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LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1845.

The Lords met at Five o'clock.
Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from J. T.
RUSSELL, complaining that he bad been slandered in evi-
,
deuce given before one of their Lordship's Committees,
and praying for redress.
The Earl of HARDWICK presented a petition from a
shareholder in the Dublin and Galway Railway, com-
plaining of the grievous injury that would be inflicted on
him if the Bill should not be allowed to proceed, and
praying to be heard by counsel at the bar.
After a few words from the Earl of DALHOUSIE,
The Earl of BESBOROUGH moved the postpJnement of
the further consideration of this Bill to that day three
months.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE moved that the debate
should be adjourned until the whole of the evidence
should be printed, and in the hands of their Lordships.
Lord BROUGHAM went into a lengthened statement
of the frauds which had been committed in procuring
signatures to the subscription list.
Lord MONTEAGLE supported the motion for adjourn •
ment ; and after a few words from Lord BROUGHAM,
the debate was adjourned till Monday.
The Earl of lIARDWICKE then brought up the re-
port of the Committee on the Portsmouth Direct Rail-
way Bill, but was interrupted by Lord BROUGHAM on
a point of order, and eventually the report was with-
drawn.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE moved the second reading of the
Pauper Lunatics Bill.

Lord BEAUMONT opposed the motion, and suggested
the propriety of referring the Bill to a Select Committee.
On a division, the motion for the second reading was
carried by a majority of 16, the numbers being, con-
tents, 27 ; non-contents, 11.
The LORD CHANCELLOR presented the report of the
Criminal Law Commissioners, which, after a few ob-
servations from Lord BROUGHAM and Lord CAMPBELL,
was ordered to lie on the table.

The Waste Lands (Australia) Bill was read a third
time and passed.
The other Bills on the table were forwarded a stage
and the House adjourned.

The Commons met at Twelve, and sat for an hour,
during which time they forwarded several Bills a stage.
They re-assembled at Five o'clock, when the Bolton
and Leigh Railway Bill was read a third time and
passed, after a short discussion.

In answer to Mr. SIIEIL, it was stated by Sir JAMES
GRAHAM that the Government intended to propose
during next session the following alterations in the Irish
Bequests Act-Ist, to refer any disputes respecting
bequests to Roman Catholic priests to their Diocesan,
instead of to the Commissioners ; 2d, to exempt mo-
nastic institutions altogether from the operation of the
Act ; 3d, to enable tracts of land, of not more than five
acres each, to be granted to Roman Catholic priests for
glebes, or for the erection of chapels or houses connected
with religion.
On the motion that the House do go into Committee
of Supply,
Mr. P. M. STEWART called the attention of the
House to the petition of the Moderator of the General
Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, complaining
of the refusal of sites for the erection of Churches to the
members of that Church.

Sir JAMES GRAUAM deplored the events which had
occurred, but did not see how it was possible to remedy
the evil by legislation.
Mr. HAWES had received many complaints of the
conduct of some of the Scotch landholders, who seemed
to forget that property bad its duties as well as its
rights.

Mr. CARDWELL defended the landowners.
After a few words from Mr. HUME,
Mr. SHELL suggested the propriety of granting a
regium donum to the Scotch Free Church.

Mr. PRINSLE trusted that harmony would yet be re-
stored to the Church of Scotland.

Mr. HINDLEY rejoiced at tho separation which had
taken place, and animadverted in severe terms on the
conduct of the Duke of BUCCLEUCH and other land-
owners in Scotland.
After a few words from Mr. BORTHWICE, the subject
dropped.
Mr. EIVART postponed until Monday his motion on
the subject of education.
Mr. HOME then rose pursuant to notice to draw the
attention of the Howe to the loss sustained by the pnblie
by the circulation of light sovereigns, and suggested that
an office should be appointed by the Government to re-
ceive light gold at its intrinsic value. This gave rise to

a regular currency debate, in the course of which the
House was.aeldressed by Mr. SPOONER, the CHANCELLOR
of the EXCHEQUER, Mr. WILLIAms, and Sir B. PEEL,
after which the House divided, and the motion was ne-
gatived by a majority of 30.

Mr. TUFFNEL, on the motion that the Speaker
should leave the Chair, called the attention of the House
to the orders issued compelling the sale of lands by the
officers in the civil service at Ceylon, and complained of
the hardships thus inflicted on them. A short conversa-
tion ensued, but ultimately the House went into Com-
mittee pro form , and immediately afterwards resumed.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of
and the House adjourned at Two o'clock.

We hare often protested against a monstrous and cruel
anomaly in the practice of our police-courts, under
which poverty and destitution are recognised, on the one
hand, as palliating or extenuating circumstances strong
enough to warrant the commutation of a punishment, or
the mitigation of a penalty is left to the option of the
magistrate ; but, on the other, are not allowed to exempt
a delinquent party labouring under them, from fees of
court and costs fully equal to those which would have
been visited on a party convicted of a similar offence
under a much more aggravated form, or of some other
offence of a different and much graver class and cha-
racter. The illustration of this anomaly will occur to
every reader who has perused the reports of this Nary
common class of cases. For example: a wretched, house.
less, perishing outcast is detected in the act of
carrying away from a roadside copse a few
fragments of dead twigs, wherewith to kindle a
fire under some hedge-row to protect him from perish-
ing under the inclemency of the weather. A man out
of work, and tramping he scarce knows whither to seek
it, with a wife and a couple of children at his heels,
equally famished and desolate as himself, is seen to purloin
a turnip from a field. The sticks, in the first instance,
are, even at the value put upon them by the over-zealous
bailiff who brings the charge, worth less than three
farthings—the turnip, in the other, by the valuation, even
of the angry farmer who has determined to make an
example of the offender, at one penny. Each offender
is adjudged to pay the value so assessed of the article he
is proved to have taken ; but each has to pay in addition
from three to five, six, or seven shillings " costs," and in
default of making such payment is committed to
prison. If the perfection of the law acre
really "common sense," as some legal sages have
taught, common sense would surely suggest that
any party who had three shillings in the world to
call his own would not commit a petty larceny to the
amount of three farthings, the penalty of which must be
fine or imprisoament, with costs to the full amount, at
least, of his three shillings. If common mercy were the
basis of the law which magistrates and courts of session
administer, they would feel that where the law was satis-
fied by the payment of a fine equivalent to the damage
done, or the property taken, the official subalterns of the
tribunal which adjudges it can, on no principle of reason
or equity, be entitled to exact from the offender, in the
shape of "fees," from eighteen to thirty times the amount
of such fine. So, again, where a needy cottager or a
small 'leaseholder is summoned for poor rate (tke
party summoned being only distinguished from the
paupers whose support he is made to contribute for by
the circumstance of " not" receiving parochial relief, and
with honest pride preferring, at whatever privation, to
remain unee.• his own homely roof, instead of that of the
" Union}--what is the course taken ? This : to pay,
say, four shillings for a rate which he cannot raise fur
his own subsistence. A benevolent bystander the other
day stepped forward and paid that very sum for a poor
woman in this condition. But there were some eight or
nine shillings costs and fees which the benevolent stranger
could not contribute ; and so the petty sessions which
heard the case granted a warrant of execution against
the goods, the last remaining resource of the poor
woman, who, when they had been sold up, would be
turned out a destitute beggar on the world. If you give
an option to magistrates and justices to mitigate the
penalties to guilt, according to the character of the
facts under which the act is established before them—
why not give them at least as large an option to mitigate
penalties to misfortune and poverty unaccompanied by
guilt ?

We are well pleased to observe that the question was
incidentally raised, last night, in the House of Commons,
on Mr. ESCOTT'S moving the committal of the Fees
(Criminal Courts) Bill. Its object, the Hon. Gen-
tleman said, was to relieve accused persons from
the necessity of paying exorbitant fees prior to
obtaining their right of pleading and right of
trial. If any such party have not the money,
the practice is in the session courts of several of our
counties to refuse him the right of pleading. Thus, a man
charged with misdemeanour is refused, it seems, the
right of pleading "not guilty," unless he first pays the
fees ; and the consequence is that the prisoner is often
remanded without trial, and brought up in a subsequent
session, or on repeated occasions, till the worthy func-
tionaries who have the control of these matters are satis-

fled that he cannot pay. Although it appeared by re-
turns which the House has called for, that in thirty-two
counties of England and Wales the practice has been

abandoned, it seems to obtain in the other twenty.
In Somersetshire, Devonshire, and Dorsetshire espe-
cially, Mr. ESCOTT could speak to its being persisted in
at the present day, and if the House would
affirm his Bill, it would have the effect of assi-
milating the proceedings of these courts throughout
England and Wales, by making it the universal practice
to discontinue the practice (&hich was clearly an illegal
one) of extorting the fees in question. As to the dis-
tinction which it had been attempted to take between
the cases of a party acquitted and a party convicted, he
could not detect it, and he was sure the House would
not recognise it. Now let us remark how aptly this
point was illustrated. He supposed an instance of a man
acquitted and another convicted, on a similar charge
of misdemeanor ; the convicted man being fined one
shilling. If the costs, in each case, be a, and the
amount of the convicted party's
fine be deducted therefrom.
the balance of the difference will be ust one shilling. The
innocent man will pay 31. costs on being tried for an
offence which he has not committed; and the guilty
man 21. 19s. costs, for an offence which he has committed,
and Is. penal fine. It is scarcely possible to imagine a
higher reach of legal absurdity than this. The only
escape from such absurdity will be found in the adoption
of the conclusion that Mr. EscoTT arrived at—namely,
that justice cannot be done unless the law be more dis-
tinctly declared, that no money in the shape of fees shall I
be demanded of any person charged with a crime, except
the amount of that penalty which the court shall, under
due authority, have legally imposed upon him for such
offence.

We contend that by strict analogy this principle
should be extended to costs; for the reasonable pre-
sumption is that the sentence embraces the whole scope
of the penalty it has been in the contemplation of the
law to decree for the specific offence. To aggravate
this penalty by costs or by fees is not only a positive
increase of punishment, but may in a thousand cases be
converted into a machinery of the most tyrannous in-
justice, as well as severity beyond the law. And it is
not a little remarkable that the Right Hon. Secretary
who, in an earlier part of this discussion, declared that
he must dissent from the opinion of Mr. ESCOTT en-

tirely with regard to the extension of his principle to
persons found guilty, because he (Sir J. GRAHAM) was
of opinion that persons convicted should pay, at any
rate, a portion of the expenses which the prosecutor Of
the offence so proved against them had entailed, re-
tracted this view of the case, in point of fact, at a sub-
sequent period. lie gave notice that if the House would
reject Mr. &COTT'S Bill (which it immediately did), he
would be prepared that evening to laz on the table a
Bill to abolish the taking of all fees in criminal cases,
both from parties against whom the finding of the court
will be recorded, and from those who shall have been
acquitted of the charges brought against them. This is
really a step in the right direction of sound criminal ju-
risprudence, on which we heartily congratulate the Right
Hon. Baronet and the country.

iorne persons think that Captain BOLDERO has been
hardly treated; none will doubt that Mr. WRAY is a
lucky man. Captain BOLDER°, to whom nothing worse
than indiscretion can be imputed, is forced to resign his
office, while Mr. WRAY gets off with a reprimand. But
then Captain BOLDERO'S indiscretion is of this year,
while Mr. Witev's malpractice dates as far back as 1836.
This is Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S distinction. If Mr,
WRAY'S detection had been postponed for some years
longer, the same logic would transform his sin into a
virtue. .Any how, there is inconsistency in the course
which has been taken by the Government. If Mr.
WRAY, whose offence is greater than Captain BOLDER°,
has been treated with more lenity than the Captain, Mr.
BoNnem, who is worse than Mr. WRAY, should have
been dealt with the most leniently of the three. But
Mr. BONHAM fares as ill as Captain BOLDER°.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S letter, conveying the repri-
mand to Mr. WRAY, has been laid on the table of the
House of Commons, on the motion of Mr. HAWEs, and
we have already printed it in extenso, when Sir JAMES
GRAHAM determined, for reasons best known to himself;
to let Mr. WRAY off with a reprimand, he should have
determined also to resist all applications for the publi-
cation of his letter. Did our readers ever see such a
specimen of the " rigmarole ?" Mr. WRAY'S chief
offence is not alluded to, viz., the payment to Mr. Box-
-BAX. Sir JAZ.IEB GRAZIAWEI
" regret" and " disappro-

bation" are confined to Mr. WRAY'S having been "the
paid agent of a private company," and " having been
engaged to canvass Members of the House of Commons,''
in favour of that C,ompany's Bill. But the three hun-
dred pounds to Mr. BONHAM. Oh, no ! we never men-
tion it. Here is the document :

Whitehall, July 19, 1845.
Sir,—l forward to you, for your information, in the event
of your net hav►ng already perused it, a copy of the report of
the Select Committee appointed by the House of Commons to
inquire into the allegations of a petition from the South-East-
ern Railway Company; together with the minutes of evidence
taken before that Committee.

I have learnt with regret from this report, that you were, in
the year 1 b 36, while holding a responsible office under Govern-
ment, retained as a paid agent of a privet'® company to pro-
m ,te the success of a Bill introduced into Parliament on their
behalf; and that you were engaged to canvass Members of the
House of Commons in favour of that measure during its pro-
gress through Parliament.

- It now becomes my duty to convey to you my strong disap-
probation of the course which you thus pursued. Ido not
think it necessary, on the present occasion, to express any
opinion whether the due performance of the duties of Receiver-
General of Police might or might not have been, in the first
instance, compatible with private practice as a barrister; but
1 can entertain no doubt that your interference, especially as a
paid agent in canvassing Members, must tend to weaken the
cotfidence of the public in the impartiality of the Government,
whose officer you are, and materially to impair your efficiency
in the performance of the official duties which are entrusted
to you.
I am informed that for some years past you have abstained
from accepting any professional engagement as a barrister. I
approve of your having done so, and I expect that for the fu-
ture the same course will be invariably pursued by you.
The duties of your office are onerous and important, and I
consider it absolutely necessary that henceforth the Receiver-
General of the Police should confine himself entirely to those
duties; and any departure from this rule will be regarded by
me as a sufficient ground for your removal from the appoint-
ment which you now hold.—l am, &c.,
(Signed) J. R. G. GRAHAM.
John Wray, Esq., Receiver-General of Police.
If the House of Commons and the public are satisfied
with this letter we shall be greatly surprised. We under-
stand that Mr. WRAY, who is here cautioned to confine
himself entirely in future to the duties of his office of
Receiver-General of Police, is the resident Director of
the University Assurance Company, and, if so, he holds
an office which roust take much time, and the holdirg of
which is quite inconsistent with Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S
instructions. This should be inquired into. We hear
that Mr. WRAY has been usgful to the Tories in Uni-
versity elections. This may be a good reason for Uni-
versity Tories to put him into a good berth in their In-
surance Company and to keep him there ; but it is no
reason for shielding him as a public officer from the
punishment due to his misconduct. We conclude, after
tiro strong opinion expressed the other night by Loi d
J. RUSSELL 011 the impropriety of retaining Mr. WRAY
in his office, that this matter will not be allowed to drop.

Swiss journals to the 21st have been received. They an-
nounce the murder of M. JosErß LEw, of Ebersol, member
of 'Lin; Grand Council of Lucerne, on the night of the 19th,
at his country house. M. LEw had been a violent partisan
of the Jesuits, and it was he who forwarded their designs at
Lucerne, and created that feeling which has spread through
the whole of the republic. It has not been ascertained
whether this arose from private feelings of revenge, or from
political animosity. The Governmeut has offered a reward
for the apprehension of the murderer.

A letter from Zurich, dated July 20, says :
" The session of the Swiss Diet will not, in all probability, be
now a long one, for more than half ‘the business has been already
got through. As to the questions of the Jesuits and the convents,
the Prefident feels disposed to place only the latter on the order
of the day, in order to avoid the irritation which could not fail to
be caused by the former, and which might impede other business.
Much sensation has been caused here by the sudden departure of
the first deputy of Lucerne, M. Siegwarl-Muller, who lately
declared himself so warmly in favour of the Jesuits,
and who has, consequently, not met with a favourable recep-
tion when he has appeared abroad. His excuse for his present
act is, that he did not consider himself secure from per-
sonal injury at Zurich. The Jesuits had scarcely been instated in
Lucerne than they sought to acquire possession of land in the ad-
joining cantons. They have just purchased a large building near
Mensingen, in the canton of Zug, in order to convert it into an
establishment, either avowed or disguised, of their society. This
act only too well justifies the fears of those who declared that, if
once the Jesuits placed their foot in the principal Catholic town of
the Vorort, they would soon overrun the whole of primitive Swit,
zerland. The members of the clergy who offer the slightest oppo.
sition to their designs become the objects of persecution. Dr.
Steiger has decided on fixing himself at Berne, where he is ex.
pected at the end of July. His presence in Switzerland is still the
great cause of alarm to the Government of Lucerne."

Madrid papers of the 18th instant have arrived. The
Gaceta contains the following official document :

" All the accounts received by the Government from various
points of the Peninsula, and from foreign parts, clearly reveal the
existence of vast combined plans, which the premature rebellion in
Catalonia has probably frustrated."

The route which the QUEEN would take in quitting Bar-
celona was still matter of conjecture. It was, however,
considered probable that her MAJESTY would proceed by
Tervel to Saragossa and the Basque provinces, and the He-
rald() deplores it in the most mournful terms. That Govern-
ment print calls the journey an " extravagant " one, and adds
that all Madrid has learned, with " sorrowful surprise," the
postponement of her MAJESTY'S return to the capital.
It is reported that all the Ministers will assemble at Sara-
gossa on the 24th.

The Femento of Barcelona, of the 18th, states a steamer
to have been dispatched to Valencia, in order to bring back
some of the QUEEN'S equipages, which had already been
sent thither.

A private letter says, " That on learning that it would be
difficult to establish in some places the new system of taxa-
tion, without giving rise to serious disturbances, the Minister
of Finances has deemed it prudent to instruct the Inten-
dientts to content themselves with the old system wherever
the new may encounter opposition. The utmost moderation
is recommended to all the agents of the Treasury."
Another letter states that NARVAEZ has expressed his do
termination to resign rather than allow the QUEEN to pro-
ceed into the Basque provinces from Saragossa.
The Esperanza states that the Marquis DE VlLLuma. and
the Baron DE MEER had been sent for by the QUEEN, but the
statement was not generally credited.

We have received the French papers of Thursday. Their
contents are not of much importance. The Moniteur pub-
lishes official accounts of various successful expeditions in
Algeria, and the ether papers comment on the effect likely to
be produced by the reappearance of ABD-EL. KADER. The
Duke and Duchess DE NEMOURS left Paris on iihursday for
the south of France. According to their detailed itineraire,
published in the Globe, they are to arrive at Bordeaux on the
sth of August, and to make an excursion to Spain. The
Presee says that it is at Bilbao that their Royal Iliglmesses
are to have an interview with the QUEEN and Royal Family
of Spain. Count BRESSON, the French Ambassador at the
Spanish Court, is to repair to Bilbao on the occasion. Don
CARLOS and his consort left Lyons on the morning of Wed-
nesday before last, by the steam-boat for Avignon, whence
they were to proceed to the Greoulx waters.

The Augsburg Gazette states that there will be a complete
diplomatic congress on the occasion of the meeting between
the Queen of ENGLAND and the King of PRUSSIA, on the
Rhine, as France, Russia, and Austria will send representa-
tives there.

According to the French papers considerable alarm is felt
at Rome, in consequence of the precarious state of health of
the POPE, who is suffering from a cancer in his nose.
MAuno-CAFELLI GREGORY XVI., appointed Cardinal in
1825, was raised to the apostolic chair on February 2, 1831.
He was born in 1765, and is consequently now nearly 80
years of age.

A letter from Trieste of the 14th instant, published in
.
these journals, says :

" The insurrection of the Montenegrians and the mountaineers
of Jakova (Albania) still continues. The latter, to the number of
8,000, conveyed their wives, children, and flocks into the valley of
the Bellaja, which is surrounded by inaccessible mountains, and
then divided themselves into bands in order to attack the Seraskier,
without coming to a geheral engagement. The Turkish com-
mander has, it is said, met with such a vigorous resistance that he
has sent for a reinforcement of 3,000 men from the Pacha of Scu-
tari. Advices from Ragusa state that a Turkish squadron, com-
posed of a frigate, a schooner, five brigs, and several transports, had
anchored in the port of Durazzo (Albania) on the 25th June. The
appearance of this force has given rise to various conjectures. Ac-
cording to some it is destined to assist the Seraskier, while others
state that it is intended to embark Albanian troops for Syria and
Tripoli in Barbary. Letters from Agran (Croatia) state that Aus-
trian troops had been ordered to march towards the Turkish Iron.
tier, where some disturbances hai taken place, and an irruption
made on the Austrian territory."

The Three per Cents. closed at 83f. 50c. ; the New Loan
at 83f. 90c. ; the Five per Cents. at 121 f. 80c. ; Orleans
Railroad Shares, 1,200 f. ; Rouen, 1,050 f. ; Vierzon, 7551.
Havre, 870 E ; Avignon, 995 f. ; Basle, 270 f. 75c.

The following are the quotations for the new lines :
Orleans and Bordeaux, 185 f. prem. ; Boulogne, 122 f. 50c.
ditto ; Troyes and Montereau, 15f. ; Paris and Lyons
(Laffitte), 31f. 25c. ; ditto (Calon ), par ; ditto (Ganneron), 6f.
50c. ; Northern Line (Laffitte), 45f.; ditto (Rosainel),
1 If. ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 12f. 50c. ; ditto
(Drouillard), par; ditto (O'Neill), 3f. 50c. ; ditto (Jacques
Lefevre), par ; Lyons and Avignon (Leceinte), ]2f. 50c.;
ditto (Talabot), 31f. 25c. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale),
5f.; Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie), par; ditto and
Cette (Espelcta), 6f. ; Creil and St. Quentin, par ; Paris
and Strasbourg (Ganneron), 10f. ; Dijon and Mulhouse, par
Dieppe, 21f. 50c.

LLOYD'S S!iIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JULY 26.—Wind S.E., light airs and hazy.
LIVERPOOL. JULY 25.—Wind variable.—Arrd. Columbus, Green,
Macao and Pernambuco; Sir C. Campbell, Pentcost, :yew Orleans
Banks,
ColumboJones , Byrwell
Alex,
andria. SavannaSailedh ; Aljon2s, quNorthin, CannPole, Sims, ebec ; Tom
,
Maneo, Mickels, Boston; Gloucester, Pollard, Bostoni ; CompActon,ton,
Chapman, Quebec. Off port? kluron, Bahamian, Rodalist, Intrinsic,
and Mersey. Five square bales of cotton floating on the water, were
passed on the 18th, lat. 48, lon. 9, by the Tom Banks, arrived here.
PENZANCE, JULY 24.—Wind E.—Arrd. Tutor, Wakehant, Quebec.
Sid. Mary of Chandos, Trewavas, 31irainieln. Off port, G. Adam,
Valparaiso; Jane, Dunn, Pugwasii.
GLOUCESTER, JULY 25.--Shi. Perseverance, Robson, Richebucto.
NEWPORT, JULY 25.—S1i. Echo, Dc Quettiville, Jamaica.
ST. IvEs, Jury 24.—The Reward, of this port, from Plymouth,
was carried on the stones in the Bay by the tide, during a calla
last evening, and immediately sunk.

SUNDERLAND ELECTION.—The friends of Colonel
Thompson held meetings on Wednesday and Thursday, at both of
which the conduct of Mr. Bagshaw, on retiring, in order to pre..
vent a split in the Liberal intered, was the theme of much and
deserved culogium. It is to be hoped that Liberals of every shade
will now work together to secure the return of Colonel Thompson. '
Ills canvass, hitherto, has been most satisfactory. Mr. Hudson is
expected in Sunderland on Saturday (this day). His friends are
very sanguine; the contest will, probably. be A very close one. The 1
writ will be moved for on Monday.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)
COVENT-GARDEN.
With all kinds of Fruit and Vegetables in season, we were
again most abundantly supplied; yet, owing to the large
attendance of dealers, an extensive business was transacted.
BILLINGSGATE.
Our supply of Fish was only moderate, yet the demand
was inactive, at late rates :—Turbots sold at from 7s to 18s;
and Cod Fish, 3s to 9s each ; Salmon, 8d to Is ; and Eels, 4d
to 10d per lb.; Mackerel, 21s to 32s per 120.
We had a steady demand for each kind of Meat..
NENVGA.T7II AND A.JeILDEN/1/5.1.1t..
Although the supplies of Poultry were by no means ex-
tensive, the demand was in a very sluggish stnte, at barely
stationary prices. For each kind of prime Meat, we had a
very steady demand, and prices had an upward tendency.
In other qualities a fair amount of business was doing, at
fully previous rates. Beef frum 2s 6d to 3s 6d; Mutton, 3s
4d to 4a 10d ; Lamb, 4s 10d to 6s ; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 6d ; and
Pork, 2a 10d to 43 per 81bs.

lIUNGERPORD.
Our market was again but moderately supplied with mos
articles, yet the demand was somewhat inactive, at abou
stationary prices.

NEWPORT.
Prime Beef sold briskly at an advance of 2d per 81bs, while
the Value of other kinds of Meat was fully supported.

7374 E AD
The prices of Wheaten Bread in the Metropolis are fron
8d to E 34d ; of Household ditto, 6d to 7i zd per 4lbs leaf.

HIDE VI.a.IiN.MT.

Raw Hides, at per stone of 14Ibs :—Best Steers and Heifers;
5s 4d to 5s 8d; Middling hides, 4s 8d to 5s ; Inferior ditto,
4s 2d to 48 6d. Sheep and Calf Skins, at per Skin :
Market Calf, 6s 6d to 8s ; Lamb-skins, is to 2s 3d ;
Shearlings, 10d to is 3d.

1:111.1r AIitILETS.
SMITIMELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 16s to 4/16s ; u Cul
do., 41 17s to 51 8s ; fine Upland do., 51 lOs to 51 16s :
Clover Hay, 4/ 103 to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 1/ 18s to 21;
Wheat Straw, 2/ is to 2/ 3s per load. A fair average supply
and a steady trade.

CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 18s to 41 18s ;
useful ditto, 5/ to 5183; fine Upland ditto, 51 lOs to 51 16s;
(Meyer Hay, 4/ lOs to 5/ 18s; Oat Straw, 1118 s to 2/ ; Wheat
Straw, 21 18 to 2/ 4s per load. Trade firm, at full prices.
WHITRCHArEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 15s to 4t 15s
useful ditto, 41 16s to 5/ 4s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ is to
3/ 153; Clover Hay, 41103 to 61 6s •, Oat Straw, 11 18s to 2/
Wheat Straw, 2/ Is to 21 3s per load. Supply good and
trade rather

New Meadow Hay sold at from 31 8s to 41 10s, and New
Clover 31 15s to 41 158 per load.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was firm again.
Shares were quiet, and prices tending downwards.
MaarcuEsTEn STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 23.-The sales are
-Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 10% ; Blackburn,
Clitheroe, and North Western Junction, 2% 3% prem. ;
Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 5% x; Bolton, Wigan, and
Liverpool, 28 25 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 31/e ; Churnet
Valley, 5%; Clitheroe Junction, 43/4 %; Derby and Crewe,
23/ 3; Direct Northern, 24 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 80% ;
Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction, 212 ; Glas-
gow and Dumfries, 1% ; Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield, and
Manchester, 114 ; Grand Union, 2 1 15-16; Great Grimsby
and Sheffield Junction, 414 ; Huddersfield and Manchester
Railway and Canal, 12%. 14 ; Huddersfield and Sheffield
Junction, 8% ; Leeds and Thirsk, 7% 34 ; Leeds, Dewsbury,
and Manchester, 23 26 ; Leeds and West Riding Junction,
714 %; Leicester and Bedford, 4% %; Leicester end Bir-
mingham, 425. 6d. 435. ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston,
4%; London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, 114 3.16 ;
London and York, 6% %; Lynn and Dereham, 2%; Man-
chester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 7 6% ; Manchester
% and Birmingham, 62; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 10; Ditto,
New Quarters, 7%; Manchester and Birmingham Continua-
tion and Welsh Junction, 2% 4 ; Newcastle, Durham, and
Lancashire, 12s. 15s. prem.; North Staffordshire, 5 ; North
\Vales, 2%; North Western,s 4 %; Nottingham and Mans--
field, 1%; Nottingham, Erewash, Ambergate, and Man-
chester, 43% ; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton,
9% 9 ; Preston and Wyre, 32 ; Ditto, 5 per cent. guaranteed,
323 ; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 2% 5-16; Shef-
field and Manchester, 7 prem. ; Shrewsbury and Hereford-
-`f ire, I% ; Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Union, 2 % 3 ;
8 mth-Eastern and Dover, No. 3, 84; South Midland, 3%;
S i tthport and Euxton, 25/8 ; Trent Valley Continuation and
H lyhead Junction, 2 ; Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole,
94 1 3/4 ; West Lancashire and Coast Line, 43% prem. ;
W st Yorkshire, 7% ' • Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe
U ton, 2% 34 ; York and Carlisle, 4 ; Dutch Rhenish, 9%;
Pads and Lyons, English, 34.
There was not any general arrivals of importance in the
0 y to-day, but we have been informed that by a private
ph E.) later accounts have come to hand from New Zealand. to
sae effect that Captain Fitzroy had succeeded in tranquilliz-
ing the colony by a treaty with the natives. It will be a
source of gratification to find this statement confirmed.
The returns of the Bank of England for the past week show
the following results :-
a's decrease in the circulation of 288,2611.
An increase in the Rest of 16,260/.
A decrease in the Public Deposits of 62,156/.
And a decrease in the General Banking Department of
1,017,0221.
The stock of bullion is now 15,679,3324 By the last return
it was 16,196,2861.-Decrease, 316,954/.
The Funds have been very steady to- day. Consols for thy.
Account have been done only at 99%, and for Money at 99%
and at 98%. Exchequer-bills are at 545. to 565. premium.
The value of Bank Stock is well maintained.
In the Foreign Funds the dealings have been very limited.
Not a single transaction has been done in Spanish Bonds to-
day. The other prices are almost nominally the same as
yesterday.
The Share Market has a firm appearance this morning,
with a considerable amount of business doing.
ottlTlBll FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCk.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock 211%
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9911,4%
3 per Cent. Consols Anns 99% 98%
New 314 per Cent. Annuties 102%%
New 5 per Cent. Annuities 126
South Sea Stock 113
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. I%d. I%d.
1,000/. -
500/. ... - .. ... 54 56 pm.
Ditto Small - .. ... 56 5S pm.
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent 9l
Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent ...... .
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent 38%
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent llB% -
Belgian 41/z per Cent lOl
Dutch 2% per Cents
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 993/4%
PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARK.
Armagh, Coleraine,Purtrush 1% l% to -
Birmingham and Oxford
Junction 2 -
Caledonian -
Ditto Extension -
Cambridge and Lincoln ...... 11/i......3 2% 314 to 2%
Chester and Holyhead -
Cniehester and Brighton 2O -
Coventry and Leicester ...... 114 2t ! to -
rirect Northern -
Dublin and Belfast Junction 2%
Dublin and Galway 2% 2lAlsia to -
Eastern Counties
De. New 4/. 16s 7l p... to -
Eastern Union
Ditto Extension -
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Great South and W. (Irish)
Ditto Extension
'3:" to -•
2.
2% l2l/1/ to -
Great Munster 2% 17/•
Great Western -
Guildford, Fareham, Portms, 21/
2
Hull and Selby 5O
Lancaster and Carlisle... ..... . 25 ... . . 150424 .. . . toI oo
5-1057%
Leicester and Bedford 22s. 3% 414 pto 34%
London and Birmingham lOO -
Ditto 14 Shares -
.2.
London and Blackwall 16% 10%14% to 1l 4
London and Brighton... 5O ''9%14... to 804
London and Croydon... 131. 15s. 9d.... 26%4... to 27 -
Do. New l3s 4d I3A% p to -
London and Greenwich... 12/. 15s. 4d - -
Ditto Preference ........181 17s 2d... 243/ to -
London and South Western.. 41% 79 4 to 80
Do. New.. 2 -
London and York.... .. ...... 2%
Londonderry and Enniskillen 21,4 34 to -
Lynn and Ely -
Lynn and Dereham -
matlehovie. and Leeds -
Ditto Quarters
Manchester and Birmingham 40 62% 64 to 63
Ditto New Quarters......... 2 -
Manch, Buxton, & Matlock 22s
Midland .....,100
Ditto New
Midland, Birm., and Derby...loo 143 145... to 141%
Newcastle &Darlington Ri tine. 25 - -
Ditto New Brandling -
Newcastle and Berwick
3/4 to 21
Newark and Sheffield -
North British
Ditto New 1 ..... 74%... to -
North Staffiardshire -
Notting.,ErewshVal.,&Manc 1%...... 31 to -
Oxford and Worcester 2% 7% 8... to 7%
Perth and Inverness -
Portsmouth Direct
Preston and Wyre 5O -
Richmond andWestEnd June. 1
Rugby. Worcester, and Tring 1
Scottish Midland
214j34/14::::: tott: -52%' p
Shrews. & Trent Val. Union. 22151 A. ... ..
South Devon 2O .... 304 to -
South Midland
South Eastern and Dover -
-
SouthDittoiNN,aleews' N.°.;:.lh3lieea.nd..nyej
u..n..c...
'%lV'raentetrfVoardl. aknidi°Kl 122:"1/: ......
15815,
1/2. . .
ttt
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. 214 ---
3214 %.,. toto .7
Welch Midland......,
Yerk and Carlisle --
Car1i51e........ ,•,•.• 2(//44- 3% to -
i
FOYS
Boulogne and A
mensß SIGN Rs
..... . ILWA
1114.
Dendre Valley -
East Indian ... .
............. 5 -
Great Northern-ef •France
(Laffitte's) -
Jamaica Junction - ...... to -
Do. South 'Midland Junction 1 -
Lyons and Avignon
Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 4 -
Over Yssel 4/ 3s 4d 1%14% pto -
Paris and Lyons(Laffitte) ... 2 -
Parisand Lyons(Ganneron's) 2 ... -
Paris&Strasburg(Gannern's) 2
.- -
Do. (Compe de L'Est) 2 -
Sambre and Meuse
West Flanders -

VALUE OF LAND AT THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.--
Yesterday a sale by auction took place at the Auction Mart, of a
farm for sheep at the Cape of Good Hope, comprising about 24,000
English acres of land. It was situated on the east side of the
river Hope, and on the north, south, and west was bounded by Go-
vernment land, being in the southern part of the division of Beau-
fort, called Van Roeyens Kreel, of Shoorstein. It was held under
the Crown at a quit rent of 1/. 68. per annum. The auctioneer
stated that the Cape wools were nearly on a par with the best
Australasian crops, slid that the lowest price of Government land
was two shillings an acre. At that value the property was worth
2,4001. It was a district well known to all those who have been at
the Cape, and favourable to those who desire to emigrate. The
first offer was 2501. The biddings wept on at 101,, and the pro. I
porgy cliapo!cd of for 5004

SPORTING iNTELLIGENCE.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
WENLOCK RACES.—FAIDAr.
Sweepstakes of 10 :OTS. each, with 20 added, twice round
and a distance. (3 Subs.)
Mr. Skcrratt'a Miss Holbrook, 3 yr. (A lad) 1
2
Mr. Minor's Molecatcher, 4 yrs
The Hunters' Stakes of 5 soya. each, with 20 added. Heat6'
take round and a distance. (5 Subs.)
Mr. Martin's fby Slane, darn by Chateau Mar-
grave, 4 yrs 2
Mr. Wesley's Solitude, 3 yrs
Mr. :_ikerratt's Turk, 3 yrs (Darling)2
D•••••dt
IPSWICH ILlCES.—TnunsDny.

The County Members' Plate. Heats.
Mr. Robinson's Glee, 3 yrs ... ...(Clarry) 1 1
Mr. Theobald's Desperation, 3 yrs ............ ..... 9
3 S
Mr. Cooper's b h by Agreeable, 4 yis
The Ipswich Stakes of 3 sous. each, with 25 added. ,
Mr. Woodfield's Devil-among-the-Tailors, 6 yrs
Mr. Abel's M 2artinette, aged
Mr. Bradford's Lady Love, 3 yrs
The Hunters' Sweepstakes of 3 soya each, with 20 added. ,
Mr. Theobald's Desperate, aged (Curwen) I
Mr. Pedgrif 2 drt's Slow, aged
Mr. Abel's Martinette, aged ..
The Officers' (7th Hussars) Sweepstakes were won 11
Captain Ilu,he's Letham, beating Sir A. Chichester's Colra
and air William Russell's Pussy.

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wrols; tAC E S.—FRIDAY.
The St. Helen's Purse of to sovs., added to a Sweepstaka
of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft ; the second to save his stakee•
Golborne course.
Mr. A. W. Hill's Sweatrntat, 3 yrs (Calloway) I
Mr. W. R. llainsay's 111 id. Lothian, 3 vrs ry
Mr. Worthington's Lancashire Witch, 3 yrs ............
Sir John Gerard's Pluto, 3 yrs
The following also started but were not placed
Critchlcy's Cceur de Lion, 3 yrs—Mr. Standish's f by Tao'
boy, out of Lapwing, 2 yrs—and Mr. W. H. Hornby's 1014
2 vrs.
hc Scurry Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 20 added by Sir JAIL
Gerard. Winner to be sold for 100 soya. Gentlecaaa

riders. Golborne course.
Mr. W. Jones's the Persian Lady, 4 yrs... (Capt. White
• )
Mr. Dawson's Master Thomas, 6 yrs
Sir J. Gerard's Juvenal, 4 yrs 0
Sir J. Gerard's Brunel, 4 yrs
Mr. W. IL Ilornby's Flamingo, 6 yr.
Sir John Gerard's Cup of 100 sovs., added to a Sweepstake
of 15 sows. each,lo ft ; for three years olds, lOst ; four year*
llst 21b ; five years, Ilst 101 b ; six years and aged, 12st 21b i
winners, extra. ne mile and a half.
Mr. Gollett's Corinna, aged
Mr. Critchley's Cceur de Lion.... Tr.; ................ ).
1
ra
3
Sir John Gerard's Parthian, 5 yrs 4
Mr. Alciklarn's Godfrey, 4 yrs .
Sir John Gerard's Erebus, 4 yr=
Mr. Hobson's Golden Pippin, 6 yrs
The Newton Stakes Handicap of 5 sovs. each, and 30 added ,
the second to receive 10 says. Ileats, once round and a
distance. (6 Subs.)
1
Mr. Buckley's David, 6 yrs (Whitehouse) 0 1 ^
Mr. Barton's Princess Olga, 3 yrs..
Mr. Bennett's Ada, 3 yrs ..
Mr. Green's Xanthus, 4 yrs . lO 0 0
dis
Mr. Chtl'ord's April Noddy, 4 yrs 3 2 dis
BETTING AT MANCHESTER—Farm-v.
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GOODWOOD STAKES.-9 to 1 agst Pythia (t), 12 to 1- -,
The Libel (offered), 15 to 1 agst Boarding-school Miss Of:
16 to 1 agst Miss Elis, 16 to 1 agst Venus, 18 to 1 agst .11417
(t), 20 to 1 agst Lothario, 18 to 1 agst Warp, 25 to 1 sgc3"
Una, 25 to 1 agst Pine Apple (t), 25 to 1 agst Glosy (t)'
15 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's two.
abet
St. Cur.-5 to 1 agst Valerian (t), 10 to 1 albst
St. Lawrence (t), 20 to 1 agst Winesour (t), 20 to 1 $6B
The Cure (t).
ST. LEGER.,-5 to 1 agst Weatherbit (t), 5 to 1 agst Met
Monarch, 9 to 1 agst Mentor (t), 10 to 1 agst Old Englaa ,
11 to 1 agst Annandale, 16 to 1 agst Pantasa (t), 20 Jol.:
agst Pam, 33 to 1 agst Fitz-Allen, and 33 to i agst Coc'
Robin (t).
DERBY.-1,000 to 25 agst the Stockport colt (t), andl,o°°
to 15 agst Twig (t).
It was declared at Newton on Friday that Irontnaster Will
not run for the Goodwood Cup.
ISLE OF WIGHT RACES—SECOND DAY (ThuasDAl).
The Isle of Wight Cup. Heats, two miles. I 1
Queen of the Gipsies
2
Anxiety, 4 yrs, lOst 51b 3 3
Medina, 4 yrs, lOst . 4 0
Buzici, 4 yrs, lOst ......
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Forty-one, 4 yrs, lOst
ddea•
The Selling. Stakes, 3 sovs. each, with 20 sovs• a-
Heats, two miles. 1 I,
Paul Clifford, 5 yrs, list 81b
Adrian, aged, 10st 21b.......... ..................
_..

Fawn, 3 yrs, 7st 51b
The Hurdle Race of 5 sovs. each, with 20 soya. au_,„,"
Heats, mile and a half. To be handicapped. The seuv-
horse to receive his stake back.
1
Ascot, aged 0
-
0 2
Magpie, 6 yrs eat'
Ibis race was an excellent one; the first was a dead 11 tho
both animals leaped the hurdles very clear, particular',"
jumping of Magpie, which excited universal admiration. A •
A Handicap Hurdle Race of 10 sovs. Heats, one mile an
quarter. 1
Medina, 4 yrs

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Irishman, aged
Gobemouche, aged
Nimrod, aged

2 0
3 0
4

Tom-Tit, aged

CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) ea,
Cause and lunatic petitions occupied the Lord Chancellor
whole morning. lad
The Matter of the Rolls and Vice-Chancellor of Eng a a
heard cause petitions and short causes, none of which wet"
any interest.
(Before the Vice-Chancellor WioßAm.) .., 0
THE HAYMARKET THEATRE " USED ur."---ssATos"

Mr. ROMILLY applied yesterdayWEßSTEß exparte, on behalf of
Charles Mathews, for a special injunction, to restrain per.
Webster, the proprietor of the Haymarket Theatre, filyeeti
forming a piece which has now run for upwards of
nights, called Used Up.
Before the Learned Counsel went into the facts of the eaSef,,,
The VICE-CHANCELLOR suggested that notice should 1_1:
given to the other side, who would directly accept short notX"
and the matter might be brought on this morning.
rt
Dlr. Webster's solicitor, who happened to be in Cou
another case, agreed to this, and it was arranged that the IPP
cation should be made to-day.
of Or'
Mr. ROMILLY this morning stated that on the part
Webster, several affidavits had been made, which it wile 11c oy
0,,
nary Mr. Mathews should answer, and he had therefore to
,Iter
quest the Court to allow him to make the application on 1

day next.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR inquired whether the motion 7::
to restrain Mr. Webster from acting the piece at all. or r
stating in the bills that it was the composition of another Pere°
Mr. HILLY replied oth
It wasßO then arrangedb that. the motion should be made Ca
Tuesday at the sitting of the Court.
We understand that Mr. Mathews asserts that be cororil
and arranged the piece fir the stage, while on the other bj,b
Mr. Webster declares that it is only a translation from a Frel3-
author.
His HONOUR. gave judgment in the case of " Wilm°t
Pike," " Kay v. Wall, ' and " Wi,kins v. Nainbv."
The Court then proceeded to hear short causeS, and —l's
petitions.
The Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE did not sit to-

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