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The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-16

bre the week ending Auz. 9. Itql.

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Aug. 14, u1'•1. '.--”- - - ---
M. if A 1V.411 A Ll. Chief ca...!!'..44.
The above returns, when compared with those for
the week preceding, exhibit the following changes:
Circulation issue £27,311,085 I nen...a(' £72,90$
Circulation active 20,1:51,385 Decrease 194,310
l'ublic deposits '1,513,244 Increase 754,786
Other deposits
tlevcniment securities in
banking department , 13,461,021 Without alteration.
Other securities in banking
department
Coin and hellion in both
departments
Seven duy and other bills 1,239,650 Decrease 30,498
The Rest
The Reserve 7,802,136 Increase 232,952

ta3,344,*2

The further increase in the bullion, though small,
is the more satisfactory, as in some quarters an
opinion was entertained that the present returns
would show a slight falling off, owing to the con-
tinued continental demand. The amount to the
credit of the government, it will be seen, has been
augmented by the large amount of full three-
lquarters of a million.
According to the official returns published in the
Gazette of last Tuesday, the total note circulation of
all the private banks of England and Wales during
the week ending the 2nd of August last, was
3,319,9451.; in the week preceding the amount was
3,373,7231. There is consequently a decrease of
53,7781.
The note circulation of the joint-stock banks during
the same week was 2,619,3.521., and the previous
week's return being 2,679,8991., the decrease is showy
to be 60,547/.
On taking into consideration the active circulation
of the Bank of England, which in the week in ques-
tion was 20,345,6951. (being 170,34.51. less than the
week preceding), we find the aggregate note circula-
tion of England and Wales to be 26,264,9921., which
shows a decrease of 284,6701. as compared with the
returns for the previous week, ending the 26th of
July.
As regards the fixed issues, the private banks were
1,401,0071., and the joint-stock banks, 790,635/. be-
low the amount authorised to be issued, making a
total of 2,191,6421., below the fixed amount.
London, England, 1851-08-16

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

WEEKLY SUMMARY OF THE PRODUCE
__ MARKETS.

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?qtr.:DING-LANE, SATURDAY MORNINUI.
The business transacted in the colonial markets this week
has again loan at unsatisfactory rates to the importers. For
Sugar the demand has been limited, and saks have only
' been effected at prices generally lid. per cwt. below lust
11 week's quotations. The sales of Coffee in the commencement
of the week went off well at the former value,but subsequendy
the market became rather flat, awl some descriptions of
plantation Ceylon were sold at ts. per cwt. decline. Salt-
petre has realised an advance of fully Gd. per cwt. upon the
late quotations. The Tea wiles of Tuesday passed off flatly.
There arc several vessels just arrived.

TALLOW MAltlili'f.—THlS I)Air.
The market has somewhat improved, and a large busi-
ness has been dune at 395. fur the end of the year, at which
there remain buyers without finding sellers. Prices are
thus quoted:—Town Tallow is worth 361. to 375.; Pctvr•-
i burg Y.C. on the spot, 3Ns. ; last three moutiu, 395. to
1391. 3d.; Jan. and March, 395. lid. to 395. 9d.
London, England, 1851-08-16

ROYAL CHINESE JUNK.—The Mandarin
HEt4ING continues to receive vat add Lions to bin visitors,
both English and foreign. The museum of curiosities and grand as.
mutt of arms on board the Keying are creating universal attraction.
The Junk is open from la, a.m., until dusk. Chinese war &mounts.
tion, by Natives. Admission, ls.
London, England, 1851-08-16

THE EXIIIBITION MUSEUM.

The following is a copy of the circular addressed
to exhibitors of machinery, on the subject of supplying
plans and drawings of the articles exhibited by them, for the
purpose of assisting in forming the Exhibition Museum:
" Office of the Executive Committee, Exhibition-
building, Kensington-road, London, 1E451.
" Sir—l ant directed by the Executive Committee to trans-
mit to you the accompanying announcement respecting aced-
Icetion to be made of records of the articles exhibited. Con-
sidering the great interest and practical value which would
attach to a collection of plans or drawings of the greater
number of the machines, with samples of their products, as
well as of many of the engineering inventions, and of the
philosophical instruments now brought together from differ-
ent countries, as also the importance to each exhibitor of
an accurate record being preserved of his exertions on this
occasion, it has appeared highly desirable that a systematic
collection of these should be made. lam therefore to seek
fur your co-operation in carrying this proposal into effect,
and to request you will have the goodness to present the
Commissioners with plans or drawings in duplicate of the
articles you exhibit. These should, fur the largest ma-
chines, be on a scale of not less than four feet to an inch,
and for the smaller ones about two feet to an inch.
Other plans and drawings should be made so as not, at all
events, to occupy a larger space than a sheet of foolscap
paper.
" Blank forms have been prepared fur the insertion of the
names of the inventor, the manufacturer, and the exhibitor
of each artiee so recorded, as well as of a description of its
peculiarities or uses, where no objections exist to such a
course.
"The superintendent of the district will afford you any
further information on this subject which you may require.
" I have the honour to be, sir,
" Your most obedient servant,
"H. W. Tu.na, Lieut.
"Far M. D. Wyatt."
London, England, 1851-08-16

UNADULTERATED ISINOLASS for INVA-
ups and TABLE DELICACIES—Nothing is so important in
the diet of the Invalid as the certainty of obtaining in a genuine Mate
thew articles that are ntheseary for his restoration, and equally a-
mnia' to the epicure iv the undoubted perfection of also important an
ingredient as thine's.. Gelatine and its deceptions, either alone or
in combination, disappoint both the invalid and the epicure, who are
respectfully informed U. it, with u view to protect them trove the re-
antlyozposed adulteration, Mr. JAM ES V ICKERS ban made amuse-
ments for supply tag the genuine cut hesSIAN ISINGLABIi, to mall
bones packed and sealed at his factory. Consumers are therefore re-
commended to give special orders for WICK ELLS'S GENUINE RUB.
BIAS ININGLASS, in sealed packets, that being the only form in
which they can depend on always rbisining a really pure and undid.
tented arucle.Sold retail in quantities of I, 2,4, and 8 ounces, or I lb.,
by every chemist, grocer, and !Caftan warehouseman in the King.
dos, and wholesale at the factory, 23, Little Britain, London.
London, England, 1851-08-16

TILE PARIS FETES.

The :Von iteur contains the following letter of thanks
(an appropriate termination to the highly satisfactory
proceedings of the week in Paris), from the English
ambassador to P..e Minister for Foreign Aftairs
on the part of Lord Granville and the Royal Corn-
mission of the Exhibition, jury, &e., for the cordial
reception given them by the government and the
municipahty of Paris, and in accordance with the
letter of Lord Normanby given in our last issue.
Monsieur le filinistre,-11 is with particular satisfaction
that I address your Excellency, charged as I am to express
oMcially to the President of the Republic, to the members
of the government, to the Prefect of the Seine, and to the
municipality of Paris, the deep gratitude of Lord Granville,
of the other members of the royal COMMiAPiOII, of the jurors,
and of those who are otherwise connected with the Great
International Exhibition, for the cordial reception which
they have everywhere found during their recent visit to
Paris. They will ever cherish a heartfelt remembrance
of the considerate and Nattering assiduity with
which the authorities have taken care during their stay
to offer them a specimen of all the interesting wonders a
this splendid capital ; and they have leR deeply impressed I
by the friendly feeling with which they have been on all
occasions received by every class of the Parisian population.
They are moreover pleased to see in these fetes, originat-
ing in a desire to do honour to the Great International Ex-
bibition, a first and satin factory proof that this useful enter- •
prise will realise, beyond all doubt, the aim of its royal
founder, in i s tendency to promote that cordial good-will
which should always exist among civilised nations Per-
mit me further, Monsieur Ic klinistre, to assuie your Ex-
cellency that it is an extreme satisfaction to my-alf to have
to transmit to your Excellency the expression of these
feelings, knowing as I do, from the friendly re-
lations which have so long subsisted between us,
as well before. as since our official intercourse,
how much they will be shared by your Excellency. I think
I may confidently call your predecessors to witness, that,
during the period so fertile in events that I have resided
here as the representative of my sovereign, my most strew.
onus efforts have invariably tended to cultivate the best
understanding, the most cordial relations between these two
great neighbouring nations, who lease Co many interests in
common. I take advantage of this occasion to renew to
your Excellency the assurances of my high consideration.
—NORMA:WRY.
A medal has been struck at the French Mint,
commemoration of the fetes. On the face, with the motto
" Dies (eater actur," and the date N 0,., Aug.,
is a representation of the Hotel de Ville and underneath
this inscription," Salerne artibusque poptlorum omnium
Civitas Lutetia Parisiorum." On the reverse are two
female figures holding palm branches and crowns.
London, England, 1851-08-16

SPAIN.

MADRID, Accusr 10.
The Casette contains three royal decrees of im-
portance. By the Ist the government, according to
the petition of the delegates from the Biscayan cor-
porations, declares the railway from Madrid to Iron
comprised in the advantages of the law of Feb. 20,
1830. By the 2nd the surveys of the Aranjuez and
Almansa railway are ordered to be completed in
order that data may be furnished for deciding the
question between Valence and Alicante. By the
3rd a commission of engineers is appointed to open
an uninterrupted line of navigation from the Afal-
ques to Oporto.
London, England, 1851-02-18

SMITIIFIELDHAY MARKET.-THIS DAY.

- - .
Mesars.Cooper and Davis report eery little doing, at the fol-
lowing quotations: Prime Meadow lhy, 745. to 80a.;
inferior ditto, 60s. to 68s. ; Rowen, 604. to 635. ; Clover,
70s. to 801. ; dud gut, 635. to 705.; Straw, 235. to 286.

LONDONDERRY AND ENNISKILLEN RAILWAY.—The
l cuttings on the section of this line between Strabane
atrNewtown Stewart are in full operation. There are to be
four iron bridges, two raised upon stone piers and two upon
iron cylinders. The iron work is in rapid progress; and
owing in some degree to the present favourable weather,
there is every hope that the line will be opened in August
next. We have also good reason for believing that if the
company receives that support which it deserves, the line
will be extended as far as this town before the end of the
year—Derry Sentinel.
ADMIRALTY, FEB. 17.—APPoiNTNENT9.--Mabter
Edward Tonsil; Acting Purser, R. G. Webber; Master's
Assistant, David Moore; Clerk, J. Mearnden; and Gunner,
James Stuart; to the Alert.

Two *Twos.
The business in shares has not been so extensive
to-day, but the movement which has for some time
been going on must not be considered as terminated,
the present appearing rather a temporary pause
in the operations, as speculators still have
their attention eagerly directed to this department.
For sympathy with the home funds,the share market
opened flatly, and prices generally declined, but since
the advance in Consols, the feeling has become firmer,
and quotations have been again looking. up. The
present range of the market, however, in most in-
stances is not equal to the closing rates of yesterthiy.
Great Westerns last murk 91;; North-Western
stock, 133; ; South F.u.stcrns, 252, ; Caledonians,
111. In Oxford and Worcester Preference a
great rise is to he noted. On Saturday these shares
were quoted to ?, prem.; they have since advanced.
to 1 to I prem.

Damn, RAILWATS.

c prices
Yesterlay.

iSsOck to•day
to I o'clock.
London, England, 1851-02-18

Zbe Court.

The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by
their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the
Princess Royal, went to Kew Gardens yesterday morning,
attended by Lord Charles Fitzroy and Lieut.-Colonel lion.
Alexander Gordon. Her Majesty and the Prince returned
to Buckingham Palace at half-past 12 o'clock.
Lord John Russell had an audience of her Majesty yts-
tcrilay.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Lieut.
Colonel Hon. Alexander Gordon, honoured the British
Institution in Pall-mall, with a visit yegerdav afternoon.
The Queen had a dinner party yesterday at. Buckingham
Palace. The company included the Duchess of Kent, his
Racal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Archbishop of
York, and the Hon. Mrs. Musgrave, the Duke of Devon-
shire, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, Earl Grey,
and Lady Alice Lambton, Lord George Lennox, Sir George
Cooper, and Baron Knesebeck.
The Duchess of Kent, attended by Baroness de Speth,
went to Claremont yesterday morning to pay a visit to the
Countess de Naliklay and family. Her Royal Highness re.
Aimed to town-Whe afternoon.

Mr. Bnrthwick bad an interview with the Chancellor of
the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence, Downing-
street, and presented memorials from 1.5 places, signed by
1,109 householders, praying for the repeal of the paper
duty.
ljespatehes were received yesterday at the Colonisd-offiee
from the Governor of Gibraltar.
London, England, 1851-02-18

SUICIDE OF MR. KNONCLES.

This morning on inquest was held at No. 20,
Grosvenor-square, before Mr. Bedford, to inquire into the
circumstances attending the death of E. F. Knowles, Esq.,
aged .11, late commissary-general of the forces in the West
Indies, who committed suicide by swallowing a quantity of
prussic acid.
Mr. Brace stated that he was the private solicitor of
the deceased, and hut known him for the last 1i years.
Witness saw him in October last, shortly after his arrival in
England from the West Indies. Ile complained of illness
and depression of spirits. lle had been in the West Indies
for nine years, and went to Canada fur the purpose of im-
proving his health. lie became worse, and was compelled
to resign his office and return to this country.
H. Hatchet said he was butler to Mrs. (haling, who was
the sister of Mr. Knowles. Deceased had been staying with
his sister on a visit for the last three months. During that
time he was frequently low and desponding. Witness last
,saw him on Sunday night, and he appeared in his usual
health. He went to bed about half-past 10 o'clock, and
shortly after nine o'clock the next morning witness found
him lying its his bed quite dead.
The deceased's daughter was burned to death about three
months since, and it appeared to affect his mind. A son of
the deceased also died about live years since, and latterly his
only son had left England and had gone to Sierra Leone,
where his brother had died. This so affected his mind that
he said, a few nights since, that if any person should in-
form him that his son had died he should dmp down dead.

Miss Goulstone, niece to the deceased, said she found a
lame bottle, which bad contained prussic acid. She also
Mond letter in his handwriting. The letter was in effect
that he intended to destroy himself, and that if he did not,
he should be soon in a madhouse; that he was suffering
from some organic desease, which had caused him to labour
under strong deprt•ssion of spirits. The witness said he had
made up his accounts at the Treasury, and that his pecu-
niary affairs were not at all embarrassed.
Mr. Davis, a surgeon, proved that the deceased had died
from the effects of prussic acid, and that he must hare
swallowed a large quantity.
The jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict of
" Temporary insanity."
London, England, 1851-02-18

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

MINCING-LANE.-THIS DAY.

St:GAIL—The public sales are going off at last week's
prices, but there is a want of spirit on the part of buyers,
and importers are buying in. Relined : The demand has
improved, and prices are a shade dearer for law goods; fair
to fine grocery lumps, 495. to 516.
CorrEe.—The rather unexpected eqnalis.ation of the
duties has caused a sensation in the market; the tendency
of the measure is of course to augment the price of foreign
and depress British plantation, but no operations of impor-
tance have been made, and exact quotations cannot be
given. Good ordinary native Ceylon, damaged, sold in
public sale, Ist and 2nd class 425. to 449.; 100 bags sound
were bought in at 475., fur whichi 455. was bid.
TEA.—The market remains steady.
SALTPETRE.-400 bags, refraction 161 to 171, sold in pub-
lic sale, at 265. 6d. ; 100 bags Madras, refraction 121, sold 265.
Rtei.-900 bags Juw Madras sold in public sale, 89. ; a
few lots, 7s. 6d.
. . . .

Ixhicio.—The sale is progressing heavily.
In other articles no material alteration, but the markets
open with a dull appearance.

TALLOW MARKET.-THIS DAY.

The Tallowma;ketremains steady, and prices cannot be
quoted any lower, although some parties are dis' appointed
that no alteration is contemplated in the duties in soap.
Town Tallow is quoted 375. ; Petersburgh Y. C. on the
spot, 375. 6d, to 375. 94. ; March and April, 37a. 3d. buyers ;
last three months, 3&. 9d.
London, England, 1851-02-18

EGYPT.

A telegraphic despatch, dated Vienna, Feb. 14,
says :
" The latest news from Egypt have an extraordi-
nary importance. The Porte has made categorical
demands on the Viceroy, with which he has refused
to comply. Instead of reducing his army to 20,000
men the Viceroy has ordered new levies of 40,0410
men for the land and 15,000 for the sea force. Ile
' will resist the pretensions of the Sultan, if necessary,
jwith arms."
London, England, 1851-02-18

TILE MERCANTILE MARINE ACT.

(fl® the Deily Nova)

THE Mercantile Marine Act of last Session (13
and 1 I Virr. e. 93), as we had anticipated, does nut
turn out to be a eery ow.vessful piece of legislation;
at least so far as present experience goes.
The Board of Trade, to which by the statute the
strange duty of the " general superintendence" of
that marine was assigned, has appointed its " two
pnyer persons," at Mint a year each, to assist it in
those duties, and a staff of officers, clerks, and ocr
rants under them; it has also prepared its multi-
farious forme," tiled its curious " fees," issued its
elaborate "instructions," and assumed the task of
registration. The Local Boards" have been elected
by the great "foreign going ports;" the "Shipping
Offices" have been constituted; in short, the act has
fur 111,1111' time been in full swing. And the first
fruits of the measure is a general strike amongst the
seamen of the northern ports.
It was on the Tyne that this movement began.
On the banks of that river strikes are by no meats
uncommon. Only, however, at long and distant inter-
vals amongst its seamen. Far more frequently
amongst its pitmen. On the present occasion it
commented with a dispute between masters and men
about wager. The tine winter hes seriously depressed
the coul. and nemsarilv the curving trade; the
consumption of fuel by this metropolis alone having,
it is calculated. fallen during the last two months
quite 111.0011 tons a week beneath the ordinary con-
sumption of this season of the year. Thisdecreased con-
gumption. of course, diminished the demand for ship-
pin g and freights; lessened the employment and lowered
the wages of seamen. They resisted the operation of
the law of supply and demand. As usual with work-
people, ineffectually. But one complaint, even
though averted, leads to another; and the seamen
of the Tyne, foiled in their attempt to keep up wages,
took to expressing their dislike of the new legislation
of the Board of Trade; and with, as we shall see,
some mason.

At Ant the movement was confined to the two
Sbieldses and their satellite ports. But grievances,
real sr fictitious, are infectious. The Board of Trade,
notwithstanding its duty of "general superinten-
dence," instead of ut once interposing, looked curi-
ously on. The Wear thereupon next sympathised,svith
the Tyne; the sailors of Sunderland and its adjacent
Plin responded to their class further north. The
Humber became uneasy; and Hull joined the move-
ment. The Board of Tiede then began to be seriously
alarmed, and sent Captain Begcliei, one of its "pro-
p* Moons," down to North Shields. Somewhat
late. For Liverpool seems to have caught the infec-
tion ; and from distant Peterhead, in the north of
Aberdeenshire, the whalers arc to be heard clamour-
ing against the statute in that ease made and pro-
vided.

It 14, of course, very deplorable to we a great
trade disturbed in thin way ; for the mode in whiclithe
seamen arc manifesting their dislike of the provisions
London, England, 1851-02-27

THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS.

This morning several persons of distinction visited
Lord Stanley in St. James's-square.
Several influential members of both houses of par-
liament arrived in London during the morning.
Sir Edward Sugden has also arrived in town.

The excitement which has prevailed during the
past three or four days on the subject of the ministry was in
no degree diminished yesterday. The summons received by
Lord Stanley to attend her Majesty at llurkingham Palace
at an early hour in the morning, and the arrival of Mr.
Gladstone in London front Paris, rather tended to increase
the anxiety felt as to the arruntrements in progress. The
Clubs were thmnged during the day, and up to a late hour
last evening, by groups of eager inquirers, all anxious to
obtain the "latest intelligence" from head quarters on the
all-absorbing subject.

The following incidents, dotted down chronologically,
will show the order of events yestenlay :
Lord Stanley, in obedience to her Majesty's command,
proceeded to Buckingham Palace at an early hour yester-
day morning, and hail an audience with the Queen. Thoi
noble lord returned to his residence in St. James's-squalls
at 12 o'clock.

The Right lion. W. E. Gladstone immediately after his
arrival waited upon Lord Stanley at his lordship'. residence
in St. Jameet-square.

The interview between Lord Stanley and Mr. Gladston•
was of very short duration.

Mr. Gholstone subsequently proceeded to Argyll House
to pay a visit to the Earl of Aberdeen, with whom this
right lion. gentleman had a long eonfeyence.
The Earl of Aberdeen received visas yesterday morning
front the Duke of Newcastle, Vtecouut Canning, and the
Right Hon. Edward Ellice. After the levee the noble earl
was visited by Sir James Graham, who remained closeted
with his lordship for more than two hours.
Lord Stanley attended the levee yesterday.
Viscount Canning paid a visit to Lord Stanley alter dm
levee.

Lord John Russell received a despatch from the Earl of
Aberdeen yesterday morning.
The Earl of Ellenborough received a communication
from Lord Stanley yesterday.
It is said that Mr. Disraeli has been so closely en
daring the past three days at his mansion in l'ark-lane,
no other person than Lord Stanley has been admitted to an
interview with the honourable member.
The heads of the proketionist party dined with the Earl
and Count, ss of Glengall last evening at their mansion is
Grosvenor-street. Lord and Lady Stanley, the Earl of
Lonsdalc, Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli, the Lan and Countees
of Chesterfield, and Viscount Canterbury, wen among WS
guest,.
The above are facts.
Ws give, as rumours just now in circulation, that Mr.
Gladstone has declined to join Lord Stanley, because the
noble lord contemplates the imposition of a Gs. fised duty
on torn; and that in the event of any difficulty occurring
to prevent Lord Stanley completing his cabinet, her
Majesty has determined to send for the Earl of Clarendon.
London, England, 1851-02-27

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL.

CAMBRIDGE, FEB. N.—At a congregation holden
this day the undermentioned degrees were conferred:-
Iton. the lion. Arthur Gordon (fourth son of the
Earl of Aberdeen). BD. John Spurgia (late Fellow of
Clare lIaA. M.A.: W. C. Dudley,queen's College; 11.
I'. Cooke, Emanuel College.
At the same congregation the following graces passed the
senate: Tu Aix the t 1 to a petition to both homiest of
parliament, against the Ctunbridge waterworks bill. 2. To
Apoint Mr. G. 11. Airy, of Trinity. College, and Pmfessor
dler, of St. John's College, examiners and adjudicators of
the Adams prize for the ensuing year. 3. Toadd the name
of Dr. Rood, ltegius Professor of l'hysit., to the Syndicate
for revising the University statutes. 4. To appoint Mr.
Bolden, of Trinity College, an ezaninter for the Bell Seho-
lorship in the room of the ltegius Professor of Laws, who is
unable to examine.

At a meeting of the shareholders of the Waterworks
Company holden last ercning it was agreed to abandon the
bill entirely ; but this fact, probably, had not been commu-
nicated to the university authorities iu time to admit of the
withdrawal of the first grace.
Milieux Ilisconr.—The professor of modern history has
invited those gentlemen in slain pupillnri who propose to
attend his lectures in Easter •term next to meet him at
eight ii'clitek on the evening of Tuesday, the 4th of March,
at the cmbination-rom of Trinity Hall, in order that he
may explain to them what are the subjects to which their
attention will be directed in those lectures, and what are
the books or parts of hooks which should be read for the
more complete illustration of those subjects, and what is
the rourw• of historical study which he would recommend
to any students who may wed, to obtain from him hereafter
the certificate mentioned in the grace of the senate of the
31st of October, 1848.
MAGDALEN Couloir-- The following gentlemen have
been elected scholars . Campbell, Jackson, Elliot, Hop-
i mond,
London, England, 1851-02-27

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

MINCING-LANE.—THIS DAY.
We have again to report inactive markets, both in public
vale and private contract.

SI:GAIL—There has not been a public sale to-day ; neither
has there been any business of importance done by private
contract. Refined remains steady. Grocery lumps, 495.
to
Corrar.-3,900 hags of Rio (foreign, suited for exporta-
tion) were oftertal in public sale ; about Sallsound sold at
434. ; two lots, 45.. The remainder of the sound bought
in; first and second-class damaged sold at Vb. 6d. to 425.
No sales reported in British plantation. Good ordinary
native Ceylon nominal, at 4&o. to 465. 6d.
TEA.—The trade (and also a few exporters) arc buying.
and the market wears an improved appearance, particularly
in common Congou, which in first hands is firm at Is.
Corms .—Th s article continues to wear a firm appearance.
1:s moo continues dull.
Selene remain steady.
Ni or SODA, 14s. 6d. to 15s.
In other articles no material alteration.

TALLOW MARKET.-TIIIS TAINWSPAIIEU
,grtpar
The market in firm to-day, but there is n 'l.---.‘ ..,.., ~
ness doing. The following bI the present 1, ,k,./.• .'' \ :-. 1 '
Town Tallow, 37e.; Petersburg Y. C. on tl '-'-'---* ', s \\%
March and April, 375. 6d. ; last three m - 1"ali .
",.f.-t-VT• , • ~:
4-oractx-gi
London, England, 1851-02-27

OXFORD

COMMISSION.

The following series of questions have been for-
warded to the public examiners in the University
of Oxford :

Oxford University Commission,
Downing-street, Feb. 25.
Sir,—ller Hajesty's Commissioners for the University of
Oxford will feel much obliged if you will communicate to
them whatever information may, in your judgment, enable
thereto give a faithful representation of the state of the pub•
He examin stions and general studies of the University. Your
attention, us having tilled the Mice of public examiner, is
specially directed to the following points:
1. Do you consider the present system of public examina-
tions well adapted to stimulate students generally to exert
themselves to the best of their respective powers. If not,
do you think it fails most with regard to those of moderate
or those of good abilities ?
o 2. How far do you think the recent statute likely to
remove any defects that may exist in either case ? Should
you wish to see any further extension of studies, any further
alterations in the examinations, or any change in the mode
of classification ?

" 3. What were the general subjects for the ordinary exa-
mination during the period of your examinership ? In what
subjects was failure most common ? What was the average
proportion of candidates who were rejected or who volun-
tarily withdrew ?
"4. Can you specify the books taken up by candidates
for classical honours, and the number of candidates by whom
each book was taken up? Can you make any other statis-
tical returns which appear to you to be important as illus-
trating the state of study in the university ?
"6. What are the general subjects of the mathematical
examinations ? What degree of attention is paid to geome-
trical knowledge, or to expertness in the use of analytical
method ? How do you account for the comparative neglect of
mathematics? Do you think that the studies introduced
by the recent statute will he much neglected, and for like
reasons ?

" 6. Is the present mode of appointing examiners such as
you would recommend? Do you consider their payment
sufficient? Do you think that examiners for university
wholamhips should receive payment ?
"7. Do you think that the subjects of instruction now
pursued iu the university are such as will attract any other
classes to the university than those that resort to it at pre-
tent? or do you think that the present studies could be
advantageously modified with a view to that object ?
" I have the honour to be,
" Your obedient humble servant,
" A. P. STANLEY, Secretary."
London, England, 1851-02-27

IRELAND.

Duman, Faa. 26.
The news of the ministerial resignation was re-
ceived with public rejoicings in several parts of the
country. The writer of a letter from Limerick
In the Court of Exchequer. yesterday, the case of
Captain Wynne against the Marquis of Westmeath
for libel concluded, after a trial of eight days, the
jury giving the plaintiff 2,0001. damages, and 6d.
costs. This is the second time the case has been
tried here by a special jury, the jury in the last
instance not having been able to agree to a
verdict. The charge was also, it will be recollected,
investigated before the House of Lords, the libel
consisting of charges made against the plaintiff in a
petition to that house from the t.arrickon•Shannon
of guardians, of which the noble defendant
was chairman, and which petition the defendant pro-
cured to be published in several Irish papers. The
charges against the plaintiff were, that he had com-
pelled the relieving officer, in spite of his lemon-
drum, to place upon the list a woman of bad cha-
racter, with whom he was cohabiting, and that upon
the officer's refusing to do so, and informing him
that she had ground, and was not in need of relief,
he persisted in bringing the ease before the vice-
guardians, who ordered her relief ; and this was
done upon three several occasions. The defence was
a plea of justification, and the plaintiff entered into
a rebutting cue.
At the monthly meeting of the Royal Society for
the Promotion of the Growth of Flax, held at Bel-
fast on the 24th inst., it was reported that new
steeping concerns arc likely to be established at Gal-
way. Yonghal, Castleblayney, and Clonmel. A sample
of dressed flax was shown to the meeting, which had
bet n. steeped, at Cie gagh, on Schenck's system, and
which was considered, b}• the spinner, at whose mill
it was hackled, as equal in quality to Belgian flax,
at 1471. per tan, and capable of spinning the finest
No. of yarn that machinery could produce. Sir G.
It. Fanner, Bart., of Bideford, Devon, was intro-
duced to the meeting, and exhibited specimens
of flax, which, he stated, had been prepared from
the straw in ten hours, by his process.
The committee, on examining them, gave
their testimony to their being sound, and of
good quality, some being worth 64,. per ton. Sir G.
Farmer mentioned that his process could be carried
on in the retteries established under Schenck's pa-
tent. and that his system would not cost more than
the latter. The meeting expressed their sense of the'
importance of reducing the steeping prOM4I4 to ten
hours, and considered that Sir G. Farmer's plan
would be of great benefit to *he countryif subsequent
trials should confirm his statements, as it would
enable each niters- to turnout annually six times the
quantity of flax Which it would do under Schenck's
patent. A resolution, embodying these views, was
passed, the committee reserving their opinion of the
real merits of the system until a thorough investiga-
tion had been made, and a sub-committee was ap-
pointed to take the experiments in charge.
London, England, 1851-08-29

The retarns front the following places did not reach this
office in time for publication yesterday; they therefore
indicate the state of the weather on Wednesday morning at
mine o'clock.

We 5,.......

I II.W. I Gratis Breeze I Partially Cloudy
Y.
Gentle Breese 0,6r01/di
W. Gentle Breeze Baia

THE CATHEDRAL OF ST. DENIS, the resting-
place and cenotaph of French kings, has been sadly treated
by incompetent restorers, and is in sonic respects falsified
and irretrievably injured as a monument of the art of a
period. The late M. Debret was the architect wko, at a
eost of seven millions of francs, achieved this destruction.
The principal, or what we should call the west, front was
added to and altered without compunction: as, for example,
he introduced an arcade to contain some miserable bas-
reliefs of early kings. The sculpture in the magnificent
portal is ruined by the new heads that have been put upon
the figures. A spire was built upon the north tower, but
was scarcely completed before the necessity of taking it down
was made evident by the settlements in the tower below:
its constituents now lumber the garden of the cathedral.
One of the most extraordinary acts of the custodians of the
church at this period was the treatment given to an inte-
resting canopied monument to Daobert, ascribed to the
thirteenth century, which was actually cut in two longitu-
dinally, and placed half on each side (to match) at the
western entrance! The stained glass is, for the most part,
very bad: the windows in the south transept, representing
I visits to the church by Napoleon and Louis Philippe, are
miserable caricatures. Many of the chapels have poly-
throne decoration, with few claims to vlzaustion.—Deladar.
London, England, 1851-08-29

of the order of advocates. Addressing the reporters
for the public press, in conclusion, he said :
I hope, gentlemen, that you will remember my expres-
dons correctly. I consider it important that France should
know what has been our conduct, and what the conduct of
1 the counsel for the defence. She will condemn advocates
who abandon the accused whom up to the present moment
they had advised. I am anxious that all this should be pre-
dimly reported in the organs of the public press.
There is no further now* from Lyons up to the
moment at which I write. The town was perfectly
tranquil. It is nearly certain that ell the pri-
soners will refuse to accept the services of the counsel

appointed.
A species of panic prevailed at the Bourse to-day,
for which no cause was assigned. The Five per
Cents. fell 55c., closing at 94.45, and the Threes fell
45c., and closed at 56.35.

ITALY.
-- --
TUSCANY.
The astituzionak of Florence, of the 22nd, an-
nounces that the three Aldboroughs who, it will be
remembered, were arrested some time ago at Leghorn
for a conspiracy against the government, have been
given up by the Austrian military authorities to the
[ tribunals of Leghorn.

PIEDMONT.
The Piedmontese Ga:etec publishes a royal decree
opening the loan voted by the Chambers for the
amount of 3,600,000/. sterling nominal capital to be
invested in Piedmontese rentes.

SPAIN.

MADRID, Aro. 23.
The Queen has conferred the Grand Cross of Isa-
bella the Catholic upon the Bishop of the Canaries,
who distinguished himself by his apostolic zeal dur-
ing the raging of the cholera in those islands.
the government has sent confidential instructions
to the prefects in the provinces to recommend them
to watch carefully the efforts making by the socia-
-1 lists to propagate their doctrines.

GERMANY.
AUSTRIA.
A decree dated Vienna, the 23rd of August, dis-
solves all the national guards, and allows the
re-formation of burgher guards as before 1818.
PRUSSIA.
London, England, 1851-08-29

RAILWAYS.

THIS DAY.

Two o'Caocx.
Tie share market opened lower to-day, and in
several instances prices were transacted below the
worst rates of yesterday ; but since the improvement
in Cot sots a much better feeling has become observa-
ble, aid quotations have experienced a considerable
rally. Midlands have risen from 381 to 401; Lon-
don and South Westerns from 76f to 78; South East-
ems from WI to 20; Groat Westerns from 741 to
75, and the market now looks decidedly firm at the
imprevement. Several descriptions, including Mid-
lands, London and North Westerns, Great North-
erns, and York and North Midlands, arc to-day
quotei with the dividend off. This is settling-day,
and tic final liquidation of the balances arising out
of the account appears to have progressed satisfac-
torily.

[Thsfolloiring are yesterday's closing prices and sales
both jar money and account. This day's sales will Os
jouc belotc.j
London, England, 1851-08-29

TILE GREAT EXHIBITION.

The number of visitors to the Crystal Palace. yea
terday was 43,244.

Cush account. Aug. 28.
&sum tickets
At the dour. 2,167 11 0

Total receipt/ £2,173 11 0

Tut: " ExtitturtuN EirttEss."—Our Saturday's don,
blenumber, thus entitled, having attained the object in view
of which it was projected, will tease after to-morrow. All
articles of speeial interest in the Glass Palace have been
brought under our readers' notice, and the Exhibition no
longer supplics matter of sufficient interest t justify the
publication of a journal devoted to its exposition. On and
after Saturday, Sept. 6th, that day's issue of the Erpras
will resume its ordinary Mae aril price.

E.tere RIDING OF YORKSITTRE.—The influential
conservatives in this ridinir held a meetinir at Beverley
yesterday, to take into considcration tile vacanev caused in
the representation of this riding by the death of H. Broad.
Ley, Esq. After a short discussion, P. 8. Saltmarshe, Esq.,
of Salnnarshe, in that riding, was proposed as a candidate,
sad unanimously spprosed of. .No opposition is expected.
London, England, 1851-08-29

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 29, 1851.

THE GOVERNMENT INSPEC

[PROM A CORREZPONDINT.]
Mr. Dickenson, one of the government-insp4otors
of coal mines, has just completed his visit to these The
greatest posdble secresy as to his views is maintair.ed by the
persons employed at Übberley, but we have racer mined that
he pronounced the works to be in many essential respects
very defective. The air-ways, in particular, he altogether
condemn+, und suggests that those now in use should be
abandoned, and a fresh current of air driv,,n through some
old workings, above the existing levels, wnlich, heroposes,
should be connected with the levels in which the p
accident
Occurred by means of a new roadway , to be cut for that
purpose. Mr. Perrin, the' ground-ben Aid; who accompanied
the inspector, pointed out the expensi seem of these altera-
tions, but Mr. Dickenson's brief re ly was that they were
necessary to preserve the lives of the men employee'. The
inspector has advised many minor alterations in addition to
the proposed new air-ways, but ~nese form the principal fea-
tore of a new plan which he I As handed to Mr. Ridgway,
the proprietor..

The most painful eicitern, ;tit still pervades the minds of
the people here in reference to this melancholy event, and a
memorial is about to be pr scntcd to her Majesty, praying
for the appointincnt of a ANldent inspector for this county.
Mr. Dickenson states th at he first saw the account of the
disaster in the London newspapers, upon which he lost no
time in visiting the sp at. There are but four inspectors for
the whole of the tTni ,e 4
London, England, 1851-08-29

THE HOMAGE CEREMONY IN HOHEN•

...-•
ZOLLEItN.
On the 23rd inst., as was previously announced,
the King of Prussia received the homage of his
newly-acquired subjects in Hohenzollern and Sig-
maringen, two very stmll principalities, the sove-
reignty over which Frederick William 11. purchased
front their former rulers in the course of last year, ac-
quiring the right to style himself the viceroy of Gal
upon earth by the payment of so many thousand
hard thalers. The ceremony at Hohenzollern has
been looked forward to with great expectation from
various reasons, but chiefly from the fear that the
occasion of taking possession of the old castle in
which his ancestors were born, would prove too
much for the exquisite sensibilities of his Majesty's
mind, and lead him to commit himself in orations
similar in mystic unintelligibility to those which he
perpetrated in 0,17 and 1848. That fear was mis-
placed ; the royal speeches which have as yet been
made are only curious and crotchetty,—displaying
the same inconsistency which has characterised his
whole life.
London, England, 1851-08-11

COM3IERCIAL AND MARKETS.

MINCING LANE.-THIS DAY.

The only e.rticle in the colonial market that wears an im-
moved appearance to-day is Cutlet, for which there is an
inquiry. About 2,000 bags good ordinary native Ceylon
-old lute on Saturday at 40s. 6d. to -Its., and now quoted
firm at Ole.

M LT.ll.3.—Copper steady. Iron: Scotch pig dull; No.
1,10 s. 3d. in Glasgow. 1% dab ll.;rs, 4/. 15s. to 41. 17s. 641.
Lead firm in price. East India Tin: Banco, Sls. to Rs. Gd.
The following public sales are declared for to-morrow :
Sugar: 3151 CaAkS West India, 1,600 bags Mauritius, and
1,900 bags Penang. Collin: 400 casks Ceylon. Saltpetre:
1,200 bags. Cot:Lineal: 200 bags. Tea; About 20,000
packages.
°ll.9.—Seal, pale, XV. Sperm, 81/. to 871. bead-
matter, 96/. to 98l; Cod, 361. 10s. South Sea, 121. to 33/.
Olive, Galipoli, 301. to 40/.; Spanish and Sicily, 37/.
to 3$L 28L Cocoa-nut, 31/. to 331. Seed rape,
pale, 3d!. 10$. Linseed, 33/.

PARTICULARS OF TALLOW.-THIS DAY.
1849. i 11450.
London, England, 1851-08-11

COAL MARKET.-THIS DAY.

Holrwsll, lls. ; Tanfield Moor, 124 611; Walls End IC il-
lee, 114 ;:d.; Walls End Haswell, Iris.; Walls End 11,4t0n,
144 tld.; Walls End Stewart's, 14s. lid.; Walls End Te,e,
14s. 9d.—Sbips at market, 114.

SMITHFIELD MAItKET.—THIS DAY.
The supply of Beasts is very large; it exceeds the de-
mand, notwithstanding this is con‘iderable. On the ave-
rage we do not notice much decrease in price, although
middling descriptions arc somewhat lower. fhe number of
Sheep and Lambs is also large, but the majority aro of in-
' ferior quality,conscquently choice descriptions arc readily dil-
-1 posed of at fully late rates—indeed a fair clearance is effected
of all kinds. Trade is dull for Calves, and it is difficult to
maintain Friday's quotations. From Germany and liolland
there are 1,06(1 Beasts, 5,200 Sheep, 245 Calves, and 65
1 figs; Spain, 700 Sheep- Scotland, 100 Beasts; 100 front
1 Norfolk and Suffolk ; 2,500 from the Northern and Midland
Counties ; 30 from France, and 20 Calves.
Per stets,. orbits. &d. 4. d. 1 Per mom or 8114. Rd. 4. d.
Rem Berm. Hereford 3 4 3 6 Best Dm & 11r.-Ida. 811 0 0 0 0
BM Sbort.horns
tiocoodquality 844514.. 202 10 Do. do. Shorn
Calves ........ ........ 2 4 3 8 1 Ewes ae.l4ocond quality 2 8 3 0
Piss .-. . . .__„... —2 8 3 8 Do. do. Ohorn OO 0 I
Ban DM. & {half-brads 3 8 310 Lusts
Beam at market. 4.209; aneep and Lambs, 33,000; Calvet. 4131
Pip. 410.

NEW INCLOSCRE ACT.—By a new Inclosure Act
just issued (14 end 15 Viet., cap. 54) the following places
may be inclosed : Hadleigh Common, in Eases ; Hainworth
and Lees, in York; East Anstcy, in Devon; l'itfold hfa-
nor, in Surrey ; Letton Common and the Fleetc, in Here-
ford ; Skidborke-cum-Saltfeet, in Lincoln ; South Somer.
cotes, in the same county; ltudgurett, in Susses Eentley,
in Southampton ; Westball, in Suffolk; Aylcsford, in Kent;
and Edgware, in Middleton. This is the second Lachance
Act of the late session.
London, England, 1851-08-11

ES / 37 35 / 37 23 / N 23
73 93 BO Nl3 9S 73

3 per Cent 5............ 57 55
per C, etc
4 per Cents. . 74 0
41 di. hew Loma
.7, per Cvnts.
F.schange on Inn :on at right, 25 21 3 ; bd dam 21 FS.
Belgian, S. 104 r
Llo. S, 1941 Monne Loan, 1031 76
Do. 41
Ito. 21
Piedmont 5 92 10 ... 1 hank ...Ares 2105 ..,
MADRID, Aro. 6.—Three per Cents., 384; after Bolsa,
364. Four per Cent'., 14); after 11olsa, 154. Five per
Cents., 17 ; after Bolm, 17. l'asNives, 8 7.16; after Moira,
7-16. Coupons, 84 ; alter Boise, 84. Bank of St. Fer-
dinand, 101 ; after Balsa, 100. Bich:lnge on London, 61.
BEOLIN, Avo. B.—Voluntary Loan, 1071 ; New Loan,
H De
Four-and-a-
alf per Cents., 104; National bt, 89 ; Com-
mercial Marine Society's Premium, 1224; Bank Shares,
1011.
VIENNA, Avo. B.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, ;
Four-and-a-lialf prr Ceuta., 8114 ; Bank Shares, 1238; Ex-
change on London, 11. XL

EFFECT:: OF LOW RAILWAY FARES.—Thc low
fares at which the Midland and Great Northern railways
are conveying passengers to London, have stimulated the
curiosity of the humbler classes to visit the Exhibition in a
very extraordinary degree. A trip to London and tuck
for ss. is what no one had dreamed of seeing. Tens of
thousands have gone from the West Riding within the last
two or three weeks; and not only have persons gone who
possessed the pecuniary means, but great numbers have
raised the means by pawning watches, blankets, and other
articles. We bear that the pawnbrokers of York and many
other towns in the country are full of pledged articles.—
Leeds Mercury.
HOLYHEAD llAnnoun.—The works for the filling
up and formation of the new breakwater in the harbour at
Holyhead are steadily progressing. A large number of men
are regularly employed, and the stones and material are
conveyed from the quarry to the breakwater by locomotive
power, which runs along the staging. The new wharf
commenced on the western side of the harbour, for the ac-
cemmodation of the Irish cattle traffic, has been abandoned,
owing to the impracticability of making • deep channel
from the entrance of the inner harbour up to the proposed
wharf, in consequence of the hard and rocky ground. The
eastern side of the harbour is now spoken of: a wharf
erected there would be in close proximity to the railway
station, and in every way convenient.