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THE S t N, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVEN ING, JULY 30, 1845,

consideration of the Bill Jhoul d be postponed to that day
three months.

The Marquis of CLANRICARDE hoped the Bill would
be allowed to proceed. He was rejoiced to find their
Lordships opposing themselves to railway jobbing, but it
was not fair to pounce upon this particular Bill,w hen other
parties equally guilty had been permitted to carry their
Bills,through the House. The railway would be a great
advantage to Ireland, and they would do no substantial
good by stopping this Bill.
Earl BATHURST said the report did not go into the
merits of the scheme. It merely stated that fraud had
been committed.

Lord BEAUMONT would vote for tho postponement, as
a proper punishment for the parties who had been guilty
of the fraud.

The Duke of CLEVELAND, Lord REDESDALE, and
Lord MONTEAGLE, supported the motion for post-
ponement.
The Earl of DEVON considered that if the Bill were
rejected they would be inflicting injury on those who
were innocent, and therefore he should oppose the

motion.
The Duke of WELLINGTON thought the conduct of the
directors suspicious. They should have come before the
Committee to clear themselves.
On a division, the motion for rejecting the Bill was
carried by a majority of 29—the numbers being, for the
Earl of BESBORO UGH'S motion 37, against it 8.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that he should on
Friday move that proof should be required by the
Standing Orders' Committee that the names subscribed
to a Bill or a petition be genuine.
The Duke of BuccLEuca moved the third reading
of the Scotch Poor-Law Bill.
Lord CAMPBELL opposed the 17th clause. The House
was subsequently addressed by the Earl of DALHOUSIE,
the LORD •CHANCELLOR, Lord COTTENHAM, and the
Duke of WELLINGTON. The clause, however, was even-
tuall3 withdrawn, and the Bill was read a third time
and passed.
Several other Bills were then forwarded a stage, after
which their Lordships adjourned.
The Commons met at Twelve.
Several unopposed Bills were forwarded a stage.
On the third reading of the Small Debts Bill,
Mr. H. BERKELEY objected to the 7th clause, which
gave to the Secretary of State the power of increasing
or diminishing the number of courts.
Sir J. GRAHAM consented to the substitution of the
words " her Majesty" for the words " Secretary of
State," and the Bill was read a third time and passed.
On the third reading of the Customs Bill,
Mr. WAwN moved the insertion of a clause exempting,
under certain circumstances,vessels in ballast from pilotage
dues. The clause, on a division, was negatived, the
numbers being, for the clause, 11 ; against it, 26 ;
majority, 15.
The Bill was then read a third time and passed.
On the motion for the recommittal of the Joint Stock
Banks (Ireland and Scoitlan,l) Bill,
Mr. BoUVERIE moved that it be recommitted that day
six months.
The motion, which was supported by Mr. P. M.
STEWART and opposed by the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
CHEQUER, was negatived without a division ; the Bill
was recommitted ; the House resumed, and the report
was received.
On the motion of Viscount CounTEN.tr,the Chairman
of the Committee on Group X was empowered to
report on the London and York Railway Bill forthwith.
Several additional standing orders, regulating the pas
sage of Railway Bills through the House, were then
agreed to, after a shurt discussion. The principal effect
of these alterations in the standing orders will be to in-
crease the deposits on all railway schemes, except those
which have already passed the House, from 5 to 10
per cent.
Mr. Mu.siza G IBSON then moved for a Select Com-
mittee to inquire into the allegations in the petition of
Colonel LAUTOUR, complaining of the manner in which
he had been treated by the Government in relation to
certain lands granted to him at the Swan River.
After a short explanation from Mr. HOPE the motion
was withdrawn.
The report of the Committee of Supply was brought
up and agreed to, and the House adjourned.

' The Oxford Circuit, it appears, have come to a reso-
lution to exclude from its bar-mess any of its members
who are connected with the public press. As it is
highly fitting that the locality, as well as the date of
any very momentous event should be faithfully recorded,
we deem it necessary to state that this decree of ex-
communication was fulminated in the ancient city of
Shrewsbury—hitherto memorable by no more dignified
associations than those which connect themselves with
such events as the fight between the Houses of Lan-
caster and Northumberland—the progress of the young
Harry of Monmouth, or the bloody death of Barry
Hotspur. It will now be remembered as the scene of
one of those awful sentonreg of <exclusion and separation,
the terror of which survives to a remote posterity,
as it reads with reverence and awe the mighty doings of
the great men of former ages. Our readers are probably
aware that it has long been the custom of the principal
London newspapers to take their reports of the causes
tried in various parts of the kingdom, before the judges
of assize, and of the proceedings in other (provin-
cial) courts, from gentlemen who are barristers, for
the most part practising on such circuits, and whose con-
nexion, for these purposes, with the metropolitan
journals, arises out of the fact of their having been, at
some former period, attached to one of the several corps
of London Parliamentary reporters. In other instances,
it is perfectly well known that these barristers, although
in practice in the law courts, and entered of such
circuits, still retain this connexion of Parliamentary re-
porters with the newspapers. In the latter capaciv, it
is scarcely possible for men of somewhat more than ace
rage talent and quickness, nut to acquire a far deeper
insight, into the course of public business—the
history and bearing of passing events—the arguments
for and against particular measures of legislation, or
lines of ft reign and domestic policy still pending or re-
cently adopted—and the springs and motives of the con-
(Net of living statesmen—than gentlemen, the whole of
whose practical exparierce of the business of the world
and the characters of men, is limited to that which is to
be acquired within the four walls of a law court, the se-
clusion of chambers, their daily tour in term time be-
tween the one and the other, and the travelling observa-
tions of the most important periodical excitement of
their existence—going the circuit. On circuit, therefore,
the maajority of the members of a bar-mess will be found
a company of well-behaved gentlemen, whose conversa-
tion is either the moat insipid er the most technical in
the world,—limited, in the one case, to college
reminiscences of the stupendous attainments of " read-
ing-men," and the stupendous sprees and follies
of " gay men ;" the wine parties given in A. B.'s rooms
—the card parties at C. D.'s ; or, in the other case, their
conversation is limited to the discussion of this or that
issue, the argument of the counsel, and the charge of
the judge. The fact is, that, taken as a body, practising
barristers have about the least share of general informa-
tion, the mast contracted acquirements in general sci-
ence, the most uninformed and prejudiced views on all
general questions that lie dehors the little circle of the
legal business with which they are connected, or to
which their attention has been directed, than any branch
of the other liberal professions can be reproached with.
It is nothing to the purpose to talk of the scientific at-
tainments of the LYNDRUISSTS, the BRUCES, the Poe-
LOCKS, the ALDERSONS, the PARKES, and the MAULES,
on the Bench ; or the very few conspicuous men now
below it, who arc worthily following in the footsteps
of the late Sir WILLIAM FOLLETT, or the present
Mr. PEMBERTON LEIGH, manifesting the highest
cultivation of intellect and extension of knowledge,
with the most profound and intimate acquaintance with
the theory of law, and of the professional practice de•
voted to their practical exposition and application.
But the muster-roll is soon called over ; and when these
and a few more of the same eminence are told off, there
remain not practitioners enough to supply the skeleton
of another ..emnpany. All the remaining " rank and
file" are not only meo of common-place, and even in-
ferior learning of knowledge, in the largest ~ens, of
those terms—but ru n who will boast, as we ourselves
have heard an eminent judge boast, who now presi.fes
over one of the most important tribunals of the Kingdom,
when, as opposing counsel, he had to reply to a Learned
Brother (an " Oxford man," too,) who had aptly quoted
in the course of his argument a passage from Horace
(" ad Pisonem ;") that " Thank God, they know
nothing bet law." Whether it is a sense of these and
similar deficiencies which creates in the majority of the
members of a bar-nines- the sort of pr. jodye and
that they have lone hooves teil ~f tht. ..r th re • ~:emh-
ers of it who may happen to !ie eminect-d with the
newspapers, we will not unthriake to determine. But
since this hostility, although but recently developed at
Shrewsbury, is of many years' standing, and appears to
have already pervaded the bar-messes of other circuits,
we think it but fair to stigmatize it as the miserable
ebullition of a petty and disgraceful
,jealousy. Jealousy,
it may be, on the part of the briefiess, of those who
have, in these newspaper connexions, permanent re-
saerces beyond their prof,s,io;:til earnings, or, on the
part of those who d hold briefs. of men that have a ca-
pacity which can travel beyond their contents or th,
pleadings founded upon them. A Learned Chief Baron,
not long since deceased, before his elevation to the
Bench, entertained, as we have reason to know, similar

intentions to that on which the Shrewsbury sages have
acted, but neither to this extent, nor to the disqualifying
men, previously connected with the press, from being
called to the bar, did that learned individual ever suc-
ceed in giving effect to his object.
On the particular circumstances out of whisk this re-
solution of the Oxford bar-mess arose, we shall not
animadvert, except to observe that if the alleged
ground of the resolution be the true one, it manifestly
involves an act of the most signal injustice and insult to
the whole number of those barristers who have any
connexion with the press, on account of the unfair con-
duct charged upon one individual of that number. If
the alleged ground of the " resolution " be not the true
one,—then is the whole proceeding a miserable and un-
worthy attempt to conceal the principle of the animosity
entertained, under a quibble to which an assembly of
gentlemen should have been ashamed to resort.
We have all respect for Mr. Sergeant TAL•
Fotrau, as a very amiable gentleman, a man
of letters, and an upright lawyer ; and we imagine
that the professional friends, who possess the advan-
tage of his personal frien.lship, may have felt warmly,
and earnestly resented, the supposed designed omission
of his name from the law reports supplied by a member
of the Oxford Circuit, to our most influential Contem-
porary. But the bar-mess, to justify their " resolution
of excluding all other barristers of similar connexions,
could have been justified only by being in a condition to
show that these latter, as a body, adopt the practice of
suppressing names in respect of the same Learned Gen-
tleman, or others of the same profession. But, to take
for granted that such must be the case, is just as objec-
tionable as if we were to form our judgment of the gene_
ral spirit of a liberal profession from the paltry conduct
of a handful of such illiberal members of it as the bar-
mess of the Oxford Circuit. if, as we shrewdly suspect,
the true moving cause of this " resolution " be a
feeling of personal jealousy on the part of the " finer
gentleman " of the Circuit—of those who are reluc-
tant that " working gentlemen " who honourably
supplement their want of private patrimony by under-
eaking the duties of a laborious, responsible, and im-
portant vocation, to the due and honest discharge of
which the most distinguished members of the bar are
largely indebted, not only for their professional reputa-
tion, but for the professional incomes they earn—we tell
the parties concerned in tho traasaction that they will
have to retrace the step they have taken. Public opi-
nion will not endure it. Professional liberality will not
confirm it. Barristers who report, or have reported, fur
the public press, will continue to " stand between the
wind and their gentility " with as much meritorious
ambition to achieve, and as much unwearied energy in
accomplishing professional distinction, and even legis-
lative eminence, as the gifted owners of those illustrious
names which are entered on the records of the same
career as that they have adopted. It can never be
matter of reproach with the wise or the good, the
learned or the leaders in the noblest branch of civil
institutions, to have selected the same path and trodden
in the same footsteps which Dr. CAMPBELL, and Dr.
JOHNSON, BURKE, MACKINTOSH, DOUGLAS, and WOOD-
FALL, among those who are no more, and titled and
ennobled individuals among their survivors and suc-
cessors who still remain among us—have followed with
honour to themselves and advantage to the public, as
the high road to that preferment and eminence which
they have adorned and illustrated by their preferment
to them.

Accounts have been received from Madrid to the 22d.
The Ministers had all left that evening for Saragossa,
where the important question of the QUEEN'S journey to the
Basque provinces will be discussed. This question involves
the questions of the ascendancy of CHRISTINA or NARVAEZ,
and also that of a Carlist alliance. The QUEEN and her
mother and sister left Barcelona for Saragossa on the morning
of the 21st. They were accompanied by NARVAEZ and
CONCHA, and had been preceded by MAttriNEz DE LA RosA.
The Three per Cents. closed at 2814 for cash, and 28 13-16
at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 211/4 for the 27th of Aug. ;
and the Coupons at 24 at 30 days.

The mail from Buenos Ayres brings accounts to the
26th May.
°MBE had issued a proclamation calling on all those who
had taken refuge in Brazil to return and live quietly in their
native land.
Mr. MANDEVILLE had delivered his letters of recal on the
7th, and on the Bth Mr. OUSELY had presented his creden-
tials. The Governor in taking leave of Mr. MANDEVILLE
had expressed himself in the most friendly terms towards the
British Government. Mr. MANDEVILLE embarked on the 21st
May on board her Majesty's brig Racer.
Exchange on England, 3% to 3 15-16 d. per dol. ; Ditto
on France, 43 to 44 cent. per dol. ; Ditto on Rio Janeiro, 13
per cent. prem. ; Ditto on Monte Video, 12 per cent. prem. ;
Ditto on United States, 12 per U. S. dol.
We have received the Paris papers of Monday.

We find in the Allinaiteur the law authorisingthe adjudica.
Lion of the Tjurs and Nantes, the Paris and Strasburgh Rail
ways, and tie branch lines to Fermi), to Dieppe, and to Aix.

The Conservative candidate, N. ALFRED RENOURD DE
BUSSIKRE, had been returned deputy Er Strasburgh.
Don CARLOS and the Princess of BEIRA were at Avignon
on the 24th.

The news of the co. cpe of Dr. STFIGER from Lucerne was
received with enthusiasm in Germany, and celebrated by
The Constitutionnel states that the King of Pnussrn has
refused to accede to the request of the Catholic German
Princes, made at the suggestion of the Court of Rome, that
he would adopt energetic measures for the repression of the
schism which has recently sprung up in the Catholic Church.
After reminding the applicants of the refusal of Rome to
interfere to put a stop to the incendiary proceedings of the
Jesuits, the answer of the KING states that the present move-
ment is only the result of the culpable conduct which the
Ultramontanists have pursued towards Prussia.
Notwithstanding the comparative gloom on our Money-
market on Saturday last, the Paris Bourse was on Monday
unusually animated. Railroad shares rose with rapidity,
and to a height that was quite unexpected. Orleans, for
example, reached 1,237 if., being a rise of 35f. as compared
with the closing price on Saturday. The Vielle Montagne
Zinc Shares remained at 7,2501., and the Nouvelle Montagne
at 3,0001. (Saturday's price).
This buoyancy communicated itself to the transactions in
public securities.
The Three per Cents. closed at 83f. 70c. ; the Five per
Cents. at 121 t. 90c. ; Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,237 f. 50c. ;
Rouen, 1,072 E 50c ; Vierzon, 780 f. ; Havre, 892 E 50c. ;
Avignon, 1,032 f. 50c. ; Basle, 270 f. ; Spanish Passives, 6i.

The following are the quotations for the new lines:—
Orleans and Bordeaux, 162 f. 50c. prem.; Boulogne, 135 f.
ditto ; Troyes and Montereau, 15f. ; Paris and Lyons
(Laflitte), 27f. 50c.; ditto (Caton ), par ; ditto (Ganneron),
6f. 50c. ; Northern Line (Laffitte), 45f. ; ditto (Rosamel),
12f. 50c.; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 12f. 50c. ; ditto
(Drouillard), par; ditto (O'Neill), 3f. 50c. ; ditto (Jacques
Lefevre), par ; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 12f. 50c.;
ditto (Talabot), 35f. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale),
4f. 50c. ; Bordeauxiand Toulouse (Mackenzie), par ; ditto and
Cette (Espeleta), 7f. ; Creil and St. Quentin, par ; Paris
and Strasbourg (Ganueron), 13f. 75c.; Dijon and Mulhouse,
par ; Dieppe, 24f. 50c.
LYONS, .1 ULY 25.—Avignon and Marseilles, 1,005 f., end of
July ; Paris and Orleans, 1,200 E, ditto ; Paris and Rouen,
1,056 E, ditto ; Orleans and Vierzon, 7671, ditto ; Orleans
and Bordeaux, 675 E, ditto.

SUNDERLAND ELECTION.—Mr. Hudson entered
the town on Monday, and addressed the electors. He announced
himsel as a supporter of the present corn.laws. On other points
his speech was a tissue of vague generalities. His speech has
disappointed the people, and several who were awaiting his arrival
to make up their minds, joined the free.traders on Tuesday. The
Tories will probably have recourse to their old trick, but they are
narrowly watched, and the League have offered 1001. reward for
satisfactory proof of any ease of bribery, and without bribery the
Tories have no chance of beating Col. Thompson.
THE BALLOON ASCENT FROM CREMORNE GARDENS.
—The following particulars have been given by Mr. Charles
Green of the progress and descent of the Royal Nassau Balloon on
Monday :—On its departure from Cremorne Gardens the balloon
was carried east by north, and passed over Chelsea Hospital, the
new Bridewel, and the Middlesex end of Westminster Bridge. It
continued this course to the city side of Blackfriars Bridge, where
it met a current of air (being then at an altitude of between 3,040
and 4,000 feet) of south by west, by which it was carried over St.
Paul's. Here it was apparently stationary from the variable
winds. It subsequently went directly over the Post.office, going
towards Haggerstone, Dalston. and Clapton, over Stamford-hill,
to:Awards the reservoir of the New River. About this spot it was
Mr. Green's intention to have descended ; but he was prevented
ftom doing so,
in consequence of the immense crowds of persons
which were approaching, many of whom had followed the path of
the balloon from London, and he was alarmed for the safety
of his passengers. He then immediately re-ascended, when the
machine attained an altitude of about 6,500 feet, by flinging out
ballast, the barometer having fallen from 29.85. to 23.90 degrees,
and the thermometer from 66 to 46 d-grees. The sudden change
of temperature, which took place in a space of about four minutes
(the altitude having varied from
between 1,000 or 2,000 feet to
6,500) produced a sudden shivering. At this height was obtained
a magnificent view of the metropolis with its myriads of gas lights,
which excited the delight of all. After being in the aerial regions
about two hours and twenty minutes, the balloon was safely landed
in a large marsh at Tottenham, near the residence of Mr. H. L.
Small, a director of the Northern and Eastern Counties Railway.
Mr. Small and his family provided a hospitable meal for the ad.
venturous company, after which they returned to the gardens.
When at a height of about 3,000 feet. Mr. T. Mathews, upon
being requested, sang a new comic song called " Pigs pettitoes,"
which was rapturously encored While near the metropolis," The
health of her Majesty, Pence Albert, and the rest of the Royal
Family," was drank in champagne. The balloon was inflated from
the Chelsea Gasworks of the Imperial Gas Company, and its as.
tending power was so
persons several times in the gardens, between six and seven o'clock
on Monday night.
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Price cf Bell's Life (including Supplement) Sixpence. Bell's
Lye will be enlarged on the 31st August.
A GUARD KILLED ON THE GEt-AT WESTERN
RAlLwAY.—Yesterday information reached Mr. Wakley, M.P.,
tha, on Monday night the night-goatd at the Hanwell station,
while sitting on the platform and close to the ladder whence pas-
sengers ascend and descend frosts the carriage', wan struck by the
Iron steps of one of the carriages attached to the ion o'clock train,
and knocked down on this line, the train passing over him. The
body is represented as being a moat frightful spectacle, and nearly
cut in two.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER 7'O THREE.
A moderate business was done in Cotton at Liverpool yes-
terday ; sales 3,000 bales at previeus rates.-Shares were
steady :- Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 3% % ; Bir-
mingham and Gloucester, 133% 134 ; Blackburn, Burnley,
and Accrington, 11; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 61,4 ;
British and Irish Union, 70s. 6d. ; Bolton, Wigan, and
Liverpool, 23% ; Caledonian, 10% ; Cambridge and Lin-
coln, 665. 6d. 34 ; Chester and Birkenhead, 63% ; Ditto,
Half-shares, 32 ; Clitheroe Junction, 4% ; Derby and Crewe,
3 1/3; Dundee and Perth, 68s. ; Eastern Counties, Perpetual;
No. 2, 245.; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 84% ; Ditto, Quarter
Shares, 21 ; Edinburgh, Leith, and Grantham, Preference
Shares, 14% ; Edinburgh and Northern, 13/4 ; Edinburgh
and Perth, 1%; Glasgow and Dumfries, 235. ; Grand Junc-
tion, Quarter Shares, 5934 ; New ditto, 51%; Grand Union,
21. Is. 6d.; Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 5 14 ; Ditto, Quar-
ter Shares, 21s. 6d. ; Great Western, 222 ; Ditto, Half
Shares, 120 ; Ditto, Fifth Shares, 48 473 ; Huddersfield
Canal and Railway, 14 13% ; Huddersfield and Sheffield,
11 3/ ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 55; Leicester and Bedford,
1/; Leicester aad Birmingham. 2% ; Liverpool, and
Manchester, New Shares, 4234 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and
Preston, 5% 534 ; London and BirMingham, 243 ; Ditto,
Quarter Shares, 3514 ; London and Brighton, $1 4 ; Lon-
don and York, 6% %; Direct Northern, 2%; Leeds and
Dewsbury, 23 ; Leeds and Thirsk, 74 ; Leeds and West
Riding Junction, 8% ; Manchester and Birmingham, New
Shares, 8 ; Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, 38s.
6d. 1% ; Manchester and Birmingham Continuation, 2
48s. 6d. ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland, 31,4 ; Man-
chester and Leeds, 185 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 28%; Mid-
land Railway, 182 ; Ditto, 401. Shares, 28 4 1,4 ' • Newcastle
and Berwick, 21 %; Newcastle, Darlington, and Lancashire
Junction, % ; North British, 27 ; North Kent, 61s. 3d. ;
North Union (A), 184 ; North Staffordshire, 4% ; North
Wales, 23/4 ; North Wales Mineral, New Shares, 6 14 ; Not-
tingham and Boston, % ; Nottingham, Erewash, and
Ambergate, 3 2% ; Nottingham and Grantham,
1%; Pres-
ton and Wyre, 324 ; Runcorn Gap, 3014 ; Ditto, New
Shares (80 die), 15% ; Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter
Shares, No. 3,7%; Shffield and Lincoln, 2% 515.; Shrews-
bury and Herefordshire, 1% 345. ; Shrewsbury and North
Wales, 23/4 ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheshire, 4% ;
Shrewsbury and Trent Union, 675. 3%; Shrewsbury, Wor-
cester, and Crewe, 21,4 % ; South-Eastern and Dover, 46%;
Ditto, New Shares, No. 3, 78 ; Scottish Central, 6%; South
Midland, 5% 51. Is. 3d.; Warwick and London, 1 t,4 ; West
Yorkshire, 7% 9%; Worcester and Tring, 21s. 6d. ; York
and Carlisle, 3% ; Belfast and County Down, 3% ; Dublin
and Galway, 2%; Great Southern and Western Extension,
12%; Limerick and Waterford, 74; Londonderry and En-
niskillen, 314 ; Midland Great Western and Canal, 4 ; Dutch
Rhenish, 93/ 1/2 ; Great Luxembourg, 1% 3.4; Jamaica and
South Midland, 6% ; Lyons and Avignon, 2% 61s. 91 •
Northern of France (Laffitte's), 6%; Ditto (Rosamers),
2% %; Ditto (Lebeuf's), 21/g ; Paris and Lyons (Laffitte's),
33/4 : Ditto, French, 314 •, Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's),
51s. 2%; Ditto (Calm's), 2 ; Paris and Strasieourg (Gan-
neron's), 48s. 9d. 2%; Verona and Ancona, 4%.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 29.-The sales are
-Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, 514 prem. ;
Birmingham and Gloucester, New Shares, 314 5-16 ; Black-
burn, Burnley, and Accrington, 11 11% ; Blackburn,
Darwen, and Bolton, 7 % ; Blackburn, Chorley, and North
Union, 10s. prem. ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 27 •, Cale-
donian, 11 ; Cambridge and Lincoln. ;Churn
et
; Valley, 5% 4 Clitheroe Junction, 4% 9-16 ; Derby and
Crewe, 2% 3; Eastern Counties, 21 ; Edinburgh and Glas-
gow, 84% •, Ditto, New Quarters, 106; Fleetwood, Preston,
and West Riding Junction, 24 %; Glasgow and Dumfries,
255. ; Grand Union, 1%; Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junc-
tion, 51% 5% ; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and
Canal, 13% 34 ; Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 11 %;
Leeds and Thirsk, 7 3/4 ; Leeds and West Riding Junction,
83/ 934 ; Leicester and Bedford, 44 % ; Liverpool, Orms•
kirk, and Preston, 5% %; London and South-Western, 80 ;
London and Windsor, 1 3-16 ; London and Worcester, Ox-
ford and Rugby, 1% 3-16 ; London and York, 6% % • Lynn
and Dereham, 2%; Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Mid-
land, 7 3/4 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 644 65 ; Ditto,
New Quarters, 81% ; Manchester and
.Birmingham Con-
tinuation and Welsh Junction, 2 7-16 ; Manchester and
Leeds, Quarter Shares, 284 ; Newark and Sheffield,
314 ; Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire, 74 1 prem. ;
North British, 27 ; North Staffordshire, 434 ; North Wales,
2 15-163 % ; Nottingham, Belvoir, and Grantham, 114 prem. ;
Nottingham and Boston, 6s. 3d. prem. ; Nottingham, Ere-
wash, Ambergate, and Manchester, 31% %•, Oxford, Wor-
cester, and Wolverhampton, 7% ; Preston and Wyre, 3214 33 ;
Preston and Wyre, Half Shares, 3%; Preston aad Wyre,
Five per Cent., 'Guaranteed 32% ; Preston and Wyre, Five
per Cents. and Dividends, 54% ; Preston and Wy re, xten-
sion, ; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 2% ;
Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Union, 3% ; South
Midland, 5 5%; Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, 2830%;
Welsh Nidland, 3%; West Lancashire Coast Line, 3 11-16
prem. ; West Yorkshire, 81% 8% • Whitehaven and Furness,
2% ; Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union, 2% 34.
It is with the deepest regret that the merchants and others
connected with Lower Canada have been informed of another
extensive fire at Quebec, very nearly as destructive as that
which recently took place. The damage done, indeed, as far
as property is concerned, even exceeds that which was an-
nounced by the arrival of the former steamer. Very nearly
1,400 houses were destroyed by this second awful visitation,
and between 30 or 40 blown up. In this instance, however,
it appears that the richer portion of the province has been
visited, and it is held at the lowest estimate that 1,300,0001.
will not replace the property destroyed by this second occur-
rence. We find by the Quebec Gazette that a Committee was
immediately formed for the purpose of affording relief
to those who had lost their all. But a small portion of the
property burnt was insured, and it had become a serious
question whether the immense losses which have occurred
would not have the effect of breaking up one or more of the
fire insurance companies. The Canada Office had announced
its readiness to pay all losses, it having been one of the
original establishments, and with a very wealthy proprietary.
A letter we have seen from Port St. Francis (which is in the
eastern townships) states that the fire was visible there,
although the distance is from 111 to 112 miles.
We rather doubt the fact that the flames themselves
were seen, but as at this season of the year the sky
is beautifully clear by the principle of refraction, it
is probable that the eye might have been deceived. But
still it shows how intense the flames must have been to have
been indirectly seen at so great a distance. The first remit-
tance made by the " Canada Relief Committee " could
scarcely have arrived out ere this second calamity occurred.
The greater necessity now exists for a much more liberal
subscription than that which has already taken place in this
country in aid of those who have been burnt out. The Pro-
vincial Government had come forward most readily; and
we fare assured that, in the dispatches that have come
over by the Acadia, the Governor General has suggested
the policy of a loan to be raised here upon the security
of the Province, and also upon the property and new
buildings which at 6 to be created ; and which, of course,
will be upon a more safe construction than the thousands of
houses destroyed by the two great fires. At almost the best
season of the year the general trade of the Lower Province
has been, for the second-time, almostentirely suspended. As
the other important events in Texas, at Matanzas, and in
Mexico, are fully detailed in other columns of The Sun, it is
not necessary for us to dilate upon such topics under this
bead, suffice it to say that they engross almost exclusive
attention here.
There was an increase in the ship arrivals at Quebec up to
July 11, to the extent of 303 ships of 125,936 tons, and
the number of steerage passengers was 20,003, 11,986 being
from Ireland, and 7,083 from England, and the rest from
Scotland, &c.
The legal opinions given in favour of the right of the
Mexican bondholders to the money in the hands of Messrs.
Lizardi, have fully borne out our oft-expressed opinions,
and there is every hope of a successful issue in the event of
a trial.
The Public Securities have been flatter again to-day, and
are quiet ; Consols are 98% to 98% for present transfer, and
98% to 98% for time. On Exchequer-bills the premium is
51s. t0:533. New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 102% to
; and the Three per Cents. 99% 14. Bank Stock is worth
2103 i to 2114. The news from Mexico has added to the
effect of the variable weather.
The Foreign Investments have been quite neglected. Spa-
nish are, however, rather better than yesterday, the Five per
Cents. being 26 to %, and the Three per Cents 37% to 14.
Portuguese Converted are nominally about 65. Mexican have
been down nearly 1 per cent. on the Texas news, being 3614
to 35% for the Actives.
This is settling day in the Share Market, and engages
principally the attention of the jobbers. Blackwell Shares
are rather flatter, Brighton meet with fair support, and also
Croydon. South-Eastern are lower. Generally prices are
scarcely so good.

ONE
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock ... 2103/41 2114
3 per Cent. Reduced -. 991,E
3 per Cent. Consels Annuities 982.34
New 314 per Cents ..1021/0/4
Long Annuities to exoireJan.lB6o
Ditto 30 years, 0ct.10,1859 ..• 1114 1114
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 ... 111 3-16 11 3-16
India Stock 273% 2731%
Consols for Account ....... 983/4% 983
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., Phd.... 51 53 pm. 53
Ditto 5001.
Ditto Small

CLOS INti
PRICES.
211
99
58•,6
102%

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 364 36 35% 36%
Ditto, Deferred 193/ 204 20.
Peruvian Bolds, 6 per Cents — 36
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840
Ditto, Passive
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent —
Dutch, 2% per Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certilic 99 V A

62%
99%
PRICES OF CLOSING
PAID. A ONE O'CLOCK.
It AILWAY SHARES PRICES.
Birming. and Gloucesterloo 134% 134
Caledonian
Cambridge and Lincoln 11/2.....• 3IA %
Chester and Holyhead... 15
Coventry and Leicester 114 —
Direct Northern
Dublin and Galway... .• 21,4 2%1/2
Eastern Counties 141. 165...... 214 1,4 1/2 2l
Ditto New 4/. 16s. 7l/2% 7%p
Eastern Union l5 .. ... •
Ditto Extension . ... 11/2 2% 2%
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
DittoN CM, 14 Shares... 21/2 lOl/2
Ely and ItePord
(I.yat ,out.ll. and ‘1 r:st.
(Ireland)
Ditto Extension
treat Northol Ent.,:,land..loe
•....reat Western BO 2221/2 224
Ditto 1/2 Shares 5O 122 120
Ditto, Fifths
Hull and Selby
Do. Half Shares
L ncaster and Carlisle... 25
Leicester and Beilf.)rd... 225....... 2i.,•:! q p .. .. 2%
d •. ;3,1 ,sir ningriiii (stock )... 243 246
:ndiin ~,,. ',taxi:wall. 16/.13s 4d. li% 4 lll4
79% 8013
ii,. CmisHi•tk.l,,i Btlis 25
•.,•!:,,,, ~,,, , i.,. ,)1,, ;-, I:, ,1 26 14
Do. Ncw l3s 4d l% p. ...... ..
,oiht. & S.Western 411 6s 10d Bl%
Do. New
ondon and York 2l/2 6•?,4%
.ynn and Ely
Lynn and Derellain l% —
ancliester and Leeds... 76
Do. 1,4 Shares
Do. 4 Shares
llanclie.tter and Birmin. 40
n.dinnd 1(K)
i ,i. Nev.•
Midi:Aid, Ili, 1:' , 1), • ',.: li -1i:
Ne,' -,.1. rl:iti I,,`llVie'' l4 '2l ~,.:i 2:' W,,...
ti,,vl-,-- toitl rtyliskilvii. 21/2 ..- • 3
New,.‘.;. ,0..1 ~..eille,l ~, 1 t‘, -
North British
Do. New
North Kent

26%
1%
81
13%
6%
7
2%

186
29
211,
3 i$
3
27
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