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Laining juilkments or orders in respect of debts not ex-
ceeding 20L each, may summon such debtor before a
Commissioner of Bankrupts or Court of Requests."
Clauses A, B, C, provide how the order of such Court
shall be executed; that the imprisonment of the debtor
may cease on payment of the debt, and that certain
Courts shall have the like power on original suits. By
subsequent clauses it is enacted that where several
Courts exist in the same town the business is not to be
transferred from one to the other; that application to
the Commissioner of Bankrupts or Court of Requests
need not be made by counsel or attorney; that affidavits
in bankruptcy or insolvency may be made and sworn
before keepers of prisons. Under clauses D, E, and F,
the jurisdiction of such Courts may be altered ;
judges of inferior Courts may be removed
for misconduct or incapacity ; that in the
absence of any sufficient number of Com-
missioners to hold a Court, according to the con
stitution of such Court before the passing of this Act. a
single Commissioner being present shall be competent
to proceed and in all respects to hear and determine
causes as judge, &c., or a deputy may be appointed ;
execution of process in Westminster and Southwark is
duly secured; power given to judge of Court to frame a
table of fees, but fees under existing Acts are not
hereby affected; poundage to be demanded from suitors
upon sums claimed; lists of unclaimed moneys of suitors
to he made out, and all such moneys paid into court and
unclaimed for six years to go into the court fund; power
reserved to remove suits exceeding 101. into superior
courts, and power given to execute warrants and levy
executions out of the jurisdiction of such courts. This
Act to apply only to England.
Such is the marginal outline, extracted from the
Bill itself, of the anomalous and excessive powers crested
under it. If the House of Commons could possibly be
induced to stultify their past proceedings on the law of
debt (from those touching the abolition of arrest or
el:wane process down to the act abolishing arrest for debt
under 201., exclusive of costs, under certain limitations);
it would, by affirming the present Bill, create the most
unheard-of powers in petty courts, which have
hitherto exercised the limited jurisdiction they.
already possess, by no means to the satis-
faction of the public, and with general indecorum,
and frequently in violation of all law and equity (we
mean " Courts of Requests") ; but it would sire a P.,-
liampnt.ry sanction to such enormities as general war-
rants to be is,ued under the authority of tribunals, for
which it is impossible not to anticipate the least possible
degree of respect or confidence on the part of the public ;
we speak of those which the Bill proposes to reinforce or
to create. Now, with regard to the parties against whom
this Bill is directed :—" Any person indebted to any other
in any suns not exceeding 204 besides costs of suit by
virtue of judgment obtained, or of any order for the pay-
ment thereof, or of any costs in any court." It is obvi-
ous that now-a-days, when judgments can be so easily
"snapped up," as it is called, the scope of this measure
might just as reasonably have been extended to all simple
contract debtors as to debtors under judgments. And
this being so, we are struck with the folly of pulling
down the Fleet Debtors' Prison, which has been actually
accomplished, and the similar project or contemplation
of removing the debtors' wing of Horsemonger Gaol.
Pass this Bill and you must build a new debtor's prison,
in at least one hundred different districts of England ;
for to " England " only, by the last line and proviso of
the Bill, is the precious girt of its enactments to be ex-
clusively appropriated. "Happy land ! Happy land !
But that other principle of limitation which directs the
enactments before us, against debtors under judgments
not exceeding 201. each, without costs, supplies the most
striking illustration of its cruelty. Why should the
Lords levy war on this class of small debts, in so in-
vidious and special a manner ? The presumption surely
is, that where a debtor, in a sum not exceeding 201.,
allows proceeding to go till a judgment is sued out
against him, he really cannot pay his creditor, for other-
wise he would never subject himself to the accumulated
costs incurred by the creditor's going on to judgment.
The debtor may be able, in a little time, to scrape to-
gether the 201., but the same causes which have made
him leave that amount undischarged, will, in nine cases
out of ten, leave it utterly out of his power to defray the
charge of the proceedings on which the judgment is
granted. But this Bill is, from beginning to end, an
Attorney's Bill. It is prepared under a total in-
difference to all considerations of humanity, or
even of the common motives of human con-
duct. It is to create new sources of litigation, to
multiply fees, to multiply Courts, to multiply office
patronage, by strengthening the hands of judgment cre-
ditors. It seems to be devised with a view to neutralise
opposition by the origination of such new powers
and places as we allude to. By clause 1 the debtor
shall be " interrogated before such Commissioner or
Court by the creditor summoning him, touching the
manner and time of his contracting his debt, the means
or prospect of payment he then had, the property or
means of payment he still path or may have," &c, If
this proviso be not duly modified and guarded, the
debtor is to be subjected to the vexatious and intolerable
browbeating of any irritable creditor, to an extent not
permitted to counsel on the examination of a criminal
arraigned for felony. Is such a process calculated to
refresh the debtor's memory—to prompt his candour ?
or to put him upon exercising his ingenuity and decep.
tion, to withhold all the information he can from a party
who proceeds by such means to extort it from him ?
It will be evidence of much the same value as that
given by a culprit under torture. The examination by
counsel or by Court, on the application and under the
suggestion of creditors, would not be liable to these grave
objections. But if the debtor "appears to have the
means of paying the debt by instalments, and
shall not pay the same at such times as the
commissioner or court shall have ordered," he shall " be
committed for any term not exceeding forty days to the
common gaol," &c. This is law that attaches to the

suspicion of dishonesty a penalty far more severe than
follows on conviction for very heinous crime:. For a
debt of forty-one shillings, without costs, the " Learned
Gentlemen" who play at judges in courts of request in
the borough of Southwark, in the cities and liberties of
London and Westminster, or under this Bill are to be
empowered to do so in any other locality "limited to
England," are to have the power of condemning any of
the QUEEN'S subjects brought under their petty juris-
diction to "frig days' imprisonment," if only they shall
" appear" to have the means of paying down the debt
and fail therein. The mere question of construction—
the power to judge of the intention—is one with which
a judge of the superior courts would not trust himself.
He would leave it to a jury to determine that which
this Attorney's Bill unhesitatingly ascribes to a commis-
sioner of requests an intuitive faculty of discerning.
Clause 10 creates a " power to execute warrants, and
levy executions out of jurisdiction :" that is, an officer
charged with a warrant of execution against the goods
or chattels of a defendant who shall be out of the juris-
diction of the court granting that warrant, may call on
a justice of the peace in another jurisdiction, where the
.facer declares upon oath, " that the person or goods
and chattels of such defendant are believed to be," to en-
dorse his warrant, which he is therefore empowered to
execute in any part of such other jurisdiction. A power
is thus originated, as large and as loose, surely, as that
of the most objectionable general warrants. The
patronage-creating features of the Bill are not a whit
less objectionable. The sole security devised for the
poor creditor is, that he is to have the satisfaction of
knowing that the court issuing the warrant or order
is presided over, whether it be one of bankruptcy or re-

quests, by " a judge, who shall be either a barrister at
law, special pleader, or an attorney, of not less than
ten years' standing, of one of her Majesty's Courts at
Westminster." A wonderful condition, no doubt ; but
the next clause, after empoweringevery "bailiff and mes-
senger and officer of the High Bailiff of Southwark or

Westminster, holding such order," &c., to take the body of

such debtor, declares that "no protection, or certificate,
or interim order, issuing out of any Court of Bank-
ruptcy, or for the relief of insolvent debtors"—" shall
be available to any debtor imprisoned under such
order." So that the law jurisdictions called into exist-
ence, like mushrooms in an August morning, by this Bill

are to be superior courts to the last created tribunals in
bankruptcy ! The other clauses of the Bill contain the
usual powers of this class of modern statutes for building

new courts, creating new offices, levying new fines to
defray in part the expenses thereof, &e., &c. In short,
the Bill is one of those lawyer-jobbing affairs that are
the disgrace of modern legislation, from the costly and
excessive patronage they create, with this superadded
distinction in the present instance, that it involves great
violations of the principles of humanity and justice, as

,1 the liberty of the subject, by confounding the princi-
,

pies of civil with those of criminal compensation, in the

excessive and arbitrary character of its penalties.

Madrid journals of the 21st have arrived.
The insurrection in Catalonia may be considered as termi-
nated.

The Castellano and the Posdata both affirm that M. CAS.
FILLO Y AYENSA, the Spanish Ambassador at Rome, had re-
ceived positive orders from his Government to demand his
passports, should he see no hope of obtaining the uncondi-
tional acknowledgment of ISABELLA 11. from the Holy See.
The Tiempo announces that the Ministers were to set out
that very day for Saragossa. It was reported in Madrid that
the object of this journey was to endeavour to induce her
MAJESTY to forego her visit to the Basque provinces, and

TUESDAY F.V141,N

t'h it in .rise her AILLIESIf Wald persist in Ler
don, the Ministers would ter their resignations.
According to the Espanoile new system of taxation had
met with a vigorous oppositm in Catalonia, Gallicia, Castile,
and Andalusia.
We have received the Pris papers of Sunday.

The death of M. LETS till continues to be the subject of
comment in all these jourms. The Cmstitutionnel says—

" The authorities of Lueete have caused a post snortem exa-
mination of the body to be trade by two physicians of their own
appointment. According tctheir report, which, however, is as
yet but imperfectly known, le ball which caused his death en-
tered in a nearly horizontal ,irection, and, after having shattered
the heart, passed out near to left shoulder. The opinion of the
physicians is, that from the erection of the wound, the crime must
have been committed by som other hand than that of the deceased.
The judicial inquiries provethat all the Coors and windows of the
house were closed, but no aention is made of any arms having
been found in the chamberof the deceased, although the inhabit.
ants of the house affirm the they saw a pistol lying on the ground
close to the bed. This affir is still involved in obscurity, which
threatens to increase rathr than to dimmish, as the cat:ton of
Lucerne has neglected th only means of clearing up doubts in
the minds of the populatict of Switserland, by calling in to assist
at the inquiry anti at theport mortem examination persons un-
connected with the canton,'

The Jesuits' organ, tie Gazette of Lucerne, is perfectly
rabid in its cries for vergeance. We give one or two ex-
amples of the style of this religious firebrand :—" Who is
not for us is against tu The enemies of
the Church and of the country shall learn that the blood of
our father; must be ♦,sited on their heads." After insinu-
ating that certain other Jesuit chiefs are in danger, it adds :
—" A t least one hundred heads of these execrable sada
(the Radicals), who dishonour Switzerland, shall pay for
their sacred lives. The people will purge our soil of
these cannibals." After elevating M. LEu to the dignity
of a martyr, the Gazette de Lucerne goes on to state that
"he is a companion 4 the blessed Nicuut..4.s, that other
patron of Switzerland."
The Journal des Debats, in an admirable article, rebukes
the infernalspirit by-which it would appear that the ultras of
both parties in Switzerland are actuated, and it calls upon all
sensible men in that country to interfere to save their native
land from the bigots on the one hand, and from the revolu-
tionists on the other.

It appears from the New Zurich Gazette. that the funeral
of M. LEU, which took place on the 22d, at Hochford, was
attended bl about 1.000 persons.
It is stated in the Gazette de Bak of the 24th that the
assassin of M. LEU had been apprehended, but had escaped.
His name is REDLINGER. He was a labourer in the
employ of Ze deceased, of whom he had borrowed
money. the laynlent of whicti at. Lai, had recently de-
manded: The murderer said that he had used an old musket
to fire the fatal shok.

The total value of the commerce of France during the year
1844, as appears by a return published in the Moniteur, was
2,347,000,000 of francs, being two-thirds of that of England,
double that of the United States, and double that of the
German Customs Union.
The statue of the Duke of ORLEANS was erected in the
Court of the Louvre on Saturday.
Letters from Tunis of the .11th, published in the Courier de
Marseille, contain no allusion to the report published in the
Phare des Pyreitas of the commencement of hostilities be-
tween Tunis and Tripoli.
No business was done at TORTONI'S on Sunday.

The following are the quotations for the new lines :
MARSEILLES, JULY 23.—Marseilles and Avignon, 950 f. ;
Boulogne, 605 f.; Orleans and Bordeaux, 665 f. ; Vierzon,
735 f. ; Avignon and Lyons (Talabot), 527 f. 50c. ; ditto (Sebas-
tiani), 510 f.; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 5001.; Bor-
deaux and Cette (Espeleta), 501 f. 50c. ; Toulon, 495 f.
LYONS, JULY 24.—Avignon and Marseilles, 980 f., end of
July ; Paris and Orleans, 1,1851., ditto; Paris and Rouen,
1,046 f., ditto; Orleans and Vierzon, 7481, ditto ; Orleans
and Bordeaux, 6731., ditto; Boulogne, 625 f. ditto ; Nisrues
and Montpellier, 540 f, cash.

SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAN

(Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BITRCHELL.)
LIPSCOMBE V. SHEARSBY.

The plaintiff is acorn-dealer, in Pratt-terrace, St. Pancras,
and the defendant is an omnibus proprietor. The action was
brought to recover the sum of 121. 17s. 6d. for corn supplied
to the defendant.

It appeared by the evidence that there had been extensive
dealings between the parties, and the present dispute arose in
consequence of a doubt as to the delivery of two or three quan-
tities of corn charged tor. The evidence was very vague. The
plaintiff's witnesses said that five quarters of corn were delivered
every ten or twelve days to defendant's horsekeeper, and it was
farther proved, that on defendant being applied to for the
amount, he went through the account, and paid something on
account.

Ia cross-examination it was admitted that the ten or twelve
days might, on two or three occasions, have been three weeks.
The corn was sometimes delivered to defendant himself, and
when neither him nor the horsekeeper were present, it was de-
livered to a boy.
Mr. Fair contended that the plaintiff was bound to give clear
evidence of the delivery of goods, as it was impossible for the
defendant to prove a negative. He urged that there was a
great diserepancy as to time, and to whom the corn was deli-
vered. In March last there were no less than four deliveries
charged for. It was these two or three extra items which
formed the ground of complaint.
The UNDER-SHERIFF said that, as an abstract principle, it
must be admitted that the defendant could not prove a negative;
but he could have called the horsekeeper to prove that he had
received so much and no more. In all these matters of account
it was difficult to prove matters satisfactorily, unless the parties
themselves were examined. It was certainly the bounden duty
of the plaintiff to submit clear evidence, anti the question here
was, whether that given, standing as it did uncontradicted,
was sufficient to convince the jury of the delivery of the whole
of the goods. It would be seen that although there were four
items in March, there were only two in February, which
would give about ten days interval.
The jury consulted ten minutes, and then gave a verdictior
the full amount.

The other cues were not of the slightest public interest.

LONDON AND BLACKWALL RAIL

WA Y--(THIS DAY.)

A special meeting of the Directors and Shareholders of the Lon-
don and Blackmail Railway Company was held this day at the Lon.
don Tavern, Bishopsgate.street, for the purpose, as the advertise-
ment stated, " of taking into consideration the report of the Direc-
tors on the proposed extension of the line to Epping." There was
a very numerous and respectable attendance of Shareholders.
Mr. Daniels, Chairman of the Board of Directors, took the
chair, and the Secretary read the advertisement calling the
meeting, and also the report of the Directors, recommending the
course the Shareholders ought to pursue. When the report had
been read,

The CHAIRMAN then briefly addressed the meeting. He con-
' gratulated the Shareholders upon the prosperous posttion of their
affairs. He had no doubt but that their present terminus would
bring to it all the traffic of the West.end, and that it would
render unnecessary a station at Farringdon.street, a project
for the formation of which a Bill had been before a
Committee this session, but had been deferred for
another session. The Blackwall terminus had many ad-
vantages, amongst which were, that it formed not only the north-
ern terminus for the traffic of the City, but would also be a direct
means of communication with the wtst.end, when the project now
in progress should have been completed ; aid that he conceived
was a matter of vast importance. Having disposed of this
point, he next called the attention of the meeting to the sub-
ject then under consideration, namely, that of taking up
the junction from Stepney to Old Ford. The Directors had taken
a great responsibility upon themselves in recommending the adop-
tion of this plan, but they felt assured the Shareholders would
concur with them when they considered the importance of the pro-
ject. He concluded by proposing a resolution embodying the
above proposition._

Dr.BOWRING, M.P., seconded the adoption of the resolution,
and in doing so expressed his admiration of the unanimity of feel.
ing that he was so fortunate as to have witnessed in the Board of
Directors in all their proceedings.

The resolution was then put and carried unanimously, after
which a vote of thanks was passed to the Chairman and Directors
for the care they had taken of the interests of the Shareholders,
and the meeting then separated.

EXPERIMENTAL SQUADRON.—The following was
posted at Lloyd's this morning :—Faxmotrrn, JULY 28.—The
Penningham Purchase, arrived today from Maceio, passed on the
25th inst. eight line.of-battle ships, in lat. 48 deg. 56 min. N.,
lon. I I deg. 52 min. W., light breeze from N. W.
THE KING OF THE IiETHERLANDs.—This morning
his Majesty received a deputation from the Consistory of the
German Lutheran Church, amongst whom was the Rev. D. Stein.
kopliff; after which his Majesty held a diplomatic levee, at which the
following Foreign Ministers, &c., were present :—His Excellency
Count St. Aulaire, French Ambassador; Count Maurice Dietrich-
stein, Ambassador Extraordinary from the Court of Vienna, at-
tended by Baron Koller, Councillor, and Baron Brenner,
Secretary of Legation; his Excellency Baron Brunnow, Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, attended by 51.
De Berg and M. De Koudriaffsky, Secretaries of Embassy ;
M. Bunsen, Prussian Minister; his Excellency Baron De
Torre de Moncorvo, Envoy Extraordinary; and Minister Pleni-
potentiary of Portugal; M. Sylvain Van de Weyer, Envoy Ex-
traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from Belgium, attended
by M. C. Drouett, Secretary of Legation. There were likewise
present the Ministers from the United States, Brazil, Denmark,
Greece, Mecklenburgh Schwerin, Mexico, Peruvian Republic,
Sardinia,
burg; Charge d'Affaires, Chevalier de Tacon, Spain ; Texas, the
Saxon)", Turkey, Two Sicilies, Venezuela, and Wurtem.
Honourable Ashbel Smith, and General James Colquhoun,
Hanseatic Republic. The consuls from the several European
powers were likewise present.
VISIT OF THE KING OF HOLLAND TO MESSRS.
HUNT AND Rosiciu.s.—.Yesterday morning his Majesty the King
of Holland paid a visit to the establishment of Messrs. Hunt and
Roskills, the well-known goldsmiths and jewellers, of Bond-street, In
order to inspect their
magnificent stock. His Majesty, who was
attended by two of his suite, arrived shortly after twelve o'clock,
and was received by Mr. Hunt and Mr. Hancock, partners in the
firm. On entering the shop
his Majesty cordially shook hands with
Mr. Hancock, at the same time sasing, with great affibility, " You
see, Mr. Hancock, lam here, according to promise." He then
proceeded round the rooms and expressed hie high admiration of
acknowledged to Mr. Hancock the
all that he saw. One exquisite piece of workmanship which could
not fail to attract his attention was a small silver statue of himself.
This his Majesty looked at with evident pleasure, and graciously
ing his effigy placed amongst the splendid and valuable collection.
His Majesty, having compliment paid to him by hay.
examined the great variety of jewels and other
valuable trinkets,
at two o'clock, With evident satisfaction at all that be had seen.
Hi:REF( Emade several purchases, and took his departure
)Ro LEcrioN.—sir Eobert Price has
started on the Liberal interest for Hereford, and so flattering are
his prospects, that it was for some time
supposed that the Tories
would not venture to oppose his return. They, however, have at
the eleventh hour started Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald as their candi.
date, but so slight is his chance of AUCCeiS, that it is doubtful
whether he will " screw his courage to the polling place." The
Dissenters have had a meeting, and declared their determination
to support Sir R. Pice. The election is fixed for Thursday.
Su:NW:ULAN') ELLCTION.—..IIr. Hudson was to
make his public entry on Monday. Mr. Bright, M.P., assisted
Colonel Thompson in his canvass on Saturday, and lectured in the
evening at the Athenaeum, 111 r. Cobden,
M.P., arrived in Sun-
derland on Saturday, and was to lecture on Monday evening. Both
parties seem sanguine, and the contest will be one of the severest
ever known.

PEDESTRIANISM.—On Monday morning a foot-race
came off in Hyde-park, which attracted a large muster of spec-
tators. The coinpetitors were Scott (of Piccadilly) and Mellish
(a waiter) ; the contesting distance was 400 yards, and the stake
10/. a side. At the start the former took the lead, which he
maintained for 200 yards, when his opponent came up, and, after
a struggle, passed him, and ran in the winner by five yards.
The distance wax covered in any-eight seconds.

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CITY, QUARTER To THREE.

The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 5,000
bales American, ail to the trade. There was a fuller
supply, but no change in prices. A fair busi-
ness was done in Shares, at steady rates : -
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 5% %; Blackburn,
Darwen, and Bolton, 5%; British and Irish Union, 31/2
Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 26 27.% ' • Cambridge and Lin-
coln, 3% % ; Chester and Holyhead, 21% ' • Clitheroe Junc-
tion, 4% 5; Derby and Crewe, 234 3s. 9d. ; Eastern Coun-
ties, New Shares, 11%; Ditto Perpetual, No. 2, 245. ; Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, 64 ; Edinburgh and Peebles, 3% ;
Glasgow and Dumfries, 245. 235. ; Glasgow and Ayr, 84
86 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 11% 12 ; Grand Junction, 238 ;
Ditto, Half Shares, 119 ; Ditto, Eight Shares, 22%; Grand
Union, 1% 2%; Great Eastern and Western, A; Great
Grimsby and Sheffield, 4%; Great Western, 222 223 ; Ditto,
Half Shares, 120; Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 13%
14% ; Huddersfield and Sheffield, 934 10%; Lancaster and
Preston, 60; Leicester and Bedford, 4%; Leicester and Bir-
mingham, 29i ; Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle
Junction, 14; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 4% 5;
London and Brighton, 80; London and South-Western,
New 50/. Shares, 14; ondon and York, 7; Ditto (Bawtry),
5 ; Direct Northern, 2 21/ ; Leeds and Dewsbury, 23 ; Leeds
and Thirak, 6 ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 8% ;
Manchester and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 1014 %; Ditto,
New Shares, 8 8%; Manchester and Birkenhead Continua-
tion, 1% ; Manchester and Birmingham Continuation,
2% 495. ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland, 3%; Man-
chester and Leeds, 185; Ditto, Half Shares, 84; Dittq.
Quarter Shares, 28; Matlock and Midland, 71%s ls. 3d.;
Midland Railway, '
181 182 ; Ditto, 40/. Shares, 28 ; Newark
and Sheffield, 2% • North Wales, 2% ;. North. Wales Mineral,
New Shares, 64 %; North Western, 5; Nottingham and
Boston, Bs. 6d. ; Oxford, Worcester, and Welverhamptoe,
7% 8 ; Preston and Wyre, 3214 ; Shelli• ld and Manchester,
131 ; Ditto Quarter Shares, No. 3, 7 ; Sheffield and Lincoln,
51 521 ; Shrewsbury and Hereferdsbire, 1%; Shrewsbury,
Oswestry, and Cheshire, 414 % ; Shrewsbury and Trent
Union, •, Shrewsbury, Worcester, and Crewe, 1% •, South-
Eastern and Dover, New Shares, No. 3,8; South Mid-
land, 4/. 965. 3d.; Welsh Midland, 765. ' • West Lancashire,
61s. 6d. 3% ; West Yorkshire, 714 %; Worcester and
Tring, 20s. 9d. 1/. Is. ; Belfast and County Down, 3% ; Dublin
and Belfast Junction, 9; Dublin and Drogheda, 105 104;
Dublin and Galway, 21 ; Dutch Rhenish, 10 9774 ; Great
Luxembourg, 1 ; Jamaica Junction, 7 ; Jamaica and South
Midland, 6%; Northern of France (Laffitte's), 34;
Ditto (Rosamel's), %; Ditto (Lebeuf's), 21s ; Orleans,
Tours, and Bordeaux, 111 %; Paris and Lyons (Laffitte's),
3%; Ditto, French, 2% ; Ditto (Ganneron's), 515.; Paris
and Strasbourg (Ganneron's), 495.; Ditto (Hainguerlot's),
2%; Verona and Ancona, 4%.
MANCHESTER STACK EXCHANGE, JULY 28.-The sales are
-Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, 5% prem. ;
_Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 5% ; Bolton, Wigan,
and Liverpool, 24%; Caledonian, 11 ; Churnet Valley, 5%;
Clitheroe Junction, 5 5%; Coventry and Leicester, 2% ;
Derby and Crewe, 234 ; Eastern Counties, 21 ; Erewash
Valley, 02 ; rteetwood, Preston, aria West. Riding Junction,
2 1-16 54 ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 245. ; Grand Union, 375.
6d. 41s. 3d. ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 5 5%;
Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 12 % •,
Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 10 103/4 ; Leeds and
Tbirsk, 6% 34 ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 8%
Sg ; Leicester and Bedford, 4 % •, Leicester and Birming-
ham,
2% ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 414;
London and York, 634 ; Lynn and Dereham, 2% ; Man-
chester, Bury, and Rossendale, 24 ; Manchester, Buxton,
Matlock, and Midland, 6% ; Manchester, Birkenhead Con-
tinuation, Mold,Ruabon, and North Wales, 7s. 6d. prem. ;
Manchester and Birmingham, 64 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares,
10 %; Ditto, New Quarters, 7% ; Manchester and Bir-
mingham Continuation and Welsh Junction, 214 1/2 ; Man-
chester and Leeds, 181; Ditto, Sixteenth Shares, 10; New-
ark and Sheffield; 23% 74 ; Newcastle, Durham, and Lan-
cashire. 16s. 3d. 17a. 6d. prem. ; North Staffordshire, 4% ;
North Union, 185 ; North Western, 5 ; Nottingham and
Mansfield, 2 %; Nottingham, Erewash, Ambergate, and
Manchester, 3% 74 ; Preston and Wyre, 32 ; Preston and
Wyre Extension, 2 1-16 ; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junc-
tion, 2 5.16 ; Ditto, Quarters, No. 2, 7 prem. ; Ditto,
No. 3, 634 ; Shrewsbury and Herefordshire, 1% ; Shrews-
bury and Trent. Valley Union, 3% ; South Midland,
414 %; Trent Valley, 1814 ; Ditto, Continuation and Holy-
head Junction, ; Welsh lUidlad, 334 ; West Lancashire
Coast Line, 234 prem. •, West Yorkshire, 7% % ; White-
haven and Furness, 274 ; Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe
Union, 2%3 ; York and Carlisle, 4/3 • Dutch Rhenish, 10;
Great Northern of France, English, 65A.
We understand that the allotment of Shares in the South
Midland is likely to be questioned before the Parliamentary
Committee which may be appointed to report upon the prac-
ticability of the undertaking, by a gentleman who was al-
lotted some shares by a leading Director, but which have
been cancelled by the other Directors, without assigning any
reason, except that they wanted them for their own ad-
vantage.
There have not been any arrivals of importance this morn-
ing. .In fact, it must be a very important piece of in-
formation indeed that would induce the great portion of the
speculators of the City to refrain from railway share trans-
actions, such is the desire to deal in this species of investment.
The Consol Market is rather flat this morning, owing to
the continued variable state of the weather. For the Account
the price bas been at 98%, and for immediate transfer at a
fall to 98%. Only a few bargains have been made in the
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., at 102% to 10214.
The premium on Exchequer-bills is also lower. Bank Stock
has receded to 210%.
The principal variations in the Foreign Stocks have been a
fall in the Portuguese Four-and-a-Half per Cents. from 6514
to 641,1, and in the Belgic Four-and-a-Half per Cents. to
100%. The Spanish Three per Cents. have been quoted at
37 and 374.
A considerable amount of business has been done in the
Railway Share market, which is in a firm state, as our official
list will demonstrate.

ottITISII FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock 2lO
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9914.1,8
3 per Cent. Consols Anne 983/4
New 31,‘ per Cent. Annuties lO2l, ix,
Long Annuities Expire sth Jan. 1860 111,4
Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10,1.859 IIIA

South Sea Stock —
Ditto Old Annuitioa
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. I%d. 11,4 d.
1,0001.
500/. ... ........ - ..... ... .. 52 54 pm.
Ditto Small — .. .. 52 56 pm.

?RICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Columbian Bonds. 17%
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent 37
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto 4 per Cent.
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent 11734
Spanish Bonds, 5 peCent,1840
Ditto 3 per Cent 3714
Belgian 41A per Cent lOl LOl4
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 99%1,4

PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Aberdeen
Armagh, Coleraine,Portrush 1% IN to --
Birmingham and Gloucester 100 ..... —
Ditto, ti,ilf Shares ... .... 3 -
Birmingham land Oxford
Junction
Bristol and Exeter
Ditto New 2 .... 12
Caledonian i
Cambridge and Lincoln ...... 11,4 314 to 34
Chester and Ilolyhead
Cheltenham and OxfOrd ......
Coventry and Leicester -
rirect gorthern _
Dublia and Belfast Junction 21,E 9
Dublin and Galway 211% 2A %... to
Eastern Counties
Do. New 41. 16s 7%ide p to
Eastern Union

Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O ..... 84 ...... to
Ely and Bedford IIA 23/4 to
Great North of England ...... 100
Ditto New
Great Western
Ditto 14 Shares 5O ll9 122... to 120
Guildford, Fareham, Portms. 21,4 314 to
Hull and Selbv 5O 10514 to 106
Leicester and Birmingham... 225. ... 1 p
Leicester and Bedford 22s. 214 14 p to _
Londou and Blackwell 1634...1214 113/4 12 to 11
London and Brighton
London and Croydon... 131. 15s. 9d 2614 ... to 2514
Do. New l3s 4d l'A 34 p to
London and South Western.. 406 -82
London and York... ..... ...... 2145 6alA;al4 to 6%
Londonderry and Coleraine... 214
41As to
Lynn and Ely
Lynn and Dereham
Manchesier and Leeds 76 ..... 180
Manch, Buxton, & Matlock 22s
Midland 100
Ditto New
Newcastle and Berwick
Newry and Enniskillen ...... 214
3 ...... to
North British
Ditto New 1
.. ... '‘'.4 ...... to
North bent
Oxford and Worcester 214 7%/4... to
Preston and IVvre
Itichniond and W est End J uric. 1
laigby Worcester. and Tnng 1
SCotW_ Central
Scottish Midland
Shrews.,'Wolver., Dud., Birm. 214 4l/2%... to
Shrews. & Trent Val. Union. 22s ll4 p.. to
South Midland 228. .3.,,c 41<, pto
South Eastern and Dover ... 33% 451.46 .. to
Ditto New, No. 3 2l;', ...... 8 i
Staines and Richmond........ 1
South Walee
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 2
Welch Midland 21,4 3314... to
York and North Midland ... 50 lO 9
Ditto, Extension

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens 6 ...... 10%N... to
Bordeaux,Toulouse,andCette 2
1 Dutch IthcniNh
j Great Northern of France
(Laffitte's)
Louvain and Jemeppe ...... ... 4
Lyons and Avignon
Orleans and Vierzon
Orleans and llorJeaux ... .. 4
Over Yssel 4/ 3s 441 11,4 A p... to
Paris and Lyons ( Laffitte) ... 2
Parisand Lyons(Ganneron's) 2 ...
Paris &Strasburg(Gannern's) 2
Do. (Compe de L'Est)
Royaportli of Spain
Samtre and Meuse
West
Flanders

LIAMBURGH BORSENIIALLE, Juts 25.
kustrian 5 per Cents
Dan ... 114
k Shares .• ...• • • ... ..... .... •• •• 6
Anglo-Russian Loan .. ••—..•• • • •• •• 1
140_. Russian 5 per Cent., Ilamb. Certificate. 105%
Ditto Ist series 1n5cripti0n..........
Ditto, M 105%
ope and Co., 3d and 4th series..
Ditto, in Certificate— • . 99%
••• • • •
C 0.......• 99% New 4 per Cent., Hope and
Spanish New 5 per Cent.........•...
Ditto 3 per Cent .......... •••• •• .• 40 22%
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent .. 6b
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per .. eat.... • • 63
Ditto 3 per Cent. ..........
Polish New 4 per Cent. roan, 1844.... 86% 86%
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 Ei_r Cent ...• •• 87%
National Bank Shares• ••••••• • • •• • ••

CLO

O.NI)C,N, JULY

bkoeco, and fine

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29.—Wind this day at wen W. by N., moderate

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DEAL, JULY 23.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Mohawk, Ferguson, China;
Deva, Ceylon; William Carson, Park, Buenos Ayres; Adelaide,
Taylor, Trinidad ; Screw, Asplet, St. Vincent ; Jonen Victorina,
Arrian, Eagar, Matanzas; Lavinia, Honduras; Leonora, Milton,
New York; John Esdale, Jackson, St. John's, New Brunswick;
British Queen, Healey, ditto ; Dove, Cook, Patriot, Promise, Robert
and Ann, Hugh Wallace, Higgins, and Maraboa, Pickering, Quebec;
Penelope, Alexandria. Arrd. from the River, Lloyd's, Lewis, for
Hobart Town; John Laurel, Bryant, Hong-Kong; Sir R. Peel,
Champion, Bombay ; G. K. Harrison, Scott, Cape of Good Hope ;
Robert Clive, Mercer, St. Helena; Fortitude, Garlefitt, Quebec ;
Marmion, Laing, ditto. Arrd. from the River, and sld., Monarch,
Walker, for Calcutta ; St. Helier, Hammond, Cape Coast Castle.
Sid. Will Watch, Taylor, South seas; Templar, Brown, Adelaide,
Brunette, Couseus, Cey 100 ; Rajasth, Stewart, Bombay ; Isle of
Wight, Ratsey, Mauritius ; Cadet, Lukes, St. Helena and Cape of
Good Hope; Louise, Mauritzen, Rio Janeiro; Somersetshire, Chal-
mers, City of Waterford, and William IV., Quebee.
PORTSMOUTH, JULY 28.—Wind W.S.W.—Sid. Southampton, Bowes,
Calcutta. Off port, Prince Royal, Ferne, Rio Janeiro.
FALMOUTH, JULY 28.—Wind W., fresh breezes.—Arrd. Mars,
Besson, Callao, sailed 2d April; Penningham, Purchase, Macao,
sailed June 11. Off port, Aneida, Finch, New York, for Havre; Pro-
mise Retallick, Quebec.

PLYMOUTH, JULY 28.—Wind W.—Acrd. Wave, Barnes, Salditnha
Bay ; Collector, Hackney, Monte Video.

LIVERPOOL, JULY 20.2:-Wind S.W., light.—Arrd. Anthony Ander-
son. Splatt, Singapore; Octavia, Heed, Arica ; Eliza Heywood, Fox,
Valparaiso ; Undaunted, Whiteway, Valparaiso ; Jackson, Clemence,
Saldanha Bay ; May, Dawson, Saldanha Bay ; Express, Cubbon,
Macao; Violet, Simpson, Camaroons, sailed April 19, and Corsica,
May 3 ; Peruvian, Cutting, Bonny ; Dom N. Dar„ Senegal ; Horacio,
Havannah; Lavonia, Havannah; Ann Falcon, Rus, Savanilla ;
liyanite, Leicester, Laguna.

OFF PILL, JULY 28.ZCumberland, Bruce, Quebec.
NEWPORT, JULY 26.—S1d. Emma Searle, Rowe, Quebec ; Cerry,
Richebucto.

DUBLIN, JULY 25.—S1d. Pilksvvorth, Smith, Quebec ; Caledonia,
Murray, Quebec; Sampson, M`Dowell, Quebec; John Bull, Quebec.
KINGSTOWN, JULY 26.—Arrd. Coolack, Donal, St. Andrew's.
KINII4I.E, JULY 24.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrd. Mary Pinsy, St. John's,
New Brunswick.

BELFAST, JULY 25.—Sid. Integrity, Jobling, Quebec; Weatherley,
Itennison, Dalhousie.

PENTLAND FRITH, JULY 22.—Arrd. James Bell, Quebec ; 23d,
Warwick, Farmer, St. John's, New Brunswick ; 24th, Cornet, Lamb-
ton, St John's, New Brunswick.

IoIIQUAY, JULY 26.—Arrd. Emerald, Short, Miramichi.
DUNGENESS Hoens, JULY Deda, Gust, Buenos Ayres.
EXMOUTH, JULY 27.—Arrd. A my, Dixon, Buenos Ayres.
OFF WEYMOUTH, JULY 27.—Persian, Mallard, Sydney, New South
Wales, sailed March 20, Bahia 3d ult.

FOWEY, JULY 27.—Wind W.—Acrd. Princess Victoria, Full, Que-
bec ; Eliza Lowry, Candia.

MARKET NE WS.-(THIS DAY.)

MELT wevaszers.
Srsmirrta.D.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 16s to 4/16s ; useful
do., 4/ 18s to 5/ 8s ; fine Upland do., 5/ lOs to 5/ 15s :
Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 1/ 18s to 2l;
Wheat Straw, 2/ to 2/ 2s, per load. Supply but moderate,
and trade firm, at full pricet. .
CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 18s to 4/ 15s ,
useful ditto, 4/ I6s to 5/108 ; fine Upland ditto, 5112 s to 5/15s ;
Clover Hay, 4/10s to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 1118 s to 2/1s ; Wheat
straw, 2/ 2e to 2/ 3s per load. Both Hay and Straw met
an active demand, and the quotations were well supported.
`%/MEC/LAPEL—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 15s to 41 161;
useful ditto, 4l 188 to 5/ 8s; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 10e to
5/ 16s ; Clover Hay, 4/108 to 6/ 6s; Oat Straw, 11 18s to 2';
Wheat Straw, 2/ is to 2/ 3s per load. A fair average supply,
and a steady trade.
New Meadow Hay sold at from 3/10s to 4110 s, and New
Clover 3l 15s to 4/ 15s per load.