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LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1847.

Although Lord PALMERSTON has been spared the
nece:•sity of expatiating upon the advisability of the
British interposition in the political affairs of Portu-
gal, the Noble Viscount has had to say his .11inisterial
catechism before Parliament. Yesterday evening, for
example, a long chapter of interrogations from all
quarters of the House elicited the corresponding
answers frora the Secretary for Foreign Affairs.
Has the blockade of the Douro terminated ? inquired
Mr. Ilurr. Are the Government prepared to enforce
the rescinding of the notorious decree of MARIA. DA
GLORIA, inserted on the 6th June in the Diario do
Govern°, suspevding, among other things, the liberty
of the Portuguese press ? asked Mr. BERNAL Os
BORNE. What about the infraction of the first article
in the Treaty of Lisbon, signed in the July of 1842 ?
What about the infraction of the fifteenth, of the
seventeenth, of the eighteenth articles ? What
about the forced currency of the Bank of Lisbon
note ? demanded Lord GEORGE BENTINCK. Are
DAs ANTAS and his soldiers to he released from con•
finement in the castle of St. Julian immediately the
intelligence of the submission of the Junta reaches
the capital ? Are the British officers to be permitted
to receive decorations for their services off Oporto and
Lisbon ? Nay, Mr. OSBORNE proceeded so far in his
inquisitiveness as to inquire into the course pursued
by Government in the event of a dim possibility ; but
Lord PALMERSTON evaded the interrogation by ob-
jecting to give an official response upon a merely
hypothetical casualty.
Ludicrous and frivolous as this pertinacious cross-

examination may appear ; troublesome as it must
undoubtedly be to the Noble Statesman at the head
of the Pc-- i T>epartment ; calculated as it is to
C01131111.k, an unnecessary amount of rwl.biic time,
and engage an anneces.iary amount ct legislative
attention, we are gratified tl.at general curiosity
is still kept alive in respect to the condi-
tion and position of our Portuguese contem-
poraries. Simultaneously with the glorious realisa-
tion of the free-trade principles, a new and civilising
sentiment has animated the hearts of our fellow-
ceuntrymen—a sentiment of sympathy for the
advancement and elevation of their fellow-creatures
1.,,y0nd the shores of these islands, and beyond the
`.--ntiers of our colonial possessions. Hitherto it
been regarded as an indisputable truth that
"i.oe wisest coursa to
be adopted by an English
citizen was to attend solely to the internal pros-
perity of their own country, and abandon the compli-
cated knots of our foreign relations to the Subtle and
experienced supervision of
‘theC that the abinet. It seemed
he an universally resew- opinion fingers
of jou, Burt were 10. clumsily forrued,
their movements, to
iced too blundering in
engaged in the loosening and the tying
of those knots without producing an inex-
tricable confusion and ravelling of the bonds of in•
ternational alliance beyond all hope of amendment.
The multitude therefore remained isolated as it were
from the millions of their brother men : and there was
dir4dt communication with the different divisions of
4l*an family, chiefly, if not entirely, through
Vie punctilious correspondence of the stet.: authori-
ties. Even commercially the communion of adjacent
airgieMS was, SO to spialt, carried on through the iron

grating of customs' duties. Hand in hand, shoulder
to shoulder, the millions of the earth could not by
possibility stand until such time as the fiscal barriers
erected by monopolising legislators should have been
beaten down and trampled under foot. A humanising
system of reciprocity could indeed be no more esta-
blished until the trammels of an erroneously distri-
buted taxation should be removed, than the helio-
centric system could be proved until the combination
of the lenses had granted a telescopic assistance to the
gaze of the astronomers. Now, however, that this
dwarfing and insulating scheme of taxation is dis-
appearing, there is not merely a certainty of
the development and expansion of commerce
to its naturally healthy condition, and its
naturally colossal dimensions, but the screen
seems to have been removed which had been pre-
viously interposed between the various states
and races of the globe. A novel interest
has arisen amongst the people of England in the po-
litical and social, as well as in the intellectual and
commercial progress of contemporary nations. While
ConnEN, when speaking of the corn-laws, is saying
to the millions of continental Europe—in the ambi-
guous but impressive languge of CICERO, when that
great Consul spoke of CET WEGUS and LENTULUS, on
the evening of the day on which those companions of
CATALINE were executed—" they have flourished!"—
while those significant words are responded to with
enthusiasm in France, in Italy, and in Spain, at home
the inhabitants are awakening to a sense of the im-
portance of a preservation of friendship with the po-
pulation of both hemispheres.

.
Hence it is that so much interest is attached at this
moment to the events which are now occurring in the
Peninsula ; and from the evidence of this very in-
terest we may recognise a new and glorious surety
for the perpetuation and the preservation of the prin-
ciples of freedom.

After an inquiry, extending through several days
the inquest held over the bodies of the unfortunate,
persons who were either immediately killed, or who
subsequently died from the effects of the injuries
they receii-ed from the fearful accident that occurred
on the Dee bridge on the Chester and Holyhead
Railway, was brought to a close on Thursday. The
inquiry has been conducted in every way in a man-
ner becoming the extreme gravity of the subject-
matter with respect to which it was the important
duty of the Coroner and the jury to institute the
most searching investigation. The Government and
the Railway Commissioners have likewise effectually
discharged the duty which, under the lamentable cir-
cumstances, it was incumbent upon them, on the part
of the public, to fulfil. They sent down two cele-
brated engineers, Captain SYMONDS and Mr. WALKER,
to examine into the cause of the catastrophe, and to
lay before the jury the result of their observations.
Bat, whilst every one must be gratified by the fair and
impartial mode in which the inquest has been
held, the conclusion which has been arrived
at must arouse the most serious apprehensions
in the public mind. The jury have unani-
mously recorded in their verdict that the acci-
dent was consequent upon the breakage of one of
the cast-iron girders, and that the girder was made
of a strength insufficient to bear the pressure of quick

in Madrid.

trains passing over it ; that cast-iron is too
treacherous a metal to be used for such a purpose;
that they had in evidence before them that there are
upwards of 100 bridges similar in principle and form
to the late one over the river Dee, either in use or in

the course of being constructed, on carious lines of
railways.

It should be stated that these views of the jury
are strictly in accordance with the opinions of Cap-
tain SYMONDS and Mr. WALKER, who condemned
the principle of the bridge and its security, and who,
" entertaining these opinions very decidedly," not-
withstanding they were opposed by Mr. ROBERT
STEPHENSON (who has erected a number of bridges
on the same principle) and other engineers, never-
theless declared they felt it "to be their
duty (by no means an agreeable one) to ex-
press them !" Under these circumstances, her
MAJESTY'S Government have but one course to
take, which is to have forthwith examined every
bridge where cast-iron girders are used, with a view
to their immediate removal and to the bridge being
otherwise rendered of sufficient strength to ensure the
safety of passengers. As against this recommenda-
tion, which we most earnestly press upon the atten-
tion of the Government, we attach no weight to the
remark of Mr. STEPHENSON,- that the recent acci-
dent was the first of its kind, we only feel too
thankful that as yet we have been saved the
repetition of such a dreadful failure in

railway architecture. It is manifest, from
the able and elaborate report of the Govern-
ment engineers, that the public are daily exposed to
the hazard of a similar catastrophe. Instant precau-
tion should therefore be taken against the occur-
rence of such another distressing accident ; and, for
the satisfaction of the public, publicity should be
given to the particulars of the casualty, for the pur-
pose of ensuring such rational measures in future as
ihall prevent the recurrence of any similar calamity.

On Tuesday last we directed the public attention
to the valuable results that would be attendant on au
extensive cultivation of flax in Ireland, which we
then stated furnished the most obvious means for the
removal of Irish distress and Irish difficulties. We
shall now endeavour to prove the accuracy of that
assertion. The soil and climate of the sister king-
dom is peculiarly suited for the growth of flax. By
recent experiments it has been found that most
valuable crops can he produced at high altitudes ;
that one in particular, which gained a medal from the
Royal Society, was grown on the top of a mountain
more than 1,000 feet above the level of the sea, and
entirely surrounded with heather. To those who are
acquainted with Ireland and the neglected state of
the mountain districts, it will at once be manifest
how wide a field is afforded for the profitable cultiva-
tion of lands which have heretofore been suffered
to remain idle and unproductive, or turned
to little beneficial use ; in fact, there is scarcely any
variety of soil, highland or lowland, that will not be
found well suited for the purpose. The value of the
crop will be found in a great degree to depend on the
care and attention devoted to it. A ton of flax will
vary in value according to its fineness, colour, and
other essential qualities, from 401. to 2001. Hero,
then, is at once the strongest inducement held out to
the grower to give ample employment, to have a
number of persons engaged in watching the growth,
and taking all the necessary steps in relation thereto,
when he is sure to receive so ample a return therefor.
In no country in the world can a higher quality of flax
be produced than in Ireland. A skilful and judicious
farmer is certain to produce the more valuable descrip-
tion, and it is only reasonable to suppose that the
example thereby afforded will, in a short time, when
its advantages are fully understood and appreciated,
be generally followed. In estimating the annual
return, we shall, however, restrict ourselves to the
present average value, and make no allowance for
the probable improvement that ►may follow a more
thorough knowledge of the details and operations
conneoted with its growth.

An acre of ground will produce from forty to fifty
stone of good flax as a fair. average ; there would be
of the coarser description,
a much larger quantity
but the quality would be deteriorated in proportion
to the increase of quantity. This may be averaged at
15s. per stone ; we thus find a return of 301. per acre
for the fibre alone, in addition to which there is the
value of the seed, which will be found to average
from 51. to 101. per acre. This seed will be
found a most valuable and nutritious food fcr
cattle ; every large farmer will, therefore, be
enabled to use it on his own lands, the impor-
tance of which for any description of produce
it is impossible to over-estimate. In addition to
the profit of the manure thus produced, the
water in which the flax is steeped will be found a
most useful liquid manure, enriching the soil, and
producing the most luxuriant crops. We, therefore,
find that every portion of it is turned to advantage,
and a money return of from 35/. to
4i 0/. pe
nereas r acrein
addition, which, if we allow for the
eexpen-
diture in labour rendered necessary, will d
leaved
e-
a
e
larger profit for the farmer than
almost ' an
scription of crop. There is no danger of an an insuffi-
cient u
eient demand; on the contrary, there h a constant
drain of money going from our- shores to pay
foreigners for that
_which might be produced
at home. By the official returns for six years, end-
ing in October, 1845, it will be found that no less ,

than 388,867 tons of flax, worth 19,443,3,501.
sterling, were imported during that period ; it will
also be found that there is a❑ average annual im-
portation of 500,000 quarters of flax-seed, and
over 70,000 tons of oil-cake. The annual drain on
the country may, therefore, be fairly estimated at no
less than 6,000,0001. sterling, the whole of which
might find its way to Ireland in place of to France
and Belgium. It is needless to speak of the vast in-
crease of national wealth derivable from the retention
of so large a sum in the country. These advantages
that we have enumerated are, however, chiefly con-
fined to the farmer. There are, however, other and
still greater benefits in the employment afforded in
weeding, pulling, rippling, watering, spreading, lift-
ing, drying, breaking, and scutching the crop,
and even when finally converted into yarn, its bles-
sings are still observable. We find from a return given
by Sir ROBERT KANE, in his celebrated work on
" The Industrial Resources of Ireland," that the pro-
duce of three statute acres of flax aftbrded full em-
ployment for an entire year to no less than 216 per-
sons, who received 2,2171. 6s. Bd. for the wages of
their labour, and that, after paying all expenses, it
left a clear profit of 3321. 13s. 4d. for the manufac-
turer. Surely, with such results, it will be admitted
that we have established the truth of our proposition,
that in an extensive growth of flax in all parts of the
country will be found the chief remedy for Ireland's
distress—the means of safety and wealth for Irish
landlords.

Madrid papers of the 11th instant have arrived.

On the evening of the 9th the QUEEN, whilst riding
out on horseback, was surrounded by a number of
women in great distress, who besought her to take
pity on their misfortunes. An aide-de-camp at-
tempted to push them away, but the QuEsN ordered
them to approach, and one of them presented a peti-
tion praying her to give orders to the Minister of
Finance to pay the arrear due to the poorer classes of
the State creditors. Her MAJEsTr received the pe-
tition graciously, and promised to take its prayer into
consideration.

General PEZUELA has obtained permission to reside

General DR Li CONCHA, Commander-in-Chief of
the army of Portugal, arrived at Zamora on the sth,
and at that place and at Salamanca preparations
were making for the troops to march into Portugal.
The Herald() announces that the insurgents have
abandoned all the coast as far as Viana.

The best feeling is said to exist between the
Spanish troops and those of the Qaeen of PORTUGAL,
The intelligence that SA DA BANDEIRA had offered
to make his submission is confirmed by the Correo,
the new semi-official journal of Senor SALAMANCA.
The prospects of the harvest throughout Spain are
exceedingly cheeling.
The funds necessary for the payment of the divi-
dend on the Three per Cents., due on the 30th of
June, had been forwarded to London and Paris.
The Three per Cents. were done at 31 for cash; the
Four per Cents. at 18; the Five per Cents. at 13; the
Debt without Interest at 51; and the Coupons at 15.

We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday.
On Tuesday M. DENIES:4AT brought forward a
motion in the Chamber of Deputies for the reduction
of the duty of salt. Last session a similar motion
was carried by a majority of 240 to 26 in the Cham-
ber of Deputies, but the Bill was stifled by a Minis-
terial manoeuvre in the Chamber of Peers. None
of the Ministers spoke on Tuesday, and the debate
was adjourned. The following article in the Debats
announces the intention of Ministers to oppose the
motion on financial grounds merely. After aimitting
that the tax is one which presses heavily upon the
poor, the Debats says—
"We believe the reform to be useful and urgent, as
well in the interest of the poorer classes in the country
districts, as for the prosperity of our agriculture. We
have no intention of undertaking the demonstration of
this double assertion, because it is not seriously con-
tested, and because it has been already frequently done.
But a serious apprehension prevents us from wishing to
see this reform carried out at present, in the midst of
the financial embarrassments which surround us. The
duty on salt brings to the Treasury upwards of
75,000,000 f. a year. The proposition reduces the
duty from 3 dkimes to 1, or two-thirds. The
loss consequently would be two-thirds the first
year, or fifty millions. There can be no doubt
that the reduction in the duty would lead
to an increasing augmentation in the consumption,
which would in the long run make up the loss at first
produced to the revenue. We agree with M. Denies-
may on this point, and fully share his hopes. But what
cannot be contested is, that this reform, so fruitful in ex-
cellent results of various kinds, commences by imposing
on the Treasury considerable sacrifices, the termination
of which we may not see in the fifth, the sixth, or per-
haps the tenth year after its adoption. What will be the
amount of these sacrifices? We cannot say, but cer-
tainly something very considerable. That is a point
agreed on by every one. Is the moment well selected to
undertake a reform the first effect of which is to call for
a sacrifice of fifty millions, or let us say forty millions,
to the Treasury ? That is the question, and it appeared
to us quite enough to atk it to create doubt in the most
determined mind."
The Peers are summoned for the 21st, to hear the
report of the Committee appointed to examine into
the truth of the accusations against General
CUBIERES.
The Presse still continues its attacks against M.
GUIZOT. From the tenor of the following article it
would appear that the intrigue for the substitution of
Count MOLE for M. GUIZOT is revived. The article
commences with the following extract from an
address from M. GUIZOT to his constituents, pub-
lished in 1839 :
"The affairs of the country are neglected. The
Government is null. All questions remain in suspense.
Railroads—the conversion of the Five per Cents.—the
abolition of slavery, and that all-important one, public
instruction. Neither are material interests better com-
prehended nor better treated than moral interests, and
all this, too, at a period of profound peace—in the pre-
sence of the most pliant Chambers and the most favour-
able circumstances, without the occurrence of any great
obstacle or any great danger! If the Ministry remain in
office, what hill be the consequence? That which has
happened during two years (' read seven years' says the
Presse)—the same simultaneousenfeeblement of the public
powers—the same contusion amongst them—the same
adjournment of questions—the same decline of our in-
fluence—the same increase of our embarrassments. On
some day—l know not on what day, but infallibly on
some day—a reaction will be produced, which will sud-
denly rouse the powers which are degraded, those
feelings now despised, those interests neglected and
(that which will add to the evils intended to be re-
moved) its own evils and its own dangers. The feel-
ing of this present danger, and the anticipation of
future misfortunes, have determined my opposition."
"Thus," observes the Presse. "M. Guizot expressed
himself in the year 1839, when addressing his consti-
tuents. The reasons which he gave at that period to
justify his opposition, are exactly those which we might
adduce to justify ours at the present day, with this single
difference, that he accused a Cabinet having only two
years' existence, and having to contend single-handed
against the entire coalesced force of the Tribune—
against an oratorical holy alliance, whilst the Cabinet
of the 29th of October reckons seven years of existence,
and has to contend solely against its own impotency.
When we compare those two periods, when we compare
the two Cabinets of the 15th of April and of the 29th
of October, there is one reflection which we cannot
avoid making; which is—that according as Count Molt
found his majority diminishing, he himself became
greater during the contest, whilst, on the contrary, N.
Guizot appeared more feeble according as his majority
became greater."

glorious misfortunes of the last days of the Imperial
period."
According to the National expresses have been re-
ceived from Brussels, announcing that the life of
King LEoroLD is despaired of.
The price of grain is falling in all parts of France.
From the following paragraph, which appears in
the CourrierFrancais, it should seem that the Bey of
TUNIS has already found cause to repent of the
facility with which he suffered himself to be
duped by M. GUIZOT into the desertion of his
natural allies, for the purpose of throwing himself
into the arms of those who, having used him as their
tool, now cast him off, and leave him to his fate. The
Courrier says—
" The Bey of Tunis is said to have appealed to Aus-
tria for its mediation for settling two of the serious
differences which have arisen between him and the
Turkish Government—the one relating to the disputed
line of boundary between the frontier of the Regency
and the Pachalic of Tripoli; and the second on a de-
mand made by Turkey upon the Bey for the payment
of very large sums of money, pretended to have been
due to the Porte from his father. These differences are
distinct from the question of independence, the most
serious of all, into which the Bey has been drawn by
the demonstrations of the French Cabinet, which now
confesses its( If to be incapable of supporting him in it."
Intelligence has been received from Algiers of the
10th. The Moniteur Algerien of that date says—
" On the 7th the Prince de Joinville left Algiers on a
rapid tour in the south, accompanied by his aide-de-
camp, M. Touchard, and by M. de Cissy, chef d'escadron
of the staff. Relays were ordered to be in readiness all
along the road. His Royal Highness rtok 2ed at Bouf-
farick, and was struck with admiration at the richness
of its vegetation. Colonel claparede and most of the
officers at Blidah came to meet the Prince at Mered,
where he mounted on horseback in order to have a
better view of the country, which being covered with
the harvest and studded with pretty villages, presented
a striking cc ntrast with the negative results which the
evil passion of misrepresentation has attributed to all
our attempts at colonization. The Prince de Join-
ville received visits from, and invited to dine with him,
all the chief civil arid military authorities of Blidah, but
declined all the public honours due to his rank. This
species of incognito, however, is to cease on his enter-
ing the territory of the Arabs ; because it would not be
considered by them as consistent with their ideas of
royal majesty. It may therefore be expected that they
will come in crowds to receive the son of their Sultan,
and entertain him with brilliant fantasias. On the Bth,
the Prince was to start at six in the morning for the
Col de Mouzaia, where General Marcy would be ready
to meet him with a numerous goum of Hadjoutes.
Before the Prince left Algiers, the Governor-General
ad interim, General de Bar, and the Admiral command-
ing the naval statin‘had the honour of dining with him
on board his flag-s*."
We read in the same journal : •

" The column from Algiers which took part in the ex-
pedition into Kabylia is expected back to-day. It has ac-
complished its mission, which was to obtain positive
pledges of obedience, and to strike with awe such
tribes as by manoeuvres had avoided compliance with
our summonses on the first passage of the army. The
column from Setif has obtained similar results, but had
to fire some shots on the 31st ult. This rencontre ended
in a complete submission, and cost us only one man
killed and four wounded. We also receive the most fa-
vourable news from the west, where General Renault
has brought his operations on Brizina to a happy termi-
nation, and sent his goums on the track of our enemies
in flight, as far as almost one hundred leagues from the
Tell. General d'Abbouville, with a moveable column,
has collected the tribute from the Nlsirdas. The accounts
from Morocco represent Abd-el-Kader as being very
powerful in the north of Taza, and procuring ample sup-
plies of provisions for his Deira, notwithstanding the
near neighbourhood of a camp of the Emperor's regular
troops, commanded by his son. Muley Abderrhaman
dared not return into Fez, and every indication presages
great events."

The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Wednesday at 77f. 60c.; the Five per Cents., at 117 f. 65e.;
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,275 f. ; Rouen, 975 f. ; Havre, 655 f. ;
Great Northern, 595 E; Avignon, 730 E ; Vierzon, 617 f. 50c. ;
Bordeaux, 511 f. 25c.; Troyes and Montereau, 280 E; Basle,
190 f. ; Dieppe, 315 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 428 C, 75c.;
Tours and Nantes, 412 f. 50c.; Paris and Lyons, 447 f. 50c. ;
Lyons and Avignon, 448 f. 'Sc; Belgian Two-and-a-Half per
Cents. 54if. ; Spanish Three per Cents., 35f.; Spanish Do-
mestic Debt, 30.

LYONS, JuNIT, 14.—Paris and Rouen, 973 f. 75c.; Avignon
and Marseilles, 751 f. 25c.; Vierzon, 617 f. 50c.; Northern,
600 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 443 f. 75c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Jura 17.
Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 16—Luxem,
bourg, I%—Namur and Liege, 3-4—Northern of France,
11%—Paris and Lyons, 5%.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.]

CORN EXCHANGE-FRIDAY.

Since Monday a very limited quantity of English Wheat
has been received up to our market, and the show of samples
of that article her. KY7 smail. The •continuance of wet
weather causea some of the holders to demand more money
for selected qualities of both Red and White, but the trade
ruler! very dull ; the business transacted being small at the
late decline in value. Upwards of 12,000 quarters of
foreign Wheat have arrived this week. We had a large
quantity on offer to-day, and which met a very dull sale, at
barely stationary prices. In Barley next to nothing was
doing, and in some instances the currencies were Is per
quarter lower. The Malt trade was dull, at late figures.
Oats, Beans, Peas, and Indian Corn might have been pur-
chased on somewhat easier terms. The import of 23,000
barrels of American Flour caused the trade to rule heavy at
barely stationary prices.

PRICES OF
RAILWAY SHARES.

Wheat.
English ...... 3,(780 qrs.
Irish. ........ 4,990
Foreign ...... 12,280

ARRIVALS.
I Barley.
480 qrs.

Oats Flour.
90 qrs. I 2,110 sks
3,300 I and
1,970 23,100

1,920
Malt, 1,500 on.
EMITIEFIELD.

The number of Beasts on offer here was considerably less
than that exhibited on this day se'nnight. The quality
being mostly inferior, and the attendance of buyers toler-
ably good, the primest Scots, Homebreds, were a very
steady sale; in some instances, an advance in the quotations
of 2d per 81bs, but the inferior kinds commanded very little
attention. There were in the market 392 Oxen and Cows,
1,760 Sheep and Lambs, and 146 Calves from Holland and
Germany, together with 150 horned and polled Scots from
Scotland. The supply of Sheep was but moderate, while
the Mutton trade was firm, at Monday's currencies. We
were fairly supplied with Lambs ; yet that description of
stock moved off freely, at an improvement in the value of
Down qualities of 4d per Blbs. Some of the foreign Lambs
sold as low as Six SHILLINGS re,s. iIEAD ! Calves were a
slow inquiry, but not cheaper. The demand for Pigs was
heavy, at late rates. Alilch Cows were sold at from 161. to
201. each, including their small Calf.
Per Blbs. to sink the offal.
s. d. to 5. d. s. d. to s. d.
Coarse-vroolled ditto 4 10 0
Second quality ditto 4 6 4 8
ainferiorcod q Bu
aelai st
44
60
44
s 4
Prime large Oxen 410 5 0 Southdovrn Wether 5 2 5 4
Prime Scots ..
Large coarse Calves 4 2 4 8 Large Hogs ... •• • 4 0 4 6
Prime small ditto
Suckling Calves lB 0 29 0 Quarter old Pigs • •16 0 20 0
Inferior Sheep
SUPPLY AT MARKET.
Beasts. I Sheep. Calves. 1 Pigs.
1,064 9,490 1 504 320
NEWG.&TE AND LEADENIIAIL.
There was a slight improvement in the general demand
here, but we eau notice no material alteration in the quota-
tions.

At per atone by the Carceuse.
s• d. to a. (1, s, d, to s.
middling .... 0 4 2 middling •• 4 6 4 8
prime large •• 4 2 4 6
prime small • • 4 6 4 5 Pork, largeprime
...... .
3 10 4 6
ve,u,, ~.....• . • • • 4 0 5 0
--- small 4 8 5 0
Lamb. Ss 4d to 65 2d.
BOROUGH HOP MARKET.

From most parts the accounts uialcrilT;;;;me to hand
to-day, relative to the growing bine, are to the effect that
no further increase has taken place in the fly. The late fine
showers have, we conceive, been somewhat beneficial to the
plant; still, however, a few speculative purchases were made
here this morning, at very full prices; but, for immediate
consumption, the transactions were on a very limited scale.
In the duty scarcely any betting has taken place since our
last, but present appearances are against a high range.
Sussex pockets, 41 65 to 41165; Weald of Kent ditto, 4115 s
to 51 los ; Mid and East Kent ditto, 5112 s to 718 s per cwt.

COLONIAL.
SUGATC.—The demand for British Plantation has rather
improved, and. compared with last week, there has been an
advance in prices of 6d to is per cwt. At auction Barbadoes,
150 hhds, has realised 49s 6d for fine yellow, and 42s 6d to
43s for low.

REFlNED.—Standard lumps have been firm at 59s to 608
per cwt.
EAST INDIA.—The business done in Bengal has been
chiefly by private contract, and at 6d to ls advance. Good
and fine white has been sold at 47s 6d to 535, and damp and
washed at 46s Gd to 52s per cwt. Mauritius has been sold at
a like improvement.
par cwt.
FOREIGN.—Java has realised 48s 6d to 49s for good, and
4inoaattos3s
st3B6fdorto u
darnsp, about half being sold; damp was taken
MOLASSES.—Cuba has been taken in at 24s per cwt.
COFFEE.—The market has not been brisk. Jamaica fine
bold coloury has been sold at 958 to 965, and good mid at
735. Ceylon has been at very full prices to a slight ad-
vance. Native good ord, 37s to 37s 6d ; real good ord,
37s 6d to 38s 6d; and
pea-berry, sound, 453 6d per cwt.
Brazil, 1,125 bags, was bought in at 355, St. Domingo at 32s
to 333, and 124 bags Java at 33a per cwt.
• SPICES. —A small business has been done. Pimento has
realised 5d per lb. Cassia Lignea has had rather a brisk
sale at 56s 6d to 62s 6d per cwt. Jamaica Ginger has been
nearly all taken in at 60s to 120 s per cwt.
BicE.—The market has declined. Madras at auction
has been sold Is to is 6d lower; low white 18s to 18s 6d,
and mid 19s to 19s 6d per cwt. Bengal has declined to
about the same extent; good bold white 20s to 20s 6d
per cwt.
SAurrETßE.—Calcutta 4lbs to Sibs refraction has been
sold at 28s 6d to 29s 6d per cwt.
CorrON.—The market is less active.
RUSL—Proof Leewards has been in request at 3s 2d to
3s 3d per gallon, and low to very fine Jamaica at 4s 7d to
6s 3d per cwt.
TEA.—There has been no alteration in the market, and
business is dull.

The report of M. BIGNON on the Budget of Ex-
penses of 1848 was distributed on Tuesday to the
Chamber of Deputies, in the name of the Committee,
The ordinary budget amounts to 1,544,072, 6271.,
and the Corfstittee proposes a reduction of 7,000,0001.
The reductions on the extraordinary credits are much
greater, they amount altogether to 92,768,0001., and
are in the credits for extraordinary works in the de-
partments of Public Works, War, and Marine. The
Government had demanded 472,288,9391.
The Courrier Francais contains an announcement
(which may be considered official) that it is the in-
tention of the Opposition Deputies to call the atten-
tion of the Chamber to the conduct of M. GUIZOT as
regards Switzerland, and to move a formal vote of
censure on the Ministry.
The Union Monarchique says that "Lord and
Lady NORMANBY, on their return from England, will
make but a very short stay in Paris, but will leave
almost immediately for Germany. The appointment
of a successor to his Lordship in the post of Ambas-
sador in France will shortly take place. Among the
political personages mentioned as likely to replace
him, Lord CLANRICARDE, Lord BEAUVALE (brother
of Lord MELBOURNE), and Lord HOLLAND, are more
particularly cited. This last choice, which hitherto
appears to have the greater chance of success, would
be, on the part of the British Government, an act of
courteous gallantry towards France, which has not
forgotten the
pious recollections that connect 80
honourably
the name of I.<ord HOLLAND Witil the

TALLOW.—P. Y. C. is 50s 9d to 51s per cwt, on the spot,
with a fair business doing.

CAUTION TO Taal)EsmEN.—We have been re-
quested by Mr. Batty, of Astley's Royal Amphitheatre,
to state, as a caution to the public, that there is a person
going round to different tradespeople, representing him-
self as coming from Mr. Batty, and requesting them to
call and take orders; he is dressed as a sweep, and re-
presents himself as such to the theatre. Having deli-
vered this message, he usually requests a gratuity from
the tradesman, and in many instances has succeeded in
obtaining money. The man in question is an impostor,
and has no connexion whatever with the theatre,

LONDON FRIDAY EVENING JUNE 18, 1847.

'MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was steady.
though rather dull. Sales, 5,000 bales, of which 3,750
were American, at sd. to 741, and 1,000 Surat at aid.
to &id. per lb. American and Surat were considered
dearer. Shares were dull, at barely previous rates.
The arrivals of foreign grain have been very large
this week in London and at the outports, and the indis-
position to purchase is as manifest as ever.
Accounts of June 4th from Odessa state that wheat
was in more active demand, but that there was a want
of shipping. In rye less was done.
Considerable importations of soda biscuits are being
received, to ascertain their availability fur consumptio❑
in this country, a great many of which have been distri-
buted in Liverpool, and the London market is now being
well !supplied with them direct; and to obviate the com-
plaints made by the public, in consequence of the various
parcels being sold privately, and the price being en-
hanced beyond a moderate remunerating profit, the
shippers at New York have thought it desirable
that a fair market value should be ascertained
by public sale, and a few hundred cases
were consigned to Messrs. Keeling and Hunt,
for that purpose. rho consumption having hitherto
been confined to New York, it is only since the duty
has been reduced on " bread-stuffs" that they could be
introduced in quantity to this country, the present duty
being ten per cent. on the value as a manufactured
article. The first public sale took place on Monday
last, the prices realised being 525. per cwt. for the plain
soda, 545. for the sweet, and 80s. for the lemon, the pur-
chases being principally made by the grocers in the
metropolis.
The Ceylon Railway Company have had a most in-
teresting, and, to the parties concerted, important
meeting, to-day. We have not at present time to enter
at length into particulars, but it may suffice to state
that a return from existing traffice of no less than 19
per cent. upon a line of thirty-two miles from Colombo
to Kandy, is estimated by the engineer.
The English Funds are firmer to day. Consols have
been 88 to for July. The New Three-and-a-Quarter
per Cents, are 89 to 90 ; and Bank Stock is 196 to
197. Exchequer-bills are 7s. to 10s. premium.
Portuguese Four per Cents. are 32 to 32i ; and there
has been no business in Spanish. Chilianhave realised
92i; Brazil Bonds are 82i to 834 ; Dutch Two-and-a-
-1-lan' per Cents. have been 58i to 584,
Railway Shares are much the same as yesterday; but
with rather more doing.
"BRITISH FUNDS.

ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock .. .. .. .. .. •• •• 196 197 197
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. .. 88%14 88 8814
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Arms. 89% 90 8934 90
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 9'e 1-16 9 1-16
India Bonds, 1,000/. .. .. .. .. .. —.—
Ditto, under 1,0001. .. .. .. .. 3 3
Consols for Opening, July 16 .. .. .. 884 88 88 4
Exchequer Bills. iNd. 2d.
1,0001... .. .... 7 10p 10 p
5001. . .. •• .. 11 14 9p 9p
Ditto, Small •—• .... 20 15 p 15 p
ONE CLOSINt;
FOREIGN ruNDs. O'CLOCK PRICES.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 84 82% 8314 8314
Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent .. . .. 92% 92
Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent .. 20%
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent .. ..
Ditto, 4 per Cent .. .. 32
Ditto, for the Account • • .. .. 32% 32 3214
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. ..
Ditto, Three per Cent .. .. .. 34%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-Dell per Cent .. 58%% 58%
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 89% 89%
BUSINESS
CLOSING
PAID. DONE AT
PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.

Amber., Notting., Boston, and
Eastern Junction . 2% ........
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 10 ..., 16% 17 ....
Buckinghamshire .. 61.45.... 1 di5.......
Caledoidan •35 .... 30%14 .....
Ditto, Half Shares .. 236 ..........
Chester and Holyhead 2714 ..........
Eastern Counties .. 20 .... 2014% .. • .
Do. l'erpet., 5 per Cent. No. I. 61. 13s. 4d. ..........
Ditto, ditto.. .. .. No. 2. 61. 13s. 4d. 1434 p
Ditto, York Extension 734 6 % ......
East Lancashire .. .. • . .. 20 .. ..
Ditto, New .. .. 10 .... • .....
East Lincolnshire .. 634 .... 7 %••.. • •
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. 50 • ........
Ditto, Half Shares - .. 15 .... 22
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 30 .... 25% 34 ........
Great North of England . ..100 .... ..........
Ditto, New .. .. 5 .... 59
Ditto, New .. 134.... 19 ••.. • • . 1834
Great Western .. •...115 ...... •• . 115
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 50 .... 6834 69 ...... 70
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 1214 .... 173 Y 17%
Hull and Selby .. .. •• 50 ....105 105
Leeds and Bradford .. • • .. 40 .... 88 .
London, Brighton, & South Coast 50 .... 5434 •• .. 5434
Ditto, Consol. Eighths .. .. 10 .... 1314 13 ...... 13
London an North-Western • .100 ....178%, 179.. •• • • 1793¢
Ditto, Quarters L. and B. 7 .... —
Ditto ditto, New Shares •• .. 2 .... 12% • • 12%
London and South• Western 411. 6s. 10d... 65;4 .. •• . •
Ditto, New .. 2734 .... 30 14 % 30%
Ditto, New .• .. •• 22 .... 23% .... • • • • 23%
Ditto, Tenths (Consolidated) •• 50 .... 55% 56% •. • • 563/4
Ditto, Tenths (ditto) • • • • 40 45 46 • • 46
Ditto, Scrip.. .. • • 5 .... 4%34.. 434
Lynn and Ely _ .. 25 _ 23% „ ...... 23%
Lynn and Dereham .. • • 20 .... 19 ..... . 19
Midland ..100 ...•122 ...... •• • • 12334
Ditto, New .. 36
Ditto, New .. .. • • 6 .... 9 •
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 100
Nev•,..ti. and Bervvick • • .. 20 .• • • 27% 28
Ditto, Extension .. • • •• to lO% •
North British .. .. • • .. 25 „.
Ditto, Half Shares .. .• • • 12% .• • • 1j%........
Ditto, Quarter Shares •• • • 314 • • • 414 .. •••• • • • •
Ditto, Extension .. • • • • %•• • • •34 ••••• • • • • •
North Staffordshire .. 7% .. •. 10
Portsmouth Direct • • • . 3% •. • •
Preston and Wyre 25 .... 363$ 37
Scottish Midland .. .. • • 173¢ 1754
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 314
Ditto, Class It .. •• • 3 .. •.
Shropshire Union .. .. 4 .... 214
South Eastern and Dovor .. • . 333 •. 3634 37
Do., New (do, 33/. 6s Bd.) No. 2. 12 .... 12 11% 12%
Do., New (do. 101.) .. No. 4. 5 .... 4%
South Wales .. .. 10 .... 714
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and
Windsor. Staines, &S. Western.. 425..... 114
Wilts. Somerset, and Weymouth 20 .... 10
York and Newcastle .. 25
Ditto, New.. .. .. • • •• 10 • 1514
Ditto, Preference .. .• • • 8 .... 11% • ••.• • •
York avid North Midland .. 50
.... 85% 86 .. • • • •
Ditto, Extension • • .. •• 25 .... 42 ..
Ditto, Preference • • .• 6 .... 1534..........
Do. E. and W. Riding Eaten.. 10 .. • 21 ••
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens .. .. 20 .... 16% •.• • ••
• • •
Direct Bombay and Madras .. 58. •• •• . •
Luxembourg
Namur and Liege .. • .. 10 • • •• •
Northern of France 11%,,,.,...••
Rouen and Havro . .. 20 .... 2614 26

JOINT-STOCK BANKS. -
Union of London .. .. .. .. 10 .. •• l 2 .. • ...... .
MINES.
Real del Monte, Unrezistered .. .... 3 • ... •..

LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G--(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JUNE 18.—Wind W.N.W., light breeze, and
cloudy.
DEAL, JUNE 17.—Wind S. to S.S.W, moderate; P.M.,
S.E. to S.S.W., light.—Arrd. 12, Junge Heinrich, Groot, St.
Croix. 13, J. C. Linde, Callao, and sailed for Antwerp; St.
Surinam, Boyan, Baltimore, and sailed for Bremen. 16, Mar-
garetha, Moop, New York. 17, Norfolk, M'Gildowney, Ma-
tanzas ; Elizabeth. Rae, Nassau ; Edinburgh, Jackson, New
Orleans; Belle, Whitten, Bermuda; Charlotte, Campbell,
New York. Sld. Washington, New York ; Sir Robert Sale,
New Zealand; Marmion, Port Philip; Manner, Adelaide;
Renown, Launceston ; Leontes, Ceylon ; Milford, Berbice ;
Superior, Demerara ; Ann, Trinidad ; Sandwich, St. Lucia ;
Miranda, Antigua; Blanche, Jamaica; Harmony, Labrador.
Arrd. from the river, and sailed, Ocean Queen, Cape of Good
Hope ; York, New Orleans ; Tiberias, Boston; William,
Quebec.

LivEarom, JUNE 17.—Wind N.N.W., moderate.—Arrd.
Nile, Kennedy, Callao ; Salacia, Boyce, Havannah ; Emerald,
Buck, New Orleans; Lady Falkland, Smith, New Orleans;
Renfrewshire, Cleaver, New York; Lord Wellington, Wins-
field, ditto; Abraham, Epring, Montreal and Sydney, C.B. ;
Oak, Penrice, Calcutta ; Mediterranean, Bonny, Equador ;
Fordyce, Valparaiso; Letitia, Thorpe, Matanzas; Columbus,
Green, Pernambuco, sailed 15th ult. ; Archer, Machlachlan,
Savanilla ; Bona Dear, Brown, New Orleans ; Portland, Mo-
bile ; Dauntless, Rogers, Apalachicola ; St. Clair Balti-
more; Louisiana, Call, ditto ; Maryland, Raines, Virginia ;
Rose, Moore, New York ; Malabar, Barker, ditto ; Empire,
ditto; Colonist, Sinnott, ditto; Emperor, Day, ditto; Stephen
Whitney, Popham, ditto. Off port, Wilsons, Matanzas ;
Royal Sovereign, Joshua Waddington, and James Porter,
Sid. Syria, Calcutta; Cunada, Callao; Ottavia, Lima;
Isabella, Monte Video; Alice, Rio Janeiro; Hermann, Bal-
timore; Columbia, New York; Liberty, ditto; Charleston,
ditto; James, Cape Breton; Agape, Quebec ; James Mann,
ditto : Mountaineer, Newfoundland.

COWES, JUNE 17.—Wind S. W.—Sid. Superior, New York,
WATERFORD, JUNE 16.—Wind N.W. to N.N.W.—Arrd,
Minerva, Parker, New York.

LIMERICK, JUNE 16.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Shepherdess,
Craig, Baltimore; Saxonville, Reid, Philadephia; Royalist,
Campbell, New York; Ur.dine, ditto.
WARRENPOINT, JUNE 16.—Wind S., fresh.—Arrd. Bro-
thers, Craigiee, New York; Margaret, Montgomery, ditto.
CLYDE, JUNE 16.—Wind E.—Arrd. Ann Hasley, Scott,
New York; Cora Linn, Graham, Pictou. 15th, Sld. Mel-
bourne, Port Philip; Lima packet, Demerara; Helen, Bar-
badoes ; Vermont, New York. 16th, Wanderer, Demerara.
MARGATE, JUNE 17.—Some deals have been brought in
here to-day, being part of the cargo thrown overboard from
the Chester, St. John's, New Brunswick, to London.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
Last evening was another triumph for Mademoiselle
Jenny Lind. Her Alice and her Amina have vindi-
cated for her the supremacy in the pathetic opera.
Her Norma has placed her far away beyond
all rivalry as the . prima donna assoluta of
grand opera. Her Maria has proved that she is un-
approachable as the heroine of opera buffa—remained
it then to be seen whether or no she was worthy of her
continental fame as a ballad singer. Last night settled
the question in the most triumphant manner,—Jenny
Lind, the greatest Norma, the greatest Alice, the
greatest Amina, the greatest Maria, who has ever appear-
ed sang two simple ballads, melodies of her native land,
and in so doing, perhaps achieved her greatest triumph.
The first ballad, entitled " Bergliede," is a Norwegian
pastoral. It in fact, a duet sung by one
voice, the subject being two lovers making love
as they guard their flocks, and calling to each
other from opposite mountain heights. This affords
Mademoiselle Lind a fine opportunity for exhibiting that
wonderful power which we have on a former occasion
designated vocal ventriloquism. Tho sudden transitions
of voice introduced produce a beautiful and novel effect,
and the ballad ends with a quaint, short laugh, which
was most effective, and took the audience quite by
surprize. The second ballad is in Swedish, and is en
titled " The invitation to the dance." It describes the
coquetry of a young girl with a cavalier, who asks her
hand in the dance, and the acting of Mademoiselle Jenny
Lind was a charming piece of mingled simplicity and
espieglerie. The melody is pretty, and the shake
which she introduces at the end is exceedingly beautiful.
These ballads formed part of a concert which followed
the opera of Ernani. In the course of the concert
Mademoiselle Jenny Lind sang with Lablache
Fioravanti's celebrated Music: Lesson. Her shakes
and roulades in this composition are perfectly
marvellous—Lablache himself seemed thoroughly as
tonished at them. Her acting, too, was exquisitely
comic—she watched Lablache with the greatest