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shall be executed by the State for a sum of twenty-four
millions, which the company shall be bound to pay into '
the treasury.
" The company shall be bound to open to the public
the first section of the line, from Paris to Tonnerre, at
the latest on March 1, 1849.
"The Government is authorised to make an arrange-
ment with the company by which the company will cease
to be bound to make the branch line from Dijon to
Chalon, but the arrangement must be made within one
month from the passing of this law.
"The company binds itself to reimburse to the State,
on the production of the settled accounts, the amount of
the expenditure of all kinds which shall have been made.
"In the event that the Government should think proper
to re-purchase the concession, if the re-purchase shall be
made within the first fifty years, the annuity to be paid
to the company cannot be below 54 per cent. on the
capital expended, even if the produce should be below
thet sum. If the re-purchase shall take place beyond
the period of the first fifty years, the annuities shall be at'
the rate of 81 per cent. interest on the capital expended,
even if the net produce should be above that sum."
Mr. BERRYER has declined, on the ground of ill-
health, to undertake the defence of M. PARMENTIER
before the Court of Peers.

The Spanish Generals LINAGE and Mmutsstu hare
left Paris for Madrid.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Wed-
nesday at 77f. 40c. ; the Five per Cents., 117 f. 80c. ; the
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,267 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 963 f ; Havre,
643 f. 75c. ; Great Northern, 565 f. ; Avignon, 677 f. 50c. ;
Vierzon, 587 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 505 f. ; Basle, 183 f. 75c. ;
Paris and Strasburg, 418 f. 75c. ; Tours and Nantes, 405 f. ;
Paris and Lyons, 4385 75c. ; Lyons and Avignon, 440 f. ;
Bordeaux and Cette, 456% 25c.; Spanish Three per Cents.,
35 ; ditto, Domestic Debt, 27i ex div.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE JUL? 1.

Central of France (Orleans and Vierzori), 1758—Ceylon,
./.2—Dutch Rhenish, 41/1—East Indian, %—Great Western
Bengal, 14 —Namur and Liege, 4—Northern of France, 10%
-Rouen and Havre, 25:Y4—Sambre and Meuse, 71,C.

MPERI A L PARLIAMENT.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock.
COMMERCIAL RELATIONS WI I2H PRUSSIA.
On the motion that the order of the day be now read
for the second reading of the Navigation Bill,
Lord G. BENTINCK said he would take that oppor-
tunity of putting the question of which he had given
notice to the Noble Lord the Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, with regard to the commercial relations
between this country and Prussia. On the 4th of June
last there appeared in the Globe newspaper a paragraph,
stating, on tha authority of a foreign journal, that the
Prussian Government had received dispatches from the
English Government, announcing that if the Prussian
Government and the Zollverein persisted in not
renewing the treaty of international commerce
between them and England, the English Government
would find itself compelled to use reprisals. The foreign
paper to which that referred being the official organ of
the Prussian Government, he (Lord G. Bentinck) felt it
incumbent upon him to ask the Noble Lord R hether that
report was correct, and whether he had found it necessary
to have recourse to a threat of retaliatory measures upon
Prussia, if Prussia persisted in her course of protective
duties in order to take care of the industry of her own
countrymen?
Lord PALMERSTON said he did not remember
having seen the paragraph to which his Noble Friend
alluded, but he had no hesitation in saying that that para-
graph was entirely incorrect. The state of affairs was
this :—There was concluded between Great Britain and
Prussia in 1841, a treaty by which certain ports between
the Elbe a..d the Meuse were to be regarded according
to the navigation laws of the ports of those states.
Tnat treaty might be put an end to at the end of ~he
present year by a notice on the part of the Prussian
Government. That notice had been given the English
Government ; intimating at the same time on the part of
Prussia and the Zollverein that Prussia and the Zoll-
verein were dissatisfied with that treaty, because
it originated upon a real principle of reciprocity, which
the navigation-laws of England did not accord to the
vessels of Prussia and the Zollverein, and that all the
advantages were on the side of England, and to the
vessels engaged by her, and it was intimated that if Great
Britain persisted iu her navigation systems Prussia and
the states of the Zollverein would think it their interest
to establish differential duties of 20 per cent upon the
manufactures and produce of Great Britain. Such was
the state of the case. He could assure his Noble Friend
there was no threat of retaliation on the part of Great
Britain to compel Prussia to do anything which
she thought contrary to her interests, but it
was, on the contrary, a statement from Prus-
sia and the Zollverein, that if Great Britain did
not relax her present system they would enforce diffe-
rential duties, and put an end to the treaty of 1841. To
that communication an answer was returned to the
effect, that the treaty was of little advantage to Great
Britain, and, therefore, it was to her a matter of
comparative indifference whether the treaty was
allowed to exist or expire. That communication could
hardly be said to be exclusive; and that was the only
reply that he could make to the question of his Noble
Friend. There could, however, be no possible objection
on the part of the Government to lay before the House
the Prussian intimation of the conclusion of the treaty,
and the reply of the British Government.—(Hear.)
Mr. nurr admitted that the reply of the Noble
Lord was most satisfactery, but at the same time he felt
bound to put the questions to him of which he had given
notice. He wished to know, in the first place, whether
her Majesty's Government had received an intimation
from any of the states of the North of Germany that
they have in contemplation to impose differential duties
on British vessels importing into Germany the produc-
tion of countries other than the possessions of her Ma-
jesty, unless Great Britain would so far abolish her na-
vigation-laws as to allow German vessels to import pro-
ductions from all parts of the world into the United
Kingdom ; and, secondly, whether the Noble Lord was
aware of any negotiations going on for the purpose of
inducing the Hans Towns to unite with the States of
the Zollverein, in an arrangement to impose differential
duties on the ships of all nations, which do not accord to
German States the same privileges of navigation which
the German States extend to them.
Lord PALMERSTON said that he had already
answered the first question of the Hon. Member. With
regard to the second questi▪
on, it was certainly true that
the Prussian Government had been in commuication with
the Hans Towns, with a vi▪
ew as he (Lord Palmerston)
understood —he spoke only from information,
having received no official communication on the subject
to induce them to unite with the Zollverein in an ar-
rangement to impose differential duties on the ships of
all nations that did not accord to German States the
same privileges of navigation which the German
States extended to them. As he (Lord Palmerston)
had been informed, a person had been sent
from Berlin to Hamburgh, Lubeck, and Bremen, to in-
duce the Hans Towns to become members of the Zoll-
verein. He understood that Hamburgh and Lubeck
had no desire to adopt ,the course suggested, and
although Bremen appeared rather favourable to the
corporate system in Germany, yet he (Lord Palmerston)
was not aware that any opi▪
nion had been expressed by
Bremen to accede to the request to unite with the
Zollverein for the purposes before stated.
NAVIGATION-LAWS.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL then moved that the Navi-
gation-laws Bill be read a second time.
Lord GEORGE BENTINCK rose to oppose the
motion. He did so because he thought the present mea-
sure was a pretext to undermine the present navigation-
laws. Since the suspension of those laws, innumerable
vessels, in all parts of world, had been waiting for
freight, and could not get it.
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
A Sovereign Remedy was produced here last evening,
and it ie indeed, a sovereign remedy for the blues, more
efficacious even than Tom D'Urfey's Pills to Purge
Melancholy. It is administered by Dr. Charles Mathews,
who declares it to be the only human comforter and
regenerator. It produces continuous roars of laughter
during the whole time the patient is subjected to its
pleasant operation ; and, judging from the effects pro
duced last night, we think we may venture to state that
the Sovereign Remedy will be in nightly course of aclmi-
nistrstion at the Princess's for months to come.

CORK COUNTY ELECTION.
The Cork Reporter of Tuesday announces the r3sult
of the first day's poll. At six o'clock the numbers stood
thus:—
For Leader ..........................
For Power ..........................
Majority ...................

220
~ 241
~ -2

THE COURT, &c.—On Saturday the royal carriages
for the use of the Queen and the Prince Consort during
the installation of his Royal Highness as Chancellor of
the University of Cambridge, will be forwarded to Cam-
brisige by the Eastern Counties Railway ; and on Mon-
day next, at half-past eleven in the forenoon, her Ma-
jesty and the Prince, and their suite, will leave Buck-
ingham Palace for the Tottenham station of the same
railway, where a special train is ordered to be in readiness
to convey them to the terminus of the same railway, and
at the terminus the royal equipages will be in waiting to
convey them to the apartments which have been prepared
for that purpose in Trinity College. Her Majesty
selected the Tottenham station, in order to avoid the
crowd and bustle of the London terminus at Shoreditch.
After the installation and the fetes attendant, the Queen
and Court will leave Cambridge (supposed on Wednes-
day next), and return to Buckingham Palace, and remain
there until the breaking up of Parliament, when her
Majesty, the Prince Consort, and the Court will proceed
to Osborne House with the Royal Family ; from whence
about the second week in August, her Majesty and the
Prince will pay their promised visit to the Marquis of
Abercorn's hunting seat, Arverykie Lodge, at Luo•gan,
in Inverness-shire. It has nut yet been decided whether
the royal trip to the Highlands will be made by land or
by water.
A.PPROACIIING MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The
nuptials of Lady Alexandrina Vane, second daughter of
the Marquis of Londonderry, with the Earl of Portar-
lington, has been delayed in consequence of her Lady-
ship having been indisposed from the measell;. Her
Ladyship has nearly recovered, and went out for a ear-
riaee airing for the, first time on Sunday last.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—Between one and two yes-
terday afternoon, as a poor man, employed from motive;
of charity by Mr. Hayes, dairyman, Horseferry-road,
We*Jbinster, was riding on the shaft of one of his
master's wash carts, in the Victoria-road, he fell off, and
one of the wheels passed over his head. He died almost
, immediately.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton market at Liverpool was very firm again
yesterday. Sales 8,000 bales, including 800 bales of
American for exportation and 900 on speculation. There
were 5,000 bales American sold at 6fd. to 7fd. The
advance since last Friday is estimated at Id. per lb.-A
good business was done in Shares, but prices were
scarcely supported.
There are no late arrivals to-day from any quarter,
with the exception of the usual continental mails. These
are ell very satisfactory in reference to the crops, and
the weather and the markets. At Odessa, up to the 18th
ult., the prices of grain were declining, and very large
supplies were arriving, and still expected, from the in-
terior, the rains which had fallen having afforded ex-
cellent pasturage for the cattle while on the journey to
the port. At Bremen corn was cheaper, and at Riga
wheat was at lower rates, though rye had fluctuated,
and was not so decided in its tendency. In the Stettin
market, on the 25th instant, grain was flatter, and the
supplies large. The weather at Berlin, on the 26th ult.,
was most auspicious.
A letter from Naples states, under date of June 25th,
that 800 ships had passed there, mostly laden with grain,
and bound to Leghorn and Genoa. Throughout the
kingdom of the Two Sicilies the crops were excellent.
The Corn market is decidedly lower again to-day,
and with every appearance of a further decline. The
supplies are most abundant as regards foreign grain,
but there is still only a short quantity of English.
The dullness of the West India market has become a
matter of special remark lately, and there appears to be
no difference in this respect either here or at the out-
ports. Abundant supplies and foreign competition will
no doubt afford the readiest solution of this state of
affairs in the face of steady consumption, and we have
already seen the result in the fall of one or two houses
of good standing in the sugar trade. The following
extract from a Bristol report is not very encouraging:-
" For West India sugar, which is now comparatively
cheaper than other descriptions, we continue to expe-
rience a steady consumptive demand, especially for those
kinds suitable for the pans, but the prices have again
retrograded, and must be quoted ls. to 2s. under the
rates current at the date of our last report; importers
generally have been free sellers throughout the month,
and the market has been well supplied with samples,
but this remark applies more particularly to West India
descriptions, as the holders of Mauritius have mostly
I withdrawn their stocks from the market for the present;
the stock of Bengal is nearly all in second hands, and the
business is consequently limited.
" Purchases of good working sugars continue to be
made in London and Liverpool by our refiners, as this
description is still scarce here; the refined market has
been flat, and prices have given way 2s. to 3s. per cwt.,
595. to 60s. being now the average value of a refining,
against 625. to 635. at the end of last month. Treacle
has also declined in value, the best make having been
sold for forward delivery at 245., and syrup at 265. For
Crushed and Pieces the demad continues good, and
those descriptions, especially the former, command com-
paratively high prices."
The English Funds are extremely dull, and there is
a slight disposition to sell. Consols for Account have
been 894 to 884. As we get towards the 16th inst.
the state of the account will probably develop itself more
clearly. The Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities have
realised 894 to 898. Exchequer. bills are maintained
at Bs. to 12s. premium.
The Foreign Securities have been without much varia-
tion. Portuguese Four per Cents. have been quoted
34; Spanish Five per Cents., 21 to 4; and the Three
per Cents. ex. dividend, 324. Mexican Stock, for the
account, is at 194 to 4. Dutch Four per Cents. are 891.
Railway Shares have been rather in favour of buyers,
hut holders are not inclined to de business. Eastern
Counties, Great Northern, Midland, South-Eastern and
Staines, and South-Western, are firm. Caledonian,
North-Western, and the French lines, are a shade lower
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860
India Bonds, 1,0001. • • • • • •
Ditto, under 1,0001. .. 5 p
Consols for Opening, July 16 • • • . 89% 88%
Exchequer Bills. I%cl. 2d.
1,000/. •• •• - 12 811 p
500/. •• •• •• - •• •• 15 9 1513
Ditto, Small .. • • - .• 19 10 17 p
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent • • • • -
Ditto, Small • • • • • . .• .. 85
Mexican, 1846, 5 per Cent • • •
Ditto, for the Account .. •
Portuguese Bends, 5 per Cent. • • -
Ditto, Four per Cent • • • • .. 30%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. • • 21%
dtto, for the Account .• .. 21
Ditto, Passive Bonds • • • •
Ditto, Three per Cent ......-
Ditto, for the Account • • 32% ex div
Dividends on the above payable In London.
Dutch Two-ard-a-Half per Cents. -
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 89%
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Birmingham and Oxford Junction • • 10 .• .. 17% .• •. to -
Birmingham, Wolver., & Stour Valley 8 .... 9 .. . to -
Bristol and Exeter • • • • 75 ••• • - .... to -
Ditto, New • • • • .. 15 .• .• 14 .• .. to -
Caledonian • • • • • • •• 35 29% %%to -
Dublin and Belfast Junction .. 15 •• .. 234.... to 3
Eastern Counties • • • • •• • • 20 .. • • 2156 21 to 21%
Ditto, York Extension .• • . .• 735 •• 7%.... to -
East Lancashire • • • • • • .. 20 .. • • - to -
Ditto, New .. • • . • .. 10 .... 10 •• • • to -
Ditto, ditto, New Scrip .. • • .. 1 % 1% %.. to -
Edinburgh and Glasgow • • .. 50 .•.. 69 .... to -
Great Northern .. • • .. 6 4%34 ex int. to -
Great Southern. and Western (Ireland) 32% 30% x. int. to -
Great Western • • . • .• 85 ... 121 .. .. to 123
Ditto, New • • • • • • .. .. 4% .. • • .• .. to -
Leeds and Thirsk • • • • • • •• 26 •• • • - •to -
Do.. do.. Preference, 6 per Cent • . 3% •• • • 3 .... to 314
Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport 2 •• .. 3% •• • • to -
Liverpool, Manch, and Newc. Junct. 236 •• • • %••.. to -
London and Blackwall .. 161. 13s. 4d. •• .• 7% ••.. to -
London, Brighton, and South Coast • • 50 •• -.561% 55% to 5655
Ditto, Consolidated Eighths • • .. 10 •• .. 14% •• . • to -
London and North-Western • • • . .. 100 ....18314 •• .. to 18255
Ditto ditto New .. • • .. . 2 .... 1356 ••.. to -
Ditto, Fifths • • • • .. . .. 2 .• .. 17%.... to -
Ditto, 401. Shares •• M. and B. .. 40 :... 7014 ... to -
Ditto, 10/. Shares • . M. and B. (C) 1 • 756 •• • . to -
London and South-Western 411. 6a. 10d. •• • • - .... to -
Ditto, New Consolidated Eighths •. 40 .. .. 50 •••• to -
Ditto, New •• • • .. .. 27% •• • • 32% ••.. to -
Ditto, Scrip , . • • .. • • • • 5 •• • • 4%8 •••• to -
Manchester and Leeds . • • •• 82 .... 104 ••.. to -
Ditto, Quarter Shares • • • • • • 14% •• • • 1836 •••• to -
Ditto, Firths • • • • • • • • • • 6% •• • • 11% ••.. to -
Ditto, Thirds (Reg.) •
• • • • • • 7/. 48... • • % p.. to -
Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock -. 425. .... 14 dis.. to -
Midland .• •• • 100 ....132 130.. to 132
Ditto, New • • • . • • .• .• .. 6 .... 103614 • . to -
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby ..100 ....102 .... to -
Ditto, Consols Bristol & Birmingh.
6 per cont. .. • • • • • • ..100 ....130 .•.. to -
Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 20 .... 29%14 .. to -
Ditto, New • . • .. .. 5 •• • • 8 ••• • to 814
Norfolk • • .. • • .. .• ..100 • ..126 • • • to -
Ditto, Extension • • • • .. .. 10 •• .• 105 ••• • to
British • • • • .. .. 25 . • 32% ••.. to -
Ditto, Quarters • • • • • . •" • 3%.• 4% ••.. to -
Ditto, Extension • • • • • %• • . % to 34
North Staffordshire • • • • • • • • 10%%.• to .-
Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton 2736 •• .. 19% to _
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate • • 5 •• •• 53% ••.. to -
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A) • • 335 •••• 3% to -
Ditto, ditto (13) • • • • • • •• 3 •• • • 23 %.• to -
South Staffordshire •••• • • • • 2/. 12s. • • % % dis to -
South Eastern and Dover • . .. • • 331.25. 4d. 38 .. • • to 3735
Ditto. New (do. 15/.) No. 4 • • •• 5 •• • • 4% •• .. to -
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, & Goole 2 .• .. 13q to -
Windsor, Staines, and South-Western 425. • • 238% p to -
erork and Newcastle . • • • .- • • 25 •• • • - .... to -
Ditto, New • . • • .. .. •. 10 •• • • 1756 ••.• to -
Ditto, Preference • • • • • • • • 8 .. • • 12136 .. to -
York and North Midland .. .. • • 50 •• .. - .... to -
Ditto, Preference .• • . .• • • 6 .• .. 163 y ••.. to -.-
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Central of France (Orleans & Vierzon) 14 .. 1756 ••.. to -
Dutch Rhenish • • .• .. 7 . • 4 ••.. to -
Northern of France . • .. 8 • • 10%3636 to -
Paris and Strasbourg • • • • .. 8 .• 434. ••• to -
Rouen and liavre • • •• . .. 20 .• .. 2536 •••• to -
Sambre and Meuse • • • • .. .. 14 .• .. 7%.... to -
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
London Joint-Stock • • • • . .. 10 .• 14135 ••.. to -
London and Westminster • • • . .. 20 .• 26% %..to -
Ditto, New .. 7.• • • 1234 •••• to -

•• 89M%%
.. 91A.

19%

MINES
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LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DA
LONDOM, JULY 2.—Wind nE., moderate breeze and
cloudy.
DEAL, JULY I.—Wind N. 8., fresh breeze.—Arrd. B.
Bohlen, Mencke, Havannah for Antwerp, reported to be
leaky. Arrd. from the River and sailed, Minerva, New
Zealand ; Calcutta, Hobart Town ; Cicilia, Port Philip ; Col-
lingwood, Calcutta; John Sims, Aden; Catherine Greene,
St. Kitt's k Pearl, St. Domingo ; Lancaster, Barbadoes ; Os-
bert, Dominica; Ontario, New York.
OFF RYE, JUNE 30.—Lovely Mary, Newfoundland.
PORTSMOUTH, JULY I.—Wind N.N.E.—Sid. Pomona;
New York.
COWES, JULY I.—Wind E.—Arrd. Superb, Roes, Havan-
nah. Sid. Lady M`Naughton, Adelaide, South Australia.
STUDLAND ROADS, JUNE 30.—Arrd. I. 0., Lee, New York
for Antwerp.
FALMOUTH, JULY I.—Wind E.—Sld. Monte Camelo, Per-
nambuco.
LiviaßpooL, JULY I.—Wind variable and light.—Arrd.
Standard, Fawcett, Demerara; Helvellyn, Matanzas; Sarah
Hand, Bailey, New Orleans; Commerce, Henry, Virginia;
Village Girl, Woof, Philadelphia ; Blue Bell, Pictou. Sld.
Louisiana, New York; George Stevens, New Orleans; New
York, Dropper, (New Orleans ; Margaret, Quebec ; Runny-
mede, St. John's, Newfoundland.
Sxacw, JuNx 27.—Arrd. Douce. Davie, Kenny, New
Orleans. 28th, Pekin, Norfolk. Sld. Cushna, Philadelphia.
CORK, JUNE 29. Wind E.—Arrd. Robert, Richardson,
Norfolk. Sld. Wm. J. Duggin, New York. Arrd. 28th,
James Fagan, Philadelphia; Ocean, Roul, New York; Susan,
Crouch, St. John's.
LEITH, JUNE 29.—Arrd. Emily, Brock, Callas.
YOUGHAL, JUNE 28.—Arrd. Gratitude, New York.
CAERNARVON, JUNE 29.—1 t is reported that this bay is
covered with wreck, and several pieces have been brought in
to-day, apparently belonging to a very large vessel.
NEWPORT, JULY I.—Wind E.—Put back, Racer, Power,
from Penarth to Quebec, leaky and with fore and mainmast
heads sprung.
FALSE SIGNALS OFFISRES—
THE RICHMOND,
MILFOR O.
Admiralty, June 30th, 1847.
Sir, —I am commanded by my commissioners of the Admi-
ralty, —to transmit to you herewith, for the information of the
committee for managing the affairs of Lloyd's, a copy of a
letter from Lieutenant Dolling, agent on board the contract
steam-ship Hibernia, relative to her being called out of her
course on the homeward passage by the Richmond, of ?ail-
ford, supposed to have been in distress, but merely required
to be reported, and my Lords request that the committee
will take any steps in their power to prevent the recurrence
of an incident so disadvantageous to the publicservice, and so
likely to produce inattention to signals of distress.
I am, Sir, your moot obedient servant,
(Signed) G.
J.
WARD.
'
Wm. Dobson, Esq., secretary, Lloyd's.
(Copy.)
—I beg
, Liverpool, June 28th, 1847.
Sir
to acquaint you, for the information of the
Lords of the Admiralty, that on June 19th, in lat. 45 N.,
lon. 57.27, observing a vessel firing guns, which I
supposed to bo of distress, I requested the captain of
the Hibernia to close with her, and on doing so we
found her merely required to be reported, in performance
of which duty we lost two hours. The name of the vessel
was the Richmond, of Milfonl, ..n Eoglioh barque.
' I have the hcnour to he, acc.
(Signed) S. U. DOLLING, Li..uicnant,
Acting Admiralty Agent.
Commander Bevis, Superintendent of her
fila,)esty'd mails, Liverpool.
•