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TUESDAY

:MORNING, JULY 25, 18.

THE MEETING OF CONVOCATION

THE discussions which have taken place on the vexed
nestion of restoring the functions of the Convocation of
:h must be fresh in recollection, and though no-
o __ yet been formally decided upon so as to give
11tv to this body by opening its Session with a Speech
in which the business for its deliberation

a the Thrc

should be set forth, a very important step in advance has
been made by the proceedings of Committees which have
already taken place, and which there appears little reason
will lead to further progress. On Thursday, both

to doe.'
H

ses of Convocation of the Province of Canterbury
ssembled, agreeably to adjournment, at Westminster,
and, though not numerously attended, some highly-inte-
resting reports were presented, on subjects of great impor-
tance to the welfare of the Church.

In the Upper House, the Archbishop of Canterbury
Presided, and the Bishops of London, Orford, Lincoln, and
The first business was the report

iry were present.

he committee appointed by Convocation to consider
report, with a view to addressing Her Majesty thereon,

FRANCE,

rhether any, and if so what, reforms in the constitution
Convocation are expedient to enable it to treat, with

the fuller confidence of the Church, of such matters as Her

Majesty may be pleased so submit to its deliberations."
They suggest no alteration in the Upper House ; and in
the Lower House, that there should be a Proctor for every
Archdeaconry, to be elected by all beneficed clergy, and
curates and chaplains in priests' orders, and licensed by

Bishop. They also make several suggestions with
.ence to the joint action of both Houses, the power of

appointing Committees, presenting petitions, and other
matters of detail. With reference to the union of the

I Convocations of the

but trifling.

THE REVOLUTION IN SPAIN

Lied. It

,f Oxford, that a great deal

and with less of objc iction than at one time prevai
was remarked by th e Bishop
of:the prejudice wh' Lch existed as to the meetin
vocation, was based upon a wrong apprehens
they desired to do when it was agnin in action. It was

Lgs of Con-

on of what

feared that it wool d be a sort of Ecclesiastical 1

to native

Parliament

sitting from day 'to day, through a given session, to find

work for itself, or to receive suggestions for work from
other quarters, artd so rake up all matters of differe
opinion, until it would only become the scene (

a trial

strength between, the persons entertaining different vie
in the Church• Such a course could not be
deprecated ; but what they desired was this—
must be, if the Church were to meet the wants of tl

too strongly

t, as then

.t Lawrence

population, certain changes, these changes should be dis-

cussed by the clergy in a responsible body, under the
sanction and restraint of the Crown and Primacy, before
they should be proposed in the Houses of Parliament.

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

On Wednesday the Emperor and Empress left Paris by
the Orleans Railway for the baths of Biaritz, in the Pyre-

It is announced by the 21foniteur that the Emperor, on
his return from Biaritz in August, will take the com-
mand of the camp at Boulogne.
A curious and alarming circumstance occurred on the
Strasburg railway on Tuesday, near the town of Com-
mercy. As one of the trains was passing through a wood
several shots were fired upon it from behind the trees. The
•train was stopped, and chace was given to the assailants
by the conductors and passengers, who ultimately captured
-several peasants, who admitted having committed the out-
rage, and gave as their reason that the only use of rail-
ways was to propagate the cholera.

sackin

&fore 6, p.m. on Friday every ship had left Calais roads
with the French troops on board. The Fire Queen
boarded the Prince at 5, a.m. All was confusion on board,
and Captain Lefebre expressed his displeasure, ordering
the Prince instantly to get under weigh. In heaving the
slack of the chain, the interior of the iron work of the cap-
stain broke, rendering it useless. The Reine Hortense,
with General Baraguay d'Hilliers on board, was under
weigh for the Baltic. Captain Lefebre followed in the
Fire Queen, and boarded the yacht, for the purpose of
consulting the. General, who wished the Prince and
transports to keep together. The Prince was ordered to
the Downs for repairs. The Fire Queen was sent to the
Downs with Messrs. Maudsley and Lambert. The Reine
Hortense proceeded to the Baltic, with two brigs in tow.
At 2,30 p.m. the Herefordshire and two transports were
ordered to the Downs, to join the Prince, in tow of two
steamers. The defect being telegraphed to the Admiralty,
a new tapstain and chains were sent oft' from the estab-
lishment of Mr. Mare, so that the delay will have been

landed from ti

American vessel Grey 1

admiral Diquesna die
Advices from the
Russian frigate Dian
to her departure she lay f
Majesty's ship Trincomalee, 32

CALIFORNIA.

Two or three

The insurrection has triumphed. Despatches, in rapid
succession during the week, have shown that those early
statements which were telegraphed by Government age
were either based on erroneous information
fully distorted

On the 18th the municipality of San Sebastian declared
openly for the movement, and the National Guard rose in
arms. On the morning of the 19th two battalions of the
Bourbon Regiment, the Carbineers, and a detachment of
cavalry, left San Sebastian, under the command of General
Gabala. It was believed that they were going to join
those of Saragossa. Vittoria had also declared in favour
of General O'Donnell.

paring

abundant.

Telegraphic despatches from Perpignan and Bayonne,
stated that Valladolid, Saragossa, Burgos, Grenada, and
many other places, had declared for O'Donnell, and that
Zabala, with the troops of the Basque provinces, was
marching towards Madrid. The cry of the Constitution-
alists is generally "Long live the Queen and the Constitu-
tion ; Death to the Ministers." But at Barcelona the cry
is " The Constitution and Morality." Whether the word
morality is intended to be applied to the executive Govern-
ment or the Queen remains yet to be known. A private
letter from Bayonne states an attempt is being made by
some of the Constitutionalists to effect a reconciliation
between O'Donnell and Narvaez. Every attempt at re-
publican movement appears to have failed.
General Mazzaredo, late commander of the Basque

nation.
stabbir

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGEN

NEW YORK CLASSIFICATION

com7,,IET,CIAL ADVERTISER.

orted as h.

ad been arrested on a
:amination by the Com-

was discharged.
kmericans and the Irish had had an encounter
Mass., in which considerable damage was
) property. The military was ordered under arms.
New Orleans Delta, of the 4th, has the following
_ ing an alleged outrage by the crew of an emigrant
n from Liverpool :—" We last evening heard rumours
_ gross outrages and consequent excitement in connexion
with an emigrant ship from Liverpool, which arrived
Yesterday in the

third district. The entire ship's company,
vith .the exception of the captain, mate, and carpenter, are
- ;red with the most fiendish outrages upon the female
tigers during the passage. What renders the case
ivating, is the charge made by the poor victims
brutalities were perfectly well known to the
ao efforts to restrain their brutish

crew. We hear that a body of, the friends and country-
men of the emigrants, highly excited, proceeded to the
ked the negroes, and threw some of them over-
rmant learned that the mate had secreted

himself, and could not be found. We refrain mentioning
the name of the vessel until we obtain further particulars."
A correspondence has taken place between the foreign
Consuls at Mazatlan and the Governor, regarding the in-
human treatment which the prisoners who were seized and
incarcerated for landing without passports were receiving.
The efforts of the Consuls had the effect of mitigating
somewhat the 1

lardships of the prisoners.
Extensive fires had occurred at New Orleans and Cox-
former place the damage was estimated at

Lubec, in Maine, upwards of $lOO,OOO worth of pro:

perty had been destroyed by fire. A similar amount of
loss had been occasioned at New Haven by a conflagration.
The New Grenada revolutionists seemed to be gaining
ground, and Panama was threatened. Aspinwall was in
great disorder

d the foreign residents had taken matters
-nto their own hands. The railway had been extended to
Obispo.
_ _ _

At Montreal some excitement had been got up by the
arrest of an American citizen under'.an alleged false
charge of an attempt to decoy away a bound servant from

a Mr. Stevens, the said servant being the slave of J.
Campbell, Esq., Maryland. Mr. Ott, the person arrested,
stated that the slave wrote to his master to take him
back, and he had been requested to call upon him to
arrange his return. Mr. Ott was fined a 11s. 2d.
Late advices from Havana report that 600 slaves had

gle, which

was afterwards captured by an English cruiser, and finally
surrendered to a Spanish man-of-war. The French and
English squadrons had been reinforced. The French
_ _

on the 3d.
Jadwich Islands mention. that the
Zed for Sitka. Previously
everal days alongside her

squatter riots had occurred at San Fran-

cisco, and several persons had been killed. The rioters
objected to their ejectors from certain grounds, and erected
fortifications, which they defended. The accounts from
the mines are very favourable. At lowa Hill we are told
that upwards of three hundred tunnels have been com-
menced, and that some of them will involve an outlay of
thousands of dollars. Remuneration is to be obtained
when they get into the hill. Some of these tunnels have
iron doors, and are locked and barred, lest some rogue
should steal the " dust" in the dirt. One claim is reported
to yield an average of 300 ounces per day. New and rich
diggings have been discovered on Kern river, which
empties into Tulare Lake, 350 miles south of Stockton.
These new discoveries have produced much excitement in
Mariposo county, and many of the best citizens were pre-
-to go south. The harvest was expected to be very
Two Frenchmen fought a duel, in which one
or them was killed. Capt. Mathews, of the Liverpool ship
Lady Dufferin, had been murdered by the carpenter of
the vessel. The carpenter, John M`Gowan, went on shore
without leave, which coming to the knowledge of the
41. he (the captain) informed him that should he pre-

sume to do so again his wages would be detained. Some
altercation ensued between them, whieh resulted in the
carpenter's stabbing the captain with a half-inch chisel in
the region of the lower ribs. The captain immediately
ran forward, exclaiming that he was stabbed by the car-
penter, and fell overboard. He was picked up by some
boatmen who happened to be alongside, and conveyed
ashore, and subsequently placed in a carriage to be taken
to the hospital; on the way thither, however, he died.
Instead of proceeding to the hospital, his body was taken
to the coroner's office. On a post mortem examination,
deceased was found to have been stabbed in the left
breast, penetrating the lower part of the heart, the rena
cava being completely severed by the instrument with
which the wound was inflicted. The murderer was
arrested and given into the custody of the marshal, by
whom he was conveyed to the lock-up to await an exami-
k Mexican had been lynched at Mariposo for
a man. The San Francisco market had been
aoderately firm and active

interior

consumption continued steady. The farming interests of
the state were flourishing. Dry goods were dull of sale.

NEW YORK, JULY 12.—There is
state of trade generally, the characterising feature being
inactivity. Such has been the general distrust in moneyed
circles for the past few days, that it was exceedingly diffi-
cult to obtain money on stock securities, even at very
exorbitant rates of interest, whereas the first-class com-
mercial paper has been more current. The demand for
money yesterday was less urgent, and the rates of discount
were 7 to 8 per cent. on call, and 12 to 15 per cent. on
first-class commercial paper. Later accounts from Cali-
fornia state that the harvest had commenced, and all
appearances indicated that it would be abundant. The
immense stock of flour and grain on hand, with the in-
coming crop, it was believed would reduce the price of
these articles to a very low figure. Foreign Exchange
was rather inactive ; London, 1094 to 1092 ; Paris, 5.114
to 5.13*; Bremen, 78i to 74.
COTTON.—The estimated sales for the three days are
6,000 bales, the market closing firm at an advance of -k to
+ of a cent as compared with those ruling this day week.
Grades above middling are still comparatively scarce, and
continue to hear a higher relative value than the low and
medium qualities. The receipts at the ports, as compared
with the last season, have been reduced to 376,883 bales.
We quote

nent in the

N. Orleans

Uplands. FloridZ. —l4obile. and Texas.
Ordinary.... Bto 0 .... Bto 0 .. Bto 0
Low middling 9to 0 .... 91 to 0 .. 93 to 0
Middling.... 93 to 93.... oto 0 .. 93 to 93
Good mid... 10 to 0 .... oto 0 .. oto 0
Middling fair and fair nominal, owing to scarcity.
Inferior to ordinary abundant, ranging from 7*c. to Sc., nom.
RECEIPTS, EXPORTS, AND STOCKS OF COTTON SINCE SEPT 1.
Exports to Total Exports Stock on
Receipts. Gt. Britain. to For. Ports. Hand, Btc.
1834 .... 2,801,235 1,450,355 2,063,743 315,511
1853....3,178,118 1,640,872 2,386,875 223,496
Increase 92,015
Decrease 376,883 190,517 323,132
PuovrsioNs.—Mess pork has ruled low since our last;
lard was rather quiet ; beef was not very active, but prices
were firm ; stock light ; butter was in more active demand;
cheese, 6c. to 91c. per lb.

BREADSTUFF& The market for State and Western
flour opened decidedly lower on Saturday. Great irregu-
larity of prices continues to prevail, and the range is pro-
bably greater than ever before known in this market.
Our revised quotations indicate a decline of 121 to 374
cents on the low and medium grades since Saturday last,
and 64 to 12i cents on most of the favourite, fancy, and
extra brands, the market generally closing steady. The
market for Canada and Southern flour continues quiet,
and prices are in favour of the purchaser. The market
for wheat has materially declined, particularly for inferior
descriptions, the supply of which is increasing. The corn
market has been very active, mainly for home use, the
market closing firm.

IRox.—The market is very quiet, and no sales to report.
FRElGurs.—wheat for Liverpool, 7d. ; tobacco, hogs-
heads, 225. exl. ; cotton, square bales, per lb. 7-32 d. to id.;
flour, per barrel, 2s. to 2s. 3d.; rosin, ls.; heavy goods,
per ton, 20s. to 255. To London, flour, ls. 9d. to 2s. ;
measurement goods, per ton, 30s. ; heavy, 20s. to 255.
To Havre, cotton, per lb., c. To Glasgow, flour, 2s. 3d. ;
grain, 6/d. to 7d.