The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-14 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1850.

Among the nnmeroua impediments in the way of
sanitary improvement not the least formidable, is that
caused by the multiplicity of changes required, and
the uncertainty felt as to which of those alterations
should have the precedence. lJpon this subject our
impression is that the readiest means of obviating the
difficulty is to acquire some clear and accurate sense
of the principal evils now injuriously affecting the
health of the population. So long as these evils con-
tinue to be jumbled together in the public considera-
tion, so long must there inevitably be confusion in the
projects started for their removal. Out of all the mis-
cellaneous causes of illness and mortality, the more
considerable must be taken into account separately,
so that the chief objects of reform should be ranged
apart, under distinct and insulated categories. Then,
but. not until then, will the pathways of sanitary
improvement be easily recognized in their various
and somewhat eccentric ramifications. It must be
remembered, for example, that amongst the promi-
nent requirements in the way of the proposed inno-
vation, the Government will have especially and
severally to regard the want of ventilation ; the want
of drainage; the .want of parer water for
domestic consumption ; and the want of all
those systems of organized cleanliness such
ea are secured by a inure effective purification
of the street?; end by the multiplication of such ad-
mirable establishments as the public baths and
washhonses. Each of these necessities fur the dimi-
nution of the general mortality must be regarded
separately, and treated separately, though, of course,.
with a due reference to their ultimate association in
a complete system. Ventilation, for example, in order
to be rendered in any reasonable manner effectual,
presupposes the discontinnance of intramural
interments. Otherwise the atmosphere admitted
more freely into the dwellings of the com-
munity would only be enabled to diffuse the
more rapidly the invisible poison with, which it is
impregnated, circulating through the homes of the
people the pernicious vapours perpetually arising
from the pestilential graveyards of our cities. In-
directly alluding to this essential priority of a change
A a the sl9dem of burial to a change in the system of

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ventilation, atCnterligent engineer has observed, in a
recent treatiseYh thcfla;ter rttbject (p. 18:2),
Christian minister should remember that he has nu
right to expect his congregation to give lively atten-
tion to the subject on which he may be descanting,
while they are subjected to the influence of an
atmosphere body and soul depressing." Again, as
to the want of proper drainage in crowded localities,
such as the various districts of the metropolis, that
necessity is one crying loudly for the interposition
of the Legislature. It bas been insisted upon by
Lord EBRINGTON, ever since 1845, that conspicuous
among the causes of urban insalubrity is the accu-
mulation of putrescent matter in large quantities.f
By a most preposterous arrangement the river
running through our capital is employed as a
means of stirring up this putrescent filth
of the metropolis by the tidal influences
affecting its current. In a recent disquisition on
malaria we are gratified to observe the following
opinion advanced by Dr. Uan (page 33) :—" The
city of London would be thoroughly cleansed by
the abstraction of its putrescent offals, and its noble
river might resume its pristine poetical title of the
silver Thames: nor does there seem to be any insu-
perable difficulty in the present state of scientific
skill and bold enterprise among our illustrious
engineers which could not be certainly overcome."s
But, chief of all the principal wants of the multi-
tude in the way of sanitary improvement, is
that of a sufficient :supply of pure water,
for domestic consumption. At present the water
imbibed by the inhabitants of the metropolis is of
such disgusting and baneful impurity as to be
scarcely worthy of the name, a name signifling some-
thing more salubrious and pellucid. Insomuch that
almost every citizen might exclaim against the Go-
vernment as against a body most culpable in its long
indifference to the requirements of the people in this
particular.
" Quid prohibetis aquas ? usus communis aquarum eat;
(tufts tamen ut detis, suppler peto. Non ego nostros
Abluere hic artus, lassataque membra parabam;
Sed relevare sitins. Caret os humore loquentis,
Et fauces strew, vixque est via vocis in illis.
Mums aqua mihi Nectar erit."

" The

Not only do the obstacles in the way of obtaining
the advantages of a proper urban irrigation arise
from the enormous quantities of putrescent matter
thrown into the river ; but likewise, also, and in a
very great measure, from the injurious nature of the
minor channels employed for the conveyance of water
throughout the metropolis. Foremost, perhaps,
among the reasons of this supplementary contamina-
tion is the poison of lead, a quality absorbed by water
from the surface of pipes and cisterns. Of the pre-
valence of this poison in the water used for domestic
purposes many startling and rather depressing
testimonies have lately been collected together in
a little pamphlet, well deserving the attentive
perusal of all aspirants for sanitary improvement, a
pamphlet which we can commend with justice from
its evidently conscientious accuracy and pervading
intelligence.§ Another consideration affecting the
subjects of irrigation, ventilation, and sewerage purl
fication should, together with those already referred to,
be carefully borne in mind—namely, that the prin-
cipal cause of all malaria is the presence of sulphu-
retted hydrogen in the common atmosphere.
it should be remembered, also, that this de-
structive gas arises continually in the most horrible
abundance from stagnant cesspools, from over-
crowded graveyards, from the streets and from the
river, from putrescent matter allowed to accumulate
in all directions—and that this is permitted to be the
case, notwithstanding the declaration of the illus-
trious LIEBIG that " sulphuretted hydrogen produces
immediate decomposition of the blood when admitted
to the lungs." From all we have here remarked, it
will be sufficiently evident that little or nothing
has yet been achieved in the way of sanitary
improvement, in spite of all that has been
said upon the matter both within and without the
walls of Parliament. The secret of this is, as we
have before attempted to' intimate, the confusion in
which the whole subject still continues, and the
necessity existing that it should be marked out in se-
parate departments.

Never, perhaps, was any act of Grovernment re-
ceived with greater joy than the virtual suspension
of the unjust and impolitic law of 1844, by the
Ministerial letter of the 25th October, 1847, to
which we alluded in our impression of Saturday last,
It is true, as we have already stated, that many grave
objections were entertained with respect to the previ-
sions contained in that letter. The enormous and
usurious rate of interest—the minimum terms on which
accommodation could be afforded by the Bank, being
8 per cent. per annum, which might be considered as
equivalent to 12 or 15 per cent. from other establish-
ments,—was felt to be a serious drawback. But still
money could be obtained, although at a heavy
sacrifice, by those who had unquestionable secu-
rities, and that was felt to be an inestimable
boon at the moment. Heavy losses would un-
doubtedly be submitted to, but ruin and bankruptcy
might be averted, and sincere gratitude was felt to
Ministers for what was then supposed to be the large
concession made to the interests of the commercial
community. This feeling might possibly have been
changed if it had been fully ascertained that it was
merely to save the Bank itself from stoppage, at a
moment when it had no less than eight millions of
gold and silver coin and bullion in its vaults, and
thus to prevent the natural consummation of that
iniquitous law, and the folly and incapacity of its
authors from being manifested to the country.
The clause that provided that the extra profits
derived from the measure should be carried to
the account of the national Exchequer was also
deemed unworthy of the Government of a
mighty nation, as evincing a petty azd grasp-
ing disposition, a paltry meanness, highly un-
becoming a statesman. But, with all its faults, the
measure was truly acceptable, and not the less so
because it was considered as fatal to the Act of 1844.
In this opinion all classes concurred. There was an
almost unparalleled unanimity in the press. Even
the great organ of the bullionists, the most strenuous
advocate of the Bank Charter Act, of the "apprecia-
tion" in the value of money thereby occasioned, and
of banking restrictions, admitted that the days of the
existing law were numbered, and that it would spee-
dily be erased from the national statute-book.
That journal stood almost alone in condemning the
suspension as being too precipitate, but it entertained
no doubt as to the effect of that suspension—that it
was a virtual abrogation of the Act, which thereby
received its coup de grace.
Meanwhile the operation of the suspension pro-
f duced the most astonishing effects. The most san-
guine anticipations were more than realized. The
intense fears, the wild and unreasoning panic, that
had prevailed in every quarter were immediately
allayed, and comparative confidence was restored.
The moment the Bank was empowered to issue
money the great demand for it ceased. The notes
hoarded by bankers and commercial men to guard
against anticipated dangers, which had been esti-
mated by Mr. S. GURNEY to amount to no less than
4,000,0001. sterling, were at once released from
their confinement and restored to general circula-
tion. Mr. GLYN subsequently, in his evidence, clearly
explained this operation. The Honourable Gentleman
said, " It produced the same effect as if the Bank of
England had made an issue, because it brought out
the hoards cf notes, and they went into circulation.
It thereby added to the circulation of the country,
and it removed the cause of the panic, which is stated
to have arisen from the Act of 1844." *The same in-
telligent and trustworthy witness declared that " the
letter of the Government stopped the crisis and
abrogated the Act;" and another witness (Mrs
Baowrat) considered the letter to have
,En
"virtuallyve
' condemned and annulled the Act of 1844.
the Governor of the Bank himself, although an
earnest supporter of the Act, acknowledged that " all

* "Practical Ventilation as applied to Pubic, Domes-
tic, and Agricultural Structures." 1 Vol. By R'-'bert
Scott Burt', Engineer. Blackwood and Sons, London
and Edinburgh: 1850.
f " Lecture on the Unhealthiness of Towns; its
Causes and Remedies," delivered in the Mechanics' In-
stitute at Plymouth, in 15-15, by Viscount Ebrington,
M.P. Charles Kni,ht, London: 1846.

" The General Malaria of London, and the Peculiar
Malaria of Pimlico, Investigated, and the Means of their
Economical Removal Ascertained." By Andrew Ure,
M.D., F.R.S., &c. Orr and Co., London: 1850."
§" Some Remarks on the Contamination of Water
by the Poison of Lead: and its Effects on the Human
Body." By James Bower Harrison, M.R,C.S.L.
Churchill, London: 1850.

LONDON,

I harm appeared to have ceased on the issue of the
letter," and sub't quen'ly stated, in his
dance, that " what restored confidence ma-
the letter of the Government, allowing the
Bank to make any advances, without reference to the
Act, at a given rate of interest. We did not so much
want the money, but we wanted a certainty that if we
did want it we could get it." A former Go-
vernor, also, Mr. HORSELEY PALMER, more
than corroborated this view. " The demand for
assistance," said he, "was so much increased as to
place the Bank in imminent danger by granting it,
and which NOTHING could have relieved short of the re-
laxation of the law which took place."
But why multiply evidence on a question so
generally acknowledged as to be almost indisputable ?
The effect of the letter was immediate. Mr. S.
GURNEY, in the morning of that day—the 25th
October, 1847—bad applied to the Governor of the
Bank, stating that his firm would 'require 200,0001.
The amount was large in the then condition of the
Bank, and, although the security was of the most satis-
factory description, the board took time to consider
the application until two o'clock. At one o'clock,
however, the Ministerial letter authorizing the relaxa-
tion was made generally known, and before the ap-
pointed time, within a single hour, the accommoda-
tion was no longer required. Mr. GURNEY himself
gave a graphic description of the operation. He said
—" Those who had sent notice for their money in the
morning sent us word that they did not want it, that
they only ordered payment by way of precaution, and
after the notice we only required about 100,0001. in-
stead of 200,000/. From that day we bad a week Of
comparative ease ; the alarm lessened, and by the
end of the week we had to ask as a favour of the Bank
to be allowed to repay the money which we had bor-
rowed of them." The relief, however, was not limited
to the metropolis. Similar results were perceptible
throughout the entire country ; and the tide
of national prosperity, that had so long been
ebbing with fearful rapidity, at length turned
and began to flow in a constant and steady
stream, in which it has since continued, although the
iniquitous Act that caused the national distress and
produced the commercial crisis still, unhappily, re
mains the law of the land.
IVe shall, on a future occasion, fully explain the
disreputable manner in which the Government evaded
an immediate decision on the condemned law—
which we may style the new Bank Charter—and
placed the question, towards which the public mind
was intently directed, on the shelf, until the excite-
ment had terminated, and thus maintained the
hideous monster in all its natural deformity.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Presse announces that the illustrious repub.
lican ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE is about to visit
London for the purpose of raising capital and pur-
chasing implements, for the cultivation of the large
territory in Asia Minor which has been conferred on
him by the SULTAN.
The banquets at the Elys6e to the non-commis-
sioned officers have aroused the suspicions of General
CHANGARNIER, who, according to the Credit, remon-
strated with the PRESIDENT of the Republic on the
subject, and denounced them as subversive of
all military discipline. The PRESIDENT made no
reply to these remonstrances, , but the banquets
are to he continued. The Poucoir declares that
the society of the 10th December is an association
for merely charitable purposes (like the societies in
our English boroughs for distributing beef and
blankets and money among poor freeman probably),
but the Presse and the National consider it as a
political conspiracy. The latter thus denounces it :
" A society has been founded with the avowed object
of enabling M. Bonaparte to break his oath and to de-
stroy the Republic, to which he owes his position. We
would wish, for the sake of M. Bonaparte himself, that
lie had put down this society, or protested against it as
an enemy to the country and to himself, and that ho
had repelled as a mortal affront this pretension to the
empire from which he is separated bykhis oaths, his
honour, the country's benefits to him, his own history,
and even his title of President of the Republic, given
him by the people and the Constitution. But since he
is so weak as to allow this society to exist, and since
this coterie, aided by reactionary journals, does not cease
toenvelop him in shameful plots, we will, for the sake of
the Republic. and of society, expose these disloyal
manceuvres, this permanent conspiracy, and it is with this
view that we shall render a daily account of the Presi-
dent's itinerary."
_ _ _

The suspicions entertained of treasonable designs
against the Republic on the part of the Bonapartists,
are strengthened by the fact, that the Prefect of the
Cote d'Or has ordered that the arrangements for the
reception of Louis NAPOLEON shall be copied from
those made for the reception of the EMPEROR, by
the Imperial decree of 24th Messidor XII. The
following official account of the progress of the PRE-
SIDENT has been published :
" The President of the Republic lett the Elysee yes
terday mornieg at half-past six, accompanied by the Mi-
nisters of War, Public Works, and Commerce, Colonels
Vaudrey, de Beville, and Ney, and Captain de Toulon-
geon, his aides-de-camp and orderly officers, and M.
llctocquart, the chef du cabinet, and arrived at the termi-
nus of the Lyotts Railway at a quarter before seven.
The Vice-President of the Republic, the Minister of the
Interior, the Prefect of Police, and several of the re-
presentatives of the departments of the Yonne, the
Nievre, the Cote d'Or, and the Rhone, were there in
waiting. He was received at the entrance of the building
by the engineer-in-chief, M. Jullien, and others en-
gineers attached to the service of the line: After ad-
miring fur a moment the interior of the extensive and
magnificent building, the Prince got into the carriage
prepared fur himefollowed by M. Boulay (de la Meurthe),
the Prefect of Police, the director of the railway, M.
Lucien Murat, General Rebillot, and several representa-
tives. The Count de Moutalembert, who had been in-
vited for the journey, left the evening before for Dijon.
The inhabitants of the Faubourgs, who had assembled
near the railway terminus, saluted tho President with
loud cries a • Vive Napoleon.' The train left at great
speed for Tonnerre, where the Prince was to stop. At
the three intermediate stations of Montereau, Joigny, and
Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, the people had assembled from
all the country round, and hailed the presence of the
President with great enthusiasm. The municipal
authorities, the National Guards, and the clergy,
were at the head of the crowd. The President several
times expressed his regret at not being able to make a
longer stay in the midst of the good and loyal inhabit-
ants of the country; but he made the best use of the few
moments he had to communicate with them to learn
their wishes and their wants, and to distribute assist-
ance to such as were in distress. At Tonncrre, the
mayor, at the head of the municipal council, the prefect
of the Yonne, and the sub-prefect of the arrondissement,
received the Prince at the temporary terminus. The
first magistrate of the place expressed the sentiments
which animated the inhabitants at the presence of the
Chief of the State, whom they had been anxious to re-
ceive last year at the inauguration of the railway.
The President replied in a few words, full of kindness
for the country which was the first, by a spontaneous
outburst of patriotism to call him from exile by
naming him representative to the Constituent As-
sembly. Accompanied by the Ministers, the pre-.
feet, and the general commanding the department, M.
Carlier, the Prefect of Police, and the municipal autho-
rities, the President of the Republic went to the Hotel de
Ville, where he received the civil tribunal, the juges de
paix of the arrondissement, and all the authorities. He
afterwards received the National Guards, the depots of
the 11th and 12th Dragoons and the Pompiers, and ex-
pressed himself well satisfied with the soldier-like
bearing of these troops. The Prince received with
much warmth some old soldiers of the Imperial Guard.
The President, after having visited the hospital,
where he left many unequivocal proofs cf his
usual munificence, proceeded to the hotel of the
sub-prefecture, where a collation had been prepared
for him. On leaving the town he presented the
mayor with a sum of 1,000 f., to divide amongst the un-
fortunate families who had suffered from the cholera
last year. The Prefect of Police, who had accompanied
the President as far as the confines of the Yonne, his
native department, presented to him some men who had
sacrificed everything to oppose demagogical tendencies.
The clergy anxiously took part with the authorities, of
the town in the reception of the Chief of the State. The
President then left the railway, which had brought him
to the place in three hours and a half, under the guidance
of M. Charlet, the chief of the working department, who
had driven the engine on this occasion. The President
charged the Minister of Public Works to express to M.
Jullien his satisfaction at all the arrangements. It
would be impossible, is fact, to desire to have a service
better or more promptly organized than was done on this
occasion. The President then left for Dijon, where he
was expected to arrive at ten o'clock last night."
The Courtier de Lyon thus describes the prepara-
tions made for the reception of the PRESIDENT in
that city :
_ _

ecavuissietswahsitcrhontgliefereirineg'dof
nephew of the Emperor, is abouts'.eat of
the
emotion Republic, the
to pay to our city na-
' tur"alll‘yh• among all the
inhabitants; but it is more naturally calculated to cause
the hearts to beat of all the olda
o au.s of the Emperor,
of all the retired officeri in who:ry eyes Napoleon is the
personification of military glory and genius—who
con-
sider
him as their chief or their model, and who
r rtes name,pect,
at the same time, in his nephew, the heir of a
and the providential elect of France. We gahave,e there-
fore,
heard, without astonishment that the retired sol-
diers who reside in Lyons and the neighbour-
hood have resolved to take advantage of the visit of Louis
Bonaparte to make a manifestation in conformity with
their souvenirs and their sympathies. pathies. The delegates of
this honourable category of citizens have requested us
to make known their determination to make a collective
demonstration to the President, not from an idea of vain
parade, but to make known to the first magistrate of the
Republic, to the nephew of the Emperor, that in case of

need their hearts are intact, and their arms still vigorous
,i,ry e:, t . :.f ~‘
Ce.', -; fi ;
;,h(.l msrveUous k ection of the 10th December, and a se-
cond time by his attitude before the revolutionary attempt
i,f the 13th June; which he, in fact, every day protects
by his presence at the helm of affairs, by the remarkable
mixture of prudence and of firmness which he has
evinced in this difficult post. Such a manifestation must
be as flattering for Louis Napoleon Bonaparte as it is
significative in the point of view cf scciai order so fre-
quently menaced, and the enemies of which are far from
having given over their attempts."
In meantime the Commission of Permanence does
everthing in its power to defend the Republic against
conspirators of all colours ; General LAMORICIERE is
indefatigable in his attendance, and it has been deter-
mined that during the recess twenty members at least
of the Committee shall always remain in Paris. M.
LEO DE LABORDE, the Legitimatist, is the only mem-
ber of the Committee now absent.

On Monday the grand distribution of prizes among
the students of the University took place at the Sor-
bonne. The son of M. GUIZOT obtained two prizes.
GUIZOT, who has recently rendered himself ex-
ceedingly popular among the students by his op-
position to the new law on public instruction,
was present, and was loudly cheered ; the
students insisted in singing the Marseillaise in
his honour. The students look upon him
as their champion and defender against the sacerdotal
tyranny to which M. DE MONTALEMBERT would sub-
ject them, and their feelings are still more strongly
excited against the priests by the recent exhibition
of horrible bigotry and intolerance on the part of
FRANZONI, the Archbishop of Turin, and tha bosom
friend of MU. DE MONTALEMBERT and DE FALLOUX,
who got
o upasubscription to prestnt with a testi-
monial approval of his former acts of rebellion
against the laws of his country.
The Prefect of the Seine et Marne has suspended
several may ors in his department who signed petitions
against the Electoral Law.
Pam BOURSE, AUGUST 13.—Latest Prices.—Five
per Cents., 96f. 70c.; Three per Cents., 58f. 5c.;
Bank Actions, 2,3001.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDONSTOCK.-EXCHANGE , Auc. 13.
_ _

Boulogne and Amiens, 7—Central of France (Orleans and
Vierzon), 141,4—East lndian,7%—Northern of France, it%
—Orleans and Bordeaux, 2 —Paris and Rouen, 23%—
Sambre and Meuse, 2%.

COURSE OF
Amsterdam 12 1%
Ditto, three months 12 2%
Rotterdam .... •••• •• 12
Antwerp''
Brussels „ ... 25 :',7%
Llamburgh —M.33. 13 10%
A1t0na............. •.
Paris, 3 days'sight 25 37%
Ditto. 3 months .... 25 GO
Marseilles 25 60
Bourdeaux— ....... •
Frankfortou Maine.... 120%
Bcran.•• • • .. • • • •
Vienna, efrec. 110 ••• • • • 11 50
Trieste, ditto.. ...... 11 50
Patersburgh,Sll.lthle.. 37%
Madrid •... • • ........ 49%
Barcelona ............
•• •. •• •• •• •• •••

WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 14, 1850.

MONEY and CO2,32HERC! IL NEWS.

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t LA.,:.;.,.41 at. 1,,..L•rp,,1 ere /JAL-
mated at 8,000 bales, of which 2,000 American were
taken for expur:, road 400 Surat and 1.500 Amercan on
spi,culation. Tho market closed firmly at full price:.
—The share market was flat.

The letters and pipers by the mail steamer America
furnish a few items of interest. It is stated in a report
before us that " the harvest throughout the United
States is now finished, and we are satisfied the amount
of wheat produced is greater than ever betore. In the
Western States, where corn has heretofore been the
principal crop, an immense amount of wheat has been
grown this year. In Missouri alone. the surplus is esti-
mated at five hun.fred thousand bushels, and this is one
of the smallest wheat growing states. The corn crop
has suffered somewhat in almost every direction in
consequence of drought, but that occurred before the
grain began to form, and, should the month
of August prove favourable, a greater amount of corn
will be raised than ever before known. All the crops
suffered considerably by the rain which fell in the course
of the late gale, which swept from Cape Fear to the
Northern Lakes, but that is, comparatively, a small por-
tion of the great territory devoted to agriculture.
" The cotton and sugar crops suffered greatly in
consequence of the late spring and the many over-
flows to which they have been subjected.- Indeed,
from all we can gather, it is probable that both
these crops will fall far below the average,
and it is possible they may be even below those of last
year. In Texas alone have those crops escaped the
disaster to which in the other Southern states they have
been subjected. A large portion of the most productive
lands in that State has this year been devoted to the
production of sugar cane, and it is probable that Texas
will be one of the principal States in the production of
sugar.

-4-'llp to the 17th of June last, we are authentically
informed, that some thirty thousand adventurers passed
Fort Laramie, on the overland route to California, and
the rush by the way of Chagres and Panama is still
very great. The probability is that the new state on
the Pacific will receive an accession to her population of
sixty or seventy thousand within the present
year. The accounts recently received from the
gold region warrant the belief that the proceeds of gold
digging this season will ba immense. • That state,' re-
marks a New Yurk editor, ' with wonderful resources,
need care very little whether she is admitted into the
Union or not. Indeed, we would not be surprised if
she got disgusted with the manner in which she has
been treated, and withdrew her application altogether."
Dates to the 19th inst., from Mayaguez state that
sugar and molasses were very scarce at that place, the
crop having been nearly entirely bought up for the Eu-
ropean markets; but the stock on hand had not reached
so low an ebb as had been represented. It was stated
at Mayaguez that the news had been received there of
a terrible hurricane having taken place at Guadeloupe
and Martinique, destroying property to a very large
amount, and damaging the shipping in the harbour s.

The Mexican advices are discouraging. The cholera
continued to rage severely, and told, of course, upon the
collection of the revenue. The remittance from Vera-
Cruz, officially reported to the Committee, is only
30,652 dollars, and from another source we learn that
there are about 6,000 dollars from Tampico. The
amount advised as pending for duties at Vera Cruz is
151,822 dollars 42 cents. Messrs. Manning and
Mackintosh write to the Committee, explaining
why they have lately been unable to send
forward an exact account of the amounts available for
the bondholders, the Customs authorities net having
delivered the bills to them, and it appears that there
would be an expense of 30 or 40 dollars per month to
have the amounts regularly drawn up by the Customs
clerks. All this will doubtless be sec right when Mr.
Falconnet goes out, and we hear that his intention of
visiting the United States is abandoned, and that ho is
likely to proce,d direct to Mexico by the packet of
the 2d of next month. There ia another change re-
ported in the American papers to have taken place in
the Finance department, Senor Gutierres having been
replaced by Senor Lacunzs, and a Mexican journalist
gives the following gloomy report:—
" The treasury is not only empty, but there are no
available means by which it can he filled (at least, le-
gally filled). The state of the country arises from the
eviie which have crept in and become a part and portion
of its system of Government. They must all be changed
ere any permanent good can result to Mexico."
The Amsterdam Stock market on the 12th inst. wns
rather dull. Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents brought
5"I to 5-16.
The Funds have been very dull again, and the settle-
ment of the Account occupies chief attention. Consols
have been marked 96/ t for Transfer, and 96k i for Sap-
tember 14. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents.
have realised 981 :Le Bank Stock has been firm at 211
to 212. Exchequer-bills have been quoted 665. to 695.
premium.
Foreign Stocks have been quiet. Mexican Bonds
have fallen to 29i I for money, and to 29i for ac-
count. Buenos Ayres at 58. Spanish Five per Cents.
have realised 17/. Danish Bonds are 102 k; and Dutch
Two-and-a-Halt per Cents. nominally 57 to t-.
Railway Shares aro rather fluctuating. Eastern
Counties have decidedly fallen, owing partly to the
engine-drivers strike. Great Northern are better, and
also Great Western. Brighton rather heavy. North..
Western steady; and South-Eastern higher. York and
Berwick have advanced.

QUARTER TO THREE.
Consols 96k
Ditto Account, Sept. 11 96i
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock 211 212
3 ter Cant. _Reduced Annuities
3 por Cont. Consols Anna
"Tow 3'4 Anal.
per Cent.
9834

India Stock
Do. Bonds. 10001 ... 86 p
Ditto under 1.000/
Consols for Account 96th%
Exchequer Bills. 1 4d. 2d.
March. June.
1,060/.
500/ 66 69 p
•_.

.
Small — 66 69 p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE' O'CLOCK.
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent LB
Danish Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent —
Ditto, 5 per Cent
Mexican Bon.lb, 1846, 5 per Cent., Coupons
Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons . 2914
Ditto Account . 29%
Peruvian Bonds, 41/2 per Cent 82%
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent B7
Russian Bonds. 1822, 5 per Cent —
Ditto 41A per Cent
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent......... MA
Dividends on the above payable in London.

BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK
• RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHAHS.
'aledonian
Eastern Count.es
Do. Exten.,s per ct.N0.1,6/.135.4d... 14 pto
Do., do N0.'2,6/. 135.4 d.. p... to
Do. New Pref., 6 per Cent.. 10
4: ast Lancashire .....
...... to 814
Groat Northern .
Do. % A Deferred ..... ... 12% 2l/4 %... to
1:o. 14 B 6 per Cent.
Jo., 5 per Cent. Pref....... 121/2 ll ... .. to 11%
!4t. South. & Wed. (Ireland) 50
Great Western 100 ...... 59 58% to 53
Do. New 171 l5 ... 73/ ...... to
q.ull and Selby
Ditto, Half Shares .. ...... 25 - to
l.s.ncashire and Yorkshire ...100 ..... 37%..... to 38
Leeds and Bradford .....__, .... 60
Leeds and Thirsk .. ...... 50
London & 81ackwa11......11/. 6s. 3d 4% %... to
Lond., Bright.,& South Coastloo
Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 -
Do., New, gua. 6 pr Ct.... 100 l3B x. d.... to
Londoil and Greenwich... 12/. 15s. 4d ...... to
Ditto Preference
London & North Western„.. .100 ......11114% to
Do. New Quarters..
London and N. Western......100

—....._ ..
L4westoff, guar. 4 per ct 2O
Ditto (guar. 6 per cent. ... 13
Llidland . .. lOO •••• 333x1/... to
Ditto, 50?. Shares ..... ...... 35
Midland, Qonsol. Bristol and.

Birmingham, 6 per c0nt....100 NO% ... to
North British .... ...... .. . 25 SIA. to
North Staffordshire........... 171 h - to
'Shropshire Union 6l/2..... 2 VA... to
South Eastern
York, Newcastle, and Berwick 25
Do. and Newcastle E 9 ten. 20
Do. G. N. E. Pnr. or Pref.. 9
York and North Midland ... 50

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Central of France ( Orleans
and Vierzca)
East Indian .......
Ronan and Havre ........ 20

MINES.
Brazilian Imperial
osLjohnD Del Rey
... 2154% 1-41.
to
oo
United Mexican ....... ........ 28% SIA,

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Loudon Joint Stock
London and Westminster 2O ...... 27% x.d to

7 LLOYD'S SI-11PPING.-(THR', DAY.)
'N V7C 14.—YV iiid Ut LUGU ILuW. i ate

Z and c,ol.lkiy.
SWANSEA, AUG. 13.—Arrd. Lady Pixie, Parker,
Cuba ; William Nicholson, Rees, Cuba.
A:ILFORD, AUG. 13.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Ho; e,
James, Quebec ; Cinderella, Liverpool, for Rio Janeiro,
leaky ; Lelean, Lelean, Rio Janeiro, for Lisbon, with
sails split,
WREXFORD.—SId. Menapea, Quebec.
SLIGO, AUG. 12.—Wind N.N.—Arrd. Linlen,
Kirkpatrick, Quebec.
SHIELDS, Ara. 13.—Arrd. Susan and Sarah, Sey-
mour, Quebec.
SUNDERLAND, AUG. 13.—Wind N.—Arrd. Anna,
Quebec.
Rum, AUG. 13.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Ross, Brown,
St. John's, New "'Brunswick ; Robinson, Rodd, ditto.
Sld. Miramichi, Miramichi.
SAUNDERSFOOT, A.G. 13.—The Allison, cf London,
Swansea to Constantinople, struck on a ledge off Caldy
Island to-day, makes much water, has taken assistance to
pump, and proceeded to Miltord to repair.
FISHGUARD, AUG. 13.—The master of the Conquest,
of Newport, reports having seen two large ships in con-
tact, off Orm's Head, 7th inst.; one had her bowsprit
carried away, and returned to Liverpool.
SUNDERLAND, AUG. 13.—The Beater and the United
Kingdom, both of this port, were in contact off Plain-
borough Head on the night of the 10th inst.; the former
lost bowsprit, and the latter had her bulwarks stove.
Both have arrived here.

PLYMOUTH, AUG. 13.—Wind variable.—Sld. Anna
Maria, Australia. Off port, Magdalena, Westeryard,
Rio Janeiro, for Hamburgh.
NEWPORT, AUG. 13.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Medina,
Quebec.
CARDIFF, AUG. 13.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. Mary,
M'Connel, Quebec ; Mary, Roberts, Dalhousie.
Cayenne, Baltimore; Nicaragua, Quebec.

DEAL Ara. 13.---Wind N.E. to S.E. and S.—Arrd.
Lourens, Bata'via, for Rotterdam.
LITTLEHAMPTON, AUG. 13.—AI:rd. Beulah, of Scar-
borough, with loss of bowsprit, sails, &c., having been in
contact with a steamer this morning, off Beachy Head.
LIVERPOOL, Ana. 13.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. Thomas
Church, Pratt, New Orleans. Sld. Shannon, Acapulco;
Keying, Newburyport; Anne, Montreal; Gertrude, New-
foundland; Pearl, ditto; Chippewa, Bombay; Sir Robert
Peel, ditto; Roe, Africa; London, Valparaiso; Harle.
quin, Barbadoes; Independence, New Orleans; James
Brown, Philadelphia; Roscius, New York; De Witt,
Clnton, ditto; New England, ditto; William Wort, ditto;
Cluny, St. John's, New Brunswick ;Dasid Frost, Quebec.

PORTSMOTH, AUG. 13.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Regulus,
Newcastle for Rio de Janeiro, with loss of bowsprit,
headiails, &c., and bow damaged, having been in contact
with a brig yesterday morning off the Wight. Sid.
Bombay, Cape and Bombay.
Cowes, AuG. 13.—Wind N.N.E.—SId. Olive Branch,
Quebec.
SCILLY, AuG. 12.—Wind N., squally.—Arrd. Argente,
Liverpool, with loss of topmast, &c., and making a little
water.

CARLISLE, AUG. 1 2.—Wind W.—Arrd. Ant, Dalhousie.

CLYDE, AUG. 12.—Arrd. Mary and Ann, Wilson, Ja-
maica; Ambassadress, Foody, Dalhousie; Packet
Bowser, Berbice; Woodstock, Blair, Quebec; Mary
Campbell, Baal], ditto. Sld. Borneo, Batavia.
DUBLIN, AUG. 12.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrd. James
Andes, Baker, Norfolk, U. S.; Wave, Halpin, St. John's,
New Brunswick.

KINGSTOWN, AUG. 12.—Arrd. Auzil, Galley, Trinidad.
SHIELDS, A LTG, 11.—Wind S.W. to W.—Arrd. Poly-
nesia, Tate, Miramichi ; Mary Brack, Hunter, Dalhousie.
Sid. Columbian, New York; Keepsake, Quebec; Horner,
Boston, U. S.

ILFRACOMBE, AUG. 13 —The Victoria, Cardiff to
London, sprang a leak off here yesterday, and has
come into the harbour.

NORFOLK, VIR., JULY 27.—Thelrf,Tginia Ann, Charles-
ton to Bordeaux, put in on the 2.1t.h July, with loss of
spars, sails, and other damage. The Houthandel, Am-
sterdam to Charleston, put in on the 26th July leaky,
vessel much straiaed, &c., having experienced heavy
weather. The Racer, New York to Nassau, N.P., cap-
sised during a gale on the 19th July, drifted on shore
at Cape Hatteras, and went to pieces; three men
drowned.

NLW Yong, JULY 31.—The Annie (Dutch ship),
Rotterdam to Boston, which was •on shore on Goose
Island, United States, on the 11th May, has been given
up as a wreck, having bilged and lest most of her keel.
The Java, from Cardiff; arrived at Charleston on the
24th July very leaky, and much strained, having been
on shore on the Ship Bar.

The Sidney, Quebec to London, with master sick, and
crew refusing to do duty, was spoken 12th July, in lat.
45, long. 56.
The John Carver, Havannah to Trieste, arrived at
Owl's Head on the 20th July, with loss of spars, sails,
&c.. and would proceed to Learspott for repair.
The Concordia, of Sunderland, leaky, with loss of
sails, &c., and making for the Delaware, was spoken on
the 19th July, 127 miles S.E. by E.. of Cape Henspen.
A large ship was wrecked on the Diamond (Cape
Hatteras Shoals), on the 17th July, and all hands
perished.
ST. JOHN'S, NEW BRUNSWICK, JULY 31.--Her Ma-
jesty's steamer Plumper got aground in Digby Gut,
Nova Scotia, on the 25th July, but got off in about six
hours, with loss of false keel, &c., and is now in Digby
Basin. The Selina, of Dundee, Dublin to this port, was
last on Grand Manan during a fog on the 30th of July;
crew saved.

YARMOUTH, UNITED STATES, JULY 27.—The Sot•
cliffe, Liverpool to St. John's, New Brunswick, which
was on shore on Cape Sable on the 20th July, has be-
come a wreck; materials and part of cargo saved.
lisurAx, JULY 29.—A vessel, apparently belonging
to Prince Edward's Island, disme.s ted, and three men
dead, and nu name on her stern, was fallen in with near
the coast of Labrador, by a shallop, arrived at this port.
AUG. 3. —The Airnilla, for Swe.asea, got on shore at
the mouth of St. Mary's river, but was got off with some
damage; would discharge.
G ASPE, JULY 20.—The Gentoo, London to Quebec,
which was on shore below Fox river on the sth July, has
been got off.
The Wave, Limerick to Quebec, which was on shore
at Cape Rosier on the 6th July, hates become a wreck.