The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING,

more effectually have prostituted her name, her fame
and her august lineage. She has been sacrificed with I
a ruthlessness and an atrocity that has filled every
generous nation on the earth with abhorrence, and
she has been sacrificed, moreover, to satisfy the ambi-
tion of Louis PHILIPPE, and the avarice of CHRISTINA
Scarcely had the nuptial ceremonies terminated when
the guile of the plotters in the Tuileries began to ma-
nifest itself. The original antipathy existing between
the young QUEEN and her unattractive husband was
soon fomented into an irreconcilable hatred. Those
who could be supposed to prove on any emergency
useful to ISABELLA were, one by one, removed to a
secure distance from Madrid. She has now, for a
considerable time, remained in this deserted condi-
tion, her domestic happiness blasted, her authority of
a most dubious stability, her hopes destroyed, her
most innocent recreations distorted into crimes, and
her occasional festivities misrepresented as the orgies
of a precocious debauchee.
It is utterly impossible that things can very long
continue in this deplorable condition. Nor is it
intended by the crafty intriguers of the Tuileries
that the catastrophe should be indefinitely
deferred. The guerilla disturbances, professedly in
favour of the Conde DE MONTE3.IOLIN, are very
suspiciously redoubled at this critical moment as if
to embarrass still further the Government of the
bewildered ISABELLA. Everything has progressed,
indeed, in a manner most favourable to the atrocious
schemes of the French SOVEREIGN. Nothing has
interfered to conduce to a reconciliation between her
Most Catholic MAJESTY and the KING-CONSORT.
No unforeseen or adventitious aid has imparted
strength to the unstable and vaccillating Administra-
tion of Madrid. Misery in the Palace, indecision
in the Council Chamber, revolt in the provinces,
are the only things visible to the unfortunate QUEEN.
And she is even less fortunate than MARIE AliTOI-
N-srvria, las no foreign 1110119XCIII girdles on his sword, or
adventures upon a chivalrous expedition in her be-
half—as GUSTAVUS of Sweden did immediately before
he was shot dead in the crowd of a masked ball. ISA-
BELLA, therefore, can only look for security to her-
self; if she evinces resolution and patience, she will
yet maintain the integrity of her throne, and thereby
preserve Europe from the possibility of a continental
war.

The propriety of a revision of our criminal code has
long been recognised by every calm and dispassionate
observer. Many acts, according to the strict letter of
the law, come within the definition of, and subject the
perpetrators to, the punishment allotted to offences of
the highest magnitude. In such cases, a duty of the
most painful character is imposed upon juries, who
too frequently interpose themselves between the law
and its victim, and notwithstanding the solemnity of
the obligation by which they are bound, refuse to
convict the party arraigned, although the presiding
Judge may in the clearest manner point out the law,
and explain the manner in which the accused has
transgressed. In truth, in the great majority
of instances, twelve men cannot be found
to return a verdict by which their fellow-
man will be consigned to a painful and
ignominious death, when they do not believe the
offence of which he has been guilty deserving of such
a penalty. The very severity of the punishment de-
feats its own object, and generally occasions the
escape of the offender, and his perfect impunity.
Thus, in cases of fatal duels, although there can be
no doubt, that every person in any degree concerned
is a particeps criminis, and according to law guilty of
wilful murder, yet an instance can scarcely be found
in which a conviction has been obtained, unless there
had been something unfair in the management of the
duel, or that it was occasioned by gross misconduct
on the part of the survivor, or of his second. The
Learned Judge will tell the jury, that they cannot find
the prisoner guilty of manslaughter, that they must
either convict him of wilful murder or entirely acquit
him. There can he no compromise, as our code does
not sanction any account being taken of extenuating
circumstances, or afford any discretion to the Judge,
in such a case, of awarding a lighter sentence. The
almost invariable result is his absolute acquittal from
the charge.

There are several other cases of a similar character
to which our observations will apply with equal force;
a strong illustration of which will be afforded by
the trial of a man named MAURICE PERRY, at
Bridgewater, on Monday last. There the jury,
however, acted contrary to the general custom, and
actually found the unfortunate young man guilty,
many being in tears when they returned their ver-
dict. The facts of the case were very simple. The
prisoner, with other railway labourers, was drinking
in a public-house on the evening of the 28th of June
last. All the parties were more or less in liquor ;
and a quarrel took place, between two of them,
which ended in a challenge being given and re-
ceived for an immediate pugilistic encounter, PERRY
being the second to one of the combatants.
After a few rounds had taken place, a man named
SMITH interfered, and told them that they must stop
fighting, for he was a constable. Some one imme-
diately knocked him down, but it does not appear
that the prisoner was in any manner concerned in
that assault. BAILEY, the deceased man, then came
into the ring, saying that he was a constable called
in to assist, and that they should stop fighting. He
was pushed out of the ring, but immediately re-
turned. The bystanders were infuriated with the
drink they had taken, and on his second entry he
was knocked down ; he died almost instantly. The
surgeon stated that there was an injury to the brain
which might have been caused by a blow, and an in-
jury to a vein near the collar-bone, which caused its
rupture and occasioned instant death. There was
conflicting evidence as to the participation of PERRY
in this assault, one witness stating that he had
struck the deceased, another that it was a man
next him, and all parties agreeing that the
other second—a man named CRAWLEY—was much
more violent than the prisoner. The Chief Justice
of the Common Pleas left two questions to the jury,
first, whether there was a common purpose to pre-
vent the deceased from putting an end to the fight;
and, secondly, if so, was the prisoner one of those
who were so engaged—did he himself give the blow,
or did he aid or assist others in the common object ?
The jury declared, first, that he was guilty of being
a party concerned, but that they had no evidence of
his having given the fatal blow, thus practically
acquitting him of any personal violence, although
they found that, in common with others, he had op-
posed the constable in the execution of his duty. The
Chief Justice again told them that if he were there
with others, having a common object to prevent the
peace-officer from putting an end to the fight, that
amounted to the crime of murder. The jury then
returned u verdict of guilty, in the usual form, many
of them, as we have already stated, being in ' tears
while doing so. Now we do not attempt to say that
the Chief Justice was wrong in the law he thus laid
down. There is no doubt that it is in accordance
with many precedents decided when the life of a party
accused was deemed of much less importance than is
now the case. Every person of the seventy or
eighty present at the contest might with equal justice
have been convicted, and there was scarcely one of the
witnesses produced before the jury who might not
have been placed in the dock and found equally guilty.
We cannot conceive, however, that the extreme
penalty of the law could possibly be carried
into execution in such a case. If it were
so it would materially tend to prevent other
jurors from returning conscientious verdicts,
and occasion many persons whose moral guilt was far
greater than that of the prisoner to escape scatheless.
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punishment. Wherever a party has deliberately
planned the death of his fellow-man, and carried
his premeditated intention into execution, we would
unhesitatingly leave him to the penalty justly
attached to his crime ; but in this
case
there was no such intention. No deadly weapon was
used, not even a stick or stone was uplifted, the
only moral guilt was that of opposing with force and
violence a peace-officer in the execution of his duty.
This is a serious offence, and deserving a severe
punishment, but the prisoner having been practically
acquitted by the jury of striking the fatal blow, his
moral guilt cannot be increased by the unfortum Lte
result. Let him receive a fitting punishment, and
the hands of justice will be strengthened, but if the
full sentence should be carried into effect, it will
I induce many to join in the cry for the total abolitioA

of capital punishments, and render a conviction in
a similar case next to an impossibility.

A letter from Berne, of the 6th, says—

" The President of the Diet announced in the sitting of
to-day that the rep,rt and the propositions of the Com-
mittee of Seven would be placed on the orders of the
day for the next sitting, which will not take place before
Monday, the 9th. The propositions, which were only
communicated very late this evening to the Deputies,
are as follow:—`The Federal Diet, seeing tho communi-
cations made by the Federal Directory, under date the
30th July and the 2d and sth of August in the present
year, relative to the preparations of war in different can- I
tons, as well as to the seizure of arms and ammunition in
the canton of Tessino; after having heard the report and
propositions of the Committee nominated the 30th July ;
considering, Ist, That by decree of 20th July last, the
Diet declared the separate league of the seven cantons of
Lucerne, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwald, Zug, Fribourg, and
Valais, contrary to the Pact, and therefore dissolved, in
reserving to itself the ulterior measures which circum-
stances may render necessary ; 2d. That the incessant
military preparations which are being made in these
cantons simultaneously, the distribution of arms and
ammunition, the establishment of fortifications on dif-
ferent points of the frontiers of the said States, and the
continual deliveries of considerable quantities of foreign
arms and ammunition, joined to the protest of the seven
cantons against the decree of the Diet of the 20th July
last, and to the proclamations addressed to the people
in some of them, leave no doubt as to tne object of those
preparations ; 3d, That these acts are in a high de-
gree of a nature to excite the people, to augment the
irritation, and thereby compromising public tranquillity,
which it is the duty of the Diet to maintain :—Decrees
—Art. 1. The seven cantons mentioned above are se-
riously warned that they must abstain from everything
which can disturb public tranquillity, and especially
cause all military and extraordinary preparations to
cease. 2. The Government of Tessino is charged to
retain provisionally the arms and ammunition mentioned
in its report of 26th July last, until the ulterior disposi-
tion of the Diet shall be made known. 3. The confede-
rated states ought also to retain all arms and ammu-
nitions destined to the cantons of the separate league,
and give immediate information thereof to the Federal
Directory. 4. The Federal Directory is immediately
charged to communicate the present decree to all the
cantons, in order that they may conform thereto."
It is stated that the draft of the above propositions
was unanimously approved by the members of the
Committee.

We learn from Rome that the Cardinal Secretary
of State has made choice, from the lists presented
by the Governors of the different provinces, of the
Deputies who are to assemble at Rome, to make
known to the POPE the wishes and wants of the
provinces. The Deputies are twenty-three in number,
and are convoked for the sth November. Their
names are as follows :—Rome, the Prince Barberini,
M. Vanutelli, advocate ; Comarea of Rome, M.
Lanuti, advocate; Bologna, M. Silvani, advocate;
Marquis Bevilacqua or M. Minghetti, landowner,
at the choice of the Cardinal-Legate. (The Italian°
a journal of Bologna, states that Cardinal
Amat has chosen M. Minghetti as the second Deputy
of that place.) Ferrara, M. Recchi, landowner;
Forli, Marquis Paolucci ; Ravenna, Count Pasolini ;
Urbin and Pesaro, Count Ferri ; Velletri, 11. San-
tucci, advocate; Ancona, Prince Simonetti; Mace-
rate, Marquis Ricci ; Camerino, M. Peda, landowner;
Fermo, M. Felici, landowner ; Ascoli, M. Sgariglia
del Monte, landowner ; rerouse, Count Domini ;
Spolete, Count de Campello ; Rieti, Di. Piacentini,
advocate ; Vertibi, Ciofi, advocate ; Orvieto, Mar-
qnis Gualterio ; Civita 'Vecchia, M. Benedetti, advo-
cate ; Frosinone, M. de Rossi, advocate ; Benevento
Baron Sabariani.

Intelligence has been received from Lisbon to the
4th of August.
The liberty of the press and of the subject were
restored on the Ist of August, and on the second the
Opposition journals re-appeared as usual. The Diario
of the 4th contains a royal decree, re-establishing the
departments of Adjutant-General and Quartermaster-
General as definitively annexed to the Commander-
in-Chief of the army, which is vested in the KING.
Viscount CAMPANHAA, the KING'S aide-de-camp, is
appointed to resume the functions of Quartermaster-
General. A further decree appears for the re-
organization of the War-office. The Junta of Public
Credit likewise republishes the programme of the
grand national lottery, which is to cancel about half
a million sterling of Bank of Lisbon notes. The sale
of tickets is proceeding slowly, but if it should be
effected it will afford great relief. _ _

In the same journal we find the following official
report of the state of the country :—" In general,
peace is everywhere gradually re-established. Iso-
lated attempts have been made here and there, but it
is certain that they have obtained no fruit whatever."
No decree has yet appeared for the elections for
the Cortes, which, according to the protocol " ought
to take place without delay." Neither has the
Cabralista Ministry been dismissed. A collective
note from the representatives of the three Powers,
demanding their dismissal was to be presented to the
QUEEN on the 4th inst.

A. Portuguese steamer from Maderia brings intel-
ligence that on the 26th ult., shortly after the arrival
of the allied squadron, the island returned to its alle-
giance, the Junta became dissolved, and the authority
of the possession was placed in the hands of the Eng-
lish and French commanders, Captains CODRING•
Tort and DEGUEIS, who immediately resigned it
to Senhor RIBEIRO, the former Civil Governor.
His restoration to office was hailed with
great enthusiasm and rejoicing, and not the least vio-
lence or reaction was witnessed. The British Consul
at St. Michael's, in the Azores, likewise writes that
that island will immediately submit on learning
officially that the Oporto Junta has surrendered.
A very serious question has arisen between Senhor
AykLoN and the Portuguese Government with re-
spect to the maltreatment of a number of Gallego
porters by a band of lawless soldiers belonging to the
16th, a Cabralist regiment. The Government was
extremely reluctant to give satisfaction, but yielded
at last to M. AyLrozes energetic remonstrances. He
had to threaten that he would call for his passports.
Count DAS ANTAS is still in Lisbon. He had ob-
tained his passports, and was to have left by the last
packet, but suddenly changed his determination, it is
said, in consequence of an intimation which he re-
ceived from the French Minister, Baron DE VARENNE!
The savings-banks operations of Lisbon begin to
give some indications of reviving confidence in the
community. The week just ended shows 3,102 mil-
reis of deposits, and only 227 milreis withdrawn.
The Folk:: Commercial reports " a few transactions
in public funds and shares, but very few purchasers:'
The discount_ on Bank of Lisbon notes is 1,800 reis
per 4,800.
The heat for some days past has been excessive,
and the thermometer has frequently stood at 100 de-
grees of Fahrenheit in the shade. The fruit, as well
as the various crops of this summer, is of unusual ex-
cellence. The Municipal Chamber of Lisbon has
ceased its gratuitous distribution of bread.

The Madrid mail of the sth had not arrived in
Paris when the post left.

We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday,
All the papers, with the exception of the Journa,
des Debats, give a review of the session. The excep-
tion is significant. Has the session been so disgrace-
ful that even the Man of Ghent is ashamed of it 1'

The Constitutionnel, which is the least severe upon
the Ministry of any of the journals, thus reviews the
events of perhaps the most disgraceful year of M.
GuizoT's political life :

The session closed yesterday. Peers and Deputies
separate, discontented with the Government aptettohmecomasli
them-
selves, after a session that they would be hp
only sterile, but which they know has bornea
detestable fruits. In vain does the majority endeavour
t
to deceive itself with better hopes, and to believe that
at its retura all will be effaced or forgotten. Every
body at the bottom of his heart feels the certainty that
the present evil is immense, and that the Ministerial
future does not show itself under a more favourable as.
pect. The faults which have been committed within
the last sevea years are so great, that they have not yet
produced all their sad results. Abroad, one may fear in
Spain a divorce, or an abdication of the Queen, which
would immediately raise the question of the succession
of the Duke de Montpensier, and put Europe in flames.
In England the discontent against the French Govern-
ment is no longer a passion ; it is much worse ; it is
the foreign policy of Great Britain deliberately accepted
*ny all statesmen. Greece, our ally, is still placed in the
alternative of humiliation or a conflict. We may fear
civil war in Switzerland, an Austrian intervention in
Italy. We do not speak of the difficulties which Abd.
el-Kader may excite against us on the side of Morocco.
Our best chances are then the status quo. In the in-
terior the Government remains couched under an im-
mense disconsideration ; each of the Chambers, rightly
Or wrongly, thinks more on this point than it has said.
The self-interest of private individuals has had the most
d-plorable effects on things as on cpinions. M. Demon,
who has promised admirable finances tor the next ses-
sion, does not know what to do—he has at once to supply
the deficit and diminish the receipts. The Minister of
Foreign Affairs has pledged himself against all political

reform, and fancies that he withdraws himself from em-
barrassment by decorating with the name of reform
some old Bills which have been presented every
year for a long time. The Ministers themselves are dis-
couraged, and know not on what side to turn their ef-
forts. When the Cabinet thinks of retiring, it is re-
strained by the fear of going out by too bad a door,
under the influence of the public sentiment, which
manifests itself at this moment, Thus even the blame
of public opinion becomes for it a motive to attach itself
to power. Such is the way in which the session termi-
nates; such the consequences of two acts which the Mi-
nisters cannot repair—the Spanish marriages, the
corruption practised in the elections. It is from them
that abroad every event is perilous, and at home every
private scandal takes in people's minds a political cha-
racter. A year ago the Government had the English
alliance, with a Liberal Ministry in England, that is to
say, the mea,,s of saving Poland, of serving the cause
of nations, of rendering glorious and profitable to France
all the progress which liberty makes in Europe, and
which is accomplished against us. It had also a Par-
liamentary majority inclining towards Liberal ideas, that
is to say the means of sincerely accomplishing political
reforms, which are not less good and useful because they
are demanded by the Opposition. What use has it made
of ail that?"
The inauguration of the statue of the Duke of
ORLEANS at St. Omer, took place on the Bth with
great pomp. In the evening the town was illuminated.
The Presse gives the following account of an un-
pleasant occurrence at Monterey, which may, per-
haps, embroil the French Government with that of
the United States. The M. MOERENHOUT, who is
the hero of this affair, is, if we mistake not, the same
excellently disposed individual who busied himself
as French Consul in Syria, in reviving the exploded
calumnies of the dark ages against the Jews, thus
inciting the Syrian Catholics to commit all sorts of
horrible atrocities on the defenceles Israelites, who
were massacred wholesale, until Sir MOSES MONTE-
noRE by going to Syria, and interfering with the
Turkish authorities, caused a stop to be put to this
relentless persecution. The following is the article
from the Presse

"It has already been stated that M. de Moerenhout,
the French Consul at Monterey (California), had been
expelled from that town by the American authorities.
This news is confirmed by a letter from Monterey,
giving the following explanation :--When Colonel
Treinhout had gained possession of Monterey, he pub-
lished a decree, interdicting all persons not in the ser-
vice of the United States, from carrying arms. A
Frenchman, named Clement Panaud, was soon after-
wards arrested on the road of San Jose, at Monterey,
with a pair of pistols about his person. He was released
after being deprived of his pistols, and also of some
horses, laden with merchandise. On arriving at Mon-
terey, Panaud laid his grievance before the Consul.
Witheut, according to the letter, making due inquiries,
M. Moerenhout sent in a very strong remonstrance to
the American Government, demanding restitution, or
compensation, amounting to 4,000 francs, at which sum
Panaud estimated the goons and horses taken from him.
An inquiry was made, from which it was ascertained
that the real value of what had been taken fr, m Panaud
did ❑ot amount to morn than a few hundred francs, and
that it was legally confiscated by his violation of the de-
cree issued by Colonel Treinhout. The letter further
states that the inquiry proved that M. Moerenhout had
knowingly made himself an accomplice in this culpable
speculation, and besides had used such terms in making
his demand of compensation, that it was impossible for
Colonel Treinhout to suffer him to remain at his post.
Consequently, on November 10, be sent an order toll.
Moerenhout too leave Monterey- in twenty-four hours."

The accounts of the harvest are most satisfactory.
The crop of wheat on the Rhine is the finest re-
membered for the last fifty years, and the potatoes
are abundant, and of excellent quality.
" Wherever the harvest is terminated," says the Echo
de r Agriculture, "and in all the markets where new
wheat was offered for sale, prices continue to decrease.
That result, unfortunately, is not yet general. In the
districts adjoining Paris and in part of the north, the mar-
kets are but scantily supplied. In Paris, particularly,
the quantity brought to market is inferior to the
demand ; the price of flour is consequently on the
increase, and it is very probable that bread will
augment by one centime per kilogramme on the
15th. The crop being truly abundant, and it being
only necessary to arrive at the moment when the
wheat ca❑ be thrashed and sold, it was believed
that the city of Paris would authorise the bakers to
dispose of part of the entire of their re-erne. Hitherto
not only was that authorisation withheld, but it appears
that the prefect of police has opposed to the measure an
absolute veto. That decision, if without appeal, would
be deplorable, for the reserve could not be employed
under more auspicious and opportune circumstances.
The weather having changed to rain during the last two
days will occasion some delay in the operations of the
harvest, and consequently in the appearance of the new
grain in the markets. It will be a fresh cause of in-
creased price, and perhaps even of penury of good flour
at the Halle of Paris, whilst the public stores contain a
quantity sufficient for twenty days' consumption. Every-
where, moreover, the expectations founded on the har-
' Test have been realised, and the crop of 1847 will be one
of the most abundant witnessed for many years."
A Toulon letter, of the 6th, says—" Our reari-

time and military authorities have been ordered to

prepare to receive, with the honours paid to a Mar-
shal of France, an Ambassador from Persia, who has
embarked at Constantinople in a French war-
steamer, and is expected to arrive very shortly. The
Prince DE JOINVILLE, who is said to be seriously

indisposed, is also hourly expected in the steam-
frigate Labrador. His Royal Highness will make
no stay at Toulon, but proceed to Paris without loss
of time. His carriages, which were in the arsenal,
have been taken into the court-yard of the maritime
prefecture. Rear-Admiral HERNOUX, chief of the
Prince's staff, has been appointed to the command of
the Levant station in the room of Admiral TURPIN,
who is coming home. Thus the Mediterranean
squadron is disorganized, and its evolutions of this
year has been very circumscribed."
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse
on Tuesday at 76f. 40c. ; the Five per Cents., 117 f.
90c.; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,228 f. 75c. ; Rouen,
926 f. 25c. ; Havre, 582 f. 50c.; Great Northern, .531 f.
25c. ; Avignon, 563 E 75e. ; Vierzon, 538 f. 75c. ; Bor-
deaux, 468 f. 75c. ; Basle, 172 f. 50c.; Paris and
Strasburg, 390 f. ; Tours and Nantes, 367 f. 50c. ; Paris
and Lyons, 395 f. ; Lyons and Avignon, 445 f. ;
Bordeaux and Cette, 462 f. 50c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TIIE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, AUGUST 11.

Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 1514—Dutch
Rhenish, 21/2—Luxembourg, I—Paris and Strasbourg, 3%.

MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.)
MEAT MARKETS.
SOUTHALL, AUG. 11.—Prime Beasts and Sheep moved
Ystaok
at
folly
last week's quotations. In all other
only a moderate business was doing.
off
kindssteamily e aodfil
Beef from 3s 4d to 43 6d; Mutton, 3s 10d to 5s 2d;
Lamb, 5s to 6s; Veal, 4s to 4s 8d; and Pork, 4s to 4s
6d per 81bs.
RONFORD, AUG. 11 the whole the trade was
firm here, but we can notice no improvement in the quo-
tations. Beef, from 3s 8d to 4s 6d; Mutton, 4s to 5s 4d;
Lamb, 5s to 6s; Veal, 4s to 4s 8d; and Pork, 4s to
4s 6d per Sibs.; Suckling Calves, 18s to 28s; Quarter
Old Store Pigs, 16s to 19s; and Milch Cows, with their
small calf, 161 to 191 each.
LEWES, AUG. 10.—Beet, from 3s 8d to 43 8d; Mutton,
4s to 5s 4d; Lamb, 5s 4d to 6s; and Veal, 4s to 4s 6d per
81bs. A moderate supply and a steady trade.
MEV/GATE AND LEADENHALL.
We had a very slow general demand here to day, yet
prices were mostly supported. Beef, from 3s 2d to 4s
2d.; Mutton, 3s 8d to ss; Lamb, 4s to 4s 6d; Veal,
3s 10d to 4s 10d; and Pork, 3s 10d to 4s 10d per 81bs,
by the carcase.

SMITHFIELD.--IrdYMlVreadjnitry73l. to 41; New ditto,
2/ 5s to 3/ ss; Old Clover, 4/ to 5l; New ditto, 3/ to 41 ' •
and Straw, 11 12s to 11 16s per load. A full average
supply, aad a sluggish demand.
CUMBERLAND.—OId Meadow Hay, 3/ 5s to 41; New
dittoto, Old Clover,New ditto,
31 V; and Straw, 11 125 to 1/ 16s per load. Supply
very moderate, and trade dull.
WHITECHAPEL.—OId Meadow Hay, 3/ to 41; New
ditto, 21 53 to 31 ss; Old Clover, 41 to 5155; New ditto,
31 to 4/ ; and Straw, 1/ 12s to 1/ 16s per load. Both
Hay and Straw moved off slowly, at our quotations.

CORN AVERAGES.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH
the R tarns of the
RN
For the Week: ended Aug. 12, 1847, made up
from
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Eagland and Wales
per Imperial Quarter.
WHEAT. [BeaMr.! cam I RYE. I BEANS. I PEAS.
"ICE .. 175 s 5d I 43s 11d 31s ld 52s 2d I 54s Id 47s 5d
The Duties on Foreign Grai1a...........,...,...e now suspended.

DEATH or A LEAGUER.—Mr. Andrew Dalziel, one
of the eight gentlemen who originated the Manchester
Anti• Corn-law Association, out of which sprang the
League, died at Manchester a few days since. The names
of the gentlemen who started this memorable association
are—Archibald Prentice, late proprietor and editor of
the Manchester Times ; Philip Thompson, manager of
the Manchester and Liverpool District Bank ; W. A.
Cunningham, manager of the National Provincial Bank;
James Howie, now residing at Edinburgh ; Edward
Baxter, of Belfast; James Leslie, of Manchester; An-
drew Dalziel (the deceased); and William Rawson, Esq.,
who became the treasurer of the League, and continued
an active member throughout. This meeting was held
in September, 1838. Our correspondent adds that Mr.
Dalziel has died in somewhat indigent circumstances.
REDUCTION IN THE PRICE OF BREAD.—Yester-
day there was a further reduction in the price of the 41b.
loaf of wheaten bread—the best quality being now 7d. ;
bread made from seconds flour, 6id. ; and in cense-
g.trqhyeuinelies
general.
euor fotrh
ncheapness l
inls wheaten,
sde m
abreadnd. made from
neighbourhood,
—cr
hbHou
orader,evneasintsd
hhenaaesvx; p, at,
~,irteciieaklal partiallyhi
will
acommencedrbeocfom aeievuelir:‘:
Liens made hill country forms of 25 to 30 Lushels per
acre. Mr. Daniel Newton, of Bowood Farm, in the
parish of Cotleigh, has an extraordinary piece of wheat
(after potatoes).—Exeter News of yesterday.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. rr
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was without
alteration. Sales, 5,000 bales, of which 500 were Ame-
rican, and 300 Surat, for export. The prices for 4,000
bales of American have been 6/d. to 7id. per lb. Rail-
way Shares have been fiat, without any improvement in
prices.
The Share Market was decidedly firmer yesterday.
The following are a faw of the principal sales of Rail-
way Shares by Messrs. Lamond and Co.:—
East Indian . . £o 3 0
Derby, Stafford, and Worcestershire .... 0 7 0
Northern and Southern Connecting
Northern Counties Union
Barbadoes
Madrid and Valencia
Louvain ala Sambre, ex int 0 12 0
Eastern Coup ties, York Extension 6 15 0
West Riding Union
Trinidad
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole 1 4 6
Leicester & Bedford, Exchange Certificate 0 12 6
Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston 1 5 0
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A) 2 6 0
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate, ex 5 10 0
Accounts from Monte Video, of June 9, received via'
Rio de Janeiro, state that there was still every prospect
of an accommodation between the Oriental and Argen-
tine Republica, the British and French Ministers having
the most perfect understanding in the matter.
At Rio the exchange on London was 27/d. The
heir to the throne, the infant son of the Emperor, had
died unexpectedly.
Most cheering advices continue to be received from
the country respecting the harvest prospects, and a fur-
ther decline is expected in the value of corn.
The Money Market generally remains in much the
same state as previously, but all are on the qui vive to
ascertain whether the Bank of England will further ad-
vance the minimum rate of interest.
The English Funds have been rather buoyant again
to-day. Consols having touched 87* for transfer,
and 87i for account. Exchequer-bills have been ls.
discount to 3s. premium, or scarcely so good as yester-
day. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have
been 89k • Bank Stock is at 195. Business is very
circumscribed.
The Foreign Securities are very dull, but there is an
improvement in Mexican to 18 and 18f. Grenada have
been 19i. Dutch Two-and •a-Half per Cents. are 56
to 561.
In Railway Shares there has been a paucity of busi-
ness, but the quotations are in several instances rather
firmer.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced ...... 873A5AN
3 per Cent. Consols Anns 87%%N1ie
New 31% per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, Jan. sth, Expire 1860 9%
India Bonds 1,0001
Ditto under 1.0001
Consols for Account 875A%
Exchequer Bills. 3d.
1,000/.
5001.
6 2
Small
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Granada, 1 per Cent. .. 19%
Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent lB% 18
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto. 4 per Cents
Ditto for the Account 2834
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2% per Cents
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK
RAILWAYS. PAID. PEa SUAAE.
Aberdeen
Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. 2:34 1 .... to
Ayrshire and Galloway 2% to
Belfast and County Down .. 10 ..
Birmingham & Oxford June... 15 .
Birmingham, Wol., & Dudley 10 ... .
Birming., Wol., & Stour Val. 8 ......
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction 6% — ..... to
Boston, Stamf., & Birming... 5

Bristol and Exeter
Do., Thirds ...... ... ..... ... 15
Buckinghamshire 8/. 4s —
Caledonian
Ditto, Half Shares
Ditto, Clydesdale Junction 35
Chester and Holyhead 3234 —
Cheltenham and Oxford
Clarence. lOO ..... to

Do., Ist Class, 6 per Cent... 10
Do., 2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10
Do., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 - to
Cornwall
Ditto, Half Shares
Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 20 -
Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 121,4
Eastern Counties
Do. I'erpet., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d —
Do., do N 0.2,6/. 13s. 4d...
Do., York Extension ...... 71% ...... 6,6 X% to
Eastern Union 5O
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% — to
Ditto., Thirds l3B, 4d — to
East Lancashire
Ditto, New
Do., do., Extension Scrip... 114
East Lincolnshire
lidinburgh and Glasgow SO
Ditto, Half Shares
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12%
Edinburgh and Northern ... 17% ......
Ditto, New 2%
Ditto, Newport
Ditto, ditto, New ll/2
Edinburgh and Perth
Ditto, Extension
Ely and Huntingdon
Ditto, New 1 — -
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% — ...... to
Ditto, New
Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle..Bl. 63.8 d... to
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50
Ditto, New -

Jp
Do. 1/4 Shares (5 per ct.gua.) 12%
Great Northern ... 6 ...... to
Do. London & York Exten. 21,12 l% to
Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 35

.it. South. .x. .
Great North of England 100 ...•• •
Ditto, New 40/ 5 .....
Ditto, New 30/ ... 30 ... .. 69 .. ... to
Ditto, New 151. ............ 14 ...... •• •••
to
Great Western
Ditto, Half Shares ...... 50
Ditto, Quarter Share 3 ...... 15
Ditto, Fifths 2O
Do. New 171
Huddersfield and Manchester 19 .. to
Ditto, Thirds
Hull and Selby 5O ...... ... .. to
Ditto, Half Shares
Ditto, Quarter Shares 124 ...... to

At. J,
Ipswich S:Bury St. Edmunds 15— — to
Do. do. and Norwich
Lancaster and Carlisle.... ... 50
Do., Thirds
Leeds and Bradford
Leicester and Bedford
Leeds, Dewsbury, & blanches. 321/ — to
Do., Branch % Shares 714...... ...... to
Ditto, New Branch (Blue) 2% —
Ditto, Extension (Green).. 21/2 —
Do.

New Eaten. 2iA

Leeds and Thirek
Ditto, New
Do., do., Prefer.,6 per Cent. 3%. ....
Liverpool. Crosby, and South-
port.
Liverpool, Manchester, and
Newcastle Junction 21,2 — •••••• to
London & Blackwall...l6/. 13s. 4d 63/4 to
Ditto New, No. 1..
Ditto New, No. 2 ... 2/. 13s. 4d. l/4 dis to
Do. Extension
Lond., Bright., & South Coast 50
Do. Consolidated Eighths... 20
Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 ......
Do. Pref. Cony. 5 per Cent. 50 ...... 50% to
London and Greenwich... 12/.155. 4d...
Ditto Preference lBl 17s 2d...
London and North IV estern..loo ......1691(2 to
Do. Quarter ... •..L. and B. 12
Do. do. New ...... .... ...... 2
Do. do. Fifths
Do. Quarters
Do. 401. Shares L. &M. 10 ... .
Do. 40/. Shares...M. and B. 40 . 67
Do. 10/.... M. and B. (A.) 5 . .... -
Do. 10/. .. M. and B. (B.) 5 -
Do. 101.... M. and B. (C.) 1
London, Oxford, and Cheltm. 2
London and S. Western.... 41/. 6s 10d 65% to 641/2
Do. New Consolidated Bths. 40
Ditto New 50/. ....... . 321h.. , .. 35% to
Ditto New 40/. ... ...... .. .. 26 ......
Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 50 ......
Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 40
Ditto Scrip 501.
Ditto ditto 401
London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 1% — to
Londonderry and Coleraine... 25
Londonderry and Enniskillea
25 22% ...... to
Lynn and Ely
Lynn and Der ehard
Manchester and Leeds B2 - ... -.. -
Ditto Half Shares , ... 38 ......
Ditto Quarters
Ditto Fifths
Ditto Sixteenths ... ..... ... 614 — ...... to
Ditto Thirds (Reg.) ......71. 4s —
Do. Liverpool and Bury... 29
Do. Half Shares (late Hud-
dersfield and Sheffield... 28
Manch. Buxton, & Matlock 425.
Manchr, Sheffield, and Linc.loo -
Ditto 14 Shares (No. 1) ... 13
Ditto, ditto (No. 2) 25
Ditto, 1/8 Shares (No. 3)... 7%...... _
Ditto Grimsby . 20

Ditto, ditto.
Ditto, ditto ...
Ditto, Sheffield, and Line. 5 ......
Manchester and Southampton 2
Midland lOO ll9ll ..• .. to
Ditto Fifths . 2
Ditto, 401. Shares
Ditto, 501. 5hare5........... 6
Midland, Birm., and Derby...loo ..• ..
Midland, Consol. Bristol and
to
Birmingham 6 per eent....100 ......
Midland, Bristol and Glouc. 34
Ditto ditto
~......72.93...•
.. . to

Midland, Leices. and SN7an-
nington (S per ct.gua.)...• 50 ••" •
80
24ii:ld. Great Western (Irish) ......
Newcastle and Berwick ...... 20
Ditto New .................... .-'
Ditto N:,rtli Shields..
Newcastle and Carlisle ...... 100 ••—•
Ditto Quarter Shares ....•303/'•' ..
Ditto New Quartev., Bi. le:!.94••••• ...al+ to