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total number of copies printed by them in each y
renders it difficult to ascertain exactly the ratio
crease. It can scarcely be doubted, however,
increase in this case is equally large as in the cas,
merly adverted to. The greatest number of cops.
the Psalms printed by authority in Scotland, or any
the years from 1831 to 1837, was 204,924, and the
average annual number did not much exceed 170,000.
From a comparison of the above-mentioned price
catalogues, published by your Majesty's late printers,
it appears that since 1838 the cost price of the 18trich
Psalms, pica letter, fine demy paper, has been reduced
53 one-third per cent. ; that of the 32m0. Psalms,
I minicf letter, 40 per cent. ; and that of the 32m0.
Psalltl, pearl letter, 66 two-thirds per cent.
CATECHISMS (SHORTER).—Fifty-six editions of the
Shorter Catechism have been published since May, 1842 Y
Eighteen of these editions consisting of upwards of
500,000 copies, were published in 1844-5 ; twelve,
consisting of an aggregate of 245,000 copies, in 1845-Qi;
and six, of which 'the copies- amount to 147,006 copies,'
in 1846. The largest number of copies published in
Scotland, in any .of the years formerly speciAcel, was
327,360, and the average annual number forlhe skit
years, 223,586.

LONDON, FRIDAY JULY 10, 1846.
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The EXHIBITION• of theGAR-S ROYAQLUARE ACADEMY is now OPEN.
Admission (from Eight o'clock till Seven), One Shilling.
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JL.EDITORS.—WANTED bq a PARLIA-
MENTARY REPORTER, an engagement as a REPORTER,
or REPORTER and SUB-EDITOR, on a PROVINCIAL NEWS-
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liberal interpretation of the terms of your Majesty's in-
structions, adhering scrupulously, however, to the rule
of sanctioning no altered reading which was not sup •
ported by a previous authorised edition, and which at
the same time did not appear, on mature consideration,
to be an improvement on the edition printed from. It is
with no ordinary feeling of satisfaction, that the Board
bear testimony to the laudable anxiety manifested by
most publishers to render their editions of the Sacred
Scriptures as nearly perfect as possible.
The regulation adopted from the first by the Board,
in regard to impressions from stereotype plates, by
which it is provided that every impression taken after
an interval—that is, after the plates have been removed
from the press—shall be held to constitute a new edi-
tion, has been stedfastly adhered to, and experience has
fully evinced the just and necessary grounds on which it
was established. Numerous instances have come under
our observation, in which, from the chipping or break-
ing of the plates, letters, and points, and sometimes
entire wails, have been either partially or altgoether
efface as to disfigure the page, and in many cases
to obscu'ie the sense. It is indispensably necessary,
therefore, that the plates should be frequently and care-
fully examined. By the rule prescribed by the board,
this important object has been fully attained. Publishers,
aware that each successive impression taken after an in-
terval must be submitted for our inspection, find that
they best consult their own interest, by keeping their
plates in a state of thorough repair.
But while in the cases in which the type used has
been of an ordinary size, the observance of the regula-
tion, now noticed has been found sufficient to secure a
distinct and unmutilated text, the result has not been
equally satisfactory where an extremely small type has
been used. In the latter case, it has been shown by ex •
perience that, in the course of printing off even a single
edition, the types frequently sustain material injury.
The same edition may happen, therefore, to be of unequal
merit; and it obviously results from such a contingency,
that the character of an edition cannot be precisely
ascertained from the copy of it submitted to the board.
Whether the great liability of the plates to deterioration
arises from the extreme smallness of the type made use
of, or from substituting for the presswork the power of
steam for manual labour, is a question which we are not
competent, and, which, happily, we were not called upon
to discuss. On the point of fact our experience left no
room for doubt, and we felt that there was devolved
upon us, in consequence, a very solemn responsibility.
The view taken by us of our duty, in the circum-
stances to which reference has been made, was submitted
to your Majesty in our last report. In a case lin which
the imperfect typography of the editions brought before
us was imputable, in no degree, to carelessness on the
part of the publishers, but resulted from a form of publi-
cation which had been adopted with highly commendable
views, we were disposed, in the first instance, to exercise
the powers entrusted to us with all possible leniency.
But while yielding to this disposition, we satisfied our-
selves, in regard to the first impressions taken from the
plates, with exacting cancels only where they were
imperatively required by the sense, and with pointing
out minor blemishes for correction in subsequent editions,
the publishers were distinctly warned by us, that a con-
tinuance of such leniency was not to be expected by
them, and that a plain and entire text would be after-
wards unconditionally insisted on. We have sub-
sequently acted in accordance with the intimation thus
given, exacting cancels in all cases in which the sacred
text was not presented in a distinct and clearly legible
form. The cancels required were, for some time, nume-
rous ; and we are aware that the enforcing of our rule
was attended, in several instances, with considerable
hardship. In one case, so many cancels were exacted,
that an edition of the Bible was abandoned after the
work was considerably advanced. The duty which we
were called upon to discharge was felt by us to be a pain-
ful one ; but we felt, at the same time, that no consider-
ation could warrant'us in shrinking from the full respon-
sibilities of the solemn trust reposed in us by your Ma-
jesty. We record, with unmingled pleasure, the grati-
fying fact, that many, indeed most, of those publishing
privileged works under our authority, have been equally
forward with ourselves to have every blemish removed
from their respective editions.
But while the course which we have pursued in regard
to the smaller stereotyped editions has been generally
allowed to be both reasonable in itself and such as our
duty prescribed to us, it seems likely to result in the
abandonment of such editions for the future. Since the

sup 7) ort of their suit, as complainers against the free
and unrestrained circulation of the word of God, Forms
of declaration, licence, &c., adapted to the instructions
recently received, are subjoined in the appendix.
Any attempt to import unauthorised editions now that
means have been provided for securing to respectable
publishers the benefit of free competition under the
superintendence of the board, they will feel it to be their
duty most strenuously to resist. They are happy to be
able to state that, under the instructions, no complaint
upon this point has been preferred to them. From the
decisive measures that were taken some years ago for
the suppression of • spurious editions published in Scot-
land, the complaints of the fair trader in regard to such
editions have latterly been of rare occurrence. It is
hoped that, by the determination which has been evinced
by the board to pe#evere in those measures, all ground
of complaint will be speedily done away.
In their first repoit, the board informed your Majesty
of their design of preparing and publishing a standard
edition of the Scriptures, and of the principles on which
they proposed to carry that design into effect. It was
intimated in a subsequent report that the necessary pre-
parations were in a state of considerable advancement,
and that certain booksellers in this city had been autho-
rised by the board to issue a prospectus of the proposed
work. A copy of the prospectus was subjoined as an
appendix to the report. It was the purpose of the board
to publish the work by subscription, as no independent
means of defraying the expenses of publication were
available to them. In the hope which they had
cherished, however, that a sufficient number of
subscribers would be obtained to warrant them

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SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER
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PURSUANT to a DECREE of the HIGH
COURT of CHANCERY, made in a Cause " DOWNS
versus KLITZ," the CREDITORS of JOHN ATTWOOD, of Ba-
singstoke, in the county of Southampton, Spirit Merchant, Brewer,
and Licensed Victualler, deceased (who died on or about the 16th
day of July, 1841), are, on or before the sth day of August,
1846, to come in, either in person •r by their Solicitors, and prove
their debts before the Honourable Sir GEORGE ROSE, one of the
Masters of the said Court, at his Chambers, in Southampton-build-
ings, Chancery-lane, London; or, in default thereof, they will be
Peremptorily excluded the benefit of the said Decree.

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The reduction in price, since 1838, varies from 25 to
33 one-third per cent.
CONFESSION OF FAITH.—OnIy six editions of the
Confession of Faith have been published within the
period to which our report refers. Three of these edi.:
tions were, published befon January 1844 ; one, of
5,000 copies, in August of that year ; one, of 10,000
copies, in February, 1845 ; and one, of 12,000 copies, in
January, 1846. There were printed, according to the
return to which we have so often referred, during. the
years 1831, 1836, inclusive, in all 18,982 copies. Seve-
ral editions were published immediately after the insti-
tution of the board, which may account for the compara-
tively limited number that has been undertaken of late.
years. The reduction of price in the 12mo. edition,
since 1838, amounts to 43 one-third per cent.
BOOK Or COMMON PRAYER.—TweIve editions of the
Book of Commou Prayer have been published since
May, 1842, of which six, consisting of 108,470 coptee,
were published in 1844, and three, of 34,500 (make,
in 1845. Only 17,932 copies appear to have been pub-
lished by authority in Scotland during the period em-
braced by the Parliamentary return, to which reference
has been made. Since 1838 the 32m0 Prayer Book has
been reduced in price upwards of 57 per cent.
We flatter ourselves that 'the brief statement now
humbly submitted, of our proceedings in the diseharge
of the duties required of us, and of the great advirti-
tages which have resulted from the institution of the
board. will be acceptable to your Majekts. We believe
ourselves fully justified in cherishine"The Versuasion,
that the inestimable blessing of a greatly extended sk-
culation of the word of God has been obtained, wj*ln
not the slightestcompromise has been made of the- t-:
rectness of the sacred text. To to all elapse it'
our fellow subjects, in the exercise of the trust rep:o d
in us, the benefit of accurate and distinct editions of the
Scriptures, and other standards of our faith, we beg to'
assure your Majesty, shall ever be the object of our most
anxious care.

JOHNSON, SON,. -a4m.I"WEIT"H—E-iaLL, Temple,

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Charles Baldwin, Esq. • John Nolloth, Esq.
B. Donkin, Esq., F.R.S. Charles Phillips, Esq.
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Advances continue to be made to Assurers on real or undoubted
personal security, for terms of years, repayable by instalments.
Particular attention is requested to the detailed Prospectuses of the
Company.

WILLIAM RATRAY, Actuary and Secretary,

SHOWER BATHS with CURTAINS, 2s. each
Purchasers of any description of Bath should visit Wm. S.
BURTON'S (late RIPPON and BURTON'S) Bath Show Room,
which contains, besides toilet sets japanned in imitation of fancy
woods, china, &c., in enormous variety, all the requisites for the
season, so arranged in one room, devoted exclusively to articles of
that character, that patterns, sizes, and sorts can be instantly,selected,
and at thirty per cent. under any other house, where attention is paid
to the quality. Full-size Portable Shower Baths, very-strong and
japanned, with curtains and copper valve, Os. each. Pillar Shower
Baths, with copper conducting tubes, brass force-pump and top,
complete with curtains, and japanned, from 60s. Iland'Shower Baths,
'apanned, as. 6d. The Omni-directive Bath.—Detailed catalogues,
with engravings, as well as of every ironmongery article, sent (per
post) free.

in proceeding with the undertaking, they were
doomed to be disappointed. After the prospectus
had been for many months bef )re the public, it appeared
that only a few subscribers had come forward, and that
there was no likelihood that the number would be ma-

terially increased. The board were willing to have
altered the form of the work to meet the views of pub-
lishers, but the expense, under any form, was found to
be so considerable, that no respectable publisher would
undertake it, except on terms involving the members of
the board in personal liabilities which they could not be
expected to incur. In these circumstances, the board,
of date 30th March, 1843, as they could not agree to the
conditions of publication proposed to them, found them-
selves constrained, though with much reluctance, to
suspend proceedings in reference to the intended stand-
ard edition. No opportunity, of resuming, under more
favourable auspices, the design thus relinquished, has
since presented itself.
The great advantages anticipated from opening, to
free competition, the printing of the Inspired Volume,
&c., in respect alike of the reduction of prices, and a
more extensive circulation, will appear, it is presumed,
from the statement which we have now to submit to
your Majesty, to have been more than realised. It will
be seen, that in a pecuniary point of view alone, these
advantages are far from being inconsiderable. But
when attention is directed to the fact, that by the re-
duction of price which has taken place, the word of God
has been brought within the means, and has actually
come into the possession of many thousands of your
Majesty's subjects to whom it was formerly in great
measure, or altogether, inaccessible, it may be justly
affirmed, that the importance and magnitude of the be-
nefit conferred are indeed incalculable. In a question
respecting the circulation of the Sacred Scriptures, the
pecuniary view of the case loses all value for itself, and
is felt to be of moment only as it affords an index of the
comparatively free, and it may be hoped triumphant,
course of inspired truth. It will render the subjoined
returns more distinct, if -we classify them under the
several heads of Bibles, New Testaments, Psalms, Ca-
techisms, &c.

'WILLIAM S. BURTON'S (late RIPPON and BURTON'S)
Stock of general Furnishing Ironmongery and Baths is literally the
largest in the world, and as no language can be employed to give
a correct idea of its variety and extent, purchasers are invited to call
and inspect it..-39, Oxford-street (corner of Newman-street).
Established in Wells-street, 1820.

DUN. M'NEILL.
ADAM ANDERSON.
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ROBERT GORDON.

D. DEWAR, per Mandate to D. M'N.
GRAHAM SPEIRS.
GEORGE ROSS.
JAMES ROBERTSON.
Edinburgh, June 5, /846.
Craiglochie Cottage, Errol, June 17, 184.6.
My Lord—May I request your Lordship to subscribe
the report of her Majesty's sole and only printers for
Scotland, for me, which I hereby authorise you to do,
and in doing which you will greatly oblige, my Lord,
Your most obedient servant,
D. DEWAR.

The Right Hon. the Lord Advocate.

FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAILS.

BRUSSELS, JULY 6.—T to Chamber continued to day
the discussion of the convention with France. After M.
Veruilghen, who spoke against the convention, M.
Lebeau rose, and treating the question of the customs'
union (with France), explained all that passed on this
question during his administration. He concluded by
saying that the customs' union is at present impossible,
that it cannot take place till after the establishment of
free trade.

BIBLES.—Since the date of our last report, May, 1842,
there have been published, under the authority of the
board, sixty editions of the Bible. We regret that it is
not in our power to ascertain the number of copies of
which the editions consisted that were published previ-
ously to January, 1844. But until some time after pro-
vision was made for allowing drawback of duty, on the
paper used in printing the works falling under the privi-
lege of the board, the number of copies contained in
each edition, was not required to be specified. It was
only in August or September, 1843, that it was rosolved,
on the suggestion of the Commissioners of Excise, that

M. de Theux spoke next, and the general discussion
was closed.

M. Dumortier proposed an amendment, forming Art.
2, which the Government adopted, because it explidned
the spirit of the treaty. This amendment is to`,nthis
effect, that the disposition of the Royal decrees of 184 d
and 1844, which the treaty does abrogate, shill have the
force of law.

there shoiild be inserted in the license the number of
copies of which the edition for which it was granted
should consist. Few of the editions for which license
was then granted were published before January, 1844 ;
and hence it is only from the latter date that a correct
account of the number of copies can be given. From
January, 1844, to January, 1845, sixteen editions of the
Bible were published, consisting in round numbers, of
two hundred thousand copies. From January, 1845, to
January, 1846, twenty-one editions were published, the
number of copies amounting to 312,000. From January,
1846, to May, 1846, five editions, consisting of upwards
of 47,000 copies, have been published ; and there are
several editions now under the judgment of the board.
From a return made to Parliament by your Majesty's
late printers, for the years 1831-1836 iifittatiich
„„ _ J-IlUltso pi j
in any one of those years amounted to only 105,600,
while the average yearly number for the period speci-
fied fell short of 80,000. The increase, therefore, in the
number of Bibles annually printed in Scotland at the
present time, as compared with the yearly number
printed from 1831 to 1837, considerably exceeds the
ratio of three to one. The great increase which has re-
sulted from the abolition of the monopoly is placed in a
still more imposing point of view when we revert to the
fact, that the number of Bibles printed under the su-
perintendence of the Scotch Board during the year end-
ing
January, 1846, exceeds the total number printed by
authority in Great Britain during either of the years
1832, 1833. In the former of these years, the number of
Bibles printed in Great Britain was 234,420, and in the
latter 303,796. The largest number priuted in Great
Britain in any one year, from 1831 to 1837, was 450,778.
But the increase in the number of Bibles printed is
not more remarkable nor more gratifying than the
greatly reduced price at which copies of the inspired
volume are sold. It is undeniably to the reduction of
price which free competition has effected, that the in-
creased circulation is to be attributed. On comparing a
catalogue of Bibles, New Testaments, Psalm and Prayer
Books, &c., published by your Majesty's late printers
in 1838, about a year before the expiry of their patent,
with another -published by the same parties in 1845, a
great reduction of price will be found to have been made
on every edition of the Bible sold by them. For exam-
ple, the quarto Bible, with Blayney's marginal refer-
ences, pica letter, royal paper, including Psalms and
Paraphrases, has been reduced from 11. ls. 3d. to lls.;
the octavo Bible, small pica letter, royal paper, with
Psalms and Paraphrases, from Bs. 3d. to 4s. 4d.; the
12mo. Bible, nonpariel, crown paper, with Psalms and
Paraphases, from 2s. Bd. to Is.; and the 24m0. Bible,
pearl letter, with Psalms and Paraphrases, from 2s. 3d.
to 9d. The editions in which the greatest reduction of
price has been made are the 12mo. nonpareil and the
24m0. pearl, the cost of the former having been reduced
52, and the latter nearly 65 per cent. The editions
now noticed are those in most frequent use.
From the extensive sale of the 12mo. and 24m0. Bibles,
the saving effected by their greatly reduced cost amounts
to a very large sum. It may be inferred from the fre-
quency with which the same publishers undertake new
editions of these works that the sale keeps pace with the
publication. Proceeding on this assumption, there were
sold of the two Bibles during the year 1844.5, 12mo.
53,000, and 24m0. 138,000. The saving on the former,
for this year, comparing the price with those of 1838,
amounted to upwards of 2,670/., and on the latter to
about 10,0621., making a total saving on the two of no
less a sum than 12,9321. In 1845-6 the number sold
were, 12mo. 26,000, and 24m0. 190,000 ; and the saving
savingeffected on ni
athoeusnetetwdotßo
there-
fore 28,7361.
The above calculations have been made according to
the reduced prices given in the price catalogue, pub-
ibulpews,afrod for the
thoef
two i.s,B
years,o4 Thewas
whole
pub-
lished by your Majesty's late printers in September
1845. In the revised price list, published February,
1846, by the Free Bible Press Company, Coldstream,
the cost prices of the Bibles which have now been speci-
fied are still further reduced. In this list, the 12mo.
bible is offered at 10d., and the 24m0. at 6d., being a
reduction from the prices of 1838, on the former of 58,
and on the latter of nearly 76 per cent. Whether an
inferior quality of paper be used in these astonishingly
cheap editions, the board pretend not to determine.
They are printed in a clear and distinct type.
NEW TESTAMENTS.—Of the New Testament there
have been published, under the authority of the board,
since May, 1842, seventy-five editions. Twenty-four
editions were published in the
1845, and consisted, in round numbers, o 490,000
ending January, 1846, sixteen
copies. In the year
editions were published, the number of copies amount •
t hlBe3 ls txo
yearslB3 7,
didw a s
nloots, 8
much4o, and
ing to upwards of 285,000.
.T.here have. been publishededitions consisting of 36,000
since January last three
copies; and one edition is now before the board. The
year ending
largest number printed by your Majesty's late printers,
ex-
ceeditni) eanay7n9no,uof annual
average
v e yearsTrahgee largestffroorm number printed by authority
in Great Britain, during any of the years now specified,
,Bha3anBsdabtnehdee
n12844ru5 oL
reduced.
it minion.appears
about 41
s4Ol
tnhi;ace
tro
cent.,
nea
tr. comparing the price
was 534,450, and the least, 250,259.
The New Testaments most in use are the 12mo.
b)cataloguesformerissued by your Majesty's late printers for the
r 1
the latter exactly 50 per cent. In the Coldstriceledamteshfparttilcoleef
list, the cost of the 12mo. New Testament has been re-
duced nearly 55 per cent. In the same list the price
affixed to the minion 18mo. New Testament, with pearl
Psalms, is 3id., while in 1838, the 24m0. New Testament,
minion letter with pearl Psalms, cost 10d.

intention of publishing the edition of the Bible, to which
we have above adverted, was relinquished, a period of
nearly twelve months has elapsed, and no new proposal
to print the Scriptures in the same diminutive size of
type has been received. Other facts might be adduced
by us having a similar bearing. Notwithstanding the
great improvements that have been recently made in
stereotype printing, the conviction seems to be gaining
ground that, under a certain size of type, it cannot be
used with advantage. In cases where great accuracy is
required, the expense of cancelling the unavoidable
blemishes which attend it, leaves no profit from the sale
worx. gnat tne punneation of the smaller
stereotyped editions or the ocript,nivs
Boned, will be a matter of regret to none who duly ap-
preciate the value to the reader of a clear and distinct
text.

Art. I was then agreed to by a majority of thirty-
seven to twenty-two, and M. Dumortier's amendment
was likewise adopted ; the whole, with this one amend-
ment, was agreed to, by a majority of 35 to 22 (Messrs.
Lesoime and Delfossa dit not vote at all).
M. Mercier, our Minister Plenipotentiary in Holland,
is expected at Brussels to-day ; and we again affirm in
spite of the contradiction of the Journal de Bruxelles and
of the Independant, thatthe treaty with Hollandis signed.
and that it will be presented to the Chamber to-morrow.
M. Mercier, who is to bring the treaty concluded with
Holland, had not arrived this evening at half-past eight
o'clock. The King, whose return to LaL,k.? was ek-
a his has; ot. • . vat arrwpd
rsegrpeaen tS-ualißow. rye harvest has commen d
in the environs of Brussels, and promises to be most
abundant.

Soon after the transmission of our last report, com-
plaints reached us from several quarters of the impor-
tation into Scotland, and extensive sale in the Scotch
market, of various unauthorised editions of the Scriptures
printed and published in England. Parties publishing
priviliged works under the authority of the board, and
yielding a ready compliance, often to the serious dimuni-
don of their profits, with every regulation prescribed by
us, reasonably demanded that they should be protected
in the enjoyment of their just rights, and secured from
the competition of publishers not subject to any such
restrictions. They alleged that while they did not
shrink from the equal and honourable rivalry which
they were required to maintain with your Majesty's
printers in England, and with the English Universi-
ties, it was impossible for them to prevent their works
froth being undersold by editions prepared at less ex-
pense, because with a less careful regard to a distinct
and accurate text.

THE HAGUE, JULY 3. —His Majesty the King this
morning, accompanied by his Sereno Highness the Duke
of Nassau, went to the station of the Dutch Railway,
where he took a cordial farewell of him. The Duke of
Nassau, before his departure, made considerable presents
to the officers of the royal household.
LANGSTRAAT, JULY 3.—From all places in this
neighbourhood, from Hensden and from Altona, we have
the most favourable accounts respecting the crop of
potatoes. The crop of hay has much exceeded the gene=
ral expectation, to which the dry weather nas not a little
contributed. The oats, barley, and buck-wheat—in a
word, all the standing crops—have the most satisfactati
appearance, and there is every reason to expect an
abundant harvest.

THE HAGUE, JULY 7.—M. Mercier, Minister Pleni-
potentiary to the King of Belgium at the Hague, left
yesterday, on his return to Brussels.

- ABISTI3II DAM, JULY 6.—The King, accompanied by
the Secretary and his Aid-de-Camp, Karnebeck, arrived
here this afternoon at half-past four o'clock, by a special
train, and immediately proceeded to the Dock, where the
Leeuw steam-boat was waiting for his Majesty. We
hear that this steam-boat will, carry his Majesty to the
Nieuwe Diep, to inspect the Anne Paulowno Polden,
and then to Friesland.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bansms, July 7.
Actual Debt, 234 per„.Cent •••• • • • ... .. .. _
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent • .......
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent- •..
Ditto Three per Cent.............. „ „ _.
v
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k Ditt Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ••• • • •
Dittto, 184,1. • .• • • .•• • • • • • • • • • • • • • 100% •
Ditt 0,1842. .. • • • . • • • • • •• • • ••• • • • 102
Ditto 44.•••••••••••• ••••••• • • • • • . 100
Ditto, 836 ..... .......... .......„... _
Ditto, 1838 . . • .• • •
Ditto of the City, 1333 .... . • •.. ..... .• 100%,
Ditto, 1843 .. .• . . .• • . • • • • ••• • • • • • •• • . 100%
Bank ofßelgium.• • • ....••••• •••• • • 905
—Brussels Papers. July 8.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vmmi, JANE 30.
5 per Cent. Metalliques• • • • • • • • • • • • • ..... 1 1 1,;54
4 per Cent. ditto • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 100%
3 per Cent. ditto •••••••••••. • • • • • • • • • • • • 74
Loan, 1834 •• •• •• •• •• •• • • •• •• •• •• •• 154%
Ditto, 1839 ..
Bank Shares •• • • • • •• • • •••• , • • • • • ••• • • • 1574
Esterhazy's Loan ........ • . • . ........

But reasonable as the complaint which was urged
appeared to be, there were circumstances connected with
the case which were felt by the Board to involve it in
much difficulty. One of the publications complained of
had been freely circulated throughout the United King-
dom for a period of upwards of twenty years, without
challenge from the English or Scotch patentees, or
either of the English Universities ; and, though an
equally extended prescription could not be pleaded for
the others, yet they, too, had been sold openly in Eng-
land for a considerable time, and they contained, besides,
an amount of notes, or marginal references, which might
be thought to exempt them from the privilege of the
board. The board, after anxious deliberation, unani-
mously resolved to submit the question for the opinion
of counsel, and a memorial for the information of counsel
was accordingly prepared under their direction. The
opinion received, which, however, on a fuller statement
of facts, was afterwards, in reference to the work that
had been so long tolerated by the former patentees, con-
siderably modified, was favourable to the privileges of
the board, and recommended that immediate steps
should be taken, by suspension and interdict, against
the publishers of the unauthorised editions.
The board, having procured the concurrence of the law
officers of the Crown, proceeded to act on this opinion,
and, with the exception of the particular publication in
reference to the illegality of which some doubts had been
expressed, obtained interdicts from the Court against the
further sale of the several editions complained of. But
the case now assumed a new aspect, from an offer made
by the publishers against whom legal proceedings bad
been thus instituted, to withdraw from the Scotch mar-
ket the interdicted editions, and to replace them by
other editions of the same works submitted for the
judgment of the board, and corrected at their dis-
cretion, on the same conditions with privileged works
printed and published in Scotland. It was immedi-
ately perceived by the board that the bearing of
this overture on the prosecution which they had
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works sold in England, without opposition either from
againstth
offer to bring these works into the Scotch market, sub-
ject to every provision for an accurate text which the
Scotch board had deemed it necessary to prescribe. They
might further contend that such proceedings were in
violation, if not of the letter, yet of the spirit of your
Majesty's instructions to the board, as tending to throw
obstacles in the way of free competition, and conse-
quently to enhance the price of the inspired volume. It
would be an additional argument against the prohibition
sought to be imposed, that the overture submitted would
still leave the parties from whom it proceeded subject to
the peculiar disadvantage of losing the drawback on
paper allowed to the privileged publisher.
Impressed with the weight of these considerations, the
board, after maturely deliberating upon the matter,
unanimously concluded that it would be their duty to
accede to the proposal which had been made to them, if
they should be certified of their competency, in terms
of the warrant granted by your Majesty, to entertain
such proposal. They directed, therefore, that a full
preparedo n
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before them, the Learned Counsel were of opinion that
the board did not possess the requisite powers to sanction
the overture which had been received, but suggested
that as the case was of a novel character, it was desirable
coasfe the should Cron.be

RAILWAY:.
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87
The Northern, or Ferdinand •..•. . . . .. ~ 184
Gloggnitz .. . • • • • • • • . • • • • • - • . • • • . • ...... 135%
Vienna—Milan .. .. .•• • • • • • ••• • • • ••• • • • 116%
Leghorn • • • • ... 107
Sienna •
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Money. Bills
Actual Debt, 2 per Cent.. ••.• . • • . 60% 61U
Ditto, 3 per Cent •.••.•... . • • • • • • • • 72% 73%
Ditto, 4 per Cent... .. ...... • ..... • . 94% A 5
Amort Syndic, 3% per Cent • • ..... If • 89% 90 •• •
Ditto, 3% per Cent— ••—•••• •• • - s •
Commercial Company, 4% per Cent 175 176
East India Loan, 4 per Cent.. •• • • 94V 9455 Exchange on London, at sight ••• • • l2
25
Two months..... •••• • • •• Ws 12
On Ilamburgh.
.—B at sight •• 35 75
Two months.. • •
On Paris ••••• • • • • • 75
Twoihonths. • • . • • • • •
--Dutch Papars. July 8.
PRUSSIAN FUNDSERLibr, JULY 4.
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld Sch., 3% per Cent • ............ 95 11.12 95 5-12
Pruss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent...... —•
Foreign Exchange 5..............
Exchange on London, £1 Sterling, 3 Months. 6 24% 6 23%
Hamburgh, 300 Marks, 2 Months.l4B% 148%
Paris, 300 fr., 2 Months ......... 79 7-12 79 5-12
—Universal Prussian Gazette. July 5.
HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, JULY 4.
Bills. Money,
Austrian 5 per Cents ...• .... • • • •
Bank Shares • • 15(...0
Anglo-Russian Loan .• . • •••• • • • • • • • • 106%
Russian 5 per Cent., Ilamb. Certifleatc. 1011.4 101
Ditto Ist serieslnseription . .....
Ditto, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th series •
Ditto, in Certificate. • •
New 4 per Cent., hope and Co. ••• • .• 90
Ditto Stleglitz ••-••• • • • • ••••• • • • • Sag
Spanish New 5 per Cent •
Ditto 3 per Cent •••••• • • • • • ...... . 29% 29%
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% percent..
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. 59% --
Ditto 3 per Cent.................
Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844.... 79%
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ••• • • • 8634 86'4
National Bank Shares.• ••••• • • • • .....

chtit application should be made to your Majesty for
additional instructions. With this suggestion the board
entertaining an anxious desire that the question should
be authoritatively determined, were forward to comply ;
and they immediately made the appeal to your Majesty,
which was answered by the new Instructions dated Jan.
1845. These instructions, which agree in every particu-
lar with the views, both of their privileges and their
duty which they themselves were led to entertain, have
been most satisfactory to the board. Provision, it ap-
pears to them, has been thus made for giving the fullest
effect to the gracious desire of your Majesty, already ad-
verted to, "of lessening, as, far as possible, the cost price
of the works falling under the privilege of the board, by
opening the 'minting and publishing of the same to free
competition, in so far as is consistent with security for
the correctness-of. the text." The board, by the same
means, have been relieVed,of the painful duty which
might have otherwise devolved upon them, of having to
appear is Court, without any plea of equity to urge in

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METRICAL PsAi.ms.—Since May, 1842, ninety-five
editions of the Psalms have been published under the
superintendence of the board. Of these editions were
published during the year ending January, 1845, thirty-
four, consisting in round numbers of 480,000 copies;
durit the year ending January 1846, twenty-five, of
which' the number of copies amounted to upwards of
204,000 ; and since January last, nine, containing an
aggregate of 96,000 copies. The editions of the Psalms,
published separately, however, by no means exhibit the
full amount of the annual shares. It frequently happens
that, in the licenses taken out by publishers for editions
of the Bible or New Testament;the Psalms are included.
This arrangement, inasmuch as the return made to Par-
liament by your Majesty's late printers, for the years