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STOCK EXCHANGE —The transactions to-day were as follow:
Edinburgh and Northern, Quarters, 3s. 3d.—Great Northern, 104,
—Ditto, Preference, 5 per cent. guaranteed, 595. —North Blitisb,
Preference, 2/. les. 6d.

SHERIFFS' DINNER TO THE
JUDGES.

Yesterday afternoon Mr. Alderman Finnis and MY:
Goodhart, Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, enter-
tained her Majesty's Judges to a sumptuous banquet in
the Cloth-Workers' Hall, Mincing-lane. Mr. Alderman
and Sheriff Finnis occupied the chair, supported on his
right by his colleague, Mr. Sheriff Goodhart. There
were present of the guests, the Right lion. Mr. Baron
Parke, lion. Mr. Justice Patteson, Hon. Mr. Justice
Coleridge, Hon. Mr. Justice Cress w ell, Hon. Mr. Jus-
tice Williams, Mr. Sergeant Lawes, Mr. Sergeant Chan-
mil, Mr. Sergeant Murphy, Mr. Sergeant Clarke, Mr.
Sergeant Halcomb, Mr. Sergeant 11. G. Jones, Mr. Ser-
geant Bellasis, Ur. Sergeant Bain, Mr. Sergeant Wal-
linger, Alderman Sir J. Key, Bart., Mr. Alderman
Harnphery, M.P., Mr. Alderman Hooper, Alderman Sir
G. Carroll, Mr. Alderman Farr,ei:mb, Mr. Alderman
Musgrove, Mr. Alderman Moon, Mr. Alderman Challis,
Mr. Alderman Carden, John Masterman, Esq., M.P.,
Wm. Cubits, Eziq , M.P., John Chevalier Cobbold,
M.P., the High sheriff of Buckinghamshire, &c. •-•
' The usual loyal and constitutional toasts were pro-
posed, and the health of the Judges having been given
by Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Ennis, who lamented the
unavoidable absence of the Lord Chief Justice, who was
detained by a heavy cause,
Mr. Baron PARSE returned thanks. lie said it was
not with unmixc d pleasure he stood before them to re-
turn thanks; for he felt that he owed his enviable posi-
tion, not to his own merit, but, as the phrase went, to
circumstances over which he had no control—(Laughter)
—to the fact that he was the senior, not only of the
judges present, but that he was the -zenior of the whole
Bench.—(Loud cheers.) He thought, however, they
would agree with him that he had a hopeful family.—
(Cheers and laughter.) He was sure they all deserved
the kind expressions which the company had been
pleased to pay them; for himself, he could only say that
he had made it his study, during the whole time he had
been on the Bench, to endeavour to discharge his duty;
and if, in doing that, he received the applause and ap-
probation of his fellow-countrymen, nobody could be
more gratified than he was.—(Loud cheers.)
Several other appropriate toasts were drunk, and the
company did not separate till a late hour.

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE

METROPOLITAN REFORM ASSOCIATION.

Sir,—Oe Monday the 2nd was th- motion of the Mem-
ber for Buckinghamshire on the state of the nutian; the
object being to show that it was " a falling nation,"
through a multiplicity of causes, of which the principal
was the freedom of trade. After striking off figures of
rhetoric: the main and indeed almost the only argument
in the speech by which the motion was introduced, was
founded on the facts, th it the exports showed a larger
quantity of goods exported, while the values attached to
them were less. And this reduction in prices the mover
unceremoniously stated, as evidence of an equal amount
struck off from the receipts of the working classes. So
that the argument of the landowners is this:—Allow us
to lay a tax upon your workmen's food, and .then you
shall sell your goods dearer as needs you
must, and the difference you shall set down as
gain. Your workmen too, shall carry the amount of
the bread-tax to our shops, and when they give it in they
shall make a bow and say, " Thank you, gentlemen, for
this increase to our wages." The manufacturers are not
to find out that they sell less when the prices are raised
by the bread-tax, and more when it is removed; and the
workmen are not to find out that they have less employ-
ment and consequently less substantial wages in one case,
and more in the other; but both are to be dazzled by the
glory of carrying un additional threepence in the shil-
ling to the corn-grower for bread, and are to believe that
practically they have eaten and enjoyed the value. Such
" unmitigated nonsense," to borrow a phrase from the
mover in his energetic moments, do the supporters
of Protection now stand upon, and with such a stock in
trade do they present themselves before the public.
It is fortunate that the country has had such substan-
tial doses of common sense from the League in its day,
as to be in little danger from the figures either of rhetoric
or of arithmetic thus put forward by the League's suc-
cessors on the boards.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer made a reply which
demolished in detail the position of the assailant; and the
debate was finally adjourned.
On Tuesd ty the Member for Nottingham moved his
Resolutions for what is denominated the People's Charter.
There was not much about the Resolutions which was
calculated to invite adherents, and the mover himself
seemed hardly to know whether he supported them all
or not. The Member for Cambridge was diffuse upon
what he called " extreme democracy," and the phrase
was taken up by the Government; the fallacy about
the whole being that the thing called extreme de-
mocracy was avowedly something which was to be co-
existent with a powerful monarchy and a powerful
aristocracy. So that the demand for what was called
extreme democracy, amounted at most to no more than a
man's asking to have his own corner, when there were
to be three in a post-chaise. Suppose the popular party
were to raise an outcry of " extreme aristocracy" be-
cause there is no mixture of commoners in the House
of Lords, or of "extreme monarchy" because there is
not a Mechanics Institute joined in Commission with
the Crown;—what extr..me simpletons they would be
considered! The division amounted to tolerable proof
of the necessity there is for giving the people more
p9wer in the People's House ; consisting only of
13 against 222. But it must not be forgotten, that
the debate drew from the Prime Minister an abne•
gation of the delarations attributed to him on the sub-
ject of finality, and a pretty distinct admission that the
suffrage, before long, must in one way or other be ex-
tended.

I am, Sir, your obedient Servant,
AN OLD REFORMER.

London, July 4, 1849.

THE PUNJAUB WAR MEDAL.

By the last mail we have received the following extract
from the order of the Governor-General of the 2d of April,
respecting the medal to be given to the army of the Pun-
jaub

" In anticipation of the wishes of the Honourable Court of
Directors, the Governor. General will grant to every officer
and soldier who has been employed within the Puujaub in
this campaign, to the date of the occupation of Peshawur, a
medal bearing the word Punjaub,' in commemoration of the
honourable service they have done.
" The Governor-General is also pleased to direct that every
corps which has been so employed shall bear the same word
on their standards and appointments."
This general order, which bestows the medal on all the
troops employed within the Punjaub during the campaign,
whether actually engaged in the different actions or not, has
induced the Commander-in-Chief to apply to the Governor-
General to ascertain whether it was his Lorthhip's intention
that all the troops in garrison beyond the Sutlej, including the
Jullundur, are to receive the distinction, or what particu-
lar troops are to be entitled to it. The Commander-in-Chief
also suggested, with the greatest deference, that the medal
granted for the campaign should be inscribed on the shield
with the word " Punjaub," as ordered by the Governor-Ge-
neral, but with separate bars (like the Peninsular medals,
and those ordered by Lord llardinge for the campaign
of the Sutlej), to be exclusively for those officers and
men who were actually engaged in the four actions
of the war, viz., " Mooltan," " the passage of the
Chenab" (i. e. Rainnuggur and Sadoollapore), " Chil-
lianwallah," and " Goojerat." Lord Gough also expressed
his conviction that the medal In the recent campaign would
not be prized as his Lordship wished it to be, if those who
were not present at any of the engagements are to wear the
identical decoration granted to officers and men who had par-
taken of the dangers and glory of such actions as the siege and
conquest of Moultan, the passage of the Chenab, the fierce and
deadly struggle ofChillianwallah, and the victory of Goojerat ;
and recommended that those troops not actually engaged in
those actions should be rewarded with the plain medal, which he
considered would be at
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his lordship's suggestions will be attended to.

DEATII OE LIEUT.-COLONEL ENGLISH. —This
gallant officer was in the enjoyment of excellent health,
and most zealous in the performance of his duties as
Commanding-officer of the Royal Engineers and Royal
Sappers and Miners at Woolwich, and as a member of
the Select Committee, until his attendance in the latter
capacity at the Royal Arsenal on the 16th of May, to
witness the experiment of firing at a two-gun battery to
ascertain the power of the material of which it was com-
posed. Unfortunately ono of the fragments, displaced
with great violence by the concussion of the shot,
struck the Lieutenant-Colonel in the arm, tearing the
sleeve of his coat, and making what at first appeared to
be only a flesh wound, but a subsequent examination
showed that the bone of the arm had been fractud.
The Lieutenant-Colonel was immediately taken horeme,
and, under medical care, was gradually recovering, when
he experienced a paralytic stroke, from which he never
recovered. Lieutenant-Colonel English succeeded the
late Colonel Sir George Ifoste, in command of the en-
gineering department at Woolwich, and was greatly es-
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teemed for his urbanity and abilities.
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is 11 i per inille,which, at the English Mint r. f /
p ice o 3 . 17s.
ioAd. per ounce for standard gold,gives eh f
25:44; and the exchange at Paris on Londonanex shortangeo
. at
being 25.421, it follows that gold is 0.06 per cent.
dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from
Ilamburgh the pricy of gold is 438 per mark, which,
at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. lOid. per ounce for
standard gold, gives au exchange of 13.111; and the
exchange at Ilamburgh on London at short being
13.11, it follows that gold is 0.11 per cent. dearer in
London than in Ilamburgh. The course of exchange at
New York on London is 1091 par cent., and the par of
exchange between England and America being 109 23.40
per cent., it follows that the exchange is 0.33 per cent.
against England. But the quoted exchange at New
York being for bills at 60 days' sight, the interest must
be deducted from the above difference.
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