The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-17 00:00:00

TSCE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVI`ENING, JULY 17, 1845.

NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.

The THIRD EDITION of THE SUN of yester-
day evening contained—
The report of the Poll at Cambridge as :eceived at
the Post office, in the Afternoon of yesterday.

The conclusion of the day's proceedings before the

Railway Committees of both Houses of Parliament.
The Parliamentary Intelligence of the Evening, being
a Report of the proceedings in the House of
Commons, up to the hour of adjournment.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JULY 17.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 47 ; Highest, 69 ; Noon, 65.
BAROMETER, 30.08.—WIND, W.S.W.
NOTIL—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and
" Highest" denote the lowest and highest state or the
Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All
the other observations are made at noon.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning .. 50 minutes after 11 t Evening • • 0 minutes after 0.

from Germany) ; since it is impossible to keep out slave-
grown sugar (the attempt at excluding which, however,
is the sole pretext for keeping sugar so dear as it is in
our own market)—what is to be done to rectify so pre-
posterous an anomaly, and to relieve the public trom so
unreasonable a hardship ? Is it worth while consider-
ing whether it would not be well to abandon any such
impracticable distinctions between slave and free labour,
admit the product of all countries under what regulations
you may determine, and trust for the better repression
of the slave trade to the increased vigour with which the
zealous and effectual co• operation of France will enable
you henceforth to carry out that great object.

The objects of Lord ASHLEY'S Bill for the regulation
of the care and treatment of lunatics in England," which
has occupied two morning sittings of the House of
Commons, are undoubtedly excellent ; but it is equally
undoubted that there are grave objections to the machi-
nery by which these objects are to be effected ;
and the little effect which has attended the attempts of
Mr. DUNCOMBE, Mr. WAKLEY, and other Liberal
Members, to amend the Bill, lead us to hope that it will
not be pa3sed into a law this session. It was pro-
posed in the Bill to allow past years of service
on temporary Commissions, during which the gentle-
men now for the first time appointed permanent Cora •
missioners have been remunerated on a high scale calcu-
lated with reference to their having no retiring pension
to look to—have been paid, in fact, by the job, and at
the rate of a guinea an hour for the time they were
employed—to count for retiring pensions; and it was
stated, without contradiction, that some of the proposed
Commissioners had already served on the previous tem-
porary Commissions the number of years (fifteen)
which is to entitle a Commissioner, when permanently
disabled, to a retiring pension. This monstrous pro-
posal has been abandoned. That it should ever have
been sanctioned by Lord ASHLEY is only to be ac-
counted for by attributing to his Lordship such a de-
gree of simplicity :Is is too
.often conjoined with pre-
eminent virtue.

Never, we suppose, was such a working commission
thought of, as is proposed by this Bill, certainly not
since the days of JEREMY BENTHAM'S publications on
administrative government. It were almost enough to
startle the Utilitarian sage from his grave, that so
heavy a responsibility as is involved in the superin-
tendence of all the lunatic asylums of the king-
dom should be entrusted to a commission, com-
posed of no less than eleven members. If there
is one political axiom more undisputed than another, it
is that to have responsibility as efficient as possible it
must be as much concentrated as possible ; and that
nothing is more adverse to efficient responsibility than
a numerous board. " What ia everybody's business is
nobody's business ;" and the blame, which has to be
divided between eleven, will fall with the weight of a
feather on any one individual. Eleven Commissioners
are appointed by this Bill. Six of them are not to be
paid, and one of the unpaid is to be the chairman. Mr.
CHRISTIE pointed out how the fact of Commissioners
giving their services gratuitously would interfere with
their responsibility, but to no purpose. And
then the six paid Commissioners, three of
them being physicians or surgeons, and three barristers
of five years' standing, are each to receive 1,5001 a year,
over and above their travelling and other expenses ;
with a retiring allowance after fifteen years' service, if
permanently disabled. We do not hesitate to designate
this a most disgraceful waste of public money. Six Com-
missioners at 1,5001. a year each, over and above tra-
velling and other expenses, and what on earth may not
be covered by "other expenses?" But 9,0001. a year in
salaries to the Commissioners, and 8001. a year more to
a Secretary, who is also to have a retiring pension to
look to ! If it had been a commission consisting of only
two or three members, who would be taken from among
the most eminent in the medical and legal professions,
then, indeed, 1,500/. a year would not be one whit too
high a salary. But for the ordinary barrister of five
years' standing, or for a medical man of moderate prac-
tice (and it is only such a man that will take even 1,5001.
a year), then we do say that these salaries are an unjusti-
fiable squandering of the public money. But much may
be done at a morning sitting which will not bear the
light of a full House ; and it can only be a fear of the
grave responsibility attendant on delaying for another
year a Bill that will relieve so much misery
and stay so much cruelty, that can have led Mr.
DuNcoatnE, and his small but patriotic minority,
to consent, under any circumstances,' to the grant
of these extravagant salaries. The Prison Inspec-
tors are paid 700/. a year —the Assistant Poor-law
Commissioners are paid 1,000/. a year—the Police Ma-
gistrates are paid 1,0001. a year—and is it pretended that
the men who are looked to to fill the Lunatic Commis-
sionerships will be, or need be, superior to those who fill
the above-named offices ? So far as the Commissioners
and their salaries are concerned, this Bill is a flagrant job.

Madrid journals of the 9th have been received, and it ap-
pears from nearly the whole of them that the QUEEN'S jour-
ney to the Basque provinces is looked upon with strong sus-
picions in the capital. The Eco del Commercio states that in
many of the provincial towns F..•“ 11,9
that the public consider the of jest of it is to force a KING on
Spain in the person of Clieni.2s Vl. (the Prince of As-
TURIAS). The Clamor Publics says the journey will prove
fatal to liberty, and both the Tiempo and the Heraldo,
crgans of the Moderado party, contain articles recom-
mending that her MAJESTY should bestow her hand
on a son of Don FRANCISCO DR PAULA. This indeed
appears the least objectionable match, both as regards Spahr
and foreign Powers ; but Queen CHRISTINA, and also some
people at Paris, may have different views. A great intrigue
is in active operation. The intelligence from Barcelona is to
the 10th. The opposition to the conscription had been put
down by military force, and we regret to say not without
considerable loss of life. A dispatch from General CONCHA,
dated Sabadel the Bth, states that he had completely beaten
and dispersed the rebels, killed twenty men, and made a
great number of prisoners. The next day he was to proceed
to Tarrosa, which he entered on the morning of the 10th. A
letter from Barcelona of the 10th gives the following account
of his entry into that town :
" General Concha, on arriving yesterday morning at' six
o'clock before Tarrosa, received a discharge Irons the guns of the
insurgents, which wounded several of his men. General Concha
himself was at the head of the troops, and his humane orders were,
In advance, no quarter!' The soldiers immediately charged the
barricades at the point of the bayonet, and took them, and massacred
every one whom they met, whether they opposed them or not.
Upwards of 100 persons were killed on the side of the insurgents
before mid-day, In the afternoon the firing continued, but
the number of •ictims is not yet known. General Concha
is master of the town, and this morning he marched upon
Martonell, a town situated on the Llobregat, nine leagues
from Barcelona, where the insurgents have taken refuge.
During the night Villafranca, a town on the road to Tarragona,
pronounced, and the inhabitants have set the bells a ringing, to
rouse the country. On the other hand, the town of Igualada,
which is situated on the route to Lerida, has also pronounced, and
has formed a junta, which takes the name of the Central Junta,
and acknowledges Espartero as Regent.
Later accounts, however, have been received by a tele-
graphic dispatch, dated Barcelona the 13th, announcing that
CONCHA had entered Igualada without opposition, and that
the revolt was suppressed. The General had issued a procla-
mation to the Catalonians, in which he says, that the draw-

ing of the conscription was a mere pretext, seized by the
enemies of public repose to excite the population to revolt ;
that their design was to plunge that industrious province in
an abyss of calamity by means of an alliance between the
Carlists and the Republicans, and that, with the aid of the
loyal inhabitants, he will speedily restore the sway of the law.
On the Madrid Bourse the Funds on the 9th were some-
what firmer, the Three per Cents. for cash having reached
2Si, and even 284 before the close of the market. The
transactions for the Account were also more numerous, at
prices varying between 28i and 28 9-16.

The French Chamber of Peers, on Tuesday, commenced
the discussion on the estimates for 1846, but nothing of the
slightest interest had occurred up to the hour of post. In
answer to a question from the Count DE BOISSY relative to
the reduction of the Five per Cent. Stock next session, the
Minister of Finance said, as he had refused in the other
Chamber, to declare what were the intentions of Govern
meat on that subject, he could not answer the question.
The Moniteur publishes the returns of the indirect taxes
during the half-year ending the Ist of July. The
total receipts amounted to 389,904,000 f. (15,600,0001.),
showing an increase, as compared with those of the cor-
responding period of 1844, of 11,778,000 f., and of 19,530,000 f.
over those of a similar period of 1843. The following are a
few of the items :—Stamps, 19,729,000 f. ; Customs,
75,869,000 f. ; Salt, 30,567 f.; Liquors, 48,810,000 f. ; Tobacco,
54,017,000 f. ; Postage, 23,441,000 f. The birthday of the
Duke of BORDEAUX gives rise to curious ejaculations in
sonic of the Legitimatist journals, of which the following
are specimens. The Quotidienne says—
" To-clay, the 15th, is the fete of the exile. France in other
tinsel would have celebrated this day with distinction ; at present
she can only think of it with affection. Kind wishes will, however,
be directed towards Henry of France, and prayers will ascend in his
favour towards heaven. It is the whole flattery which is permis.
Bible towards a royalty without power, for hope itself cannot reach
him, unless God should send it by his mysterious messengers. May,
in this day, the thought of his country present itself to Henry with
all the consolations that it possesses, in the same way as his name
remains in France with all the presages which it formerly held
out I"

The following is from the France:—
" The 15th of July Is a day of happiness and joy—it is the fete of
the good Henry—it is that of the Count de Chambord. In 1820,
u hen this young Prince by his birth redeemed the crime of Feb-
ruary 13, and replaced tears by the spectacle of happiness and hope,
King Louis XVIII. selected for him the name which he was to bear.
Next to that of Louis, which the Duke d'Angouleme was to con.
tinue, there was none more popular or more national than that of
Henry. Henry is the personification of love for France, greatness, dig-
nity, clemency, and generosity. It was a noble model given to him
whom France welcomed as the boy of the present moment and the
hope of the future. A child is born to us,' cried the King, in ad-
dressing his people ; and the Ambassadors replied, It is not only
the child of France, but of Europe.' Times are changed. This
Noble Prince, to whom was destined the greatest of all crowns, is
no longer amongst us, but his memory remains alive. Whether at
a distance or near, he knows that there are hearts which throb at

his name, and whletpreserve to hint the respect and love that they 1
owe him. If he is tuchcd with this fidelity of the heart, we are
proud to behold himfulfilling the promise of his birth, and what.
ever may be the destny which God reserves to him, we shall never
fail in what we owe Im. To.day his fete beholds us radiate with
joy, as not long sinceaur grief accompanied his, when, kneeling at
the holy tombs of Gortz, he wept for the august Princes who had
watched over his in'ancy and his youth with such paternal
solicitude!"
Accounts from Agiers of the Bth announce the loss of
another French sterner en the African coast, and also the
capture of a tribe flthful to AnD-EL-KADER, by General
CAvAIGNAC. The pirticulars are thus given in the Sud of

Marseilles :-
" By the arrival of the Ville de Bordeaux, Captain Combes,
we have received acounts from Algeirs to the Bth. A lee-
ter of that date giros a report, setting forth that General
Cavaignac had recent), made a bold coup de main at
a place about forty leagues south of Tlemcen, and had
carried off a number of people, who were still devoted to
the cause of Abd.el-Kider. The report of the retrograde
movement of the ex-Emir iE confirmed by all the accounts
from the west. His retreat is attributed to the unfavourable dis-
position of the tribes of the south towards him. The Akbar gives
an account of the loss or the Sphynx Government steamer, which
took place on the eveniig of the6th to the eastward of Cape Mati-
foux. She was proceeding froir Bona to Algiers with dispatches,
but the weather being so excessively foggy that no land could be
seen, she was driven ashore on the rocks at the above place by the
force of the current, the captan at the time supposing himself in
the Bay of Algiers. The passengers, to the number of 300, were
all safely landed, and immediate information was sent off to Al-
giers, from whence two steamers were dispatched to render assist-
ance. Every exertion was made to save the vessel, but without
effect, the damage she had sustained on .he rocks rendering the
task hopeless."
The Funds on the Paris Bourse cmtinued flat. On the
15th the Three per Cents. closed at d3f. 15c. ; the Five per
Cents. at 121 f. 35c.; Orleans Railrcad Shares, 1,1421. 50c.;
Rouen, 1,020 f. ; Vierzon, 735 f. ; 3avre, 835 f. ; Avignon,
955 f. ; Basle, 248 f. 75c. ; Belgian Two-and-a-Half per
Cents., 593:1 ; Spanish Three per Onts., 37%.
The following are the quotations Or the new lines :-
Orleans and Bordeaux, 1651.prem um ; Boulogne, 1131. 75c.
ditto ; Troyes and Montereau,l7f. ; Paris and Lyons ( La-
ffitte), 20f. ; ditto (Calon), par , ditto (Ganneron), sf. ;
Northern Line (Latlitto), 32f. oc. ; ditto (Rosamel), 9f.
50c. ; Tours and Nantes (Msckenzio), 7f. 50c. ; ditto
(Drouillard), par; ditto (O'Neill), 2f. 50c. ; ditto (Jacques
Lefevre), par; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 12f. 50c ;
ditto (Talabot), 271. 50c; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale),
sf. ; Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie), par.; ditto,
and Cetto (Espeleta), 4f. 50e.; Creil and St. Quentin, 2f.
under par ; Paris and Strasburg (Ganneron),Bf. 50c. ; Dijon
and Mulhouse, par; Dieppe, 22f. 50c.
MArtsiaLLEs, JULY 1.-Marseilles and Avignon, 975 f. ;
Boulogne, 620 f.; Orleans and Bordeaux, 670; Vierzon,
755 f. ; Avignon and Lyons (Talabot), 5301. ; !ditto ( Sebas-
tiani), 5071. 50c.; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 500 f.;
Bordeaux and Cette (Espeleta), 502 f. 50c.; Toulon, 495 f.

SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Under-Sheriff Himont LL. )
COANOCK V. LEICS.
This was an action brought to recover the sum of 41. Bs. 9d.
for wages.
The defendant pleaded that he never was indebted in a larger
sum than 4/. 3s. 4d., and that he had tendered that amount.
Mr. THOMAS stated the case. The defendant is a grocer,
and the plaintiff had been his shopman ; he went to the situation
on the 2d of April, and remained two months and four dAys,
when the defendant, from some reason, but apparently not an
unfriendly one, desired plaintiff to look for a situation.
Evidence was then adduced at some length, when it ap-
peared that the cause of plaintiff leaving was in consequence of
frequently asking for leave of absence for arid hour, and staying
longer. He asked, on the 2d of June, for an hour, and de-
fendant said that if he wanted an hour then he had better go
altogether, and plaintiff said he would. Defendant tendered
him 4/. 3s. 4d. for two months' wages at 25/. per annum, and
asked for a receipt. The next day, the 3d, the plaintiff called,
and made a demand of 41. Bs. 9d., for two months and four days
wages, and defendant said he would not pay him anything, as he
had not served his full time.
Mr. THOMAS contended that the tender was bad, being
clogged with a condition ; and also that from the 2d to the 2d,
including the last day, must be more than two months, and,
therefore, that the plaintiff was entitled to the difference.
The UNDER.-SHERIFF left it to the jury to say whether the
asking for a receipt was such a condition as to lead the plaintiff
to suppose it was to bar him from proceeding to recover any
balance he had a right to, or even conecived he had a right to ;
if so, his (the Learned Under-Sheriff's) opinion was it was
bad in law. The other question was, as to whether the time
aas two months exact, or was to be taken as being so many
weeks and so many days.
The jury, after some time, gave a verdict for the defendant
on both issues.
Mr.' THOMAS applied for the writ to be retained, on the
ground that the calculation of thejury as to time was erroneous,
and that the tender was bad in law;
The Ustnen-SIigRIFF said he could not do that, for it would
imply that he was dissatisfied with the verdict, which he saw
no reason to disturb, as both questions were purely for the jary.
A judge, however, could be applied to.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
(THIS DAY.)
Susan Gregory, a young woman, who for the last two years
and a half has held the situation of one of the housemaids at the
Army and Navy Club-house, St. James's-square, was placed at
the bar, charged with stealing a gold breast pin, the property
of Hugh Richie Wallace, Esq.
The prosecutor stated that he is a member of the club, but
at present was residing at the British Hotel, Cockspur-street.
On Sunday last he dined at the club, and he then noticed that
the pin was safe in his cravat. He returned at night to the
British Hotel, and on undressing to go to bed he discovered
that he had lost the pin, and gave information of it to the police.
The pin produced was the one he had so missed.
Robert Dixon, apprentice to Mr. Thomas Blackburn, of
Skinner-street, Somers Town, pawnbroker, stated that about
three o'clock yesterday afternoon the prisoner offered the pin
in question to pledge for 10s. He asked her who it belonged
to, and she said her husband. Having received notice from
the police describing the pin he gave her into custody.
Air. 111 A LTBY asked the prisoner if she wished to say any-
thing ?—The prisoner said she had merely offered the pin to
pledge to ascertain its value.
The pawnbroker said such was not the fact.
Mr. AIALTBY--But how do you account for the possession of
it? Prisoner—l found it on the hearth. rug at the club.
The prosecutor said he did not wish to ..°
stood the prtsone r had borne an excellent character.
Mr, AilauruY said any• i.your could be
made be ore the ,3ourt at her trial.
She was fully committed to Newgate.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

tin; QUARTER TO THREE.
At Liverpool yesterday the sales of C-oton were 10,000
bales, including 3,500 on speculation, and 1,000 for export.
Prices were firm. A limited busines was done in Shares :-
Bristol and Gloucester, 585 British and Irish Union, 9s. ;
-Belfast and Ballymena, 6% ; Belfast and County Down,
%
3%; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 194 34; Caledo-
nian, 10% ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 4% 5%; Churnet Val-
ley, 4% ; Clitheroe Junction, 3A ; Clydesdale Junction,
9 ; Derby and Crewe, 51s. 6d, 2%; Eastern Counties, New
Shares, 124 • ' Ditto, Perpetual, No. 1, 8 ; Edinburgh and
Glasgow, 754 ; Edinburgh and Peebles, 575. ; Glasgow,
Paisley, and Greenock, 20% ; Ditto, Half Shares, 10% ;
Grand Junction, 238; Ditto, Half Shares, 117% 118%;
Ditto, Quarter Shares, 59 ; Ditto, Eighth Shares, 22% A ;
Grand Union, 3s. ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 3 ; Great
Southern and Western, 224 ; Ditto, Extension, 1134 ; Hud-
dersfield Canal and Railway, 84 ; Leicester and Bedford,
1 ls. 34 • Leicester and Birmingham, 335. 6d. 335. ; Liver-
pool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 2% ; London and Birming-
ham, 243 ; London and Brighton, 77 ; Londonderry and En-
niskillen, 34 ; London and York, 3% 4; Direct Northern,
34 % ; Leeds and Dewsbury, 19%; Leeds and West Riding
Junction, 6/.138.9d. 6/. 18s. 9d. ; Manchester and Birmingham,
601,4 ; Manchester and Leeds, Sixteenth, ; Matlock and
Midland, 5%; Midland Railway, 193%;
Ne Ditto,castl e and 40/. ShDar-
ares,
3034 311 A ; Ditto, Fifth Shares, 3% ;Dµ
cast
Junction, New Shares, 38; North Union (A), 175;
North Staffordshire, 4% ; North Wales Mineral, 154 ; North
Western, 4%; Oxford and Birmingham Junction, 4%; Ox-
ford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 7%; Sheffield and
Manchester, 131 ex int. ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 17 ex int. ;
Ditto, No. 2, 54 ; Shrewsbury and Herefordshire, 6s. ;
Shrewsbury, 'Wolverhampton, and Birmingham, 68s. 6d. ;
Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheshire, 3% ; Shrewsbury
and Trent Union, 31s. 6d; South-Eastern and Dover, New
Shares, No. 1, 183% ; Ditto, No. 3, 83/4; Scottish Central,
63/4 ; South Midland, 1% 425. ; ; Trent Valley Continuation,
1% ; Worcester and Tring, 14 275. ; York and Carlisle, 3% ;
Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette, 1% 345. ; Dutch Rhenish, 6
6%; Jamaica and South Midland, 5 ; Lyons and Avignon,
51s. 6d. ; Northern of France (Laffitte's), 5; Ditto (Rosa-
mel's) English, 495. 51s. 6d.; Ditto (Lebeuf's), 41s. 6d.;
Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's), 21/9 •, Ditto (Calon's) 1% ;
Paris and Strasburg (Hainguerlot's) 24.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 16.-me sales are
-Belfast, Ballymena, and Carrickfergus, 6%; Blackburn,
Burnley, and Accrington, 9% ; Blackburn, Darwen, and
Bolton, 5 3-16 4 ; Blackburn and Preston, 21 ; Bolton,
Wigan, and Liverpool, 191 3,4 ; Caledonian, 10 15-16 11 ;
Cambridge and Lincoln, 5 1-16 ; Churnet Valley, 43/4 ;
Clitheroe Junction, 33/4 ; Erewash Valley, 31 % ; Exeter,
Yeovil, and Dorchester, 3% ; Fleetwood, Preston, and West
Riding Junction, % 7-16 prem. ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 18s. ;
Grand Union, 31s. 6d. ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junc-
tion, Quarter Shares, 11-16 ; Huddersfield and Manchester
Railway and Canal, 8%; Leeds and Thirsk, 5 9-16 ; Leeds,
Dewsbury, and Manchester, 19% ,• Leeds and West Riding
Junction, 6 11-16 % ; Leicester and Bedford, 7s. 6d. 7s. prem. ;
Leicester and Birmingham, 1%; Liverpool and Manchester,
Half Shares, 105 ; Liverpool, Ormsk irk, and Preston, 215-16 3 ;
London and York, 3%; Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale,
221,4 ; Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 54 ;
Manchester and Birmingham, 61 ; Manchester and Birming-
ham Continuation and Welsh Junction, 1% ; Manchester
and Leeds, Quarter Shares, 24%; Midland Railway Consols,
401. Shares, 31 ; Newark and Sheffield, 2% % ; Newcastle
and Berwick, 19/. I Is. 6d. ; Newcastle, Durham, and Lan-
cashire, % prem. ; North Eastern, 13/ ; North Staffordshire,
4%; Nottingham, Erewash, Amber-gate, and Manchester,
2% 7-16 ; Preston and Wyre, 32 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 3 7-16 ;
Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares, No. 2, 41,4 prem. ' •
South Eastern and Dover, No. 3, 8 9-16 %; South Midland,
37e. 6d. 40s. ; Wakefield, Pontefract, and G001e,17%; Welsh
Midland, 31/2 7-16; West Lancashire and Coast Line, 1 5-16
prem. ; West Yorkshire, 53/4 6 ; Great Northern of France
(English), 5%.
We have been furnished with the calculations of the
weekly returns of banks of issue, made up to include the
month ending the 21st ult., for the Bankers' Magazine. From
these we find that the average circulation of the private
banks was 4,399,110/., and of the joint-stock 3,131,097/.,
giving a total of 7,530,2071., or a decrease, compared with
May, of 387,7241.
The Washington papers are counting the number of British
ships of war on the coast of Africa and South America,
amounting, they say, to 52, and 800 guns. They speak of
some fortifications on the United States sea-coast, but their
attention seems to be directed to the great lakes ; improving
the harbours to admit of large steam-vessels, and encourage
their construction for commercial purposes. They speak of
making Lake Michigan a Mediterranean, fortifying the
Straits of Michellimacinack, and bringing steamers from the
Mississippi by the Illinois canal, &c.
Accounts of May 17 from the Cape of Good Hope state that,
the Governor left on the day preceding for the frontier, hav-
ing, however, first received the gratifying information of the
Boers, who were inclined, vi et annis, to resist the colonial
authority, having abandoned their opposition, given up their
arms to our troops, and, in many instances, taken the oath
of allegiance.
The Funds are steady, and the settlement is likely to go off
satisfactorily to-morrow. Consols are 98% % for Money.
Exchequer-bills are firmer at 545. to 565. prem.
Three and-a-Half per Cents. have been 102% 4. Bank Stock
is 2104 to 2114.
Spanish Bonds are still improving. The Five per Cents.
realise 26 to %, and the Three per Cents. 36% to 37.
Mexican Bonds have been 36%, and Columbian 17%. Dutch
Two- and-a- Half per Cents. are 62 to 4.
In Railway Shares there is a fair business doing, and prices
are rather buoyant.

ONE
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consels Annuities 9B %
New 314 per Cents .102%14
Long Annuities to expire Jan .1860
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1859 ...
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 ... 11 3-16 11 3-16
India Bonds, 1,0001
Ditto under 1,0001...
Consols for Opening 9Bl/4 %%
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., I',4d 54 56
Ditto 5001. .
Ditto Small

CLOSING
PRICES.

99%
983,8
1021/1

Great North. of France
(Laffitte's)
Do. do. (Roiamers) 2
Jamaica Junction l% 5
Louvain and Jemeppe... 4 ... . 51/8 43/ ...... ...
Lyons and Avignon 2
Namur and Liege
Orleans and Vierzon
Orleans and Bordeaux
Over Yssel 413 s 4d O%
Paris & Lyons, Laffitte's A
Pans and Rouen
Sambre and Meuse
Verona and Ancona...... 1
West Flanders
JOINT STOCK BANKS.

5%
514
5

Australasia
British North American 50

1014
01
2
40
7
134
4%

33%
48%

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)
MEAT MAXILETS.
SOUTHALL, JULY 16. Although our market to-day was
tolerably well supplied with most kinds of stock, and that
too in good condition, the demand was throughout steady, at
about last week's quotations :—Beef from 2s 6d to 4s 4d ;
Mutton, 3s 4d to 5s ; Lamb, 5s to 6s ; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d ; and
Pork, 3s 4d to 3s 8d per 81bs., to sink the offal.
ROMFORD, JULY 16.—For beasts the demand was not
so active, but with other kinds of fat stock the trade was
fine. Beet; from 2s 8d to 4s 6d ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 5s ;
Lamb, 5s to 6s ; Veal, 3s 10d to 4s 8d ; and Pork, 3s 4d to
3s 8d per 81bs. Suckling Calves, 18s to 299; Quarter-old
Store Pigs, 16s to 20s ; and Milch Cows, with their small
Calf, 16/ to 191 each.
LEWES, JULY 15.—We had a very steady trade here this
morning, and prices were fully supported. Beef from 3s to 4s
6d ; Mutton, 33 8d to 5s ; Lamb, 4s 10d to 5s 10d ; Veal, 4s
to 4s 6d ; and Pork, 3s 4d to 3s 8d per 81bs.
13. Y PIK MINIMS.
SpirrimELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 18s to 4/15s ; useful
do., 41 16s to 51 8s ; fine Upland do., 5/ lOs to 5/ 15s ;
Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 1/ 16s to 1/ 18s ;
Wheat Straw, 21 to 2/ 2s per load. Both Hay and Straw
sold freely at the above quotations.
CUMRERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 4l to 4/ 10s ; useful
ditto, 4/12s to 5/ 5s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 8s to 5/ 12s ; Clever
Hay, 4/ lOs to 5/ 18s; Oat Straw, 1/ 18s to 21; Wheat
Straw, 2/ to 2/ 2s per load. A short supply and a steady
trade.
WHITECH.APEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 16s to 4/ Iss ;
useful ditto, 4/ 16s to 51 4s ; fine Upland ditto, Si 6s I.
5/ 14s ; Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 61; Oat Straw, 11 16s to 1/ 18s ;
Wheat Straw, 2/ to 2l 2s per load. Trade tolerably fair, at
our quoted prices. In New Meadow Hay a good business
was doing, at from 3/ 5s to 41 lOs per load.

CORN AVERAGES.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN
For the Week. ended July 12, 1845, made up from the Returns of the
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales,
per Imperial Quarter. _

1 WHEAT. IBLILLET. I OATS. 1 RTE. I BEANS. 1 YEAS.
PRICE •• 41s 10d 29s Od 215 6d 385 Ild 395 8d 385 Ild
DUTY... 205 Od 9s Od 65 Cd 105 6d 41 6d 45 6(1

VRENCE AN D
RAILROAD.
ILE CORRESPONDENT.)
idends a,tually paid on six
le United States :

THE ST. LA
ATLANTIC
FROM A RESPECTAB;
The following are the divi
;een different railroads in th,

per cent.
Lowell
Worcester
Eastern Massachussets (to
Portland)
Eastern Maine (to Port-
land) ... 7
Providence
Maine to Portland 6
Nashua
This table shows the superior advantages of railroad
investment in a new country, the resources of which are
in a state of progressive development, over these which
the old countries of the continent of Europe can offer.
The only reason why United States' investments are less
sought after, is the doubt which at present attaches to the
solvency and good faith of American States. The com-
pany formed in Canada to construct a railroad from Mon-
treal, its capital, to the Atlantic at Portland, promises to
combine the high rate of United States returns, with
the certainty of English investment; for the Company
is locally resident within the limits of British juris-
diction. This railway is in connexion, at its seaboard
terminus, with two of the railways quoted above
(Eastern Massachussets and Eastern Maine), and it
is proposed to extend and unite it with two more
of them (Lowell and Nashua). The rates of dividend
paid by these works form, therefore, a very good ground
for estimating- those of the St. Lawrence and At-
lantic Railroad. They are, however, supported princi-
pally by local traffic, while the St. Lawrence and At-
lantic is calculated to become the channel of an exten-
sive foreign trade. It will form, during six months of the
year, the channel of communication for all Canada East
(with a population of 700,000, rapidly increasing), and for
a large portion of Canada West (the population anal re-
sources of which are still more rapidly extending.)
This scheme has received the warmest sup-
port in the colony (where one. sixth of the capital has
been already subscribed), and it has received in London
the sanction of the most eminent Canadian merchants.
It cannot prove otherwise than a profitable investment,
and will tend to accelerate incalculably the develop-
ment of the resources of Canada. It possesses an inte-
rest not only for the cplonists, but for the vast numbers
who have friends and relations settled in Canada.

per cent
New Bedford 6
Taunton Branch ...
Charleston Branch
Utica and Schenectady ll
Mohawk and Hudson 7
Auburn and Syracuse
Auburn and Rochester 6
Baltimore and Ohio

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