-The inquiry into the catastrophe at Benares has proved unsatisfactory, the cause of explosion still remaining a mystery. The lowest estimate of the number of persons killed is 400. The accounts from Canton state the export of last seasons tea is 54 millions of pounds. The export of the previous year was 47 millions; there being thus an increase of 7 millions. The import trade at Canton was in a most depressed state. Several cases of cholera had occurred both at Alexandria and Cairo; and another visitation of the disease was apprehended. The Viceroy fled from Cairo as soon as the cholera appeared: he proceeded down the Nile to Damietta and thence embarked for Rhodes on the 5th inst. The Nile was rising more slowly than usual. Cotton had risen to 14 dollars per. cantar, but there was little business doing, many people were leaving the country from fear of the cholera. The accounts from the West Indies reach the end of July. In Jamaica there had been heavy rains, but the effects of a previous drought had shown themselves. In Trelawny, a great agricultural parish, fears were entertained for the crop on the ground. In other districts they looked more cheerful.-In Demerara the weather had been rather dry and auspicious for the planters. The question of Coolie immigration chiefly occupied public attention, and three bills had been introduced by the Attorney General into the Court of Policy to regulate immigration.-A disastrous hurricane had visited Barbadoes, St. Kitt's, St. Martin's, Dominica, Antigua, and Martinique. A vast deal of property was destroyed, and many vessels with valuable cargoes totally lost. Accounts of recent dates have been received from the Australian Colonies. At Sydney there was much dissatisfaction with the home government for its neglect to carry into operation a system of steam communication. From Port Philip the most prominent article of news is the discovery of an extensive field of coal at Western Port. It appears from a survey just completed that the coal measures present a continuous section for ten miles, to the river Bourne, and re-appear six miles along the coast, at Cape Patterson, where the coal rises to the surface.-About the middle of March a great meeting was held at Melbourne for the promotion of German immigration, at which Prince Frederick of Augustenburg was present; his highness had been visiting the surrounding country, and the formation of a large German settlement was expected.-From Van Dieman's Land it is stated that the convicts from the Cape of Good Hope had been landed at Hobart Town, to the great disgust of the inhabitants, who were preparing to make a strong demonstration against convict importation. Mr. Smith O'Brien was to be removed from Maria Island to Port Arthur, where preparations were making for his reception. He was to continue under the strictest surveillance.-In South Australia considerable sickness had prevailed, especially at Adelaide; it is ascribed to the impurity of the water. The great government sales at the Emu Plains had taken place, and a large sum was realised. The financial accounts are very favourable. From an official return of the revenue for the quarter ending 31st March last, it appears that the receipts were 52,8287.; and that, although the expenditure is charged with 11,500l. remitted to England for payment of interest and in reduction of principal of the bonded debts, still there was a surplus of 10,000l. of revenue over expenditure during the quarter. Coal has been discovered at Kangaroo Island.-In West Australia there had been considerable discussion as to the justice of inflicting the punishment of death on natives for crimes committed among themselves. Three natives (brothers) of a tribe distant forty miles from York were convicted and sentenced to be hanged. The execution was fixed for April 12th. On the evening of the 11th, in consequence of a memorial addressed to the governor on the inconsistency of executing men for crimes to which, among themselves, no turpitude attached, and suggesting that the execution of one would satisfy the ends of justice, his excellency assured the memorialists that he fully concurred in their suggestion and accordingly reprieved two of the culprits. On the following day the elder native was executed in the presence of his two brothers, and shortly after the hangman proceeded to place the rope on the necks of these men; they resisted violently, but being overpowered by the sheriff's assistants, the fatal cord was adjusted and the bolt about to be withdrawn, when the governor's secretary rode up hastily to the sheriff, and presented him with a letter commanding a reprieve. The wretched culprits were wholly at a loss to understand the procedure. The effect of this melodramatic scene on the natives is described as by no means favourable; it being calculated to impress them with the notion that fear more than humanity dictated the reprieve. There are advices from Toronto to the 10th. On that day the provincial parliament was prorogued by Lord Elgin, to the 19th of September. His excellency complimented the members on their zeal and diligence, and congratulated them on the improvement in the revenue and the promise of an abundant harvest. PROGRESS OF EMIGRATION AND COLONISATION. The Canterbury Association gave a farewell breakfast on the 30th of July to the first body of colonists now about to emigrate to New Zealand, on board the ship "Randolph," lying in the East India Docks. More than three hundred guests were elegantly entertained, among whom were Lord Lyttelton (who did the honours as host), the Bishop of Norwich, Lord and Lady Wharncliffe, Lord Nelson and Lady Susan Nelson, the Countess Grey, the Marchioness of Drogheda, Miss Burdett Coutts, Lady Shelley, Lady Caroline Sterling, and other persons of distinction. Several interesting speeches were made, and the tone of the meeting was animated and hopeful. The Female Emigration Society, who have during the present year sent out six parties of young women to Sidney and Port Philip, dispatched their first party for Canada, on the 3rd inst., by the barque "Elspeth." NARRATIVE OF FOREIGN EVENTS. TIME was when the death of Louis Philippe would have agitated the Continent from one end to the other, but his importance passed away with his power; and the only interest now awakened is that which attends the disappearance of a man who has played by far the most memorable part on the theatre of the modern world, and has supplied its most sorrowful and most instructive lesson of human vicissitude. Louis Napoleon has been travelling in search of a throne, and appears to have failed in obtaining any reasonable prospect of the object of his quest. He started in great spirits, and in the first city he visited, which was Dijon, told the people very frankly that they knew what he wanted; but in the second, which was Lyons, he saw the expediency of so far altering his tone as to say, that what he wanted he was also quite ready to surrender if the people did not want it; in the third, which was Besançon, he found it necessary to make his escape from a popular ball pretty nearly as soon as he had entered it; and in the fourth, which was Strasburgh, even the Moniteur is forced to confess that there was no enthusiasm." In short, it is quite clear that the prince's chances of the Empire are become infinitesimally small, however reasonable even yet may be his chances (in the poverty of other competitors) for one more term of the Presidency. The quarrel of the Danes and the Schleswig-Holsteiners has resulted in a great battle and a small protocol; the battle bringing some seventy thousand men into the field, sacrificing lives by thousands, and settling nothing; the protocol wasting but an ordinary-sized sheet of paper, requiring but the signatures of England, France, and Russia, and bidding fair (for the present at least) to settle everything. For, though Prussia and Austria withhold their assent to the protocol, there is every reason to believe that the gallant little duchies must now submit ; and no doubt their fate will point a moral and adorn a tale for Mr. Cobden, General Haynau, and the other members of the Universal Peace Congress now assembled to speechify at Frankfort. America has received a new and apparently satisfactory batch of governing ministers from Mr. President Fillmore, who makes Mr. Webster, a man of genius, his principal secretary of state; but the hope of any amicable settlement of the slavery dispute has again received a decisive check. Spain is in great grief for a famous bull-fighter, lately tossed and mangled by a fierce Andalusian bull; and a daily bulletin is issued. The French Assembly broke up on the 9th, without any formal prorogation. On that day there was "no house," there being only 230 present instead of 376, the number required by law: so the assembly closed its session by being "counted out." It re-assembles on the 11th of November. The committee of surveillance is to sit during the recess, and a majority of its members are to be always resident in Paris. On the 12th, the President set out on an extensive tour through the Provinces. He had previously given several military banquets, which, from their imperial aspect, and the political spirit manifested by the guests, created a great sensation. On one of these occasions, a dinner to the officers of a portion of the garrison of Paris, it is told, that after the company left the table, they adjourned into the garden to smoke their cigars; and there Louis Napoleon, seeing a musket (probably put there on purpose), took it up, and went through the manual exercise with great dexterity, to the great delight of the sergeants and corporals, who shouted "Vive le petit Corporal!" (the Emperor's pet-name among the soldiers) with great enthusiasm. The French Journals, are filled with accounts of the President's journey; but their details are of a very monotonous kind; descriptions of triumphal entries into towns; receptions and harangues by the authorities right royally responded to; reviews; balls, and visits to theatres; every movement attended by shouting crowds generally testifying great enthusiasm for the name of Napoleon, and the memory of the Emperor, not unfrequently mingled, however, with manifestations of republicanism; and it is singular enough, the existing government being a republic, that the republican cries have the air of proceeding from disaffected malcontents. The President has been liberal in his distribution of crosses of the Legion of Honour, sometimes accompanied with gratuities in money to old officers, and soldiers of the Imperial Army. At Dijon he thus decorated, adding a present of 500 francs, an old soldier who had served under the Emperor in Egypt and had lost his feet, frozen in the retreat from Moscow. -At Lyons the President's reception was peculiarly favourable, and the day he spent there the most brilliant of his journey. He was entertained at a splendid breakfast in the Jardin d' Hiver, got up by subscription, and attended by an immense assemblage, full of enthusiasm. At noon there was a grand review of troops. He then visited many of the manufactories in the Faubourg des Croix Rousses, the most turbulent quarter of the city, into which he went with scarcely any escort. Afterwards he was entertained at a grand dinner by the Chamber of Commerce, where the scene was quite sentimental à la Française. On his health being toasted with immense acclamations, he made a speech in acknowledgment, which he concluded thus:"On the eve of bidding you farewell, permit me, I pray you, gentlemen, to remind you of certain expressions that have been celebrated. But, no! I cannot go on, it would be too much vanity on my part to say to you as the Emperor said, 'People of Lyons, I love you.' You will, however, I trust, allow me to say to you, which I do from the bottom of my heart, Lyonnese, I pray you love me.'' These words, spoken with some emotion, produced an electrical effect on the audience; every man stood up, and a triple round of applause responded to the petition preferred by the President of the Republic, and cries of "Oui, oui, nous vous aimons!" The evening was concluded by a visit to the theatre. As he entered his box the whole house rose with the cry of "Vive le President! Vive Napoleon!" On three different occasions a solitary voice from the upper gallery cried, with all the force of his lungs, the more earnest that it was not responded to, "Vive la République!" It is scarcely necessary to say that the house was crammed from top to bottom. On several subsequent occasions the President was more roughly received, particularly at Basançon, when a ball, given to him, became the scene of a violent disturbance. A torrent of the populace burst into the room, shouting "Vive la Republique!" and causing the utmost terror and confusion. Amid the shrieks of ladies, the company and the President himself, hastily abandoned the room, leaving it in possession of the rioters; but General Castellane, who, sword in hand, had protected the President's retreat, ordered a charge of cavalry on the mob in the street; and at the same time the room was cleared at the point of the bayonet. At another ball, in the theatre, he was well received. He afterwards proceeded to Strasburgh, where, and throughout Alsace, his reception was of a chequered kind; acclamations of multitudes mingled with strong marks of disaffection. At Strasburgh a conspiracy against his life was detected and several arrests took place in consequence. On the 23rd, the President left Strasburgh for Nancy, and Metz. There has been a sort of Congress of Legitimists at Wiesbaden, assembled round the Count de Chambord, who assumes a royal state, keeping a sort of court, and giving formal receptions and audiences to his adherents, with whom the little town has been filled. Among them were M. Berryer, General de St. Priest, and M. de la Rochejaquelin. Little progress in the German Question has as yet been made by the Congress at Frankfort. At a meeting on the 8th, at which Count Thun, the Austrian plenipotentiary, presided, it was decided that Austria should formally invite all the members of the Bund to assemble at Frankfort on the 1st of September next. A circular note of the 18th of August, in which the MinisterPresident reiterates the assurances so solemnly given in the circular of the 19th July, that it is the earnest wish of Austria to make such reforms in the Act of Confederation as may be required by the recent change of circumstances in Germany, and may conduce to the unity of the common fatherland, was accordingly despatched with the Frankfort summons to the different courts on the 15th. It remains to be seen whether Prussia and the League will accept this proposal. In Piedmont a great sensation has been produced by a collision with the papal power. The Sardinian Minister of Finance, the Cavalière Santa Rosa, who had supported the ministry in passing the law which rendered the clergy amenable to the civil courts, being on his deathbed, was refused the sacrament by the monks, under the direction of Franzoni the Archbishop of Turin. At his funeral such excitement was manifested by the people, that to avoid an actual outbreak, the monks were ordered to leave the city, and the possessions of their order were sequestered. In the search through their house, documents were found which inculpated the Archbishop Franzoni himself, and he was consequently arrested and imprisoned in the fortress of Fenestrelles. Both Austria and Rome, however, have 190 THE HOUSEHOLD NARRATIVE. interfered; and, in consequence, the editor of L'Opinione, a liberal journal, has been banished from the Sardinian States. A continuance of heavy rain in Belgium on the 15th, 16th, and 17th has produced disastrous inundations in At Antwerp there was a various parts of that country. tremendous storm of rain, wind, and thunder. The lightning struck several buildings; many of the streets were under water; and large trees were uprooted in the neighbouring country. At Ghent a large sugar manufactory was destroyed by lightning, and people were killed by it in different places. A great part of the city of Brussels and the neighbouring villages were under water for nearly two days; and many houses were so much damaged that they fell, and a number of persons perished. Near Charleroi all the fields were submerged, and the injury done to the crops was immense. Valenciennes the Scheldt overflowed, inundating the neighbouring country, and causing vast devastation. The damage done to the crops has produced a rise in the price of flour. Many bridges have been swept away, and the injury done to the railways has been immense. At The commencement of the War between Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein, was marked by a bloody battle on the 25th of July, at Idstedt, a place near the town of Schleswig, when the Danish army, under General Krogh defeated the Schleswig-Holstein troops under General The battle lasted for two days, and was Willesen. desperately fought. It appears that General Willesen lost from 2,500 to 3,000 men, including a large proportion of officers. The loss of the Danes was even greater, as they did not pursue the worsted army. It included General Schleppegrell, the second in command, and several After the battle General other officers of rank. Willesen took up a strong position near Schestedt, and issued a proclamation on the 27th, declaring that the spirit of the army was unbroken, and that in a few days, it would be stronger than before. Another engagement, but neither extensive nor decisive, took place on the 8th, between the Danish and Holstein forces, at Sorguruck near Rendsburg.-On the previous day a frightful catastrophe occurred at Rendsburg, in the explosion of the laboratory of the artillery, whereby the whole building was destroyed, with the loss of nearly a hundred lives, and a great quantity of military ammunition. The King of Denmark has contracted a morganatic marriage with Lola Rasmussen, a person of low degree, She has great influence over and formerly a milliner. the king, and has obtained from him the title of Baroness Danner. Advices from New York have been received to the 16th inst. The "Compromise Bill," introduced into the senate by Mr. Clay, for the purpose of conciliating was nominally passed, but substantially defeated, on the Tehuantepec. A treaty has been concluded with Mexico for a route It is provided that the United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific, across the isthmus of may send forces for the protection of the work, if necessary; that both governments are to maintain neutrality times of war as well as of peace; and that Mexico is to on the route, and ten leagues on each side thereof, in maintain full sovereignty over the route and over the territory designated as neutral. The distance from sea to sea in a direct line is 135 miles, but the length of the come is 650 feet. projected line is 198 miles; the summit level to be over A desperate affray occurred at New York on the 5th in which some lives were lost. The disturbance was inst., between the police and a mob composed of tailors, caused by the tailors attacking the house of a man who was said to be working at prices below those usually charged. The demonstration recently made at Lisbon is not likely to be attended by any serious result. It is now stated that the presence of two United States ships of war at Lisbon was not meant to denote any hostile intent; and that a certain number of days having been allowed to the Portuguese Government to reply to the United States demands, merely meant that if the reply should not be made, or not made in a satisfactory manner, the President, General Taylor, intended to lay the Sir H. Bulwer arrived at New York on the 27th of matter again before Congress, for further action. July. The California State Bill passed the senate on the 13th inst. by a majority of 34 to 18. Mr. Pearce's bill for the settlement of the boundary dispute between Texas and New Mexico had passed on the 9th by a majority of 30 to 20. The bill establishing a territorial government Intelligence had been received from Havanna relative of New Mexico was sanctioned on the 15th inst. to the remainder of the Cuba prisoners. Seven of them are to be liberated in the course of the month; the other three are to have eight years of the chain gang. This is the wind-up of Lopez's piratical invasion of Cuba. President Fillmore's new administration is constituted as follows:-Secretary of State, Mr. Webster; Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Corwin; Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Graham; Postmaster-General, Mr. Hall; Secretary of the Interior, Mr. McKennan; Secretary of War, Mr. Conrad; Attorney-General, Mr. Crittenden. NARRATIVE OF LITERATURE AND ART. the But it is a dull time; and French THOUGH "the publishing season" is at an end, some items in our appended summary will show that books are still published occasionally which can never be unseasonable. novel-readers will think it all the gloomier for having brought the death of Balzac. He was a writer of undoubted genius. Whatever English taste might find to object to in him, it remained undeniable that the author of Père Goriot, the Peau de Chagrin, Eugenie Grandet, and the Recherche de l'Absolu, took rank with the highest masters of fiction. Victor Hugo spoke at his grave, and well remarked that nothing more distinctly impresses us with our divine destiny than so to stand in the presence of the illustrious dead. Nor, beside the memory even of a man of genius so unquestionable as Balzac, will a word of regret be inopportune for one of the most delicate female writers in the modern literature of America. Margaret Fuller perished great storm off the American coast at the close of last month; and with her has departed a clear and just intellect, an exact and beautiful perception of the niceties of art and poetry, and a courage true and fearless, which our American friends can ill spare. She had married the Count d'Ossoli during a somewhat prolonged residence in Europe, and was returning home with her husband and child. Other calamities affecting not less the humanising influence of the arts, though mixed up with no personal regrets, are to be found in such incidents as the dispersion or destruction of great picture-galleries. The Hague has lost its noble collection of paintings; and all its famous master-pieces of the Italian, Flemish, and Dutch schools, are now on their way to the public galleries of St. Petersburg or Paris, with the exception of such isolated specimens as Lord Hertford may bring home for the walls of his private mansion, or Mr. Dominic Colnaghi may have purchased for his wealthy patrons in Pall Mall East. No commissioner from the National Gallery of England stood in the sale-room beside those from the capitals of Russia and France; and Englishmen have the additional mortification of reflecting that among the rarest and most choice possessions of the gallery thus dispersed, was the collection of Italian drawings made by Sir Thomas Lawrence, and forming originally but a part of that priceless general collection which our government refused some fifteen years ago to purchase, at a sum less than has since been demanded for portions of it only, illustrating particular schools. Thus the fiction of the Sybil's books has come literally true in this deplorable matter. It may be said that the Dutch at least have not the advantage of us; but their poverty and not their will consents. The gallery of the Hague was mortgaged some years since to the Emperor of Russia; and the cause of its present dispersion is the belief of the Dutchmen that it was worth more than the mortgage-money. This turns out to have been well founded. Among the prices given was six thousand guineas for two portraits by Vandyke !—a sum, we believe, without example. As Wordsworth's Prelude and its attack on the Universities opened our last month's summary, this month's may open with Professor Sedgwick's Discourse on the Studies of the University of Cambridge, of which the fifth edition has just appeared with a new preface four hundred and thirty pages long. Considering that the discourse itself occupies something less than a hundred pages, this preface may be pronounced a somewhat remarkable achievement. It is principally devoted to an onslaught on the principles of the author of Vestiges of Creation in reference to science and philosophy, and on those of the authors of the Tracts for the Times in regard to religion and belief. Professor Sedgwick thinks the middle way apparently the safest in most matters; and in this spirit remarks also on the proposed commission of inquiry into the Universities. He protests against Wordsworth as an authority in favour of its necessity, on the one hand; but is not less disposed, on the other, to reject such authorities against it as Lord Brougham or Mr. Stuart. Of books in the higher departments of publication, we have to notice the appearance of an elaborate work on Tubular Bridges by Mr. Edwin Clark, with a striking folio of illustrative drawings and lithographs. Also of an Essay in two goodly octavos on Ancient Egypt under the Pharaohs by Mr. Kenrick, full of learning, yet full of interest, because grafting on the ascertained old history all the modern elucidations of travellers and artists, critics and interpreters. It appears to be but a portion of a contemplated work comprehending a complete history of those countries of the East whose civilisation preceded and influenced that of Greece; and to our proper understanding of which, the discovery of the hieroglyphic character, and such researches as those of Mr. Layard, have lately contributed an entire new world of information. Another book remarkable for the precision and completeness of its knowledge, is Doctor Latham's Natural History of the Varieties of Man, a very important contribution to the literature of ethnology; and with this we must connect in subject, though certainly not in any other kind of merit,an eccentric fragment on the Races of Man by Doctor Robert Knox. Mrs. Jameson has published a second series of her Poetry of Sacred and Legendary Art, in a volume of Legends of the Monastic Orders, similarly illustrated; and nothing can be more graceful than this lady's treatment of a subject which has not much, to our thinking, that is graceful in itself. She clips its claws, and makes it fit for drawing-room society; but essentially, the theme is odious, though the institution had its uses, after the fashion of all things that have existed for any time in the world. To understand and feel the temper in which they should be judged in the present day, let the reader, however, study such books as Sermons on some of the Subjects of the Day by the new dean of Bristol, on which the true Christian spirit of modern life is impressed, in vivid contrast with the dangerous assumptions of Tractarianism. To biography, a new volume of the Life of Chalmers has been the most interesting addition. A Life of Ebenezer Elliott, by his son-in-law, possesses also some interest; and, with a little less of the biographer and more of the biography, would have been yet more successful. In English fiction, a semi-chartist novel called Allon Locke, full of error and earnestness, and evidently by a university man of the so-called Christian Socialist school, is the most noticeable work of the kind that has lately appeared. The other romances of the month have been translations from the German and French. The Two Brothers is somewhat in the school of Miss Bremer; and Stella and Vanessa is a novel by a graceful French writer very agreeably translated by Lady Duff Gordon, of which the drift is to excuse Swift for his conduct to Mrs. Johnson and Miss Vanhomrigh. The subject is curious, and the treatment (for a Frenchman) not less so. Nothing painful or revolting is dwelt upon, and if it does not satisfy it fails to offend. Dates spoil the author's arguments and inferences; but the countrymen of Swift have reason to be grateful to the gentlemanly purpose and intention of M. Leon de Wailly. The Barbarigo Gallery at Venice, celebrated for ages for its rich collection, especially of the works of Titian, has been purchased by the court of Russia for 560,000 francs, or 22,4007. sterling. The great Collection at the Hague, belonging to the king of the Netherlands, has been sold by auction, the sale occupying many days. The pictures having been chiefly purchased by private individuals, are thus scattered over the world; comparatively few have come to this country, and none have been purchased for behoof of the English public. The fine Collection of Pictures, the magnificent gift of the late Mr. Vernon to the nation, have been removed from the National Gallery to Marlborough House; and the works of English artists, which were previously in the National Gallery, have been added to it. These last, however, are kept apart from the Vernon pictures. The ground floor of the building is appropriated to this purpose. It contains a suite of rooms, the first two of which are devoted to the works of English artists, and the remainder to the Vernon Collection. Both the Italian Opera-houses have brought their respective seasons to a close. The last performance at Her Majesty's Theatre was on Saturday the 24th; and the same night concluded the season at Covent Garden. But there were several extra performances, at reduced prices, during the following week.-The only operatic event of any interest has been the appearance at Her Majesty's Theatre, of Madame Fiorentini, who performed the parts of Norma and Donna Anna with extraordinary success. She is a native of Seville, and married to Mr. Jennings, an English Officer. received her musical education in London, and made her first public appearance at Berlin only twelve months since. She is engaged by Mr. Lumley for next season. Madame Sontag and Lablache are re-engaged; the latter for three years. She Jenny Lind sang at two concerts at Liverpool on the 16th and 19th; the Philharmonic Society of that place availing themselves of her visit for the purpose of embarking for America, having offered her a thousand pounds for those two performances. The first concert was miscellaneous; the second consisted of the Messiah, and its proceeds were appropriated to the benefit of the Toxteth Hospital. The popular enthusiasm manifested at these concerts, and when Mdlle. Lind embarked on the 21st, was, even in her own case, quite unprecedented. 192 STOCKS. COMMERCIAL RECORD. Prices during the Month. BANKRUPTS. From the Gazette of July 30.-REUBEN BROOKS, Regent-street, picture dealer,-DAVID CLEMENT, Neath, Glamorganshire, saddler.-GALE PEASEGOOD, Sheffield, draper.-THOMAS TAPPENDEN, Friendly-place, Old Kent-road, Surrey, tailor.--THOMAS TIBBETT, March, Cambridgeshire, corn factor.- JONATHAN THOMPSON, Wigton, Cumberland, grocer.-ELIZA WAY, West Camel, Somersetshire, miller.-WILLIAM WOODS, Prospect-place, Wandsworth-road, Surrey, builder. August 2. JOHN APPLEBY, Shincliffe Mill, Durham, miller.JOHN HANNAH, Huddersfield, cloth draper.-BENJAMIN HOMAN, Westbourne-terrace, Paddington, builder.-EDWARD MCLEOD, Haberdasher's-street, Hoxton, common brewer.-CHARLES NEWTON, Donyfield Mills, Essex.-JOHN GALE PEASEGOOD, Sheffield, draper. August 6. JOHN GRIFFITHS, Strand, linen-draper.-CHARLES NEWTON, Donyland Mills, Essex, miller.-JOHN PAGE, Sidmouth, Devonshire, butcher.-JOHN VEALE ROWE, Bodmin, Cornwall, builder. August 9. FREDERICK BENNETT, Clapham, Surrey, soda-water manufacturer.-WILLIAM BRIDDON, Liverpool, manufacturing chemist.-THOMAS CLARKE, Newport, Monmouthshire, grocer.THOMAS WILLIAM DORNFORD, Suffolk-lane, Cannon-street, City, wine-merchant.-GEORDE WILLIS HINCHLIFFE, Sheffield, manufacturer.-EDWIN HYRONS, John-street, Tottenham-court-road, pianoforte manufacturer.-HENRY CHARLES KNELL, Belvedereroad, Lambeth, timber merchant.-SAMUEL PARNALL, East-looe, Cornwall, grocer.-RICHARD GROVES WARD, Brownlow-street, Drury-lane, currier. August 13. SAMUEL ADAMS, WILLIAM BRIDGES ADAMS, and August 16. JAMES GILLETT BEACH, Woolwich, licensed_vic- August 20. WILLIAM GOODWIN, Macclesfield, Cheshire, manfacturer.-JOHN GRAY and ROBERT WILLIAMS, Chester, engineers.-WILLIAM HYMERS, Gateshead, Durham, publican. August 23, ROBERT BARNARD, Carnaby-street, Golden-square, oilman.-DORINDA ANN BURNETT, Dawley, Shropshire, lodginghouse keeper.-JOHN DAVIDSON and RICHARD DAVIDSON, South Shields, butchers.-RALPH DICKENSON, Crook, Durham, grocer. -HENRY EDWARD GERLACH, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, merchant.JOSEPH SAMUEL HODGE and JAMES CULPIN, New Oxford-street, tailors. JOSEPH KIRKLAND, Stockport, Cheshire, joiner.-JANE THOMAS, Brynmawr, Breconshire, grocer.-THOMAS THOMAS, Dudley, Worcestershire, iron-merchant.-THOMAS WILSON, Hilltop, Staffordshire, iron-manufacturer. August 27. JOHN CHELL, Manchester, oil and colourman. BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. ' August 3.-WILLIAM RIDLER, Cowlersbury, Yorkshire, con- THE STOCK AND SHARE MARKETS. City, Aug. 27. Three per Cent. Reduced Long Annuities, Jan. 1860 Paid. Three per Cent. Consols 264 107 107 1073 70s. prm. 658. prm 688. prm. 92s. prm. 85s. prm. 88s. prm. There has been very little movement in the prices of grain part of the month was rather upwards, but this has since since our last review. The tendency of the market in the early received a check from the improved appearance of the weather. Prices at present are quoted just a shade above those which ruled at the end of July. The London weekly averages last announced are as follows: Wheat, per quarter, 468. 10d. Oats, 20s. 6d. Rye, 24s. Beans, 278. 10d. Peas, 28s. id. Butter, Fresh, per lb., 9d. to 18.; - Cheshire, Cheese, per cwt. GROCERY-LATEST fine white, 10s. to 11s. 6d. : berland, 74s. to 84s.; Irish, 60s. to 68s.; Westphalia, 488. to 56s. Lamb, per 8 lbs., 38. 4d. to 4s. Mutton, per 8 lbs., 28. 4d. to 38. 4d. Potatoes, per ton.-Kent and Essex Ware, 40s. to 708.; Pork, per 8 lbs., 2s. 6d. to 3s. 6d. ; WHOLESALE PRICES. to 51s. 6d.; British West India, good grocery, 37s. 6d. to 38s. 6d.; Mauritius, brown, 28s. to 33s. 6d.; Brazil, ditto, 32s. to 35s. 6d. Tea, per lb. 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