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LONDON!
FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 1, 1842.

The motion which Mr. WALLACE is to bring on this
evening, relative to the condition of the country, is in
the present circumstances extremely important. We be-
lieve it will come on early, immediately after Lord JouN
RUSSELL'S Bribery Bill has been disposed of. The
Liberal Members will no doubt feel it their duty to attend
and speak on the question. Frym all the information
which reaches us, we conclude that the manufacturing
districts are daily getting worse and worse. Too soon
measures cannot be adopted to avert the calamity that
is impending over the country ; immediately to relieve
distress is now, we are afraid, beyond human power.
Those Members assuredly will neglect their duty who
fail to attend, and who do not in an earnest and solemn
manner throw the responsibility of the present and
future condition of the country off their own shoulders,
and place it on the shoulders of Sir R. PEEL.

A meeting of Members of Parliament with the De-
putation from the Manufacturing Districts took place
yesterday, at Brown's Hotel, Palace-yard, to make
the Members acquainted with the condition of those
districts, and consult what is to be done in the present
alarming crisis. The statements made by Mr. H. STA NS-.
FIELD of the condition of the town and neighbour-
hood of Leeds, in which 40,000 persons are in a state
of destitution, and require assistance, and which re-
presents the condition of the bulk of Yorkshire and
Lancashire, were truly appalling. That condition,
however, is far better known than the means of re-
medying it. It has been of late so frequently described
that persons have almost ceased, we are afraid, to think it
worthy of notice. At any rate it no longer makes
the impression it ought on the public, and we rather
turn to the remedy than again dwell on a disease, the
long continuance of which has made the public think
too little of it.

adopted, might bring the landlords to a sense of jus-
tice. As long as their avowed wrong is acquiesced
in they will never want reasons to show that it is
expedient. Men are bound to pay taxes for the sup-
port of the State ; there is no moral obligation on
them to pay protecting and discriminating duties ;
and, till these be abolished, all taxation, in any way
mixed with them, is in danger of being resisted.

The General Shipowners Society, have informed the
public that they are by no means pleased with Sir R.
PEEL. This is to be considered as another defection
from his ranks, because that body belongs to the mono-
polists, and in general supported the Tories, in the ex-
pectation that they would maintain the protective prin-
ciple. They say—
The Report presented by your Committee at the last annual
general meeting was addressed to the shipowners of the United
Kingdom at a moment at which the great question was about
to be submitted to the test of a general election, whether the
commerce and navigation of the country were hereafter to be
conducted on the principle of protection for which the Commit-
tee had ever contended, and were then struggling ; or in ac-
cordance with the theories of free trade, to which they have
ever been opposed. Since that period the doctrines hitherto
repudiated by the advocates of the shipping interest have been
embraced, or supported, or feebly opposed by the friends on
whom the shipowners have relied, and changes are in progress
of which it would be weak and uncandid were the Cemmittee
not to express their conviction that they are fraught with the
most alarming consequences to British maritime commerce,
which, by the infatuation of legislation, appears to be doomed
to decay. . .

They also say that the speech at the opening of the
session was of " ominous indication," that many of the re-
solutions moved by Mr. GLADSTONE on the Colonial Cus-
toms Duties were '° calculated to inflict serious injury on
the British carrying trade." They represented this to
Mr. GLADSTONE, and then the general views expressed
by the Vice-President of the Board of Trade, excited in
their minds serious apprehensions of what was coming.
Sir ROBERT PEEL'S tariff, they declare, contains—
In almost every page propositions for changes unfavourable to
British navigation, some of them of a character and extent cal-
culated deeply to injure, if not entirely to destroy, important
branches of the carrying trade • and almost all opposed, in the
opinion of your Committee, to the protective principle on which
the maintenance of British maritime commerce depends.

In consequence of these views, they formed, it ap-
pears, a combined plan of operations to oppose the
tariff, particularly that part of it which abolishes a pro-
tecting duty of 455. for Canadian timber. The old law
enabled them to send their vesselS in ballast across the
Atlantic, and they found ample payment in the freight home
for the expense of the two voyages. But they were not
successful, and their explanation why they were not,
confirms Sir RICHARD VYVYAN'S statement of the man-
ner in which Members have been coerced into voting for
Sir R. PEEL.

Throughout our communications (they say) vie sedulously
endeavoured to restrict our arguments to proving that the
actual effect of the measures we deprecated would be different
from that anticipated by Sir Robert Peel, and it only remains
for us to express our deep regret, that in matters of navigation
the opinions of practical shipowners should be deemed entitled
to so little weight.
The succeeding steps on these all important measures have
from time to time been presented to the public through the
ordinary channels of Parliamentary information. Throughout
their progress the proceedings have been marked by a character
which, as it is without precedent, the Committee hope will re-
main without a parallel. The case of the shipowners appears
but to have afforded an illustration of the position of every great
interest of the nation during the diseussions on the tariff. The
remonstrances addressed to Ministers and to Parliament have
passed alike unheeded ; the exertions of the friends on whose
steady support the shipowners have been accustomed to rely
have been paralysed by political considerations, and by the ano-
malous position in which party connections have placed them ;
discussion has been unavailing, and even impracticable • and
changes affecting in vital degrees the best interests of British
navigation have been sanctioned by the House of Commons
with as little apparent consideration as if they had constituted
part of the most ordinary matter of official routine.
" Conduct without precedent," which the ship-owners
" hope may be without parallel," deserted by their
friends, just as the Tories have also deserted their Anti-
Poor-law pledges, " considerations of justice overruled
by what is due to party," such are some of the features
which the shipowners find in the " friends on whom they
had relied." The shipowners, like other Tories, are for-
saking their chosen but faithless chief. Sir R. PEEL is
fast losing the support of his own friends, while his mea-
sures do not command the cordial approbation of the
other party. At present, he is a necessity for all parties.
There could be no Government were he to break up his
administration ; but as parties et sifted and tossed into
fresh places, this necessity will disappear. Sir R. PEEL'S
power, which is at present completely dictatorial, will
then disappear too. He is routing and offending the
monopolists, but he is not winning the free-traders. He
is destroying all parties but the Chartists, and seems pre-
paring the way for a political anarchy.

The Great Western steam-ship, Captain Hosken, ar-
rived at Bristol on Wednesday, having made the passage
from New York in twelve days and as many hours. She
brings news from New York to the evening of the 16th
ult., being, however, only some six hours later than the
intelligence brought by the Columbia, via Liverpool.
An evening edition of the New York Herald, states that
the Commissioners appointed on the part of Massa-
chusetts, Maine, and New Brunswick, to settle the
North Eastern Boundary, were assembled in Washing-
ton, and that, from information derived from an authen-
tic source, the writer had reason to believe that all points
at issue between Great Britain and the United States
would be amicably and speedily adjusted. We sincerely
hope so. Lord ASHBURTON'S instructions are, we be-
lieve, exceedingly liberal, and since his arrival in Wash-
ington the amenity of his deportment has obtained for
him the personal esteem of men of all parties in Con-
gress. The Federal and British Governments are sin-
cere in their desire to settle all differences in the most
friendly manner, and but for the obstinacy of the people
of Maine, the negotiations would be concluded and the
boundary fixed in a week. There will be some difficulty
about the Caroline steamer, as the trial of WLEon proves
that the American Executive has decided judicially that
she was not a pirate. Respecting the Creole case we do not
see how the Federal Government can dream of enforcing
the law of a slave State beyond the boundary, and out of
the jurisdiction of that State. The Journals most violent
upon these topics have assumed a moderation of tone
which shows the prevalence of a growing friendly feeling
towards this country, which is very gratifying.

We have received the whole of the French
Journals. The despatches from Africa fill eight
columns of the Moniteur, but we have given
the substance of them in a paragraph, in our
Foreign Summary. The Royal ordonnance for
imposing an additional itr port duty of 20 per cent, on
linen and linen thread, has secured the election of seve-
ral previously doubtful Government candidates.
The affair of the French African trader, the Deux
Sceurs, searched by the British frigate Madagascar, is
engaging the earnest attention of the French Govern-
ment. The captain of the corvette commanding on the
Senegal station, to whom the outrage was first reported,
having arrived at Brest, was summoned to Paris,
where he had a long conference with M. GUIZOT and
the Minister of Marine. There is little doubt that
explanations will be demanded, which we trust our Go-
vernment will be prepared to make in a satisfactory
manner. Unless a different plan is adopted for carrying
ont this right of search, it is very clear that it will involve
us in endless disputes with all our neighbours. As now con-
ducted it is intolerable, and we are surprised at no resist-
ance offered to it. Why, we repeat for the twentieth time,
not have French officers on board our frigates to search
French vessels ? They would acquire a knowledge of
our seamanship, we grant ; but what is that when
weighed against the perils of a war between France and
England ?

In its second edition the Commerce states that the Tribu-
nal of Bilbao had passed judgment on several individuals
concerned in the insurrection of last October; twenty
are sentenced to death, and twelve to the galleys.
Among the former are the Alcade of Bilbao, a judge
of one of the courts, the Colonel of Militia, M. Benavides, a
deputy, and M. Bastereche, a banker. Among the latter are
General Iriarte, and M. Galiano, ex-Minister of State.
Luckily, however, all these persons are safe in foreign countries.
BO U itbk...—PARIS, TUESDAY, JUNE 28.

The remedies proposed all centered in getting rid
of the Corn-laws, but the practical question is how
can that now be accomplished. There appears to be
no hope nor means of accomplishing it. The Parlia-
ment has placed itself in a false petition by passing
Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Bill, and will not undo its own
bad work. It was proposed to move in the House of
Commons that the Deputation be heard at the bar ;
it was proposed to stop the remaining supplies till
the Government relieve the people ; it was
proposed to bombard the House with cer-
tain resolutions and propositions, which shall
induce the house to take the subject into
its earnest consideration.' What will be done, we
know not ; but we are quite sure that there is no way
of influencing the Parliament so certain, as by ap-
pealing to its fears. As long as gentlemen of the
House of Commons are afraid, in a good cause, of
being called factious—as long as gentlemen out of
doors profess a most dutiful resignation to whatever
the landlords in Parliament decree, so long will the
landlords give to their will the guise of law, and so
long will they plunder and destroy the towns-people by
the consent of the latter. They must be opposed, not
honoured ; and we have heard, we own with satisfac-
tion, that in several of the manufacturing towns the
people have declared that they neither can nor will
pay the Income-tax. Late as it is to influence the
Parliament this session, we are convinced that a new
face would immediately be put on things were the
Anti-Corn-law League now solemnly to declare that
all protecting and discriminating duties are a f_grant
violation of right, and ought to be resisted. Such a re_
solution would go to vitiate the bulk of the taxes, which
are mixed up with discriminating duties, and, were it

First Highest Lowest I.sst
Price Price. Pric.. Pric, .
French 5 per Cent 5........... 118 65 ... 118 65 ... 118 51 ... 118 go
4 per Cents. ...... lOl 60 ... 101 60 ... 101 60 ... 101 60
3 per Cents 79 .... 79 ... 78 70 ... 78 80
Bina oi trance
...no,
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Belgian 5 per Cents.
.. le3
1810. l(4 ... 104 ... 1,4
... 104
4,anish Active 23% ... 234,. ... 23z,
... 23,
Passive 4% ... 4% „ s
. 4 , • '',
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Neapolitan
!Loam .... it 3% ... 101% ... 1034
... 1035 i
PAH-WA 1 SHARES.
St. Germain ... BOll ... 8(0 ... 800 ... gee
Versailles. l(. 1 .
L. 15 97 50 ... 117 59 ... 97 50 ... 142 5e
Rouen 520 ... 520 ... 515 ... 517 50
Orleans
Strasburg to Bale ..... .
DUTCH IU N Ds. A ma' rs so ;tie , JUNE 23.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, '2% per Cent
Jitto, ditto A per eclat.
11.1
Ditto,ncr ditto,Bydi 3
c, 44,i perper
cantcent ...... ....... .....
75% 764
Cemmercial Company, 4% per cent C 150 '1 150_R
Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent.
Loan 1837, 5 per cent. PO 0
Exchange on London, One month....
Twomonths ..... .., l2 0734
klaraburgh, One month 25 75
Two months 35 3736
Dutch Papers, June 29.
BELGIAN It UN Db—BItUnSELS, JUNE 23.
Actual Debt, 234 per Cent.
Hothschild's Loan 5 per Cent 11)2
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 93
3 per Cent.
--- 71%
(1840) 1(2%
Loan of City, P.'32,4 per Cent. 03%
Society of Commerce,44perCent (46
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 76%
National Society —
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, June 28. •
HAMBVRGH BORSEN_HALLE, JUNE 25.
Bills. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents. ... ll6
Bank Shares l6BO
Anglo-Russian Loan BO% 109%
Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate 103)4 It 3

Thirty.seven,

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY SIORNING, JULY 1 1842.

Inscription, lst series lO3
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series 9B
Ditto in Certificates ..... IA % 98
New 4 per Cent. (1840) BY _83%
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. ... ......
Ditto
_ . 5 per Cent. -

Polish Bonds
New Tickets _ _ _ ICB

Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. — 78%
Spanish, New 5 per Cents.

THE GERMAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.—SO de-
lighted was her Majesty with the performance of the
Huguenots at this house on Monday evening, that she has
been graciously pleased to command a repetition of it
this evening, when, accompanied by her illustrious
Consort and the King and Queen of the Belgians, her
Majesty will again honour the German Opera with her
presence. Several Foreign Ambassadors, and such of the
Nobility as are in attendance upon the Court, will be pre-
sent, so that the house will be crowded with the highest
rank and fashion in the land. The German company is
richly deserving of the most extensive public support,
and we trust that it will receive it. Mr. Schloss's ex-
cellent translation of the Huguenots will enable the
English play-goer to enjoy all the beauties of the Opera,
and appreciate the richness of the performance without
any acquaintance with the German language.

THE MARCHIONESS OF WATERFORD.—We are happy
to announce that the interesting and accomplished Mar-
chioness of Waterford is pronounced out of danger. We
have received this gratifying intelligence from a source
on which we can rely.
We are glad to bear testimony that the British public
are supporting British ships in earnest ; this is as it
should be. The General Steam Navigation Company's
favourite steam-ship Rainbow, Captain J. Fife, left the
Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall, yesterday, for Antwerp,
with a cheering number of passengers. Several families
of distinction were on board, among wl om we could ob-
serve his Grace the Archbishop of 'ruam and his family,
Major Mackinlay, and the Rev. 'l'. Bourdier. The
Wilberforce (British ship) had arrived previously from
Antwerp, having had an excellent passage of only 171
hours. Antwerp, June 27.—The Wilberforce arrived
from London in 17 hours.

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND
public Opinion.

" Who runs may read."

POEZXGN.

Despatches receiveCibrtlTePiench Government, state
that the French garrison of Miliaria, in the interior of
Algeria, has suffered a severe check. About 500 French
went to ravage the territory of the Mahildouar. Not a
house, nor a village, says Major Bissun, who commanded,
escaped the flames ; 6,000 oxen, 12,000 sheep, 100 pri•
soners, and a number of mules,/aden with the richest effects,
were taken. The Arabs, visited by this wholesale act
of robbery and destruction, to the number of 2,000,
attacked the French, closing man to man. The combat
lasted half an hour, and the French commander says he
never found enemies so inveterate. The Arabs gave
them at length some respite, when the French retreated.
The Arabs of course pursued, and succeeded in rescuing
their flocks, though the mules laden with the household
wealth were brought away by the French in triumph.
This of iir has been attended .with the loss of two cap-
tains, three lieutenants, four sub-lieutenants, four corpo-
rals, and thirty rank and file, with two officers and seve-
ral non-commissioned officers and privates wounded.
Count d'Appony, the Austrian Ambassador, returned
with his family to Paris on Satuday night, after an ab-
sence on leave for eight months. On Sunday he visited
the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and afterwards went to
the King and Royal family at Neuilly, where he passed
the day.
A correspondent of the National at Toulon, in a hasty
postscript, to a letter with Levant and port news of no
interest, says—" A telegraphic dispatch arrived here
this evening (the date is not given), recalling the Prince
de Joinville to the Tuileries. Orders have been given
to the steamer Sphinx to go after the squadron and bring
back the captain of the Belle Poule. We are-lost in
conjectures as to the cause of this sudden recal."
The Gazette de Madrid of the 21st of June says that
the Government is desirous that justice and firmness
should preside over all the acts of the ne.v Ministry.
This idea may be summed up in three points—fidelity to
the Constitution, probity in administration, and the legi-
timate consequences of the Ist of September. The Con-
stitution sworo to represent the three principles of the
Spanish monarchy—the throne of Isabella 11., a repre-
sentative Government, and the Catholic religion. Pro-
bity will be the base of all the acts of the Government,
which will be true to the highest morality. A strict
publicity—a rigorous vigilance over those employed—
such will be the Minister's device. This is all too good
to be true. "Fine words butter no parsnips."
The following account of the movement of the port of
Odessa is given in a German journal :—From Nov. 1,
1841, to April 30, 1842, there arrived at Odessa 96
English vessels, 63 Austrian, 54 Russian, 30 Sardinian,
25 Greek, 10 lonian, 8 Sicilian, 6 Belgian, 4 Turkish,
2 Sautiot, 1 French,. 1 Tuscan, 1 Dutch, and 1 Wal-
lachia'', in all 302 vessels, 167 with lading, and 135 in
ballast, giving a tonnage of 79,751 tons. The depar-
tures were 82 English vessels, 48 Russian, 40 Austrian,
27 Greek, 21 Sardinian, 12 lonian, 6 Belgian, 4 Turkish,
2 Sicilian, 2 Dutch, 1 French, 1 Tuscan, 1 Prussian,
1 Samiot, and 1 Wallachian, making a total of 249 ves-
sels, 205 with lading, and 44 in ballast, representing a
capacity of 70,180 tuns.
A letter of the -11th ultimo, from Belgrade, quoted by
the . Leipsic Gazette, says—" The Ottoman Govern-
ment has decided that, in future, the Rajahs of the pro-
vinces shall receive their letters and remittances, which
have hitherto been sent through the Austrian post, only
by the Turkish post. Now, as the mail for >eres and
Salonica leaves Constantinople only twice a-week, and
as that by Bulgaria is not yet organised, it may be easily
seen what a severe stroke trade and commerce must re-
ceive from this resolution. Besides, the Rajahs are se
mistrustful and apprehensive, that they will not confide
either their letters or their money to the Turkish post,
and hope that the Austrian Ambassador will interpose
in their favour." _

The Austrian Observer states, under its Constanti-
nople head, that the last news from Trebizond an-
nounced that Sir H. M'Neil, Britannic Envoy at the
Court of Persia, was performing quarantke in that town,
and that he reckoned setting out for Constantinople on
the Bth instant.

The Prussian State Gazette of the 23d ult. publishes
an order of the day of the Russian Minister of War,
dated St. Petersburgh, the 15th, giving rather a pom-
pous account of an unimportant affair between 200
Cossacks and some Circassians at Chapazai, in which
the latter were defeated, and lost two pieces of cannon.
The same order of the day relates another affair, in
which the Russians took a small fort of two guns.
PARIMILMENTAILY. •

The so-called Royal Assent, meaning the assent of the Mi-
nisters, was given last night to a whole batch of Bills, which
were thus at once converted lute solemn laws.

The Customs' Bill or Tariff was brought 4 from the Com-
mons, read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on
Tuesday next.
The Earl of Mountcashel brought the condition of the immi-
grants into Canada under their Lordships' notice. He said that
6,000 had gone thither from the United States and 17,000 from
England and Ireland. They would only find employment on
public works, and were likely to be in great distress. The Duke
of Wellington was not prepared to give the Noble Earl any
information on the subject.
In the course of a short debate on the second reading of the
Corporations (Ireland) Bill, Lord Campbell adverted to the
hasty and improper manner in which the Justices Jurisdiction
Bill had been carried through before the usual hours of busi-
ness, hut obtained no satisfactory explanation. The Corpora-
tions Bill was passed through all its stages, the Standing Orders
having been suspended.
Several petitions were presented on the state of the country,
and against hurrying through the Collieries Bill. Lord
Brougham gave notice that he would on Monday week, bring
the distress of the country under their Lordships' consideration.
Their Lordships then adjourned.
In the Commons, Sir R. Peel laid on the table the breviates
of the ratified treaties with Texas, and in answer to Mr.
O'Connell, said that Texas had not established an efficient
blockade on the west coast of Mexico.

Mr. Hawes complained of the great additional duty levied
on cement-stone under the new tariff, and Air. Gladstone said
the subject should receive further attention.
In answer to Colonel Verner, Lord Eliot stated that the
Government had not any intention of increasing the grant to
Maynooth ; and Sir R. Peel cautioned the world not to believe
the stories about a dispute in the Irish Government.
In rerly to Mr. Wallace, Sir R. Peel said he did not mean
to alter the standard of silver.

In reply to Mr. M. Alilnes Sir R. Peel said he had heard
nothing official of the proposed new duties to be levied in the
German League on woollens. He had some conversation on
the subject with the Prussian Minister, and he hoped the report
was unfounded. He would not, however, answer for the
future.

Lord Mahon brought the state of the drama under the notice
of the House, and complained of its condition. He merely
moved for memorialspresented to the Secretary of State on the
subject, which were ordered.
Mr. Gaily Knight moved for certain ukases issued by the
Emperor of Russia, and brought the state of Poland under the
notice of the House. He was seconded by Sir F. Burdett,
and a strong opinion favourable to restoring the nationality of
that country was expressed by Mr. Hume, Mr. Milnes, Mr.
P.IM. Stewart, and others. 6':r Robert Peel spoke feelingly
and justly on the subject, deprecating all violent language,
but expressing an opinion that the Emperor of Russia would
do well to ameliorate the condition of the Poles. The motion
was agreed to.
Sir. Cowper called the attention of the House to the
hospital schools at Greenwich, and made a long statement
relative to the education in them, which seems to be most
deplorable. Of 50 boys, 15 could neither read nor write,
though there was a clergyman at the head of the school. A
short discusssion ensued as to the authority in whose hands the
inspection of the school should be placed, but in the end Sir.
Cowper'withdrew his resolution.
Viscount Clements afterwards drew the attention of the
House to a local subject, the administration of the Grand Jury
Laws of the county of Donegal. The House adjourned at
a Quarter to Two o''Clock.

PUFLIAC OPINION.
The expressions of the Prime Minister in the late debate on
A ffglianistan, with regard to their bearing on Russia, are
viewed in the following light by the Morning Herald:—" Sir
Robert Peel honestly declares that he believes that Russia does
now support England in Asia. We freely join in that belief ;
in doing
finds in the present British Government what she has found
to, Russia pursues her own interests, because she
in the principal European Cabinets for a century past (to use
the memorable cords of the Quarterly Review), ' the tools
with which she works.' But independently of the honest con-
fidence of our Ministers in the support of Russia, there is, we
suspect, in their minds a sense g necessity for relying on that
support— a fear that Russia can and may disturb our eastern
possessions, and,
consequently, a dread of being compelled to re-
sist her supposed influence in that quarter."
The Times treats humorously upon the appointment of Mr.
Roebuck's Committee :—" Mr..Roeback continues to tell the
world of his anxiety to spare the feelings of those gentlemen I
whom his Committee is intended to expose. And what turn
do our readers Suppose that his affectionate consideration has
taken? He is absolutely killing them with kindness—he is too
good. He i 3 actually pressing the House to adopt a resolution
_.and this simply to spare the feelings of the parties whom he

is to disgrace—that even Members of the House of Commons 1 MONE Y and COMMERCiAL NEWS.
shall not be allowed to enter the chamber of the inquisition. . CITY, THURSDAY EVENING.
lie is absolutely afraid that the too sensitive feelings of the The English Market renamed without change in prices
gentlemen whose character is at stake should revolt at giving
' at the close of business ; Consols leaving off at 91 911 for the
their evidence before any other witness than himself and his
opening ex div. ; Reduced, 91* 91%; Bank Stock, 16611671 ;
eight familiars—this evidence, which next Wednesday or , Exchequer Bills, Old, 45 47 . New, 4143 prem.
Thursday is, as Mr. Roebuck Lopes, to be brought before the ' In the Foreign Market Brazilian and Dutch Securities rather
House of Commons, printed in a blue book, and circulated
through the kingdom, price eighteenpence." I improved, the bitter being 52% 52% for the Two-and-a-Half,
I and 10034 101* for the Five per Cents., and the former
The Morning Post makes the subjoined remarks on the pre- 164 66 ; iielgian remained at 102 103 ; and Danish 81 82.
sent results of free trade, and the system of beating down In the Share Market, London and Birmingham were 175
prices :—" Since 1819 this nation has been gradually adopting 177 ;
more and more of the free-trade notions and principles. It has 86Birmingham and Gloucester, 49 51 ; Great Western,
1 871 ; the Half Shares, 61 611 ; South Western, 60 61 ;
been more and more bringing them into action. Look at the North Midland, 61 63 ; the New Shares, 30 31; South
result. Look at the condition of our traders and of our menu- Eastern and Dover, 231 24/ ; Eastern Counties, 84 9/ ;
facturing population. But we were prosperous in 1836. Yes, Btackwall, 991 ; and Brighton, 35 35/ per share.
and it is conceivable that after the present gulph of misery has The fraud attempted in the Mexican market this morning
been passed we may be prosperous again in 1844, but it err- still attracts much attention, and causes the greatest indigna-
tainly is not at all probable that even if we are, we shall con- tion. It has now been fully ascertained that the parties
tinue so for any length of time. As we are circumstanced we who sold the first thing at the highest price, were eager
cannot be prosperous without doing more than in the nature o purchasers at the lowest rate, from whence it is concluded
things any country can continue to do. And the reason, we that the whole affair was a previously arranged scheme.
submit, is plain. The tendency of our policy has been so to A meeting of the Committee is announced to take place to-
beat down prices and profits that no moderate and continuable morrow, but it is generally thought that it should have taken
business will suffice for us. If we be not doing twice as much I place to-day. The last quotation was 35 36.
as the demand of the whole world actually requires, we seem (Bann The Sun of Lust Night.)
to be languishing. We are not making enough of profits. The The English funds have been extremely quiet to-day, but
result is too much work—then stagnation—then too much work with every appearance of firmness. Consuls have been 911 for
again—then stagnation again, and so the condition-of-England the Opening ex div. ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 911 91* ;
pendulum oscillates, the condition of the working classes of Three-and-a- Half per Cents. iseduced, 100*; India Bonds,
England gradually becoming (as a whole) worse and worse." 25 ; Exchequer Bills, Old, 45, and New, 41 43 prem.
The decision of Chief Justice Pennefather, in the case of the In Foreign Securities—Dutch Twiaand-a- Half per Cents.
die fast Vindicator, is thus commented upon by the Morning have been sold at 521, and the Five per Cents., 101*.
Chronicle:—" The law as laid down by the Chief Justice, if A most infamous swindle was attempted this morning in the
adhered to, would annihilate all liberty of the press, for it Mexican market. At the commencement of business there ap-
amounts to this, that no person has a right to find fault with peared to be buyers of the stock at 37, and immediately after, cer-
any part of the conduct of any man in authority, except by tain operations had been effected, an individual stated, upon the
proceedings in a Court of Law, or petition to the Legislature. authority of a letter from his brother in New York,
In practice the law is that any man may animadvert on all that the house of Lizardi and Co., at New Orleans,
matters of public concernment, and the limitation implied is had stopped payment. 'the effect of this was to de-
that truth shall be adhered to. The whole public life of Eng- press the quotation to 31, when the same parties
land is an open infraction of the law of Lord Chief Justice Pen- became buyers. This created some suspicion, and inquiry was
nefather. Every public meeting, every journal that is pub- then made of the London firm, who were in a position to state
lished, contains matter reflecting more or less on some men in that the report was utterly without foundation, and could only
office. By the Irish reading of English law the whole people have been promulgated from malicious motives towards them or
of England are in the habitual violation of the law. We do not for stock- jobbing purposes. 'f he Stock then rose to 36, but
say that he is not correct in his exposition of the law ; but we the market has since been heavy in consequence of the previous
contend that were such law to be acted on, the greatest revolu- fall, and the price is now 35 35*. The Committee have not
tion ever known in the world would be effected." escaped censure for not having declared all bargains made in
MONEY—TRADE —C OILYIDIERC E.
The General Shipowners' Society held their tenth an• consequence of the fraud to be void. The parties engaged in
nual meeting at the London Tavern on Wednesday. Sir Charles the business are all well• known, and the connection between
them clearly to be traced, and it is to be hoped that they will
Napier, Mr. Robert Barry, Mr. George Lyall, M.P., and the
not be allowed to escape ith impunity.
leading British shipping-masters of the metropolis, were pre-
In the Share Market the only purchases have
sent. The Report, which was of great length, enumerated the
burgh and Glasgow, 45 . Northern and Eastern, 39* ; Eastern
been—Edin-
ameliorations which had taken place in the late regulations
Counties, 9 ; and righlon Loan Notes, 7i.
regarding officers, anchorages, the sound-tariff, &c. &c.
PUBLIC IDIPILOITZDIEATTS. Colombian Bonds are quoted 221, having been 21%; Portu-
The Select Committee on the " Improvement of the Health geese Five per Cents., 34i; Spanish Five per Cents., 203/4 20i;
of Towns," has just closed its labours, and the evidence given and the Three per Cents., 22% 22%.
will shortly be laid before the public. Its leading feature The accounts by the Great Western are but one day later
is an unanimous declaration of the members, that " burial in than those by the Colambia, and contain no additional infor-
towns " ought absolutely to be discontinued by Act of Parlia- 'nation in American affairs. A vessel, however, had arrived
mint, and it is further recommended that legislation upon the from Mexico bringing intelligence from that city to the 14th,
subject be in the first instance confined to the metropolis, and and from Vera Cruz to the 17th of May. There was scarcely
certain large towns and cities, the population of which exceeds any news. Santa Anna had issued several voluminous decrees
50,000 ; but that Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's, as sepul- fur the purpose of carrying the alterations in the import duties,
tures for the celebrated dead, and family vaults anywhere else, and regulations regarding the entry of ships, into full effect.
as private property, should be exempted from the operation of The President of Texas had appointed the 27th of June for
the Act. the meeting of Congress, and it was stated that the intention
At Windsor Castle severs tanks of considerable magnitude was immediately to invade Mexico, and to march upon that
are now erecting, as a precaution in case of fire. One reser- country during the ensuing winter and spring. About
voir, in the centre of the quadrangle, has just been commenced, two thousand armed emigrants had already left the
which will contain about 30,000 gallons of water, to be supplied southern States to assist the Texians, and it was thought had
from the Thames. Three iron tanks are in course of forma- collected nearly 20,000 dollars to prosecute the war. It was
tion, one of which will be erected on the top of the Devil, or expected that much opposition in Congress would be made to a
Maiden Tower, to contain upwards of 20 tons of water; a se- declaration of hostilities, many persons of considerable stand-
cond on the top of the Victoria Tower, to be kept constantly ing and influence being known to be anxious for amicable ar-
filled with upwards of 10,000 gallons; and a third on the top rangementss An American Editor compares them to " two
of George the Fourth's Tower. By these means 100,000 gal- dog, looking at each other, all snarl and no bite."
lons of water will be always ready. The end of July will com- Livisaroor. COTTON MARKET, JUNE 29.—Trade remains
plete the works. dull. About 4,000 bales of Cotton were sold without change
The new normal school of the British and Foreign Society in prices.
was ou Wednesday opened in the Borough-road. Lord J. Russeil LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JUNE 29.—Sales were on a
occupied the chair, and addressed the company in a speech. limited scale, and business very flat. The transactions were
Donations amounting to upwards of 6001. were announced'. Edinburgh and Glasgow, New, 3% ; London and Birming•
AGRICULTURAL. ham, New, 30 ; Quarters, 36%; Paris and Rotten, New, 41.
On the subject of the weather and crops quotations might be Ma tictinsrna STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 29.—We have
made from our contemporaries of the three kingdoms, all of had a little more business doing at low prices, the quotations
whom, however, coincide in pronouncing the present season to are : Edinburgh and Glasgow, 47; Ditto, Quarters, 311 Lon-
be the most favourable and fruitful experienced for a period of don and Birmingham, New 32/. Shares, 293 ; Manchester and
many years. Birmingham, 233 ; Manchester and Leeds, Quarters, 5; Man-

ECCLESIASTICAL.

Church-rate dissensions are matter of dispute in different
parts of the country. At Hemel Hempstead, Herts, distress
has been levied upon many of the inhabitants, and at Hereford
and Ipswich many recusants have been summoned for pay-
ment. At Aston, Birmingham, the Church-rate Association
have re-purchased all the goods lately sold under distraint; and
at Maidstone, an amendment at a meeting cancelled the consi-
deration of the subject for six months.
I.IS AV AND POLICE.

®Thomas Jones, Hammersmith, was en Wednesday charged at
the Kensington Police-court with concealing property belong-
ing to the estate of George Fuller, shawl and silk dealer, of 153,
Regent-street, a bankrupt. The evidence, however, respecting
the first charge was so conflicting, that the Magistrate said he
could not think of sending the defendant for trial, but respecting
a slab in question Mr. Jones put in bail to appear at the sessions
to answer the charge.
FINE ARTS. _

A Conservatory of Music is to be founded at Berlin, 01 which
M. Felix Mendelssohn is to have the direction. A grant of
MAO crowns annually is about to be made by the King for
this establishment.
LITE.R.AILY AND SCIENTIFIC.

The meeting of the British Association of Science will be
held next year at Cork.
The ceremony of the installation at Cambridge commences
next Saturday, July 2. On the following Monday the Chan-
cellor holds his levee, and entertains to dinner Sir Robert Peel,
the Duke of Wellington, &c., with a distinguished party.
Tuesday will be " Scarlet," or Commemoration-day. Wednes-
day and Thursday will be also devoted to festivities.

ehester-and LivcrPool District Bank, 10/. 6s. 3d. . .
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red. .. ...... 911 'Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent. C0n5..... — Ditto Old Annuities -
3i per Cent. Red.........100i Ditto New Annuities —
New 3i per Cent......... Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d 43 pm
New 5 per Ceti', — Ditto 500/...... 43 pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ...... 43 pm
Jan. 1860 ......... 12 9-1613ank Stock for Acct....
Oct. 1859
Jan. 1860 — Consols for Opg.
FOREIGN FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per cent. — Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto 34
Brazilian Bonds — Prussian, 5 per cent....
BuenosAyres6 per cent — Russian, 5 per cent......
Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic . ....
Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent...... 20/1
Ditto, 1624 2li Ditto, Deferred.... .
Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f. —e.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — i Exchange —f —c.
Mexican, 5 per cent 36i French, 3 per cent. —f. —c.
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 IDutch, 2i per cent. s2i
Peruvian,lB2s, 6 perct. ' Ditto, 5 per cent. .. ... 100 i
SHARES.

Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) .... 9
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...... ... 414
Ditto New Shares ( 3 paid ..
Great Western Railway (65 paid)
Ditto New Shares (50 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid)
l.,itto Loan Notes (74 paid)
London and South Western (411 6s 10d pd) 60
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) —
Ditto Scrip. ( 5 paid)

DREADFUL FIRE IN BERMOND
SEY-WALK.

At three yesterday morning a most destructive fire broke
out on the premises belonging to Mr. Barnsey, a plumber and
painter, situated at No. 13, Bermondsey. walk: The fire was
discovered by police-constable 31erratt, No. 222, who found
the back of the premises in a blaze, and immediately aroused
the family. The rapid spread of the flames soon extended to
Messrs. Cotton and Owst's, hoop-binders, on whose premises
were deposited many thousands of hoops, and, impelled by the
strong wind blowing at the time, the fire caught and totally de-
stroyed the following houses :
No. 12, Bermondsey-walk, belonging to Mr. Mansell, che-
mist, &c., considerably damaged. Insured—stock in the Phoe-
nix, and the building in the Sun.

No. 11, the Golden Fleece public-house, belonging to Mr.
Smith, back-front greatly damaged, and also the contents. In
sured in the British.

Nos. 1,2, aod 3, belonging to Messrs. Carver, Robertson,
and French, totally destroyed, not even the bare walls remain-
ing. These houses were let out in lodgings, and, we regret to
state, that the inmates have lost their all, and are not insured
for a single penny.
Nos. 42, 43, 44, and 45, opposite, belonging to Messrs.
Iloneyman, Goodacre, and Moore, greatly damaged, and all
uninsured.

About four o'clock the wind shifted, and the flames were
blown right across the street to Crosby-place, setting fire to
the private house belonging to Thomas Bramley, Esq., which
is partly demolished, and is uninsured; it then laid hold of
Captain Page's residence, being No. 3, which is considerably
damaged ; insured in British and Sun.

No. 1 belonging to Mr. Wheeler, partly consumed, not
known whether insured. N 0.2, Mr. Flemming's, quite down
Insured in the British and Sun.

No. 4, Mr. Little, potatoe-merchant, quite down, insured.
Messrs. Landels'i grana►iet, No. 14, Bermondsey-wall, totally
destroyed, with an immense quantity of corn; not known whe-
ther insured. Mr. Spy, baker, No. 15; Mr. Saunders, cook-
shopkeeper, No. 16 ; and an uninhabited house—all three
quite destroyed and not insured.
Up to five o'clock last night, the various engines were kept
in constant operation, pouring an immense stream of water
upon the burning mass, which had the desired effect of prevent-
ing the fire from extending. The two floating engines conti-
nued playing upon the ruins throughout the whole of the night
The official account sent into one of the principal insurance
offices of the amount of damage is estimated at 88,000/. Sir.
Ramsay, on whose premises the fire commenced, is fortunately
insured in the Sun. How the fire originated remains a perfect
mystery.

A marriage took place on the 20th ult., says a
letter from Wiesbaden, at the Chateau of Biebrich, between
the Prince de Weid and the Princess Mary of Nassau. The
Court, the Corps Diplomatique, and an immense number of
distinguished foreigners, were present at the ceremony.
The Senate of ilanaburgh has just published a third
list of subscriptions towards the relief of the sufferers from the
late fire. The total amount received up to the 15th instant was
3,000,000 of mares bane°, about 4,800,000 f.

LAMENTABLE OCCURRENCE.-011 Tuesday evening
an inquest was held at the White Hart public-house, Wood-
ford, Essex, before C. C. Lewis, Esq., Coroner for the southern
division of the county, on view of the body of Mrs. Jane E.
Watkins, the wife of a highly respectable farmer residing in
that neighbourhood. From the evidence it appeared that some
days before she observed a bridle, which had been generally
used by her when driving out in a chaise (which she was fre-
quently in the habit of doing) on one of the farming horses.
She in consequence proceeded to the farmyard, where the
animal was standing in a chaise cart, and incautiously removed
it from his head. The animal instantly dashed off, and before
the deceased had time to get out of its way, knocked her down,
and not only trampled upon her, but drew the cart over her,
and one of the wheels passed over her abdomen, chest, and
neck. After lingering in extreme suffering for two days she
expired. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death.'
ROTTERDAM, JUNE 24.—The English steamer that,
arrived yesterday had on board the Marquis of Tweeddale, Earl
Gifford, Lord William Hay, with family and suite, and the
young Lord Brabazon.
FRANKFORT, JUNE 24.—1 t eems to be certain
that Prince Metternich will arrive in the Rheingau towards
the latter end of August. His Highness has accepted the
invitation of the King of Prussia to be present at the laying
of the first stone for the completion of the Cathedral of Cologne.
" Are you fond of novels, Mr. Jones ?" " Very,"
responded the interrogated gentleman, who wished to be
thought, by the lady questioner, fond of literature. " Have
you," continued the inquisitive lady, " ever read Ten Thou-
sand a Year ?' " " No madam ; I never read so many novels in
all my life !"—New York Paper.
Tile Duke of Wellington has issued cards for a
grand dinner at Apsley House, to-morrow.
The Emperor of Russia has conferred the Order of
St. Stanislas on M. Champollion, jun., for a work, still in ma-
nnecript, on the remote History of Russia.
HAMBURGH, JUNE 25.—Among the proofs of sym-
pathy for the misfortune of Hamburgh which e received from
all quarters, those from England, and especially from London,
are especially distinguished : not only did the Government
give immediate relief to the houseless, by sending tents and
blankets, and the wealthy city contributed amply, but private
individuals have shown the interest they take in our welfare.
Thus Mr. Frederick Huth, of London, formerly our fellow -
citizen, has tent over as a present an English fire-engine with
the latest improvements. The trial made with this engine has
fulfilled all the expectations formed of it; and though we
must hope that Heaven will preserve us from the cases in which
it might be useful to us, Hamburgh is equally obliged for thus
providing against future dangers.—Hamburgh Boraen-Halle,
June 25.

We understand that Parliament is expected to rise
about the 20th of July.—Brighton Gazette.
Rossini's Stabat Mater, from the original score,
will be given at the St. James's Theatre to-morrow at two
o'clock. Demoiselle Lutzer, Madame Pacini, Signor Mario,
and Herr Staudigl will undertake the vocal parts. Conductor,
Signor Gabassi.