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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE, The Nobilit', Gentry, Subscribers, and the Public at large, are respectfully informed that the Season will commence on SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1846, and, in a determination to render this Theatre worthy of that patronage which has made it one of the most celebrate 1 in Europe, the Lessee has entered into engagements with the following Artistes : FOR GRAND OPERA, Tenors—Mr. W. Harrison, Mr. D. W. King, Mr. Barker, Mr. Henry, and a Debutant of great promise. Basses and Baritones—Mr. Borrani, Mr. Burdini, Mr. Stretton, Mr. Weiss, and Mr. S. Jones. Soprani and Contralti—Madame Anna Bishop (her first appear ance since her immense success in Italy), Miss Romer, Miss Rain forth, Miss Poole, Miss Collett, Miss Messent (a Pupil of the Royal Academy of London), Miss Rebecca Isaacs (her first appearance on this stage). In addition to which a treaty is pending with Madame Viardot Garcia. _ _ . Exclusive of this array of talent, the engagement of Mademoiselle Jenny Lind still exists, and will be put into full force, should she Attempt to sing on any other stage in this country. The Orchestra has been entirely re-arranged and re-modelled, its Members being carefully selected from the first talent in the kingdom. Musical Director, Signor Schira. Leader, Mr. R. Hughes. The Chorus has 14eri augmented to an unprecedented extent, and Arranged with great care. Chorus Master, Mr. Tully. FOR GRAND BALLET AND SPECTACLE. Mademoiselle Sophie' Fuoco (Premiere Danseuse from the Academie Royale de Musique) ; Mademoiselle Flora Fabbri, Madenspiselle Plunkett, Xdlle. Paderna (Principal Danseuse from La Scala and San Carlos), Madame Theodore (from the Academie Royale de Musique), Mdlle. Benard and Mdlle. La Borderie (both from the Academie Royale de Musique, Paris), Mdlle. Louise, Mdlle. Adele, Les Scours St. Louis, Madame Ginhelei, ♦nd a treaty is on the eve of completion with Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi. Mons. Bretin, Mons. Theodore (from the Academie Royale de Musique, Paris), Mons. iluguet and None. Blasis (both from the principal Theatres of Italy), Mons. Adrien, Mons. Paul, Mr. W. 11. Payne, Mr. T. Mathews, Mr. Howell, Mr. Wieland, Mr. Risley and his celebrated Sons, And a more numerous body of Corps de Bann, Figurantes, and Promenemcs, than has ever yet been engaged in an English theatre. Ballet Masters, MM. Blasis and Barrez ; tinder Ballet Master, Mons. Adrien ; Superintendent of Spectacle, Mr. W. West. Amongst other novelties of the season will be a new Grand Ballet, in two Acts (never performed), to be called ' THE OFFSPRING OF FLOWERS; Composed expressly for Mademoiselle Flora Fabri, by Mons. Bretin. The last popular Ballet, in Paris, called - . . BETTY; Besides the revivals of " The Devil to Pay," " The Peri," " La Giselle," " Paquita," and others, which have obtained so great a success on this stage. THREE NEW OPERAS: One in Three Acts, by Mr. Lavenu, One in Three Acts, by Mr. M. W. Balfe, One in Three Acts, by Mr. W. V. Wallace. In addition to a complete repertoire of Works from the most eminent Composers. A confident hops is still entertained of producing TILE CAMP OF SILESIA, by the renowned Composer, M. Meyerbeer. AN ENTIRELY NEW BALLET, for the appearance of a celebrated Danseuse, and of several others, whose answers are daily expected. The Scenery under the superintendence of Mr. Grieve. Stage Manager, Mr. Harley. The general Management under the direction of Mr. Bunn. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. The public is most respectfully informed, that this Fstahliihment will Open for the season on SATURDAY next, Oct. 3d, 1846, and that, during the recess, the most extensive alterations have been made in every part of the Theatre ; the entire gas apparatus has un derione a thorough renovation, and a New Front Drop has been painted expressly by Mr. Grieve and numerous assistants. The En tertainments will commence with Benedict's popular Opera of THE CRUSADERS. Bohemond, Mr. Harrison ; Raymond, Mr. Borrani ; William, Mr. Weiss ; Hassan, Mr. Stratton ; Ismael, Mr. King ; Abner, Miss Romer ; Iseult, Miss Ralnforth. After which will be produced a new Ballet, in two acts, entitled THE OFFSPRING OF FLOWERS. In which Messrs. Howell, Bretin, Theodore, Mdlle. Fabbri, Madame Theodore, and Millie. Adele will perform. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Tinier the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. The public is r spectiully informed that this Theatre, the interior and exterior of which have, during the recess, been thoroughly re paired, re-painted, and ornamented, will OPEN for the Season To-Moattow, October I, 1846, on which occasion will be revived Colman's Comedy of THE POOR GENTLEMAN. Str It. Bramble, Mr. W. Earl - en ; Frederick, Mr. Hudso• , ; I.ieut. Worthington, Mr. Stuart; Dr. 011apod, Mr. Webster; Stephen liarrowby, Mr. Huck stone; Miss I.ucretla Mactab, Mrs. (Mover ; Emily Worthington, 3113 s Fortescue. At the end of the Comedy " Cod save the Queen," will be sung by the whole of the company. After which a new Farce, called THE FORTUNE HUNTER. Captain Mountorret, Mr. Hudson ; Griffin, Mr. T.lbury ; Bompas, Mr. Buckstone ; Miss Griffin, Mrs. W. Clifford. To conclude with the Comic Drama, called A CABINET QUES TION. Characters by Messrs. Brindal, Tilbury, Buckstone, Miss Telhin, and Miss J. Bennett. ... Lox-office open from Twelve till Font* ; under the direction of Mr. I'. Archer. Box Book-keeper. TII:.:ATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. TILE MANAGEMENT OF MIT.S. KEELEY Third Week of a New Comic Drama. The New Grand Fairy Bur• lesque Extravaganza, entitled " The Magic having been, on each occasion of its representation, reee:yzd throughout with the most cordial marks of approbation and delight by crowded an fashionable audiences, is, in consequence, respectfully announced for repetition every Evening till father notice. Tins EVENING The performances mill cot rue,' with a New Comic Drama, TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. Principal characters I Messrs. A. Wigan, Meadows, and Keeley; Mrs. Wcollitige, Mrs. A. Wigan, M 153 Hicks, Miss Turner, Miss Howard, and Mrs. Keeley. Alter which, a New Grard Operatic, Melodramatic, Romantic, Fairy Burle,que Extravaganza, founded on the Opera of "Oberon," entitled THE \'AGIC HORN. Principal characters by Messrs. E. Mathews, A. Wigan, Kinl , ch, Collier, Yarn°id, Polder, Silver, Richards, and Keeley; Miss Keeley, Miss Villars, Miss Fairbrother, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Arden, Miss Forster, Miss Laidlaw, Miss Lromley, Miss Howard, and Mrs. Keeley. To conelade with TO PERAONA ABOUT TO MARRY. TfIEATItE ROYAL, ADELPIIt. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENINU Will be presented a new domestic drama, entitled EUGENIA ; or, 'the New Fonnd Howe. Frederick Stan more, Mr. Worrell ; Mr. Ittufeigh, Mr. Cul:enrord ; Toffey, Mr. Pall Ledford ; Hugh Matlock, Mr. 0. Smith ; Mrs. Toffey, Mrs. F. Matthews; Ingenia Madame Celeste. After which the Comi.: Drama, entitled Ui...ED UP. Sir Charles Coldstream, Mr. Webster; Lady Clutterhuck, Mrs. F. Matthews. To conclude with the Al3thological Barlescine Extravaganza, de noinfnated THE JUDGMENT OF PA.- IS ; or, The Pas de Pip pins. The characters personated by Messrs. Selby, 0. Smith, Olen mitre, Lindon, I'r ace, Butler, Williams,m, .Aldridge, Mitchenson, Alderson, Eyes, ight, Paul Ited:'ord ; Miss Ellen Chaplin, is Taylor, 3!is., Itarrlson, A; iss Simpson, M:s. F. Matthews, &c. I - ItiNCESS'S OXFORD-SThEET. THIS EVENING Will he perfumed a new Drama, in three acts, entitled CLA RISSA lIARLOWE. Lovelace, Mr C. Mathews; Jack Macdonald, Mr. Hughes ; Joseph, Mr. Oxberry ; Clarissa Ilarlowe, Mrs. Stirling. To he followed by fi New Comic Drama, in Three Acts, entitled LOVE'S TEtx ,(- 13APIL Count Theodore, Mr. J. Vining; Arthur de Soldertz. Mr. C. Mathews; P.artyn rn.npernickel, Mr. Compton. To conclude w,,0 a new Farce, called TOO MANY CIIOKS STOIL THE BROTH. In which Messrs. Compton, Oxberry, ( rant) ) , ; Miss E. Stanley, &C., will perform. STRAND THEATRE. L'ildet the Management of Mr. Davidson. TIIL4 EVENING Will he performed Shakspere's Tragedy of HAMLET. The King, Mr. Waldron ; Hamlet, Mr. Gregory; .L:tertes. Mr. Gilbert; Ho ratio, Mr. Rivers ; Osrie, Mr. Grafton ; Queen, Miss Dorrington ; Ophelia, Miss M. Glover. To conclude with THE HONEYMOON. Duke Aranza, Mr. Rivers; Rolando, tifr. Grafton; the Mock Duke, Mr. Whittaker ; Juliana, Mrs. Percy; Volante, Miss M. Glover; Zamora, Miss Dorrington ; Hostess, Mrs. Griffiths. l•rivate Boxes, Places, and Stalls, may be engaged at the Box office, from eleven till four, and at all the Libraries. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge. THIS EVENING Will be performed Shakspere's Tragedy of MACBETH. Macbeth, Mr. Macready ; •Mfacduff, Mr. Cooper ; Banquo, Mr. Murray ; He sole, Mr. Neville ; First Witch, Mr. Saville ; Second Witch, Mr. Webb ; Lady Macbeth, Mrs. Ternan. To conclude with the Drama of THE LAW OF THE LAND. Sir Peregrine Platitude, Mr. Nevill ; Abel Dodson, Mr. Cooper; Robson, Mr. Fredericka ; Snail, Mr. Webb; Fielding, Mr. Pelham; Lucy Primrose, Mrs. Gill ; Amelia Platitude, Mrs. Saville ; Flounce; Miss Terry. Boa-office open from eleven till four o'clock. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. LAST WEEK BUT ONE OF THE SUMMER SEASON. Patronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the Priseess Royal. Unabated attraction. " The Merchant's Steed" still continues his trium phant course. THIS EVENING Will be performed the popular Drama of THE STEED OF SY RACUSE ; or, Damon's Flight. Damon, Mr. J. Harwood ; Pythias, Mr. J. Dale ; Calanthe, Mrs. M. Brooks. Assisted by the nu merous Company, double Stud, &c. After which, new and popular SCENES of HORSEMANSHIP, by the extensive troupe of Foreign and British Artistes. The whole to conclude with the laughable Afterpiece, called BURIED ALIVE. Box-oilice open from eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six and commence at seven o'clock. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Great success of the powerful attractions at this Theatre.—" Breakers Ahead," nightly received with load cheers of approbation. Roars of laughter at the new burlesque of " Hamlet." TIIIS EVENING Will be performed a powerful and highly interesting Nautical Drama, entitled BREAKERS AHEAD ; or, A Seaman's Log. Luke, Mr. C. J. Bird ; Allan, Mr. Florrington (first appearance in London) ; Capt. Oakum, Mr. Archer ; Black Graham, Mr. Searle ; Barnaby, Mr. Forman ; Amy Graham, Miss Vincent. After which, the Burlesque of HAMLET. Introducing parodies on all the popular airs of the day. Hamlet, Mr. Forman; Ghost, Mr. Searle; King, Mr. 'tame ; Polonius, Ms. Howard ; Osric, Mr. Burton ; Queen, Mr. Cooke ; Ophelia, Miss L. Pearce. To conclude with THE RAVEN'S NEST ; or, The Bride of the Grate. Edith Grey, Mrs. H. Vining. Under the Patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. THE LAST TWO NIGHTS. Southby's Grand Scene, representing AN ENGAGEMENT BE TWEEN A BRITISH CRUISER AND A PIRATE, will be repeated each Evening. THIS DAY AND TO-MORROW. VIEW of N APLES, ERUPTION of VESUVIUS, DESTRUC • VON of HERCULANEUM and POMPEII, in the year 79. A richly ornamented GOTHI C BRIDGE of STATUES has been constructed, which will be brilliantly Illuminated at Night. The PROMENADE CONCERTS, conducted by Mr. Godfrey. CALYPSO'S FAIRY GROTTO, representing in the Interior Telemachus relating his adventure. to Calypso. The PYROTECHNIC DISPLAYS, by Mr. Southby, are on the most complete and effective scale. Preceding the Volcanic Display, Mons. FARLNELLI will descend from a Chinese Pagoda, seventy fe et in h eight, to the surface of the lake, where a Naiad's Car will rise to receive hi m , and bear, him to his rystal home. The Glass Conservatory is splendidly ornamented with festoons of lamps, enabling the visitors to view the matchless collection of Carnivore by gas-light. Feeding of the Carnivore at four ; the Pelicans, &c., at half-past tour ; Concert at five ; Descent in the Car at eight o'clock,: and the Eruption follows immediately. ifPIaiLANCEI ONF. OLULLniCFLLIVEN zwar•nucz. TII E SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORN ING, SEPTEMBER 3O, 1846. WEATIIER.—SIIN OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 29. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 45; Highest. 62 ; Noon, 60. BAROMETER, 29.48,—W1ND S.W., fine. HUD! W AT LONDON-111:.IDOr. TU DAY. Morning .. 44 minutes after 8. I Evening .. 28 minutes fter 9 uncultivated, and permanent benefit secured to the nation without any loss to the Government." Upon these simple suggestions we have not leisure at this moment to enlarge, nor indeed do they require any elaborate exposition. The re clamation of waste land—the vice desertm et intercluscs —so long as it can be accomplished without inter fering with the individual interests of land holders, is so manifestly calculated to benefit the community and to extend the capacities of the coun try, that any explanation of the principle upon which such a reclamation might be conducted would be altogether superfluous. Beyond this the employ ment of the destitute peasantry upon the cul tivation of these reclaimed districts, and upon the agricultural improvement of lands already culti vated, would prove more efficient in restoring peace and plenty to Ireland than the formation of a dozen Simplons. Let the Government transform Irish peasants into farm labourers, rather than into paviours ; let them give them the plough and the hoe in preference to the mattock and macadamized granite. Ireland wants additional food, both farinaceous and animal, to convey along her roads, rather than additional roads for conveying her agricultural and manufacturing produce. It is the nature and character of monopoly to harden the hearts and warp the better feelings of those exposed to its blighting influence. Men, in other respects humane and charitable, upright and honourable, will calmly countenance and support a system by which millions of their fellow-creatures are exposed to the greatest privations, and are (it is hardly too strong a term to use) robbed of a large pro portion of their humble earnings. When once the mono polists have yielded themselves up to the desire of gain they become insensible to the means by which it is to be acquired. It is nothing that the victims from whom that gain is to he extorted are the poor, the needy, the hard-working, and the overtoiled, that a change would improve their condition, promote their comforts, and elevate them in the social scale ; nay, the monopolist is so blinded by the considerations of self-interest, that he will not understand that he may derive as large an income by other and more justifiable means ; he will not be convinced that the consump tion of the article in which he is interested may be so greatly increased by the diminution of its cost, as to afford an equal, if not greater, profit. He even, after a time, becomes insensible of the injustice of which he has been guilty. He looks upon the sufferers as born for his use, that it is most unreasonable of them to complain of that to which they have long been subjected, which has become " An aged vice, a grey iniquity." And he suspects the motives and impugns the honesty of those who conscientiously labour for an improved state of things, and believes that they can only be actuated by sordid and selfish feelings. It was owing to such a cause that we were so long subjected to the operation of the iniquitous corn laws, that the food of the artizan was taxed, that pro duction was checked, commerce fettered and re stricted, and that our merchants were not permitted to sell in the dearest and buy in the cheapest market. Thanks be to GOD, we have succeeded at length in shaking off the monster by which we were so long oppressed. The weapons of truth and reason have proved successful, the doctrines of free trade have been approved and sanctioned by the Legislature, and we can proudly boast that England has set an ex ample to the universe which will, which must speedily be followed by other nations. The good seed has been sown, and it will fructify and bring forth its fruits in due season. One country may be more tardy than another in giving in its adhesion to the doctrine, but we doubt not that in a few short years the com mercial codes of every civilised people will be reformed and improved. It is doubly the duty of Britons, who have so recently achieved so great a triumph for themselves, to do all within their power to ameliorate the con ditions of those who are connected with, or dependent on them—to banish monopoly as a plague-spot from their colonies or dependencies, and to insist that a grievous end heavy taxation, far exceeding the first cost price of the article, shall no longer be levied on one of the chief necessaries of the people. The revelations which were made at the recent meeting at Blackburn, respecting the salt monopoly of the East India Company, are of so extraordinary a character as to be scarcely credible, did we not see men of respectability and station in society, men who had full opportunity of being thoroughly ac quainted with the details, coming forward and vouch ing for their accuracy. We find the cost of salt, almost the chief necessary of life, to more than one hundred millions of our fellow-creatures, increased tenfold by the weight of the taxation, and the ob jectionable manner in which it is levied. We can easily understand the vast importance of salt to the people of whom it is, if not the only, most certainly the chief condiment ; and to obtain this necessary the Hindoo peasant is obliged to devote nearly one fourth of his entire labour. The earnings of each Hindoo, it is said, do not amount to more than 48s. per annum ; and, assuming each family to consist of five persons, the consumption of salt will amount to sixty pounds in the year, being 20 per cent less than the quantity allowed by the Government to the per sons in their service. Owing to the monopoly the price of this sixty pounds is 1 ls. Bd., representing the labour of three months. This is, indeed, a fearful grievance inflicted on so vast a body of our fellow subjects. The best Cheshire salt, we are told, can be shipped at Liverpool at 203. per ton ; the freight, and all other minor expenses, would not be more than 245. in addition ; making a total of 445. per ton, the cost price of the article at Calcutta. This would not amount to more than a farthing per pound, and yet we find that the poor Hindoo cannot obtain it at less than 2 1-3 d. per pound—nearly ten times its original price. Bad as this is, its atrocity is fearfully magnified by the statement of Mr. AYLWIN of the horrible cruelty practised in sustaining this odious monopoly. He says— "For instance the coast of Coromandel is encrusted with salt. There the people are tied to the trees, and flogged and tortured publicly in the gross, whole vil lages together, whenever they neglect to destroy the salt as fast as it forms at their doors, in their fields, and over their separate neighbourhoods, by the sun's evapo ration of the sea water, and similar processes of nature. These same people are similarly punished if they neglect to repair monthly to the Company's salt-pan at a dis tance, and there pay an infamously high price for an arbitrary quantity of foul, black, muddy salt, unfit for use until dissolved and reboiled, in order to purify it. This is a moderate, unexaggerated, true account of the Company's monopoly of salt in India." What the bounty of PROVIDENCE brings to their very doors, they are obliged to cast away, and to expend time and money in procuring an inferior ar ticle. Such things cannot be permitted. Every consideration of justice, of humanity, forbid it. We shall not now speak of the impulse that would be given to trade, the benefit that would be conferred on the manufacturing or the shipping interests of this country. Any person, however, possessed of the slightest knowledge of commercial matters will easily understand how great that benefit would be; but we shall base our argument solely on the necessity of acting fairly, of rendering simple justice towards the millions and tens of millions who have been so im properly dealt with, who have been so grievously harassed. It is an argument that will not be thrown away on the nation that made such sacrifices for the abolition of slavery and the removal of that disgrace from our dominions. Accounts from Leghorn of the 20th instant state that at Ferrara, on a recent occasion, there had been a collision between the Pontifical and the Austrian troops, in consequence of which the Austrian Gene ral-in-Chief, Count RADETSKI, accompanied by the Count DE TAXIS, had repaired to Ferrara, where they had a long interview with Cardinal UGOLINI. The Cardinal is one of the opponents of the measures of reform pro pounded by the present POPE. Endeavours are making in every direction by the supporters of the old regime to excite discontent against Pius IX. At Modena, the centre and focus of Italian Jesuitism, a clergyman preached, a few days ago, a sermon " on the great dangers that menace the_Holy See." The Jesuits and the Paradisians, a sect composed of the ultra-Retrogrades, refuse: to give Pius IX. the title of Pope; they merely call him Count MASTAI. The Pontifical Government, in the meantime, goes on with its work of reform. It has nearly restored all the officers of the police department, and recommended the censors of the press to _be less rigorous. It is said that a promotion of Cardinals will shortly take place, and amongst those about to be elevated to that high dignity are Messrs. BOFONDI, BALUFFI, and GRASSBLINT, who are distinguished for their modera tion and enlightened minds. The proposal for a reform in the convents has met with a strenuous opposition from the College of Car dinals. The POPE, however, seems determined to persevere in his plans. A great outcry was raised against the POPE, because he permitted women to attend his audiences at the Vatican, and on that point he was obliged to give way, and return to the old order of things. It is o reported in Rome that MA RIN', the Governor of the city, will be shortly dis missed, on account of his continued opposition to the reforms proposed by the POPE. The intelligence from Lisbon, of the 20th, states that the Miguelite Guerillas have entirely disappeared from the northern provinces, and that MACDONNELL who commanded them, is a fugitive, skulking about the province of Minho, in quest of a place of conceal ment. It is expected that the elections, which take place on the 11 th October, will eventuate in a complete change of system. The Cabralistic faction will take no part in the contest, and the Miguelites and Septembrists have coalesced for the support of candidates who will pledge themselves to bring down the expenditure of the state to a level with its re venue. The Marquis of SALDANHA has tendered his resignation as Councillor of State, which the QUEEN has refused to accept. It is strongly sus pected that some intrigue is on foot in the Camarilla to upset the present Ministry and appoint the Marquis of SALDANHA Minister, as a warming-pan for the Cabrals. The Marquis of SALDANHA is far too honourable a man to lend himself knowingly to any such purpose, nevertheless he may be made a tool of by an un principled Camarilla, without for one moment sus pecting the real state of the case. The officers of the Albion have returned from the Spanish frontier. Madrid papers of the 22d have arrived. On the 21st Mr. BUEWER had an interyiew with the QUEEN to congratulate her MAJESTY onTher ap proaching marriage with Don FRANCISCO D'ASSIS. The Infanta Luisa was not present on the occasion. In allusion to the assertion of M. ISTURITZ, that England had intended presenting as a candidate for the QUEEN'S hand another than Don FRANCISCO D'ASSIS, the Espanol says : " The words pronounced by M. Isturitz, in the sitting of the 19th, that the Minister of Foreign Affairs in England had the intention of presenting us the only candidate for the hand of the Queen, another Prince than Don Francisco d'Assis, have been interpreted by many persons that England is opposed not only to the marriage of the Infanta, but also to that of the Queen. It is thought that M. Isturitz alluded to a Prince of the house of Coburg, when he spoke of another Prince. In a question of such high importance, it becomes necessary to a country and to history to clear up 'facts, and to dissipate all errors and all doubts. Every one knows that the idea of marrying the Queen to a Prince of Coburg did not emanate from the English Cabinet; on the contrary, both the Peel and the present Ministry would not listen to that proposition when made to them by the Spanish Minister in London, and even through the mediation of a Sovereign allied to the reign ing families of France and Belgium. Never would the English Cabinet consent to make a Coburg a candidate for the hand of the Queen. Who, then, can be the illustrious Prince alluded to by the English Cabinet?" The following article, from the Clamor Publico, sets forth in calm and reasonable language the ob jections which not only Spanish Progressistas, but Liberals of all countries, feel to the marriage of the Duo DE MONTPENSIER " We have at heart to render justice to every one, and we cannot refrain from applauding the noble and disinterested conduct of the French Opposition press with regard to the question of the marriage of the Duke de Montpensier to the Infanta. These journals compre hend our well-founded repugnance to this union, and ap preciate the sentiments by which we are guided; it is not against the French people—a generous people, who have always mado such enormous sacrifices for the cause of liberty—that our language is directed. That people knows too well the value of national independence to pretend to arrogate in the affairs of Spain an influence and a right of intervention humiliating for us; what we energetically combat, and what fills us with indignation, is the absurd pretensions of the Government of Louis Phi lippe—a Government, which, in our opinion, is far from representing the sentiments of France on any of the great questions connected with Spain. It is impossible for the French Opposition to approve of an alliance, having for its only object the development of a family policy which possesses nothing of a national or patriotic character. The union of the Infanta with the son of Louis Philippe will n t contrii,ute to improve the con dition of the French people, to enlarge the sphere of its rights, to guarantee the integrity of their institutions, nor to render to the representative system its purity, its truth, and its prestige ; on the contrary, it wilt only contribute to perpetuate the disastrous monopoly now exercised by the Government of Louis Philippe, and which causes to weigh more and more heavily on France the yoke of a policy which only aspires to sati-fy dynastic or family interest at the expense of the inde pendence of other less powerful states, and of the dig nity of France herself. The Government of Louis Philippe, as it is now constituted, is a power which exists out of the nation, which only labours for itself, and which in all the great questions which arise in Eu rope consults much more its own interests than those of the country. The Chambers, the press, the elections, ) and the Government, every day lose some part of the elevated character which belongs to them, in order to bend to the private views of the Ministers of Louis Philippe. In order to penetrate to the root of the kind of instinct which makes us oppose the Montpensier union, the Opp mition should cast a retrospective glance at the history of the three past years; it should reflect on the at tempts made by the dominant party in the name of French ideas, and under the patronage of the Court of the Tuileries. We appeal to the good faith of the French Opposition whether the Liberal party in Spain could re ceive with pleasure a Prince of the house of Orleans from the hands of men who have incurred public ani madversion by their abuse of authority, their violence, and by their reactionary measures. When we see fall under the sabre of a soldier the liberty of the press—the rights and guarantees of the country—the reforms which we have just acquired,—when we see men arrested and banished Vey ordonnances—when the captains-general punish citizens and even condemn them to death on mere suspicion, the Spanish people saw in all these infamies the hand of the Government of Louis Philippe, to the immediate influence of whom are submitted the men whom M. Guizet himself has not hesitated to de signate before all the world wader the name of the French party. However jealous we may be of our independence as Spaniards, the French Prince would have been well received in our country if he had not represented a prin ciple of foreign domination which we cannot admit, if he had not been for us the symbol of the continuation of that t *gime of Vandalism which has cost us so much blood and so many victims since the memorable pronun ciamiento of 1843." MADRID BonasE.—Three per Cents. for cash, 358 ; Fives, 228. Exchange on London, 36i. • We have received the Paris papers of Sunday. The Epoque is exceedingly irate with all who ven ture to assert that the Marquis' of NORMANDY had ' presented an energetic note to M. GuizoT, protest ing against the Montpensier marriage. " We do not know," says L'Epoque, " who could have abused the credulity of Galignani s Messenger by inducing it to believe that the Marquis of NOR MANBY had presented an energetic note to M. GUIZOT. We have been assured that Lord PALMERSTON has perfectly dissembled, as a well-bred gentleman should, his ill-humour at the marriage of the Duke DE MONTPENSIER. His Lordship is, moreover, too able a statesman to protest energetically without a firm resolution not to confine himself to mere words. Weak Governments protest; but powerful ones act." Honest Governments, however powerful they may be, protest before they act. Honest Governments scrupulously observe treaties, and honest Ministers when they have pledged their words to observe a cer tain line of conduct invariably keep that pledge, L'Epoque, and those from whose inspirations it speaks, may perhaps be tolerable authorities as to what is done by weak Governments, or by powerful Governments, for they have formed portions of each in their time, but we must demur to their authority when the point in dispute is the course to be pursued by an honest Government, seeing that neither theoreti cally or practically have they ever had the slightest acquaintance with the subject. L'Epoque, however, Is wrong (shall we say wilfully wrong—an article in the National would almost make it appear so), for not only was an energetic note delivered by Lord NOR MANBY, but on Sunday the French Cabinet met at two o'clock to consider of the answer to be given to it. It is strange that the French Ministerial journals have systematically endeavoured to mislead their readers as to the sentiments of the British Govern ment and the British people on the subject of this marriage. Can the more than insinuations, the all but direct charges contained in the following article from the National, be true ? "If the Government be as easy as it wishes to appear as to the complicated state of things which may follow the marriage of the Duke de Montpensier," says the National, " why seek to deceive the public as to facts which are absolutely self-evident ? Why say, ' the re ports circulated, that protests, or declarations, on the part of England 'have been presented cannot but be wholly void of foundation.' We do not desire to accuse M. Guizot unjustly. Does he know that on Friday his words were made the foundation of gambling transac tions at the Bourse ? Does he know that the persons about him take advantage of the least word that drops from him for the most unworthy speculations? Does he know that on Friday a letter from one of his political friends written to an agent de change was handed about in which it was stated that • Lord Normanby's note contained no more than mere observations?' If M. Guizot has said so, he has very materially perverted the bearing of the document handed to him. This, however, seems to be a system adopted at the Minister's office. The papers receive every day a communication purport ing to be a resume of correspondence, for which they pay, under the belief that it is true and impartial, and which, nevertheless, suppresses with care all that appears in the Madrid Opposition journals, which translates little more than the effusions of the Heraldo, and which, not satis fied with thus following M. Guizot's fancies, gives, under the semblance of private letters from Spain, intelligence directly opposite to the truth. On Friday last it stated, that M. Bulwer had not addressed any note or protest to M. Isturitz. Yesterday it was said, that that Ambassador had requested an audience of the Queen in order to felicitate her on her marriage. Both these statements are false. We received yesterday a letter from Madrid, which gives us a complete analysis of the diplomatic note handed to M. Isturitz, and it is impossible that after such a note there can have been any felicitation whatever from the Ambassador who had to present it and to regulate his conduct in conformity to it. The object of all these misstatements is explained, and they are excused when the object is to quiet one's political friends, but they serve the turn of jobbers, who aro the foremost to circulate these inventions and take advantage of them. This is an abuse which we point out to M. Guizot, and we beg to remind him of the accusations to which M. Thiers was exposed in 1840 on a similar occasion. It is in vain to seek to disguise the fact. This paltry affair of the marriage of a child, which ought not in itself to occupy diplomacy a single day, has become an important question by the discussions to which it has given rise in diplo macy. The long silence of the Whig Ministry had a natural cause. Having come to the helm of affairs after an unforeseen event ; having in the Commons but an un certain majority, it may have feared that by being hasty it might have met with opponents who would reproach them with their haste, and arrogance in 1840. The question of the marriage of the Queen and the Infanta had been discussed at Eu by Lord Aberdeen and M. Guizot, in presence of Queen Victoria and the King of the French. It was necessary that the Whig Ministry should precisely know what had taken place on that occasion. It has acted only after having re ceived from Lord Aberdeen and Sir Robert Peel the assurance of their and their friends' strenuous support in their opposition to a step which those two Ministers looked upon as a trick. (We soften down the English word, which is something stronger.) It was after this that Lord Palmerston drew up the diplomatic note handed to M. Guizot. It is, as we have said, in very polite and moderate terms. It is based on the stipula lations contained in the treaty of Utrecht ; but besides this treaty, there was another, which although verbal, ought to have been held the more sacred by Ministers, that the witnesses and sureties to this convention were the Queen of England and the King of the French. Lord Palmerston insists on this fact ; he mentions that about two months ago M. Guizot had addressed a diplomatic note, to which the British Government had not replied, for they wanted to know previously and pre cisely that which had taken place at Eu. It was during this absence of a reply that the marriage affair was settled, unknown to the British Minister at Madrid, and unknown to the Ministry who had frequently given the assurance of their friendly dispositions. After making this statement, the note sets forth the objections to the marriage, and however measured the note may be in its terms, M. Guizot must have read the following words— remonstrance' and protest.' " We have entered into these particulars to show how much truth there is in the assertion of the Journal des Debats, which says positively that the statements made by us • could not but be void of foundation.' It is not our province to seek for the worst side of a question after the manner and with the boundless confidence of the Journal des Debats. It is not without some feelings of humiliation that we see ourselves compelled to witness a family, a secondary interest, take the place of great interests, agitate Europe, and threaten France with some fresh degradation. The general peace,' we are told, will not be disturbed.' This is possible, but we know by long experience at what price the entente cordiale, now so completely broken, and which must be restored, will have to be paid." It is supposed that the answer of the French Go vernment to Lord NORMANDY'S protest will be that France does not consider the marriage as contrary to the provisions of the treaty of Utrecht; that the English objections to it on the ground of its affecting the balance of power are untenable. That matters have now gone so far that it is impossible to postpone the marriage, even should it alter in an un pleasant manner the existing relations between France and England, which France would consider a misfor tune, but hopes that the bienveillance of her Britannic MAJESTY and the wisdom of her Council will obviate an evil much to be regretted. It is quite clear that collie qui collie LOUIS PHILIPPE is determined to grasp the dowry of the Spanish Princess for his son, and for that purpose hastens on the marriage. The Due DE MONTPENSIER was to leave Paris for Madrid on Monday. Some of his suite have already arrived at Bordeaux, en route for Madrid. On the 30th he is expected at Bayonne, and an agent of the Spanish post-office is at this moment organising an extraordinary service of horses from the frontier to Madrid for his use, and preparations are making at Irun and Hernani, to give him a reception worthy of his rank as he passes the frontier. The Duke of GLUCASBURGH arrived in Paris from Madrid on Sunday morning, with the marriage con tract of the INFANTA. Colonels MUNZANO and NOGUERUELA, Father CABALLERO, and several other Carlist refugees, have been imprisoned in the citadel of Blaye, by order of the French Government. M. °DILLON BARROT has left France for Egypt, where he will remain until the re-assembling of the Chambers. Rear-Admiral TREHOUART, who commanded the French squadron at the battle of the Obligado, has arrived at Brest in the frigate Proserpine. She left Monte Video on the 15th of July, and Rio Janeiro on the 30th August. Trade of all kinds in France is represented as being in a very depressed state. The French Three per Cents. were done in the Passage de l'Opera on Satur day so low as 82 francs. The article in the Epoque above noticed having created some doubt that Lord NORMANDY had "protested," they rose on Sunday, in the same place, to 82f. 40c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TILE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPTEMBER 28 Bordeaux, Toulouse and Cette (Espelete), PA—Direct Bombay and Madras, %—llutch Rhenish, 511,—East Indian, %—Great West •rn Canada, 3%—ltalian and Austrian, 2—Louvain a la Sambre, % —Luxembourg, I%—Madras, Nellore, and Arcot, % —Namur and Liege, 1% —Northern of France Constituted, 13% Orleans and Vierzon, 14% —Over Yssel, 2% die. —Paris and Lyons Constituted, s%—Paris and Orleans, 48—Paris and Strasbourg Constituted, 4% —Sambre and Meuse, 314—West Flanders, 2%. SPAIN. (From the Times.) The Journal des Debats of Monday still main tained that no protest had been presented to M. Guizot by Lord Normanby against the Montpensier marriage. "The British Minister of Foreign Affairs," it says, " has sent to the British Ambassador at Paris a dispatch, with instructions for its being read and a copy left with the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, and that dispatch manifested the dissent of the English Government in the least amicable terms. " We think it right to repeat, that in spite of all the rumours to the contrary, the two marriages will be celebrated at the period which has been desig nated, and we persist in thinking and saying that the differences to which this resolution may have given rise, however much they may be to be re gretted, are not of a nature to compromise the pacific relations between the three Governments." The Duke de Montpensier and the Duke d'Aumale left Paris for Madrid on Monday morning. The Madrid correspondent writes on the 23d inst. that Mr. Bulwer sent in on the 22d a protest, in the name of his Government, against the Montpensier marriage. " Finding," he says, " that neither the counsels, the interests, the wishes, nor the friendly feelings of England were in the slightest degree regarded or taken into consideration, Mr. Bulwer was compelled to present, as a last measure, a formal pretest." The Three per Cents. were done at 35i for cash ; the Four per Cents. at 22 ; the Five per Cents. at 22 5-16ths ; Passives, 64; Coupon, 204. Lord Brougham left Brougham Hall on Friday last, for London, thence to Cannes, his seat in France. DEATH OF THOMAS CLARKSON, ESQ.—This illus trious philanthropist died at four o'clock on Saturday morning last, at his residence, Playford Hall, near this town. He had attained the age of eighty-six ; but his spirit burned bright to the last, and while he ceased not to direct his thoughts to the great question of the eman cipation of the human race, he calmly looked forward to " the crown of life " laid up in Heaven for the faith ful followers of the cross. He was born at Wisbeacb, in Cambridgeshire, on March 28th, 1760. Ipswich Express. EARLY CLOSING OF PAWNBROKERS' SHOPS.—Yester day, the 29th inst., the new Act of Parliament comes into force respecting the early closing of pawnbrokers' shops. It is enacted that from the 29th of September to the 25th of March no pledges shall be received after seven o'clock in the evening, and for the remainder of the year after eight o'clock. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of Last Night.) The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was firm, and had an upward tendency. Sales, 8,000 bales, in cluding 1,000 American on speculation. Some Eng lish an Scotch Shares were held rather more firmly. There are accounts from the Cape of Good Hope this morning to the 21st July last. There is little news of interest in them. The Kafirs had been again very troublesome, and the British forces, as well as the oelon ists under arms, were greatly distressed in consequence of the want of provisions. However, on the frontier, at the latest dates from thence, there was a most ample force to bring the natives to book, and to check depredations for the future. Some of the regular troops had by forced marches travelled at least six hundred miles, resting only for the night. The state of the fruit trade is at present of very con siderable importance. The clearances for home con sumption have lately been rather considerable. We are thus advised upon the condition of the fruit trade : " The new crop of currants is expected to yield less than that of 1845, which was under 19,000 tons. Of this quantity about 15,000 tons were shipped to the United Kingdom, whereof about 7,500 tons direct to London, 3,500 tons direct to Liverpool, and the rest to outports (from whence a part came on to London), 2,500 tons to the northern ports of Europe, and 600 tons to Austria. It is a new feature in the present season, that the Ameri cans have purchased earlier and on a larger scale than usual; two entire cargoes left Zante for New York and Philadelphia three weeks ago, whilst only 136 tons were shipped to the United States during the whole of the last season. " The price of raisins opened at 425., at which the trade continue to purchase freely. " A few new Muscatel raisins in layers arrived per steamer early in the month, and were sold at 85s. for boxes, and 90s. for half-boxes. Two cargoes reached Liverpool a few days later, simultanously with two at this port; a portion of the farmer were dispatched by railway, and were sold by auction at 565. to 575. for layers, and 465. to 525. for bunch, at which the greater part of the two London cargoes have since been placed, the attention of the trade having been attracted by these unusually low prices. " At the latest date from Smyrna the price of Chesme raisins had not yet opened. The article is recovering here from its long disfavour (the result of the extrava gant rates of 1844), and if prices be moderate, we may expect a good winter demand, as the advance in cur rants cannot fail to assist the consumption of raisins. Meanwhile, there has been more inquiry for Turkey raisins this week; sales have been effected at 30s. to 325., and the principal holder is asking much higher rates. Some new Sultanas arrived per steamer about 12th instant, and were sold at 80s." The steamer from Halifax and Boston is now due. The letters and papers are most anxiously looked for. The principal feature in the Money Market to-day is an advance to 17s. premium in the value of Exchequer bills. The demand is good. Consols for the Account have been sold at 951 I, and for Money at 95f India Stock is very firm at 258. Spanish Bonds have been at 26k, and the Three per Cents. at 37k. Portuguese Four per Cents. are at 414, and Buenos Ayres at 42 to 43. The Dutch Four per Cent. Certificates are at 94k. In Railway Shares there is little doing to-day. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9 5 1 ;4 % 95% Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1360 Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 lO 1-16 India Stock 258 South Sea Stock Ditto New Annuities Consols for Account.... ...... Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., I%d l7 14 17 pm. 17 Ditto 5001. Ditto Small oXE CLOSING O'CLOCK PRICES 10 1-16 258 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. Brazilian Bonds Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839 — 87 1 / 2 Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 42% 42 43 43 Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent — 88 1 / 2 Granada Bonds, 1 per. Cent. — 20% Ditto, Deferred 3% Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 25 25 Ditto. Account 254 Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent .. 41 3 / 4 4151 4 Ditto, Account 4l 41 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Account 26 'hi % 26% Ditto, Deferred . . 17 1 4 17 Ditto. 3 per Cent Ditto, Account 37% Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch, 2% per Cent . Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 94% 94% PRICES or PAID. BUS/NESS DONE CLOSI/s G RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen Amber.. Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 253..... 2% 2 14 Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush l% Aylesbury and Thame.. 1% Belfast & County Down VA Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 129 Ditto New l 7 l /2 — .... ... — Birmingham and Ox- ford J unction Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.... 2% — Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 225. Bristol and Exeter 75 Ditto, New Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ...... ....... Bristol and Liver. June . ...... Buckinghamshire Caledonian Ditto Half Shares...... 2 ' , Ditto Extension ...... 21 4 — Cambrian & Grand Jane 42s Cambridge and Oxford.. 1% l% Central Kent Chester and Holyhead... 27% 244%... Cimrnet and Blythe Chester and Manchester 425. Cheltenham and Oxford 2 Clydesdale Junction..... 15 Cork, Blackrock, and Passages Cork and Killarney Cork and Waterford ... 1% — Cornwall Ditto, Half Shares ... 2 1 ,x Cornwall & Cent'lDevon 2% Derby and Crewe ... 2% — Direct Lincoln, East Ret ford, and Sheffd. j a pe. 2% Direct Manchester 16% 114 1% ..... 241/2 ( Remington's) - •• • • Ditto (Rastrick's) Direct Northern - 1% Direct Norwich Dublin and BelfastJunc. 10 Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Dublin and Galway..... 4 Dundalk & Enniskillen 7% Eastern Counties 14/. 16s 2 1 14% %........ 21% Ditto New lO/. 16s. 6% p Ditto Perpetual, 5 par Cent, No. 1. 61. 135. 4d.... Ditto ditto. No. 2, 61. 13s. 4d... 3 % p Do., York Extension.. 105....... 2 EastDereh'm andNor'ch 1 Eastern Union 35 .. ... Ditto Quarter Shares 8 3 /4 Do. Ditto, l? Do., Camb. and Ely.. East Lancashire East Lincolnshire East & West of England 1%...... Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 721 A Ditto Half Shares ... 10 ...,.. Ditto, Quarter Shares 12 1 / Edinburgh & Northern.. 10 Edinburgh and Perth... 3 • Ely and Huntingdon 7 1 A---- Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2% Exeter,Yeovil,& Dorset 5% Glasgow,Kilmar., &Ayr 50 ...... Ditto, New Do., IA Shares (5 per cent. guar.) ... l2l/ Glouc.,Abeiyetwith,and Central of Wales 1%...... •• Goole, Doncaster, &c. 425• Grand Union (Notting and Lynn Great Eastern &Western 2 % ••• •• GreatGrimsby and Shef field Great South. and West. 3' n ,4 r 22 34 72 1 / 2 (Ireland) Great Munster 2l Great North of Scotland 2 1 4...... - - Great North of England-100 Ditto New 5 Ditto, New . Ditto, New Great Western B5 137 138 l3B Ditto % Shares 5O — Ditto ti Shares lO —_— Ditto fifths Ditto, New Guildford, Fare'm,Ports. 5 Harwich and Eastern Counties Junction ... 2 ...... . Hull and Selby Ditto 1 4 Shares Do. Half Shares 25 ...... Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 115...... Do., do., and Norwich 2 1 A 2 - . Irish North Midland ..• 1 % — .............. Killarney Junctions L K a e n n c d a s al t and andW 61 1 4 i C n ar de l rm isle e . r . e . 45 1 Do. New •• - Lame, Belfast, and Bal lymena Leeds and Bradford Leeds and Carlisle Leicester & Birmingham 22& — —• ....... •••• Leicester and Bedford... 225. %% dis % dis. Leeds and Dewsbury ... 17% — Lpool., Mnchstr, & New castle Junction Liverpool and Bury - WA London and Black:l . 4n. 16/. 13s. 4d. 9k 3 1 / 4 IA 9 Do. Nair - 94 Ditto Extension ~.... 5 ....... -- : — London and Brighton... 50 .. ... 59% 60 6O Ditto, Fifths London and Croydon, 13/. 15r. 9d. Do. Guaran. 5 per cent. 9 London and Greenwich 12115 s 4d 9 % 9% Do. Preference ...18117s 2d — •• London, Hounslow, and Western London and N. Westernloo 199 200 2OO Do. Quarters Do., do., New Shares.. 2 Ditto Fifths Ditto, Eighths (G. J.) 12% — . Do.. New 14 Shares (G. J.) Do 401.Shares(L.M.) 8 Lond. & S.Westem 41/ 6s 10d 7 0 1,x ..... —.. .... Do. New Consol. Bths 40 - Do. New Do. New Londou and York 2 I,L I 3A 74 Do. 1 ,4 Sham 70 1 / 2 1% 1% ' • I • , 1,01. all • N AL ." „ VP:A't 41.P:W417'..4.4111101110 ;If • r;;;14 ;;` ^ E ' • IN 014 ,fiLatititt . t .11n.4 LONDON, WEDNESDAt, SEPTEMBER 30, 1846. Before Parliament can re-assemble, whether the period of its meeting be the approaching 4th of November, or whether the length of its prorogation be extended, it is most desirable that the present in. terval should be occupied by a serious consideration of the exigencies by the existence of which Ireland is reduced to such woeful desolation, and by the satisfac tion of which that island would be endowed with a plenitude of prosperity. Ireland is not an appendage, it is an integral portion of the British Empire : it is not a costly jewel in the diadem of VICTORIA, it is a portion of her golden circlet. In endeavouring to meliorate the condition of that country we are not aiming at the aggrandisement of any profitable de pendency—we are struggling for the preservation and perpetuation of our own dignity, we are attempt ing to allay our own agonies, we are striving to remove a political leprosy from our own flesh and blood, to satisfy our own thirst and hunger, and to realise our own happiness. Never was a moral blunder more calamitous or egregious than the one which has tended to the estrangement of the popula tion of these islands ; it has originated many invi dious distinctions where no distinctions could really exist. Sassenach, though an idle epithet coined by circumstances, has proved itself a bugbear equally potent and infelicitous with the buckler of Gorgon ; it has jarred in upon the cordiality of the British islanders, and ossified the hearts which had previously pulsated with friendship. Such, at least, were the misunderstandings engendered until very recently. Now matters are regarded as in a very different position. Englishmen evince a sincere anxiety for the improvement and happiness of Ire land, Irishmen are satisfied that their interests are acquiring a deep importance in England ; both have betrayed an alacrity to coalesce for their own com mon advantage. Geographically, St. George's Channel separates the lesser island from the greater, but vir tually it is no longer in existence. For years the political and social advancement of Ireland has formed the grand object of the internal policy of Great Britain. Ministers have en deavoured, one after the other, to discover and enforce the measures most suitable for the attainment of that object. Administrations have fallen, in succession, while striving to exorcise the demon of misery by which Ireland has been pos sessed. One of the most eminent of modern states men declared, even when his ministerial influence was at its perihelium, that his greatest difficulty was Ireland. So many, indeed, have failed in the attempt to legislate successfully for that country, so many astute intellets have acknowledged themselves incapable of eradicating its numerous and enormous evils, that at a superficial glance it would absolutely appear im practicable. But common sense tells us that the realisa tion of happiness to Ireland is not an impossibility. Look at the broad and indubitable reality, and what are the inferences to be drawn from that examination ? Why, that every facility is afforded by nature, by morality, and by education, for the elevation of that inland to the very pinnacle of national prosperity ! Here is Ireland, one of the most fertile regions of the globe; its soil naturally strewed with verdure, its atmo sphere by turns sufficiently humid and sufficiently warm to facilitate vegetation ; its people generous, tractable, muscular, industrious, obedient, patient, and domestic. And yet, notwithstanding all these advantages, pro visions are scarce even in times of abundance, ill-will is incessantly fostered between the peasantry and their employers, one vegetable is the principal pro duce of the land, and the principal article of con sumption amongst its people. Insubordination in consequence, developing itself where tranquillity might; by proper management, be the pervading and permanent characteristic. Idleness is forced upon thousands of an industrious race ; and so extreme are the privations caused by a murrain in one single species of tuber, that the population are compelled to satisfy the rage of famine by devouring seaweeds and hedge-nettles. So much starvation in a spot naturally so fruitful ; so much penury among men so capable of and anxious for labour ; so much rancour and bad blood in a peasantry so remarkable for their predis position to gentleness and domesticity, are facts so glaringly anomalous as to demonstrate by their very existence the feasibility of their removal. The antithesis formed by the actual degradation of Ire land, with the capacities possessed by Ireland for un bounded wealth and unstinted happiness, is at one and the same time mournful and consolatory. It is mournful, inasmuch as it shows how much wretched ness might have been spared to her by merely cor responding with her natural endowments; and it is consolitary, inasmuch as it testifies that by similar means her future redemption from misery may be ac complished. Impressed with these extraordinary considerations, we turn with hope and with confidence to the de liberations of the present Government. Our Minis ters are, of course, availing themselves of the present interval of the prorogation for the consideration of the important questions bearing upon Ireland. In their individual meditations, as well as in their col lective councils, that political problem will, without doubt, take the precedency of all others. Many schemes will naturally present themselves, many will be, and have been, tendered by those who partake in their anxiety, by private correspondents, and through the columns of the press. 'We ourselves have offered suggestions from time to time, and we shall continue to do so with pertinacity and earnestness until the great woes of our sister country shall be eradicated by the Legislature. Actuated by the same feelings, we publish the fol lowing proposition from an intelligent correspondent, and we do so the more readily because it is based upon justice and humanity, and because it accords with all our preceding views upon the matter. The writer, in addressing the Ministry to the subjoined effect, is building up a scheme upon no specious hypothesis of good—he is addressing himself in homely phrase to the plain sense of our rulers : " The Legislature," says he, " has successfully ar ranged the complicated and difficult question of tithes in England, which affected the interests of the clergy, and removed one of the greatest impediments to the improved cultivation of the land. As our population is increasing, and the surface of the land is limited, it is very desirable, both as the means of employment and increasing the amount of subsistence, that. all the land in Ireland which can be brought into cultivation should be ac cessible to the people in a fair and equitable manner. My suggestion is, for the Legislature to deal with the uncultivated land in Ireland on a similar plan and principle which they have adopted with respect to the tithes in England. Perhaps the interests of the landholders may be more complex and difficult than the parties connected with tithes, but it may be pos sible to arrange a plan by which the land may be liberated from its present bondage, without injury or injustice to the laadholder, by this means thrown open in the market to those who are willing to un dertake its cultivation. ►► I am not aware of any insuperable difficulties to prevent the Legislature, by an Act of Parliament, placing the uncultivated lands in the hands of Commissioners (similar to the tithes), empowering them to call to their aid competent persons to value the land which is uncultivated, and pay the owners its fair value ; the Commissioners to be empowered to dispose of the land to the public as it comes into their possession. The purchasers would have a simple and good title, a number of capitalists would be eager to become purchasers, the soil would be cultivated, and the population find ample employment. The landholders, in many cases, would be delivered from heavy burdens; the money received for unpro fitable land would be employed in improving land ~ `'"'` London and Windsor . 1A... . London, Salisbury, and Londonderry& Coleraine 12 1 / Q ...... 5% ....... Londonderry and Ennis killen 12%....— Lynn and Ely ..... ....... 15 Lynn and Dereham l5 — . ••• ...... .... Manchester and Leeds... 82 Ditto i i i Shares Do. Quarters 2 Do. Fifths 3 . .... 9 ••• ........ ... 9 Do. Sixteenths 6 14 Do. Extension 42s. 13 4 1,4% p•••••• 1% P Manchester and Birmin 4O Do. Quarters (A) 5 .••••• -- •• • ..... .—. ... Do. Quarters (B) Do. Quarters (C) 1 Manchester,Baxton,and Matlock 42s. ...... 10% p......... • % Manchester, Birm., and Mould Junction - ••- ..., .noun um__ .. Manchest. & Southampt. 2 ...... Midland Do. Fifths 2 Do. New 24 Do. Birm., and Derby-100 llO% 110;s Midlnd& East. Counties 2%...... Midland Great Western Irish Newcastle and Berwick 15 Do. North Shields ... 2,5 Newcastle and Carlisle...100 Newmrket &Chesterfrd 21.12 s 3 /4 •P • N p Yetvport &Abergavenny DA-- -- Newry and Enniskillen 4% — ..... Newark, Sheffield, and Boston ... .. ~. ......... 1 %.• ... ... ........ .. Norfolk . Do. Half Shares ..... 7 Do. Extension North British ... ..... ... 25 ...... ... .. Do. Half Shares ISV Do. Fifths .. 5 — Do. Carlisle Extens. 14 3 34%.• ...... ... 371 i. North of Norfolk Northern and Eastern... 50 Do. Scrip (issd. 5 dis.) 45 Do. Quarter Shares... 12% Do. New - •• ••• ...... • • N. Kent & Direct Dover 2% —............— North Staffordshire 42s. ...... 2%%% p 2% p North Wales Northern and Southern Connecting - Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Nottingham & Mansfld. Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham.... Portsmouth Direct 3 3/ Preston and Wyre Do. % Shares Reading, Guildford, and Reigate - Richmond 10 - Rugby, Leamington,and Warwick 12% — — p --• p Scottish Central Do. New 2% Scottish Midland lO - Do. Extension —. Sheffield, Buxton, Leek Potteries, andCrewe l% — - Sheffield &Manchester 100 - •• — Do. Quarter Shares... 8 Do. Lincolnshire Junc. IIA — .... Do. & Great Grimsby. 10 — Do. do. ExtensiOn. 42c .... •••• •••• -- Shrewsbury and Birm... 2%.... . 2 3 4.. .... ...... 2ii Shropshire Union Shrews., Wolverhamp., . &S. Staffordsh. Junc. 21% ., a• -- Sligo and Shannon l% - South Devon -- South Midland 42s. - •• -- South & Midlands Junc. 425. ..... - South Staffordshire June. 2% South Eastern & Dover. 33% 4O 39 . 3. 1 / 4 Do., No. 1 2O - Do~ N 0.2. Do., No. 3 - Do., Ne. 4 lik.A.lban's, Hatfield, and Hertford Junction ... 425. Staines and Richmond... 1 Staffordsh. & Shropshire 2 3 / — S,uth Wales ••• 5 , Swans. & Loughor &Ca meron's Stm. C0a1.... 2 •••••• ••• Taw Vale Extension 2 -.— ... ••• - ••• •• •• ___ Tying, Reading, and Basingstoke Vale of Neath 2 - Wakefield, Pontefract, & Goole - Warwickshire & London 425. - Warwick and Worcester 425. - Waterford and Kilkenny 8 - Waterford and Limerick 22% — ... -- Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw, and Düblin Wexford, W aterford, and , . V alentia Waveney Valley ..... Welsh Midland West Riding Union ...... 425. West Cornwall West London,Old Shares 20 .... - ~.. OA P Wexford and Carlow ... 2%...... Wisbeach and St. Ives... 2 ... ... ....... -- Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth Worcester,Hereford,Ross, and Gloucester 42s. - Worcester, Tenbury, and Ludlow .... . . . 2% Worcester,Warwick,and Rugby York and Carlisle ....., York and Newcastle 25 ... . 41 Ditto New 1 York and North Midland 50 — o .-- Ditt 1 / 2 Shares 25 - _ __ .. .. Do. SCiirboro' Branch. 25 Do. Selby Do. Extension Do. East and West Rid ing Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo-Belgian 4 — Barbadoes .. 1 Boulogne and A miens... 14 .. Bordeaux & Mediterran. 2 Bordeaux,Toulouse, and Cette (Mackenzie's)... 2 .. Do. (Espelete's) Calais, Dunkrk, and West •••••• I•• Flanders Calcutta and Diamond el oe• Harbour ...... ....... _ . 78. Callao, Lima, and Pacific Coast 1 - ... ... .. ......... -- Central of Spain ... . Ceylon .. ..„ ss. - Demerara 2I-A ... - Dendre Valley - Direct Bombay and Madras - ••• ..... ..• ••• -- Dutch Rhenish ... 6 - East Indian ... ..... .... 58. Eastern Belgian Junctn. 21% - Fampoux & Hazebrouk 4 -- Great Indian Peninsular ss. -- Great Western Bengal... ss. .—. Great Western Canada... 314, Italian and Austrian... 3 - Jamaica S.Mid. Junction 1 -, Jersey - ..... Louvain ala Sambre ... 5 ... . k3A ........ •••• Luxembourg... 4 ig.z...... ......... li Lyons and Avignon 2 --ra. ........... - Madrid and Valentia.... 2 ... .. Madras Madras, Nellore, and Arcot % ..., Ma,/ rains 1 -- Namur and Liege Nn ofFranceConstituted 5 ...... 137 14 North Jamaica... ...... ... 1 - Orleans and Vierzon ... 10 ...... 15 Orleans and Bordeaux... 6 ...... 8% ....... ..... Over Yssel 4l3s 4d Paris &Lyons Constituted 5 Paris and Orleans 2O — -- Paris and Rouen - Paris and Strasbourg Constituted Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse ...... 8 .... 3,A 3,4 Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 - • ..... St. Laurence & Atlantic — — --- Tours and Nantes Con stituted .. ..... 5 - .. ••••. ....... --• Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt....... 8 Trinidad DA — - West Flanders ...... .... 6 MINES. Real del Monte traregd. Sir George Grey has left town for Fallodon, Alnwiel" Northumberland. EXPLOSION OF WRECKS IN THE THAMES.—OH MOO' day the following notice was issued and circulated hi the principal harbour-master of the port of London ;•"' " The Lord Mayor having issued directions for the re' moval of several wrecks in the lower part of the River Thames, by explosion of gunpowder and other means' all steam vessels navigating where the craft are On; ployed, viz , the westernmost end of the Blyth Sand 0 Yantlett Creek and Northfleet Creek, are required ease their steam, and pass as far as possible well clear them ; ft is likewise directed that no vessel will anchor near the wrecks." J. A. Jackson, who filled the office of Coloniel Secretary in South Australia for some time, has received the appointment of stipendiary agent, resident in Lon don, for the colony of Van Diemen's Land. SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT BROUGHAM HILL.-- 4 9 13 Saturday evening last, after dark, at Brougham HP" the seat of Lord Brougham, a shocking accident hor pened to Mr: Walton, the artist, who is on a visit t° Lord Brougham, and the second daughter of Mr. Wit; Liam Brougham, his Lordship's brother. It appears Os; the church singers were practising in Brougham chap' which is separated from the hall by a deep cu tti ng in tP_ A old London road, over which Lord Brou g h a m c ause" an arch to be thrown for the convenience of the hail from the terrace to the chapel-yard. Mr. Walton cane!: Miss Brougham, who is about seven years of age, up r, his arms, and left the hall by the terrace-door, and IT hastening to the chapel, but it being dark, and a light A P" the chapel windows, he missed the a rc h wa y, an d viii" the child in his arms fell headlong over the terrace in the road, a height of about twenty-five feet. The shrieks of the child soon b roug ht ass i s t ance ou t o f th v chapel, when it was tho ug ht th a t M r . W a lt on ' s ; h was broken; his head was laid open for nearly thr' s inches, and otherwise severely injured. However, t the arrival of Dr. Taylor from Penrith, it was found 05 his backbone was not broken. This morning . Onncla s : Mr. Walton still remains in a very precarious silt, One of the child's jawbones are broken, but hopes P a li entertained of her recovery. Lord Brougham IT' Brougham Hall, on Friday last, for London.