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THE 8 UN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 10,
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consideration of the Bill should be postponed to that day
three months.

The Marquis of CLANRICARDE hoped the Bill would
be allcwcd to proceed. He was rejoiced to find their
Lordships opposing themselves to railway jobbing, but it
was nol, fair to,pourit,e upon this particular Bill,when other
parties equally guiry 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 BESBOROUGH'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 BUCCLEUCR 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 Col-I'Emum, and the
Duke of WELLINGTON. The clause, however, was even-
tually withdrawn, and the Bill was read a third time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 Scotland) Bill,
Mr. BOUVERIS 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 Bil
was recommitted ; the House resumed, and the report
was received.

On the motion of Viscount CounTENAY,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 short 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. MILNER GIBSON then moved for a Select Com-
mittee to inquire into the allegations in the petition of
Colonel LAUTOUR, complainingof 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 brough
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 Harry
Hotspur. It will now be remembered as the scene of
one of those awful sentences 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 larious 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 capacity, it
is scarcely possible for men of somewhat more than ave
rage talent and quickness, not 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 foreign and domestic policy still pending or re-
eently adopted—and the springs and motives of the con-
duct of living statesmen—than gentlemen, the whole of
whose practical experierce 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-
clusio❑ of chambers, their daily tour in terns 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 majority of the members of a bar-mess will be found
a company of well-behaved gentlemen, whose conversa-
tion is either the most insipid or 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 most 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 LYNDHURSTS, the BRUCES, the Pot.-
LOCKS, the ALDERSONS, the PARKES, and the MAULES,
on the Bench ; or the very few conspicuous men now
below it, who are 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 company. All the remaining " rank and
file" are not only men of common-place, and even in-
ferior learning or knowledge, in the largest sense of
those terms—but men who will boast, as we ourselves
have heard an eminent judge boast, who now presiJes
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 but law." Whether it is a sense of these and
similar deficiencies which creates in the majority of the
members of a bar-mess the sort of prejudice and
that they have long manifested of the two or three mem-
bers of it who may happen to be connected with the
newspapers, we will not undertake 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 jealouiy. Jealousy,
it may be, on the part of the briefless, of those who
have, in these newspaper connexions, permanent re-
sources beyond their professional earnings, or, on the
part of those who do hold briefs, of men that have a ca-
pacity which can travel beyond their contents or the
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 hare
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 tile particular circumstances out of whi .h 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•
FoURD, 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 friendship, 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 suspects
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-
tuking 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 the transaction 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, for
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 MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA.
The Three per Cents. closed at 2814 for cash, and 28 13-16
at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 211/8 for the 27th of Aug. ;
and the Coupons at 24 at 30 days.

The mail from Buenos Ayres brings accounts to the
26th ➢tay.
Oa= 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. MANDEvILLx
had expressed himself in the most friendly terms towards the
nitish 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 percent. prem. ;
Ditto on United States, 12 per U. S. dol.

We have received the Paris papers of Monday.

We find in the Moniteur the laws authorising the adjadica
tion of the Tours and Nantes, the Paris and Strasburgh Rail
ways, and the branch lines to Fecamp, to Dieppe, and to Aix

The Conservative candidate, M. ALFRED RENOURD DE
BESSIERE, had been returned deputy fcr Strasburgh.
Don CAnLos and the Princess of BEIRA were at Avignon
on the 24th.
The news of the escape of Dr. STEIGER from Lucerne was
received with enthusiasm in Germany, and celebrated by
fetes.
The Constitutionnel states that the King of PRUSSIA 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
tiltramontanists 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 7,250 f., and the Nouvelle Montagne
at 3,000 f. (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 1211. 90c. ; Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,237 f. 50c.;
Rouen, 1,072 f. 50c ; Vierzon, 780 f. ; Havre, 892 f. 50c.;
Avignon, 1,0320 50c. ; Basle, 270 f.; Spanish Passives, 6L.

The following are the quotations for the new lines :

Orleans and Bordeaux, 1821.50 c. prem. ; Boulogne, 1351.
ditto ; Troyes and Montereau, 15f. ; Paris and Lyons
(Lafatte), 271. 50c.; ditto (Calon ),par ; ditto (Ganneron),
61. 50c. ; Northern Line (Laffitte), 45f. ; ditto (Rosamel),
121. 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. •, Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie), par; ditto and
Cette (Espeleta), 7f. ; Creil and St. Quentin, par ; Paris
and Strasbourg (Ganneron), 13f. 75c.; Dijon and Mulhouse,
par; Dieppe, 24f. 50c.
LYONS, JULY 25.—Avignon and Marseilles, 1,0051., end of
July ; Paris and Orleans, 1,2001., ditto; Paris and Rouen,
1,056 f., ditto; Orleans and Vierzon, 7671, ditto ; Orleans
and Bordeaux, 675 f., ditto.

SUNDERLAND ELECTION.—Mr. Hudson entered
the town on Monday, and addressed the electors. He announced
himself 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 UREMORNE 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 Bridewell, 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 3,000
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,
towards the reservoir of the New River. About this spot it was
Mr. Green's Intention to have descended ; but he was prevented
from 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.aacended, 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 degrees. 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 region.
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 oouf shecrommii
jaensyty, 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 pettitomii
u several dr m
which was rapturously encored. While near the metropolis, " The
tai drank e in
sin
the c h a m
gardens,
aargdneens.
Albert, ;and the rest of the Royal
Family,"
, The balloon was inflated from
the Chelsea Gasworks of the Imperial Gas Company, and its as-
cending power was so great that it elevated as many as twenty.one
persons
between six and seven o'clock
on Monday night.
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A GUARD KILLED ON THE GREAT WESTERN
RAlLWAY.—Yesterday information reached Mr. Wakley, M.P.,
that on
Monday night the night-guard at the Hanwell station,
while sitting on the platform and close to the ladder whence pas-
sengers ascend and descend from the carriages, was struck by the
iron steps of one of the carriages attached to the ten o'clock train,
and knocked down on the line, the train passing over him. The
body is represented as being a most frightful spectacle, and nearly
cut in two.

MONEY and CONIMERCIAL NEWS.
C./ TY, QuAtti Ale Tti
A moderate business was done in Cotton at Liverpool yes-
terday; sale, 3,000 bales at previt-us rates.-Snares were
steady :- Birken head, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 3% 1,2 ; Bir-
iningnain and Gloucester, 13314 134 ; Blackburn, Burnley,
and Accrington, 11 ; Blackburn, Darweri, and Bolton, 6% %;
British and Irish Union, 70s. 6d. ; Bolton, Wigan, and
Liverpool, 251/ %; Caledonian, 10%; Cambridge and Lin-
coln, 665. 6d. 314 ; Chester and Birkenhead, 63% ; Ditto,
Half-shares, 32 ; Clitheroe Junction, 4% •, Derby and Crewe,
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, I% ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 235. ' • Grand Junc-
tion, Quarter Shares, 59%; 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 47% ; Huddersfield
Canal and Railway, 14 131,E ; Huddersfield and Sheffield,
I 1 3 ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 55 ; Leicester and Bedford,
4% 3% ; Leicester and Birmingham, 2% ; Liverpool, and
Manchester, New Shares, 42% ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and
Preston, 5% 534; London and Birmingham, 243; Ditto,
Quarter Shares, 3514; London and Brighton, 51 %; Lon-
don and York, 6% %; Direct Northern, 2% ; Leeds and
Dewsbury, 23 ; Leeds and Thirsk, 714 ; Leeds and West
Riding Junction, 8% ; Manchester and Birmingham, New
Shares, 8 ; Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, 3fis.
6d. 1% ; Manchester and Birmingham Continuation, 2
48s. 6d. ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland, 31A ; Man-
chester and Leeds, 183 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 28% ; Mid-
land Railway, 182 ; Ditto, 401. Shares, 2814 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, 34 ; Nottingham, Erewash, and
Ambergate, 3 2% ; Nottingham and Grantham, 1% ; Pres-
ton and Wyre, 3214 ; Runcorn Gap, 3014; Ditto, New
Shares (80 dis), 15% ; Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter
Shares, No. 3,7% •, Sheffield and Lincoln, 2% 51s. ; Shrews-
bury and Herefordshire, 1% 345. ; Shrewsbury and North
Wales, 23/ ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheshire, 43/4 ;
Shrewsbury and Trent Union, 675. 3%; Shrewsbury, Wor-
cester, and Crewe, 21/2 %; South-Eastern and Dover, 46%;
Ditto, New Shares, No. 3, 78 ; Scottish Central, 6%; South
Midland, 5% 5/. Is. 3d. ; Warwick and London, IA ; West
Yorkshire, 7% 9%; Worcester and '!'ring, 21s. 6d. ; York
and Carlisle, 3% ; Belfast and County Down, 314 ; Dublin
and Galway, 2%; Great Southern and Western Extension,
12%; Limerick and Waterford, 714 ; Londonderry and En-
niskillen, 31,4 ; Midland Great Western and Canal, 4; Dutch
Rhenish, 9% ; Great LuXembourg, 1% %; Jamaica and
South Midland, 6% ; Lyons and Avignon, 2% 61s. 91 ;
Northern of France (Laffitte's), 6%; Ditto (Rosamel's),
2% 1/2 ; Ditto (Lebeuf's), 2% ; Paris and Lyons (Laffitte's),
3% ; Ditto, French, 314 ;- Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's),
51s. 2%; Ditto (Calon'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 3% ; Blackburn, Chorley, and North
Union, 10s. prem. ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 27 ; Cale-
donian, 11 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 31, % ;
; Churnet
Valley, 5% 14 Clitheroe Junction, 41/2 9-16 ; Derby and
Crewe, 2% 3 ; Eastern Counties, 21 ; Edinburgh and Glas-
gow, 84% ; Ditto, New Quarters, 10%; Fleetwood, Preston,
and West Riding Junction, 214 ; Glasgow and Dumfries,
255.; Grand Union, 1% ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junc-
tion, 514 51/2 ; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and
Canal, 13% 3/4 ; Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 11 %;
Leeds and Thirsk, 7 3/ ; Leeds and West Riding Junction,
834 934 ; Leicester and Bedford, 41 5/8 ; Liverpool, Orms•
kirk, and Preston, 53/ 1,4 ; London anu South-Western, 80;
London and Windsor, I 3-16 ; London and Worcester, Ox-
ford and Rugby, 114 3-16 ; London and York, 6% % • Lynn
and Dereham, 2%; Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Mid-
land, 7 3/ ; Manchester and Birmingham, 6414 65 ; Ditto,
New Quarters, 814 14 ; Manchester and Birmingham Con-
tinuation and Welsh Junction, 2 7-16 ; Manchester and
Leeds, Quarter Shares, 2814 ; Newark and Sheffield,
3 1/4 ; Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire, % 1 prem. ;
North British, 27 ; North Staffordshire, 43/4 •, .North Wales,
2 15-16 3 1,4 ; Nottingham, Belvoir, and Grantham, 114 prem. ;
Nottingham and Boston, 6s. 3d. prem. ; Nottingham, Ere-
wash, Ambergate, and Manchester, 3% 1/2 ; Oxford, Wor-
cester, and Wolverhampton, 71/ ; Preston and Wyre, 321% 33 ;
Preston and Wyre, Half Shares, 3% ; Preston aad Wyre,
Five per Cent. Guaranteed 32% ; Preston and Wyre, Five
per Cents. and Dividends, 541/2 ; Preston and Wyre, Exten-
sion, 214; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 21/2 ;
Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Union, 3% ; South
Midland, 5 5%; Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, 28 30%;
Welsh Midland, 3y ; West Lancashire Coast Line, 3 11-16
prem. ; West Yorkshire, 814 8%; Whitehaven and Furness,
; Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union, 2% 3/4.
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
visi, ed, 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 are to be erected ; 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, almost entirely suspended. As
the other important events in Texas, at Matanzas, and in
Mexico, are fully detailed in other columns of The Sun, it is
nut 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.
Ihe Public Securities have been flatter again to-day, and
are quiet ; Consols are 981,E to 983/ for present transfer, and
9834 to 98% for time. On Exchequer-bills the premium is
510 New T hpree
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7 t 34 t and the
Three
21114. 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 lA, and the Three per Cents. 37% to %.
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 ft& support, and also
Croydon. South-Eastern are lower. Generally prices are
scarcely so good.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9914 7
3 per Cent. Consols Anns 98%3/4
New 314 per Cent. Annuties 102%1A
Long Annuities Expire sth Jan. 1860 -
Lo. 30 Y ears, Expire Oct. 10, 1859 lll4
Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860.. 11% 3-16

India Stock 2731/2
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. 13/4d. 11/2d.
1,0001.
5001. .. .. ... 54 51 pm.
Ditto Small — .. .. 54 55 53 pm.
?RICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent 36IA 36 35%
Ditto Deferred Stock l9f4 201 A
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,1840
Ditto Passive Bonds 6%
Ditto 3 per Cent 37141/2
Dutch 21/2 per Cents
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 99%3/4
PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Birmingham and Gloucester 100 ......1343/ to
Caledonian i
Cambridge and Lincoln ...... 1% 3IA %... to
Chester and Holyhead
E'irect Northern
Dublin and Galway 2l/2 2l/2... to
Eastern Counties
De. New 41. 16s 7l/21/2 p to

Eastern Union
Ditto Extension 25,E ..... to
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O .. to
Great South and W. (Irish) lO

Ditto Extension
Great Western BO 222% to,
Ditto % Shares 5O 122
Ditto Fifths

.....
Hull and Selby ... 50 lO7
Ditto Half Shares,
Lancaster and Carlisle 25 ...... 55 56... to
Leicester and Bedford 22s. 2% % p to
London and Birmingham
London and Blackwall 16%... 11%14 to
London and Brighton
London and Croydon... 13/.11555_.42:19d 26
p... to _.
... to-
- Do. New

London and South Western 41N...... 8114 - to
Ditto New 2lh l4 h,14... to
London and York... ..... ...... 2% 6%%... to
Lynn and Ely
ManchesLei and Leeds 76 .. ...
Ditto Half Shares
Ditto % Shares
Manchester and BlrmiLgham 40 64 65 .. to
Midland ......1(0
Ditto New
Midland, Birm., and Derby...loo 145 to
Newcastle and Berwick
Newry and Enniskillen ...... 21
Newark and Sheffield
North British
Ditto New 1 .. ... 7%%... to
North Kent
North Staffordshire ...... ...... 22s 3l p.. to
North Wales ll 4
Oxford and Worcester 2F4 7154.— to
Portsmouth Inrect
Preston and Wyre 5O
RichmondandWestEndJunc. 1
Rugby. Worcester, and Tring 1
.i: 5 4 i.
....... ..
tott
o
o
21 1% to
Scottish Midland

Shrew. & Treat Val. Union. 225...... 14.4% pto -....
South Midland 22F. CozYi p to
: a th. Eastern and Dover
Ditto New, Na. 1 8
Ditto New, No. 3 2l/.1, .... 73i to
Staines and Richmond........ 1
S ,uth Wales
Trent Valley ... 2 . 18
Trent Val. lc Holyhead June. 1% 24 to
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ...... 23
Welch Midland 2% ...... 3%3/4... to
York and North Midland
Ditto, Extension
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens 6 ...... 10%83,4... to
Dutch Rhenish
Great Northern of France
(Laffitte's)
Do. Do. (Rosamel's) • 2 ..... 21. .... to
Louvain and Jemeppe
Lyons and Avignon -
Namur and Liege...
Orleans and Vierzon
Paris and Lyons (Laffitte) ... 2
Paris&Strashurg(Gannern's) 2
Rouen and Havre
Sambre and Meuse
etrasburg and Bale

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Commercial of London ...... 20

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAY.
For the time of year our market was very scantily sup-
plied with Wheat of home produce, owing to which, and the
full average number of buyers in attendance, the demand
for that article was somewhat active, and in some few in-
stances a trifle mole money was obtained for the finest
qualities of both red and white. At the close of business
scarcely any samples were unsold. Of Foreign Wheat free
of duty the show was but limited, hence the sale for it was
rather brisk, at fully Monday's advance in the quotations.
Bonded corn was inquired for on higher terms. Grinding
Barley sold steadily at full currencies. For other kinds
comparatively little business was passing. The Malt trade
was dull, yet prices were supported. In Oats very little was
doing, but Beans, Peas, and Flour were quite as dear.
ARRIVALS.

English ......
Irish ........
Foreign ......

Wheat.
1,690 qrs.

Barley.
60 Ors.

Oats. I Flour.
160 1,680
3,200 i -
2,200 1 -

1,200 1 800 I
Malt. 1,820 qrs.
WHITECHAPEL.

For each kind ofifeaT,tiTesTil7lY7l;vhich was limited,
we had a steady inquiry, at full prices. Beef, from 2s Sd
to 3s 10d; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s Sd; Lamb, 4s lOd to 6s;
Veal, 3s Rd to 4s 8d ; and Pork, 2s 8d to 4s per 81bs.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.

LONDON, JULY 30.—Wind S. by E. to S.W. by S., moderate breeze
and fine, but cloudy at times.
DEAL, JULY 29.—Wind W. to N.N.W.—Arrd Japan, M'Lollan,
South Seas ; Olivia, Roome, Cape of Good Hope ; Pusey Hall, Ware,
Africa; Alpha, Harrison, Buenos Ayres; Arethusa, Leslie, Rio
Janeiro ; Palmyra, Caval, Demerara ; John Oldham, Canny, Ja-
maica ; Neptune, Toosbuy, Porto Rico ; Edinburgh, Hondlette, New
Orleans ; St. Clare, Fayer, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Cyclops,
Barrel, Quebec ; Alfred, Meyers, New Orleans. Arrd. from the River,
Lady Sarah Bayly, Canning, for Jamaica; Jamer, Tynes, Bermuda.
Sld. Lloyd's, Lewes, Hobart Town ; John:Laerd, Bryant, Hong-
Kong ; Sir R. Peel, Champion, Bombay ; General Harrison, Scott,
Cape of Good Hope; Robert Clive, Mercer, St. Helena ; Sultana,
Giles, Pernambuco ; General Wolfe, Jenkins, Demerara ; Marmion,
Harrison, Quebec.
PORT/MOUTH, JULT 29.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. her Majesty's ship
Cambrian, Singapore, sailed April 28.
SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 29.—Arrd. Wm. Lushington, Quebec.
OFF PORTLAND, JULY 28.—Dale Park, Coombes, Valparaiso.
OFF SALCOMBE, JULY 26.—Colonies, Reickerstein, St. Thomas's.
FALMOUTH, JULY 29.—Wind N.N.W., fresh breeze.—Arrd. off,
Urgent, Pringle, Rio Janeiro, and sailed for Antwerp ; Henriette
Sophie, Buenos Ayres, sailed 27th May, and proceeded for Rotterdam.
LIVERPOOL, JULY 29.—Wind N., moderate, A.M.—Scotian, Robin-
son, Saldanha Bay ; Goddess, Lovering, Valparaiso ; Navigator,
Lefevre, Buenos Ayres; Young Queen, Buenos Ayres; Ilinda,
Paraiba ; British Queen, Kennedy, Antigua ; Sardinia, Mobile ;
Liberty, New York ; Acadia (steamer), Harrison, Boston, Brc., left
16th instant, and Halifax 18th ; Northumberland, Prince Edward's
Island ; Heron, Cooper, Quebec ; Clarissa, Petty, Quebec ; Merkin,
Cole, Newfoundland ; Kingaloo, Bush, Newfoundland ; Martha Her-
rison„Cole, Newfoundland. Sld. 28, Vindicator, Robinson, Mon-
treal ; Dumfries-shire, Davis, Quebec ; Alert, Mackay, Nova Scotia ;
Lowther, M`William, Alexandretta. 29. Penang, Hawkins, Cal-
cutta; Sundford, Callan, Calcutta; Canning, Hancock, Coznimbo ;
Matchless, Hayes, Rio Janeiro ; Java, Perry, Hebrew, Carr, Ports-
mouth, Glover, Virginian, Hearn, New York ; Helen Augusta
Kenny, Portland ; Antelope, Clark, Prince Edward's Island; Brad.
shave, Miramichi. Off port 29, Alexander, Calcutta; Splen-
did, Mobile; Tamerlane, Camillus, and Satellite.

OPENING OF !THE EASTERN
COUNTIES RAILWAY TO CAMBRIDGE,
ELY. &c.

The line from London to Cambridge, and thence to Ely, and
(ruin Norwich to Ely, is opened to the public today. Yesterday
the inspection of the line took place. The arrangements were
thus:—One train, consisting of 13 double carriages, an open car-
riage, &c., in which were the chairman of the Eastern Counties
line, Mr. Bosanquet, the directors and their friends, many scienti tic
men, engineers, &c., left the Shoreditch station at ten minutes to 9
o'clock, after having partaken of breakfast, provided by Messrs.
Bathe and Breach, of the London Tavern. The train, which was
accompanied by the band of the Coldstream Guards, and decorated
with various flags and banners, proceeded through the Stratford,
Leabridge, Tottenham, Marsh.lane, Edmonton, Ponder's End, and
Waltham stations to the Broxbourne station, at which it ar-
rived at 25 minutes past 9 o'clock, having performed 19 miles
in 35 minutes; It stopped at this last-mentioned station ten
minutes, and then proceeded through the St. Margaret's,
Ware, Hertford, Royston, Burnt-hill, Harlow, and Saw-
brideworth stations to the station at Bishop Stortford,
which it reached at five minutes past IG, having performed the
distance from London, 321 miles, in 1 hour and 15 minutes. At
Bishop Stortford the train remained 10 minutes, and then entered
the new ground thence to Cambridge and Ely. It passed through
the Stanstead, Elenham, Newport. and Wenden stations, reaching
the last of these at 20 minutes to 11 o'clock, the distance from
London being 431 miles, which was done, including the stoppages,
in 1 hour and 50 minutes. It stepped at the station 20 minutes,
and then passed through the Chesterford station, the Littlebury
station, and through the tunnel, the Whittlesford and Shelford
stations. and arrived at the Cambridge statien at a quarter past )1
o'clock, having performed the distance of 57* miles, including
all the stoppages above.mentioned, in 2 hours 25 minutes.
Here an immense concourse of spectators were assembled
to greet the arrival of the party. The bells rang merry peals;
there was a continuous discharge of ordnance; the hums
of the mob were loud and vigorous; and the band struck
up, "See the Conquering Hero comes," &c, After a stay of
half an hour, the train was again. in motion, and at a quarter
past twelve o'clock reached the Ely station, which was decorated
with flags, flowers, garlands, &c., and where a provincial band of
musicians struck up a merry tune. The train from London was
here joined by the train which had left Norwich at half-past ten
o'clock, and which had passed through Wymondhaao, Attlebo.
rough, Thetford, and Brandon stations, stopping a short time at all
those places. The company having alighted, a great portion of
them walked up to the city to see the cathedral, and, on their
return, both the London train and the Norwich train proceeded
to Cambridge, leaving the Ely station at twenty minutes to two,
and arriving at the Cambridge station at five minutes past that
hour, getting over the distance, fourteen miles and a half, in
twenty.five minutes. It will be seen by this account that some
parts of the journey were run at a rate of speed upwards of 30
miles an hour, and allowing for stoppages, that the average of the
whole was upwards of 26 miles an hour. This, considering that
this trip was for the purpose of inspection, was a prodigious rateof
pace, and is highly creditable to the engineers and all concerned.
The new rails, from Bishop Stortford to Ely, are laid down
with great skill, and it is understood that those from Ely to
Norwich are equally good. The whole road from London to Ely
is almost a dead flat. There are no cuttings, and only one short
bit of tunnelling. The various stations are commodious, some of
them elegant structures. At most of the principal places the
natives were assembled in their holiday costumes to do honour to
the occasion, and at Chesterford about 500 or 600 of the labourers
and workmen in the employ of Mr. Jackson, the contractor for a
part of the line, were feasted under an enormous tent. The
workmen of Messrs, Grissell and Peto had already been feasted
to the number of 1,000 at Ely, and a similar banquet had been
supplied to the men on the Norwich line at one of the stations,
The whole of the company from London and Norwich partook,
at three o'clock, of a most sumptuous not to say recherche banquet,
furnished by Mr. Gunter, of Berkeley-square, and cooked, by
permission of the college authorities, in the kitchens of Downing
College. Upwards of 600 gentlemen sat down to the tables,
beneath:the ample covering of a most elegant marquee, manufac.
tared by Mr. B. Edgington, of the Borough, and which effectually
protected them from the showers which at times descended in tor.
resits. The chair was taken by Mr. Bosanquet, who was supported
by Lords Roden and Braybrook, the Bishop of Norwich, the
Dean of Ely, the Vice-Chancellor of the University, most of the
heads of houses, &c. There were also present, Major Beresford,
M.P., Mr. M'Kenzie, M.P., Mr. Ward, M.P., the Mayor and Cor-
poration of Cambridge, a great number of the clergy of the Uni-
versity and neighbourhood, and many of the gentry of the county.
Mr. Toole, the well-known toast-master, acted as fugleman, and
gave out the healths and toasts in his best style. The usual loyal
and appropriate toasts were drunk with the honours, the military
band playing " God save the Queen," and other inspiring airs.
The Chairman, Lord Roden, the Bishop of Norwich, the Dean
of Ely, and several other gentlemen briefly addressed
the company in reply to the toasts, eulogized the conduct
of those who had been employed in carrying out and perfecting
the work that they bad accomplished, and spoke particularly in
praise of the conduct of the navigators and workmen employed.
Mr. Mackenzie and Mr. Ward also addressed the company on the
utility of the design, and the benefits it was likely to confer. The
Mayor of Cambridge, the Vice-Chancellor, and other gentlemen
whose healths were drunk, also returned thanks. It was now time
for the train to return, and accordingly, at half-past four o'clock,
the company broke up. The train for Norwich first took its de.
parture, and at twelve minutes past six o'clock the train to Lon-
don also departed, travelling at a good rate of speed, and stopping
at several stations to put down passengers. It arrived in London
shortly before nine o'clock. Altogether the opening of this rail.
road is one in which the districts through which it passes must be
congratulated for the general benefits it will confer, and the great
facility of communication it will afford to places which heretofore
were comparatively isolated, and excluded from each other and
from the rest of the world,