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Linen.—The Armagh market, was sparingly sup-
plied, but the demand being slack there was no
change in priceq. In Lurgan the quantity of lawns
offered was particularly small ; prices are advancing.
Bird-eye diapers in demard, and scarce. Damasks
neglected. In Ballymena, on Saturday, there was
a good demand at fine prices.
Linen Yarn.—The demand for yarn for home
consumption is slow, but as a considerable number
of shipping orders are still unexecuted stocks are
low and prices firm.
Flax.—The markets were poorly supplied with
flax, in some places not more than a couple of loads
or so appearing. It is generally considered that
10-12ths at least of the crop of last season have
been disposed of, and that not more than one-sixth
remains to supply the wants of spinners until the
new crop comes in.

[PRION STAMPED 50.]

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NEW SOCIETY OF FEMALE ARTISTS.

PUBLICATIOAS.

There has been of late a lively movement in fa-
vour of opening up new channels for female indus-
try. While the extraordinary increase in the num-
bers of our people, now acknowledged to be un-
precedented, fills the workshops and office', as well
as the learned professions and the army and navy,
to overflowing, there are but few employments
which afford assistance to women. The practice of

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Now ready, price 14,
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" Old men, and held ames in the street,
Do prophesy about it dangerously."—Shakspere.
Hurst and Black:ett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, 13,
Great Marlborougn-street.

N:BW NOVEL BY MRS. FOOT.
Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols,
GOOD IN EVERYTHING.
By Mrs. FOOT.
Hurst and Black ett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colbum, 13,
Grant Marlborough—street.

physic is closed to them, although less than two
centuries hick the " doctoring" of the piovincial
inhabitan's was almost wholly performed by
Women ; and in the United States female practi-
tioners in medicine new freely compete with those
of the stronger sex.
Since the exercise of the pencil is permitted to
ladies, and a considerable amount of artistic talent
is known to exist in-England among all classes of
women, a society has been set on foot by a few ac-
tive and beneficent perons, with the object of col-
lecting the works of female artists into an exhibition
for sale. This exhibition will open on the Ist of
June, and will comprise, along with the produc-
tions of painters by profession, some contributions
from amateurs, not a few of which are und.erAtood
to possess disfng-uislied merit. It is nowise in-
tended as a rival exhibition to those already before
the.public, nor do the female artists wish to imply
that they consider themselves unfairly treated by
the older societies. Into these a fair number of fe-
male exhibitors have always been admitted, and
their works-(which, indeed, have ranked confessedly
among the gems of the, collection) adequately com-
mended. But a society framed by Men, for their own
advantage, and necessarily limited in numbers, can-
not open its doors to the applications of female paint-
ers without prejudice to the very design of the insti-
tutio,i. Nor, again, can the Royal Academy exhibi-
tion serve the purpose of a sale room for water-colour
drawing-, which are naturally eclipsed by their more
powerful neighbotirs in oil. If it be objected that
the effect of a Female Artists' Society will be to
swell the amount of mediocrity whch is annually
thrown up,m the town in the shape of drawings and
paintings, we would reply that in all departments
of art gradations of talent must exist ; that the ex-
htbiti ais actually open, such as the Royal Academy
and the Society. of British Artists in Suffolk-street,
contain no small proportion of inferior specimens of
paining in various branches ; and that, supposing
the Female Artists' Society to produce no greater
an amount of mediocrity, compared with works of
merit, than the old societies; no partisan of the.
stronger sex need grudge to the weaker an oppor-
tunity of entering the field of honourable compe-
tition. .

FRENCH FINANCIAL SPECULATORS.

NEW PICTORIAL WORK BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.
On Saturday next w ill be published, in royal Bvo., No. 11., to be
contidued monthly and completed in Ten Numbers, each contain-
ing 2 Plates, price One Shilling,
TIRE LIFE' OF SIR JOHN FALSTAFF,
Illustrated by GEORGE CRIIIKS aANK. With a Biography
of the Knight from authentic sonrces by Bomar B. BROUGH, Esq.
London • Longman, Brown, Green, Longman, and Roberts.

The failure of M. Place, one of the Directors of
the Credit Mobilier, was a Parisian scandal of last
year, the details of which, although carefully hushed
up, transpired to a sufficient extent to shake the
prestige of the body to which he belonged. The
public came perforce to the conclusion that a seat
in the Direction of that colossal establishment by
no means implied habits of sufficient prudence to
avoid dangerous speculations and cansequent em-
barrassment ; and what other qualification as an
equivalent for the absence of that prudence such
Directors as M. Place possessed was a subject of
considerable wonder and mystery. Among the
Parisian bankrupts of the last week figures the
name of M. Charles Thurneyssen, who is said also
to have 'fled ; and rumour of course swells the
amount of his liabilities to something enormous.
Whatever the real sum may be, there is no doubt
that this failure is of a most unfortunate character,
front the near relationship existing between the
bankrupt and two of the magnates of the Credit
Mobilier. Had the sum involved been moderate,
it is to be supposed that they would have made
even large sacrifices to avoid the personal scan-
dal, and the reaction of that scandal on the Credit
Mobilier. Nor is the effect on the Money Market
in Paris likely to be unimportant, from the evi-
dently unsound position of that market, with a vast
amount of stock of every kind seeking permanent in-
vestment. It is clearly a settled thing in France that
matter's are to_ be represented couleur de rose, or not
at all. The Press, which ought to be the enlightener
of the public in financial matters, has to a very great
extent been demoralised by the gagging system
adopted by Louis Napoleon, and from sheer lack of
ussful employment has become in a manner the
mere organ of the Bourse—and, what is worse, not
an independent organ. Irrespective of the weekly.
papers specially devoted to commercial and finan-
cial matters, no small proportion of the Daily Press
of Paris has become the property of one or other of
the associations of capitalists formed for the same
object as the Credit Mob Tier, and trusting like it
to make lucky ventures in the gold mine of pre- ,
miums. The tone of these journals is consequently
such as may furnish a stimulus to speculation,
rather than' open the eyes of the public to the
truth ; for the return of the Parisians to their senses,
and to a use instead of an abuse of the facilities for
monetary operations offered by the Bourse, would
be the ruin of these institutions, and would reduce
to extremely small dimensions the circulation of
some of the Paris Journals.
A more convin-ing proof of the unhealthy condi-
tion of the French Money Market cannotbe adduced
than th e tone in which the French Press has d, scussed.
the very simple question of the renewal of the pri-
vilege of the Bank of France. The propriety of in-
creasing the capital was apparent. The transacticns
of the Bank and its note circulation has vastly in-
creased.; and it was but reasonablethat the capital,
which in reality formed the guarantee fund for the
creditors of the establishment, should be somewhat in-
creased also. As regards the public it is clear that in
fixingthis new capital by an investment in Govern-
ment stock, the guarantee would a ssume itsmost effec-
t:ve character; but the Bourse world, represented by
the Press, were clamorous for the employment of
the four millions of new capital in loans on stock
and sharee. While it was thought that such a des-
tination would' be given to it, prices rose, and there
was a general desire for the adoption of the law ;
but as soon as it was hinted that it was not to be
placed at the disposal of the Beurse, a complete in-
difference to the measure succeeded. Men clearly
feel that this state of speculative tension is perilous,
but have not the courage—probably not the power,
to rem3dy the evil. And in the face of these evia ._
denoes of au overcharged market for securities, the
railway companies are about to issue more, to the
value of several millions, while France is largely
interested in all sorts of foreign schemes, and has
even pndertaken to set Spain financially on her feet
by means of joint stock enterprise. It has also
taken Austria under its wing ; and the Credit Mo-
bilier is godfather to all these undertakings, which
have clearly over-weighted the financial powers of
France. But as though this were not enough, the
most gigantic project of all, that of civilising Russia
by vast railway reseatt, has been also undertaken,
and, so far as appearances go, is likely to prove a
millstone round the neck o the Credit Mobilier.
We have said that the press of Paris is to a great
extent in the hands of Bourse capitalists, who, of
course, seek to use it for the furtherance of their
own designs. Hitherto the Credit Mobilier, trust-
ing to its general influence fora furtherance of views
in which so many found a coil tteral profit, hal not,
as Mires and others have done, established any
organ of its own. But there are symptoms that it
has found it necessary at last to have recourse to
this sort of puffing; and the pages of the periodicals,
great and small, have been absorbed by articles
on the Russian scheme until the public is weary
of it. Pamphlet after pamphlet has appeared ; re-
prints of art=cles in the higher class periodicals—
such as the "Revue des deux Mondes"—have been
issued; but all with little effect hitherto. In like
manner the Spanish schemes of the Monster Com-
pany have been preached up in the periodical we
have named. When we thus find that the Credit
establishment which was to do such wonders is com-
pelled to have recourse to the same manoeuvres as
its more insignificant follower", we are naturally
inclined to suspect that its glory is departing. The
failures of Place and Thurneyssen show that there
are vast risks, as well as vast profits, attached to
the system of which they and their friends were the
originators and high priests ; and no sane man
doubts that any return of the calamities which have
recently tried France so severely will bring about a
financial convulsion the consequences of which will
be terrible.
Three-fourths of the labouring population of
France is engaged iq agricultural pursuits ; but
ever since the inauguration of the present Bourse
and bayonet regime, the Government has systema-
tically encouraged the creation of joint stock com-
panies for commercial purposes, which have had
the double effect of withdrawing capital from agri-
culture, and of fostering the habit of premium
hunting. The result has been that the agricultural
districts, save those in the vicinity of the capital,
are becoming depopulated. The labourers, attracted
by the hopes of employment on the public works
undertaken in thelarge towns, have flocked thither;
the agricultural production of the country is ra-
pidly declining, and the agriculturists are becom-
ing more and more impoverished. The State has
steadily increased its unproductive expenditure,
and while the landholders bear their portion of the
additional burthens, they do not share in the bene-
fits of the outlay. All France is taxed in order that
the population of the department of the Seine may
purchase the necessaries of life at a lower rate than
they naturally command in the market ; and a
high scale of expenditure ,is stimulated among
that population by the distribution of fabulous
sums in wages, which attract workmen from
every part of the empire, under the delusion
that high wages mean increased facilities for sub-
sistence, and under the pressure of poverty arising
from the absence of agricultural enterprise in their
own departments. The Credit Foncier, founded to
supply the agriculturist with capital on moderate
terms, is practically a failure. The notaries thiough-
out France, whose chief business was connected
with loans on mortgage, have no employment ; and,
in fact, agriculture cannot compete with the ourse
r in its demands for capital, and has been•auffered to
go to the wall. The great and rapidly crested for-
tunes of Paris are one of the great perils of the
day. The mode in which they have been accumu-
lated furnishes examples of a most pernicious' cha-
racter, and examples which unfortunately are too
readily followed. Those'possessing PeOlier quali-
ties and certain advantages of position have great
chances of success on the Bourse; but with others.
forming the majority, the odds are all in the con-
trary direction. It is for this reason that such
failures as we have above noted create an anxiety
in the minds of Englishmen, convinced that a vast
mass of unsound speculation, doubtful ostensible
wealth, and much real misery co-exist in France,
and fearing consequently lest every failure of a
great speculator should prove to be his first move-
ment in this financial house of cards towards its
destruction.—Daily News.

DR. BARTH'S AFRICAN TRAVELS AND DISCOVERIES.
Just publi.hed, 3 vols. Bvo. with 11 Maps, 100 Engravings on Wood,
and 36 Illustraidoniin tinted Lithography, price 635. cloth,
TRAVELS ' and DISCOVERIES in NORTH
and CENTRAL AFRICA: Being* a Journal of an Expedi-
tion undertaken umber the auspices of B. B. Majesty's Government
in the Years 1849 —1:855. By HENaY BARTH, Ph. D., D.C.L., Fellow
of the Royal Geographical and As atic Sociedes, &c.
Vols. IV. and V., completing the work, will be published in
the Autumn.
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London : Longman, Brown, Green, Longman, and Roberts.

MR. S. W. BAKER'S WORKS ON CEYLON.

On Saturday next will be published, a New Edition, in fep. Bvo.,
- price 4s. 6d. beards. -
THE RIFLE and the HOUND in CEYLON.
By S. W. BI.KEB, E-q. Second and cheaper Edition, printed
in a more convenient form, with numerous Wood Engravings.
Also, by Mr. Water in Bvo, with coloured Plates, price 15s.
EIGHT Y .EARS' WAND &RINGS in CEYLOg.
London Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts.

ACTON'S ART OF MAKING BREAD.
On 9 hursd.sy next will be published, in fcp. Bvo,

THE ENGLISH BREAD-BOOK, for Domestic
Use, adapted to Families of every grade: Containing Plain
Instructions and Practical Receipts for making numerous varieties
of Bread ; with Notices o, the pres,nt System of Adulteratinn and
its qonsequences, and of the Improved Bating Processes and Insti-
tutions established Abroad. By Elm. ACTON, Author of " Modern
Cookery for Private Families.
London : Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts,

COMPLETION OF "LITTLE DORRIT."

On the 30th inst. wilt be published, price 25., Numbers 19 and 20,

completing

IT T LE DORRIT.
CHARLES DICKERS.
A New Serial Story, uniform with " Bleak House," "David •
Co; 4): " Dombey and Son."
With ranstrations by Hablot K. Browne.

The VOLUME of LITTLK DORRIT will also be published on
the 20th in 4., price Its. cloth, or 245. 6d. half-morocco, containing
40 Illustrations by II alslot K. Browne.

It must not be forgotten by those who deprecate
the multiplication of second-rate and third-rate
pictures that the power of purchasing works of high
quality resides with a comparatively small class.
But a taste for al t may he agreeably fostered by less
ambitious purchases, and the dwellers in the thou-
sand modest abodes of the metropolis may be en-
couraged to decorate and enliven their parlours with
a flowerpiece or a landscape of only a few pounds
value, without being considered to have committed
treason against " high art."

Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bonverie-street.

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FEIST'S RACING RECORD
For a complet4 Calendar of SPORT, from the Ist of January
up to and inclusive of

7 HE EPSO If MEETING.
The JUNE Part wl U be published on theist of the Month.
The MA.7 Number contains a

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W. Wright, sporting 13 rinter and publisher, Fulwood's Bents, Hol-
born, London.

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RICK CLONMS, with Poles, &c., complete,
both New u.i id Second-hand,—A large quantity of canvas
intended for the Critic tea has been made into Rick Cloths, to be sold
as second-hand at greatly reduced prices. A list forwarded by post.
Addre‘s in full, BE vr, JAM IN EDGINUTON, 2, Duke-street, South-
wark, opposite the Br ighton Railway.

ECU RE :INVESTMENTS.—Messrs. R.
11011LEY and C. Thr-adneedle-street, Sworn Stock, Share,
and Mining Brokers,v rill be happy to forward a list of carefully selected
Securities, paying goc pd di videndo, to those who may favour them with
their business, and t o advise them on the safest mode of investing
their capital. Rusin ,ss transacted in the English Fund; at 1-16th
per cent., and in all S tocks, Railway and Mining Shares, on the most
reasonable terms. A selected list of dividend-paying (from 12 to 20
per cent.) and progrfs3sive mines to be had personally or per letter.

ROYAL FREE H 0 SPITAL, GRAY'S-INN-ROAD. -The
number of patients relieved at this Hospital during the
week ending
May 23 was 2,285, of which 626 were new
cam