Of the 5,000 shares which are to be sUbscribed for
the Bristol Joint Stock Banking Company, previous to the commencement of business, 4,117 have been taken. It appears from Parliamentary returns, that the amount of poor-rates collected in England and Wales in 1831 was 8,111,4221. being an in- crease of S per cent. on the preceding year. Smuggling has recently become much more prevalent on the coasts of Hampshire and Sussex than it has been for some months. This is to be ascribed, we are told, to the almost total absence of cruisers in the Channek—Hanipshire Telegraph-
-The Mary smack, of twenty tons, with two men, was seized in
Portsmouth harbour on Friday, by Mr. Morgan, of the Coast Guard ; , having a false bottom, containing 63 half-ankers 50 quarter-ankers, and
14 jars of spirits, with 4 canisters of tea, regularly built outside her \..sorip. nal bottom.—fil aaipshire-Telegraph ThrBritastia/steam-vessel, which sailed from Dover on Wednes- day, for Boulogne, with two passengers' returned back the same night. The French authorities there refused to let them land; and having -their choke to stop and perform quarantine, or return to England, they chose the latter. At Calais, passengers were permitted to land on Thursday, but orders for quarantine were hourly expected.
Some alarm was created in Liverpook:on Tuesday and Wednesday, by a report that several cases of malignant cholera had broken out in that town. It was found, however, on inquiry, that the cases were English cholera.
Thursday was kept by many of the Dissenters in the country, and some in London, as a day of humiliation and prayer.
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