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LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1850.

The Parliamentary session of 1850, which is now
rapidly drawing to its conclusion, may be regarded as
a, period of large promise and but scant performance.
lsever,indeed, was the distinction between " sayingA
and doings" more clearly illustrated. Sanguine ex-
pectations were entertained as to the numerous and
much required ameliorations that would be intro-
duced and carried by her MAJESTY'S Ministers, and
never were anxious hopes more signally disappointed.
One by one have the most valuable measures been
postponed to some "future opportunity." One
day, tha Lord-Lieutenancy Abolition Bill was
thrown over, the next the Jewish Disabilities
was sacrificed without a murmur. In like manner,
we are left totally in the dark as to the Ministerial
intentions with respect to the contemplated separation
of the poli-ical and judicial functions of the Lord
High Chancellor of England. Subjects that had
been introduced with loud and continued flourishes of
trumpets, and much self-gratulation, were either
passed over sub silentio or relinquished with a brief
expressiob of regret, and a half promise that they
would be considered "next smion." It would be im-
possible to notice within the space of a single article
the various matters, some of the deepest and most vital
importance, that were thus disposed of. The Irish
remedial measures shared the general fate. Our un-
fortunate brethren
.at the ottier side of St. George's

Channel literally asked for bread, and we gave them,
not one, but many stones. The law of landlord and
tenant was to be placed on a better foundation ; that
vexata questio was to be dealt with in an enlarged and
comprehensive spirit, but it was kept back, and in its
place a most stringent Bill was introduced inflicting
various penalties on the unfortunate tenants. That
has, happily, been thrown out through the determined
opposition of Irish Member/, but it might hive
been carried, so far as the Ministers were concerned,
for the Home Secretary declared that " the fact of
the Government finding themselves unable to proceed
with a Bill on the general subject, would by no
means justify them in resisting a salutary improve-
ment of the law limited to a particular case." The
Security for Advances Bill, which might have pro
vided funds for the employment of the people, and
which would have given the impoverished inheritors
of encumbered estates some trifling means with which to
commence life de noro, and wouldhave given the
puisne creditors some reasonable prospect of payment,
has been withdrawn, while a Crime and
Outrage Act is steadily pressed forward,
and every Tuesday and Friday witnesses the sacrifice
of valuable properties for little more than one-half
their actual value, or the still more significant
symptoms of the universal depreciation is Ireland—
the postponement of the sale from the absence of any
bidder at even the most ridiculously inadequate
prices.

But perhaps in no case has the laisser faire policy
of the Government, the vis inerfice ot Ministers
been so painfully conspicuous as in the Savings
Banks Bill, which last night shared the fate of every
useful measure, by being added to the general heap of
remanets. This was perhaps, par excellence, " the" Bill
of the session, so far as the great body ef the labour-
ing classes were concerned. The numerous and se-
vere losses that had been sustained by a very deser-
ving portion ot the community, in wheat it was pecu-
liarly desirable to foster habits of providence and
self-control; the panic that arose from ,the discovery
of the systematic fraud and deception practised by
swindling actuaries, and the knowledge that the
much-vaunted Government security was little better
than "a mockery, a delusion, and a snare"—the na-
tional guarantee not coming into operation until the
funds had actually been invested with the Com-
missioners for the Reduction of the National
Debt, and the humble deposits that should
be regarged as sacred trusts being exposed
in transitu to the almost unchecked tampering of
agents, who, if naturally dishonest, might indulge
their evil propensities with impunity—rendered it im-
perative that something shouid be done to restore
the waning confidence, and to prervent a general
withdrawal of the deposits, which might be attended
with very serious results. Accordingly, at the com-
mencement of the session, the very first Government
Bill that was announced was for an alteration in the
savings bank code, which would givo additional se-
curity to depositors. The Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer was to have framed the necessary resolutions
preparatory to the introduction of such a Bill on
the sth of February, and the first rea. ling was to have
been taken on the same day. This lau table activity on
the part of the Minister of Finance elicited general ap
probation, and the parties intern sted anxiously
awaited the promised explanation as 'to the details of
the contemplated measure ; but, alas ! the vanity of
human hopes and human wishes, the appointed day
arrived, but Sir CHARLES WOOD was not forthcom-
ing—a severe attack of illness prevented the Right
Lion. Baronet from attending, and he was unable to
appear in his place in the House for nearly six
weeks—until the 15th March. For that delay
he was not responsible ; it was produced
by causes clearly beyond his own control,
and all parties patiently awaited his perfect re-
covery. Since the 15th of March nearly five months
have elapsed, during which period a single evening
might surely have been devoted to the consideration
of the subject ; but Sir CHARLES WOOD thought
otherwise. Valuable hours were wasted in bringing
forward Bills that were immediately after withdrawn
—unnecessary debates were protracted from evening
to evening, in which there was " much sound and
but little sense." The House was repeatedly" counted
out," and we believe occasionally " whipped out" by
the Ministerial " whipper in," who thus reversed his
ordinary duties. But, with all this waste of time, not an
hour could be devoted to the Savivs Bink
and on Thursday, the Bth of August, we find the
Chancellor of the Exchequer state the very great re•
gret with which "he had come to the conclusion that
he must postpone even the discussion upon the Bill
until next session." The public, we suppose, must
submit ; there is no remedy. The same melancholy
exhibitions of incompetency may be repeated every
Session, while the community must be contented ; for
is not Sir CHARLES WOOD brother-in-law to Earl
GREY, and nearly connected with several other influ-
ential Cabinet Ministers, and the family compact could
not be disturbed for so very trifling a matter as public
disappointment and public disapprobation.

After a close and exciting contest, the House of
Lords has agreed with the Commons' amendments to
the Parliamentary Voters (Ireland) Bill ; and that
just and salutary measure now only awaits the Royal
assent to become the law of the land. The Parlia-
mentary session of 1850 will thus be saved from the
stigma of being a legislative blank, without any
enactments of practical utility being sanctioned by
the three estates of the realm. Something has been
achieved—an instalment of justice has been rendered
to the much-wronged people of Ireland, and, although
small in amount, it will give them additional strength
to enforce the balance of their rights.
Notwithstanding the ample concessions made by the
popular branch of the Legislature, to which we alluded
last week, much goodly indignation was exhibited
at its presumption in venturing to differ in any par-
ticulars from their aristocratic hereditary lawgivers,
although in matters exclusively affecting the consti-
tution of the House of Representatives their assent to
the stringent regulations by which all persons except
owners not in actual occupation were excluded from
the franchise, was regarded as nothing. The rejec-
tion of the clause conferring a right of voting on joint
occupiers (avery numerous class in Ireland), which was
considered by Lord STASLEY to be an amendment of
considerable importance, was also agreed to by the
Commons, although a large number of persons, not
less than 20 000, would be thereby deprived of the
suffrage. But even this submission was scarcely
taken into account. The points of difference were
only considered, and a powerful minority, while com-
plaining of an attempt at dictation by the Commons,
resolutely refused all compromise. They would
have the 151. qualification or nothing. Even that,
according to the Protectionist leader " was
dangerously low." Little more than 6 per
cent. of the adult male population of
the country, or about one-half per cent.
of the entire population, would be too large a propor-
tion to entrust with voices in the national representa-
tion. He would however yield so far, but not a step
further would he go. Better far that affairs should
remain in their present condition ; that there should
be some 300 voters for the county Mayo, out of a
population of 388,000, and 30,000 for all Ireland, or
something less than the proportion in France before
the revolution of 1848—a policy which led to the
overthrow of the Orleans dynasty—than that so large
an infusion of the democratic element into the consti-
tution as 10 per cent. of the adult males should be
for a moment tolerated. In merry, prosperous,
and happy England, there are only ;,72 per
cent. of the adult males excluded be.
yond the pale of the Constitution. In Scotland the
proportion is something higher, there being 75 per
cent. unrepresented : but in poor, miserable, long-
suffering, and much injured Ireland it is looked upon
as almost revolutionary to reduce the unenfranchised
parishes to 90 ner cent. of the adult males, all of
whom would be deemed worthy of fighting the bat-
tles of their country, and dying to promote the
honour and glory of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, should the occasion unfortunately
arise. Can we wonder if a sensitive and warmhearted
people are disgusted at such conduct, or if they
lend an easy credence to mischievous agitators
and are ready to clamour for the repeal of the Union,
even for a total separation between the countries, or
to raise any other watchword that may be put into
their mouths ?

The lordly obstructives were, however, happily
defeated; but it was not until after an arduous and
exciting contest. The majority of Peers in attend-

THE SUN, LONDON,

ance voted in favour of Lord STANLEY'S motion, to
insist on the 151. qualification, and to dissent from the
12/. compromise. There were c.f those present—Con-
tents, 62 ; Non••contents, 56. The Bill would, there-
fore, have been lost, if the proxies were not counted.
For once, however, that extraordinary and anomalous
privilege, that allows the votes of parties absent from
the House, who have had no opportunity of hearing
the arguments pro or con., or learning the real merits
of the question, was turned to good account. Mi-
nisters had taken the very necessary precaution of
having the votes of seventy good men and true in
their pnckets, while the Tories had only fifty-three
paper Lords. This had the effect of converting the
minority of six into a good working majority of
eleven, who carried the 121. franchise triumphantly
through the Peers, and prevented an angry collision
between the Houses.

Lord STANLEY was exceedingly indignant at the
defeat thus brought about. The " dumbies " Excited
his wraqi, and the Noble Lords who gave, and
the Ministers who used, the proxies alike
came in for his heavy animadversion!. It was cer
tainly too bad to have the anticipated victory
snatched from his grasp by the sudden staving up of
these " men in buckram" from their ambush. Such
disappointments must, however, be of frequent recur-
rence when such a privilege is resorted to. But if
Lord STANLEY objects to Ministers availing them-
selves of the powers which the forms of the House
place within their reach—if he deems it very unsa-
tisfactory that " the recorded opinions of those who
had been present at their discussions should be nulli-
fied by the votes of others who had not heard the
arguments," why does he not call for an immediate
alteration, and demand the abolition of the practice ?
It would be something to see their Lordships keep-
ing up with the spirit of the age, and (recollecting
that improvement should commence at home) begin-
ning to reform their own House. That, indeed,
would be et, sight worth seeing; and if Lord
STANLEY introduce such a measure, he will earn
for himself the thanks and gratitude of the country.
We do not suppose that the Commons would be
consulted on the subject, as it merely relates to the
practice and privileges of their own House ; the
Lords would not think it necessary to ask the
sanction of any other body, and would warmly re-
sent any interference ; and yet they have thought it
right and proper to make extensive alterations in a
measure concerning the elective franchise, and exclu-
sively affecting the constitution of the House of Com-
mons. If, however, the matter should be brought
before the Commons, we venture to promise that they
will offer no obstacle to the progress of the much-
required reform, nor venture to mutilate or dilute
the measure.

But while the practice is continued—while a call
for proxies is still regarded as a legitimate demand—
it would be strange indeed if the Government did not
use it as a mode "of converting an adverse majority
into a minority," or if it should only use its proxies
when already in a majority. We apprehend that any
Government or any party, on either side of the House,
in office or. out of office, would not be inclined
to relinquish so powerful a weapon, or to have the
House arrive at a decision which they themselves
considered to be erroneous through a mere point of
etiquette.
The point at issue was, however, carried, and we
shall not scrutinize too narrowly the means by which
an object so desirable in every respect has been
achieved. The self-acting registry clause was also
carried without a division, the goodly array of
proxies having completely disheartened the mal-
contents. As we have already stated, the Bill now
only awaits the Royal assent to become the law of
the land, and one of the best founded sources of
complaint is, to a certain degree at least, removed
from our Irish •brethren.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Peal.; journals of yesterday.
The reactionary faction seem to be labouring under
a species of judicial blindness. That which ruined
CHARLES X., M. ESTANCELIN would fain induce the
Assembly to perpetrate, to dissolve the National
Guards of Paris. He has given notice of the follow-
ing amendment to M. BAROCHE'S Bill on the Na-
tional Guard :—" The National Guard to be dis•
solved and disarmed in the department in which the
seat of Government shall be fixed." Nothing can be
imagined more likely to give mortal offence to the
bourgeoise of Paris than this proposal. The Paris
bourgeoise has hitherto supported the reactionary
noblesse, because he believed that the S.)cialist
wished t i disarm him and to rob him ; but if the
noblesse attempt to disarm him he will most assuredly
turn against them as he did in 1830 ; and, be it
remembered, the regular troops always side with the
National Guards of Paris ; there is not an instance
known to the contrary. _

The journals publish an official communication,
contradicting a statement which had been circulated
that the vote on the Orleans and Lyons Railway Bill
had been vitiated.

The Patric, gives the following as the official noti-
fication of the intended itinerary of the PRESIDENT of
the Republic :
" August 12. Departure from Paris for Dijon via
Tonnere; reception and review at Tonnere.

" 13. At Dijon.
" 14. From Dijon to Lyons; reception and review at
Macon.

" 15 and 16. At Lyons.
" 17. Lyons to Lons-le•Saulnier; review at Bourg.
" 18. Lons-le-Saulnier to Besancon by Dole; review
at Dule.

" 19. Besancon to Belfont.
" 20. Belfont to Colmar, by Mulhouse.
" 21. Colmar to Strasbourg.
"22. At Strasbourg.
" 23. Strasbourg to Sarrebourg, by Phalsbourg.
" 24. Sarrebourg to Nancy, by .Luneville; reception
and review at Luneville.

" 25 and 26. Nancy to Metz, and stay at Metz.
" 27. Metz to Chalons-sur-Marne, by Verdun.
" 28. Return to Paris."

The PRESIDENT has been most reluctantly com-
pelled to yield to the Assembly, and give up the idea
of forming a camp at Versailles.

The Constitutionnel, in making this announcement
accompanies it by a statement calculated to excite the
feelings of the army against the Assembly.
The Constitutionnel says—
" The President of the Republic. if we be rightly in-
formed, felt obliged to renounce this useful project as
soon as he had learned that the poverty of the Budget
would not enable him to treat the troops with the
liberality to which they had been accustomed under the
preceding regime. We learn also that after the review
that took piece yesterday of the Gendarmerie M►bile
and Republican Guard, the President invited the officers
end non-commissioned officers to dinner at the Elysee.
The review and the invitation had been settled for the
sake of allowing the President to afford the same ex-
pressions of sympathy to these corps which the camp at
Versailles would have enabled him to offer to the
troops composing the garrison at Paris. The President
has, nevertheless, according to our information, reserved
to himself the pleasure of treating the officers and the
non-commissioned officers of the several corps which
were to have successively formed part of the camp, as if
the project had not been abandoned. The invitations
will be given either at the end of the reviews which he
intends to pass or following the manoeuvres which are to
be executed in autumn..'
The Assemblie Nationale proposes that before the
prorogation the National Assembly shall pass the
following decree giving extraordinary powers to the
Committee of 25 :
" The Provisional Commission, on a simple convoca-
tion of the President, assembles in its ordinary place of
meeting; it commands, directly, the General-in-Chief,
who is at the head of the troops of the department of
the Seine, and transmits to him its orders; it has au-
thority to transfer the place of its deliberation to another
department; it names a superior commander; and it
may, by a simple decree, place a city or a department un-
der martial law. From the very fact of this decree the
Assembly is bound to meet eight days after in the place
indicated by the Provisional Commission.
" Let the Assembly but vote the above," continues
the Assemblee IVatienale, " and the public peace is per-
fectly secured during the interval of the vacation."
M. and Madame LAMARTINE have arrived at Mar-
seilles from the East.

PARIS BOURSE, AUGUST B.—Latest Prices.—Five
per Cents, 96'. 85c.; Three per Cents., 58f. 15c.;
Bank Actions, 2,380 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TH
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGF, Aun. 8.
Boulogne and Amiens, 7—Central of France (Orleans and
Vierzon), 147—Dutch Rhenish, 2k—Orleans and Bor-
deaux, 2%—Paris and Rouen, 24—Paris and SLrasboulg,
8.)4 ex in.—Rouen and Havre, 9;74—Tours and Nantes, 4.

MADRID BOLSA, AUG. 3.—Three per Cente., 338 ;
Five per Cents, 128 money. Ex:hange on Lon-
don, 50 40.

GERMAN Y.

The Paris Journal de3 I.M6g.ts publishes the follow-
ing (evidently semi-officiLl) communication from
Vienna :

"I think it my duty to give you some information
relative to the attitude n hick the Cabinet of Vienna
proposes to assume on the Danish question. Foreseeing
the delay which may arise in negotiating, the Austrian
Government wishes to bring about a preventive demon-
stretion on the part of the representatives of the Con-
federation. The object in view will be to cause Holstein
to be occupied by German troops, to the exclusion, how-
ever, ef the Prussqteas. The reason, of this occupation
are as follow:—Either the duchies will be again beaten,
and the report of their defeat, being re-echoed through-
out Germany, and worked on by agitations, might be-
come the signal of demonstrations of a revolutionary
ober :cter; or the Danes will be conquered when
doubtless Russia would come to their assistance,
and thus create complications of incalculable im-
portance, aad probably contribute still more than
the defeat of the duchies to a general exas-
peratien of the people, and give an opportunity
tor the agitation Of cl, magegy. In either case
the occupation of Holstein would cut at the root of the
evil. In bringing about the adoption of this policy
Austria would give another very severe blow to Prussia.
It would appear, in fact, that the Cabinet of Berlin
would be disposed to regard with indifference the com-
plete incorporatlon of Schleswig, provided the King of
Denmark, dying without heirs, would secure the succes-
sion of Holstein to the faintly of Augustenbourg; and
that princely house is said to have already guaranttei
to Prussia, by a secret treaty, the free enjoyment of the
future states now in litigation, or a certain extent of
coast and the greater number of the saa-ports, which are
the constant objects of the wishes of the great power of
Northern Germany. It is positively stated that a Rus-
sian note, again recommending to the Cabinet of Pots-
dam the pure and simple re-establishment of the German
Diet, has been recently received at Berlin. M. de Me-
dan, the Russian Minister, decidedly leaves in a few
days. M. de Funtau, Councillor of Legation, will re-
place bite, provisionally hit firet, but ultimately, in all
probability, d) finitively.
The Weiner Zeilung of the 3d publishes official
orders for the reduction of the Austrian army.
General HAYNAU arrived at Berlin on the 31.

Tne Prussian Cabinet has returned a spirited reply
to the Austrian Note on the subject of the Baden
troops. Prussia declares that she will not permit
their passage to be opposed., by a forced construction
of the laws tor the regulation of the federal fortresses:;
and that Austria has no right to give instructions to
the Governor of Mayence. Prussia has already taken
measures against the course of proceeding on the part
of Austria. On the other hand, it appears by letters
from Carlsruhe that the Baden troops are still in
the Grand Duchy, and will there remain till further
orders.

It is said that Austria, Bavaria, Wurtemberg, and
Hanover have agreed to interfere in the Duchies to
stop the effusion of blood.

WhaON FOHR.

The following letter has been received at Lloyd's :
(TRANSLATION
" Wiekon Fobr, Aug. 2, 1850.

"This morning, my principal, Mr. Nonimensen,
the agent of Lloyd's, was arrested by Lieut. Hansen,
the commander of the Schleswig-Holstein gun. boats
stationed here, and directly afterwards conveyed on
board the steamer Kiel, also lying here, which
immediately left for Tonning, with him on board,
whence the Consul will probably be conveyed to Kiel
or Rendsburg.
" The Consul reserved to himself all his legal
rights to the very utmost extent, because be was
compelled to yield, as he was unable to put obstacles
in the way of force.
"By order of the Consul, I have made this com-
mtmication.—With respect,
" J. M. LOMEN, Authorised Delegate."

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
The armies still remain in their respective positions.
ARREST OF THE BRITISH CONSUL AT

MOINEY and COMMERCIAL SEWS.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesyrday was
steady, hut tame and American sorts were 1.16 d. lower.
The sales were cstimat, d at 7,000 bales, of which 1,000
American were taken for export, anti 2,000 on specula-
tion. The sales comprised 5,500 American. 800 Per-
113K1 and Maranham at 811. to 8:1d., 2GO Egyptian at
84d. to Did„ and 600 Surat at 5i f, to 61d. per lb.—Rail-
av Shares were liar, at lower quotations.
The Corn Market is firm again tais morning, though
without much doing. The accounts about the potato and
grain crops still r xcite doubts and fears, but it is hoped
that any mischief done will be confined to particular
localities. The purchases of celonial produce have been
on a tolerably I.beral scale, and most articles are firm.
Sugar has been steadily taken for consumption. Tea
continues in favour. Cotton, though scarcely so brisk,
maintains the late rise, and indigo sells mama as before.
Rice has been rather duller. In spices there have been
moderate transactions. The consumption of many co-
lonial articles will doubtless depend upon the extent of
the corn crops, and the consequent ability of the farmers
and labutirets to buy. The activity of the population
engaged in manufacturing pursuits will keep up the ag-
gregate demand fur primary staples, such as sugar, tee,
and cotton.

The ILrnhur,;ll mail has arrived, with advises of
Tuesday's date. The rate of exchange on Loudon has
fallen half a Schilling, being 13 marks 7 t-chitling,, and
there was not much doing in bills. Public securities
were firm, and railway shares barely supported. The
corn market was quiet.
In the Au,sterdom Stock Market, on the 7th inst.,
Dutch Bonds had an upward tendency. Mexican were
more offered. At Frankfort, on the 61h inst., Austrian
Metallics were quoted Sli to 821, acc,rding as taken
for money or time. Spanish Three per Cents. were
32 13.16 to 33 1-16.

An idea having got abroad that passports are unne-
cessary for travellers proceeding across the Belgian
frontier from different states of the Continent, it may be
as well to explain that such is not strictly the case. The
Government of Belgium has suppressed the special ser-
vice of officials who used to inspect passports,
and these latter will, as a general - rule,
probably not be asked for, but the ordinary Customs
servants will, whenever it is deemed advisable, b au-
thorised to demand the paper-, and in the interior towns
they can at any moment be asked tor.
Advises of the 20th ult., from Galatz, state, that in
respect to the crops, there was nothing to complain f.
Tne wheat would yield about an average, and the new
rye was p,irticularly fine. The rate of exchange on
London was 9441 for three months' bills.
The increasing railway competition, as new branches
or entire lines are opened to public traffic, impose
a difficulty in the way of those who desire to make an
approximate calculation as to the return which they may
expect from particular investments, and it is certainly a
problem even to the wore experienced. There is scarcely
any difference of opinion with reference to the steady de-
velopment of railway income from increasing population
and diminished working expenses, supposing the latter
can be much reduced, but it is at the same time admitted
pretty generally that the competition of several
lines for the same traffic will not be conducive
either to profits or cheapness of conveyance. The
public will have a choice of route, but upon a railway
conveying only a portion of the traffic insttad of the
whole, they cannot expect to travel at the minimum
tares, which a company possessed of the monopoly, and
yet restricted from the declaration of more than a cer-
tain per tentage in dividends, would be enabled to esta-
blish. It is very important, nevertheless, to keep in
mind that the travelling wants of the country are annu-
ally increasing, and that excessive traffic on one line in-
volves danger. In this sense the Great Northern may
in course of time prove still more useful than at present,
and we trust more remunerative.

The following is a statement et the number of casks
cf Tallow imported from some of the principal places
into London, furnished us by the firm of Gull and
Wilson:—

From
South
Years. St. Peters- Australia.
America
burgh.
Between Ist Jan.l 1850 ... 2,5'11 13,034 ... 1',090
and 31st July
.1 1849 ... 266 ... 8,t63 ... 15,237
Between Ist Aug. Z 1849 ... 48,00 G 10,7;.,9 f',153
and 31st Dec. 1848 _ 65,792 6,076 ... 7,676
The total, including the above named places, and also
Odessa, North America, and other places, is 25 577
casks this year, against 27,393 casks to July 31, 1849.
'['here are as few points of interest as ever in the
Stock Market. Con4ols have been 961 s for Transfer,
and 961 for Account, showing still the predominance
of monty business. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents, have realised 991 to 1. Bank Stock bas touched
211;} and 2121. Exchequer-bills have been 665. to 695.
premium. . . . . . . .

The Foreign Seenritie3 are mostly nominal. Spanish
Three per Cents. have been 374 to ;I, and Portuguese
Four per C. nts. 33 to 34. Mexican Bonds are about
Peruvian Four-and-a-Halt per Cents. have been
done at 83. and Buenos Ayres at 584.
In the Railway Shares the dealings are more circum-
scribed, and prices are not so buoyant.

Consols
Ditto Account

QUARTER TO THREE.
.. ... ... 9611

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISG FUNDS , O'CLOCK. PRICES.:
1.3 ail& 6tuck
I ;:e,- Cent. Reduced Arils —.... 97%16 971,E
3 Der Cent. Consols Annuities........ 9644 7,34 964
1..i3w 314 per Cent. Anns ... ... —.... 99'.4 Ali t 9 tA,
.f)l,-.^ ATInA, to expirP, ./ an. 1/460 -16
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10,1859 -16
'r.,',_: 3atic6, 1,(ro; )4 ...

Ditto under 1.000;.....
on*' for Account %

88 p
96%

~,tcheque,r i iiLs. I es 2d
1,000/. June
5001. June
Small. June 69 66 p 66 p

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
raZlll4ll 924

Ditto, Small
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent sB:{4 533/
rcruvian Bonds, .113 per Cent--
Ditto, Account
Ditto, Deferred
Portuguese C. per Cents
tphrmiti 5 per C•mt. 1840 —
Ditto, 3 per Cent... .......
Dividends on the above payable in L:sndon.
Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild.
'ILICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSIN
RAILWAY SHARES. AT 081, O'CLOCK. PRICE,
trer,lersa .... 50
Do. Preference.
Amber. Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 8% — •••••••• ---
A.yrshira and Galloway.. 7%
3elfast & County Down 30 ......
Berks & Hants Extens.

(Gt. West.. Per. 5 per ct )
•sristot and Exeter 100 ... . ....

.%uckinghamshire

k;aledonian -
••• •

Do. New 101. Pref..... 10
Cheater and Holyhead... 50
Ditto, Preference l5
astern Comities... ..... 20 ... 6%1/2 6%
ditto, Extension, 5 per
Cent., No.l 6l. 13s. 4d.... p..... ...... ... p
Ditto ditto. No. 2...61. 13s. 4d... p .... ... A p
Eastern Union, Class A

(late E.U. Shares) 25

DO. Scrip (6per cent.) 20 ...... 16 . ........... .. 16
East Lincolnshire, guar
6 per Cent.
E unourgh and Glasgow 50
e..xeter.Yeovil. & Dorch. 25,

ireat Northern
Do., ',v A Deferred
Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. 10N lO%
,rent Souttt. and West.

(Ireland) ... 5O ...... . . —
, niat North of England 100 ...... -..
:rest Western 100
dull and Selby .. ...... 50 ..„...
Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 ••....• ••..••
Laucasture& Yorkshire 100 ...... 371,4 38
Do. Quarters .... ..... 2314
Do. h'Utha..- ..... ..-... 11
Leeds and Bradford FA.
-- ••• LA
London Sr Black wall-AIL 6s. 3d...
London, Brighton, and

South C0a5t...... 100
Do. Guarant. 5 per et.. 9 .....
Do. Prefer. 5 per cent. 50 — — —
Ditto ditto iS52 50 .. ...
Do., N ew, guaranteed

6 per Cent ........-100
Londouanderreenwtch 12/15s 4d- -- --• •• ..... • •
Di t to. Pr,ference 2O —....
Looacr, and N. iA ~tern 100 lll ......... ..... 11114
......
Ditto, New Quarters 17
13%
li,rto,Fitt.,.: .... ..... 1:I .
60
London k e...Wr htGl7l ... 10 •••• •• b9l/2 ''' '''
Do, New 50/. . ...... 42 Si
Do., New Prt?eretr.e.. b
ManchoAcr,Buxtuu.end
Math.ek ...... ......... SIA
M. luct.,ter. Sheffield,
:,.nd Lincolnshire...loci
.
Do. Quarters (No. t) 25 ..•
!htt,o.
•New lee. Pref... 10
••.••._ 8141 B%
Midland ...100••• .• ••
Do., 50/. Shama
./
NOrth Briii3L ...... ... 2i5 45 ',2
Oxf,.rd, \Vor.ester, and
Wolverhampton
Reading, Guildford, ..nd
Reigate
Royston and Hitchin ... 6' .. ... 7 ••••••
Shrewsbury & Chester
(Nor. W. Min.)
So atb 104. ,T,,
Wear Valley 6 per Cont.
Guaranteed ... .. ...... .50 ...... .«
Do. do. do. ... 25
•Vilti•Somerset,B, Wey-

mouth ... ..... -- .. :.. 50
York Nowc.te-.!e, ana
Berwick__ .......~.... 2`
Dc. G.N.E...Preferalce 9 ... - 4 . ..... 4
Yrt an rtlidiand 50 ...... 1534 16 ...... ... 1578
0 to., P e'.3reucct ...... 10
FOREIGN RAILWAY.
Etialogne and Amiens... 20 ...... .....
....
Ceitral of France (Or-

leans and Vierzon)... 20
Louvain la .‘anibra .... 14%

English •• .• ••

5c0tch........

""""'••••••Luxembourg
.............
NQrthern 1)1 Franc...—. 16
..... %
Orleans and Vordeaux.. 7
Paris and Orleans .... 20
Paris and Rouen
•.--
.... 2334
Rouen and Have..........
Strasbourg and Basle 14 ...... ... .
.. ........
...... 9%
Tournay, Jurbise, Lan ............

den, and I.lBB,eit ...... 20 ......
fours and Nantet ...... 14 4

'UNE&
Anglo-Mexican ...,...,.100 ......
.I.3assora Range .... ... 331. -
Blaenarvon Iron & Coal 50

FRIDAY £V 'I AUGUST 9, Pao,

Irish ........ 1
Foreign ...... , 20,840

Bo!onosi Scrip ...... .• .. — —
Britisll iron
Brtzi:i.n imperial ...... 244
f)c. St.•lobn Del Rey 15
R.,,alDel Monte Unreg.
Do. Black Debentures ......
Do. Red Ditto ... .....
Santiazo de Cuba........ IC ...... 9 ..

Tin Croft ...... 7 ....
United exiean ...•..2814

LLO YD'S SHIPPIN G.-( THIS DAY.)

LONDON, AUG. 9.—Wind at noon S.W., fresh breeze
and cloudy at times.
OFF DARTMOUTH MANOR.—Valparaiso, from Ostend,
Duchess of Northumberland, with troops.
BIDEFORD. AUG. 7.—Wind W.—Sid. Anne Eliza,
and Jane, Quebec; Civility, Miramichi.
BRISTOL, AUG. B.—Wind W.—Arrd. Lucy, Cherry,
Barbarities; Lord, Ogilby, Jamaica.
QUEENSTOWN, AUG. 7. Wind W.S.W. Arrd.
Pet uvian, Bruce, Callao ; lona, Wilkie, Valparaiso;
G lent:afire, Barrett, Barbadoss.
HOLYHEAD, Auc. B.—Wind S.W., fresh. Arrd.
Ocean Queen, Joees, PICIOU.
FLEETWOOD, AUG. B.—Arrd. Elizabeth, Richibucto.
NEWPORT, Auc. B.—Wind N. W .—Sld. Mama, Rio
Janiero; Thomas and William, S. Thomas's; Mary
Flower, ditto; Elizabeth, Quebi c.
SHIELDS, Auc. B.—Wind S.W., fresh.—Arrd. Lord
Brougham and Vaux, Lonsdale, Miramichi; Sea Bird,
Hurd!. Quebec.
SUNDERLAND, AUG. B.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd.
Charleton, Dalhousie; Falcon, Wooler, Quebec;
Employ, Hoskins, Quebec ; Cornelius, Cotton, ditto;
Reward, Hull, ditto.
DEAL, AUG. B.—Wind W.S.W., fresh.—Arrd. from
the River, Sir Edward Paget, New Zealand; Aberfoyle,
Melbourne, A beona; Mirsmichi, Argyle, Quebec; City
of Hamilton, Montreal; Bentang, Singapore; Lady
Fa lk!and, Quebec.
LivEupooL, ALIG. B.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Lord
fiardinge, Sawyers, ChiLa; Mars, Ellerby, Calcutta;
Plata, Pringle, Buenos Ayres; Elizabeth, Monte Video;
Franchise, Bray, Mobile; Ontario, Holmes, Charleston;
Yorksbit e, She arman, New York; Mary, St. Stephen's,
N. B.; Patriarch, Mills, Quebec; Switzerland, Muncher,
ditto; Krone, Iceland.
CHATHAM, AUG. B.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Wake-
field, Leavy, SaN atenah.
CowEs, Au°. B.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Albatross,
Freundenrich, Aque, Africa; Feneuil Hall, Sears, New
Orleans.

FA.natouTir, Auu. B.—Wind W.S.W. fresh.—Arrd.
Kate Young, St. Jago de Cuba; Yorkshire, Lynai, St.
Andrew. Off port, Ernest, Barbet, Colomb,,, for Havre;
Emperor, Friend, Rio Janeiro for Amsterdam.
DUNDEE, AUG. 7.—Wind N.W.—Andromeda, Peat,
Quebec.

Hum., Ara. B.—Wind S.S.W.—SId. William Darby,
Bombay; Quebec, Quebec.
PORTSMOUTH, AUG. B.—The Defence, of and for Lln-
don, from Guernsey, which port she lett in a leaky state,
was abandoned today, the leak having increased; crew
saved and landed here.

RARWICII, AUG. B.—The James, Treport to London,
has put in with pumps choked.
RYE, A to. B.—The Owner's Delight, of Ipswich, went
on shore near Holywell Btach Head, and was got off by
the coast guard (the crew having lefr, her), making
much water, and being without either anchors or
cables.

CARDIFF, AUG. B.—The Tweed, hence to Gibraltar,
sprang a lez.k and sank this morning, Nash light bear-
ing N.N.W. about six miles; crew saved.
SWANSEA, Auc. B.—A sloop was seen to sink last
evening about a quarter of a mile off the Mumble Head;
three persons who were seen on deck have perished.

DUTCH NAVIGATION LAWS.
The following important letter has been received at
Lloyds:—

"Rotterdam, Aug. 6, 1850.
" Sir,—We beg leave to inform you that our Legisla-
ture has decided on an amendment in our existing navi-
gation law', by which all toreign vessels are allowed to
navigate and carry cargoes to and from the Netherlands,
and the Netherland possessions abroad, under the same
privileges as are enjoyed by ships sailing under the
Netherland flog, provided Netherland vessels enjoy the
same privileges in such foreign countries.
" We have the honour to be, &c.,
(Signed) " JOHN HERDIG and SoNs,
"To Capt. G. A. rillsted,R.N.,
Secretary, Llo3ds."

MARKET NE Ws.—(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHA? GE-FRIDAY.

Fresh up to this morning's market, very little English
Wheat came to hand, either from Essex or Kent, while
the total arrivals coastwise have nut exceeded 1,960
quarters. To-day the show of samples of both red and
white was trifling, owing to which, the changeable state
of the weather, and fte increased number of buyers in
attendance, the demand for alt kinds of Wheat of hom,.
produce ruled steady, and in some instances selected
parcels commanded a trifle more money. Upwards of
20,000 quarters of foreign Wheat have reached us this
week. Fine dry parcels moved off steadily, at full
rates of currency. In the middling and inferior kinds
a moderate business was doit,g, at Monday's currencies.
No English Barley aas brought forward; but the supply
of fresh Foreign exemded 7,600 quarters. On the whole
a good business was doing, at full prices. Although the
quantity of malt on show was trifling that article moved
off slowly, at last wet k's currencies. We were well sup-
plied with foreign Oat,, which were in gaud rtqueet, at
fully late rates. Bent, Peas, and Flour were quit: as
dear.

kRRIVALS THIS WEEK.

Wheat. 1 Barley. Oats. AWL

Flour,

Qrs. Qrs. Sacks
60 1,790 1,830

- _
7,670 25,020

1,500

STA3T7IrIELD.

For the time of year our market to-day was but
moderately supplied with Beasts, the general quality of
which was inferior. Tee few prime Scots, Herefords,
&c., offering were, in some instances, disposed V, at as
advance in the prices obtained on Monday of 2d per
Sibs; and the value of most other breeds was well sup.
ported. The cumbers of Sheep were not quite so large
ai those exhibited on this day se'nnight; while the
Mut on trade rul-d active, at an improvement in value
of 2d per Sibs—the primest old Downs selling readily
at from 4s to 4s 2cl per Blbs. Lambs—the supply of
which was but moderate—moved off slowly, yet their
currencies were well maintained. We had an improved
demand for Calves, the value of which had an upntrd
tendency. In Pig a next to nothing doing. Mitch Cdws
sold heavily, at from 141. to 181. 10s. each, including
their small Calf.