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Bacirucas, which we printed on Friday, will prove of great service in this country by the light it casts on the real character of the war in America. It will probably stop the senseless scolding which oar public speakers and writers have so long adesix«,. tared to the Americans for not making op their quarrel without dealing with the causes of it. Everybody who reads that Circular must see that it is pure folly to irritate either of the contending parties with admonitions to stop fighting while the deepest principles which lie at the foundation of human society are in question, and are so thoroughly understood to be so that they cannot now be hidden out of sight, as they have hitherto been, in dread of this very conflict If the Messrs. N►ILL have conveyed to English readers some polies] of the extent of the resources of both sections of the country and of the spirit of the inhabitants, they must at the same time have made not a few writers and speakers ashamed of their impertinence in making light of a contro versy so grave, and of a struggle so fierce and determined. The statements of the Circular will be approved as nearly correct, as far ma they go, by those who unite with the local experience of Messrs. Neer. the wider survey which can be taken from a dis tant*. While decidedly and most usefully right in explaining why the war cannot be stopped, and how it can be carried on for many years, Messrs. Nom. overlook the very probable ague, that a split in each section of the country may alter the whole aspect of the quarrel, and perhaps precipitate its settle ment. The latest mails have brought some par ticulars of Northern and Southern news which are of deep interest and significance. In both sections there is a strong and wide spread discontent with their reepective adminis trations. Several of the leading Southern jour nals speak out without reserve about both civil and military misrule. It is not only that vale ment patriots are angry at not being yet in Wash ington, nor likely to winter in Philadelphia, as promised : it is that the citizens cannot under stand why a military force like that under Joan nom and Bus URZGARD has not followed up the advan tages afforded by the inexperience of the Northern force, with its raw officers and citizen soldiery. It is that the Southern forces are melting away with out having achieved any decisive success, the Caro lina men betaking themselves home from Vir ginia, and the Texan and Alabama regiments parting off from the forces in Missouri and Kentucky, at the fittest season for fighting. Whether these regiments are wanted to de'end their own seabord, or dare not absent themselves longer from their homes, the mortification to the Southern public is the seine. The civil discontents are graver. The two parties headed by Georg:a and Alabama are separating more widely, instead of becoming reconciled ; and the citizens are ranging themselves in an opposition almost as marked as that between South and North. The party of Governor Hume openly declares that the war should never have been begun, and that the despotian which dared it will not be endured when the war is over. By some of that party' it is said that a single victory of the Federalists would break the Confederacy to pieces. Two re cent incidents afford some confirmation to this view. A clergyman in the Union force has reached Washington from Cape Hatteras, as • messenger to Government from tho commands,. there, and from the inhabitants of the neighbour ing district. He was the bearer of a declaration of repudiation of the Con'ederacy by the citizens of Hyde County, Nowt\ Carolina, and of a request for arms, to defend themselves under the national flag. They have given a de tailed account of the state of repreasiou in which they have been living; and they naturally sup pose that other counties are in the same condi tion, and that the strength of Union sentiment in the South is too great to be long kept under by the stringent despotism now applied to the en forcement of silence. What th e dread of that sentiment must be is shown by the desperation of the expedient for sealing men's lips. The slaves of suspected Unionists are made suspicious of their masters, and encouraged to spy upon them, and keep them in fear, information being spread among the negroes that the object of the Northern invaders is the extirpation of the blacks. Such is the testimony of Unionist fugitive citizens asleep lag into Kentucky. The other symptom we have referred to is very striking. The Secessionists of Maryland are openly reviving a speech of General Tenets, an authority as high as Jameson Davis himself, in which he remi•ded Congress, two years age. that the South always held in ►er own hands the power of emancipation as an ultimate re mune. In Baltimore it is at present declared by llemeisaisis that it will be the policy of the Con federates to abolish slavery r►ther than yield to the North the opportunity of doing it. The movement of hostile parties is not the only recent news from the South. The discontent of THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 12, 1861. Ithe bankers is great an d em b arrass i ng ; an d we need not occupy space with showing with what good reason. There is also a prevalent diaap. pointment at what is called the timidity of Eng land and France. Envoys complain of the dis couragements they meet with in London and Paris ; and it cannot be concealed from the Southern citizens that no day is fixed for the despatch of a European force to their aid. Other embarrassments vise from troubles in the army. Messrs. NEILL describe correctly the character of the young planters in the force ; but that order forms a very small proportion of the army. The mean whites are many times more numerous ; and they are the real supporters of the war, by which they obtain a better position and a better maintenance than they ever had be fore. Even their strong self-interest, however, cannot keep them in check ; and they are so habi tually lawless that everything that depends on them is precarious. As time goes on, training and maturing the Northern army, the Southern becomes, and must become, poorer in its best element. The planters cannot stay away very long from their estates at the safest time ; and now that the resolution is at last taken at Washington to meet Southern by Northern negroca, the danger is precipitated. A thousand negroes are by this time landed on some part of the Gulf shore; and the effect of the first look in one another's faces, of slaves and emancipated negroes, our readers may imagine for themselves. We will only add that the fugitives bring accounts which they can hardly have invented of the great extent to which the slaves now pick up the art of read ing, unsuspected, for the sake of learning through the newspapers what is going on, and of extensive secret associations, on behalf of the " invaders," irlierever the real nature of the war is understood. These are a few of the latest indications as to i the prospects of the one section. Those of the other are at least as significant. It is clear that we may safely leave Mr. Szwain and his policy of menace to us to the castigation of the American journals. The case is put by some of them very neatly. If Mr. SEWARD is not really alarmed, but wants to raise a war, or a rage for a war, with England, it must be to escape some difficulty, or carry some compromise at home ; and the citizens, who mean to finish what they have undertaken, must be on their guard. If Mr. Sxwaari is really alarmed about an invasion from Canada, it is bad statesmanship to exhibit to the world something so like panic. Such is the judgment of his neigh bours. They do not conceal what the difficulty is. The moment has come for that decision which must be made, sooner or later. The Western States will continue to co-operate, or they will withdraw, according to the behaviour of the Government to General FIMIUNT, and to his cause —always supposing that the proclamation is the only charge established against him. It must soon become clear whether General FREMONT is to be removed or not. Meantime, the indications are very important. He has remained in his command for several weeks ; and the reason avowedly is, that recruiting and every kind of aid stopped when he was discountenanced, and has since been resumed or stopped just as the case of the negroes has varied in aspect at Washington. The Government is now aware that it cannot have popular support if it propane nothing better than a return to the old conditions in regard to the negroes ; and we may no doubt trace the consequences of this con viction in the warning to the citizens to fortify their frontier towards Canada. But there are other signs. The sending 1,000 Degrees for service in the Southern expedition is the first direct adoption of them as a party in the war. There would be no doubt about the decision of the Government in re gard to the emancipation question, on which the whole issue of the war depends, if the sense of the whole North were taken upon it. The pro-slavery habit of mind which prevails in the ports and at the teat of government creates • great risk of a split. There is no doubt about the ultimate adoption of the generous popular policy, in which alone the military commanders can move and do their duty ; the doubt is whether the PRLIUDZ,NT and his ad visers will at once take the part they must take at last, or endeavour to defer their decision by di. verting popular attention from it. We must hope that they will take the nobler part in good time. It thus appears that though the quarrel cannot be made up, and though the war may go on for years, as the Circular of Messrs. Neu. well shows, there is an alternative—that • split in either sec tion, or in both, may vet/ soon alter the bearings of the strafe, and lead to some settlement not yet proposed on any hand. Whatever the result may be, it will be the great event of its time. There has been much sin and folly on both sides ; and there must be much suffering all round. Disap pointment and mortification are doing good already all over the country, and it is conceivable that a long war may be better than • ihort one. Nobody who deserves the title of citizen doubts its being infinitely better than such compromise as foreign critics have taken upon themselves to recommend. THE city of Carlisle is now attracting to itself a strong political interest of the kind lately felt throughout the country in the City of London, in Plymouth, and in Lincoln. It is of great import ance that the result of the election impending there should not break the continuity of the series of Liberal successes. There is the best reason to be lieve that Carlisle will add to their number if the Liberal electors do not permit themselves to be lulled by confidence into inactivity. The frank explanations of the Liberal candidate, the equity and moderation of hie principles, and the tried con sistency of his character, have united all sec. tions of the Liberal party around him. Mr. EDIEVND POTTZR, although a man of large in telligence and great openness of mind, is not • theorist. The course of his life has led him to deal practically with great interests. His experi ence of commercial affairs is extensive enough to recommend him to the suffrages of any mercantile and manufacturing conatitueucy. The Liberal party in Carlisle have shown themselves not in sensible of these merits, and have rallied round their candidate with singular unanimity. Of Mr. HODU•ON, his opponent, it were best not to speak. Those who desire to know his political antece dents may find them in the recorded investi gations of • Committee of the House of Commons. But damaged as his name is else where, local circumstances secure considerable support for Mr. Hooosom in Carlisle, and • can didate of lower qualifications than Mr. Forrest might struggle in vain against the powerful social influences which the Couservative candidate can set in motion. It would nevertheless appear that not much cnntidenco is felt in the legitimate resources of political antagonism, for Mr. HODUSON . 3 party are snatching up weapons drawn from the armoury of old intolerance. Mr. Porrsa is well known as • Nonconformist, and it is sought to discredit him by reference to Ins religious belief. This is a very short-sighted policy for any party to pursue, for the religious liberty, won by unceasing exer tions from generation to generation, and now firmly guaranteed by the constitution, is enjoyed by all alike, and is as necessary for one form et faith as another. Were Mr. Punta a bigot or a persecutor, there would be some justification for referring to his religious opinions, as the ground of those faults. But he is too good a Christian to despise or undervalue any form of our common religion. We believe that in his own neighbourhood such a cry would not have been possible, for there he is known as the generous supporter of every good work, by whatever religious body it may be promoted. The clergy of the Church of England at Man chester will readily acknowledge this, although for party purposes it is desired to represent Mr. Perms as of sectarian spirit at Carlisle. We know, of course, too well the exigencies of the Conservative cause in that city to expect that the desperate tactics employed against the Liberal candidate will be modified ; but for the sake of liberal-minded persons who might otherwise be deceived by artifice, we have thought it well to place the facts before the public. All good men should be friends of religious liberty, lest the day come when we may have liberty without religion. be Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 11. The Queen, with the Princess Helena, rode outon Wombat& this morning, ►ttended by the Hon. Beatrice Byng, Major-General Seymour, Lientenant•Colooel Kiogscots sad Colonel Biddulph. The Prince Cowen t went to London, attended by Colonel the Hon. Sir C. Phipps. Lieutenant• General the Hon. C. Grey, and Colonel the Hon. A. Hari , ' nge. His Royal Highness arrived at 11 o'clock at the New Pekoe of Westminster, and presided at a meeting of the governors of the Wellington College. The other governors prevent were—the Doke of Cambridge, the Archbishop of Caotertruy, the Duke of Newcastle, the Marquis of Salis bury, the NM of Derby (vice-president), the Earl of Ellen boroegh, Lord Hedrick* the Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, Sir James W. Hem Bart., Sir Edmund Antrobas, Bert., Mr. Con, Mr. Hoare, and Mr. T. Baring, M.P. Colonel the Hon. W. P. Talbot, honorary secretary, and Mr. C'hanoe, secretary, attended. The meeting broke up at a quarter past one o'clock. The Prises Cowart, attended by Colossi the Hon. A. Harding, oinked the Grand Duke Osusteatise of Russia, at Claridge's Hotel. The &nee Consort presided in the "Mammon at a meeting of the council of the Duoby of COl.lllllll, held at the Duchy wiles, Buckingham-gate, St. Jamrdelerk There were also present the Keeper of the Privy NW, Sir W. Du ober ; the Attorney-General, Sir William John ♦lexander ; the Treurrer, Colorol.the Hon. Sir Charles Beaumont Phippe ; the Duke of Newcastle, sad Lord Portman. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. ROME OR VENICE ? The Temps' Turin correspondent guarantees the following as the very text of an explanation lately given by M. Ricasoli of his reasons for persisting in the watchword of "Rome," and not giving in to the suggestion cf setting up " Venice " against it : The asylum given to the King of Naples at Rome deprives us of half our forces. We are obliged to keep • large army in Naples to maks war upon the brigand' ; and we has* sot even the satisfaction of thinking that the army is being inured to war, for it is neoesserily so scattered as to have no opportunity of acquiring experience in movements of large manes such as would be required in • war with Austria. The Roman question meets us at every turn, and it must be solar 1 before we can take any other in hand. The refusal of France to cut the matter short must not discourage us, nor load us to change our line of policy. It is useless to talk of Venice. As soon as we see • chance of gnomes in that quarter, we will begin the war without announcing it six months beforehand. But the Roman question must not be settled by the sword, but by spiritual arms. We must en• lighten public opinion in Europe,demonstrate our good right to have Rome for our eapital,and in time the force of events will carry us to the Capitol. The question of Venice by no means excludes that of Rome ; as to the rst, we must act and say little; as to Rome, we mast talk, write, and agitate ; it is only the public opinion of Europe that will give it to us. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nor oux owx PARLS, MONDAY EVENING. There is a vague rumour, which I trust may be confirmed, that at M. Ratazzi's second interview with the Emperor some expressions were let fall of a character more reassuring for Italy than the com munication made at the first. In short, there is an impression abroad that his Majesty's vacillation has, for the moment, a tendency leas favourable to the maintenance of the temporal power—at sal events than it had a few days ago. It must be in rderence to this rumour that the Opinion Nationale ; in announcing M. Ratazzi's departure for Turin, says : The honourable President of the Italian Parliament will take with him storms the Alps an excellent souvenir of his reception amongst us. Let us hope, as we hear it rumoured, that he is also the bearer of testimonials of an exalted sympathy in favour of his country. M. de Lavalette, who will soon leave for Rome, is charged, according to the In diptnetance Beige, to bring the Pope gradually to a dearer and more reasonable understanding of his true situation. We do not doubt that M. Lavalette has instructions in this sense ; but all his efforts will most assuredly break down, and we shall never get ont of the imbroglio until to the non possumus of the Pope we oppose a more energetic non pos mama still, and follow it up by the recall of our troops. Have we got to that point yet? Are we even tending to it? The Queen of Spain's speech is calculated $o inspire us with serious doubts on the subject. Butlier's Correspondence, evidently speaking of the supposed favourable change in the situation, says that the Emperor, instead of having decidedly pronounced in favour of the state quo at Rome, is of opinion that the Roman question presses for • solution and is at this moment drawing up a scheme which he thinks will reconcile the interests of the Papacy with those of Italy. The news, of which we were unaware in Paris, comes to us by ricochet all the way from Bordeaux, where it is published in the Gironde, that on Saturday the police made • descent upon the office of the Courrier du Distant/le and seized all the numbers that it could find. The Temps, in con firming this intelligence, states that the Courrier du DiesaticAe is to be prosecuted for an article by K E. Pakten, headed " Liberty as in Austria," in which it is insinuated that France would be too glad to enjoy as much liberty as is accorded even in that despotic country. At the Bourse the Rente rose 10c. for account, and fell sc. for cash, closing at 69fr. sc. and 68fr. 96c. Mobilier rose 2fr. 50c. ; and the Italian Loan, Sc. In railways little change. Science has just sustained a severe loss in the death of M. Isidore Geoffroy St. Hilaire, of the Institute, who died this morning, after a short illness, at the age of 56, having been born at the official residence of his father (the celebrated Etienne Geoffroy St. Hilaire) in the Jardin des Plantes, in 1805. He was professor of natural history in several institutions, awl the promoter of that great and interesting addition to the public establishments of Paris, the Jardin d'Acclimatation, of the governing body of which he was president up to the time of his death. The theatrical critic of the Opinion► Nationale, M. Francisque Barney, publishes two very piqsiaiste letters written to him, respectively, by M. Dion Boucicault, the author of Colleen Bawn, and M. d'Eunery, the well-known dramatic writer, who adapted the leading incident of that most successful drama for the French stage, in a piece altogether re-written and produced, about a month ago, at the Ambigu Comique under the title of the Lake of Glenadon. The Lake of Glentutmt did not find much favour at the hands of the French critics generally, and it was, in particular, very severely cut up by the writer of the theatrical articles in the Moniteur, who treated it as the joint production of M. d'En nary and M. Boucioault. Thereupon K Bouci °suit wrote to the Afoniteur (which did not insert it) the following letter, now published by the Opinion Nationale Hereford House, London, Oct. 28. The Moaitear of October = contains an article on the Lake of Glenastoit, a new dram► by M. d'Ennery. In reply toyour censure of my part of this work, lam under the necessity of stating that the dream which you have analysed is alkerether M. d'Esmals, with the single exception of the drowning some, which is of my invention. The manager of the Ambigu Comique Theatre proposed to me to play my Colleen Bawls in Paris, and offered me M. d'Ennery 's assiMaaoe for its production. I cheerfully availed myself of this opportunity of being cemented to the Parisian public, and I seat a French translation of my drama to the theatre. M. d'Ennery never allowed me to take any part in the composition of the Late of Olenaston. He did not even show me his manuscript, and never put himself in communication with me in any way whatever. I went to Paris for the purpose of arranging the drowning scene, and in the hope of seeing M. d'Eouery, or at least of obtaining some news of my work. Having learned that my fellow labourer (ecOaborarear) had resolved to depart entirely from my drama, I protested in writing against this injustice. My protest met with no answer. I cam accept no part in the merit which the Lake of Glemastow may have, and you will allow me, therefore, to decline my part of your criticism concerning it. Aoospt, monsieur, the assurance cd my most distinguished sentiments. Diou BOUCICAULT. Before inserting this letter M. Sarcey thought fit to send a oopy of it to M. d'Eunery, with a re quest for an explanation, and he received from that gentleman the following reply : . _ _ Monsieur,-1 send you in great haste the information you ask for. The manager of the Ambigu Combine later saw a piece in Loudon. which seemed to him far from good. but which contained a situation and • tableau that all London admired. People rushed and struggled and fought at the door of the English theatre to witness this scene in the water, and the French manager conceived the idea that he could make something of this dramatic situation. He applied tome to adapt it for our stage. His opinion, which, after rending H. Boucic au le s piece, I en ti re ly shared, was that it should be completely remodelle.l, only the lake tableau and two or three other scenes being retained. The rest of the work appeared to us to be written in such • way that it would have obtained no success before a French audience. The task which I was to undertake constituted what the international treaty calls—l don't very clearly know why— "an appropriation made with good faith," and io inch • case M. Boucleault would, according to the treaty, have been entitled to no share whatever in the author's profits. however, told M. Chilly that I would not so treat the matter. Upwards of a hundred of my works hero been played iu London without even so much trouble being taken as to change the name of the characters ; and nobody ever took the trouble, either, to call upon me to pay any money. But Franc* has an old habit of responding to English ways oil dealing (maurais pre(t , dt's) by delicacy and courtesy, and I would not depart from this honourable tradition._ Our ancestors, when the English and French were about to fire bullets at one another, said, " After you, Messieurs les Anglais." In these days, when disinterestedness and gentlemanly feeling are in question, we s►y, " Before you, Messieurs les Amiens." I therefore told the manager of the Ambigu Comique that I must be at liberty to rewrite the piece entirely in my own way ; but that I should certainly make over to M. Boucicault the half of that proportion of the receipt which according to the stipulations made with the committee of authors falls doe to the anther of every piece played at the Ambign. I wrote the piece accordingly; you, monsieur, know what it is ; and to enable you to judge between M. Boucicault's production ►nd mine, I cannot do better than seed you the translation of the English drama which was seat to Paris by M. Boucicault himself. M. Boncioanlt complains that he was not able to am me, and had no opportunity of working with me. If M. Boucicault had taken the trouble to aiklress him. self to me directly—if he had asked me for a meeting, I slumld hare been delighted to see him, and to have made the acemaintance of the fortunate writer who has succeeded in fishing up 900,000 fr., of author's rights, from the bottom of our lake. If he had caked me to work with him—if he bad proposed that we should reconstruct together the drama which be himself borrowed from a novel, my answer would have been that the translation which he sent to Paris was his part of the labour. And to reassure him u to the way in which I should deal with his piece, I should have added this Emile de Girardin did not hesitate to confide to me a play of that eminent authoress called Madame de Girardin, and he did me the honour to trust to my experience as to all the alte rations to be made. M. Edmund About, whose Germaine I adapted for the theatre, would not see the piece until it was played, and the compliments which he was pleased to pay me would have embarrassed a humility more humble than mine I wrote a drama from Eugene Sue's " Wandering Jew," and the celebrated novelist wax so satisfied with my work that in my absence he inaisted upon a larger share of the profits than I had required being set apart for me. To conclude, I had the happy audacity to re•arrango a work of our great Balac, a pities which the m►nager of every theatre in Yarn, from the Theatre Francais down to the Ambigu and Gkit6, had pronounced to be uorepresent• able. You know that for the last twelve years the public has never ceased to applaud Atercedet. Such 111.11164 I think, might well have reassured the English author, and IL Bon:Ocean would perhaps not have refused to join such company. Accept, mousieur, my warmest salutation,. A. D'Exany. The critic of the Opinion Nationale, having read the two productions, expresses his opinion that— although the Lake of Gknaston is by no means the best thing that M. d'Enuery has done, and that its success here is in great part due to the excellent acting of Mdme. Jane Easter—yet it is a chef d'auvre in comparison with that "shapeless monstrosity" called Colleen Baton ! I have seen neither of the two pieces, and consequently have no opinion as to their respective merits, but it occurs to me that the rights of the question between the French and English dramatist depend upon other considerations. M. Barmy pro ceeds to °ensure M. Boucicault's conduct as incon sistent, as well as unhandsome, in repudiating hos tile criticism of the Lake of Gleaaston while he receives half the author's profits. lam disposed to think there is something to be said on the other side, and M. Boucicault will probably find means to say it. The money rights and the literary repu tation of an author are two things essentially differ ent in their nature, and one is surprised to see such • champion of his country's chivalry as K d'Ennery mixing them up together. It is quite clear that the use of K Boucicault's name has contributed very materially to the success of the Lake of Gknaston in Paris, and it may well be that K d'Ennery has borrowed the leading idea of Colleen Bawn in such a way as to give M. Bouoicault • legal claim to his part of the author's rights, while, at the same time, the latter may be justified in explaining to the public the small part which he was allowed to take in putting the piece upon the French stage. There is nothing discour teous in M. Boucicault's letter. He does not say a word against the Lake of Gknastos ; he only desires to make it known, since French critics have run it down very severely, that he did not write it, and this AL d'Ennery admits. But then M. d'Ennery says, " I volunteered to pay you money which I might have litigated, and therefore you are a brute of an Englishman for not allowing your name to be responsible for my writing." I cannot think this either a logical or a chivalrous argument EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.-(THIS DAY.) An eitraorlinary general meeting of shareholders was held at noon at the Loudon Tavern, for the purpose of authorising the creation of capital wider the " Eastern Counties Railway Act, 1861." Immediately after the conclusion of the above extraordinary meeting, a special meeting of the proprietors will be held in ammdance with the standing orders of p•r- Usenet, for the purpose of authorising the .4 company to subscribe • sum of moiler toward, the me dertaking of a company intended to be incorporated in the next seamen of parliament for the making of a line of rail• way for the conveyers:to of cud and goods to commence at or Dear March, in the county of Cambridge, by • junction with the Eastern Counties Company's hue of railway, and to terminate by a junction with the line of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, at or near Agleam, in the county of York, and to raise the necessary funds for such subeiription. Mr. Loos, the chairman of the company, presided. The Commis:4, in opening the proceedin e, said as re ' prded the first object the directors that, for the construction of the new lines required to complete the Eastern Counties system, the stun of 1100,0001. should be raised in preference shares of 6/. 13s. 4d., beating interest at the rite of 41. 10s. per annum. The object had, he observed, been virtually sanctioned at previous meetings. The motion having been seconded, Mr. BROWN moved, SS an amendment, that the meeting be adjourned tall the 26th instant, and that the directors should in the meantime issue full explanations to the share holders with regard to the i nteeded application of the proposed addition to the capitaL The Eastern Counties line was now in a very similar state loan Irish encumbered estate. (Hear. hear.) Every farthing that was added to the capital of course made their position worse. This proposal would if adopted take away 20 per cent . from the present depressed dividend of 11. 3a. 9d., for it had been admitted that the new lines could not for some years more than pay.their working ex penses. Mr. Avers, in seconding the amendment, dwelt on the distressed condition of the company, and t h e folly of adding fresh burdens on the line. The Eastern Counties Five pee Cent. Stock stood at 106, and it would be impossible to raise this further capital at 4i per cent, without a consider able sacrifice. Mr. Box emplaned of having been treated unfairly by the chairman at tier last meeting in his refusal to put he (Mr. Box's) amendment, proposed for the purpose of testing the accuracy of Moms. Quitter and Ball's statements, im pugoing the directors' accounts. A SHAREHOLDER inquired where the 4i per cent. was to come from? (Laughter.) la his opinion the proposition should be rejected altogether. In reply to Mr. It'LaREN, The Omidestale stated that the proposal had the concur rence of the joint committee of the united companies. In reply, he stated that be had no fear of loss from the adop tion of his proposal. The matter was one of necessity, and the board had met the case in the beet manner they could. The amendment was then put and lost, and the original resolution was carried, with only six dismutienta. The meeting having been made special, The enmities's proposed • resolution authorising the raising of 200.0001. or the formation of a line to facilitate the conveyance of coal from the northern districts to London. He said he knew no object of greater importance than that ; and the three companies would each participate in the required capital. A considerable portion of the line would be constructed on a dead level. Altogether, 95 miles would be made by an independent company from March to Ai ken], and the entire capital wanted for that pur pose was 1,000,0001., towards which the three companies before referred to would subscribe 200,00. The object of this coal line was to compete in point of price with water. It was estimated that the coal traffic would yield • revenue of 200,0001. • year, and setting down the expet SOB at 50 per cent., times would remain 100,0001. for dividend. • In reply to Mr. WLARCM, The CHAIRMAN stated that the 200,000 f. was a coatriba• Moe from the three oompaeies. Serjeant Ciamdti said be aloud not sanction the giviog of 144.0001. to any unknown company. They had no guarantee that • further sum of 200,000 f. would not be asked to save this 1440001., and that they should uot niti mately have to make the line themselves. (Hear, hear.) Mr. TiIORPI agreed with the learned sorjeant, and thought they were going to lend the money to a nitro. the-wisp. If the line was to he made he did not see why they should not convey passengers as well as coal. Mr. ADAIR also opposed the proposition of the bald, and moved the adjournment of the meeting. Mr. Harr seconded the motion. The °Zinnia= said that, unless the subscription list of the new company was filled and its direction first-rate, they should not subscribe 200,0031. towards its construction. The amendment was put and lost. The original resolution was then put and carried, after which the meeting separated. The following is the present rate of 4ineount in the principal banks in Europe:—Paris and Vienna. 6 Pal oset. ; Berlin, Frankfort, and Brussels, 4 per cent ; Loa• den and Amsterdam, 3 per cent. ; Turin, G per cent. ; St. Petesabang, 7 per cent. The Pr` - we Carton afterwards left town for Windsor Castle. The Prime of Wales emompanied the Prince Consort to London, sod then proomeded to Madiogley-hall, Cambridge, attended by Major-Gesend the Hon. R. Brace, sad Major Teesdale. The following deputatioes had interviews yesterday with the Right Hoe. C. P. Wilier., ILP., at the °Moe of the Poor Law Board, vie., • de putation from the Nottingham Union, amehrtiog of Mr. E. P. Cox (guardian), Mr. J. Ashwell (guardian), Mr. Baodan (clerk), Mr. J. Barber and Mr. Skinner (town =medlars), and Mr. M. 0. Tarbotton (corporation surveyor), and introduced ►y Mr. Mellor, M.P.; sad • deputation horn the Spalding Union, consisting of Mr. Tatam (chair man), and Mr. Maples (clerk). Mr. Everard had also an in terview with Mr. Villiers. It ham bees intimated to her Majanty's Commiaioners far the Intonational Exhibition for 1b62 that Alexaoder C. Unities, Eaq., Carol-General for Greece, will topmast that malice at the sowing exhibition. Despetehse were soot yesterday from the Colonial-016os to the (kronor* at Malta, Ceylon, and Hoeg-Kona, Litman, and °Walter. VISIT OT THR COURT TO CAMlRSlDOoll'Wed aorday foreseen bur Majesty and the Prince CORWIN with • limited portion el the royal suite, will leave Windsor Gulls and grossed to Medias* Hall, Cambridge, for the purpene of paying a visit to the Prince of Wales. Her Majesty and the Primes Comport will @leap at Cambridge on the nights of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, and take their departure', on their return to Windsor, on Saturday morning, where they will arrive by 2 o'clock to luncheon. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wake, acoom pealed by the Has. Gemmel Bruce, arrived in Cambridge yesterday shortly titer one o'clock. The royal party Mine. diately oa antral at the (Ambridge ration, took their de parture in the equipages which were in waiting, for Ye diagley Hail iarl Russell arrived in Cambridge on Saturday hat about five o'clock, a• • visit to the Reverend the Master of Trinity. The earl was anfixtunately suffering all Sunday from • movers cold, which confined him within doors, sod this circumat•noe gave rise to rumours that be was seriously ill ; he was, however, apparently in his usual health yes terday when ha left Cambridge for London by the midday train. The Prince and Princess de Leiningen, relatives ef the King of the Belgians aed of Queen Victoria, arrived at Brussels on Friday evening, and afterwards dined with the royal Wally, the Earl and Countess of Clerendon being of the party. Lard Clarinda' and Wally left Brussels on Saturday morels* for England. Their Imperial Highnesses the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess Coosteatine of Russia and the Princess Olga returned to Claridge's Hotel on tkturday last from visiting the Queen at Windsor Castle- Their Royal Elighnemee the Duke of Oporto and his brother Prime Don Joan kayo left Claridgs's Hotel for flouthamptoo, en route for Lisbon. The Chancellor of the Exchequer will accompany Mn. and Mies Gladstone to Chatsworth, on Thmiday, on a visit to the Duke of Devonshire. The Duke of Atholl, the Marquis of Tullibardiue, and Lord Dunmore have left Scotland for Paris and Com. pihree. They go upon special invitation of the Emperor, who has directed a special train to be in waiting at Paris. The Duchess of Atholl was invifed. but arse unable to accept the invitation. The Earl of Dalhousie and lady Christian Maule ware to leave Brachia Castle on Saturday foe the Continent, where they intend penning the winter season. The Right Hon. T. H. Sotberon-Esteourt, M.P., sad lira Esteourt have arrived at Farranee's Hotel, from Eatecart, Glouceeterehire. On Friday last the Rev. Samuel Cutler Horsley was licensed to the perpetual curany of Sturdy°, in Nor folk, on the nominate= of the Hight Hoc. Lord Walsioip ham, of Merton Hall. Next week there will be a great meeting of landed proprietors held at Athlone, under the presidency of the Marquis of Clan:dude, the object of which will be the ern ployrnent of hands in remedying the imperfect works of the Shannon and its tributaries ; and in other parts of the west the gentry are esertiog themselves to provide employment for the poor in their respective district; but from all that I ean learn there will be no actual want. A western paper, the Slifto Champion, appeare to apprehood the approach of scarcity, if not of actual famine. It says :—" The rod 'diens adopted by the clergy of the &awry of Ceatlebar gave a true and painful picture of the distress in that quar ter, and our reports received this week front other counties in this provisos are equally diabearteuing. In the rocky and roasted parish of Dysart the potato crop le nearly pas, and if the appeal made by their good pastor, Father Brearrea, does sat soca meet ► response, the mend nod in dustrious people of that district will have no alternative but fends, ar the workhouse. Sir Robert Peel states that the goveraemat are ' smoldering.' When will they act'" "We are aware fruit' private sources" (says Aries Birmingham Gazeik) " that there is a movement on foot in this country for assisting the Hungarians, and that it bee active emissaries in this town. Secret correspondence is being carried on with the leaders of the Hungarian party, anus have been paranoid is consideredle quantities, and are uoderstood totem eddy resehed their destination." DIATH OP BIZ JOHN C.F.AAS HAWKINS, BART. —The death of this vessemble baronet took pleas ou Satur day lid at Fresehey, Oloacestenhire. The dowered wee in the Seth year et his age. The first baronet was sergeant surge= to George ILL POLAND. We find in the Poseu Juurnal the following cir cular which has been addressed to all the mayors and burgomasters of Kalisch, and which gives some idea of the regime under which Poland is now governed : KaHach. Oct. 29. To remove the doubts which may arise ooncenriog certain details relative to the state of siege, the military chief of the district of KaEach has, by a raseript dated yesterday, deemed as follows:—It shall be regularly notified to householder , ' and fathers of families that they are in future to prevent their wives, daughters, governesses, female servanta, or any other female members of their household, from wearing, under any pretext whatsoever, mourning, and prohibited emblems, and from singing revolutionary hymns. If • woman shows herself in a forbidden costume, or le heard to sing forbidden songs, her husband, father, rinster, without exception, will be arrested. Those who keep arms in their houses, or delay in making the declaration respect ing them ; those who do not denounceto the nearest military authority intended meetings of householders, even in private houses, will be brought before a council of war. The bur ' 'ammeters or mayors of rills's, will be responsible for these offences. The police are informed that the general Cowie tory has been warned by the clergy that all processions— even those authorised by the church—are suspended. Au thority to celebrate religious ceremonies, as they may occa sion a numerous gathering, must be asked by the clergy of the military commandant, who aloes ran grant it. The foregoing will be mad. 10101/11 to all whom it may concern. (Bffineff) Besowtcz. BKLOIIIM. The Journal de Bruxelles says :—" We &reassured that the Minister of Foreign Affairs has notified to his Excellency the Minister of Francis IL in this city that he must cease to entertain official relations with him, inasmuch as the Belgian government cannot longer abstain from recognising the title of King of Italy assumed by Victor Emmanuel." (azona's Tzumums.) FRANCE. PARIS, Nov. 12. The Constitutionnel of to-day publishes an article, signed by Dr. Veron, which, after mentioning the probability of the nomination of M. Fould as Minister of Finance, concludes as follows :—" If we are well informed, this is not only to be con sidered as a personal change in the ministry, but as • political and financial event, which the Senate and Corps Legislatif could not fail to applaud." FRANCE AND BERNE, Nov. 12. A note addresaed by M. Thouvenel to Dr. Kern asserts on the authority of categorical statements made by General Faucheux that the territory of the Valley of the Dappenthid has not been even tempo rarily violated by the French troops. A similar de claration has been made to the Federal Council by M. de Turgot, the French Ambassador. ITALY. TURIN, Nov. 12. Another congress of workmen has just been held et Asti, and has capressed its disapproval of the deliberations of the last congress assembled at Florence. The province of Avelino is again disturbed by brigands. PORTUGAL. LISBON, Nov. 11, Evaingo. The King has received the last sacrament. SPECIE FOR THE EAST. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 12. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Delta, sailing hence to-day, takes oat for Bombay bar silver, 215,3001. ; silvers. coin, 8,620/. ; gold coin, 8,9851. ; and jewellery, watches, &c., 5651. 10s. The Diboll; of to-day coutainE a somewhat lengthy maids, In which the French government and the French natio° are urged for a hundred reasons to counteract the ialuenee of England in Madagascar. The utmost farms is laid upon this, the future liberty of the seas being de clared to depend upon it. . . " Among the distinguished persons who intend passing the winter at Hy4ae," nays the Nourelliste ei )(amines, " are the Duke and Duels= of Hamilton, who will reside at the chateau of St. figrre des Porte." At the late theatrical representation at COM pV.Tos the Emperor Napoleon entered the imperial tax at half-past fi, leading the Princess Clothilde, who took the met es his Majesty's right. Prince Napoleon came next, with the Empress, and seated himself at her Majesty's left. Next the Prince were the Princess Mathilde and the Princess Anna Murat. Between the ads the Emperor enlivened with several persons, and particularly with M. Fould. The Gymnast , company played Scribe's UNeDemoiselle d Marier; then M. Decouroalle's ✓e Dine Chet eta Marc, the perform ance terminating with L'Argent fait Pear. At the end of each piece his Majesty gave the signal for applause. _ • . A Paris letter says :—" All apprehension has owed on the subject cf supplying the deficiency of the late wheat crop. The last week was remarkable for the immense quantity of foreign corn imported into France, both by the seaports and by the eastern frontier. Wheat is abundant in the f.reigu markets, and French purchasers in the porte of the Black ties and I. the Danubian provisoes have demanded and obtained a reduction of prime. It appears from official returns that nearly two-thirds of the deficiency is already supplied—that is, the produce of the late harvest would have only supplied the country until May next, bat the stock of wheat now in store will be milleiset for the wants of the population until July. zany spoon. laton are now offering ter sale both their flour and wheat, being convinced that they nay at a future period renew their stock on better terms. The most obstinate protec tionists are satisfied that this ll:alienate moult could not have been obtained had not the earn trade been relieved of all the trammels with which it bad been encumbered." A private letter from Belleville, in the Beaujo lais, of t►e 7th Met., states that the wise-grower in that district, to the number of 180, are to most this week to make arrangements for sending samples of their produce to the Loudon Exhibition next year. They have deputed the managers and "gents of the English wine oompsay se iabliatied is the Beaujolais to Topmost them on the sees mien. The ban was , the have only 7,500/., of bared ease 17 , 10 appeared fi up ape hoc . that mora l :44 An adj., rupt'i expo The banl street, Mir This w■s t repot owes Mr. LOA n'tPl.l. IN RI THE The list, nettled. 7 Laving mac were now • Mr. Bag The first dish ; but The only Martin, wh weekly pub the assuran he_ to hare -- 86. ii4l, that reaped those comp Ultimate amount due Amongst A. Vali., so pany Lfo An apple woollen pl female, mai being impli under the a Mr. Bark box wu hu The prisons wearing apg There was description also been p Prisoner, the above e Mr. Ham had as obje Mr. Pap week. 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