The Express. — London, England, 1846-12-09 00:00:00

government, why should Biscay and Guipuscoa despair? The Carlists were indeed beaten by the Constitutionalists, when they were in the first years of freedom, but so were the Miguelites by the Span ish Constitutionalists. But now Liberalism is out of fashion. out of hope, and beyond tolerance, in both sections of the Peninsula. Statesmen are no longer obliged even to affect respect for constitutionalism. Power and authority are left to he disputed and struggled for by persons, not principles. And when persons throw off principles, the public, not without reason, soon becomes indifferent to both. EVERY new arrival from the United States tends to strengthen the opinion that the cotton crop of 1846 will be deficient. The state of the receipts of cotton at the American ports, an.' of the exports to Great Britain at the time the Britannia was despatched, compared with the state of receipts and exports at the corresponding period in 1845 and 1844, scarcely leaves room for a doubt on this head: Receipts. 71 1 11. 1846 1845 1844 more is true that recent letters from America speak more favourably, or rather less unfavourably of the picking of the crops, but the actual arrivals and ex- ports are more to be regarded than such vague state ments. The stock of cotton in this country, too, ap pears to be lower than usual. The stock at Liverpool on the 27th of last month was 512,620 bags on the 28th of November, 1845, it was 914,060. This aspect of affairs cannot but dictate caution to the cotton manufacturers, and affords no very pleasing prospect to the operatives. The periodical shortcomings of the cotton crops in the United States, considering the numbers in this country who are dependent for their subsistence on the manufacture of this raw material, render it highly desirable that our supplies of it should be drawn less exclusively from one quarter. Of the six millions and a half of hundredweights of cotton imported into Great Britain in 1815, upwards of five millions and a half came from the United States. Of the remainder, British India sent us about half a million, Brazil rather less than two hundred thousand. and Egypt about one hundred thousand hundredweights. Were our supplies drawn in anything like equal proportions from these (or other) countries, in years when the cot ton harvest of one was deficient, the surplus crops of the rest might compensate for the shortcoming. It is not likely that the northern and southern hemispheres, America and Asia, would be visited by bad harvests in the same year. By increasing the number of mar kets whence cotton can be procured, by deriving our supplies from,widely distant regions, we minimise the danger of sudden chanrs from year to year in the quantity and price of this indispensable commodity. This consideration, and also the reflection that the continual expansion of continental and American, as well as British cotton manufactures, may, ere long, press hard upon American powers of production, has of late directed attention to the means of increasing the production of cotton in our Indian dominions. There can be little doubt that India is the most promis ing quarter. The abolition of slavery in our West India colonies has given a death-blow to cotton cultivation there. Long before the period of emancipation, with every new regulation introduced to shield the slaves from excessive toil, manual labour was withdrawn from less remunera tive branches of industry to concentrate it upon the more remunerative. Cotton was the first to feel the effects of this. In 1786 upwards of fifty thousand hundredweights of cotton were imported into this country from our West India colonies (from the United States none was imported for several years after this date) ; in 1845 our imports of cotton from the West Indies were under twelve hundred and fifty hundredweights. With the high rate of wages and the inadequate supply of labour to which the West India islands are at present subjected, it is vain to look for any extension of cotton cultivation there ; and the obstacles now thrown in the way of the African slave trade render the prospect of in creased supplies from Brazil equally out of the question. In Egypt and all countries subjected to arbitrary rulers, and where the comparatively enlightened despotism of to-day may be succeeded by the crassest ignorance to-morrow, it is in vain to look for such a steady development of any branch of industry as car, be safely relied upon. To India alone, of all the countries capable of pro ducing cotton—to India, with its population so dense as to render free labour as economical and productive as slave labour, and with its English government— can we turn with any reasonable expectation of in creased supplies of that article. Yet the past history of Indian cotton cultivation is the reverse of encouraging. The attention of the Indian government was directed to the means of im proving the cultivation in India as early as 1788. Active measures were taken then, and have been at various periods since, to increase its production and improve its quality with a view to its becoming a staple export to Europe. 'f he first exportation of cotton from the United States to Great Britain took place in 1791. In;that year about one hundred and seventy hundredweight was shipped. In India the government has been exerting itself to promote the cultivation of cotton, and the export remains at the best stationary; in the United States the matter has been left to the unaided enterprise of the citizens, and the exportation has increased from one hundred and seventy to five millions and a half of hundred- weights. For the startling difference of these results, there seems only one assignable cause. Labour—continu ous, effective labour—is as cheap, if not cheaper, in India than in the cotton-growing states of the Union. The soil and climate of India are quite as well adapted for the growth of cotton as the southern states of the Union. But in the United States, the cultivation of cotton has been conducted by landed proprietors acting for their own interest; in India it has been left in the hands of natives who have no proprietary right in the soil. In Bombay, and the greater part of Madras, thecultivators are tenants of the Company ; in Bengal and part of Madras they are as tenants of the Zemindars, to whom the right of pro perty has been transferred in consideration of a com muted property-tax, still worse off. It is very doubtful whether any cotton growers in India could compete with the Anglo-American proprietary planters of the Union, except English landowners. The article of Indian produce in which the greatest and steadiest in crease has taken place of late years, is indigo ; and the successful cultivation of indigo in India, dates from the time when the planters were, by some legal homu poem', enabled to become virtual proprietors of lands. It is only from English colonists in India that we en tertain any hope of an efficient cotton cultivation ; and to induce English settlers to undertake the task, the Indian Government must allow them to acquire land in full property. The industry of Englishmen requires to be stimulated by the pos session, or the prospect of acquiring freeholds; they cannot work with any heart as mere tenants of an absolute government. As we observed on a former occasion, this change in the policy of the Indian government presupposes an entire revision of its present financial system. But though innovations in its modes of raising revenue might occasion some trouble, there can be little doubt that they would ultimately prove equally beneficial to the government and its subjects. At present the land revenue, and the opium and salt monopolies, are the sources whence thrce.fourths of the Indian revenue are derived. The land revenue is collected at an expense varying from 12 to 15 per cent.; the others at the enormous rates of 27 and 42 per cent. In this calculation the immense amount of petty local oppression and extortion, which escapes undetected from the peculiar manner in which the land revenue is collected, is necessarily left out of view. India may some day compete with the United States as a cotton-growing country, but an entire revolution in its land tenures and modes of taxation will be required to prepare it for the competition. It is by searching ad ministrative reforms of this kind, not by the child's play of experimental or model farms, that the Anglo- Indian government can promote the development of their territorial resources. The articles of sonic of the London journals, in which the unconstitutional personal interference of the King of the French in ei n e affairs of the state has lately been so severely censured, have revived in Paris the so-often at itated question of personal government, and Le Si7rle took up the subject in a powerful article on Monday. The laws of September, however, impose a restraint on discussions of this kind in the press, and it is probable that it will become a matter of debate in the Chambers. The question has pl b o tiesn revived at k'a►ris,in consequence of the cir- THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAt EVENING, DECEMBER 9, 1446. • matter at present. than that at first sight it appears to be a mere attempt to holster the declining credit of the Bank of Lisbon and the lost credit of the Companha de Contienps, by merging the capital already jeopardised in thole two esta blishments into a still more hazardous speculation, which, whilst it professes to be based op the procaple of a self liquidating joint-stock company, with a sinking fund corn• mensurato to the exigency under which it will be established of tieing dissolved after a given period of thirty years, is in reality only an effort to induce people to embark in the speculation upon the strength of an exclusive banking mono poly. granted by the government for the number o f years specified. How far this will succeed in calling out the hoarded funds of the capitalists of Lisbon, I am as yet not in a condition to offer any opinion. A very short time will perhaps qualify me to form a judgment, which I will then give.--A musical entertainment took place at the San Carlos theatre on Saturday last, during which the public enthu siasm (somewhat fanned, it is true, by unmistakable agen cies) ripe to such a pitch as to induce the audience in demaud the National Hymn of the Charter six times; I left the theatre just as the fresh accession of loyalty had culmi nated to the seventh degree, and how many more repetitions of the chant took place I am unable to say. General Prim and his aide,Viseount Equevillez, arrived at Lisbon lastn;ght, having passed from Oporto through Coimbra and Santarem. They report favourably of Dss Antas's partisans. He b p.m. 23rd.—The London mail of the 17th is not yet in. for its partition amongst the great powers of Europe. This precious production had, previous to publication, been sent to the Emperor Nicholas by M. d'Oustenoff, his Imperial Majesty's envoy at Constantinople. The reputed author is a certain Razi, an employe in the Belgian chancelry, but who was formerly in the secret service of Russia. The document is well drawn up, which makes people doubt its being the produc tion of an illiterate man like Bari. Indeed, it is generally supposed to have been concocted by some one of greater rank and talent than the ex-Russian spy, and who is as remarkable for his love of mischief as for his eccentricities. It must, however, be confessed that the amuse ment he affords the public by his display of the latter peculiarities more than indemnify 'them for the annoyance ho occasions in his character of a mischief-maker. Nothing, however, could have been more uncharitable than to drag poor Razi from his obscure infamy, before the public, adding ridicule to the loathing with which such men are generally re garded. Razi, however, has received, what, to a mind like his, must be a panacea for all injuries, namely, a handsome present from no less a person than M. d'Oustenoff, the Russian envoy. This conduct has naturally given offence, and indeed a certain dis quiet to the Porte, to see so prominent a mark of approbation thus given, to such a nefarious proposi tion as that contained in the document in question. Explanations have been verbally demanded by the Porte. England and France, we are happy to say, have strongly expressed their disapprobation of the unprecedented conduct of the Russian envoy. PARIS. Dec. 8. It is not news to inform you that M. Guizot gave a grand ball to the Bey of Tunis. The Bey may have conceived on that occasion a high opinion of Parisian society, but he must also have understood the diplo matic isolation of the French government ; for of all the ambassadors or foreign ministers at present in Paris, there was none present but the Spanish Am bassador. The Pre4se was right when it announced that the Minister for Foreign Affairs had despatched a protest to Vienna, Berlin, and St. Petersburg, on the subject of the annexation of Cracow. This mani festo is written with great dignity. M. Guizot starts in it by declaring that the destruction of the liberty of Cracow is in direct violation of the treaties of Vienna ; he explains that there was no pretext afforded for spoliation, and that no argn ment in its favour can be drawn from previous circum stances. He terminates by signifying to the powers that they have put an end to the treaties of \ ienna, and that France no longer considers herself bound by them, but will in future act as may best suit her honour and her interests. Though the Opposition journals seem not to receive with great favour the protest of M. Guizot, it must be owned that he has hitherto done all that circumstances required. The French government, in declaring the future nullity of the treaties of 1813, is inaugurating an entirely new state of things; it answers acts of despotism by threats of liberty ; and can anything be more grave or more decisive than this, so long as words do not produce acts? The declarations of M. Guizot form a radical change of policy. In signing it, M. Guizot has signed his own condemnation. It is impossible for this minister of peace at any price, the man whom the nation most mistrusts, to remain a minister at a mo ment when a propaganda, and perhaps a European war, are in perspective. M. Guizot will be unable, I I repeat it, to go through the session. The Paris journals have made numerous comments upon the financial state of France : I shall now say a few words on that subject. For the last few days, the stock and share markets have worn a more favourable aspect; prices haverisen. Money isless scarce on Change. Exchanges are made at low prices, and the discount on bills does not exceed from 31 to 4 per cent. Lastly, it is considered probable that the pay ment required for the Lyons and Northern Company, in December, will be made with facility. The onl v cause of serious anxiety was the state of the Bank of France. That establishment, which generally possesses as much in gold as there are notes in circulation, was at one time in possession of 80 millions of gold, to meet an amount in notes of 270 millions. There was little to alarm in such a state of things. In a financial crisis, a bank in possession of gold to one-third of the amount of its notes in circulation may be considered safe. The regents of the bank, however, who are by no means remarkable either for courage or capability, finding themselves in a novel situation, had already caught fright, and were thinking of negotiating a loan either in London or Amsterdam of two millions SPAIN.—A correspondent from Madrid, under date the 30th November, has sent us the following state ment, confirmatory of the " situatiou" of which we published add an seer to t t yesterday ils m ou pec r u ti s n u g al th S e p a tish ee. n M e o w t er, s. He which h a s are worthy of notice: "At twelve o'clock to-day the present ministers were expecting their dismissal. The opposition party, or coalition of Progressistas and dissenting Moderadoe, supported by the Infente D. Francisco, father of the King- Consort, have worked hard, and, it would appear, with suc cess, to beat the adherents of the Queen-mother. Their object is to get into power immediately, so as to be in time to upset the elections, which promise a considerable majority in favour of the cabinet. Should the present ministers remain in power two days more, it wiU be too late, as the election days are the 6th and 7th of December. It is a fact worthy of attention, to show the state of affairs at the paean, that the Queen-Mother has called daily dining the pest week upon her daughter without being able to obtain an inter view for any length of time. Last evening, at half-past eleven, she went again, and was kept waiting a long while, the queen being closeted with some one else. When this person departed, Queen Christina was admitted. The star of the Duchess de Rianzares is evidently fast setting, at least for a time. You may rely upon the correctness of these details. Last night, at twelve o'clock, a fire broke out at the offices of the ministry of war, which is still burning. The whole of the records, as well as the offices of the minister and sub secretary, have been reduced to ashes. ITALY.—The encyclical letter of Pius IX. to the Catholic Bishops, opens by a homage in honour of the late Pope " cujus certe memoriam et gloriosa facto, aureis notis inscripta in ecelesire fastis semper admiratis tuo posteritas." The holy father then continues :—" You are aware, yellers ble brethren, how the most violent and terrible warfare IMP been waged against the Catholic cause in this unhappy cen tury, by those who have met together in an odious league, strangers to the holy doctrines, turning a deaf ear to truth, and drawing up from the ways of darkness the most ruon strous opinions, exaggerating them as much as in their power and spreading them among the people. We shudder from our very heart, and it is with heartfelt sorrow that we recall the frightful errors the numerous and varied artifices, the traps, the snares, the intrigues, by means of which those enemies of truth and light, those crafty masters of lies endea vour to extinguish in the hearts of all the fear of God, jus tice and probity, to pervert murals, to confound divine and human right, who seek the overthrow of the Catholic church and civil society. Then follows a nomenclature of the ene mies of the church, among which, figure those who deny the revelations, blasphemers, those who subject to reason the authority of the church and the word of God, Sectarians and others. The rest of the encyclical letter contains exhortations to the clergy written in en enlightened and religious spirit. The duties of the clergy are traced out under the three reports of doctrine, discipline, and practical life. Before ordaining, the bi hops are called upon to examine the candidate, to see if he be fit to be ordained, and this examination is to be severe, both m regards the acquirements and the morals of the candidata. Young men intended for orders are to receive a raglans education from their very youth. The best means for in structing the faithful, and for preventing proselytism, is the simple expounding of the word of God, without the vain at tirements of eloquence. The letter terminates by a prayer to the Throne of Grace, under the invocation and through the intercession of the Mother of God, of Mary the Immaculate Virgin, of the Prince of Apostles, to whom Jesus entrusted the keys of the Heavenly empire, of the apostle Paul, and all the saints, and through the apostolic benediction. The Pope has decreed a universal jubilee to be held at St. John Lateran and Santa Maria Maggiore, to commence on the second Sunday in Advent, and to continue till the 27th, the festival of St. John. Full indulgences (indulgentia peceatoruns omnium plenissiout ) will be granted. GERMANY.—BERLIN, Nov. 2R.—I have informed you that the Breslau deputation received from the king a favourable answer. The question respecting commerce and intercourse with Cracow is said to have been one for which the Prussian cabinet was wholly unprepared, and the people were, therefore, far from expecting so positive and consoling an answer as was yesterday given by the king to the petition for the continuance of the commerce of Silesia and, Prussia with Cracow, en the same footing as hitherto. The deputies of the city of Cracow were most graciously assured that by the negotiations which were already on foot between the cabinets of Vienna and Berlin, the commercial relations of the city of Cracow, under the dominion of Austria, should be regulated so that in future the commerce of the province of Silesia and of Prussia in general should enjoy the same advantages as hitherto. The king is said to have added, that though the political forms of Cracow were changed by the interference of the three protecting powers, yet the treaty of Vienna of 1815 would be the basis of the treatment of all the other relations of the late assemblies.— Allgemeine Zeitung, Dec. 3. Nov. 29.—Our Minister for Foreign Affairs has just received an energetic protest from Lord Palmerston against the absorption of the republic of Cracow. M. de Kamptz has been sent on a special mission to Vienna, to regulate the commercial interests of Prroisia in regard to the incorporation of Cracow with the Austrian dominions. VIENNA, NOV. 29.—The Swabian Mercury takes, upon itself to assert that the " violent declamation of the English and French journals respecting the occupation of Cracow produces as little effect amongst the polite of Vienna as the protests of England and France are likely to produce on the Northern courts." The Carlaruhe Gazette of the 3rd inst. says :—" A i document will be shortly published to be communicated to the courts of London and Paris, to prove that the northern powers had the right of suppressing the republic of Cracow without the co-operation of the other powers which signed the treaty of Vienna. In this manifesto a categorical dis tinction will be drawn between the powers who guarantee and those who participate directly in the contract. By standing guarantee the guarantees do not acquire the right of prohibiting the contracting parties from undoing their work, and entering into new agreements. This rupture can only have for result to dispense the guarantees from the obli gation of interfering in the discussions of the contracting parties. England and France only stood as guarantees, and did not perticipate in the contract; they only took a passive part at the time of the formation of the republic of Cracow. Thus, the treaty of Vienna has not been violated; but it would be so if France and England wished to regard them selves as contracting parties instead of mere guarantees." Stitlotal ILLNESS OP PRINCE METTERNICIL—The Cologne Gazette, of December 7, states, on the authority of a correspondent from the Danube," that the above distin guished statesman is dangerously ill, and that he has been confined during several days to his bed. It appears that he is suffering under a species of fever, which allows him no rest. The Gazette adds that Count Munch-Bellinghausen, the President of the Germanic Diet, is with the prince night and day. 'The Frankfurter Journal, of Dec. 6, copies the fol lowing remarkable paragraph from a Berlin paper : " Waasaw, Nov. 28.—At the commencement of the Russian new year, the kingdom' of Poland, the existence of which was guaranteed at the Congress of Vienna, will be abolished, and the territory be formed into a Russian pro vince. The arrangements are already made. On the 10th of January the line of customs between Russia and the kingdom' of Poland will be removed, and a free inter course will take place. This measure will confer many advantages on Polish manufacturers." WuarEmneuo.—A royal ordonnance has been issued convoking the Chambers for the 4th January next. HitFesLAw, Nov. 29.—The Schkaische Zeituny states that the commercial deputation which went to Berlin, in order to induce the government to take steps for securing the interests of Silesia, with reference to its trade with Cracow, had returned to Breslaw. The members of the deputation report that they rece.ved the assurance of the government, that it would pay particular attention to the trading interests of that province, and that it had already demanded the maintenance in Cracow of the status quo of customs and duties as guaranteed by the treaty of May 5, 1815. Should the negotiations prove successful, the Prus sian provinces contiguoue to the Cracovian territory will be placed on the favourable footing enjoyed by them previously to the annexation of the republic If the statement of the Silesian Gazette be true, the positive announcement made, a few days before, by the commercial Blatt of Breslaw, that the territory of the ex-republic will be comprised in the line of Austrian customs. annesrs to be at least premature. sterling. Fortunately the panic has come to an end. Gold begins to flow in instead of out. On the 4th instant, the bank received 1,200,000 francs in cash,and money, which went out through the arteries of circulation, is now coining in through the veins. The corn im portations, which exhausted ready money, will soon completely stop ; France has received from the ex terior more than two millions of bushels of wheat, as great a quantity as was imported at the time of the famine in 1818. The current account of the Treasury with the bank, which is only paid at present by a deposit of twenty. four millions, will infallibly increase between this and the first month in 1847. On one hand, the Treasury, after having made the six months' payment of the Three per Cent. Stock, which falls due on the 22nd of December, will require TIO more than can be met by the ordinary revenue. On the other hand the emission of royal bills now taking place, the reimbursement of twenty millions about to be made by the Northern Company, and the advances of the receivers-general, will form in the hands of government a fund which will necessarily be paid into the bank. I should not be astonished if the reserve cash in the bank was to be 110 or 120 millions before the end of January. I must observe to you that the uneasiness, if there be any uneasiness , is purely financial. It results from the incumbrancee which the multiplicity of industrial speculations has produced on the l'aris Bourse. Money is not realised only because too much has been called for. As regards commerce and manufactures neither have diminished their operations. Apart from the manufacture of common goods, which languishes because the peasants purchase little owing to the inundations and a bad season, all the establishments are glutted with orders, and all hands are employed. It is therefore to be hoped, that if the political situation improves, and the railroad schemes, which the public do not look upon favour ably, are liquidated, serenity and prosperity will reign again in our finances, the equilibrium of which has appeared to be for a moment disturbed. 0. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 29. Mr. Alison, the oriental secretary of the British Embassy, has just returned from Salonica, whither he had been sent by the lion. Mr. Wellesley, to in quire into charges which had been made by the Turk ish authorities against the English Consul of that place, of giving passports to rayahs, which enabled them to avoid paying the haratch or capitation tax. After a minute inquiry into all the circumstances of the case, it was found that the charges were ut terly frivolous. Though, from the fact of lonians wearing the same costume, and speaking the same language as the Greek subjects of the Porte, not a single instance has yet been known of a British Consul taking advantage of the facilities thus afforded him of practising any fraud upon the Turkish government. Neither Russia nor Greece can claim an exemption from the same accusation. Russian protection is sold at the chancelry at Pera for a trifling sum, and without other difficulty than merely the asking. The purchasers are generally Greek rayahs. The passport, however, is seldom produced but where the holder wishes to have the privileges of a Frank ; but where it is his interest to pass for a rayah, he remains in his original character. Witness the example given in the late trial of the assassin Stamiatades, who made an attempt on the life of the Prince of Samos. Stamiatades was a rayah, but having once fled to Russia to escape punishment for a political offence, he there obtained a Russian passport, under protection of which he re turned to Turkey to put his murderous design into execution. He was not mistaken. Russia extended her shield over the assassin, and saved him from the death he so richly merited. As far as Greece is con cerned, a certain check has been put to the evil. The Porte has sent instructions to its envoy at Athens to refuse signing any Greek passport until it be proved that the applicant is a real (Joni fide subject of the Hellenic government. This order has been communicated to the Turkish consuls through out the dominions of King Otho. The general sys tem pursued by the Greek subjects of the Porte, who wished to practice the frauds to which I have alluded, was to pay a short visit to Athens, or any other town in the Hellenicterritories, and on their departure from thence to take a passport as a subject of King Otho. I These false passports have been hitherto always visied by the Turkish consuls, for whom it was im possible, for the reasons already given, to distinguish between a Greek of Athens and one of Constanti nople. A sensation has been produced at the Porte by a document published in a late number of the Go:elle of Leipsig. In this document the near ruin of the Ottoman empire is foretold, and a plan is given 'Ube Grout. in general cabins - The rate to return thanks to the Almighty, under 'whose protection 4 you were enabled happily to get through a long and ] laborious session. In summoning you to new labours, I reckon as ever upon your patriotism. It is our duty to pc- , cupy ourselves seriously with our financial legislation. My government will immediately submit to yon the budget of the next year. The constitution, our mutual bond and guide, requires that the Chambers, in voting the budget of each year, shall not discuss the expenditure incurred, but thst to be made. Thus, my government will no longer have to apply to you for provisional credits, which attack the ad ministrative independence, and the liberty of the parlia mentary control of the budget. Confiding, therefore. in your zeal and intelligence, I expect your efforts towards this im portant point. My government will a‘so submit to you some bills, the urgency of which you will appreciate. My relations with other powers continue to be friendly. Believe me, gentlemen, when I say that it is a great satisfaction e for me to find myself again in the midst of you, and at bing able to express to you my gratitude for the film and loyal support, which, iu the interest of the State, you have given to my govprnment. Let us not separate, gentlemen, with out thanking Providence for the benefits for which the nation shows itself every day more and more worthy. Let us con gratulate ourselves mutually on the progress of our agricul• ture and our mercantile navy. Sooner or lister this progress wi'l leave no doubt in the mind of any person as to the sue cess of our efforts for the welfare of the country and the discharge of our debt to the Powers which have been our benefactors." We read in the same journal—" On the 11th ult. ' M. Coletti was attacked by • violent in fl ammatio n of the kid neys, accompanied by the most alarming symptoms. For five days the life of the minister was considered in danger ; since the 17th the malady began to subside. All apprehen sions for the life of the Minister have ceased." We learn by letters from Trebisond, of the 12th ult., , that the cholera was still raging at Tauris at the end of October. It is said that from the 11th to the 27th of that month 10,000 persons had died, and that the number of deaths daily when the account left was 200. At Bagdad the cholera had ceased to rage, except in a sporadic form, and the European Consuls had returned to the town from the environs which had not yet been attacked by the disease. A letter from Constantinople of the 16th ult, states that about 400 vessels in Turkish ports, bound for the Black Sea, to take in corn, were detained by the storms which had been raging for the last month. The small-pox was prevalent at Constantinople, and had muieldminogntohts twoa o tt r a d r efs ste w m er t e rt g , i o v f en 4 e s t o . Constantinople the carried off a great many victims. the S ob the engines for which were ordered in England. Bye letter from Constantinople, of the 17th, we learn that the steamers were in a very forward state, and that the engines had just arrived from London. A Smyrna journal of the 20th ult., states that the corn crops in a great part of Turkey have this year been good ; but as all the stores of the preceding year have been exhausted, it recommends that they should be replenished ae a precaution against a failure next year, and no exports be allowed, unless there should be a surplus when the stores have been replenished. THE GREAT WESTERN Was to have left New York on the 26th ult. If she dii so, she has now been out thirteen days; but, as the wind is against her, she is not expected at Liverpool before to-morrow. Yesterday her Majesty and her Royal Consort took their accustomed early walk in the pleasure grounds. Earl Grev arrived at Osborne House yesterday afternoon, acid had the houour of joining the royal circle at dinner. Their R.H. the Duke of Cambridge and Prince George, visited H.R.H. the Duchess of Gloucester yester day, at Gloucester House. The Chancellor of the kat:in:quer and Lady Mary Wood, left town yest( rday for Bowood-park, Wilts, on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne. General It. Colleton Dickinson, the oldest surviv ing General connected with the Royal Artillery, expired on the sth inst., at his residence near Notting-bill, at the advanced age of 84, and atter a military . service of 6.5 years. Yesterday Lord Palmerston received a deputation from the Aborigine.' Protection Society, charged with pre senting a memorial, craving his lordship's influence with the French government in favour of the natives of the Georgian and the Society Islands; and more especially that the ac knowledged independence of the latter might be permanently secured. The deputation received a cordial assurance that his lordship's sedulous attention would be given to the subject. TIIE MEMBERS FOR TIM CITY OF LONDON.— The Liberal candidates for the representation of the City of Lond..n at the next general election will, it is now under stood, be Lord John Russell, Mr. Patteson, Sir G. Lar pent, and Mr. Rothschild. From Last Night's Gazette. DOWNING-STREET, DEc. S.—The Queen has appointed 11. T. Bowen, Esq., to be her Majesty's Solicitor- General for the island of Trinidad. WAR-OFFICE, Dec. 9. 11th Light Drags.—Serj.-Major E. Bradbury, from lot Drag. Gds., to be cornet, without pur. 22nd F.—Li. nt. 11. A. M. Deane, from 63rd F., to be lieut., vice F. Minket, who ret. on b.-p. 63rd F. 29th F.—Brev.-031. 11. R. Wyatt, from h..p. Unatt., to be Lieut.- Col., vice Byer.-Cal. J. Simpson, who exch.; Major A. T. Hemphill to be Lieut.-CoL, by pur., sire Wyatt, who ret. ; Capt. G. L. Way tote motor, by pur.; Limit W. Kirby to be rapt., by pur.; Ens. V.. S. SlllllllOllB to be lieut., by pur.; G. A. Ferris to be ens., by pur. 33rd F.—Ens. W. M. Pechell to be heat., without par., vice Keane, prom. in 56th Y.; Gent. Cadet F. S. Vacher, from the RI. Mil. Col, to be ens. 4 Itit F.—Lieut. J. A. I. Phillipps to be capt„ by pur., vice Radon, who ret.; Ens. W. IL Ilothan: to be lieut., by pur.; G. White to be ens by per. 71st F.—Lieut. F. G. Scott to be emit., by pun, vice Brickenden, who ret. ; Ens. J. I. Mardonnell to be lieut., by pur. • 0. Wern y ss to be ens., by pur. ; Lieut. W. 9 Prince to be adjutatlt, vice Scott, I p rom , 76th F.—Ens. 11 Rising to be lieut., by pm., vice Whitter, who ret. . • J. F. Bland to be ens., be pur. /114 F.—Lieut. 11. E. Smell to be eapt.„ without pur., vice Brev.- major Edmonstone, dee. 95th F.—Lieut. C. A. Cobbe to be cant., by pur., Ties Thompson, who ret.; Paws. T. li. Feneren to be lieut., by pur. ; S. B. Kekewich to be ens., by pur. 97th F.—Ens. 11. S. J. Vicars to be Ikut., by pax., vice IVoods, whose prom. hss been canc.; Ens. T. Venables to be lieut., by pur., vice Cornish ,who ret ; O. B. Cannon to be ens., by pur. RI. Newfoundland COP.—Lieut. B. C. Oliphant, front 96th Regt., to be lieut., vice Hunt, prom: OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Dr,c. 5. RI. Artillery—Capt. and Brer.-ratijor W. H. Bent to be Lieut.-Col., vice Hornsby, &a. • See. Capt. G. Sandham to be (apt. ; First Lieut. T. Knox to be sec. eapt.; Sec. Lieut. A. M. Calvert to be Mat lieut. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY. The sixth annual meeting of the proprietors in this company was held yesterday, at their offices. St. Mary-axe. About 100 gentlemen were present. Sir John Campbell, K.C.H., the deputy-chairman of the court of directors, presided. Mr. JANIS ALLAN, the secretary, read the notice con vening the meeting, and the annual report of the directors, from which we select the following as the most important passages The board of directors are enabled to Inform you that the net pro fits of the year ending 30th September, 1446, exieed those of the cor responding year, 1345, by the sum of 19,0001. The directors have appropriated out of the half-year's trading receipts, the sum of 22,000'1. to the insurance fund, which makes that fold now amount to 106,0001. The ships of the company, during the period referred to, have been covered by insurances effected upon them to the extent of 3106,0001., and by these measures the board considers that the wishes of the body of proprietors, in regard to protecting the floating property of the company, have been fully carried out. They recommend that the principle already adopted, of establishing an insurance fund, shall continue to be acted upon until that fund shall accumulate to the sum of 200,0001. With such a fund to meet contingencies, together with the provision in the depreciation fund, set apart out of profits fur maintaining the floating property of the eompiny at its original value, the directors feel that the value of the company's stock is being suffi ciently and permanently guaranteed. hoeing the past year, the directors have hail under their consideration the subject of reducing the rates originally established in 1843 for paegage.money by the 0001- pany's amide between England and India, and Kiri!, next year sr rangementa will be adopted for carrying into effect such a reduction as will be equivalent to a diminution of ten per cent. on the company's present full fares between Southampton and Calcutta, Madras and Ceylon, for first-class accommodation. The caperw of the transit through Egypt has also been diminished in consequence of late restu. lotions adopted by order of the his Highness the Pacha; and the entire reduction is intended to stand thus: fur instance, From Southampton to Calcutta, let rime accommodation for general passengers hitherto chained by this company 1128 0 0 Transit through Egyp paid by them in addition lB 0 0 Amount hitherto charged for laicism assuomodsthwi - .1143 0 0 The directors propose, in lieu of the above rate, to charge El la 0 0 And the *Titmice through Egypt being reduced how £l2 to 12 0 0 in March, 1847, will be ... £127 0 0 It is the intention of the directors shortly to have a branch of the London establishment appropriated to the special purpose of reo'ivi.R ' • direct f, all parcels and packages from the parties forwarding them, a, it will be their anxious desire to afford to the public, in this matter, every accommodation that can be reasonably required. As the mm pany's vessels are expected, in the course of the ensuing year, to extend the present communiistion with China to the port of Bombay, the directors have considered it to be essentially necessary to pro c ure adequate dock accommodation at the port of Bombay, and, with this view, they arc now in treaty for the docks there, called the " 3laaairon Docks," and the preinisea connected therewith, the negotiation for which they base reason to believe will terminate satisfactorily. It appears evident to the directors that there is an anxious and increas ing desire in the public mind to procure, through the instrumentality of this company, a further extension of the benefits of steam nasign tion, especially in the Eastern Seas, and ere long it will become neces sary for your directors t. adopt a decided course of policy upon this question. The connexion of Calcutta with the line to China, joining at Singapore, and also the extension from llong Kong to the northern port of Shanghae, has been, as already intimated to the proprietors, strongly urged upon the directors, and thefe is no question but that each additional branch lines would materially benefit the existing isperations of this company, by weaving an increased intercourse and traffic to the main lines. The directors desire to proceed deliberately and prudently in any additional extensions; but they feel that it will be decidedly for the permanent interest of this company, to place itself In suet, a position, that if the extension alluded to, as well as that embracing the Australian colonies, be determined upon by her Ma jesty's government, the company may be enabled to show that they power sufficient capital wherewith to carry out such operations. The proprietors were made acquainted, in the last report, with the feet that Ins Highness the t'acha of Egypt had adopted arrangements for placing under the control of his government the Egyptian Transit Company, and that this company'a ateam-vessel, the Delta, Ito. , had been purchased by his Iliglinem. At the time when these measures were adopted the Puha very urgently premed the directors to consent also to sell the other small iron steam-vessels, the Cairo and Lotus, which, for 110111 C years, had been navigating the river Nile, under a firm= from his Highness. The directory, though they were aware that theee two vessels were every year becoming less available for the passengers' transit, sod that a decided objection would be made to this company substituting others more imitable, were nevertheless unwill ing to comply with the request referred to mild they had some Colin /Imre of the manner in which the transit establishment would be cumstance of l'hiens having recently his determination oily to accept power on the express condition that the business of the state should be really directed by those who are responsible for it. Referring to the violent attacks of some of the English journals on Louis Philippe, for his inter ference in those matters which ought properly to belong to his foreign minister, Ls Sie'ck says: Behold, then, the fruits of Id. Guicot's doctrines ! In the blindness of his seal as a courtier, he delares that the crown musthave all the eredit of the good done in the business of the state, and none of the responsibility for the evil ; as 'f it was possible to divide the human conscience ; as if the right of acting, once acknowledged, must not bring with it as ne cessarily the liability to blame as the right to praise. To justify his strange doctrine, M. Gallant invoked the example of Great Britain, where, he said, the crown could directly interfere in the conduct of public affairs without being ex posed to the control of public opinion. What wall the Minis ter of Foreign Affairs say now, when he receives from Lan don this new contradiction to his doctrines' The English nation, with its rude good sense, and rough logic, protests against the refined distinction of the rhetorical minister. There where it sees, or thinks it sees, real and deci sive action, it places serious responsibility, and rearm the right of censuring that power whose personal influence on other occasions it praises. How you must felicitate your self, continues Le Siecle, addressing the Guizot ministry, for having thus placed on the head of constitutional royalty a crown of thorns, and put in its hand a reed-sceptre to pre sent it to the insults of foreigners! What a service you have done to France, in rendering the throne itself the ob ject of every diplomatic rancour ! How wrong the opposi tion has been in maintaining that your complaisance com promised royalty, your adulation betrayed it, and that a ministry without real power is a buckler without strength to resist! A mystery still continues to hang about the alleged protest of the French cabinet against the Cracow affair. The direct contradiction of two quasi official organs on the subject, mentioned in our correspon dence of yesterday, and the absolute silence of the more directly recognised organs of the cabinet, ren dered it doubtful whether a protest had been sent at all, and it was expected that the Dekts at least would brzak silence on Monday, so as to remove all doubt upon a question on which so much public anxiety was felt. Not a word was uttered by the Debats. The Epoque, however, commits itself to the fax'. that a protest has actually been forwarded ; but this is all that the ministerial journal communicates to the public. The financial and commercial crisis which has me naced the country, and, in connexion with it, the question of subsistence, continues to engage mach public attention in Paris. Happily, owing to the abundant supplies of wheat and flour already imported, all serious apprehension of a deficiency in the most necessary article of subsist ence is removed. In the ten months ending 31st Oct., there were imported into France 2,637,000 met. quintals of grain, and 30,966 quintals of flour, equivalent altogether to 34 millions of hecto litres, composed almost entirely of wheat. This quan thy is equivalent to about eighteen days' consump tion. This large importation of foreign corn, four or five times greater than the ordinary amount annually imported in France, not being accompanied by a cor responding demand for native manufactures, has ne cessarily caused an exportation of specie, and a consequent scarcity of money, but this, though considerable, is far from being the only cause of the present monetary crisis. The quantity of specie in the Bank would still have been sufficient to have pre vented any derangement, hut that, simultaneously with this, the balance held to the credit of the trea. sury is reduced to 35,000,000, and even this amount it is expected will have to be speedily withdrawn, owing to the deficiency of the amount proceeding from the taxes on consumption, a consequence which necessa rily attends the high price of corn. The usual amount of specie in the Bank of France is 250,000,000 ; this is at present reduced to 100,000,000, of which 80,000,000 are in Paris, and the remainder in the chests of the provincial branches. If, as seems at present inevitable, the Treasury reduce still further its balance ; there are but three courses which present themselves to'the direction—they must either contract their discounts, raise the rate of interest, or negotiate a loan with the Bank of England. The Opposition press, in severe terms, charges the government with want of foresight in passively suffer ing their embarrassments to accumulate, without pro viding measures of relief. They have not, says the Constitutionnel, of Monday, come upon them unawares; but the Ministers of Finance, of Public Work., and of the; Interior, treated all the fears en tertained as chimeras ; they seemed to expect that tne die. posable capital of the country was inexhaustible, and yet in a few months the worst predictions were realised, and the ministerial journals themselves were forced to declare that too much precipitation had been allowed in sanctioning the great public enterprises. It is now proposed to aid the corn. panics; but it is more difficult to remedy than to prevent the evil, and we have little confidence in the efficacy of the re medies proposed. The Madrid journals and private correspondence of the date of the let inst., were received in Paris on Monday, the same mail bringing advices from Lisbon to the 2.3 th ult. The Isturitz ministry have been reinstated and M. Pacheco had resigned. The difference which had arisen between the Queen and the Ministry had been settled by the intervention of the Queen Mother and Count Bremen. Up to the latest advices from Lisbon no decisive movement had taken place. Saldanha was still before Santarem ; it was said that the Junta at Oporto and the Marquis de Louie had urged ])as Antes to take a decisive step or otherwise Cie cause of the revolution would be lost. The pro;ressista journal, El Expeelador, was seized for the third time, on the 29th, on which the Eco del Comercio observes that, until the press shall have more security, it will be impossible to speak the truth with safety. Such a persecution on the part of the Government does it little credit. El Espanol havin.! said that England would protest against the retracta tion made by the Infant l)on Enrique, the Heraldo, the organ of the ministry, observes that its profound conviction is that, before the spectacle of Spain, more tranquil than ever, developing her institutions in the shade of peace and order, and be fore the grave questions which have been raised in Spain, England will change that coldness which is observed to-day between the Cabinets of London and Madrid, into that good and cordial un derstanding which ought to prevail between the countries. In reference to the Ministerial crisis mentioned in our correspondence of yesterday, the Herald° has the following : We passed through a ministerial crisis yesterday which for a moment seemed likely to compromise the existing order of things. Every one is aware that M. Pacheco de manded, some days since, eonge to proceed to Cordova, where he is a candidate for the coming elections. This being refused to him he sent in his resignation, and left without more ado for the province. The journals of the Oppo. sition made so much noise about the matter, that her Majesty, before accepting his resignation, thought fit to take council with persons less interested in the affair than the ministry. In consequence the Queen refused on Friday to sign her accept ance of the resignation of M.Pacheco, when presented to her by the Minister of Justice. On the Saturday, the ministers met and ratified their former resolution. On the Sunday they held a council, at which her Majesty was present, in which they exposed their re-sons for so acting, which may be summed up in the following words, attributed to the President of the Council :—" The ministers aro at the feet of your Majesty but not at those of M. Pacheco." On the breaking up of the council the ministers decided on sending in their resignation. The Queen not wishing to decide at once on so important a question, sent for the Marquis de Volume, who, on the Monday, accompanied by MM. Tejado, Cleonard, and Lopez Ballectoros, returned tothe palace. Her Majesty having asked their advice, they replied as their duty as loyal senators and men of honour commanded them, that in the place of the ministers they would have acted precisely the same. Her Majesty then sent for M. Isturitz, and signi fied that it was her will to follow the advice of her ministers, and, after some demur, he was prevailed upon (as stated yesterday) to retain office. PORTUGAL.—Our Lisbon correspondent writes on the 23rd from that capital, and proceeds as fol lows : Supposing it to be true, and that Caul at once marches on Santarem with the force now under his command (amount ing in that case to 2000 men), he will be enabled to hem Das Antis, in so clasely as to cut off his supplies and reduce him to a capitulation, as Saldanha cuts off all hope of any successful sally on the side of the capital. Judging tram his antecedents, I think it most likely that Cazal will make en attempt at the reduction of Oporto, and thus neutralise, to a considerable extent, the advantages he has gained. With the exception of the above there is no military news stirring here. I expect the Cyclops to sail in a day or two for Spit head, with despatches from Mr. Southerne and Colonel Wylde ; after her departure Colonel Wylde will again repair to the head-quarters of Saldanha at Cartaxo. The Minister of Finanees addressed lately a long report to the Queen on the subject of the public debt, the state of credit, and the causes in which the present financial difli• culties of the government originated. This repert is con tained in the Demi() of the 21st inst., and it is accompanied by a decree creating an est shlishment for the maintenance of public credit here, which is to be termed the " Bank of Portugal." The decree consists of thirty-seven articles, and its pros isions are of so peculiarly intricate a character, that 1 shall not attempt to analyse them, or to say more of the THE LEVANT MAIL. We have received by the Levant Mail the Con stantinople journals to the 18th, and Athens journals to the 20th ult., both inclusively. The former state that the ministers of the Porte were chiefly occupied with discussing the means of improving the condition of the people by salu tary reforms in all the branches of administration ; blus that it was also eng teed in preparations to chastise the Kurds for the massacre of the Neatorians. The Moniteur Gree contains an account of the opening of the Chambers on the 19th by the King, who made the following speech: " Let ns .` \ • conducted und er beetnhewinciwn 6syt,steigiym:.,,,,i,Th,btayt:exthattoe.ththnow stating that his Highness's govenunetu has, In gM fulfilled the assurances then means of transit through Egypt, awl diet of the Pacha, that it would be agreeable to his Mon request referred to were complied with, the d ak . motives of policy, yielded to the suggestim, and fer to him their steam-boats on the Nil e . in co,t and equitable price for the property. sect. the - i proprietors (30th May), the directors have contas e • ships to be built in London, of 1,100 tons and 4PD I and for one vessel in tilistgow of i,OOO tons end aintain the efficiency of the establistunent. A tad rr purchased for the purpose of erecting • co - suite of offices in Loadenhall,treet, which lire now be completed in 11047. The annual expense of ps Mining thuseoffices devolves up on th e managing dis the company'• deed of settlement, are bound to pe t free of all costa, to the company, suitabie etnie s hardness in the City of London. The dividend paid for the half-year to 31st )lard cent.; and the directors now reissnmend that out a twelve months' trading a payment to the proprie per cent, which, together, will make the dividend year ending 30th September, This report was received with general spy The CHAIRMAN said this report required ment. It was similar in character to those presented on all firmer OC(11$101111, and it n :Teets gratifying to the shareholders, showi only extended resources , but a character of lily, a great augmentaLon in the number of the last annual meeting, and an imp rove d company's finances. The proprietors mie with satiefection the profitable manner in sr bad been invested; and they must also be due attention had been paid to its security laxly instanced in the great angmentatior place in the insurance fund. The director Feneral meeting would concur in the sugge in the report to allow that fund to accume present amount, in order to meet the risks which the company had been at in extends the necessary operations in the India and affairs of the company hat, at least, been nistered, and it still continued to hold the rr tion in public estimation. The sharehok greater advantage from the operations of t they could ever have anticipated in foundi was every prospect of those advantages increased, so long as unanimity existed a: the state of the revenue, and the menses declared, great credit was due to three g( connected with that department ; and be I considered that all the measures undertake had been well adapted to secure the prese welfare of the company. General CAtaistatte seconded the met, pressed his approval of the steps taken by his confidence in their future management Mr. DENT said there was one passage which he had been particularly gratifies lated to the reduction of the passage mot He regretted that a suggestion, thrown ou ing, as to the publication of a short abstra had not been adopted. It was, ne doub to get 8 per cent. as a dividend, but it the shareholders to have a short status: and expenditure, as was done by the I Navigation Company. It was true the et company was now most efficient; and On serve it so was to publish tile accounts. h management did themselves injustice. The Hon. J. T. MELVILLE suggested tk wise to have a regular publication of the company had succeeded in establishing al East. When this was accomplished, he publication. As an auditor of the accost that the company was in an excellent cot sent moment. Mr. limits° asked if the accounts were proprietor. ? The CHAIRMAN said this was the OM. tion of the paseag. money, that had bee Lion three years and a half ; and, it the way clearly, a still further reduction we made. One reason why this had not bee: the highly expensive character of the obliged to employ. The propcsed pubis would be injudicious at present, and woo pany to considerable annoyance. The when the accounts might be published, bt interests would be subject to serious el( were now done. The proprietors might se office, vouchers for every item ; and, ut stances, he hoped the matter would not b Mr. F. CARLT.TON said the reduction would amount to 10,0001. in the year; made an argument with governm( nt for in the contract for the mails. The gone' rawly watched the proceedings of thi narrowly than some of its own prlprieter dent from this, that much injury might r premature publicity to the accounts. Mr. MINCHIN said he was confident the passenger fares would be more than re on the number of passengers. Mr. JACKSON expressed a hope that tl been increased by screwing down II company's servants. He trusted the the schools at Southampton would private subscriptions of the proprieto taken up by the company as a comp easily be done, when it was consid pany was putting away 22,0001., besides dividend. The CHAIRMAN said the constitution c not admit of their supporting the institut ton, as a company. The directors were the institution should be supported, s already been highly appreciated. As to rants, the company were giving salaries • other company ; and whenever extraonli played, the directors rewarded it by a In refusing to publish the (lemmata, meeting that the directors had nothing w (Applause.) The motion for the adoption of the re and unanimously agreed to. Mr. HADDO moved : That on and after the 2-hl inst., a payment o profits be made to such proprietors as are 5 same, to make up the dividend tor the last 3 per annum. Mr. CROSS seconded the motion, whir Mr. DENT inquired whether the char served at the commencement of the allotted to the shareholders at par, as v joint-stock companies. Mr. F. CARLETON said that when were issued, they were issued to the mium of 51., which wit made applies fund ; and as that fund was to be raised to 200,0001., the directors proposed to on the remaining 1,800 shares to this appropriating it among the shareholde now at 78/. ; and, by charging a prep share, the insurance fund would be ra 160,0(101. (Cheers.) Thanks were then voted to the direr tory manner in which they had condo company ; also to the chairman, for tl , he had presided. The CHAIRMAN severally &anew] meats, and the meeting then separated THE ROYAL EXCHANGE.—Yesh ing portion of the asphalte, that forme( Royal Exchange, was removed, to b hard material termed Turkey ston paving of the Exchange destroyed by fi of which has been some time laid down ficient to cover the entire area, the woi an unfinished state for some months, til be obtained from Turkey. SUDDEN DEATH OF COLONEL TART POOR LAW COMMISSIONER.—N melancholy decease of this gentleman, terday (Thursda)•), at the Haverforduu It appears that the deceased, in compat Esq., the chairman of the board of Qua paid an official visit to the workhouse when in about a quarter of an hour aft seized with illness while inspecting or On passing through the kitchen he von remained there for about half an hour Mr. Rowe, the surgeon. tinder the a man, he was immediately removed to t means which medical skill could sugge him, but all in vain. He lingered un about seven o'clock. when he breathed on the body was held the same day, Esq., coroner, when Mr. Rowe gave it death was occasioned by the rupture of brain. The jury returned a verdict mart hen JOlOll4l. DISTRESS IN SPITAWELDS. prfsent prevails among the silk wear( ment. A fund for their relief hes auspices of the clergy and influent neighbourhood. 111 E POOR OP ST. PANCRAS.— ranged yesterday, after much discussic ing of directors and guardians that I should be continued in the separatim day, but have Christmas fare like the LORD I)DNDONALD'S EXPLOsI The Scientific Commission appointed on the merit of his lordship's discover investigation of its principle, which n of Captain Warner nor on the ingeni gun-cotton, but is, in regard to the 1: ferent nature. Cotton explodes ins' galvanic spark, whereas his lordshit continuous evolution of intensely powi like the unremitting genentiou of ate the effect of which has been rendered by the steam-gun (or tube) of the it from which a stream of shot, followin succession, pass through the atmosphe and consequently transport their 011 greater distance, than shells or 'hot artillery.—llampaifire Telegraph. INQUESTS.—(YE.,TERDAN.)—D —By Mr. Bedford, at St. George's Stevens, aged forty-one years, a lat several young men were amusing tht of the sth of November, and it was r cannon, in doing which the decease frightfully shattered. He graduall3 Friday last from the injuries he rece dental death."--DEPLORAIILB CA Mr. C. J. Canter, at the Duke of lie inch; to inquire into the circumstanc of Jane Carey, aged fifty-nine, wife