The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-12 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1844.

Accounts have been received from Tangiers which
leave little doubt that the war between France and
Morocco is at an end. This will be a terrible blow
to the fire-eaters in Paris. They calculated upon
serious results from the march of Marshal BUGBAUD
into the territory of the Moors. They repudiated the
interference of the English, and would be satisfied
with nothing less than some important station oppo-
site to Gibraltar. They knew well that England
could not stand by quietly and allow any maritime
power to establish itself on the Straits, and they
cheered on therefore BUGEAUD and JOINVILLE
to act with decision. Wofully have they been
disappointed, and furious will be their outcry
against M. Gr. OT for suffering the English Consul

to have one word to say in the matter. There is no
chance of war then in that quarter, and they must
fall back upon the Pacific for some more substantial
ground of quarrel. There must be no compromise
then. " One PRITCHARD" excited the Otaheitans
to rebellion against their protectors. PRITCHARD must
be sacrified, and BRUAT and D'AUBIGNY exalted
to the rank of patriots, and if their Foreign Minister
acts with common justice and common honesty, he
will be denounced as a traitor to his country. No man
who has attended to the spirit which animates the Op-
position journals of Paris for some time can fail to see
that their object is war—war without rhyme or
reason against England and Louis PiiirarrE. We
believe, however, that these rabid journals do not re-
present the feelings of the French nation. There are
many good and great men i:i that country who know
that war could not benefit France, that England
wishes to live at peace, that they have gained much
under the administration of the present Sovereign,
and that before they risk a collision between the two
greatest nations in the world there must be some
other cam Belli than a miserable squabble about a
petty island on the other side of the globe.

The Morning Herald of Saturday last came out
with a desperate rebuke to the Anti-Corn-law League,
en masse, and a censure (meant to be extremely dig-
nified) for Mr. COBDEN, in special. The exhibition,
as usually happens to very angry remonstrants, is a
most unfortunate one for our . Contemporary "at her
time of life"—for Mr. COBDEN, it seems, has now lent
his authority to the vague rumours that have long
prevailed as to the sex and senility of the complainant.
People should not permit themselves to be
betrayed into such a pucker about what she
calls " Mr. COBDEN'S impertinences." The
very exclamation one might have anticipated
from ancient and somewhat irritable prudery! But
we did not expect to find our doubting question of
Friday last, so speedily justified, as well as an-
swered. " What will be thought in Shoe-lane," we
then inquired, " of the license which Mr. COBDEN
allows himself in toying, in Covent-garden Theatre,
with such disreputable topics as political economy ?"
And, lo! on Saturday, the lady of that manor repu-
diates all Mr. COBDEN'S good-humoured pleasantries
(delivered, too, in such a place and neighbourhood)
as " impertinences," and, with a sad lack of temper,
asks—" What is to be expected from uneducated
persons, placed by circumstances in a posi-
tion for which they are ludicrously un-
fitted." Mr. COBDEN, for whom this is palpa-
bly intended, needs no vindication at our hands—
nor from any others. He is so well able to vindi-
cate himself, that we are sure it will never occur to
him that this is matter which should call upon him
for any notice of a feeble—scolding ! Besides, his
sobriquet has attributed a certain uge to the party.
" Hine Ulm lacrymee." He can scarcely have a
right to complain of any resentment exhibited at
such an affront. Yet let it be permitted us to
remind the Morning Herald that the facts attend-
ing Mr. COBDEN'S attainment of the "position" he
occupies supplies the best proof that he is eminently
" fitted " for it. To have been the rallying point
of the League, the inexhaustible, indefatigable, in-
vincible, expositor of its " great argument," within
the walls of Parliament, and without it in a hundred
different parts of the kingdom,—to have faced all op-
position, courted all discussion, challenged all anta-
gonists,—to have achieved, in these combats, so many
victories, acquired so many supporters, conciliated so
many enemies—all this bespeaks, surely, the posses-/
sion of no ordinary average of intelleet—no every-day
amount of moral and physical energy. We say
nothing of the discouragements and difficulties
under which he has obtained the respect of both
parties in the House of Commons, and a
high degree of consideration even among those
classes of the community—(they are few, indeed)—
who are still opposed to his doctrines of free-trade, or
that much larger portion of the public who still resist
his doctrine of low prices. But the Herald, of all
papers under the sun, we should have expected to find
among the most eulogistic admirers—or enviers—of
a man, through the instrumentality of whose extra-
ordinary tact and unremitting perseverance, a fund of
50,0001. in one year, and of 100,0001. in another, has
been subscribeed towards the purposes of the League.
But the Herald, with the report of last week's
League meeting in black and white before it, is so
infirm or so jaundiced of vision, that it believes the
Association's:" influence, consideration, and respecta-
bility (if it ever possessed any) have disappeared."
There are certain ages, and certain social relations—
that the Herald is supposed to know something
about—which require artificial aids for the cor-
rection of natural infirmities. Where were its
spectacles when this was written ? Or could nobody
be found to read its own report aloud ? But in what
follows there is something which implies so great a
hardihood in an ancient lady—who should, in all
things, discourage the habit of speaking untruths—
that we almost blush for our friend.
" In good truth the life or death of the Anti-Corn-
law League, considering the quantity of influence it has
had on public opinion, is a matter of the greatest indif-
ference, except inasmuch as it is to be lamented that con-
federations for the extortion of money have become so
frequent as to be springing up and disappearing almost
annually. Whether the League be at present dead,'
or merely in a swoon, we do not possess sufficient skill to
decide. If it be only the latter, however, its managers
would do well to look that the public be not deceived
by its quietness, and bury it in oblivion by general
consent."

Fie ! fie ! If the life or death of the League be so
indifferent to you, why so angry at its proceed-
ings and its leaders' speeches ? If you suppose it
dead, why denounce in the intemperate terms that
crowd the article before us, the vehicle of a
" screamer," as brother Jonathan has it, against Mr.
COBDEN, Mr. BRIGHT, and all Radicals,—against
Mr. D'ISRAELI, and all others of Young England or
Old, who are opposed to the policy of your hard task-
master, Sir RoART PEEL ? If you believe that the
League is only slumbering, why in such haste to
pronounce a parting denunciation against it ?
Another time, our fair (?) Contemporary will do well
to be less angry or more artificial. She defeats her
own object of misrepresenting, by exaggeration and
inconsistency. Vituperation is not the language of
indifference. To be believed in charging Mr. Conning
or any other Member of the League with " scurrility
and abuse," the Herald should not recriminate in
language precisely of that quality. But if it thought
the League, indeed " a ricketty speculation," how
came it to devote a very conspicuous article to its at-
tack ? It ought to have fallen, of its own accord.
On the contrary, it will live to quiz the Herald again
next year, and to the tune, we suspect, of "money in
both pockets."

Returning to the " Report of the Commissioners of
Revenue Inquiry," to wl‘zh we directed public at-
tention on Saturday last, we shall again address our-
selves to some of its more remarkable features. We
have no doubt that all who have perused the " report"
itself, will have arrived at the same conclusion with
ourselves ; namely, that for many years past the
revenue of customs has been annually defrauded of
hundreds of thousands of pounds, through the com-
bination or conspiracy of certain officers of the Crown

this department of its service, with private
importers or their agents. It is to be ob-
served that whatever the meagre extent of the
knowledge which the public, as yet, possesses of the
evidence which has been taken by three examining
parties—(namely, the Board of Customs itself—sub-
ordinate officers, under them, delegated to conduct
particular investigations and to report th• results
thereof to that Board ; and this Commission of
Revenue Inquiry)—that evidence clearly implicates
to a vaguely surmised, but formidable extent, many
parties who had not yet been subjected to interroga-
tion, and many more who have been dismissed some
time since, but against whom the witnesses produced
before the Commisioners of Inquiry seem to be
capable of affording cumulative evidence.
The Commissioners of Inquiry after setting forth their
desire "to inquirer urther into the manner of conduct-
ing that part of the business of the Customs more im-
mediately in connexion with the two first heads of
fraud, which are therein described, and which is con-
ducted by the Searchers' Department,' " remark
that their previous Report (of 22d May last) was de-
voted exclusively to the subject of fraudulent impor-
tations of silk, lace, gloves, and fancy goods. It is a
melancholy confession which they are called upon to
make—that sufficient disclosures had been already
made to thorn, to prove that paid officers of the Go-
vernment had been easily induced to facili-
tate the designs of the fraudulent trader in
his attempts to cheat the Revenue, by

every mode of deceit, and every description
of falsehood." The Commission were forced, " very
early in their inquiries, to feel a distrust of the in-
tegrity of the officers and of the efficiency of the
system. The previous high character and estima-
tion of an officer appeared to be no guarantee for his
honour and integrity." They had ample reason to
arrive at these conclusions. In turning their atten-
tion to the " Gauging Department and the system
pursued at the dock warehouses," they deemed it
highly probable, from some remarkable evidence
brought before them, that " the practice of serious
frauds in regard to spirits and wines" was
continued, and the admission (in a particu-
lar case detailed in their former report)
of cigars as marble, in St. Katherine's Docks,
" demonstrated that the revenue was liable to fraud
in the docks as elsewhere." To show the wholesale
character of the frauds so successfully practised—
with the aid of the Custom-house officers—on the
revenue, we will now briefly note a few instances.
JOHN ITYCHERLEY (whose case we noticed on Mon
day) being on duty as a weigher on the Custom-
house-quay, in May, 1840, was employed under Mr.
LANG, a landing-waiter (since dismissed), in opening
the outward case of what was apparently an article
of furniture. On a landing-surveyor's coming up,
LANG told him there was nothing in the asserted
book-case ; but after his departure, the case was
opened in LANG'S presence, and ,by his desire.
There were in it fifteen packages,—" sixteen or
eighteen inches in length, of proportionate
depth and breadth ; and they were subsequently
placed in five or six baskets with locks. WYCKERLEY,
who watched them until after office hours, feared to
seize them without orders from LANG, though he
suspected something wrong. On the following
morning they had disappeared, and were never
brought to charge. It has been subsequently ad-
mitted by LANG himself, " that these goods were
clandestinely introduced with his aid on that occa-
sion, and Mr.SIDNEY Moms, his near connexion,
and then a landing-waiter, though now superseded,"
confirmed this statement.

Now, this middle state of condemnation,
this purgatory between the two extremes of un-
questioned tenure of office, and penal dis-
missal from it, we cannot understand. On
what principle do the Custom-house authorities pro-
ceed in such matters ? To us it appears a clear ques-
tion of " guilty or not guilty," which they have to
determine with regard to such offenders. If the
offence be established against them, turn them off, a:
least, finally and distinctly. If the offence be not
established, the accused parties ought not to be sub-
jected to the disgrace of suspension. At the end of
April last,
" Two men in the employ of Messrs. Hall, warehouse-
men on Custom-house Quay, gave information, on oath,
before the Surveyors-general, of numerous transactions
in which, with the aid of the officers, the revenue had
been defrauded for several years preceding. In conse-
quence of this, several officers were suspended early in
May, including Messrs. Sidney Harris and Grayson,
landing-waiters, the former in the receipt of a salary of
3501., the latter of 2501. per annum. After being sus-
pended five or six weeks, withont admitting their guilt,
these last-mentioned officers, on the 13th of June, and
subsequently, fully confessed it, and detailed, on oath, a
long series of fraudulent proceedings, in which they and
other officers had been concerned."

GRAYSON, it seems, lays on COTES, a landing-
waiter (one of the discharged), the having first
tempted him to pass goods improperly; but fully ad-
mitting his own culpability, he claims the merit
of " not having carried to a greater extent
his roguery." And with some reason, as the Com-
mission think, seeing that "from his peculiar situation,
and the confidence reposed in him by his superior
officers, there was little limit to the frauds which he
might have committed. It would appear, however,
from the declarations of one of the Messrs. HALL'S
men, that IN MANY HUNDRED INSTANCES packages
of goods were taken away without payment of duty,
and without knowledge of the officers." We must
refer the reader to the extracts from the " Report,"
which we shall publish, for the my.tery of the enor-
mous frauds perpetrated by means of " dummies" as
they are termed,—some of the packages from their
magnitude called " cottages," being as large as a
waggon could hold.

"Lace, gloves and silk were most frequently the con-
tents of the packages thus fraudulently introduced.
Brandy, however, was ' done e and a joint-stock com-
pany was formed by subscription, for the purpose of frau-
dulently importing tobacco from Rotterdam ; and three
hogsheads, in the early part of 1841 (about 3,400 lbs.
weight), were passed as cheese, though they were
examined by a landing-surveyor, one or two rows of
cheese being placed at the top of the cask. The sub-
scribers to this project cleared about 501. each ; but the
undertaking was stopped, from the jealousy of other
traders, who found it might interfere with their own
illegal importations. But, he adds, after this case, they
deemed their operations quite a certainty.' "
Clock faces, the duty upon which is 20 per cent. ad
valorem, were passed under entry at half the real num-
bers in the packages or case, as 200, for instance,
instead of 1,000. FoOTE, a landing-waiter, now
dismissed, is accused of having, while on duty at St.
Katherine's Docks, " purloined thousands of cigars,
distributing them amongst his friends, and amongst
the Custom-house officers, with great liberality."
Another delinquent got into the clutches of one of
the fraudulent traders thus :—A bacon dealer lent
GRAYSON 701., and having him thus in his power,
forthwith made arrangements with him for fraudulent
importations through his connivance. A person was
dispatched to ITamburgh, who sent over a large
quantity of the drug, coculus indicus, in 49 packages,
purporting to be, all of them, flax. In reality seven
only were flax ; and all were successfully passed as
flax, at the duty of Id. per cwt. on flax,
instead of 2s. 6d. per lb. on the coculus
indicus. The loss to the revenue by this little ope-
ration was 5291. In 1841, barrels of snuff were
passed by GRAYSON and FOOTE, in league, as barrels
of pork. The loss to the revenue may be inferred
from the fact that these two worthies received 1201.
between them from the importers—men, doubtless,
claiming for themselves the character of "highly re-
spectable" tradesmen. But FOOTE, and BULLET (another
landing-waiter), are said to have netted by a few similar
operations, in part of 1842, in warehouses and on
quays on the north side of the river, between 5001. and
1,0001. In most of these cases it was pretty certain
that if the packages had been tested by the " spit,"
the fraud would have been detected. But the
Austrian ,sentinel, in Tekeli, does not more
carefully abstain from thrusting his bayonet
into the miller's sack which contains the melodra-
matic hero, than the " weighers" seem to have
eschewed the notion of passing the spit into bales
and packages belonging to their friends. HARMS,
another officer, admits to have accomplished in six
or eight months of 1840, frauds on the revenue to the
amount of 5001., by passing wines and spirits either
short or under improper descriptions of quality—
tobacco as marble, and silk as specimens of natural
history (!) He received for his own services 801.,
and was enabled to carry on this system of deception
through the remissness of the landing surveyors ; for
in three months he was not visited by one of these
functionaries more than twice ! In 1841 and 1842 this
same adroit gentleman "passed improperly to a large
amount, and for ample remuneration, stained paper,
damask curtains, silks, and wines, either by aid of the
rough book system, or by omission of entry of small
boxes, either large ones or by short entries, or by
omitting any examination whatever," of the packages
passed.

Here, for the present, we once more pause ; much
marvelling what the system can have been,—how
worked and looked after by local and other subordi-
nates,—how checked, controlled, or investigated by
the superior authorities, under whose general juris-
diction it has been placed—which could be thus
easily, perpetually, impudently, and notoriously per-
verted to the robbery and spoliation of that revenue,
which its multiferious and very expensive machinery
was devised to protect and extend.

The Journal of the Two Sicilies of the 27th ult.
publishes the second judgment of the military court,
sitting at Cocenza, was pronounced on the 24th. This
sentence includes the foreign refugees who embarked
in Calabria on the 16th of June last. Seventeen have
been condemned to death. The KING ordered the
sentence to be put in execution regarding the most
guilty parties; consequently nine were executed on
the 28th. The following are the names :—Don AT-
TALIO BANDEIRA, D. EMILIA BANDEIRA, D..NICOLA
RICCIOTTI, D. ANACARSI NARDI, D. DOMENICO
MORO, GIOVANNI VENEXUCCI, GIACOMO ROCCA,
FRANCESCO BARTI, DOAIENICO LUEATELLI."

Fifteen executions have now taken place on ac-
count of the Calabrian revolt, several of whom be-

longed to the higher ranks in society. Three were
Venetian noblemen. The two brothers, BANDEIRA
and Moao, were lieutenants in the Austrian navy ;
M. Matra was an advocate from Modena, and RIC-
CIOTTI was an officer in the army, who had distin-
guished himself in the Peninsular war.

Madrid journals of the 4th have been received.
Three arrests had taken place, and executions also
were anticipated. Discontent had begun to appear
among the troops, and eleven officers of one regiment
had been discharged from the service. Though the
capital apparently was tranquil, great despondency
and uncertainty as to the intentions of the Govern-
ment prevailed. The Finance Minister, Senor MoN,
had arrived from Barcelona, and made an arrange-
ment with the Bank of San Fernando for another ad-
vance of money for the month of August.
The Three per Cents. were done at 27/ at 60 days;
the Five per Cents. at 20 9-16 for cash, and 19i at
60 days.

The debate in the House of Lords on Lord
MINTo's motion, respecting the navy, furnished a
fruitful topic for discussion in the Paris papers,
which turns chiefly, however, on the Otaheite affair.
The Opposition journals, as well as those of the Go-
vernment, have, from what occurred in the House,
found out the error into which they had been led by
a Tory London paper. The remarks of the Duke of
WELLINGTON and Lord ABERDEEN leave no doubt
that reparation Must be made for the outrage com-
mitted on Mr. PRITCHARD. The Siecle thus com-
ments on the debate :—" Every word spoken this sit-
ting contains a proof of the of England to-
wards France, and a design to humiliate us, whether
in peace sr in war. Under an appearance of modera-
tion, Lord HADDINGTON makes it clearly understood
that he watches us, and that he is ready for whatever
may arise. As to the Duke of WELLINGTON, he
speaks as if he were always assured of having a
Spanish army under his command, or a Prussian
army on our flank to change our victory at Waterloo
into a sanguinary defeat. This ardent rivalry of the
two first nations of the world could have been pre-
vented, but by a deplorable system of foreign policy,
interests have been brought together which ought to
have been kept apart, and the maintenance of a peace
equally desirable for the two nations, will become
every day more difficult. The bending of the knee
of M. GUIZOT will only render more intolerable the
pride of the British aristocracy."
The Commerce regards the misunderstanding be-
tween England and France in a very serious light,
and justly asserts that as a hostile feeling prevails on
both aides, the least spark will cause a terrible con-
flagration. Now, we ask who is to blame for this bad
feeling ? Is is not the Opposition journals of Paris,
who at intervals for the last threeor four years heaped
every abuse en "Perfidious Albion," and even that
abuse made little impression on the people of England
till the late outrage committed on an Englsh subject
at Otaheite. "The English Ministers," says the
Commerce, " seek as much as they can to calm public
opinion indirectly by their journals; but as far as
they are directly and personally engaged themselves,
they are compelled to obey it. This is a novel situa-
tion which merits to be studied with the greatest
care, and which ought to be well understood. For
the first time since 1830 it is not only the two Go-
vesnmente, but the two nations which are opposed to
each other. The two Governments, it is true, still
take each other by the hand, but the two people cast
looks of defiance and anger at each other. Such a
state of things is assuredly very serious. When a mis-
understanding arises between Governments, the
changing a Minister often suffices torestore harmony;
but when that misunderstanding has made its way
into the hearts of the people, no one can foresee the
issue of it. Although on former occasions, important
subjects of dispute have net led to collision between
the English and us, no one can deny that war might
not arise out of the most insignificant affair. This
new state of public feeling in England is, in our opi-
nion, the most important feature of the case. Although
it is only now in its infancy, and is only shown by
trifling circumstances, it is nevertheless very visible
to those who are acquainted with the country, and
attentively watch what is going on. France must be
acquainted with this, in order not to be taken un-
prepared. Our duty is to point it out to her."

The Ministerial journals take a more favourable
view of the affair, and one of them seams to infer
that our Government is inclined, for what reason we
cannot see, to throw the blame on Mr. PRITCHARD.
" We find ourselves," says the Journal des Debats,
" called upon to declare that we attach no impor-
tance to this debate, in which Lord ABERDEEN, the
natural organ of the English Government in what
relates to foreign affairs, took no part. The Duke of
WELLINGTON, who did make some observations,
would perhaps have done better had he abstained
from speaking. He declared that he would not enter
upon the question, whether Mr PRITCHARD had or
had not merited the treatment he had received. Un-
fortunately this is the whole question, and until this
is decided, until we know from which side the eccen-
tricities came, we confess we cannot judge of the
right claimed by England to a reparation. Lord
HADDINGTON, the First Lord of the Admiralty,
seems to us to have taken a much better view of the
that when agents of a foreign Go-
matter, in saying
vernment go beyond their instructions, recourse
ought to be had to their Sovereigns ; but the right of
intervention did not belong to the agents of any Go-
vernment, who would in such case have the faculty
of engaging their country in wars, the consequences
of which could not be foreseen. We conceive that
these words clearly imply a condemnation of Mr.
PRITCHARD and his eccentricitics."

The same journal gives the following amusing
description of the Opposition press of the two coun-
tries :

" Both Lord Aberdeen in England and M. Guizot in
France arc accused and convicted of having sacrificed
the honour of their respective countries. To gratify
M. Guizot, Lord Aberdeen sinks England deep in hu-
miliation, and M. Guizot, who is resolved not to owe
anything to his Lordship, passes his life in dishonouring
France. Lord Aberdeen faints with fear at the very
name of France, and M. Guizot hides his head with the
same feeling, if England puts on the slightest frown.
Lord Aberdeen has caused Lieutenant Gray to be con-
demned by a court-martial, and the whole English navy
shudders with indignation. M. Guizot will disavow Cap-
tain D'Aubigny, and in the meantime the French press
hastens to throw a veil of mourning over the tricoloured
flag. Lord Aberdeen is rampant and imbecile —M.
Guizot a coward and a traitor. The first receives de-
grading kicks without a word, and thinks only of satis-
fying the outcry of the French, and the second is ready
to deliver up to England both Calais and Havre. This
is textually what is issued on both sides of tho Channel,
to the great satisfaction of the English and French
patriots."
The Ministerial journals consider the intelligence
from Morocco of a very favourable character, as far
as regards the dispositions of the EMPEROR, but have
doubts of his abilility to carry them into effect. The
disposal of ABD-EL-KADER forms the great difficulty.
If we are to believe some of the papers, he has been
already disposed of. " The son of the EMPEROR,"
Says the Journal de Paris, " irritated at ABI.EL-
KADER'S resistance to the orders of his father, and
alarmed at the ascendancy that Arab chief was ob-
taining over the people, is said to have dispatched to
him an emissary, who has shot him point blank.
This news, strange as it appears, has obtained some
credence. It is said to have been communicated by a
letter from Algesiras."
Accounts from Lalla Magrina announce that Mar-
shal BUCEAUD had quitted the army on that station,
and given the command to General LAMORICIERE.
The greatest activity prevailed there, and other places
along the coast, for carrying on the war with vigour.
The Marshal evidently puts little faith in the peace-
able dispositions of the EMPEROR. Preparations
were also in progress at Toulon for reinforcing the
squadron under the Prince DB JOINVILLE.
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TIIE BOURSE--SATURDAY, AUGUST 10.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. prim.
French Five per Cults l2l 20 121 30 .. 121 10 .• 121 10
Four per Cen0....•• 105 75 105 75 .. 105 75 •• 105 75
Three per Cents.•• •• 81 65 .• 81 75 .. 81 50 •• 81 60
Laffitte Bank, I,ooof. Bhareslloo ..1100 •• 1100 • • 1100
Belgian Five 5,1831.....•
1840
1842 15
.. 1081 •• 1081
Spanish Passive...." •• • • tif •• 5: • • •1 • • 5
Portuguese Five
per Cents 43 .. 431 • • 43 431
Neapolitan ............. 05 .. 148 20 • • 98 05 • • (..,8 20
Roam 1031 .. 1031 • • 104 • • 1031

RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain
Versailles, RI . 380 380 .. 380 • • 880
237 50 .. 237 50 .• 235 .. 235
Rotten •
Rouen to Havre.
Orleans 972 50 •• 972 • .• 970 •• 970
Stra.sbnrg to Bale 238 75 238 75 .• 237 58 .• 237 50
Avignon to 3iarseilles• 760 .• 760 • 760 •• 760
RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, 15T/T OF AUGUST.
Versailks, R. 8.. 380 .. 350 • • 380 • • 380
Rouen • 975 .. 975 .. 975 •• 975
Rouen to Havre 753 T 5 .. 753 T 5 .. 743 75 .. 748 75
°rlean5••••••• •• 972 50 .. 971 ED .. 968 75 •• 968 75
Strasburg to Balc . 237 50 •• 238 75 .• 236 25 • 237 50

THIS DAY'S NEWS.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
Sales to a moderate extent were effected in Cotton at
Liverpool on Saturday, and there was a steady feeling.
4,000 bales changed hands at previous rates. On the
whole business was rather heavier in Shares, but
Birmingham were in demand, and French were in
rather better request. Birmingham and Gloucester, 112;
Dublin and Cashel, 6 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quarter,
16:4 ; Lancaster and Preston, Quarter, 1 N ; Liverpool and
Manchester, 234; London and Birmingham, 232; Ditto,
Quarter, ; Midland Counties, 108 i; Sheffield and
Manchester, 86; South Eastern, 39; Orleans, Tours,
and Bordeaux, 2.

There are no arrivals to-day.
The Funds have opened to-day rather flatly, and in
the absence of any activity. The wet weather, of which
a continuance might damage the condition of the crops,
is assigned as the cause of the heaviness ; but, at the
same time, the Otaheite business is another. Consols for
Transfer have been 98k to 99,i, and fur Time 99 to
there having been one or two bo»a fide sales of Stock.
The Commissioners have taken 10,0001. at 99i. Bank
Stock is worth 200 to 2001. Nothing has been
done in India Stock. Exchequer Bills have
been at a decline to 755. and 745. premium,
indicating a slight increase in the demand for
money. East India Bonds have been steady at 96 prem.
The New Three -and-a-Half per Cents. hare been worth
101 k to 101 i, and the Reduced to 1021 1021. The
Three per Cents. have been 99i to 994.
A quiet business has been done in a few of the Foreign
Bonds at about Saturday's quotations. The advices from
Madrid are of rather a more satisfactory character in re-
spect to the bank of San Fernando continuing its
advances, bat there is no change in prices. The
Three per Cents. are 33, and the Five per Cents.
221. Portuguese Converted are dull at 431. Mexican
Bonds realise 35i to 36, Colombian 131 to I, and Bra-
zilian 84i. Belgian are steady at 1034, Russian at
120 i, and the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at
61i to
There has been very little doing in Railway Shares,
but the quotations generally are about the same, being
supported.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock... 200% 200
........ 0000000 .

3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ...........- ........ 99%
3 per Cent. Console. Annuities 99% 98F4 9954
3% per Cent. Reduced Annuities 102%%
New 3% per Cent. Annuities lOl3 %%%
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 1234
India 80nd5,1,000.......... ......
• Ditto under 1,000............. .............
Bank Stock 2CO
Consols for Account .............. ..... „ .......
Exchequer Bills, I%d. 1 Yid
1,0001. •••••••••••••••••••••••• ..... 1.101100 75 '76 pm.
5001 — ............ 57 74 pm.
Ditto Small...—. .....
Ditto Advertised
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCR.
Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent 103%
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Columbian Bonds. 13%54
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent
Ditto for the Account 36 W..%
Portuguese Bongs' 5 per Cent.
Ditto Converted 431,4
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent 1205%s
Spanish, Bonds,. Five per Cent 1840.... .......
Ditte for the Account
Ditto Three per Cent. ..... -...............
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 4131
Dutch 234 per Cents 61%)4%
Dutch 5 per Cents lOl% 101
New Loan, 5 per Cents. (1837)' 1011,04
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Pain. PER SHARE.
Birmingham and Gloucester IOO
Bristol and Gloucester
Chester and Holyhead 5 5104 ... to
Dublin and Cashel. 234 614,1 ... to
Eastern Counties
Ditto New Registered 81. 6s. Sd.
Ditto Perpetual 5 per cent l3s. 4d.... _
Ditto Ditto (No. 2) — . % to
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O .... ..... 65
Great North of England
Great Western
Ditto 54 Shares
Lancaster and Carlisle b
London and Birmingham.
London and 81ackwa11...... ......... 1634
Landon and Brighton 5O 48% ...... to
London and Greenwich
London and Croydon
Midland Counties
Birmingham and Derby 100 ..
Norwich and Brandon
South Eastern and Dover ..... ... 323(
Ditto New
York and North Midland ..... .... 50 .........110
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen
Rouen and Havre.
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
London Joint Stock
London and Westminster 2O
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, Ava. 10.
3 per Cent. Consols 99%
Throe and a Half Stock .......
Ditto New, 1830
334 per Cent. Debenture'
Bank Stock

---
Grand Canal Debentures, 6 per Cent.
Royal Canal Stock —
4 per Cent. Ballast Office Debentures.... P934
4 per Cent. City Debentures
LAST PRICES OF SHARES.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SRAM

Dublin and K. Road
Drogheda'Ditto 6O 74%
Dublin and Cashel ditto
Hibernian Bank 25%
Royal Bank ......
National Insurance 25
Patriotic ditto
Mining Company of Ireland 7
Wicklow Copper Mines
City of Dublin Steam Company 100
Ditto Ditto 5O
Ditto Difto, 1836
British and Irish Steam Company ... 50

Steam Ship Building Company
MANCHESTICE STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 9.—We have had
a firm market, and a good inquiry for stock. Barnsley Junc-
tion, 655. 6d. ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 1 13-16 ;
Chester and Birkenhead, 31h ex div. ; Ditto, HalrShares,
15i to 4; Eastern Counties, Perpetual, No. 2, 205.; Man-
chester and Leeds, Half Shares, 50; Manchester and Bir-
mingham, 54i to 4 ; Manchester and Buxton, 378.; South-
Eastern, New, 12i.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-( THIS DAY.)
LONDON, Arc. 12.—Wind W. to S.W., light breeze,
with hoary rain at times.

DEAL, -AuG. 10.—P.M. Wind E.S.E. to E.-11. A.m.,
S.E. to N.E., light ; P.M. S.W. moderate.—Sld, Sarah
Nicholson, Cuba ; St. Vincent's Planter, Ichaboe ; Ajax
and City of Rochester, Quebec ; and the whole of the
outward bound, except Eliza Ann, for Brazil .
&mums, Attic. 9.—The Minerva, from Inverness,
came off the Herd last night without damage.
YARMOUTH, AUG. 9.—The Providence Goodwill has
been brought into the harbour, and lies in the mud full
of water.

HAYLE, Am. B.—The Navarino, Paynter, the Joseph,
Williams, and the Prince Regent, Husband, are reported
to be missing, and very little hopes are entertained of
their safety. .

MARYPORT, AUG. B.—The Miranda, Can, of and from
Belfast, is ashore in Silloth Bay, and has sustained a
good deal of damage to her bottom.
PORT MADOC, AUG. 9.—The Druid, from Strangford,
was struck by a sea 6th inst., which split her stern,
shifted her ballast, &e.
PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 11.—Wind N.N.W. to S.W.—
Sld. Diana and Severn, Ichaboe ; Tecumseh, New York;
Candia, St. John's, New Brunswick ; London, Mauri-
tius ; Thomas, Jamaica. Arrd. Quebec, London for
New York.

R►aISGATE, AUG. 11.—S1d.! Shanim, Cape of Good
Hope. The Malta, of Aberdeen, from Grangemouth for
Rotterdam, was abandoned Bth inst., off the Tempi, in
a sinking state ; crew saved.

TORBAY, AUG. 9.—Sld. Juliana, Singapore.
LIYERPOOL, Auc. 10.—Wind N.W., fresh.-11. S.,
moderate.—Arrd. Jamefie, Jack, and Norfolk, Elliott,
New Orleans ; Sovereign, Bunhead, Quebec. Sld. 10th,
Sarah Birkett, Sydney, New South Wales ; Victoria,
Batavia ' • Fire Queen (s.), Calcutta ; Anpl Bahia ; Cum-
berland,Pernambuco ; Orinoco, Augustina, John Ganow,
Jamaica ; Flancio and Serafin, Havannah ; Colupus,
Columbia ; Great Britain, Nicholas Biddle, and Rochester,
New York ; Manteo, Boston ; City of Waterford,
Magnet, and Souter Johnny, Montreal ; Colombus,
Duke of Cornwall, Lady Milton, Pallas, Royal Albert,
and Victory, Quebec ; Jim Crow and Ocean Queen,
Newfoundland ; Martin Luther and Susan, Cal-
cutta ; Mail, Bombay ; Fencer and Parsee, Mer-
chant, Ichaboe ; Imaume, Lathorn, Ireland ; Isabella,
Rio Grande ; Anglesea, Columbia ; Agnes packet,
Africa; Gossypiam, New Orleans; American, Savannah ;
Jupiter, Charleston ; Powhattam, Baltimore ; Clinton
and T. P. Cope, Philadelphia ; Mayflower and Zazoo,
New York ; Glasgow, and George Davis, Boston ;
Christopher Humberstone, St. John's, N.B. ; Emerald,
Pugwash ; Wellington, Princ© Edward's Island, Alex-
ander Grant, Hannibal, Hero of Acre, John, Marquis
of Normanby, Peel's One,, and Pollock, Quebec.
CLYDE, AUG. B.—Arrd. Diana, Greig, Barbadoes.
Sid. Favourite, Montreal ; Lady of the Lake, Quebec ;
Juno, Newfoundland.

DUBLIN, AUG. 9.—Arrd. Sir J. Kempt, Quebec. Sid.
Bridget and Wanderer, Quebec.

Coat, AUG. 9.—Sid. Ursula, Bombay. Off, Moslem,
Vale, Hayti; Mathesis, Sierra Leone; Champion, Steele,
Antigua.
PETERHEAD, AUG. B.—Arrd. Union, Ogoton, Green-
land, four fish, 30 tuns, left the grounds 20th ult.
BRISTOL, AUG. 11.—S1d. Edward Colston, Africa ;
Maria, Demerara ; Mary Jane, Prince Edward's Island ;
Collins, Quebec.

FALB!. 0-UTE, Auc. 11.—Some large pine timber and
some spruce battens were passed sth inst., lat. 49, lon.
20, by the Brome, arrived here.
BUDE, AUG. 10.—A pair of fancy bellows, with brass
nose, and initials " J. W." cut in them, have been washed
ashore at Hartland, with a ship's box, containing some
candles, &c.

CASTLETOWN, AUG. 7.—Her Majesty's steamer Strom-
boli, in leaving the inside anchorage at Bantry, got on the
bar of the Horse Island, and remains, but is expected off
next spring tides, after being lightened. She does not
appear at present to have received much damage.
LONDONDERRY, AUG. 9.—The Thomas Galston, of
and from Belfast for Quebec, was abandoned 3d inst.,
let. 55, lon. 26, disnaasted. Arrd. Brilliant, Piercy,
Antigua.

PORTSMOUTH REGATTA, AUG. 9.—Portsmouth
Harbour Regatta was continued yesterday, in defiance
of thunder, wind, and heavy rain, which occurred fre-
quently during the day. The sailing matches were ad-
mirably contested, and the sailing-boats managed in very
superior style, especially the wherries. The Rear-Ad-
miral Superintendent kindly allowed the Portsmouth and
Fanny tenders, and the Echo steamer, decorated with
flags, to be moored near the starting vessel, for the ac-
commodation of the public. The regimental bands were
in attendance, but owing to the unsettled state of the
weather the spectators were not so numerous as hereto-
fore, though the prizes:and matches were admirably
arranged by the steward, Mr. Vandenbourg.
We regret to learn, from accounts received in town
on Saturday, that Lord Keane is suffering from severe
indisposition, at his Lordship's residence in Hants.
The Chevalier Bunsen embarked yesterday morn-
ing on board the General Steam Navigation Company's
steam-ship, Earl of Liverpool, for Ostend.

MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.)

CORN-EXCHANGE-MONDAY.

During the past week the arrivals of English Wheat
were on a very limited scale, but those of most other
kinds of grain were seasonably extensive, and of very
superior quality. Fresh up we received about 200
quarters of new Wheat, chiefly from Essex and Kent
Of old English Wheat, the supply was very small. The
demand was certainly active, but not to the extent
expected, and prices advanced upon those obtained
on Monday last of from is to 2s per quarter,
at which a good clearance was effected. The
quantity of Foreign Wheat on offer was good,
while the sale for it was steady, at an advance of is per
quarter. No English Barley at market ; but of Foreign
the quantity was rather extensive. There was more
doing in grinding sorts, the value of which was a trifle
dearer ; but malting and distilling parcels were heavy.
In Malt very little was doing, at late rates. The quan
tity of fresh Oats was not very extensive, while the de-
mand was steady, at full prices. Beans, Peas, and
Flour ruled about stationary. The seed market was dull,
but we hare no material alteration to notice in value.

CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE.
iiVii EAT—Essex & Kent, !Maur—Chevalier... ..... • 633 to
red ....... ....• 42s to 52s OATS—Yoikshire and
Ditto, white ..... .... 49s to 575! Lincolneh., feed 2.3s to
Norfolk and Lin- i Potatoe
coin, red ...... ...... 30s to 4C3 Youghall and Cork,
Ditto wh itc 44)s to 53s black 17s to Ifs
•

Irish, red 47s to 50s I Cork, white
Ditto white
aVE—ohi
New 36s to 3.ss Pigeons
BARLEY—Grinding Vs to 273 PEAS— Grey 3os to 325
Malting 134 to 365: Map!a
Chevalier 32s to 355; White 3os to 34s
MALT—Suffolk and Nor. I Boilers 32s to 3se
folk 583 to 62s FLOUR—Town made ... 44s to 4Ga
Brown sos to SO Suflo k 34s to 3Ss
Kingston and Ware 58s to 02sJ Stockton & Norfolk 33$ to 361
FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR IN BOND. . __

...... 4'23 to Ms:BEANS

Hamhurgh 36s to 40s PE*s 23s to 27.
BARLEY 3os to 33. Flom—American
OATS—New
Feed l4s to 16s
sivirrxicrxELD.
- -

Although the supply of Beasts on offer was less than
that exhibited on this day se'nnight, it proved tolerably
good for the time of year, both as regards number and
quality. The attendance of both town and country
buyers being numerous, a decided improvement was
noticed in the Beef trade, and an advance of quite 2d per
81b was readily paid for all descriptions. In some in-
stances the primest Scots were disposed of at 4s 2d per 81b,
but the more general quotation did not exceed 4s per Blb.
A falling off was observed in the number of Sheep, yet
they were quite equal to meet the wants of the trade.
The Mutton trade was firm, and last week's quotations
were steadily supported, the best old Downs producing
4s per 8 lbs. Lambs, the supply of which was good,
commanded a steady inquiry, at full prices. The demand
for veal was rather active, yet no further improvement
can be noticed in prices. In Pigs very little was doing,
and the rates remained about stationary.

Per Sibs. to sink the wild.

a d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d.
Inferior.Besuits 2 6 2 0 Second qualityiltto... 3 4 3 0
Second quality ditto 2lO 3 2 Coarse-woolled ditto.. 3 6 3 8
Prime large Oxen 3 4 3 0 Southdown Wethers 310 4 0
Prime Scots, &c.
large coarse Calves 3 4 310 Large Hogs 3 2 3 11
Prime small ditto 4 I 4 0 Small Porkers 3lO 4 0
Suckling Calves, each 10 0 34 0 Quarter old Pigs, eachl6 0 20 0
Inferior Sheep - 6 3 2 Lambs 3 5 4 8
SUPPLY AT MARKET.
Beasts. I
1 Sheep.
Calves. I Pigs.
2,741 21,860 I 152 233
ZirMIXTGILTE AND LEADIENHALL.

Rather extensive supplies of country•killed meat have
been received up to these markets in fair condition. For
prime Mutton, as well as for Veal, we have a very steady
depend at prices quite equal to those obtained on this
day se'ennight. Otherwise the trade has been is a very
sluggish state, and the quotations have been with diffi-
culty supported.

At per atone, ty tha Carcase.