The Express. — London, England, 1848-11-23 00:00:00

SHIPPING. MAILS Airaverr.—Dublia, 2; Doangluidee, 1 ; Guernosr, an, 1. Lon:ION, Nov. 21.—Wind this day at nowt, S., liglit brew,. and tine. clew, mild weather. Cote. Nay. 20.-1 t blew a gale bare last night from W ormitit. Ltvearoot., Nov. 22.--5.5.8., berd.—Arrived. 21st: R. H. Ilub.nk, and Memnon. NOW York. Ved : Arms ma rine, Callao ; A.hhurton, New Orleans ; Mansion, and Oa ford, New York; Huron. St. Jobs% New Brusseriek. flailed: Dighy, *lda. y, 24.8. W. • Barnhill. Collodi& David Legg, Monte Video; Joseph . Chriehell, Rio Janeiro ; Salem, Chirp , ma. Ann, and Omen Gems, New Orleans; Grampian, New W Virghtia ; at. Patrick, Cle. route, and I. G., York ; Vironim, Ifewfouadlaad ; Winelmorre, Aeries. Orr LIVEUPOUL, Nov. 22—Arrived: Diamond, Porto Bite' . CLZ, Nov. 22.—The Friends, for Ifiddltsberougb, which went on the Main, ha. Mon gee round to the mouth of the Whoa., mid will reheated iu most tde. RA/MOATS. Nov. leak22.—The Cito, from Memel, wbkh. put In hese est. rd, y, has commenced discharging. Warroan. Nov. 21.—The Bt. 2 ones. of B *toe, with memo. bound to Liverpool, was alma on shore lint night, at Wew. ALMWHOCCIII, Nov. 21—The barque Lord Stanley, from London, tee N e wport. in OMAN, was brought into this port, with damage. by the Wonder, at Harwich. Jammer, N .v. W.—Arrive Built, Labrador. Cannier, N.v. 21.—Arrive 1: Galatea, and Eldon, Gm , lee. d, 20tk : Katharine, M tonna. DIAL. Nov. 22. —B. to B. 8.W., fresb.—Put bark : Rwinotta, tor Grenada. Lanese? , a. Nov. 21 —Arrived : Marys, Restigoaebe. Lynn, Nay. : af..ria Looks, Gothen burg. E3CIAL k MARKETS. MONEY MA RKE't it CITY INTIMLIGENCF.. Two I,(Tork.—Oar stock market has been calm this morns::; ; , with prices scarcely varying from those which rut. d at the close of business yesterday. Consols are 871 to both for money and time. Reports come strong from the West-end of the speedy separation of Lord John 1t...-el; from his colleagues, and even of his retit...ment from the ministry altogether, from ill-hie:tit. It is added that the no mination of his sueceseor is a source of disagte; inert in the cabinet. Lord John, it is said, propoAs Lord Cievendon, from which Earl Grey die yews. Little faith, however, is attached to these rumours in the City. 11..dueed Threes arc 88 to Three-and..a4l.tarter per Cents., 88; to Exche quer Bills, 41s. to 445. premium. Bank Stock, 187 k to 91. In Dutch stocks there has been a further improve ment. Toe tit per Cents. have been Galled 46 to 8, the Fours, 71 to 3, but, although still higher than yesterday, the former are now quoted 47 to I only; the Fours, 711 to 1. Spanish Fives, 11/ 1 to 12; the Threes, 241 to ; l'Essive, 21 to 31. Portuguese have not supported the sudden rise of y ; they stand now 241 to S only. .Nlexican Lave ftlen to 201 to ..!„ upon the news of the arrival d the hlexktan mail at Southampton with 5,000 &Han only on b3ard on ae-runt of the divi dends. Peruvian are 34 to 6. Chiller, 82 to 4. Rapidan, 99 to 100. Belgian, 70 to 2. Danish, 62 to 5. C1101.11:10 4/41Nin., Ptak Ikea. 1c.71 4 I 31 we. Cmtw.lie.. Cl re 12.... 2 1 , . Ir.d. Ann,. PA 1 lf per ..W.t, r4l t • per It 1'...a.. •40... rll t Ezra eat, La.. 41. 48 44.. prow. 40.11LIJN . I'S DD. 4par Cl. Aa.trtall Kerb. 1 per tint Grego& WA, 1! 13 44 per Q. 11,..e. liout. , . ;s1 3 “neff ..le Deferral 141.., i . I. psi Ce.t......... l 1,4. CI Mewesn. DV. 231 i • par CL It a:..:•. 113.1..,T3 4 Das 3.wr. n 3 no 6 per 11l Parana.. 1W... 14 d 11434 ~ Veen. 1415 4et Pdos..l p. 44... SO 1 Af e r 13. N. DJ._ W. 100 Chf*tar. I; s„. d 2 4 Diu.. ' , peal& Bob., 11/ 11 c e .t.,,,,r, I er. al 1... J per Vt. lips at D.., ?44 4 pmbrf/..41...1ar Dd. 1 4 Volsel. Deferral f0ra.141... eaten Ms. .13 1 DIM, Preto 1444, 11 34 pot Cl. Pod, 144. 4 :3 1 a law CI. Ifenewleill=l. 14 1• 1,41-1 Cub.. 714 4 rucesishi Detars.l 134...4 I RAILWAYS.—The share market is quiet to-day. Mackealls are 4} to i, and done at 4; ; Scottish Centrals hare been done at 231 ; North British Erra tical, scrip, at 3; Eastern Counties, 111 to I ; North Mafferds, 61 dimmest. sass erriernsu DP TO TWO TRIP DAT a LONDON. I Troolordar's pros. sill S. kasha Last pp.) Coloississ New IW. Prof., 41 4 Mane.. Sidleid, at Wools Now OPP St 1444310u5t, TO lot. Prot, 9119 Ds Pref.. 114 Silditsk77 64 ji. A0git5.,1.4... g *ll, 3 D D. U. law., I per Cost. Prof. Nadas Ossr. 3pa ice' 17$ 11 N. 5M1.14 11141rA i li Ts, Tootern Omuta, 1111 Iliod„ 044114, Et , 9 D. rtes Goa. Ipi a, sil testi& Csalrol, 2n issurr, veau, a DuroL, ll Strews A Malt por Cost. ass North-re, 41 4 Pref.. 121 Drat :forth of Vsgtosi Now 391. Sosta toolsts.No. I, 94 No or, DM Thirds, N 0.4, 4$ Ds Now 11!.. 39 South Wales 4 asst W....ern. 7:,., 7 Tat e News a Terw, SS D. Ors. DI Ds (Stir.. Now.* lor ), HI Ls. * C.4144..47 DA Sass No. 1 (Tort sad Ws a ort., 40 Nowa I. 1 2 1 Ds PPS% 41 D0.14s 2 (News It Ser.), In Do. MM. , Sm.), 4 Ds O.N.E. Pur., 61 LGSMS Petilson, sod S. Cowl, Tort owl N. 311411494. 49( 9 Now Si. Cesar. 6 per 0., 41 - ---110. ti t W. K. Sates , IS( las. It N. Sou rs. 1191 Paris 84 Strsolowarg, 1$ Do. 1411. 444. (IL k IL, C.), 21 Toon k Nantes 11 Los. a 0, Wwtris, 111 _. _ LIVERPOOL SOLVIL Novionta IL The result of nu publication of the statement of the Mid had 11,11 war Company was a slight depression In the market ,•e• Bel/34 sod Rollsnwoo, Is Btr.. Las. lo awed Dun. (311. 4(.'. W. do ed. E. l °untie.% Of LAW solsire It Task. 0010 IL t L. Was., 3+oo, 11 I 4 4 1 no Do. lialw 101. Is Od. MANCIIESTER Than was sot much - Us. k N. !resters. Ili 14 Do. Nay gra, p Do.B), I p Do. (laWo k Dews.), II I Prolhdrliks, I a. Err. k Dover No. 4, 01. 134.9 d. York, Newry had !ter. (O. N. E Porch NW Id. It d Novidesse 22. • dew, sad prices were rather Lao. 12 Terkel. lathe, 111 1)t. 221. late Eaten 1 , d Nsa., NAO., h Lin.Q,a.N o. 1,4 d Do. Eighthe, 71 d N. 4t..llwdebbe. all d North Colon (A), 302 PALL.% Navasota 22. The auk.% wu rather dada., bt.t in prices there was scarcely say alteration. Bier.,Wore., k Dudley, 2J.9 I Mare.% and Blr. (A) 21. 113.3 d. N. etolfurdakke, ai d I Shrum Unite, CB M. ww,kar. Lane., & ChNh. in. (I.da Cheek a: \ .124 Illsexn Clith., in W. Turk, le Caledonian Pref.. 5.14 d East Lsac. rest. qrs., LEEDS SAUK Noggins' EL Tba railway slim mark,' was arewediagly let , and the Wu were Ste. Saw Lae. Demean% SI I Leeds sad Thlrsh,l7i Omit tiorthr2e, 121 d TOILE Norman 21 Greet Northern, Gi 'fork. News.. k See. 0. N. I. York, Now., a Lerida Wis., Pe., Ils. Ed. No. 1, I2i COHN.— The following return of the Imperial Awralita will appear is Friday famines Gazette: DIAL ATERAGEr. I ans ll -1 lbw* , 0000 . are• I bles&LreaL Oct. 14 ... lila 114.1.14 Ses 41,336 J UI n ,Sla 7d .31r &I UN 1 Vls 44'36e Stall td Id Sit 7411. 4471. 13 7. Weis 14 14 — ov. 4 Sic Ys. fiq td Sls Id Ms 14111 Id 11 Wises 7.1 AM led WM 14,71. 11444 111 851. 41.44 Id It. Id 308 ledis Id*. 64 6 weeks' Arc. Awe. SI. 54 4114 24. 36. 7436. 1316 104 DlreL—Wboac M $ INsfay,fs. ; oat., ; souk am Ma. b. 1 Nor. 4. Nov. 11. N. 0at.111. , OW. It i 4 8 12 0 at t it l 1... ... at • BOSTON. Nev. 22.—Notwith.tanding a very moderate supply of Wheat to day. • farther decline of le to 2.. per qr. was exturirweed, with a also trade. No change in Oats or Mans Wheat, nd, 445. to 494. ; white, 525. Oats, 16s. to 22s Betas, 40s. to 42a. per qr. CRICHISTIA. Nov. 22.—The supply of both Wheat and Batley has materially ise-easni since las; market-day, and Wheat met with a van slow demand, at a decline of Is. to 2s. per qr. There was not much other grain offered; former prices trtraly maintained. Wheat, old, 56 4. to Mk ,• new, 445. to 64e. Barley. 28s. to 264 Oats, 20s. to 224. Beans, 38s. to 4211. Pose, 38s. to 48s. Flour, 40.. to 41s. iI•LVIWOSTII, NOT. 21.--WO wen fairly sup li ed with Wheat n d Barley, sad a eery hoary trade is both, at a decline of 21 per gr. Beene in better supply, and the turn in favour of the buyer. Wheat-sowing drawing to a close. Whet', whit*, 50e. to 645. per qr.: red, 40s. to .50s. Bar ley, 24a. to 33e. Beans and Peas, 30s. to Ms. HAYWARD'S HIATiI, Nov. n.-A Bond supply Of ROW Wheat, in End condition, but all cleave( of at 2s. For qr. reduction from last week. Old Wheat sold f►eely at h. per qr. under. Other 'rah unaltered. Wheat, old whits, 161. to 161. 10s ; red, 141. to 141. 10s ; new white. l ol. to 101. 10s.; red, 91. to 121. Barley, 30.. to Ma Oats, 17s. to Vs. Bean', Us. to 395. Few. 3k. to 40... Ngwr as-mt. Nov. 21.—The weather continues tentpcatn oat., with flying ahowers. Seeding operations are now in full progress. and with a cutting .nce of this weather fora week or ten der., nearly the whole of the lend intended for Wheat. will have been PORP. At cur market this morning we had • =Mena@ avow of Where from the growers, sad kering 'rhino coastwise, fresh-thrasfurd simples were taken off rearlilr at lapt Itaturdey'a rates, whilst at the same time • fefr 4.0•••• of hirplimei we• done le sweirzn at folly former prices. Vor Floor we superieseed • laa(tld inquiry, sad only the choked gawks enstal,e4 their rebut, other sorts being rfPre4 rather cheaper. Ryr about Is. per qr, lower, with little pawing. Malting Barley a slow wk, but not cheaper Malt in moderate natant, and tending downwards. Dowse and Peas as before. Oats suck the same. ROlllO4O, Nov. 22.—Our market today was very heavy for al: ktatla of corn, at Is per qr. Ws than lest week. Wheat, 40.. to 67e. Barley, 36e, to 34e. Oats, 20s to 265. Desna, 24a. to 36e. Pew, 3ls. ON. Sys, 2r.. to 29a. livet.rdno ; Nev. 21.—At this day's hostel era load a large show or Wheat mples. loamy in 11'..asedkka. There vas not mesh ashram la the tied', at a datlino el la. he Wet runs or rad aad white, sad 2s. for iambi Idols. Oats cheaper, with a moderate supply at mailtat. Old Desai rather win to bay ; sew saucily any albite'. Rears' for this week, sestlag this day : Wheat. 1.116 on., at 4430. ; Oats, 210, at 105. ed. ; &au. 97, st 41.. 104. Domini, Nov. 21.—Oar supplies this slay were vary moderate, sad the gement soaditioa was useadahatery. Littl• animation was displayed Ma say ankh, sad &how& we nn tasks hat a slight asap it oar quotations, the tan dem, of prises was gesevally downwards. The folio iog are the moon One: Wheat, white, 265. to 9014 wed, 245. to 26e 6d. per Melba. Osts. 9s. 6d. Ils. 94. per 1961b5. Barle, 11s. ed. to les. ed. per Mete. Here, lls. 6d. to 12a.64. per 224195. ladian Conk 34a. to Ms. ed. per 2901b5. °tussah lla to lb. per eat. Flour, seated', lee. to les. per ewt. PRODUCE. —Mtacina-Laas, Sall/-pool Two. — The pubic solo Of eager ham ham few sad unimportant to day. The amide, gesserallv, wears a dull appearar Coffee dull, witheat say material alteration Ia primm-Rio : About 3,000 begs Java sold from 7s. lid. to 9s. 3d. ; gad good estdo of nvagal at es. 641., which was about previous rem -Pearl Sago sold at 18e. to 20s. ed. which was a deals* of Is. 6d. to 24.- °Pito& has tees in good demand, and full prism paid.-Rata dalL-Tea continuos in but limited iletaaaL- Ia other articles ao duration. PRICES CURRENT. Iluess. par out. parr no. Piss, no. I. ZS 0- 6 W. India,B.P.bira. Ns. 1113.5 a. & Hoops 9 0 . 0 Tallow tore!... U 0..17 6 Car& atCentlff bee 0 0_ • Ms - - . ... 91 0...41 • sheen& II 0...111 1 Ilaarltish,i& - wis_ N 0. 34 • Lay at per too. Ye110w...-. ..... U 11...01 6 Pic last-. . Use N 5. 0 4 140.61160 . 4 l7 0. 5 penal& natir&lS. 37 6...33 • Las. .....- l6 16- • Yellow U 11-11 4 Meet shot .......«.. ...... Is t 0... a White 37 0...43 . wad to Wawa... 16 15... 0 remit& brown.-- 32 I. .33 • &sites l2 • . • Yellow . - ... ....... se 11-17 6 0n.., pee 202 Imp. 851. d.p. Goy and white.. 39 1-11 0 Pleb, Wad, pals V 8_ 0 Seined, limbed . .. SO C.SS • Maw ..... UIS .110 Luso 47 0.490 brows It yellow- 24 C 23 Corns, la S&L Swim l2 C. 04 Weht India, an- Riad Hater l2 0.-54 sup 10 0.- SI 0 Old 23 PI ..•,3 I 14 11...27 rag OS 9-101 • oliwi3Oallipukpacw 46 5... • Odin, . goal can- .ammo Nat 36 5.-40 wiry .. —........ 96 0... 27 6 lead. lam pan VIIII 016/11037... 34 0... 36 0 per Ma ...... Lae 46 o._ 39 0 Lamed . - .12 0.. 23 Mesta, good 1.1 142 5... 66 0 P40•011000s Per v•L Costa Elea, eadO Butter-4 ak let- 74 0...76 may& las .-- 16 0... Cl h 4the 59 II 90 Insoutra awl Pah oth. • 0... 0 dead 2l 5.- Id 0 Dahlia, Ist 0 0... 0 Tits, at per lb. Limerick do 66 0..73 • Camas onianme. 0 •.- • 7 Carlow, ht....- lO 5..15 Lc., at per sat. Newry Ist ... • 5- • Bengal white Ls 0... 14 0 W.ter &wd 74 0...12 Cargo. • _ 6 0... 9 0 Seer, lank ow lava andllaailla 11 0... 14 0 tierce Patna, cleaned .... IS 0.. 16 • Prime Yew...... 0 5._ 0 0 C0z0nna........-. U 0... 111 • Pork, prime mess- 0 II- 5 0 hriarrs. Ilwas-Itek, Lissa 111 • .9 0 Da. &Out &sok Welerford. es M i ewt. SS 0 36 0 -•- 0 lai4 =P rfrh 142 0.. 56 • W do Ditto Bladder G6 0...70 0 asawiersotetgp 62 o_l2 0 Hoek Os sad Pow, at per lb. L A. awl Y. Video, Zt ed &id Ile. 6. • .0 al Beall, thy Dry&t& • .5 si KIN dry • 4...0 Umiak Valp. dry- • 1..1 West Wilk dry 0 ...0 Bated 0 /_0 Bait ladle 0 .0 4 litr a =k dip : .....: P. A11KT.110400,10/ ILO - 1 .. 1 6 itards. ditto 6 ... 7 6 Use WOOO6. 41 t ee t la. Las esad,Jewsica S 3 11... 0 5 Maldives ...... Casapswilly 6 5... • C Pestiedsassisa I IL- 6 0 Sioareisk large sad wild 10 o_l3 • Mae ....... Lists 1' 10. it 1 &pan 3111618 lO 11...11 15 Red Made. 3 10.. 3 15 &sad...-. Rom at pm tetwunl 1.430 , 1 lord ... • • n to 16 per coat. .. . . 1 ... 7 lons.ilca, 30 to Si per mot. O.P. • .. 1 3 Mmoonte nurta In ... 4 4 aramly, lat anus& • ... 0 10 aritiMmintsoLp. I S ... 0 0 dooteh Mink 1 3 • pot ton. ▪ P.T.IL L7l 0...41 41. Pet mabotg, • Mad • antrliliali 13 0....0 0 Vrkealrld Maar, at per tie. et.Petarsbaug,amaillO I••... 11 out Mot ball Mena ..... 36 10.. • Riau, Vlnse ll3 oatahot St 0-17 Ism 11 0.-21 tmeibay IS 0...114 Jam Trm it pat mrs. Baum IS 5- IS 6 1 Units - SI I— 0 0 Com is bitedia - 7l 0— • • Imo, at ter ton. Rata Li I R 0 TALLOW.—The Tallow market remains steady. Pet. riburie Y. C. ea the spot, 45.. ; October to December deliver), 455.; separate mamba' lelivery, 455. 64.. MANUFACTURES —lluPtimauf stn, Nov. 21. —Trade ontinum eery dull, brdh in the Cloth.ltall and warehouse.. More M were shown to-day than Ow wane weeks past, but the attend. ante of buyer, was very limited. The sales of Word, so far, may be mated at en ednnee of Id. to lid. per lb. We have heir a more mealy dot sad, at • alixlit improvement In price. Leann, Nov. 21.-1 here might have been more doing in oar market Malay but for the West Riding elation movement, which talus place in our town thin day, necessarily Interfering with busl. WK. As It 1., there wto even Ices done than lag week. MANCHESTER, N.n. 21.—Bayer have recently shown great willingness to operate at the quotations °flat week. On such terms man of cowiderahle extent have been offered. Both apts. mere and manufacturers, however, have made an almost ;general de mand for an advance upon thme rata.; and t h e has had the effect of keeping the traasiettons under the amount to which, It 11 evident, they would otherwise have attained. Merchant, lock at the therm to cwe u n which mot come into play with a rise of peke" mid they naturally hesitate. Still, a arse and varied baleen: has been done. Penes have been given which were Wendy asked, but not obtained, a week ago ; white salsa adma. tam he bees greed upon loagthotha, T claimant low madthollium, and at least lid. per piece upon .7, SE, and idainch printers. Poe certain kinds of mile yarn —me, for instance, India 40—a ran of lid. per lb. upon the prices of last week I. realised; end lower weathers of both mule and water are decidedly firmer. Letters trees Mateo thinple represent general builness a. continuing extremely dull, whisk la otCy whit was expected at the warns, eel with an °errata:fed mar. Mt; anie little demand, however, had arisen for Per la. The Greek beim. in Manehater . re purchasing to • fair extent, rather from inducement of safe prices than of present yenta. We have had mew OpPtUtION far :Wants to-day, awing out of the adirlemthet dale to heal. The opinions sad manufacturer' hare not yet dmind say po. skive improvement of padded: from the advance as yet obtained upon yarns and anode; for while the rise in them is only about that upon lOW corm, the balk ander ceekauDttlara, is fully I per lb. Rot tt PALL, Nov.2A —The flannel market continues brink, and many Melee bamboos millet tomer prises. The wool market may be said to be a shadebstur; there be a little more inquiry, and rather more mid, but little et so chewed pews. HAY.-BNrennum, 7ivo n'Clock.—Mean's.COopet sad Davis report trade wry Ihavy. Mee Maslow AV. to TS% I Bowes ..404. wSt a pilaw .. 231 to 2b. Warier.- W. .tote, Clever ... Aft. to 1/14. I CATTLE, &c.—CIIICTIZSTER, Nov. 22.—There was a full supply of Mt stock this das ; trade dull, and prime lower than eamket.day. Ox Be.f, fat and prime, 4e. to 4s. 2d ; interior rorts, 3s. 4d. to 3. 61.; Mutton, fat Ewes, b. to 44. 2d ; Withers, 4s. 4d. to U. 61.; Veal. 4e. 24. to 41. 6d. (best quality); Pork, 4s. 41. to 4e. Bd. ; fat Hoge, 4e. to 4s. 4d. (beat fatted) ; store figs, plentiful, 14e. to 18e. a bead. Einem, Nov. 22 —So large was the quantity of stock exhibited here, that it presented more the appearance of a well-stocked lair than that of a merely ordinary market. There were some fine stock, both Hullo ks and Sheep, end especially the litter, of which, too, a very large number was driven in. Business was dull, fat Bullocks selling at from ' its. 6d. to 606. per cwt, or from Bs. to 9s. per score;' ' Butchers' Calves, 6ad. to 611 d. per lb.; fat Sheep, from 6d to 6d. per lb. Liar., Nov. 22.—There was a good numerical show of Beasts at the fortnight fair to-day, but the major part of them were in interim aondi•ion, consequently the fatted ani mals sold readily at a slight advance in prices. Of Sheep there was about an average supply, hut the demand was not brisk, end there was no material change in price. Li 'wove, Nov. 21.—A. very small show, both of Beasts and Sheep. Trade very dull, and scarcely any demand, Mutton, ewe, 61d. • wetber,6l, per lb. Beef, Gs. to Gs. W. per stone. Scarcely any store Beasts at market. ROMPORD, Nov. 22.—We bad a moderate supply of stock, which was a doll sale at last week's prices. Beef, 3s. 2d. to 3.. led. Mutton, 39. ed, to 44. 4 , 1. Limb, 4s. to 4s. ed. Veal, 3s. 2s. to 41. l'ork, 3s. 6d. to 4e. ed. BorTHALL, Nov. 22.—Trade Leavy; prices about the same as last week. Beef made from 24. 2d. to 4s. Mutton, 3s. 2d. to es. Veal, 39. 4d. to 49. 44. Pork, 3e. 4d. to 4s. 4d. per stoae of Sibs., sinking the °HA. For lestesdages markets He 1.4 page. gke ervreoo. MAILS._ The coodend dared oath, erniarOitler, to the Nwitterransaa, 7 .d71d. Atha. roptua. Puke, Ilho-Kong, Po, will be meth up ea the - at the Nth Nov. as ardbe kr &Wish North America, and the Vatted States, 11 be sad. se ea the mound of Yith Nov. The loth ter Vide, Opole, Lisboa, lewleire, (id* end Molter tttt to male up as the monde" or the 27th Nov. The meth ke Neer eolith Wake, Tee Dieeten's Laud, end New talland will he wade up oh the rowboat the Nth Nov. ' The teeth kw the West Comet of AM.. earl Madeira will be made to eh Disavowing of the Seth Nov. IM Weft IMO Make, Including lientode, Nemo, ilivenes, Maw Ork,as. Ed Make, end esdudios thorn for a Z d a.74. Jueddr- vkaneva, New theasda, L3lll, end Pen. will M nude up at the mooring et the het the. the oath the Iladeire, the Dow* wed teens Apr, will be sow ay. is drowsing of the 4th Dee. The overtime meth Mr Otteeltar„ MOM, therm, the bathe Wanda, Vulg. Ades, Coble, lialwAceur. ead MOB, vie &others' , n, will to node lip co the tornieg of the 20th Duo RIOS liana al' LOAII , OI SIMMS Tom Mt • . p•.• O. afteisma. at Ws. pa* O. t..-sesi....•-1/Ms.m.r. I ob. •••• I. 111iimMo.22 ma. sae I. LONDON. THURSDAY, NOV. 23. THE financial reform associations, now springing op in every portion of the empire, to answer the univer sal demand of the national anxiety, cannot but find their early lal.ours, and the first part of their opera tions extremely facile. Every department of our financial system, and more especially of expenditure, is so full of abuse that it is difficult to Iv the finger where a blot is no., and the plainest statement or enumeration of salaries and items spent, suffices of itself so amply to bespeak inequality and entries- Prim I ON. li THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EV ENING. NOVEMBER 2 8 . 1848. rinsed' eickirintkite la ltiewek the arsihuo;p3rellaill'alread exietiin paths el. abeatey and "We lear la produce Mali& Tape and undefined in purposes, financial as well as ether reformers very easily m ted. Aedthose interested the ..i.t....71; v 7Z. present lavish system are r 'to raise a cloud of prejudice and obloquy against esfernisrs who seek improvement by the only means Which an effect improvement, vix.—ohange. There never was a thne,perhsps, more favourable foe retrenchment than the present, when the govern ment of every state in Europe which can be said to possess a government, is so absorbed in the difficulties of its domestic affairs, that all foreign policies, except in the way of judgment, of good or bad wishes, may be said to be suspended and when, moreover, the finances of every countrj are so utterly deranged, that the imperative rule must be, and is, to provide for the absolute necessities of the state, throwing tee superfluities overboard. We see in the naval esti mates of France, in which the commissioners declare ihe expenses to have been doubled, without effi ciency being increased, that fur this and for every reason the largest diminutions are recommended. Against the aggression of foreign power, never, in fact, was Englar.d more secure ; and never did it stand in need of less expenditure in armaments, unless indeed her governing partite were to ran a-muck at foreign liberalism, and quarrel with their neighbours because they happen to be republi can or Bonapartist. But we do not sleep ct even our governing parties of this. They will be quiet. Their object will be to preserve an armed neutrality, and keep up a large force, not to ewe foreigners, but to keep and feed supporters at home. It is against this policy that financial trimmers are called upon to exert themselves, and they can only do so with 'access by coming forward and laying fully before the nation not only the source of their grievances, but the mode in which Iht y would propose to remedy them. The cry of whig and tory is, and will be, that calor- MON want merely to disarm the country, to disor ganise its government, and thus to leave it exposed to the attacks of foreign end domestic foes. As it is not the wish of the reformers to reduce the military establishments of the country twitter what the teleigs themselves thought amply sufficient for its detente and respectability two or three-and-twenty years ago, it would be as well, at once and formally, to say so. During tho lapse of those years millions and half millions have been gradually, one might almost say, surreptitiously added to our military expenses, at one time under one pretext, at another time under. arother. First we were hidden to dread Russia as a giant which was to swallow up our eastern possessions, and ear Mediterranean interests. Then we were to anni hilate the Pacha of EGYPT for directly or in directly playing into the Czar's hands. Our effort, I is these directions flung France into ill-humour, and then we were told to beware of Louts rniuree. So that when a French minister proposed a new ftet even upon paper, or ordered a new vessel on the Cocks, we instantly ordered two. I Surely the events of 1848, it they have served to no better purp tee, have at least shown the utter fut . - :By of three teas. If the Cz in was ambitious he would surely have shown some symptoms before now. If Louts l'inuers was so formidable, surely his government would have shown more stamina. Some years back we thought Syria worth quarrelling for. Who thinks so now ? A shorter time back we thought it worth a great effort to free Spain from the domination of Louis PHILIPPE. Yet Loris Pul -1 LIPPE is at Claremont, and we have not made any advance with Spain. We restored her I throne to the Queen of PORTUGAL, and the result is, that whole) regiments desert her beggarly service in contempt, in order to go marauding under Carlist leaders into Spain. We mediated in Italy, and RADLTSKI mocks us. The King of NAPLES enter tains for as sentiments equally reverential. And even CAVAIGNAC, so inclined to be of ^word with us, his at last found us such an inert weight that even he has resolved to settle the Monkvidean question alone. In the face of all these things, with nothing for us to do in Europe, forbidden to interfere by the national sentiment of England, and never sinning against that injunction without encountering failure and contempt, what do we want wi'h a greater military or naval force than we had two and twenty years ago? What more re quirements have we for it ? at wonders have we done since with our increased estimates ? Or whittle r have gone the ten millions a year, paid extra by the people of England, to support their interests, dignity-, and honour? Were we not quite as dignified in 18:16'. ? Our int- reies quite as well cared for ? Our honour quite as much respected? Whatever of these ten millions have been spent in materials, in war steamers, or experiments, subsist, and are, we hcpe, available for an emergency. But what need of adding to Base stores of idle implements, or of continuing to man barracks and wooden walls in defiance of a foe like France., which is at this moment too much afraid of its own shadow, to think of waning with us? Lithe financial reformers from all partsof theking ism come forward with the unanimous cry, that the estimates be reduced to the scale of 1836. Less would not be worth a national effort; nor would it be difficult to show that this economy can be en forced without detriment or danger to the service or the interests of the country. With ten or eleven mil lions to dispose of, in the alleviation of the bur den of our over taxed population, every interest may hope to have its share of that alleviation. And if all interests combine in insisting upon it without 'minding the selfish an I malicious cries of " revolt"• tionary and subversive" with which whig and tory organs never fail to assail the champions of economy, they will carry their point; and if, thereby, they do not make the government of the country progress in economy or liberalism, they will at least bring it back to that degree of e c •nomy which it naturally reiviied in the years immediately following the passing of the Reform Bill. If we may not advance from this car dinal point, it will be at least something to keep true and close to it. Went the historical review of the working of the ele-live system in the borough of St. Alban's, which the reader will find in this day's publication, we com mence an analysis of corruption which we propose to carry into every rotten constituency in the empire. Every one knows that we have a representative system, but very few know its real nature. It may astonish some to hear that one fourth of the legislators of the empire are returned for burghs which are either utterly corrupt or subject to the in fluence of persons or of families. It will surprise still more to he informed that many of our constituencies are at this time infinitely more corrupt than before the passing of the Reform Act. But so it is. One fourth at least of the constituencies of Greet Britain require at this time another administration of "the Russell purge." Every sort of anomaly is presented. Not only , is the detect transparent in the constituencies, but it af fects the legislature. The whole kingdom suffers ; and no one gains by it It will not be difficult to show that whilst the legislature is deteriorated in character, the individual members of it suffer in for tune,and the constituencies they represent are degraded by the demoralisstion which the operation of the system inevitably occasions. Take St. Alban's as an example. Since the Reform Act the constituency of that borough has decreased, and bribery has so much in creased that not a single election has occurred that has not been won by corrupt influences. But this is not all. The cariclidab s for what ought to be an honourable distinction have been mere vic tims of an infamoue description of plunder. Several , have been ruined; nearly all have been injured in fortune and in reputation. Nor has the system given birth to talent or distinction. With a solitary excep tion, not a single representative for St. Alban's ' since the passing of the Reform Act, has ob tained any parliamentary prominence. To whom, then, has accrued the benefit? Not to the borough; that hie become more and more im poverished as its rate books will exemplify. Not to the electorate ; they have only fallen from the lowest depth into • lower still at each succeeding contest. Not to the wagerers of property ; power has fallen from their hands into these of parties who will clothe dirty work of " managing " the "roughs." If this be a sample of one class of our boroughs is it not im peratively necessary a change should be effected ? From the work which we this day begin we will not desist until we have thrown upon all the rotten constituencies of the land the same un sparing light we are throwing on the iniquities of St. Alban's. IVe belii ve that by so doing we shall confer a gnat public benefit. The minds of the people may thumbs premed for the consideration of tut Impottant coming question ; fbe true state of the national representation 'may be exhibited to their view; and the empire may be enabled to j age of the effects of that of which the I prevent knowledge is limited to the localities affected. Every honourable man in these localities feels himself degraded by . the perpetuation of such abuses, and earnestly desires that they may be pat an end to. We look in this task to receive the assistance and support of all true reformers. Let the extent of the evil be but shown, and there will be comparatively little difficulty as to the remedy. Tite notices of an application to parliament for power to unite three of the metropolitan railway companies have provoked some notable outbreaks of the animosity existing towards interests of that clue in certain quarters. The Times, as usual, has been the loudest in demanding new exactions upon the contributors cf the money by which this kingdom has been endowed with its most useful public works; and suppressing, u usual, the fact of their having been thus constructed, demands that the state shall take advantage of this occasion to deprive the owners of the property of all that remains to them of the re ward fairly earned by the benefit which their adven ture has produced to the nation at large--an adven ture to which the state has not contributed one farthing, while drawir g from it considerable revenues in the shape of passenger and stamp duties, poor and other rates, income tax, tic The signal of this noto rious partisan has bee nt taken up by other inferior organs, and we have been amused to hear the con fused echo in certain Sunday papers of the menaces which the great blusterer of the press has pompously discharged on this occasion. The explosion, we ray, is diverting, because the outbreak of blind hostility, and the procla mation of unjust principles, which might, indeed, provoke the gravest censure, were they likely to reach any substantial object, are directed on this particular occasion against something very like a " mare's nest." Such being the reel aspect of tt.e matter, we need not trouble ourselves to refute once more t'e fallacies on which the Times rests its plea for what would be vir tually a confiscation of railway property, or to re-state the claim of its owners to enjoy without further impo sitions the profits they have liberally earned. It will be sufficient in the present instance to show, from the real history and prospects of this amalgamation scheme, what cause there was for falling into convul ,ions on the mere rumour of it; and how much bile has been wasted on a p: oject of no very alarming complexion, indeed, could it be accomplished, bat which is as fur as possible from being either settled now or likely to be consummated hereafter. The o-Nin of the treaty, in en far as it was sug gested by • desire of putting an end to useless and expensive contentions between three neighbouring concerns, we have already noticed in general terms. It remains only to add, that, although this wiser disposition, if per sisted in, may and must lead in other ways to a b tter understanding on all sides, and so promote a more ra tional use of the funds of the se companies, there seems to be little likelihood of its effecting these ends in the way of an absolute union of all in one body. The special character and obligations of each, in fat, altogether unfit them fur any fusion into • common mass; and the first step towards realising the idea— the first advance beyond the merest general affirma tion that it ?night be desirable could it Pie neentri plishe,l, must tall upon °bedecks that cannot be re moved on any terms to which the parties are likely to consent. At the present stage of the business we ap prehend no such forward step has yet been taken; and we doubt very much whether it will ever advance beyond mere meliminaries. The plan, we hear, was started by the Great Western, whose struggles to maintain a false position on the exceotioinal gauge, lime reduced it to a state in which a continu ance of the warfare of past years may well be dreaded. Hereupon its clever managers appear to have bethought them of trying if they . could maintain, by skill in negotiating with their rivals, a position that it would be hard to keep any longer by hostile means. The offer of an amicable treaty, in times like , these, could not, of course, be refused ; and it seems that the chairman of the London and North Western, in a laudable anxiety for peace, has too readily em braced the notion, dexterously suggested by the other party, of a termination of all differcnce s by the entire combination of the rival interests. This may have led him somewhat prematurely to concede, in general terms, the expediency of amalgamating, before he had duly considered how ill the respective elements are suited for union, supposing the thans in quo of the different gauges to be maintained—a condition from which, of course, the Great Western, as author of the scheme, muAt be understood to trice started this pro posal. The third party named (the London and South Western) would have taken an obnoxious atti. tads, had it refused to hear of any treaty, even thougl , persuaded of the difficulty of carrying it out to any practical union: and thus, we believe, there came to pass those triple conferences, which have frightened the 2laws from its propriety. At these conferences, it Is said, the difficulty of settling any actual terms of anion soon became apparent ; and we believe, in fact, that up to this time no progress whatever has been made beyond the general conditional affirmative already described; and, further, that the transaction will hardly get pot this preliminary stage. Still, the parties have been reluctant to part without attempting something in appearance if not in reality. The agreement to apply to parliament for a merely permiuire bill amounts to nothing more than the ex pression of this reluctance, or of a general desire for peace. This desire is laudable ; but co far it has not led to any practical result in the way of a junction of the three concerns, nor is it likely that it can on terms acceptable to all ; and on this account it would perhaps have been wiser not to clothe it, even provi sionally, in what appears to be a mere abortive form without substance. The state of the treaty, at all eventa, is not, as we lately said, sufficiently mature or effectual to alarm those even who might have plausible ob;ections to any combination of the Ohre° boeies. The lilt for which notice has been given, if passed, will enact nothing whatever if this kind. It will merely empower the parties to combine, should they find it possible to unite hereafter, on some common base, the whole substance of which, the very outline even, is for the present in nabiloi s ; and it is very improbable in deed that it will ever a.sume a more solid form. Slob, then, is the actual position of the affair, which, we repeat, it may have been anything but wise to think of laying before parliament in such a crude state; but on which, for this very reason, it is the merest absurdity to fly into paroxysms of alarm, or to bawl out for the / ream comitatus to save the country from being plundered by the " monopolists." It is not even quite certain that the infant scheme will ever reach parliament at all. It is said that some of the parties have, from the beginning, had no very sanguine hope . of any result from it, and are not at all disposed to yield to their late opponents, on the strength of so feeble a promise, any of the substantial points they have secured in other ways. We shall not be surprised to hear of the scheme being with drawn before the day on which it is to be laid before the proprietors. These, too, should it come before them, ate not likely to affirm the ex pediency of joining their interests with those of a system which cannot be worked in common with theirs ; while the Great Western are not will ing just yet to give up their exceptional gauge--a concession which must be the sine gwl non of any real amalgamation hereafter. The publication of the accounts of the latter will not have much increased the desire of either of their neighbours to combine stocks and share debts and liabilities in common with a corn peny so largely involved; and the other two companies may well hesitate to vote in favour of a merely provi sional treaty without fuller satisfaction on this head than is likely to be afforded in the present stage of the agreement. And we think they will best show their provident regard for the millions they have invested by refusing point-blank to take any leap in the dark in a grave matter like this, which concerns nothing less than the whole of their enormous property ; whereas, u we have said, the first step towards a clearer understand ing on points of detail will be sure to bring the irre ceeeil.ble differences of the two gauge- into activity. Of the proprietors' dissatisfaction some notable sips have already been made public ; and more will be likely to appear when the meetings are held ; so that it is anything but certain that the affair, if not broken off before those meetings, will then proceed so far as to reach parliament even in the prov.sional and un formed character we have described above. Hence it will at least be seen that it is sin gularly absurd to fall into any premature rage, or to sound the tocsin of alarm, on a scheme so fragile and rudimentary u this. There is something to be said on another side of the wibject—as it bears on parlia mentary legislation and on the gauge question. Bat this may be reserved for another occasion. Our im mediate object has been to show how nearly the diatribes of the Times resemble a" much ado about nothing." Should the scheme proceed, it may then be proper to say how parliament ought to deal with the plan of such amalgamation. But we shall, in the meanwhile, abstain from obtruding our recipe on the public until there is some reason to be sure that "we have caught our fish"—that the counsel, in short, is likely to be wanted. GERMANY. PRUSSIA.-Benats Anzeiger of Nov. 20, contains the following from the ministry of state to ad the royal governments of the kingdom : It is already known to the royal eovernments of the king dom that the fraction of the National Assembly convoked for the framing of the constitution, which di•regariled the message of his Majesty respecting the transfer to Branden burg, continued to lo Id their sittings without the participa tion of the representatives of the crown, and has also passed several resolutions, among others, that the measures adopted by government should be recalled, and the payment of all sad every tax be refused. Although it may be presuppoted thatthe sound sense of the country will be perfectly convinced of the formal and material illegality of a step which, in its ulterior results, would plunge the whole country into a state of utter lawlessness and indescribable confusion, we never theless consider it our duty to call the attention of the royal government to the fact, that if, and wherever, elotrary to all expectations, any realisation of the above resolution should appear it must be proceeded against without delay, and in case a prerminary instruction respecting the heavy legal penal!' of such refractoriness should remain fruitless, the most severe compulsory measures must be resorted to. All commanders of the army have received orders to obey the necessary requi sitiona of the royal governments, and the commissioners appointed by them fur this object. At the same time, the royal governments are specially enjoined to take heed that the compulsory measures to be adopted against refractoriness, shall not be extended to the payment of such taxes, which are in arrears, nn account of pecuniary inability of the ratepayers. Since the important expenditure of the Treasury mak. s the punctual and immediate payment of taxes most desirable, it is nevertheless quite foreign to the object in view, to kw p out of sight measures of mildness and consideration toward. those ratepayers who are in distress, or have met witn mis fortunes. Therefore the extraordinary extra exp nses causid by the extraordinary compulsory measures to be em [Ailed can be imposed only on those ratemers who refuse to pay their rates from obstinacy.--Berlin, Nov. 18, 1818.— (Signed)—The Ministry of State, COUNT V 074 BILANDEN SUMO, LADENIIIKO, MANTISUFTEL, VON STICOTHA, VON RINTELIIN.—To all the Royal Governments. FILANKFORT.—We stated that, in the sitting of the Assembly on the 18th, M. Rubel, the companion of Blum ' read a report concerning the death of that deputy; he did so as follows : tale said, the Assembly had resolved to hear his report. They seed not fear th.it he would be too diffuse, or enter upon circumstances that were not immediately eonnected with the arrest of Blum and himself. The great point to decide was—had the resolutions of the National Assembly been violated ? He would show them exactly how matters I had stood. They knew the occasion of the journey to ' Vienna. (No.) Then he would tell them. Alter Werner had moved that Vienna had deserved well of Germany, the Left had resolved to send a deputation to t, at city, expressing its approval of the late move ment. Two otter members accompanied them. They communicated immediately on their arrival with the common °outwit and the students' committee. They then proceeded to the Assembly, and were received with loud acclamatiors of welcome. ()a the 20th they were ready to leave Vienna slain. Blum and he applied for passports at the Saxon Em homy, but were there and elsewhere dissuaded from attempt ing a return, es it was asserted that they would scarcely pass the beleaguering army without being maltreated. (Murmurs.) The dire corps had been formed, and they were each offered the command of a company. Tho offer was accepted. Blum had tho Ist company and be had the 3rd. The in tention of this corps was to keep order in the city, which was scarcely a less dangerous service than having to fare the Imperial tro pa. Shuts were constantly fired fee m the windows, l and houses broken into. As sharers in the hospitality of Vienna they thought it their duty to take part in all needful met sures of defence. To their great surprise, Blum and he were separated, and had to take up their station at the most dangerous points. They were sure that the city could not hold out long; and, more than this, that it would be be ' grayed. Blum stood confronting the Mottling. He had five pieces of artillery at his command, but had strict orders not to commence the attack. This is a proof that their party were reluctant to engage in strife. Seeing the hope less state of things, they resolved to resign. This they did on the 29th. He must expressly contradict what hod been stated io the papert, viz., that Blum fought after the capitulation. From the 29th October to the 4th ult. they remained quietly in their hotel. They avoided going out on account of the horrible =emcees that sir-re occurring. In the meanwhile—it must have been the let November—they wrote to General Jonitz, declaring that they were detained against their wills, and begging for a free escort out of the city. They were referred, in answer, to General Kordon. They wrote to General Kordon, and were that day dragged out of their beds, and arrested by a captain and his guard. The warrant of arrest was addressed to General Kordon. They protested orally against the arrest, instancing their position as members of the National Assembly. This was useless. Up to the Bth, he (must contest they were well accomm.i. dated in their confinement. They had the best rooms in the house or prison, and these we re well furnished, and all possible comforts were supplied them. On the 8 h ult, 4 p.m., they handed in a written protest : the effect of this was Blum's trial at tie that evening. This lasted till tic t. The next morning early his sentence was commu nicated to him, and at half-put seven, a.m., of the same day he was executed. He must mention that on the 6th alt. they had written to the President of the National Assembly, praying for protection, itc., but probably the note had nee er rearhrd him. He must also mention that on the last day which be passed with Blum, a man had been introduced into their apartment, under the plea of there not being room for him elsewhere. He was ostensibly a prisoner too. In spite of signs and hints from him (Frubel), Blum answered his questions freely, and detailed the whole circumstances con nected with his participation in the riot. The same man told them " They had not protested strongly enough ; they did not understard the Austrian authorities; and if they only indited a vehement protest, they inlaid probably be at liberty on the morrow." The' pro test was drawn up, end the consequences he bad already narrated. He, however, had previously told Blum that it was couched in too strong terms. He had also re sere. d a copy of the protest, but on an after occasion, this paper was abstracted from among the other papers and :arti cles which had been restored to him subsequently to his ap prehension. (The speaker narrated the artifice employed to get secret possession of this paper.) His own condition, after Blum's condemnation, which he did not know of at once, took another aspect. He was removed to bad quarters, and kept in a torment of suspense for four days, expecting every hour would be his last. lie was finally tried, and sentenced to be hu-'g by the neck till dead. The first question put him by the court was, '• Did you carry arms after the 23rd, on which day the state of ai .ge was declared ?"—Answer : " Tu." This the ex , mining officer said was enough. He (Probe') endeavoured to excuse himself on the score of the faulty publications( the state of siege in Vienna itself, and Willi then asked if he did not know what a state of siege meant ? He defended himself altogether as well as he could without compromising his honour. He was asked if he had written a pamphlet rec-mmending a resolution of the complexities of Aernan dominion, and the union of all the provinces to one united whole ? He acknowleged the pamphlet, and fortunately a copy, to his great surprise, wu in his puttee lion. ( this seems to have told well for him.) He had ab stained, he said, in this recital from any attempt to arouse their passim', or to excite strong emotion ; but one thine he must mention in conclusion, that on the occasion of his full pardon being annouoced to him, the officers and others who formed the court testified a marked feeling of joy. This had deeply touched him. The narration of the speaker was listened to with breath less attention, interrupted occasionally by a murmur of dis. satisfaction or the contrary, according to the nature of the single hots adduoed. He retired amid loud cheers. ORLEANS, Nov. 19. This, as you are aware, is the day appointed for the prom olgation of the new constitution in the provinces ; and in at least this part of the country the weather has proved more propitious for the ceremony than it was last Sunday in Paris. As the programmes published by the civic authorities of some dozen towns in various parts of France (whi.:ll I have s en in the local journals) are nearly alike, I dare say a de'cription of the proceedings here will give a not widely incorrect idea of those which took place in most of the other towns. At mid-day the square of Bt. Croix, in which the magnifi cent cathedral stands, glistened with bayonets. The sun shone with a degree of brightness which be seldom deigns to ' I do at this season in our native regions, and lighted up the mass of milit iry which filled the Place, so as to give the scene anything but a wintry aspi et. :lie garrison— ch'elly con sisting of the second regiment of the line—and the national gum ds of Orleans, were present. The latter gave a non. ehalant air to the solemnity, by being, although en 'rondo tenue, nearly all provided with cigars. which they persever ingly smoked til. the end of the ceremony. In a short time the local authorities arrived in procession from the prefec ture v ith a guard of honour of national guards. On reaching the steps of the cathedral the prefect and his train mounted them, when the whole of the soldiery presented arms, and the prefect commenced reading the constitution. This task lasted perhaps half en hour. The cathedral doors were then opened, and the populace entered. A ompany of national guards lined the middle aisle of this imm , .n.e eitice. and the military wort of commend, with the clanking of muskets, in a church, sounded strangely in my Shell& ears. The music of the Te Dewn was the ordinary chaunt ; neither of the works of the great com posers having been selected for performance. This over, the prefect and the mayor of tke town, with the other civic officials, returned to the steps of the edifice, and before them the whole of the military pared in review to the music of the excellent band of the Orleans national guard. This concluded the ceremony. I was told that during the reading of the constitution a salute of artillery was fired If it were to, the artillerymen did their "spiriting" so gently that we did not distinguish their efforts abov e h the military and other spectat on . Of t h e latter ther e few. As i viewed the square from en eminence, geared and like • thin fringe bordering a d ense surface of epa l l lett*, bayonets. Following the stream of the retirirg spectators, soddenly plunged into a scene even more 11100,14140ns in ni eyes than military evolutions performed tri a Sund sy at p a e i t of a cathedral service. This wu nothing less then a riir held close to the church of St. Aip.nan, whose 14 1 e-day thi i happens to be. The furious drumming before the shoe, booths, the hoarse solicitations of stall keepers for cut the trumpet tongued invitations of showmen to " walk op. were strangely mixed with the bells of St. Aignan stnu o ' n , lag devotees to high meat. While, however, the service wig in progress, the active amusements without were hushtd. Such so far ss 1 here been able to o b serve, hu been tha public history during this day, of the ei. y of Joan of that of which Louis Philippe was duke. HOLLAND.—Tan lisotra, Nov. 18.--Th e A m . Aierdant BOStrie contains the following paragraph :—." first st. p taken by our nunistry in for way of en amel has been node known by the publication of its sepses to the King. This report has been bailed with great iesid o , tion, and its result has been a very considerable rise in an the Dutch funds." GERMANY.—BRANDISN BURG. --LEMBERG.--we continue to give short entices of those Wens which th e political agitation of the time has suddenly drawn igy public notice, the detail+ regarding which will serve to sho w the tendency and importance of agar,. We shall comma*" with Brandenburg, to which piece the Pius,inn gover n 's,* desires to trawler the Constituent A. sembly. This towo within the regency of l'otsdera, being situated t o the „ jolt of that city, at a distance of about 12 mks, on the Hare', at its confluence with the Elbe. and, .ince the thirties.% century, bad given its name to the ancient electorate. The march or marquisate of Brandenburg was therefore the m i n t end is moreover still the centre, of the Prussian monarchy The town does not contain more than 13,000 4,1, The quarter called the t' Burg," or the "Cathedral Ines:* is situated on en island, on which, so th e „„,, stands the cathedral, which dates from 1310. The mil is he environs, and indeed chiefly the , mehout the p i p since, is sandy and poor, and produces only by metes of high cultivation. The manufactures an: c t , n ,,th ribi . , and owe their foundation to the Freed men sena thither by the revocation of the edict ot Nantes, Th s march of Brandenburg, besides the town where it sees the Ass, nibly is to rat et, contains Berlin, the capital of the kingdom, two fortresses, Kumla end Spandau, end ame intrenched camp in the town of Potsdam —Fug al e s Austria, we find at the extreme eastern frontier, in Galliel a Lemberg, where an insurrection hes broken out. Thi. toim — ' one of those of ancient Poland, mutual., 60,000 inhabiteatha whom 20,000 are Israelites. More than 1,000 pupio in k & at its university, which woo originally founded in 174,14 remodelled in 1817. The suburbs, like this* of Vin o ., are of much greater extent than the tont, properly so calls& Lemberg contains three archoishopries,—one Catholic, we Greek, and one Armeni.m. It has manufactures of cloth owl linen, and carries ou an extensive commerce with Baton end Turkey. It is built on the banks of the Felten, sge contains many handsome edifices.— Delia's. LA PLA*l'A.—The command ot the peditinn from France to Ls Plata has been Qtrl carp Laisek, who was mentiolica in the DJ6afg as ore of th most distinguished officers of the French navy. AMERICAN HOLIDAYS. NEW Yoket, Nov. B.—As we approach the period of the holdays, there is a universal preparation * them peculiar to oar country, and of course unknown in those where the seasons are less m .rkirl and lei in contrast. Thu for example, and to show you KIM thing of our social economy, those persons who ers able supply themselves with a stock of fuel far the wiatw. Anthracite, or hard coal, the bituminous, or soft teal, ad. sauce in price, and the deafen pile these varieties up by hundreds of chsldroes or tons in their store-yards. T railways and canals by which the supplin are brought me unusually pruned with business; and the p re k e t- s hi ps b r i g out as ballast, or to make a freight, large quantities of you best coals. In connexion with these movements, the don. dealers bring out their last patterns, and publish the mod laudatory advertisements of the superiority of their wont, These stoves are a part of our principal iron manufacturer. They are made at almost every furnace in the cauntry, and certainly discover very great ingenuity. Arnott himself would yield the palm to a Yankee inventor in many re- spects. These stoves are set up in the hells of our beet houses, and in the bedrooms and sitting rooms of people in moderate circumstances, and they certainly keep up a high degree of temperature at a small expense. With stoves come other cares. Window curtain aid double caches for windows are put up ; plants are brought into the houses ; and in the north the cellar-doors and wiodows are seemed by coverings of nod in boxes; the teflon are employed in making up winter suite end overcoats, and the nullifiers issue notices of their styles of dress for the teams; extraordinary quantities of butter are sent to market; ad almost every one in the interior lays up a store of beef sad pork, of apples and potatoes, to have enough to eat during the interruption of the c , mmunieatien by , frost sad snow. Southern people hurry homewards, to avoid the cold, and invalid, depart for S. Croix, or the milder parts of sat own country. In short, the approach of winter is generally considered as en event to he guarded atrainn ; and. thought is proverhislly a season of he filth and enjoyment, all are glad when it departs. The city of New York does not feel it severity however to such a degree as to remind us of Siberia. Sometimes we have no sleighing, or sledding, during the whole winter. The ground is dry and hard, except when the sea-air comes upon us, and the mercury rises above 32°. Indeed the average cold is not great with us, while about 75 miles north, above the highlands of the Hudson, th^ grand Is generally covered with snow, and it is cold enough" freeze your ears off." When there happens to he snow enough in the city to permit our sleighs to run easily, there is a general turn-oet of the population to enjoy it. Its advent son.ewhat reminds one of the excitement at St. Petenbure, when the Nen breaks up its icy covering. Immense vehieles, on runners shod with steel, like skates, are seen passing up and down the streets, carrying 50 or GO people at a time, of all ages, sexes, and conditions. The omnibuses dimppear, and all who ride arc in the sleds. The owners paint them up with portraits of our most distinguished public men, with mot toes to correspond, such as " Old Z tek never surrenders;" .• I had rather be right than be preeident,"—a much ad mired saying of Mr Clay. At nigh• the streets are aloe with the sleigh-riders, and one incessant about is kept up se they glide along. In the country it is a favourite sea.on for taking journeys and visiting friends. Witt, leathertoM, sleighs lined with baize, and neatly trimmed robes of fur, extra garments, and fteet horses, the travellers skip over the Doutd, with the accompaniment of small bills, wluels ingle tunefully with the motion of the steeds that any them. It is certainly a very exhilarating method of trent, sod much in favour with young people about to be married. Our Christmas-day is observed as a religious ',stint by a large number of our people, particularly by the Episcopalian and the Dutch Reformed churches. Divine service is per formed in the morning, in commemoration of the birth of tha Saviour, and the Eptscopaliam universally hang eve rgrema in the ehurchea, which remain untouched till Lent. erbc Qroun. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY, Nov. 22.—The Queen, with Prince Albert and the royal children, left Windsor Cutle. for Osborne, Isle of Wight, this morning. He Majesty was attended by the Marchioness of 1) .urs, lion. Miss Dawson, Lord Waterperk, Col. Buckley, Capt. the Ron. A. Gordon, and Col. the Hon. C. B. Ptipps. COURT OF ALDERMEN. --- A court was held on Tuesday. The Lord Mayor, on taking his seat for the first time in that court as Lord Weyer'', trusted that his brother magistrates would believe that lie was not influenced by mere form end ceremony when he maid he should firmly rely upon their assistenc,.. not only in the performance of his duties in the Court of Alder men, but in the p. rformance of all the public duties of the mayoralty. A vote of thanks to the late Lord Mayor was proposed by Sir Peter Laurie, and iecouded by Alderman Farehrother, which having been carried, a copy was ordered to be trans mitted to Alderman Heoper. TILE CITY PRISONS.—INCREASS OP VAGRANCY.—The report of the annual return to the Secretary of State, re specting the City prisons, having been brouoht up, Alder man Sidney took occasion to allude again to the condition of Gitspurstreet prime, which was becoming more and MN densely crowded in consequence of the order of the City Commissioner of Police to his force to take into custody all persons found begging. Ho described the state of the prison as most deplYrable, and said that it the cholera appeared amongst its inmates the most terrible ravages might be ex pected. He called the attention el the court to the original insitution of Bridewell Hospital, which had, he con tended, been departed from altogether of lye yeses, 1 and which he hoped to see once more regulated by the 1 manliest intention of the founders; and he data that if that hospital were again properly and jue diciously appropriated a vast amount of the misery and destitution which hourly invaded the streets of Loudon would be removed. He concluded by movie': that a ems mittee be appointed to inquire into the state of GilVO , - street Compter and Bridewell Hospital—Alderman Yam bother seconded the motion.—Ablermen Lawrence said that on Saturday last the aldermen had been engaged shoat the internal management of the City prison., and had or dereil more strict attention upon the part of the medial attendants, in conformity with the suegestions received IS the visiting magistrates from Sir G. Grey, and that everything else contained in these suggestions had been directed to be carried into effect without eklay.--e The Lard Mayor said that the influx of vagrants hail been in great within the last few days, that he had considered it necessary to apply at the oill m of the Secretary of State urn so serious a subject. There were brouent before him every hour of the day parties of both sexes regardless of all law and authority, and he Loped the community w. uld not be led away by any undue sympathies. Vagrancy had in creased to a most ennrmou. extent, and he was sorry to say that Ire:and contributed a very large proportion.—The sub ject was then ' , rimed to the gaol committee. Tllll RACING Sweers.—Upon the motion of Aldermen Humphery, it was referred to the gaol committee to consider of the adontian of more effectual means of causing the sop prewion or correction of these lotteries. ALM:MD MISCONDUCT OP A BILOKER.—The court pro 'seeded to " further consider the petitions of E. R. Cock and W. Spavin, complaining of the conduct of Robert Torte, late a broker of this City." The complaint was relative to the sale of tees, and has already been given in our paper. A