The Express. — London, England, 1846-11-04 00:00:00

the belie of ioiete. spook*? to the ch il dren inclipidls•Py Oft the neceoeft of prams ret With much reason may the reviewers*: Is this the proem and result of that religkee ebeeekla lerelideb some of our Mends are pleading with so lasi agsgsgbess•—geen as though its absence from oar day sabode. mob be me • deelarbsee to our piety as a people? We dare =Mot elembes le donee the Wonishment we have felt on it raga •f Os MM. on this subplot, promeding, as it doe, fres sue vilealve l t a ere been accustomed to regard as Imbecile, ye sellkelyee be lone Web teeing to a prejudice which they must knew to be a delisiies, We do not quite agree with the writer as to the method or limits of government interterinee with education. But this must be the subject if a future article. --- WE have heard a good deal theme two days of the Archduke Palatine, a member of the Austrian imperial family, remarkable for the complete nullity which distinguishes its princes, and the number of names and titles, which canal) such repletion in the pages of the Gotha Almanac. This prince has, it seems, imitated a well-known freak of Lord BROUGH.iIt, in pretending to rap at Death's door, and to gain admission, this being merely done to induce his friends to write his epitaph. His Imperial Highness, like his singular lordship, has come to life again, and has the satisfaction of perus ing at his breakfast table necrological accounts of his many virtues. Amongst these fond tributes to his worth and im mortality, the Archduke must be not a little asto nished to find those of English journals. His Imperial Highness little dreamed how cognisant and concerned the world of London were about him. He little imagined that the expansion of our sympathies should overleap the Danube, and that we should hail him as a great man. He go verned Hungary, this good Prince, for many years, and entertained remarkable " designs for its improve ment, too often thwarted by the Court of Vienna." During hie reign, we are told, "Hungary recovered the fall consciousness of her rights and resources." Nothing more likely or more true. The epoch be tween 1830 and 1846 has certainly been an awaken ing epoch for Young England, Young Ireland, Young France, Yoang Germany, and why not Young Hun gary? But we never understood, that sovereigns had much to do with this epoch in each country, ex cept to give their names to it. We are not prepared to call in question either the greatness or the virtues of the Archduke Palatine, merely wishing the world joy of his continuing to wear and to exercise them. Sunday being the festival of All Saints' day, none of the Paris journals were published on Monday. The storm quo of the Cabinet is confirmed by the Ministerial journal, the Portefeuille, which lately gave the formal announcement of the changes which are since renounced. That journal, in its number of Sun day, says that when the article announcing the in tended elevation of M. Guizot to the presidency, and the other changes in the Cabinet, was written, those measures were contemplated, but that unforeseen ob stacles and unexpected circumstances have prevented these " wise and natural combinations." The last reports of the inundations brought intelli gence of a fact, compared with which, all the preced ing horrors were insignificant. An entire village, in the department of Allier, containing six hundred in habitants, was suddenly engulfed by the deluge, and every soul perished. The particulars of this will be found elsewhere in our columns. The Madrid mailer the 27th ult., with advices from Lisbon to the 21st, was received in Paris on Sunday afternoon. The decree for the dissolution of the Cortes had not yet been published, but was expected to appear before the end of the month. Disturbances had broken out at Saragossa, but the authorities are stated to have acted with such vigour, that it was soon suppressed. The populace, on the approach of the troops, soon dispersed. Some cries of " Viva Espartero" were heard, and fire-arms were dis charged. The ministerial journals say that this news, purposely exaggerated by the oppo sition, caused a decline of the funds. The English squadron was seen off Cadiz on the 20th; it consisted of five ships and two steamers. It left on the 21st, as it was supposed, fur the coast of Portugal. Letters from Lisbon state that the first regiment of infantry, composed of 400 men, had embarked for Santarem. The King accompanied this regiment to the place of embarkation. On his route through the city not a rico was heard, nor did any one salute him. On his return, two persons on horse back were insulted by his attendants, for not dis mounting as he passed. These two persons, and others, were arrested for not having shown marks of respect towards him. Arrests continued at Lisbon from day to day, and suspected persons were confined on board the vessels in the river. Since the above was written, the Madrid mail of the 28th ult. was received at Paris. The decree for the dissolution of the Cortes was published; there will be no royal session. A despatch was received by the Minister of War from Saragossa, confirming the intelligence received by the last mail, that the revolutionary movement in that city had been suppressed. The Herald() states that intelligence was received from Paris and London, which left no doubt that the most fanatical party of the Carlists were preparing to make an attempt in Spain. It was said that Cabrera and Fortedell had embarked in England for Gibraltar or the coast of Portugal. The Saragossa correspondent of the Herald° wrote that, on the evening of the 20th, an Esparterist move ment had broken out there. Twenty-five individuals had been arrested, the others having taken flight, abandoning their arms and ammunition. as have suffe re dr the inundations . The Archbishop of Paris, by a letter, dated the 29th ult., has called on the amv. o his diocese to make, in their several parishes, 011 AM Stiati Day (yesterday) cell'-ctions for the relief of the samisen front the inundations. fIIANSAVLs_VrIII NavlrJaTiort.—The PAare de la mapou, of. she 29th ult. "Aye :—" We are able to give as eartels the following :ewe, which is of high importance to oredionrs. The :sinister+ of Marine and Finance have signed a treats with a company, represented by the Marquis de Itaigeo..ourt, Peer of France, concerning the tr ansatlantic naviotlon between Francs end New York. The principal clauses are the cession by the state for ten years of the steamers Ulna, Darien,Christophe Colomb, and the Canada, with the condition of insuring them for twelve millions of francs, and the making Cherbourg the point of arrival and departure. By the treaty the service is to commence on the let of December, but we have reason to think that it OM. not be organised before the beginning of 1847." MVRDER&—A rich farmer named Teissier, of Dun fierce, In the Haute Loire, was murdered a few nights ago, , in the following manner :—During • heavy _storm a man knocked at his door and implored shelter. M. Teirier rose and admitted him, but hardly had the stranger entered when he drew forth a pistol and shot M. Teiesier dead. He then made his escape, but from some information given by Mme. Teissier, who rushed out of her bed when . she heard the report of the pistol, there is as is believe that the murderer was a tenant of her husband, and his known enemy. He and another man, supposed to be his accomplice, have bem taken into custody.—A woman, named Poyelle, the wife of a farm labourer, was tried by the Court of Assize of the Somme, on the 29th ult. for the murder of her hus band during his sleep, and after a quarrel in which he had reproached her severely for her general bad conduct, and the criminal intercourse which she was carrying on with a neighbour, end which be had detected. The prisoner had endeavoured to establish a belief that her husband had com mitted suicide by stabbing _himself ; but the medical men, and others who saw the body, were of opinion that death had not been inflicted by his own hand, and some of the neighbours had heard a child of the deceased say to its mother—" Tu as tile papa." The child also, when asked who had killed its father, replied," C'eet maman qui l'a tat." The prisoner was found guilty, but the jury declared that there were extenuating circumstances, and she was only sentenced to six years' imprisonment with bard labour. WILFUL MISCHIEF ON A RAILROAD. A man named Noel was tried last week by the Court of Assize of the Somme on a charge of having intentionally placed the lives of several persons in jeopardy on the Bth of September last. It appeared from the evidence that when the enquete took place relative to the Boulogne and Amiens railroad, there was considerable opposition on the part of some of the inhabitants of the commune of Fontaine-sur-Somme, and that a deep rancour on their part followed the rejection by the authorities of the objections which they had made to the formation of the road. On the Bth of September it was known at Fontaine that one of the principal persons of the enterprise was to come from Abbeville with a train of wag gons containing materials for the road. As the train ap proached, Noel was seen on the road, and signs were made to him to get out of the way, which he did, but not before he had placed across the rails a large hedge-stake. There was not time to stop the train, and when it came to the ob struction it ran off the rails, but fortunately the only cala mity was some severe bruises sustained by two persons, who were thrown off one of the waggons. Noel, whose only de fence was intoxication, was found guilty, and sentenced to two years' imprisonment. Much surprise was manifested in court at the mildness of this sentence. ~„ PROHIBITION AGAINST THE SALE OF YOISON.— The Monitew' publishes a royal ordonnance, having for object to enforce the existing regulations for preventing the Lenity with which poisonous suMtances are purchased, and adding new restrictions. It is ordered that in future all persons dealing in poisonous articles shall make a declara tion before the Mayor of the Commune of the place in which their establishments are situated, so that it may be under direct control. Chemists and manufacturers using poisonous substances are to make the same declaration, and no poison is to he dispensed for medicine except by pharma cians, and upon the prescription of a physician, surgeon, officier de sante, or authorised veterinary surgeon. The venders of poisonous substances are to pleas upon the en velope of the parcel containing them, a paper with the name and address of the vendor, and stating the object for which it is destined. LEGAL DECISION IN THE CASE OF THE CLAUZEL FAwo.y.—The Civil Tribunal of the Seine delivered its judgment on Saturday in the suit of the Viscount Clauzel and his sister against Count Henry Clauzel, in consequence of the refusal of the latter to consent to the sale of the small property of the Cordeliers, forming part of the succession of their father, Marshal Clauzel, and containing the family vault in which the remains of the Marshal and those of his father and mother are interred. Our readers will remember from the report which we have already given of this affair that Count Henry Clauzel objected to the sale because his late father bad by his will requested that the property might never be alienated, and that his remains and those of his parents might be respected. The Tribunal has decided in favour of the plaintiff', on the ground that the Marshal could not by will set aside the positive obligation of the law for the sale of property in order for the division among the heirs. The property is, therefore, to be sold, and Vlsiount Clauzel is to remove the ashes of his family, and re-inter them wherever he thinks proper.—Goliroan4. THE. LATE DISTURBANCES IN THE FAUBOURG ST. ANTOINE, IN PARIS.—The persons arrested on a charge of having taken an active part in the late riots in the Faubourg St. Antoine, were brought for trial on the 29th ult., before the tribunal of Correctional Police; they were 41 in number, all belonging to the working class, or without profession of any kind, and already known to the police as suspicious cha racters, their ages varying from 13 to 40. The trial lasted three days, and tho evidence proved, on the part of some of the prisoners, a great deal of ignorance, brutality, and vio lence. It appears that the riot commenced with an attack upon the shops of two bakers, who, having sold all their bread, were charged by the mob with having kept it back for the purpose of taking advantage of a rise in the tariff price which was to take place on the following day, whereas they had on the day of the riot baked a double batch and sold it all, as the inhabitants of that part of Paris are in the habit of laying in a double stock on the eve of a rise. One of these bakers, in order to quiet the mob and save his shop from destruction, and also thinking his own life in danger, got ready, es rapidly as possible, a third batch of bread, which he distributed gratuitously ; but so little was want the real motive of the rioters, that some who obtained bread for nothing immediately sold it at one-fourth of its value, and others threw it into the kennel. The police having in terfered to put down the riot, some of the mob were exceed ingly violent, and insulted and wounded, by throwing stones, one of the commissaries of police and some of the po lice agents. The court, considering the evidence defective against twenty of the prisoners, acquitted them, but con demned the others to fines of from IGfr. to 2.5 fr. each, and various terms of imprisonment, from a fortnight to six months. _ - . IMPORTATION OP CORN.—The Marseilles Courrier of the 29th ult. sap : " The favourable weather of yester day has brought into our port a considerable number of vessels laden with corn. In the course of the evening 18 entered on quarantine, and 28 with a clean bill of health. Letters from Constantinople, by the last packet, state that 115 vessels laden with corn had sailed for Marseilles. GAMBLING IN PARIS.—On Thursday night a house where private play was carried on, Rue de l'Ecluse, 13, at the Batignolles, wu visited by the police, and about thirty persons were found seated at play round • green table. The stakes, cards, and furniture were seised, and the proprietor of the house was taken to the prefecture of police. The players consisted, as usual, of a few du, es, and a number of old hands known to the police. SHIPWRECKS AT ST. PIERRE AND MIQUELON.— The Minister of Marine and Colonies has received a des patch from the commandant of the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, reporting that, on September 19th, in the morning, a violent gale came on from the E.N.E. veering to N.E., and by 11 o'clock, a.m., two English merchantmen were driven on to the rock, called the Ile aux Moules, and both wrecked. The crews got on to the rock, which rises above the water and clung till midnight, when they were taken off. The French brig, Solidor, also suffered the same fate, and her crew were, in like manner, saved by the boats of the Vigilant, stationed at St. Pierre, and the steamer Flambeau. In the morning of the 20th, the wind lulled, and the Flam beau went out to seek for an other vessels that might be in distress. She found that had suffered, but none so much as to need her assistance. Since then, several large ships from the Great Bank had come in with losses of sails and boats, and several men, among whom was the captain of the Le'ocadie, of Grandville. On the Ile aux Chiens, near St. Pierre, fifty fishing-boats, each worth 400 francs, were lost. DIPLOMATIC CHANoee.—We read in the Debata : —" The Manilas). is, it is said, about to publish in a few days an Ordonnance, whereby M. de Bois le Comte, the King s Minister at the Hague, is appointed Ambassador to the Hel vetic Confederation, in the room of M. de Pontois, who is allowed to retire, and is created a member of the Chamber of Peers. M. de Bussieres replaces M. de Bois le Comte at the Hague. M. d'Eyragaes is confirmed at Dresden, and M. Langsdorff at Carlsruhe. It is added that M. His de ' Butenval replaces the latter at Rio Janeiro. In opening to M. de Pontois the doors of the Chamber of Peers by an Ordonnance, recording his good and loyal services, the Ring has wished to evidence before the eyes of all the estimation in which he holds his person, and the remembrance he preserves of a career which has throughout been devoted to France. In the Peerage, surrounded by his colleagues who have pre ceded him, the place of M. de Pontois was previously marked out; and no one, we may boldly venture to affirm, can occupy it more worthily than he." THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY rted 6r on t7te ''`eeet could not be carried, accepted and s o pp o ---- Peel's measure. The circumstances were, therefore 7" 71 ; ,.., from what they were this time last year.—Mr, C oe h' can inform your lordship that arrangemente are n ar ra cuA a . -.., for a vigorous agitation in the metropolis Perhaps an energetic agitation will have the effect of e '4 e — es ti ing on your lordship to listen to the prayer of th e otnrhoatthleePriroceardn37—. rlta'hbbe7gresdteai'l'attletolti which have had the honor to present to your memo P.' e Lord John Russell (smiling): No, that would not ind slu e , to take the step you su,earest. But if I deem the al l e ss ,7 will not, in that case, hesitate t o advise my I o n t ;d ceigarY en er w th ith e t i dre m if m l w i ; e t ia a te pro op:e a g n bili in th g t : tesy with which he had received them. THE PEACE SOCIETY.-A lecture On the political and commercial importance of peace was delivered t ut evening by Dr. Bowring, M.P., at the Hall of Commerce. Threadneedle -street, to a crowded and lease revectable audience. The lecturer commenced by taking a revi the causes and consequences of war, as exhibited in thenea mercial and political history of the human race, desige stiss peace as the health, and war as th e debilitating eorro, l a. and destroying disease of the world, an d contendinc that Ci the wrecks and ruins of war no enduring empire had ern been founded. It might have been thought that the ei eee , e would have discouraged war • but alas' bibl e and hmook''' sword and scripture, had been brought into most ti n --"' union. Theclasaical education of the higher orders- end. ling, as the pagan writers did, the physie a l courage of ram —serve to feed warlike pass ions. But a more pes e dg spirit born among the multitude, might force its sac pg. ward ; and was there not promise of a better state of ride tte in the temperance movement—in the growing norri:ueg. ness to enlist in the army—in the feeling now happily se prevalent against capital punishment ? The pacific quistioa, in truth, was allied with whatever represented the pr oms of civilization, and the friends of peace might well rijoicen the many auxiliaries which were rasing up around t'a-u, A reverence of human life—an appreciation of its valur—e te one of the honouring characteristics of the pre.tia day. Public opinion must be enlightened, informed, and d e . cated, on the advantages of peace. We must call on oar poets and philosophers to afford us better man -fish than we found in the pages of thos e who pteedeg them. We must create an era in which genius would so longer light its torch sit the altar of human sacrifi, must strive to make war abhorrent to the youthful oiled. We must delve out of the oblivion of the past other deed s than those of clashing arms. All the great intellect. 4.1 as. Lion must be united in promoting peace.—The lecturer weal on to trace the gradual workings of commerce and eh ri , tianity, in actual and necessary alliance, to prom o t e t h e pr vow of the pacific principle. Steam and railways were *mune the greatest agents of peace, all of which tended to raise the gat lard of man to a higher level, broke down the barrit nwhin' separated states and empires, and blended and bound u l ti mo together in common interests. We knew somettiii of the blessings of peace from the experience of the 1.4 thirty years. Upon the import and export trade of Great Britain, taken together, there had been an increase in 1844 user 1814, of nearly 7,000,000 of tons of shipping employed, ur, in other words, our shipping had nearly trebled in a period of Mynas of peace. In 1814, our imports amounted to 33,781 .2e4ib s . ; whilst, in 1845, they were 85,281,9581b5. The lecturer quoted other commercial statistics, and referred to the pm. grew of the arts in proof of the triumph of peace. An sion to the progress of free-trade legislation elicited pest applause. It was a practical recognition of the gn i a and elevating declaration, that God, the common aall universal father had made of one blood all the people of the earth—that he had wrought with the same matereds—het he regarded with the same affection—that be diwipliari with the same tenderm ss, and would lead to the saute high tendencies the whole family of MAII. And what would bring the nations of the earth together as effectually, cud unite them as firmly in one common bond o f brotherhood 3- a '4ll/0 of their mutual wants and dependencies on each nth. r > The lecture was loudly cheered throughout, and thank- having been voted to the hon. gentleman, on the prep.-di:on of Mr. A. B. Stevens, seconded by the Secretary, th Rev. John Jefferson, the meeting dissolved. APPLICATIONS TO BE ADMITTED ATTORNFTS.-- Yesterday 157 notices were posted at the Court of Queen's Bench, Westminster, of persons who intend applyine to be admitted attorneys of that court in Hilary Term, Ihl7. To be admitted on the last day of Michaelmas Term, 1846, 8. For: the renewal of certificates on the last day of Michaelmas Term, 1846, 53, and for the renewal of certifs. elites in Michaelmas Vacation, 1846, 18. Total numher,236. PAROCHIAL CHARITY. —On Monday, being M! Saints' Day, Messrs. Carr and Smith, the churchwardens of the parish of St. Luke, Middlesex, with several of the punk authorities, proceeded to the church of St. Giles, Cripplegate, with which at was united up to the year 1732, for the pur pose of distributing wearing apparel, of various deaviptisas, to 1,500 of the industrious poor of the parish, and an entire dress to 60 boys and 60 girls,who were about to be apprenticed or to go out to service, the gift arising from sums of money coa -1 tributed some years ago by charitable individuals. A -may distribution took place in the parish of Crippkgatc to a laze number of apprentices. REDUCTION IN THE PRICE OF BREAD.—Ye4erday there waa a general reduction of one penny in the 411.. had, In Lambeth, Bethnal-green, Whitechapel, anal To: a, chile court-road; the best being 71d., and household 6,d. The West-end bakers still, however, maintain the aim•.• price, 81d. and 10d. INQUEST. INSALUBRIOUS Dweumircs.—liy Mr. Mills, at the White Horse, North-street, Fitzroy-squire, es the haiy of CarolineWartters, aged three months, the atfapriai of Sarah Wartters, a dressmaker. The deceased had has placed out to wet-nurse with a woman named Brown, the wife of a porter, occupying an apartment over a a.m. , o•teble in North-mews, adjoining the above house. Ou Sunday morning last, about 3 o'clock, Mrs. Brown suck!, d the de ceased, afterwards laying it down by her aide, and on saking at 8 o'clock she found it quite dead. Ever since tae duld was born it had been afflicted with weak eyes, I. hieh had latterly become very sore and bad. The deputy coroner re marked that he would have defied any one to cure the had eyes while the child lived where it did ; and the , rtluvium arising from the straw in ill-ventilated stables wae the cause of so many horses going blind. It was, he coceidered. a great pity, that where efforts were made to improte the dwellings of the poor, and a law passed forbidding loving in kitchens, that stables, like the one they had witues.,,l, and other pla ces similarly confined and unhealthy, had not been included. There being no reason to suppose that ,i,retsed died from other than natural causes, a verdict win seconded of " Found dead." ExrtontvE CoxtPousDs.—The attention which the invention of gun-cotton has attracted to explosive eiletanees in general renders everything relative to them of interest. We therefore publish the opinion of Mr. W. Greener, of Birmingham, on the subject, which is against the practica bility of using the gun-cotton for artillery of large calibre. In explaining the rationale of the mecha nical distribution of explosive matter, he oar. "The two agents in the production of gunpowder of all quali ties are nitre and charcoal. Sulphur is an adjunct not abso lutely necessary, save as an agglomerating suhetatie , , to firs an enduring consistency to the grains cf gunpowder. Ex periments have shown gunpowder to be equally propellant without this agent as with it. Sir Humphrey Davy die-rimed that gunpowder, formed mechanically into the sind.est state of grain or granulation possible, gave a much more instan taneous explosion than when in a larger grain. The prie• ciple is, that the smaller grains present the greatest amount of surface, a greater number of interstices to be acted upon by the flame, and hence the whole converted intoexplosive fluid simultaneously. Experieneehas shown this discovery to be perfectly worthless in pr Hike, as conviction has gradually returned to the fact thatguapowder, to be beneficially employed in the expulsion of prej , ctiles, must be made of a grain proportionate to the sire of the gun used. in sporting gunpowder there are thre , or four sizes of grain ; in artillery a very much larger grain is ne cessary—why ? That the grain may burn longer, to keep giving out fresh expulsive matter, until the large mass of projectile is put into motion, and to continue this generation of force until it has reached the highest state of velocity. This alight introduction brings us to the fact that gunpowder to be beneficial, must be a propellant, moderated in its ex plosive tendency by mechanical means. We possess knowledge of explosive materials vastly more power ful than gunpowder, hut, from this very fact, quite use less as a projectile force. This has been sufficiently tested on many occasions. The discovery of the gun cotton is the extreme diffusion of nitre in immediate contact with charcoal, or more properly speaking carbon, the ingredients 41 which exist in the most minute portions that can he con ceived, the nitre in solution, the carbon in the smallest particles, many thousand times more minute thnii ever attempted (or possible) to be obtained by any orb, r means whatever. The action of the acid upon the cotton, when immersed in it, is to remove the small proportion of vege table matter, and to impregnate the remainder, which is nearly all carbon, with nitre : thus forming by the simplest means the most perfect inisorporation of the explosive agents, and exposing an ani. , unt of surface to the action of the flame greater than .ilitaluahle by any other means yet discovered. It will be rerceised this is but the extension, to an enormous extent, of llav e's scheme of small granu lation; for it is but the wastaltaneous liberation of the gases of gunpowder by me, hanical agency; there is no new power obtained ; its action is thus powerful by its instants neotut ignition. The low temperature at which it is ignited arises from the minuteness of the particles brought in contact with the heating agent. The reason of its being exploded over granulated gunpowder without igniting it is, that its ex plosion does not endure sufficiently long to raise the particles of gunpowder up to 600 degrees of heat ; but could the gun powder be reduced to the most impalpable state of powder, similar to the cotton wool, it would explode with the same degree of heat. Sporting powder explodes at a lees temperature than cannon powder, and so on, all depend ing on the quantity of matter heated. Another point, that forty grains of the gun cotton effects more force, or gives more velocity (to small projectiles) than *fifty of gunpowder, may be explained by two facts, grams first, instantaneous explosion; secondly, filling a greater space, or being more bulky than the gunpowder in grain, it gains the aid of the expansion of the air contained within its interstices, and a corresponding velocity acquired. But that the same weight of the one will generate the rams amount of permanent gases as the other, is a chemical cer tainty ; therefore, we are justified in asserting the discovery to be a really mechanical means of diffusing and incorporat ing the agents of explosion. The just estimation of these facts must impress us with the conviction that, save for very limited purposes, this discovery can Hover benefit the human race, and is certain to cause many lamentable accidents ; no gun ever made will long withstand its use, if quantity is eimployed,ll l the intensity of its velocity brings it on a perfect similarity with the fulminating compounds ; these will project small projectiles with great velocity a given distance, but to obtain an extended range is impossible, with safety; its application to cannon will (if very great caution is not used) be The means of destroying many valuable lives ; for sufficiently do I feel conversant with tho subject to affirm, that there is her 14 , i n g under lie. Ti y the de ve hi c le reuulat ads, P •• be eouall i ,c maul in the • 1 0 co.. • • table m • • equ al won O. e I ',Repot a peek at of go • ,it will . If, wit lard; — Non g w th us that t • o bjection lire of t' master 8 , s tand', .. t y 61;. .e Baste services I privilege vidnal on • y train re is no ' .e nreessit piny. in y adve c baron •uc to e KI the lin . .Cave by w see the • Ruse it *itg of rail • gone eve e menthe b.-en thro II Dlt; of the 10t lit near C Its monst as found AIX A. as Mr. re descril . titake anl on, the air-law m 11,969. T Asticv. y, and We w ‘itu ttisn ,pe tolled of an emirs • c of the pl c o tton ant by power; • ere being making; h I not he fe situated in it effort', an Mugs of dr d other trod nd a free fel angles. 'l'l lie air they 1 t, and the .t ; Iroutifu !knee, tYI here at the icty of m seders; but n the most lib thee sicknes and the • of Astlry a visitations. high and the great I; green—brit • shady, wit • ows, and p • hops, and Tall y are I het rt's (vette° n ; for, we 'ng for hou t were in bl t, or where ly verdant ails, the at over with a , and in din °ugh for all igh, as I be the principa I the looms of cotton ; e staple mai ble to all th t only ball; ployment. Act of Pa else employer more of " I 1 before or the employe d it becam •-ilsworth, an • ese Lancash ed, and wot t knowing t • at even they MAI which, one of the in Cr• or not thi to I,e discuss in the first i • , where it ha years ago the Tan in Leigh. rn the weaving nth. they brow gh, taking it 1 Manchester em la and their we arising causes, WWI from Lcis I, producing th Meek they asks I Op manufact 846. sober red. So much for the room; the company was an eztraordinary medley. Most of the inhabitants were gone up,thdreivesiidy driven out s b ea y s t o h n e . sh .r ot h an s go d s v h e e m il o of r, th h e ow cas eve tle r: "d help of managed to collect a good round number together, with the hheere to ; to jin and men in ugly-cut uniforms, covered with a pro fusionalaaafrewPordwho under other circumstances would not have invited. Ladies of all-coloured faces and dresses were of gold lace and gaudiness ; but by far the most pie tbee tare:ague dresses were some of those worn by gentlemen, not as uniform, but as private fancies. I must not, however, omit the dress of some gentlemen who appeared as " officers" of the gold and silver mines. They wore a sort of leathern armour, much ornamented with tinsel and foil of purple and bronze, gold, silver, and black polish. They looked just like tropical beetles. Some of the Mexican girls were extremely beautiful ; of exquisit ely e clear, dark complexions, regular features, with very , dark, gleaming eyes, and a F i r g o ur fu e si s on of black tresses falling ever their uncompressed of indolent grace. The dances were difficult from their intricacy, as well as peculiarity, and certainly very unlike any of our European dances. The band consisted of eight guitars of different sizes, a Moorish flute, and a sort of bass harp. During the evening we had the pleasure of seeing the Mexican version of the fandango danced. It had various grotesque and mere tricious additions to the Spanish extravagance, which are altogether indescribable. His Excellency the Governor, however, made a prominentffigure upon the occaaion. We will now adjourn to the supper-room. Here you see an immensely long table, covered with dishes, and no seat vacant ; some ladies and many officers standing to eat from a green leaf by way of plate, and with their fingers by way of spoon or fork; the Governor making a voluble speech, and no one paying him the least attention, except the polite English, who scarcely understood a word he said, owing to his extreme rapidity and the loud noise of the room. Every one spoke, ate, and laughed at the same time. The health of the English commander of the Mexican squadron (a nephew of Sir Sydney Smith) was drunk; upon which he endeavoured three several times to make a speech, but could not get an audience for his broken Spanish from the noisy crowds about him. The Mexicans were in too great excite ment to attend to anything. I will just give one charac teristic anecdote, and then dismiss this uproarious supper. The English vice-consul, by dint of bawling, and standing up to make strong gesticulations, succeeded in getting a toast drunk ; it was, " The Ladies of Vera Cruz." Upon this, a Mexican colonel started up, and holding the glass over his head like a wild bacchanal, drank the toast with an insulting emphasis, and looking very hard at a Spanish lady who sat opposite him. The insult was instantly taken, and instantly revenged. She caught up a kn'fe, and flung it across the table, point forwards, with a masterly hand. It shot close by my forehead, over the head of an English tra veller, grazed our doctor's cheek, and hit the button and epaulette of the offending colonel. All the foreigners looked astonished, and naturally expected some terrible disturbance ; but the matter passed off as quietly as possible, and nobody seemed to think about, or notice the affair. Me Court. FRANCE.—THE INUNDATIONS.—The Loire is be ginning to return to its natural level throughout its course. At Nantes, three days ago, there was a sensible fall. We learn by the journals of the Haute Loire, that the floods there were caused by a tremendous storm which burst it he valley of the Puy and the Velay, where the damage dou cis as con siderable as on the banks of the two rivers. All communi cation between the different districts of the department are cut off, and the cross roads in each are impassable. The in undation is not known to have caused any loss of human life lathe arrondissement of the Puy, but those of Yseinygeaux and Brioude have paid a heavy tribute. At Langeac, three men, two of them fathers of families, perished in endeavouring to save six persons surrounded by the waters, and who had passed a whole night in trees suspended above the abyss. A serjeant of that place, while clearing the bridge which was shaken and on the point of being carried away, was struck so severely on the head by a splinter of wood, that his life is despaired of. At Tence a man was drowned in attempting to save a piece of timber brought down by the torrent. At Layouts the Allier carried away several houses, two of which belonged to the Baroness Remeuf, who, with her children, her uncle, the Abbe Romeuf, and her servants, were obliged to nuke their escape out of an upper window by means of a ladder. The roads in the department of the Loire, says a letter from Lyons, are re-established. At Itoanne a bridge of boats has been constructed. At Fears and Montrone], the bridges are clear. At Andrezieux the Loire is passed in a boat. In the Bourbonnais the traffic to Nevers is carried through Decise. Official documents declare that the loos at Roanne alone of houses carried away by the late inundations amounts to 200, and this number is being daily augmented. Not less than 2,000 persons are without food or raiment; and to this amount must be added GO families belonging to the neighbouring communes. A letter from Cesne, dated the 24th ult.. and published in the Province, a journal of Moulins (Allier), contains the following picture of horrors not before men tioned, but which it is to be hoped are greatly exaggerated:— " We have acquired the lamentable certainty that the small town of Saint Firmin, above Briare, containing about 600 souls, has been entirely engulphed, and that the whole popu lation have perished ! This horrible news, which was first circulated on the 21st, is this day confirmed by a letter from the President of the Tribunal at Gien, which states that the banks are covered with dead bodies. The inhabitants sur prised in their beds were unable to find any means of escape. The banks being broken down let in the body of the river at the back of the town, so that those unfortunate beings were completely surrounded by a torrent, which every minute nar rowed its inner circle, and at last completely covered them." The little commune of Epercieu-St.-Paul, near Feurs, has lost 42 houses out of 91. Upwards of 40 important domains have been ravaged between Montrond and Feurs, on the two banks of the Loire. At Vancliette all the inha bitants of the low grounds were forced to fly, and scarcely had they escaped when their houses wer e i nun d a ted. The water was in general three feet higher than in November, 1790. We learn from Perdue (1 aucluse) that the floods have forced the Dwane° out of its course, and its waters, driven back by the works at the canal of Marseilles, have formed a new bed on the side of the department of the Rhone. In consequence of the late heavy rain a large building, in course of construction, at Marseilles, in the Rue St. Jacques, suddenly fell to the ground on th e 28th u lt., an d b ur i e d under its ruin three workmen. Every effort was made on the instant to extricate them from their dreadful position, but ineffectually, aa, when reached, they were all dead. Their Majesties and the Royal family have just placed at t h e di o cesl of the Minister of Commerce and Agri culture a tam of 120,n00ff., for the use of the sufferen by the inundation, independently of the pri vate rumours from the • an d t h, p ii nemi rju terincw ias amb 91 ;hair domains .., • , ..kv Ji•-. Customs Ruttritms.—The duties on foreign mer chandise imported into France during September last, brought into the Treasury 13,800,000 francs. In 184.5 they produced only 12,038,000 fr., and in 1844, 12,463,000 fr. On comparing the produce of the first nine months of the three years, it will be found that the sum received by the Treasury this year was 114,394,000 fr.; in 1846, 113,262,000 fr.; and in 14, 112,772,000 fr. Thew figures indicate an increase this year, but this cannot be correctly appreciated without deducting the corn dutie., which are liable to sudden and peculiar fluctuations. In het, among the items of importa tions, corn stands in the account for September last at 1,394,000 fr., in that of the same month last year for 1,n98,000 fr., and in that for September 1844, for 1,259,000 fr. It stands in the statements of the first nine months of the present year for 8,239,000 fr., in those of the same portion of 184.5, for 11,683,000 fr., and of 1844, for 11,068,000 fr. Thus the larger amount of 1846 does not exceed those of the two preceding years by more than 1,000,000 f. When we are made acquainted with the results of this year we shall be able to enter into details as to the principal articles that have produced the general result. At present we must confine •urselves to quoting the imported quantities of MU and oleaginous seeds. During the first SOUTH AMERICA.—INVADING EXPEDITION.— The following memorial has been transmitted to Lord Palmer ston, by Messrs. Baring, Brothers, and Co. It is signed by that firm, the Messrs. Rothschild, and thirty of the principal merchants, bankers, and brokers, in the city of London : Uy Lord,—We, the undersigned, merchants and others, resident in this capital, beg respectfully to represent to your lordship, that, of our body, many are largely connected with the trade, and all are deeply Interested in the peace and prosperity of the various independ ent republics of South America; that it to therefore matter of alarm and anxiety to us, the fast, which has become no torious, that the peace of those countries is threatened with invasion by a hostile expedition, now in active preparation In Spain, Portugal, and Great Britain; that this expedition is directed by Ge neral Flores, ex-President of the free state of the Equator ; and that, although his avowed object is restricted to the invasion of the said republic, the rumour every day trains ground that a more general subjugation is meditated, General Fkees basing, to such end, the open and powerful support ("Übe Spanish government ; that the expe dition in question Is known to be on a large scale, em. bracing four thenpund armed mercenaries, steamers of great sire and power, and transports euffleient for the conveyance of the troops; that in Limerick the agents of General Flores am enlisting men under false and delusive pretexts of emigration ; and that the same owra don is going forward in Portugal, while an encampment of a lame form already raised is established at Durango and Orden*. in Spain ; that the sold agents have purchased in this country, for the expedi tion, two steamer., of greet burthen and power, which are now in process of being converted Into ships of war, carrying guns ; and that, transports having been alteady chartered, the whole scheme is hastening to maturity ; that your lordship is, doubtless, well aware of all the clisastrom eonsnluences likely to Sow bon an attempt to invade South . ea with a foreign and mercenary force; that in a full conviction and anticipation of the evils with which it is fraught, all the diplomatic representatives of the different rewhhes have protected againt such en unheard of aggression, proclaiming that it will be everywhere resisted by force of arms; that, under these eireuntstanem we earnestly call your lordship's attention, first, to the danger and less of life which =not fail to Menge Inch of oar unwary country. WINDSOR, TI:EiDAY.—The Qaeen and Prince Albert walked this morning in the grounds of the Castle. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took pony exercise on the terraces and grounds. His Royal Highness Prince Albert hunted this morning. Her Majesty and Prince Albert rode out in the afternoon in a pony carriage, the Prince driving. In a second carriage were the Duchess of Bedford, Lady Mary Wood, Lady . Caroline Cocks, and th e H on . Miss Devereux. The Equer ries-in-Waiting were in attendance on horseback. Her It. H. the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson, arrived at her residence, Clarence house, St. James's, soon after twelve o'clock yesterday, from Progmore-house. Her R. H. left town at a quarter before three o'clock on her return to Frogmore-house. The bells of the parish church and St. George's Chapel were rung at intervals throughout the day; and a royal salute was fired from the corporation ordnance, in the Bachelor's Acre, under the superintendence of Mr. Pond, the town gunner, at twelve o'clock, in honour of the birth day of Her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia, A deputation from the pans of St. Mary's, Isling ton, headed by the Rev. D. Wilson, M.A., had as inter view with Sir G. Grey yesterday at the Home-office. : Despatches were sent of yesterday evening from the Colonial-office for the Governor of Canada, and also for the Governors of the other North American provinces.— General Pesky had an interview yesterday with Lord J. Russell. DEATH OF MR. EATON, M.P. FOR CAIIIEIIIII6E SH IRE.—The death, at Malta, of Richard Jefferson Eaton, Esq., M.P. for Cambridgeshire (the full particulars of which have not yet transpired), would appear to have been wholly unexpected, as no c , mmunication on the subject had reached Mrs. Eaton, who is staying at the town residence of the family, in Chcsham-pLice, up to a late hour last evening. Mr. Eaton proceeded to Malta a short time since, then in rather improved health, accompanied by a foreign courier, and since his departure no intelligence even of ill health. on the hon, gentleman's part had hitherto been received. He has died at an early age, having scarcely completed his 40th year, and leaves behind him a wife and two children of tender age. He was born in 1806, being the ton of the late Richard Eaton, Esq., who departed this life about eighteen months since, and who, as well as being a banker at Newmarket, was a large holder of land, a patron of church property, and a magistrate for his native county. He succeeded his father after retiring from the army, in which he had attained the rank of Captain. In 183 4 3 he married the daughter of J. Conyers, Esq., and has had issue as before stated. As a politician the name of the deceased is not familiar to the reader, as he seldom, when in the house, made any other expression of his opinion than by vote. He was returned without opposition at the last general election with Mr. Yorke and Mr. Allix ; and, in his address to the (lectors, stated that he shonld go to Parliament convinced that the agricultural interest was not half represented. The residence of the deceased, in Cambridgeshire, was known as Stretchwork Park. He was a member of the Carlton, Tra vellers, and Junior United Service Clubs. It should be added that his sister is the wife of an hon. baronet well known in commercial circles, Sir John Rae Reid, M.P. fur Dover. [From last night's Ga:ellel At the Court at Windsor, the 30th day of October, present, the Queen's most excellent Majesty in Council. This day the Right Hon. Sir T. Wilde, Knt., Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and the Right Hon. B. Strutt, were, by her Majesty's command, sworn of h er Majesty's most Hon. Privy Council, and took their respective places at the Board accordingly. DOWNING -STREET, Nov. 3.—The Queen has ap pointed Lord Harris, Lieut.-Governor of Trinidad, to tos Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over that island. - -- WAR-OFFICE, Nov. 3. 11 th L. Drag.—Lieut. E. Peel to be mut., by pur., vice Cathcart, who ret. ; Cur. F. 11.. Sykes to be lieut., by pur. ; R. Dennistoun to be cor., by pur. 15th , L. Drag.—Lieut. J. Clancy, from 57th F.,* to be lieut., vice Blake who exch. let or Oven- Beat of F. Gda. —E. 8. Burnaby to be ens, and lieut., by pur. via Munro, prom. let pur., of F.—Ens. W. Ramplleld to be lieut., without pur., vice Gray, doe. ; B. Carter to be ens. Bth P.—F. W. H. M'Cleland to be ens.,without par., vice Sandwith, whoee app. has been cane. 13th F.—Major A. A. T. Cunynghame to be lieut.-coL, by per., vice Squirm, who ret. ; Brev. Major A. P. 8. Wilkinson to be major, by Lieut. G. Mein to be eapt, by pur. ; Ens. J. D. Longden to he by pur. ' • 8. Senior to be ens., by pur. I F.—Eo n. L. B. B. Lovell to be lieut., by pur., vice Flood, who ret ; J. Parker to be ens., by pur. 4lst P.—Lieut. C. C. Tockey to be capt, by per., vice Stuffier, who ret. ; Ens. C. Graham to be lieut., by pur. ; G. Skipwith to be ens., by pur. 4bnd F.—Llent. F. Campbell to be cant., be pur., vice Goldie, who mt. ; Ens. A. Bethune to be lieut., by pur. ; Ens. J. E. Patemon, from 72nd F., babe ens. 49th F.—H. Beckwith to be amist...eu.rg., vim Garret, prom. to be staff-surg. of the see. chum. 57th F.—Lleut M. L. Blake, from 15th L. Drag., to be lieut., vice Clancy, who each.; Lieut. G. H. Hunt to be edit, vice M'Nomee, dee. . _ _ -- kth P.—Ens. It C. Peel to be beat, by par. , vice Humfrey, who ret. ; H. Blakeoey to be ens., by pur. eats F.—Lieut. W. Modem to be eapt., by pox, sloe Greet, who ret.; Ms. H. H. Yorant to be lieut., by pur.; H. Weetropp to be e tnirlt. Alison to be ens., by par., vice Paterson, app. to the 420 d r. -- 79th F.—Ens. H. J. Street to be lieut., by par., vice Fairrie, who ret. ; C. M. Ilarrisson to be ens., by par. 96th F.—J. app. has been W. S. Moffatt to be ens-, without par., vice lord, w h ose S. CnewP NEWSPAPERS.—The Morning Chronicle re cords the following in its obituary : The lgooque newspaper, which was started In Paris about a year I singe, on the joint Mock and half-price principle, after spending th e whole of its capital in twelve short months, and having attained a Mr. ealation of 12,000, was sold on Saturday last as bankrupt property. If it is itended that a moral should be drawn from this cir cumstance, it would have been but fair to state the circum stances. The Epoque was started in competition, not with dear and whole-puce journals, but with journals as cheap as itself. It was a Conservative paper, of the same colour in politics as the Prune, a journal of which the 36d n um b ers sold for 40 francs. The EpOrif was, moreover, an evening paper, labouring under the very great disadvantage of Pari s evening papers , in re late for the post of the d a y on which it appeared. These manifest disadvantages the Epoque tried to meet by increased size and virulence, and by being an organ of the government, which gave it a subven tion, or at least subscribed for a very large number of copies. With such poor advantages and under such an overwhelm ing weight of disadvantage;, did the evening Epoque attempt to compete with morning journals as cheap as itself. What conclusion can be drawn from its demise, except that it was a most natural event OPENING OP THE PORM-DEPUTATION TO LORD Joan Rvosnix.—Yesterday afternoon a deputation, con sisting of Charles Cochrane, Esq., Mr. Ramsey, Mr. Jones, and other gentlemen, waited by appointment on L or d J o h n Russell, in Downing -street, for the purpose of presenting a memorial to the Lords of the Treasury, praying their lord ships to open the ports for the admission of corn duty free. Mr. Cochrane having read the memorial,—Lorl John Rus sell: I do not think it necessary to make many remarks on the memorial which has just been read. But I cannot for bear observing that it seems to proceed on the assumption that there is now a prohibitory duty on the admission of foreign corn. That was not a correct representation of the facts of the case. Sir Robert Peel, last session, brought in and carried a measure which very considerably reduced the duty on corn, and under this new measure 3,000,000 quarters had already been let in, and a very large quantity more might be soon expected. Sir Robert Peel, seeing the impossibility of carrying the total abolition of the duty at once, proposed such a measure as be thought he could carry, and I, feeling also that total and immediate repeal il, re Its ask( lufact iptions ,nas, th .ch as w, Toga a ye 'My-two of a cut WI ; and I The wiz earnings to about 1 re fur a gor a fair wee 01 ►t ► lila and in cense found U clean, an rs in some seemed d a:lor imam a whiff it wu evident floors 1 Lad been the best And this w, whethe I't aggress and if the to the eye any rate and we ), we 2 silly, 1 also II nothing a failed ; th letl; fever outcry —n or employ tin one or i of th 'winter and ' no tioti la 4 .t tip what they •. these t enoourai k manta for Mai they 1 They ( quenceol were came but he been FRANCE.-TnE INUNDATIONS.-The Loire is . be- where private play was earned on, itue de L'Ecluse, a.., - 3 at -- -----, ----- r -- ------ , —-- -7 - .-- -- - -•• arse puma lips. Yet toe general impresson conveyed was mo e• - r• w• m. m"Lielana to De ens.,without par., vioe Sandwich, amount of surface, a greater number of interstices to be I, Producing ti a view to ita being presented to the Council of ministers. This - • I • • ed wham ap. has been cane. that of pain, and melancholy , ann long surtenng.tame who rcL ; Brev. Major A. P. 8. Wil -n to 'oe' by ma P ja, by acted upon by the flame, and hence the whole ginning to return to its natural level throughout its course. the Batignolles, wu visited by the police, and about thirty 13th F.-Major A. A. T. Cunynghame to be lieut.-col. ur vice stem, they ask( found rated at la round a green table. The document was taken by one of the brothers of the deceased, and it was one of the martyrs by Velasquez, or some other No i re , converted intoexplosive fluid simultaneously. Experientehm i lae manufact At Nantes, three days ago, there was • a seesible fall. We Persons were sea P y ' • his brother-in-law,Coletn's house, but he refused to old Spanish painter. shown this discovery to be perfectly worthless in prietice, as learn by the journals of the Haute Loire, that the floods there stakes, cards, and furniture were seized, an the proprietor . th m declaring that he was ill. The then pro- F:i Lieut. G. Mein to be mot., by ma. ; Ens. J. D. Loopiest to be of_ the he use was taken to the prefecture of police. The receive e , . . . Y.. Minister of I will pass over a variety of intermediate things , and make by pur.; 8. Senior to be ma., by pun conviction has gradually returned to the fact thatguapowd . er, to be lieut., by pur.; 0, Skipwith to be ens., sizes of grain ; . seriptions were caused by a tremendous storm which burst it he valley usual , of f and number of seeded to the residence of M. Poturopoulos, the minister it evening. Imagine all the dilapidated streets illuminated 1 F.- Eon I- 8. E. Long' to be lieut., by pur., vice Flood, w h o tO be beneficially employed in the expulsion of preictiler l dame, th of the Puy and the Velay, where the damage dm via as con- Players consisted, as Finance, and he proposed to lay it before the Council of Mi- i b i r lamps and fireworks, and two young men ' , lowly pacing re tt ; st l i P"er :. ° O be . C. ilee b T• Pur • mutt be made of a grain proportionate to the si/e of the such as w aiderable as on the banks of the two rivers. All oommuni- old hands known to the police. !listen. Six days have elapsed since then, and nothing is ong to see whatever the festival might produce. e soon yto be capt„ by par., vice &satin, who gun need. in sporting gunpowder there are three or four W ret. Ens. C. Graham , inns awe cation between the different districts of the department are $ ...HIPWRECKS AT ST. PIERRE AND MIQUELON.- yet known of what has been decided on. Of general news , fell in with an officer of the Mexican army with a profusion ha a l.. n enty-two cut off, and the craw roads in each are impassable. The in. The Minister of Marine and Colonies has received a des- we have scarcely any here. Letters from the interior of the of hair on his face, and lace on his pantaloons. He saluted by F.-Lient. F. Campbell to be capt., be pur., vice Goldie, who Ceft ".., Y-why ? That the grain may burn longer , to keep in artillery a very much larger grain is ne- ings of a ululation is not known to have caused any loan of human life patch from the commandant of the islands of Saint Pierre country bring sad accounts of violence and robbery am- us without introduction, except by looking at the Mexican mt.; k:na. A. Bethune to be lieut., by pur. ; Ens. J. E Paterson, from wring out fresh expulsive matter, until the large mass of lathe arrondissement of the Puy,but thoseof Yisinygeaux and and Miquelon, reporting that, on September 19th, in the milted there by bands of brigands ; and in more than one 49th F.-11. Beekwith to be amistmurg., vim about ass projectile is pat motion, and to continue this g i neration as y fo ; ran. woe crest on our buttons. " St* bueno " said he ; end, seizing rfind F., *be , elk Brioude have paid • heavy tribute. At Langeac, three men, morning, a violent gale came on from the E.N.E. veering to case these ruffians have used the torture of boiling oil to our arms, entered into conversation 'in Spanish, occasionally 57th P.LLieut. M. L. Blake , ftom 15th L Drag Ga r. it..rat'bepliroeimi. to sice be of force until it has reached the highest state of s elocity. The emir two of them fathers of families, perished in endeavouring to N.E., and by 11 o'clock, wm., two English merchantmen force persona, reputed wealthy, to reveal where they had hid staff-s of the sec. class. interspersed with it, of very broken English. He took us This alight introduction brings us to the fact that gunpowder earnings I save six persons surrounded by the waters, and who had passed were driven on to the rock, called the Ile aux Moules, and both their money. Several cases of piracy have also occurred in a wholenight in treessuspended above the abyss. A serjeant of wrecked. The crews got . on . to the rock, which rises _ above the Gulf of Prevesa. In fact the internal police of the king- that place, While clearingthe bridge which was shaken and on the water and clung till midnight , when they were taken off, dom appears te be anything but satisfactory, -Aiwo ts round to the principal illuminations, where different devices m arl w h o exc h .; L i eut. 6. ' 7/. Gont to be od . , t-, to be beneficial, must be a propellant , moderated in its ex- were formed, and rude transparencies, expressive of liberty dec. ' it, vice M ' Nunee, plosive tendency by . mechanical . means. We • possess a to about - u°- and national independence. Our conversation now turned 67th P.-Ens. IL C. Peel to be beat-, by par ., vice Ilumfrey, who knowledge of explosive materials vastly more Power - a fair wee the point of being carried away, was struck so severely on the The French brig, Solider, also suffered the same fate, and from Alexandria state that the Nile began to subside bet on the beauty of the Vera CUM ladies, and our new friend ref : B. ifislooleY to be ease by pur. re_ ; b Fas. H. H. Morant to be lieut. b •IL West to he ful than gunpowder, but, from this very fact, quite use 11l uently 01 head by a splinter of wood, that his life is despaired of At her crew were, in like manner, saved by the boats of the not until after great drainage had been done. Traded/et Tense a man was drowned in attempting to save a piece of Vigilant. stationed at St. Pierre, and the steamer Flambeau. ever, had continued to be marked by the greatest activity , asked informed us that he had married an English wife and With -Liee W. Modes to be cape-, by par, sire Grant, who less LI a projectile force. This has been . e mg, roPP on many occasions. The discovery of tt u e tti gu ei n nt eo lY tW tes O rd is Z s ur,ry at a , and tim timber brought down by the torrent. At Layouts the A ll ier In the morning of the 20th, the wind lulled, and the Flam- the want of ships§ being more and more felt every day, asked us to ocean him to their residence. We adreeti ; ma, _Y_Mge- . the extreme diffusion of nitre in immediate contact with aid accordingly walked till we arrived in a deserted, lamp- Tud r.-A. Alison to be ens., by pur., eke Paterson, app. to the • d• in coons carried away several houses, two of which belonged to the beau went out to seek for an other vessels that might be in ALGIERS.-We have adviees from Oran uP to less, back street, and, entering a dark passage. began 42nd F. charcoal, or more properly speaking carbon, the Imre lents 1, f oun d 0 Baroness Rsmeuf, who, with her children, her uncle, the distress. She found that had suffered, but none so 79th F.-Ena IL J. Street to be lieut., by pun, vice Fairrie, who which exist in the most minute portions that can be con- clean, an • the ,sth ult. On the 2lst a body of troops left Oran in the Abbe Romeuf, and her servants, were obliged to make their much as to need her assistance. Since then, several large direction of Sidi-Bel Abbe, ; some anxiety was felt as to the to ascend a flight of still darker stairs. Groping our way up, we at length reached the top ; when the Mexican ret. ;C. H. Ilarrisson to be ens., by pur. ceived, the nitre in solution, the carbon in the smallest • in some escape out of an upper window by means of a ladder. The ships from the Great Bank had come in with losses of ate 96th F.-.T. W 8 Moffatt to be ma. without cause of this sudden movement, and a report was spread that opening a door to the right, we suddenly found ourselves in a bee beep W. • , pur., vice Ford, whose particles, many thousand times more minute thna ever seemed d roads in the department of the Loire, says a letter from and boats, and several men, among whom was the captainpp. eau. a grand nazi& had been made on the 0-Slimaus ;that a bod T the lady's bed-room ; and what was more, with the lady in attempted (or possible) to be obtained by any otle r means merino in Lyons, are re-mtablistied. At Roanne a bridge of boats has of the L4ocadie, of Grandville. On the Ile aux Chiens, been constructed. At Fears and Montroncl the bridges are near St. Pierre, fifty fishing-boats, each worth 400 francs, of - cavalry had made its appearance between Oran ana Tlemcen, and that the territory of the latter town was se- bed. The delicacy ef an Englishwoman was of course out- raged by this heedless exposure before her countrymen. But — CHEAP NEWBPAPEILB.-The Morning Chronicle re- whatever. The action of the acid upon the cotton, when e Cr void immersed in it, is to remove the small proportion of vege- ir innsa clear. At Andrezieux the Loire is passed in a boat. In the were lost. riously menaced. The news received that the Emir pro- why in bed at this early hour of the evening ? Waa the lady cords the following in Its obituary : table matter, and to impregnate the remainder, which !s f a whiff c Bourbonnais the traffic to Nevers is carried through Decise. , D IPLOMATIC CHANGE! .- We read in the Debate : jected a razzia in the Sahara, on the Hymiaues Cheraga, unwell, we inquired. No answer was returned. She was The Spoon, newspaper, which was started In Paris about r nearly all carbon, with nitre : thus forming by the simples t il, it was ( O fficial document ' declare that the l° ' s at Realm. ' alone °. -" The Moniteter is, it is said, about to publish in a few days made the report be credited. The Main Angads of Morocco, some time before she recovered from her embarrassment , sham, on the joint stock and half-price principle, after spending (' the means the most perfect incorporation of the explosive r attire-the houses carried away by the late inundations amounts to 200, and an Ordonnance, whereby M. de Bois le Comte, the Kings to the number of 400 horsemen, were on the move. Near though we had seated ourselves, and did what 'NV could to whole of its capital in twelve short month s , an d h av i ng atta i ned a dr. agents, and exposing an ani.mot of surface to the action of its Iliad evideni this number is being daily augmented. Not less than Minister at the Hague, is appointed Ambassador to the Hel- Tlemcen Bou-Maza was endeavouring to rouse the Beni- pass the matter off. The Mexican officer sat simpering upon relation of 1?,000, was sold on Saturday last as bankrupt property, the flame greater than .•etsinahle by any sober means yet , _• tlie floors 1 2,000 persons are without food or raiment ; and to this amount retie Confederation , in the room of M. de Pontois, who is Snout and ; the Beni-Bou- Saida ; and an attack on Tlemcen an old box at the foot of the bed, and grinned as he loo ke d If it is itended that a moral should be drawn from this cir- discovered. It will be peraised this is but the estensk in, etbe had been • musZbe added GO families belonging to the neighbouring allowed to retire, and is created a member of the Chamber was not thought improbable. The rainy season had com- from her to us, and from us to her, in the very mistaken cumstance, it would have been but fair to state the circum- to an enormous extent. of Ilase's scheme of small rune- is* the best communes. A letter from Celine, dated the 24th ult.. and of Peers. M. de Bunieres replaces H. de Bois le Comte at menced. notion that he understood what we spoke of. He now stances. The Epo9tie was started in competition, not with lation ; for it is but the simultaneous liberation of the id. And this published in the Province, a journal of Moulins (Allier), the Hague. M. d'Eyragaea a confirmed at Dresden, and made an attempt to ask us. in broken English, something dear and whole - ace journals, but with *ournals as ebea as J p gases of gunpowder by meehanical agency: . . there is no new sneer, whethe contains the following picture of horrors not before men- M. Langsdorff at Carlsruhe. It is added that M. His de itself. It a SOUTH AMERICA.-INVADING EXPEDITION._ about what money we had ? The Englishwoman suddenly stop-Conservative paper, of the same colour in power obtained ; its action is thus powerful tar its instants- r diet spawn Genes', but which iris to be hoped are greatly exaggerated:- de replaces the latter at Rio Janeiro. In opening to - ped him with • a kick from beneath the covered , slily given as Politico as the P . rnal ofwhichthe 366 -• ' • - on. h . h•is ' ted ids and if the "We have acquired the lamentable certainty that the small M. de Pontois the doors of the Chamber of Peers by an The following memorial has been transmitted to Lord Palmer- rube, a jou town of Saint Firmin, above Briars , containing about 600 Ordonnuce, recording his good and loyal services, the King ston, by Messrs. Baring, Brothers, and Co. It signed . by is I e ong ,anh th lit - d then made a very bad excuse, in the shape of a sold for 40 trance. The EpOrif was, moreover, an evening arises from the minuteness of the particle, brought in contact up the eye fah* translation of what he had said. We let this pass, paper, labouring . under the very great disadvantage of Paris with the heating agent. The reason of its being exploded : any rate that firm, the Messrs. Rothschild, and thirty of the principal souls, has been entirely engulphed, and that the whole poiffuni has wished to evidence before the eyes of all the estimation inand began to ask about the nature of her indismeition, as evening papers, in being too late for the post of the day on over granulated gunpowder without igniting it is, that its ex. - , and wt lotion have perished ! Thu horrible news, which was circulated on the 21st, is this day confirmed by • letter from the President of the Tribunal at Glen, which states that the banks are covered with dead bodies. The in . habitants sur- prised in their beds were nimble to find any means of escape. The banks being broken down let in the body of We river at the back of the town, so that these unfortunate beings were merchante, bankers, and hroker: i , e i r r: th i e ii city: t f n !.. n o ,, ndol nt in My Lord,-We, the underg o and fhb cao;7l, beg respectfully largely reprownt . to y lordship. that , of answered coolly , . In the Peerage, surrounded by his colleagues who have pre- U;!:• ' nod many are connected with the e, and a are fever ! companion and myself occupy it more worthily than he." completely surrounded by a torrent, which every minute nu- C U STOMS which he holds his person, and the remembrance he preserves of a career which has throughout been devoted to Franoe. ceded him, the place of M. de Pontois was previously marked deeply intereetid in the ant; and no one, we may boldly venture to affirm, can ant RETURN!.-The duties on foreign mer rowed its inner circle, and at last completely covered them." cbandise imported into France during Septemberpeace and prosperity of the various independ- dismay. km republics of South America; that it Is therefore matter of alarm and anxiety to us, the fast, which . has become no- of retries she certainly appeared verY sallow and languid. sh e which it . appeared. These manifest disadvantages the plosion does not endure sufficiently long to raise the particles Ily, that she was recovering from the yellow looked at each other in had had it about a fortnight, she said, but she . • really was recovering ; and he (pointing to the grinning threatened with Mexican ) would cure her, at last, she was sure. `He ! ta t toos, that the peace those co is ,, . - in vasion a hostile expedition, now active L preparation in Spain. Epoque tried to meet by increased s being an organ of the government, which gave it a subvon- powder . Lion, or at least subscribed for a very and virulence, and by of gunpowder up to 800 degrees of heat ; but could the run- be reduced to the most impalpable state of powder, y large number of copier similar to the cotton wool, it would explode with the With such poor advantages, and under such an overwhelm- same degree of heat. Sporting powder explodes at a lees , lag weight of disadvantages , did the evening Epoque attempt temperature than cannon powder, and so on, all dered- ii h e to compete with morning journals as cheap as itself. What in on the quantity of matter heated. Another point, exclaimed we, in surprise. 0 , yes, was the answer, by expedition directed -- " h in a doctor !" The truth now pretty clearly last, Portniral. arid Great Bri tain ; that this is by Ge . e g conclusion can be drawn from its demise, except that it was that forty grains of the gun cotton effects more force, . ' top, we r 1 badly, I in fonder also ' ugh," I of these nothing a failed ; th b ; fever meal Flores, ex-President tithe free state of the Equator; and that, appeared ; and we could not forbear laughing, notwith- • al°'t natural event? .„ or gives more velocity (to small projectiles) than 'fifty •le outcry-- a The little commune of Epercieu-St.-Paul, near Fetus, brought into the Treasury 13,800,000 francs. In 184.5 they althouh his avowed object le restricted to the invasion of the seatbe or emplo y standing our a pp rehensions, at the whimsical impudence OPENING OP THE 1 - DEPUTATI ON -DEPUTATION TO LORD grains of gunpowder, may be explained by two facts, has lost 42 houses out of 91. Upwards of 40 important produced only 12,038,000 fr., and in 1844, 12,463,000 fr . On uwe the rumour every day gains ground that a more general .... con- first,its instantaneous explosion; secondly, filling a greater Xii t i k one o t r i I , the roguery, in bringing men, under the pre- Joere Resseee.-Yesterday afternoon a deputation, domains have been ravaged between Montrond and Fours comparing the produce of the first nine months of the three e rv o r, j , a il ou t e meditated, General Flores haring, to such end, the 7 . ,._* ul s port tithe Spanish government ; that the eve- w° on the two banks of the Loire. At Vancliette all the inter l years, it will be found that the sum received by the Treasury open and power( up they trace of an introduction to a countrywoman that slating of Charles Cochrane, Esq., Mr. Ramsey, Mr. Jones , space, or being more bulky than the gunpowder ill 1 bitants of the low grounds were forced to fly, and seareelyhad this year was 114,394,000 fr. ;in 1846, 113,202,000 fr.; and aim in question is known to be on a large scale, cm- y they escaped when their houses were inundated. The water in 1844, 112,772,000 fr. These figures indicate an incense neine tone th d d rt di i _ousall . Wined mercenaries, steamers of great size gentleman of Vera e might catch the fever, and • give a profe'ssional and other gentlemen, waited by appointment on Lord the honour Russell, ' Downing-street, f the f and profit of endea- ni or e purpose 0 pram ti John grain , ng a with • 'it gains the aid of the expansion of the air contained in its interstices., and a corresponding velocity ant uired• winter and no ricrac was in general three feet higher than in November , 1790. this year, but this cannot be correctly appreciated without . power, .ui transpo sto e p u t f or t h e convey ., of the troops; vouri , g to cure them ! We drew out our cigars, smoking memorial to the Lords of the Treasury, praying their lord. But that the same weight of the one will generite the same ca ll ing s i ti no o thigi. in w i ve In Limerick the agents of General Flores are enlisting men ander be' trconsidered a protecti from infection • and by wav of ships to open the ports for the admission of corn duty free. amount of permanent gases as the other, is a chemical cer- We learn from Pertius (1 aucluse) that the floods have deducting the corn duties, which are liable to sudden and false and delusive pretexts of emigration ; and that the same own. m - c°n - . °° ' forced the Durance out of its course, and its waters, drivem pecu li ar fluctuations. In fact, among the items of imports- tion is going forward in Portugal, while an encampment of a large supporting the Engl ish character for boldnem, we at with Mr. Cochrane having read the memorial,-Lore John Rus. flinty ; therefore, we are justified in asserting the discovery back by the works at the canal of Marseilles, have formed a tions, corn stands in the account for September last at force already raised is established at Durango and Orden*. in !Main ; run quietude for nearly a quarter of an hour after receiv- sell : Ido not think it necessary to make many remarks on to be a really mechanical means of diffusing and incorporat- tting up 1 new bed on the side of the department of the Rhone. In 1,394 ' ,000 ft., in that of the same month last ye arinformation . The adventure the memorialwhich has just been read . But I for - ing the agentsofexplosion . The just estimation of these face for that the said agents have purchased in this country, for the expedl. ing the above pleasant was not r consequence of the late heavy rain a large bu il ding, in I,n 98,000 fr., and in that for September 1 844, f or non, two steamert, of great burthen and power, which are now in altogether unworthy of Gil Bess. bear observing that it seems to prooeed on the assumption must impress us with the conviction that, save for very limited of these t . priveal of being converted Into ships crane , carrying guns ; and that, From this lovely abode of a Mexican physician's decoy- that there is now a prohibitory duty on the admission of purposes , this discovery can never benefit the hums!. rare, and encour: i i I course of construction, at Marsei ll es, in the Rue St. Jacques, 1,259,000 fr. It stands in the statements of the flat rune transports ha teen alteady chartered, the whole scheme is • _ suddenly fell to the ground on the 28th ult., and buried months of the present year for 8,239,000 fr., in those of haatsnow to ma t urity , that your lordship i ii, &a w l . , well _ . duck we proceeded to the ball-room at the palace, to attend foreign corn. That was not a correct representation of the is certain to cause many lamentable accidents ;no gun ever under its ruins three workmen. Every effort was made on the same portion of 1846, for 11,683,000 fr., and of 1844, aware of all the disastrous uenees likely to 8 0 . the fete given by his Excellency General B the facts of the case. Sir Robert Peel, last session, brought in made will long withstand its use, if quantity is employed, es allaglin, for Mai d they 1 the instant to extricate them from their dreadful position, for 11,088,000 fr. Thus the larger amount of 1848 does lion an attempt to invade South . or, with . a foreig n o Governor of Vera Cruz. A palace indeed ! The ball-room and carried a measure which very considerably reduced the the intensity of its velocity brings it on a perfect similarity but ineffectua ll y, as, when reached, they were all dead. not exceed those of the two preceding years by more than and . nierceury forte; that in a full conviction and anticipation _ was a long and lofty Their Majesties and the . Royal family bus islet 1,000,000 f. When we are made acquainted with the results the dirr with °° ; ' had already been let . d 1 wi th t I *ti i ' distan ce, b ut to obtain whWa i t Is fraught, all the diplomatic eePresentatlMt Or colo u red with a pale red wash ; candles in abundance quarters y nin, an a very large quantity p rojectiles al wrest ve om a given oe,. - me decent reblies have protested again? eueb an unheard of uence of vers came were stuck about, without order, and principally in more might be soon cxpected. Sir Robert Peel, seeing the an extended range is impossi le, with safety ; its application placed at the dispceel of the Minister of Commerce and Agri- of this year we shall be able to enter into details as to t he culture a sum of 120 ,! r., for the use of the su ff erers by the principal articles that have produced the general result. At „ nue , t h at , oft art the se aggression, proclaiming that it will be everywhere resisted by force of circuntstanee% we emoted,' call your • dation, independently of tke private rumours from We present we must confine eurselves to quoting the imported lordship's attention, first, to the danger sad lass of life hundreds inundation, front of some dusty and distorting looking- lasses ; impossibility of carrying the total abolition of the duty at to cannon will 01 very great caution . is not d of tawdry yellow chairs stood on sac aide, once, proposed such a measure as be thought he could carry, means of destroying many valuable hues , g h . . use )be the • for sufficient' 7 but he re been 1 overtake sods of oar unwary country and the floor of the dancing-room was of brick or tile of and I, feeling also that total and immediate repeal do I feel conversant with tho subject to affirm, that there is , • • , an d th o p na pec t uderfacgogdy iamb 91 their domains quantities of Ma and oleaginous seeds . During the dial which cannot fad to. a: „ • , . . • • . "C. 0,11 , VS ' . . Jt2lrl nine months of the. year the les anienthed 2,358,000 metrical being 41 , awe More Man In 1846, and nearly the' shoe In 1844. imports of Omit nons seeds have heen'affeelehl by the d tasiffef lest yew They were in. MIA Witt the ter. , in linseed 3IT,000.• quintals, in sesame 192,000 gifted', and in the other Meth u 5 ,000 quintals. The protective tariff has brought in 1845 in linseed to 134,000 quintals, in sesame to 95,000 quintets, and in the other seeds to 9,000 'teethe. Consequently, it has reduced the linseed by two- th irds, the sesame hy one- half, and the other seeds by five-meths." . FREE TRADE Di PARIB.—A rometaa d of the mem bers of the Paris Free-trade Society was on the let, for the purpose of electing a committee sal °Seers. Amongst the *rune elected are M . Boron, the dimmer-1n -chie fof the Ha:- =establishment at Boulognemsr-Yes; M. Koachlin, ant cotton-spinner at Mathew, • M. Ortolan, pro /savor of the Ecole de .Droit at Paris ; 'sad M. Lem/ Lo am. M. d'Eichtal was chosen treasons. M. Anison-Da purr= read to the meeting a letter fees M. Beeson, wider whose direction the factory at Boulogne, which was needy es the point of ruin, has become highly peesperous, dot he now employs 1,800 persona, sad rime to the auto of the society, because he believes that it is his intend, as a manufacturer, to do so. A communication by steam-paebet is about to be estsblished between Rouen and Dunkirk. SPAIN. —DISTRIBUTION OP HONOURS AT THE ROYAL MARRIAGES.—The Queen of Speer : on the occasion of the marriages of h erself and her lister, ham invested General Athalin with the grand cordon of the ordered' St. Ferdinand ; Colonel Merry, aide-de-camp of the Duke de Montpensier, with that of Isabella the Catholic ; Lieut.-Col. Juba, aide-de camp to the Duke d'Aumale, erith the star of grand officer of the order of St. Ferdinand ; Commanded" de Beaufort and Fiereck, orderly officers, and Meshy. Caviller Fleury and de Latour, private secretaries of their Royal Highnesses., with the star of grand officer of the order of Charles 111., and Dr. Pasquier with themes of thereon order. SWITZERLAND.—Zusacrt, Ocr. 30.—The go vernment of Lucerne has given notice to the cantonal government that it will not recognise the new government of Geneva, and expressed a hope that all the cantons friendly to order will follow this example. We read in a letter from Altorff, in the canton of Uri, of the 26th ult., " The Reuss has just overflowed its banks, and inundated the vast valley of Reuss, in which there are 11 villages. The tocsin is now sounding for succour." On the news received that Wur temberg, Bavaria, and Baden had imposed a high duty on the exportation of corn, the Vorort assembled, and it was decided to send a commission to demand a repeal, or at least a modification, of the order. SICILY.—GREAT IRCNDATION.—PALERM 0, OCT. S. On the night of the 30th of September, a tempest of wind and ruin ravaged the Melazzo and Marsala. A terrible flood ravaged the former town. The inhabitants were surprised in their sleep ; trees, sheds, and houses were carried away, and a hundred persons perished. At Marsala eight live., have been lost. The mail courier between Marsala and Trapani was overtaken by the storm and perished. GEKMANY.—VIENNA, Ocr. 23.—The accounts received from Ofen of the health of the Arch-Duke Palatine continue to be satisfactory. The last, dated Oct. 24th, says The 'convalescence of his Imperial Highness is going on rapidly (signed) Stahly and Weeder.' The Grand-Duke Michael of Russia is still at Vienna, as the health of his daughter, the Grand Duchess Mary, causes great anxiety. A great sensation has been caused at Pesth, by the flight of M. Paul Szabo, the director of the Hun garian trading company. He left liabilities toa large amount. The fluctuations on the Vienna bourse still continue; in the evening of the 25th a alight rise took place. In the Carlsruhe Gazette of the 30th, it is stated, that the powers of the North will join Great Britain in demanding of France a declaration in favour of the exact and legal obeervance of the Treaty of Utrecht. There is no rupture of the general peace; and the fall which German securities and railway shares have sustained must be ascribed to the scarcity of money and the disturbance' in Switzerland. The news of a loan of 40,000,000fi. has made an unfavourable impression on the Vienna bourse. The Baron Saloman Rothe:hie is expected at Vienna in November, and the financial operation will then take place immediately. TURKEY.—Letters from Constantinople of the 16th ult. state that the inauguration of the military school took place on the 15th with great solemnity, in presence of the Sultan, the Grand Vizier, the Seraskier, and all the ministers being placed on the left and the tilemas on the right. A black board for the pupils to work problems on, a globe, some instruments of natural philosophy, and tables, ai which were displayed some specimens of minerals, and en apparatus for producing hydrogen gas, occupied the [Notre of the room. Opposite the Sultan were seen Emin Paths, the President of the Council of War, and the seve ral professors, amongst whom were Messrs. Magma, Mon ginot, and Dupreuil, three French officers lately received into the Sultan's service. On the arrival of the Sultan, according to custom, a sacrifice of four sheep was made, and then an imau recited prayers suitable to the occasion. The examination of puyils afterwards took place, end was conducted in Turkish. Six were interrogated, and answered very satisfactorily. Dervich Effendi then exhibited some chemical experiments, and after a short explanation on the subject of aerostation, sent off before the Sultan a small' balloon filled with hydrogen gas. The ceremony then con cluded. M. Wien Barret, who had just arrived from Alexandria, was present at the ceremony. The Sultan in tends, it is said, to construct a railroad from Constantinople to St. Stephanis, a village at a short distance, in the direction of the sea of Marmon,. This, however, is only by way of ex periment. Now that the evolutions of the fleet aro nearly over, we thinkiit right to remark that his Highness Moham med Ali Pacha has practised to a wide extent, in all the places which he has visited, the principles which actuate the government of the Sultan. He has everywhere received the chief inhabitants with perfect kindness, and a spirit of toler ance which filled the people with joy. He has not forgotten the poor. At Salonica he gave 60,000 piastres to the poor, 2,500 to the Greek school, and 50 to each prisoner ; and, in passing before the palace of the Greek bishop, he fired a salute of 11 guns. I rince Luitpold of Bavaria is still here visiting all the public establishments and curiosities TILE LEVANT MAlL.—Athices have been re ceived from Constantinople to the 17th, and from Athens to the 20th Oct. At Athens, the Chamber of Deputies had concluded the discussion upon the budget. Upon the pro posal of the Minister of Finance it was resolved that no change would be made, but that things should remain in the same footing as last year. From the account of the budget published by the Atliens press, it would appear that the revenue of the present year is estimated at 14,673,580 drachmas, which, with a sum of 3,835,473 drachmas, put down under the title of Advance of the Powers, gives the whole receipts at 18,409,053 drachmas. The expendi ture is calculated at 14,013,140 drachmas, and, adding 3,836,473 drachmae for the service of the loan, a sum is obtained of 17,848,613 drachmas, which, if compared with the receipts, gives a surplus of 560,420 drachmas. The opposition journals, however, deny in into the exacti tude of these figures, and adduce calculations to prove that, in place of a surplus, the year 1846, if compared with 1843, will show a diminution of not less than 1,113,373 drachmas. The following is an extract of a private letter from Athens of the above date:—" The great subject of conversation here is the refusal of the government to accord funeral honours befitting his rank as a military man to General Londe'. A petition, signed by some of the chief members of the two Chambers, the professors of law at the University of Athens, and other persons of note, has been prepared with a view to its being presented to the Council of Ministers. This document was taken by one of the brothers of the deceased, and his brother-in-law, to M. Coletti's house, but he refused to receive them, declaring that he was ill. They then pro ceeded to the residence of M. Poniropoulos, the Minister of Finance, and he proposed to lay it before the Council of Mi nisters. Six days have elapsed since then, and nothing is yet known of what has been decided on. Of general news we have scarcely any here. Letters from the interior of the country bring sad accounts of violence and robbery com mitted there by bands of brigands ; and in more than one case these ruffians have used the torture of boffins oil to force persons, reputed wealthy, to reveal where they had hid their money. Several cases of piracy have also occurred in the Gulf of Prevesa. In fact the internal police of the king dom appears to be anything but satisfactory."—Accounts from Alexandria state that the Nile began to subside but not until after great damage had been done. Trade, sow ever, had continued to be marked by the greatest activity, the want of ships being more and more felt every day. ALGIERS.—We have advices from Oran up to the 25th ult. On the 21st a body of troops left Oran in the direction of Sidi-Bel Abbe, ; some anxiety was felt as to the cause of this sudden movement, and a report was spread that a grand rani& had been made on the 0-Slimaus ; that a body of cavalry had made its appearance between Oran and Tlemcen, and that the territory of the latter town was se riously menaced. The news received that the Emir pro jected a lassie in the Sahara, on the Hymiaues Cheraw', I made the report be credited. The Maia Angads of Morocco, Ito the number of 400 horsemen, were on the move, Near Tlemcen ' Bou-Maas was endeavouring to rouse the Beni- SIIOU4 and the Beni-Bou-Saida; and an attack on Tlemcen was not thought improbable. The rainy season had com menced. qc s:4 is. E.VFNUff.3I, NOVEMBER 4, , mKKIK MK may be la" t ad y 2 wti' la ch tn ßriti la sb =to s n l a t al li s e ; and our into MIA ay General Morse* Iminalia, V carried into *kb eh epuntry in the world el ores ~eine of or lode thaliwitkrsithe adeMPIM free elate ti . side men are meant excltnively shwa; there is In *Mild= as 101111111110 amount of British capital, the marl repaymast et whisk &tweeds . on their War' , an& jeanglYilla Yid_ AIM Jim bees eadieseve by most of (here Maio. ta Ili, assitry, kase. the dissisrp at shish most be deferred WskilleW by hew esiresees ware sal islaesatirmal eon te.ta; antb is task thst lhe reidestito 'at Owed Inaraelt espedltion will be the Spit rinds, Yes, int sombilmi M ee parties native and foreign, itsnieFetisel. Milllandle, or Meg isesests cos meted with the ands= republke. That we thseelbee re. epeetfully pray 1114ertrs gorernment to tete lids ~hap its neat seeker eseekbrretees; ask whether It be by mem at the Foreign Enflame& Ad. tie by retirees to the pre:Stagy eel =Weal nature of the milerpti"ar, In Me, by using its iliredly Wiese. with the Court at ltettrit (the Flan Bawiiff originated In that WNW. that bet Majestre merentrosnt will use every effort to put a stop to an expedition trots our own, 'swell as Smuush ports, which, If car ried into effect, must be alike fad to British life and British Interests. —London, Oct. 20. To the Right lion. Lord Viscount Palmerton, Her Majesty's Chief Secretary of State for Foreign Atkins. (Here follow the names.] A SALNT'S DAY IN VERA CRUZ. [We are indebted for the following sketch to a correspon dent. It will be found peculiarly interesting at the present time.] On the final expulsion of the powers of Old Spain from Vera Cruz, the remains of the royalist army contrived to ensconce themselves in the castle of San Juan de Ulloa. To expel them from this last stronghold, the Mexican government, after even a more than usual degree of waste of time and money, from the guns jobberies of unnecessary expenses and prevarications, got together a naval squadron of some half a dozen vessels, inadequate to the attempt. True, they succeeded; tfut it was by the assistance of yel low fever and starvation, and accompanied by their own destruction, together with that of at least three-fourths of all the officers and men. Shortly, however, after the arrival of the largest of these vessels (La Libertad, a 40-gun frigate), the governor of Vera Cruz gave a grand ball and supper, to which all the officers of the army and navy in the Mexican service were invited. Only those of the navy who belonged to the flag-ship were able to go, the brigs and gun-boats being on duty. Nine or ten of us went. On entering the city we found it was some Saint's Day, and all the inhabited horses had different-coloured banners or falling draperies, of cloth, cotton, silk, or velvet, according to the rank and means of the occupier, hanging from the bal conies. The soldiers were also in new uniforms of white and gold, or blue and silver; and many Mexicans, paysanos, and others, in their light picturesque dresses, were hurrying to and fro. It formed an atreeable contrast to our previous visit to this city of disease, and dilapidation from recent bom bardment. As much gaiety mean well be conceived in such a place under existing cireumstinces was visible. Groups of well-dressed men, in broad round-brimmed sobrerones, white jackets, and dark slashed velvet breeches ; women with their beads, and charms, and crosser, over bright shawls and handkerchiefs; drapery and ornament stalls opened or set up fur the day; coffee-shops filled with visitors, the doors and windows all open ; punch houses the same, with here and there some jolly-looking English sailor confidently battling it out in gibberish (which he thought would do for Spanish, since Spanish was no better than gibberish to him), to make it understood that he wanted " neat " rum, and hated lemonade. And yet, by turning aside, you presently found yourself in a deserted street, and all again was silence and ruin. The walls were green with weeds, the houses hollow and cleft with shot and shells, and wild rank flowers grew tall in the middle of the vacant street. No one was scarcely ever seen in these places, unless it was a sol dier hastily passing by, or some poor diseasnl In dian, who had crawled here to die out of the way. We passed through the market-place, and a more disagree able sight, connected with the idea of eatables, could not well be fiend. In fact, the market was over, long before we arrived ; and nothing but huge dead leaves, gigantic stalks, and rotten fruits were strewn and mashed about, and reek ing in the sun. Had a manufactory been established for the creation of yellow fever, it could hardly have been more effec ' teal than these vapours of decomposed vegetable refuse. A low stone wall enclosing some cadaverous-looking water, with a kind of pedestal, or post, in the centre, that had a spout growing out of it, and a deformed leaden image stuck above it, was called La Fuente de San Antonio (Saint Anthony's fountain), and certain miraculous things were related about the water. " Much good may it do you," drily observe I an English sailor, as he saw a devout old woman dip a small cup into it. There are no public buildings in Vera Cruz worthy of much examination. Still, there were many of the houses that bore remains of beauty, though none of any height that had not been shattered out of all proportion. The palace of the governor is a large flat-fronted edifice of discoloured white, streaked and ornamented at intervals with lines of dingy red, like the marks of ochre on a sheep's back ; and having a large portico in front, and a long, bare, and dreary piazza all about it, extending down the angle at both sides to some distance beyond the main building. The deserted appearance of the palace, the first time I went to Vera Cruz, reminded me of an hospital or madhouse ; it now partook also of the outside of some immense show, the portico being crowded with soldiers and visitors in rich and motley dresses. The parochial church (La Iglesia l'arroguitt), monasteries, barracks, custom-house, hospital. convents, &c., had all the same general appearance. I hare forgotten to say that one of the first things I saw in Vera Cruz, was a large red hand-bill pasted against the walls of the custom-house (surrounded by wondering and inquiring Mexicans and custom-house offi cers), setting forth the extraordinary properties of " Day and Martin's blacking." Now, in a country where the people do not use such a thing, this could be only sent out for "fame." We dined at an eating-house, and none of the cleanest in the world. All the dishes were cooked in the Spanish fashion, and breathed eloquently of garlic. We found the wine execrable, except the claret, which was as usual ; cigars, chocolate, and coffee were of course excellent. Finding the party disinclined to move, I went out alone for a quiet ramble, as the sun was down and the streets be ginning to cool. After sauntering about some time, I found myself opposite La lyksia Parroguia. I paused awhile at the entrance, then bent forward and looked in. All was so silent and solemn that I had some doubts if it would be pro per to enter, especially as the people considered us infidels. At last I uncovered my head, and walked in very silently. An air of monastic gloom and mystery pervaded the place, which was only partially illumined by a few dull streaming. across the wide stone pavement, that came in a mellow haze through the painted glass, thick as it was with dust parched by the sun. When I had gazed for some minutes around me, viewing the lofty aisles, pillars, and tombs, with the many darksome corners, where, by a glim mering lamp before the shrine, some devotee was visible, kneeling in prayer, I silently advanced to the further end, and there, nailed to a crucifix, I stood before a figure of Jesus Christ, entirely black. There were many ornaments and figures about the different shrines, which were probably of *ilea- and gold ; though they looked much more like pew ter and copper , from the sacred dust and tarnish that covered them. There were very few pictures, and those rubbish. One only struck me as tieing good, though in very bad preservation. It was a head in deep shade, looking mildly upwards, with an expression of inquiring resignation. The hair was flowing in sad solemnity down the sides of the temples and grief-worn cheeks. There way a divinity in the eyes, and a peculiarly sweet expression about the eye-lids, where the soul seemed to repose, even as the feelings did on the parted lips. Yet the general impression conveyed was that of pain, and melancholy, and long suffering. I fancied it was one of the martyrs by Velasquez, or some other old Spanish painter. I will pass over a variety of intermediate things. and make it evening. Imagine all the dilapidated streets illuminated by lamps and fireworks, and two young men slowly pacing along to see whatever the festival might produce. We soon fell in with an officer of the Mexican army, with a profusion of hair on his face, and lace on his pantaloons. He saluted us without introduction, except by looking at the Mexican crest on our buttons. " St* bueno," said he; and, seizing our arms, entered into conversation in Spanish, occasionally interspersed with hits of very broken English. He took us round to the principal illuminations, where different devices were formed, and rude transparencies, expressive of liberty and national independence. Our conversation now turned on the beauty of the Vera CM ladies, and our new friend informed us that he had married an English wife, and asked us to accompanysecompany him to their residence. We agreed ; and accordingly walked till we arrived in a deserted, lamp less, back street, and, entering a dark passage, began to ascend a flight of still darker stairs. Groping our way up, we at length reached the top ; when the Mexican opening a door to the right, we soddenly found ourselves in the lady's bed-room ; and what WWI more, with the lady in bed. The delicacy of an Englishwoman was of mune out raged by this heedless exposure before her countrymen. But why in bed at this early hour of the evening ? Was the lady unwell, we inquired. No answer was returned. She was some time before she recovered from her embarrassment, though we had seated ourselves, and did what we could to pus the matter off. The Mexican officer sat simpering upon an old box at the foot of the bed, and grinned as he looked from her to us, and from us to her, in the very mistaken notion that he understood what we spoke of. He now made an attempt to ask us. in broken English, something about what money we had? The Englishwoman suddenly stop ped him with a kick from beneath the coverlid, slily given as she thought ; and then made a very had excuse, in the shape of a false translation of what he had said. We let this pass, and began to ask about the nature of her indismrition, as she certainly appeared very sallow and languid. She answered coolly, that she was recovering from the yellow fever! My companion and myself looked at each other in dismay. She had had it about a fortnight, she said, but she really was recovering; and he (pointing to the grinning Mexican) would cure her, at last, she was sure. "He !" exclaimed we, in surprise. " Oh, yes," was the answer, "he is a doctor !" The truth now pretty clearly appeared; and we could not forbear laughing, notwith standing our apprehensions, at the whimsical impudence of the roguery, in bringing men, under the pre tence of an introduction to a countrywoman, that they might catch the fever, and give a professional gentleman of Vera Cruz the honour and profit of endea vouri , g to cure them! We drew out our cigars, smoking being considered a protection from infection ; and by way of supporting the English character for boldness, we sat with grim quietude for nearly a quarter of an hour after receiv ing the above pleasant information. The adventure was not altogether unworthy of Gil Bias. From this lovely abode of a Mexican physician's decoy duck we proceeded to the ball-room at the palace, to attend the fife given by his Excellency General Harrigan, the Governor of Vera Cruz. A palace, indeed ! The ball-room was a long and lofty kind of saloon ; the walls were coloured with a pale red wash; candles in abundance were stuck about, without order, and principally in front of some dusty and distorting looking-glasses ; hundreds of tawdry yellow chairs stood on each aide, and the floor of the dancing-room was of brick or tile of