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forf-c,Ol tten and manifestly neglected. How long must
we e ontinue to inveigh against this undeserved treat-
; of SHERIDAN KNOWLES ? Government or
Deaf ;h will decide.

T he delays of Chancery have passed into a proverb,
The hope deferred, the restless and unceasing
any tety, the protracted agony of the unfortunate
suit or, who, after years of litigation and controversy,
find s himself in as great uncertainty as ever as to the
fins .1 result of his suit, have often been detailed and
e patiated on ; the constant drain for fees to counsel,
fees to the officers of the court, fees for law fund
stamps, and fees for all the other innumerable devices
by which the pockets of the litigants are invaded,
have reduced his finances to the lowest ebb. He
losses his energy. He can no longer devote himself
to his ordinary pursuits, he cannot turn his feverish
arid disturbed mind to honest industry. Every
faculty and feeling is absorbed in the thrilling
excitement, in the probability of a favourable
decision, which may perchance restore himself and
family to affluence, or which may reduce him to the
lo west state of poverty, and consign him to a gaol for
the remainder of his days. " Every additional delay
adds to the intensity of his feelings ; like the

, ?ambler his life is set upon a cast. He is ready to
s:" :and the hazard of the die," but he implores a speedy
t ermination of his suspense—he will welcome any
alternative if it will enable him once more to
know his real position, to look with something
like certainty to his future prospects. But no, the
s word of Damocles is suspended over his head, and
' there it must remain until the wretched victim is
perhaps hurried to a premature grave, and his family,
reduced to beggary, are unable, even when victory is
within their grasp,to realise its fruits; they cannot pro-
cure the funds necessary for the final hearing—their
claims are abandoned in despair, and the disputed pro
perty is added to the three million pounds sterling, that
:forms what is termed the suitors fund, being money
that long since was lodged in Court to abide its deci-
: ;ion, but which could never subsequently be extri-
, :ated from its tenacious grasp, and out of the interest
4)f which, amounting to nearly 100,0001. sterling per
innum, the salaries of the Lord Chancellor and other
Equity Judges are paid.
A letter from a correspondent, which will be found
i.n another column, forcibly describes one branch of the
f;vil—the standing over for judgment of cases that
I lave long since been argued. In this respect the pre-

sent Learned Occupant of the Woolsack is, perhaps,

less to be complained of than almost any of his
predecessors. He has also by the new rules
p:r amulgated by him effected more for the
editor in mitigating some of the delays than
had been achieved for a series of years, but much
stili remains to be done, and he should not relax in
his. exertions to cleanse the Augean stables, or suffer
Himself to be fettered and restrained by antiquated
customs and worn-out prejudices. The system is
sentially in fault, and until a sweeping change is
introduced, nothing really valuable can be effected.
The first point to be attained, without which no re-
form can strike at the root of the evil, is the separa-
tion of the judicial and political functions of the Lord
Chancellor. It is impossible that any person involved
in, cures of State—a Cabinet Minister, on whom the
interests of the nation in every department are cast,
whose especial duty it is to bring in new laws, and
w ho, in addition to these multifarious avocations, is com-
lled to act as Speaker of the Upper House of Parlia-
ment, to hear the dreary eloquence of his brother peers
night after night, who is to regulate the magistracy, and
to recommend or approve of every legal appointment
throughout the kingdom—can devote the attention
and time to the proper business of his court that
might reasonably be expected from a judge who had
nothing else to attend to. The miracle is not that so
much remains to be done, that so many cases stand
over for judgment, so many appeals are undisposed of,
and that there is so long a list of causes for hearing,
but that so much is effected, that his Lordship con-
trives to hurry through so much business, of such a
diverse and varied character. In any other judicial
situation the moment the party is elevated to the bench
he is supposed to surrender every political bias—to
devote himself wholly to the administration of the law,
to the interpretation and exposition of the intentions
and statutes of Parliament—the total separation of
the legislative and judicial functions are looked upon
as among the strongest bulwarks of the Constitution.
Why should there be a single exception in the case
of the highest legal authority, the one whose freedom
from undue influences is more especially required ?
There is no possible reason why it should be so
save that it is an abuse of ancient date. It is well
known that nothing requires more incessant applica-
tion and constant practice to discharge its duties pro-
perly than the judicial station. It is said that there
is a perceptible difference between the judges of the
superior courts before and after the long vacation;
that the short interval of leisure thereby afforded, to
a certain extent, impairs their business habits, until
the rust is rubbed off by their daily practice. The
mischief is far greater in the case of a Chancellor.
There, perhaps, a judge whose faculties have been
brought to the highest perfection, who has acquired a
quickness and rapidity of decision, which long daily
habit can alone confer, and which the importance and
extent of his duties so urgently, demand, is removed
from his position on a change of Ministry. Cases may
have been partly heard, everything is thrown away,
rehearings will be entered on the chance of his suc-
cessor taking a different view, the entire business of the
court will be brought to a stand still, and the new
Lord will come to a position, the duties and details of
which it will take him some considerable time to
learn, or, if he has previously occupied the woolsack,
he will labour under the disadvantage of a forced ab-
stinence from business for several years, the etiquette
of the bar not permitting him to resume his profes-
sional avocations, and all this while there is another
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when Lord COTTENHAM was about to retire from the
Chancellorship, there was a general anxiety on the
part of the profession and the public, that his valuable
services should be retained—that he should be the
permanent judicial Lord Chancellor, holding his office
by the same tenure as the other Judges, and that a
Lord Keeper should be appointed to discharge the
political duties. This would be a fitting period to
carry these desires into execution, to effect the
change while the Ministry are free from any indica-
tion of approaching danger, and when his motives for
the change could not possibly be misinterpreted or
doubted.

In the evening of the 16th, being the eve of the
anniversary of the elevation of Pius IX. to the Pon-
tificate, the whole of Rome, from the most splendid
palace to the lowest dwelling of the poor, was illumi-
nated. On the 17th, deputations from each of the
fourteen quarters of Rome came in regular ranks to
the Monte Cavallo, which at an early hour was
covered with an immense congregation of the people,
but observing the most perfect order. The deputa-
tions came with bands of music, playing the fine and
imposing hymn of Pius IX., composed last year in
commemoration of the amnesty. The deputations,
when all were collected, marched from the
Monte Cavallo, bearing their distinguishing
banners and also white flags, on which
were inscribed the great acts of his Holi-
ness during the first year of his reign.
These were headed by the civic guard and students
carrying the standard sent by the Bolognese to Rome
as a token of fraternity. The procession moved in
solemn order to the POPE'S palace on the Quirinal,
where his Holiness came out on the grand balcony
to receive it. After being hailed by impressive
cries of " Long live Pius IX ! Italy for ever !'
His Holiness stretched out his arms towards thee
people, and then closed them on his breast, as if
to press all around him to his heart. The shouts
were renewed with redoubled energy, but, on a
sign from their Holy Father, a dead silence ensued,
and every person sunk upon his knees, while the
Pontiff invoked the blessing of ALMIGHTY upon them
all. A general " Amen " lacing pronounced, the
acclamations were resumed until his Holiness
retired into his palace, and then the procession
returned to the Monte Cavallo, where it dispersed. ,
At six in the evening the church of St. Mg.ry of the
Angels was crowded with about 10,000 persons, to
hear an eloquent discourse by Father GAVAZZI, of

the Order of St. Bernard, and to chant a Te Deum,
which had a most imposing effect from the
whole congregation joining in it as with one voice.
The Corso, by its general illumination, was converted
as it were into one gallery of fire, and adorned with
rich draperies and garlands, and transparencies in
brilliant colours, with inscriptions in honour of the
Sovereign PONTIFF. The harmony of the day was
not interrupted by a single untoward accident. A
letter from Rome says :—" The railroad question is
very nearly solved. It is the French company, at the
head of which is the Prince DE CROI, that has ob-
tained the concession of the Pontifical Government,
which guarantees four-and-a-half per cent. upon the
capital."

The Berlin Gazelle of the 21st publishes the fol.
lowing Cabinet order for prolonging the Session of
the General Diet :

" As it msy be already foreseen with certainty that
the propositions made by the three States on our patent
and ordonnance of February 3, and which are at this
moment submitted to the Order of Nobles, cannot be
resolved upon before the 19th of the current month, we
have continued, and by these presents do continue, the
term of the first Session of the United Diets until the
deliberations of our faithful States on these propositions
shall be finished, and we shall have come to a decision
upon the result of these deliberations. We have
charged our Commissioner of the Diet to make known
to us on what day after that the close of this first Session
of the Diet may take place."

The Zurich Federal Gazette states that Count DE
BOIS-LE-COMTE, the French ambassador in Switz3r-
land, has received from M. GUIZOT dispatches contain-
ing a full and entire approbation of the note which
he addressed to the president of the Swiss directory.
On Tuesday last Don JUAN D'ANTONIO Y ZAYAS,
the new Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo-
tentiary from the Queen of SPAIN to the Swiss Di-
rectory, presented his letters of credence to M.
OCHSENBEIN, the President. On the same day M.
OCIISENBEIN gave a grand dinner at Berne to the
British, Spanish, and Belgian Ministers, and the
chief functionaries of the federal Government. The
French Minister, M. BOIS-LE-COMTE had not re-
turned to Berne from Tesino and the Grisons.

Madrid papers of the 20th and the 21st have
arrived.

The Gaceta of the 20th publishes a royal decree pro-
hibiting the exportation of every kind of silver, coined,
wrought, or in ingots, excepting that proceeding from
the minesof the Peninsula, bearing a stamp to prove that
it had paid the duty imposed by law on mines. That
prohibition is to subsist until the establishment of the
natural circulation of the respective coins, in conse-
quence of the introduction of the new coin, decreed
on the 31st May, shall enable the Government to
modify or abrogate that measure.
The rumours of a change in the Ministry were
again rife, and SERRANO, LUGAN, and MENDIZABEL
were spoken of as likely to be Members of the new
Cabinet.

According to the Correo, the organ of the Minister
SALAMANCA, King Louis PHILIPPE has written an
autograph letter to the QUEEN'S husband, and the
Duke of GLUCHSBURGII had delivered it to the King
Consort, at the Prado on the 19th inst.

The Faro states that a royal decree, restoring to
ESPARTERO all his honours, has been signed by the
QUEEN, and transmitted to him by Senor PACHECO,
the President of the Council. Letters from Corunna
state that the Spanish army is advancing on Oporto.
The Montemolinist General GARCIA and the Cabe-
cilla Evanista intended, says the Clamor Publico, to
penetrate into Spain from Braganza, in the belief
that the absence of the Spanish troops would leave
them a clear field. They had, it was said, 1,800 in-
fantry. It was stated that VILLAREAL, an eminent
Montemolinist commander, bad entered Catalonia to
take the command of the insurgent bands of that
province.
A letter from Barcelona of the 19th states that a
sharp conflict took place on the 14th, in the moun-
tains of Montbreu, between eighty Montemolinists
and a detachment of the QUEEN'S troops. The affair
ended in the retreat of the latter, after the loss of
several mer. The letter adds, that the Montemolino
party was increasing in number every day.
MADRID BOLBA, JUNE 27.—The Three per Cents.
were done at 30 for cash; the Four per Cents, at 18
for paper ; the Five per Cents. at 11 ditto; the Debt
without Interest at 6 ditto; and the Coupons at 15 for
cash.

We have received the Paris papers of Friday and
Saturday.
The Chamber of Deputies was on Friday the
scene of perhaps the most extraordinary row that
ever occurred within the precincts of any assembly
calling itself deliberative. The principal actors were
M. DUCHATEL, the Minister of the Interior, and M.
EMILE DE GIRARDIN. The order of the day was the
adjourned debate on the Budget of Expenses, and M.
EMILE DE GIRARDIN, rendered bold by his recent
acquittal by the Peers, accused the Minister of the
Interior, M. DUCHATEL, of having had printed and
circulated at the public expense a garbled account of
the proceedings on the 17th of June, in which, while
the speeches of the Ministry were given at full
length, the speech of M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN was
curtailed and falsified. We give the conclusion of
the scene from the National.

" You circulated your own speech (said M. Girardin);
you falsified mine, and you defamed me.
"M. Duchatel—l thought proper to publish the ac-
count of the sitting at the expense of the budget : we
like publicity.
"M. Girardin—And I, too, when it is complete.
Yours is not ; you have published your own denials,
omitting the accusations that you durst not deny.
"M. Duchatel—l denied them. (Violent uproar).
" M. Girardin—l accept that contradiction with all its
consequences. (Cries to order).
"The Centres break their desks (with applause); the
President breaks his bell, and the left bursts its lungs.
Such is the beginning of the discussion. M. Sauzet
(President) interposed his paternal authority, and re-
commended everybody to use Parliamentary expressions.
But the fire was kindling, and the smoke already black-
ened the tribune. The accuser, resuming his former
theme, asked, ' Were not 100,000 f. paid for a theatrical
patent ? Can you deny it ?'
" M. Duchatel-_We did nothing in the transaction.
" M. Girardin-..your contradictions are always the
same.

" The Centre Members, in a mass—And your accu.
sations likewise.

" M. Girardin—But the Minister said here that he
had been menaced, and the next day his assertion was
contradicted. _ _

" M. Duchatel—l was menaced indirectly.
"M. Girardin—That is a convenient reply. Prove
those indirect menaces.

" The Centres—Prove them yourself.
" 31. Girardin— You wish me to prove them ? Here
is good evidence—the letter of an interested party, who
paid the money, and the receipt of the person in whose
hands it was lodged. If these proofs do not satisfy you,
order an inquiry. (A movement of horror pervades the
Centres. No, no ;no inquiry r)
"M. Duchatel—An inquiry would suppose that sus-
picion rested on us. We will resign if it be ordered.
The majority will decide. M. Girardin repeats what he
has said, and I repeat that those facts are contrary to
truth.

" Members on the Left—That is going too far!
" M. Adam," says the accuser, " does not complain,
because he is in your power. He was unable to pay
25,000 f., you paid them for him. There existed with
one of the founders of the Epoque a contract, embodied
in a judicial act, and from which it would appear that
the profits of the journal, the origin of which was not
legal, should be honestly shared. A Baron Lambert
had prepared a memorial, in which he complained of
having been deprived of these profits, and you bought
and suppressed that memorial for 30,000 f.
" A terrific uproar ensued, and M. Duchatel declared
from his seat that there was no truth in that statement.
Then, referring to the illegal profits of journalism, he
mentioned that certain journals had been bribed to advo-
cate free trade and railroads.
" The Centres thrilled with enthusiasm. M. Girardin
confessed to his having received 200 shares of the North-
ern Railroad, which he had paid for; and you,' he ex-
claimed, were you not awarded some likewise ?' The
former Minister of Marine had also obtained shares in
that line.'

" M. Duchatel retorted in a tone of real indignation,
Admiral de Mackau, at the request of the Council,
withdrew his subscription; a Minister interested in such
speculations would be an infamous character!'

"But nothing can deter-theilYrepidi;Ccuser. He
returns bo the charge and repeats the proofs. M. Fould
declares that it was not to him the peerage was offered.
M. Duchatel unskilfully caught at that contraction, and
hastened to proclaim that M. Fould was fully entitled to
a peerage. The Left smiled and murmured. M. Cham-
bolle, with a perfect a propos, asked M. Girardin if he
continued of the same opinion ? More firmly than
ever,' was his reply."
In the midst of the confusion and uproar which
ensued, M. DE. GIEARDIN'S voice was heard exclaim-
ing—" I affirm, and they deny. Order an inquiry,
or order me to be prosecuted. I am prepared for either
alternative," and turning towards M. GuizoT he
't what price he had purchased the letter which
he had read the other day, and added, " You have
committed an action which will be a blot upon you

for the remainder of your life." M. GuizoT made
no reply. At length M. DE MolNr moved
the following resolution, that " The Chamber,
satisfied with the explanations of the Mi-
nister should pass to the order of the day."
A fresh debate ensued on this, motion, and several
deputies declared they would vote for the order of
the day if the Cabinet would undertake to prosecute
the parties accused of corruption and cheating. At
length M. HEBERT, the Minister of Justice, rose and
declared that it was usual to prosecute only in cases
in which there was reason to believe that there was
some foundation for the accusation, " and," added M.
HEBERT, addressing himself to the members of the
left, and pointing towards M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN,
" the nature of the accusation, and the character of
the accuser, demonstrate to me that the accusation
has no foundation in fact." A division then took
place, and the resolution of M. MORNY was carried
by 225 to 102, giving to the Ministry a majority of
123. The Journal des Debats considers this a
triumph for the Ministry. It says :

" The Opposition wanted a second discussion, and they
have had it. The moral result of the sitting of last
week was not deemed satisfactory. The Opposition
thought that it was possible, if not to recover the advan-
tage, at least to embroil the question and leave the Mi-
nistry under the weight of odious suspicions. M. E.
Girardin, urged on by a shortsightedness which to us is
inexplicable, seized on the first pretext to recommence
the discussion on his allegations, without having any
additional proof to advance. Will his party be this
time satisfied with the moral and material result of the
sitting? But, whether they are not, it is a decision
henceforward without appeal! The Chamber has voted.
It has declared by a majority of 225 votes to 102, that
' being satisfied with the explanations of the Govern-
ment, it passed to the order of the day ! They
wanted a judgment, they have had it ! The
Chamber was called on to pronounce between
the Ministry and its accuser, and it has done so.
The inquiry has taken place; it has taken place
in the tribune, in the open day, under the eyes of
the public and of the Chamber. M. E. Girardin,
encouraged by the warm support of the Opposition,
could say everything; he spoke repeatedly, and M. Du-
chatel replied. We admit it, a judgment was necessary 1
the judgment now exists. The national jury has pro-
nounced it! Honour to M. de Morny, who was the
organ of all impartial men, of all anxious to learn the
truth! Honour to the majority who united together to
declare its opinion! Honour to M. Duchatel, whose
coolness, courage, and talent shone forth so admirably in
this long discussion! We do not wish to speak of M. E.
Girardin • his conduct is a complete mystery to us. The
reserve which was imposed on us a week back is now more
imperatively commanded by the result of yesterday's sit-
ting. M. E. Girardin appears to be under the empire of
an hallucination which nothing can dissipate. He appears
to think that to repeat three times the same allegation
is to give three proofs. He affirms, and then swears
that he has demonstrated. If a doubt be expressed, he
adds two allegations to the first; and the more what
he advances is unlikely and requires proofs, the more
he dispenses with furnishing them. M. E. Girardin
accues, and if his accusations are deniei he flies into a
passion, menaces a Minister of the King, the President,
the Chamber. He exhibits in the tribune the most
melancholy scenes, and least in conformity with the
dignity of the national representation ! Once more, we
say, we do not comprehend M. E. Girardin. We ask
ourselves what he thought he could gain by re-opening
the discussion, and we can find nothing. He has gained
a judgment of the Chamber ; he has gained the impossi-
bility of having henceforward a place amongst the Con-
servative party ; he has gained an irremediable defeat, a
terrible check to his reputation of shrewdness and
cleverness. Our surprise was even greater than a week
past. M. E. Girardin had said nothing a week back,
tut he had spoken only once on the facts which he
alleged. Yesterday he spoke over and over again, and
said less, absolutely less! For if he has not retracted
his allegation of 1,200,000 f. being demanded from the
maitres-de-poste for a Bill, he has declared that this
allegation did not in any way refer to the Ministry.
But not a proof more than on Thursday—nothing,
nothing!"

It is a victory, however, which, in the opinion of
the Opposition journals, will not tend to raise the
Ministry in public estimation.
" This," says the Constitutionnel, " is the result of the
most dramatic sitting of the session. The discussions
in which, with increased vehemence the Ministry is
assailed, have not for their object the great interests of
the country, but the scandals of private avidity let loose
upon France. It was formerly supported by three
journals—the first, that which it has a long time sacri-
ficed to the others, is the only one which now, with
more generosity than success, attempts to defend it; the
second has become its most violent accuser; the third has
perished, but exhales from its ashes such vapours and
reminiscences, that the reputation and existence of the
Ministry are endangered, even after the vote which it
has obtained."
The National says—

" Two hundred and twenty-five members have declared
themselves satisfied with the explanations. And we also
should be satisfied if we consulted only the interests of
party. But we do not forget that we are citizens. We
see with bitterness that the account of this sitting will
make the round of Europe, and at this sad spectacle, at
the sight of this Ministry fallen into the mire, of the
Dunois who accuses and the Dunois who flies, we do not
merely feel regret—we blush."
The Chamber of Peers still continued their secret
sittings on the Cubieres affair, and it was reported
on the Bourse on Saturday that they had decided on
impeaching all the accused. The majority in favour
of impeaching M. TESTE was, it is said, 30. That
gentleman has just published, under the title of
" Affair des Mines de Gouhenans, Observations de
M. I. B. TESTE, Pair de France," a defence against
the imputations which have been cast upon him. In
this work M. TESTE protests that he is innocent of
the charges of corruption which have been brought
against him, not upon direct evidence, but by impli-
cation, founded from some correspondence, which
does not warrant the character that has been put
upon it ; and he declares that he has not merely been
pure in the discharge of his public duties, but has
made great sacrifices in the service of his country.
He says—

" If any man has in his public or private life given
proofs of his disinterestedness and abnegation it is I.
Twice was power offered to me, and evidence of the
hesitation with which I accepted it is not wanting. To
serve my country I abandoned the career in which fame
and fortune had constantly smiled upon me. This was
a great sacrifice, but I did not foresee that the result
would be so bitter."

It is said that it is at his own request that M.
TESTE iS to be put upon his trial.
The explanations of M. GUIZOT on the subject of
French intervention in Switzerland appear to have
given anything but satisfaction. The National says—
" After the terrible check given to the Ministry in the
affair of Portugal, we were longing to see how M. Guizot
could justify the indecent conduet of his Ambassador,
transformed into a custom-house officer of Austria. We
have heard his explanations, and nice ones they are: if
the man was not known, he might be described in Coto,
according to this single specimen. Does he disapprove
of the note? No. Does he approve of this silly
and imprudent piece of bullying? No. He condemns
M. Bois-le-Comte then? Not in the slightest degree.
Then does he maintain that declaration of hostility against
the majority of the Helvetic people? Beware of thinking
so. What meaning, in fine, must be given to that proceed-
ing, bearing, as it does, the strongest mark of intimida-
tion? What does M. Guizot want? What are his projects,
his thoughts, his intentions? Why ask, when the man is
so well known! Yes, it is still the same man, the same
system, the same doubled-faced idea, the same serpent's
head on the body of an old hare. M. Guizot has a great
regard for Switzerland ; Austria adores Switzerland ;
Metternich and he, therefore, agree perfectly. M.
Guizot respects the right which every people possesses
to modify its internal organisation; he desires to find
France preserving Switzerland as her friend. Then why
authorise the insolence of an Ambassador, who gra-
tuitously menaces the independence of that country?
Ah, the medal has a reverse side. Every independence
has its limits; it is with the twenty-two confederated
Cantons that Europe treated, and if a State radically
changed was to be substituted, we should have a right
to examine if we ought not also to change our rela-
tions with Switzerland. What is the meaning of
this ? Do you make yourselves judges of internal
modifications, and try all you can to prevent them?
M. Guizot admits this; he believes that the friendly
States united (Austria friendly!) are giving counsels
which may prevent internal complications. In the opi-
nion of M. Guizot, Switzerland is hastening to civil war
and anarchy ; and France joins Austria to make the
Met respect the revolted Cantons, a minority in insur-
rection, an illegal power constituted through hatred of
the immense majority of the Helvetic population. That
is what he protects ; the separatist league, organised by
the Jesuits and supported by Austria, is in its right
The fifteen richest, most populous, most enlightened
Cantons who want to put down foreign influence, are
nothing but anarchy ! He did not dare to assert that ;
he still protested his tenderness, but through that sur-
face coated with honey oosed out drop by drop the
poison of his soul. The sovereignty of the people gives
him spasms ; but he cannot either deny it or curse it
openly. It is by it alone that they all live and in
tin ir hearts they insult it. Corrupt priests of another
God, priests without faith, they prostrate themselves be-
fore the sacred altar of nations only to endeavour to
overthrow it !"

Queen CHRISTINA gave a grand dinner at Mal-
maison on Thursday to General NARVAEZ, and to the
Duke and Duchess of MONTPENSIER.
Algiers papers of the 20th have arrived. The
squadron of the Prince DE JOINVILLE sailed from
Algiers on the 18th for Cagliari.
Ou Saturday the Three per Cents. were at 77f. 55c. ; the
Five per Cents., 117 f. 90c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares,
1,272 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 970 f ; Havre, 652 f. 50c. ; Great North-
ern, 572 f. 50c. ; Avignon, 690 E ; Vierzon, 610 f. !25e. ; Bor-
deaux, 5101': ; Basle; 185 E ; Paris and Strasburg, 4271. 50c. ;
T ours and Nantes, 40:5f.; Paris and Lyons, 4451:; Lyons
and Avignon, 446 f. 25c. ; Cette, 456 f. 25c. ; Spanish Actives,
29A ; Spanish Three per Cents., 34i.

MARSEILLES, JUNE 22.—Marseilles and Avignon, 707 f.
50c.; Northern, 575 f.

LyoNs, JUNE 24.—Paris and Rouen, 9711. 25c.; Avignon
and Marseilles, 707 f. 75c. ; Vierzon, 612 f. 50c. ; Northern, 578 f.
75c. ; Paris and Lyons, 450 f.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 26.
Boulogne and Amiens, 104—Louvain a la Sambre, %
Luxembourg, I%—Northern of France, 11—Sambre and
Meuse, 71/2.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE-MONDAY.

Up to our market, last week, the arrivals of English
Wheat, as well, indeed, as those of all other kinds of
grain, including Flour, were on a very limited scale.
From Ireland and Scotland a few parcels of Wheat of
foreign produce came to hand, but the receipts of other
articles were very trifling. As to foreign grain the im-
portations were large in the extreme, they having ex.
ceeded 58,000 quarters of Wheat, 11,000 quarters of
Barley, 20,000 quarters of Oats, 24,000 quarters of
Beans, and 33,000 barrels of Flour. Fresh up, the re-
ceipts of Wheat of home produce were very moderate.
but more than adequate to meet the wants of the dealers.
The attendance of both town and country buyers being
small, the weather favourable to the growing crops,
the accounts respecting the potatoes are by no means so
bad as were those received on this day se'nnight, and
the imports of foreign Corn and Flour unusually large,
the demand for all kinds of Wheat of home produce
was excessively dull ; in fact, it was decidedly the
heaviest market experienced during the whole of the
present year, and, to effect sales, a decline in the quota-
tion of from SIX TO EIGHT SHILLINGS PER QUARTER
WAS GENERALLY SUBMITTED TO. In some instances
TEN SHILLINGS per qr. less money was accepted for parcels
out of condition, and yet a clearance was not effected.
We seldom, or never, recollect so much heaviness in
the sale for foreign Wheat. The supply of that grain
was excessively large, and, in many instances, the cur-
rencies were nominal. Scarcely 1,000 quarters changed
hands, and those sold at an abatement in value of from
FIVE TO SEVEN SHILLINGS PER QUARTER. On board,
we did not hear of a single transaction. There was a
full average quantity of foreign Barley on sale. All
kinds were dull, and from 2s to 3s per quarter
lower than on Monday last. The Malt trade
was heavy, at 6s per quarter less money.
We had a large quantity of Oats—chiefly of foreign
growth—bn offer, owing to which the trade was heavy,
at an abatement in value of from is to 2s per quarter.
The large arrivals of foreign Beans had a most depress-
ing influence upon the trade, and the rates fell 2s to 3s
per quarter. Peas were very dull, and Is to 2s per
quarter lower. Indian Corn was a mere drug, and offer-
ing at a reduction of from 3s to 4s per quarter. Flour
was very dull, and sack qualities fell ss; barrelled ditto,
2s to 3s per 1961b5.

CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE
Vilest—Essex & Kent, Malt—Chevalier • • • • • • 78s to 83s
Red. .... •• • • 84. s to 86s Oats—Yorkshire and
Ditto,White, New 86s 90s Linco!nsh., Feed. 33s 375
Norfolk and Lin- Potato
coin, Red... • • 83s 85s Youghal and COffi,
Ditto, White •.• • • • £43 88s Black . • . 328 35s
Irish, Red .... • • • • —s —s Cork, White..... 33s 38s
Ditto, White • • —s —s Scotch, Feed..... 38s 40s
Rye—Old .......• •• •• -s -a Beans—Tick. . . 49s 518
New., 60s 63s Pigeons ....•• • . 56s 605
Barley—Grinding . 42s 48s Peas—Grey .... •• • • 56s 598
Malting . ........ 56s 59s Maple . .......... 572 625
Chevalier .... 593 605 White . • • ... 618 62s
Malt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers ••. . • 62s 64s

f01k.•.......... 74s 76s Flour—Town-made 65s 70s
8r0wn........... 68s 70s Suffolk ....
Kingston and Ware 75s 76s Stocktn & Norfolk 58s 601
SIVZITZPIELD.

During the week ending on Saturday last the following
imports of foreign stock took place into London:—

IMPORTS.
From whence. Oxen. Cows. Sheep. Lambs. Calves.
Rotterdam

Antwerp 2l ... ...
Hamburgh

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50 ... -- ...

Total . 238 268 2,023 109 167
At Hull, Newcastle, &c., about 1,200 head of Beasts,
Sheep. Lambs, and Calves have been landed, chiefly
from Rotterdam; but, their quality having proved some-
what inferior, they have met a slow sale, at barely sta-
tionary prices. There were on sale here about 160
foreign Beasts, 6 being from Spain, 1,800 ditto of Sheep
and Lambs, and 40 ditto of Calves. Nearly the whole
were sold at full prices. From our own grazing districts
the arrivals of Beasts tresh-up were moderately good as
to number, but of very middling quality. The weather
being somewhat unfavourable to slaughtering, the Beef
trade was by no means brisk, yet the primest Scots.
Devons, and Runts, from their scarcity, moved off
steadily, at fully, but at nothing quotable beyond, the
prices obtained on Monday last, the primest Scots
producing from 5s to 5s 2d per 81bs; but all ether
breeds were a slow sale, and previous rates were
with difficulty supported. However, previously to the
close of business, a good clearance was effected.
The droves from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cam-
bridgeshire, comprised about 1,100 Scots, homebreds,
and short-horns; while from the western and midland
districts we received 750 Herefords, runts, Devons, &c. ;
from other parts of England 600 of various breeds ; and
from Scotland 220 horned and polled Scots. On the
whole we were fairly supplied with Sheep, the general
condition of which was excellent, yet the numbers were
not equal to those exhibited here at the corresponding
period last year. Nearly all breeds were in good re-
quest, but we can notice no alteration in the currencies.
The primest old Downs readily produced 5s 4d per 81bs,
and most of the supply was cleared off. The number of
Lambs was seasonably extensive ; still, however, the
Lamb trade was firm, and the quotations obtained on
this day se'nnight were fully supported. The best Down
qualities sold at 6s 4d per 81bs. The supply of Calves
being large, the Veal trade was heavy, at prices barely
equal to those paid last week. Prime small Pigs moved
off steadily; otherwise the Pork trade was in a depressed
state.

Per Slbs. to sink the offal.
s. d. to s. d.
inferior Beasts— .. 310 4 2
Second quality 4 4 4 6
Prime large Oxen.. 4 8 410
Prime Scots ••• • • • 8 0 5 2
Large coarse Calves 4 0 4 6
Prime small ditto .. 4 8 5 0
Suckling Calves ..18 0 28 0
Inferior Sheep • . 4 2 4 4

S. d, to s. d.
Second quality ditto 4 6 4 8
Coarse-woolledditto 410 5 0
SouthdownWether 5 2 5 4
Ditto oat of the wool
Large Ilogs • • •... 4 0 4 6
Small Porkers •• .. 4 8 5 0
Quarter old Pigs ..16 0 21 0
Lambs
SUPPLY AT MARKET.

Beasts.
2,910

I
Sheep.
I 26,080

Calves.
254

I Pigs.
280

NEV7GATE AND ImEADENECAMM.

Very limited supplies of country-killed Meat have
been received up to these markets since Monday last,
but those on offer slaughtered in the metropolis have
been tolerably good. Prime Beef and Mutton have sold
freely, at full prices; but otherwise the trade has been
in a sluggish state. About 800 carcases of foreign Beef,
Mutton, and Veal have appeared on sale.

At per stone by the Carcase.
s. d. to s. d. i s. d. to s.
Beef,inferior...•.• 3 8 310 Mutton, Inferior 310 4 2
- middling .... 4 0 4 2 middling.. 4 4 4
prime large .. 4 4 4 6 prime ••.. 4 10 5 0
- prime small 4 6 4 8 Pork, large.. • ..... 310 4 6
Veal.. 310 5 0 - small .• • • .... 4 8 5 0

Lamb, Si to 6s 2d.
BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS.
Coastwise the arrivals of Potatoes since Monday last
have been on a very limited scale, and so little is doing
in old qualities that prices are almost nominal. About
2,000 baskets of New Potatoes have arrived from Hol-
land, and which have sold at from 8s to 15s per cwt.
BOROUGH HOP IVEAR.ILET.
The plantation accounts being considered rather more
favourable, we have to report a very inactive inquiry for
all kinds of' Hops, yet last week's prices are firmly sup-
ported. Sussex pockets, 4/ 6s to 41 16s; Weald of Kent
ditto, 41 153 to 5155; and Mid and East Kent ditto,
5/ 12s to 718 s per cwt.
WOOL.

The public sales have closed somewhat more firmly
than they commenced, but no improvement can be no-
ticed in the quotations. Since Monday last the imports
of Wool have amounted to 1,450 bales from Port Philip,
800 ditto from Sydney, and 850 ditto from various other
quarters. The private contract trade is heavy, at barely
stationary prices.

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