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Now ready. at 43.14-4 he Librsales, In three vols. post Rvo., T HE WILL . ; or, THE HALF BROTHERS. _ A NOVEL. Richard Bentley, 71T-el,r—R—u-rlington-street. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. LAMOND and Co., RAILWAY SHARE AUCTIONEERS, beg to thank their Friends sad the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., take place every TUESDAY and FRIDAY, at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place, favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully requested to be addressed. the day All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited , previous to their being offered ; and adviees of r esults will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds name diately disposed of according to instructions. Offices. Hall of Commerce. Threadneedle-street. London. THEATRE ROYAL, DRITRY-1.1'...3E. THIS EVENING Will be performed Lavenu't hew Opera, . entitled LORETTA ; A Tale of Seville. Don Carlos , Mr. Hemson ; Ferdinand, Mr. Xing ; Philippe, Mr. Itorrani Provost Marshal, Mr. Howell ; Don Juanito, Mr. Weiss ; Loretta, Madame Anna Bishop ; Florinda, Miss Poole ; Gaetana, Miss Rebecca Isaacs. After the Opera, will be presented a new grand Ballet, called THE WAGS OF WAPPING (performed at the Aca.lemie Royale, Paris, under the title of Betty.") In which will appear Mdlles . Sophie Fuoco, Louise, Benart, Madame Giubilei ; MM. Huguet, Adrien, Paul, Tell ; Messrs. Howell, Priorson, &c. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. 11. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be performed an original Comedy, entitled LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP; or, Wooings and Weddings. Mr. Oatimgton, Mr. W. Farren ; Mr. Rashleigh, Mr. Hudson ; Mr. De Vere, Mr. Hull ; Mr. Brandon, Mr. Howe • Mr. Hardman, Mr. Rogers; Jack Spriggs, Mr. Webster ; Tim 'Tilley, Mr. Buckstone ; Miss Brown, Mrs. Glover ; Claribel Oddington, Miss Fortescue ; Mary Oddington, Miss P. Horton ; Elinor Mortimer, Mrs. Yarnold ; Fanny Hai-imam, Miss Julia Bennett. After which a new Farce, called SPRING GARDENS. Lord Courtingtoo, Mr. Holl ; Sir Arthur Lovel, Mr. Howe ; Scoreup, Mr. Buckstone ; Lady Clarissa, Mrs. Buckingham ; Mrs. Scorcup, Miss Julia Bennett. During the evening the Band will perform the Overtures, " Pre aux Clercs," and " Les Travestissernens ;" " Clementinen " (Ma zoluta) ; " Camcilion " (Galop) ; and the " Esterhazy" (Waizer). To conclude with the Comic Drama, entitled THE IRISH POST. In which Messrs. Bland, Tilbury, Hudson, and Mrs. Humby, &c., will appear. .. _ Box-office open from Twelve till Four ; under the direction of Mr. T. Archer, Box Book-keeper. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. THIS EVENING Will be performed Le Brim's Pc•tite Comedie of LES riv Aux D'EUX MEMES. Derval, M Rhozevil ; Folleville, M. Langeval ; Dupont, M. Durnery ; Use, Mdlle. Brohan. After which, LE COMEDIEN D'ETAMPES. Dorival, M. Per let; Madeleine, Mdlle. A. Kkin. To conclude with Regnard's admired Play of LES FOLIES AMOK; REUSES. Albert, M. Cartigny ; Eraste, M. Felix ; Crispin. M. Lucien ; Agathe, Mdlle. C. Vallee ; Lisette, Mdlle. Brohan. 'Boxes, 6s. • Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Stalls, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. Doors opened at talf-past Seven, and the performance commence at Eight. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be performed a grand Fairy Spectacle, founded on the Ballet (ILA GISELLE, entitled THE PHANTOM DANCERS ; or, the Wills Bride. Principal characters by Mr. Wright, Mr. P. Bedford. air. 0. Smith, Mr. Cullenford, Madame Celeste, Miss Marian Taylor, Miss Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws. After which the original Domestic Drama, called TIIE WRECK ASHORE ; or, The Bridegroom of the Sea. Marmaduke Magog, Mr. Wright ; Alice, Mrs. Yates. To conclude with a Bozzian Sketch, in one act, called MRS. °AMP'S TEA AND TURN-OUT. Principal characters by Messrs. Cullenford, Worrell, Ryan, Wright, Munyard ; Miss M. Taylor, and Miss Ellen Chaplin. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING . Will be performed an original rom a ntic Opera, in three parts, entitled THE NIGHT DANCERS ; founded on the Story of " Giselle." The principal charactecs persenifted by Miss fieorgiana Smithson, Madame Albertazzi, Miss Flower, Miss Somers, Misses Marshall ; Messrs. Leffler, Allen, Bodda, Walton, T. Hill, Honner, Peren, &c. To conclude with the Opera of ROB ROY. Rob Roy, Mr. J. R. Scott ; Rashleigh, Mr. Hughes ; Francis Osbaldiston, Mr. Barker ; Bailie Nicol Jarvie, Mr. Compton ; Donal, Mr. Ryder ; Diana Vernon, Miss Smithson ; Helen Macgregor, Mrs. Fovbroke. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Mr. George Bolton, sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING Will be produced an entirely New and Original Comedy, in Ave acts, entitled LIFE. Mr. Orstan, Mr. Archer ; Frank Orstan, Mr. Leigh Murray; Sir Thomas Menton, Mr. Walter Lacy ; Sir Jacob Sraaliwit, Mr. George Bolton; Sir Robert Folair, Mr. J. Cowell ; Cancara, Mr. Wilkinson ; Lady Bait, Mrs. C. Jones ; Fanny Archer, Mrs. Walter Lacy ; Emily Orstan, Mrs. Gordon. After which, Shakspere's History of JACK CADE. Jack Cade, Mr. Maynard. To conclude with a new grand BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new melo-dramatic Tale of Enchantment, called GISELLE ; or, The Phantom Night Dancers. Maximilian, Mr. Pelham ; Peterkin, Mr. Webb ; Caspar, Herr Deulin ; Giielle, Mrs. Saville ; Dame Bertha, Mrs. Daly ; Myrtha, Miss Terrey. After which, the VIRGINIAN HARMONISTS will sing their po pular Negro Melodies, and perform their celebrated Railway Overture. To followed by the popular Ballet of LA STATUE BLANCHE. To conclude with a new Drama, entitled QUENTIN INIATSYS ; or, The Smith of Antwerp. Quentin Matsys, Mr. Saville ; Williewig, Mr Heslop ; Clementlna, Mrs. Saville ; Dame, Mrs. Daly ; Joan, Miss Terrey. ASTLEY'i. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Patronised by her Moat Gracious Majesty the Queen. Prince Albert, anti itoyal Family. Immense attraction and double spec tacle. " The Demon Horse " and " Waterloo." First Week of the appearance of Mr. Gomersal as " Napoleon Buonaparte." THIS EVENING Will be performed a grand new Magical Equestrian Romance, en titled THE DEMON HORSE ; or, Th Twelve Wishes and the Charmed Bit. In which will be introduced the Syrian Camels and trained Deer, and the Wild Stag-Hunt. Entire change in the Scenes of the CIRCLE. In which will ap pear Herr Amidio Nuperte, the great Dutch Bottle Equilibrist. To conclude with the grand Military Spectacle of THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Napoleon, Mr. Gomersal. itox-office open from eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six and c , rnmence at half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Broadfoot. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Immense success of the alteration of the prices of admission to one general level, so that all parts of the house shall bear a just and liberal proportion- --viz., Boxes, Is.; Half-price, 6(1. ; r,,i Gallery, 3d. —and first week of " The Black Doctor," with great scenic effect. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE BLACK DOCTOR. In which Miss Vin. cent, Mrs. G. Lee, Miss L. Pearce, Mrs. It. Barnett, and Me.,srs. Edwards, Bird, Searle, Forman, &c., will perform. After which THE MILLER'S WIFE. Ecky M'Craw, Miss Vin cent ; Crumpy, Mr. Forman. To conclude with the Burlesque of FAYRE ROSAMONDE ; or, The Bowers of Woodstock. Fayre Rosamonde, Mr. Forman. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE,; NOVEMBER 23. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 37; Highest. 45 ; Noon, 49. BAROMETER, 29.86.—W1ND W., rainy. HIGH WATER AT LON DON-B W)UE. THIS DAY. Morning - - 9 minutes after 5. I Evening .. 33 minutes after 5. fa,OritillA TlflX+ LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1846. which was subsequently, namely, in 1819, seized by the renowned RUNJEET SINGH, and by him committed to a Mahomedan administration. Not merely was this beautiful and important district ceded by us to the MAHARAJA. of the hills, but we actually engaged to sustain him in the integrity of his new empire ; and more than that, induced the Durbar of Lahore to afford every assistance in case of emergency to one whom they must unquestionably regard with aversion as a master rebel. At the period when these engagements were entered into there was, it is true, but little expectation that any such assist ance would be required. GnooLAn SINGH appeared to have retained under his authority a military force that promised to be an invincible protection from the indignation or envy of surrounding princes. Before the power of GHOOLAB SINGH the shattered or ener vated ranks of the neighbouring territories appeared to be wholly insignificant. Circumstances, have however, proved otherwise. _ _ . . After neglecting for some time, and from some un accountable reason, to take possession of Cashmere, the MAHARAJA at length attempted to extend his au thority over that district, but his attempt has been nullified by the most unexpected discomfiture. Under the direction of the Sheik EMAUM- 00D-DEEN, the Muslims of the valley have revolted against the un welcome sway of GBOOLAB SINGH, and that formid• able warrior has been twice beaten back with a cala mitous and sanguinary violence. By an adroit arrangement of this rebellious Sheik, it would ap pear, moreover, that additional difficulties have been thrown in the way of the thwarted MAHARAJA ; the recent insurrections in the Vale of Cashmere have been rendered more durable and portentous by having a religious character imparted to them; the cunning Sheik, himself, has assumed the title of EMIR-00L.MOOMEMIN ; and the affection, and even enthusiasm with which he is regarded by his Muslim followers, renders the suppression of the revolt a matter of consummate difficulty. In this embarrassment of his newly acquired terri tories, GUOOLAB SINGH has applied to the Governor- General for the military aid which had been stipu lated in the recent treaties. Obedient to their own promise, the British authorities have not merely for warded 6,000 men from the Jullundur Doab to take temporary possession of the MAHARAJA'S capital, but it would appear that they hare actually prevailed upon Raja LALL SINGH to dispatch 10,000 men to co operate in these endeavours to subdue the insurgents of Cashmere. And it would appear, moreover, that this has been accomplished at the very moment when the re volt and the resistance of the Muslims are attributed to an intrigue of the Durbar of Lahore! 'Whether that rumour be correct or not, it is unquestionable that extensive preparations were being made to enter upon a campaign among the mountains and fastnesses of Cashmere; that the British forces were leagued, together in the same causewith those of GROOLAB SING a , and the Government of Lahore. Some months back such a combination of antagonistic soldiery would have been incredible; even now it is almost incredible. From the vigorous repulse which the MAHARAJA has already encountered from the followers of EMIR- 00L- MoomEmiN, and from the frightful severity of a wintry season amongst the mountains of the revolted country, the difficulties of this deplorable enterprise may be calculated. If anything were wanting to show the absurdity of our Asiatic policy, this catastrophe in the magnifi cent and impregnable Valley of. Cashmere would he amply sufficient. It would be sufficient, because it displayed in a conspicuous manner the impossibility of gathering a wholesome fruit from rotten or pernicious branches ; or, in other words, the frivolity of expecting to behold peace and good govern ment flowing from sources which have only an affinity f;.r intestine wars and lawless spoliation. Here we grant certain additions to the kingdom conferred upon GIIOOLAB SINGH, and we are consequently involved in troubles for the purpose of making conquests for the MAHARAJA of the Hills. Next, as a matter of course, we shall have to enter upon a separate ex pedition in support of the Lahore Government, and Sir CH ARLES NAPIER will have to march upon Bhawulpore to chastise the petulant and refractory NIZAM of Moultan. With all these boisterous elements to battle against, and with our present blundering and piecemeal policy, the tranquillity and happiness of India will be realised only on the arrival of the Greek Kalends. (VROM d CORRESPONDENT.) without being in the first instance brought before a magistrate to be examined, and his detention approved of. Why should not a similar protection be afforded to the wealthier patient ? We conceive that no per son should be taken into any house for the reception of lunatics until he has been so examined, and that a verdict of a jury should in every case be neces sary to warrant his detention. This verdict might be obtained at a moderate cost, and the coroner of the district might conduct the inquiry. When ever the proceeding was instituted by any person not nearly related to the alleged lu natic, the matter should be taken into the hands of some public officer. The Lord Chan cellor is, "by virtue of his office," guardian of all lunatics, and in such cases he should delegate an authority to some person to inquire into the circu n stances, and to take such steps as might be most beneficial for the afflicted person. In the case of Mrs. SILUTTLEWORTII, the public having had the advantage of a long discussion on the state of the law relating to lunacy, and of the judgment of the entire Court thereon, a certain degree of doubt has been removed. The law of lunacy is revealed in all its hideous deformity, and medical practitioners have received a lesson how meagre may be the character of the statements they are obliged to make, in pursuance of the Act of Parliament, as to the facts on which they ground their opinions of the insanity of the person, and how illusory may be the protection afforded by the statute. The lady in question, it ap pears, had for five years past been residing in the house of a medical man, as a patient for bodily and not mental disease. That gentleman, who from such long intercourse must be supposed to be more com petent to form a sound opinion as to her mental capacity than any person on a casual interview, dis tinctly and positively swore that the lady was of sound mind at the time sbe was taken into custody. In this he was corroborated by the affidavits of three other persons, who had long been acquainted with her. She was possessed of a moderate independence, on which she lived in the greatest seclusion. The person who interfered in the matter was not in any way related to, or connected with, Mrs. SHUTTLE WORTH ; he does not appear to have had more than a few minutes' conversation with her, and when on that he decided upon transferring her to a private lunatic asylum, he was wholly unable to answer any one of the sixteen particulars required by the Act, being in fact up to the time of signing the order fur her reception wholly unacquainted with her. One of the medical certificates on which the statement was justified, stated that the facts on which the gen tleman formed his opinion that she was of unsound mind were, that she laboured under various delusions, without stating what these delusions were, and that she was extremely dirty, and indecent ; the other was still less satisfactory—for the only fact stated was, that the learned doctor had a long conversation with the alleged lunatic, from which he had arrived at his conclusion. The Lord Chief Justice pronounced the decision of the Court, in which his judicial brethren fully concurred, that the return to the writ which stated that Jhe was detained in custody as a person of unsound mind, under and by virtue of the order for reception, and the certifi cates to which we have alluded, was fully sufficient and that therefore the lady must be remanded back to her original custody. It is unncessary for the purposes of our argument to inquire whether the lady was really of unsound mind or otherwise. It is the state of the law that must be looked to, and whether under that law a sane person can, by any possibility, be unduly interfered with, and his personal liberty abridged with impunity, and also what is the se curity afforded against any such interferences. If the law is so defective, if such abuses really exist, then its alteration and amendment is imperatively called for and the publi c vo i ce s h ould be at once raised to de mand its speedy revision. Never was the instability of Oriental Govern ments more signally illustrated than at this present moment. Notwithstanding all the carnage of Sobraon and Ferozeshah, we are again driven to arms, we are again compelled to dispatch our soldiers to the perilous fastnesses of the east, we are again threatened with all the vicissitudes of a precarious and sanguinary campaign. Those who have fallaciously congratulated themselves with the impression that our recent victories in India, and our complicatei dis tribution of patronage and territory, had brought matters to a definite settlement and was inagura tive of a permanent tranquillity, will be now entirely undeceived. The impos-ibility of es tablishing any enduring and pacific govern ment among the treacherous and quarrelsome chieftains of Asia, has been tolerably well demon strated from the administration of the immortal CLIVE to that of ELLENBOROUGH. Numberless as have been the alternations of power and of military fortune during that interval, every successive oc currence has demonstrated the incompetency of the several petty despots to maintain anything like a stable dominion over their different principalities, or to infuse any degree of political confidence or social re gularity into the population subjected to their sway. Religious animosities, the jealousies of caste, and the enmities which have been generated among the inhabitants of neighbouring provinces during the lapse of generations, have all tended to perpetuate the intestine strifes by which India has been for centuries desolated. Whener er tranquillity has been temporarily restored in one direction, war has simultaneously broken out in another; whenever conces sions have pacific d this ruler, or obedi ence has been extorted from that, some refractory principality has involved our representa tives in a new and - still more complicated series of embarrassments. Disastrous conflicts have been the invariable sequel of our Indian victories. The apple of conquest has only possessed a superficial bloom : in reality it has always concealed ashes and disappoint ment. If we were to con, one by one, the circum stances which have illustrated our Asiatic domination since its first establishment, down to the latest dis patches from Calcutta and Bombay, we should dis cover nothingbut a succession of tribulations caused by our egregious confidence in the possibility of balancing political power among the various provinces. Our endeavours in that quarter Jf the globe have been as blunderin g , as o b s ti na t e, an d as i ne ff ectua l , as t h ose of s rsrpnus. We have attempted to combine in one friendly cluster a number of heterogeneous states— states possessi ng no common bond of sympathy— states essentially opposed to the very existence of each other. According to:the stipulations entered into imme mediately after Sobraon, w e among . other things, to ensure to GRool.sn Sirs a it: t n ;l a e t Po ura ss u essio n of the Vale of Cashmere, a fruitful forti fied principality, which was originally anneYze'n 1752, to the Dooranee empire by ARMED SRAIT:blut The first point established by the present case is that a total stranger may cause the arrest and im prisonment of any person whose sanity is impeached ' • may select an asylum to which the unfortunate person will be consigned, in which he will be kept secluded without his friends being permitted to see or hear from him, or even to see the documents under and by virtue of which he is detained in custody. This is a most dangerous power to be fora moment sanctioned. If it continues in force it is probable that we shall speedily find persons who will make it their business to inquire into the private affairs of every person of any degree of eccentricity, who is pos sessed of an independence sufficient to insure pay ment of the demands of the keeper of the asylum. Such persons may be considered as necessary to an establishment of the description as com mercial travellers to an extensive mercantile house. We do not mean to attribute any unworthy motive to the clergyman who signed the order in the present case ; hut we have shown that a dangerous power exists, that great abuses may be perpetrated in conse quence thereof, and that we conceive to be quite suffi cient to warrant us in calling for its abolition. No pauper lunatic can be committed to custody It is also now settled that the statement that the person signing the certificate had a conversation with the person afflicted, from which he grounded his opi nion, is a sufficient fact within the statute to warrant the certificate. The protection intended to be given by the statute is thus partially abolished. It never could have been contemplared that any medical man would have signed such a certificate without seeing and conversing with the patient. The Legislature, therefore, when it enacted " that the per son certifying should state on the face of the certificate the facts that led him to the conclu sion that the person was insane," must have contem plated something further than the fact of an interview with the medical practitioner. It would appear to us that the facts to be set forth should be of such a cha racter as, if unexplained, to establish the mental inca pacity. The Court have, however, decided differently, and as the very slight protection afforded by the Act is thus taken away, there is a positive necessity for some speedy legislation on the subject. We trust that the " Alleged Lunatics' Friend Society," who have so kindly noticed our exertions on this subject, will take steps to have the matter brought prominently before Parliament in the ensuing session, and that a full and searching inquiry may be directed into tha law of lunacy, the manner of its operation, and the measures that should be adopted for its amendment. The Frankfort Journal contains a letter, dated Vienna, Nov. 11, which says— " To•morrow, or the day after, will be published at Cracow the incorporation of the republic with the Aus trian monarchy. Gallicia is to be divided administra tively into Eastern and Western Gallicia. Cracow is to be the capital of the latter. This news has produced a great sensation. Count Stadion has returned to his post as Governor of Gallicia, after having had a conference with Prince de Metternich. It is announced that the judgments given against the persons compromised in the late revolution in Gallicia, and signed by the Empercr, are to be published and carried into execution." A letter from Berlin, of the 15th, states that the treaty of commerce with Sardinia, which had long been under negotiation, has just been concluded. The letter adds that negotiations have been entered into with the United States and the principalities of the Danube. The treaty with the kingdom of the Two Sicilies is on the point of being ratified. Intelligence from Lisbon to the 17th inst. has been received by her Majesty's steam-sloop Polyphemus, Commander APCLEVERTY, which has arrived at Pox tsmouth. Count DAs ANTAS had retired upon Santarem, a strong and fortified position, where he was awaiting the attack of SALDANIIA, who was advancing against him from Alwentrinho. Gen- SCHWALBACK (the Viscount SETERBAL), after shelling Evora for two days, and finding he could make no impression, had 'raised the siege, and retreated to Estremoz, closely followed, it was said, by the Count DE BOMFIN. Oporto remains in posscssiou of the insurgents. The last accounts from that city mention nothing of the rumour that the America frigate had been fired on and dismasted. Indeed, it is said that the America draws too much water to approach within gun shot-of Oporto. Colonel WyLDE had on the 13th an interview with Count DAS ANTAS at Santarem. The Count ex pressed his loyalty to the QUEEN, and declared it was against her bad advisers only that he was in arms, and that his only desire was to release the QUEEN from the thraldom in which she was held, and afford her the means of governing according to the charter. The Diario publishes a decree, dated November 14th, by which the QUEEN, acting in conformity to the power which she has assumed of personally directing the affairs of the kingdom, orders that the notes of the Bank of Lisbon be accepted as a legal tender for the full amount which they purport to bear, and the penalty attached to the infraction of this decree is a fine of from 131. to 1301., at the will of the judge before whom the offender is tried, and also the punishment of civil degradation. The English merchants resident at Lisbon have presented a strong remonstrance, through their Consul, on the subject of this decree, and avow their intentions to close their establishments if it be not rescinded. It is reported that the island of St. Michael has pronounced for DAS ANTAS. The QUEEN and KING CONSORT are at Belein. The squadron in the Tagus, under Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker, Bart., when the Polyphemus left, consisted of the Hibernia, 100 (flag), Captain Richards; the Trafalgar, 120, Captain Nott ; the Rodney, 92, Captain Edward Collier; the Albion, 90, Captain Lockyer; the Superb, 80, Captain Correy ; the Canopus, 84, Captain Moresby ; the Nautilus, 10, Commander M`Donnell, which sailed the 17th for Oporto, but anchored again off Belem ; and the steam-sloops Cyclops, 6, Captain Lapidge ; Rattler, 5, Captain Smith ; and Phoenix, 4, Commander Dennis. The latter was grounded to have her stern post caulked. The America, 50, Captain the Hon. John Gordon, had sailed a few days before for Corunna. Madrid papers of the 14th and 15th have arrived. According to the Clamor Public° bands of Car lists have appeared in Catalonia. It was said that Senor MoN had commenced a prosecution against the members of the Progressista Election Committee, for having asserted in their circular that he had mis applied the public finances. We have received the Paris papers of Friday and Saturday. The annexation of Cracow is the subject of com ment in all of them. We are glad to perceive from the following article, which appears in the Constitu tionnel of Friday, that justice is rendered, by one class of politicians at least in the French capital, to the motives which have actuated the conduct of the Libe ral Government of England towards France : " When Lord Palmerston," says the Constitutionnel, "declared in Parliament that the Treaties of Vienna were no less binding on the Vistula than they were upon the Rhine and on the Po, his Lordship extended his hand to our true policy. The day those words were pro nounced was the time when the real importance of our union with England could have been more clearly tested. France, not England, has to complain of the Treaties of Vienna. The maintenance of Polish nationality is for England a question of philanthropy and right of nations ; for France, it was the only compensation fur our losses and misfortunes. If the Chambers annually protest in the name of the nationality of the Poles, it is because all attempt against the inde pendence of the continent is a violent attempt against the real interests of France. The question affects our very vitals. Nevertheless it was at the moment when those sentiments were expressed in the British Parlia ment, that our Ministers deemed it expedient to break off with the Liberals on the other side of the Channel, who had thus compromised themselves in the eyes of the Absolutist Powers. Those men, said they, to the Ca binets of St. Petersburgh and Vienna, are firebrands; we are wise, and we belong to the great political family of the Conservatives. Then, parodying the policy of Louis XIV., our statesmen contracted a marriage, not with the Queen of Spain, but with the Infanta of Spain, praying Heaven to permit that the Infanta should never become heiress to the throne. In the meantime, M. Guizot, offering the liberty of Switzerland as a sacrifice, implored the alliance of Prince Metternich, boasted of having secured Russian alliance, calumniated the Liberal Cabinet of England, and claimed a place among Legitimate Governments. But the statesman who rules over Austria, and whose age has not impaired his fatal ability, without replying, without complaining of the Spanish marriage, observing a strict neutrality, was preparing for us the most cruel blow, the most poignant humiliation that had ever been inflicted on us. It was not enough to marry an:arch duchess to the Pretender of the elder branch of the Bourbons, he isolated us in Europe, and persists in treating us as a revolutionary Government in spite of ourselves. We have not been consulted respecting the execution of treaties to which France is a party. See were not even admitted to the honour of destroying the liberty and existence of the republic of Cracow. Our Government was never more roughly chastised for having disregarded its principle, forgotten its origin, abandoned the cause of liberty in the world, renounced without motive its natural alliances, and aspired, under the name of Con- Vienna. THE SUN, LONDON, TU_ESDAY: , , MORNING, NOVEMBER, 24, 184 g. servative, to be numbered among the Cabinets inimical to the Revolution. In reference to 1830, the Revolution of 1688 and the reign of William 111., that founder of a dynasty, have been often alluded to. William 111., elevated to the throne by the triumph of Protestantism in England, proclaimed himself the defender and sup porter of the Protestant cause throughout the world. He defended it with glory, and this was the honour of his reign and the foundation of his power. To-day, on the contrary, the councillors of a French revolutionary Government have nothing so much at heart as to crush liberty everywhere, and to parody decrepit monarchies. They degrade their country, without reaping the fruit of their degredation. They are nowhere regarded either as Liberal or Legitimate. What shall be the issue of the present difficulty ? We love our country too well not to hope that England and Franc e ma y j o i n an d come to a good understanding together, and that the two nations, nnited is a liberal sentiment, may form a counterpoise in Europe to the league of the Absolutist Powers, cemented at the expense of liberty." The Presse thus describes the manner in which M. GUIZOT received the communication of the Austrian Charge d'Affaires, announcing the annexation of Cracow : "If we are rightly informed, M. Guizit, after re ceiving from the Austrian Chargé d'Affairei the com munication of his dispatches relative to the suppression of the republic of Cracow, confined himself to reading the speech delivered by him i❑ the Chamber of Deputies on the 2d of July, and then accepted the notification ad referendum." On receiving this communication M. GUIZOT sent off a dispatch to the Count DE JARNAC on the sub ject, and on Friday communicated the contents of that dispatch to the Marquis of NORMANDY. From the following article, which appears in the Journal des Debuts of Saturday, it is evident that the French Minister is prepared fully to act up to the declarations which he made to the Chamber in July last : "We now witness the fourth division of Poland, and the last, for there is nothing more to seize on. A poor city had survived the fall of Poland ; it was her image and shade, and as such it still gave annoyance. At pre sent nothing remains that is Poland, or that represents it. Cracow has become an Austrian city, and Austria has just renewed her complicity in the odious dismem berments of 1772, 1793, and 1795, in adjudging to her self, without any motive of right or equity, an indepen dent city, of which the independence was recognised by the most sacred treaties—a Catholic city, too, and of which the Catholicism served as a barrier between the Slavonians of Austria and the Propagandism of the Rus sian Church. What has been the object of Austria in allowing this new part of the Polish spo liation to be given over to her ? Was it to prevent it from falling at a later period into the hands of Russia ? She may have remembered, perhaps, that after the massacres of Gallicia, Cracow, indignant and terrified at these butcheries, appeared to prefer, if it was necessary to have a master, the Slavo nian Czar of St. Petersburgh to the German Emperor of Vienna. But the Czar has thought it better to have a new hold on the Cabinet of Vienna, in permitting it a profitless iniquity, than to obtain himself a city the more. The possession of a Cracow will not give Austria an additional barrier against the Muscovite Panslavo pianism. God grant even that this iniquity of Austria, added to the horror of the jacquery of Gallicia, may not afford a new occasion of progress for Panslavonianism ! We cannot add anything to the force of the words pro. nounced in the Parliaments of France and England by M. Guizot and Lord Palmerston. If treaties were anything, if there was any other right in Europe but that of bayonets, we should say, without fear of being contradicted by any of tho writers on national law of Russia, Prussia, and Austria, that the free city of Cracow enjoyed all the guarantees which the letter and spirit of the most solemn treaties in the world could afford. On May 3, 1815, Austria and Russia had recognised for ever the independence and neutrality of the city of Cracow. The same day Prussia and Russia had made a treaty for the same object and in the same terms. On June 9, 1815, these two treaties had been sanctioned and inserted in the minutes of the Congress of Vienna, signed by all the Powers. In Art. 6 it was declared that the city of Cracow with its territory was to be for ever a free, independent, and strictly neutral city. Such are the titles which it is now thought fit to tear up; and why? What crime has the poor independent city committed? Its crime is this—that it has been flocked to by the Po lish refugees from Gallicia, or in other words, from an Austrian province. Take note that it is not from Cracow that the Polish conspirators came, but from Gallicia. It is not of Cracow that a complaint ought to be made; it is, on the contrary, Cracow which has a right to com plain; but, no matter for that, it is Cracow which is punished, and it is Austria which inflicts the punishment by taking possession of it. Never, it must be declared, have diplomatic men translated with more pitiless fidelity the fable of the wolf and the lamb. We are quite aware that treaties do not last for thirty years, and we know that there is no perpetuity for them except in the pom pous expression of their protocols. It is, however, assuming a great responsibility to tear up a treaty and to proclaim openly that the stipulations of European right are cast into oblivion. Everything in fact in the treaty of Vienna is connected together; if one article is scratched out, why not erase another? If art. 6, which protected Cracow, is abolished, why should art. 17, attributing to Prussia a great part of the kingdom of Saxony be respected ? Or art, 25, conferring on her the sovereignty of the old French departments, on Lb.. left bank of the Rhine ? Art. 46, which makes Frank fort a free city, is not more clear and more expressive than art. 6, which makes Cracow a free and independent city also. Arts. 75 and 76, which make Geneva and Basle two Swiss cities, have nothing apparently more solid and more stringent than art. 6. Nay more, why should we be obliged to respect art. 3 of the treaty of November, 1845, which internicts France from forti fying fluninguen ? Let us, in fine, be told by what sign any one may recognise, in a treaty, the articles that may be abolished, when they displease, and those which ought to be maintained. We tear much that with the doctrine of the three Northern Courts there will not be in treaties any more obligatory articles, unless those which concern the strong. As to those protecting the weak, they exist only so long as there is no interest to violate them. A singular kind of European right this! We have formerly heard it said that the demoralisation of European right commenced with the French revolution and with Napoleon. This is a gross mistake; it com menced with the first partition of Poland, in 1772. It continued in 1846, and always on the subject of Poland. Decidedly the faith of treaties and the sanctity of Euro pean right are laid in the same tomb as Poland. But it is on that very account that we believe neither in the death of European right nor in that of Poland." M. GuizoT is now beginning to discover that the English alliance is more valuable to France than even he had ever imagined it to he, and that, in compromising it, he has committed worse than a fault—a mistake. The following article, which appears in the _Epoque, is evidently a feeler, put forth to smooth the way for a reconciliation with Lord PALMERSTON ; " It is evident to all the world that the coolness which had arisen between France and England was seized upon by the Northern Courts to annihilate, in eontempt of treaties, the freedom of Cracow . Thi s i s t h e l anguage held even by the Opposition journals. If th e momentary relaxation of the alliance with England can have pro duced a consequence so hostile to the peace of Europe, this alliance was good and salutary. This is a point well worthy of b e in g esta bli s h e d . T he Constitutionnel, the Steele, and th e N at i onal, have all so frequently was both and so loudly decl are d t h at the English alliance sterile and humiliating, th a t i t ma k es us happy to hear the same journals, although at an hour somewhat late, proclaim that this alliance was not so sterile but that it might have saved the p eace o f t h e world ; was nct so humiliating but that i t m i g h t h ave been a salutary curb to the imprudent and ill-judged provocations of the Northern Courts. B ut t h e return of these journals to the right way of thinking is, like their deviation from it, always exaggerated . Li ke the pendulum of a clock, an irresistible impulsion ma k es them oscillate to left and right. Hitherto they have used exaggeration in blaming the English alliance, and now they praise it up with an equal degree of exaggeration. Formerly with them it was the destruction of France,now it is her only salvation. As many bitter words as they had for reproaching the Cabinet for maintaining the alliance, so ma ly they use now in accusing it for having compro mised it. The good sense of the public has done, and will continue to appreciate the real value of these decla• mations. We have never believed, and we are now still further from believing, in a rupture of the English alli ance. But, supposing it to be the consequence of the Spanish marriages, we hold it to be incontestable that France could not nevertheless have acted otherwise than she has done. However precious an alliance may be, it ought not to go so far as to impose an oblivion upon the most important rights and interests of a nation; and when it is sincere, it s genu i ne o bj ect i s t o en sure an auxiliary to the legitimate pretensions of each ally. We admit that the ente n t e cor di a l e i s more or less compromised with Lord P a l merston ; b ut L or d P a lmerston is not England, a n d i t i s not w i t h hi m t h at we are allied. It is very pnlbable that if the French Government had suffered Lord Palmerston to make a marriage, as he pleased and as his dispatches prove he wished, between a Prince of Coburg and the Queen of Spain, we should still be upon the best terms with him. Only the Go vernment would have betrayed the interests of France, and then the journals would have had every right to make reproaches. We have full confidence in the sound sense of the people of England, and do not despair of even that of Lord Palmerston himself. They will both acknowledge how unfounded have been the complaints raised by them against the French Government, and they will reconstitute th a t c l ose an d l o y a l alliance which the recent event of Cracow renders still more desirable for Great Britain than for us." On Thursday a Cabinet Council was held to con sider the terms of the protest to be addressed by France to all the Powers parties to the treaty of Letters from Toulon state that four steam-frigates are to be fitted out at that port to join the Mediter ranean squadron, and that two other steam frigates are fitting]out . at the Ocean ports for the same destina tion. The Bey of TUNIS arrived at Lyons on the 16th. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Saturday at 81f. 30e. ; the Five per Cents., 116 f. 50c.; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,202 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 8521. 50c. ; Havre, 6251. ; Great Northern, 622 f. 50c.; Avignon, 845 E ; Vierzon, 560 f. ; Bordeaux, 540 f. ; Basle, 215 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 475 f.; Tours and Nantes, 4851. ; Paris and Lyons, 498 f. 75e. ; Lyons and Avignon, 4921. 50c.; Bordeaux and Cette, 475 f. ; Spanish Domestic Debt, 3:11. OVER LAND MAIL INDIA. THE PUNJAUB. (From the Bombay Times.) Just as the period seemed at hand when our troops were to retire from Lahore, and the strength of the po litical arch we had erected to be tested by the removal of the props which had hitherto sustained it, unlooked for events make their appearance, rendering further delay indispensable. A bloody insurrection in Cashmere shows so bold a front that the fieikh armies both from Jamoo and Lahore are summoned forth to quell the rebels, and so weak are the two Governments that British soldiers are required at both capitals to see, that when the troops march forth to chastise malcontents in the pro vinces, malcontents more formidable still do not make their appearance in the cities to meet the army on its return. The attractions of the vale of Cashmere are more celebrated in song than in geography or statistics. It is described as an elevated tract to the westward of the Punjaub, enclosed by lofty mountains, the central plain being alluvial. It is watered by the river Jelum and its numerous tributaries. It is about 120 miles long and 70 broad, comprising an area of nearly 4,500 square miles. The population of Cashmere has, by ter rible visitations of pestilence and famine, been, within 20 years, reduced from 800,000 to 200,000. In 1752 it was conquered by Ahmed Schah, and attached to Western Affghanistan. It remained a portion of the Dooranee empire till 1819, when it was annexed by Runjeet Singh to the Seikh dominions. In March, 1846, it was transferred from the rule of Lahore to that of the Jamoo Maharaja, for whom we de sired to carve out a kingdom in return for his payment of the subsidy due to us by the su preme authorities. Seven passes penetrate from without the entrances through the mountains into the valley of Cashmere, of which one-half only are said to be traversable by horses. The Seikhs penetrated by the Baramoola pass, through which the river Jelum finds its way. They were only able to take a single piece of ordnance along with them, a six-pounder gun, slung on poles, and borne by thirty-two men at a time; a tolerable illustration of the character of the path. When the country was made over to Ghoolab Singh, one of his old confederates in treason, Sheik Emam-ood-Deen, long governor of the province, exercised almost unbounded influence over the minds of the people. Averse to quit the place of his authority, and no longer suffered to ex ercise it as before, he resolved to set up for himself, un furling the standard of revolt with a view of entering on independent sovereignty. A force under Lukput Rae, sent out against him, was defeated, and its commander slain. The state of matters could not, of course, be per mitted to endure, and the Jamoo chief resolved to move against his refractory subjects at the head of all his army, so soon as he could make arrangements for securing his rear from attack. Nor was even this considered suf ficient ; the Lahore Durbar was applied to, and 10,000 Seikhs directed to move thence into Cashmere, to operate in concert with the other forces. Meanwhile we were en treated to assist by occupSing Jamoo, and permitting our troops to stand fast at Lahore. Consequent on these arrangements the following movements are understood to have been ordered :—Brigadier Wheeler, with about 6,000 men, consisting of a troop of Horse Artillery, a light Field Battery, one regiment of Regular and another of Irregular Cavalry, and the 15th, 24th, 30th, and 33d Native Infantry, occupies Jesrowta, and then advances on Jamoo. One day's post brings tidings that contingently on this Sir John Littler and his troops will stand fast at the capital three months longer than was proposed—another that a fresh brigade is in orders to cross the Sutlej at Ferozepore and march on Lahore. This, according to the Delhi Ga zelle's Siralah letters, is to consist of Campbell's and Lane's troops of Horse Artillery, 6th Regular and 12th Irregular Cavalry, her Majesty's 62d Foot, and the 51st and 54th Native Infantry. A letter of the 29th ultimo from Lahore, received on Monday, intimates that her Majesty's 80th, and the 12th, 42d, and 44th Native Infantry, Major Day's troop of Horse Artillery, and Major Horsford's Light Field Battery, are under orders to march thence at a moment's warning for a post on the fleas. Our correspondent furnishes us with no informa tion beyond the fact of these movement, and we shall not therefore venture on speculations. This new element of activity was altogether foreign to our contemplations: what its ultimate effects may be, it is not easy to an ticipate. The Seikhs, alike of the mountain and the plain, must now see more clearly than even after So braon had opened their eyes, not only how completely they are at our mercy, but how absolutely they are dependent on us for their own protection. Mean while the property of the rebel chief, mostly existing in the Jullundur Doab, was directed to be everywhere confis cated, and very ample returns were thence expected to arise. The Moulton arrangements also seem to proceed less auspiciously than could he desired, and that was at one time promised by them. Th 9 AmbassadoCap pears distrustful how to act, and seems to think that he will require to proceed to the city of Moultan itself. 'rne Nloolraj is suspected of disingenuousness and dis junction from the first, and most likely thought that the , disturbances of Cashmere and the absence of the army supplied plausible grounds for procrastination, in the prospect of the withdrawal of the British force. Al together, the state of things looks at present much more • tangled and perplexing than it has done almost since the Governor-General quitted the Seikh dominions. The cold weather seems to have set in, and the season is favour ably spoken of: snow had fallen on some of the moun tains at no very great distance from Kote Kangra. MARSEILLES, Nov. 17.—Marseilles and Avignon, 870 f.; of a most sanguinary description had broken out in Kat- Northern. 645 f. f mandoo shortly after the departure of the Resident, Mr. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE Colvin, who has been obliged to leave his post on account LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, NOVESIBER 21. of the state of his health. We have not the exact date Anglo-Belgian, 2—Boulogne and Amiens, 13 1 /, ex d.— of the Resident's departure, but the tragedy commenced Bordeaux, Toulouse and Cette (Espelete), 3/I—Demerara, on the 14th inst. with the murder of General Guggun 334—Dutch Rhenish, 4:j 4 —East Indian, /—G rea t I n di an Peninsular, 1 4—Jamaica South Midland Junction, 1 '"p . B —Lux- Singh, a man of low o +Yin ' but who was in the confi embourg, 3 / -Namur and Liege, 35,1—Northern of France dente of the Maharanee.' He was shot at ten o'clock Constituted, 9 3 4—Orleans and Vierzon, 12 1 / B —Orleans and at night. This caused such offence to the lady, Bordeaux, 7 1 A—Over Yssel, 2 3 4dis.—Paris and Lyons Con- that she seems to have forthwith instigated the stituted, 4w —Sambre and Meuse, 4w—West Flanders, 3. massacre of the Chountra Prime Minister, and of his brothers, sons, and nephews. his fate was shared by Abbiman Rana, the Sirdar next in authority, by Bho wanee Singh, the able officer who was here in January last on his way to visit the Governor-General, and of about 100 other chiefs and high officers. The Maha raja immediately fled, it is not known whither, while the Maharaja Deeraj, his eldest son by the former Ranee, is said to be in confinement. Jung Bahadur, the only chief of any importance left alive, has been created Commander-in-Chief, a new title at Katmandoo, under the seal of the Maharanee, who has become supreme. She is the Maharaja's second wife, and has two sons. Feelings of jealousy, fear, and hatred, had for some time manifested themselves between her, the Maharaja, and the eldest son of the first Ranee, but no one ever dreamt that they would tend to such a fearful tragedy. The families of the unfortunate sufferers have been ba nished the kingdom, and were, on the 17th, already on their way to the plains. Soldiers were sent in imme diate pursuit of all such men as were obnoxious to the Maharanee, and as had managed to effect their escape, and 10 of these unfortunates are said to have perished, according to the latest accounts. An attack on the Residency (in charge of Captain Otteley) was at one time apprehended, but nothing of the kind had, we are happy to say, actually taken place. It was only a fortnight before this frightful scene that the Chountra Prime Minister, Abbiman Raba, Guggun Singh, and Jung Bahadur, had gone in one carriage to take leave of Mr. Colvin, and were in outward appear ance the best of friends." COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. THE BOMBAY MARKET. --------------"........--- WS• MONEY and COMMERCIAL N.- a (From The Sten of last Night.) The sales of Cotton at Liverpool on S aturday were, 6,000 bales, all taken by the trade, and at about prol e rates. There were 600 bales Surat comprised io _..;., quantity above named. Shares were rather less sw mated. An uneasy feeling has been exhibited in City droll this morning at the sudden recal of the Count de SG Auliare, by the French Government, from the high e t ; important office of Ambassador from the Court -of .7. Tuileries to St. James's. Many are the speculations le_. dulged in at this movement. If we are informed_ e_e_l.l reetly, the cause of the removal is, that the Uer er did not so warmly advocate the gontPells`be marriage as it was considered by Louis Philipg e she ought in duty to have done. Independentll of the feeling entertained upon this subject by the IV, g g i a i r French, there was not, as is alleged, any'id4lim. played upon other matters of a diplomatic charactei!„d The intelligence received from the Bnizils this toor.V is not considered very satisfactory. The detuseqlt British manufactured goods had fallen off raste • The sugar market had improved, notwithstandieg crops looked very well indeed. Olio A firm market has existed this morning for 0 0 1 to Securities. Consols for the Account have aclill t r:fory per cent. upon the opening values, and there leLtreot i.k , ady demand. For transfer to-morrow the '_'„ieis price is 944 i, and for Account 944 4. The phi alg ° : upon Exchequer-bills has improved to 1 ls. T c ot. of the Three-and-a-Quarter and of the Three Pe!..... Redeced Annuities has risen a fraction this 02 01 1 111 . the Scarcely half-a-dozen bargains have been mane -. 0 ; . Foreign Funds to-day. For Chili= 95 has beeni 37 i for Portuguese 374 ,• for Spanish Three per Cel l ' and for the Dutch Four per Cents. 914 i• dta ffori!' A firm demand has prevailed for the North ....0d shire Scrip : most advantageous arrangement! !_h: 00 to be in progress with respect to the constructienoyedp line. The Shares of the principal Railivslo e . r .: We* a M oney is almost daily being laid out in TOL"' p oll s the rate of interest now paid by railweis is g e superior to that gained by Stock. 6 00 PRICES OF BRITISH FIN. T. A• O'C°I.I"OCIC. 3 3 ,p_ p_ e e r r_ c C , ,eenntt..cßonedsouicseAdnAnunintsies................ 93 94 1 ,4 t 01 is 54 ~ i livi e dn w iga o LA per Cent. Annuities .••••• 95M% 9 5 ' 9 16.1 Stock South A S n e India Bonds, 1 ...... ''''''''''''' .. 18 na u Stock t .. o ................... ......... .. 1 . . .. . 8 . .. .................. 0 t is ? . Ditto New Annuities ......... ci —. 93% / • j 9 4 itemch Exchequer eiizxiiistiatenooan Bills,looo/.1% d . .... 11 8 9 12 " P I : 0 f Consols for Account .... .-. . 9 4 r 79 , FB s o o Fn O od / R: ...... ••••912- - • ' ' ' * P 1 ' ' Ditto, Small ...................... 912 ---* --- P 609 0 ...... ... Granada %B ,sed E r, i.6BlCCpGloeeeNsirt Cent C f . e . tr l. n 8 1t 22. . D . 6 0. . . s . . .... . - . ... . • . ... ... .• . l 88 9 . . . . .111si 4.O'CLOCK. . . p. 4 ‘. ... . . ........ . , . . . . . r sic s 6 95 , . , Ditto, 'A o c l c i oult 6 Ditto, Deferred p . e ... r .. C ..... ...... .................... ; 714 .. , ............. Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent .• i. sp D an it i t s o h A s c p c e or C t en . t .... l . ......... ................ ....... IS 3lt / 3.... .. 1% Dutch,D i Ditto. 2 . 3 per Cent ................... --' 9 5 Ditto. Dividends Account ... et , A. A .mt Amber., ,rewrß Ditto,. t: Cy E N ss i a m: P Aberdeen Ditto,Armagh, C County e c ur c na o tit u ynE n es t , o-na Downitl a4lb/8::: .... ..... - ..... told* .0 per Cent. Certificates 9 7 - 91 A 91 lot hvioN% ieltl4 BUSINESS 'OO. - 1/ 1 PAID. AT ONE O'CD P in or in tr g u h s ............. r . ............ .. ......... Belfast & and Eastern Junctio n 2 3 ............ ". a h tn and Dudley 495.... 4 ................ ..' nn.gahnadmGlaenudcestoei..loo ........ ...-__ .....::: ......... •••• B BB i ii r rmr : ii Birkenhead, Lancashire, 17% ............ --- .' ' Ditto New .. .... ei Ox- .. Ford Junction and Cheshire June 23/ -.. .. . ........... 4 ...... (From the Chamber of Commerce Overland Price Current.) BOMBAY, OCT. 15.—The business in imports since our last has been limited in amount, the preparations for the Dewallee holidays, which have just commenced, and will not terminate till the 24th instant, having a good deal interfered with commercial operations. The market has been, generally, steady, and but little variation in prices appears to have taken place. Favourable accounts continue to be received from the major part of the agri cultural districts. METALS.—There have been but a few transactions in these, and we have little changes in prices to record. No sales in copper have been reported, but we quote rile a shade lower, and American somewhat higher than before. In iron a sale has taken place of 240 cwt., of sheet, at 71rs. per cwt. Dealers appear disposed to provide themselves with stocks of both these metals, but the prices offered are not such as to tempt holders, with the prospects now before them, to make sales. Neither in steel, lead, nor spelter, have we heard of any transactions ; the last-named ar ticle is no longer in request, the speculative inquiry which formerly existed for it having ceased. Sheet lead exhibits a slight improvement on previous rates, while quicksilver has declined to the extent of about Ors. per maund. COTTON MANUFACTURES.—The sales of the past fort night have been principally in 45 and 40 inch gray do mestics, with the finest qualities of bleached shirtings, jaco nets, and mulls. These have all commanded fully former, but still unremunerating, prices, and in shirtings an im provement on former rates is perceptible. The lower kinds of gray madapollams and jaconets have also been disposed of to a moderate extent, but there is no great demand for these fabrics. There have been some sales of both plain and printed Turkey red goods, but at most wretched prices. Prints continue neglected. COTTON YARNS.—An advance has taken place in the prices of Nos. 20, 30, and 50 mule, and No. 20 water twist, which counts are just at present in request. The other numbers remain without change. There has been on the whole, a fair amount of business in yarns. In dyed yarns, Turkey red is the only colour for which there is any demand, and we hear of a sale in it of 10,0001b5., average No. 40's, at 14r. per lb. Orange is altogether neglected. _ _ _ WooLLENsT—The market for woollen cloth continues dull and unpromising, and but few sales appear to have taken place. Prices are still low and unremunerating. MARINE STORES.—The demand for the articles under this head has been ♦ery slight, and little improvement is discernible in prices. 'We quote linseed oil and spirit of turpentine a trifle higher than before. A sale is reported of 400 barrels of coal pitch, at 2rs. Ba. per barrel. BEER.—Prices remain as before, and the only sale of which we have been apprised is one of 250 hogsheads Allsopp's, at 60r. per hogshead. SPIRITS.—Both brandy and gin are quite uncharged in value. We hear of no transactions. COCIIINEAL.—We quote this article about an anna per pound higher than at the date of our last Price Cur rent, but we believe there is now little or none in im porters' hands. SAFFRON.—There is little saffron of good quality in the place. We hear of a sale cf 1001 b. at 18r. 4a. per pound. Prices now range between Br. and 181 r. per pound, according to the quality. RED LEAD.—The prices of this article are fully main tained, and a sale has recently had cffict of 150 casks, at 13r. per cwt. There is no white lead in the market. Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 225.....•• 'A ..... 7 5 81%••• ....... / Bristol and Exeter Ditto, New - •• . ~. ..... as. Bristol and Gloucester 3O ...••• --- ............. 41 Bristol and Liver. June 2%...... --- ... r .• •••••• • Buckinghamshire ....... g 95 . ~.. 24 25 7 5 •.. •••• '" Caledonian Ditto Half Shares.... 21/' 2%•• ••••• • ..... . 4 - a .............. i Cambrian & Grand June 42s - ..... •• Chester and Holyhead... 27% ........ ...• ..... / 2 Churnet and Blythe .. Chester and Manchester 425. -- " ........... __ ..• . 0 ,.. Cheltenham and Oxford 2 Clydesdale Junction.. ... 20 - ........ ' .., .. ~. ..• Cork, Blackrock, and 225. - ..... ' ....... ...., Passages Cork and Killarney - • ....... •••• /7 5 5 ...... __ ....... .„.• 10 Cork and Waterford -- .......... ' I ''' Cornwall Ditto, Half Shares - ....... ~.... ... '• Cornwall& Cent'l Devon 2%..•••• /4• ..... Direct Lincoln, East Ret- ... ford, and Sheffd. June. 2% ..... --• .......... •• ....... Direct Northern Direct Norwich - ••• ........ ." Dublin and BelfastJunc 12%..•••• -- • Dublin, Belfast, and ........ Coleraine 2%, ..... ..... -- .............. Dublin and Galway 4 .....• Dundalk 22. -- . ......... Dundalk & Enniskillen 10 .... -- ..3 .. ...... •• Td ...... Eastern Counties 14/. 16s. 4 p• .. Ditto New ... Ditto Perpetual, 5 per % P .............. Di C tt e o n d t, it N to o . . N l . ... i ..... 6 61 . . 1 1 3 3 5 5 .. 4 4 d d ...... ... :54. ... .................. Do . , York ima E ra: rtdeNn Sharess o i r o , n e h . . 2 : 34 ...,.. .. . : ............... .... Ea D st i D tt e o r , e (4 ll: Eastern Dp o, ~.,Ic,: xatme Union nb ... ..... ...... .. ( a H n a d riv i Ely..eh) 3 2 5 1 1 , 24 ; 1 .. : _ 5 - 1- . .1 . ,............ : ..... East Lancashire Ditto. New , ...... " ...N 0. - 25 7$ P Do., do. (late Preston „. and Ormskirk)... 21,4 ..... ......... East Lincolnshire East & %Vest of England 1%...... _ .......... Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 75% ..... ••••• .. .. ... Ditto Half Shares ...., Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% - ••• .......... •••• Edinburgh & Northern.. 12% Edinburgh and Perth... 3 ....•• .............. Ely and Huntingdon ... 12% l3 ................ Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2% -- ............... Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorset 5 q - .............. Glasgow, Kilmar., & Ayr 50 ....• --- ................ Ditto, New .. 15 . ..... -- .... Do., 1 4 Shares (5 per ......•.. cent. guar.) .. .. 1214.... --" .. ... Glouc.,Aberystwith,and ... ••• ... ... Central of Wales 1%..-•• -- '', /i , p..." Goole, Doncaster, Sec. Grand Union (Notting- ...- ... ....." .:: and Ly 1% ...... nn ..... Great Eastern &Western 2 %... ••• --. GreatGrimsby and Shef- . "'..... field .......... Great South. and West (Ireland) ... ............ Great Munster .. 2% ...... •- ... ~ ...... Great North of Scotland 2%...... ""- .......... . GreatNorthof,England..loo ...... --- , ..........•• ''. Ditto New 5 ..-- '' .•• Ditto, New . - . .. ...... ...... Ditto, New Great Western B5 ......128 .......... Ditto 1 / 4 Shares Ditto 1 A Shares 10 ...... 18 1A .... ............ Ditto Fifths - .............. 20 ...... 3 •7 6N•'''.. Ditto, New ••• 2 ...... 6 'j4 .. ° .. ... Huddersfield & Manches. 13 ....-- --- ............ Ditto Extension Hull and Selby Ditto 1% Shares Do. Ilalf Shares fi IL .... „. Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 11% ...... 1 3 ,1 13/ 4 . ..... Do., do., and Norwich 2 %.•-• 379 .......... ........... 10 2 h 4 ........ : ... ............ Lancaster and Carlisle 5O ...... 68 t h • .. .......... •• '. Do. New - . ••• ..... .... Leeds and Brad Cord 3O ...... -- . 0 8 bl 0 s , 0 / / / '.. 064. .... ''''''''''' Leeds and Carlisle - ' ' Leicester & Birmingham 225..••••• --',,, " A . ; ;., '''''''' Leicester and Bedford 225....••• 7ts 2 . 41:: . .." Leeds, Dewsbury, &c 22% ...... 37/ 4 2 '.'-'• ..... Do., Branch (Blue) Do. Extension(Green) 2%.. , •• 1 .......... .•"... Leeds and Thirsk 17th....... 15% - tz .... .....• Ditto, New - ........ ''' Lpool., Mnchstr &New- .... castle Junction Liverpool and Bury London and Blackwell. 161. 135.4 d. --' " ...... .. •• 3 ,,—. .. --- ...... .. 0. Do. New Ditto Extension .....- 7 'te ••••• -- ** . London, Brighton, and ........ South Coast" 5O .. .. 59 ci •••''" ...... - 40 ..... 47 % 71 ...... •"' Ditto, Fifths Do. Guarant. 5 per ct 9 ...... --- , " " ......." London and Greenwich 12/ Iss 4d... 9;4 ............... ~. Do. Preference ...18117s 2d....•• -- ..... ' London, Hounslow, and Western .... 2 ...... , s4I L ...... •• London and N. Westernloo ...... 195 l t, - /-4 ..... Do. Quarters Do., do., New Shares 2 ...... 1 4•• " 15.••••"..•••••• Ditto Fifths ......... 2 ...... 19%• ....... Ditto, Eighths (G. J.) 12% ...... ---' ........ 2 ...... 23 22 ........ Do., Net. IA Shares ...... .... '.. (G. J.) - .... Do 40/. Shares (L.M.) 8 ...... --- ............. ....... • & S West; - 411 6 s 10d...... -- ••• r„ °Li 4 ( , L o o ppi n dadoo d 000. Do. N ew nnnu 1/s S hares aee S nv . r ya. York.. s t e r n Do. New ConsoL Bths 40 ...... -- ...... - ... Do. New .............. 22%.. .. -- ................ London a n d Ss ••• • ........ 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Fifth 5................ 2 ...... --- "" ............. Do. New ............... 24 ...... --- .'; ....... .. Ditto, New ... . ...... . 2 ..... 6 1 4 1 ,2 ... ..... Do. firm., and ......... .... --- ................ Midlnd& East. Counties 2%...... -- ....... Midland Great Western ....... ••" Irish .................... 15 . ..... ---,1••34 ...... ... Newcastle and Berwick 20 ...... 537 s ..... ... -- .. .... Do. North Shields ... 25 ...... ' ..... .. _ O ..... .NewcastleandCarl isle...loo al '"'.. , ........ ....... NeWmr k et &citersterfrd ...... .... • . b~ 124..• i 1 6!1 1 4 •••• • ...• 4f . " I t Si 41, 1 1,011 , 1 ,1 1 • V . --;" lb 4:;: -. ) ,,•—• , ,,••• •'. s \ •‘• • 4111,e*, • • .410 1 11- *.."‘ , • r • Ito • Rout • SINDE. The valley of the Indus furnishes no contribution this month to our very scanty supply of intelligence. Ru mours, on which no one places faith, continue rife of the ' northward movement of troops. The motive for their circulation is not difficult of solution ; their source is easily traceable. The belief is gaining ground rapidly, notwithstanding the efforts made to mystify, that there will be vast changes in the province before the end of the year. An officer in the Sinde army, whose name has not been published, has, at his own charge, built and en dowed a school for the benefit of the children of all classes of natives. The climate continues cool and pleasant, and hitherto no signs of that sickness which for years past has characterised the cold weather have appeared. Sir Charles Napier continues at Kurrachee. The steamer Berenice came in last night from Kurra chee, whither she was dispatched on the 4th with the families of her Majesty's 17th and 60th Foot. She brings letters to the 10th, some extracts from which are subjoined : KURRACHEE, OCT. 10.—It is well known here that the Governor of Sinde reported to the Governor-General no less than nine regiments available for other service than that of Sinde, and received intimation that until the middle of January, 1847, it was deemed advisable to keep every fighting man in the country. This was long before the late outbreak in Cashmere began to show itself. The people here talk of a move towards Bha wulpore, but there is nothing observable in the conduct of the authorities to confirm such an idea, if we except the fighting parades which are now the order of the day. The mornings and evenings are delightfully cool, and the force, horse and foot, all go to skirmish over the hills in great style. The 60th's women landed safely ; every arrangement was made for their comfort, and not a single accident occurred. The Napier steamer is kept at Gisree Bunder, which has caused many surmises. We can now communicate with the river by means of the river steamers and the new channel at all times ; a great im provement on bygone days. 500 horses have just corns in, and are in progress to Bombay, together with a large quantity of wool. " head-quarters, Kurrachee, Sept. 25, 1846. " 2.—No officer, non-commissioned officer, or private soldier is permitted to complain of his superior officer except through the regular channel; and if any officer, non-commissioned officer, or private soldier, presumes to make a direct complaint to any authority out of Sinde, except through his immediate superior, or to the Major-General commanding the troops in Sinde, and unless the Major-General refuses to forward such com plaint so forwarded in an orthodox manner, then such officer, non-commissioned officer, or private soldier, shall be punished for such unsoldierlike conduct. Her Majesty and the East India Company have issued orders on this head, and they shall be rigidly obeyed, or this army would become a mob. The Major-General com manding the forces in Sinde holds all officers in com mand of regiments and detatchments of regiments re sponsible for the discipline of their officers, non-com missioned officers, and privates, that they take the mea sures prescribed by the rules of the service for punish ing the guilty, and that they make officers in command of detachments do their duty. " C. J. NAPIER, Major-General, " Commanding troops in Sinde." NEPAUL. An outbreak has occurred in Nepaul, kindred in its atrocities to those which for two years were almost of monthly occurrence in the Punjaub. Thi s i s one of the largest and most importantindependent sovereignties in India. I ts people are fierce, brave, and warlike; and the physical aspect of the country ren d ers it in many p ar ts almost inaccessible to an invading army. It is in length about 466, and in average breadth about 115, comprising an area of above 5,000 square miles. With the various chiefs and rulers of this mountain land we have for many years lived on t erms of amity, generally r etaining a resident at Katmandoo, the capital. To this Mr. Colvin, private secretary to Lord Auckland, had some time since been appointed, and had just quitted the residency from sickness when the outbreak occurred. There is a proverb, alike notable, we should hope, for its impiety and ungallantry, that there never was mis ehief yet but a priest or a woman was at the bottom of it; and really, in the present and past troubles along our north-west frontier, the clergy and the ladies seem to have had more than an ordinary share. In this case the first part of the slaughter seems to have been instigated by the Maharanee, and the she-wolf of Ne paul must have been sanguinary indeed if more blood was desired by her. The - . notice of these things, ex tracted from the Delhi Gazette of the 30th ult., is the only one we have received of any length, and it is far too brief and mangled to furnish even the traces of specu lation. The ferocity and recklessness of life with which these people flesh their swords on each other is most extraordinary : Just as we were going to press we received important intelligence from Nepaul, to the effect that a revolution EASTERN PRODUCE. C. )TTON.—The arrivals since our last have been light, and the cotton that has come down appears of somewhat inferior quality. The purchases for Great Britain— chiefly of Broach, Surat, and Dollerah—amount, we un derstand, to about 5,000 bales in the whole. The market is steady, and prices, as will be seen, rule somewhat under our former quotations. Rupees. Broach and Jumbooseer 75i to 761 per candy. Surat 75 to 761 do. Dollera... ... 70 y do. Oomrawuttee 73 do. Comptab(old)... ... 70 do. COFFEE.—Mocha is from a half to three quarters of a rupee per maund lo er ; Malabar without change. OPIUM may now be quoted at 700 to 1,200 rupees per chest, according to quality, but little or nothing is at the moment doing in it. There have been some slight alterations in the prices of gum animi and Arabic, indigo. ginger, cassia, pepper, silk, and Siam sugar. A few arrivals have taken place in Khorasan wool, the price of which we now quote at 13Ors. to 135 rs. per candy. Other articles of eastern produce are without change in demand or value. FREIGHTS. The supply of tonnage having been somewhat scanty, while shippers have increased in number, freights to Great Britain have materially advanced. The present rate is 4/. per ton, below which no tonnage is to be ob tained. To China there is little doing, and the rate is now Ors. to srs. per candy for cotton. MONEY- MARKET. Subjoined are the nominal rates of Government paper. The notification which was yesterday issued, intimating the re-opening of the Five per Cent. Loan of 1841, has put a stop to transactions for the presen.. 5 per Cent. Loan of 1825-26 ... . . 106 rupees 4 - do. do. 4 do. do. 5 do. do. 1832-33 ... 94 do. 1835-36 ... 90 do. 1841-42 ... 100 do. 4 do. do. 1842-43 ... ... 88 to 90 do. EXCHANGE. —The rate on England has somewhat advanced since our last, and may be quoted to-day at Is. I lid. to ls. I lid. for bills at 6 months, and Is. 101-d. for drafts at 30 days' sight. On Calcutta the rate at 30 days is 981 rupees. BANKS. —BeIow are the current rates of Bank Shares : Bank of Bombay 40r. to 42r. per cent, premium. Oriental Bank, Old Shares 32r. do. do. Do. New do 29r. do. do. Agra Bank s4r. to 55r. do. Commercial PRICE OF BULLION. Sovereigns, each 1 Er. 3a. Bank of England notes, per .£ llr. 2a. RECALL OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR. It is now positively stated that his Excellency the Count de St. Aulaire has been recalled from his high diplomatic duties, as Ambassador from France to this country, by his Sovereign. Although it is well known that the Noble Count did not expect to remain here beyond two years longer, his sudden recall has excited, perhaps unnecessarily, much speculation in the diplomatic circles. His Excell enc y th e C ount d e St. Aulaire is now in Paris, arid may be expected to arrive shortly at the French embassy from that capital, to have an audience of the Qu e e n t o t a k e l eave o f h er M a j esty, and to take his farewell of the several members of the foreign corps diplomatique. In all future communications between the French Government and Viscount Palmerston, the Count de Jarnac will have to transact all business as chargé dVaires, and will on that account retain the possession of Hertford House. It is generally said that some months will elapse ere the Count de St. Aulaire's successor is ap pointed, and en attendant, the Count de Jarnac will dis charge the diplomatic functions. The Count Louis de Noailles, the second secretary to the embassy, is also about to leave:this country perma nently. We have been informed the Count departs for France early in January. The Countess de St. Aulaire will not accompany the noble Count to this country. The retirement of the Count and Countess will be deeply regretted by all moving in what is termed the beau monde, for since his Excellency's arrival in this capital he has maintained with splendid hospitality the reputation of the French Court, as representative of Louis Philippe. The Count de St. Aulaire has been ambassador here since M. Guizot left this country to take office, on the dismissal of M. 'Tiers. Previous to that, the Count Sebastiani was the Ambassador Extraordinary acd Minister Plenipo tiary. Other changes in the personnel of the embassy are ru moured. For some weeks past there h as b een the greatest activity apparent iii the chancell er i e o f t h e em bassy, Cabinet couriers arriving and departing as often as four times in the course of the day. A courier is hourly expected at Hertford House from Paris; and it is imagined he will be the bearer of M. Guizot's answer to Viscount Palinerston's last note. CAUTION.—BAD lIALF-SOVEREIGNS.—The public -should be on their guard against the passers of bad money. A number of bad half-sovereigns, composed of a sort of metal resembling zinc and gilded by the elec tro-plating process, are now in circulation. They are not easily to be detected by the ring, and they are well executed. The deficiency of their weight, however, im mediately shows they are counterfeits.