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LONDON:
FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1341.

We learn from Manchester that the meeting
of Ministers on the subject of the Corn-laws pro-
mises to be very useful and very successful.
Some hundreds of ministers, from all parts of the
kingdom, have written to the Committee to an-
nounce their intention to be present. To make
their assembling as useful as possible, a circular
has been sent by the Secretary to all those gen-
tlemen who mean to attend, informing them that
they may serve the cause of humanity by bring-
ing with them facts carefully collected which are
calculated to illustrate the condition of the
labouring classes. The following are some of the
particulars to which their attention is invited :
Are the working classes in your neighbourhood gene-
rally well employed, or otherwise ?—State the average
weekly wages paid, distinguishing between skilled and
unskilled labourers.

Has the amount of their earnings been increased or
diminished within your experience, and how much ?
How have you found the demand fur labour to be, af-
fected by cheap or dear food ?
Have wages risen with the rise of the price of food,
and fallen with its fall, and in what proportion ?
Is the condition of the labouring population, as a class,
better or worse now, as compared with former periods,
within your experience ?
What proportion do the poor-rates in your parish bear
to those of former periods ? _ _ .

Refer to prison reports, and to reports of infirmaries,
dispensaries, and other charities, for statistics of the
state of crime, disease, and destitution in your neigh-
bourhood now, as compared with former periods.
If your experience lie in a rural district, state whe-
ther the wages paid to agricultural labourers are regu-
lated according to the number of children.
What is the state of the middle class in your district,
such as the small trader, &c. ? Is their condition im-
proved or deteriorated now as compared with former pe-
riods within your experience ?
Have you perceived any connection between high and
law-priced food and an increase or diminution of the
funds of your religious and benevolent societies ?
Have you found any falling-off in the numbers of your
congregation in consequence of the distress occasioned
by the high price of food ?
Has there been any decrease in the attendance of the
scholars at your Sunday schools, and if so, to what
cause do you attribute it ?

If these suggestions be well and widely acted
upon—and we earnestly recommend gentlemen
who cannot attend to send to Manchester all the
facts which they think worthy of notice—a vast
body of information of the most authentic kind,
concerning the condition of the industrious
classes, will be collected by men who are placed
in the most favourable situation for acquiring ac-
curate knowledge. We, however, would ven-
ture to suggest that the inquiries should be
quite as much into the moral as into the econo-
mical condition of the labourers. The " statis-
tics of crime, disease, and destitution," should
not be incidental illustrations, but the principal
objects of inquiry in connection with seasons of
plenty and scarcity. Tables of mortality, where
any have been kept, and registers of marriages
and births, if properly examined, will throw
much valuable light on the effect of the varying
prices of food. It will be useful also to ascer-
tain in agricultural parishes, whether the sti-
mulus supposed to have been given by the
Corn-laws to agriculture has had the effect
of bringing more land into cultivation, and
so of extending employment for agricultural la•
bourers, or of promoting improved husbandry,
farmers, and so diminishing employment, while the
rent of thelandowners, if not the profit of the
halt been much increased. Considering
the great outcry which the Pro-Corn-law men
have made as to the Corn-laws producing em-
ployment for
agricultural
labourers, a complete
a elucidatio of *
this point will be of considerable
importance.

Nor should the
omitted from amusements of the people be
thevvi_n.vestigatton. In towns, those
despised places
destroyed, the Inch the Tories want to have
Population of which is exposed
every day to their fake and calumnious accu-
sations, a great pr
ogress has of late been made,
by means of mechanics' and literary institutions,
by museums, and public exhibitions, in pro-
viding a great fund of harmless and rational
amusement for the industrious classes. Have
any such efforts been made to promote the im-
provement and happiness of the agricultural la-
bourers? What 14 the cultivation of their taste
as well as the cultivation of their morals? What
effect on their mental improvement, on their so-
cial habits, and on their civilization, is produced
by continually extending the parks and preserves
of the landowners ? Do the peasantry learn from
their adorned country-seats to acquire any taste
for sculpture and painting ? Do their music-halls
send forth sounds which improve the ear and the
voice of their toiling serfs ? Or is the state of
music and song--the amusements of an idle
hour, and the solace of many of the lesser griefs
to which our nature is subject—ruder and more
vulgar amongst the agricultural labourers of
England, than in the whole compass of the
civilized world ? From the little we know of
the amusements of agricultural labourers, and
the' present state of the fine arts amongst them,
which, in contradistinction from the mechanic arts,
are taken under the exclusive patronage of the
Tories—we can venture to say, at least of the
peasantry of the North of England, that they
are, in all that concerns song, much below " the I

rude Carinthian. boor." The whole condition
of this, we think, degraded if. not unhappy race
of men requires to be known, and the whole of
that cannot be known unless their amusements,
and the state of the fine arts amongst them, be
included in
_the knowledge, and they be con-
trasted on these points with the calumniated
town population.
In rural villages the surveillance of the
squire and the parson is complete. They cannot
complain there of dense masses of human beings
mocking their povier, to examine and control
them in detail; and the whole world would be
much instructed, could it now be accurately in-
formed of the sort of man the squires and the
parsons—the united bread-taxers—have made of
the agricultural labourer. We are afraid that
too few ministers will go from agricultural dis-
tricts to give the necessary information, for in
them the monopoly of instruction is even closer
than the monopoly of food. The aristocracy
and the clergy are responsible to GOD and their
country for the condition of the rural population,
and that is such that a. Bohemian serf or a Ger-
man boor would be greatly degraded were he
converted into an agricultural labourer. We do
hope, therefore, that an endeavour will be made
by the ministers to ascertain the whole condition
of the agricultural labourer, and make it known
to the world.

An end was yesterday put, by the publication
of Lord JonN RUSSELL'S Circular Letter, to all
doubts as to the day when Parliament will as-
semble. On the 19th, the day fixed for the re-
turn of the writs, the Commons will meet to
choose a Speaker. On the ensuing Tuesday, we
believe, after the Members have been sworn in,
her MAJESTY, if her health permit, will open the
Parliament for the despatch of business by a
Speech from the -?Fhrone, which will express
some sentiments relittive to those measures of the
Ministers, to which the Tories will not assent.
We have heard that Mr. VILLIERS is likely to
move or second the Address, and ensure a hear-
ing for the Corn-law question, as well as make
that a prominent subject of discussion. The
Tories will move, it is supposed, an amendment
to the Address, and the debate on the subject
will probably last the whole of the remainder of
the week, if not longer. At its close, a division
will show the relative strength of parties, and
thereupon, resignations will, it is supposed, im-
mediately follow, and the formation of a new
Cabinet. About September the 10th, Sir RO-
BERT PEEL, with his forces in order, will be pre-
pared, we presume, to meet the Parliament to
ark for a vote of credit, to pass a Bill to conti-
nue the Poor-law Commission for another year;
then he will be ready to dismiss the gentle-
men to pheasant shooting, expressing his re-
gret that they have been summoned from
their genial and delightful pursuits on the moors
and the stubbles to the close and unhealthy at-
mosphere of the House of Commons. So will
be postponed till after Christmas all knowledge
of what Sir R. PEEL can or will do to restore
commercial prosperity, and so will the interest of
the nation, fbol that the nation is to trust its
dearest interests in such hands, be postponed,
that the Legislature may enjoy the more gratifying
sport of hunting hares and shooting pheasants.
We take it for granted, that the present Mem-
bers will allude to no other measures in the
QUEEN'S Speech than those on which an appeal
was made to the people, and that the odium
which belongs, in many persons' estimation, to
continuing the Poor-law Commission will be
wholly left to the friends and patrons of the
Times. If Sir R. PEEL and his party choose
to continue that measure, let them do it, and let
not the Tory papers have an opportunity hence-
forth of saying that the new Poor-law was ex-
clusively a Whig measure. Whatever may be
its demerits, they belong to PEEL and the
squires, who must now be exposed to the
blame of the Times, and avow their responsibility
to the nation.

The doctrines of the free traders are either
stupidly misunderstood or wilfully misrepre-
sented by their opponents. What the free
traders require is the restoration to all men of
their natural liberty to buy and sell where they
like and when they like. They do not ask for
favour or affection for any branch of industry.
On the contrary, they condemn as loudly all at-
tempts to bolster up manufactures as to bolster
up agriculture. They say that such attempts are
an interference with the employment of capital
by individuals, and they have learnt from their
great master, ADAM SMITH, to denounce that
as an act of sheer folly.
The opponents of the free traders, however,
represent them as aiming at exalting manufac-
tures and at depressing agriculture. They are
said to advocate excessive manufacturing. Now
really this is either a stupid mistake or
a wilful attempt to lead the public astray.
The free traders advocate and favour neither
one branch of industry nor another. They believe
that agriculture and manufactures are equally
essential to social prosperity as the two legs are
essential to the locomotion of the body. They
say, leave both to the fostering and protecting
hand of nature, and allow society, of the future
condition of which nobody knows anything, to
grow as nature dictates.
_ _ _

- It is a remark of Mr. STEWART that the human
body is one of the last things man allows to at-
tain its full form; but we think man is more slow
in allowing the full development of society than
of the human body. The latter, however,
is complete in an immense number of in-
dividuals, and when. savages flatten their
children's heads, or elongate their nostrils,
they may imitate some, as they suppose, perfect
model of the human form. No society, however,
has been complet. There is nothing like a model
community upon which the meddlers with society
can form it. Now free traders want only that so-
ciety shall be released from the gyves and strait
jackets with which these meddlers, with greater
barbarity than ever a savage showed to the
human form, have. sought to fetter society. To
represent free traders as pampering one branch
of industry and starving another, is quite unwar-
rantable. They desire freedom and prosperity,
fair play, and justice for all.

Every rainy day fills the community with
alarm. The people tremble for the harvest, and
a few fine or foul days will now make a difference
of millions to the wealth of the country, and of
life or death to many poor persons. The corn
markets, so far as sales are effected, are rising
rapidly. The Averages published to-day show
a rise of 4s. Id. since last week ; and as
the average of the six weeks, 655. 2d., is
below the average of the week, 68s. 3d. the
average of the six weeks will be higher next
week,even should very fine weather prevent a fur-
ther rise in the markets. The duty recorded to-day
is 21s. Bd. Last week it was 225. Bd.; and it
will now, we hope, for the sake of the people,
rapidly decline. The postponement of the har-
vest by the ungenial weather has compelled the
dealers to have recourse to foreign countries to
eke out our supply, and the great object at pre-
sent must be to bring that quantity into con-
sumption from abroad without paying any duty.
The people will suffer from high prices, and no-
thing will be contributed to the revenue.

There is not much news of any interest in the
Paris Journals of Tuesday. The Journal des
Debats has a long article on the projected aug-
mentation of the import duties in the United
States, which our Parisian Contemporary regards
as calculated to inflict considerable injury on
French commerce. The following is an analysis
of the article in the Debuts, which will interest
our commercial readers :

The Debats begins by stating that the United
States receive annually French produce and manufactures
to the amount of 120 to 130,000,000 fr., of which on an
average 50 millions are in silks, 12 millions in wines,and
brandies, 8 or 10 millions in cambrics, lawns, and linens,.
and 20 to 25 millions in furniture and other articles of
taste of Parisian manufacture. Immediately afterwards,
however; the Debats informs us that the imports of
French merchandise into the United States, in 1839,
amounted to 175 millions of francs, of which the amount

duty free was 115 millions, and that which paid duty •
170 millions, this duty, however, not exceeding upon about
a quarter or a third of the amount 5, 10, or 15 per cent.
upon the estimated value. Accustomed as we are to
errors in the French journals where figures are concerned,
we must confess that in a statistical article, and in a
paper which is generally got up as to its original articles
with so much care, they create some surprise. The
Debats does not explain why the imports ofFrench produce
and manufactures into the United States are estimated here
at 120 or 130 millions annually, whilst the official returns
in America, for 1839, state them at 175 millions ; and
as the division of this sum, according to the Debats,
makes, when added together 185, and not 175 millions,
we are unable to say whether the amount of imports is
the larger or the smaller sum. Errors of this nature are
of little importance in themselves, but they sometimes
affect the reasoning of an article, and they are calculated
to create an impression that it was written in haste,
which should never be the case where statistics are con-
cerned. The Debuts then goes on to observe, thatAfAhe
projected duty of 20. per cent. upon imports should be
enforced, two-thirds of the whole amount of French
goods imported into the United States will be subject to
an augmentation of duty, which would affect the demand
the more, as the articles exported to that country are
chiefly objects of luxury rather than necessity, and are,
therefore, less likely to meet with a sale at an increased
price. The United States, says the Debuts, are entering
upon an unwise course, and it reminds the Government
of that country, that the prosperity of a nation, and its
public credit, do not consist in its Customs' revenues. This
is a truism which few good political economists will, per-
haps, be inclined to dispute, and it would be well if it were
more adopted by different Governments. The Debats,
however, declares that France has set an example of
commercial liberality to the United States in the treaty
of 1822, and that if she permitted the Americans to have
the carrying trade of the cottons, which she imports, it
was probably because in return they received the greater
part of French goods into their own country duty free,
and levied very moderate duties upon the rest. The
Debats concludes by expressing a hope that the United
States, in the interest of their relations with Europe, and
particularly with France, will not hesitate to reject the
new fiscal measure which is proposed, and calls upon the
representatives of French interests to protest with energy
against a project, which, if realised, would, it says, vitiate
the principle of the treaties between France and the
United States, and be a retrograde step in a commercial
policy which has hitherto been liberal and enlightened.
" The man," says the Journal du Loiret, "who car-
ried away the two yotinggirls from Orleans, a few days
ago, has been taken mid recognised, but no traces of the
children have been discovered as yet, and there is every
reason to fear that their brutal raptor has murdered
them, after having treated them in a manner most
outraging to humanity. On the 29th ult. the villain was
seen and arrested at Jargeau, about four leagues from
Orleans, and brought into that town atilidst the execra-
tions of the people, who at length became so violent,
that a considerable armed force could with difficulty save
him from being torn to pieces. His name is Serein, he is
about fifty years of age, and in easy circumstances,
having a tobacconist's bureau at Ferolles, near Jargeau.
He alias preserved the most dogged silence as to the
treatment and fate of his innocent victims, but the bottom
of his cart has evidently been
.stained with blood,
though endeavours have been made to wash it out.
Similar marks are also perceptible on his clothes. He
has been taken back to Jargeau, with the cart, in order
to collect the testimony of those who may have seen
him in the interval between the carrying off the children
and his capture. P.S2.The following have just been
given us as the results of this excursion. He was ac-
companied by the Procureur du Roi, the Procureur-
General, and the Examining Magistrate. In every com-
mune by the way he was recognised, and received with in-
dignation. He, however, continued to protest his innocence
till he came within sight of his own village, when, over-
come with shame and compunction, he made a partial
confession, which the Magistrate took down in the cart
itself. Serein admitted that he had taken away the
children, and declared that he had left them in certain
fields, but had not murdered them. The cart was driven
to the spot indicated by him, where spots of blood were
to be seen, but no other traces of the objects of search
could be found. Ferolles was the next point. Here his
house was minutely inspected, and in it was discovered
one shoe of the eldest of the missing girls, her comb, and
a red ribbon she wore, all of them spotted with blood.
No further traces have yet been met with."
"A. short time ago," says the Constitutionnel,
" Count Arrivabene and M. Bianchi, of Milan, two
young men of 18 to 20 years of age, being at Nice, and
wishing to make a trip to France, but not having pass-
ports, engaged two men to ferry them over the river
Var. When they were in the middle of the stream,
these men plunged their passengers into the water, held
them down until they thought they were drowned, then
returned to Nice with the-money and effects of their
victims. One of the young men, being able to swim,
gained the bank, where he lay exhausted and apparently
dead, but was found on the following morning and re-
stored. The news of this crime having reached the
police, the authors of it were sought for; and one of them
was ar*ehended in a public-house, where he was en-
deavouring to sell some of the • stolen property. The
other escaped into France, but is said to have been since
lodged in prison, on the application of the Sardinian
authorities."

We are requested.to state that the gentleman upon
whom the Pope has conferred' the title of Count is not
the Hon. James Talbot of Malahide, but Mr. James
Talbot, of the county of Wexford, and brother to the lase
Member for Ross.

Two men, nameaNititc and Ferry, who, as our
readers may remember, murdered a man named Delahaye,
at St. Vaast, in the Seine Jpferieure, aided by the wife
and sister of the victim, to whom they were paramours,
were executed at Rouen the day before yesterday, in pur-
suance of the sentence of the Court of Assize in May
last. They died penitent. The two women, who had
also been condemned to death, have had their penalties
commuted into hard labour for life ; the wife of Dela-
haye being enceinte.
Duclos, who was brought before the Court of Peers
with Darmes and Buret as an accomplice in the attempt
to shoot the King, but acquitted, made his appearance
on Saturday before the Cour Royale, upon a double ap-
peal, one by himself, and another by the public prose-
cutor, against the judgment of the Correctional Tribunal,
whereby he was sentenced to two years' imprisonment,
and a fine of 300 fr., for having been found in possession
of warlike ammunition, but acquitted of that part of the
indictment which accused him of being a Communiste.
The Court confirmed the sentence of conviction and
punishment, but rescinding that of the acquittal, consi-
dering it to have been fully_ proved that the prisoner had
belonged to an unlicensed association, and therefore ad-
judged him to pay a fine of 3,000 francs, in which the pre-
vious 300 francs is to merge.
Several objects of antiquity have just been disco-
vered at Lyons, whilst digging the foundations of a new
building, on the hill of Fourvieres, the Forum vetus of
the Romans. Amongst them are a complete set of jewels,
which eighteen hundred years ago were the ornaments
of some great Roman lady, viz., an emerald necklace, a
pair of ear-rings, set with various precious stones, an-
other necklace, probably of amethysts, but much altered
by time, a curious chain, at least two yards in length,
some rings, upon one of which is engraved a proper
name, in Latin, and the words devoted to Venus, three
pairs of bracelets, several large and fine pearls, &c.,
The gold of the bracelets and other articles, is so pure,
that it was as bright as if it had just come from a jew-
eller's shop.
"The pediment of the Chamber of Deputies," says
the Moniteur, "is the fourth in rank as to size of all
known structures of the same ordir. The greatest is
that of the Madeleine, the inner dimensions of which are
108 feet in length at the base, a(tO twenty-four feet in
height. The figure of Christ is seYkisteen feet in stature.
Next follows the Pantheon of Parii, which measures 106
feet by 21. The third is the Pantheon at Rome which
has 91 feet by 19. The measurement of that of the
Chamber of Deputies is 90 feet by 16 feet, the figures
being in the proportions
.of between 12 and 13 feet in
height."

Two days ago, a man, who was cleaning out a sewer
in the Rue de Navarin, was nearly suffocated by the
mephitic vapour. A courageous pang man immediately
went down with a rope tied round him, and, in a fear
minutes returned with the other, who was almost dead,
but medical assistance being at italid he was soon'restored.
" The following tragical event," says the Constitu-
tionnel, " occurred a short time ago at Florence. A
negro in the servic&of Prinee C•tani:Zi, having amassed
some money, received the consei& of the parents of a
young. girl named litinciata Goldoni to his marriage
with her ; but as the girl was a fervent Catholic, and Za-
mor, the negro, a Mahometan, every possible effect wasmade to bring about his conversion. These efforts, how-
ever, were fruitless, and the marriage ceremony was
delayed. The father of the girl having invited the
negro to dinner, he ate heartily, but rejected the wine
when pressed to drink, upon which Nunciata said with a
smile :—‘ There is no danger in'vlrinking wine now, as
you are no longer a Mahometan' for you have been eat-
ing pork.' Furious at the trick that had been practised,
Zamor immediately stabbed the girl to the heart, and her
parents having attempted to defend her, he also killed
the father, and next attacked the mother and her son,
whom he also killed. Two soldier*, having heard the
cries of the victims, rushed to the spot, when Zamor
snatched up a gun which was at; hand, and shot one of
them dead. The other soldier *relied his carbine and
shot the negro, who died on the spot."
We spoke yesterday of the acccident which had
happened to his Majesty the King of Sardinia. A pri-
vate letter, which we have this_lsoment received from
Turin, dated the 29th of July,Finnounces that in fact
his Majesty the King of Sardinia bad had a fall from his
horse, in his park of Raconis, bra that this accident did
not hinder him from mounting Ids horse again, and con-
tinuing his ride. The accounts re perfectly satisfac-
tory ; his Majesty scarcely feels any effects from his fall,
and has not interrupted his usual occupations. We see
with joy that this accident will have no serious conse-
quences : the King of Sardinia is one of the best Kings
in Christendom, etotirely devoted to the happiness of his
people ; Remont and Savoy are indebted to him for im-
portant improvements, and the great works which he
has caused to be executed do honour to the enlightened
views and the wiadem of his Government.—La Gazette
de France.
Coynt Demidoff and the Princess Matilda Napo-
leon, his wife, are expected at Paris by the
15th of August. On several occasions M. de Mesnard
has been seen in attendance on Queen Christina. M. de
Mesnard was formerly the attendant of the Queen's
sister, the Duchess of Berry, and accompanied her "in
her expedition in La Vendee. A Parisian correspondent
of the Prussian State Gazette says, " A reconciliation
has lately taken place between Queen Christina and the
Duchess of Berry;. this is the reason that we have seen
Count de Mesnard accompanying the Queen on her visit
to some of the curiosities of Paris. The Duchess wrote

to the Count an autograph letter, to induce him to do
so."—Le Coqunerce.
BOURSE—Paris, TUESDAY, AUGUST 3.

Hut Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
French 5 per Cents ll6 ... 116 10 ... 1 6 ... 116 10
4% per Cents
4 per Cents ....." 99 50 ... 99 70 ... 99 50 99 7(1
3 per Cents. ex.div. 76 30 77 40 ... 77 00 77 33
Bank of France .. ... « 5185 ...3185 ...3185 —3185
Lailitte Bank 1.0001. ihares 1040 ...IC4O —1437 50 ...1037 50

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5,000 f. Shares 518 9 .4109 ...5095 ...5095
Belgian Bank
5 per Cents.
New Loan .....
Spanish Active lO% ... SO% ... 'A ... '4O
Pa55ive........... 4% .. 4% „. 4% ... 4%
Neapolitan .....
R0inan....................„ 102% ... 102% ... 101% ... 102 g

RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain 682 50 ... 682 50 ... 682 50 682 10
Versailles. 222 30 221 50 2,5 215
R. .... 345 245 ... 340 ... 340
Ronan ..N.......................... 452 50 452 50 452 50 „. 452 50
Orie•ink • .........«.».«.«..... 481 25 .6. 481 25 ... 48U ... 480

SIR ROBERT PEEL'S INTIMACY WITH THE STANDARD.—
The great quack, at hil Tamworth feed, said, "whenever
there is any particularly shabby paragraph, it is always
from a correspondent.' " The Right Hon. Baronet
must save been looking into the Standard, which
abounds with shabby, or something worse, paragraphs
from a West End Correspondent.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

CITY, THURSDAY EVENING.

The funds were very flat to-day, although the sales
effected were not of an important character. The old
cause, however, still operates upon the market, viz., the
variation in the weather. Consols for immediate trans-
fer were at 891 to 891, and for the account 891 to 891,
the former closing at 89?, and the latter at 891. Exche-
quer Bills did not range higher than 14s. to 16s. premium,
and India Bonds were steady at Bs. premium. Bank Stock
was rather lower, viz. 169, and East India Stock dropped
to 247. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. were
981 to I, andthe Three per Cents. 001 to 891.
Scarcely any business was done in the Foreign market.
Spanish Active Bonds were 191 to 1, New Portuguese
29/ to 30, and Colombian 20.. Belgian Old Five per
Cents. receded from 102 to 1011.; Russian were sup-
ported at 114,1 ; and Dutch Two-and-a• Half per Cents.
at 52 to 52/.
The Railway Shares sell with some steadiness, taking
into consideration the droaping condition of the markets
for our own as well as the foreign securitiq. Great
Western original shares were 18A. to 19, the New 8 to
81, the Fifths, 51 to 51 ; the Grand Junction, Half
Shares, 50 ; the London and Birmingham, 70 to 71i ;
and the South Western, 131 premium. The Brighton
realised 6+ to 7k ; the Blackwell, 94 to 91 ; the Green-
wich, New, 21 ; and the Bristol and Exeter, 28 discount.
Commercial Bank of London Shares were 25 discount.
London and Westminster Bank Shares were 21 premium.

(From The Sun of Last Night.)
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, AUG. 4.—The business
done in the Cotton Market:to-day is to a very limited
extent, the sales not amounting to more than 2,000 to
the trade.

LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, AUG. 4.—The Market
generally has been dull. The sales have been :—Glas-
gow, Paisley, and Greenock, 20i; London and Birming-
ham, Quarter-shares, 22-1 Ditto, New Shares, 241.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUGUST 4.—The
market to-day has been quiet ; prices are firm. London
and Birmingham, 160 161 ; Ditto. 321., 53 54 ; Ditto,
32/., New, 24 24/ ; London and South Western; 524 ;
North Midland Half• shares, 32k; Manchester and Liver-
pool Plate Glass, 31. 18s. 9d.

The Oriental steamer has arrived at Falmouth from
Malta, with the remainder of the Overland Mail from
India, but does not bring any additional news to that al-
ready published.
Ship letters have been received from St. Vincent
and Sydney, New South Wales, but they are of an
old date.

There is but little business doing in the Stock Ex-
change, and the quotations remain without alteration,
but the markets are firm. Consols are 891 for Money,
and 894 for the Account ; Bank Stock, 1693- 170 ;
Three per Cent. Reduced, 90* ; Three-and-a-Half per
Cent., 994 ; Exchequer Bills, 14 16 ; and India Bonds
6 9 premium. Spanish Active Stock, 194 i; Portuguese
Five per Cent. 294 304- ; Ditto Three per Cents. 171 18.
The business transacted in the Stock Market continues
very limited, there being but little disposition among the
brokers to speculate in either the English or Foreign
Securities.

Both Markets are rather flatter since the opening,
which is chiefly attributed to the unsettled state of the
weather. Consols are now 891 for Money, and 89:1 for
the Account ; Bank Stock 169 ; lndia Stock 247 ; Ex-
chequer Bills 14 16, and India Bonds 8 premium.
Spanish Active Stock is 19i 4 : Portuguese Five per
Cents., 291- 30 ; Colombian Bonds, 20 ; Danish, 79 ;
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 52i1,- ; Dutch Five
per Cents., 102.
Very little doing in Shares. Great Western are 84 ;
ditto Fifths, 9i ; London and Brighton, 43k ; ditto
Greenwich, 171 ; Bristol and Exeter, 32.
The advices from Vienna, via Holland, allude, it is
gratifying to observe, to the existence of a much more
tranquil feeling in the money market, and it is positively
stated that the head of the firm of Geymuller has not
withdrawn from the capital. It is noted as a singular
circumstance, that, although the prospects for the har-
vest in Austria are represented to be very favourable,
there corn ruled high in all the principal markets. In
Holland money seems much cheaper than with us.
Consols, Account, 894 sellers ; Colombian, 20 k ; Mexi-
can 251 26 ; Spanish 19i Nothing doing to cause any
remark.