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of thrusting aside people will submit to, without min iing it very much, when there is plenty of room for everybody. It is a different thing altogether when some huxdreds of thousands of human beings are as close located upon some little spot as flies upon a sore, every one with, we may say. only ut the most his sufficient ground to stand upright upon, and his needful quantity of air to gulp. Any toleration of thrus'im; aside, is here altogether out of the ques tion; it would brisig back primeval chaos at once; the government would be hurled heels over head as by an earthquake, or blown into the air as if a mine had exploded beneath it. The law must here be more than a saiOsin et reneratnie nomen. It must be really a power ; making itself, at least to a certain extent, feared and felt by everyone. The government of men in a great city compared to their government in the country, is like a force moving through the water compared to one moving through the air. The resistance in the one awe is immensely greater than in the ether. On the other hand, however, as the water affords a support which is not to be obtained from the air, lo too, as we have already hinted, there are sonic advantages and facilities fur good government in a city which are not to be found in the country. In so fir ns the law can secure the atta hment and co-operation of the people, it is stronger in the city than is the country; it is only where the popular feeling is hos tile to it, that it is weaker. Every advaire in civilisa tion, therefore; every improvement either in the him, or in the state of public feeling; will make the govern ment of large masses of people a safer and less diffi cult thing, in reducing it to be less a business of coer cion, and more a matter of general agreement and co-operation. It requires only that the laws and their administration should be equitable. and that every man should see his own interest. For the mainte nance of a really good law is the first political interest of every 'norther of the community. Iven those who live by breaking such laws, would find it more for their interest in the long run to obey them. Every such work as the present, embodying the results of inquiry and experience in the practice of administration, helps on the world towards the point at which a perfectly good understanding between the governors and the governed would almost make government and laws unnecessary. The more clearly the law and its mechanism of action, and the social facts to which it ought to be accommodated, are understood by all parties ; the greater will be their disposition and their fitness to work together, both for the maintenance and for the improvement of the law. M. Horace Say's philosophical views cannot be affirmed to be characterised by any remarkable pro foundness or novelty, nor is he a very lively or graphic writer; but his book is unquestion ably the most complete and also the most careful and trustworthy account, that has been given of the administrative statistics of l'aris, perhaps we might say of any European capital. We have no work, at any rate, on our own metropolis nearly so comprehensive or of the same authentic character. An important difference between London and Paris, however, is not to be forgotten when we make this remark. London is without any common municipal government; some parts of it are almost without any sort of local government whatever. The jurisdiction of the lord mayor and the corporation of the city—the only municipal body properly so called that exists within the wide bounds of the English capital—extends only over a comparatively small section of the space, and a still smaller pro portion of the population, constituting what we denominate London. All l'aris, on the contrary, forms one jurisdiction, both in a municipal and in a political sense. Its constitution in this respect is very clearly explained by M. Horace Say in his com mencing chapter. While each of the other (Vimtrtements into which the kingdom is divided has one /info', the iMoarientent of the Seine and of the town of l'aris has two ; the Prefet de la Seine and the Prefet de Police. The prefet, everywhere, is what we may call the universal representative of the King, or of what is constitutionally the same thing, his ministers; but in the case of Paris there is this peculiarity, that each minister may act, and often does act, in his own department without the intervention of either prefet: " or, at least," says M. Say, " the personal responsibility of these officers is concealed, in most cases, by the absence of all initia tive action on their part. But," he proceeds, "if the two prefets of the (Vpartement of the Seine have less of prefectoral action than those of the other delparte ments, their functions acquire a high importance, from the municipal duties which devolve upon them. They are the real mayors of Paris, and it is solely with them that the municipal council is called upon to debate the interests of the enmmune. There is yet another dis tinction to be made, the municipal (lake themselves not being all included in the division which is made of them between the two pr,lfets. The latter are not charged with the keeping of the registers of the civil state of the de%portement, nor with the celebration of marriages, any more than with the details respecting the National Guard, elections, and what concerns the administration of charities (les Bureaus de Bienfaisanee), and the local committees of elemen tary- instruction; for all these current matters the town of l'aris is divided into twelve sections, impro perly called arrondissedients, each of which has a mayor and two assistants (adjoints). These mayors and assistants are nominated by the king out of a list of twelve candidates, formed by election. They have no correspondence with each other, and are without in fluence in the direction of the affairs of the commune, the management of which is thus placed in the hands of the direct agents of the government, who do not stand upon any elective basis." This organisation, which, M. Say remarks, is in general little known, was established in 1834 ; but some parts of the system remain insufficiently settled or developed. It's exceptional character, as compared with that of the other departements, " has originated," says our author, "in the instinct of con serration of the different governments which have successively issued from our revolutions: we must not forget, in truth, the importance which the commune of Paris usurped during our first revolutionary storms : so in 1830 it was again from the Hotel de Ville that there came forth the first orders of the new authorities, and the central government could not entrust to the sole direction of the burghers (bourgeois) of Paris a place where provisory governments were organised with eo much facility." Each prefet Is also mayor of Paris ; and in the latter capacity each has to discuss, in so far as his particular department is concerned, the budgets and accounts of the department and of the town, before the General and Municipal Councils of Paris. " Pre viously to 1830," says M. Say, " these two councils were confounded together into one ; since that date, and in conformity with the definitive arrangement made by the law of the 20th of April, 1834, the municipal council is composed of thirty-six members, taken from among the members of the general council, and of which three are elected by each of the twelve communal arrondissements, with renewal of a third part of the three every three years ; so that each councillor is, in fact, elected for nine years. It was thought that the composition of the general council ought to be also entirely special for a department, the integrant parts of which differed from those of all the other depart ments. The departments arc all composed, in fact, of arrondissements, which are subdivided into cantons, and these into communes, while the department of the Seine is composed of two arrondissements and a commune, which latter also differs from other com munes. The town of Paris makes no part of any arondissement, or of any canton, and is itself, on the contrary, divided into twelve districts, presided over by justices of peace. The general council, then, is composed of thirty-six members, nominated at Paris, and of eight other members, four of whom arc elected by the department of Sceaux, and four by that of St. Denis, making in all forty-four members. Such is the manner in which, in regard to this matter, has been realizrXl the promise of the 69th article of the charter respecting the introduction of the elective principle into the departmental and commu nal institutions. Previously to 1834, the members of the council were nominated by the king ; es th e mem bers of the General Council of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions (Hospices) still are: The General Council of the Department of the Seine meets once a year, lice those of all the other departments; only a little later than the others ; its session usually taking place in November, and lasting ,only a fortnight. The conservative spirit of the cen t-11J government, or its interest of conservatism, as nu author.phrues has introduced many precau tione' into the law which regulates the proceedings of these gent :ssi councils. Theycannot meet until they are ho h66, r • THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 7, 1846. enjoyments of the Italian opera. tat I maintain, that In the present forni and fashion of the great opera house of London, that ram will not porch:as: the atitusonent I want for Litt If mid nay nanny. Ao justly observed by your other correspondents, :he system priosnsi f r the new opera at Covent Carden will prove as extravagant as the lire. oent. It will make more room for men of rank, and nica of weaffia, ' but what is to became of Vac family man of Luotif. myear 'that the plan proomed—and how far it arty be true I kuow not will fail, I have little doubt. For the sale of the orantry I hope it may not; but I briieve it will. I am inclined to rouge the value of the a:nos:mental of the opera, including its two distinet porno of Ic and ballet, by lilol., extended from other collateral arts. Why is MUSit more expensive than painting, or than sculptuni Tho reason in simply tltio—that pointing said sculpture are cultivated in Einshuid. These arts ore not foreign from the genie, of the country, while music is. The pleaso re derived from music requires the exer cise of two powers, rarely coucentran d in the same person, sit. com position and execution, whether vocal or Instrumental. The liot can be a worse of no oansidernble expense to us, because England ham a common property with the rest of the world in musical compaoiti. ra. We are nut taxed for the writing, bit for the reading of what is written. In this lien the didlaulty : k:ffirland cannot command vocalism. Whether we fail in quality or in power of voice, or in power of aisquirement, to another question, but the tact no one sill Moe. The result io that We Upply to °nor nations which em supply our aecessitieo. We reelect the hhighest powere the world can produce, and we bring thou hither by dint of enormous remu neration. Thin in a positive and an lueuraide evil. Positive indeed when the amount of the salaries demanded and paid by our englids manager far thee service! , Is taken into ronsoideratiam %Vial it be generally Is lievol that the season of Ihni conveyed into the pockets of the three leading Finger. the enornious sum of 12,060/. and up words coupled, observe, with Gib additional aggravation, the abooltite right over the exercise of their art at public concerts oared in Mr. Lumley. And who can house the matuper for that stipulation! In the present condition of the English sehool our profession Li incompetent to Italian musle, when placed in the front rank. But I am satiefied that a good and efficient vocal company may be formed, which, led by two or three foreign sine( Is of rank, not nevessanly tits highest, may he completes! by our native singers, both male and kauale, provided due encouragement be given them. We have many o tigers sa no are ennapetent to the second rank of the opera stage, and who woo:d do :ample justice to the usic, while we have plenty of evider.cs that the English choral deportment may, by industry, be rendered an "per fect as It to elsewhere. If we cannot command a Orion or a Lahlach:, we must be content with the inferior singer, whose inferiority,, by the bye, Is only palpable, or at least is only very perceptble, when tested by the immediate comparison with the higher. Surely Italy, herself content with the infeaine, (luring that huge portion of the year that deprive, her of the highest slam aline I', could foraish our wants moot abundantly. %'hat a plaid for the exercise °Cardiac art woad such a scheme not produce. It wooed at once open the stage of the Italian Opera to the English singer, who would insure a rank commensurate with hi or her pots ers, and I conceive wool:II:arse:1y extend the devotion among the pt ufessi.n of our own country to the study of the jurgly popular authors of Italy and Germany —2. Touchhig the fond, we enter on a question of fur les» difficulty than the former. Till within a few years on English orchestra was a republic. It ba now happily subjuguted and brought under the authority of an unlimited monarchy. One head direct& and rule. with undivided sway, to the infinite credit of the entire teals corporate, and to the inestimable advantage of the mud at auditory. • Up to this date the Eguribh horn or drum alwa,s domed hinnelf the :coder of the band, or perhaps the rather that, haring less to do than others, he was requirol to compensate by density of sound for the paucity of note awarded him by the comps cr. One authority, therefore, is all that is happily required. this one head, anti I will ventute to affirm that our city of Landon will at this moment furnish, among Englioh instrumentaboto, asexcellee, a baud, for opera purpoorn, an can be required : I do not say for general tousle. In concerto, or in quartet playing, they are infra r to the French sell ct. but for the requisitions of the opera, for the opera music of Iteosinl, Cinianna, Itonizetli, and even Sloxart, I maintain their entire competency to form an efficient and admirable band, to Rive ethyl band , to the lights and shadows of the competition. In dividually they are superior to the difficulties of these author, and, when placed under the iron hand of a good COOductor, collet t Ively they would form a la hole, in no degree, for such a purpose. inferi r to the Opera band. Thus an opera might be farmed, the efficiency o: which, though as a whole something inferior to the great opera, we ild yet be great, and the expenses of which would be commensurate with a much reduced claim on the public. Italian singing would be encou raged in the profession, and good music rendered more an:lir:dale by the people, if I may use the term, without rousing the sensibilities of any portion of sour reader.. such an opera, I main tain, would command the support of the gentry of tendon an:l the ourroomaingeountry. A question new:parity an.., as to whet: er the toilet i an indispensable concomitant of opera music. Certainly it Is not deemed essential in Paris, where we have music :it one theatre and dancing at another. if the performance of an entire opera be nut outticient for an evening's amusement, the ballet mu.-t be super-added, but then it must be paid for accordingly. I appu tend that the experiment had better he attempted without the I .dlet. Should it succeed, the ballet department may be added, but on ouch a iamb only as that which guide. the musical arrangements, viz., that of eschewinn the higher classes, with individual except Ono, and making careful selections from the English Khoo' as they arise, eandidates for popular opinion]. Let us always carefully o sold the pretence of s ivalship with air. Lumley, and his grand opera and ballet, with which, in my opinion, a second opera, on the scale I have dessribed, will in no respect interfere. If Covent-garden or any other theatre be applied to the purpose of the experiment, I see no reason why the inward walls may not be partially converted 'nto private boxes, one tier being lefbuutouched. The pit should bet :ms vetted Into stalls, and the gallery render, di comfortable. But economy should reign throughout. With regard to the inaportant 11U011.1011 of the prices of sdiniasirm, I conceive that the (ad theatre prior would suffice for all the wants of the establish ment; or the pit might be raised to live shillings, sad the boon eaten or eight. Without a ballet thew amounts would he justly deemed exorbitant; for the opera alone the admission to the pit aught not to excel three or four shillings. By such means t do think a good opera might be rendered atoneable to the musical world of London and our present corrupt, or rather ; immaturesi, taste, may be improved by the frequent wasuciationo with the best whoa, in muolcal composaition.—Yours, &c., Ananias. —A policerea t stated that the gentleman and another at- Laend the notice w peeve in the street by the familiar man ner in a Inch the y claimed acquaintance with revel-al 'e maks, who seemed not to relish the liberties they took, and quickly passed un. The witness requested both gentlemen, ale, %vete evidently elevideti with liquor, to ga home, and , me of th, m wisely took the advice. The detindant, how ever, not only refused to leave the street, but to allow the lad', sto pass unmob sted. As he seemed to be getting more a arm, it was considered necessary to cool him in the station house, nut of %Welt place he was hailed at 9 in the morning ; so that he was quite long enough the re to judge of its con— tort!.—The det.aulant said he was sure the policeman was in error in saving that he put his hands upon any lady. It was true his friend, in whose company he had been dining, wished to have a little cone( nation with the other sex ; but he interfered to prevent what he knew was unbecoming steady men of buunces, and it was while he was engaged in the duty of prevention, that the policeman mistooklaim for the aggressor.—Alderman Wilson : Policeman, why did you tot secure the friend of this gentleman?—Policeman: I had enough to do •o secure this gentleman. Besides, as the oat rat once desisted, I allowed him to go on, and the de fendant might have gone away too. When I told him that I must take him into custody, he looked very big, and said he had been dining with the Lord Mayor. (Laughter.)— Alderman Wilsen : Had you been dining with the Lord Mayor ?—Defendant: Oh dear no, sir •; I never thetight of such a thing. It's pretty well known if a man dined with the Lord Mayor, it would not be cosy to find him in the' street at nine o'clock. (Laughter.) I was dining with my friend over in the Borouith, and the fact is he took • little tai muck.—Alderman Wilson : You are fined twenty shit- I dings.—Defendant: Sir, I thank you very much. I shall pay with pleasure indescribable.—Alderman Wilson: I would advise yt u in your future frolics not to say you have I een dining with the Lora Mayer.—The Defendant : Oh dear, certainly not. I might have said that I dined as well as if I had dined with the Lord Mayor; hut I could not have meant that I bad been his lordship's guest. GLILDIIALL.—OURIOUS CASE OP WEITAKEN IDEN TITY —Yesterday a young lad named Edward Grapes, was charged, before Alderman Gibbs, with picking a la ly's pmket.—Mrs. Matilda Everett Bell, of George-street, Ilano ver-square, stated that, on Friday last, about 12 o'clock, she was in a pastry-cook's shop in Ncwgate-street, where the prismier, who was then dressed like a gentleman's son, and anther, were regaling themselves with pastry. On her leaving, she felt herself hustled, when she observed the boy run past her with her purse, eutaining between sin and seven pounds. She called out, but a mob enabled the thief to escape.—Alderman Gibbs : Do you swear distinctly that the pr sorer is the lad you mention as being in the shop, and afterwards taking your purse.—Complainant That is the b , y. but differently dressed.—Mr. Atkinson, solicitor, cross examined the complairant. and asked her was she perfectly sure the prisoner was the boy ?—She replied in the affirma tive.—Mr. Atkinson : Do you not know that another party has been taken up this morning for the very robhery you now speak of —Complainant:i I do.—Mr. Atkinson: Then now look rountl the court, and see if you recognise him.—Mrs. BM immediately did so, and suddenly exclaimed, pointirg to a voung lad, a well-known thief, near her, " they are brothers; this is the one who robbed me."— Alderman Gibbs asked Mrs. Bell ifshe still persisted that the prisoner was the guilty party ?—She said, " No," that it was the young man whom she now pointed to.—Alderman Gibbs admitted that they were very much alike, and discharged the prisoner, at the same time placing his brother, the young man pointed out, at the bar ; hut as the lady had so dis tinctly sworn that the first prisoner was the party who com mitted the robbery, he was necessarily obliged to discharge him also.—Mrs. Bell sad that she was not obtaining justice. She had only sworn to the best of her belief.—Alderman Gibbs reminded her that she had sworn distinctly to tie first prisoner. That statement was down in writing, and she c mid hear it read if she liked.—The complainant, however, left the court, rather indignant at the way in which the affair terminated. WESTMINSTER. Gnus' OUTRAGE. - Yesterday, Joseph Cooper and William Osborne, two young men, were charged with the following outrage: Mrs. Sarah Pincher, of 5, Cottage-place, Chelsea, stated that she was proceed ing from Chelsea to Earl's-court. Brampton, at about nine on the previous evening, when defendant Cooper came up and took hold of her in a very improper manner. He then took her bonnet off, and knocked her down with such vio lence that she was stunned. Her husband, who was only a few yards behind her at the time, came to her assistance, when dt fendants attacked him with great violence. Joseph Pincher, the husband, said that he was walking a few paces behind his wife, when the two defendants, another man, and a boy, suddenly stopped him. Osborne asked him to give him a shilling. Witness refused, when Osborne placed himself before him on the footpath in a menacing attitude, and declared that he would have half-a crown. As witness thought that Osborne was about to knock him down, he immediately struck him in his own defence. lie was then attacked by the whole party. On a sudden he found Cooper heating his wife, and saw him knock her down, and kick her whilst on the ground. The pdice came up, aid defendants run away, but were pursued and captured. Two constables who had been alarmed by the cries of murder, found that on going to the spot Osborne had his left arm round Mrs. Pincher's neck, and was beat ing her about the head with the other hand. Both defend ants were sober. Defendants said they just touched the complainant, when the husband struck them both, and they merely stood in :heir own defence Mr. Bond ordered them to pay 50s. etch fur each of the tic' assaults (U.), or be imprisoned for two months each. _ _ _ THAMES.—Cuatovs Dtcruw.—A ferocious-looking fel low was brought before Mr. Salentine, charged with assault ing Mr. John Kesby, proprietor of the Red Lion public-house, \Vhitechapel. About nine o'clock on the pros ions night, the prisoner went into the Red Lion, and became very trou blesome about some brooms which he alleged he had brought in, though many present knew he had done no such thing. He at last became so outrageous that it was found necessary to put him out, but though several of the customers assisted, the fellow exhibited such extraordinary strength, and Such savage violence, that it was found impossible to ej, et him. Police-constable Kelly, 119 H, was called upon to take the prisoner into custody. In attempting to do so, the prisoner tried to seize him by the most tender part of his person, and cuffed and kicked him until his person was all over one mass of bruises. With the assistance of some respectable inhabi tants, and several additional constables, the fellow war con veyed to the station-house, where his conduct was equally violent, and it was with the great...st difficulty he was forced into the cell.—The prisoner, in his defence, pleaded the in dignation which ho felt at the loss of his brooms, and re gretted the violence into which he had been led.—Mr. Bal lantine observed that it was not easy to define the circum stances under which a constable was warranted in entering a hublic-house. It war the duty of persons holding such ouses to keep sufficient force and power to preserve order in their houses without the interference of the police, except on extraordinary occasions, such as hearing the cry of mur der, or some other cause leading to serious apprehension. He did not feel that in the present case the constable was exactly in hie proper position, but the assault was a groan one, and he (Mr. Ballantine) would commit the prisoner for seven days. Had the assault taken place in the street, the punishment would have been a month. - - WANDSWORTH.—Tux DOO-CIRT Nrissxce.—Yes terday, John Ward, an old man who hawks china, glass, and fruit, about Surrey, was summov• d for the almost obso lete offence of using two dogs fur th t urpose of draught.— Sergeant Moore, 12 V, proved than. ;n1 Friday, the 2.ith ult., he overtook the defendant in the Clapham-road with a large barrow or truck, to the fore part of which two dogs were attached; the truck was heavily laden, and the dogs were exerting all their strength to drug it along.—The de fendant prefaced his statement by saying that he was 70 years of age, three-parts blind, and almost a cripple. He had travelled Surrey for 2.5 years, and since the passing of the a t prohibiting the use of`dogs, had never been molested, and Mr. Thomas, the secretary to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, had told him he could not be tined by any magistrate. He then contended that he only used the dogs as a guard to his truck when unattended. and put in a drawing illustrative of the position occupied by the dogs on the day in question.—Mr. Paynter fined the defendant Is. and 3s. costs, or seven days' imprisonment.— The old man was removed, declaring he could not pay. GREENWICH.—A CRIMP PUNISHED Hy FINE.-3E chael Henry Hare, an outfitter in Ratcliffe-highway, was summoned under an Act of Bth and 9th Viet., known as the Merchant Seaman's Protection Act, for hiring one Henry Chisenell, the defendant not being a person licensed under the statute to engage merchant seamen. Mr. Pelham ap peared to support the complaint, which was instituted by the Board of Trade, and Mr. Fearnley for the defendant. The evidence fur the complainant was to the effect that, on the 29th September, as Henry Chisenell was passing the de fendant's shop in Ratcliffe-highway, he was accosted by a man in the defendant's service, who asked him if he wanted a skip. Ile replied that he did, and on seeing Mr. Hart, he was told by that person to follow his man to the Commer dal Docks to the ship Driope, where he was shipped and signed articles, Mr. Hart's man taking an active part in the engagement of the men. It was also shown that Mr. Hart stipulated for cashing the advance note, which never came into the hands of Chisenell at all; but in lieu of which he received 18s. in money, and the value of 12s. 6d. in clothes, Mr. Hart reserving to himself Is. 61. as discount. Formal proofs were given by clerks from the Board of Trade that the defendant was not duly licensed.—Mr. Fearnley, fur the defendant, after taking an objection to the proof of his client being engaged in the transaction, which was overruled, addressed himself to the merits of the case, endeavouring to show that Chisenell applied to the defendant to be shipped on board a ship belonging to Mr. Ward, to whose vessels the defendant acts as ship's husband, and that as none of Mr. Ward's ships were about to sail, he simply ' told Chisenell that if he went to the Commercial Docks he would find Mr. Stoker, a licensed shipper, who wanted hands for the Driope. To prove this several witnesses were called, who denied that Dlr. Hart had any share in the transaction beyond that stated, and also Mr. Stoker, who declared that he had solely engaged the man, and that Mr. Hart was in no way implicated. Mr. Traill, however, was of a different opinion, as it was clearly shown that Mr. Hart had made a bai gain with retpect to the advance note. This was clearly an in ( ringement of the act. He, therefore, fined the defendant 5/., and 3s. costs. legally convoked; they can hold no correspondence with one another ; they are net permitted to issue any address to the public; they can only act under the con trol of autln rities which are superior to them; and any deliberation in which they may engage without due warrant may be instantly put an end to. Even the prefets have the right of suspending their sittings. " A dread was doubtless felt," continues M. Say, " lc st these deliberative assemblies might assume too great a political importance, and might tend to substitute a federal system for the centralisation which communi cates with us so much force to the national unity. It is no part of our task to examine at present whether these apprehensions are not pushed to excess ; nor to inquire to what point vitality and prosperity might not develope themselves more equally over the whole surface of the country, if the central government would consent to moderate a little the excessive severity of the guardianship (fa tette) which it exercises over the local institutions." This is cautiously expressed:but it indicates distinctly enough the opinion of the writer, which is also, we believe, that of all reflecting and impartial persons even in France, that the principle of centrali-ation iu government is carried much too fur in that country — or rather that it is not sufficiently balanced by the principle of independent local action. In fact, there is no independent action anywhere except in the su- preme executive; the entire political system is moved simply by the action of the heart ; with something of the same result that would follow in the animal economy, if none of the other forces of the system were ever to be called into play ex cept that central muscle; a preternatural enlarge ment, that is, of the said organ, betokening more of temporary excitement than of sound health and vigour, and with a decidedly alarming torpor of the extremities. The Municipal Council of Paris meets every year in the month of May, and continues assembled for six weeks, during which it is employed in examining and voting the budget for the year following ; and it also meets once a week for current business throughout the rest of the year, with the exception of a vacation of two months. " But it has no right of initiating anything; it never communicates directly with any of the Mayors of arrondissements ; it cannot assemble except upon special convocation by the Prefect of the Zeine ; nor can it occupy itself except with such mat ters as are specially submitted to its consideration." These extracts, with a general outline of the sub ject of the book, will convey some notion of the man ner in which it is executed. M. Say proceeds to treat, in a succession of chapters, of the contingent yielded by the Department of the Seine, to what are called the Four Direct Contributions (the taxes, namely, upon real property, upon personal and mov able property, upon doors and windows, and upon patents) ; of the departmental budget; of the depart mental prisons; of the institutions for the reception of the insane and of foundlings; of the commercial budget; of the arrangements for primary or ele mentary instruction; of the super for commercial schools; of the public alms; of the hospitals and charitable institutions ; of the Mont de Pieti. ; of the architectural works; of the maintenance and superintendence of the streets, and the numerical progress of the popu lation ; of the supply of water and the sewerage ; of the Prefecture of "lice, the municipal police, The whole forms a ... y of information which seems to exhaust the subject, and which has every appear ance of having been collected with a most pains taking and conscientious industry. M. Say is not a brilliant nor even a very tasteful writer, any more than an original or very acute thinker; but his sub ject does not demand anything beyond good sense and a plain style—and in these requisites he is not deficient pine arts. SIXTH REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS ON THE FINE Aare.—This report describes the completion of the first fresco pointing, by Mr. Dyes, and the result of an inspection of it by the commissioners. " The design (they say) having bees before approved by us, our atte-ntion was chiefly dincted to the work as an ex ample of fresco painting, a method in a great measure new in this country and in which we deemed it probable that some defects, arising front want of experience, might be apparent ; defects which time and practice might in future efforts have removed. We have, however, the satisfaction to state that she work in quesnon pie,enta no evidence of such imperfections ; that, on the contrary, it evinces great knowledge of the process of fresco painting and great skill in its application; that, further, as regards the effect of fresco painting in the locality, we consider that it pro. mist* to agree well with the architectural and other decorations therein adopted or to be adopted. Nye therefore beg leave to confirm our tomer reconieneadat ion, and to propose that the remaining five corn ;in rt int. should he decorated with tresto paintings, when the several designs for the same shall have been approved. And being also of opinion that the satisfactory effect of Mr. Byce's fresco is to be referred in a groat degree to the stale of design and colouring which he has adopt. ed, and considering It deseira'ele that a certain eonforrnity of style and execution should pervade paintings employed in the decoration of architecture, and which must be seen together; we deem it import- I ant, without wishing to impose undue restrictions on the invention or taste of the other artists commtmioned or to be commissioned to exe cute the remaining frescos in the House of Lords, that such artists should be recommended to adapt the size of their principal figures, their stale of colouring, and the degree of comffirteness in the execution of their works, ro no to wake them agree suffi ciently with each other and with the specimen alas.' ty ex. eruteff. %r have Bather humbly to report to your Majesty that having front time to time been furnished with drawing's by the architect showing the possible extent to which cornpartnwnta in the various localities of the Palter at Westminster might be decorated with works of art, we are of opinion that it would not hr expedient, with reference to the encouragement of British art or with reference to the cheinis which may hereafter bo urged for the commemoration of great events, to complete the series of paintings on the walls of the said palace at the present period; that, nevertheless, in accordance with the principle. which have already guided us in deciding on the plan of decoration in the house of Lord.% iz with reference to frescopaintings, stained windows, and statics, proposed for that locality ; and also in the selection of statues proposed for St. Stephen s Porch, St. Stephen's MR, and the royal approaches ; we conceive it to be the duty of this commission, for the better guidance of present and future artists, and in order to maintain a character of harmony and unity worthy of such a building, to deter mine a complete scheme for the future decoration of the Palace. We are of opinion that in determining such scheme, the especial destina tion of each portion of the buikling should be attended to, that, in the wiection of subjects, the chief object to be regarded should be the expression of some specific idea ; and the second, its illustrffion by means of some well-known histoe ic or poetic incident adapted for re,rvaentation in painting." Along with this report to both Houses of Parliament, is printed an Appendix of Documents. They are,-1. A list of the designs to be executed in fresco for the 111 - mse of Lords approved by the commissioners : " The Spirit of Chivalry," by Mortise; " The Black Prince recessing the Garter," by West Cope; " Religion," by C. llcott Horsley. 2. Copies of resolutions passed by the commissioners and transmitted to the Treasury, respecting ornamental woodcarving and me tal-work, and ornamental pavements for the new palace at Westminster. 3. A letter from Mr. Etty respecting colours prepared with wax. 4. An elaborate letter from Mr. Duce, containing observations on fresco-pa in ting,the results of much reading, and of a recent visit to Italy. 5. Communications from Mr. Hamlet Millctt respecting a mode of rendering canvas durable by means of tan. 6. A description of a mode of encaustic painting with wax, resin, and oil, by Mr. Linton. 7. A notice respecting the competition in oil paintings. The paintings arc to be sent in the course of the first week in June for exhibition to Westminster Hall. The competition is to be confined to British subjects and foreigners who have resided ten years or upwards in the United Kingdom. The names of the artists arc not required to be concealed. Not more than two paintings are to be sent by each artist. The nearest figure or figures in at least one of these is to be not less than the size of life. The subjects are to come under the general classes of religion, history, or poetry. Three premiums will be awarded of 300/. each ; three of 300/. each; and three of 200!. each. The judges will consist partly of artists. The judges may require any artist to whom a pre mium is awarded to execute an additional palming under such conditions as they may think necessary, as a proof of his ability; and in such case the premium will not be paid unless the second painting is approved of by the judges. The paintings remain the property of the respective artists: such as combine a high degree of merit, with appropriateness of subject, may be purchased and placed is one of the apart ments of the palace. fliasic. THE Two ITALIAN OPERAS.—Sir : It appears a really absurd question to ask, Dom London require a second Italian Opera ! Why, Mr, there is no opera in London for fanatics , whose annual income ranges from :MM. to 1,000/. The present house is the exclusive property of royalty and aristocracy, and Mr. Lumley if the beau anti of a successful caterer to their legitimate musical and Terpsichorean enjoyment. Such laurels as he wea.-s have been earned by skill, tact, and a liberal investment of his capital, and long may he enjoy the popularity he has so justly acquired. But the question is simply this: am I, the head of, family, all musically inclined, with an income comparatively limited, to be compelled olther to commit an act of extravagance, or to forego the enjoyment of the opera altogether ! The boars are, of course, quite beyond my crash. The pit stalls bare continued for many mare to encroach on the original pit, and for these stalls the sum of from one to two fp:lncas is no unusual demand. The pit mete, at least, a guinea —one moiety of which goes into the pocket of the house, the other is a very moderate award for injury done to the person in the endeavour to prove a title by poseeesion—for Mr. Lufuley's myrmidons, like liar of Mr. Lut. ley s predecessors, light us inch by inch, and the entire scene of admiseion resembles an assault by the police form, so inharmonious is it, with that which is to follow. For gallery stalls, nominally five shillings, I am prepared to corroborate the already sufficient testi mony of your other onrreepondents, viz., that immoderately large swim are asked for their nightly occupation ; they are sold, in Let, by direction. What then remaine but the gallery! The gallery at di Opera.house is just one simple shade superior to the gallery 04 . a theatre with regard to its accessibility to the public. The rash is even more awful—more dangerous than the pit. Here the public boo to fight its way along narrow passages, and up an interminable flight of stone stairs. Divested of the horror at the exhibition that would fill the heart of a man of ordinary humanity, a disinterested looker-on would be lost in wonderment at this extraordinary scene. If she pit entrance furnishes an idea of an attack by the polite, that of the gallery is more like a military assault on a fortified place. It has no resemblance to a sham fight on Chatham line.; this is a genuine attack veiled with the utmost rigour of physical force. This is the nightly history of the approaches to the gallery, and for which evil I may, in pasting, observe that I can suggest an immediate and certain remedy, viz., by requesting Sir. Lumley to make his appear ance, if for one night only, in the eluiraMer of an inclivideal member of the gallery-going public. Now, sir, lom reedy to pay nay Ss. or 6a. per person some half doagn or more times let pie eelteon, for the elttifa PRTIFIIUTST..—The nee. w. checee, to Ki'rush, CUT.; Bee. Blakely, to Dingle, Cur.; rev. W. Townsend, Turlogh, Cur., dio. Tuam. The Dean and (luipter of We-tminster have presented the Rev. C. Marshall, M.A., lecturer of St. .Intholin's with St. John the Baptist, Watling-street, and of Chesterfield-le-Reeks with St Mar_ gsret, Lathhury, to the vicarage of St. Bride., Fleet-street, 'vacant by the promotion of the Rev. T. rode, M. t., to the vicarage of St. Itimeraii. On the retirement of Mr. Dole from St. Itrick , s, the living was offered in PUCTTATiOU to the Rev. J. J. Jennings, M.A., rector of St. John the Erustrlist, Westminster ; the Rev. E. Repton, M.A., vicar of Shoreham, Kent, and minister of St. Philip's Chapel, Regent street; the Rev. T. Frere, M.A., rector of iturhton, Norfolk; the Rev. Ice. C. Wonlswortb; the Rev. E. 0. Beckwith, M.A., rector of St. klahael limisishaw ; the Rev. W. Pl. Cope, M.A., one of the minor canons of Westminster and other rev. gentlemen. All of whom having refused to accept the preferment, it was eventually con ferred upon the Rev. s ir. Marshall. The living is worth 1,62/. per annum. Vtcaseraw—Ravnham, V., Essex, dio. Rerbester, £ll2, with re 4- dence, patron, J. C. 0. Craw, Esq., vacant by the death of the Ih.v. J. T. G. Crow; P. C., Somerset, dio. Rath .nil £l2O, with resiiknee, patron, the Rev..t. I %Slips, It. of Kilmeradua, vacant by the preferment of the Rev. J. West. NAVAL. HEAn Moxxv.—The Gazette of last night contains a notice to the officers and crew of her Majesty's ship Dolphin, Lieut.-Commander W. O'B. Hoare, Esq., entitled to share in the proceeds arising from the capture of the slave-vessel Anna, on the 18th of November, 1843, that the distribution thereof will be made, on the 21st day of October instant, at No. 1, James street, Adelphi ; and where the lista will be recalled for three months. Commander, 295/. 44. 11 ld.; second class, 124/, 16s. 7,1 d.; third class, 621. Bs. 31d.; fourth class, 41/. 12s. 21d.; filth class ' 20/. 16s. lid.; sixth clam, 131. 17s. 41d. ; seventh class, 61.185. Bjd. Derova FOR IRELAND AND SCOTLAND.—The Admiralty have ordered the :Euless, an old 42-gun frigate, of 1,077 tons, and the Blonde, another old 42-gun frigate, of 1,100 tons, the former at Sheerness, and the latter at Portsmouth, to be fitted immediately as dep6t ships for provisions for the dis tressed population on the west coast of Scotland.—The Madagascar, frigate, fitted as a depot for provisions for the coast of Ireland, has been towed to moorings at Foynes, in the Shannon, by the Stromboli, steam-sloop, Commander Fisher, which vessel will return to Cork, with her masts and gear, to be sent to Devonport, fur another depOt frigate, nearly ready to be navigated to the coast of Ireland. Statute/rd. A croorortsr,Orw.s.—Lieut.F.Marryat, to Sph hex; Payrnaster and Purser, F. Brady, to Rail leswike. NaralCadets, lion. S. O'Grady, G. Hughes, It. Morris, J. Rorie, and Robertson, to Vim/it-tire; H. Hodgson, F. P. Matthew, W. D. D. Selby, E. J. Pollard, B. A. Toner, and F. Fletcher, to l',rnote ; J. G. 8. Clarke, J. 11. Thomas, and M. Itowlandson, to Prorident ; N. J. Morphs, to Hibersin ; J. Mac Donnell, to *Weigh; C. W. Wilkinson, to bid", Boatswain T. Col lins, to Arenger. SPORTING. Rowmo Maecn.—The mullets' contest between Jogeph Cobb and Thomas, Reed, for 10/. a side, came off ,yesterday. Both men belong to Greenwich. The distance was from the Half-way House to the Dreadnought limyital !hip. Betting, 5t04 in favour of Cobb. Cobb, after the first down yards, tool: the lead and mainbiined it, coaling in first by thirty yards. Cabo Ent,ilitgaue. PREROGATIVE COURT.—YESTERDAY. Dr. Daubeney sat for Sir H. J. Fast today to dispose of ordinary motions, of which there were many arising solely in consequence of the non-observance of the provisions of the New Will Act, and consequently defeating in most instances the intentions of testators. The only case called on deserv ing notice was that of the will of Joaquin Jai! Ferreira Veiga. It was a question as to the appointment of executor, whether general or limited. The deceased, formerly of Macao, in China, died in Lisbon, leaving very large property in China, Calcutta, South America, and Portugal, besides 170,000!. in England. The appointment ran : " I appoint for my executor in the city of Lisbon. J. J. Da Veiga Castro Ferreira," but in other parts of the will the deceased spoke of his "executors" in general terms.—The Court was of opinion that the deceased's intention was to make a general appointment, and decreed probate of the will to the gentle man namtd a, sole executor. BANKRUPTCY COURT. OPENING A FIAT IN BANKRUPTCY AGAINST A BOARD or RAILWAY DIRECTORS.-At the Court of Bankruptcy yes terday, Messrs. Laurance and Pleas, of Old Jewry Cham bers, the well-known practitioners in bankruptcy. were engaged the greater portion of the morning in opening a fiat against the whole of the directors of the Trills, Reading, and Baaingsteke Railway Company. This is the first fiat that has been issued under the 9th and 10th Victoria, chap. 28, intituled " An Act to facilitate the dissolution of Rail. way Companies," and the present proceeding has been adopted by Mr. Charles Fly Blunt, of Montague•placc, engineer, on behalf of the shareholders. The assets expected to be derived will amount to little short of 20,0001. Mr. Commissioner Evans observed that he could not discover what act of bankruptcy the company had committed within the terms of the statute. Mr. Laurance referred his honour to the clause which provides that upon proof by advertise• ment, in the London Gazette, that a meeting of shareholders has been held, and declared the company insolvent, an act of bankruptcy shall be deemed to have been committed. Mr, Laurance then produced the London Gazette, with the required public announcement. The learned commissioner having referred to the section in question, and inspected the affidavits and forms handed in, adjudicated the whole of the di'rectors of the above railway company to be bankrupts, and consequently all their names will shortly appear in the Gazette.. It is said the act does not affect the private pro perty of the directors. POLLCE.-YESTERDAY• MANSION-ROUSE. SOI-DISANT G CEET OP THE LORD MAYOR.—A gentleman, who assumed the name of Mary Phillips, was brought *fore Alderman Wilson, charged with having, on the precedio3 night, at nine o'clock, taken several lathes round the waist in Gracechurch-street. BROMLEY PETTY SESSIONS. CAUTION TO BIENIBERS OF BENEFIT SOCIETIM—George Scudder appeared to sustain a claim he alleged to have against Isaac Hazel and John Wills, stewards of the Ami cable aad Provident Benefit Society, for withholding from him payment of arrears of sick allowance at 10s. fid. per week for ten week.,, during which he was confined and un able to work from an accident ; he had broken his leg. The complainant swore to the circumstances, and attributed the injury purely to accident.—Mr. Pelham, on the part of the club, said he hoped the claim would not be entertained. The complainant dder had purposely kept back from the bend: the real facts of the csse. The complainant was, with several other workmen, engaged to go from Foutscray to Eversham. They arrived th , re at ten o'clock on the 22nd June last. Complainant went into the Chequers public. li:use, drank hard, and fought with one Reeves. They closed, fell, and the small bones of the complainant's leg were fractured. Ile was taken home. There he remained, and did not apply to the surgeon appointed by the society, nor the stewards, to be cured or attended upon. This was con trary to the rules of the society, as indeed were all the pro ceedings of the complainant —Edmund Foreman and George A-litter fully proved all this statement, and alter many ques tions by the bench, the room was cleared, and on readmis sion of the witnesses, the chairman having called on loVelith and King. two members, to ascertain if the resistance to the claim by the stewards had the sanction of the body at large, as l that Mr. Pritchard, the society's surgeon, had not been called in to attend him, they said that they must dismiss the .I.ase, and that the stewards were fully justified in resisting the claim. MONEY MARKET. TUESDAY EVENINO. Rather more business was done in consols to-day, with a slight improvement in prices, which would seem to bear oat the opinion prevalent on the Stork Exehange, and adverted to under this head yesterday, that the bears had oversold, and were endeavouring to retrieve themselves by getting ante stock sufficiently to cover their accounts. In the a. nerd tendency of circulating values to decline, it may be fairly inferred that the funds would nit form the present exception but for accidental circumstances of the kind noted. If the market opinion really were in favour of a rise in prices in consuls, it may be taken for granted almost that foreign stock and share values would not remain in their actual state of depression. Console, after being buyers and sellers by turns at from 951 to left oil 9.51 to 1, for both money and account. Exchequer bills improved to 15$. to 18s. premium ; India bonds, 22e. to 28e. premium ; India stock, 2.58 to 60. In foreign stocks it has been absolutely a blank day, and the quotations must be taken to represent values nominally only. Mexican were called 24; to 51. Buenos Ayres receded from the higher rates called yesterday to 44 to 6. Peninsular stocks were slightly better. Spanish Fives, 261 to 1; the Threes, 371 to 1; Deferred, 17 to 1 ; Passive, 54 to I ; Portuguese, 411 to 21; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 59 to 4 ; the Fours, 921 to 3 ex-dlvidend. The manifesto of General Flores, late President of the Ecuador, which appears almost in esters° in a morning paper, and a very verbose production it is, is held in the city to bear out completely the extraordinary disclosure, which took the public so much by surprise in tha leading article of the Expect; of Saturday last. The sty le of the maniestto, leaving the matter NW the political argument alone, is sufficiently coarse and pooonal towards Senor Roca, the present president of the govelpment of the Ecuador. It is but a sorry sort of political warfare to reproach him for being a shopkeeper, or glen an insolvent shopkeeper, as so grossly asserted. General Flores exposes himself to an unpleasant &gunner of another kind in such a mode of polemics. For, if report speak true, he is himself a mulatto, or mestizo of some shade or other ; that is, not of the pure Spanish, but of a mixed breed, negro and Spanish. Although no prejeuNces exist in this country . against the mixed and coloured rates of the American centment, such is not the case in Spaniel& America. The colour is equal to a sentence of degradation or distrust. It is an ignorant prejudice, but not the less rooted. The mixture of Indian and Spaniard is reckoned much more reputable. The inquiry is, moreover, What was the position of General Flores in Venezuela before he entered the patriot service under Bolivar ? Let him answer that question. It is clear, in any case, that Roca must be a eereon of considerable talent, courage, and energy, or he could not have routed, at the head of untrained bands of the people, the disciplined veteran troops of Flores ; which, in despite of the silly bom bast of Flores, was the fact, or he would not have abdicated his post in the panic, which he did. This manifesto is pro bably made public by Colonel Wright, the agent of Flares here, and will doubtless lead to other expositions and ex planations about the extraordinary . scheme for revolu tionising all Southern Spanish America in favour of Queen Christina. ENGLISH FUNEK—Oer. G. S per Ct. Canada, Anna., 95i j 1 South Kra New Ann... 941 i 1 Consols for Acct.. 951 India Stuck, 2581 Excheq. gills, a1.01,u, 10.05 18 India Mind.% 421.000, 29. Ditto, 0500, 15 18 India Bonds, under .01,000, 28 Ditto, Small, IS 18 19011.610 FUSDS. S per Gent. Braidlian New Bonds, 5 per Ct. Spanialijraasivell.D, 52 1 1829 and 39, 85 24 per Ct. Dutch, Exchange 12 5 per Ct. Men. fleet., Oct. 15, 25 1 CiniL S 9 4 per Ct. rortug. Acct., 411 4 per Ct. Dutch Certifkato , , 923 RAILWAY NEWS. The share and scrip market was as heavy yesterday u usual for sonic time past. The Scotch lines stiffer rather more in public estimation from the disasters of the North British. In this line there was a slight reaction upon the late heavy fall. The shares were done at 8 premium at one time, and may be quoted 7 i to 8. the market not however Thc.si was little business afloat in any of the scrips or shares, _ There was no movement in the Liverpool share-market, except a further decline in East Laneashires and Ormskirks. The businese was as trifling as it has usually been of late. At Manchester few transactions took place, and those forced sales. l'rie,s were all lower . The market at Leeds was very dull on Tuesday morning. The depreciation in the value of shares wr.3 still going on. East Lancashire declined 205.; East Lancashire (Nevi), 10s.; Leeds and Bradford'., Is. Bd. ; Manchester and Leeds Ex tension, 3s. 6d. ; Ormskirks, 14s. ; North Statfords, as. 6d., and West Riding Unions, So. per share less each. RAILWAY SHARE LISTS.—LoNnosr, Ocr. 6. Mors.—The quotations of hum in Homan characters deltas actual transactions: those of lines in Italics sellers' priors. Paid. Paid. 20 . .lberdeen fi 51d. 40 Manchester& Biro. 73 75 21 tinbcrgate " 1 4 2 I 5 Do. 4 Shares 4... 7 74p, lbo Birminub. &Gloster 12.24 30 3 Do. Do. 8... 7 7.:p. 174 D0.Nct0(055.744.)-314 314 I Do. Do. C. ...7 74p. 2 Birm. °mord J unc. in 6 142 s Manch., Bun. &Mat. ip. 75 Bristol Si Exeter 184 1 . 2 Manch. St Boat:tamp 1 .1131,5 Um Nrw. 'Bristol and Gloote T ilarkinghonsde ire Caledonian ' Do. i .Aore• Do. I . .clensum Cambraso. h Oxford' Chrster 4lldyAearl (Arita # MOM Cornwall. iilso" li Old. 2 I I le Id. Direct Northern Dublt...Belfast Int Eastern Counties Do. New Do. I'.Speret.No 1 I Do. Do. Do. Yet Extend= EAnt Lammhire ;Mast Lintx.lnshiro 'Nelirthtirgh 4-Glasfw . Do. 0, snares Do. shares Rdinh.on4 Northern Ely anol Huntingdon; Gbro,orgilos.teAyr, Doole,Donr.,&-nhrf.' Gt. So. ¢ West(lrel.}l 'Ot.North of Enghadi I Do. New Great Western.. I Pdr• P. 1 35 d. !41 4d. tki. '1!!4 res.d. .17 e.n. I d ' 1 3 .1131 .117 16 1,13. dw 1 4,1 ;ac .n. la. 12i 3i p. 4=_.l I IWO Midland ,11 Do. New 100, Do.Birms., 18'Neareastle+ lifr a wt 25 Newm. and Medd. .S 5 North British 'll Dn. i v at t ar g...... .es 5 Do. Do.Ealea. (Carib.) 100 Norfolk 130 Northern & litssi;nr '4' Do Ve •(• " ) 1.• rep 'l9 North titabordshLre.. 2 Northamp. Banbury 1.11 Oat. Wager, & WoL 31 Portsmouth Direct... 16 l'resion H'yre 11 Do. 4 shares 42a Rugby &Leamington 100 Sheffield k.Vaiseh II Do. Lincolo.hi 10 Do. M.6' rionsby 42. Do. Do. Exteas 1111 Scottish Central 114 Scottish Midland 3 Shrewsbury & Blrm. , 41s Shropshire Limos -115 South Demos !33: S. Eastern # Darer D0.N.(W.121)N0.1; 12 Do. N3:6eBdl 2 15 Do. N. do. 301. 3 r 24 Do. N. do. 'IL 1 I South W 15 Waterford. Milken. 42p West Riding Onion 10 Wilts, SOM. &Weym. I. York and ZS Fork and Netreastle., 1 Do. New 10 York and North ?did ' Ik , Do. .1 shares If Do. Scarboroiogh ". 40 Do. Selby 30 , Do. ErienSiOfe 1 Do.E.&W.lside.l 31p. 104 p. I nip.' i(?o°6 Do. 4 shores Do. 4 shares Do. Fifths Do. New jlimil 4 Selby - Do. tallisres- „. Do. shares . ___ ... l 1 10 e 7Do " . r Anar VI i K l i c ~. Lancaster 4 Ownete Do. N'ese ( Leeds 4 Bradford ( iladoester & Bedford !Leicester. Birmsny 1 slAv. Mon. & N. June ' iLondon a Black wall ' , Do. Nc w . .. .. . . 5 London & Brigl:don 1531 4 , FORZION Ror.wars. I , Do. Fifths '7 Bp. ;16 Boulogne & Amens.! ILondon& Croydon 214 ! 2 BordTotil.CetteUnst l Landon and Green 4 , 4 Dendre Valles, London &N.Western 198 7 , 6 Dutch Ithen,sh I Do. 1 Mares 2O 22p. 'be East Indian I Do. New shares ... 161 4 be Grea//014.Penircent , I Do. Fifths l7 19p. 3. Great West. Bengal 14 Da Eighths I ,-, , 3 GL Nor. Prance. Con. 131 1 1 I Do. N. 4M. G. 34 Gt. Western Canada II Do. LiOsh.,Loili. 3 Lostroin a Ms.:more 41 4d. If London &S. %stein 470 2 Lyons and Avignon. 10 ' Do.NetoCooss.ltAt 12 14p. 4 Luxembourg l4 1 1 2, Do. New 8 9p. 6 Namur & Liege 1 8 , Do. New 6 7p. 10 Os/eons& Vismem... 4 4)p. 21 London & York ll 1 6 Orleans 4 Bordeanci2 21p. 2, Lon., Saha., 4 , Yeesil,li 14d 1 4, Oyer Yawl .... 13 24d. 121 Landry. &Dsleretitie , 1 Paris & Lyons, bona( 1 51 15 Lynn and lay j OD Paris .4 Orleans 148 49 15 Lyme curd Denham r ISO Paris and Rosen 13'7 38 12 Manchester & Leeds 20 25p. : S Paris & Strasb. Coast 4f 38 i Do. 4 Ares ,B 10p. 20 Konen and Harm._ 274 281 2 j Do. 1 shares '6 8 Sambre end .Veuse...l 3 44d. 8 i Do. Fifths 64 • Do. Sieteenthe I 5 Tours& honres,Uns4lllLlP. 42. Do. Ertension 1 1 2p. Ip. 6 West Flanders ll Icl. lariasoot,Or - r.6.-Ileko:--Cheater, Birkenhead (20/. sh.), 11 fp.- Dublin, Droghecb, 101 d.-E. Counties (York Eaten.), 20s. 3d. p.- 11011, 4elby (4 oh.), 51-London. N. Western, 107 1 — Ditto (new 1 eh.'. 141 p.-D0.3 sh.G.J.), 221 p.-Midland, 133-N. British, 32 ) - N. ' Union (A), 223-E. Lancashire (new eh `. 11, 4 p.-11u ddentield C. and It., 28 Birkenhead, Lancashire, Cheshire Jun., par-Binning. ham, Dudley, 11, 1 p.-Birmingham , Oxford Jun., 31 p.-E. Lincoln shire, I die. -Liverpool, Ormskirlc, Preston, 24, 1, Gs. 3d.. 1 p. -Mat lock, Midland Jun., 4 p.—N. Staffordshire, Ile. Id., 2 p. -N. Westem, 1 d.-W. Riding Co., 11,1 p.-Dutch lthenish, 28s. 9d. d. p B . l ' Lei _ 1 ! I 65 95p. SOi .1 11.116 p. .41 :tip. 143 15p. t03d.0. 13 I ie 41p. 17 Bp. 111 1 4 14 , 11 2 1 d. 14 d. LONDON.—GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—A special meeting of this eompanj took plate yesterday at the hall of Com merce. The chair was taken by Mr. .tstell, M.P., when a resolution was passed unanimously, for the purchase of the Spalding Branch under the act of parliament. The meeting then adjourned. WARwii I: AND WORCEsTER.—A meeting of this Com pany under the dissolution act, also took plum yesterday at the Hall of Commerce. The chair was taken by Mr. Pocock, when the cotes were taken, but there not being sufficient to constitute a meeting, it was adjourned till next Tuesday. LARNE, BELFAST, AND BALLYMENA.—The adjourned meeting under the dissolution act was held ye•terilay at the London Tavern. Thomas Morley, EM., took the chair, and the scrutineers were appointed, when the rotes were found to amount to 1,390 fur dissolution, and 25 against it. The total number of both meetings was found to he considerable short of the number required by law to effect a dissolution. A second meeting was held, when the committee appointed at the last meeting made their report, from which it appeared that the capital of the company had been divided into 15,000 .hares of 20/. each, and that of these 8,97.5 were paid upon, making a fund of 20,087!., out of which the directors had made payment, up to July, of 8,598/. 13e. leaving a balance of 11,489/. is. Id. The additional eking amounted to 7,780 t., ea that the balance coming to the shareholders of 3,783/., would not u:eide more than 10s. per share. 1,180 shams had been mucha.ed by ;he directors at a cost of 3,3.59/. The chairman (Mr. hurley; expressed a desire, on his part, to afford every facility for winding up the again of the company, and to contribute his quota towards the further liabilitie.. The solicitor (Mr. Burcbell) woo willing to make any nwitonable reduction from his charge, and ca. premed his reali.:‘,lb.i:ntimidere,a .iato:inoit:aigniu.tgriipiaorerz:b:,7:::...6l;; reductions might he m ule, at hurt on o thi rd - . in ti ti t claimsco m mr i i t i t iiac th re e . w t h i , s l4tal i c sion . h tion , in which Manrd. M airrim . Quiek t , l. T. n, e, t ,i te..Hhw e kt,,,,, he agreed to by the shareholders ; and a committee iii i ,....1 4 act with the directors in winding up the affairs of the - "n Pm Tkl LamentN EASTERN CoUNTIEN RAILWAY --Siitrur E pared for the enlargement of th e *mix, : Eastern Counties Railway, at sh o e n di tc h , the ~,,,,, ~,, been moat un ties in the um:option of rrivaitores to obii,i ii "°4,_ the ground for that marina* ; and the several landholdeecr, „ pinto in the neighbourhood have been in treaty with, 6"' , wloci4 interest will be affected. during Me Prevent od - iir weeks. Mont extensive alterations will take plies, it P . tobe t . * have a much more enlarged an d spaci • 1 0‘ front, U... 't rill by the company, and to widen the ap,,..„? arfodng a better area o f railway on which to pt,, the - 7% carriages and engines, the spas far them at pr,, it .st confined. Ihe improvements contemplated rig e„,- ;4 -„ . y..d toW“rn-_,,,..4 irximliotrltualter•strrrt, ilmnia...ne3" Street, Grey Eagleattreet, with the adjacent courts, a t. y i b new stret t prmiosed to the intended new street be* h •., of cowmen:nil-street, Whiteehapel, while a lin erill t e Mil l i. brewery of the mews. TrtullAu, lisuluarr mid 0,, , B rie " : the more convenient transit of the malt with which thej te 7 enilplied by this railway. (Inc part of the rsihmy th m 4' odllmonal width of about 200 feet, which it 11 be envied to 41; e. intermediate parullt•l spurts its 15 feet mcli to .that Itiai Several large warehouses are completed :nil Ileoo caw 0... on each side 01 the railway, about half LI 1, ant, ti , t ... 7 The effect of these proposed alteratb nit it iil throw htia,i ' t ti;` poor, and more particularly of the indtaii ruins c.. viol tilidi ette ; of their lodgings. while another effect has alt,stly beep ~,, Fran Is. tu 2s. GO. per week. tut COMMERCIAL AND MARKET& PRODUCE. - Ifirsenco-Lstas, Ocr. G. - Musa, , offered in the public mks exceedsl the .4-nrind, prevailed, but the importer. show, minis •,,, ta l, t ";;"! man prevented a decline in priors. 600 bbd. Wo.t Mauritius offend in public sale, about half null,' U N bags Bengal also offered, and about 2,100 tow. were I immirter. Relined has been inactive, standard qt;,,lr Coffee. -A large pnblic sale of 2,3 1 0 bug. gm! oruji,;,f 14, brought forward and sold at 3G.. la kw luta, xis, a d. , , pultiely a decline of Is.; but 'mks to a emeut, private contract at 38.5. at the close of Lot stek• article confirms in large demand, 2,00 Odes aalpaaa higher than ruled loot week. Indigo.- The quarterly cute toslay, consiating of the unusual large quaadity m,,,,, first 139 chests in the catalogue were withdrawn tam * ~ twk T menoed, after which several other numb Vert tml,;::*‘ altogether 1,312 chests. The wale has gone elf hanii, - "„ gularly ; the portion sold varying from 2d. to ta cr i' v r upon July rates, whilst that bought in at a to red Order. appear generally to be limited to about July ma a , rates there would be no difficulty in realising a pAy;,; tion of the gale. The Kurpah was partly sold at from he per lb. higher. The quantity paved this oadnitig is ix.: which 40.1 are reported sold, 152 bought is an. 164 There i • a fair attendance of buyers ft on the metal** moderate from the country. Tallow cunt:inn, in large M ask the article is firm at 465. to 40s. 3d. on the log, curyoK.-Laysimoot, Ocr. G.-The silts teals., a me y * 600 on speculation and 400 for export. The priers gad, Orleans, 34 to >j; bowed Georgia, 4 to S i ; sorry 3 m O. MANCIII..TIA, 4k,.6.—1n our market today, there change, except, perhaps, rather more doing in cloth ; in particular, priers slightly in favour of the manufacturer a - ,Z, a fair business done. Prices arc very full, in man imuma i n.:l"l the stocks in the hands of spinners being nova wooLLENs.-Lv.,,, , ,(MT. G.-There was :Mad the averm,,,. anceof merchant in the cloth hall., and:Ml...al ...ars( %ma t , who had sold much thought that the t hail le. -0 very fa,,, deliveries showed that the ,bnaidess dim 1111:y exceed. the purehisses of last Tuesday. The same o!awa" bought as have been in request for sonic Mae, namely aa." mk ,„, shawls, and low cloths, principally wooded or w oo l-dyed'aa7; priers no alteration bi to be noted. BLANK 1XT.4.-Ilorgiatixowixr, Ore. 5.-There sasa i r a i, proved attendance of buyers in our blanket-hall to-day, m a im them purchased extensively, the prim., which have ruled bat 14 fully maintained. LIVIne(101, OrrOBT.R 6.-We hst a wry fro in our corn trade all Lod week, which war stninttluveday,**7: port from most of the leading market. ill the sanglim, ard tint icily operated pretty freely, at extreme rate, &Alt m here bonded produce. Our market this morning brought but seed tendance, and the trade was far from active, but we cygnet dies any alteration in the value of any article bum Cue rates dais oi week. Larna, ()rr. 6.—Our arrival of wheat k pretty Rood ta.k.* nu:Mennen( other article.. Wheat mo.t be noted la per arm; but it has only met a now lade. gal try t. la or qr. dman.Mt tub nible free wile. 14C-JRA are fully as dear, but cuts urtiut, at sold on barely so good terms. _ to AND SOI an GYAMANT.—WC understand Plat I h of broken , . at Liventool recently received a COatilltalkaatal loaty gen, a tonal' town in the canton of Appenrel, iu sr - it/mad, ap t that an association had been formed for the purptsr Wpm* provision• for the inhabitants of that town, and requesting to laws what prices various articles could he obtained at Lire•rpo4,at KWIC time giving limits at which orders could ut owe it cm Owing to the recent large advance in the prin.. , of grain sallow this country, these limits were too low for the market, tindtlitakt could not be executed. The fact above stated shows clearly, flan comment, the scarcity that exists, not only in switscrland, hi thaw parts of Germany that adjoin the northern cantor•. We ri sorry to add, that the prices of grain are rising rapidly tbroag large portion of Germany.—Lirerpoof Timm From M. LONDON 0 AZETTB of Tuesday. Od.l. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.—October 2. C. WIMP, Winckete miller and corn-dealer. BANKRUPTS. F.. Br', Southboro', Kent, drake in corn, to surrender Woke 9 Ana November 19, at Basingballsat. 7(, 1., Campbell, GrJrian. .Isare Coleman-at..bulklinga. W. Ail.l.llT, We 4 Peckham. paper tuanulatatinr, Ocinterliml November 16, :it Basingliallsat. Cox and Co., see-kar; of. usain" Tonto:mil, Old Jevery.chambersi. W.O. 1:0131Sey Extra, Southampton. Wenn. Oman 12 and November 16, nt BaainglialLat. v 0 1 .., Tilson Arai Ca, Oats man-at.; and Randall, soutinunptun ; off. wiaig., Urals; taia . man-rt. w. M.tw, liirkenliewl, builder and contractor, October 13 al November 20, at the Livemout Court. Sob., tViLdniffe Limits imt ; and lie de, Ilirlienlithd • till. asoig., Morgan, Lirerpol. S. I'Aca, Nottingham, curlier anal leather dealer, Ort.ihrr god November LI, at the Birmingham Court. Sol., &mirky, Natinglua. off. Imola., Whitmore, liirmingltam. 11. I'mutArr, Ilotwella, lirotol, emelt builder, °cub,. November 17, at the Bristol Court. Sol., Brown, Ilthlol; otl. sea(. Hutton, Bristol. J. firNTON, I.n-enrol, auctioneer, October 20 and Nevembrt 3/r. the Liverpool Court. Sobs., Walker, Furtilwre-inn; and BriaT, 1 - I,O TP OOI olf. amino Cazenove, Liverpool. W. fizzairn, Low-bill, Lancachire, Joinrr mad builder. (Icahn 2 and November 13, at the Liverpool Court. \urn•, Jai Co. Bedford-row; and Thompoon, Liverpool; off. aoeig., Muiyv, Md. POOl- .....—..--.—. INSOLVENT PETITIONER. W. Woodnard, Bt. Alban's, out of A. Btairws Vernon plare, boot business well.-rural, fruiter. r. J. Fuller, Nordostmet. I.ambeth, etn W. DMA, EdiumAstrtet. Dm median and d water m suilltur. Midg. paperitame, P. Amery, I:hallow...to. ' , mutes- E A Dolma, Warminster, BAAS town, rarpenter and undertaker. out ut bustle... M. Vernon, lintleydientb, Betts tailor T. 11. Ilardiaws PmAlme. !fide pa. and ...thee.: um.... sleek. D. Uakebrrad, Stuttlealluildiugs, City. W. Coulson, Sydealims lire% as road, plumber. fur sales "el Mi.iisl.•l43 T. Steers. Teadington. Mid.Ueeez, pipe J. U. Wiemlddis Ilstealf Slim. grolrfr. pastryerioi. W. T. Dairy, llncerstork bill, Ilamp• A. Newman, Les Kent, ilannn m M. ad. ludlens•hudiew "pee. MS•00. J. White, Bruns. irk square, King. .1 Claris Bury, LAncsabut m l land•road, builder. busidiws . C. Wallis Itotlierboilie.nall, Surety, J. Fairhurst, Wintlanlet. idimm , baker. mil nutiouratourrr and orate a J. Adams, Ealing, Middlesex. stir. I lour and men' Ve7Ut. 1 I. 1.0 ,1, .... 1 . Tlittowyburs, Nolt.s. F. Jones Osford, dyer. i berlaad, clerk. SCHTC . II SIaiI:FATRATIONS.- D. Gray, Edinburgh, gob= October 12 and November 2, at the Raoul F.athanget 0111v-hse. Edinburgh- W. Finlay, Walkerton, Fikshire, Idea:her, tharlsr liad November 3, at Smith's Green Inn, Leslie. P.)RTN EItSIII PS DISSOLVED.-W. Lord, T. Lupton, and .I.OslS pelt, Mount Pleasant-mill, Lancashire-J. Goodwin, I.llis Bridgwood, R. Ray, T. Wynne, W. Batkin, J. I)eakin. and J. Langton, Stafrordshire, an far as regards It. Bar, T. Wrime. tt. Mm kin, .1. Ihmkin, and J. Wardle-J. Goodwin, J. bawler S.Bridorocc 8.. Bay. T. Wynne, J. Tidisiwell, W. Batkin, 3.lrukin, and J. Mat die, Itentilce, sdaffunlshire, so far as regards R. ltay and T. Winne- W. A. Nicholson and 11. Goddard, Lineoln-G. and WAD kink, Rion Challow, Begkiddre-P. Haigh, and J. ham. Rockier:Meld, an far on regards S. lloworlh- I). Banks and o. Barn son, Birkenbead-T. Bunk T. A. Betides, and E. Bush, Itri,tol, u fa as regards T. A. lieddne-W. Not Foot and J. Ilindhrugh, :wad Shields-G. Baehr and S. Sevill, Mesbrough, Yhl orksre-W. Rao and J. Willson, Brookes-milk Kent-7. Booth and T. Thomism, I Elston, Lineolnshire -S. Moore and .1. Dale Liverpool - . 1 . ItL 105 and J. Hamilton, Carlisle-J. Carr and J. Bilgshaw, Si. theta-t. S Bumard, J. 1.. Barnard, and G. F. Wills, Crewkerne, sornersephini - W. Ingram and 11. Johnston, klidhund, Sussex -.W. Allenck ant 1. Fawkes, New Banliwd, Nottinghamshire-G. D'Angelo and M. Cab iuncd, Winebester-J. Llewellyn and T. Rylnd, Birmingham - J. Williams and T. Web.by, Liverpool-T. G. Johnson and J. hhook Coventry-11. Raring' , and J. Ramey, High-street, Poplar-k• Mood; and It. APClure, Glasgow. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.—MAILA. ARR. OCR. ARIL. DIM 111‘. lAL 3 Dublin 2 Waterford .. ~ I I France 0 Risk& I I ali hisllea I Dooaghodee o Guernsey & Jens. 0 0 Mediterranean ... U West India— 0.3. 1 0 Illunburg 0 0 India (cia Mars Brazil Oct. X 0 Rolland Liviativoi, Ocr. 6.—Arrived :Coantess of Lit rpool, freer Lksaa; Alexander Robertson, from Taganrog; Crown, from Itio Janeiro; Governor, and 31armkm, from St. I mmingo; Islam, from Ilualulsl Reliance, from New Orkluts ; sir C. Napier, from St. Stephen's 3. 6 4 irmodan, from Prince Edward's Island ; Oporto, from ()porta : W. Itmderick, and Bracket, from Taganrog ; Loot Wellington. from Mobile; Carleton, from Quebec; Southwark, from St. Androri; Ivry (Danish brig', front Gothenberg ; Active, from Gin,: Ma jestic, and Caroline, from Alexarglria ; Gieke Finds Wed, PA' itochfort. The Sphinx, for Newfoundland, has put lock. The Lram. for Messina, was boarded ycuterday by No. 9 pilot-bout, Isarolg PP for Ik:um:iris being crank. [Advertisement.)—A NOBLE I)CKE AND 110L1.0. WAY'S Pim-P.—Professor Holloway has lately been henoured by the personal thanks of one of the most renowned dukes of the realm, who (like the Earl of Aldborough) has been cured of a liver and stomach complaint of some years' standing, attended with great wealne.• Ana debility, by the means of Holloway's celebrated Pills, and tine after physicians % skill was tried in vain. I trop.r, aethme, sad diseases of the lungs, have nearly all their ' o rigin in ilisordeolhol• and stomach., which a few timely dcees of Itoll'way'o l'iU 'l,l cure. Sold by all dealers in medicines, aid at Professor lbillowai • establishment, 214, Strand, London. R Ott. 4, at the Vicarage, Great 'Ammon , Mrs. Mesas Lawn X.J.NI , r , d • daughter. Oct. 4, at Tower Lodge. Ipswich, the wife of lloastio Turce,E o l ,4 • soh. Sept. 21, at Mena, the •He of Captain Sir Mitosis Wass Irstam. K.C.R., her Mtlesty a ship Consanee, of a sou. Nept. 22, at na Matson Valetta, in the Island of Malta. Arne Jana Casa. aorta Lady N AAAAA of a so.. MARRIAGES. Oct. I. at Use Catholic chapel, St. John.. wood, Joan C. F. S. Ds, eldest son of J. Ds.. Esq., late Captain In her Mitjeit, 11 aaaa a eldest daughter of J. 11. !Mown, Esq., 11, No/k- W/it, Regents.. park. Oct. 1. at the chapel of the Chambre do Pales. at P• 114, flange Mrlol,ll. Esq.. of the Inner Temple, to Li..ams Lot lir. seco , d daughter of c , "" 4 Puss , Military Comm a nder of the Fa , ace of the Lu , enthourg. K•ilt Coar;ander of the Legion of honour, and hated of the R o yal Order St. Lottia. Oct.!, at No 53, Alhany.street, Eiliebargh, D.ctD STZWIAT, F-59 • 0 Ku. Can ragi , youngest daughter of the Late 31r, D. Mittie, oterchard. DEATHS. Oct, I, at his rooms. near to University College, I. the list year of HO age, fianoos. (Av. r, Esq., second son of the late Her. J. 05.5 r. tumour of Kentish-torn parochial rhspri, and rector of lit abr.!, Lint oinsh ire Oct. 3, at Itrigliton, SO Hegel cam r, Milner, flastes, and Otteall Height, Harbinger. Oct. 2, at Mount's Court, Henley •on•Thatnei. Capt. Tuna*. J. Sr. At Lis, 63r4 regiment, younicst son of the late Sir J. Sr. Aunt a, Hart., in t h e Dia year of Ida ace. clear Oct. 2, la his 49th year , the He r. T. T. G. CSOISS, of althibiii.• OM toasty of limes. 'annex, eldest daughter of the late A . Sept. 13, at Pares. 31tae DI J 111.0 0 ,1 , , of Houledwart Motel and Pialimited by WILL, as A Joan.. of Mo th Pict -greet. I. the perish of It. Bride, IA thaaty of London, Fruiter, at Ake 01 Mew.. Ilaabovar sag Realm la Lombard ttlett.tu the ofer.loCl Vilutattsatat to the OW Gi ixottoo.—Wsti ssssss OttOSI X 7. LEA z/ / V I // C,ontaiw p a iero, THE Eljar fel ull ruk . other Il I 1.. Eve EXPI of 19s. person that a 90, Fl gff White N" „vt ~~~ of rat' do-rri ornno out o dorm , Arid` , Ktun orb :xvir en3 l, ever •ppl /gnu WI fo UR