The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-16 00:00:00

contradicted the calumnies to which-his enemies have
resorted, in order to mislead public opinion, and surprise
the good faith of some of the American Governments.
Should FLORES succeed he will be soon followed
by CHRISTINA, RIANZARES, and their family; but
although FLORES may have forgotten the fate of
ITuRBIDE, the probability 'is that the Venezuelans
have not.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Wednesday at 77f. 65c. ; the Five per Cents. at 1181. 50c. ;
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,2721. 50c. ; Rouen, 961 f. 25c. ;
Havre, 637 f. 50c. ; Great Northern, 575 f. ; Avignon, 6301. ;
Viarzon, 5901. ; Bordeaux, 4801. ; Boulogne, 390 f. 9 • Troyes
and Monibreau, 260 f. ; Basle, 183 f, 75c. ; Dieppe, 3101. ; Paris
and Strasburg, 423 f. 75c. i Tours and Nantes, 400 f. ; Paris
and Lyons, 433 f. 75c. ; Lyons and Avignon, 4301. ; Bor-
deaux and Cette, 460 f. Spanish Actives, 291/4 ; Ditto, Pas-
sives,
LYONS, JULY 12.—Paris and Rouen, 9561. 25c. ;
Avignon and Marseilles, 640 f. ; Northern, 566 f. 25c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE,Jutx;IS.
Northern of France, 12% ex int.—Orleans and Bordeaux,
53/4—Paris and Lyons, 5.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was firm.
Sales 9,000 bales. American sorts were a shade higher,
'and 5,000 bales sold at 6-441. to 71d. per lb. ; 2,000 bales
Surat realised 4ld. to sld, per lb.—Railway Shares
were better, and prices in some instances were higher.
Not much was done.
Accounts from Odessa state that the weather had been
beautiful there up to the 25th ult., the rain and sunshine
having alternated so as to bring everything to the
highest state of perfection. In New Russia and Bess-
arabia also the temperature was favourable. By the
end of June the stock of grain was expected to amount
to 1,000,000 tachetwerts, and there was not much activity
in the trade looked for during the ensuing two or three
weeks.
The Money Market is rather dasier, but until the
heavy railway calls of the present month are over, there
may. not be any material change. In Ireland the rate of
discounts has been lowered by the leading banks, and on
the Continent there seems to be no scarcity of money.
The exchange, under date of Tuesday, from Ham.
burgh comes over at 13.5 on London, being * lower, and
the priee of gold was 431*. .
The:Corn Market is reported 46 be steady..
• 'This being settling day in . the Funds, Consols have
been affected by the state of the Account. They touched
89k, but are now down . again to. Bsii one or two sales
having been pressed. Consols for the August account
have been 89k to 89k. Bank Stock is rather dull, at
195. The New Three-and-a Quarter per Cents: 'have
been 91k 1, and the Three per Cents. 89k Exche-'
quer-bills have been marked 9s:to 13s. premium.
The Spanish bondholders' meeting yesterday did not
" go off in the way. anticipated by some of the specu-
lators, although it is satisfactory to find that with the
bulk of the creditors a mere temporary advance is not
the object aimed at or desired, but rather an arrange-
ment that promises permanent advantage. The bond-
holders may rest assured that they gain nothing by a
mere cancelling of old bonds. On the contrary, they
expose themselves to renewed loss, and as to the stock
rising in price under a.large, additional issue, it is mere
moonshine, hOwever some parties may delude them-
selves with the hope. The Spanish Government is well
able to pay something, and can as well pay it upon the
old bonds as the new. The Three per Cents. have been
at 31k. The Five per Cents. are nominally 21k to 22
In Mexican there have been no bargains.
Shares are buoyant again.
BRITISH FUNDS.

ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock ••, .. .. 185 19,; ~,
.• •• •• .•
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. .. 89% li % 89
Three per Cent. Console Annuities • • • . 69 88% 894
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anus. 91% %% % 91%
Long
oDitto.oi.Annuities,ssmail. Expire Jan. 5.
:1:8:6:0 1-16 % 95
Consolslndia
t zc Bhieofo 0
oi
ciont Ditto,
esl'ri Opening,3l.Bo.years,
Mulso:g.. l. u. 1 Jan.
gi
..1 i 2d6.5. .., 1.8.16.10. ••• •••
111:•.2941:
9134819p98:::% 8%
9
89 ii
Three per Cent. Consols, Scrip • • • • '2d.— % p
13 p
13 p
14 p
ONE CLOSIN 6
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent • • • • 83% 84 84
Danish, 3 per Cent - • • • • ' • ' 7•• 85
• Grenada, 1 per Cent • • • • • • • —.,
Ditto, Deferred . • • • • • • • ol's
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent • • • •
Ditto, for the Account • • • • • •
Ditto, Three per Cent • • • • • •
Ditto, for the Account • •
• .. 315 i
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent • • • •
Ditto, Deferred • • .. • • • • • •
Dividends on the above payabl
Dutch Two-and-a-flalf per Cent ..
Ditto, for the Account • • • • • •
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates

3%

12%
le in London. '
57%
57%
90% 91

57%
57%

PRICES OF PAID. DONE AT BUSINESS CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES. ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 10 .... 17% 18% lB%
Birming., Wolver., and Dudley • • 10 .• .. 15% l6
Boston, Stamford, & Birmlnghlun 5 .... 5 ......... „ 5
Buckinghamshire .. .. .. . • 61. 43. •• . % dis.
Caledonian .. .. .. .. 35 .... 29% li ..
Ditto, Half Shares .. ... 2% •• .. I% .....
Eastern Counties .. .. .. .. 20. .. .. 20% %..•• ‘. • •

Ditto, York Extension 7%.... ........
East Lancashire .. • • .. 20

Ditto, New

.. .. .. .. 10., .... 9% ex int....9%x. int,

East Lincolnshire .... 7 fa; • •
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 .... 69 • .... • •
Great Northern 6 .... 4% • .
._ _ .

110., London Sc York Extension 2% .... 2 . .... •• •
Great Southern. & We.st. (Ireland.) ...... •• ..
Great Western .. $S ........ .

idi
ttott
oi
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. 15 .... 20% 20%
Ditto, New 174 .. .. .. .. 7 ...• 10%4 ..
Ipswich and Bury St.Edmunds .. 14 .... .......
Ditto, ditto, and Norwich .. 834 ....
Leeds and Bradford •• • • .. 45 .... 93% •• • ... •• • • 93%
Leicester and Bedford .. .. .. 165..... % dis .... • • % Ms.
London and Blackwell .. 161. 13s. 4d. 74 ••• • • •
Ditto, New. No. 2 • • • • 2/. 13s. 4d. 14 p..
London, Brighton, & South Coast 50 .. 55% 56 •• • •
Do. Pref. Convert. 5 per cent. 50 .... 54
London. an North-Western ..100 • • ..180 181 180
4(1e1.) 681. 10(1.1:: 678 •::••* : : : • :
I) il,to , Quarters L. and B. 12 ..
1
Ditto ditto, New Shares • . .. 2 .... 12N %
Ditto, 401. Shares M. &B. .. 40 .... 7034
andl
Scripo •/ .
south-Western Sharessol..
. A l
.. .&B. . B. . . 5 . .
Ditto, Quarter Share:, •• . 14% .. ig ....
..... 18
ManchesterLoDpn
Midland .. •• • • • • •.100 ....128 130.. —— • • 130
and Leeds .. .. . 82 .... .......... _
Do., Consol. Bristol and Birm.
z•ix per Cent. • • • • • •100 —.128% .. ...... 12834
Newcastle and Berwick • • .. 20 •• • . 29% 30 29?. 30
Ditto, New • • • • • • • • .5 .. 8.34 9 „
.... 854
Norfolk .. • • • • • • • • • • 100 • • ..124 125 —• • 125
Ditto, New 20/. • • • • • .. 5 .... gii
.......... 8
Northern Counties Union ..
.. 4
....
1413...
1%
%1
•:
371
I::: :: :: • • 21 4
North British • • • • • • •• 25 .... 33 32,4 ••• • • • 32%
North S'tatfordshire • . .. .. N.. •• 10,/,,,ii•••••••• 10%
Scottish Central • • • .• 20 .... 28% 4 ...... • • 28 4
34 37%
Do., New (do. 33/. 65.8 d.) No. 2. 17 ... 16X .... . .... 16%
is3v2olr . ) • k o.• 11 3230 1
2
South Wales • • • • ••• •• 15 .... 11% •• • • 11%
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and
SoDutihtto Eastern
. N '
eNV ( anda .
at Do
Goole .• • • ' • • • • • • 2 .• •• 2 .• . ..... .. 2
West Cornwall • • • • • • • • 4 ..., .......... IN
Windsor. Staines, &S. Western.. 425. .... ~• • —• • 2% p
York and Newcastle • • • • .. 25 ~ .. 37%
.......... 3s
Ditto, Extension • • • • • • •• 10 .. • . 17 ..... .
Ditto, Preference • • • • .. 8 ,
.. 12• X %.....• •• 12%x i
York and North Midland ..
.. so•
..,..
......
Ditto. Preference • • ..
.. 6
164x1.••••••• 164 xi
Do. E. and W. Riding Eaten.. 15 ... 271 ........ • • 273 i
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens • • • • .. ',O .... 154
East Indian .• •• ss• M•• •• ii •••••• •• 14
Great Western Canada ..
.. 314....
3%
Luxembourg I%
Northern of France • • • . •• 10 .... 12% 4x1.. • • • • 12% xi.
Orleans and Bourdeaux .. .. 6
..
5%
Rouen and Havre - • • • • .. 20 .... 254 ....••••
West Flanders • • • • • . • 8 4 4 .
MINES..,_
Real del Monte, Unregistered ,

12%
7014
74
68y6

LLOYD'S SIIIPPING-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JULY 16.—Wind at noon N.N.E., light pleasant
breeze, and fine clear weather.
DEAL, JULY 15.—Wind N.E. to S.E. moderate breeze
and thick fog.—Arrd. Louisa Maria, Jaski, Batavia ; Blun-
dell, Daniel, Calcutta; Shannon, Colbeck, Porto Rico; Emi-
grant, Anderson, Baltimore, Bremen ; Helen, Stevenson,
New York. Arrd. front the River and sailed, James Cruik-
shank, Demerara. 10 P.I. The Mariposa, Parsons, of New
York, from China to Hamburgh, got on shore on the south
part of the Goodwin Sands at 8 r.m. The weather is mode-
rate, and she makes no water. Attempts will be made to
get her off on the flood. There has been a thick fog through-
out the day.
SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 15.—S1d. Washington, New York.
PrAmounr, JULY 15.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Fanny, Smith,
Prince Edward's Island. Off port, Margaret, Taaker, Pug-
wash; Fabei-, Herod, Bahia, Hamburgh; Queen of the Isles,
Damielle, Perute. The Saucy Jack, from Marseilles, is
leaky, having strained on taking the, ground.
. LIVERPOOL, JULY 15.—Wind light and variable.—Arrd.
Ellerslie, Paget), China; Cracons, Johns, Bombay; Denison,
King, Antigua ; Joseph Anderson, Ridley, New Orleans ;
.Robert, Richardson, Virginia; Nautilus, Allison, ditto;
Thomas, Philadelphia; John Ravenill, Mattison New York.
Sid. Cognitte, Africa; Clemanthe, Beyrout ; Safacia, Bahia;
Urgent, Mararham;- Cornelia, New York; Sea, ditto, St.
M R John, estigOnche ;"—Prinirose, Yarmouth, N.S. ; James
Fagan, Quebec ; British Queen, ditto ; Scottish Maid,,
ditto •
St. Andrew, Montreal; Familta, Newfoundland. Off port,
EA.! Bahia; Thomas 13attersby, The Gipsy, Scott, of
Whitehaven, from this port to Newfoundland, was aban-
doned 27th ult., ]at 46, long. 39, with three and a half feet
water in her hold, having sprung a leak two days previout:y,
and was fallen in with 29th, with four feet water in her hold,
by the John Ravenell, arrived here. The Reward, Carr,
hence to Cork, was taken into Bearhaven 12th inst., in a
sinking state, having been on the iocki at the entrance of
the port during a thick fog,
Oer FAIELEIGE, JULY 14.—Chaucer, Elder, Ceylon.
OFF DART3IOUTR. JULY 11. —Preste, Mollum, Rio Janet, o
for Gothenburg. 12th, Ellen, Bell, New York; Pilot, Peter-
son, Batavia for Hamburgh ; Jeannette Maria, Prinscke, Ha-
vannah for Antwerp. 13th, Conqueror, Flanaghan, New
York. 14th, Tabor, Horn, Bahia for Hamburgh. 15th, Iron
Queen, Black, Singapore.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE-FRIDAY.

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Scarcely any English Wheat has been received up to
our market, coastwise or by land carriage, since Monday.
The few samples fresh up commanded a steady, though
not to say brisk, inquiry, at fully the last improvement
in value. Upwardd ot 23,000 quarters of Foreign Wheat
have come in this week, mostly in middling condition.
The finest qualities commanded a ready sale, at very full
prices; but all other kinds were dull, and somewhat
cheaper to sell. In Barley next to nothing was doing,
Yet prices were mostly supported. The show of that
article was small. So little was doing in Malt—the sup-
ply of which was small—that prices were almost nominal.
Oats moved -uff steadily, at late rates. Beans, Peas,
Indian Corn, and Flour, commanded very little attention.

ARRIVALS.
Wheat. Barley. I
English
Irish.
Foreign
Malt. 1,510 aro.

6,0795 a
0: scir a . i
Ii
33;F:
tsfilsooon:rkr.lBs.
100 and

SMITHFIELD.
Although our market was very moderately supplied
with Beasts, both as respects number and quality, the
demand for all kinds was in a sluggish state, at barely
b~tiat nett belostb, WOO prim There

were on offer, 371 Beasts, 1,540 Sheep and Lambs, and
212 Calves from abroad ; as, also, 194 Scots from Scot-
land. The supply of Sheep was, comparatively speaking,
small. As most of the butchers have purchased very
sparingly of late at Newgate and Leadenhall, the Mutton
trade, this morning, was firm, at, in some Instances, an
advance in the currencies of 2d per 81bs, the primest old
Downs producing without difficulty, 5s 4d per Sibs. In
• Lambs, a full average amount of business was transacted,
at a rise in value of from 2d to 4d per 81bs. The Veal
trade, from the excess of supply, was heavy, at barely
late rates. Pigs were very dull, but not cheaper. Milch
Cows sold at from 16/. to 191. each.

Per 81b8. to sink the offal.

s. d. to s. d.
Inferior Beasts.— 3 8 4 0
Second quality •• 4 2 4 4
Prime large Oxen 4 6 4 8
Prime Scots
Large coarse Calves 4 0 4 6
Primesinall ditto 4 8 5 0
4uckling Calves lB 0 28 0
Inferior Sheep • 4 2 4 4

s. d, to s. d.
Second qualltyditto 4 6 4 a
Coarse-woolled ditto 4 10 5 0
Southdown Wether 5 2 5 4
Ditto out of the wool
Large Hogs ••• . • 4 0 4 6
Small Porkers .... 4 S 5 0
Quarter old Pigs ..16 0 19 0
Lambs .. ••. • 5 2 6 4

SUPPLY AT MARKET.
Beasts. I Sheep. I Calves.
991 I 11,470 725
NEUTGATE AND LEADENUALL.
We had a steady trade here, at very full prices.
At per stone by the Carcase.

I P.

s. el. to s. d d. to s• d.
Beet,inferior•••••• 3 6 3 ' Mutton, inferior .. 310 4 2
- middling .... 310 4 0 middling.. 4 4 4 8
prime large .. 4 0 4 2 prime •. 410 5 0
- prime small .. 4 2 4 4 Pork,large....•• •• 310 4 6
Veal.• ••••.• •••••• 310 410 - small •••••••• 4 8 410
Lamb, 5s to 6s.
XIOROUGH HOP IVIAMEET.

The accounts respecting the growing bine being con-
sidered rather more favourable our market for all kinds
of Hops is in a very dull state, but we can notice no
actual decline in the quotations, although the supply on
offer is rather extensive. The duty is called from
145,0001 to 150,000/. Sussex pockets, 41 to 41 106;
Weald of Kent ditto, 4110 s to 5155; Mid and East Kent
ditto, 51 12s to 71 7s per cwt.

COLONIAL.
SUGAR.—The business done in British Plantation has
rather increased, but the low qualities are still in com-
paratively full supply. Bright grocery kinds have been
at fully previous rates. Brown has been at 34s to 335.
At auction Barbadoes realised 45s 6d to 46s 6d for fine
yellow; and St. Lucia 32s for low brown, and 38s to 39s
for low yellow; chrystallised Demerara sold at 43s to
47s 6d per cwt.
REFINED.—The demand .has improved, and standard
lumps have realised 58s 6d per cwt.
EAST INDlA.—Bengal has maintained full prices. Fine
white Benares has been sold at 47s to 47s 6d, and ord at
445. Mauritius, good and fine yellow, sold at previous
rates; but brown and grey inferior went cheaper; 4,815
bags 19 casks, by auction, sold at 38s to 39s for low
yellow, and at 45s to 47s 6d for fine ; brown, fine and
good, realised 36s to 37s 6d. China has realised 43S to
43s 6d for low _white.
FOREIGN.-.--St. Croix has been sold at 47s to 52s for
good and fine, and at 46s for mid ; 1,027 boxes 588
chests llavannah were mostly sold at 40s to 43s 6d for
washed low to mid yellow; Brazil was taken at 53s to
55s for good and fine white, and Pernambuco sold at
463 to 49s 6d for good and fine white.
COFFEE.--There has been a firmer market; Jamaica
has been in good supply, and fine qualities have had a
ready sale at full prices. Good and fine, 90s to 130 s 6d;
mid, 68s to 84s; and inferior, 38s to 445. Native Ceylon
Coffee has been brisker, at 37s to 38s for good and very
good ord. Fine Plantation is also sought after; mid
coloury at 693 to 74s 6d, and fine ord at 51s 6d to 545.
Mocha has been taken at 625.

RICE.—The market has been duller, and prices are
down to 15s to 18s for low to fine white Bengal, and 14s
to 146 6d for yellow.

SPICES.— 'fhe dunand for Pimento has been limited.
Saks at 5d to sid per lb. Pepper has been dull.
Black 2id to 2id, and white 3iel to 5d per lb.
Cocoa.—Low to fine is 473 to 555, being cheaper.

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INDIGO.—At the auctions up to last evening the sales
went off briskly, and Kirpah is higher. The quantity
passed was 1,241 chests; there had been withdrawn 310,
bought in 140, and sold 823 chests, making in all 2,412
chests.

TEA.-At the public sales of 5,700 packages yester-
day but little sold, though some parcels were taken after
the auction. Prices was without alteration.

Rum.—East India proof has been at 2s 6d per gallon,
and proof Leewards at 2s Bd.
CorroN.—The market has been good.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. has been 48s 6d to 49s 6d per cwt.
on the spot, and 47s 3d for the last three months.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
The Court sat by adjournment for the disposal of
felonies and misdemeanours within the liberties of West
minster. For the performance of this duty, in which
was involved the trial of only one prisoner, no less than
72 jurors, 36 grand jurors, and 36 petty jurors were in
attendance.

The one case was speedily disposed of, when the Court
proceeded with the bail cases which remained over from
the last sitting at Clerkenwell-green.

HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO SCOTLAND.—It is not
yet officially announced when her Majesty will leave for
Scotland, but from the arrangements in progress it is
now certain her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, and suite will embark at Woolwich on Saturday,
the 31st of the present month, or Monday, the 2d of
August next. The junior branches of the Royal Family
are expected to remain at Osborne House during her
Majesty's visit to Scotland.
THE BOSJESMANS, OR BUSH PEOPLE, OF AFRICA.—
The line of demarcation between man and the lower
order of animals is very slight indeed: the American
Savage, the Hin leo, the Aborigines of Australia, and
the African Bushman, are all specimens of this distinc-
tion, but from their paucity of numbers the Bosjesmans
are the most extraordinary. Even in their own country
they are comparatively curiosities of humanity; they are
dying year atter year, and the specimens now exhibiting
are the first, and probably the last of that diminished
and diminishing species whom we shall see. Intelligence
they do possess to a certain. extent, but it is the result of
instinct rather than of reason. They remain in this
country but a very short time longer, and the naturalist,
as well as the philosopher, must look on them with in-
terest. They have an infant with them which will soon
be admitted into the pale of the Christian Church by the
solemn Sacrament of Baptism. During the present
week they have been visited by the following distin-
guished individuals :—Mr. Baron Parke; Sir Robert
Peel and family; Lord and Lady Stanley, Prince Louis
Napoleon, Viscount and Viscountess Combermere, the
Duke of Newcastle and the Ladies Clinton, Marquises
Northampton, ER.S., Douro, Ely, Normanby, Douglas,
Bristol; Lords Craven, Cadogan, Harrowby,
Arundel, Anson, Munster, Cantalupe, Jocelyn, Teynham,
Slane, Henley, Loftus, Albert Cony ngham, Mounteharles,
Burghley, Skelmersdale, and Adolphus Fitzclarence;
the Prussian Minister; the Bishops of Worcester and
Norwich, Mr. Commission( r Phillips; Ladies Peel, Pal-
merston, Ferguson, Darcy, Kinloch, Egerton, Seymour,
Anstruther, Portman, Exmouth, the Hon. Caroline
Norton, Mrs. Charles Dickens, Mrs. Milner Gibson, Sir
James Graham, Sir Richard Bulkeley, Sir A. W.
Crichton, Sir W. Massey Stanley, Mr. Alderman
Harmer, R. G. Lumley, Bransby Cooper, Robertson,
Gladstone, Albert Smith, Mark Lemon, Esqs., and Rev.
Dr.M'Neill,and a great many individuals connected with
literature and the fine arts. The Grand Duke Constan-
tine visited them previous to his departure for the pro-
vinces, and was highly gratified.
DE BIAUVOIR TOWN, KINGSLAND. A public
meeting of the house proprietors and tenants of the
above district was held in the large room of the Jolly
Farmers, Southgate-road, last night, to take into con-
sideration, and endeavour to provide a remedy, for the
impassable state of the roads and footpaths during
winter. It is well known that this is unlike any other
district of London, there not being a piece of pavement
laid down on any part of it, and the miry state of the
roads in winter is such, that it is absolutely dangerous
for delicate persons to venture out : property is thereby
much depreciated, while the rates are equally high with
those places where the comfort of flag pavement is ex-
perienced. The chair was taken, at half-past eight
o'clock, by W. R. Ives, Esq., of Doctors' Commons, who,
in a brilliant and forcible speech, stated the object of the
meeting, and was ably followed by Messrs. Matson, Pot-
ter, Pritchard, and others, and a deputation to the High-
way Board was appointed, to represent the necessity of
due attention to the interests of this new important
portion of the parish of St. John's, Hackney. A vote
of thanks to the chairman, and Mr. Hawkins, the secre
tart', was proposed and seconded, and the meeting broke
up at 10 P.M. There is at present in the course of
erection. iii Albion square a very handsome edifice, in-
tended for a Literary and Scientific Institution, in which
will belecture and class rooms, and library of circula-
tion; such has been much wanted, and it is expected, to
be opened in September. It has been the subject of con-
versation:that parties. building houses in this parish must
have ransacked the regions of fancy and imagination,
also sacred and profane history, in search of names fbr
their various residences; instead of at once naming • the
street and numbering it from one and upwards, eath
brick erection is designated with some peculiar name,
according to the fancy and inclination of the proprietor,
so that a stranger to the neighbourhood_ finds it a matter
of no little difficulty to find the house, i.e. the " vine'
of his friends. • It -is some time before the postmen be-
come familiarised to the:beat.
According to the details of the vessels entered
inwards, it appears that the return for the port of London
shows an increase of 26 vessels and 18,782 tonnage, the
numbers for 1846 being 349 vessels and 148,926 tonnage
and for 1847, 375 vessels and 167,708 tonnage. The
Liverpool- return shows an increase of two vessels and
1,608 tonnage; the Bristol and Hull return an increase
of 11 vessels and 3,989 tonnage; and the return for Clyde
and other ports an increase of 15 vessels and 4,753 ton-
nage, making a gross increase on the whole statement of
54 vessels and 29,132 tonnage. Among the items con-
stituting this result may be mentioned the increase in
arrivals from the Mauritius, stated at 28 vessels, from
Bombay 10 vessels, from Singapore and Penang 10 ves
sels, and from the Philippine Islands 11 vessels. The
principal decrease has occurred in arrivals from China,
Calcutta,- and Arabia. The clearances outwards establish
a decrease in the port of London of 37 vessels and 9,689
tonnage, the numbers being 247 vessels and 109,291 ton-
nage in 1846, and 210 vessels and 99,602 tonnage in
1847. There has been a decrease to the extent of 19
vessels and 2,616 tonnage in the case of Liverpool, and
of 13 vessels and 959 tonnage in the case of Clyde
and other ports. The only instance of increase is mani-
fested by the return from Bristol and Hull, where the
number of clearances exceeded those of last year by
5 vessels and 2,080 tonnage. Making allowance for
this exception, the total decrease then appears to
amount-to 64 vessels and. 11.184 tonnage; the chief
points in- which a falling off has occurred being Cal-
cutta, Bombay, Ceylon, Arabia, Mauritius, and the
Cape of Good Hope. On the other hand, a slight in-
crease has taken place in the clearance§ of vessels to
Oingapote.sad New South- Wales.

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