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the property of the European and Co'umbian Steam Co.,
and to be employed between Suez and Melbourne under
the provisi,,no of a contract entered into by virtue of a
tender signed on behalf of thesaid company, the 11th day
of June, 1356, by J. Orr Ewing, chairman, with the sur-
veyor's report thereon ; and of the names, tonnage, and
horse-power of all ves3els chartered or hired by the said
company (with the names of owners), to convey the
mails and passengers between Alexandria, and Southamp-
ton, or Satz and Melbourne. He inquired of the Sec-
retary of State for the Colonies whether any complaints
have been received from the Australian colonies (by
either of the two last mails) of the irregular and unsa-
tisfactory manner in which the postal services has been
performed between Suez and Melbourne since January
last ; ar d, if cc, whether there would be any objection
to lay the same on the table of the house ?
Mr. LABOUCHERE had no objection.
FUEL TO TRANSPORTS.
Mr. STAFFORD asked the First Lord of the Admi-
ralty what steps have been taken by her Majesty's Go-
vernment or the proper authorities, with reference to
toe steam transports that have already sailed, or are
about to sail, with troops or stores for India, so as to
secure for them an adequa'e supply of fuel for the voy-
age ; and what arrangements have been made for such
supply at the Cape de Verde, Cape of Good Hope,
Mauritius, or other coaling stations en route ?
Mr. BARING said the owners of the transports had
contracted for the supply of fuel. The supply of fuel at
the stations named was ample.
THE APPROPRIATION ACT.
Mr. WILSON brought up this bill, which wag read a
first time, and ordered to be read a second time to-mor-
row (this day).

DIVORCE BILL.
Lord J. MANNERS inquired what was the course
.ntended to be taken to-morrow with regard to this bill,
as the Attorney-General would have to be present in
the House of Lords in the Shrewsbury case.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he intended to
apply to the House of Lords to postpone the case in
which he was engaged.
Lord 3. MANNERS inquired what course would be
taken in case the House of Lords should not accede to
the request
Lord PALMERSTON—AII I can say is, then as then,
as the French say.
Mr. GLADSTONE then moved the adjournment of
the house in order to enable him to address himself to the
inconvenience of members being called down to the
house without knowing what course was to be taken.
After same conversation,
Lord PALMERSTON said the Government were de-
termined to go on with the bill, whether the Attorney-
General were present or not.
The motion was then withdrawn, and the house went
into committee on the bill.
The discussion was resumed with regard to the words
in reference to adultery and bigamy.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL now proposed that
the words should be bigamy with adultery.
Mr. GLADSTONE wished to know what the inten-
tion of the House of Lords was in passing this clause.
Mr. PULLER thought it rather hard to call upon
the Attorney-General to give such intentions. All that
house had to do was to consider how they would pass
the clause.
Mr. HENLEY thought the words proposed by the
Attorney-General were an improvement.
Mr. GLADSTONE wished to know whether it was
intended to propose to give the wife a title to divorce in
the case of bigamy with adultery; h hether the adultery
and the bigamy were with the same persons or with
different persons.
Lord J. RUSSELL was unwilling to restrict the cases
wherein a wife could obtain the redress of divorce.
Would the words proposed give the wife the same re-
medy which might be at present obtained by a private
bill in the House of Lords I
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said they would.
Mr. NAPIBR said he thought that other offences as
well as bigamy ought to be included. Suppose a man
committed a rape as well as adultery, surely such a case
as this ought to come under this bill, and ought to be
provided for.
Lord J. MANNERS asked the Attorney-General
if it was the intention of the Government by this
clause to leave a woman to come to Parliament, as now,
for relief in cases where the huSband had beenfitransperted
for a felony subsequent to the bigamy, because suoh a
separation, in his opinion, amounted to desertion.
Sr D. NORREYS referred to the difference of opinion
that appeared to exist between the Attorney-General and
the noble lord at the head of the Government on this
point, which showed an evident desire of the latter to
throw the former overboard. (Laughter.) He (Sir D.
Norreys) thought it mattered little whether the bigamy
was consummated or not, for by a man's committing
bigamy he violated his marriage vow, and equally in-
flicted injury on his wife. The right hon. baronet said
that a man might almost, without vicious intentions,
commit a rape. (Laughter.) lle meant that circum-
stances might level a man into the crime without know-
ing it—(Renewed laughter)—which was different to the
committal of bigamy, and bore no similarity to it.
Bigamy mast be a premeditated act, and by it a man
committed all the offences that could be possible under
the marriage tie against his wife.
Mr. GLADSTONE said there could not be a clearer
proof of the want of unanimity of opinion, and the extra
ordinary state into which they were being driven by
teis bill, than the speech they had just heard. (Hear.)
It was the speech of a most intelligent member of the
house—('aughter)—expressing his opinion with candour
that was highly honourable to him, though partaking of
the spirit of Dreco. Rape and bigamy bad always been
considered different by the law of the land, and, contrary
to the hon. member's ideas, the former had always been
put in the higher category, and subjected to heavier
punishment than the latter. The hon. baronet's speech
appeared to be a specimen of the average round of mem-
bers of Parliament who approached this subject, but
they were not called upon then to discuss the relative
degrees of guilt in the two crimes, but the question
what other criminal offences ought to be included in the
category of offences that should give a wife ground of
divorce against her husband. Bigamy was the only
case of felony included in the present bill
for that purpose, and that being so, why should not
others, or at any rate those felonies that bore on the
marriage state, he also inserted ! Unless a satisfactory
answer were given to the question he should vote
against the clause.
Lord PALMERSTON said the question was an-
swered in the former part of the day, viz., that bigamy
was an offence particularly against the wife, and tended
to desertion, whereas the other cases of felony were
offences against society only. He hoped the committee
would assent to the proposition.
After some remarks from Mr. HENLEY,
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he understood
the question of the hon. member for Oxfordshire to be

whether, if the charge of bigamy came before the civ
tribunal under the bill for the purposes of divorce, the
determination of that tribunal, or the evidence taken to
arrive at the conclusion,'could be used in a criminal court
against the husband for the same offence, and his answer
was, that it Could not. He deprecated being called upon
to answer questions in the midst of a discussion not for the
purpose of eliciting information, but on which to found
some other argument.
Mr. HENLEY said that he felt certain such proceed.
ing could not be used against a man, but he thought a
verdict against him in a civil tribunal would prejudice
his case before a criminal tribunal.
After some further remarks from Lord J. Manners,
Mr. Barrow, Mr. Lygon, Mr. Ayrton, and Mr. Glad-
stone, on the effect of the words if put in force,
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said that the proceed-
ings of the two courts would be analogous to the present
mode of proceeding in cases of libel.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said it was impossible
for him to answer the noble lord's (the member for Lei-
cestershire) question relative to the decision of the Lords
on questions of felony subsequent to bigamy without
searching the journals of the House of Lords. He hoped
the committee would not enforce that a woman should
be compelled to prosecute her husband for bigamy before
suing for a divorce.
Mr. NAPIER differed from the Attorney-General,
that the proceedings under this tribunal were analogous
to proceedings for libel. In that case a jury were em-
pannelled, but in this bar no jury was to be summoned
to try the bigamy, and it would be quite new to our laws
that felony should be tried without the intervention of a
jury. The term bigamy was a term unknown to the
common law. Coke's definition of it was a man marry-
ing two women consecutively, or a widow. (Laughter.)
Sir J. GRAHAM said he had no wish to multiply
difficulties ; but supposing under those words the civil
tribunal dissolved the marrioge tie, and the criminal tri-
bunal afterwards decided that the bigamy was not proved
and acquitted the man, such a state of things would be
an absurdity, as well as inflict injury, because the mar-
riage could never be renewed.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that bigamy was
well known to the law. In the event of any difficulty aris-
ing relative to the two proceedings, it would be competent
for the civil tribunal, after taking evidence, to suspend
its proceedings, and direct that the evidence should be
laid before the Attorney-General which would have the
effect of making a criminal proceeding subservient to
the civil power. All courts bad that power.
Lord J. MANNERS asked if that really were so, and
where he could find the words in the bill giving that
power I (Hear, hear.)
Mr. GLADSTONE hoped the committee would be
properly informed how the matter stood in that respect.
(Hear, hear).
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL referred to the right
hon. gentleman the member for Wallingford for an
answer. (Hear, and laughter).
Sir G. GREY said that the Attorney-General had
already stated his views on the law, and no gentleman
of the long robe in that house had ventured to contra-
dict him. (Hear, hear).
Mr. GLADSTONE asked his friend the member for
the University of Dublin to answer the question.
Mr. NAPIER said that every cuurt possessed the
power after it had taken evidence of laying that evidence
before the Attorney-General for his consideration.
Mr. MALINS thought that it was not in the province
of any court to direct an indictment to be brought
l
against any person for the purpose of serving special
cause cause laid before it for jurisdiction.would be
he it
Mr. ROLT concurred in the opinion that
an
out of the province of the proposed court to
d y
inquiryener.al such as that referred to by
General, t Attol Ile -
courts of law in cases where indictments
wetaedodpeedetb
After some discussion as to the course
eyei
The LORD ADVOCATE said taut
to be prepared by the A.torney-General,
t the diemssion
hon. baronet the hon. member
was one entirely beside thequfeosrtiocnarpliuslte.bycthaseart
tainly occurred, where civil courts. dealt. with caves
which afterwards came before a criminal court, And
whatever night be the relation which bigamy Lea to

the offence for which divorce might be granted, there ing the vote arrived at on a previous evening they
ha'
could be no doubt that bigamy was in itself a crime sui a perfect right to give a woman as much protection as
genesis.
possible in reference to divorce. It was, he thought,
Mr. PULLER thought that some discretion eugetfo reasonable to give to the Court the full liberty of action
be allowed to the court in deli ag with cases of this which was contemplated by the amendment.
kind. Mr. MALINS concurred with the Attorney-General
Mr. WIGRAM thought that the best course would in resisting the amendment, which ought to have been
be to make it necessary to produce legal evidence of the proposed at a much earlier stage of the bill. Ile thought
conviction of the crime of bigamy before granting a it would give the Court too wide a discretion, especially
divorce.
as it had been decided by the house on a previous even-
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL considered that some ing, that there was to be a difference between the matt
inconvenience would arise if this suggestion were agreed and the woman,
to, if the person committing the crime of bigamy were Mr. NEWDEGATE considered the bill a most cow-
to continue to reside in a foreign country. ardly one, as the principle of our law was to aid the
Mr. NAPIER said that in such a case it would be weak as well as the strong. The house was evidently
adultery with desertion, and the case would come un- doubtful whether the terms by which the claims of the
der other provisions of the bill, woman were restricted had been sufficiently defined.
Mr. MALINS said that if the statement of the At- Mr. NAPIER thought it would he right to specify
torney-General, that the proposed court would not try the powers of the judge, otherwise everything
the crime of bigamy, but would direct it to be tried by depend upon his caprice at the time. would
another court, were correct, then the only course to be Mr. LYGON withdrew his amendment, and the corn•
adopted in case of a woman petitioning for divorce on mittee divided on that of Mr. Butt.
the ground of bigamy, would be the production to the The numbers were—
court of the record of the conviction by a court compe- For the amendment
tent to try a felony of that description. Against it -
Mr. BUTT contended that it was perfectly competent Majority ----es
for any common law court to try cases of felony, Mr. COX suggested that the chairman should report
and instenced actions of libel or bills of exchange where progress at this stage.
the defence raised the question of forgery, or al action Some discussion ensued, upon the motion, and old.
of a policy of insurance when the defence charged arson mately
against the plaint:ff. In such cases the courts never Lord PALMERSTON congratulated the members
suspended the proceedings, as was suggested by the A'- who opposed the bill on the success with which for ten
torney-General the proposed court should do, while a hoists they had exercised their ingenuity on three lines
criminal court tried the question of felony. It was us- of a single clause of the bill, and announced the inten.
csssary in this clause to define the meaning of the word tion of the Government to sit dey by day and night by
" bigamy," making it to apply to a man who married night until the bill was gone through. Out of conside-
another woman during the life time of his wife, and ren- ration to the Attorney-General, who had some heavy
dering necessary in order to obtaining divorce by the professional duties to attend to, and not out of deference
wife on such grounds, that the record of the conviction to the house, he mould consent to the adjournment of
of such offence by a criminal court should be produced the debate.
to the Court of Divorce. Mr. GLADSTONE complained of the conduct of the
Mr. AVAIL-IEON concurred in the opinion expressed noble lord, which was altogether unprecedented in the
by the hon. and learned member for Youghal. conduct of the leader of that house, and who had eman-
Mr. GLADSTONE wished to have an explanation of cipated himself from the rules of common courtesy due
the word " bigamy." to hon. members.
Mr. BUTT said that the word " bigamy" had been Lord PALMERSTON denied that his conduct and
introduced in the bill in a previous clause. It was, as it remarks were open to the strictures which the right hon.
stood, nothing short of stark staring nonsense. He member had placed upon them. As leader of the house,
proposed, therefore, to add, after " bigamy," the words he would have been perfectly justified in endeavouring
"by fel osiously intermarrying with any other woman." to force the house to pass the remaining three lines of the
Mr. MaIIAHON considered the words unnecessary, clause to which no amendment was to be moved.
as the only species of bigamy for which a conviction After some discussion the chairman reported progress,
could be obtained was of that description contemplated and the house resumed.
by the bill. JUDGMENTS BILL.
After some further discussion, Mr. FITZGERALD moved the seecond reading of
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he had no objet. this hill, which was read accordingly, and ordered to be
tion to the introduction of the words proposed, as they committed.
were perfectly harmless, and perfectly unnecessary. PAROCHIAL SCHOOLMASTERS (SCOTLAND)
The committee was then about to divide on the pre- BILL.
vious amendment of the Attorney-General that the words On the motion of the LORD ADVOCATE, the order
" with adultery," be introduced into the clause after the for going into committee on this bill was discharged.
word " bigemy," but the amendment was agreed to The LORD ADVOCATE moved for leave to
bring
without a division. in a new bill on the subject.
Mr. GLA.DSFONE moved the addition of the words, Motion agreed to, and bill introduced accordingly,
" or of rape." FRAUDULENT TRUSTEES BILL.
The words were added. The Lords' amendments to this bill were considered,
Mr. WIGRAM proposed to add the words "such and agreed to.
bigamy, or other offences, be proved by a conviction." The Charitable Trusts Acts Continuance Bill was read
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL opposed the intraduc- a second time.
tion of the words. It would turn a great hardship on the The Smoke Nuisance (Scotland) Abatement Bill was
wife, and possibly might prevent her obtaining a just read a third time and passed.
divorce. The Crowded Dwellings Prevention Bill passed
Mr. GLADSTONE argued that they were not in a through committee.
position to discuss the question in all its bearings, as THE PROBATES AND LETTERS OF ADMIs
there was not time. The limitation of the clause, as it NISTRATION (IRELAND) BILL.
at present stood, would lead to collisions where a hue- The house went into committee on this bill.
band and wife wanted to get rid of each other. After some discussion on the clauses, the bill passed
Mr. WIGRAM said so serious a question as dissolu- through committee.
tion of marriage ought not to be decided without a cri-
REVISING BARRISTERS (DUBLIN) BILL.
urinal connexion. This bill was read a third time and passed.
After a short conversation the committee divided— MILITIA. PAY BILL.
For the amendment
Against it
committed this clay.
Majority against the amsndment.-35 The house adjourned at a quarter to 3 o'clock.
Mr. COLLINS proposed to add the words " or of
murder or manslaughter coupled with adultery."
The amendment was negatived.
Mr. DRUMMOND proposed the insertion of words
so as to make cruelty in the husband ground fi r di-
vorce. Ho read the details of many cases of cruelty
which had come under his own observation. The first
was that of a young lady who married the heir to a
large fortune. A few months after the marriage that
gentleman had three mistresses living in three different
houses. With one or other of those he usually supped,
and came borne drunk. His servant undressed him and
carried him to his wife's bed. She wished to sleep in
another room, but he told her that if she did he would
bring one of his mistresses home. When bis sons were
14 years of age he took them to mistresses, and after he
had been married 20 years he died. That was but one
case. He proposed that cruelty alone should he the
ground for divorce.
Sir G. GREY opposed the amendment, as introdu-
cing an entirely new principle.
Mr. GLADSTONE contended that they ought to
found their proceedings in the matter on a wider founda-
tion. Their experience was limited where their views
should be enlarged.
After a few words from Mr. BUXTON, the amend-
ment was negatived.
Mr, HENLEY desired to have some explanation of
what was meant by the term desertion.
After a few remarks from Lord J. MANNERS,
Mr. HENLEY moved the omission of the word
" desertion."
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he should have
thought the right hon. gentleman had had practical ex-
perience on the subject of desertion as a justice of the
peace to know the definition of the word " desertion."
Tho word "desertion" in the bill was sufficiently under-
stood. It was applied to where a man left his wife
altogether, and not merely ceasing to cohabit with her.
It would not apply to constrained absence under crimi-
nal sentence.
Lord LOVAINE asked if it would apply to transpor-
tation for seven years or more I It was a common oc-
currence with the lower classes, when a man was trans-
ported for 7 years, for the wife to remarry if his absence
extend over that period.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said the case referred
to had reference to a rule of evidence, and not law, on
the supposition that a woman not hearing of hee husband
for seven years, that he was dead. It would not apply ......
to desertion under this bill. Two years' voluntary ab-
sence was a sufficient desertion on the part of the hus-
band for the wife to claim a divorce.
Mr. HENLEY asked if a man lived with his wife in
one Square in London, and left her to reside in another l
with a mistress, returning to his wife occasionally, if
that would be desertion under the bill ?
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—Certainly not.
Mr. AYRTON said that leaving a wife chargeable
was desertion under the common law, but that test
being removed innumerable difficulties would arise. Sup
posing a man to leave his wife and go to Paris for two
years and commit adultery, having provided her with
the means of living, was that desertion I Sopposin that
to be cleared up, a greater difficulty arose by the diff-r-
-esce between a man deserting his wife for two years with
or without adultery. Another was of a man who went
to gaol and there committed adultery.
Mr. GLADSTONE said they appeared to be in diffi-
culty with this clause. The definition of desertion was
absence without reason. How could it be desertion with
a reasonable excuse? The two things did not stand well
together. He was doubtful, admitting the principle of
the clause to be good, that it would attain the object
they had in view. Supposing a man kept up
an estabs
lishment for his wife at his residence, and resided with
his mistress in another, and never went to his mansion,
would that constitute desertion I
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—No.
Mr. GLADSTONE—That was at variance with the
Attorney-General's definition, and ,the question again
arose what constituted desertion, Multitudes of cases
might arise under this clause that had not occurred to
their minds, and it was difficult to understand the appli-
cation of a novel enactment to such cases. A sailor
might be abroad with legitimate cause for more than two
years, but how was a wife to prove that. He was anxi-
ous to know the form and procedure with regard to
proofs in such cases, and on whom the burden rested.
Mr. LYGON referred the Attorney-General to the
definition of desertion under the code of Holland.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that desertion
must depend on the animus of a prisoner. The essence
of crime rested on the intention of a person to commit
an offence
Mr. CLAY complained that the discussion was mere
hair splitting. Na man of common sense could for a mo-
ment doubt what was or was not desertion under the
provisions of this bill.
Lord J. MANNERS urged the injustice that would
be inflicted tinder the clause as it present stood.
Sir D. NORREYS said that where a man lived, as
put by the right hon. gentleman the member for Oxford-
shire, it should be considered desertion on the part of the
husband,
After some remarks from Lord LoTAINE and Sir W.
EfEA.THOuTE,
Mr. GLADSTONE said the debate appeared to show
that the committee did not know the real meaning of the
words they were called upon to adopt. He complained
of important measures being pressed with precipitafscz
at the end of a session, which preventedtheir bein
g Paonse-
with sufficient clearness and perspicuity, and the c
sent
quence was, that they were called upon in a subsea's
session to remedy their defects.
After some remarks from Mr. HENLEY,
The a,neendrnent was withdrawn.
Sir D. NORREYS proposed to strikeeowuetr'(:ftdweoeyideianrgs
and upwards, giving to the Court the p
what was desertion. COLONIAL-.
The AT'TORNEY-GENERAL supported the reten-
tion. It vies important some term should be specified in
Tee..---The telegraphic news from China has had little
the bill. effect upon the market, and prices re main thelb.same as
before Common conu is uoted 1.4 -
The amendment was negatived without a division.
Mr. BUTT moved, as an amendment,,, to insert the fol- before, Common
dulnessl: ~nipeeyr
be
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the clause— or of adultery, coupled
lowing woras in tofand a further reduction of about G'PpPearrrent
d ill-treatmen such a nature as ought, on all descriptions. In the refined ewg
with arra grave
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men and a semen so far as regarded facilities of divorce. t.
He would leave the new court the same discretion that uulti.uartilvaeutbautsio,n
would be committed to the House of Lords in its judi- seinudesfsulhlasrabteeesn atrreandse.-
imascaltitneemddr.eE.dcwbTyhheroeldiesrsa, goodbut dlietmtleanbdu,
cial car mite'. He did not see how this could be avoided, Resea—A eery limited business lies been done, and
unless they said that in no case the wife should have re- prices are unaltered.
dregs. seseitultereaarsreidva,laonfdthaoristeeloef-
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and fully 2s per cw
'The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said this was only
introducing a new ground for divorce on the part of the all positions.. On. the spot6d .the
andpriCes are G3s 63s Gd ;
September deliveries, 63s , last 3 months, 60s per
-wife. He thought if they were prepared to arrive at owt ___ g .
the conclusion at which the amendment aimed they GREEN FRITIT.—West India pine apples continue in.
should have done it long ago. He was not prepare ex.demand,(s.s.)lFo,uonoiod,soblrdouagthptubgleiecdsaplreieebys.KNeoelinit eXlvHcraUenutt,
. arrive at that conclusion, and ho should therefore resist
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tt le amendment.
Sir W. II.EATHOTE considered that notwithstand. stock

THE BANK OF FRANCE.

The following is the monthly debtor and creditor
account of the Bank of France, made up to yester•
day (Thursday) :

__ Fr. e.
Cash and ingots
Cash at the branch banks
Bills due yesterday to be paid to-day 701,475 31
Bills becoming due in Paris
Bills in the branch banks
Advances on coin and ingots
Do. in the branch banks
Do. on public securities of France 22,745,736 10
Do. in the branch banks
Do. on railway shares and bonds 17,246,100 --
Do; in the branch banks
Do. to the State by treaty of
June 30, 1848
New Shares, not dispoable 32,500
Rentes of the reserve fund 12,980,750 14
Rentes of disposable funds 52,189,360 83
Hotel and furniture of the Bank
Real property of branch banks
Expenses of administration 465,553 49
Premiums on the purchase of matibres 431,688 77
Sundries 1,040,477 69

Dn.

Capital
Ditto, New

1,119,620,590 98

_
91,250,000 -
91,250,000 -

Reserve fund 12,980,750 14
Ditto, New
Reserve immobiliere 4,000,000
Notes to bearer, in circulation
Do. of branch banks 55,056,900
Do• to order (Post
5f 1561 943 87

. ,
Bills payable at sight
Account-current of Treasury Creditor 118,886,966 72
Various accounts-current
Do. branch banks 22,856,187
Dividends to be paid
Discount, interest, and expenses
Charge for safe keeping of securities 6,348,690 28
Re-discounts of the last half-year
Overdue bills
Sundries

1,119,620,590 93

MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.)

CORN EXCHANGE.

Coastwise, a full average supply of English wheat, 2,460
quarters, almost wholly of the new crop, and in good con-
dition, has come to baud this week. Fresh up to-day by
land carriage the receipts of that grain were small, and the
show of samples was very moderate. Although the atten-
dance of millers was by no means numerous, the trade was
considered steady at Monday's currency.
Foreign wheat, the show of which was good, moved off
slowly, but no change took place in value.
The supply of barley, both English and foreign, was very
moderate, and the trade ruled steady at full quotations.
Fine malt supported late rates, but inferior qualities
wore rather cheaper.
The supply of foreign oats was considerably on the in-
crease, yet the oat trade ruled steady, at full prices.
Beans, peas, and flour, sold at Monday's currency.
ARRIVALS THIS WEER.
Wheat. Barley. Malt.
I
2,460 1 280 2,350

Oats. Flour.
50 I 1,(130

English
Irish,

Foreign i 10,670 1 4,260

33 450 1 150. brie
, 260 ski

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.
To-day's market was but moderately supplied with beasts
in very middling condition. On the whole the beef trade
ruled steady at Monday's improvement in value. There
was a fair demand for sheep, at full quotations. The bust
Downs readily produced ss. per 816 s. For lambs the
inquiry was by no means active. Prices, however, were
supported. There was less activity in the veal trade, and
in some instances the currencies gave way 2d. per Sibs.
Pigs and MIMI Cows were unaltered in value.
Per Sibs to sink the offais.
s. d. s. d.I B. d. a. d.
Interior Beasts.... 3 2to 3 4 ,PrimeSouthdown 4 8 4
0
5 0
Second quality.... 3 6. 3 81Largo crse. calves 3 6
Prime large oxen 310 4 2,Prime small do 4 2 4 6
Prime Scots, &c. 4 4 4 BiLarge hogs
Inferior Sheep ...2 10 3 21Small porkers
Second quality ...3 4 3 8151:Lekling calves-23 030 0
Prime crse.,wlled.3 10 4 6, Quarter old pigs.2l 0 28 0
Lamb, 4s 10d to 6s 2d.
FORBIGN SUPPLY. 110
TOTAL SUPPLY:
Beasts
................... 1,000 Beasts .. ..
.................
m
388024
CheepC l Calves s. and.. .. .1. a.
............... ..
... ... ... ... ... 753 403 280 SCP vse
.s a.
.12.. 4.. a.. b.. 5 ... ... ..... ...

NEW( ATE AND LEA.DETTHALL.
The trade gener.sily ruled steady, as follows
3 4 6
p 92. 81be by the carcase.
s. cf- 0. d• H.
140. 8. d.
Beef, interior ...... 2 S 2 10 Mutton, Inferior 2 10 3 0
Do., middling ... O. 3 4 Do., middling 3 2 3 8
Do. prima large.. 3 6 3 8 ( Do., prime
Do., do. small ....3 10 ..1 2 I Veal..
Pork, large .. ...... 3 6 310 1 Pork. small 434
60 4 2
Lamb,. 4s 4a to 5s 6d. 4 8

80R0 UGH HOP.
There is very little change to notice in the accounts from
the plantations, and the ant, is backed at 130,000/. Fipe
hops are steady at full prices, . but inferior parcels rule
dull.
Mid and East Kent pockets., 4/ 15s to Cl Os ; Weida
of Kent, 4/ Os to 4/m*
lOs; Su, x, 31 108 to 4/ 2s; yeas.
lings, 01 Os to 01. Os, per cwt.