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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 30, 1844.

describe as being, constantly, in transitu between
London and Gravesend. It will not be necessary for
us to devote many words to a notice of the very arbi-
trary and authoritative tone adopted by the commit-
ting Magistrates in convicting the parties, against
whom warrants of distress were subsequently
granted for levy of the several fines imposed
upon them by the Bench. To these Magistrates,
it seems—not merely, that the indelicacy and
impropriety of their hearing complaints against
servants of a Company which has long acted in
successful rivalry to that of which they themselves
are notoriously shareholders, did not occur; but,
that, when this fact was distinctly urged upon their
attention, and after one of their body (the Chairman
of the rival Company employing the defendants) had
set them the becoming example of retiring from the
justice-room pending the decision on the charges, they
persisted in taking the complaints (instead of allow-
ing them to be carried, as suggested, before the
county justices). They broadly vindicated the course
they had taken, and condemned the men in somewhat
heavy penalties. The general outline of the case
involved in the proceedings is briefly stated.
For some time past the enormous increase of the
passengers by steam-boats to and from Gravesend has
been so rapid, that various companies have been
formed to meet the demands for this river-passage
accommodation, the chief of which are the " Diamond"
and the " Star" Companies. To facilitate the em-
barkation and disembarkation of this vast body
of passengers (now averaging, daily, about 12,000
persons), there are two Royal Piers at Gravesend ; the
older one, situate also in the older part of the town,
called the Town-pier; the more recently con-
structed one, termed the Terrace-pier, being erected
at a point leading to the new town. The old or Town-
pier is frequented by the packets of the Diamond
Company, the new or Terrace-pier by those of the
Star Company ; and between these two bodies the
usual bickerings, consequent on a vigorous competition,
have naturally arisen. The public, as is usual, and in-
deed it is but the reasonable and legitimate result
of such struggles, has derived the benefit of
this energetic rivalry in that reduction of its
original fares which either Association has been in-
duced to make. The " Diamond " Company we be-
lieve set the example ; of course all the other Com-
panies were obliged to follow it. But (as Mr.
CRUDEN observed, when addressing his brother ma-
gistrates in a speech, the manliness, pith and purport
of which did him much honour)—while the Diamond
Company engaged, in its advertisements, to carry pas-
sengers from the Town-pier to London, " calling at
Blackwall," for 9d. each, it omitted to inform the public
that an extra charge would be made for the journey
by the Blackwall Railway. The Star Company fairly
announced "that it contracted to take each passenger by
their boats from the Terrace-pier to London, for the
fare throughout, "by boat and rail," of 9d. only. The
Star Company, it appears, have closed with the offer
of the Blackwell Railway Company, as renewed by
them this season, the latter undertaking to give " a
preference to such packets as should resort to their
rail-pier exclusively—that is, without intercourse with
any piers above Blackwall—by allowing them the
privilege of remaining alongside the Brunswick-
wharf for half an hour, thus giving them the chance of
passengers by two trains." The " Diamond" Com-
pany rejected this offer ; and very considerable
benefits appearing to have resulted to their
wiser rival from accepting a proffer, out of the ad-
vantages of which they have thus excluded them-
selves, the Diamond Company are now disposed to
push their animosity to the Star people to any extent.
As they forget, however, in so doing that the tra-
velling public generally, and the inhabitants of
Gravesend indirectly, are parties necessarily injured
by the lengths to which this animosity is pursued, we
shall endeavour in few words to expose the barefaced
character of the interested judgments pronounced by
the magisterial functionaries of the " Diamond "
Company.
From whatever causes in addition to those we have
named, the Terrace-pier is eliciting a preference
from passengers beyond all calculation over the Town-
pier. In the month of June last there landed and
embarked at the two piers 330,739 passengers; of
which number, there were 41,439 more at the Ter-
race than the Town-pier. In July, the numbers
at both piers were 463,045 ; the excess of the Tel race-
pier, being, again, 43,903 over the Town-pier, and of
course the freights of the Star Company, which
use it, being in proportion, over those of the Diamond
Company which use the Town-pier. Hence abun-
dant and something of unscrupulous jealousy.
The Star Company's office, whether by design or by
chance we know not, happens to be near this latter
pier; and it is pretty clear that their servants in
"touting" for their packets and delivering to pas-
sengers cards or hand-bills explanatory of the advan-
tages of their single fares per boat, and
per rail, both, have been just sufficiently over-
zealous as to bring themselves within the
liability to a charge, or information, or complaint for
obstructing the highway, and consequently within the
enactments of a local Act for enabling the Corporation
of Gravesend to prevent annoyances, nuisances, and
obstructions. Perhaps, had the charges in the present
instance been brought by some private individuals,
—litigious over-much, or smitten with that love of
" making a fuss" about nothing, which is a beset-
ting sin of small travellers, there would have
been little matter for animadversion, though there
might be much for ridicule or for pity. But it, does
happen that of the five Magistrates, &c., exclusive of
the Mayor, who were present in the Gravesend Jus-
tice-room at the hearing of the complaints now in
question, preferred against two servants of the " Star"
Company ;—Mr. SPENCER and Mr. OAKES, as stated
by Mr. CRUDEN, were directors or proprietors of the
" Diamond" Company ; and Mr. SOUTHGATE, act-
ing as the solicitor for the complainants, was their
secretary ! Mr. CRUDEN himself, as chairman of the
" Star " Company, after remarking on the mani-
festly vexatious feeling in which these charges
against their servants were being now repeatedly
preferred, and putting the Mayor in possession of the
facts, very properly left the Bench before the order
decreeing the penalties was finally made against the
two men. Mr. TICKNER and Mr. SMITH, who con-
curred with Mr. CRUDEN, in holding that for the
sake of decency and the purposes of justice, it would
be more proper to carry the cases before the
unbiassed jurisdiction of the county Magis-
trates, quitted the Bench in company with
that gentleman ; leaving, therefore, OAKES and
SPENCER, parties flagrantly and incontestably and
directly interested in an adverse speculation,—alone
to concur with the Mayor, in pronouncing for penal-
ties on charges conducted by their own servant and
secretary !
In the course of our experience we have wit-
nessed some tolerably striking specimens of this
accuser—judge—and—jury sort of magisterial
justice in other parts of Kent. We have not
forgotten the scandalous oppressions and the
denial of right and law practised for so many
years with impunity on the poor oyster dredgers of
Queenborough, by a former Mayor of that
since disqualified borough. But all in good time—
and Gravesend, if such proceedings as these " ex parte
Diamond v. Star," as we may call them, be encouraged,
will rival Queenborough. We had almost forgotten to
state that in times past, when the " Diamonds" were in
the ascendant, their servants used to tout pro them,
and contrd all other companies ; and yet, mar-
vellous to tell, not one of these Diamond Magis-
trates, Directors, nor their Secretary, ever
dreamed ofpreferring an information under their local
Act against the delinquents ! We trust and hope the
Lord-Chancellor may have this affair brought under
his notice, for we shall then be assured that this most
equitable Bench will receive a most righteous casti-
gation at his Lordship's hands, on behalf of the public.

to the state of the country and thel unconstitutional
measures of the Government, the Castellano says :
" We believe that conspiracies do exist ; we believe
that we are exposed to more peril than is generally
thought ; we believe that the Government's enemies
dispose o large sums, and bring into play every possible
means ; but we also believe that the means adopted by
the authorities of the provinces are insufficient and in-
efficient, and even favourable to the conspirators. Their
perpetual fears confer importance on the conspirators,
make them suppose that the Government is weak, and
enable them to inveigh aloud against oppression and
tyranny. Persecutions, banishments, and imprisonments
produce the worst effect. Let them be relinquished ;
let individual liberty be respected, without neglecting
proper means of severely chastising the revolutionists,
when they dare raise their heads. We demand of the
Government a vigilant force and resolution, but we wish
that force to be lawful, at least until an insurrection
break out, and render a transient suspension of the laws
necessary to save the constitution and the throne."

According to another paper, a great number of
officers belonging to the garrison at Alcala had been
dismissed from the service. A rumour prevailed that
a partial change of Ministry was about to take place,
and that the ex-editor and ex-Minister GONZALES
BRAVO would be appointed to the Foreign-office.
The Three per Cents, were done at Madrid on the
22d instant, at 27 9.16 for cash, and 271 at 60 days ;
the Five per Cents. at 191 for cash, and 19j at 60
days ; and the Floating Debt at 601 at 60 days.

The intelligence from Paris is still of a very grave
character, and many persons begin to look forward
seriously to a war between England and France.
The KING, it is understood, has relinquished his in-
tention of visiting England this year. This, with
other symptoms of alienation between the two Courts,
as well as a large proportion of the people, has caused
another fall in the French funds. On Wednesday
the Three per Cents. closed at 79f. 80c., and the
Fives at 119 f. 75c. Great excitement, it would ap-
pear, prevails among the National Guards of Paris.
" Last evening," says the Constitutionnel of Wednes-
day, " there was a grand banquet in the saloon of
the Opera, given by the National Guard to the
officers of the garrison who directed the school of in-
struction and manoeuvres of the capital. All round
the room the walls were dressed out with tri-coloured
flags and trophies bearing cyphers of all the legions
of Paris and the banlieue. At this fete the officers
of the troops of the line, the delegates of all the le-
gions, as well as all the staff of the National Guards,
sat mingled together. The Prefect of the Seine and
the Prefect of Police were amongst the number of the
guests. The table was laid for 122 persons. Pieces
of music, executed by the troops of the line and the
National Guard in turn, were heard during the re-
past. Great applause was given to the famous song
in the opera of Charles VI. :
Guerre aux tyrans, jamais en France,
Jamais l'Anglais ne regnera I'
The National Guard would not allow the opportunity
to escape of manifesting its sentiments. After having
applauded the song, it drank toasts in honour of the
Prince de JOINVILLE and his seamen, as well as of
our brave army in Africa." The National gives some
additional particulars of a still !more warlike cha-
racter, though we are glad to find that the superior
officers did not approve of the proceedings.
" The National Guard," according to that journal,
" took advantage of this meeting to manifest its pa-
triotic sentiments in loudly applauding, by enthusi-
astic toasts, the success of the French army and
nary in Morocco. We learned last evening that a
parting toast was to be given by an officer to the
French navy—the Tangiers squadron, and its com-
mander. In the developments of this toast a very
energetic reply was being made, we understand, to
the abuse lavished on our officers and our flag by the
English. The friends of England got afraid, it
would seem, that the expression of such sentiments
might trouble the entente cordiale, and by means
of a long roll of the drums they prevented the toast
from being given. This ridiculous and brutal pro-
ceeding produced a certain disturbance in the meet-
ing, which broke up with murmurs. To-morrow we
shall probably be able to give details about this scene,
which is far from doing honour to certain persons be-
longing to the Staff."
The Government journals seem to infer that the
two Cabinets will come to an understanding respect-
ing the Otaheite affair, though we cannot see on
what ground. However, we publish an article on the
subject, in the Ministerial paper, the Globe, and leave
our readers to judge for themselves. The following
appears in that journal of Wednesday :

" There has not yet been, as we have already declared,
any note addressed to the King's Government by the
British Cabinet on the affair of Otaheite. All the re-
ports with respect to the presenting of an ultimatum on
this subject are destitute of foundation. Nevertheless,
it is to be presumed that the question will soon be
brought forward aid answered. We trust that it will
be arranged, and in such a way as to insure the main-
tenance of a good understanding, not only between the
two nations, but between the two Cabinets. We have
already declared that the question itself, reluced to its
true proportions, would not have required more than
one quarter of an hour's conversation to be set at rest.
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ignorant and passionate press. With a precipitation
which he has no doubt regretted, the First Lord of the
Treasury gave to the affair a certain importance, as far
as regards him, and he has almost pledged himself morally
to obtain satisfaction from France. The French Cabi-
net will do all that good sense and equity command,
not only to nations, but to individuals. A British
subject excited disturbances in our territory,—
we seized and expelled him. We evidently had this
right ; nobody will contest it, not even England. Satis-
faction, therefore, on this point cannot be demanded, ex-
cept through bid faith or folly. But if the French
authorities had the incontestable right to seize and re-
move a British subject who had excited disturbances,
there should have been a certain form observed. Lieut.
d'Aubigny has not observed that form, and he has been
reprimanded by his superior officer, Captain Brunt. The
French Government, therefore, cannot refuse to sanction
the blame already expressed by his own immediate
officer on this want of proper form, or the useless seve-
rity exercised by M. d'Aubigny : but the French Go-
vernment can do no more without a departure from that
which is warranted by the real lacts, and the morality
of their position. And, we shall ask, why should we
disavow Captain Bruat ? He himself disavowed the
form employed by M. d'Aubigny ; and the form is
the only thing to be blamed in the affair ; for M.
d'Aubigny had an incontestable right to remove Mr.
Pritchard. The conduct to be pursued by France is
traced by good sense. The Cabinet assembled yesterday
to come to a decision on the affair. We believe we are
justified in stating that the Ministers were unanimous in
placing themselves upon, and holding the ground we
have indicated. Will the British Cabinet confine itself
to a demand of what it knows the French Cabinet is
honourably disposed to grant ? If the affair had not
been magnified there would be no hesitation in answer-
ing yes. The entire hesitation in so replying under the
present difficulty arises from not knowing whether the
words used by Sir Robert Peel will permit him to place
such a termination of the matter before the British Par-
liament. He alone can be a judge of that. Neverthe-
less, when we recollect that the existing gravity of the
affair is not peculiar to it, and has only become so in
consequence of a precipitate word, it ought not to be
permitted to us to fear that Sir Robert Peel would re-
deem an imprudent expression by conduct which would
be still more imprudent. Cabinets like his exist by ho-
nourable conduct, and not by obstinacy, and there is
too much good sense in the two countries for us to en-
tertain any serious apprehension as to the issue of such
a miserable difficulty.'
We have published elsewhere two dispatches from
Marshal BUGEAUD, dated Lalla Magrania, giving de-
tails of the state of the two armies previous to the
battle of Isly. On these dispatches the Journal des
Debats makes the following remarks :
" The dispatches of Marshal Bugeaud, dated the 11th
and 13th, are a species of preface to the report of the
battle, expected with an impatience fully justified by the
importance of its results, as already announced by the
telegraphic dispatch. In the meantime, the two preli-
minary reports of Marshal Bugeaud are of great interest.
They show, in the first instance, that the Prince de Join-
vine did not open his fire upon Tangiers until made ac-
quainted with the fruitlessness of Mr. Hay's mission, a
fact which was denied or denaturalised by certain Lon-
don newspapers. Passing to the state of things on the
frontier, to the threatening attitude assumed by the Moors,
their provocations, and the daily increase of their forces,
it is evident that the patience and longanimity of Marshal
Bugeaud have been very great- No one can blame him
for this, since by his forbearance ho has placed right and
justice on the side of France,
as well as victory, when the
measure of his moderation was full. We have now had
opposed to us not only the tribes excited by Abd-el-
Kader, whose personal weight and consequence
have become secondary, but a whole Morocco
army with its Raids and Pachas and a son of
the Emperor for its Commander-in-Chief, while another
son of the Sultan was in full march to join it with rein-
forcements. They loudly proclaimed their projects and
their hopes ; they declared their desire to drive us out
of the province of Oran ; to ravish from us the ancient
kingdom of Tlemcen, conquered three hundred years
ago by Kair Eddin (Chereddin), the brother to Bab
Aroudji (Barbarossa), both founders of the state of Al-
geria. The tribes who have made their submission to
us could not be suffered to believe that the French were
afraid of the Moroccomen, already three times defeated
on making as many acts of aggression : the fidelity of
these tribes would have been shaken, and the enemy,
by an expedition, might have got into our rear, and
raised them against us, placing us between two fires.
All must admire the language of the Marshal when
speaking of the danger of remaining longer on the do.

fensive ; he says, the least of all is the daily increasing
numbers of our enemy. He saw and seized the precise
moment for action. This foresight, the calculations and
plan of his intended movements, are those of a general
whose ability is matured by experience, whose eye is
clear and comprehensive, whose mind is determined, and
whose resolution i 3 to act with vigour. He has been
taught, and knows how to bring into use, the great les-
sons given by the immortal campaigns in Egypt, a
country in which war presented to him the same aspect."

Though we have already given ample extracts
from the papers, we must make room for another ar-
ticle, which points out the object of Lord PALMER-
sroN's visit to the German Courts, and urges the Go-
vernmen of France to be prepared for the worst. It
is taken from the Siecle, and is as follows :

" It would be dangerous to deceive ourselves,
England is preparing for war. The alliance with
Russia is eventually concluded, and it is endeavour-
ing to raise the spirit of Germany against France.
The task is difficult, and for that reason Lord Palmer-
ston considered that he ought not to relinquish it to the
agents of the Foreign-office. The Noble Viscount, when-
ever there is an opportunity of injuring France, con-
siders himself as holding oflice, and we are informed
that the tour of pleasure which he is at present making
at the other side of the Rhine is not without a political
object. He is reviving all the ancient hatred ex-
cited in the year 1840. We trust, for all the
reasons we have already given, that Germany will not
suffer itself to be again deceived by the phan-
tasmagoria of French ambition. But if the diplo-
matic plans of Great Britain are yet enveloped in a
veil, her maritime plans appear glaring as the sun. The
Admiralty is ostensibly occupied in placing their sailing
fleet in a condition to crush ours by numbers, and their
steam fleet to prevent en invasion, of which the English
entertain more dread than they wish to admit. They
themselves, notwithstanding their pride, are compelled
to proclaim the necessity of fortifying their coasts. But
facts on this occasion are supremely eloquent—we shall,
therefore, commence by comparing the two sailing
fleets. England reckons 89 ships of the line on the
books of the Admiralty. Amongst these vessels there
are at least 60 which may be considered as absolutely
useless, as they could not be armed again without most
expensive repairs. The fact unexaggerated is, that
England has 18 ships which would be ready for sea in
six weeks, and might in six months be supported by 10 or
12 others. If the war should be prolonged beyond a
year the Admiralty would have time to complete 7 or 8
of the 15 ships which are in a forward state of construction,
and thus to increase the effective of the British navy to 36
or 40 ships of the line. The comparison appears to be esta-
blished thus :—At the first shock, England 18 ships-of-
the-line ; France, 14. After six months, England 30
ships ; France 20 to 22. After one year, England 36 to
40 ; France only 20 to 22, because the ships we have on
the stocks are not sufficiently advanced to be finished in
a year. Now, let us compare the steam navy. It ap-
pears from documents communicated to Parliament that
the war-steamers amount to 48, with a power of 15,757
horses. The steam navy of France ought by virtue of
Ro) al ordinances to be composed of five frigates of 540
horse-power, 15 of 450, 20 corvettes of from 220 to
320, and 30 vessels of 160 and less. Ships, 70 ; power,
18,750 horses. The 43 steam-vessels afloat on the Ist
of January last represented only a power of 7,340
horses ; but we have been increasing for eight months,
and at the end of the year we could oppose to England
a power of 12,000 horses, represented by 60 ves-
sels, without reckoning thel Levant boats. That,
no doubt, is an unpleasant inferiority ; but it
is compensated by the necessity under which the
English labour in being obliged to defend various points
against our attacks. These comparisons are not of a
nature to excite alarm. If peace be maintained, not-
withstanding the irritation existing on the other side of
the Channel, it will be by the consideration that we have
the means of defending ourselves successfully against
England. Our neighbours, brave as they be, are not
persons to undertake an affair in which they would have
too much risk to incur. The English Admiralty is arm-
ing six ships of the line; let us in our turn arm and take
advantage of the victory which crowns our arms to make
friends by obtaining justice from the Moor for Sweden,
Denmark, and particularly for Spain. Spain is our
natural ally ; but it is particularly in Morocco that her
interests are identified with ours. Let us forget nothing
—let us neglect nothing. During 14 years right has
been on our side, and insolence on that of our adversa-
ries. Let France, therefore, have confidence in her
right, as well as in her courage I"
TEE BOURSE—WEDNESDA.Y, AUGUST 28.

First Highest Lowest

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Price. Price. Price. Price.
rresleh Five perC3nts 119 90 120 10 .• 119 70 119 75
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents BO 05 .. 10 20 •. 79 75 .. 79 10
Bank of France • 3025 ..3025 ..3025 ..3025
Latlitte Bank, 5,000 f. Sharesso6o ..5060 ..5060 ..5060
Belgian Bank ..• • • • • • 660 .. 660 .. 660 .• 660
Belgian Fiyes,lB3l.. ..... .• 1031 .. 103} •• 103 .. 103
1140
Spanish Old Deferred ••• • .• 51 • • 5t • • 51 • • 5i
Portuguese Five per Cents.. 44 .. 441 • • 44 .. 443
Neapolitan 97 80 .. 97 80 .. 97 80 .. 97 50
Ronan ...... ..... 104 .. 104 .. 104 .. 104
RAILWAY SHARES.

Versailles, R.B.
L.B•• •••• •
Rouen . 940 .. 945 .. 940 .. 940
Rouen to Havre..
Orleans ....

Strasburg to Bale 236 25 .. 237 50 .• 235 .. 236 25
Avignon to Marseilles.- 735 .. 735 . 732 50 .. 735
RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, 31sT OF AUGUST.
Bt. Germain ........ ..
Versailles, R. 8... 367 50 .. 367 50 .. 365 .. 365
L. 13.•• •• •• ••
Rouen ...

ionei; to ILavre• . • ......... 722 SO -. 725

•• 717 50 .. 717 50

Orleans ••....... •. • ... • ... 940

.. 942 50 .. 935

.. 938 75

Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 230 25 .. 236 25 . 236 25 .. 236 25
Aviation to Marseilles.- 735 .. 735 .. 732 50 • • 732 50

FRANCE AND ENGLAND.—At an early hour this
morning we were informed, on what we were assured
was good authority, that an important crisis has now
arrived in the relations between England and France.
According to our informant, the receipt of the intelli-
gence from Mogadore on Tuesday night was imme•
diately followed by the dispatch of a special courier
to Paris, as the bearer of a communication from Lord
Aberdeen to M. Guizot. His Lordship is said to
have demanded the immediate evacuation of the island
of Mogadore by the forces under his Royal Highness
the Prince de Joinville, and to have intimated that,
in the event of a refusal to withdraw the French
troops, measures would forthwith be taken, in con-
formity with the established usage in similar circum-
stances. The deep interest involved in this statement
makes us regret that, at the period at which we write,
it is not possible for us, of our own knowledge, to
affirm or deny the truth of it.—Post.

THIS DAY'S NEWS.

MONEY AND COMMERCIALNEWS.
_ CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

The prices of Cotton' at Liverpool yesterday were
firmly supported, and a fair business was done. Sales
6,000 bales, viz„ 400 Peruvian at 44d.; 300 Surat at 24d.
to 3id.; 500 Egyptian, at 6p. to 9W ; and the rest Ame-
rican, at aid. to 6d. per lb.—Shares were dull. Birming-
ham and Gloucester, 107f1; Chester and Holyhead, 61;
Dublin and Cashel, 74; Eastern Counties, Registered,
131 ; Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 171; Grand
Junction, 2171 ; Ditto, Quarters, 541; Great Western,
Halves, 82k; Ditto, Fifths, 241. 3s. 9d. ; Lancaster and
Carlisle, 61; Liverpool and Manchester, New, 35/ ;
Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 115; Manchester and
Leeds, Halves, 511; Sheffield and Manchester, 84k;
South-Eastern, 38:k ; Ditto, New, 11i ; Trent Valley,
9i; Lyons and Avignon, 375.
In the last accounts obtained from Australia, a sub-
ject is touched upon in the colonial journals which de-
serves attention. It is that the Governor in_Conneil, as
announced in the Government Gazette, expressed his
intention of increasing the fees upon " depasturing
licenses." At a period when the entire energies of the
colony were in a prostrate condition, from the late com-
mercial panic, this step was held to be most impolitic.
Upon this subject a Sydney paper remarks :
" The new regulations under this head, promulgated
in the Government Gazette, will act in two ways—they
will be most oppressive to the licensed graziers, and
injurious to the reputation of ' Governor Sir George
Gipps.' For our own part, we have on the whole been
friendly to his Excellency—we have thought that he had
the good of the colony at heart, and that his measures
were generally conducive to that end ; we have more
than once stood alone amongst the colonial journals in
defence of his policy ; and not long ago, adverting to the
completion of his term of office, and to the probability of
his early recal, we expressed our belief that he would
retire from his post with a larger share of goodwill from
the people of his charge than had fallen to the lot
of any of his predecessors. But this one act has changed
the whole current of our feelings. Its folly has raised
ourcontempt ; its cruelty has excited our detestation. As
a piece of State policy, it is a despicable blunder ; as a
specimen of domestic administration, it is despotism of
the coolest but most insulting kind. T.► the graziers, al-
ready harassed with difficulties and discouragements
almost beyond endurance, it will be a tortuous aggra-
vation of their sufferings ; to the whole colony, depend-
ing as it does upon the produce of its flocks and herds,
it will be a dreadful check to returning prosperity ; and
to the name of Gipps soon to be placed upon our annals
of things past, it will be a deep, and indelible re-
proach.
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- We have not received any late intelligence from
abroad to-day. From South Australia we learn that the
colonists were very sanguine as to future prosperity
being in store for them. " Our principal topic of discus-
sion (states a communication) is the mining interest of
this colony. There can be little doubt that the produc-
tion of metals will be an important feature of South
Australia."

Late yesterday afternoon the periodical notice ap-
peared from the Bank of England, announcing the in-
tention of the Directors to make advances upon good se-
curities at three per cent., to be repaid on or before the
23d of October, in sums not less than 2,000/. each.

A considerable amount of business has been transacted
in the Funds to-day. The prices of French Stock
having come lower from Paris the market for Consols
opened rather heavily this morning. At one period the
price for Money and Account was at 981, but
at the present moment an advance has taken
place to 981 for the Account, and to 98i
for Money. The Commissioners bought 5,0001.
Consols at 981. This is the pay-day in the last Consol
Account. The differences have been well met.
The premium upon Exchequer Bills is rather heavy.
Bank and India Stock arc much the same as yesterday.
The Foreign Account was settled this morning, and
with but a slight obstruction. The Portuguese Con-
verted Bonds have fallen to 434 ; Spanish Consols to
2214 ; and the Three per Cents. to 33. There is a
shade of reaction also in the Dutch and Belgian Funds.
South American Bonds are steady.
The Share Market has presented a rather more steady
appearance to-day, as the list of quotations will show.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
___

Bank Stock..ooO .. 00000 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 0.4 •• Wl* 199
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ............ ..... 141% 99%
3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 98%%%
35 per Cent. Annuities, 1818 lOl%
33 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
New 3% per Cent. Annuities 100%1(%
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 .....
Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859
India Stock
India Bonds,l,ooo
Ditto under 1,000...... .................. ...... .....
South Ssa Stock.
Consols for Account ........ ........."

93
114
95%%34

Exchequer Bills, I%d. 154 d.
1 000 i. ...........»....».:.... •••• •••••••••••• 7 6 74 Pm.
1001. OOOO -•-• •••••••••••• -.m. •." Pla.
5ma11Ditt0.......... •..•..•• ••••••...... .... Pm-
Ditto Advertised" —
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent lO2
Columbian Bonds. 13%
Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent. S9
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. ... .........
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto Converted 4IU 433 G
Spanish Bonds' Five per Cent 1840 221,4
Ditto for the Account
Ditto Three per Cent. ............
Ditto for the Account —
Dutch 234 per Cents 6134 .
Dutch 5 per Cent 5......... woo•••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 100%

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Birmingham and Gloucester...... 100
Caledonian
Dublin mad Cashel „.. 234 7% to
Eastern Counties ........ ........... 23 ........
Ditto Perpetual 5 per cent l.ls. 4.d.... 1
Grand Junction lOO 219% to
Great Western .......... ............ .. 75 137%
Ditto N Shares 646.11 50 •........ 122%
Ditto fifths 1.9 244 to
Hull and Selby
London and Birmingham. lOO 220
London and Blackwall
London and Brighton 5O ......... 47%
London and South Western ...... 41% 82% ..... to 82
London and Croydon
Manchester and Leeds 7O 122 ...... to
Midland Counties lOO ........ 104% ...... to
North Briti.h 2% ...... 274
Norwich and Brandon
South Eastern and Dover 32% 37%% ... to
Ditto New .... ........ ...... ..... .... 4
Trent Valley
Yarmouth and Norwich
York and North Midland ... ...... 50 .........1
Ditto Selby Scrip —
Paris and Orleans 2O ......... 3311 % ... to

Pariaand Rouen ..... ..... 20
_ JOINT STOCK RANKS. _ _

Union of London

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 29.—There
has been more business done to-day without much
change in prices :—Blackburn, Burnley, and Accring-
ton, 51s. ; Dublin and Drogheda, 731 ; Manchester,
Bury, and Rossendale, 51. 16s. ; Manchester and Bir-
miagham, 521; Ditto, Quarters, 51 ; Preston and
Wyre, 1711 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 85 to 841 ;
Manchester and Salford Bank, 12.

MARKET NEWS.-( THIS DAY.)

CORN-EXCHANGE-FRIDAY.

Very little Wheat has been received up to our Corn
Market since Monday, while the number of samples of
that grain was small. The demand, however, was in a
very sluggish state, at barely the prices obtained last
week. About 8,000 quarters of Foreign Wheat have
been received this week. Next to nothing was doing in
either foreign or bonded parcels, at almost nominal
figures. Barley and Malt met a retail inquiry at late
rates. Oats were a slow sale, but their value, as well as
that of Beans and Peas, was supported.
ARRIVALS.
Wheat. Earley. Oats. Flour
English 2,500 qrs. 10 qrs.
.210 qrs. 4,320 sacka.
- 3,900 -
Foreign 7,1190 11.550 4,100 --
Malt. 3,880 qrs.
SMITHFIELD.
The supply of Beasts was rather numerous, but of
very middling quality. Fer all kinds of Beef the de-
mand was in a sluggish state, and Monday's prices were
barely supported. There were on offer 30 Oxen from
Rotterdam, and 200 Scots from Aberdeen. The num-
bers of Sheep were by no means large, yet the inquiry
for them was heavy, at late rates. There was a full
average supply of Lambs in the pens, while the demand
was unusually dull, at about previous currencies. Calves
were very dull, and were called 2d per 81bs lower. For
Pigs but few sales took place. Mulch Cows sold slowly,
at from 161 to 1915 s each.