30 APRIL 1859, Page 8

We are informed by our shipping friends that Lloyd's were

on Friday charging war risks on insurances, also adding four additional clauses to already existing stipulations.

Trading operations suddenly collapsed towards the end of the week, in consequence of the reported foreign news, thus adding to the temporary interruption experienced in commerce through the elections. Unfortu- nately, at times and seasons, the commercial community takes fright so very quickly, that anticipated panics which it deprecates, are but too often brought round the sooner by its often unjustifiable timidity.