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LONDON!
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 29, 1842.

midst of the cheers of the Members. Were these re-
joicings inspired by a patriotic and enlightened hope
that the measure will mitigate and cure the woes of the
people, or by mere animal pleasure at the termination of
an irksome task ? We are afraid the latter was the
source of the cheers. Sir It PEEL, indeed, expressed

a strong opinion that his Tariff will improve trade, and
restore enterprise. No inconsiderable portion of the
trading community are of the same opinion. Without
sharing in their anticipations, we heartily hope they may
be realised. We want a return of prosperity—we want to
see the people well fed and comfortably clothed—and we
care not by whose instrumentality the good work is
achieved. We, however, believe that the Tariff, in the
present condition of the community, will be of very little
advantage, and we shall be delighted at learning that we
have been wrong, and that the Tariff works wonders for
the people.
We cannot, however, allow the Bill to pass, without
o7)serving that Sir B. PEEL is one of the most powerful
lawmakers that ever swayed the House of Commons to
his purposes. He has now carried, almost unaltered, all
his great measures. his reputation is gone, as it were,
out of his own keeping ; he has set it on the effects of the
Corn-law, the Income-tax, and the Tariff, and it is be-
yond his control. Events, not a little influencing the
House of Commons, will soon decide whether Sir B.
PEEL. is to he honoured as a great statesman, or derided
as a mere pretender to statesmanship.

There is no body of professing Christians less open to
attack than the Society of Friends, usually called
Quakers. Taken as a whole, there is no Christian sect
o lkt,le tainted with the vices that deform society.
Cleanly in their habits ; grave and decorous in their de-
meanour ; shrewd, sensible, and intelligent in their con-
versation ; generally honest in their dealings ; punctual
observers of their promises ; charitable to the poor; and
avowedly opposed to quarrelling and litigiousness—
statesmen rarely speak of them save in terms of the
highest praise. In secret, however, they are regarded
by many with an evil eye. The Church is not over
fond of them, because they teach the practical lesson
that men and women may be exceedingly moral and re-
ligious without priests. Among lawyers there is anu
merous class of the profession who dislike men who never
give rise to an action for homicide, and who as witnesses
will affirm no more than in their consciences they be-
lieve to be true. Lord ABINGER is one of those legal
luminaries who dislike the Quakers. The Noble and
Learned Lord was never much celebrated for liberality
of thought, and there are few men whose sympathies
are expanded by increase of years. Certainly Lord
ABINGEIt is not one of them. In the course of the de-
bate on Monday night, in the House of Lords, upon Lord
)EN MAN'S Affirmation Bill, the Noble and Learned Chief
Baron of the Exchequer spoke of the Quakers in the
following terms :
He had a great respect for that very excellent class of men,
the Quakers ; but still he must say, that of all the witnesses
he ever examined in a Court of Justice, he found none so diffi-
cult to fence with as Quakers—(Hear and a laugh)—so diffi-
cult, indeed, that he often was led to think that it was part of
their religion never to give a direct answer.—( Hear, and a
laugh.) He did not mean to say anything to disparage the
Quakers.—(" Hear, hear," from Lord Denman, and a laugh.)
Well, if his Noble and Learned Friend wished him (Lord
A binger) to be more explicit, he Mould say, that with the ex-
perience which he now possessed, he would not have supported
the law which gave that sect their present exemption from
taking oaths, and he certainly would not vote for the extension
of that privilege any further.
Lord ABINGER'S avowal, that with his long experience
at the bar and upon the bench, were it to grant now he
would not exempt Quakers from violating their con-
sciences by taking oaths, casts a heavy, but most un-
merited, reproach upon the Society of Friends. It implies,
evidently, that his Lordship would sooner credit a Pro-
testant upon his oath than a Quaker upon his affirmation-
What Lord ABINGER means by the difficulty he expe-
rienced in " fencing " with Quaker witnesses, we under-
stand very well. It redounds greatly to their credit,
though we confess there must have been many times
when it must have proved exceedingly annoying to the
quondam Tory Attorney-General. It is a confession
on the part of the Noble and Learned Chief Baron of
the Exchequer that he never could prevail upon Quaker
witnesses to swear to facts of which they had only an
imperfect knowledge. They were unmanageable, be-
cause they were not to be brow-beaten by a purchased
scowl upon the countenance of an impertinent lawyer, or
an overbearing judge.
Lords BROUGHAM and DENMAN defended the Quakers
from the imputations cast upon them by Lord
ABINGER. Lord BROUGHAM said that he had known
them long, and he would 'venture to say that no sect
paid more regard to truth, or had a greater horror of
violating an oath than they had of violating an affirma-
tion. They were as solemnly convinced of the sanctity
of an affirmation as others were of the sacredness of an,
.10.-t seed that,he "Ma niwaxs found
that the Quakers delivered their evidence with more
than usual sincerity, and that he had repeatedly been
struck with the care and solemnity which they manifested.
Such testimony may well console the Quakers for the
bigoted views entertained by Lord ABINGER.

The LORD MAYOR, while presiding in the Justice
Room at the Mansion House, has occasionally alluded,
in terms of strong reprehension, to the conduct of
foreign Consuls residing in London, for refusing to
grant relief to natives of their respective countries when
reduced to destitution ; and on Monday his Lordship re-
newed the attack, in language neither very consistent
nor respectful to these gentlemen. The Consuls gene-
rally refuse to support or send home persons who have
come to London as sailors in English vessels, and are
perfectly justified in so doing. If an English Captain
engages men to '.work his ship to this country
he has no right to discharge them here, in
a helpless state, nor is the LORD MAYOR war-
ranted in casting blame on the Consuls for obeying
the instructions no doubt received from their own
Governments. It is only fair that the Captain should be
made responsible, and the LORD MAYOR, while he is
evidently of this opinion, very inconsistently goes out of
his way to cast a reproach on the Consuls of Austria
and Spain. As a proof that he does not really consider
their conduct reprehensible, he praises the humane pro-
visions of the Customs Regulations Act, which
provides that the master of every vessel coming from
the coast of Africa shall enter into a bond
to keep harmless any parish or place maintaining its poor
against any expense it may be put to in supporting
such persons during their stay in the United Kingdom,
under a penalty of 2001. His Lordship then adds, "If the
Legislature compassionately extended that Act, I would
undertake, by the infliction of exemplary penalties, to carry
it into effect." So that, according to his own showing,
the fault lies with the Captains and our own Legisla-
ture, and not with the foreign gentlemen. They do
not refuse relief to all their destitute countrymen, but
only to those in the condition described. We think his
Lordship, on reflection, will admit that he does not show
absolute discretion in thus taking advantage of his high
office, as first City Magistrate, to threaten masters and
owners of English vessels with " exemplary penalties"
if he had the power, and at the same time to abuse these
public functionaries for not encouraging shipowners to
kidnap sailors of their respective States.

. -Mr. WALTER was last night called to the bar of the
House of Commons, and, in a short, hut plain, sensible,
and rather modest speech, rindicatecl the course he had
taken. Ile placed his refusal to attend the Committee
on a deference to his constitutional right to be tried by
noire but an impartial tribunal, and he impugned, at the
bar, the impartiality of the Committee. Ile claimed the
protection of the House against the Committee, and,
while he professed a readiness to obey the orders of the
House, and placed himself in its hands, he respectfully
protested against the authority of the Committee. On
his retiring from the bar, Mr. floEnucti moved that Mr.
AVA:L.TuR be ordered to attend and give evidence this
day. .Sir R. banns opposed the motion, principally on
account-,of the arbitrary, inquiioirial, and unconstreional
nature of ;he tribunal. Sir G. C REY thought it did not
sufficiently vindleate the dignity of the House, and he
wished that .Mr. W•ALTEn should be informed that he
mu't obey the Committee. Sir R. PEEL took a precisely
similar view, but acqnieseed in the motion as it was
made. On a givision, it was decided by 223 to 77, that.
Mr. W.u.TER should be ordered to attend the Com-
mittee.
The result is, in one respect, a triumph for Mr.
lirarirrnt. On principle he refused to attend the Corn.
mime, but he would readily obey the order of the
House. The House humoured him by giving him such
an order, anti by that admitted that Mr. WALTER'S ob-
jection to the authority of the Committee was a valid
one; The House even received his protest against the
authority of its own Committee, and did not rebuke him
for qalstioning and resisting it. Mr. War.TER will now
attend the Committee by the order of the House—not
by the order of the Commituv. Suppose a Captain of
a ship, leaving his First Lieutenant in command,
clothed with all his authority, and suppose the said First
Lieutenant, in the absence of the Captain, to order the
Boatswain to strike the topmasts, and suppose the Boat-
s Wain to refuse, and say he would obey the Captain, but
not the First Lieutenant;—suppose the Captain to be re-
ferred to, and suppose that he were to say, " Mr. Boat-
swain, etrike the topmasts immediately," and not to say,
you must obey the First Lieutenant ; you have been
guilty of disobedience, and have incurred the pe-
tialties of the law"—would that not be subvert-
ing the authority of the First Lieutenant, and
admitting that Mr. Boatswain did right in not obeying
him, though he must obey the Captain ? This is a pa-
rallel ease to that of Mr. WALTER ; and the House of
Commons, by giving him an order to attend the Com-
mittee, instead of informing him, as Sir G. GREY pro-
posed, that he must obey the summons of the Committee
or take. the consequences, subverted the authority of its
own Committee. In fact, Mr. ROEBUCK, we believe,
meant \what Sir G. GREY proposed, but though techni-
cally precise, he Killed to catch the distinction we have
endeavoatred to point out, and so he sweetened Me.
War:rm's humiliation by a quasi triumph.
Mr. \% ALTER certainly found lenient
,judges, and he
is substmetially where he was when he began the con-
test. Ile must attend the Committee, and might have
spared hianseli the trouble of kicking against its autho-
ir, v.as unfortunate for him, too, that he admitted
he wts summoned to be tried. Try a witness ! Make
a main. both accuser and testifier ! tiot so. The Corn-
na4te(t
.is to inquire, it is to find evidence ; the trial will
take Nave after the Report is made to the House
of Commons. The Committee can neither pass sentence
nor -iaf let punishment. Mr.IVALTER's over sensitiveness
on the ;subject, oard his use of' the word " tried," are the
worst fa:nures of his ease. On this point no little con-
fusion rugs through the debates of the House. The
Committee, without the power to decide, is called a tri-
bunal; and awn who are called before it to give evidence
say they are going to be tried. The whole thin is a
mere inquiry by a Committee of the House ; if it were
analagous to a Court to try criminal cases, its secret
proceedings er said not be too much reprobated.

The deputations from the manufacturing districts have,
we understand, requested all the Members of the House
of Commons who voted for Mr. VITLIERS' motion
on the total repeal of the Corn-laws, to attend
a meeting at Brown's Hotel, on Thursday, the
30th instant. The present alarming state of our
trade, when our own absurd restrictions are stimu-
lating other nations to impose similar restrictions on
them and our trade—the continual increase of distress,
and the absence of all hope of improvement, will make
this a very important meeting ; and none of the invited
Members, we believe, will be so forgetful of honour and
duty as to neglect the call.

The French Government has laid an extra duty of
20 per cent. upon the importation of foreign linen and
linen-thread. The Royal ordinance to that effect
appeared in the ilionittur of Monday. This is the
commencement of what the Opposition journals
call the "war of tariffs." It is intended to injure the
Irish linen trade, and there is no doubt but that it will
have that effect. This comes of Sir R. PEEL'S proposal
to impose an export duty of 4s. a ton upon coals. We
warned the Right Hon. Baronet of the mischief which
that proposal, so soon afterwards partially abandoned,
would do us, especially with the people of France.
Enraged that no measure was to be adopted for lower-
ing the import duty upon their wines and brandies, they
regard the export coal duty as a blow designed to crush
their rising manufactures. The cry of retaliation was
raised, and hence the additional 20 rer cent. duty upon
the import of British linen and linen-thread.
Belgium, to whom Sir ROBERT PEEL'S tariff
secures the monopoly of supplying France with
cows, has entered into a treaty with France for pre-
venting the smuggling of British linens and thread across
her frontier.

The Tariff; w Customs Bill, was last night passed
trough its last Stage in the Rouse of Commons, in the

There is no political news of any interest in the
French Journals. Their abuse of one set of candidates
and praise of another would not edify the people of
England, who know nothing at all about either.
The Pharamond packet, which left Algiers on the 20th, ar-
rived at Marseilles on the 22d.
According to the correspondence published by the Gazette
da Midi of the 23d, a telegraphic despatch had been received at
Algiers on the 17th, announcing a check suffered by the gar-
rison of Miliana, which had cost us 7 officers, 17 subalterns, and
100 privates, killed.
We must observe that the correspondence of the Sud makes
no mention of this important affair.
Ced Ali, formerly Caid of the Hadjeutes, arrived at Algiers

FOREIG
Austrian, 5 per cent
Belgian, 5 per cent
Brazilian Bon& .

Buenos A yres6 per cent.
Chilian, 6 per cent
Colombian, 6 per cent —
Ditto, 1824 221
Danish, 3 per cent
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent —
Mexican, 5 per cent 36
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et.

THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 29, 1842,

en the 17th, to propose the submission of that tribe. It is an-
nounced, at the same time, that the famous El Besher, Caid of
Djindel, has also just submitted, and has induced nine tribes
besides his own to follow the example. There is now not a
single tribe from Algiers to Churchill.— Commerce.
The Moniteur Alperin, of the 20th of June, publishes the
following intelligence :
" Sidi Ali Ouled Sidi Lekhal, cousin-german of Sidi Mo-
hammed Ouled Sidi Anal, the most important person after him
of the family of Sidi Embarek, arrived at Algiers on Friday
last, the 17th inst. He comes to make his submission to the
Governor-General. He was accompanied by the Chiefs of se-
veral tribes which have recently submitted, who having come
ti Algiers to receive the investiture of their new functions,
gladly seized the opportunity of escorting the Marabout Sidi
Ali, for whom they entertain great respect.
" The submission of this Arab Chief has caused a great
sensation in the interior of the country at Blidah, and among
the native poptiation at Algiers. Sidi Ali has great influence
among many important tribes, which is owing to his religious
character. On account of the family to which he belongs,
Abd-el-Kader gave him the post of Caid of the Hadjoutee.—
Constitutionnel.

THE IPSWICH TORY DINNER.—MINISTERIAL CON-
SISTENCY.--At a public dinner given on Saturday last,
at Ipswich, to celebrate the return of Earl Desert and
Mr. T. Gladstone, at the last election, the Noble Lord
took. the opportunity of chaunting the praises of Mi-
nisters, observing that they were chiefly remarkable for
" plain honesty and determined consistency." They
mig:it have other meritorious attributes, but these were
their most conspicuous characteristics. Earl Desart is
partly right, and partly wrong. He is wrong as
respects the honesty of Ministers—of which the less
said the better ; but he is unquestionably right,
as regards their consistency, which they possess in
an eminent degree. Look at Sir James Graham, fur
instance ! Where is there a statesman who has ever been
more uniformly consistent in his attention to his own
interests ? Through all his numerous tergiversations, we
can trace the guiding influence of Number One. It was
his affection for this important Numeral that first made
him a Whig ; the same quick, vigilant sensibility
prompted his desertion of the Whigs ; and last year
induced him to fly at office under the Tories,
with the same ravenous appetite with which a famished
cur tiles at a bone. Were Satan himself to be Prime
Minister to-morrow, it is our firm and unalterable con-
viction that the heavy Knight of Netherby, with that
consistent devotion to Self which has always been the
ruling principle of his life, would be the very first to
take office under him. Then there is Sir Edward
Knatchbull ! Who more consistent than this fine sample
of Kentish patriotism ? Last year it suited his interest
to oppose the New Poor-laws, and he opposed them ac-
cordingly ; this year it suits his interest to support
them, and he supports them accordingly. Can political
consistency go further than this ? It' it can, it will
most assuredly be found in the character and conduct of
our illustrious Premier, who, whether acting with the
Tories, or against the Tories—whether acting with the
Whigs, or against the Whigs—whether enslaving Catho-
lics, or emancipating Catholics—whether opposing Re-
form, or patronising Reform--has always been consis-
tent in his pertinacious adherence to his own ambitious
views. We agree, therefore, with Earl Desart, that Mi-
nisters—if not exactly conspicuous by their honesty—
are unquestionably " shining lights" as respects con-
sistency.

The marriage of Viscount Emlyn, eldest son of the
Earl of Cawdor, with the Hon. Miss Cavendish, recently
one of the Maids of Honour to the Queen, was solemnised
yesterday. The bride is the daughter of the Hon.
Colonel Cavend sh.l

SU '-ARY OF EWSI

AND
VIIOW Optitton.

" Who runs may read."

The Moniteur of Monday has teen received by ex-
t aartlinary express from Paris. It contains the threatened
Ordinance, imposing, in addition to the present duty of 16 per
cent. upon linen and linen-thread, a further duty of 20 per
cent. The import duty, therefore, upon linen and linen-thread
is now 36 per cent. This will inflict serious injury upon the
Irish linen trade.
The French telegraph states that General Rodil presented
the programme of his Cabinet to the Cortes on the 20th. He
said that he would be true to the Revolution of September,
that which terminated in the present Regency ; that he would
repress the Catalonian brigands; and that the reports respect-
ing Ramon Calatrava's leaning to a national bankruptcy, were
as absurd as false.
Private letters from Madrid state that the review on the 19th,
in honour of the anniversary of the Constitution Of 1837,
passed off somewhat coldly. The prolongation of the Ministerial
crisis is said to have much impaired the Ri gent's popularity, and
very few " Vistas" were heard on the occasion. 'I he British
Embassy was illuminated, but not such demonstration was ex-
hibited at the hotel of the French Legation.
Osman Pacha, the famous Governor of Trebisonde, died a
few days ago, and his brother Abdullah Bey acts as Kaimah am
until the appointment of a new Mushir, who has not yet been
named. As he is of the ancient family of llazinettaroglu,
which has long been influential in that part of the country, it
is expected that Abdullah Bey himself will be made Vizier, and
get the place.
Ahmed Zekerieh Pacha, who was Sera..kier in Syria at the
winding up of the late oar, died at Constantinople last week,
and his property is now being sold off by auction.
A letter from Constantinople of the 7th inst. has the follow.
ing :—" We have to-day bad a failure, which has thrown Ga-
lata: into a state of confusion, and is in other respects a subject
of great regret, viz., that of the old and highly esteemed Eng-
lish house, Niven, Kerr, Black, and Co. Their affairs have
been much restricted of late. 1 should think the amount of
their debts, stated roundly at 60,0001., must be exaggerated.
Business has of late been so had that no one can be surprised at
such an event; nor can anybody readily make money by pay-
ing the duties others find the means of avoiding in a great mea-
sure. Unless a change he effected here, fair trade must cease,
and the mercantile body will become a nest of smugglers. The
house in question was renowned for its honourable conduct in
every respect, and on certain articles it dealt in no one paid the
duties but itself. They were bankers to the Embassy, and
highly connected in every way : but who are the sufferers' is
a fact not yet known."

FOREIGN.

THE INCOIME•TA X A CT.—Si Mpk in and Marshall have,
with praiseworthy dispatch, published this Act, with
an explanatory introduction, and numerous useful notes,
by Mr. Mordaunt Wells, Barrister-at-Law. It is accom-
panied with a copious index, furnishing an excellent key
to the Act, and so constructed as to form a complete
analysis and digest of the enactments, as well as a means
or reference to the various subjects contained in the
work. It is sold at a moderate price, and will be found
extremely useful to all those who come within the range
of this new infliction. The following note, among others,
will afford consolation to persons who receive annuities
or dividends payable out of the public revenue, not
amounting to 1501. yearly :—" All the duties upon such
annuities, &c., will therefore be deducted from the pay-
ment made on account thereof, in the first instance ; but
when the whole yearly income of the party entitled to
such annuity, Ric. does not amount to 15C1., the amount
of the duty so deducted will be repaid to him, on his
pursuing the directions in the. Act, described in page
13 of this introduction."

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, TIJESIDAY EVENING._

The Funds at the latter end of the day again became de-
pressed, and Consols, having been held at 91 for the opening
ex div., left cff at the quotations (nominally) of 91 to 91k.
Three per Cent. Reduced, 91i 91%; Bank stock, 166 k 167 k ;
India Bonds, 23 25; and Exchequer Bills, Old, 41 43; New,
45 46 prem.
The Foreign Securities have felt the effect of the decline in
our Stocks, and scarcely any business has been entered into.
The prices are stated to be—Belgian, 102 103 ; Dutch Two-
and-a- Half per Cents., 52 521 Q ; the Five per Cents., 101
1011; Danish, 81 82; and Braziian, 64 66.
Mexican also was quoted lower, the last rate being 36k 36k.
The Share Market was flat. London and Birmingham, 175
177 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 49 51 ' • Great Western,
87 SS ; the Half Shares, 611 611 ; South Western, 60 61 ;
North Midland, 61 63 ; the New Shares. 30 31; South
Eastern and Dover, 23k ; the Scrip, 41 5 ; Eastern Coun-
ties, Si 91; Northern and Eastern, 39 40 ; Black wall, 9k 10;
and Brighton, 351 351. •
The Exchange, generally wera heavy, and in most instances
rather lower, particularly in Hamburgh and France. The quo-
tations were—Amsterdam, 12 51 ; Rotterdam, 12 51% 12 5%;
Antwerp, 12 44 ; Hamburgh, 13 11 13 1 1 ; Frankfort,
151 i 151 k ; Paris, 25f. 72e. 25f. 77kc. ; Marseilles, 25e. 75c
1251. 77ke. ; Genoa, 25 77k ; Vienna, 9 54 9 55 ; Naples,
40k ; Palermo, 1201 121:i ; Messina, 12. Pi 1203 ; Madrid,
361 37 ; Cadiz the same ; Lisbon, Oporto, 524 ; Leghorn, 30.
The opinion generally expressed in the City with regard to the
French ordinance, for increas ng the duty on our linens, ap-
pears to be in perfect accordance with the statements in The
Sun of this afternoon. The injury which will be thereby in-
flicted on the trade will, it is considered, he slight, compared
with that which their commerce will suffer. And while the
impolicy of the measure on the part of the French is fully ad-
mitted, the proceedings of our own Government have not es-
caped censure. Without trenching upon the question of how
far our collieries can bear the imposition of an export duty on
coal, it is thought that it shows some fear of their continental
manufacturers, and that it is about to be levied, is much to dis-
tress them, as for the sake of revenue. It is to be regretted
that our competitors should have been furnished with so excel-
lent an answer to any complaint which may be made against
their new regulation.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The intelligence from Paris has had an effect upon the prices
of the English funds, and Consols, at one part of the morning,
were as low as 91k sellers. Although the imposition of the
extra duty, of 20 per cent. on linen is not generally considered
as likely to be of any serious consequences to our manufacturers,
yet it would seem to afford matter for serious apprehension.
At the time when our own Government are offering concessions
to other countries for the extension of freedom in commerce,
the French Ministry are obliged from their weakness to suc-
cumb to popular outcry, and impose restrictions upon articles
indispensably necessary to themselves. The ill feeling which
exists in France towards England has long been a mat-
ter of notoriety, and this proceeding is looked upon
merely
.as a precursor of others aimed against our trade ;
but it is in this manner only that it will be evinced, the
idea of a hostile collision being wholly repudiated. If
such be the case our neighbours themselves will be the suf-
ferers, the imports from France being of far more consequence
to them, than the exports to it from this country are to us.
The Market has since the commencement of business some-
what recovered, and Consols are 91k, buyers, for the opening,
ex din, ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 914 ; Three-and-a-Half
per Cents. Reduced, 100 k 1001 ; Bank Stock, 166 k 167} ;
India Bonds, 23 25 ; Exchequer Bills, Old, 44 46 ; Ditto,
New, 40 43 prem.
Beyond a bargain in the Dutch Five per Cents. at 101,
nothing has been done in Foreign Securities, prices of which
remain nominally as on Saturday.
Mexican is still quoted 36k 37.
No business has been going forward in Shares, except a
purchase of Great Westerns at 87, and South Eastern at 24%.
fhe quotations of the bonds have been exceedingly agitated.
All of them are lower than on yesterday, which is solely to
be attributed to the small number and general weakness of the
operators ; thus, as each speculates in all descriptions
of stock, if one give way, the others must necessarily
follow. Since, therefore, the rate of Colombian has
been sect down, upon the supposition that the holders of
the bonds are in a worse condition now than they were a month
since, Spanish and Portuguese have followed in the decline.
This will be a clear solution for the caution which has from
time to time been given against operations in these documents.
At present no security exists against a species of moral robbery,
and Consols may, without any legitimate cause, be raised or
depressed two or three per cent. in a day, just as it may suit
the speculators. •
Dealings bane been in Portuguese, Colombian, and Spani,h
Shares only ; the first at 35%, the second at 35%, and the last
at 22%, with the dividend to be paid on the 30th inst.
There are no foreign arrivals to-day.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JUNE 27.—The market
was rather firmer, and sales to a great extent were effected at
steady rates. The total quantity sold was about 4,500 bales,
which included 600 Peruvian, 5/d. to 5%d. ; 100 Egyptian,
bad. to 9d. ; 50 Pernam, 7d. to ;ad. ; 100 Maranham, 5;0. to
ti*d. ; 300 Surat, 3d. to 3%d. ; and 3,350 American, 3%c1.
to 6d.

PARLIAMENTARY.
The Irish Municipal Bill was carried up from the Commons.
and read a first time in the Lords.
A Committee to investigate the administration of oaths was
appointed.
Lord Mountcashel called the attention of their Lordships to
the conduct of Mr. Phelan, a Poor-law Commissioner in Ire-
land, whJ had neglected to comply with an order of their Lord-
shipe, to provide certain returns relative to the medical charities
of Ireland. The subject gave rise to much conversation, but
the motion to lay all the letters addressed to Mr. Phelan on the
table, was rejected.
The Lord Chancellor laid on the table a short Bill to post-
pone the operation of the jurisdiction of the Justices Bill for a
season, as it would otherwise come into operation in the middle
of the Quarter Sessions. It was read a first time. 'their Lout-
ships then adjourned.
The Chairman of the Southampton Committee reported in
the Commons, that John Fleming Luce had not attended the
Committee when ordered, and Mr. Luce was ordered to attend
the House on Thursday.
There was a reference made to hung*r and to outrages in Ire-
land, but these have been for so long a period the unhappy lot
of the Irish, that the reference did not command much attention.
In reply to Mr. Hume, Mr. Gladstone assured him that the
proclamation for the issue of half-farthings was not a hoax,
and that this small coin was very useful in the colonies.
Mr. Walter was called to the bar, and, after he had been
heard, an order was made, on the motion of Mr. Roebuck, and
atter a division, that Mr. Walter do attend the Election Proceed-
ings Committee this day. Mr. Walter was subsequently called
in, and made acquainted with the order of the House, and so
ended, for the present, Mr. Walter's resistance to the orders of
the Committee.
Mr. Roebuck subsequently reported that Mr. Bailie Coch-
rane, a Member of the House, when respectfully requested to
attend the Committee, had positively refused. Mr. Cochrane
is to attend in his place to-day to explain the refusal.
The Income-tax Bill was read a third time. Several amend-
ments were proposed in it which occupied the House the
greater part of the evening, but towards midnight they were all
filially disposed of, and the Bill was passed amidst shear;, and
ordered also, amidst cheers, to be carried up to the Lords

this day.
For the remainder of the evening the House was discussing
the provisions of the British Possessions Abroad Bill on the
third reading, which went through that stage. The House
adjourned at One o'Clock.

LIVERTOOL SHARE MARKET, JUNE 27.—The market Nat
tolerably steady, but the demand was limited, and sales confined
to Eastern Counties, 91/8 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 48;
Liverpool and Manchester Halves, 86.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 27.—There is
no improvement at all in our Market, and our only transaction
is—London and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 36.

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Flank Stock 167 India Stock
Pm
3 per Cent. Red.
33
ip
le,e r r--Ditto Old Annuities
1001 ,Ditto New Annuities —. Cent.
Cent. Cons
Red...
New 3i per Cent......... 1,0001..•.2d 43 pm
New S per Cen' Ditto 5001...... 40 pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ...... pm
Jan. 1860 ...... 12 ißank Stock for Acct.._ _
Oct. 1859
Jan. 1860 'Consols for Opg.
N FUNDS.'
'Portuguese, 5 per cent.
'Ditto, New Ditto 35
Prussian, 5 per cent.
Russian, 5 per cent —
Ditto, Meta11ic......, ~, —
Spanish, per cent 2l
Ditto, Deferred.... .
French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
Exchange
French, 3 percent —f. —c.
Dutch, 2. per cent. s2i
!Ditto, 5 per cent. ... 101
SHARES.
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p)
Ditto New Shares (17k paid).. l3l
Great Western Railway (65 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid)
London and Blackwall ( paid)
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... ..
Ditto Quarter Shares ( 2 paid)
North Midland Railway (100)
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 24i
Ditto Scrip. ( 5 paid)
York and North Midland (50 paid) ......
Dittu New Shares (15 paid)

at Clerkenwell with having stolen a valuable bloodhound, le-
longing to the Marquis of Worcester. The charge was not
brought home to him, but he was remanded on the charge of
stealing the collar and chain.
A young man, named Alexander Barr, was charged at Quven-
square on Monday with having, by excessive violence, caused
the death of his wire, of about 32 }ears of age, who, from the
supposed injuries received at his hands, died last Monday. The
prisoner was remanded till Thursday next, and in the meantime
an inquest will be held.
NAVAL AND IVIIL/TAILY.
New marine barracks are about to he erected at Woolwich,
' the estimates for which are now in course of preparation : their
front will be to the east, and command a fine view; the old
barracks will still be preserved, to accommodate the usual num -
be: of men, but will be taken down on the completion of the new.

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC.
Mr. Andrew Mercer' a literary man of much talent, and
the associate of Scott, Campbell, Mungo Park, Dr. Leyden,
and Dr. Alexander Murray, died at Dumfermline on the 11th
instant, in the 67th year of his age, in circumstances, it is be-
lieved, of great penury.
THEATRICAL. _

Madlle. Rachel performed at the Queen's Theatre on Monday
the principal fems'e character in Voltaire's tragedy of Tancrede.
Signor Puzzi takes his benefit on Thursday next at her
Majesty's Theatre,