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LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 22, 1844.

By an official letter which has been received at the
Castle and forwarded from thence to the Lord Mayor,
it appears that the new Viceroy will arrive in Dublin
on Friday, the 26th instant. Being well aware, as
he must necessarily be, of the utter failure of the
shilly-Shally system of policy pursued by his prede-
cessor, it is to be hoped that he will see fit to adopt
without delay a totally new system, and exhibit, by
deeds as well as words, a sincere disposition to pro-
mote the welfare of that exciteable and aggrieved
country over which he is placed in authority.
Hitherto, the policy of the. Irish Lord Lieu-
tenants has been,. with one or two rare ex-
ceptions, to rule for the benefit of a party,
not of a people; and to show the vast
mass of the liberal Catholic population that they are
still held in distrust, notwithstanding that the Eman-
cipation Bill professed for its leading object the doing
away with all invidious distinctions between them
and the Protestants. But this policy, founded on the
principle of an unworthy jealousy, can no longer be
pursued with safety. We see how egregiously it has
failed in the instance of Lord DE GREY, who with
the language of impartiality ever on his lip gave
every encouragement to the spirit of partisanship—
the curse of Ireland from time immemorial ; and he
who would endeavour to persevere in this one-sided
system of government, can anticipate none other than

humiliating and disastrous issue to his perverse exer-
tions. Lord HEYTESBURY has now as fair an opportunity
as statesman ever had, of achieving for himself high
renown as a politician, and earning the respect and
gratitude of all classes of Irishmen. It- is not ex-
pected of him that he shall favour the Catholics to
the injury of the Protestants, but simply that he shall
administer equal justice to both parties, and show that
there are no longer divided councils at the Castle by
whose malign influence every useful remedial measure
is sure either to be strangled at its birth, or else to be
so frittered away and clogged with'mischievous ex-
ceptions as to be rendered nearly, if not quite, ineffi-
cient for any practical purpose. Till now—if we
except the administration of Lords NORMANDY and
FORTESCUE, so fruitful of good results—the Lord
Lieutenant and the Chief Secretary have usually
been opposed to each other in their views, the one
aaing as a sort of drag-chain on the other, to curb
his movements, and paralyse his measures, should
they chance at any time to sin on the side of liberality.
Thus was it throughout the whole course of Earl de
GREY'S administration. The Chief Secretary, Lord
ELIOT, being considered somewhat too liberal for
such an official, the Viceroy deemed it his duty to coun-
teract his views, or if not absolutely counteract them, at
any rate to throw a variety of insidious obstacles in the
way of their accomplishment. If Lord ELIOT pulled
one way, Lord DE GREY immediately made a point
of pulling another, and the consequence was that
little or nothing of vital importance to the interests-
of Ireland was done, and people began to wonder—
not taking into consideration the difficulties and
delicacies of his position—how it was that a man
who professed such liberal opinions as the Chief
Secretary had always done, and who had openly
boasted of them not a month before his entrance upon
office at the Castle, should have accomplished so little
that was in accordance with his professions. T.,ord
ELIOT suffered much in public estimation from this
apparent lethargy and indifference on his part ; but
the fault was not so much his, as the fault of a pur-
blind, vicious system of which he was made the scape-
goat. Henceforth, however, if our anticipation of
Lord HEYTESBURY'S course of policy prove to be
correct, Lord ELIOT will have a finer opportunity
than he has yet had, of carrying his liberal views
into practice. He will not be teazed and thwarted,
and obstructed at every step of his progress, and be
worried into moving in one direction, when he feels
that he ought to move in another ; nor will he be
taunted with being two liberal, when he feels that,
if anything, he his hardly liberal enough, for it is
hardly possible to suppose that so experienced and
thoroughly practical a statesman as Lord HEYTES-
BURY, who has seen so much of life in all its forms
and varieties, and who has passed so many ears
in the public service, during which he cannot fail to
have noted the steady, uninterrupted progress of libe-.
ral opinions both at home and abroad—it is hardly
possible, we say, to imagine that such a statesman can
seriously dream for an instant of persevering in the
Irish policy of his predecessor, more especially when,
from first to last, it has proved so egregious a failure.
Hence we may expect to find the Viceroy and his
Secretary acting in a spirit of mutual harmony, in-
stead of doing their best to hamper and embarass each
other.

The debate on Mr.. M. GIBSON'S motion of Friday
night, on the subject. of incendiarism in Suffolk,
Norfolk, Essex and Cambridge, afforded another ex
ample of the narrow and contracted spirit which
directs the votes of the House of Commons, under the
leadership of Sir R. PEEL. That House will not
legislate, it seems, on grounds so unparliamentary as
the admitted existence of a fearful system of criminal
outrage, tending to the destruction of property and lite
—widely spread—and in active operation over a vast
extent of agricultural district. This is not case enough
for putting in motion those precautionary processes of
inquiry and prevention, which must have resulted
from the appointment by her MAJESTY of a "' Com-
mission to inquire into the condition of the agri-
cultural labourers in those counties, and to ascertain
the nature of the grievances under which they
labour." The motion for this Commission—founded
on an allegation " that there is reason to believe
that the incendiarism which has prevailed for
some time in Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and
Cambridgeshire, is caused by deep discontent
among the labouring population of those enun-
ties"—that motion was lost by a majority
of 89 (there being for it, Ayes 41, Noes 130.) At
the amount of the majority we are not so much sur-
prised, for it is about the average maximum of the
Government's numerical superiority on divisions;
but at the paucity of the supporters which such a
motion could array against the compacter and larger
phalanx of its opponents, we are at once astonished
and ashamed. Liberal Members of all shades of
political opinions were bound to have assembled, in
order to affirm a proposition based on the clearest
principles of humanity and common sense,—in
greater force than an aggregate handful of 41.
The contemplation of their weakness seems to
have emboldened Sir JAMES GRAHAM to. indulge
,in his favourite propensity of reading lectures
to all who venture to doubt of the wisdom, the effi-
ciency, the benevolence, the paternal character of the
home administration of her MAJESTY'S Government.
Poor Sir JAMES, who has passed this session through
so many phases of Ministerial declension, is becoming.
somewhat maudlin in his_ captiousness. Before ?tie
Post-office exposures he was simply disagreeable. His
obstinacy was constitutional (physically speaking, we
mean). His crafty and insidious way of stealing a
march upon the House whenever it was practicable
to do so, in advancing some unpopular measure a
stage or two, was only the natural development of
his characteristic tendencies. He is a born stra-
tegist ; and, like the " Nature" which was the
presiding Divinity over the worship of "Capability.
Baowsr,"—that planner of parks and wildernesses,
he " abhors a straight line." His contrasted affecta-
tion and arrogance
,of manner, half lisp and half
rudeness, was deplored only by his friends; it was
a source of amusement to his enemies. But
ever since the night on which he was reduced
to the hard necessity of imploring a Committee ,
—a Secret Committee—of Inquiry into his
own conduct, the bearing of the GR2EME
Of • Netherby has become strangely altered.
He is querulous, deprecatory, didactic. He
relies for his escape out of perplexing ques-
tions or unwelcome reminiscences, arising out of
the current debate, on appeals of the most grave but
delicate nature, to the prudential consideration of the
old Members ; or he throws himself in his blandest
and most dexterous manner on the "generous cour-
tesy" of the young ones. He is eager to persuade
each of the one hundred and ninety and nine antago-
nists of his scheme for the amendment .of the New
Poor-law that he has "prepared a clause " to em-
body the views or remove the objections that form
the ground of the intended opposition. And he talks
so complacently of the implicit deference which he
pays in all things to "his high sense of public duty,"
that one is compelled to suppose he has at last wrought
himself into a delusive conviction of that apo-
cryphal fact.

Let us see what were the cirumstances under which
Mr. GIBSON'S motion was brought forward ; and
what was the alarm-cry so successfully raised by Sir
JANES GRAHAM and his colleagues as to lead to its
rejection.

Mr. Ginsox relied, very mainly, on this strong
avowal by Sir HENRY BANBURY, a gentleman of
eminent distinction in Suffolk, where his family have
long been settled—" I must avow my conviction that
these incendiary crimes are symptoms of a smoulder-
ing and dangerous discontent"—and in the language
of a letter addressed by the Hon. and Rev. GODOL-
PHIN OSBORNE to the Duke of RICHMOND, Mr. GlB-
sox said—

" The writer stated, that a deputation of landowners
and tenant-farmers had recently waited upon his Grace
to apprise hin of the dangers by which they were threat-
ened ; but that there was not at that meeting a repre-
sentative of the agricultural labourers. The Rev. writer
then proceeded to say, that if the Noble Duke and those
in a similar position bestowed upon the condition of the
labourer • half the attention they had given to the land-
lord and the tenant question, or to the improvement of
their cattle, he believed they would arrive at the same
conclusion with himself—that there was no one creature
belonging to the farmers—there was not an animal they
reared for use or for sale—that had been the subject of
so much neglect as the agricnitural labourer.—(Hear,
hear.) ' The Rev. Gentleman requested the Noble Duke
and his fellow-landowners to compare the way in which
the labourer was housed, fed, and clothed, with the
treatment bestowed upon their animals, and then to
answer to the public and to themselves why the condi-
tion of those unfortunate persons had been overlooked."
In arguing upon the impossibility of not referring

the atrocities of incendiarism to some such causes as
these, Mr. GrasoN showed that they could not be re-
ferred to the detestation with which so large a portion
of the labouring community regard the New Poor-
law; for similar crimes had prevailed (to a yet
greater extent even) under the Old Poor-law. When
it was considered how large a share of the labours of
legislation were devoted to moral and religious pro-
vision, as the House was told, for the rural and
agricultural population—what stress was laid, always,
on the necessity for keeping up a system, on their
Recount and behalf, of the most extensive pastoral
superintendence and church accommodation—it was
difficult to disbelieve that they could be actuated in
the commission of these incendiary enormities by any
feeling short of a sense of personal wrong, and
neglect, and injury, at the hands of their employers.
It was not to be credited, under such
circumstances, that any increase of the number of
churches, any additious to the body of the clergy, in
these districts ; or any legislative enactments artifi-
cially to raise the price of bread, would put down this
unhappy feeling, or prevent these infamous outrages,
if something more were not done to relieve the physical
distresses of the poor. For these, and other reasons,
the Hon. Member prayed the House to affirm his
motion.

Sir JAMES GRAHAM could not imagine, he said,
what could be the motive of Mr. GIBSON for bring-
ing forward such a subject. " Why had he thought it
his duty-to-state that the interests and comforts of
the poorer classes were neglected by that House ?
He begged to remind the House that there was such a
thing as fanning a smouldering flame."
The Right Hon. Baronet next schooled Mr. GIBSON
for playing truant from the school of St. Stephens's by
a short parenthetical trip into the country :
" The Hon. Gentleman, wishing to seek enjoyment,
had been absent while the other Members of the House
had been discharging their duty as legislators, en-
deavouring with the most earnest attention to devise
some means by which the misfortunes of their poorer
fellow-subjects might be ameliorated. But what was
the meaning of the comparison the Hon. Gentleman had
instituted betsveen the poor of this country and the abori-
gines—Hottentots. Caffres, and Esquimaux ? (A laugh.)
What was the meaning of the Hon. Gentleman's obser-
vations as to the selfishness and cold-hearted disposition
of the landlords ?"

But the vial of the Home Secretary's wrath was
poured out on the head of the Hon. and Rev. Mr.
OSBORNE. Mr. Gissom observed he was a most excel-
lent man,—a distinguished clergyman.
" Sir J. Graham—A rev. clergyman ! He entertained
the highest respect for the clergy of this country ; but,
even among the most humane members of that hod},
there were some indiscreet individuals. Nay, there was
such a thing as it'popularity-hunting parson, just as there
were agitating Members of Parliament.—(A laugh.)"
_ _ _

Now, in this evasive, timid, hushing policy of which
Sir JAMES is so admirable an expositor, lies the fatal
vice of the present Government's legislation on great
social questions. The night and the day are equally
frighted by hideous spectacles of ruin in blazinghome-
steds and desolated farm-houses. Grain, cattle, furniture,
personal property of all kinds, live stock (and not sel-
dom human life)► perish with awful frequency in these
devouring visitations, by the abominable crimes of the
cowardly incendiary. Yet Sir J. GRAHAM and others
would have us remain quiet; not as we verily believe,
because of a perceptible decrease in the number of
calamities, but because he would not willingly find
Commissioners of Inquiry reporting to Parliament,
that want and misery—low wages and dear bread—
were at the bottom of their sufferings by whose ven-
geance it is surmised that these horrors are perpe-
trated; or that cheap bread (which it is the duty
of the Legislature to give them) and higher wages
(from the necessity for giving which neither master
manufacturers nor master farmers, nor farmers' land-
lords, should be allowed to excuse themselves on the
plea of bread being cheap) would touch the very root
of the evil; and establish the hopefill reign of peace
and plenty, in place of the baneful dominion of famine
and despair!

More State murders, for we can give no other
name to the executions ordered by NARVAEZ, have
been committed in the east of Spain. It appears
that three Carlists and two smugglers were arrested
in the month of June, at Caspe, a town in Arragon,
and their trial before the Criminal Court of the dis-
trict was fixed for the Bth inst. The trial had com-
menced, the evidence for the prosecution was closed,
and the Counsel for the defendants were allowed till
the 12th to prepare the defence. But superior orders
put an end to the trial. An officer, commanding
a detachment of twenty infantry and nine ca-
valry, arrived. from Alcaniz, at Caspe, on the
evening of the Bth. Next day the three unhappy
Carlists were removed from their dungeons and en-
joined to confess, and at 12 o'clock they were shot.
The judge opposed, by every legal means, so flagrant
an injustice, but what can the tribunals do in presence
of bayonets ? One of the three sufferers, Pajares,
died without confession, and Christian burial was
denied to his remains. The El Clamor Publico makes
the following striking remarks on this atrocious act of
injustice and cruelty :
" It would be vain to seek among the most barbarous na-
tions and at the periods of the most cruel tyranny so atrocious
and scandalous a fact. Savage hordes themselves respect
the forms and sanctity of justice. But the men at present in
power are not content, with assuming the attributes of
the judiciary power, by means of the military dictators of the
state of siege, who send men to the scaffold without even the
semblance of a trial ; they seek their victims among the inmates
of the prisons and withdraw them by military force from the legi.
timate power of the tribunals, from the protection of the laws
and the safeguard of justice. It is incredible that such a system
should find advocates. Those are not political questions in-
volving the forms or guarantees of the representative Govern-
ment; they are social questions--questions of honour and
humanity. The nation abhors such iniquitous proceedings,
the entire opprobrium of which must fall on the ruling party,
and on the men who represent in the Cabinet its doctrines
and principles."

- -
The Heraldo, a Government paper, thus attempts
to excuse these deeds of horror :
"The province of Almeria has just been proclaimed in a
state of siege. This measure is caused by occurrences in
various places, and the machinations of rioters, which, on the
7th, were followed by demonstrations on the part of the lowest
classes •of the people, and seditious cries. There is no doubt
as to the revolutionary party being already preparing for
another pronunciamento. Besides the attempted riots at
Almires, Sarigossa, and Murcia, the troops have been insulted
at Grenada. At Cadiz an attempt has been made to tamper
with them, and, at Madrid, depots of arms and ammunition
are daily detected. Foreign prints, which are considered to
be well informed, also affirm that the day of a general rising
is not distant, and that even Espartero thinks of trying his
fortunes again."

The Verdad, a Barcelona paper, dated the 15th
instant, contains the following :

" Yesterday, two English ships of war, the Formidable, of
84 guns, and L'Aigle, of 24, anchored off Barcelona. It appears
that they are proceeding to Tangiers, where all the maritime
nations will soon have a squadron. It is Vice-Admiral Sir E.
Owen who commands these ships."

On the Madrid Bourse the Three per Cents. were
quoted on the 13th at 27 for cash, 271 at 60 days, and
the Fives at 201 for 60 days.

The Paris papers received to-day add little to the
intelligence from France published on Saturday.
The business in both Chambers was rapidly drawing
to a close. More than two hundred passports of Deg
puties had been signed by the President, and most of
them were to leave on Sunday for the country. On
Saturday M. GARNIER PAGES brought forward a
motion to empower the Government to raise a hien
by public subscription on the Three per Cent. Stock,
as bad been done lately in Belgium. The Finance
Minister, though he did not directly oppose the mea-
sure, stated the disadvantages which it would impose
upon the Government, and at the same time admitted
that in some respects it was preferable to raising a
loan by contract. The motion was carried by a large
majority, but still it is understood that the Minister
of Finance may raise the loan either by contract in
the usual way, or by public subscription. He was
expected to make a statement on the subject in the
course of the day. Most of the papers make strong
comments on Lord PALMERSTON'S speech relative to
the slave trade. The following are the remarks in
the Journal des Debots _ _

• " We are bound to declare that Lord Palmerston's speech
has singularly disappointed us. It appears that it was not
very successful at home, for the English journals do not take
the least notice of it. It is the usage in England at the end.
of the session for one of the leading Opposition Members to
review the labours of the political year, called business of the
Session. Formerly, Lord Lyndhurst took up this task, and
acquitted himself of it with wonderful success. But Lord
Lyndhurst is now Chancellor, and takes his repose. Indeed,
he is generally thought to repose himself too much, and to
abandon himself to somnolency on the woolsack. During
the last three years, Lord Palmerston has gathered the in-
heritance of Lord Lyndhurst, and has regularly before the
end of the session come forward, and delivered a well com-
posed, academical oration, full of mind and spirit, as every-
thing is which Lord Palmerston does when he feels it worth
his while to take the necessary pains. That spirit we expected
to find on this occasion—but we have sought for it in vain.
During the whole of the business of this session, so fertile in
checks to the Tory Ministry, Lord Palmerston made choice—
why or wherefore we cannot tell—of a question which is cer-
tainly not without importance, but with which the people on
both sides of the Channel begin to be wearied—that of the
right of search. The late Whig Minister nnved,for some
papers relating to the treaty for the suppression Of the
trade,
and availed himself of this fo revive discussions which

ware happily dormant for the moment, and which all his
cold declamation was not able to rouse. Four or five months
ago Lord Palmerston pompously announced his intention to
move an address to the Queen, praying her Majesty not to
ratify any change that might be proposed to be made in the
existing treaties as to the right of search. The Chamber
showed the high interest it took in the Noble Lord's motion
by leaving its benches empty on the day it was to be made,
and his Lordship was silent from want of hearers. Lord Pal-
merston thus driven to suspend his motion, gave notice that
he should bring it forward at a future day. This he has now
done, but unfortunately the subject was what is ♦ulgarly
called rechauffe--a stale dish hashed up again. Sir Robert
Peel, feeling himself at ease in meeting an attack so feeble,
afforded the House considerable amusement at the expense of
the ci-devant Whig Minister. The evident coldness of the
House must have satisfied Lord Palmerston that, in endea-
vouring to awaken jealous feelings between England and
France, he made a useless appeal to passions which are
rapidly being absorbed and extinguished. The Minister of
1840 seemed indeed to feel that he was pleading a bad cause,
for he, in the conclusion, made the amende honourable by pro-
testing that no one could more highly than he did appreciate
the advantages of a union between the two greatest consti-
tutional kingdoms of Europe. But if Lord Palmerston
speaks sincerely, if he really conceives the benefit which a
good harmony between the two nations must produce to the
cause of humanity and civilisation, how happens it that he
misses no opportunity for sowing the seeds of jealousy and
animosity between them? On this occasion Lord Palmer-
ston has proved himself, as he almost always has done, a man
of ability without judgment."

The National alludes to the speech in its usual
manner, attacking the English Government and M.
GuizoT at the same time :
" It will be seen by the debate that the expression of pub-
lic opinion in France is treated very lightly by our neigh-
bours. The solemn will of the Chamber of Deputies, as ex-
pressed in two addresses, and in several unanimous votes, is
nothing to them. The English statesmen always hope to
arrive at the constant object of their efforts, always the
same, be the Ministers Whigs or Tories. They think.that a
moment will come in which we shall get tired of desiring to
protect our navy and trading vessels against the pretended
police imposed by England. And how, in fact, should they
not have this hope, when they behold our Chamber vote
black and white with a marvellous facility, as has just oc-
curred in so grave an affair as that of the railroads? When
they see that M. Guizot, the defender of the right of search,
the advocate of the English prerogatives, has become sta-
tionary on his Ministerial bench, in spite of the so-often ma-
nifested reprobation of public opinion and of the French Par-
liament."

THE BOURSE-SATURDAY, JULY 20.

First Highest Lowest

Last

Prue. Price. Price. Price.
/tench Five perC3nta— •• 122 10 .. 122 IS 122 05 •• 122 10
Four-and-a-Half 113 .. 113 .. 113 113
Four per Cents. • 106 75 .. 106 75 .. 106 75 .• 106 75
Three per Cents.— 82 10 •• 82 20 .. 82 10 .. 82 10
Bank of France.• .• • • • •• .• • 3080 ..3100 ••3080 ..3095
Laffitte Bank, I,ooof. Shareslo2o ..1020 ..1020 ..1020
5,000 f. Sharesso67 50 ..5067 50 ..5067 50 ..5067 50
Belgian Bank ........ •••••• 665 .. 665 .. 665 .. 665
Belgian Fives, 1840 ..... • • 1051 . • lon .. 1054 • . 1054
1842 .••••• •• 1081 .. 1081 •• 1081 1081
Dutch Two-and-a-Half... 61/ .. 611 .. 611 . 611
Spanish Threes •••• 33 .. 331 .. 33 .. 33/
Active •• • • 304 .. 301 .. 301 .. 301
Portuguese Five per Cents•. 441 .. 441 .. 441 .. 441
NeaPolilan• •• • • •• • • • 98 95 .. 99 .. 98 95 .. 99
Roman • • • . 104 .. 104 .. 104 •• 104
RAILWAY SHARES.
Versailles, R. 8....... 335 • 385 .• 385 .. 385
L.B 245 .. 246 25 .• 243 75 •• 246 25
R°uen •••••• • • • • • • 985 .. 985 •• 985 •• 985
Rouen to Havre •• 765 -. 765 .. 763 75 .. 763 75
Orleans •.....•......- 992 50 .. 982 50 .. 981 25 981 25
Strasburg to Bale
Avignon to Marseilles 767 50 .. 767 50 • 767 50 .. 767 50
RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, 31sT OF JULY.
V~rsailles,R.B.• 382 50 •• 387 50 .. 382 50 .. 387 50
L.B 243 75 .. 246 25 .. 242 50 •• 246 25
Rouen
Rouen to Havre"... .....
Orleans ........,.. .. . . 982 50 .. 985 .. 981 25 .. 983 75
Strasburg to Bale • ..... • • • • 240 240 .. 240 .. 240

THIS DAYS NEWS.

MONE AND C,aMMEEtCIAL f ENST
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE

A favourable change took place on Saturday in the Liver-
pool Cotton Market, a large business having been done at
firmer rates ; sales 10,000 bales, of which speculators took
4,000, and exporters I,ooo.—There was no change to notice
in the Share Market. Birmingham and Gloucester, 100;
Eastern Counties, 12k ; Grand Junction, 214 k ; Great West-
ern, Half, 81 ; Lancaster and Preston, 39 ; Birmingham,
Thirds, 37k ; Brighton, 474 ; Midland Counties, 99k , South
Eastern, 37* ; Ditto New, 11k ; Paris and Lyons, 2/. 16s. 6d.
It has often happened, and will doubtless frequently occur
again, that to obtain accurate estimates of pending events,
we must look for information from abroad. But in the in-
stance to which we now have to draw attention, the reverse,
it may safely be assumed, is not the fact. It was not to be
expected that the West India monopolists would concur
in the law for: admitting the produce of free-grown foreign
sugars at a reduced duty. The toscin of alarm, ht first sounded
but slightly on this side of the ocean, has been echoed back
with redoubled strength from the West India colonies.
Nothing but total destruction to the planters is held to be
inevitable. Take as a sample of the feelings of the colonists
a resolution passed at a meeting held at Falmouth, Ja-
maica, last month, upon this subject. It is as
follows :—" That such a proposition (i. e., the Government
increase, if carried into effect by the Imperial Legislature,
will expose this colony to a ruinous competition with foreign
producers, and will afford unjustifiable facilities to the sur-
reptitious and indirect introduction into the home markets of
slave-grown produce, inflicting a lasting and irretrievable in-
jury upon every class of persons connected with or resident
in this colony, it being utterly impracticable for the agricul-
turists to withdraw from the cultivation of the present staples,
and to apply their capital, machinery, or stock, to any other
remunerating stock."
It will be for the authorities at home to place'all due checks
to prevent the admission of slave produce in contravention of
the provisions of the Act of the Imperial Legislature permit-
! ting sugars, the produce of free-labour, to be entered for home
consumption at the reduced duty.
There were late, and we are pleased to say, favourable
accounts from New South Wales this morning. The dates
are to the 6th April, brought by the General Hewitt.
Trade had improved, and crime had decreased.
Of the 5,000 emigrants to be sent out by the
Home Government, 1,500 had reached the colony, and
all had found employment. So far, therefore, the intentions
of the Government, have been successful. Those acquainted
with agricultural pursuits were most in demand. It was es-
timated that the flocks of sheep in the colony were at least
five millions in number.

In the Stock Market this morning there has been some
alteration to-day. The current value of Consols for Money
and the Account has been from 99i to 99i, being
an improvement of * per cent. The Government brokers
bought 20,0001. Reduced Three per Cents. at 1081, the
highest value that has been paid for this Stock for very many
years. All the other Funds were firm. The Reduced Three-
and-a-Half per Cents. are in full demand at 1031 ; India
Stock for the Account at 286 ; Bank Stock at 1991 to 200 ;
and the New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. at 2* per cent.
above par.
The Foreign Market is not quite so buoyant. Spanish
Consols have receded to 22i, and Three per Cents. are at
33i i ; Portuguese. Converted are flat at 441. The other
Continental and South American Bonds bear about Satur-
day's values.
The Railway Shares are advancing. The Birmingham and
Gloucester have reached 11 premium ; the Bristol and Glou-
cester 16i premium ; the Great Western 59i premium • the
Fifths 12 premium ; and the Manchester and Leeds 36* pre-
mium. In Banking Shares there has not been any variation.
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
' Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent 1043(
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto New Bonds, 1829 and 1839
Columbian Bonder 1374 ....... ....... ...
Mexican Bonds, 1837, s.per.Cent. -
Ditto for the Account 56%
Ditto Deferred Stock., 1634
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. —
Ditto Converted • ••• 45 4434
Ditto for the Account 453{
Spanish Bonds. Five per Cent 1840....... ......
Ditto for the Account. 2334 22%
Ditto Passive Bonds. .• ......... .... ........
Ditto Three per Cent ........„ ....... ...
Ditto for the Account
33304
Dutch 234 per Cents.
ORA%
Dutch 5 pet Cent 5.................. .......
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PRA SMARR.
Birmingham and Gloucester IOO
Bristol and Gloucester 3O .... ..... 4634
1 Chester and H01yhead............... 5 ..... .... 5%34 „, to
Dublin and Cashel.
Eastern Counties ....... ....... ...-.. 23 . .... .... 12%%
Ditto New Registered 81. 6s. Bd. ...... 14%% ... to
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O ......... 64 ... ...... to
Great Western .... .......
Ditto 34 Shares
Ditto Fifths l2 ..... ".. 23%: to 24
Hull and Selby
Ditto 34 Sharer 9 ......... 12
Lancaster and Carlisle
London and Brighton 5O . ........ 48% ...... to 48
London and Greenwich (Preference) 18%
London and South Western
London and Croydon
Manchester and Leeds
Ditto 34 Shares 3O . 45 to
Midland Counties
Newcutle and DarlingtonJunct 21 ...
Northern and Eastern
South F. ;darn and DOT. •....... gg •••••• 3i
Ditto New ........ . ... .. ............. 4
York and North Midland
Ditto 34 Shares.." ........,...:-.. 125 • 5334 to
Ditto Scarboro' Branch
Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux 1 .... 234% .. to ...
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 20.—We have no
material alteration to note in the market to-day. Prices re-
main firm. Huddersfield 'and Manchester, 17s. 6d. prem. ;
Blackburn and Preston, 34 ; Eastern Counties Perpetual,
No. I, .325. 1011prem. ; Ditto, No. '2, 20s. 4d. prem.; Man-
chester, Bury, and Rossendale, 3 13-16ths.
- CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH 'FUNDS.
Bank Stock 19934 Indian 5t0ck...............-
3 per Cent. Red ~,,,,.»., 10034 Dittn Bonds 97 pm.
3 per Cent. -Cons • 99 Ditto Old Annuities ...
336 per Cent. Red lO3 Ditto New Annuities ...
Nevr 334 per Cent. ......
New 5 per Cent. Ditto 5001
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small .............
Jan IWO ' • 1234 Bank Stock for Acct —
Oct. 1859 l2 5-16 Consols for Act. 99%
Jan. 1860 llndia Stock for Acct.... 286

FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per Cent ......... Portuguese, 5 per Cent —
Belgian, 5 per Cent.. ...... .... 104% Ditto, New Ditto —
Brazilian Bonds B4 Prussian,s per Cent —
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... (Russian, 5 per Cent 119%
Chiller'', 6 per Cent — Ditto, Metallic .: .......... ......
Colombian, 6 per Cent
33%
Ditto, 1824 ,Thtto, 3 per Cent
Cuba Bonds,6 per Cent — !Ditto, Deferred —
Danish, 3 per Cent —i French, 5 per Cent —s. —c.
Greek, 18,5, 5 per Cent...... ;Exchange —l. —c.
Mexican, 5 per Cent ' — IFrench, 3 per Cent.......—f. —c
Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837 — IDutch, 2% per Cent...... 61%
Peruvian, 1825; 6 per Cent.— , Ditto, S per Cent .........1013(
SHARES
Birmingham and Derby, ZlOO paid 7l
• Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) lO3
Caledonian, 5 paid
Dublin and Cashel, 2% paid
Eastern Counties (23 paid) ; . 12%
Ditto Registered (816 s 841 paid)
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent., 13s 4d. paid,Ne. 1 1%
Great Western (75 paid)
Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid B3
Ditto Fifths, 12 paid
London and Birmingham (Stock)
London and Blackwell (161. 13s. 4d.)
London and Greenwich (Pa. Vs. 4d. paid)
London and South Western (411. 6s. 10d. paid)
Ditto Eighths (Iss. paid)
London and Croydon (Trunk) • 181,E
Manchester and Birmingham
Midland Counties (100 paid) 99
Northern and Ea,terrp (45 paid)
Ditto Scrip (15 paid) 24%
Ditto Quarter Shares (12% paid)
Norwich and Brandon, 4 paid
South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d pain) .....
Ditto New Shares, ,•. paid -
Yarmouth and Norwich (13 paid)
Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, 1 paid ,... 144
B

ERLIN, JuLir 17.-L--Irifellig• been rea-efired
here from Kissiogen; that his Serene Highress Prince Albert,
who has gonethere for the benefit of the waters, has been
suddenly taken ill, and some apprehensions were felt that
the disorder would prove to be an inflammatory fever.

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