The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY -EVENING, JULY 30, 1844.

plore the melancholy aspect which Spain presents,
under accumulated domestic mid internal disasters,
that find in the story of but few other States their
equal or their parallel; we were scarcely prepared to
witness her disgraceful submission to that military
despotism which withdraws accused individuals be-
fore trial from the protection and cognizance of the
laws, to subject them to the mockery of examination
before packed courts of military inquiry ; or inter-
poses, after trial, with the course of civil justice; and
drags its prisoners away to be butchered by the
disciplined satellites of an unprincipled dictator, in
defiance of all forms and rights of law. Sunk and
degraded as the old Castilian character now is, in
that political debasement in which an obscure military
adventurer—the obsequious tool of a corrupt court, the
corrupter agent himself of a foreign influence—is
permitted to play the tyrant over some millions of a
people whose past renown is mixed up with the
proudest associations of ancient and modern story,
the measure of her shame, it appears, is not yet
filled up. Her wrongs, which, for many years
have excited the pity of civilised mankind, will
soon be overlooked in that abject endurance of her
oppressions, which can permanently awaken no
other feeling in the nations but that of
contemptuous scorn. In the New World, the theatre
of so many of her greatest and her basest achieve-
ments—of her most brilliant successes and her most
shameful degeneracy—she is doomed to exhibit the
fallen fortunes of a once enterprising Power, which
after conquering remote nations, only to plunder and
enslave them, relaxed voluntarily, in the lapse of
years, the iron bondage it had imposed. By the
introduction of agriculture and husbandry she taught
her swarthy subjects in those distant regions to lay
wide and deep the only permanent bases of plenty and
opulence; but she established at the same time, with
haughty inconsistence, the most scrutinizing, precise,
and inexorable distinctions of blood and complexion,
and of social position in respect of these, that a re-
fined feudal physiology—so to speak—could devise.
In no European-settled colonies or possessions, within
'or beyond the tropics, have these distinctive indica-
tions of blood—its purity or debasement being esti-
mated by the greater or less approximation to that of
their white conquerors—been more sternly insisted on
than in those of Spain, whether in the seas of Asia,
or on the coasts and on the islands of America. In
order duly to appreciate the offences now in course of
perpetration by the Spanish authorities of Cuba, we
must bear this in mind. The "negro" slave, in short,
has always been in Cuba without any of the qualify-
ing advantages, as to his social position, which his
ability, his earnings towards the price of his freedom,
or his actual manumission had secured him, for years
before the passing by our Parliament of the Emanci-
pation Act in 1833, in any of our own islands, and
in many of the West Indian possessions of other
Powers. This consideration makes the boon which
our treaties with Spain were suffered, until now, to
have acquired for the " Emancipados" in any Spanish
colony, so much the greater—the scandalous denial so
much the more bitter to the Emancipado himself, and
the less to be excused or permitted by us.
The accounts we publish fzorn Cuba set forth that
the Governor-General O'DorrrrELL (the intemperate
successor we believe of General VALDEZ), is distin-
guishing his government by acts of the most flagi-
tious cruelty, and the most scandalous violations of
existing treaties between Spain and Great Britain.
" Executions are going on daily, under sentence of
the Military Commission at Matanzas. About the
20th June last, eight negroes and one white man
were shot there. Ten were ordered for exe-
cution in a few days, and among them
the poet PLACIDO." (May his strains, like those of
TYRTIEUS of old, animate his compatriots and fellow-
sufferers to a signal but holy vengeance on their bru-
tal enemies !) " Arrests are still numerous—princi-
pally of free people of colour, whose property is imme-
diately confiscated ; and a system of wholesale robbery
is thus established." Numerous bodies of natives—
freei coloured, and black—were getting out of the
island by hundreds at' a time; and even the Spanish
Intendant on the island, the Count VILLANEUVE, was
too intimidated to remonstrate with O'Doromx.
O'DoistrELL's insolence had gone to the extent of
" positively refusing the British Commissioners to
liberate any of the Emancipados." These are negroes,
captured long since by English cruisers, and who,
having served -out their probationary term, are en-
titled, under the treaty with Great Britain, to their
free papers. The Governor-General, whose atro-
cious career bespeaks so nice a sense of morality
and religion, has the effrontery to pretend, that
though their probationary terms are completed,
the religious and moral education of these
poor blacks bad been hitherto much neglected ;
that he shall keep them till -it is sufficiently
advanced to make their freedom of any use to them !
In the in antime these unfortunates are hunted up in
all quarters ; compelled to work on the public rail-
road, and re-assigned to their former masters, or the
highest bidders for money prices, and for terms -of
five or seven years. Not less than 5,000 of these un-
happy men, who may be supposed to have hailed the
dawn of each succeeding day, while undergoing their
legitimate probation, with a bounding hope of being
so much nearer to the boon of freedom, and its new
existence, and with a benediction on the great nation
through whose august intervention in their favour it
was on the point of being obtained ; are thus, by the
treachery, the avarice, and the brutal cruelty of a
.Spanish Governor, thrust back into the "house o
bondage," and remitted again to the chains, the ago.
vies, and the despair of slavery and shame !

Are the recent significant words of Lord ABER-
DEEN, when be said of these recusant or contumacious
States, that if they would not fulfil their obligations
under treaty they must be compelled to do so, to be
mere sounds as of a tinkling cymbal ? Or will the
long •suffering indignation of British power be at last
terribly aroused, and visit with some such memorable
arguments as have been heard ere now .at Algiers,
when treaties " on behalf of slaves" had been less
wantonly broken through—the bad faith and pre-
sumption of a Spanish West India Governor ?
Our advice would be to waste no more time in
dealing with a Government so helpless, so enslaved,
so NanvAEz-ridden as that of Old Spain ; but to
save ourselves further trouble and expense in our
costly, sincere, and ill-requited efforts to put down
negro slavery, to give every facility to the free black
population of Jamaica, and to offer no impediment to
those even of St. Domingo, in taking the case of
their suffering brethren in Cuba into their own
hands and management. General O'DONNBLL, like
his friend NARVAEZ, may bluster a little more; but
what could he do to dispense with the inopportune
civilities of a hundred thousand black petitioners--
robust and ready—for justice to these Emancipados,
under the faith of treaties between Great Britain and
Spain ?

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

The Three per Cents. were done at 26 5-16 for
and 2611 at 60 days, and the Five per Cents.
at 20 at 50 days, with premium.

The anniversary fetes 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 Debats
nor the Constitutionnel mentions these circumstances,
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. Theltlier 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 JOIN VILLE :
" 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-
pleasant discussions have arisen in the port of Tangiers be-
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 Hommar-
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,l24 from Amiens thi,Boulogne (for which, with-
out doubt, a company will offer on the terms proposed by the
Chamber), 437 from Parrs 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. (61,000,0001. sterling), and in
seven years the whole system will be completed."

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)
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. Sld. 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.

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

SALCOMDE, JULY 28.—SId. Edward, Newport and Ichaboe.
PLYMOUTH, JULY 29.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. Ava,
Symons, Quebec. Sid. Justitia, Ichaboe.
HELFRID, 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•Kennel, and Robert Syus, Montreal. Sld. 28th, Windsor
Castle, New Orleans. Off. Milton, Lady Milton, and John.
YARMOUTH 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 Strotnay, during a fog
this morning, but was assisted off, and Is proceeding to
Stromness, with assistance.

MARKET NE WS.-( T HIS DAY.)
HAY AXANZETS.
SMITHFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 10s to 41; use-
ful ditto, 41 4s to 41 as ; fine Upland ditto, 4/ 10s to 4/ 15e ;
Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 61; Oat Straw, 1/ 4s to 11 6s;
Wheat Straw, I/ 8s to 1/ 10s per load. A moderate supply,
and a sluggish demand, at the above quotations.
CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay 3/ 15s to 414 s ; use-
ful ditto, 41 5s to 4l 12s ; fine Upland ditto, 4l 14s to 4/ 18s ;
Clover Hay, 4/ 8s to 5115 s ; Oat Straw, 118 s to 1/ lOs ; Wheat
Straw, 1/ lOs to 1/ 12s per load. Both Hay and Straw moved
off slowly, at late rates.
WHITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/10s to 41; use-
ful ditto, 4/ 4s to 418 s ; fine Upland ditto, 4/ 108 to 41 14s ;
Clover Hay, 5/ to 6/ 6s ; Oat Straw, 11 6s to 11 8s ;
Wheat Straw, 1/ 8s to 11 lOs per load. Supply good, and
trade rather dull.

The prices of New Meadow Hay ranged from 31 to 4/ ; and
New Clover 41 to 51 per load.
COLONIAL.
SUGAR.—The market for British plantation is rather dull,
and only about 400 hhds have found buyers, inclusive of
those sold by auction. The public sales have contained
128 casks Barbadoes, 184 casks 48 barrels St. Lucia, 191
barrels St. Lucia Molasses, 12,000 bags 89 casks Mauritius
Sugar, and 4,379 bags Bengal. Only part of the West
India was disposed of at about former prices, viz. mid
to good yellow Barbadoes at 58s to 63s 6d, and
strong good grayish brown to good yellow St. Lucia
at 56s to 61s, being about previous prices. The Molasses
were taken in at 22s for niid quality, but subsequently dis-
posed of at 21s. All the Mauritius sold at 45s to 55s for low
to fine brown, and low to fine yellow at 55s 6d to 665, which
are,: in some instances, rather below the rates obtained on
Friday week,. but generally about the previous value; only
about Qne • half the Bengal found buyers at lower
prices for the inferior descriptions, whilst the better sorts
of Benares brought higher rates. The quantity of British
Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks
was 2,289 hhds 275 tierces 630 barrels, and there were taken
for home consumption 1,566 hhds 149 tierces 430 barrels.
The stock in the same places is 11,276 hhds 1,683 tierces
1,925 barrels.

COFFEE.-754 bags Ceylon, 100 bales Mocha, and 160
bags Bahia have been offered by auction. The Ceylon sold
readily •at 52s 6d to 54s for good ordinary quality, being
the extreme value. The Mocha and Bahia were taken in,
the former at 68s for common mixed quality, and the latter at
30s to 42s for mixed good ord to fine ord, which prices are
also above the value.

Rum.—The quantity lauded last week at the East and
West India Docks was 417 puns 22 hhds; there were taken
for home consumption 105 puns 30 hhds; and exported 75 puns
30 hhds. The stock in the same places is 9,619 puns 1,760 hhds.
RICE.-2,592 bags East India, chiefly Bengal. The
Bengal found buyers, but at rather lower prices, viz., lls to
lls 6d for mid white; low and mid white Siam were taken
in at 9s 6d.

TALT-ow.—P.Y.C. is steady at 41s to 41s 6d per cwt on
the spot ; and Town at 43s 6d per cwt.
TEA.--The market has been quiet since our last, the deli-
veries for consumption however being good.
CINNAMON.-2,067 bales are declared, of which 951 passed
yesterday, about one-third selling. First quality realised
4s ld to 6s; second, 3s 5d to 4s 11d; and third, 2s 8d to 4s
per lb.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
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, 5* ;
Eastern Counties, 12i ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 11; ;
Grand Junction, 221 ; Ditto, Half, 110 h ; Great Western,
Half, 83h ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 4i• ; Liverpool and Man-
chester, 226; Ditto, New, 33 prem.; London and Birming-
ham, 228; Manchester and Leeds, Quarters, 10h ; Midland
Counties, 102 e ; North Union, 130/1 ; Sheffield and Man-
chester, 840 ; South-Eastern, 38h ; South-Eastern, New, 121;
Paris and Lyons, 2h ; 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 (;lad 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. tis 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 fora 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 now 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 lavie or worm depo-
sited it 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
politicians. The oats and peas look well. The early sown
potatoes are ready for earthing up, or the last hoeing. They
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 ae-
cocnts before received. In short, there is scarcely an item
in them beyond what appeared in yesterday's Sun, as ob-
tained by express from Liverpool.
The Funds have dropped a trifle this morning, the Ott-
heite affair continuing to be a subject of conversation, though
we do not think of alarm. The Commissioners bought 10,0001.
Reduced Three per Cents. at 100 i. Consols for money are
firm at 99i. For the Account the price was dropped to 99k.
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 h.
It appears from an additional correspondence, made pub-
lic yesterday afternoon, that has taken placebetween 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 36h
to 35k. Spanish Three per Cents. are heavy at 33i ; the
Actives at 24 i ; the Belgian Bonds at 103; ; the Portuguese
Converted at 43i ; and the Dutch Five per Cents., at 1011.
Brazilian Bonds have been quoted at 84h. .
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 7h premium.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
. . (From the Official List.)
• - Bank Stock v 20035 200
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ...... ...........„ lO
3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 9914%i
S per Cent. Annuities, 1724 9l
3% per Cent. Reduced Annuities lO3
New 3% per Cent. Annuities ..... .... ........
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860......„ l2 9-16
India Bonds,l,ooo „. .... ......... ..... „ 95
Ditto under 1,000. ... ......... „ .......... .............” -
. South Sea Stock -
Ditto Old Annuities ........ ....................
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills, 150. I%d
I,IEOI. •••••••••••••••••••••••• - •••••••••••• 79 77 pm.
rn1;11:................ - ........... 79 77 pm.
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ()NE O'CLOCK.
Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent ...... ...... ........... .... 10335
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. .............. ........ as%
Columbian Bonds. l3
Mexican Bonds 1837, 5 per Cent. .... ........ „..„ 36 35%
36
Ditto for the 'Account
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. -
Ditto Converted „..... 44 43l
Spanish, Bonds, Five per Cent 1840.............. 22%74
Ditto Three per Cent. ........ ........ 33;4%
Ditto for the Account ,....„ 33g
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 4135
• Ditto Deferred
Dutch 2% per Cent 5...„..„........ ................
Dutch 5 per Cents ....... 10134%
New Loan. 4 per Cents. (1844)
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS, PAID. Pas SHAWL.
Birmingham and Derby lOO 73% to -
Birmingham and Gloucester lOO ......... 106% 108 to 107%
Bristol and Exeter 7O -
Bristol and Gloucester . 80 -
Chester and Holyhead. ...... ........ 5
Eastern Counties
,23 -
Ditto New Registered...-. 81. 6s. Ad. -
Ditto Perpetual 5 per eent...... Ns. 4d.... 134 -
Ditto Ditto (No, 2) - -
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O 64%
Great Western ....,,...,...........75 137%
Ditto li Shares ..... ......
Lancaster and Carlisle 5 -
London and Blackwall 16% -
London and Brighton -
London and Greenwich -
London and South Western 41% ...... 87%
Manchester and Leeds
Manchester and Birmingham ••• 40 -
Midland Counties
Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 1:1
North Br iti-h 2% -
Northern and Eastern 45 59% to -
Norwich and Brandon
South Eastern and Dover 82% -
Ditto New -
Yarmouth and Norwich lB 29% to -
York and North Midland - -
Ditto Scarboro' Branch -
Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux 1 -
Paris :.nd Orleans
Paris and Rouen 2O : 8% to -
Rouen and Havre.

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
London and Westminster 2O 17% to
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 I'res-
ton, New, lk ; Preston and \Vyre, Guaranteed, 244; Scot-
tish Central, 415.; South-Eastern, 38/ ; Ditto, New, 12k ;
Trent Valley, 9i.

NORMOUS SKATE—PRESTONPANS, JULY 25.
Some workmen, while fishing off here this morning, caught
a skate of the enormous weight of 129 i lbs., and measuring hi
end biZ feet three inches; in breadth, dye feet nine inches.