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THE STTN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AtTGTTST 15, 1844.

netted with commerce in foreign grain were con- 1
sulted upon the subject, and they admitted that the I
law as it stands at present would be productive of
most serious inconvenience, and they came to this
unanimous opinion, notwithstanding that their politi-
cal opinions were widely different. Mr. VILLIERS,
accordingly, took the preliminary steps last night
in the House for bringing in a short Bill
to remedy the blunder, and in the course
of a short and business-like speech he expressed an
opinion that Lord GEORGE BENTINCK would not
take advantage of the error, but allow him to go into
Committee and propose his measure. Mr. VILLIERS,
however, found himself deceived in this impression.
The Member for Lynn made no secret of his delight
at the discovery, acknowledged that nothing could be
more ridiculous than the mode of regulating the
prices of peas, beans, and rye by that of barley, and
concluded by threatening the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer with the most virulent opposition, should he
attempt to effectuate the bond fide intentions of the
Legislature, and give to the people the full benefit of
the commercial change for which they had so per-
severingly struggled. Here is high-minded state:
manthip ! How lofty in their views, how immaculate
in principle are the protectionist leader, and his
generous coadjutors ! " Though you, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer," exclaims the Noble Lord,
in effect, "will not condescend to consider the ad-
vantage to the revenue, nor retain an error at the
sacrifice of keeping faith with the public, yet we,
the monopolists, regardful only of what concerns our
pockets, will pertinaciously cling to a law manifestly
ridiculous, and will defeat you at this advanced
period of the session by a mechanical opposition,
should you dare to wrest fro:n us a benefit to which
we are morally disentitled." Such is the finishing
and graceless stroke of the protectionists in the
memorable session of 1846. Badly as they stood
before, they have, by this mean proceeding, ren-
dered themselves completely bankrupt in character.
Mr. VILLIERS and the Government were, under the
circumstances, forced to abandon the hope of rectifying
the corn-law till next year. In the meantime the
country will not be slow to remember the disgrace-
ful tactics by which they have for the time been
deprived of a considerable boon.
We gladly turn from this discreditable scene to
another of a more grateful character. Mr. litnex
again essayed to carry his motion for throwing
,open to the public on Sundays and holidays
the British Museum, the National Gallery, and
similar public institutions. He gave some interesting
statistics, which proved the yearly increase of visitors
on week days to public places of recreation and in-
struction, since they have been thrown open, to be
very large, and also that it has been attended
with a marked improvement in the conduct and
morals of the people. Lord Jona RUSSELL expressed
his approval of Mr. Humes object, but considered
the question had better be left in the hands of the
trustees of the different institutions. The motion
was ultimately withdrawn. We have every confi
dente that the Premier, as one of the trustees of the
British Museum, will not fail strongly to recom-
mend that its doors should be opened in the way de-
sired, and that his advice will be acted upon. It is
not only, in our opinion, a moral right that the la-
bouring classes, who are pent up six days in the
week, should have access on the Sundiy to the great
repositories of the wonders of nature and art, which
are maintained at the public expense, but we are
convinced that no more conduqive means could
be adopted towards elevating their minds,
and redeeming them from the vicious courses
of drunkenness and immorality. We are sur-
prised at the sickening cant of the late Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, who conceived an ac-
quiescence in Mr. Iluata's motion would amount to a
desecration of the Sabbath. Such puritanical sen-
tences may be all very palatable to his academical
constituents, but we can scarcely believe that he con-
scientiously harbours such narrow-minded conceits.
What constitutes real art, but that which most closely
resembles nature ? If you are to prohibit the poorer
classes from contemplating the varied products of
nature, accumulated from all parts of the world, and
the wonderful efforts of the art of man, himself the
noblest work of Gon, upon the bigoted assumption
that the Sabbath is thereby desecrated, you might
with equal consistency reproach the man who would
stop to survey with delight any beautiful landscape
that his e3e may chance to light upon during
his Sunday's walk. We have outlived the day when
our reason is to be warped by such hypocritical
puerilities. This ascetic imbecility is really more
fit for derision than serious argument, and so we dis-
miss the subject, convinced that ere long the benevo-
lent and philosophical wishes of Mr. HUME will be
fully realised.
_

Mr. HUME last night ca:led the attention of the
House of Commons to a petition which he had a few
days ago presented from the colony of Van Dieman's
Land, praying for a representative government.
The Hon. Member avowedly brought forward this
subject with the view, if possible, of obtaining a
statement of the intentions of the Ministry, as it would
obviously be impossible, at this advanced period of
the session, to introduce any new measures respecting
that colony. In this respect the Hon. Gentleman
was gratified by the declarations elicited from the
Premier and the Under-Secretary for the Colonies.
The Prime Minister unhesitatingly avowed his opi-
nion that, generally speaking, the representative
constitution ought to be introduced further into our
colonies, but stated the difficulties that intervened to
prevent the introduction of one general measure for all.
The wide differences that exist in the habits and feelings
of the population of our different dependencies—some
of them being inhabited chiefly by Englishmen, while
others having been obtained from foreign powers,
the great mass of the inhabitants are still natives of
the countries to which their settlements originally
belonged ; others again being of the nature of gar-
risons, where the greater part of the in-
habitants reside only for a time, obviously
require that each colony should be dealt with
by itself, and that a mode of government
suited to the peculiarities and the wants of its people
should be maintained therein. We have also had
the statement of the Under-Secretary, the organ of
the Colonial department in the House of Commons,
" that the representative form of government was
the best, and that wherever there were good elements
for establishing it, it was not only the bounden duty
of the country, but also its intere t, to esta-
blish that form of goverment." This is, in-
deed, pleasing intelligence. We are assured
that henceforward the just and equitable principle
of self-government will be fully recognised in
Downing-street ; that, as far as practicable, our
colonies will be dealt with on a footing of equality,
and that measures distasteful and obnoxious to the
great body of the people will no longer be forced
down their throats, to suit the whims or caprices of
officials, perhaps wholly ignorant of the ob-
jections thereto, and how injurious they may prove
to the interests of the people who may be obliged
to adopt them. Had this course been adopted when
the American people expressed their dissatisfaction,
that great nation would, in all probability, have still
remained united to the mother country ; the blood
and treasure that was expended in the vain attempt
to keep down the energies of a mighty people re-
solved on freedom would have been saved, and
both countries would have been connected by the
ties of mutual advantage, on a footing of
perfect equality. The great principle that
taxation cannot exist without representation, must
ever be kept in view—that a people can only be legally
taxed with the assent of their representatives.
Whenever, therefore, any sum of money is attempted
to be raised from a people on any pretext,
or by any means whatever, the representative
form of government must be extended to them.
We may, therefore, hope that early in the ensuing
session charters will be granted to the seventeen
unrepresented colonies, or good and sufficient
reasons stated for their being withheld for a season.
The case of Van Dieman's Land is peculiarly
hard. There are no less than 35,000 free colonists,
almost all of them settlers from the mother
country, without any representation, taxes to a
large amount levied, and a portion of that
taxation in a eitigle day trebled in amount.
and I,.;hery suffered by the
inhabitants euhsequeot upon ti.e udsmaingement of
the Home Government are of the most fearful descrip-
tion, and what ought to be one of the most promising

fields for the enterprise of our hardy emigrants, so
deterioraed, that emigration thereto from this country
has practically ceased. Much of this evil may be
attributed to the fact of its having been selected as
the depot for our convict population. A small num-
ber of that class might advantageously have been in-
troduced into a country where there was an inadequate
supply of free labour, but the energy and industry of
the free population has been checked by the extraor-
dinary numbers sent out ; and they have also been
most inequitably saddled with the expenses of the
support and maintenance of an enormous police esta-
blishment, rendered necessary by the criminal cha-
racters of so vast a body. Their well-grounded
complaints require immediate consideration, and
the adoption of remedies calculated to meet
the mischief. We are, however, assured that it
is at this moment receiving that consideration,
that it is occupying the closest attention of the able
and talented nobleman at the bead of that depart-
ment. It is now universally admitted that the
sending of a large number of convicts to one place
has been a signal failure, and that the first thing
must be to remove at least a part of the difficulty
arising from the preponderance of a convict
population. If this be done, and the policy
announced by the Premier be fully carried out,
we may look forward confidently to a vast im-
provement in the condition of the people of
that country. We also consider, that without re-
ference to the state of Van Diemen's Land, that policy
will be of great benefit to the mother country. It must
be borne in mind that transportation now forms the
chief of our secondary punishments—that it has
been substituted for that of death in a vast number of
cases, and anything that makes the public too
familiar with the mode of punishment, and makes it
regarded with less horror than would otherwise be
the case, must greatly take away from its efficiency
as an .examp!e, as a thing to be avoided, and
which will have the effect of repressing crime.
It must also be considered that the sending out of
each convict occasions a considerable expense to the
nation, and that a great saving may be effected by
doing so only in cases of the most serious and aggra-
vated crime. By this means rersons subjected
thereto will be really punished, and we shall no longer
hear of applications by those who have committed
some petty offence to be sent out of the country, and
the granting the application being looked upon as a
great and valuable boon.

Alarming intelligence is now, unhappily, pouring
in daily respecting the spread of the dreaded potato
disease throughout the midland counties of England
and in various quarters of Ireland. Unless some
active and immediate measures be adopted by the
Executive, we fear the most calamitous consequences
will develop themselves. A feeling of panic is, ac-
cording to the most authentic information, alarming
the imagination and increasing the despondency of
the poorer inhabitants of the districts afflicted with the
infection. Considerable derision has hitherto been
cast upon those who were credulous enough, towards
the conclusion of 1845, to entertain the most lugubri-
ous apprehensions of starvation, of contagion, of in-
subordination, and of a terrible decimation of the
multitude, in consequence of an accidental decay
in a certain description of vegetables. From a mor-
bid attachment to a fallacious principle in commerce,
they endeavour to continue those rumours of the de-
ficiency in food which was declared to have resulted
from those principles being carried into operation.
They overlooked the immense importance of those
vegetable crops to a population subsisting almost en-
tirely upon tubers ; they closed their ears to the la-
mentations and supplications of the sufferers ; they
accused Sir ROBERT PEEL of employing a poetical
exaggeration for the purpose of tampering with the
judgment of Parliament, when be pictured to the na-
tional representatives of Great Britain the malign
phantom of famine threatening to curse these
islands with her presence, and the phantom also of
"that pestilence which follows famine." Even during
the past fortnight the common sense of the public has
been insulted by a repetition of this frivolous scepti-
cism. Those who have insisted with so much of ar-
rogant confidence and self-sufficiency that their dis-
credit of the reported destitution in the sister country
has been justified, inasmuch as none of those calamitous
consequences have transpired such as were originally
predicted, have overlooked the earnest labours of Go-
vernment, and the activityof many unhired philanthro-
pists, by which alone the condition of the sufferers has
been ameliorated. But for the exertions of an extra-
ordinary commission of inquiry, and for the admirable
and spontaneous co-operation of individuals, the
mortality must have been infinitely greater, the epi-
demic must inevitably have assumed a more fatal cha-
racter, the meal-bins of the peasantry must have been
altogether void of provisions, and dangerous senti-
ments of discontent and insubordination have been
propagated by the very intensity of the penury. On
the contrary, quietude has been preserved in the
afflicted neighbourhoods, the immediate necessities of
the labouring classes supplied both by the importation
of cheap and nutritious commodities, and by en-
gaging upon national works the thousands who had
hitherto remained without employment. In the ex-
ertions thus made by the late Administration we
recognise a noble and judicious example for the
guidance of its successo'rs. Let a spirit of emulation
be once instilled into a Ministry, and advantages
cannot but redound to the community under its pro-
tection.

That much was really accomplished in behalf of those
who were most grievously aKcted by the deficiency
of last year's potato crop, and that the principal pro-
portion of that assistance is traceable to the interpo-
sition of the Government under Sir ROBERT PEEL,
no one can for a moment doubt who has examined the
official statistics issued upon this particular. In tes-
timony of the accuracy of this assertion, we may be
permitted to enumerate a few circumstances attendant
upon that interposition. Foremost amongst the endea-
vours to compete with the ravages of the potato pestilence
must be mentioned the expenditure of 185,432/. 7s.
7d. upon the importation of Indian corn and oatmeal,
for distribution at a moderate charge. Then there
was an additional gratuity of 67,911/. 104. entered
as donations from the national revenue, in aid
of subscriptions made by Relief Committees. A sum
of no less than 452,7271. 14s. Bd. was likewise granted
for works to be executed for the relief of urgent
distress. Another amount of 133,5361. Bs. 3d. was
placed at the disposal of the proper authorities in
case of any emergency. Again, there were 2,2101.
appropriated to extraordinary instances of destitution
not otherwise calculated. For the requisite offices
and expenses of the Relief Commission 2,823/. 9s. ld.
were reserved ; while for the purpose of facili-
tating local inquiries 7,8401. were additionally
advanced. To estimate the advantages which
must by necessity result from such laudable
munificence, we should examine their substan-
tiated effects in the improved social disposition of
the populace, in the wholesome activity of a com-
merce hitherto afflicted with sluggishness, in the
diminution of infectious disorders, and in the firmness
of the markets. One fact will, however, be sufficient
for our present object, namely, that 44,121,574f1b5.
of Indian corn and oatmeal have been by this
generous assiduity 'imported for the starving po-
pulation of Ireland since last November : in other
language, a quantity sufficient to afford sustenance
to 490,240 persons daily during three months, rating
the consumption of each individual at 11b. per diem.
Such are the simple products of this interference on
the part of the late Government—such are the mast
irnporlant details of their interposition. Heartily
do we trust that a spirit of emulation will be infused
into the members of the present Cabinet, seeing
that the aspect of the approaching w inter is an.) -
thing but propitious, and that the horrible con-
tagion, which formerly alarmed the community,
while it rendered a wholesome article of nourish-
ment either excessively detrimental to health or
absolutely poisonous, is beginning to re-appear,
if possible, with threefold virulence.
So numerous and disheartening are the descriptions
of this most calamitous blight that we are baffled in
endeavouring to cull the most important. In War-
wickshire the disease has manifested itself as vio-
lently and as generally as in Tipperary. We are
assured by very credible informants that the pesti-
aPP4,rance of the f.lds in the former
county is beyond the belief of all but an
eye- w itiiess. Within the soil the tubers are
discovered to be shrivelled and pulpy ; the leaves and
stalks, very recently of remarkable luxuriance and

verdure, are now sodden upon the ground in a mass of
vegetable putrefaction. Nor are these the only con-
comitants of the desolation :--an insupportable stench,
together with a pestiferous vapour, produced by "a
species of fermentation among the diseased roots,"
rises from the fields in question, carrying with them
the embryos of infectious maladies—insomuch that
English cholera is exceedingly prevalent in their
vicinity. At Sherbourne no less than thirty-four in-
dividuals, out of a population of scarcely 500 souls,
have been destroyed by that malady. Monster meet-
ings are being again convened in Ireland, with
the avowed purpose of calling the attention of
those in authority to the prevalence of destitution
and the dismal and portentous aspect of the future.
The potatoes ere again diseased—the very foliage of
the hedges is blackened and scorched by the infec-
tion—thousands are unemployed—money and meal
are rapidly diminishing—and a sullen despondency
characterises the afflicted districts. The Ministers
will assuredly have no idle moments after the proro-
gation of Parliament.

Tranquillity is by no means completely re-esta-
blished in Austrian Galicia. Although the insurrec-
tionary movement has been put down, incendiarism
is increasing, and the peasantry, in every instance,
refuse to render the least assistance in extinguishing
the flames. The following is from the Breslau
Gazette :

" A traveller was lately going in all haste from Wieliezka
to Bochnia, when, just as he reached Gdow, he perceived
a considerable fire raging at about aleague from the high
road. Soon afterwards two men on horseback arrived,
crying, Open the barrier quickly.' They were two
domestics from the burning chateau, who came to demand
assistance from the commandant of the garrison, the pea-
sants having set fire to the barns which contained all the
product of the late harvest. The Owner of the chateau.
having called on the peasants to as: ist in extinguishing the
fl tines, offering to each of them a recompense of five francs,
they laughed in his face. The commandant of the cara.
hinters immediately sent twenty-four men to protect and
escort the unfortunate proprietor, Baron de Lipowski, to
Slawkowice. Fires are seen almost every night in different
parts of the country. The Galician peasants, who are at
this moment in a most demoralised state, seize on every op-
portunity to injure the lords, either by destroying their pro-
perty or attacking their lives. Such are the results of the
deplorable revolt which has taken place; the innocent and the
guilty suffer from the same blow."

The Emperor of RUSSIA has ordered a large force
to be concentrated in Volhynia at the beginning of
September.

The Duke of SAXE COBUEG-GOTHA has issued an
ordonnance, ordering all proprietors of game to pay
the farmers for the damage the game may do to the
crops, and authorising the farmers to kill game when
it does too much damage, provided they first give
notice of their intention to the forest keepers.
The King of DENMARK has oddressed the following
rescript to the Duchy of Schleswig-liolstein-Lauen •
bourg :
" We have been informed that at a public meeting held
on the 20th of July, at Neuununster, there were discussions
on the subject of our Royal Proclamation of the Bth, con-
cerning the order of succession in the Duchies of Schleswig-
Holstein' and Lauenbourg, and the relations in which they
stood with regard to Denmark in,virtue of public right, and
that resolutions were come to having for their object to act
contrary to what we had published on that subject. We
therefore see ourselves placed in the sad necessity of adopt-
ing measures to prevent in future such steps, which cannot
be tolerated. It is consequently enjoined on the police au-
thorities of the Duchies of Holstein not to permit any meet-
ings where the relations above alluded to shall be made the
subject of discussion, or where it may be proposed to draw
up petitions in order to exercise an influence on the said re•
lotions, and not to permit any announcement of such meet-
ings to appear in the journals, and to immediately dissolve
any such meetings at which questions of the kind may be
raised. It is at the same time prohibited to circulate any
petitions concerning such objects, and to collect signatures,
even in the places where there may be no meetings."

Madrid papers of the Bth have arrived. The
Herald() has another violent article on the subject of
Portugal, recommending the invasion of that country,
nominally "to require the execution of existing
treaties as regards Spanish emigrants," but really to
restore to power the CABRALS, the tools of the
Afrancesado faction. The army assembled
in 1820 for the invasion of South America,
proclaimed the Constitution in the Isla de
Leon, and freed Spain from despotism. It
is not impossible, but that the army destined for
the invasion of Portugal may follow their example.
Desertions to the Portuguese take place daily, not-
withstanding the ferocious bandos of Villalonga, and
it is evident that the Spanish army is by no means
well disposed towards the existing order of things.
The same paper publishes accounts Irons Lisbon of the
4th, which represent a M;guelite movement as impend-
ing in the north of Portugal. We do not attach much
credit to this rumour. It has been the policy of the
CABRALS and their supporters to represent every
movement in Portugal as Miguelite. Even the move-
ment which ended in their banishment, and in placing
in power Viscount SA DE BANDEIRA, the chief of the
Septembristas, and one of the few hone3t states-
men whom Portugal possesses, was represented
by the CAB RA Ls as Miguelite in its
origin. The arrival of Don Faaxcisco D'Assn
was daily expected in Madrid. The Duke DE
VERRAGUAS has been appointed corregidor of
Madrid, in the room of the Marquis of PENA..
FLORIDA.

MADRID BOLSA, AUGUST B.—The Three per
Cents. 'Aare done at 33i for cash; the Five per Cents.
at 22/ ; the Four per Cents. at 21/; the Passives at
6; ; and the Coupons at 20.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.
HENRY was examined on Wednesday by Duke
PASQEIER, the Chancellor, and the other members
of the Commission.

The D6bats saes that he has confessed that one of
the pistols was loaded with a piece of rod-iron of the
calibre of the pistols ; but the Gazette des Tribuneaux
asserts that he has still refused to declare how the
pistols were loaded. The distance from the spot
from whence HENRY fired, to the balcony, has been
measured, and found to be 61 metres.

The -Minister of Public Works is going on a tour
of inspection along the coast. On Wednesday he left
k-lavre for Honfleur.

The distribution of the prizes of the Concours
General, between the colleges of Paris and Versailles,
took place on Wednesday, in the large amphitheatre
of the Sorbonne, which was crowded on the occasion.
M. GUIZOT, who had just returned from the country,
was present, and took his seat on the bench reserved
for the professors of the faculty of letters. Precisely
at twelve o'clock the Minister of Public Instruction,
Grand Master of the University, entered, preceded
by the deans of the faculties, the academic
council, the inspectors-general, and the royal
council. As soon as M. DE SALVANDY had
taken the chair, the usual Latin oration was pro-
nounced by M. FEUGERE, professor of rhetoric at the
Royal College of HENRI IV. When this was con-
cluded, the Minister of Public Instruction addressed
the pupal. After which, M. BOURDON, Inspector-
General of the University, rose to read the list of
the prizes. The first prize for the second class of Greek
composition was awarded to PAUL DE SALYANDY,
son of the Minister of Public Instruction.
The pupils, when his name was proclaimed,
applauded loudly, and did the same when the
name of young VICTOR lIUGO was announced
for the first accessit of Greek translation en
seconde. On the name of young GUIZOT being
twice proclaimed for prizes in the fifth class,
for Latin translation, nearly the whole assembly rose
spontaneously and turned their eyes towards M.
GUIZOT. The son of Castrairi DELAVIGNE had an
accessit in Latin composition. The announcement
was followed by a loud call for the Parisienne, which
was played when the prizes had been all pro-
claimed, the Mini-ter of Public Instruction first ob-
serving that he had ordered that this should be the
case before the call was made from the galleries, and,
however irregular that was, he would not retract
his determination from respect to the memory of the
illustrious poet who had bequeathed this national song
to France. When the Parisienne was over, the
Minister of Public Instruction rose, and stated that
the business of the day was ended.
The pupils who had gained the pfincipal prizes
afterwards dined with M. DE SALVANDY, the Minister
of Public Instruction. The young VICTOR. HUGO,
CASISIIR DELAVIGNE, and GulzoT, were specially in-
vited. Some of the papers state that M. GUIZOT, on
his entrance, was saluted with vivats by the majority '
of the audience, although some of them struck up the
chorus from the opera of Charles VI., "Jamais en
France l'Anglais ne regnera," but that when his son
was announced as one of the Laureats, the cheers
were general and enthusia,-tic.
The Thl-ec per Cents. el, to i on the Paris Bourse on I
Thar.day at 631 ; the riVc Per Crag., 1:21. 10... ;
the Orleans Railroad Shares: 1,270 f. ; Rouen, 9€2f. 50c.;
Havre, 693 f. 75c; Great Northern, 703 f. ; Avig-
non,Mt 70e. Yierho, 622 f.; D9r4Oulc, 001; 759,

Dieppe, 415 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 495 f. ; Tours and
Nantes, 505 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 517 f. 50c.; Lyons and Avig-
non, 495 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 485. ; Belgian, 2if.;
Spanish Active, 32if. ; Ditto Three per Cents., 361 A,...
The following are the quotations for new lines •-•-•
MARSEILLES, AUG. B.—Mareilles and Avignon, 872 f. 50c.;
Northern, 710 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 505 f.
LYONS, AUG. 11.—Avignon and Marseilles, 902 f. 50c.;
Vierzon, 631 f. 20c. ; Northern, 712 f. 50c.; Paris and Lyons,
526 f. 25c. ; Paris and Orleans, 1,276 f. 25c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, AEI:MST 14.

Boulogne and Amiens, 12% —Dutch Rhenish, 6 4—Fast Indian,
%—Gr, at Indian Peninsular, 46—Namur and Liege, 3—Orleans and
Vierzon, 14 Orleans and Bordeaux, B—Paris and Lyons Con-
stituted, s—Sambre and Meuse, 4—West Flanders, 3%.

CABINET ConNaL.—Summonses were issued on
Friday to the Ministers to attend a Cabinet Council this
afternoon at the Foreign Office, Downing•street. All
the Ministers were expected to be present. The meeting
was appointed at three o'clock.

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
'on of Australia •• •• •• .. 25 .••• 25% •••• to

Re, MINES
tMonte, Unregistered .• • • •• .. • • to
k„taRSE OF EXCHANGE.-(YESTERDAY.)
Ditto,' ......C.F. 12 9% Gibraltar..
Itotterdaright
Antwerp.. , .. 2 U l2 10 Genoa .. •• • • .......... 26 20
Hamburgh
Altona 13 15% Venice......... ...... .
Paris, 3 days' Naples ...... ••• • • •
394
Ditto, 3 month,. 25 85 Palermo, per oz. 119%
Marseilles .. 26 lb Lisbon.... • • . 52 Xi
Bourdeaux. ...... t. 26 -20 Oporto .•.. • • .......... 52%
Frankfort on Maine.. 26 20 Rio Janeiro • • ........ 21
Petersburgh, 3 Us.. .122% Bahia ......
Berlin ••.. • .... •• • • Buenos Ayres ......
Vienna, effec. flo s- New York, 21 days' sight
Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 11,5 Philadelphia .... • • ....
Madrid . ... 353, PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Cadiz • • ... ........ 36 Foreign Gold in bars...£3 17 9
Bilbao.. Portugal Gold Coin .. 3 17 5
Barcelona ...... —I 1w Doubloons ... 00 0
Sir. Dollars ...... . 0 4 9%
in bars • 0 4 11%

LLOYD'S SHIPPINLx. HIS DAY.)
LONDON, AUG. 15.—Wind S., light D.
sze, and fine clear
sultry weather.

DiAr„ Auo. 14.—Wind N.N.W.
.Alexander,
Wight:llan, Calcutta; Carena, Woodmas,
Harold, Lilley, Bombay; Robert Heddle BA
nn Childe
st
Po ; Alert, Schall, Rio Grande, for Hamb'urgh, gerna St.
ndo
John's, New Brunswick. Arrd. from the river, #mt
Chalmers, Sierra Leone ; Venetia, Gray, QuebeCdmi.,a,
from the river and sailed, Tudor, Say, Calcutta; Stebotarru'
Knight, Cape of Good Hope. ith,
BRISTOL. —Sid. Mary Ann, Cumming, Calcutta; Cettath
Nichol, Quebec.
LIVERPOOL, AUG. 14.—Wind W.N.W., moderate.—Arrd.
Magnificent, Vinell, New Orleans; Brenda, Flanders, Mobile;
Colossus, M'Donald, Savannah. Sld. Aurora, Henderson,
Charleston; Ann APLAster, M`Lean, Montreal ; Souter
Johnny, Little, Montreal ; Mercy, Macbeth, Montreal ;
Harry Lorrequer, Jeffers, Quebec. Off port, Holtinguer
STAxmo, AUG. 11.—The Agenoria, Blyth, of Sunderland,
from Quebec, was struck by a sea 24th or 25th ult., in lat.
59 N., lon. 11 W., and was abandoned by the crew, dis-
n'asted, and waterlogged ; crew saved by the Numa, from
Liverpool to St. Petersburgh.
BERWICK, AUG. 13.-The sloop Ann, of Arbroath, is sup-
posed to have foundered, off the coast with all hands, her
boats having been picked up off this port, and taken into
Craster, near Alnwick.

SUNDERLAND, AUG. 14.—The Cicely, of Newcastle, was
towed into this port, yesterday, leaky, and with rudder broken.
LIVERPOOL, Auo. 14.—The Isabella, Robinson, of White-
haven, struck on the West Pier, Kingstown, yesterday, and
sunk at the mouth of the harbour; crew saved.
1111r.Forto, AUG. 13.—The New Holland, Bradley, from
Newport to Grenada, has put in here, making a little water,
and been laid on the ground to discover and stop the leak.