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London, England, 1845-09-02 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1845,

The letter of the Rev. W. G. WARD, with its appen-
dix, will be regarded by many as a singular document ;
but those who know the Puseyites will consider nothing
really singular which proceeds from such a source.
They seem to us to confound right and wrong, truth and
error, and not a few of the other moral principles which
have been regarded by the good in all ages as the surest
guides for a virtuous and useful life. They re-
ject private judgment they reject even the
Bible as an instructor, and overleap at one bound
all the strong bulwarks of the Protestant faith, and
denounce the greatest blessing of modern times—
the Reformation—as a great crime. That we may
not be charged with misrepresenting their tenets, we
quote Mr. WARD'S own words. " Those," says he,
" who care to know my reasons for thinking that the
English Church, whether her voice be listened for in her
formularies, or in her practical teaching, is no trust-
worthy guide (and, I may add, for thinking that neither
the Bible nor antiquity, interpreted by private judgment,
are any trustworthy guides either); I must refer to my
large work, and to my Address to Members of Convo.
cation,' where they will find those questions treated at
length. An objection has lately been made to me
in private against what has just been said, as fol-
lows :—lt has been objected that the English Church
does teach with divine authority the creeds; because,
so far as they are concerned, she speaks not as the
English Church, but as conveying to us the faith of
the Catholic Church, such as it was from the begin-
ning.' But let me ask—how do we km that these
creeds contain the faith of the Catholic Church such as
it was from the beginning ? If by our own private re
searches into antiquity, then our rule of faith is not the
English Church, but: antiquity interpreted by private
judgment, which is altogether a different matter." These
are startling assertions, coming from a member of the
English Church, and they become the more alarming
when it is known that a very large proportion of the
men calling ;themselves Protestant clergymen enter-
tain the same Catholic doctrines. Should England ever
have the misfortune to fall under the keeping of such
men in regard to religious matters, she would
speedily lose most of the numerous and inestimable
advantages conferred by the Reformation, she would
resign that spirit of free inquiry which has distinguished
her from most nations for centuries, and revert to a
condition little better than that with which she aas
cursed during the darkest ages of Popery. If man is
not to be guided by the Bible and his own judgment, the
question comes—who or what is to be his guide ? Mr.
mysterious
WARD and his party will el us
influence
the priests, the men
who have by some
reeteiit;(edd
a rni-sion from on high, and who onlyare
to point out and explain the will of the ALmern
In other words, the philosophers of the
day, thy,
e
most celebrated characters in literature,
arts, and
sciences, the brightest divines of the Pro:44ra
Church, and the able expositors of the only true rule of
faith are to give up their judgment, and bow before those
divine personages, who, forsooth, are commissioned
by the highest authority to teach the ways of

' righteousness to erring man. This is the consum-
mation so devoutly prayed for by these renegade
Churchmen. They would assume all power and
all authority to themselves, they would in time become
even a more frightful race of priests than the sangui-
nary and despotic Druids, and sanction every cruelty
and every crime that could possibly exalt them above
their fellow-creatures. Were opinions of this cast put
forth by the Puseyites as simple individuals, and in
the shape of theories to which they wished to attract
public attention, we should regard them as vagaries like
those practised by JOANNA SOUTHCuT, or the founder of
the " unknown tongues;" but when we find these reli-
gionists making use of their sacred functions, wielding
the power given to them by their position in the Church,
and traitorously combining against Protestantism, which
they had sworn to maintain and defend, we can find
no language sufficiently strong to describe such want of
honour, such breach of sacred oaths, and such a total
disregard of those ties which bind together civilised
society. These men remained in the Church solely to
undermine it, and now begin to drop off when the
law and public opinion have affixed a condign
stigma on their Jesuitical plots. The following
sentence from Mr. WARD'S book fully bears out the
charge that his object was to make use of his position in
destroying Protestantism, and in bringing back the dis-
ciples of the Reformation to the doctrines and communion
of Rome :—" The progress from error to truth can-
not be made in one leap : persons cannot, on
the mere word of an external authority, em-
brace at once a whole class of new doctrines, fo-
reign, and at first even repugnant, to their moral
nature. The doctrines, again, to which I allude, are
but accessories to the central verities of the Gospel—not
those verities themselves ; and will follow in due time,
in proportion as those verities are rightly believed, hear-
tily embraced, and fed on by prayer and contemplation.
The English Church then at present, witnessing as it does
those truths in its formularies, but silent, to say the least,
on these accessories, does seem a providential ordinance
adapted to prepare minds by degrees for the doctrine
and communion of Rome." Let us be thankful
therefore that the plot has been discovered (we hope in
time), and that the voice of the country, which has
already done so much, will compel the rest
of the class to follow Mr. WARD, and join
those whose tenets they profess. Mr. WARD
has retired, it is true, but, in doing so, he has
only shown more clearly the dangerous principles by
which he was actuated. He remained in the English
Church, according to his own showing, because, he says,
there is nothing in that Church to hinder any one
from holding all Roman doctrine, and because all
those who being in doubt of her claims, and
resolving on living a stricter life in her com-
munion (meaning thereby Romanism) had found
an ever-increasing confidence in their position. These
circumstances, he adds, have ceased to exist. In short,
he cannot enjoy the emoluments of Protestantism, and,
at the same time, profess Popery, so he makes a virtue of
necessity, and walks out, that he may not be forcibly
expelled.

The report of the Commissioners on Tidal Harbours,
the concluding passages of whic4 we published in our
edition of Monday, will be hailed, we are confident, by
all our readers, as one of the most valuable and im-
portant results of the labours of the last session of Par-
liament. We can imagine no subjects better entitled to
the most careful investigation of a well-composed Com-
mission than the present condition of these harbours ;
the nature and extent of works, in progress or corn.
pleted, for the removal of obstructions, the deepening
of their channels, the security of their entrances, and
their general maintenance.
With regard to the harbours, as well as to so many
other of her natural resources and geographical capa-
cities, it may be said that the progress of this country
in strengthening her position and defences, has hitherto
been, not on account of their development, but in despite
of them. No kingdom ever made such vast and rapid
advances in all power, devoticg at the same time so little,
comparatively speaking, of the same energy and the same
wealth to the consolidation of the advantages which the
outline of her coasts affords to her. It may be that this
neglect is attributable to a generous confidence on the
part of the people and of their rulers in the national
spirit and intrepidity ; in that love of country and that
irrepressible maritime enterprise, which never find
us content to await the attack of an insulting
enemy within our own boundaries, but make us always
eager to be first a-field, by sea or by land, and urging on
offensive operations. This plea may be available, perhaps,
to excuse the neglect of simply defensive positions. But
it cannot satisfy the complaints of humanity. Our utter
deficiency of harbours of refuge throughout the long
period of five hundred years, for which our commerce
has been gradually expanding itself from its incipient
trade in the wool staple to its present enormous dimen-
sions, is a moral and social, as well as a political
anomaly, for which it would be as difficult to as-
sign any valid excuse as it would be to devise any
adequate explanation. The simple ground of expense
on which Sir R. PEEL and Mr. GouLnurue have hereto
fore attempted to justify their disregard of the earnest re-
commendations of the Committee on Harbours of Refuge,
before which the Duke of WELLINGTON himself—as
Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports—had made out, in
his evidence, a case of such urgent and imperative ne-
cessity for the immediate construction of these works at
different points upon our shores— that ground of
" expense" on which it is so convenient fur First Lords
of the Treasury and Chancellors of the Exchequer to fall
back when they are reluctant to comply with the wishes of
Parliament, and which they find it so convenient to
forget or lose sight of when they have some favourite
objects of their own to carry—this ground cannot be
sustained. A country whose annual expenditure is up-
wards of 50,000,0001, per annum, whereof a considerable
proportion is absorbed by civil establishments, paid on
the most extravagant scale, and civil pensions and pen-
sions allotted by the Crown (but paid by the public), for
mere personal services or considerations of personal
favouritism; such a countrycannot be truly said to beun.
able with safety to incur one charge of four or five or even
six millions for the construction of permanent harbours of
refuge for our swarming merchant vessels running down
our dangerous coasts, or the fortifying new posts, or
repairing old works already established, for the better
protection of our trade and our stores, our coast towns,
dockyards, creeks, mouths of rivers, &c. If the Premier
can bring hitt:ltself to persist, year after year, in a period
of peace, to levy the most odious of peace taxes,
though it may be the most justifiable of our imposts ;
if the Chancellor of the Exchequer insist on maintain-
ing this oppressive property-tax, in order that he may
chuckle over. his "surplus revenue " of 3,000,000/. (ex-
isting only in virtue of the 5,000,0001. and more realised
by this single tax), shall we be told that Dungeness and
Seaford can not be made harbours, nor the ports of Hythe
and Rye be routored, nor Harwich improved, nor Dover
deepened, nor less promising positions on the west coast
of England, as-well as on the south and east, be improved
into available " refuges" for our tempest-tossed merchant-
men and our gtallant navy ? With the welfare of both of
these services, t he main interests, the lasting prosperity of
this mighty emj Are are intimately and indissolubly bound
up. How long , then; are exigences of finance (fictitious
exigencies aftet r all, and not necessarily attaching to a
more economise al or better digested system than that
upon which our finances are administered) to be thus per-
mitted to outwts igh the sacred claims with regard to the
security of hum an life, and of the great arm of our na-
tional force, the navy? But we trust that the good sense
of Parliament \; ill vindicate the force of those claims by
an expression t)f opinions so complete, as regards both
this view of the case and the demands of a torecastiug
and intelligent regard to the aspect of our foreign rela-
tions, as shall compel the adoption by Government of the
views it has stailemnly recorded in the report in question.
In connexiot ► with, these and a powerful auxiliary in
giving to them all the effect which they ought to have,
will now be tal .en the report on tidal harbours. The
Conamissione rt I are men well entitled to the confidence
of the Legisl tature and the country by scientific acquire-
ments or pro fissional experience ; as official functiona•

ries, or as pr a vetical men of business, and Members of Par-
liament. R !tar-Admiral BOWLES, M.P., is the Chairman.
The other C ommissioners are Captains GORDON BREMER
and J. WAS. SINGTON, R.N., Mr. BEAUFORT, hydrogra-
pher, isor AIRY, the astronomer royal, Messrs.
JOSEPH Iliz.3lE, M.P., AARON CHAPMAN, M.P., ED-
WARD RICE, TI 1.P., THOMAS BARING, M.P., and RICHARD
GODSON, M. E . They do not adopt any halting, compro-
mising tone in setting out their recommendations ; and
we rejoice t o see that there is no mock delicacy, no
"nolo Epim vpari" fencing with the high and re-
sponsible functions which they have been willing 'to
take upon t emselves. They recommend that " their
Board show Id have summary jurisdiction over the
waters of ;he tidal harbours and navigable rivers
with a reser% 'ation, only, of private rights under charter,
and the continuation of local boards where this Com-
mission may 1 ibink fit. That this Commission have full
powers, by th o assistance of engineers and surveyors, to
ascertain the els.tent of all nuisances and obstructions in
such tidal ha; !i,',ours and rivers, and to summons jurors

of the neigh') ourhood to inquire into and report upon
the same, to be thereupon dealt with by the Commis-

sinners, whey e such nuisance, &c., shall be found to have

exited for a period of . . . . years. That the Board
divide all th coasts of the kingdom into a car-
tam number of sections, each of these being placed
under the sq. riateadeuce of a competent person, who

' shall visit, at least once a year, every port, river, har-
bour, and creek within his district, and report the state
of the same, and the progress of any works carrying on
there; and that the Board may enforce the appointment
of a resident engineer or harbour-master wherever the
port, harbour, &c., may seem of sufficient importance to
call for such appointment. That the accounts of' all trusts
of harbours or navigable rivers be prepared and sent into
this Board, made up to the 31st December previously,
on or before the 31st of March in each year. That all
works, public or private, commenced or proceeded with
without the consent of this Board, that shalt be within
the high-water mark of ordinary spring tides, shall be
stopped by this Board's order, and, if necessary, be
removed at the expense of the parties who have con-
structed them." Other recommendations which follow
regard the provision to be made for securing accurate
registers and reports of the state of the harbour grounds
from time to time, registers of meteorological, tidal, and
barometrical observations, &c. The concluding para-
graph is so directly to the purpose of these observations,
and similar comments which we have on other occasions
submitted on this very important topic to the public,
that we hope to be excused for quoting some part of it in
this place :
" And when they consider the great want of accessible har-
bours along the whole of the coasts of your Majesty's dominions
—more especially when the extended use of steam-navigation
points to such great changes in maritime affairs, whereby
every sheltered creek is likely to become of value—and when
they consider that by the improvement of our tidal harbours
your Majesty's beneficient intentions for the preservation of
the lives and property of a large class of your Majesty's sub-
jects may be fulfilled, they confidently trust that no minor
considerations may be allowed to impede the accomplishment
of objects of such national importance."

These are words of weight and wisdom. Let us hope
they will be not only remembered, but promptly
acted upon by the Government, who ought to feel by
this time that harbours of refuge, the better mainten-
ance of all works connected with the conservancy of
rivers and existing harbours, and the adequate fortifica-
tions of our exposed coasts, are national objects of far
higher interest and importance than struggles for main-
taining the ascendancy of their own party, or for the
propagation of their own political opinions.

Madrid journals of the 25th ult. have been received,
but they contain no intelligence of the slightest interest.
A new list of senators, chiefly selected from members of
the liberal professions and the wealthier classes of
civilians, was to be published in a few days.
On the 25th the Three per Cents. closed at 314 for
cash, and 311 for the 30th of August ; and the Five per
Cents. at 22i at 60 days.

The Paris Moniteur contains dispatches from Otaheite
up to the 28th of April. At that period no fresh act of
disturbance on the part of the natives had taken place
in that settlement, but some of them still continued in
the entrenched camps of Panavia and Papenao. At the
Marquesas Islands a tribe of Nouka-Hiva, discontented
with a fine inflicted on it for having plundered some
flocks, assassinated, on the 28th of January, five sol-
diers of the garrison. A detachment sent against the
tribe pursued and dispersed it. All the other tribes made
common cause with the garrison. The principal assas-
sins were apprehended. Their chief, PAKOKO, was con-
demned to death and executed. The others were trans-
ported. Tranquillity had not been since disturbed. The
sanitary state and situation of the establishments at
Taioahe and Vaitahu were satisfactory. The same official
journal contradicts the report that had appeared in some
of the papers stating that Admiral CECILI.E had taken
possession of Bassilan, one of the Philippine islands.
" The Constitutional," it says, " announced yesterday
that Admiral CECILLE, having occupied the island of
Bassilan, according to instructions received from his
Government, had been disavowed. These assertions are
erroneous. At no time did the Government give orders
to occupy Bassilan, and Admiral CECILLE never took
possession of this island." The other intelligence in the
Paris papers is without interest if we except the accounts
of the harvest from the provinces, which on the whole
are favou-able. The fine weather which has prevailed
for some time had enabled the farmers to secure a great
proportion of the crops in the north of France, which
are said to be abundant and fully equal to those of last
year.

The Royal Family were expected at St. Cloud from
En in the course of the week. Nothing was done in the
French Funds on Sunday.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. 1.
Anglo-Belgian 5% Orleans and Bordeaux 12%
Boulogne and Amiens lll4 OverYssel ... 1/ p
Bordeaux &Med iterran Paris & Lyons (Lafitte) 4IA
Bordeaux and Toulouse 21,E Ditto ( Ganneron's). 2Ni
Do. and Cette 2% Ditto (Calon's).... 25/1
Central of Spain . — Paris and 0r1ean5...... 50%2
Dendre Valley ......
Dutch Rhenish ... ...... 91,6 Paris and Strasburg
Dieppe & Paris Juliet. (Ganneron's)... 3
Dijon and Mulhouse ... 21% Do. (Compte de L'Est) 3%
East Indian
Grt Northern of France Peppin le Halleur 5%
(Laffitte's)
Ditto (Rosamel's)
Great Paris and Lyons 2% Sambre and Meuse .... 8%
Jamaica Junction — Strasbourg and Basle .
Do. North Midland — Tours and Nantes
Louvain and Jemeppe sl,‘ (Mg; enzie's) 3%
Lyons and Avignon.... 3 Do. (Lefebvre's) 2A
Luxembourgh.. 214 Verona and Ancona 3l/2
Namur and Liege 6% West Flanders 4%
Orleans and Vierzon ..

BANKRUPTCY.--(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Commissioner HOLROYD. )
IN RE NENRY WOOD.
This bankrupt, who came up for his last examination, carried
on business as a furrier in Abchureh-lane and Southwark.
It did not appear that there had bean any misappropriation of
property or extravagance on the part of the bankrupt, who had,
however, been mixed up with " patent medicines" and life
preservers to an extent which had touched his pocket severely,
although it had not seriously affected his person.,
The official assignee having expressed himself satisfied with
the accounts rendered, the bankrupt was declared to have
passed his examination.

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
Wimbush, who was brought up at this Court on Satur
day, on a charge of stealing a watch from Messrs. Debenham
placed at
I tahnedbSatro,rbre,
foorfeKAiinrg.-istarredeitn,eC,
wovheennt-garden, was again
Mr. Clarkson opened the case, and called the following wit-
nesses :
L Charles Walker, watch-maker, of 40, Princes-street, Soho,
3sZjewelled in four holes,
identified the watch produced as having been made by him for
, a Mr. Bullock, an artist, of the Strand. It was numbered
and seconds. He
made it about three years ago, but:could not speak exactly to
compensation hasadubpalleaxneees,caepneammeenute,disdial,
the time when he made it, as he had not his books in Court.
A person, named Richardson, called upon him in April, 1844,
and, describing the watch to him, asked his opinion as to the
quality of the watch.
Mr. Clarkson said he must not go into the particulars of a con-
versation at which the prisoner was not present, he would, there-
fore, only ask whether the conversation had reference to the
sale at Messrs. Debenham and Storr's ?
The witness said it had. He gave Mr. Richardson his opi.
nion of the quality of the watch. A few days after he saw Mr.
Richardson again, and heard from him that the watch had
been stolen. That was in April, and in December or January
following a person named Cloughly called upon him and showed
him a watch. He asked him whether he had made it, and he
said he had, and that it had been stolen. He added that he
(Cloughly) must go with him to Messrs. Debenham and Storr,
from whom the watch had been stolen. Cloughly expressed
himself willing to go, and on arriving at Messrs. Debenham's
he said he bad received it from Mr. Wimbush, and gave him
30 guineas for it.
Mr. George Bullock said that he was an artist, and that the
watch produced, or one similar, was made for him by the last
witness. He gave him 30/. for it. He afterwards pledged it
to a pawnbroker in St. Martin's-lane. He did not pawn it
himself, but sent Mrs. Bullock with it. He now produced the
ticket which she received on pledging it.
William Moore, assistant in the shop of Mr. Fleming,
pawnbroker, in St. Martin's-lane, spoke to having received the
watch from Mrs. Bullock, and also to having sent it to Messrs.
Debenham and Storr's, to be sold by auction.
Mr. Richardson, picture-dealer, corroborated part of Mr.
Walker's evidence, and proved that the watch, together with
other articles of great value, were stolen during a sale at
Messrs. Debenham and Storr, in April, 1844, at which the pri-
soner was present.
James Uloughly, of 98, Long-acre, clerk to Messrs. Pearce,
army clothiers, stated that in the month of May last year, or
thereabouts, he bought from the prisoner the watch now pro-
duced. The prisoner owed him money at the time, but wit-
ness, however, gave cash 131. fur this article. He required a
memorandum of the sale and payment, which, 'however, he
did not receive from the prisoner until the April following.
He had that memorandum still in his possession.
The MAGISTRATE interrupted the examination, directing
the witness to go home for the memorandum, and produce it in
court with as little delay as possible.
During his absence, witnesses from the establishment of
Messrs. Machin and Debenham were called to prove the fol-
lowing facts which bad been set forth in Mr. Clarkson's state-
ment;: —A gold casket and some diamonds and doubloons,
stolen at the same time with the watch, were of the
value of about 300/. The prisoner was in the habit of
attending the sales, and those respectable dealers who were
known were admitted behind the counter to examine the more
valuable articles. The prisoner was seen to examine the arti-
cles in question shortly before they were missed. About
twenty or thirty dealers examined the- articles the morning of
the robbery.
Mr. Clouk hly (having returned) produced the memorandum
of receipt of payment for the watch, which he swore to be in
the prisoner's handwriting. He had known the prisoner twenty
years.

In answer to the prisoner's solicitor, the witness said, that
his statement that he bought the watch in May, 1844, de-
pended on the prisoner's memorandum, and not on his own
recollection.

William Stunt, a
clerk in the employment of
the prosecutor, stated, that on the day after the
robbery, he received instructions from his employers to go
round to the several dealers in gold, and to inquire whether
they had purchased bullion of the kind into which the doubloons
and gold casket were likely to be converted. In such
a case, it would be the usual course for the dealer
to give every assistance to lead to the tracing
of the thief. The prisoner was in the counting-house
when witness received those instructions, and followed
witness out, offering to accompany him to the city, if witness
would first come to an eating-honse and dine with him. The
prisoner said it would be useless to go the bullion-dealers, they
could give no information, as they never took names; however,
he would show witness the most likely houses. At dinner
the manner in which the prisoner remarked upon the robbery
excited the suspicions of witness, and he therefore made
an excuse for returning to his employers, to whom be,

communicated those suspicions that the prisoner was concerned
in the robbery. They told him to go at once to the refiners
notwithstanding. He went accordingly into the City, but
being determined not to take the prisoner with him, he left
him at the Bell and Crown, Holborn, where the prisoner
stopped to see his wife off by the coach.
Edmund Collins, a refiner and smelter, Droved to have pur-
chased a bar of gold, weighing 11 ounces, from the prisoner,
on the 20th April, 1844. [The robbery took place on the 17th. ]
An officer of police proved to finding a smelting apparatus
in the prisoner's house. _ _

After some further evidence, the prisoner was fully coma
vnitted for trial.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
(TB IS DAY.)
Mary Foy, a poor woman, who seemed to be in a very
exhausted state, with her child, a weakly boy, between seven
and eight years, of age, were charged by police-constable No.
182, of the C division, with having been apprehended by him
last evening begging in the public streets.
The mother said she was in a state of the greatest destitution,
neither her child nor herself having, for the last two days and
nigh had any food but what was supplied to them this morn-
ing it the police station-house. They were making their way
to Newcastle, in the hope of meeting her husband.
Mr. MALTBY asked if she was known as a common mendi-
cant ?—The constable said she was not. He had reason to
beleve that the account she had given of herself was true.
Fr. MALTBY-If I discharge her, will she leave town this
day, and proceed on her way to Newcastle? The mother—Oh
yes, with pleasure I will:
Mr. MALTBY humanely ordered some silver to be given to the
poor creature from out of the poor-box, to assist her on her
way, for which she expressed herself truly thankful, and left the
court with a greatly lightened heart.

CLERKENWELL.-(THIS DAY.)
Mr. Henton, a merchant's traveller, residing in Basinghall-
street, was charged with being riotous in the public street.
The policeman deposed to the truth of the charge, but the
prisoner gave a very different account of the matter. He was
getting a drunken woman into a cab when the policeman, 66 G,
came up and interfered. Prisoner said he would report him
for misconduct, and was about to take his number when the
policeman arrested him. The policeman did all in his power
to irritate him.

Mr. COMBES remanded the prisoner, that the matter might
be further inquired into.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREA.
A large business was done in Cotton at Liverpool yester-
day, the sales being fully 10,000 bales, of which 4,000 were
on speculation. There was a fair quantity on offer. 500 Surat
sold at 3d. to 31/0. ; 200 Maranham, at 53/4d. ; 150 Pernams, at
61/2d. to 63/4d. ; 400 Egyptian, at 61/Bd. to 9d. ; and the rest
American, at 33/Id. to 614 d.—A large business was done in
Shares, a full prices.
There are no ship arrivals to-day, nor is anything of in-
terest stirring.
The arrangements for the due prosecution of the timber
trade at Liverpool appear to be very defective, if we may
judge by the following communication from the outport, in
which also are contained some interesting particulars rela-
tive to the general state of the market :—Since the 18th
instant, the arrivals have been limited, say only six vessels,
3,470 tons, and the sales, in like manner, limited to a few
cargoes, the attention of all parties being turned to the re-
moval from the quay of the timber which had been heaped
on it in the utmost confusion. The relaxationof the pressure
in the discharging for the last few days, has enabled the quays
to be somewhat relieved, and it is hoped that the dock
Committee will take the present opportunity, in compliance
with the application of the majority of the importers and
timber-merchants, of making such arrangements as will pre-
vent a recurrence of such a state of things as has been expe-
rienced during the last four weeks, and which has caused a
great loss of property, severe loss by fines, and a greater de-
clension in the market than, under other circumstances,
would have taken place. This confusion is attributable
to the following causes, viz. .—The discharging
without being confined to a specified berth or space ; the
working of sufferance from daylight to dark, without also
applying an equal amount of force to remove the timber so
discharged, and the mixing of cargoes with each other, which
renders the identification of timber very difficult, prevents
its being effectually worked at ; and as the present system
obliges the work to be carried on throughout the night (which
is contrary to reason and the usage of any other trade) fraud is
very much facilitated, and at such time many logs
are stolen off the quay. If, however, the request of the im-
porters and timber merchants be acted on, a remedy may be
applied, as far as the present system will admit of ; the im-
porter will be able to identify his property, the buyer will
have the opportunity of seeing it connectedly, and
removing it effectively ; the Custom-house officer will be
facilitated in his duty, and the ship in future will always have
a defined place to be discharging into, without encroaching
on another's berth, and throwing all into confusion. At the
present moment the quays are covered with timber, dis-
charged out of ships which are more than a week at sea,
much of it not yet measured by the Customs.
When the quays are thus regulated, a steadier market and
better prices will be the consequence.
From the great delay the ships have experienced on
the other side, joined to long passagess home, the num-
ber of second voyage ships is much less than usual : and this
market will probably not have the overwhelming import from
Canada that was first anticipated ; in such case better price,
may be expected for the tnll fleet.
The Stock market continues rather dull, and sales are
still made in Consols, so as to check the improvement
which the fine weather might otherwise occasion. The
quotations for present transfer are 983/4 to 98%, and for
Time, 99 to Vs. Exchequer-bills have been 455. to 475.,
being heavy. New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are:102,4
to 1021/ ; and the Three per Cents. 99% to 99%. Bank
Stock is worth 213 to 2131/.
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33 to ; Dutch Four per Cents. realise 99,4.
Shares are extremely buoyant, and, as regards the Scrips,
nearly all better.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock 213% 213
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 993!
3 per Cent. Consols Anns 9Bzi%
New 3 per Cent. Annuties 102,41/L
Long Annuities Expire sth Jan. 1860 lll/, 7-16
Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10, 1859 lll%
Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860.. 11 IA
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. 13/4d. I%d.
1,000/.
5001.
Ditto Small
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent 9014
Danish Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent 9l
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent —
Ditto for the Account
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto for the Account
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,lB4o —
Ditto 3 per Cent
Ditto for the Account.
Dutch 21/2 per Cents
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 9914
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE
O'CLOCK.

RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SNARE.
Aberdeen
Armagh, Coleraine, Portrush 1% 234%... to
Caledonian 5 l2l/2% ... to —.Ditto Extension
Cambridge and Lincoln
Canterbury and Dover I%
06— 24%... to
Chester and Holyhead
Cheltenham and Oxford ...... 2
Cork and Waterford 12...... 2% to
Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir.,
and Leicester 1
Diss, Beccles, and Yarmouth 11/2
l'irect Northern : 2% 314%%% to
Dublin and Belfast Junction 21,4 9 4 to
Eastern Counties
Do. New 41. 16s. 7l/2 p... to —.
Eastern Union
Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O .. ... 91 ...... to
Ely and Bedford l4 514 to 43/4
Gloucester, Aberystwith, and
Central of Wales
GrndUnion(Notting.kLynn) 1% 3% . ... to
Great North of England...... 100 ... . . 2243A to 2233/4
Great Western
Guildford, Fareham, Portms 2% 3%%... to
Leicester and Birmingham... 225.
Leicester and Bedford... . , 228......, 33i1/2 pto
London and Birmingham ...100 .....,224 ...... to
Ditto Extension
London and Blackwall 16%...... 10%%% to
Do. New
London and 8right0n.......... 50
London and Croydon 131. 15s. 9d. ... 27
Do. New
London, Cheltenham, Oxford,
Gloucester, and Hereford... 13(,
London and South Western.. 41% 72 ...... to
London and York... ..... ...... 21/ 714
Londonderry and Enniskillen 21/2 2% to—
Lynn and Ely - to
Lon. k Manch. (Remington's)
Manchester and Leeds 76 ..... 217 to 218
Manchester and Birmingham 40
Ditto Quarters
Manch, Buxton, & Matlock 22s
Midland ~...,100
Ditto New
Midland, Birm., and Derby...100
Newcastle &Darlington junc. 25 ...... 55
Newry and Enniskillen ...... 2% 3%. ..... to
North British
Ditto New 1 .. . 91/ to 9%
North Kent & Direct Dover 23/4 5%4 ... to 474
North Staffordshire
North Wales l4 44 54... to 4%
Norwich and Brandon l4 ....
Ditto, New 1
Oxford and Worcester 2% lll/2%... to 11%
Perth and Inverness
Portsmouth Direct
Preston and Wyro
Rugby. Worcester. and Tring 1
Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Birm. 2%
Shrews. & Trent Val. Union. 225. ... —4%1/8 p to 438
Shrews., Herefrd &N. Wales 2% 54 to
South Midland
South Eastern and Dover ... 33% ...... 48%...
Ditto New, No. 1
Ditto New, N 0.2 7 164 to
Ditto New, No. 3 22...... MI to 8%
Staines and Richmond........ 1
South Wales
Trent Valley ..... ............ .. 2
Trent Val. & Holyhead June. I 1 3%.. ... to 3%
Waterford, Wexford, Wicklw,
and Dublin
Welch Midland
Wrster, Shrews., &Crewe Un. 1% 6% to 51
York and Carlisle 234 7 64... to 6%
York and North Midland ... 50 .•..•• 109
to
Ditto Selbv
Ditto. Extension
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Bordeaux and Toulouse
Bordeaux,Toulouse,andCette 2
Dendre Valley
Dijon and Mulhouse 2 ... 2q..... to
Dutch Rhenish ...... 3 ....,. 9%/2 ... to 9%
East Indian
Great Northern of France
(Laffitte's) ........... 4 71 ... .to 73;
Do. Do. (Itosamers) ..... ..
2
Greatj'aris and Lyons...
Luxembourgh .................. 2
.'aris and Lyons(Laffitte) ... 2
Parisand Lyons(Ganneron's) 2 ... .. 2%% to --