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THE StTN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY,_.TpLY 7, 1841

MORNING SUN.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
TIMES.—The Ministerial Morning Journalist is loud in his
:threats and boastings of what is to be hereafter. The damned
-poet appeals to posterity. To " shame the rogues" of 1841, he
-" prints" his drive.ings, that all mankind may set him down for
—what he is. This organ of a Cabinet of bankrupt adventurers
tells us that Sir ft. Peel's majority (the fact of the majority is
graciously admitted) will be "a very small one," and that the
" Opposition will not only be very numerous, but powerful be-
ndyo anything ever known in the history of this country." " Sir
Robert Peel's majority, on the other hand, will consist of the
most discordant materials." Crow on, gentlemen. Make the
most of the twilight hour. When broad day shall once be let in
upon your dunghill, the " shrill clarion" that now wakes us will
be quiet enough. Sir Robert Peel has the misfortune to differ
from the self-consoling prophet of the Morning Chronicle, with
respect to the character and composition of that party by which
the frauds of Whiggery have first been exposed ; and next,
the foul and motley dominion of Irish Papists, English Dissen-
ters, and Downing-street jobbers, has been so signally and
irretrievably overturned. Sir Robert Peel does not allow
(why should he?) that the party which on public principles
he has so successfully formed. " consists of the most discordant
materials." The Right Hon. Baronet, on the contrary,
affirms, that the Conservative party was from its outset bound
together by one main and vital principle, viz., an "attachment
to the ancient institutions of the country "—that it has bound
itself by no obligation, and " entertains no shadow of a desire,
to resist such changes as the progress of society may
demand, but that it is determined to maintain on
their ancient foundations the institutions of the
realm in Church and State "—that it is a party of
which the foundations have been rapidly widening,
and its influence over public opinion consolidating—that,
powerful in its spreading numbers, it has become infinitely
" stronger in the confidence of the country," than even in its
overwhelming numbers—that, growing in amount from num-
bers scarcely exceeding 100 Members of the House of Com-
mons, to upwards of 320 or 330 Members, such an in-
crease could never have arisen but from the vast moral
weight and authority which it possessed with the nation—
that having intrusted its confidence to the Right Hon. Ba-
ronet, he (Sir R. Peel) assures the country, that " all the ru-
mours which have been circulated about differences of opinion
and jealousies are absolutely without foundation ; that the party
which acts upon his advice and councils is a united and
tompact party, in which no difference of principle prevails, as
to the course which we ought to pursue." How far, indeed,
-the past position of the Conservative party bears testimony to
this uniform and consentient spirit. is a question of fact which
it needs no assertion to prove, nor any great ingenuity to cavil
at. We take Sir R. Peel's words as a pledge of prospective be-
nefits, and a conciliating policy. What is past is a matter of his-
tory, which it is useless to pervert, and impossible to conceal.
Men are to be tested by principles—not principles to be brought
down to the level of men. Conservatism is a principle ; its
strength consists in unity, and in proportion to their conformity
with its doctrines are its disciples to be deemed worthy of it.

CHRONICLE.—As the county elections come on, it is
anre than ever incumbent upon persons connected with agri-
culture4o consider well the tendency of their votes, and to
weigh the inconveniences of impoverishing their customers,
irritating their labourers, and subjecting themselves to the
losses of continual fluctuations in price, against any temporary
evil from disobliging- landlords who have no moral or legal
right whatever to interfere with the use they make of the
suffrage. The unsettled state of the Corn-law question is an
enormous injury to the farmer. Three years ago, Sir Robert
Peel desctibed it as intolerable. He dwelt, with just empha-

sis, upon the confusion thus introduced into all the arrange.
ments of the cultivator, and the Ifardship of never know in!
what extent of outlay was warranted by his prospects
of remuneration for the ensuing year. There is
great truth in this view of the case. Under the
most favourable and steady circumstances, the farmer
is more exposed to uncertainty than those who follow
any other kind of industrial occupation. On him alone, or
most severely, falls " the penalty of Adam, the seasons' dif-
ference." Every fluctuation in the condition of the millions
affects the quantity of food they can afford to purchase. 'they
cannot sink towards starvation without pinching the farmer.
And their relief from famine, by the importation of foreign
grain, under the present absurd and unjust law, becomes his
im?overishetent. If prices fall, rates rise ; and if prices rise,
mite rise fa'ter The shdiag scalc insures perpetual fraul
a.nd ;ambling. It aggravates ad the fluctuations that natural
causes or social relations generate. Witld the !•hort, space
of the last six years it has sent the pric cf v,heat per
quarter above 70s. and under 40s. The farmers' returns go
up Ike the rocket, and down like the stick. Anil all these ha-
rassing vicissitudes are multiplied and embittered by a formtda-
ble aid growing agitation against the law, spreading itself
through all c'asses, and even in louder and yet louder tones
demanding change—such change as millions deem essential to
their interests, their rights, and their security from plunder
and starvation. Here is all the uncertainty of a chaos ; water
that none can swim in, and land that affords no firm standing.
Surely every farmer must feel the soundness of Sir Ro-
bert Peel's assertion, long since made, that his inte-
rests imperatively require the speedy laving to rest of this
last and greatest element of change, the Corn-law ques-
tion. Surely a, prompt and satisfactory settlement of it
should be the object of the farmer's vote at the poll-
booth. But the farmer who votes for a Tory votes against
settlement. He polls for the continuance of ruinous fluctua-
lion. The Parliamentary Tories, aided by a portion of the
'Whigs, have striven for a settlement in vain, by the forlorn
hope of discountenancing the discussion. They have tried
again and again to scout the question from the House of Com-
mons. Any partial success has only the more signally illus-
trated the fact that upon the whole they were decidedly baffled.
They were utterly incapable of burking the subject, even be-
fore Ministers made it an open question. Having once been
adopted as a Government question, no future Government can
dream of consigning it to oblivion or quietude. The Tory
party has been a broken reed to the farmer's trust. Rest
was promised him ; and yet every year augmented, and con-
tinues to augment, the obvious amount of uncertainty. What
can he get by voting for the Tories?
POST.—The elections for Scotland have now begun ; and
after tha nroofsw. amt hid of the Conservative reaction
among the town constituencies of England, it is only natural,
that we should look with great anxiety to the northern part of
the kingdom. Circumstances exist in the political position of
Scotland that do not operate here. A ten years' possession
of general elective franchise has not been altogether sufficient
to cool the thoughtless impetuosity with which men are apt
to exercise a newly-acquired right ; and the mischievous mis-
representation by the Liberal party, of the opinions of the Con-
servatives on the unhappy Church question, have net been with-
out their effect. We especially mention these two points be-
cause we are anxious to prevent any exaggerated anticipation
of improvement in the character of the representative
body ; but it must at the same time be borne in mind
that in Scotland, as in England, considerable disgust has been
excited by the continual exhibition of Liberal promises violated
and Liberal pledges unredeemed. If, therefore, the causes we
first enumerated may interfere with the achievement of the
same success that has attended the Conservative efforts in Eng-
land, those that we last mentioned are calculated to afford a
well-founded hope that the elections now in progress will fur-
nish a result very different from that which was presented in
the Parliament just dissolved. There, out of the 53 Members
allotted to Scotland under the Reform Act, we had only 19
Conservatives to do battle with 34 Liberals. We put it to any
man acquainted with the character and habits of the people,
whether this unfortunate majority of Destructives could
be considered as in any way fairly representing the Con-
stituency ? We ask if to foster the Roman Catholic
religion in its most secular and factious form ; or to
devise a scheme of general education into which the inculca-
tion of morality and religion should not enter, were in con-
formity with the religious feelings of Scotland? We ask if to
support an Administration that clings to mere office after the
power to carry on the Queen's Government has passed away
from it ; that last year opposed the vast innovations in our
commercial system, which they this year declare to be the only
means of preventing a national bankruptcy—be consistent
with that reputation which the people of Scotland have so long
enjoyed for the possession of sound good sense ? We further
ask whether to have frittered away a surplus revenue of two
millions sterling, and to have substituted for it a melancholy
deficiency of seven millions, can be an especial recommenda-
tion of Liberal policy to a class of our countrymen more re-
markable, perhaps, than any other for prudence and carefulness
in the management of pecuniary concerns?
HERALD.—We assure the public that we never did more
'violence to our own modesty than we are compelled this day to
do—by quoting—ourselves. The offence against good taste of
such a proceeding we feel to be enhanced by the very recent
date of the article from which we are about to repeat a passage.
It appeared in the Herald at no remoter a period than yester-
day. We said, by way of illustrating a certain proposition,—
" to borrow a homely phrase from brother Jonathan, there is
nothing like going the whole hog ! If you have an insinuation
to establish don't spoil it by. trying your hand at a plausible
deduction from the, facts against your adversaries :—take the
areof t
urrsaellf. ly rue
We of
really you r of-
id
facts as they are, and the more they areeagainst you, the more
stoutly stick to it, that they
ponent, and scandalously false
not take s efficient credit to ourselves for the very high
cozilet ti which the. Globe is disposed to feel for our
lc t. Resolved to signalise this flattering homage by
seizing the earliest opportunity for its manifestation, the
Globe came out yesterday evening with one of the most
practical and complete commentaries on thedoctrine we had
sported, in the morning—as mere b n
adiale— veh
rtyat
much to
certainty
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could astonish—as it ought (we pD
gratify us. It had an announceentseut
rn o.amsake to its peculiar
class of readers well calculated, from its nature and ten-
dencies, to shock the overweening presumption and reckless
theories of the whole school of the " anti-monopolists" a
they are pleased to call themselves. It had a disclosure to
s
make about the results of the quarter's revenue and the
comparative statement of the public income in the years
ended, respectively sth July, 1840, and sth Jul.v,
_lB4. 1,
that it foresaw must be appalling to every man in the ing-
k
done who had the common power of combining those results,
and considering them in relation to the present state of tn
I
country, its immediate exigencies and its future prospects.
saw the impossibility of averting from its official patrons, on ac-
count of their disgraceful conduct in office, their compromising
policy of hazardousexperiments and timid expedients—the entire
blame of the disastrous issues presented by these accounts, of which
it had learned the general aspect. It readily surmised that
unless it could by some enormous—invention, deceive and
mislead the really honest and impartial few among the mass of
zealous and bigoted, and not very scrupulous partisans of the
present Ministers—it must leave the. latter to that fate which
the past and the coming elections had pretty extensively and
certainly prepared for them, but which the publication of this
official paper will surely precipitate. Accordingly, our evening
contemporary, in strict observance of the injunction pro-
nounced at Guildhall the other day by Mr. Jones Loyd,
" girded up his loins" and marched into the field with false co-
lours. and a matt kkes manifesto of Whig-radical effrontery.
ADVERTISE Already are the Tories quailing in ap-
prehension of the verdict on their policy about to be returned
by the Irish constituencies. The " Great Thunderer" itself
despairs of its power to subdue the indignant resistance by
which the constituencies of Ireland are preparing to repel the
' attempt of the Tories to re-establish in that country their op-
pressive, baleful, and sanguinary domination. In England the
more advanced state of political science and institutions, and
their consequences—a more advanced civilisation, and a mere
unerriuring abhorrence of oppression—for years prevented
the same exacerbations of Tory outrages as marked
with features of revolting deformity their administration
in Ireland. Time after time, however, has Ireland wrung
frogs the reluctant hands of her rulers concessions calculated
to equalise her political position with that of England ; and
time after time also have tyrannical administrations—making
Ireland experimental of the extent of pepular forbearance—
endeavoured to sustain obligarchical anti ecclesiastical tyranny
in undiminished excess, and by coercive laws endeavoured
to force england leek into the depressed and degraded
position from which Ireland has been labouringito emerge.
Such was the nature of the conflict, ':which even Catho-
lic Emancipation failed to appease, which raged with
scarcely mitigated fury till the passing of the Re-
form Act, and which, even then, would not have become less
violent in its manifestations but for the administration of the
law under a Liberal Ministry having been made to harmonise
with the ameliorative
been the active anitZer pokey
of its enactment. Such also has
preeztive influence mutually
be-
tween
the, policiesn exercised
such the question upon whichgl England and in Ireland; and
that they must again put forth
hth4lrish constituencies now feel
ir strength, and neutralise or
overcome the ascendancy
places achieved over their own rights and
has in Watt.
over those of the empire of which they fortsand.interest"' wait as
part.

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GLOBE.—We are far from " rejoicing," as is charged
upon us by the Tory organs, at this deficiency in the na-
tional finances ; but we do appeal to it as affording indis-
putable proof of the necessity of a complete revision of
our fiscal system. Taxation has reached its utmost
limit of productiveness. Fresh impositions will but in-
crease the sufferings of the people, without adding to the
national resources. Distress and discontent will settle
down into confirmed disaffection to Government, by
whomsoever administered ; and lead to the deplorable
consequences which such a state of feeling has inva-
riably produced. The measures of the Government
would have increased the revenue, and thus gradually,
but certainly, have provided for the deficiency, without
adding to the burden of taxation : they would have re-
lievecctrade and commerce from the restrictions which
fetter its operations, and would thus have improved the
condition of the population, by increasing the demand for
their labour. TherFories, by successfullycounteracting these
essential changes in our fiscal and commercial policy, are
about to make the dangerous experiment of laying addi-
tional taxation on a people, already forced to the utmost
verge of endurance by want of employment, and conse-
quent privation and suffering, without holding out to
them the slightest hope of a change in the system which
has involved them in these calamities. So far from
" rejoicing" in the prospect of these calamities, we sin-
cerely and deeply deplore the certainty of their inflic-
tion. But, seeing their approach, we hold it to be a part,
though a painful part, of our public duty, to warn the
country of the disasters which seem to threaten it.
CO I:RIER.—We have now before us the complete re-
turns from the cities and boroughs in England and Wales,
and upon the balance of the whole these show a gain of
eight seats to the Conservatives. This is a great and gra-
tifying proof of Conservative strength among consti-
tuencies heretofore so remarkable for Whig-Radical
tendencies, and, consequently, so liable to be led away
by the artfully concocted delusions to which Ministers
had had such frequent recourse in their desperate extre-
mity.:The counties are now about to exhibit their strength;
the result is certain ; Sir Robert Peel will receive an
accession of strength from the English counties against
which the combined forces of Whigs and Radicals will
be utterly powerless. A prescience of this fact is be-
coming painfully perceptible to the Ministerial journals.
We yesterday disposed of the pseudo prophetic warnings
' and threatening menaces addressed by these self-con-
stituted advisers to the great Conservative leader,
who may now be considered the Prime Minis-
ter of England ; we then showed the fallacy of
the grounds on which their croaking ratiocinations
were avowedly based. To return to the demolition of
these fictions or to those prophecies which the rage and
rancour of faction alone inspire would be " twice to slay
the slain." It is, we know, the privilege of the "bea-
ten" to grumble and complain, and has ever been a habit
with the vanquished to seek consolation for their present
disasters in the anticipation of a similar fate for the vic-
torious ; but we marvel much at the hardihood which
continues to give forth to the world its prophetic ravings,
after the whole course of events had falsified former pre-
dictions and proved to the world that it is not the blind
and malignant spirit of party that can either foresee or
interpret the shadows of " coming events." Really we
should be curious to learn by what factious manoeuvre,
by what process of infernal magic, the shattered remains
of Whig-Radicalism, the " reliquias Danaunz," can hope
to thwart (to displace it is beyond hope) Sir Robert
Peel's Government, commanding, as it undoubtedly will,
a majority of over fifty in the new Parliament. We
readily admit that the Right lion. Baronet is no match
for his opponents in that quality of adhesiveness which
sticks to place without power ; or of that endurance
which survives defeat and patiently submits to disgrace.
STANDARD.—The county elections have begun
well ; but they must proceed well if the agriculturists
are to be saved. The enemies of British agriculture
dare to calculate upon retaining thirty county seeps
—if they retain one, the disgrace of those to whom
they shall owe it will be signal. The farmer who
shall, upon any consideration, vote for the supporter of
" New Poor-law" and Anti-Corn-law Ministry will
well deserve the mercies of the union workhouse, to
which, to the extent of his power, he will consign him-
self and his family. Let the propositions of the Anti-
Corn-law League, practically adopted by her Majesty's
Ministers, be circulated in every county—not in gar-
bled extracts, as passages from the Quarterly Review
and the Standard have been circulated in great towns
and boroughs—but in their complete form. Let these
propositions be universally circulated through counties
and country villages, and farmers will see what they
have to anticipate from a neglect of their duty on the
present trial. We want nothing but the promulgation
of the truth, and the whole truth, to ensure a full
success. It has been reproached against this journal
by some respectable Contemporaries, the Manchester
Chronicle, for example, that we have injured the
cause of Conservatism in the manufacturing dis-
tricts, by an " ill•judged" publication of facts and
opinions. We confess the truth, that we may,
by the freedom with which we have spoken, have in some
degree furnished the enemy with arms. But this was una-
voidable. It is the duty of all who presume to address the
public to speak of all useful truths without reserve on the
score of party convenience. The maxim of Fonte-
nelle, that truth must not be let out by the handful,
respects the interest of those who are to receive it, not
the interest of those by whom it is to be dispensed.
And no truth can be more usefully dispensed both at
home and abroad than this, that the greatness of
Great Britain does not depend upon manufactures or
foreign trade in nrifactured goods, but upon the
prosperity of her eritiiiie commerce, and above all,
upon the prosperityia- her agriculture. This is the
spring-head of ail lxiar strength and affluence, the' source
of the national greatness is thus now committed to the
care of those whcehave a vital domestic interest in its
preservation—wiWthey prove faithful to the sacred trust?
We cannot doubt 'dot they will.
MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

FROM TEE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
HERALD. —A rather uneasy feeling was excited in the Stock
Market this morning by the tenour of the intelligence front the
United States by the 3reat Western, which was looked upon
to be of a threatening character. It would, however, not be
worth wl ile perhaps to attach so much importance to the dis-
cussions in Congress about foreign affairs and the case of
M‘Leod. as they are tinctured so strongly with party spirit and
a desire to embarrass the new Government, but for the almost
contemporaneous address of Governor Thomson on opening the
United Canadian Legislature, which smacks rather strongly
also of belligerent notions and warlike recommendations to
put the provinces into a state of defence as, at the eleventh
hour, the present Whig Government has really intimated a
formal resolution to defend and retain them as integral por-
tions of the empire. From the tone and the terms of the Go-
vernor's speech. it is tolerably transparent that matters are not
so satisfactery, nor likely to run on so smoothly, in the
Canadas, as the country has been falsely led to believe.
Other causes contributed moreover to depress that firmness and
tendency upwards visible of late in the Stock Market, for to say
nothing of the banking failures in town and country recently
made public, the stoppage of a discount firm of some considera-
tion in the City was announced to-day, whose engagements or
responsibilities, direct and indirect, are variously rated at from
200,0001. to 300,0001. The immediate cause of this unfortu-
nate event is likely to prove more extensively injurious to a large
portion of the community than by itself, under other circum-
stances it could be, for the primary occasion of the failure is
stated to have arisen from the previous embarrassments of two
large woollen manufacturing establishments somewhere about
Bradford, in Wiltshire, which must perhaps necessarily result in
depriving greatnumbers of operatives of employment. Notwith-
standing these adverse considerations the depression in the funds
was but of slight account, for Consols left off at 89-1, sellers for
the opening.
POST.—Some additional failures of considerable magnitude
have taken place in this part of the town. A French house in
the Havannah trade stopped payment on Saturday (the parties
disappearing), and this morning, it was announced, that the
firm of Cull's, Thompson, and Harris, bankers and bill brokers,
had been reduced to the same necessity. The extent of the
liabilities of the French house has not been generally stated ; it
is thought, however, to be limited, but those of Messrs. Coils
and Co. are said to be probably not far short of 300,0001. Their
failure is ascribed more immediately to embarrassments brought
on the firm in connection with certain Blackwell Hall
factors, and, if the reports upon this point be well
founded, it follows, as a matter of course, that things
are not proceeding so smoothly as could be desired
in the woollen trade. The stoppage of the house of
Whitmore, Vrells, and Whitmore, has been followed by an
announcement from the old banking establishment of Messrs.
Ladbroke and Co., to the effect that they have come to the de-
termination of " settling all their engagements." This they
propose doing by paying off the balances due to their deposi-
tors, or, if it should be agreeable to the latter, by the transfer
of such balances to the books of Messrs. Glyn and Co. The
dissolution
of the house of Ladbroke and Co., ought not to
excite much surprise. Such a measure has been in contem-
plation these two or 'three years, and was made a matter of
very general discussion among our men of business upon one
particular occasion within the interval. The competition of
the numerous joint-stock banks has operated much to the pre-
judiceme
trepooflist,hewholodre they
school
of private bankers, especially in the
due bounds by the Bank
(thejoint-stock banks) are kept within
aa England
where c h a
thet charter, r ,
managementwhich
f o s forbids
i is,
s
the issue of their own Lte osr,
generally speaking, unexceptionable.
The Sub-Committee
holders presented, we understand,
and Portuguese bond-
ant last Wednesday at the weekly
meeting of the Committees, t ecopy of a memorial to the
Lo
the
use ofthe
previous to a petition being sent to
the rd
British Mayor,
f he
bondholders Legislature
to
extend
to honour itsprotection towards them,
and begging the Lord Mayor
Egyptian Hall for a
meetingrequesting
guedfo
the meeting by
most
roht hundreds and
making this
application taking the
tCoh ahiirs.
Lordship
ip reasonsure_Fasisrist
that
of abject state
thousands of British subjects are in the
of penury, arising from the dishonest conductforeign
Governments, and that there is no hope of
redress, ex-
cept through his
practised
ised by the West Middlesex Insurance Company, and in,trentality ; secondly, that the frauds
de-
tected through the exertions of himself and his predecessors,
were insignificant in comparison with the wholesale swindling'
carried on with impunity towards the bondholders ; thirdly,-
that upwards of 100,000,000/. sterling, with interest, was due
to them for several years, notwithstanding the whole reve-
nues of the borrowing States were mortgaged to the bond-
holders. Toreno's conversion scheme in 1834, Mendiza-
bal's mal-practices in 1836,
when 5,000,0001. of ficti-
tious bonds were thrown on the market while the divi-
dends were suspended ; the unpaid Treasury bills of
1837, and the arbitrary decree of the 2d of November, 1840,
are forcibly brought under his Lordship's consideration, as are
also the frightful losses sustained by the bondholders, whilst
numerous unprincipled adventurers have amassed colossal for-
tunes. Records of the proceedings of the House of Commons
are referred to in support of loans being a legitimate branch of
trade, and equally entitled to the protection granted by the
Government to all other commercial transactions. Lord Pal.
merston's opinions are quoted in.favour of this principle. The
Lord Mayor is, moreover, reminded of the numerous meetings
which have been convened at the Egyptian and Guildhall in
behalf of the Italian, Polish, and even Spanish refugees.
TIMES.—The introduction of railroads into the Brazils is
,mentioned in the private letters last received from Rio Janeiro,
and the project of one to extend thence through the wealthy
districts of St. Paul, Iguasser, Piraby, Barra, Manza, Re-
ierido, Campo Bello, &c., a distance of some 120 miles, was
already before the public. It possessed exclusive privileges
from the Emperor, and seems to be taken up with some
spirit by several of the chief coffee planters, through whose
districts it will pass, as it will be the medium for the
transmission of their produce to market, and so impressed
do they appear to be with the utility of such an un-
dertaking when finished, that they have granted accord-
ing to these letters, portions of land for this purpose
gratuitously. The only drawback that is seen to th•

p• as of such a concern is the high rate of discount, nearly
10 and 12 per cent., now current in the Rio market, and this
seems in a measure to have struck the projectors themselves,
who, however, hope to obviate the difficulty by the influential
list of persons who have already undertaken to give their sup-
port to it. They certainly acknowledge that parties who loan
out their moneys at such high rates of discount will not be
over-inclined to invest them in the shares of a railway under-
taking, where the profits for the present must be a matter of
secondary considerat►on. Notwithstanding this, they express
themselves very sanguine of carrying out this scheme, coupled
as it is with the countenance of the Government, and the in-
terest of some of the most influential persons in the Brazils,
and they hope to effect at as moderate a cost as those of the
United States.

COURT OF ALDERIIIEN.
Yesterday a Court was held for the purpose of re-
ceiving a Report from the Gaol Committee on the im-
portant subject of the ventilation of the Courts of the
Old Bailey. Doctor Reid was present during the pro-
ceedings.
SWEARING IN OF SHERIFFS MAGNAY AND ROGERS.
The two new Sheriffs were introduced and sworn, in
accordance to the usual forms.
VENTILATION OF THE OLD BAILEY COURTS.
Sir MATTHEW WOOD said he brought up the Report
of the Committee to whom it had been referred to con-
sider Dr. Reid's plan for improving the ventilation of
the Courts in the Old Bailey. The Committee were of
opinion that the plan ought to be adopted—he con-
sidered it a matter of great moment, and moved that the
Court should agree with the Committee in. their Report,
which was as follows :
To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor and Court of
Al dermen.
We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, your
Committee in relation to gaols, do certify. that our at-
tention having lately been called to -the complaints made
by the Judges, Magistrates, and other parties attending
at the Central Criminal Court, in the Old Bailey, of the
bad and defective state of the ventilation of the same,
and it having been represented to us that a very effectual
mode had recently been adopted for ventilating the
Houses of Parliament by Dr. Reid, we requested his
attendance, and accompanied by the clerk of the City's
works, went with him to the Sessions House, to give
him an opportunity of inspecting the same ; and to re-
port to us how far his plan might be applied with ad-
vantage there, and we directed the clerk of the works to
, afford him every facility in making any further survey
he might find requisite.
That we have since been attended by Dr. Reid, who
laid before us a report of the result of his labours, with
sundry plans explanatory of the same, together with
an estimate of the expense, which we have caused to be
hereunto annexed for the information of this Hon. Court,
and we recommend the same to their serious and atten-
tive consideration.
We beg further to certify that as the Sessions House
and their works and alterations are more immediately
under the directions of the Committee, for letting the
City's landS, we requested a conference with a depu-
tation from that Committee, to whom we exhibited
Dr. Reid's plan 4, and who fully explained to theni the
nature and extent of the same ; and we have sirice re-
ceived a resolution from the deputation, stating that they
would recommend the Land Committee to await the
decision of this Honourable Court upon the subject.
Under these circumstances, and feeling satisfied that
it is highly desirable the work should be done, and also
considering that at the period from the termination of
the present: sitting of the Central Criminal Court to the
next sitting of that Court, would afford the best oppor-
tunity for effecting the same, we recommend this Ho-
nourable Court to direct a communication to be made to
the Committee for, letting the City's lands, requesting
they will present a report to the Court of. Common
Council for authority for the work to be proceeded with
under their directions accordingly. All which we sub-
mit to the judgment of this Honourable Court, this 6th.
day of July, 1841.

P. LAURIE.
MATTHEW WOOD.
MICHAEL GIBBS.

REPORT AS TO THE VENTILATION OF THE NEW AND
OLD COURTS, OLD BAILEY.
My Lord and Gentlemen,
The defective State of the ventilation at the CoArts in
the Old Bailey, which I have examined according to
your instructions, arises principally from the following

causes :-
1. The inadequate supply of fresh air.
2. The imperfect discharge of the vitiated air, a large
proportion of which is returned indefinitely upon the
person, instead of being removed with certainty and
decision.
3. The severity. of the:currents, arising from inade-
quate diffusion, and the necessary opening of doors and
windows from time to time, when the complaints are
great from the deficiency in the supply of air.
4. The imperfect nature of various parts of the appa-
ratus in use, which presents different causes that render
the air less wholesome and agreeable than it otherwise
would be..
5. The contamination of the small proportion of air
supplied to a great extent with vitiated air, more parti-
cularly from the hall and other passages. In the kitchen
there is a cesspool having no connection with any drain,
into which about thirty pails of water arc introduced
daily during the sitting of the Courts, all of which ap-
pears, so far as I have been able to ascertain, to mingle
by evaporation with the atmosphere the kitchen, and
to find its way to the passages.
• It will be obvious that defects Buell as these cannot be
effectually remedied without introd4cing arrangements of
proportionate magnitude, as in the, orginal construction
of the Courts, it could not be expTted, from the period
at which they were built, that proirin would be made
for meeting the views now entertained as'to the nature
and importance of ventilation ; wile ~ the chambers be-
low and above both Courts, excelittg on the roof of the
New Court, are so much occupied that few facilities are
presented for diffusive ventilation, by which alone any
degree of comfort can be given in places so liable to a
fluctuating attendance as these Courts must be. Under
the circumstances, and proceeding upon the assumption
that two thousand persons are as many as it would be
necessary to provide air for, according to the replies to
the various inquiries upon which I entered in
reference to this point, I have to propose the
following arrangements. It may be proper for me
to premise, however, that 2,000 persons, twelve hours a-
day in Court, require air for 28,800,000 respirations
during that period, independent of what may be neces-
sary for the surface of the body
1. Let a chamber be provided for the reception of
fresh air where it shall escape much of the contamina-
tion it receives at present from eating houses, chimneys,
&c., in the immediate vicinity.
2. Let the air be filtered from soot as it enters the
chamber, washed, when necessary, with lime-water to
remove various impurities, and finally be propelled to the
Courts by a fanner worked by a steam-engine. This!ar-
rangement appears to be the only economical plan that
will ensure the ventilation of the Courts, considering the
peculiarity of their position, and the manner in wich
they are hemmed in on all sides by different apartments.
3. Let chambers be provided below each Court, that
the air may enter diffusively, and as imperceptibly as
possible, the diffusion being regulated by perforated
zinc or porous cloth at every place represented by the red
dotted line in the plan of the Courts.
4. Let a mild hot water apparatus be procured, and let
it be arranged in such a manner that by the mere opening or
shutting of a valve, it may be made to afford any propor-
tion of warmth, such as the circumstances of the moment
may require.. I must here remark, that though ventila-
tion may be induced without warming the air before it
enters the Court, still the two questions are inseparably
connected, more especially as in an apartment not venti-
lated, the vitiated air stagnated around the person pro-
duces part of that warmth which ought to be procured
from other sources, and which is required to a greater
and greater extent, the more freely the air is supplied.
To some constitutions, the absence of offensive currents,
and the supply of air at a proper temperature, is as im-
portant as a supply of pure air.
5. Let the entrance of the air to the Court be regulated
by a single valve, so that the amount may be pro-
portioned to the state of the external atmosphere,
and the fluctuating attendance, so that the effect pro-
duced upon the person may in all cases be as nearly as
possible the same, whatever changes may ensue, either
in the attendance at the Court or in the external atmo-
sphere.
6. Let the foul air also be discharged through a single
aperture, a valve being provided there, also to be used
under particular circumstances.
7. One external discharge from each Court may be
provided, but one alone for both would be preferable,
but also more costly, from the cuttings required in the
roof.
8. The external discharge should be protected from
the action of currents of air by a cowl, or any equivalent
modification of the cowl.
9. The galleries should be supplied with pure air from
the fresh air chamber.
10. A communication should be established between
the cess-pool in the kitchen and the adjoining drains.
All the above points are essentially connected with the
ventilation of the Courts alone, and would cost, as nearly
as I can estimate, about 1,9251. In stating this sum it
may be proper for me to mention that a precise estimate
cannot be formed, as the precise facilities or difficulties
that may be met with in following out the underground
cuttings must necessarily modify the result. But Ido
not consider that there would be a difference of
1001., which might be either left or more
than the sum mentioned according to details that could
only be ascertained as the works proceed. I
ought also to observe, that my estimate is founded prin-
cipally upon the cost of similar works executed in the
Queen's Benoh and Bail Courts, Westminster, in the In-
solvent Debtors' Court, and in various other buildings
in London.
I should not consider this Report complete did I not
submit for your consideration, that it would be advisable
that some minor arrangements should be made for the
ventilation of the hall, staircases, and some of the
principal apartments in connection with the Courts,
In places where the principal room has been venti-
lated without some attention being paid to lobbies
and contiguous apartments, the contrast between the
air where ventilation has been introduced, and where it
has not, often leads to complaints that would not other-
wise be made, and to the introduction of ventilation in
these minor apartments at a future period at a consider-
able increase of cost. An additional sum of 1501. or
2001. would enable the ventilation to be greatly improved
in all the places now referred to.
Again,oilny inablylbuildings constructed in the usual man-
ner, there is a defect observed in the movement of air
entirelyne r windows
n double
coldweather,
windows, which
this notcan
essen-
tially connected with the general arrangements for ven-
tilation, though most important in preventing local dis-
comfort in the seats next the windows, is brought before
your notice as a separate question that can be considered
remediedd ied
either at present or at a future period.
Lastly, in making the above report, I have to men-
tion that I have had the advantage of communicietiDg

with Mr. Montague, who has assisted me in obtaining
the information required as to the present state of the
buildings ; and I have the satisfaction to state that
he is of opinion that the several works may be executed
without interfering with the character or stability of the
building.
I have the honour to remain, my Lord and Gentlemen,
Your very obedient servant,
(Sigtied) D. B. REID.
Sir PETER LAURIE seconded the motion. He trusted
the Court would be unanimous in recommending the
adoption of Dr. Reid's plans. It was universally admitted
that he had successfully applied them in the ventilation
of both Houses of Parliament, an object of paramount

importance, which had often been attempted, and as
often failed.—(Hear, hear.) The best evidence that Dr.
Reid had been completely successful in his operations on
the Houses of Parliament was to be found in the fact,
that at the conclusion of his labours they had rewarded
his talent and perseverance with a complimentary gra-
tuity of 1,0001. over and above the stipulated compensation.
The proper ventilation of courts of justice was of the
deepest consequence, not only to the health and lives of
judges and officers of the Court, •but to the administra-
tion of justice itself. It was impossible for a judicial
functionary to pay undivided attention to the all-impor-
tant subject before him, or vigorously to grapple with
the difficulty of an intricate case, with a body subdued
by the weight of pestilential exhalations, or a mind dis-
turbed by watching the constant changes to which he
became exposed, if he attempted to relieve himself from
a foetid atmosphere by admitting currents of air through
open windows, to which, in the present imperfect state
of all their Courts, they were compelled to resort.—
(Hear, hear.)
The Report was confirmed, nem. con., so that the
complaint will soon be effectually removed.
The Court then adjourned.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
(Before the CommoN SERGEANT.)
John Groom was indicted for obtaining by false pretences
the sum of 10s. the property of Ann Cole.
The prisoner went to the house of the prosecutrix who keeps
a shop at Islington, and asked her for change for half a
sovereign for Mrs. Harris, a friend of the prosecutrix. She
counted out the money on the counter, and the prisoner took
it up, saying he had forgotten the half sovereign, but would
return in a few minutes with it. He then went away with
the money but not returning as he had promised, the prosecu-
trix sent to Mrs. Harris, and found that she had sent for no
change whatever. Information was given to the police and
the prisoner was taken into custody.
The prisoner said nothing in his defence, and the Jury at
once found him Guilty and he was sentenced to three months'
imprisonment and hard labour.
George Hart and Ann Miles were indicted for uttering
a counterfeit half-crown. _ _ .

Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Doane conducted the prosecution.
It appeared that the prisoners who are old offenders,
went together to a coffee-shop, where the female
prisoner tendered a bad half-crown in payment for two
cups of coffee. It was immediately discovered to be
bad, and the prisoners instantly attempted to escape, but
were prevented, and detained till a constable arrived.
The constable requested to see the half-crown, and when
it was presented to him hart snatched it out of his hand
and swallowed it, but it wai afterwards found along with
another counterfeit half-crown which the prisoner had
also swallowed on the same day. The coffee-house
keeper marked the half-crown immediately on receiving
it, and was therefore able to identify it. Both half-
crowns had been made by the same mould.
The Jury instantly returned a verdict of Guilty against
both prisoners.
The COMMON SERGEANT sentenced them to be seve-
rally imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the House
of Correction for one year.
Samuel Holmes, a youth only 17 years of age, was
convicted of burglariously breaking and entering the
dwelling-house of Charles Crpsi, with intent to steal.
The prosecutor, who keeps a public-house in Blooms-
bury, stated that on the night of- the 2d instant, he closed
his house at twelve o'clock, and, fastened all the doors
and windows. About two o'clock he was alarmed, and
on going into the parlour he found the prisoner lying
under one of the tables, and a quantity of lucifer matches
by his side.
A police-constable proved seeing the prisoner climb
up the water-spout attached to the house of the prosecu-
tor, and get in et one of the windows ; he instantly gave
an alarm, and the prisoner was taken into custody.
The prisoner, in his defence, said that he had arrived
from the country only the day previous, and having
walked about for a long time, felt tired. On passing the
prosecutor's he saw a man standing at the door, and on
asking him whether he could find a place to sleep in, the
man told him he might sleep in. the parlour, but not to
go away till he saw him again.
The Jury, in consequence of the prisoner's youth, re-
commended him to mercy, and
The Learned JUDGE sentenced him to three months'
hard labour in the House of Correction.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Subeicrous ATTACK.—SamueI King, who wore the
garb of a butcher, was charged before Mr. Bingham,
with having violently assaulted Mr. Alford, a shoemaker,
living in College-street, Hackney.
The complainant (whose face was shockingly dis-
figured by marks of violence) stated, that soon after
twelve o'clock on the preceeding night, he was passing
through Grove-lane, Hackney, on his way home, when
he saw the prisoner lying motionless at the side of the
road, and, supposing that he was in a fit, he advanced
towards him for the purpose of rendering him some
assistance.. Upon stooping over him, however, witness
perceived that he was " wide awake," and that he was
evidently simulating drunkenness ; and he was about to
proceed on his way when the prisoner started upon his
feet and struck him such a tremendous blow between the
eves that he fell senseless to the ground. It was his
belief that the blow was inflicted with a stone or some
other hard substance. On recovering his senses he
found himself surrounded by several persons, amongst
whom was a policeman, who had the prisoner in custody.
Not a word was uttered on either side prior to the
attack.
Police constable No. 77, stated that he was on duty in
Grove-lane, when his attention was attracted by the
sound of a heavy fall, and on reaching the spot, he
found the prosecutor, whose face was suffused in blood,
lying insensible on the ground. The prisoner was in the
act of making off, but witness stopped him and took him
into custody. He did not appear at all intoxicated, and
when the complainant charged him with the outrage, he
said the latter assaulted him first.
Sergeant Hawk, No. 6, said that the prisoner had
been convicted of felony at the Old Bailey, and. he bore
a most infamous character.
Grove, the gaoler, also recognized the prisoner as
having been charged with felony at this Court.
The prisoner denied the assertions of the officers, and
said that it was not he but his 'brother who had been in
Newgate.
Mr. BINGHAM said that he strongly suspected the pri-
soner's object in snaking the attack, was to commit a
highway robbery, but as there was some doubt on the
point, he should give him the benefit of it, and treat the
case as a simple assault. He should order him to pay a
fine of 60s. or be imprisoned for two months in the
House of Correction.—The prisoner was committed.
Sarah Clarke was finally examined upon several
charges of having stolen plate and other property from
dwelling-houses in which she had occupied apartments.
The prisoner in all the cases had employed the same
stratagem in order to accomplish her nefarious design,
that of despatching the inmates on sham messages to the
East India House, and plundering the place during their
absence. Several witnesses attended who were desirous
of preferring fresh charges against her, but the Magis-
trate considered it unnecessary to enter into them, those
already heard having been clearly made out.
The depositions in three cases were completed, and the
prisoner was committed for trial.

THE tWEATHER.—NooN, JULY 6.
ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET.
Barometer
Thermometer... 67 I Highest 72 Lowest .. 55
Wind N.W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
(LLOYD'S.)

LONDON, JULY 6.—Wind this day at noon, W.
DEAL, JULY s.—Wind, N.E.—Arrived the Caroline, from
Mexico; George Canning, westward. Arrived from the
River, and sailed, the William Delanoy, from Cape Coast
Castle ; Lily, Leghorn ; Cheese, Gibraltar ; Botley, Wood,
Lisbon.
OFF DOVER, JULY 3.—Arrived the Foster, Brodrick, from
Miramichi ; Elaff, Schale, for Algiers.
Orr PLYMOUTH, JULY 4.—The Wodau, Brogan, from
Rio Janeiro for Hamburgh.
FALMOUTH, JULY 4.—Wind S.W. to W.—Arrived the
Hampshire, Smith, from Odessa; Royal Tar (steamer), from
Southton for Vigo.
BRISTOL, JULY s.—Sailed the Peliza, Saunders, for Mau-
ritius.
GLOUCESTER, JULY s.—Arrived the Speck, Marshall, from
Prince Edward's Island.
Ors. CORK, JULY 3.—The Islay, Galt, from Buenos
Ayres, and sailed for London.
HULL, JULY s.—Wind N.E. by N.—Arrived the Lord
Mulgrave, Cordingley ; and Latona, Wilkinson, from Mira-
michi.
YARMOUTH, JULY 4.—Sailed the Adventure, Spingavus,
for Constantinople.
LivEaroor., JULY s.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrived the Dragos,
Ohilivich, Trieste. Sailed, the San Joaquin, for Havannah ;
Marquis Wellesley, Quebec • Empress, Jamaica ; Ellen,
Brooks, Boston.
OFF HASTINGS, JULY s.—Arrived the President Ram,
Landberd, from Batavia for Rotterdam ; Mary Ann, Bulton,
Bomberg.
PORTSMOUTH, JULY s.—Wind S.W. to W.—Arrived the
Duke of Bedford, London for Calcutta.
POOLE, JULY 3.—Sailed the Emma, for Newfoundland.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 6.
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of per CANAIL.4. VII
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1,482 41. Ashby.de-10-Zouch Average 1131.8 h. 12
1, 60 Basingstoke.... 6 1901.811.
1,01,5 541. Brecknock and AbergavennY ,lfroi,ih.
8,000 I-16th. 101. Birmingham, 1.16 th share ...XV. & 111. 2
4,000 .... ... Ditto & Liverpool Junct.l29l. sh .100 pd 25
600 31. Bridgewater and Taunton.lool.sh. all pi --
lOU 51. Chelmer and Blackwater lool.Bh. 101
500 321. Coventry] 1001.8 b. 400
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2,060 5!. Os. Dudley 1001.8 h. 94
600 131. Derby lool.sh. 120
20,0:10 4 per cent. Danube and Blayne 411.135. 4d.pd 29
3,575 i 4' EllesmJre and Chester Average 1331.5 h. 81
231 621 Erewash
1,297 351. Forth and Clydo....Average 5001. 160. b. 6
50
1,000 71. Grand J unction 1001.8 h 1270
2,8494 255. Grand Union lool.sh •26
1,500
1,000/ 41. per cent . Ditto (optional) i.:o..an 1001.
395
600 131.125. 68. Glamorganshire, Aver. cost 1721.138.4 d. 220
749 125. Oran thl,ll lsol.sh. 200
,238 2/. Os. Huddersfield Average all. 68.6 d. sh. 28
100
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.1,6994 1/. 7s. Lancaster Average 47!. 6s. 8d 27%
2,897; 301. Leeds and Liverpool lool.Bh 750
5451 111. Leicester 1401. sh 151
1,897 51.01, Leicester & Northampton Aver 2131. 102 73
2,109 101. Monmouthshire lool.Bli 200
256 101. Melton Mowbray -.. ..... ...lON. eh. 200
500 25!. Mersey and Irwell lool.Bh. 550
3,000 21. 10s. Prfacclesfleld lOOl. sh. all pd. 34%
247 171. Neath . 1001. sh. 325
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500 81. Shropshire 1251. sh. 137
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700 361. Stafford and Worcester 1401.8 h. 600
530 151, Shrewsbury 125/.Bh. 280
300 91. 3taurbridge ......-..... 1451. sh. 396
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533 1211 Swansea lool.Bh. 265
3,702 21. 10s. Severn anti Wye and Railway Ay.351. sh. 45
'..6ooish. 321. 10e. Trent and Mersey, 4 share lOOl. sh. sto
8.149
i'M'A'} 161. Warwick and Birmingham lOO/.sh• 228
1,000,1 i h.
ilo 13,. Warwick and liaptt.r. lool.sh. 130
7,000 4/, Worcester & Birmingham Av. 78!.8r. sh. 55
5,1100 567. Wilt and Berks Average 671. 10s Bd. sh. 30
800 6s. Wyilev and Essington 125!. sh '74
.26 ... ..11.- Wisneacn :flr.,l ah. 30
905 Wey and Arun. 1101. en. 221 i
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Deptford Pier 2Ol. sh. 201. pd 10
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4,000 ....... Waterloo 100/. sh. 3%
5,000 225. OCI. Ditto, Old Annuities of 81 001. pd 21
5,000 19s. 3d, Ditto, New Ditto of 7/. 4Ol. pd 18%
10,0001. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds
5,948 Os Vauxhall .........Average 701. 10s. 3d. sh 26
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53,000 [6lsnled. ci;ns.l Alliance British &Foreignlool.sh. 111. pd 13%
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1,20013 h. 5/. Birmingham I' ire 2501. sh. 55/. pd 10754
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,000,0001. 61. per ct Globe... Stock 11854
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500,0001. ...... ... National Loan Fund 2!. ss. pd 1%
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60,000 51. London Joint Stock 501. sh. 10/. pd 12%
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25,000 10 per cent. Liverpool 1001 sh. 121/. pd 19
50,000 71 percent. Manchester and Livers] 500 h. 151
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GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES.
2,500 16s Od Bath 201. sh. 101. pd 22
5,000 British 401. sh. 161. pd 1830
~,, r 5/.percent./
s.'"'''" land Bs. 65.3 Did, Provincial 2O/. sh. 19/. pd 25
928 51 lOs Birmingham 501 sh. 96
4,250 2/ Os Bristol 2O/. sh. 36
2,250 3/ 108 Brighton 2Ol. sh. 13%
750 31 103 Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 131. pd 9
2,471 41 per cent. Brighton General 2Ol. sh. all pd 9
4,000 71. 10s. Continental Consolidated ....751. 62e/. pd 1023 f
1,000 101. City of London.. ......... .100/. sh. all pd 195
1,000 61. Ditto, New 100/. sh. 751. pd 150
4,000 3/.os. Equitable 5Ol. pd 20
10,000 3/. per cent. Imperial 59/. sh. 61
800 51. per cent. Isle of Thanet 251. sh. 201. pd 1834
2,350 61. per cent. Independent 30/. oh. all r'. 49
9,000 41. per cent. Phoenix 5Ol. sh. 39/. lid 3431
1,000 41. per cent. Ratcliff lOOl. sh. 80/. pd 6034
,000 , ...... .. South Metropolitan 50/. sh. 191. pd 16
0,000 51. per cent. United General...,. 501. sh: 471. pel 31
240 5!. per cent. Warwick 5Ol. sh. 50
400 51. per cent Wakefield 251. sh. 22
2,000 3/. Westminster Chartered
6,000780 125. Ditto New
per cent. Yarmouth 2Ol. sh. 18/. pd 11%
WATER WORKS
4,800 345. Birmingham 251. sh. 251. pd 21
(,433 71. East London 100/. sh. 164
5,500 21 15s. Grand Junction Average 41/. 13s. 4d. sh. 61
2,000 '2l. Kent 1001. sh. 47
372 101. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. 326
1,500 2110 s New River London Bridge Water Ann... 60
6,486 21 10s Manchester and Salford 100/. sh. , 5334
1,000 5 per cent. South London lOO/.sh. 10454
8,294 411. West Middlesex Average 6.31:1125. ikl. sh. 92
1,360 1114 s York Building (,o. Lessee Prop. 1001. sh. 35
IRON RAILWAYS.
6,300 Birmingham and Derby ..... lOO/. pd 61
9,500 ... ...... Birmingham and Gloucester KO/. pd 6354
15,000 .... ..... Bristol and Exeter .........1001. sh. 60 pd 31
7,500 Cheltenham &G. Western 100/.Bh. 621,1. 27
3,000 Clarence 1001. eh. 1001. pd 30
8,000 .... ..... Dublin and Drogheda 1001. sh. 5/. pd
50,000 ..... .... Eastern Counties 251. sh. 23!. pd 8%
10,000 Great North of England 1001. sh. 901. pd 69
10,918 14 per cent. Grand Junction lOOl. sh. all pd 232
25,000
25,000 Ditto New 50/. sh. 501. pd 61%
5,000 per cent Gosport Junction... 50/. sh. 40/. pd 4354
2,000 5 per cent. Hartlepool 1001. eh. 100/. pd 14554 '
8,000 Hull and Selby 5Ol. sh. 501. pd 37%
2,100 41. per cent. Leeds and Selby 100 sh. 65%
5,100 10 percent. Liverpool& Manchester 101.1.5 h. 100/.pd 199%
7,968 10 per cent. Ditto Half Shares 5Ol. pd 90
11,495 10 percent. Ditto Quarter Shares 25/. pd 45
36,000 London and Brighton 501. sh. 50/. pd 44%
94,000 London and Blackwell 25/. sh. 251. pd 16
20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich _2O/. si.s. 201. pd 8
25,000 8 per cent. London & Birmingham 1001. sh. 901. pd 160
25,000 Ditto Quarter Shares ....25/. sh. 5/. pd :23%
31,250 ...... ... Ditto New Shares .32/. sh. 30/. pd 53
36,000 5 per cent. London and S. Western Av. 3SI, 17s. Od. 50%
33,900 London and Croydon
Ay 13/. 15s. 9d 1"
Ditto New Scrip.... • - ' 13%
13,000 3 per cent. Manchester and Leeds...lool. sh. 701. pd 5134
13,000 Ditto Half Shares 5Ol. 25/. pd 21
10,000 Manchester and Birmingham 70/.sh. 401. 23
Ditto Extension 7l. pd 2%
10,000 ... ...... Midland Counties 'OO/. sh. 1001. pd 88
15,000 North Midland
Ditto New 40/. pd 33%
5,128 Northern and Eastern....lool. eh 601. pa F 20%
2,600 Preston and Wyre 5Ol. sh. 30/. pd 36
08,000 South Eastern and Dover 331. pd 14%
1,000 101. per cent. Stockton and Darlington lOO/.Bh. 255
0,000 ......... Thames Haven 501. sh 51. pd
6,000 York and North Midland 50 . sh. 501. pd 70%
MINES.

.......
8,000 Albion Copper_. 5!.s h. 3i/. psi 12
4,000 11. ss. Alten l5/. sh 121. Its pd 10
10,000 .... Anglo Mexican,iss. 5/. pm.lool. sh. al 'Ed 1
Ditto Subscription 25/. pu I%
2,000 151. Bolanos 150/. sh all pd 35
10,000 I/. [Os Brazilianlmp. iss. 51. pm... 351. sh. 201. pd 3
6,000
11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey ...20/. sh. 14/. pd N
IC ,000 Bolivar Copper Company 201. sh. 201. pd 1
10000 Ditto Scrip lO4 sh. 101. pd 2
20,000 British Iron lOO/. oh. 601. pd
,000 British Copper 51. sh. 4i/. pd 1%
Cata Branca 6l/. pd 6%
Candonga 7ll. pd 5
10,000 11 Copiapo 2O/. sh. 13/. pd 10
8,500 II" Columbian, iss. 51. pm 55/. sh. 551. pd OU
2,850 3/. English 14/. Gs. pd 3
20,000 .... ..... General Mining Association2ol sh.lB/. pd 134
6,155 Mexican Company lOO/. sh. 571/. pd 6
3,008 Polberou Consols . lO/. sh. 8/. pd 4
11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered 2y,
Ditto Loan Notes 1501. pd 160
90,000 United Mexican, iss. 2 pm. 401. sh. all pd 2%
Ditti, Scrip 2%
Ditto New Scrip 5/ pd 4
West Cork 5Ol. sh 501. pd 38
LITERARY INSTITUTIONS.
1,000 ......... London, with Bronze Ticket ...75gs. sh. 16
1,500 ... ...... London University lOOl. sh. all pd 7
700
King' College lOOl. - I9M

MISCELLANEOUS.
10, WI 15s. Australian Agricultural.loo/.'sh. 281. pd 2.9
6,)C0 1. per ccnt. British American Land Company 354/. pd
10,000 61. per cent. Canada Company 1001. sh. 3241. pd 31
10,000 51. per cent. Upper Cana,Za Loan
City Bonds, 4 or cent lOO
20,000 IL 6s. GeneralSteamNarigation 151. sh. 141. pd 24
101. per cant. Hudson's Bay Stock
,000 It. London Corn. Sale Rooms ....Av. 751. sh. 19
,000 Caoutchouc Company 12;/. pd 12
New Brunswick Land CompaNy...sol. pd 12
2, 754 5/. per cant. Iterersionary Int. 50c..,1001. sh. 100/. pd 104
2,633 5/. per cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 100/. pd 107
4,000
10,000 Hs. Van Diemer.'s Land.... 1001. sh. 1711. pd 6%

LIST of SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES
JUNE 30„1841.
BANKS.

1,000,00fM, p. ct. Bank of Scotland ...SW. 6s. Bd. sh. all pd 159
2,000,00(s, p. ct. Royal of Scotland 100/. sh. all pd 15%
500,0001., p. ct. British Linen Company 1001. ch. all pd :118
500,0001. 0/. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 1001. pd 169
500,0000. f, n. ct. National lOO/.sh. 10/. pd
500,0001. 71. p. ct. Glasgow Union 250/. sh. 501. pd 57
1,000,0001. 6p. et. Western of Scotland 2OOl. sh 40/. pd 72%
INSURANCE COMPANIES.

250.8005 h. 6i p. ct. Scottish finion --
20/. sh. 1/. pd 235.6 d,
7,50(1 7p. ct. Hercules lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 13 !4
100,000 sp. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotlancl.lo/.sh. all pd 10
50,000 Bp. ct. North British %001. sh. 10/. pd 16 (:;
1,000 Bp. ct. Caledonian Fire 100/. sh. 10/. pd 2,1
5,000 6p. ct. Edinburgh Lire 1001. sh. 10/. p,l 1414
100,000 4p. ct. West of Scotland lOl. pd
MISCELLANEOUS.
4,818 „..
Ditto Allocated 961. sh. all pd 50
Q 25,40( 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint Stock Water 251. sh. all pd 34!,,1
I,ooosh 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Foundcry 501. sh 48/. 45
(1,000 3 per coat. Edinburgh & Leith Glass 20/.sh. 16/. pd 3%
4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 25/. sh. all pd 50
4,450 10 per cent. Clasgow Gas .... 95/ sh. all pd 5'2
750 7i per cont. Leith Coal Gas ... 201.00. all pd 18
1,154 Edinburgh and Dalkeith itat.way 50/. sh 30

We are glad to see that the well known civil
and obliging Surrey-side box book-keeper, Mr. Harris, is about
to take a benefit at the Victoria Theatre, on Thursday next.
The cast for the drama is a strung one, and contains the names
of Miss Vincent, Mr. Osbaldiston, Mr. Saville, Mr. Gardner,
and Mr. Brougham. We trust the friends of Mr. Harris will
come forward, especially as this is to be a farewell benefit, Mr.
Harris having accepted an engagement at the Brighton theatre
under Mr. J. F. Saville.
The venerable Lord Lynedoch and Lord Ran-
furly came passengers in the General Steam Navigation
Company's vessel the Menai, from Ostend, on Saturday,
the 3d instaht. Lord Lynedoch is from Malta.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE
FOIIEIONxOFFICE, JULY, 3, 1841.
A despatch has this day been received by Viscount Palmer-
ston, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State bit- Foreign
Affairs, from the Honourable John Duncan Bligh, her Ma-
jesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at
the Court of Hanover, announcing the melancholy intelligence
of the decease of her Majesty the Queen of Hanover, which
took place at Hanover, on the 29th ultimo, at half-past twelve
in the afternoon.

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, JULY 6.
Orders for the Court's going into Mourning, on Thursday
next, the Bth instant, for her late Majesty the Queen of
Hanover, Aunt to the Queen, viz. :
The Ladies to wear black silk, fring d
e or plain linen, white
gloves, necklaces and ear-rings, black or white shoes, fans and
tippets.
The Gentlemen to wear black, full trimmed, fringed or
plain linen, black swords and buckles.
The Court to change the mourning, on Thursday the 22d
instant, viz.
The Ladies to wear black silk or velvet, coloured ribbons,
fans and tippets, or plain white, or white And gold, or white
and silver stuffs, with black ribbons.
The Gentlemen to wear black coats, and black or plain
white, or white and gold, or white and silver stuff waistcoats,
full trimmed, coloured swords and buckles.
And on Thursday, the 29th instant, the Court to go out of
Mourning.

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, JULY 6.
Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint the Earl of
Surrey to be Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard, in the
room of the Earl of Ilehester, resigned.