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London, England, 1834-09-12 00:00:00

the different Poor Law Acts repealed—.gite at length
or, in substance, those which still remain in force, with
the decision of the Courts of Law on any disputed
clause, and the reasons for some of the alterations, and
direct the reader to all the different sections which bear
upon any particular subject. The index, too, affords
the utmost facility in referring even to the minutest
details. On perusing the Act in its amended shape,
we are only the more convinced of the general excellence
of its provisions, whether as regards the best interests of
the poor—the diminution of jobbing and unnecessary
expenditure—the due weight and influence given to
property—the control of the Commissioners over the
respective officers destined to carry it into effect, and
the supreme control of the Government and the two

Houses of Parliament over the Commissioners them-
selves, and we may venture to predict that in a few years
it will be regarded by all as one of the most beneficial
measures ever conferred on the country. Some additional
expense will be incurred at first in erecting or enlarging
workhouses, and in other preparations for rendering
the measure effective, but these will be amply compen-
sated by the vast saving which in time will accrue from
the measure, and which will follow as certainly as the
effect follows the cause.. A notion generally prevails,
that, by the formation of " unions," certain parishes will
be rated much higher than at present. Nothing can be
more incorrect, or if by possibility this should happen in
any instance, the rate-payers and not the commis-
sioners will be to blame, for the 26th section expressly
declares, that " notwithstanding such union and classi-
fication, each of the said parishes shall be separately
chargeable with, and liable to defray the expense of its
own poor, whether relieved in or out of a workhouse ;"
and it is added in the 33d and 36th sections
that the union of parishes for the purpose
of forming a common fund must be made
with the consent of the guardians, or where there are
no guardians, with the consent of the majority of the
rate payer 3. In the bastardy clauses a most ma-
terial alteration has been made, in what was be-
lieved by the press and the public at large to be the
amendment of the Duke of WELLINGTON. That
amendment, as given in the papers, contained a proviso
to the effect, that the father of a bastard was not
liable for the maintenance of the child "if it
should appear that the mother of such bastard
had at some previous time been delivered of
another bastard child." This is properly omitted in
the Bill, and the expense of maintaining every such
child will fall, not on the parish, but on the father,
when such proof is adduced as shall satisfy the Magis-

:rates at the Quarter Sessions. The publication alto

gether is one which we can safely recommend to the
public for the useful details with which it abounds, and

the neat form and reasonable price at which it has been
brought out.

Rear-Admiral Sir GRAHAM HAMOND, K.C.8.,
is appointed to succeed the late Sir MICHAEL SEY-
MOuR, in the command of the South American station.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

We hear that an express was received yesterday afternoon
at a certain quarter, the west end of the town, from Madrid,
with an account that, in consequence of the violent opposition
experienced by the Spanish Ministry from the Ultra Liberals,
the whole of the Spanish Ministers had sent their resignation
to the Queen, upon which the Council of Regency was im-
mediately assembled, to consider the best mode to be adopted
in so important a crisis. The above event might have taken
place ; still we do not believe that the Queen, in the present
critical state of the local situation of Spain, with the finance
question on the tapis, has accepted of their resignation, but
prevailed on the Ministers to continue in office.
The information from Madrid is not of a later date than
previously received ; but it brings the disastrous accounts of
the cholera in Catalonia, and in Valencia ; the deaths were 400
per day.
They also state, that three battalions of the Urban
Militia had left Madrid in pursuit of a band of Carlists, who
appeared in the neighbourhood of Madrid ; and accounts
were received that the Commander of the Militia, General
Carendetel, was attacked by the above Carlist band, and de-
feated with great loss ; his second in command was killed, and
the General had a horse shot under him.

THE FUNDS.

Although the Dutch mail brings an improvement in the Spa-
nish Stocks at Amsterdam, our market is heavy this morning.
Spanish, which opened at 491 reached 49i ; soon after
receded to 49* to a ; Portuguese Stock, which left off yester-
day exceedingly heavy at 801, owing to a report late in the after-
noon that Don Pedro was in a dying state, has receded this
morning to 801 4 ; but up to the present time we have no con-
firmation of the above report, therefore we apprehend it was
only a stock-jobbing invention.
Consols continue steady at present at the opening price—
the same as they left off, 901 for the Account, with little
doing as yet.

HALF-PAST ONE.
Up to the present hour we do not hear of any further arrivals
or expresses from Madrid or Lisbon, although reports are in
circulation respecting the precarious state of health of Don
Pedro, which has had a material effect on Portuguese Stock.
This morning it was done at NI 81, since which it has receded
to 791, at present 794.
Spanish Stock is also very heavy ; in the early part of the
day it was 494 i ; at present 484 49.
Consols continue steady, with little doing, at 90+ for
money, and 904 for the account.
THREE 0' CLOCK.

Consols for the Account, 90
THE FUNDS.—CI
BRITISH

,OSING PRICES.
FUNDS.
India Stock 937
Ditto Bonds .... l5 pm
South Sea Stock luON
Ditto Old Annuities
Ditto New Annuities
Ex. Bills, 100/....
Ditto 5410/ 33 pm.
Ditto 5001 37 pm.
Bank Stock for Act 222 1
India Stock for Opg. 258
Consols for Opg. liO%

Bank Stook
3 per Ceut. Red. -
3 per Cent. Cons 90%
3% per Cent. --
3% per Cent. Red
New 3% per Cent 98%
4 per Cent. Assented
Dissented lOll4
Long Annuities to expire
Jan 1860
Oct. 1859
Jan. 1850 —
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent 1( 2% Portuguese Bonds, b per cent. 79%
Belgian, 5 per cent 9914 Ditto, New Ditto SO%
Brazilian Bonds , 75 q Prussian. 5 per cent lOl%
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent 99 Russian Bonds, b par cent. —.104
Chilian, 6 per cent 3O'A Ditto, Metallic 103%
Columbian, 6 per cent. 26 Spanish, 5 per cent 40%
Ditto, 1824 29% Ditto, 1823 47%
Danish 75 French, 5 per cent. —t. —e.
Greek Bonds, 1825.5 per cent 29 Exchange ...... .. ....... ..... —f. —a.
Mexican, 5 per cent , 1825 29 French, 3 per cent ...... .... —f. —c.
Ditto, 1825, 6 per rent. al% Dutch, 2, per cent ....... ........ 5.1,4
Peruvian, 6 per cent

It has been very generally admitted during t
two months that the present harvest promised to be mos'
abundant, and that the crops were heavy, and apparently
perfectly sound ; but the period for employing the sickle
having arrived soon undeceived the farmers, and convinced
them that so unprofitable a harvest has not been experienced
for many years. The wheat crop in this district (west part of
East Muskerry and Barretts) is a total failure. The oat crop
is equally a failure. Barley is but middling. Whether the
corn crops are equally defective in other parts of the country
we are not prepared to give an opinion ; but, from minute ob-
servations and diligent inquiries, we are sorry to declare that
wheat and oats are not equal to half of last year's crop. Po-
tatoes, as far as they are capable of being judged, seem at
good crop, but they have many risks to encounter yet.—Cork
Chronicle.
We (Limerick Chronicle) have received a file of
Sydney (New South Wales) papers and letters to the 4th of
April. Several of the new police of the colony have been
dismissed the establishment by Major-General Bourke, for
drunkenness and robbery. Upwards of 300 varieties of the
vine are now flourishing in the botanical gardens of Australia.
Mr. M'Leod, late surgeon to the Australian Agricultural
Company, had poisoned himself in mental derangement. The
breed and exportation of horses for the India presidency has
formed a new and valuable branch of trade in the colony.
Lieut.-Colonel Kenneth Snodgrass, brigade-major at Sydney,
was sworn in a member of the Legislative Council. Building
ground in the street of Sydney was selling so high as 71. 10s.
per foot. Major Anderson, 50th, bad left Sydney to assume
the command of Norfolk island. The expenses of the law
officers of the colony is stated to be 20,0001. per annum.
We are pained to learn, through the medium, of in-
telligent correspondents, in various parts of this and the ad-
joining counties, that the abundant harvest which was gene-
rally anticipated, is far from being realised ; and that the
wheat crop particularly, is short, not being more, on an aver-
age, than about six barrels to the acre. Combining this stunted
produce with the highest price at present given for superior
wheat—namely, one shilling per stone, dwindling to Bd. for
inferior samples ; and knowing, as we do, the difficulties under
which the Irish farmers have been labouring for some years
past, we use not the language of exaggeration when we assert
that nothing but the timely interposition of considerate and
generous landlords, can save that important and useful portion
of the community from ruin and despair.—Tipperary Free
Press.

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