The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-29 00:00:00

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.

Yesterday 3,1941. 13s. was taken at the doors, and
67,170 persons entered the building. Of these a very
large party came from the town and neighbourhood of
Reading.
The eclipse of the sun which took place yesterday
seems to have inspired the Executive Committee with
formidable apprehensions of the diminution of light
which was likely to take place in consequence. From
an impression that the 67,000 visitors who flocked there
would have to grope their way through a darkness
hardly visible, they had all the gas lamps in the interior
put in requisition. Some amusement was caused by this
excessive amount of precaution for a great transparency
like Mr. Paxton's palace of glass.
The South-Eastern Railway brought up a special train
from Reading, enaged by Messrs. Barrett, Exall, and
Andrews, engineers, of the Katesgrovo Iron-works, con-
taining about 1,200 persons. Upwards of 230 of these
were the clerks, workmen, and boys employed by that
firm, each cf whom had been presented with a free ticket
to convey them to the Great Exhibition. They were
brought by steam-boats from the terminus to West-
minster-bridge, where they formed into procession, and,
headed by a band of music and banners, marched to the
Exhibition, singing in chorus some spirited and appro-
priate verses, entitled "The Working Man, the words
of which were written, and the music arranged, by one
of themselves. The party will again visit the exhibition
tomorrow, as will also a body of 2,000 persons from
Woolwich.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
so cordially agree with the remarks of a
" Lytitimate Railway Invester," contained in a letter
published in The Sun of July 24, that I ling to add my
testimony to the advantages. derived by railway proprie-
tors from
your well-timed advice, not to sacrifice their
property to the Bears,
,justly so called. Like your cor-
respondent, I have invested a portion of my property in
railways, amongst others in Midlands, aid I feel the
greatst confidence that the present depression in these
shares arises from temporary causes only—the usual
traffic on that important ling being diverted; the fact
being, that excepting to London there is very little
traffic, nearly the whole setting in one current, to the
neglect of the lateral traffic. This will, however, soon
cea,e, and we shall see Midlands 201. to 251. per share
higher than they are at the present time. If the Bears
fail to alarm the timid holders, their trade is gone.
Your obedient servant,
HABIUS CUNCTATOR.
July 26, 1851.

RIVAL STEAM-BOATS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sir,—A statement having appeared in your journal of
July 19, respecting a new steam-vessel, called the
Tourist, in which it is said that she has " beaten the
Jupiter (belonging to this company), hitherto consi-
dered the fastest boat on tha Thames," I am requested,
through the medium of your columns, to deny that the
Jupiter has ever been beaten in spud by any vessel,
and that, to set at rest any doubt on this bead, the pro-
prietors of the Jupiter are ready, on any day that may
be agreed upon between themselves and the proprietors
of the Tourist, to try their comparative speed by run-
ning either from Brunswick-wharf or from Gravesend
round the Nore-light and back.
Your early insertion of the above will oblige,
Yours, &‘ediently,
W. Donsos, Secretary.
Star-office, Gravesend, July 24.

LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH-COAST
RAILWAY.
Traffic—Week ending July 26,1851 ... £l3,
403 866 D
Traffic—Week ending July 27, 1850 16
Total of the half-year, to this date, 18a1 ... 53,564 13
Total of the half-year, to this date, 1850 47,855 0
Total number of Passengers—Week ending
July 26,1851 89,431
. ••• "' 1.1,331 111
Passengers ..
Goods ••• ••• "' ••• 2,535 17 6

Total... ••. £13,866 19 5
Total miles.oPe", 1851, 1731/4 ; ditto, 1850, 17114.
London Terminus, July 28, 1831.
SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.
Gross traffic receipts for passengers
and goods, week ending July 26,
1851 ••• £20,014 6 6
Ditto, July 27, 1810 ••• 15,010 4 7

Increase in 1851 ... ... £5,004 111
London Terminus, July 28, 1851.

LITERATURE.

A LITTLE EARNEST BOOK. Eg William

Wilson. Dartoo and Company.
Several circumstances have caused us to look with
ro ordinary complacency upon this charming little
effusion. It is on a favourito subject, namely, on
Poets and Poetry. It is written throughout in a wood
of graceful and modest appreciation of all that is
really beautiful. It is in itself, moreover, an agree-
able blending of prose and versification. Added to all
which considerations, it is illustrated with some choice
tailpieces by Kenny Meadows, awl some exquisite
wood engravings by Alfred Crowquill ; while the
entire volume is rendered yet more attractive by the
circumstance that it is dedicated by permission to Sir
Edward Bulwer Lytton, one of the most illustrious
authors in the whole range of our national lite-
rature. Speaking of the last-mentioned cir-
cumstance in his preface, Mr. Wilson re-
marks very emphatically, that "he ventures, with
especial pride, to call the attention of his readers to
the dedication, for he considers himself honoured by
the permission kindly and delicately granted to in-
scribe this little book to the greatest of our living
authors," adding gracefully enough—" Great names
with hallow song." It will be difficult for even the
most cursory reader of the work before us to deny
the intelligence of its author, sprinkled as every page
is with so many evidences of his eclectic taste, and
with so many proofs of the originality of the fruits
of his meditation. In one part of the very opening
chapter it is observed by him very finely, that " God
always utters His eternal truths in poetry throughout
His Book." As a definition of poetry itself we find
it called a little further on epigrammatically, but no
less truly, The Beautiful. " Poetry," says the writer,
" may be termed The Beautiful, as that is the source,
or fountain, of all true and living poetry—the
Palpably and ideally beautiful—the beautiful in
thought and in action." Further on he exclaims, in
a tone of enthusiasm, " The Poet is ever inspired by
beholding the smile of GOD in nature." Of Nature
he speaks also in terms of befitting admiration. "All
nature," he says, " is a beautiful and wonderful poem,
and the imagination to which it gives wings is above
and beyond reason." Yet beautiful and wonderful
though the poem of nature is to his comprehension, he
is forced, immediately after that declaration, to ac-
knowledge that " the mightiest poem in creation is
man.,, His reflections upon this subject flood his
whole soul with an exquisite and all-embracing hu-
manity, insomuch that he avows with some solemnity
that even in regard to those who are apparently the
most vitiated and debased, " Not to recognise the
Divine in the human is not to know God." It is nobly
and accurately proclaimed in another chapter that " the
true poet is ever the advocate of freedom," a fact exem-
plified in a thousand instances from the idylls of
Theocritus to the songs of Longfellow. Everywhere,
in the loftiest and the lowliest places alike, our author
finds some object with which to sympathize, some
theme capable of exciting his enthusiasm. On the
mountain top, under the shadow of a tree, by the
margin of a stream, leaning against a country stile,
wandering along the sea shore, he discovers new
sources of delight, and new causes for the outpouring
of his admiration. Occasionally his otherwise lucid
and scholarly diction may be blurred with some
awkward coinage, as where (p. 57) he speaks of
Shakspere's " aloneness." Sometimes, again, as in
the very title of his volume—" A Little Earnest
Book upon a Great Old Subject"—he is guilty of
somewhat reprehensible affectation. But altogether
the work under notice is so evidently the utterance of
sincerity, that it is impossible not to be charmed by
its simplicity both of manner and expression. As ex-
amples of Mr. Wilson's rhythmical ability, we may
give the sonnets addressed by him respectively to
Shakspere and to Bulwer Lytton

SONNET TO SIIAKSPERE.
Mighty upraiser of the heart of man!
A stream of thought and fancy clear he winds,
Through feeling, gaining mastery o'er all minds;
Guieing and ruling as no otivA. cap.
Well may we deem that thou art God-inspired—
Great Nature is tl)e plaything of thy choice,
The Beautiful speaks in thine every voice,
The light of thy great mini the Globe has fired.
Oar own dear Stmlisperel Poet of the World!
We should do all to use thee for our goed,—
Spread through all lands thy wondrous mental food—
Whose power shall cease not 'till Time's wing be furled.
Most comprehensive soul of any clime;
Subjector of the Universe, and Time!

SONNET TO SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON,
BART.
Grand and impassioned is thy lofty mind!
By Nature much inspired thou hest been,
For God, the Beautiful, thou there hest seen;
And felt His very breath upon the wind.
Both Poet and Philosopher art thou

Knowing what dear twin Sisters meek are they;
With thoughtful eyes, effulgent as the day!—
And glory-lit with Truth each spirit-brow.
Full of high beacon-thoughts thy works arise,
Shedding far down the Future rays benign;
Thy soul has ever starward turned its eyes,
Gathering from thence bright gleams of the Divine.
Rare Prophet-minds—of aye-enduring might—
Raise up the World with their immortal light!

In the latter effusion it would have been somewhat
less distressing, because somewhat more grammatical,
to have remembered the real gender of Poet and
Philosopher. Unless they were epicene they could
not possibly be called twin sisters. Poetry and
Philosophy might have been thus symbolized cor-
rectly, but neither of them are mentioned. Better
than his poetical, we like Mr. Wilson's prose allusions
to Sir Bulwer Lytton, were he observes—
" Of all living authors, Bulwer—the English literary
Universalist—has the most perfect power of garbing his
beautiful thoughts grandly. It is distinctly one power
to think grandly, and another to possess the artistic
ability to utter grandly. The one power perfects and
refines the other. Bulwer casts, as it were, a halo round
his every thought by his singular and intuitive know-
ledge of the genius and purpose of language. Yet he is
always within the reach of a Mind He avowedly ad-
dresses himself to all minds. It would, therefore, be ab-
surd to term his writings mystical because they are
original, powerful, and refined. Ho may safely rest his
fame as a poet upon his great poem King Arthur.' "
Sir Bulwer Lytton's illustrious contemporary, Charles
Dickens, is thus spoken of by our author, further on
in his volume—
' Speaking of the heart of the child, and the head of
the man' irresistibly reminds us of one great living
Poet, who has never published verses; but it has been
the fate of few, if that of any mon, while living, to dwell
in and to influence so many hearts, as Dickens."
Two brief sentences, also worthy of quotation, are
those where it is said that " Poetry is the Poet's
Religion," and where, in elucidation of the thought,
it is remarked that the Poet " knows that Philosophy
is the sister of Faith, and that Faith is Poetry." As
a lovely little supplement or appendix to the volume,
there are two chapters entitled " The Story of the
Poet Lover—an Outline." These, with the preceding
portions of the volume, cannot fail to obtain for the
author an estimable, though it may be a restricted
popularity.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, JULY 28.
STOCK EXCHANGL—The share market was depressed to-
day, with a decline in prices from our last quotations. The
transactions were as follow : Great Western Original Shares,
83—Ditto, New 17/. Shares, 1443-11.1idland, 6 per cent.
(Birmingham and Gloucester), 128% ex div.—Taff '
Quarters, 37.

LIVERPOOL, JULY 28.
STOCK EXCHAT.SIOK. —The market was less firm to-day.
and prices were a shade lower than on Saturday. The
hetrans-
actions were as follow:—Birkenhead, Lancashire,
andshire, (late Cheshire and Birkenhead), 13%4—East .
uam,
Lanca-
shire, I44—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 494 —.1,49,n" mid_
North-Western, 12312—Ditto, New Quarters.
land, 41 Ditto, Halves, 2034 dis.
Dover, 2214—York and North Midland, 18•,s—V 1
Rouen, 251)2
MANCHESTER, JULY 28. limited,
was and
day
STOCK EXCliAliGE.—The business to- ..
The transactions were as
South-South and
prices had a downward tendency.
follow :—East Lancashire, 14 3-16— Great Northern, 17—
London and North-Western, 122 W _
2 '4,;,. 61. Preference, 9-16
, BlanchestEr, Sheffield,
Birmingham, Quarters (C),
and Lincolnshire, 27 t 115'—cEastern-.
Ches Chester, /8 , outs-
Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and
ri n'e sjsulY transacted2B.
and Dover, 22,Ffi. 4—Di tytboAu,
confined to local stocks. Railway
BIRIV[IN
and closed at about
STOCK EXCUANOF
entirely to-day was almost dby Londonclrices, ptices,
quotations
the same rates Asia the metropolis. There was little
or no-
thing doing.
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half of the windows, which formerly had a central transom, is
thereby put out of sight, and as this lessened the light con-
siderably, ti:e cilia have been cut down about a foot. The
side galleries have been made wider, and are coved beneath,
to throw out the sound (we should not advise speakers to
stand ut-Oer them, nevertheless). A very considerable in-
crease of accommodation has been gained in the division
lobbies by the addition of one large and two small oriels.
The gallery for the public has been enlarged, and accommo-
dation is now afforded for about 4(30 Members. Retiring
rooms, too, have been provided above the division rooms.
The reporters' gallery, at the Speaker's end, is so arranged,
temporarily, that each reporter has a separate stall, with a
door at his back ; so that he is able to come and go rapidly,
1 and without disturbing any other. They have a private
staircase and two retiring rooms, with desks, where they may
arrange their notes or refer to books and papers. The ven-
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D IILY WEATHER TABLE.

State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following
places at Nine oclock 'yesterday morning.-The Fitaticas
are ranged in order of latitude.
Pootile-Wind W.-cloudy.
CHELTENHAM - Wind S.- cloudy.
WORCESTER-Wind S.W.- cloudy.
Po ELTSMOUTII-- Wind E.-cLudy.
Gosrons- Wind E.-cloudy.
ttimtrrox-Wind S.W., strong breeze-partially cloudy.
HASTINGS-Wind S.W., strong breeze-partially cloudy.
SouritAatProx-Wind S.W., strong breeze-rain.
FotaksToNk-Wind S.W, gentle breeze-overcast.
TITNBRIDGE--Vind W., calm-overcast.
13ASENGSTOKE-Wind S., strong breeze-overcast.
• DORCHESTER-Wind S. NV • --Cl°llCtY•
NV, ,NCHESTER —Wind S.E.- Cloudy.
BRISTOL-Wind S.-cloudy.
GREENWICH-Wind S.W., gentle breeze-overcast.
OHTAD-Wind S.E.-cloudy.
~.17Foan-Wind S.W.-cloudy.
N.E.-cloudy.
lirLO UCRRIR
cmuzisvoun-Wind S.W., strong breeze-rain.
ic.iwzrzaD-Wind S.W.-rain.
CO
CAMBRIDGE \-Nryind S.W., gentle breeze-overca.st.
BRAWDON-.-Wind S., gentle breeze-cloudy.
NEW3IARKET i5„,.VV,,,27, V.-stormy.
o dy.
RuaaT-Wind
in,dstgrong breeze-rain.
BIRMINGHAM-AV
STAFFORD ind
EPterEe.nouoncin-w I - slight rain.
STAMFORD-Wind F..d S.-cloudy.
WoLvEn.Tozi-NA STelolldy.
TAMWORTII-Wind N.E.-cloudy
Y KMOUTH-W I Ild s.E -cloudy,
Lowisrovr-Wind S. \ii.-gertitle breeze-heavy rain.
NoRWICH-W ind S. W.-eiec, oudy•
LEICESTER-Wind 5.-- cloudy,
DE REHAM - Wind N.W.-rain.
DERBY-Wind S.W.-very hazy.
N OTT I NGnAm-Wind
S.W -clouuv.
LiNcoLiv-14 ind
CHESTERFIELD-Wind S.-cloudy.
rif.Assito'- Wind S.E.-cloudy.
CoNwAY-Wind N.W., gentle breeze-cloudless.
HourfrEAD--Wind S., strong breeze-partially cloudy.
CHESTER-Wind N.E.- tine.
BIRKENHEAD-Wnd W.S.W.-fine.
SHEFFIELD--Wind
LIVERPOOL--Wind W.C.V.-tine.
MANCHESTER- Wind S.W.-cloudy.
HULL-Wind S.S. W.-slight rain.
LEEDS -Wind S.W.-cloudy.
YORK-Wind W.-cloudy.
SCARBOROUGH- Wind E.-cloudy.
Wurrey-Wind S.W., gentle breeze-overcast.
DA ELEVOTO::-Wind W., strong breeze-partially cloudy.
Stun-Wind S.W., strong breeze-rain.
NEwcasTLx-Wind W.-very line.
Blwrrock-Wind S.E., gentle breeze.--rain.
ItzitwicK-Wind W.-rain.
2"eGow-Wind S.-fine.
EDINBURGH-Wind W.- cloudy.
lt
Areturns from the following places indicate the date of

the wind and weather on Saturday morning at nine
e'dlock :
Largnicx—Wind N., calm—partially cloudy.
CARLOW—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—cloudy.
PSTERBOROUGH—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—partially

cloudy.
CREwg—Wind W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
CONWAY—Wind E., gentle breeze—cloudless.
LexcasTEß.—Wind W., calm—principally clear.
W HrrnY—Wind N., gentle breeze— overcast.
DARLINGTON—Wind W.N.W., gentle breeze—partially

cloudy.
Saar—Wind N.W., calm—partially cloudy.
WilrrEnAvEN —Wind E.. gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
BRATTOCK—Wind N.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.

THE WEATUER.—Stm OFFICE, JULY 29.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
69—highest since noon yesterday.
57—lowest this morning and during the night.
73 —this day, at noon.

BAROMETER, 29.87.
WLND W.S. W.—Morning, light breeze and fine sunshiny
weather ; Afternoon, cloudy.

motest quarters, of the United Kingdoms. Our pro■
vincial fellow-countrymen, indeed, have regarded the
matter at once in its just light, and at its proper
value, as one of a national, rather than a merely
local interest. Therefore it is that they have
petitioned in favour of the preservation of
the Crystal Palace with as much right, and
almost with as much reason, as the citizens
of London and Westminster. Looking at the entire
transaction from the same point of view, we must
acknowledge that it is no less a subject of anxiety to
the country at large that the capital of England
should rejoice in this public building, than it is that
they should experience pleasure, as they unquestionably
do, on visiting either the British Museum or the
National Gallery. Besides, the country at large is
annually taxed for the maintenance of the last-men-
tioned establishments ; whereas it is merely proposed
that the Crystal Palace shall be self-supporting, being
founded in the first instance by the surplus funds
derived from the Great Industrial Exhibition.
Whatever Lord CAMPBELL may say as to the injury
inflicted upon household property in the neighbour-
hood, it is undeniable that no such evil as that com-
plained of has, up to this present moment, been any-
where experienced. Another nobleman, residing in
the immediate vicinity of the Crystal Palace, has em-
phatically asserted as much—we mean Lord LIS`
TOWEL. From the facts everywhere accumulated,
In short, in reference to the project of ren-
dering the structure permanent, it must be
confessed that hitherto we have only derived
perpetually increasing arguments in favour of that
desirable proposition. Hence, late as the time is in
the Parliamentary session, we cannot but think that
Mr. PAXTON has reason to feel gratified at the proba-
bility, almost amounting to a certainty, of our being
enabled by the Legislature to release the Crystal
Palace from the fate hanging over it by reason of the
solemn engagement of the Royal Commissioners.
We look with no small degree of confidence to Mr.
HEYWOOD'S motion of this evening for the
dissipation of all further anxiety upon the
subject, satisfied that the House of Commons
must recognise at once the reasonableness
and moderation of his suggestion, and persuaded, if
possible, yet more decidedly that her MAJESTY will
rejoice at the demand submitted to her faithful sub-
jects in the Commons House of Parliament. Our
close proximity to the prorogation renders it impe-
ratively necessary that whatever steps are to be
taken should be prompt and decisive. It is doubly
satisfactory therefore to find this evening fixed upon
for his motion by the Hon. Gentleman the Represen-
tative of North Lancashire.

The news brought by the Overland Mail, which
has just arrived from India, is, we are happy to say,
of the most uninteresting description. Throughout
the length and breadth of the British territory every-
thing is tranquil; all the officials seem enjoying them-
selves ; thanks to the valour of NAPIER and the de-
cision of ELLENBOROUGH, Sinde is as quiet and the
inhabitants are as satisfied as though such beings as
the Ameers had never existed. The firm
but just rule of the British is favourably
contrasted by the Sindians with the cruel and capri-
cious tyranny of their former masters, and nowhere
has her Britannic MAJESTY more faithful subjects
than on the banks of the Indus. The Punjaub is
now beginning to feel the advantage of British rule.
For the first time since the death of RUNJEET SINGH
the Punjaub is, thanks to the victories of GOUGH and
the administrative talent of DALHOUSIE, tran-
quil; for the first time in the history of
the Punjaub its inhabitants have experienced
the blessings of a government administered
according to law, the rule of right has replaced the
rule of might, and so entirely have the inhabitants
given in their adhesion to the British Government—
so tranquil under the rule of law has the whole country
become—that the Governor-General has thought it
safe to direct the release of 72 political prisoners, who
had been sentenced to various periods of imprison-
ment as rebels. Details such as these are not so ex-
citing as bulletins from Meanee and Hyder-
abad, from Sobraon and Goojerat, but they are
of infinitely greater importance, inasmuch as
they prove that those great battles have not been
mere barren victories, but that they have rescued
millions of men from the tyranny of profligate Ameers
and semi-barbarous Seikhs, and that the men thus
rescued, grateful for the blessings of British rule,
are now among the firmest supporters of the
British Sovereignty over India. Sinde and the
Punjaub in their present state bear striking
proofs of the wisdom of the policy of
annexation, as contrasted with that of protection.
Sinde and the Punjaub, which have been annexed, are
as tranquil as Yorkshire but if we turn to the terri-
tories of the protected native Princes, a very different
picture presents itself to our view. " The NIZAM'S
territories," says the Indian newswriter, " are much
as usual," and thereupon he gives the following de-
scription of the " much as usual" state of the NlsAat
and his dominions :—" The NlzAas himself continues
besieged, as it were, in his palace by thousands of
unpaid soldiers clamouring for their arrears, who
debar access to and egress from many of his
palace gates ; his own officials are thus obstructed.
O❑ a complaint made to him lately by
one who had thus with difficulty reached his pre-
sence, he remained silent, and could suggest no
remedy for this insult ; many of the soldiery, how-
ever, think it better to pay themselves than to waste
their time in dunning their insolvent master. Two
hundred of these, on the Ist of June, attacked
and plundered the house of SPED ALI, a Fakeer
of great sanctity and enormous wealth, being the
spiritual adviser of the Maim and half the opulent
men and nobles of the city. The town police
having attempted to interfere were tied up and
severely beaten, and the plunderers got off with
their booty, which is stated to have been immense."
Surely it is a duty we owe to the inhabitants of this
protected territory to save them from the conse-
quences of the incompetence, or something worse, of
this native Prince, and to give them that security for
life and property, and that consequent tranquillity
which the inhabitants of Sinde and the Punjaub now
enjoy under British rule. It may be said that we
have guaranteed to the NIZAM that he shall
reign, but such guarantee must necessarily be re-
strained by the proviso that he shall be capable of
reigning. We may guarantee to a man that on pay-
ment of a shilling he shall see the Exhibition,
but such guarantee would not bind us to restore
sight to a blind man, neither does the guarantee
given by the East India Company to the protected
Princes bind the Company to uphold them
in their abuse of authority, coute qui coute.
It is clear that if a protected Prince is manifestly in-
capable of managing his own territory, it is a duty
the Company owes to the subjects of the Prince to
take the management of the territory into their own
hands ; and after the success of the experiment of an-
nexation in the cases of Sinde and the Punjaub, we
hope the principle will be applied wherever it is ca-
pable of application.

SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY.—Tho Peninsular and
Oriental Company's steam-ship Iberia, commanded by Capt.
C F. Burney, with the mails for Spain, Portugal, and Gib-
raltar, left this afternoon, having twenty passengers, and
specie for Lisbon amounting to 13,850/. The Montrose, with
the homeward Peninsular mails, may be looked for on the 4th
proximo.

AMERICAN FIREARMS IN THE EXHIBITION.—Mr.
Abbott Lawrence, the United States' Minister at this Court,
having requested that his son, Colonel T. B. Lawrence, may
be allowed to take out of the Great Exhibition in Hyde-park
three of Mr. Colt's American revolving pistols, to be for.
warded to the Cape of Good Hope, for the use of an officer
in her Majesty's service, the Lords of the Treasury have
given directions to the proper authorities to permit the pis-
tols to be removed from the Exhibition Building and de-
livered to Colonel Lawrence, as requested.

The Recorder and the Hon. Mrs. Stuart Wortley
gave a grand banquet, on Saturday evening, to the Right
lion. the Lord Mayor, the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex,
and a circle of civic functionaries, at the mansion of the
Right Hon. Gentleman, in Carlton-gardens.
DEATH OF THE COUNTESS OP LISBURNE.—We re-
gret to state that this lady died on the 23d instant,at Enfield.
The Countess was cousin to the Noble Earl, being daughter
of the late Sir Lawrence Palk, JJart. Her Ladyship was born
in 1798.

ALTAR-PIECE FOR CARDINAL WISEMAN.—Two
cases, containing a large picture and frame, the former mea-
suring nearly 100 feat, have arrived by the steamer Soho,
(from Antwerp, for his Eminence Cardinal Wiseman, and in-
tended for the altar-piece of a Roman Catholic place of wor-
ship in the metropolitan district.

LORD BROUGHAM'S HEALTH.—Lord Brougham
has retired to Brougham Hall, on the urgent advice of Sir
Benjamin Brodie, who, it is said, has told the Noble and
Learned Lord that, to continue his Parliamentary labours,
must inevitably prove fatal. The Noble and Learned Lord
was himself muck affected in making his last speech, and
several Noble Lords were observed to be in tears.— Record.,

Leasing Business
Conspanies.
Railways. Paid. Nominal ?rises.Conapanies. done to-day.
Barks anaFiants
Ex. 5 per Cent. Gt. Western 6 % 1 p. x.l
Bir. and Oxford
Junc.,callsduly
paid, or with a
guarantee •• Do .. all 28 —29 Y.l 29 x.i.
Do., without a
guarantee .. Do .. • • all 27 —2B x.l
WoL, &
Dud.,calls duly
paid, or with a
guarantee •• Do 15 8 9 p
Do., without a
guarantee •• Do .. •• 15 7 8
Buckinghamsh. Lon. &N. W. all 17% 17% X.l x.i.
Clvdesdale June Caledonian all 41 —43
E. Lin., Guar. 6
per Cent. •• G. Northern all 333( 38% 83%
Gloucester and
Dean Forest Gt. Western 20 1 2 p x.l x.l.
Hull and Selby Yk. &N. M. all 103 105
Do. 14 Shares Do .. • • all 51% 5234
Do. 3( Shares Do • • • • all 28 —24
Leeds and Brad. Midland • • all 102 104 103
Lon. and Green. S. Eastern ~ all 11 1134
Do., Pref. .. Do • • • • all 2334 24%
Lowestoft, Gd. 4
per Cent. • • Norfolk • • all 14 —l5
De., 6 per cent Do .• •• all
Middlesbro' and
Redcar, 6p. ct Stockt.& Dar an
N. & East, 5
per Cent. •• E. Counties . all 54 —56 56
Do. Now .• Do • • • • 43 4 6 p
Preston and S L. &N. W.
Wyre &La.& Y. 42 -- 44
Do. % Whares ADe •• • • 1034 8 9 p.
Read., Guild.,
end Reigate .. S. Eastern ~ all 21%
.._ 21%
Roy. & Ilitchin G. Northers 61( 8
1,0. Shep. Ex.. Do •• •• 4 1% I%p.
Shef., Roth. and
Goole, 5 per ct. Lane. & York 1811 6
South Statrords. Mr. M'Clean 934 1% 3 as.
Wear Val. 6 per
25 —26
CDenot.. Sptoock.&..Dar...
atol
Do. do. •• Do • • • • all
Wilts, Som., &
Weymouth .. Gt. Western all 4534 —46 at.i z.

.it,Er:

Paid.

SZCAILES.

Nominal Prices.
4 •

Business done
to-day.
I dia.

1 dls
6% —6 %
ii
14% —153 i
3c 3i c

1% -2

par p x.d.
dla par
10% 10%
12% 12%

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK

The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 10,000 bales, of which 1,000 American were
taken for export, and 2,000 on speculation. The market
closed firmly, and American of all descriptions were id.
per lb. higher than Friday last. On 34d. and 4d. Cot-
tons the advance is id. per lb.—Railway :,:hares were
heavy, at rather lower prices.
The express with the overland letters has arrived, and
her commercial advices are not very favourable. At
Calcutta no particular change had occurred in the Pro-
duce market, nor was there any important alteration in
the Money market. The former rates of interest were
maintained, and it was considered that it
would be desirable if they could ho reduced.
The rate far bills on London was higher,
viz., 2s. lld to 2s. 14d. No improvement had
occurred in the Import market; indeed it was reported
to be worse. Piece goods had declined 2to 3 annus per
piece, and an active demand was not expected for some
months. Glasgow goods were very abundant and cheap.
Touching the Indigo crop, the advices are also un-
satisfactory, but for that, like the cotton reports, we must
make allowance, and receive them with due reservation.
A remarkably fine manufacturing season would, it is
stated, be required to bring the total out-turn to 100,000
maunds.

The Bombay Money market was dull, and cash was
very abundant. In imports no alteration of importance
had occurred, and cotton goods were neglected as usual
at that season of the year. The rate of exchange was
2s. Id. to 2s. lid. per rupee.
The intelligence from the Continent is not of general
interest. In the Amsterdam Stock market, on the 27th
inst., there was a very animated business done in Spanish
Five per Cent. Bonds at higher prices, but not much in
other Spanish Bonds. Portuguese Stock was better.
Austrian was rather more offered.

The state of the weather has been an object of solici-
tude with many, but there are gratifying reports from
the agricultural districts generally, and the heavy rains
of last week have done no injury, although in particular
districts the grain has been laid. Fine bright sunshine
would place the crops in safety, and materially improve
the position of the country.
The English Stock Market has been very firm, and
the quotations have been rather steady, tending upwards.
There is not, however, much business doing. Consols
have been 96a for Transfer, and are now 96i !. Time
bargains have been effected at about the same rates.
The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been at
98i- to 99, and the Three per Cents. at 97i to 1. Bank
Stock has been supported at 215 to 216 i. Exchequer-
bills have been rather flat at 475. to 50s. premium.
In Foreign Securities the dealings have been limited,
but prices for the most part have been steady. Mexican
Bonds have been 30i-, and Brazilian 91 to Portu-
guese Four per Cents. have been marked 341. Spanish
Five per Cents. are 211 and the Three per Cents.
38-a The Passives have touched 6i. Russian Bonds
have been 101 k, and Dutch Four per Cents. at 93k.
Railway Shares are very quiet, and at about yester-
day's values.

ONE
PRICES OF BRITISIa FUNDS O'CLOCK.

CLOSING
PRICES.
21534
97%
96%
9sys
262

Think Stock 216% 215%
3 per Cent. Reduced Arms.
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 96% 3fR %
New 31/4 per Cent. Anne...
India Stock —
I :Idle Bonds, 1,0004. —
Ditto under 1,0001. .. 6O 57 p
Consols for Account
tzchequer Bills. tad.
1,0001.
500/. ... 5O 47 p
Small. ..
ONE
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
israzilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Pi.h:kican, 5 per 0.., ex Jan. Coupe 30%
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Ditto, 4 per Cent.
Rassian Bonds
Ditto, 41. per Cent
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto, Scrip
S;,...rt‘sri , oor Cent. 1841+
Ditto, Coupons
limo, Passive 61%
Ditto. 3 per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2% per Cent. 12 Guild —
Ditto 4 per dent. Certilicator,

57 p
96%

49 p

49 p
49 p
CLOVNu
PRICES.

30;2
87
:3414
114
10118

par
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