The Express. — London, England, 1847-09-24 00:00:00

gilt Oporto. to 23+. Peas, 193. to 225. Barley, malting, per qr., 365. to 371.; Wilkie', 3204. to 345. Oats, 24,. to 30.. Stocaron-on-Taal, Sept. 22.-The supply of Wheat from the farmers this masuing was very lugs, for which extravagant rates were geaszolly demanded. The whole, however, was shared of at last week's prime. For, old Wheat we had a fair inquiry, at late rata. A fair *apply of Oat., and in good dimresM, at the rates of this day weak. Beau and Peas without alteration in value. Rye Meal costumes in good demand. Flour reusing without change. The following are the current prices: Wheat, per qr. of 631bs. to the bushel, south misery, red, 69a. to 615.; mixed, 615. te 625.; white, 63a. to 86e. ; old, red, 575. to 61s. ' • white, 69.. to 635. ; Durham and Yorkshire red, 6k. to 61s. ; white, 61s. to 65..; Berwick and &etch, 665. to 61e. ; Dantsic, Stettin, and Konigsberg, Nu to 64a. ; Mecklenburg and Pomeranian, 595. to 61a. ; H e Danish, and Hamburg, 69e. to 611.. Flour, fine, per i sA sl sl 2801 b., 43e. ; superfine, 475. Rye Meal, 71. 10 1 7 ; 4 4. 7. Oats, feed, 245. to 265. •, potato, 28s. to 305.; 225. to 28s. Beans, old, 48s. to 50e. Peas, boilers, 44e. to - Imports of Grain during the put week Wheat, 844 qrs. ; Oats, 70; Indian Corn, 15. WORKINGTON, Sept. 22.-Though the gathering in of the crops has been comp leted is this quarter, the supplies of , Wheat and Barley were short at this day's market, owing SO the farmers being busy with their Potato crop, whieh abundant, and free from disease. Wheat was at an advance efts. over last week's prices. New top, 245. per Carlisle bush., down to 19s. Barley, none. Oats, new, 10a. to 104.64. LIKIRIOI, Sept. 22.-Since Sunday we have bad wet weather, which prevented farmers thrashing Wheat; conse quently the supply at market to-day was small ; the attend ants, dimples , sod prices advanced Id. to Id. par et. Oats emu pretty to market, and met ready sale, at id. to . IL per Vety little Barley offering. Indian Cern get[ a ster, and Indian Meal in brisk de mand, the former 10e. to 20s. per ton, and the latter at 101. to 15s. per advance. Flour in good request. Wheat, red, per sine, ls. 2d. to ls. 4d. ; white, ls. 31d. to le. 5d.. Oats, par anew, 914. to 10d. Barley, per stone, 9d. Indian Corn, per ten, 91. 10s. Indian Meal, 101. bs. Indies Meal, per barrel, 17s. American Flour, per banal, 325. ; Irish, per bag. 40s. NZWIT, Sept U.-The stocks of the millers being very much reduced, prim of most articles have continued to ad vance, and the demand is at present very brisk. White Wheat yesterday sold at 10s. 9d. to lbs. per cwt. ; and red at 10.. 64. to to.. Bd. Oats advanced to 104 d. to 1016. per atone ; and prime Barley sold at Ts. per cwt. The Supply of all kinds was small. Flour remains without Almaden in price, but many of the mills are altogether out of stocks, from the long continuance of the dry weather. As, however, we have had a seasonable supply of rein, and the English markets arc exhibiting an advancing aspect, this will not not long be the cue. Indian Corn Meal has advanced to 10s. 6d. per cat., for both descriptions of white and yellow ; and barrels sell at 20e. each. American Flour remains at 32.1 per banal ; and machine-manufactured Oatmeal at 14s. per cwt. WATERFORD, Sept. 22.-At this morning's market we had a large show of Wheat and Oats, which readily found buyers ; the former at a decline of 3d. to 6d. per barrel from the prices of Saturday list, and the latter at the currency of that day. Indian Corn and Meal are both dearer. EDINBURGH, Sept. 22.-The supply of all kinds of grain from the growers at this morning's market, with the ex ception of Beans, was large. Wheat met a brisk sale at an improvement of 2.. per qr. on old, and 4s. per qr. on new. Foreign Wheat was also is good demand, and a fair extent of business was done at 2e. to 3s. per qr. over the currency of this day week. Barley was a free sale, at an advance of Is. per qr. Oats continue in request, and a clearance was easily effected at an improvement of 2s. per qr. There is more inquiry for Beans and Peas at late rates. Wheat, new, top, 70s. ; average, 60s. I Id. ; old, 665. ; average, 61s. 6d. ; general average, 61s. Id. Barley, 37e. M.; average, 33..5d. Oats, 345.; average, 295. I Id. Beano, 515.; average,47s. 11d. GLASGOW, Sept. 22.-From Canada and the United State@ upwards of 16,000 barrel' Flour have been imported since the date of our last report; but with the exception of about 1,600 qrs. Wheat from the former country, the arrivals of grain in the Clyde, and via Orangemeuth, have been quite trifling. The weather continues very unfavourable for the completion of harvest work in the late districts of this eoun try, and in the north and west of Ireland, where a large breadth of Oats is still in the fields. An active consumptive demand has been experienced throughout the week for old Wheat, fine qualities of which are becoming scarce. Good descriptions of red have been most wanted, for mixing with new SmAtch, and a further advent* of Is per boll upon last week's prices has been established. Sweet Flour has readily brought 31.. per barrel ; bat a great proportion of the recent arrivals is out of condition. The absence of supplies of new Oats from Ireland, and the bare ness of the market of old suitable for milling, has enabled holders of foreign to obtain a further advance of about 2a. per boll, and 2.5. to 3s. per load upon Oatmeal. In the value of Barley, Beans, and Peas no change has occurred. This day's market was well attended; but the advance above noted was reluctantly complied with, and only a limited business occurred. Irish new Oats and Barley are wanted, but supplies ere tardy in coming forward. Wheat, per 2401 b,., English, white, crop of 1846, 29e. to 315.; red, old, 28s. to 295. ; 1846, 28s. to 30s. ; Scotch, white, D 1846, 275. to . 295. • Irish, red and white, 1846, 265. to 27e. • antzic, old, 28s. to 31s. ; Pomeranian, old, 26.. to 295. ; 1 846, 275. to 295.; Danish,Old,26s. to 285.; 1846, 265. 641. to 28*. ; Odessa, soft, old, 255. to 285. ; Canadian, old, 255. to 28s. ; United States, old, 275. to 295. Barley, per 3201 b., foreign, free Danish, 1846, its. to Be. Oats per 2641bs , Berwick and Scotch, 1846, 18.. to 20s. ; prepared Irish, 1846, 19.. 6d. to 204. ; foreign, Riga, 1846 20s. to 21s. 6d. Danish, 1848, 19s. 66. to 20s. Bean ' s, per 4 imperial bushels, English, 1846, 24a. to 265.; foreign, 1846, 235. to 245. ; Irish, per 260 lbs., 1846, 245. to 2.65. Egyptian, per 280Ibs. ' old, 19s. to 204. Peas, per 2801 k., white, 1846, 204. to 23 1. ; grey, 1846, 20s. to 22e. • . - .:anadian, 1846, 20s. to 225. Flour per 2801b5., English , superfine, 1846, 425. to 44e. ; Irish ditto, 1846, 401. to 42e.; fine, 1846, 395. to 405. ; extra choice qualities, 1846, 445. to 465. ; American, per barrel, sweet, old, 304. to 31s. • Canadian, sweet, old, 295 to 30s. ; sour, old, 255. to 26 .. Oatmeal, per 2801b5., Irish, 1848, common cut, 345. to 36a. Indian Corn, per 2801h5., 19s to 21s. CONSTANTINOPLE Sart. 6.-The only transactions of the past week have been akw ton of A. hard wheat for the Archipe lago. Some 30,000 kilos of barley have been mil for Africa. Asof hard wheat leison 21 to es ; Bemerabia, 30 to SI ; Roomette, 17 to 18. Boft wheat, mella, 13 to 16 ; lessee do., le to 19. Indian corn, 10 to 12. Barley, el to 81. 9 Rye, to 10. Oats, 3to SI. Freights are merely nominal. After the news from England of those enormous failures noose here would think decoding home a kilo of wheat. CATTLE, &c. SMITHFIELD, Two o'Clock. We bare a large supply of inferior Beasts, and trade is ex ceedingly dull ; all kinds are lower than on Monday, the beat quentitiee suffers reduction of about 2d. per 81b., and second rate 44. Many of the latter remain unsold. There are nearly 600 from Holland and Germany, 100 from Ire land, and 150 Mach Cows. The number of Sheep is very much increased i the majority of 'the supply, however, oonaista of foreign and inferior quality. Trade is very dull, at reduced prices: several remain unsold. There is also a largo supply of Calves,. and trade rather worse. Pigs are mike lower in price, owing to the warm weather and a Imre dellply. From Holland and Germany we have 4.330 llinip. ail 212 Calves. L llmet a liP t la. ' 6 . 4 6 flun r at l Vl,.. f brab..o . d* V I DM 4 4 4 lkoll loarwooa. .. . 4 4 wi sealer Dertm 2 3 I Do. do. Morn .. .. 0 0 ...... 4 4 6 Eau sad wood quality 4 4 4 6 0 Do. do. MOM ......0 0 !tom iiii. i iiiiiiiiai E 1 4 Lambs . 0 0 Orb awed" 1.1112 :lbespied WOO ; Claw.. 43 7 : Pk.. 330 Biesszarx, 12.—Them w as a good show of both Barb eel OW', but Dominos wu dull, and a pert of the desk rinsimed unsold. Beef, 6s. to 6s. 6d. per none. Mat tom, 6d. to 60. per lb. NEWARI, Sept. 21.—Our fat stock market was very thinly supplied with Beef and Mutton, and last week's quota tions barely maintained. Beef, 65. 6d. to 7e. per atone. Mutton, 6d. to 7d. per lb. ROTHERHAM, Sept. 20.—We bad very large show of Beasts, and of Shoop a pretty good supply. The attendaaos of buyers was numerous, 111111111 owed the Beef Ueda to rule middling brisk i but the Mutton trade ruled very doll, and last week's proves were bard to be obtained. Part toned out unsold. Beef, 6a. 6d. to 7s. Mutton, 6d. to 646. per lb. SALFORD, Sept. 22.—We We tolerably well supplied with stork to-day, and the quality improved as compared with late supplies. The demand for really superior Bee and Mutton continues good, and for such late prices were ob tained ; but for inferior qualities, of which there was a large supply, decidedly layer rates were accepted; and besides, large number* of such driven away unsold. WALEPIRLD, Sept. 22.—There were 600 Beasts and 6,600 Sheep. Scalene wu heavy, and a large part of both Besets and Sheep remained unsold. Beef, 61. Ekl. to 6.. 6d. per et. Mutton, 6d. to 6td. per lb. For Yesterday's Marhas itle last par. SHIPPING. MMES ARRITID. Dublin, 3; Waterford, 2; Dote. ghadee, 1; Guernsey sad Jersey, 1 ; French, 1; Flaadere, 1; Hamburg, 1. LONDON, Sept. 24.—Wind this day at noon W.N.W., light breeze and cloudy. DEAL, Sept. 23.-8. W., moderate.—Arrived : Monarch, Panama. Arrived from the river : Heroine, Cape of Good Hope; Abbotsford, Quebec. SHOREHAM, Sept. 23.—W.S.W.—Arrived: Lady C• line, St. John's, N.B. The Emma hes been got off shore, and into the harbour. PORTSMOUTH, Sept. 23.-8.8. W. to W.S.W.—Salied: Mail, Newport and Mauritius ; William Jardine Cowm, Sept. 23.-B.W.—Arrived : Achilks, =j i b Cuba. DERTYOUTH, Sept. 23.—The Alfred, of sal he Wow ford, from Geist:, was abandoned on the 26th alt., hug. U; . crew saved. KIRKWALL, Sept. 20.—A ahip'e boat, marked "Betty mil Hermann, J. H. Schmidt Won Lubeck," was picked up, about five weeks ago, off the north side of Westray. Bleunema, Sept. 20.—Sailed: John Barker, Boston. CLYDE, Sept. 2.2.—Arrived : Shamrock, New York. Sailed: Potentate, Singapore. SHIELDS, Sept. 23.-8. W., fresh.—Sailed: Sumatra, Boston, A. Sr. Meßoeines Kora, ORKEINT.—The Firth/At, which stranded 7th foal ea the Woad of Stream gos off on the I Itb into Bordeaux. !be NOINAti et Doleiss, drove 011 shore in Widwall Roadq tot b sipubdillbeldsout much damage. ingsmo ft YARMOUTH, Sept. 211.—n0 a Jantina, Archangel to Boulogne, km arrived N ew will diechargd. The Britannia, al' castle for London, foundered the 17th Plamborongh Head; crew saved. TM eilelewl Swot atelle, — eis Seieettlee, to Se Sethterreiteis, rift Sas =w. St.. will be We up on St The =Se kr Ss mi.. ‘ 7 l.ieboa. Illeake. Cods. 111M113tbramt I trOl be weds epos Se ed the SS lerbeaber. Tito mei lir MN balk So. he Dinewee ig =4 Ifirw teeloweelll be snow ea Ibreesloo 'HUSS 12 0= Itot I bis siSe. kohiles Ow kr Maim Sweriree, NM Se slabs weds st es Se worzissetibe lei Webs. sift tanber Ma* Om% Se Lis Work St=OgliottledlernewSiewthemb OWN els ilwiirsegm, is es the wersloget Se Stem Se sift Se Newes. Se War Pleeediest• Taw POINIMI. :11= g an e =l Magri Ass ell be weft op es the TM mile kr Shia Seth Aziodoo. Bermuda, awl the Valled tirise, willlre awls up ea the weeds et the tth October. TO COMISTONDINTS. ...• &arralmre. bliniall flr Tr /Ppm" lArra crab( . irre be rOa Orm.lo. learyieryyr. by 'fro V.M.! y• Ur bay r primers. NITS WATTS AT LOITDON•11111D611. TAN D•2-12rATLA 19 2.12. Art I Aftwana. 41 Ws. pre 1. T..m —winip & 2 els. put 2 . Mumma. IS Mi. past I LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 24. THE Penitentiary Congress, held in the capital of Belgium, seems not to have shown a dissentient voice in condemning the system of labour in common during the day with strict injunction and enforcement of silence. Absolute seclusion by night and day, except from the visits of authorities and keeper', seems with few exceptions the predominant, and almost undisputed system, which the learned in these matters have decided upon, at least for the first term of a penal period. • It is evident that there exists in all societies, and more especially in such complex and luxurious socie ties as ours, strong temptations to the formation of a parasite class, which instead of making part of the industrious community, feeds on it by means of rob bery and crime. This class, like all societies, soon comes to have laws, habits, a test of respectability, gradations of rank, a law of honour, principles, and morals of its own. In their code and in their habits dwells the tiros, the poison, which is still a source and a bond of life to the class. The tree and only way to destroy this virus and to get rid of this social poison, would be to prevent, if not the existence of thieves, at least their general and undisturbed associa tion. It is net the isolated crime or criminal that is to be feared so much as the community and general spirit of a class, professionally commit ting such acts. , The entire attention of the public, of its thinking and its practical men, at present is directed towards curing those members of the cri minal association, most impregnated with the poison, and forming the worst cues. To the extirpation of the virus itself, towards preventing the association by which it lives—to this, so far from the efforts of so ciety or of the police being directed to it, the habits of the latter rather encourage the association, merely from the facilities which it affords for the capture of great perpetrators, of those who are ripe and accom plished, and fully graduated in crime: . . We feel confident that no sensible check will be put to the existence and extension of crime in this country without a systematic combat against ' and check upon, the formation of societies of criminals. Aa any attempt to do this would menace the undisturbed liberty of even the honest and industrious, it may be long before the latter will consent to such inquisition, and restrictions, and precautions, as may be necessary to prevent a vagabond life, and crush crime in its very bud. But as our society progresses , and its numbers increase, of which there is every prospect, without the means of livelihoodand subsistence augmenting in pro portion, we most come at last to the true preventive system, if honesty is not to be eaten up by the com pany which its prosperity and exclusiveness beget. One mode of prevention, by the opening of juvenile asylums, we have already dwelt upon, and consider most important; for were the criminal aasociationa to be deprived of their recruits in the rising generation, they would even decay. But this, though much, is not sufficient. We have used the metaphor of considering cri minal habits and principles as a rirus. It is evident that the authors of our prison discipline and penal laws take the same view. Separate confinement is employed and universally recommended, as the most efficient means of completely expelling the virus, and cleansing the mind of bad habits and bad principles. But unibeinalebrli= s of separate confinement cannot create odor or habits capable of actuating and prianying a free member of society. The prisoner gets Weed new habits. But his mo tive, the ineeftlele and iron one of coercion and necessity, is auk the moment it is removed, it exposes man saes s will, reduced to their weak est power, to and trials, for which prison discipline, as it . furnishes no defence. 4n On thi s subject we merely repeat doubts, without making so bold as to contradict or to censure. For we cannot rest satisfied under the conclusion that separate confinement has been fairly tested. The results of Pentonville. or of any other pet prison of picked criminals, were they even more satisfactory, would not completely eatislY us. The ensuing year, however, will afford ample means of judgment, preparations being made and the system being about to be tried in numerous prisons and localities, and upon the mass of the condemned of this country, of all ages, tempers, and conditions. The great labours, indeed, of the eminent statesmen directing this reform are based evidently more on the probationary system, which is to follow seclusion, than on seclusion itself. In the probationary stage a ve7 contrary principle is to be tried. Sheer necessity is to be no longer the only motive of action. That great philanthropist, MACONOCHTE, is to intro duce his elements of hope and fear, reward and privation, the freedom and elasticity of the will, amidst the daily tasks of the probationer, whe after all, and after having recovered some command over himself, is still not to be exposed to the manifold temptations of English crowded life, and above all to contact with the original virus in the intensity of its place of birth. All these reme dies employed together, that is, successively, seem well imagined to ensure the beat results. But we must own, we expect much more from the probation ary than from the secluding portion of the punish ment, even although past experiments bear witness to the success of Ole seclusion, and to the universal failure of every hitherto tried system of probation. That this great experiment is to take place at home, under the publi h i re zigs g a matter of congratulation. The reasons for • this are so fully stated in a recent lump et on " Convict Discipline," that it would be idle to recapitulate them. It would, how ever, be vain to deny, that even this, like the proba tionary system altogether, is an experiment, and that the great change of substituting a system of secondary =kme, founded on reason, for the old hap anntsd every way corrupted practice of trans portation, depends also materially upon the result of the measures about to be employed. In one respect, humanity overcame the predilection of the Brussels congress for separate confinement. This was the exemption of young criminals from its rigid • n, and the substitution almost at once for =ion of the really probationary system of agricultural labour employed in La Mettraye, and similar establishments. If such schools u La Mettraye could be founded every where, there would indeed be little need for juvenile uisoos ; but where are each men to be found as M. de Mtrr„to bring and to devote the highest faculties of zeal and intelli gence to a task which to most men must be irksome and ingrate ? lirritiarro, in the outlines we have drawn, with the design of connecting the points really bearing on the so-called " railway question," the interest con cerned has been dealt with ass whole. To render our sketch in every way ()ample* it will, however, be necessary to show of what elements this aggregate consists. In no respect has misrepresentation, or mis apprehension, been greater, or more general, on any topic belonging to this debate, than in the qualities ascribed to the railway body as it now exists. All the epithets of reproach, all the railing common places applied to wealth—by those who covet its pos session and envy its possessors—are used as terms of course when this body is spoken of, whether in parliament or by the press. The masses of capi tal of which it 11 composed catch the vulgar eye, and the whole property combined of many ingre olients is treated off-hand as though it were the hoard of a single individual, amazingly rich, too rich, in deed, for public endurance, too rich to feel a large de ductionirom his immense revenues, or to be an object 'of pat: whatever loss may be inflicted upon him for the convenience of the many. We shall not here inquire whether, sup po sing the assumption correct, it would consist with either justice THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1847. kagi 1 - 4 -4111141- F riki whose t value depsymisangeg taw **disbar of law, kr a pampa his wealth, with profit to rarestutesta el the highest public utility. For thi present piques we have merely to remark, that as far as the owners Of railways are samurais& this /easy of a vast impersonation of Hebei is a awe deception. The total mass with which statesmen king to tamper, and on which certain publicist enviously look, dose, indeed, form an immense accumulation of mousy I but the several contributors to this whole—these whom the imposition of new burthens, the withdrawal of promised securities, the confiscation of profits virtually guaranteed by the state, will aftlict—are in truth, nothing less in the main than the wealthier people of England. Our first railways were prinei pally made out of the savings of the middle 1111111•11 in the commercial and manufacturing digitises of the north. They are new in a great mosso become the property of the frugal and industries@ of still narrow fortunes all over the United Kingdom. To speak of " bloated capitalists," of " sordid ma. I lionaires," with other such current and cant abuse, in reference to a body thus composed, must proceed either from a wilful desire to iure, or from an igno rance that is now scarcely credible. When we have briefly described some principal elements of the rail way body,:it will appear not only , that the " public" have no grounds for assailing it on the plea of ex sggerated wealth, in an, sense in which the effects of the asiault on the parties mailed can be excused by the circumstances of the party attacked;—not only this will be seen, but also that these elements now form no trifling art of the " public" itself, a part, too, which equity and statesmanship would call on us to foster and protect, should a cry be raised on the pretence of restraining an exaggerated prosperity. Before going further, we shall meet an objection that may easily be started here by the wise men, whose knowledge of the internal state of this and other just concerns of the country is each only as can be culled from parliamentary returns. They will produce the lista exhibited in late sessions, of the sub scribers to new schemes, and hold up as an utter dis proof of what we assert, the names,each with figures of hundreds of thousands added to them, that have covered parliamentary deeds. The returns, however, prove merely that adventurous persons or rich aspitsliste • st a certain stage of a new project (and partacolady during a fever of speculation), were premed la *eke up this responsibility for a time, in the Osallassit et pectation of dividing it afterwards at leisure the parties on whose support the scheme would be prosecuted. Your large subscribers act on occasions as a temporary medium between the lees. lature and the actual providers of railway capital ; they are the speculators, especially , in speculating times, who may get the bill ; but it is the oncestors who make the railway. Nor can the former escape from certain loss unless the scheme shall approve itself as a proper investment for the savings of the latter. It is those who, in all respects determine the value of the prect, and supply the funds for carrying it into e ffect; it is the pur chases of the real buyers of shares to hold, that rule even the speculations of the share market. There may be • good deal of this kind of froth on the sur face of the business, but its existence, as well as pro gress, is rooted in the solid bod 7 beneath. The dis tinction between the two classes it is material to insist upon. It is not suffered to be overlooked in other cases. No one would now admit as a reason for taking the bread from those who eat it, that the corn of which it was made had been collected, in the first imotance, by speculators. When an act is obtained for a new line, the process et investment begins. The shares, and, in ordinary times, the subscriptions, too, are mainly distributed one pt persons of moderate means who think well elite promise, and choose it as a vehicle of deposit for savings, or a security, at something better t ha n the common rates of interest of small properties. The time over which the payment of the capital is spread by instalments renders it very convenient for such Wand even for the laying by of a moderate y e tr monthly surplus : and as soon as a general opinion of the solidity of the system had begun to prevail, it became a favourite resource for the annuitant, who- could put something aside to leave behind him—to the tradesman whose industry enabled him to save up some annual surplus. By many it has been resorted to as a kind of life insurance, in order to the building up by degrees, at some temporary sacrifice, of a small permanent fund ; in deed, on the whole, the capital of railways may be said to be raised from the incomes of the country. Let any one, therefore, enumerate the classes in England, of moderate means, living wi th in their in comes : the men of those teady frugal habits, and thought for the future, which are justly extolled in the abstract by economic philosophers—and he will have the specifications of nearly eight-tenths of the shareholders in a railway in progress of construction. The limits of this class become enlarged when the work is once done, and the line begins to earn a regular dividend. From this moment there may be observed a new process of melting down the larger masses of shares, in to smaller lots, which are now bought by a still more careful class, for investment. Amongst these we have half-pay officers, domestic servants, spinsters of small incomes, some of the clergy, and retired tradespeople; who, as the case may be, either thus employ their savings in the hope of getting a little better interest, or transfer their whole available capital, for the same reason, to this, from some other investment. Daughters' potions, widows' annuities and in some instances of late the personalty of minors ; investments now get placed in railway stock. At the same time, another process has been meanwhile going on : the shares, as soon as a dividend begins to be regularly yaid, immediately rise in the market, to a point which reduces the purchasers' income from them to a point very little higher than the current rate of interest—a little margin being left, on account of the chances of the divi dend changing; but in general the buyer into a line fairly at work will get nothing more than the ordinary commercial interest for his money, with whatever hopes, in addition, may belong to the future progress of the concerti. In all the older lines the purchasers are now the majority of the shareholders; end it must be remembered, when ten per cent. dividends are discussed, that two-thirds, at least, of those who are to receive them have purchased stock at above 1001. premium. The list of persons of small means, whom any serious assault on a property they had every reason to deem secure, would afflict, if not quite rain, we believe to comprise already two-thirds in number of the share holders in all the principal railways. And the impulse which is daily adding to the masa of per sons so interested in this matter, making it one that now concerns a considerable section of the public, is acting most continuously upon a clue that would painfully feel a defalcation in their incomes. These, and a very numerous tribe, a little richer, but by no means of the " bloated millionaire" species, form the bulk of railway owners; and from the manner in which they have become proprietors, as well as from their personal circumstances, there is every ream for avoiding to injure, because of their moderate means—certainly no reason for crushing them on the Deere of immoderate wealth. Railways are now, in fact, the savings banks of a large and estimable, though far from wealthy, clam, however those who look at the surface only may fancy that such accumulations of money must necessarily belong to the over-rich. No greater mistake than this could exist ; and as the mistake may lead to the perpetration of serious wrong, we have dwelt at un usual length on its correction, as a duty towards a portion of the public well worthy of being taken care of, and not the most forward or able to take care of themselves. We repeat, that every blow struck at the income of railways will but slightly affect a limited number of the rich ; but will be painfully felt by thousands upon thousands of the better sort of those who are far otherwise. THE notices of ducal embarrassments which have of late so frequently appeared in our columns, cannot fail to have suggested many reflections both on the state of real property in this country and on our law of debtor and creditor. It is now publicly stated that the Duke of 13t , exttenitam's debts amount to nearly two millions, and that when an execution was put into his town house, an assignment of the duke's "effects, down to his wines and wearing apparel, &c." had been made to his son in satisfaction of some claim. The result is, that the creditors are competent to enforce their claim to their debtor's effects by litigation in the courts of law. Bo it would appear that an other duke, of large landed estates in Glonoestenhire and elsewhere, has had the same stringent measures WI - ens Ids goods and chattel/ by his creditors, iabst sad that he hurried off to the oontinent with his family, and "is tot expected to visit England again for several years." What may be the extent of the embarrassments of the nobleman last referred to is not stated : but it is obvious that such ex treme proceedings would not have become necessary until the state of the noble debtor's affairs bad got into inextricable confusion. That landowners thus situated have nothing more than a nominal inte rest in their estates must be plain, yet they will still continue to exercise many of the rights of owner ship, and, probably, notwithstanding their insol vency, to receive some considerable part of the in come. This is unjust towards the creditors, who ought to have the means of compelling a fall and ab solute surrender of all the property of their debtors, and its equal distribution amongst their creditors. This could be easily effected had the debtors been traders ; and the only way of accounting for the maintenanoe of the distinction between trading and non-trading debtors is the fact that the landowners, who form an indebted class, have made the law. The abrogation of this mischievous distinction is now loudly called for, and cannot be much longer post poned. A letter has been addressed by the solicitors of the Marquis of CIIANDOS to the daily papers, on the subject et a paragraph on the Duke of BUCKING HAM'S affairs which seemed to impute some conceal ment of the assignment to his eon, in which those gentlemen say, " the whole of the duke's interest in his real and personal property was purchased by the Marquis of CHANDOS, for considerably more than its value, in Way lad;" and that all the usual means of giving notice of that assignment to parties having claims on, or interested in the property, were then adopted. That the respectable solicitors we refer to did all that was requisite to carry out the family arrangements of the insolvent duke, nobody can doubt; but their statement above quoted, places the anomalous state of our law of debtor and creditor in even a stronger light than it before appeared in con nection with the duke's affairs. --..,--- We find a man, confessedly insolvent, owing nearly two millions sterling, and possessed of a life-interest in estates said to be of the annual value of 80,0001., besides a large amount of valuable personal property. Pressed by creditors whom he can no longer keep at bay, the duke assigns " the whole of his interest in his real and personal pro perty" to his son as a purchaser. Now, the son can have no means of making such a purchase but by raising money upon his reversionary interest in the family estates, of which the Duke is life tenant; for the Duke's life interest is not his to sell. The judg ment debts registered against him amount to more than the value of his life interest; and when the Marquis of CiIANDOB purchased that interest in May last he must have taken it charged with all registered judgments. Any lawyer will see what a mess of complicated litigation this young nobleman has sub lacted himself to ; unless, as wns probably the calcu tion, the difficulties which the state of the law enables a non-trading debtor to throw in the way of his creditors, may force them into the acceptance of a composition. Now had the law been equal, had the privileged and non-privileged debtor been equally amenable to a law for compelling the rateable distribution of the effects of an insolvent debtor, all this would have been avoided. The duke must have surrendered all his interest in property, whatever it might have been, which would then have been openly dealt with on behalf of the creditors. Possibly, an arrangement between the creditors and the next taker of the estate would have been made for absolutely selling parts of the property, and giving up the residue to the Mar quis of CruNnos at once ; but that would have been the subject of clear and open contract. The creditors would have made their own share of the bargain. Now, they must accept whatever is offered to them, or become individually involved in a litigation of the most expensive and difficult kind. To creditors, the absence of a general law oT insolvency, applicable alike to traders and non-traders, is a grievous injus tice. New does the actual state of the law con duce to the real comfort or credit of those for whose protection it is avowedly continued. Can any one doubt that the Duke of BUCKING lIAM would have stood in a far ' her position than he does now, had he been obli to give a full account of his t ty affairs, after a fran surrender of all his effects, which no one doubts would, under such circumstances, have been made ? But more than that ;is it not absolutely certain that had the law of bankruptcy been in opera tion against him, he would have been compelled to effect some general arrangement before his affairs had been involved in such irretrievable ruin ? The worst enemies of our landed proprietors are those who aid them in the maintenance of pri vileges and distinctions not sanctioned by utility. But though the denial of the power to apply the effects of insolvent landed proprietors, so fir as they will go in satisfaction of their debts, is a grievous wrong to their creditors—it is even a less evil than the effect produced upon large masses of land. The credi tors when dealing with their noble and acred debtors might, and ought to, have regulated their trans actions with reference to the imperfect and anomalous condition of the law. It is possible, nay probable, that many of them have received some advantages in the shape of a high rate of interest or otherwise, for, perhaps, some considerable period, and that their loans to the great landowners with settled estates par took of the nature of hazardous speculations. Indeed, it is by no mesas unlikely that the embarrassments of the pnvileged debtors may have been greatly augmented by the hard terms upon which they were compelled to go into the market as borrowers. For it is an in structive fact,thatthe legal privileges and exemptions by which the landholders have surrounded their pro perty, place them atagreat disadvantage when they be come borrowers. But, upon the occupiers of the settled estates of these embarrassed proprietors, the landlord's insolvency acts with much hardship: Such occupiers are generally yearly tenants ; for the nominal land -1 owner always clings to an indirect influence over the property with a tenacity strong in proportion to his want of beneficial interest. They are overrun with game; the repairs of their farms, which, where the estates are held by yearly tenants, must necessarily fall upon the landlord, have been neglected, and during the embarrassed owner's lifetime, whether the pro perty be managed by family or creditors' trustees, the largest yearly rental will be extracted, and the least possible allowance for repairs will be made. Aa for improvements, they are quite oat of the question. The substance of the following was given in a second edition of the Express last evening We have our foreign despatches, with Paris letters and papers of Wednesday. The assumption by M. Guizot of the nominal presi dency of the cabinet, of which he has long been the real head. has been solong expected, that this event, which was announced in the Moniteur by royal ordonnanee on Wednesday, excited little interest and caused no surprise. " Marshal Soult," says the official notifica tion of this event, " has addressed a letter to the King, praying him to accept his resignation of the functions of President of the Council. In this letter the illustrious chief of the cabinet of the 29th October, states that after having served the state for sixty-four years, he beseeches the king to allow him to take that repose he has deserved by inch long and glorious services. The king, not without manifesting the deep regret he felt at this separation, thought it incumbent on him to accede to a desire as legitimate as nobly expressed. He has, then, accepted the re signation of Marshal Soult. In consequence, the king has tuned an ordonnance which confers on M. Guizot the title of President of the CounciL This ordonnanee will appear to-morrow in the Moisiteur." The following is the letter addressed by Marshal Soult to the King, on the occasion of his resignation : Soultberg (Tarn), Sept. 16.—Sire: I was in the service of my country arty-three years ago, when the old monarchy was stall standing, before the first dawning, of our national revolution. A soldier of the republic, and lieutenant of Napoleon, I ban taken part without ceasing in the immense struggle for the independence, the liberty, end the glory of France, and I was among those who sustained it till the last d 1,4, Your majesty deigned to believe that my services . ht be useful to the new, and not less patriotic, struggle which God and France have called on you to sustain for the firm establishment of our constitutional order ; and I rwder thanks to your majesty for it. It is the honour of m life that my name thus occupies a place ia all the labours, warlike and petite, which have sawed the triumph of our great cause. The confidence of your ma jesty sustained me in the lest service. that I en deavoured to reader. My devotedness to your majesty and to France still exists as strongly as ever ; but I feel that my strength is not equal to it. Let your Majesty permit me to devote what strength remains to me to repose and reflec tion, now that I am arrived at the end of my laborious career. I have devoted to you, sire, the activity of my latter year-.gin me the repose of my old services ; and plinth me to place at the foot of your Majesty's throne my resignation of prisalleney of the council, with which you deigned to invest me. 1 am'. enjoy this repute in the midst that "'swag' secant ?? semen the great w isdom of our m a j es t y has aimed to prg..oe, and to all those who have served her and love her. My .!rratitude for the goodness of your Majesty, m wishes for yo.ie 13 , rn i erity, and that of your august fami l y, will accompany l that repose to my last day, and will not maw to equal the unchangeable de votedneas and the profound raped with whLtt I have the honour to be, sire, your Majesty's most humble and most obedient servant, MAMMAL DIX Da DLLIWIII. General Nervier was announced to hare passed through Bordeaux, by the journals of that city, on the 18th. His at rival was expected in Paris on 'Tues day ; and L' Union Monarchique, on Wednesday, affrms that it had taken place. Nereus is in Paris. As the telegraph was invisible for three days, he arrived without being announced. The grand policy marches on from surprise to surprise, if it can be said to march at all. Maria Christina yesterday held council after council at her hotel in the rue de Courcelles, and the telegraph was at work throughout the day. The retreat of Narrate appears to have been as prudent as it was rapid. Already it is represented as an set of great ability. It is repeat ed that in Spain, contrary tiother countries, the abeentees are always in the right. It is almost certain that a military movement was on the point of being attempted in the even ing of the 16th, while all the ministers were amusing them selves at the circus. Their own police was at fault, but that of the English embassy was watching over them. This discovery made the illustrious epee elpagnol comprehend how necessary his presence was at Paris. Could a simple chargé d'affaires suffice to confound the French prep, ca pable as it is of so many outrages against his adored Queen ? The old minister Goren, and the young general came to an understanding at half a word. Narvaez, however, knew that Queen Isabella would not sign the order for his arrest, but he at the tame time knew how duet - Elating are people's minds at the Palacio Real of Madrid. The Christina. of Paris affirm that Mr. Bulwer was left upon a volcano ; that the mines prepared by Narvaes have, perhaps, already exploded ; that the all-powerful Serrano, converted to moderadism, has be come the most devoted agent of the grand policy and other rodomontades espagnoks, as Brantome called them. The King and Queen and the other members of the royal family went to Compiegne on Tuesday evening. The Duke Decaree, who was reported to be dan gerously ill, is recover ed. Advice., more or lees obscure and indefinite, have been received from the western frontier of the French colony in Africa, which however are now alleged to be confirmed by private letters received from Fez by Moor ish merchants in Gibraltar. It has been already stated that two extensive Arab tribes, which had been set tled within the French colony, had entered the ter ritory of Morocco, and sat down near Taza. These tribes relied on the protection of Abd-el-Kader. They were, however, attacked by the Imperial troops, and nearly exterminated, before the Emir could come to their aid. According to the present accounts, the I, Emir suffered further checks in the same iiitarter, and has been obliged to fall back, abandoning the Rif, a district which has obeyed him for a consider able time. He was obliged finally to take refuge in the desert. Various rumours were in circulation ; some that he was still living, some that he was wounded, and some that he was killed. Abd-el- Kader however, has been killed so often by the French journals, and their southern correspondents, that lie attention is given to such accounts. ThTjournals and — despatches from Afadrid of the 17th have arrived. The moderados and Afrancesadoe set no bounds to their rage against England on ac count of the failure of the Narvaez-Christina-Louis- Philippe intrigue. Through their organ, EI Heralds, they now charge England, in explicit terms, with the intention of carrying into effect a policy the end of which would be the marriage of Isabella with the Count Montemolin. For this purpose, Espartero is recalled, jho Cortes to be dissolved, and another elected, to pals a law dissolving the marriage of Isabella and Don Francisco d'Assis. Then the Count of Montemolin is to enter on the stage, and to be married to Isabella. But this is not to be the " be-all and the end-all " of this Anglo-Spanish drama. A union between Spain and Portugal is to be effected, and the entire peninsula incorporated under the protection of England, and under the united crowns of Isabella and Count Montemolin, with right of succession in the male line, the rights of the Duchess of Montpensier being cancelled. As a fee for all this trouble, England is to have the picking and choosing of the Spanish colonies, which would convert the magnificent island of Cuba into a dependency on the crown of Great Britain. Meanwhile the subserviency of the penin sula to England would to rendered permanent by the inevitable hostility of her rich and powerful northern neighbour and relative,who so lately thought he had levelled the Pyrenees. Such are the lucu brations of the moderadoe. The Eco del Comereio says that on the IGth reports were in circulation that a military insurrection wan ready to break out at Pampeluna for a regency, In consist of the King, Castanos, and Nemec. " Such," mays that journal, " seems to be the project of the revolutionary party." This plot wu to have been executed on the 15th. It was said that Queen Christina had gone to Bordeaux, and intended to re turn to Spain. In oonaequence of this the government gave orders to the authorities on the frontiers, by telegraph, to arrest any member of the royal family who should attempt to pan the frontier with out the formal authorisation of the Queen, previously obtained. The Captain-General of Na varre, and some of the authorities of Andalusia, were said to be implicated in this affair. It was said that precautionary measures have been taken around the palace. The most important item of Italian news is the i flight of the Duke of Lucca from his territories and his beloved bat too liberal subjects, and his with drawal to the Austrian territories, accompanied by denunciation of all the Lucchera have done and dis avowal of all that he (the duke) had promised them. This is no doubt preliminary to the threatened march of the Austrians to occupy the dushy, which we an nounced some days back. To eliminate the truth from the mass of obscure sad incompatible reports which arrive from Italy is no euy task. One day we are confidently assured by jour nals reputed to be in the confidence of the French minis try that three British ships are lying at anchor in Ancona, and this is circumstantially confirmed by paragraphs reaching us in rapid succession in the journals of the Roman, Tuscan, and Sardinian states, as well as in those of the Rhine and Bavaria. Bat lo ! ' the next day, the Journal des Delats pronounces such a statement absolutely illusive, on the authority of a private letter from Ancona, dated the 13th. Cardinal Ferretti has sent a circular to the civil and military authorities throughout the Roman states, containing detailed orders as to how they are to pro ceed in the event of an invasion of the Roman states by foreign troops. We gave an outline some time since of the instructions intended to be embodied in this document. Governors of fortresses and com manders of garrisons, and all other posts, are ordered to resist, as far as the forces at their command may allow, such an aggression : but if, overpowered by superior numbers, they are compelled to retreat, then, having taken under their charge all the mili tary stores, the public functionaries and clergy, they are gradually to fall back towards the capital, upon the line 'of the Appennines, the Tiber, and Civita Castellani'. . . Accounts received from Messina say that the sTs tern of terror is still pursued there. The fidelity of the troops was doubtful . On the 13th twenty-five young men, including individuals of all ranks, were led out and shot. The population of the localities suspected of disaffection were decimated. The Jour nal des Debate contradicts these reports, but gives no authority for its contradiction, except a letter from Mashie, dated the eleventh, acidrem to a mercantile firm at Lyons, which says that the emeutes which took place on the first days of the month, although , attended with no serious co uences, produced general alarm and a suspension of ' and that all the communications between Messina and Reggio were intercepted. The German Journal of Frankfort mays, that at Mo dena the effervesoence had become so great that grave disorders were feared from day to day. The reforms made by the Pope and the sovereigns of Tuscany and Lucca were urgently solicited, but the duke not only opposed such demands in the moat resolute manner, but also ordered several persons to be arrested. The Nuremburg Correspondent, under the date of Vienna, 14th inst., says, Mat it was generally thought tkat the occupation of Ferrara would soon cease. On the one hand, the decree of the Pope against the clandestine press had removed a great cause of ap prehenion to Austria ; and on the other, the camp of Forli, however aggressive it might seem, gave guarantees for the preservation of tranquillity in The German Journal of Frankfort affirms that the British government has sent a note to Rome and Turin, declaring positively to these two courts that in the event of their independence being menaced they may securely reckon on the support of Eng Lind. Lettere hem Bologna of the 11th say that some excitement was created in that city by the arrival of the Prince of Canino coming from Florence en NW.: to the scientific congress at Venice. The prince ap. peared in the uniform of the national guard, and alter I ha v i ng visited the eitriii i i,;i legate and the archbishop, went to view the barracks of natio ,, al.Fuurd, and several times addressed the crowd a - Mch followed him, He likewise visited Ferrara, where the presence of ',1:1) Austrians did not prevent similar manifestations. A multitude of citizens attended him with torches to the palace of the Cardinal Legate Ciacchi, and to that of the archbishop. General Bentivoglio, the commander-in-chief of I the pontifical forces collected near Forli, issued an order of the day immediately on arriving there, to I l the following effect : I am again called by his holiness to take the command in chief of all the troops composing the 2nd and 3d divisions. The aim of the honourable mission which has been entrusted to me by our sovereign's kindness is to join in one sole thought of love so many hearts which are wholly devoted to him, to maintain order by every means in my power, and to constitute myself the centre of direction. Well-tried eau. pence gives me the conviction that all will vie to prove their zeal, by showiag themselves faithful to their duty and de serving of the trust the best of sovereigns has reposed in It will be grateful to me to he able to present to the Pope, not only the assurance of your a ff ection, but the ho noura bl e testimony of your conduct. Long live Pius IX, ! May God keep and protect him! Eternal honour to whomever may serve him with zeal ! The German Journal of 11•ankfort, under the date of Vienna, Sept. 14, says: On the day before yesterday a numerous diplomatic recep. tion was held at Prince Meturnich's. The ambassadors of France, England, Russia, Prussia, and of the Italian States, were present. It was remarked that Prince Metternich con. versed principally with the nuncio of the Pope and th e Sar dinian ambassador. The position taken by the court of Turin with respect to our government is no longer a mys tery ; and it is to be more and more regretted that Austria should be in some measure left insulated in the question of Italy. It is rumoured in some diplomatic circles that the cabinet of St. Petersburg had sent a very laconic answer to the deelaration in which our court mentioned its intention of reinforcing the garrison of Ferrara. It appears the Russian cabinet has merely taken cognisance of the communication, though it tacitly acknow ledges the rights of Austria iu tkiarespect. The news from Venetian Lombardy is far from being satisfactory. M. Kol lowrath did not arrive before to-day. By the Levant mail we have received the journals and a large mass of correspondence, including letters from our correspondent at Constantinople of the 7th, Athens the 10th, and Malta the 14th. One letter 'from Constantinople assures us that despatches had arrived to the government of the Porte, bringing the details of a victory gained by the troops of the Sultan over the insurgents in Albania, where au engagement took place between Argarocastro and Beret. The details of this will probably reach us, rw Vienna. The report of the desperate state of M. Coletti is ' confirmed in our Athens letter. The telegraph has since brought news of his death. What the effect of this may be on the possibility of solving the Gra-co- Turkish dispute it is impossible now to foresee. The portfolio of foreign affairs was given, ad interim, to M. Glaraki, Minister of Public Instruction. Letters from Ancona of the 10th, quoted by the Augsburg Gazette, say that King Otho has written to the Emperor Nicholas, to ask his intervention to settle the quarrel with the Porte. CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 7. Accounts have been received from Erzeroum to the 3rd Aug. The troops who rebelled on mount of their pay being in smear have returned to their duty, and all is tranquil; they are preparing to set out for the campaign in Khorassan. The rebellion in Albania is not yet put down ; nearly all the country is in arms. Many of the fortified towns, it is true, are in the hands of the emperor's troops, but the coun try is possesaed by the rebels, who hold them shut up, like i mice n their traps, with but little to eat, and no means of getting out in safety. The government journals here would have the world to believe that, with the exception of Janina, the country is quiet. In the provinces of Tchameuria, Toe eerie, Liaponria, and Beret, not a soldier can move from his stronghold but he is hunted down like a mad dog. Djouleka is in the mountains between Delvino and Argyrocastro ; he has with him about 6,000 men. The intention of the insurgents is said to be to form a junction at one point, and thence make a direct attack upon the Ottoman army, now lying inactive at Ooritza. The rebel army will amount to 20,000 men. Letters received here from TifPs mention that the cholera had re-appmred in that city, in Koutais and in Kars: that it had also invaded Erzeroum, and the ports of Ridout, Khale, and Batoum, in the Black Sea, only 60 leagues from Trebisonde. The Russian army in the Caucasus is suffer ing dreadfully from cholera. Yesterday, immediately after the arrival of an extraordinary courier from the beat quartets of the may in Roumelia, there was a grand council of misielless bad, ender the presidency of the Grand Vizir, lin the °country home of Rifsat Pacha. There was a report of an engagement having taken place. Ardechir Bey, one of the Kurdish chiefs, who was the principalcauseof the success of the Turkish troops in that country, has been named governor pro tempore of Kurdistan. The time named for the withdrawal of the ezequaturs from the Greek consuls, the 21st inst., is looked for with much anxiety. Bederhan Bey bas not yet arrived, but is daily expected. ATHENS, fiery. 10. It was the expectation of everybody that this mail would have taken the news to France and England of the exit, from this scene of turbulence, strife, and ambition, of the great worker of all the evilsunder which this oppressed kingdom has been labouring. Coletti has had a serious attack of his old malady. The surgeons of the French ship of-war in the Pincus, were called in consultation, and gave it as their decided opinion he could not survive many days. After keeping his bed for 14 days he has been relieved, and again rallied; so much, indeed, that hopes are entertained of his recovery. Daring Coletti's illness the portefeuille for foreign affairs has been confided to H. Glaraki, the Minister of Public Instruction. It is not supposed that Coletti will ever again enter into public life. Two are mentioned as likely to succeed him, M. Christidi and M. Glaraki. In the event of M. Riga Palamedee being elected president of the council, as wished for by thevernment party, it will be necessary to appoint a minister f or foreign affairs who has the same ideas as himself, which M. Christidi has not. Afflicting accounts are daily received from Eubea : the large property which Grizzioti possessed there is entirely ravaged and destroyed by the volunteer troops under the orders of General Gardizuoti. Grizziotti's wife is confined to her house under the charge of a detachment of soldiers. All in tercourse, even with her relations, is forbidden. The time allowed by the Porte for the adjustment of the dispute will expire on the 21st. Coletti's illness will farnisk another ex cuse for delay. Rear-admiral Turpin, having been relieved by Rear-admiral !lemon', has left this station and returned Ito France, The small-pox has disappeared, and the heat greatly abated. MALTA, Barr. 14. The French steamer from Alexandria has brought intelligence that the French general, Ferniack, died on the 24th, at Cairo, of dysentery. He was buried at Alex andria with all the honours due to his rank. Baron Ansel= Rothschild has left Egypt for Europe. The French direct steamer Egyptus arrived here on the 7th, bringing us London files to the - 30th. The Flamer left here on the 23rd, at two, a.m., with the Indian mail (brought by the Ariel, at nine, P.M., of the 22nd out only 80 hours from Alexandria, a dis tance of 820 miles), and arrived in Marseilles on the 27th, at 8.30 P.M. She was 114 hours going a distance of 650 miles. The Cairo, French steamer, left here on the 24th, at two P.M., and arrived on the 28th, at six am., or in 88 hours. With such tube as the Volcano and Flamer, between this and Marseilles, what is the use of having a fast steamer between Malta and Alexandria ? Had there been, or was there, a vessel similar to the Ariel, the distance could be done easily during summer in 60 hours, and in 70 during winter, when N.W. winds prevail. There has been a report that the Peninsular and Oriental Company intend to take up the line to Marseilles in October : the sooner the better, for the gallant commanders of the steam tubs in question miurt be disgusted with a service so humiliating to their feelings of maritime superiority. When the news of the doings in Italy became public in ' Malta, Italians, refugees, and others, might be seen in groups in various parts of the city, in dose confabulation. Admiral Parker, with his squadron, hove in sight at sunset on the 9th. The admiral came in at 9 p.m., in the Gladiator steamer, Capt. Robb. The next morning the Hibernia, Trafalgar, and Superb, came in, and misted the batteries and the fl ag of Rear-Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis. The Lo- cust cams in on the 9th from Athens. The country is as tranquil as usuaL Coletti was very ill with his old com plaint—so bad, indeed, that it was reported he could not live a day longer. The report here is, that Admiral Parker in tends to recall the three line-of battleehips from Athens, and sail with the whole fleet, on a cruise, off the coast of Naples. FRANCE.—PARIS, Barr. 23. FRENCH EMBASSY ro CIUNL.—The Bayounalse, with M. Forth Rouen, the envoy to China, after quitting the Canary Ishimis, went to Bahia, in Brasil, where it was to leave the Viscount and Viieountess de Banal, who aooompanied the Princess de Joinville to Francs. The Bayonnaise was to remain at Bahia three weeks, to take in provisions, then to proceed to Hobart Town, and afterwards ascend to the east of China by the Caroline and Marianne Islands. This circuit is necessary to avoid the monsoon, which rages in October and November in the Strata of Sunda and the China Sea. M. Forth Bonen will, therefore, in all probability, not reach Canton before the commencement of the winter of next year, which will make two years from the departure of his embassy. STATISTICS OF BILBAO IN FIANCE. France product. annually 70,000,000 beebelktres of wheat, and 112,000,000 hence. of Waist than 2f Nagai sad the k sad hectolitre is a triflemoreifimoreilogramme mentioned below is a Unlooses than b. or 1,000 grammes.) For the making of 100 kliogniaunes Of door into bread then ,