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sot up by thaw wto lieu tot it single inscriptioll in tl.s S pet Cats
look place yesterday at the Exchange. •
It has been extended to-day, and has effected money trans-
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is a the growth of later times." Ws should do wsll to
moral contagion,

pause Orer it. It presents symptoms of
which, in its progress, may be fatal.
What is it, we would ask, that is thus daily weakening
the sense of religiodkbllpstion amongst us, and perrett-
ing what ought to billirgorerning principles of our nature?
We wish that some philosophic and commanding mind'
would trace it to its origin. It is with this hope that we
bare touched upon the subject ; it well deserves all the re-1
fktetion that can be bestowed upon it, for we are without I
any parallel iu former times that can enable us to form a
Conjecture of Its issue.

MC:101111.
• This lowering of public credit not being occasioned by any event,
or by any probability, can be hut momentary.
It may be proper to caution the holders of Renter to be on their
guard against the snare which artifice spreads for them.
The residence of the Emperor of Austria at Venice will be pro-
longed till the Bth or August st least, in consequence of the In-
disposition of the Emperor. It is expected, however, that hie
Majesty will begin to give audiences, and perhaps to go out, by
Monday next, the 18th. •
A Cabinet courier, who art out about the middle of the last
month from Constantinople for Paris, ;lewd through Strasburgh
on the Bth. Ile is the bearer of the answers of M. le Comte Gull-
leniinot to the Interrogatory Commission which has been addressed
to him relative to the Ouvrard trial. He had encountered incessant
'able since his departure from France, about the middle of May.
Faxecn FunDs.—Psare, Auo. 10.—Five per Cents. 102 f.
Three per Cents. 73f.; Rente de Naples, (W. 23c.; Spanish
171; Spanish Loan, 63. Exchange on London, Otte Month,
Three *so 2.1 f. Atithertagste.

CITY,
!nit EVIXIYO.

A great sensation was excited on the Stock Exchanges
in consequence of expresses from Paris received this morn-
ing, announcing the decline of the French s per cents. to
The effect of this intelligence was the immediate de-
cline of the English Funds from the closing price of yes-
terday to 69H for money, and 89U for the account ;1
the time bargains at the latter part of the day being corn-
pleted at jl. This important intelligence, with reference
to the plan of M. de Ville* was received on the money '
markets according to the views of the different parties who'
were interested in decrying or upholding it. The former
considered this depression in French 3 per cents. as equi-
valent to a complete failure on the part of the Minister,
and that his scheme from henceforward must be abandoned.
He wa the promoter of it, not only driven out of the
moneyNMtet, but they maintained that in prospcet is lie
was driven out of his seat in the Cabinet by the breaking
down of this his favourite project. On the other hand, the
parties in support of the scheme declared That the de-
cline in this new Stock was unworthy of notice ; that
the French fives were not above SO cents. worse; that
the Minister was full of confidence at havin been relieved
from the payment of so millions of Rentes; and, that he
would be prepared to pay off the dissentients, n3w that
ha was lightened of that portion of the debt, having, with
the exception of the Bank of France, all the great mo-
neyed interest of Europe with him. If M. De Vil-
lele has the means of paying off tiro dissentients with as
much facility-as this latter party asserts, he certainly does
not possess the tact that we give him credit for; as the
power that this assertion assumes lie possesses, we think,
would have been used to s better purpose by so skilful a
politician in the furtherance of an operation, the failure of
which we know would destroy the comfort, if not the sta-
bility of M. De Villele's place in the Cabinet of the
Tuileries. What ulterior operations he may resort to,
to repair this financial disaster, we must leave to time
to'disclose; but that it is a disaster, and that too of a
serious nature to the French Minister's financial plans,
we can at present have little doubt. There were no
transactions in French Files, and the Three were reported
at 731 74. Spanish Bolds bore an improved quotation
again to-day, the old reaching 22A, and the new at Ilk.
Greek Scrip was more knguid than yesterday, probably
from the circumstance dia attention was principally drawn
to Consols and French Renter. It was from 131 to I dis-
count. The great depression, however, in the Foreign
Market was in South American Securities, Colombian
Bonds declining to 831 1, and Mexican Scrip to 4 Si
discount.

It must be expected that a nation like our own, con-
taining ten millions of people, however enlightened it may
will present at all times a great mass of depravity ; and

. would be, therefore, most invidious to charge upon the
national character what ought, in fairness, to be ascribed
the degeneracy of our common nature, and to that moral
debasement which is always to be found—and always was

. all great and wealthy communities • the Creation of''
world. But with every leanin ndour, and
itlt a disposition to make every of the tempta-
AMU which are perpetually warping our nature to the
wrong side, it is impossible to look Ms the manners and
morals of this our age, without lamenting that the sltograali
knowledge, and of political improvement, is not accom-
panied with' any adequate cultivation of those feelings of
integrity, and that manliness of mind, which recoils from
every thing mean and dishonourable, by which, as a nation,
Ws ought to be distinguished.
We are not among the number of those who are inclined
to whine over the degeneracy of the age. Neither the
moral or political history of the people of England—or
indeed of any other people—will warrant our attributing
more virtue to former times than to the present. Ignorance
is the prolific parent of every sort of vice. The progress of
knowledge must always bring with it a mere beneficent
and enlarged morality; and, in spite of the admissions
which we arc compelled to make, there is abundant testi-
mony that it has so done. We are governed, certainly,
much more by reason than our ancestors were ; but advanced
as we are in science, education, as applied to the practical
training of the public mind and character, is but in its in-
fancy. At present we meet corruption more than half
way. The condition of our forefathers was very different
from our own, and their vices were of a different cast.
The vast increase and diffusion of wealth within the last
half century has multiplied without end all the excitements
to fraud, and kindled every bad passion by which fortune
can be sought or secured. The mercenary principles seem
to have struck a much deeper root than formerly; fair
dealing, which is the soul of confidence in all the transac-
tion of life, is lamentably on the decrease, and seems to be
every hour wearing still faster away. The cause of this,
and its influence on our condition as a people, and our Coeowire.—The following are the particulars of two
character as a nation, is one of the most important subjects cargoes from Colombia, recently arrived at Liverpool,
in the circle of contemplative inquiry. viz. :—The Thames, from Angostura, river Orinoco, 3174
39e bags
ox hides,
11) snake skin, l 4 scions, 1 bale indigo,
Among the upper class—taken in the aggregate—there
7 bags beans, leknanrsn,o7qubeagis)afznlcopal,
is, no doubt, an improved courtesy, and a more marked 3 ditto
i'lr3ries!rao'uba baargise
can-
respect for public feeling and public opinion in the outward 'lister dragon's blood, 38 demijohns sasafras oil, 15 ditto
decorum of life; but that high sense of personal dignity balsam capivi.—The Janet, from Maracaybo, 32 tons
inf the individual, arising out Of an uncorrupted and in-
fttstic, 72 tons Nicaragtta wood, 18 serons indigo, S bags
cohio, 1 piece petrefaetion.
corruptible integrity-ZITIIII the distinguishing feature
nveis—ellr Gregor M'Gregor, It appears, yet con-
of the rising generatiax in this class? Arc they as alive trives to draw some revenee from his esziqueship' of Poyais.
to true glory sad true shame, as frotq their birth and He has lately made a grant of 1258 square leagues to a
station—and their weight and influence in society—they company at Paris, who intend, it is said, to found a French
wrslotnee t
ought to be ? Is it possible to contemplate the prevalent leilrieti'on"odf
under the dneenwomail,aetion
adventurers
roefra Neul ; tri a . The
spirit of gaming, and the ruinous excess to which it is Havre onp the sth of September. Theu colonistsl sail from
carried, without lamenting the utter extinction of every the French laws and language, and be subject only to their
amiable, and every honourable principle, which it is own authorities.
The Allgcnteine Zeitung of the 6th inst. contains the fol-
gradually producing on the class we are speaking of ? The l
owing article, which seems to corroborate the news we
public education of the Nobility bas become more than published yesterday of the capture of Ibrahim Peelle :
ever an object of the deepest interest to the State. The " TAIESTC, JOLT 21.
fromhi Odessa, states that he met,
general diffusion of intelligence among the middle classes, off:`(l,ll:semCaariannTfA,T,:',ll,lansiijed,
and the commanding influence of their wealth, obtained Ibrahim Pasha, after two hattles'iwn tilicelifarhioT tthhee3ifloerwsea,tlhiaad
through the gainful pursuits of commerce, have by de-
been wounded, and afterwards taken prisoner by the Greeks."
grew broken away the barrier between the higher ranks
It is stated, in a letter from the frontiers of Spain, that
a battalion of the 3d Spanish Regiment, stationed at Sc,
and the bulk of the people. This necessarily brings the Ander, had revolted, when they received orders to embark
conduct of the one more immediately under the eye and for the Haeannah.
observation of the other. This might be highly service- The Dutch papers received yesterday, give, under date of
Batavia, March 16, accounts of the recent events in that
able could the former be seen occupied only in thetas noble
pursuits to which, by their birth and station, they are des-
eilluesaartemr.be 'leleire intelligenceraynt frmom
ongPalehmbeir g represents sick-
tined. But, unhappily, of late years the reverse has been Some native riyoteprs had given Ilutch"aurlorteleananrnensidaenneers.
the case ; and our young men of title and fortune are but they had been put down by an armed force? sent
foetid mingling themselves promiscuously with the most against them. Successful efforts had been made to check
abandoned characters—the patrons of their low and vulgar tii:",i?; b Papers
contain an article frost;t
Stock-
propensities—their companions in the milling-ring.—avast- holm of tilt: ult. stating that the r
ing their patrimony, not only amidst titled sharpers at the preaching convocation of the Swedish DiTte,rt whichttl
the
gaming tables, butbetting it away in the same circle, and at English and German Papers spread some mouths ago,
the same sports, with wretches who elbow them as equals, gai;)is more and more credit eand that people already begin
ttfonnsusy themselves with conjecturee rearseting the quells
and where they lose all respect, by lowering themselves to' that were likely to be laid before the States.
a level at which they must geese to be respectable. Extract of a letter, dated Paris, August 9.—" Some
These may be unpalatable truths; but the state of pub- days since a parson named Chardon dresatel in etiong black
lic manners requires that the public press should speak out. I robe, amid declaring himself to be the head of a society
The evil to a nation is incalculable where those who have i calling themselves the &era le St. Charles Burromee, and
high duties to fulfil waste their wealth in fellowship withw etnitleabweuetrePririfsiodniialtertiblititintillsectices to tile public, by
was speoially
the worthless, and break down all those distinctions in so- formed for the receptioniu audtcuret tor sirketety
personatn estt upon
ciety which it is their duty—and ought to be their pride—. not inclined to be taken to the hospital,
to uphold. an accusetiun of' swindling, in consequence of which the
, Let us now turn our attention for a moment to the ma-IF;e
ant has been ilimidn be: formed in the Rue de Vau-
nufacturing classes. What articles of luxury, or dress, or !of Police, the cross and sign tine
placed pretence of
t ittleCrootruirlY
ornament are there into which deception does not enter?! been removed, and the .psetbnded Freres de St. Charley
e
What commodity is there within alb 'bole ran ;e of public I have all decamped.
consumption that we can reckon upon procuring genuine I The King of the Netherlands has lately caused to be
erbeeted, on the building of the Academy of Leyria, • small What can we name that we either eat or drink that, of late
years, is not adulterated ; and adulterated, too, withoutlmaszvilytort/efeeorptehaevarneetzpntiaomnedof a telescope,sd wltlich was
the slightest regard to the health, or even life, of the" ar- lime mechanism of this instrument is so well arranged,Rie'
chasers ? The most poisonous ingredients, if they do but l that it can be directed to any point by the hand of one per-
answer the end, are mixed without remorse into whatever son only. It is twelve feet long and one foot in diameter,
article tbey eau be pie& tably introduced ! The
vet),
ovum. I
,arnitilest:dlyenasneds aarteancsnsnefqtylutly about a foot in thic
maho-
kness.
ment of chymical science is made subservient to purposes gany, admirably worked at:l polished,
(mtnfe
of fraud. What a frightful list does every police-office in fine specimen of workmanship, unassisted, by any preevilesua
the metropolis 'furnish of druggists and grocers prosecuted knowledge of the subject.
to conviction for supplying illegal ingredients to brewers The Swedish Board of Trade and Mines has recom-
for adulterating beer ! Ilow well known is the practice of mended to the Government to allow the importation ath-
eism vitriol, on payment of a duty of so per cent.
adulterating bread, tea, wine, sugar, coffee, milk, and
every article, almost without exception, of
daily
use
meTntlinefLeinvezepenalstn.alfileaVeallcelL Meize—The establish-
Skilful elyinists, for the purpose of aiding the public in Dublin, renders the earlier arrival hoeftt'llieleetiLLontydeorromal at
detecting detecting the dangerous impositions to which it is pespes I Liverpool a matter of increased importance. With this object
tually exposed, have furnished tests for the purpose of iMr. Gladstone, we amlerstand, has had several
tecting poisonous cheese, counterfeit pepper, poisonous discussionsunrini the
lessisttbsestlstieeuMnfeTsse.
Parliament,
on the subject
pickles, the adulteration of mustard, vinegar, oil, cream, tion of Mr. Iluskissont and
ailLnebn t,
his
si tillitieetalepproa-
lemon acid, lozenges, poisonous ketchup, poisonous con- , Gladstone aPPlied to the Treasury to have have the proejecte(ri
fectionary, poisenona sods eater I—in a word, scarcely an !Toad by the way of Runcorn surveyed at the expense of
article Pan be" safely taken between our lips without being engagedmoenu tt
aatuttliU ht
Ir. Tettortle the civil engineer, is now
first suhjected to scrutiny and analysis. This is a sad con- ' a chain or suspeusiwyl.beil:lgahetesraretahseonnwtio believ
the e
Mersey
dition of society. As a natiou, we have, no doubt, many 'at Runcorn Gap, a saving of at least fifteen miles would
redeeming qualities ; England is fertile in great and excel- effected over the present road ; and this, with the other
Tent characters ; but a nation that aspires to give the lead
improvements and facilities that may be adopted and intro- '
diced,
pinion of competent judges, insure
in mortis, ought to be able, nevertheless, to sustain a very tlie ar; would
ivtofthe e
the
London mail by five in the afternoon.-
-Put reputation. This condition of our public morals Liverpool Paper of Thursda,

No variation worthy of notice was reported in Shares.
:Mauritius Sugar was sold largely in Mincing-lane to-
day at an advance of Is. per cwt.