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LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1847.

Elections will come off in rapid succession through-
out the provinces during the ensuing fortnight. Ex-
traordinary is the excitement pre'valent already in the
different boroughs. The saw and hammer are even
now busily plied for the immediate erection of the
temporary hustings. Electioneering committees are
involved in the toils of preparation. Candidates are
roving from house to house, canvassing with unusual
assiduity. Party cries are scarcely so numerous as
formerly, but the belligerent forces—the popular
majority, and the stand-still minority, the Free-trade
Liberals, and the Protectionist Tories, the lovers of
cleanliness, and the advocates of their own inalienable
dirt, the supporters of the Government, and the very
"awkward squad" of Lord GEORGE BENTINCK—are
confronted upon the various local arenas. Every
independent elector must buckle up for the
contest as earnestly as if the destinies of the
empire depended upon his solitary decision. That is
the true philosophy of Parliamentary elections ; that
is the only substantial guarantee for success ; that is
the undoubted precursor of victory and exultation.
Let it not be forgotten—let every Liberal wear it in
his heart—let him wear it as an amulet against de-
feat, and as a talisman for the realisation of his most
cherished expectations.
A rather motley spectacle is presented by the
position of affairs in the principal commercial cities
of Great Britain. We shall enumerate them with as
much brevity as is consonant with distinctness. Four
we have already, namely, in our yesterday's im-
pression, particularised—London, Manchester, Liver-
pool, and Glasgow. We have recommended, and
will still recommend, the concentration in those dif-
ferent cities of the Liberal influence for the
victorious return of their several popular candidates
—RUSSELL, PATTISON, ROTBSCHILD, and LARPENT,

for the representation of the first; GIBSON and
BRIGHT for the representation of the second ; &Run
for the representation of the third ; :MACGREGOR and
ilAsm for the representation of the fourth. The
qualifications of tho:e eminent candidates are as un-
equalled as the liberality of their principles is un-
questionable. Notiiiiig but a traitorous and inex-
cusable indolence can transform the propitious
auguries of their canyn,;s into discomfiture. Nothing
hut a superior vigilance among the supporters of their
antagonists can divert the suffrages of those distin..
guished constituencies from the national cause to the
cause of a Quixotic faction.
Unless BIRMINGHAM at last relieve itself from

the incubus of Conservatism, in the person of its
late representative, Mr. R. SPOONER, and asso-
ciate Mr. G. F. MENTZ with Mr. W. SCHOLEFIELD,
a candidate of indisputable honesty, and a man bear-
ing moreover in his name the prestige of his
father's honourable reputation, the independent elec•
tors will be justified in regarding with suspicion and
incredulity the nominal liberality of that emporium
of our inland manufactures. Mr. MUNTZ, under all
circumstances, may count upon a triumphant recep-
tion from those constituents who have hitherto found
him the untiring promoter of every measure calculated
to ameliorate the condition of the labouring classes.
In Birmingham we are satisfied that the necessity for
a currency reformation will not be forgotten. At
LEEDS popularity seems to be concentrating around
the banners of one Liberal candidate, at least, namely,
Mr. JAMES GARTH MARSHALL. Leeds will, doubt-
less, bear in recollection the necessity of an uncondi-
tional diffusion of secular knowledge through the
agency of national education. Mr. BAINES and Dr.
Rom( will at least have done good service to the
cause of popular instruction,. by exciting discussion
upon a matter of such paramount consideration among

a constituency of so much intelligence. From the
friction of debates, such as those excited latterly in
Leeds, the truth must ultimately shine with reful-
gence. YORK is still unhappily abandoned to that
obtuse section of politicians which, if encouraged,
would infallibly stultify all the more generous efforts
of a patriotic Legislature. BUCKINGHAM, in like
manner, continues a pocket constituency, almost as
glaringly as in the heyday infamy of the rotten-
boroughmongering system. GLOUCESTER Will as-
suredly return none other than the Honourable
Captain M. F. F. BERKELEY, a resolute Liberal,
and one of her MAJESTY'S Lords of the Admi-
ralty, associating with him, Mr. W. P. PRICE,
of Tibberton-court, an athocate for popular measures,

who appears on the retirement of Mr. J. PHILPOTTS
In Captain BERKELEY we cannot distinguish any of
that unconstitutional sycophancy to the Lord of
Berkeley Castle, which, in our estimation, utterly
disqualifies Mr. GRENVILLE BERKELEY for the re•
presentation of West Gloucestershire. Mr. GREN-

VILLE BERKELEY is notoriously the nominee of Earl
FITZHAUDINGE, and consequently his election must
proclaim with a damnirn distinctness the corruption
and venality of the iraLpendent electors. For this

reason we are persuaded that the Hon. G. C.

GRANTLEY F. BERKELEY IS a preferable candidate.
Even with a vivid remembrance of hi 3 rather ugly
revelations, even with a recollection of his long

tailoring scores with STurrz, and his indecorous
violence both of vituperation and self-defence, we arf•
convinced that the Hon. GRANTLEY BERKELEY is
candidate immeasurably preferable to Air. GREN-
VILLE BERKELEY. The latter is the overt puppet of
Earl FITZPIARDINGE, the former is a sort of enthu
siastic rebel—one that in the delirium of a political

emancipation hitherto unknown to him would almost
at a pinch swear fealty to the Charter, and march under
the banners of Radicalism. A rebel Liberal free from
the thraldom of a peer, is better surely than the passive
instrument and pliant mouthpiece of that peer. The
one may become the puppet of the populace, the other
is the puppet of a nobleman. For I-luLL, Mr. J. CLAY
promises admirably. For NOILWICH, Mr. PETO is
singularly suited, and for READING, Mr. Sergeant
TALFOURD has a brilliant prospect of heading the poll.
To-morrow we shall resume our synopsis of the pro-
vincial elections, and their antagonistic candidates.
Meanwhile let two incentives keep alive the enthusi-
asm of the Liberal electors—two incentives—two
words--COURAGE !—ACTIVITY !

It has repeatedly been our painful duty to direct
the public attention to instances of the abuse of
power. by occupants of the magisterial bench. A
more flagrant case has, however, seldom occurred
than one reported to have taken place at Wellington
on Monday last, and which we have extracted from
the columns of a respected contemporary, the
Somerset County Gazette. A boy named WINTER,
only eleven years of age, was charged with having
stolen a few (twelve) apples. The magistrates con-
sidered the charge proved, and in the exercise of their
discretion, tempering justice with mercy, they sen-
tenced the unfortunate child to "four months' im-
prisonment with hard labour, to be once privately and
once publicly whipped, the public whipping to be
through the town of Wellington." Can this be
c
poss ?
possible in merry England in the nineteenth
century
Can this be the result of the improved
legislation that has talc
Parliament ? Is it crediblen tphlaatcethautnfdoerr a reformed
mofpunis
h.
men t, so revolting to everyhuinane. mind, so degrading
to the unfortunate sufferera,ndov.injurious to health,
gaohudrof constitution
of haveth s.unk. in. a
that men in full strength
have fallen victims to its effect:
spectator--
brief period under the fatal resu'lts
30 brtlta!iiiir.;* alid th.lnoral:zing
one that had practically IK-come obsolete,
person
fallen
into disc-e, is to be revived on the
wretched child, and the whole town andpnesigoiniboof a 1
to every e Infliction,
hood disgusted, to gratify the caprice of a few ma airs.
terial Solons ; and with the addition of another flog-
ging (in private) and four months' confinement, asso-
ciated with depraved and abandoned characters, who
will speedily initiate him in every description
of villany, and banish any hesitation or
remnants of a better feeling that may

possibly still remain ? Indeed, the nature of the
7unishment is such, that if suffend to be carried into
execution it must have the most ruinous effects on
the future prospects of the poor lad, and consign him
to a life of hopeless misery, in constant and unceas-
ing opposition to the laws. Who is there that would
give employment to the criminal who had been pub-
icly exposed in the town.? who would make an
-ffort for the reclamation of the hardened offender,
who bore about his person the indelible marks of his
degradation? No possible means of earning an
honest livelihood would remain open to him, and he
would necessarily fall into the snares of those who
are ever on the watch for youthful victims, and who
would find him reckless and slesperate, a ready in-
,truinent for their vile purposes. And all th;s is re-
quired in vindication of the majesty of the law, for
the theft of a few paltry apples by an offender of
eleven years of age.
Desirable as it is to have our criminal code purged
from all unnecessary severity, to have the scale of
punishments so judiciously arranged, that crime
shall be repressed and a fitting retribution inflicted
on the evil-doer, that he may be deterred from future
offences, and a salutary example afforded to all of the
consequences of guilt—the manner of the administra-
tion of that law is of still greater importance. It would
be better for the people to have cruel and sanguinary
laws administered by learned, discreet, humane, and
temperate men, duly qualified for the discharge of the
duties of their station, than to have the most perfect
system of law that ever emanated from merely
human wisdom interpreted by ignorant and
headstrong men, wholly unfitted either by
previous education, or habits of life, for so
great a trust. Every error is excused on the
grounds of its being unintentional, occasioned by a
want of knowledge of, or a mistake in, the law, or
by an over anxiety and zeal for the public benefit.
'these may be good grounds for extending pardon to
individual justices, but they furnish no satisfactory
reasons why the power which has so often been
abused should still be continued in their hands. It is
a trite maxim, that the value of a legal opinion is
what it costs, and that a gratuitous one is literally
good for nothing. The same may with greater truth
be asserted of the gratuitous administration of the
law ; indeed, it may be extended considerably, for it
is, generally speaking, not merely good for nothing,
but occasions very serious mischief, and is in the
highest degree injurious to the best interests of
the nation.

There can be no satisfactory reason assigned fora
perseverance in the present system. The most seri-
ous difficulty in the way of a change that formerly
existed, viz., the great expense that would be entailed
on the nation by the appointment of competent per-
sons, at fitting salaries, to perform the functions here-
tofore entrusted to justices of the peace, has been re-
moved by the appointment of county judges. These
gentlemen have had full notice that they are to
undertake all such further duties as Parliament may
choose to entrust them with, and that without
further remuneration. Here, then, we find
tribunals actually constituted, to which the
criminal jurisdiction now exercised by magistrates
might be most beneficially transferred. The pre-
siding judge must be (with some few exceptions)
a barrister of seven years standing, responsible to
public opinion for the manner in which he may act,
and on whose behalf no alleged incapacity or igno-
rance of the law can be put forward to avert the
censure that would justly follow any error in judg-
ment or indiscreet exercise of his judicial authority.
It is no new or untried project, for it has been acted
on in Ireland for many years with the happiest re-
sults. In that country the assistant barrister (a
person similarly qualified to the English county
judge) presides at quarter sessions, and not
merely decides all civil eases, within a cer-
tain limit, but also tries criminals, and clears the
calendar of all but cases of the gravest importance.
The system has acted well, and has completely re-
moved the complaints, that were universal throughout
the country previous to its adoption. Why should it
not be brought into operation in England also ? A
few more sentences such as that pronounced on the
child WINTER, and the people will insist on an altera-
tion ; we shall earnestly hope that it may be maturely
considered by the Ministers during the recess, and
that a just and comprehensive measure may be in-
troduced immediately on the meeting of the new Par-
liament.

Letters from Rome of the 18th confirm the intel-
ligence which we published yesterday of the discovery
of a conspiracy of the Serviles, for a general massacre
of Liberals, on the 17th, the anniversary of the
amnesty. Paid agents were, it is said, to have
created an alarm among the multitude assembled on
the occasion, and to have thrown daggers at the feet
of the soldiers, to induce a belief that it was intended
to murder them. Fifty malefactors were to have
been let loose from the prisons into the Piazza del
Popolo, shortly before the fireworks, in order to
occasion confusion. The popular Chief CICERRUAC-
CHIO discovered the whole on the 15th. The people
immediately demanded the suspension of the feast,
and the POPE having ordered the immediate arma-
ment of the National Guard, upwards of 2,000 of
the most respectable citizens applied to the authori-
ties for arms, and succeeded in maintaining public
tranquillity. Cardinal FERRETI, the new Secre-
tary of State, arrived at Rome on the 16th.
The people received him with acclamation, and in
the evening there was a general illumination. The
first act of Cardinal FERRETS was to dismiss and
exile Monsignor GaassELom, the Governor of Rome,
Allowing him only twenty-four hours to quit the city.
M. GRASSELLINI opposed no resistance and instantly
set out for Naples.

The following placard was posted up in Rome on
the day the conspiracy was discovered :

" NOTICE TO THE PEOPLE.
" Instructions of Cardinal Lambruschini and Cardinal
Nardoni, left to the under-mentioned, for the execution
of a popular tragedy.

" INFAMOUS ACTORS.
" _Monsignor Grassellini, governor-general of the
police of Rome.
" Colonel Freddi, president of the famous military
commission at the mournful period of 1844.
" Captains Allai and Muzzarelli.

" Lieutenants Gianuci, Sangiorgi, and Benvenuti,
Lieutenant of Monsignor Grassellini, assessor of the
Government.

Minerdi, a celebrated spy.
" Vincenp Moroni, brother of the Inspector-General
of the Post office.
" The Chevalier Bertola.
" Sergeant Pontini.
" Three sons of the notorious spy Galanti; and
" Fior Avanti Patoca.

" All devoted to the eternal execration of the people."
Colonel FREDDI escaped at the moment some Na-
tional Guards entered his house to arrest him. They
found his servants burning papers with so much
precipitation that they set on fire the curtains of his
bedchamber. Captain MUZZARELLI and BERTOLA
were apprehended, and the former would have been
murdered by the populace had not Prince ALEX-
ANDRO Toßnoma and Prince I.IOiPIGLIOSI interfered.
The brothers GALANT! had made their escape. Va-
rious other persons had been arrested, and the
disclosures of the prisoners, and the papers seized in
their possession, had already thrown much light on
the conspiracy. The National Guard was being
armed and equipped in all haste, and several princes
had offered the ground floors of their palaces to es-
tablish temporary posts. The troops of the garrison
and even the gendarmes, in whom the conspirators
placed every confidence, fraternized with the people.
Colonel BINI, commanding a battalion of chasseurs,
several officers of which were compromised in the
plot, had visited all the posts of the National Guard,
and declared, with tears in his eyes, that he was to-
tally ignorant of the designs of those officers.
The conspiracy is attributed to the machinations
of the Jesuits, assisted by the agents of Austria.

Madrid papers of the 20th have arrived.
The QUEEN was to hold a levee at La Granja, on
the 24th, in honour of the birth-day of her mother,
at which the Ministers were expected to attend.
The KING has returned to the Fred°, having been
refused permission to occupy tha palace at Madrid
during the absence of the QUEEN, seeing that he did
not choose to occupy it so long as she remained there.
Gen. Ros DE OLANO is appointed governor cf La
Graill.during the residence of the QUEEN.
The Captain• General of Burgos announces that the
Queen's troops on the 17th and 18th attacked and
completely diTersed the Carlist band of EL ESTU-
DIENTE. Previous to the attack six of the Carlists,
among whom was a parish priest named JIMIA.II

URRECHO, made their submission, and claimed the
benefit or the amnesty.
MADRID BOLSA, JULY 20.—The Three per Cents.
wEre done at 261 for cash; the Five per Cents. at 174
for paper; and the Dcbt witht.ut interest at 5i for cash.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.

The greater number of them rt review of
sct,ion, which has lasted the ginni.,g of
January—a session most barren of results in a legis-
lative point of view, but most important as modifying
the state of parties, and most damaging to the Execu-
tive, as exposing the wholesale system of corruption
by which the Government of France has for years
past been managed.
The Pres.ve thus sums up the legislative results of
the past session :
" The session has lasted seven full months, to produce
—what ? 1. The ratification of the treaty by which the
Minister of the Marine places four steam-frigates, which
he had built, at the disposal cf Messrs. Herout and Co.
2. Authority given to the Bank of France to issue notes
of 200 francs. 3. Permission given to the Minister of
Finance to borrow 350 millions. 4. The budget, and
innumerable credits ;"

while the Constitutionnel declares that " all the
important Acts that the Government has accom-
plished for several years have borne their fruit all at
once, in this year 1847. The seed was sown at other
periods, but it is now we have gathered the crop."
The first great feature of the session was the self-
glorification of M. GIIIZOT from the tribune at the
clever manner in which he had " done "
England on the subject of the Spanish
marriages, but when the means in which that
grand coup had been accomplished became known,
when it was proved that the Minister had not only
deceived England by mean equivocations, and Spain
by "enormous lying," but that he had also attempted
to deceive the Chambers by wilfully garbling official
documents, he found that, like all over clever people,
he had at length overmatched himself. The im-
plicit faith which had before been given to the asser-
tions of M. GUIZOT was shaken ; it was imagined

that those charges of corruption which, on his simple
denial of them, had heretofore been treated with
contempt, might be true; those charges were
reiterated, investigation was demanded, and the cor-
ruption was proved.

Is it too much to suppose that but for the proved un-
trustworthiness of M.Guizoi in the affair of the Spanish
marriages, his word would have been sufficient to
have shielded his colleague, and M. TESTE would
have been spared the disgrace, and M. GUIZOT the
suspicion, under which they now severally labour?
Thus bath " even-banded justice " commended " the
ingred_ents of the poisoned chalice to his own lips?'
True, he is now the head of the Cabinet, but it is a
Cabinet of which the Currier Francais (and it
expresses in this instance the feelings of the great
bulk of the educated people of France) thus speaks :
" We beg pardon of England, we beg pardon of the
restoration ! We insulted them in comparing Messrs.
Guizot and Duchatel to Sir Robert Walpole, and to
Messrs. de wale and Polignac. We confess our error,
for there is not in history any term of comparison for
our Ministers. There is no possible parallel to be drawn
between the evil our Ministers have inflicted on France,
and the evil which, in other times, and in other countries,
other Ministers may have done to their country. Our
rulers have reached the ideal of corruption. They may
1e proud of themselves. In the present time, as well as
the past, they are without equals and rivals. We are
beginning to find Sir Robert Walpole less despicable and
M. Polignac less odious. Who would have thought so
in 1830 ? Who could have supposed that a day would
come when we should experience such sentiments and
hold such language ?'
The Constitulionnel thus describes the effect of the
Spanish marriage intrigues—
" The Spanish marriages," says our contemporary,
" had the effect, at the commencement of the ses.ion, of
producing the mutilated and curtailed publication of
official documents, which had to be completed afterwards
on the summons of England, ihe disclosure of the un-
worthy jeu de mots by which M. Guizot deceived Lord
Normanby ; the disrespect in which our Cabinet is held
in the world ; the sacrifice of the people of weak
countries everywhere ; the delivery of Cracow to the
three Powers ; the threatening of liberal Switzerland by
us iu concert with Austria ; the isolation of France

concealed by culpable means ; the boasts of .M. Guizot,
that he had conquered the Mediterranean, and at the
same time Madrid, perpetuating hereditary scandals ;
our Ambassador.sent away from Spain, our alliance re-
viled on the other side of the Pyrennees, a redoubtable
question of succession hanging over the future, and the
Chamber declaring itself satisfied by a vote with this
disastrous development given to the policy of family at
the expense of the policy of the State, and of the princi-
ples of liberty."

It then proceeds to comment on the railway jobbing,
the frauds and the financial blunders on the part of
the Ministers and their subordinates, which have
been brought to light by the Committees of the
Chambers, the Ministerial corruption as revealed
by the recent trials, and the threatened revela-
tions of still further scandals of a similar nature, as
the natural results of a system which depends for its
very existence on the abuse of the powers placed in its
hands by the constitution.
The National has a long article on the affairs of
Switzerland, in the course of which it proves that
the threatened intervention of M. GuizoT in aid of
the Sonderbund is treason to the revolution of July,
to which the KING of the FRENCH owes his throne.
After stating that in fact the projected insurrection
of the Sonderbund against the decree of the Diet is
an Ultratnontane and Jesuit movement, it thus pro-
ceeds :

" It is important to understand this in order that we
may be thoroughly aware of the point to which M.
Guizot wishes to lead us. This champion of established
authorities encourages a revolt of Ultramontanists and
Jesuits. The question of Switzerland is no longer a
question merely of constitutional right. The language
of the Deputies of Fribourg and Lucerm,
Faye no doubt on that head. In support
of this view we may, if necessary, call attention to the
language of the correspondent of the Journal des Debats,
in his letter of yesterday. It is a question of a fresh
antagonism between the two principles which divide the
world. and agitate Europe—of a fight between the spirit
of liberty and the spirit of the holy alliance. The at-
tempt to designate these as the spirit of order and the
spirit of disorder is absurd. No one now-a days is de-
ceivt-d by these used up' worth. One of the orators of
the Catholic league has given us a more happy rendering
of the spirit of disorder iu accusing it of having given
birth to new ideas, and engendered the revolution of July.
These are the doctrines of the men to whom M. Guizot
proffers assistance. It is to aid a counter-revolution at
its last gasp that he talks of interfering in Switzerland.
If M. Guizot has made such promises, we beg to remind
him that, although Ministers may propose, it is for
France alone to dispose."

The Afoniteur of Sunday publishes a comparative
table of the principal articles of merchandise im-
ported into France during the first six months of the
years 1845, 1846, and 1847, with the amount of the
duties received, and the quantities remaining in the
entrepots at the end of June of the present year.
From this account it appears that the import duties
in France have gradually decreased. In 1845 the
total amount of these duties was 75,959,014 f.; in
1846, 74,676,000 f. ; and in 1847, 65,956,675 f. The
principal diminutions are in corn, cotton-wool, yarn,
and woollens. The duty upon corn, which in the
first six months of 1845 produced 2,203,970 E, and
in 1846, 7,381,258 E, produced in 1847 only
1,989,836 f. Cotton-wool producedin 1845, 7,576,397 E,
and in 1846, 7,057,863 E, while in 1847 it only pro-
duced 4,764,661 f. The duty on linen yarn, in 1845,
was 2,720,674 E; in 1846, 1,542,731 f.; and in 1847,
796,159 f. Woollens produced, in 1845, 4,778,981 f. ;
in 1846, 3,231,297 f.; and in 1847, 2,478,700 E The
duties on cast iron have increased from 1,611,691 f.
in 1845, to 2,818,8191. in 1847. Copper is without
any material variation ; tin has diminished one•half;
lead has increased, but to a trifling amount ; and zinc
has increased, from 11,049 E, the amount of duty in
1845, to 40,9861., the amount in 1847. In sugar
there is a slight diminution, and in coffee a slight
increase, but none of them are of material im-
portance.
M. PELLAPRA. on Friday sent 10,000 f. to the Pre-
fect of Police, to be employed in liberating from
prison debtors cf the labouring class. He attended
the Opera the evening of his liberation.
Count BRESSON has been appointed Ambassador to
Naples.
The illoniteur Algerein, of the 20th instant, an-
nounces that General BEDEAU took possession of the
Government of Algeria on the 19th.
The price of flour continued to diminish on the
Paris 13ourse on Saturday. None was sold above
921 per sack of 159 kilogrammes, and the ordinary
sort only fetched from 84f. to 861.
The Three per Cents. were done in the Passage
de l'Opera on Sunday, at 77f. 40c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FORD'AGrN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCEIANGE,Jutx 26.
Boulogne and Amiens, 13',7i,—Ceylon, LA—Demerara
—East Indian, 14—Luxembourg, I—Northern of Frlnce,
1214—Orleans and Bordeaux, 516—Paris and Lyons, 41
—Sambre and Meuse, 71,6

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
rE.'; ill.. EL.
The sales of eJtton et Live: 1.00; sterch,.y we; e
2,500 bales, of which 2,300 were American at oft to
TO. per lb. The market was very all bet prices were
not lower. Shares w,!‘re very quiet, with little or no

alteration in priers.
In the apcoutlts recewly come to lluni from the C +pe
bowl •4,

o! it.to
interior uncle/ oce:.t&ional y by some of our ootti
and 11:.:.! country inch. The statement be:ot e us, in a
Graham's Town piper, runs thus:—
" 'The public market at this place displayed on Monday
morning (12th instant) an unwonted degree of anima-
tion by the arrival in town of Mr. Ilenry Hartley 'with
a large quantity of valuable produce from the interior to
the N.E. This trader has been absent about two years,
during which period he penetrated as far as the new set
tlement of Orisberg, in the parallel latitude of Delagon
Bay, besides diverging considerably both to the right
and left of that point in the course of his perambulationy.
The account ho brings of the circumstances of the Dutch
emigrants in that country is, upon the whole, favourable.
The produce brought by him to this market consisted
chiefly of ivory and ostrich feathers, about 6,000 lbs. of
the former being sold at an average of 4s. 4d. per lb.
The best of the ostrich feathers realised the handsome
price of 6/. Bs. per lb. There were also a good
many rare birds and curiosities, among which
may be classed some cotton rags of native
manufacture, showing that the value of the cotton wool
and the art of weaving it into useful fabric, are not alto
gether unknown to the natives of this part of South-
Eastern Africa. This specimen of their manufacture
was coarse in texture, and the material harsh and wiry,
wearing, however, the appearance of great durability,
and of having been manufactured with considerable care
and ingenuity."
In the Money and Stock Market to day there is rather
more buoyancy, the decline in the price of grain, and
the certainty of its going much further, as there
,will
shortly be new samples of wheat in the market, serv-
ing to impart confidence. It is possible, however, that
there may be a few sales of stock on account of the rail-
way companies which are still gradually withdrawing
deposits from the Court of Chancery. Consols have been
88?-3 for Transfer, and 887 to 89 for Account. Ex-
chequer-bills have been marked Bs. to lls. premium.
The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been
901 i; Bank Stock has been up to 1961 to 198.
The Foreign Securities have been dull. Spanish Five
per Cents. have been quoted 21i to 22, being scarcely so
good as yesterday. Mexican are dull at 198; Brazilian
New are 831; Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents. have
realised 574; and French Three per Cents. 77, with the
Exchange at 25 50.
The Railway Share Market is but slightly better, in
the absence of any bargains of importance.
isRITISII FUNITh. ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. YR 'ES
Bank Stock .. 1965{, 198 198
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities 88% 89g 89%
three per Cent. Consols Annuities 88%%a 88%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 90% 4 90%
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. ii, 1860 .. 9% 1-16 9 1-it.
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 ..
India Bonds, 1,0001. .. 5
Ditto, under 1.0001. .. 5
Consols for Opening, Aug 26. .. 89 88%
Exchequer Bills. 11,01. 20.
1,0001... 8 11 p
5001. .
Ditto, Small

11 p
14 p
10 16p 16 p
ONE CLOSIN'
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICEs
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 84%
Ditto, New Bonds, 1829 and 1839 .. 83 834
Grenada, 1 per Cent .. .
Ditto, Defiared .. 3% 3%
Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent .. 19% 19%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 22 21% 21%
Ditto, for the Account .. 21% 22 22
Ditto, Three per Cent .. —315 E
Ditto, for the Account • • 31%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French Rentes, 3 per Cent .. 77f. —c. 77f. —c.
Exchange .. 251. 50c. 25f, 50c.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 57 4 57'4
Ditto. I per Cent. Certificates .. 90% 90%
BUSINESS
PRICES OF CLOSING
I AID. DONE AT PRICES
RAILWAY SHARES. ONE O'CLOCK.
Amber., Notting., Boston, and
Eastern Junction 2% 11A • . • • 1%
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 10 .... 16% 16%
Boston, Stamford, & Birmingham 5 .... 5% 5%
Caledonian

Ditto, Half Shares
7,'hestpr and Holyhead 32%.... 25% ..... .• • 25%
eastern Counties . .. 20 .• 20 1931 •.• • .. 19h
Do. Perpet.. 5 per Cent. No. 1.61. 13s. 4d. % p.... •• .. p
Ditto, ditto.. .. No. 2. 61. 13s. 4d. % p.... •• • % p
East Lancashire . 20 .... 18% 18%
Great North of England . ..100 ....236 .. • • •..... 230
Ditto, New 301. .. • 30 68% . .. 65%
Great Western _ 85 ........ . 114
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 50 .... 68% 67% .... 67%
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. 15 .... 19% • • .....• • • 19
Ditto, Fifths .. .. 20 .... 27 .... • • .... 26%
Ditto, Xew 171, .. .. 7 .... 10 ..... 934
Hull and Selby .. .. 50..106 106
Ditto, Half Shares .. 25 .... 52% 52%
Leeds and Wadford •• 94 ..........

Leicester and Bedtord 16s. .......... dis.
London. Brighton, & South Coast 50 .... 5 I 34 % . . 54%
Do. Pref. Convert. 5 per cent. 50 .... 531 h ........ • • 542
London an North-Western .. 100 ....175 .. •• • . .. 175
Ditto, Quarters L. and B. 12 ..........
atto ditto, New Shares .. 2 .. • ••.. • • 1134
Ditto, Fifths .. 2 .......... 16%
London and South-Western 411. 65. 10d... 67 •• .. •.. 6714

Ditto, ditto 405• .. 4 .. 4!A
Lynn and Dereham .. 20 .... 19 g% 19%
alaneliester and Leeds .. 82 —
Ditto, half Shares .. 38 .... 45 .. • - 45
Ditto, Sixteenths .. .. 6! • • 7%
Ditto, Thirds ( Reg.) .. • .71. 45... .. % M dis... '4 dis.
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. — %
51Idland ..100 ....124 123% 124% 124%
Ditto, 501. Shares .. .• .. 6 .... 9;4••..• • . • • • 9%
Newcastle and Berwick • . .. 20 .... 28% 2814
Ditto, New .. 5 .... 9% 9%
North British .. 25 .... -
Ditto, Extension .. %.... %. . • six
.North Staffordshire .. 7% .... 10M % 10%
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 5 ....
Scottish Central .. . .. 20 .... 27% % • • 57 %
Shrewsbury una Birmingham .. 3;4 2%
So ith Eastern and Dovor .. • . 3334•• 36 35 .. • • 35%
Do.. New (do. 33/. 6s.Sel.) No. 2. 17 .... 15% .. . 15%
Do.. New (do. 101.) .. No. 4. 614 .... .. •••• • • • • 5
4',uth Wales .. . .. 15 .... • • .... •• • • Ii
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and
Goole .. .. • .. .. 2 .... 1% ...... • • I
West Riding Union • • .. 41.25..... % dis %p • • 16 p
West Cornwall .. .. 4 .. 1% . • 13,„)
York and Newcastle .. .. 25 .... ••••• • • • • •
Ditto, Extension .. • . .. 10 .. 15% .. •• .. l6
York awl North Midland .. .. 50 .... ••••• • • • •
Ditto, Extension • • .. 25 .... 41% .... •• • . 4l !4
Do. E. and W. Riding Eaten 15 ...- 26%........ • • 26%
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boule.)gne and Amiens .. 'to .... 13% •-.. • • • 13%
East In fiat. ..
Namur and Liege .. • . .. 12 .• 6% •- • • ••• • 614
Orleans and Bourdeaux .. 6 .... • • 534
Paris and Lyons .• .. 8 • • ••••• • • • • • 4
Paris and Rouen .. 20 .... 38 .• ..
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
London and Westminster .. .. 20 .... 27 .. •• • • 27
Ditto, New • • • • • • • • 13 •• • • ••••• • • • • • 19 M
MINES.
Real del Monte, Unregistered 2M 214

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At

GOO D Vti 001) RACES
(THIS DAY-BY EXPRESS.)

The Craven Stakes of 10 soy's. each, &c.

Wilderness

Outpost

Ziska

bolted

Won by half a length.
The Gratwicke Stakes of 100 sovs. each, &c.

Red Hart

Clementina

Montpensier

Ilalo

Won in a canter by two lengths.
The Lavant Stakes of 50 sovz. each, &c.

Nectar
De Witt

Five ran. Won by a neck.
Stultz is scratched for all his engagements.

LLOYD'S SIIIPPING-(THIS DAY

LONDON, JULY 27.—Wind N.W., light breeze, and fine
clear weather.
POBTSMOUTII, Jut,y 26.—Wind N.N.E —Arrd. H.M.S.
Iris, Penang. Sld. Southampton, Calcutta. Off port,
Roslin Castle, Sadler, Quebec; Hugo Groteus, New York.
OFF PORTLAND, JULY 22.—Sanpareil, Havannah. Arrd.
Margareth, Surinam, for Amsterdam.
OFF HAYLlE.—Victoria, Martin, Quebec.
MUMBLES, JULY 24.—Arrd. Eagle, Parnell, Quebec.
LIVERPOOL, JULY 26.—Wind N.N.W., moderate.—Arrd.
Eliza, Snell. Mobile ; Mary .Kenny, Paters, Baltimore;
Roanock, Kelly, Baltimore ; Isaak Walton Woodhead,
Montreal. Sld. Benard, Rio Grande ; Isaac Newton, Clark,
Boston; Wioifred, Calcutta; Georgiana, Africa ; Maria,
Eulalier, Havannah ; Sarah, Cape Briton ; Sir R. Peel,
Quebec. Off port, Caledonia (ship).
MARYPORT, JULY 26.—Sally, Ditchburn, St. John's, N. 8.;
Jane, Restigouche.
Conic, JULY 24.—Wind variable.—Arrd. Davenport,
M'Kenzie, New York. Sld. Indian Queen, Barbadoes. Off
port, Martnion, Lean, Baltimore for Limerick. The wreck of
the brig Napoleon, timber laden, waterlogged, and bowsprit
only standing, was passed, 20th inst., about 150 miles
W.S.W. of Cape Clear, by the Logan, arrived here.
DEAL, JULY 26.—Wind N.E. by E., fresh.—Arrd. Latitia,
Lewis, Baltimore; William Foster, Kiliick, Nassau ; Resolu-
tion, Gales, Quebec; Indefatigable, Rickmers, New York, and
sailed for Antwerp. Arrd. from the River and sailed, Emma
Watts, New York; Nestor, Calcutta; Emerald Isle, Cape
and Madras ; Arena, St. Thomas. Arrd. Thomas, Vaughan,
St. John's, N.B.
Gt. JU CE mit, JULY 26. Wind N. W.—Arrd. Alvarado,
Ames, New Orleans.
BRIDGEWATER, JULY 24.—Arrd. William Miller, Quebec.
PORT TALBOT, JULY 25.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Richard
Cobden, Fuller, Wallace, N.S.
SWANSEA, JULY 26.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Eagle, Quebec.
OFF DOVER, JULY 26.—Ina, Quebec.
HULL, JULY 26.—Wind Douglas, New York.

BRIGHTON AND CONTINENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION
COMPANY.—A friend of ours embarked on board the
Brighton, belonging to the above company, on Sunday
morning, at BlaLk wall, at a quarter before seven, and,
after a pleasant voyage with a strong easterly wind, and
going close to the various ports, and remaining at
Newhaven upwards of twenty minutes, were landed at
Briihton before six o'clock, and started for London by
6 30 train, and arrived inLondon at 8 15, performing
the voyage and journey within 13i hours, a circumstance,
we may assert, unprecedented.