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doubted prerogative of her MAJESTY in declaring
war, and adopting all the means necessary to give
speedy effect to that resolution. The Schah of
PERSIA had set at nought obligations imposed on
him by very recent treaties. Not only had he
thought proper to insult our representative at his
Court, but he had actually assailed Herat, and
t ikeu measures to obtain possession of what has
justly been termed " the gate of India." Al-
though not nominally, the ScEtlii was virtually a
" vassal" of the AUTOCRAT ; and, Herat in his
hands, would be to all intents and purposes in the
same position as if it had been transferred to
Russia. It is useless to cavil about words—
" The rose by any other name will smell as sweet."
The result arrived at was one that could not be
tolerated by this country, and by acting promptly
and energetically, the Government removed the
difficulty, and obtained redress at a tithe of the
expenditure that might otherwise have been in-

for this tardy concession. The extravagant rate
was maintained until the last moment, when they
were underbid by the discount establishments,
and they found the business gradually slipping
through their fingers and finding its way to other
quarters. Indeed, they might very properly have
made a further reduction to 5 per cent. for eligible
bill, such as they would require, were cashed in
the general market at 5i per cent.

LATEST N E

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY MORNING.

The United State 3 mail steam-ship Ericsson, with
advices from New York to the 4th, was off Holy-
he.td. at 8.30 this morning•

It is, of course, the business of the Directors to
make money as dear as possible. Their interests
are directly opposed to those of the industrial
community. If they were merely the managers
of a private establishment, they would naturally
have a distinct right to "do as they liked with their
own." But the unwise and inequitable legislation
that has taken place has invested them with a
quasi national character. They are made the
controllers of the currency—the regulators of the
circulating medium, and they are enabled, by
making money scarce and dear, largely to aug-
ment their own profite.

Intelligence has been received from Constanti-
nople to the 9th. The Presse d'Orient affirms that
the island of Perim belongs to Turkey. An en-
g tgement had taken place in the plain of the Kou-
ban, between Sefer Pacha and the Russians. The
loss on both sides is declared to be considerable.

. FRANCE.
PARIS, JULY 17, 8.30 A. M.

The poet Beringer is dead. The expenses o:
his funeral will le charged to the Imperial Civi
List.

dispensable.
Besides, the question has been already disposed
cf, by a competent tribunal. The whole of the
Eastern policy, that relating to Persia as well as
to China, has been made the subject of an Appeal
to the Country, and the nation has unequivocally
pronounced a deeisive verdict in favour of Lord
PALMERSTON and his Government. The time
then for questioning the policy has gone by. Its
opponents were guilty of culpable bathes in not
bringing the question before the House in the
same manner as that relating to China. And
having neglected the proper opportunity, they
are now debarred from obtaining the redress to
which they might otherwise have been
entitled. It was, as Mr. DISRAELI declared,
when the announcement was made in the.
Speech from the Throne, at the commencement
of last Session, that the dissentients ought t ) have
, come forward and boldly protested against the
course adopted.
But while so far sustaining the Ministerial
policy, we think that, as in every other case of
war, whether English or Indian, the expenses
whereof might by any possibility fall on the
British Exchequer, not an hour should be lost in
laying the proceedings that had taken place, be-
fore Parliament, and asking for its approval. A
mere tacit or implied sanction is not sufficient.
There should be a direct c3mmunication, full in-
formation given, and a general approval asked for
and obtained. This is what the British
Constitution required, but this was not done.
And, although the time for censure or re-
probation may have lapsed, we trust that
not only the present, but all future Governments,
will respect the constitutional principle and the
universal feeling, both of Parliament and of the
community, and, whenever a similar emergency
shall arise, take the most prompt and effectual
measures for bringing the case before the Legis-
lature, and obtaining its assent to what has
already been done, and as to the general policy
to be observed with respect to the progress of
hostilities and the terms on which an honourable
and beneficial peace may be concluded.

PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING.
Of the Italians who were at first arrested on the
serious charge of conspiring against the Em-
peror's life, and who are still in prison, one or
two have avowed their guilt ; the others deny
it. In the curse 4,f the investigations con-
ducted by the authorities no complicity has been
brought home to any of the French refugees of
note in England. •The conspiracy is Italian, and
essen ially Mazznian ; and the object assassination.
A Commission of Inquiry is sent by the Govern-
ment to Italy to collect further information as to
the extent of the plot. This will retard the trial,
which will take place before the Court of Assize,
instead of the High Court of Justice.
The Moniteur publishes a decree ordering that
on and after the let January 1858, the ten per
cent. levied by the treasury on the net produce of
the municipal octroi received at the various sea-
ports on the coast of Algeria is suppressed ; and
that from the same period the ten per cent. taken
from the gross amount of the said octroi for the
expenses of collection and payment by the agents
of the treasury is reduced to three per cent.
A Paris letter, in the Nord of Brussels, says:
—" I understand that M. Thouvenel has been
authorised not to follow up the protest presented
to the Porte against the acts of the caimacan of
Moldavia. The motive of this abandonment is
the measure adopted by the Porte of pos+poning
from the 12th to the 27th inst. the elections of
I Moldavia for the nomination of the members of
the Divan, in order that the electoral lists may
be rectified cenfermably to the demands made
by the commissioners of the congress of Paris.
The advice of M. Thouvenel has lei to this policy
of moderation. It has been approved of by the
representatives of Russia, Prussia. and Sardinia.
Lord Stratford de Redcliffe and M. de Prekesch
are said to have strongly opposed the concession
made by the Porte "
BOURSE, July 16.—The following were the las
quota' ions :
Cash.

They should not be placed in such an invidious
position, or be exposed t 3 the temptation of hav-
ing their duties and their interests pulling in op-
posite directions. A really National Bank is
required, which should issue really national paper
money, receivable in payment of taxes, and
which would always be in full demand to meet
the claims of those whose visits in this country
are by no means like those of angels, either few
or far between. The Government being respon-
sible, should receive the profits arising from this
issue, in place of handing them over to a trading
corporation, and paying heavily for the accommo-
dation it requires. We are firmly convinced
that a total severance of the connection between
Bank and State, would be eminently beneficial to
both parties. The former would realise legitimate
profits, and be enabled to distribute as large divi-
dends as they can under existing circumstances,
while the nation would bonefit by the abolition
of banking monopoly, and the establishment of a
flee trade in currency, the groat want of the pre-
sent day. .

" Taxition money "—based on the amount to
be levied on the country, regulated by Parliament,
and issued in small and convenient denominations,
RO as to answer for the transactions of every-
day life should be the great foundation
of our currency. The 14,475,0001. issued
on securities by the Bank, and the authorised
issues of the private and joint-stock banks, may
be regarded as so much "taxation-money ;" but it
would be far better if it proceeded directly from a
department of the Government, in which case,
being secured, not only by all the accumulated
wealth, but also by the thews and sinews of the
people, it could not be depreciated, nor would there
be any necessity for an ounce of gold being held
against it. Private banks might also issue paper,
convertible into national money—on giving satis-
factory security by a deposit of Consols, or other
valuable securities for its redemption. The
demand would in such case always regulate
the supply. There would neither be star-
vation nor extraordinary abundance. The
capitalist would get fair, but not exorbitant;
interest, and the mercantile, manufacturing, and
trading interests would be certain of a reasonable
amount of what has been justly termed
" the life-blood of industry." The use
of gold would be greatly economised. It would
be rendered altogether available for the foreign
trade, and it would be alike the duty and the
Ikterest of the Government and of private money
dealers to maintain a stock adequate fox
any emergency, and sufficient to keep the ex•
changes favourable to this country. The price o
gold would be by no moans so variable an element
under such a system, as the rate of discount is
under that now in operation.

End of M-onth.

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41 per Cents
3 per Cents 66 90 €6 95
Bank Shares 2,890 Credit Foncier ......
Credit Mobilier 895 Roman -
Do. Account Austrian -
Belgian 41 -
Fiedmontese (5) 9ll— Home Debt
RAILWAYS—FOR CASH.
tr. c. tr c
720
Orleans 1,435 Western -
Northern -
Lyons 1,320 Now Ditto
Mediterranean 1,320 Grand Central -
Geneva -
Slidi

SARDINIA.
Admiral Lord Lyons left Turin on the 13th for
Genoa, having on the preceding day had the
honour of dining at the royal table.
The Piedmonteae cabinet experienced a slight
check in the Senate on the 11th, when the bill for
a new convention with the TraLsatlantic Company
of Genoa, strongly advocated by the Minister of
Finance, was rejected by a majority of 32 to 21.
The Piedmontesa Gazette of the 13th publishes
the law enacting that all prisons destined for per-
sons under trial shall hencefot th be constructed ac-
cording to the celular system, and those already
existing be reduced to it. Persons condemned to
a term of imprisonment not exceeding one year
may also be confined in such prisons.

We cannot approve of the course decided on
yesterday, at the meeting of members favourable
t' the principle of the Parliamentary Oaths Bill.
It was virtually truckling to the House of Lards
—confessing that the House of Commons were not
the sole judges of their own priv,leges, and
making a fifth appeal to those who have already
contumeliously rejected four applications, and
who will probably treat the new one with as scant 1
ceremony I It weakens the position which they
were anthorised to assume, cuts the ground from

SPAIN.
The Madrid papers o. the 12th announce that
the number of arrests male in that c:ipital up to the
11th was not Lss than 1,049, and a letter says that
in the inoruing of the 12th 26 o, hers were effected.
Am:l'd-lug to some of the journals, the civil gover-
nor, M. Marfori, had declared that he could not
answer for the maintenance of public tranquillity
without arresting 5,000 persons in the capital
and 3,000 in different parts of Spain ; but
these figures were thought to be greatly exagge-
rated. Accounts from Andalusia state that the
troops were continuing to pursue the remains
of the republican band, and that Caro, the
chief of it, complained bitterly that some
influential persons who had promised to sur-
port his movement had failed to do so. Accounts
from Barcelona to the Bth say that all was tranquil
there, though the repuldican conspiracy had ex-
tended to that city and the province of Catalonia
he had, however, sent out columns to scour the
districts of Gramollers, Villafranca, Igulada, and
Vich. A letter from a ministerial source says that
the cabinet means to take up the project for the
sale of public property, and to propose to the
Cor es in October next to authorise the sale
of the real property of the State, as well as the
tChhe urcli
letter)o i
no f
the c h aerxi ttaibuleetieosnt aobflis theh-
A. lmeid en and other mines ; but not to touch the
oceeds of the sales it will propose
mpreouptest.ty
Tohfethpser
to employ (s:*
flowing debt.

under their own feet, and, to a certain txtent,

confesses the strict justice of the course

adopted. Indeed, as we have already
repeatedly st tted, the great mistake was
in ever proceeding by bill, in place of by
resolution. had Baron ROTHSCHILD, when
he tendered himself at the bar of the House, and
offered to take the oaths in the form which he
considered to be "most binding on his con-
scieace," been admitted, much valuable time
would have been saved to the country, and a
subject that has occasioned great irritation been

completely set at rest.
It is Lord JOHN RUSSELL who has again flung
down the apple of discord, by the new attempt
at compromise. This will be brought forward
this evening, in the shape of a Bill to amend the
Act Ist and 2d Vie., cap. 108, entitled " An Act
to remove various doubts as to the validity of
certain Oaths"—the chjact being that each House
shall have power to regulate the oaths to be taken
by its own Members on taking their seats. We
can scarcely doubt as to the reception which this
bill will meet with from those who have already
so summarily rejected the various measures
carried by large majorities of the House
of Commons in four successive Parliament.
To the bill so recently rejected, they were favour-
able in every respect, but one. They did not de-
sire that the blasphemous absurdity of swearing
against the claims of persons not in existence
should be continued, but that, or anything was better
than that a Jew should participate in the national
Gaincils. When that appeal was disallowed, they
will not be willing to take the still broader ground
of permitting the other branch of the Legislature
to alter or vary the test according to their own will
and pleasure. When they so strenuously objected
to any change in the mere form, they will scarcely
place the substance itself at the mercy of their

Accounts from Bosnia, in the Cologne Gazette,
say :_ct Matters here ate still unsatisfactory, and
the complaint of the Christian population increase.
Turkish troops
continue t) arrive in order to he
preparedeii.,c h
ted v events. Sarni Pacha, who was
olr
the murder of the young Christian
has b:en named military commander
connected
rflooi,rith a
girl in Varna,
of Bosnia."

discuised by the Emperor of Aus-
tria corresponient, wriiing from Vienna to the
Borsenhalle of Ilamburg, professes to be acquainted
twriitatiatnlT the King of Prussia during their recent
meeting ; he says :—" The Holstein question
and that of the cus!onas union formed the principal
subjects of conversation, but it is not thought that
any great progress was made in the latter question
towards the removal of the difficulties which oppose
the admission of Austria into the Zollvei ein. It
is incorrect to soy that the two sovereigns conversed
on the subject of the Plincipalities, for the views
entertained by their respective governments are
too much opposed to lead to any hope of an arrange-
, sent."

opponents.
We believe, then, that the new bill will be a
certain failure, and that the attempt will be highly
derogatory to the honour and independence of the
House of Commons I and will go far to justify
the other House in its unjustifiable assumptions.
It was not thus with respect to Lord WENS-
LEYDALE when he attempted to take his seat on a
patent limiting the Peerage for his own life.
There the Lords acted boldly and independently.
They declared that they were the sole judges of
their own privileges, and would not tolerate even
the slightest interference. The manly proceeding
was fully successful, and the vexed question was
permanently set at rest. But those sticklers Tor
their own right?, will not admit a similar prin-
ciple when asserted by the co-ordinate branch of
the Legislature. They wish t) be judges in their
own case, and also in that of the House of Com-
mons, and they have maintained the unwarrant-
able demand itainst every remonstrance.
The present bill seems to be the uliimatissimum.
It will go up with the significant hint, pass it, or
else - ! For the Liberal party by which the
Government is sustained and supported have de-
cided that the matter must be disposed of one way
or the other before the prorogation. Sooner or
later, the resolution proposed by Mr. DILLWYN
must be carried. It is the only practicable so-
lution of the difficulty, and we deeply regret that
it should have been decided to make another us:-
less attempt to subdue the perverse obstinacy that
has so long been maintained under circumstances
that ought to have led to a very different line
lof policy on the part of their Lordships. .

The Bourse Gazette of Vienna of the llih says
—" Count Bine Brahe, the Danish ambassador
at this court, has, during the last few days, had
several couLrences with Count de Buol. We un-
derstand that Count Bille Brahe was charged to
point out in the clearest manner that the
oast Dan-
ish note had as much as possible taken count
the demands of the German powers, and that it
was necessary to wait for the discussions in the
die s of the duchies before taking any further steps.
It appears c:rtiin that Austria and Prussia will
wait, as already stated, for the result of these dis-
cussions."

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LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH
COAST BAIL WAY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUM
am instructed by the Board of Directors to in-
form you that the accounts for the past half-year having
been this day submitted to them, they have decided upon
recommending the payment of a dividend for the half-
year of 2/. 103. per cent on the consolidated stock of the
company.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
FRED. SLIGHT, Secy.
Secretary's Office, London,
16th July, 1857-

THE KIDDEIMINSTEIi ELECTION RlOTS.—Considerable
excitement has been caused in the town of Kiddermin•
ster, in consequence of indictments having been preferred
at the Worcester assizes against between 30 and 40 per-
sons for conspiring together and having committed cer•
tain riots, and assaulted divers persons at the time of the
late elections. The trials will last several days.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.ergo3e —The
the fonecessarllowing y
exa-
mem-
bers of the College having und
minations were admitted licentiates in midwifery at the-
meeting of the Board of Examiners on the 15th inKents,. :
Messrs. John Thomas Roberts, New Romney, ;
Robert M'Limont, London ; Hugh R. Pughe, 8.1
North Wales ; Charles Frederick George, St. Thomas's
Hospital ; Edward Ambrose Fitzgeral i, Calcutta ; R
Ives, Cbertsey ; Joseph Littlewood, Hampole, Don•
caster ; Henry Cooper Biddle, Edmonton ; George
Taylor Catling, Higbbury ; Jehn Henry Hartley,
Thames Ditton, Surrey ; David Shorter Skinner, Head-
corn ; Isaac Rowlands, Llanfair, North Wales ; Julius
Waldemar von Tunzelaan, Brixton-hill ; and George
Dancer Thane, Hart.street, Bloomsbury.

The Directors of the Bank of England have
reduced their n2inintnm rate of discount, which
now stands at 5 per cent. The public sPe not,
however, greatly indebted to the " Old Lady"

grtig sußs LoNeosl_rnifYANg ovtwiN(.l.. JULY
_____.l7, _ 1 ANL

THE -WEST INDIA MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 16.
The Royal Mail Company's steam ship Or noen,
Captain Sawyer, with the West India and. Pacific
mails, in charge of Lieut. Tickell, R.N., has just
arrived. Her dates are—Greytown, June 19 ;
Nass iu, 13 ; Colon, 23 ; Demerara and Trinidad,
25 ; Jamaica and Grenada, 26 ; Barbadoes, 27 ;
Porto Rico, 29.
She brings 168 passengers, specie value ,5922,551,
and a full cargo.
Seventy cases of yellow fever had occurred on
board, of which 28 were fatal. Not one passenger
had taken the disease, and all of the crew who died
were new hands, excepting the chief engineer.
Owing to the number of deaths that had. taken
place Mr. Wiblin, the medical superintendent of
quarantine, has declined to give the ,ship pratique
[till to-morrow morning.
From Jamaica advices are to the 26th ult. The
island was healthy and business somewhat slack.
The sugar crop was over, and the greater part of
the produce shipped, a considerable quantity of
which had been consigned. to the United. State?.
Abundant rains bad fallen, and the canes pro-
mised well for next year.
Mining operat'ous were being steadily conducted
and progressing favourably. The ore at the Claren-
don and the Wheal was greatly improved in quality,
and becomes richer in proportion to the depth ob-
tained. The lode at the first-named mine was up-
wards of 12 feet wide.
Governor D trling was expected out in the packet
of the 7th inst. No news in the political world.
From Barbadoes there is very little news. The
Waterworks Company's Bill had been somewhat
modified as far as the guarantee clause was con-
cerned. The weather had continue,' favourable
for reaping, and very little sugar remained to be
ma le. The young crops presented a healthy and
uxuriant appearance. The health of the island

was good.
From St. Thomas's, on the Ist inst., we learn
that the yellow fever was on the increase, and was
making greet ravages among the shipping in the
harbour. The amount of fatal cases was beyond
the usual average. The barque Kingfisher, bound
to Jamaicas lost the capt tin, mate, and nearly all
hands by th's dreadful malady.
Advices from Demerara state that the contract
for steam communication between Demerara, Esse-
quibo, and Berhice had been taken by Captain
Spotton and Mr. G. Watson, an enterprising mer-
chant iu Water-street.
Her Majesty's steam transport Perseverance
arrived on the 22d with 180 men of the 2d West
India Regiment, and had left again with the re-
maining companies of the regiment. Business was
dull. The weather had been showery and favour-
able for the growing canes, which were thriving
well. The colony was healthy at the departure of
the packet. There had b:en no late cases of cholera
The uourt of Policy was sitting engaged in giving
legal form to the intentions of the Combined Court,
which had concluded its session.
The report of the great success of the gold dig-
gers at Upata, situated on the he id watere of the
Cayun, a river of this colony, had excited little
sensation. The labourers of Guiana have a fear of
the Yankees, and would be chary in going beyond
the shadow of the British flag.
Mr. Drysdale, the newly-appointed Governor of
Tobago, had assumed office, and was gaining the
favourable opinion of all classes. The crops were
nearly reaped, and 3,000 hogsheads of sugar al-
ready shipped. Several vessels were loading and
waitingto lied. The rainy season had set in mildly,
aid the island was healthy. The canes were look-
ing well for next year.
Grenada continued healthy, and business was dull
in consequence of the completion and shipment of
the sugar crop, which exceeds that of last year by
about 3,000 lairds., making the year's shipments
6,500 lilids. The encouraging state of the sugar
market bad led to considerable patches of land
being brought into cultivation, the weather was
also favourable and the young canes were in a mist
healthy condition, and sanguine hopes were enter-
tained that the next year's crop will produce about
9,000 Inds.
There is no political news at Martinique. Plenty
of rain had fallen, and the crops were looking well
for next year.
Sugars had been selling from 52f. to 55f. not-
withstanding, the falling off of prices in the Euro-
pean markets. The yellow fever was making fear-
ful havoc among the shipping. The town of St.
Pierre was also) aff cted, but not to any extent.
In other French islands the crops had increased and
still promised better. In all the West India islands
the planters had reaped good crops, and were using
every exertion to inci ease the quantity of produce
next year to meet the demand for the staple.
From the Pacific there is very little news ; the
Government was raisiiig a loan of 4,000,000 dollars
to cnnplete the Valparaiso and Santiago Railroad.
The copper mines continued to yield abundantly.
New and very rich mines had been discovered near
Pabelloa, which promised to yield abundanly.
Business at Valparaiso was unusually dull. From
the River Plate we learn that the yellow fever was
decreasing, but Montevideo was almost deserted.
The disease was breaking out in Buenos Ayres. At
Arica everything was quiet. Vivanco still held out
at Arequipa, but the town was surrounded by the
troops of Generals San Rarnea and Treyre, about
3,000 in numb r. Vivanco's troops were very en-
thu-lactic, but the others were exi;ected to defeat
them in 10 or 12 days from the date of advices, the
th of June, when all would he over.

PRINCE NAPOLEON.—TIis Imperial Highness Prince
Nap aeon was expected to arrive from the manufactur-
ing districts at Liverpool last night. To-day (Friday)
it is probable that he will receive the Mayor and game
other of the local officials on board the Reine Hortense,
and then pev a visit to the United States' frigate Nia-
gara. The Reins Hortense is expected to leave Liver-
pool on Saturdey for the Isle of Man and the north-east
coast of Ireland.
oV.3.—The number of acres under cultivation for
hops in England tele year amounts to 54,527 against
57,757 i in 1856. The amount of duty charged is
488,8501., the average amount per acre being 81. 19s.
3d. The duty charged last year was 728,183/
THR LONDON AND HARIVICII STEAM COMPANY.— It
it stated that there is likely to be a rigid examination of
certain officers of this company, for the winding-up of
which an order was made yesterday, respecting the
" special trains" to Rotterdam and other luxuries prr.
vided for the directors. Colonel Waugh was one of the
directors of this company, but there were associated
with him gentlemen of high standiug in the counties o'
Essex and Suffolk. It is estimated that a dividend of
17e. or 183. in the pound wilt be pail by the directors.
THE MURDER cF MR LITTLE ...AA half-pait three
o'clock on Wednesday afternoon James Spollen was
brought up at Capel-streft Police-office, Dublin, and the
new informations having been read over, he was for-
mally committed to take his trial for the wilful murder
of Mr. George Samuel Little. The prisoner, on being
asked the usual question, whether he had any thing to
say, replied that he would reserve his defence for another
tribunal.
DROWNING.—Mr. John Charles Kelly, of Castle-street,
Leicester-square, London, was drowned at Jersey on
Monday. He had only arrived at that island on Sunday.
He was in a pleasure-boat with some friends in St
Aubin's Bay, when he undressed to tat“s a bath. While
swimming about, he invited his friends to juin him, and
just as he had done so, he cried for help. His compa-
nions threw out an oar fur him to take hull of. He
grasped at it, missed it, and imtnediattly sank and was
crowned. He was 28 years of age,
AIISTRALIA,—PLYMOUTH, ThUT, day. —The Australian
Auxiliary Screw Steam Company's wail ship Istamboul,
Captain J. E. Cole, sailed 3e3terday evening with a
full cargo and a large number of pacesengt rs for Mel-
bourne direct. The next ship home, the Indomitable,
Captain Nicholson, may be expected daily at Plymouth,
if she left Port Philip on the 29th of April, as reported
per the James Baines. The King Philip, Captain Carey,
sailed from Plymouth on the let of Aprie and the Ur .
daunted, Captain Franklyn, on the 4th of June, both
for Melbourne direct,
ADDITIONAL MAIL TO DARTFORD.—On a-d after
Monday, the 20th inst., an additional mail will be m. d
up at this office for Dartford, to be despatched by the
train which leaves the London-bridge Station at 4.50
p.m. (Sundays excepted). L-tters for this despa,ch
must be posted at the receiving-offices in London before
2 p.m. ; at the branch offices in Chering-cro=s and Lom-
bard-street, the South-E .stern Distric -office (170, Hieh-
street, Borough), and the Westein Distr ctoffice (011
Cavendish-street) before 3 pm. ; and at the General
P.ist-uffice, St. Martin'e-le-Grand, before 330 p.m.
'rney will be delivered in Dartford in time for reply by
the London mail which leaves that place in the evening.
—By command of the Postmaster-General,—ROWLAND
HILL, Secretary.
ELECTION EXPENSES.—The abstract of the election
auditors' accounts for the late elections in Nottingham-
shire has been published. In the north division the
expenses of the Right Hon. J. E. Denison amounted to
3211. 193. 8.1., of which sum 1661. was paid to solicitors,
531. 183. Si. for advertising, 421. 2s. for fees, &e., and
351. l4s. for cab hire, &c. The expenses of Lord R. P.
Clinton on the same occasion amounted to 701. 3s. The
expenses of Mr. W. H. Barrow at the election for South
Notts amounted to 871. 17s. 9d. ; the bi 1 a Viscount
Newark on the same occasion amounted to 761. 63. 6'l
MORBID CURIOSITY.—The dwelling-house of Mr.
Smith, in Blythswood4quare, has been an object of
great attraction to tae public for some days p sat.
On Sabbath evening last hundreds of people were c
lected at the house, peering into the windows, exernin•
ins the doors, and identifying the places referred to
in the trial of Miss Smith. Groups of people have
during the week been constantly observed engaged in a
similar manner. On Thursday the morbid feeling of a
number of there foolish gaping visitors carried them en
far as to chip off bits of the ,tone wall, and scrape off
quantities of the lime as relics. Some were actually
dropping plummets of lead, fastened by a string, between
the bars of the ground fleor window, apparently with
the ludicrous idea of ascertaining bow love letters would
loOk when lying on the same spot. The house has been
closed since the apprehension of Miss Smith,—Olasgow
Chroniclo.