The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-01 00:00:00

THE STATE OF THE MONET MARKET.

Never was there ea much money ; and yet, says the
Timm never such a want of it. It is the case of Midas—
gold all around, and no power to use it. The plain cause
is that the British public, which has always undergone
ebbs and flows of confidence, has now lost it altogether.
The numerous private classes who ordinarily do not object
to a little risk have spent moat of their money or com-
promised it, and the greater part of the central accumula-
tion in the Bank and in the City, many millions more than
in any former crisis of the kind, belongs, not to the poor
dupes ready to fling away their savings on any venture,
however out of their own line and past their understand-
ing, but to those whose experience and opportunities
enable them to take a wiser and safer position in such
speculations. This, however, they cannot do unless the
confiding public will come forward. It Is they that
create the harvest for the profesaionsl capitalist. So,
NI they will not end cannot lead the way, every-
thing is at a stand, and we must wait for that
fated and almost invariable decennial period which is to
restore all our private capitalists, male or female, old or
young, to funds and confidence, and to culminate in
another fever, another sudden collapse, and another state
, of things like that we now see round us.

BANNS OT MATRIMONY BlLL.—Horsz OF LORDS.
—The Bishop of Gloucester has given notice that he will
move the omission of clause I of this bill in committee to.
morrow (Friday). The rejection of this clause, which
declares the legal time for the publication of banns to be
" after the second lesson," would be tantamount to the
defeat of the bill.

6LOCCESTERSHIRE ELEcriow.—The official
declaration of the poll took place yesterday at Dursley.
At the nomination last Thursday the liberals had the
show of hands, and the return of the conservative on Mon.
day took his supporters as much by surprise as it did the
liberals. A large crowd assembled some hours before the
declaration of the poll, and throughout the proceedings
there was great uproar. Two balconies opposite the hust-
ings had been erected for the ladies of the respective
parties, and on the hustings were Mr. H. Berkeley, M.P.
for Bristol, Colonel Kingsoote, the sitting member for
West Gloucestershire, the Hon. Grantley Berkeley,
formerly member of this division, Sir G. Jeukinson, and
Mr. Price, M.P. for Gloucester. The High Sheriff de-
clared the numbers to be as follow :—Somerset (Con-
servative), 3,649 ; Berkeley (Liberal), 3.s33—majority
for Somerset, 96. The Sheriff declared Colonel Somerset
duly elected, and the hon. gentleman returned thanks.
The Hon. Grantley Berkeley then came forward on the con-
servative aide, but the crowd refused to hear him. The
Hon. C. Berkeley, the defeated liberal candidate, amidst
considerable uproar, made a short speech in which be ex-
pressed his dumppointment at the result of the poll,
not on his own account, but because the cause of the
liberals had sustained a defeat. But though defeated
they were not disgraced. He thanked his pro.
poser and seconder, and the committees &c., who had
worked so nobly in the cause, and the 3,&,3 electors
who had polled for him. He wished to know how it
was that so many who bad signed the requisition to him
had forfeited theirpromiset. Until that was satisfactorily
explained he could not congratulate their opponents upon
their triumph. The Hon. Grantley Berkeley, Sir C.
Jeokinson. and Mr. Price, M.P., each endeavoured to
obtain a bearing,* but only partially sueceeded, and the
proceedings terminated amid great confusion and uproar.
THE LATE VOLI*NTLER REVIEW AT WIMBLEDON.
—The following official communication has been issued
from the Horse Guards :—" Horse Guards, S.W., July 25.
Sir,—l have much satisfaction in communicating to you, at
the request of his Imperial Majesty the Sultan, the grati-
fication which his Majesty derived at the review of the
volunteers at Wimbledon on the 20th instant, as well
from their soldierlike appearance as from the manner in
which they touched past. I beg to add my entire concur.
rence in the favourable oninion thus graciously communi.
cated by his Imperial Majesty, and to express my hope
that it nay be conveyed to all who took part In the
movements of the day.— I am, &c. (Signed) Giotto&
The Right Honourable the Secretary of State for War."
" War-office, July 27. Sir,—l have the honour to acknow-
ledge the receipt of your royal highness's letter of the 25th
Instant, and in reply to express my satisfaction at the gra-
tification derived by his Imperial Majesty the Sultan from
the review of volunteers at Wimbledon on the 20th inst.,
and rim at your royal highness's coneurrence in the favour.
able opinion which his Imperial Majesty was pleased to
express as to the soldierlike appearance of the volunteers
on the occasion.—l have, &c. (Signed) J. S. PAILINOTOW.
His Foi•al Highness the Field Marshal Commanding-in-
Chief."'