The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-31 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1844.

In the Lord 3 the Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Dis-
sentients Bill was passed.

The Ecclesiastical Courts Bill and the Metropolitan
Buildings Bill went through Committee. The Law
Courts (Ireland) Bill also went through Committee,
with very brief remarks. Important measures now
go through the House at railroad speed.
The LORD CHANCELLOR moved th© report of the.
Committee on the Bill for repealing certain Acts
imposing penalties on Roman Catholics.
The Bishop of LONDON (we use his own words)
"did not wish it to be supposed that he was opposed to
the repeal of those penal laws, which pressed not prac-
tically but in theory Only upon the Roman Catholics.'
The pious Prelate opposed the measure most strenu-
ously, because the Bishops had not been consulted,
and he then, not openly, but in the style of the Je-
suits, by inuendos, denounced Sir R. PEEL, for giv-
ing his support to the Catholic Emancipation Bill.
The first time, he said, when the bulwarks of the
Protestant Church were broken was when that Bill
was passed. What a selfish, persecuting, and wealthy
crew Sir R. PEEL has to keep in order ! These in-
tolerant, uncalled-for remarks of this upstart Pre.
late, the son of a schoolmaster, will let the per-
secuted Catholics of Ireland know what mercy they
are to expect from the Bench of Bishops;
and, above all, from the Bishop of LONDON, who,
if we are to judge from his addresses to the Lon-
don clergy, is as good a Catholic as Father M'l-lALE,
the Bishop of Tuam. Towards the conclusion of the
discussion, Dr. BLOMFIELD said he felt justified in
the course he had taken by the countenance and ap.
probation of such of his Right Reverend and Most
Reverend Brethren, who had attended to support him.
So he was made the mouthpiece of the bench, and
not one Liberal Prelate, not one sincere friend of
Protestantism, was present to denounce this atrocious
attack on seven millions of our fellow-sub..
jects. Lord BROUGHAM, to his honour, op-
posed this selfish—this suicidal mania. " One
of these penal laws," he said, " which the
Bill would repeal, one of these safeguards of the
Established Church, imposed a penalty of 200 marks
upon every one who attended mass ; yet mass was
said in every part of London every week, every day,
perhaps ; and Catholic churches, some of them of great

architectural beauty, were erected in all parts, at the
expense of the pious in that persuasion. Would any
one attempt to enforce that cruel and absurd statute ?"
The Bishop of LONDON would- if he had the power.
The Earl of WICKLOW, a good Protestant, and: an
upright man, supported the Bill, and only regretted
that it was not more comprehensive. Every one but
the mouthpiece of the Episcopal Bench supported
the measure. The report was received, and the Bill
ordered to be committed on Thursday. The Bench
of Bishops was nearly upset during the conitho-
tion caused by the Reform Bill, and we believe
all the friends of their country, and a vast proportion
even of the House of Lords, would be glad to see the
lawn sleeves consigned to the fate of Gatton and
Old Sarum. These inspectors
_of the Church say
that they have great duties to perform ; they have
to watch over their flocks and the pastors of their
flocks. But somehow or other they neglect 1?Oth
flocks and pastors for seven months in the year ;
give dinners and parties in London, and are remark-
able only for obstructing liberal measures of every
description which come before them. Lord Lyrin-
HURST and Sir R. PEEL see through their manceultes,
and will bear with them no longer.

enable us, at present, to judge, we may answer
under the express authority (though covertly given to
Mr. D oNN) of Governor PORTER, for the loan of
some of the arms from the State arsenal, and for the
drafting of some of the men for the protection of the
edifice which was said to be menaced. 'We will not
follow the conflicting speculations of the American
journalists as to the greater or less degree of neces-
sity which existed for these defensive precautions.
The consequences which ensued upon them were
dreadful. For the particulars of the popular move-
ment excited by the discovery that such precautions
had been taken—of the proceedings adopted by the
municipal authorities for repressing the furious tumult
thereby created—and of the sanguinary collision
which occurred after the seizure of the arms
and the evacuation of the chapel by the " Hiberno-
Greens," between the State volunteers and
the Philadelphia populace, we must refer the
reader to the narrative we have already given.
But we may state in general terms, that the "Native
Americans" were exasperated, in the first place, by
the evasive surrender, on the part of the Irish
Ronianists, of twelve stands of arms. When the
native party detected this duplicity, on finding up-
wards of seventy additional stands, they obeyed their
fatal propensity to take the law into their own
bands. For upwards of three days they besieged, or
fought, or fired upon the other party. The other
party retaliated with great energy and resolution.
When the majesty of the law had at last vindi-
cated itself, after that feeble and tardy man-
ner which seems its inevitable characteristic
in the United States, from thirteen to
seventeen persons were found to be killed, and more
than fifty wounded, and of these some mortally. Old
men and young boys are among the victims. It
cannot be denied that the imprudent zealotry of such
publications as the New York Freeman's Journal had
done much to exasperate—or, at least, to afford rea-
sonable grounds of apprehension to—the " Native
Americans." For that journal, on the occasion of
the disturbances, had significantly intimated " that
the Romanists, if thwarted, wanted neither the dis-
position nor the power to burn the city and massacre
the inhabitants." To this imprudence—if we should
-not call it " atrocity"—the fatal discovery of the re-
served stands of arms was calculated to impart an im-
portance, and a meaning, which the mind of the
opposite party would not be slow to receive. Al-
though tranquillity, at the date of the last advices,
was restored, numerous arrests continued to be made
in the, city (which swarmed with United States'
troops), and explanatory appeals from both parties.
This is one exhibition of that demoralising weak-
ness of the American Executive which, if it be not
in the mean time replaced by more vigorous institu-
tions, such as shall give efficiency to law, and force
to authority, must, at no distant period—say in an-
other half century—overwhelm in its own decay and
toppling ruin the entire fabric of the Federal Go-
vernment of the United States. But here is yet
another.

The House adjourned at Eight o'clock.
The Commons met at twelve yesterday, when
several Bills were read a third time and passed.
On the House re-assembling at Five, Sir JAMES
GRAHAM asked Lord INGMAR to postpone his motion
relative to Captain WAnran's invention, owing to The
absence of Sir R. PEEL. The motion was postponed
till this day at five o'clock.
A brief discussion took place on the depressed state
of the coopers' trade owing to the late tariff, bUt it
led to no result.

On the motion of the Earl of LINCOLN, leave was
given to bring in a Bill to form a terrace between
Westminster and Blackfriars-bridges. The Bill was
not to be pressed this session.
Mr. MACKINNON called the attention of the Go-
vernment to the report of the Committee on the
Health of Towns in 1842, and asked whether, in the
course of next session, they intended to introduce any
measure on the subject ? Sir JAMES GRAHAM did
not give any explicit answer.
Mr. PETER BORTUWICK made a motion about DOD
CARLOS, and was supported by two Members and
opposed by thirty-one. The House was shortly after-
wards counted out, only thirty-seven Members being
present, and adjourned till Twelve o'clock this day.

The second reading of the Metropolitan Buildings
Regulation Bill was moved in the House of Lords on
Monday by the Duke of BuceLmucu. In explanation of
the character of this measure, his Grace observed that
it provided for the proper width of streets, alleys, and
courts ; for the secure building of houses, for the con-
struction of drains for every house, for ventilation,
the height of rooms, and the spaces between the rear
of houses. Moreover, it provided means for prevent-
ing the erection of dwellings in the metropolis unfit
for human habitation, and required that all sur-
veyors should pass an examination as to their
qualifications for the office. The principle of
this Bill is undoubtedly good, awl some such
scheme has long been wanted—and every succeeding
year has increased the want—for the improvement of
our crowded and overgrown metropolis. At least one
half the diseases that occur among the lower classes
in London and its suburbs, may be directly traced to
defective drainage, and an inefficient supply of air.
Innumerable are the courts and alleys, and even
streets, to which free ventilation is an utter stranger,
and in which mephitic vapours and unwholesome
smells are of constant occurrence owing to the into-
lerable state of the drains, to which the inhabitants
by long habit have become indifferent, and which no
one seems to have thought it worth his while to en-
deavour to remedy, on the principle, we suppose, that
what is everybody's business is nobody's business. In
a medical report presented some few years since to
Parliament, the accounts given of the numerous deaths
originating in the two causes we have just alluded to,
were really appalling ; and sure we are that the
evil has not diminished since then, but on the contrary
has annually increased, just in proportion to the in-
creaae of metropolitan population. A little sedulous
attention might long since have removed the sources
of these frightful periodical visitations, but in mat-
ters of this kind Government is proverbially slow to
come one of piessi-ng nee essity.'lllbWWW-Beltftgr htle
than never, and we are glad to find that the question
of drainage and of a free ventilation of air has at
length attracted the notice of the Legis-
lature. The secure building of houses is also
a subject to which they have most justly turned
their attention, for who is not aware of the scanda-
lously inefficient and insecure manner in which build-
ings are run up now-a-days ? The timber used is
often wholly unfit for any useful purpose, harbouring
nests of vermin, shrinking, after it has been laid
down but a few months, and leaving large gaps and
apertures so as to cause a constant succession of tho-
rough-draughts, which however acceptable they may
be in the hot summer months, are apt to be somewhat
inconvenient when the atmosphere is impregnated
with the fogs of November, or the keen, searching
east-winds of March are blowing; the walls in many
instances—indeed we almost say in the majority—
are but of the thickness of a single brick ; and it not
unfrequently happens that the whole crazy concern
either stands in need of general repair, or comes
down with a crash, before the landlord has called for
his second year's rent. Yet, however inefficient for
the purposes of comfort and convenience these
buildings may be, they are invariably showy
and attractive to the eye ; hence they are
no sooner completed than they are let, and
are no sooner let than they are vacated, the
unhappy tenant finding, in addition to the incom-
parable facilities which they afford him for catching
cold by the huge:yawnings in the doors and windows,
arising from the shrinking of the timber—that they
smoke like a brewery, and are by no means immacu-
late in the matter of drainage. The reason of all
this is, that the houses are frequently run up by
greedy speculative adventurers, ignorant of the first
principles of architecture, and utterly regardless of
every consideration, except that, of getting an imme-
diate return for their outlay of capital. It is high
time that this system should be checked, if not put a
stop to ; and if new buildings are necessary, that
such buildings should be erected under the superin-
tendence of competent architects, so that they may
be rendered available for the purposes of human
habitation.

Coincidently, almost, with the popular excesses we
have just described as having occurred in Philadel-
phia, a popular murder of the most brutal and san-
guinary character, has been perpetrated, in defiance of
the law, within the precincts of its own stronghold,
and in violation of the solemn pledge of the highest
constituted authorities of the State. A wretched en-
thusiast or impostor, proclaiming himself a prophet,
and announcing, with many absurd, and many more
blasphemous pretensions, a divine mission from Hea-
ven, bad recently founded a credulous sect, who call
themselves " Mormonites." The people :of Illinois,
not content with the legitimate arms of
discouragement (examination, argument, and ridicule),
have long anathematised their heresy as a subject fit,
not for trial, but for vengeance and punishment,
from whatever quarter administered—lay, secular, or
ecclesiastical. Though little eminent themselves,
we apprehend, for real common-place moral qualities,
or fair dealing and neighbourly good faith in their
social habits, these Illinois purists, with an odium
theologicum against the Mormonite leaders more in-
verate, though somewhat more reasonable, than that
of CALVIN against SERVETUS, waged a pitiless and
unremitting warfare of annoyance against the pro-
phet (the poor man's " once familiar name" was no
more romantic or prelatical than " JOE &Arra"), his
theii• down their hovels; destroyed
their crops, and hunted the wretched " Mormonites"
from one district and one State to another, until, worn
out by their buffetings, and persecutions, and priva-
tions, these two sylvan pontiffs —" JOE SMITH"
and his brother, with two or three followers,
surrendered themselves to the authorities, on condition
of receiving, until and during trial, the protection of
the State. Governor FORD pledged his undertaking
for the observance of these terms, and they were con-
ducted to the prison of Carthage. On the following
night an armed mob, with their faces blackened,
broke into the prison, rushed into the cell where
these fugitives were secured, and deliberately shot
them to death, the miserable leader being pierced by
no less than 30 balls !

Before the people of the United States abandon
themselves to any further indulgence of their beset-
ting passion for interposing in the domestic feuds of
foreign independent States, whether at Mexico, or in
Texas, or in Canada, they would really do well first
to uphold and vindicate the power of law, and the
dignity of Government, at home, instead of assigning
the absence of the one, or the want of the other, as a
plea for their intermeddling with both abroad.

By the Britannia, which arrived at Liverpool or.
Monday morning, accounts were received from
Philadelphia to the sth instant of the extraordinary
outrages which had attended the renewal of the
" Hiberno-American" riots in that city. Our
readers will, no doubt, remember the mournful de-
scription which, about the month of May last, it
became our duty to publish of the sanguinary tumult
that had, just previously, disgraced the same locality,
in consequence of the hostile feelings that had
long subsisted between one section of the
citizens, called the " Native Americans," and
another composed of Irish Romanists, settled
or established there under the protection of the
Government of Philadelphia ; but not much iden-
tified, it should seem, with the regard and the respect
of a people, to live among whom so many of these
emigrants had voluntarily quitted their native land.
In the former instance, however, the resulting casu-
alties were by no means so serious in number or ex-
tent as to the sacrifice of human life, as those which
were destined to distinguish the sth instant, though
far greater with respect to the destruction of
public offices and private property.
Under an alarm, real or assumed, but natural
enough after the events of last May, and kept up by
anonymous intimations to that effect, received by the
priests, the Irish Romanist party assumed that
there was an intention to recommence the work
of destroying their chapels, &c. Among other
preparations which they had made for such an event,
It was soon discovered that they had collected more
than eighty stands of fire-arms, which, together with
a very large quantity of amunition and military stores
(such as gunpowder, bullets, bayonets, &c ), they had
placed in a magazine. This depository they formed
in one of their own churches, very secretly, as it
would appear ; but (which is the most extraordinary
part of the story) they had also organised a military
corps, and placed at its head a brother of the officiat-
ing priest of the chapel. Under what sanction
or authority, it will naturally be asked, had
this extreme step been not only attempted
but accomplished ? So far as the accounts

Madrid journals of the 22d inst. have been received
but with the exception of raising the state of seige at
Saragossa, they bring no intelligence of the slightest
interest.

The Three per Cents. were done at 26 5-16 for
cash, and 26 at 60 days, and the Five per Cents.
at 20 at 50 days, with premium.

The anniversary files in celebration of the " Three
Days of July," commenced at Paris on Saturday.
Low masses were performed in all the churches, and
' a special service took place in the church of St. Paul,
which is nearest to the Bastile monument. The
Prefect of the Seine, M. DE RAMBUTEAU, General
JACQUEMINOT, Commandant of the National Guards,
and all the officers of his staff, were present at that
service. At noon the posts were doubled, says the
Courrier Francais, and entrusted to the command of
staff officers. In the barracks of the Municipal
Guard the men were ready to mount their horses, or
to rush to arms. The rounds of the superior officers
were unceasing, the Prefecture de Police was crowded
with Municipal Guards and policemen. At Neuilly,
the garrison of the Palace was tripled as early as
nine in the morning. Neither the Journal des Debuts
nor the Constitutionnel mentions these circumstance,
and probably the precautions taken by the Govern-
ment against any outbreak are much exaggerated,
as the Opposition journals attempt to show that all
these ceremonies are sanctioned by the Government
rather from fear, than from a wish to celebrate the
Revolution of July. Alluding to the attend-
ance of the Prefect and the Commandant
of the National Guards at the church of
St. Paul, the National says :—" These gentlemen
are the only public functionaries that have taken part
in the mournful commemoration. The other autho-
rities and the folks belonging to the Court have had
the good sense to abstain from any sort of demonstra-
tion. One at last gets tired of hypocrisy, and they
who have gradually destroyed the Revolution of July
have felt that it would ill become them to scatter
flowers over the tombs of those whose devotedness
they have rendered fruitless. The day will no doubt
come when the Revolution will rise again out of its
ashes. The brightest homage that the dead of July
can desire, will then be the revival of the principles
for which their heroic blood was shed. Until that
day, a low mass said in the absence of those who have
deserted the principles of the 'Revolution is what is
most becoming. The victims of the restoration de-
mand no more."

The journals publish accounts from Gibraltar and
Cadiz. A letter in one of them, dated Cadiz, July
18, thus announces the sudden departure of the
squadron under the Prince DE JOLNYILLE :

" Yesterday a French steamer arrived in our roads, when
Rear-Admiral the Prince de Joinville's squadron, which had
been here since the 15th, immediately sailed, and with so
much precipitation that several officers were left ashore who
had been permitted to visit the environs. A steamer has
remained in port, probably to await their return. The
squadron has sailed eastward, and it is probably proceeding
to the coast of Africa. It is said that this sudden departure
has taken place in consequence of the news brought by the
aforesaid steamer of the arrival at Tangiers of an English
squadron from Malta. Some persons add that certain un-
pleasimt discussious have arisen ut the port of Tangiers be-

TAR SflN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, 3ULY 31, 1844.

tween a French and an English ship ; but this news needs
confirmation."

On Saturday the Chamber of Peers passed the
Paris and Strasburg Bill, the last of the important
Bills of the session. The Journal des Debats gives
the following summary of the numerous railway Bills
passed by the two Chambers.

" Until the commencement, of the present session, France
had only a few completed railways. These were the Rouen,
the Orleans, and the Alsace lines; the lines from Lyons to
St. Etienne, from Alais to Beaucaire, and from Andrezieux
to Roanne, and some small lines, such as those from Mont-
pelier to Cette, from St. Etienne to the Loire, from Paris to
Versailles and to St. Germain's, from Mulhouse to Thann,
&c. Besides these, the following lines were in course of
construction :—From Rouen to Havre, from Orleans to Tours,
from Avignon to Marseilles, from Paris to Lille and Valen-
ciennes, from Dijon to Chalons, from Strasburg to Ilommar-
ting, from Orleans to Vierzon, and from Montpelier to
Nismes, being in all 900 kilometres (a kilometre is equal to
1,094 English yards). The total extent, of railways termi-
nated, and in course of construction at that time was about
2,000 kilometres. To this number the Acts passed during
the present session add 147 kilometres from Lille to Calais
and Dunkirk, 124 from Amiens to Boulogne (for which, with-
out doubt, a company will offer on the terms proposed by the
Chamber), 437 from Paris to Hommarting, besides 87 for the
branches to Metz and Rheims; 450 kilometres from Paris
to Dijon, and from Chalons to Lyons, with 102
kilometres from Montereau to Troyes ; 358 kilometres
from Tours to Bordeaux ; 192 from Tours to Nantes ; 60
from Vierzen to Chateauroux ; 87 from Vierzen to the
Allier; and 74 from Versailles to Chartres. This makes a
total of 2,118 kilometres, to which is to be added the trunk
railways upon which the works have been going on since
the beginning of last January, at the expense of the State,
or with its concurrence in conformity with the law of 1842,
which raises the whole extent to 2,828 kilometres, and with
the Rouen and Havre line, to 2,918 kilometres. Next year
it is certain that to this extent will be added the line from
the Mediterranean to the Rhine (205 kilometres) and that
from Lyons to Avignon (249 kilometres) being together
454 kilometres. The rest of the lines comprised in the Act
of 1842 will be afterwards proceeded with, namely, from
Nevers to Clermont, from Chateauroux to Limoges, from
Chartres to Rennes, from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean,
and from Bordeaux to Bayonne ; being, in all, 1,320 kilo-
metres. The works are either about to commence, or have
already commenced, on 2,821 kilometres, which, at an
average expense of 300,000 francs per kilometre, will
amount to an outlay of 850,000,000 f., of which about
500,000,000 f. is at the expense of the State. With the pro-
bable votes of next year, the general expense of the rail-
roads will be 1,540,000,000 f. (61,000,000/. sterling), and in
seven years the whole system will be completed."

NEWS FROM PORTUGAL.

SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 30.—The Peninsular and
Oriental Company's steamer Montrose, Captain
Samuel Lewis, arrived this morning at ten o'clock,
from the Peninsula, bringing all the mails.
Her dates of departure are as follow :—Prom
Gibraltar, July 21st; Cadiz, 22d ; Lisbon, 24th ;
Oporto, 26th; Vigo, 26th.
Specie on board, 8 packages ; 29 chests and 229
half-chests of lemons, and a few cases of sundries.
Sixteen passengers.

LISBON, JULY 24.

The persecution of the Opposition press, which for
some time had began to relax, has now been renewed
vigorously. The Rev°lam° has again been suspended,
and the editor of the Patriota has been clapped into
prison without either judge or jury.
I regret to say that on Sunday last the Duke of
Palmella broke a blood-vessel on his lungs, and still
continues in a very dangerous state, though not given
over as yet by his medical attendants.

The French frigate Adour arrived here yesterday
from Cadiz. She is one of the vessels belonging to
the Prince de Joinville's squadron, which she left at
Cadiz.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs has addressed an
official communication to his colleague of the Finance
Department, stating that he will be able to effect a
reduction of about thirteen contos in his branch of
the expenditure.

A most decided case of Asiatic cholera took place
some days ago on board a Prussian vessel in this port.
The patient, however, is in a fair way of recovery.
The Royal Tar arrived yesterday, at four r.m., from
Southampton, with the mails, on her way to Cadiz
and Gibraltar.

Mr. J. A. Tozer, the British subject, still continues
in prison, without any form of trial.—Herald.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, JULY 30.—Light westerly breeze and cloudy.
DEAL, JULY 29.—Wind A.M. N.W. by W. P.M N.N.W.—
Arrd. Walter Scott, Nassau. Shl. Monarch, Calcutta ; Jane
Francis, Hobart Town ; Lennox, Cape of Good Hope ; Duke
of Roxburgh, ditto, and Madras ; Stephen, St. Andrews ;
Robert, St. John's ; Lord J. Russell, Quebec, and all the
outward bound.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.
The Stock Market did not improve this afternoon,
Consols closing at 99k to or Ito per cent. lower
than on this day week. The New Three-and-a-Half
per Cents. were 104 to 1 ; and the Reduced, 103 to
Bank Stock was 200. Exchequer Bills realised 775.
premium..
Spanish Five "per Cents. closed at 22; ; Mexican at
36 ; French Five per Cents, at 121; and Russian at 120.
Dutch Four per Cents. were 96; to 964.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have
been these :—Birmingham and Gloucester were 9 ; Dub-
lin and Cashel, 2-1 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 15; Great
Western, 62k ; Ditto, Fifths, 121 ; Birmingham, 131 ;
South-Western, 46f ; Midland, 31 ; Northern and.
Eastern, 14i ; Norwich and Brandon, 91 ; South-
Eastern, 54 ; Ditto, New, 8; ; Yarmouth and Norwich,
12 to 1 ; Paris and Orleans, 181; and Paris and Rouen,
18; premium. Eastern Counties were 10k, and Brigh-
ton to 1 discount. Australasia Bank Shares were 10
to 9 yremium.

PORTSMOUTH, JULY 29. —Wind N.—Arrd. Joseph Hume,
Ichaboe. Sld. Royal George, Port Philip ; Sir John Falstaff,
Quebec.

Tliis afternoon the exchange on Hamburgh was about
the same as last post•day, as also on Trieste, while
Antwerp was not quite so good ; and Amsterdam, Puris,
and Frankfort rather advanced.
The foll Owing is the official return of the exports of
bullion from the port of London for the week ending
Thursday last :
Silver coin to Rotterdam
Petersburgh 45,462 „
~ bars to Hamburgh

(From The Sun of Last Night.)
A moderate business was done in Cotton at Liverpool yes-
terday, at about previous rates. Sales 3,500 bales, all to the
trade. Eastern Counties and French Railway Shares met a
poor demand, but the market was good for other Shares.
Bristol and Gloucester, 108 ; Chester and Holyhead, 51 ;
Eastern Counties, 124 ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 111 ;
Grand Junction, 221 ; Ditto, Half, 1104; Great Western,
Half, 831 ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 41 ; Liverpool and Man-
chester, 226 ; Ditto, New, 33 prem. ; London and Birming-
ham, 228; Manchester and Leeds, Quarters, 104; Midland
Counties, 1024 ; North Union, 1304 ; Sheffield and Man-
chester, 841; South-Eastern, 381; South-Eastern, New, 124 ;
Paris and Lyons, 21 ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 21. Is.
There have been some additional letters and papers deli-
vered this morning from Canada and the United States. 'We
are glad to find that the prospects of the agriculturists in our
British North American colonies are favourable, as the fol-
lowing extract from a Quebec journal states :—" The
grain crops are, however, still short, but they have
assumed a deeper green. It is time they should be freed
from weeds. Spring wheat, which, in the earliest seasons, was
sometimes in ear on the 29th June, will not be in ear for a week
or a fortnight after that date. Some fall wheat grown last
year on the Ohio, was sown in this vicinity on the 12th
October last. It =is uow in ear and luxuriant. Some field
rye, which happened to be among the wheat, was in ear a
fortnight ago, and is now full six feet in height. Some fields
of barley are in ear, and field peas in blossom. Some of the
wheat fly have been seen. It is their lavte or worm depo-
sited in the ears of grain that has caused the ruin of the
crops, for ten or twelve years past, and been more fatal to the
country than the cholera, and greedy ambitious and trading )
poraiioes are iv...14f0r earthing 4, a the'lastniBel44.lv
have partially missed in some fields. The hay has improved.
The forests are now. in their greatest luxury, but the last of
the flowering trees and shrubs have parted with their greatest
beauty till another season. It has again rained heavily all
this forenoon, but it will do no injury to the crops."
A large quantity of timber had arrived at Montreal and
Quebec by the freshets. In its shipment to Great Britain
a great degree of activity was observable. The commercial
letters from the United States differ but little from the ac-
counts before received. In short, there is scarcely an item
in them beyond what appeared in yesterday's Sun, as ob-
tained by e-tpress from Liverpool.
The Funds have dropped a trifle this morning, the Ota-
heite affair continuing to be a subject of conversation, though
we do not think of alarm. The Commissioners bought 10,000/.
Reduced Three per Cents. at 1004. Consols for money are
firm at 991. For the Account the price was dropped to 994.
Exchequer Bills, are a shade lower, the premium being 775.
only. Bank Stock is now at 200, and the Reduced Three-
and-a-Half per Cents. at 103/.
It appears from an additional correspondence, made pub-
lic yesterday afternoon, that has taken place between the
Committee of the South American Bondholders and the
financial agents of the Mexican Government, that as yet the
latter have not received remittances enough to pay the divi-
dend, but that when they have sufficient, the liquidation will
be advertised. After so many good amounts have come
over from Mexico, the Bondholders did expect that
there were ample means in hand to effect the object they of
course so much wish. Mexican Bonds have fallen from 364
to 354. Spanish Three per Cents, are heavy at 334 ; the
Actives at 221 1 ; the Belgian Bonds at 1034 ; the Portuguese
Converted at 434 ; and the Dutch Five per Cents., at 1011.
Brazilian Bonds have been quoted at 844.
The Share Market has not been firm this morning. Se-
veral of the Railway Shares have receded a shade. London
and Westminster Bank Shares are at 74 premium.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 29.—There is still
a good demand for most description of stock, and a fair
business has, been transacted. The quotations are :
Barnsley Junction, 2 11-16 ; Bristol and Gloucester, 50;
Eastern Counties, Perpetual, No. 2, 205.; Huddersfield and
Manchester, 225. 6d. and 245. premium ; Lancaster and Pres-
ton, New, 14 ; Preston and Wyre, Guaranteed, 241; Scot-
tish Central, 41s. ; South-Eastern, 384 ; Ditto, New, 124 ;
Trent Valley, 94.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS,
Bask Stock 2CO I Indian 5t0ck............
3 per Cent. Red .. . ..... 100% Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent. Cons. ..... 99% Ditto Old Annuities
9% per Cent. Red 103% Ditto New Annuities ...
New 3% per Cent ..... l 023( Ex. Bills, 1,0004 77 pm
New 5 per Cent. — Ditto Rot. pm.
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small . 77 pin.
Jan 12 9..16 Bank Stock for Acct
Oct. 1859 — ,Consols for Act...„..... 99%
Jan. ..... - 'lndia Stock for Acct... --

SALCOMBE, Jinx 28.—Ski. Edward, Newport and Ichaboe.
PLYMOUTIf, JULY 29.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. Ava,
Symons, Quebec. Sid. Justitia, Ichaboe.
lIELFRID, JULY 28.—Arrd. Harvest Home, Miramichi.
LIVERPOOL, JULY 29.—Wind N.N.W., fresh.—Arrd. Hes-
perus, Kelly, China ; Louisa, Singapore ; Alan Kerr, Grey,
Bombay ; Sophia, Moore, Callao •, Fanny Dawson, Bonny,
left Fernando Po June 1; Cheshire Witch, Laura, Para;
Entra, Weeks, Trinidad; Carveston, Honduras; Pharsalia
and Soldan, New Orleans; England, Boothby, Apalachiola ;
Warsaw, Charleston ; Axford, Rathbone, New York ; Samuel,
St. John's, New Brunswick; Jamaica, Martin, Promise,
M•Kenne, and Robert Syus, Montreal. Sld. 28th, Windsor
Castle, New Orleans. Otf. Milton, Lady Milton, and John.
YARMOUTII ROADS,, JULY 29.—Arrd. Hudson, Bayfield
Ichaboe.

MUMBLES, JULY 26.—Arrd. Chieftain, Waterstone, St.
Jago de Cuba.
OFF BRIGHTON, JULY 29.—Alfred, Tullock, Batavia.
The Aurelian, of Portsmouth, was off Quebec 13th inst.,
putting back to that port waterlogged, having been ashore
on Cape Balanco. The Magnet, bound to Liverpool, was on
the Bar of Tobasco, Bth ult.
The wreck of a vessel of 600 tons, bottom up, with deep
cut ports and white streak, and sheathed with Mentz patent
metal, was passed sth April, lat. 40 N., lon. 14 W.
CARUSBAY, JULY 25.—The Naiad, of Sunderland, for
Quebec. got ashore on the Island of Stromay, during a fog
this morning, but was assisted off, and is proceeding to
Stromness, with assistance.
MOVEMENTS OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS
PRINCE DE JOINVILLE.

A letter received at Lloyd's from their agent at Gib-
raltar, states that his Royal Highness appeared off Tan-
gier with his squadron on the 18th instant, but returned
immediately to Cadiz on finding that the English ships,
Caledonia and Albion, had withdrawn from the port of
Tangier.