It was not, we find on further inquiry, "a cargo
of sugar," as stated in the Opposition press, but a few bags or casks only of Venezuelan sugar, that have been admitted underthe circumstances stated yesterday. The general impression, we may add, is that the importation was a trick of the Council of the Anti-Corn-law League.—Morning Herald.
The Viscount D'Abrantes, Minister Plenipotentiary from Brazil, left town yesterday, with his family, for the Continent.
We lately called the attention of the public to what appeared to be an evasion of the law of last session, on the part of certain country bankers, by issuing bills not stamped payable to themselves or order. We understand that this question has not escaped the attention of her Ma- jesty's Government, and that directions have been given for instituting legal proceedings against the parties who have so attempted to evade the law.—Times.
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