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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1850.

An intelligent foreigner affords us, in his opinion
of ourselves, a foretaste of the estimate of posterity.
Hence the comments passed upon our political insti-
tutions, or upon our social condition, by an observant
and unprejudiced traveller from the continent always
possesses for us a peculiar value and fascination.
Without, of course, the impassiveness belonging only
to the member of a remote generation, the citizen of
another country is, at any rate, so far withdrawn
from the influence of our habi►s and predilections as
to be enabled to acquire a tolerably correct and un-
impassioned idea of the merits or demerits appertaining
to us as a population. His views, at the least, are undis-
torted by the prejudices engendered by a more inti-
mate participation in our mode of living, in our
political broils, our polemical disputes, or our con-
ventional warfare. His judgment remains unwarped
by the heat of partizanship. He retains, in the
midst of all the agitations of this age of revolutionary
excitement, a certain appreciable serenity--a serenity,
in fact, sufficient to qualify him a critic, or at least a
scrutineer. Withdrawn from the influences of our
national atmosphere by his own devotion to another
crder of things elsewhere, he is enabled to regard us
with the comprehensive scrutiny of a synthetic specta-
tog His survey in the abstract reaches farther than ours
could by any possibility, for he views us not in part,
but as a whole, from the distance of a dissimilar cul-
ture and the elevation of another order of govern-
ment. It is true, that with these incontestable ad-
vantsger, a foreigner, when reviewing the position and
condition of a coun`ry like England, is too apt to mar
the value of his estimate by generalizing upon points
where it would have been preferable to have

de tended to particu:arities. ills survey is liable,
acl4i4,Niy,tl2 majority of instances, to be perfunc-
up his opinions upon facts
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with conjectures. Nevertheless, in spite of the cir-
cumstance that his views are thereby rendered occa-
sionally superficial, the opinions entertained of us
I by a foreigner, especially when he happens to be
gifted with impartiality as well as intelligence, is in-
variably worthy of our curiosity and consideration.
Such a commentator on her social aspect and her
political attitude, England has recently found in M.
DE LAMARTINE. That illustrious statesman having
very recently been called by private transactions to visit
this island, has, immediately on his return to France,
published his impressions upon the condition of the
British community in the pages of his journal, the
Conseiller du Peuple. From the fragmentary pas-
sages already issued in that periodical, it becomes ma-
nifest that the great champion of French democracy
has been fairly surprised into admiration. Insomuch
that, in spite of a certain unconquerable pique against
some of our aristocratic institution!, his panegyrics
are uttered at once with fervour and spontaneity. Al-
ready, as he himself observes, he had twice before visited
the shores of England. Once in 1822, when our
Government was acting a part little nobler than that
of " the seide of despotism." Once in 1830, when
our energies were palsied by the sufferings of Ireland,
then "literally dying of inanition." Upon both
occasions he had witnessed only the most ghastly and
lugubrious spectacles, tokens of the popular hatred
for their administrators, or of the ruinous cessation of
employment. In 1822, he had felt " the ground trem-
bling under the steps of the discontented multitudes
who assembled at the slightest appeal or opportunity.'
In 1830, he had "seen the armies of workmen without
bread dismissed by the manufacturers," he had seen
" those black columns, with their mud-coloured
jackets, dotting the avenues and streets of London,
like columns of insects, whose nests had been upset,
and who blackened the soil under their footsteps." He
returns to England in the September of 1850, after
the rest of the European world has been ravaged by
revolutions, and the contrast presented by every-
thing which meets his observation among ourselves
is sufficiently admirable and surprising to extort
from him words of the most eulogistic amazement.
He finds no longer amongst us a wide-spread discon-
tent, a calamitous insufficiency of occupation, a loathing
for our rulers, or a predisposition for insurrection—
"sinister symptoms" which twice before, namely, in
the years already mentioned, 1822 and 1830, had in-
duced him to " prognosticate the approaching decline i

and fall of this great and mysterious country." In lieu of

all these sombre and melancholy portents ofdisaster,M.
DE LAMARTINE disco.vers England in 1850 to be thriving
throughout. He confesses that he finds it impossible
not to be dazzled by the immense progress made
in these islands during the last twenty
years in almost everything that at all ad-

mitted of development. He finds the population
strangely multiplied, the general wealth marvellously
increased, industry protected, navigation improved,
railroads threading the whole land in a complicated
iron network, our principal cities and our metropolis
adorned with costly edifices and with a variety of
splendid embellishments. What, however, especially
arrests bis observation is the astonishing increase

in the number of our fraternal associations and
charitable establishments. In all this he recognizes
the evidences of common sense and of egotism, but

through this egotism and common sense he re-
cognizes also virtue. "pm England," he says in
solution of the change, " Oid England, the veritable
patrician republic, under her frontispiece of mo-

narchy, feels, without doubt, that the stones of her
feodal edifice are becoming disjoined, and might
tumble under the blast of the age, if

RIES, and by the lamented Lerd GEORGE BEN..
TINCK, who led the minority in the Committee
of the Commons on commercial distress,
and was the uncompromising opponent of the
unjust and impolitic measure of 1844, and we believe
of the equally inequitable and injudicious Act of 1819.
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Then, indeed, they will be sustained by the voice
of public opinion, and have the popular force arrayed
under their
,standard. Then they will assume a
vantage-ground which will afford a certain triumph,
which must secure a glorious victory. Their efforts
will not be for the benefit of a single class, and
the injury of all others, but they will
struggle on behalf of the entire people, and
their success will be hailed with all but universal ac-
clamations. They will obtain the best species of
" protection for British industry ;" for the industry
of thr manufacturer of calico as well as the manufac-
turer of corn—of woollens as of fat cattle—of the
artisan and operative, as well as of the agricultural
labourer. Let them direct their attention to this
subject, and the result, although it may for a time be
deferred, is certain.

They may not be willing to follow our
vice, erroneously conceiving that we have been
among their most uncompromising opponents ; but
even were it as true as it is really false and
unfounded,' we would remind them, fas est ab
hoste doceri. If our counsel be judicious, let
it not be disregarded on account of the quarter
whence it proceeds. Let them ask their aged friends,
those on the accuracy of whose information they can
implicitly rely, what was the state of agriculture,
' the condition of the farmer in the beginning
of the century during the protracted war, the
expenditure of which puzzled the ingenuity of the
first financialists. Notwithstanding the enormous
burdens to which they were subjected by the daily
visits of the tax-gatherer they enjoyed unparalleled
prosperity, and could boast of all the comforts and
many of the luxuries of life. Was that owing to the
war—to the profuse expenditure of blood and trea-
sure ? No! It was to the possession of a circulating
medium adequate to the wants and exigencies of the
country, with which every branch of industry flou-
rished, and the national capabilities. of every description,
agricultural and manufacturing, could be fully deve-
loped. We desire the restoration of those happy times,
without the heavy drawback with which the prospe•
rity was then attended ; and, in so doing, we boldly
claim for ourselves the title of " the farmer's friend,"

to which we are far better entitled than those who
would lead them from their legitimate path to pursue
the fleeting phantasms of Protection.

SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sia,—l read with some surprise in your last night's
paper Mr. Krone's letter respecting the breaking
down of the engine of the excursion train on the
South-Western Railway on Sunday last, especially
as it came from a quarter where I should least have
expected it. In my opinion, Mr. Krone has done
himself an injury. His proposition respecting the
guards carrying in their breaks an instrument is a
good one ; but I think he might have resorted to
other means of bringing it forward than to ex-
pose the South-Western Railway Company
in almost all the papers. Why could he
not have: spoken to Mr. Godson and the Electric
Telegraph Company privately upon the subject ?
That would have been his best co urse. He says, if
it had not been for him the train would have been
delayed three hours later than it actually was ; but I
beg to differ with him a little in that respect, for it
was all by chance that the clerk at Southampton was in
the Telegraph-office, and if he had not been there
Mr. Krone might have called from night till morn-
ing with no success ; so I consider the clerk at
Southampton had as much to do in forwarding the
train as he had.

I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
ONE WHO HAS A LITTLE TO
DO WITH THE S. W. R.

Oct. 9, 1850.

THE PACKET STATION COMMISSION.
Mr. O'Flaherty, M.P., at a late meeting of the
Galway Harbour Commissioners, gave the names of
the Commissioners who are to inquire into the subject
of the Packet Station. They are Lord Grenville, Sir
John Burgoyne, Sir J. Gordon, the Hon. William
Cooper, and Captain Ellerby. It is remarkable that
the list does not contain the name of one Irishman,
although the Board of Works includes men of the
highest ability, and familiar with similar investiga-
tions. Captain Ellerby is an officer of the Trinity
Board, and the people of Galway derive hope from the
fact that he was lately at that place about the lights
on the Arran Islands. On the other hand, Sir John
Burgoyne was a member of the Railway Commission,
which, after a comparison of the various contending
ports, recommended that Cork should be selected for
a packet-station, at a time when the question excited
very little attention, and even that a railway should
be made from Dublin for the purpose. He is, more-
over, unquestionably the most competent and influ •
ential or the five persons appointed. We hope he
still retains the same preference for our port. At all
events, a vigilant eye ought to be kept by the country
generally to the conduct of the inquiry, lest it should
prove a delusion, intended merely to evade the demand
of Ireland altogether, and rival localities should be
treated with impartial disappointment.—Cork Ex-
aminer.—[We hope the best station will be selected,
wholly irrespective of rival localities. Cork, from its
established trade is, we are happy to say, independent
of the advantages derivable from a packet station ; so
is Galway ; but if a new station, having natural faci-
lities, were selected, such as Valentia, it would diffuse
immense benefits around a large space, and thereby
stimulate industry and trade, where little or none
exist at present.—En. Sun.j

VIEW OF THE BUILDING IN HYDE-PARK FOR THE
jGREAT EXHIBITION, 1851, AS FINALLY APPROVED.BY
HER MAJESTY'S COMMISSIONERS.—An interesting
and authentic sketch of this remarkable building has
just been engraved on steel and issued by Mr.
Berger, the publisher. As affording an excellent idea
of the probable appearance of the structure, when
com pleted, we doubt not the engravingwill be gladly and
eagerly welcomed by the community. The follow-
ing particulars appended to the plate will be
perused with interest :—" The building is de-
signed by Mr. Paxton. Its length is 1,848 feet,
width 408 feet, height 66 feet. The transept is 108
feet high ; excepting the timbers for floors and joists,
it consists, entirely of glass and iron. There will be
3,230 iron columns, 2,244 iron girders, 1,128 iron
bearers, and 358 iron roof supporters, 34 miles of
gutters, 202 miles of sash bars, and 900,000 feet of
glass. The gallery will be 24 feet wide. The site
covers 18 acres. The exhibiting space is about 21
acres, which can be greatly increased by additional
galleries. The contract with Messrs. Fox and
Henderson, is for 79,8001, or 150,0001. if the build-
ing is permanently retained."

itihtuetiepnratoruni
• M. LEOPOLD DuRAs, in one of the smartest articles
ever penned, thus takes note in the National of the
admi+sions made by Dr. VEttoN :--
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" We are entitled to see in the article of the Consti-
ed that it had been initiated
sake we are. told that the solution offered
The Egeria
into the policy
tthuetiocnonnesl
programme
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i of our Numa now plays
the part of Galatea 11? the
.EeLegue. She flies in a mar-
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kaotnreisf
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but in doing .
vellous wanner, so she contrives to let us
catch a glimpse of the skirt of his robe. The
Constitutionnel returns twice. to the Tuileries, as if
beset by the apprehension lest schemes, so often
disavowed, should, nevertheless, be attempted. As no
one is better informed on the subject his fears must be
well founded. Let the President, he says, not quit his
modest residence. Let no imprudent friends attempt to
throw open to him the doors of this antique dwelling of
our Kings, So, then, the President has friends who
counsel him to attempt a veritable usurpation. It
might so happen after all that the President would leave
his modest residence, :seeing that the Constitutionnel is
not without fears on the subject. We hope that this
journal will comprehend that the actual nature of its re-
lations with the executive prohibits its confining itself to
insinuations. The public is authorised to believe that it
knows more than i
t says, and that it ought to say all
that it knows."
PARIS BOURSE, OCT' a—Latest Prices—Five
per Cents., 92r.. Three per Cents., 56f. 85c. ;
Bank Actions, 2,275 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK, EXCHANGE, coca. 8.
Boulogne and Amiens, a4—Dutch Rhenish, 3%—Lux-
embourg, 136—Namur and Liege, 8.

HIGHLAND FESTIVITIES.—The annual gathering
given at the shooting quarters of Henry Esdaile, Esq., on
the island of Ellarishona Inverness-shire, on Wednesday and
Thursday last, was attended by all the gentry of the sur-
rounding country and islands, and between 300 and 400 of
the highland peasantry. Among the company present were
Mrs. Colonel Macdonell, Mr. Macdonell, and the Misses
Macdonell, of Morar ; Mr. M'Doncll and the Misses
DPllonell, of Lochshiel ; Mr. Macdonald, of Glenaladale;
Mr. Robertson, of Kinlock, Mordart ; the Messrs. Robertson
and Hay, of Morton; Mr. Mrs, and Miss Staples,.&c. &c.
The ball room' was beautifully
and tastefully decorated with
evergreens, flowers, shields, claymors, banners, &c. The
initials of her Majesty and those of Prince Albert, with a
crown and emblematical devices, composed of dahlias and
other flowers, adorned each end of the room, and were
greatly admired. At ten o'clock 200 of the peasantry, who
had been dancing with great spirit to a band of pipers, sat
down to a substantial old English supper of roast beef and
plum pudding, and were well supplied by the gillies with
mountain dew. At two o'clock the company left the ball
for the supper room, where an elegant repast awaited them.
The following night Mr. Esdaile and his friends entertained
the elderly people of the country around with tea sad supper,
which was followed by dancing ; the old people did their best
to enjoy this pastime of their former days, and before sopa-
rthateinisglatnhdeyofdrtahne tykwavite.
with much enthusiasm the health of their
kind entertainer, wishing him a speedy return,to Ellarishona,

• SPAIN.
. Madrid journals of the 3d have arrived.
Their contents are unimportant.
London,
50 30 money.
BOLSA, 3.—Three per Cents., 34
9.16 ; Five per Cents., 13k money. Exchange on

August 23,
RISE IN THE PRICE OF COTTON AT PERNAMBUCO.
—The American steamer Vulcan put into Pernambuco on
and owing to the information she furnished of
the state of the cotton crop in the States, that article
immediately rose from .31-d. per lb. to ;id. She received
fuel, and proceeded nest` day for Bahia, Rio Janeiro, and
California.

COFFEE AT RIO JAREIRO.--Bj a private vessel
from Rio Janeiro, with dates to August 14, we are informed
that the price of coffee had materially risen since the sailing
of the Seagull packet, and that at its enhanced value a great
demand had existed ; and that freights as a result had much
• improved. The exchange has, as a consequence, been acted
on—quotations being at 28id.
OTTER LIUNT.--A. huge otter was lately killed at
Roxborough, county Galway, by a party of men with dogs,
after a desperate fight, during which the otter drowned two
of the dogs, and so severely wounded three others, that they
survived but a short time; several of the men were also
bitten. The formidable animal was ultimately shot. He
measured 4 feet 4 inches in length, 22 inches round, and
weighed 481bs. Ile was well known to the country people,
who called him " The devil's water-dog." The body was
sent to Dublin, and having been stuffed, may now be seen
at Ur. Cow's tilii9n Tavern, Portobello barracks.

A telegraphic GERMAN Y.
Cassel, of the sth, which is to the following effect :
" General llsynau had declared the Burgher Guard
dissolved, but the latter refused to give up their arms.
General IT dispatch has been received from
--eynau then ordered the trovs of the line to
disarm them, when the officers refused to obey his
orders. He
attempted to call a court-
martial, but was
himself accused of exceeding his powers. A deputation
was sent to the Elector at Wilhelmsbad, representing the
tac,,ts. The city remains perfectly quiet.
Heoltel, a barrister, practising in one of the upper
courts, has addressed a letter t General llaynnu, en-
treating him to resign his post, and warning him of the
responsibility which attaches to his lawlessproceedings.
The, troops are gloomy and dispirited."
The Wirtemburg Assembly met on the 4th. and
elected ScnopEa President, and RODINGER Vice-
President. On the sth, the Deputy SUSSIIIND called
on the Assembly to manifest its symPathY for Elec
toral Hesse, and to •
protest against the intervention of
the Diet of Frankfort. The proposition was declared
urgent, and will be considered at the next sitting.
The Finance Minister then brought forward his bud-
get, and demanded authority to continue to collect

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 9, 1850.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The National says —" The Commission of Perma•
nence held yesterday (Monday) an extraordinary
sitting to hear the explanations of the Minister of
War on the subject of the seditious cries and mani-
festations which followed the manoeuvres executed on
the plain of Satory. The discussion was, we are in-
formed, very animated, and lasted upwards of two
hours. From at:hat has transpired with regard to
this discussion, there is reason to think that the scenes
which have so agitated peblic opinion will not be
renewed at the review announced for Thursday."
The meeting of the Commission was considered of
such importance that M. DUPIN came to Paris for
the sole purpose of presiding at it, and M. MOLE
came from Champlatreaux to be present. General
LAMORICIERE was also present. General D'Haurrour,
was questioned on the subject of the proceedings at
the late reviews, and having protested against the
right of the Commission to question him, but declined
to take advantage of his Frotest, he proceeded to state
that the accounts of what had passed at the reviews
had been grossly exaggerated, and that nothing un-
constitutional had passed The Commission having
heard this explanation, came to a resolution by which
it declared that "although the circumstances do not
appear of sufficient gravity to induce the Committee
immediately to convoke the Assembly, yet that the
tendency of recent events is sufficiently characterised
in the eyes of the Committee to justify it in express-
ing its full and unqualified disapprobation of them.
In consequence, the Committee considers it a duty to
warn the Government that, if it continues these
manifestations, it will incur a grave responsibility in
the eyes of the Assembly at the period of its meeting."
At the conclusion of the proceedings M. DUPIN,
the President, addressed the Minister of War as
follows :—" General D'HauTPour., I am desired by the
Committee to apprise you that, in case General
CHANGARNIER be remo►ed from his command, or
that any other steps be taken against him, we are de-
termined to convoke forthwith the Legislative As-
sembly."

M.DuriN, in the course of conversation with se-
veral of the represensatives who had assembled in the
Salle des pas perdues, declared that he considered the
conduct of the Executive as exceedingly blameable,
and added that the agitation was confined to the
summit, and that it would obtain no support from the
country.
The Commission adjourned to Friday, the day after
the next review.
The article in the Constiiutionnel, which we quoted
yesterday, on the prolongation of the PRESIDENT'S
powers, is the subject of comment in all the journals.
Even the Univers, the organ of the Jesuits and the
parti-pretre, to obtain whose support the PRESI-
DENT has sacrificed so much, is as merciless in its
attack upon this article as the reddest of the Repub-
licans, whilst the Ordre, the grave and solemn organ
of the Orleanists, thus comments on the manifesto of
Dr. VERON :
" It is difficult to know exactly the forces and plans of
the Napoleonean party which has taken the field against
the Constitution, as if to parody the movements of the
Grand Imperial army. It does not, up to this time, ap-
pear that these forces have been well numbered, or that
the plans of the generals have arrived at any unity. The
watchword is far from being uniform; it varies accord-
ing to the chiefs, or according to the corps, and we may
be allowed to suppose that the mot d'ordre given loudly,
is not absolutely the same as is exchanged in private
confidences. We, moreover, see every day trotting by
the side, or at the tail, of the Decerubrist legious, a
number of volunteers, or captains, who imagine that
they carry the true standard; that they wear the
true feathers, and each of whom cry with snore or less
high sounding voice:—' Here is fortune! here is victory!
follow me!' Amongst all these champions of Napoleonean
right, there is one of modest demeanour, of seductive
manners, and of flattering words—it is Dr. Louis Veron.
Whilst around him cries are uttered and agitation is
carried on, and threathening, if necessary, to take the
Constitution by storm, he, more simple and more meek,
like that simple
.squire who wisely recommended mo-
deration to his master, and contented himself with the
government of a small island, setting aside, tor the pre-
sent at least, the Empire, with its prestiges and its de-
ceptions, does not wish that they should go and sleep at
the Tuileries; he confines himself to demanding a pro-
longation of the power of the President for ten years, and
he will even be contented with less if the Assembly is
not struck with the profound sense of his proverbs and
his amphorisms. This proposition is very seductive, par-
ticularly when it comes from a man who, according to his
own avowal, is so deep in the confidence of the Prince;
but, besides that M. Louis Veron takes care to warn us that
these are his personal ideas—that they pledge no one
but himself—we have our reasons for thinking that Dr.
Veron, if he has a sure diagnostic and straightforward
intentions, has, unfortunately, a bad memory. Thus we
took, the other day, to the letter his profession of faith
on the good humour and on the serene dispositions with
which gay men support contradiction, but we have not
been long in discovering that we laboured under a mis•
take respecting this point. Since we have allowed our-
selves to smile a little at the manifestoes of the Consti-
tutionnel, to use the receipt of Dr. Veron, and put our-
selves in unison with his humour without in any way
wounding the legitimate susceptibility of ten galant homme,
a title which he has given himself' without meeting
with any contradictors—since that time we say, by a
severe law, tied without any previous warning, we have
been deprived happily, not of the reading, but of the
direct receipt of the Constitutionne/. In order to support
this ill fortune with gaiety we have called to mind the
philosophical maxims of Dr. Vero% But this is not the
point in question.' What disturbs the confidence which
we should be disposed to place in him when he offers us
his solutions, is that he changes his remedy more fre-
quently than good practitioners usually do in identical
cases. It may be remembered what there was myste-
rious in the first oracles of the Constitutionnel. When
the explanation came we were first told of ten years of
power voted by the Assembly, which would prorogue
itself indefinitely. That plan not having been well re-
ceived, we were told during the journeys, •We
do not require to have recourse to the Assembly ;
we thought of it in the first place, but it was
insensate. What could it do ? Nothing, either
solid or durable. It is the people who will
constitute cn a large basis the powers of the nephew
of the Emperor : that will go of itself.' We thought
that this was the last word. Not at all. M. Veron
again addresses himself to the Assembly, and says to
it, Vote ten years, that will be well; vote less than ten
years that will be less well, but we shall nevertheless be
satisfied.' In this embarrassing situation is it not pro-
bable that the Assembly, calling
to mind the Constitution
which is too frequently forgotten, will adopt the plan of
abstaining altogether. from the special question of the
prolongation of the powers ? Dr. Louis Veron, never-
theless, as if to give a pledge
otfiyh,iesfra.moLdeertatnioont,
im-
prudent claims at the end of his article, Let not the President
quit the humble residence of the
prudent friends attempt to reopen for him the doors of
the old residence of our kings. People too often become
mad there. Alas! perhaps Dr. Veron speaks truly. It
is well if people never
, become mad in any other place
than the Tuileries.'

Consols ...
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MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sale 3 of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at from 4,000 to 5,000 bales, all to the trade.
The market closed firmly. The sales comprised 150
Egyptian at 81d to 10d, 300 Surat at 5-}d to 51d, and
the remainder nearly all American.--In Railway Shares
a good business was done at previous prices.
The Sugar marker opens very briskly this week, and
prices are 6,1 to is higher.
The Indigo sales have commenced, and comprise
17,100 chests, including 5,557 chests of old goods bought
in at, or withdrawn from, former sales, and 3,408 cheats
in second hands. The qualities of the Bengal are
about one-half good and fine, and one-half middling and
ordinary; the Madras one-third good and fine, and two-
thirds middling and ordinary; the Kurpah two-thirds
good and fine, and one-third middling and ordinary;
the Oudes chiefly ordinary. The sale room presented a
full attendance of both foreign and home buyers. After
the announcement of 729 chests being withdrawn, the
sale opened with a parcel of fine Bengal, which sold at
an advance of fully Is per lb above July rates; during
the sale a farther quantity was withdrawn, making a
total of. 2,547 chests; there was but little animation in
the biddings; the chief proportion sold was on specula-
tive account, and strong support was given throughout
by the importers. Oude Indigo sold at an advance of
about 8d to 9d per lb, and Madras and Kurpah from
9d to is per lb above last sale's rates., 2,028 chests have
passed to-day, out of which 1,116 were withdrawn, 326
bought in, and 952 sold.
The number of British vessels which cleared at Boston
for the'British provinces during the month of July was
36. Their cargoes consisted principally of the following
named articles :—Flour, corn, meal, molasses, bricks,
hay, pork, coffee, candles, household furniture, &c. Of
the flour and meal exported during the month there was
350 barrels.
The trade of Lake Champlain appears to be rapidly
increasing, as is shown by the amount of duties collected
at Plattsburg and Burlington fur the last four years,
annexed:-
1846 57,534 $13,743
1847 13,080 15,148
1848 16,402 34,116
1849 51,029 47,376
The increase during the last year has been very
marked. At Plattsburg during the last quarter there
has been an increase over the corresponding quarter of
last session of property passing in bond free of duty.
Value of exports for quarter ending June
30, 1850 5211,292 00
Value of imports paying duty
Value of bonded 53,620 00
The above statement does not include American pro-
ducts in transit from western American ports. At Bur-
lington the value of imports bearing duty, for the
quarter ending June 30, 1850, was 51,169,494 88.
Value of exports for the quarter ending
June 30 $143,160 00
Duties collected for quarter ending June 30 34,005 97
The increase of trade between the United States and
Canada, in consequence of increased railway facilities, is
very marked, and the opening of the northern roads
will operate to make the increase very much greater in
the coming four years.
The question between Messrs. Schneider and the
Mexican Government was not arranged when the last
advices were sent from the other side, and the bond-
holders have good reason to congratulate themselves
that they are relieved from the injurious effects of fur-
ther disputes, whether of account or management.
Agencies are altogether abolished, and the creditors
will receive their money punctually when it dees leave
the hands of the Mexican collectors. We niust say that
the proceedings of several English mercantile house's
towards the foreign Governments for whom they have
acted have been far from creditable; but in the present
insntace there may be something to be said on both sides.
No on? can doubt but that M. Falconnet, when he ar-
rives out, will be enabled to settle this and all other
difficulties, and it is fully anticipated that his mission
will terminate much sooner than was at first hoped
The following communication will show the state o
affairs, as ascertained from the committee of bond.
holders:—

"Committee of Mexican Bondholders,
61, Moorgate-street, Oct. 8, 1850.
"Besides the remittances on account of the Mexican
dividends announced in the City article yesterday,
Colonel Fed° has received 8,000 dollars from Tampico
on the same account.
"On the subject of the distribution of the funds now
in the Bank of England for the payment of dividends,
the Mexican Minister of Finance writes as follows:
" Though the Government should wish to comply
with the wish of the bondholders, there are difficulties
in the way of doing so which it appears impossible to
overcome while Messrs. Schneider and Co. decline to
give up the books and papers in their hands belonging
to the Republic, and although it is quite true that the
differences existing between the said house and this Go-
vernment do not concern the bondholders, yet, as con-
fusion and mistakes might arise from the present agency
of the Republic in London not having the required docu-
ments to refer to when distributing the funds, whereby
the bondholders might sitar prejudice, the Government
is bound to avoid this, and for that reason finds itself,
with regret, unable to order the distribution of the money
in the Bank of England at present.' "
'ln the Amsterdam market, on the 7th inst., Dutch
Stock was rather lower, the Two-and-a-Half per Cents
being 56 9-16, and Foreign Stocks also were drooping.
At Frankfort, on the sth inst., Austrian Bonds were
7941 -I, and Spanish Three per Cents 34 5-16 to 9-16.
There are various arrivals from Rio de Janeiro, the
Cape of Good Hope, &c., but they do not generally
bring later dates.
The English Stock Market is firm this morning,
although the transactions have been limited.. Ex-
chequer-bills have been also well supported at 645. to
675. premium. Consols are now 96i 4. The advices
from Denmark are of the old character, and the fighting
policy was still kept up. Consols for November have
been 96j to 97.
In Foreign Securities the transactions have been very
restricted. Spanish Five per Cents. have been done at
18i' and the Three per Cents. 38i. Portuguese Four
per Cents. have been quoted 32i- to 33i. Mexican Bonds
have been at 314- to 2, and Brazil New at 89. Danish
Three per Cent. Stock is at 76. Dutch Four per Cents.,
ex. div., are 881.
Railway Shares are rather weaker.
QUIRTER TO THREE.
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ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISEI ruNos O'CLOCK. PRICES.
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 96, 96%
India Stock — 265
India Bonds, 1,0004 B6 P 86 p
Ditto under 1,000/ • 88 p 88 p
Consols for Account 96%3/4 96%
w,xchequer Dills. 1141 d. at 2d
1,000/. June ..... ...
500/. June 64 67 p 67 p
Small. June 64 67 p 67 p
ONE CLOSING
PRICES or FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Brazilian Bonds —
Ditto, New, 1843
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent ....
Ditto, 3 per Cent—. •...
Danish Bonds, 1825,3 per Cent.
Ditto 5 per Cent. ....
Equador Bonds
Grenada Bonds, 11,1 per Cent.......
Ditto, Deferred .
mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons—
Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons ... ..... 304 31%
Ditto, Account
-Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Ditto. Account .. .. .. B7 1,7
Ditto,4 per Cent.
Spanish 5 per Cont. 1840
Ditto, Account ..... ....
Ditto ... ... . 1849 12';i 12%
Ditto.. 3 per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild.
Ditto; 4 per Cent. Certificates BB% x d 88% x;cl
PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS 'DONE CLosIN ,
RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRIClig
Aberdeen
Do. Preference . 81 ...... dis — dis.
Amber. Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 8%...... ...... ........
tlyrshira and Galloway.. 7 ~'2 —
Belfast & County Down 32
Barks & Hants Extens.

10014
8%
181.4
4%

Gt. West: Per. 5 per ct.) 6
Uirmingham and Ox-
ford Junct., calls duly
paid, or with a guaran. 20 —
Do, without guarantee 20
Birming, Wolverh'ton,
and Dudley, calls duly
pd, or with guarantee 15
........,.«... •23
Do.without guarantee 15 - ........
Birming.,Wolverh'pton,
and Stour Valley 131. 14a ... --
Birkenhead; Lancashire,
and Cheshire June-- 26 ...... ..
........
Bristol and Exeter 100 ...... — ".....
buckinghamshire I7IA, ..... -- ... •••
Caledonian
Do. New 10/. Pref..... 10 ......
Ditto,Clydesdale June 50
Chester and Holyhead... 50
Ditto, Preference l5 - ........
Clarence
Direct London & Ports-
mouth
Dublin and Belfast Junc. 45 ••••••
Dundalk& Enniskillen 30
Es.st Anglian, 251., L. &
E. and L. and D... 25 ...... 21,4
Do. 18/., E.& 11....... 18
Do., 3/. 10s., Pref...... 314.••.•• Ith
Do., (51.) 7 per Ct.
Preference. ..... ...... 5 ----
Ditto (71. 175.) 7 per
Cent., Preference... 2
E ila tem Conati 03...
Ditto,E t tension, 5 per
Cent., No.l 6/. 13s. 4d.... p.. ...
......
...
Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13a. 4d... p
Do., New Preference,
10 ......
Do 6. NPeorrtChen. &t. Eas—t.e.rn—,
6 per Cent. -
Ditto. 5 per Cent.... 50 - • • _
Do. New
Eastern Union, Class A
Do., Cites B & C 25 —
D (lateit to, E'
ClassUA. ,Sdhi tatroe.B2 2(1
Do. Scrip (6per cent.) 20
East Laaciushire
Ditto, New Quarters.. 614...... _ ..
...........
Do., 6 per Cent. Pre-
ference Quarters ... 6/A — ... ...........
East Lincohriliiry, guar.
6 par Cent.
•••. .....
Edinburgh and Glasgow 60 .....„
.... ....• •
Edin., Perth, & Dundee 25
Ditto, Newpori, l5 .. ... ••• ............
Exater.Yeovil, & Dorch 214 — .........
Exeter and Exmouth... 2Is.

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