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Brazil. The High Tory leader of the Protectionists
takes avowedly as hi ,s model the Locofoco President
of the American republic, and attempts to justify his
proposed scheme of piracy and robbery by
quoting, as a precedent, the Yankee invasion
of Mexico. There is, notwithstanding, a certain
degree of consistency about Lord GxonciE BENTINCK
and we are not surprised at fill:ling the apologist
for the massacres in. G-all2icia, and the defender
of the spoliators of Cracow, coming forward with a
proposition for the perpetration of a snug little
bit of territorial robbery on his own account. Of
one admission, however, which was made by Lord
GEORGE BENTINCIL, and by which his clients are
equally bound, for it -was evident that they also
made the same admission, we take especial note.
He asks for protection against all sugar,
free labour as well as slave labour. Like
an hone!: man, as he is, he hates a sham, and
krlf.:,-,v.ing that the morality crotchet about the distinc-
tion between free-labour sugar and slave-labour sugar
is a sham, and was never intended by Lord SANDON
and those who supported him for any thing else but
a sham, he at once gives it up. This debate, even if

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it should lead to no other result, has done good service
by consigning this sham to the tomb of the Ca-
pulets.

We yesterday pointed out some of the advantages
possessed by the Australian colonies for the purposes
of emigration, and particularly alluded to the great
demand for labour, which enables the emigrant to
obtain immediate employment, with such remunera-

tion as would place him in the enjoyment of all the
comforts suitable to his condition, and far more than

he had ever possessed at home. The colonists would also
have their chief wants supplied, and be enabled at
once to obtain the labour necessary for the due de-
velopment of the resources of their country, and an
opportunity for the profitable disposal of the surplus
stock of provisions, which are now wasted and
lest for want of consumers. There is also an

abundance of land remaining unoccupied from
the deficiency of population ; so that any well
disposed and industrious man might in a few
years save and lay by a sum of money sufficient
to enable him to become a landed proprietor, and to
cultivate his own farm for his own use. A very few
plain facts will prove the facility with which this
desideratum may be attained. We find that Australia
is nearly as large as Europe, and yet that the inka-

bitants of this vast territory do not equal in number
those of a third class English county. That the pro-

portion of population to the area is in Ireland as
3,600 to 1, and in England as 3,120 to 1 ; or, in
other words, that each Australian has a quantity of
land equal to that enjoyed by 3,600 Irish or 3,120
English. This will appear from the fad that in Ire-
land there are 300 persons for each square mile, and
in England 260; while in Australia there are 12
square miles for each individual. The land, too, is
of the most fertile description, which would yield
ample returns for the amount of labour that may be
expended thereon; in fact, the inferior soils need not
be brought into cultivation for very many years.
We have as yet only pointed out the benefits to
two classes, the emigrants themselves and the co-

lonists, from selecting Australia ; but there is ano
ther, of no less importance, viz., the advantages to
the parent state, which more than counterbalance the
expenditure that might be required from the Govern-
ment to grant the necessary assistance. We find that
there is no part of the world which takes one-half the
amount of British manufactures, in proportion to its
population, as Australia, while it also supplies us, in
return, with the largest amount of the raw material
used in one of our principal manufactures, and, with
a little encouragement, cotton also might be produced
in great quantities, as there are boundless tracts of
land well adapted for its easy and rapid
growth —so that we might in time be-
come independent of America in that most
essential article. Its mineral treasures are also
most abundant; very valuable mines have recently
been discovered, and others may be hoped for. The
consumption of British manufactures by each inha-
bitant of Australia may be calculated at from 71. to
101. annually, while each person in the United States
takes only to the amount of ss. Bd. One emigrant
to Australia, therefore, is equally valuable in occasion-
ing a demand for the products of our national in-
dustry as thirty to the United States, or four to
Canada, even if those sent to the latter country
remained there. But it is well known that fully one-
half have crossed the frontier and established them-
selves in the United States, so that we cannot hope
that those who may be sent to the British possessions
is North America will remain permanently under our
laws and institutions. Within the last 22 years
no less than 800,000 British subjects have
become citizens of the United States ; they have
there consumed to the value of 200, per annum
of our manufactures, whereas had the same numbers
gone to Australia, the demand would have amounted
to no less than 6,000,0001. sterling per annum. Our
manufacturers may readily conceive what extraordi-
nary advantages they would derive from so beneficial
a connexion.
America, too, is becoming to a certain extent
overstocked. Regulations have been adopted in the
United States to check the flood of emigration
thither, at least of those classes whom it would be
desirable for this country to send away. Active and
intelligent men, possessed of a moderate capital, are
received with open arms, but destitute paupers will
not now be welcomed as heretofore; while well-
founded remonstrances have been forwarded from
Canada at the •- distressed multitudes which
have arrived, and whom it is necessary to main-
tain in idleness for at least a year before they
can support themselves by their own exertions. The
numbers that went to Canada have been as greatly
too many, as those to New South Wales have been
too few for the requirements of the colony. Within
the first nine months of the last year". 240,000 persons
have crossed the Atlantic, an amount more than
equal to the whole Australian population, while only
100 have gone to New South Wales.
What, then, can be the causes that have led to this
extraordinary preference, when every circumstance
is so greatly in favour of the latter colony ? Simply
the greater length of the voyage, and consequent ad-
dition to the original outlay, and, secondly,
the vexatious and impolitic regulations re-
specting the sales of land which have been
established by our Colonial Office. New
rules might readily be introduced which would re-
move this last objection, and the increased expense is
more apparent than real, because the outlay does not
cease with the arrival of the emigrant in America;
he must, as we have already stated, be maintained for
a considerable period, whereas he is provided for im-
mediately on landing in Australia, great competition
existing among the colonists as to who shall first ob-
tain the benefit of his services. It will, therefore, be
found that the settlement of a family there will cost
very little more than in British North America.
Those proprietors whose object is to clear their es-
tates at the least possible charge to themselves,
without taking into their consideration the future
welfare of the party they are desirous of removing,
or the other, and not less important, points of
creating a market for our commerce and supporting
the colonial revenues, may seek only the cheapest mode
of attaining their purpose ; but the Government should
have higher objects in view, and should encourage
that colonization which is the most beneficial at all
times to all parties, and ultimately the most econo-
mical, where the emigrant himself, the land from
which he takes his departure and that to which he
goes, will alike be served. Should any emigration,
therefore, be supported or encouraged from the public
purse, we trust it may be that which will combine all
these advantages, and that the tide of emigration may
be directed to our Australian colonies by every legiti-
mate and practicable means.

A letter from Turin, of the 30th ult., says—
" Several Bishops have protested against th• new law
on the press, because religious tracts and the publica-
tions of the episcopacy are not free from the censor-
ship. The Bishop of PIQNEROL (an intolerant bigot,
who is continually persecuting the harmless Vaudois
(Vallenses) that compose the greater part of the
population of his diocese) has proved the most obsti-
nate in this contest. On seeing that the Ministry
rejected his pretensions, he went to the LING.
CHARLES ALBERT was firm. Monsignor CIIA<•RAZ
offered his resignation, which was accepted. The
fate of the Bishop of BIGNEROL, who, having

been tutor to the young Princes, was bold enough to I
speak to the KIN. in no ♦ery respectful terms, seems
to have produced a salutary warning upon the other
less courageous prelates."
A letter from Genoa of the 28th ult. says—" All
goes on smoothly here. The progress, is slow, but
every day imparts us some new and useful reform
from our beloved KING. The Jesuits, whose colleges
are shut up, can no longer act as confessors nor
preach. Their churches are almost deserted. Their
cunning and mischievous ministry will soon become
useless amongst us. We indulge ourselves in the
reasonable hope that they will be replaced by the
ordinary clergy, who enjoy and deserve the general
veneration of the population. 'Masses of Requiem'
have been celebrated in several churches in comme-
moration of the deplorable events of Milan and Pavia.
All the town assisted in deep mourning."
A recent decree of the Duke of PARMA orders that
all functionaries shall take an oath to serve him and
his successors by all the means in their power, and
never to belong to any association, public or private,
which may be contrary to his interests, or those of
his allies.

Madrid journals of the 28th ult. have arrived.
On the 27th General &TARTER° paid a visit to
the QUEEN, to take leave on his departure for
Logrono. He stopped some time with her AlmErr!,
and was most favourably received.
The Marquis DR REMISIA died on the 27th.
MADRID BoLIA, JAN. 27.—The Three per Cents.
were done at 27 at fifty days ; the Five per Cents.,
at 16-i for paper; and tic° Debt without Interest,
at 51.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The Journal des Debats publiahes the following as
the text of the telegraphic dispatch announcing the

proclamation of the Neapolitan constitution
"NAmns, JAN. 29.—The King of Naples, by a pro-
clamation, dated this day, has solemnly promised a
constitution on the basis of the French charter. His
Majesty kas been received with the loudest acclama-
tions by his people. Yesterday the King appointed
a new Ministry, under the presidency of the Duke
de Serra Capriole. Naples is tranquil."
The whole of the sitting of the Chamber on Wed-
nesday was occupied by the speech of M. TIIIERS on
the affairs of Switzerland, which is represented as
being one of the most brilliant orations ever uttered
by confessedly the most brilliant orator of the present
day. It was not only a brilliant oration, but was a
masterpiece of reasoning. It was a complete defence
of the Federal Diet—and an expose of the calumnies
and the murders and intrigues of the Jesuit party in
Switzerland. Among other things, M. TRIERS
showed that the assassins of the Valaisans during the
rule of the Sonderbund had been conducted and aided
by the monks of St. Bernard, and that after the fall of
the Sonderbund, although the monks had been ac-
cused of the most reprehensible acts of counter-
revolution, the Government of Valais adopted no
measures against them. " Being conscious of the
mischief they had done," continued M. TRIERS, " the
monks themselves fled the convent." Having vindi-
cated the Liberals of Switzerland from the calum-
nies of M. MONTALAMBURT and the Jesuits, and
those of M. GulzoT and the Conservatives, M. TRIERS
indignantly protested against the attempted inter-
ference of Austria and France, and strenuously
maintained the right of Switzerland, as an indepen-
dent nation, to remodel her institutions.
The effect produced by this speech, both on the
Chambers and the public, was intense. That the
Constitutionnel should praise the speech of M. TIIIBRS
is a matter of course, and, therefore, we do not quote
its observations on the subject; but that the speech
has produced a great sensation is evident, from the
observations of the papers which are in general
'opposed to M. Tuinits.
ThelPresse, in the course of a long article, says—
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" hI. Thiers, in this speech, proved himself to be
a complete statesman. In power, M. Thiers com-
mitted great faults which for a long time rendered
his position extremely difficult. But the policy of
M. Guirot has afforded him too many opportunities
to extricate himself, and it cannot be a trifling cause
of humiliation to those who hare decried him to find
him so`great whet measured by the standard of their
own acts."

The Siècle is rapturous in its approbation of this
last display of the powers of I\l. TinEsts as a parlia-
mentary orator. The emotion of all who heard the
speech, the reiterated acclamations of the Opposition
and of the public galleries, and the mute admiration
of the Centres, at each instant ready to break out into
open applause—all this, says the Slick, proves the
power and effect of the speech which M. TniExs
delivered yesterday.
The National also expresses its admiration of the
speech. And the Courrier Francais too, that journal
which, as it still says, " has an invincible repugnance
for the political principles of M. Timms," has honeyed
words as will be seen by the following extract from
the speech of Tuesday :--
"We feel, as our readers know, an invincible re-
pugnance for the political principles of M. Theirs—
if M. Theirs has principles. We have no confidence
in his means of government, of which he showed us
the impuissance in 1840. That said, we are liberty
to praise the speech which he has just delivered on
the Swiss question. This speech is remarkable in
every respect. Ind if it be true that the French
tribune has still some influence on the resolutions
which the Swiss Diet may take, and on the conduct
which the Powers may adopt, this speech may be
considered as a veritable evert."
The debate was resumed yesterday by M. GllsoT,
who vindicated the right of the three Powers to in-
terfere in,-the affairs of Switzerland; and who 'was
left speaking when the post left.
' The students of the University of France, to the
number of 2,000, proceeded in grand procession
yesterday to the Chamber of Deputies, to entrust to
M. CABILIEUX, for presentation, their petition against
the suspension of the lectures of M. Micuxurr by
order of the government. The petition was pre-
sented to the Chamber; and the students, having
deposited a copy of it at the office of the National,
quietly dispersed.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse
yesterday at 74f. 50c.; New Loan, 75f. 10c. ; Five
per Cents., 117 f.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,185 f.;
Rouen, Posf. ; Havre, 440 f. ; Great Northern, 535 f. ;
Avignon, 652 f. 50c. ; Vierzon, 512 f. 60c, ; Bordeaux,
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Strasburg, 406 f. 25c.; Tours and Nantes, 386 f.
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Half, 50i.
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THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURT......:The Lord
Primate has been going on favourably since Tuesday
until last evening. In reply to inquiries at the Palace,
at a late hour last night, we regret to learn that his
Grace was not quite so well
ILLNESS OF PRINCE ALEXANDER OF THE NETHER-
LANDS.—THE HAGUE, Fan. 2.—On Sunday last earnest
prayers to Almighty God were put up in all the
churches of the kingdom for the re-establishment of the
health of his Royal Highness Prince Frederick of the
Netherlands, who is at the time in a most critical state
in Madeira.
The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of
Commons commences his Parliamentary dinners on
Saturday, the loth inst., when the Viscounto. Gentle-
man will receive Lord John Russell, Pelmet-a-
ton, Viscount Morpeth, Sir Charles Wood, Sir George
Grey, and the principal members of the G
ber overnment
this club
THE CARLTON CLUB.—The mems of
occupied the saloons of their new club-house for the first
time last evening. The greater part of the old building
will be pulled down and altered to correspond with the
new wing. When completed the club will be one of the
finest specimens of architecture in the metropolis.
TIM ARMS or THE AXE or MANCIIESTER.—The
arms granted to the see of Manchester passed the seals
of the College of Arms on Saturday last. They are
thus technically described :—.‘ Or, on a pale engrailed
ules, three mitres of the first; a canton gules, charged
with three bendlets enhanced, or." The arms will make
a rich and showy blazon; the two colours used being
red and gold, those of the old arms of Manchester, or,
more strictly speaking, of the Grelles, Greslets, or Gres-
leYs, the ancient Barons of Manchester. These arms
are preserved in the canton (a square shield in the
upper right hand corner of the field). The grant of a
charge of three mitres of gold on a broad red upright
bar in the centre of the shield is a rich one, heraldically,
and worthy of the extent and importance of the see of
Manchester.
TiH MURDER AT DUNDRX.—The magistrates re-
sumed their investigation at eleven o'clock yesterday
(Wednesday), at the Angel Inn, Ashton, but very little
additional information of any importance was got at.
The Bev. Mr. Mirehouse then informed the prisoners
that though they would be brought up again this day
week, to hear the depositions read through, they must
consider themselves as committed for trial to the county
gaol at the next assizes. The proceedings did not ter-
minate until after five o'clock.

QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.)
Sittings at Nisi Prius at Westminster, before Mr.
Justice ENLH and a Common Jury.)
COBUETT V. HUDSON.
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This action was brought by the plaintiff, William
Cobbett, in forma pauperis, against Captain Hudson,
the keeper of the Queen's Bench prison, for having
made a false return to a writ of habeas corpus, and
for having illegally detained him in custody. The
circumstances out of which the action arose have
been repeatedly brought under the attention of the
Court.
The defendant conducted his own case in person,
and Mr. 'Watson, Q.C., appeared for the plaintiff.
Mr. WATSON stated that the plaintiff was in the
custody of Captain Hudson, by virtue of an attach-
ment issued against him out of the Court of Chancery
for 411. odd, and that he could be liberated en the
payment of the sum. The writ was issued in 1842,
and was at the suit of Jessie Oldfield.
The Learned JUDGE, in summing up, expressed an
opinion that the plaintiff was legally detained in cus-
tody by the defendant.
The jury found a verdict for the defendant.

SECONDARIES'.—(THIS
(Before Mr. Secondary PoTTEE.)
xLWES v. BLWES.
This was an action to recover the sum of 530/.
18s., for arrears of rent, and waste and dilapidation.
The plaintiff is sister to defendant, and it ap-
peared that the latter had been in occupation
of some premises in Cloak-lane and in Friar's-
alley, City. The defendant had been in pos-
session for many years, and the amount claimed was
a balance during six years. It also appeared that the
plaintiff offered to forego the mat if defendant would
give up possession. He gave up the key, but after-
wards re-entered by means of another key, and
removed several things, and did what was, in the
opinion of the witness, wilful damage to the amount
of between 301. and 401.
The defendant did not plead to the action, and the
jury gate a verdict for 530/. 18s.

CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY
OLD COUPT.
(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON and Mr. Justice
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS)
MURDER or Two CHILDREN wasT LUKE'S.—
Harriet Parker, widow, aged 88, placed in the
dock and indicted for the wilful murder of two chil-
dren, named Amelia and Robert Henry Blake. The
prisoner pleaded Not Guilty.
The features of the prisoner were somewhat of a
repulsive character. She was accommodated with a
seat during the trial, and upon being put forward to
the bar she seemed to be deeply affected.
Mr. BODKIN opened the case for the prosecution,
and called
Robert Henry Blake, the father of the deceased
children, who stated he lived in Cubitt's-court, Golden-
lane, St. Luke's, where he had resided for the last two
years. The prisoner during that time had cohabited
with him. He had a wife living, and he remembered
going home on the evening of the 31st of December,
when he told the prisoner he was going to the
theatre. The prisoner wished to go with him, but
he told her he could not allow her to do so, because
he was going with a friend. After tea he put his
two children to bed, and then retired to a public-house
in Golden-lane, whether the prisoner followed him.
Upon leaving the public house the prisoner still
followed him, and he told her to go home, but she
refused. He then, in company with his friend
Hulett, strolled down Golden•lane, the prisoner still
keeping at his heels. Hulett called his attention to
the fact that the prisoner was swinging a handker-
chief about with a heavy substance like lead fastened
to the end of it, and upon his remonstrating with her
upon her conduct, she told him that he would find
the very devil in her that night. He and his friend
then went to a second public-house, but the prisoner
still following him, he returned to the first public-
house, which was known by the name of
the Duke of Bedford. On his return a
woman named Jane Jones, whom he had known
for a few days called after him, but he took no notice
of the call, and entered the public-house, still followed
by the prisoner. While the prisoner was engaged
with the landlord in conversation, he slipped out of
the house, and went with the woman Jane Jones.
On his return home the following morning he was
horror-stricken by finding in his bed-room the life-
less bodies of his two murdered children.
Upon cross-examination by Mr. CLARKSON, the
-witness admitted that on several days previous to the
murder he had been idling about getting drunk. The
prisoner was of a most jealous disposition. He did not
endeavour to make the prisoner drunk to enable him
to get away from her.
Stephen Hulett, a turner, living at the Duke of
Bedford public-house in Golden-lane, corroborated
the evidence of the last witness, and then went on to
say that about a quarter of an hour after Blake retired,
the prisoner discovered his absence and followed him.
Soon afterwards she returned and told him that he
would find in the morning that it was a good job for
him that he did not go with Blake. Between eight
and nine o'clock on the same evening he went to
Blake's house and knocked at the door. The prisoner
asked, "Is that you Steve," and upon his answering
that it was, she admitted him, when he endeavoured
to reason with her upon the folly of her being so
jealous and passionate. She replied that she had
something dark upon her mind, and before morning
she would do something that should put a stop to it.
Cross-examined—During the whole of the night
the prisoner appeared to be greatly excited.
Jane Jones proved that Blake was with her from
seven o'clock on the night of the murder till ten
o'clock the next morning.
Charles Adams, the proprietor of the Duke of
Bedford, proved that the prisoner was at his house
after Blake had left, accompanied by one of the
deceased children, when she said, " will have re-
venge on the children if I don't on Blake," and she
added, " Mark the time—it is now twenty-five mi-
nutes to eight o'clock."
William Grubb, who lived in the same house with
the prisoner, saw the children, alive about twelve
o'clock on the night of the murder.
" I have
going t
Jeremiah Donough—On the night of the 31st of
December heard a noise in Blake's room. He listened,
and heard a child cry " Murder, murder !"
Jane Moore, another tenant of the house No. 9,
rememembered being awoke about a quarter to four
o'clock on the morning of Jan. 1 by a loud knocking
at the door. It was thee prisoner who came in
and, throwing herself in a chair,she said, " Oh, Mrs.
Sahned tahmen
nsaoiwd,
Moore, I have done it." Witness asked what it was
she had done. The prisoner replied "Blake
Caine
home to-night to take me to the play, and in going
out he met with a strump,e,t,:and, taking her arm, he
give myself up." Witness's husband then got ulp°,
went out, and returned with a couple of policemen.
children,t r s s .
John Moore, the husband of the last witness,
cor-
roborated her testimony. He found the t
amauidrdsehreedwatshehistwmois
two children
lying upon the bed dead,
Standen, a police-officer, also saw the dead
John G. Fowler, a police- officer, was on dutyc
Cubitt's-court about fourio'clock on the m near
the Ist of January. The prisoner came morning of
and said, " Policeman, I give myself up to him
Witness asked what for, when she replied,uP to you."
would tell him when they got to the that she
On the road to the station-house they station-house.
officer, whom he told that theprisoner
ey met another
herself into his custody. The ofFioer
for anything that had happened asked if it was
and the prisoner replied, " Yes, it Cubitt's-court,
ac-
knowledged having murdered the children,was," and ac-
that she intended to have done it remarking
nine
and that now she had done it, the months since,
while she knew perfectly well what more to her sorrow,
On cross-examination, the she was about.
witness
appeared to be in a state oftness stated that she
great
Harriet Heyward, the excitement.
searcher at Clerken well
police-station, proved that t
the murderess. the prisoner said she was
Several police-officers wh
de-
posed to the confessions madeo were at the station,
by
the prisoner.
(The trial had not concluded when our report left.)

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
THE PARISH OF ST. LUKE'S AGAINST GORE.—This
case was resumed this mulling, having been adjourned
at a late lour yesterday.
Mr. PRENTICJI, for the defendant, called several
witnesses who had been brought up to the business of
scavengers' of whom most had been, as they said,
" born in the dust yard." Their evidence was to the
effect that the employment was healthy, as proved in
Some of
the persons of their children and relations.
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MARLBRIY-STREET—(THIS DAY)
Jane peacock, a girl of about sixteen years of age,
was placed before Mr. Hardwick, charged with ob-
taining by fraudulent means a quantity of drapery,
from Mr. Robert Siemington, linendraper, 13, Moor-
street, Soho.
William Stock, a shopman in the employ of the
prosecutor, said, yesterday morning the prisoner
came into his master's shop, arid asked lookto
w would
she
some dresses. He showed her some, when she
picked out two worth fifteen shillings. She said
would keep one for herself, and the other
she
mother,
subsequently
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s of flannel, which she said were for her
mother. Knowing her mother to be a customer of
theirs, he let her have the goods, which were worth
21. 76. 4d. A few minutes after the prisoner had
left the shop, her sister came and told him not to let
her have anything on her mother's account. He said
she had already done so, and had taken the goods

away. The prisoner came again in the evening, when
he gave her in charge.
The prisoner's father, who is a highly respecable
licensed victualler, in the neighbourhood, said the
prisoner was never authorised to go to the prosecutoi's
shop for the goods. She had voluntarily left his
house, and had absented herself for a fortnight, during
which time she had obtained money by getting goods
from his tradesmen and then pledging them. Although
so young, she was one of the most incorrigible drun-
kards that ever had a head on. Her depravity was
such that they really could not do anything with her.
The prisoner, who admitted the charge, was re-
manded till Wednesday next.

MARKET NEWS. -(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE-FRIDAY.

A fair average quantity of Englisk Wheat has been
received up to our market this week, coastwise as well
as by land carriage, and the show of samples of that
grain to-day was tolerably good. As the attendance of
buyers was small, and the weather very damp, the de-
mand for all kinds of Wheat of home produce was heavy;
and to have effected large sales, rather lower rates must
have been submitted to. In Foreign Wheat, the show
of which was by no means large, very little business
was doing. In prices we have no change to report. The
imports are only 190 quarters. Barley was in short
supply and steady request, at full prices. Fine Malt
was quite as dear, but other qualities were somewhat
neglected. Oats, Beans, Peas, and Flour were unaltered
in value.

English ......

Wheat.
8,890 qrs.

AARITALS.
ißarley.
3,510 qrs.

Irl;h. • • • . • . • .
Foreign ......

Oats. I Flans.
20S qrs. I tote Av.
2,060 I --
ISO I --

Malt, 2,290 era.
SMITZIFIELD.
The number of Beasts here to-day was tolerably good,
but of very middling quality. Prime Scots, &c., were in
fair request, at fully Monday's quotations. In all other
kinds a limited amount of business was transacted, but
we have no decline to notice in their value. Only about
320 head of each kind of foreign stock were in the
market. Although the supply of Sheep was very small,
the mutton trade was in a sluggish state, at unaltered
figures. Prime small Calves moved off steadily, other-
wise, the veal trade was dull. Pigs were a slow sale,
but not cheaper. Milch Cows were quoted at from 141.
to 171. each, including their small calf.

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