On Tuesday Indian Corn, in e.
quence of the great reduction of the stocks, was taken a a.
per qr. more money, but to-day this Improvement was ggettr
lost. The following was the currency : Wheat, white,
275. to 325. ; red, 245. to 30s. 6.1 per 2801bs. Oat., 10.. gd.
to 120. 3d. per 196 lbs. Barley., 141. 6d. to 16.. gel. per
2241 h. Oatmeal, Its. to 12%. 6,1 per cwt. Flour, seconds,
Vie. 6d. to 17s. per cwt. Indian Corn, 345. to 375. per
4801 b..
Lisnuttee, July 8.-The weather continues wet, with
high wind. ; no appeeraem of the scorching heat so much
required at this critical pond. The tr.do In grain for the
week hes been uneatistectory ; very little supply of home
grown produce; and, although the arrivals c.f Indian corn
have been very small, millers only Sought to supply imme-
dia.e want.; however, they had to pay hill prices. AU other
breadstuff' partake of the same dulness.. Potatoes are
coming very freely to market, apd aro now selling at le.
per stone. The following are the current prices: Wheat,
white, 1846. per stone; red, 171 d. Oats, 114. Galati
Indian Corn, 101. per ton ; Ibrail, 91. 15e. ; American,
91 121. Gd.; t' 91. 15". Oatmeal, 131. per ion. Indian
Meal, 101. to 101. 10s. per ton. Flour, Irish, 325. per bag ;
American, none.
Walnut oltll, July 8.-Our receints of all descriptions of
farmers' grain have been very trifling this week; higher
prices have been paid for Wheat, but Barley and Oats remain
unaltered in value. At this morning's market the show of
Wheat we. again small, and on samples fit for minute use an
advance of 3d. to Gcl. per barrel was realised ; but infer,or
sorts were neglected. Barley may he quoted nominally as et
the close of last week. Oats commanded more attention
than of late, and many parcels were sold, at prices not eh-
taieuble on Saturday tut. The demand for helian Cau
has improved during the week, and sales to some extent
have been made at au advance of Is. per barrel on the cur-
rency of this day se'nnight. Flour continues in Foal request,
at the extreme rates of last week. Prem. nt prices of grain :
Undried Wheat, millers', per 20 stone, 27.. 61. to 291.;
shipping, 255. Gal to 265. Barley, per 16 stone, grind-
ing, I3s. to 13s. 61. Oats, white, per 11 stone, 10'. 6.1.
to 11.. ; black, lie, to 115. 3d. Prepared : Wheat,
millers', per 20 stone, 291. to 30..; shipping, 27.. 6d. to
28s. Barley, grinding, per 16 st., 14e. 9d. to 15e.
Oats, white, per 14 st., its. fed. to 111. 94.; black, 11.. Gd.
to I Is. 9d. }'lour, superfine, per sack, 38.. to 38e. ;
seconds, 34%. to 355. ; thirds, 31.. to 325. • fourths, 21..
to 255. Indian Corn, Danube, per 20 at., 21s. 6d. to 225.
American, yellow and red, 20s. Gd. to 214, ; white, 20.. to
20.. Gil.; damaged for cattle, 15s. to Indian Corn
Meal, per cwt., 9..63. Oatmeal, pet cwt., 121. to 131.
Bran, per 6 at., 3s. 3d. to 3.1. 6.1. I
KIRI:C....toe, July 8.-Although we have occasional line
days, the general characte rof the weather during the week
has been cold and unsettled, with a good deal of rain; wo
canrot say that it is unfavourable for all the growing crops,
but certainly bright, dry weather would be very desirable
fur the Wheat crop in its present stage of blooming. At
our country markets this week we bad less Wheat and
Oats offering than the previous week, for which there wa. a
good local dernaud-tho former at an advance of Is. to '2e.
per qr., the latter at lest week's rates ; of Barley, Beans
and Pees, we had none offering. Here teeelny wo had
only moderate sup;ilies of all kinds of grain. Wheat sold
quickly, at Is. to' ,1. per qr. anvance ; Barley and Oats both
.44 slowly, without any eaarge in value. IVheat, 4G.. to
675. per qr. Barley, 28s. to 334. Oats, 20,. to 23.. Oatmeal,
per bag ut 2801ba., 31.. to 32s.

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HOPS.—Bonotwat MARKET.—Mesam Pattenden
and Smith report that the Hop plantations are everywhere
in a v.ry flourishing state, and tit. trede is unusually dull
in consequence. Duty estimated at 200,0001.
New Mid& E. Kuito 1.2. 14 to ill. 0 Violin, tteno.n.ent.2l. AlO V.lO
Weald of Heat,... 2 sto 3 0 Yearling ou.w•a „ 2 0L.2 In
rhymes ... ...... 2 '2 to 2 12 Uhl lions 1 uhil 15
Farnham ..... ..... 4 0' 5 0
ANDOVER, July B.—The stocks on hand are got great, but
the promising nature of the forthecming crops causes a
reasonable dullness. at 51. for best Farnham!, . nth Alton',
&c., at 41. 100. to 41. 15.. ; Yearlings, 21. 12s. to 31. per cwt.
Wl:ion:a-mu, July B.—The Lest bright Farnham, are
held for 5/. to 21. sr. per cwt.; Whitebint, Altoas, Bentleys,
and Crondalls at proportionate rates; Yearling, top price,
31. preset.

WOOL.—BRADFORD, July 6.—The same inactivity
we have noticed (or some weeks pact still continues, and
there is no disposition to buy, except for immediate use. The
supply in the market is only bore ; but little of the new clip
having come to hand, prices arc steady.
lonans, July 7.—There has been an improved demand
for foreign Wools during the past week, the present low
prices, together with the excellent choice of new Wools now
in the marlvt, having induced buy. se to operate de
largely than (or some time past. In English business con-
tinues dull, and very difil :ult to transact. Prices vary in
different hand, but the tendency to recede is still unchecked.
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Wigotastgg, July B.—The tone of the late Andover
fair is followed ; for the best teg wool, Od. per lb. ; some tk-
scriptions at Bd. per lb.
Yoga, July 6 —The show of Wool at this day's market
was large, and considerable business has been done, at the
following prices : Good hoz, 100. 6.1. to Ito. 3d. ; one-third
hog and ewe, Os. 6d. to 10s. ; all ewe, 83. lid. to 9r. per stone.
for Meted:Vs twartets tea rie,t IMQ4.

ght effrOfi.

MAILS.

The malla for British North Anierlea, and the United Stater,
will be made up en the evening of the 14th Jule.
The West India Mails, excluding isermida, Nampa. Iluvanna,
Honduras, New Orleanv;Vera Cm; Tampion, and Corti, Rico, and
including Wire for Madeira, Jaemel, Santa Murtha,
Charms, Panama, Went Coot of South America, and St. Juan-de-
Nicaragua, will he made up on the evening of the 17th July.
The nulls for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madera, Cadiz, and Gibraltar
will be nude up on the morning of the 17th July.
'the overland made foe Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the laden lalanib,
Ferypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, liong-Fong, and Chine, rid Southamp-
ton, will bo made upon the morning of the 20th July.
The overland eln.ed mad,, rid Marseilles, to the Mnliterranean,
Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong-Kong, am., will be made up on the
I evening of the 24th July.
The mails for New south Wale., Van Dientan'a Land, aid New
Zealand will be made up on the evening of the 31st July.
The mails for the Went Caveat of Africa and Madeira will be made
tip on the evening of the :41st July.
Thu mails for the Brazils, the laver Mate, Monte Thiel; Pero:in:l-
bws', Bahia, Madeira, unit Buenos Ayres, will be made up on the
evening of the 4th August.

forted. "The clubs—the clabe was the bar-
then of their cry. Speeches, ballads, articles,
associations, monster-meetings all that had
gone before was as nothing compared to the
dire and threatening aspect of this lest invention of
the enemy. Unless ministers were ready to under-
take a fresh crusade against the clubs,—protcstantism
and property were on the eve of summary extinction
in Ireland.
The Home Secretary, dotibtless, called to mind that
there his not been any year since he and his importu-
nate counsellors were born, that property and protest-
ante= have not been declared to be in precisely the
same unenviable position. No matter what party
has been in power, the LORTONS and GLEN-
GALLS, and every creature after their kind,
have been prophesying a bloody popish re-
bellion in Ireland. To attempt to convince
such men by arguments drawn either from present
circumstances fairly weighed, or from the experience
of the past, would be a hopeless task. Born in exclu-
sion, and bred amidst coercion, these men are as inca-
pable of distinguis'ing between popular petul .ace and
murderous conspiracy, as the South Carolinians are of
being made to discriminate between a negro and a
beast offfiurtheo. The mass of the population have,
in their view, been created for no other purpose emit°
toil in silence—to hunger without taut muring—
and to be grateful 'hat Providence has placed over
them such worthies as the Orange lords and gentle-
men of Ireland. They end they atone aro the pro-
prietors in fear simple of the soil, and not of the soil
alone, but of all that lives or starves thereon. For
them did God make Ireland, and give them the
population wherewith to till it. And truly the
plight of the majority of the people has hitherto
teemed to warrant the oligarchic assumption. That
inn period of Inmetutity and transition from such a
plight to one of gradual freedom, there should he much
of way wardneas and folly, aLd a mistaken estimate of
the value of the privileges that tippet tsin to cif izen-
ship, is natural and perhaps inevitable asthinga stand.
The Irish aristocracy are trying to hold the people
with a broken chain ; and as they are daily forced to
feel more and more that the people are escaping from
their thrall,they continually come to government with
reproaches and petitions for help to mend the riven
chain. In November lust they came for an agrarian ou.-
rage bill, and they succeeded. In March they would
have an anti-seditious-speaking bill—and they had it.
Already they begin to mutter their demand for a new
coercion bill ; but most assuredly they shall not
get it.
Sir GEORGE GREY intimated that his final answer
to the deputation should be sent in writing. We
trust there was more of official courtesy than doubt
as to the tenor of the reply itself in this intimation.
Is it to be endured that at the end of an eiJlit
months' session, in which not a single measure of
popular redress or amelioration has bat n passed or
even pit toed for Ireland, and during which the only
acts of geueral application to that afflicted country
have been two distinct measures of repression and re.
etreint—is it, we say, to be endured, that new pro-
jects of coercion are to be brought forward, and at the
instance of that decaying and demented faction,
whose history is that et the misrule and misery of
Ireland for a hundred and fifty years?
liut the notion is too monstrous even for momen-
tary belief. That the club-system is dangerous to the
poor and ignorant peasantry of certain parts of the
country, and to the misguided and crcdul .us among
the working classes in two or three of the large
towns, we do not deny. And if by the ordinary
powers of the law any legitimat check can be put
upon the spread of the system, we shall not deprecate
the effort to do so. But additional powers of coercion
no good or wise government can want in the present
condition of Ireland.

TILE debate on the sugar duties has at last assumed
an intelligible form. It was for some time as diffi-
cult to comprehend what was the undeclared oppcsi-
tien which prevented ministers from carrying their
mea,ure without delay as it still is to imagine any
reason for introducing that measure. The division on
Sir J. PARINGION'S scale of duties showed that the
West Indians, with their demands for high protecting ,1
duties, are in a minority in the House of Commons.
The division on Mr. BRIGHT'S motion showed tha'.
the sincere, earnest, and uncompromising free-traders
are still more decidedly in a ml ority. Yet the narrow
majority in the first instance for going into committee
on the ministerial measure, and still more the vague
mysterious hints of dissent from that measure in
which some who spoke in favour of going into com-
mittee on it indulged, showed that there was a screw
loose somewhere—that a latent opposition to the
scheme was about to show itself. That opposition has
now declared itself.
The combined tninisterialists and liberal conscrva-

tics feel that it is impossible to maintain perma-
nently such a system of protection as the allied sugar
and corn monopolists are aiming to re-establish. On
the other hand they are aware that if they resolve to
adopt unequivocally and irrevocably a free-trade
policy they must draw closer their alliance with the
great free-trade party in the country, who are almost
to a man in favour of a revision of taxation and
expenditure upon rational and utilitarian principles,
and of a largo electoral reform as the only means of
getting a I louse of Commons that will set about finan-
cial reform in a right spirit. The ministerialists and
Pi:elites would have no insuperable objection to entire
free trade were it not for the ulterior movement which
would be rendered inevi able by their final breach
with the corn and sugar pre'ectionists and alliance
with the practical liberals. Both ministerialists and
Pee lites are agreed, therefore, that something ought
to be done at present with regard to the sugar duties
which may prevent a final rupture with the protec-
tionists, but which will not at the same time commit
them to a permanent championship of a protective
policy. So tar this allied phalanx in the
House of Commons are at present harmoniously
agreed to keep the old tory party at bay on the
one hand, and the young popular party at bay
on the other. But the leaders of this pha-
lanx—the PEEL ex-officials and the Whig actual
officials—have also respectively some private ends
of their own to serve, which has rendered an amica-
ble
trial of strength between them inevitable. Each
has a favourite measure of its own, by which it would
have the trimming poiicy we have indicated carried
out; and each seeks to establish its claims to office
by gaining a victory for its own scheme.
Having put Sir JOHN PAKINGTON and other claim-
ants
of effectual permanent protection here de combat
by one division in committee, and Mr. BRIGHT and those '
who maintain the integrity of the solemn pledge given
by the House of Commons in 1846, that sugar protection,
like cora protection, should terminate for ever after
the lapse of a limited number of years, by another,
the ministerial and PEEL parties have divided and gone
to buffets about the merits of their respective modes
of equivocation. The ministrrialists make their stand
upon Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S motion i_the PEELITES
make theirs upon that of which Mr. HENRY BARELY
ham accepted the paternity.
With Lord J. RUSSELL' plan of tampering with
the Sugar D•ities Act of 1846 our readers arc familiar.
The pl.m propounded by Mr. BARELY, and adopted
by Messrs. GLADSTONE and Co., differs from it is
proposing a permanent duty of 14e. per cw . on Bri-
tish sugars, instead of a declining scale terminating in
a duty of 10s. per cwt.; in imposing upon foreign
sugars a duty varying slightly in terms from that
with which the ministerial declining beak commences,
but averaging a somewhat higher rate; and in eenal-
bring the duties on British and foreign sugars at the
end of six years, not by a progressive diminution of
the differential duty on the former from year to year,
but by abolishing it at once in 1854. If there be any
difference between Mr. BARELY'S scheme and the
ministerial one it is that Mr. BARELY'S is rather the
=he objectionable of the two. In so far as the people
of this country are concerned it is more likely to
keep sugar at a price that will place it beyond the
purchase power of the less affluent classes of the com-
munity and affect the revenue injuriously for a longer
period. In so far as the West Indies are concerned
the ministerial scheme can do them no good ; but Mr.
BARELY'S, if carried, may do them positive harm.
With regard to the limitation of the consumption of
sugar it is an effect common to both schemes, of which
the injury seems to be very inadequately apprehended
by our legislators. Mr. M‘Ctintsca said with great
truth and point in the debate on Sir
JOILV PARINI:MN% schedule of duties, that
the effect of free trade was to render luxuries neces-
saries, whilst again taxation came to counteract it
and convert necessaries into luxuries." The expres-
sion of thil opinion was cheered by Lord J. Russe.u.,
and some others like him, who are generally willing
to ear:, credit by affording important truths the tribute
of empty praise, though they lack moral courage to

act upon them. It is of the utmost ooluiequence to
the less affluent classes of this country that sugar
should be made and kept a necessary, not a luxury.
Waiving, for the present, the undeniable improve-
ment in the habits of the working classes in respect
of temperance and its attendant virtues, which has
marked the progressive increase in the oonsemption
of tea, coffee, and sugar, occasioned by reduced
prices, it is only by the aid of sugar that most of
our indigenous f. uits can be rendered wholesome
articles of diet. The use of sugar, too, in preserving
animal food boa increased the quantity and lowered
the prim of preserved meats. Cheap sugar will also
cheapen good beer. Any financial measure having a
tendency to raise the price and lessen the consump-
tion of sugar has a tendency to restrict in quantity
and deteriorate in nutritious quality the fcod of the
people. And Mr. BARELY'S scale of duties, by
making that duty which regulates price average 20e.
per cwt. for six years (at the least), cannot fail to
keep Sugar an unattainable luxury for the poor, for the
whole of that time. Tho last trade returns prove this.
The consumption of sugar has of late fallen off, while
that of tea bas increased; the reason is, that menial
servir.ts, who receive " tea and sugar money, and.
like them, the whole class of artisans, use no sugar in
their tea. The rate of duty which Mr. BARELY
would prolong for six years renders sugar a luxury
beyond the means of these classes.
With respect to finance, Mr. Gi.ansvose assigned
as his principal reason for supporting Mr. BARELY'S
scale of duties that it would ensure larger returns of
revenue than the ministerial one. This may clown-
bly be doubted. The main objection to the minis-
terial measure is, that it will reduce the rates of duty
iu a proportion that will dimiuish the revenue on the
aoual amount of consumption, and rot increase
consumption sufficiently to comp ensate for the loss.
Hut the measure patronised by Mr. GLADSTONE will
prolong the pressure:l duties under which consump-
tion has been found to be decreasing, and revenue
with it. The revenue from sugar will pro-
bably decline ander the ministerial measure ;
it will certainly decline under Mr. BARKLY'S.
And Mr. GLAD-TONR'S able and bitter exposure
of the fallacies involved in recent ministerial state-
ments respecing the condition of the nationalfinancea
shows how unsafe it is to tamper with the revenue at
present.
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Lastly, Mr. BABXLV's scale of duties will not bene-
fit the West Indies. The losses of the planters ani
merchants, who in the course of these debates have
been spoken of as if they constituted the whole West
Indian community, have been great, but they have
reached the utmost point of depression. It is admitted
that all the West Indian colonies, except Jamaica, Tri-
nidad, and Guiana, can keep their ground under a free-
trade system. In maintaining that these three colonies re-
quire protection, the object for which protection is asked
Is studiously kept vague and indefinite. That object is
not to prevent a further narrowing of the field oteultiva-
tion in those colonies, which those engaged in it do not
fear under any eircumetaucce, but to restore to culti-
vation the already abandoned estates. Now, these
estates aro to be found mainly in Jamaica and
Guiana. Compare them with the sugar estates in
Trinidad and Brazil. The latter are naturally fertile
soils, adequately watered and requiring no expensive
works to keep them fice from an injurious excess of
moisture. The Jamaica estates which have been
thrown out of cultivation are in the lees fertile and de-
ficiently watered parts of the island. The Guiana
estates which have been thrown out of cultivation are
in those parts of the colony which can only be made
and kept productive by a system of canals and em-
bankments on a scale as large and expensive as those
of Holland. The desert.d estates are such
as never would have been cultivated ender
any other system than one in which the
labourer received no wages. The only protection
that could restore them to cultivation must be per-
manent, and must exclude not only the sugars of
Cuba and Brazil, but the sugars of tee moat eli2ible
lands in Trinidad and Guiana that may hereafter be
reclaimed. The protection required by the sugar
protectionists is one that will keep oar worst colonial
soils in cultivation, and prevent the beet from being
reclaimed from a state of nature. Mr. BARKLY.S
scheme of duties will nut have th s effect ; but, as
long as it lasts (and who can guarantee that the term
will not be extended?), it will give a monopoly of our
sugar market to the owners and the mortgagees of
the estates actually under cultivation ; it will prevent
the resident community from reclaiming good lands
from a state of nature to replace the bad lands that
have been deserted. Ic is a scheme not to benefit
the We-t Indies, but the knot of West Indian capi-
talists who possess parliamentary influence.
The struggle then in which the two section f
majority in the House of Commons, which have hitherto
kept the present ministers in place, are at present
engaged, i,e o: e in whi.:ll neither the mother country
public nor the West Indian public have any interest.
It is simply a contest of parliamentary finesse—a
coquetting with the parliamentary West Indians on
the part both of the Peelites and the ministerialists.
And the object of each party is by swelling its num-
bers for a time by these West Indian votes to esta-
blish a claim upon the other, as the case may be, either
to leave it iu office or to resign in its favour.

ACCOUNTS of one year's revenues of the duchies of
Lancaster and Corner all have been printed by order
of the House of Commons. They present some carious
features. The revenues of the duchy of Lancaster are
chiefly derived from fee farm and unimprorable rents
and leasehold rents including rents in lieu of land tax
redeemed, not only in respect of property in the county
palatine of Lancaster and in the county
of Chester, but in Berke, Buckingham, Derby,
Essex, Glamorgan, Gloucester, Hants, Leicester, Lin-
coln, Middlesex, Monmouth, Norfolk, Northampton,
Nottingham, Stafford, Sussex, Warwick, Wilts, and
Yorkshire. The principle upon which these rents
and fees were originally fixed, and continue to be
paid, must be—to all who read the report in
ignorance of the value of the properties and privi-
leges from which the rents accrue—extremely
puzzling. In some instances the rent of a manor is 11.
per annum ; but for the right of sporting over it
five times that sum is exacted. Without even a cur
gory survey of the respective manors, it is impossible
to know the true value of the rights for which so
small a sum as a pound per annum is paid. It is
therefore our intention to abstract from time to time
under the head of " Provincial " and the several
counties named above, lists of the properties, and
the rents paid in respect of them. Our readers in
the various neighbourhocds who have not access to
the report will therefore have an opportunity of en-
lightening ourselves and the puolic on the apparent
value of rights for which their fortunate posses-
sors pay so little. Meanwhile we proceed to offer a
short statement of the gross revenues and disburse-
ments of these duchies, pointing out one or two curi-
osities of the latter.
It appears from the balance-sheet that the gross
revenue of the Duchy of Lancaster, for the year end-
ing Michaelmas,lBl7 (less a balance to Michaelmas,
1846, remaining on account of the Receiver-General,
and in the hands of his agents, of 7,0621.) was
33,1371. 3s. 2d. Of this sum, 12,0001. was paid into
her Majesty's privy purse; the rest of the amount
—except a balance of 7,857/.125. 31d., in the hands of
the treasurer when the account was made up (Michael-
mas, 1847)—was expended in investments, in salaries
to the officers of the duchy, law expenses,charities, &c.
The gross income of the duchy of Cornwall from
the let of January to 31st December,lB47, amounted—
exclusive of a balance in hand of 14,441/. 17s. 61d.—
to the sum of 05,293!. 18s. 41d. The trustees and
treasurer of his royal highness the Prince of WALES
received 41,728!. 2s. 6d., the receiver-general of the
duchy retaining a balance of 7,4931. 17s Old.; ex-
penses of collection, salaries of officers, investments,
law charges, donations, &c., absorbing the rest of the
sum.

The account of the disbursements of the duchy of
Lancaster, under the several heads of salaries and
allowances, develops a few startling curiosities. The
salary of the Chancellor of the Duchy (Lard CAMP-
BELL) is 2,0001. per annum, while that of its Attorney-
General (T. F. ELLIS, Esq.) is only 100/. • the
Queen's Serjesnt of the Duchy, (C. P. COOPER,
receives the modest income of 41. 3s. 4d. ; and her
Majesty's two counsel for the duchy draw the minimum
yearly retaining fees of 2/. each. The responsible
office of Receiver-General is performed by Major-
General C. R. Fox, for the yearly stipend of 2001. ;
but his inferior, the auditor, JOHN GIBSON LOCKFIART,
Esq., gets 4001. per annum. The Receiver-General was
paid, however, during the year over which the accounts
extend 378/. 6s. 3d. in the shape of "allowances."
The post of axe-bearer and master of the game of
Needwood forest would seem from the mount of his

Ip?rtau

salary—which is 3001. per annum—to be an imps,_
one. It is held by G. E. Assoc,ss Eaq., who, it ep.
pears, rents "the woodlands within Need wood forest
and the parks adjoining" for 6/. 10s. per annum.
Besides the salary paid to the axe-bearer, he die.
bursed during the year 2301. ss. 6d. for feeding, watch.
ing, and preserving the game, and transmitting it to
her :Majesty's larder.
Reverting from the strange expenditure to the
equally strange receipts of the duchy, our readers will
have found, to the Express of Saturday, under the
head of " Leicestershire," an account of the rents de.
rived from that county by her Majesty as "Duke" of
Lancaster.

FRANCE.
PARIS, SATURDAT, G 30 p.g
The Journal dee Debate answers to-dav the letter
of M. Lamar tine, which I noticed yesterday. I vet,
join textually its reply. The ir,urnal, Le Bien Public
to which it refers, is said to be the personal organ of
M. Lamartine, and articles known to be written by
him frequently appear in its columns.
We fully admit the doub'e contradiction of M. de Lamar.
tine and of 31. Garni. r Pas e, mei we are happy to r sister
it ; only it comes somewhat late, and it is tto o, that it
ought to bs addressed. It we Lace 1,...en led into error, it
I.y a journal which has always defruleil 31. de Lamartite,
which defends him still, and which 31. de Lamartine dr
more than ores made the depository of his thoughta, the
Bien The following is the manoet in which that
journal expressed itself on July 2, in an article on the Men.
Teener' of June: "Now to this vague, confased, undeter.
mined, and undisciplined army of the agitation mut he
added the reinforcement, which the republic was sure to
rainfall. First of all, the barricade-bata,Don. After thereto
lution of February, in the midst of the apprehensions of the
victors, and in the fear of an ollenave reaction of the me.
nerthy, a corps was formed, charged to study the formatka
of barricades, their military arrangement, their ioelhation,
the strategic points whrre they ought to be and
connected together in all the 'streets, is all the epee
places, and at all the barriers. A map of detached forts
by the aid of paving stones, and in the interior of Pans, was
drawn up, 'hewn arid taught to a company of men wits, bad
almost all passed through the loptisers of insurrection, but,
when the danger was disaipa.cd, this company was ilissolved•
in place, however, of clispenins, it remained organised, sad
passed almost to a man to the party of the in,ufr. trios." Did
we say anything else? A body had been firmed, called
the barricade bataillon, in the fear of an offensive ?mean
on the part of the monarchy. That body hat been charged
to study the whole strategy of bur:cadet ; maps were pre.
pared for its use; the warfare of the streets was taught to
these men. The corps was, in truth, dissolved, but it re-
mained organised, and passed almost to a man to the side
of the insurrection. Once more ; it is the Bien Public, the
journal of M. de Lamartine, which so expressed itself it
its number of July 2, and so one Peat it a contralictim.
Will it be said that we added that this battalion had beim
formed under the auspices of the government? But
is it not evidently what results from the article is
the Birn Public, A body was formed and organised--by
whom It had been charged with the task of studying the
strategy of barricades—by whom ? A map was drawn up
for its use-11 order of whom? It was aPerwards dis-
solved—by whom i We believed, and we were juslifiai
in believing, that the barricade bataillon was of the aut•
nature as so many other irregular bodice, such as the
corps of montagnards, for instance, the formation and exit-
ence of which the Provisional Government, without say
doubt, was aware of and tolerated, In making these A-
servatious our object is to place our sincerity under Mee_ , •
and by no means to call in question 'he contradiction of 1,
de Lamartine and of M. Gamier Pages. We were mistakes;
so couch the better ! We regret oral'' one thing—that a reed-
ticatiOn which It was so essay to address to tha Bins Patio
did not prevent our error. Without doubt it is not to u
that M. de Lamartine mak,s allusion in speaking of the
malnus cf calumny. We have been often calumniated in
the inost odious manner; we Lever calumniated any one,
and M. ue Lamartine less than any other ! Men caluamiate
those whom they hate; we do not hate M. de Lamartine—
we pity him. What his position might have been atid welt
it is, only produces in our mind one sentimeat—that of a
deep and bitter grief !
M. de Girardia is about to publish a pamphlet
which is said to contain curious disclosures.
General Duvivier died of his wounds this morning.
I am informed that M. Arago has been examined
twice before the committee of the assembly, charged
with the investigation of the late insurrection, and
that of the 13th May. On his first examination he
de. lared that a magistrate, whom he would not name,
was among the guilty, both of the affair 0f Mar andthat
of June. On his second examination he is said to have
explicitly charged MM. Fortelle, Jules Fabre, and
Landrin, of having secretlyaexcited the movement d
the clubs on these occasions. M. Arago distinctly
disavowed any orders having been given by the exe-
cutive commission, having a tendency to relax the
means of repressing the emeute. He also declared
that the commission was altogether ignorant, that on
the 22nd June, the day before tho enteuee, two regi-
ments had been marched out of Paris, one to Soi6soos
and the other to Amiens.

I have just heard that a military post had been
mined, and has been blown up to-day in the Fau-
bourg St. Antoine, but that no one has been killed.
Different versions are given of this affair, but I can-
not at this moment ascertain the truth. Strong de-
tachments of the national guards are now (five o'clock)
on march to the Place de la Bastille.
The members of the Chamber of Commerce of
Rouen have sent a long address to the national assem-
bly, in which they Fay that, after the recent dreadful
events in Paris, they feel it their duty to supplicate
it to check the spirit of disorder and anarchy which
for four months has weighed on the direction of
affairs, and which renders trade impossible. They
say they sincerely wish for the republic, and
on that account protest with all their strength
against the proceedings which have taken place
since the 24th February. They denounce all that re-
calls to mind what they call horrible times in the history
of France ; they also denounce ideas of communism,
socialism, general levelling, and absolute equality, and
the doctrines which pretend that there ought to be
neither masters nor workmen, neither rich nor poor,
and that all can be equally happy. They, however,
declare that they feel satisfied that the Assembly can
decide to the satisfaction of all the difficult question
of the organisation of labour. They call for the dis-
missal atilt unworthy functionaries, for a reaction of
order against disorder, of good sense and principles
against absurdity and demoralisation, for a republic
with reasonable and honest institutions, in relation
with the imprescriptible laws that God has imposed
on human society, and by which they say active
labour, that can alone restore the general prosperity
of the country, will again return.
The national workshops for women were included
in the decree dissolving these establishm,nts gene-
rally in the department of the Seine. Twenty five
thousand women are thus left without occupation.
The resources placed at the disposal of the mayors are
insufficient to give them the succour which they are
entitled to, that succour consisting of two pounds of
bread each per day, whatever may be the family of
the women so receiving aid. This state of things his
caused about 400 of these women to wait on the Mi-
nister of Public Works to demand assistance.
Recnrt, having learned that several of them had large
families, led them to hope that the propositions which
he intended making in their favour to the committee
of labour, would be approved of; and that the work-
shops might be again opened.
The funeral of M. de Chateaubriand took place this
day in the Church des Missions Etrangeres. Nearly
every literary person of any note in Paris was present.
M. de Rayneval has been named ambassador extra-
ordinary to the Neapolitan Court, and Id. Benoit de
Champy in the same capacity to that of Florence.

SUNDAY, 11 A.
The assembly did not sit yesterday. The bureaux
were actively engaged with the discussion of the
constitution. The most eminent of the deputies have
delivered speeches on the subject of the preamble and
of the question of a second chamber. Among the
most striking speeches were those of MM. Thiel's,
Leon Faucher, Victor Hugo, and Do Tocqueville, all
in favour of a second chamber.
M. Marie has addressed a letter to the journals;
disavowing any knowledge of the establishment of a
battalion of barricades. The only two members of the
late executive government that have not yet publicly
disavowed this transaction are MM. Arago and Ledra
Rollin.
The committee of finances was engaged yesterday
in the discussion of M. Leon Faucher's plan fur ex-
tending the utility of the banks of discount.
The Onstitutionnel says: " We have the satisfac-
tion of being able to announce that building work
are not the only ones that have been resumed. Vari-
ous establishments recommenced work. Laborious
workmen appeared already restored to their habits,
and to the confidence which united them to their
employers. The country districts in the neighbour-
hood of Paris also see a number of men returning,
who had gone to seek fur better wages in the capiW.
The result will be, that this year it will not be neces-
sary to have recourse to foreign aid for certain harvest
work; such as mowing for instance, which is gene-
rally executed by Belgian workmen,"

STATE or THE BANE or FRANCE up to July 7, with
the Corresponding items of the preeedirig week :
Week ending Week ending
June 29. July T.

LWBILITIII. F. C. F. 0.
Capitol
Capital new hoed banks 23,350,000 0 23,350,000
31611erre
Reserve of new Mad banks 2,930,650 14 2,930.050 1
Refers, in real property
Bank note. to circulation
Do. Branch banks
MS tO order
Account eurreat of Treasury, creditor 9,791,37 15 4,889,988 66
Dinne amounts current 75,733,4372 54 77,816,075 4.
Accounts current in the branches
Iteoripte payable at sight
Becelpts pAyablc at eight in the
branches
Drafts of branch banks payable by
tank 4,693,633 99 4,019,326 0
Drafts of tank payable by branch
tanks 1,702,070 0 1.03,681
Dividends payable
Rank of Ahnena,sum not yet invested
in Treasery beta*
criaount, Olsen inteteata, ant ex-
pew 451,060 74 603,407
s
pi,,ooooto and diem hstereets to
branch bank,.
Re-dirconnt loot haMyear 422,932 27 412,932 2,
Ditto in branch banks
Sundries

601,637,119 61 607,010,471 42
Yin&
pole and ingobi
flash in tlw brunch basks 80,419,317 45 82,619,029 110
72,152,051 2 73,656029 0
Rills over due 7,623,638 4 4,324,143 04
Sills and am/plan...we is Parke 114,730,352 Ai 113,149,841 83
150. do. in branch busks 145,579,116 76 143,336,430 69
Advances on bulllos
Advances on French public rumba— 88,392,682 90 39,323,942 90
Advances on French public lands by
branch hanks
Advances to the state on Treasury
bonds 50,000,000 0 30,000,000 0
Stock forming reserve .... .......
Stank, disposable fund,. 11,243,767 36 11,249,767 56
Investment of new fused basks in
public funds
Bank buildinge and furniture.. ......
Real property of branch bunks 2,315,103 0 2,373,241 0
Interest to Alper. Bank
Interest in Naticnao Ilia. runt Dank 200,000 0 200,000 0
Interest of brunch b dilia in the
National Discount Bantus of the
provincial towns 230,000 0 230,000 0
Protested bills
Protested bills in branch banks 12,516,803 0 12,286,572 :9
Ex pewee ot manaKemeot .. ... .. .. -
Expenses of management of b•anch
banks
Sundries

623,657,110 61 607,010,471 42

SPAIN.—We have received the letters of oar
Madrid correspondent of the 3rd and 4th. Intelli-
gence had arnved by telegraph that the Carlist Ge-
neral Elio had entered Navarre on the 30th. The
Carlist officers at Paniplona who had been reinstated
had disappeared from that city on the 26th.
Two batteries of artillery had left Madrid,—one for
Catalonia, and the other fur the Basque provinces. A
most unfavourable account is given in these letters of
the state of the Bank.
General Alzaa, the Carlist chief, was shot on the
mornir.g of the 3rd. All the Carlist officers taken
would, it was said, be shot; and as reprizals will
be taken, the provinces may be considered now as
the theatre of internecine war. The government
journals ascribe this C;trlist outbreak to Lord Pal-
merston and English intrigue. They also announced
that Elio was surrounded in Navarre, and would be
speedily eaptu, ed.
As a reward for his trip to London, and consolation
for his ill reception there, Count Mirasole is named
captain-general of Madrid according to our own cor-
respondent. According to other letters before us he
is named captain-general of New Castile.
We have letters direct from Catalonia of the Ist
July, which inform us that Cabrera was actually
there at the head of some bodies of insurgents com-
mand,cl by the Cabeeilles Castella, Mersa!, Pcsaa,
and some others.
Letters from Granollers of the 29th also say that
on that moming General Boizuez arrived in that town
with a strong body of troops from Barcelona, and
that he had taken the route to Canovas. was
thought that this movement was in combination with
two columns commanded by Brigadier Marzano and
Colonel Jauch, who were following the bands of Ca-
brera, Morsel, and the others ; for a short time after-
wards a brisk fusillade was heard towards Tuganem.
We have heard that when Gen. Boizaez arrived the
two other columns had already put to flight the in-
surgents, who dispersed whe❑ they found themselves
in presence of an imposing force. Thus the arrival
of Cabrera has made no impression on the Catalo-
nians. Th. se bands of insurgents had (it was re-
presented) committed great tam ses. About 100 of
them had got possession on the 27th of a small fort
near Bisbal, which had been abandoned by the
troops, and had destroyed it.
M. 11,811,, Jun F.—Three per Cents., 201 Paper: after Bola, 201
cash. Free per rents, 124 papa; atter Bolea, 121 mat. Paeans,
44 paper; after Bona, 4. eau►. Cannon., d piper. Bank of St. Per-
du:and, 20 piper. Lan n,-• to Landon, 90 days, 4. 00 paper.

NAPLES.—We have received a long and interest-
ing letter from our correspondent at Naples, with
news to the Ist instant, the day on which the cham-
bers assembled, and the royal speech was delivered by
commission by the Duke of Serra Capriole.
News had been received from the theatre of in-
surrection in Calabria, but the reports publis ed on I
the one hand by the journals opposed to the govern-
ment, and on the other by the official journal of the
government, were so completely opposed to each
other that it was impossible to arrive at any certain
knowledge of the truth. According to the popular
journals the royal troops under Nunziate were de-
feated with the loss of their artillery, and Nunziate
himself had disappeared. Only 500 of the royal troops
had escaped, it was said, on board the Archimedes.
The greatest excitement was produced in Naples
on the publication of this news, and it was not until
midnight that government published a counter-state-
ment in the Gazette, asserting that Nunziate had not
been defeated, but, on the contrary, had defeated the
insurgents. Oar correspondent conversed with some
deputies, who said that the truth was that no
decisive engagement had taken place, but that there
were some skirmishes on which the advantage was on
the side of the insurgents. It appeared certain, how-
ever, that the Calabrian insurgents had received im-
portant reinforcements from Sicily ; several thousand
men, with six pieces of artillery, having been landed
from Palermo.
Nothing een be more deplorable than the condition
of Nap es. On the 30th, the day before the opening
of parliament, the inhabitants were in consternation
lest another attempt at pillage should be attempted
by the Lazzaroni and soldiers, with the permission of
the government. The shops were all closed, and the
gates and doors all strengthened, the inhabitants
coating them inside and outside with iron. Extra
guards were placed in the direction of the Villa Reale
and Pozzuoli, having reference apparently to the re-
cent outbreak of the galley slaves at Procida.
On the let all circulation of carriages through
Naples was prohibited; the railways were also sus-
pended to prevent the arrival of disaffected from the
country ; guards were placed at all the gates of the
town, and the aspect of the city was one of complete
desolation ; patrols of Swiss troops, headed by a com-
missary of police, were seen to pass from time to time.
No procession was made to the chamber. The
speech was listened to in the most chilling silence.
When the speech was concluded there was not the
slightest expression of any sentiment whatever from
the Assembly, which separated in profound silence.
Several of the deputies afterwards declared that the
speech was unsatisfactory, vague, and mysterious.
The number of deputies present was from 90 to 100.